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The Latest fete graphic Newt BY United Press HERALD WEATHER Cloudy, occasional light showers tonight and Wenncs- day. Cooler in east Wadtoesday. PRICE THREE CENT8 KINGL BELGIUM PREMIER ANNOUNCES DETHRONEMENT OF OELPHOS, OHIO, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1940. VOL. 46.

NO. 294. LD SURRENDERS ARMY IRONSIDE DEMOTED IN SHAKEUR OE BRITISH Premier Hubert Plerlot Say's AH Belgian Officials Released from Oath of Allegiance to Belgium to Raise New Army to Fight with British and French. PARIS, May 28 (UP) King Leopold II has been deprived! of the Belgian throne, a radio statement by Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot said today. A few hours after announcement that'Leopold had; surrendered the Belgian army to the Germans, the refugee premier declared in a radio speech that all Belgian officials were released from their oath 6f allegiance to the king and that the monarch had' been repudiated.

Pierlct repudiated: the surrender of the Belgian army. "Disregarding the government's formal and unanimous advice, the king opened separate negotiations and treated with the enemy," Pier- lot saidi. "Belgium will be astounded but the shortcomings of one man cannot be imputed to tlie entire nation. "No act of the king has effect unless it is counter-signed' by his minister. This principle is absolute.

It is a fundamental rule of our institutions." Pierlot said that the king's powers passed the refugee ministers and that "in dissolving the link uniting him with the nation the king placed himself under the 'authority of the invader." "Constitutional power cannot be pf emy. "Under these circumstances he is 1 no longer in a position 1 to govern because it is that the functions of'the head of a state be under foreign control." "The'king's act, which we deplore, does not commit the nation," the premier continued: "Belgium will fight on until victory. A new army be raised to fight alongside the Allies. "Those capable of bearing arms will be mobilized. Others will do war work.

We are passing through the most painful trial in our history. Whatever happens we will remain worthy of those who fought from. 1914 to 1918." "Our army did not deserve the fate metedi out to it," the premier 1 said. "The king, under the Belgian constitution, swore to observe that all power comes from the nation. This power is exercised! in a fash- determined by the constitution." In connection with the decision to deprive the king of his Pierlot said that hi of vacancy in royal' power the constitution (prescribes a meeting of both, houses of parliament and that, ill the meantime, the power shall be exercised! by the government HOOVER REPLIES TO! ROOSEVELT WADIO CHAT NEW YORK, TVIay 28 (UP) Former President Herbert Hoover replied last night to President Roosevelt's fireside chat of Sunday wjth a call.

for a single-headed munitions administration to build United States defenses. In a nation-wide speech over the National Broadcasting Company's system, Mr. Hoover warned, against panic in c6nsidenng the nation's defense needs and against political distribution of money appropriated for defense. He criticized the "partisan''fla- vor" of the president's Sunday address, and noted! that although Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany andi European, rearmament was at Its height during the Roose- 'velt administration, the nation still was unprepared, CANCEL LINDY'S MEMBERSHIP IN FRENCH SOCIETY PARIS, May 28 (UP) The Trench and Air Association; representing woi'ld war pilots of the fayette escadrille, today ordered cancellation of Col. Charles A.

Lindbergh's honorary membership in the The withdrawal ordered, it was explained, because of Col. Lindbergh's speech of May 19. ELEVEN MEET DEATH OVER Young Dayton Race Driver Killed while Qualifying for Race Cleveland Nine Ahead of Last Year's Fatalities Columbus Boy Accidentally Shot while Examining Revolver. Eleven Ohioans met death over the week-end through automobile accidents, shootings, drownings and violence. died--througll motferirig: mishaps.

They included 1 Roy Knight, 22-year-old Dayton driver, killedl Sunday when his racing automobile skiddedi from the Argonne Forest speedway at Dayton in fyingilap. Columbus' first traffic dieath in 25 days w.as recorded Sunday night when Herbert J. Wagner, 55, was struck a truck at a downtown intersection. Sunday's traffic deaths included three as a result of accidents on previous days. Bud Crawford, 73- year-old negro, of injuries received h-e was struck by an auto at Bartwell, Cincinnati suburb.

At Bellaire, Alvin Bilsei, 30, succumbed as a result of a street- ca.r-autoniiobile collision at Wheeling Island, in which three other Bellaire persons were injured. Cleveland's traffic fatalities were nine ahead of last year with the Sunday of Mora-is Wieinstein, 55, who had been injured Thursday when he walked into the side of a truck. The Cleveland) death list stood at 47. George De Wolf, 19, was killed at mid'night when his automobile struck a tree after leaving a country road north of Lucille Carpenter, 17, West Mansfield, riding De Wolf, was in critical condition today in a- Bellefontaiue hospital. Walter Francis Schwind, 14, Columbus, was fatally shot Sunday while he andi a companion examined a new mail-order revolver.

A second! shooting death was that of Willis Funk, 36, Columbus, who apparently committed because of domestic difficulties. Robert 10, was drowned at Akron when foe fell from a concrete abutment near a Goodyear filter dam while on an outing with thnee other youths. A broken axle was blamed for a grade crossing crash Tallmadge neap' Akron, which resulted in the scattering of wreckage for two miles along the Brie track. No injured. The truck driver, Charles Marshall, 29, Cleveland), re- portedl that he tried unsuccessfully to flag the train after the truck- trailer breakdown on the crossing.

Six-year-old Kenneth Hqwdyshell drowned! in Oldtown creek, near Logan, Sunday. Ill health was blamedi for the suicide of Haroldi Peck, 27, at Parkman. Lieut. Gen. Sir John Grcer Dill Following.

the recall of General Maurice Gamelln as Allied generalissimo, General Edmund. Ironside, shown right, with A. V.I -Alexander, British first lord of the admiralty, has been replaced as chief' of the British general staff by Lieutenant General Sir John Greer Dill, above. Oen. Sir Edmund Ironside and A.

V. Alexander Legislation on Old Pensions, Relief and Separation of State and Ballots Would be Enacted Decision on Special Session will be Announced within Week or Ten Days. COLUMBUS, May 28 (UP) Sources within the Republican administration of Governor Bricker today reported growing pressure within party for a special session 'this siimt- mer to- act on oldi age pensions; relief and separation of tlie state and national ballots for the Nbvem'ber election. Bricker has not yet reached a final decision whether to summon a special session. He -has indicated definite agreement might be reached at meeting of Republican, candidates within the next week or ten duys.

The initial "strategy" council by the candidates was held 1 Sunday at the governor's mansion. If session is called, there 1 would still be a difference of opinion on the it should be heldi 'before or after the Republican national convention which, begins in Philadelphia on June 24. Although in the last few days there has been agitation by some Republicans for a session to separate the state and national tickets, official sources saidi concern was felt over poqr relief and! old age pension The relief situation, it was indicated, has not made any mpre favorable by results on proposed- special local tax levies; in the primary elections about the state. The situation iu Cleveland hinges about a suit to be argued, in the state supreme court tomorrow. Sliouldi the court approve the issuance of some $2,000,000 in delinquent tax bonds by Cleveland, the city's needs for the of 1940 probably would be 'fairly well taken care of, Mayor H.

Burton has indicated, but there are other "sore spots." If the court holds the proposed issue invalid, the Cleveland might become acute at oilce. Candidates were saidi to the concerned over the failure of the publican administration to take steps to conform the state law federal enactments for a maximum $40 olid) age pension monthly. The present Ohio maximum is $30, but under the new federal law the federal government will pay one-half of pensions up to $20 per pension. The Bricker administration, although many Republicans admitted, they were worried' over the politi- SIX JURORS SEATED FOR 'ISLATER TRIAL BELI43FONTAINE, May 28 men and three seated tentatively today to bear the first degree murder trial of Donald. Slater, 18, charged TVith participation in the hammer of Fred, Jenkins, 51, Huntsville telegrapher.

The sly talesman were chosen- after lengthy questioning' of pan-" el of 27 veniremen yesterday. The jury today. Seating of a jury is 1 expected to consume nearly all of this witnesses have been subpenaed to testify fcefpre next Monday. Judge Lawrence Zupp overruled! a motion by Slater's counsel for change of venue on grounds that accounts of the Jenkins killing carried in local newspapers hadi prejudiced the minda of (prospective jurors in this vicinity. II EXT OBJECTIVE OF GERMAN ARMY Air Force Bombs Four Coastal Ports, Together Communications Leading to Them German Sources Tertn Surrender; "Humanitarian Action." ADMINISTRATION WILL ASK NEW DEFENSE TAXES WASHINGTON, May, 28 (UP) The administration will ask tlie present session of Congress for new national de- tense taxes yielding up to a year and a $3,000,000,000 increase in the national debt limit.

GREEN BAY, May 28 John Bricker of-Ohio was announced today as the keynote speaker of the Wisconsin state Republican convention. cal potentialities of failure to meet the federal changes, has thus Car made no move to conform. Estimates of the additional cost vary widely and there remains some doubt over the availability of state There was said to be a wldte difference of opinion over the advis- 'ability of separating the etate and national tickets for the fall election and Democrats already have accused the G. O. P.

of "faint heart" for even toying with the idea. It was known that the governor and other leaders want to be absolutely certain of the success of their If a session is called, and in all probability if it is convened, the objectives coukli be ireached within a few 'dlays. The governor, and other leaders want to be absolutely certain of the success of their program if a session Is called! to avoidi a long, wrangling meeting. If a session is finally convened, the date probably will be set only after a thorough canvass has' ibeen madie of the Republican majorities in house and senate to assure spe.edy accomplishment of administnatiou objectives, By FREDERICK G. OEC'HSNER BERLIN, May 28 armies, following up the surrend'or of the Belgian army under King Leopold, drove along 5 the Belgian coast today toward the French port of Dunkirk.

A ih'lgh commandi communique said that "the great Ar- toia and Flanders had! reached' its climax." Tlie comniiiuiiriue, Issued! from Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's headi- quarters, said that the air foroa had bombed! Zeebruge, Oslend, Nieupprt and Dunkirk harbors as 'well as railroadl lines' leading to them andf ships lying in'their liar- German troops were standing outside Bruges and Thourout, the communique said. North of Valenciennes, andi south of Tournai on 'what the Germans refer to as the southern front, the Germans claimed to have broken through strong French border fortifications and to have crossed the Scheldt canal west of Valenciennes. Following an earlier announcement from Hitler's field headquarters that Leopold's Belgian anniy had 1 capitulated! unconditionally to the Germans the ihigh command; said that German troops had broken stubborn resistance anidl had pressed the enemy closer "while air afftacks caused their destruction." The communique placed! the German forces at seven miles from Brugge and Thourout and said that passedi Thielt on their iway down the Belgian coast. Describing the assault on the French in the Valen- cieuiiesi area the high command said that German forces had cap- tured Douai, Orchi.es, Bassee, Morville, Hazebrouk ajidi Bourbpugville. As result, the long French fortifications north of Valenciennes were broken through, the.

communique said. An enemy destroyer was "severely hit" iby a bomb in the English channel, the high command saidi, and it was claimed that a German speedboat hadi sunk an enemy transport vessel of tons. Authorized; quarters, on the high command's commun- ique and the earlier special announcement on the. capitulation of Leopold's, forces, said thai the Bel- (Contihued' on Dast Pago.) ITISH-FRENCH NORTH FORCES LEFT IN PRECARIOUS POSITION French Premier Roynaud Says Bel- glum Iliiler Made Decision Without Consulting Allies and Against Advice of Belgium Cabinet Hardest Blow for Allies Since Blitzkrieg Began on May 10. PARIS, May 28 (UP) King Leopold of the Belgians surrendered his army, as Us In chief, unconditionally to the Germans today loft the ontlrw Al- licdi northern army, numbering up to 1,000,0.00 men, hi the gravest jeopardy.

Fighting between the Belgian luid 'Gorman arm lea stopped, at 5 u. in. and tho online Alliedi left wing, the Germans back from tho channel coast and! Dunkirk, chief Allied northern base, had ceased to exist. Premier Paul Roynaud of Franco, announcing Leopold's 'surrender to tho nation in a bitter, contemptuous spooch, suidi that Loopoldl had' made hla decision without consulting tho Allies or even notifying French General Blanchardi, the Allied northern commander iu chief. Reynaudi said that Leopold luad surrendered against the unanimous advice of his cabinet andi that the Belgian government was dfctor- minedi to fight on and to organize a now Belgian army in Franco.

A Belgian parliamentary deloga- tiomin Paris, In an announcement in Us own behalf, repudliatod the surrender, calling it a shame to the country, and called on every Belgian in Franco to rush to the aid of the Allies. "We knew dark days would Roynaudi told tho nation. "They have Fnanco has been Invaded a hundred times andi never! humbled. It is In tho trials; which, await, us that wo shall; 'form Franco's new soul 'Und mitke It greater than over. Our ftilth 'ili-vic- tory is intact.

The s.trength oreaiin soldier, eacslu £ud It- Frenchwoman, Is Mlri- fortune has 'always made France greater. We shall hold. Wo shall conquer because we shall have held." The French high commandi in its morning No. 535 of the war, told tho surrender news as follows: "The military situation was aggravated! unexpectedly in Mio north as the result of the capitulation of the king of tho Belgians, whose army was engageidi alongside, British and French troops. "The Allied forces have faced the new situation and continue to fight.

i "There Is nothing important to report on the whole rest oD tho front." A military source said that the capitulation put tho Allied northern armies in a very serious situation. But, he adkledi, the Allies took new measures to face tho situation and their fight continued. As had Reynaudi, the informant said! that the Belgian king took his dlecision without consulting hia government, his army chiefs, or his people at a time when the position of the northern (armies was "not top unfavorable." The informant emphasized that. tho British, had counter-attacked successfully terday on the Lys river, in an attempt to relieve German, pressure on tho Belgians. Further, he insisted, the Allies still 'held Qalais this morning despite German claims to it.

The informant- disclosed! that thei Belgian army had already froni( the River Lys-Ghent line before the capitulation order. But now, he saidi, the entire left flank had been left and the French and British iu the north were in a most difficult position. Reynaud, in hla 8:30 u. m. speech to the French nation, toad nouncedi that Leopoldi's surrender became effective at 4 a.

though, fighting stoppedi an hour later. Britain and France, Reynaud' said, were now fighting alone In tho north. It was the 'haud'est blow the, Hea had 1 suffered since the start oft tho norm an blitzkrieg May 10, a. bliukrlog that now had approached! tho peak of fury with the Germans hurling over mow powerful forces Into tho battle without regard to their terrible losses. The French premier unsparing- In 'his denunciation of Leopold.

It was an event unprecedented)' in, history, ho said'. "The Belgian army has latdl down its arms on orders of Us king 1 sumo king who appealed to. tho Allies to flomo to his help, same king who In December laafc year to have any stuff talks with Allies, tho same king who up to May 10 professed to ihave equal faith In the word! of Germany; as In tho word of the Allies," Roynaud bitterly. "This same king, without a word of gratitude or admi I ration for- the soldiers of the Allies, has nawl handed' the Belgian army over to the Invader. "This decision was taken iu strict contradiction of the fooling of his country jinuli of the soldiers wiio httdl been up a miag- nlllcont effort.

"Franco and Britain alone will have to carry on tho struggle thoy had taken upon themselves 1 together with tho Belgians May 14." Emphasizing that Leopold had! acted) against the wishes of his people, ibis army und' his Roynaud "I am toldi by iho Belgian gov- ornniont that tho king's decision. was taken against, tho wish of Bel- g'ians in- t'endsjo 'gb'oifi, form a tlosidlt I -J liliM "without Firench and 'Eng- taWB'i v- jiJ'Without precedent IE history," he assorted. "Our faith in victory la said'. "We, shall hold- on to the Sommo and Aisno, and as wo hold! on we shall conquer." Only last night Premier" Pierlot of Belgium, in a. broadcdfllj speech to the French' aindi Belgian, nations from.

Paris, had said that Belgium continue to fight side iby side with the Allies until, a common victory Jaad been attained! regardless of, what might Reynaud's news came at tho moment when the Germans ihadl thrown into the battle of Flanders tons ol thousands of shock infantry, in addition to their tanks ianid) Stuka dive-bombing planes, in win or lose attempt to isolate and, break up the Alliedi army of tha north, whose left wing (northern), anchor was the Belgian army. The Belgians, at the moment Leopold's surrender, had been bearing the brunt of the fighting on tho River Lys line. The Belgians been forced) across the River Lys to the. west bank, their backs to the English, channel, Entire German units were wiped! out, it was asserted, in furious, blind- frontal attacks on the Belgian and other, Allied, positions. As unit was mowed down, another, even more took its place.

In attacking both the left (Belgian) and Tight flanks of the arriiy; of the north, the 'Germans had put such tremendous pressure on thei Allies that they had forced the northern army to retreat to new; ''and stronger positions. The Belgians had) withdrawn in' the Courtrai-Menin sector on the- 1i French Belgian troops ibad withdrawn near iS I I Driving in on the Lllle-Roubaix- Turoirig area an dthe Lens-JLa Baa- 1 see-Bethuns area to the southwest, the Germans were tz-ying to pinch, off a big part of the. and the ti no isolate ic ooastai -nUJ!.