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2 BROOKLYN EAGLE, MONDAY, NOV. 24, 1941 Civic Center Boosters A I Sljfe Mendy Asleep at Time Of Murder, Mate Says Weiss, Wife Lived Here Under Assumed Names After Rosen Was Slain, She Testifies Mrs. Blanche Weiss admitted today that she and her husband, Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss, had lived ln Brooklyn under assumed names on at least two occasions since the slaying of Joseph Rosen, former trucking firm official, ln his Hail Naming of Salmon New Head of City Planning Commission Is Interested in Cadman Plaza Plans Appointment of Edwin A. Salmon, Brooklyn architect, as chairman of the City Planning Commission, today was welcomed by those Interested in the advancement of plans BOMB DESTROYS U. S.

CONSULATE IN INDO CHINA Staff Escapes Death Japanese Suspect Chungking Agents Washington. Nov. 24 (UP) The State Department announced today that the United States consulate at Saigon, French Indo-China, was wrecked by bomb last night. The department said no member of the staff was injured. The members of the staff of the consulate were Sidney H.

Browne, consul, and Kingsley W. Hamilton, vice consul, and a slerk, Carolyn C. Jacobs. State Department records indicated that Browne's home Is in Short Hills, N. Hamilton's at 15 SENTENCED IN U.

5. HOUSING LOAN RACKET 5 Who Pleaded Guilty Get Suspended Terms -Ten Others Jailed Fifteen defendants were sentenced today by Judge Marcus B. Campbell in Brooklyn Federal Court for conspiracy to defraud the Government through fraudulent Federal Housing Administration loans. Five of the defendants had pleaded guilty and ten had been convicted on Nov. 6 at the end of a trial which lasted a month.

The five who pleaded guilty were given suspended sentences of six months each, and placed on probation for two years. Those convicted received prison sentences, varying from six months to 15 months BORO NEGRO SHOT AFTER HE GRABS COP'S NIGHTSTICK Shooting Follows Row With Store Owner At Fulton and Franklin Frederick Reed, 44, a Negro, of 309 Greene Ave. was recovering today ln the prison ward at Kings County Hospital from a gunshot wound ln the chest Inflicted by Patrolman John Albert after Reed allegedly grabbed the officer's nightstick and struck him with lt at Franklin Ave. and Fulton St, According to Albert, Reed became involved in an argument with the owner of a hot dog stand at the Intersection at 4 a.m. yesterday and snatched the nightstick: when the officer The Negro fled to a nearby hallway, where he was shot and arrested on a felonious assault charge.

At about the same time ln Harlem John Oaches, 23, of 37-82 103d and Joseph Marrazio of 37-37 103d both Corona, were held up at Lenox Ave. and 116th St by a dozen Negro youths, who escaped with about $10. Oaches suffered minor stab wounds in the chest and left leg. An hour later Detective Peter Nathan arrested Russell Wright, 17, a heavllybuilt NegTO of 224 W. 142d Manhattan, in the vicinity of Morningside Park.

Found to be carrying a knife with a three-inch blade, he was held on a Sullivan law charge after denying knowledge of the holdup. Held WMniting Charge Caught ln a chase by detectives at 1:45 a.m. yesterday, Wesley Hay-ward, 24, of 68 W. 138th and Moses Joyner, 22, of 2116 5th both Manhattan, were arrested on a charge of "mugging" Lena Ward in front of her home at 20 W. 131st St.

About $15 taken from her handbag was recovered. Meanwhile. Children's Court Justice Jacob Panken, declaring that conditions in Harlem and the Bed-ford-Stuyvesant section are no worse than those on the Lower East Side and in Hell's Kitchen 35 years ago, urged that community resources be developed to lessen Juvenile de-liquency among Negroes. Gillette and Taft Pledge Support to Foreign Policies Leading Isolationists Agree Not to Hinder Approved Legislation Washington, Nov. 24 (U.R) Two leading isolationist Seuators pledged their support of President Roosevelt's foreign policy today, but within the limits sanctioned by Congress.

Senator Ouy M. Gillette Iowa) said he has written the President explaining his position. He described it as "giving the President my full support on the foreign policy Issues that have been decided. "This does not mean that I approve of actions that have been taken," he continued. "It does not mean that I will approve of further grants of power which will permit the President to take this nation Into war.

"But I will not oppose any step needed to effectuate the policies already passed upon. This is a democracy and in a democracy, I believe, the will of the majority should prevail." ftbiin Bachracfc Fabian Bachraoh Brownsville candy store on Sept 13. 1936. Cross-examined by Assistant District Attorney Burton B. Turkus at the trial of Weiss, Louis (Lepke) Buchalter and Louis Capone, Mrs.

Weiss said they the name Hoffman at 230 Pfcrk Place in 1937 and 1938. and were known as Newman at 12th Ave. and 46th St. ln 1940. In her direct testimony Mrs.

Weiss corroborated the statement of Mrs. Dorothy Isaacson that Weiss was sleeping ln his apartment In Manhattan at the time Rosen was shot down. Alfred J. Talley, attorney for Weiss, cited the witness' wifely status ln objecting to her cross-examination by Turkus, but County Judge Taylor overruled the objection after Turkns pointed out that he did not intend to question her on confidently matters. Jewish Charities Hold First of 40 Affairs The first of 40 dinners, luncheons and teas to be held this week by the New York and Brooklyn Federations of Jewish Charities was held last night at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan.

More than 1.200 leaders ln one division attended tne dinner. The 1941 merged campaign of the federations was opened on Oct. 7 and will end on Jan. 31. Last night's dinner was the 15th annual event conducted by the division, which Includes radio, musical instruments, refrigeration and allied industries.

'TAINT SO Meet Rosamond T. Purdy, the Mr. Holyoke senior who said it isn't so that she told a Student Conference at Wellesley College that soldiers are bad matrimonial risks and poor dancers. The boys in camps had quite a few A Wooster, Ohio, and that Miss Jacobs had given her mother's address as Richmond, Mo. (In Toklo the Domel news agency reported that agents of the Chinese Chungking Government were suspected of setting the explosion.) Further details were awaited easerly ln view of the Psiuillty that tne action might ariect current conversations between Japanese envoys and Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

The meager report failed to Indicate whether the bomb was dropped from a plane or was planted ln the Consulate. Japan Is strongly entrenched ln Saigon and reportedly has made demands on Fiance for additional concessions ln Indo-Chlna. It was Japan's march Into Indo-China which caused the United States to freeze Japanese funds in this country and impose an almost fmhnr on tr I hat country. ade with In the current discussions, it has been reported, one of the points raised was whether Japan would withdraw its troops from Indo-China, where they constitute a threat to Thailand, the Malaya Peninsula and the British naval base at Singapore. Goering Mourns Moelden Death Berlin, Nov.

24 (U.R) i Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering published a black-bordered notice in the newspaper Voelkischer Beo-bachter today mourning the death of Lt. Col. Werner Moelders, German air ace killed in an airplane crash last week. "Through close association I always enjoyed with this young comrade," it said, "his death affects me most deeply personally." It sai'd Moelders had participated ln more than 1,000 air battles, scoring 115 victories, and crashed while flying on duty to Berlin from the eastern front. Moelders' body lay In state In the chapel of the Breslau Military Hospital.

The war flag was draped over an open casket which was flanked by the coffins of Pilot Lieutenant Kolbe and Mechanic Hobie, who were killed with him. Goering sent a wreath to the bier. fjjjon Union to Rally The Brotherhood of Consolidated Edison Employes, which Is conducting negotiations for waee increases, will hold a rally at 8 o'clock tonight at the Manhattan Center, 8th Ave. and 34th Manhattan. CONDEMNED Greta Garbo's forthcoming film comedy, "Two -Faced Woman," has been classified by the Nation- Legion of Decency under its Class or "condemned" rating, for on "immoral and un-Christian attitude toward marriage" among other sons.

rea- Bridges Assisted Communist Parly, Appeals Board Told Labor Leader Operated Red Shop Paper for Union, U. 5. Attorney Declares Washington. Nov. 24 (U.R A Government attorney told the Board of Immigration Appeals today that Harry Bridges, West Coast labor leader, "served, co-operated with and associated with the Communist party and the Marine Workers Industrial Union and members of these organizations." Albeit Del Guercio, the attorney, charged that Bridges was affiliated with the organizations "from 1932 to the closing hours" of hearings on the West Coast, on the basis of which the labor leader's deportation to his native Australia was recommended by a special examiner, Judge Charles B.

Sears. Del Guercio opened the Government's case before the Appeals Board, before which Bridges now is fighting deportation proceedings based on charges that he has been a member of an organization advocating overthrow of the United States Government by force and violence. Del GuercU' said the evidence taken at the lengthy hearings conducted by Sears In San Francisco "overwhelmingly" supports the examiner's findings that a deportation warrant should be issued. That evidence, he charged, shows that the Communist party In the United States subservient section" of the Communist Internationale. He charged that Bridges, in 1932.

took over the operation of the Waterfront Workers, which he de scribed as a "shop paper" of the i m. w. i. u. ana mi oiBan oi me i Communist party "just like the Dally Worker and the Western Worker." SLAIN Janet Wood, 23, who was shot and killed yesterday, according to the police, by her boy friend, Frederic Rabe, after a quarrel.

Rabe turned the weapon on himself, dying instantly. aVk" rTV yr! Those who received suspended sentences were Morris Weiner of 463 Herze Burnet Mozson of 751 Howard Joseph Balkan of 529 Sutter Harry Dvorkin of 1650 W. 10th St. and David Berman of the Bronx. Get Jail Sentences Other sentences were: Michael Lekacos of 400 Myrtle an attorney; 15 months Imprisonment; David Lapkln of 176 Clarkson 13 months; Gus Kotteakos of 31-45 32d Astoria, 15 months; Nathan Regenboyen, the Bronx, 15 months; Anastaseos Gerakeris of 2043 E.

1st nine months; Herman Lltvin of 1525 E. 26th 13 months; Jacob Litvin of 207 E. 53d brother of Herman, 13 months; Hyman Dvorkin of 1650 W. 10th son of Harry Dvorkin. six months, and Emanuel Harris of 2261 Ocean six months.

George Litvin of 207 E. 53d was fined $750 and given a term of six months, with the proviso that the prison term would be suspended if lie paid the fine. Loans Totaled $350,000 Simon Brown, a lumber dealer, of 4211 Bedford described by the prosecutor In court as the "spearhead of the conspiracy," had pleaded guilty and testified as a prosecution witnesi during the trial. He did not appear for sentence today. Assistant United States Attorney James D.

Scileppl, In charge of the Government's case, said he had been notified that Brown as ill at his home. His case was postponed to December 1. and his ball of $4,000 was continued until that date. The prosecution alleged that the defendants, through Brown, negotiated more than 100 fraudulent FHA loans with banks, aggregating aproxlmately $250,000. The loans were Insured by the Government.

It was charged by the prosecution that some of the loans were based on false statements that the proceeds were to be used for renovation of real estate, when actually the money was invested In various businesses; that false financial statements were used in obtaining loans, that in some ln-stannces loans were obtained In the names of fictitious persons, and In other caes were based on forgeries. Japanese Liner to Sail For West Coast Soon Tokio, Nov. 24 (U.P An official announcement said todav that the Japanese liner Tatuta Maru would sail for Los Angles and Panama before the end of this month. The steamer Nissho Maru arrived at Kobe with 411 Japanese refugees from the Netherlands East Indies. Lover Slew Model, Killed Sell Police maintained today that Janet Wood, 23-year-old dress model, daughter of Clement Wood, I novelist and poet, was shot and killed by her sweetheart, who then committed suicide.

ML-s Wood and Frederick Rabe, 34, of 23 W. 90ih Manhattan, an electrician, were found dead late Saturday night in the girl's apart-; ment at 410 E. 65th Manhattan. Concluding their Investigation, police held the theory that after a quarrel Rabe shot the girl in the right temDle and then fired a bullet into his own right temple. A revolver was found at Rabe's feet.

He was killed Instantly. Miss Wood died in an ambulance on the way to New York Hospital. LIMN lor a Brooklyn civic center. Mr. Salmon unci several other members of the Commission have been interested in the furtherance of proposal to convert part of the area bordering on Cadman into sites for new public buildings, including one for the badly needed Supreme Court.

Appointment of Mr. Salmon to the chairmanship succeeding Rex-ford Guy Tugwell, now Governor of Puerto Rico, was announced together with that of Robert Moses, park commissioner, to fill the va-cany on the planning body. Born In Willard, X. Y. Edwin Salmon was born in Willard, N.

on April 4. 1902. His father, the late Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, famous neuro-psychiatrlst, in the first director of the national committee for mental hygiene.

Dr. Salmon was a brigKdler general in the Army Medical Corps during the World War and chief consultant in neuro-psychiatry to the Allied armies. He was the first to recognize shell shock and developed Its treatment. Dr. Salmon also professor of psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Burgeons.

Moved Here in 1927 Edwin Salmon moved from his birthplace to New York City with his parents in 1912. In 1927 he married the former Madalyn Bun- nell of Brooklyn and then moved to this borough, where he resides at 8203 Ridge Boulevard. The Salmons have two Thomas 15, and Jane, 8. I Mr. Salmon received his early education in the York City i public schools.

He as graduated from Loomis Preparatory School at Windsor, and studied archi- tecture at Columbia Unlversty. I Later he attended the Beaux Arts Institute of Advanced Design and then traveled extensively abroad. In 1922 he joined the architectural firm of James Gamble Rogers, where he remained through 1925. 1926 he took a position vith the New York State Department of Architecture. Partner in Pelton Firm Prom 1927 to 1935 he was a part-rer in the firm of Henry O.

Pel-ton, architects. Mr. Salmon returned in 1936 to the Rogers office as ft member of the firm and remained there through 1937. In 1933 Mr. Salmon was appointed as member of the City Planning Commission by Mayor LaGuardia.

Since 1927 Mr. Salmon has maintained his own private practice as a consultant architect, specializing in institutional planning. Although he originally wanted to devote his talents to designing churches and similar structures, his medical background made him widely in demand by hospitals and corrective Institutions, whose problems he understood. Designed Big Hospitals Among the largest Institutions he has designed are the great New York State Psychiatric Hospital and Institute and the $10,000,000 redevelopment of the New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine. He was consultant on the new Be'ilevue Psychiatric Hospital, and for the State of Connecticut in the development, programming and building of the new Training School and Hospital for the Feeble-Minded at Salisbury.

Mr. Salmon designed New York Hospital's Westchester Division for Mental Cases, the American Museum of Health and the Institute Of Forensic Medicine. Health Center Consultant He was consultant nnd associate in the development of New York City's District Health Centers, the ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Noticet BRICKLAYERS OT LOCAL NO Swcili maanng Tueoa? aening. Nomination ot for 1942, fWTLL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for dabts ir.nirrad hv any nna nthpr than mysell. Harry Bab.

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441 Vh I Bia-tii' I- A'-' COG Lf i' rr. ram Fa aca A- mark-Union PINO Lo-- vein Atar evurdaa Nov. ttr 8-69S3. i P- anton train Phona I I 1 i He was joined by Senator Robert A. Taft Ohio), who said all major foreign policy decisions which have been sanctioned by Congress would receive his support.

He 6aid he would vote for appropriations and enabling legislation to carry them into effect. "I would be opposed to an expeditionary force," Taft declared, "although tt should be pointed out that this question raises difficulties. When you talk about such a force you have to decide where Itis-to be sent." "The sending of an expeditionary force into an actual declared war would be a step that I would oppose vigorously," Gillette said. Roosevelt Calls Strike Parley Continued From Fae 1 direction of the President, to enjoin any changes in the open or closed shop status of a plant, the beginning of a strike or slowdown by employes, or the use of the "lockout" policy by employers. Thomas said he did not anticipate any necessity for using his measure, II it is made law, but declared: "It will give the President another gun behind his door, so that if he suggests mediation of a labor dispute the parties will mediate; if he suggests arbitration, they'll arbitrate." ine senator declared his pro- and designed to make "more se vere" anti-strike bills unnecessary.

Thomas requested that his measure be considered by the Judiciary Committee because of the "legal aspects" Involved. Meanwhile, railroad management and operating union officials said after a two-hour conference they would report to President Roosevelt later today on progress in their negotiations to avert a nation-wide railroad strike Dec. 7. Alvanley Johnston, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers, said no definite agreement was reached. He said the report on their negotiations was being held up until the carriers met this after- noon "ith representatives of the 14 iiuii-uici a wng UU1UM3.

Prior to the conference between the "Big Five" operating brother hoods and the rail officials, A. P. Whitney, president of the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen, said he i would again recommend Govern- ment operation of the roads for duration of the emergency if the carriers refused to go beyond the wage hikes suggested by the Presl- 1 dent's fact-finding board. I Hess Fled for Life, General Beith Claims Boston, Nov. 24 (INS) Rudolf Hess, high-ranking Nazi, "was fleeing for his life" when he landed In Scotland, MaJ.

Gen. John Hay Beith maintained today. "Hess came with no offer or message from Hitler," General Beith, former director of the public relations for the British War Office, last night told an audience at Temple Mishkan Teflla. "He was fleeing for his life," he said. "He had his fill of the new order and came on his own without any sanction from Hitler at all." fftokllfseafia 18S WmWise SON 487 Fulton Street, Brooklyn Oproiii A.

4 S. Dtp). Stora CUnhtrlani 8-2400' from $2 upwards Diamondi rings, pins, clips, bracelets. Gtld Jtwtlry unusually smart design. Sihtrwart exceptionally wide selection.

Slattontry correct, plain or engraved. makes for men and women. Lmlbir Goods sole Brooklyn igentj'for MARK CROSS MANY OTHIR SUGGESTIONS Oprn Thursday to 9 f.L rnings to soy ana write odout posal was the result of "a thought-the olleaed criticism which ful tudy of. the labor situation," Edwin A. Salmon largest and finest program of its type in the world.

latest achievement is the new Memorial Hospital for the Treat-I mejit of Cancer and Allied Dis-I eases at 68th St. and 1st Manhattan. This $4 000,000 institution is the largest of its kind in the world, with complete facilities for diagnosis, research and treatment, He is architectural consultant for Neighborhood Health. and a member of the Welfare Council Committee for 1940 Census Tabulation. U.

S. Occupies Guiana Mines Continued From Page 1 however, of the present situation In the southwestern Pacific, it is though inadvisable to follow that course. We also agreed to send to Paramaribo (capital of Dutch Guiana) a mission to exchange Information, and to agree upon measures capable of assuring protection to that region. "The United States of America, in Ha turn, will send to Dutch Guiana a military force, designed to co-operate with local forces for the protection of those mines, and which will be withdrawn as soon as the present danger disappears or the present war ends. "The governments of the other American republics have already been notified of the measures taken In the common Interest." "For this reason the governments of the Netherlands and of the United States of America have entered into consultation.

As a result, tlie latter has agreed to send a contingent of the United States Army to Surinam to eo-oueiate with the Netherlands forces in assuring the protection of the bauxite mines in that territory. This contingent will, of course, be with drawn as soon as the present danger to the mines is removed and at the latest at the conclusion of hostilities. Invited by Netherlands "Simultaneously the Government of the Netherlands has Invited the Government of the United States of Brazil to participate In this defense measure. It Is understood that Brazil will contribute to the common aim by exercising an especial measure of military vigilance in the frontier zone adjacent to Surinam and by sending a mission to Paramaribo to exchange information and concert all other steps on the basis indicated to assure maximum efficiency of the safety measures thus being jointly undertaken by the Brazilian, United States and Netherlands forces. I "The Government of Brazil has indicated its wholehearted approval of the emergency measure.

"At the same time the Govern- i ment of the United States has notified the governments of the American Republics of the foregoing arrangements which have been reached in the interests of 1 all." Society Women Sponsor Navy Relief Benefit Ball A committee of New York society women will sponsor a ball for the benefit of the Navy Relief Society on Dec. 12. at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, it was announced today by Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the 3d Naval District and com mander of the North Atlantic Naval Cia.stal Frontier. Admiral Androx.v is president of tiie New York Auxiliary of the Navy Relief Society. Rear Admiral Edward J.

Marquart, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is vice president, Rnd Capt. Thomas Thompson, chaplain at the jard, 14 secretary. I Slain Blonde Diaries Brought Into Court Miss Purdy insists she never made. Wheeler was brought into court by Sheriff Earl R. Hawkens.

The defendant had pleaded innocent to a charge of first-degree murder. After excusing ten talesmen, Judge Albert Beliveau ordered the paneling of a jury Thirty-six additional talesmen, including a dozen women, were summoned. An equal number already had been chosen for possible jury duty. Miss Buzzell was found shot to death in a hay field near the home of her brother in nearby Chesterfield last June 7. Farmington, Nov.

24 (INSi Two diaries kept by the late Florence H. Buzzell, 20, were brought into court today as Fred G. Wheeler, 50, wealthy cattle dealer, went on trial accused of the pistol murder of the pretty blond secretarial student. One of the diaries was a small white book kept in shorthand. The other was black covered with the words "Deskaide The Silent Secretary," on the front.

The two small books were said by authorities to cover 8 five-year period with notations of 122 men friends. CASH FOR MORTGAGES Mortgage Owners Please Call DAtJCE This bank is paper not only to serve depositors but all who have invested in mortgages and want cash. Mortgage owners, property owners and the bank can often co-operate to the mutual advantage of each. The bank neither asks nor takes mortgage discounts. Serving both Irnder and borrower is job we have been doing for more than 70 years.

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