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Goetrol of Oslo "Gate" Prize-
Over 100 Fpegroes Die'
Guf fey Ahead;
Write-in Vote
Dance Ho JFlmnes
Im Growing fiatltle in Norway
Favors Dewey
Forged 'ProtocoJ
Basis for
4
Campaign, Revealed
Former Leader of
SUver Shirts
Praises Him
Folder Printer in
Same Plant as
Naclhrichten
By TVAL.L.A.CE A. SPRAGUE
v! Weltnchuung nntraosla
UM word ty which the German
fasclata dfsirlbe their unhappl
neaa abont world conditions and
Germany's place in the deep shade
inraded the Ore ?on primaries a
few weeks ago when Kenneth A.
Brown, Gervals firmer and the
ton of the perennial liberal leg
lslator, Sam Brown, came out for
VS representative ajtalnst the In
cumbent, James V. Mott.
Brown's particular brand of
Weltanschauung lnrolTes a plea
for non-participaton In war by
the United States, and the asser
tion that the Jewish race is the
root ot all political and economic
Til infhe world as well as thla
nation: T
His rampalgn, which to date
has apparently ha exactly nq in
fluence on the nncuestloned poli
tical superiority of his opponent,
baa nevertheless provided more
custom for grapevine communlca
tkn systems than any similar
candidacy In recent years.
One b as the Imp reeslon .that In
stead of passing the biscuits In
the fashion ot Texas's Governor
W. Lee O'DanielJ or leading an
orchestra like Vic Meyers, irre
pressible lleu tenant governor ef
Washington, the Gervafs aspirant
has taken the role of fascism as
an easy road to political fame
for a day.
One would believe, in fact, that
Brown was a sort of comic-opera
Hitler were he not so serious.
Buys Five rages lit
Voters' Pamphlet
He proved his seriousness at
the very outset of Ills campaign
when he evoked numerous "oh'a"
and "ah's" at the statehouse as
he slapped down $500 on the
counter in the secretary of state's
office with which to buy five full
pages in the voter's pamphlet.
One, or even a half, is enough for
less histrionic candidates.
On his five pages he has re
printed citations from and com
ments on the so-called "Protocols
of the Elders of Zion," discredited
forgery which attributes ideas ot
world political and economic
domination to a mysterious and
hlKhly anonymous coterie of Jews.
The Protocols, which have had
a turbulent and not especially re
spectable history turing the 'last
40 years or so, have been judi
cially determined In this country
to have a forged origin, and have
been the subject ot frequent and
convincing denunciation by Jew
and. Gentile alike. They make,
however, as Brown will doubtless
testify. Inflammatory propagan-
da of the first and perhaps most
poisonous -order.
Formal Barking X
Denied by Candidate '
Brown last week denied that
his one-man movement, which has
as lta slogan "Peace at any
price," and which declares that
"from the bloodsoaked battle
fields ot France or Asia, there will
accrue Democracy tor no people
prosperity to none, aave JEWS,
baa any formal backing, intellec
tual or political.
lie denied reading Alfred Ro
aenbarg or any ot the Nazi race
propagandists, and refused to re
Teal any ether outside influence
cn hia thinking which wonld tend
. to make him anti-Semitic, or, as
be prefers to have it said, "against
the Jews." .
OH the contrary, hia beliefs
come from "personal observa
tion, and experience, be reports.
Political backing be also de
nies. Registered and filing, as
republican, he has meant only
headaches for the state republican
organisation in Portland. -S.'
M. Labe, former Portland
, (Turn to page 1, eolnmn 1)
Our .Senators i
Ei3n,t Play-Rdii
Salem Senators . scheduled
opening game la the Western
International league at Spokane
was postponed last night on ac
count of mln. They'll try again
tonight, if it doesn't rata again,
and may play a double-header
at Spokane Thursday night be
fore heading for Wenatehee
Friday. "
OTHER TITI GAMES
. At Yakima
Yakima S. -
Vancouver Jf(
Other , Western 1 Xateraticnal
fames postponed, rain.
K. Browi
Charges News
. Is Suppressed
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News Suppressed
BtfAl SE IT DARED TEI.t THT!
1 TRUTH
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HKJtK yet HAVE Tttll
it
Facsimile of a portion of Kenneth
.A. Brown's pamphlet acemsing
newspapers . of "suppressing"
his campaign statement. : The
sword pictured beside bis photo
is similar to the emblem ot tlie
.Silver . Khirts, - anti-Semitic or
ganization headed by William
Dndley Feller. '
. I
- 10:30 a.m.. Public norary
Found Hugh Morrow, the librar
ian, who knowa all abejut tEe ln-
siaesoi ienerai
lockups Leaven
worth and, Mc
Neill's island be
cause he was a
. . I librarian in both
of them, worried
because business
men don't realize
what the library
v"- a can ao xor mem.
He told us about
A local grocer
Fsol H- Bum. Jri who w s , sur
prised to find the library bad an
Encyclopedia of Foods, so sur
prised such a book existed that he
ordered one for the benefit of his
clerks, s .-":"
11 a.m., Capitol ground s
Walked on the grass and were re
buked by Reginald Llndon, re
tired gardener and amateur sleuth
who Is as English as bloaters for
breakfast. He remarked "that
there were quite a few weeds in
the capitol lawn and we told him
the state's slow moving weeders
probably hadn't reached this side
yet. Mr. Llndon essayed that
weeders should be paid by the
Weed and not by the hour and
then told us of a time when the
adjoining counties of . Lancashire
and Cheshire each paid a bounty
tor rats, and rat hunting lmmedi-
(Turn to page 3, column 2) ,
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Paul i Hauser9 Column
Fulkerson Memorial to Be:
Dedicated, School Play Day
Dedication ceremonies for an
agate bench, to be erected on the
courthouse lawn in memory ot the
late County School Superintendent
Mary L Fulkerson will be held at
9 a.m. during the county school
"Play Day" on May 3. according
to program announcement mad
yesterday ( by Mrs. Grace Sehon,
chairman ot the dedication com
mittee. '
Speakers at the dedication cere
mony, at which children from all
county schools will be present,
will include Governor Charles A.
S prague. Rex Putnam, state sup
erintendent ot pubUo instruction.
The bench, which has been pur
chased with contributions made
by publis j school pupils through
out Marion county, will be erected
on -the cast lawn ot the court
house, and will bear a marker
commemorating the services of
Mrs. Falkersca, wha died in April,
1939, to the county schools and to
the state school syitem.
Preliminary announcement ot
the exercises to be sefit out today
to all schools uotos that ehould
the county school "Play Dayt on
May 3 be postponed! for reason cf
Inclement weather, the dedication
Toll May Ris
To 150; Blaze
Traps Throng
Bodies Are Piled up Like
: Cord wood ; Fire Starts
in Moss on Walls
Most of Victims Heaped
Near Bandstand; 30
Hurt Escaping ,
NATCHEZ, Miss-, April 24-(Wednesday)Jv-Sherlff
.- Hvde
R. Jenkins said at least 100 ne
groes were burned to death In a
dance hall fire here last night,
Others estimated the death
toll at possibly as mmv an ISO.
R. E. Smith, managing editor of
the Natchez Democrat, said the
bodies were "piled up like cord
wood." .1
Smith said that shortly before
2 a. m. more than 100 bodies
had been taken from the ruins
and that the toll might reach a
maximum of 150.
He said 10 of the 12 members
of the Walter ' Barnes orchestra,
of Chicago, playing for the dance,
perished.
All doctors in the city were as
sisted by firemen in giving first
aid to those horned or injured.
Almost all the negro popula
(Turn to Page 3, Col. 3)
Debaters Will Go
East, Is Decision
Fund Still $150 Shy but
More Coming; . School
Board to Assist
'On to Decatur is the cry ot
the four members of the Salem
high school debate team who de
cided at a meeting yesterday that
they will go to the national debate
tournament in Decatur, ill., even
if they mnst "go on sardines and
crackers."
Although the needed funds are
not yet raised, the goal is now in
sight, with contributions yester
day leaving but about $150 lack
ing toward the needed $500.
The Salem school board last
night voted to contribute to the
campaign, the amount to depend
on the further response of indi
viduals and clubs. Board members
voiced hearty support of trip and
indicated their belief that resi
dents of Salem would be interest
ed enough in having the state rep
resented in the tournament to
make personal donations to cover
the amount needed.
Other donations yesterday In
cluded $30 by members of the Ki
wanis club, $10 by the high school
home economics dub, $10 by The
Oregon Statesman, $5 each from
Valley Motor company. Dr. Kin
ley Adams and Herman Lafky.
Team members, Zeral Brown,
Emogene Russell, Jack Hayes and
Don Burton, with Mrs. H. A; Rus
sell as chaperon, will leave to
morrow by train.
Highway Employe
Killed by Shovel
OlfeGON CITY. April 23-a)-A
falling construction shovel fa
tally crushed Claude E. Wright,
41, of Rex, Ore., late today. ; '
Wright, employe of the state
highway department, was inspect
ing the Water (street viaduct pro
ject on the eastside Pacific .high
way. Jack Taggert, operating the
shovel for the Barham construc
tion company ot Salem, said the
gears in the boom slipped. .
exercises will similarly be post
poned. Each school attending the cere
mony will bring a wreath of flow
ers to be presented in the course
of the dedication, and names of
all pupils contributing to the me
morial will be inscribed in a per
manent record to be kept in the
courthouse. . , ;
Complete program beginning at
9 a.m. as announced by Mrs. Se
hon Is as follows: Selection,' Sa
lem high school band; invocation
Father Alcuin; singing of "Ore
gon. My Oregon" by school chil
dren under the direction of Dr.
Dan V. Poling addresses by Gov
ernor Sprague, State Superinten
dent Putnam, County Superinten
dent Agnes C Booth, and by Dr.
J. JL. Churchill, a co-worker and.
friend; reading of newspaper ed
itorial concerning Mrs. Fulkerson,
by, Beulan Chapman, valley edi
tor, Tho Oregon Statesman; "Go
in' Heme,? sung by jRex Hartley;
reveille. Stay ton band; presenta
tion ot. the memorial, Cilvin Hil
debrandt. Central Howell school;
unveiling, Mt. Angel, school pu
pils; acceptance address. County
Judge' John C.. Siegmund; bene
diction. Dr. Dan V.-JFollag;. and
tar itayton band, -1
Cooke Leads Ladner for
GOP Senator Choice
in Pennsylvania
Roosevelt Unopposed Is
Given Endorsement;
; Some for Garner :
PHILADELPHIA, . April 24-(WednesdayWjpw-Senator
, . Jo
seph F. Guf fey steadily widened
his lead today in a Pennsylvania
primary ; fight for democratic
nomination for US senator despite
opposition by other state lead
er of his own -'.partz.. -
Meanwhile, ;' the ' unofficial
tabulation from more than a third
of the state's districts showed an
organization-backed . republican
slate far; ahead in races for US
senate, state treasurer and audit
or general nominations. .
. .Democrats in 2137 of 8105 dis
tricts gave Franklin D. Roosevelt
184,127 rotes ' on a presidential
preferential ; ballot on which his
was the only name filed. .It was
placed on the ballot by the demo
cratic state committee, which en
dorsed him for a third term. The
president's consent was not neces
sary. Write-ins on the democratic
ballot gave Vice President John
N. Garner 25 votes, James A.
Farley 4 and Secretary of State
Cordell Hull 4.
Most of Write-in
Vote I -for Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
was running far ahead in a write
in on the republican presidential
preference ballot. The republi
cans filed no names but left
spaces so names could be written
in. ' Returns from 1215 districts
gave: t -
Dewey 1813. Governor Arthur
H. Jones : 511, Senator Robert
A. Taft 71, Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg 18, Frank Gannett 7.
Roosevelt got 18 write-in votes
on the republican ballot in the
early returns.
In the hard-fought democratic
contest for senatorial nomination
Guffey held an early lead over
his chief rival, Walter A. Jones,
fellow Plttsburgher.
Unofficial tabulation - from
3801 of the sUte's 8105 districts
gave: - ' --
flsffey 193,518.
Jones 138,649.
Republican organlxation-backed
Jay Cooke, Philadelphia city
chairman,' was even farther ahead
of his chief rival, Albert H.
Ladner, Jr.. Philadelphia attor
ney, for republican senatorial
nomination.
Returns from 2935 districts
gave:
Cooke 281, 686.
Ladner 83,053.
Convict Recently
Here Recaptured
OAKLAND. Calif., April 23-6R
-Jack Davis, 22, alias Jack Rog
ers, who was recaptured several
hours after he had beaten his
guard , and escaped by Jumping
through a train window, was ac
cused '. of . robbery, felonious as
sault and escape tonight. - . .
W. E. Carlton, Los Angeles
sheriff's deputy from ; whose
custody Davis got away,' filed the
complaints in Oakland.
The prisoner, who . was being
returned, to . Los Angeles . from
Salem, Ore., leaped from the train
last n -ght near - - Mount :. Eden,
south of Oakland. He was found
later, hiding in the brush not far
from the railroad tracks.
H had been sentenced to a
road camp for . a Los Angeles
burglary, fled . the camp - after
serving 14 months, and was
finally- picked up in Oregon tor
burglary, - where he- served an
eight-months sentence. He was
being returned to Los Angeles to
complete bis sentence.
Deputy Carlton said be had
accused the young , prisoner of
robbery because Davis took his
(Turn to Page 8, Col. 8)
McSIuinville Man
Is Electrocuted
OREGON CITY, April ttWf
A home made wiring project con
tacted a 6900-volt Portland Elec
tric Power company transmission
circuit today and electrocuted
Donald Phillips, 24, of McMinn
Tille. -y'
The youth was assisting bis
brother-in-law, ' Frank Wtnkle
xnan, Redland farmer, string a
line across the road from the
house to the barn. - .
: It fell on the utility company's
circuit, knocking Phillips and Er
nest Keller, one of the helpers,
to the ground. Heavy gloves In
sulated Keller from the shock.
Softbai: Strikes,
ICilIs Boy Pitclier
BOZEMAN, Mont,, AprU 23.-(5-Struck
by a batted softball,
nine-year-old Archie l.B. "Jimmie"
Johnson died tonight while lelng
carried to a hospital. . -
He was a pitcher ta a neighbor
hood Softball irame. After ha was
'struclt he ran about 60 -feet to
ward bis nearby tomi, then col
japBO;!;' .'' : ? ,"x"v":' ."..'-?'
Mexico Crowd
Bound for US
Anti-American Prejutlice
Voiced by Rioters at
Hermosillo Station
Almazan Partisans Aver
It's Work of Camacho
Political Faction
I 1
NOGALES, Aris April 23.-CP)
A yelling pistol-shooting crowd
of Mexicans stormed a United
States-bound Southern' Pacific
train at Hermosillo, " Sonora, to
day, frightened American tourists
and threatened two air Jorce gen
erals prominent in the Mexican
presidential campaign.
Gen. G.ustavo Leon and Gen.
Alfredo Lezama charged upon ar
rival here that .the disorderly
demonstration at Hermosillo, the
state capital, was Instigated , by
'supporters of Avila Camacho, pro-
governmoat candidate for presi
dent. The generals are leaders in
the campaign of the anti-admin
istration candidate, Juan Alma
zan.
General Lezama reported the
train was surrounded by 300 men
when -it pulled into the Hermosillo
station. After firing pistols in the
air and screaming insults,' some
of the men invaded Ihe train,
seized luggage and damaged prop
erty, Lezama said.
Luis Castellan es, Los Angeles
attorney, said the demonstrators
cried in Spanish: "Down with Ala-
j Turn to page 8, column 7)
Autoist Survives
Dive of 350 Feet
Cowden Car Comes to Rest
in Tree, He Escapes
Merely Bruised'
.HOOD RIVER, April 23.-UPY-
J. W. Cowden, 30, of Eugene,
drove bis automobile over a 350-
foot sheer cliff on the Columbia
River highway early today and
lived to tell about it.
The car came to rest in a tree
at the edge of the Union Pacific
right-of-way.
Horrified witnesses summoned
help and Cowden, still conscious,
was extricated and rushed, to a
hospital here. He was released
this morning with nothing more
than a few bruises to show for his
high dive.
He explained car lights failed
and the car was over the bluff
before he could stop.
LA GRANDE. Ore., April 23.-
(-Truckdriver Robert Krause,
22, Elgin, leaped to safety from
the .cab of his truck last night
after it skidded through a guard
rail. The vehicle plunged into the
Minain canyon between Elgin and
Minam. . . -
JCrause escaped with minor in
juries.
Rotting Timbers
Are new Mystery
TILLAMOOK. April 2S-UPV-
Rotting timbers and rusted bolts
from the wreckage ot an unidenti
fied ship poked out of the sand
at Elmore park near Rockaway
today. - j ... . .
Veteran residents could not re
call a disaster In the immediate
vicinity and believed it might
have occurred before white set
ters came to the Tillamook coun
try. A sailing schooner called the
Antelope went ashore about a
mile, from the park 40 years ago.
WPA MEN NOT
Tltls photograph allegedly showing WPA workers "bitched to a flow on a garden project
irnsviHe, OklaM led to an investigation by the district WPA STiixnrl'or who later atJmitlcd
- tUint was based ca fact ari rrtrali tii frctice woulj bo Ucv'-CaBci-IIS jLoio.
Sweden and
Rep
orted Next Victims;
British Steamer Mined
Second Vessel Missing;
f j f - ; Launched by England Undergoing Tests;
n aii:.jt -ji
I PARIS, April 23.(AP) The dangers of a spread of
the European war jintoj two now-neutral spots Sweden and
Yugoslavia were Reported to have been brought into sharp
relief at the two-daiy, eighth meeting of the allied war coun
cil ending today. J v !
I1 Sources close to the French foreign office said the po-
Hollywood lions
Qub
0rg
anizes
33 Charter Members Are
j Listed; Wednesday
Meeting Day
The Hollywood district of Sa
lem and business section north of
the city limits acquired a booster
organization of their own last
night when the Holly wood-Salem
Lions club was formally organized
and 33 charter members signed at
a meeting at Shattue'a Chateau.
The new club s membership ter
rltory was tentatively! established
as i the area south of Belmont
street between 15th street and
Broadway and extending north of
the city limits. Membership was
opened to men having either bus
iness or residence addresses in
this area. i
i Wednesday n o o nj beginning
next week, . was adopted as the
club's regular meeting time.
Earl H. Mootry was elected
president of the new Iclub. Other
officers are R. A. .'Dtck" Meyer,
first tlce-presidentf Ray J. Stum-
bo, second Tice-presidentj Rr.- S.
Raynor mlthiHi secretary-treasur
er: i ii. . Rohiand, Lion tamer;
Lloyd L. Forrette, tall twister;
Dan O. Hammond, W N. Jones.
William Bilven and G. M. Slentx,
directors, i ,
! Other charter members are J.
L. Batdorf, E. A. Bradfield. Fred
Davis, Bill Davis, Glenn E. Dull,
R. A. Forkner, D. C. Fulfer, C. A.
Gies, Harold T. Gillespie, H
Jacobsen. Roscoe Keller, Maurice
Klinger. A. J. Crose.l Ben Lam
bert, Albert W. Lindbeck, Milton
Parker, Don B. Patton, Frank B.
Patterson, Joe Sealey, V. L.
Seamster, T. D. .Smith, W. H
it (Turn to rage a, coi. i)
Head G-Man
Given
Award in
Science
S WASHDMGTON, April 2Z.-UP-
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
federal bureau of investigation,
received the public welfare medal
of the National Academy of
Sciences tonight for the applica
tion of scientific methods in the
war on crime. j.., I
On the same occasion the
academy's annual dinner Dr.
Frank: . R. Lillle of Woods Hole,
Mass.; was presented! the acad
emy's Agassis medal for outstand
ing work In the study of the
oceans. A Swedish., scientist, Dr.
A. H. Westergaard, of Stockholm,
was awarded the Charles D. Wal
cott medal for geological studies
of Sweden. 1 .
in accepting the welfare medal
Hoover declared that the use of
scientific methods in crime detec
tion has been a battle against
"scorn and ridicule" and "annoy
ing interruptions." Since estab
lishment of the bureau's technical
laboratory In 1932, he said, .the
FBI agents often had been "ironi
cally depicted as Impractical
young . men pursuing criminals
while clad in academic! gowns.! K
MULES, USED TO PULL PLOW
Yugoslavia
Five new Battleships
c.:r.n..:r:.:-'' ''4.
Ollucal and military; leaders :of
Great Britain and France, joined
for the; first time by representa
tives of . German-conquered Po
land and German-occupied Nor
way, considered the present state
of the war and studied preliminary-plans
for the future.;
Earlier in the day French mil
itary commentators reported
there was evidence of Increasing
German pressure on Sweden in
German press and radio cam
paigns. ' - -
While the situation in Yugosla
via was declared to be less tense
at the moment, the foreign office
source said the Balkan country
continues to lie within the danger
zone. He said, however, that
slackening rf Italian press criticism-
had dispelled part of the
anxiety for the time being. - -
LONDON, April 24-(Wednes-day)-(A)A-
miner sank the 1969
ton British steamer Lolworth off
the southeast coast of England
late last night and the fate of
another " ship, also, reported
mined, was a mystery early today.
The sinking - of' the Lolworth.
with the loss of two crewmen
and injuries to eight others, fol
lowed a big aerial battle. Monday
night off the English coast when
mine-laying : German warplanes
flew low over the Hames and
Humer estuaries. v---i
tA lifeboat went toUhe assist
ance ot the Lol worth's crew but
another -craft which put out in
search of the - second vessel re-
(Turn to page 3, column 8)
Jones and Spouse
Receive Sentences
: I
- ' ' . ' f
30 and 15 Years Decreed;
Woman Moving Factor
in Crime, Belief ,
PORTLAND, Ore., April 2 3-GP)
A young. woman, condemned by
the court as the "moving factor"
in at least one crime, and her hus
band reelered combined terms of
4 S years today for two Oregon
bank robberiesv .
Federal ' Judge James A. Fee
sentenced William" Jones, 32, of
Woodbnrn, who admitted holding
up the Canby and St. Paul banks,
to "30 years In a federal prison.
Myrtle Jones, 2 8 , convicted of
complicity in the Canby : invasion,
must serve 15 years.
Discussing the 11000 Canby
robbery last November 9, Judge
Fee- said:, : ' -i '
"I belleva the woman was the
moving factor. I do not believe
the other: defendant would have
done It without her. She is more
dangerous than her companion.'
Jones, wounded and captured
by the St, Paul bank cashier Feb
ruary 21, dropped to a courtroom
bench to comfort his tearful wife.
"Goodbye, kid, he said, i . i
, Mrs. Jones, who testified her
husband forced her Into the crime,
was convicted at the Pendleton
court term.' A Portland jury fail
ed to agree at her first trial. -
"Although I do not think Jones
was the moving factor, he was not
man enough to control his own aft
fairs," the judge said. , ''
neer Col
the com-
Three Fronts
Are Outlined
In War News
Land,1 Sea and Air -Fight
Under way ; Trondheim
- Is Second Front ;
' -Tv n
Skagerrak Again Active
Scene; British Budget
Getting Attention
(By The Associated Press)
Nbrwegian allies battled Tuesday
uigni tor me gate" to Oslo in
the most significant nf Bi-i0. "
grim and gory combats by land.
w a air on which may binjre
the future of invaded Norwar. ,
To Britons, the fitrhtin? in
way was the most sensational
manifestation of a war newly-designated
by one unofficial unokon-
man -as one against .the "whole
German people" not merely the
nasi regime of Adolf Hitler.
-That struggle, the British were
Informed officially, will cost them
about 110,000,000,000 for the
next fiscal year and will mean
drastic Increases in taxes that al
ready are immense.
The British war i office said of
the Norwegian fighting merely
that the allies are resisting
enemy (pressure" In the south
of Norway, but Germany acknowl
edged for the first time that Brit
ish and German troops were fight
ing in central Norway, and re
Ports from Stockholm and vari
ous unofficial sources filled out
this gigantic Jig-saw of the
Scandinavian battle scene: '
Major Battle Is
to North f Oslo
'A major battle taking shape j
some , 90 miles north of Oslo at
and aronnd Llllehammer;
An allied flanking movement in
the vicinity of Hamar, 60 miles .
from Oslo;
' A sharp engagement resulting
from a German counter-attack
north of the west-coast city of
Trondheim; and
A battle among planes and war
ships iny the Skagerrak off Nor
way's southern and Sweden's
western coast.
: In the south-central Norwegian
land fighting,, Important despite
indications that comparatively
small numbers of men are engag
ed, the Germans were portrayed
as seeking to cut the railway to
Britain's debarking points on the
west coast while the British were
striving, to fight clear of the rug
ged hillJ country to pour onto tte
plains - toward Oslo.
Trondheim Region
Objective In West I
On 'the west coast, the British
aparently were. trying to envelop
th region of German-held Trond
heim with troops landed to t h e
north, 1 and the Germans '.
striking back.
- Further north, Swedish reports -said
the Germans firrlsnn mt Vor'
vik was ringed by British and Nor
wegian troops and British war
ships. -. (-.!? r.
Heavy' unfire resonndett ntt
the western coast of f Sweden la
what was described as; two new
battles In the Skagerrak, the most
severe since Germany , invsfled
Norway April 9. '
- Destroyers could be seen speed
ing1 -past coastal lookont nnfnti
with guns roaring while bombing
km J . . A 1 - M -
hiu . ucuude manes Hrimn :
overhead. :
ReoOrta reach in r Rcrmn.hlil
Olkln mtrt fhat Vrtrwccrl a t i
uuenammer sector were being
threatened from both north ani
south : by swift-wheeling German
zorces. - .-
Alfred Duff x Cooner. former
British war secretary and former
first lord of the admiralty, called
in a St. George's day address for
defeat of the whole German peo
ple and warned that a defeated
Germany need not expect sympa
thy bT "Whininr and rranllnr.";
as be described them at the Ver
sailles, conference after the World
war. .. j s - ...
His expressions reflected an In
creasing opinion among many
Britons, veering from the declara
tion at the start ot the war that
Hltlerism" alone was the foe.
But the big news for British
subjects was the budget.
Sir John Simon, chancellor ot
the . exchequer, presented esti
mates for expenditure of 2,867.
000,000 (nearly $10,000,000,000
in the fiscal year ending next
March II. . . i :
More than half must bo bor
rowed, despite Increases in poet
age, taxes on liquor, beer, match
es, a proposed wholesale sales
tar, and other levies. The in
come tax, already basically 37 H
per cent, will not be raised, be
said, but surtax exemptions will
be lowered.
In Berlin, where the sicking
of two more British transports
and a destroyer and the burciti j
of another transport were rer
ported, Germans professpj to see
the doom of the British -expeditionary
effort in Norway and said
"if the Eritish land" as riauy si
30,000 troops all tie tetter."
The Norwegian' army was
rided ss fcaTlng "secend-rats