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Evening star., 1941-03-20
Tepe|eni Seized
In Greek Drive,
Belgrade Hears
Complete Collapse Of
Morale of Duce's
l.egions Reported
Earlier Story on Page AID

Earlier Story on Page AID
By the Associated Press.
Reports of an Italian Army in
headlong flight toward the Adri-
attic Sea and the fall of Tepeleni
reports which, if true, would
mean the breakdown of Premier
Mussolini's Albanian campaign
persisted in Yugoslavia late to-
day.
Battle-worn Italian and Albanian
soldiers fleeing into Yugoslavia in
front of Greek troops told of utter
generalization among Italys Fas-
clst legions, who invaded Greece
last October % with confidence Of
a quick victory.
Tepeleni Reported Taken.
Other sources said the Greeks had
seized the strategic town of Tepe-
lenl, in Central Albania, after
smashing a seven-day Italian often.
sive.
German diplomatic quarters in
Belgrade said late today that Adolf
Hltler's 250,000 troops massed on
the Bulgarian frontier may move
at any moment" against Greece,
following reports that great num-
bers OF British troops had landed
at Salonika, Aegean seaport.
Salonika is only IS miles from
the Greek-Bulgarian frontier.
Would Touch Off Balkan Battle.
Such a move presumably would
touch off the expected battle Of
the Balkans" possibly involving
100000 Turks massed on the Turk
ish-Bulgarian frontier.
In addition, Yugoslavia is believed
to have 100000 men under arms,
but it was doubtful whether Yugo-
slavia would either oppose or sup
port the German military jugger-
naut.
The Italians, in tattered uniforms,
were said to have crossed the Yugo.
slav border near Podgorica. Their
story was much the same as that Of
the Albanians complete collapse
of morale-headlong flight toward
the Adriatic coast"
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Committee Approves
Measure 10 Speed
100-Mi||ion Housing
U. S. Would Insure
Privote Looms on
90 Per Cent Bosis
8, the Associated Press.

b. tEt associated Press.
Legislation aimed at speeding
construction of s1O0,00o,00o of de-
fense housing by private capital
through Government insurance of
mortgages won quick approval today
from the Senate Banking Commit
tee.
The committee recommended Sen
ate passage of a bill already ap-
proved by the House which would
create a special 100000, 900 mort
gage insurance fund under the Fed
eral Housing administration. 1t
maze three minor changes which
will require House concurrence.
Mortgages ranging from $4,000 for
single-family unit to $10,500 for a
four-family residence could be in
sured under the new proposal on a
80 per cent basis. The houses could
be rented or sold without a down
payment. Previously, F. H. A. in
surance on a 10 per cent down basis
has been limited to low-cost, owner
occupied homes. 80
Housing authorities said this pro-
gram would not interfere with $780,
100000 Of defense housing already
authorized by Congress under the
Lanham Act. They said this $780,
100000 would be used for temporary
structures, such as at isolated powder
plants or Army and Navy centers.
In approving the bill, the Senate
committee ignored a heated protest
from the American Federation of
Labor by Harry c. Bates, president
of the International Union of Brick
layers, Masons and Plasterers, who
said that the bill provided no pro-
lection for the worker who buys or
rents the homes. He asked inclusion
of prevailing wage" amendment.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Ry LARRY ALLEN.

Associated Press War Correspondents
WITH THE BRITISH BATTLE
FLEET SOMEWHERE IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN, March 90
Long strings of British conveys are
steaming to and from the Greek
ports daily under the protection of
this fleet.
Some conveys have been bombed
from the air, but all thus far have
reached their destinations safely.
Italian nava! vessels have not
attempted to crash through the
British patrols along the gateway
waters leading to the Dodecanese
Islands and Tripoli.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Tropical Park
By TIE Associated Press.

Dy ASSoCldteu
FIRST RACE-Purse. $1,000: claiming;
2-year-olds; furlongs.
Bellcode (Robart 1880 40 $50
Magic May CMilliganl $40 go
Rumba Queen tMeade) 500
Also ranEEMusissl Mood, Tourist Lazy:
Kittykay. Lady Divine Cookie. Top
Transit and Rolling Car.
SECOND RACE-Purse $1,000: claim
ing ing; 4,yeariolds and up tgTIonss Gehqtsl
Best Quality (Arcarol 800 800
Steam Roller (Rosen> 4.6O
Also ran-Rippler. Ghost Flyer. Morn
ing Mail. Double Whisk Some Polly. Land
Of Rheims, John Allen. zacatea and d In
d Finished 5'yl. first but was dsissuaIihed.
THIRD RAcE-Purse, $1,000: claim
in i9s; ;se 4,yeear-olds and up: furlonss tout
ds9 ds7sI 81 E E dsnsoy 5@Ss $3.50 sssCS sssoo
Foxleieh r; HowelD $50
cross, Queen Echo. oklab. Rita z. Medred.
Gold Band and ourasan
FOURTH RACE-Purse. 81 900; cIsim-
ing; 4-year- -olds and up; S furlongs (chutel.
Happy Lark lArcaro) 11.40 $40 $50
Little Davey CHaskeD $40
Also ran-Greeny. Amnesty, Merry Ges-
ture, Manamaid and Court Counsel.
FIFTH RAcE-Purse, $1,000: allow
ances; the Key Largo; 3-year-olds; fur.
By & green s Connolly, 144O 3sS g $50 ssS
React (McCreary) $50
Time. HOS.
Also ran-Light as Air. Indignation.
Rose-Red, Air Post, Miss Westie, Gala Song,
Lady Lyonors, Cherriko and Sari Omar.
SIXTH RACE-Purse, $1,000; claiming;
3-year -olds; | mile and 10 yards
Silver Tower (HowelD 1890 $50 $50
Merltorioss sSh aA5ssfSs ssowley, 7'io 1t.so $50
Time, 1:432s.
Also ran-Brooklandville. Banker Jim.
Blackboard. Brass Bell. Fancy Free, Jan
One, One Tip and Priority.
SEVENTH RACE-Purse, $1,000: claim
ing: 4-year-olds and up; l mile and 20
yards.
Hope Diamond. (Ryan) 11.70 $40 $50
Flag Post (AndsrsonD 12.4O $50
Blacant tMacAndrews) $50
Time, l IA 2-5.
Also ran-Day Is Done, septime, Chic
harra. Redrock Canyon, Trimmed, Bell
Helen. Glad Eye and Cynic Kins.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Parking Meter Gives Rodeo
Press Aqent His Nicke|'s Worth

found the press agent lurking on tho
fringe.
The first policeman to arrive took
a look at the crowd, shouted: Break
it up," and fed. The second police
man struggled to keep the crowd
on the sidewalk
At length police scout car with
two more men hove into view. About
that time the cowboy returned.
You can't park that horse here" ="
a policeman told him.
'T paid my nickel said the cow
boy.
Look, this place is meant for
automobiles" the policeman said
The cowboy galloped off at high
speed, leaving the street in the COM
plete control of automobiles.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
| Photo Evidence
Bores Sabotage
| At Fort Meade
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)


By TIE Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE. Md,
March Reconstruction quarter
master officers at this United States
Army post said today they had
definite Photographic evidence"
that there had been prolonged and
skillful sabotaging" of construction
work here.
One officer who declined use of his
name said THE sabotage by men
who know their business has been
going on for several months, directed
at barracks works, the telephone sys-
tenn and electric power lines"
He said the acts, such as saving
uprights of barracks to weaken
them and driving spikes into power
cables and telephone lines, do not
appear to be the acts of man or
men with grudge, but give every
sign of being real sabotage"
Evening star., 1941-03-20
| Medical Trial
Defendant Aids
lFuintinQ Case

A colored woman who tainted
after being granted divorce re-
ceived prompt medical aid today
from one of the physicians on trial
in the antitrust medical case in
District Court.
Justice Jennings Bailey had just
granted the divorce petition of Mrs.
Jessie Green, 535 Florida avenue
NV. when the woman collapsed.
A court attendant rushed to the
nearby medical trial courtroom and
caught the eye of DR.. Wallace
Yater
Answering the beckoning finger
of the attendant, DR. Yater slipped
from the room without being no.
ticsd by the others and attended
the unconscious patient.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
200 Flyers May Die in Year,
War Department Estimates

1872 Army flyers have been killed in
73 accidents.
OF these, 85 met death in the last
half of 1910, 10 were killed in Janu-
ary and % in February.
mo air force can be expected to
expand a number of times and main
tain the same low accident rate it
has fought for years to establish" 4"
the War Department said.
This rate depends directly upon
the experience of the pilots, the
leaders and supervisory personnel,
and nothing can be substituted for
experience.
1.-THE accident rate at the present
time is very good considering all
circumstances"
Evening star., 1941-03-20

A horse, a cowboy, press agent,
four policemen, half dozen pho
tographers and a crowd of several
score spectators created no end of
confusion in the 1900 block of F
street NV. today.
The horse, cowboy and press agent
belong to a rodeo, which is coming
to Washington.
The cowboy galloped through the
theater district shortly after noon,
spotted a parking place and tied
up his horse. He dropped nickel
in the parking meter and strolled
of.
A crowd gathered. Newspaper Of
fees received phone calls and when
their photographers arrived, they
Evening star., 1941-03-20
A. F. l. Orders Speed Up
In Auto Workers Drive
BY the Associated Press.


The American Federation of Labor
challenged its C. I. o. rival in the
automobile industry anew today by
ordering an aggressive" campaign
to enroll automobile workers in the
A. F. of L. fold.
The campaign order was issued
by President William Green, who
said Is or 20 organizers would be
sent into the field Immediately to
help the A. F. of LIS United Auto
Workers Union speed up the cam
paign.
The rival C. I. o. United Auto
Workers claims to be the dominant
union organization in the auto in
dustry and holds collective bar
gaining contracts with such big
motor car producers as General
Motors and the Chrysler Corp.
The A. F, of LIS announcement
said the organizing drive would be
aimed. in part, at Gensral Motors
plants.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Long Strings Of British Conveys
Reported at Greek Ports Daily

A few small Italian torpedo boats
have been sighted, but they sped
away when the British fired at them.
Vessels such as cruisers and Destroy
ers have not been seen in these
close-in areas.
British sources say unoficiany
that this is because of the big gaps
ripped in Italy's cruiser and de-
stroyer squadrons during nine
months of war and because the bat
tleships crippled at Taranto last
November II still are out of commits
sion.
In addition, they estimate that 30
or more submarines, composing
about quarter of 1taly's submarine
strength, have been destroyed.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
OokIown Park
By tie Associated Press.


FIRST RACEPurse, 5000; maiden 81
year-olds; furlongs tout of chute).
Sun Destiny tKeiper) $40 2.20 2.20
Tarkio (Richard) 2.30 2.20
Main Miss (Cole) go
Time, 1:12B.
Also ran-Earry cash. Dallasite. High
Mrs. D. A. Buckley, jr.. and K. N.
SECOND RACF-Purse,. $500: claiming:
4-year-olds and up: furlonss tehute).
Irish Moon (Sistol 1870 500 $40
Extremus tTrombleg 1920 500
Ira La La lBomar) 40
Time, 1:12 2-5.
Also ran--Lttle Hig, Tenacioua Some
Good, Wrinkle, Cannons Gold. once Hour,
THIRD RACE-Purse, $500; claiming;
3-yesr-olds and up; 8 furlonss (chute).
Big Jack Emery $50 $50 800
Codoll IT. Kinel 1880 $50
Sweet Sukey tSnyder) 40
Also ' rsnRRelious. Prove Again. Nsnci
Day and / Bid.
FOURTH RACE-Purse $500; allow
snces; 4-year-olds and up; furlongs
Nieht Editor CMarrero) 4.2o 40 $50
Miss Ethel (Kins) $50 3ao
Here Goes (Weber) axO
Time. I'll 2-5 EQUALS track record
Also ran-a Court Dance, Hallindsrry,
q Some Count. Door Bell and 0taxiina
Mrs. =. penemark entry.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Reporting a definite upturn" in
the Army's air accident rate as a
result of the rapid Air Corps ex-
pansion, the War Department esti-
mated today that possibly 200 flyers
would meet death in the u months
ending June 80.
BY contrast, there were only 88
fatalities in the year Immediately
preceding this period.
Gen. George c. Marshall, chief
Of staff, disclosed the Army's detailed
accident and casualty figures for the
first time. following a recent series
of aerial accidents
Since last July l, it was disclosed,
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Louis Moy Meet Pastor
In Washington in May
Rs Ihs Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 20-PromoteI
Mike Jacobs, looking beyond to-
morrow's Abe Simon bout here in
lining up title defenses for Joe
Louis, suggested today that the
heavyweight champion might meet
Bob Pastor at Washington in May
He said the match had been tenta-
lively approved by James j. john
ston, Pastors manager, and John
Roxborough and Julian Black, CO.
managers OF the champion.
Louis next start is slated against
Tony Music of Chicago, at st. Louis
April 7.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, March 20 R.-
Stocks irregular, senior utility
issues strong; bonds steady, util-
ity liens advance; foreign ex-
change quiet, Canadian dollar
improves.
Cotton easy, hedging and Bonn
bay hquidation; sugar irregular,
liquidation and hedging offset
trade covering; metals steady,
world tin quotas for 194l un-
changed: wool tops steady, spot
house buying, local selling.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Ships Shoot Down Nozi PIune

LONDON, March 20 (R.-A Ger
man dive bomber was shot down this
afternoon by the naval drifter
Young Nun and the yacht Chigo,
the Admiralty said. when it tried
to attack the vessels. Out of con-
troll, it carried away the mizzen mast
Of the drifter and broke up in the
sea, communioue said. ~
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Public Hearings Voted

A special Senate committee head
ed by Senator Truman, Democrat, OF
Missouri, voted today to begin pub
lie hearings April 7 on an investi-
cation Of defense contracts.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Dissolution of United Power Co. Ordered

The Securities and Exchange Commission today ordered
dissolution of the United Light g. Power Co., top unit in
utility SYSTEM and of the United American Co.,
one of its underlying units Chairman Jerome Frank of the
E. c. announced this few hours after he had been con-
frned as Judge Second Judicial Circuit Court
Evening star., 1941-03-20
ITALIAN TROOPS FLEEING INTO YUGOSLAVIA
German Forces Muy Move Against Greece Moment Nuzs Assert
Late News Bulletins
Raids on Britain Preparatory Phase
OF Nozi Military Action, Berlin Says


the heavy raids Britain preparatory phase Of
NaZ military action.
What now is going on in the air England, they
asserted may evaluated by study of what German mill
tary strategy did Poland Norway and France
Previously it was stated the air force always pre-
pared the for the ground and naval foces to soften
the opponent before using land and units for decision
London Has oO-Minute Night Raid
LONDON tP-This city had a air raid alarm of about
hour and half tonight and German planes also
reported in the vicinity of towns in the West and Southwest
Anglia guns at
raiders which appeared the Thames Estuary but
major incidents reported.
British Capture French Merchant Ship
VICHY uP9-The 8e17-ton French merchant vessel Son.
tay has been captured the British taken Durham
Union of South Africa from where cabed they
have been we'll treated pending repatriation it
nounced tonight
Cornegie-IIIinoi Wage Talks Start
PITTSBURGH pP>-A committee from the C. L o's
Steel Workers Organizing Committee headed by c. l. o.
President Philip Murray today opened formal negotiations
with the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp for increase
already rejected in part.
Earlier Story on Page A-4o
Italian Worship Destroyed, British Report
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt QP-An Italian warship identified
either cruiser large destroyer sunk by torpedo
planes in series of damaging attacks shipping at Vaona
and Durazzo Albania the nights of March 5 16 and IT,
a British naval communque said tonight
Six Airmen Die in Crash in Argentina
CORDOBA, Argentina lP-six military airmen
killed today in the crash of United States sbut Martin
bomber practice flight between Buenos Aires and Villa
Mercedes San Luis Province. 1t piled open field
at Chazon, Cordoba Province.
HiIimon Sends Man to HorvHI Strike
Sidney Hilman, associate director of the O. p M, this
afternoon sent Thomas F. Burns labor consultant his
staff to Los Angeles in an attempt to settle strike at the
Harvill Die Casting Co.
(Story Page A-4)
Dissolution of United Power Co. Ordered
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Racing Results

ROssvan's, Other Selections and
Entries for Tomorrow, Page 2-X.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Italian Worship Destroyed, British Report
Six Airmen Die in Crash in Argentina
HiIImon Sends Man to HorviII Strike

Sidney Hlman associate director of the o. P. M, this
afternoon sent Thomas F. Burns consutant his
staff to Los Angeles in attempt to settle strike at the
Harvill Die Casting Co.
PAGE a
Evening star., 1941-03-20

(See MARSHALL, Page 2-X)
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Bp WiIiiam Wiehf.

the physical difficulty of speeding de-
liveries across II, 900 miles of ocean, the
Importance of this development to pro-
long the life of rubber is apparent.
Expansion of Facilities
Almost as spectacular has been the
rapid expansion of domestic facilities for
the production of two other strategic
materials. mercury and tungsten. Fox
wears Spanish-Italian cartel controlled
the output of mercury. The Spanish
civil war came as jolt to American
industries dependent on imports OF this
material. with the result that dormant
low-grade deposits in California were re-
opened. The domestic mining and re-
covery operations were carried out so
quickly that today all home needs are
being met, and there is strong pos
sibility that American companies can
soon start exports, a remarkable reversal
of what loomed as a shortage.
Tungsten is now being produced do
mestically, but stocks are being built up
with purchases from China According
to Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones,
purchases now total $4,000 tons.
Since the principal source of tin is
the Malaga zone, where tension is high,
the government has taken further steps
to bolster reserves. Some 92,896 tons of
the metal have been purchased, and
9,O45 tons are now in shipment. Further
more. a $3.50O,0OO Government-ownedt tin
smelling plant designed to produce
quickly $1,000 tons of fine tin from low
grade Bolivian ore is to be built at
Texas City, Tex.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

All of us were impressed and many
embarrassed The passengers talked
little and then only in whispers. But not
Chip.
"Oh Mummy-look at the bomber the
great big bomber. Is that the kind the
British fight the Germans with? Where
Go the bombs come out? Does it carry
soldiers ). and tanks and if the Ger
mans would come, what would it do?"
All this in a httle-boy, excited, shrill
pipe. I tried motherly 'hush-huShes"
and even firmer treatment, but 1t was
like trying to dam Niagara in midfall.
On the theory that if talked he couldn't,
I began to explain that we were waiting
for passport inspection and that he must
be quiet.
Passport spektion-that's to catch
spies, isn't it? Member when we came
here or the boat before they 'spekted
passports, too, and even 'spekted some
cabins?"
At the word spies" two or three of
maintained a stony, embarrassed silence.
I wondered what the modern child
training books would say about this
situation and was considering a gag
when he proclaimed in loud voice,
dancing with excitement, to the pas
sengers near us:
They're trying to catch spies, that's
why we're here. Spies, real spies!"
A grinning British inspector tried to
assure him that the search for spies
was not the culy reason we stopped at
Bermuda, and his spresence, while he
looked over our papers, silenced Chip
temporarily.
Chip, said the steward, was the first
American child to take the Europe
bound clipper in months. And by the
time we reached Lisbon at that eve
ming there was one mother aboard who
has plenty of sympathy for any other
mother who tries air travel with son
tween S and g."
Evening star., 1941-09-07
War Curbing u *S.Wastefulness

that the petroleum industry's ultra
modern cracking" process. which also
produces the basic ingredient for syn
thetic rubber, is also providing the
Nation with toluol the final IT. in INT.
Obtained as a py-product in the manu-
facture of high-octane aviation gasoline,
this domestic toluol relieves the Army of
resorting to the dire expedient of dilut-
ing, a practice of the last war which
sometimes produced "duds."
The survey revealed that many other
processes for production Of essential ma
terials are now being perfected, some of
high strategic value. There is reason
to believe, officials indicate, that pro-
duction of many of these materials will
continue after the war, and that Ameri-
can trade will then be in a position
to dominate many international avenues
heretofore closed to it.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Boy Flies to Clipper
By Frances ireland Folts.

MADRID-For one trip, at least, the
Europe-bou Atlantic clipper lost
its wartime aura of mystery.
Some SO passengers and this weary
mother found that a normally inquisi-
tive and normally loquacious American
boy tween and g. is just too much
for the clippers East-bound hush-hush
atmosphere.
Chip, who was born in Paris and al
ready has crossed the Atlantic three
times by ship, was fortunately tongue
tied with awe when he saw the big
clipper and remained so until he got
aboard at La Guardia Airport.
We had left Switzerland with my hus-
band, Charles S. Foltz, correspondent of
the Associated Press there, few months
before and we were on our way back to
Europe to join him at his new post in
Madrid.
A newspaper reporter who knew my
husband told us before the take-oh that
there was no one terribly interesting"
on the passenger list-mainly British
observers and businessmen going home
and American Navy and Army observers
going to England, with few Bermuda
bound passengers.
managed to keep Chip quiet and still
until we reached Bermuda at $50 that
same evening.
Through the whole trip from New York
to Bermuda the passengers were dis
creetly quiet and properly silent. We
were going to continent at war; none
of us knew who the others were; all of
us had been fully saturated with spy talk
in America before we left. Silence was
natural, and mystery still more natural.
At Bermuda we filed up path past
tam-o' '-shantered Scottish guards in
shorts, wool socks and cleated boots, tc
the hangers where we were waved tt
several rows of camp chairs face to face
with an enormous British bomber.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

He smokes a straight briar pipe. He
keeps filling it as he talks lights innu-
nerable matches, empties the pipe in the
fireplace and then repeats the process all
over again. His clothes have something
of college boy fair in a honey sort of
way-checkered sport coat, somewhat
frayed at the sleeves; gray trousers,
brown suede shoes and soft white shirt
with polka dot tie.
"I got tired of writing novels he said.
ct became interested in religious philos-
ophy, and I gave up novels to work out
something for myself to keep me straight.
There were, and are, two kinds OF
novels-flrst, the novel that upholds
the conservative position where the hero,
after facing difficulties, overcomes evil
forces and there is a moral ending. Then
there is the second type-the radical
novel-which rebels against the tradi-
tional, conservative position and seeks
to remake things.
when first I became a novelist,
wrote the first type; then, gradually, I
began to write the second type. Finally,
I decided that neither type gave me sat-
isfaction. Neither expressed life as it
really was and neither settled anything.
II decided that writer could speak
with authority only when he wrote of
his own experience. and since a true
autobiography would involve too many
people besides myself, determined to
try to get down on paper my thoughts on
a personal philosophy, satisfactory way
of life.
"I became my own laboratory, my own
guinea pig"