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5c UY War IN CITY AND LONG ISLAND ONDS Weather Cloudy and warmer; occasional rain tonight. 103d YEAR No. 69 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1944 Entered th Brooklrn Pflstoffic S4 Claw Mall Mattrr iCopyrnht 194 Th BrooHyn Etfl. Ine.l U.

S. Clarifies Its Stand On DisDute With Eire GOP WEIGHS RUNNING Gl FOR CONGRESS Yanks Bomb Nazis At Padua, Florence In Great Air Victory this country's attitude toward Epstein, Carney Seen Possible Choices for Election to Cullen Post lera, re-publicatlon of the two-year-old message, observers believed, could have had only one purpose to point out that De Valera had grasped at something said two years ago under one set of conditions, and had sought to apply it to the present when an entirely different set of conditions exist. The Inescapable conclusion appeared to be that the department wished to clear the record by Continued on Page 7 REDS HURL NAZIS BACK IN 5 SECTORS Make Sweeping Gains On 535-Mile Ukraine FrontTake 280 Towns London, March 11 (U.R) Three Russian 'armies hurled the Germans back on five sectors of a 535-mile front in the Ukraine today, driving the enemy from more than 280 towns and settlements on a line stretching from old Poland to the Dnieper River estuary, Moscow announced tonight. The day's most sweeping advances were scored at opposite ends of the front. On trie southeast Gen.

Rodio Y. Malinovsky's 3d Ukrainian army, developing a drive down tiie Dnieper River, swept into the town of Berislav, only 38 miles northeast of the German-held Black Sea port of Kherson. That represented a gain of 22 miles in one day, CAN WIN IN 1945, MONTGOMERY SAYS We Shall Pave Way Now to Finish Nazis Next Year, He Asserts Sees Victory Sure London, March 11 (U.R) Gen. Sir B. L.

Montgomery, leader of British ground forces for the invasion of Western Europe, said tonight that Allied victory In Europe is certain and that "a the end of this year, if not sooner, we shall have the war Republican leaden, asserting they expect Governor Dewey to order a apecial election in April in Brooklyn's 4th Congressional District, disclosed la. night they were con-tidering ti choice of a serviceman i as their candidate. They said such a move would be in line with the recent Washington ruling which provided, however, that a member of the armed forces, if nominated, would not be permitted to make a personal political campaign. The names of two servicemen were brought to the front. They are Pfc.

Eugene J. Epstein, lawyer and former president of the Federal Republican Club of the 8th A. and Pfc. Thomas Carney, former secretary of the same club, who is now overseas. The political parties are awaiting the special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Thomas H.

Cullen, Democrat, who represented the Red Hook Polnt-Gowanus-South Brooklyn-Bay Ridge district for a generation without a single defeat. No steps have been taken by the Democrats to select their candidate. Former Alderman Frank Cunningham, former Sheriff James V. Man- gano, John J. Rooney and Henry Martuscello have been mentioned.

Rooney and Mertuscello are Assist- 1 ant District Attorneys. Mrs. Cullen also has been discussed for the nomination, which would be for the remainder of Mr. Cullen's term. "Tin', would expire in January.

Cullen served also as Democratic party leader of the 3d A. D. Cunningham has been named as the primary candidate for the leader- 'ihip. He was recognized as Cullen's I right-hand wan and carried on i many of his leadership duties during Cullen's illness. just about right for toppling "We have got this war absolutely eriDOed in a firm hold and the enemy cannot escape." Montgomery said.

"The only uncertain thing now is when the war is going to end. You can choose your own date and put your money on it. "I have not the slightest doubt that if the battle front and home front really get down to it this year, we can get this thing almost finished held so tightly that next year we will just topple it over. ciKennuwcr ucan irfiuimnui; Montgomery toured munitions factories where he was almost mobbed by enthusiastic workers when he told them "When you are I dealing with the Germans, what you really want to do is look around for some really good sea i and push them into it." In a grimmer vein, Montgomery's Chief. Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. warned in an extemporaneous speech at Sandhurst, the British West Point, tlhat "Much remains to be done; let none of us escape that point." Speaking from the Sandhurst steps, Eisenhower told a group of cadets that "I hope to meet you East of the Rhine." However, he said, with so much yet to be done "Those who do not 1 I I Bombers Blast U-Boat Base in Raid on Toulon Allied Headquarters, Naples, March 11 U.R) In their greatest air victory since they shot down 94 enemy planes over Regensburg, Germany, Feb. 24, U. S.

15th Air Force planes destroyed "large numbers" of German fighters today in a roaring 35-minute battle over Padua in Northern Italy. The full might of the Allied Mediterranean bombing forces was unleashed in widespread attacks, covering for the first time the art center of Florence and extending to the French coast, where Liberators smashed the U-boat nest at Toulon. Flying Fortresses, escorted by Thunderbolts, attacked the Padua rail yards, 22 miles west of Venice, and ran into angry swarms of Mes-serschmitts and rocket-shooting Junkers 88 s. In fierce dog-fighting heavy lasses were inflicted on enemy formations and American losses were reported minor. Blast Padua Rail Yards Boring through the swirling enemy planes to their target, the Fortresses laid a heavy load of bombs across the crowded Padua freight yards and as they turned to resume the battle their crews saw smoke towering up 8,000 feet.

The Padua battle appeared to have drawn off the major part of the Germans' fighter strength in this theater, because only light opposition was met by the Liberators at Toulon, where the U-boat pens were blasted with destructive effect for the second time in five days. Precision bombing Marauders battered the Florence yards, only 2.000 feet from the famous palace of the Medicis, in another blow to end the Germans' utilization of art, historical and religious shrines for military convenience. Objects of Culture Avoided Headquarters spokesmen said "strike photographs" of the Marauder raid showed that "no bombs fell closer than 1,500 feet to any object of -cultural significance." The photographs showed the yards littered with wrecked and blazing freight cars and twisted track. "The Florence railway yards were destroyed," was the terse report submitted by Maj. Lawrence E.

Horras, who led one of the Marauder formations over the target. Maj. Gen. John J. Cannon, commander of the U.

S. 12th Tactical Air Force, praising marauder crews for their precision job at Florence, said, "You have hit the most vital rail target left in Italy and you've hit it without injury to the priceless art treasures of the city." Big B-24 Liberators augmented the marauder attack by plastering the Junctions near Florence at Prato and Pontassieve, scoring "good coverage," as well as the Continued on Page 1 Br JOHN A. REICHMANN Washington, March 11 (UP) The State Department made it clear tonight that the United States is not now committeed to abstain from the use of military force to stamp out espionage by Axis agents operating under Irish protection. In a move to set the record straight, the department re-published the text of a message transmitted by President Roosevelt to Irish Prime Minister Eamon De Valera on Feb. 26, 1942, in which $50,000 BAIL HOLDS ZOOTER IN DOUBLE HOLDUP Retorts 'Cop Shot First' To Charge He Fired at Officer 2 Aides Seized George Celibertl, 19, of 226 Saratoga who affects a zoot suit, long hair and a pencil-line moustache, swaggered Into Felony Court yesterday to face, along with two companions, charges of assault, robbery and felonious assault.

He and his pals are accused of being the "10-minute" robbers who held up two drug stores Tuesday and staged a running gun battle with a policeman. When the charge of firing at a patrolman was read, Celibertl glared indignantly at Magistrate John X. Masterson and asserted: "Well, he shot at me first." Celibertl was held in $50,000 bail for Grand Jury action, while his buddies, Paul Fammio, 18, of 68-A Hull and Miohael Ruggiero, 17, of 14 Roosevelt Place, were held for arraignment Tuesday in Adolescents Court. Police said the trio held up two drug stores in the East Flatbusfo area, operating on a regular timetable. They were spotted by Patrolman Richard Ryan as they drove Into a gas station and the gun battle began when he attempted to question them.

The three drove off after knocking Ryan off the running board of the car. They were arrested at their homes Friday night after police had scoured the borough for them. DICKINSON PONDS ARE AMONG REPATRIATES DUE HOME WEDNESDAY Among American repatriates homeward bound from Germany on the exchange ship Gripsholm, scheduled to dock Wednesday at Jersey City, is Dickinson Pond, who had been connected with the American Embassy in Paris for many years. He will be accompanied by his wife and their 15-year-old son, James. The latter, born in Paris, is the godson of James M.

Heather-ton of 1 Plaza Strand Shelter Island, a director of the Montauk Club and former outstanding amateur athlete of the Crescent Athletic Club. Moved to Vichy when the Germans took over, Mr. Pond and his family were later taken to Baden-Baden, Germany. Recently they were taken to Lisbon, Portugal, for repatriation on the Gripsholm. British Submarines Sink 3 Nazi Ships Off Norway London, March (U.R) British submarines patrolling German supply lines off Norway sank one large and three medium Nazi supply ships near Bukn Fjord north of Stavanger on the southwestern coast, the admiralty announced today.

Hospital authorities yesterday said they desire "as many as possible" blood donors In an effort to save the mother. Joseph Berlin, the husband, has been granted a deferment by his draft board during his wife's illness, but expects to be called to the colors soon. Both penicillin and sulphani-lamide have failed in Mrs. Berlin's treatment, according to Dr. Benjamin Richman, her physician.

The government supplied 4,000,000 'ut of penicillin which were ineffective, he said. (Picture on Page 7.) Forts' Hit Muenster' Unchallenged by Foe Eire's neutrality at that time was fully stated. The re-publication was prompted by De Valera's statement of yesterday In rejecting this country's lequeH that Eire expel Axis diplomats who have Been Tarrying on espionago activities Jeopardizing American lives that the United States was pledged not to invade Ireland. Seeks to Clear Record Coming as it did immediately after that statement by De Va Pierre Pucheu Pucheu, Ex-Vichy Minister, Doomed As French Traitor Execution Is Stayed By Immediate Appeal After Trial in Africa Algiers, March 11 (U.R) Pierre Pucheu, former Vichy Interior Minister and Secret Police Chief who came to Africa to change his stripes, was condemned today to die as a traitor to the Third Republic of France. He Immediately appealed the sentence of a special of the French "Trustee" Government, thus automatically staying his execution while the court considers his plea.

The appeal took a general exception to the composition and authority of the proceedings under which he was indicted and tried. Consideration of the plea should take about a week. Pucheau, once labeled the Vichy Government's No. 1 "Red Hunter," was led out of the court room before the President of the court, Louts Verin, read the verdict finding him guilty of treason and abuse of authority as a Vichy Minister. Pucheau Flays De Gaulle Pucheau had been resigned to the verdict.

In a speech concluding his week-long trial, he said. "I am calm, for long ago I sacrificed my life to my country." He also made an indirect attack on Gen. Charles De Gaulle, his only source of a reprieve if the appeal fails. "I hope the Ministers of the commltte (the French Committee of National Liberation) do their work well," Pucheau said. "I hope the man who dominates them (De Gaulle) will rise above partisan feeling.

But if the committee continues its present methods as the Provisional Government of France it will provoke the worst sort of internal dissension." Pucheau's speech -lasted 16 minutes. Pucheau was" not convicted on the counts charging he had plotted against the security of the State as a member of the Government of Marshal Henri Petain. Newspaper Circulation At All-Time High Philadelphia, March 11 Intensified interest in newspaper reading, carrying U. S. daily circulation to an all-time high of 46,706,904 sales per day through 1943.

is revealed by the 1944 edition of N. W. Ayer Jc Son's Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals. This represents a daily gain of 2,214,068 over last year, although mergers and discontinuances have reduced the number of dailies in the nation from 1894 to 1859. Sunday newspapers registered a circulation gain of 1,909.141.

at Brooklyn "4a8ay 1 At7YL 2,000 JAPANESE EXTERMINATED IN NORTH BURMA U. S. Tanks, With Crews Of Chinese, Baiter Western China Gateway New Delhi, March 11 (U.R) Two thousand Japanese troops have been exterminated in the Hukawng Valley of northern Burma where American tanks, manned by U. S. and Chinese crews, have broken the back of enemy resistance, It was officially announced today.

Front dispatches quoted Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of the combined American-Chinese forces, as predicting that the entire Hukawng Valley, eventual gateway to western China, soon will be in Allied hands. "The fight for Naingkwan and Walabum is won and only hopping up remains," Stilwell announced in a triumphant press release yesterday.

"I believe we have killed 2 000 Japanese in this operation alone, which Is good news in any language exeept Japanese," he said. paid high tribute to Chinese and American troops who "fought and died side by side" to clear the Japanese from the valley and open a way for the completion of the new Ledo supply road to China. Of the 2.000 Japanese killed. 800 were accounted lor by American infantry while another 500 were wiped out by a U. S.

tank column. The remainder were annihilated by the Chinese 22nd and 38th Divisions. The blows by Stilwell's forces thus practically eliminated the heretofore famed Japanese 18th Division. Hongkong Docks Bombed Chungking, March II (U.R) Liberator bombers of the 14th U. S.

Air Forces attacked the Kowloon docks at Hongkong last night, scoring many hits on the target area, a communique from Gen. Stilwell's headquarters announced today. Report Pope Told Rome to Be Spared On the Italian Frontier, March 11 (U.R) Usually well-informed sources here believed today that the Pope will announce to the world Sunday that the belligerent nations have assured him Rome will not be made a battleground. (There was no confirmation of this report in Allied quarters.) Latest information reaching here said the Pontiff will broadcast the announcement tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. (9:30 a.

m. Brooklyn time on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his coronation. Lengthy negotiations between Luigi Cardinal Maglione, the Vatican Secretary of State, and "diplomatic representatives of the belligerents" were said to have resulted in assurances that 'the sacred character of Rome will be respected by both belligerents, and the capital of Catholicism will not become a scene of battle." Tomorrow's ceremony will lack the ornate pageantry which marked the previous four coronation anniversaries. The tired Pontiff has asked that it be confined to a simple Te Deum mass in the SLstine Chapel, instead of the usual high mass celebrated In St. Peter's Cathedral itself.

Tojo Begs Ancestors' Aid Tokio Radio Reports Premier Hidekl Tojo, beseeching the aid of his ancestors, has "left Tokio to pay homage at the grand shrines of Ise," according to a Tokio broadcast heard yesterday by government monitors and reported to the United Press. Income Tax $16,000 Raised in Nassau In Infantile Paralysis War Mlneola, March 11 The 1944 campaign for funds to fight infantile paralysis raised $16,000 in Nassau County through various committees, Louis L. Kloos, chairman, has announced. He pointed out in the announcement, made at the final meeting of the campaign committee, that the figure did not include contributions made through theaters and sports organizations. Reports of amounts raised by such groups will be made by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis shortly, he said.

Light Bulbs Larger But Price Is Same Unable to -Mitain further supplies ef 80 candle power street light bulbs, the manufacture of which has been discontinued, the Long Island 'Liehtintr Company will install 100- candle power bulbs in their place ruu uioii. same -rice. This announcement, payers in Nassau and Suffolk counties, who will get the benefit of more light on their thoroughfares without any jump in their tax bills. 3 Armed Thugs Flee With $1,000 Payroll Boston, March 11 (U.R) Three men snatched a $1,000 payroll at gunpoint today in the office of the South Boston Iron and Metal Com-t, pany of South Boston. Six employes were in the office at the time.

Police said the trio escaped in an automobile, which they abandoned in the Savin Hill area efter a police chase. 1, i fed A A I "L' Genera! Montgomery do their duty every day are prolonging the agony." "Our great air arms are punishing the enemy and softening him up," Eisenhower said. He added praise for the Russians' great victories. pre-lnvaslon pressure on the Luftwaffe's potential by a four-pronged attack on Its production facilities in France last night. MADE GENERAL AT 38; YOUNGEST TO GET RANK Bomber Division Headquarters, England, March 11 (U.R) Curtis Lemay, small, clean-shaven, keen-eyed former Fortress pilot, received notice today of his promotion to major general, becoming at 38 youngest U.

S. officer to reach that rank. Lemay, from Lakewood, Ohio, commands this division of Fortresses. He came to England a year and a half ago as a colonel, bringing with him a group of Fortresses which he led into combat as one of the first Fortress units to tackle the Germans by daylight. In the ensuing year he rose to wing commander and then to division commander.

He led the first shuttle raid on Regensburg and has been one of the key men behind the planning of raids on Berlin. Lord and Lady Halifax To Visit Boston, New York Washington, March 11 (UP) The British Ambassador and Lady Halifax will spend four days next week In Boston, Hartford and New York, the British Information Service announced today. At a Boston University convocation in Trinity Church at 10 a.m. Monday, Lord Halifax will be given a doctor of civil law degree. In New York Thursday Lord Hall-fax will attend a luncheon of the Association of Radio News Analysts and in the evening speak to a Flench society.

Norwegian Submarine Sinks Two Nazi Ships juonaon, Marcn 11 u.R) The Norwegian submarine Ula sank two German supply ships and a smaller escort vessel during recent patrols in northern waters, lt was an nounced officially today. The sub marine also scored torpedo hits on a tanker and two supply ships. to Go! IJI At the extreme western end of the front Marshal Gregorv K. Zhukov's 1st Ukraine Army continued to bat tie the Germans for the third straight day in the streets of Tarno-pol, five-way Polish railroad Junction. Converge on Proskurov Sixty miles southeast of Tarnopol, others of General Zhukov's troops converged on the railroad junction of Proskurov on the Odessa-Lwow line.

In between those two armies the 2d Army under Marshnl Ivan S. Konev ground southward and westward into the German lines and captured more than 100 towns and settlements in the Uman area. Moscow said the three armies were no(W at grips with the three main bodies of the German army of the Ukraine and that it was believed a battle of annihilation was in progress on a scale exceeding all previous operations. Even the German war bulletin broadcast by the Berlin radio indicated that the situation was serious. Jap Barges Duck Soup, Says PT Hero 'The Japs are not as aggressive as they were when they started" ana tne campaign in the Southwest Pacific is definitely "looking up" for the United Nations, declared Lt.

Comm. John Bulkeley, famous PT boat, jifjunriron commander, while inspecting PT boats under construction at the Bayonne plant of the Electric Boat Company yesterday. Commander Bulkeley, who was in the Southwest Pacific for a year and a half, said he left Australia on Dec. 28 after contracting malaria. He has been a patient at Brooklyn Naval Hospital the last three weeks.

He lives at 45-42 41st Long Island City. He told how 12 PT boats encountered eight Japanese barges, each carrying 50 to 80 tons of supplies, mostly food. Since the Japanese eat little, every barge was important, he said, and "wecan sink those barges as fast as I am talking." He believes they stopped 90 percent of all barges bound for Buna. "Sinkings were so numerous," he said, "that the Japanese began using smaller barges and finally canoes, which they had taken from island natives." Charge Queens Golfer Violated Draft Law Robert M. Brooks.

32. of 11 Center Drive. Malba, was arraigned yesterday before Federal Commissioner Epstein on a charge of violating the Selective Service Act, He pleaded innocent and was released in $1,000 bail to await the action of the Federal grand jury. It was alleged that Brooks failed to keep Local Board No. 258, College Point, informed at all times of his latest mail address.

Brooks told the commissioner that he is a golf player, has been making a round of golf tournaments, and had no intention of wilfully disobeying the law. Woman and Grandson Rescued by Firemen Mrs. Jennie Kessler. 53, and her 7-year-old grandson, William, were rescued from- a second-floor apartment yesterday by firemen fighting a stubborn blaze in the basement of the two-story house at 1162 43d St, Escaping gas in the cellar exploded shortly after apparatus arrived, hampering firemen and cutting off escape for the elderly woman and the child, who were brought down ladders by Firemen John V. Mc-Kean and Alfred C.

Bohlin. Office IllWli tTl 4 I 4mJ London, March 11 (U.R) American heavy bombers, battling some of the Winter's worst flying weather, today heavily blasted industrial Muenster in Western Germany, and, aided by U. S. medium and fighter bombers, sowed new havoc along the bomb-scarred French invasion coast without meeting a single German fighter plane. The attacks followed widespread RAF night assaults on four Nazi plane and aircraft component plants In Central and Southern France.

Indicating a new R. A. F. night assault on Germany, the Nazi Home Radio Service twice Interrupted programs tonight to warn that large number of British bombers were en route to the Reich. Radio Cologne went off the air.

The Luftwaffe, apparently conserving its remaining fighter strength for the invasion of Western Europe, failed to put one interceptor into the skies to meet the great force of American bombers and fighters that roamed at will over hundreds of square miles of German and occupied territory. All Bombing Planes Return Every bomber that took off from Britain at dawn for the eighth major American operation in 11 days, returned safely. Four U. S. fighters that were lost were be lieved victims of heavy Nazi flak.

The target areas, besides Muenster Included the Pas De Calais area of the French invasion coast. Thunderbolt fighter bombers of Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle's 8th Air Force carried out offensive sweeps over occupied territory, strafing airdromes, gun positions and other German military installa tions.

Utilize Secret Sights The Flying Fortresses used their secret overcast bombing instruments to hurl hundreds of tons of high explosives and incendaries on Muen ster, which Is a rail and waterway center on which many of the Ruhr industries depend. The RAF maintained the Allied Battles Rare Malady; Blood Gifts Only Hope Mourning the death of her three-year-old son, Barry, a victim of leukemia, Mrs. Mary Berlin of 178 Rockaway Parkway, is herself battling for life in Beth-El Hospital, stricken with similar disease, her only hope of survival being a blood donor appeal. Physicians at the hospital have sent out an urgent call for men and women who have survived an attack staphylococcusaureus, Mrs. Berlin's affliction, and who possess type 0 blood.

Dozens of volunteers were tested yesterday, with no success. Barry died at the beginning of this year, stricken by leukemia. Manning Hits Protests Against Berlin Bombings Bishop William T. MannMg of the Episcopal Diocese of New 'York has expressed "profound disagreement" with the stand taken by 28 clergymen protesting against the bombing of Berlin. He said yesterday that such protests are "spiritually and morally harmful." Tallinn Badly Damaged By Red Raid, Say Finns Stockholm, March 11 (U.R) Press dispatches from Helsinki said today that 60 percent of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, is in ruins after the Russian raid Thursday night In which 300 planes, instead of the 150 previously reported, took part.

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