I
Pilot Training
• Is To Be
Increased
WASHINGTON, April — Add:
tional pilots to man the new mili
tary piano? rolling off assembly
lines at a~ increasing rate will
® be provid'd by a War Depart
ment ord r for stepping up the
training of pilots from 12.000 tr
30,000 a ye: r.
The At C >rps is also planning
a sharp merea-' in the number
of aviation mechanics being train
ed. The yearly total will be
brought up to 100.000 a year from
the present 45.000 a year.
Expansion of ground crew
training facilities will erst an es
timated $20,000,000.
The two new technical schools,
^ at Biloxi, Miss., and Wichita
Falls, Tex., will c i mcr than
$24,000,000.
NEW KING
«
Seventeen year old King Peter II
(above) took the reins of gov
ernment in Yugoslavia after anti
Axis riofs swept the country and
^ terminated the regency of Princf
Paul and two co-regent^. Petei
and his court are reported tc
have fled to Greece.
Retain Not
To I i«ht
For Hitler
VICHY, France, April 11—Mar j
sh >1 Petain. premier of France. ]
•-all d on the French nation for
unity end d'Hared it was ‘‘a mat
t r of honor" for Franco to do
nothing against her farmer ally,
Britain.
Observers interpreted the mar
shal’s broadcast as a double
barrelled answer both to Ger
many and the Free French gov
rnment of General Charles De
Gaulle.
The marshal broadcast the mes
sage to unoccupied Franc:.
One part of the message was
interpreted as an answer to Nazi
inspired suggestions that France
would be drawn into the war ag
ainst Britain in view of G rmany
beginning a campaign on two
fronts.
Appeals to Colonics
Petain also answered the Free
French appeals to the colonial em
pire by charging that Frenchmen
who participated in such move
ments wcr. not interested in the
honor and intergrity of the
French nation.
The marshall expressed com
plete confidence in Admiral Dur
ian and General Weygand.
Japanese
Experience
Big Loss
CHUNGKING, April — The
Chinese High Command reported
that th_ Japanese invaders have
lost approximately 20,000 men,
killed and wounded, in the two
week battle in Kiangsi Province,
west of Nanchang.
An official communique said
that the battle was the largest
scale action in recent months. It
has resulted, the spok sman said,
in the Japanese being driven out
of the entire area. About 60,000
Japanese and a larger number of
Chinese participated in the fight
ing. According to the communi
qu , the Japanese dead included
Major General Oga, the command
er of the central column in the
artion. and Major General Iwan
ago. The commander of the Jap
anese left wing, Col. Ikeda, was
severely wounded.
During the battle the new com
mander in chief of the Japanese
trops in China, General Hata,
flew' to the front to attempt to
bolster the morale of his troops.
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CANADA’S ENVOY TO
V. S. PASSES AWAY
NEW YORK. April 11— Loring
Christi , 50 years old, Canadian
minister to the United States,
died in the Rockefeller Hospital
in New York, where he had
been a patient sir.ee November
for treatment of a cardiac condi
tion.
Chrmti: wes appointed Cana
dian minister to the United Stat
es in September, 1939, when he
succeeded Sir Herbert Marler.
Because of Christie's illness,
Leighton McCarthy has bc-n act
ing mini-' .' since last February.
JAPANESE PRINCE
IS AIR INSTRUCTOR
TOKYO, April The Navy min
istry ann m eed the appointment
of Prince T.ikamasu, the younger
bother of Emperor Hirohito, as
an instructor at the Yokosuka
naval air base.
Th-. engagement of the prince
to a member of a Japanese noble
family was announced recently.
The emp r ir's brother has serv
ed as chief gunnery officer
aboard th ■ bat'.leship Hiei since
last July.
A man who is polite to his
wife only in company forgets the
old expro-sion, “Two is com
pany. . . ."
A modern home is one with a
switch to regulate everything
e:.i ipt the children—castor oil
does that.
Save S2.UU by paying in ad
uce toi vour suosenpuon.
PREMIER
Gen. Dusan Simovic (above),
chief of the Yugoslavian air
corps, took over as premier and
formed a new Yugoslavian gov
ernment after King Peter II, 17
vear-okl monarch took over the
reins of the government.
RIBBENTROP DISCLOSES GERMAN CAMPAIGN
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German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (right, foreground) and his press chief, Paul
Schmidt (center, holding paper), received newspaper correspondents'in the Foreign Office in Berlin
to disclose that German troops had opened a campaign against Yugoslavia and Greece. This picture
was sent by radio from Berlin. .
Longest North,
c
South Airline
!rt The World
Th11 longest north and 1
• airline in the \v :T! : b-’tw.
vnme. A' ka, p-d Valparai-'n.
Chile, th* line of flight being v
Paeifi • A’aska A:r\v \ and ;if
filiate.l system? from Nome
Soattl . United Air Lines ' I
Arg les, and Pan An < :
•outhvard through Me: cm C -
‘ ra 1 America, Col mb in, Ecu ad r.
Peru and Chile.
Flight from Nome to C i!* <■••
be made in less than seven d vs
contra ted with a month bv sur
face and steamer transportation
tnd t 1 sta ci f this
and south airways is 8.4G0 il, -
Airplane's Quickest Gadget
—
i What is the “bu.si s " t ung
about a.i airliner while it is in
flight'.’
In Pan American's S nth A'
i erican planes, it is the blower
fan between the carburat r an 1
the cylinders, which make- ;.o
proximately 14.000 revoluL
p r minute, nr 840,000 every ::
A cl sec md is the n ga
hre: kt r p int, which hops and
down nine times every time a
prop ! ; malies two revolutions
;n other w rd-, a; 1.7 0 revolu
tions p r minute the b: uker
point hops 7,650 times a n :n;i‘ ■
or 450.000 times per ho ir.
The e invisible but vit: 1 r
ing parts suggest som thi-g of
the importance of the rr.' r..i -
! with w hich they must ■ c
.structrd. their arcura e i ;i ■
mnt and one hund. d ;
mainie nance.
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ITALY’S CONSULATE
IN NEWARK CLOSES
NEWARK, N. J.. April 11 The
Italian consulate in Newark ci ■
ed in obedience to an order from
Washington. The consulate staff
| remained on Lie premises film
pape. - and winding up final d -
tails. The f deral government or
derod the cl sing of the c nsulat
same weeks rg in retaliation f
the closing of U. S. cumvle.A
in Laly.
DEATH VALLEV SCOTTY
HAS NO HOLD MINE
LOS ANGELES — O a h \ 1
ley Scntty, wr.e-e real name is
Walter Scott, c nfessed in court
that he was "just fooling" when
he posed as an ir. msnselv weal
hy own r of a hidden and l'.-.b
ul vis gold mine.
Death Valley Scotty was ! •
to the Federal court here by
Julian Gerard, New York finan
. '• r. who financed the eccentric
40 years ago. Gerard now wants a
(,f the fortune reput d to
•> held b> Death Valley Scotty,
if • - • col ,Tful character has any
ouch.
CANNED SALMON
SHOWSSHORTACE
SEATTLE, April 11 — A for
eign and possibly a nationwide
shortage of canned salrron is dis
clos d by the Association of Pac
ific Fisheries.
The combined stock cf all var
ieties of canned salmon now on
hand is only 363,207 cases and
re is n likliho d of increasing
•he . ly appreciably until
July.
The amount n band is le«s
than the amount .f s. :n; nr. >r
I in a sit gle month in th >
pa it.
The total is 1,008.323 ' c:.
short if the unsold supply a year
ago.
Th • wholesale price has advanr
ed 35 to 40 cents a case since the
end f the packing season.
The hardest time for a man to
y ! up in the world is every
morning.
SCHOOL HEAD-Lieut.
Col. Omar N. Bradley (above)
will succeed Brig. Gen. Courtney
H. Hodges as commandant of the
United States Army’s infantry
school at Fort Benning. Ga.
General Hodges becomes chief
of infantry.
T ve an awful cold in
•r. ■ hr-ad.
CT : That's something any
way.
Department ot Commerce We:rh:* {‘.nreau
Ft):1ECAST. N O 1 r AND VI IXITV
Partly cloudy end slightly cold0' toni;-h:. Tuesday generally fa r
v. itn te.. • erature in th. tw? ntir . .
Dr. a for 24 II urs End. 1' i p m. Today
I' g temp — 23 Lowest t" p — 10 Precipi.aticn — )
.'o . . precip lhis month 0.03 T iai ;tnee J..n. 1, 1041. 1. i
If -t |j *A'« \\ t* A > r '
2 Midi..gut .. 15 83 NE 2 Clc r
4 a m . 16 84 E 2 CU r
2 30 pm .... ... _ 23 02 S 4 Pt Cl {
1’;j . -i: vv: Sunrise 4:31 . m. Sunset 7:36 p. m.
Highest temp — 54 I.- w. -t te p "4 P / — '
IT WAS ALL OVER FOR INI AX IE
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Max Baer sags to his knees in the eighth round at New York just before Referree Arthur Donovan
j gave the fight to Lou Nova on a technical knockout.