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American Vessels May New Glass Be Searched and Seized Nazi Troops Pen Or Even Attacked by German, Add ‘Serbmn g^y PresHgC To Improve Northern Army- Dis- e' : ^ Further on East Flanks Axis Submarine or Air- Fail to Reach Ma; plane Raiders Operat- Air l^hotos solving' Bpfore Over- Of Roosevelt ing* in, African Fringe.. whelming A^lvance; Defenses; British ers Keep Up Stea Mtule Without Vise of Sil Town on Hungarian. Hurt Heavily Washington, April 12.—(A>) Border Occupied as I Pounding of Germ; —President Roosevelt’s open- ica. Fact Strange as In Southern Yugosla' ing of a pathway to Suez to Making Steel Without Brigad/Surrenders to jv«gig Declare No States- American ships carrying war Iron; Bends Light. NaziA^dvancing South man in Century Has ia and Norfhem G; cargoes raised serious ques- ^ . ■ ■ (I tions today concerning their Bmin, April 12.—( ^ —The Misjudged Situation Athens, , April 12.- Rochester, N. Y., April 12—(/P)— (jp)_Nazi Panzer units, cl possible search and seizure— Discovery of a new kind of glass G 6 ^aii high command an- As in Yugoslav Case. or even attack—^by Axis sub- iOunced today that Nazi ing with Greek forces^ on which Is giving American military west flank of ths Allied H4 marinie or airplane raiders aviation improved - aerial photo- units are advancing “from Berlin, April 12—(S>)—Authoriz- which might operate in that graph* was announced today by several sides” towards Bel- ed German sources said today that lenic defense line and ti African fringe of the war. By The Eastman Kodak Co. grade, Yugoslavia’s capital, not within a century has a states- ipg steadily toward the eliminating from the combat; Thf flaas is made without silica, and in a march from the man so completely niiajudged a flank, appear^ today to a fact aa strange as steel made situation aa President Roosevelt forcing a climactic straggly zone-a narrow watery strip without iron. The result is glass south have “broken enemy re- did regarding Yugoslavia. between Italian Somaliland which bends light more than has sistance in hard fighting.” They declared the American the Battle for Greece. hitherto been possible. and the 'Arabian coast, the Yugoslav resistance in Cro- presldent’a prestige had suffered a Greek high command Will Give Sharper Ptefur* tremendous blow. . . nounced that German fore president open^ a gateway Applied to a camera lens, this atia has “collapsed under the Regarding Roosevelt's arrange- for American vessels into the means that without “reducing Attendance at some church on Easter Sunday can best reiterate the faith the C hr^lan world holds pressure of the overwhelming smashing through fr in the symbol of the cross. ments with the Danish minister at Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, apeedr the new “eye” will photo- and rapid advance of German Washington for bases on Green- Bitolj, Yugoslavia, had graph a wider area and at the “T land, these sources commented: ed the G r^k lines in and the Suez Canal.\AU have same time give a sharper picture forces,” the high command been closed to United States over the entire area. declared, adding that the “That Roosevelt shrinks from no Phlorina sector on the we violation of law ia well kndwh. flank, while on the east commerce since 's en- Substituting for allica are three Desert Army “Serbian Northern Army is According to information, we have, trance into the'wat'; • "'7“ elements, tungsten, tantahrm,*"^ N o rris A d v ise ^ L a b o r dissolving'.” , his arrangement with tm Danish an Athens gover metal much used in electrical and While the are** touched by tk*t acld-resiatant ihstrumenta; and Varazdln, Yugoslav town on minister is illegal. Until the. Dan- spokesman said, Nazi water route have been freed of a ^ lanthanum, a rare metallic sub- Makes Stand the Hungarian border, has been ish government, however, has an- have penetrate fhrther’JB tual warfare by Britlah victories \ D rastic Actio n Loo ms occupied, the war bulletin said, and nounced its position Oerionany will stance. a Serb brigade aurrendered with not make known its own. It will but without .reacjdng tli over the Italians, or are. neutral Th<’ new glass was perfected a and non-belligerent. It wa# pointed yfsr ago, and kept secret, but the lU commander to Germans advanc- then, however, react kt the man- main defenses. out In Informed quarters here Against Axis ing aoiithwarJ from thfere. ner deemed best and by measures With the land f m ^ po|sad news aiim>ed out today in the an- Asserts Congress Wi there nevertheles# would be ele- nual, stockholders report. Aerial Bridges’ Union RMch Sava River deemed expedient.”. the big' battle, Jaio R. A. F. ments of danger for any Ameri- lenses for the government have Engaged West of To- Act Unless Unjust led Mountain troops and Infantry President Ro6sevelt’s proclama- nounc^ its bomraer* had can vessels plying that course, divisions we-e reported to have a steady pounmng of the Ger particularly If they carried war (ConttBued On Page Two) Strikes and *La *»»*• reached the Sava river at several (Contlnaed Oa Pnge Twelve) In southern Yugoslavia and : suppUes for Britain. Yugoslavia or bruk; Reinforced by Condemns FDR em Greece^ points northwest of Zagreb after Greece. Battle-Wise Veterans of Racketeering' $loppe