Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1940 — Page 3

MONDAY, MAY 6,

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CE DR BY POPE IS HINTED

Hope Expressed in Talk With Taylor, Vatican Sources Report; Rome Says British Prepare Greek Bases for Attack. By REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press Staff Correspondent

ROME, May 6.—Pope Pius XII was understood to have

expressed hope that Italy will not enter the war and to feel

that the moment may be at hand to make a final effort to-

ward a general peace.

Vatican sources said that the Pope had made known his

attitude to Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal

representative at the Vatican. It was said that the Pope] was in complete agreement with the position of Mr. Roosevelt against any spread in the area of conflict. He was said also to feel that the] moment may have arrived to make a final effort at a general peace.

The Pope was said to have re-| ferred to President Roosevelt's peace efforts during a 35-minute audience |

U. S. UPHELD IN

Warner Jordan, Superive, Wis,

A No oil engineer and his blond, blue-

eyed, German-born bride, ti:e former Elinor Worz, met in Haifa, Palestine, where he was supervising construction of an oil refinery. Romance budded, flourished and culminated in their marriage. newlyweds are pictured as they recently arrived in New York.

The

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

OIL TRUST CASE Nazis Are Busy in Rumania

Conviction of 12 Companies |

At Madison Is Affirmed By Supreme Court.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR.

United Press Staff Correspondent BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 6.— | A slump in Allied prestige as the

After Allied Prestige Slips

arms and machinery for Rumanian oil. The Russian oil tanker Sakalin arrived off Constanza yesterday |

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GERMAN TROOPS ‘Worry Can Make You Sick." BRITISH CABINET

RUSH TO NARVIK AS BRITISH WAIT

High Command Says Second ‘Enemy’ Battleship Hit i dressing the anBy Airplane Bomb. nual post graduate course for BERLIN, May 6 (U. P.).—Well in| phogicians which formed sources asserted today that|pegan today and German forces were marching will continue northward from the Trondheim area through Friday

fat the Medical and were already half way to Nar- Center. About

Vik. 500 physicians This would mean that the Ger- are expected to mans had advanced nearly 200 miles register. northward from Trondheim and had! NOt only can jyou act ually reached the neighborhood of Mos- make yourself

joen, proceeding along the coastal | sick and prob-

you

|coward or a food fanatic, Dr. W. D.| | Gatch said today. Dr. Gatch, dean of the Indianpolis campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine, was ad-

highway. Beyond Mosjean, the roads | ably shorten your life if you are a | hypochondriac, Dr. Gatch said, but

more and more people are becoming is : hypochondriacs, due to‘ the recent other “enemy” battleship had been voluminous writings on medicine for

get bad. 'h

The High Command said that an-

hit by a heavy German aerial bomb lay readers. off Narvik.

Planes Aid Besieged Nazis

dump. |and commercial

By JOE COLLIER

You literally can worry yourself organically sick over your health if are a pulse counter, a cancer | vention of procreation by persons

Cites Popular Belief This is one unfortunate result, | lhe said, of the attempt made in the tral degenerative diseases of en-

I Said shat German planes, aiding |, 4 few years by all manner uf dogenous origin. A man of 40 has besieged German forces at Narvik,| writers, members of the organized |

had attacked Allied troop concen-|medical profession, | trations and exploded a munitions |POrters, novelists,

scenario writers| would have had to live to 80 a hunadvertising copy | dred years ago. Whatever benefit

I. U. Dean Warns at Session

vent about 10.5 per cent of the insanity now existing. - “It seems to me that even pre-

liable to have mentally deranged offspring would not be effective. Enthusiasts on reforming medical practice have asserted that the] United States loses $3,000,000.000 a year because of preventable illness. Probably more than half of all sickness is due to respiratory infections. “The idea that at present much can be done to prevent’ this is ridiculous. Physicians and their families have colds and influenza. Epidemics of these diseases afflict groups of people living under apparently ideal conditions of hygizne and medical care.

Points to Limitations

“Dazzled by the spectacular achievements of medicine, the government, the public and many physicians have not considered its limitations. They should bear in mind that its chief triumphs have been in the field of preventive medicine, |where it has controlled infectious {diseases and lowered infant mor‘tality. “It has done but little to con-

Dr. Gatch

today no better chance of living to newspaper re-|the age of 80 than a man of 40

{medicine has brought to the mid-|

BELIEVED ABLE T0 RIDE STORM

Chamberlain May Promise Unified Fighting Forces In Commons Debate. By WEBB MILLER

United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 6.—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain may save his Cabinet in a House of Commons debate on Norway tomorrow by promising immediate and effective co-ordination of the fighting services, it was reported today. Under the reported plan, chiefs of staff of the Navy, Army and air force would conduct all co-ordina= tion activities with Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and senior defense Minister, sitting as chairman and acting as spokesman for the Cabinet when full Cabinet authority was necessary to any decision. Despite vigorous criticism of the Government in newspapers, including conservative ones, and by opposition leaders, it was forecast that Mr. Chamberlain would take his Cabinet safe through tomorrow's debate.

Earlier, the official radio had! writers. | claimed that a British battleship writers to acquaint the public with dle-aged has been balanced by the] | was damaged by a bomb off Narvik medical facts. increased perils of modern life.

today with the Prince of Piedmont, | rith 85 i ; ‘| WASHINGTON, May 6 (U. P).— i . | with 8500 tons of Russian oil for result of what is called the fiasco in Germany. Sixty camouflaged Ger- Two-Day Debate Expected

Legal Point Major Issue

heir to the Italian throne, and the Tne Government's anti-trust prose-| ‘Norway was expected today to fore- man tank cars had arrived at Con- | Mr. Chamberlain and Mr a : | but both the High Command and| Another unfortunate result of the : : e Prince that he hoped Italy pid the conviction of 12 major oil tain economic and political domina- | va rived yesterday to offer i : : i i - th Rumania | co either to a British or French |science is a great deal more potent losis has been very successful, be- the debate, which is likely to con e attitude of President Roosevelt 3 : i at Madison, Wis., in 1937. S A week ago Balkan countries | “strong smoke showed the effect of wpfeq; nda.” Dr. Gatch ; " g | “Medical propaga x I we knew as little about berlain would make a much more y . : vs ried | : : ir | who was said to have visited theli, "sherman Act. any combination | norway might bring some military 10ng-considered Cabinet reorganiza-|gajq: | it their it 28 b ‘health. It has made multitu and that Mr. Churchill would em- ’ Mi ’ wat oped to| : 2 I ere 3 moves which have been under way DO roig converse is illegal. |southern Norway is generally com-| ¢ao.c of cancer, high blood pressure, | It is clear that we cannot cona her naval losses since her invasion even though it may be intended 10 efficiency” to penetrate more deeply many ways. It was predicted that/a Norwegian force i The Pops: was said to 1 pe pl} g had held out also that we do not possess this i d Oliver Stanley, War Minister, : ne \ | ted to be] ing ; i : s an Papal nuncio at Berlin, to sound out | Rumania would be expected | Tatarescu retaining his post but!man ‘security forces’ have been es-| to body to appetite and instinct. causes of death and disability.” | Government. some more general moves toward new trials for the group, the Court pecause of its vulnerability. : Claim Sub Captain Seized : | cause organic disease. Cl land maintain artificial gasoline | 1 N T hel FEW AREAS CLAIMED the outspoken criticism of the Govwrch of St. Marv-Over-Mi . S iy ntra orway. 0 the] si ir- | - x S ary-Over-Minerva ‘ern and ce y ON WESTERN FRONT 22 orem iene a, QRrman Siz. | about diet and vitamins, have taken 3 up : ! | much of the joy out of life. He who ly but completely denied German was followed by cheers and shouts Monalily Pl he criminal anti-trust | PARIS, May 6 (U.P.).—Two com- officer. Later, atute of Texas. | panies of German troops attacked said, the submarine was towed to fic; i : Pope!” from crowds in the streets as! Pp =) ficials and doctors should unite 10 ported in newspaper dispatches to-| sunk by German airplane bombs. However, at about the same time vote. Justice William O. Douglas |apgve all militarily was not equipped | front in the Blies River sector today were shot down near Terschelling,| Discussing the second result of to German forces in scattered areas : : the York class in operations off questionable Fighting continued and results were |in the North Sea, and that two Brit- | The Germans concentrated on| scribbled unprintable remarks about |Wents are being fade 1A Fegary 10} | i " oR lies ; a It was admitted, however, today and painted signs reading: “Let's the ustice Owen J. Roberts wrote |e fore German transport planes be- ture was made in exactly the same damaged by machine-gun bullets terval wortahity, insasity, ah | Narvik, where some 3000 Germans | 1 3 "” i % i i | 3 i gets to London.” | curred Chief Justice Charles | trict “to take charge. eae Nazi Be ports, and the Germans retired in| The report of the bombing of an- create cannot be fulfilled. Insanity, reported being established on the ;. o Ajjjed troop withdrawals from as the Italian press continued to! Corriere Padano charged that Great | The newspaper, which is owned the Allied powers that any attempt | state would likely bring Italy into to regain prestige that they have | that need?” against the Allies that it increased | this was the moment to enter the |

P ihe of Pletimonk, as having Aad cution won a significant victory to-| ie be ein ot ; A Sh , day when the Supreme Court up- shadow a new (German rive to ob- stanza a few hours earlier. : : : Discusses Lack of Data Churchill were expected to be the A Turkish economic mission ar-| the official news agency called it an| writings, he said, is that people in > : BEX chief Government a te tne would not find it necessary to enter corporations and five individuals; ; : “enemy” battleship, which might general now believe that medical “The campaign against tubercu- | the war. The Pope's reference t0!..nvieted of ; iol tion in the Balkans, with Rumania ..;' for umn d oil, i convicted of Sherman Act violations the most likely focal point r lumber and oil, in an ef! ni The news agency id that . i | th f the di tinue through Thursday. : ; 1 . | fort to increase mutual trade | ship. > ‘news agency sai at!than it really is. Chuse e cause 0 e disease and | Ii was indi ’ . a - tnt y : ; ; s indicated that Mr. Cham Fa made, it was said, in line with|" 1,"2 sweeping 5-to-2 decision, the| Any new German drive would| ine mit." the manner of dissemination are| nis conversation with Mr, Taylor Supreme Court held that under feared that a German defeat in catch Rumania at a time when a mpl ® h C d : said, “has made the people too pro- | known. ih informative speech on the Norway e Hig ommand communique | ¢o.\dly concerned about we know about cancer, in- ; : Po jv 3 Gnturndee | . ; : i eriryi ; campaign than he did last Thursday ope privately Saturday in connec- ., control prices or stabilize the] ; tion was impending, one by means| «pacificati t des of sanity and influenza, we could not t ) 3 " . . Ss or Stab i it i : : 0 | “Pacification action in cent : ; i iy i ion with the American diplomatic price of a commodity in interstate 0H 3 pe on: i of witich King Carol ci ion action in central and ,ynachondriacs, obsessed by morbid | have controlled it. phasize that Germany no longer t| S strengthen his political backing. | pleted. The fortress at Hegra (in the| tro i i jts|counted as a sea power because of for a week CRAY : 5. | pleted. SS 2 | : any disease unt now in Ls a week. held that such acton is unlawful likely to eapitalize on Allied in- The change might be delicate in| mountains near Trondheim, where| 10% birth, death and. even life, is Ny See NY eads for Peace in Seriatn pen 8 R jay 1 fy Warns of Health Fears lof Norway and Denmark. have re- benefit a whole industry. . ; : . _ |the reorganization might be made | unde tant bombard ; Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister ; toe | into Balkan economics and politics. | X : | r gonsian mbardment for; has wisely left the gui- knowledge about many diseases y ) quested Msgr. Cesare Orsenigo,| Lower Court Reversed |after May 10, with Premier George three weeks) has been taken. or] gare itv a of lwhich are among the commonest OE ry b> rendV. io tein were understo the German Government on the Reversing the Seventh Circuit the prime objective because of the with other key ministers supplanted | tablished east from Roeros to the! : speak if things went badly for the Italian situation and possibly on Court of Appeals which had ordered | value of its sources of supply so) te | Swedish frontier.” Habitus) fought seus sud Bo pacification. Susiaines the Jury verdio} aa xe} There could be no question of the | deranges them and may ultimately NORSE RESIST ANGE IN Deny Battleship Sunk The Pope yesterday made a plea companies and some of t eir o - | impression left here by the with-| It said that a British submarine, | ; Chief developments aside from for peace during a sermon at the Cers conspired unlawfully to raise grawal of Allied troops from south | damaged by a mine in the Kattegat, “Those who, for commercial or ( : ( other reasons, have talked so much ernment were: in the presence of the diplomatic Prices in the Midwest in 1935. ~~ |average Rumania, Britain was pl An Admiralty communique briefcorps and the Roman nobility. It! The court also upheld Constitu-!caught napping. | the captain and a non-commissioned | fears too much for his health will] STOCKHOLM, May 6 (U. P.).— ; hat, battleshi d | i | the communique jee i : a "claims that a battleship and a ot “Long live peace! Long live the} stati DEL Vs: artioniin. ith Clodiys Now ia. Suigatia | sai que jose it. Teachers, public health of- Norwegian detachments were Ie-| qiser of the York class had been e high courts action In | Neutral observers held that Ru- m....h hel ; i ! : d : | out o {an unnamed harbor. | ’ : the Pope left the church. ‘Madison case came by a divided mania politically, economically and] utposts along a one mile It said that two British planes opel these morbid fears. | day to be putting up stiff resistance “The German claim to have sunk a y Sostie 0, ug] : ir Sin) ng Fe in British battleship and a cruiser of In Milan. Fascists arranging a re-| Wrote the &7-page majorily opinion {5 meet a German attack. They after heavy artillery preparation.|on the Dut visi | the medical propaganda, Dr. Calc qs central Norway. ception for a German al team With which four colleagues agreed. |gaiq that it was n ch West Frisian Islands|ciq that “ the most absurd state-| y Namsos are untrue,” the comunique whether Rumania would even beinot known lish flying boats, anchored off the ibili i getting reinforcements by airplane Said. Britain on the wall ildings lable to wreck her oil well machinery 1 irs : ot . ? > the possibility of controlling ma- | skis > untains to 1 alls of buildings] Justice Ow | ote An attack of similar force and na- north Norwegian coast, had been : ality. insanity. and 4 or on skis over the mountains 0! hat the British destroyer Afridi, > SS y | a 2 : » » . | 3 : i i hope Mussolini gets to Paris; Hitler | justice er TS oe 'gan to unload troops in the oil dis- sector yesterday. This attack was from German planes. | Teouaney ox 8 lare besieged by Allied forces. costing $1,800,000 and believed to repulsed, according to military re-| “There were no important en- knows that the expectations these | submarine bases also were... "yo hed and sunk in protectFersion Continues High | Evans Hughes and Justice Feats Tne He Allied rid yt hat disorder with severe losse {other “en " battleshi Norwegian coast to challenge the| ' ; i Murphy took no part in the case. e Near East, impressive In ut FILA > losses. |other “enemy” battleship gave new for instance, is no less prevalent | NOT 0ast, ge Namsos. The moves by the Vatican came phy p P llies at Narvik, while German | agos reflect high tension over the Mediterranean situation. The newspaper Britain is preparing Greek bases for an attack on Italy. by Air Minister Italo Balbo, warned | on their part to bring moral or; economic pressure on the Fascist the European war, “The allies have an urgent need | lost,” the Corriere Padano said. “Can the Mediterranean supply The Fascist press generally car-| ried on so strong a campaign | belief that the Fascist leadership was strongly considering whether war. Ciano's Editor Warns Again

The concentration of Allied warships in the eastern Mediterranean | brought general warnings and denunciations in the press and the campaign was climaxed by the Sun- | day radio speech to soldiers of Gio-| vanno Ansaldo, editor-in-chief of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo| Ciano’s newspaper Telegrafo at Leghorn, who expressed the belief and hope that Germans would in-| vade the British Isles. United States Ambassador Wil-| liam Phillips and Mr. Taylor con-| ferred in Florence, reportedly using their influence, perhaps conjunction with the Pope, to kee Italy out of the war. Some observers believed these United States and Vatican influences had been responsible for| an announcement over the official | Italian radio last night that “the | Italian public has not been able to| understand the latest British move, | but the people are unconcerned and | continue to prepare because they | know, as their Government stated | at the beginning of the conflict, | that 1taly will not take any military initiative.” |

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Here Is the Traffic Record

County City Total 17 29 26 36

—May 4 and 5, 1940—

. 21 | Accidents Arrests

1939

Injured v.10

Dead | SATURDAY TRAFFIC CHART | Cases Convic- Fines Violations tried tions

Speeding 5 4 $47 Reckless driving 1 1 0 Failure to stop al through street 0 0 0 Disobeying traffic signal 0 0 Prunken driving 1 1 All others 9 6

Totals 12

MEETINGS TODAY

Scientech Club, Board of Trade, noon. Service Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. Jrvington Republican Club, 5446'2 E.

shington St., 8 p. m_ Washing Dame Club, Spink-Arms Hotel,

RoBoard of Trade of Tr . ns University Club, Columbia

Board of Trade, 6 p. m. Club, oon. : . Church Federation of Indianapolis, Y. « C. 45

C. 3. 1 p.m

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Rotary Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. Y's Men's Club, ¥. M. C. A., noon. Alpha Tau Omega, Board of Trade. noon. Gyro Club, Spink: Arn Hotel. noon. Mercator Club, Hotel Lincoln. noon. Universal Club, Columbia Club. noon. University of Michigan Club, Board of ade, noon. | Tr tants of Columbus, K. of C. Club-

e, NOON. ho eran Service Club, Canary Cottage, noon. Fine Paper Credit Group, Wm. H. Block

Condiana Association of Master Plumbers, tel Lincein, Said

pad | ce

The case came to the Supreme Court on a technical legal point which became a major isue of construction of Federal anti-trust statutes. The Circuit Court held that the district judge gave erroneous instructions to the jury which may have influenced the jurors adversely to the oil companies.

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Finland Repays Norway for Aid

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 6 —Finland, slowly recovering from her war with Russia, has sent Norway more than $500,000 cash as well as considerable supplies since the beginning of the Ger-

man invasion, it was reported re-

liably today.

Although she still is rebuilding |

her cities and caring for the wounded and 420,000 refugees from the areas occupied by Russia, Finland determined to repay Norway for the aid the latter gave er. Help for Norway from other quarters included supplies and medical volunteers from Sweden and the United States. The United States Red Cross last week turned over $10,000 to Norwegian relief officials.

BRITISH CREW SAVED AS FREIGHTER SINKS

freighter Graig, which sank in a fog off Flint Rock, about 50 miles east of here, was reported safe at Egg Island today. First word that the ship had sunk was brought to Jeddore today by Ben Stevens, a fisherman, who reported that the freighter, after apparently ramming into the rocks, had gone down stern first. The bow of the ship still was above water, the fisherman said.

Phi Gamma Delta, anniversary dinner, 6 p. m.,, Athenaeum.

BIRTHS Girls Alton, Cherry Griffith, at City. . Mary Loyal, at City. Mildred Lawson, at St, cent's, John, Ann Connor, at St. Vincent's. Fred, Alice Klepper, at St. Vincent's. Ervin, LaVada shlin, at 1812 8. East.

Boys Robert, Blanche Fields, at City. Ross, ary Mosteller, at City. Byron, Geraldine Connolly, at St. VinAS

nt's. Max, Thelma Spear, at St. Vincent's. Richard, Virginia Rea, at St. Vincent's. Gerald, Virginia Porter, at St. Vincent's. Richard, Mary Catherine Disher, at St. Vincent's. Forest, Katherine Bennett, at St. Vin-

cent’s, | Noble, Eleanor Biddinger, at Coleman. st.

Howard, Faye Webb, at Met Joseph, Floy Fisk, at Methodist. Elmer, Mary Barton, at Methodist.

DEATHS

Anthony Sauer, 70, at 2222 8S. Pennsylvania, chronic myocarditis.

Alathea Myers, 66, at City, carcinomatosis.

Louise Lambert, 68 at Methodist, congestive heart failure.

Ida Emanuel, 71, at 4465 Carrollton, chronic myocard

its. Emma Strafford. 72, at Methodist, cardiac asthma. William Smith, 68, §22 Fulton, mitral re-

gurgitation. Fansler, 81, at City, cerebral

Florence hemorrhage. Lola Gregory, 32. at 1043 N. Beville, pulmonary tuberculosis. Edith Lehmann, 56, at 819 S. Joseph at St. Vincent's,

Winifred cephalitis. Elizabeth Mahoney, 65. at 1125 Linden,

. 73. at 1608 Hall Place, chronic myocarditis, George Busch, 79. at City, cerebralghem-

orrhage. Elizabeth Jones, 80, at 1332 N. Parker, ster, 64, at 2040 Olive, mitral insufficiency. Lemon Nolen, 35, at City. cerebral hem-

orrhage. a 37. at Robert Long, cere-

bral el oy

‘numbers but far away, and it was |held that the Allied performance in Norway left little room for encour-

| Dr. Karl Clodius, Germany's star | economic negotiator, is now in Bul'garia. There were reports that he | might come here within a few days to start on a new economic drive, copuled with diplomatic pressure and expert propaganda among Ru-| manians as well as among the German minority. In addition, Alfred Goering, | | brother of Field Marshal Hermann | Goering, Nazi No. 2. was here to] |open an office for the great Her- | mann Goering Iron Works of Germany. There was some belief that | this might be an important eco- | nomic step by Germany.

Russian Oil Tanker Arrives

It was understood that Alfred | | Goering intended to open an office | {in a large new building only about | 1100 yards from King Carol's palace, land that he would represent the, | Czech Skoda Armaments Works as | | well as his brother's works. Interest was especially acute in diplomatic |quarters over Herr Goering’s ar- | rival because Germany is trading

NAZI AGREEMENT WITH SWEDEN IS REPORTED

BERLIN, May 6 (U, P.). — The | DNB official news agency said today | | that Chancellor Adolf Hitler and! Gustav of Sweden have ex-|

pressed “full agreement on the fu-| | ture political attitude of both coun-

tries toward each other.” | The exchange of letterses was said jlo have taken place in the latter part of April. | (The Tass official Russian news| | agency reported from Moscow last | | week that Germany and Russia were lin agreement as regards the con-| | tinued neutrality of Sweden.)

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

, Walter Stout, 66, at Long. coronary occlusion. : | Florence Martin, 43, at Central Indiana, | dementia praecox.

FIRE ALARMS Sunday 12:26 A. M.—804 N. Missouri,

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Pe loss, $2. : |" 5:32 P. M.-——37th and Illinois, false, 7:39 P. M.—653'2 Indiana, cigaret.

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| OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau ce

INDIANAPOLIS FO RECAS T—Fartly cloudy to cloudy with occasional rain and considerably cooler tonight and tomorrow. 4:39 | Sunset TEMPERATURE

"Sunrise

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m... 30.60 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m...

Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30

Aviation active.

was comparatively

in- impetus to the wave of optimism among the German public.

than it was before the war. By ' eradication of syphilis we could pre-

Mma oem AW lliams: "Sea Power Yields to Airplanes’;

Admiral Stirling: 'Battleships Will Live On’

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For the Airplane

they lost five. out of 12 planes. Later, in a spectacular air raid against Helgoland, in an effort to gain the offensive somehow, they lost 37 out of 52 bombers engaged.

Their bombing of Sylt was more carefully planned —at least in point of public relations—for March 19. It took the news headlines as a great victory—but on March 21, American newsmen on the spot re-

| ported the Sylt bombing a complete failure.

These were efforts by a weakened air force to prove itself and established something like confidence among its own people.

Norway was a sea theater, desperate, well-nigh But the British |

to suicidal—a small-scale Gallipoli. admirals undertook to work in that theater.

Attempting landing parties, without control of the air over the combat zone, was a disastrous and incredible error of British strategy and tactics. Even if the British had obtained landing bases for their air force, sea communications between Norway and England would have been vulnerable in the extreme to flanking air raids.

Polish Air Force Annihilated

Germany's blitzkrieg in Poland was erroneously stressed by our military minds and those holding

for the old wavs as the exclusive work of the Ger- | That army did sweep through Poland, |

man Army. but not until German airpower had moved ahead as a curtain of destruction and obliteration. By

the end of the first day of that campaign, German |

airpower had bombed every Polish airdrome, aircraft factory and depot. second, the Polish air force itself was nonexistent. After that, it was but common sense to estimate that the Germans would do exactly what they did in Norway—transport entire infantry divisions by

air from German bases to strategic Norwegian

points.

I believe the Germans planned deliberately to |

induce British seapower to extend and commit itself in the Skagerrak. And, unless British ships could cut out and dislocate the German sea line of com-

munications across the Skagerrak, the jig was up |

for seapower.

British seapower has failed. Guarded from the air, German army supplies have been transported across that waterway since the campaign began. In a desperate effort to justify seapower, submarines, destroyers and light cruisers attempted to cut the German communication lines. On the strength of premature rumors of Skagerrak victories, the big Navy forces in America, the Admirals, and Senators who have Navy bases in-their districts, began to pressure Congress for more and bigger warships. I pleaded for them to wait for the true score.

Bombs Can Sink Cruisers

The British have learned that a 2000-pound bomb, carrying about three times more explosives than a sea mine or a torpedo war-head, can put a battle= ship out of commission, and destroy and sink battle cruisers. It appears that, for some reason best known to themselves, the Germans have been using detonation bombs, which explode on striking the armored deck of a warship. This is not the most effective use of air bombs. The time bomb, exploded below the water's surface, and in close proximity to a battleship, brings greater results. Thus Secretary Edison's plan to re-enforce our battleships to withstand damage to superstructures merely would add more weight for an already toqheavy ship to lug through the water. It would be makeshift protection, since an aerial bomb at the waterline would do its job effectively. In admitting that airpower has a “temporary advantage” over the warship, Secretary Edison anticipates a forthcoming protection (more armorplating). It won't be sufficient, and the air power advantage is not temporary. All the lessons learned at the expense of billions of dollars and thousands of lives could have been learned in test-tube fashion during the last 20 years, if the governments of America, England and France had been able to control their respective admirals and navy departments. In 1919, if a single battleship, or warship of any type, had been turned over to the air forces of any of those countries for bombing operations, with all the hindrance and restrictions of naval experts re-

moved, the world would have had the information it

complete | ,.oinforced, as it could be, by German planes, then

And by the end of the |

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| For the Battleship

structural defects and make a battleship immune

from air catastrophe, but we can be sure that more | complete airplane defense for the big ships, with |

greater accuracy of anti-aircraft fire, will come Are the extravagant claims put forth by Hitler of damage to and destruction of British warships aimed to panic Mussolini into entering the war at once? The Italian dictator puts unlimited faith in his air and submarine power in the Mediterranean. With these weapons Hitler, too, hopes to defeat the

| British Navy.

If Hitler succeeds in convincing Mussolini that airplanes are capable of sinking British battleships, and that the result in Norway has proved that the Allies are too weak in air power to be able to cope with Italian air power in the Mediterranean,

Mussolini might consider that now his long hoped for opportunity had come to make himself master of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy’s “mare nostrum.” The difficulty the Allies will have In sending

sufficient airplanes to the Mediterranean, to achieve

air supremacy there, is a very grave consideration, when the many claims upon the Allied air power

| in protecting the cities and industrial centers of | France and England. and in maintaing sufficient

air strength against Germany on the Western Front, are given weight. ; Duce Holds Balance of Power

While non-belligerent, Mussolini holds the balance of power, and keeps the wal out of the Mediterranean. Provided he can assu e the Allies of the permanency of his attitude, t ey will not force him to fight. When he joins | he German war machine, Mussolini will become n wrely a tail to Hitler's kite. War would make Italy i battlefield, and the Mediterranean Sea would be strewn with the wreckage not only of Allied warships but of his own, Italy, economically deficient in all manner of industrial materials, would at once be shut off from the sea by the Allied navies and become an impoverished nation. If then, air power should prove far less formidable than Hitler is claiming, while the submarine is proving itself less destructive as the means of destroying «it are being made more effective, then Mussolini, in declaring war, will bring misery to his people and encompdss his own downfall.

possesses today as to Just what airpower can do to seapower. But the U. S. Navy hedged as far as it could on ginia Capes, trying to prevent Gen. Billy Mitchell the airpower contest against warships off the Virfrom demonstrating that air bombs could sink battleships. Time and again, in the last 20 years, the British Royal Air Force has tried to obtain one obsolete British battleship for test bombardment. At first the Admiralty claimed they could not spare the steel, then that they did not know where a ship could be sunk without hazard to navigation. The admirals have put off this showdown as long as they could, and now they have the answer at the expense of human life and Empire prestige—an answer that has been clear to the air observers and strategists of the world for years. We warned all concerned that massed air attack would bring vast devastation to great cities. Happily, Fate has withheld that. The massed German air attacks against Namsos and Steinkjer, in Norway, were only miniature demonstrations of what full scale German mass air attacks on London, Birmingham or any other great city could have been. Fail to See Hand Writing in Sky

Our leaders have failed to see the handwriting in the sky—and by leaders I mean the admirals and Senators who are consistently promoting big business armament in the form of battleships, instead of effective war strength in the form of airpower. The most important lesson in the history of American national defense lies before us in the demonstration of airpower in Europe. The cards are all out on the table now, and no matter what they do with battleships, seapower—in its present form—is through, washed up and finished. 1 challenge anyone to explain why this country, which is in greater need of airpower than any other in the world, is running on a bush league system of two air services instead of one giant, consolidated air force,

(troops from Trondheim pushed northward toward the town of Mo, {where the road system ends about 150 miles south of Narvik. At Roeros it was reported that Germans had repaired bridges north

of the town and were continuing to-|

ward Stoeren. | The newspaper Dagens Nyheter | reported from Oslo that about 10,000 | Norwegians had heen put in prison

|camps by the Germans and that

more camps were being established. !

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British transports were untouched by German plane attacks, {the Admiralty asserted, and it was | added that two German planes had been shot down during withdrawal operations. The War Office said there “was rothing to report from the Narvik area,” where severe snowstorms have slowed down the Allied attempt to oust a German garrison of several thousand men.

London Times Joins Critics

Reliable informants said that Sir Percy Loraine, Ambassador to Italy, had left for his post at Rome after a visit here. It was assumed that he had special instructions in view of Italy's intimations that it might soon be in the war. Though it was forecast that the Chamberlain ministry would survive tomorrow’s debate, that did not mean that drastic reorganization Imight not be necessary soon.

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