^3Li-— SUNOCO. MONDAY. APRIL 22. 19AO. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Just a few minutes ago the British Government made cyVuz. an&tnrr important announcement. ^ is expected to have a vital effect /v on the prosecution of the war, of bwmity >flv^r There have been loud complaints in Parliament and newspapers that Great Britain^)»S 3 »* 0 | turning out airplanes fast enough. One answer to those criticisms was the appointment of V. eplace Sir Samuel Hoare.to replace Sir Kingsley Wood as Air Minister. Tonight it is made known that Sir Samuel Hoare has enlisted the services of a civilian advisor. He is Sir Charles Craven, one of the foremost manufacturers in the world, head of thefs,'rlg*t«fc4« Vicxers-Armstrong Company. In the last war A * he was a commander in the Royal tfiavy. Sir Charles Crayen will not become a Cabinet Minister but he Joins the British Air Council £a A dispatch Irom Stockholm just about an hour ago, reports a quotation from an official speaking for the Norwegian army. He moKes C-Laini that British and Norwegian forces have encircled tne German invaders in two places. At Narvik, thirty-five hundred Germans are surrounded and the Allies at a late hour this afternoon began a final assault. jPro-TBay—ressii ^ast week we heard several times that the Germans had been driven out of Narvik. Before beginning the attack, the British commander broadcast a radio message to the native inhabitants of Narvik, urging them to leave the town as the place would probably be bombarded. The jaws of a trap are also closing upon the Nazis at Trondheim. That again comes from the Norwegian spokesman. The Germans, on the other hand, claim that although enemy sea forces b ombarded Narvik, there was no attempt to land British troops. And, say the Germans, there was no serious fighting around Trondheim. The German high command also claims to have captured another Norwegian town, a place fifteen miles west of Hamar. They also claim to have captured a town called Lillehammer, north of Oslo. RAir Another German air raid not far from London. This is ohe second cirne that Hitler1s bombers have swooped down on the coast of Britain since they were able to use air bases in Denmark and south Norway. \ Tonight!s raids were on the east and southeast \ batteries of England, ^he raiders were driven off by anti-aircraft and British^teiSltep planes. / From all accounts, the noise was terrific but no serious damage was achieved# although this was the most intensive and determined attack that the British have yet had to endure. SHIPS One of the interesting parts of the war is the verbal conliict oetv^een the rival admiralties in Berlin and London. Hach of them says, "We have sunk a tremendous number of enemy ships.n The latest from the Nazi side is that they are gradually destroying It hey sayj the British havy, whichVRas lost sixty-one warships in the last twelve days alone. The Germans specify four battleships, two battle cruisers, four heavy cruisers, ten other cruisers, one aircraft carrier, twelve destroyers, thirteen submarines, fifteen transport ships. '35^Jr HereTs the latest bulletin from London on the same subject. T,Since the war started, the British have lost precisely eighteen men-o-war including five submarines and a converted liner.” If that is correct, it leaves King George with quite a lot of fighting vessels. On the other hand, British naval men declare that since the start of the war _they^ have sunk twenty-four of Germany^ warships, in addition to more than fifty suomai ines• SPIES A wai ning was issued tonight to the people of Jugoslavia. Spies and agents are abroad throughout the'country in large numbers Y\) Jt , Vl-t7W) - c U2 j (? Jugoslav, patriots are urged to be carefuly, and keep their eyes open. Trie^ttorawmcanTNcC^nerra^^Sf Belgrade issuedappeal^*^ ^ A said;- "It is your holy duty to report to the office of the Commandant everything you see and hear which might damage the security of the nation." In one trainload alone there were three hundred and fifty Germans deported from Jugoslavia recently, and it is understood that some six or eight thousand foreigners who might be part of another Trojan Horse are to be ejected. LOSEY An American soldier fell today on Norwegian soil, killed C*L/ v-c i \^c/ vW. ^ x by splinters irom a Nazi bomb^ Hfhe first American casualty, that is official casualty,in this war. And the man killed was a soldier of considerable distinction. Captain Robert M. Losey of Uncle Samfs air force, was rated by his colleagues as one of the top-notch experts on meterology. It was in that capacity that he served in the office of Major Henry bfr Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps. When the Russian hordes swooped down upon Finland, Losey was detailed to the Finnish side as an observer. That meant he was to send back expert reports on how airplanes behaved in temperatures from twenty-five to fifty below zero. When the Finnish show collapsed, the War Office sent him to Stockholm to serve in the double capacity of Air Attache1 and Assistant Military Attache* to our legations in Norway and Sweden. His headquarters were in the Swedish capital. But today he was on Norwegian territory^ actuallyyon an errand of mercy, sent by his superior officers to get in touch members of the families of the people attached to with Americans, LOSEY Oi-i legation and consulate at Oslo. These American women and children were on their way to the Swedish border, traveling out of the war zones. It was on that errand that Captain Losey had his rendezvous with death. Here^ the opinion of a hi^h rarJting Navy officer, about the ^ v \ C\ prospects of^wai^^ith Japan. He believes it!s inevitable, and the man who holds that belief is Admiral Joseph Taussig, former Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, now officer in command of the fxxjtxju Fifth Naval District located at Norfolk, Virginia. And he told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that he did not see how we can prevent being ultimately drawn into war by that Far Eastern situation. Japan, he declares, is working up a desperate crisis there and is getting dll set for her much advertised program of conquest. Then he brought up the question of the Philippines, of which he said:- "I don!t see how we can possibly let Japan go into the islands.” As for theDutch East Indies, he said that the protestations from the Netherlands that they don»t want anybody’s help in defending those islands, are all camouflage. Says Admiral Taussig:- "If the Dutch East Indies are attacked, Holland will be ca ailing on all the world to get all the help she can." Then he added:- "If Germany wins the war inEurope, -t-otfli-i-Mrian nations are going to gang up on us, put the squeeze on us. It’s going to come as sure as fate," said the old sea dog. KING An important visitor *ill arrive at the Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia, tomorrow morning. The Right Honorable W.L.MacKenzie-King, Prime Minister of Canada, is going to pass a day and a half as the President’s guest at the Little White House. il He will stay until late Wednesday afternoon. Canada’s Prime Minister] has been having a brief vacation atVirginia Beach. Mr. Roosevelt has announced that there’s nothing ' M extraordinary about this visit from MacKenzie-King. Just another meeting between the chief magistrates of the t*o friendly neighbors. At the same time, observers point out that the President will be able to get a lot of first hand information from the Canadian Premier about war problems, the effects of history in Europe upon the lives and conditions of the folks in Canada. TOUR Another piece of information that President Roosevelt gave out today will set the political wiseacres guessing. HeTs going to make a swing across the country, go traveling ail the way to the Pacific Coast this summer. Mr. Roosevelt insisted that this will not be a political campaign tour _but_ ~ A significant nbutn: it will not be a silent tour. A irst to the He will make several speeches on the way. he* border of North Carolina and lennessee and there open the Great Sv National Park with a formal address. After that, he'll speak Smokfy at Natchez, Mississippi. From there to Fort Worth, Texas, to visit s. Son E^iot. After that he'tf jog across country to California, to dedicate the new National Park at Kings Canyon. Then he'll make to the Golden Gate Exposition the visit, he has long wanted to, tne A. at San Francisco. AnJ , as the government has been enlarging the State of Washington, the President Olympic National Park in will go there and make another speech of dedication. If circumstances permit him, he Will go north as far as Juneau, <?<>f*Alaska. He ****** planned to go there last summer but events in A kurope made him cancel his plans. TOUR - 2 One reporter asked him what would be the subject of his speeches. To which tfr. Roosevelt replied:- "Conservation.” Another reporter asked:- "Conservation of what?" And that called forth a loud laugh from the presidential good humor. At the same time Mr. Roosevelt stated emphatically that there is an "if" as well as a "but" in these plans of his. He will make that tour if affairs permit him, if Congress adjourns the first *eek in June, if there's no development in the European war that obliges him to stay in the east. SO.^K ji ^E court Thej^^ices of the Supreme Cour^anded down a decision t , is being c: eered by labor union men#everyirtiena The Court tnrew into the discard state laws that made picketing unlawful in Alabama and California. Arconple men had been arrested under those laws. TTTe unions took appeal, the A.F. of L, and the C.I.O. fought side by side. As the two cases were practically identical, the court settled them with one ruling. It was written by the hjexxxxx newest member of the court, Mr. Justice Murphy, formei^Attorney General, former Governor of Michigan. The decision itself is not so remarkable as one of the principles established in it by Justice Murphy. For this ruling states that the rights of labor on the picket line are just as definite and must be just as carefully protected as the property rights of the employer. FLOODS Good news from the valleyf of the great Ohiib River. The flood waters are receding. Thousands of refugees who have been driven from their homes are still unable to return to them. but good car e^hgTr~bde«^taken of them. They will soon be able to go back to what is for many of them a yearly job, <***■ cj The waters are still rising at Cincinnati but there’s no cause for alarm. That’s the latest word WRECK That wreck on the Mew iork Central at Little Falls, became somewhat more puzzling today, 'ttJUv=w±H^- t ^ttm± the sealed tape of the speedometer of the A engine that was wrecked indicated that the train was rounding that curve at fifty-nine miles an hour. An employee of the line today contradicted that explanation, There inv^ti-ga tlui: belirng" cTosud daors- feeld--* by-offiruialc of the Mew Ti!urk Centl^l ijt Albany*—Offioors-^rf-^the stata and fe^er?! g^im-pnmnnfr wo - po —te-ffiKfrtnyp.fi /'Q^u> . > ^ i < r ,< 44.»I(T^he^WSg^-oh^-thn - y,^ e tnet it sms- not-g^f• ee- -fifty- -the- cuisafrA "The air had been on for \ about one thousand feet and we wei^e going at the proper speed,< „ „„ ___ ______ 7 forty-five miles an hourj" ACClD&flT k On Saturday night, thirteen yourife people^ out in Miru esota^went on a joy ride. Seven boys were in one car, four oIlci tVk0 girls who had been dancing were in another. The ltid at t;.;e ^ ieel of the car in which the girlg were riding He did what a lot of otner lads are apt to do, he stepped on the gasj ^ stepped on it until the needle on the speedometer went up to eighty and at just about that time, near the city limits of Slayton, car Minnesota, thw car going eighty miles an hour* met the other a A- with the seyen^boys in it^also going at a terrific speed. They met head-on and the crash was heard a mile away. Today, eleven of thirteen young people are A ^ . , v ■ V*- ginfill: a—rnrrrgne^ The other .two are in a hospital critically injured, unable even to answer questions. Thi s^^nss^^fc is being'pointed out mxsa-pxm. by the National Safety Council Colonel John Stillwell, President of the Council, a tragic and spectacular a ^ ACCIDENT - 2 instance of v>hat occurs day in and day out throughout the country. What ’ s more, this was not a case of tSBa spoiled sons and daughters of the rich. The eleven dead and the two injured were the sons and daughters of farmers and small merchants -of It's a coincidence that this ffa 1# should -3 become news just on the day that Edsel Ford announce^ his driving contest for boys between fourteen and eighteen, a contest for lads all over the nation , with a total of thirty thousand dollars put on the line for prizes. And those prizes will go iAy&o not only x write the best essays but^raake the best practical demonstrations of safe driving. y,0,»iEN woiiien; l^ut, the men can '2&&=zs&x& women he men can listen in too^. ladies, thfft you arenft as hardy as you thought you were, or gycn as men have been assuming tha- tr you Toare. Just because you wear furs in midsummer and thin clothes in winter^ does not mean that you1*^ more able to withstand the weather than A men are. The Russell Sage Institute of Pathology has been investigating^jeoi** And the result of their research is that, af^er is better able to take it than MOTHER'S DAY Here's a movement to do away witn those flowery telegrams you're supposed to send on Mother's Day. Amd lo and behold it emanates from a dignified and responsible source, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America plus the Greater Federation of Churches. The clergymen don't approve of Mother's Day. They say it's unfair to father, unfair to grandmother, unfair in fact to all the family except mother. However, the Churches of Christ don't want to take away Mother's Day and leave nothing in its place. They would supplant it with an instTlititionf to be known as the Festival of the Christian Home. So it will be goodbye to Mother's Day if the F.C.C.C. A and the G.F.C. have their wayi And Hugh, have you got anything to say?