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COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT Up Jysfi" Few Irfeyirs ft WALL STREET WALL STREET FINANCIAL NEWS it it it i it it FINANCIAL NEWS Weather Cooler than last night. Sunset, Dimout, 7:09 Enurtd at tha Brooklyn Fotlomu aa 2d Claaa Mall 9 HFW IORK cm 102d YEAR No. 272 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. AT A OCT. 2, 1943 Matter tCoprrlirjt 1843 Th Brooklyn tafia.

-l mm mm mm L71 IK feels IPdto Sou White Nleozi LOIfiKSS Indict 4, Boro Firm In Navy Job Fraud Charge False Reports, Bribe Got $18,000,000 Clothing Contract Charged with obtaining almost $18,000,000 In navy clothing contracts through fraud, two employes of the Brooklyn United States Naval Clothing Depot, two officials of a clothing manufacturing company and the company Itself are Fliers Rain Death On Retreating Foe North of Naples Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 2 (UP) The Allied Fifth Army, "streaming through Naples in relentless pursuit of the battered Germans, began the march on Rome today, and a communique announced that the "successful advance" was continuing. American and British spearheads pushed up the twin roads that lead from Naples to Rome, 125 miles to the north, as Allied bombers and fighters poured a torrent of explosives and bulleu on German forces retreating for a new stand before the Italian capital. Night bombers last night attacked pontoon bridges at Grazzanise, 18 miles north of Naples, and the coastal road at Formia, 43 miles north of Naples, In an attempt to split up the enemy formations. Eleven enemy planes were shot down yesterday and 14 Allied planes were lost.

ft 4f 'v i 11 S.Vf 'A rr i 9 VSnii ELSEWHEKK CI NTS from the west reached the road from Bastia to at. 1-iorent. lney took many prisoners and vn. equipment. iNari Marshal Aloe-- was "riot expected to make Luntil his men cross the Kiver, mues norm oi war 1 i even there he was not exp.

pause for more than short-lived rear-guard delaying action. There mas every indication that the Allies would reach the approaches to Rome, if not occupy the capital Itself, in about the same time 22 days it took them to cover the initial 35 miles to Naples from the Salerno bridgehead. The difficult mountain country, whose forested heights offered ideal cover for the Nazi defenders, has been left behind, and ahead stretch Continued on Page that Mayor LaGuardia was one of his favorite broadcasters. 'Ovra agents (secret policei first warned me not to lisen to Anglo-American radio broadcasts." he said. "Next, they removed my radio.

Thirdly, while I was listening in the home of some friends to a broadcast by Mayor LaGuardia, Mussolini's agents caught me and I was sent to confino." Lawyer Tejls of Broadcasts I asked th' -rowd if Mayor LaGuardia's broaacasts were heard in Italy and it chorused "Yes." Dr. Francesco Pinto, a local lawyer of social democratic political leanings who was elected labor ader at a hastily summoned meeting of orkers. said the townspeople frequentlv had picked up American and British radio programs beamed oltaly. "They were a great help to our morale." he said. "Mayor LaGuardia helped us to understand that Americans realized our plight under the yoke of Fascism and that mas good to hear." today under Indictment by a red eral grand lury The two depot workers, It Is charged, were bribed by the company officers to get advance Information on contract bids and to tilt false report on the ability ol rival bidders to fulfill contracts.

The employes were enabled to do thU because of responsible positions thev held, it is alleged. They are Daniel DeVita, 49, or 1544 Cropsey manager of the naval clothing factory, and Saul B. Friedenberg, 46. of 4600 9th senior procurement and supply clerk at the depot. Lepke Associate.

The company under Indictment Is the Reading Clothing Manufac- turing Company of Reading, which has Manhattan offices at 160 5th Ave. Joseph Miller, 55, of 106-15 "Queens Boulevard, Forest Hills, one of its officers named, is reported to be a former associate of Louis (Lepke) Buchalter and Jacob (Gur-rah) Shapiro in the garment industry racket. The other officer under THEY CAVE WIS ARE YOU BUYING AN EXTRA S. mainland li under blanke'i at Navy Baitaiion Evacuation and Aid Moving swiftly up the Italian coast in a flanking maneuver, the British Bin Army overran the highway Junction San Severo, 17 miles north of Foggla, and Lucera, 12 miles northwest of Foggia, while American units made further progress in the interior. Communique Quoted "Yesterday the successful advance of the 5th Army continued," Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's communique said. "In addition to the capture of Naples, already reported, further progress was made east of that city." A French communique said that in violent fighting on Corsica French regulars and guerillas forced the Germans back everywhere as they yielded positions essential to the defense of Bastia. Moroccan Goumiers advancing along a ridge dominating Bastia Brooklyn! Hours to Go Wake Up, Just a Few Bond Sales Here 1 8.9 REACH PRONYA RIVER, 25 MILES FROM GOMEL Gash Foes' Defenses In Swamps, Forests Along 40-Mile Front Moscow, Oct. 2 (U.R) Rus sian armored and motorized forces have broken through the forward fortifications of the German defense line across White Russia In a drive to the Pronya River 25 miles east of Gomel, front dispatches revealed today.

Gen. M. Popov's patrols thrust through the German lines and his main forces advanced over washed-out roads, and forests on a 40-mile front west of the Orh. Krichev-Kharkov Railroad. I Military sources said the push to! the east bank of the Pronya had gashed the Nazi defenses, partly unhinging the center of the Vitebsk-Orsha-MoRilev-Gomel line and expediting the Red Army task of smashing through on the road to Poland.

Bitter Fighting on River Bitter fighting was in progress along the northern bank of the Sozh River, into which the Proyna flows, in the Cherikox area, where the Russians made new crossings and consolidated their positions acrosshe river. In that region German tanks and Infantry were counter-attacking repeatedly In efforts to throw the Soviet troops backs across the river and block a further advance on the south wing of the Gomel defenses." Pushing relentlessly across the plains between the headwaters of the Dnieper and Dvlna Rivers, the Russians liberated 20 more towns and villages, some of them within 30 miles of Vitebsk and Orsha on the new Nazi defense line. A dominating hill was captured in one aector. Several hundred enemy dead were counted on this battlefield, while in a neighboring sector 1.500 Germans were slain. TODAY'S SCRATCHES Belmont Park tsack aLorrr 1 Si tin Nosr.

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3 Ouen-f. Oeooa. No 0 her. Rounder" M.ee Ta Som Cunt, rilie JuneVe Mnon 10 "h.rhv-rdenW OrO-F1en'h Hour. Caned "WLB Votes orumman Incentive Pay Plan Defines Its Policy on System to Ease Manpower and Production Problems lis X.

0 2 i vho dfJ durlne? first allark on Italian Station, near th beach at Aaropoii. RAID BATTERS HAGEN, UA7I CTCCI riTV llMLl JILLL LIU Yanks Blast Vienna, Munich Areas in Raids From North Africa London, Oct. 2 (UP Britain-based R. A. F.

bombers dropped perhaps 1.000 tons of explosives on the Nazi iron and steel center of Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr last night in a swift follow-up to twin American daylight raids the first from northwest African bases on southern Germany. Preliminary reports Indicated the night attack on Hagen, 15 miles south of Dortmund, was well concentrated, the Air Ministry announced. Though the bomb-pocked Ruhr is one of the most heavily protected areas of Germany, only two planes were lost. Closing an aerial pincers from west and south on Germany. African-based American four-englned bombers yesterday blasted the Munich area of southern Germany and a Messerschmitt factory Continued on Page i SAILOR HONEYMOONED ON BAD CHECKS, SAYS FBI A merchant seaman, who allegedly donned an army lieutenant's uniform and then cashed bad checks to defray the expenses of a honeymoon at Niagara Falls and a fashionable Manhattan hotel, was indicted by a Manhattan Federal taand Jury for impersonating an ojjicer, with intent to de'raud.

The aeman. John Pechulis. 29. of Fitchburg. Mass.

was arrested bv FBI agents after a trip from California to New Tork. during which he married Miss Van Naurker, a commercial photographer, at Detroit. Goes Beyond Its Goal by $1,200,000,000 Brooklyn was still 18.9 percent away from Its $324,009,900 quota for the Third War Loan today as the drive moved to an end, set for midnight tonight. The nationwide goal of $15,000,000,000 had been reached Indictment is Abraham Strauss, 50, of 2157 Holland the Bronx, former secretary of the firm. It is charged that the depot workers, sent to factories of other bidders, falsely reported that their prices were too high and that their facilities were not up to standard.

The indicement was obtained after an Investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Naval Intelligence, and wis announced bv E. E. Conroy the New York F. B. I.

office. Miller was indicted along with Buchalter and Shapiro in 1937 on charges of extorting money from clothing manufacturers. Strauss, in 1941, was convicted or conspiracy to defraud creditors in a bankruptcy suit and is awaiting an appeal, according to Mr. Ctnroy. All lour will be arraigned next Wednesday.

They face prison terms of three years if convicted. According to the indictment, DeVita and Friedenberg received some $200 a month or more for their part in the alleged plot. The War Labor Board today proponents of incentive pay manpower and production Telegraph Merger Put Off to Thursday Consummation of the Western Union Telegraph Company and Postal Telegraph. merger has been postponed until Thursday, according to an agreement signed by both companies. The sale of Postal assets to Western Union is pending certain proceedings oefore the N.

Y. Public Service Commission, officials said. Correspondent Gets Word Yugoslavs Await Allies Stockholm. Oct. 2 (U.R The Dag-ens Nyheter's correspondent in Zurich, Switzerland, today reported receiving a personal message from Gen.

Draja MikhaUovitch, commander of the Yugoslav Patriot Army, stating that his forces will join up with Allied troops when the Allies give the signal. on i JU lnshmen Seized In Belfast Cop's Murder Belfast, Oct. 2 flJ.P Thirty alleged members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army were under arrest today as police squads, armed with sub-machine guns, searched the city for additional suspects In the holdup murder of a Belfast Mayor Talk to Italy Sent Listener to Jail Demonstrator, Welcoming U. S. Troops, Calls LaGuardia Favorite Broadcaster Under Quota as Nation Manhattan led the boroughs with purchases of $4,135,018,000 worth of bonds.

Brooklyn's purchases, at the same ume, were at the relatively modest total of $262,701,000. or 81.1 percent of the original quota. A late rush could raise that substantially, although it appeared unlikely that Continued en Page and surpassed by 1.20O.0O0,OOO, and last-minute war bond purchases today, together with others already made but not yet Included in the totals, were expected to bring the ultimate (rand total to or over. New York State, as of Thursday night, had passed its self-imposed (j.000.000.000 quota by t49.3T3.346. and the city topped its $4.500 000.000 figure by more than $3,000,000 By REYNOLDS PACKARD Torre Annunziata, Sept.

30 (Delayed) (U.R) Torre An-nunziata went enthusiastically democratic when the Allied 5th Army passed through the town on the road to Naples today and one demonstrator confided proudly that he had Would Take 30 Years to Pay Debts, Washington, Oct. 2 (U.R) tentatively aligned itself with systems as weapons against proDiems. Defining policy on Incentive wages for the first time, it approved a plan submitted by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation for the un-crganized employes of its Bethoace, L. I plant. The board adopted resolution announcing it would consider only plans approved by management and labor and would not order an incentive wage program in a dispute case.

A second resolution said in-centive plans must conform to the WLB stabilization policy and contain no hidden increase in basic an opinion on the Grumman plan. WLB Vice Chairman George W. Taylor said the board would approve "carefully developed plans to increase the production of existing facilities and available manpower where svjage increases bear a proper relationship to the increased output achieved as a result of the increased effort of the employes." He said incentive programs could not be regarded as panaceas for production problems and Indicated the Grumman proposal was viewed as an experiment. The Grumman plan was based on stabilized production record. anowing that an average of .48 pound of airframe per man hour of work was manufactured at its plant.

Employes will receive an Increase of 1 percent In pay for each 2 percent Increase In output bj weight. served a Jail sentence for listening to a broadcast by Mayor LaGuardia of New York. One group of demonstrators tore down a marble plaque commemo-raf ng Italy's defiance of the League of Nations during the invasion of Ethiopia, smashing the tablet to pieces while hundreds of people shouted "Viva democracy, viva England, viva America, viva Allies!" Before the 5th Army troops entered the town, an industrial center famed for its spaghetti and mac-caroni factories, the home of the chief Fascist official was set afire. Flags Displayed Home-mace British and Ameri-ran flags, as well as regular Italian flaes. hung from balconies and winaows as the troops paraded by.

Some of the men wore red ribbons to show they were Communists, and many others told me thv were Socialist. Mario Guarriero. a local factory worker, in a speech delivered mainlT for the benefit of the American correfpondenvs, revealed Man Writes as He Dies of Gas Georje Clarkson, 55, ho left a note declaring he owed so much money it would take him 30 years to pay it off, was found dead in the kitchen of his home at 1127 E. 31st St, last night by his ife, Agnes. Gas was escaping from the range and the door had been sealed.

His pet dog, lying beside him, also was dead. Police said he apparently had written the note as the gas was taking effect, since the writing grew increasingly illegible. PEDESTRIAN KILLED BY FALL INTO CELLAR John C. Thorpe. 33, of 867 Union St, was found today at the foot of cellar stairs of a bakery at 65S Vander-bilt Ave.

Police declared he lost his balance while passing the steps. CmtiBoeel fage 3.