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IN NARVIK TRAP

Face Annihilation, Surrender Or Retreat Into Sweden. (Continued from Page One) of British warships b

keep them, of Germans blowing up their own warships rather than permit their capture by the British. The latest developments were the success of the German detachment in reaching the Swedish frontier yesterday morning after days of

fighting and privatioh; the storming|

of Rombak Heights by the Germans yesterday after Norwegian troops had held it for a week; and the fighting between the British and Germans in the streets of Narvik. The rest of the story remains to be fought out.

Here's What Happened

The British | in co-operation with Norwegians may try to recapture Rombak Heights. They may elect simply to hold Narvik and starve ; the Germans ‘into surrender or

" ‘death. The Germans may in des-

.peration try to break through northward or southward to meet strong Norwegian forces and a bleak Arctic oountry without resources. This is what has happened since eight days ago: On Tuesday, April 9, a German occupation force, partly concealed for days in “iron ore” ships in Narvik Harbor, aided arriving German warships to capture Narvik, and the Norwegians, misled by their own commanding officers— since arrested—retreated before an inferior force without a fight. I ‘went with them. The German warships steamed into the deep narrow Fjord between black walls of sheer rock towering to snow-covered crests. A summary of naval and airplane action on this and succeeding days: April 9. Two Norwegian warships which fired on the Germans and two British merchantmen were

sunk by thetGerman warships. One

erman ship was set afire by shelland was beached. The Germans landed and possessed Narvik. April 10. British destroyers attacked. They torpedoed or shelled, and sank, 16 merchant ships, including their own, in harbor, to isolate the Germans. One German destroyer was torpedoed and sunk. Two German destroyers were set fire and driven ashore. A British wyiser was sunk. Three British destroyers were sunk or driven ashore. One British destroyer was disabled and driven ashore in the outer (Ofoten) Fjord.

Planes Bomb Harbor

April 12—Ten British Navy planes bombed the harbor. One Norwegian «coast patrol gunboat which the Germans were using to transport troops and material was set afire. April 13—The British fleet attacked. Two disabled German destroyers which had been towed into the harbor were sunk. One German destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the Rombakfjord. The three remaining German destroyers were driven into the base of the towering Rombak Heights. Their crew blew them up. One British destroyer was sunk. One British destroyer was driven aground. (Mr. Rhodes is, reporting what he had gathered of naval action. The British Admiralty has announced that the battleship Warspite led a destroyer flotilla into Narvik on ‘April 13. It said seven German destroyers were sunk.) The first British naval attack appears to have been directed chiefly at eliminating all merchantmen, destroying a fort blocking their path, and getting as many German ships as possible while reconnoitering for.future action. The British accomplished their first objective on April 10 but they

took a serious beating in the naval|

_ engagement, which was fought in the wide Herjangenfjord that extends northward from the junction of the Ofoten and Rombak Fjords.

. German Losses Heavy

Of the original German fleet of five large destroyers, one was sunk and two were badly damaged and driven ashore. The evening of April 10 two reinforcing German " destroyers slipped through the blockaded entrance of the Tfotenfjord and joined the remaining German warships. All prepared hastily for the second battle they knew would follow. They got. their two grounded destroyers free and towed |® them to the iron ore docks, then laid them in the lee of Narvik Hil where those of their guns which were still’ capable of firing could most effectively bombard the harbor entrance. They tried to vobais breaches in the hulls and make them seaworthy, but they didn’t have time. The four good destroyers patched their holes and cleared decks for a finish fight, -put their munitions and supplies had run low, Next day the British Navy planes eamé over. They put the little Norwegian patrol ship out of action while they were sizing up the situation. The next day, Saturday, April 13, at 1:25 p. m. under the spring Arctic sun, came a British destroyer squadron reinforced by two cruisers. (The. battleship Warspite also took part, the British had announced in London.) Opening fire from the Ofotenfjord the British quickly sank the two disabled destroyers at the iron ore docks and silenced the remaining guns in the fort.

Fear Bottling Up

The four active German destroyers, afraid of being bottled up in the narrow neck of Narvik Bay ran out into the Herjangenfjord and challenged the British fleet. The thunder of guns gained in intensity as the British squadron closed in but still giving plenty of space to the Germans, who had previously shown uncanny skill in the use of forpedots iin close range fighting. short of ammunition, the ; Ls German destroyers ran back up the long, narrow Rombakfjord. The British destroyers raced after them and one was torpedoed and another ran aground. hen on, after a short pause the Bri stood at

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Peter C. Rhodes, 29, United Press staff correspondent, went to Narvik from Stockholm before the German invasion. He was at Narvik when the German fleet steamed in April-9. To insure his communications, he got to the frontier after accompany thé first Norwegian troops and refugees. Sometimes he used skis, . Last night he got to Kiruna, one of the two great Swedish iron ore centers, 75 miles southeast of Narvik, and telephoned his story to Stockholm,

the Germans, and driving them relentlessly toward its dead. end. The German ammunition was nearing its end but it was fot the sort of fight in which opponents like the British and German navies surrender. When one almost helpless destroyer had been sunk, the others made their decision. They turned toward the 4350-foot mountain at the base of the fjord. Their commanders gave the order: “Full steam ahead!” The ships went aground. Their commanders gave the order to abandon ship and the crews made for the shore. The captains ignited the magazines and the three ships blew up with a gigantic roar which the enclosing mountains

|echoed. It was 3:30 p. m.,, and the

battle was over. The German ships burned for hours.

British Survey Narvik

British ships detailed to survey the situation in Narvik town steamed into the Rombakfjord and the main fleet turned out to the open sea. The German sailors from the destroyers clambered ashore, soaked to the skin and freezing with cold. They had ‘their rifles and small arms with them. They marched what must have been a terrible ‘15 miles to Narvik town, to join their main body in meeting the British land attack which was sure to come soon. Now, Saturday night, 40 wrecked warships. and merchant ships lay

‘on the bottom of the harbor or in

adjoining fjords. There was just one ship in the harbor—the Norwegian ship Straffa out of 23 merchantmen which had been awaiting iron ore. It lay at the farthest corner of Narvik Harbor, sound.. A few docks at the harbor edge were blackened ruins. Studlike, black-burned piles showed above the water. Some houses lining the bay showed pock-marks from shells. Norwegian fortified points at places which had dominated the entrance from the Ofotenfjord had been wrecked by long-range fire from heavy British ships Standing in the outer fjord.

Civilians Suffer Little

It was strange that the town itself, and the civil population, had

suffered little according to reports

from the last people who left. Most civilians had gone, during the battle, to summer villas up in the unifjord or to neighboring villages out of range of the guns. Men between the ages of 18 and 50 who were subject to mobilization had been forbidden by the Germans to leave town on penalty of being shot on sight. This prohibition has been respected by the Norwegians in order that the remainder of the civil population would be spared reprisals. It is reported that the Allies landed ‘halfway down the Ofotenfjord, where one road extends southward to Bodoe and northeastward to Narvik. ; ; One part of the Allied fomce marched toward Narvik. The other went in what I have been ak'e only to learn was another direction, where it is indicated that the next real fight may be held. The latest reports were that there was bitter fighting in the Narvik area. British troops were attempting to drive the Germans from the town toward the railroad station and the railroad tracks into the snow-covered mountains.

British Gain Foothold

The British were reported to have gained a solid foothold at the foot of Narvik town. The Germans have started to fall back, fighting for every inch. It took the main German force four days, ending yesterday, to storm and capture Rombak Heights. The Germans were reported to have lost heavily against a stubborn Norwegian defense. But the Norwegian task in this sector had been ended. They had held the Germans in Narvik while the British came to blow up the German warships. They had blocked the railroad at several places so that it could be of no use to the Germans. The - Germans had used much precious ammunition and manpower before the Norwegians yielded to them a cold and unfriendly wasteland of snow. The Germans had to take Rombak Heights. While the Norwegians held them their main force could not retreat. It took those ‘Germans who reached the frontier yesterday days to do so. They reached the point opposite Riksgraensen, which is on the Swedish side, on the railroad. The Norwegians had fought bitterly against them and had made a long last stand at the ‘frontier. The fighting left the valley littered with dead and wounded. The Germans I have seen are all very young, hardly 17. They sare nevertheless staunch fighting men with mountain experience. Buf it seems unlikely their comrades could stand Arctic conditions long and|gun furheriiore on Rombak Heights

where there

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FLEETS STEEL FOR ACID TEST

British ‘Presume’ Loss of Submarine; Mine Coast - Of Scotland.

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| with a normal complement of 53

officers and men. She was of the same class as the submarine Thetis, which sank off the English west coast last year with the loss of “about 100 of those aboard. Since the Thetis has been raised, reconditioned and, it was understood, is back in service. The Admiralty communique announcing the Thistle’s presumed loss said that she had been operating in the North Sea. A new British mine field has been laid along the west coast of Scotland in the Clyde area, the Admiralty. said today. “All vessels wishing to enter or leave the Clyde must obtain written instructions for safe passage ‘from British naval or consular authorities at home or abroad before sailing,” the Admiralty announcement said. Reinforcements for the British Expeditionary Force were reported pouring across the North Sea today in British, French and Polish ships. Official quarters said that the Expeditionary Force was being “steadily reinforced.” For its first campaign in history above the Arctic Circle, Britain had supplied its troops with white fur jackets, white sweaters, fur caps, sleeping bags and jerkins.

Reindeer to Be Used

N Most. of those already sent, including Canadians, had been especially trained for warfare in mountainous, snow-bound country in the expectation that they would campaign as “vounteers” in Finland. Among other novelties to the campaign, it was said that the “Tommies” would use reindeer to haul heavy equipment over the snow. Already, two urgent calls have been received at headquarters of the army blood transfusion service “for blood needed at once for use by British forces in Norway.” Headquarters appealed to the public and 200 aircraft factory workers were among those who donated blood. It was flown immediately across the North Sea. The British plan was believed to be to establish as quickly as pos-| sible, seaplane bases in Norwegian fjords, from which to overskim the scraggy mountains and strafe German troops, supply trains, depots and communication lines. The forerunner to this has been a series of raids on Stavanger and: other

Send Supplies by Air

It was admitted that British sea power could not hope to sever completely German communications between Norway and German Denmark, but that the air force would be called upon to shoot down German transport - planes carrying troops, munitions and- supplies across the Skagerrak. German bases at Bergen and Trondheim are believed to ‘be getting most of their supplies by air now. The Allies start under a handicap in the air struggle. The distance to Norway from British bases precludes the hurling of swift Hurricane and Spitfire pursuit planes into the fight, because of their short cruising range. The Germans can utilize Danish bases for thelr pursuit planes. Reliable British Sonroes warned that no immediate, sensational successes in Norway could be expected; that the job of transporting men, food and equipment 400 miles across water was a big one and that the full farce of the aliled offensive might not be felt for weeks, or even months. British seaplanes, operating from the fjords, will be expected to blast out a way for the establishment of land bases. Land forces, meanwhile, will try to seize strategic rail heads such as Narvik, from where the Lapland railway winds through mountains to Lulea, Swedén, on the Gulf of Bothnia.

French Are Awaited

All communiques on Norwegian operations indicated that the main body of French troops included in the Expeditionary force had not yet reached Norway. British observers expected that the French “Blue Devis,” the Alpine Chasseurs, would be represented in the force since they are especially trained for fighting in such country. Northern Norway will be snowbound until mid-summer. As regards the general situation, newspapers and official circles in London were taking a calm view of Italy’s indications that she might soon enter the war. It was believed here ‘that Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had agreed at their Brennero conference that Italy would enfer the war on Germany's side at the appropriate; moment, but that this moment would not come until it was plain that Germany was winning the war. A successful Allied campaign in Norway, it was believed, might cause Sig. Mussolini to stop and consider.

NAZI MILITARISTS AWAITED IN ROME

and. Italian circles said today that

military mission could be regarded; as a further Sirengihening, of thel® Rome-Berlin axis. The mission, said to be headed by an important genera’. joined several

examine Italian military strength and to purchase materials for the German Army. A Japanese mission was expected near the end cof tire month to observe italian acvancements in war mpshinery and supply and inspect defenses, including those.along the Italo-French border. Premier Benito Mussolini canceled a speech scheduled for ‘Saturday, but it was said authoritatively that he would speak April 30 at a ceremony commemorating the Tals ian dead in the defense of Rome|P against the French in 1849. Normal shipping was resumed in the Tyrenean Sea along the coastline between Naples and Gaeta fol-

trials” in the annual spring rs of the Navy. "The fleet

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Donald G. Glascoff, Aid to Kelly, Elevated by Legion

The appointment of Donald G. Glascoff, aid to National Commander Raymond J. Kelly, as assistant national adjutant of the American Legion was announced at headquarters here today.

mer, who resighed recently.

sistant national adjutant was department adjutant of the American Legion for the State of Michigan. In his new Legion position he will be im charge of administrative duties in connection with orga tion and membership activities of the Legion’s national organization. He was born in Albion, Mich., and attended Albion High School and Albion College. In high school he was an all-state and in football and in college he won his letters in football and baseball. He was assistant

two years and played semi-pro baseball after graduation from college. During the World War he served with the 43d U. S. Infantry. He is pa member and past commander of the Ray I. Booth Legion Post 101 at -Greenville, Mich. After the war he entered the

Mr. Glascoft succeeds H. L. Plum- |

Prior to his appeintment as aid| to Commander Kelly, the new as-|

niza-|

football coach at Albion College for|

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Donald G. Glascoff . . . former athlete and editor takes high Legion post.

newspaper business and became successively business manager, editor and publisher of ‘the Greenville

(Mich.) Daily News.

‘two others so badly that they probably would not be able to return to: harbor. D. N. B. said that German planes had bombed a British transport bound with troops for’ Harstad, north of Narvik, “surprising the British, who had not expected German planes so far north.” A High Command communique asserted that a U-Boat had sunk a British destroyer of the Tribal Class (1890 tons), northeast of the Shetland Islands; that German pursuit planes had shot down a Lockheed-

{Hudson (American made) British

plane and a British Sunderland flying boat off the southwest coast of Norway. The High Command said ' that “as already reported (by the Official ‘German News Agency) an enemy cruiser was sunk by heavy bombs 90 miles northwest of Fold Fjord, off Kristiansand, Norway.” The command announced also that a German .tank detachment was in action in the vicinity of

1:0slo.

The communique admitted for the first time officially that British troops had landed in. Norway. It said the landing was island of Hinnoy, 38 miles north of Narvik, and that “no landing attempts were made in the vicinity of Narvik.”

Hail Bonte As Hero

Of the death of Commodore Bonte, the most important casualty in the German armed forces since Col.-Gen. Werner von Fritsch died in action before Warsaw in the Polish campaign, the communique said: “In defense of Narvik, Destroyer Leader, Captain and Commodore Bonte fell in a heroic fight against superior British forces. About twothirds of the crews of the destroyers which were damaged or put out of action at Narvik, and whose ammunition was exhausted, reinforced occupying troops in defense of Narvik.” » The communique claimed further successes against Norwegian troops, and. said that on the Western Front, “German shock. troops blew up four enemy posts southwest of Merzig, shattered froops occupying the posts, among whom were many Britons, and brought back prisoners, guns and - ammunition.”

Report Prisoners Taken

Of Norwegian developments the communique said: “One Norwegian division which resisted when German troops occupied the iron ore railroad in the Narvik region was disspived with bloody losses for the opponents. A number of soldiers were taken prisoner, the rest fled over the Swedish border.” It added the railway had been occupied up to the Swedish frontier. “A German detachment took

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Berlin Boasts Successful Bombing of 5 British Ships

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Kongsvinger (50 miles northeast of Oslo) and continued its advance northward,” the communique said. “In the Trondheim region, German troops reached .the Swedish border and occupied the railway at Meraaker. “Several Norwegian torpedo boats were put into German service.”

The transport. ship in the North|

Sea was hit by a bomb of the highest caliber, the communique said. The official news agency asserted meanwhile that British naval forces had bombarded the port and city of Narvik again yesterday evening, but it said that “reports from London claiming that Narvik was occupied by British troops and that Germans had retreated toward the Swedish frontier are devoid of any foundation. “German troops operating in the Narvik region are in permanent communication with German Commands in Norway,” News Agency said. An authorized source said the German command in Norway was compiling lists of Norwegian prisoners to be published for the information of Norwegian citizens. Plane Fails to Return ‘ The press said that British troops might have landed at Harstad, on an island off the coast from Narvik, but that if they had they were ‘| still separated from German troops by two fjords and that continued snow and cold weather there made troop movements unlikely. The High Command said that “the general situation in Norway yesterday was’ consolidated by the arrival of further troop reinforcements. . . . the German navy secured the transportation of men and material to Norwegian harbors. CoaStal batteries were made ready for action in a systematic building up of coastal defenses. “Around Stavanger the enemy attempted new air attacks during the night of April 15 but succeeded in causing no military damage. German troops in the region of Kristiansand took over two additional Norwegian batteries: Expansion of the German control of Oslo continued. Railway communication was established between Oslo, Frederikstad, Halden and Kornsjoe on the Swedish * frontier.” One German plane, it was reported, failed to return from the air fight over the southwest Norwegian coast in which two British planes reportedly were shot down. Diplomatic and Political Correspondence, semi-official foreign office organ, meanwhile advised the United States to judge European events with discretion.

MUSICA KIN PLEADS GUILTY * NEW YORK, April 17 (U. P.). — John J. Jenkins of Fairfield, Conn., brother-in-law of the late Philip Musica, pléaded guilty in Federal Court today to complicity in Musica’s $21,000,000 swindle of McKesson & Robbins; Drug Co. stockholders.

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., 8 p.m. Beta Theta Pi, Cana mbda Chi umni Association, Russet Cafeteria, noon Indianapolis Motor Transportation Club, .» Fox’s Steak House, noon Seal Businessmen, Hotel Washington,

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MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records ifn the County Courtsliouse, The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Panl Smalley, 26, of 929 Bosart Ave.; Margaret Milles, 23, of 236 Becking St. James M. Crouch, 1s, of 752 EF agsion; Fleeta Irene Wilson, 44, of 752 Livingston,

BIRTHS Girls "gant, Mary Settle, ri Coleman, an Swain, at St. Riape Wiliam: Marie Strough, E607 E. 21st. Waldrip, at B10 N. Pine. Norman, Mildred Middleton, at 2834 Bur-

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Leon, Frances ney at St. Franci Charles, Helen Harmon, at St. nests. Phyllis Sourbier, at Marhodisi. ran Marjorie O e, at Methodis Knox, Elizabeth Harris, > Y139 E. loth, Burley, Marjorie Clark, at 1427 Church-

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12STATIC ARMIES IN SHADOW WAR ON WEST FRONT

‘It Can Go On Forever, Says ||

Writer in Letter “After Tour.

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hall, the school’ and the Mayor's house, but not another building in the place.

“They used ‘a new type of shell |

which has a supersensitive "fuse

which explodes in 1-1000th of a sec- | i

ond on the slightest contact. These shells are so nervous that they even explode if they strike a tree branch on the way. “They do not bring down a build-

.|ing but they scar it up and tear off}

its roof or tear out its walls. They wrecked the roof and walls of the church yet the altar was strangely intact. ; Shelled by Mistake

“I might add that the Germans shelled that town apparently because of the mistaken belief that the French had installed batteries there. In reprisal for that ‘reprisal,’ the French shelled three German towns just across the border. “And so it goes, reprisal for reprisal. But you cannot compare that with what we .saw in the World

War. In fact, nowhere along the

whole front is there real trench warfare. There is a No Man’s Land 10 miles wide between the Maginot and Siegfried Lines, but it is not held by permanent and continuous trenches. It is filled with tank ditches, tank traps, barbed wire and steel rails, as well as advanced posts on dominating positions. Twenty men may hold a mile of front and you may travel ten more miles without seeing a single soldier.’

‘Can Go on Forever’

“In many places you do not hear a single shell or rifle shot in a whole day. At night the place teems with patreliactivity but that is merely informative and never offensive. In the No Man’s Land between the Moselle and Rhine are 330 abandoned villages which either army could occupy at any time. “Evidently, if and when fighting does start, many of these villages will be occupied and their names will be cited in daily comminiques as ‘conquered villages.’” But they are evacuated, unheld, undefended, and if and when they are taken it must be remembered that their capture means absolutely nothing. because they were abandoned six months ago. “There is no reason why this type of warfare cannot go on forever.”

Daladier Hears

Policies Debated

PARIS, April 17 (U. P.).—The Senate resumed war policy debate in secret session this morning in the presence of War Minister Edouard Daladier. The 453d war communique said, meanwhile: “Nothing to report.” French military dispatches reported that . German infantrymen launched a strong attack on two

British advance posts early this

morning ahd that the attack was preceded by strong artillery and trench mortar fire. The Germans met “unwavering British counterfire,” it was reported. After a prolonged engagement, the French military dispatches said, the

Germans retreated after having suf-

fered high losses. In the Saar sector, the French reported they maintained a -steady stream of artillery fire, dispersing German labor detachments. In the Alsace region a French patrol penetrated deeply into enemy ‘lines, obtaining valuable information. The French said that French aviation scouted the battle zone while the German air force made a reconnaissance flight dver France.

BIOFF PLEA DENIED SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 17 (U.

P.).—The Illinois Supreme Court to-|.

day denied William Bioff, Hollywood motion picture union leader, a peti-

tion for a writ of habeas corpus to

free him from the Chicago Bridewell House of Correction, where he is serving a six months sentence imposed upon him 18 years ago for pandering. Two other moves to obtain his freedom still are pending.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

d John hig Clayton, 52, at Methodist, ena, is Charles Eakin, 79, at 525 E. 54th, myocarditis, fl Verna Bnjder, 3 months, at Riley, inuenzal meningitis John L. Keran, 57, at 2188 N. Capitol, chronic myocarditis. Edward Jewett, 82, at Methodist, cerebral

hemorrha Wilhe mH. Pardieck, 68, at 1003 E

Morris, apo Emma pi es, ‘at Methodist, carcinoma.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Rain tonight and tomorrow morning, followed by cloudy; not much change in temperature.

Sunrise

—April 17, 1989— 63 BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m....20.85

Brecipitation 24 hrs. endin; otal precipitation since Dotiet ency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

6 a. 7a m an, 1

na—Rain- tonight; tomorrow Inostly rtio cooler in extreme south portion tonight and tomorrow. Hlinois—Rain, cooler in south; much cooler in exirgme south portion tonight: flondy to par Hy: dhe cloudy tomorrow, cooler in extreme sou Lower En Moone cloudy tonight ‘and tomorrow with rain in south portions tonight ang’ morning; continued cool. Olly Showers s.omiEns and tomorrow; er in east portion tonight; der SOmorrow Right and in west portion Sootiow afternoo I, cooler in west por- ; tomorrow cloudy with show. tral and east portions, cooler in central and west portions.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Amarillo, TeX. «¢.00.,.-Rain. ismarck. N. D

tomorrow

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_ Virginia McFatridge . . . best represents a Southern belle.

FRENCH LICK, Ind. April 17 (U. P.).—Virginia McFatridge, 19-year-old Indiana University coed from Princeton, Ind, was named queen of the annual Kentucky Derby week-end festivities at French Lick Springs. Clad in crinolin and hoopskirts, Miss McFatridge will rule over Derby week celebrations here. She was selected from 20 I.'U. co-ed competitors on the basis of “most charming” and best suited to represent the traditional southern belle.

REPORT NAZIS CUT NORWAY IN TWO

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expecting immediate Allied reinforcements.

Namsos, g Norwegian port, is 75 miles north of Trondheim and had been. considered a likely place for the landing of Allied troops. Strong British naval forces had been reported off Namsos recently, but there was no official confirmation of the Allehanda report that landings had occurred there. The situation appeared to be developing so rapidly that the American Consul General at Stockholm . circularized all American citizens of Stockholm asking them to consider sending their wives and children out of the city into the country in view of thes “uncertain” situation.

' STROEMSTAD, Sweden, April 17

1(U. P.).—Swedish fighting planes

and anti-aircraft batteries fired on a big German bombing plane flying over this frontier town today from the direction of Norway.

«| from the army ‘men called up since the European .

Admiral Stark Proposes Three Billions for New U.S. Construction. . (Continued trom Page’ One) House cut the Navy's recommended on the ground that that was as oa much tonnage as the shipyards could handle soon. The Administration is understood

to favor the. 11 per cent plan, despite the Navy's contention that

facilities can be enlarged for ‘the

Tappan program. An informal survey of the committee showed that the Vinson Bill

the Senate, and may be increased in

|the direction urged by Admiral

Stark. The Vinson Bill and the larger increase are measures separate from the $963,000,000 Navy appropriation Bill for 1941. : Senator Millard E. Tydings (D. Md.) said that the $3,486,000,000 program urged by Admiral Stark would bring the fleet up at least to the old 5-5-3 ratio among the U. S., Great Britain and Japan. Earlier Admiral Stark testified that Japan’s shipbuilding program, which includes. at least eight battleships, may have brought her close to parity with the U. S. Navy. The cost of thé program, according to present plans, would be spread over five years.

JUGOSLAVIA EXPELS ALL 'UNDESIRABLES

‘BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, April 17 (U. P.).—Police today ordered extensive measures throughout the cruntry against foreigners regarded as undesirable. The measures are to be completed within 10 days. In some guarters it was estimated that as many as two-thirds of the foreigners in the country might be expelled. In many towns in the province of Vojvodina, which has a large German minority, it was reported that the police had ordered a house to ‘house combing for foreigners. Police orders are for a quick countrywide revision of permits of ‘sojourn of all foreigners. Those held to be undesirable are to be expelled on brief noti-2.

‘BRUSSELS, "Belgium, April 17 (U. P.). — Several thousand men, who had been released from the army because of age, were recalled ' to the colors today. Recently the e oldest of those

war started. All these men were recalled today and detailed to reinforce the interior guard which protects bridges, railroads and other Sirategically im-

portant. points.

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