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close to him the suction of the air almost drew him of the ledge.
 Observers here say Italy appar- ently is throwing every available man, gun and plane into the de- fense of Valona, second largest AL banian port.
 Death of Soldier
 A nurse inside the ambulance in which we were riding, had us stop once because her patient, a young soldier, shot through the lungs and coughing blood, wanted to dictate a letter. We waited quietly while the youth painfully phrased his letter and the nurse wrote it. When he learned that an American in the party was returning to Athens and would mail tf !, 'c., 'er for him he seemed happier and insisted on snearing the paper with his blood. : read the letter, which was to his mother.
 T didn't want to die and leave you and Costi (probably a brother but it's happened" it read. "Be proud to be Greek. If I do not die send woolen coat to the base hos pital. (signeO Niki."
 The nurse later pulled blanket over the boys face while we drove on. Someone in the party repeated a phrase heard frequently in this war: Better to die on your feet than live on your knees"
 (The inference from Miss Merlin'S dispatch was that the Greek youth died after dictating his letter, but the Greek censorship permits no mention of Greek casualties)
 British Cruiser Hit
 Rome, Jan. 3 - (UP0 - A high command communique said today that Italian bombing planes had scored a hit on 8 British cruiser in repeated attacks on a British ad- vance base and anchored ships in the Libyan frontier zone.
 Italian artillery bombarded Brit ish mechanical forces and naval units in the same zone, it was said.
 On the Albanian front, the com munique said, British and Greek planes caused some civilian" losses III DOmplug ralu OH GlpdSSdIl, Al- bania.
 Greek infantry attacks of local character were repulsed decisively, the communique asserted. It was added that the Italians in surprise attack put Greek troops to flight and took prisoners.
 The official news agency said that since Christmas eve British forces had been attacking daily the Libyan Jarabub Oasis in the interior of the frontier zone "in an attempt to overwhelm the Italian lines" It was admitted that the British had taken heights north of the Oasis but it was said that by counter attacks and other defensive measures the Italians were withstanding the at- tack.
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IRELAND FEARS
 NAN INVASION
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(Continued from Page D and was felt throughout the city. Many persons ran from their homes into the snow covered streets.
 Bombs had dropped between mio> night and dawn yesterday near Drogheda, 20 miles north of Dublin; in the Terenure suburb of Dublin; on the Curragh race course, 90 miles southwest of Dublin; at Knoclzroe, in County Carlow 60 miles southwest of Dublin, where a woman and two adolescent girls were killed: and near Enniskerry, eight miles south of Dublin.
 Three bombs dropped near Bal- lymurrin in county Wexford, 70 miles southwest of Dublin, at 745 last night
 South Dublin Hit
 At 4 a. m. today a plane flying straight north dropped its bombs in South Dublin, 150 feet from the big Griffith barracks. The few persons in the streets heard the plane and ran for cover or threw themselves on the sidewalks.
 The principal damage was done in Donore Terrace.
 It was at once apparent that some persons had been buried in the wreckage and soldiers and po- licemen started digging for them.
 Twelve persons, all wounded by bomb fragments, were taken to hospital.
 windows of homes for blocks around were broken by the blast and some houses were evacuated as precautionary measure.
 Police and soldiers quickly cor- doned the damaged area and stood guard at barriers, holding back a growing crowd.
 In all, 72 bombs and two mag netic mines have been dropped on Fire territory during the past two days.
 Deliberately Bombed
 London, Jan. 3-(UP)-The daily Telegraph charged today that Ger man planes had deliberately bombed Ireland in series of raids.
 Pointing out that Ireland has re- fused to Impose blacKouJ, Ine Daily Telegraph said
 Tt was impossible that Nazi air. men could have mistaken the coun- try beneath them, for the lights of towns and villages must have shone like beacons against the darkness of the rest of the British Isles."
 Pointing out that the attacks had been made along a 100-mile line on the eastern side of the country, the Daily Telegraph commented
 Tt is as if the raiders had swept down on Fire, keeping the Irish sea in view on one flank"
 Britons have complained that Fire, refusing to- impose a black out, has served as 8 beacon for German planes bombing Britain.
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U. P. WRITER ON
 BRITISH PLANE
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Pitched Violently

EAUCuCU VAUACHkAy Atmospherics are pitching us vio- lently. It is so cold here in the ward room that the oil on my type writer has coagulated and the keys stick. My fingers are white with cold and I have to rub them be- tween sentences to keep up circu- ! lation.
 My story begins early in the af- ternoon on the coast of Scotland. "Bill," chief pilot and captain of the Sunderland; Butch" his second pilot, Lofty" chief air gunner and I were sitting round the fire after lunch wondering how we would spend the evening. We were sched- uled to fly at "pre-dawn''-a few hours before dawn-to pick up convoy coming to England.
 Suddenly Bill was called to the telephone. He came back and an- nounced:
 we take off in an hourt to re- lieve other fellows who are coming back. We will get out there about dusk, patrol over them until after midnight and then come back home."
 We walked to the operations room so Bill and Butch could get their orders. When they came out. Bill looked grim. He said: "It's going to be tough out there"
 No Comment Heard Nobody made any comment. We boarded the Sunderland and took off. Bill and Butch at the con- trols and Lofty perched behind a gun amidShipS, peering at sky and ocean for planes or submarines. Red, the navigator leaned over his charts. Henry, Wire1ess operator, tapped at his radio. His assistant, Randolph, lounged in a chair near by Jack and Horace tended the four engines. Another Bill was perched behind the amidships gun opposite Lofty. Jim crouched be- hind the rear gun tail. George be- gan preparing tea and Harry man. ned the gun in the nose. Bill lifted the 25 tons of war ma- chine and set her on a course vest ward into the glare of the after noon sun. Every man aboard Seem- ed suddenly 10 years older. This was the beginning of 14-hour flight.
 The din of the engines pounded necessarily in our ears as we roared over a smooth sea. The cold be- came intense. I was dressed in fur lined leather flying clothes, but even they did not keep out the piercing cold.
 Not Much Talking
 Hours passed. Nobody talked much. All conversation was carried on through an intricate telephone system which links every man aboard. What talk there was, was limited to the business of flying reports on the course and the weather and radio advices from shore. We roared on toward our rendezvous with the convoy.
 Finally the navigator reported we were near the position where he convoy should be. Then the wire- less operator, using special instru- ment--a sort of magic eye"-told me:
 "The convoy is about five miles ahead and a little to Starboard." l."
 Bill unanswered the Sunderland in the swiftly failing twilight. Then he pointed to something on the wa ter ahead. A small black shadow ese,.t esst ef the dim light--the first ship of the convoy. Then other shadoWs appeared. Butch seized 2
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(Continued from Page D The other two landed at Corpus Christi, Texas, for the night.
 Radioman A. M. Perry was the last to leave the plane. He said Hanson had been flying on instru- ments for some time and that wea- ther was getting thicker. The wings were icing and becoming so heavy that the plane was losing altitude Hanson decided to save his crew and ordered them to jump.
 The accident occurred over leve. prairie grazing land, sparsely set tied, bisected east to west by the low mountain range, the Big Spring.
 Hanson, 30, comes from Alamo gorda, N. M., and has wife in Coronado, Cal. Clark. 9, is unmar- ried and lives at Pomona, Cal. Per cich, 25, comes from Friday Harbor Washington, and is survived by a wife.
 The others of the crew were Radioman Lloyd J. Hughes, Grand Rapids, Mich; Aviation Chief Machinist,s Mate G. E. Neff, 34, San Diego; Aviation Machinists Mate Frank Recke, Jr., 30, of National City, Cal.
 Commander Safe !,
 San Diego, Cal, Jan. - (UP) The eleventh naval district head quarters here today reported that a 13-ton navy bomber missing since yesterday with two navy flyers aboard had made forced landing in 8 shallow lake near Hartland Tex, and that neither the pilot nor co-pilot was injured.
 One of the flyers who stuck with the big ship as its faltered under the weight of snow and ice in a West Texas snowstorm last night. telephoned the naval air station here this morning and gave first de- tails of the forced landing.
 He said they effected forced landing near Hartland, Tex, 70 miles southwest of Corpus Christi.
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BY MARY MERLIN

AA tUnlteu FreSS COFreSpOnuentJ lOWeith the Greek Army at Porto S<S E,ns, Albania, Jan. - (U.P0 - Italian bombing planes have started bigS offensive in this sector in an attempt to halt the Greek drive on Valona.
 I counted more than 200 of them, gleaming like silvery geese, in a three-mile trip over a secondary road. On the main coast road Brit ish anti-aircraft guns keep the plarjs 20O0 feet high but along the innumerable ravines the planes roar down through the valleys skimming the tree tops. The pilots hunt Greek troops who are infiltrating the Italian defenses through almost 50 passages.
 I was told that the bombings have little effect Greek troops and thetir pack mules take over under over hanging rocks or other shelter when the planes pass.
 <, I saw bomber catch it's wing tip in a tree top and spin into rock wall. There was an enormous eX- plosion as the bomb cargo went up.
 Greek snipers take positions along 1edges high in the ravine walls and spatter the planes with heavy machine gun fire as they pass. One sniper told me plane had come SO
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77th Congress Will
 Promote New History
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, Barkley said the question will come before the Democratic steering com- mittee for discussion tomorrow or it may be settled by vote of the judiciary committee itself. Senate parliamentarians recalled similar disputes had been settled by the seniority of the states represented which, in this case, would give the chairmanship to Van Nuys.
 McCarran in Line
 McCarran, if he is defeated for the judiciary post, apparently is in line for the chairmanship of the District of Columbia committee, va cated by King.
 The chairmanship of the privi- leges and elections committee will be open, since Senator Walter F. George, D., Ga, the present head. has succeeded the late Senator Key Pittman, D., Nev., as chairman of the foreign relations committee. Senator Tom Connally D., Tex, is next in line for the privileges and elections chairmanship.
 Craftsmanship of the rules com- mittee, formerly headed by Nicely, probably will pass to Senator Harry F. Byrd, D., Va. The pensions com- mittee, formerly handled by Sen- ator Sherman Minton. D., Ind, de- feated in the general election, is scheduled to be taken over by Sem ator H. H. Schwartz, D., Wyo. Senator Prentiss M. Brown, D., Mich, will probably succeed to the chairmanship of the claims conn mittee. Senator Edward R. Burke, Nebraska Democrat who failed to win the renominAtion in his state, formerly headed the group. The House has no important changes in committee chairman ships.
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RADIO PROGRAMS
 STILL CONTINUE
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ASCAP took its first legal step to- day against the networks, claiming that one of its songs h1d been used without authorization on the Fred Allen program over the Columbia Broadcasting System Wednesday night.
 ASCAP directed it's attorneys tc start action against CBS, Texaco sponsor of the program, an advertis- ing agency and the stations because i ASCAP alleged, the George Gersh- win tune, "Wintergreen for Presi- dent" was played at the beginning and end of the Allen show. The defendants are liable under the copyright law to a fine of $25C for each station which carried the tune, a maximum total penalty o1 $21, ,750.
 Since January 1, the major net works have not had a contract with ASCAP. ASCAP demanded more money for it's catalog and the net works refuse to pay.
 CBS said there was absolutely no basis for the suit"
 The tune mentioned was not 'Wintergreen for President but an original theme melody" CBS said
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HARRY HOPKINS
 GOES TO LONDON
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phasized, 11as not connection with Kennedy'S resignation.
 Kennedy Resigned

Kennedy resigned last month af- ter returning from London for the holidays. He had been quoted as being pessimistic about Britain's chances to win the war and had been represented as critical of the policy of all-out aid to Britain be- cause he thought such 8 program might involve America in the con- dict.
 During his varied New Deal ca reer Hopkins probably was the worlds largest employer and its greatest spender. As chief of fed- eral emergency relief agencies, he supervised expenditure of more than $9 9OO0, 900. He incurred considerable enmity as a result of his relief ad-i ministration. His last ofIicial job was as secretary of commerce. He resigned last spring and took an active part in managing the presi- dents reromination by the Demo- cratic national convention.
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British, Italians,
 Greeks Battling Hard
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The Italians defense line in the Klisura sector, prepared before the war, was said to have been pierced in several places.
 A dispatch from Mary Merlin, United Press Correspondent with the Greek army on the coast below Valona, said the Italians indicated that every available man, gun and airplane would be thrown into the defense of Valona. She said the Greeks were infiltering through the Italian lines in scores of places de- spite intense Italian air activity.
 A war ministry communique said: There was successful local action. Some prisoners and machine guns were taken"
 The public security ministry re- ported: "All quiet in the interior of the country"
 (At Sofia, the Greek radio was heard broadcasting that a most Important Italian fortress" had been occupied yesterday, but it did not say where. Almost all heights be- tween Klisura and Tepelini are in our hands," the announcer said. Large scale fighting is progressing north of Chimara. Greek forces are advancing toward Valona Ital- ian prisoners admit new troops are arriving from Italy but they seem discouraged as they believe the war is lost for them in Albania.D
 Australians Drive In
 Cairo, Jan. 3-(UP)-The middle east high command reported today that Australian troops smashed through a sector of the Italian de- lenses at Bardia today.
 The communique said that the Australian attack was launched just after dawn this morning.
 Advancing upon the Italian posi- tions with the support of tanks, the Australians fought their way Through a sector of the Italian de- fenSeS.
 The operation, the high command said, was still in progress.
 The ccmmunique said:
 Just after dawn this morning Australian forces supported by tanks penetrated a sector of the defenseS of Bardia. The operation is continuing. On other fronts there is nothing to report"
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LOTTERY MEN
 POST $500 BONDS
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counts of handling and selling tick cts during the lotteries of August 10 and November g, 1940. It is in- teresting to note that no charge of Conspiracy in violation of the state law is mentioned.
 The lottery under fire is the one held in Naugatuck last year under the sponsorship of the Crusaders Post. On November 25, just two days after the second drawings, County Detective Roland G. filling launched an investigation. Two days later bench warrants were is- sued for the arrest of five New York men. Three of them sur- rendered and two of these poStetd bonds of $10,000. Two others are still being sought. All five face serious charges of conspiracy in vio- lation of the state lottery laws.
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rings and "other grave crimes"
 In another, the House commit tee Investigating migrant workers warned that new migratory worker problems are being generated by a fresh flow of transient workers to centerS where booming defense in- dustries are creating new jobs.
 The Dies committee also was to submit report on its investigation of fifth column elements in this country.
 Many of the problems confronting the new Congress were explored by the old one. Increasing tension abroad, however, places even more emphasis on them now: They tn- clude:
 1. The form and extent of greater aid to Britain, involving a decision on the Presidents proposal to take over British war orders and lend or lease the material to them.
 2. Appropriation of at least an- other $1O,OOO ,OO0, 900 for national de- fense, extension of the national debt limit to $65, ,0OO, 100000 or $70,000,- COG, ,000 to finance it, and enactment of new taxes to help pay for 1t.
 s. Extension of temporary New Deal agencies and powers, such as the present farm benefit program, hte dollar revaluation authority, and the Presidents monetary powers.
 4. Decisions on revision of laws governing industry labor relations. including the Wagner act and the Wage Hour law, and their effect on the defense program.
 Democrats Control
 Washington, Jan. S(UP)-The Democrats control the 77th Congress which conveneS today.
 The lineup of the new Congress, compared with the old follows:
 Senate
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TIRES X-RAYED NOW

Chicago-(UP)-An X-ray device which permits examination of auto mobile tires without removing them from the wheel is the latest achieve ment. The "tire-o-scope" permits a repair station attendant to detect faults in damaged tires before re- mounting them.
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The drama and heartbreak which developed when an illuring fortune hunter discovers that she is becom- ing passe, and induces a beautiful but Impoverished working girl to act as bait for wealthy playboys, pro vides the basis of RKO Radios Play Girl" starring Kay Francis.
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SIXTH OF SAINT" SERIES

Sixth in the increasingly populal series of films depicting the ainaz ing adventures of Simon Templar the Lone Wolf Avenger, RKO Ra. dio's 'NThe Saint in Palm Springs again presents husky George San. ders in the title role. Wendy Bar. rie plays opposite.
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Den1nAflx's restrictions on the use of leather substitutes have ban si,acikened tt0 permit women tt,o tt,o Tesss shoes with wooden heels.
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flash lamp and signaled: "Hellol We're fere.n

We're here"
 There was no response because 1t was not worth the risk of announc- ing the conveys position in case German ships were lowering near.
 We began the patrol, circling over and around the convoy, covering many miles and making sure noth- ing was nearby.
 We headed back toward Britain finally and as we scared along the pumping grew less severe until t was fairly smooth
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COMMANDER OF
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Chas. Mellon, the banker, and Sara Brisbane, the great editors dghtr, may turn into an elopement case next week !. :. Benny Good mans secret" is the wife of a mem Der of Parliament She is in Lon don now unhitching so she can middle-aisle with Beegee .. Ruth Fitting and her husband are in Mexico-where they intend to stay The Book k-of -the-Month Club has selected Blood, Sweat and Tears" (Churchill's speeches) for April . Mrs. Hampton Howard is expected to go to Reno to drop her HIS. Her next will be the at tentive commuter from Delaware "Hank" DuPont Petain of Vichy sent the Warren G. Pershings a wire of congrats on their recent Blessed Event .. The femme edi- tors of two smart fashion magS are sizzling at Moss Hart for his show, Lady in the Dark" Dorothy Thompson, as hinted here long ago, will be divorced by the Herald Tri- bune as of March 16. Her new sym dicate may land her in the Post on the 17th.
 Mrs. Robert A. Martyr Miami Reached him Saddy Meaning that his next bride will shortly be Barbara (deb) Smith, whose mater is simp-plee fee-yoo-ree-iss at the veddy thawt! Maxine Moore, the ex-Broadway Show-gal, has
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and potent Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union.
 The other path veered just as sharply to the right and that was the path young Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen of Copenhagen chose. This path led to hard work, to the mastery of a trade through personal initiative, and to the consequent rewards: wealth and power in the best tradition of American success stories.
 PULL TOGETHER
 LIKE DRAFT HORSES
 Yet there these characteristically opposed men sit in Washington to- day - co-holderS Of the biggest, toughest, most complex, most ur- gent and most heartrending job il- the country-pulling together ("likt a team of Well-trained draft horses, says colleague) to make impreg- nable this America which can be so many things to so many men.
 If social compromises called fol by eXigencies of the national emer- gency ever cause Knudsen, long time General Motors executive an, one-time foe of unionism, and Hill. man, successful builder and leade. of unionism, to swallow hard an' painfully, they don't do their swal lowing in public.
 For each now has dedicated him. self to production, production production, production and they are said to differ with surprising in- frequency on the ways and mean! of obtaining that production.