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OPEN THURSDAY TIL 2 BROOKLYN EAGLE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 1943 4 Members of Bow Family Are Held in Jap Prisons 15 HANOVER PLACEJUST OFF FULTON STREET Invite Rickenbacker Before Legislature Senate Votes to Hear Him Speak Feb. 22-Crews' Bill Would Cut Small Loan Interest Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Albany, Jan. 27 The Senate adopted unanimously today a resolution introduced by Senator Edward Coughlin, Brooklyn Democrat, to invite Capt. Edward V.

Rickenbacker to address a proposed Joint session of the Legislature on Washing -4S PW(WWK J. Crews, Brooklyn Republican, Joined Mayor LfeGuardla today In his fight to force a reduction of small loan interest rates. Crews Introduced a bill In the Assembly calling for a drastic cut. He proposed reducing the maximum Interest rate on small loans by licensed lenders to 1 percent monthly. Instead of 2'i percent on the first $100 borrowed and to percent, instead of 2, on the remainder.

Abuses Well Known "The abuses practiced by loan sharks," Crews declared, "are tooo well known to require description by me." He declared the present rates were "absurdly high," and asserted that the practice of 6,000 GARMENT WORKERS GO BACK TO WORK Temporary Agreement Still Out in Stoppage Six thousand men and women who participated In a "stoppage" to enforce wage readjustments In the dress industry, have gone back to work under a temporary agreement, lt was announced this afternoon by Julius Hochman, general manager of. the Joint board of the Dress Makers Union of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The back-to-work agreement left 26.000 still idle. The agreement, Mr. Hochman disclosed, was signed by 16 Jobbers and manufacturers operating 110 shops in which the 6,000 are employed.

It provides for a IS percent increase in pay to be deposited with the union subject to final settle-ment of the dispute. Meanwhile efforts to settle the dLspute, cause of stoppage which threatened to halt the work of employes of 2,000 shops in the metropolitan area, were continuing. They were highlighted by a conference which Harry Uvlller, lm. partial chairman of the dress Industry, was holding with employer and union representatives In his office, 1440 Broadway, Manhattan. Called a Stoppage The "stoppage," which union spokesmen have been careful to distinguish from a strike, was precipitated by the breakdown of negotiations with employers on Monday.

While union representatives pointed to the rising cost of living as Justification for the demand that wage scales be adjusted upward, the employers took the stand that the stopping of work to enforce the demands was In violation of provisions of a contract with the I. L. G. W. U.

which does not expire until Jan. 31. 1944. The stoppage was Invoked in progressive stages. The first break occurred at 11 a.m.

today. Jobbers who signed the temporary agreement, Mr. Hochman disclosed, included the following: Loma Dress Company, 501 7th Manhattan, which does business with 35 contractors em Sgt. Thomas P. Carroll mm 1 1 1 i i III' ton's Birthday.

Coughlin, himself a veteran of the First World War and long recognized as an aviation enthusiast, introduced the resolution because of his admiration for Captain Rickenbacker, the World War ace, who, since his recent rescue In the Pacific, has been appealing to American war production workers to step up their war output and cut absenteeism in plants. Coughlin's resolution received Immediate consideration upon its presentation to the Senate. Voted Unanimously Senator Joe R. Hanley, the Republican Senate leader and veteran of two wars, called for immediate adoption and the resolution was voted unanimously. The resolution now goes to the Assembly for final action, Coughlin's resolution praised Captain Rickenbacker and declared "his courage and patriotism and the service he has rendered to our nation are an inspiration to all Americans." Meanwhile, Assemblyman Robert Woman Identifies Boy Parolee As Street Robber William C.

Reld, 20, of 321 Livonia a Negro restaurant worker, was arrested at his home today on a charge of assault and robbery of Mrs. Irene Mesunas, war plant worker, shortly after midnight on Jan, 20. Mrs. Mesunas, wife of a soldier and mother of three children, was returning from work when, a short distance from her home at 557 Warwick she told police, a Negro dragged her to a doorway, placed a knife against her throat and threatened to kill her unless she gave him her money. He took $15 and a wrlstwatch and then disappeared.

At the police lineup In Manhattan headquarters today Reld said he made a statement to the District Attorney, which usually means a confession. Police said Mrs. Mesunas had identified Reld as her assailant and that Pauline Felder, 20, of 879 Blake had also Identified him as the man who robbed her of $21 near her home on Jan. 1. Reld was questioned about eight recent robberies of women in the East New York section.

Police said Reld was released on parole on Oct. 14, 1941, from the Reformatory, where he had served nearly a year on conviction of endangering the health and life of a child. His parole was to expire on Dec. 16 next. conferring at City Hall yesterday with George A.

Sloan, city commissioner of commerce, the Mayor disclosed that he had recommended to Prentiss Brown, OPA administrator in Washington, modification of OPA order 287 which sets dress price ceilings. David Dublnsky, president of the International Ledies Garment Workers Union, reaffirmed the union's willingness to abide by arbitration or to call off the stoppage if the War Labor Board assumes Jurisdiction of the dLspute. was found In a bed. The flames had swept into his room and through the celling without touching his body. He apparently died of smoke suffocation.

Carroll Glenn, young concert violinist, tucked a violin under one arm and her dog under another to clamber down a snow -covered fire-escape in nightgown and bare feet. The fire cost her a concert gown in which she was to have appeared tomorrow nisht as soloist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, as well as her money and railroad ticket to Cleveland. She said she would make the trip nevertheless. Mtss Glenn lived with her There Is anxiety In one Brooklyn over the of four of the family who are prisoners the Japanese In the Philippines the that a fifth may have been captured. This became known today with Plication by the War Department the names of 459 Americans, Including 12 from Brooklyn and Long Island, held in Japanese prison Lamps.

Mrs. Margaret Telfer of 3840 Bedford Ave. and a younger sister living with her, Ann Clara Baldwin, are the Brooklynites worried about the five relatives. -Left Philippines in '41 Two years ago Ann left her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Newland Baldwin, in the Philippines, where her father had an importing business, and came to the States, She attended Sweet Brier College In Virginia and then came to Brooklyn to live with her sister. When the Japanese overran the Philippines, Miss Baldwin told the Eagle, her parents were captured and with them another sister, Alice. A Government notification recently that her brother, 2d Lt. Barry Baldwin of the Army Quartermaster Corps, had been captured brought the total to four. She added that another brother, James, a first lieutenant in the army, may also have been taken prisoner, although no official notification to that effect has been received.

Miss Baldwin and her brothers and sisters were all born In the Philippines. Served With Husband, Now Captured, in Manila While Lt. Robert E. Miller Is a prisoner of the Japanese, his wife, Mrs. Olive Miller, is perfecting herself In the art of nursing.

She went with her husband to the Philippines in January, 1940, served as a nurse in Manila and then returned home in June, 1941, to live with her mother, Mrs. Mary Miller, at 959 St. John's Place. The last letter received from Lieutenant Miller arrived In November, and at Christmas notification came that he had been captured. His wife, who was a volunteer with the Red Cross Ambulance Corps last Summer, is taking a special training course at Prospect Heights Hospital.

Lieutenant Miller, 38, has been In the army about 18 years and served in the Philippines with the 31st Infantry. He was born in Ithaca. Lt. Thomas A. Hackett Practiced Law in Suffolk 1st Lt.

Thomas A. Hackett, 31, of the army, lived on Hawthorne St. for 20 years and was admitted to the Bar by the Brooklyn Appellate Division on June 22. 1938. after completing his clerkship In the office of Burton B.

Turkus, now an assistant district attorney. He attended St. Francis of Assist Parochial School and Brooklyn Prep and was studying at the University of Alabama and while there enlisted as a reserve. He was commissioned In the Coast Artillery on his birthday in 1938. Lieutenant Hackett conducted a law office in Huntington until Dec.

27, 1940, when he was called Into active service at Fort Totten. He was sent to the Philippines in July, 1941. In September, 1941, he was made acting commander of an antiaircraft battery and later was assigned to training, feeding and housing. He was wounded last March 24. but in four days wa In action again.

One brother, Francis A. Hackett. Is a corporal in the Coast Artillery, and another. John is an infantry corporal. His sister and father.

John, who represents dairy concerns, live at, 23 E. Main Huntington. Lt. Kells Once Thought Japs Would Not Attack Second Lt. David E.

Keils, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Keils of 143-58 Cherry Flushing, r.eer thought this country and Jnpan would be at war, he wiote home iit before Pearl Harbor. Shorly after Christmas the family was Yotified that he was a prisoner of the Jap.

He was a Mudrnt in the of New Mexico wh'n he enlisted in the 101st Cavalry. Later he was transferred to the Coast Artillery. Lieutenant Kells was born In Lor.g Island Ci'y and graduated jbpv i 'nil IS WICKS COURSE Aopro.td lor AlKTNtSS ClfDII N. Itri iiei Otpi. Id.coM Visit trTtltM ANNOUNCEMENTS Lett found 10 Order Rfail Pton MA.

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37th Manhattan, 17 contractors employing 900 workers. Dandy Dress, 501 7th Manhattan, 30 contractors employing 1,500 workers. as 20th AD DRESS Earlier today steps were being taken by the U. S. Conciliation Service and Mayor LaGuardia leading to the certification of the dress Industry dispute to the War Labor Board.

Spurring efforts at settlement were warnings by both union spokesmen and employers that the stoppage would affect all 85,000 workers In the 2.000 shops in the city and vicinity before the end of the week unless work as resumed. Harry Uviller, impartial chairman of the dress industry, with whom complaint had been filed charging violation of contract by the union, was to confer today with employer and union representatives at his office, 1440 Broadway, Manhattan. He had expressed the belief, however, that the dispute could be settled only by action of the War Labor Board. Blames Frozen Prlcei Mayor LaGuardia had addressed himself to another aspect of the matter, the position of the employers that they were unable to grant wage raises to meet the rise in living costs as long as prices remained frozen under OPA orders. After "hounding' borrowers was causing "untold suffering to poor persons." The Legislature also received bills introduced by Senator William Bewley and Assemblyman Joseph R.

Younglove to prevent the use of "Inflated" or "padded" assessment rolls by municipalities and other local governments of the State in computing their constitutional borrowing capacity and tax limitations. They pointed out the new State constitution requires the 10 percent limit on local indebtedness and the 2 percent limit on real estate taxes to be based upon the average of the "last completed assessment roll and the four preceding rolls'1 of each local unit of government. They asserted that after assessment rolls are completed they are subject to review. They said the constitutional limitations should be based upon "corrected assessment rolls" which reflect all changes which are made, including reductions through certiorari proceedings, adjustments and compromises of protested assessments. Senator Bewley and Assemblyman Young-love declared their bills are strongly supported by the New York State Association of Real Estate Boards.

Peel: Carry home the bacon! Stores WARREN ST. at B'WAY 13th ST. at B'WAY FIFTH AVE. at 4 1 ST. Clearance! 7000 Overcoats 1341 were $65 1064 were $45 now.

110 were $85 788 were $75 1115 were $65 $55 now. 856 were $95 593 were $85 178 were $80 1012 were $75 $65 now. Rogers Peet Company 5th Av. it 41t Hill J-SHO 13th St. at By Al.nnmnn 4-4WIO Wrrfn Si.

at BAnlur 7-nvoo nt In Button: Trfmont i at BromfUld Bt Uiwrtr 3043 LT. RUSSELL CIRRITO Pic ture taken when he was private 1st class. from the FUkshing High School. For a time he was a teller in the Queens County Savings Bank and then worked with his father in the lumber business. It haa been more than a year since the family has received a letter from him.

Mother Cannot Believe Officer Is a Prisoner "Somehow I don't feel that my boy is a prisoner of the Japs. He 1 was too full of fight against every- i thing that endangered his country to be taken prisoner." That is the way that Mrs. Igrazia Cirrito of 35 Cooper St, mother of 2d Lt. Russell Cirrito, U. S.

Infantry, feel about her son, despite the fact that on Dec. 28 she received a telegram from the War Department that he was "a prisoner of the Japanese Government In the Philippines." Further, Mrs. Cirrito declares she has a "feeling" that her son is alive and that he will come home safely to her and his father, Vincent Cir rito. She has not seen him In the last two and one-half years. Lieutenant Cirrito, now 28, enlisted in the U.

S. Army nine years ago. He spent a year at home after his first three years of service, 'then re-enllsted and has been In the army since tha time. He received his lieutenant' commission a few days following Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, Cirrito was born In Italy. He was brought to this country 21 years ago by his parents, who settled In Brooklyn and have lived here since.

Thomas Cirrito. a brother of the lieutenant, who will be 20 years old next June, was inducted Into the army less than two months ago and is now stationed in Virginia. He Is a graduate of Boys High School. Two other brothers, Corimo, 32, and Joseph, 23. both married, likewise live in Brooklyn.

Captured Sergeant Has Sent No Word Freeport, Jan. 27 First Pet. Thomas P. Carroll, reported held by the Japanese, resides at 60 W. Merrick Road, Freeport.

He Is married and 28 years of age. Serjeant Carroll's wife, Mrs. Frances Carroll, said today her husband enlisted In the army nlm years When she last heard from him he was working as a clerk in the army in the Philippines. He was born in Blackstone. Mass.

His parents now reside in Wooasotket, R. I. The roup'e were married about two years ago. After their marriage Mrs. Carroll acrompanied her husband to the Philippines.

She remained there until the Summer of 1941. when she returned to Free-port. Mrs. Cnrroll she wa.s notified by the army on Dep. 27 that her husband was a Japanese prisoner.

She 1ns written to him through the Red Cross but has received no answer. Sereeant Carroll has a younper brother. Pvt. James Carroll, in the army. Mrs.

Carroll Is employed at the dairy rounfr in a grocery store here. Prisoner's Father Is Bank Cashier I Port Washington. Jan. 27 2d 1 Lt. Arthur B.

Cornell Jr. of 48 Bar I Bo.ioh Road, this village, reported as a prisoner of the Japanese. Is I 24 and the ion of Mr. and Mrs. I Arthur R.

Cornell Sr. His wife, the former Virginia Church, is em- I ployed in the personnel department I at Mary's in Manhattan. I 1 Lieutenant Cornell graduated from Purdue In 1940 after completing a course in rlvil engineering. He later obtained employment with the American S'erl Wire Corrxjra'inn In Cleveland. i Ohio, and was married on May 3.

1941. At the time that he was caller! Into active service he was a member of the O. T. C. When la.st heard from lie was In the Old- (Kite oCT Girl Violinist Saves Fiddle and Dog in Fire Lt.

Robert E. Miller 12 Boro, L. I. Men Captives of Japs Washington, Jan. 27 (UK-The War Department made public today the names of 459 American soldiers, including 12 from the Brooklyn Long Island area, who are held as prisoners of war by the Japanese In the Philippine Islands and Formosa.

The list includes 327 officers and 129 enlisted men of the United States Army, and three officers in the Army Nurse Corps. Interned at Camp Taiwan, Formosa: BARTVS. Pfc. Frank Mrs. Anna Angrason (sister), 197 Chestnut Street.

HACKETT, 1st Lt. Thomas A. John Hackett fathers, 23 E. Main Huntington. ZITO, Staff Sgt.

Joseph Mrs. Jennie DiGialmo (aunt), 4206 12th Ave. Interned In Philippine Islands: BALDWIN, 2d Lt. Barry Mr. Margaret Telfer 3849 Bedford Ave.

CARROLL, 1st Sgt. Thomas P. Mrs. Frances L. Carroll wtfe), Robert Simmons, 60 W.

Merrick Road. Freeport. IRRITO, 2d Lt. Rav-ell Mrs. Igrazia Cirrito imoiher), 35 Cooper St.

CORNELL, 2d Lt. Arthur Mrs. Arthur R. Cornell iwife), 79 Longview Road, Port Washington. EVAMCKI, 2d Lt.

Michael John Evanickl (father), Pilgrim State Hospital, Brentwood. GM.R. 2d Lt. Daniel Mrs. Rose Burlin (mother), 3402 Avenue I.

KASI.ER. 2d Lt. Charles L. Miss Tcret-a R. Ka.sler sister), Kings Park.

KELLS, 2d Lt. David Charles D. Kells 'father), 143-58 Cherry Ave Flushing. MILLER. 1st Lt.

Robert Olive W. Miller twifei, 919 St. John's Place. nance Department, U. S.

in the Philippines. Word that Lleutetnant Cornell was a prisoner was received from army officials on Dec. 28 by his relatives here. Since August Lieutenant Cornell's relatives have received no letter from him. The la.st letter was written in February and received In August.

Prior to that a letter received in April last was written In January. Lieutenant Cornell's wife has wiitten to him through the Japanese Red Cross but has rcelved no re.vponse to her letters. Arthur R. Cornell Sr. is employed as an assistant cashier In the Port Washington National Bank Trust Company here.

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Oxidization of a metal roof cornice produced bright colors and cast I a glow along the riverfront. Fire men found residents Jammed on a fire escape at the front of the glx-story building at 552 Riverside Drive. Shortly after firemen relieved the congestion with ladders, flames burst from upper windows and enveloped the fire escape. The body of Edward Greer, 55, a printer on a Manhattan newspaper, SELL YOUR OLD GOLD and SILVER wnh confidence io one of America's olden jewelers. You are assured courteous coni-derition and highest possible cash prices.

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