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A DESPERATE fight to es- cape the electric chair has been started by the Camden, New Jersey, Baptist minister, Walter Dworecki, who was convicted of abetting the murder of his 18-; years-old daughter Wanda.
The actual murder was admitted by Peter Schewchuk, aged 21, o former elreus clown; whose description! of the crime made the Jury rise in their seats with horror.
Schewchuk sold that for 30 cents (29.) and a promise of more he strangled Wanda and struck her uni the temple with a rock to make sure that he was dead,
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The motive of the crime was made) clear, he said, because Dworeckl showed him three insurance policies on his daughter's life for £509 and another accident polley for £2,000.
Dworecki, known among his friends as "Iron Mike," lost his nerve and alternated between subs and cold silence as he heard the story built up against him.
As the prosecutor mnde his finel address demanding the death penalty 'Iron Mike' slumped in his choir and prayed. Please help me, God." Now he has led an appeal.
WHO IS MAISIE
Hitler's Work In
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"Mein Kampf" la among the books officially recommended for sending to the troops at the front.
∙It is one of 1,321 titles published in a catalogue officially commend- ed by Major-Gen. J. II. Belth Jan Hay-Director of Public Re- lations at the War Ofice.
The catalogue has been com- piled by a committee of the In- corporated Society of Authors and the National Book Council to guide those wishing to send books to friends in the Services or to the Red Cross Hospital Library.
"Mein Kampf" is one of the books Isted under "Social and Political Science," but the selectors have preserved a completely un- blassed attitude. The same category includes Karl Marx's "Capital," Douglas's "Social Credit," 2nd bookis of every political com- plexion.
Fiction, divided into three classes Classles, General and Detective and Thriller-contains 556 books,
Covering The World
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·December 13, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
Submarine, Holed, Could Not Submerge
ONE-GUN STEAMER BEAT THE U-BOAT
IE SPIRIT OF TRAFALGAR LIVES ON.
THE
"England expects that every man will do his duty,' was Nelson's signal 134 years ago. And as the great victory which that message preceded was being cele brated in London came news showing that the same spirit and pluck are still with us. Two British merchantmen ploughing their way through the Atlantic hundreds of miles apart are attacked by U-boats. Each gives battle with its only means of defence -a single 4.7 inch gun--prepared to fight to the end.
After a running fight lasting several hours, one is sunk. The other cripples its attacker, sees it finished off by a destroyer which races to the scene.
Three hundred men, women, and children, passengers and crew of another British ship torpedoed in mid-Atlantic, crowd into the boats without panic-and join in singing "The Yanks are com- ing as an American liner comes to their rescue,
"This meant that she could not SPOTLIGHT
Submerge again, as she had done so often during the time she had been A dramatic story of how the fighting and following us, 4,204-tons British tanker Lon. "Then, at about half-past two in don Trader not only kept a the afternoon, a destroyer appeared j U-boat at bay for seven hours, on the horizon in nswer to our but damaged it so badly that it signals and we knew that the U-boat
was done for.. could not get away, was told by Antonio Cutajar, a Maltese geaman.
ON
GERMANY
U-BOAT LOSSES CONCEALED
"The submarine crew tried to put up something of a fight against the The German newspapers recently warship by gunfire, but it was hope-poured scorn on Mr. Chamberlain's less and very soon she was sent to statement of British casualties in his review of the war situation in the House of Commons.
"We were on a voyage from Bristol to South America when, the bottom. early one morning, the sub- marine attacked us," he said. and
There are 128 volumes of Travel, Exploration and Adven- ture, modern books covering the whole of the world. Other cate- gorles urc Philosophy Psychology, Elles and Religion, and Games, Sport and Recreation. The list includes Barbusse's paci- ist novel, "Under Fire," and Tol- stoy's "War and Peace."
Among the scientific books are works by Einstein, Andrade, Ed- dington and Jeans. The poetry section of 16 volumes includes a number of anthologies and volumes by Ruperi Brooke, T. S. Ellot and A. E. Housman. Seventy books on engineering and flying are recom- menuled.
-The catalogue-may-be obtained. from the National Book Council, 3. Henrietta-street, London, -W.C.2 (post free, 3d).
"We at once brought our only gun into action, and so efficient-
The crew were saved by the war-.
ship,"
14, But Wasn't Scared
They objected particularly to his dental of the German claim to have torpedoed his Majesty's ship Repulse. Referring to the report of Cmdr. ly was it handled by the gun the one-sided battle between
Equally thrilling was the story of Prien, whose U-boat made the Scapa |
the Flow attack, most of the newspapers crew-both ex-Navy men that 5,000-tona West Hartlepools cargo conclude: the U-boat was compelled to bont Heronspool and the U-boat "Let Chamberlain be told that we keep her distance,
which torpedoed her after a running and the whole world believe more in fight lasting several hours.
the word of a German offeer than in the words of the entire British Gov- Frank Elders, the. Herenspool's emment." the crew of 36 were landed in Newberlain's statement messbuy, who told the story when The Press also ridicules Mr. Cham- on the U-boat finer President Harding, which res- Germany had lost one-third of her York recently from the American campaign, quoting him as saying that
"Shot For Shot"
"But there were times when she was still near enough for us to see clearly the members of her crew manning the gun against us,
"For hour after hour we exchanged cued them, is only 14--but he wasn't submarines. So far Germany has not
scared. shot_for_shot, but the V-bont hit_uls, only once, when one of our lifeboats was smashed by a shell.
Then our gun crew got in a shot which holed the submarine below the waterline.
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admitted_the_loss_of_a_single.sub. "I was for too exclted," he said. | marine. "We couldn't see the U-boat in the received Lt-Col. Prien, commander Field-Marshal Goering yesterday murk, but we started to dodge and of the U-boat which sank the Royal zig-zag about.
Oak, and congratulated him and his "This went on for some time, and crew in the name of the Air Force.". then the U-boat suddenly appeared The Nazi Hool **** 'quite close to us-so close I could see the officers smoking in the conping-; tower,
The greatest degree of irritation is being displayed in German official circles at the disinclination of neutral "Signalling with lights, she told us countries to show hearly pro-Nazl to 'Heave-to."
sympathies in repayment for U-boat "Our answer was a shot. The U-depredations on their merchant ship- boat then fired once across our bows, ping. but we kept on trying to escape,
The German Press constantly ut- "For hours we dodged about and tacks by nume neutral newspapers we were beginning to think we had which it regards CES insufficiently beaten her when there was a tre- Germunophile. mendous explosion-the U-boat had
The Berliner Boersen Zeltung"
submerged and had let us have it devotes a considerable portion of its
with a
a torpedo.
front page to a virulent attack on the "We took to the boats, Ours) Belgius newspaper "Independanco leaked badly all night, and we Delge," because it published articles couldn't have lasted much longer."
Kept On Singing
and photographs concerning the Bri- tish and French armies.
The German paper concludes with When the survivors of the British thinly veiled threats against "Inde- steamer Yorkshire (10,183 tons) were pendance Belge" and "similar papers, landed at Bordeaux recently from not alone in Belgium," which do not
American liner independence 'come sufficiently to the Nazl beel. Hall, they were still singing.
Foodstocks Destroyed
the
As the crowded rescue steamer was warped into the pier, the survivors A fire in a big store house at Stet- crowded the rails cheering, and sing tin, the nearest Baltic port to Berlin, ing "God Save the King," and as a destroyed enormous quantities of tribute to their rescuers"The Star- foodstuffs and grain, as well as lurgu spangled Banner."
stocks of coal, straw and tarred folt- Altogether 300 Burvivors were ing. The warehouse had been rent- landed, including members of the ed by food wholesalers for the storage crew of the British steamer City of of supplico,
Mandalay, which was sunk at the A number of horses and pigs same time.
perished in the fire. Nearly 70 people are missing from Best Of The Day
the two ships.
in
neutral
Most pathetic among the survivors A brochure, entitled "How They were Hazel Armstrong, aged six, and Liei", to be distributed her brother, Kenneth, aged seven, countries as well as Germany, has whas lost both their father and mother been published in Germany under in the disaster. Also rescued was a offelal auspices. "They" refers to four-months-old baby, Margaret Colc, English propagandists, and the bro- whose mother is among the missing. chure consists mainly of English A Mr. Clements, a British subject, cartoons and photographs unfriendly was buried at sea before the Inde- to the Nazis.
pendence Hall made port. Mrs. English propaganda is said to be Clements is among the survivors. "perverse and criminal." "The whole
(Messages from Sunday Dispatch world," says the brochure,. Correspondents, B.UP., Exchange, know how Mr. Churchill and his and Reuter).
gang of agitators lie,'
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