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fC -3 IPC TT Weather Partly cloudy and colder tonight; clear and cold tomorrow Wall Street Lial News 103d Year. No. 332. DAILY SUNDAY 1943 r.VsVcJnM 3 CENTS SJbSYcSS 0) rn Nazis Flee British On Italian Front Dismem her Japan S. as Chief Jailer ALLIES TO SMASH ABILITY TO MAKE WAR IN FUTURE SOBEL JOINS FIGHT OVER BEDFORD CRIME Judge Calls Grand Jury to Meet New Panel in Discussion Fall Back 3 Miles After 4-Day Battle, as 8th Bores for Rome London, Dec.

2 (U.R) President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and, Premier Stalin were reported conferring in Teheran today and observers believed they were mapping a postwar program to "quarantine" Germany and saddle her Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 2 (U.P.) German troops, beaten in a bitter four-day battle, are retreating on the Adriatic wing of the Italian front before Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's advancing 8th Army, Allied headquarters manpower, raw materials and production for rebuilding Frank discussion of "certain tin- 'stricken Europe, fortunate statements" in the August Through such a program, observers were convinced, the grand Jury's presentment on Bed- three" Allied western Powers plan to punish Germany pia'ceMond'in presence" of smash her ability to mal wars a.s completely the jury itself, if it chooses to as Mr. Roosevelt, Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-pccpp' th invitsi'on sent to it to- shek plotted the crushing of JaDan at Cairo.

vJf JAPAN PACIFIC0CEAN ii cubeV.s 'Wv-. GiJl Or. mai. There was no official confirmation of the whereabouts of Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill since their departure from Cairo for an "unknown destination'' following the Anglo-American-Chinese conference, but a dispatch published in Libson newspaper reported they already had begun conversations with Stalin in Teheran, capital of Iran.

i American Congressional circles accepted reports of a Roosevelt-Churchill conference with Stalin as completely Nazi Death Warrant Seen Laurence Steinhardt, U. S. Am bassador to Turkey, was reported! by Lisbon also to have flown to Teheran. There has been wide- fpread speculation that the Allies inc BROOKLYN, N. CAPITAL LEADERS EAGERLY AWAIT PARLEY DETAILS See Reich Blocked From Ever Scourging World With War Again Washington.

Dec. 2 (U.R) President Roosevelt, Prime Minister are preparing plans to crush Germany finally and prevent her from ence. Reports of a Roosevelt -Churchill meeting with Stalin were accepted in Congressional circles as completely factual. This meeting was presumed to follow the announced session in North Africa at' which the President, Churchill and Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek worked out plans for the conquest and dismemberment of the Japanese Empire. Secretary of War Samson said at his press conference today that the news from the North African meeting was highly encouraging, and military measures had been agreed upon which would be disclosed in operations.

He said, however, that present operations against the Japanese disclose the fight in the Pacific theater will be iong and costly, though victory is certain. News of the North African conference last night found most members of Congress prepared, and receptive. Many knew for weeks that such a meeting was to take place and now looked forward to news from a long-sought Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin conference. It was learned officially that Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill had left Cairo for a new rendezvous and continued conferences.

This meant only one thing: the time had come for the long-awaited conference with Stalin and the Red Army general staff to map plans for joint operations to finish off Germany and permit greater con-Continued on Page 4 Ickes Accuses Mine Owners of 'Sit-Down Strike' Washington. Dec. 2 fU.R Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes today accused the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators of conducting a "sit-down strike" and adopting a "to hell with the Government." attitude to prevent settlement of the mine wage dispute. The Southern group is the only major one which refused to join negotiations this week to draft a labor-management contract within the framework of the Government agreement between Ickes and U.

M. W. President John L. Lewis. Ickes.

in a press conference, said James D. Francis, head of the Is-, land Creek and Pond Creek Coal Companies of West Virginia, is the "principal devil" behind Edward R. Burke, spokesman for the Southern operators. He said Burke "does what Francis tells him." He said Burke is "continuing the sit-down strike which now has run more than nine months and won't have any traffic with anyone who thinks this thing ought to be THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, Plan to With U. Strip the Nips Of Their Empire, Is Agreement Washington.

Dec. 2 The new Allied blueprint for Japan's I future calls for dismemberment of the vast emnire it has acquired by conquest and cunning over the past half-century. It seemed clear that the Allies the United States, Great Britain and China are determined to quarantine Japan within its ancient boundaries behind a ring of powerful bases. Mast likely the United States Continued mi Page 4 Navy Reports Loss Of Escort Carrier Washington. Dec.

2 01 Pi The navy announced today that the escort aircraft carrier. Ll-come Bay. was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands and that this was the only American ship lost in uii- cuiiqursi 01 uie islands. The skipper of the carrier. Capt Irving D.

Wiltsie of New York City. and Rear Admiral Henry M. linix. who was aboard as mander of a task force, were re. ported missing.

It was the first escort carrier lost by the navy in the war and the first U. S. carrier of any type to be sunk since the Hornet wont down in the South Pacific in October. 1942. The Navy gave no details on the sinking except to say that the Lis-come By went down after being torpedoed by a submarine on Nov.

2t. The Lisccme Buy was the 131st U. S. naval vessel lost in this war. Escore carriers, comparatively small craft, built on merchant ship hulls, normally provide air protection for convoys against submarines and planes, but they have been for combat purposes as well.

Soviet Cheers for U. S. Film Moscow. Dec. 2 (UP The motion picture.

"Battle for Russia." produced by Frank Capra for the American Army, was received enthusiastically at a private showing for leaders of the Soviet movie industry. Charles Town Results -rt Min SO, UU uu. l.M. so 4 5 2f: Lmp- 2 Bonnie ln, 3 to. china -s 0a CMV 'IM6 INDIA Ik Ji vPw--.

vA "AgV INDIAN OCEAN I i 1 i I U. 5. PLANES RIP BALL BEARING PLANT AT TURIN Hit Fiat Motor Works and Airfield -Alf Return Sqfely Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Dec. 2 (U.R) American Flying Fortresses, attacking in two waves 45 apart, probably crippled the 'biggest ballbearing plant in Italy at Turin yesterday, it was announced today.

(The Algiers radio, heard in London, reported the Northwest African Air Force bombed Marseille today.) Crews reported the works, which turn out a large proportion of ball bearings used py the German armies ana air ioice, were wen covered with homhs Huee nranop explosions were observed through- out the target area. The Fortresses also scored direct hits on the nearby Fiat motor works and railway yards, while a supplementary force raided the neighboring Villanova airfield, hitting the main hangars and parked aircraft. The ballbearing works at Turin, third mast important in German-occupied Europe, previously was knocked out of production by Fortresses Nov. 8, but had been repaired. All Fortresses, including one group completing its 200th mission, and their Lightning escorts returned safely.

The attack on the Villanova airfield apparently confused the enemy fenses and only 81 to 12 German fighters challenged the raiders. Two were shot down. I I mav prevail upon Turkey to grant r4rl s's them bases for an Anglo-American 4 with- Congressional leaders-invasion to liberate the Balkans in I predicted today in the wake of the conjunction with a Soviet drive Anglo-American-Chinese confer- day by County Judge Nathan R. Soocl. The grand jury will be confronted, in open, public session, bv a new December grand jury which at that time will be sworn in by Judge Sobel, charged "with the investigation of all crime in Brooklyn for that, month." With the swearing In of the December jury, three Brooklyn grand juries will be directly concerned with crime and police activities.

The holdover July jury is expected to hand up its presentment to Judge Taylor on that day. Further, Henry E. Ashoru't, Negro probation officer and attorney who was howled down at a meeting of the Midtown Civic League when he attempted to answer statements made by Patrolman David Leib-man, hns been invited by Judge Sobel to make the speech he was unaoie to aeuver at mat time, im- lltHii is nuw uuuri await- ing a decision of the Civil Service Commission a.s to whether he should bf from tne poice tqViS for having made what were branded untruthful statements in applying for his appointment to. the force. Judge Sobel addressed his letter of invitation to Leon Alexander, foreman of the August grand jury.

"Certain faults and perils" contained in the presentment will be discussed, Judge Sobel declared. Thus the third of Brooklyn's five county judges en'ered the Bedford-Stuyvesant controversy. County Judge Louis Goldstein charged the August grand jury to investigate the Bedford-Stuyvesant situation Continued on Page 11 French Free Arab Chiefs Algiers, Dec. 2 (U.R) Gen. Georges Catroux, French representative at Lebanon during the recent civil up- risings, has ordered the release of two prominent Arabs held on charges of sabotaging the war program, it was announced today.

AUSTRALIA announced today. While the British rolled on, the pace of fighting increased on the 6th Army front in western Italy, where American troops repulsed several determined German counterattacks. The U. S. 34th Division, veteran of North Africa, was revealed to be in Italy.

Losing more than 1,000 prisoners nd hundreds of dead Including reserves rushed from north Italy the Germans fell back, hurriedly as the veteran British troops drove forward three miles in their march toward Rome. A bitter fight still was In progress against German rear guards on the 8th Army's front but a communique said, "Our advance is continuing." Allied planes launched a. heavy assault on the main road to Rome from Capua ahead of the 5th Army, laying down a three-hour barrage of bombs on a 20-mile sector south of the key Nad stronghold of Oas-ino yesterday. Flights of fighters and fighter-bombers hit the area every 10 minutes during the period. Montgomery's men captured the town of Rocca San Giovanni, four miles north of the Sangro River and two miles inland from the Adriatic, and fought their way to the outskirts of the village of Cas-telfrentano.

Likened to Salerna The 8th's struggle was compared at headquarters to the battle through which the 5th Army went in the landings on the Salerno beachhead of th eastern Italy coast. But the 8th suffering heavy losses itself had shattered the German Winter line for a distance of 15 miles, completing the conquest of the Fossacesia-Romagnoli ridge, beating off Nazi counterattacks by fresh forces and driving on in pursuit of the enemy. There was nothing to Indicate the German retreat was verging on a rout but reports showed the break-through was a major success first since the 5th Army cracked the Volturno line on the east. On the American sector of Lt. Gen.

Mark W. Clark's 5th Army front, German counterattacks were repulsed near Mignano and four miles north of Venafro, official reports said. Auto Kills Woman On Way to Pray for War's Speedy End Mrs. Anna Bellmer, 80. of 249 Bradford was killed by an automobile at Liberty Ave.

and Jerome St. today. She was on her way to 8 a.m. mass at St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, 225 Jerome St.

According to a son. Robert. Mrs. Bellmer had made it a daily habit to attend early mass and pray for a speedy conclusion to the war. Police said the car was driven by Charles E.

Hoff of 114-12 Silver Howard Beach. Mrs. Bellmer's husband. Joseph, was killed in a similar automobile accident at Jamaica Ave. and Lin-wood St.

in 1937. Mrs. Bellmer and her sister, Catherine Boesl. 83, for the past two years had gone to early mass to pray for a speedy Allied victory. Today, for the first time in months.

Miss Boesl intoned the litany at the 5:30 mass without her sister, who had planned to be at the 6 o'clock mass. Robert Bellmer said his mother ''was anxious for the war to end soon as possible, for she did not like the idea of having her relatives, nephews and nieces now In Germany, fighting against this country. My mother was all American and loved this country, where she raised a large family." Steals Blood Plasma Boston. Dec. 2, (U.R) A burglar who entered the American Red Cross blood donor center stole a pint of blood plasma and three blood donor lapel pins.

1st All-Woman Boro Jury Returns $4,000 Verdict in Damage Suit from the southern Ukraine. If later developments confirm Stalin's presefice at a conference with Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill, it will be the first time in 31 years that the Soviet leader has left the borders of Russia. The apparent success of the Cairo conferenue and its pledge to strip Japan of all territory gained by her since 1895. Including Manchuria.

Formosa, the Pescadores, Korea and the Japanese Pacific island outposts, buoyed hopes among European diplomats that Germany Continued on Page 4 R.A.F. Flier's Wife Plunges to Death With Her 2 Sons From a 15th floor window of the Henry Hudson Hotel. 353 W. 57th Manhattan, Mrs. Mary Tomlin-son.

34. and her two small sons plunged to their death early today. Their bodies were found the mother fully clad, the bovs i Michael and John Hedding. 8 ar.i 6 1 in pajamas on a second-story extension roof. Mrs.

Tomlinson. who lived at 230 S. Bay Islip, had registered at the hotel yesterday afternoon. Her brother, Owen Lindsay of Lslip. identified the bodies and said his sister had been depressed because she was unable to join her second husband, David Tomlinson.

flight officer at an R. A. F. base in England, two months ago. Guy Hedding.

her first husband and the father of the two boys, was killed while serving with the British forces in North Africa, Lindsay said. Death was apparently instantaneous. Police said that "written matter" was found in the hotel room, but the contents were not revealed. Corona Man Among Six Killed in Bomber Crash Charleston, S. C.

Dec. 2 (U.R Navy authorities today announced the death of six men in a bomber rath SnnHav at t.ha neotirnrr A Naval Air StaHnn Pnnr nfher were injured. The dead included: Amin. 2nd class James G. Margiotis, 45-20 Junction Road, Corona, N.

Y. Wringer Strangles Her Sommerville. Dec. 2 WP Mrs. Mildred Conlan.

19. mother of two children, was strangled yesterday when her dress became entangled in the wrineer of her washing-machine (nd was wound around her neck. I See Signal Given To Begin Struggle To Crush Japan Cairo, Dec. flJ.Ri The broad outline or a program to strip Japan i of the vast empire she has ac- quired since 189a and force her unconditional surrender was believed today to have emerged from the historic conference held by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Though the fun force of the multi-sided Allied offensive probably will not hit Japan until after Continued on Page 4 Demands Congress Probe Press Gag On Cairo Parley Washington.

Dec. 2 'UP' Representative Frank Carlson 'R Kan i told the House today that Congress should investigate the "slip-shod and bungling manner" in which the Roosevelt-Churchili-Chiang confer- fnce was announced Reports heard from foreign i sources "hours before our papers were allowed to release the story I further destroy confidence in our government. Carlson said. "This is not the first time. What about the Tokio raid? What about the Pat-ton Representative Clare Hoffman Mich.) asserted the people are being neglected because, "the Presi-1 dent of the United States wants to be president of the world." Democratic leader Representative John W.

McCormack. con-! mentod Hoffman's remark was out of place "in these critical Ames" and "without foundation" and the President is a "strong and courageous'' man now "abroad in line of duty." I Meanwhile administrative govern- i ment officials, angered by repeated premature British disclosures of AI- lied news involving the United States, promised to exert every ef fort to insure American newspapers and news services of an even break from now on. Moscow Silent on Parley London. Dec. 2 The Moscow radio up until mid-morning today had made no niemiion of the con-! ference among President Primp Minister Churchill anH Gen Chiangs Fly Home, Upsetting Rumors Chungking.

Dec. 2 (U.R) General-issimo)and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek have returned from the Cairo con' ference in a 42-hour flight of two long hops, it was announced offi cially today. tThe announcement of Chiang's return to China spiked some specu-! lation in connection with a re- ported Siahn-Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at Teheran that he might be attending The generalissimo and Mme. Chiang arrived Tuesday, a day after the other members of the Chinese, delegation to Cairo.

Except for a relatively few in high! quarters, the Chinese still were un-. aware their leaders had gone to Cairo to meet President and Prime Minister Churchill. World-wide broadcasts deallri; with the conference were heard limited circles here, but no gen-'. eral announcement to the had been made. The Chiangs flew rrom Cairo to Karachi in 18 hours and on to Chungking in another 24-hour lej of their return, stopping only an-hour Karachi for refueling.

WHERE TO FIND IT; The first all-woman jury in the history of Brooklyn Supreme Court today brought in a verdict of $4,000 in favor of Charles Bailey, 50, of 1039 Bergen in his suit against Crane's, Inc. and the Magner, Whirley Derrick Corporation. Bailey had sought $15,000 damages for injuries received in 1939 when working a.s an operating engineer on the George Washington Bridge. PEGGY GARCIA MISSING, HUBBY FEARS FOUL PLAY Mink-coated, diamond-studded Peggy Garcia, known in private life as Mrs. Michael LaRocco, who gained fame in 1937 by suing violinist Dave Rubinoff for breach of promise has been missing for two weeks, her worried husband revealed today.

LaRocco notified the Missing Persons Bureau that Peggy had left their home at 35-15 84th Jackson Heights, Nov. 2, bound for Roanoke, Va. Two weeks later she was reported boarding a train at Richmond, for Miami, where she and LaRocco were to make their home. Nothing has been heard of her since, he said, adding that he suspects "foul play." DRIVER DUMPS VICTIM IN LOT AND FLEES Victim of a hit-and-run driver, Paolo Marinelli, 57, of 27-33 21st Astoria, was dumped in a lot at 35th Ave. and 23d Astoria, shortly after 7 a.m.

today, police reported. Marinelli is in St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, seriously injured. The driver stopped, put his victim in the automobile, drove to the lot and ejected him. police said.

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