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Wall Street Closing RACING EXTRA Wall Street Closing RACING EXTRA it it it it it it Emm LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy and warmer tonight; tomorrow, rain 3 CENTS Entered it the Brooklyn foitoffte 2d Qui Mill MitMr (OspTTl ht 1M0 Th Brooklyn DUy Kfi iF Corporation 100th YEAR No. 351 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1940 mumm mam wm 5 Tutors Face Jail for Defying Weighs Creation Of 'High Command' To Rush Defense Washington, Dec. 19 (IP) The Roosevelt Administration authorized the British Government today to negotiate new war material contracts at once possibly totaling School Red Quiz Cashmore's Pleas Win Feb.

1 Debut For Boro Library Eloquent Talk to Board Brings 59-Day Advance in Opening Date By HOWARD SWAIN tee Boro Teachers Served Show Cause Order In Contempt Action The possibility of actual imprisonment for their refusal to testify before closed hearings of the Rapp-Coudert committee today faced five 000 and simultaneously considered establishing a "high command" for the defense program. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, disclosing White House approval of the negotiations, The opening of Brooklyn's new library at Prospect Plaze will take place on Feb. 1, two months earlier than the pre Churchill Leans On U. S. Aid for viously announced date, it became known today.

Thereby hangs a tale that has the members of the Brooklyn Library "aboard of trustees buzzing among Brooklyn College teachers in the form of a show cause order obtained by Paul Windels, committee counsel, in Manhattan Supreme Court. All five were among those named by Assistant Professor Bernard D. N. Grebanler in testimony at the committee's open hearings, as mem themselves. said that no British contracts ac- tually would be signed until Congress could act on President Roose- i velt's "lease-lending" plan.

He disclosed, however, that the British were contracting now lor 80 merchant ships for which they would pay cash and which would not have to await approval of the Presidential program. Roosevelt Weighs Speedup Plans The White House, meanwhile, disclosed that the President had under consideration at least four or five plans for injecting speed into the defense program. One in It is a tale of an unheralded visit to a board meeting Tuesday night by Borough President Offensive in '41 Bardia Fall Due With Rear Guard bers of a Communist party unit at the borough school. John Cashmore, acting in his capacity of ex-officio member of The court order requires the five I to appear Dec. 26 and show why they should not be held in contempt of court for their refusal to testify and punished with imprison ment until they do comply.

It was volves a proposal to establish a signed by Justice Benedict Dineen. 'high command" for the program Teachers Named tne board, it has to do with a talk he gave the members which has been variously described as "reading the riot act," "stern," "belligerent" and "inspiring." However qualified, It is apparent that because Mr. Cashmore took active part in the two proceedings the library is to be opened 59 days earlier than any one, Including the members of the board, expected, 'Highly Co-operative Milton James 'Ferguson, chief headed by secretaries Stimson and Knox and William 8. Knudsen, in The five named in the order are: Trapped in City Bombs Block Escape To Tobruk, Where Rest Will Make last Stand Cairo, Dec. 19 () Italian rear guard forces left to defend Bardia, Libya's principal base in the fron DR.

HOWARD 8ELSAM, (stitttiU Pro dustrial production chief of the defense commission. Stephen Early, Presidential Secretary, said this suggestion had been discussed at a White House con Eaflt Staff photo RAMMED BY iATTLESH IP Listing to potfthe'tl freighter Melrose lies grounded on the Red Flats Jjfjfc WlW'Pft' Wttleshj(Jkansos off the New jersey share. This view is frm the foot of Von Brunt a quarter of a mile away from the ship, librarian, said today he was unable to detect any evidence of official fessor of philosophy. DR. HARRY SLOCHOWER, asslsttnt professor of German.

DR. FREDERIC EWEN? assistant professor of English. MURRAY YOUNG, Instructor of Inrlilh. MAURICE OOUR. tutor in chemistry.

An Affidavit by Senator Frederic R. Coudert subcommittee chair-mm, referring to Grebanler' testimony, and exhibits, including sub-penas 'aerved on the teachers and transcripts of their refusals to testify, were submitted to Justice Dineen by Windels. Five Still on Staff wrath on the part of Mr. Cashmore but hi added: Must Have Great Army To Fight at Home or Abroad, Commons Told London, Dec. 19 Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that Great Britain, with the material aid of the United States, must have a "jreat and well-trained army ready to fight at home or take the offensive against the Axis powers in 1941.

Although the Prime Minister ad that Britain was a "half armed" nation that had been fighting a power that had passed the saturation point in armament, he spoke with cold, analytical optimism of the successful offensive against Italian forces in Libya and the outlook for the coming year, Churchill said that: Seeks 'Opportunities' for Army In regard to the British Army in 1941, Churchill said: "We shall try and I trust find opportunities of using our forces, if not in the defense of this island then in other theaters of war where we may hope that they may be able to contend their opponents on terms, moderate perhaps in number, but on terms of equality in "That may have been because I had a chat with him after the WARSHIP RAMS COAL FREIGHTER ference yesterday. Stimson, Knox, and Assistant War Secretary Patterson yd Under-Secretary Forrestal of tiii Navy met with the Chief Executive, and. Early said he assumed they presented the plan to the President. Work Out Details of Proposal "They did not leave the plan with him," he added, "as a matter of fact, they took it back, at his request, to work out details. "The President has before him meeting and he certainly did not Peace Haven Cultists Probed by Bennett seem anything but highly co-opera tive then." The five were among 25 teachers Mr.

Ferguson made it clear that and clerks at Brooklyn college and tier region, have been trapped and their way -of rap tr'Tobmk is under aerial bombardment, British war communiques declared tonight. "Advanced elements of our troops Which have successfully contacted numerically superior enemy forces in Bardia are being steadily reinforced and the position of the remnants of the beaten Italian army in that area can now be regarded as precarious," said a British general headquarters communique. The Italians intend to make a last-man stand at Tobruk, military observers told the United Press in Rome. The Royal Air Force recounted raids and reconnaissance which none of the actions either of Mr, OFF HEW JERSEY Cashmore or members of the board in any way suggested hostility. He Collier.

Leakina. Beached and is studying along with this Continued on Pag I four or five other plans, In pian other public schools against whom Windels was authorized to institute proceedings by the joint legislative committee at its last public hearing, Dec. 4. Whether Windels was planning to take action against the other 18 was not revealed. It wa spointed out that the five named in the order are the only ones named by Grebanier at the open hearings who still are on the staff of Brooklyn College.

Seeks Evidence of Securities Fraud After Woman Wins Judgment for Loan Attorney General Bennett today launched an investigation Into the financial affairs of James B. Schafer of 152 W. 54th Manhattan, head of that Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians which was to have made little Baby Jean RAID MANNHEIM TO SMASH NAZI an effort to ascertain what, if any, realignment of defense setup is necessary." Secretary Morgenthau declined to estimate the amount of the new British contract-, but the figure of $3,000,000,000 was voiced in several capital quarters. The Cabinet member showed reporters a sheaf of tGauntt immortal by giving her nothing but love "24 hours a day." LINK TO ROME KERN CHARGES The mere fact that plans were I marie to carry on the war until 1944, I he emphasized, did not mean that it necessarily would continue that On Way to Boro Dock-Arkansas Undamaged On a calm sea, the seasoned battleship Arkansas collided today with the coal freighter Melrose some 15 miles off the New Jersey coast. The dreadnought returning from a training cruise in Southern waters with 500 naval reserve cadets on board, escaped undamaged.

But the collision, which occurred at 3 a.m., cracked a number of the collier's steel plates, and the Melrose, shipping water in two holds, listed to port and called for help. Before it came, however, she moved on to New York Harbor under her own steam, bound for a NAZI FAMILY JAILED FOR FRIENDSHIP TO POLES Berlin, Dec. 19 (IP) Three women and two men of a farm family at Wendelsheim have been sentenced to prison for being too friendly with RAF Pounds Rail Center For 3d Successive Night Milan, Genoa Blasted London, Dec. 19 (U.R) Factories at took British planes over the western desert battle zone and also over the frontiers in Italian East Africa, More Prisoners Removed Linked with aerial operations gainst Italian-occupied Ethiopia and Eritrea were British land patrol operations. "On the Sudan frontier our patrols were active in the Kas-sala and Qallabat areas (facing Eritrea and Ethiopia, respectively), Inflicting a numBer of casualtieson the enemy, said the communique.

General headquarters said that Continued on Page 6 long. 1. The offensive into Libya is "by no means at an end" and in-Continued on Page documents which he said listed British military requirements and for which he said Mr. Roosevelt had given a "go-ahead." The British Purchasing Commission would not discuss the list, either to give the total cost or to Identify any of the individual items. List Calls for 12,000 Planes 1 British officials prepared a mas Milan, great Italian industrial cen The journey to life eternal ended abruptly when little Jean was returned from the metaphysicians' home at Oakdale, appropriately named Peace Haven, Yesterday an indecorous note was brought into the proceedings by the baby's mother, Mrs.

Catherine Gauntt, who mentioned a ring, variously valued up to $50,000, said to have been given as a gift to her 18-month-old girl, and where was the ring now? Chief Metaphysician Schafer pooh-poohed the suspicious question. The Attorney General's investi KELLY FOSTERS 'SMEAR PROBE Paul J. Kern, president of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, charged today that Frank V. Kelly, Brooklyn Democratic leader, was behind the City Council investigation of the commission, hoping to discredit municipal Civil Service "as an incident in the drive to restore the spoilsmen five of the Juciest jobs we (the LaGuardla Ad ter, were set afire and docks and an airdrome at Genoa, Italy's largest port, were heavily attacked by R. A.

F. bombers last ni.ht. the Air ter list of $3,000,000,000 in new war Continued on Page 6 Polish prisoners assigned to work on their farm, the Nazi Labor Front newspaper Angrill reported today. A woman of the family was sentenced to 28 months in prison and deprived of her citizenship for three years on the charge of adultery with a prisoner; another was sentenced to 18 months for permitting a prisoner to hug and kiss her "and responding to these tendernesses." A third woman and two men were sentenced to one month in prison each for the prisoners. Ministry said today.

Brooklyn repair dock. Beached Near Dry Doric But a short distance from that goal, with 10 feet of water in the holds, Capt. George E. Tobin, the skipper, deliberately beached his vessel on the Red Hook flats and SENATOR JOHNSON STRICKEN WITH FLU I San Francisco, Dec. 19 (Pi Call-: fornia's influenza epidemic added Senator Hiram W.

Johnson, veteran Republican member of the U. 8. i Senate, to its list today. The 74-year-old Senator was con-I fined to his home His family and i physician said his condition was not serious, but he was resting in bed as a precaution. The British also raided Mann- helm, Rhine port and railroad and commercial center, In Germany, for gation today followed a somewhat Report Nazi Pilots Shuttle Italians To Albania Front Struga, Yugoslavia (at the Al different line of suspicion.

At his direction. Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall questioned ministration) have taken out of politics." Matsuoka Urges U. S. To Stay Out of War Tokio, Dec.

19 ii Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka pleaded with the United States today to stay out of war lest the world face "Armageddon," and then heard S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew take quick exception to his statement that the "fate of China is largely a question of sentiment to Americans." 1 8 Die in River of Crocodiles Mr. Kelly was not Immediately for available comment. Sees Purpose Political the third successive night despite unfavorable weather conditions which kept most of the German air force aground.

Three straight nights of R. A. F. bombardment of Mannheim, southwestern Gorman industrial, commercial and communications center, were described in well-informed British quarters as part of a British move to smash communications Maurice Adda, attorney for Mrs. Anna Weber of 84-08 54th Continued nn Page 2 set his crew, 37 men in all, pumping water back into the bay.

The Melrose was expected to be floated again late today and taken to the Robins Dry Dock at the foot of Dwight St. But at 1 John J. Dement, vice president of the Robins company, said that the Melrose was leaking too badly to be bruoght Into Continued on 13 WHERE TO FIND IT IN TODAY'S EAGLE banian frontier), Dec. 19 () Fleets of German transport planes Manila, Dec. 19 (U.R) Eighteen persons, including women and children, perished in the crocodile infested Agus River near Numugan when two small boats overturned in the swift current, the newspaper bulletin said today.

were reported today to be shuttling Heffernan Inducted For Another Term Elections Commissioner William J. Heffernan, borough Democrat, Continued on Page 6 Italian reinforcements across the Adriatic to -the Albanian battlefront in an effort to halt the Greek counter-invasion. Fight to Save Recluse German pilots, because of their experience In this blitzkrieg meth Mr. Kern spoke at a luncheon of the City Club, 55 W. 44th Manhattan.

The Council investigation, he said, was "of a political, smearing character, founded on accusations and half-truths rather than facts." He added: "It is purely political in purpose, an attack on this reform administration." Kelly, he said, hoped to discredit a civil service examination as a result of which Edward W. Klelnart, a "political employe," was dropped from the post of building superin-tendend of Brooklyn, eventually to get him and other political henchmen back on city Jobs with the aid of the courts. od of moving troops, were said to be flying huge Junkers sent after As Her Sister, 72, Dies Anti-Red Pupils Sweep Brooklyn College Poll All Class Officerships Taken in Upset urgent pleas from Premier Musso lint. Basel, Switzerland, Dec. 19 VP) The newspaper Le Democrat of was sworn In for a new term yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Philip A.

Brennan. Jacob A. Livingston, the local Republican member of the board, said he expected to take the oath next Monday. David B. Costuma, Manhattan Republican who defeated Gabriel L.

Kaplan, candidate of Kenneth F. Simpson, New York County chairman, was sworn in yesterday in a simple ceremony. The Elections Board chairman, E. Howard Cohen, will take the oath today. 8 of 9 Seats on Student Council Won Anti-Communist students at Brooklyn College greatly Delemont reported today "from a good source in Zurich" that freight and civilian traffic have been suspended oni the Brenner railway line to permit the passage of German divisions, who are on their way to Italy.

Charles Town Results Bridge Page 23 Clifford Evans Tage 10 Comlrs Tage 22 Crossword Page 24 Dr. Brady Page 23 Ed Hughe Page 16 EDITORIAL Page 12 Events Tonight Page 7 FINANCIAL Page 20 Grin and Bear It. Page 12 Heffernan Page 10 Helen Worth Page 10 Jimmy Wood Page 15 Line on Liners Tage 23 Movies Page 19 Music Page 1 Novel Page 23 OBITUARIES Page 13 Patterns Page 23 RADIO Page 22 Real Estate Page 23 Shipping Page IS Shopping Page Society Page SPORTS Tages 15-18-17 Theaters Page 19 Turker Tsge 12 Wall Street Page 20 Want Arli Page 24-25 Woman's Pag I strengthened their recently acquired control of campus activi Pair Found Starving and Suffering From Exposure in Dingy Bungalow As doctors at Kings County Hospital struggled today to save the life of 70-year-old Cecilia Grafrath unaware that her 72-year-old sister, Kate Lynch, had died at 7:45 a.m. detectives of the Bath Beach Precinct combed the three-room bunRslow in which the two recluses had lived for some clue to womPn a rPsUit of prolong relatives. exposure and frostbite, according to The pair were discovered jester- Dri Herbert Goldman of Harbor day by Patrolman Jackowsky in the ani Mri were suffering 46 living room of the shark at 37 Blw trom malnutrition.

Both ties at the borough school today as results of undergraduate FIRST RACE Thr-yr-oll and nn: about 4't furlonas. Mlntson iPelsi J. 40 3 40 00 Princess Bull (Eversole) 3. SO 3 20 Bnllrls iDuffordi 3 SO Vichy Retires Jews From Highest Court time In many years, that the opposition political group at the college, the Student party, backed by the allegedly Communist-dominated American Student Union, was unset in a student election Time 4-S. Lady Buck.

Bsrrsoa, Drey InvMe, Mv Bum, Paper Oirl also ran Oflilme SECOND RAC-Three-ear-old and iid mile and one-sixteenth Elamn (Veein S1.S0 0 SO flnlden Miivne (W.Tl'fnrrll 15.20 '0 elections were announced. Sweeping all, of the six class officerships and eight of the nine srats on the college's policy-directing student council losing only that one because the elections were conducted under a proportional representation system the borough college's avowedly a i-radicRl KingRmen-Fuslon party Increased its margin of last year In the council by two seat. It was lut year, too, for tha first Stricken Juror Recovering Arthur Emmet, 28 of 3fi8 Grant member of the KIurs County grand Jury, was reported today to be "progressing satisfactorily" at Holy Family Hospital where he was taken yesterday after collapsing from a heart attack In the pand jury room. Bay 4fith in a sparseiy-semeo womPn WPrf irrational and inroher-neighborhood. Cecilia was lying fnl lld Ucf and doctors could under a dresser which had fallm RPl 110 drscriptlon from them of on her hmirs earlier.

Her bark had whBt Vichy, rvyv 10 ifli The official Journal today published a decree retiring two councillors and a Slate attorney from the Court of Cassation, highest rourt in France, under a law forbidding Jews to hold office. They were named honorary ouncillors. Ulclv Tichner (N.LP'soni 4 00 Time, 3 00 3-8. Burl Oirl. Mi Kr Klnn' Kid.

Oold Sweep also rn. Off lime a a i 1 THinn BACF Pnmar. tint; Dmamln. second. lonsrdton.

third. Charles Town Mutuels Three Race Paid 1123 80 the school's undergraduates, starting afresh with the then new administration of President Harry D. Gldeonse, turned out In force to give the Ktngsmen-Fusion party Continued on Pag been broken. Kate was sitting in chair, staring at her sister. Gangrene had set in tha limb ot There vus no food in the house Continued en 13 1.