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mm fo) Vows Swift Probe Of 'Terror Reign' After Sex Arracks WALL ST. CLOSING RACING EXTRA Mayor LaQuardia today promised immediate action to end the reign of terror in the Red Hook Housing project. LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; continued cool tomorrow forced to remain indoors after 99th YEAR No. 271 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. MONDAY, SEPT.

30, 1940 5 CENTS 1 P. 8. Corporatism Women and children have been dark following one attack and the past weekend. "We'll get busy on it right tion," the Mayor declared at Sum mer City HaU. lasi rriaay nignt a young wom pmn to Peirmif' Invasion by visitor to the home of Mrs.

Prank Valentl at 85 Lorraine Fir ibraltoir Drive, Italy in the project, was raped In the apartment elevator by an intruder brandishing a knife. Earlier the same evening another young girl living at 79 Lorraine also In the project, was pursued up three flights of stairs by a man answering the same description. The following night a man an I swering the same description swarthy, heavy set, about 33 years old and wearing a sweater or 1 windbreaker was chased by prl 1 vate police working at the project and escaped over the roof and down another stairway. I Family Flans to Move Miss Gladys La Fetra, manager of the Red Hook unit, referred all inquiries on the matter to the main office of the New York City Hous I tag Authority in Manhattn. There It was stated that the "police were Investigating" and no statement would be forthcoming for the present.

The Valentl family today was Rome Hits U. S. Aid to Britain As 'War Act Franco Backs Powers' Goal, Gayda Claims Rome, Sept. 30 (JP) Joint Italian German plans for ful 3D TERM HELD VITAL TO ALL FREE LANDS Dictators Would Hail F. D.

R. Defeat, Says Lehman in Keynote A. L. P. Electors Picked Re election of President Roosevelt would serve as "a beacon of hope to the oppressed peoples throughout the world" while his defeat would give satisfaction to Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Japan, Governor Lehman declared today in the keynote address of the Demo fillment of Axis goals including Gibraltar have been reached at a Berlin conference which Included Col.

Gen. Wll helm Keitel, chief of the high forces, Virginio Gayda reported today. The authoritative Fascist editor said in II Glornala D'ltalla that a meetina betwem ,4 completing arrangements 10 move 7 'V If A t't i from Red Hook after the young noman, a relative of Mrs. Valentl visiting from Boston, was assaulted. Mrs Valentl told the Brooklyn Eagle the attacker had followed the girl Into the elevator and threatened to kill her with a knife unless she submitted to his advances.

After the attack the man escorted the girl to the door of the Valentl apartment and warned her not to tell any one what had happened. Girl Recants he After Pair IstConvicted Sends Letter to Jurist Following Trie! Abortion Witness Faces Jail for Contempt Machinations which caused a witness in an abortion trial to recant her testimony today came to light in the courtroom of County Judge Franklin Taylor. Miss Anna Porcaro, 19, of 56 N. Elliott Place, who came Aids Heair. command of German armed Spain's Minister of Government Ramon Serrano Suner, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Clano, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and General Keitel had "unified plans of ths thre friendly Powers." This was taken in some foreign circles as a sign that Generalissimo Francisco Franco may have agreed to allow German troops to use Spain as a base for attack on Gibraltar.

Serrano Suner, who li on his way to Rome, will settle any points at Issue between Italy and Spain in conversation witlj Premier Mussolini, Gayda said. Possible plans for Axis forew to occupy French Morocco, and thm close the Western Mediterranean gate by holding both sides of the strait, also were considered A lively topic for discussion between Mussolini and Franco's envoy. Gayda declared flatly that the Axis' plans for rearrangement Europe and Africa include restora. tion of the rock to Spain. (Rumblings of a turn in Axis diplomacy toward Spain and Gib.

raltar were heard also In London and Berlin.) Claim U. S. Act of War Rome, Sept. 30 (U.R) Ths most widely circulated newspaper in Italy, the authoritative Corriers Delli Serra of Milan, today charged that United States' aid to Great Britain constituted "an act of war." The newspaper charged thatPres ident Roosevelt was employing hypocritical tactics in an effort to a third term in the White Housa and that his promises to keep th United States out of war werf pure electoral tactics." The newspaper centered its fira on the deal whereby the United States gave Britain 50 over age destroyers in return for Western Kemtephere defense bases and pre posals to provide England with fly ing fortress bombing planes. "Now it's announced," said the paper, "that the United States will half its flying fortresses to Lntain.

Again the dealer isn't ft private citizen but the State. Thes acts are more than merely supplying other countries with one's owa goods these are acts of war." Berlin, Sept. 30 UP) Axis dlplonw acy turned aggressively today la two directions toward Soviet Rus Continued on Page War 'Hardly British Official Warns London, Sept. 30 W) Capi F. C.

Crookshank, financial secretary to the Treasury, told Brit I ons today that "the war was really hardly begun" and urged them to "save to the limit" to finance ar maments for big battles to come. IN TODAY'S EAGLE two attempted assaults over away that's a terrible situa 1 The attack was reported to police of the Hamilton Ave. station. John J. Harvey of 79 Lorraine St.

baa organized a group of Irate residents to get signatures to a petition to the Mayor and Police Commissioner Valentine demand ing more police be assigned to Red Hook Mr. Valentl said that it was common gossip among residents of the project that laundries in the basements of the buildings had been the scene of attempted attacks on yonng girls. Mrs. Greta Windsor, 29, of 467 Columbia Immediately adjacent to the project, committed suicide by gas last Friday night and left a note for her husband, Sam, which warned: "Move away from this place as soon as possible, because you don't know what you'll bump into when you go out." Suicide Charged to Fears Mr. Windsor recalled that his wife had gone to a bakery last Wednesday night and had returned white and shaken to tell him a young girl had run up to her in tne street and asked for help because a man had been trailing her.

The following night when the Windsors were returning from a community social at the project Windsor, who seemed unnerved, pointed to a nearby parked car and said to her husband: "The men In there are trying to get me." He attempted to allay her fears, said. Twenty four hours later she committed suicide. "If we had been provided with sufficient police protection this might not have happened," he said. Charges before Judge Taylor on a contempt of court charge was told that it was his intention to discharge her, but because of the report of a probation officer she would be paroled in the custody of her attorney, to make another court appearance next Monday. On that day sentencing is set for Mrs.

Louise Mostromarine of 915 40th St. and Thomas I Russa of 6725 10th who were convicted last Wednesday on the abortion charge brought by Miss Porcaro. The girl was committed for contempt because she cried out, 'Til kill somebody for this!" during the trial. On Sept. 26 she wrote a letter to Judge Taylor declaring that her testimony was false and that she brought the charge because La Russa had refused to marry her.

Subsequently, Judge Taylor sent a probation officer to Raymond Street Jail and received the report that the original charge was true but the girl had been persuaded to change her testimony by representative of Mrs. Mostromarino, who visited her in Jail and said La Russa would marry her if she dropped the charge. France to Improve West Indies Base Vichy, Prance, Sept. 30 (U.R) The government today decided to proceed with elaborate improvements of facilities for French warships at Island of Martinique, in the West Indies. The Improvements will be at Port de France, on the Island of Martinique for the benefit of French warships based in the Antilles, It was stated.

Officials said the plan for marl time improvements was prepared early in the war, but later delayed by the military collapse of France and the German occupation. Ne bids have been asked, however, or work starting early in 1941. The Island of Martinique was blockaded by British warships after the French armistice with Germany to prevent transfer of American built airplanes from Fort deFrance to Europe and to guard against use of the base against Britain. C. I.

O. Parley Nov. 18 Washington, Sept. 30 (U.R President John L. Lewis announced today that the third annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations would begin in At lantic City, Nov.

IS. 'ROCK A BYE BABY' The classic mother's lullaby was being crooned today by Adelaide Moffett Buckner, society singer, to her blue eyed baby son born yesterday at the Le Roy Sanitarium, Manhattan. The infant's daddy, William P. Buckner will be eligible for parole next December from the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, where he is serving a two year sentence on a mail fraud and conspiracy conviction. He began serving the sentence April 3.

cratlc State Convention in Manhattan Center, Manhattan. Governor Lehman, who has been described by the President, as "my good right arm," opened the New York State campaign for a third term for President Roosevelt with the declaration that defeat would "weaken the resistance of free nations and blast the hopes of millions of people who love liberty." The convention recessed at 1:45 p.m. until 8:30 tonight, when an address will be made by United States Senator Robert F. Wagner as permanent chairman and the State candidates will be nominated. Farley Still Snlks James A.

Farley, the State chair man, was there in the flesh as ne opened the convention, but figura tively he was still sulking lr his wigwam. Not once in his brisk, businesslike declaration that the convention was in session nor later when" he Introduced Governor Leh man as temporary chairman did Mr. Farley mention the name of President Roosevelt, huge portrait with the slogan "Carry On With Roosevelt" was so close to Mr. Farley on the platform that it could have bitten him. The former national chairman's neglect of the national standard bearer was the more pointed by the glowing praise he handed to Governor Lehman.

Mentioning that New York State had Democratic governors continuously since 1918, except for a two year interlude, Mr. Farley said: "And there was not one who gave the State a greater administration than the present occupant, Herbert H. Lehman." Governor Lehman, on the other hand made mention of the President before he had gone many words into his speech, and there was cheering for half a minute at the mention. Although the garment Industry area about the Manhattan Center is a Roosevelt stronghold, the two galleries were almost empty as the convention got under way. There were fewer than 100 spectators upstairs and even many of the delegate reats were unfilled.

McCooey sang "The Star Spangled Banner." Governor Lehman had reached the point in his speech at which he predicted an overwhelming victory in November when his 30 minutes of radio time came to an end. The last few sentences of his address, including his final glowing reference to President Roosevelt, were not broadcast. Before the convention opened at noon the State Committee met at the National Democratic Club in Manhattan and agreed upon a slate of 47 Presidential electors, six of whom are members of the American Labor party. Armstrong on Slate The Labor party, It Is understood, will substitute this slate for the one it named at its Utica convention two weeks ago, insuring the appearance on the ballot under both Continued an Page 11 4TH NAZI THRUST OF DAY PIERCES LONDON DEFENSE R. A.

F. Smashes 3 Raids British Blast Fokker Plant, Reich Oil Supply London, Sept. 30 (p) Nazi war planes, coming over with gradually Increasing strength, smashed again and again at London's defenses to day, running into a continuous thunder of antl alrcYKJ, fire and dogfights with Britain's swift fighter planes. The actions took place In a haze of fog. The British declared they had turned back most of the thrusts, downing at least 11 German planes.

But the fourth main drive of the day, in which a force of 180 Nazi planes took part, penetrated to the outskirts of London. Although the main body was broken up, said the British Air Ministry, a few planes dropped bombs in London's western suburbs, causing casualties and damege. Fokker Factory Raided London, Sept. 30 (U.R) The Air Ministry reported tonight that Royal Air Force bombers in the past 24 hours heavily attacked the Fokker aircraft factory near Amsterdam and started great fires. The attack on the Fokker plant was part of a far flung aerial attack on Germany's military and industrial resources that included a smashing three hour bombing of the great German oil refinery at Magdeburg.

(The attack on the Fokker plant indicated British belief that the Germans are utilizing or plan to utilize the resources of this Dutch aircraft manufacturer to add to the output of their own aircraft plants.) The ministry said that plots re Continued en Page 2 Tigers Sign Baker For 1941 Season Detroit, Sept. 30 (U.Ri Owner Walter O. Briggs of the Detroit Tigers announced today that Manager T)t Baker has been signed for 1941. Detroit, Sept. 30 W) Mickey Cochrane, who managed the 1934 35 pennant winning Detroit, baseball teams, said today he had not been approached by the Cleveland Indians' management regarding a possible appointment as manager if Oscar Vitt resigns.

Not a manufacturer's agent, Cochrane said, "I have not been considering my return to baseball adding, "I'd like to get a pretty concrete offer first." WHERE TO FIND IT Prosecution Completes Torch Murder Case Third Confession Gives Gruesome Account Of Attack and Burning of Bay Ridge Girl The State completed its case against Peter Salemi, 32 I. R. WINS NEW CONTRACT SAVING MILLION ICC Approves Deal Sharply Reducing Payments to Pennsy The debt ridden Long Island Railroad today won approval from the Interstate Commerce Commission In Washington of a revised contract with its pareut corporation, the Pennsylvania Railroad, which will save the Long Island more than $1,000,000 a year. Terms of the new contract. drastically altering the much criti cized relationship between the two railroads, first were revealed by the Brooklyn Eagle on June 26 of this year.

The old contract, long attacked by commuters' groups as providing a means for the Pennsylvania to "milk" the Long Island, was criticized in a series of articles entitled "Long Island Commuter," carried last March in this newspaper. Interest Is Reduced The new contract covers the use by the Long Island Railroad of Pennsylvania Station, the East River tunnels and the trackage and other facilities of the Pennsylvania Railroad In Manhattan and Long Island City. Major points of revision of the contract, which is a Joint facility agreement, are reduction of Interest on the valuation of Pennsylvania property used by the Long Island from 5 percent to 4 percent annually; charges against the Long Continued on Page 16 Jobless Man Ends Life Samuel Frieband, 59, of 115 36 138th South Ozone Park, an unemployed pocketbook maker who recently underwent an operation and faced another, was found dead today in the cellar of his home by a son, Raymond. The elder Frieband was hanging from a beam. Police listed the death as a suicide and said two notes were found.

They did not divulge the contents. Button, Button Brooklyn police today were struggling with "The Mystery of the Buttons" as they launched a search for vandals who last night smashed a glass door of the women's division headquarters of the Kings County Willkie Committee at 123 Livingston St. and made oft with seven campaign buttons. yond the fact that the vehicle was constructed on an old Sanitation Department truck chassis, the Mayor said it was likely that duplicates would be made and placed at strategic points throughout the city. In emergencies, he said, they would be used to carry suspicious packages to a safe point for examination.

year old longshoreman, at 12:45 p.m. today after a blue rib bon Jury in Kings County Court had listened to the third of three confessions in which he admitted the torture murder of pretty 19 year old Frieda Olsen Gales Rip Atlantic, Expected fo Reach N. Y. Area Tonight Gales which churned the Atlantic today were heading Inland and were expected to hit the city tonight, continuing through tomorrow. Storm warnings were hoisted today from Cape Hatteras, N.

to Sandy Hook, N. J. Clouds but no rain appeared in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Cool temperatures will continue tomorrow. The mercury will reach a low of 55 degrees in the city by morning.

In the suburbs the low reading will be about 50. Cold temperatures swept over New York State today. In Owl's Head, "icebox of northern New York," the mercury dropped to 26, the coldest for the date in many years. In Malone, the reading was 30 degrees. Table and Cooking Fats Rationed by Italy Rome, Sept.

30 (U.R) Rationing of table and cooking fats, including butter olive oil and lard, was announced by the Ministry of Corpc rrtions today for all Italians. Narragansett Park Results wbot T3 knv 9.v.ir.nliti: 1t fitrlnnts. Blumcre (Emery) 8170 28.90 12.50 Valdlnn Squaw IN. Priio) 8.80 5 SO Machree (Wholey) 3.00 Time. 1:14.

Landfall. Est, Hup Nncy. Study Period. Delicto. aSaran also ran.

Oft lime 2:1014. aOlxlana entry. SECOND RACE Three yea oldi nd tip: three quarters mile. Sir Brookside (Taylor) 19.00 4 70 2.80 White Trent (Jedllnski) 10 4 40 Meadow Gold (Berger) 3 0 Time. 1:14 2 5.

Equitation, Druco Syt ka. Phil Gouth. Cotton Maid, One Strike. Eleven Wall. Truckin.

Boycott, Silver Beam lo ran. Off time. 2:31. DAILT DOUBLE PAID S3OS.70. Belmont Park Results FIRST RACE Three year oldi and up; bout two miles (steeplechase.

I But'n Bu iF. McKennai 10 90 9 40 6 30 aCupld iPassmorei 9 40 6 30 Chow Patty (G. Walker) 4.50 Time. 3:56 2 5. Pungo, bUltra Play.

Shadow Song. L'Odeon also ran. Offtime, aJ. H. Whitney.

bO. W. Hoblln, SECOND RACE Two year olds; leven 'h's mile. Ajility iWestropel 10.70 4.80 3.90 Kuntar Run (E. Arcaro) 7.40 6 50 Llanero (Haasi 1.70 Time, 1:25 4 5.

Aironomy, Pumion. Family Doe, Chance Cut alio Tall, Off lame, 2 .30. in a lonely section of Dyker Beach Warren Folkes, a gasoline sta tion operator, and Detective Thomas Quinn of the 10th Detective District were the last two witnesses called by Assistant District Attorney Edward A. Heffeman before the prosecution rested. Folkes testified that the man who purchased 3 cents worth of gasoline from him on the morning fi the murder "looks like the defendant." The State contends that Salemi attempted to cremate the girl to conceal his crime.

Jurymen Smell Container Detective Quinn, who found the container in which the gasoline was carried, brought on a display of legal fireworks when he was requested to smell the container and then testified that there was no odor of gasoline "right now." County Judge Martin after smelling the receptacle himself, asked Quinn: "Have you got a cold?" Former Magistrate David L. Mai Continued on Page 11 35 Workers Strike At Downtown Restaurant Charging that they were "deliberately harassed by an employer who wanted to avoid signing a new contract" 35 employes of Sonsire's Cafe, 306 Fulton members of the Cooks and Countermen's Union. Local 325, A. F. of L.

walked out on strike today. A spokesman for the restaurant said that the disagreement arose over the unwillingness of a cook to work Saturday 1 nights instead of in the day time. L. I. Army Plane Crashes in Hudson West Point, Sept.

30 JP) Five army air corps fliers were hurt, one seriously, today when their amphibian plane dragged a wing in the water during a takeoff and crashed in the Hudson River near the U. S. Military Academy. The men, members of the 97th Observation Squadron of Mitchel Field, L. were: 2d Lt.

McClellan F. Stunkard, pilot; 1st Lt. B. C. Rase, co pilot; 1st Lt.

Joseph E. Barzvnski Technical A. T. Yancy Jr. and Sgt.

E. R. Burdpv. The plane broke up at the Impact and threw the men into the water. They swam for 30 minutes before a crash boat from the academy airport reached them.

The injured were brought to the academy's hospital, where it was reported Yancy had received a severe back injury, while the others escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Lieutenant BarzynskI said that the ship "literally fell to pieces" at the impact. Mitchel Field reported that the men on the plane were First Lts. Bernard C. Hose and Joseph S.

Barzynski, Second Lt. Me Clellan F. Stunk Sgt. Andrew sumed at the on a regulai' alt Tnpting a Tecrical as pianc flight, was in the river. City Tests New Vehicle Used to Move Bombs Bridge Page 4 Mt Your Leader Fife I Children's Corner Page 8 Movies Page 4 Comics Page 18 Novel Page Crossword Page 19 OBITUARIES Page 11 Dr.

Brady Page 8 Patterns Page EDITORIAL Page 10 RADIO Page 18 Events Tonight Page 19 Real Estate Page 21 FINANCIAL Pages 16 17 Sermons Page it Grin and Bear It Page 10 Shipping Page II Harold TarroU Page 14 SPORTS Pages 13 14 15 Heffeman Page 9 Theaters Page 4 Helen Worth Page Tucker Page 1 Jimmy Wood Page 13 Wall Street Page 18 Llndley Page 8 Want Ada rages 19 20 21 Lost and Found Paga 1 Woman's Pag I A motor developed by city engineers for the safe transportation of suspected bombs, was demonstrated ruccessfully in Flatlands today before Mayor La Guardia, Police Commissioner Valentine and Fire Department officials, the Mayor revealed today. Declining to disclose details be.