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SATURDAY EVENING, Al'HIL If, 1941. ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES TWO ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES VAEL NEWS1 Slain Music Teacher And Church Janitor CHURCH JANITOR ADMITS BURNING BODY OF WOMAN STRONG BRITISH FORCE IS LANDED AT PORT IN IRAQ BRITISH CLAIM NEW SUCCESSES ON 3 FRONTS IN AFRICA Allies Fall Back To New Defense Posts Bullitt Declares U. S.

Must Realize Danger to Nation Warns Business and Workers of Need for Full Speed in Defense Program. Charred Bones of Pretty Akron Music Teacher Are Found In Furnace. Number of Vehicles Destroyed In Attack oa Axis ConToy At Solium, Egypt. CAIRO. EGYPT.

April 19. (U. P. Gtavano 1 1 rmrt New Bagdad Government Cooperates Nazi Agents Reported Active There. LONDON.

April 19. (U. Moving to checkmate possible realization of Germany's dream of rule "from Berlin to Bagdad" and to protect her huge and vital Interests in the Iraq oil fields. Great Britain has landed a strong force of imperial troops at Basra, It was announced officially today. The landing, with the full collaboration of the new Rashid All regime at Bagdad, was expected to be followed by British recognition of the new government.

The forces which landed at Basra were expected to occupy strategic positions on Iraq lines of communications, around Bagdad, in the oil fields and on the pipe lines. No indication as to the number JbnmaUc V.wJ&f0 Vqlos William C. Bullitt, former United States ambassador to France, in the current issue of Life Magazine asserts that America must work harder and take greater risks to stop Hitler from conquering the world. In the following excerpt from his article, reprinted by the Star-Times with permission of Life, he points out the vecessitp for full speed ahead in the defense effort. Fate never forgives loss of time.

AKRON. OHIO. April 19. (U. An elderly church janitor has admitted burning the body of pretty Ruth Zwicker, young Akron music teacher, in the furnace of the North Hills Methodist Church, Detective Inspector Verner E.

Cross said today. The charred bones of the 24-year-old woman, missing since last Saturday, were removed from the furnace last night by detectives. Cross said Albert Lukens. 58, gray-haired Janitor, admitted placing the woman's body in the furnace last Sunday, but denied he killed her. Cross said Lukens told him Miss Zwicker was pract icing on the piano on the second floor of the church last Saturday.

Lukens asked her to kiss him. Cross said, and the girl slapped him. Lukens grabbed her and in the scuffle she hit her head against the piano. He carried her to the basement and went home. Cross quoted him.

When he returned Sunday morning, the girl was dead. He placed the girl's body in the furnace Sunday morning shortly before Easter services began. Lukens is the father of three British middle east headquarters reported new British vktory over Axia forces at Solium. Egypt, today and declared that near Tobruk, Libya. British patrols harassed German and Italian columns.

Satisfactory, progress wa reported for British operations in Ethiopia. "In the Tobrulc are our patrols vigorously harassed the enemy while at Solium one of our mobile columns engaged an enemy convoy, destroying a number of vehicles," a communique said. 'In Abywinla (Ethiopia) damage to the main road (inflicted by retreating Italians) again is delaying the movement of our column converging on Dessie. Partner south, our advance in all arras is progressing satisfactorily and many additional prisoners have been taken." The communique said that in east Africa the South African air force had machine-gunned the Kombol-cha airdrome in Ethiopia, destroying seven grounded planes. South African planes were said to have attacked the Sciasciamanna airdrome, south of Addis Ababa, as well.

One British plane was listed as missing from all operations. German forces, continuing their advance against the British and Greeks, have taken Mt. Olympus and Larissa. and forced the Allies to fall back to straighten their line. 1 Exact location of the present British-Greek line is not designated in Berlin dispatches, but it apparently stretches from Porto Edda in Albania to a point somewhere below Larissa.

2 Previous reports have indicated that the Allies, in an attempt to shorten their defense line and find territory that would offer maximum resistance to the Nazi mechanized divisions, might withdraw to a new line stretching across the narrow mountain area from Arta, on the Ionian Sea, to the Lamia sector, on the Aegean. of troops which were landed at Basra was given except insofar as the official announcement said they were "strong." (Istanbul dispatches indicated imperial forces had landed in Iraq to counteract Nazi agents who were alleged to be spreading revolutionary and anti-British propaganda not only in Iraq but in Iran, Syria, Palestine and Transjordania as well. Turkish quarters rr ported German agents were smucglin money and arms to dissident Arab chieftains in preparation for a German drive In the middle east and they linked Hitler does not wait. Because we preferred business as usual to production at war speed, we now face convoying with the obvious risk of finding ourselves war. We are where we are today because we have behaved as if there were no great urgency.

We are still behaving as if there were no great urgency. We- are still thinking of rights not duties, privileges not service; ease not danger. The right to strike is deeply Ingrained in our American tradition. The right of a man to do whatever he wishes with his own property Is deeply Ingrained. We want to keep both these rights alive.

But we want much more to keep the United States alive. And unless the men engaged in every capacity in producing the weapons we need for our defense are wise and moderate Albert Lukens, Akron, Ohio, church janitor, who has admitted burning the body of 24-year-old Ruth Zwicker, music teacher, left, in the church furnace on Easter morning. The 58-year-old janitor, father of three children, said Miss Zwicker fell and injured herself while resisting his advances. (Acme Telephoto to the PREMIER'S DEATH Allied Situation Becoming More Difficult, Mason Says TUBKtY Ship Survivors Tell of 22 Days Ails Bombers Attack Tobrnk. BERLIN.

AprU 19 (U. German and Italian dive bombers yesterday heavily attacked fortifications, batteries, gasoline dumps and harbor works in British-held To-bruk. Libya, causing heavy damage, the German high command said today. A communique said that while bombers attacked a Eritish auxiliary cruUer at Solium. Egypt, their es-' cortlng destroyer planes shot down a British Bristol-Blenheim bomber.

The hiRh command said Tobruk was attacked from the air both yesterday and List night. "Direct hits caufed great destruc-, tlon and outbreaks of fires which were visible from a great distance," the communique said. In Open Lifeboat; 44 of 82 Men Perished During Voyage ISLAND OP CURUPU, OFF MABANHAO BRAZIL. April 19 (U. Slt i IRAN ARABIA.

-Ny BV J. W. T. MASON, United Pretis War Expert. German reports that the swastika has been planted on Mt.

Olympus must be read In connection with today's Cairo communique that th Allied line has been shortened and has not been penetrated at xnr point. The German mass attacks against the Greek center apparency forced a Greek retirement threatening encirclement of the British flr.x resting on Mt. Olympus and a general straightening of the line to new positions southward presumably has resulted. The shortened Allied line will permit the Greeks and British to eon-1 centrate more power at crucial sec tions. Nevertheless, as long as HiUer continues to authorize relentless sacrifice of his troops in gaining objectives, the diminishing munitions of the Allies and paucity of rewvei P.

Survivors of the shelled British aimed merchant ship Birtanla told today a story of twenty-two days of heroism, suffering and death in an these activities with an urgent trip open liftboat in which forty-four of eighty-two men died during a voy In the exercise of their rights, we shall not be able to keep our nation alive. We have had American manufacturers who have refused to take war orders from the War Department and the Navy Department because they preferred the gains of their usual business. We have had employers who have refused to deal reasonably with their employes. We have had workers who have struck in defense industries. We still have them.

It is unjust to say that these men are unpatriotic. Aside from a few TTf Communist agents, they are patriots who behave as if they v. etc unpatriotic because they do not realize what their behavior means. They do not feel that Amer Continued From Tate One. as.

who died January 29) died under mysterious circumstances, probably connected with the criminal work of the British intelligence uervice, but Korl.ls committed suicide because he couldn't atand living through the Imminent collapse of Killed by British. Natl Claim. BERLIN. April 19 (I. N.

German semi-official quarters today oicnly charged the British assassinated Premier Alexander Korl-zis of Greece to keep him from negotiating for a separate peace. D. N. the official German news agency, hinted Korizis was poisoned or shot. The agency pointed out he was "found dead" several hours after a talk with Lieut.

Gen. Sir Henry Mail land Wilson. British commander in Greece, and Sir C. M. Palatret.

the British minister. The Britons reportedly urged Korizis to let the Greek royal family and government leave for Egypt aboard a British cruiser, since the situation at the front, was "hopeless." according to D. N. B. Korizis rejected the request, D.

N. B. said. age of 1.600 miles to the Brazilian coast. Eighty-two others were lost when the ship went down.

There were days of terrible heat and finally madness In the lifeboat, which carried twice the regulation number of persons, but survivors said the captain of the Britania (not identified) was the hero of the voyage before he died. must cause me Brnisn and Greek high commands to Drenare for an increasingly difficult situation ADOLF HITLER "The captain refused to give up," Hitler's arrival at the German army's Balkan headquarters on his fifty-second birthday anniversary undoubtedly has been arranged to coincide with the maximum Nazi pressure along the 5reek Iront. Nazis Reaching Easier Ground. The Allied line now is about 150 the first officer told the United Press today. "He fought man and nature hour after hour, gulling the Continued From Page One.

able to the public. A new 20 per cent reduction in the beer supply, which makes a total of 40 per cent as compared to the pre-war supply, caused many taverns to discontinue the sale of brer for consumption and to close one day a week. France, Once League Of Nations Leader, Plan to Withdraw VICHY. FRANCE. April 13 Vice-Premier Jean Francois Darin informed the League of Nations secretariat today that France had decided to cancel its membership la the league.

Beloic the war France was a pillar of the league. It takes two years to cancel to Berlin by Baron Franz von Papen, German ambassador tp Turkey). "In accordance with the terms of the Anglo-Iraq treaty of alliance, strong Imperial forces have arrived at Basra to open up lines of communication through Iraq," the announcement said. Basra, 270 miles southeast of Bagdad, is the jxut for Iraq. It is on the Shat-el-Arab, sixty miles from the Persian Gulf.

The arrival of the imperial forces was rewarded as a timely move to strengthen the British position in Iraq, whose immense oil fields and vital stra topic positions in the middle east might easily fall prey to German parachutists or troops carried by giant air transports. The recent Bagdad coup had aroused misgivings regarding the Rashid All regime sympathies, despite repeated statements that the Anglo-Iraq treaty would be honored in lull. Arrival of the Imperial forces at Bara, however, was interpreted as meaning that all doubt concerning Iraq's position had been removed and that Britain now has a free hand to protect her own vital interests and, if necessary, to counter any eventual German blow. Ancient Greek and Roman Coins Shown At City Art Museum The City Art Museum In Forest Park will show 'In Gallery until May 15 a collection of about 135 ancient Greek and Roman coins, selected especially for their artistic interest. Enlarged photographs of a number of the more notable pieces are on view to facilitate study of their sculptural quality.

The greater portion of the coins is lent from the J. M. Wulflng collection through the courtesy of Washington University. Others are lent by private collectors. Also shown is a group of forty unusual protographs of contemporary Greece by Herbert List.

boat to within sight of the Brazilian coast. "That close to safety he died, with a smile on his cracked lips. His last words were: 'All's The Britania was sunk by a German raider. The exact number aboard was uncertain, but seventy-eicht were picked up by the steamer Cabo De Homos and fifty -seven others were picked up by trie British ship Raranga and landed at Montevideo. Of those aboard the lifeboat that finally arrived here, four of the dead were British naval and military men en route to India and forty were Indians.

"Twenty-three days ago the Britania was shelled and sunk off the African coast by a German raider, unidentified." the senior officer said. "Seventeen Britishers and sixty-five Indians were drowned with the ship. Eiehty-two survivors loaded into a lifeboat built for fiUy-eight and headed for South America. "We took advantage of the trade winds, using a small main-sail Job. The Britishers were not sailors, but they lived up to the highest traditions of His Majesty's forces.

The situation became worse rapidly, and the Indians were maddened by heat and became panic-stricken. "For the last twelve days we had a ration of one sea biscuit and one tablespoon of water a day." Despite the hardships of the voyage, the survivors were in good spirits today and doctors said they would recover speedily. ica is really In danger. But America is in danger acute danger. And by their behavior they are deepening the danger.

The manufacturers and the workmen of Fiance also behaved as if there were no great urgency until the Germans broke through the French army on the Meuse. Then they all set to work at last at full speed. In a month they turned out more than twice the number of airplanes they had ever produced before. It was too late. Four weeks after they really set to work.

Paris fell. The manufacturers and the workmen of France lost all their rights, and together became slaves of the Nazis. Neither the manufacturers nor the workmen of France wanted to be slaves. Neither wanted to deprive their sons at the front of the weapons they needed to defend themselves against the Nazis, but they did Just those things by not producing the weapons. No American manufacturer or workman wants to deprive his son or his friend's son of the weapons he will need to defend ills life, his home und his country.

But how many are doing Just that? Each one of us In his own home and his own community can serve America now not only by working at full speed but also by causing others to realize the tragic fact that our nation is in peril. Never in our history has there been more truth in Benjamin Franklin's saying: "We must all Hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang UNITY FREEMAN-MITFORD AGAIN APPEARS IN PUBLIC 6 Jugo-Slav Generals Captured, Rome Says ROME. April 19. TJ. Italian, flying columns from Albania which occupied Cetlnje and Cattaro in southwestern Jugo-Slavia.

captured six Jugo-Slav generals, includirc one army commander with his entire staff, the Italian war communique said today. The high command said many prisoners had been taken by Italian troops operating in former Montenegro and claimed Italians had completed occupation of on the Jugo-Slav Adriatic coa.t. The communique said Italian planes attacked a strongly escorted, convoy, "sinking with torpedoes two tankers" and making a direct bomt hit on one cruiser. The communique said that "on the Greek front" Italian troop were "unceasingly advancing with Italian aviation continuously attacking Greeks who are retreating in disorder." LONDON, April 19 (U. Unity.

Valkyrie Freeman-Mltford, once described by Adolf Hitler as EDSEL FORD'S SON AND DETROIT GIRL ENGAGED DETROIT. April 19 U. The engagement of Benson Ford, heir to the Ford Motor Co. millions, to Miss Edith McNaughton, daughter of a retired Cadillac Motor Co. vice-president, was announced today.

Ford, son of Edsel Ford, is 21 and has been working for the Ford Motor Co. He recently underwent a physical examination for the draft and has been placed tentatively in Class 1-A, available for immediate military service. Miss McNaughton is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn McNaughton of Detroit.

TROY, N. MAN NAMED PRESIDENT OF EDITORS WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. Dwight Marvin, editor of the Troy (N. Record, yesterday was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He succeeds Tom Wallace, editor of the Louisville Times.

M. V. Atwood of the Gannett newspapers was reelected first vice-president and N. R. Howard, the Cleveland News, was re-elected secretary.

Other new officers named were: S. Gllmore, Detroit News, second vice-president, and John S. Knight. Detroit Free Press. Akron Beacon Journal and Miami Herald, treasurer.

the ideal Nordic beauty, today made lier first public appearance since she returned from Germany more than a year ago with mysterious bullet wounds in her neck. The daughter of Lord Rcdcsdale a 1 1 ded the wedding of her sLster. Deborah. 20, to Lord An- miles north of Athens. The mountain defenses are more sparse in the intervening terrain thnn they have been in the previous fighting areas.

That means the German advance is approaching better conditions for the employment of mechanized power and especially tanks. The Germans have a considerable superiority in mechanical implements which must place the Allies at increasing disadvantage if they are compelled to retire still farther Into the southern plains. Yet as long as the Allied front remains unbroken, it always is possible that the heavy casualties being inflicted on the Germans may compel a moderation in the intensity of the Nazi offensive. That would seem, at present, to be the oqly way the German forward push can be held and the line stabilized. Any counter-offensive by the Allies to drive the Germans back appears remote because of inferior manpower.

Discusses Premier's Death. The mysterious death of Premier Korizis of Greece under circumstances kept secret at Athens is disconcerting for the Allies, especially since it is coupled with reports from Athens of defeatist movements. Reports which were quickly circulated today from Axis sources that the premier was murdered or committed suicide must be in the minds of Allied troops fighting at the front and may have some effect on the Greek morale. King George's assumption of the premiership is an advantageous move, however, for unifying public sentiment. The fact that such unification seems necessary is not strange, for the terrific power of the German drive must be mentally disorganizing, coming so suddenly after the Greek victories over the Italians.

The appointment of Costas Kodl-Jlas as vice-premier may cause the Germans to believe the Greeks are preparing for eventual negotiations with Hitler. Kodijlas has been a friend of the fuehrer and has been received by him In Germany. Bombs Ruin Church Designed by Wren LONDON. April 19. (U.

Officials today permitted the disclosure that the largest church designed by Christopher Wren, St Andrews Holborn, was destroyed in Wednesday night's German air raid on London. The auditorium of the church, which adjoins City Temple, was built in 1686. Its tower is 200 years older. Disraeli was baptized in St. Andrews Holborn.

Its register contained many of the names used in Dickens novels. Both Sides Slow Down Air Attacks R. A. F. Attacks Two Convoys in North Sea Unity Freeman- drew Cavendish, Mltford.

20, the son or the Duke and Duchess of SOCIAL SECURITY GRANT OF $787,829 TO STATE KANSAS CITY. April 19. (U. Regional Director Ed McDonald of the Social Security Board today announced a grant of $787,829 90 has been made to the State of Missouri for administration of its unemployment compensation and employment service programs. The grant is for the period ending June 30.

N. Y. OPERA SINGER LEAVES TO JOIN HUSBAND IN OSLO VICTORY SLOGAN TO HONOR HITLER ON 52ND BIRTHDAY 14 More Men Will Report to Barracks Thirteen conscrlptecs from St. Louis and one from St. Louis County will report to Jefferson Barracks Monday and Tuesday for induction in the army for a yertr's training.

The fourteen were selected as replacements for men rejected in the March draft quota. Eight or the new men are volunteers and nine are Negroes: The names of the selectees, as announced by their local draft boards, follow, with volunteers Indicated by tV: St. Ionia Hoard No. 14 JAM PS F. DRIKH iVl.

29, bll boy. 1400A tlehrrt reel ROBERT 8 PROSSER tV). 33. salesman. 4040 Hertford atreet C4I1.BERT 8.

S1NDELAH (VI. 32 commercial artist. 2703 Mlrhtcan avenue. St. I.nnift Hoard No.

f.V AMIEL A. LANGE. 32. truck driver, 4344 Lafavette avrnue. HI.

Innli Hoard No. 1. EDWARD ALEXANDER tVi. Negro. 31, urtemplnved.

119 finuth Leonard avenue. RUBHELL SMITH (Vi. Negro. 23. unemployed.

Zirt RulRer street. ALTON VAN BUREN (VI, Negro. 34, porter. 3731 Hlrkorv atreet. HAIIE CALDWELL, Negro.

32, laborer. 2947 Scott avenue. St. I kiii Board No. 19.

FRED BUCHANAN. Negro, 23. foundry worker. 3114 Bell avenue. RICHARD A.

JONES. Negro. 21. unemployed. 111A North Channlng avenue.

M. I.oui Board No. Z1. MrKINLEY BURT V. Negro, 19.

deliver bov. 2C10A North Taylor avenue. J. C. JARRETT, Negro.

21. unemployed. 42M Coto Brllllante avrnue. JESSF. SIMMS.

Negro, 21. porter, 4S62A Cole Bvllllante avenue. CnnnlT Board No. 4. LESSI.IK I.

HOUSF.R 29. unemployed. 232S Wallia avenue. Author Virginia Woolf Is Declared a Suicide NEW HAVEN. SUSSEX.

ENGLAND. AprU 19. (U. The coroner ruled today that Virginia Woolf, author whose body was recovered from the River Ouse last night, had taken her own life. A note she left for her husband said: "I have a feeling I shall go mad.

I Chnnot go on any longer In these terrible times. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I foiiKht against it. I cannot fight any longer." The author disappeared from her home three weeks ago. FORMER HERRIN MAYOR IS HELD IN KENTUCKY MELEE LONDON.

April 19 (U. German planes dropped only a fe- bombs on Britain during the and it was understood there wer no Royal Air Force attacks of moment on German-occupied territory. The air and home security ministries said a few bomb6 were dropped In southeast England and northern Scotland without causing casualties. 'Already Is at Good As Assured Goebbels Says BERLIN. AprU 19 (U.

Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels said tonight in a radio speech that Germany's ultimate victory "already is as good as assured." "Our path still lies cloaked in darkness, but already it is lllumin- ated by the light of our faith," Goebbels said. "It is the path to final victory. "Never have we believed in that so firmly as today. The fuehrer is bringing it to us; that is the best support for our confidence." Reralla Churchill's Remark. Goebbels said that "when Mr.

Churchill recently spoke regarding the prospects of this war he declared that England would win although he did not yet know how." "We can only reply to him: The fuehrer will be victorious and chiefly because he also knows he will be victorious," Goebbels said. "He has filled the nation with his spirit. It is attuned to his will. In the struggle for existence It will this time successfully go through its greatest test by fate. "This time gives our people their opportunity and we will utilize it to the full.

The people are In arms and they are led by determination dominated by fanaticism that is victory. Facing: Proudest Period. "We have been fighting now so long at the fuehrer's side that I think we have the right from our experience to say that our victory is as good as assured; that we need now only to remain strong, confident, brave and upright in order to meet with upraised heads the hour of our proudest triumph. "The German people need have no worry about the future. The German people are facing the proudest period of their historic development.

"The winter on which London placed such great hope now is long passed. It was filled for us with feverish preparations. The whole nation worked day and 'night to equip our armed forces to overflowing with arms and munitions, and to maintain the internal organization of our national life functioning flawlessly and to divide justly the burdens which normally are bound up with war and make them tolerable for everyone. "British plutocracy in vain used all imaginable means to gain military successes on the side lines or to make the German people doubtful or even without courage during the Iqng waiting period. Didn't Make a Fuss.

"These attempts glanced off us Ineffectively. The German people during the winter not only waited but fought and tolled. Unlike the English, we did not make a lot of fuss about this. Our foe already has felt the result of our preparations In the southeastern campaign, in north Africa, in the battle of the Atlantic and in the air war against the English motherland. "This all proves again that war Is not won by newspaper articles but with ideas, soldiers, weapons and munitions.

A people wins if it possesses the conditions for victory and wants to win and must win. That is the case with us "Drr fuehrer, tomorrow Is his day and our day. It brings home to us a gam what has been made of our life by him. Theremore we wish what we have always wished when we speak to the nation on this day that he may remain what he was: Our LONDON. April 19.

(U. Royal Air Force planes attacked two enemy convoys in the North Sea yesterday and damaged four merchant ships so seriously their loss is certain, the air ministry said today. Indicating the magnitude of the operations, the air ministry said eight British planes were lost. (In Berlin the official news agency said British planes yesterday attempted to attack German llaht naval forces in the North Sea. The agency said the German vessels avoided the bombs and shot down three planes.) The air ministry said one British attack occurred near Helgoland; the other off the Norwegian coast.

Aprl 19. (U. Metropolitan Op- BERLIN. April 19 (U. The commanders-in-chief of the German air force, army and navy tomorrow will issue orders of the day in honor of Adolf Hitler's fifty-second birthday and all will contain the same slogan "the last enemy also will be beaten." Rendix Vandal Held Insane.

HACKENSACK. N. April 19. (U. Donald B.

Converse, 32. who ran amok In the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant at Bendix, N. April 4 and smashed $100,000 worth of models for precision aircraft instruments, was committed temporarily yesterday to the Trenton Stpte Hospital for the criminal Insane. MIDDLESBORO, April 19.

(I. N. Three officials of the C. I. United Mine Workers' Union and ten C.

I. O. members were charged today with murder in connection with a gun battle in which four men were killed and nine wounded near the Fork mine last Tuesday. Two of the officials, A. T.

Pace, a former mayor of Herrin, 111., and now a traveling union auditor, and James W. Rld-inss, former sheriff of Bell County, now an International U. M. W. representative, were arrested last night.

Nails Claim 18 IManes Destroyed. BERLIN. April 19 U. Tint German high command said today there had been no British raids en Rclc htcrrltory last night but eighteen Brtlish planes were de-fctroyed ythe German air lore yesterday with a loss of only threw Germs planes. A communiqua said thirteen British planes wc hot down In air battles and were destioyed on the ground.

NEW YORK. Kirsten Flagstad era Company singer, left for Europe today aboard the Dixie Clipper tore-Join her husband in Oslo, Norway. She will return in September. The singer said she had made arrangements to get into and out of Norway, but indicated it was a matter of chance whether her plans would go through. Nazi Shipping Attacks.

BERLIN. April 19. (U. German bombers yesterday sent 19,000 tons of British shipping to the bottom in ojeratlons around the British coast, the German high com Hadassah Benefit Dance. There will be a rhumba and conga dance to climax the Hadassah'a annual horpltal linen drive this eve-nong at Harris Hall, Shaare Emeth Temple, 6830 Delmar boulevard.

Mrs. Philip Abrams is chairman and Mrs. Ben Lerner. co-chairman. Agrees to Pay Bark Taxes.

WASHINGTON. April 19 U. Robert Jackson of New Hampshire, former secretary of the Democratic National Committee, has agreed to pay the government in back Income taxes due since 1928. The Church of St. Mildred's in Bread street another of the la-mous Wren edifices also was reduced to a heap of rubble in a recent raid, it was disclosed.

The mand said today. It reported two merchant ships totaling 11,000 tons had been sunk from an armed convoy in Bristol Channel and other bombers sank three merchantmen totaling 8.000 tons off the Scottish east coast. Kirsten Flag stad. HALIFAX THINKS WAR IN AFRICA IS MOST IMPORTANT WASHINGTON. April 19 (I.

N. British Ambassador Lord Halifax believes the north African theater of war, in which an Italo-Gcr-man column is attempting to reach the Suez Canal, is of far greater importance than the current Balkan warfare. Lord Halifax told porters his view of the north African warfare after advising Secretary cf State Hull yesterday that British empire forces in Egypt will be able church was built at the same time as St. Paul's Cathedral. County Funds Can't Be Used for Recount, Attorney General Rules 'Breathing Period' May Be Provided Between Army Test and Induction to check the Axis drive.

New Japanese Drive In China Is Reported SHANGHAI. April 19. (U. The Japanese army and navy issued a Joint communique today announcing that "major landing operations" on the Chckiang Province coast this morning had resulted in occupation of the cities of Chlng-Hal, Shlh-Pu, Halmen and HEYW00D BROUN ESTATE VALUE PLACED AT $1,685 STAMFORD, CONN. April 19.

(U. The estate of Hey wood Broun, newspapsr columnist who died December 17, 1939, was valued today at $1,685. exclusive of insurance left directly to his widow. Mrs. Connie Fruscella Broun, and his son, Heywood Hale Broun.

Broun had a $300 equity in his Long Ririse home, a small amount of cash bank deposits and due in wages and royalties at the time of his death. VEDANTA CENTER Sanda? Irrlar. T. "Vtdanta and Modtrn 3citc" 8WAMI ATraK AMHAVAXOA I Ml I A BFI.TMAR HIIKi DFI.MAI RIAO Ai l. hiikimk: mmmmmmm they would begin Tuesday, the date suggested by the legislative contest committee when it issued writs last week ordering the recount.

With widespread reluctance In evidence because county courts have refused to finance the tabulation, more than half the counties said a date had been set but in only a few had a means of financing been found. Latest date was May for Jackson County, but the Mercer County clerk refused to go ahead until his bonding company told him the cost would be a legal expense for his office. JEFFERSON CITY. April 19. (U.

County funds cannot be used to pay extra costs of recounting the ballots for governor, the attorney general's office held today In a ruling that may seriously impede settlement of the McDaniel-Donnell contest. The opinion, requested by Marion Robertson, Saline County prosecuting attorney at Marshall, at the request of his county clerk, C. W. Piper, was written by Assistant Attorney General Oliver W. Nolen.

Three counties Barry, Cass and Chariton reported today they will launch the ballot recount Monday. Forty-seven other counties said ters. This situation has resulted in financial hardship to persons who have given up their Jobs or sold out their farms when they were passed by local board examiners. "We are making every effort to warn men that they have not been drafted until they have passed the army examination," one official said. Officials admitted that under present conditions, a prospective selectee cannot wait until after he has passed the army physical requirements to liquidate his personal business.

A "breathing period" of from a week to ten days was suggested to alleviate the situation. WASHINGTON. April 19. tU. Selective service officials said today they plan to remove some of the hardships now admittedly being suffered by selectees.

On of the proposals under consideration, they said, is the establishment of a "breathing period" between the time a selectee Is approved by army physicians and the time he is inducted. Final physical approval and induction now occur at the same time. Many selectees, officials said, pass physical examinations given by local draft boards but are unable to get by army physicians when they arrive at induction cen of Christ, ScientistSB5 tChrMian grimrri Thar Art Fight Rranrhra Tha Mnihrr t'harrh. Thr Ftral Charrfc mt Chritt. Scientist, in Roiton.

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N. MaJ. Oscar Molinari, Italian ace whose squadron was credited with fifty aerial victories, was killed today In a crash..