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THE PALM BEACH POST WEATHER: Partly cloudy; moderate easterly winds ovet! south portion. Roman orators, born, 106 B. C. XXXII No. 281 WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1941 Twenty Pageg Today FIVE CENTS DATE IN HISTORY: Marcus Tullius Cicero, moat famous of ROCKED New Session Of Congress Opens In Capitol At Noon, Faced With Call Shortly For More Billions HI! ADMITTING IE OF GERMAK BREMEN IS SET AFIRE CI RAF ES 1 LAID 10 MAKE NATION GREAT ARSENAL 11M FLIERS Right Third Time TORONTO, Jan.

2. UP) The first time Albert Perry was pronounced dead the official verdict was found to be grossly exaggerated. It was 20 years ago when, after being blown through a brick wall in a dye works explosion, the doctors found no pulse and no heart beat, and gave him up. Last Monday he was again 'pronounced dead after being struck by an automobile, and the coroner was summoned. A bystander noticed a movement, and the doctor reversed his verdict.

Perry died tonight from the accident injuries. The doctors are sure this time. He was 67. Hardy Greek SOUTHERN ALBANIAN FRONT, Jan. 2.

UP) A Greek pilot claimed today he downed an Italian bomber with the propeller of his plane after running out of machine-gun ammunition and captured its crew of three at pistol point. His story as related by military sources said he exhausted his ammunition in a dogfight, then streaked for the bomber's tail and veered away just in time to avoid a full collision. His blade cut the Italian's rudder and elevator surfaces and forced them to land, he reported, and he sat down in the same pasture with his propeller bent. The Greek met the Italians with his pistol drawn and they surrendered. The Lineup WASHINGTON, Jan.

2. UP) The political lineup in the Senate and House in the 77th Congress opening Friday, with comparative figures for the 76th Congress, follows: Senate: 77th 76th Cong. Cong. Democrats 66 69 Republicans 28 23 Progressives 1 1 Independents 1 1 Farmer Labor 2 House of Representatives: (435) Democrats 268 262 Republicans 162 169 Progressives 3 2 Farmer Labor 1 1 American Labor 1 1 WHITE REINS SEEKING 1 MORE DE Massing Of Axis Airmen Expected To Increase Assaults -On Greece And Africa ROME, Jan. 2.

UP) Italy announced officially today that a German flying corps has reinforced il duce's aviators on Italian soil, and indicated this massing of Axis airmen will intensify the assault both on the Greeks in Albania and the British in North Africa. The Germans, said the announcement, will "help in the bitter aero-naval fight now developing in the Mediterranean basin." (The British have been conducting widespread raids on Fascist objectives from the Italian Alps to the Red Sea.) Coincidentally, it was disclosed that all the Italian air corps assigned to help the Germans bomb Britain from bases on the English Channel have been called home to Italy, except for a group of fighter planes The newspaper la Trihuna said the. Axis air coordination, coming when the British are exerting a strong effort to defeat. Italy decisively, is "a warning to those who still count on the British guarantee and an announcement of new events for the enemy's haughtiness, which will be broken at any cost with iron and fire." Greece and Turkey are guaranteed by the British, the latter having a mutual assistance pact with London. Lavoro Fascists added that 1he German air corps would be assigned "a certain military task pre-determined by the two commands," and that "all equipment and resources are pooled to make the attack against the common tnemy more efficient." This was interpreted in foreign circles as meaning the German fliers would attack the Greeks, with whom Germany nominally is at peace, as well as the British.

RAYBURN SELECTED AGAIN AS SPEAKER BY NEW LOADS Radius Around Dubliit Setting For 5-Hour At tack; Magnetic Mines Also Are Found DUBLIN, Jan. 3. (Friday) (Pi Dublin was bombed before dawn today in a new raid following up a 5-hour assault started Wednesday night upon an area of 60-mile radius around this neutral capital. Some houses were damaged and it was feared that several persona may remain buried under the debris. The houses hit were located on Donore Terrace.

Others on Duf-ferin Avenue had windows blown out. Within 45 minutes after the at tack, seven persons were admitted to one hospital for bomb-inflicted injuries. Eight persons, some of them injured seriously, were removed from two houses which received direct hits. Police and shldiers continued digging this morning for others believed buried there. The attack apparently was made by a lone plane which approached Dublin from the north and flew over in a straight course.

Invading warplanes, apparently German, loosed new loads of bombs on neutral but. uneasy Ireland last night, following up a 5-hour assault which began Wednesday night in a 60-mile radius around Dublin and included Irish army headquarters. Oddly, the missiles dropped from unidentified planes included parachute-borne sea mines which the Irish government said fell on shore this morning, lying unex-plodcd and menacing in the fields. Bombs came down near Ennis-corthy, 60 miles southwest of Dublin and less than 15 miles inland from the Irish Sea which separates Ireland and England. In the attacks Wednesday night, however, at least three civilians were killed and two injured at Knnckroe, County Carlow, and one of the bombs was declared by the defense department to have borne German markings.

The mines which fell at Ennis- kerry, County Wirklow, were said by experts to be of the German magnetic variety used early in the! war before Rritain devised a defence system against them. They were carried to earth by parachutes of emerald-green silk, also of German manufacture. MARGARET I.OIT Mt'RPHY IS NF.W YEAR'S B.AB7 The first baby horn so far in 1911 is Margaret Lou Murphy, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J.

Murphy, 1135 Elizabeth Street. The baby was born at the Good Samaritan Hospital at 6:44 a. m. New Year's Day. WEATHER The Associate Preaa FORECAST Florida Partly dourly todav and Sat-urdav, possibly Itcht showers oer north portion, altehily cooler extreme north portion tonight.

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nl Bethesda Park lor helnneri In shnKl hoard. III AERIAL BOMBS New Assault Under Way On French Coast As Invasion Ports Are Blasted By Bombs LONDON, Jan. 2. (JP)A new assault by British bombers upon the Nazi invasion bases along the French Coast was signaled tonight, by flashes of flares and muffled LONDON, Jan. 3 (Friday).

UP) The German airforce singled out. a town in South Wales for its overnight fire-bomb attack while raiding 'other parts of Britain on a far lighter scale. Authorities said the Welsh casualty list, was not expected to be heavy, however, and that, comparatively little property damage had been reported. London had an early evening alert, but the "all-clear" came before midnight. explosions visihle and audible from across the cold and windswept: Straits of Dover.

German positions between Calais and Boulogne appeared to be under attack, with the Boulogne region and the Nazi big-gun emplacements at Cap Gris Nez getting special attention. In this attack, the. RAF had to plunge through severely unfavorable weather. It followed a foray in which the British were declared by the Air Ministry to have paid Nazi bombers back, fire for fire, in a tremendous raid on the airplane factories and other industrial plants of Bremen. It left flames visible 120 miles away.

Twenty thousand incendiary bombs and a great load of high explosive missiles were dumped on the German North Sea military and naval port Wednesday night by relay after relay of planes, of ficial acocunts related. This, the Birtish declared, was "partial retaliation" for last Sunday night's devastating fire raid on London. The Focke-Wulf plane plant was left "a ranging furnace," the Air Ministry's account said. The Deutsche Vacuum oil refinery, one of the largest in Germany, was greatly damaged, and railways of the port were hit "again and again," the bulletin continued. Factories along one railway line were declared to have been gutted.

To "long processions" of British fliers still en route an hour after the dusk to midnight raid began, th'-j glow of Bremen's fires could rseen from over Holland's Zuider Zee. ATTACK BEFORE BARD1A CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 2. British mechanized forces were reported operating 75 miles beyond the Egyptian border in Libya today in a possible prelude to an attack on the big Italian base at Tobruk even before the anticipated fall of besiegnd Bardia. With these forces declared to be firmly holding a stretch of the road leading from Bardia to Tobruk, 80 miles west of the Egyptian border, the RAF lashed out anew Wednesday night against Bardia, on the Mediterranean Coast, and other Fascist objectives deep in thp Libyan desert.

After 17 days of siege there still wa nn indication of any immediate British attempt to wrest Bardia from its 20,000 beleaguered defenders. MODERN L'AIGLON MAY RULE FRANCE BERN, Switzerland, Jan. 3 (Friday) (Pt Possibility that a modern "l'Aiglon" might rule France was disclosed today when it was learned that the government of Chief of State Marshal Philippe petain and Bonapartists were negotiating for the return of Napoleons great grand-nephew, last of the emperor's line. Since Adolf Hitler's gesture In returning the ashes of the original "l'Aiglon," Bonaparte's ill-fated son who never saw France, the name of the dark and handsome young prince has been mentioned frequently among Royalists. Hitler's action was declared by some observers to be a forerunner of the Napoleanic restoration, but friends of Louis Napoleon Jerome Victor Emanuel Marie say he would not be a puppet ruler, He now lives quietly in Switzerland.

ABOl'T-FACE TAKEN ON BASE QUESTION MONTIVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 2. A')ln an about-face, the Ikr-rerista party voted in caucus today to support President Alfredo Buldomir's proposals for. naval and air bases within the Pan-American defense system. Thus the country's largest minority party, which under the constitution controls half the seats of the Senate and Ihree Cabinet posts, ended two months of bitter opposition directed by its leader Senator Luis Alberto Herrera.

BOMBER QUADS By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. UP) The new session of Congress will convene Friday at noon with President, Roosevelt reported ready to ask $10,000,000,000 more for defense, and important questions of foreign policy, taxation, the budget, and anti-inflation legislation awaiting its disposition. Ends In House For the House, the old session one which saw the neutrality act revised, the defense program begun and conscription voted ended officially today.

But Senate leaders found it necessary to call a meeting for Friday morning so that last minute business might be attended to. To end the old and start the new session, Vice President Garner returned to town today, to speak admiringly to reporters of his new "dude hat," a grey and confer briefly with President Roosevelt. Although sometimes in conflict on questions of New Deal policy the two have maintained a cordial personal relationship. When Garner picks up the worn, ivory Senate gavel Friday it will be in an unfamiliar setting and one duplicated in the House. In recent weeks a criss-cross network of steel beams and girders has been erected to make sure that the roofs of the two wings of the Capitol do not fall in on the legislators.

The structural steel is a temporary safeguard, and will be removed as soon as permanent repairs can be made. Given Outline Speaker Rayburn and Rep. McCormack, House majority leader, got a verbal outline from President Roosevelt today of the chief executive's "State of the Union" message, to be delivered to Congress Monday. Rayburn said, after conferring with Mr. Roosevelt at the White House, that the message would be "very interesting." While the Issues before the new Congress are less numerous than usual they are of far more than ordinary importance.

First of all is the question of the administration's foreign policy, and the President's proposal for helping England when her cash is gone by lending war supplies paid for from the United States Treasury, the supplies to be repaid later in kind. Preview Develops A preview of what, might he expected in the now session when this issue is raised developed today in the dying hours of the old. Rep. Cox told the House that Mr. Roosevelt's speech of Sunday night, was "in effect a declaration of war" and that further assistance to Britain meant "active participation in war." Rep.

Fish disagreed with that interpretation (Continued on Pate 7, fnl. 1) BERLIN DENIES ANY BERLIN. Jan. Authorized sources declared today that reports of a break In relations between Berlin and the Vichy government of France were without foundation. (Such a break was reported Wednesday by Reuters, British news agency, In a Lisbon dispatch.) The sources asserted that Fern-and de Brinon, for France, and Otto Abetz, for Germany, still were in contact and "so long as relations exist hetween these two men one cannot speak of a brpak." While the recent removal of Pierre Laval as vice premier and foreign minister by French Chief of State Petain "still has not been clarified one hundred per cent," these sources added, there still continues in force what Adolf Hitler and Petain agreed to-namely, a mutual desire to come to an Rmicable arrangement.

Russell To Advocate More Aid To Farmers AS! ITNCTON Jan. 2. UP) Senator Russell, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural Annronriations. said today he would advocate increased "par ity payments for larmcrs in me next, fiscal year. This was his answer to speculation on Capitol Hill that a drive for economy in non-defense expen ditures might mean the elimina tion of parity payments, congress provided $212,000,000 for this purpose in the current fiscal year.

WILL STAY HOME HAVANA, Jan. 2. Edgardo Ruttari, former secretary of commerce, was designated tonight as the new Cuhan minister to Germany to fill the vacancy left by Dr. Aurelio Fernandez Concheso, who was appointed to the Washington Ambassadorship. Although no official announcement has been made, It is understood that Buttari will remain indefinitely in Cuba.

FILM CAVSF.S STRIKE MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2. UP) Motion picture operators went on strike today in a theater where the Italian propaganda film act pin Africanus" was scheduled to open. The capital's newspapers generally termed It a "crazy strike." Another theater continued showing Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dirtator." There were no disorders. The German tlon has protested the showing of the Chaplin picture here.

War Department Reports On Work Being Done To Arm Country And Prepare Defense WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. (JP) On the eve of a new session of Congress at which an investigation of the defense program has been proposed, the War Department reported today that the foundation stones had been laid "to make this country the great arsenal of democracy." Mixed Flcture At the same time the department painted a mixed picture of progress on the $1,137,000,000 emergency program for building cantonments and munitions plants. Fifty-seven projects were reported on time or ahead of schedule, hut delays on other housing compelled postponement of the dates for induction of more than 18,000 National Guardsmen into the Federal service. Torrential rains strikes and "other conditions over which the War Depuartment had no control" were blamed for setting back induction dates one to three weeks.

An official accounting of the department's vast expansion program was given by Robert P. Patterson, assistant secretary of war, at a press conference. The former Federal judge declined comment on newsmen's statements that Chairman May of the House Military Committee and Vinson of the House Naval Committee had expressed favor for a Congressional study of the defense program. But he made these points: Nearly Doubled The man-power of the Army Air Corps had been nearly doubled in the last six months. By Jan.

15, the force would reach 6,180 officers, 7,000 fljing cadets and enlisted men, he said, (About 700 planes are being produced a month, and a major portion is going to Britain. Two billion dollars worth of contracts for tanks, guns, shells and other equipment, had heen placed during 1910, bv the Ordnance Department. (These orders did not include those for fighting planes, which are placed by the Air Corps.) Actual ordnance production had increased more than 500 per rent during the last year over the 1939 level, Patterson said. The Ordnance Department had increased its employes to more than 50,000 and the supply of Garand semiautomatic rifles actually on hand had just reached 100,000. Above Peak The daily production of small arms at the Frankford Arsenal at Philadelphia was now 50 or 60 per cent, above the all-time peak of the World War, the assistant secretary declared, and it was safe to predict that the World War rec- nntinu'd nn Pae fnl.

7) BY MARINE COLONEL PEIP1NG, China, Jan. 2--UP) An nnnhicrv hu thp pen- riarmetie for their "unlawful ar rest of five United States Marines in a V)nr Mi rahfire! incident was demanded tonight by Col. Allen H. Turnage, the Marine commanrter here. The Japanese army command was informed that, failing to re ceive such satisfaction, the Amer icans would refuse to make a local spttlement of the affair and would carry it to higher authority.

Colonel Turnage also demanded that the Japanese promise to take steps to prevent a repetition of such Incidents and that those responsible for the arrests be punished. He presented these three requirements in an interview with a representative of Lieut. Gen. Ha-yao Tada, tha Japanese army commander for North China. The representative appeared at Turnage's office at the American's invitation.

HI1 PORTS ON REPORT WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. S. Smith, Labor Board member, today described the report of a special Houe committee which investigated the board as "an outrageous distortion of the evidence." Smith's statement was contained In a lptter to Rep. Howard Smith (D-Va), chairman of the House committee.

The committee's report, signed by three of the five members, called for a "complete reorganization" of the board personnel. TWINS JOIN NAVY NEW YORK, Jan. 2. (P) Two sets of twins joined the Navy today. Charles Frances Hcil and Francis Charles Hcil, 17, of New-burgh, N.

and Charles Benjamin Pierpnnt and his brother, William Charles, 19, Woodstock, N. said that they were looking forward to Navy life and admitted a liking for bpans. They were assigned to duty at Newport, R. I Noted Editor Believes job Needs An Active And Younger Man EMPORIA, 2. (JPi William Allen White resigned today as active chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, The Emporia editor will serve, however, as honorary head and as a member of the executive committee of the group he formed last May to help throw the economic and moral weight of the United States on the side of England and France In the European war.

Full Time Job "The need for hard concentrated intelligent work on the chairman job is too much for a man who has to earn a living running a country newspaper," White said in a statement. He suggested the post go to "some strong high visinned young man" who could devote full time to the work. The organization's headquarters in New York said White's resignation had been accepted with the "greatest reluctance" and added the executive committee would meet soon to name a successor, Clark Eichelberger, national director of the committee, said the policy board and executive com mittee probably would meet in New York Tuesday to select White's successor. That meeting, ne said, would follow one he intended to call for Midwestern chapter secretaries and executive committeemen on Monday in Chicago. There has been much discussion recently of the committee's aims and some evidence of disagreement among Committee spokesmen insisted they wanted to give Rntain all aid short of war.

Critics contended the committee sought to put the United States into the war. White in his statement today said: Heavily Financed "The menace of appeasement is heavily financed and only our committee is organized to meet this threat. The need to keep public sentiment alive to the terrible danger of a letdown in our armament program will require even more service from our committee than so far it has been organized to give. "Finally, yet. foremost, America must keep the lifeline open be-(Continned on rase Col.

4) HIS HONORARY LIS! ST. AUGUSTINE, Jan. 2. UP) More than 400 honorary lieutenant colonels who will serve on the personal staff of Governor-elect Spessard L. Holland were announced today by Ad.jt.

Gen. Vivian Collins of the Florida National Guard. Holland, who will be inaugurated next Tuesday, said he had departed somewhat in precedent in not appointing persons holding elective or appointive offices or positions in county, district or State government, nor to men on active duty with the nation's arm ed forces. He emphasized a desire that no hardship nor inconvenience he imposed by acceptance of the appointments. He also said no military service of any kind is required of those named.

No I nlfornm In deference to the active military and naval services, he said members of the personnl staff should not wear uniforms. Among those appointed are: WEST PALM BEACH: Dr. Carl N. Herman, Sydney J. Catts, Joe S.

White, Ernest Metralf, Guy M. Powers, Fred Maxwell, Lloyd (C'ontlnned nn Pige 8, Col. 5) STARTER FOB AFRICA. LANDS IN FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 2-(M A man who said bfj had set out in an 18-foot sailboat to join Gen.

Charles de Gaulle's Free French army arrived here today aboard a British freighter which picked him up in the Caribbean. Immigration officials ordered the man, Rossi Ange, 37, held aboard the ship as an alien seaman pending investigation of the possibility he may have escaped from the French penal colony at Devil's Island. He said he had been without water Rnd provisions for two days and was almost exhausted when the British freighter, Armlnda, rescued him between Port au Prince and Kingstoa COMMITTEPOS 25 ID 1CUUM OVERRAF MADE Nazi High Command Is Expecting Additional Victories This Year BERLIN, Jan. 2-UP) The German high command claimed for its air force today a 25-to-one superiority river the RAF in bombs dropped during the last half of 1940, credited the air force and the navy with sinking 3.900,000 tons of British shipping and declared that 1941 "will bring proof" of the effectiveness of "the Battle against Britain." The semi-annual report was confidently phrased. "Accustomed to victory and steeled in the fight," it, said, "the armed force looks back upon a year of proudest successes.

Certain of victory and stronger and better armed than ever, it looks forward to the coming year." The report declared that the European Coast, from Narvik, Norway, to the Pyrenees frontier of France and Spain had heen made impenetrable to any British landing operations. The high command said German airmen dropped 25 pounds of bombs on England for every pound dropped on German-controlled territory by the RAF and added these other claims: In 2.000 attacks sinre August 8 (the beginning of the "retaliation" siege of Britain), the air force has dropped 92,400.000 pounds of high explosives and 3,520,000 pounds of incendiaries nn England. Attained 350 Times Three British planes were destroyed for every German craft lost. England's most important harbors were attacked 350 times with "heaviest damage to Britain's imports and the capacity of these important harbors." There were 130 major eir attacks (in which 110 tons or more of bombs were dropped) on the British Isles since Aug. 8 and more than TOO attacks on London since (Continued on Pus Col.

4) IS DESPITE TAFT PROTEST WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 P- The Senate voted 36 to 14 today to confirm the nomination of J. Warren Madden, former chairman of the National Labor Board, to be a member of the Court of Claims, after hearing Senator Taft contend Madden's record was one of "prejudice." Speaking for nearly three hours, Taft asserted that the administration of the Labor Board constituted "the greatest perversion of justice we have seen in America at any time," and that Madden "completely lacks the qualifications for being a judge," Chairman Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee replied that whatever Madden's views might have been as Labor Board chairman, he would not let them interfere with his judicial functions. Many Contracts Let In Defense Program NEW YORK, Jan, 2 UP) Of the 200 machine tool manufacturers fn the United States, 94 were reported by the Iron Age magazine today, in its year-end edition, to have received government or-ders since the defense program began June 1. In the elapsed seven months.

Iron Age says the government also awarded contracts to 18 airplane manufacturers, 7 airplane engine makers, 62 airplane equipment and parts manufacturers, 7 companies making 100 tanks monthly, 12 tractor makers, 26 army trailer makers, 102 ammunition and explosives manufacturers and 32 small arms makers. WIM.KIR IV GEORGIA SAVANNAH, Jan. 2. tP-Wendell WiHki, unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate, arrived here tudity by private plane from Hob Willkie said he was up this wsy "on private business" and stopped be-cause he didnt. want, to fly at night.

In the morning, he said, he would either return to Hone Sound or go on up to Tennessee. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 House Democrats renominated Rep. Sam Rayhiirn of Texas for speaker today, and, in a move to speed defense legislation, voted to continue in office all sitting members of major committees. Ray burn will be reelected speaker when the 77th Congress convenes for its first session at noon Friday.

Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts will oppose him as the Republican can- Jdidate, but the result is a foregone conclusion since the Democrats have 268 members and the Republicans only lfi2. At the Democratic caucus, Rep. John W.

McCormark of Massachusetts was reelected House party leader, and Immediately he reappointed Rep. Patrick J. Bo-land of Pennsylvania as party whip. The committees affected by the party caucus vote were naval, military, appropriations, rules, ways and means, and accounts. Rep.

Richard M. Duncan of Missouri was chosen caucus chairman succeeding McCormack. All officers of the House were renominated. They are South Trimble of Kentucky, clerk; Kenneth Romney of Montana, ser-geant-at-arms; Joseph J. Sinnott of Virginia, doorkeeper; and Finis Scott, postmaster.

Wanted For Convoy Duty And Submarine Patrol On Lifelines LONDON, Jan. 2. (JP-Britain was said reliably tonight to be urgently seeking additional United States destroyers for convoy duty and to use as anti-submarine patrols on her transatlantic lifelines. An informant, who termed this one of the most important ways in which America could expand her aid, intimated that, the destroyer question and the need for cargo ships to replace those being sunk would be among the first matters brought up when Lord Halifax arrives in Washington as the new British ambassador. British maritime circles pointed to the recent, assertion of Food Minister Lord Woolton that "the enemy is making a direct attack on our foodstuffs" and that "the danger is much worse than it was in the last war." To all this, they said, the only answer was more convoy and hunting craft.

In 16 months of this war approximately 4,500.000 tons of British, allied and neutral shipping has gone down. In the entire period from 1914 to 1919 the British lost 7.759,000 tons of merchant shipping and in that, war Britain had United States shipping which now is kept from British waters by neutrality laws. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 This capital has heard talk that the administration soon might take further steps to strengthen Britain's sea lifelines, but no announcement has been made. STORM-TOSSED PLANE HUNTED; 5 LEAVE Si BIG SPRING, Jan.

2. P) A Navy patrol hnmher carrying two men was unreported tonight hours after five crew men leaped from the storm-battered plane one to his death, Three others were injured. Radioman A. M. Perry, who landed unhurt, said at Lampsa the men bailed out at 17,000 feet after encountering a "terrible" storm which broke the plane's windows and sent the craft momentarily out of control.

The body of W. F. Percich, machinist's mate, was found in a plowed field near Ackerly, 24 miles to the northwest. His parachute was found a quarter of a mile away. In hospitals were Radioman L.

J. Hughes and Machinist's Mates H. E. Neff and F. Reche.

Jr. Extent of their injuries was not determined. The two who stayed with the plane were Lieut. M. Hanson, Navy pilot who ordered the men to bail out, and Co-pilot R.

B. Clarke, of the Naval Reserve. Two other long range bombers which left San Diego with the missing plane at 6:30 a. m. landed at Corpus Christl at 5:15 p.

m. The three ships were en route to Pensacola on a routine delivery flight. Greeks Move Ahead Despite Bad Weather ATHENS, Jan. 2 Despite bad weather and stiffening Italian resistance, orevk troops in the Northern sector of the Albanian battlefront were reported tonight to be slowly continuing their advance. A government spokesman said conditions in this area "have not completely stopped our troops from pushing their lines forward after crushing stiff enemy resistance and occupying some villages." On other parts of the front, the spokesman said, 'operations in the last few days were hampered by bad weather, above all torrential rains and stormy winds." HILDA LEHMAN WF.DS NEW YORK.

Jan. 2. Governor and Mrs. Herbert II. Lehman disclosed tonight that their daughter, Hilda Jane, and Boris de Vadetsky of this city, had eloped to Elkton, Md on Dec.

1 and were married. Announcement of the marriage was made by Walter Brown, the Governor's secretary. costs to rFrss NEW YORK, Jan. 2. f.Tl-The high cost of clothing an heiress I was brought to the State Supreme I Court's attention today when Ida H.

Cohen filed suit to collect $5,616 on two demand notes from the oft-married Merry Fahrney, heiress to a Chicago patent med- icine fortune. WEIfiHT COSTS $68 NASHVILLE, Jan. 2. (V) It cost Mrs. Fred Hempel $fiX to find out her weight.

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