At left, a miner leads detectives to the body of Leona Schmidt, 59, which was buried in the desert between Gorman and Lancaster. Schmidt’s son-in-law Valean Neil Ross is being held on charges of killing her March 9 in an argument over whether an operation — which Schmidt refused to pay for — would have saved the life of his wife.

And France says that it will go to war if Germany invades Czechoslovakia.

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