The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-04-10
BY
FOSTER GILRoY
an Europe Now at War

An Europe Now at War
pslorade, Observation-Disclosures
,otion to be attacked with Ger
, manic brutality, this country, with
. .ns hest army in the Balkins, re-
s snsad TO be peacefully looted like
nsr neiphbors, or like France and
~, tns LOW countries, promptly mobil-
;asd her / SOC, 600 troops, and joined
britain and Greece in defiance OF
lordes of plundering Nazi terrorists
curing across her borders. AL
most at the same hour, Russia,
heretofore considered an ally OF
Eitler-Mussolini gangsterism, signed
= 5-years treaty of neutrality and
non-aggression with the new Yu-
roslayian government. Although
treaties are not worth the ink used
IN signing them since the advent
Of Nazi barbarity, this action at
least indicates that Hitler's savag-
ery is even too sickening a dose
for "Red Joe" Stalin's stomach. A
still further implication is the pos
sibility that Turkey, freed from
threat of U.SSR. intervention,
might cast her Lot with Britain,
with whom she has a treaty of CO.
operation.
Labor Reds Halt Defense
New York City-Addressing an
Army Day dinner of the Military
Order of the World War, William
S. Knudson, director of national de-
Tense production, warned that I'M
less 90 per cent of the alien-inspired
strikes now in process were stopped,
all U. s. defense projects would
cease. Many industries already
threatened by Communist labor rae
keteers are either at a standstill or
will stop work this week. At the
Ford plant 10000 workers are idle,
sl55,000,0O0 in defense orders are
tied up by CLIO. terrorists, and
100000 in airplane dies and ma
chine tools were destroyed by Reds.
United States Steel Corporation
faces a strike of 100000 men that
will close hundreds of smaller plants
working on munitions. A trail of
death and thuggery in the soft-coal
fields ruled by John L. Lewis has
cut production to a minimum and
driven hundreds Of skilled miners
from an area where CLIO. murders
have prevailed for years. In Mil
waukee, Communists have defied
Federal, State and Municipal en-
iorcement units in a 75-day strike
on 45,000,000 Army and Navy de-
tense orders. At Boston, CLIO. agi-
tators threaten to tie up a billion
dollar shipbuilding program of the
bethlehem Steel Corporation. A
Red employee of the Benulx Avia-
tlon plant destroyed $3.50, 900 in deli
cate aviation instruments, including
the secret bomb-sight on which the
aerial defense of the nation largely
depends. It will require three
months to replace the damage. New
Deai hackers Of Communist labor
reuse to take any action on this
reasonable record of Union sabo-
tage IN the face of almost certain
wal with Germany and Italy.
Italy Nears End
CAIRO, Egypt-Swift British vic
.ories have almost ended Italy's mil
.sly value as an ally of Hitler. Ad-
us Aoaoa, capital of Ethiopia, sur
,,saoered with no resistance, and
aa,ile Selassie, after six years in
s eaae, Will again rule his $4,000 .OOO
SUBJECTS. Little remains of the ItaI-
40 a navy after the British attack in
~ me .onian Sea. The Greeks contin-
~. eleir advance in Albania, where
on. itailan forces face further dis
asN. oy invasion of Yugoslavian
M., MINES from the North. In short
.; osr adventure in interna-
Ana. .al brigade has lost to Italy an
Ss.s empire that required 70
'eaFS TO build. =
U. S. Rushes Help
masnington-Immediatelv on the
sssn ns.on OF Yugoslavia by the Nazis
p pau were given young K,ne
ml,ni,, .aat all possible supplies and
tb -aa.ons would be rushed to his
sto.a 'sned people. Secretary OF
artior aul denounced the German
oessa a as a "barbaric invasion" of a
PsS cleVng nation. The American
s,,nnl;s oss announced that med,ca
sent es, food and clothing would be
British Inc first available ship. The
larDa :. dispatches indicate that &
ready . os OF Empire troops are al.
borSsro' VI tne Greek and Yugoslaviar
Vance. W meet the Nazi adj
Floods Threaten Pennsylvania,
tb harrisburg, PA sharp rise ir
manv .oquehanna River threaten;
soms a towns and villages and ever
bant, VI the larger cities along II,
ino s Many families are s a,o,G ~
and Psa homes for higher ground
blizsSe a Cross units have been mo.
lor emergency duty. y
F. Irainees Gain Weight
asrses ' Siais S. c.-Army lif,
Guard h WIN a least one Nationa
er four ' n,oy in training here. Aft,
Weight Of ItV ta OF duty, the averag,
q pound ~ w. a trainees has increased
Station SINCE they left their ho,,'