Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1941 — Page 5

INPAV. MAV 5. 1941.

jTOBRITRIN IjCCELERITED A Moving Rapidly In ■.Out Aid To Great Britain «k|| ll«" m M " X 1 ” “ 1 X ) mouth* of warfare betwaui arid totalitarian powers zKr.mgh' the Vnited States' '■|< i’slh program close to the t„„.iing limit* establish! <l Roosevelt. p. Kuent rspidflre de fateful month In Amer « 11 relation* By May 1. apparently was <nm (1 , an extended patrol sysjK, pul western hemisphere Ktion within reach' of the Kuo somewhere in the eastfft. lal a«i» spokeanw n and threatened violence a I iiit>d State* fleet and JK. !■ . inlet Mussolini a own Popolo Dltalla said .nd Italy had decided to th. l ulled State* aa "a HW enemy.** Mr Roosevelt continued to to eit'did the Am uni th Atlantic patrol and to pM> >, H• i»t«h .hipping which l» rank at the rate of 5,000,000 wßyeai. A month of steady exOf the aid-tor Britain pro (Ulminaied last week In a order for maritime acquisition of 2,000,000 .hipping to further all-out to the democracies. . ..untry's awing away from to non-belligerent partibegan in September, 1»3» after the war began fK have been at least 10 dlwtn that directitm: ndnielit of the neutrality JKpeimit export to belligerent* dKniti'.n.. war supplies and alt on a < «»h and-carry basis Mrablishnirni of a western ijKphere neutrality tone, at flrat keep tooatllitiee away America* but now enablpatrol vessels to give Bi ItWA - . information regarding tue dK.bout of German aurface, IflKrin. and air raider* i iigit «*|onai authorlxation ■B 1940. <>f the transfer to oth (Ann- Great Britain in thia inllfl government-owned im- which had been laid up dB A'ui Id War I. June. whereby U. S navy aircraft and other ■MI ■■■ were released to manufor immediate delivery to Oißjlie- in exdiange for credit* ÜB'I iat< r deliveries to the t'nit-

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ed State* S. Th* Canadlan-l'nlfed State* Joint defense agreement of August, 194f1. fl. Tranafer In September. 194". of SO over-age deatroyer* to Great Britain In exchange for naval and air base leases on British territory In North. Central and South America. 7. A series of embargo** agalmt export of essential war mat. rial* which not only conserved American supplies but hindered war preparation* of axl* podera, notably Japan 11. Export import hank loan* to Finland. China and to South American countrle*. the latter to combat axl* economic infiltration •- Th. leaac-lend act approved March it. tail. 10. Selxure on Mar<h 30, of Ilanlab, Italian and German merchant vessel* in American water*. The neutrality patrol of 1940 now ha* become an Atlantic patrol extending from the high northern latitude* to the equator and reaching al leaat 2.000 mile* eastward toward Great Britain and the senate foreign relation* committee ha* taken action which *ub*tantially freed Mr. Rooaevell'* hand* to expand the Atlantic patrol to the coaat and porta of Great Britain if he feel* that western hemisphere security will be increased thereby. The threat ut congressional check on the expanded patrol polity apparently was overwhelmed April 30 when the senate committee refused to send to the floor anti-con-voy resolutions which would have placed the whole matter under hot and angry debate. HITLER ASSERTS .CONTINUED FROM FAGC ON«» Britain would be attempted within lhe calculable future. German informant* cautioned against too much Interpretation along this line. They said Hitler atill poase*aes the initiative and always counted on the element of surprise. Germans said also that It might be significant that In this speech Hitler did not repeat the pea, e offers he had made in previous speeches There was general surprise at Hitler's statement on the comparative losses of the Balkan campaign lie asserted that the German* had taken more than 9.000 prisoners from the British empire expeditionary force. Slfl.OflO Greeks and 344.1(2 Jugoslavs. Including Croats. Macedonian? and Jugoslav soldiers of German ''nationality " Against this he said I mat German army and Nazi HS storm troop officers and men had been killed. 3.752 wounded and 3X5 missing 11. gave air force casualties as 52 killed and 140 missing. As regards naldons still outside the war In Europe. Hitler's most Important reference was to Turkey. "Turkey was our ally in the great

Ready for Nazi Invasion—r— — - ■ gM a' , o I 1 > y . mV ’ Typifying the spirit of the coastal defender* in England, thin r*. j tired civil sergeant *tan<!» guerd along the barren cliff* in the Dover- ’ FolhMtonu area, carefully scanning ths channel for ths snsmy. * Britain I* : r.t ar.-.l for a German invasion.

war." he said . that great genius who created the new Turkey was the first to set a wonderful example of recovery to her allios whom fortune at that time had deserted and to whom fate had dealt so terrible a blow. Turkey thanks to the practical attitude of her leaders, preserved her Independence In carrying out her resre lutlon. Jugoslavia fell victim to British intrigue." He Intimated that Jugoslavia would pay most dearly foi it* temerity in resisting Germany, but praised the Greeks "We are filled with slncete sympathy for tin- van<|ufshed unhappy Greek people." Hitler said "ft Is a victim of its king and a small dazzled upper stratum ft has. however, fought so courageously that Its enemies cannot but respect It. The Herb people will perhaps learn from this catastrophe the one true lesson that those officers who 1.-. l the ‘putsch* are a misfortune for their country." He said that the German people would never again experience a year like 191* but Instead would climb to still higher "achieve ment*" in all fields of "national resistance "The German people will ever more fanatically avow that nelthe force of unis nor time I, capabl.

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NEW YORK.—That man I Saroyan Is hard to get away i from, and since we’ve had a j week without an opening — the theatrical season Is pretty well on Its way out by now—we might as ; well attempt to understand why so many nice people have gone oft their chump about his •'The Beautiful People” We were so mad about it that we didn't tell you the story of the play last week. Matter of fact, there isn't really a story to it. It's just a whammy bit of the old Saroyan whimsy. But here it is.' i Jonah Webster (Curtis Cook- i sey) Is called, In the program, “a religious man.” He’s a tippling crackjwjt who live* on a pension check sent monthly to a man, now dead, who had lived in the mouse-infested old mansion in San Francisco. He has a daughter, Agnes (Betsy Blairt, I whom Mr. Saroyan for some unfathomable purpose calls a saint. In the same whimsical manner Mr. Saroyan calls Owen Webster (Eugene Loring», the son who writes one-word novels, “a poet . and scientist.” One of his oneword novels Is the word “tree.” That’s all. Isn't that just too, too < cunning? Well, along comes a vice-prrsl- | dent, William Prim (E. J. Ballantine), checking up on the pension i check. He finds the pensioner I dead, but he has such a swell time i talking to the father of the two I child marvels that he decides , that the company wouldn't car* I a lot if the checks kept coming. 1 In fact, he Increases the pension ten dollars a month. Well, besides writing one-word novels, young Owen thinks a lot about his brother, Harold, who’s away i in New York, with no money, but with a cornet on which he plays ”My Wonderful One.” Every time you see the youngster pick up his ears and gaze off to starboard. the sound of a muted trumpet playing “My Wonderful One" comes on stage. |. Included among the visitors to this menage of whimsy are Harmony Blueblossom (Fredrica Sic mo ns) who has no reason for coming into the house except that she's looking for a man she knew in her youth: Dan Hill- < boy (Farrell Pelly), whom Mr. Saroyan calls "a good companion,” and Father Hogan (Edward

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of bending us. much less breaking . us . . , the national socialist state stand* like a monument to social Justice and clear rraion It will not only last after thl* war but for the coming 1,000 years." It was noted that Hitler did not refer to the t'nlted Htale* directly, despite the presumed preoccupation ' of the Nazi government with the intention* of the American govern- - ment. H<- referred merely to the great democracies, "international Jewish financial interests" and so forth. Junior High Party Here Friday Night Plans for the annual junior high | party to In- staged at the Decatur I Junior-senior high school Friday ( night w-ie announced today The party, open to s'udents of the seventh and eighth grade* of lhe Decatur Junior-senior high «-hool. will be held in the a'ldltoilmn-gym j txasium of the school. A program of enlerteirnuulil is being arranged by the consmOtee. under the direction ot laiwell Sniirh. eighth grade class sponsor, aashted by Harry Dailey, seventh grade w|>oii*or Game* and other riitertalwnent will <gicn the party I at 7 o'clock and will be followed by lunch and refreshments.

Nannary) who manages to like •he pompously innocent, philosophical dimwit head of the house. There's a deal of talk about how happy the world could be if only it would relax, forget the business of earning a living, let the sun rise and the moon set and there’d be pie In the sky for all That appears to be an extensive repetition of Mr. Saroyan's philosophy, and well admit that it's nice work if you can get It. There's some talk—a lot of it—about mice, but we're tired. Harold comes home, followed by a lad in a turtle necked sweater, carrying a battered top hat. He comes down the road playing "My Wonderful One” on his trumpet, which isn't muted this time. He walks Into the living room, sits down, and his pal puts the top hat on the trumpet. Everybody’s stricken dumb with happiness because Harold's home, and when he stops playing, his father says: “Polestar and pyramid, boy, play it again.” Someone takes the top hat off the trumpet, puts it on Harold's head, and as he plays it again, the curtain falls. Some of the critics arc pushovers for Saroyan’s poetry. We think his poetry's pretty prosy, pedestrian, sophomoric. Some feel he is an original, a new, creative force in the theatre. We hate to say ’tain’t so, but shucks, everything he does has been done before—and better. The business of music; rambling, shambling, homely, I-love-the-whole dumworld philosophizing of Jonah Webster certainly izn’t new. Mr. Frank Bacon was a lot more lovable rascal In "Lightnfri*,” and with greater reason. The hero of "Lightnin”’ was more a pantheist, and Jonah Webster is a phoney. The acting in ’’The Beautiful People” is uniformly excellent. It’s wonderful what good luck poor plays seem to have with their casts. Isn’t It? And the actors do make something out of it, notably Mr. Pelly, overcome by drink while he talks to his confessor. Father Hogan. But playing, no matter how excellent, never yet made a play. It might keep It going for a while, but we doubt seriously that the Lyceum Theatre on West 45th Street Is going to house ‘‘The Beautiful People" very long.

PRODUCTION OF PLANES MOUNTS American Plane Production At High Mark Os 1.493 In April Washington. May I <U-R> American airplane production ranched the new high mark of I 493 for the month of April, It was laarned today Th. previous record output was Mil for March. Informed sources said that only 79 of the 1.493 nlrcraft manufar fared and delivered last month ware of the commercial type. The remainder went to the t). N army. U. 8 navy. British and other government*. The number* going to each branch were not revealed Os the March output of 1214 planes only 75 were of the commercial type and 579 went to the V. N army and navy and the British Following are V 8 aircraft pro duction figures since last December: December. 799; January. l,03fl; February. 572; March. 141*1 April, I 493 Ol’M director general William S. Knudsen said recently that the March production figures would be doubled by August 31. HEAVIEST RAID CONTINUED FROM PAGIC *>NB reported heavy air attacks on Baghdad military objectives and Istanbul heard that a British column of 20 00c. troops waa marching on the Iraq capital Around Basra ’he British Were aald to have taken control of all key points and the RAF garrison at Habbaniya airdrome continued to hold out against Iraqi artillery fire. The ousted Iraq regent. Emir Abdul Blah, raised a banner of revolt against the pro Nazi premier. Rasbld All AMlallanl The British hoped the regain control of Iraq before Germany could give effective aid to Itashld. However. Iraqi forces were said to have cut the Mosul oil pipelines and Budapest heard report* that Arab troubles had broken out in Palestine where fighting was said to have occurred In Nablus Arab guerillas were said to have kidnaped a number of Zionists In the diplomatic sphere a'fentlon was concentrated on fw i

d.'ilaratlons one by Adolf llltlei before the German relclislag last night and one by President Roose veil at Charlottesville. Va. Hitler’s nddre»» gave little due to hl* war plan*, but the fuehrer tacitly admit ted that the war la likely to piogtes* beyond thl* year. He asserted that Germany would provide her armed forces with better weapons "next year" and re peatedly emphasized necessity of maintaining the superiority of German weapons over those nf her opponents. He again insisted that any aug geatlon that Germany had aggiesaive Itiieuitons toward a country peopled with 'democratic sgltatora' obviously the United Ntales Was "nothing but an absurd He." He had kind woid* for Italy's part In the Balkan campaign, praised the quality of Greece's resistance. In an obvious bld for the good will of that country, and spoke well of Turkey, chief current object of Nhzi diplomacy. The address led the British t» suggest that Hitler was losing <-nn fideni-a In hl* ability io secure a quick victory Preaident Roosevelt said In hi* brief sprei-h that the t'nlted Blates has fought In the past for Its faith In the democratic Ideals of freedom and that “We are eve ready Io fight again." He did not elaborate hl* reference. Vlrglnto Gayda. the Fascist commentator. asserted that Hitler's address closed the "first cycle of the axl* spring offensive" and charged that although Hi >taln Is completely Isolated she Is doing her utmost to bring the t'nlted Ntates Into the war "with the aid of the warmongering followers of Roosevelt." o ABC Lines Not Affected By Grey hound Strike Bus stvrvlee 111 De, a'Ur h.i- not le-eii aff>* led by the GrayMiound strike in Fort Wajme T ><• strike ha* resulted in a heavier sale of th kets at the local Im* station in the Rice hotel person* coming from Fort W.iyne puKlia- - tickets after arriving here All outl, Ihhiikl ticket- i*r<- -old al the lixal station. Employe- of the AIM' whioli liold- the franchise for the route through hete. are 4101 out on the "eympathy" strik< . called by Greyhound omploye* at Fort Wayne o Annual steel ingot capacity ha* Incre.i--*! 23 <M<<MMHI (mu or about |l> per) ellt -III) <- 191*

She Saw a Dress100 Miles away! A girl was reading her home-town newspaper, when she saw a dress advertised by a store bark home, a hundred miles away. A few days later she was wearing the same dress to a dance! Magic? No she had simply discovered how to shop by newspaper! Newspaper advertising can act as a magic carpel for you, too. It can save vou miles of steps, bv displaying the stores’ merchandise right in your own home. Telling you the important things you would ask about in the store itself sizes, range of colors, fabric, washability, details of fashion. The girl bought her dress with utter confidence, because the store’s advertisement had told her just what she needed to know and she knew its printed statement could be trusted. You can buy with equal confidence, because the advertisement is your guarantee that what you buy will be exactly as you saw it in the paper. Page through this newspaper and notice the wide selection of merchandise the unexpected chances for saving. You will discover for yourself the new leisure and economy of shipping “the newspaper way!’ Decatur Daily Democrat

JUNIOR HERD GROUP MEETS Improvement AnNoriation To Meet Here Thur#day Evening A meeting of the Adam* county Junior herd Improvement aaaociatlon. a bran< h of lhe FSA. will be held Thur*duay night at M o'ido<k in the agricultural room, numbri 102. m the Decatur Junlor-eenbir high *ehool, It wa* announced today. Among the discussions will be one In wbteh the value of doing record* extending over the preerd I . mg nine months will be conducted I i oncers of lhe association will be elected and demonstration* of milk , testing by students of the vocation I , al agriculture claasr* nf lhe achool will Im given Robert (’. Hllverthorn. of the I PHA will he In charge of th<- meet- J I ing and will be aided by |. E Arch . , bold county agricultural agent. ' and William T lv< a. v<« .itl->ual i agriculture ln*tru<tor of the Deca- , tur junior-senior high achodL i o — Talking Picture To Be Shown At School "Beyond the Itio Grande” is the! tltl>- of a talking movliu picture I I I to Im* <«hown at thf» lfe***£tiir jun I i lor-aenior high «<Ui<h>l Wednesday ' ' I Principal W Guy Brown annoutw <-d today. The movie will he *h))wii during t | a *p<-< ial chapel lung ram of the I | m hool, starting at *t a m. in the audttoi >um gytniK)siuiii The pubMc ' ' > I* invit)<«l to *)'e the mi Vie No j admission oharg)' will In- made Class Receives First Communion 1 Th<- firWt < oimnunion service* at I : St Mary’ church Sunday morning were largely attended by iid-uilm-i -1 of tli<- imildli A <l.)-- of 25 la>y-i and girh received Holy Uommwiloti foi tli<- first tun* Rev. Js>*«ph J Sebnetg Wae eel)- | brant of lhe mass and delivered the sermon It wa- aniiouti)•*! that next Sun day would Im- observed a* Mother's i tkty. wl'h the mothei • and daugh , tors r>-< >- v ing Holy Communion m 1 a body at the seven o'clock mass

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| Oh, but the Kiss! F 1 iX ■ J *s. "\ F 3 8L v Marlene INetrlch. Robert Moor* When a picture of Marlene Die* trich waa ahown in a psychology 1 class at Han Francisco State col* lege, Robert Moore, a student who had never been Inside a motion . picture house, registered exactly *en> on the paychometer. which calibrate* emotional response. A atudmt fund was raised so Moore could meet Miss Dietrich person* ally. He <H<i, aa pictured, but reg* latered only 45 at that. Wh<-n she fixed hia tie, the psyvhometep needle went to flO But when isha klMcd him, for four minutes, tha needia went to U»)—and stayed there. Elks To Initiate* Class On Wednesday A < la-s of < alidldates will be iniI tinted at the regular meeting of : Hie It p 4) Elk. W.-dtre.day evening at * «'< Io- k Important business will also •» tian-si) i<-d and all I m< inhere are **rg>-d to le- pre-ent. A free liinoh Will Im- served follow : ing 'he mao-ting. (> Tlx- oldest man found in the 19|<i < ensu- wa. a < hi> ago man who bad < migrated fi om Egypt He was 12M years uid

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