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Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

over SWeQlSn territory COIlClIluCu,
III was asserted, and authorized
quarters said that France feared
that German action against Sweden
might be imminent.
An official informant asserted
that Allied forces were operating
with NorWegians at present on the
Oslo front and that the Allies were
continuing to land troops without
difficulty on the Norwegian coast.
Despite the necessary secrecy
with which the Allies are surround
ing their operations, the informant
said, the Allies have achieved i'm
portant land and air successes.
He asserted that there had been
notable" slackening not only
of German ship but of German air
force activity in Norway.
The informant said that official
reports regarding Sweden lie d
French officials to believe that
there was a strong possibility of
German land, air and naval action
against Sweden in the near future.
This mornings army communique
said that there was nothing to re-
port on the western front
A military informant supplement-
ed this official version. however,
by reporting isolated German actiV-
ity in the Med and Moselle sectors
Heavy German artillery fire har-
aSSed French advanced posts and
rear lines for several hours yeSter-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Berlin Press in
Attack on Swedes
For War Reports

BERLIN. April 90. UP) - The
German press opened an attack on
Sweden today. warning the Swedish
government that it would be bit
terly serious to permit Swedish
newspapers to continue publication
OF dispatches reflecting on the Nazi
armed forces.
The influential newspaper Nacht
Ausgabe sharply criticized the
Swedish newspaper Svenska Dag
bladet on the grounds that it pub
lished q dispatch from Trondheim
saying that German fliers had ma
chine gunned women and children
as they fled across fields.
THE report undoubtedly originat-
ed with the Jewish president of
the Norwegian parliament, j. c.
Hambro." the newspaper asserted.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Troops Converge
On battle-ground

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April %.
CAPITALIZED and German forces,
embarked on a historic test be-
tween British naval power and Ger
man air strength, clashed on fronts
between the Arctic circle and SOUTH
ern Norway today.
Fragmentary reports indicated
that the Allies had launched a COM
bined land, sea and air attack on
the $500 Germans isolated at Narvik,
on the Norwegian Arctic circle coast,
late yesterday, and that the fight
might already be over.
In southern Norway, British
troops were joining NOrWegians in
a battle line which was being form
ed somewhere between Hamar and
Lillehammer for the biggest land
battle of the European war.
Britain's navy was conveying AL
lied troops. British, French Cana
dian and Polish, to Norway in a
steady stream.
Germany, cut off by sea, was util-
izing every available flying field in
southern Norway to land troops.
guns, ammunition and supplies from
it's huge transport planes.
Allied troops were moving south
toward the Lillehammer line as Ger
man troops moved northward.
Germany intensified its lombard
ment of the entire area of Namsos,
one of the chief Allied landing bases
and AndalSnes. farther down the
coast, to the Lillehammer area
north of Hamar in hope of disor-
ganizing the Allied advance and
giving their own troops time to take
position for a possibly decisive bat
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
SIavs Order Big
Sc ale EvictionS

BELGRADE, JugOslavia. April %.
oUP)-ThiS country where the first
world war started prepared fer
mass eviction5 of foreigners today
10 rid itself of a horde of spies.
Authorities urged all citizens to
Mist in a nationwide spy hunt and
it was estimated that from 5000
to 5000 foreigners who could not
claim legitimate business here,
would be ordered out. One trainloatl
oi $50 Germans was said to have
GONE already Much of the concern
VA over the activity OF German
agents.
The pn2ht Of JugOslayia, the only
country except Alpine isolated Swift
lerland TO have common borders
With both eXpansionist powers
Germany and italy may be sum
married as follows:
The hodge -podge country of l5,-
O00000 Croats. Serbs and Slovene5
Is OVerrun with 25.000 foreigners in
addition to 10000 Russians who set
lied here after the Bolshcvik revo-
luton and enjoy more or less
special status. JugGslaVia has a
German minority of 100000 which,
although it has no open connection
with the Nazi party, keeps its mem
bers unified in such organizations
as culture league. sports, singing
and gymnastic groups.
A close watch is kept on the Ger
man organizations. German agents,
however, continue their intrigue.
1t was learned that police Of
ficial here had been dismissed for
tipping off former Premier Milan
Stoyadinovich of an impending po-
lice raid on his home last week
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

as we'll as the railroad and roads
there, "depr.ving the enemy OF
means of communication from
Namsos and Andalsnes (also British
ocCupied)".
The communique said that Ger
man planes sank one British des-
lroyrr and damaged another, sank
one British transport and hit an
other transport. Of about $4,000
tons. with a medium calibre bomb,
setting 1t afire and destroying it.
A German u-boat sank a 5000 ton
lpplv ship from a convoy OIL
Stuulandet. the communique said.
Newspapers said German troops
had captured materials proving
tnat British secret service agents
had been working for months in
Norway creating anti-German feel
ing and preparing the ground for
English military occupation"
It was said that papers found in
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
II Merchant Ships
Added to German
Losses in Action

LONDON. April %. tUP) - An
admiralty communique today listed
II German merchant ships as sunk
captured or believed sunk since the
first British naval attack on Narvlk.
Norway, April 9, in addition to
ships previously listed.
German ships believed sunk al
Narvik by British submarines AprlI
Is totaled more than $4,000 tons.
1t was estimated that British sub
marines had sunk about 10000 tons
of German shipping since April Is,
Naval circles, replying to German
Claims Of successes against BRUSH
ships, said that up to this mornng
no British transports had been sunk
IN the work of taking Allied forces
10 Norway.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

oay.
French advanced units repulsed
a small German attack, which was
preceded by artillery preparation
east of the Moselle river.
French artillery dispersed Ger
man infantry which was moving
out in an attempt to contact French
advanced posts.
Airplane activity continued strong
on both sides.
German planes made eight re-
connaissance flights over north
eastern France yesterday and
French planes made flights deep
into Germany. They also made nu-
mcrouS Photographic and observa-
ton flights over the German lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Former Jugosiav
Official Arrested

BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, April %.
(UP)-Milan Achiemevic, former
chief of the Belgrade police and
former minister of interior, was ar
rested today and sentenced to con-
finement in the Bosnian mountains.
Achiemevic was a minister in the
cabinet of former Premier Milan
Stoyadinovitch, who recently was
put under confinement in noun
tain town. Achiemevic was sent to
Rogo Tica, in Bosnia.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
S5o.5o0 Damages
Asked for Death
In Auto Accident

Suit for $5O500 damages was fill
ed III superior court Monday us an
aftermath Of Aguatin Santa Cruz
Martinez death in a traffic acci-
dent al Hcbcr April %, 1899.
The 30-year-old judge of the fed
eral court of Baja California died
a short time after a Southern Pa
cific train strucl; car in which he
was a PASSENGER. Abe Hashem, IS,
driver of the car, was instantly
killed.
Mrs. Amelia Zazieta de Santa
Cruz, widow of the late judge, filed
the suit against the Southern Pa
cific company and others. She
charged them with negligence.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

baggage belonging to British agents
showed that Britain has sent many
young men of military age into
Norwegian harbor cities lin order
to have them on hand as shock
troops when the occupation occur
red"
Neutral newspaper correspond
ents IN Norway have attributed
such Trojan horse" maneuvers to
the Germans IN Norway
The official news agency said
German filters were bombing and
machine cunning British and Nor
Wegian positions. cooperating with
German land forces VINO we're ex-
tending their occupa' ion to new
regions.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

enabling him to destroy documents
which might have incriminated him.
StOyadirovich's wife IS not permit
ted to leave her home and not even
her parents are allowed to see her.
The government Is trying to ad-
Just its economy with view to the
possibility of war. JugoSlav officials
will conduct trade negotiations with
several leading powers next month,
beginning May with a meeting of
the permanent JugoslaV-German
trade commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Raj Planes Bomb
German Air Bases

LONDON, April 80. (UP)-Royal
air force planes bombed German
air bases in Norway and Denmark
during the night and started large
fire at Fornebu air base near Oslo
the air ministry said in a COM
munique today.
One British plane failed to re-
turn, the air ministry said.
The British planes raided Aalborg
the big German base in northern
Denmark; Fornebu, and Kjeller
field, also near Oslo.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
KNITTING CASE PUT
OFF UNTIL FRIDAY

MeliO MATHS, Filipino accused Oh
waving a knife so near a country
man that it took off piece OF ms
ear. wouldn't talk" when hailed be-
fore FL Centro Police judge Lee
Nuffer Tuesday, SO the case was
put off until Friday when an m
terpreter can be present. Mean
while Matis went to jail i'll lieu
Of $500 bond.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
CHILD CYCLIST
BITTEN BY DOG

Ell Centro's dogcatcher was Or
dered to investigate Tuesday after
Cecil Ashley of 663 Len Rey re-
ported to police that a small black
dog had bitten his daughter, Doris
while she was riding bicycle.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

1t was reported that hardly a
building was left standing at Nam
SOS, where the first Allied troops
were landed in force-but that the
Allied troops and their equipment
had already gone inland.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
French Say Nozi
Army Ready for
Blow at SWed en-

PARIS, April %. (UP)-French asserted to-
day that reports had been received that German troop
transports concentrating at the Danish island of
Bornholm 25 miles off the south Swedish coast and on
the Norwegan-Swedsh frontier. German arplane flights
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

For reaching most people at
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ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

Tests prove Chevrolet's
to be the easiest steering
column eearshift to
operate. Compared with
the two cars next in
sales, Chevrolet requires
only 2.8 ft.-lb. of effort
for a cycle of shifts,
against 8.5 for Car B and
14.8 for Car C..
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

Because ChevrOlet's
gearshift is operated by
vacuum, it requires less
leverage. The lever and
it's travel or throw"
are the shortest,a and that
means the quickest shift.
Length of Throw: Chev-
rolet, ~; Car B, m;
Car C, 1925.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
City Awards
3 Contracts

Three contracts were awarded
Wednesday by the citys board of
contracts and awards.
Hugh G. Purcell Co. Seattle.
was given the contract TO furnish
the water department a carload
of cast iron pipe Of miscellaneous
sizes, for 1852 so.
Furnishing of two sets Of 1900
ampere network protectors was
awarded General Electric Co. on
bid of S3.02s.
Ace Furnace Co. was awarded
the contract for repairing the roof
Of the Nisqually power plant
transformer housing. damaged by
a transformer explosion last
spring The price was 81 .5s5.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
ERE'S MORE ABOUT
The War Today

dicat-d that the Italians have
taken positions IN the hills b.
hind thu taUns aad that the
ar~a has keceae = 10 snans
land for which Greeks snd
Italians were fighting fercet,.
Both repelnl and klisura are
important positions since hexona
them The Nay les fairly clear q
a. advance upon NAionA and Rsrst
Greek dispatches also told u con-
slant battling in the Porto Palermo
and Chlmars region while in the
mountains north q nogrsdse snow
and winter cold forced virtual sus-
pension of Greek advances
The French situation stil Vas
elouded. but Berlin reported that
attempts BY Niehy 10 set lnte
direct contact with Foreign Min
ister Joachim von Rihhsntrop and
other responsible quarters pre-
sumahlv referring q Adolf Hitler
had been rehuffed
The Ger ana said that
all communications between
France and Germany must hs
channeled through Otto Ahetl
Hitler's representative In Paris
Who Was reporied Ia he getting
TO Berlin shortly. presumably
10 report on the Nich, situa-
ton.
Laval vas believed 10 be sun in
Paris where, according 10 helated
advices. German authorities will
permit the reopening Of the uni
versity Friday Tho institution has
been closed since student riots
Nov Il Five students are 10 he
tried nv the Nazi military authori-
ties on serious charges resulting
from the outbreak
Had weather thanked Ger
man air scti,it, ever Britaia
except for minor attacks on
shipping conveys. u did not.
however, keep the Raj from
again attacking Mannheim
and the big German submarine
base at I.orient
In the Far East United States
Ambassador Joseph c. Grew told
the Japanese that the United
states would judge her by her acts
rather than her words and that
the United States would stand by
its obligations. He made his re-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
Local Lawyers Friday

=. y. Eisenhower Tacoma at
tarney. WI address Tacoma Bar
association in Tacoma hotel Friday
noon. he VII interpret some Of The
provisions q labor laws. with sne-
cal reference 10 the Wagner act.
The association sln not meet on
Dec. p.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
Tacomans Visit 81 States
On l7,000-Mile Auto Trip

Two Tseoms youths determined
10 educate themselves IN the geo.
graphy Of the United States have
satisfied themselves on that score
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20

snd noW are ready "a settle down
q their studies once more.
William a Moorr. r and Rod
enc < Olzendam lr- are home
from an automobile TRIP during
which thev Travelled 1900 miles
using approximately | 800 salons
a. gasoline. and visited 3 states.
which included every section 81
the country but the midwest
To Attend L. ".
Moore - \ former College q
Puget Sound student and Omen
dam Is q STADIUM graduate Both
plan 10 attend the University II
Washington next year. and ss
students once aEain. they vii ee
able q SAY we were thcre" when
mention Is made ~ such places s.
Grand Canyon Yellowstone Ma
tional park. Arlington cemetery
and Niagara Fails. u such institu-
tions as the Smithsonian Institute.
the Mayo clinic and the impressive
Harvard medical school. and Of
such historical monuments As the
Lincoln Memorial. Grants Tomb
and the Great Stone Faces in
South Dakota
They saw both World fairs. and
trod on the campuses 81 30 uni
versities and colleges. including
three women's colleges -Connecti-
cut college al New London. Welles-
ley college near Boston. and Wells
college at Aurora. n Y. They even
took time out 10 see the Washing
ton Minnesota. Dartmouth Har-
ward and Cornell-Syracuse football
games
Visit Dr. Mayo
While at Mayo clinic. In Roch-
ester MINI. they met Or. William
Charles Mayo, son Of the late Dr.
Charles Mayo. one Of the founders
Of the famous institution. who told
them that their trip was sound
and educational and hoped that
the idea would spread among other
students
Famous hand leaders also came
across their path, including Glen
Gray. Ozzie Nelson. Fred Naring.
Jimmy Dorsey. Artie Shaw. Glenn
Miller and Ted Lewis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20

marks a, q luncheon for Admiral
kiohlsaburo Nomura. who IL com.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
SILVER JUBILEE
 HELD BY CHURCH
Rev. James F. McGrath Sub=DeacOn at St. DOna=
 tO's Anniversary Mass

New Haven, Dec 9.-Headed by the most Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe Bishop of the Hartford diocese, prominent members of the Catholic clergy from about the state yester- day attended the silver jubilee of St. Donato's church.
 During the services Bishop Mo Auliffe commended the efforts of the late Rev. Charles F. Kelly, or ganizer and first pastor of the par. ish in 1915. and the present pastor Rev. Edward J. Gaffney, in build ing the parish to its present posi- ton in the community. Rev. John J. Kane, pastor of St. Sebastian s church, Middletown, and first cur ate at St. Donato's, spoke of his memories during the early days of the parish.
 Father Gaffney was celebrant of the solemn high mass. The Rev Richard D. Curtin and the Rev. James F. McGrath, a native of Wa terbury. assistants 10 the pastor, were deacon and sub-deacon, re- spectively. Rev. Raymond J. O'Cal- laghan, pastor of St. Ann's church, Hamden, was master of ceremonies Rev. Dominic Viglianti of New York preached the sermon in Italian, and the Rev. Leonardo Quaglia of St. Michael's and Rev. Silvio Sartori of St. Anthonys parish, attended Bishop McAuliffe.
 At 8 a. m. Father Curtin celebrat- ed a mass for the Children of Mary Sodalities from Italian parishes. At D. m.. Bishop McAuliffe adminis- tered confirmation to a class of l5O young people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
Grand Street Chosen
 For First Standards
 In Experimental Plan
City Expects to Install 65O-PrOvsiOns Made for Additional 700 By Early Spring-City to
 Share in Receipts

hoped to have between 125 and l50 meter standards erected by the end of the day. The meters themselves will be attached to the standards after the latter have been placed.
 The standards are 50 inches high and to each one will be cla1nped meter. indicating how much parking time has elapsed. Each also has a coin slot and sign indicating the parking limit in its location.
 Parking spaces will be 20 feet long. Engineers said that for the average car this will allow three-foot clearance in both front and back. The spaces will be indicated by lines at the side of each parking meter.
 The present installation will total more than $50 meters. The city plans to install another 600 or 700 within the next several months.
 The meters now being installed are here on trial basis. Once accepted the city will receive 25 per cent of the revenue, while the com pany will get 75 per cent. The share paid the company, however, will go toward the purchase price of the de- vices and they will be owned by the city in about year.
 Parking fees vii range from one cent to five cents, for periods varying from 10 minutes to two hours,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09
FRENCH "75" GUNS ON ANOTHER FRONT
Hurl Shells Across MekOng River Into Thailand, On
 Indo=Chinese Base
BY MELVILLE JACOBY United Press Staff Correspondent

Savannakhet, Indo-C Chinese land Frontier, Dec. 9-(UP) - French 75-millimetre filed guns, blazing into action near Savanna khet, hurled more than 30 shells across the Mekong river into Thai land today and brought a blast o1 machine gun and small calibre ar- tillery fire in return.
 Four Thailand planes had drop ped 10 bombs yesterday afternoon an Ventiane, capital of Laos pro- vince.
 Reliable informants said that French planes carried out a re- prisal raid on Thailand territory at dawn today.
 was sitting in trench along the bank of the Mekong at 7:45 a. m. today when the French 75's went into action. The shells were being fired at Thialand airplane ase across the river.
 Soon after the artillery lombard ment wsa opened, the SiameSe rain ed machine gun bullets through the Savannakhet area, and started fir ing shall field guns.
 French native soldiers, who had been lolling under the tropical trees, got quickly into more warlike posi- tion.
 In Savannakhet I was informed later, the post office and other .d- ministrative offices continued work normally.
 Planes We'll Flown
 French aviators at an airplane base which I visited told me that eight Thailand planes which they encountered during recent frontier incidents were exceedingly well flown. They said the planes were of foreign, but not American, make Experienced French pilots said the Thailard pilots flew as if they had had plenty of experience.
 Presumably the implication was that the pilots might be Japanese, flying for Thialand.)
 During visit to French staff headquarters at Thakhek I was told that the Thailand forces possessed excellent foreign equipment but that there seemed some question whether their training would permit them to obtain fufll value of it.
 French officers sid, that they were confident their forces would be able to meet any invasion. For the present, they said, orders are to fire only if the Thailanders fire first.
 Bangkok, Thailard, Dec. @The high command said today that there had been numerous incidents on the Indo-C Chinese frontier Friday and Saturday, and alleged that French forces had fired on Thai troops in the Aranya, Mongkai and Prachinburi sectors.
 Thailanders returned the fire in each instance, the high command added.
 Hanoi, French Indo-C China, Dec. 8 fighting has brok en out on the Laos province frontier between French ndo-Chinese and the Thai (Siamese) forces, dis patches said today.
 An exchange of machine gun fire and airplane bombing is in progress, it was reported.