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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1943)
JO Capital Journal, Salem, Ore, Wednesday, April 21, 1943 THE WAR TODAY a: By DEW1TT MACKENZIE Hitler's hurry-worry conferences with heads o states under his domination have brought him to the puppet Norwegian pre mier, Vidkun Quisling, whoso name smells wherever there are loyal noses. These parleys have been regarded generally as politico-military in nature and designed to serve a double pur pose: (1) TO advertise me ci t ation o a "New Order" for the European continent, which would oltscl the allied aims pro mulgated at the Casablanca con ference and at the same lime would (2) act as a bribe to ob tain greater military assistance for the Reich, at this critical juncture. . The' Quisling confab is the filth in line and it's interesting to note that all of them have concerned areas which not only are hot invasion prospects but Didn't Know He Got Hellman Cairo. April 21 W.R Frank Regan, 22. of Vancouver, B.C., the Canadian flying officer who shot down luftwaffe ace Kurt Hellman, disclosed today that he returned to his base in his bullet-riddled plane unaware that he had downed one of the nazi air force's top fighters. Regan scored his first aerial victory when he sent Hellman crashing to earth. Hellman claimed to have destroyed 32 allied planes. "I was flying near Gabes in company with another aircraft when we tangled with five ME 109's," Regan said. "I attacked their leader. My fire blew part of his wing off and he rolled over and dived straight at the deck. My kite was damaged by his accurate shooting but I got home, all right. 'I was very surprised to hear that it was Hellman I had shot down." The identity of the German pilot was established by another member of the same luftwaffe squadron who was shot down and made prisoner the next day. White Earns Spot With Armstrong ' Los Angeles, Anril 21 m A 'Baltimore negro, Luther (Slug ger) White, has earned a shot at Henry Armstrong, and prob ably will get It hero at Wrigley fic'rl next month. White, a human buzz-saw In side the ropes, hammered John Thomas, a topnolch negro box er of Los Angeles, all around the ring last night in the Olympic stadium while 10,000 partisan spectators applauded Thomas' courageous but losing battle. Thomas, who had won 30 straight fights until the Gary, Ind., negro, Willie Joyce, shaded him a few weeks ago, came mighty close to suffering the first knockout of his career. The bell saved him that ignominy In the first round. The prospect of Armstrong, himself a crowder, tanEling with the windmill White, looks quite intriguing. Promoter Joe Lynch says ho has Armstrong's signa ture for May 22. Hollywood Signs Pitcher Pulford Hollywood, April 21 W) Don Pulford, a righthander who pitched nine victories and 10 losses for Nashville last season, has been signed on a 30-day trial basis by the Hollywood Stars, Business Manager Oscar Rcic how announced last night. He will join the Hollywood club in San Francisco. Credit Association Elects McCormick Spokane, April 21 Ml Northwest members of the Na tional Retail Credit association yesterday elected Thomas Mc Cormick of Vancouver, Wash., as president and selected Port land for their 1!)44 convention. Old forts at Corral, long re garded as among Chile's ancient relics, are to bo reconstructed and put into use. I liable C'"nlin'''"r are among the weakest Jinks in Hitler's defensive chain. The previous talks have been with Mussolini, King Boris of Bul garia, Dictator Jon Anlonescu oi Rumania and Regent Nicholas Horthy of Hungary. Greece is said to be next in order. Now all these countries are in the doubtful class on the nazi dictator's list. Italy is shaking like a bowl of cuslarJ. There's bitter territorial rivalry among Rumania, Hungary and Bulgar ia, and on top of that both Hun gary and Rumania ar.e fed up with the heavy casualties suf fered by their troops on the Russian front. Norway, of course, is being kept in order solely by force of arms. Invasion Main Worry All in all it would seem that the worried fuehrer is con cerned very little with a "New Order" and very much with tightening up his defenses against invasion. His task isn't an easy one because there are many possible invasion-points and he must guard every one of them, from Norway clear round southern Europe to the Balkans. So far as concerns France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark, Hitler likely feels that his pre parations are as good as he can make them. Hitler's other fronts, however, are his headache. Norway wouldn't listen to any "New Or der" and only awaits a chance to hang the German oppressor. Italy as a whole not only has no use for him but is physically smashed already and is being kept going with a nazi oxygen lank. The Balkans, which Ber lin openly recognizes as a con venient invasion road for the allies, present a real problem to Berlin. The Rumanians are bitter over Hitler's award of part of their Transylvanian territory to Hun gary, and his bribery of Bul garia with Rumanian Dobruja. Bulgaria is fearful of the dis pleasure of Russia and, while King Boris chose to take his country into the axis fold, many of his people are pro-Russian. Greece and Yugoslavia are be ing kept in hand by force of arms which the invaders dare not relax and, as already re marked, Rumania and Hungary want their troops withdrawn from the fighting front. No wonder "our beloved fueh rer" spent his unhappy birthday laying down the law to a cring ing Quisling. 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