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ALLIES AND GERMANS REPORTED IN CRITICAL BATTLE NEAR ROEROS

[Scripps ~mowarl VOLUME 52—NUMBER 39 THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940

Downtown Indianapolis Gets a $1,000,000 Face Lifting

Indiana Rivers ~~ Continue fo Fall =

LOCAL TEMPERATURES |

RATES MAY DIP INUTILITY QUIZ

Townsend Orders Inquiry Into Phone Charges and Power Revenues.

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All but the extreme lower stations of the White and Wabash | River stations reported the water | was falling today, as the crop-dam- | aging spring flood passed on into! the Ohio River. |

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| TRAFFIC DRIVE

Morrissey Promises Rigid

Control of Speeding in Butler Area.

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A far-reaching utility rate inves-

The Ohio was reported at a crest of 60 feet at Aurora. Ind. where | 100 families have been forced from | their homes by the high water. The

tigation that is expected to result in voluntary rate reductions by

nearly completed.

Race Day. 3. Sears Roebuck & Co.'s moto

Expansion of Murphy 5 & 10

Report Power Revenue Up Structure Invol

| Mr. Hanna said that preliminary | investigations revealed that power | companies’ revenues and surpluses were increasing Steadily due to general expansion of service to rural territories all over the state in the last vear. “We will negotiate with utility owners for rate cuts on the basis that their depreciation reserves are running too high and that their revenues will continue to rise,” Mr. Hanna said. | Of the seven companies listed for possible reductions, four are power) and light firms and three are tele-! phone companies.

Phone Inquiry Asked Governor Townsend said he in-

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seven of the largest utility companies in Indiana was disclosed to- i doe prio per cit ce cause | day by State officials. e entire west fork of White The proposed rate cuts, some of River was reported falling today, ! which would affect Indianapolis 8nd a crest of 28.9 feet was reresidents, may amount to more than Ported at Shoals on the east fork. $400,000 annually within the next I re aly Stream ro Foe slowSix months, according to Ralph !V at Hazelton and Petersburg an Hanna, public counsellor with the the Wabash River was rising slowly Indiana Public Service Commission. =, J. armel and New SONY. Surveys of power companies’ ; : __sureau forecas mounting revenues and an investi- Partly cloudy skies for tonight and | gation of alleged discriminatory Hr and showers for tomortelephone toll rates were ordered Tow. i Snperatares Will remain by Governor M. Clifford Townsend. aL e same, which is near ‘square. building spurts in a decade. { | Lanamarks of generations past | way for shining new buildings—i | - | prospects. bh From the standpoint of actual Included in $200,000,000 money being spent, the G. s | Murphy 5 & 10 Store expansion Plane Order; Newest [tops all other building * projects. | Construction cost alone will total Craft Involved. | $250,000 while fixtures will run another $50,000. The present store at WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. p.).' 51 N. Illinois St. is swelling into the |—The Allied P si cio SiX-story and basement at 29-37 N | rch isTg Mission Illinois St, formerly occupied by announced today that it has signed Rink's. a Ay . contracts for $200,000,000 worth of Lower Basement Floor strue r. Hanna to investigate .,... : f telephone rates on the ground that oy aNd wovors ih Wit Yau Wo Contractors have torn out the intoll charges for calls within the, i terior of the old store. Nothing state are higher than rates for calls’ The announcement was made bY remains but the supporting colacross state lines. Arthur B. Purvis and Rene Pleven, umns. In the basement engineers | Rp i Su are members of the mission, after a are lowering the fioor six inches to French Lick was more than the rate conference with Treasury Secre- give the sub-street level area a for a call from Indianapolis to tary Henry Morgenthau Jr. who higher aT hy © in 4 Louisville, several miles farther. has been co-ordinating United Hos tar a 8 I hs Tesult. of States plane manufacturing and with the new facilities. missions order for reduction of in- | Sales. {maining open during the remodelterstate toll rates which did not! They said that the Allies have ns on ve SS comnfo: to: a that int agreed to finance new plant ex- Pict hae — pei “hen will ron 101 wi at Mmira- : : a ! . ’ state calls should be reduced to the PROsion at three airplane engine have a 142-foot frontage on Illinois level of the FCC schedule.” Mr. Manufacturing concerns in order to St. and a 57-foot Market St. Hanna said. speed up motor production. [Cai aa double the pres- | Negotiations Started The airplane contracts were There will be two large selling | Negotiations with some of the Signed for Curtiss, Douglas and Bell floors, main floor and downstairs utility owners’ representatives al. Warblanes. | salesrooms. In all, 16,400 square ready have been started by Mr In addition, contracts were signed feet will be added. Hanna's office. y With the Allison Engine Division of | The next largest new building job | “As soon as revenue and costs General Motors Corp. at Indian- is the one-story stone triangular figures are compiled we wili pro- apolis and with the Wright Aero- Structure going up on the point at ceed with further negotiations and nautical Corp. engine makers. (Indiana Ave. and Ohio St. for if the companies decline to make | The Allied officials said that they Sacks Bros. Loan Co. Cost of con- | voluntary cuts we then will file also are about ready to sign an Struction plus fixtures will be more | petitions demanding readjust- (Continued on Page Three) (than $200,000. Four old buildings ments,” he said. | were torn down. Foundation and | ——— lower walls already are rising for | . {the new air-conditioned structure. METHODISTS OPPOSE n ' ' | Aug. 1 has been set for the comple- | [tion date. U. S. VATICAN ENVOY HOME SAFETY DRIVE Faced With Marble { a . | The Sacks Bros. new home will be CR on S| jae wh NR So Methodist Church today regis . marble. Tt wlil house the offices of unanimous opposition to rad Congress Votes Action at the Sacks Bros. loan and pawn denient of diplomatic relations be- | : . (partments. There also will be five tween the United States and the Final Session. | Storercoms for rent. Large display Vatican. { windows will run the length of the The bishops’ views were contained The Indiana Congress of Parents Ohio St. and Indiana Ave. fronts. in the mddress of the Council of 3 hers Sm conduct a home | (Continued on Page Three) Bishops read before Ye first gen- Program FoF the Com eet of its | Chine by Bohan Francis 31 Me. Deeks to the 30 ani con: STOCKS ERRATIC ON ’ X d ngress indors a Cotmen a to join resolution for the promotion of the U. S. STEEL ACTION with: Catholics and others to pro- Sofety campaign this morning at | | miote peace, the bishops m ge the closing convention session. | Action of U. S. Steel Corp. in re- | added: Be gra pipleEht Sh scinding the recent $4 cut in prices | “RIE , ely chairman, in uced ‘of sheet and strip steel ucts fi BY vouist oor of 8 nia the resolution from the floor. brought erratic wh Be gg se nd state, and are ana will be un- She asked that the Congress york stocks today. Volume was light. | aa xT edt Stable make Indiana a national byword Com and wheat prices slipped at Hiiterals Oppo: : ny ih vo for safety next year and asked par- Chicago on the prospect of rain in ment of GiB re aS - ents and teachers to solicit the aid the Southwest. Hog prices at Tdi. | tween the Vatican and the United of other agencies and organizations anapolis dro " o rowerin States. [In their communities in the Pro- | the t t pea y mg RE ———————— | motion of safety in the home. | op to $6.50. ‘ ' | She cited as a model for the In- | WILLKIE TYPIFIES (diana work the campaign carried SPEEDWAY HONORS G 0 P ICKES SAYS on in Kansas City where the chil- | «Ue Tay nam en: death rate of 400 1931 REFUND CHECK 4 . Was halved last year. In that city. | WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P.). she said, 300 organizations provided, & eheck Which : : — Secretary of Interior Harold 3000 workers for the campaign. | ' IRC Tit Wa Stsued bY L. Ickes asserted today that utility| Resolutions which were passeq | the Indianapolis Motor Speedway executive Wendell Willkie would this morning included one asking Corp. Nine years ago as a refund, make & “very appropriate’ Repub- that the State Board of Equea.| POUNCed” back today. lican Presidential candidate because tion be re-organized and removeq . Ie check, drawn on a bank no his “big business and Morgan af- (Continwea on Page 19) filiations™ appear to typify the G. 0. P. Mr. Tekes added that Mr. Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp, has “undoubted served seat for the May 30 race. ability.” “He writes well and speaks well, but should watch his facts,” Mr. Ickes said.

T. E. (Pop) Myers, Speedway vice president, said the check would be honored

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New Buildings Now Rising on Sites of Razed Landmarks

By DAVID MARSHALL

Downtown Indianapolis is undégoing a million-dollar face-lifting. at either 49th St. By football weather, some 12 to 15 new buildings will dot the mile Place or 49th St. They are the result of one of the largest local commercial Ave.

NILES CHAPMAN, CITY

It ds re- | {other companies merged {the Continental

Bank since 1927.

| sold to Ball Brothers.

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[longer in existence, was received by | 'mail from Edward A. Shields, Pitts- | in

He asked to apply it on a $7 re-|

Times Photos. [today after the arrest yesterday an

speeding and 27 on other charges.

| Michael Morrissey promised to establish a more rigid patrol for speeders in the Butler University area. The P.-T. A. of School 86 at 49th {St. and Boulevard Place, inter{viewed Chief Morrissey vesterday and described traffic conditions as extremely hazardous because of frequent student “jaloppy”’ races.

Promises Close Watch

rists’ store . . , to be open May 16.

Store Into Abandoned Rink's | ves $300,000. | tablish a closer police watch in the |area and took under advisement {request that he detail a patrolman and Boulevard and Graceland

Six persons were injured : have come tumbling down to make auto accidents reported overnigh ndicatiens of brightening business none apparently seriously. — < = William Clauer Jr. 18. of 5 Capitol Ave., son of the former Marion County Democratic chairman, was slightly injured when his car struck a parked car in the 5500 block of Kenwood Ave. Auto Strikes Fence Police said Mr. Clauer swerved his car to the left side of the street when a car with no lights appeared in front of him. After running into {the parked car, Mr. Clauer's car Istruck an iron fence in front of 5540 Kenwood.

INDUSTRIALIST, DIES

Treasurer of Continenta Steel Co. Was 66.

Niles Chapman, prominent Indianapolis industrialist, died today at Five-yvear-old Ted Powell, Carmel, Methodist Hospital. He was 66. |Ind., escaped serious injury when

. \ fe he dashed into the path -of a ear Me: CHSINA, Who ved ot Jos at Massachusetts Ave. and Alabama N. Meridian St., organized

the of He was treated at Methodist Chapman-Price Steel Co. here in Hospital for head injuries. Hers hell 1919 and was its president until Lewis, 32, of 541 N. Hamilton Ave. 1927 | was the driver of the car.

nn To oo on PRESIDENT OPPOSES BARDEN REVISION

Mr. Chapman also had been a ai- Calls Them ‘Great Mistake’ rector of the Merchants National | In Pay-Hour Fight.

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and two to form Steel Co. with headquarters at Kokomo, Ind. Mr. |

Chapman became treasurer and a | member of the executive committee |

{of the new organization.

Born in Bast Orange, N. J, he! moved to Greenfield, Ind. in 1906. a year after his graduation from — President Lehigh University. The same year, gay that it would be “a great misfe was married to Miss Julia Holl- take” to adopt the Proposed Ta a : ; | endments to the Wage-Hour . Web of Temps, hv Roosevelt's views were comIn Greenfield, Mr. Chapman a Rep. Mary T. Norton ganized the Greenfield Fruit Jar (p. N. J). chairman of the House and Bottle Works, which later was Labor Committee, who made them In 1910, he publie. came to Indianapolis and for sev-| Tne Barden amendments would eral years operated a galvanizing exempt an additional 928.000 emshop at Madison Ave. and the Belt ployees in agricultural industries Railroad. |from the law's wage provision and He is survived by his wife; a would give hours exemption up to niece, Miss Helen Fleischer; a 56 hours a year. with 14 weeks in nephew, George Fleischer: three which there would be no maximum grand nieces and one grand nephew, work week for certain handlers of all of Indianapolis. [grain, perishable or seasonal fresh Services will be at 11 a. m. Satur- | fruits or vegetables, trees and any day at the residence. Burial at seasonal or perishable agricultural Crown Hill will be private. lor horticultural commodity.

Mother Is Awarded $3500 For Anguish in Baby Mixup

another woman was placed in the third bed, she said. “The first day I nursed a fairhaired baby,” Mrs. Mahoney added. “Next day the nurse brought me a different child. It was dark-haired and olive-com-plexioned. The nurse told me that newly-born babies change appearance rapidly. She convinced me that the children were the same. I was happy again. And then they gave me a red-haired baby.” Stanley Barnes, attorney representing the hospital, admitted that the Boaz and Mahoney babies had been switched because of an error in giving them their identification blankets, but de nied a third infant had been ine volved. He said Mrs. Mahoney's child had been identified by its footprints and that the hospital was satisfied the baby she hoped was her own<-really was,

LOS ANGELES, April 25 (U. P.).—Mrs. Frances Mahohey today cuddled her red-headed baby | boy—if hers it really was—said she would love it as her own and hoped it never would learn it had been the victim of a maternity ward mixup. The 19-year-old Mrs. Mahoney, former movie actress, was awarded $3500 hy a jury late last night as damages from the California Hospital, where her child was born. She sued for $30.500. “I don't suppose it can be helped,” said the former film beauty. “I still am not certain Whether this really is my child, | but he is a lovely boy and I shall [ try to believe that he is mine.” Mrs. Mahoney testified that after her baby was born, she was taken to a three-bed ward. Next day, she said, Mrs. Ann Boaz was wheeled in. A few hours later | 5

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last night of 70 drivers charged with |

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P).| Roosevelt declared to-|

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Germans Batter Two! Paths Through |

Defenses. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Germany's battered two paths through]

Allied defenses in central

that airplanes had cut communications from the coastal ‘bases to advance lines of the British Expeditionary Force.

| Norwegian battlefronts told of German successes in a critical phase of the Scandinavian conflict, with the | possible exception of the northern {zone of Narvik where the Germans |said they were holding out strong{ly against Allied encirclement. The main theater of action was along a jagged line stretching from the town of Steinkjer, north of | Trondheim, southeastward through central Norway and along that line the Germans | successes. | The British claimed no progress

An unannounced police drive on'and admitted they had been forced | (traffic violators was in full swing to fall back from the Lillehammer { front. d

Battle Lines Shaping Up

{west of Lillehammer, where the Germans had advanced to Ringebu ‘and were about 25 miles from the | advance British forces at Otta. | The central Norway battleline | shaped up, on the basis of frontier (dispatches and official communiques, as follows: TRONDHEIM ZONE — Germans | | digging in at Steinkjer after throw- | ing British and Norwegians back {six miles to the village of Meiri.

| Chief Morrissey promised to es-| Where fighting reportedly contin- |

ued. Nazi dispatches said the Al-

a |lied forces north of Trondheim (in |

[the Steinkjer sector) were weak (and of “little importance.”

|forcements arriving with anti-

{ward from Oslo.

British Fall Back ROEROS ZONE—The swiftest of | {two German columns advancing | toward Trondheim from the Oslo zone was reported to have occupied Roeros during the night after (breaking up minor Norwegian re|sistance. Roeros is about 75 miles [southeast of Trondheim. and a railroad line runs by way of Stoeren to | Trondheim. LILLEHAMMER ZONE — The second German column moving northwestward from Oslo hurled | British-Norwegian forces back from (the Lillehammer front and ad-| vanced to Ringebu, a railroad and highway town 40 miles northwest of (Lillehammer. The British were | reported to have fallen back on { Otto, 25 miles from Ringebu, al- | though the London War Office [communique merely said the Allied forces withdrew from positions near | Lillehammer because of increased | German pressure. | The Otta-Ringebu sector ap- | {peared to be shaping up as one of | the most important battlegrounds and the Germans reported they had | (bombed and cut railroad communi-| cations in several places in an ef-| fort to prevent reinforcements and | supplies from reaching the British. |

Allies Face Possible Trouble German bombing planes, accord-! [ing to the official German news | agency, cut the railroads between | | Andalsnes (British coastal base) {and Dombaas, a junction through { which supplies and men must move to bolster the Allied front in cen-| tral Norway; between Dombaas and |

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Alvdal and Atna, along the railroad leading from Elverum to Roeros. | If these roads are effectively cut the Allied positions will be extremely difficult, although Allied troops were reported by the Germans to be marching along the highways— | | where the Nazis said they were | severely bombed. | Many military experts in Stock (holm and London believed that the | success or failure of the Allied ex- | | peditionary forces in opposing the’ | northward trusts of the Nazis | through the central sector might | decide the outcome of the battle for Norway.

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122 ARE INDICTED IN N.Y. LIQUOR INQUIRY

NEW YORK, April 25 (U. P) .— A Federal Grand Jury today indicted 122 persons on charges of participation in an illicit liquor ring accused of defrauding the Government of more than $1.600,000 in liquor taxes in the last 10 months. The indictment set a new Federal mark for the number of persons involved and concerned itself with what agents said was the largest bootleg ring ever uncovered.

5, TRAPPED IN BLAZE, DIE

FLINT, Mich, April 25 (U. P).— A father and four children burned to death today in a fire which swept their five-room frame home at Montrose, northwest of here, trapping the children in bed. The blaze was believed to have originated when the father, Victor Anderson,

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Norway today and Teported

Almost every dispatch from the

One of the main battlegrounds At the same time, Police Chief appeared to be materializing north-|

| where the enemy now appears to be

The War in Brief FJAELLNESS, Sweden—Allied and

German troops are reported battling near Roeros,

STOCKHOLM—German troops are reported continuing lightning ad-

vance north of Elverum in central

Norway.

| armed forces y onpoN—Battie between British |

and Nazi troops 50 miles north of Trondheim is termed most severe of war.

BERLIN—Admiral Raeder, chief of German Navy, insists flow of war materials to Norway from Germany is increasing despite blockade.

| PARIS—Newspaper Petit Parisien claims Germany has lost 17,000 men in Norwegian campaign.

NORWAY UNDE TASH & CARRY

claimed important Roosevelt Extends Federal

Neutrality Law by Proclamation.

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. April 25 (U. P. .—President Roosevelt by executive proclamation, today found that a state of war exists between Norway and Germany and proclaimed the neutrality of the United | States in the conflict. The proclamations, issued at the Little White House, invoked the full force of American neutrality laws on Norway. At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt by proclamation barred submarines of either of the belligerents from United States ports and territorial waters.

‘Cash and Carry’ Applies Invocation of the neutrality law

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Stockholm reported British rein- in Norway's case applies the “cash piliehammer

{and carry” provision to the Scandi-

in 21 aircraft guns. Southeast of Trond- Davian power. t, heim, the Germans advanced about _ 3 d . 125 more miles for a total of 83 in tions governing floating of securi-| 919 N. | two days—in an. effort to contact ties in this country and other rules | ‘|other German forces moving north- Which Mr. Roosevelt previously had | applied to the original belligerents!

It also applies to Norway regula-

in the European struggle.

The proclamations followed by al

Roosevelt's extendefinitions

few weeks Mr. sion of “combat area”

‘to include the full Norwegian and |

Finnish coasts. All American shipping now is barred from North European ports by virtue of Mr, Roosevelt's redefinition of the combat areas. The President's action was the first formal recognition by this country that the European war has| extended into Scandinavia.

Differs From Finnish Action Mr. Roosevelt did not invoke the

full power of the neutrality law in the war between Finland and Rus-

sia, since no formal declaration of |

war was made in that conflict. The President also issued an| executive order prescribing regulations governing the enforcement of | the neutrality of the United States! in the war between Germany and Norway.

BRITISH WAR OFFICE ADMITS REVERSES

Allied Forces Fall Back in Lillehammer Sector.

By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, April 25. — German |

| Hjerkin, which is the road the Al-| “pressure” in central Norway has | lies must use to advance from the forced Allied forces to fall back have taken a large number of Alouth of Trondheim; and between from the Lillehammer sector, a lied prisoners in the first clash

War Office communique said today, | after severe fighting had been reported between British and German troops north of Trondheim. The communique added: “There has been no further fi

ghting in the area north of Trond}

heim,

digging in just north of Steinkjer. “There is nothing to report from the Narvik (north Norway) area.” Weather conditions there were reported difficult. It was extremely cold and there had been a heavy | Snow. (The communique was taken mean that British and Norwegian | forces fighting in central Norway! had been unable to halt the two! German columns fighting their way northward from the Oslo district in an effort to connect with the Nazis at Trondheim. One German column was reported to have reached Roeros, near the (Continued on Page Six)

PIERLOT CABINET IN BELGIUM RESIGNS

BRUSSELS, Belgium. April 25 (U. P.).~The Cabinet of Premier Hubert Pierlot resigned today. The Cabinet was a coalition of Catholie, Socialist, Liberal and nonparty ministers. It was formed on Jan. 5. It fell as a result of the resignation of the liberal ministers after the Chamber »f Deputies had refused to approve the public education budget in a form that divided funds into separate Flemish and

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Norwegians Join in Desperate Stand In Mid-Norway.

BULLETINS FJAELLNESS, SWEDISH NORWEGIAN FRONTIER, April 25 (U. P.).—Allied troops were re ported, in messages to the border today, to have reached the vie cinity of Roeros and to have joined with Norwegians in a battle with German troops.

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PARIS, April 25 (U. PP) French warships sank two German Patrol ships and a U-boat in the Skagerrak, Naval Minister Cesar Campinchi said today.

STOCKHOLM, April 25 (U.P.) — Two German columns pounding northward through central Norway were reported today to have smashed Allied defenses northeast of Lillee ‘hammer and at Roeros in a drive toward the west coast port of | Trondheim. British and Norwegian troops, falling back northwestward from { Lillehammer, were reported to have ‘encountered severe Germah air | bombardment in the region of Otta ‘and it was believed they may have [retired still further toward the railroad junction of Dombaas. . | The exact positions of the Allied

forces in this sector, however, were obscure. (German official dispatches ree |ported the German column north east of Lillehammer had reached Ringebu, 25 miles from Otta, and that Nazi planes had bombed and cut Allied railroad lines to their coastal bases.)

Soldiers Cross Inte Sweden

In addition to the German column advancing northwest from toward Dombaas, a fast motorized detachment was {striking northward from Rena and |Koppang and was reported by the [newspaper Allehandd to have [ cupied Roeros, only 75 miles southe west of Trondheim. There was no indication of ime portant Norwegian or Allied re« sistance in this sector and Nore |wegian soldiers were ameng refugees | crossing the frontier into Sweden. Previous dispatches from the frontier had indicated that Allied landed at Andalsnes and moved forward to Dombaas were {splitting up in an effort to oppose (both German columns moving to{ward Trondheim, but today there (was no mention of British operations except against the eastern {column moving out of Lillehammer, German planes were leading this jcolumn, it was reported, and heavily bombarding the Allied railroad communication lines as well as Allied forces marching on the high« ways.

Peaks Stand in Nazis’ Way

The country directly north of is extremely mountainous and it would be difficult for the Germans to proceed directly north | to reach the Trondheim-Storlein, | Sweden, railroad. Peaks in that area | rise to more than 4000 feet on the | average. | If the Germans succeed in cone | solidating their positions between | Tynset and Roeros they would serie | ously threaten the Allied forces bee cause they would have thrown the (eastern) flank far to the rear of the right flank, based on the Gudbrandsal Valley. | Further, the Germans would command all highways and roads leading from Norway into Sweden all the way from the Skagerrak to Storlein, the frontier point on the Trondheim mid-Norway railroad. The Germans were reported to

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outside Lillehammer. Allied Prisoners Taken

A blizzard blew up over the Arce tic mountains and halted Allied attempts to close in on Narvik, it was indicated. There was the prospect of several days of heavy snow. The Norwegian Tromsoe radio reported that six Norwegian divisions had completed mobilization in that Arctic region for an advance southward on Narvik in co-operation with the Allies.

(It was believed that actually the 6th Norwegian Division, of perhaps 15,000 men, was meant, not six die visions, but that the division might be a very strong one because of the addition of regulars from other divisions and trained volunteers.) It was a part of the far northern army which trapped a German contingent at Grantangen north of Narvik, Tuesday, and killed 150 (Continued on Page Six)

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