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ALLIES DESTROY AURELIO HEARING BROOKLYN EAGLE, WEDNESDAY. OCT. 20, 1943 Queens Man's Pliers Saves Fort ON DISBARMENT 60 Landing With Live Bombs in Bay Deadline Approaches For Gas Ration Books to France by pulling' the pins. Th) Little Lass tailed to find her target and it became necessary to reinsert the pins for a safe journey back to England. But one of the pins proved to ba broken and the bombs could not bo jettisoned because the bomber was over England.

So Mahoney crawled into the bomb bay and hero's garments. Lieutenant Mahoney is a former Hart Is Named Bus Spokesman Brooklyn Democratic Councilman Waltw R. Hrt mas pictured today "chief spokesman" for the Green Bus Line at a conference concerning a city claim against the company for alleged rate over-charts, according to testimony of a veteran Civil Service employe of trie Controller's office. The testimony as presented at the opening public hearing of an inquiry by Commissioner of Investigation Herlans into charges by Controller McGoldrick that Hart had violated City Charter provi-Fions which prohibit appearance of in behalf of Drivate in That is how 2d Lt. Michael G.

Mahoney of Queens became a hero while lying flat on his back for IS minutes, the War Department reported today. The bomber, dubbed Little Lass, was loaded with the bombs, which explode on impact. They were bound In clusters of six. with strips ot half-inch wire. Before they could be dropped small pins had to be pulled from a point where the wire ends joined to hold each cluster.

Pulled the Pins Mahoney, bombardier on the plane, untied the bombs on the way Mike Mahoney, a red-faced, redheaded bombardier, lay flat on his back in the bomb bay of a Flying Fortress. He held a pair of pliers tightly In one hand and some one held tightly onto Mlke'a pants. The pliers gripped several wires. Strung on those wires was a cluster of fragmentation bombs. The Fortress was landing and if those pliers slipped the big plane would go up again, in pieces.

But Mike prayed a little and the chap holding his pants tight held on a little tighter and the Fortress landed in England wt'h scarcely a jar. SHIPS AT RABAUL Air Raids Against Japs Also Set Fire to Troop-Laden Vessel Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific. Oct. 20 (UP) Allied bombing fleets destroyed at least 60 more Japanese planes and three ships in a surprise return attack on the battered enemy stronghold at Rabaul, New Britain, a communique disclosed today. Other planes heaped new destruc holders will each be taken care of according to individual needs and cases, he explained.

Ill Queens County Court, Long Island City, a Jury before Judge Dowels was hear further testimony today in the trial of Louis Mignogna. 42, for the alleged theit of gasoline coupons on Jan. 24 from the OPA office at 29-28 41st Long Island City. Mignogna is already serving a nine-year term in a ederal prison Borough motorists were asked to come to the public school in the county in which their car ls registered today to get their bajic A ration books. The final deadline tor tiie issuance of the books at public schools is tomorrow at 7 in.

Sc1kk)1s will be open today and tomorrow' from 3 to 7 tor the issuance of the bucks. According to ligures released by Dr. William Jaii-sen. assistant superintendent of the Board of Education who is supervising the distribution of the books lof the OP A. 43.439 Brouklymtes obtained their A book yesterday, tiie first day of OPENS TODAY Appellate Division Denies Application For Week's Extension Proceedings for the disbarment of former Magistrate Thomas A.

Aurelio, the official but unwanted Republican and Democratic candidate for Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan, were scheduled to start ith a hearing in Manhattan's Appellate Division this afternoon. The action, initiated by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, would have the effect, if successful, of preventing the former magistrate from serving as a Supreme Court Justice should he. since his name appears as the Re model whose wife, Eileen, andpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael J.

Jla honey, live at 118-47 220th St, feu Albans. A daughter, Bridget, four weeks old, awaits the lieutenant return from the wars. ibers followed up the Rabaul for poa.ses.sion of the coupons, redeemable for 11.000 000 gallons of gasoline, found in his home at 215 W. 18th St, Manhattan. He is charged with third degree burglary and petty larceny.

On the yesterday Mignogna denied he had taken part in the burglary. He insisted the stolen terests in any proceeding in which I dtsmbution. This was compared to the 5-boro total of 138.302 with ThrnhNoEHectivWay of Attacking Us" 7 CHUKO IKESAK1, Mmbr of itp (M. loot ubbM 1441 Cops Press Search For Foe of Nazis, Wife Police of nine States today pressed a search for Andrew Toth. 38, and his wife, Elizabeth, 29, of 318 E.

78th Yorkville, who vanished Aug. 16, the day the husband passed a naturalization test, and who relatives fear have been slain because of Toth's violent anti-Nazi utterances. Missing also were their life savings of $5,000 which Toth, a house painter of Hungarian descent, ls thought to have had on his person because of his distrust of banks. A note found under the door of the Toth's apartment said they were going to visit a sick relative in New Jersey, but a search there has proved futile. tion on Japanese air bases along thai norther.i shore of New Britain and bombed a troop-laden transport into flaming wreckage off the coast of New Ireland.

Five wavea of Mitchell medium bombers, flying without fighter escort, struck Rabaul during a tropical thunderstorm. The raiders again caught the enemy off guard. Three Shipi Sent to Bottom The first wave hammered shipping in the crowded harbor, sending a 6 000-ton freighter and a corvette to the bottom, and succeeding formations sank destroyer, knocked out anti-aircraft batteries and damaged another cargo ship. At least 23 grounded enemy planes were destroyed and 37 other planes that battled the raiders on their homeward flisrht were shot down at a cost of three Allied bombers. Gen.

Douglas MacArthurs heavy raid with an attack on the enemy airdrome at Cape Gloucester, on the northwestern end of New Britain, and other heavy and medium bombers dropped 25 tons of explosives on the Cape Hosklns Field, midway between Cape Gloucester and Rabaul. Liberator bomber from Admiral William F. Halsey'a South Pacific command Intercepted a six-ship Japanese convoy traveling southward off Kavlerur, New Ireland, Sunday and pounded lt Intermittently for 24 hours. An 8.000-ton transport, loaded with enemy troops, was set afire by a direct bomb-hit and left sinking off Mussau Island, off the northwestern tip of New Ireland. Two other freighters were attacked and damaged and an enemy float plane was shot down.

51.047 for Qu'iis im the first day, 6850 lor Richmond. 20.993 for the Bronx and 15 973 lor Manhattan. Dr. Jait-en mat while the first day iigures wvre below expectations and less than last year, it can be attnuu.ed to a ioss in registration of autos thus year. He said that the public schools took care of all applicants without trouble.

Out-ol-State license owners, according to Jaitsen, were rejected at the public schools and will be taken care of separately at a later date to be announced In the newspapers. This separate arrangement was made necessary by the variance in Jurisdiction and rationing allow. City fnuds are involved. Edward J. Smith, chief auditor of accounts in the Controller office, who said he has been in the department for 35 years, testified that Hart ufcd 'seemed to be the chief spokesman" for the bus company.

He denied Hart's claim that the councilman had been invited to the conference. The cae Involved printing' of tlckeu for transportation of school children. Smith said. It was alleged that the bua company had charged the city five cents for transporting each child instead of two-and-f-half cents. The total alleged overcharge was estimated at $12,369.

Several other city employes corroborated Smiths testimony. coupons were placed in his apartment by Jonn H. Steneck, 31, who is serving a Federal prison term of four years for possession of stolen Government property. Steneck, on July 14. pleaded guilty before Judge Downs to a charge, of third degree burglary in connection with the theft of the coupons, and was sentenced to a term of two to four years in Sing Sing, execution of sentence being stayed.

Called as a prosecution witness yesterday, Steneck refused publican and Democratic candidate on the ballot, be elected Nov. 2. A last-mmute attempt to hold off the first hearings un'il after election day failed when the Appellate Division late yesterday denied, without argument, an application for a week's extension until Oct. 26 of the time during which he might answer charges against him. Instead the court ruled the answers must be made orally before the court at 2 p.m.

today and in writing at 4 o'clock. At the oral session. It was an to answer any questions put to him ances in the various States through by Assistant District Attorney Wii- out the country. These license Jiain Kerwuk wwpMARTIN'S OPEN THURSDAY FROM 11:45 A.M. TO 9 imkmmmmm The General Lawton Council 119 Jr.

O. U. A. M. will hold a ladies night Oct.

28 in Hart Hall, 1030 Gates Ave. -Til nounced, Harold R. Medina, counsel for the accusing bar association, planned to plead with the court that hearings be open to the public, which wa. entitled to know the details of the accusation that Aurelio's associations with Frank Costello, underworld figure to whom the former magistrate had expressed 'undying loyalty," made him unfit to be a judge or lawyer. If the Medina petition Is granted, the smoldering political scandal stirred up when Manhattan District Attorney Frank S.

Hogan made the first charges against Aurelio on Auir. 28 will have their first public airing. ICE MIST, all wool corf, long Bjy MORE WAR US President Calls Parley on Labor Washington, Oct. 20 fu Pi Labor crises In the coal and railway industries focused attention today on increasing labor unrest over wartime restrictions. L.ibor protests against the wage stabilization program and delays in handling wage disputes may have been a fattor in President and wide, yet so cobweb fine you can crush the whole of it in the palm of your hand.

Lovely as lace, you'll see it worn as a decorative stole, a turban, a fichu. Wrapped around your throat, it's worm out of all proportion tc its feather weight. Purple, rose-tint, moixe, Kelly green, light blue, aqua, beige, red, black, white. .91 KECK WEAR MARTIN'S STREET FLOOR Somranf htt salj thf iolJrst I Hurt in rhtUrir, tht hyfirrholt, that it lit: without itetivtng VUctultr. Exaggeration always I VV I Roosevelt's decision to call in his brings doubt! No exaggeration, however, to tell you that Rogers Peet Quality remains unchanged! Our clothes are as fine as ever.

All-wool and tailored in our own workrooms combined Labor War Board of union leaders tomorrow. That meeting will be held while the War Labor Board hears arguments on the latest proposal for settling the seven-months-old coal wage dispute. At the same time, chiefs ol 15 non-operating railway unions expect to be reaching a decision on their next move in pressing their wage demands. And the presidents of five operating brotherhoods will meet tne following day in Chicago, perhaps to authorize a strike vote protesting the four-cent hourly wane increase recommended by an emergency board. The combined Labor War Board Is composed of three A.

F. of L. labor leaders, including President William Green, three C. I. O.

members, including President Philip Murray and A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. TO KEEP THE OLD CAR ROLLING One of 43,439 Brook-lynites who obtained their new A gasoline ration books, Louis Ruggiero is shown making his application to Catherine M. Gaffney, teacher, at Public School 5, Tillary and Bridge Sts.

Judith, 3, came along to keep her daddy company. with the individual style touch of our Master- Designer. Restaurants Benefit From Sugar Plethora Officers' Uniforms. Rogers Peet Company '4 The OPA came out today with a rate of five instead of four pounds belated acknowledgment that sugar hundred persons. obtain a higher grade in the retail market.

Retailer, tiowever, declared that the new set-aside instructions to packers would merely prevent the i foisting of still lower grades on their customers. Meat delivery to Ar el 41 St Nw Toik T. nth St o( N'w Yom Wrrnt Nrw York 7. Treniont Si ar Bromf if Id St. Boston s.

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ot HOYT tions. There lias been widespread comment, by housewives that sugar piled up so high In their larders that they eaed up on purchases some time ago. At the same time the OPA the demands of candy and soda nmmilacturers lor more suuar. with the result that singer ale and certain kinds ol candy are still Local rationing boards have al-reaciv November-December allowances to institutions at the V) 8 8 CD r-- To 200 (elected cuitomcri who subscribe to our one-ycor "OIL-BURNER PARTS REPLACEMENT" PLAN 3 Do you know what Red S750 We guarantee to replace all parts for Burner only I for 1 jrtLT (A We Clfin inner A Repair All Heating ATLANTIC I PACIFIC COAL OIL C.n.y l.l.nd Ave. Bruekljn Cross Volunteers here at home do for the thousands of Brooklyn men overseas? high-twist rayon, dull sur ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Notices I WILL NO I OV.LR L.isy i Bt A nu WILL NO LOViF.lt BV Is KKP' HI jrrt'H i- JA 'Jxii hmnnd Willkie Confident Of Nomination Washington.

t. 20 Wen-cell Wiilkie, who has dedicated himself to removing President Rnosecelt from the White Hou.e. is quoted a.s having informed Congressional Republicans that he can have the 1944 CI. P. Presidential nominal.

on if he want.s it. Willkie's confident prediction ia made laM night at a closed un uf the Republican Freshman f'l'iu. ompwd of 59 new members il House He poke before them and an eijiml number of older Re-P'lblu an members, including Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin. He returned to New York after a if of private conferences that oncerned convinced not only 'hat he wants the nomination it l.a.- devoted i onsirierable time tn get it.

His next pubiic eppearanre will I- Tomorrow night in Syracuse. wnere he will speak in behalf faced as Nylons! With the leg-clinging elasticity fhot means so much in smooth fit ond satisfactory wear. The feet, reinforced with cotton for extra practicality. In Rica Sun, it 'i tott end Found 10 97c JI- ond Rio Ton. Sixes 8'2 to lO'i.

HOSIERY MARTIN'S STREET FLOOR Tutu in tomorrow afternoon to ''Wartime I-iiiifj." spoiiMiretl by' Altralitun Strau a a pulilic srr i'. at Tt on llir InForMation Station W7.NY, to lnar ELIZABETH BUSSING, Con-murr Alxirr to tlio Nutrition Committer. Brookh liajdrr, American Reil and Mrs. HENRY J. DAVENPORT, flK.irm.m of llir Special Volunteer Srr ice-.

HrookKn Chapter. linir-; the llirilliiiL' work of the men ami women wm volunteer their mt-ir for the Red If you hoven't i rffiw Itsfen to "Wnrfimt Living" in our rod'O department 'omarrow. Tli nhrt tfort it open Thursday nijhti il 9. BANKBOOK L'jv return to bank Mfd Ban 716 Ortmc BANKBOOK Lo-' uj to bunk id IttllU Oli Brink. Orsrd BANKBOOK- Lo- 'iu: uunk thin on1 vck Giand Sf.

COAT Lo-: brrv -P. -8'h Af. 3-9'my. Don Los: a -p -NA S-38S7 iXXV Lo -i nmd Timm1 nrd Eh PEAR' I -c MA 'if Hanley. Republican can-te lor Lieutenant Governor.

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