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Show t PAGE EIGHT PTCOVO (UTAH)' DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1940 Gsrman ' Grdiser Sunk in Cattle Off 'orway Coast BERLIN. , April 10 UJ! The high command announced today the German 10,000-ton . cruiser Bluecher and the 6,000-ton cruiser . Karlsruhe had been sunk in action off Norway. " It was announced most of the crew of both ships had been saved. "Late yesterday afternoon," the communique said, "The German Air force attacked and beat to destruction British warships and transports which were intended to be used In landing: troops In Norway. It was announced the Bluecher first had been seriously damaged In combat with Norwegian batteries, batter-ies, and that laer she "struck a mine field and sank after trie explosion ex-plosion of several mines." The Karlsruhe was severely damaged "after overcoming strong enemy resistance and covering the landing of German troops at Kris-tlansand," Kris-tlansand," the communique said adding the Karlsruhe later sank. It was announced four british battleships had been hit by two or three bombs each In the course of the general air-sea fighting along Norway's coast, and that two British heavy cruisers had been hit,) one by one bomb, , the other by two. i ' PLEASANT GROVE MISS VIOLA WEST Correspondent Phone 28-YV BRITAIN LOSES 2 DESTROYERS ' Mrs.- J. Clarence Hilton enter tained Thursday evening in honor of her birthday anniversary. An enjoyable time was reported. Those who attended were Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hilton, Mr. and Mrs. E. I Jarvis, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Jar-via, Jar-via, Mrs. Ellen J. Pickering of Salt Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Barney Hilton and son Don, Mr. and Mrs. Max Larson, Mrs. Ethel Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Larson, Mr. and Mrs. S. VW Hilton. Mrs. Sam Burns, Margarett and Mary Burns ""and Luana Lim spent Sunday in Salt Lake. M. I. A. stake board was enter-tanied enter-tanied at the home of Joseph Day on Tuesday evening.. In attendance were LaGrand Jarman, Mr. and Mrs. Don Mark Dalton, Joe Hetd-thrich, Hetd-thrich, Harold Walker, Miss Esteile Fen ton, Mrs. E. R, West, Miss Del-bert Del-bert Fugal, Beth White. Guests at the Ray Merrill home on Sunday- were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rob-ert Reese,- Dr. and Mrs. C A. Munns of Brighara, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rampton of Salt Lake, Sunday visitors at , the J P. Fugal home were Mr., and .Mrs. Joseph, Street of Park City. . Principal and Mrs. Karl 'Banks went to Salt Lake Friday to attend at-tend ' the funeral services for Mr. Banks' brother John. Banks. - Mr- and Mrs.-Howard Christiansen Christian-sen of Ogden and Mrs.' Frank Mul-liner Mul-liner of Salt v Lake spent Sunday with their mother, Mrs.: Joseph West. . " , ' - - Marvin Pierson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Pierson of this city and Miss Gladys ' Youngblood of Arizona were married in Arizona Ari-zona on March 2. " Mr. Person is a former graduate of the local high school. - ' , Washington Doy ' Winning Orator SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 0I.R) Robert .Stotler, 17, senior high school student of Colfax, Wash., j today held the western sectional title of the American Legion national na-tional oratorical contest. Stotler, with .426 points, edged out Roy Poole of San. Bernardino, Calif. " Redd Brockbank, Spring-ville, Spring-ville, Utah, was among those elim- inated. . Stotler moved into the semi-finals to be held at Nampa, Ida. BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS LONDON, April 10 (U.R) Brl tain lost two destroyers today in a bold dash into Narvik harbor to., attack German warships pro tecting landing parties in control of that Norwegian ore port. Racing ino Narvik harbor at dawn, a r destroyer detachment opened up on the German ships and met with such strong opposition oppo-sition that the Hunter, 1,340 tons with a. normal complement of 145 officers and men. was sunk and the Flotilla Leader Hardy, 1,505 tons, with a normal crew of 175 officers and men, was sent aground. Forced To Withdraw The destroyers remaining. were forced to withdraw.. The j admiralty communique said : 'British destroyers attacked enemy forces in Narvik at dawn today and encountered strong opposition. op-position. "His majesty's ship Hunter (destroyer, 1,340 : tons) ; was sunk and his Majesty's , ship Hardy (destroyer Flotilla Leader, 1,505 tons) ran ashore. The remainder withdrew. "No details of casualties casual-ties in . these ships are yet available." avail-able." Torpedo Cruiser The admirality also announced that a British submarine torpedoed torpe-doed a German cruiser off southern south-ern Norway last night and was believed to have sunk : it; Royal air force bombers struck a German Ger-man cruiser off Bergen last -night and fleet bombers struck a German Ger-man cruiser three time in Bergen Ber-gen harbor. - "Aircraft of the Royal air force carried out a series of attacks yesterday evening against enemy cruisers In Bergenfjord," an air ministry communique said. "In spite of heavy anti-aircraft fire the attacks were pressed home. One cruiser was hit. and seriously damaged. All our aircraft have returned." re-turned." . ! - This was tacit notification British planes were flying from British bases to attack the German Ger-man fleet -off :': the Norwegian coast. Planes with the battle fleet are under admiralty administration, administra-tion, constituting the , fleet air arm. I jHiugyiff a J U Li U U U 7 Ld LI sol lijt Girl, 11, Cleared In Murder Case LOS ANGELES, April 10 UJ Police who Had 'besought blonde blue-eyed Chloe Davis, 11, to con fess four murders and had finally conceded her innocence, believed today she would soon be returned to custody of her father, Barton Davis. - A coroner's jury yesterday decided de-cided Mrs. Lolita Davis, 36, had committed . suicide last Thursday by cutting her wrists with a razor blade and allowing her blood tc escape after she had beaten with a hammer three of her. four children "with homicidal intent." The ver dict cleared Chloe. ' , Chloe temporarily was in : custody cus-tody of juvenile court, although she stayed at the home of an un identified aunt and uncle. - It was presumed police would ; not press action designed to make her a permanent ward of the court. 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