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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1941

NAZIS SEEK QUICK

VICTORY

Soviet Troops Mass at| Rumanian Border as Antonescu Totters.

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more and more inclined to believe that evacuation of the British forces in Greece was the best that could be expected. The fighting lines appeared to be south of Metsovo, Trikkala and Larisa but still rorth of the third Greco-British line which is believed | to run across the narrowest sector | of the Greex peninsula from Arta | to the Othrys mountains north of |

Lamia and famous Thermopylae! Pass, The Germans

were said to ve | pouring across the fiat plains of Thessaly in “incalculable” numbers, | having forced the British to yield] their positions around Mt. Olympus. |

Metsove Pass Captured |

In the central sector they had | moved past Trikkala and pre-| sumably were approaching Karditza. | Farther west the Nazi high command reported that the important | Metsovo Pass of the Pindus range | had been forced. This brought an | immediate threat to Janina, about | 20 miles to the southwest. The Greeks are understood to be retir- | ing along the road from Janina to Arta, a distance of about 35 miles. | When the Germans reach the new | Arta-Othrys Mountain defense line| they will be about 110 miles from Athens, by air, and about 130 miles by road. | Thus far the German advance has| been a bloody, battering process with | the attackers paying heavily for every foot of ground. There has been no break-through of the Allied | lines despite the pressure and a! continuous front exists. Thus, de-| spite the crushing odds—probably | 10 to 1 in man power and possibly more than in fire power—the Germans have been unable to achieve, any of their classic flanking movements, such as emploved in France and Jugosiavia.

Are Greeks Weakening?

King George IT of Greece called on his nation to fight to death against the German invaders, The King] finally succeeded in forming a new Government to replace that of Alex-| ander Korizis, Premier who killed himself Friday. The King’s extreme difficulties in

dicate that sentiment exists among some Athens circles favoring a truce] with Germany, although there has] heen no indication of this in the | carefully censored dispatches from' Athens. No other factor, however, was apparent to explain the King’s

difficulties. Grateful te British

The King read his own proclamation on the radio in a voice vibrating with' emotion. He Korizis’ “honorable choice of death] in preference of yielding to Nazi hordes.” Manuel Tsouderos, former

manager of the Bank of Greece, be- one Sunday a month later when the & temporary measure.

came the new Premier. In a speech delivered between air raid alarms today, Tsouderos called

IN GREECE

ed on the Libyan-Egypt frontier. In this situation great attention was given tec Vichy reports of a new move by Hitler to attempt to put Pierre Laval back into the Vichy Government as part of a new plan of Franco-German “collaboration.” There also was new talk of Spain's joining the Axis military pact. Accompanying these threats is the possibility of trouble in the Far East, Japan's Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka is due back in Tokyo tomorrow and is not expected to lose time in translating Japan's increased trouble-making potentiality into action. This increase stems from the Russo-Japanese Neutrality Pact. The situation in Africa appeared to be fairly stable for the moment and the British display confidence

in their ability to handle the Nazi 3

threat. The besieged garrison at Tobruk was reinforced with native troops from India, apparently by sea. Rome reported that British troops had attempted to land at Bardia and claimed that all who got ashore there had been captured. The Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Ethiopia, categorically rejected British proposals for a surrender of

all the Italian troops left in Ethi- |

opia, Rome also reported

GULF EMPLOYEES DINE HERE TONIGHT

Thirty-nine employees of the Gulf Refining Co.'s Eastern Production Division will be guests of honor tonight at a banquet at the Columbia Club. Rush Greenslade, Gulf vice president, will deliver the principal address and will present 10-year service emblems to the employees,

GIRL FOILS ALLEGED KILLER IN BREAK

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after the latter had fired one shot It went wild.

GREEKS FACING

fiying range.

Today's War Moves—

BITTER CHOICE

Dilemma Is Surrender, Give Up Athens or Move to North Africa.

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i |

‘to make a retirement of any mili-| yards. The tanks would loom up

example of surrender, the most effective alternative would be to! transfer their Government and] what troops they can, to Egypt. How |

tary magnitude, across the Mediter-

“Don’t shoot,” Jameson pleaded ranean, however, would be a major

with Sheriff Dent.

problem in strategy.

State Police were called and Jame-| If the German push could be

son was removed to the reforma- slowed down tory where he will await frial July | front north of Athens a chance to 07 on a charge of slaying Howard M./embark many troops and heavy forming & new Government may in-ipyjast Indianapolis taxi driver, near | €quipment would be offered. It a gravel pit on the grounds of the might be possible to establish a American Aggregates Co. on State front of about 50 or 75 miles, run-

Road 431 May 27 1940. Sunday has played an important role in Jameson's criminal career. It was on the Sabbath that he allegedly killed Priest. Last June law enforcement offi-

Sugar Creek. a mile west of Crawfordsville.

battle. That was on a Sunday. Jameson grew a beard and was riding in a truck near Terre Haute

for questioning. Drawing a gun, Jameson

|cials trapped Jameson in a cabin on |

praised | let wound in his ankle after a gun siderable embarkation,

along a shortened

ning southwest from Lamia or

Thermopylae, which would require a} Germans, though lack of depth would be a handicap. To Crete First? If such tactics were inadequate to)

He escaped with a bul- give the necessary time for a con-

then it is

retirement

possible a large-scale

might be made to Peloponnesus, as The defenses |

{sheriff of Vigo County stopped him of Peloponnesus might well prove |

adequate to keep the Germans back

fired for a sufficient period to allow most

upon the nation to “fight to vic. point-blank at the sheriff but the of the troops to embark from there

tory.”

“We do not want to become slaves fleld nearby and was captured by a

and we intend to fight to a victorious end. You may be sure that our struggle for great end with glory.” He expressed gratitude for ish aid and said that “we know that hehind Rritain is the United States, |

whose great ideals will be nourished was well planned. Sheri Dent had mainland. in the new world. With such part- stepped into the room where Jame- | the alleged |Anglo-Greek slayer struck him with a blackjack | Greece, a strong offensive against fashioned from iron from a mop|the Germans and Italians in Libya {handle and friction tape used in|would be the best form of military {action. It is advisable for the Allies

ners, righteousness must win and our victory will help create a moral force that will govern all countries | tomorrow,”

After Greece—What?

Already British attention was) focussing upon the events which | may follow the Greek campaign. Turkey was one center of speculation. Germany was expected to attempt to win Turkey by diplomatic means and pressure to win a foothold for carrying ner campaign to the southeast and to develop a pincer threat against the | Suez Canal, If those means fail, it was thought, the Nazi military steam- | roller will be put inte action again. | this time against Turkey. There continued to be speculation on the possibility of an accompany- | ing attack upon the Ukraine wheat fields and the Caucasus oil fields which, it was believed, might. make | Germany blockade-proof.

Laval Pops Up Again |

Simultaneously, the British he- | lieved Germany would strike in the | Western Mediterranean. Events in Spain and France were being closely watched and the possibility of a move into Portugal was not ignored. All these moves would be part of 2 comprehensive campaign to drive the British from the Mediterranean and would be accompanied by increased pressure against Egypt by the Nazi Panzer divisions now halt-

posse.

Jameson was returned to Marion convey troops #4o Crete, Greece will County to face the murder indict- German attack. except by air. From ment but was brought here on a Crete, Rrit- change of venue from the Marion would not encounter the difficulties

County Criminal Court,

|gun missed fire and he ran into a for Africa.

Small vessels, incapable of the entire Mediterranean crossing, could safe from

Egypt |

transportation to

surrrounding large-scale shipments]

Yesterday's attempted jail break |of troops directly from the Greek

son was held when

radio sets. Attracted by the noise of the scuffle, the sheriff’s wife immediately locked all the doors in the jail and ran to help her husband.

peared with the gun.

Bombing of Britain Follows Soviet Pattern in Finland

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of houses totally or almost totally demolished, it is hard to believe that the casualty lists could be as small as they have been. According to the most pessimistic estimates have been killed out of almost 3,000,000 living in cities, during the entire course of the war. And I saw the official records. But the number made homeless runs well into the hundreds of thousands

Rural Villages Unhurt

OUR TOUR. made in a fast American car, attached to “"Amerfcan Ambulances of Great Britain” was one of startling cone trasts. We passed through miles of rural and untouched sections of England and Wales—through country villages, which seemed as

= =» —_— |

| can be said that the impression

Idaho town—only to arrive in

| cities which to Mr. Cruger, who | had served in the A. E. F. in the | last war, looked worse than the

towns of Northern France after

| the Kaiser's Army had | through.

The smaller the city, the greater the devastation seemed because of its greater concentration. Cities like London, Manchester and Liverpocl are so big that the damage is not at first so appallingly evident as it is in Plymouth, Bristol, Swansea and in the Merseyside towns of Birkenhead and Wallasey.

Factories Mostly Intact

IT IS DIFFICULT to present a true picture of the damage we saw without helping the Germans corr~ct their aim. But it

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To recoup in a measure retirement

to do something in the Middle East if the impression created by the German successes in Jugoslavia and to be counteracted. seems to offer the

jeft with us was that the Gerare using the same methods that

| the later stages of their invasion when they systematically tried to destrov workers’ homes while leaving factories intact. For there ix no doubt that the raids on this country have destroved a staggering number of homes.

Here It Is—That

| days in the hope it would “find the

B-19 Bo

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mber With 7750-Mile Range

D ER 8 2 a Be RRR : R Prior to ground tests and the first flight, the giant 82-ton Douglas B-19 bomber (above) gets its first breath of fresh air aft its hangar at Santa Monica, Cal. The ship, which is manned by a crew of 10, has a useful load capacity of 28 tons and a 7750-mile non-stop

Too Hot for Helmets

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- er removal from

fall, used to drop bombs which resembled thermos flasks and blew up

when handled. The Royal Air Force has estab{lished Supremacy in the Tobruk

struction of one German tank and|tacks. No ground has been yielded, area, but the Germans still make

the capture of three German tanks however.

Life goes

on normally | hit-and-run

raids on the harbor,

{within the defenses and morale is usually i ‘mation: 8 and seven Italian guns. len. sually in formations of as many

To date the total of German and Ttalian prisoners is about 1500. Thirty-three German and Italian

tanks have been destroyed or captured and 24 German planes have been shot down over the Tobruk area. The big attack today was started about 2 p. m. Twelve German heavy and cruiser tanks broke threugh the wire. They cruised around inside the wire, shooting at defense points and strong points. There was a swirling dust storm which limited visibility to about 20

suddenly before the defenders. Infantry followed the tanks. They came within 800 yards of the outer wire through which the tanks had passed. But the British artillery opened on them and they withdrew. Three of the tanks were knocked

An Australian crawled up along the blind side of a fourth and stuck a piece of angle iron in its track. The siege of Tobruk entered its

bombs, delayed action bombs, 30-ton

{0 aid their infantry in repeated

sheet, appears daily Broadcasting Co. and local news. of the garrison spend most of their time, *within this 30mile perimeter of defense works, in holes in the sand, with blowing clouds of dust over them The only amusements are listening to the radio, playing cards or swapping yarns of such hair-raising adventures as the esout by anti-tank gun and rifle fire. |cane of the rear guard from the Germans at Benghazi. gain in the telling. It is possible for some of the Ay ] : F . The Italians and | MSR to swim in the Mediterranean. omparative small force to delay the|eighth day today. 2 i | The town has been shattered by Germans are employing big aerial panne put food is plentiful, Today the Germans started drop- | tanks, armored cars and artillery | ning trick bombs, like metal shavWhen the caps are blow Ider. The Italians, last

frequently.

A band from the Victoria area of [by Messerschmit fighters, or some- cille Austin, Indianapolis. Australia finds time to hold a rehearsal each day, casionally dropping ments and diving into a trench in|“ EE the middle of some air such as ‘O| | Sole Mio" bursts overhead or bullets plane come near, There is a mimeographed “The Tobruk Truth,” carries British

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The stories

in-

las 20 Junker dive bombers protected

times by the latest Italian fighter, the 305-mile-an-hour G-50 monoplane.

3 ARE KILLED IN COUNTY TRAFFIC

Record of Two Deathless Week-Ends Ended; Year's Toll Now 47.

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shortly before midnight Saturday in a high wind and rain storm. Mr. Jones was driving the car with Miss Lee as a passenger when it and a car driven by Paul Shelby, 25, R. R.| 3, Box 813, collided. Both died soon | afterward in City Hospital. Also in the Jones car were Miss! Dovie Mahoney, 28, and Miss Gladys Saylors, 28, both of the Warren Ave. address, both of whom are in a critical condition at City Hospital, and Marvin Carter, 40, of 934 River Ave, and Coy Wooten, 38, of the Birch Ave. address, who were less seriously injured. State Policemen Walter Schofield and Oliver Leighton said the wind had blown the Jones car off the road and that the crash occurred when he was attempting to steer it back on.

Services Tomorrow

Miss Lee, who was born in Scotisville, Ky., is survived by her father, Arthur Lee, Louisville; a brotner, Delmer Lee, Florida, and an aunt, Mrs. Tinnie Turner, Indianapolis. Mr, Jones, also born in Scottsville, is survived by a twin brother, Blon D. Jones, Scottsville; three other brothers, Hurston Jones and Maxie Jones, Indianapolis, and Houston Jones, West Moulin, Texas; his parents, the Rev. E, C. Jones and Mrs. | Jones, Portland, Tenn., and five sisters, Mrs. Ruby Blankenship, Murs. Era Napier, and Mrs, Pauline May-

hew, all of Scottsville, and Mrs. Lu-

Funeral services for Miss Lee will {be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Ray 'Street, Nazarene Church and burial

will be in Scottsville. Funeral seryices and burial for Mr. Jones will be in Scottsville,

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THE CENTER FIGURE?

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NO FOOLING

so that your eyes will fool you. This is normale=but there should be "ne fooling” when we come to more serious things. The one way te be sure your eyes are nob fooling you in ways that may sause serious trouble, is to have an examination. Do this todey end be sure of your vision,

NHC Fhrback

Optometrist—Office at

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SATELLITES OF AX CARVE JUGOSLAVIA

RERLIN. April 21 (U. P.)—Count| Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign | Minister, has arrived in German territory to discuss with German | leaders the future of Jugoslav ter-| ritory, it was said in reliable quar-| ters today Earlier Nazis had made known that King Boris of Bulgaria had visited Hitler Saturday at the Fuehrer's field headquarters in the Balkans and had returned to Sofia vesterday. Today it was announced that Bulgarian troops had occupied Jugoslav Macedonia as far as the vardar River and Greek Thrace east of the Struma River. There have been reports of a conference, probably at Vienna, in which Jugoslavia would be carved up and divided among its neighbors. Hungary has already occupied parts of it and a Croat Free State has

been set up. A provisional government has been set up by Yole Popovic in|

the Montenegro of pre-World War

place it deserves within the new Axis order for Europe.” Germany has annexed territories formerly belonging to Austria and Rumania is seeking the Lower Banat region. Ttaly is expected to get at least the Dalmatian coast, and it was believed that this was Count Ciano’s subject today.

ENTRIES ARRIVE FOR | Y. M. C. A HOBBY FAIR

Entries for the three-day City- | Wide Hobby Fair opening Thursday

But the greater the damage done to the homes of the British, the angrier and the tougher the people become, become their demands for vengeance on Berlin. Berlin must be razed to the ground, I was told in Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Manchester and Hull. And these people were not joking.

And the louder

at the Y. M. C. A. began arriving | at the “Y” today, Kirkwood Yockey, general chairman, reported. The deadline for submitting en- | tries is Wednesday noon. The fair will be open from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. Thursday and Friday and from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. Saturday. In addition to the hobby exhibits, on the entire second floor, the pro- | gram will include shows in the | gymnasium and swimming pool.

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