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"0 JUL 11) I9'3 Buy War ONDS 5c EVERYWHERE Weather Warm today. Sunset, Dimout, 9:25. 102d YEAR No. 197 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1943 Intered at the Brooklyn otoMie 2d Clut Mall Muter iCoperlght la Th Brooklyn latle, Ine.t WTO CAPTURED BY YANK SE ON BLAZING CATANDA HQ BNTS ICKES MOVES TO EQUALIZE GAS IN EAST Will Call for Increase In 60 Days Midwest Supply May 'Be Cut Washington, July 17 (U.B Petroleum Administrator Harold L.

Ickes announced tonight that he expects to recommend within the next. 30 or 80 days the equalizing of gaso- Lt. Gov. Wallace Dies After Sudden Relapse Loses His 10-Day Battle Against Pneumonia As 3d Transfusion, Serum Injection Fail f-T .1. A 1 Schenectadyi N- July 17 (U.R)Lt.

GOV. Thomas W. of New York State died tonight in Ellis Hospital, The end came at 7 after a ifj-day battle against pneumonla whne phySicians were using a bronchoscope in an Eftgle Start photo DOUBLE WEDDING Participants in the two servicemen's wedding ceremonies which were performed yesterday by Municipal Court Justice Charles H. Breitbart. Left to right: Sgt.

William O'Brien and his fiancee, Harriett Hacketr, Justice Breitbart, Pharmacist's Mate William Paul Cambra and his fiancee, Bonita Greenhouse. his lungs. Dr. James C. Smith, Wallace's physician, said the Lieutenant Gov.

ernor'passed away quietly with his family at his bedside. Stricken on July 9 Mr. Wallace he was six feet five inches tall was taken to the hospital July 8 and placed Immediately In an oxygen tent. He showed improvement until yesterday, when he suffered a relapse, and failed to respond today toa third blood transfusion and an Injection of serum rushed from the State Laboratories in Albany. Wallace, 43.

contracted chicken pox from his two children, Thomas 7. nnd Mnrv Ann fi tu-n Have befole tgken t(J the nosDita, It developed into pneumonia. Smith called for volunteer blood donors, who recently had recovered from Continued on Page 8 Eagle Stars Again As Wartime Cupid Soldier, Sailor Have Girls but Not Much Time So Your Paper Provides the Judge and the Place They're getting used to humming "Here Comes the line rationing in all States east of the Rocky Mountains. Ickes said he could not predict jiow mucn gamine me average motorist win get under the equal- lzatlon plan, but added that In all probability it will mean some in In the Middle West and Southwest. Even with the increased supplies In the East, he said, he doubted there would be enough gasoline for much non-essential driving.

He said the petroleum administration was not at this time announcing any Impending change as to the degree of rationing in the Eocky Mountains or on the Pacific Coast because those areas have relatively large Inventories of gasoline, and there are not now available transportation facilities to move lt to the East. Aim to Spread Burdens Ickes said his announcement re-gulted from long continuing study nd efforts aimed at seeing that, as far as possible, "The burdens of war are spread among all the people as they naturally should be." Experts predicted that one of the first steps taken under the new program will be the allotment of a iixed quota of gasoline for the entire area to be embraced. The current allotment in the Eastern States It 320,700 barrels a day for the third quarter. This allotment includes 10,000 barrels a day of diesel oil for use in heavy duty trucks. The Office of Defense Transportation, which determines the divi-ion of gasoline as between privately -operated automobiles and essential commercial transportation, has asked for an additional 28.283 barrels of gasoline and 4.000 barrels of diesel oil daily; officials indicated that unless the increase was granted ODT would ap- peal th decision to War Production Board Chairman Donald M.

Nelson. Kitchen Gas Crisis Looms in N.Y. Area New York housewives may suffer I (A Bride" at your Eagle, folks. For not only did a sailor and his fiancee from Montezuma, Iowa, seek the newspaper's aid on 'FORTS' DOWN 50 OF FOE OVER EUROPE 3 Formations Sweep Over Holland, Reich Despite Soupy Weather London, July 17 (u.R U. S.

Flying Fortresses dropped heavy bomb loads on Nazi war industries in Amsterdam and northwestern Germany and shot down at -least 50 of 175 attacking fighters today but soupy clouds prevented them from finishing one of their heaviest raids of the Only two Boeing heavyweights were lost from three formations which roared out from British bases on their third operation In eight days. One headed for Amsterdam with U. S. Thunderbolt fighter escorts. Another struck out for 'northwestern Germany and, failing to find the target, ended up by dropping bombs on another area when the clouds opened briefly.

Share in Destruction The third grcjip, falling to find Its target, came home with bomb bays full but its gunners managed to get a share of the total bag of Nazi fighters which drove within a few hundred yards of the forts under the cloud cover. The attacks were made after British and Canadian air assaults on Munich, the Milan and Bologna areas of northern Italy, Axis rail and airfield areas in France and shipping off Norway Friday night. They were a continuation of attacks which reliable air observers believed constituted the first phase of pre-invaslon softening up operations in western Europe. Big four-motored Lancaster bombers hit Italy for the second straight night, leading to speculation they might have "made a shuttle raid from Britain to North Africa and back to Britain as they did for the first time several weeks ago. Power Stations Attacked The Lancasters attacked targets near Bologna as well as the electrical switching and transformer stations at Brugherie and Cislage near Milan.

The grid and trans-Continued on Page 8 Guards at Army Base Fined for Policy Slips Clyde Born, 37, of 4014 10th Long Island City, and William Malanga, 33, of 23-21 25th Astoria, were fined yesterday by S. Commissioner Fay in the Brooklyn Federal Building on a charge of possessing policy slips at the U. S. Army Base, 53d St. Born was fined $25 and Malanga $100.

Commissioner Fay said: 'It would have been a misdemeanor, only that it took place on Federal grounds. You men were employed as guards, a trusted position, and you should have known better." Moses Pleads for O. K. Of 1 -Day Auto Vacation Park Commissioner, in Tejegram to OPA, Says MatfertfinTwait for Further Debate Extension of vacation trip permits to motorists who can get away for only a short time and who cannot leave town for vacations was asked yesterday by Park Commissioner PATTON GAINS 12 MILES TO SEIZE BASE Allied Drives Peril Last Sea, Air Centers In Eastern Sicily Allied Headquarters, North Africa, July 17 (U.R) American forces pushing westward along Sicily's southern coast have captured the transport and communications center of Agrieento. it was an.

nouncd officially tonight as British troops reportedly smashed to within six miles of the east coast of Catania, whose fall appeared Imminent. Catania was ablaze from five days of air and sea bombardment, while the British Eighth Army battled for the vital key to eastern Sicily agaiast the most violent Axis resistance of the Sicilian campaign, other Allied forces drove ten miles oeeper Into the island's interior, capturing four more important com munications centers. Taken in 12-Mile Push Agrigento, southwestern anchor of the Axis line whose defenses had been pounded by the Americans for 48 hours, was taken in 12-mile push by the American Seventh Army under Lt. Gen. George S.

Pat ton. Tha doughboys drove on at the northern end of the American line after taking the Italian base. The fall of Agrigento was announced in a dispatch by United Press correspondent Richard D. McMillan, who obtained the official report at an Allied force command post. The capture marked a notable American gain from Palma, on Sicily's south coast, and the conquest of another important road and rail junction and vital center of communication.

The city is the terminus of important roads leading from Palermo on the north and Trapani on th west to joint high ways to southern and eastern Sicily. Fighting for Gerbin! British forces fanning out across the flat plain of Catania were battling simultaneously for the airport facilities at Gerbinl, 15 miles west Continued on Page 8 Speed Law Test Costs Jamaica OPA Aide $50 New Rochelle, July 17 Acting City Judge Sol Rubin today Imposed a fine of $15 on William Bennett of Jamaica, Queens, an Office of Price Administration Inspector, after Bennett pleaded guilty to a charge of speeding at 50 miles an hour on the Hutchinson River Parkway here July 7. 'Patrolman Frank Mueller of the Westchester County Parkway Police, who arrested Bennett, noted on the information he signed against the inspector that Bennett told him he deliberately invited arrest to see if the law Is being enforced in Westchester. Judge Rubin remarked. "It Is." and he would notify Bennett's local ration board of his alleged violation.

33-Year Sleep Ends In Death for Lovelorn July 17 (U.R) A 33-year sleep, Induced by the suicide of her sweetheart, ended in death today for Anna Swanepoel. The sleep was broken only once. In 1921, when the South African woman regained consciousness fa a brief period. She suffered an attack of hysterical catalepsy in 1910 at the age of 20 when her parents opposed her marriage to a young farmer of Lichtenburg, who killed himself In his grief. WHERE TO FIND IT Af cooking and heating gas shortages S( i.

tu. r. the American Gas Moses. In a telegram to OPA Regional Director Sylvan L. Joseph, Moses said his request was a case of "fair treatment to all people, whether they can go to country places and hotels for needed recreation or can only go a short distance from their homes for a day." Asking for a prompt and, if poi sible, favorable decision, he said the matter cannot wait for further de- bate as only about two months of Summer remain.

Moses' -telegram was but the latest in a series of appeals and attacks by him on the OPAs gas rationing policies. He Dranaea as "idiotic" the original OPA edict providing special vacation for travel to resorts not adequately supplied with railroad or other transportation and pointed out the millions of dollars worth of park and beach facilities in the State and city, under his jurisdiction, which were going to waste because of the driving ban. His ridicule of the vacation permits has gained added weight because of the worthlessness of the "other facility" modification. Local ration boards have virtually ignored this provision in issuing permits. Moses has also protested the pleas-Continued on Page 8 JlCXIl TT ill LCI Association has warned, unless Itrict conservation is practices throughout the country.

i Because of the great consump- and war industries, the association said, the Atlantic Coast States, the Central sections and the Pacific Northwest have become rs fm- mere, of house- in th New York City and Rochester were singled out as especially likely to be hard hit. The AOA, which represents 80 percent of 'he industry, Issued a list of recommendations for gas conservation, stressing insulation to real, heat leaks and construction of RUSSIANS PLUNGE 7 MILES AHEAD IN OREL ASSAULT Fall of German Base Considered Certain Within Day or Two London, July 17 (U.R) Tank-led Russian! assault forces ripping through the hedgehog defenses on the approaches to Orel plunged forward about seven miles today, possibly almost halving the distance between them and the imminently threatened German base. A special Red Army communique confirmed Moscow reports that the Russians were advancing steadily in the three-way drive against the German salient which has been undar attack for five days. Orel's Fall Seen Near Beating down repeated counterattacks by German forces struggling desperately to save their battered bulge, the Red Army of the Orel front advanced 6.8 to 7.4 miles, the broadcast communique said. The military expert of the London Sunday Dispatch said the fall of Is practically certain within the next day or two." A Berlin radio commentator said the Russians were attacking in one sector alone with more than 100,000 men, 500 guns and 300 tanks.

He reported "tremendous" tank battles. It was the third straight day of gains for the Russians in their first Summer offensive of the war. Twenty-four hours earlier they had announced advances of six to ten miles. Blast 168 Nazi Tanks Though the course of the Orel battle line was not clear, the Soviet attackers appeared to have driven to within 15 miles of the city to the east. If the new plunge were in the same sector, the spearhead would be scarcely more than seven miles from Orel.

On Friday the Russians destroyed or damaged 168 German tanks and shot down 106 planes along and over the Orel and Kursk fronts, the special bulletin said. Below the Orel salient toward Kursk, the Soviet high command reported, Soviet forces are driving ahead after two days of fighting which fully restored the positions they held before the Germans launched their abortive offensive on the Orel-Belgorod line July 5. Only patrol activity was reported at the Belgorod end of the front, where the Germans continued attacks of diminishing force after it became evident that their offensive had fizzled out. Boro Doctor Arraigned On Prescription Charge Dr. Samuel Reiss.

46, of 501 E. 21st and Mrs. Yetta Kreisner, 35, of 110 Delancey Manhattan, were arraigned yesterday in Brooklyn Weekend Court before Special Sessions Justice Troy on charges of violating Section 438 of the Public Health Law, and were released In $500 bail each for hearing in Flat-bush Court on Aug. 2. Roger J.

Rooney, a detective attached to the Empire Boulevard station, charged that Dr. Reiss had issued a prescription for morphine sulphate in the name of Rose Geller, knowing it was a fictitious name, and that he gave It to Mrs. Kreisner, who. police aald, is a sisteifyjjjf of Uv doctor. Thomas W.

Wallace Set New Date Tuesday for Lepke's Execution Preparations were being made yesterday to have Louis (Lepke) Buchalter i.i Albany before the State Court of Appeals Tuesday for the setting of a new execution date following the first official confirmation that the Federal government was going to release Buchalter from nis 14-year narcotic sentence. The State's victory, to have Buchalter and his two pals (Mendy) Weiss and Louis Capone, pay the penalty for the murder of a Brook lyn storekeeper in 1936, was revealed exclusively in the Brooklyn Eagle Friday, Weiss and Capone are now at Sing Sing. Required by Law It was pointed out yesterday by Judge Franklin Taylor, Brooklyn County Court Judge who presided at the trial in 1941, that the resen tencing of the trio is required by law and that there is no discretion by the Court of Appeals Involved. The reason for the delay In the execution of the three men was an unsuccessful legal fight that went all the way up to the U. S.

Supreme Court, nation's highest tribunal, as the convicted men sought to escape the electric chair. Received Instructions The official news that the Department of Justice was going to release Buchalter came yesterday from Warden Edward E. Thompson of the Federal House of Detention, Manhattan, where Buchalter is now confined. Thompson revealed he had received instructions to have the "king of racketeers" in Albany 9 a.m. Tuesday.

The government's stubborn refusal to release him brought to mind Buchalter's boast that he would implicate many big names in a racketeering scandal If he ever faced the electric chair. He also bragged at one time that he would never "burn" in the Sing Sing death house. 7 Teeth at 7 Days to join them in matrimony, but 3 Jap Warships Sunk, 49 Planes Downed in Raid -200. Allied Planes Stage Greatest Attack In Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters, Australia, Sunday, July 18 (U.Rl Allied airplanes attacked Buinfaisi with "brilliant results," sinking seven Japanese ships, a communique announced today. The ships included one cruiser or destroyer leader, two destroyers, a subchaser, a tanker and two cargo ships, the communique said.

It was announced that 49 Japanese fighter planes were downed in a great aerial combat which resulted, with six of our planes missing. A headquarters spokesman said that over 2C Allied planes participated in the greatest attack in the South-Southwest Pacific during the war. Allied Headquarters In Australia, July 18 (U.R) Allied patrols forged ahead against light oppo-sion less than seven miles from the Jap base of Salamaua, New Guinea, today, while at the other end of the 750-mile South Pacific line American forces driving on Munda were being held up by strong enemy defenses. A United Press dispatch from the New Guinea front said that Allied patrols were meeting little resistance as they smashed northward from the recaptured Mubo area toward the Bondubi Ridge sector, four miles southwest of Salamaua. To the east another Allied force was pushing toward Komiatum, strong enemy position six miles south of Salamaua.

In the air Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney's meen of the 5th U. S.

Air Force kept the Salamaua area under steady bombardment. DODGERS BEAT BRAVES; CARDS LOSE 2 GAMES The Dodders, aided by two homers by Dolph Camilli, ham-bled the Braves, 7 to 5, to creep within three and a half games of the Cards, who lost two games to the Pirates. Joe Medwick, making bis debut with the Giants, went hitless the first game but collected two hits in the nightcap as tha Giants, after losing the first, 21. won the second, 87. The Yankees won In the ninth over the Athletics, 54.

Apache won the Fleetwing Han. dicap, feature race on the Jamaica rard, before 26.641 eus tomera who bet more than S2, 000,000. Friday in locating a minister yesterday two service couples sought the aid of the newspaper In overcoming the difficulties naturally inherent In locating a justice to perform civil ceremonies on a Summer Saturday. "Xnd they" "not only got their Judge but the weddings were held right In the Eagle Building. In the board of directors room to be exact with some of the Eagle family reporters, printers and so on as interested spectators.

The couples, victims of the impossibility of getting extended leave in wartime, came to the Eagle after being unable to find officials in the Marriage License Bureau or nearby courts. Both wanted to have civil marriages at this time, to be followed as soon as possible by religious ceremonies and the more gracious atmosphere of home weddings. 3 of the Principals Brooklynites Sgt. William O'Brien. 22, of 507 Dean and Harriet Hackett, 20, of 487 Dean arrived with Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Meyer of 487 Dean St. iMrs. Meyer being the prospective bride's sister, Dorothy). Continued on Page 8 Woman's Body Found In Charles River Boston, July 17 (U.R) The fully-clothed body of an unidentified woman was recovered from the Charles River near Havey Beach in West Roxbury by metropolitan police today.

Police had searched for the woman sinces her coat and hat were found on the shore last night. Lt. (j.g.) Adam Rother Clifton, where she met Lieutenant Rother. Last month, they said, she started to work for the War Shipping Administration, 45 Broadway, Manhattan. atorm-windows.

Coast Guard Officer Held in Girl's Murder Word came from Washington hat the Solid Fuels Administration is working on a plan for equit able allocation of hard coal. The program is scheduledto go Into effect September 1, ALLEGED SPY'S WIFE QUITTING STATEN ISLAND TO SEARCH WORK Mrs. William Lehmltz, 64, whose jiusband, Ernest, was arrested by the FBI on June 28 on a charge of furnished Information of United States troop movements to the German Government, revealed yesterday that she plans to leave Staten Island "as soon as possible." Mrs. Lehmltz, interviewed at her home, 123 Oxford Place, Tompkins- iville, said, "I have no plans but I must do something to make a liv'-4n-" Her husband is now In the Federal House of Detention. Manhattan, awaiting action of a Federal grand Jury.

Asked if she had made any attempt to see her husband, Mrs. Le limits said "No; I don't plan to see him. It's too much, He has hurt me so much and brought ma such sorrow, He mortgaged everything, took out Joans and played the horses. My home is gone and I'm selling all my fumittir. If I can't get work I I'll have to go on relief." Two Trains Added For L.

I. Rush Hour Long Island Railroad commuters bound for Babylon, Patchogue and Hempstead during the evening rush hours will find two new trains inserted in the schedule. New moves, revealed yesterday, include extra helpers, a new night repair force and the holding up of a New Haven train for an hour if it is late six minutes or more. They follow a rising tide of complaints against delays in travel. Recent inconveniences have been blamed by the road on bus and auto restrictions which resulted in heavy weekend travel and on tfte draft which has left trains undermanned.

The new trains from New York include one at 8:07 p.m. to relieve the passenger burden of the 8:04 bound for Babylon and Patchogue and one at 8:37 p.m. to relieve the 8:31 for Hempstead. The holding up of the New Haven train, considered a drastic move because lt may inconvenience Washington-bound New Englanders, would remove many complaints about Old 817, tha Port Jefferson train. Hatless and in shirt sleeves, 41-year-old Lieut, (j.g.) Adam Rother, a Coast Guard officer, was held without bail yesterday charged with murder earlier in the day of Rita Costello, 28, a Government stenographer, in a parked taxi on Bay near Pier 18, where he is stationed.

Lieutenant Rother, whose wife lives in New London, was calm at the arraignment in Magistrate's Court, Stapleton, S. and told Magistrate Keutgen that "I would like some time to get in touch with friends and relatives." Found dazed early yesterday morning standing beside the cab where the pretty stenographer's bullet-riddled body lay, Lieutenant Rother told police that the gun had gone off during a struggle. The officer, whose address was given as '64 Tompkins Staple-ton, said Miss Costello had threatened to tell his wife that he was the father of the stenographer's unborn child. He also said he had already given her several hundred dollars. According to Miss Oostello's brothers, sha wa employed until June at the Marine Hospital in Bride 14 ObllaariM ia Ciaba 17 Parratt tl CrMftWAri SS Radl 3ft Dr.

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