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German convoy ts disperse et that some ships in it had

managed to escape and steam individ From several sources there were in the Skagerrak still was raging. | Churchill’

| In addition to Mr. Italian news agency Stefiani radio broadcast this morning

“The greatest sea battle of all tim is under way, with a|

ally northward. eports that the battle

report, | the official was quoted in a Steckholm as saying:-

| battle line extending 2000 kilometr s (1250 miles) from

| Nordkap to the Frisian Islands. One

hundred and fifty Al-

lied and 100 German planes are taking part.”

7 This much was certain: | ' The battle yesterday was the gr war, and to match it there had been |

test of the European dramatic night fight

by moonlight in northern Scotland b tween raiding German

planes, in their most determined a

ack of the war, and

' British anti-aircraft guns and fighting planes.

The British asserted that they

Had downed seven Ger-

man planes and possibly 13, in all, in{that and earlier fighting. The French claimed the downing of two German reconnaissance planes on the Western, Be, |

"German Losses Are| ‘High

Tt was indicated that Germany losses | in men were |

~ frightfully high in the sea battle, ¥ imesses along the Swedish cod t had reported sein

ing of Eanaporie Bodies of Germai

: were being washed up

along the coast today, including os of three Fons who

seemed only about 16 or 17 years of

Some damaged German

ge. transports, including one’ of

10,000 tons, were reported seeking Ppruge in Swedish terri-

torial waters.

Swedish general staff ail tiny asserted that the Allies had taken Bergen and Trondheim, on the Norwegian

Coast. The Ge

ans denied this and the British said they

doubted it, because they had had no report of any such

success. |

Norse Troops Resist

Norwegian troop resistance to Germany was reported in Stockholm to have strengthened greatly within the last 24

- hours. The Norwegian High Command was reported trying

to mobilize a strong force north of Oslo, where Norwegian ~ troops had held off German motorized units. Swedish expert observers | asserted that if Germany wanted to insure success of its dccupation of Norway it must quickly establish dependable and defendable supply lines so that her troops could get supplies and reinforcements. German forces at Narvik, the iron ore port, were re- - ported cut off with Allied ships outside the harbor and a - strong Norwegian force a few miles inland. Stockholm re-

ported today that Norwegian ity.

troops were fighting German

Attack On Osh Tndicated

in Southern No Norwegians early impeding a ne théy had Ya

today blew

iven yesterda;

ay, Stockholm i oy and said that the

up a bridge over a lake, thus

erman attem t to take Haxar, from which

| & .

S were reported to have suffered a defeat

Shins that the Allies might attack

" Oslofjord and were Aidmeting to dand

a The city was warned ships would s news from Oslo, It was reported that the | city had been almost entirely evacuated. | Stockholm press | dispatches re-| ported panic in t eo city. They said fleeing to the

"countryside and that some persons|

‘were believed to have been killed in fear-crazed cro ds | pn the streets.

. British warship in| the Oslof jord swept the waters| during the night ers on the. sgash say at least 21 powerful beans. Norwegian guthoriti s ab Tromsod and Aalesund broadcast an appeal to Allied arships to aid them against attempted ema Jnding opera; tions, It seemed | almost over-siphaiive the portance of the naval fighting. | | Two separate engagements been ours,

impossible to potential im-llied-German

had in | the |Skagerrak off Gothenburg, on the Swedish southwest coast. and it [was indicated that smaller engagements had been fought and were various points along the Norwegian coast. |

that if : didn’t surrender the

Il the city, a report said. There was no late

be days before the extent of German ship losses would be known. The four cruisers definitely reported sunk were aside from two |whose loss Germany admitted yesterday—the Bluecher and Karlsruhe. They were in addition to. the cruiser Emden which Norwegian gunboats sank Tuesday—a loss that became known only yesterday. Swedish reports were that one German itransport was sending SOS calls from the vicinity of the Oslofijord. A German transport named

las the Ankaras, but believed to be

the 2593-ton Antares was torpedoed off Lysekil, Sweden, near Gothenburg, with about 34 survivors out of 200 aboard.

An unidentified ship, believed to[

have been a German transport, sank off Holle lightship. There were no survivors, so far as was known. A 10,000-ton German ship sought refuge last night in Swedish territorial waters near Marstrand and was interned. It was reported that a German transport had blown up off Arendl, Norway. Fierce fighting was reported in progress in eastern Norway, particularly at Eidsvold, between Nor-

Reports indi ted [that it might

wegian and German doops.

is 100 to an inch.

naval fighting probably was only" a prelude to fierce war on land. “The very recklessness with which Hitler and his advisers cast the fate of the German Navy upon the wild waters may be only a prelude of far larger events, which depend on land,” he said. “We have probably arrived at the first crunch of the war.” | He warned the neutrals that Germany was likely to strike | again at her weak neighbors but | he promised that the Allies would | dominate Norway and tighten their blockade of the Reich as ol result of extension of the war] front.

Submarines Are Active, He Tells Commons

“We shall take what we want) of this Norwegian coast. now,” Mr. Churchill said, “with enormous increase in the efficiency of our

blockade. “We feel ready to encounter the utmost malice of the enemy an to achieve a victory in what i a world cause.’ He put special emphasis on the success of the Allied forces in driving into the Skagerrak an the Kattegat, which are the narr row sea lanes leading to the Baltic Sea. “Germany already has order all merchanf vessels out of this area and, in this respect. our advice coincides with theirs.” he said, declaring that Germany's supply lines to Norway would be severed in that area. [ “Our submarines have by no means been asleep. They have . taken a heavy toll of German transport and store ships cro ing to Scandinavia. We are not going to allow the enemy to supply their troops across those waters with impunity.” ,

Enemy Ships Observed During Snowstorm

Here in brief is the story of the fight between the Renown and the Scharnhorst and Hipper, told by Mr. Churchill: “Far to the north of Narvik, afvdaybreak on Tuesday morning, the Renown perceived the Scharnhorst and another vessel of the Hipper class. They were cruising in [the distance dimly amid a storm of tempestuous character. “The sea was running high, the gale was blowing furiously and the Renown opened fire at 18,000 yards: “After three minutes the enemy replied. The enemy almost immediately turned away and after nine minutes the Renown observed hits in the forward superstructure of the Scharnhorst. Thereafter, her Whole armament stop}

firing.

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umni Association,

MEETINGS TOMORROW Indianapolis Home Show, Manufacturers Building, all day. Exchange Club, Severin Hotel, S000: Optimist Club, Columbia Club. Rie tficers’ Associaition, Board of Phi Delta’ Theta, Canary Coffage, noon. Delta Tau Delta, Columbia Ry ppa Sigma, Canary Cottage, noon. a Cattle Club, Hotel Washington, a Commutiention Association, Hotel iN n, 8 p Service Club, Hotel Pwashington, 7 p. m.

BIRTHS

Girls Charles. Margaret Fiywers. at Coleman. fin Eli . Francis. Mary S er, . Howard, Gladys Henderson, at St. V Phillip. Rosemary Painter, at Methodist. Wade, Florence Dunckle, at hodist Edith Cox, il 11 Ma dred aral

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Methodist Charles, b Methodist. ed; Goldie McOoy. at 2605 N. Temple. -Leo, Virginia Sida, " 1032 N. Holmes. ’ Maurice, Iva Lukens; af 1227

8. Meri- [$25

RIE it, Ruth Smock, at 938 Lexington,

"IN INDIANAPOLIS

Arthur, Anna Roberts, at 19 Ww. Edgar, Eileen Cummins, at 343 8. Je gorge. Bonnie Smith, at 307. N, erse Eddie. at 114 Capito

Mary Tompkins, 5.

Boys Charles, Annetta Mitchell, City William, Ann Mattingly, at tse oy gals. Paul, Geraldine Scalf, at St. Fra! cerVilliam, Katherine Butt, at St. YVin-

nt’s Ce Sr20. Dotothy Busey, at 8¢. Vincent's. John, Donna Lam t St. Vincent's. ran, Mildred MeCollough, at 337

Thyde, Jessie Taylor, at % Shiller. Vernie, Edith May, at 1 505, Ogle! en "Chrystal, Sue Briscoe, ol. Cecil, Doris Davis, at 34 ‘Wi. Oe A ———————— | DEATHS

Luewna Rich, 69, arteriosclerosis. Nettie i 66, at 2019 chronic endocarditis. Charlotte aldnca. 75, at 1141 stispiococeie thro

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tt Ford, a ‘at 1208 Woodlawn, in-| Denver

Ean poargaret Cotton, 23, at Methodist,

Wilhelmina Degener, 83, at City, tured right femur.

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Churchill Peli: Dramatic Story of Great Sea Battle

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“Later, her after-turret began to fire under local control. After two minutes of further firing a vertical column of smoke from what could be called a possible second hit was observed from the Scharnhorst which’ turned directly away and retired at high speed

without hampering herself by further firing.” Mr. Churchill said the Scharnhorst appeared to be fleeing at top speed and the Renown had to push itself to 24 knots through heavy seas in order to bring the German warship under fire again. At this juncture Mr. Churchill paused with dramatic effect and then startled. the House by announcing that out.of nowhere, seemingly, the Renown was struck. “A shell passed through our ship above the water line without bursting,” he ' said. “We had something like that in the case of the Exeter and it seems to. show that all the Nazi workmanship is not of a piece.

Second Shell Strikes Through the Foremast

A second shell went through the foremast and carried away the main aerial.” Then through the snowstorm appeared the Hipper, Mr. Churchill said, and sought to protect the Scharnhorst, one of the newest battleships in the German. Joe}. i-~#The Hipper threw a smoke ' screen across the Scharnhorst and covered her retreat,” he said, pausing again. ; “Then the Renown opened fire on the Hipper which turned away. Both ships were now retiring at igh speed with the Hipper firing broadsides from time to time. “Snowstorms swept across the ships. The seas continued to run high. And in the end I regret to say that the German ships succeeded in leaving us. The firing ceased. At 29,000 yards they became quite invisible.”

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. 8S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Rain changing to énow tonight and tomorrow forenoon, becoming fair by tomorrow night; much colder; lowest tonight about 24. ;

Sunrise

—April 11, 1939—

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. ....29.95

Precipitation 2¢ hours ending 7 a. m.. Total precipitation since Jan. Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indisna—Cloudy, snow in north, rain changing to snow in south portion tonight, continuing tomorrow in southeast portion; much colder with eold central and north portions and -freezing ieMperature in extrems south portion to8 Illinois—Cloudy. snow in east and rgin changing to snow in extreme ‘south vLorig much . colder tonight; cold wave in south portion tomorrow; i pfenerally {al fair in in norsh. c\udy in sob, corn south and extreme south rtions; ontihued. cold Saturday. i bre

Lower Michigan—Unsettled t colder tonight, with local and meh Ohio—Cloudy with ‘rain in south ortions tonight and iis hi colder GOW and in ‘west and north

in rtions and warmer in epitome oan ule Yen AONIght. jomorrow in east portion. Tr preceded. by rain

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

Pr 1 ...... 18.35 «4.86

8. | portions tonight

Kentueky—Occasional rain, colder central and west

tat at 1904 W. Michigan, A tuckle, Rosen

City, Mo.. Little Rock, Ark.

ana Q000a a e 3

6:10 P,

unknown, M.—6 W, 26th, turpentine’ on stove, ; |

St. Rain ‘Tampa. .Cle Washington, b. 6. yo+. Cloudy

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The above map shows the area Jrhére the. great British-Nazi naval battle is raging. The scales of miles

ALLIES ARE BLAMED BY SOVIET AGENCY

‘MOSCOW, April 11 (U. P.).—The Government newspaper Isvestia in an editorial quoted by the Tass official news agency, charged -todav that Germany's invasion of Scandinavia was provoked by the Allies

small nations to remain neutral and independent has been reduced to “a

minimum.”

The editorial was the first extended discussion in the Soviet press of the Scandinavian development. It laid responsibility for German invasion of Denmark and Norway upon the Allies, saying that Germany was forced to act in self-de-fense. It predicted that Sweden would now fall wholly within the German orbit, but contained no hint of any new Russian move in Finland or the Scandinavian sphere.

IT’S CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April 11 (U. P.). —The Japanese cherry trees are expected to be in full bloom tomorrow and Saturday for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival.

TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS

Townsend Club 54 will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, BE. Washington

and warned that the chance forf

MORE GERMAN TROOPS LAND. DNB REPORTS

Nazi Official News Agency Claims 6 British Ships . Sunk at Narvik.

BERLIN, April 11 (U. P.).—The official DNB news agency announced today that strong German troop reinforcements were landed today at Oslo, Bergen, and Stravanger. Gun crews from the sunken German cruisers Bluecher and Karlsruhe were reported to have manned

coastal batteries at unnamed points along the Norwegian coast. German communiques continued to avoid any reference to the battles fought in the Skagerrak but said a

British destroyer was bombed, an

airplane shot down and a searchlight put out of commission in a raid at Scapa Flow.

Claim Six Ships Sunk

The DNB reported two more enemy destroyers were sunk last night at Narvik raising the total enemy destroyer losses there to six.

indicate that the reported new losses were due to mines.. (The British admitted loss of two destroyers at Narvik and said two more were damaged.) Authorized quarters, asked about German intentions regarding Greenfan, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, sa “While no official decision has

| been taken, as far as is known Ger-

many has no interest in any of these regions. Of course, if the British should take the initiative, there would unquestionably be German counter-action, particularly in the case of the Faroe Islands.”

Iceland Independent Now

Iceland, united with Denmark under the Danish king, declared its independence yesterday in view of the German occupation of the mother country. Greenland, off the North American coast, and the Faroe Islands, between Iceland- and Scotland, are Danish colonies. It was reported that King Christian of Denmark and his family had been in Berlin last week-end discussing with German officials measures leading up to the occupation. The King was said to have returned to Denmark Tuesday. Authorized quarters said that} negotiations between the German Minister in Norway, named Braeuer, and King Haakon, “have not had any conclusive outcome, but the door remains open.” It was said that Herr Braeuer might. see the King again today. The King was reported to have fled with the Norwegian Government to Elverum from Hamar, their first place of refuge after the invasion of Oslo. Today’s communique said that “all fortifications in Oslofjord are in German hands and like the rest of the Norwegian coastal fortifications are equipped for defense. Nor-

declared their readiness to participate actively in air raid precautions against English and French fliers.” + The communique reiterated yesterday's denials that British landing parties had taken Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, and insisted that those cities were. “firmly in German hands.”

BANCROFT BACK AT WORK

HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (U. P.).— George Bancroft returned to work in “Northwest Mounted Police” today, apparently recovered from a back injury he received a week ago when he saved a child actress from a dangerous fall. jured when he turned quickly to, catch Norma Nelson as she fell from |

follow.

a camera boom.

Strauss Says:

The amhouncement was taken to!

wegian armed forces in Oslo have.

Bancroft was in-|

ge : Predicts Late . a eo Census Finish The census in Indianapolis probably will not be completed before April 25, W. A. Knight, area manager, said today. : He said the delay had resulted from technical causes and that it had not been caused by any fail-

ure of Indianapolis residents to co-operate. The Census Law in-

1 structs the Census Bureau to com-

plete the count in all cities of over 2500 population by April 18. The local manager said that there was difficulty in getting: enough blanks at the beginning of the count, April 2.. He also revealed that insufficient enumerators passed the test and the Marion County quota of enumerators, as allotted by Washington, had not quite been filled.

BRITISH CLAIM 19 NAZI PLANES

Big Scale Operations Since Sunday Reported; Rout Scapa Flow Raiders.

LONDON, April 11 (U. PJ British Royal‘ Air Force planes have been engaged in big scale operations against the Germans since Sunday, the Air Ministry said today, asserting that a German cruiser had been sunk off Bergen, Norway, Tuesday. It was disclosed that the Royal Air Force made a strong bombing attaek on a big German naval force Sunday off ‘Horns Reef, which is off the west coast of Denmark. The Air Ministry asserted that 19 German airplanes had been destroyed since Sunday and that six Royal Air force planes had been lost,

The British are playing their sea power trumps against German air power trumps in Scandinavian fighting, writes Maj. Al Williams. Turn to Page 13.

Seven German planes, the Air Ministry aserted, had been shot down in fighting over northern Scotland last night.

Five German planes had been downed, it asserted, in an attack on

Scapa Flow Monday night.

Two German ‘planes were so badly

damaged in last night's fighting, it’

was added, that it was unlikely they reached home. German bombers first attacked a convoy near the Norway Firth. Two of them were shot down into the Firth and a third was believed to have been destroyed.

Later in the evening, in bright moonlight, the Germans made an attack in force on Scapa Flow in he Orkneys. he German planes came over in waves. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, declared today in the House of Commons, that 60. German planes took part in the raid. In the moonlight, people saw the blaze of guns and the streaking light of tracer bullets, amid the crash of German bombs and the rattle of machine guns with which the pla es fired on two Orkney Island towns, Kirkwall and Stromness.

FLEE SWEDISH CITY

GOTHENBERG, Sweden, April 11 (U. P). A partial ‘evacuation of this city, was started today. First to go were women, children and the

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BADMINTON—The fastest growing A in America. . +o Sets—nets, racquets, ‘shuttlecocks.

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TT: REMOVAL

OF AMERICANS IN WAR IONE

U.S. Seleots sts lien as Port Of Embarkation; Planes For | Allies Rushed.

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Norway will go to Sweden and thence down to one of the Swedish ports, from which they could cross over to Denmark, through Den- | mark to Germany, and’ ‘thence to Italy. 3

777 in Oslo District | All who can pay their fares are expected to do so.- American diplomatic and consular officials, however, have been authorized and instructed to assist in every way possible. Latest available figures showed

District and 290' in the Bergen Consular District, making a total of

Consular District and 987 in the |

Sweden, and 552 in Denmark. The evacuation

operated with American aircraft | manufacturers to release to the Allies latest type interceptor and pursuit planes, including several hundred that had been ordered by) the Army: } Formally released were the new Lockheed P-38 interceptor, the Bell P-39 pursuit craft, and the Curtiss P-40-D on which the Army itself

In addition, the Army authorized the Allies to negotiate with manufacturers for _virtually all other late models. | ‘

Few Devices Secret

{ Army officials disclosed that under the new policy very ey plane devices are considered, secret, and hence | the Allies wi 1 receive the aircraft) in virtually the same form as they were designed for this nation's defense forces. One of the devices which the Allies now can get is the small cannon which is carried by the P-39 and which fires through the propeller hub. The plane has an indirect propeller drive and the engine is located behind the pilot. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt's first official moves resulting from

fective. They were; 1. An executive order establishing an unprecedented legal barrier to German access to Danish and Norwegian money and property in this country.

combat zone which American vessels and citizens may not enter, to all of the Scandinavian Peninsula and the Russian Arctic ports. This bans all of Europe north of Spain to Americans and American shipping. Isolationists Active

At the same time, isolationist Senators. renewed demands that Congress remain in session for the duration of “Europe’s war. Administration leaders promptly replied that “such a course was unnecessary.

gress in continuous session were Senators Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal) and Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D., members of the Foreign Relations Committee. “Congress ought to stay here and

us out of war,” said. Senator Nye told reporters that Congress ought not to consider adjournment “as long as the situation remains tense , . . Congress has an

Senator Johnson

volve us in war and ought to be

here to watch developments.”

It has gotten to be that about every man, unless he has Alicujus Rei Oblivio (better known as absentmindedness) instinctively turns to The Man's Store, knowing that “FOR SPORTS HITS sal S” |

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2. A proclamation extending the.

Leading the move to keep Con- Ti

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