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Show NEWS QUIZ - , " J Test your nose for news. Answer all these questions and your score is 100. Deduct 20 points for each question you miss. If you miss more titan three, better not tell anybody! 1. Hartley, W. Va., Is a coalmining coal-mining rommunitv. Whv was It In the news? 2. The man at the right, now British Brit-ish lord of the admiralty, admi-ralty, may become supre m e defense h i r if What's his name? 3. According to the treasury, the average American had how much money in his pocket un January 1: (a) S57.71; (b) $10.13; (c) $126.54; (d) $1,401. 4. True or false: Thousands of workers at the Binghampton, N. V., plant of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe company made news by voting vot-ing for affiliation with the C. I. O. 5. Both Republican and Democratic Demo-cratic national committees will meet in February to pick their 1940 convention date. Which committee will meet first? News Quiz Answers 1. Ninety miners were trapped two miles underground. 2. Winston Churchill. 3. (A) Is correct. This Is the hlRh-st hlRh-st per capita circulation since March, 1933. 4. False. They made news by thumbs-downing both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. 5. Democrats on February 5; Republicans, Re-publicans, February 16. This Is important im-portant because the Republicans can now delay planning their candidate and platform until the opposition has committed Itself. THE WARS: In the West Germany and the allies seemed to be fighting everything else but each other as mid-winter arrived. There was sporadic sea warfare, a "great battle" over Sylt, German air base, and a Nazi raid over 500 miles of English coast. But despite those threats of heightened conflict, public pub-lic attention was focused elsewhere: Germany. Nazi soldiers were reported re-ported massed along the Baltic pkAroe no (Via T7.iif.Vi .vaJ Qf.QnHt. ported massed along the Baltic shores as the Reich eyed Scandinavia's Scandi-navia's neutrality, taking a more positive pro-Russian stand in the Soviet-Finnish war and threatening to invade Sweden and Denmark. But Germans were more worried about internal developments. Supplies Sup-plies from Russia and Rumania were held up by disputes, poor rail facilities and frozen river routes. The greatest cold wave in 11 years struck hard in Berlin, where there were shortages of both coal and food. At this unstrategic time, it was rumored workers would soon be paid IOU's instead of cash. Allies. France was rumored about to shake up her cabinet, something Britain had already done. While the London press still railed at Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for dismissing War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha, Chamberlain turned about and rallied the empire to "more vigorous prosecution of the war." Both Hore-Belisha and Chamberlain Cham-berlain were soon scheduled to unburden un-burden themselves in a secret session ses-sion of commons. By general concensus. con-census. Chamberlain's position was none too secure. In the North Catching their breath duping a temporary lull in fighting, the Finns estimated they had destroyed three, and possibly four Russian divisions in one month. Still undetermined was a battle raging on the Salla front, where correspondents beard that Soviet relief troops were being encircled. Counting $10,000,000 worth of booty seized when the forty-fourth Russian division was annihilated, the Finns forecast a several weeks' lull. . THE BALKANS: Carols Choice Back to Budapest from Venice went Hungary's Foreign Minister Stefan Csaky. In his pocket was a Plan: Italy would safeguard the Balkans from either Russian or German Ger-man aggression provided that stubborn stub-born Rumanian, King Carol, could be whipped into line. All Rumania must do is guarantee territorial revision re-vision with Hungary and Bulgaria, in which case Italy an1 her neighbors neigh-bors will help Rumania if Russia tries to recapture Bessarabia. But should Rumania refuse, her neighbors neigh-bors will not only let Russia come in, but will invade King Carol's precinct pre-cinct themselves. Actually this Italo-Hungarian agreoment constituted an important step in breaking Italy away from Germany. Details of the pact were not published, for fear of "giving offense" to the Reich and Russia. aO Nir-ris i.' V RUMANIA'S WOES J |