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MOT M'ff 1 'If I 'l'''l'l'l'-ll''l'ir "'I 11111 11 "l'T "WIMIHIIJI i it3 rn IfL JV 0) Palladino and "Spunky" Guerena Wounded After Fist Fight WEATHER Tonight: MODERATE TEMPERATURE (Reports on Back Page) DIMOUT begins tonight at 7:32 p. ends 6:07 a.m. Red Streak Final (Closing Prices Net Changes) IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Comics ..29 Editorials .....18 Financial 28 Radio ...25 Sports 26 Theatres 25 IT I ul'I'll I' I V'k PATRONS Re. V. S.

Pat. Off Cooyrleht 1943. hv th Glob Newsonoer Co. QC3 OVnYp 0 32 PAGES OFFICE if A FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 194.3 NIGHT CLUB DANCE XI EMPLOYEES RELEASED rt oa wet. Floor hi FLOOR DC STORE ROOM Joseph Palladino, "Joe Beans," 44, of 4th Medford, out on $8000 bail in the so-called Sagansky number pool cases, was one of two men suffering bullet wounds in spectacular gunplay in the Latin Quarter, Winchester st.

night club, just before 2 this morning. Many of the patrons dove under tables for cover, when the shooting started. Mystery surrounded the affair as police sought to ascertain a motive for the shooting. The second man wounded is Joseph Guerena, 42, of Endicott North End, known as "Spunky Joe" to his intimates. Club Continued on Page 16 i LOUNGE Check Room MAW MENS ROOM CLUB In Latin Quarter where corner of lounge (X) where gun play.

nn JV oo FLOOR PLAN OF NIGHT shooting occurred, showing melee started that preceded JV lan I mVt'i- IV 1ft i i 1 '1 -Si mm Wp9 Land Army to Raise AFTER POLICE QUESTIONING Women employees of night club where double shooting occurred early today shown outside club with police detective. WASHINGTON, March 26 (AP) President Roosevelt told today of plans for a crop-cultivating land army under Food Administrator Chester C. Davis, an increase in the supply of farm machinery and the deferment of hundreds of thousands of farm workers, and emphatically concluded that we are not going to starve in this country. Davis, operating virtually an autonomous agency, will take up immediately the question of forming the land army, Said. Food rroblem Continued on Page 17 COCOANUT GROVE TRIAL THREE CENTS the courtroom and the spectators relaxed.

The scene in the New Cnckt.iil Lounge, where Miss White receiver! the burns which caused her death. I was described in detail by Collins. a tall, slim, good-looking young man who said that he is joining the service which one. he didn't say within a week. He hss been working in a shipyard, he said.

iss White, according to Collins' testimony, was not the only person in his party who died as a result of the fire. Lieut. William Lnnghnm mcr. he said, also died. Lnngham mer's companion in the party, he said, was Miss Jcanncite Mullin.

She is listed as injured in the fire, but she is still living.) Ryan questioned Collins and thr witness testified that the two cou- oles arrived at the Grove about 10 o'clock and entered through the Broadway door. The two young men checked their coats, he said. and then the party was seated at a table in the passageway between I the New Cocktail Lounge and the I main dining room Q. Were there any other tables in I that passageway? A. There were four on each side, making eight.

Q. Were they all occupied? A. Yes, they were all taken. Coeoanut Grove Continued on Page 4 Mercury Hits 68 Warmest of Year Today was the warmest day of 1943 so far, with the temperature reaching fi3 degrees at p. m.

Warmest March 2fi in local Weather Bureau records was in 1922. when the temperature shot up to 79. Brookline Mother Tells How Daughter Died Ul B9ARETH IT JOSEPH PALLADINO Victim of night club shooting. Another enemy attack was made on the hilly slopes about two miles south of Bou Ham-ran, itself 18 miles east of Gafsa. Tunisia Continued on Page 3 Soviets Smash Fortifications East of Smolensk MOSCOW, March 26 UP) Russian troops have broken through the primary German fortifications east of Smolensk and now are storming the second defense line along an unidentified river west of the upper Dnieper, front reports said today.

Russia Continued on Page 3 HPY BEER WINE BOSTON; HIGHLANDS 40O 5MEi Food Spectators at the Coeoanut Grove trial sat rigid in their seats for two long minutes today while JVIrs. Margaret G. "White of 18fi!) Beacon Brookline, told in a few brief words how she found her beautiful daughter, Priscilla. terribly burned, in the -City Hospital after the night club disaster. The girl, she said, died a few days later.

Patton Jr. repulsed a minor German infantry attack at Djebel Berda, some 20 miles southeast of Gafsa, and held firmly to this mountain on the south side of El Guettaria ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 26 (AP) Battering down fierce enemy resistance, Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's infantrymen have won new ground in 1 1-. I si i I thing like a decision, but the counter-blows mounted in midweek by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel have fallen off. Americans from the command of Lieut.

Gen. George S. Bans All Margin Trading in Issues Selling Below $5 NEW YORK. March 2(5 (UP) Implementing the recent warning of Emil Schram, president of the New York Stock Exchange, against speculation in cheap stocks and bonds, the board of governors of the exchange has banned all margin dealings in securities selling below $5. effective April 1.

a ctatpmmt issnpd bv Schram to day said the board at its meeting Thursday revised the general margin rule to provide that on and after April 1. 1943. purchases of securities selling below may be made only on a cash basis. Margin Continued on Page 28 IV the Mareth sector of the southern Tunisian front, it was announced today. The six-day-old struggle of the British 8thyrmy to shatter the Mareth line defenses apparently has not yet reached any Handcuffed lo one of two prison officers, who accompanied him.

Dr. Sagansky arrived in Suffolk Superior Court at 11:20 this morning, looking none the worse for his short time already spent in prison. He was immediately taken into the Grand Jury room. Supt. Fallon was closeted with the Grand Jury for 23i hours.

Sagansky followed the police official, remaining with the Grand Jury from 12:45 to 1 p. when adjournment was called for lunch. Sagansky returned to the jury room after lunch. Grand Jury Continued on Page 4 GA Near Rioting as Shoppers Attempt to Buy Meat Sagansky Before Grand Jury Timilty Called to Testify ing from the main dining room to the cocktail lounge. He said the tables limited the foot passageway to a space only two feet wide.

Mr. Ryan, plainly anxious to spare Mrs. White as much as possible, asked her only these simple questions: Q. When did you first see your daughter after Nov. 23, 1942? A.

The next day, Sunday. Q. Where? A. At the City Hospital. Q.

What was her condition? A. Very critical. Q. Did you see many burns on her? A. yes.

To a tremendous extent. All over her body. Q. And she died a few days later? A. Yes.

Dec. 11. That was all. Mrs. White left The questioning, by Asst.

Atty. Gen John J. Ryan was done quickly. The purpose of calling Mrs. White as a witness was merely to establish the legal point that Miss White did die as a result of the Coeoanut Grove fire.

There was no cross-examination. Mrs. White was preceded on the witness stand by William Collins of Medford, who was her daughter's escort at the Coeoanut Grove that evening. Collins testified that the two couples in their party sat at one of eight tables which had been placed in the passageway lead- niklklrrt SIC" noon to JUJIll I zf P.M IWENMOPE SUBWAV STATION AT DOOrI i' Presentation rf evidence before the Suffolk County Grand Jury took a dramatic turn today when Dr. Harry Sagansky.

convicted lottery operator, was brought from his State Prison cell to offer testimony in the investigation of Atty. Gen. Robert T. Bushncll. Sagansky's appearance, brought about through a writ of habeas corpus, coincided with the offering of testimony by high Boston police officials.

Supt. Edward W. Fallon was a witness before the Grand Jury this morning and Police Com missioner Joseph F. Timilty was scheduled tn go before that body again this afternoon. Mrs.

Mary Minot. 51, 4 South Central and Mrs. Margaret Hosford, 55, 185 Arlington both of Wollaston, collapsed this afternoon on North st. while trying to get some meat. They were taken to City Hospital in a police ambulance, where they were treated and subequently released.

Boston markets resorted to the "lockout" system today in an attempt to handle the unprecedented Friday shopping crowd which converged on, the Faneuil Hall district as householders from all parts of Greater Boston attempted to buy high-point-value meats before point rationing begins Monday. A near riot in which several women were mauled and jostled by a crowd attempting to force entrance against the locked doors of one of the larger North-st. retail stores required police intervention. Many North Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market stalls refused to sell meat except to their regular customers. "Closed" signs were encountered frequently in a tour of the district, but meat was being sold over the counter behind the signs to persons known to the retailers.

Markets Continued on Page IS Tulsa Row Ends in Murder of Socialite FATS GREAjSE TULSA. March 26 (UP) Mrs. T. K. Simmons, society woman, wife of a millio ire oil man, known as an exhibitor of fine horses, waited in the lobby of a hotel for a woman last night, followed her to her room, and, soon afterwards, was shot to death.

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Advertisements mav lie ordered at the Globe office or by telephone. Call LAFayelie 20(10. had known Mrs. Simmons "for years," Laid she and Mrs. Simmons had struggled for possession of a pistol with which Mrs.

Simmons had threatened her life, and that Mrs. Simmons was shot in the scuffle. "Although Mrs. Howard made a statement to authorities, only part of it was made public. Asst.

County Atty. M. S. Sims said would question the husband of the slain woman in an effort to clear up the case. He was particularly interested, he said, in rinding out how well the women knew each other.

Miirrtrr Conltnucd on Page 20 I i TS- EHZOQ Ml mmmm VICTIM Mr. Karl Simmon.