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-TV 2'j KB 633702 0 Sports Complete WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm tonight and tomorrow Wall Street Financial News 7T 103d Year. No. 175. DAILY SUNDAY (CmrrteM 144 BROOKLYN, N. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1944 3 CENTS SUSSES? cSS Brook ly Suit.

In I Symwsl!" tf Gsasin) (2) ffll HfilT bMJL (ffiffllllrji fli II Ml SWIM Nazi Commander Surrenders, Leaves Men to Fight It Out BRITISH TAKE 8 VILLAGES IN CAEN ADVANCE GOP Accepts Plank Assailed by Willkie ORSHA TAKEN, SMASHING NAZI BASTION 'Fatherland Line' Falls Apart Under Soviet Blows tensive fighting written on his features. Then he strode rapidly up the glairs tr meet the American general who had forced, his surrender. The American general sat In shirtsleeves at his desk. He shook hands formally but allowed Von Sehlieben to stand while he ques his troops, who were fighting In isolated groups. From a moral standpoint, the American general asked, how could he justify surrendering himself while permitting his men to fight on hopelessly.

Von Sehlieben shrugged his big shoulders and explained that it had BT HENRY T. GORRF.I.L I Field Headquarters, U. S. Troops. Cherbourg Area, June 26 (Delayed) i (U R) Lt.

Gen. Carl Wilhelm von Sehlieben, Nazi commander of the Cherbourg fortress, stepped out of an American jeep and llinched as L. nU nrJ his arrival at American headquarters as a prisoner. h. i kf.

I tioned him through an Interpreter ill pirn whip ill ivm iiihl Committee's Fight May Delay Dewey's Convention Visit By JOSEPH H. SCHMALACKER Chicago, June 27 The inability of the Republican platform committee to complete its work on time this after MARTIN URGES BATTLE TO END REGIMENTATION -Calls on Democrats To Support Struggle Ignores Ex-Leader's Criticism of Foreign Policy Resolution Convention Chicago, June 27 U.R The full resolutions committee of the 1944 Republican Convention today approved, virtually without change a foreign policy plank which last night door-a hulking figure ot a man.l The German said emphatically: achieve major delays. Army forces, stampeding over six feet tall, with gorilla-like j'Nein." He acknowledged that he when his questioning- was com- through the crumbled Ger-shoulders the strain of days of was out of contact with most of Continued on Page man defenses Of White Rus 'small groups of die-hards could, BOMBERS BLAST AXIS EUROPE IN 3-WAY ATTACK Allied Airmen Pound Knife-Wielding Thug RoBs Boro Girl in Home noon became a new factories youthwestr of Caen in a threatening to delay the ar-jbig scale offensive opening a rival of Governor Dewey, new phase of tne Normandy was ne reaay to surrenuer uie nr hi. large knife. He took two rings from her fingers, and fled without.

harming "her when she managed to elude him and ran screaming down the hallway. The. man tried to hide in the hall way of an adjoining building. A man Grew criticism irom weimeu Chicago Stadium, June 27 L. Willkie, the 1940 Presi- (U R)Xne Republican leader dential nominee, and by the HoU5Ci RepreSentative group of Republican Gov-, Jogeph Martin Jr (Mass ernors.

'summoned Republicans and Bergen St. Student Faces Threat of Death As Intruder Tears Rings From Fingers Miss Christina Schwerdtman, 17, a pupil in the High School for Homemaking, was held prisoner for more than an hour in the kitchen of her home, 967 Bergen early Budapest Military Bases, minent Red Army threats to Mogi-Ynnntliuln Pnlnnri i lev. the last stronghold of the occupant of the building tried vain-1 alarms indicated that the bombard-ly to apture him. After a shortlment was continuing this evening London June 27 (U P) Powerful! formations of American and British heavy bombers, from Britain, the Mediterranean and Russia smashed at targets In France, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland today. A burst of frantic enemy radio with a new American raid on south western Germany.

Mediterranean-based Flying Fortresses and Liberators opened the bombardment with a powerful blow at military targets around Budapest and the Brod railway yards in Yugoslavia. The Eastern Command of the U. S. Strategic Air Force announced in Moscow that American heavy bombers operating from Rus- czy, in Poland, on Monday. The heavy bomoers were escorted on their mission bv Amerirnn MnlanoK! and by Yaks of the Red Air Force.

The on southeastern Europe was launched by two great: aerial task sibly 1.000 forces, numbering pos fighters, that battled through enemy i pursuit, the man escaped in the darkness after turning the corner from Bergen St. into Franklin Ave. Aided by a description given by Mi.ss Schwerdtman, police began a search for the assailant, whom the victim described as a Negro. Asleep in the apartment while Miss Schwerdtman was held pris oner were her father, Henry, a ship yard worker; her brother. Pvt.

George S. Schwerdtman. on fur ltugh from Fort Meade. andisian bases attacked a German-oper today by a man armed with a 2 FEDERAL MEN ARE JAILED FOR TAX 'SHAKEDOWN' Six Trials Pending; FBI Hints Additional Arrests to Follow With the sentencing today in Brooklyn Federal Court of two of the eight deputy collectors attached t0 the Federal Income Tax Bureau, 210 Livingston it became known that the arrest of additional taches of that olfice for down" taxpayers is imminent. Since March the Brooklyn office! has been undergoing an investiga tion by the Intelligence Unit of the Treasury Department.

The probe has been so effective that Judge Grover M. MoscowiU commended Hugh McQuillan and the half-dozen operatives, working under him. The pair sentenced were Joseph Bogats. 46, 3401 Avenue and Archie N. Maslow, 43, 295-A Pulaski St Bogats, 26 years in Government service, received two and- one-half years imprisonment, to be followed by a two-year Dioba.tionarv period.

Maslow, a lawyer, who has been a shakingiMary, her two sisters, Margaret, 15, andlated synthetic oil plant at Drohob- 14. HUoC yicxm-c iti uic tun vention is being demanded by the delegates here. Although the report on the platform committee was scheduled for presentation at the convention's forenoon session a session marked by the absence of many delegates DEWEY WRITES SPEECH i Albany, K. June tl (U.R) Got-ernor Dewey Is working this after noon on the speech he will give in acceptance of the Republican nomination at Chicago, it was learned today. Later be plans to go over it with his executive secretary, Paul Lockwood; James C.

Hagerty, his executive assistant, and Elliott V. Bell, State Superintendent of Banks. from their places in the convention arena the committee was still struggling with its work behind closed doors in the committee room at the Hotel Stevens. Shortly after 1 p.m. (Brooklyn time) the committee completed and gave out the text of Its proposed foreign relations plank, as revised after several hours more of deliberation.

The committee, in releasing the plank, emphasized it was solely in "proposed form." Adoption of the platform had been hoped for by the convention managers to clear the decks for tomorrow's nomination of Governor Dewey as the party's standard bearer in the Presidential race. The Governor's departure from Albany is geared closely to the convention timetable and his spokesmen here have Insisted that he does not propose to leave before his nomination is accomplished. His managers here continued to remain in frequent communication with him. Herbert H. Brownell Jr.

of the draft-Dewey strategy board was in a press conference in the Stevens Hotel hen he was called out to talk to Dewey on the telephone. The New York G. O. P. group maintained silence on Wendell L.

Willkie 's crit icism of the foreign relations plank. tner convention news and pic tures on 3- Reports were circulated a 23-pas-senger plane was ready for the Governor and a big group of newspapermen who have been "holding the fort" at Albany. A prominent member of the New Yort State Republican administration was asked whether the Republican managers were aware of the Continued on Page 3 Delaware Park Results 1 Threeply, stone. 10.10. ooo.

fl 70. 8 60: whri.iss 5.50; Nanah. 15.90. off For a 'Free Society' By LyLE W1LS0N anti-fourth term Democrats today to a "war between two eternally hostile ideologies" between the New Deal and "regimented" the one hand and the G. O.

P. and a "free" society on the other. Martin rallied perspiring dele gates to the Republican National Convention in a free swinging speech shortly after he was elected permanent convention chairman, the same post he held lour years ago at Philadelphia. He addressed a convention which already had made up its mind to nominate. Governor Dewev of New York for President in an all-out attempt to drive from office an ad ministration which has held power Continued on Page 3 Bendix Employes Won'l Work-But 'There's No Strike' Workers in the Bendix Aviation Corporation's three Brooklyn plants left their jobs today.

They said they will not return until the company names another labor relations representative to re place Ralph McGruther in an effort to iron out difficulties. Members of Local 853, United Automobile Workers of America C. I. adopted the stay-out resolution at a meeting today in the Bedford Branch Y. M.

C. Bed ford Ave. and Monroe attended by about 700 of the workers. Company officials admitted that 95 percent of the personnel has Tailed to return to work, but they were uncertain whether it was a strike or a walkout, unauthorized or nt hprnicp Leariers of the local, including Prank d'Azevedo, president; Leonard Catalano, shop chairman, and Wil liam Greenspan, made it clear to the members: "This is not a strike; Continued on Page 9 Charles Town Results 1 Our Orphan. 7 00.

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2.80 Oft time. 3:37. aCrlder entry. RESULTS New Big Offensive In Normandy Causes Nazi LOSSeS Ot 70,000 Allied Supreme Headquar ters, London, June 27 (U.R) Tank-supported British infantry has captured eight villages and cut the main transport campaign which has co.st-J.he Nazis at least 70,000 casualties, it was reported officially today. Gen.

Sir Bernard L. Montgomery lashed out in a scythe-like swing southwest of Caen In an effort to burst through the thick swamp country onto the Normandy plain and outflank: the. stubborn German base -Anchoring She southeastern corner of the Allied beachhead. The announcement of the new Allied offensive, scoring initial gains of more than si miles, closely followed the official disclosure that American troops had completed the conquest of Cherbourg, securing the great Atlantic port for developing the drive into Nazi-held Europe. Germans Lost 70.000 Men Supreme headquarters reported that the Germans had lost no less than 70.000 men killed, wounded or captured in the three-week battle of Normandy the equivalent of about five Nazi divisions at their nresent strenffth.

At least 32,000 prisoners were cap- tured. 15,000 of them by the Amer- lean forces in the push up the Cher bourg peninsula. The new phase of the Allied Invasion the Caen offensive began as the final mop-up of the Cherbourg peninsula moved rapidly toward its close. The entire northeastern tip of the peninsula except the Mauperts airfield was cleared by last midnight, and the only resisting Germans were in the extreme tip of Cap de la Hague, where they were trapped without hope of escape. Supported by Churchill tanks, the British struck southeast from the area of Tilly-sur-Seulles and advanced more than six miles, seizing eight villages In the last 24 hours and cutting the railway and highway between Caen and Villers-Bocage.

United Press war correspondent Richard D. McMillan reported from the new offensive zone that the attack was progressing steadily and had overrun several villages south west of Caen. While McMillan reported the cutting of the railroad at an unspecified point southwest of Caen prob ably in the Brettevitlette area where the British were within a mile or Continued on Page 9 Hotter and Hotter Weather Is Forecast Brooklvnltes can prepare for i hot spell lasting several days, according to the Weather Bureau, which forecasts a high of 90 degrees today and a new season record of "Fair and warmer" is the predic tion, with gentle winds, becoming moderate, not easing the heat prob- lem to any great extent. Tonight's high will be 72; the low 67 Detroit Results FIRST RACE 1 Cloudy Weather 2-Ebony Bee 3 Developer 4 Dons Count 5 Saintly 6 Silver Ace 7 sinter Hisher Kiss Kiss 9 Top Class 10 Fiashtown 11 Gold BettT 12 Hermina B. FIRST SECOND THIRD RENTED BOROUGH HALL 63 Berten 1': rooms, kitchenette, private bath, aas el-orric.

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fighter opposition to blast and Surround their objectives at Budapest and; Blotj Moscow. June 27 (u Red armies German broadcasts said there were surrounded Orsha and were battling; violent air battles across centralltheir 'av into Mogilev. 40 miles to Hunsrarv this mornino- ns Hnmarinnltne s01ltn. toda.V and those two last ine resolution, sun isuuieti to vote of the full convention possibly late this afternoon, proposed to putj the party on record in favor of participation in co-operative organlBatlon? among sovereign nations but banned any participation In a world State. Instead, lt recommended that the international organization it envisages "should develop effective cooperative means to direct pyace forces to prevent or repeal military aggression." Pending formation of such an organization, it pledged continuing collaboration with the United Nations to assure those ultimate objectives.

Committee Adds a Paragraph The full committee added one paragraph, promising that the party would devote itself to "re-establlsh-Jng liberty at home," and "at the earliest possible time after the cessation of hostilities we will bring home all members of our armed force who do not have an unexpired enlistment and who do not volunteer fof further overseas duty." It pledged the party to prosecu tion of the war to total victory. For the protection of American sover eignty it stipulated that any post war treaties or agreements with other nations shall require a two- thirds vote of the United States for ratification. Domestic Pledges Included Setting up a goal of preventing hardship and poverty In America, with free enterprise supplemented by a sound system of social security the domestic section pledged: "1 Extension of the existing old age Insurance and unemployment insurance systems to all employes pot already covered. "2 The return of the public employment office system to the States at the earliest possible time, financed as before Pearl Harbor. "3 A careful study of Federal-Continued on Page 3 Suffolk Downs Results 1 Patch Buck, leen.

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W. Adams entry. FIRST SECOND THIRD 0 AQUEDUCT 07 nIB t-j London. June 27 (U.Ri Red sia, today captured Orsha, next to last bastion of the Nazi "Fatherland Line" which had been isolated by a swift Soviet flanking drive. Premier Josef Stalin announced the toppling of Orsha in another of his unrivaled series of orders of the day heralding the progress of the greatest Russian offensive of the war.

hi iaT.fl etc armjA-oAomA liM- hrlarrl T.lnp onri Pnlntclr mt nnrthnn pnri nf rh Uhlt Plla. sian front. The Nazis said German positions had been "withdrawn to the fringe of the city of Mogilev" possibly backhanded admission that the Russians hid captured The Berlin broadcasts bore all the earmarks of propaganda prep ring the way for an announcement of the loss of the two towns, Score Momentous Gains In any event, the combined Moscow and Berlin reports made it clear that the four Red armies wheeling forward in White Russia had scored momentous gains, and the Nasi "Fatherland Line" had fallen under the hammer blows of the Russians. The German statement appeared a suprtsingly frank Naa admission of brewing disaster in White Russia, with Soviet victories in the first phase of the Summer offensive Rearing the way for a converging movement on Minsk, capital of wnite Russia, i Moscow revealed that Col. Gen.

of White Russia had mounted a south of Vitebsk wnnuviin uu me riiruiva Au-cmieti "Fatherland Line" in White Russi appeared on the point of rapture. Even as Sovipt tanks, guns and infantry stepped up their a.ssault on the crumbling center of the White Russian line, two other Russian armies slashed deep into the northern and southern flanks of the 285-mile front in a vast enveU oping movement aimed at the an. citadel or Minsic on the north icentra: invasion route to Warsaw ana Benin. The 3d White Russian Army, si. ready 55 miles beyond newly-cap.

tured Vitebsk, was speeding toward Minsk from the northeast at a pace of nearly a mile an hour and at last reports was 80 to 85 miles away. IIUMC Trt r.ur 'NN5-NAZIS TO FIGHT ON BULLETIN Helsinki, June 27 (U.R) The government announced today that Finland had decided to continue the war and had asked Germany for help to carry on the fight. London, June 27 (U.R) Nait Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at a council with Finnish leaders in Helsinki pledged German military aid to heln stave off the new Russian offensive, a German D. N. B.

News-Agency broadcast revealed today. WHERE TO FIND IT Faqo Paq "actio 17 14 14 Society I Spoits 12, 13 Tans Vy Word 1 4 4 TommyKoimes 12 4 FViy W.mt Arts M. IS, 18 Varim. Problems 7 's wIOSS'v. ri 'nanctci: 14 Miss Soh.rrirmiin was imriei treatment at her home today for shock tnd hysteria.

She and a boy friend, sailor in the navy, attended the baseball game at the Polo Grounds last night. As the. sailor had to return to his ship, he took her to thj Parkside station of the B. M. T.

Brighton line snd she went home alone. She went to her family's apartment on the third floor of a four-story apartment building. In the kitchen she saw the shadowy form of an Intruder and she demanded: "What are you doing here?" Putting a long knife at her throat, the man said: "Keep quiet or 111 kill you." Fearing to scream, she pleaded with the man to leave the unartmpnr. He ripmanriprl hpr ipw ing. She begged him not to take them as one was a memento from her dead mother and the other had aibeen given her last night by her friend.

The man pulled them froir her fingers. Miss Schwerdtman later told po lice that the man was about live feet six inches tall, that he wore a sweater dark In front and light colored in the back, and light colored trousers. MUs Schwerdtman has two broth- ers in the service. Because of her deputy collector for four years. two rine.s which she was wear disbarred and sentenced to one year and a day in prison.

Extortion Alleged In addition to "sanarinir" for consideration bona fide 1 a i against taxpayers, the pair sentenced today and other under arrest are accused of having extorted moneys from taxpayers who owed nothing under threat of prosecutio.i for non-payment of claims the deputy collectors themselves would concoct. "Extorting sums of $40 to $50 from poor people who owed nothing." Moscowitz told the defend- experience. Miss Schwerdtman was! to promise "solidarity with Ger-linable to attend the graduation to- many and ton continue the war." ants "is. to me far worse thaniday ol ner sister, Margaret, irom st. toi-iA.

tinnnn nh.l Teresa's Parochial School. Classon and Nazi fighters rase to challenge the Budapest raiders, and one Berlin version said 80 of the four-en-glned American bombers flew onto shuttle bases in Russia. Simultaneously, a force of R. A. F.

Halifax bombers swung out from their bases to drop their 8.000-pound blockbusters across an unnamed military taiget in north- pm Prarvp nrasnmu K'i, 1It rAknt tvmh ha. in the Pa ri Puiaisi sector Report Ribbentrop Won Finns' Loyalty Stockholm. June 27 am The Morgontidningen said today that Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister, on a two-day visit; to Helsinki, persuaded the govern- ment of Premier Edwin J. Linkomies1 lepuriemy piom- 'ed military aid. consisting of at least one artillery and one anti-tank brigade from Estonia.

A secret meeting of the Finnish cabinet was reported to have been, held last night. I apart, both pleading "don't touch my feet" in their dying convulsions. Mrs. Gussie Berkowitz, 48. died In convulsions.

Aug. 15, 1941. at her; home. 379 Rockaway Parkway. Her: daughter, Mrs.

Harriet Berkowitz; Feldman. 25. died Dec. 9. 1943, at1 Beth-El Hospital, in much the same otsrcea toiuuiiu.

owed the Government that tax." Save for Wilfred J. Curry, a field deputy who is awaiting trial. July 7. all arrested were members of the audit section ot tne reaerai income tax office. ul CU.II A With John Doherty.

assistant chief Hn car shops of the Bethlehem NOUS Shell Uover Area of the audit section, the others un-1 Steel Corp. halted production ofj London, June 27 (U R) German der arrest are Richard Macalusojarmy railway cars destined for the; long-range guns near Boulogne fired Benjamin Piazza. Joseph P. Loftus European battlefronts today as well! a dozen shells across the Straits into! nnd Max Marder. las domestic freight and mine cars I the Dover aea at 9:30 a.m.

today. I Husband Quizzed in Poison Deaths Pledges Aid to Find Murderer Ave. and Sterling Place Strike at Steel Shop Johnstown. June 27 (U.Pi A Mrs. Harriet Berkowitz Feldman and her mother.

Mrs. Gussie Ber kowilz. showed enough strychnine present 'o have killed a dozen persons. Feldman, a pharmacist and rabbi, married Harriet Berkowitz in 1940. some 10 years after coming to this country from Bessarabia.

The marriage was contracted by a marriage broker. The two women died 28 months time. 3 31' a. 4 fin on 9 4n- House. 3.20.-2.70; st.

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w. Taylor entry. FIRST SF.COND THIRD ED Arlington Results 1 Devil's Frolic. 16.00. 7.20.

5.20: Sub-deb. 4.00. 3.00: Shlnins Chance. 8.60. OK time.

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(2:2014) a-F. A. Ciark entry. 4 Pharien 14.70-5.60-4.10. Art of War 5.40-4.10, Rarified 3.70.

5-Top V'ley 11.70-4.20-3.10. Rockw'd P'y 3.10-2.60, First Re'd 3.10. (3:25) 6 Free L'ce 43.00-13.10-5.50, D'g'e 14.10-5.70, Who G's Th'e 290. SEVENTH RACE 1 Corydon 4 Night Glow 2 Ramillles 5 Famous Victory 3 Singing Torch 2 5 Charts, Entries and Selections on Page 13 "I didn't do I didn't do It! And I intend to got the best lawyer I can to investigate the deaths of my wife and mother-in-law and find their murderers." This was the position taVrn ioAa) by Benjamin Feldman after Assistant District Attorney Ludwig him for nine hours. Glowa told with dramalic sbrupt- ness that the exhumed bodies of Wh liave varanrirs when lenanla ureiGlowa last night had questioned manner.

Uw' The mother's death was ascribed to coronary occlusion, or blood clot. Continued on Paje arums readily available) through erlsertiains in the Fuller Call Mi Turner MAin t.ti2iM)..