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Denmark Revamps Economic Setup as Result of Nazis' Invasion
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Export and Import
Cut Approximately
In Half in Denmark
Germany Herself
May Help Solve
Unemployment
By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, May 24—With
her old foreign markets gone, Den
mark is reorienting her foreign
economy to fit that of Germany and
at the same time drastically re
arranging her home economy to
meet the sudden unemployment re
sulting from the Nazi occupation.
The Danish export and import
business has been cut approximately
in half, while certain industries have
been curtailed sharply because they
lack the raw materials which Eng
land formerly supplied. These have
been replaced by Germany to a
certain extent, but not sufficiently
to keep a number of industries going
at their normal, preinvasion rate.
The solidity of Denmark's agri
cultural economy evidently was af
fected least of all, as Germany
proved an eager market for food
products.
Parliament has introduced a series
of important new measures to safe
guard other industries by sharing
work and to promote investment by
lowering the interest rate and guar
anteeing bank loans.
Nazi Labor Office Set Up.
That Germany herself may con
tribute to solution of the unemploy
ment problem was indicated by the
establishment of a German labor
office in Copenhagen, inviting the
Danes to fill long-felt gaps in Ger
many’s labor ranks.
The motto which may be put over
the new chapter in Danish national
life is:
“Share the burden and the benefit
of the community.”
This always has been a guiding
principle in Denmark’s policy. Un
der the new conditions, it is not only
a guiding principle but a vital ne
cessity.
On April 9 Denmark was cut off
from her markets in Great Britain
and France. When Belgium and
the Netherlands became theaters of
war on May 10, these countries also
disappeared as customers for the
time being, at least.
Exact Figures Not Known.
Exact figures for the resulting
economic losses are not known but
it is estimated that about 50 per
cent of Denmark’s total annual im
ports of 1,700,000.000 kroner and a
similar share of her exports of
1.600,000,000 kroner depended on
these countries.
(The Danish krone no longer
is listed on foreign exchange. It
was valued around 20 cents.)
Economic possibilities are limited,
although not to a degree cor
responding to these figures. Ger
many has been able to take the place
of Great Britain as a buyer of Dan
ish agricultural products and a
seller of coal, fertilizer and many
other goods.
Denmark's principal agricultural
problem is to supply feed for her
large herds of dairy cattle, her pigs
and her poultry. The increased
slaughtering necessary because of
the shortage of feed that normally
came from England has been aggra
vated by damage done to pasture
lands by the severe winter.
Stocks Running Low.
German-Danish commissions are
working out a basis of exchange of
these products as well as chemicals.
Potatoes can not be used for feed
this year, since they are needed by
the people.
Thus it has been possible to keep
the Danish agricultural life running
at virtually normal speed. Other
trades, especially industrial, have
been unable to keep up normal em
ployment.
Stocks of several kinds of raw
materials are running low and strict
economy has been introduced to
maintain a skeleton service in vital
manufactures. Mounting unemploy
ment in several industrial trades has
been the result.
In order to prevent an abnormal
rise in prices and remedy the effects
HERE'S HOW NAZIS STRIKE—A New Page for War Books
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1. WAVES OF BOMBERS dive on allied posi
tions, each with a target selected from aerial
photograph, dropping 500-pound explosives.
This used to be artillery job. Light bombers fol
low. On return, bombers strafe enemy in hast
ily-built shelters, simulating cavalry’s striking
force.
2. TANKS ROLL IN when enemy is weakened by
air attack. Some lire light cannon, machine
guns; others spray flame. Usually they move in
formation with 60-ton monsters in center. Ob
ject is to break lines in air-bombed area and
screen advance of infantry coming up behind
the tank units.
3. INFANTRY DIVISIONS pour into war
scorched area behind tanks. They are trans
ported in trucks and armored cars. Purpose is
to take over and organize the ground while
planes and tanks forge ahead, striking in same
pattern as before to widen sides of pocket in
enemy lines.
4. SHOCK TROOPS, on motorcycles, pour
through the holes In allied lines, dash up and
down highways as infantry advances. Their
machine gun fire rakes over area, prevents
shattered enemy from reforming forces. Occu
pying forces are protected by fighter planes.
of unemployment, the Danish gov
ernment introduced in Parliament a
number of measures which the gov
ernment hoped would apportion the
burden and benefit the life of the
community in the fairest manner.
Previous Policy Canceled.
The new laws cancel the previous
policy of adjusting wages and salaries
four times a year, according to a
statistically computed price index.
Prices rose when wages were raised,
and wages were raised again when
prices went up. This infinite spiral
now will be stopped.
New laws not only regulate wages
and salaries but also try to “share
the work.” In the industries where
the greatest number of workers are
employed, they must let their un
employed comrades take their places
for a time.
Those giving over their jobs will
be given certain renumeration from
an unemployment fund being cre
ated partly by government con
tribution and partly by a tax pay
able by all job-holders, including
clerks.
Price Raising Forbidden.
A special law will forbid improper
price rising and another will limit
share holders’ profits to 5 per cent
plus two-thirds of the average earn
ings above 5 per cent during the last
three years.
Finally a credit fund of 100,000,000
kroner—a sort of reconstruction
finance corporation—will be estab
lished to counteract possible losses
of old or new bank loans.
Denmark’s money situation is in
dicated by the fact that the National
Bank several days ago lowered the
discount rate from SVa to 4ft per
cent.
B. & 0. Shopmen Request
30-Hour Week, Vacations
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, May 24.—A 30
hour work week instead of the pres
ent 40 hours and vacations with pay
are asked in resolutions adopted by
the System No. 30 Convention of
American Federation of Labor
unions of Baltimore Sc Ohio Rail
road employes.
“We want the shorter work week
to help in reducing unemployment,”
declared H. J. Boyle of Baltimore,
who was elected president. “Our
request to the management for this
will be presented soon. We expect
a favorable answer.”
Eighty-six delegates representing
more than 11,000 of the road's em
ployes in seven groups—boiler
makers, machinists, blacksmiths,
electrical workers, firemen and oilers,
carmen and sheet metal workers—
attended yesterday’s convention.
Boyle, who also is general chair
man of the electrical workers, said
all points on the B. Sc O. lines were
represented, including New York,
St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City.
A. J. Barnhart of Toledo, Ohio, f?as
re-elected vice president.
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transports in the English Channel
and scored heavy bomb hits on sev
eral warships, including a large war
vessel—“probably a cruiser.”
Authorized sources found in re
ports of transport movements from
England to Prance a hint that the
British, instead of withdrawing from
the isolated area, actually were rush
ing reinforcements across the Chan
nel into the threatened zone.
A German announcement that
Loretto Heights, northwest of Arras,
had been captured indicated that a
German spearhead was threatening
the strongest point of the encircled
area, the French industrial city of
Lille, 25 miles northeast of Arras.
Reach Bank of Lys River.
The high command declared heavy
attack forces, having broken through
on the Scheldt River line, reached
the western embankment of the Lys
River, indicating that the Lys also
had been crossed.
This crossing, however, may have
been at Ghent, where the Scheldt
and Lys join. Authorized sources
said German and allied forces were
fighting in the streets of historic
Ghent, an important communica
tions center, 30 miles northwest of
Brussels, fallen Belgian capital.
The high command’s daily com
munique did not mention Ghent,
but said that Tournai, on the
Scheldt, about 35 miles southwest of
Ghent, had been taken.
“The region of Northern France
and Belgium wherein the enemy
armies’are encircled was yesterday
further tightened by the successful
attacks of German troops on all
sides,” said the high command.
“In Flanders German divisions
broke through the fortified Scheldt
position and advanced as far as the
western embankment of the Lys.”
The French fortress of Maubeuge,
which had been passed by the Ger
man sweep across the middle of the
Little Maginot Line fronting on Bel
gium, also was taken—the occupa
tion completed yesterday with the
capture of the last fortified works.
Armored Units Advance.
Formidable German armored
forces which had been advancing
between Arras and the sea to the
north were said to be nearing the
French Channel ports.
“A weak enemy advance from the
south toward Amiens (on the flank
of the German spearhead to the
Channel) was repelled,” said the
high command.
The Germans asserted that yes
terday’s air losses for the allies on
the western front totaled 49 planes—
shot down in flight or destroyed on
the ground—against 16 German
planes marked down as missing. A
toll of 56 allied tanks was an
nounced in one day of fighting
Wednesday.
Describing the progress made by
the army yesterday as “very con
siderable,” they said the Nazi units
probably had not touched the coast
town of Boulogne, south of Calais,
but had passed to the east of It on
the northward rush.
25-Mile Gap in Lines.
In their attempt to cut off and
encircle the allied force in North
ern France and Belgium the Ger
mans in the south have driven a
salient through a 25-mile gap in
the allied lines. Now they are push
ing northward in the coastal regions
to entrap this allied force.
In Northern Belgium, they are
driving down out of the Antwerp
sector toward the Belgian seaport
of Ostend, while at the same time
pressing forward on a line drawn
along the River Scheldt.
Ihformed sources were extremely
hopeful that, with the Germans
reaching French coastal points, “the
encirclement then will be nearly
airtight, in whieh case a destructive
battle may occur earlier than was
expected.’
The British Royal Air Force, they
said contemptuously, conducted an
other series of “prestige flights” over
the Aachen, Dusseldorf and Munster
regions last night.
These sources said bombs were
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dropped on non-military targets,
but that there were no reports as
yet as to possible damage or casu
alties.
The American military attache at
Berlin, Col. Peyton, and his two as
sistants went to the bombed regions
to make a personal investigation of
the German assertions of aimless
British night raids.
Repeated allied reverses in at
tempts to break through the Ger
man ring of encirclement and out
of the “cauldron” were described as
having weakened allied resistance.
The allies were said to have sus
tained particularly heavy losses in
an effort to pierce the German lines
near Cambrai yesterday.
Break-Through Lees Likely.
The further German advance to
ward Calais was reported to have
decreased considerably any chance
of a successful allied break-through.
With the ring around the allied
units getting tighter, it was said,
“the real fight against England is
coming closer.” But before a major
attack on England can be launched,
the "cauldron,” or pocket, in North
ern France and Belgium first will
have to be occupied completely by
German troops.
German authorities do not expect
to achieve this result without bitter
fighting. It was said no comparison
could be drawn with the campaign
in Poland, because the ring is
larger than that around the Poles
at Kutno and the allies are Doth
stronger and better equipped than
were the Poles.
Germany charged that all the
cars of an ambulance unit attached
to an armored car formation were
destroyed, four men killed and eight
injured in an Allied daylight air
attack May 14.
A broadcast official communique
said the ambulance unit was resting
by the roadside at Givonne, Franee,
when the planes attacked at about
LONDON. — IMPRISONED. —
Capt. Archibald H. M. Ram
say, a Conservative Member of
Parliament, whose arrest by
direction of the Home Secre
tary was announced by the
Speaker of the House of Com
mons. Capt. Ramsay, a vet
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was detained in Brixton Pris
on as the government carried
out a roundup of persons sus
pected as fifth columnists.
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were said to have been marked
plainly with red crosses.
R. A. F. Reports Direct Hits
On German Factories
By the Associated Press.
WITH THE BRITISH ROYAL
AIR FORCE IN FRANCE, May 24.
—Direct hits on factories and blast
furnaces in Germany were reported
last night by Royal Air Force
bomber crews back from new raids
deep behind the battlelines.
Raids were aimed at supply
sources and communication lines
over which Nazi reserves are mov
ing up to help consolidate posi
tions seized by fast-striking advance
units.
Most targets were in the Ardennes
Mountain section of Southeastern
Belgium, through which Germany
aimed its first thrusts into France,
and in the city of Saarburg, just
across the German frontier from
occupied Luxembourg.
Although visibility was bad, con
j siderable damage was reported on
important roads and railway junc
tions.
Proceeding east over Luxembourg
and into Germany, other R. A. F.
bombers, attacking military objec
tives in industrial Saarburg, re
ported scoring direct hits.
Pageant of Americas
Delayed Until Monday
The weather intervened today and
forced postponement of the Pageant
of the Americas from 8 o’clock to
night at the Sylvan Theater on the
Monument Grounds to Monday at
the same time and place.
About 200 students are participat
ing in the program and 21 American
republics will be represented in the
episodes shown.
Two Doomed in Slaying
By Brooklyn Murder Ring
B7 tbc Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 24—Harry
(Happy) Malone and Frank (the
Dasher) Abbandando, satellites oft
Brooklyn’s broken murder ring, must
die in Sing Sing Prison’s electric,. .
chair for the strangulation-ice pick. ,
slaying three years ago of Police
Informer George Rudnick.
A jury convicted them of first -
degree murder yesterday. The two »
men will go before Judge Franklin
Taylor Monday to hear the manda
tory death sentence. o i
The convictions were the first^to •
come in District Attorney William >
ODwyer’s roundup of hoodlums .
connected with the Brooklyn ganf>
he claims is responsible for at least
50 underworld slayings.
Soon after the verdicts were re- '
turned it was learned that Louis
(Lepke) Buchalter, convicted over;’
lord of a score of rackets, and five
other men had been Indicted se
cretly for murder in Brooklyn.
Buchalter now is serving a 14
year sentence in the Leavenworth .
(Kans.) Penitentiary for conspiracy
to violate Federal narcotics laws.
Mr. O’Dwyer declined to confirm,
or deny the report of the indict-,*
ments, but appeared disturbed that’
the news had leaked out.
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