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BROOKLYN EAGLE, MOM OCT 30, 19 2 Nazis Report Red Drive idiMiiu yyiuiiy ixuau, CAPITAL HOPES JTILWELLL WILL CLARIFY RIFT Aimed at Budapest Boro Boy Captures 500 VETERANS URGED TO CANVASS FOR WAR FUND DRIVE Acting on the premise that "no one is as well eqquipped to be a soldier on the home front" as a veteran of World War I or a dis band was erowing larger, but not Moscow, Oct. 30 (U.R) The first bitter blasts of Winter and stiff German resistance in a deep fortified belt between the Masurian Lakes and the Baltics slowed down the Red Army drive in East Prussia toaay 10 Assembly Washington, Oct. 30 (U.P) The early arrival here of Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell was awaited today In the hope It may throw further light on the crisis that led Chinese Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to demand his removal as U.

S. commander in the Far East. It was presumed that 61 -year -old Vinegar Joe was on his way back, although there was no official word beyond the weekend White House announcement that he had been recalled and the War Department statement mat ne would get a and Important tut at present aisciosea assignment While the White House and War He captured 500 German single-handed. Sat. Thomas J.

Gibbons, 35. Brooklyn native with the famous Fighting 1st Infantry somewhere in Germany. Is today one of our war heroes because, absent-mindedly, he took the wrong fork In the Alter capturing a German vehicle Gibbons turned in the wrong direction and came upon 15 Nazis In a 50-ton Tiger tank. He was captured and marched to German field headquarters for a third degree. i When asked what unit he wa with Gibbons replied, -'Search me; I just work here." He was dis- I patched toward the captors' rear lines, disgustedly, but the Jerries found themselves in trouble.

They no longer had any rear. They were i encircled. Germ us Help tseape Two Germans helped him with in, wirh a small to lowing, he raced across a field. He glanced back and noticed his small ROOSEVELT LEADS Mop shows 10th where President Roosevelt shaded Governor Dewey in Brooklyn Eagle's straw poll returns. Letters indicate localities polled.

Department did not elaborate uponjnd and alr forces co-operated in "Assembly Boy, 8, Kills Brother, 4, In Commando' Game William Drach, 4, was killed by his brother Robert, 8, in a too realistic game of "commandos" in the basement of their residence at 825 Eagle the Bronx, police declared revolution with their army battling on the longest front in history from the Arctic almost to the Adriatic. Anniversary speeches ana an order of the day by Premier Stalin were expected to emphasis the flexibility and adaptability of the Red Army in a battle sone emorac-jing nine countries from Norway Yugoslavia. In the south Gen. Ivan D. Pe-troff's 4th Ukrair'an Army captured Czechoslovak transport cent of Csap and was in position for tm anve against uermany.

(Berlin said that after three weeks of heavy fighting, a great tank bat- Hungary has ended. A Nazi broadcast claimed the bulk of Soviet tank corps, a brigade of cavalry and at least two infantry divi sions were knocked out, and the Soviets lost 12,200 killed, 6,600 prls- aers, om tanns anu guna. Marshal Tito, leader of Yugoslav Partisans, announced his forces and Red Army troops had entered Veliki Radlncl, 41 mues nortnwesi oi au-erade. and Srera Mitrovlca, on th Belgrade-Munich railroad running tnrougn tne la-niue wiue piauu tween the Danube and Sava riv other battleship hit by bombs, and three cruisers and lour aestroyers hit by both bombs and shells. and 10 air crewmen were lost, all to anti-aircraft fire.

Enemy carrier aircraft which had been refueled ashore flew out to Join their ships too late to get Into the fight and 21 were shot down by American com bat patrols. Before all the damaged Japanese ships could be tracked down, Halsey broke on the engagement to pro ceed to the assistance oi earner escort erouos of Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkald's 7th Fleet, then under attack off Samar Island. Kinkaid Rips Enemy Kinkaid'j forces, assisted by car rier planes from the 3d fleet, sank a the Mogaml class, left a destroyer dead In the water and badly damaged all surviving Japa- hsaV? ships. The enemy force northwest and re-entered San Bernardino Strait under cover of darkness, but a straggling cruiser sunk by gunfire of the 3d ie southern enemy naval force, meantime, passed through the Suluj Sea and entered Surlgao Straits i south of Leyte, there to come under the guns and carrier-plane attack I of Kinkald's main forces the night! jof Oct.

24. General MacArthur. supreme com-1 mander in the Levte area, an nounced In a communique yesterday that the entire force was sunk by gunfire or carrier planes. Including two battleships, the Yamashlro andi the Suso; two heavy cruisers; two light cruisers and 10 destroyers, Battle Final Phase Nimltz, however, listed the south-n force as containing only "seven eight" destroyers, and it was dos- sible his announcement Was based on later information. The final phase of the battle found carrier aircraft of the 3d and 7th Fleets and shore-based Asiitrici.il planes attacking crnmlrt! and damaged enemy units fleeing ai.

tnrougn tne oiouyan sea uct. The Americans sank a Mrarami class cruiser and a Noshiro class cruiser south of Mlndoro Island, probably sank a battleshln and fur. ther damaged three other battleships and three other cruisers. ine ritanls battle was irrim re. venge for five participating Ameri can oatuesnips, tne west Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, California and Pennsylvania, all sunk or damaged In the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec.

7, 1941, and subsequently salvaged. The new carriers, Lexington. Wasp and Hornet, named for those sunk In earlier engagements with the Japanese, also participated In battle. LANDSLIDE The 24th Assembly District area, shown in map, which gave President Roosevelt his highest percentage poll to date. He captured district by 93 1 percent of its straw votes.

Letters indicate areas polled. STRAW VOTE BOX SCORE Area-by-area returns in the Brooklyn Eagle's Presidential straw pol of the 10th and 24th Assembly Districts follow: TENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT A Columbia Heights and Pierrepont Remsen and Henry Sts Hicks and Amity Sts. Pearl and Johnson Sts Dean and Hoyt Sts 6th Ave. and Union St Prospect Place. Washington Ate Classon Sterling Place I Carroll et eth Ave.

Lincoln Place, Washington Ave their statements, the United Press learned Chiang had requested Stil-well's removal as a result of a long standing controversy on conduct of I the Par Eastern war There was a disposition toward lUtion here in placing the blame the split. The few Congressmen sun in me capital declined Chungking Censor Cuts Stilwell Story The united Press received from its stair correspondent, Walter Run- die, in Chungking, a series of nine cables on the removal of General Btiiwen. Here are the cables verbatim delivered In New York: Stllweil withdrawn from CBI command (lour words censored) icording to most authoritative ports in both American and Chinese quarters in Chungking. Second cable sored)." Third cable red)." Fourth cable Fifth cable "(57 words cen- sored)." Sixth cable Seventh cable "(42 words sored) Military and political unity was vital ior jmnese compieu utilization of strength against Japanese." Ninth cable "(56 words cen- After filing the dispatch In which le censors allowed onlv 32 of his original wa woras to oe transmitted, Rundle cabled: "That's the best ex planation which Is possible from 7 Liquor Dealers Punished byS. A.

Liquor 1 i en of two Brook lyn dealers in alcoholic beverages were cancelled and tne licenses oi five other borough and Long Island dealers were suspended because or violations or the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, according tc disciplinary actions announced to-; day toy the New York State Liquor! Autnority. The dealers whose licenses were cancelled were Nettie Goldstein, 1605 Broadwav. because of mis labeled liquor bottles, and Joseph mltted gambling on his premises. The licenses of the following were suspended Stanley Adomaitls. 891 Grand 10 days, for exceed ing the limits of his license, and Max Mettenleiter, Montauk, five days, ior having "obscene and Indecent literature on Dremises." For selling beer during prohlbj ited hours, the license of George Schuh, 73 Atlantic and Frank Maguire, 623 Vanderbilt were suspended for five days each.

The license of William F. Claudio, 111 Main Greenport, suspended for five days be-i I the contents of his liquor Domes were not as represented labels. Forts Blast 4 German Cities London. Oct. 30 (U.R) More than 800 American Flying Fortresses and uoeraiors Domoeo Hamburg, Har-burg, Hamm and Munster today in a four-pronged attack on northwest Germany.

Upward of 950 Thunderbolt and Mustang fighters escorted the heavy bombers smashing at the Ruhr and the Hamburg port area, the United states strategic Air Force announced. Transport facilities and Industri al plants were hit at Hamm nri Munster, while oil refineries andj processing plants were the targets nmuui(s aim ntignooring war-burg across the Elbe. Royal Air Force Mosquitos made Cologne, dropping two-ton block busters on the Rhineland city which nas Deen nit hard in recent bombardments. WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN i charged veteran of World War II, Lawrence Wiseman, commander of the Kings County American Legion, today called on the borough's 12,000 Legionnaires to support the New York War Fund campaign both as donors and as volunteer canvassers. Frank J.

Fahey, former comman- der of Revllle Post and county executive committeeman, was appointed by Mr. Wiseman to servo liaison omcer Between tne Le- and the fund. a letter sent to 71 posts in the county the county commander urged rat at least a.uuu legionnaires join the block canvass in their com-wnities and start ringing doorbell Referring to the New York War Fund's overall campaign for $17,200,000 to aid USO. War Prison ers Aid, United seamen service, Veterans Service Center and 27 other war-related agencies for our own 'nobody has to tell veterans lue of these vital services and le can tell the miblic how urgently they are needed as well as The county commander empha sized the need for each post to send treasury gift as its contribution toward the Division or Organizations share of the Brooklyn home front quota of $400,000. chairman, praised the World War veterans for "pitching in" to help their buddies in the present war and warned that unless others do likewise the campaign, which la Tagging, will not meet Its quota.

The American Friends of Czechoslovakia, participating war relief the funds current cam paign, are sponsoring the 24th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia celebration which will be held tomorrow night in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. Right now is not too early to have your Christmas gift pictures taken No appointment it needed. Pictures for as little 3 for 4.95 Iruuranc Corporation 1 fc Military advices East Prussia was raging unabated, with both sides suifering extremely nlakhovsky's massive forces battered at the strong outposts ot Gumbinnen. (A Berlin military spokesmar 'said today the Red Army had opened an offensive on a broad front between the Danube andTls- i Rivers In Hungary apparently powerful drive aimed squarely at Budapest. The DNB News Agency said in a broadcast neara lon- Fon.

that strng concentrations oi heavy fighting, prevented a breakthrough and maintained the cohe- Arcxic gaies nownng aown irom le north brought the first snow to le central front and the moun tainous zones in the south, and impeded Soviet mechanized and ail eds to Mark Anniversary The Russians were preparing to celebrate on Nov. 7 the twenty-sev- enth anniversary of the Bolshevik Comb Sea for Jap Fleet Survivors Continued from Page 1 in the battle was beUeved iore than 800,000. The first of the three enemy! navai lorcei wnicn converged the Philippines was sighted submarine scouts Oct. 21 and 22 (Oct. 22 and 23.

PhiliSDlne time) moving north from the Singapore area, mmn communique said. Moving in to attack, the submarines sank two heavy cruisers of class and damaged severely a third. iscower Five Battleships Next day carrier planes discov ered five battleships, comprising the 32.720-ton Yamoto, Musashi and Nagato and the Kongo and Haruna, along with eight cruisers and 13 destroyers, moving east through the Slbuvan Sea in the central Philippines. n. secoiia rorre, consisting OI two uavuesnips oi tne xama-shlro class, two heavy cruisers, twe light cruisers and seven or eismt ueairoyers, was signtea almost multaneously moving east through the Sulu Sea southeast of the American beachhead on Leyte.

Hellcat fighters, Avenger torpedo planes and Hellcat dive bombers irom Admiral wiinam F. Halsey' 3d Fleet off the eastern perimeter the Philippines immediately oe's Ships Blasted In the Slbuyan Sea, a battleship id a neavy cruiser were damaged verely, set afire and may have ink. Three other battleships and three heavy cruisers were bombed and torpedoed. A light cruiser capsized ana same alter being tor- Both battleships the Bum Sea force were hit with bombs, while1 cruisers and destroyers were strafed Japanese shore-based planes, seek- ig to ease pressure against the; riers. More than 150 Japanese aircraft were shot down in the en suing air battle, but the carrier Princeton was hit by a bomb which caused a bad fire.

The Princeton. magazine later blew up, damaging baoiy sne naa to be sunk. American air losses were described as "light." Luzon Force Discovered During the three-way air-sea bat- a land-based American navy search plane discovered still a tnira enemy naval bearing down Halsev's fleet from the waters north- of Luzon, consisting or a large. carrier believed of the Zuikaku class, three light carriers of the Chitose and Zuiho classes, battleshios of the 29.990- class, a heavy cruiser of the Mogaml light cruiser of the Noshiro class, three cruisers of the Klso class and six destroyers. Halsey quickly concentrated eral of his task groups and headed I norm at nign speea ior a dawn attack Oct.

24. The maneuver caught the Japanese by surprise opposition and not a single lean snip was damaged auring tne ensuing engagement. rne zuueaku class earner, two light carriers of the class destroyer were sunk by our carrier aircraft. A light carrier of the Zuiho class was crippled by carrier aircraft and later sunk by gunfire, and a light cruiser or large destroyer was sunk by gunfire. Another cruiser, severely damaged by aircraft, was sent to the bottom during the night by a submarine, I Ten U.

S. Planes Lost Damaged In the battle were a battleship which was hit by two toj four torpedoes and many bombs, an- Gideonie i knowing what was happening he keot on soma. When he reached the American lines. Gibbons found his group of prisoners had Increased to 500. The onlv explanation: the tagged along, thinking ine oesi wav for them to surrender.

Born in Brooklyn, the military Pled Piper attended It, Martin of! Toura parochial school and Queens Vocational, woodside. uerore entering service in 1M0. he was an automobile mechanic. His wife, a pos tal employe, lives at 55-34 7th Place, Elmhurst. rofil Holder of the Silver and Bronze medals.

Gibbons rded a Presidential unit citation the D-Day assault He ing in action in France In August! but was back in action again in September. He has been overseas for the last 26 months. When not in active combat, at served as an altar boy for the Cath- olic chaplin of the Fighting 1st, his wire saia. of the famllv. wnen tne iatner expiainea mai le 8-year-old son, Robert, had first called his attention to the victim's absence and then led him to the basement where the body was found, police asked the boy to explain how he came to lead his father to the cellar.

It was then, according to police, that Robert sobblngly explained that he and the younger brother had been playing Comman- Idos about 4 o'clock yesterday after- He said, according to police, that he had "captured" Hilly In an at- powered him, binding his limbs and placing a gag In the child's mouth then covered the body with the burlap sack and "waited around" until 7 p.m.. when he told his father of the vounger brother absence and led him to the basement. Drach and his wife, Margaret. are building superintendents of the apartment in wmcn tne irageoy occurred. In addition to John Robert and Willianvthe other chil dren are Thomas, 14; Elaine, 5, and Richard, 2.

Early Hints F. D. R. Won't Stump Ohio Continued from Page 1 open oar parade and several train-end needles. The Presidential campaign train! returned to Washington last evening.

He had made short or long speeches in six states: ueiaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia. In Lima, Ohio, there was a "slow down," which means the train moved al- lmperceptibly through the sta-where a big crowd was massed. Roosevelt stood on the rear platform there and gave the as- semoiea citizens ins campaign saiuw. Those States add up to 128 electoral votes. Massachusetts, where he speaks next Saturday, casts 16 in the Electoral College.

results of this latest trip and they were fairly ecstatic over a train poll taken by Don Pryor of the Colum- pa per. radio and picture men aboard tne special answered Pryor questions yesterday en route to th( capital. In brief: The poll showed that of 39 persons participating, 28 favored Mr. Roosevelt's re-election and 11 favored Governor Dewey, Republican candidate. But what pleased the President's party that 37 of the participants thought re-election.

Two believed the con test should be an even money bei Odds proposed ranged from evei Roosevelt. Wallace Charges Dewey With Double-Talk unicago. oct. 3D (u.ri vice president Henry A. Wallace last night charged the Republican Presiden tial candidate, Governor Dewey, with "double talk" in dealing with; ene New York State Fair Employment Practices Committee.

Wallace, addressing a rally of the National Non-Partisan League, said Dewey "had a good committee wnicn recommended State legisla tion establishing an FEPC In New York." basing Its findings on three years of careful Investigation, but that the Governor discarded and dismissed all of this great 'The people of New York under stand double talk when they hear Nassau Firms Plan $204,400 Building Program' Albany. Oct. 30 Nassau County firms in September filed 14 plans for industrial building construction costing $204,400. State Industrial Commissioner Edward Corsl announced today. The State totals for financed projects from mid-August I0 mid-September of 2 4 percent in employment.

percent in payrolls and 2.6 percent in man-hours. The gains all were made up-State, he said. New York City showing de- Honored on Retirement The Rev. George M. Miller, pajttor ocean Avenue uongncaon al Church for 22 years who recently retired, and his wife, will be honored" at a farewell reception tomorrow night at the church.

Mr. Miller's enation Is effective In January until that time, prominent mini's of the MetroDoIltan area are substituting. A new nastor has not yet been appointed, Totals 415 192 221 'Areas polled. Roosevelt. 53 7 percent; Dewey, 46 3 percent 24TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT today.

o'clock last night by hl father, John, with hands and legs bound with ropes, mouth covered with a handkerchief and another wound around his neck. The police announcement cleared up the mystery surrounding the motive behind the death of the younger boy. When police arrived at the build. Ing, In which the Drach family occupy a four-room apartment on the first floor, In response to a summons last evening by the boy's father, the elder Drach told them tw tormeri at, the absence of the boy, he had Instituted a search and found the strangled body near the foot of an elevator shaft covered! 4fh hm-lan suzar Sack. He QUICK' ly loosed the bends, he said, but was unable to restore the boy Police also failed in efforts a After sending the body to Lincoln' Hospital and later to Fordham morgue, police began questioning members of the family.

They later took the father and another son. John 15. to Morrisania precinct for questioning. Detectives then returned to the Drach home and con- Hericnds Charges Vote Test Frauds Continued from Page Mrd of registry If the inspector ould overlook the necessity ior i i i :) i registration week liter-tst. iLers were functkniW il 360 public schools throughout th of 23 assistant superintend- nf the -Roard of Education, Herlands stated.

"The official statistics thus far compiled by the Board of Education snow tnat, percent of those taking the literacy test fall. However, our preiiimmu investigations discloses, for exam- Tn Public School 156. out of ap proximately 850 applicants who percent failed. In Public scnooi literacy only four. half of one per-j Hprlands nolnted out similar hi- ances in two Manhattan public HprUmris allpeed that "volunteer' teachers from headquarters "manned by the Teachers Union and the American Labor party were trans ported to literacy tf TtiOM" volunteer assignments." he said, "were made without prior Move to Oust Willkie Charged to Dewey, Hoover Mead last night challenged Gov ernor Dewey and former President Hoover to deny his charge that they were linked an "unaercover campaign" to oust the late Wendell -rom -he Republican party.

"The evidence I have at hand Is unmistakable and conclu.su. Mead stated last night at the Hotel Pennsylvania. "I note thai the Governors secretary (Paul Lockwoodi has verv conveniently I 'rushed to the defense of Hoover ana Dewey, out the principals have offered no denials. If they do, they win hear from me Senator Mead charmd Hoover's signature was affixed to a paper stating that "Tom and I move that, corn Willkie from the, the it will N. Flying Time The flying time between New in nail ov Amines when the new DC-4 planes, now on are delivered, according to O.

T. president of the company. The route shitted trom the i A Sutter and Christopher Christopher and Livonia Williams and Glenmore Aves Pennsylvania and Livonia Powell and Newport Sts New Lots Ave. and Bradford St Barney St. and Livonia Ave Dumont Ave.

and Elton St I Montauk and New Lou Ave Totals "Areas polled. Roosevelt. 931 percent: Dewey Roosevelt S' "ii St 41 40 43 44 42 42 41 40 40 42 21 21 Straws Dewey Roosevelt 42 0 4: 42 0 4: 42 3 42 0 4: 42 0 4: 42 1 4 42 5 3 42 2 4 42 15 2 378 26 35 Dewey. 69 percent. iRESULTS TO DATE 63.6 percent: Dewey.

2 A. Swing To Roosevelt Continued from Page fl the th sice of East New 11 392 161 231 12 360 190 170 14 325 80 245 15 281 130 151 16 771 238 533 22 411 150 261 23 630 89 541 i 24 378 26 352 J-JS? nIIY fTfV ft 379 92 287 Wi 293 133 140 W-W 2-b IS? DEMOCRATS! REPUBLICANS! LABORITES! INDEPENDENTS! NEW YORK TDP Si 2 1 If you're one of the many who believe that 16 years with the NEW DEAL is too much, come along and REGISTER with the Citizens Committee for the election of DEWEY BRICKER CURRAN Located at 203 Montague Street Near Court Brooklyn. Office Open 9 A.M.-9 P.M. waters oi Jamaica Bay.i"" ar. overwhelm- rr a di 1 ROOSEVELT RALLY FOR TORONTO and across Canada IV.

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per onnam present overland lanes to the great1 plans aggregating $997,800. circle route that is partly over thej Corsl also reported State con-ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. istructlon industry gains on privately Mr it of the straws the district. rked contrastingly by dense pop-1 in the direction Ji Jamaica Bav. inlng With six more districts to be completed in the tloaaj returns will be published Truman Winding Up His New England Campaign Boston, Oct.

30 (U.R) -Senator Harry Truman. Democratic can- dldate for Vice President, winds the New England palgn tour today with a reply Governor Dewey's references to th "Roosevelt depression." After two days in Massachusetts TV mar. Mm tr TUESDAY OCT. It, 1944 7:45 ERASMUS HALL HIGH SCHOOL Church and Flatbush Avenuej, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Vice President HENRY A. WALLACE will speak at 8:15 p.m. sharp ROOSEVELT SAVINGS BANK GATES AVE. at BROADWAY, BROOKLYN TU H.X. Membtr Federal Depoiit planes' Instead of flying 1.322 miles, the.

tne great circle orTlly( reach Mlam1' hours the run take four hours and A. S. Basement Employes Observe Anniversary Employes of Abraham Straus' ceiforated department id a musical 1 nployes din-1 wrote, directed and tne musical comedy. A note was supplied by stage lighting effects, other-theatrical touches, Other Prominent Speakers Biotdt to Providrnce todav and ad-1 anniversary of theti "dress a party rally tonight in Paw-jwith a turkey dinner -bucket Field. He speaks in Newicomedy staged in the Somutl Grafton Dr.

Hrry Honny Youngmon Banay Vanuta IAsV' Ar mi oosevrir I TOO -Low initial COM, rouewij Ice, Minimum interest rates Coo oeofeat amortization payment! tad other ADMISSION FREE Sponsored by Citizens' Non-Partisan Committee for tha Ra-oUction of RaoMvolt. 204 Ocaan Parkway, Brooklyn, Y. mOTrow nieht i The empl During his two dnjs tn Massachu- performed setts the nominee appeared at party professional jraiHe in Fall Rtvnr. New Bedford, the use of iBOffl Lawreooe and Lyon, Jmusic and employes.