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Milford chronicle., 1940-09-06

With the opening Of schools, chill
dren will be spending most Of their
time outdoors until severe weather
arrives. They win be playing in the
yard, on the sidewalks. and II par
ents are not careful. In the streets.
According 70 the Delaware Safety
Council, simple precautions can pre-
vent many accidents that occur to
children. Children can be taught to
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-06
SCHOOLS OPENED
WEDNESDAY With
1883 ENROLLED
367 In Old School; 5S2 In
New, And 139 In The
COlOred School.
IS BELOW LAST YEAR

The three Milford schools opened
on Wednesday of this week with a
total enrolment OF 1888 in this dis
trict. This is just 80 less than start
ed the first day last year. The white
schools enrolled 949, and the col
ored schools 139. These pupils are
distributed through the grades as
foIIovuo.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-06

1t is expected that the enrolment
will be increased by at least 100,
particularly in the eolOred school.
when many of the children who are
now working at home during the
harvest and those in the canneries
during the canning season, begin
their school terms.
Glass assignments were made ear
ly Wednesday morning
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-06
STATE SCHOOLS WILL
AID DEFENSE PROGRAM
Cooperation Wlth Authorities Stress.
ed Al State Supervisors Conierenee

Emphasis was placed on cooper
ation Of schools ID the national do
Tense plans at the conferences of
school supervisors and supervising
principals at Dover last Thursday
afternoon.
The necessity for developing unity
Of effort, loyalty. intelligence, health.
self-disclpline. and character. as Neii
as technical skin, was urged b. Dr.
Il. Y. Holloway, state uperlnlendenf
Of public instruction, as ttho best
educational program ok national -
tense for American schools
EEaining Not Discussed
The conference. however. dealt
cnly with elementary edncatic1 So
national defahae from ehe slan
point 81 training 10 special srr M
vocational education, IS provided 81
Irun e Fsgs 2.Fles
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-06
DAN BREAK At
SMYRNA TAKES
LIzNEMAN'S LIFE

State Policeman Rescues Woman MOtOrist Seconds
Before Wall OF Water Causes Bridge TO Collapse;
Chief Highway Engineer w. w. Mack Lists Dam
age At $25OOO; Other Places Flooded By Storm.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-06

LelOes BGther Ocean City Fisherman DrOlCn In Other
MishGps TO Bring Holiday DrOWniR6 Death Toll
Up TO Three, Storm Conditions Causing High Seas
We're Directly Responsible For The Deaths.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
The Home Front

The primary problem of the United
States is the industrial offensive-how
to make the factories hum in producing
goods for war-goods for the greatest
peacetime Army in our history, goods
for England fighting almost whole
continent, goods for Greece fighting the
Italians and perhaps soon the Germans,
goods for the Chinese fighting the Japa-
nese.
All week this problem occupied Presi-
dent Roosevelt. First he announced a
plan for assuring that our factory y-made
material resources will remain available
to Britain, despite a British confession
that England is about out of cash with
which to purchase American goods. Mr..
Roosevelt said he would consult with
Congress on the advisability of leasing to
Britain goods made on the order of our
Government.
That the White House has little doubt
of congressional approval for this ar
rangement was made clear by Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau. He said
the British had been told to go ahead
and negotiate for new orders right up to
the contract-signing point. They must
sign no orders until the President has
talked over his plan with Congress. The
British gave Mr.. Morgenthau catalogue
of their present needs-S3 900 900 900
worth, including 10000 airplanes, 1000
tanks and uncounted amounts of NUM-
tionS.
To speed up the whole system of de-
fense and war production, Mr.. Roosevelt
then reorganized the defense-buying pro-
gram. He appointed four man super
defense committee, consisting of Will
liam H. Knudsen as production chief,
Sidney Hillman as labor adviser, Secre-
tary of War Stimson and Secretary Of
the Navy Knox
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Noz Joking Ends When British Fleet Raids Adroc Proving Italian

said that his country looks with q
covetous eye" on ships of Englands
enemies that are tied up in American
harbors.
The President authorized the British
Purchasing Mission in Washington to
order the construction of go new cargo
ships in American yards. Agents of Eng
land made the high bid on 16 laid-up
ships put up for sale by the Maritime
Commission. And the administration
studied how this Government might take
over German, italian and Danish ships
in American ports and make them avail
able to England.
II am extremely grateful for what we
have got already" Mr.. Cross said. But
he suggested that the
GrotefuI-But United States might
Still in Need turn over cargo YES
sels now flying the
American flag. He said England needed
more destroyers. And as final hint on
how this country might assist in coun-
teracting the U-boat menace, Mr.. Cross
said:
"Only the United States can supply
the enormous construction we need.
Consequently we hope very much that
the United States will embark on a
shipbuilding program on gigantic scale
similar to the last war. Given that and
our own steady accretion of strength, I
have not the slightest doubt that we can
maintain our war effort at full strength"
Cold, rough weather cut down the Ger
man Luftwaffe against Britain during
the week. But Prime Minister Churchill
told Parliament that the prospect of
was yet possibility Both he and Mr..
Cross envisioned full British offensive
against the continent in 1941, which is
almost here.
Evening star., 1940-12-22

Germans fought the French nation re-
luctantly and Herr Hitler's previous
speeches are being translated and mill
lions of copies have been distributed to
prove this contention. They were de-
feated, the Germans and their propa-
gandists say, because OF the rottenness of
the Democratic -capitalistic system and
the British betrayal Marianne has paid
the price John Bull should pay. too.
The reason the Germans are courting
the French now is obvious. They, like
the British, have covetous eye on that
well-organized French professional army
in North Africa and Syria of which Gen.
Maxine Weygand is the jealous GUS
todian today. Herr Hitler and his po-
litical and military advisers realize now,
more than in the past, that that army,
together with the remaining French navy
and the important naval and military
establishments which are in nearly as
good shape as they were at the outbreak
of the war, could be of greater help in
defeating Great Britain than would be
the whole of Italy.
TcLdNu dHu "CySduu.
Marshal Petain is being flattered and
cajoled by the representatives of the
Reich. But the old soldier has only one
word and he has pledged himself not
to fight his former ally Petain is "a and
will not last much longer. He will either
pass away because If the tremendous
strain put on him during the last few
months or will have to retire before long
for the same reason.
Gen. Weygand is said to be more bitter
against his former ally than against his
foes. He has only one thought: To get
France back on her feet regardless of
what political combination may be neces-
sary for the purpose.
The fly in the ointment was Vice
Premier Pierre Laval Despite all out
ward indications that the French poll
tician was willing to remain tool in the
hands of Berlin, there were grave suspi-
cions in the German Foreign Office about
his reliability.
Laval is a man of unbounded egotism
and ambition. He was for many years
firm advocate of Latin collaboration
against Germany and Great Britain.
He proved that on more than one occa-
sion. He was also, until recently, great
admirer of II Duce. He agreed without
reservation to work with the Germans
after the signature of the armistice. But
Lavals old friendship for Mussolini made
him suspect. For several weeks Herr Won
Ribbentrop urged the Fuehrer to dis
pose of the ambitious Vice Premier. 1t
was believed in Berlin that his strong
-Germanism was nothing but fake.
The time for getting rid of Laval came
when the Italians proved themselves
militarily unworthy; when they showed
|. the German general stan that In the
Evening star., 1940-12-22
WAR PRODUCTION STEP up SEEN VICTORY KEY
Need Of Arms ouon Wishes Of Civilian Consumers
Bv Leslie Hore.Beiisha.

suScor from Trieste to their beleaguered
friends in Albania.
While it is still open to Hitler to dis
patch troops into Italy. the evidence of
British maritime strength in the Adriatic
will be a deterrent to any project he
may have of transporting them to the
scene of operations.
Three Landward Routes.
While the world is perplexed at the
restraint which the Nazis are showing
during the hour of Mussolinis humilia-
ton. schemes for new offensive are no
doubt being matured. Hitler is un-
doubtedly in quandary.
Should he decide to go through the
Balkans. he has to reckon with the
unfavorable conditions of winter and
with the incalculable resistance he may
meet from Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, now
fired by the example of Hellenic courage
and achievement.
To go into Italy wouldn't be to sus-
stain but to subjugate that country.
Italy is short of food and the situation
would be aggravated if Hitler, with in
adequate transport arrangements, had to
provision his own troops with supplies
brought from Germany.
Spain may be to him the most attrac-
tive of the three peninsulas in Southern
Europe, but the full advantage of such
a venture in that direction must be
largely determined by the disposition OF
the French fleet.
There is another means by which the
Nazi leader could render practical as
sistance to his axis partner. and that
is bv dispatch of air-borne troops to
Libya. Even so, however, heavy equip
ment would be lacking.
Britain Not Victorious Yet.
Hitler must indeed regret the frustra-
ton of his great design, which but for
the Greeks might have given him the
glorious East in fee. Hitler, however,
has shown himself to be strategist of
flexible resources. Britain must see to it
that her complete victory over Italy is
achieved before spring.
A year ago, she mistook the quiescence
of the western front for a sign of Ger
man failure. Under the passive surface,
however, german plans were brewing,
German preparations were being inten-
sified.
A most startling and at the same time
salutary warning has been given by Sir
Walter Citrine, general secretary of the
Trades Union Congress, speaking in
Cleveland, Ohio. Except in the field of
plane production" he said, Britain is
relatively worse off than she was when
the war began"
In similar vein of courageous real
ism is the statement of William Knudsen
of the United States National Defense
Commission, that the rearmament pro-
gram OF the United States is behind
Evening star., 1940-12-22

In three days the British reached their
first objective in Libya, Bardia.
Across the Mediterranean, in the
mountains of Albania, the Italians found
the course of war just as melancholy as
they found it in Libya.
One fundamental Italian weakness in
Africa is the insecurity of its trans
Mediterranean communications and sup
ply lines from the mother country to
Libya.
Last week it appeared that this weak
ness was duplicated with regard to the
Adriatic Sea, which separates Italy from
,, the Balkans, including Albania.
The middle of the week brought re-
ports, later confirmed in Rome itself,
that German transport planes were
carrying Italian soldiers over the Adri-
attic to Albania. 1t is naturally to be
expected that Italy would put Albania
bound soldiers in ships and send many
at one time if she were master in the
Adriatic.
The disclosure of the all-encompassing
British sea strength in the general
Mediterranean area meant more than
the day-to-day news that the Greeks
were continuing their previous successes
in slowly driving the Italians backward
toward the sea through the Albanian
mountains.
British ships penetrated the Strait of
Otranto, the 50-mile wide lane connect
ing the Ionian Sea
British Fleet with the Adriatic, on
Soils at Will Wednesday. The ships
cruised the Italian
waters of the Adriatic unmolested and
poured nearly 100 tons of high explosive
shells into the Albanian port of Valona,
which was in Italian hands and lay at
the rear of the Italians line of retreat
in Albania.
The invading warships went only
short distance into the Adriatic, as far
north as Bari on the rugged, forbidding
Italian side, and Durazzo on the AL
banian side. But not an Italian shot
was fired to halt them.
This naval triumph is in large part
the fruit of the recent successful attack
by the British against the Italian base
at laramie, which commands the Strait
Evening star., 1940-12-22

schedule, the worst lag being in the pro-
duction of bombers, which are 80 per
cent behind.
Mr.. Knudsen foreshadowed procla-
nation of legal state of imminent war.
which would give the President full
emergency powers of compulsion to sup
plement the powers of exhortation and
persuasion, if these continue to prove
ineffective. 1t is heartening to know
that the United States administration
is showing a lively and whole-hearted
recognition of the implications of total
war.
In Britain the emergency powers to
which Mr.. Knudsen refers have been
assumed by the executive. but they have
not yet been used in curtailment of
consumption to the lowest level COM
patible with maintenance of health and
efficiency, and expansion to the maxi
mum production required for winning
the war.
War Time Employment Program.
This task can only be fulfilled by
absorbing the unemployed, by recruiting
women labor, by diverting all those who
can be spared from civilian occupations
to essential industries, and by training
an ever increasing number of skilled
men.
For too long it has been assumed
that the placing and acceptance of
orders are sufficient guarantees of their
fulfilment. Even if all heavy industries
in the United States were engaged on
the present basis to fullest capacity,
they could not provide the requirements
of the armed forces within a generation
from now.
Whence, then, is to come the increased
productive capacity required to fulfil
the programs, unless there is obligatory
diversion from civilian orders to war
production, and unless the population
of skilled workmen is enormously ex-
panded?
IT the United States, with its 35,000,.
900 workers, and Britain, with its H.
100000 workers, could be modified in
this war of output against the 10000 600
German workers, the democracies would
have a formidable advantage How
infinitely this prospect would be i'm
proved if the proposal made by Lord
Winterton in Parliament for industrial
mobilization of the British empire were
to be accepted!
President Roosevelt has given an in
spring Interpretation to the task of the
democracies. He wishes to lay aside the
mercenary standards by which the
efforts of great nations have hitherto
been judged. Strength, he has said,
resides not in money but in work.
Can we not see in this imaginative
outlook the means not only of achieving
victory, but of creating in days of peace
. more equitable and harmonious way
Of life?
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Review of Sixty-Eighth Week of War
By Blair BoHeS.

The England carried by Australia New
five would British British
Imperial the Nile pursuing the
reteatng Italians Lbya
land blasted
manned by 10000 troops of Mussolni
Italy itself Mediterranean Libya
threat invasion British ships
Irish English British Adriatc sheled
nued
ferry
ments for the Albania furnishing
axis resistance
continued Atlantic,
against shipping bound contribution
offensive. British
Churchill the British Prime Minister said that next likely
England would have equal with
position
took steps to improve American production.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Bv Constantine BrOwn.

defeated This much is known now def
nitely.
Italy was in a difficult position. Mus
solini did not want to appeal to the
Fuehrer directly because he did not
want to risk cold criticism. But he
would have eagerly accepted any offer
of assistance, either in the shape OF
combat planes or of German gasoline to
be used in his own planes. Neither
was forthcoming The Italians were
allowed to stew in their own juice. The
German general staff never had an
exaggerated opinion of the fighting abil-
itv of the Italians But Italy had served
an important purpose in the early stages
of the war by her nom belligerency.
When she became belligerent she had
outlived her usefulness.
French Cooperation.
All this while the Germans in Berlin
and at Vichy were busy talking to Laval
and other French politicians about the
possibility of really close German
French cooperation.
Ever since the signature of the armis-
tice with France, the Germans have been
busy increasing, by all the means at
their disposal, the hatred of the French
for the British The 100000 French
soldiers who were mobilized in 1899 re-
turned to their homes with a woeful
tale of how they had been let down by
their British ally.
They saw the proof themselves; to
the 100000 Frenchmen the British add
ed barely 100000 of their own troops.
And the German propaganda agencies
made capital of and distributed widely
the desperate kilograms and telephone
calls of Gen. Gamelin between May 4
and MAY in which the French COM
mander implored Churchill to send a
few hundred fighting planes to France
to save the situation. These planes
never arrived. Yet, it was pointed out
to the people in occupied and unoccu-
pied France, the British must have had
them since they were able only few
weeks later to put up such brilliant
resistance to the Greman aerial attack
The French people in occupied and
"free" France suffer hardships due to
scarcity of food and fuel. They are told
! that these hardships come from the "das-
tardly British blockade" The German
forces of occupation received specific or.
| ders not to molest the civilian popula-
ton in any shape or form. Whatever
looting went on was performed in an
official manner, with "requisition" slir
for every cask of brandy or any truckload
of furniture taken out of the country
Newspapers and public men in occu-
pied and "free" France were subsidized
by Herr Goebbels' propaganda agencies
to support the theory that the sole
enemies of France were her former DEM
ocratic leaders and the British. The
Evening star., 1940-12-22

LONDON-Now :hat the Italian
Army has been driven out of Egypt,
will the British advance continue until
the enemy is forced to acknowledge
his defeat? The clue to Gen. Wavell's
predilections-perhaps also to his plans
is to be found in his biography of
Allenby
led up to the ultimate expulsion of the
Turks from Palestine in the last great
war, the British commander was con-
fronted with a situation strikingly SIM
liar to that which now prevails in
Libya. The enemy was streaming along
the coastal plain in retreat. The prob
lem was how to follow him with speed
in the teeth of 'kamsin" wind. to
assure water supply, to move guns
into action, and to complete other
measures necessary for the assault upon
the next entrenched and wired position.
Gen. Wavell is scornfu] of those who
think that to chase flying and pre-
sumably demoralized enemy must be
simple matter.
Nevertheless, he concludes that pur-
suit is the right policy and he quotes
with approval the words of Allenby:
There must be no butts. The troops,
having beaten the enemy, will want to
rest. They must be given as objectives
not those that you think they will reach
but the farthest that they could pos.
sibly reach
1t is this principle of pursuit and out
tracing which the Germans carried out
in Poland, in the Low Countries and in
France. They also followed the Allenby
tactics of interception. avoiding a
frontal assault, striking in from. the
flank, cutting of segments of the re-
treating forces, and holding them at
bay until the infantry could come up
and complete the operation.
Navy Smelling New Tactic.
Gen. Wavell has improved upon the
tactics of interception by bringing the
fleet into use as mobile artillery and
also as a supply column to supplement
his transport services. This develop
ment could with advantage be taken a
stage further. If seaborne troops were
to land in the enemy's rear, his COM
plete encirclement could be achieved.
It Is interesting to observe that in the
complementary campaign in Albania the
Royal Navy, having entered the Adriatic,
is by its bombardment of Valona giving
the same kind of assistance to the Greek
Army which for some time past, by the
shelling of the Libyan ports, it has been
affording to the imperial forces.
The significance of this fresh maEeu-
yer by British warships lies not only in
the embarrassment and, let us hope,
severance of the italian communications,
but in the challenge which 1t offers to
any attempt by the Germans to send
Evening star., 1940-12-22

present conflict they were likely to be
as much of liability as the Austrians
were in the World War, and when the
German agents in Italy reported that
the anti-German feeling among all
classes in that country was stronger
than in France.
The Germans. in the light of Musso-
linis military misfortunes in Greece and
in Africa, are reported to have made
up their mind not to throw good money
after bad. There are definite indica-
tions that the German forces massed on
the Italo-German border are ready to
march as soon as internal troubles flare
up in Italy, under the pretext of re-
establishing law and order. They know
that the British are watching Italy with
eagerness and are prepared to take full
advantage of Mussolini's troubles. They
will not permit the British to establish
themselves in any portion of that coun-
try. But they believe that they need a
faithful partner And that partner can
be only France.
The Marshal himself has pledged his
word not to fight Great Britain, but he
has never indicated that he would refuse
the opportunity to take the field against
II Duce There can be no opposition
from that quarter either if the Germans
should need the cooperation of the
French ito restore order" in Italy. And
once that is done, France can be expected
to be Germany's willing partner to Short
en- the war in Europe by contributing to
the downfall Of Great Britain.
This is the reason why responsible
officials in Washington have ceased to
gloat over Italy's defeat and have be-
come seriously concerned over the pros
poets of Frances entering the fight
against Great Britain by the back door.