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BLITZ IS RESUMED

IN CHANNEL ZONE

Big Land Guns, Fighter Planes and Speed-

boats Clash; German Blow Toward Gibraltar Feared; ‘Suicide Corps’ Still Fight.

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a period of 30 minutes around noon, just before the shelling

slowed down.

From the French coast, columns of smoke and steam indicated that the British shells had hit German targets,

apparently including ships and oil depots.

Still another phase of the Channel battle was fought by German and British speedboats, according to the Nazi offithat several British craft were strated

cial news agency, which said

damaged in an engagement in which the British were forced

to flee.

In Greece, the Nazi High Command reported, German | troops have pushed southward past Tripolis, in the center of the Peloponnesus, and are smashing at the final line of

LINDBERGH GETS ARMY RELEASE

Served Reserves Since "25; Early ‘Wonders’ if He'll Return Nazi Award.

(Continued from Page One) resignation a loss to the air corps,

(Col. Lindbergh) wouldn't have any duties even if he continued to hold

his commission. Now there is a commission that someone else can hold.” Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R. Mich.) in a speech prepared for the Congressional Record, said President Roosevelt's comparison of Lindbergh with Civil War Copperheads demthat the President's “anger and intolerance, rather than sober judgment, rode him into a

«“1f the President wishes to re'tain some of the respect which the | people should have for a President, | {he will do better to leave the name | (calling to his Hatchet Man Ickes”

British imperials in Southern Greece—a line that seemed |e said.

certain to be sacrificing itself to permit evacuation of the

remainder of the

forces.

Acting Prime Minister A. W. Fad-

den of Australia announced that “Many of our troops have now left, ' Greece after stubbornly contesting) the enemy's advance to the last] few inches of Greek soil. Unfortunately we must be prepared for casualties; the nation will be told the ful] story as soon as possible.” Answering criticism on the Greek | campaign today, British Prime]

Minister Churchill told Commons gained only five or six miles for statement that Britain misinformed

that he would seek a vote of confi-| dence at the first meeting of Par-| liament after this week's session. He said that two days of public debate would be permitted. He rejected] proposals for an Empire war cab-|

‘were said to have started big fires in the harbor. Two other British

British merchant ships of 5000 and 4000 | Sons were smashed by bombs in|

British waters, the Nazis said. In North Africa, the Axis forces

town of Solum inflicted considerable casualties on the British, according to the Rome and Berlin communiques. The British reports of the action said that Solum had

|been given up after the R. A. F. and Minister to the United States, told |Australian troops had battered the the American section of the Inter-

German-Italian columns severely and that three days of fighting had

the enemy. On the other hand, the British reported that they had taken the important airfield of Kombolcia, 15 miles east of the Ethiopian town of Dessye, which was captured

| “The President makes noc con[tribution to national unity by, {charging those who disagree with {him with being traitors to their country. | “The President has no more right to characterize cthers as Copper- | heads than have we to describe

|that captured the Egyptian desert him and those who believe that |

[the interest of Britain come first, as |

Benedict Arnolds.’ Rapped by British Envoy | Sir Gerald Campbell, British

national Chamber of Commerce last night that Col. Lindbergh's recent

other European nations about her lability to aid them was “untrue.” | Sir Gerald did not mention Col. | | Lindbergh by name, but referred to {“a speech made in New York last | | Wednesday” in which a “sneer or

Mr. Early said that “from what the, President indicated last Friday, he!

harsh and inaccurate comparison.” |

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PAN-AMERICAN ROAD ADVANCED

Highway From Washington To Buenos Aires May Be Opened Next Year.

By ALLEN HADEN

BUENOS AIRES— (By Clipper)— meaandering the length of America from Washington to Buenos Aires like a gigantic Mayan snake, the 21,000-mile Pan-American highway, dream of men for centuries, will probably become a reality next year. When the short stretches in Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia have been completed the family flivver can carry tourists from all the Americas for visits with one another. South of the Panama Canal the first country reached is Columbia, famous for coffee and emeralds. Bogota, the capital, 8500 feet above sea level, has a distinguished university, medical school and fine museums. A natural bridge carries the PanAmerican highway across the® Rio Carchi into Ecuador.

Ecuador and Peru

Ecuador's’ capital, Quito, perched on the volcanic slopes of Pichincha Mountain, is still nearer heaven than Begota, 9300 feet. An importgnt city of Spanish colonial times, some of the finest baroque archi-| tecture is to be found there, only excelled by the magnificent baroque style of Ouro Preto in Brazil. Peru lies next to the south, where the purest Spanish of all Latin | America is spoken. Remnants Of | archaic Spanish usages are found | there, just as in the eastern moun- | tains of Tennessee there are people who speak Elizabethan English. | From Peru, Bolivia can be reached

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guard can the blockade be made less dangerous to Germany,

The German General Staff does not regard the conquest of Britain as meaning, in itself, the end of the war. The subjugation of Britain is the major German objective because of its effect on the strangling power of the British Fleet. Always, in looking into the future and trying to plan for victory, the Germans are compelled to return to the problem of the British Fleet. No matter what military successes may go to Hitler on the continent, it is the ocean that must be conquered. If Hitler were to try to create an impression in the Reich that the war can be won by land battles drawing the German Army farther

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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1941

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and farther away from the British Isles, he would be committing the gravest blunder of the war. No reports have come from Berlin of great celebrations in Germany because Greece has been added to the Fuehrer’'s collection of cone quered or overawed continental states. One of the most efficient activie ties of the Nazi organization since the start of the war has been the manner in which it has caused a waiting calm to become effective in Germany at the present time. The people are not to have their hopes magnified by misinterpreting the long-range consequences of the blitzkrieg in Greece.

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morrow will make stops at Terre Hause, Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne and Detroit. Due to airport improvements, the survey flight stops at Toledo and Anderson-Muncie cannot

the way to the Capital, La Paz, the traveler passes and may puzzle over |

by sailing across Lake Titicaca. On|

the ruins of a forgotten civilization | at least 10,000 years old at Tiahu-|

inet.

The Nazl air attacks on British shipping around Greece—already said by Berlin to have knocked out some 700,000 tons—reportedly sank five more merchantmen totaling

earlier, and that the campaign in & Smear was leveled at England.” cago and Southern Air Lines. East Africa was nearing the clean- Col. Lindbergh spoke then in New| pT Cline, district sales manager up stage after defeat of the Italians York at a meeting sponsored by |for the line, said the proposed new on many fronts. [88 Punerica First Committee. {airway would operate from St. Louis The British announced that 2000 St Gra d said the sie of the i, petroit via Ft. Wayne, AndersonItalian troops and 400 native sol-| 5 peditionary Force sent 0 nruncije, Indianapolis and Terre

be made at this time, Mr. Cline said. The Dixieliner will leave St. Louis at 9 a. m.; arrive at Terre Haute at 10:10 a. m.; arrive at Indianapolis at 11:30 a. m., and will remain here until 1 p. m. when it will con-

anacu. South there lies “the narrow| crumpled ribbon of land which the | world knows as Chile,” writes Agus- | tin Edwards, Chilean historian and | diplomat. Hemmed in between the

18,600 tong and damaged a British cruiser at Malta, where new raids

diers had been taken prisoner at Dessye. In addition, Free French forces believed to be under command of

|France was determined by (Frenvh General Staff. “Those troops were sent to defend Belgium,” he said, “as others have | been sent to defend Norway and

the

Hause. The return trip from Detroit to St. Louis will make a stop also at “Evansville, The line now has on file with the

tinue on to Ft. Wayne and Detroit. Aboard the liner will be a group of Chicago and Southern executives and Miss Margaret Mellon, Miss

Pacific Ocean and the cragged bar-| rier of the Andes Chile is 2800 miles | long from its frontier with Peru to |

the tip ot Tierra del Fuego. Super-|

“American Aviation,” the country’s most publicized airline stewardess. Included among the executives will be D. D. Walker, vice president and general sales manager; Amos Cul-

Greece—militar {Civil Aeronautics Authority a petibut so was ry unijery Jethare, tion for permit to establish the new brigade at Balaclava, and we all | line. Two other lines, Transcontilearned at school now proud the | Rental & Western Air, Inc, and British Army and British people | Eastern Airlines, both now serving

Gen. Gentilhomme were reported co-operating with British warships off the coast of French Somaliland, blockading the important French port of Djibouti, which is the termi-

nus of the railroad line from Addis | Ababa. The Free France troops were said

were of the Light Brigade. Denies A. E. F. Needed

Indianapolis, also have petitioned for, a Detroit-Indianapolis airway. Hearings are scheduled to be held

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vice president and general counsel and George Bounds, adverCapt. Reed Knight,

away from Santiago, Chile. Argentina and Uruguay

Argentina, a luscious flat and] broad land, famed for its pampa, | has humus six-foot thick between Rosario and Buenos Aires. Land! of cattle and cereals, Alejandro Bunge, Argentine sociologist, be-| lieves it can support 100,000,000 people and alone could supply all | the meat and grain needed by the world. Uruguay faces Argentina across] the River Plate, 20-mile wide estu-| ary of three great streams draining | the southern half of the continent—the Parana, the Paraguay and the Uruguay Rivers.

chief pilot for the company, will be at the controls. On Thursday, the survey plane will leave Detroit for a South-bound survey flight. Mr. Cline said the North-bound airway will link Indianapolis with Canadian lines to Montreal and the South-bound to the South and West.

U. S. Plans New Blow to Axis

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He rejected Col. Lindbergh's con- in Washington in October. If granttention that Britain stil lhopes to td to Chicago and Southern, it persuade this country to send Would represent the fourth airline another expeditionary force to Eu-| company to operate through Indianrope, pointing out that Prime Min- apolis. Besides T. W. A. and Eastister Churchill has said Britain does ern, Indianapolis is now served by not want America’s manpower. American Air Lines. “I would not mention that| The survey flight to be made by (Lindbergh's) speech,” he said, “if|a $125,000 Douglas “Dixieliner” toit were simply a matter of American | defense or offense at home or! abroad; those are things for

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remained uncertain, although there were Axis “feints” in several directions—principally toward Gibraltar. For days, British and some other sources had been reporting that a German move through Spain (and | possibly into Portugal in order to ‘attack Gibraltar or otherwise gain [control of the western entrance to

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surrender, to stop fighting, to make peace—a negotiated, false, inconclusive peace . , . then I feel that I am entitled to express my opinion | and make a protest, for it surely is| our business to decide whether we are going to abandon the victims of German aggression in Europe whom we are pledged to free, and it is for us to choose whether we are going to hide our heads in shame and dishonor ever more.

vers. Radio Berlin, as heard in London, said that British consuls in Spain had advised all Britons to leave the country and that 31 Britons had been arrested at Valencia for alleged ‘activities against the Spanish state.”

Border Reported Closed

At the same time, reports again circulated in London that all Spanish borders had been closed sudden-

ly and that transmission of the news of the closing had been forbidden. Although the Falangist newspaper Arriba at Madrid suggested editorially that the ‘‘easier and more logical” route for Germany to follow to the Suez Canai was through the Dardanelles, the most widely-held view recently has been that Hitler is seeking Spanish permission to move troops through the peninsula to Gibraltar. Heavy artillery already set up in Spanish territory on both sides of the Straits probably

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the rock. What Will Turkey Do?

Transportation problems and food supplies, especially in view of the grave shortage in Spain, were generally regarded as obstacles to the purported German plan, but it was admitted in London that these could be overcome if. Spanish Generalissimo Francisco Franco could be persuaded to co-operate. At the eastern end of the Mediterranean, there were apparently

might attempt to use the Greek islands stretching along the Turkish coast as a means not only of flanking British defenses but of stepping toward the rich British-controlled oil fields of Iraq. London military sources warned that the Germans could attempt a “leap frog” maneuver by going across the Greek isles toward Haifa, where the Near East oil field pipeline terminates at the sea, and that such a move if successful would threaten to bottle up Turkey. The attitude of the Turks was highly uncertain and one London newspaper—the News Chronicle— hinted that Turkey had even made it possible for the Germans to go through the Dardanelles in order to occupy the Greek isles. AxXisdominated Hungary reported signing a commercial treaty with Turkey.

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BERLIN, April 29 (U, P.).—Ger-man-American relations have now reached a critical point, well in-

formed quarters “said today. Observers believed that the press was preparing the German public against possibility that the United States might enter the war.

They indicated that, after the speeches of Secretaries Cordell Hull and Frank Knox on the necessity of full American aid to Britain, and after the triumphant completion of Hitler's Balkan campaign, the government had begun to pay increasingly close and serious attention to American-British aid plans. Che collapse of Jugoslavia and Greece was described by Nazis as a severe blow to President Roosevelt. Now, it was understood, Germany is watching closely to see what the form and extent of American cooperation with Great, Britain will be in the near future, Nazis said Germany would not be surprised if the President in the near future repeated to the American people his statements of the growing menace to the American continent, to justify measures which would mean an additional step on the road to an undeclared state of war. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, commenting today on the possibility that American warships would protect convoys en route to Great Britain, said editorially: “There will be but one effect: The rapid sinking of American ships.”

ing given renewed study.

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P). —New economic measures against the Axis nations were being considered today by the Administration. A plan to freeze assets held in this country by Germany and Italy was reported to be one matter beOthers,

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including the question of whether to stop all American oil shipments to Japan, were being discussed by policy-making officials.

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. said the Treasury’s attitude toward the foreign situation had received “encouragement.” The Treasury long has advocated tieing up Axis credits, but the step has not been taken because of differing sentiment by the State Department. Officials here doubted that Japanese credits would be frozen soon because of fears that such an act might provoke a crisis in the Pacific. Some officials have counseled against stoppage of oil shipments to Japan in the belief that it would quicken Japan's search for new oil sources, possibly in the Dutch East Indies. Under present arrangements, no aviation gasoline is shipped to Japan. Treasury sources contend that it is inconsistent to freeze the assets of nations occupied by German and Italy, and not to touch German and Italian assets themselves. The latest nation to have its American assets frozen was Greece which had between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 in this country.

MODERN WOODMEN T0 MEET TOMORROW

All state camps of the Modern Woodmen of America, numbering 382, will be represented at the twoday quadrennial state meeting of the order tomorrow at the Severin Hotel. Delegates will be elected to the national gathering in Chicago June 2. A feature of the session will be

a dinner at 8 p. m. at the Spencer Hotel at which "150 guests are expected. Mrs William Herschell of Indianapolis will be guest of: honor.

MRS. MARTHA SMITH DIES IN SILVER HILLS

Mrs. Martha Elmore Smith, an Indianapolis resident nine years, died yesterday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Garvey E. Kemper in Silver Hills. She was 80. A member of the Beech Grove Christian Church, she is survived by

of Indianapolis and three grandchildren, James Kemper and Mar-

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another daughter, Mrs. H. B. Greene ;

NEW YORK, April 29 (U. P).— The Union for Democratic Action, a new committee favoring America’s active participation in war if that is necessary to defeat Adolf Hitler, appealed for the support of all “liberals and Democrats, Socialists and radicals” today. Committee officers, headed by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary, said they “naturally” would exclude Communists. In a statement of policy—a ‘“program for Americans’—the committee demanded “whatever political] economic and military means are needed -to defeat the aggressors.”

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