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Brmklyn patfne I Clra Mul Malta BROOKLYN, N. TUESDAY, 3IARCII 19, 1940 (Coprrlfbl I SI Th. Br.oklra Daily Eafla) THREE CENTS IP A M1IP 1) ESTO o)o) fo)e Herzka Becomes Grover Whalen Of Brooklyn, Dons Gardenia Peace Hopes Empty, Says Roosevelt Aide City Planners Act to Rush Tunnel Fund Asks Appropriation To Provide for Site Of Construction Shaft Swiftly slashing through the Wife ofF. D. Jr.

Hurt As Horse Falls on Her Offers Cash In Cell to Hush Story Murder-for-Profit Racket Traced Back To Yale Killing in '28 Brooklyn's gangdom reached into West Side Jail in an effort to stop District Attorney O'Dwyer's prosecution of the murder-for-money racket with a $5,000 bribe offer, it was revealed today. At the same time Mr. O'Dwyer revealed that activities cf the astounding racket in human lives went as far back as July 1, 1923, when Frankic Yale, known also as Uale. was slain while he drove jl A A I liilllllltj ih. necessary red tape leading to con struction of the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel, the City Planning Commis sion today unanimously adopted a report recommending that the capi tal outlay budget for 1940 be re opened to provide for acquisition of a site for the Brooklyn construction shaft and ventilation building for the tube.

The commission asked that be appropriated for this purpose and for easements giving the tunnel right of way through abutting property from the shaft to the waterfront. The Board of Estimate, at its special meeting on the tube last week, asked the Planning Commission to act to reopen the budget, since it is from this body that all such action must be initiated. The com- i mission's report now goes to the Board of Estimate and the City Council for approval. The Board of Estimate had asked that tioo.000 be reauested for the work of constructing the shaft, but1! 7cZV'A A lr i I lift i i Plunging into his new tasks with both hands, Lloyd I. Herzka, new secretary to the Borough President and Brooklyn's "Grover adjusts his gardenia with left hand and holds secretarial pencil In right.

(Eagli Staff photo.) Reports to U. S. From Abroad Belie Headlines, Early Declares Washington, March 19 (Py Stephen Early, a Presidential secretary, said today that on the basis of authoritative reports received by the American Government, "peace head-lines would appear to be very empty." The White House aide asserted that no information had been transmitted to this Government to support published stories that 11 points had been suggested as a basis for European peace at yesterday's conference between Adolf Hitler and Premier Mussolini, Asked whether he could say anything about reports from Rome, Early replied: "Nothing more than that I think you can say, on the basis of all authorized reports received by this Government, which have been made available to the President and have been carefully read and analyzed by him, there seems to be no basis In fact for reports published in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, or other capitals that give an authoritative basis for peace; that the publication of those reports should not change the opinions of newspaper readers of this country and others by giving them hope for peace or cause for despair of peace. "In other words," Early continued, "on the basis of authoritative reports this Government has received from representatives through the world, particularly "in Europe, peace headlines would appear to be very empty." F. D.

BACK ON JOB, STILL ILL Washington, March IB 0J.R) President Roosevelt, although still running six-tenths of a degree of fever, returned to his executive offices today to resume his official business. Still suffering from a severe head cold and with a temperature reading of 99.2 degrees, the President resumed work on a limited He planned to hold his first press conference in ten days. He scheduled conferences with Budget Director Harold Smith, Mayor LaGuardia of New York and Judge Ben Lindsay of Los Angeles. Talk Free Worship Vatican City, March 19 Pi Germany and the Vatican are negotiating an arrangement to safeguard the interests of Catholics in territories annexed by Germany, a reliable Vatican source said today. The informant said the negotiations were being conducted in Berlin by Monsignor Cesare Orsenigo, Papal Nuncio to the German Government.

Pope Pius XII was believed to have discussed the matter with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop when he was received in audience here March 11. The agreement would apply to Austria, the Bohemia-Moravia protectorate and the German-occupied part of Poland. New Greeter Even NeaterThan Namesake, More Ambitious, yBoTr President Mr. and Mrs. Frankli Jr, By CHARLES GRUTZNER JR.f Brooklyn's "Grover Whalen" adopted a shy attitude behind his gardenia today and said: "No comment." Lloyd I.

Herzka, appointed this morning as secretary to Borough President Cashmore and described by his boss as "a second Grover TriggQrMvK Of Gaiig Fail In Physics Discovery of Bodies In Lakes Reveals Killers' Weak Spots Defeats Plan To Try Judges jState Senate Spikes Proposal for Court To Decide Ousters Trigger men, schooled in murder fn- fu Brooklyn ring uncovered by District Attorney O'Dwyer's office, learned their lessons well but flunked their anatomy and physics courses. Their failure to understand the tissues nt tho human hrviv mo responsible for the fact that the crime ring Js being smashed, Assis-I conferences "with several other per- tant District Attorney Burton B.ison,s' otner than Re'es and Gold- i ii. i i stein. sairf of. whih vAfVi.4 i the nronnspri rih hu.

a flashy new car along a quiet Bay Ridge street. Several investigations and much speculation followed the Yale killing, at the height of the mad prohibition and jazz era, but no solution of the crime was ever reached. Today Mr. O'Dwyer would not reveal the basis for renewed activity, confining himself to the flat statement that the Yale murder case investigation, closed for many years, had been reopened. The effort at bribery was made, according to Mr.

O'Dwyer, with all the bold effrontery usually credited to cinema racketeers of the Little Caesar type. Only five days after indictments were handed up Feb. 2 against Abe Reles, Martin (Bugg-sy) Goldstein, and Anthony (The Duke) Maffetore, charging them with the murder of Alexander (Red) Alpert. an offer of $5,000 was made to Harry Rudolph, eyewitness to the Alpert murder. LINKS FROSCH TO BRIBE On Feb.

7, according to the story I fold Mr. O'Dwyer, while Rudolph was in a cell of the West Side Court, Manhattan, detention prison, he ww approached by Abraham Froech, thf a prisoner to an adjoining cell. Frosch told him, according to Rudolph, that ''My mether will get you 5,000 buckS-nf VO DUt Reles and Buggsy on the street" Frosch has pleaded guilty to perjury and forgery in ball bond fraud! and his mother, Lena, also in the ball bond business, has been indicted on similar charges, to which she pleaded not guilty. Mr. O'Dwyer said that he nad Alhn.

11 inai oi ku- Key witness in me murder to the 5- ftternpted fix And he added, "It i ls information than that Which Rudolph gives us." He did n''ndicatf wnat tne nature of that i additional information was or wrMro iv no ivuuug num. mere were i cusse- Some of these have since been indicted for murder. Froscl. mother. Lena, and her son-in-law, Abraham I.

Cohen, Mr. O'Dwyer revealed, had posted bail bonds totaling $117,300 since Jan. 1 last, after Mrs. Frosch's activities Continued on Page 2 Aged Executive Spared Jail Term Harry A. Kahler, 76-year-old chairman of the board of the New York Title and Mortgage Company, today was sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison by Federal Judge Goddard in Manhattan, who immediately suspended the sentence an dplaced the elderly banker on probation for two years.

Mr. Kahler pleaded guilty to mail fraud and conspiracy last November at the outset of the trial of four hn- tfl rr.1-- mortgage certificates outstanding. Investors In the company lost millions of dollars, it was brought out at the trial, at which three of the were convicted. The i U'' presiuraw "'8eraipnson terms. Assembly Passes Bill Hitting False Radio Ads Albany, March 19 The Goldstein bill, which makes it a misdemeanor to broadcast untrue and misleading advertising by radio, was passed in the Assembly today.

Tropical Park Results RACE Two-year-olds: half mile. Within J.60 S.70 2 60 Mv Ore Ecrrd) 4.70 4.20 Star Blink (W.L. J'monl 14.30 Time-0 47 2-5. Staid Lady. Too Eur, Wlr.e Wrack, Paclfirr.

Snappy Heela. Nowj, Emollient, All Even also ran. (Off-time, 210. SECOND racs Deliua, flrit; IVl second: Adolf, third. Some Horn luiiihei thirl but wa Whalen, only neater and more am- bitious" felt quite un-Whalenlshly diffident when interviewed about the role he is to play at Borough Hall.

No strutting for Mr. Herzka, no chesty posturing. The only conces sion he made to his unofficial title was to pin on the lapel of his well-tailored pin-stripe suit the gardenia which a reporter rushed out to buy as soon as the words "Grover Whalen" passed the Borough President's lips. MAY BE SELF-CONSCIOUS Maybe it's because Brooklyn Is more of a home borough and less theatrical than Manhattan. Maybe "neatness," as understood at Borough Hall, means a smiling modesty combined with a pleasing appearance.

Or It might be that the 31-year-old appointee, finding himself brand-new in a $5,800 official Job and a high-sounding unofficial title, was just self-conscious and chary. Tomorrow, when he has had a little more experience in greeting the Borough President's visitors and giving the soft answer to embattled civic delegations, the black-haired secretary, who even looks a little like a junior Grover, may act up Continued on Page 18 Speed Bill Permitting Visitors for Insane Eaale Bureau Capitol Bulldinr Albany, March 19 The Assembly today passed the bill of Assemblyman Fred G. Moritt, Brooklyn Democrat, which provides that any taken into temporary custody for alleged insanity shall be permitted to communicate with relatives and receive visits from them. The measure now goes to the Senate for action. investigation showed that the easements would be necessary and the extra $50,0000 was added.

Assessed value of the property on which easements must be obtained is $88,800. The site of the poposed shaft Is boundd roughly by Van Brunt Hamilton Richard St. and Rapelye St. Preceding adoption of the report the commission was open for a public hearing but since no one appeared for the hearing, the commission proceeded to act. Rexford Guy Tug-well, chairman of the commission, asked Pearson Shortridge, manager of the Tunnel Authority for a statement, Mr.

Shortridge declined, declaring that he believed the matter was well understood by all concerned. i 5-ManNLRB Asked in House Labor Committee Votes 14-3 to Add 2 Members to Board Washington, March 19 (U.R) The Wagner Act battle appeared headed toward possible compromise at this session of Congress when the House Labor Committee today recommended addition of two new members to the present three-man National Relations Board. The committee's action approved by a 14 to 3 vote was taken to indicate that the Administration has modified its long adamant stand against any Wagner Act changes. A vote on this proposal at the present session of Congress was regarded as likely. Confirmation of this may be given by President Roosevelt at his press conference this afternoon.

He has been reported to be contemplating a statement on the Wagner Act fight. The two-member increase on the NLRB was offered as the Administration's answer to the Special Labor Board inquiry headed by Chair-Continued on Page 18 Squalus Hero Returns To Join Her New Crew Portsmouth, N. March 19 CP When the submarine Squalus renamed the Sailflsh Is recommis-sioned next Summer one of he.r crew will be Lloyd B. Mahess, whose "super" feat of strength saved 33 lives when, the submersible plunged to disaster' last May 23. Maness, electrician's mate third class, who Jammed shut a watertight door between the flooded after-battery compartment and the dry control returned to Portsmouth today for service on the submarine.

Amnesia Victim Shown Around Mrs. Marie Corbett, 40, went around her own home at 187 Roosevelt St, Valley Stream today, led by the loving hands of her husband and three children. "Look mother, here's your sewing stand in the corner," 14-year-old Marie said. The mother smiled, but there was no recognition in her patient, tired eyes. "Here's the cookie Jar, may we have some?" chorused Raymond and Adrian, aged 11 and 10.

Mechanically, the mother gave her boys crackers from the Jar but there was no indication that she realized what she was doing. Former Ethel du Pont Suffers Pelvic Injury In Hunting Accident Charlottesville, Marfch.lB VP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt wl'e of the President's son, suffered a fractured pelvis and brain concussion in a fall from a horse while riding with the Farmington Hunt near here today, An attending physician at University Hospital, where Mrs. Roosevelt was brought for treatment, said her condition was satisfactory.

The accident occurred as Mrs. Roosevelt attempted to take her mount over a picket fence at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Funsten. The horse fell on the rider.

She was rendered unconscious. Young Roosevelt was attending classes at the University of Virginia Law School when he was informed of the accident. His wife Is the former Ethel dupont. Ex-Playboy Held In 3d Wife's Fall Pittsburgh, March 19 (U.R) Mrs. Patricia Silvertooth McCready, third wife of Harrison R.

McCready, onetime Pittsburgh playboy, was injured seriously today in a fall from a fifth floor of a hotel to the roof of a two-story adjoining building. Police said that Mrs. McCready accused her husband of pushing her and they began an immediate search for McCready. He had disappeared from the hotel room before officers arrived. Arrested several hours later while walking on a street with their pet dog on a leash, McCready, 33, was held by police on a charge of aggravated assault and battery.

He denied pushing his wife from the window, but was too drunk, officers said, to give a coherent account of what happened. He asked why the charge was placed against him and an officer replied: "Your wife is in the hospital; she says you pushed her out of the hotel room." McCready claimed he left his wife in their room and had gone out to take the dog for a walk. methods by which it was figured the i bodies of victims would rest forever on tne muddy beds of Catskill Mountain lakes. Due to decomposition, Turkus explained, gas which normally fills the stomach after death will float a body upward to the surface. To prevent this, he declared, the abdomen of Walter Sage was pierced freely before the body was tossed, anchored by a slot machine and a huge rock.

Into Swan Lake last year. The perpetrator or perpetrators of the crime, however, forgot that fatty-tissues surround the stomach and failed to penetrate deep enough. The body consequently floated to the surface two days later. Another mistake made with the disposal of Sage's body, Turkus revealed, is that Swan Lake is what experts have described after temperature tests as a "warm" body of water. Another victim, whose name Turkus would not reveal, was thrown into nearby Loch Sheldrake, the water of which is much colder.

It Albany, March 19 (JPy New York's Senate defeated today a proposed constitutional amendment to per- mit trial of Judges by the Court of Anneals after bitter debate echoine uvtrr wit remvvai ncm- ing of Kings County Judge George W. Martin. Republican Senator William H. Hampton. Utica, declared in opposition that the proposal would "destroy the independence of the judiciary" and would set up a group of judges with "hammers" to "bring down on others." Democratic Senator Elmer Quinn, New York City, asserted he had "no apology" for giving Judge Martin a "fair, honest, Impartial trial" and said the Desmond measure would prevent judges giving decisions "without fear or favor." The proposed- amendment was defended by Senator Benjamin Feinberg, Plattsburg Republican, chairman of Judiciary Committee.

A similar provision was written by the committee into its proposed general revision of the constitutional Judiciary article, now pending. "Vnn enti't Instill confidence into the judiciary," he asserted, "unless need fear removal under this pro- posal If he behaves himself." Chamberlain Defies Hitler Tells Commons Allies Are Ready to Meet Any Move by Foe London, March 19 (U.R) Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain defiantly declared today before the House of Commons that the Allied powers are ready to meet any challenge by Adolf Hitler and will refuse to be diverted from their primary war aim of crushing Nazi aggression. At the same time in the House of Lords Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax defined, during debate on the war situation, British policy in view of the Russo-Finnish peace. "Your lordships can rest well assured that we shall not be deflected from our main objection, which is to defeat Germany, by fear that any particular action on our part at any time might damage our relations with the Soviet Union," he said. "I do not think that I can define British policy more concisely at 'this stage than The Allied view of peace terms is comparable to that outlined by President Roosevelt in his speech Saturday calling for elimination of huge armies and restoration of stable world relations, the Prime Minister emphasized in what was tantamount Continued on Page 18 well-defined "They were: alms," Gayda wrote.

"1. Construction of a more just Europe based on equality of rights. "2. Protection of Italian interests in this new Europe, alongside a safeguarding of German interests." ENVISIONS LONG CONFLICT Gayda said that the European war presented Itself as a long, difficult and complex conflict full of events which could not be predicted. "Among the problems of various orders of equilibrium collaboration of interests which form the spirit and basis of the axis and the Italo-German alliance were affirmed," Gayda wrote.

The tone of the Italian press, including Gayda's editorial, indicated that the Brenner Pass meeting had failed to draw from Hitler any further concessions for a basis for peace discussions. It was suggested here that Mussolini may have told Hitler that German peace terms would not bring the Allies into discussions and that the two dictators then turned Continued on Page 18 Duce, Hitler Sought Not Peace, in Talk, Says Gayda took eight months for that corpse;" auPnae to float to the surfare of Insurance took oover the mort- to float to the surface. I gage companVi wWch had tm 000 in mortgages and guaranteed Clouds Won't SIlOW Sliver Lining 1 orlay Skies wUl remain partly today, tonight and tomorrow and Rome, March 19 (U.R) Premier Benito Mussolini met Fuehrer Adolf Hitler at Brennero yesterday to discuss construction of a "more Just" Europe and to protect Italian interests, Virginlo Gayda, who is close to the Foreign Office, wrote in the Giornale d'ltalia today. Gayda denied that Hitler and Mussolini discussed a peace offensive and he ridiculed reports that II Duce had a mission of pacification in Europe. "The Brenner Pass talks had two temperatures will be moderate, was acquitted.

Weather Bureau reported this morn- T- former pres-ing. At 9 a.m. the temperature was! ld0.nt;, 10 tw 'ears 40 and it was not expected to rise i and flned 00- ls fre batl much above that at any time during rntimf appeal. H. Pushae Wll-the day.

The lowest temperature former chairman of the exec-last night was 35. recorded at 4 a.m. ee. and Hubert F. Introduced to Her Children, Own Home Like Stranger cnarge irom me nopsitai at a.m..;day held one pan-American Clipper sat all day waiting for his wife, whoj at 8 p.m.

walked up to Patrolman Clippers arrived at Horta in the William Klley of the W. 100th St. Azores. A fourth Clipper carrying passengers and mail was forced to station, Mannattan, 0n special back Lubon Portugai after near Madison Square Garden, and taking off en route to the Azores. stranger today In her own home at 18 itooseven vaney dream, She had driven yesterday to Brooklyn to bring back her husband, John, who had spent three weeks in St.

Catherine's Hospital gradually recovering from an attack of i pleurisy. But it was John who took I his wife home, after a doctor fromi riS1! Weather conditions at sea yester- at Baltimore, although two other! according to an Associated Press re- Pon- fr-r rwy Miles of Road- rn 1 Washlngton, March 19 VP) WPA workers were credited by Commissioner F. C. Harrington today with having built, reconstructed or im- proved 457.000 miles of roads and Navy's Floating Drydock Starts for Honolulu New Orleans, March 19 (VP) The United States navy moved toward greater strengthening of American defenses in the Pacific today as naval tugs got up steam to start a floating drydock on its way to Pearl Harbor, Honolulu 6,000 miles away. The tugs will pull out into the Mississippi and head down river with the massive 40-year-old dry-dock.

It will be the largest device ever taken through the Panama Canal. It will be utilized at Pearl Harbor to drydock all except Uncle Sam's largest battleships. said she was "in a fog." Kilev took her to the W. 47th police found in I her handbag viiiting card viiiting card from her husband's name. When Corbett In the Eagle Today Tut Books iO Lott and Found Brain Teuer 20 Norel go Cauel'i Cartoon Obltuariei Clifford Evani 11 Pattern Id Croiiword 2n Politics Dr.

Brady tt Radio to Ed llnfhea IS Real Eitato in Editorial Robert Qulllrn tl Eventa Tonifht- 17 Hhlpplni 17 Financial lfl-17 Roeletr 6 Garden Corner 9(1 Sporta 12-14 Grin and Bear It Theatera 1 Heffernan 11 Want Ada 18-10 Helen Worth Waihlniton 11 Jimmy Wood 12 Weather 18 Um tn Llnere 17 Woman aiiq at nome wjuay, Mrs. voiutaust. Catherine Hospital. On it was arrived ot tho r.ti 1 LiilJUr had to be introduced again to her three children, her husband reported, and she had to be taken about the house and shown where the kitchen was, and which was the living room. It was all very strange to her, unrecognizable.

Oorbett, who received his dls- Corbett did not recognize him His eyes filled with tears over her failure to recognize him when he called her by name. Corbett ln- sisted on taking her home instead of sending her to a hospital. tree 14 in four and half rears..