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C1B 614730 Army From WALL STREET r- FINANCIAL NEWS I I WALL STREET FINANCIAL NEWS Weather Clear and continued cold tonight and tomorrow 103d YEAR No. 28 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1 944 Fntrl ir th Brnokivn Pnuoffcn aa 3d C'i." CUTC NFW VORK CnT (Copyrnhi 1044 The Brook.rn E'e. bc I 3 V.IN I) BLgEWHERR 4 CWII 3i Mils 20 FBfflwif mail row ffiYffi a nip7? BLOCKBUSTERS RIP Reds in North Drive For Last Nazi Exit Line DYING BERLIN IN 2D Senators to Probe New Atrocity Facts ALLIED ARMY IS 20 MILES FROM ROME hhhidn A RA(D row ta I Germans Keei unaer Moscow, Jan. 29 (U.R) Red armies, closing a trap on upward of 250,000 Germans, tore huge new chunks out of the disintegrating enemy bulge below Leningrad and surged London, Jan.

29 U.P The Unitrd States 8th Air Force today sent well over 800 big bombers the heaviest force of four-motored planes ever directed against a single target in the history of aerial warfare at Frankfort, rail and industrial hub of southwest Germany. The record fleet of Fortresses and Liberators streamed i out over the British coast at dawn William Allen White, Noted Editor, Diesat75 sillilllllitl while British bombers stiil were returning from their second straight night of bombing Berlin. An estimated 1.500 to 2.000 tons of explosives razed another section of the staggered capital. The fighter-escorted American heavy bombers probably dumped more than 2.C00 ions of bombs on Frankfort, city of 550 0D0 and on? of Germany's busiest industrial ccn-j tcrs. I City last Hil On Dec.

20 FraiAfort's last ordeal b.v fire and explosion was on Dec. 20 when the Royal Air Force rocked the cay Willi 2.CX;o tons of bombs. The greatest officially announced number ol heavy bombers previous- Failed to Rally After Undergoing Serious Operation Emporia, Jan. 29 URi William Allen White, dean of American country editors, whose writings in his Eniporia Gazette brought him national fame, died today, two weeks before his 76th birthday. White died of a heart attack, but his condition had been serious since he underwent an abdominal operation at the Mayo Clinic last October.

He failed to recover fully and was confined to his home daring most of the months after the operation. White, who purchased the Gazette in 1896. first achieved national recognition with an editorial en-Continued on Tage 5 REPORT NAZIS EXPECT INVASION WITHIN 120 DAYS See April as Most Likely Month Troops, Guns Massed in France Lisbon. Jan. 29 (DPI NeuLrai diplomatic sources reported from Vichy today that the German high command expects the Allies to invade France within 120 davs and was massing troops, guns and trams accordingly.

One Vichy source was quoted as 'reporting that the Germans wore i i concentrating large reserve forces near Paris and Lyons and were building new rail lines fanning out I from cities to vital coaxial points. A third large reserve force was reported being held in thp Rhine-j land, from where It can be rushed to the points of greatest need. In order to assure the greatest Pound Cisterna, Strong Point on The Appian Way Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Jan. 29 (U.R) American troops have advanced to within light artillery range of Cisterna, German strong point on the Appian Way 25 miles south east of Rome, and to their leftj British units have captured aj bridge on the main road from Anzio less than 20 miles below the Italian capital, it was revealed Official reports made it' apparent for the first time that Americans were manning the right or southern flank of the growing beachhead south of Rome and the British were operating the Allied left wing nearer the Eternal City. The disclosure that United States units had pressed within light artillery reach of the Appian Way in the area of Cisterna.

13 miles inlandj from Nettuno. made it evident that the vital highway linking the two fronts had been immobilized for practical purposes. Nullify Airport's Effect The new American gains also nullified the effectiveness of a. huge new airport which Benito Mussolini built at Cisterna about 1937 in the heyday of his fascist regime. British units of the 5th Army either had bypas.sed or captured Carroceto.

narrowing the gap between them and Rome to less than a score of miles, in their thrust which overran the bridge three miles above that town. Although German resistance on Continued on Pas' 3 Falling Wall Injures Lumber Yard Employe Jack Hutter, 70. watchman in the lumber yard of the Woodland Lumber Supply Company. 1309 38th and living at that address, received injuries to both lees in an accident in the yard last night. He was taken to Israel Zion Hospital.

Robert Jackson of 173 Bainbiidse St. was backing a truck out of the yard when the vehicle ran against the concrete block wall which surrounds the yard. Several of the blocks were dislodged and fell on Hutter's legs. Other employes dug him out and called police. Bugle Company to Blow Camp Blanding.

Jan. 29 'UP) Members of the 231st Battalion welcomed the news today that one of their companies would leave soon to join combat units. The company is composed of 200 buglers. Mighty U. S.

S.Missouri To Be Launched Today Senator Truman's Daughter to Christen Dreadnought at Navy Yard The navy's mightiest seagoing fortress, the battleship U. S. S. Missouri, will slide down the ways at the Brooklyn Navy Yard today. She will be christened by Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of Senator Harry S.

Truman, Democrat of Missouri, who will be i possible mobility, the Germans at keep the rendezvous at relay points present are keeping only enough acmss fYanre and ov' the tarset area, troops actually on the inva-ion I roast to man the guns, one source I Hit Invaion ost reported. i While the bombers were over German military experts were Europe the fighters shuttled back quoted as claiming the Nazis were and ionh over the coast, and simul-keeping only enough men on the taneously Typnoon fighter-bombers Russian and Italian fronts to mam-' tarn present lines. The Germans i 1 Continued on Page 3 Kea nammer diows today. The Russians appeared closer to encircling a hiiRe German army than at any time since Stalingrad. Slashing into the southern flank of the Nazy salient, Gen, Kyril A.

Meretoskov's vanguards west of Novgorod swept across the Leningrad-Vitebsk railway, next to the last escape route out of the bulge, and pressed on toward the main Leningrad-Pskov line, 23 miles to the east. Nazis Reel Back The Germans were reported reeling back in disorder under the Soviet hammer blows. Thousands were cut off and annlhllatrnV Others surrendered. On the northern flank of the bulge, Gen. Leonid A.

Govorov's Leningrad armies swept up more than 50 towns and villages south and southwest of the former capital, pushing to within 34 miles of the Estonian border and narrowing the escape corridor to 65 miles. Frontal attacks on the bulge cleared the Germans from all but an 11 -mile stretch of the main Moscow-Leningrad railway and trapped thousands of Germans defending the remaining segment around Chu-dovo, nearly 70 miles southeast of Leningrad. Chudovo's Fall Near-Trie Soviet high command announced that a battle of annihilation was being waged against the trapped forces at Chudovo. southeastern anchor of the German salient, andits fall was expected soon. In the southwestern Ukraine, the Germans continued to throw huge forces of tanks and infantry into battle east of Vinnitsa despite enormous losses.

All counterattacks were repdlsed with heavy German lasses. Ex-Lecturer Jailed; Spread Jap Propaganda Arthur Clifford Read. 33, will not be heard as a lecturer for at least two and a half years. He was sentenced to prison yesterday by Federal Judge Goddard in Manhat tan for acting as a secret propa- Sanaa agent lor japan. ine court was loin dv assis am IX.

S. Attorney Richard J. Burke that Read tinted his lectures with pro-Jap propaganda, for which he was paid $15,000. Before he took the Jap money Read worked for the Chinese gov-ernment and more recently wa.s a corporal in the United States Army, Subway Foreman Killed By Train at Borough Hall John Hughes. 37.

foreman of trackwalkers on the I. T. subway division, was instantly killed in the Borough Hall station nt 4:50 a m. today when a southbound Lexington Ave. train ran him down while he was trying to recover his lantern from the tracks.

Hughes lived at 1092 Anderson the Bronx. Woman Found Guilty In Fatal Stabbing Case Mrs. EliMbcth Jarvis. 36. has been found guilty of first denree manslaughter in a case involving the fatal stabbine of an army private, James Gallagher, 765 Park Place, last September.

The trial was in Kines County Court b'efore Judge Leibowitz. TODAY'S SCRATCHES Hialeah Park CI.F4R AM) FAST. 1 SpunRiFd OHinf 1 Tpr'dv. The Capla.r, Conic Jlc 3 Ore i lino 5 8'ict Oifv. Ship Fdi'mK'.

Cry for Revenge Grows Over Foe's Cruelty Washington, Jan. 29 (U.W A Senate committee chairman promised today to dig out still unpublished facts about Japanese prison camp atrocities which already have roused the nation to concentrated fury and given it a blazing new battle cry "Vengeance!" This underscoring White House hint that the full story has yet to be told, came as the conviction grew among Congressional and military leaders that only the destruction of Toltio and the unleashing of war's horrors upon the Japanese people at home could quench this country's thirst for revenge against a brutal and sadistic enemy. There was no doubt that the American people had been aroused to a pitch of anger unparalleled since Pearl Harbor by the army-navy disclosure that the Japanese employing starvation, torture and butchery had exterminated at least 7.700 American and many more, Filipino heroes of Bataam and Cor-regidor. War Bond Sales Skyrocket A United fvest survey showed that throughout the country, war bond sales skyrocKeled as angered citizens rushed to buy. Chairman Elbert D.

Thomas Utah) of a Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Prisoners announced he would summon army and navy intelligence officers to closed hearings some time in the near luture, "to get all the information possible through the proper channels." In Los Angeles, Capl? Samuel Grashio, compantpn of the late Lt. Col. William Dyews in the infamous "march of death." told how 1.100 Americans and 14,000 Filipino pris- Continttnl on Page 3 SEVEN ARE INJURED WhEN AUTOS CRASH ON KINGS HIGHWAY Seven persons lodav wert recovering from injuie received last night In a collision between an automobile and taxkab at Kiuga Highway and Bedford Ave. Andrew Berry, 50. of 126 Bay 26th driving east on the highway, swerved to avoid colliding with another car and struck the taxi, driven Joseph Cioffk 44.

of 507 Columbia St. Berry suffered a possible spine fracture and other injuries; his wile, Catherine, received lacerations of the forehead and their daughter. Rita. 18. sustained a possible skull fracture.

Cioffi sustained scalp lacerations and a bruised.right knee. His passengers. Dorothy, Molly and Lilly Amster. sisters, of 1840 Park Place, suffered possible leg fractures and head injuries. They were taken to Coney Island Hospital.

Ex-State Attorney Fills Van Nuys Post Indianapolis. Jan. 29 (U.R) Samuel Dillon Jackson of Fort Wayne, a former Attorney General for Indiana, came out of retirement today to serve out the unexpired term of Senator Frederick Van Nuys, who died Tuesday. The 48-year-old attorney, who quit active politics three years ago. was appointed by Gov, Henry F.

Schricker immediately after the latter returned from Anderson here he attended funeral services for Nuys. toward the last escape railroad CITY DUMP COAL PAYMENT PLAN IRKS OPERATORS Say Drivers Refuse To Make Deliveries Until Paid for Fuel An Independent coal dealer who was to operate one of the city fuel dumps to sell coal to Brooklyn consumers in bag lots was told he would have to pay cash for the 10 tons of coal delivered and then would have to turn over to the Markets Department all the money he took in and await an adjustment for his own compensation, Miles J. Goldberg, counsel to the Allied Coal Dealers Association, charged today. A spokesman for the Markets Department denied that any demand had been made for payment when the fuel was delivered to the dump, although he did admit that dealers operating the piles turn over their proceeds to the department and await an adjustment. Goldberg asserted that the fuel dump originally scheduled for 137 Powers St.

two days ago. which, according to City Fuel Administrator Edwin A. Salmon, was not established because the building at that site was unsuitable, actually was not set up because the independent dealer could not pay for the coal when it was delivered. Coal Payment Demanded He said the P. C.

Coal Company, which has offices at 1652 Fulton had agreed to take over operation of the dump on Powers St. and a representative of the company was on hand Thursday morning when the Central Coal Company delivered ten tons. The driver re- fused to leave the fuel until he was paid for it, Goldberg charged. A spokesman at the Central Coal Company office said no charge had been made for the coal and that all bills for such orders are presented to the city aftpr delivery Continued on Page 3 Tag! Ames Is It Boise. Idaho, Jan.

29 (U.R) Deputv U. S. Marshal J. W. Ames, 34, took two Federal prisoners before an induction board for physical examinations.

One of the prisoners and Ames were accepted. Rosen, a small-time labor spy in l.epke's industrial racket, was killed in order to prevent him from testifying In the Murdcr-for-Money gang investigation. Clemency hearings for all three murder convicts will be held Feb. 2 by Governor Dewey. Lepke vias serving a 14-year term for conviction on a Federal nar-Hics charge, and before he was turned over to the State for carrying out of the death sentence, charges were bandied- about that Dewey wanted the man so as to get him to "squeal" about gangster influences in high places, and that that was why Lepke was not turned ovpr to the State immediately after Dewey asked for him.

William Allen White Five Children Die When Home Burns Chicago, Jan. 29 (U.R) Five children, ranging in age from live months to 11 years, were burned to death early today when their home, a one-story frame building located outside the limits of suburban Melrose Park, was destroyed by fire while their parents were at work in a war plant. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrenre Porter had left their children in charge of their oldest son.

Sonny, 13, early in the evening. The fire, believed to have started from the overhpated stove, consumed most of the building while the children slept. Ponny was the only one who escaped. The victims were I five months: Selma. David, Paul.

7 and Grace, 11. The alarm was sounded when i Sonny ran to a neighbor's home to call his They arrived after the fate of their children had been established. Liberia Rubber Awaits 1 were reported planning "to deal first with the invasion or invasions and next turn their full attention to Russia I Diplomatic sources said the Ger- mans in France believed the in- vasion will be launched simultane- ously by paratroops and by am- piuuioux lorces. nr oermans were quoted as boasting they will Inflict a death and blood toll on the in- I vaders that will have a Martling effect" on British home morale and I politics. ly dispatched from Britain was the on Jan- and Uwt force i scattered to five targets in west and Germallybt0 flRht one nf the most sensational' air bat- of the war.

the MZP of the feet 0Vfr Franniurt at least equalled that of th(1 A ton Mn Berhn than 12 hours earlier. American heavy bombers had I raided Frankfort only once before on Sepl. 4 when Fortresses at-' tackpd an aircraft factory Uieie at a cost of 15 bombers. Coastal observers reported that the passage of the Forts and Liberators took more than half an hour. Soon thereafter hiiih-flvine snuadrons of fighters wpm out- tr, YugO Partisans Occupy 2 Towns 1 London.

Jan. 29 Yugoslav Partins have occupied the towns of Burpee and Cehc in their coun- i term Tensive to drive the Germans from Bosnia, a communique an- nounced today. The communique said a Partisan brisade advancd alone the right bank of the Kraka River in Croatia after routing a German column. dama-jed two parked enemy fighter planes and dest roved a barge in the harbor, 370 miles northwest of Ra- baul. Blast Three Marshall Atolls Pearl Harbor.

Jan. 29 UR' Plane of tiie Armv Air Force struck at three Marshall Island atolls Thursday in the 22d consecutive day of possible pre-invasion soften- liig-upand coupled the attacks with a raid on the important phosphate-producing island of Nauru, 400 miles west of the Gilberts. iSAVE WASTE PAPER 'USE THE PHONE If you are unable to dispose of your waste paper through your reg-i ular channel, telephone your bor-ouirh CDVO-WPB salvage office. Brooklyn MAIn 5-0061. Manhattan Ml'rray Hill S-9663.

Bronx t'Ordham S-1500. Queen Cleveland 3-015. RKhmund GIbnlUr 7'1M the principal speaker at the launch- I ing ceremonies. In the official prty coming from I Washington far the ceremony will i be a number of other Senators. Representatives and distinguished residents of Missouri.

The guests will be iniroduced by Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, commandant of the yard. The massive dreadnought, fourth of her class to be launched and 85th 1 ship to be built a. the Brooklyn yard, will slide down the ways coated with more than 90,000 pounds of grease. After the brief ceremony workers will go right back to their tasks and the ship will be moored in a fitting-out dock for final construction. She is expected to be completed at least nine months ahead of schedule because of stepped-up production at the yard.

Described by the navy as likely to be "the most formidable craft afloat," the Missouri will mount an Continued on Page 3 i Altering Birth Paper Laid to Newlywed Pair Accused of altering a birth epr tificate to misrepresent his age, Allies Blast Admiraltys, Bag22 PlanesatRabaul Lepke to Appeal Taylor Denial of New Trial Advanced Allied Headquarters. New Guinea. Jan. 29 'UP' AlliPd airmen blasted the strategic Admiralty Islands with a record bombing and shot down 22 more enemy planes over Rabaul in blows aimed at isolating that major base in Japan's Southwest Pacific defense hnr, a communique announced today. 'An indication that the AlliP.s were was seen in a Tokio which admitted the situation at Rabaul was "becoming grave" and ndded "we are worried about our inferiority in numerical strength." The broadcast said 430 Allied planes attacked Rabaul Monday.

Wednesday and Thursday and that 125 were shot down but admitted the Japanese suffered "precious lasses. "i American Liberator bombers, following up a heavy assault on the island group Wednesday, attacked Lorenaau, on Manus Island of the Admiralty- croup. Thursriav. dropping the record bomb tomiaup wni' caused large fires and explosions, The ruling of Count Judge Franklin Taylor denying the appli cation of Louis i Lepke i Buchalter, Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss and Louis Capone for a new trial will be taken to the Court of Appeals in Albany, according to Defense Attorney J. Bertram Wegman.

The trio, convicted of the 1936 gang murder of Joseph Rosen. Brooklyn candy store owner, are scheduled to die in the electric chair the week of Feb. 7. Judge Taylor, after hearing argument for and against the miotion. handed down his decision, without comment, late Testimony at the murder trial, at which Judge Tavlor had also presided, was to the effect that Louis Wolf, 16, and his wife, Dor- Ships to Carry It Here othy, 19.

of 143-05 102d Ja- I Warehouses in Liberia are stocked maica, were arraigned on charges with rubber awaiting shipment, ac-of perjury and subornation of cording to Donald Richter, a rubber i plantation emplove. who arrived perjury in Queens Felony Court i country aboard before Magistrate Hockert. a transatlantic Pan American Air- Mrs. Wolf, according to an affi- ways clipper at La Guardia Field, davit signed by Detective John The rubber Is not being moved. Lafferty.

procured and altered for according to Mr. Richter, because her husband a birth certificate is- of the apparent lack of shipping sued for her older sister. The facilities. purpose was to make Wolf agpear The clipper, commanded by Capt. an adult, so the couple could get Hamilton Smith, carried ten tians-a marriage license.

atlantic passengers..