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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1943 Sri'jVSMSUS; 3 CENTS SjKSJST. crura 1 Hi Mffi MUmLDKIo Witness Says 1, 000 Fires Rage in Nazi Capital LIST 39 FIRMS AS BLACK MARKETEERS JURY MAPS PRESENTMENT ON POLICE Preliminary Report May Shed New Light On Boro Activities 5,000 TONS ON NAZI CAPITAL IN THREE ASSAULTS London, Nov. 24 (U.R) An hour-long parade of Britain's biggest bombers only a few hundred short of the 1,000 which hit the city 24 hours earlier all but paralyzed battered, burning' Berlin last night with another 1,500 tons of explosives in the third assault of an offensive to smash the Nazi capital.

The R. A. four-engined heavyweights stoked fires still raging from previous raids, set new conflagrations and wrought further shattering destruction all the way from the center of Berlin to its Industrial outskirts. Though it was estimated it will take at least 25 to 30 major raids to wipe out Berlin to the extent Hamburg was blasted, little doubt was held here th.et Berlin's life has bein shattered at lc.ist temporarily, with traffic brought to a standstill, water, electricity and gas service disrupted and reached here today that 25.000 Germans were killed In the last two British air raids on Berlin bui they were treated with considerable reserv pending more authentic corroboration. An Aftontidningen dispatch date-lined Bern estimated the Berlin dead at 25.000.

but executives of the newspapar were skeptical of the fleure even though they published it. The N. Y. A. Dagligt Allehanda used the same estimate, but left Continue 0n Page 2 "We believe the best description the bombings will have was given us by a friend, a diplomat, who gazing upon the smoking rums of the Arilon Hotel, said, 'It Is a true twilight of the the Interview said.

The diplomat called the scene as -Apocalyptic Thousands tried to leave Berlin, he said, without stopping for personal belongings snd the effect on civilians was "undoubtedly disastrous." Stockholm. Nov. 24 (UP Reports Bern, Nov. 24 01 The bombing of Berlin Mondav night touched off more than 1.000 fires, smashed the presidential palace to a "black mass of ruins" and sent people fleeing from the city despite a police ring around it. a neutral diplomat who saw the attack a as quoted today in the Gazette De Lausanne.

He said the Reich chancellery was gravely damaged and the famous balcony where Hitler appeared before hi cheering Nazis had disappeared. rooa supplies endangered. Senators Ask Stimson For Tacts' on Patton Committee to Probe Slapping of Soldier Unless War Dept. 'Cleans Up the Mess' Washington, Nov. 24 (U.R) The Senate Military Affairs Committee voted today to ask Secretary of War Stimson for "a full report" on the slapping of a shell-shocked American Alleged Conspiracy Said to Have Cost Public $500,000 The Brooklyn Federal Grand Jury-today Indicted the Liebman Packing Company of Green Bay, and 38 other corporations and individuals on charges of black market conspiracy Involving, according to Assistant United States Attorney James O.

Scileppi "probably the biggest black market operation reported since the beginning of the war." About $500,000 In over-celling price payment was tunneled from housewives back to the packing company at Oreen Bay by the conspiracy, said Mr. Sclleppi. who had charge of the Investigation which resulted in the indictments. United States Attorney Harold M. Kennedy, who announced filing of the Indictments, said the Llebman concern is accused of having conspired with 21 wholesale meat dealers and distributors in a scheme under which charges above celling prices were collected through a broker and returned by him to the firm In Green Bay.

The Liebman company, said Kennedy, made overcharges of two to seven cents a pound at the wholesale level, but these were pyramided to subsequent prices until the ultimate consumer paid up to 15 to 20 cents a pound over the legal price. Kennedy said the Government would press for prison sentences and large fines as a warning to others contemplating violations of OPA regulations. Penalties are a maximum of two years in Jail or a maximum fine of $10,000. or both. Continued on Page 9 soldier by Lt.

Gen. George S. Patton in Sicily last I One commiUte member. Senator YANKS SEIZE GILBERT ISLES, DEFY HIP NAVY Will Consolidate Their Positions Before New Move on Tokio Pearl Harbor, Nov. 24 OJW Powerful American forces secured victory In the Gilbert Islands today and defied the Japanese to stop their rolling offensive on the Mid-Pacific sea route toward Tokio.

Only 80 hours after troops stormed islets in the coral chain on Japan's outer line of empire defenses. Admiral Chester W. NlmlU. Pacific fleet commander, announced the Gilbert were in t.ie firm grip of the U. 8.

"While it Isn't a rosv road to Tokio. we face the future wiih complete confidence," he said. "We went prepared to meet attacks. They will not be surprises." American attack units will consolidate their positions for further operations, he said, adding they Continued on Page 10 said thaf British bombers had dropped more than 5.000 tons of explosives on Berlin in tha three raids. Berlin was revealed to be at the top of the list of the most bombed cities of 1943.

Its more than 12.000 tons leading Hamburg more than 10.000. The official German n- called the raid a new tack and said numc were "devastated." estimated the death day night's record as. persons. Nam Smart Under biow Radio Berlin, obviously smarting under the terrific offensive against the city the Nans said never could be bombed, threatened "terrible vengeance" against the British "tor Continued on Pace I Thousands Flee Citv Reports reaching Sweden said thousands of Berliners were fleeing the city. The mighty British armada was guided to Berlin by the glow of fires kindled in Monday night's raid, the heaviest ever made on a single German city.

The dull red glow outlined the streets of the capital itself and enabled the pilots to pinpoint their new targets. "Reports show the bombing again was concentrated and effective," the Air Ministry announced. A London broadcast heard by the United Press in New York said entire districts of Berlin still burned fiercely today and that the city's fire-fighting services were unable to cope with the situation.) A Royal Air Force spokesman Col. J. Gardiner Conroy Col.

J. G. Conroy Killed in Battle For Makin Island Heroic Death Writes Finis To Long Army Career Of Prominent Brooklynite The long army career of Col. J. Gardiner Conroy.

which began in 1912. is at an end today with the announcement that he was killed In action in the capture of Makin Island in the Gilberts by the army's 27th Division. He was 54. Word of his death was received by Mrs. Conroy from the War Department at her home at 14 E.

90th Manhattan. Colonel Conroy, born in Brooklyn, was well known in the borough and was affiliated with many of its social and civic organizations. He served on the military staff of Governors Smith. Roosevelt and Lehman and was assigned to the 27th Division as Judge advocate with the rank of lieutenant colonel In June, 1934. On Sept.

28. 1939. he was made commander of the 71st Infantry with the rank of colonel. At this time he resided at 35 Prospect Park West. In 1940 he was given command of Continued on Page New light may be shed on police dmlnistration in Brooklyn when the holdover July Kings County Grand Jury, which has quietly been gathering information on borough-wide police activities, hands up a preliminary presentment to County Judge Frar.klin it km learned today.

The July jury' presentment, now In the last stages of preparation, will be strictly of a preliminary nature, it was pointed out. with the Jury continuing in session to hear complaints and accept information from any one desiring to communicate with n. It was understood the presentment may be handed up Monday, although the report was not con-lirmed. That the July Jury was planning to reveal some of its information shortly as revealed by the Brooklyn Eagle last Thursday in a story which ported out that the jury has called before it a number of police officials and has sent for documents relating to management of the Police Department. In a statement issued today.

Mrs. Margaret V. Brown of 424 Macon president and organizer of the Women's Voters Council, with headquarters at 1660 Pulton called for investigation of the Midtown Civic League, headed by Sumner A. Sirtl. "We are here to stay, and those who resent us might as we'll make up their minds to accept that fact and help make the Bedford-Smyve.

sant community the best community with the finest inter-racial relation-thip in the country." Pledging herself and her organl-ration to "do our best" to eliminate crime in the section, Mrs. Brown declared the Midtown Civic League "without provocation has made a most cruel anj unfair accusation on our community; such a group of people shomd be investigated." Report Ready Friday Earlier today Mayor LaGuardia announced a he left LaGuardia Field for Washington that the police reprt on conditions In the Bedford-Stuyvesant area, based on survey iast week by 420 detects and piainclothesnien, was be- fontlnurd on Page 9 8th Grabs Highway leading to Rome Allied Headquarters. Algiers. Nov. I 24 (U.R) The British Army has advanced its left wing six miles in the mountains of central Italy to I occupy the strategic highway Junc-j Hon of Alfedena.on an Inland road I to Rome, it was announced official ly today.

Alfedena. northwest of Isernia on the route through Avezanno and on Edwin C. Johnson iD, Col.) said the committee itself would make a full Investigation unless the War Department "cleaned up the The committee's request to Stimson was the first positive Congre-sional action on the long-hushed incident. Patton's recent nomination by President Roosevelt for promotion from the permanent rank of colonel to major general is pending before the Senate group. House Gets Probe Demand Asked if the action called for a committee investigation at this time, spokesmen said it did not.

"But." they added. "If Secretary Stimson is to present all the facts In a report to the committee, he undoubtedly will have to make some sort of investigation. The committee merely wants all the facts." In the House. Representative Charles B. Hoeven Iowal demanded that the House Military Affairs Committee Investigate the incident.

Chairman Andrew J. May Ky.t of the House group had Indicated, however, that his committee probably would not conduct an inquiry. War Department spokesmen said military authorities were inclined Continued on Page 2 i to Rome, had been destroyed by the They Did It Again Nazis Smash Red Army Half Way Back to Kiev Russians Rush Reserves Across Dnieper In Effort to Stem Drive Gain on Other Fronts Moscow, Nov. 24 (U.R) More than 100.000 German troops and hundreds of tanks smashed at Soviet lines in ceaseless waves today in an all-out counter-offensive that already haa driven the Red Army half-way back to Kiev at one point. Germans, a communique said.

The British entered Alfedena without opposition, finding it deserted and demolished Another six-mile advance above Alfedena carried the British through San Angelo, eight miles west of Castlglione. Enemy artillery was active near Venafro, but the Army knocked out. some batteries. "There was little improvement In the weather, which continued to hamper operations," the communique said. Boy, 22, Others Shot In Fascist Reprisal Bern, Nov.

24 (1P Fascist terrorists, headed by Roberto Fari-nacci, former party secretary, shot 22 persons, including a Senator and a 15-year-old boy, at Ferrara Wednesday in reprisal for the slaying of a local Fascist leader, reliable reports said today. Chicago, Nov. 24 (UP' Two years ago Walter Gustufson. 41. wa.s held up by two men In his garane and robbed of a $500 diamond ring and $18.

Last night, he tnld police, two men held him up In the earage again. This time, he said, they took a $1,000 diamond ring and $62. Book Restaurant Man in Car Death The Germans engaged the Soviets in bloody hand-to-hand combat at allv yielded that city at the end of the 1942 Russian Winter offensive. The withdrawal yesterday waa the third acknowledged by the Soviets since Mannstein "launched his counter-offensive nearly two weeks ago, but the Soviets meantime have rushed reserves across the Dnieper and it was believed that the German assault soon would be contained. On all other fronts from White Russia to the Dnieper bend, the Russians gained new ground.

Saboteurs Blackout 9 DEAD IN WAKE OF BIG SNOWSTORM At least nine persons were dead, several were missing or injured and many communities remained isolated today in the wake of the season's first major snowstorm in Upper New York and New England. More than 20 inches of snow fell In some sections during the two-day storm and high winds whipped up deep drifts that blocked most roads. Many schools were closed by the impassable roads. Emergency crews strove to restore telephone service. Mom 3.300 lines still were down in the Albany area.

the southwestern corner of the Red Army's Kiev bulge. Soviet artillery and mortars entrenched in the new Russian defense line took a heavy toll of enemy infantry in the rolling hllis some 42 miles southwest of Kiev and Russian tanks clashed with enemy panzers in the biggest armored battles since the Red army crossed the Dnieper. The Russians fell back to the vicinity of Brussilov. 42 miles southwest of Kiev and 36 miles east of Zhitomir, after yielding an unspecified number of towns and villages along a line stretching to i lieves Put the Bite jn 1,000 False Teeth Sets Norwich, police have notified the New York City Police Department to be on the lookout for 1.000 sets of false teeth, unplated, reported to be stolen and shipped here. The teeth, valued at $3,700, are In 50 boxes labeled University Dental Company, Philadelphia, Pa.

The police safe and loft squad today is visiting dental supply companies while working on the case. War Reporter, Wounded With the 5th Army in Italy. Nov. 23 (U.R) Richard Tregaskis, author and war correspondent, was wounded by shrapnel Monday while In front line trenches with a group of infantrymen. A shell fell near the group, the shrapnel striking his helmet and knocking him unconscious.

He was taken to a field hospital and later removed to another hospital where it was said his condition was excellent. (Allied headquarters in Algiers reported shell fragments pierced Tregaskis' helmet, inflicting a severe head wound. (Eleven bone fragments and nine pieces of brain 'Issue were removed by surgery. Physicians expected him to recover, but it was expected to require some months. He was Blaze Sweeps Four Buildings After Boy, 3, Plays With Fire A three-year-old boy, Irvinf Harsher, of 131 Sutter playing with matches in the home of Mrs.

Anna Smith of 255 Dumont who cared for him while his mother was away at work, today started a fire which burned out the greater part of three buildings and damaged a fourth. Mrs. Smith, seeing flames In the ground floor room where the boy was playing, snatched him up and ran out. Neighbors sent in an alarm and two more were sent after the firemen arrived. The flames spread swiftly to Nos, 253 and 257, frame dwellings like that at 257, and then to 317 Chester Ave.

The fire was put under rontrol at noon. BOY, 6, KILLED BY TAXICAB Leonard De Luca, 6, of 452 Columbia St. was killed when he was struck by a taxicab at Dwight and King Sts. The cab, according to police, was operated bv Max Lesin of 614 Hinsdale St. Werner Kurrasch, 52.

of 49-21 87th Elmhurst, a restaurant owner, was booked today at the Elmhurst precinct police station on a charge of homicide, police said, as the result of an investigation into the fatal injury last night of Joseph A. Mooney. 55. of 48-24 Connell Court, Elmhurst. a stenographer in the Court of Special Sessions.

The complaint, made by Detective Jacob Biehn of the Elmhurst squad, alleged that Kurra.sch as the driver of an automobile which struck Mooney. who was found unron-scious on 87th St. near 51st Elmhurst. He died shortly before midnight in St. John's Hospital, Long Island City.

Mr. Mooney had been employed as a stenographer in the city's service since June, 1916. He was first assigned to the old Department of Charities and then served for seven years as a stenograDher in the office of the District Attorney of New-York County. He was assigned as a stenographer in the Court of Special Sessions in 1930 and served In Part Manhattan. Chernyakhov, 13 miles north of Danish District niiomir, a overwneiming enemv pressure.

Third Soviet Retreat German Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein was concentrating his main strength against the yielding Soviet lines southwest of Kiev in an attempt to force the Russians back on Kiev, much as they fell back to Kharkov and eventu- Stockholm. Nov. 24 0JP Tn armed saboteurs, defeating guacs in a gun battle Tuesday, broke int3 a transformer station at Slangerup rail station at Copenhagen, up the transformers, and plunssd large sections of Noerrebro district into darkness, reports from Copenhagen asld today. Scoria Arrested in Rome, Paris Broadcast Reports The Paris radio, quoting a Rome dispatch in broadcast reported to the oWI, said today that Carlos Scorza, former secretary of the Fascist Party, has been arrested in Rome and would be tried by a special tribunal on Saturday. Boro Woman Gets 4 Years in Gold Plot Mrs.

Julia Weinstein. 45, of 341 Lincoln Road, was sentenced to from two to four years in prison on a charge of defrauding East Side residents of $38,000 in an amazing plan to smuggle $30,000,000 in gold from Canada. Judge George L. Donnellan pronounced the sentence in General Sessions. A few hours later a jury in the same court found Max 8hamus.

55. guilty on the same Indictment. He was held for sentence Dec. 20. The third woman in the ring, Mrs.

Role Cohen, sister of Mrs. Weinstein, had been sentenced to Jail last year. said to have been wounded on the American sector of the front WHERE TO FIND IT TELEPHONE EXECUTIVE DIES IN 12-STORY FALL II Our Fithlrt nnde Tin- Hrookhn Kaglc Mill not pulilislinl loi)Mirn, Tliurvlay (Th.mkci ins Pay) 3 Named to State Board Albany, Nov. 54 nj.W Governor Dewey's office today announced the appointments of Dr. Arthur R.

Sohval. Walbrldge Taft and Mrs. John Sloane. all of New'York City, to fill vacancies on the board of visitors of the Man William F. Knapp, 27.

Indiana telephone executive of Clayton, was killed today when he fell from the 12th floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to the pavement on the Park Ave. side. He had been a guest at the hotel sines Nov. 21. Bulgarians Routed By Yugos, Italians London.

Nov. 24 fU P) A Yugoslav Partisan Division aided by an Italian Regular Army battalion has routed a Bulgarian column at Kremna, in Serbia, killing more than 100 enemy troop nrt rapturing 7r) n'hers. a Liberation Army communique said today, I.I rarritlt II rll.tni Rd: III Rral I Snrtflv rrt II Tr Iti IS lli.atra (unlet rfi.wnr4 Dr Itmrif Fvrnt. Tnnffhl Mnanrlil H.lrn Unrlh HnrAwnpr mi 4 Killed, 14 Injured As Bus and Car Crash Sacramento. Cal Nov.

24 At least four persons were killed and 14 Injured early today when a crowded oreyhound bu collided With automobile and overturned en a highway 26 miles north of here. Marlboro Results I Muilr 1- Pnt. 3 5 70 5 Jo Sje. 4 20; Quwn Minnokt, 5 90. ott lime, Th HiK' I I nrlp Rav 1 Want Ada Weaiea 17 So.l hattan State Hospital.

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