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Wall Street Closing RACING EXTRA ir it it it it it Wall Street Closing RACING EXTRA LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy, occasional light rains tonight and tomorrow 100th YEAR No. 352 DAILY AND SUNDAY Entered it the Brooklyn pnntoffiet ts 2d CI em Matter (Copyright 1940 The Brooklyn Deal? Bafiei 3 CENTS 8 Corportiion BROOKLYN, N. FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1940 cm IE rui jy a ME JV "is- Work Is Started Quake Jars Long Island; Borough Feels Tremors I On 2 Yards for 60 British Ships Battleships Sweep Both Coasts, Fail To Find Foe's Craft London, Dec. 20 (U.R) Britain's Mediterranean fleet, In one of its most intrepid exploits of the war, has penetrated the Adriatic, heavily shelled the vital Italian supply base of Valona on the Albanian coast and swept the sea vainly in search of Italian ships to fight, the Admiralty announced LINER RAMS Temblor, Originating in New England Area, Shakes Homes in Queens Damage Slight A light New England earthquake, with its center In the mountains of New Hampshire, at 2:30 a.m.

today shook Long Island communities and was felt in Brooklyn, Queens and other parts of the city. First Keels to Be Laid About March in Todd $100,000,000 Deal COLLIER, PIER today. Battleships of the fleet hurled A AAA If I The tremor, lasting for a matter of seconds here, ranged over a wide area from Montreal south to central New Jersey Start of construction on two new shipyards which will turn out 60 cargo vessels for the submarine-harassed British merchant marine and from Buffalo 400 miles east to almost 100 tons of high explosive shells on Valona, the Admiralty said, without meeting opposition, while cruisers and destroyers swept the sea as far up the coasts as Bari, Italians Fight Madly to was begun today. IN EAST RIVER 100 Passengers Shaken By Collision in Fog Ships Limp to Docks The Eastern Steamship liner St. John, Inbound from Boston with more than 100 passengers, collided with tne collier Craigsmere in the fog-bound East on the Italian side, and Durazzo, on Boston.

In New England, toulldings were shaken and thousands of persons, wakened out of sleep, were thrown into panic. Most of them thought they had experienced an "explosion." Property damage was trifling, consisting chiefly of broken windows and dishes. More than a score of telephone 3 Groups Hail School Red Quiz; Extension Urged Cut Bardia Ring the Albanian side. "Throughout the operations no opposition from the enemy was encountered," the Admiralty said succinctly of the bombardment by its battleships. The Admiralty also announced that British light naval units had sunk three Italian supply ships in a Following the signing of the contracts in the projected $100,000,000 mass production ship plan last night in the offices of the Todd Shipyards Corporation at 1 Broadway, Manhattan, it was announced that the first keels would be laid In about two and a half months.

The new shipyards, located in Portland, Maine, and Richmond, will cost about $1,250,000 each. The New England yard will be operated by the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corporation, a newly-formed company of which the prin calls were received at Manhattan River at 7:30 a.m. today, then ricoheted and struck a pier Just east of the Brooklyn Bridge. No one was Injured and both Gideonse Commended police headquarters from slightly scared citizens who wanted to report puzzling explosions. Brooklyn headquarters, however, had no calls, although Queens on one side and Staten Island on the other reported several inquiries.

For Aid to Committee In Baring College Setup ships, although damaged, were able to proceed to their piers under their own power. The St John struck a glanctag blow at the pier at the foot ot Dock tearing away about 50 feet of evM. Shock In Rlverhead cipal owners are the Todd Shipbuilding Company, the Bath Iron Corporation, and a group of Pa ROME CALLS FOE VAST Rome, Dec. 20 lP) A semi-official bulletin, issued here today to show the siie of the British forces which, it said, Italian troops are "gallantly facing," put them at 1,500 airplanes, 425.000 troops and 500,000 tons ot warships. It described Britain's forces as crack troops, recruited in England, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere in the British Empire.

(British sources have indicated British Blast Foes By Land, Sea, Air Camp at Derna Afire Cairo, Dec. 20 (DBy land, sea and air the British reported their forces kept up a remorseless pounding of Bardia today, with Italians trapped in that beleaguered Libyan port battling fiercely to break through their blocked 11ns of retreat to the west. Supporting the forces encircllnf Bardia, where the British estimate 20,000 Italians are holding out, the R. A. F.

blasted the Libyan coast westward to Derna, 175 miles from the Egyptian frontier. Practically the entire Fascist military at Derna camp was declared left in flames. Heavily raiding Dema simultaneously with a similar assault of Bardia, the R. A. F.

command reported its planes set off fires and explosions with direct hits on barracks, police headquarters, motor transport parks and garages at the former Fascist base. dock, and was damaged amidships on the starboard side, above the water line. The passengers were shaken up. Liner Proceeds to Pier About a aen residents of Jamaica, the Rockaways and other prt of Southern Queens reported the effects of the earth tremor. Farthe East police received two earthquake calls from Northport, and in Riverhead one man said he Eagle StatI photo THEY AGREE Mr.

and Mrs. Horry Pott of 1504 Union St. atwoys are of the same opinion even in court, as they proved this week when they were in agreement on the two verdicts rendered by the juries on which they served in City Court. ciflc Coast operators known as Six Services, Inc. The California yard will be operated by a new company to be known as the Todd-Call-fornia Shipbuilding Corporation, owned principally by Todd Ship Praise of the Rapp-Coudert committee end Harry D.

Gideonse, president of the Brooklyn College, came today from three borough organizations following service of contempt orders on five of the lege's professors -who refused to-ws-tify privately before the committee. Meanwhile, denunciations of the committee had been delivered by the Greater New York Industrial Union Council, C. I. and a rally sponsored by the Progressive Committee to Rebuild the American Labor party of the 2d A. D.

The organizations indorsing the conduct of the committee and Mr. Gideonse's attitude toward it in building Company and Six Services, Inc. Mama Loves Papa- that British army strength in Africa is between 250.000 and 300,000 men, although British leaders have referred recently to considerable reinforcements.) was having an early morning cup of coffee in a local diner when "the whole diner shook. The shock was really severe." Staten Island police got at least two calls from citizens who camplained that their houses "shook." The Rev. Joseph Lynch of Ford-ham University said the seismograph instrument there recorded Ends Current Program Great Britain completed its current war purchasing program in this country with its $100,000,000 ship order.

Signing of other contracts in her projected $3,000,000,000 Capt. W. B. Corning, commander of the St. John, Inspected the damage and then took the vessel, after a 20-minute delay, to Pier 14 in the Hudson River.

The bow of the collier, owned by the M. Js J. Tracy Company of Manhattan, was damaged but Capt. John Husklns took it to his destination at Sprague's terminal, and began to unload its cargo of coal. Eastern Steamship Line officials said the St.

John, built in 1932, would be in drydock three or four days. Even in Jury Room Couple, Married 25 Years, Agree on Two Bardia Also Ablaze bombardment of Bardia, Libya, according to the Associated Press Vice Admiral Sir Andrew BroTne-Cunningham, commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, led the battleships which poured their great shells into Valona, in the Strait of Otranto just inside the entrance to the Adriatic. Vice Admiral H. D. Pridham-Wippell commanded the cruiser and destroyer force which swept up the Adriatic as far as Bari and London, Dec.

20 (U.R) Grest fires are burning at Bardia, on the Libyan coast, after five days of merciless naval bombardment, the Admiralty announced today as Brit Verdicts and Just About Everything Else Most people who have been married for 25 years find an opportunity to disagree now and then. Not so Mr. and Mrs. Harry Patt of 1504 Union whose long record of agreement remained unbroken this week even though the two sat on the same jury during two trials in cluded the Union League Club of Brooklyn, the advisory board of the Flatbush Branch Y. M.

C. A. and the South Midwood Residents Association. Urge Extension of Quiz The Union League Club, headed by Frederick J. H.

Kracke, chairman of the Board of Assessors, took Continued on Page 21 arms purchase program must await action by the new Congress on President Roosevelt's lease-loan plan. English money was available to pay for the work and the plan for the 60 cargo vessels was said to be in no way tied up with the President's proposal of "mortgaged material" system to furnish Britain with sinews of war. The contracts for the new ships, signed less than 12 hours after the President told Blrtain to negotiate for new armament requirements pending Congressional action, call for coastruction of 30 ships at each of the east and west coast yards. the shock at 2:28.2 a.m. He said it lasted "only a second or two" with some later surface shocks.

The shock went in a general northeasterly direction for about 295 miles from the Fordham Observatory, he added. "It was Just another quake of minor proportions as earthquakes go, but a little above the average for New England," Leet said, "activity in New Hampshire is not new and New England is not a stranger to quakes. We have a dozen or more a year." The temblor brought numerous repo'ts of minor damage. Available reports of damage In New England indicated it was confined largely to cracked plaster and broken windows. GOVERNESS SUES KNIGHT FOR BEATING Riverhead, L.

Dec. 20 Richard A. Knight, the society lawyer whose cartwheels at the Metropolitan Opera House last year whirled him out of the social register, was somersaulted into Supreme Court here the City court. The couple, who were members of the jury which today awarded $200 CORPSES LITTER HILLS AS GREEKS Durazzo, the big and important Italian base on the Northwest Al- banian coast. Last month British airplanes, operating above the protective guns Continued on Page 21 today by a French governess ing $150,000 for an alleged beating ish tanks were reported moving Continued on 13 Skipper of City of Flint Receives Navy Cross Washfhgton, Dec.

20 (UP) Capt. Joseph A. Gainard today was awarded the Navy Cross for his handling of the steamship City of Flint when it was taken as a prize by the Germans last year. Secretary of Navy Knox said that Captain Gainard's performance was in "the highest tradition of the service." Captain Gainard is a lieutenant commander In the Naval Reserve and expects to go on active duty In January. Treasury Debt Passes Old 45-Billion Limit Washington, Dec.

20 The Treasury disclosed today its debt has passed $45,000,000,000, the former statutory limit which many persons thought would be a permanent ceiling for Federal obligations. The defense program, however, caused the Administration recently Continued on ps ii Hague Buildings Shut FORGE NORTH Adopt Nazi 'Liquid Blitzkrieg' to Pour Past to Harriet Goodman, 15, of 2828 W. 27th St. and $50 to her father, Morris Goodman, in their action against the New York Rapid Transit Company, was in perfect accord on the verdict. On Wednesday the couple was also in agreement on the jury verdict granting $1,000 to Howard AmeU and Abner C.

Surpless in in his St. James home. The governess, Angele Aussy, was formerly in Mr. Knight's employ. Filed in the County Clerk's office here, the papers allege that in the early morning hours ot last Sept.

1 Knight "assaulted, struck and pushed" Miss Aussy and "knocked The Hague, Dec. 19 tVia Berlin, Delayed i (U.Pi German occupation authorities have closed some buildings at Leyden and Brlft belonging to student corporations because of recent demonstrations, the semiofficial news agenrv said today. U. S. Indicts Storch, Boro Banker, in Tepelini and Klisura Athens, Dec.

20 (U P) Greek troops are advancing north of Tepelini her down to the floor with great Woman Freed on Charge Of Abandoning Son Mrs. Helen Ella Snyder, 26, of 65 Union was acquitted on a charge of abandoning her 5-year-old son Jimmy In a Hoboken theater last July when brought before Common Pleas Judge Alexander F. OrmsBy in Jersey City yesterday. force." to get an additional $4,000,000,000 borrowing power from Congress, and Secretary Morgenthau now is urging the ceiling be upped to a $60,000,000,000 or $55,000,000,000 figure. their action against former State Senator William Lathrop Love.

Just Never Quarrel iiDe Tristan Extortionist Storch, of 1333 Presl Stanley S. Renew Indo-China Fighting Hanoi, French Indo-China, Dec. 20 (U.R) Renewal of hostilities on the Indo-China border with Thailand was reported today, Thai planes were reported to have bombed the town of Popiet in northern Cambodia. The town also was shelled by Thai artillery. "We always agree.

It just seems to happen that way," Mr. and Mrs. Patt asserted in court this morning. Then, Mrs. Patt added, "You see Continued on 13 Escapes FBI Trap WHERE TO FIND IT III TODAY'S EAGLE The mother explained that she purchased a ticket for the boy and sent him inside alone because she thought her husband, from whom she had been estranged, was Inside and the two would meet.

and Klisura, past settlements and mountain fortifications littered with Italian dead, a government spokes-man said today. Although they have not occupied either of those former Italian strongholds in southeast Albania, the Greeks have poured around them, adopting the "liquid movement" tactics of the German blitzkrieg In the Low Countries and France, and have earned the battle beyond both towns. The official spokesman said Italian losses in the sector were heavy and that the dead lay in piles in nearby villages and on mountain Charles Town Results dent was indicted today for defrauding the government of $102,284 during the years 1937 to 1939, inclusive, while president of the Montrose Industrial Bank, 781 Eastern Parkway, from which he recently resigned. Only last week he was freed in $10,000 bail to await trial when arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court on another indictment which charged that he thrice perjured hlm.self before the same grand Jury which returned today indictment. The new bill, in three counts Snatches Faked Payment From Agent Then Flees Through Net of 23 Policemen Santa Rosa, Dec.

20 man In a black overcoat, who auemptf-d to extort money from the wealthy De Tristan family, recent victims of a kidnaping, snatched a faked payment from the hands of an FBI agent then escaped from a police trap by crawling down the Donor Belittles Value Of Baby Jean's Ring 70-Year-Old Metaphysician Tells Probers FIRST RACE Three-year-olds and upward; lour nd one-half lurlongi. Htuhland Bom (Oalther) 19 40 so 1 40 Ml Maker Root 20 Romney Royal (Napleri 4 8(1 Time. 2-5. Shantrb. Kindle.

Kirn Tea. Royal Dot, Radio Charm also tan. tOft Um. SECOND RACE Two-year-old; Six and one-halt fiirlorms, Erin's Girl (Elersolej ilO.fiO 4 HO Maeslde Fell 4 "JO 3 00 Whatoflt iR.Rooll S'-'O Time 1:29 4-6. Bgptla, Mi.su Mud.

Donn Barr, Chic Dame, Singing Connie alo ran. ottilme, i-M'i. peaks the Greeks had taken. The Continued on Page 21 muddy rows of a cabbage patch. Reliable sources today told how the Fedetnl Bureau ot Invoca Gift Has No Partiular Cash Worth Brdig Page 23 Children's Section Page 23 Cornice Page 22 Crossword Page 24 Tr.

Brady Page 23 Ed Hughe Page 16 EDITORIAL Page 12 Events Tonight Page 4 FINANCIAL Page 18 Going Plares Page 10 Grin and Bear It Page 12 Meffernan Page 6 Helen Worth Page 8 Jimmy Wood Page 15 Llndley Page 23 Line on Liners Page 23 Movies Page 11 Novel Page 23 OBITUARIES Page 13 Patterns Page 23 RADIO Page 22 Real Estate Page 25 Society Page SPORTS Pages 15-16-17 Theaters Page 11 Tucker Tage 12 Wall 8tr4 Par Want Ads Pag 24-25 Woman's Page The ring bestowed on Baby Jean Gauntt, whom the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians hoped to make Immortal, Is not worth $50,000, and is, In fact, without any particular monetary value, Mrs. Ann Tomlinson of 145 W. 55th Man hattan, donor of the ring, said to- Leahy Bears Personal Note From Roosevelt to Petain Washington, Dec, 20 i) Admiral William D. Leahy, newly appointed ambassador to France, is carrying a personal note from President Roosevelt to Marshal Henri Petain, chief of the Vichy government. Leahy sails Monday from Norfolk on a Navy cruiser.

Mr. Roosevelt, In lolling of the message at his press conference. talniiiK an rxlortlon payment. The amount was no ritUelosed. One of the fxvse of FBI asents, police and highway patrolmen hidden amund the patch said a shadowy figure snatched the box from Bobbin's hands and ran.

When the agent threatened to shoot, the extortionist dared him to "go ahead and shoot." The "trapped" man dropped to the Rronnd and crawled through the mud. The heavily armed officers closed in They were so confident of cap-tunna him alive and with the they did not fire. While they chased him the little man disappeared nut of the cabbage patch and down ravine into A i rugged creek bottom. day. carrying a total penalty of IS years imprisonment, and $30,000 fine, alleges that for the three-year period, Storch reported total income of $34,880 and paid total tax of $1,664.

whereas the government contends he actually had an income of on which he should have paid $103,748, The indictment charges that: In 1937 he reported Income of $14 801 and paid a tax of $865. when he should have reported $71,483 and paid in 1938 he reported $8,023 and paid $232. when he should have reported $164 524 and paid $72,150. and that in 1939 he reported $12,058 and paid $567, when he should have reported and paid $13,521 tion frustrated an extortion threat against the parent of 3-year-old Marc de Tristan Jr. and how the extortionist made his dramatic escape from 22 officers who had surrounded him.

The trap was set Wednesday night near Santa Rosa. FBI agents had been working secretly tor throe weeks on a letter sent the Count and Countess Marc de Tristan through the Santa Rta Postofllce Under instructions of the extortionist, R. P. Bobhltt, assistant chief of the FBI In Ran Franclsm, posing as an emissary of the I Tristans, stood in a cabbage patch with a cigar box supposedly con Tropical Park Results riRflT RACE Three-yar-ld and upward; thrae-quartrr a mile. Orandatar (Wholpyi 4 40 3 20 Hradln Homa (Durando) 10 4 30 Paul Ut (Tajlort 4 SO Tlm.

1:12 4-5. Mr Orarlmu. tadr Orrhld. Slwp. Orand Duk.

Oounly Bond, Calllna. Pfrtfct Blend, Brltht Sox. Mnrn-Init Mall alao ran. (Oft time 9 01 i SECOND RACE three-oiiariern of a mile. Pavilion iL.

Anrirraon) 8 30 4 In 3 0O Sliver Voice mewl 7 40 4 80 Phlnrlty (Meartei 10 was any truth in the published reports that the ring, which she bestowed on Baby Jean, with the stipulation that she hold It In cus- today until the child's eighteenth Mrs. Tomlinson, a sad-eyed woman of 70, who spent 30 years of her lire until 1939 in Monte Carlo, appeared at Attorney General Bennett's office today In connection with the latter's investigation into the financial affairs of James B. Schafer of 152 W. 54th St Man-hsttsn, head of the fraternity. Mrs.

Tomlinson denied that there birthday, was worth $50,000. She said, however, that she had paid $10,000 into the organization said it told Petain the Admiral was a very old friend of his and that he felt wire Iahy would be persona gratlssima to tht Marshal. sines her return to this country, Continued en Page II Time. 113 2-5. Wial rover, wee bcoi, Pennt Arcade Draaon Lady Memon'.

When Then. MIut Oreenocli, Bettn Kua, Batai Uo ran, (Off time, 1 34 I.