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Wide World photo THEY STRUCK-German mechanized troops, accompanied by tanks, are shown moving along a road. Troops such as these are in the forefront of the German invasion of Yugo- Lines Holding, Greeks Claim Continued from Page 1 with the Yugoslavian army and inflicted severe losses on Greek and British forces, acocrding to United Press dispatch. Greek regiments were "annihilated," the Italian agency's dispatch from the "zone of operations" reported, and a Greek division was forced to withdraw to the An Air Force communique this afternoon announced that a small formation of British Hurricane fighters shot down five German Messerschmitts in the Rupel Pass along the Greco-Bulgarian frontier. A number of other German planes were seriously damaged, it was said. All the British craft returned.

Greek and British bombers again successfully raided military objectives at Berat, Albania. Athens Raiders Shot Down Several single enemy planes attempting reconnaissance flights over Athens were brought down in flames, it was announced. Reports received in Athens this morning said at least ten tanks had been demolished on the Thracian front and that others had retreated in the face of deadly Greek antitank fire. The bodies of German soldiers and motorcycles and the wreckage of smashed tanks and armored cars were "dispersed over the battlefield," according to dispatches from this front. On the Eastern Macedonian front, Greek military authorities declared, the situation was much the same.

Here again the Germans attempted to break through Greek lines in the Strimon River valley by heavy attacks on Hellenic defense positions. These assaults were repulsed with heavy losses to the Germans, it was stated, and the fields before the Greek lines were reported "literally covered with the bodies of German troops." German planes bombed Greek defenses in the Struma Valley, but four of these Nazi raiders were shot down, officials declared. Other German air formations bombed different points in Thrace and Macedonia without causing serious damage, according to reports in Athens. Greek Lines Hold Athens, Greece, April 7 (U.P.)*Army headquarters reported today that one Greek fortification had given way under terrific German artillery and dive bombing attacks, but that elsewhere the Greeks held against the German army, Some regions adjoining the Bulgarian border have been evacuated Greek troops "to avoid useless bloodshed," and the Germans have made some advances, but on the whole the Greek front line has held, the communique said. The Greek radio broadcast reports of "a violent struggle which took place all day Sunday" along the Bulgarian frontier, particularly in the Bell district and the Struma valley, 50 miles northeast of Salonika.

The broadcaster said "our forces at this front waged a hard fight with their much restricted means," and that "as much of our small air force as could be spared from the Italian front aided them." The Germans attacked with "the most modern war machines, supported by tanks, abundant heavy artillery and numerous aircraft," the broadcaster said. 'Won't Hurt Nazis Say Although the Germans had unleashed the full fury of a blitzkrieg on this country, smaller in both area and population than the State of Illinois, German planes strewed pamphlets on Thrace reading, "We will not hurt you. Our war is against the British who have robbed you of liberty. Serbs have acted rashly and they must pay." It was learned that Piraeus, port of Athens and second city of "Greece, had been bombed with slight damage to one cargo ship and warehosue. Reports from Salonika, dominant port of the North Aegean Sea, base for an Allied expedition up the Balkans in the World War and aprarently the first objective of the German attack, said the city was Missing Girl, Youth Hunted by 9 States Police of nine States today scoured the roads leading out of New York in search of Betty Fisk, 18, of 68-36 108th Forest Hills, and William T.

Simmons, 19, Manhattan College sophomore, of 409 New Rochelle Terrace, Pelham Manor. The young couple disappeared Saturday night in Simmons' 10- year -old coupe. The youth had called for Miss Fisk who told her parents she was going to a concert. Later the girl's mother, Mrs. Barbara Fisk, discovered that her daughter had packed a bag.

She Nazis Report Steady Gains Continued from Page 1 bombs, destroyed many planes on the ground and downed a number in air battles. German radio, heard by the N. B. C. in New York, announced that "a large squadron of German reconnaissance planes which had been sent out all over Yugoslavia to report on the effectiveness of the German bombing attacks said Yugoslay troop movements have been stalled in the north and south of Yugoslavia as a result of wrecked railroad terminals, bridges and railroad yards.

Endless lines of Yugoslavian supply trains were observed motionless.1 The high command reported that 35 enemy planes shot down yesterday, 54 were destroyed aground and nine others were damaged, while the Luftwaffe lost only nine planes in all Balkan operations. The German spearhead army is driving down the Struma River Valley in Greece, dispatches said. Drive on Salonika far as could be determined, major push against Salonika is under way. Only a few hours before the German offensive began, high quarters in Berlin began to predict "another Dunkirk" for the British established there, the INS The official news agency, emphasizing the role of the German air force, said German planes had bombed troop concentrations barracks at Mostar, Yugoslavia, and anti-aircraft and heavy gun emplacements at Ljubljana. Numerous air fields and other military objectives were bombed throughout the country, the official agency said, and buildings and the runway were damaged at Podgoritza and barracks were hit near Kumbur.

The high command said that "fortress works" were bombed "with destructive effect" at Belgrade and that further raids during the night had caused many large fires which lit up targets for succeeding waves of planes. Sarajevo Is Attacked In the attack on Mostar, German planes, besides unloading heavy caliber bombs, machine-gunned grounded planes, setting six threemotored planes afire and damaging two others, the official German news agency DNB reported. Successful attacks were said to have been made also on the air field at Sarajevo, where buildings and barracks were claimed to have been destroyed. Enemy planes sought to intercept the raiders, but four were said to have been shot down. A few enemy planes of unstated nationality raided Styria, in southern Germany.

They scattered bombs over the area, but caused no damage. Dispatches indicated that the impact of German armored divisions which poured across Balkan frontiers into Greece and Yugoslavia was terrific. The advance in the Struma River Valley, it was asserted, moved forward behind a pulverizing attack by Stuka dive-bombing plane formations on strong Greek fortifications along the flanking mountain sides. Pilots reported eight great fires and many smaller ones in Belgrade after German bombing attacks yesterday. Official news agency communiques indicated that Greek resistance was getting stronger as the Struma Valley advance progressed, but the German armored formations were forcing their way through and it was asserted that all dispatches from the front were favorable.

Rev. John Paul Jones Speaks at Lenten Rites To find the certainty of life it 1 is necessary to live by the things of the spirit that cannot be shaken, the Rev. John Paul Jones, pastor also recalled that Betty had asked a few days before if the Lincoln Highway was the road to California, remarking that California was "a cheap place to live." M. Theodore Simmons, William's said he did not know fatherer his son had any money, William usually used his father's car when he took Betty driving. This was the first time he had called for her in his old auto.

The romance started two months ago when Betty engaged in a roller skating tournament in New Rochelle with William's sister, Elizabeth. OPM to Purge Reds in Labor Continued from Page 1 mittee's investigation of the defense program, Miss Perkins said: "Labor has status today, and that status carries with it responsibility for cooperation with all responsible groups and with employers to avoid delays and interruptions in defense production." She cited settlement of the AllisChalmers strike in Milwaukee as showing the effectiveness of the new Defense Mediation Board. Biggers told the committee that the defense program has been impeded to some extent by unthinking action on the part of both workers and employers. False Shortages Assailed "Some manufacturers are thoughtlessly accumulating unwarranted supplies of critical materials," he said, "thereby creating false shortages, requiring priority and 1m- pending production. "Labor leaders are bringing down on their own heads and the heads of thousands of their followers a wave of public disapproval that may result in legislative action.

"Every worker, every citizen, should realize that the future of this nation may well depend upon what we all do in the next 100 days." Following her appearance before the committee, Miss Perkins paid a brief unscheduled call at the White House to confer with President Roosevelt on the unsettled situation between the United States Steel Corporation and the C. I. Steel Workers Organizing Committee. A threatened strike at the plant, scheduled for tomorrow, has been delayed for a week. C.

I. O. President Philip Murray will confer with Mr. Roosevelt tomorrow. Thomas Cries 'Whitewash' Miss Perkins caused friction among committee members when she asked to be excused from questioning until some future date, probably this Wednesday.

She said she had several important conferences today. When her request was granted by Chairman Andrew J. May, he was accused of "whitewashing" the Labor Department by Representative J. Parnell Thomas( N. May asked Biggers what had been "the greatest obstruction" to the defense program.

Biggers replied it was "a lack of understanding of the magnitude of this job." If this were understood by labor leaders, and a lot of manufacturers, troubles "would Bigjust disappear." The tooling up of plants began on a mass scale last September, Biggers said. The machine tool industry is producing this year three times more machine tools than "any other year in our history," he said. Production Gains Cited Biggers said production of 30- caliber machine guns is "up to schedule," with a goal of 500 percent increase before the end of the year; 50-caliber machine guns "right up to scratch," with a 1,000 percent increase as the goal; small arms "ahead of schedule," with a 100 to 500 percent increase planned for some categories of arms; in the production of explosives, plant expansion is on schedule; production of small arms ammunition recently became "critical" despite a 1,000 percent increase in production due to "further demands." The production of 13-ton light tanks is running 100 a month now, but "must be doubled." Biggers said plans for Army medium tanks required great changes in armor and mechanism after the Battle of France. Eventually five companies will be turning out an improved model which ran off an "excellent test" at Aberdeen, proving ground last week, he said. of the Union Church of Bay Ridge, declared today in his sermon at the daily Lenten, service in the P.

E. Church Holy Trinity Clinton and Montague Sts. The services are being held under the auspices of the interdenominational committee. Catholic Fans Urged to Don Critics' Robes at the Movies Catholics were urged yesterday by Hugh A. Doyle, State deputy, Knights of Columbus, to express to Hollywood their approval of "fine" moving pictures as well as their disapproval of "bad" films.

Speaking at the annual communion breakfast of Loyola Council, K. of in Joe's Restaurant, Fulton Mr. Doyle said: "Let Hollywood know when it makes a good picture, so that it will realize better what is wanted and more of the same will follow. In that way, disapproval of other films will your probably get quicker response as well." He also urged that Catholics spend more time reading religious newspapers and other publications. Representative Eugene J.

Keogh, Steel Union Reach Accord Continued from Page 1 was the first to announce wage in- Allis Accord Approved Milwaukee, April 7 (U.P.) The United Automobile Workers Union (C.I,O.) today ratified settlement of a that has tied up work on national defense orders at the Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company's West Allis plant since Jan. 22. Workers will return to the plant at 8 a.m tomorrow. a thundering voice vote of 4,000 The agreement was approved by U. A.

W. members. Only a few scattered "Noes" were heard. The egreement provides for A one-year contract stipulating that all future disputes be submitted to an impartial mediator and that no strikes de called. Negotiations for wage increases will be opened, with any increases granted retroactive to the date production was sumed.

President Harold Christoffel of the U. A. W. local flew from Washington, where company and union representatives reached the settlement under direction of President Roosevelt's new mediation board. Christoffel called the settlement "one of the greatest victories ever labor." "George Nordstrom, district U.

A. W. president, said the Chalmers management had been given a "sound thrashing." Settlement of the protracted strike was regarded as a triumph for the new mediation board which had received the dispute only last Thursday. Ford Parley Slated Detroit, April 7 (INS)-Spurred on by adjustment of the 74-day-old Allis-Chalmers strike at Milwaukee, Federal and State mediators renewed their drive today for a settlement by tomorrow night, at the latest, of the Ford Dearborn strike. The immediate objective of the mediators today was to draw representatives of Ford and United Automobile Workers Union into a joint conference tonight for discussion of the basic issues with the prospect that if such a session opens it might continue uninterruptedly until either settlement or complete breakdown comes.

Stoppage at Phelps Plant Elizabeth, N. April 7 (U.P.) -A "work stoppage" by members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (C. I. went into effect. today at the Bayway plant of the Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corporation.

About 1,700 employes were idle and union officials threatened to extend it to plants in Fort Wayne, and Los Angeles. Phelps Dodge has $30,000,000 worth of defense contracts. Copper is an essential armament metal. Coal Settlement Delayed Few Hours Partial settlement of the labor contract dispute between Appalachian bituminous coal operators and miners, forecast for 10 a.m., was delayed today for at least several hours. A "Committee of Two," set up to draft a new contract, had been expected to make known the result of their labors this morning at the Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan.

A half hour after the time forecast, however, word came from the committeemen, Northern Operator Charles O'Neill and Union Leader Percy Tetlow, that the contract would not be ready before 2 p.m. It was believed, however, that the delay was due only to consideration of phraseology to be employed in covering minor points of the new agreement, and that the contract draft already embodies the big concessions asked by the miners--a $1-a-day wage increase and annual paid vacations. Even in this case, the settlement bids fair to be only partial in nature, with Southern operators threatening to bolt the conference if their Northern colleagues go through with ratification of the embryo agreement. Representatives of operators in Virginia, West Vir- BROOKLYN EAGLE, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 3 Eagle Staff photo AFTER MASS Margaret and Sylvia Hudgins, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

L. C. Hudgins of 294 Henry leave St. Charles Borromeo Church holding strands of palm. Thousands of Catholics braved rain yesterday to attend services.

TRIE Wide World photo IN NAZI PATH -Jelacio Square in Zagret, second largest city in Yugoslavia, which lies in the path of the German juggernaut pushing down from Austria and Hungary. The statue is that of General Jelacio, a Croatian hero of the Decision Reserved Weiss Is Held On Schappes Plea In High Bail Continued from Page one. An hour later they emerged from the conference room, both refusing to comment on their conversation. O'Dwyer earlier had said that Mendy was also wanted in connection with the murder of Peter Panto, the anti-racketeering longshoreman. It was also reported that Weiss is wanted for questioning in Essex County, N.

in the slaying of Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer for which Charles (The Bug) Workman was recently indicted. 4 Convicted on Same Charge The Federal indictment on which Weiss was arraigned today is the same indictment, returned more than a year ago, on which four other persons already have been tried and convicted. All were sentenced to long terms in the Federal penitentiary and received heavy fines. Those convicted are Philip (Little Farvel) Cohen, Abraham Lorber, Albert Engelson and Samuel Bernstein. All, including Mendy, were accused of entering into a conspiracy under which they "cut" morphine, doubling its volume and weight.

Weiss, who is 35, was picked up in a Kansas City rooming house yesterday and was flown East by Federal men. He has a previous police record, having been sentenced 10 to 15 years in New Jersey State Prison in 1925 on a charge of assault and robbery. The arrest followed a long pursuit by Federal agents who followed Mendy's trail through most of the Western States. He was said to have had $2,900 on him when arrested. Home for Aged, Charity Get Ella Glynn Estate After several minor bequests, the residue of the estate of Ella Glynn of the Hotel Granada, who died March 3, is divided between the Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Society of St.

Vincent de Paul, both Brooklyn branches, her will, filed for probate in Surrogate's Court today, disclosed. The accompanying petition fixes the value of the estate as "more than $20,000 in personal property." The will of Charles I. Dearden, who died Feb. 27, leaves $1,000 to his mother, Mrs. Mary E.

C. Dearden of West Springfield, and the residue to his widow, Mrs. Julia C. Dearden of 1705 Dorchester Road. The petition values the Dearden estate at "more than $5,000 in personal property." Faithful Link Worship With Aid to Oppressed Thousands of the faithful who attended Palm Sunday services in churches throughout the borough yesterday in perennial commemoration of Christ's entry into Jerusalem on the eve of the crucifixion were planning other pre-Easter observances today.

Members of all faiths, mindful of the unsettied state of the world and the influence of religion and its workings for good, were linking their activities with representatives of oppressed peoples in an "all-out" effort toward divine and material co-operation. Invasion Marked The Nazi invasion of Scandinavia on April 9, 1940 will be marked this Wednesday night with special services at the First Presbyterian Church. 124 Henry St. Church and other organizations throughout the country will hold similar services offering prayers and expressing sympathy for the occupied Scandinavian nations and crystallizing American public opinion toward a better understanding of the present plight of Scandinavia. At the First Presbyterian Church the Rev.

Dr. Phillips Packer Elliott will be assisted by Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish clergymen. The guests of honor will be BAYING IN CEMETERY HOLDS DOG OWNER Custodians of St. Michael's Cemetery, Astoria, complained to police today that hounds were baying and a hunter was scouring the cemetery grounds in quest of rabbits, squirrels and migratory birds on the property. Lt.

William Dennin of the ginia, Tennessee and some in Kentucky have declared "there is no possibility" of the Southern producers ratifying a contract to wipe out the present wage differential between Northern and Southern fields. Consuls General Rolf Christensen of Norway, George Bech of Denmark, Thor Thors of Iceland, M. Kastengren of Sweden and T. O. Vahervuori of Finland.

Breakfasts Held Formation of a Protestant action committee for the preservation of religious faith and democracy was announced yesterday at a Protestant communion breakfast held in the Central Branch of the Y. M. C. A. Another observance yesterday was the first annual communion breakfast of the Queens Federation of Churches, held at the Jamaica Y.

M. A. Preceding the breakfas communion services were held by the Rev. Norman Hall, pastor of the Flushing Methodist Church and president of the Queens Federation of Churches. Supreme Court Justice Charles W.

Froessel was the guest speaker. He stressed the for a "united front" 1n the present world congress during a short address. The services and breakfast were the first to be held in Queens, the Rev. Mr Hall said. The plan will be continued in the future, he said, much on the same order as the Catholic communion breakfasts sponsored by the Holy Name societies.

Supreme Court Justice Isidor Wasservogel in Manhattan today reserved decision on a motion for a temporary injunction sought by Morris U. Schappes, suspended City College tutor, to restrain the Board of Higher Education from compelling him to answer charges brought by the board, on the ground that his testimony might be used against him in a pending criminal trial. Edward Kuntz, Schappes' attorney, said, during argument over the motion, that "there seems to be a race between the Board of Higher Education and the District Attorney's office of New York City to see who will get Schappes first." He accused the Rapp-Coudert committee of bias against Schappes. Assistant Corporation Counsel Charles C. Weinstein said that Schappes was attempting to obstruct and delay the efforts of the Board of Higher Education "to eliminate unfit persons from staffs under its jurisdiction." Pair Saved From Mob, Held by Boro Court Fletcher Bleeks, 20, of 426 Bergen and James Antwilder, 19, of 288 E.

152d Manhattan, today were held for action of the grand jury after they waived examination before Magistrete Pinto in Felony Court on charges of assault and attempted robbery. Bail was set at $2,500 each. According to Pasquale Pomarico of 559 Degraw St the men attacked him early on April 1 near his home. Pomarico charged that four of his teeth were kicked out. Relatives of the victim rushed to his aid and attacked Antwilder, who was rescued by police from the infuriated crowd.

Bleeks was seized the next day. Mrs. Oliver C. Gardiner Funeral services for Mrs. Maria Jackson Gardiner, wife of Oliver C.

Gardiner, a secretary of the William Sloane House of the Young Men's Christian Association, at 34th St. and 9th Manhattan, who died yesterday at Jamaica Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at her home, 88-41 195th Place, Hollis Park Gardens. Mrs. Gardiner was 56 and was the daughter of Gertrude R.

Lott and Jarvis Jackson. On her mother's side she was related to one of Long Island's oldest families. Her husband is the only immediate survivor. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery. Astoria precinct sent Patrolmen Walter Lentz and John Lavin to hunt for the alleged hunter.

They found neither rabbits, squirrels, birds, dogs nor sportsmen in the cemetery, but nearby encountered James Viginia, 57, of 14-27 29th Astoria, walking with his two dogs. Viginia denied having been either hunting or in the cemetery but the policemen issued him a summons, charging that he permitted his dogs to roam unmuzzled, just the same. WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN the Rev. Anthony F. DeLaura, chaplain of the council, and William T.

Foley Jr. also spoke. Supreme Court Justice Francis D. McGarey was tostmaster. "Only religion and a religious way of life," Mr.

Keogh said, "will provide the answer to the fundamental problem in the world today and cure the unrest and chaos that exist." "Any civil liberties," Mr. Foley declared, "are derived from the religious principles upon which the Constitution is founded." The mass was celebrated in the R. C. Church of the Epiphany, S. 9th St.

near Bedford by the Rev. James J. McGowan, pastor of the church, More than 225 persons attended, Eagle Staff photo COMMUNION BREAKFAST--Loyola Council, Knights of Columbus, held its communion breakfast yesterday at Joe's Restaurant, 330 Fulton St. Seated, left to right, are George D. Coughlin, grand knight; Supreme Court Justice Francis D.

McGarey, toastmaster, and Representative Eugene J. Keogh. Standing is William T. Foley Jr..