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"OPYRIGHT DEPOSIT 5c BROOKLYN EAGLE Buy War ONDS IN CITY AND LONG ISLAN Weather Clear and warmer today 103d YEAR No. 55 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1944 U. S. To Reconsider All Job Deferments WHEN U.

S. RAINED BLOWS ON JAPS AT TRUK As Inductions Lag 15,000 ANZIO TOLL UPSETS NAZI PLANS Losses Force Revision of Entire Defense Program for Italy and Western Europe Allied Headquarters, Naples, Feb, 26 (U.R) Gen. Eberhard von Mackensen's German 14th Army has suffered 15,000 casualties in the battle of Anzio beachhead and as a result the Nazis have had to revise their defense plans for Western NAVY AGAIN HITS KAVIENG BASE; steam and escape the recent Yank air attack. Dense clouds of smoke envelop some of the ships burning in the lagoon. LIKE SITTING DUCKS These Japanese ships were caught in the harbor at Truk, in the Caroline Islands, before they had a chance to get up Germany's Aerial Defense Crippled WOOLLEY SEEN FACING REVOLT ON OPA SETUP Anger Grows Here RABAUL BOMBED 50,000 Japs Cut Off By New Britain, New Ireland Blockades Allied Headquarters.

Southwest Pacific. Sunday. Feb. 27 (U.R American destroyers swept through the Bismarck Sea Friday and bombarded tile Japanese supply base at Kavieng. New Ireland, for the third time within a bombers droppeo 100 tons Britain, it The destroyers sank one Japanese ship and left two burning, while several harbor craft were hit and shore batteries silenced.

General MacArthur's communique reported. The American warships shelled Kavieng for nearly an hour without a single Japane.se plane appearing U) retaliate. The destroyers used spotting planes to direct shell fire in the daring daylight operation. Thursdays raid on Rabaul. the twenty-second consecutive air attack on that once formidable New i Britain base, failed to draw enemy air opposition for the fifth straight The air and sea blockade of New Ireland and New Britain, growing even lighter, has cut off an esti-mated 50,000 Japanese troops on i the two islands who apparently face slow starvation as Allied ships and planes hunt down all enemy shipping in the Bismarck archi- i pelago, Friday's shelling of Kavieng followed the Feb.

18 naval attack against that base when 13 ships were blasted in the harbor. The dest rover forces returned last Tues-' i luciikin: the b.i Other Allied bombers covering the Bismarck Sea struck at Loren-gau and Momote airdromes and Admiralty and Los Negros Islands in the Admiralty group. 370 miles northwest of Rabaul, in two suc- I Two successive air raids hit the Wewak area of northern New I Guinea with 86 ions of bombs, causing extensive damage, destrovine 10 aircraft and damaging 13 other I planes caught on the ground. While American ground forces slowly advancing westward from Saldor on the Huon Peninsula occupied the villages of Billau. Warai and Sindaman.

big Liberator bombers increased the tempo of attacks on enemy installations on the northern New Guinea coast. More than 53 tons of bombs were dropped on gun positions at Nubia on Haasa Bay. 100 miles north of Madang. while installations and airdrome supply areas at Madang and Alexishafen were attacked. One parked bomber was destroyed in the Situation Grave, Roosevelt Tells Draft Leaders Washington, Feb.

26 (UP) Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, ordered a review of all occupational deferments today, particularly those granted men under 26, In accordance with a warning by President Roosevelt that inductions are lagging at a time when "crucial campaigns" are imminent. In a memorandum to Hershey and War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt.

Mr. Roosevelt said: The situation is so grave that I feel the time has come to review all occupational deferments with a view to speedily making available personnel required by the Herahey immediately forwarded memorandum to Selective Service directors orders to review ca-es of all Stai from 37 who Eye Men Under 26 He told the State directors that particular attention should be given, to men under 26 in view of the President's statement that agriculture and industry should release younger men for military service. Hershey told Selective Service chiefs that "replacement schedules should be considered for such revision as may be required with the President memorandum." Meanwhile, Chairman John M. Costello 040.) of the House Military Affairs subcommittee investigating draft deferments in Government and industry expressed the hope the President's statement would mean elimination of "all unjustifiable deferments." Cosiello said that of 475.000 pre-Pearl Harbor fathers in Government service deferment has been requested for 190,000. It was believed the President's statement also would have the effect of speeding reclassification procedures by local draft boards.

Mr. Roosevelt noted that Industrial deferments include more than 1.000.000 non-fathers, of whom 380 000 are under 26. Agri-! cultural deferments, he said, include nearly l.utw.ixju non-latners, or whom more than 550,000 are under 26. Cites 200.000 Deficit Both the President 's memorandum and testimony by Hershey before the Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday indicated the armed forces can expect little new manpower from re-examination of physical standards. The President placed the deficit in selective service personnel deliveries at 200,000 as of Dec 31.

The actual shortage of trained men now, he said, is about 150.000. Hershey said yesterday that 700,000 men must be inducted to meet the armed forces' goal of 11.300.000 by July Another 500,000 making the total 1.200.000 will have to be found for reDlacements. But at the present rate of Inductions, the President said, "the army will not reach its planned January strength until some time in April or even later if selective service continues to fall behind on its quotas and industry Special Church Ceremonies Churches in central Queens today are observing Red Cross Sunday with special ceremonies, according to Ambrose B. Acker of Jamaica Estates. War Fund chairman for the Central Queens Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Typical of the co-operation being given by pastors is that of the Rev. Continued on Page SAVE WASTE PAPER-USE THE PHONE If you are unable to dispose ot your waste paper through your regular channel, telephone your borough CDVO-UTB salvage office. Brooklyn MAIn 5-0061. Manhattan MUrray HIU 3-9669. Bronx FOrdham 5-1500.

Queens Cleveland 3-0175. Richmond Gibraltar 7-1000. WHERE TO FIND IT I ---sm BIk- s' of Germ bought oi The Germans are now "on the defensive" below Rome, and are regrouping under cover of local, unsuccessful thrusts against the Allied beachhead line and attacks on our landing operations with bombs, shells and motor torpedo boats, it The 14th Army includes three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment I more than 15.000 mem as well as a tank battalion drawn from France jx 11. it a diw l.ised In addition, Mackensen's 1 scheduled for had been to )'; i in West 11. threatened with inv.vion from Britain.

Forces Tied Down However, these force; i 10th Army on the Cassino and Adriatic Fronts not only are tied down indefinitely but have been so battered in the fighting since the Anzio landings since Jan. 22 that their fighting strength is seriously impaired. The official summary of the campaign said the Germans had approximately 7.500 men killed, wounded or taken prisoner ui each of two costly efforts to erase the Allied landing strip below Rome, The latest enemy jab came along the Mussolini Canal as the enemy completed his probing of the beachhead perimeter in preparation for a possible fresh assault. Like all the other light thrusts of broken up by Allied i Gen. Eberhard von Mackensen's troops also attempted another infiltration of the British line below Carroceto.

the focal point of both unsuccessful major attacks against the beachhead but alert Allied patrols drove back the enemy groups Planes Make Sneak Raids The Luftwaffe, virtually absent in the daylight hours, was making sneak raids almost every night on shipping in the Anio and N'ctitinn its targets by flares. On Wednesday night. German E-boats motor-torpedo craft made their second attempt to slip through the harbor defenses and attack shipping but were driven back by Allied patrol craft. (A German communique asserted night, three Allied vessels totaling 24 000 tons and a destroyer were seriously damaged while another transport could be "presumed de- lions on Hill No. 915.

a mile west, of Terrelle, but were thrown back while only patrol and artillery exchanges were reported from Cas- Save Woman, Son In Flatbush Fire boy well a il guinea pigs and rabbits used in chemical experiments when fire swept a two-story brick building at 2700 Church coi ner of Rogers Ave in the heart of the Flatbush section, at 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Most of the damage was on the second floor, occupied by the Flatbush Laboratories, conducted by Dr. Samuel Nevms of Forest Hills Dr. Nevms was absent, at the fire.

1 his nurse, Mrs Fit ton I'll-. We son. Harold, were trapped by flames Firemen rescued them through windows, carrying them Firemen later rescued some guinea pigs and rabbits, which they gathered in wire baskets Some of the indents died in the flames Tire ground floor of the building is occupied bv O'Connor's Bar and Grill, operated by Mrs Bridget O'Connor of 121 E. 29th St. Sovarese Expected To Undergo Operation to the Boro President, was in St Mary's Hospital last night where it was said he is expected to undergo an operation.

He has been iil lor t.w'o weeks, FLOATING AIRFIELD The U. S. S. Bennington, first aircraft carrier built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was officially launched yesterday at 12:29 Instead of sliding down the ways into the water, water came up through floor sluices in the drydock to float her. Boro WomWs Club Plans Diamond Jubilee Luncheon and Pageant to Celebrate R.A.F.

Raid Finds Foe Unable to Cope With Odds London, Feb. 26 U.R Allied fliers have crushed Germany's last hope of a sustained aerial defense beneath the wreckage of devastated plane plants and smashed fighter squadrons Gfter a week of the most terrible blows ever hurled through the the skies, it was stated efficialy tonight. The unprecedented attacks by day and night and from north and spilth began paying off last night when R. A. P.

heavy bombers climaxed the spectacle with a 1.811- ton, double raid on still-burning Augsburg and found the German defenses, for the first time, unable to cope with the odds. Today, the heavy bomber fleets i In the Mediterranean were idie, interrupting the round-the-clock extinction raids against German aerial strength, but providing an interval for assaying the results of the campaign started last Saturday night V. hen the R. A. F.

battered Leipzig. Since then, more than 17.000 tons of bombs have been loosed on Germany, 75 percent of them r.Rainst targets directly connected with the enemy's aerial effort. At Jcast 641 German fighters have been destroyed in combat and hundreds of others wrecked aground, including 75 blasted in Friday's U. S. attacks from Britain and Italy.

One hundred and forty-two enem; planes were shot down in Friday' battles, as the Germans, fighting furiously to protect the vanishing m.m: oi meir aircrait, produc tion, succeeded in bringing down 69 fo'r'one day. Air Defense Finished A high spokesman of the U. Strategic Air Forces, who cannot be named, said the week had dealt Continued on Pace 6 War Worker Dad Of 14 Is Put in 1-A On 37th Birthday August Schultz, who Is observing his 37th birthday today, was clas-siiied 1-A In the draft yesterday. That might not seem unusual, except for one little item he Iras 13 children and one stepson, and is employed as an electrician in a war plant the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation in Long Island City. SthultZ, who lives at 26-56 28th St, Astoria, with his wife and eight ot me cniiuren, aoesn quite know what to make of it.

He said he doesn't mind the idea of going into the army but he is "worried about the youngsters," who range in age from to 17. So far Schultz has had rather tough going. Five of his children have been placed in boarding homes because he couldn't support them. And one of his soas left school recently to take a war job to help tupport the others. If inducted his family would receive a monthly allotment of $200.

to winch he would contribute $22 of hit ISO pnv as a private. He now earns $234 a month, so he'd be losing money on the del. Opera Stars Will Open Red Cross Drive Here Over Delays in Handling Enforcement Cases Rumbles of revolt increased in Brooklyn OPA circles yesterday the backlog of complaint against Daniel P. Woolley's present system reached new proportions. Brooklyn rationers were partic- curring under the present system of price enforcement As it now stands, rationing violators, manifestly guilty, must be referred to Manhattan OPA headquarters where prolonged delays are experienced.

The effect of this is to allow the accused violators to continue unpunished for their offenses. One rationing official told the Brooklyn Eagle that not only is this true but that it is not unusual for accused person violations This is for said the OPA executive bitterly results -in fine support of the rationing Kired Borough Chairman Mr. Woollev took control of rationing problems away from Brooklyn last December when he discontinued the Brooklyn ration board and summarily fired Its chairman, substituting six autonomous neighborhood boards and a seventh, having jurisdiction over rationing of gasoline, tires, in industrial plants. As regional chairman of the OPA for the most populous area ayed some ignorance of Brooklyn nd its needs, once having ob-rved that a man must be famous. Continued on Page 6 Find Dynamite In Coal Delivery A fused stick of dynamite was found in 10 tons of anthracite that was being delivered shortly before 3 p.m.

yesterday at Buckingham Hall, 135 New York 62-family apartment house, by the Morion Coal Company. 425 Carroll St. Jerry Yon. 2018 Dean was w.r 'iung the coal slide from noticed a long, He grabbed it and phoned the Atlantic Ave. Police Station.

Detectives of the ency Jguad 15 scene. The stlc e. Sta Hou Plastic Ration Tokens Go Into Use Today OPA as a 'simplified plan for shopping with War Ration Book 4" The plan does not apply to brown used until they expire March 20. "The tokens can be used both for making change and for paying lor rationed goods. Founding of Organization in 1869 By ALICE COGAN The Brooklyn Woman's Club, second oldest women's club in the country and a beautiful, brownstone monument to that portentous social development known as the advance of women, will be 75 years old this week.

An indication of how far women NEW PLANE CARRIER LAUNCHED HERE Brief Ceremony Marks Christening of Flattop Bennington at Boro Yard By WENDELL HANMER The East River gurgled up through two floor sluices Into the Brooklyn Navy Yard drydock where the Essex class aircraft carrier had been under construction the past 14 months, and when the salt water laved her keel, at 12:29 p.m. yesterday, she was christened the U. S. S. Bennington and officially launched.

The ceremonly was brief. Missing was the thrill of the usual launching of a large warship a sliding down the ways at express-train speed of a gaily bedecked ocean giant wnicn pusnes de- fleet of tugi i constrain her with hawsers and her to a nearby pier. The spectators along both sides of the drydock and on the cassion its onshore end huddled lor nth against a raw wind and Continued on Page 6 Blackout Test Set For 9:15 Tonight The first practice blackout and rill 1 the announce- ited to thr will held tonight, with the actual period of complete blackout scheduled for ten minutes starting at 9:30. The first, blue signal, calling for -lights out" In all buildings, but permitting street illumination and about 9:15. The test will cover all of the ty, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Orange Counties, workers in the Hotel St tomorrow afternoon, at Dorothv Kirsten and Earl tain, i The rally 2 4i Speakers will be president Harry Cideon.se ol Brooklyn College.

Bgrough President John Cashmore. wfc correspondent Quentin Reynolds. Branch Rickey and Durocher. and the Rev Dr L. Wendell Filield.

pastor of Plymouth Church of the P.lgnnis Instrumental music will be supplied by the Jackson Street Settlement House Boys' Glee Club, the Brooklyn Navy Yard 17-piece band and organist Gladys Gooding. Red Barber, radio sports announcer, will preside. Beginning Wednesday. and throughout the drive period. 1000 Red Cross flags will be flown from Brooklyn's tallest buildings, and three giant street banners in front of Borough Hall, at Flatbush Ave.

Extension and Willoughby St. and at Flatbush Ave and Fulton St will publicize the drive Brooklyn has itself a goal ol $3,331,000 as a $200,000,000 Red Cross win lund have progressed in that span of iubilee an- of Mrs. H. R. Rasi president, that the Brooklyn Woman's Club has been credited with the sale of $1,500,000 in war bonds with the Kings County Committee of the Treasury Department.

The club will celebrate its 75th birthday, at a members luncheon March 8 in the clubhouse. 114 Pierrepont followed by a meeting for guests, at which the history of the club, written by Dr. Cornelia Chase Brant, a past president, will be presented in pageant form. Founded in March. 1869.

by a handful of far-visioned Brooklyn women meeting in the home of Mrs, Ann C. Field, at 158 Hicks the Brooklyn Woman's Club has stood up through good times and bad, weathered wars and depressions. uno na.s eim-ivo; a mil ihgnifird lnr development of the The club occupies Its own build ing. few in tl country to maintain its own home. It is a double, five-story, brownstone building with a solid mahogany circular staircase that is the pride er Brooklyn Heights.

The building is owned free and clear, the mortgage having been burned in 1930. Incorporated in March. 1871, the club originally held meetings at 80 Willoughby St, and the Y. M. C.

A. until the administration of the late Continued on Page HARBOR SHIP'S GUN SHELLS CHIMNEY ON I. R. T. POWERHOUSE The IRT subway system poei house at 59th St.

and 12th Av Manhattan, was under fire yestei day for a few minutes, two shel discharged from a gun aboard ship berthed in the North Rivf going through I No injure The army is said to be investigating the shooting, which is reported to have come from a green gun crew receiving instruction. 'BROOKLYN FERRY' READ IN STORMING OF ROI Roi Island, Kwajalein Atoll Marshall Islands, Feb. 24 Delayed U.R) A marine corps combat correspondent said today that Marine Corporal Samuel H. Gray, Berkeley. read Walt Whitman's 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" in the rain as his landing barge raced in with the first wave to land on Roi.

Crouched In the barge, Gray recited the poem aloud as bombs smashed on the Japanese airport a few hundred vards away. His buddy. orp. Michael E. OKeefe.

600 W. 178th New York Sily. insisted Gray's Brooklyn accent was wrong, and read another Whitman poem called "For You, Democracy." That's the wav two marines Invaded the Marshall-..