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2 KIDNAP AUTOIST, SLA HIM IN HOLDUP Night Edition Brooklyn IftAGLE Weather Forecast By V. S. Weather Bureau Cloudy, Moderate Temperature Today; Tomorrow Clear, Warmer it it it it it DAILY AND SUNDAY C.rlM la Tat Dally Eagle) THREE CENTS BROOKLYN, N. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939 Balm la tee Breeeiya reetefflea aa 1 Claaa Mali Matter 99th YEAR No. 325 ftuv WIS 0 8FIF RUMANIAN GOVERNMENT RE SIGNS'? UUIHUS miTSL Two Kidnap GirUG9 UPratis F.O.ML For Itinner Partner Quits After Jolting Berlin Near Raiders Five French Planes Shot Down Near Front, Nazi Claim Costliest War Ever Fought, Says Britain Expense to Nation President to Carve Turkey at Warm Springs Though 20 States Ignore 'Franksgiving Day' AutoisL Slav Him in Raid Shot as He Flings Trade Hopes Paris, Nov.

23 (U.R) Intensl- L.LU.-Catholic U. Tilt Tops Boro Sports Program Home Team Ends Football Season Against Strong Visiting Eleven Minus Services of 3 Star Men of German aerial Olefin nnn lactivit brought Nazi a Day pianos to the Paris area early At the foundation, covers for 350 will be laid tonight, but a 6-year-old girl, a recent arrival at the foundation, will be the Presidential guest of honor. She is blue-eyed Ann Smithers of Frankfortt and Refuses to Grant 50 Boost in Rate Of the German Mark Beer Glass in Face Of Bandit in Cafe London, Nov. 23 W)-New ship-jtoday "used a 55-minute Warm Springs, Nov. 23 (U.R) President and Mrs.

Roosevelt led the nation in its observance of Thanksgiving Day, a celebration observed by 28 States a week before the traditional last Thursday in November by Presidential proclamation. Although the President will make the advanced holiday official by air laid alarm. Paris anti only recently has she been able to Two gunmen who apparently had sit up in a wneei cnair. one won the honor bv drawing straws with Bucharest, Nov. 23 u.raThe ping losses were added today to the toll of the war which Great Britain estimates officially is costing her $23,580,000 a day the most expensive conflict In history.

The latest of at least 18 British the 90 other infantile paralysis Rumanian Government head k'dnaped a motorist to act as their chauffeur while they attended to their holdup business, shot and and patients at the foundation, carving a turkey at dinner tonight aircraft batteries fired for 15 minutes before the "all clear" signal was sounded. The alarm was sounded shortly after midnight and the all clear signal sounded at 1 a.m. Search-lights played in the sky and watchers who did not rush to bomhnrnof ed by Premier Constantine at the Warm Springs Foundation and neutral ships striking mines or SorgSFhordnaUonhaUe Atolanu resigned today for infantile paralysis sutlers, Zd fatally wounded him during a hold The government was formed i being struck tonnes in a week States, including five that decided months. Nine otner patiems aiso Sent WBS lne ureen ireignier tiena up in S. Kowzan's bar and grill at to observe both dates, will celebrate ere winners, bi they will be merely 708 5th Ave.

at 2 a.m. today. refugea saw tracer bombs burst ir Tne! tne aay or giving manss nexi Continued an Page 3 I v. wj unit siiuva Argetolanu was named Premier a a mine off the outh coast of Eng-week after the assassination of land. Thursday, Nov.

30. bandits escaped, leaving their vic Twenty-four persons were rescued. rremier Armand callnescu by members of the outlawed Fascist Iron By RALPH TROST Collegiate football, rather than professional, will be the Thanksgiving Day dish in Brooklyn today as L. I. ending its first football season since 1931, takes on the powerful, only once-beaten Catholic U.

at Ebbets Field. The game starts at 1:30. This will be the main sports course. For seasoning, relish The Elena R. went down within an Gestapo Ribs me air.

No bombs were dropped and it was not known Immediately whether French anti-aircraft batteries and pursuit ships had succeeded in Intercepting the German planes, believed to have been on reconnais Guard. His appointment ended an tim unconscious on the barroom floor and his car, with motor running, outside. He died at 6:25 a.nf in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital. The slain man was identified as interim military rule with Gen. George Argesanu as Premier.

The resignation followed closely British Agents sance. and cocktails, the sports fans are of- fered two outstanding school games, John Edward Glass, 38, of 49 Frank w-t Taj -wr Road, West Englewood, N. a ff, Xm nilflT carpenter, who had driven to Brook upon Rumania's refusal to grant an increase of nearly 50 percent in the exchange rate of the German mark U.S. Indicts 12 In Trust Quiz Charges Conspiracy To Raise Prices Of Building Products By Wireless a blow at German hopes for great Ten patrons, women as well as er iraae witn this country. What, ii any, connection there was between the two developments was not at once apparent.

men, were at the bar when the gunmen and Glass entered. One of them went up to tho bar with Glass, prodding him in the side with a a city-wide soccer championship and, at Ebbets Field, a kicking and passing contest in which the outstanding high school players of the city will compete. This, starting at 11, will have its finale between halves of the collegiate game. As announced in yesterday's Brooklyn Eagle, L. I.

chance 'Hearty Greetings End Contact With Foe In Bomb Plot Probe Berlin, Nov. 23 Hearty gieetlngs from your affectionate Mines Rip 14 Ships By the Associated Press The mine has replaced the submarine as the chief destroyer of shipping In the war at sea. In the week since Nov. 15, mines have sunk or wrecked 14 ships, total tonnage 36,268. In the same period, submarines accounted for only three vessels totaling 5,441 tons.

The loss of one ship waa laid merely to "enemy action." The loss of life the mine-eaused disasters tops 150; less than a doxen perished In the three torpedoed boats. Great Britain la the chief loser with six vessels sunk bv revolver. The other stood near the A conspiracy to raise the price of 80 percent of the sand and gravel door. used in New York City from 20 to 35 percent was charged today in an A German economic mission, having failed to get th rate raised from 41.5 Rumanian lei to 60 lei for each mark, left for Berlin by air last night. (In term of American money, such a change would have raised the mark's purchasing power in ORDERS DRINKS ON HOUSE Is Murdered In Hollywood Methodical Killer Fires Three Bullets Into Victim in Car Hollywood, Nov.

23 (U.R) A pair of methodical killers, who stood at close range and fired three bullets, derrnaa opposition, German Ges Indictment against eight corpora Glass' guard then ordered the bartender, Stefanus Galinski of 203 uons, the Long Island Sana and Gravel Producers Association and 12 against the powerful Catholic U. team that has chalked up 194 points this season will be considerably tapo With those words, according to a officers of the organisations. Rumania from 30.3 cents to 43.8 23d "clean out the cash register and hand me the dough." Galinski. complied, giving the man DNB (official news agency) account dimmed by its determination not to cents.) The indictment, returned by a In Berlin, the German communique claimed five French pursuit planes were shot down in border patrol combat yesterday, but acknowledged no German losses, the Associated Press reported. TThe communique said: "southwest of Pirmasens an enemy company attacked German vanguard posts.

It was repulsed and suffered heavy losses. On Nov. 22 lively scouting activity by the German airforce over France and England achieved unusually valuable reconnoitering results despite strong pursuit plane and antiaircraft defense. "On Nov. 21 an air encounter ensued over French territory between nine German destroyer planes and seven French pursuit ships.

The French pursuiters were routed and thereby our own reconnaissance planes were enabled to continue their scouting activity." The alarm in the Paris area followed renewal of great aerial activity by both the French and Germans. FINE WEATHER FOR FLYING While German and French planes use three players who hadtPWl the Rumania also declined to furnish tank cars which Germany would about $50, he later told storm center of a C. C. M.Y.-L. I.

Federal grand Jury in Manhattan, came as the first result of the nation-wide inquiry into alleged illegal published today, were ended 21 days of wireless contacts between the German secret police and British ah right," the gunman ordered. controversy. They are Leo trice, need in buying Rumania petroleum "Now serve the drinks on the house." trade practices undertaken by the but did agree to lift an embargo on the export of oil-bearing seeds to Galinski complied, giving Glass a today murdered George Schachter, formerly of New York, as he sat in Department of Justice, Nov. 8, on intelligence 21 days in which the German operatives wormed espion glass of beer. Germany.

order of Attorney General Frank But how about my Glass Murphy. mines, Including the destroyer Gipsy. Seven neutral nations Italy, The Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Lithuania and Greece shared the other losses due to mines. The Nail Government challenged British claims with the statement that 11 merchantmen, eight British, had failed to reach British ports since Nov. 8.

protested. "What are you going to do with my car?" It is charged in the tme bill, con. taining two counts alleging viola We'll leave it where vou can find his car. Police said the killing had the earmarks of a gangland "rubout." Schachter was a clothes presser by trade, according to his wife, and he came here six months ago from it," his guard assured him. Uons of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, that the corporations formed the association last January and Apparently that did not satisfy age secrets from their foe by posing as anti-Hitler revolutionists.

The whiplash disclosure of the real Identity of the "revolutionists" was said by DNB to have been given only yesterday. That was one day after the Gestapo nad announced obtaining a confession from Georg Elser of him. Suddenly Glass nicked ud his College Fraternity Invites Sally Rand To Be Its 'Mother9 Richmond. Va Nov. 23 JP) The Greeks had a word for Sally Rand today.

one-time New Utrecht star; Irving Friedenthal, once of Boys High, and Leo Hirsch, formerly of Samuel Til-den. All three had played semi-pro football with the Bay Parkways between the high school and college days. VOLUNTARY MOVE The move was voluntary. A. J.

Bergman, Catholic U. coach, had made no protest. Clair Bee, L. I. U.

coach, took the action in deference to the visiting players. In the first of the high school games, St. John's Prep, with a record of six victories and only one defeat, meets Brooklyn Prep, a specialist in tied games, at Boys High that uniform price schedules, calling for the increases, were immediate glass of beer and flung it, contents and all. In his captor's face. The gunman who had remained on New York.

He was shot In the head, cheek and threat. The shooting occurred at a street ly issued. hour, with her cargo of grain bound for Antwerp. The Admiralty related that the To prevent the more or less minor guard at the door swung around and corner in the movie studio area competitors of the combination fired three times. Two bullets Authorities at the University of destroyer Gipsy was beached on the from Interfering with its virtual Munich that he planted the Buer-eerbrau time bomb Intended for Richmond ruled that all fraternities struck Glass In the head.

Then both bandits fled. Residents in an apartment house across the street heard three shots and saw two men Jump Into a black east coast Tuesday after striking a monopoly the indictment contends, operators of Inland pits were en must have house mothers so the Adolf Hitler. The announcement Police of the 5th Ave. station were seaan ana speed away. said Elser had British financial lcal chapter of Kappa Sigma, aware mine.

Forty or her crew were missing and 21 injured. Built in 1936. she carries a normal complement summoned and Dr. McCroskery couraged to organize into the Nassau County Sand and Gravel Producers Credit Association. backing moved the unconscious man to the Schachter was found behind the wheel, of an old coupe.

Heavy troubles, dispatched this telegram oi flew in increasing numbers in fine weather over the Western Front, Nazi ships appeared over northern France and the French announced that eight Nazi warplanes had been shot down. Their report coincided with British dispatches confirming that three German planes had been shot down over British territory since Monday. A French war communique last night said that "two enemy submarines, one of which was discovered hospital. Field, Maple St. and Schenectady Ave This eame starts at 10:30.

An powder burns Indicated the killer Sorry to hear of your financial busf But mm, nn rinum nnH H. I MA-N-TIC MINES BLAMED DIRECTLY LINKED TO BOMBING In the same connection, the Ges- THOSE NAMED neid the gun only a few feet from hour later, at Dexter Park, Elderts Named In the indictment are Wil ecnacnter. We have to get anew house mother British naval writers have sug-And we'd rather have you than ani that the "dden Increase in i chin IncrAe fia a Accused Kidnaper tapt also had announced the arrest of two British secret service men, identified as Capt. Richard Henry liam Jeffery of Greenwich, Conn, secretary of the association, and the following firms and their officers: other. snip losses is due to "magnetic mines," planted by the nt Brooklyn Bridge Fire Slays Self After Stevens, 42 chief of the European Metropolitan Sand and Gravel intelligence division, and Sigismund Jams Rush Hour Traffic Corporation and its president, Wil Duel With Cops depths too great for minesweepers to detect, but so devised that they rise when a sizable vessel passes overhead.

Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Payne Best. 54, an aide. Yesterday the two men were ac liam A. Atkins of Indianapolis. All vehicular traffic on Brooklyn Bridge was halted yesterday during Nanning Aflame; Bombs Kill Many Seaboard Sand and Gravel Cor Lane and Jamaica Ave, Jonn Adams meets Stuyvesant.

The city P. S. A. L. soccer championship, to be settled by Manual Training and James Monroe hooters, is being played at Commercial Field, Albany Ave.

and Lincoln Road, the game starting at 10. CATHOLIC U. STRONG Until squelched two weeks ago by St. Anselm's, Catholic U. was unbeaten.

It opened the season by defeating South Carolina, which had Continued on Page 9 Topeka, Nov. 23 tw cused of direct connection with the Munich bomb plot from which Hitler escaped by only 11 minutes on poration and its president, Anderson Dana of New York. me nomewara rusn hour when I fire was discovered in the tar be tween the bricks on the Manhattan Trapped in a tear gas filled hotel Exchequer, said in a radio broadcast last night: room, an accused kidnaper shot "You have been reading In your McCormack Sand and Gravel Corporation, its president, William J. Chungking, Nov. 23 0J.R) Chinese Nov.

8. Last night dnb cistriDutea for publication an account of 21 himself In the head and died early today after a gun and word battle newspaper of this latest abomina McCormack of New York, and its military dispatches today reported appalling destruction and heavy loss with a detective. days of coded wireless contacts between the Gestapo and the British bound lane. Fire apparatus used the Brooklyn side of the bridge to approach the blaze, and al lother traffic was barred until 6 p.m. Cars were diverted to other downtown bridges and downtown Manhattan Floyd C.

Wadden, 30, Davenport, of life at Nanning, Kwangsi Prov by our naval air force, have been sunk at three-day intervals by the same torpedo boat." ADMIT I PLANES LOST The French, it was admitted, lost two planes in fighting on the Western Front this week. One French pilot was killed when his parachute failed to open. Cheered by French successes in the air, Premier Daladier held important conferences last night with Minister of the Navy Cesar Cam-pinchi, Air Minister Guy La Cham-bre and Minister of Armaments Raoul Dautry. They discussed increasing supplies of armaments and efforts to combat Germany's war on the sea and in the air. Dautry, meanwhile, ordered the Intelligence.

ince capital, now under attack by Iowa, auto salesman, told Police Chief Charles D. McKnaught the Quoting "competent quarters," the Japanese columns which landed on tion of German savagery the magnetic minesecretly deposited in channels of the sea in order to blow up without warning neutral and British shipping alike. All that skill an dscience can devise is devoted to meeting the new danger. We are confident our efforts will be success was jammed. mani still unidentified, abducted vice president, John J.

Bosch of Flushing. Land Improvement and Supply Company, and its president, Charles L. McKenzie of Pittsburgh. Gallagher Brothers Sand and Gravel Corporation, its president, Peter C. Gallagher of New York, its him in Davenport Tuesday morn news agency said that the contacts were ended at 10:10 a.m.

yesterday with the following message: ing. Papers in the dead man's pockets Mrs. Camp to Tell If It's True About Kuhn Tomorrow Mrs. Florence Camp of Los An indicated he was registered with the the Gulf of Tongklng two weeks ago. Ten Japanese air raids a day have been staged against Nanning for the last three days, the Chinese reported.

Air raid alarms in Nanning have been almost continuous, the Chinese said. Large portions of the city are 7 U. S. Bombers Hop From Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 23 UP) Seven vice president, James V.

Murphy of Iowa Employment Service at Mar Rockville Centre, and its secretary shalltown, Iowa, as A. L. Morford, I butcher. treasurer, J. Murray Gallagher of New York.

Wadden said he slipped away after O'Brien Brothers Sand and Gravel tne Kidnaper took a room at the ho. United States Army bombers took off today for Natal on the first leg of their homeward flight with 10 Brazilian army officers as passen tel and called police. Detective F. Company and O'Brien Brothers, their president, Joseph J. ful." Appealing to small investors to buy new national savings certificates, Sir John called the war "the most expensive ever fought," and set the expense at 6,000,00 ($23,580,000) daily.

FEAR 9 FRENCHMEN LOST London, Nov. 23 (U.R) A French trawler was sunk off the southeast coast of England Monday night, it was disclosed It was feared that nine of the crew of 10 were in flames. Casualties are known to be great but the almost constant presence of Japanese bombers has made it impossible to count the Thompson and other officers rushed O'Brien, and their vice president, to the room. gers. most morougn mobilization of industry and agriculture in French history.

Some of the products of both industry and agriculture are destined for Britain, it was announced, and observers regarded the preparations as part of the program to meet the newest German mine threat. Harold F. OBnen, both of New The goodwill squadron came here bodies. York. Foreign embassies and legations here said that they have received geles, the "angel woman" upon whom FriU Kuhn Is charged with lavishing funds of the German-American Bund, testifies tomorrow at the larceny trial of the romantic Bundesfuehrer In General Sessions, Manhattan.

Kuhn, red-faced, admitted on the witness stand yesterday that he had lied when he said he would marry the blond Mrs. Camp when the time was astrologically propitious. "In the long run, conversation with self-important foolish persons is boresome. You will understand if we break off. Hearty greetings from your affectionate German opposition, German Gestapo." GET IN LAST WORD This grimly humorous finale to the Gestapo's cat-and-mouse game was said to have been taken as a matter of routine by the British radio operators who got In the last word by acknowledging receipt of the farewell message.

DNB said: "Since the exposure of the English espionage action, despite the German announcement at this time, apparently it still was unknown to the English secret wireless station. Botn English operators, Inman and Walsh, even acknowledged this final message." eight days ago for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Brazilian Republic. Henry Steers. and its vice president, Henry Steers Jr. of Hunt no reports of injuries to their na tionals in Nanning.

ington. The Brazilians compose part of a Thompson called the man to the door. The man fired, striking the detective's pistol. Thompson fired back, hitting him in the hand. All the time he kept talking to the kidnaper, trying to get him to surrender.

Finally Thompson ordered tear gas spurted into the room. A minute later the officers heard a shot. They found the, man lying on the floor critically wounded. Dr. and Mrs.

D. D. Coffin of i lost. Swift Fights City Plan mission to study defense methods of United States Army technicians. Western Train Hits Mrs.

Camp will tell her side of their Wenatchee, are the only Americans known to be in Na.ming. They are attached to the Seventh Day Adventist Mission. About six Britons were known to be In Nanning when the Japanese attacked. The Japanese yesterday were reported to be only ten miles from The vessel, it was understood, al- Give 1 hanks, Brethren ready had been accounted for in the list of recent casualties of the It Oil Kaill Or sea. On Tuesday it was reported to thankful for-it than an unidentified French boat, had gone down after striking a mine.

probably won't rain or snow today, The vessel, it was believed, was the even though it will be fairly cloudy, trawler officially listed as sunk There wiU lltUe chan8e tem. Motor Car Engineer Dies alleged romance as a witness for the prosecution. Five letters Kuhn wrote to Mrs. Camp, urging her to obtain a di vorce, and replete with warm but Nanning, which is defended by Gen. uuay.

The Gestapo had asserted that the misspelled words, were read by the North Chicago, HI, Nov. 23 (U.R) The engineer of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad's northbound "Winnebago" limited was killed and two crew members and two "passengers were Injured late perature. Tomorrow, according To Bond Warehouses Thomas A. Swift, executive secretary of the Downtown Brooklyn Association, was the principal opponent yesterday of the city administration's bill to charge an annual license fee of $100 and a bond of $5,000 for public warehouses. Warehousemen assailed the bill at a public hearing beore the City Council Committee on Genera: Welfare at City Hall.

Mr. Swift, speaking for the fur storage Industry, declared that the British agents operated rom a head-! Tsal Ting-Kai, who held Shanghai, fishing BOT r-wu. N.twionruifor six weeks against the Japanese U-BOAT SINKS FISHING BOAT at The Hague, Netherlands prosecution to bolster its charges that Kuhn used Bund funds to pay quarters to the fair and Pasajes, Spain, Nov. 23 (Pi Six in 1932. Weather Bureau, will be the "angel woman's furniture mov.

lng bills. yesterday when the train struck a railway motor car. Capital, but the location or tne wireless station was not specified in the new disclosure. According to the Gestapo, the two British agents were arrested Nov. 9 tuVion thav ofromntjv) tst pntpr Gpr- wen crewmen uic ricutu boat Balyes II reported today their armer' turnln colder at nlht boat was sunk off the coast of France by gunfire of a German sub- marine.

One hundred and thirty escaped injury although four U. S. Assured of Aid In Defending Canal Guatemala City, Nov: 23 M) in the Eagle Today cars were derailed. bill rate Hum Wood 14 is simply more regimentation mRny from the Netherlands at Ven- Mayor Inspects New Roadway on Bridge The new south outer roadway of the Williamsburg Bridge, which was inspected by Mayor LaGuardia yesterday, will not be entirely completed for a few months yet, although regular two-lane operation was under way today. Work on the outer railings on both the north and south roadways will continue.

The total cost of the Job, feature of which Is the open grating type of construction to prevent the accumulation of Ice on the roadway and skidding, was $551,800, of which the PWA granted 1239,319 Accompanying the Mayor were Borough Presidents Raymond V. In-gersoll and Stanley Isaacs and PWA officials. Public Works Commissioner Irving V. A. Hule was the first to drive across the eastbound lane.

Prepare Queens List loo. A. L. Center to Bear Line en Linen IS Sbitaarlei Badle IS Of Social Agencies and places further restrictions on business and we are against it." John Rainey, Deputy Commissioner of Licenses, spoke In behalf of the legislation and pointed out (The British Foreign Office has denied that any British agent knew of any German "described as having inspection of the Panama Canal, nnict IJerp said today they had been assured OI 1 llvrc of Central American co-operation Tho new Police Athletic Leanue Bekert QalUen IB JOllV TOE ui: cross NOW Give your Brooklyn addreae if you join where too work Diacea a oomo in vne muiuuii ixuai Serial JS Bklpalnr 16 Fata Brain Teaier IS SHtl IS CiiuI'i Cartoon Clifford Etaae 11 Camlet 1 Crosiword IS Br. Bradr 1 Ediar Gneit Editorial Garden Corner IS Grin and Bear It Reflernan 11 Btlta Worth 11 for strengthening defense of this "youth center, 1348 E.

64th will goelelr 1 hemisphere. ibe dedicated at 2:30 p.m. saturaay. The group, which has visited sev-jt will be named for Patrolman used for storage purposes which are and called the arrest of two British unfit both as to fire hazards and I subjects at Venloo a kidnaping, sanitary conditions and I think we (Reports at the time of the Venloo can sit down with the legitimate affair said shots were fired and that A new "Directory of Quena Social Agencies" is being prepared for distribution by the Queensboro Council for Social Welfare, 12-26 31st Astoria. The volume will contain particulars about the borough's 64 welfare organizations, 11 hospitals and 30 civic, religious and educational groups interested In welfare work.

laerta 14-U Theater! 18 eral countries, planned to fly to Frank White oi the old 35th pre nrnn were carried Into Mexico Cltv today and possibly ar- clnct. who died 14 years ago of! -16-11 it Want Atd Woman that wlU bt i a benefit to the in- Germany These were known to in-1 range an Interview with President wounds he suffered while preventing I dusty," Pelade a Hague garage owner.) lLazaro Cardenaa. la burglary. I 0.