Show WEEKLY ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW nazis solidify norwegian norwegia n gains r As fierce fighting Is reported britain claims sinking 30 ships IS NOTE when opinion mire are expressed la in these ethcie columns they hey are time of the be news abw malkit and nd not of this newspaper paper released by western newspaper Kw papi union 11 II GERMAN WAR nordic phase and still the nordica fought among themselves rhems elves up north norsemen norseman Nor semen germans english anglo canadians and an occasional onal norman peasant from rom quebec As tome some ot of the smoke and propaganda clouds lifted a bit interesting news items revealed themselves vesto to the american public the germans had captured camtu red oslo 4 X norse capital with an aar halted torce force of 2000 men they had captured narvik barvik with a few hundred men they had taken bergen sec ec ond city of norway with a corporals guard of they had occupied trondheim Trond heim without firing a shot hot so much for expert trojan horsemanship it appeared further that many of r the english troops dumped from the transports into norway were ill T quipped equipped territorial militia or half trained regulars without proper serial aerial support heavy artillery tanks or even automatic rifles rides the germans facing them had plenty of good new automatic weapons air bombers and fighters antiaircraft anti aircraft tanks and considerable knowledge of the norwegian language accord 1 7 X F ADMIRAL LINDSTROM promises made his nation shaky ing to the military critics the tha leadership and start work too teemed seemed superior As the german Iny invaders aders worked their ml militant lItant way along portions of the swedish frontier sweden recoiled in terror although german promises offered to soothe them german promises make shaky swedes under leadership of admiral lind strom Sw edens small but powerful navy la Is being tuned toned to full war vari time strena strength ilu sea losses london claimed the loss of 0 SO 30 german ships in two weeks most of them troop transports transport four ad said u england were captured the rest were destroyed sinking transports is always a hideous process and en english glish sources reported potted re german bodies washed ashore on the eastern rocks of cf oslo orio inlet rn in the Skag gerak the usually optimistic french reported the I 1 sinking inking of a couplet of german pa patrol ir ol 01 boats at the hands of a flotilla fot llla of gallic destroyers st rumors from berlan and elsewhere continued to whisper that more than hall half of 0 En glands glandla 15 big capital warships were down or out but the english countered with the tha announcement of fave coming new sea ma mammoths mam moths an effort jo 0 o fill dil up the decimated ranks these wa ter monsters would be for out of the coming fiscal yen years rs budget of including sales tax for tho the sake of victory excluding marines sailors deck hands and flyers england anjou announced aced that its armed and armored man total was now norse relations notations two norse flyers stole a big cor t man seaplane painted out oui its insignia crosses and flew it to england where they joined the royal air force the incident shows tho the evils ot of drink the nazi pilots had been beering C J hambro president of the norwegian parliament issued a statement that his country has definite proof that germany planned its invasion of norway for or months 4 ile he also said that the night before i the invasion a german whaling boat crowded with hidden troops and supplies sailed into the port ol of the american nag flag enterprising german troops dropped by parachute h behind chi nd the norse lines eddied down to earth carrying carrying collapsible bicycles me ma chine guns radio transmitting sets cameras saws other tools and gas welding equipment president roosevelt recognized officially fici ally the still undeclared nordic war and put norway like other belligerents on a strictly eash cash and carry basis germany set up a pup pok pc government tn in german occupied norway modelled modeller model led on that of ger man occupied czecho moravia v A kia HAIL COLUMBIA III HI term it looked more than ever like a third mid term effort by the white house white father the president let out tentative plans for or a three weeks junket around the country in june to counteract the republican national convention conventi at philadelphia that month some of the political rall birds thought that franklin would keep the americanos Americ anus guessing until the very opening of the democratic convention at chicago in mid july anti duodecimals continued to yammer loudly against the presidents teeming seeming indecision pro gooses smiled sagely can publisher frank gannett of rochester N Y declared that four our more eltion years might spill spell some great national calamity mr garnett gannett seemed to indicate that there was a fiery trojan horse of purest norse breed in the white house back room but democratic senator gulley guffey was in Pennsylvania on the ticket of a man who was a totalitarian for roosevelt taussig tempest rear admiral joe taussig assistant chief of american naval opera eions alons stuck his big neck out when he tes testified rifled on the tha navy expansion bill toa to a senatorial committee he said we needed badly an independent china that we better fight japan with the help of england france and holland and added that it would be strictly a naval war as the yankee buffalo and the nippon whale could hardly get at one another ar by land everybody scrambled around disavowing mr taussig cromwell odthe of the navy department secretary hull HI ill secretary edison admirals and buro crata all talked in worried unhappy circles senator dark clark of missouri suggested a court mar bial to the open approval of masses of plain american citizens japanese spokesmen took the in aident with remarkable tact and good manners considering that they are ara often labeled as par eastern eastern prussians they merely reminded their public that this was a yan M 1 01 AK a k 11 10 P vo genitor CLARK he fl slig a court kee election year with plenty of 4 freall which they were too polite to add cheap nevertheless in service circles mr would he were tongue tied Is considered a good man propaganda anglo beuto the th germans brought out still another oth er propaganda job white B book ook to prove that the E english had issued orders the first week in april to io se seize alze norse strategic points according to the plan norse defense against england was to be phoney anglo norse connivance was mas the keynote of this masterpiece ceremoniously distributed to the batth ful and to the press the london press tried turning on the pessimistic fauret faucet to explain norse reverses and english trimmings in norway the newspapers told their readers it would be a long hard war up north and appealed primarily a clever prop acanda dodge in England to na uve tive belton bull on germans french and americans this typo ot of gloom spreading has been proved disastrous in russia as in england it its a strange tact fact but americans know more about their war than europeans themselves SUPREME COURT pro the nine not so old any more men stood up for labor again they ruled as unconstitutional the antl antic picketing legislation of alabama and Calli california urnia and said that tree free discussion of laborite lapses lapse was a basit basic part of democratic government roosevelt appointed justice murphy now a sophomore on the court wrote the opinions justice willoh appointed hardly popular rat at any time lime dissented YANKEE doctor dies A sensational now new york subway worker and union leader told the ves dies committee that th t reds on the up and up in labor organizations were all set to shut down industry a and nd public services and to tie up manhattan while they practiced with firearms in gun clubs lots of peo pie teemed seemed much impressed by all this others decried the testimony and its talkative source another witness declared that mervyn maryyn rathborne president of the american communications association was a dangerous red roosevelt had put himon him on the board of the national youth administration and mrs roosevelt had praised him in her news column this witness sal said d that red radio men on oil U S ships planned alanne d to tie tic up the whole yankee marine in case of war here was another thrill an ex communist said he feared a red general strike and a second american civil war mr dies himself feared trojan horsemanship but mrs roosevelt perhaps better informed formed in these mattes matters had better be calm mra dies and mrs R are not keen about one another dies also feared berdi of red and brown trojan horses horse grazing allegedly on the pampas if any of mexico |