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T ^ADY,DIDYDU5AY General Drive Breaks Wf DISTRICT WAS A POOR I, Strike 3-Way English Lines; PLACE TO UVE?WE’lL Jj ^MOVEYOU FRKlVJ Plans Laid to Allies at Oslo Repulsed Gateway Communists Sent to Namsos With Quit Lillehammer; 1,500 Step to Civil War, No Artillery at Mercy Invaders Dig In — Organizer Tells VWWlTt Dies Of Stowe Near Steinkjer House. Committee Planes, Reports By the Associated Press. By the Associated Presa. Ezra By LELAND STOWE, LONDON, April 25.—The in- Chase, who said he had been (C'.DyriBht, 1940, by Chicago Daily News, Inc.) creased weight of Germany’s an organizer for the Communist GAEDDEDE, Norwegian-Swedish Frontier, April 25.— forces has forced the allies to party at Los Angeles, told the Dies fall back near Committee that Here is the first and only eyewitness report on the opening Lillehammer, today the party in- gateway in Eastern Norway to tended to plunge the country into chapter of the British expeditionary advance in civil troops’ German-occupied Oslo, the Brit- war by calling a general strike Norway, north of Trondheim. It is a bitterly disillusioning ish acknowledged today. in basic industries. On the main on The and almost unbelievable story. front the fjord- witness identified what he indented west British said were The British which was to down from coast, reports minutes of the Los Angeles force, supposed sweep the said, Germans appeared to be County Communist Conven- Namsos about 10 consisted of one battalion of territorials Party days ago, digging in north of Steinkjer, north- tion in March, 1937. and one battalion of “the King’s Own Royal Light Infantry.” east ot strategic Trondheim, in a lull These, he said, showed the con- These totaled than were in fighting in which both sides were less 1,500 men. They dumped into Norway’s vention had adopted resolutions di- consolidating their lines. deep snows and quagmires of April slush without a single anti- recting that Communists organize Bitter Battle in Progress. a aircraft one of "progressive caucus" in the Los gun—without squadron supporting airplanes— NEW The bitterest fighting of the en- YORK.—SAW TROND- Angeles Central Labor Council and without a single piece of field artillery. tire Norwegian front occurred near that HEIM TAKEN—Capt. William Communist units be formed, snows Myra, north of Steinkjer on Trond- Ill-equipped, they were thrown into the and mud of 63 especially in C. I. o. organizations. McHale, skipper of the Ameri- heim Fjord, it was learned authori- degree latitude, North, to fight crack German regulars—most of The main idea can freighter Mormacsea, tatively. of the party, Chase them veterans of the Nazis’ Polish invasion—and to face the testified, was to most In last night's bitter encounter rally the entire pictured as he brought his population of Los destructive of modern weapons German troops drove British ad- Angeles behind in here disclosed the trade union The of ship today, vance units back six miles from movement, and par- great majority these behind that a small force of 500 Ger- Steinkjer. ticularly C. I. o. organiza- young Britishers averaged but tion efforts in basic mans British forces reached the Otta industries like one of service. captured Trondheim, automobiles, steel, year military They area 25 miles southeast of Dombas, Roros Is aircraft construc- Norway, April 9. Reported Swastika Down, Farm Bill Will Go tion, rubber and have already paid a heavy price, the rail junction on the Trondheim- communications. —A. P. Wirephoto. Cites for a major military blunder Oslo Railway, the authoritative Patriotic Communist Policy. sources said. The Pupils Asked the purpose of this which was not committed by highways and Taken Nazis in Back policy, railroad behind them toward the by to House as he said: their immediate command, but Win ‘‘The coast are being bombed heavily, but Holiday Communist party is an organ- ization in London. U. S. Flees are either still open or only mod- by the Associated Press. having a revolutionary in- Skipper Drive to Trondheim tent. Its Unless they receive erately damaged. JERSEY SHORE, Pa.. April 25 — Conferees Disagree purpose is to take over large sup- this form of German infantry, however, was The hanging of a swastika atop the government and install plies of anti-airguns and ade- one of reported in Lilleelvedalen and Oster- Jersey Shore School its own. Its interest in basic Trondheim, Lands Reinforcements Fighting High today Senators Stand Firm on quate reinforcements within a dalen near the industries is that vital railway out of prompted a spontaneous patriotic through union Dombas. organizations it very few dayflNhe remains of Way to Scene of Big demonstration by the pupils and Amendments can control them British Providing and be in a these two British battalions will Swedish Gold in Around Narvik. won them a holiday. position to call a general U. S. The same source said ‘‘British and Battle in North strike. be cut to ribbons. Norway The school janitor, Theodore 347-Million Increase Norwegians are around Narvik," the I »y a general strike the partv can E> the Associated Press. Greenaway, shinnied up the pole to Here is the northern Norwegian ore port, but A paralyze industry, creating a situa- astonishing story 500 Naii Troops Took remove the swastika because the joint conference committee added that "this does not STOCKHOLM. 25.—German tion to civil war. of what has mean our , April leading From a happened to the gal- rope had been cut. As he descended, abandoned efforts today to a Without a lines extend entirely so no one can forces, on the offensive north of i brea^ civil war, it is easy to convert that lant little handful of British ex- City Shot, the 800 students grouped around the month's deadlock of the get through.” Oslo, were reported tonight to have Agriculture into a revolutionary war to accom- pole voluntarily sang "The Star I peditionaries above Trondheim: Says Capt. McHale “But we are gradually in taken Roros, within 70 miles of | Department appropriation bill. It I plish the party's purposes.” closing Spangled Banner.” j on the town tremendous dif- Trondheim, in a drive to reinforce Chase testified that he was After only four of despite reported a hopeless on a days fight- By the AuoeUted Press. Then the school diasgreement ficulties." it was said. “It is very that German stronghold on Nor- principal, I. V. native of Idaho Falls. Idaho, and ing, nearly half of this initial : Senate additions of $347,000,000 to NEW YORK, April 25 —A hard- cold and the country very rugged.” I way's west coast. Grugan, dismissed classes for the I ttiat he had joined the Communist LELAND STOWE. B. E. F. contingent has been A British source the measure. about 1931. bitten skipper, back in the safety of declared it had Roros is on a railroad leading to day. ! party He had been, he Knocked out—eitjher Killed, wounded or the Germans. been established three German mil- The Senator said, an organizer of captu^gfLliX American waters, disclosed today the Trondheim region. pupils discovered the swastika Russell, Democrat, of unemployed And on these itary supply ships, two Fin- over the one of those who workers in Los a Monday comparatively inexperienced and incredibly flying Bombers ranged ahead of the floating school this morn- Georgia, have been Angeles, secretary that he fled the port of Trondheim, nish and one Nazi; in of the Los British were flags Swedish, waited ing and refused to enter the build- working an attempt to iron out Angeles branch of the l^nderarmed troops decisively defeated by the Ger- off troops, inflicting terrific damage in Norway, with $4,500,000 in Swedish- Bergen for four weeks with ing. Senate and House differences on American League Against War and mans. were driven back in sup- the Glomma River region in blast- They precipitate disorder from Vist, and men Fascism and an owned hidden in the hold of plies who were landed The banner was handed over to wtyat to include in the bill, said the organizer for the which is three miles south of gold ing a path clear for the land forces. the bomb-ravaged town of Steinkjer. when the German invasion started police. Officials had no efffct of today's action would be to Upholsterers’ International Union. hit the 4555-ton American This force, hurrying by forced explanation As I It Is that the ship, April 9. for its send back to the House for a “We controlled that union from write, probable British field headquarters has march toward the vital seaboard appearance. sep- been withdrawn Scan tic Line freighter Mormacsea, The ships, of 1,000 tons each, were arate vote Senate amendments the top to the bottom.” he declared. northward and that the British vanguard has front on which the whole Norwegian pro- after the Germans had said to have carried the men and viding for $212,000,000 in Chase, telling of what he called been to evacuate one or several captured the campaign may had advanced parity pay- compelled villages. Steinkjer was hidden below decks hinge, for Communist ‘‘concentrations” in air- supplies until about ments, $85,000,000 disposal of l the Germans also on port. 125 miles from Orphus since craft occupied by Tuesday. they were landed after destroyers Allies Contracts surplus farm products and $50,000,- l plants and other key industries, The skipper was Capt. William had yesterday. Sign declared the Machine Gun Heard Cracking in Hills. put landing parties ashore in 000 for loans to farm tenants. ; Communist workers McHale, who served with the British the wake of Nazi who cut Ringebu Reported Reached. Senator Russell said con- were under party orders to I was in on agents Senate | supply Steinkjer Monday evening, just before the British mine fields the Soviet Union forces In the World and severed all com- A second German force, pushing For ferees refused to yield on the Sen- | with any informa- lines were blasted to I was the mine-sweeping $200,000,000 pieces. only newspaper correspondent munications. up another railroad which connects ate's action in adding these amounts tion the latter desired. to enter the War and was four times decorated burning town and the only correspondent to visit Fears Over "Fifth Column.” with the line through Roros, was to the $714,000,000 in agricultural Admits Espionage. for bravery. He is now an American to have reached British advance headquarters and to pass beyond to the edge of Indignation among members of reported Ringebu,! In U. S. appropriations approved by the "The immediate purpose of the citizen. Parliament and the British public about 110 miles north of Oslo. Airplanes House on February 2. The Senate Communist in the the front’s heavy firing zone. A score of buildings were ; party United flaming over “fifth column” activities on Thus, with unresisted voted $922,864,688 Capt. McHale revealed that a/skel- the seemingly in farm funds, : States,” said Chairman Dies, “is to fiercely on the town’s waterfront from a second two hours home front bombing increased today to the progress, the Germans appear to All Craft with $90,000,000 additional provided secure valuable military and indus- earlier. In the midst of eton force of about 500 Germans of have Late-Type the smoky ruins I heard machine guns point demands for suppression of swept past Lillehammer, vital in loans for agricultural purposes. trial secrets for transmission to seized Trondheim in a the Communist for control of Oslo and Southern In cracking at high tempo in the hills just beyor.d the town. Shell pre-dawn party. Sought Now Released conferences lasting about a Moscow. Isn't that true?” raid on April 9 "and walked in un- Sir John Anderson, Minister of Norway. month many compromise “Yes, sir,' Chase explosions regularly rapped the valley with angry echoes. This For proposals replied emphat- molested." Home Security, announced today The British acknowledged that Expert were offered and rejected. Senator He also ■was uie Jirst sustained Dauie De- ically. expressed agreement The he was considering stringent meas- their forces, which had been in the Russell said the conferees with another Dies statement Mormacsea was the first ves- By the Associated Press. finally that tween German and British ures Lillehammer had been com- sel to reach the United States from against subversive elements, in- region, concluded they could not come to an through the American Communist the to retreat in the face of The allied purchasing mission troops on Norwegian soil. Al- the Scandinavian war zone since cluding Communist party and pelled agreement today, when a House party the union has “an espionage announced here contracts for Fascist organs, and would intern “increased enemy pressure.” today compromise on the ready the conflict was snarling hostilities broke out there on April parity payment system they don't have to pay for.” even M. P.s if “desirable.” The allies, who suffered heavily $200,000,000 worth of American air- addition to the bill hot. 9. Two other American ships are was turned down The witness declared that in the John in the first because planes and engines have been made still there Sir spoke in the House of stages they by Senators. party's drive on “basic” Industrie* A battalion of 600 territorials Commons. lacked anti-aircraft guns, were said within the last two weeks. Meanwhile, the The German Agriculture Depart- groups of “Red builders” were sent invaders, he said, now to have been Arthur B. and was to hold To a direct question whether he strengthened in Purvis, British, ment weighed the of a into the and Lockheed air- fighting desperately landed from the battle cruiser possibility Douglas Von this respect. British forces landing Rene Pleven, French representatives recurrence of Vist, the point of their farthest (See LONDON,' Page A-7J the land speculation craft plants on the Pacific Coast. He Hipper and from three destroyers, at above and of the mission, told these boom Namsos. Trondheim, reporters touched off by the World War described the “builders” as trusted southernward advance toward seizing the strategic Norwegian port have contracts include other ports suffered from large quantities of in 1914, and counseled precautions. party workers engaged in recruiting Trondheim. As at 5 a.m. German air Bell Monday’s twi- Five Hurt as Bomb severe attacks. pursuit planes, Curtiss pursuit Noting that World War conditions and in circulating literature. "The planes. light closed down they were com- people appeared to be Nazis Declared Stopped. Douglas bombers and Alli- had sent farmland values skyrocket- Meanwhile, in New York. Mervyn stunned,” the captain said. son, Wright and Pratt-Whitney mo- ing almost 100 a done in. For hours “They Blasts Dublin Castle The Germans, who had driven the per cent in decade, Rathborne, president of the Amer- pletely they offered no tors. the resistance. There were By the Aisociated Press. department sought to gauge the ican Communications Association had been torn and broken under no allies from Steink.ier. on the coast Norwegian soldiers in sight.” Mr. Purvis added that the United possible effects of the present con- (C. I. denied that his DUBLIN, April 25.—A blast above Trondheim, were said to have O.), organiza- the terrible of heavy States had now flict on triple onslaught Capt. McHale said released for allied farm prices. tion was Communist-controlled, as the German attributed by police to a time bomb been stopped, meanwhile, slightly as purchase all the late Factors adverse to another German infantry, tri-motored troops, they went ashore, carried planted by the outlawed Irish Re- north of that town. type military land charged before the Dies Committee machine guns and thousands aircraft which the allies had sought boom, it was said, tended to out- timbers and naval artillery fir- of publican Army in the Dublin Castle Their new positions are beyond yesterday. permission to buy. weigh those which might Mr. said from at the head (See A-27) headquarters of the Irish govern- range of the covering guns of three encourage Rathborne that Fred M. ing destroyers SKIPPERTPage He declined to give the individual one. The department ment’s specilal detective branch German warships in Trondheim emphasized, Howe, who testified that high offi- of Beitstadfjord. number of cost of the different however, that the unpredictable ele- early today injured five detectives Fjord which had laid down protec- cials of the A. C. A. were Commu- Within two hours the British types of airplanes or engines be- ment of "inflation psychology" could and shattered priceless stained-glass tive barrages when the British, ad- nists who planned to help set up a Bulletin cause the information inter- upset calculations. were in flight. They had windows in the south from held might Soviet system in this country in the troops WARM Chapei Royal. vancing Namsos, fere with SPRINGS, Ga., April pending negotiations for "The of even a event of had been from no chance whatever of standing Witnesses said the scene resembled Steinkjer. possibility partial war, expelled 25 additional military Sev- of (A5).—President Roosevelt pro- the havoc from an air was equipment. repetition World War movements the A. C. A. a year ago "after having and 3 or 6 inch resulting raid. Heavy patrol action reported eral off from bombs months ago the mission said it in land a and found • * * of claimed today a state of war in Shortly after the blast troops both on the coast and inland, with values,” department report been tried guilty was on a shells with nothing but Brenn mounted at embarking potential $1,- said, “would appear to an of the existence between and guard the approaches both sides struggling to stream re- justify giving being agent employers.” Germany to 000,000,000 worth of buying in this serious consideration to the machine guns and rifles. Before the castle and soldiers on bridges inforcements to their front lines. formu- Charges Denied. Norway, and the neutrality of the country. lation of measures 11 o’clock that night I talked the castleand roads leading from Major interest now is in the pos- legal aimed at “His hysterical charges against the United States in the Dublin Release of late-type American excessive * * • in- conflict. questioned all motorists. sibility of the Germans bridging the discouraging A. C. A. no one with nerve-shattered survivors planes previously asked by the allies creases.” surprise acquainted 70-mile gap between their Trond- with the infamous role he has played battalion. was completed a few days ago, Mr. were of the British Among heim and Roros units. Figures cited to reflect the and is in the trade union Purvis said, when the author- extent playing we found two truckloads Army of the World War's influence. others Three Battlcfronts. ized movement,” Mr. Rathbome said, in the sale of four-motor Con- In 1910 the value of the country’s of them several miles above Drive Far Northward solidated a statement. Troops Norway now is carved into three Aircraft bombers. farm real estate was $34,801,000,000. “Howe's testimony consists of the their headquarters and on their battlefronts—the Oslo “gateway in The cost of the engines to be pur- By 1920 it had soared to $66,316,000,- lies and slander so dear to the hearts the chased. the allied way north away from the front. southeast; Trondheim on the representatives 000, with most of the increase oc- On 2 Berlin Claims of employers intent on disrupting me Railways, Atlantic Coast and Narvik in the far continued, included the cost of build- curring after 1914. Values have One of the officers told and splitting trade unions which north. The first two are closely re- ing the factories in which they since drifted downward to the had lost more BULLETIN. the Norwegian west coast, a cur- have been successful that the battalion against lated. will be produced. rent outstandingly BERLIN, 25 British attempt to advance south on $35,356,000,000. in and im- than 200 in killed and that one April (iT*)-—'The The Germans hold Trondheim but winning higher wages German air force, resuming its Trondheim, by occupying strategic proved working conditions for their entire company had been cap- allied forces have landed at An- raids on British naval units passes and loads. members. along dalsnes, about 100 miles to the tured. He could not estimate the coast of sank Allied resistance, DNB declared, south, “The Dies Committee Norway, today and clearly was -‘without Namsos, about the same dis- of the number of missing, but said a British minesweeper, set a plan.” it said one Summary Today's Star shows its union-busting hand once (See that 150 of the battal- destroyer afire and hit two trans- stronghold guarded by six machine STOCKHOLM, Page" A-3 )~ again, providing as it does a public perhaps was Page. Page. ports with heavy bombs, DNB guns taken without any German Washington and Vicinity platform from which the vilest slan- ion’s 600 might be rallied later casualties. Amusements. Obituary... A-14 reported. Radclifle tells workers necessary der can be broadcast against a group on. MAJ. GEN. CARTON DE WIART On the far C-4-5 Radio .. C-l# northern front, it re- votes are assured. PageA-14 of workers who believe that theirs Directs British P. British Those Comics C-10-11 Serial Story. C-6 “We have simply been massa- desperate fight By LOUIS LOCHNER, ported, ships again subjected Dogs Bruce opens intensive campaign in is the rights to organize and bar- Press Editorials.. A-12 Society_ B-3 he declared. “It’s in Central Wounded Associated Foreign Correspondent. Narvik to ‘‘very active” shelling Baltimore City. cred,” the Norway. Finance_A-21 C-l-3 PageA-14 gain collectively.” he BERLIN, April 25.—German troops while strcng allied forces engaged Sports... Committee considers We’ve no to eight times in World War, So Star readers have Pound. C-6 unemployment In San Francisco R. M. Hansen, planes. got planes pushing along parallel railroad lines Nazi troops 18 miles to the northeast many Lost, Woman’s Pg. B-14 lost an eye and an arrn, compensation law. Page B-l secretary of the San Francisco Ma- fight back with and we’ve got no north of Oslo have reached Tynset in fighting which still is in asked for copies—suitable for —A. P. Wirephoto. progress. Nearby pupil tuition seen doomed by rine Local of the A. C. A., anti-airguns. It is just like the and Ringebu in long strides beyond Nazis Accuse Britain. framing—of those lovely dogs Foreign Glass’ Allies contract objection. Page B-l said regarding Howe's testimony that their former outposts, DNB, official The for $200,000,000 in Russians against the Finns, only worse—and we Finns." high command charged Brit- drawn by James T. Berryman Mr. Hansen was a “dangerous Com- are the to- U. S. planes, engines. Page A-l German news agency, reported ain with opening “air warfare munist: A subofficer greeted me gratefully when he learned that I was and appearing as the sports British cut to Editorial and Comment day. against undefended localities with- fll-equipped pieces by Nazis at This and That. A-12 to Smear." a reporter. out cartoon in yesterday’s Star, Steinkjer. Page A-l Page “Attempt Tynset is about 150 miles north military importance,” a possibly Answers to A-12 Allies beaten back at gateway to Questions. Page “It's an obvious “For God’s sake, tell them we’ve got to have and anti- of Oslo on the railroad the ominous development in view of the that a limited number of attempt to smear airplanes along Oslo. A-l Letters to The Star. Page A-12 Nazi for an Page me. In the first place I don’t think airguns,” he pleaded. “We were completely at the of the Swedish frontier and Ringebu is “eye eye” principle. copies on heavy, glossy paper David Lawrence. A-13 mercy Germans rushing reinforcements to Page I am and 110 miles from Germah- In the cen- dangerous in the second Jerries. Their bombers flew low over us, at 500 about the developing campaign will be made available to Star Trondheim. Alsop and Kintner. A-13 feet. They scat- Page A-l Page place I’m not a member of the Com- held Norwegian capital along a tered on Norway the high command G. Gould tered us. We were up to our hips in snow. Then readers who want them. Troops drive far northward on two Lincdln. Page A-13 munist they dropped parallel railroad through the im- claimed widespread successes on Pranklin. party.” so railways, Berlin claims. Page A-l Jay Page A-12 signal flares their artillery knew all our land sea At Seattle, T. J. Van Erman, sec- positions. portant Gudbrandsdal Valley. and and in the air, with You may have a Constantine Brown. copy by Swedes deny Finnish volunteers Page A-12 of the A. C. “Last night our wounded were in is 30 miles Lille- new blows at sea in the retary A. local there, crying the woods, but we Ringebu beyond reported calling at the Business Office passage to Norway. Page A-S in the of two submarines and dam- branded Howe’s charge a lie. couldn’t get to them or do anything. We had not even hammer, pivotal point fight sinking got proper of a British counter, first *floor, Star Build- Miscellany “I’m not a Communist, I never was clothes to with in this for control of Oslo’s gate, which aging cruiser “severely National fight snow. Without white Jerries After Dark. PageB-12 a Communist and I capes thf allied forces had been reported to hit” by air bombs. ing, after 3 o’clock tomorrow never will be us and House to vote on farm bill changes as Nature’s Children. just spotted mowed us down every time the bombers drove High lights of the high command PageB-15 one unless the time might come have reached. afternoon, Friday, April 26. conferees disagree. A-l Bedtime us out.” included: Page Story. Page C-10 when that is the only thing a per- DNB said new troops and war communique Plans for general strike and civil war Cross-Word Puzzle. PageC-11 son could Mr. Van Paul Melander, a Swedish materials sent out from Oslo were 1. British warplanes bombed the The price is 5 cents each. be,” Erman said. photographer, and myself saw these laid to Reds.' Page A-l Letter-Out. C-10 In Walter the German forces. sea resort of Wenningstedt, on the Page Chicago Adams, an op- things together. From the first we sensed the augmenting Georgia's convention delegates urge Winning Contract C-10 tension among men island of Sylt, and Helde, in Schles- As there will be a limited Page erator in the Government airways of lower rank. almost Reported Sealing Steinkjer. Roosevelt to run. Page A-3 Dncle Ray’s Corner. C-ll communications Although exhausted from lack of sleep, the wig-Holstein, thus “air war- number you should one as Page station at the Mu- The agency also said German opening get Senate probers Investigate complaints Vital Statistics. C-12 " Page nicipal Airport, also denied he was a (Continued on Phi A-4. on soon as become column^ •oldlera were seeling Steinkjer, (Me BERLIN. PU* A-7.) they available. of “slush funds Page A-7 Service Orders. Page C-12 Communist. i r k i I