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wo Norwegian Ports Are Reported Recaptured
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a | Nebraska “Supports New fh Roosevelt 7 to 1 ver Garner in Illinois.
g| By UNITED ries District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey is leading Senator ‘Arthur H. Vandenberg in yesterday’s Presidential preferential primary in Nebraska, incomplete returns showed today, but not by the 3 to 1 margin which he piled up in Wisconsin last week.
resident Roosevelt, unopposed in the Nebraska Democratic preferen- - tial primary, was polling almost as many votes as Mr. Dewey and
ing about 7 to 1 [ahead of Vice President [John N.| Garner. Mr.
Dewey was unopposed on the Re- |: publican side and | was polling a}:
heavy vote, though short of the Roosevelt total. The returns in this state were incomplete, too. Events abroad appeared to be _ creating the .atmosphere of crisis upon which some | draft-Roosevelt advocates | depend put a third term: over the top. Some such de- . velopment as allout European: war and its spread the northern neutrals would be viewed by third- | termers as a tremendous boost to ' his unavowed candidacy. It would ' be expected to minize opposition to { a third term on grounds of prin- | ciple. |
Nebraska Ballot
Counting Proves Slow OMAHA, Neb., April 10 (U, P.).— Nebraska Republicans prefer Thomas E. Dewey to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg as a Presidential candidate, returns from yesterday's preferential primary indicated today. President Roosevelt, running unopposed in the Democratic primary, had polled 6000 votes more than Mr. Dewey, according to |returns irom more than half the precincts. The ballots were being counted very slowly and the returns were far from complete. . Mr. Roosevelt apparently was assured of the ie 14 delegates to
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the Democratic National Convention, and’ if the| uncounted votes carry out the trend of the counted;
are not binding on the delegates but they usually are followed. Results Not Binding Nebraska. had been ballyhooed a an index of farm belt sentiment. Mr. Dewey's campaign tours haf ‘led hi through Nebraska twice and he had stated a farm progra here. Mr. Vandenberg did not ca paign in the state. Returns from 1150 of 2052 precincts gave: : | For President: Republican — Mr. Dewey, 50,212; Mr. Vandenberg, 40,019. Democratic—Mr. Roosevelt, 53,876. Interest of Nebraskans centered on the contest between Senator Edward R. Burke and Governor R. L. Cochran for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, with Mr. Cochran maintaining a ight margin gained in early tabulations. The issue was New Dealism, once Senator Burke's creed, but championed in this campaign by Governor Cochran. Returns Fre 1450 precincts gave:
Today's War Theater
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1940
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This map of the Scandinayian nations shows the theater of today’s struggle between Germany. and the Allies.
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to Knickerbocker Hospital.
Dr. Fraser discarded his clothing as he hastened to the operating room and by the time Mrs. Edralin was wheeled in, he was ready to operate. Working with incredible speed, Dr. Fraser made an incision around the left breast. He cut four ribs away from the breast bone, severing the muscles so that he had a sort of trap door. Then he reached in and took the quivering heart in his hand. A puncture of the left ventricle sent blood spurting with every beat. Dr. Fraser motioned for needle and silk thread. As each heart beat quieted, he took a stitch. Then he waited for another moment of quiet and took a second stitch. A third stitch closed the wound. But another complication appeared. | The loss of blood had seriously weakened Mrs. Edralin. The patient’s blood type had been charted) the moment she entered the hospital, and Dr. Morris Kleinberg, an interne standing by, knew his blood was the same. He climbed on a table beside the operating table, and a quart of blood was pumped from his arm into Mrs. Edralin’s veins. The hospital revealed the amazing story ‘today and said that she would recover completely. i
BOARD APPROVES
Wounded Woman's Heart 'Sewed Up'—She'll Recover
Surgeon Dresses for Rush Operation ‘on the Run’; Interne - Gives Blood on" Moment’s Notice.
NEW YORK, April 10 (U. P).—Mrs. Eloise Edralin, 19, picked up a Somehow it was discharged and the bullet ripped through her chest, punctured her heart. An ambulance surgeon, amazed to find her still alive, rushed her A hurry call brought Dr. William A. Fraser, one of the City’s best-known surgeons, on the run.
27 HELD AS POLICE PUSH TRAFFIG DRIVE
769, of Stickers Collected in Last Month.
Cracking down on alleged traffic law violators, police arrested 27 drivers within three hours today. While arrests exceeded the normal number, Capt. Leo Troutman of the Accident Prevention Bureau insisted “this is' not a special drive, but will be an every-day occurence.” Six - of those arrested were charged with making left-hand turns at 34th and Meridian Sts. Six were charged with speeding and others with various violations. Jesse Johnson, 2627% W. Mich-. igan St., was charged with disobeying Patrolman Jacob Huéigins’ hand signal while the officer was directing school traffic in E. Washington St., 6300 block. | Patrolman Hudgins, who chased Johnson on his motorcycle, also charged him with reckless driving and having inadequate brakes. Meanwhile, police maintained a high batting average in . issuing (Continued on Page Three)
Allies, Reich Each Lose 2 Big Warships
BULLETINS | STOCKHOLM, April 10 (U. P.).~Telephoned messages from Malmoe said today that a major naval battle now was in progress in the Skagerrak between at least 10 German warships and troop transports and an undisclosed number of British warships and ‘Royal Air Force planes. It was reported that two German Warships already had been sunk in the battle, Firing could be heard from small islands off Tyoernoe, : just north of Gothenburg, the Malmoe dispatches said. Malmoe is on the southern tip of Sweden. Swedish fishermen in motor launches were reported standing by ready to go to the assistance of survivors of ships in distress. In some quarters it: was reported that the battle occurred when British air and naval forces encountered German warships attempting to convoy troops to Norway.
STOCKHOLM, April 10 (U. P.).—A high Swedish authority said today that Allied forces had recaptured the Norwegian ports of Bergen and Trondhein.
By UNITED PRESS ; Great Britain and France threw their naval and aerial power against Germany today in a furiously spreading battle for domination of Scandinavia. Preliminary operations—which the British said would be fought to the end regardless of Norway's stand against the Nazis—inflicted losses on both. sides, but the fight was just getting under way along the Norwegian Coast where Germany had massed surprising armed power and where the Allies were concentrating their vast forces.
“Germany’s invasion of Scandinavia will have. more far-reaching effects on: the American presidential campaign than yesterday’s primaries.”—See Ludwell Denny, Page Four.
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The most spectacular naval engagement yet reported was at the Norwegian port of Narvik where British destroyers vainly fought German warships and shore batteries. | The naval claims by both sides for all engagements were as follows: Britain claimed that the Germans lost two cruisers, the Karlsruhe and Bluecher (admitted by Berlin) ; one destroyer sunk at Narvik, one cruiser at Bergen, ‘and seyen supply ships. Germany claimed that four British battleships, ida battle cruisers, three heavy cruisers and two transports had been damaged by Nazi air attack in addition to two destroyers lost by the British at Narvik. In addition, Norway lost two naval vessels and than 500 men when the Nazis took Narvik. At Narvik, the Norwegian iron ore port seized by
and most modern German destroyers, supported by batteries. One British destroyer, the Hunter, 1340 t( was sunk; the flotilla leader Hardy, 1505 tons, was aground and wrecked; the Hotspur was heavily dama and the Hostile was slightly damaged. More than 300 were on the Hunter and Hardy and a heavy death seemed likely. ; Narvik Battle Biggest of War
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War Bulletins
REPORTS NORSE ADVANCES “LONDON, April 10 (U. P.).— Radio Stockholm tonight broadcast dispatches from Charlottenberg, east of Oslo, that heavy fighting was raging between German and Norwegian infantry. The Norwegians were reported to be advancing near Elversum, northeast of Hamar, the provisional capital to which the Norwegian Government fled yesterday. BRITAIN IMPOSES EMBARGO LONDON, April 10 (U. P.).— Great Britain today imposed an embargo on all exports to Denmark and a provisional ban on shipments to all other Scandinavian and Baltic destinations.
PEOPLE OF ENGLAND NOW KNOW IT'S WAR
Feel ‘Relieved’—Earlier Fin-
ish Is Possible.
LONDON, April 10 (U. P).— Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced today that two British destroyers had been lost and a third badly damaged in a an warships British sank
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at Narvik, where th: six merchant ships
’ lone Nazi destroyer. |
Three other German destroyers of the largest and latest type were “heavily hit and burning” and a seventh merchant ship believed to be carrying supplies| for the German Expeditionary Forces in Norway was sunk by the British warships, Mr. Chamberlain said. The seventh merchant ship, the Ravensfeldt, was encountered as the British warships left Narvik. It was carrying ammunition.
‘many points since yesterday.
REICH'S AERIAL FURY LOOSENED
Strikes at British Navy in Test of Power After | Narvik Battle. | BERLIN, April 10 (U. P.).—Ger-
many’s air force struck at British sea. power in a test of strength tow
day with a series of sea engage-|3S
ments in which the Nazis admitted loss of two crack cruisers, Bluecher and Karlsruhe, off Norway. The Nazis claimed, however, that they were successfully opposing the Allied air and naval forces in a broad struggle along the Norwegian coast; that German forces were pressing northward from Oslo and Hamar; that 11 British naval vessels, including six capital ships, had | been bombed by German planes, and that Nazi air squadrons again || had gone out to attack British warships. Air-Navy Battle Rages
An air and naval battle was raging along the Norwegian coast which may determine not only the fate of Germany's bold Scandinavian coup, but the war's ultimate outcome. Today, Germany reports indicateg the world may get its first real answer to the question of sea power versus air power—Germany's unmatched fighting air arm against Britain's great navy. A decisive engagement might determine command of the seas. Thus far, there was no indication of the outcome of the furious air and sea combat which has raged at
Engagement Important
Chancellor Adolf Hitler was in personal command of the German operations. For 48 hours he has hardly slept as minute-by-minute reports of the unfolding German advance in Scandinavia, the sea and air engagements were flashed to him. There was an unconfirmed
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SCANDINAVIAS PROVIDE NAZIS “SPRINGBOARD
Brings Hitler's Bombers and Subs Closer to British Bases.
(History of Denmark and Norway, Page 13.)
By WEBB MILLER United: Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, April 10.—Adolf Hitler seizéd Norway and Denmark to use as a springboard from :which he “can strike at Great Britain's mastery of the North Sea. If he succeeds in consolidating German bases in those countries, Herr Hitler can concentrate on air and. sub-
|marine warfare against
Britain. At this new phase of the war | started, that appeared today to be | the most reasonable interpretation | of Herr Hitler's long range strategy, rather than tnat an invasion of Scandinavia was motivated by con< cern over iron ore supplies or fears the Allied planned to seize a foot hold in the peninsula. By seizure of Denmark and Norway, Germany cut the flying distance to the Shetland and Orkney Islands by one-half and greatly increased the flying radius of bombers patrolling the North Sea for attacks on British warships.
| Reduces U-Boat Runs
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w, high speed twin-motored fight- . ing planes’ as-escorts for bombers, practice hitherto impracticable. By using the Norwegian Fjords is submarine bases, if Germany - can hold them, she reduces by ore than 1000 miles the distance ubmarines previously had to travel their bases to operational areas. | The net effect of Herr Hitler's first stroke westward was underlined by an editorial in the London Evening Standard which said, “The war is now on our doorstéps and nothing stands between the British people and subjugation inflicted ‘upon Copenhagen and Oslo but the audacity of our seamen, the daring of ‘our pilots, the discipline of our soldiers and the labor of our factories. Nothing more.” As the situation neared clarification it became indisputably evident that the invasion of Scandinavia had been carefully prepared for a considerable time and had no cohnection whatever with the ] of Norwegian waters by the Allies.
Hopes to Scare Neutrals
One German correspondent whe accompanied the army into Den= mark inadvertently revealed the operation when he said that troops aboard ships which captured Copenhagen had been embarked for two’
{days before the invasion.
The subsidiary advantages Herr Hitler expects to obtain by invading Scandinavia include scaring of other neutrals such as Holland, Belgium and the Balkan states and thus counteract the Allies’ pressure and restrictions on them to tighten the economic strangulation of Germany. It also might block the possibilty of an Allied incursion into the Bal< tic. Seizure of the Norwegian mers chant marine, which totalled 5.< 000,000 tons at the start of the war
® ,7117, Mr. Burke, Toe: Prime. Minister told the popost he may speak shortly on the and which had largely been char-
. P.).—Shirley Temple,
Mr. Cochran, | 49,190. | In the Republican Senatorial race, former rer or Arthur Weaver, running with he indorsement of Senator George W. Norris, veteran “independent, ran a see-saw race with Tough Butler, Wally Omaha, grain-
Unofficial retyms of 1450 precincts gave: Mr. Weayer, 37,999; Mr. Butler, 43,9817. Unofficial returns of 955 precincts gave: Mr. Weayer, 31,009; Mr. Butler, 30,059. Keith Neville, wartime Governor, (Continued on Page Four)
SHOWERS PREDICTED BY WEATHER OFFICE
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 41 10 a. m.... 7a m... 43 11 a. m.. 52 $a m... 47 12 (Noon) . 54 9am... 50 1p m... 55
April's hysterical skies will weep some more tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicted today. It will be colder tonight, tomoew and Friday, the Bureau s
eee SHIRLEY WON'T ‘RETIRE HOLLYWOOD, Cal. April 10 (U. .the child movie star who is going through lie “growing up’ stage, .will make ewer
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TALBOT WIDENING
Home Owners’ Protests Are Over-ridden.
Over-riding the protests of home owners, the Works Board today issued ‘a permit for the widening of Talbot Ave. from 27 to 36 feet between 21st and 22d Sts.
The widening permit was issued at the request of business property owners on Talbot Ave. and E. 22d St. after a public hearing in which home owners said the widening would damage their properties. Works Board members ruled that the home owners did not show sufficient grounds for stopping the widening and that their remonstrances could not prevail, since the home owners were not being assessed for the improvement. The Board ruled the businessmen will pay the full cost. The work is scheduled to be completed about June 15.
HOOSIER TEACHER DIES
CLINTON, Ind. April 10 (U. .P.). —Basil Alexander, 26-year-old Dugger school teacher, died today from
.8as poisoning received Feb. 26 when
he sat in a parked car with the motor running.. .Miss Mayme. Dudley, another Dugger teacher who also was overcome by carbon ay
gas at ‘thé same "time,
N. Y. STOCKS DOWN; WHEAT CENT LOWER
Stocks turned lower at [New York today with losses ranging to more than a point. Trading was moderately active. A rally in-steel shares was short-lived. Security prices were lower at London. Bonds of Norway and Denmark steadied after yesterday's precipitous decline. Wheat sold a cent lower at Chicago while corn was fractionally higher. A 10-cent advance was made in the prices of
withdraw.
The Narvik battle was the biggest operation ye closed and indicated the elaborate German preparations,
other war developments came rapidly.
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TROMSOE—Norwegian forces were reporiad fighting Germans north of Narvik after having blocked the’ highway
to Tromsoe, which is still in Norwegian hands and i
sidered a likely landing place
~ ELVERUN—About 200 Norwegian troops we
hogs at Indianapolis.
for Allied troops.
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House of Commons | that the five British destroyers were faced by six of Germany's most modern destroyers in addition to powerful fire from shore batteries. They were forced to withdraw after their dash into the harbor and their engagement with the German ships which did. not pursue them. The Prime Minister announced that First Lord of the -Admiralty, Winston Churchill, probably would make a statement in Commons tomorrow on the general Allied naval
operations against German forces in
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By JOE COLUER The Indianapolis Norway Club met Saturday in the Holliday Building and saw motion pictures of their beloved fjords, their mountains, their Oslo and their Bergen. Many of the 55 of Norwegian birth or descent planned summer vacations there and all planned to bring to the attention of persons who travel the beauties of Norway. It was a hopeful and a happy time. “And now look!” said Mrs. Hans Coucheron Aamot, 2202 Carrollton
wrung her hands today over news| from the north. Mrs. Aamot organized one Nor-
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Ave., secretary of the club, as she!
gian descent and her husband, chief chemist at the Perfection Paint & Color Co., is a native of Norway. Large canvases of striking Norwegian landscapes, done by Mr. Aamot, panel the walls of the Aamot apartment. On a table a stack of photographs of Norwegian show spots. Mrs, Aamot said she had read all the papers and listened to all the broadcasts. She was extremely nervous and admitted she was “all thumbs.” “I wanted to get the local newspapers to print these pictures to inerest pepple in travelling to Norvay,” she said. “Now, you see, here's a different use for (7
Mrs. year-old daughter, grethe, called to talk news. who speaks both English
wegian perfectly, soon found and was [became absorbed in Peer Gynt, a
pet guinea pig. Mrs.
something like this would } “We didn’t know catch us first—Russia, G England,” she said. “But and a half they have b
preparations over there. is so little,”
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News of War's Sorend fo Scandinavia Bri ngs Sorrow - To Local Norwegians, Proud of Homeland's Beauties
Then her eyes flashed. “England and France will have to take Norway out of it. They put them in it.” Mrs. Hans Aamot leafed through a travel picture book of Norway and her guest continued: “I say have to. They won’t have fo unless it suits them. But it will suit them this time, I think.” Mrs. Hans Aamot told of plans now under way to have a city-wide celebration of May 17, the Norwegian Independence Day. She told that her club, headed by Bjorn Winger, was hoping to establish an annual Lief Ericson Day, and maybe. pase ® Indianapolis ‘to be th
The gagement was regarded as of ut most importance.
ports seized yesterday.
In spite of attacks on the German positions in Norway by “superior French and British naval
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2 ASSISTANTS NAMED
BY ELECTION BOARD
The County Board of Election Commissioners today appointed Eland Frank Seidensticker, Democrat, as
bert Gilliom, Republican, |
first assistants to the Board.
“northern North Sea” en-
It was thought {o indicate that the British are pressing their drive to wrest control from Germany of Norwegian
tered by the Allies, was a serious blow to the British and - French. ‘Other advantages include access to Denmark’s large food supplies and Norway's timber and cellulose.
Avoids Western Fighting :
The German strategists evidently considered these advantages would offset the risky gamble of opening the war on two fronts, which Herr Hitler once solemnly pledged never to lead the German people into. At the moment, the most likely | and strategic course of the war is that. . Herr Hitler will remain | quiescent on the Western Front te | avoid involving the French army and enable him to concentrate on bombing and submarine warfare against the British in the North
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TAX COLLECTIONS UP $5,709,000 IN STATE
Income tax collections in Indiana for the first nine months of the Federal Government's fiscal year have increased $5,709,000, Will H. Smith, Indiana Internal Revenue Collector, said today. Total tax collections from July, 1939, to March, 1940, were 39% Glas
964.77, as com] to $87,96 for the same ye
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