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35TH YEAR, NO. 19—48 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1941
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SENATE PASSELMDJILL
Germans Say Speedboats Wreck Convoy
Nazi Attack On Greece imminent'
Jugoslavia Expected To Sign Pact and ' Be Used as Route
PEOPLE PROTEST
Opposition Party Raided by Police; Call up Conscripts
By  LEON  KAY
Belgrade, Jugoslavia, March 8, (UP)—Informed sources believed tonight that Jugoslavia would sign a non-aggression pact with Ger¬ many on Tuesday and that a Nazi 8ttncl< on Greece through Bulgaria was imminent.
It was said in diplomatic quarters that Germany had given Greece an eleventh-hojr chance to make peaca wilh Italy, that Greece had re[u.sed and that Germany might iHunch an offensive momentarily, possibly starting with an air at- tack on Salonika, according to rumors.
Reliable sources said Prinz Zuer- bach-Schonberg, German minister to Greece, had handed a note to Premier Alexander Korizis in Athens declaring that liquidation of the Italo-Greek war would be the most effective way of .laving the Balkans from the horrors of var. F.xpeet Aid to Naxis
.lugo.slavia's snepUnie of a non- aKRres.«ion agreement with Ger¬ many, it was believed, would be followed by a joint declarHtion providing closer economic and poli¬ tical co-operation between the twn countries. The non-aggression treaty, informed circles understood, it expected tn be signed in a cerc- n^ony at Berlin,
IA Budapest report said Jugo¬ slavia also would permit German forces to drivj through the Vardar River valley, historic avenue of in¬ vasion, toward Salonika nnd would make her railroads available for movement of German war equip¬ ment.) *
Reports heard here said Greece was removing civilians from Greek Thrace, which would be in the path of a German advance on Salonika, snd was preparing a defense line we«t of that Aegean seaport.
Among the flood of Balkan rumors pouring into this anxious capital was a report Ihal Bulgaria, as s new member of the Germnn- Japanese-Italian Axis, had de¬ manded territorial concessions from Jugoslavia and Greece, both of whom won sizeable arras from Bul¬ garia after the world war, Pollee Stifle Critirlsm
The Bulgarian demands, It was said, hastpn?d Jugoslavia's decision to enter the Nazi  fold, j
Meanwhile, tnr govci iinient act¬ ed to stifle criticism of its foreign policy. Police in sudden raids seized literature protesting the government's recent trciid.s. Includ¬ ing a manifesto which had been delivered to Regent Prim-• p -l Ceitcrday. The raids were on the headquarters of the denioc rr-'ir party nf the opposition and the home of Bilan Girol, party chief.
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Silent on SlUp Transfer
Washinston, March S, (UP) — Senator Charles W. Tobey, R., N. H., told the Senate today that President Roosevelt had answer¬ ed his inquiry as to whether any more U. S, warships would be transferred to Great Britain "but thc reply wa.s conii 'cntial and m.v  lips  arc  sealed."
Shortly afterwards, Tobey voted for the defeated Walsh amend¬ ment to thc Briti.sh-aid hill which virtually would have prohibited transfer of new warships and naval  aircraft.
U,S. STEEL
Will Negotiate For Wnge Boosts To 261,000 Men
Lackawanna Rejects Water Works Sale
Greeks Hail Big VictDry
2,100 Prisoners In Two Days; Defy Hitler to Stand by British
County Commissioners Say Price High, 'Finished Business' for them; MacGuffie Thinks Plan Still Possible in Luzerne \
Pittsburgh, March 8. (UPl-Thc CIO Steel Workers Organizing I Committee moved tonight toward a ' show-down with the U. S. Steel Corp. by deciding to formally open its negotiations with the firm to seek a lO-'cenl-an-hour wage boost for its 261,000 workers.
Revealing four-months-old infor¬ mal negotiations with "Big Steel" had broken down "without a meet¬ ing of minds," Philip Murray, CIO president and SW(X; chairman, an¬ nounced he would invoke an "es¬ cape clause" of the existing agree¬ ments, askinjt for formal negotia- ; tions and cancellation of the con¬ tract if *ettlcmcnt is not reached in 20 da.vs. Possibility   of   Ktrike
MuiTHv ,said pos.sihililies of a strike, if the agreemcnt-s expire, were "contingent on whal occurs in the conferences," I "I'll cro.s,s lhat bridge when I come lo it," he said,
-Murray'.s announcemmt came af¬ ter adjournmcnl of a two-day meet¬ ing of SWOC executives and 66 presidents of local unions in U. S. Steel planus which authorized him and hi,s fellow officcivi to adopt such program of action they "may deem advisable or necessary" lo enforce the union's demands.
Yesterday the conference rejected a counter-proposal to increase all workers two-and-a-half cents an hour as long as the company's oper¬ ating rate remained above 85 per cent of capacity. Announce Demands
In addition lo the wage increase, the .SWOC has demanded ex¬ clusive bargaining rights, a system of dues collections. 48-hour weekly rest period and other concessions. The decision to open Ihc con¬ tract. Murray said, was taken with the agreement of Benjamin F, Kaulcss, U.S. Steel president, after informal negotiations had proved "futile."
Murray admitted the possibility lhat a crisis may occur in the steel negotiations at the same time as the CIO's United Mine Workers contract with Appalachian soft coal operators expires but declared "it is I ertainly not of our making." The UMW agreement expires April 1, if a new (ontracl is not forth¬ coming from thc conferences which open in Np\v York Tuesday. This tradilionally means a labor "holi¬ day."
French  Say  Navy  Will  Fight If British Stop Their Food Ships
Berlin. March 8 lUP) The offi- rlal DN'B news ageney tonight quoted Fernand Dehrinon. French Vovernmenl representative in Paris ss saying the French Navy would fight the British if necessary lo protect  French  merchantmen.
Hebrinon. PNB .said, tolil news¬ paper men in Paris that the navy would return lo the seas as escort vessels If British interference wilh French   ships   continued.
Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, naval minister of the Vichy gov¬ ernment, has informed United States Amha.ssador William D, Leahy   of  his  intent  nnd   "is   abso-
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lutel.v determined to carry out pro¬ tection of French merchantmen even if clashes occur with the Brit¬ ish." Uebrinon was quoted as say¬ ing.
Dehrinon. according in DNB, charged the British with rcsponsi- bililv for the im leasingly serious food .^horlpge in France .ind said Leahy had told the French no food i shipments could be expected from the United Stales. \'nluahle Cargo Spoiled
A dispatch from Taiicier today said the Briti.sh had held the p'rcnch steamship Richepanse at Gibraltar so long that a valuable cargo of bananas rolled in the holds. The ship sailed from Mar¬ tinique for Casablanca with Frencli departriales weeks ago, wa.s shad¬ owed throughout the voyage hy ' British submarines and finally was forced into Gibraltar hy a British cruiser, the dispatch said. The pas¬ sengers were later transferred to Tangier aboard a British lug. it was said, the Richepanse remaining at Gibraltar. i
By BKN AMES
Athens, March 8. (UP) Tlie Greeks, claiming Ihe greatest vic¬ tory against the Italians since the capture of Klisura, replied lo re¬ porU of German pressure for peace tonight that any armistice pro¬ posals would find them "disdain¬ fully hostile,"
A governemnt spokesman, a.s.serl- ing lhat Greece "has never been in- tere.sted in discii.ssing peace with Italy but has always heen deter¬ mined to fight on to the end," said Greek forces in Albania yesterday captured 1,120 Italians in a "great victory." Continue Big Drive
The war ministry said the Greeks continued their di ive into Italian defense lines toda.v and added more j than 1,000 prisoners to iliose cap¬ tured yesterda.v, making a tolal ot more than 2,120.
Following a heavy gun barrage which started shortly after mid¬ night, the Greek,s attacked with bayonets fixed and, in close co-oper¬ ation with air forces, captured 1 many important strategical posi¬ tions in the mountainous central sector, it was said.
Greek shock troops advanced Ihrough Italian barbed wire forti¬ fications and trenches to seize one height after another, il was claim- [ ed, and capture machine gun nests, anti-aircraft batteries and ammu¬ nition dumps.
The Greeks, mopping up, took over al! villages in the region, the government spokesman said, and captured 770 prisoners from the 9th Alpini regiment of the celebrated Giulia Division. ; Hitler  Defled
' Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was told by the controlled Greek press that Greece was prepared to fight in Thrace as she has in Kpirus and would "show the world how lo die as she has shown it how to fight." I The warning to the Reich came in the form of an open letter, writ¬ ten by George Vlahos, Greece's most  influential editorialist.
Addressed to the German Fuehr¬ er, il declared that Britain had come to Greece's aid in an hour of need, that the British dead lie on Greek soil and that Britain and (ireece will stand shoulder to shoulder "mitil the storm pas.ses." In informed quarters it was said that Greece is mustering all her resources to meet the German threat and il was denied that the civilinn poptilf.tion of Macedonia is, being  evacuated. 1
Vlahos' dramatic letter to Hitler revealed that Greece had once ap¬ pealed to Germany in an effort to avert the war with Italy but th.at although Hitler's advice to avoid provocations had been followed, Italy none thc less launched her attack.
Vlahos demanded to knnw why Germany wanted tn attack Greere and recalled that Hitler had prom¬ ised not to intervene unless a British army disembarked at Salo¬ nika,
LA GUARDIA FAILS TO       : MEDIATE BUS STRIKE
Commissioners of Lackawanna cuiimy yeAVlUay rejtc;Vrd « ifropOaHl to have Lackawanna and Luzerne rounties purchase the Scranton- Spring Brook Water Service Company for $49,500,000, Voicing; the man objection which has been raised to the deal in Luzerne county, M.ijority Commissioner W. J, Geiger declared, "The price is too high," He added, "The matter is finished business so far as I am concerned."
Informed of the action in Ijickawanna county, John MacGuffie, president of the Luzerne county board of commissioners, did not believe the plan was killed so far as lhis<$-^	
">hTl nfes?nlaHon''nf ^^1 .'ife'^ft'ts i ^awler. who Is in New York, feels
that a presentation of all the facts '. ,     ,   .. , „««_«i
.should    be    aw.-,ited.    However,    as'''"'/'""f ^^•">'  ""out  the   proposal
the proposal rejected becau.se of ""^ "'" ""' l^'\"\ '" ''' ^' "'<' high price in Lackawanna wa.s for "',"" '""'-^."^ *'^' '''."'"°"!;h that both counties, any separate action •-''"i"^'"'"''"" Geiger said that in Luzerne must be preceded b.y preparation of a completely new plan. Mayor   Charles   N.   Loveland   of
Claim 12 Shipsjunk
Berlin Reports Two Destroyers Among Victims; !    Sub Claims Five
he and Commissioner Lawler, to¬ gether with Couniy Solicitor Philip V, Mattes, discussed the proposal at  a  meeling with   P,  F,    Cusick,
Wilkes-Barre,   who   haa   been   op-1'"'"'''"'','"¦!"¦ ,""•!  "P''".^"'«t',y^
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the negotiations. A detailed finan¬ cial .statement was turned over to thc  commissioners  at    that    time
posed to the proposal from the be
ginning, mostly because of the high
price and also because he believes
Luzerne    ancl    Lackawanna    terri-   -; oVig^y^rt.'hut'wa.s'n"e've;foI-
torics    should    be    separated     last       ^^.   ,   ^ j^^.^^,    proposal    In
night   would    say    only   that   /he     , ¦ l ;„.
action  in   Lackawanna was  "Inter
' i tended to submit later.
Say Prieea Too High
"We have been againsi it princi¬ pally because the price is too high. j If the people are going to own the properly    I    feel    that    the    price should   be   lower.  The   deal   In   its
esting."    He said that city officials
j vere   watching   events   closely   and would he guided by what they con¬ sidered best  for thc  consumers. MaeOuffle Says Interest Is Here When   asked   if   he   thought   the
action of the Lackawanna commis-!	
sioncis would change the picture ' present form is not acceptable to for this countv. Mr. MacGuffie us. If they want to slick to their said, "Not in the least. I know present proposal it's finished bu.si- nothing of what happened there "ess with me," declared Commis- a,side from what you tell me.    But   sioner Geiger,
my interest is in the wclf.ire of i "At thc lime of thc meeting with Luzerne county. I repeal that i Mr. Cusick I told Commissioner there has been too much loose i Lawler that a couple of things con- thinking  in   the  entire  proposition,   nected   with   the   deal   did   not   set
;When all the farts are g.atherrd I right wilh me. They furnished us will present them to the citizens of some figures in writing, showing the countv and I am sure the re- whal the income would be for a action will he favorable," i number    of    years,    apparently    to
After Mr. Geiger spoke, Dr, Leon-' substantiate the price. But when I ard .M. Freda, minority member of ! asked the representative of the the  board  of c onimissloners, made ! bankers what would happen If the
! a similar statement. income did not materialize as out-
Majority      Commissioner   M,    F, ' (Continued   on   Page   A-2)
London Night Club Hit As Mass Raids Renew
New York, M.irch 8. (UP)- Mayor F, H. LaGuardia'.^ effort.s In medi¬ ate a threatened strike on two af¬ filiated bus lines, called for Monday, failed today when union represent¬ atives shunned a conference he 'ad c.iUcd with hus operators. .Mathias Keani.<, organizer for the Trau.sporl Workers Union (CKX, told a rally nf 4,000 transportation employees tliat "We'll strike firsl and negoti¬ ate afterwards."
The .strike, voted Friday night, would tie up 900 busses of thc New York City Omnibus Corporation and 400 of the Fifth Avenue Coach Com¬ pany. It would involve 3,500 em¬ ployees. Union .spokesmen said all clly bus drivers were unionized, adding that the bu.ssea could not be operated with untrained men.
The union demands a 25 per cent wage increase, reduction in work¬ ing hours from 54 to 48 a week, and three-week instead ot two-week vacalioni.
By H. L. PKRCY
London, Sunday, March 9, (UP)- - Swarms of German bombers, sub¬ jecting London to its heaviest raid since Jan, 4, unloaded a deadly hail of high explosives and incendiaries that shattered well-known buildings and intersections and .sent casualty lists soaring early today. Mount¬ ing numbers of persons were re¬ ported killed and injured aa bombs crashed down on a crowded night club and a public shelter, hit build¬ ings and street intersections, and smashed homes and apartment houses.
The shriek of falling high explo¬ sives and the crackle of flaring incendiaries mingled with the thun¬ der of anti-aircraft guns—sounds Londoners, after a long period of comparative calm, almost had for¬ gotten. Spotters on rooftops shot at "chandelier flares " that appeared almost stationary in the cloudless, moonlit skies. Four spotters on one roof and two on another were killed by bomb blasts. From Fun to Death
A survivor, describing the bombed night club, said:
"One moment il was thronged wilh boisterous, carefree people and the next there was death and de¬ struction."
A heavy calibre bomb exploded between two wings of an apart¬ ment building, falling on nlmo.'^t the identical spat where another bomb had dug a crater, and killed and injured several persons, a United Press staff correspondent living there   reported.
As thc bombs crashed down, London's only wartime debutante ball    Queen      Charlotte's      dinner-
dance—was In progress behind heavily curtained windows of Gros- venor House. In former years, this affair signalled the start of the social season.
Returning over the British capi¬ tal for the firsl time since Thurs¬ day, the German planes attacked en masse. Swarms of raiders criss¬ crossed the London area, lighting it up with "chandelier flares" and then dropping Incendiary and high explosive bombs.
Heaviest casualties were In the night club, which suffered a direct hit by a high explosive that pene¬ trated fhe center of the building and exploded among the guests, A direct hll was scored also on a public shelter, killing and Injuring its occupants. Bursts Inside
The bomb that fell in the night club exploded near the bandstand, v\Tecked a balcony on which guests were dining and drinking and de¬ molished a staircase, making it necessary to use ladders in the rescue work. Expensively-gowned women and men In military uni¬ forms were laid on the sidewalk until ambulances, working In re¬ lays, could remove them. Those who were able lo walk went to emergency first-aid stations sel up in  nearby buildings.
From the outside of the building, practically no trace of the damage rould be seen. The whole force of the explosion was borne by the In¬ terior of the night club.
Hospital receiving rooms were bloody from the casualties being rushed to emergency operating rooms. Women in evening gowns, their faces and arms blackened, wandered through the hospital cor¬ ridors.
i By JOSEPH W. (iRIGti, JR.
I     Berlin, March 8.~(UP)    A dar-- 1 devil   flotilla   of    Nazi     speeclhoal ^ was  reported  tonight  to have  car- ' ried out a devastating attac k  nn a British    convoy    off    the    British coast,   sending   12   ships,   including two  destro.vers,  to  the  bottom.    It was thc  biggest  torpedo   boat    at- ; tack ever reported hy the Germans. j     Thc  speedboat  attack  and   other j action  by    German    air    and    sea forces brought British shipping de¬ struction  claimed    today    by    the I Germans  to a total of 18 ships of 1 81.980  tons.    The  speedboats  alone were   said   to   have   accounted     for 47,780 tons.
According to accounts by the Nazi high command and thc DNB. official news agency, thc attack by torpedo-carr.ving specdV>oats was made about dusk last night. Say Convoy Blatted
The fast-moving flotilla made a sortie toward the British southeast coast and encountered a convoy protected by two or more destroy¬ ers. Loosing their deadly torpedoes the speedboats crews sank two de- strnyers of the protecting escort and 10 of the merchant ships. Two of the merchant ships were I described as tankers, one of 8.000 tons and one of 5.000 Ions. The destroyers were said to be 1,090-ton warships.
i The high command credited the speedboats with two destroyers and six merchantships totalling 28.400 tons. Later the DNB agency re¬ ported that two more ships of 10,000 tons were sunk, A second up¬ ward revision added two mnre ships and brought the tonnage total of 45,600, not counting the two destroyers.
But   the   speedboat   attack   was only one of several claimed in the German    counter-blockade    against the British Isles.   A submarine cap¬ tain    reported    he    had   sunk    five ! armed    merchant    ships    totalling ¦ 33,000 tons from a strongly guard¬ ed   British   convo.v, i I Boinbera Attack Ship I     German    bombers    on    a   recon¬ naissance tlight over the North Sea sighted   several   British   ships   off Clacton-on-Sea  and  sank   one  ship of   1,200   ions    the   high   command said. Three other ships were scverly ¦ damaged, it was claimed, !     The high command reported that the  Luftwaffe   was   active   againsi the British both in the British Isles and in Malta.   In the Malla attack, it was claimed lhat a torpedo depot and   the   harbor   docks   of   Valetta I were   set   afire,     German   pur.suit ; planes shot down a British bomber and a British  fighter and set  fire lo   a   Sunderland   flying   boal   in   a low level attack, it was claimed.
Thc high command reported that British planes scattered about a field in South Britain were heavily bombed and that hangars and liv¬ ing quarters of the Royal Air Force were damaged. D.NB reported that seven airfields in South Britain were  attacked.
The high command said that no British offensive flights were re¬ ported.
Party Lines Are Badly Split in 60 to 3 y Vote
Expect House to Ratify Amendments, Send Bill to Rooserelt by Wednesday; Beat Down Effort to Ban Convoys and Forbid Sending U. S. Tinops Abroad; Aid Program .May Reach Ten Billions; }\ heeler Says Fateful Corner Turned
WashiiiKton. iMarch S (I P)~Tho Senate lonitjht by a vote of fio to ;il pa.s.secl the wai-aid hill givinR I'lesidenl Roo.sevelt extiaoidinai'v poweis to lend, lea.se or Rive a«ay .\merican amis, plane.s, ships and food to help Hiitain and other nations battling the .\\is.
Pas.saKe of the bill, which has been befoie I onjjress .i7 days will open the nay soon for a flow of up to i!;i.;U»0.O0n.00fl worth of war material to Britain from existing I'. S. army and navy armaments.
House aition On Senate amendments to HR 1776 and I'le^sident Roosevelts signature on the bill are all that remain [before thc administration can bcRin extending) the ^^ar aid which the defeated isolationist bloc sought to pievent.
.\t noon iMonday two Senate messenRers will carry thc biU to the House chamber. Speaker Sam Rexburn hopes to obtain con.sent for House concurrence in the 11 amendments on Tuesday. The action might be dela>ed until Wednesday, but in any event it appeared President Roosevelt would be abl^ to sign the bill in mid-week.
The Senate vole came at 7 :oO p. m., ending 18 days of debate. Jiust before tlie vote, .senator.s shouted down an aniendnient by Sen. Bennett C. Clark. D., Mo., which wouid have guaranteed that Cdhgregs Fild the right to change the bill in future law.s.
Party lines split on thc final roll call. Ton Republicans and one Progressive .joined '19 DriiKX'i'ats in .suppoi'ting the Dieasiiro. .\iiiong the Republican suppoilei.s wns Senate Repul)lican Lrador Charles I,. .Mc.\ar,\. tiip Republican vice- pi'o.<;idontial candidate in tlie 1910 tainpaign, tlie running mate of Wendell L. Willkie, who was a vigorous proponent of the measure.
Voting against the niea.sure were 13 Democrats, 17 Rejiub- licans and one Progre.ssive. It was one of the largest Senate votes in recent .\ears. Only two senators did not vote or were not i)aircd out of the present Senate membership of 9-1.
The breach in part.v lines was more pronounced in the Senate than it was in the House, where bul 21 Republican.^ supported the bill and 13.") opposed it.
The Senate's most important amendment gives Congre.ss the power to control all expenditures under the program.
The     President     can     dispose     ot«>	
.$1,300,000,000  of r^'""'"^^,»",'! man   filibuster.    He  apoke  for  i» naw equipment, but after that all , ,     .      ., ,_ .,.
aid ¦extended   to   foreign   countries mlnutes-hls   fourth  speech  nn   tho
must  be  provided  for  by  congres- bill   making his total speaking tima
sional   appropriations   or   contract Hgainsl the niea,sure 12 hnuis and 43
authorizations. The    Senate     also    perfected
minutes.    Thai was the record for this debate.
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House amendment giving Congress Two .'Major Teats Survived
the  power  lo  terminate  the  entire Although   the   Senate   acted   on
bill at any time hy a resolution that numerous amendments today thert
can be passed by majority vote and „.pre but two nfajor test-s preceding
does not require presidential signa- ,|,p ^g^g „„ ti,g hill itself.
ture.    Unless Congress acts, the bill «„         .    .
automalically   will   expire   on   June V^^^^^^:^^ZS^^'^ ^
.   ..      ».    .   .^...-      .. , to forbid the transfer of new U, S.
tall to Block Ahic or Convoys | warships or naval planes.   Defeated
But the  isolationists,   fighting  to   33 to 56, the la-st before gallery crowds that
By .Sen, Robert A, Taft, R., 0„ to substitute a plan to lend Brilain, Canada and Greece $2,000,000,000 in cash for purchase of war and food supplies in America. Defeated 28 to •i.
Shortly before the final vote and while opposition leader, Sen, Burton ameiiujiieiic- icn,it:<i o.y i.,>. „,„,..,. K. Wheeler, D., Mont, wa.s charging istration forces themselves slating that -New Dealers who get their that this bill does not change any- information from the feed trough thing in existing laws regarding u.se say we will be al war by April 1," of the U, S. land and sea forces, an elderly woman unfurled a ban-
In   thc   last   hour   of   discu8.sinn.   ner  from   the  Senate  gallery  large Sen. Gerald P, Nye, R„ N, D., pro-   black    letters    standing   oul    on   a calin^ed that were he ph.vsically able   white   background   proclaimed, and thought il would defeat the bii'       "HR   1776   means   war    vote   No. he would rhecrfully conduct a one- (Continued  on   Page A-IT)
were predominantly against thc bill, failed in every attempt to forbid use of American troops abroad and to forbid convoying of supplies to Britain.
The only thing accepted along this line was the mild Ellender amendment- revised by thc admin
POLICE SEEK STRANGLER OF BRIDE OF 4 WEEKS
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Wa'shlngton,    March    8.    (UPi Police   tonight   sought   a   powerful marajider  who   strangled   to  death bed-haired   Rose     Abramowitz,     a bride of four weeks.
The 25-year-old woman's body was found in the early afternoon when her husband, Barney Abram¬ owitz, a government worker, re¬ turned to their honeymoon apart¬ ment hcre after work.
Thc body was sprawled on a daybed in thc small partment. Ab- 'amowilz said his wife did not ap¬ pear to be dead, but he notified police and described her as being "unconscious." An ambulance phy¬ sician said she died of manual s'.rangulation and that there were indications of criminal assault.
The attractive young woman came here recently from her home in Kansas City to marry Abramo¬ witz, also from Kansas City,
British Convoy Sails Into Aegean Sea
London, March 8, (UPi The British admiralty, reporting the de¬ struction of a'l Italian submarine, disclosed tonight that a British convoy had sailed into the Aegean Sea east of tJreece,
Thc admiralty communique did ; not say whal the British convoy was doing in the Aegean, nor did it say whether the convoy consisted of troop transports or other vessels. It was the firsl disclosure of the presence of British convoys in that part of the world.
The submarine tried to attack thc convoy on March fi, the ad¬ miralty said, and wns "immediately sunk by our escort craft." It was identified as the 5.000-tnn Anfitnte built ill 1<>33 tn carry a normal complement of 41 officers and men.
(Italy recently haa asserted that
the British were transporting troopi from North Africa to the Greek Aegean port of Salonika. Today, however, a Rome newspaper said the British were withdrawing British and Greek forces from Greece to reinforce their army in Libya.)
Thc admiralty announced the loss of two trawlers, the Remillo and Cobbers, and said the next nf kin of casualties had been noti¬ fied.
Dispatches from Euro¬ pean countries are now subject   to   censorship.
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