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2 .2 TfTTm 7TO 77. u.s. IhSps Waif nuns iDmcunumgj nv (CnmmDMmmsmi toyed mnnnmeirce By LOWELL LIMPUS. Mayor LaGuardia struck a final blow for his City Council supporters last night, appearing on a radio program sponsored by five of them Councilmen Andrew Armstrong and Genevieve Earle of Brooklyn, Salvatore Ninfo of the Bronx, Charles Belous of Queens and Robert K. Straus of Manhattan, all candidates to succeed themselves at today's election.

By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS. (Associated Press Correspondent) Washington, D. Nov. 6.

The Maritime Commission permitted the United' States Lines today to transfer eight of its eleven transatlantic vessels to registry under the Republic of Panama, a step which will allow them to carry goods to the belli gerents of Europe Rcatly to Run Blochade? The Mayor's appearance and indorsement of the pari mutuel amendment by the American Federation of Labor's Non-Partisan Committee virtually wound up a remarkably quiet off -year campaign, generally considered a prelude to a Democratic victory. There was a brief whirl of activity along the Council front in the closing hours. v. r- lice Commissioner Valentine at the last minute. Quill was afraid Fusion would favor the right wing and permit him to be counted out; Surpless protested that Fusion was favoring the left wing and discriminating against him.

Valentine seemed not to be greatly impressed by either plaint, but said his cops would do their job impar tially at the polls today. -Quill, who was denied American Labor Party indorsement when he refused to condemn Russia's foreign policy, asked for the police to .4 Commissioner Max O'Rell Truitt said there was no contravention of the Neutrality Act, which forbids America n-fiagr ships to go to the danger zones. "I don't see any element of a dodge at all: I think it's a com- If Right, Left Complain. Ironically enough, both the ex treme left and the extreme right represented respectively by Councilmen Michael J. Quill and Abner C.

Surpless filed appeals with. Po (Continued on page eol. 1) DAILY ALMANAC NEWS INDEX WAR TfESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1939. (Eastern Standard Time) LOCAL Partly cloudy. Not much change in temperature.

EASTERN NEW YORK STATE Fair, with little change in tempera-t lire. Foto t.iken from NEWS plane by Krantz pilot.) Norwegian freighter Rio Branco in New York harbor yesterday. THE NEWS BAKOMETEB LONDON Subs beaten, British claim BERLIN Germany increases food supply-Reich to observe Hitler putsch BUCHAREST Agree to call Balkan parley PARIS Report super-Gestapo in Reich French win with U. S. planes Secret radio taunts Nazis MOSCOW We'll stick to peace Soviet THE MOON No.

4-10 Lm 9. No. 11-17 New No. IMS )firs0. Nov .26.

City to Be Dry From 6 to 6 nftiimivi Wiiiii Sunrise. 6:32 A. sunset. 4:47 P.M. Moon rises, 2:12 sets, 2:33 P.M.

Evening- star. Venus. AH taprooms and liquor stores must remain closed during voting hours today and the sale of beer and wines by other stores is prohibited while the polls are open. The polls will be open here from 6 A. M.

to 6 P. M. (7 A. M. to 8 P.

M. in New Jersey.) Any person who failed to register is not eligible to vote. United States Lines, a private corporation headed by John M. Franklin, has been with British, French and Irish ports, all in the combat area. Truitt said the Federal Government has no financial interest in the vessels to be transferred.

It has been granting operating subsidies, but these wil cease. The Commission holds mortgages on two ships of the company, the Manhattan and the Washington, which will remain under the United States flag, probably in Latin-American trade. Earlier Transfer Approved. The company applied for the transfer of nine vessels, but approval was given only for eight. Seven of these are the cargo-passenger carriers: American Banker, American Farmer, American Importer, American Merchant, American Shipper, American Trader and American Traveler.

The eighth will be either the Roosevelt or the Harding, in the company's discretion. They are liners. Truitt said applications for transfer of registry were "thoroughly routine" in Maritime Com- TEMPERATURES IN NEW YORK MAXIMUM, 2:00 P. 47 MINIMUM, 1:00 A. 40 TliKhest this date, 69 in 19-18 lowest this date.

30 in 1S79 1 a. rn 40; a. 42! 3 p. 47 2 a. 4ii a.

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in 4H a. 441 6 p. ni 43 a. 40'Noon 44 7 p. 44 a.

40' 1 p. 46! 8 p. 44 7 a. 40 2 p. in 47i 9 p.

(Freezing point 32 For twenty-four hours ended at P. November 6: Mean temperature, 44; normal, 48; excess since Jan. 1, 493 degrees; deficiency since Nov. 1, 28 degrees. Precipitation, none; deficiency since Jan.

1. 2 ".4 inches; excess since Nov. 1, .87 inch. 5 A.M. 5 P.M.

Barometer 29.86 29.90 John M. Franklin Winm right to foreign regittry. jiletely sound, bona fide situation all around," Truitt said. "Congress unquestionably intended to keep the United States flag from going down in the brine and to keep United States seamen from losing their lives. No Bar on Foreign Crews.

But nowhere in the Act does it ay an American citizen couldn't operate a foreign flag vessel with a foreign crew." Title to the vessels will be transferred to a Panamanian corporation. They will carry the Panam flag and will be manned by crews ether than United States citizens. Under the Neutrality Act, American citizens as well as ships are ruled out of the combat zones. The principal trade of the NEW YORK AND VICINITY Waterfront strike spreads Mayor backs five Councilmen 4 Guilty in Lepke plot Legion post hunts spies Two bridge workers killed Col. Gaffney indicted in fraud Dual hunt on for showgirl Nazi propaganda flood in N.

J. Embargo costs seamen jobs Cagney 'double' beaten up Italy to return to Fair Boy paroled to sister makes good Martin spurns Amen's offer I UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. Okay foreign registry of ships Guard secrets in plane exports Nation votes today Sees embargo to curb Japs CODY, WYO. Anne Gould asks divorce MARBLEHEAD, MASS.

Girl suicide's letters in morals probe HAZARD, KY. Held, asks to attend funeral SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Arraign bride's slayer HYDE PARK, N. Y. F.

D. R. continues holiday 5 SPORTS Pond shakes up Yale squad Challephen wins handicap Schoolboys clash today NYU line to be revamped Brooklyn C. dunks critic mission affairs, although "it is unusual for so large a number" to be transferred in one block. A week ago, however, the Commission approved the transfer of 14 old vessels of the Moore-MacCormack interests of New York from United States to Brazilian registry.

They were purchased by the Brazilian Government. "Scarcely a week passes, said Truitt, "that we don't have applications for transfer of registry." "There is nothing in the Neu- (Continued on page 18, eoL 1 Humidity 65 55 NW NW 18 24 Wind direction Wind velocity -TIME OF TIDES Bind Book Got. Il BtU Cafe A.M. P.M. A.M.

P.M. A.M. P.M. High water 4:13 4:32 4:52 :32 6:52 Am irairr 18 la 19.53 11:13 Ti 12:52 RECORDS IS AMERICAN CITIES. Oheerrat ion at United States Weather Bureau stations taken at A.

M. TcmpratiiT Precipitation Lut 24 Hra. Last 24 Welth- Cltln High Low Bar. Hrv er Albany 34 29.M 1.63 CI dy Clear Atlanta 5.1 33 Bismarck 67 21 2H: P.Cldy Kopion -45 39 l.Ol Clear 37 31 29.B9 .18 P.Cldy Buffalo 30.18 Clear Chicago Cincinnati A 10-cent toll imposed by Westchester County on auto-f- 47 47 2 67 41 -68 4J 30.21 Clear 30.25 P.Cldy 30.02 P.Cldy 30.03 Clondy Dalian Denver El Paso 73 63 Kansas Cily 57 2rt 30.23 P.Cl'dy mobiles using the Hutchinson River Parkway was declared illegal yesterday in a 4-1 decision by the Appellate Division in Brooklyn. With the decision the court handed down a permanent injunction restraining further collection of tolls.

Los Aneeles 73 3 30.03 Cioutly Miami 77 68 30.08 Clear Minneapolis 51 28 3O.09 Clear New Orleans fil 4d 30.30 Clear Xew York 48 3d 29.00 1.46 Cloudy Portland, Me. 4S 40 29.ai .61 Clear St. Louis 5 30 30.24 Clear FEATURES Page Obituary 36 Parents Aid 37, Patterns 36 People's Voice 25 Jimmy Powers 46 Radio 44 Recipe 35 Serial Story 28 Short Story 38 Society 29 Ed Sullivan 43 Theatres 41 The Neighbors 4 Dan Walker 40 Todd Wright 45 INDEX TO Page Doris Blake 34 Collyer 49 Correct Thing 30 Crossword 37 Dailv Dish 35 Dr. Cutter 34 A. Donnelly 34 Editorial 25 Fashions 36 Fred Fletcher 48 Friend in Need 32 Horoscope 37 Inq.

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C.43 38 30.07 .80 Clear Justice Frank F. Adel and concurred in by Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky and Justices John B. Johnston and George H. Taylor held the toll illegal because neither the Westchester Park Commission nor the Board of Supervisors had the constitutional power of imposing such a tax. One Dissenting Justice.

Justice Frederick P. Close, a resident of Westchester, disagreed, citing that the county charter gave its officials the xigh'- to impose tolls and taxes without getting authorization from the State Legislature. Park Commission officials said they had collected 150,388.90 in tolls since Aug. 21 and that the money would be refunded to motorists if the Court of Appeals upholds the -Appellate Division. lhe Westchester toll was imposed as a retaliatory measure after Connecticut authorities put a 10-cent tax on the use of the lower portion of the Merritt Parkway, which joins the Hutchinson Parkway at the Westchester-Connecticut line.

County Attorney William A. Davidson announced he would take an immediate appeal to the Court Appeals, the State's highest tribunal, and would ask the Brooklyn court today to hold up its injunction order until the Albany court makes final ruling. Yesterday's decision reversed a ruling by Supreme Court Justice Lee Parsons Davis last Aug. 17, in which he refused to grant an injunction to. Edmund Hendrickson and Martin Colodny, members of the Automobile Club of New York, to stop the tolls.

Bennett Held Tax Illegal. Collections of the the 10-cent levy began on Aug. 21, despite an announcement that Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. considered it illegal and would join in the court test with its opponents.

The receipts the first month were and week-ends averaged about $11,000. All motorists who paid their dimes to pass the toll booths, about 100 yards north of Old Mamaroneck Road in Scars-dale, received receipts, which will be good for refunds in the event the tax is eventually upset. Yesterday's, decision, written by Entered aa 2d class matter. P. 0 M.

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