The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 6, 1941 Page: 2 of 4
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
By Edward C. Wayne
WHO’S
NEWS
Sinking of Battleship Hood Indicates
Failure of British to ‘Bottle’ Nazi Navy;
Germany’s Aerial. Invasion of Crete
Called ‘Test-Tube’ for Raid on England
A wire screes, galvanized steel
or copper, can be fitted over the
tope of roof gutters to keep out
leaves and trash. ,
Greece. Jugoslavia had been dis-
asters. so had Dunquerque, the
North African campaign, the Iraq
battle; the whole war, up to this
point, had been a series of disasters,
and the British reports on the inva-
sion of Crete seemed to be setting
up the public for an eventual addi-
tion to the series.
The battle of Crete was still the
most exciting news event. of the
whole war because of the peculiarity
of the conditions, paralleling, in a
way, the expected invasion attempt
against Britain.
Hie British were admittedly in
good force, with Greek assistance,
on the island, and while they had
not had much time to prepare its
defense, having only lately find
there from Peloponnesus, still the
Germans had nothad any more time
to prepare their offense than the
British.
The campaign resolved itself
broadly Ttato two phases—the air-
borne and the sea-borne. In each
PACE UP:
War Swift
As * the United States began to
swing into the serious business of
getting first-class sid to Britain un-
der the lease-lend bill, though with
continued and serious heckling from
anti-administration quarters, the
Germans suddenly stepped the war
up to a furious pace not heretofore
dreamed of.
The full-scale aerial invasion of
Crete, plainly hailed by the Nazis
as a “test-tube" attack for the ulti-
mate invasion of Britain, was foe
first move, and this Was accom-
panied by news from the ocean
lanes that showed the German Beet,
instead erf being bottled up, was
boldly sallying forth not merely into
the North Sea, blit far out into the
Atlantic and near the American zone
VTCW YORK.—In bis book. “Man
the Unknown." published in
1833, Dr. Alexia Carrel revealed
peafowl misgivings as to whether
any
Dr. Carrel Ckartt patterns of
Hmmrmn ffsftoeMi political or-
pnast the requirements of a stable
and humane civilization. Ha urged
collective and concentrated scientif-
ic inquiry into the Batura of the
“whole man,” and possibly of the
organic quality of human society.
Transfer Na. Z9351
*»DOY” and “Girl” meet over a
^ pan of milk, and swift ro-
mance results—tor the purpose of
this new tea towel set. While Miss
Kitty plucks flower petals to de-
cide whether it is really love, Mr.
Tom serenades on his guitar. Ha
proposes; she accepts, they are
wed—such is the story told so de-
lightfully in embroidery.
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STRIKES:
Coal, Planes ^
While labor troubles appeared leas
frequent as the defense mediation
board went info action more and
more strongly, those which were
vexing the defense chiefs were more
vital and hit more directly against
defense production.
Gone from the scene were juris-
dictional disputes, and the Ford
company, grim in the face of a C.
I. O. victory at the NLRB polls,
said it would “obey the law.”
But the coal strike, with only U
days' coal supply left above ground
and the threatened strike against
North American Aviation, not tc
mention the shipyard strike on the
West coast, were the sort of thing
that were giving mediators head-
aches.
Opponents of the C. L O. called
Lewis “dictator.” while Lewis
called the coal mine operators in
the South some hard names. The
plane workers were asking in-
creases of minim urns from SO to 73
cents an hour, which observers said. i
if granted, might cause similar
fights all over the industry, hitting
at the very heart of the defense
PROPERTY LISTING
‘ Bearing Ilia
There are three modes of bear-
ing the ills of life; by indifference,
which is the iriost common, by
philosophy, which is th^ most os-
tentatious; and by religion. which
is the most effectual
-Colton.
.there was offense and defense, and
for ooce' the British, though out-
powered and out-numbered, found
themselves on more even terms
with the enemy.
The Germans were admittedly su-
preme in the air-borne fight, but
ooce the Nazis landed they had nc
tanks nor artillery, and the 111 High
had both
The British were admittedly au-
most breathless—with a sense of
shock entirely out of measure with
the size of the catastrophe to Brit-
ain's cause, the mere sinking of one
battle cruiser, albeit the largest in
the world. "
It was in the Battle of Jutland
that Admiral Horace Hood, name-
sake of the 41-000-ton battle cruiser,
lost his life an the Invincible, a ves-
sel of the same relative class as the
Hood, and destroyed in, oddly
enough, exactly the same manner.
The story was dramatic enough,
the tale of a sea fight between two
naval squadrons on the broad At-
lantic, both far from their bases.
The Hood was the victim of an "un-
lucky hit” as the British reports
said, a 13-inch shell from the Ger-
man battleship Bismarck striking a
magazine, which caused the main
magazine to let go. blowing the ship
up and sinking her in a matter of
seconds.
Most qf file crew of 1.304 were
drowned, presumably the captain
and admiral, as the Hood was flag-
ship and bore the admiral's colors.
But back of it all questions were
asked and only some of them had
the answers forthcoming from Brit-
ish sources.
One of these was the query of why
the battle had taken place so far out
on the Atlantic. The British an-
swered this by saying that their
squadron had deliberately let the
German ships get far away from
their base in order to intercept them
where they could not avoid battle.
Another question was where the
German vessels were headed for. be-
ing intercepted between Greenland
and Iceland, and nearer to Green-
land. This was of especial interest
to American naval men because
of the fact that the United States
had lately pledged itself to the. pro-
tection of Greenland. There was
no immediate answer.
Naval men in this country imme-
diately, however, were quoted as
saying that the loss of the Hood
showed that it was improper to sac-
rifice strength of armor-plate to
speed, the Hood carrying 11-inch
armor where most vessels took 14-
inch. in order to achieve a 31-knot
speed. |
American vessels were not so con-
structed, U. S. admirals reported,
especially those now being planned.
But boiled down the news bore a
disastrous note, a power note on the
part of the German assault both in
the battle of the Atlantic and that
of the Mediterranean which gave
American backers of a «d-to-Britain a
general moody outlook on the con-
duct of the war.
perior on the sea-borne fight, but
they had no aircraft protection,
while the German-manned Greek fish-
ing boats and small steamers had
Stuka dive-bombers making direct
hits on the British destroyers and
cruisers.
Little could be told from the Ger-
man claims, which, following their
usual precedent, said that the
Cretan campaign was a “complete
success” with the British fleet deci-
mated and the land forces getting
the upper hand.
The only claim made by the Brit-
ish was that no vessels save a
few “caiques” (Greek sailing boats)
had reached the shore, and that a
Nazi convoy carrying 8,000 troops
had been sunk, and lurid tales were
told of warships cutting through wa-
ters crowded with drowning men
screaming for mercy, but how the
ships were unable to pick them up
for fear of “E-boats.” Italian fast
motor-craft carrying torpedoes.
The Germans claimed one British
cruiser sunk by plane-bombings,
and nine other vessels so' injured
that they were presumed to be out
of action and admitted no such sea-
borne losses as the British claimed.
The air-borne battle was admit-
tedly. according to British sources,
going better for the Germans than
had been at first anticipated. Al-
most the first thing the Stukss did
was to make the British-held air-
dromes untenable.
The Royal Air force, instead of
allowing their fighters to be downed
on their landing fields, or crashed
by bomb-pits when landing, with-
drew en masse from the island,
turning it over to the Nazi Air-
vessels. After a time long-range
ships esme back to the fight, pre-
sumably from Alexandria and the
island of Cyprus, each about 450-300
miles distant, but largely the
was undefended from the air.
Big Junkers 52s brought more
than a score of soldiers an each trip
and landed them on the Candia and
Malemi airports, whence they took
their machine guns and went into
battle. Later the British reported
Knudsen. OPM chief, and HiO-
man, his aide, at the close of the
first year of America's "all-out” de-
fense effort, told the 1,833 new in-
dustrial facilities started, of 83,488,-
000,000 in new plants, of contracts
of 15 billions. 300 millions of dol-
lars, yet of growing dissatisfaction
on the part of Messrs. Knudsen and
Hillman with the progress made.
Skid Knudsen:
“We need the help of every manu-
facturer, engineer and factory work-
U ARRY WINSTON started sub-
31 dividing real estate, but now
sub-divides diamonds and finds it
more profitable. He and his expart
Slicing Up Gams “k *« *pq*
Pays Better Than 800 chip off
That was the gist of his message,
and carried with it the connotation
that whenever a strike occurred—
some one of these three was “falling
down on the job.”
DIES:
Tries Again
The Dies committee, having failed
to rouse a ripple of newspaper en-
thusiasm over his projected reveal-
ing of Communist infiltration into
governmental circles, hit the front
pages with a bang when it made
public three documents purporting
to reveal the secret rules of fix
Nazi Bund in this country.
Dies said that they were seized
from the effects of Bund Fuehrer
Kunze, now in prison. He said that
they;
“Attest to the ruthless efficiency
of the military setup which charac
terizes Hitler’s machine in Germa-
ny; anticipate violence, and express
fealty to the totalitarian form ad
government."
Having thus placed the stamp of
subversiveness on the Bund, and
also the stigma of “fifth colum-
nists,” the committee report said
the Bund had 35,000 active mem-
bers and 100,000 sympathisers out-
side Us membership rolls.
Dies said the documents reveal a
planned countrywide organization,
with Fuehrer, Gauleiters (district
leaders) down even to “block lead-
ers” according to an exact imita-
tion of the Nazi set-up.
A party message, according to the
durable old Mother Earth her-
self.
Land—that was the thing, in days
of threatened inflation and social
maladjustment So he went Into the
real estate business in New York.
The more be worked at it, the more
safe, sound and conservative seemed
the glitter of a diamond—oven if
traditionally baleful. He opened a
wholesale jewelry business in New
York and aoen was gathering In
some of the biggest and showiest
Advertising
Dollar
[ QUOTES
f)R. TOTOHIKO KAGAWA,
17 Japan’s frail little
Japan, is In New York, In tarther-
ance oi the newly organised Church
On National Defense
Pistol ahota rang out in Albania,
irected against King Victor Em
isnuel of Italy.
The sheds, according to the Italian
■nununique, wont wild. Tho as-
issin was arrested. He proved, it
as said, to be a Greek “Ms head
Dad with poetic dreams" of ra-
nge for his country’s defeat
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Satterwhite, Ed. The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 6, 1941, newspaper, June 6, 1941; Wortham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1112028/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.