The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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Y NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
i Drive Cut* Deep Into Greece
via'* Army b Smashed;
ed With Wont* Raids
for Attacks on Berlin
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William Knudsen, Defense
Commission chief, who has an-
nounced that auto manufactur-
ers will curtail production 20%
to speed defense work is shown
as he inspected a shipyards at
Quincy, Mass. He told workmen
that: "Time is the thing." -<
BALKAN:
Catastrophe
Before the Nazis' Balkan cam-
palgnhad been under way two
- weeks it was apparent that another
major catastrophe for Hitler's ene-
mies was in the making, but how
extensive or how catastrophic none
was prepared to say.
After eleven days of fighting, Ber-
lin reported that Jugoslavia's army
of some 1,200,000 men had capitu-
lated and laid down their fighting
equipment which had proved rela-
tively ineffective against the highly
mechanized Nazi legions.
London announced bad news too
with-the report that it had been sub-
jected to the worst air blitz "of all
time.", German sources- say this
terrific raid came as a reprisal for
British raids on "cultural and non-
military" objectives in Berlin.
In the very beginning of the
Balkan campaign, the Nazi-Italian
forces took the offensive in Northern
Africa, and the two battles proceed-
ed almost in unison, the British be-
ing driven practically out of Libya
by the time that the British sources
wtpe reqdy to ddmli'thag Jugoslavia
had been defeated.
Reaction of the British people was
bitter* not that they were unwilling
to receive news of a defeat that
had been more or less expected, but
because the ministry of information
and the intelligence department
were accused of having fallen down
on the job.
This also was the reaction in
Washington, where it was freely
said by those in the military know
that the British permitted Roose-
velt to promise aid -to Jugoslavia
and Greece when it should have
been known that aid to the former
was to be only a gesture, and that
the Serbs and Slovenes could not
hope to stand up to the attack mors
than a week or two.
! Washington sources of high mili-
tary information frankly said that
the British intelligence had fallen
down, as it had in the Battle of
Prance, and that the best informa-
tion hi our national capital had been
to the effect that the infiltration of
Nazi mechanized forces into North
Africa had been of the smallest.
—These sources said they had been
told rthat this shipping of tanks and
men to North Africa had had only
one purpose—that of putting pres-
5ure on the French colonies, and
■ forcing them to stand firm with the
Vichy government.
Whether this was deliberate self-
" delusion, or an attempt to delude
the American and British people was
not known, but certainly it was bad
information, whether deliberate or
toot.
For in about two weeks the Brit-
ish had lost everything they had
'gained In Libya, and found them-
selves seriously on the defensive as
^far *• the vital Mediterranean port
of Alexandria and the equally vital
Suez cetaal were concerned.
in the news
Observers were won-
What stand, if any, Eire
iff the face of the first
bombing of northern Ire-
This city and surrounding
were hard hit by a blitzkrieg
lair and there were many
>N: Danish Minister
Kaufftoian made the
I agreement with this gov.
ffftfrnllf, awl thaw was
la vtill recognized by the U«
same happened to French
pa Paul Biblly, * wSm
was Ami sol#<
of France In the U. S., offered this
country the use of bases In North
■ ■Jir1 >•
i: ChtnvdesplUthe
i Japanese-Russian accord.^
in its fight against Japan will
GREECE:
On Her Heels
The Greek armies,, which had
checkmated the unaided Italian
forces presented against them in the
Albanian campaign, found them-
selves facing a horse of another col-
or when the Nazi hordes moved in
from Bulgaria and south from Jugo-
slavia.
Greek sources in the United
States, many of them intensely pa-
triotic and hoping against hope for a
Greek victory, had been saying dur-
ing the Albanian battle that if the
Nazis ever got in, Greece could not
hope to hold out a month.
How true these predictions, were
in their essence began to be seen
as the Nazi campaign against north-
ern Greece proceeded. Salonika fell,
trapping much of the Greek army
in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
Then the Germans broke through
into the Struma river valley, through
the Monastir gap and made;contact
with the Italians in northern Alba-
nia. f
It was not long before the plan of
the Graeco-British forces to defend
a line running in an inverted V-
shape from Adriatic to Aegean seas
had to be revised, and the whole
hinge of the V, in the Lake Ochrida-
Phlorina sector had to be aban-
doned, and the armies retreat until
the line was more .nearly straight
Along this line a frightfully in-
tense battle started, and few were
sanguine enough to believe that the
line would hold and further retreat
and withdrawal not be necessary,
particularly as the line, as first
drawn, lay over heavy mountain
ranges with peaks up to 6,000 feet.
And the Nazis had broken through
these, and the fighting in its sec-
ondary phase was on terrain more
to the liking of the mechanized units,
LABOR: <„
And Defense
The strike situation showed some
further amelioration, with the an-
nouncement by Bethlehem Steel that
about 90,000 of its workers! would get
a 10-cent-an-hour increase in wages.
This, for the moment, relieved the
public of the anxiety lest a strike hit
this, steel-producer, holder of more
defense contracts than any other one
concern in the country, and one" of
the nation's largest builders of mer-
chant ships.
The coal strike, however, contin-
ued to cause trouble, with four more
killed near Harl?n, Ky., at a mine
which was continuing to operate de-
spite the general shut down.
Negotiations for the ending of this
strike were in their final phase, with
every evidence that the agreement
would go through and that soft coal
strikes would be over tor another
tye years,-if not longer.
Those watching the labor situa-
tion felt that the soft-coal agree-
ment would pave the way for better
general industrial conditions and.
that promised itrike threats against
U. S. Steel and General Motors
might not materialize.
The settling of the Ford strike was
held up as a shining example of han<<
dling what looked like a certain im-
passe. £-=■*——
Yet there were still moves afoot
in congress which would not exactly
outlaw strikes, but which would pro-
vide tor a 30-day "cooling off pe-
riod" before the actual calling of
walkout, and also calling for offi-
cial recognition of the Dykstra-
headed national mediation board.
SHOTS:
And Spies
; The shooting to death of Editor
Arena of an Italian language
newspaper in Chicago was tabbed
at • Fascist secret poBee slaying
after it was learne^that a few hours
before he was shftTje had turnishpd
information to the Die* committee.
A Chicago newspaper man who
talked with Arena a few hours
he wafjnurdered beside his
automobile,
Washington, D. C.
NAZI LAKE
Tell-tale signs accumulate that
the next big Hitler drive is to make
the Mediterranean an Axis lake. The
most obvious, of course, is Hitler's
jnconcealed plan to launch subma-
rine and bombing raids aga&ist Suez
from his new base at Salonika and
from the Greek islands.
Secret plans for closing the other
end of the Mediterranean have been
evident for some time along the
Spanish border, where big guns are
ready to be rushed against Gibral-
tar. ' .
Most significant of these prepara^
tions, however, has not leaked out.
It shows how extensive are Hitler's
ambitions around the Mediterrane-
an. For some weeks now, Nazis
have been busy dismantling the air-
planes of General Weygand in North
Africa. Every morning the French
wake up to find a magneto missing
from one machine, a carburetor
from another. Gradually, the essen-
tial parts of this air fleet have evap-
orated.
Hitler is taking no chances on let-
ting what remains of the French
air force get into British hands.
There now seems to be little ques-
tion that Hitler plans to take over
French possessions in North Africa,
together with French naval bases,
as soon as the time is ripe.
Note—U. S. military observers be-
lieve the Mediterranean will be ripe
first, next Russia. That is the way
the Hitler time-table looks today.
• • *
IRISH ARMS
The visit to Washington of~Irish
Defense Minister Frank Aiken, on
pn arms purchasing mission. wa$
no boon to congressmen of Irish de-
scent who voted against lend-lease.
He has pointedly avoided them,
ind instead gone out of his way to
Jiobnob with the members of con-
gress who supported the bill—par-
ticularly House Democratic Leader
John McCormack, who sponsored
the measure, and Rep. Jim Mc-
Granery of Pennsylvania.
The tall, genial Irish minister has
been eloquent in praise of British
courage ~and President Roosevelt's
policy of making the United States
the "arsenal of democracy." He
wants to draw on that arsenal to
arm Ireland against the Nazi men-
ace. ,
The Irish are as adamant as ever,
Aiken says, against turning over
their urgently desired bases to,- the
British. But he poin?s out that Ire-
land is Britain's "breadbasket,"
-having provided one-third of its food,
considerable clothing, and other ne-
cessities since the war began.
Ireland proposes to mobilize an
army to battle off any Nazi attacks,
if the necessary equipment can bu
obtained from Britain and the Unit-
ed States. Britain has agreed to fur-
nish some, and Aiken hopes to get
the rest here. He says he has "sev-
eral hundred million dollars"-*' to
spend for anti-aircraft guns, tanks,
rifles, ammunition; also for wheat
and food.
Note-rrlrelatiS^s-^n army of 250,-
000 volunteers, but *o'nly 25,000 are
properly equipped and garrisoned.
Most of the men are local "security
guards," who train only once a
week.
• • •
LEND-LEASE KINGPIN
Kingpin in directing the lend-lease
program is Harry Hopkins, gaunt
intimate of the President.
Living and working in the White
Jiouse, Hopkins is Roosevelt's per-
quoted tft* editor as
caying that he had received threat!
•ggiotnni life, y
4 >.• cia I HI
I
Sonal spokesman on all lend-lease
matters and holds all the reins. No
move is made without his knowledge
and approval. In inner circles Hop-
kins is referred to as lend-lease "co-
ordinator," but actually he is the
boss-man for the President.
Hopkins' chief assistant is Maj.
Oen. James H. Burns, one of the
army's procurement aces.
The test in passing on allied re-
quests for supplies is whether they
will also be useful for our own de-
fense. The government's policy is
to provide all equipment and ma-
terials possible, but not to disrupt
our own defense program.
An example. of the emphasis on
standardization of the armament of
the U. S. and Britain was a recent
request for 37-mm. shells. It was
turned down because 75 mm. la the
caliber of the guns now chiefly in
use in our army. Production of 87
millimeter shells would have re-
quired extensive retooling, only to
turn out ammunition of no value to
us. ' ....
The actual placing of lend-lease
orders is being handled through
three offices; munitions by the na-
vy's bureau of supplies and accounts
and b/ the bui'eau .of ships; and
army supplies by Under Secretary
of War Robert Patterson.
m •
4 MERRY-GO-ROUND
Braintruster Tom Corcoran, in
private law practice since last No-
vember, will return to government
office—but not as a braintruster. He
will be entrusted with a key admin-
istrative job as assistant secretary
of the navy tor air.
Socialite Jimmy Cromwell, former
U. S. minister to Canada and de-
feated Democratic candidate for the
oy, tl quietly
THE CROSBYTON REVIEW
After London's W orst Air Blitz
Found Guilty
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After what is believed to be the worst air raid of the entire war on
the capital of the British empire, workers are shown clearing up the
debris in London, while the work of digging the dead and wounded out
of the ruins was still going on. Material damage was terrific, thousands
of high explosive and incendiary bombs having been dropped.
English Lord and Lady Killed
J. M. Schenck, (left) board chair-
man of Twentieth-Century Fox film'
corporation, leaving the federal
court In New £ork with his lawyer,
after being found guilty of income
tax evasion. He faces a possible
sentence of 10 years in jail and $20,•
000 fine.
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Two of the victims of the great air blits on London were Lord and
Lady Stamp. Both are shown above as they appeared on their last
visit to America. Lord Stamp, better known as Sir Joslah Stamp, was
Britain's leading economist. Their sons, Travor and Colin, were mar-
ried to relatives of Gen. Charles G. Dawes.
G. Pantaleoni, former head of the
Italian tourist Information office in
New York, who says his life has
been threatened three times. All
the threats, be claims, were made
in the same manner as those re-
ceived by his friend, John F. Arena,
anti-Fascist newspaper editor who
was slain IA Chlclfco. '
Mighty Battlewagon for Uncle Sam
Brazilians
himself as succesior to
> high commissioner Fran-
i Sayre- '
Scene on the deck of the D. B. S. North Carolina, as the 35,000-ton
battleship was commissioned six months ahead of schedule. Three of the
battleship's1 nine 10-Inch rifles form an imprejislve backdrop for the
ceremonies at Brooklyn, N. Y. The North Carolina is the first of 17
capital ships authorised under the two-ocean navy program.
Capitol Hill Picks a Queen
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General Surgery
Dr. J. T. Krueger
Dr. J. H. Stiles
Dr. Henrie E. Mast
Eye, Ear, Nose A
Dr. J. T. Hutchin .
Dr. Ben B. HutchtaMf ?
Dr. E. M. Blake
Infants & ChiMns
Dr. M. C. Overtoa
Dr. Arthur Jenkins
General Medietas
Dr. J. P, Lattimoie j
Dr. H. C. Maxwell 1
A)r. G. S. Smith
Obstetrics
Dr. O. R. Hand
Internal Mediant
Dr. R. H. McCarty
X-Ray & Labors<*T «
Dr. James I). WilML-
Resident
Dr. Wayne Recser ,
v
C. E. Hunt
Superintendent
J.H.
Iiusir
Alsyra Peixoto, daughter of the
president of Brasll, arriving In
Miami with her husband, governor
of the state of Rio, in BrasH. They are
shown on their wisy to Chester, Pa.,
to attend the launching of a ship,
"The Rio de Janeiro," for Brasilia*
maritime forces.
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and beauties all!
Eleven girls In
pretty Bonnie Patton. sixth from the left, daughter ^
From all this pulchritude
>.Nat Patton of
Texas, was selected as "Miss Capitol Hill" by members of the "Little
Congress." She is pictured with the runners-ups. The "Little Congress"
la made up of congressional secretaries.
To Leave Italy
Capt. William C. Bentley, assist-
ant military attache for alr. of the
U. S. embassy In Rome, whom the
Italian government requested with-
drawn from Italy, "immediately."
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1941, newspaper, April 25, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth243217/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.