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1 Reds Claim Mora Roui 3 Mscw Fromll's WALL STREET Closing Stock Prices WALL STREET Closing Stock Prices LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Clear and colcfer tonight and tomorrow nwrxJ ih Brooklyn Pootofftte 34 Cliu Mill fTklTC. Matvr iCnpyrlfnt 1M1 Th Brooklyn Etiit. Int.i 3 a 101 tt YEAR No. 338 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SATURDAY, DEC.

6, 1941 vim to i O'DWYER GIVEN NO AID BY CITY, MO RAN CLAIMS 'Stingy' Administration Hampered Him, Made Every Effort to Block Special Gang Probe, Says Clerk New heat was added today to the feud between restrict Attorney O'Dwyer and Mayor LaGuardia in a charge by James Yank Too Old' for Service J. Moran. chief clerk in O'Dwyer's office, that the city administration was "stingy" in aiding the Brooklyn prosecutor. Gets 5 Nazi Tanks report of the activities of the detectives working in the Brooklyn prosecutor's office. O'Dwyer refused the request, and angry statements began to pour forth from both principals in the dispute.

Charge 'Insincerity' At Parleys Vow To Repulse' Foes Tokio, Dec. 6 (U.R) Japan renewed bitter attacks on the United States through officially approved statements today, declaring that efforts of "hostile Powers" to hamper creation of a new order in East Asia would be repulsed and that the next move for war or peace was up to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. "We Japanese are tensely watching whether Mr. Roose- Moran asserted that from the Very "beginning," the city administration had been "sordidly stingy In providing funds to run this office in an efficient manner." He charged the administration had "made every effort" not only to "hamstring" the special gang investigation, but also the general work of the prosecutor's office. Meanwhile, a rumor that the 65 detectives assiened to O'Dwver's office had been ordered to report to Commissioner Valentine, circulated through police channels.

Might Produce Information Such a move might produce the Information sought by the Mayor in his order this week for a detailed 75,000 Welders In AFL Row; Ask velt and Mr. Churchill commit the enochal crime of further extending the worid upheaval," Lt. Gen. Teiichl Suzuki, minister without portfolio and president of the Cabinet Plan- ning Board, tOld a meeting Of the East Asia SconOmiC Council. that he liked Libya, except for the lack of news from home and a dearth of rye whisky.

LONGS FOR A DRINK "Boy oh boy, what I would give for a drink of rye," Hampson said, and then he told of a big tank battle in the desert on Nov. 24. "We hit that Rommel's flying column about 2 p.m. and fought without a halt until dark. We got our first prize inside 10 minutes.

I saw him burst into flames and the crew pile out on the run. Then it was forwards and backwards, this way and that, for what seemed a year. "This tank is a dream. Due to its speed and maneuverability and the quick direction of our commander and luck we weren't hit by a single shell. Machine gun bullets rattled off us like hail but, of course, they do no harm.

Washington, Dee. (U.R) Lloyd Payne, executive secretary of the United Brotherhood of Welders, Cutters and Helpers Union (independent), announced today that the union's executive committee had authorized a nationwide strike of 15,000 welders en Tuesday to combat "discriminations" by the American Federation of Labor. He said the committee also addressed a telegram to President Roosevelt advising him of its action and renewing its request for executive Intervention to force a settlement with the A. F. L.

The dispute arose over the independent union's request for a charter in the A. F. L. to permit members of the independent union to work in a closed shop without paying "work permit" fees. The brotherhood Heartsick at Pogroms, Broker Dies in Leap Dives 16 Stories in 2d Suicide Attempt-Asks to Be Buried in Potters Field Once before Arthur Brasch, a stockbroker, tried to die because he was heartsick at the persecution of Jews in Nazi Europe.

Today he tried again, and succeeded. charged that the A. F. L. charged working in A.

F. L. closed shops. BAD CHECKS NET WIDOW TWO PRISON TERMS Mrs. Julie Brown, 37, a widow who formerly lived at 53-52 97th Elmhurat, was to be transferred to today to serve two prison terms.

She to from 10 to 20 years in the women's prison for passing worthless checks. Yesterday, County Judge Thomas Downs sentenced her in Long Island City to an additional term of a petite brunette, appeared before Judge Downs on a bad check charge last May and was placed on probation with a warning. The Albany Inter Germans Routed On 3 Moscow Lines, Reds Say Report 10,224 Slain- Nazis Claim Mozhaisk, 5 Other Towns Taken London, Dec. 6 (U.R) Powerful German attacks on the Mozhaisk sector due west of Moscow have been repulsed and Russian troops have hurled back attacking Germans north and south of Moscow with annihilation of 10,224 Germans and destruction of vast quantities of equipment in the Volokolamsk area, Russian war dispatches said today. Radio Moscow broadcast that in the Volokolamsk Sector 60 miles northwest of Moscow the Germans, in addition to losing 10.224 officers and men in a week's fighting in temperatures 13 degrees below zero, suffered the loss of 139 tanks and 22 planes.

In Berlin, German armed forces were reported officially to have captured the key town of Mozhaisk on the Moscow front and to have seized the towns of Mtsensk, Cherd, Novosil, Livny and Maloarchangel on the South Central sector. Moz. haisk is a strategic point 60 miles west of Moscow. The South Central drives were headed for the Moscow-Voroshilovgrad Railroad line, an important communications route still open to the Russians in this sector. (Radio Berlin, in a broadcast heard at London by the United Press listening post, reported that German bombers "entirely" destroyed one Moscow railroad station in a raid during the night.) Intense cold set in Friday, according to a broadcast quoting a war correspondent for Pravda, official Communist party newspaper.

Russian troops advancing at night were reported to have found German soldiers frozen to death on a main highway near Volokolamsk 'Frost' is 15 Below Discussing weather conditions a Pravda correspondent reported: "I should like to class among the Continued on Page 7 Petain Postpones Naming Huntziger Successor Vichy, Dec. 6 (U.R) The Council of Ministers met with Chief of State Petain today, but again postponed selecting a successor to the late War Minister, Gen. Charles Huntziger, killed in an airplane crash. A communique said the ministers studied reports on the recent meeting among Petain, Vice Premier Admiral Darlan and Reichsmarshal Goertng. Darlan gave an account of the meeting.

Interior Minister Pierre Pucheau told of police measures designed to cope with a new outbreak of terrorism in occupied France and the cabinet discussed prison reform measures recommended by the Ministry of Justice. Ousted Nazis in Vienna Berlin, Dec. 6 (U.R) The Official News Agency reported today that 180 German nationals, ousted from Afghanistan on demands by Britain and Germany, had arrived in Vienna. Today's Scratches Charles Town 1 Rippling On, Repeat. Peetomar, Junior Prom.

Whisper, Perlover. 3 Corsica. Portunale Boop. Ladv Mow-lee. Joanny.

Ladv Nadi. Feudal Net. 3 Ladv Jaffa. Aldridie, Joan Asbestos, nick. Schley Al.

4 Aunl Caddie. Arrow Oirl. Ivonia, Metadnw Oold. High Rose, More Sir. 5 Sweep Roval.

Cheer Me 7 Lel Liihl. Hoffhera. Tin Trick. Baba. Park Saddle.

Ovando. Substitute is off. Waaiher track muddy. lude prompted the jurist to revoke the probation. FAMILY OF MIDGETS PREPARES FOR MIAMI TRIP in Libya "That night, when the fighting broke off, we were in a group of six tanks in a ring protecting a headquarters unit.

About 7:30 p.m. we heard enemy tanks grinding towards us in the darkness. "Because I didn't know their strength and being low on ammunition we were ordered to withhold our fire unless they spooked us. We watched the shapes of 10 tanks file by lesiI than 60 yuit awa3r. But they had hardly gone when a second column came heading smack at us.

Our anti-tank guns opened up at about 30 yards, knocking the leader galley west. "That was the wildest fight ever. Talk about the Fourth of July. The blaze of guns, the German tracers and burning lorries beat any fire- I works you ever saw. We lost one tank and several lorries.

Get that I lorries. I'm beginning to talk like an Englishman out her. Gotta watch myself sometimes." With at least one member of his family clamped in a German concentration camp, Brasch, 44, often told friends: "What's the sense of living in a world like this?" So at 5:30 a.m. he leaped from the 17th floor room in the St. Moritz Hotel, 50 Central Park South, Manhattan.

His body, fully clothed, was found on the roof of the first-story extension of 40 Central Park South, the adjoining building. He left three notes. One to the police stated that he was in ill health, had no relatives here, did not expect his body to be claimed and wished to be buried in Potters Field without any religious service. A second, to the manager of the hotel, left $50 to pay any bills he might have incurred. The contents of the third, to a doctor friend.

were not divulged. Two months ago, according to the police, Brasch tried to commit sui- cide in an Atlantic City hotel and the Police Chief there informed local authorities that he was suspected of being a Gestapo agent. Investigation, however, showed that he was distraught at the Nazi persecutions. U. Bomber Sets Atlantic Crossing Record London, Dec.

6 (U.R) An American-made Liberator bomber has set a new ferrying record from North America to Britain of eight hours and 20 minutes, the Ministry of Aircraft Production announced today. The American pilot was a Captain Cramer. The Liberator is a four-motored bomber made by the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. Metal Furniture Ban Ottawa, Dec, 6 (U.R) The Canadian government soon will prohibit the manufacture of nearly all metal furniture to help overcome the growing shortages of iron, steel and chromium, a reliable source said here today. in South Atlantic Admiralty said today that cruiser, had intercepted and! I "Japan's patience would not longer be necessary in event the countries hostile to peace in East Asia countries whose identities are mmm REPORT 100,000 IN INDO Shanghai, Dec.

6 (U.R) A reliable and well-informed foreign military source asserted today that Japan- had 100,000 men in French Indo-China and that 75,000 of them were in the southern and western areas where they could strike at Thailand. Bangkok, Dec. 6 (U.R) Premier Luang Bipul Songgram said today that Thailand was ready to resist aggression from any quarter, but had concluded no secret pacts. now absolutely clear attempt to continue to increase disturbances in the Far East. Filipino Cabinet Arts At Manila, the Philippines Cabinet took emergency measures including preliminary evacuation of danger zones, suspension of nonessential construction to supply funds for defense and cancelled inauguration plans for President Quezon.

At Singapore, British sailors were suddenly recalled to their ships The East Asia Council, in what was regarded there as a declaration of great importance, said that "regardless of how intensely hostile powers attempt to interfere," Japan will go ahead with creation of a new order in East Asia. 'Sternly Watching' V. S. The Domei News Agency said the Government is "sternly watching Ul and not neglecting vigilance re Continued on Page 7 Costd Rica Jolted San Jose. Costa Rica, Dec.

6 (U.R) The worst earthquake in years shook Costa Rica at 2:50 p.m. (3:50 p.m., EST) yesterday. Panic-stricken residents of San Jose rushed from their swaying homes into the streets. Bottles, ornaments and dishes were shaken to floors and smashed, and utilities were temporarily interrupted. Briton Gives Up Diplomacy ror nergy; iiamen vicar London, Dec.

6 (U.R) Sir Charles Bentinck, 62, former British Am bassador to Chile, who gave up diplomacy after a 36-year career to study for the ministry, has been named Vicar of West Farleigh, in Kent County, it, was announced Fred Roper and his family made preparations today for a trip to BRITAIN STARTS FINN ROUNDUP AS WAR SPREADS Declaration Against Hungary, Rumania Also Effective Today London, Dec. 6 (U.R) Scotland Yard secret operatives started rounding up Finns, Hungarians and Rumanians as enemy aliens today as Great Britain notified Finland, Hungary and Rumania that it was at war with them and thus was at liberty to exert all belligerent measures. It was understood that about 200 citizens of the Axis satellites were arrested at once and the roundup continued. Detectives of the Scotland Yard secret special branch and criminal investigation department, aided by mobile police units, visited the homes of selected Finns, Hungarians and Rumanians registered in London as aliens and took them into custody. All those arrested were taken to a clearing center here for removal no internment camps.

They will have the right of appeal to an alien advisory court against detention. It was estimated that there were 5000 Hungarians, more than 400 i Rumanians and about 200 Finns in Great, Brita.n. Of the Hungarians at)oul 4000 are domestics. All were liable to internment under the state of war which Britain declared in its notes to their government. It was announced that notes were dispatched to Washington for transmission through the United States Ministers at Helsinki, Buda.

pest and Bucharest, notifying the government concerned that Britain would be at war with them as from one minute past midnight tonight, Greenwich mean time 17:01 p.m, Saturday. An official statement added that Continued on Page 7 lnfnvoH Kin to Wed Marquis de Guimarey Vichy, Dec. 6 (U.R The engagement of Princess Isabelle De Ligne and the Marquis De Villalobaley De Guimarey was announced today. The Princess. 20.

is a direct de- scendant of Lafayette. The marriage will occur on Dec. 13 at Beloeil near Mons, Belgium, where the Ligne Castle is located. Miami. Mr.

Roper's family is a theatrical one. It consists of 15 midgets With British Armored Forces, North Africa, Dec. 3 (Delayed) (U.R) Noah Hampson, a steel worker of Waterbury, has been credited with destroying three German tanks and damaging two in North African fighting, it was learned today. Hampson, a gunner operating In an American-built tank, turned out to be a little, 42-year-old man with long, graying hair and a Puckish smile. "How are you doing?" a United Press correspondent asked him.

"Okay," he said. "There's the box score," he added, pointing to five swastika crayoned on his tank, which was named "Sleepy." Hampson joined the Canadian army and served in France and Belgium with the engineers. Later, when he was told by the Canadians that he was too old for overseas duty, he joined the Royal Armored Corps In England. He said today UNARMED COP, OFF DUTY, SLAIN BY 3 GUNMEN Cab Driver Sees Killing As Policeman Halts Trio, Starts to Identify Himself Unarmed and in civilian clothes. Patrolman Thomas Casey of theE.

51st St. station, Manhattan, was shot and killed early today before he could finish telling three men whom he accosted that he was a policeman. The slaying, which took place at E. 53d St. and Lexington was witnessed, according to the police, by John J.

Martin of 2021 Davidson the Bronx, a taxi-driver. Martin told police he saw three young men stop at the corner at 5 a.m., while being followed by a fourth man who, as he drew abreast, said 4 a minute, you fellows, I'm a police Then, the cabbie declared, two I pistols appeared and the man in I the center fired two shots. The man he believed to be the killer, Martin said, ran up Lexing- ton while the other two scattered. He followed the man with the smoking gun, he declared, and saw him hail a cab on 54th St. near Park Ave.

Although he lost the trail he later met the driver, Herman Diamond of 354 Towers the Bronx, and together they went to the police. Diamond said his fare alighted at 101st St. and Lexington Ave. without paying. He demanded the man's overcoat in lieu of the fare and got it, he said.

He drove around the block and then was hailed by the same man, who gave him a dollar, took his coat back and hurried away on foot. A .38 caliber revolver was found on the steps of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 54th St. and Lexington Ave. A doorman at 145 E.

54th St. told of seeing a man running in front of the church and produced a green fedora hat dropped by the man. Casey's service revolver was found in his locker. 'Greater Need of Saints Than Pope Says Vatican City, Dec 6 (U.R) Pope Pius XII said today "humanity has greater need of saints than of statesmen Speaking at the conclusion of a seven days period of spiritual exercises in which he offered prayers for peace, the Pontiff said the Church should take a greater part In the direction of human affairs. According to the rumor, the new order might either take the detectives away from O'Dwyer immediately, or else direct them to report to Commissioner Valentine in small groups from time to time so that their work for O'Dwyer could continue.

Aide Knows Nothing of Order It was definitely ascertained that the rumored order had not gone Continued on Page 1 to Go on Strike F.D.R. Intervene "exorbitant fees for the privilege of the women's prison at Bedford Hills was sentenced in Albany last week from two to four years. Mrs. Brown, two baby elephants, who appeared Avery Flushing, said he hopes He was worried by a complaint filed Button Up Your Overcoat, Colder Weather Coming Better button up your overcoat tonight for it's going to be colder, says the Weather Man. This afternoon, however, is slated to be partly cloudy with an anticipated maximum temperature of 55 degrees, with fresh to strong northwest winiis.

Tomorrow will be fair and somewhat colder, is predicted. Yesterday's fog which hung heavily over LaGuardia Field as late as 11 p.m. caused the cancellation of 154 flights, bringing the total of cancellations since the fog set in on Tuesday to 763. Estonian Gauleiter Chosen; Lodz Renamed for Nazi Berlin, Dec. 6 (U.R) MaJ.

Gen. Karl Slegmund Litzmann of the Storm Troops has been appointed Chief of Civil Administration in Estonia, authorized quarters said today. He is the son of Gen. Karl Von Litzmann, World War hero of the battle of Brzeziny. In honor of the father, the city of Lodz has been renamed who appeared at the World's Fair, at Luna Park, Coney Island, and three Shetland ponies.

Mr. Roper, who lives at 133-52 to sell the elephants and ponies. with the Department of Health concerning the animals. COMPLAINANT GETS ANTI-SEMITE OUT OF JAIL C. Daniel Kurts, 50, of 118-25 202nd St.

Albans, who claims to have been a leader of the Christian Front in Queens and elsewhere on Long Island, was placed on probation for one year by Magistrate D'Andrea in Flushing Court yesterday. Kurts was sentenced to 60 days Tuesday for making anti-Semitic speech in Queens, on Sept. 26, but Magistrate D'Andrea withdrew the jail term at the request of Isidore Ginsberg of 30-12 90th Jackson Heights, an official of the Queens Jewish War Veterans, who was the complaining witness. Continued on Page 7 CANINE TAKES EDGE OFF TEETH OF LAW Chicago, Dec. 6 (INS) Policeman William Craven today sadly related how circumstances conspired to deprive him of the use of his upper teeth and of $75 to get them fixed.

Policeman Craven had placed the uppers on a smoking stand by his bed. His dog, reversing the purpose of things, carried them off into a corner and started to gnaw at them. Craven saw the dog's act in time, and tried to whistle. But he found he couldn't whistle without his upper teeth. That was the first circumstance in the conspiracy against him.

Then he tried to call the dng by name. But the dog's name is "Cecil." Try to pronounce that without your upper teeth.) While the officer stood confounded, the dog crawled under the kitchen stove, munching his master's molars. Before Craven could get himself organized, the damage $75 worth of it had been done. Draft Evader Released To Attend Father's Funeral Rochester, Dec. 6 (U.R) Paul P.

Caralla, 26, imprisoned for two days on a draft evasion charge, was i released in the custody of his at torney today to attend funeral services for his father, Michael, 80, at Geneva, N. Y. Caralla, an employe at the Seneca ordnance depot at Kendaia, was charged with failing to return his questionnaire to a Geneva draft board. He said he had been "too busy" to fill out the form. British Sink Raider BULLETIN SUBCHASER LAUNCHED AT BRONX YARD TODAY The subchaser TJSPC 484, constructed by the Consolidated Ship-building Corporation, Morris Heights, the Bronx, will be launched today at the Harlem River and W.

177th St. William G. Wood, president of the corporation, will speak on "The American Shipyard's Contribution to National Defense," at the ceremonies. Held in Race Swindle On Woman's Complaint Tucson, Dec. 6 (U.R) John Douglas Hughes of Los Angeles was held here toaay for action by a Federal grand Jury on charges of transporting across a State line money obtained by fraud.

He is accused of defrauding Mrs. Grace Glassford, 0, of New York, of $20,000 last March 16 in a horse-race swindle. Finn Freedom Noted Tokio, Dec. 6 (U.R) Emperor Hi-rohito today telegraphed congratulations to President Risto Rytl on the anniversary of Finland's WHERE TO FIND IT Bowling Page 11 Music Page 1 Camera Clubs Page 5 Novel Page 15 Churches Page OBITUARIES Paga 1 Clifford Evans Page 13 Only Yesterday Page IS Comics Page 4 Ralph Trost Page 9 Crossword Page 14 RADIO Page 4 Dr. Brady Page 4 Society Page 5 EDITORIAL Page fi SPORTS Pages 9-12 FINANCIAL Page 12 Theaters Page IS Heffernan Page 5 These Women Page 5 Horoscope Pare Tucker Page Jurv Tate 13 I'ncle Ray' Corner Page I Moviw Page 1 Want Ada Page 13-14-14 London, Dec.

6 (U.R) The H. M. S. Dorsetshire, a light sunk a German commerce raider in the South Atlantic. ft.