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Red Cross Collections Reach 1,347,000 in Boro Campaign PRIVATE LIVES By Paul Ford FUND NOW 40 PERCENT OF QUOTA m0 iJy rap Lava Flow Shifts, Menaces 3 Towns Where 86,000 Live On the Slopes of Mount Vesuvius, March 22 (U.R Three Italian coastal towns harboring 86,000 people were menaced today by a shift In the lava flow from erupting Mount Vesuvius, and experts warned that the volcanic cone might burst at any moment and bury the countryside under tons of molten rock. Five days after the start of its worst outbreak in modern times, the great volcano has stopped acting according to form and has gone completely erratic. The main lava flow now has shifted from the northwest to the west slopes and Is moving down like a fiery snake on the coastal towns of Torre del Greco, Torre Annunzlata and Resina, site of the ancient town of Herculaneum which was burled in the great eruption of 79 A D. New Outbreak Expected Allied military authorities were understood to be preparing to WARSHIPS RIP 90,000 TRAPPED JAPS IN PACIFIC 1,000 Tom of Shells Poured on Kavieng as Marines Forge Ring Allied Headquarters. Southwest Pacific, March 22 (U.R U.

S. marines completed the encirclement of the Bismarck Archipelago by seizing two islands in the St. Matthias group, and American battleships immediately opened a frontal attack on the 90,000 Japanese trapped in the isolated area by firing 1,000 tons of shells into Kavieng. New Ireland, it was announced today. The marines occupied the islands of Emirau and Elmusao Monday in the northernmost penetration of the Southwest Pacific, bringing Allied forces only 580 miles south of the bir Japanese base at Truk in the Carolines.

The landing, effected almost without opposition, was carried out about the lame time U. S. battleships stood offshore at Kavieng, 84 miles to the south, and delivered probably the heaviest naval bombardment of this theater. Hurl 1,000 Tons of Shelli A communique from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur headquarters said the naval units from the Solomons bombarded Kavieng for three and a half hours, pouring approximately 1,000 tons of shells into the targets.

"Whole sections of the town were Katie Staff photo SNAPPY, WHAT? Frank Frolio of 862 Meeker Ave. walks off with his buy (half-century-old surrey and pony harness) at Police Department auction, Meeker and Van-dervoort Aves. Surrey Sans Fringe Top Brooklyn has raised approximate-1 ly $1,347,000 to date, about 40 per- cent of its $3,331,000 goal. In the 1944 Red Cross War Fund drive, it was announced today at the second-report luncheon of the campaign In the Towers Hotel. David L.

Tilly, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the commerce and industry division of1 the drive, presided at the luncheon and made the announcement. Robert Sherrod, a trior of Ta- rawa, the Story of a Battle." here i on a brief visit after covering the war in the South Pacific for the pa-st two years, was the principal speaker at the luncheon. John P. Stevens general chairman of the drive Greater New York, was the guest oi honor. Barber reported on the over-all progress of the campaign and the Rev.

Dr. L. Wendell Fifield. pastor of the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and chairman of the speaker! envision, also spoke. Rally in A.

S. Barber also addressed a rally on the main floor of Abraham Straus, 422 Fuiton which lauded that store's participation in the drive today. The employes, of whom ebout 2,000 were pre-sent. have set themselves a goal of $10,000, double the amount they raised last year. Regina Goldberg, president of the A.

S. Women's Volunteer Corps, presided. Tomorrow a number of stars of the stage and screen, including Allan Jones. Akim Tamiroff, John Boles, J. Edward Biomberg, Victor Jory.

Benny Baker and Jerry Lester will participate in the parade and rally launching Brooklyn's picture theater campaign in the Red Cross War Fund drive. Coming here over the Manhattan Bridge, the stars will be met at the plaza by Borough President Cash-more and Red Barber. The parade will start at 11:30 a and proceed up Flatbush Ave, Extension to Borough Hall where the rally will take place. Past Halfway Mark The drive throughout the country has passed the halfway mark with Rnger fV What a lot of weight a Jennifer Jones Winner of 'Oscar' To Divorce Walker, Latest Film Star Hollywood, March 22 (UP) Jennifer Jones, the gilt paint on her movie "Oscar" scarcely dry, said today she was divorcing Robert Walker on the eve of his first stardom. Miss Jones won the accolade aa the film colony's greatest actress in the "Song of Bernadette." Walker said he wouldn't contest her action.

He understands his wife is leaving for Reno as soon as she finishes the picture she is working on. Walker is about to reach the nation's screens as Pvt. (See Here) Hargrove. Miss Jones, married in Tulsa Jan, 2, 1939, as Phylis Isley, will retain custody of Robert 4, and Michael, 3. She said she and Walker had been separated since Nov.

8 and that they finally tired of friends' efforts at reconciliation. Mastic Beach Civics Fight Power Dragnetting Patchogue, March 22 The Mastlo Beach Property Owners Association is sponsoring a movement against the power method of dragnet fishing of Brookhaven Town, contending the practice Is stripping the bays of fish. The association has asked the town trustees to ban this method of fishing in an ordinance which would affect 72,000 acres of underwater land. The trustees have compiled and will submit the request tc the town board, which will draft the bill and announce a publio hearing on it. Fuiton at Luwrence S1 Suit! TV.W a Chic But It Goes for a The Police Department today sold a first class surrey, with ornate pony saddle and harness, but no fringe on top.

to the highest bidder for the reasonable price of $27. It was one of 530 "lots" of unclaimed articles, lost or stolen and recovered by police, put up at the department's auction sale at the police garage. Meeker and Vander-voort Aves. Included were 150 automobiles of assorted mokes, which drew the highest prices but not the most intense artistic Interest. The surrey, very pretty with bright red body and yellow wheels, generously estimated by garage attendants to be "between 50 and 100 years old," went to Frank Frolio, a used-car dealer of 682 Meeker Ave.

Frolio said he bought it "for my boy," for whom he had already bougfit a surrey-pulling horse. The vehicle was in good condition except for moldy seat cushions. The automobiles sold for prices ranging from $20 to $150. Many of the buyers appeared to be car dealers. Guinea coast.

A 6.000-ton freight er-transport was damaged badly at Hollandia, "many" parked planes were destroyed at Aitape, and three small craft were sunk along the Madang coast. evacuate the residents of the three towns if the lava flow continues. Meanwhile the seething cone of the volcano glowed with such Intensity that Italian experts warned it may break suddenly and send a terrific overflow of lava in all directions. Not a single life has been lost thus far, largely because of the prompt measures taken by the army to remove reluctant civilians from their homes, but millions of dollars worth of property have been ruined and some of the finest vineyards in Italy have been wiped out. including the famous Lacrlma Cristi vineyards.

It was estimated that cultivation on the lava-wasted soil would be impossible for at least a century. The villages of San Sebastiano and Massa di Somma were all but obliterated yesterday by the lava wall moving down the northwest slopes and a two-mlle-hlgh column of fine dust peppered Naples and Salerno. Smith recently located her former husband and advised the Nassau County district attorney's office. It was alleged that Ladder through a spurious real estate transaction illegally profited to the extent of $2,300. WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN to 9 P.

ill. WMllimilKl.HIIIHltlliMlilliil'l Lilac, grpfn, wool with soft What Masmax TcDoe.fl, 'dEHtRAJL PEPUTV. i A -J3ft Je. driving nwser. 221 AnA Aflf Algiers Havt Had to Hang Up Signi Requesting American Soldier i Not to Spit Chewing Cum on the Floor.

GRMAN-" MOADCAST I North Africo KNombr, r2 Moscow Warns Finland Oyer Terms' Rejection Moscow, March 22 (UP- Russia warned Finland today that by rejecting the Soviet terms for an armistice she had "assumed all responsibilities for the consequences." The warning came in an an nouncement of the Foreign Office Information Bureau reviewing the exchanges between the two countries after Julio K. Paasikivi, for mer Finnish Premier, extended peace feelers to the Soviet Legation in Stockholm last month. Soviet newspapers gave prominent display today to yesterday's Finnish communique announcing that Russia's terms were lnaccept-able without further clarification and promising to continue efforts to reach a satisfactory basis for peace. The press refrained from comment. Recalling that the Foreign Commissariat had published Russia's terms March 1.

the announcement said that Finland's reply a week later revealed that "the Finnish Government hesitated to accept the Soviet conditions for an armistice without preliminary discussions." Rus.sia replied March 10 that she considered the Finnish answer unsatisfactory and called Finland's attention to the fact that the Soviet proposals given to Paasikivi were "minimum and basic conditions." "On March 17 the Finnish Government, gave a negative reply to the Soviet declaration. Thereby the Finnish Government assumed all responsibility for the consequences," the Soviet Foreign Office reported. WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN WAR TRAINING COURSES! TUITION FREE For MEN and WOMEN in cooperation with th U. S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION Two tt-ening Sttnvni Weekly, 12 to it Weeks, Starting on or About Apr.

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Bernard MONTSOMERV: Kt SIN NIttLMtNl WMtN TUe PAY'S lSSO TOTHECX)H6RGATIC4 IU CHUftXH. a total of $103,745,538 already raised toward the national goal oi it was announced in Washington. Federal employes in Greater New York were reported to have contributed $124 212 35. with the Brooklyn Navy Yard accounting for $53.000.. An initial donation of $315.50 from the 201 employes of the Industrial Home for the Blind, 520 Gates was turned over by Peter J.

Salmon, chairman of the Brooklyn Welfare Service Committee, to Louis C. Wilis, chairman of the professional section of the commerce and industry division. Achievement of half its quota of $50,000 was reported by the Crown Heights division of the American Red Cross. Of the total raised was brought in by 1.000 workers in a house-to-house canvass directed by A. R.

Melker and $7,500 represented special contributions from business enterprises and other large contributors, collected by a committee headed by Paul Seider-man. J. W. V. Turns Over $336 Jewish War Veterans Post 11 has turned over to the Red Cross War Fund $336 raised as a result of a card party held Sunday night at the post headquarters, 8715 4th Ave.

Ben Goldman, commander, said he expected the sum to increase eventually to at least $750. Some 20 boy and girl students of Brooklyn Friends School will give an entertainment for the benefit of theRed Cross Friday night at the Hotel St. George. The young amateurs will be presented in a program of specialty numbers, mostly songs and dances, by two fellow students, Charles Goerke, 17, and Garrett Pet-tingell. 1.

Keogh Named Washington, March 22 Brooklyn Representative Eugene J. Keogh woa wuny iiauicu tile nuuac vuiii mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to fill a vacancy left by the death of Representative James A. O'Leary of Staten Island. This is the committee which will have the Important job of working out the nation's postwar merchant marine policy. Representative Keogh will, in effect, represent the interests of the Brooklyn waterfront and very largely of all New York Harbor in that Job.

The only other New York member Is Representative Louis J. Capozzoll of Manhattan. Keogh has the reputation of being the busiest committee worker the New York delegation. Besides his new committee membership, he Is chairman of the House Committee on Revision Laws and member of the Committee on Education, Committee on Claims. Committee on Elections No.

3 and the Select Committee on Small Business. N. J. Labor Commissioner Spurm $2,500 Pay Tilt Trenton, March 22 (UP) One objection was raised when a New Jersey legislative appropriations committee received a proposal to in crease the annual salary of Labor Commissioner Harry C. Harper to $10,000.

The present pav of $7,500 was enough, Harper told the committee. Long Island University Send for booklet describing Long Islond University's Accelerated Program MM rrl Brooklyn. Till. COLLEGE OF NEW YORK e. mi Song Cameras, suitcases, budles of clothes and "three pairs of crutches, one unmatched," were among ar ticles auctioned off.

James Heeney was the auctioneer. About 1,000 persons attended the sale. Waits Trial on Charges Filed 23 Years Ago Mineoia, Marcn 22 Edward J. Ladder, 52, a war production plant worker of Brooklawn, N. was under $1,000 bail here today awaiting trial after pleading not guilty before County Judge Collins to in dictments found against him here 23 years ago charging grand larceny and abandonment of his two children.

At the time of the alleged abandonment the children were 4 and 6. Ladder's former wife divorced him and is now Mrs. Lillian Smith of 1404 Putnam Brooklyn. Mrs. Shop Thursday 9:30 Lovely Colors! completely destroyed, ammunition dumps exploded and shore batteries were silenced," the communique ex-piMr id.

"We had no losses." Seizure of the St. Matthias Islands completed the Allied ring around New Britain and. New Ireland and left the battered Japanese garrisons facing either death or surrender. Supply lines or evacuation routes were blocked by Allied possession of Green Islands, at the northern tip of the Solomons. 135 miles east of New Ireland; Rock Island in the straits between New Guinea and New Britain, and the Admiralties, 192 miles northwest of Kavieng.

The marines went ashore at Emirau in more than 100 landing craft. Kavieng Is Shattered The heavy fire from the U. S. battleships knocked down nearly every building at Kavieng. A spokesman at MacArthur's headquarters said the dreadnoughts moved to within probably five miles of the New Ireland bastion and shells Into the town with deadly accuracy.

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