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LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Rain, moderate temperatures tonight and tomorrow 100th YEAR No. 357 DAILY AND BROOKLYN, N. THURSDAY, DEC. 26, 1940 Entered at the SUNDAY Brooklyn Postoffice as 2d Class Mail Matter-(Copyright 1940 The (P. Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 3 CENTS D.

8. Corporation) Street Closing RACING EXTRA BROOKLYN Wall Street Closing EAGLE RACING EXTRA TEACHERS BATTLE JAIL Rumania Ordered to Speed Arms As Germans Swarm Into Balkans HURLS SELF UNDER TROLLEY CAR Had Christmas Feast on Charity, Decided To End Life, Says Man Dragged 5 Feet saw a middle-aged, sad-faced man sitting on at Utica Ave. and St. John's Place this morning, the automobiles go by. Presently he got up, across Marcy between two onrushing automodrivers jammed on brakes, came to a squealing with horror, they saw the pedestrian hurl himself in front of a moving southbound Reid Ave.

trolley car. George Gagas of 976 E. 46th the motorman, turned off the power and put on the airbrakes. The car was over him, however. Before it stopped, he had been caught and held by the safety catch underneath, dragged five or six feet.

Emergency Squad 14 arrived from the Miller Ave. police precinct and T. emergency squad joined It. The car was jacked up and they brought out the wounded man and took him to Unity Hospital. There he told Detective Joseph McCarthy that he was Julius Gipsowitych, 50, homeless, who had eaten a Christmas dinner provided by the Salvation Army and spent last night In Salvation Army shelter in Manhattan.

"I've got no job," he said, "and no money. I wanted to die. I didn't want to be a burden to any one." Doctors said he was in a serious condition, having suffered a punctured right lung and fractured ribs. He had 30 cents in his pockets. Fire Kills Four As Blast Ends Gay Yule Party Passersby the curbstone watching stumbled biles.

The stop. Then, Four persons were dead and two others were in serious condition in hospitals today as a result of a fire that swept through a fourstory dwelling at 547 Warren St. after an oil stove exploded in an apartment to climax a gay Christmas Eve celebration. Mrs. Balbina Angelier, 38, hostess at the party, and Isabel Colon, 40, of 1003 Myrtle a guest, were burned to death at the scene and Eldad Lynch, 26, and Louis Walthurst, 5, residents of other apartments in the building, died last night in Holy Family Hospital.

Suffering from severe burns in the same hospital was Mrs. Angelier's husband, Enrico, 50, while Mrs. Louise Miller, 59-year-old paralytic, who was carried from her apartment by Patrolmen William Continued on Page 22 Vogel Introduces Bill To Fill Police Vacancies Councilman Edward Vogel of Brooklyn today announced that he has submitted to the City Council a resolution seeking the immediate appointment of sufficient probationary patrolmen to fill existing vacancies in the Police Department. The resolution will appear on the Jan. 8 calendar.

"We in New York are tolerating a crime by allowing the police force to be 550 men short of its quota," Mr. Vogel said, "while the official budget for 1940 has made provision for that additional number of patrolmen." Daniel Frohman Daniel Frohman Succumbs at 89 Developed Greatest Stars in 60 Years Of Theatrical Activity Shortly before last midnight 89- year -old Daniel Frohman stirred in his bed at the Leroy Sanitarium, Manhattan, and muttered, "The curtain's coming down." Today at 7:15 a.m. the famed theatrical producer died. Frohman's death ended a career of more than 60 years as a producer in the legitim: theater and a life of such vitality that its sessor was internationally famous. posAt his side wh-n he died were Frohman's sister, Etta Frohman; two nephews, Henry and Daniel Davison, and Mrs.

Henry Davison. Dr. J. C. Pressner, the aged producer's personal physician, said death was the result of bronchial pneumonia following a hip fracture last Nov.

3. Frohman was dining in his apartment at the Dorset Hotel when the accident occurred. He rose from his chair to reach for something on the table, slipped and fell. Cheerful Until End He was taken to the sanitarium and the fracture was set. The injury was healing well, according to Dr.

Pressner, when bronchial pneumonia set in. The roducer's condition became critical about three weeks ago, but he remained conscious and cheerful most of the time up to last midnight. To Dr. Pressner he remarked that he realized "the curtain's coming down" in a voice apparently free of all anxiety and regret. Two years before Frohman had Continued 'on Page 22 WHERE TO FIND IT IN TODAY'S EAGLE Bridge Page 19 Children's Corner Page 19 Clifford Evans Page 6 Comics Page 18 Crossword Page 20 Dr.

Brady 19 Ed Hughes Page 14 EDITORIAL Page 10 Events Tonight Page 7 FINANCIAL Page 16 Grin and Bear It Page 10 Heffernan Page 6 Helen Worth Page 9 Jimmy Wood Page 13 Mndley Page THREAT Counsel Denounces Probe Tactics in Fight on Contempt 'Do Everything' To Defeat Axis, Roosevelt Urged 150 Leading Citizens Ask He Reassure U.S. In Sunday Radio Talk Washington, Dec. 26 (AP)The White House said today that more than 150 prominent American citizens had urged President Roosevelt to "make it the settled policy of this country to do everything that may be necessary to insure the defeat of the Axis Powers." The group, comprising editors, lawyers, authors, educators, actors and religious and labor leaders, set forth their appeal in a letter. They urged that all possible be done to promote "resistance to the plausible but fatal arguments of appeasement." Evidently for the purpose of informing the President what they chink a large section of ne American people le would like to hear in the Chief Executive's Sunday night radio speech, the group said: "We ask you to tell us what we believe to be the truth, that the materials of war and the military and naval and air strength we now have and the implements we can now produce are enough to make certain the defeat of the Axis Powers, so long as Britain 1 is on her feet and fighting, but that with Britain down, they are not enough and may not in the future be increased enough to hold the whole world at bay." Among the signers of the letter were Harry D. Gideonse, president Brooklyn College; Frederic R.

Coudert, New York lawyer; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of "Foreign Herbert Agar, editor of Louisville Courier -Journal; Dr, William M. Agar, Columbia University professor and Catholic leader; Frank Altschul, New York banker; Henry Breckenridge, New York lawyer; John Stewart Bryan, president of the College of William ALIEN REGISTERS, DROPS DEAD IN STREET Eustace Kral, 74, of 166-04 71st Flushing, a native of Czechoslovakia, registered as an alien at the main postoffice in Manhattan, 33d St. and 8th at 10 a.m. today. Leaving the building with his registration card in his pocket, he collapsed and died in front of the Glad Tidings Tabernacle, 325 W.

33d Street. Cop Hurt in Fall Patrolman James Mooney, assigned to the Central Courts building, suffered a possible fracture of the left ankle shortly after 9 a.m. today when he slipped and fell on the marble floor of the corridor on first floor. He was taken to Holy Family Hospital. Mooney is 44 and lives at 578 61st St.

Budapest, Dec. 26 ported in diplomatic speed-up in Rumania's crowded trains, carrying German troops, rolled dom of King Mihai. Showdown Looms --'Garrison' Will Be Boosted to 500,000: The vast movement of troops with artillery, bridge building equipment, tanks and other motorized vehicles, stirred speculation on the possibility of a showdown between Powers with conflicting interests in the Balkans. Red Troops Concentrated Some members of the Soviet legation at Bucharest prepared to leave for Moscow. Reports from the Rumanian captal said Russian Minister Lavrentiev for the past week has been engaged in a series of important diplomatic conferences there, and that Russian troops were concentrating on the river Prut.

sources reported Germany is boosting her "garrison" force in Rumania toward 500,000 men, possibly to did Italian troops bogged -down in Albania or to bulwark own position in the Balkans, a United Press dispatch from Budapest said. Some reports said a limited number of German troops would be based in Bulgaria, but this report was denied in To Manufacture Planes The diplomatic dispatches from Bucharest said two large Rumanian industrial plants would manufacture warplanes for Germany. A submarine building yard already in operation at Galati has been ordered to increase its production, the dispatches said. The mass shifting of troops and the speed order coincided with the appointment of Baron Manfred Von Killinger, German Minister to Slovakia, to the same post in Rumania. Informed sources said the Baron was prepared to rule Rumania as virtual Nazi Gauleiter (district leader).

Although Germany has taken no hand in Rumania's civil administration thus far, diplomatic reports from Bucharest asserted that the Reich was prepared to take over complete control. 1,160 Troop Trains Used Military, experts had estimated approximately soldiers in Rumania. Ger- Continued on Page 2 (AP) -Nazi leaders in Rumania were redispatches today to have ordered a big manufacture of war materials as the vanguard of some 300,000 fresh across Hungary into the Balkan king- BRITISH DOUBLE INVASION GUARD DESPITE 'TRUCE' Picked Troops Line Coast in 'Perfect Invasion Weather' London, Dec. 26 (P) British guards on the Channel coast were doubled today against the possibility of a lightning German thrust through the mist covering the now calm Strait of Dover. Picked troops armed with Bren guns (light macnine -guns) and other automatic weapons combed the beaches and watched every cleft of the chalk cliffs of the Dover region.

Traffic along the coast was halted at barricades and drivers and passengers searched. Even soldiers and sailors in uniform were required to show identification cards. reporting that British troops along the English Channel taken extraordinary precautions against a possible surprise invasion attempt by Germany despite an unofficial Christmas truce in the air war, the United Press pointed to the perfect "invasion weather" which prevailed along the coast. It was understood, that the precautions would Continued on Page 2 A bitter attack upon the alleged "rough -house tactics" day before Supreme Court Manhattan on a motion to faculty of Brooklyn College for man subcommittee of the joint subversive activities in the city's' educational system, The court reserved decision on contempt motion brought by committee against the recalcitrant teachers and gave both sides until Jan. 3 to file briefs in support of their arguments.

William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, in opposing the move to punish the five teachers, charged the joint legislative committee with "Coudertism," which he described as "a new technique in Anglo-American law which is marked by deceit and roughhouse tactics." Charges 'Bald Deceit' "It is time for some court to stand up to this committee with a very definite he said, Accusing the committee of "bald deceit," Mr. Mulligan said that when it was seeking the membership list of the Teachers Unionmove which the union has made a court issue--there were "solemn promises that the lists would not be made public." "Yet, at the same time," he said, "this committee. after making a similar promise went right ahead and made public at some of Its hearings other confidential records which it obtained from the Teachers Union." As for rough -house tactics. Mr.

Mulligan told the court he himself was "bodily ejected from the hearing room by four husky attendants" merely for requesting permission to cross-examine a committee witness at a hearing earlier this month. 'Just a Huge He Says "The Communist allegations made by the committee against these Continued on Page 22 $50,000 Fire in Chicago Chicago, Dec. 26 (P)-An extra alarm fire caused estimated $50.000 damage to a five-story loop building today, clouded a corner of the loop with smoke and put on a two-hour fire-fighting show for office- bound workers. Rapp-Coudert committee: for marked a stormy hearing toJustice Benedict D. Dineen in imprison five members of the refusal to testify before a onelegislative group investigating CURRAN TO BACK FUSION '41 DRIVE FOR MAYORALTY Simpson Successor's Allies Reveal He'd Aid Fight to Bar Tammany Allies of Thomas J.

Curran, the incoming New York County Repub-, lican leader, disclosed today that a fusion movement in the 1941 Mayoralty campaign would receive his support as the means of barring a return of a Tammany Democratic: administration in the City Hall. Agreement on Mr. Curran as the successor to Representative-elect Kenneth F. Simpson, who offered his resignation after losing control of the organization, was certain this afternoon at a conference of leaders at the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. HOMEWARD BOUND--Miss Sylvia Ageloff, young Brooklyn woman who was questioned by Mexican authorities following the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City several months ago, is on her way She will arrive by train at Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, at 12:15 a.m.

Saturday morning. Miss Ageloff left Brownsville, last night by plane, but bad weather grounded the plane at New Orleans, where she boarded a train. BRITONS WARNED NOT TO EXPECT A MIRACLE IN AID But U. S. Production Will Insure Victory By 1942, Official Says London, Dec.

26 (P)-Sir Walter Layton of the Ministry of Supply told Britain today that "if we hold on through 1941" the volume of United States production of war materials will reach an apex next Winter "and is a certainty of ultimate victory." Sir Walter told the British: "Don't expect a miracle from the United States." The time element and the difficulty of making America realize fully the "scale of war effort needed" were two factors, he said, which should show the British that the full weight of United States armament could not be expected until the late Summer of 1941. reaching "avalanche proportions" next Winter. Calls U. S. Non -Belligerent Sir Walter, former member of the League of Nations Consultative Economic Committee and a delegate to the 1927 World Economic Conference, said America's participation in the fight to "overContinued on Page 22 FIRST RACE- -Two-year-olds; six furlongs.

Art of War (W.G'ner) 20.90 10.60 6.60 Red Burr (Flinchum) 6.80 5.20 10 Spalpeen (Schmidle) 18.60 Time, 1:12 3-5. Sunareve, Easy Flying, Gertrude Gypsy Monarch. Alkyon, Swastika Dean, Stingaling, Buoy. Chosen Time also ran, Off time, SECOND RACE and up; three-fourths mile. Jack Sting (W.

Eads) 31.20 12.50 8.20 Wha Hae (Haskell) 6.30 4.10 Gallant Stroke (Kpisley) 5.80 Time. 1:11 1-5. Trimmed. Moonlite Bobby, Neddie Lass, Symphon. Sun Kit.

LatePASS, Tyrone, Clocks, Imperial Jayne also ran. off time, 2:41. Dally Double paid $309.60. Microscopes of G-Men in White Isolate the Spy Virus in Nation (Editor's note-Spies Sabo-, teurs Fifth Columnists men of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and associated agencies are on their trail in great cities, isolated factories and far-flung military posts. Illustrated by cases from FBI files, the United Press presents several dispatches which reveal something of the methods being used in combating America's internal enemies.

The first dispatch follows.) By ALLEN C. DIBBLE Washington, Dec. 26 (U.P)-Inspectors at an airplane factory, examining the minute details of Election Slated for Monday His formal election is slated to occur next Monday at a meeting of the entire New York County' Republican Committee. Mr. Curran's supporters, who admittedly hold control of the Manhattan organization, said they exhis election to restore harmonious working relations between the Manhattan G.

O. and the other Republican county organizations in the city. Mr. Curran's friends said he was not committed at present to any candidate to head the 1941 city ticket and that he expected to work in co-operation with the other leaders for the selection of a ticket that would receive fusion support. One of Mr.

Curran's strongest advantages, according to his friends, will be the acceptability of his election to District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, the potential 1942 Republican candidate for Governor. Mr. Dewey and Mr. Simpson were bitter political foes.

According to the Manhattan lead- Continued on Page 3 Tropical Park Line on Liners Page 19 Movies Pages 4-5 Music Page 6 Novel Page 19 OBITUARIES Page 11 Patterns Page 19 RADIO Page 18 Real Estate Page 21 Society Page 9 SPORTS Pages 13-14-15 Theaters Pages 4-5 Tucker Page 10 Wall Street Page 16 Want Ads Page 21 Woman's Page nearly finished plane, were startled by the discovery that part of the aluminum structure had been cut. This act of sabotage, if it had gone undetected as its perpetrator planned, would have caused the destruction of the airplane and perhaps the death of its pilot. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was summoned and preliminary inquiry showed that a good many workmen had access to the plane. The agent assigned to the case first inspected the damaged airplane part and then asked that all of the hacksaw blades in the factory be turned over to him. He wasn't playing a "hunch." He knew that every saboteur leaves some clue and if it was to be found the most likely place would be on the instrument used in the violence.

There were 72 blades in the factory. All were shipped to the FBI technical laboratory for analysis. Scientific tests eliminated 54 of the blades and narrowed the investigation to the point where the users or owners of only eight blades could be listed as suspects. Minute aluminum particles on the cutting edge provided the clues by Continued on Page 22 Wide World photo BEST FRIENDS MUST PART -Beverly Ferguson, 3 (left), daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank R. Ferguson of Philadelphia, and Jerry Seaward, same age, son of Lt. Comm. and Mrs. E.

T. Seaward of Kittery, exchange goodbys on board the liner Washington after a trans- -Pacific voyage via the Panama Canal. Jerry boarded the Washington at Shanghai and the children had been friends ever since Beverly came on at Manila..