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369 Poughkeepsie, New York, Saturday Morning, March 14, 1942 Single Copies Three Cents Arlington High Wins County Cage Championship See Page 14 For Story If Australia Goes, Americas Will Be Wide Open, Curtin Warns Attack Best Defense, Asserts Prime Minister CANBERRA, Australia, Saturday, March 14 (AP) Prime Minuter John Curtnt warned the united State as a broad 1ft U.S. Bombers Again Smash At Jap Bases on New Guinea Lower Manhattan Shelled; Faulty Gun, Says Army NEW YORK. March 13 (AP) A random (hot from an mb sircrsft battery, whose gunner accidentally let go with tiiht shells, today chipped a piece of one of New York' financial lowers with a oeeiti that brought the war into Wall (treet'i citadel. The "direct hit," which sent doe mi of police can and fire truck Into action and caused at least one air raid warden to prepare to lead awe 3(H) worker, to shelter, knock ad pieces ot brick from a ledie between the 37th end 38th floor of the 40 itory Equitable building at 130 Broadway. Brick dust particles tnt fragment a teel fall Into the tueet below.

rrsgments showered on window ledces of th Bankers' olub, on the Mth floor, and flew Into open window! on the lower floors, bat no on reported Injured and no window, were shattered. Luckily po one wu struck by the two Inch sections of steel which detectlTe discovered on the pavement. Ma Oen. Ssnderford Jsrmsn, commanding general of the antl arlcrsit artillery command, eastern theater ot operations. Issued this statement late "At about 3 30 m.

this date, one of the automatic antl aircraft weapon, located along the East river accidentally discharged eight WASHINGTON. March 13 (AP) A jolting new blow by American Army heary bomber against Japan bases in New Guinea, possible jumping off points for invasion of Australia, wa reported today by th War department. In an air battle which followed the (econd raid in two day on Use trootcal island north of the Australian continent, the long range bomber, without suffering damage to themselves, shot down bre enemy tighter plane and wrecked ground installation, a communique Tne ria was on iiying iieios tp Salamaua and Lae, and was de scribed as a heavy blow to the forces, which started landing this week qn New Guinea. All building at the enemy held airdromes were destroyed and heavy damage Inflicted on runways, the communique Said. In addition a direct hit was scored on a pier In the harbor of Lae.

The raid was ataged on Wednesday, It was disclosed. The dsy before an Initial air attack was delivered by eight of the four motored bomb ers on the harbor of Salamaua. In the earlier attack a rain ot It ton of bomb left two Japanese ships sinking, four on fir and on beached. The tropical port town ot Salamaua and Lae, on the northeast coast ot New Guinea, are aom 400 miles' by air from Australia's Cap York. After suffering hesvy losses among their initial Invasion fleets hi New Oulnea water, th Japanese were believed to "be making new effort to consolidate their latest position before Indicating definitely their intention with regard to Australia lt seir.

The communique said there was no Chang In th situation In the Philippine. For several dsy there has been a lull on the fighting front on Bataan peninsula where Oeneral Douglas MacArthur" force repeatedly hare beaten back numerically superior enemy troop. rounds. At far a can be learned to date, seven of these rounds are believed to have fallen Into the river and one to have hit 120 Broadway, knocking out a few bricks "Preliminary Investigation indicates that the accident occurred through some mechanical failure In the firing mechanism of the gun. Further tied out Acting Csptsln June Pyke.

In charge of the New York city bomb squad, declared after aq investigation in which he was aided by Army and Navy officers: "Eight shells were fired accidentally and they traveled about 3 000 yards. One shell, hit between J7th and 38th floors at the southeast corner ot the Equitable building The shell did not explode until it hit the building about 400 feet up. "It chipped the stonework and went in about ot an inch, then th fragments fell to the street It was very fortunate that It did not go Bee LOWER MANHATTAN page II School Board Readjusts Salary Schedules New aftl.rv arkrlii1 wKii Rnarff nf Figuration President Joseph A McCabe said were designed "to bring the teichers salaries back to the level pre ailing in 1932." were adopted at the March meeting of the board yesterday afternoon at the School Administration buildinz. li 1 Under the new salary schedule viereckoets 2 6 Years WASHINGTON. March 11 (AP) Oeorge 8) Wester Vlereck, convict Propagandist for Oermany, protested that he was "passionately demoted to the United Ststes" a he sentenced today to two to six Jean imprisonment and denied ball Vending an appeal.

Id sddltlon to Imposing the maximum sentence. Justice P. Dickinson Letts fined Vlereck tl ,500 halt the Possible maximum under the Foreign Agents Registration act and greeted that he pay the cost of his Jury of ten men and two a omen Jonvlcted Vlereck March of vlo jsttag the registration act by falling disclose his activities In full when regutered with th Stat depart "ent a. an agent for German Inter The government had contend Hitler's propaganda gen ertllulmn in thi. he was brought Into court sy for sentencing, Vlereck made tawthy statement JJ Prosecutor William Power btbe" denounced as a "dla fhe course ot (Jus, Vlereck.

who a Germany but 1 now a nsturllxed American citizen, de "I am i fo7U.te all that she stand th only country to 1 owe allegiance. I deplore the r.that has come between cSofc. mT tand nt on to say, that he had VlEJtECK page 11 io'' the lowest wsse paid to any teacher In the local school system will be $1150 and the highest asioo Yesterdav's action by the board had been'lndkated for some time In statements concerning the salaries of local teachers, Superintendent of Schools Holden having Indicated Bee SCHOOL BOARD page 11 Bette Davis CHICAOO, March 13 Pllm Actress Bette Davis was taken 111 today upon her arrival by train from New York and confined to her room In the Blackstone hotel. Or. Albert Bsugher said she was suffering from a light stuck ot food poisoning and probably could resume her normal activities tomorrow.

Th actress tppeared earlier this week at a Navy relief show in New York and had planned a stopover here, en route to Hollywood HRSH Escapee. Shot Authorities were pressing an In vestigation early today Into the shooting of a man, who they said attempted to break into a tailor shop st 139 Mill street, "owned by N. Dl Marxlo. Detained at police headquarter for questioning st 1 am, was a man described by police as Joseph 8or rentlno, of 137 Mill street, who ad. mltted that he fired a 13 gauge shot fun at a "prowler" who had smashed three windows In the rear of the tailor shop, beneath the apartment occupied by Sprrentlno and his family.

At Vassar hospital early today, a man described a Roman Bostlck, 25, an escapee from Hudson River State hospital, was in the operating room. Authorities said he had been shot through the right leg between the knee and the ankle. Sorrentlno told Detective Captain Brophy, who Investigated with Assistant District Attorney Oellert, and Detectives Hsyes and Martin, that he heard someone smashing windows and "walking on broken glass" Sorrentlno said that he opened the window of his second floor apartment and shouted to the men to "halt" Mrs. Sorrentlno said there were two men outside the house, prowl tag around the building. Sorrentlno said that he fired one shot from his shotgun and th man fell to the aldewslk.

sorrentlno notifiedpolice and then ran outside and stayed with the wounded man until Patrolman Relyea arrived at the scene. Mr. Oellert said at 3 IS am. that Drobably no charges would be brought against the state hospital fugitive. He explained that the man had been reported missing about I pjn.

and that teletype alarms were sent out over the alarm system. "As it looks tight now." Mr. Oellert said. "Sorrentlno had a right to shoot this man 'who attempted to burglarise the Mill street place." gee RUSSIANS UST Page II Russians List 14,000 More Nazis Killed; Total 63,700 By EDDIE OILMORK MOSCOW, Saturday. March (AP) A special Russian announcement today listed 14,000 Germans killed on the northwesternTronl'in 15 'days, making a grand Nazis officially reported slain between Leningrad and Moscow within manlh.

Today' announcement said th latest recorded toS was Inflicted on Hitler's Invaders between 22 and March 10 on the north western front below Leningrad In thl area the Red army liberated (4 town and villages, the Russians announced. It followed by two days another special communique telling of the killing of 41,700 Qermans on the Kalinin front, stretching north of the Smolensk area toward Lake Ilmen, from Feb. to March 5. Vast quantities ot booty fell Into the hands of (he victorious Soviet force, and II Oerman planes Including (0 big threeienglned trans ports used by Hitler in a vain effort to reinforce his trapped Uth army at Staraya Russa were declared destroyed. Listed as captured were 328 horse.

two rauwayttocomotlvea and 14 cart loaded with equipment, 2,500 assorted guns, 14 tanks, more than too motor vehicles and 23 fuel and pro vision dumps. Matching the achievements In the north were continued advances In the south. Marshal Semeon Timoahenko's massive Ukrainian offensive ws slowly beating forward last night, a week ahead of the return of calen' RAF Raking North French Coast Areas Batters Kiel, Haven of Nazis' Gneisenau LONDON. March 13 8qud ran after squadron of th Royal Air force swarmed over northern France from the Belgian border to Paris today In the biggest daylight raid yet ot the new spring offensive and at least eight Oerman fighters wer knocked down In one clash alone. The round the clock asssult con tinued without let up tonight and the coast from Boulogne to Ostend wa alight with exploding bomb and anti aircraft gun flashes.

Cluster of searchlight batteries fingered the sky above Can Oris Net. The British, announced the loss oi flvs of their, own fighter which swept to the attack "In force" following a fiery overnight assault upon th 28,000 ton Ntl battleship Onebenau at Kiel No British bombers were lost today. The RArs ace squadron leader Paddy Flnucane. Just out or the hos DiUl with wound stripes, led the at tack, bagging two German planes tor a war total of 2s. Flames Sweep Amenia Barns SmcUI i Th.

EaxIa Nsws AMENIA, March 13 Two faige bams, tons 61 hay and feed, farm machinery and a large silo were wept by fire this afternoon, on the farm of Harry W. Culver, South street, town of Amenia. Damage was estimated at "upward ot 115.000, according to Deputy Sheriff Oeorge Dunbar, who Investi gated. Undersherlff Crapser and Deputy Brennan are continuing investigation ot the fire In an attempt to determine the cause ot the blase. Farmhands on the property rescued 85 head of cattle and guided them through dense smoke to a nearby pasture.

When firemen. In charge ot Chief John Bids arrived on the scene the large cow barn was a mass of flames. Burning embers ignited another nearby barn and flames soon communicated to the silo. Considerable machinery, four tons ot feed and about 50 tons of hay were lost In the fire. Deputy Dunbar See FLAMES SWEEP page 11 cast today that "Australia i Um last bastion between the) wel coast of America and th Japanesa." If Australia goes the) Americas ar wide open," be said.

Stressing that attack is tha.best defense, Curtm asserted say to yon that taring Australia i taring America' Wast coast, If you beliey anything to th contrary you delude Tb Prima Minister latter statement wa prompted by what be (aid war report going tha round that the Japan by past Australia and that they could bf met and.rooted in India Th tide of war fkw madly," said, ou fai America, for Ms in Australia, It flowing badly. Let ma then addraat yon) at comrade in this war. "1 am speaking to your government. Wa long bar bn admirer of Mr. RooMraM and haw th greatest confidence that he understands fully the critical situation in the Pacific and that America will go right out to meet itxxxitiitotb people of America that I now am peaking." Reviewing the progreu mad by Curtin continued" "It therefore i tut natural that within 2a day after Japan's) first tonMsfftJrAlM tlLnt 1 tUaul tTwM Iwankgala? ttw Allttaamltawww a WW ssj Is" tng among tn ot th Kiel I oemocractet tide an toe racsne Hastened to czpusn that be wat.not lialilthng England "wbo with Tour belo had won the ecruaUr vital battle of thai but that a I bar said, must be our leader we win pun knee to knee with yon far; every ounce of our weight'" "We looked to America," be went on, "among other thing) naval ease wnere in, aireaoy Gneisenau lay In drydock.

the Air ministry announced. Other British formations blasted addition al area of northwest Germany and strewed mines in Nasi waters. Pat Words Into Action Without a pause squsdron sfter squadron ot RAF craft swept over the channel today 'and heavily attacked the Calais and Boulogne areas. Thus with rising fury the RAF was putting Into action the words of Its chieftain. Sir Archibald Blnclalr, secretary for air, last month that "we must tske Oermany by the throat and shake the strength out of her; we must start not In 1944 or U43.

but In 1942." The Germans acknowledged that the attack on Kiel caused some casualties. They also said the RAF was over northwest France during the night, but the Air ministry said no British planes were In that area. rrom vicny came tne announce ment that RAF reconnaissance planes flew over Paris during the Bee BAF RAKINO page 11 Hyde Park Youth Accused Of Sending Threatening Letter to Girl in New York William S. DeGroff. 22.

former guard at the Roosevelt Memorial library, Hyde Park, former U. S. Army and Royal Canadian Air force man, wae sent to Dellevu hospital. INew York city, yesterday, for observation. reoerai juoge orover saoacowuso 'Minute Men' to Deliver News in Rural Areas The Btwspeper boy long ha been a familiar figure In urban life In cold and heat.

In clear weather and stormy, he has brought th dally papers to home in citle Ilk Poughkeepsie. Newspaper delivery In the country has been a different Story traditionally by horse, more recently by auto, the RFD man ha brought the per. slid In the box along with farm magazines and mail order catalogues, lifted the little red flag and moved on. This Is not meant to be an lm Deaehment ot the RFD carrier he is faithful and hard working publio servsau But newspapers to found that today's rural residents, spurred on py modern inventions ana a raster pace, are not satisfied with to day's newspaper received tomorrow by mall, as was often the ease. To meet the rural demand for "new right oft th press," the circulation Poughkeep sie Newspapers the morning Poughkeepsie cagie newsv tne eve ning Poughkeepsie New Yorker and th Hudson Valley Sunday announce a new system of newspaper distribution by which subscribers I will receive their copies Se M1TnS MZN gag 11 committed the youth to the hospital after he had been held In $10,000 ball for the grand Jury on a charge of threatening Heleu L.

Bartetta, a secretary. The Associated press said. DeGroff was arrested by the Federal Bureau ot Investigation after he allegedly wrote Miss Bartetta a letter threatening to km her IX she did not marry him before he was Inducted hrthe Army. Authorities said DeOroff served gee HYDK PARK page 11 Henry Cronk Hit by Auto 'Henry Cronk, about 60, 11 Marshall street, wss injured earty una morn but. when he wa (truck and knocked down by an automobile at.

Washing ton and Mansion streets. Cronk was taken to St. Francis' hospital, where be was bested for a concussion ot the brain, and lacerations of the acaln. According to police the car which struck Cronk was operated by Ernest Dl Stefano, 21, of 21 1 WtOnfleld street Detectivev Hsye and Martin Investigated, 8m ATTACK BEST page II Sugar Ration To Be Delayed WASHINGTON. March 13 (AP) Difficulties encountered In determining allotments for Industrial consumers probably will delay the start ot sugar rationing until some Urn In April, OPA officials predicted today.

Although It was originally proposed that a fiat reduction be made In the amount of sugar used by various Industries. OPA has decided to make the cut on an Individual basis. It wss explained. Involving considerable additional computation. Broad outlines of the rationing plan bad been determined but many details still are Indefinite, such as the amount of sugar to be allowed each domestic consumer weekly and final, dates for consumer registrations and th (tart of tationlnr.

OPA officials said th weekly ra tion to housewives probably would be eight or 17 ounce, depending on the amount ot sugar th War Production board make available tor distribution. Persons possessing more than two pound of sugar each at the time they register tor ration sxor waxr cowboy auvtni arust Baodtsraat, studu Norwegian Ship Sunk By Th Associated Press The Navy department In Wash' Ington announced last night th tor. pedoinc of "a small Norwegian mer chant ship" oft th Atlantic coast. bringing to tne number or vessels officially announced, at. tacked on United Statee shores.

In Philadelphia, the Fourth Naval district said that 14 survivors from the Norwegian vessel had arrived at Fenwlcb island beach, near Lewes. Del, last Wednesday morning and bad said their vessel wss torpedoed and sunk during Tuesday night. Cspt. Arthur Dahl was killed In the attack, a Navy spokesman said, but his body later was recovered by a fisherman. Five crew members were unaccounted for.

Also announced by the Navy In Washington was the torpedoing of mall U. S. merchant ship" in the Caribbean area. Earlier, from Havana, Cuba, came an announce ment that the U. S.

merchant vessel Texan, a 1.003 ton freighter owned by the American Hawaiian steamship company had been torpedoed and sunk off Nuevltss, North Cuba, and that nine of her crew of 47 were unaccounted for. It was not known whether the Nsvy announcement referred to the Texan. At Santiago. Cuba. It was an nounced that a' lifeboat bearing the Bee NORWEGIAN page It Saugerties Man Burned to Death SAUOERTIES.

March 13 JP Jacob Harms. 77. burned to death on bis farm one mile west of here today. His body was found by bis 10 year old grandson. Henry Vender beck, on returning from school.

State troopers believed Harms' clothing caught fire' while be was Two Australian Ships, 833 Men Feared Lost By YATES McDANIEL MELBOURNE. Saturday, March 14 (AP) Apparent loss of the Australian cruiser Perth and sloop Yarra with their 033 men in the withdrawal from Java waa announced by Prime Minister John Curtin today aa the Japanese pushed new naval forces into the Solomon islands northeast of this continent. Curtain said the ships, both noted for operations last year in the Middle East, had fought successfully and without damage in the battles of the Java sea but had not been heard from since they left a Java port for home. Their fate is not known, but they are presumed to have been sunk. navai sources saia possioiy sotneo i of the 883 men of the Perth and lit of the Yarra bad reached land.

The two ton Perth wss damaged by German bombs last summer when she participated In the British evacuation ot Crete. She wss built In England In 1134. The Yarra, only 1,000 tons, was balled by all Australia last October when she and a merchant cruiser captured seven Axis ship in th reman gun. Jape Near Beleman Announcement ot the presumed losses cam as th Japanese were pushing Into the Solomon Islands, in the Melanealan group which shelters Australia and New Zealand on the east snd north. This thrust fol lowed bettering ot Japanese positions on new uuinea ana New Britain by American and Australian bombers.

Apparently It was aimed at sniard tng th right flank ot any Japanese venture against esst Australia: Increasing the danger to supply lines from threat ening the stepping stone which curve southward to New Zet land. An Australian air fore communique ald a Japanese naval tore had been sighted three day ago oft Kessa. on the Solomon Island of Buka. A landing was not definite ly announced, but such an intention subsequently wa Indicated. Japanese plane scouted and bombed sporadically in th Solomon See TWO AUSTRALIAN page It 'MacArthur Lock' ST.

IONACE. March' 13 (AP) Mackinac Conservation club today endorsed a proposal to nam the new la.000000 lock on the Bt. Mary river tor General Douglas MacArthur, th hero ot the Bataan peninsula. Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D Mlch) and Rep.

Fred Bradley (R Mlch) were asked to suggest the nam to Congress. In 1857 English Discussed Japan, War, Income Taxes books will be classed as "hoarders Person. admitting peaMttij rrTtarJ. yard, tight weeJt'i upply or faon will I i1 ul itul luuikF aw lf I easwssaiBaiseasa lUHUCU gUUl VvVtj I UUU UKU kT p. iaucV 1 I sTTAffctl AM exhaUiiiiGdV atsaaeaawi awaaws waBaawjBwsreai stuck' oar oanct umuux jtusMZisir oak On Saturday.

March 14, tb English people wer discussing China and Japan, income taxes and war. A London newspaper declared. "The British people dislike war; but they slso dislike oppression and wrong." Those word might hav been written today, But they were not. They wer printed th "Illustrated London News" ot Baturday, March 14, 157 Just years ago loaay. Tb English clipping 1 preserved on a wast basket now In the pos session of Mr.

and Mrs, L. Ernart ot Pleasant iVafley. A friend pur chased the basket at an auction last year. Yesterday a ben emptying It bt papers sir. Erbart discovered that I not only waa today an anniversary of the publication, but also that March 14 that year tell on Saturday Just as it doe this year.

"Turbulence and Aggression is the title ot the article which was evidently published on page one of the newspaper. It attacks Disraeli, famous English Prime Minister who wa out ot office at that tun, for hi tsolstfawlat policies. 'For want of mor appropriate words," "th newspaper call Dls See US7 aags tmun o. a. (Mi Company yarn vast Stus tb ea Sua! sms Mara it? la vvr taturs) i Mttai cU FUs atsUM aafsra Sua4j jtanaUteWsaiaeaavnctesslMa, hm J' ri.