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INDIAN VALLEY RECORD
Thursday, May 9, 1940
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
Nazis Solidify Norwegian Gains
As Fierce Fighting Is Reported;
Britain Claims Sinking 30 Ships
(EDITOR'S NOTE--When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Released by Western Newspaper Union ,
II GERMAN WAR:
Nordic Phase
And still the Nordics fought among
themselves up north -- Norsemen,
Germans, English, Anglo-Canadians
and an occasional Norman peasant
from Quebec. As some of the smoke
and propaganda clouds lifted a bit,
interesting news items revealed
themselves to the American public.
The Germans had captured able,
Norse capital, with an air-wafted
force of 2,000 men. They had cap-
tured Narvik with a few hundred
men. They had taken Bergen, sec-
ond city of Norway, with a corpo-
ral's guard of 100. They had occu-
pied Trondheim without firing a
shot. So much for expert Trojan
horsemanship.
It appeared, further, that many of
the English troops dumped from the
transports into Norway, were ill-
equipped "territorial" militia, or
half-trained regulars, without proper
aerial support, heavy artillery,
tanks, or even automatic rifles. The
Germans facing them, had plenty of
good, new automatic weapons, air
bombers and fighters, anti-aircraft,
tanks, and considerable knowledge
of the Norwegian language. Accord-
ADMIRAL LINDSTROM
"Promises" made his nation shaky.
tug to the military, critics, the Ger-
man leadership and staff work, too,
seemed superior. As the German
invaders worked their militant way
along portions of the Swedish fron-
tier, Sweden recoiled in terror, al-
though German "promises" offered
to soothe them. German "promises"
make shaky Swedes.
Under leadership of Admiral Lind-
strata, Sweden's small but power-
ful navy is being tuned to full war-
time strength.
Sea Losses
London claimed the'loss of.30 Ger-
man ships in two weeks: most of
them troop transports. FourJ.said
England, were captured; the Vrest
were destroyed. Sinking transports
is always a hideous process," and
English sources reported "3,000 Ger-
man bodies washed ashore on the
eastern rocks of asia inlet. In the
Skaggerak, the usually optimistic
French reported the sinking of a
couple of German patrol boats, at
the hands of a flotilla of Gallic de-
stroyers. Rumors from Berlin--and
elsewhere--continued to whisper
that more than half of England's 15
big capital warships were dawn or
out.
But the English countered with
the announcement of five coming
new sea ~ammoths, an effort to fill
up the decimated ranks. These wa-
ter monsters would be payed for out
of the coming fiscal year's budget
of $9,000,000,000, including sales tax,
"for the sake of victory." Exclud-
ing marines, sailors, deck hands,
and flyers, England announced that
its armed and armored man-total
was now 2,000,000.
Norse Notations
Two Norse flyers stole a big Ger-
man seaplane, painted out its insig-
nla crosses, and flew it to England,
where they joined the royal air
force. The incident shows the evils
of drink: the Nazi pilots had been
beering.
C. J. Hambro, president of the
Norwegian parliament, issued a
statement that his country has defi-
nite proof that Germany planned
its invasion of Norway for months.
He also said that the night before
the invasion a German whaling
boat, crowded with hidden troops
and supplies, sailed lute the port of
Narvik---flying the American flag.
Enterprising German troops,
dropped by parachute behlhd the
Norse lines, eddied down to earth
carrying collapsible bicycles, ma-
chine.guns, radio-transmitting sets,
cameras, saws, other tools, and gas-
welding equipment.
President Roosevelt recognized of-
ficially the still undeclared Nordic
war, and put Norway, like other
belligerents, on a strictly cash-and-
carry basis. Germany set up a pup-
pet government in German-occupied
Norway, modelled on that of Ger-
man-occupied Czecho-Moravla-Slv
vakia.
HAIL COLUMBIA :
I11 Term
It looked more than ever like a
Third Term effort by the White
House white father. The President
let out tentative plans for a three-
weeks junket around the country in
June, to counteract the Republican
national convention at Philadelphia
that month. Some of the political
railbirds thought that Franklin
would keep the Populus Americanus
guessing until the very opening of
the Democratic convention, at Chi-
cago, in mid-July. Anti-duodecimals
continued to yammer loudly against
the President's seeming indecision.
Pro-Rooses smiled sagely. Republi-
can Publisher Frank Gannett of
Rochester, N. Y declared that four
more Rooseveltian years might spell
some great national calamity. Mr.
Gannett seemed to indicate that
there was a fiery Trojan Horse (of
purest Norse breed) in the White
House back-room. But Democratic
Senator Guffey was renominated in
Pennsylvania---on the ticket of a
man who was a totalitarian for
Roosevelt.
Taussig Tempest
Rear Admiral Joe Taussig, assist-
ant chief of American naval opera-
tions, stuck his neck out, when he
testified on the navy expansion bill
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 anoth-
er by land.
~Everybody scrambled around dis-
avowing Mr, Taussig, "Cromwell"
of the navy department. Secretary
Hull, Secretary Edison, admirals,
and "burocrats" all talked in wor-
ried, unhappy circles. Senator Clark
of Missouri suggested a court-mar-
tial, to the open approval of masses
of ~laln American citizens,
Japanese spokesmen took the in-
cident with remarkable tact and
good manners, considering that they
are often labeled as F~r Eastern
"Prussians." They merely remind-
ed their public that this was a Yan-
MISSOURI'S SENATOR CLARK
He suggested a court.martiaL
kee election year, with plenty of
"free" talk---to which they were too
polite to add "cheap." Nevertheless,
in service circles, Mr. Taussig
("would he were tongue-tied") is
considered a good man.
PROPAGANDA :
Anglo & Teuto
The Germans brought out still an-
other propaganda job (White Book),
to prove that the English had issued
orders the first week in April, to
seize Norse strategic points. Accord-
ing to the "plan," Norse defense
against England, was to be phoney.
Anglo-Norse "connivance" was the
keynote of this masterpiece, cere-
moniously distributed to the faith-
ful, and to the press.
The London press tried turning
on the pessimistic faucet, to ex-
plain Norse reverses, and English
trimmings in Norway. The news-
papers told their readers it would
be a long, hard war up north, and
appealed prtmarily--a clever prop-
aganda dodge in England--to na-
tive Briton burldoggery. On Ger-
mans, French, and Americans, this
type of gloom-spreading has been
proved disastrous; in Russia, as in
England, it worksI
It's a strange fact, but Americans
know more about their war than
Europeans themselves.
SUPREME COURT:
Pro.Picketeering
The nine, not.so-old any. more,
men stood up for labor again. They
ruled as unconstitutional the anti-
picketing legislation of Alabama and
California, and said that free dis-
cussion of laborite lapses was a ba-
sic part of democratic government.
Roosevelt-appolnted Justice Mur-
phy, now a "sophomore" on the
court, wrote the opinions. Justice
McReynolds, Wilson-appointed, hard-
IY popular at any time, dissented.
First Out
When the Germans invaded
Norway, Captain IF. ,4. Me-
Hale, skipper o{ the Ameri.
can ]reighter Mormacsea, was
warned that i{ he
le/t the ,ha, r.
bor el Trondheim, he wa; on
his own responsibility ,be.
cause of the naval war/arc in
!the North sea. Nevertheless he
sailed and is pictured here as
I he arrived sa/ely in New York
--his boat being the first to
reach the United States {rein
the Scandinavian war zone
since the outbreak o] hostili.
ties there.
YANKEE OGPU:
Doctor Dies [
A sensational New York subway l
worker and union leader, told the~
Dies committee that reds, on the up- i
and-up in labor organizations, wereI
all set to shut down industry and
public services, and to tie up Man-i
hattan, while they practiced with1
firearms id gun clubs. Lots of peo-~l
ple seemed much impressed by all
this. Others decried the testimony, J
and its talkative source. I
Another witness declared that i
Mervyn Rathborne, president of theI
American Communications associa-I
tion, was a dangerous red. Roose-I
pelt had put him on the board of the i
National Youth administration, and
Mrs. Roosevelt had praised him in
her news column. This witness said
that 150 red radio men, on lJ. S.
ships, planned to tie 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
Dies and Mrs. R. are not keen about
one another. Dies also feared herds
of red and brown Trojan Horses, !
grazing allegedly on the pampas, if
any, of Mexico.
NAMES
in the news
Premier Mackenzie King of Can.
ads, on a vacation junket in Dixie
visited President Roosevelt at Warm
Springs, Ga and John D. Rocke-
feller Jr. at the magnificent colonial
restoration job in Williamsburg, Vs.
The premier also sight-saw and
chatter-boxed in Washington, where
he is well liked, and even better
known.
Handsome Sir Anthony Eden, al-
most forgotten, welcomed a "rough"
gang of "ready" Newfoundlanders
to England. They came to join up,
but unlike the spruce Canadians,
had no uniforms. They will serve as
loggers, trawlers, gunners, and fly-
ers. Eden made much of them, the
tactful young Apollo now being do-
minions secretary, in the Chamber-
lain-Churchill cabinet.
Tom Dewey's loyal New York of-
fice reported that the demon district
)rosecu.tor had been away from his
office only 17 days out of the last
66 . Anti-Dewblrds (as the breed
is called) replied that, anyway, the
bright young man got around much
too much for his age. Meanwhile,
Dewey was golfing in Colorado
Springs.
Since the Germans took over un-
happy Denmark, Iceland has be-
come virtually independent. Bertll
E. Kuniholm, a U. S. foreign serv-
ice officer, now becomes our consul-
general in this new "nation" of 100
000 people. Stefan Joh Stefansson,
Icelandic trade commissioner in
New York, becomes consul-general,
here in America, for his historic is-
land home, till lately a Danish do-
minion. Iceland is about the size of
Scotland: has the world's oldest par-
liament. Meanwhile, Lawrence
Steinhardt, U. S. ambassador to
Russia, left the Soviets for America,
on a two-month vacation. Critics
wondered whether this was a "tact-
ful" way to call home our top-nuncio
from that red Moscow.
Capt. J. W. Reegea, U. S. N was
chosen first commander of our new
naval alrcraft-carrier, Wasp. The
Wasp is nearly 15,000 tons, and car-
ries about 1,000 men. This is the
sixth ship, named Wasp, in the his-
tory of the American navy.
GaY. Arthur James, Republican
governor of Pennsylvania, told Indi-
ana editors that Idle men and idle
money might drive a desperate
President Roosevelt Into that Sec-
ond German war. Pa's favorite son
stressed "peace and jobs"; Lenin,
in 1917, stressed a platform of
"peace and land."
Kathleen Norris Says:
A Call for Help From a
Devoted Husband
q Bell Syndicate--WNU Service.) '
sect/l . I bring home o~ce work, Lucie
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
1- EAR Mrs. Norris,"
,] writes a man who
signs himself
"Bothered," "what can a man
do with a wife who is always
the blues?
"My wife is 34; we've been
married eleven years and
nave three fine children; girls
of 8 and 2, and a boy of 5.
Two years ago, just before
my littlest sweetheart was
born, we had a sad winter.
My wife's mother died, and
our boy was ill for weeks with mas-
toiditis. Lucie was up nights~
we both were, and my loss of my
depressed.
"Being a splendid manager and
conscientious spender, my wife did
her share, perhaps more than her
share, in extricating us from all this
trouble. With careful spending and
eliminating her parttime maid, and
with a little luck in business for me,
we have paid off every cent, bought
a new s~ove and radio, and have
kept the car in repair. I am a real
estate salesman, in business with a
brother, and in good times averag-
ing more than $300 a month.
'Everything's Wrong,' Theme Song.
"Now, but by all rights, we ought
to be happy! The children are in
splendid health, the older girl ex-
ceptionally advanced and attractive,
the boy still slight, but gaining, and
my little rosebud the darling of us
all. Lucic, too, eats well and sleeps
well, but she cannot throw off her
dismal moods. Everything is
wrong; everyone else has what she
wants; the atmosphere of the house
is beginning to be affected by it,
and the children murmur to me
about Motl~er's dreariness.
"If I bring home office work,
Lucie complains that we never do
anything social. If I suggest a
movie she says that Ethel's hus-
band works most nights, and Ethel
has a new fur coat. If we make
her join us on a picnic, damp
ground, mosquitoes, flies, fear the
children are eating too much--every-
thing upsets her. If we leave her
at home she is in tears all day.
When the youngsters are hungry she
will watch them eating and say that
heavy, fatty food will give them bad
dreams. If they don't eat she is
beside herself with anxiety and
wants tonics and vitamin pills for
them.
"When I come in at night I call
to her, but she rarely answers. I
go to the kitchen doorway and say
something, and she sighs and says,
'Well, I wish I could feel as cheerful
as you do about it. But the way
the world is now I don't see how
anyone can laugh.' At dinner she
sits perfectly silent, sometimes with
her eyes filling with tears. If one
of the children gets off a Joke, she
wasn't listening, has to have It re-
peated. 'Poor people can't do this
or thai,' she says. Or 'If Papa
loses his job again' and so on.
"Have you ever handled a case
like this before, and if so what did
you advise and did it work?"
C~re Up to Patient.
Poor "Bothered," I can only say
In answer that I HAVE "handled
cases" like this before, and whether
it works or not is entirely up to the
victim of this miserable psychosis,
this dreary state of mind, and not
at all to the actions of those about
her. Many women have an attitude
somewhat like this woman's, only
perhaps a little less extreme. I
mean that they are quiet, dismal,
unresponsible, martyred during the
humdrum hours of everyday living.
complains that we never do anything
,For Wives Only
It s up to the little wile to sup. [
ply the optimism around the family [
fireside, for the man ot the house ]
has trouble enough in this modern ]
business world and when he comes ]
home he needs a little cheering up. I
At any rate that's what Kathleen
Norris says in her current article
written to help one tamily in their [
particular problem and intended as J
a lesson to others headed in the ]
same directiou. I
I And don't think that men don't J
like to hear a little good news when ]
! they come home--tor they do. Good I
i news is com~orting and com/ort]
is important to
They make no effort to be helpful
or cheerful in mood. They will
spend mournfQ~l hours over the con-
struction of an ice-box cake or the
Venetian Blinds to
Simulate Windows
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
HAVE you ever tried placing
your davenport on the side of
the room where there was a single
window? You probably found that
it did not look well, because the
back was just high enough to give
the draperies an awkward cut-Off
appearance, as shown in the upper
sketch. The lower sketch shoWS
how a friend of mine solved this
problem, and changed her living
room that had seemed hopelesS,
rote an attractive, cheerful place.
There are no windows under
those lowered blinds. A painted
box-like cornice board was made
I ~li[~ ~ T~IIII I CORNICE BOARD, I
,Itll~lil!ll IVENETtAN BLINDS AND [
[ [~1~1/[[ [DRAPERIES O~RWAt~ |
[ ~ [AT SIDES. A NARROW I
! g ' the daY-
enport and was fastened to the
top of the frame of the one win-
dow. The venetian blinds and the
rods for the draperies were faS-
tened inside this. A narrow shelf
for plants just the length of the
davenport back was fastened se-
curely to the window sill. The
flowers increase the illusion that
there are three windo~s and add
a cheerful note of color.
NOTE: Sewing Book No. 1 tells
how to make this cornice boars.
Also how to make curtains and
draperies :for every room in .the
house from child's room to kitch"
en. All about slip covers. DreSS"
ins tables from boxes, tables and
old mirrors. You will be delight"
ed with it. Send order to:
"' ]
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
] Drawer IS~ |
[ Bedford Hills New Yorg [
] Enclose I0 cents tar Book No. I.I
[Name '[
]Address .j
Red Cross Prisoners
An international treaty provide,~
that members of a Red Cross unl~
captured by belligerents are not te
be treated as prisoners of war but
knitting of a baby blanket, and then
produce these things with a subdued
gloom that robs them of all charm.
Any woman wiih a home, a good
husband, three fine children, an in-
come that would be wealth in nine-
tenths of the countries of the globe,
who talks of her family as "poor
people," and envies other women
their fur coats, is, to begin with, a
stupid woman. She lives in a nar-
row, anxious uncomfortable groove.
She has built a jail for her soul,
and only she can unlock it and let
the soul fly free.
There may be a physical base for
this unnecessary glumness, but very
likely there isn't. It is really a bad
habit, a custom into which some
women fall, of sighing and mourn-
ing, growing tearful over their own
depressed thoughts, sinking into
long silences, making ,no effort to
contribute their share to the fam-
ily's happiness. They will make
beds, even hang fresh curtains and
put flowers about, but they do it
all with a smouldering sense of re-
sentment and weariness, never
thinking that the old words are as
true now as when they were writ-
ten: "The letter killeth, but in the
spirit there is life."
He Likes Good News.
Even when he knows it isn't true,
even when he knows it is a flight
of imagination and optimism, a man
loves to hear good news when he
gets home at night. No matter
what the events of the day have Big.
nifled, he is comforted, is given
fresh confidence, when his wife
laughs at worries, reminds him of
other evil promises that never came
to anything, and assures him that
as long as he and she are well, and
the children well, nothing can come
along that they can't face and con-
quer. They'll get along somehow;
they can rent this house and move
to smaller quarters, and it will all
be fun!
Some years ago a young husband
and wife of my acquaintance were
in desperate fear for the life of a
tiny baby. The baby had been
rushed to a hospital; the mother,
still weak from her confinement two
weeks earlier, was with her mother.
When the husband went to the
hospital for a conference of physi-
cians he was told to see that his
wife got what rest she might in
the night.
"For we will have sad news for
her in the morning," the head doc-
tor said.
The young man carried this mes-
sage home, delivering it in due time,
but omitting the word "sad,"
"News?" asked the women of the
household. "He means good newsl' .
The wife slept deep and restfully;
everyone slept---except the father.
He sat near a telephone all night.
And in the morning good news
came; little Mark had weathered
the night; he is now a splendid boy
of three. And the family, forgetting
the terrible scare, never will forget
the generosity and courage and faith
of the man who carried them
through it,
are to be returned to their oWp.
country as soon as military exi-
gencies permit. While detained,
they are to care for the sick and
wounded behind the enemy's lines
and, in compensation, be given the
same treatment, pay and quarters
that they receive at home.--Col"
lier's.
DON'T SQUEEZE SURFACE
Don't risk scarring your skin and spree."
ing infection by squeezing unsigh~Y
pimples and blackheads. Just apply
powerfully soothing Zemo--amazingly
successful Doctor's formula which quick-
ly relieves itching soreness and starts
right in to help nature promote FAST
healing. Results from few days' use of
Zemo should thrill you! Its marvelouJ
medication has long been approved bY
leading skin specialists. So clean, daintY
--yet so EFFECTIVE. Ointment or
Liquid form. Used in best homes yet
costs only 35#, 60#, $I,
Boaster's Gold
"All my goods are of silver and
gold, even my copper kettle,"
says tbe boaster.
Hore Is Amazing Relief of
@.ondlUono Due to 81ugglsh Bowels
Power in Forgiveness
To forgive much makes the peW"
erful more powerful.---PubliliuS
Syrus.
Today's popularxt~
of Dean's PiWs, after
s of woHd"
surely must
s evidenCs
Doan's under exactinS -
T laboratnry conditionS.
hess physicians, too, approve every word
of advertising you read, the objective o
t Doan's pills
which is only io recommen,
gs a good diuretic treatment for disorder
t~the kidney function and for re.lid ot
t pain and worry it causes.
If more people were aware of how the
kidneys must constantly remove waste
that cannot stay in the blood without iu"
jury to heslth, there would be better uW
cterst~nding of why the whole body suffers
when kidneys lag, and diuretic medici"
be more
tion would often employed.
Burning~ scanty or too frequent urina"
' non somehmes warn of disturbed kidney
function. You may suffer nagging back"
ache, persist'cut headache, attacks of diz"
ziness, ~/ettlns up nights, swellins, pUflb
hess under the eyes--fee/ weak, nervous,
all played out.
Ups Doan'~ Pills. It is better to rely on
n medicine that has won world-wide oc.
claim than on sometblng less favorably
known. Ask yowr n~iohbort