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BROOKLYN EAGLE, SATURDAY, JAN. 18, 1941 Need Arms, Not Armies'J J. HEFFERHAH 1 v-f i l- TSSll U. Savs Churehill HOST TO 5,000 AT CLUB'S BALL i gtiir ttf ka fti -ii -Hi i With Hopkins Beside Him, He Asks 'Far More' Weapons Than Britain Can Pay for I Glasgow. Jan.

18 VP) Prime Minister Churchill has summed up Britain's 1941 war needs from the United States as guns, planes and ships "far more than we shall be able to pay for" rather than "large armies from overseas." The Prime Minister, with Presi Leader of 12th 16 Years Greets Guests 1st Time As Federal Officeholder Representative James J. Heffer-nan, Demorcatlc leader of the 12th A. played host to some 5,000 persons at the 41st annual bail of the 12th A. D. Regular Democratic Organization last night In I Prospect Hall, Prospect and 5th Aves.

dent Roosevelt's special representative, Harry Hopkins, at his side, told the Glasgow City Councillors in an unheralded speech last night that Britain has enough fighting men of her own to "hold the front line of civilization" with American aid in credits and supplies. But he warned bluntly that "before us He sufferings and tribulations" along the hard road to ultimate victory. Proudly he Introduced President Roosevelt's representative and declared: "Mr. Hopkins has come In order to put himself in the closest relation with things here. "He will soon return to report to TWO ITALIAN TROOPSHIPS HIT, ATHENS CLAIMS Attacked in Adriatic 1 ,000 Soldiers Taken By Greeks in Raid Athens, Jan.

18 (IP) Capture of 1,000 soldiers of Italy's famous "Wolves of Tuscany" division was reported by the Greek High Com For the first time in hi 16 years as district leader, Mr. Heffernan greeted the guests as a Federal officeholder. He was elected last November from the 5th Congressional District following a long political career which included service Superintendent of Highways. Aiding Mrt Heffernan in greeting the guests were Mrs. Heffernan, their daughter, Patricia; his brother.

Elections Commissioner William Democartlc leader of the 7th A. Miss Mary Shea, district co- Wide World photo mand today only a short time after Eagle BUIf photo I TROOP CONVOY IN NEW YORK Truck loads of soldiers from Fort Dix leove Holland Tunnel en route to Army Base in Brooklyn. Presence of military men and equipment on city streets daily becomes more common. his famous chief the Impressions he has gathered in our islands. We don't require In 1941 large armies from overseas.

What we do require are weapons, ships and airplanes. All that we can pay for we will pay for, but we will require far a Greelf spokesman announced two i Italian "warships" had been tor- pedoed in the Adriatic. The captives were taken, the High Command said, when Greek 3,000 to Embark Here leader, and D. Kenneth McEvoy, president of the district club Other Parties Represented The ball assumed a non-partisan character when former tSate Senator William T. Simpson, Republican leader of the 12th A.

and George F. Rifkin, American Labor party chairman of the district, paid their respects to Representative Heffernan. Others attending were County Judge Franklin Taylor, Councilman William M. McCarthy, Assemblyman James W. Feely, a vice president of the 12th D.

organization; Attorney General John J. Bennett Secretary of State Michael F. HIBERNIAN CELEBRATION Taking time out for a chat ot last night's reception and ball of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Kings County at Columbus Club, 1 Prospect Park West, ore Sheriff James Mangano, left, and Attorney General John J. Bennett. 3,000 BORO IRISH FROLIC AT 90TH HIBERNIAN BALL For Puerto Rico Duty forces overwhelmed a Fascist fortified position northwest of Greek-held Klisura on the central Albanian war front.

The spokesman said questioning of the prisoners disclosed they had arrived only recently from Brindisi, Italy. In Rome the High Command said Italian forces in Albania re more than we shall be able to pay for." Churchill said he was watching "with deep emotion" the "stirring processes by which the democracy of the great American republic Is establishing Its laws and formulating its decisions in order to make sure that the British commonwealth of nations is able to maintain the front line of civilization and of progress." Churchill asserted Adolf Hitler will find Britain better prepared to beat off invasion now than was the case last Summer or Fall. He said flatly, however, that the war in 1941 would be no less terrible The Army Base at the foot of 58th St. took on a war-time tempo today as authorities prepared for the sailing early next week of more than 3,000 soldiers, members of picked units of the First Division, for Puerto Rico. The first contingent of more than 1.000 arrived yesterday from Edgewood, after a ten-hour trip in 102 Army trucks.

The.se soldiers, all from Fort Hamilton, Fort Jay on Governor's Island and Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, had gone to Edgewood for training a month ago. In Puerto Rico they will participate in maneuvers for Army, Navy and Air Corps. The first contingent immediately boarded the Army transport Hunter Liggett on arriving at the base. The rest of the men arriving today will be accommodated on the Army transport Chateau Thierry. NAVY YARD HERE TO GET 200 NEW DEFENSE HOMES Houses for Families Of Enlisted Men to Rent For a Month Washington, Jan.

18 iPi Imme-I dlate construction of 200 dwelling Units for families of enlisted personnel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard vu ordered today by President Roosevelt as part of a program to void a serious shortage of housing tor defense workers. Recommended by C. F. Palmer, defense housing co-ordinator, the entire urogram would provide a Brooklyn's sons and daughters of Erin, more than 3,000 native and American-born, sang and danced last night at the 90th annual reception and ball of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Kings County in the Columbus Club, 1 Prospect Park West. Prominent figures in public life pulsed Greek attacks in the southern sector of the war front.

The Greek spokesman identified the torpedoed vessels as the Liguria and the Lombardia. (The authoritative naval handbook, Janes Fighting Ships, does Walsh, United States Attorney Harold M. Kennedy, City Court Justice Sylvester Sabbatino, Municipal Court Justices Roger J. Brock, Charles H. Breitbart, Michael J.

Ditore, Edward Cassin, George J. Joyce and Harold J. McLaughlin; Sheriff James V. Mangano, George V. McLaughlin, president of the not list either vessel.

Lloyd's Reg- than in 1940, and added: ister lists a Liguria. a 174-ton mer- "Before us lie manv months of Knudsen Fears Saga of 7-Day having to endure bombardment of Among Hibernian officials present were State President John J. Geoghah, a member of Division 35, Kings County, since 1900, who has held every division, county and State office in the order. A Queens delegation was headed by Dennis Mclnerney, Queens County president, and James J. Ward, Staten Island president, led a group of his fellow officers to the ball.

Among those present were Borough President John Cashmore, Secretary of State Michael F. Walsh, Attorney General John J. Bennett former Chief Assistant District Attorney Joseph F. Han-ley, chairman of the ball; Sheriff James V. Mangano, Register Peter J.

McGuinness, County Clerk Frlancls J. Sinnott, Municipal Court Justices George J. Joyce and Harold J. McLaughlin, Special Sessions Justice Matthew J. Troy and Magistrate John F.

X. Masterson. our cities and industrial areas without the power to make equal reply," No Full Aid Now Terror at Sea mingled with the I officials and the rank and file of the order, for which Assistant District Attorney John J. Rooney, county president, claims the "proud distinction of being the voice of the Irish race In America." The gay throng made the most of Irish melodies and tunes. However, the modern shag and conga occupied many Interludes between Irish reels and sets.

Mr. Rooney announced that the proceeds of the ball will go to the county welfare fund to aid needy members of the order. Brooklyn Trust Company. Also John J. Lynch, secretary of the county Democartic organization; Col.

Walter Jeffreys Carlln, former Brooklyn member of the Board of Education; former United States Attorney Harold St. L. Dougherty, Lloyd I. Herzka, secretary to the Borough President; Democratic District Leaders John F. Lantry.

James B. Allen, 11th, and Stephen J. Carney, 17th; Percy T. Stapleton, chief clerk of the Surrogates' Court; H. Francis Dyruff.

legal aide to Mr. Lantry, and Mrs. Margaret M. Levy, a vice president of the Democratic county committee. Continued from Page 1 pany network.

A statement from him had been much sought by opponents of the bill. Wheeler Contradicts Churchill Senator Wheeler a leader of the opposition, said "sev- Continued from Page 1 northwest wind blew in. It was full gale force. I stopped figuring and just hung on." Ship Driven Backward It was then that the steering gear gave way. In the hold were 1,200 tons of palm oil.

Captain Smith 50 2-Way Radios To Be Installed By Nassau Police Latest Type Apparatus Completes Department's chant ship of Italian registry, but no Lombardia. The London Daily Mail quoted the Athens radio as saying the vessels were troop ships the Liguria of 15,534 tons and the Lombardia of 20.066 tons. (The Hamburg-American liner Resolute, a vessel, was sold to an Italian firm in 1933, and later reports indicated she had been renamed Lombardia and used to transport troops in the Ethiopian campaign. (An Italian troop ship named Liguria also was used in carrying troops to Ethiopia and was one of several vessels which brought Ttal-ian troops home from Spain In 1938.) The spokesman quoted prisoners as saying many desertions occurred during the embarkation at Brindisi. The port of Valona, Albania, one of the next Immediate goals of the Greek advance, was bombed heavily, the Greek spokesman said.

(Reports reaching the Yugoslavian-Albanian border said bitter eral reliable sources" had Informed i orderd 900 tons pumped Into the sea io ugnten tne load. Communications System Dfrf Bombs total of 1,982 units in eight communities, including Brooklyn. They would be built with Federal funds by the Federal Works Agency. The Brooklyn urutsi would be of permanent construction and erected outside the Navy Yard reservation. Rentals would range from $11 to $26 a month.

tOO TJniti for MUchel Field The report also' noted that construction of 200 units for families of army enlisted personnel at Mltchel Field, to rent for $16 to $20 a month, likewise had been recommended. Private construction, although fairly extensive in both Brooklyn and Hempstead, could not be expected to provide dwellings at rentals which enlisted personnel could pay, Mr. Palmer said. The only public housing project already started near the Brooklyn "The engines were going forward, but the wind was driving the ship backward," said Captain Smith. "When I began to pump the oil you could see it floating a mile ahead of us we were traveling that fast backward.

Monday morning we were down by the head and the ship became unmanageable. We could just keep her in the wind. I sent out a standby call." As the call went out another 4 Axis Ships conditions below the Mediterranean, Informants said. i The men who, according' to Informants, are now called the "south are training on the remote sand wastes of Eiast Prussia. They are engaging in various maneuvers simulating desert warfare, informants said, and are using all kinds of military equipment.

Panzer or armored divisions and other special units are represented in the colonial army, it was added, and are sharing with it the rigorous training schedule. GERMANY TRAINS COLONIAL ARMY 111 HOT HOUSES Believed Getting Set For Hitler's Secret Plan for African Drive Berlin, Jan. 18 CUR Germany Is Mineola, Jan. 18 County Police Commissioner Abram W. Skidmore disclosed today that nearly 50 of the latest type two-way frequency modulation radio transmitters and receivers will be put in operation to complete the network of police him that Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain had been "insisting on a declaration of war" by the United States.

The British, he said, wanted airplane pilots and sailors from this country. Wheeler made his statement after Churchill in an unheralded address in Glasgow, Scotland, had said that Britain would "not require in 1941 large armies from overseas" but would require more American ships, airplanes and weapons than she would be able to pay for. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal representative In Britain, was present on the platform as Churchill spoke. Wheeler declared he had information that Hopkins mission in England was to determine "what immediate raift rftmmlinlrflttnnc in Nnccail fighting was taking place along the County tWg Sprlng i.ciKai suuck. Dy uie siorra, uie i fr.f ten-mile sector Mr.

Skidmore explained that sub' West Kebar, sent out an SOS, Vliciro anA Tf 1 io Villft Shipped 23 Feet or Water I Tepeleni. Both Greeks and Italians ntlal uh! tr, I department had been accomplished Continued from Page 1 southeast approach to London, which the attackers used. Earlier German aaircraft had been reported over northwest England and several towns in the industrial midlands. The port of Swansea In South Wales, about 45 miles west of Cardiff, bore the brun ot German aerial attacks on Britain last night. The government ackowledged that a number of fires had been started by the raiders, but declared the "situation was always well in hand" and that the last blazes were extinguished early this morning.

"It broke my heart to think I couldn't help them," said Captain Smith. "I was skipper of that ship seven years." Besides the palm oil, 700 tons of other cargo cocoa, tin, rubber and training an army for colonial service in East Prussia remote from curious eyes, and uniform factories have been ordered to speed produc last year, more than sufficient to pay the cost of new radio installations. Bids will be opened by Purchasing Agent E. Stanley Bosanko on Jan. 27.

Present radio equipment will re in that area and some military experts believe a decisive battle was developing.) I By HENRY T. GORRELL Albanian Gunners Killed Many Chimara. Albania, Jan. 15 (De Navy Yard, he added, is a 3.525 unit development of the New York City Housing Authority, the rents lor which also would be too high for enlisted men. The remainder of the program Wdered by the President today would provide 100 units at Hmes-vUle, immediately; 100 at Ran-toul, EL, Immediately; 500 at.

Erie. by April 20O at, Orange, Texas, 100 by April 1 and toe remainder by June 17 at San Antonio, Texas, immediately; 665 at quire only slight alterations, Commissioner Skidmore said, and these will be confined to radio cars and to the relay stations through which car signals are transmitted to headquarters. He added that the headquarters station, WPGS. will con NLRB Reinstates 1,021 Ford Workers Washington, Jan. 18 A proposed order which would require the Ford Motor Company, to reinstate with back pay 1,021 workers at its Kansas City plant was issued today by the National Labor Relations Board.

The company had been accused of discrimination against the workers because of their union activities. The board's announcement termed the decision "tentative." The proposed order is based on tentative findings alleging that the plant refused to re-employ 975 workers and discriminated against steps can be taken short of a war declaration." At the White House, however, Presidential aides declared they had never heard of the information which Wheeler reported. Tell of Approaching Crisis Belief the British were fast ap- tion of a new kind of colonial uniform for its members, it was disclosed today. It was believed here that the army was preparing for active duty in Africa in connection with Adolf Hitler's secret "general staff plan for the south." German colonial experts said that since the start of the war thousands of soldiers had been undergoing rigorous physical examinations and other tests to determine their fitness for duty under extreme tropical conditions. For days at a time these men tinue operations with the standard modulation equipment, inasmuch as it has proved generally satisfactory.

goat hides was lost. After the oil i was pumped out, Captain Smith had to take on 300 tons of sea water in the afterhold tanks to bring the ship to an even keel. She had 23 feet of water in her No, 1 hold when she docked. Last Tuesday the Coast Guard cutter Mendota from Norfolk, pulled alongside the battered freighter and escorted her with supplementary help to Sandy Hook. None of the passengers knew Captain Smith had sent a call for help until they heard a radio broadcast on Monday.

One of the passengers wa.s Douglas Dron of Brooklyn. One passenger lost his luggage overboard and another suffered a back injury when he was thrown out of bed. The captain said about three-quarters of his cargo was saved. Norfolk, Immediately, at Radford. by June 1.

nd 200 ProacninB a crisis which would de-j velop within the next two or three months was expressed before the layed (U.W Investigating reports of desertions ar.d sabotage by Albanian youths drafted into the Italian army, I sought out 21 -year-old Antonios Varthls, who lives with his married sister in a mountain cavern near here and who, I was told, had had an Interesting experience In the Italian service. don't think his story was rehearsed because he didn't know I was coming. He told me, through my interpreter, Denis Kasakos, that the artillery unit he served with, consisting entirely of Albanian youths, had deliberately fired its mortars Into the rear of the Italian lines whirl ft was supposed to be English Ports Mined, Say Nazis Berlin, Jan. 18 (If) Docks, wharves and storehouses at the South Wales port of Swansea were set afire by German bombers In last night's raids on England, informed sources declared today. More English ports were reported mined.

A German submarine was credited by the high command with sinking 29,000 tons of merchant shipping. The ships sunk were not identified. Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary Stimson and Secretary Knox. Asked by committeemen what kind of crisis he had in mind, Knox said it was one "in which the defeat of Britain was Imminent." Knox and Stimson urged speed in Congressional approval of the lease-lend bill and thus took their positions with Secretaries Hull and Navy lieutenant's Suicide On I. I.

Remains Mystery Special (o the Brooklyn Eagle. Elmont, Jan. 18 Lt. GeorgeC. Hunter, 29, United States Navy, was found shoit to death late last r.ight In the bedroom of his home, 128 sweated In hot houses in varying degree of temperature, performing ost Reduced by Half Officials said that the new frequency modulation receivers will be among the first on the market designed for police purposes.

It was learned that for the past year this type of equipment has been more expensive than standard equipment but that under mass production methods now used by manufacturers the unit cost will be nearly one-half that of standard equipment with equal range. 'In view of increased demands for pollre service, and having in mind the national defense needs of Nassau County, we have decided to equip every last automobile in the Receive Citations here. A Gordon Boulevard, 46 strikers to discourage membership in the A. F. United Auto Workers Union during the Fall of 1937.

The board said the company and the union would have 30 days to file exceptions and briefs and 20 days to request oral argument before a final order is issued. In addition, the proposed order would require the company to "cease discouraging membership" in the A. F. of L. union and to disestablish the independent union of Ford workers.

from a .22 caliber automatic pistol supporting, killing many Fascist soldiers; that his whole battalion of 1.100 men tiad been court martlaled and sentenced to 31 days confinement, and that he and 150 others had escaped and returned to their homes. strenuous labor and receiving inoculations against malaria, cholera and smallpox. German food chemists were reported to have prepared highly concentrated food tablets especially adaptable to southern regions. All work has been done under the guidance of Germany's foremost colonial specialist, Col. George Tzchlrner, who is familiar with military, political and geographical By Ex-Legion Head Freeport, Jan.

18 Citations by Retired Farmer leaves Over $10,000 to Widow Mineola, Jan. 18 John J. Ras-weiler, a retired farmer, of Mal-verne, who died there on Jan. 8 in his 82d year, left by will, dated March 4. 1935, Bn estate of more than $10,000 to his widow, Barbara.

She is the executrix. Property valued at $1,800 was precincts with two-way radio," Mr. Skidmore said. "In many instances Morgenthau, the only other witnesses on the bill to date. As Republican Cabinet officers in a Democratic administration, both Knox and Stimson asked for confidence in President Roosevelt ana warned against "tying" his hands with restrictions in the bill lest the nation be unable to meet unanticipated developments.

Knox discounted the theory that a land expedition of a size greater than Britain could muster would be required to defeat Hitler. "I bcheve It's going to happen the other way, by a collapse behind the German front," he said. left by Maurice Akst, who died at Freeport on Dec. 26. His will, dated June 25, 1937.

left $200 to each of five grandchildren. Howard and Blossom Miller. Luclle Feken, Blossom and George Akst. had been fired through his temple. I Detective Kenneth Bailing of Valley 1 Stream said Lieutenant Hunter had committed suicide.

The body was discovered by Lieu- tenant Hunter's wife, Lorraine, when she returned from a movie. Two children, Byron, 7, ar.d Bar- bara, 5, also survive. A graduate of Annapolis. Class of 1932. Lieutenant i Hunter served in the Tropics and more recently had been on duty in Washington, his wife said.

Lieu- tenant Hunter, according to Mrs. Hunter, had been brooding recently about an expected transfer to tropi 1 Raymond J. Kelly of Detroit, former national commander of the American Legion, were presented to Past Commander C. Howard Larsen, Corresponding Adjutant Daniel J. Car-mlchael and Recording Adjutant Reynolds of William Clinton Story Post of the Legion at a post meeting last night.

The citations, made by Mr. Kelly when he still was head of the national organization, were In recognition of the general efficiency of the recipients and of their contributions to the membership record of the post. Sherman Moreland, county membership officer of the Legion, presented the awards. Own Problem Stumps Voice of Experience EMICE cal duty again, but she did not. be this will eliminate the necessity for telephone booths and will provide better police service because all cars will be In constant communication with the precinct and thereby be instantly ready for action wherever needed." Curbs Outside Noises Capt.

William K. Allen, in command of radio communications, said that tests made over a long period of time have proven the value of frequency modulation. Hp declared that outside noises are reduced to a minimum while signal strength under all conditions is maintained. Some of the "dead radio" spots which have bothered operations, he believes, will be eliminated. When German cities are bombed lieve lt could have been responsible as British cities are being bombed, for his act.

I don't believe the Germans will take it like the British are taking it." WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN $3,500 Payroll Robbery Probed by Nassau Cops ANNOUNCEMENTS White to Resign as Head Of Bond, Mortgage Corp. Mineola, Jan, 18 Col. John K. "scandalous and embarrassing" charge that Mrs. Jessie Taylor had alienated his affections for her.

"This will never do," he told Jessie Taylor, and persuaded her thai the best way to save his career from the publicity of a suit would be for her to divorce him. They would be remarried three months later. The second Mrs. Taylor performed "the act of great devotion and sacrifice for the man she deep Spcriol to the Brooklyn Eagle Public Notlcct Hollywood, Jan. 18 CUB Radio's "Voice of Experience," who makes a handsome living handing out advice to the maritally distressed, had a personal problem today Involving his wife and two former wives, but.

he preferred not to handle lt himself. I welcome the opportunity of having the matter settled by the ciwrU," said M. Sayle Taylor. Mrs. Jessie W.

Taylor, his second wife, posed the problem in a suit asking that her Mexican divorce be set aside, and that the Voice of Experience settle upon her what he :BI.E lor inv I WILL NOT BE ItESPONS dhu Inc'irrM by mv rr. milf. John A I)fSimiif Previously installations of radio units have cast upward of $500 apiece, but It is expected that the MTCHAIL CALAMTOO, tr.f'.tma'irn h-. ftbnuU. Com hmf father lick MUher, Mary C.inno, Knilrind Av-f.

Lett end Found Freeport, Jan. 18 A $3,500 payroll burglary was discovered early this morning at the Beers Dairy Company plant. 25 Bennington here, by James Carpenter, night loreman. After forcing a rrar door of the buildinr and the door to the office, the burglar or burglars used tools Jimmy open the The payroll was to have been distributed to-da The burglary squad of the Nassau County txilire is Investigating The dairy firm was burglarized White, former Assistant United States Attorney, has announced that on Feb. 1 he will resign from the presidency of the Nassau-Suffolk Bond and Mortgage Corporation, He will continue, however, as a trustee under appointment of the Federal Court and will head the company's board of directors, Mr.

White said that he is resigning In order to give more time to his law practice. He i a partner In the firm of Herrlck, Feln-stein At White. Samuel J. Tltua of Syosset is expected to succeed him. prReS-UOST SMAI.t FU'F BRIOHTON UNF (r.NTAININU UPWARD DEWEY 0 Si I new Installations will average little more than $200, The police commissioner said he does not contemplate eliminating all the police booths because some will be necessary where patrolmen are assigned to business sections and cover their jcats on foot.

Where police booths ire discarded and It is thought, advisable to have telephones for the use of residents, Mr. Skidmore faid. boxes connected with the precinct stations be Installed. ly loves" in a Juarez, Mexico, divorce court. When the three months were up and she started to press him about remnrrlage, he put her off.

Clht soon discovered why. He hpd takt a third wife, Mrs. Mildred Taylor. Meanwhile, she has received only $16000 for her rrmtn'enance frotr him. Taylor said her ntntements were untrue.

had promised: 15 percent of his $150,000 annual Income. She said she married TaVlor in 1929 and they were happy for the next four years while he was he-coining a radio personality. In 19.13 Taylor confided that his first wile, Pauline, was going to make the Tint: 8 A. T. r.Ho l)i-n Si.

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