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Gr'Cie 480739 6 SECTIONS 5c EVERYWHERE LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Fair, Moderately Cold Today mtr! th Brwklyn podonica Id Cut Mt3 Uiuu-iCopyrubl mi Ttw Sraeklrm rvul lulu IF I Corpora turn' 100th YEAR No. 88 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1941 British Chcasina Italian Batter 6 Ships; vietf Cheers Yugoslav Revolt; Nazis FI 1,500 See Dedication Crowds Jeer 1.000 Of Ingersoll Cashmore Offers Mayor Floor for Summer City Hall If he Approves Final Fund 2 Cruisers Believed Sunk, Dreadnought Hit in Great Battle London, March 29 (U.R) A British war fleet pounded the Mediterranean seas tonight hoping to close in for a death blow upon the Italian naval squadron already badly shattered by the sinking or damaging of probably six warships in the greatest sea and air engagement of the war. The big battlewagons of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham raced at forced draft in an attempt to smash almost the final vestige of Italian naval power Paraders as Reds Cops Save Peace Marchers At Coney as 150 Try Attack Jeered by spectators as Communists and their parade kept intact only through the interference of 70 policemen, 1,000 men, women and children marched two miles in the Coney Island section yesterday afternoon in a peace demon- The $5,000,000 Raymond V. Ingersoll Memorial Library, started as the Brooklyn Central Library more than a third of a century ago, was formally dedicated yesterday in the presence of Mayor LaGuardia and 1,500 invited guests.

before it could reach the protecting shelter of shore batteries on the Italian mainland. Already, the British reported, In a sea and air encounter which began yesterday in the Ionian waters of the eastern Mediterranean, Itaily had suffered: One Littorio class battleship bady damaged, two to four cruisers bady damaged and two possibly sunk, one or more destroyers shattered or sunk. Hits Italy at Lowest Ebb The crushing naval defeat was inflicted at a moment when Britain feels certain Italian morale is at its lowest eebb since start of the war. The Italian Empire in Africa is regarded here as in the final stages of dissipation with Italy clinging only to Western Tripoli with the aid of Nazi 'armored troops and apparently unable to make any move which will Drevent earlv and complete British control of East Africa. In Albania Italy's plight has taken a sudden turn for the worse as a result of the Yugoslav coup d'etat.

It was pointed out here that should Yugoslavia move into In the proud library structure overlooking Grand Army Plaza, the Mayor, in the main dedicatory address, threw open the institution to readers and thinkers, declaring that "there Is great need In the world today for men of learning and of thought" and "institutions such as this will help expand our way of living and so set an example for the rest of th" Among the sp' wests at the exercises was Raymond V. Ingersoll, widow the late Borough President Ingersoll, to whom chief credit was given for having the library launched in 1907, finally completed, and after whom it has been named. DO ALL POSSIBLE TO AVOID STRIKES, GREEN TELLS AFL Mediate or Arbitrate If Bargaining Fails In Defense Rows, He Says Washington, March 29 (U.R) President William Green of the American Federation of Labor called on all A. F. of L.

unions tonight to avoid strikes in defense industries as the new Defense Mediation Board concluded its first day's efforts to settle two vital disputes. "While we must Insist upon fundamental principles," Green said, "when collective bargaining breaks down we should submit issues to mediation and arbitration, doing everything within our power to avoid strikes. "The future of our nation, our democratic institutions and the very existence of a free labor movement are at stake. The American labor movement will, as always, give unreserved service to the cause of freedom." The Defense Mediation Board considered the strike at the Vanad- Continued on Paf 2 atration. High school students and bablei In carriages were In the line of march, which started at 3lst St.

and Mermaid Ave. and ended at Brighton Beach and Coney Island Ave. It was sponsored by the Mldwood-Brighton Peace Council and the West End Peace Council. Marching along Mermaid, Still-well, and Surf and Ocean Parkway, the paraders bore placards and shouted to watchers to Join the line. Some of the pasters read: "No U.

S. Convoys." "No A. E. "No Gold Star Mothers." "We Want Playgrounds, Not Air Raid Shelters." "Women Want Jobs for Then-Sons. Not Guns." "Keep the United States Out of War." Jeered Ml Along Route All along the route they were Jeered.

"Communists," cried members and followers of the Society of Spartans. That organization, with headquarters at 7 Brighton Pint Road, hd prepared for the parade for some time. By telephone calls, leaflets and. word of mouth they had arranged fo fc "patriotic demonstration" with which to meet the parade. About ISO appeared.

As the paraders passed, the Spartan group met the peace delegation with posters of their own and with cries of. "Go Home and Wash Your Dirty Dishes." "There Is No Unemployment In Russia. Every One Has a Job in a Munition Plant," read one group of signs. Others included: "America Will Never Appease." "Communism Is the Enemy of Democracy." "Keep the Reds Out of Brighton." Attempts of the Spartans td get Into tha street to disperse the parade were halted by the police under the direction of Inspector Camllle Pierne, In charge of the 10th Inspection District. Pierne had been notified of the expected counter demonstration by Capt.

Abraham Brody of the Coney Island station. It was estimated that about 5,000 persons, most of them unenthusias-tic, watched the parade. BELGRADE REPORT DUCE IS SLAIN ANGERS ITALIANS REICH ENVOYS FIRE RECORDS IN BELGRADE All German Nationals Ordered to Leave Country in 24 Hours Belgrade, March 29 (U.R) The Soviet Government was reported tonight to have sent congratulations to the new Yugoslav regime as the German legation here burned its archives, the customary diplomatic preliminary to severance of relations. The Soviet teleeram was said tn have stated that the people of Yugoslavia have again "shown themselves worthy of their glorious past." Yugoslavia thus faced simultane ous Indications of Soviet approba tion and German disapproval of her new government. All German nationals were re ported to have been given urgent instructions to quit the country 'ithin 24 hours.

Report Nazis Fie Country (Hungarian press reports claimed tonight that German nationals are fleeing Yugoslavia under a rising wave of anti-minority outbreaks and said air and Danube River traffic between Yugoslavia and Germany has ceased. (The Hungarian press carried dispatches reporting increasing tension between Germany and Yugoslavia. Many of the dispatches were attributed to the semi-official Hungarian INB News Agency.) Prom reliable sources it was learned that the government is preparing a declaration of Yugoslavia's attitude toward foreign na tionsthe declaration which Ger many is awaiting with such impa tience. Diplomatic Break Looms The German Legation started to burn its papers this afternoon, the usual preliminary to severance of diplomatic relations. Many German nationals already had started to leave the country or were packing up.

A special Danube steamer has been ordered to Continued on Page 2 Nazi Raid Wrecks U. S. Consulate Plymouth, England, March 29 (U.R) The United States consulate In this port and the Guild Hall, with its valuable stained glass windows depicting the departure of the Pil grims and other historic events, were destroyed in a recent German night air raid, it was disclosed today. The American consulate was completely wrecked but there were no casualties. Consul Harry M.

Wolcott and his staff were not in the building at the time. The consulate was struck by a number of high explosive and incendiary bombs. Once a four-story, gray stone Georgian house, it now is a heap of ruins with only fragments of its front wall standing. Three other houses similar to the consulate building. Including a Y.

M. C. A. and a Y. W.

C. were destroyed in Lockyet near the residence of Lady Astor, Mayoress of Plymouth. 3 Axis Ships Clear Brazil In Attempt to Run Blockade Rio de Janeiro, March 29 (U.R) Three Axis steamers, which departed with carpo from Brazilian ports during the past 24 hours, were at sea today in an apparent attempt to run the BiitLsh blockade. The Italian freighter Frisco, which had lain at Ceara, Fort Aleza, since last June 25, left today for Oslo. Norway, with a cargo of cottonseed cake.

Last night the Italian tankpr Franco Martelli failed from Recife, also for Oslo, with 12.000 tons of oil. The 3.2fi3-ton North German Lloyd steamer Dresden left Santas with a heavy cargo for Vladivostok last niiiht. The Dresden had been knrthxH at Snntrw xlnrp Nov. 25. 1 1939.

5,000 VOTE WON ENDING ALLIS STRIKE Send Roosevelt Word-Accuse Knudsen, Knox Of Plot With Company Milwaukee, March 29 Telegrams sped to President Roosevelt and other officials tonight stating the refusal of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers to return to work on vital defense production at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company plant. The union chose its course at a mass meeting of 5,000 workers at the State Fair Grounds Coliseum.

The members voted not to resume production until the company accepts the so-called "OPM formula" for settlement of their dispute. The union resolution accused Secretary of Navy Knox and Director General Knudsen of the Office of Production Management of "conspiracy with company of ficials to force a Government-sponsored back-to-work movement with all the high-handed tactics used by Mr. Knudsen as head of the General Motors Corporation in 1937 to wreck the union." Charge Knudsen Reneged It said Knudsen agreed to force the company to accept the formula, which answered the union's strike demand for "union security," If the U. A. W.

adopted It. The union complied but Knudsen reneged, the resolution charged. The company meanwhile asserted that work begun yesterday by a partial production force would be continued on a 24-hour basis, with chief attention given to Navy gun mounts, destroyer turbines and generators, and electrical equipment for defense power projects at Boulder, Mount Wilson and Shasta Dams. The company spokesman said production for the last 36 hours has been about "40 percent of normal." He said 2,048 men reported for work on the morning shift today. The company normally employs 7,800.

Ed Hall, international vice president of the UAW, termed the work-resumption claims "a myth" and said few but office workers and foremen had entered the plant. The union stated Its stand to President Roosevelt, the office of production management, Dr. John R. Steelman, Chief of the U. S.

Labor Department concilation service, and others In telegrams repeating the resolution adopted by a standing vote at the Coliseum. Cambria Strikers Stand Pat Johnstown, March 29 (U.R) The C. I. O. steel workers organizing committee warned tonight there would be no "bargain" settlement of its demand that an alleged company union be disbanded before a strike at the eight-mile-long Cambria works of Bethlehem Steel Corporation Is ended.

State and Federal labor conciliators interviewed officials of the company and the S. W. O. C. in an effort to find a basis for ending the walkout that started yesterday when the employes representation plan, characterized as "company dominated" by the S.

W. O. C. and the National Labor Relations Board, held a 12-hour ejection in the plant to name officers. Largest Trainees' Group Leaves Upton for South Camp Upton, March 29 Eight hundred selectees, the largest group to leave so far, were transferred by train today to Fort Bclvoir, Va.

Col. C. W. Balrd, commanding officer, said that the men, mostly from Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, would be assigned to the Engineer Replacement Center at Fort Belvolr. Heart's in 'Right' Place Albany, March, 29 (U.R) Robert Ford's heart is in the right side of his chest, but he marched off with the army as a draftee today.

Army doctors said the 23-year-old Clinton marketman was perfectly fit. Library Other speakers at the dedication were Borough President Cashmore, Dr. Harry 6. Rogers, president of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Harry W.

Chase, Chancellor of New York University, and Dr. Milton J. Ferguson, chief librarian. Supreme Court Justice Edwin L. Garvin, former president of the library board of trustees, presided.

The invocation was given by Rabbi Sidney S. Tedesche of Union Temple, the dedicatory prayer by Mons. John L. Belford of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, and the benediction by Dr. Continued on Page 2 RELIEF FUND USE FOR BORO PRISON FEARED DOOMED G.

O. P. Legislators Held Certain to Kill Bill In Deal With Mayor Earl Bama, Capitol Buildlnr. Albany, March 29 The legislative proposal, which would permit part of New York City's relief revenue surplus to be used to satisfy the demand in Brooklyn for a new structure to replace W- archaic Raymond Street jail, app red tonight to be doomed In the -owerful Assembly Rules Committe Despite strong civic se. timent mobilized for the measure '6y its supporters, indications were that the bill was unlikely to be reported out and that, barring a sudden change, it would be allowed to die in the committee when the Legislature adjourns sine die next Thursday.

Would Set Aside $5,000,000 The bill is sponsored by Assemblyman Charles J. Beckinella, Kings Democrat, and would authorize Mayor LaGuardia's Administration Continued on Page 2 Nazis' Best 200 Miles in Less Tactical March many, officers said It was faster and more efficient. "The miracle of Dunkirk," an officer told me "could never have happened if the Nazi motorized columns had been as speedy as our Fourth Division. "The German tanks the Panzer divisions smashed through in great shape, but the Nazi motorized divisions couldn't bring up the Infantry fast enough. That gave the British the opportunity to evacuate" most of their troops from Dunkirk with local air control and rear guard action against those Nazi troops which did arrive before the evacuation was completed." Maj.

Gen. Lloyd R. Fredendall, commanding officers of the "rolling Fourth" Division, directed today's march from an observation plane, radioing orders. "I am well pleased with the march," Fredendall said. "We had very few mechanical casualties three stopped gas lines in the west column.

Maybe a few others which haven't yet been-. reported." The Fourth is the Army's only complete motorized division. In 10 dnys or two weeks, a lieu tenant said, this division could cross the country and be ready to fight in California. Rome, March 29 (U.R) Italian resentment against Yugoslavia was increased tonight by reports that rumors had originated in Belgrade of an Italian revolt led by Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Reuters Agency dispatch from Belgrade said rumors circulated in the Yugoslavian capital that Premier Mussolini was killed in an Italian revolution, the International News Srvi reported.

The British agency said it was suspected that the rumors were launched in an effort to discredit British and American correspondents. Rumors Categorically Denied The Axis attitude toward Yugoslavia obviously was stiffening and the war as an ally of Britain, it would be a comparatively simple and quick operation for Greek and Yugoslav troops to overrun that portion of Albania still in Italian hands. Battle Reported Still On At this ebb-tide of Fascism, the British revealed today. Cunninz ham's powerful Eastern Mediter ranean war fleet finally succeeded in coming to grips with that elusive portion of Benito Mussolini's Navy which has not been previously en countered by British warships and warplanes. Reports of what followed are not', yet complete since the Admiralty said that the engagement was still "in progress" when its statement was made.

But sufficient details were received to make plain that it was one of the great sea encounters of the war and that Italian sea power had apparently been reduced to a negligible factor by the guns of British dreadnaughts and the bombs of the Royal Air Force and fleet air arm. Working in closest collaboration Continued on Page I the Italian press for the first time published description of attacks upon Italian and Germany property in Belgrade. Official quarters were most anxious to clarify the situation immediately because Yugoslavia's admission into the tripower pact had been considered one of the final diplomatic preliminaries before opening of the Spring offensive. The alleged Belgrade reports about a revolution in Italy aggravated the situation. The rumors were categorically denied here and correspondents found everything normal throughout Italy.

A check by telephone of such cities as Milan, Genoa, Naples and Paleermo showed conditions were calm and peaceful. tiaily Christian Is being notoriously and fundamentally denied. "Our faith Is denied and we art reproached with being anti-Fascist. "The possibility of Catholics manifesting their Christian comic tions in words and In writing out JJt the churches without danger, is limited. "Mere resignation to such a situa tion would be a contradiction of conscience.

"It would be sinful to endur passively such lasses and sufferings. "The split in German humanity continues. Undeniably In recent years it has produced restrictions without precedent and ruins for Catholics, as well as the growth of un-Chrlstian principles that differ from Christianity as fire differs from water." IN TODAY'S EAGLE Gardens Society Woman Page 6 Pages 1-7 and 9 Page 6 SECTION C-D Fraternal Real Estate Snorts Want Ads Page 7D Tages S-6D Page 1-3C Pager. 7-10D TREND SECTION I A Review of the Arts Autos race 11 Radio Page A Resort and Travel Pages SECTION I Eight Pate of ComkJ All Have Duty To Back F. D.

Farley Declares Unity of U. S. Despair Of Dictators, He Tells Jackson Day Diners The trying days confronting the country make every American duty-bound to support President Roosevelt's leadership in his role as the nation's Commander-in-Chief, James A. Farley, the former Democratic national chairman, told New York City's Democrats last night at their Jackson Day dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Parley; asserted of the country' ability to bury partisan motives constitutes "a source of wonderment and despair to the wishful thinking dictators." "Couple with this national unity our willingness as a nation to reconstruct by democratic action our Industrial system to the purposes of defense, and our social system to the purposes of manning the machinery of that defense," Parley continued, "and you have a complete picture of a determined democratic people willing to risk everything, even life, that the principles upon which our nation was founded may persevere." Lauds State Department The former Postmaster General, who remains as head of the Democratic State Committee, said he was satisfied from his recent business tour of South America that the vast majority of the Western Hemisphere's inhabitants "are of one mind, that free democracies, as we know them, must and shall be preserved." Farley said much of the friendly Continued on Page I Frequent clashes provoked by Ackley 'i derisive attitude marked his appearance on the stand last Monday.

Then he made a blanket denial of virtually everything he is now charged with In the Board of Higher Education's accusations. In a 13-page statement listing the charges the committee charges Ackley has been a Communist party member since 1936, that he bears the Communist party alias of Jake, and that City College members of the party frequently met In his home. Ackley's testimony that he has never been a Communist Is met with the charge that he "knowingly, wilfully and corruptly testified falsely." To support the count that he failed to perform his duties properly, the charges cite that he knew as far back as 1935 that a Communist party unit existed at City College, that he had knowledge of its members and their activities, and that he "wilfully suppressed such Information" from college officials and "neglected to make such Investigation as the circumstances warranted." U. S. Motorized Unit GERMAN ARCHBISHOP ASKS CATHOLICS RESIST NAZIS Outspeeds 4th Division Dashes Than 12 Hours on a By BROOKS SMITH United, Press Staff Correspondent Ackley Branded Red Despite His Denial City College Registrar Accused of Giving False Testimony to Coudert Committee Although he had testified on Monday before the Rapp-Coudert Committee that he was not a communist, John Kenneth Ackley, registrar of City College, had charges preferred against him yesterday by the conduct committee of the Board of Higher Education.

Panama City, March 29 The Army's only completely motorized division, the 4th, dashed 200 miles from Fort Bennlng, to the Gulf Coast today in less than 12 hours on a tactical march, which officers said proved it to Vatican City. March 29 (INS) A pastoral letter by Arichbishop Grober of Freiburg. Germany, appealing to German Catholics to "resist government persecution," was published tonight in Osservatore Romano, organ of the The letter, telling German Catholics it Is "sinful to endure passively" the restrictions of the Nazi regime, represented the strongest i expression of disapproval toward that regime made public through a Vatican channel since Italy entered the war last June. Archbishop Grober's letter de- clared: "German Catholics are suffering most Intensely. "Precisely that which is essen-1 WHERE TO FIND IT SECTION A Autos Bridge Dr.

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The largest guns taken were the 155 MM. howitzers. Comparing this division with the motorized columns of Nazi Ger On four counts charging him- with "conduct unbecoming a member of the staff and neglect of duty," Ackley was specifically cited. He was accused of: 1 Active membership In the Communist party. 2 Wilfully giving false and evas-lve testimony to the Rapp-Coudert Committee.

3 Failure to comply with a Board of Higher Education resolution calling for co-operation with the committee. 4 Misuse of his position to further the interests of the Communist party. Suld to Ilave Alias The charges were announced by I. H. Hlrschmann and were concurred In, by two other Board of Higher Education members of the committee, Lauson Stone end Mrs.

Rush 8. Shoup. They were submitted to Acting President Harry N. Wright of City College, who said yesterday he would take the matter under consideration 4.