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VOLUME 52—-NUMBER 38

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940

GUFFEY BEATS In Season— MACHINE, WINS RENOMINATION

Pennsylvania Senator Leads By 75,000 on Strong |

New Deal Platform. |

PHILADELPHIA, ‘April 24 (U. P.).—U. S. Senator Jos-! eph F. Guffey, staking his political life on unswerving support of the New Deal, won| Democratic re-nomination in| yesterday's Pennsylvania pri-| mary, returns showed today. § He beat down a two-year chal-! lenge of his state leadership to de-|

Leads by 81,000

Returns tabulated for 6733 of the state's 8108 precincts gave: Mr. GuiTey, 332.170: Mr. 251.792; Mr, McNair, 39.336. President Roosevelt, the only candidate on either party ballot for Presidential preference, polled 333,823 votes in 4134 precincts. Governor Arthur H. James, “favorite son” candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination. had 162,398 votes for delegate-at-large in the same precincts. Senator James J. Davis, one of Mr. James’ three unopposed delegate running mates, polled 157,105. { The Guffey fight against the Democratic organization overshad- | owed the other primary battles. In Incomplete returns, Thomas E. Dewey, New York District Attorney, was leading Mr. James 4 to 1 in the Republican write-in vote for President. The vote was entirely voluntary. | There were scattered votes for Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.) and Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg (R. Mich.). Opposition Began in 1938 There were write-in votes for ed part of a term as mayor Vice President John N. Garner, Sec- Serv rt o ’ § yor. retary of State Cordell Hull and| Sheriff Al Feeney has been given In Mad Stampede. {frost tonight. Postmaster General James A. Far-| the organization “go sign” for re- : ql rl ley on the Democratic ballot. [nomination over William Abel and NATCHEZ. Miss, Apri 4 (U.

Times Photo. ‘Tis spring and time for fishing, so James Bragg, 13, and his brother, William, 8, pick choice spots and prepare to depopulate Fall Creek of its finny population. The brothers who live at 2536 Guilford Ave, are giving the first tryout to tackle they received for Christmas.

SLATE CHOSEN | Town Aces 105. * BY DEMOCRATS

THE CENSUS BUREAU today | issued the first preliminary picture a tiaticasatl of how Roachdale, Ind, Putnam | Choices Subject to Change, County Machine Says; Weiss ‘Left Out.’

County, has grown in the last 10 years. ‘organization has agreed upon a : “tentative” slate of candidates “sub- | i |

Jones,

THREAT EASED

Only Streams in Southern Part of State Still Reported Rising.

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Population, 1930, | ject to change any time before the 51

| tion, 1040, 737. | As of 1940, it contains 247 May 7 primary,” party leaders said | |today.

houses, one of which is vacant. Heading the list of machine-!

backed county candidates is Walter C. Boetcher for the treasurer nomi-! nation over James F. Cunningham, | present Center Township assessor land Gustav Schaub. Mr. Boetcher "formerly was county chairman and

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Flames Sweep Night Club most of Victims Killed

* cleared. The Weather Bureau promised | fair weather tonight and tomorrow, but warned gardeners against a

during the last 24

INDIANA FLOOD |

« or receding today as the weather!

The White River here fell 2.3 feet |

WPA PUTS 0.K, ON$10,000,000 ROAD PROJECT

‘Jennings Forwards Plans for Huge State Program to Capital.

State WPA Administrator John K. Jennings today approved a 10 million dollar highway improvement project, the largest-scale WPA highway work ever contemplated by the State WPA. The project, which will provide jobs for more than 9800 workers for at least a year, was forwarded to Washington for approval. The State Highway Commission is the sponsor. Final details of the program were worked out yesterday in a conference between Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Mr. Jennings.

State to Spend Three Million

Under terms of the project the | State’s sponsor's contribution will Ibe $3,736,706 while the WPA will |spend $6918.856. WPA and State | Highway engineers have worked for months in drafting plans for (the program. All work will be done on Stateowned roads, but will not supplant the Commission's road building pro- | gram, T. A. Dicus, Highway Com- | mission chairman, said. | The work to be done includes clearing and grubbing, straightening, widening. excavating, filling. (grading, surfacing, cutting and [shaping ditches and slopes, riprapping and resetting fences within right-of-way.

New Bridges Planned

Extensive paving work will be {done and new bridges will be built. | WPA workers will also plant trees jand shrubs to control drainage along highways and landscape shoulders and center strips on di- | vided-lane roads. Most of the work will be done in [these counties: Allen, Cass, Elkhart, Floyd, Fountain, Grant, Howard, Jackson, Lake, LaPorte, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Perry, Porter, St. Joseph, Shelby, Sullivan, Vigo, Warrick, Welles and | Whitley.

‘State Grants Bids on $492,000 Road Jobs

The State Highway Commission

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice, Indianapo

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London Statement Hints Recovery After Defeat.

By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 24. — A ‘war Office communique today 'said that Allied forces had| fought a “sharp” battle with ‘German troops north of the Norwegian port. of Trond‘heim and had “succeeded in ‘re-establishing the situation.” | The announcement followed previous advices on an all night raid conducted by the R. A. F. against Nazi air bases.

Matter is, Ind.

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NAZIS CAPTURE STRATEGIC STRAITS

War at a Glance

STOCKHOLM~British and Norwegians routed from Steinkjer and town destroyed as Germans capture strategic straits.

LONDON—Royal Air Force reports heavy damage to German air bases after all-night raids in North Sea, directed at Nazi ‘springboards” to England.

BERLIN—Capture of Steinkjer repoited, as High Command claims bombing of five more British ships. Official sources say British bombs killed own consul, interned in Narvik hotel,

PARIS—New German naval movements in Baltic Sea increases Sweden's fears of eventual involvement.

ROME—Possibility of Rome entering war against Allies “with-

| The phrase “re-establishing the situation” was not explained. It | was taken to indicate that the Al-| {lied forces north of Trondheim had | been thrown back by a German at-| tack in the Steinkjer sector, but | later had made a recovery. The communique did not necessarily | mean however that the Allies had | succeeded in re-capturing Steinkjer, | (which the Germans said they took | after a severe air, naval and land | | bombardment and an infantry at- | tack. | The War Office communique referred to yesterday's statement that the Germans had “counter-at- | tacked” the British north of Trondheim. ‘Nothing More to Report’

| “In the Trondheim area the) | counter-attack which was referred |to in yesterday's communique was| | delivered by a considerable number {of German troops landed from |

[ships within the Trondheim Fjord,” |

in few weeks” is “widely discussed.” BUCHAREST — Rumania starts gigantic fort-building program. WASHINGTON — Simms’ says Russia may do a “new somersault” and swing to Allies. Senator Bennett C. Clark demands court-martial of Admiral Taussig for statement on inevitability of U, 8. war with Japan.

ALLIED FAITH IN BLOCKADE DIPS

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Throw All They Have Into Scandinavia and Hope For Test of Arms.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor

The slogan that because of the blockade measures “Time Is Work ing for the Allies,” was confidently

CLAIM MAJOR VICTORY: LOSE NARVIK BATTALION: BRITISH RAID AIR BASES

Germans Carrying Fight to Foes in

Norway.

BULLETIN

STOCKHOLM, April 24 (U. P.), —An entire German battalion in the Narvik region has surrendered to the Norwegians, it was said today in reliable Allied quarters. The battalion, it was said, had been cut off from other German troops and surrounded in the village of Gratangen, about 30 miles north of the port of Narvik. The troops were said to have surrendered after suffering losses of’ 150 killed of a total force of 1000 men.

STOCKHOLM, April 24 (U, P.) .—German forces in Nore way were reported here today to have scored a major vice tory at Steinkjer and driven British and Norwegian troops out of the town north of Trondheim. A land, air and naval ate tack figured in the reported victory. Reports reaching here from Nore wegian frontier points indicated that the Germans are pressing the war to the Allies and Norwegians. (In Berlin, the High Command made unqualified claims to the cap=ture of the strategic Straits of Steinkjer and seizure of consider able booty north of Lillehammer, The Germans are advancing stead ily north from Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger, the Command reported.) Major Success for Nazis

The capture of Steinkjer was regarded as the first major success for the Germans since they reached |Hamar. German naval, air and (land units were described as co{operating to blast out British and

hours ws & stage today announced the award of con- of the war in attacks on German, voiced in both Britain and France| Norwegian troops who had driven

The State Democratic Committee Edward Kassenbrock. Sheriff Fee-| P.).—Authorities said today thatat |. 6.8 feet.

had refused to support any candidate for the Democratic senatorial

nev led the ticket in the 1938 election.

least 211 persons were killed last night when fire swept a moss-fes- |

The Wabash River below Vine cennes and the lower reaches of

|tracts for road repairs totaling | $492,835.23. | Approximately 60 miles of roads]

Danish an of the German air force during the!

discarded.

d Norwegian coast bases earlier in the war, but has now been south to Steinkjer from the British

landing port of Namsos. Both Allied and German forces

nomination but nearly ail of the | night.

state organization had pledged to support Mr. Jones. Regular organization opposition to Senator Guffey began in the 1938

the White River and its east and west forks continued to rise. The east fork stage at Shoals! was 284 feet, a rise overnight of four feet. The main

One of the “upsets” in the slate 154,64 Negro dance hall. Most of

is its failure to list State Senator : Jacob Weiss for renomination, This| them died in a stampede for the |

was seen as another county organ- One exit, officials believed. ization thrust against domination Between 30 and 40 were in hos-

| Will be resurfaced, repaired and re- | = nriica)v experts believed that the| Fremier Paul Reynaud of France| claimed officially or unofficially— inforced, according to T. A. Dicus, wa, Office statement on fighting has admitted publicly that “time is| to occupy Lillehammer and Rena neutral.” on the vital East Central Front,

commission chairman. The work | : Hapli : in ; | north of Trondheim indicated the : ent. is being financed with State and in had happened: | For that reason, the Allies are But best information indicated that

primary which split the party and contributed largely to the Republican victory, Mr. Guffey supported the then Lieut. Gov, Thomas Kennedy, sec-retary-treasurer of the John I. Lewis United Mine Workers America, the C. I. O. candidate for Governor. Mr. Kennedy backed Senator Guffey yesterday. Organization candidates led in nearly all other primary battles.

The Republican organization can-| didates for nomination to the Sen-

ate and state offices swamped unorganized opposition.

Cooke Wins G. 0. P. Place

Jay Cooke, Philadelphia Republican chairman and candidate for the senatorial nomination, won easily over two opponents. The bulk of Mr. Guffey’s lead was piled up in metropolitan Philadel-

phia which city Democratic Chair-| John B. Kelly, an avowed

man “neutral,” had predicted would go to Mr. Jones. Democrats elected 68 district delegates to the national convention and 18 delegates-at-large, each with a quarter vote. Republicans elected 68 district and four delegates-at-large. Neither delegation will be instructed but the Republicans will back Governor James as a “favorite son.” The Democratic bloc was expected to support President Roosevelt for a third term, if he seeks nomination. The two parties also nominated candidates for 34 Congressional, 25 State Senate and 208 State House of Representative seats.

DIES GROUP TOLD OF ‘RED’ RADIO SETU

WASHINGTON, April 24 (U. P), —Fred M. Howe, a marine radio operator, toid the Dies Committee today that the Communist Party had members aboard American merchant ships so that “in time of war they could help establish a Soviet system here.”

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

vess 12]Jane Jordan. 9 11!Johnson 12 C | Movies 14 Mrs. Ferguson 12

Obituaries ... 10

Books ....

Curious World 19 Editorials .... 12 Pegler 12 Finaneial .... 13 Pyle ol Flynn 2 Questions .... 11 Forum 2 Radio . 13 Gallup Poll .. Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Grin, Bear It. 19 Serial Story . 19 In Indpls. ... 3 Society .... 8, 9 Inside Indpls. 12 State Deaths. 10

and the C. I. o.

by the McNutt-for-President organization since active in the McNutt camp. Those slated temporarily for State Senate nominations include E. Curtis White, Joseph Wallace, Joseph F. Sexton and Theodore Cable. For joint senator from Marion and Johnson Counties, the slate | favored Gideon W. Blain over State Senator John Bright Webb. [ “This sentiment may change, (Continued on Page Four)

JOE LOUIS’ MANAGER INDICTED IN DETROIT

‘Roxborough Among 137 Ac-

cused of Conspiracy.

! DETROIT, April 24 (U. P).— {John Roxborough, co-manager of theavyweight champion Joe Louis, former Mayor Richard Reading, 89 members of the Detroit Police De{partment and 46 others were in|dicted by a one-man grand jury today on policy conspiracy charges. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea, named in two previous indictments and now awaiting trial, again was included in today's indictments. The Police Department members in|cluded one former Superintendent of Police, an inspector, nine lieutentants, six detectives, 34 sergeants ‘and 37 patrolmen. The remainder included persons |accused of conspiring with the officials in payment of graft for op(eration of illegal enterprises. The indictment contained two (counts: Conspiracy to permit op{eration of a lottery, and obstruction (of justice for a consideration. | Roxborough answered “absolutely (not” when asked if the Brown

{Bomber knew of the situation in-

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volving Roxborough. Roxborough said he had no coment on the indictment.

TAX OFFICE CLOSING " TIME TO BE EXTENDED

The County Treasurer's office will | remain open until 4 p. m. on Saturdays, April 27 and May 4, for per-

|sonal and property tax payments,

County Treasurer Walter O. Boetcher said today. On the final day for tax payments, May 6, the office will remain open antil 5:30 p. m.

AMERICANS WARNED BELGRADE, April 2¢ (U. P). | Americans were advised for the second time today to leave Jugoslavia if their presence is not urgently necessary. ud

Mr. Weiss has been

pitals and the death toll was ex-! pected to go still higher. Police arrested several men on charges of robbing bodies when the embers of the flimsy Rhythm Club (and its crumpled tin roof cooled. The white people of Natchez pro- | | tested today against the lone exit | toward which nearly 500 screaming | persons fought and clawed as the | lames flashed through dried Span|ish moss hanging from rafters {along the walls. They demanded a city ordinance requiring more exits | | in dance halls. |

| Band Fought Panic | The victims had danced for hours | | to the syncopating swing of Walter

| Barnes’ orchestra of Chicago. Then | n spark was touched and the |

merrymaking was turned into a rout of horrifying screams. | A trumpet note was heard occasionally through the din and flames as Barnes’ Orchestra apparently [tried to quiet the frenzy. What the {orchestra played, few seemed to know. Some thought it was the band's theme song—'Clarinet Lullaby.” Julius Hawkins, 27-year-old press-

man of the Natchez Democrat who 52

escaped from the inferno said: I ran to the door and got out with only a scratch. Inside I could hear everybody trying to get out. They were crushing each other, many were stomped to death. Oth- | ers were smothered and suffocated. All were crying, yelling, fire burning them. It was a horrible sight; young girls, boys, all friends of! mine, were in there.

Trapped Like Rats

“I hope I never see the like of it ‘again. You can't imagine the sight. | They were trapped like rats.” { | Charlie Hall, 32-year-old truck driver, said: { | “I jumped through one of the! windows and saved myself. Many (persons were under chairs and |tables, all badly burned. They had | {sought shelter there, but it was! (Continued on Page Three)

SHOT AS PROWLER, |

SOUTH BEND BOY DIES |

| SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 24 (U.| P.).—Robert Groves, 15, died today [in St. Joseph's Hospital of bullet | wound below his heart inflicted last | Friday night by Policeman John | | Howard when the boy refused a | command to halt, | Four blood transfusions, two from policemen and two from school! ‘mates, failed to save his life. Deputy | Coroner Samuel Bechtold will con-! duct an inquest tomorrow. | Searching for a prowler about whom they have received numerous! | complaints, police saw a figure slip b tween two houses. They flashed! their lights, shouted an order to! halt, then fired three times. Later they learned they had struck the!

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| Groves boy.

Iserious dama

white stage at Petersburg was 22.7 feet. a rise of .1 of a foot and 235 feet at Hazelton, a rise of 14 feet. The Wabash stage at New Harmony was 145 feet, a rise of 6 of a foot. At Aurora, swelling Ohio River waters pushed higher over their banks than they did at the crest of the flood season last year. At Cannelton, roads were blocked

from going to school. The river's rise at Evansville was slow and Weather Bureau officials there do not expect the 44-foot crest until Saturday or Sunday. No

ge was expected at Evansville,

500 Families Flee

Cincinnati Flood

CINCINNATI. O., April 24 (U. P). —Orderly evacuation of 500 Cincinnati waterfront families was carried out today as the flooded Ohio River crept within a few inches of its predicted 60-foot crest. The river stage was 59.7 feet and the rise was one-twentieth of a foot an hour. Flood stage here is feet. Light rains fell in the Ohio River Valley last night but wer cient to cause a change i dicted flood crest. The w generally fair today. Fifty privately- owned were moved from Lunke as a precaution, About 150 families at California,

eather was

airplanes n Airport

(Ky., were supplied water by means act

of tank trucks and boats after the flood polluted wells. Thirty-one blocks were inundated at Newport, Ky. Seven hundred families moved out, MANEUVERS NEAR END HONOLULU, April 24 (U, P) — The United States Fleet, which has been engaged in its annual war games in the Pacific Ocean for a month, will begin arriving at Pearl Harbor naval base Friday, ending the year’s manauvers, the Navy announced today.

Desperate Mother Hunts for Job So She Can Reclaim Her 3-Weeks-Old Foundling

Somewhere in Indianapolis today, !

a mother is looking for a job, earnestly and against one of the most compelling deadlines there could be. If she finds one and establishes a home, little Louise. Louise was born April 1 and last night was left on the steps of the convent of St. Patrick's School, 931 Woodlawn Ave. The mother left Louise there, wrapped in two baby blankets, and with a bottle of warm milk, the child's formula, and a note. Then

she rang the bell in the darkened

she hopes to reclaim her |

Federal funds. Counties which wili have projects are Bartholomew, Fayette, Carroll, Delaware, Lake, Porter, LaGrange, Whitely, Kosciusko, Huntington, | | Wells, Miami, Vigo, Clay, | Hamilton, Delaware, Madison, Rush, | Hancock, Randolph and Wayne. | Firms who received contracts for | the work include the Union As{phalt Construction Co.. Indianapo- |

and [ahd many pupils were prevented lis; L. W. Dailey, Ft. Wayne: Gast

| Construction Co., Warsaw; Bitum- | | inous Materials Co., Inc, Terre Haute; Middle West Roads Indianapolis: Wayne Paving Co., Ft. Wayne, Allied Bituminous Products Co., Inc., Indianapolis, and W. | L. Magaw, Richmond, Ind.

BAR COMMUNISTS, TWO PETITIONS ASK

State Women's Groups Seek | Board Action.

| Two petitions asking that the Communist Party be barred from a

e insuffi- | place on the ballot for the November | A : e ! the pre-| election were on file with the State —1he National Academy of Sci- Rumania, Jugoslavia and

Election Board today. They were filed by the Veedersburg chapter of the Daughters of |the American Revolution and the { Fountain County Women's Clubs. Bach asked that a 1935 legislative prohibiting from the ballot any parties advocating ‘overthrow of government by force” be invoked. | Park Beadle, secretary of tne election board, said the petitions [would be considered after a formal petition of candidacy is filed by the Communist Party. | He cited that the act referred to (in the petitions of the women's or{ganizations required each party requesting a place on the ballot to file a formal statement that they do not have as part of their platform | “overthrow of the government by force.”

building and fled. The note said: “Name—Louise. Born April 1, 1940. Please don't adopt her for ‘a few weeks. I want her. I hope to have work with enough pay to keep her before long.” Sister Mary Alice heard the door bell and then heard the infant's faint cries. She and Sister Superior Justine opened the door and took! the infant in. But there are no facilities for

Henry, |

Co., {man forces landed on the banks of

| The note was written on lined paper

| 1. The Allied Expeditionary Force landed at Namsos, jonied with Norwegians and advanced southward toward Trondheim.

Warships Land Germans

2. German forces moved noryhward from Trondheim (apparently to the Steinkjer Sector) and German warships carried other forces up the Trondheim Fjord to Steinkjer, where they were landed. (This {apparently indicated that the Ger-

the fjord had made a flanking at[tack on the Allies at Steinkjer.) 3. The Allied forces attacked the |Germans and there was a ‘counter attack” which yesterday's communique reported. After heavy fighting, the Allied forces established posi[tions which they now are holding. [(On the basis of German claims | [that they drove the Allied troops | jout of Steinkjer, this would indi(cate that the British and Norwegians retired northward to strong (Continued on Page Three)

FBI HEAD, 2 OTHERS | GET SCIENCE MEDALS

WASHINGTON, April 24 (U. P|

ences awarded gold medals for out- | | standing achievement last night to | an American biologist, a Swedish | geologist and J. Edgar Hoover, di- | rector of the Federal Bureau of In- | vestigation. Mr. Hoover received the Public | Welfare medal for his application | of scientific methods to the problem {of crime detection. | Frank Rattray Lillie, past presi{dent of the Woods Hole, Mass., | Oceanographic Institution, received the Agassiz medal for oceanography [for “his important ocntributions to the science of oceanography.” A. H. Westergaard, Stockholm, Sweden, received the Charles Doolittle Walcott medal and a $1000 honorarium for “his eminent researches on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the cabrian formations of Sweden.”

Guardian's Home in where she now fs. Sister Mary Alice said the child was scrupulously clean and that the

blankets were laundered beautifully.

Irvington,

in a schooled script. The formula was set down precisely, The infant is under the jurisdiction of the State Welfare Department and so far as possible the wishes of the mother will be cb-

served.

keeping a child there and police were called. They took her to the

Tah i IR 4 Fi fk SEE, ond

Louise has blue eyes, with heal

sparkling

| would be

‘hogs to $6.75 at Indianapolis today.

throwing everything they have into the war in Norway, hoping for a decision by force of arms which may determine the whole war. Reports of land operations in Norway give little clue to the real situation, but another violent naval and air battle apparently has taken piace in the Skagerrak. Its outcome may be important. There is a strong belief in the Allied camp that if Herr Hitler is

| blocked by sea from Norway, he will

move into Sweden, rather than lose out on his bold Scandinavian venture. In that case, the Allied strategy to drive eastward into Sweden to join the Swedish Army, which is far stronger than the Norwegian. The Allies would immediately try to cut Herr Hitler off from the essential Swedish ore which he soon will be getting by way of the Gulf of Bothnia. M. Reyvnaud’'s renunciation of the “Time Works for the Allies” theory

| is believed to be due to Herr Hitler's

success in offsetting the Allied blockade by lining up his neutral neighbors as a source of supply. Herr Hitler has come close to neutralizing the blockade by sea with the aid of Russia, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, other countries.

SWINE HERE SET HIGH SINCE NOY. 11

25 to 40-Cent Rise Boosts Top Price to $6.75.

Advances ranging from 25 to 40 cents, the sharpest gains made recently, boosted the top prices for

The top, paid on 220 to 230-pound weights, is the highest since Nov. 11! and compares with $5.70 a week | ago, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. The full 40-cent rise was paid on hogs weighing between 220 and 260 pounds. Receipts at the Union Stockyards here totaled 5866 head. Securities moved irregularly on the New York Stock Exchange through the first three hours of trading with railroad issues featuring the major groups. Grain futures were little changed at Chicago.

PAIR HELD ON MANN ACT James Earl Herrington, 41, and Maxine Mallory, 36, both of Muncie, Ind., were to be arraigned today before U. 8. Commissioner Howard S. Young on charges of violating the Mann Act. They were arrested by Muncie police. last night and turned over to the Federal Bureau of In-

[fighting there was actually patrol [fighting preliminary to a major battle. | The battle for Narvik was reporte ed to be proceeding slowly. The (Germans were said to be fighting |strongly within staunch fortifica< {tions which they had forced the | Norwegians to construct for them, Fight Up Hill | The Allied-Norwegian force must [fight up hill to some of the German outposts and the operation was exe [pected to take time. The Germans have considerable machine-gun ammunition which was brought to Rombak Heights by airplanes which landed on a makeshift landing field on a frozen lake. Chancellor Adolf Hitler was ree ported here to be personally encouraging the German forces at Narvik and insisting that all pose sible aid be sent them by air. The Germans now claim to have established direct contact between Olso and all coastal points as far north as Kristiansund. Reinforce= ments are being rushed from Oslo to the Lillehammer Front. The | Germans hope, it was indicated, to [smash through the Lillehammer area and make contact with their forces at Trondheim. At the same time it was reported that the Germans are rushing strong forces up the coast roads to some point north of Bergen in ore der to make firm contact with their detachment at Kristiansund.

Germans Run Blockade

Reports in Stockholm suggested that the Germans managed to get reinforcements to Trondheim by sea despite the British blockade. One {report was that German warships |and transports succeeded in moving into Trondheim Fjord despite Allied blockading forces. Another report was that the Trondheim reinforce ments came from Kristiansund, In any event, it was reported here (Continued on Page Three)

‘RESTAURANT HEARING

MOVED UP TO MAY 6

George T. O'Connor Zoning Board president, today set May 6 for a public hearing on a variance that would permit the erection of a $175,000 restaurant at 3710 N. Meridian St. The Board previously had set the hearing to reconsider the variance for Monday. This date was postponed when it was learned it would not permit the Board to advertise the hearing for seven days as re= quired by law.

M'NUTT IN CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, O., April 24 (U. B,), —Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt will speak tonight at a world trade dinner, sponsored by the Foreign Trade Club of the

vestigation. a

and the Cincinnati

Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Traffic Club. . %

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