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1944 aJTSlMS 3 CENTS ZuSmS cSS 170 of Crew Saved; Reds Pound at Polish Gate; R.A.F. Rips Blazing Berlin OPA Sets 37 as Normal Furnace Oil Consumption If your furnace has consumed more than 37 percent of your year's ration of fuel oil, you are living beyond your heating means, according to the OPA. This was the warning in the agency's weekly report, issued to help householders budget their fuel oil consumption through the Winter. To make it easier, the report figures that, as of today, no more than 370 gallons should be consumed out of every 1,000 gallons of the yearly ration. Explosions Rock Oty With a series of terrific blasts which rocked the entire metropolitan area, a United States destroyer blew apart and sank early this morning a few miles off the shore of the Rockaways.

Latest Navy Department reports said at least 2d Consecutive Morning rial News NEW YANK BLOW TRAPS JAPANESE IN NEW GUINEA Invaders Seize Harbor, Airfield at Saidor, 55 Miles From Madang Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Jan. 3 (U.R) American invaders, swarming ashore in northern New Guinea, have captured Saidor Harbor and airfield, only 55 miles southeast of Madang, dooming thousands of Japanese to the east to "disintegration and destruction," General MacArthur announced today. 8. 6th Army veterans of the bloody Buna campaign landed yesterday on three Dekays Bay beaches bordering Saidor, 115 miles north-rest of Finschhafen, under cover of a hurricane air and naval bombardment and quickly overwhelmed light enemy opposition without loss. The invaders widened and deepened their beachheads throughout yesterday and up until late afternoon had not met even aerial retaliation.

The enemy was surprised "both strategically and tactically," MacArthur's communique said. Japanese Are Trapped The landings trapped all Japanese between Saidor and Nuzen, 75 miles to the southeast, captured Saturday i in 170 survivors had been accounted for out of crew The navy, refusing to divulge the name of the ship pending notification of next of kin of the missing, released the following official description: "The ship had anchored in her position (given as six miles northeast of Sandy Hook) at 0330 (3:30 a.m.) and was making ready to move out at 0700 (7 a.m.). There was a terrific explosion. There was no indication of the cause. Victims Blown Into Water Mayors Critic Bitten By Dog Named Butch But Councilman Hart Professes To Hold No III Will For Canine City Councilman Walter R.

Hart, who headed the Demo- ratic-controlled City Council's vestigation of Mayor LaGuardia's administration, was resting "All communications on the ship were disrupted. The mast toppled. The bridge buckled and collapsed and one man said that he saw the barrel of the forward 5-lnch gun whirling through the air. Many men were blown overside into the water by the blast. There was no disorder and fire fighting parties were organized.

the blast, the engineers secured the number one boiler and left number four on, to keep light, power and steam up. The ship was ablaze forward and in the bridge. j1 "Sers could get no closer than the number one stack. oeveiiu cuas guara cran siooc inuj wie snip ana jines-aDoara. survives were Ukea aboard the coast guard boats; fire was fought until 0705 (7:05 a.m.), at which BROOKLYN, N.

Navy Mothers Group Installs New Officers New officers of the Brooklyn Chapter 100, Navy Mothers Clubs of America, installed recently by Lt. H. W. Sorensen, Brooklyn Navy Yard chaplain, are headed by Mrs. Anna Zarnow as commander.

Other officers installed included Mrs. Lillian Nedderman and Mrs. Louise Dillon, vice commanders; Mrs. Elizabeth Boeckle, adjutant; Mrs. Mae Meyrowitz, assistant adjutant: Mrs.

Rose Vitaglian, finance officer: Mrs. Anna Gulbrandsen, judge advocate, and Mrs. Minnie Leonard, chaplain. special committee in the in West, today, after an encounter i has been called publicly by the same name. "I attach no significance to the name," said Councilman Hart.

"He's really a fine dog." Mr. Hart was visiting his nephew yesterday when he stooped pel; Butch, who snapped and caught the councilman's finger in his teeth. The councilman had the wound cauterized and. as a precautionary measure, received an inoculation. of Winter Schedule will be delayed from six to 10 "ours.

Following the prediction of the Weather Bureau that the snow will pile up from two to 12 inches, the flakes soon mantled the ground except where wind swept things bare. The 12-inch depth, though, probably will not be reached here, the Weather Man said. He looks for that upstate and in New England The cheerful prognosticator said believed that the snow will changed into sleet this afternoon with slippery streets and traffic trouble. been thinking along the same lines." The railroad union spokesman said the conferees would consider, among other things, a suggestion that the Senate Truman Investigating Committee be asked to investigate. Today's meeting was expected to be attended bv D.

a. Robertson. vi kite xji uuici nvv vl road Firemen; IT. W. Fraser, head of the railroad conductors, and T.

C. Cashen, head of the railroad switchmen. They head the three operating unions which as yet have refused to accept President Roosevelt's offer to arbitrate their wage dispute. and he handled the ship. The rest of us shared what little oxygen we had and we all were only half conscious anr- there was a funny red mist in front of our eyes and we couldn't see anything not even the planes in our own formation.

"When we finally went down after crossing the coast we tried to get our radio bearing, but found our entire radio had gone, too. We came across the water and the navigator plotted the course home from the coast of England." Other crewmen included 2d Lt. William C. Greulich, 145-18 157th Jamaica, N. Y.

i Oregon Plans Museum Of History and Science Salem, Ore. (U.R) Governor Earl Snell has announced appointment of a State-wide committee for the ffLf Jl" u. uiowiy niiu one- ence. The proposed museum would incorporate exhibits of natural resources, collections of historic value and significance, the marine mu seum, taken from the battleship time the ship was ordered abandoned. She went down soon after.

"Survivors said she seemed to break in two under the at his home, 9 Prospect Park with a dog named Butch. Mr. Hart, while nursing lacerations on the ring finger of his right hand, made It clear that he had no ill will toward the dog. He explained carefully Butch is an Eng-. lish bull and is the pet of Leonard Bcorsteln, Mr.

Hart's nephew, who Is In the air corps. Councilman Hart avoided any mention of Mayor LaGuardia, his i old adversary in the City Hall, who First Snow Arrives on Right on schedule, following early morning predictions by the Weather Man, the first snow of Winter arrived in Brooklyn at 7:40 this morn ing. LaGuardia Field this afternoon canceled 35 flights because of the storm. While conditions at the field were reported as considerably above the minimum for safe flying, the six domestic airlines operating there called off their trips because of conditions in contiguous areas. Fifteen inbound and 20 outbound flights were canceled.

These flights by Australian forces advancing up Tne R-A- 's lour-englned heavy-the Huon Peninsula some 40 miles "ntii Rail Hub Used As Nazi Base Taken by Soviet London. Jan. 3 (U.R Soviet forces today captured Novo grad Volynski, vital Ukraine rail junction and German defense base, and were within less than a dozen miles of the pre war Polish frontier. Premier Marshal Stalin Issued a special order of the day announcing the capture of Novograd Volynski 51 miles northwest of Zhitomir and 20 miles from old Poland. A junction of the Korosten-Tar-nopol railroad and a line running northwestward from Zhitomir, it was the last major German base east of the border in that sector.

A United Press dispatch from Moscow forecasting the faU of Novograd Volynski said also that the White Russian base of Vitebsk and Belaya Tserkov in the Ukraine below Kiev might be taken at any time. Stalin's order said Gen. Nickolai Vatutin's tank and infantry forces stormed and captured Novograd Volynski, which he described as "an important rail junction and an Important defense base of the Germans." Victory Salvoes Ordered Stalin ordered 12 salvoes by Moscow's 124 victory cannon to celebrate the capture of Novograd Volynski, a town with a normal population of about 20,000 which dates back to the 13th century. Some 40 miles northwest of Novograd Volynski, the Russians had captured Poyaski, 12 miles' from the old Polish border, in an advance of 12 miles in a single day a pace which, if maintained, would put them on the frontier today. Reds Race Westward Moscow, Jan.

3 (U.R) Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's Army of the Ukraine was racing westward at a pace calculated to hurl its vanguard across the old Polish frontier today, and to the north the capture of the White Russian stronghold of Vitebsk was reported Imminent. Red armies, smashing' forward with increasing momentum on far-flung fronts, were within less than 12 miles of old Poland, 90 of Bessarabia and 35 of Latvia, toward which battle-groggy German forces were reeling in a retreat that became headlong flight in some sectors. Reds Fanning Out The Germans were being flung back toward Russia's old frontiers in bloody battles raging along a 200-mile arc In the Ukraine.

With captured Zhitomir as a Continued on Page 2 REFUSE COLLECTIONS TIED UP IN JERSEY CITY Jersey City, Jan. 3 (U.R) Garbage and refuse, some of it accumulating since mid-December, itood uncollected on sidewalks today as an increasing number of protests reached the office of Acting Mayor Arthur Potterton. Michael Scatuorchio, who has held the collection contract for more than 20 years, explained 60 of his workers have gone into the armed services and that 40 have been ill. Yank Fliers Downed Over Sofia, Says Report Stockholm, Jan. 3 (U.R) The Stockholm Svenska in a Budapest dispatch, said yesterday Bulgarian newspapers had published alleged interviews with American airmen shot down over Sofia.

The Bulgarian papers said the airmen "answered evasively" when asked whether they were able to aistinguish military objectives from 18,000 feet. "Other countries execute such flyers as war criminals," the Dagbladet dispatch quoted the garian newspapers as commenting. Report Hitler's Chancellery Struck in Raid London, Jan. 3 (U.R) Hun dreds of British four-engined bombers rained another 1,000 tons of explosives on blazing Berlin early today for the second consecutive morning in the methodical Allied offensive to obliterate the German capital, and French reports said the evacuation of more civilians had been ordered. Reports from Sweden said Adolf Hitler's Reichschancellery was hit.

The extent of damage to Hitler's headquarters was not determined immediately, a Stockholm dispatch said, but the mausoleum-like structure had ritae-i'oot fhick concrete foof calculated to withstand anything except a super blockbuster. Two and four-ton blockbusters and thousands of incendiaries stoked the fires still burning from previous raids and sent new con- flagrations raging through the world's most-bombed city. Twenty-seven bombers were lost in the 'ttack and subsidiary Mosquito raids on Western Germany and the French Invasion coast. The toll was reduced by one plane from the originally announced 28 when it was learned one of the bombers had landed safely In Britain. straight night to avoid the light of the waxing moon and sent their cargoes crashing down on Berlin only a few hours before dawn.

Twenty-eight bombers were lost In the attack and in subsidiary Mosquito raids on western Germany and the French invasion coast. Double London Bliti The night's tonnage boosted the total weight of bombs dropped on Berlin to 10 heavy raids in the past seven weeks to between 14.000 and 15,000 approximtaely twice that dropped on London during the entire 11-month German "blitz" of 1940-41. Speculation grew that half of Berlin was destroyed, but there was no authoritative Information to support this theory. The Sunday Observer air correspondent predicted Berlin would be eliminated as an "organized city" when 12,000 Continued on Page 2 Yugoslav King Wins Fighter Pilot's Wings Cairo, Jan. 1 (U.R) King Peter of Yugoslavia has won his wings as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, climaxing an extensive training period begun in England, it was learned today.

The 20-year-old king, whose government in exile makes its headquarters here, received his wings Thursday after a 120-mile solo flight over the desert. King Peter, long a mechanics enthusiast, is an expert electrician and automobile mechanic. Scarlet Fever Halts School Cincinnati, Jan. 3 (U.R) Classes on the main campus of the University of Cincinnati were suspended today in an effort to prevent the spread of scarlet fever, which has sent 17 of the more than 2.00 soldier-students to General Hospital. SAVE WASTE PAPER-USE THE PHONE If TV are unable to dispose of your waste paper through your regular channel, telephone your borough CDVO-WPB salvage office.

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of at least 200. immediately; one nosed Island were awakened when tha first blast swept over the area, breaking windows and rocking buildings on their foundations. Several smaller explosions were reported, especially from the Rock-away section, where more than 100 windows were smashed and a chimney toppled. The last blast was the most severe, causing additional damage all along the coastline of Brooklyn and Long Island. The navy did not explain what caused the last blast, whioh occurred about an hour after the ship was aban-doned.

Call for Blood Plasma Shortly after an emergency call had been made from Fort Hancock to the Monmouth County, N. Red Cross for blood plasma and volun-teer workers, Col. J. H. Bigley, chairman of the Brooklyn Red Cross Chapter, placed his unit on the alert and prepared to furnish plasma and surgical dressings wherever they might be needed.

He called for all possible volunteers to aid in the emergency work. Coney Island and the Rockaways suffered more damage than other sections, it was indicated by police reports. In Coney Island windows were broken in eight stores along Surf the Boardwalk and Brighton Beach while in Sheepshead Bay 14 windows were blown out of Lundy's Restaurant and several windows were smashed Continued on Page CHIANG HAILS PLAN TO PURGE JAPAN Chungking, Jan. 3 (U.R) Presl-dent Roosevelt agreed at the Cairo conference that all Japanese militarists must be wiped -nit. General, issimo Chiang Kai-shek declared in a New Year's Day message which empnasizea omna should assumt- responsibility for crushing Japan on the Asiatic mainland.

Chiang said he told the President that the militarists must be wiped out, that the Japanese political sys tem must be purged of every vestige of aggressive elements and that the question of what form of government Japan should adopt could better be left to a repentant Japanese people. WHERE TO FIND IT BridM Fattens 1J-1S (omlea Radl 17 Irot.word 14 Eitate IS Dr. Brady 11 Strmsna JO tdltnrlal a Sorittr 6 Financial IK Sport. It-It iioroneape r.kt My Wora Indlrr Theater Moyiea 1 The Women Musie 1 Vnrtm Ray II a FOUR SURVIVORS OF SHIP BLAST BROUGHT HERE Rescued Uninjured, They Are Taken to Naval Headquarters Four of the uninjured survivors of the blast which sent a destroyer to the bottom off the Rockaways this morning were brought to the 3d Naval District headquarters early this afternoon. They were: E.

P. norman, boatswain's mate, 1st class, 24. of 532 5th Brook- l.vh, wh has been in the vrj six years. RAYMOND, oUu VOmp, coxswain, 30, of 243 Burlington Paterson. N.

who has been in the service 18 months. RENE H. PINCETL, chief machinist's mate, 32, of 1743 1st San Diego, ho was the last man off the ship. CHARLES GEORGE WOBST, machinists mate 1st class, 24, of 23 Cooley Place, Mt. Vernon, N.

Y. Norman and Pomp said they were in the aft sail loft when the first blast came. They immediately joined a fire-fighting crew. Pincetl and Wobst were in the engine room at the time of the Continued on Page 2 Negro Appointed Grand Jury Head County Judge Samuel S. Leibo-witz appointed today as foreman of the January.

1944. Kings County grand jury. Herbert T. Miller, a Negro, of 558 Decatur St. He is the first Negro ever to be appointed foreman of a grand jury in any county of the nation, according to the jurist.

In appointing him Judge Leibo-witz said: "Mr. Miller is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati where he Herbert T. Miller obtained the degree of bachelor of science and he also attended Springfield College. He is executive secretary of the Carlton Branch of the Y. M.

C. and also served the Y. M. C. A.

in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He has spent his life in helping others, especially in work among the youth in curbing juvenile delinquency." Boro Flier Killed Tonopah. Jan. 3 (UP) Lt. Frank J.

Pigott, 22, was killed when a P-39 plane crashed near here yesterday during combat training. Pigott was the son of Mrs. Nora Pigbtt, 421 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. aaaaaanaaaaaaaa.

mm mm mm mmm ms au. Holdout Rail Unions May Ask Senate Probe number two gun turret." Of the survivors, most of whom were landed at Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook or at various points on Staten Island, at least 108 were injured, a number critically. Survivors Landed Shortly before noon the Navy Department announced that 55 uninjured survivors had been landed at Sandy Hook and were being cared for at the Coast Guard station there. At the Fort Hancock base hospital were 54. most of them being treated for third degree burns, while 50 more were landed on Staten Island, 39 at the Section Base at Pier 16 and 11 at the Marine Hospital.

Those at the Section base were being treated for burns, shock and immersion, while six of the 11 at the hospital were reported In serious condition. Four were brought to the Brooklyn Naval Hospital. New York police reported that four bodies had been recovered from the ocean, but the navy did not confirm the report. According to Jane's Fighting Ships, the manual of naval operations, an old type destroyer has a crew of up to 200, while newer types carry up to 230 men and officers. Blast Awakens Millions The navy would not say what type of destroyer exploded.

Neither did it make any estimate of the dead or missing. Millions of persons throughout the city. New Jersey and Long Unauthorized Pay Boost Brings U. S. Tax Penalty For paying their 17 employes a total of $1500 in wags raises not authorized by the War Labor Board.

Jobbers Wiper Laundry; and Industrial Wiping Cloth of 11-11 40th Long Island City, must pay income tax on that amount, under a rullne announced today by Thomas L. Norton, acting chairman of the regional WLB. The firm was one of four in the metropolitan area who admitted violations of the wage stabilization act, for which they were disallowed exemptions aggregating more than $8,500. All agreed to discontinue the pay increases. 'Hot Foot' Proves Fatal As Oiled Trousers Ignite Detroit.

Jan. 3 (U.R) A "hot foot" proved fatal yesterday to Louis Marino, 20, a war worker. Marino was burned fatally when Herbert Pomeranke. 30, a fellow worker at the Continental Motof Corporation plant, stuck a match in his shoe as a practical joke and lit it. Marino's oil-soaked trousers were Ignited by the blaze and he was enveloped In flames.

Police held Pomeranke. but no charges have been placed agalnsl him. north of Finschhafen. Enemy troops caught In between the American-Australian pincers were pinneu to the coastal region by the towering Finlsterre Mountain range, which begins a few miles inland and can be crossed only at a pass near Mount Yupna-kabap. 20 miles south of Saidor.

Capture of Saidor, used by the Japanese as a barge trans-shipment base on the supply route to the Huon Peninsula and Rabaul, set the stage for a two-way drive on Madang, keystone of Japanese defenses on northern New Guinea, and its auxiliary base of Bogadjim, 43 miles northwest of Saidor: Bombers Pave Way The landings at Saidor marked the third American invasion in the Southwest Pacific in the last three weeks. Only a week earlier U. 8. marines landed at Cape Gloucester In northwestern New Britain and the' previous- week other elements of the 6th Army captured Arawe on the southwest coast of New Britain. More 'than 100 Allied bombers paved the way for the invasion by dropping 200 tons of bombs along the north coast of New Guinea between Saidor and Sio Saturday and firing 100,000 rounds of ammunition in strafing attacks.

Madang also was hit in a follow-up to Friday's record 253-ton raid. On New Britain, marines consolidated their position at Cape Gloucester. Finns Urged to Strive For Freedom and Honor Helsinki, Jan. 3 (U.R) Warning Finland must apply all power to gain its freedom and honor, Prime Minister Edwin Linkomies, in a New Year's Day message to his people, said Finland can await the world's judgment calmly. "At the end of 1943," he said, "we do not see more clearly into the future than at the beginning.

"When the war has continued one year, it certainly Is lessened by one year, but this fact is not likely to comfort us since we are completely uncertain how long the war still must continue and what we will have to endure." Balkans BLckout Ordered Stockholm. Jan. 3 (U.R) The Svenska Dagbladet said yesterday German authorities In the Baltic countries ordered a complete blackout beginning Jan. Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R) The heads of three operating railroad brotherhoods called a meeting today to consider what a spokesman characterized as "the cowardly attack" on railroad workers over the weekend by an "informed source." The railroad union meeting was revealed shortly after White House Secretary Stephen T.

Early said President Roosevelt, in his conferences with railroad leaders, and the "informed source" of the weekend story that labor disputes were prolonging the war seemed "to have Fort Limps Home With Gunner Dead, 8 Mates Blinded USAAF Bomber Station, England, Jan. 3 (U.R) With one crewman dead and eight others blinded by lack of oxygen, an American flying Fortress returned to base after being riddled by anti-aircraft fire during a raid deep into southern Germany, official reports revealed today. The reports, brief and to the Mint 1.. V. 1U TS Keelan, the pilot.

His personal version, however, was something else again. "Over the target," he said, "we caught a burst of flak outside the right waist window that killed our waist gunner. "The next burst caught us near the nose and knocked out the oxygen In the front and made some more holes. 'I put all the men In the nose Noyel IS Want Ada M-15-1 Obituaries Women Parr-lt The co-pilot had some oxygen left Oregon, and other features..