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slips WALL STREET Closing Stock Prices WALL STREET Closing Stock Prices LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Rain, warm tonight; tomorrow rain, colder BROOKLYN, N. SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1940 100th YEAR No. 359 DAILY AND SUNDAY rawnd tht Brooklyn ooftie at id dm Uail UtUH-(Oopyrishl 140 Tht Brooklyn Duly Wm CENTS tP 8 Corporitlont Emm 1 idMOYI, TO 7 Vichy Warships Reported Sen! ITALIANS WARN U. EIRE RISK WAR IN SHIP AID Sylvia Ageloff Steals Home, Mum on Ordeal In a Mexican Prison Nervous and Upset, Former Friend of Trotsky Refuses Comment on Red Leader's Slaying Proposed to Fill In Gaps Until U.

S. Output Speeds Up Washington, Dec. 28 (U.R) Administration quarters are considering informally the feasibility of supplying Great Britain with some Army planes and additional destroyers to "tide them over" until American armaments production picks up, it was learned today. The plan originated among officials concerned with the defense program and British aid, R. A.

F. BATTERS 1,000 MILES OF COASTLINE Fleet Spurs Guard As British Worry On Choking Blockade Miss Sylvia Ageloff. 31, social worker and friend of the late Leon Trotsky, was back in Brooklyn today following her Help for Britain Via Ireland, Seizure of Vessels Here Would Violate Neutrality, Says Gayda Rome, Dec. 28 (U.RWVirglnlo Gayda warned in the authoritative Qiornale D'ltalia today that delivery of American war material to Britain in United States ships by way of Ireland would be an open violation of United States neutrality. Key Fascist newspapers said the United States would risk involving both Itself and Ireland in the war if it at release irom a Mexican jail in which she was held for several months on suspicion of complicity in Trotsky's murder.

She returned, with a great air of i it tempted to send supplies to Great Britain via Ireland in American hip. Gayda, close to the foreign office and at times Premier Benito Mussolini's spokeman, warned the United States that Japan would intervene immediately under the terms of its military alliance with Germany and Italy if the United States openly violated its neutrality. i Vteyt V. foterrentkmlstt Re said the British wire attefnpt-tni to spread the European war the Western Hemisphere. "American ihtpptnf to '-IreUnd for England would be an open violation of neutrality and would equal United States intervention in the conflict." Oayda said.

"United States interventionists would be responsible for spreading the conflict from Europe to North America and from the Atlantic to tha Pacific. Whatever may happen, England is condemned, American interven-tlonista must recall th ttrl-partlte pact and the fact that Japan, with ample means at it disposal, is watching the situation and won't permit spraadlng of the European conflict." Wants Grabbing Ails Ships Referring to British suggestions that the United States seize Axis ships in American ports, Gayda laid that "any such sequestering of Continaed an Page secrecy, early this morning, was smuggled into the home of her falher' SmuH Ageloff real estate man, at 70 Remsen and declined to see reporters. Messages sent up by the Remsen St. apartment house telephone that interviewers were waiting to speak to her brought the reply that Miss Ageloff would see no one, Winds Up Trip By Aato Elaborate precautions were taken against interviewers on the return trip. She was due on the 12:15 a.m.

train at the Pennsylvania Station, but the train arrived without her. It had missed a connection in Washington and, railroad officials! said, sne would not arrive until 1:05. But the 1:05 also pulled in without Miss Ageloff. To a reporter on the train she had said: "I will clear everything up when I can and that will be in peaceful surroundings again at home." She hal been ill for the past four months, she declared. 'Nervous and Upset' had slipped off at Newark, met her father there and completed the Journey by automobile.

She was accompanied by her sister, Hilda, who merely said that Sylvia was "very nervous and upset," and that she "Just wants to be home with her family." Mlrs Ageloff. an ardent admirer of the exiled anti-Stalin Communist leader, was also a friend of Frank Jackson, Trotsky's confessed slayer. Both Jackson and Trotsky's wife swore that the Brooklyn girl was not in any way Implicated in the murder. 8he was released from jail on Dec. 24 and left Mexico City on the 26th.

I NAZIS REPORTED ARMING RAIDERS IN JAPAN PORTS 1 2 Ships Made Ready For Forays, Manila Says -U. S. Navy on Watch Manila. Dec. 28 (U R) Usually reliable Informants alleged without official conformation today that at least 12 German vessels were being armed In 'Japanese and Japanese-controlled Chinese harbors, possibly fur raiding; activities in the Pacific, an claimed that several were already provisioning and refueling German raiders in Australian and Indian waters.

An Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai reported that crews of British ships plying between Hongkong and India are being paid war-time bonuses because of the danger from Nazi raiders in the Indian Ocean. The sea raider which bombarded the British -mandated island of Nauru yesterday ran down the Japanese flag and hoisted the Nazi swastika before opening fire, in a dispatch from Melbourne, Auj- rtalia reported Fired en warennnsea Navy Minister William M. Hughes, who made the announce- ment. said the raider appeared Just before dawn off the 5.400-acre guano island, in the equatorial Pacific, and signaled with its Morse lamp: "Do not use wireless or I will shoot mast down. I am going to shoot at stores and phosphate Jetties." I Hughes said he instructions were obeyed and the radio station Continued en Page 2 Wed in 'Chute Silk Gown Pottstown, Dec.

28 (JPV The former Miss Elizabeth I. Sloan chose an appropriate material for her wedding gown. She was married to Lt. Frederick M. OHeUl of the U.

S. Army Air Corps in a gown made of silk from a parachute. WHERE 10 FIND IT IN TODAY'S EAGLE To North Africa Petain Also Sends Naval Officers There, Lisbon Advices Say Lisbon. Portugal. Dec.

28 tIPv Travelers arriving from unoccupied Prance today reported that they had been reliably informed that Chief of State Petaln had authorized a number of French naval of- firr tl nnA In Nnrr.H Vfrlca and tnat several French i warships already had sailed from Toulon to North Africa. The travelers connected these moves (wlth Pet ain 'a "unabated decision to rule Prance himself, free from foreign impositions" to use their words. "Petatn would rather become a prisoner himself than give in to demands he considers against the interest of France such as allowing foreign troops to pass through unoccupied territory," they declared. French Cabinet Meets (The Trench Cabinet met today, according to a Vichy dispatch, and it was expseted the Ministers would hear a report by Navy Minister Admiral jean Darlan on his Christmas trip to occupied France where, ad vices reaching Switzerland said, he delivered a personal letter Irom Petaln to Adolf Hitler. (In this letter Petaln was understood to have outlined the basts on which he would agree to collaboration with Germany.) Nails Threaten Vichy, Ray British London, Dec.

28 CU.R Informed sources suggested today that Germany now is employing threat against the Vichy government of France, having failed to obtain the desired results through blandishments. It was thought that the change of tactics may be due to disappointment that the Petaln regime has shown no great disposition to yield to Nasi demands for concessions not provided by the Franco-German armistice. It was said that In the past week the Germans have employed a new line of propaganda, emphasising the alleged shortage of food and raw materials in France and alleging that this is due to the Vichy government's deliberate maneuvers and pretense that the German army in France is forwarding supplies to the Reich. I EVEN THE WEATHER'S GONNA BE ALL WET Umbrellas, raincoats and rubbers liT highly recommended today. Rain and more rain is offered for the weekend by the Weather Bureau.

In case you're interested, it will be colder tomorrow afternoon. Stay in bed late tomorrow morning, because it will continue to rain. The weather caused the cancellation of 215 scheduled flights in and out of LaGuardia Field yesterday. The normal number of daily flights is 226. Vichy Inform Alleged Reds Vichy, Dec, 28 (AV-Sixty alleged Communists have been sent to internment camps in the last three months by police of the Puy-de-Dome department surrounding Clermont Ferrand, it was disclosed here today.

London, Dec. 26 UP After one of the heaviest night bombing at- i tacks of the war on London. Britain's own bombing planes were reported today to be Jabbing at Adolf Hitler's invasion ports along 1.000 miles of Nazi-occupied coast from the Bav of Biscav to the Fjords of Norway. Navy dive bombers joined the R. A.

F. in raids on shipping, docks and air ant. bases while available units of the fleet kept a weather eye on Britain's other big worry her beleaguered transoceanic supply lines. "The shipping situation worries us as much as the threat of invasion," one source asserted. "We are running as much chance of being choked by the blockade before United States aid reaches its peak as we are of being knocked out by an invasion.

'Not Going to Be Diverted' You can take It we're not gotng to be diverted from the Job of countering these two real dangers flat-out by any sideshow such as the reported German troop movements in the Balkans whether that's a real move to strengthen the German position there, or merely a red herring The Evening Standard, owned by Minister of Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook, said: "It Is plain that Hitler's whole and urgent purpose Is to batter down the defenses of Britain before next Summer," and added that "the people of Britain are at this moment dependent for their lives on keeping the sea roads clear enough of bandits to let a percentage of traffic pass." Norway Base Bombed The latest blows In Britain's "offensive-defensive" aerial operations as detailed by the Admiralty and Air Ministry include 1. Attacks by the R. A. Nazi-held "invasion ports," wuere un- Continued an 2 Rev. Morio Andrew Lawrtnce adding to his resources by selling Oriental rugs in his spare time.

It, was In 1028 that the young man, who had included the Chinese but has not yet been submitted to President Roosevelt for a decision. The proposal stems from a preva- lent belief that the next few months nrtll frlrlxal tnr Britain that I I an acute need exists to supplement British arms orders with existing equipment. F. D. R.

May Reply to Peace Fleaa Whether the plan certain to face at least nominal opposition frtm some generals and admirals-would win Mr. Roosevelt's ultimate approval is a matter of conjecture and may hinge on developments. Tomorrow night the President goes on the air to report to the nation on the "present emergency" and to give some specific information on Administration plans to help Britain Including his own plan for the United States to buy war materials and loan or lease them to the British. At the same time he may answer scattered Senatorial suggestions that he sound out the European belligerents on the feasibility of a peace movement at the present time. He declined at his press conference yesterday to say whether he would discuss the proposals.

Wheeler Flaya Loan-Lease Plan Senator Burton K. Wheeler who is among those putting forth the peace suggestions, denounced the loan-lease plan of Brit ish aid today. He said it might set a dangerous precedent and possibly Conttnaed Page ITALY DECORATES BRITISH PRISONER Rome, Dec. 28 (U.R) The silver medal for military valor has been awarded to Gen. Sebastiano Gal-Una, Inspector of Colonial troops, who was taken prisoner by the British in North Africa, the official Gaaette announced today.

legation In Washington among hi rug customers, was admitted to the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity with another native of Brooklyn, the Rev. Bonaventure Patrick Harvey. M.8J8S.T., with whom he was ordained. Sent te (he South With young Harvey, whose family lives at 74 Adelphl 8t. and who celebrated his first solemn high mass last Sunday In the Sacred 1 Heart Church.

Clermont and Park he was sent to Holy Trinity, headquarters of the Mission- ary Servants, which was founded in 1920 by the Rev. Thomas A. Judge. C. M.

8. SS. formerly of St. John's College. After several years in the South.

they were sent to Washington to study philosophy and theology at the Catholic University. Last year I Father Andrew was president of I the university's Conference of 1 Clerics and Religious, composed of 1.500 membera representing 45 or- i ders and communities. I In 1929 he founded the Holv Trinity Guilds of America, a nation-wide lay organliatlon of which he remains national director. The guilds, which help In furthering the home mission work of the Missionary Servants, especially In the South, are operative Brooklyn. Lona and other neiu of the metropolitan area.

I I I Greeks Storm Pivotal Base on Northern Front Drive Through Snow To Attack Lin, Italy's 3d Main Albania Fort Athens, Dec. 2t (U.B Greek troops today assailed Lin, pivot point.ftf,, the Albanian north front and Ihe third main base to which the Italians have been hurled back in that sector since they Invaded Greece two months ago this morning. 'At Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the newspaper Polltika reported from Bitolj, on the Albanian border, that Greeks were within a mile and a quarter of Lin at 5 p.m. yesterday and that the Greek advance guard was rushing the first houses in the city's outskirts.) A United Press correspondent with the Greek army in the north said that before Lin could be taken it would be necessary to occupy a series of villages on the lake road north of Undinishta, which were Continued on Page 2 72 Buried in Matt Rites Manchester, England. Dec.

28 (pt 8eventy-two of this city's recent air raW victims were burled today with a mass funeral. Midland Empire Fair in Montana, developing for the Government the grain known as "Lawrence wheat," aid later engaging in the retail drug business in California. Started as Bellhop After his mother, the former Sarah O'Donnell, died and business reverses had depleted the family Income, young Andrew became an elevator operator and bellhop In the swank Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, a gathering place for film and other notables, and began playing tha small roles In motion pictures. Immediately after the death of his father, John Philip Sousa, Roald Amundsen and Rear Admirals Benson, Marvel. Nugent and Robinson of the Pacific Fleet, all of whom had learned of the youth's religious ambitions while stopping at the hotel, decided to Join forces In a campaign to aid him toward his goal.

With a purse started by the auctioning of pictures painted by Admiral Marvel's wife, also a non-Catholic, and the money saved from his Hollywood paychecks, the future priest returned East and en- tertd St. Benedict'i Prep, Newark, Italians Claim Rout of British Unit at Bardia Fascist Army at Port Split in Two by Attackers in Libya Rome, Dec. 21 UPl The high command announced today that Italian motorised columns had "de- 38,114 HELD CAPTIVE Caira, 28 (U.RV-British Middle- East headquarters reported today that the number af Italian prisoners captured In the drive Into Libya has risen to 31,114, including 24.845 Italian soldiers. The remainder arc Libyan native troops. stroyed" a British mechanised detachment on the Bardia front with the aid of the air force, capturing crews of machines, while an Ital- Continued en Page 2 receive extra compensation for services, thus cook's pay is $50 a month and assistant cook's pay (45 a month, The regiment has made arrangements so that any civilian cooks who wish to volunteer now will be permitted to report for drill as late as 10 p.m.

so that their civilian occupations may be carried on as usual between now and the 27th of January when the regiment expects to be Inducted into rederal Service as the 186th Field Artillery. GLORIA, 18, MUST LIVE ON $27,500 A YEAR Gloria Laura Vanderbilt, 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Reginald VanderbUt. will live on 127.500 a year for the next three years. Under an order signed yesterday by Surrogate James A.

Foley In Manhattan, Thomas B. Gilchrist, general guardian of the sub-deb's property, Is authorised to withdraw from her estate 125,750 annually for her support and education, 11,500 annually for medical, surgical and dental services and 1250 a year for pin money. During the ssme period the girl mother is to have $21 000 for expenses during l1-' spends with her, ar-! mother, Mrs. Leur allowed' 13,000 a year. Dearth of Army Cooks May Spoil the Broth 186th Field Artillery, Boro's Old 23d, Offers Paid Training, Extra Pay to Volunteer Chefs New Priest, Educated Through Help Of Non-Catholics, Visits Kin Here The Rev.

Maria Andrew Lawrence, JfcS.SS.T., Brooklyn-born priest who was ordained Dec. 20 In Washington after extensive studying financed In part by a group of distinguished Protestants, returned to the local area today to visit If too many cooks will spoil the broth, what will too few cooks do to it? That is the number one quiz question which is today stumping the officers of Brooklyn's old 23d Regiment. The regiment, composed of 1,665 men. is scheduled to leave for camp at Madison Barracks, Sackett's Harbor, on the Canadian border early in February, but to dt It is suffering from an acute shortage of cooks. According to U.

Col. George Beavers, the outfit should include 13 mess sergeants, 15 cooks and 23 assistant cooks, but so far has been able to enlist only ten cooks. No Colonel Says This," Colonel Beavers adds, "is critical situation, and the worst part of it is against Army regulations for ft national guard unit to advertise for the help we need." It takes some time for regular men to be transformed into cooks, he pointed out, but arrangements have been made to send a number of volunteers to the cooks' school at Fort Dix, New Jersey, for a month beginning Jan. 2, during which time expenses will be paid and spending money provided. "But," he observed, "the problem Is to get the volunteers.

So far we haven't had much Jab Fays Extra Dividends He said that cooks All In the category of specialists in the Army and five cousins, including two priests, two nuns and a disabled army cap tain. The young priest, who also raised funds for hU clerical education by playing "bit" parts such as that, of a savage in the "Tartan" motion pictures, went first to the home of the captain, Arleigh T. Bell, at 117 Franklin Boulevard, Merrick, to celebrate mass with special permission of Bishop Molloy. Captain Bell suffered a broken back In the line of duty five years ago while carrying out a secret radio research program In which he was reported to have "made a contribution of outstanding Importance to aeronautics." 8ince the accident he has been confined to his bed, a helpless invalid. The other relatives to felicitate Father Andrew were Mons.

John B. Oorrrfan, pastor of St. Teresa'a Church; the Rev. Eugene McClos-key, assistant pastor of Queen of All Saints Church; 8lstr Marie Jeanne, superintendent of St. Mary's Hospital, and Sister Florence Josephine, S.

8. of St. Francis Xavier Academy, Father Andrew was taken as a child to the West, where his father, the late Frederick M. Lawrence, had great success la managing thi Bllven Page 13 Bridge Page 15 Church New Page It Children's Corner Page 15 Clifford Evans Page 15 Comics page 11 Crossword Page 1 Dr. Brady Page 13 Ed Hughes Page 12 EDITORIAL Page 8 FINANCIAL Page 7 Grin and Bear It Page 8 Harold Conrad Page 4 Harold Parrott Page 11 Heffernan Page 4 Helen Worth Page Movies Page 18 Novel Page 15 OBITt'ARIES Page I Pattern Page II RADIO Page 14 Real Estate Page IT Society Page I SPORTS Pages 11-ll-lJ Theaters Page 18 Turker Page 8 Wsll street Page 7 Want Ads Page 18-17 Woman'! fa(t Today's Scratches Tropical Park 1 Mld Mild.

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