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December 13, 1939.

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Clown Admits

A Murder For 2s.

A DESPERATE fight to CB- '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, a former circus clown, whose description, of the crime made the Jury rise in their serits with horrar.

Schewchuk said that for 50 cents (2.) and promise of mure be strangled Wunds and struck her an the temple with a rock to make sure that she was dend.

Moncy Motive

The motive of the crime was made elear, he said, because Dworecki showed him three insurance polleles) on his daughter's life for £539 and another accident polley for £2,000.

Dwarecki, known among his friends as "Iron Mike," lost his nerve and alternated between sobs and cold silenee us he heard the story built up ugainst him.

As the prosecutor made his fal address, demanding the death penalty, Iron Mike' slumped in his chuir and prayed. Please help me, God," Now he has led an appeal.

WHO IS MAISIE 2

MEIN KAMPF FOR TROOPS Hitler's Work In

Official List

"Mein Kampf" is 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. 3. II. Belth- lan Hay-Director of Public Re Iations at the War Offler,

com-

The catalogue has been piled by a committee of the In- corporated Society of Authors and the National Book Connell ta guide those wishing to send books to friends in the Services or to the Red Cross Hospital Library,

"Mein Kampf" la one of the books Usted under "Social and Political Science,” but flie selectors have preserved a completely un- blassed stillude. The same calegory includes Karl Marx's "Capital," Douglas's "Social

and books of every political com. plexion.

Credit,"

Fiction, divided into three classes -Classles, General and Detective and Thriller-contains, 555 books.

Covering The World

There де 128 volumes of Travel, Exploration and Adven- ture, modern books, covering the whole of the world. Other cate- tarkes

Thilosophy and Psychology, Ethics and Religion, and Games, Sport and Recreation

are

The list includes Barbusse's paci- st novel. "Under Fire," and Tol- stoy's "War and Peace."

Among the scientlie books are works by Einstein. Andrade, Ed- dington and Jeans. The poetry section of 16 volumes includes number of anthologies and volumes by Rupert Bronke, T. :5, Eliot and A. E. Housman. Seventy books on engineering and flying are recom- mended.

The catalogue may be obtained -from-the-National Book -Council, 3. Henrietta-street, London, W.C.2 (post free, 30).

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Submarine, Holed, Could Not Submerge ONE-GUN STEAMER BEAT THE U-BOAT

"THE SPIRIT OF TRAFALGAR LIVES ON.

"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.

A dramatic story of how the 4,204-tons British tanker Lon-

This meant thut she could not SPOTLIGHT

submerge agalt, as she had done so aften during the time she had been j fighting and following us.

"Then, al about half-pust two in don Trader not only kept a the afternoon, a destroyer appeared answer to our U-boat at bay for seven hours, on the horizon In but damaged it so badly that it signals and we knew that the U-bout could not get away, was told by Antonio Cutajar,

seaman,

was done for.

Maltesc "The submarine crew tried to put

"We were on a voyage from Bristol to South America when, carly one morning, the sub- marine attacked us," he said.

ON

GERMANY

U-BOAT LOSSES CONCEALED

ļup something of a Sght against the i The German newspapers recently warship by gunfire, but it was hope-poured scorn on Mr. Chumberlain's less and very soon she wha sent to statement of British casualties in his the battorn.

review of the war situation in the House of Commons,

"The crew were saved by the war- ship."

"We at once brought our only 14, But Wasn't Scared gun into action, and so efficient-

Equally thrilling was the story of ly was it handled by the gun the one-sided battle between the crew-both ex-Navy men-that 5,000-tons- West Hartlepools cargo

from the

They objected particularly to his denial of the German claim to have

torpedoed his Majesty's ship Repulse. Referring to the report of Cmdr. Prien, whose U-boat made the Scapa Flow attack, most of the newspapers conclude:

the U-boat was compelled to bout Herenspool and the U-boat "Let Chamberinin 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 officer than in the words of the entire British Gov- "Shot For Shot"

Frank Elders, the Heronspuol's ernment.

the "But there were times when she the crew of 30, were landed in Newberlain's statement on

messbay, who told

story when The Press also ridicules Mr. Cham- the U-boat was still near enough for us to see York recently clearly the members of her crewliner President Harding, which res-Germany had last one-third of her American campaign, quoting him as saying that 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 admitted the loss of a single sub- shot for shot, but the U-boat hit us scared.

marine. only once, when one of our lifebonts-was-far-too-excited," he said...---- ~Field-Marshal-GoeringTM yesterday was smashed by a shell.

"We couldn't see the U-boat in the received Lt-Col. Prien, commander Then our gun crew got in a shot murk, but we started to dodge and of the U-boat which make the Royal which holed the submarine below the zig-zag about. waterline.

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 Heel

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The officers smoking In the conalng- The greatest degree of irritation is being displayed in German official

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| circles at the disinclination of neutral

"Signalling with lights, she told us countries to show hearty pro-Nazi to 'Heave-lo.'

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 escupe.

The German Press constantly at- "For hours we dodged about und tucks by name neutral newspapers we were beginning to think we had) which I regards ts Insufficiently beaten her when there was a tre-Getmanophile.

mendous explosion-the U-boat hadi The 'Berliner Boersen Zeltung“ submerged and had let us have I devotes a considerable portion of is with a torpedo.

front page to a virulent attack on the

"We took to the boats. Ours Belgian newspaper "Independance lenked budly all night, and we Belge," because it published articles couldn't have lasted much longer." and photographs concerning the Bri-,

tish and French armles.

Kept On Singing

The German paper concludes with When the survivors of the British thinly velled 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 the American liner Independence 'come sufiçiently to the Nazi heel. Hall, they were stl singing.

Foodstocks Destroyed As the crowded rescue steamer was

warped into the pier, the survivors A fire in a big store house at Siet- 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 Stor- foodstuffs and grain, as well, as Jargo spangled Banner,"

stacks of coal, straw and tarred felt- Altogether 300 Burvivors. were ing. The warehouse had been rent- Janded, including members of the ed by food wholesalers for the storage erew of the British steamer City' of) of supplies.

A Mandalay, which was sink at the

Rumber of horses and pigs Gume Ume.

perished in the fire. Nearly 70 people are missing from Best Of The Day the two ships.

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Most pathetic among the survivors A brochure, entitled "How They were Hazel Armstrong, aged six, and Liel", to be distributed neutral her brother, Kenneth, aged seven, countries as well as Germany, has who lost both their father and mother been published in Germany under in the disaster. Also rescued was a official auspices. "They" refers to four-months-old baby, Margaret Cole,, English propagandists, and the bro- whose mother is among the missing. Ichure 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, "must Correspondents, B.U.P., Exchange, know how Mr. Churchill and his and Reuter),

gang of agitators lie.".

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