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II Ships Sunk Oft u. S.,
Italian Subs Claim

BY the Associated Press.
ROME (From Italian Broadcasts)
April 4.-The first Italian subma-
rines which have been operating
along the United States coast have
returned to IAN Atlantic base" with
ii small red flags tied to their peri
scopes indicating they sank II ships.
correspondent of the Giornale
D1talia reported today.
Italian and German officers well
coined the incoming craft and SAIL
ors, he said, and a German band
played the Italian anthem.
Italian commanders said the first
ship attacked was the Scottish Star
with cargo of meat consigned to
England. CThe Scottish Star was
torpedoed February 10 about $50
miles east of Barbados, in the British
West Indies)
The submarine which sank this
ship was one of the smallest of the
flotilla and had been at sea for two
months under the command of
Capt. Antonio de Giacomo.
Among the other torpedoed ships,
the officers reported, was a 10,500-
ton tanker loaded with gasoline
which was en- route to the Cape of
Good Hope.
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Area service command with singing
by choirs from Episcopal churches
at Laurel and Beltsville.
Class to Be Confirmed.
Easter communion services were
scheduled in the Naval Academy at
Tam. The Rt. Rev. Edward T. Hell
fenstein of Baltimore will confirm
the Academy church class at pm.
A message from President Roose-
velt will be a high light of the 18th
annual city-wide sunrise service
planned in the Stadium at Balti-
more this morning.
The Bethesda Council of Churches
will hold a sunrise service at $50
o'clock at the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Recreation Center on Nor
wood drive, with Rev. ]. Raymond
Nelson, pastor of Bethesda First
Baptist Church. presiding.
Rev. Ralph D. Smith, pastor o1
Woodside Methodist Church in Sill.
yer Spring, will conduct sunrise
service at the church.
Another sunrise service is Sched-
uled at 7:30 am by the East Mont
gomery Council of Churches al
Greenwood Farm.
Store Sales Increase.
Russell Schneider, manager Of the
Greater National Capital Commit
tee, Washington Board of Trade
said a study revealed there is nc
hotel space shortage here even il
boarding houses are overcrowded
He wanted 1t emphasized that
Washington hotels can accommo-
date guests where room reserva-
tons are made reasonably in ad-
vance.
Pointing out that District retail
sales were up 56 per cent in the
week beginning March 20. as COM
pared with the same week in 1941
Mr.. Schneider said the figures clear
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Mrs. Mabel c. Abernethy, of 4217
Third street N. w. today was flying
to Los Angeles to rejoin her hus-
band whom she has not seen in
more than a year-Comdr. E. p.
Abernethy, skipper of the tanker
Pecos which went down in the Pa
cific under Japanese bombs after
picking up survivors from the plane
tender Langley.
Comdr. Abernethy, who has been
on duty in the Orient for nearly two
years, expects new orders within the
next few days. He is visiting q
brother, Clayton Abernethy, in Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Abernethy was in the Orient
with her husband until Navy wives
were evacuated about a year ago
from the Philippines. Since then
she has been living here with son,
Ensign David Robert Petit, a Naval
reservist from the University Of
Southern California now on duty at
the Navy Department.
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D. c. Budget
Continued From First Page.

plement to the 1943 estimates, con-
tanning the needed changes, to the
Budget Bureau early this week A
series of informal conferences will
then be held with Mr.. Mahon and
other members of the Appropria-
tions Subcommittee as a prelude
to the formal hearings. The Com
missioners are to be invited to these
conferences.
Stefan Suggested Revision.
Representative Stefan of Ne
braska, ranking minority member
Of the subcommittee, first suggested
the budget revision nearly two
months ago. At that time he said
the subcommittee would be vast
ing time" holding hearings on esti-
mates that were obsolete"
Aside from informal conferences
with the Commissioners and other
District officers this week, subcom-
mittee members plan to make an in
spection Of q number of municipal
institutions. Mr.. Stefan said he
particularly wanted to observe over
crowded conditions at Gallinger
Hospital and the tuberculosis Sana-
toria at Glenn Dale. Md. and the
acute congestion in the schools in
the Anacostia section.
Mr.. Mahon explained that de-
cision to advance hearings on the
District bill month was due to de-
lay in beginning hearings on the
regular l943 War Department ap-
preparation bill Ordinarily, the
District bill is the last of the regu-
lar supply bills reported to the
House. But on this occasion it will
precede the War estimates.
Worries about revenue more than
year hence stem, in the first place,
from belief that the 1943-l944 fiscal
year requirements certainly will be
no less than the $55 900 900 total
for l942-1943 and that the call may
be for q greater sum, perhaps as
much as $50, ,000, 900.
Revenue Loss Feared.
In the second place, the Commis-
sioners fear that rationing of tires,
tubes and automobiles and restric-
tions on production Of long list
of other mechanical equipment will
reduce gasoline, personal property,
or even District corporate income
taxes.
The current exploratory survey is
being made under the guidance of
the Commissioners by District Bud
get Officer Fowler, District Tax As
SCISSOR Edward A. Dent and other
municipal officials, in cooperation
with officials Of the Budget Bureau.
Commissioner Young said no con-
cluSion yet had been reached and
that probably no plan would be
adopted for some time, but that he
felt sales tax might be the answer
since it appeared to be the means by
which newcomers to Washington
would be required to help pay the
bills for National Capital opera
tions
Because of the restricted appli-
cation being given under court de-
cisions to our District income tax"
he said, thousands of Washington
residents who still claim legal domi-
cile in one of the States are receiv-
ing the benefit of Washington police
and fire protection, streets, garbage
collie tion, parks, Fairgrounds,
schools and other municipal serv-
ices, without paying for them. How
can we make them help pay our ex-
penses, without having a sales tax?"
In previous years Congress has
beaten off efforts directed by the
Commissioners either to the ends of
strengthening the District income
tax law, or of adopting any form of
a sales tax as a means Of increasing
District revenues.
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Subs Sink Three More
Merchantmen; Total
For Week Reaches 70
Axis Hos Sent Down
ia in AtIuntic Waters
Since Pearl Horbor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The torpedoing Of three merchant
ships by Axis submarines-one in
the Atlantic and two in the Carib-
bean-was announced yesterday by
the Navy, bringing to 20 the official
score Of ships sunk of the United
States East Coast in the week of
March 20 through April 4. Losses
since Pearl Harbor in that area
total ia.
The latest ships reported lost we're
a United States tanker, a small Nor
wegian freighter and a medium
sized Latvian vessel.
Announcing the arrival In Nor
folk, Va, Wednesday of Al sur
vivors of the American vessel, the
5th Naval District said the attack
occurred the night of March 81.
Shore lights were visible to the
crew who told Of sending UP four
flares and drifting for two hours
pelore pelng picked up. One man
was lost.
Among the Al rescued were six
men who had survived the torpedo
ing Of another ship in the Carfb-
bean and who had boarded the Sec
ond ship at Aruba, N. WI.
All Of the 46-man crew of the
Norwegian merchantmen were saved
Details on survivors of the Latvian
freighter were lacking. Both for
eign ships were torpedoed In the
Caribbean.
Vessels sunk between March %
and April 4: Of the Eastern United
States, 9; of Canada, 2; in the
Caribbean, 6; of South America, 8:
since Pearl Harbor: off the Eastern
United States, So; off Canada, %:
In the Caribbean, 20; of South
America 4
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Jops Stole Famed Cherry Trees,
Koreans Claim; Ask Remaining

Those cherry trees aren't Japa-
nese, after all. They're Korean.
This was the claim set forth yes
terday by the Korean American
Council and passed along to the
Secretary of Interior, the District
Commissioners and the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee.
The council contended the Japa-
nese had stolen the cherry trees
from Korea some years before they
annexed the entire nation of Korea.
In telegram addressed to Secretary
Ickes, the Commissioners and the
local Board of Trade, the council
denounced the Japanese theft.
The council requested that ION
the eve Of the blossoming Of the
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cherry trees in the National Capital
these Towering trees be given their
rightful Identification, namely, Ko-
rean cherry trees.
I'm common with other loot
stolen from the Korean and Chinese
peoples by the rapacious and savage
japanese, the so-called and errone-
ously termed japanese cherry tree
first was developed in Korea and
therefore should be rightly known
as the Korean cherry tree"
1t was explained that the trees
blossomed by the thousands in the
valleys of Korea and that the Agri-
culture Department had recognized
publicly. some years ago. that the
trees were not Japanese"
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Unit Calls Captain

FORT LEWIS, Wash, April 4 up.
Capt. James w. Arnold didnt
know what he was getting into when
he told the men of his company
he would match any amount of saw
ings stamp purchases they made
on pay day.
The men ganged up on him to
the tune of S31375, but the captain
dug deep and upheld his end of
the bargain.
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ly indicate the popularity of keeping
retail stores open until pm. one
night week. 1t is greatly helpful.
not only to the merchants but also
to shoppers, he said.
Judged by store sales, wartime
Washington workers should offer the
best-dressed Easter parade today
that the Capital has ever known.
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American diplomats at Bad Nau.

helm in Ger
many a n d in
Siena in Italy,
have been treated
with courtesy as
far as conditions
in those coun-
tries permit. 1t
would not have
done for a dra-
matte situation
to develop among
the internees of
White Sulphur.
In order to
bring about a
r e S u mption of
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Easter
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for 7:30 o'clock this morning in
Arlington National Cemetery, and
at o'clock at Fort Lincoln Gene
terry. Special musical programs in
Catholic and Protestant churches
will sound the traditional note born
of the Resurrection of the Savior.
Retarded by the ice and snow of
a week ago, the Japanese cherry
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ranking II a V a ]
and military at
t a C h e S soon
found, however
that he was TAX
ing too much
for granted.
w h e n DIR
Thomson was in
charge of the en-
bassy in Wash
ington he out
ranked every one
else. With the
end of his diplo-
matte activities
he b e C a m e q
Nazi civilian Of
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fetal, temporarily in state of sus-
pended animation, who in the eyes
of Admiral Withoefft and Gen. Won
Boetticher was outranked by the
military. They so intimated to their
erstwhile chief, who threatened to
report them when they returned to
Berlin. This made no impression
on the military and naval attaches
who persisted in their attitude
which was even emulated by their
wives.
American diplomats at Bad Nau-
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other in the lanes and halls of
White Sulphur without exchanging
more than a curt bow. When the
German Naval Attache ignored the
salutation of italian Attache Alberto
Nonis-one of Mussolini's black
shirts-the situation crystallized and
the Axis stopped speaking to itself.
This created another situation.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Dutch GuerriIIus Active
In Juvu and Sumutru

BY the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Australia, April A.
Dutch circles said today that guer-
rillas were active against the jap
anese in many parts of overrun Java
and Sumatra.
Munitions and food, hidden in
Western Java last year. now are
being drawn on by the guerrillas.
the Dutch said.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
BurtonsviIIe Church Supper

A fried chicken supper is being
sponsored by the Burtonsville (Md)
Methodist Church choir April 18
in the church.
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The Matanuska agricultural COL
ony of Alaska has a growing season
of about lis frost-free days per
year.
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The Nazis were thrown on their own
resources and Herr Thomson began
regimenting the staff. His high
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between the exiled Axis diplomats
the administration made the shift
in their living quarters.
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FOR SALE: Defense stamps and
bonds.
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America, 4
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Susan thought, Hes telling the
truth. When he kisses me it is
beautiful. And when he doesn't kiss
me I'm so alone -" She said aloud,
Dick, nobody can blame me for
caring about you - nobody"
And besides, nobody will know"
Susan went on: Life is short,
and it IS uncertain. And | suppose
we should snatch at happiness. 1t
isn't as if people nowadays think
in terms of forever"
You've a keen head on your very
pretty shoulders" said Dick. "How's
1t if l phone the airport and tell
them to reserve t,Uo tickets?"
Susan felt a lump in her throat;
only it wasn't a lump exactly -
it was tight steel ribbon. choking
her, Strangling a trif1e. because Of
the tightness, she said, you might
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words were almost dragged out of
her: when you and your - your
wife - we're first married, Dick?
Didn't you both feel as if - as if
you and she belonged together"
Dick answered with a touch of
impatience, That was long ago.
Look. honey - you must learn to
take what's offered; you must accept
the present; you mustn't search for
trouble in the past. Life's uncertain.
these days - everything's uncer-
tain. You must learn to snatch
what happiness you can find. 1t isn't
as if you're taking anything away
from my wife. How can you take
away something she no longer owns?
Why, for the sake OF convention.
should you ignore something beauti-
full? Why should you doom yourself
to be alone - and lonely?"
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very young couple were dancing it
rather badly but with great deal of
pleasure. Beyond the windows, the
small Long Island town. dotted with
street lamps, crept downhill to a
minute harbor. A few boats in the
harbor showed mooring lanterns.
but they were will-o' -the-wisps
remote. part Of backdrop.
Susan. with the savage music
pounding in her ears. the lights max
ing tiny rainbows because her lashes
were so damp, thought: This is the
most crucial moment of my life"
She said aloud. But Dick - it's
terribly hard to make a decision.
You must give me time"
You've had months of time.
There's no decision to be made.
Susan. You love me i love you"
He laughed with a flash of white
teeth against tan skin. That's all
there is - there isn't any more"
Susan's hands were clenching and
unclenching on the edge of the table.
They rumpled the red and white
checked cloth. There's your wife"
she whispered.
Dick laughed again. "Our marri-
age is over and done with. It's not
my fault that my wife refuses to
give me divorce"
Perhaps" - Susan found it hard
to speak above whisper - "she
still loves you"
ITS a strange kind of love that
holds a man against his will, OF
course, if there'd been children -"
But | thought you had a baby,
thought it - dice" said Susan.
That was long ago; it only lived
couple of weeks anyway" Dicks
voice deepened, grew tense. I'VE
could be so happy together. Susan
so damned happy. Look. we're
only half an hour from the airport
and I'm catching a plane tonight
for Chicago. It's perfectly logical
that you should 60 with me - Alter
all. you're my secretary"
0USAN, pulse pounding in her
throat. pictured herself in an air
plane, riding through the darkness
with Dick beside her. Coming close
to the stars - with Dick. The begin
ming of a new life with Dick. OF
course it wasn't what she'd d pictured
- before she met Dick. Her future
had been a house in the suburbs,
neighbors dropping in after dinner
to play bridge, and narrow band on
the third finger of her left hand.
But | didn't plan it i didn't
ask to fall in love with Dick" she
told herself desperately. 1T hap
pened - just happened - when
was taking his dictation. and saw the
way his hair grew back from his
temples. 1t happened when he
touched my arm that first time and
| felt the strength of his fingers. 1t
happened when he sent me those
flowers on my birthday l didn't ask
to fall in love with married man"
Dick might have been reading her
thoughts. You're such kid" he
told her; you've not grown up yet.
When you've come along as far as |
have, you'll know that you can't
fight fate. Certain people belong to-
gether - there's no way of arguing
when your hearts involved. You
and ! belong together, Susan. If you
didn't realize it. yourself - well,
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fatiguing. Why had not somebody warned
him? Then he turned away from the marble
villa and the bargaining girl who set such
a high price on her kisses. But even as
he grew wearier. the old urges and vanities
bounded him. II he could only recapture the
good warm upsurge of heart he used TO feel
when some dear little girl, languishing Of
fered herself to him. All, then he knew he
could shake off this choking old age Then
he could spring into the saddle, again, and
ride away gloriously.
All this he was thinking the day he flew
TO Brescia and met the sisters Ferroni And
how, very recently, Maria Ferroni made the
Dictator a father again. have already told
And how he did not rejoice at this proof
of his powers For who could say, he thought
in his bitter heart, that any better fate await
ed this than awaited the millions of
Italians dropping in the streets of hunger
cursing their Duce and the war?
II Duce trembles before his vision of APP
preaching doom. And a joke travels about
Italy these days.
Suppose the Allies win? Then we Lose
Suppose the Germans win? Then we are
lost"
Things recently grew so bad with the
lonely. bitter man that Donna Rachele, the
faithful wife, called in specialist. That
doctors report later seeped out to the world.
Premier Mussolini," went the dispatch, lis
Frustrated completely. II Duce sobs bitterly.
Then he bursts into hysterical laughter. Mus
solini has lost all control and is no longer able
to manage the affairs of Italy"
Sobbed bitterly?
Perhaps he was sobbing for his sins.
for one, the sin against Angelica Balabanoff,
when he cast off that faithful friend. after
he suffered the great conversion from Social
ism to Fascism. Again. he might have been
weeping for his sin against Irene Desler, that
faithful woman, and the sin against his son.
Benito. whom he cast out into exile.
For the woman, Desler, knew too much
about him and the money he got for turning
his coat. And the boy, the son, was too near
the age Of that other son. whose name also
was Benito. Rachele Guidos Benito.
But also the doctor found, Duce
laughed Laughed? At what? Perhaps the
great dictator laughed that ever in the world
so many trusting girls and women. over so
many years, had taken him at his own valua-
ton. And believed. the poor, simple women.
that he was what ne said he was, the great
savior of Europe. and the Strong Man Of
Europe, as well.
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These whispers came to II Duce
They stung him to the heart. He
called in his trainers:
Take me in hand. want to be
able to jump over high board fence"
They took him into training Then
followed that occasion, two years ago,
when he called in his foreign corre- =
spondents and performed for them. AS
he jumped his horse. hurdled his fence,
did his didoes, he kept calling-"Am
i old? Have 1 lost my pep? Am l
slipping?"
He was like the little boy begging,
feel my muscle"
mo, no, thousand times no."
shouted the correspondents
Then he met Magda Fontanges a
romantic ardent half-baked French
woman who had gone literary She
had sold soap and been the stage
before the literature. French news
paper then sent her out Intervening
various celebrities, and so, at length, she
found herself walking across the dozen ante
rooms Of Palazzo Venezia towards the big man.
That must have been Mussolini's psyche
pathc morning AS for Magda she was al
ways romantic Lusciously she describes
how they Immediately substituted kisses for
the interview. Mussolini told'her:
Stay around Rome. I think you are
beautiful. You please me-"
Later he pushed her from the room, as he
said:
I'll send for you again some time when 1
have another ten minutes"
Magda was enchanted She picked up the
crumbs and figured she was mighty lucky to
have them to pick. But very soon II Duce
stopped throwing crumbs. No more invita-
tions came from Palazzo Venezia. Mussolini
was busy with affairs of state, or with affairs
of the heart with somebody else.
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press their claims to war support as the wife.
the mistress, the sweetheart, the attache
of the edtt0r-soidier, Benito Mussolin
This all Is official record
And when the claims were sifted, two wo-
men seemed worthy of consideration. One
was, perhaps the legal perhaps the common
law wife. Irene Desler. The other was the
undoubtedly common law wife, Rachele Guido.
Which got the war allowance. ! never was
able to find out. in those searchings Of mine
through various records, in the second year
following the World War.
When the war was over there came the
March on Rome That was a success Then,
elated, facing life anew, facing life AS the
strong man, the victor II Duce began TO re-
organize that life. There was. he realized
at once, a lot of gossip about his private life.
His chief problem was Rachele Guido the
mother OF his daughter, Edda. and his
second son. who was named Benito. over
this little family. the Duce wrinked his brow.
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found that she was an expectant mother
There we're letters. letters from great
man, which a thoughtful father, migrating
TO America, had remembered to take along
and show 10 lawyer.
Four hundred thousand lire were paid
to the concerned father. The sum came out
Of the Propaganda Funds Of Italy.
With industry and dramatic appeal. II
Duce sailed along triumphantly until the
Ethiopian War. After 1885. Then whispers
grew. Some waggish correspondent asked:
How by Romulus and Remus. can this
Signor Mussolini keep youth as his mascot
forever? Today when he eapt out To his
balcony his joints creaked A tech Of rheu-
matism, ysee."
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He loved his daughter. In her
bold black eyes, he saw himself
again. But when he thought OF
Rachele. the BARNARD. moving
In Roman society. he had his
qualms.
1t was then that good King
Emmanuel came TO the rescue.
You better get married.
said the King, in effect. These
more or less casual unions are
all right for the Socialist fell
lows. But now you've turned
conservative. You better marry
the lady. It's more convenient"
Mussolini was persuaded,
Married at last, and now re-
spectacle, Mussolini faced his
working, fruitful years.
He went about standing for
the homely, natural, common
things in life, kissing babies
and pinning the badges on
ample bosoms.
Yet once or twice there were
murmurs. This happened when
Felicia Stable. golden-haired,
sixteen. the daughter of a
humble Italian civil servant.
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Another English Cartoonist's Conception
Brolsen-Down Italy, I'm the Form Of a
Pushcart Coming Apart at the Seams, as
Peddler Mussolmi Tries 10 Push IL
Through the Rocks of Allied
Resistance.