Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1940 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

24, 1940

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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RUSSIA MAY TURN ~ NEW SOMERSAULT

Possibility of Switch to Allies Believed to Be Guiding Factor Behind Nazi Coups in Scandinavia; Stalin Hopes to Pull Plum Out of Chaos.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

WASHINGTON,

Times Foreign Editor April 24.—That Russia may pres-

ently do another somersault and help the Allies instead of ® Germany, and that Herr Hitler knows it, is believed to be a guiding factor behind the Nazi coups in Scandinavia.

Observers who have wate

hed the Soviet Union for years

: are more convinced than ever that her policy is to stay out

\ of the war, cost what it may If Great Britain, Germany, * France, Italy, Japan and the United States can all be brought into the conflict, and * kept fighting long enough, the world will belong to Russia, the only nation that stayed out. Thus, it is argued, if Germany begins to show signs of gaining the upper hand over France and England, Russia may turn off such Soviet supplies as are now finding

their way into the Reich. She is already making eyes at England.

Russia Is Cunning

On the other hand, should the Allies exhibit a winning streak, Russia may be expected to make a + feint in the direction of the Balkans

in order to draw Italy into the area on the side of Germany. Similarly, whenever the Chinese begin to worry the Japanese and Tokyo starts looking about for a face-saving way out, Moscow opens up a flirtation with Tokyo as much as to say: “What do you want to quit for? You have nothing to fear from me!” In short, many observers are convinced, Russia hopes to influence the course of the war without becoming involved in it herself. In the end, if her policy succeeds, she will decide the outcome. When peace is finally declared, she wants to be the world’s strongest power. She does not want any might opponent in her way. She especially wants to see Germany and Japan weakened and Britain, France and the United States—her principal ideological hates—broken and in chaos. Also Italy, but for whom she would now be in complete control of strategic Spain. Opposed Duce’s Climb

In fact, European history for the last 20 years is shot through with Soviet efforts to pit one group of European states against another. For a long time it was the “haves”

against the “have nots,” with Rus-| Norwegian forces out of Steinkjer

sia—one of the greatest of all the “haves’—backing the claims of the “have nots” which included Germany and Italy.

But when Fascist Italy moved aged by bombs and two British du

into Ethiopia, Moscow tried to get Britain and France to take the lead in a European war against Fascism.

, while egging others on.

BERLIN CLAIMS STEADY GAINS

Lillehammer Booty Seized After Steinkjer Victory, Says Communique.

BERLIN, April 24 (U. P.).—Germans claimed today the capture by battle of the strategic Straits of Steink jer, seizure of large quantities of booty north of Lillehammer and advances in the Norwegian campaign from Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger. Nazi sources insisted that British aerial attacks on German bases in the North had been turned back and the Official News Agency reported three more British planes were shot down this morning in a new attempt to bomb the Stavanger Airport. The claim of Steinkjer was made |by the High Command and was regarded as of major importance since a German force holding these straits can cut off the British troops at Namsos—30 miles to the north— and break a pincer movement in co-operation with the British forces at Andalsnes, south of Trondheim.

Claim Guns Captured

The Official News Agency said that the Germans in central Norway advanced north of Lillehammer where an important concentration of Allied and Norwegian forces has been reported. In the advance they claimed the capture of 20 machine guns, six anti-tank guns and a million cartridges of British make. Advances from Bergen, Drontheim and Stavanger were reported and some 50 Norwegian officers and 11300 Norwegian troops were said to ‘have been captured in the Stavanlger region. (Stockholm reported that the Germans had driven British and

|after bitter fighting.) | The High Command claimed that

another British destroyer and two |

British transports had been dam{merchant ships were sunk by bombs yesterday. Official quarters claimed that “the

$50,000 Fire Ravages A

pron Factory

Times Photo.

A two-alarm fire at the Indianapolis Toilet and Apron Co. . . . damage, $50,000.

Oslo Students

By FRANCIS M’EACHEN United Press Staff Correspondent MELLERUD, Sweden, April 24.— The entire student body of Oslo University has escaped from the capital in groups.and the students have made their way north to join the Norwegian army, I learned in a two-day visit to Oslo through the German lines.

I saw 2000 German troops enter Oslo harbor Sunday aboard mine sweepers, cutters and small torpedo boats, and probably an additional 1000 arrived aboard transport planes from Denmark.

The spirit of Norwegians in the occupied zone has risen with news that the Allies are in Norway, and even news that the Allies had decided to bomb the outskirts of Oslo, seeking to destroy the airports, caused a thrill to sweep the city.

Germans Warn Populace

Sunday. The Germans halted all | traffic. “verybody in the vicinity was searched for a gun but the as|sailant was not found. An official notice posted through |Oslo now says that any civilian {bearing arms, any one found de|stroyving roads, bridges, or railroads, | anyone who disrupts traffic or cuts telephone or telegraph communications, any soldier found using “dum m” bullets, any anyone giving de{tails of movements of German naval, land or air forces will be shot at once.

To Fight Nazis, Writer Says

A German sentry was shot from/|British troops were awaited. a window of a passing street car |

L0SS COVERED BY INSURANCE

All Escaped

pretext that they were going hiking or skiing in the country the students left in groups of about 25. | They never returned, but went (north to join Norwegian troops.

| . . Machinery, Supplies and I reached Oslo by bicyelin ll 3 Rebuilding Starts. | lines north of Kongsvinger. I went ; : . straight on to Oslo where I was| Ihe Indianapolis Toilet and Apron interned at a hotel for two days Supply Co., 935 E. Maryland St, the Germans to tour the city and, i. Saas : i ; | return to Sweden. I arrived at this|Of rebuilding its plant which was | town in southern Sweden, on Lake damaged last night by a two-alarm Cycling to Oslo, I received the wg 1 1eMasters, company man- | impression that Norwegian resist- ; . I : SI lance along the way had been stiffer ager, said the damage will exceed $50,000 but the loss is covered by | But the Germans were making their | insurance. Much costly machinery way slowly north, taking Swedish |will have to be replaced, he said. | frontier points as they went. The The fire also destroved a large concentrated there with fully| The fire started at about 8:30 equipped Swedish volunteers, and m. and was first noticed by William Wigley, an employee, who lives (civilians had made a stand With | partment and then attempted, | hunting rifles against the Germans. | yithout success, to enter the build{ing and drive one or more of the barriers across roads. T was told that in these defenses The flan ; ’ : nes had gained considerthe Norwegians had killed about|,,). headway by the time firemen t rey ; had been cremated in a barn 10 got there and were augmented now which the Germans set fire. of cleaning fluid. Killed by Truckloads The flames did no damage to offices of the company which are ing casualties. Two truckloads of them, I was told, were driven by|ing. The four trucks were destroyed, Norwegian drivers off a bridge along with much other machinery, Mr. LeMasters said.

Trucks Are Destroyed; through the Norwegian and German | before I received authorization from | today began a month-long process Vanearn, yesterday. | fire. [than the Germans had expected. bulk of the Norwegian army Was quantity of new supplies. In the Skarnes area, I found, | ext door. He called the Fire DeFarmers had fought from behind | [four company trucks to safety. 200 young Germans, whose bodies and then by small explosions of tins The occupation troops are suffersituated in the front of the buildsouth of Karnes, and another was

BRITISH BOMB NAZI AIR BASES IN NIGHT RAIDS

Sylt Raked in Offensive to Destroy ‘Springboards’ To England.

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positions about six miles from Steinkjer.) British planes bombed Germany's strong Westerland Air Base on fortified Sylt Island, off the German North Sea Coast; Aalborg Air Base in northern Denmark, and OIso, Kristiansand and Stavanger Air Bases on the Norwegian south and southwest coasts, it was said. Further, it was said in an Air Ministry communique, an ‘“offensive reconnaissance” was carried out over Trondheimfjord, Germany's chief west Norwegian coastal base. In the Sylt raid, the Air Ministry said, bombs were dropped on German hangars and caused a big explosion and several fires. Two German patrol boats were sunk by British airplane bombs north of Sylt Island, the Air Ministry said. It was evident that the British planes had used a carefully selected route on their raids. They had gone over to the German northwest coast to bomb Sylt, up over northern Sweden to bombard Aalborg, the chief German jump-ing-off base in Denmark, and over to the southern Norwegian coast to bomb Oslo air base.

Second Raid on Oslo

They had bombed Kristiansand, on the point of the south coast opposite the Skagerrak, and had rounded the southwest coast to bomb Stavanger airport. It was estimated that a minimum of 50 planes did the bombing, seeking to disable the air bases which Germany is using effectively to reinforce and supply its forces in Norway and as potential “springboards” for future raids on Great Britain. The raids were the second on Oslo, Kristiansand and Trondheim, the fourth on Aalborg and the 12th on Stavanger, in addition to a naval bombardment of Stavanger’'s airport. British planes raided Sylt for six hours on March 19. In last night's raids they bombed along a front of nearly 600 miles.

Will Italy Enter Within Few Weeks?

ROME, April 24 (U, P.). == The possibility of Italy's entering the war against the Allies within the next few weeks was widely discussed today. It was reported that Premier Benito Mussolini had told a meeting of Fascist leaders representing 22 corporations last Sunday that it might be only a matter of weeks before the time comes for Italy to join the war; that “Italy will honor her pacts; Italy's word is sacred.” He referred to the Rome-Berlin Axis, informants said, and added: “Do not believe Italy will not go to war.” He is said to have made it clear that Italy would fight on Ger-

‘ALL GERMAN PEOPLE’ DUFF COOPER TARGET

(Editorial, Page 12)

LONDON, April 24 (U. P).— Alfred Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Admiralty, declared in an address at the banquet of the Royal Society of St. George yesterday that the Allies must ‘defeat in battle” the whole German people as well as the Nazis of Adolf Hitler. Mr. Duff Cooper assailed ‘the crimes of a whole people” (the Germans) and said that the Allied slogan must be: “Never again shall one nation be allowed to plunge the whole world lo war.” d Wsbibuted that one German force sailed up or UH COOPeL. Wii Suistie through the fjords to Beitstjod and declared that the attack upon Aus-|2 battle ensued with Allied warships tria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Den-| there. Simultaneously a strong mark and Norway were the “crimes land force, aided by airplanes, of a whole people.” moved north from Trondheim, tak=Hitler says the entire German ing Levanger and Verdalen. Stein people is behind him,” declared Mr. |Kjer was then attacked in a comDuff Cooper. “I for one am pre- |bined naval, air and land bompared to take him at his word. |bardment and the British-Nor= Victory is certain. No nation with |wegian forces driven out. command of the sea has ever been| The Allied forces were said to defeated. | have retired about six miles north “For the second time in my life, | and east of Steinkjer where strong they (those who saw the first World defenses were said to have been War) have seen one country drive thrown up against further German the whole world into war. attack, No civilians were reported

to have been casualties in the Steinkjer battle as the town's 6000

inhabitants previously had been evacuated to the mountains. Fears Intensity That New Activities by Nazis May Embroil Sweden.

NAZIS CAPTURE NORSE STRAITS IN MAJOR DRIVE

British Driven Out Steinkjer, Consolidate 6 Miles North.

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Norwegians Reinforced

The Norwegian military com= | mander at Steinkjer yesterday told | the correspondent of the Stockholm Allehanda that there “is an eventuality that we shall be unable to {hold Steinkjer against German attack.” He said then that the strongest defense line lay to the north and the east of the town. South of Trondheim, according to reports here, the Germans have not “ —- put on much pressure. Their line PARIS, April 24 (U. P.).—French | as said to be at Melhus, about 20 military dispatches reported con-|miles south of Trondheim. ‘lied siderable German naval activity in| troops from Dombaas have reinthe Baltic Sea today and represent- | forced the Norwegian detachments ed Sweden as increasingly anxious | south of Trondheim, over the possibility of a German| It appeared that the Germans attack such as those on Norway | were placing main reliance on their and Denmark. (columns breaking through the It was admitted that there was a|Lillehammer region to aid them at possibility that the naval activity | Trondheim. meant that the Germans were| The belief here was that two merely trying to reinforce and re-|large-scale battles will be fought provision their forces in Norway. ( Soon-—one in the Steink jer area and Reports had been circulated here, | the other around Lillehammer—on attributed to Italian quarters, that Which the fate of the first phases Adolf Hitler planned to intensify Of the Norwegian campaign may the war, and also that the German rest. Expert French tacticians were General Staff had been taken by |said to be with the Allied forces surprise at the stiff Norwegian and | and to be busy plotting the best Allied opposition in Norway. battle positions for meeting the These reports said Germany had | Germans. heen compelled to withdraw more Major Battles Loom troops than she expected from the : Western Front for the Scandinavian | Telephonic advices to the United campaign, and that her air and [Press from Roeros said that British naval losses had been greater than (reinforcements were arriving in the she expected. Lillehammer sector despite terrific Nevertueless, the fear was gen-|German bombardment of communi= eral here that Germany was pre-|cation lines from Andalsnes, where paring to invade Sweden, in view the Allies landed. of reports of troop concentrations| The newspaper Aftonbladet reon the north German mainland and [ported from Norwegian military on the Danish island of Bjornholm, headquarters that important oper= off Sweden. ations were in progress in the GudThis morning's War Office Com- drands Valley and that it was bemunique, No. 467 of the war, said |lieved about 17,000 Norwegian and that there was nothing to report |British forces would soon be in ace on the Western Front. tion in the Lillehammer sector. The Norwegian fortress of Hegra, east of Trondheim, was reported WASHINGTON, April 24 (U, P). still holding out. The fortress has ~The Federal Bureau of Investiga-| been surrounded by the Germans tion disclosed today that it is in-|but has refused to surrender and vestigating the shooting of a sentry reportedly has been firing on the

SENTRY'S DEATH CHECKED

at the United States Marine Base|German-occupied air fleld at Trond-

Next, Russia worked feverishly to|destruction of the British Grand]

: ii | " ’ ; ®i Escape of the University students] Sprestl the yy a across | Fleet has begun” and Germany w Mas an indication of higher spirit| - p DY

many's side. at Quantico, Va. heim.

driven over an embankment at Galattrud. Each carried about 40

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nce and henceforth use Norway as an “un-| Britain to fight Italy and Germany. |Sinkable aircraft carrier” for deathA ~t | dealing thrusts at England.

Claim British Killed Consul An authorized source said that “according to our information, the British consul at Narvik was killed by the British bombardment of Narvik last Friday or Saturday.” A spokesman had been asked to comment on the statement made by Patrick King, American merchant

Failing in that, she tried to get Britain and France to intervene against Germany in Czechoslovakai. Finally came Germany’s invasion of Poland and the present conflict. Some of the best diplomatic brains in Washington are convinced that Stalin, more than any other one man, is responsible for that. Still up to his old tricks, he continued te dicker with the Allies, leading them to believe he was on the point of joining the ‘peace front.” Then, while the AngloFrench negotiators were still in Moscow, he joined up with Germany and so made war inevitable.

Stalin Manipulates Weight

Had Russia joined the Allied “peace front,” observers here believe, Herr Hitler would not have dared strike. Many think Stalin also was convinced Herr Hitler would not march. But as war between his avowed enemies, Naziism and the burgeois Democracies, would play into his hands, all he had to do was to switch from one side to the other in order to get his wish. Today, according to this school of opinion, it is to the interest of Stalin, as a Communist, to keep the war going as long as possible and to drag in as many countries as possible—so long, that is, as Russia can stay out.

mans. “According to our information,” said the spokesman, “the British consul was interned in a hotel room by German troops when they occupied Narvik. “As far as we know from present information, he was in the hotel when the British bombarded Narvik. It appears that the hotel was hit by a British shell, killing the consul.”

LONDON, April 24 (U. P.) —Official circles said they had received no word concerning the killing of British Consul Gibbs at Narvik by German soldiers, as reported by Patrick King, American seaman now at Stockholm. No communication from British representatives at Narvik has been received since hostilities began, officials reported.

|among the people of Oslo. On the | c 1diers who were killed.

seaman who was at Narvik from] the time of the German occupation | until last Sunday, that the British| consul had been shot by the Ger-|

COURTMARTIAL FOR TAUSSIG DEMANDED

WASHINGTON, April 24 (U. P). —Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.) demanded today that Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig be courtmartialed for telling the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war between the United States and Japan is inevitable. “Taussig’s statement is the type of militaristic sword-swinging that has brought Japan itself into its present deplorable situation,” Senator Clark said. “The fact that the Japanese allow naval officers to dictate domestic policies is precisely what is responsible for all the trouble in the Far East. “Taussig’s remarks were a perfectly outrageous, indefensible exhibition of militarism for which he should be courtmartialed.” Senator Clark, a leader of the Senate isolationist bloc and an opponent of a larger navy, made his demand after Secretary of Navy Charles Edison and Secretary of State Cordell Hull had disclaimed responsibility for Admirel Taussig’s testimony before the Senate committee in support of a pending bill for an 11 per cent increase in the Navy’s tonnage.

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here I's the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE County City 16 24

28 33

1939 1940 April 23, 1940 9 | Accidents

TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid

8 $82 2 10

Violations Speeding Reckless Driving. Failure to stop at through street. Disobeying traffic signal pPrunken driving. All others

1 11

14 140 30

287

MEETINGS TODAY ¥. M. C. A, Camera Club, Y. M. C. A.

8 p.m. lub, Claypool Hotel, noon, Lions club. Biocuesion ut YMC

Adie Alumni Association, Hotel Sev-

erin District, American Legion, Board of

Trade, noob. ners’ Association — Hotel washington, Six

Apartment noon. ma Alpha Epsilon, Board of Trade,

ort High School Mhietio Associa- . Be Tavern, noon. Co Operative Olah aban ARS: Ter Or Chamber of Commerce, Canary Coa" Club, Chamber of Commerce, 7:30 ». m. Boh cn, ndianapolis, {ngton, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Hotel ington, noon WA ver sing Club of Indianapolis, Indianapoiis Athletic Club, noon. a Chi, Board of Trade, noon. van Club, Murat Temple, noon. ab. Severin Hotel, noon.

olumbia Club, noon. Hotel Wash-

Total | Russet Cafeteria, noo

and Biuders Building, hoon. trie

Indianapolis Camera Club, 110 E. Ninth St, 8 p

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BIRTHS Girls Fred, Virginia Jefry, at Coleman. Ancel, Edith Lewis, at Coleman,

Gordon, Ruth Andre, at Methodist, Anthony, Margaret Giordano, at Meth-

odist. Joseph, Edna Sommers, at St. Vincent's. John, Elizabeth Hoffman, at St. Vincent's. Boys

Ralph, Lucille Retz, Methodist.

Ralph, Evelyn Nieten, at 2518 E. Mich-

gan. : Ezra, Delpha Clements, at 514 E. Warsaw, John, Susie Curran, at 2425 Parker. Everett, Thelma King, at 1046 N. Jefferson.

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DEATHS

Gilbert Peck, 49, at Veterans, sarcoma. Martin Anderson, 77, at 1845 Howard, myocarditis, /illiam Rutledge, 77, at Methodist, carcinoma. Frances Ross, 84, at 1321 N. Meridian, coronary occlasion. Selma Todd, 40, at St. Vincent's, pulmonary edema. Joseph Childs, 39, at 518 Bright, acute cardiac dilatation, at 3862 Carrollton,

Mary Cassen, 72, bronchopneumonia. Fred Freund, 72, at Methodist, bronchial asthma, Malissa Johnson, 60, at 1026 Traub, streptococcic infection. Nia A. Mullin, 56, at City, hypertension.

FIRE ALARMS Tuesday 6:16 AA. M—104 E. 38th, garage, cause un dolnh flue, loss $3. 9:31 A. M134 W. Vermont. trash. 11:10 A. M.—640 Madison, sparks from flue, loss $25. 1: . M.—Chester and E. 10th, auto, loss, $10.

7.46 P. M.—Woodlawn and Laurel, auto backfire, 8:13. P. of — Rear, i Relsner, cause undetermined, loss $2 atl Pod 088 E Maryland, cause unated. 11°13 B. M154] Park, overheated elec:

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oon. Central Y. M. . day. Sigma Nu, Hotel Washington, 12:15 p. m.

ined, $i loss. A. M.—-2005 Hillside, sparks from |p.

Wednesday 12:38 A. M.—310 N, Delaware, trash.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST-—Fair to night and tomorrow; continued cool with frost tonight.

Laake 4:54 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —April 24, 1939— e Mevonnann 1p Mosesnrn

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m...30.10

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan, 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, not much change in temperature; local frost in central and north portions tonight, mostly light. Illinois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; local light frost in central and north portions tonight: slightly warmer in west portion tomorrow.

Lower Michigan—Generally fair and continued cool tonight and tomorrow. Ohio—Generally fair with light frost tonight; tomorrow fair and slightly warmer. Kentucky—Fair with light frost in exposed places tonight: tomorrow fair and somewhat warmer,

Sunrise ......4:54 | Sunset ...... 6:32

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The Germans in the streets, hotels and cafes of Oslo display a dominating but an orderly attitude. They pay for everything in reichsmarks for which they receive the equivalent of about 40 cents in | American money, the nominal quo- | tation for the mark, It is new | money. So far there was no sign of a | serious food shortage in Oslo, but 'it was reported that there would | be strict rationing soon. All day German troops parade the |streets, singing. They are followed ‘by bands of German youths, playing the Norwegian as well as the German anthem. Overhead airplanes at half-hourly intervals dip ‘their wings from 800 feet altitude as they fly northward, apparently with troops and supplies. At 2 p. m. last Saturday an air alarm was sounded and four persons were killed in a mad rush for safety. The alarm, according to people here, was a false one. They believed it was sounded to get people to cover so that the bodies of members of the crew of the German cruiser Bluecher, sunk in the Oslofjord, could be driven through the town unseen. Monday afternoon two French pursuit planes flew over Oslo at a great height, dropping a shower of leaflets in and about the city, telling people to evacuate to the countryside and not fear a bombardment which would follow, as the Allied squadrons would not bomb the city itself. At midnight Monday came a terrific deafening explosion about 50 yards from the Continental Hotel where the German staff has its headquarters. About 20 minutes later a terrific barrage of anti-air-craft fire opened up on the outskirts. The district around the Fornebo Airport was heavily hit.

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no for long. Soon I could hear their cries. It was terrible.” Sam Serio, member of the Natchez Fire Department, said that when the truck arrived at the dance hall “bodies were stacked waist high all over the building.” “It was a veritable firetrap,” Mr. Serio said. ‘There was no escape. They were burned to death or trampled under each other's feet. It was the worst sight I've seen in 30 years of fire fighting.” Barnes and five of his orchestra —including a girl singer—were known dead. One was still missing by mid-morning. Four other members of the orchestra and Barnes’ brother, Allen, manager of the band, escaped. The nature of the tragedy to this city’s 8000 Negroes, who comprise 60 per cent of the population, would be comparable to a disaster in a white community in which its leaders were decimated. Among the dead were a large number of physicians, lawyers, teachers and social workers—the leaders of the community, The fire, apparently caused by a cigaret touching dried moss used for decorations, reduced the shacklike building to ashes.

St. The blaze, which could be seen {for at least nine blocks, attracted a large crowd of spectators. Firemen fought it for two and a half hours.

‘DECISIONS MADE’ BY ALLIED COUNCIL

LONDON, April 24 (U. P.) —Reliable quarters reported today that the Inter-Allied War Council had met in Paris yesterday and made positive decisions, not merely regarding defense measures in Norway, but counter-moves to any German march against Sweden were considered. It was indicated that the Council might also have discussed the possible entrance of Italy to the war on Germany's side, in view of implied threats in the inspired Fascist press. Despite these threats, foreign embassies here received reports that Italy was resisting strong German pressure to ehter the war at once. The Inter-Allied War Council was an “inter-Allied one for the first time since the World War, instead of merely an Allied one, as both Norway and Poland were represented at the Paris meeting.

England Accepts ‘Win and Bear It’ Tax

LONDON, April 24 (U. P).— Sir John Simon's gigantic 10 billion dollar budget for the fiscal year which started April 1 was immediately dubbed the “win and bear it” budget by British newspapers today. It was in fact so big that its figures were almost incomprehensible in their immensity, and homely illustrations were necessary to show what the country was going to pay, aside from that part of the expenditure to be met by borrowing. 3714 Pet. Tax Maintained

For instance, the 3742 per cent basic income tax rate was maine tained. Under that rate, a single person who earns about $800 a year pays $50 income tax, instead of $28 as before last September. A citizen who each week buys several packages of cigarets and 12 boxes of matches, eight pints of beer and a bottle of whisky, sends one telegram and six letters and makes 50 telephone calls will pay $1.20 in new taxes on those items. And in the background was the “purchase” tax which Sir John announced. It was forecast that this tax might go as high as 5 per cent. Sir John had promised that it would not be applied to food, drink, foodstuffs or articles such as tobacco which already were highly taxed.

Rumania Starts

Fort Construction

BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 24 (U. P.).—Rumania has started a gigantic fort and road-building program, All engineers, engineers’ assist ants, architects and technicians, regardless of age, have been ordered to report to the army May 3 and building materjals have been assembled in such vast quantities that a crisis looms in the housing ine dustry.

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