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- NEW PEACE DRIVE
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940
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 toward a general peace. Vatican sources said that the Pope had made known his
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GERMAN TROOPS RUSH TO NARVIK AS BRITISH WAIT
High Command Says Second ‘Enemy’ Battleship Hit By Airplane Bomb. |
BERLIN, May 6 (U. P.).—Well in-
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By JOE COLLIER You literally can worry yourself organically sick over your health if you are a pulse counter, a cancer 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 addressing the an- . nual post graduate course for physicians which
formed sources asserted today that] German forces were marching] northward from the Trondheim area | and were already half way to Narvik. This would mean that the Germans had advanced nearly 200 miles
began today and will continue through Friday at the Medical Center. About 500 physicians are expected to register.
"Worry Can Make You Sick," BRITISH CABINET I. U. Dean Warns at Session BELIEVED ABLE
vent about 10.5 per cent of the insanity now existing. - | “It seems to me that even pre-| vention of procreation by persons] liable to have mentally deranged |
offspring would not be effective. |
Enthusiasts on reforming medical Chamberlain May Promise practice have asserted that the] vine . . Unified Fighting Forces
United States loses $3,000,000.000 a! year because of preventable illness. In Commons Debate. By WEBB MILLER
Probably more than half of all United Press Staff Correspondent
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. {Us t Roosevelt against any spread| OIL TRUST CASE
in the area of conflict. He] was said also to feel that the moment may have arrived to
make a final effort at a gen- Conviction of 12 Companies
eral peace. : . The Pope was said to have re- | At Madison Is Affirmed
ferred to President Roosevelt's peace | By Supreme Court.
efforts during a 35-minute audience |
today with the Prince of Piedmont, | WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P).— ig or Sinan throne, and the The Government's anti-trust prose- ) nr ; cution won a significant victory toHe was described as having told gay when the Supreme Court upthe Prince that he hoped Ttaly|yeiq the conviction of 12 major oil would not find it necessary to enter . ovations and five individuals the war. The Pope's reference 10 oonyicted of Sherman Act violations e attitude of President Roosevelt .i aadison, Wis.. in 1937 was made, it was said, in line with| = 1, a sweeping 5-0-2 decision the his conversation with Mr, Taylor Supreme ‘Court held that under who was said fo have visited theline Sherman Act, any combination Pope privately Saturday in connec- io" control prices or stabilize the tion with the American diplomatic jiioq of a commodity in interstate moves which have been under way .. foreign commerce is illegal It in Italy for a week. ‘held that such acton is unlawful Pleads for Peace in Sermon even though it may be intended to The Pope was said to have re- benefit a whole industry. quested Msgr. Cesare Orsenigo,| Lower Court Reversed Papal nuncio at Berlin, to sound out | ; ; the German Government on the| Reversing the Seventh Circuit Italian situation and possibly on
some more general moves toward NeW trials for the group, the Court
Court of Appeals which had ordered |
Warner Jordan, Superior, Wis., oil engineer and his blond, blueeved, German-born bride, the former Elinor Worz, met in Haifa, Palestine, where he was supervising construction of an oil refinery. Romance budded, flourished and culminated in their marriage. The newlyweds are pictured as they recently arrived in New York.
Nazis Are Busy in Rumania
After Allied Prestige Slips
| By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. United Press Staff Correspondent BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 6.—| The Russian oil tanker Sakalin A slump in Allied prestige as the arrived off Constanza yesterday i ._ | with 8500 tons | result of what is called the fiasco in| Sixty camouflaged Ger-
larms and machinery for Rumanian oil.
| Germany. ‘Norway was expected today to fore-| yan tank cars had arrived at Conshadow a new German drive to ob- stanza a few hours earlier. tain economic and political domina-| A Turkish economic mission ar[tion in the Balkans, with Rumania rived yesterday to offer Rumania i : y it wool for lumber and oil, in an ef- | the most likely focal point. fort to increase mutual trade. A week ago Balkan countries] Any new German drive would |feared that a German defeat in catch Rumania at a time when a
Norway might bring some military long-considered Cabinet reorganiza(push in eastern Europe to offset .of which King Carol hoped to ‘Now it is held that Adolf Hitler is strengthen his political backing. likely to capitalize on “Allied in- The change might be delicate in efficiency” to penetrate more deeply | Jiang ways. " was Predicted that : : tics. | the reorganization might be made into Balkan economics and POUUCS.| ,¢i0 nav 10, with Premier George Rumania would be expected to be matarescu retaining his post but ‘the prime objective because of the with other key ministers supplanted.
value of its sources of supply and |
of Russian oil for |
|tion was impending, one by means |
northward from Trondheim and had! NOt only can hed th ighbo jyou act ually Teaclied the neig rhood of Mos- make yourself joen, proceeding along the coastal/sick and prob-
highway. Beyond Mosjean, the roads| ably shorten your life if you are t bad. | ge ba more and more people are becoming
The High Command said that an- pypochondriacs, due to: the recent other “enemy” battleship had been voluminous writings on medicine for
hit by a heavy German aerial bomb lay readers. off Narvik. Cites Popular Belief Planes Aid Besieged Nazis
Dr. Gatch
; lhe said, of the attempt made in the I said that German planes, aiding |), few years by all manner of | besieged German forces at Narvik, | writers, members of the organized had attacked Allied troop concen-| medical profession, newspaper re- | trations and exploded a munitions | porters, novelists, scenario writers | dump. jand commercial advertising copy Earlier, the official radio had! writers. claimed that a British battleship | writers to acquaint the public with | was damaged by a bomb off Narvik medical facts. 'but both the High Command and| Another unfortunate result of the the official news agency called it an| writings, he said, is that people in “enemy” battleship, which might general now believe that medical refer either to a British or French |gscience is a great deal more potent | ship. The news agency said that!than it really is. Pri smoke showed the effect of «praqjcal propaganda.” Dr. Gatch the hit.” | id tren : ; : ; said. “has made the people too proa High Command communique, dly concerned about their “Pani : Couer’ " 1t has made multitudes of Pacification action in central and PE obsessed by morbid [southern Norway is generally COM- | fears of cancer, high blood pressure, | pleted. The fortress at Hegra (in the | (04 pirth, death and even life. mountains near Trondheim, where ) ’ |a Norwegian force had held out
| under constant bombardment for | three weeks) has been taken. Ger{man ‘security forces’ have been es- | tablished east from Roeros to the!
| Swedish frontier.” | Claim Sub Captain Seized
Warns of Health Fears
“Nature has wisely left the guidance of the vegetative functions of the body to appetite and instinct. Habitual thought about such processes as circulation and digestion | deranges them and may ultimately
Points to Limitations
“Dazzled by the spectacular achievements of medicine, the gova | ernment, the public and many phy-
hypochondriac, Dr. Gatch said, but sicians have not considered its limi-
sickness is due to respiratory infections. “The idea that at present much eat be done to prevent’ this 1s| LONDON. May 6.—Prime Minister ridiculous. Physicians and their i fl families have colds and influenza. Neville Chamberlais may save his Epidemics of these diseases afflict | Cabinet in a House of Commons groups of people living under ap-|debate on Norway tomorrow by parently ideal conditions of hygizne|promising immediate and effective and medical care. 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 Church-
This is one unfortunate result, |
pacification. The Pope vesterday made a plea
sustained the jury verdict that the companies and some of their offi-
for peace during a sermon at the Cers conspired unlawfully to raise
Church of St. Mary-Over-Minerva |
in the presence of the diplomatic | corps and the Roman nobility. It!
was followed by cheers and shouts tionality of the criminal anti-trust |
ot “Long live peace! Long live the| Pope!” from crowds in the streets as! the Pope left the church. | However, at about the same time in Milan, Fascists arranging a reception for a German football team scribbled unprintable remarks about | Britain on the walls of buildings and painted signs reading: “Let's
hope Mussolini gets to Paris; Hitler] Justice James C. McReynolds con- |
gets to London.” Tension Continues High The moves by the Vatican came as the Italian press continued to reflect high tension over the Mediterranean situation. The newspaper | Corriere Padano charged that Great Britain is preparing Greek bases for | an attack on Italy. The newspaper, which is owned by Air Minister Italo Balbo, warned | the Allied powers that any attempt | on their part to bring moral or economic pressure on the Fascist | state would likely bring Italy into) the European war. “The allies have an urgent need | to regain prestige that they have | lost,” the Corriere Padano said. { “Can the Mediterranean supply | that need?” The Fascist press generally car- | ried on so strong a campaign against the Allies that it increased | belief that the Fascist leadership was strongly considering whether this was the moment to enter the | war. Ciano's Editor Warns Again
The concentration of Allied war-| ships in the eastern Mediterranean brought general warnings and de-! nunciations in the press and the campaign was climaxed by the Sunday 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 conferred in Florence, reportedly on using their influence, perhaps in| conjunction with the Pope, to keep Italy out of the war. Some observers believed that! 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|
and maintain artificial gasoline prices in the Midwest in 1935. The court also upheld Constitu-
statute of Texas. The high court’s action in the Madison case came by a divided vote. Justice William O. Douglas
| wrote the 67-page majority opinion
with which four colleagues agreed. Legal Point Major Issue
Justice Owen J. Roberts wrote the dissenting opinion in which
curred. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Justice Frank Murphy took no part in the case. 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 in-|
structions to the jury which may have influenced the jurors adversely to the oil companies.
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 German invasion, it was reported reliably today.
cities and caring for the wounded and 420,600 refugees from the areas occupied by Russia, Finland determined to repay Norway for the aid the latter gave her. 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
HALIFAX, N. S., May 6 (U. P). —The crew of the 3683-ton British 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 |
| Although she still is rebuilding | her
because of its vulnerability. |
There could be no question of the impression left here by the withdrawal of Allied troops from south-| ern and central Norway. To the | average Rumania, Britain was | caught napping. Clodius Now in Bulgaria | Neutral observers held that Ru- | mania politically, economically and] above all militarily was not equipped | to meet a German attack. [said that it was whether Rumania would even be] lable to wreck her oil well machinery | |before German transport planes began to unload troops in the oil dis- | trict “to take charge.” | The nearest Allied army was that of the Near East, impressive in numbers but far away, and it was ‘held that the Allied performance in | Norway left little room for encour-|
repulsed, according to military re-|
NAZI TROOPS ATTACK
| ; : ‘ ause organic disease. | It said that a British submarine, raus 8
| damaged by a mine in the Kattegat,
“Those who, for commercial or other reasons, have talked so much about diet and vitamins, have taken
ON WESTERN FRONT bier iio" sntea Sno {planes which alighted and took off | 1 of the joy out of life. He who
PARIS, May 6 (U.P.).—Two com- officer. Later,
| the panies of German troops attacked | said, the submarine was towed to
e captain and a non-commissioned | faq yg too much for his health will
communique | jose it. Teachers, public health of-
ficials and doctors should unite to
French outposts along a one-mile 20 unnamed harbor. | dispell these morbid fears.”
front in the Blies River sector today |
not known.
An attack of similar force and na- north Norwegian coast, machine-gun bullets This attack was from German planes. “There were no important The report of the bombing of another “enemy” battleship gave new in- impetus to the wave of optimism among the German public.
ture was made in exactly the same damaged by sector vesterdayv.
ports, and the Germans retired in| disorder with severe losses. Aviation was comparatively active.
It said that two British planes
% were shot down near Terschelli Y They after heavy artillery preparation./on the Dutch West Frisian Islands ‘he medics] propagatios, Dr Ostoh
questionable’ Fighting continued and results were in the North Sea, and that two Brit|ish flying boats, anchored off the]
| Discussing the second result of
said that *“ the most absurd statements are being made in regard to the possibility of controlling maternal mortality, insanity, and the frequency of sickness in general.” “Every well informed physician knows that the expectations these create cannot be fulfilled. Insanity, for instance, is no less prevalent than it was before the war, By ' eradication of syphilis we could pre-
had been
en-
Hana © meres AIWilliams: 'Sea Power Yields to Airplanes’;
Admiral Stirling: ‘Battleships Will Live On’
| Dr. Karl Clodius, Germany's slai 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 Ger- | man 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 Gerany. 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 | lin 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 arrival because Germany is trading
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NAZI AGREEMENT WITH, SWEDEN IS REPORTED
BERLIN, May 6 (U. P). — The, | DNB official news agency said vedas] that Chancellor Adolf Hitler and King Gustav of Sweden have exchanged letters in which they expressed “full agreement on the fu- | ture political attitude of both coun-| tries toward each other.” | The exchange of letterses was said
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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 confi- |
dence among its own people.
Norway was a sea theater, desperate, well-nigh to suicidal—a small-scale Gallipoli. But the British 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 ways as the exclusive work of the Ger- |
man Army. That army did sweep through Poland,
but not until German airpower had moved ahead | By |
as a curtain of destruction and obliteration. the end of the first day of that campaign, German
airpower had bombed every Polish airdrome, air- | | ! And by the end of the | second, the Polish air force itself was nonexistent. |
After that, it was but common sense to estimate !
craft factory and depot.
that the Germans would do exactly what they did in Norway—transport entire infantry divisions by
complete reinforced. as it could be, by German planss, then
| Mussolini might consider that now his long hoped
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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 thie 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,
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 Enecland. 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 war out of the Mediterranean. Provided he can assure the Allies of the permanency of his attitude, they will not force him to fight. When he joins the German war machine, Mussolini will become merely a tail to Hitler's kite. War would make Italy a battlefield, and the Mediterranean Sea would be strewn with
understand the latest Britich move, sunk was brought to Jeddore today but the people are unconcerned and by Ben Stevens, a fisherman, who continue to prepare because they reported that the freighter, after
to have taken place in the latter part of April.
(The Tass official Russian news| points.
air from German bases to strategic Norwegian |
the wreckage not only of Allied watships but of his own,
know, as their Government stated | at the beginning of the conflict, | that Italy will not take any military initiative.”
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IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record County City Total 12 17 29 36
—May 4 and 5, 1940—
Injured .... 21 | Accidents ....40 Dead Arrests
SATURDAY TRAFFIC CHART | Cases Convic- Fines Violations tried tions paid |
Speeding 5 4 $47 | Reckless driving 1 1 0 Failure to stop atl through street 0 0 Disobeying traffic signal 0 0 prunken driving 1 1 All others 9 6
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MEETINGS TODAY
Scientech Club, Board 3 age, noon. Ss jee Club, Claypoo otel, noon. Irvington Republican Club, 54462 E.
shington St, 8 p. m, haf Dame Club, Spink-Arms Hotel,
noon. d of Trade, Board of Trade 6 p. m. Boas University Club, Columbia Club,
n. : RO hurch Federation of Indianapolis, Y. M.C. A, 7:43 pm
MEETINGS TOMORROW otary Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. Re Men's Club, ¥. M. C. A., noon. Alpha Tau Omega, Board of Trade, noon. Gyro Club, Spink: Arms Hotel, noon. Mercator Club, Hotel Lincoln, noon. Universal Club, Columbia Club. noon. University of Michigan Club, Board of
, noon, Trade ts of Columbus, K. of C. Club- |
noon. eran Service Club, Canary Cottage,
se hone th
on. opine Paper Credit Gronp, Wm. H. |
Co... noon. Indiana Association of Master Plumbers, Rotel Lincoln, we
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,
ls p. m., Athenaeum.
BIRTHS Girls Alton, Cherry Griffith, at City. Edward, Mary Loyal, at City. Charles, Mildred Lawson, at St, cent's, John, Ann Connor, at St. Vincent's. Fred, Alice Klepper, at St. Vincent's. Ervin, LaVada eblin, at 1812 8. Boys Robert, Blanche Fields, at City. Ross, Mary Mosteller, at City. Byron. Geraldine Connolly, at 8t. Vincent's. Max, Thelma Spear. at St. Vincent's. Richard, Virginia Rea, at St. Vincent's. Gerald, Virginia Porter, at _St. Vincent's. h rd, Mary Catherine Disher, at St.
s. rest, Katherine Bennett, at St. Vinn
S. Noble, Eleanor Biddinger, at Coleman. Howard, Faye Webb, at Methodist. Joseph, Floy Fisk, at Methodist. Elmer, Mary Barton, at Methodist.
DEATHS
Anthony Sauer. 70. at 2222 S. Pennsylvania, chronic myocarditis.
‘ Alathea Myers, 66, at City, carcinomaosis. .
Louise Lambert, 68, at Methodist, congestive heart failure. Ida Emanuel, 71, at 4465 Carroilton, chronic myocardits. . ‘Emma Strafford. 72, at Methodist, cardiac asthma. William Smith, 68, 622 Fulton, mitral regurgitation. Florence Fansler, 81, at City, cerebral
hemor ry. 32. at 1043 N. Beville ulosis. nn, 56, at 819 8S. Joseph lung abscess. omas an, 78. at St. Vincent's, diabetes myelitis. Winifred Hannan, 26. at Methodist, encephalitis. Elizabeth Mahoney, 65 at 1125 Linden, ma, Welch, 73. at 1608 Hall Place, myocarditis. George usch, 79. at City, cerebralghemorrhage. Elizabeth Jones, 80, at 1332 N. Parker. cerebral hemorrhage. Charles anister, 64, at 2040 Olive, mitral insufficiency. mon Nolen, 35. at City. cerebral hemnel Tripp. 37. at Robert Long, cere-
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agency reported from Moscow last { week that Germany and Russia were lin agreement as regards the con- |
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| tinued neutrality of Sweden.)
) alter Stout, 68, at Tong. coronary occ
usion. | Florence Martin, 43, at Central Indiana, | dementia praecox.
FIRE ALARMS Sunday
12:26 A, M.—804 N. Missouri, loss $1. | "10:07 A, M.—438 N.
chair,
Bradley, Waste
| paper. loss, $2. : East. | a P. M.——37th and Illinois, false,
9 P. M.—663'2 Indiana, cigaret,
| OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Bureau ae
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAS T—Partly cloudy te eloudy with occasional rain and considerably cooler tonight and tomorrow. Sunrise 4:39 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —May 6, 1940—
6 a.
BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m... 30.60 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m...
Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency Dine Jan. 1
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.
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 ¢f 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 battle= ship, 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 tooheavy 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 armor= plating). 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
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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 impover=ished 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 te prevent Gen. Billv 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,
tations. They should bear in mind |jll, First Lord of the Admiralty and that its chief triumphs have been|genjor defense Minister, sitting as in the field of preventive medicine, | chairman and acting as spokesman | where it has controlled infectious|for the Cabinet when full Cabinet | diseases and lowered infant mor- | authority was necessary to any defalls. " lit |cision. : as done but little to con-| pegpite vigorous criticism of the tral degenerative diseases of en-|Government in newspapers, includJogenous grigin, hoe man oh 4 has ino conservative ones, and by opLousy Ro be Ser & ance of lv ng 40 | position leaders, it was forecast that age an a man 0 Mr. Chamberlain would take his
would have had to live to 80 a hun- : ow’ dred years ago. Whatever benefit | Goats t sale through tomerrow's
‘medicine has brought to the mid- | |dle-aged has been balanced by the lincreased perils of modern life.
Two-Day Debate Expected
Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Churchill were expected to be the chief Government spokesmen during the debate, which is likely to continue through Thursday. It was indicated that Mr. Chamberlain would make a much more informative speech on the Norway campaign than he did last Thursday and that Mr. Churchill would emphasize that Germany no longer counted as a sea power because of her naval losses since her invasion of Norway and Denmark. Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister, and Oliver Stanley, War Minister, were understood to be ready to speak if things went badly for the Government.
Discusses Lack of Data
| “The campaign against tubercu[losis has been very successful, be{cause the cause of the disease and| {the manner of dissemination are| | known. If we knew as little about [it as we know about cancer, in{sanity and influenza, we could not {have controlled it. | “It is clear that we cannot con‘trol any disease until we know its cause and manner of progagation; also that we do not possess this knowledge about many diseases which are among the commonest causes of death and disability.” Deny Battleship Sunk
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the outspoken criticism of the GovFEW AREAS CLAIMED | eroment” sere. | An Admiralty communique brief~ STOCKHOLM, May 6 (U. P).—|ly but completely denied German N i detach t " |claims that a battleship and a Norwegian detachments were T€-/..,jser of the York class had been ‘ported in newspaper dispatches to-| sunk by German airplane bombs. |day to be putting up stiff resistance “The German claim to have sunk a to German forces in scattered areas British battleship and a cruiser of lof central Norway. | the York class in operations off | The Germans concentrated on| Namsos are untrue,” the comunique 'getting reinforcements by airplane S&C. : lor on skis over the mountains to| It WAS admitted, however, today | Narvik. where some 3000 Germans | {hab the British destroyer Afridi, ‘are besieged by Allied forces | costing $1,800,000 and believed to Hedi : : = | pe carrying about 219 men, had | Nazi submarine bases also were : ; . ; | been bombed and sunk in protectreported being established on the |, ; . ; ling Allied troop withdrawals from | Norwegian coast to challenge the | Namsos. |Allies at Narvik, while German | British transports were un(troops from Trondheim pushed | touched by German plane attacks, northward toward the town of Mo, | the Admiralty asserted, and it was |where the road system ends about added that two German planes had 150 miles south of Narvik. been shot down during withdrawal | At Roeros it was reported that | operations. Germans had repaired bridges north | The War Office said there “was of the town and were continuing to-| nothing to report from the Narvik ward Stoeren. area,” where severe snowstorms have The newspaper Dagens Nyheter slowed down the Allied attempt to reported from Oslo that about 10.000! oust a German garrison of several | Norwegians had heen put in prison |thousand men.
|ecamps by the Germans and that | : more camps were being established. ! London Times Joins Critics — Reliable informants said that Sir Percy Loraine, Ambassador to Italy, had left for his post at Rome after Police charged Minche Shaneofl,| a visit here. It was assumed that |37, of 1531 Kessler Blvd, with vio-| he had special instructions in view lation of the 1935 Beverage Act|of Italy’s intimations that it after members of a raiding squad |might soon be in the war. led by Sergt. John Foran said they Though it was forecast that the saw two men drinking in a tavern |Chamberlain ministry would surin N. Illinois .St.,' 900 block, yester-|vive tomorrow’s debate, that did not day. The two men also were ar-|/ mean that drastic reorganization rested. Imight not be necessary soon.
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