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88th YEAR. No. 35,280. WASHINGTON, D. C,, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1940—FIFTY PAGES. *** THREE CENTS. 16 Ships Sunk in Convoy Raid, Chest Campaign Greeks Report Say Germans, Claiming Total Ends With 95% Advance Past Of 160,000 Tons for One Day Of Quota Raised Porto Edda r $1,911/703 Pledged Italian Soldiers in Two Other Vessels Britain Places Orders in U. S. By 208,383 Givers, Area May Be Cut Also Destroyed, 2% More Than in 39 Off, Athens Says

Berlin Asserts Bj the AssocUted Pre»». For 60 New Vessels Bettering last year's showing, the Cargo ATHENS, Dec. 3.—The Greek left Community Chest campaign today By the Associated Press. wing, reported to have smashed past Purchases of Old but Serviceable Craft came to a close with pledges totaling BERLIN, Dec. 3 —In two success- Porto Edda, was said today to be cent of the ful submarine assaults on Britain's Will $1,911,703.61—95.58 per Also Continue, Cross Asserts pacing wide new gains all along the commerce yesterday, one of thetn $2,000,000 goal. battlefront and threatening to en- under the shellfire of British war- B> the Associated Press. not aware of any proposal for either The drive, which had run into a 17 merchantmen totaling the last Italian force In ships, LONDON. Dec. 3.—Shipping Min- definite or implied union with the one-week extension, reached 208,383 gulf fighting more than 131.000 tons and a 17,000- ister Ronald H. Cross informed the United States and that ‘‘if any such Southern Albania. were sent to givers. ton auxiliary cruiser House of Commons today that Brit- plans should approach the fringe of The high command reported Greek the bottom, the high command re- ain had orders for Reports presented at a final lunch- placed construc- practical policy it could only be shock troops won new mountain ported today. tion of 60 vessels in the United after eon in the Willard Hotel showed cargo prolonged discussion by tha fig- heights north of Premet, in a thrust With two others, totaling 16.000 States, and in addition would con- legislative bodies on both sides of ures approximately 2 per cent ahead into Central Albania, and north of tons, added as probably sunk, the tinue to serviceable Amer- the Atlantic.” purchase of those turned In at the last session Pogradetz, in a drive down the road communique said that “thus on ican ships. His reply was to Laborite Richard toward Elbasani, near the Albanian December 2 submarines alone sank Mr. Cross assured the House that in 1939, when 93.34 per cent of the Stokes who asked assurance also capital, on the right wing, but a gov- British shipping totaling over 160,- “everything possible is being done same was in hand. Today's ac- left- " that "no further naval or military goal ernment spokesman termed the 000 tons to with the get ships greatest facil- bases would be let to the United counting also was above the final wing advance the “most important.” At least 15 of the ships, represent- ity” to meet the menace of axis States of America ... or union be post-campaign audit last year which There, the said, "the ing 110.000 tons, went down in one raids on shipping—Britain’s most spokesman entered into or irrevocably com- revealed 95.19 cent of the retreated to the heights swoop, it said, when U-boats slipped urgent problem at the moment. per objec- enemy mitted. without the government around Delvino and has in past the booming guns of a convoy's He after a German tive contributed by 195,050 individ- passed, spoke high first giving opportunity to the House cruiser and destroyer guard depth, Santi Quaranta.” strong command communique reported that for full discussion." uals and firms. home their That is the port the Italian re- and rammed torpedoes submarines yesterday, in two sep- Mr. Attlee, who serves as Prime Campaign officials express confi- named Porto Edda for Premier Mus- before the zigzag line of freighters arate raids on British commerce, J Minister Churchill’s lieutenant on dence today that additional solini's daughter. scattered. had sunk an auxiliary cruiser, at reports Wonts to Play in Their Yard the House floor, answered that such Nobody “It is probable,” it added, “that two least 17 merchantmen, and possibly would increase the total. Road Under Greek Ftre. is established” other ships belonging to the convoy 19, 160,000 tons. opportunity "long Breakdown Units. totaling and by The Greeks apparently had not and totaling 16,000 tons were also ignored Laborite Aneurin "Old but serviceable United States The breakdown units was as fol- broken Italian resistance In the sec- sunk.” Bevan's question: by vessels, including vessels belonging Defense Costs Double Cold Wove Due W. P. A. to tion immediately around the port, Identification Eliminated. ‘‘Has our over recent lows: Government, 7.861 pledges, to- Improve to the Martime Commission, have diplomacy but indicated troops there Although the communique said the years achieved such striking success taling $40,112.34 today, for a grand been and will continue to be pur- might be cut off. The high com- sunken auxiliary cruiser, one of the that Attlee can stick to the old prin- total of 113.393 pledges, $818,422.29, Here chased for the British flag as op- Tonight Blue Plains Under mand declared the road linking the protecting vessels which put up ciples?’’ 96.28 ner cent of unit quota. Group In 5 but portunity offers,” Mr. Cross said. j Months, Lag port with Argirocastro. 15 miles "energetic fire” against the U-boats, solicitation. 5.462 pledges, totaling V/ith Low of 16 Deputy Leader Clement Attlee,! Home Secretary Herbert Morrison northeast, had been placed under $28,288.18 today, a grand total of answering a question, said he was | (See“VESSELS, Page A-4.f~ A cold wave out of the Northwest Greek fire. 55,369 pledges. *648.310.42 96.72 per Far Behind $135,000 was to drive the Project Budget expected mercury were 22 Merchant Ships cent of o.uota. Metropolitan, 1.078 Delvino. to which Italians down to a low of 16 degrees tonight, to have retreated, is five pledges, totaling $21,182.11 today, a reported 12 points under the previous mini- Staff to Be that Sunk in of 12.509 $402.- Sentiment Increased, miles northeast of the port on by Enemy grand total pledges, Byrd Reports mum of the season. 40 U. 5. Pilots U. 5. Officials 567 24. 93.25 cent of nuota. Cap- road. British Flying Study per for Probe Before The mass of frigid air was mov- Plant Rehabilitated Week, Say ital. 458 pledges, $1,552.75 Growing the central and northern sec- totaling ing on this section from the Dako- Ip By the Associated Press. today, a grand total of 1.956 pledges, i At Home for tors. the command Non-Military Cut tas. Minnesota and Illinois, where Aged high reported Dec. Bombers to Britain of $8,028.50. 9425 cent of more had been taken and LONDON, 3.—Twenty- Ways Providing per quota. the mercury dipped below zero in prisoners 881 started the roads back into two merchant ships totaling Maryland. pledges, totaling By the Associated Press. many communities. Expanded services and improved along $3,976.29 a total of 5.163 Greece said to have been 87,975 tons were sunk by "ene- today, The Treasury disclosed today that A 54-year-old record fell at Mil- facilities will be installed at the already my action" in the week ending On Schedule for Britain pledges. $34,384 40, 92.18 per cent of waukee when the much-investigated Home for Aged plodded by more than 13.000 dis- Regular Ships defense more than temperature the expenditures a Italians. The num- November 24. Admiralty quota. dropped to 8 below, while a 22-be- and Infirm at Blue Plains, under armed greatest doubled in the first five months of District ber of taken was reported today. Need Montgomery Over Section Quota. low mark was reported from Wa- $135,810 project of the prisoners reported They were 19 British ships Mass Deliveries Made Is More Pressing A total of 15.740 pledges, aggre- the fiscal year which began July 1. dena. Minn. W. P. A., to start immediately. Com- 5.000 yesterday. Their surrender, tons and three and Italian totaling 75.560 In 10 Hours Without As Raider and U-Boat gating $95,111.97, was reported at November military’ expenses of The forecast for Washington calls missioner John Russell Young j the Greeks declared, broke allied totaling 12,415 tons. the luncheon. for "fair and colder with a low of W. P. A Director Paul Edwards an- morale and resistance in the center the War and Navy Departments j The Admiralty said the Ger- Molestation, Aviator Says Toll Increases It was announced that the Mont- about 16; tomorrow fair and not nounced today. of the fighting front. mans claimed to have sunk Section of the totaled $365,233,578. This continued gomery County Mary- quite so cold.” The high yesterday Two projects, one for added work- New Positions Claimed. 118.020 tons of merchant ship- land Unit had reached 10790 the in defense By the Associated Press. GOULD LINCOLN. per steady step up spend- afternoon was 34 degrees, and the ers at the home and one for re- j week. By “Near Premet,” the high com- ping during that Dec. cent of its quota. ing indicated by the totals for the temperature kept falling this morn- habitation of its plant, were BALTIMORE, 3—Forty The pressing need ot the British, j mand said, “our sections The week's total as As the various unit chairmen as a means occupied reported American pilots are making regular months: $177,391,- ing. by Mr. Edwards • * as destruction of merchant vessels preceding July. planned new •. On the Ostro- b was mass read their reports they pointed out The extended forecast is- immediate positions ythe Admiralty approxi- deliveries of American bomb- German submarines and surface five-day of providing improve- by that some workers were 781; August, $199,251,126: September. vitza Mountains successful attacks mately 24,000 tons above the ers to England without molestation still active sued by the bureau for the period ment at the home to eliminate the raiders becomes increasingly heavy, October. 855.963. by our troops enemy sec- average since the be- from German one of them and that a number of anticipated ! $218,433,482; $283 ending Saturday predicted light worst of the conditions as revealed | dispersed weekly Nazis, is and more ships ships. had not been received in snows late in members of tions.” ginning of the war. disclosed today, and are taking the pledges In the five months, total defense Thursday the middle by Mrs. Roosevelt and With America committed to a time to be reflected in the ! “It is a serious menace,” a across the North Atlantic totals spending was only $1,243,864,933. and northern Appalachian region. the D'Alesandro subcommittee of A spokesman added that “in the ships Icy policy of increased aid to Britain, naval said, "but as a at altitude presented today. which was far behind the $5,500.- the House District Committee and River Aoos region (of the central spokesman high in approximately the situation is being reviewed here nation we can take knocks." 10 hours. General Chairman Chauncey: 000,000 rate for this fiscal others who investigated conditions sector), our troops are fighting with in official circles in an effort to de- budgeted The Ministry of Information R. Hutchinson, head of Parker, jr„ congratulated the volun- j year. It was. more than at the institution. the same courage as that which George teimine what may be done in the however, announced that 323,157 tons of the Hutchinsons” teer solicitors on their efforts dur- double the $564,423,414 for Nazi Raiders Attack enabled them to “flying family of these it was spent Of the total cost of the projects. capture Pogradetz way supplying ships, the extended drive and allied and neutral which ing expressed similar in the first five out of Federal and have a summit 2,145 British, ship- in recent years made “good revealed today. purposes $93,846 is to be paid captured had been sunk during the will" to 51 personal pleasure at his association months of the fiscal W. P. A. meters (about 7,000 feet) high on ping flights countries, as- Attention is being given not only preceding year. funds alloted for the pro- four weeks ending November 24. serted that deliveries with them. A. G. Neal, unit chair- W. Politzani Mountain. There, the regular had to British shipping needs, but also ( Deficit Is $1,803,058,138. Bristol Third Time gram in the District. Sixty-five been made since November man, announced that among firms be to Italians were established early the an Defense accounted for the P. A. workers are to assigned strongly to necessity of retaining ade- reached the largest converted liner and that none of the had en- by group solicitation1 of the institu- and hoped to remain.” was the 17,064-ton pilots quate reserve of shipping for the single item in the total expenditures aid in the operation official German countered German workers two not mentioned previous- the services of a Caledonia, DNB, opposition. United States to meet any eventual- of the Treasury for all purposes in Within 10 tion, including He said Italians retreated to vil- ly in the campaign had exceeded Days are news agency, eliminated that identi- the five months. Revenues in that dietician, and 51 other workers and northeast of Seven Made First ities. Admittedly, that complicates total lages heights Flight. donations of last year. They a of fication. the problem. period were $2.184.337528, leaving a to be engaged in variety jobs Premet. to Seven high-speed Lockheed Hud- were the local office of the Western The agency later asked editors The needs of the deficit of $1,803,058,138. In the sim- Assault on London to improve the plant. Something son bombers were shipping British, “In the the of the Caledonia from delivered in the Union Telegraph Co., registering a cost is Pogradetz region," Btrike mention to maintain a constant stream of ilar period last year, when relief more than half of the total first last he said. His 5 cent increase, and the Is Renewed After spokesman said, “the enemy tried to the substituting merely flight month, per Capital were to be on betterment of facili- communique, supplies to England, including muni- costs higher, the deficit was spent cover his retreat him- cruiser of about own ship made the fastest time for Transit Co moving up 8 per cent. by defending “an auxiliary 17,000 tions of war and foodstuffs and to $1,703,045,860. ties. the trip—8 hours and 50 minutes Chairman J. Clifford Folger of the Night of Calm self in the northeastern heights tons." the of British Borrowing to make up for the from land to land and 10 hours from permit export goods, Advance Gifts Unit, which had Only Temporary Measure. (along Lake Ochrida), but we hope (In connection with the Cale- are twofold. deficit had boosted the Press. takeoff in North America to land- the large pub- B> the Associated to dislodge the enemy from these donia an Admiralty announce- sought pledges of large contrib- in First, there is the need for mer- lic debt by November 30 to a rec- LONDON. Dec. 3.—'s Commissioner Young expressed last June ing Britain. utors before and during the cam- heights also.” ment 14, confirming chant vessels capable of carrying ord high of *44.272.776.324. which gratification over the availability of The planes take off from an air- paign tribute to Mr. Luftwaffe hammered furiously at Germany's own claim, admitted period, paid was the workers and the funds for im- Driving Toward Elbasani. in the supplies. $1.305545,287 larger than at the Britain's west coast port of Bristol that the former Anchor liner, port "British North America,” Parker for his spirit of “good will, of the insti- | Second, there is the need for beginning of the fiscal year and six mediate improvement Border reports received at Och- Mr. Hutchinson said, each < and for hours last night and then converted for war service and re- carrying good fellowship good sportsman- but as a future the armed vessels—naval vessels—to nearly $3,000,000,000 larger than a shifted its attention to tution. project rida. Yugoslavia, today said gradual a pilot, co-pilot and radio operator. ship.” suddenly funds named the Scotstoun, was sunk the vessels on their year ago. The Treasury has Commissioners are seeking retirement of the Italian northern He said about 60 and 30 radio protect cargo already London today after passing up the a German submarine the pilots The Rev. Dr. Albert J. McCartney, in their 1942 estimates for by day way to and from the British Isles. urged both increased taxes and an from dusk to dawn. budget army toward Elbasani continued a two operators, including Americans, Ca- pastor of Covenant-First capital entirely before with loss of officers Here is a view of the Presby- increase in the debt of establishment of a consolidated in- nadians and were bird's-eye limit Twice before noon the Germans under constant harassing by Greek and four seamen.) Britons, partici- terian Church, gave the invocation. stitution for the Home for the Aged situation so far as merchant ship- *49,000.000,000. struck at London and one squadron forces driving deep into Albania. The communique singled out a pating. and three other welfare institutions ping available for purchase and a cur- (After and bitter Asked about passport arrange- Defense Inquiry Urged. of raiders dodged through long fighting, U-boat commanded by Lt. Comdr. title on a suburban tract. ments transfer of to the British is Meanwhile, accumulated that tain of anti-aircraft fire to sow the Greeks last night were declared in the raid. It for the flyers, Mr. Hutchin- 37 Children signs Mengersen convoy concerned, including the amount Refugee fire are to be to son’s wife said “it’s all arranged Congress may decide to check up bombs which demolished a number Additional escapes have driven plume-hatted Baid his submarine "contributed of aid at the home the British.” already gii^n. on the progress of the national de- of dwellings and caused some cas- placed on the buildings Italian bersaglieri out of the village to this success” by Sail for U. S. notably by sinking Nineteen American ships have Friday was in answer to that of Mumulishta. north of On the first flight the seven bomb- fense program before it wields a ualties. A third alarm, which complaints pres-1 captured five ships totaling 41,000 tons. By the Associated Press. fire hazards. ers started away in formation, led ~

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