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The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill. Oregon W EEKLY NEWS A N A L Y S IS BY ROGER SH A W ‘Sixth Coliniin' Fighting Shifts From Flanders As Nazi Air Force Bombs Paris; Malta Looms as Trouble Spot R elea sed by W estern N ew sp ap er Union. ■ I t fust had to happen! II uh a ll lha news of "fifth colum n" t r l i i i t i n work- in * in other lands Io aid lha Garm an cause, somebody had to come through w ith news o f a sixth colum n. And, it u « i D r. H erb ert Gesork, I pictured above) professor o f social ethics at A n d o ie r-\e w to n theological school in Boston who reported that w ithin Ger mans herself there is a group of per sons seeking to bring about H ille r ’s dow nfall. H e bases his n eu i of this "sixth colum n" activity on connections u ilh the a n li lli l l e r movement in Gar- many. U. S. REDS: Don't Love Nazis If Italy should move against Great Britain in the Mediterranean she might very likely direct an attack at the great British naval base at Malta. Malta has been on a war footing since the beginning of the Eu ropean crises. Map at the right shows the relationship of Malta to Italy. Vulnerable perhaps to bombing attacks it would be a tough nut for Mus solini to erack by sea. Top left is a view of the harbor at Valetta with British man o’ war at anchor. Below, one of the big costal guns that ring Malta is blazing away during gunnery practice. (S £ C IT A L IC N O T E S .) II GERMAN WAR: Flanders Battle Italic Notes The Dutch-Belgian-Flanders-Artois battle came virtually to an end, save for up-moppings and kitty-corner operations here and there. The Dutch and Belgian armies had been surrendered or finished, and the First, Seventh, and Ninth French armies were destroyed. Nobody came out of it with any laurels save the British navy, which somehow succeeded in ferrying perhaps two- thirds of the British army out of Dunkirk by means of warships, transports, yachts, barges, and life boats—and under heavy aerial fire. It seemed that the German air force fell down on this debarkation operation, for British losses, in re treat, were smaller than might have been expected. Somehow, the allies secured a temporary air supremacy in the Dunkirk sector, and the B rit ish Spitfire machines showed a slight superiority to the German Messerschmitt combat craft. B rit ish morale, strangely enough, was reported as excellent, but French morale did not appear in quite so favorable a light. The German gen eral headquarters was strangely re strained in its moment of triumph. Lille, fourth city of France and its “ Pittsburgh,” was , in German hands, along with Amsterdam, Rot terdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend, Calais, Boulogne, The Hague, Liege, etc. Would refugee-choked, hyster ical Paris be next, wondered the railbirds? Even as these railbirds wondered, H itle r’s warbirds came out of the skies and rained showers of bombs upon southern France and later upon Paris itself. In the first at tacks about 150 German bombers swept over the city, dropping their cargoes of high explosives, setting many fires, inflicting huge property losses and killing at least 45 persons in Paris and its suburbs. The allies promised to repay Germany bomb for bomb in the new air offensive they were launching. NAM ES . . . in the news C. Former French Generalissimo Gamelin was said to have commit ted suicide, while General Corap, chief of the French Ninth army de feated at Sedan, was reported as ex ecuted. General Bodet of the French Medical corps got six months in ja il for abandoning his post in the ill-fated Sedan sector. Thus did la Republique crack down. <L General Robert Lee Bullard, dis tinguished U. S. army officer and patriot, was re-elected president of the National Security league, which favors increased preparedness and is strongly “ anti-subversive” in its hawkeye activities. <L Proving that American isolation sentiment was by r.o means dead, some 7,000 earnest Catholics prayed for peace, assembled at St. Patrick’s cathedral in New York. With the Catholics, members of other faiths— peace-minded, despite war propa ganda-participated. Here were 7,000 anonymous but highly impor tant Names in the News. «. Jean Batten, well-known and well- favored young aviatrix, was exhibit ed as an ambulance driver in the Anglo-French corps, hooked up with the Gallic army. She looked won derful in uniform. All private motoring stopped in Italy, due to government conserva tion of gas and oil. Italy has no native petroleum, iron or coal. Pro-Italians were jailed in Eng land's Mediterranean naval base, Malta. Possession of this strategic island is a leading Italian objective. The English suspended Italian pa pers read by the Italian-speaking Maltese. A minority of Maltese talk the ancient Carthaginian tongue of Hannibal and his elephants. Mussolini said he was too busy to see U. S. Ambassador Phillips, who was toting a message from Roose velt. Mussolini also broke off a ship ping deal with the English, in the matter of illegal contraband control, which put the shivers into London. Italian journalists left Paris. D. of C. AND— White Housings Springtime Is Season of Joy And Zest for Wild Creatures II ith Nature in Her Gayest Mood, Animals Enjoy Their Own Games and Frolics. (E D IT O R ’S NO TE—When opinion* »re expressed In these columns, »hey • r e those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) -- - Thursday, Juno 13, 1940 The American Communist party, in the last six months, has sent $5,000 to German reds, to help them in their underground struggle against Hitler. This fact was an nounced at the C. P.’s national con vention in New York, which gather ing appeared to be unabashed by the Russo-German pact of last August. (This anti-Hitlerism, how ever, did not make things any eas ier for the Finns early in the year.) There were visiting reds at New York from Mexico, Chile, Haiti, Ice land, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. A Mexican delegate condemned Con gressman Martin Dies and his com mittee. The convention opposed participation in the national advi sory defense commission “ and any subordinate boards.” V P R IN G T IM E in the wilds is looking little creatures, and rath playtime. The m ajority of our er clumsy, but there ia no doubt mammals have their young in the thut they thoroughly enjoy life, and early months of the year, and in their play is exuberant and stren April and May it is possible to uous. watch the most delightful games First they poke their noses In among the puppies of the fields. the ground, searching for hidden Badger, fox and otter cubs are grubs; then, without any warning, very playful little creatures. The ull stiffen their fur, making it otter and badger appear to have stand upright, und now they look a certain amount of method in twice their size. With their short their gumes, but fox cubs simply legs also stiffened they bounce romp among themselves in a wild round one another like footballs, abandon. then leup in, grip a mouthful of On a sloping sand c liff near my fur, and roll over and over. They home seven fox cubs came out of break apart, and again play the a large hole; on the ledge just bouncing game, and Just as sud outside they played with a round denly as they started to play they stone, pushing it with their feet, cense, and the next moment all tossing it in the air and allowing ure diligently searching for more it to run down the slope. food. When tired of this they played Fun in the Water. a game which resembled "Follow Many young otters are born at the Leader.” One would run for ward, dodge and leap over all an awkward time, thut is nt the kinds of imaginary obstacles, and beginning of winter, but they are hardy little creatures and appear the others would follow in its tracks; then all would roll togeth to be able to stand any amount of er in a rough and tumble, in which cold. Otters, more thun any other wild creatures, show us that they their small teeth would tug at the thoroughly enjoy life; a plentiful fur of their companions. supply of food makes them con Bouncing Badgers. tented, and both parents and young Young badgers are among the play the most delightful games. most amusing cubs to watch at What appeared to be a large play. With their bold black and brown ball was floating gently white markings they are quaint- down stream, hardly making a > W ise and Otheruiita *T 'H E hardest tumble a man * cun take is to full over his 1 own bluff. Consistency Is a fe w el which pawn brokers refuse to recognise. We should be kind to poor old worn-out horses. There are some men who put their shirts on them. Intelligence test (for g irl): Can she refuse a kiss without being deprived of It? No, n grass widow is not a woman whose husband died of hay fever. Some girls are called gold diggers, but they ure faithful to the last fiver. ripple as it swept along. Suddenly the ball seemed to burst open with a loud splash, and four excited ot ters with their bright, eager eyes well above the water, started swimming round one unother. One leaped right out of the streum und over its companions to dive on the other side, und us they floated along this acrobat made circles around them, those below trying to grip it us it passed over. Then they ull joined up again, and seemed to be having a struggle as to which could pull the others un der the surface, a sort of spirited ducking game. They continue to play until all are tired. Then the parents lead their young off to a well-hidden lair, where they all sleep until hunger and high spirits call again. —Oliver G. Pike in London Tit- Bits. 5 k ANTI-ROOSEVELT: On Campaign Wendell Willkie said, out in Den ver, * I'd love to go to the people against that fel low." “ That fel- ' lo w ” m e a n t Roosevelt. To get I rid of Roosevelt, Willkie felt, was the only way to unite the nation against the totali ta r ia n th re a t. W illk ie w as equally hard on Hitler. He called Wendell Willkie the Fuehrer a “ m a d m a n.” Planes and guns. said Willkie, are not built by emotional appeals over the radio. “ We have confused liberty with license,” added the Repub licans’ dusky equine. But Candidate Dewey, in New York, characterized certain of Roosevelt’s defense measures as “ progress in the right direction.” He added, in sorrow, that much re mained to be done. Dewey had not yet selected a nominator (for him self), to boost him at the Republi cans’ Philadelphia convention this month. Dewey, on the whole, tends to be more kid-glove and velvetine than the rugged quipster, Willkie. Liberals, for some reason, much pre fer western Wendell to the “ O. A.” President Roosevelt made another request for money. This time it was for more than a billion, for the army, navy and civilian train ing program, coupled with a fear that all continents may become in volved in the II German war (he did not mention Germany by name). Roosevelt asked for specific author ity to call up the national guard and army reservists—if and when need ed to “ safeguard” and "defend.” And Roosevelt asked for a corps of dollar-a-year men, to expedite na tional defense preparations. Also, there came a request for a million dollars, to expand the navy depart ment and munitions buildings in the capital. Talkative young Elliott Roosevelt assailed so-called fifth columns in Mexico. Elliott is a ra dio executive. War department plans called for immediate orders to get 2,800 planes, 1,700 tanks, 500 heavy a rtil lery units, and big consignments of anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. The senate voted, 55-4, for a new alien control resolution, already passed by the house. The im m i gration - nat- u ra liz a tio n b u re a u w o u ld be transferred from the de partment of labor to the departm ent of ju s tic e . S e n a to rs Senator Wheeler N o rris and Wheeler, lib erals opposed to the transfer, as sailed J. Edgar Hoover and the G- men, while Wheeler censured the current American "hysteria.” Archibald Macleash, “ radical” li brarian of the Congressional library at Washington, said that the II Ger man war was not a revolt of the masses. He said that, instead, it was the revolt of a gang. Prof. Billy Phelps of Yale, book man of renown, said he’d rather lose the war with the allies than win with Hitler. Billy said Hitler had changed “ Athens into Sparta.” But some 1,400 Yale students thought otherwise. They signed a pe tition asking that America’s isolation continue. They were of draft age! $65,000,000: Battleship COUP IN CANADA: ‘Mosley of Montreal' The $65,000,000 battleship, Wash ington, was launched at the Phila delphia navy yard. It is a 35,000- tonner—1,600 tons bigger than any American battleship now in opera tion. The Washington is our first new capital ship in 19 years. It is 750 feet long. Fifteen-year-old V ir ginia Marshall of Spokane, great- great-great-granddaughter of Chief Justice John Marshall, was the Washingtonian christener. The boat was named after her home state. The Canadian mounted police, turning into a local Gestapo or OGPU, seized eight members of the National Unity party in Montreal, the British empire’s great French city. Most important of the victims was Adrien Arcand, French Cana dian Fascist leader, important in Quebec provincial politics, and op posed to the war. There were simul taneous coups in at least three oth er .Canadian cities including Ottawa. Toronto and Windsor. ART DEPT.: On P. P. Rubens H itler’s Vienna paper, on the 300th anniversary of Rubens’ death, said that Flemish artist was a "German ic pagan” who painted Christian sagas with a fleshly relish. 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