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339 tmUni In the BrMklyn PasUffle ti Class "ail MatUr BROOKLYN, N. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1939 iCeprrlght I9S Tka Bracklya Dally Eagle) THREE CENTS Ml it 'Tf1 nrn HOT IIF OTflH jviEjv Coney Beach Expansion Seen Assured Vengeance Victim AS i v. i a la -1 fast 54" 1 I iLw ,4, 'Sakte-Tia n.Mil 4 iaaaai All Europe Seen Rushing Aid to Finns Report War Supplies Are Sent by U. Britain, Germany, London, Dec. 7 (U.R) British pro ducers today wre understood to be speeding up war supplies for Finland, which the Finnish legation announced has been receiving war materials from Britain, the United States and Germany for more than a year.

Material resources are flowing to Finland, it was said in well-informed quarters, from ail over Europe in an effort to aid her in a fight against Soviet Russia and the spread of communism. Finnish Minister G. A. Gripenberg said that other Finnish orders for British war materials had been placed since the start ot hostilities with Russia. Finland, he said, welcomes foreign volunteers to fight against the Red army and already has received letters Continued on Page French Repulse 60 Nazi Raids Poilu Outposts Foil Thrusts on 100-Mile Line, Paris Reports Paris, Dec.

7 0J.R) Oerman troops made 60 raids on the ITench advanced lines of the Western Front during the early hours of this morning it was learned today, in the first real activity in a month. French outposts were raided all along a 100-mile line between the Moselle and Rhine Rivers as the Germans sought to find weak places in the French defenses and obtain information regarding troop dis positions. Rifles, machine guns, grenades and mines made a bedlam of the front and finally artillery was brought into action to clear the no man's land between the French snd German lines. FRONT ILLUMINATED Brilliant rockets, sent ud bv men in the outpost positions to disclose the whereabouts of raiding parties, illuminated the front in the hours before dawn. The French reported heavy losses among the German raiding parties, and numerous prisoners, but admitted that they had lost some dead and wounded.

The biggest German attack took place In the Wlssembourg sector at Continued on Page Brandy Bar in Auto Draws Prison Term A unique arrangement which permitted John Bosco, 41, of 1443 73d St. to draw brandy through a pet-cock in the dashboard of his car from the gas tank he had converted irto a liquor container was revealed today when Bosco was sentenced to six months In prison for transporting alcohol by Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowltz. Mrs. Dorothea Pronesti, 28, of 1468 73d St, caught with Bosco on Jan.

23, received a suspended sentence and two years probation. Bosco had built another tank for gasoline under the car's chassis, according to Assistant United States Attorney J. Wolfe Chassen, and was always ready to draw liquor for customers from the dashboard. Police Scour Hangouts of Wanted Pair Huge German, Swede Who Were Friends Of Victim Are Hunted Police investigating th murder here of Dr. Walter Richard Engelberg, secretary of the German Consul General in New York, today were looking for two men, one of German origin, one Swedish.

The German they sought to question was thought to be a giant of a man, 6 feet 4 in height, who would fit the size 11 bedroom slipper and oversize bathrobe found in the spare room of Engelberg'a bachelor house at 1280 E. 5th St. The spare room was on the second floor of the house, adjoining the bedroom in which Engelberg's body was found yesterday afternoon, brutally clubbed to death. Police this afternoon scoured Yorkville and other German sections in Manhattan trying to Engleberg's German friend. The Swede police sought was said to be no older than 23.

Police, it was said, know his name and usual I whereabouts, from which he has been missing for the past two or three days. They learned that he came to the E. 5th St. apartment Saturday night, that he and Engelberg went out together and returned Saturday night. There the trail was GBILL TRUCK DRIVER Meanwhile, police closely questioned 8 Newark milk truck driver.

whose name they kept secret. Engelberg and the driver, detectives revealed, had only recently become acquainted, and last Sunday the two had gone house-hunting together in Queens fotthe Nazi con sular secretary planned to move from his E. 5th St. home. A high police official revealed that a large number of clear, blood stained fingerprints, 15 in all, including at least one full set of prints of ten fingers, v.ere found by police in the murder bedroom.

The prints were rushed to Manhattan police headquarters and to the Federal criminal bureau for identification, if possible. The prints show a pair of extra ordinarily large hands. On the bed room floor was a night shirt of Engelberg's on which the killer had wiped his hands AUTOPSY PERFORMED Earlier Dr. Manuel E. Marten, assistant medical examiner in charge of Brooklyn carried out art autopsy on the body in the Kings County morgue and reported that Engelberg was the victim of "an attack of marked violence, in which tne face was bashed in from the forehead to the mouth.

There were a number of skull fractures, evidently caused by a heavy blunt in strument which also may have had a sharp edge." Some curved depression! in the skull appeared to have been caused by the curved edge of a hammer head. There were seven separate lacerations which Dr. Marten said, might have been caused by seven separate blows but not necessarily. The killing was evidently, he said, one of revenge. He recalled that Dr.

George Deely, a Brooklyn Heights specialist similarly hammered to death by a servant in 1931, also was the victim of revenge. He added that Dr. he had learned, was in the intelligence division of the German Government, "and any one occupied in that kind of work has plenty of opportunity to become a revenge victim." The body of the dead man was identified as that of Engelberg at the morgue bv Dr. Richard W. Kessler of 122 E.

76th Manhattan, who had been the personal physician to Engelberg. High police officials alsi were convinced that "a personal grudge" Continued on Page 6 1 tnckson built Upheld by Court BULLETIN Mayor LaGuardia won what may be the last round of his battle with Frank Erlckson, notorious bookmaker, today when the Appellate Term of the Court of Special Sessions upheld the conviction of Erlckson as a disorderly person before Magistrate Irving Ben Cooper. A brief opinion said that the "rvi-rlrnce adduced conclusively provwl Erk-kson guilt. r. Lone Protest Made Against Moses Plan Board of Estimate Delays Vote Whole City May Bear Cost Approval of a proposal to add 24 acres to the public beach at Coney Island by pushing the Boardwalk further Inland between W.

8th and W. 15th Sts. was seen as a certainty today after the Board of Estimate held a public hearing and deferred the actual vote for one week. It also was Indicated that the cost of the improvement, estimated at $825,000, will be born by the city at large. Under the plan part of Park Commissioner Moses' project for streamlining Coney Island the relocation of the Boardwalk would necessitate cutting through Felt-man's Restaurant, the Cyclone ride, and would mean the razing of several substantial structures.

FEARS 2D JONES BEACH' A lone objector to the project, Mrs. J. Luger 6f the Gravesend Civic Association and the Gravesend Social Planning Committee, protested against the expense of the Improvement wid said she feared that "Coney Island will become another Jones Beach." Mrs. Luger said that Jones Beach had been built "for the higher Income group" and contended that (Pictures on Page 6) Coney Island should be kept as a place of amusement and relaxation for the lower income groups. She also said that the cost would be an added expense "to already overburdened taxpayers." The matter was laid over for a week because the Board had not formally received a report of the City Planning Commission.

The report, however, will be favorable, since the Commission had voted last night to give its approval. The Board of Estimate is expected to authorize the improvement next week. SEE CITY FOOTING BILL Alternate plans for financing were considered at the meeting, one to levy the entire cost upon the city and the other to assess 65 percent against the city and 35 percent against the Borough of Brooklyn. It was strongly indicated that the entire cost would be put upon the city at large when Manhattan Borough President Isaacs agreed with Bor ough President Ingersoll that Coney Island was a playground for the whole city. "Coney Island is certainly of city-wide interest, if anything is," said Mr.

Isaacs. Mr. Ingersoll thanked him for his support and called it a generous gesture. The prorated assessed valuation of the land to be acquired, according to Commissioner Moses, is $785,000. The assessed valuations of the buildings is $136,000, and the estimated Incidental expenses of the Borough President's office $10,000.

The land would be acquired for less than its assessed valuation. Polish Submarine Flees Baltic, Joins British London, Dec. 7 (P) The Polish submarine Wilk (Wolf) has escaped from Baltic waters and joined the British Navy along with the sub- marine Orzel, the Admiralty said to- day. ine wuk, mint at ie Havre in 1929, has a surface displacement of 980 tons, carries six torpedo tubes and two guns. The Orzel's escape from Estonian waters was seized upon by Soviet Russia as occasion for demands on Es.onia which began her expansion in the Baltic.

The submarine was reported to have Joined the British Tt Oct. 14. i llesterberg Kecovenng lliai H. Ul OI I Commissioner Henry Hesterberg, borough member of the Board of Water Supply, In recovering from an attack of grip which he suffered a week ago, friends disclosed today. Mr.

Hesterberg, whose home is at 536 E. 19th St. is the Democratic leader ol Flatbush. I British Rout Nazi Planes In 2 Clashes Collisions in Fog Sink 2 Freighters DutchShipTorpedoed London, Dec. 7 64?) New blows were struck at the British navy and neutral shipping today as Royal Air Force planes turned back German warplanes in two encounters over northeast Britain.

TIk ninth acknowledged British naval loss was; counted with the sinking of the 209-ton trawler Washington by a mine in the North Sea yesterday. The Admiralty said eight lives were lost. The Netherlands motor-ship Tajandoen was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel. Six of her crew were missing. The Air Ministry declared that one enemy plane "was seen to be hit" in a raid on the Firth of Forth area, site of the Rosyth Naval Base and that a second invader was damaged in another encounter off the northeast coast.

The United Press said eight German aircraft participated in the Firth of Forth raid. FLYING BOATS DAMAGED Authoritative British sources also reported air engagements over the North Sea in which twohig German Dorniar flying boats were said to have been badly damaged. Jo bombing was reported in today's raid on the Firth of Forth, strategic inlet on which lie Edinburgh and the Rosyth naval base. A United Press dispatch from Copenhagen said a sea battle was in progress near Algeroey, outside Bergen harbor. Norway, according to Bergen dispatches to the newspaper Dagbladet.

Cannon fire was reported to have been heard from 9 a.li. to 11 a.m. Reports said fishermen sighted three foreign planes flying low and almost Continued on Page 8 O'Brien Resigns As Appeals Judge Albany, Dec. 7 04 Associate Judge John F. O'Brien, of New York's Court of Appeals, resigned today effective Dec.

31 because of ill health. Action of O'Brien, a Democrat, will leave three v-cancies in the 8tate's highest tribunal on that date. Governor Lehman already has an nounced, however, he would name two up-Sate Republican Supreme Court Justices, Charles B. Sears, of Buffalo, and Edmund H. Lewis, of Syracuse, to fill the other two judge ships made by the impending retire ment of Chief Judge Frederics; E.

Crane of Brooklyn, and Associate Judge Irving G. Hubbs, of Pulaski. O'Brien, who sent his resignation to Governor Lehman, has not parti cipated in court decisions for nearly a yar. O'Brien lives at 863 Park Manhattan. The resignation will temporarily establish an even balance in the Court of three Democrats and three Republicans.

It is now Democratic four to three. O'Brien was born In Watertown. the son of a former Judge of the Court of Appeals. He was graduated In 1398 from the New York Law School and ws in charge of Appeals in seven years' service as Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of New York. Appointed to the Court of Appeals January, 1927, he was elected the same year with Demo cratic and Republican indorsement.

Commissioner Walter R. Herrick and his wife, Juliet's parents, who, George Lowther charges, have been holding her incommunicado despite the ruling of the Manhattan Supreme Court that she is free to marry whenever she chooses. Papa Herrick said, upon hearing of the writ, that Lowther's charge was not so. His daughter, he said, has been "running around the country," going to movies and roller-skating. As for her feelinps toward the unhappy Lowther "Well," said her father.

"What a young girl feels I don't know." Reds Firing Poison Gas, Finns Charge Lethal Shells Fell Troops, Army Chiefs Say Forts Holding BULLETIN Stockholm, Dec. 7 (U.R) Moscow dispatches to the Swedish news paper Aftenbladet said today that large numbers of Soviet Russian troops are being concentrated along the Rumanian border and the Black Sea. "Russia today resembles a huge military camp," the Moscow correspondent of Aftenbladet reported. "Upon orders of Soviet War Commissar Klementl Voroshilov thousands of reserves are being Vailed to the colors daily. It is assumed in Moscow that the Red Army now numbers 5,000,000." Helsinki, Dec.

7 (U.R) Finnish Army Headquarters charged today that the Red Army was firing poison gas shells on the eastern front and reported Finnish troops fighting back strongly against Russian attacks. An official communique issued by army headquarters said 11 Finnish, soldiers were poisoned during an 230 V. S. Recruits Helsinki, Dec, 7 (P Tws hundred and thirty Finnish-Americans, some of whom never before have been In Finland, arrived today to enlist In the Finnish army to fight against Russia, A spokesman for the group said they left New York as soon as they learned Finnish independence was threatened. They sailed for Norway, and then Journeyed by train across Sweden to Helsinki.

News of the Russian invasion reached them as they were waiting In a railroad station in Sweden. When they boarded their train they offered the conductor money for every minute cut off the regular schedule, the spokesman said. artillery attack north of Lake Ladoga when Russians allegedly fired artillery shells containing poison gas. The Soviet offensive has failed to crack the main Finnish defenses known as the Mannerhelm Line, officials said, and at many points the enemy Is still five or ten miles from the outposts of the defense works Continued on Page 6 Says Hitler Maps Riots in America i Paris, Dec. 7 (U.R) The Paris Sou-today published a statement by Hermann Rauschnigg, former presi dent of the Danzig Senate, quoting Adolf Hitler as saying that Germany had "means of preventing America from trying to intervene in the war." Rauschnigg, who broke with the Nazis, purported to give quotes from talks with Htler before the war started.

"There are new arms which would be particularly effective in such a case," Hitler was alleged by Rauschnigg to have said. "The United States permanently sits on the edge of revolution and It would not be difficult to foment a few riots and troubles to keep them sufficiently occupied with their own iff airs. "Those people have nothing to say bout Europe." In the Eagle Today rt. rasa Jimmy Wood IS Lin llaera 24 Oblturlei IS ratten Radio t(l Bar Taeker 14 fceal Estate 2S Referees 24 Bakert Qalllen 27 Serial Saluting 24 Skaaa II Sectttr Sports 18-20 Theateri IS Hkl Brain Tester I Bridie 17 Cassel'a Cartoaa 14 Clifford Grans 17 Ceuies Cruiwars Dr. Brady 27 Edgar Gant 14 Ed Hach-s IS Editorial 14 Events Toalihl 14 financial tl-tS Gardea Cerner- 26 r.rln ani Bear It 14 fKfffernan 17 0tn Worth is ffaile 23 Want Adi Weather I w.maa'i lo-n I Ryan to Head City 'Booster9 Department Clendenin J.

Syan Resigns Sanitation Post for New Job Skeleton Staff Active Clendenin J. Ryan, Deputy Com missioner of Sanitation and formerly one of Mayor LaGuardla's secretaries, has resigned his sanitation post to head the new city Department of Commerce, it was learned today. A skeleton staff Is already at work in offices at Rockefeller Center, provided by Nelson Rockefeller. The object of the "booster" department is to attract business to New York City. Ryan's salary as deputy commis sioner was $5,000, but his new salary has not yet been set.

It is under stood that the department's main activities will concentrate on bringing the motion picture Industry to New York. The main offices of several mines will also be moved to New York soon, it was learned. Employes of the new bureau will be drawn from various city depart ments. The Mayor will confer today with Nicholas M. Schenck, mo tion picture executive.

Mayor Calls Halt To Cross Picketing Picketing as a result of jurisdictional disputes between opposing unions was banned from city streets today by Mayor LaGuardia. The Mayor made his decision after Councilman Salvatore Nlnfo accompanied a group of A. F. of L. employes of the H.

Waldon Brothers, dress manufacturers of 144 W. 34th Manhattan, to City Hall and complained that C. I. O. pickets were parading before the building.

The Mayor ordered the cross picketing stopped at that address and indicated the order would be adopted as a city wide policy In all such disputes. Today's Weather Nole: It's Fine and Dandy Except for a Tew scattered clouds, this is going to be an almost per feet day, fresh and mild. Charles Town FIRST RACK Three-year-olds und no ward; four and one-half lurlonas Prolt (Mora) 7. to 3 50 8 SO Timber Storm (Oarrett) Tardr Jest IBaldueel) 3(0 2 80 20 Time, 0:50. chromo.

chide, Dr Soriin. Brainchild, Vonnle alao ran. (Off time, 1 SECOND RACE Two-rear-olds; three-1 auartcri of a mile. I Call-It (Churchill) 13 00 S0 4 20 Dawn.m isirnti -H 8o bo Grouchy (Kirk 9 001 Time 1:17 2-5 pranV rui Wind 1 Royal Wanton. Mary Lasile, Trapshot also ran.

(Off time. THIRD RACE Three-year-olds and up: 6' furlongs. Man at Arms (Sarno) 00 4 00 3 SO Waurh Scout (Klein) 3 20 2 80 Proud King- (Simmon) 8 20 Time, Real Money. Stella Hnmpton. Pukka H'aven.

Bub lglf. Clynwne also ran. lOff time. 3:41 Chart Tnwn IHv Pnathle ftrrond Ihlrs Racea Paid S8j.lt. i Dr.

Walter Richard Engel- berr, secretary to the Nad Consul General in New York, who was found beaten to death yesterday after- noon in the tastefully furnished house he occupied at 1280 E. 5th St, on the edge of Flatbush. Photo is from a recent snapshot taken of the 42-year old consular attache. Board Won't Hold Feed Bag Refuses to Pay Tah Incurred by Lewises Riegelmann Retires The Board of Estimate wasn't giving away anything other than pensions today. It stoutly refused to pay for: The $65.32 check for the James C.

Lewises of 14 Sutton Place South, Manhattan, who wined and dined at Magistrate Henry Cur-ran's expressed orders. The $21 check presented by eight Brooklyn probation officers. Or the jobs for 21 persons who will be dropped from the staff of Queens County Clerk Paul Llvoti on the first of the year. It did approve, however, the applications for retirement pensions for Supreme Court Justice Edward Riegelmann, the "father of the Coney Island Boardwalk," and of John Hynes, 74-year-old greeter extraordinary of Borouch President rtngersoll's office. The board, acting as head of the New York City Employees Retirement System, accepted both appli cations.

Justice Riegelman's retirement will become effective on Jan. 1. Mr. Hynes' retirement, staved off several times, will go into force at the same time. He will be 75 next June.

Before their applications were considered the members of the board Continued on Page 6 iPreSS Says IVazi Seek Russo-Turkish War Ankara, Dec. 7 (JPy Turkish newspapers today accused Germany of trying to provoke a Turkish-Russian War and said Turkey might demand the recall of German Ambassador Franz von Papen. The Incident arose over circulars, bearing the watermark of the German Embassy press service, which reprinted an article from the Moscow newspaper Pravda, Communist party organ, attacking the Turkish press. Lea in Tragic Herring Case star to meet such a fate this season. Don Herring, Princeton University tackle, had his left leg removed above the knee after a similar in-Jury in a game with Brown University on Oct.

28. Collins has had ten blood transfusions from schoolmates and members of the Kearny Police Department While in the hospital he recovered from a siege of pneumonia. His father, Edwin Collins, lives at 169 Windsor Place, Kearny, and is Kearnv policeman. The bov is sn 4 --4 Employer Wins Jury Trial in SLRB Dispute Court Denies Motion To Punish Boro Boss For Ignoring Orders An employer, like an employe, Is entitled to a jury trial when the State Labor Relations Board seeks to punish him for contempt of court for alleged violation of a court order designed to assist enforcement of the labor board's mandate, it was ruled today. The decision was handed dovm by Justice Isaac R.

Swezey in Brooklyn Supreme Court in denying a motion by Chairman John P. Boland of the labor board to summarily inflict punishment on John Parisi, owner of a grill on Rockaway Ave: Parisi, following a labor dispute with his employes, ignored all hearings and orders of the board directing him to bargain with them and reinstate them with back pay, less outside earnings. SNUBBED CONTEMPT MOTION The Supreme Court order direct ing him to obey the board was served on Parisi last September, and the contempt motion'followed. Parisi did not even answer that. "Notwithstanding the default of the respondent, the court is without power to summarily grant contempt punishment," said Justice Swesey.

'If thp. nr(Vr hrIn ww art- dressed to an employe, the court could be expected to refrain from meting out punishment for violation except in the manner provided in the statute. In my opinion the mere fact that the respondent is an employer, rather than an employe, does not alter the situation. "It must be assumed that the Legislature, in providing for the method of enforcing a remedy, contemplated that its acts shall have mutuality and apply alike to all parties in a labor dispute. "I direct a trial by jury after due and proper notice to the respondent." Grid Star Loses Parallel to Don Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Newark, Dec.

7 A tragic finale was written today to the football career of Edward (Rip) Collins, 18-year-old tackle of St. Benedict's Preparatory School, when his left leg was amputated above the knee in St. Michael's Hospital here. The leg was fractured during a game with the Villanova College freshmen on Oct. 6.

Doctors said an infected blood clot made the amputa tion necessary. The 200-pound, six-foot tackleia Romeo Lowther Obtains Writ For Another Glimpse of Juliet Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Riverhead, Nov. 7 That one-night stand the Herrick-Lowther (beg pardon, Romeo-Juliet) affair had in Wainscot last week threat ened to become a long Suffolk run- today as Romeo Wed him to the County Court here and obtained a writ habeas corpus, the corpus In the case beng his Juliet. The writ, served upon John J. Price, the private detective who has been guarding the fair Elinore, de- manded that she be Droduced be- fore Judge L.

Barron Hill this after- noon. Named were former Park was the second New ysey iootballlonly child, 4.