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COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT sep -l raw (o) Sports Complete Wall Street Financial News WEATHER Clear, cool tonight; partly cloudy, warmer tomorrow. iooprri.ni 1844 BROOKLYN WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30 1944 t.r.d Broourn row 5 rrKiTC JLIoax 103d Year. No. 238. DAILY SUNDAY ims megs LLiVlL i Hull Sees Peace Bid Insists on Surrender Claim Boro Romeo Tried to Bilk Lepke Kin D.

A. Charges Zuckerman, Wed 9 Times, Drew Up Affidavit 'Clearing' Notorious Killer "On Feb. 29 this man drew up a phoney affidavit purporting to clear Louis (Lepke) Buchalter of guilt in the Rosen murder and tried to bilk Lepke's relatives of $25,000." Assistant District Attorney Burton Turkus stepped into the grand larceny trial of Brook- ALL ROMANIAN OIL SEIZED, STALIN SAYS Victory Climaxes 10-Day Drive by Ukrainian Army EX-ACTRESS FOUND BEATEN IN N. Y. HOTEL Louise Stanley Munn In Serious Condition D.

A. Quizzes Ad Man Laurence M. Lloyd, 50. advertising executive and prominent amateur golfer, surrendered to poHoe today in his Hotel Ambassador suite, but refused to divulge anything he might know about an early morning beating administered to Mrs. Louise Stanley Munn, 29-year-old aociallte, and former actress, ho told police she was punched and kicked there during a quarrel.

Lloyd, associated with the Lloyd, Chester and Dillingham Advertising Agency, walked Into his suite at noon but refused to answer police HITLER'S FLIGHT FORESEEN Washington, Aug. 30 0J.R) -The lyn's "hlb-and-run lover" today with 'Albany about It. Zuckerman said thnea ninFla tfn eivu th w. I lA tlrhrnArl riOU'SV Morh A London, Aug. 30 (U.R)- cutlon's charge that Adolph Zucker-i Wegman verified this afternoon, uMamiiJi man not only had bilked nine wives rw receipt ol the arridavtt, said nei captured Ploestl, near! Of tne but also had tried his hand at big-ilound it unverifiable and didip lrt rarin Mon ger and better -and more dangerous; nothing about it.

He denied tell- Romanian Oil Radio MOS Lgame. ling Zuckerman to call Dewey. I COW announced tonight U. S. SPEARHEADS DRIVE ON BELGIUM 35MI.AWA By VIRGIL PINKLEY Supreme Headquarters, A.

E. Aug. 30 (U.R) T.t American tank armies racing almost unchallenged over the last miles of the invasion roads to Germany and Belgium, stormed into Laon aad the Cathedral City of Reims today, while Berlin admitted that its troops had abandoned the medieval town of Rouen, guarding the robot bomb coast of northern France. Powerful armored spearheads of the American 1st and 3d Armies punctured the Aisne River line at least at two points and were reported fanning out over the rolling farmlands beyond Reims, Laon and Chalons-sur-Marne. Only scattered and disorganized Nazi rear euards barred the forward mlles beyond tne Nazi rear guards barren me Pn Seine drive an irrnored wedge Zuckerman pleaded guilty before Limped in Court I mohn n.

Judge Goldstein and a Kings County zuckerman re-enacted his dra-, third of its entire oil supplies, has Court Jury on a charge of having courtroom aDDearance of ih hwf t.h Ravi At Hvp Jewelry and money valued atlyesterday before Judge Goldstein, for tne ia.st 10 days down through um nmD an(I dangline his right th Rnmnninn nlains man, whom he married Feb. 8 after arm wnen ne entereo court, me In his order of the dav announc- a whirlwind courtship. "hit-and-run-lover" was on his'mg the victory. Premier Marshal feet repeatedly asking to plead, josef Stalin asserted that the cac- Builtv to lesser than second degree! turn nf Piiwsti hH lihpmt-ri ti nt oi me junencan armor in meir between Rouen and Beauvals. Turkus said that Zuckerman tried to squeeze the Lepke family for $25,000 on the strength of wj).

he called "a fakir's trick." Zuckerman himself testified that he took his affidavit to J. Bertram Wegman, Lepke's lawyer, and that Wegman told him who to call in grand larceny-and then changing the Romanian oil fields from Ger-1 DISCHARGED Camera regis-his mind. jman control. Hnrlcpst moment for He interrupted the trial by ask- Romania produces about 5.500.000 "te darKesr mC Ing to plead to the indictment after! tons of oil annually and virtually Eugene Gottlieb of 2354 84th The Allies, smashing directly 'at A Secretary of State Cordell Hull expressed belief today that the German high command has indicated a desire to put out "feelers for a negotiated peace," but emphasised that unconditional surrender will remain the Allies' only terms. Hull told a news conference that ihe radio speech of Lt.

Gen. Kurt Dittmar last night indicated the' Germans "are desirous of putting out peace feelers." He also revealed that the State Department is giving constant to the possibility that Ado'f Hitler and his underlings taifilit attempt to flee Germany and seek refuge in a neutral country- Hull recalled the request of President, Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to neutral countries to define their attitude on providing hideaways for German leaders. "We are not unmindful of the possibility that the Nazi dictator Continued Page comes lrom St. as he reads the papers re- ircias. urermany musi rciy uie future on the lesser fields in Hun- leasing him from the marine sweep for the Rhlneland, and official reports indicated the Yanks were moving at a speed that could carry them to the Belgian border within a day orttwo.

Enemy Being Dissected "We are now witnessing the preliminary phase of the Allied advance on "Germany in which the enemy fces are being methodically dis sa and Austria and on the syn- because he is only 15. nil nlantj within the Reifh rJ i Woman Dies After Gift of Ancient Urn itself, all of which have been badly battered by the great Allied aerial sected and forced into isolated cor Amiens and the heart of the bases from which German robot bombs have been showering down on London, captured Neufmarche, 25 miles east of Rouen and 15 miles west of Beauvais. There was no confirmation of the Berlin report that Rouen had been evacuated, and Allied headquarters said latest advices from the front told of bitter fighting on the approaches to that fortress town On the American 1st and 3d army fronts east of Parts, however, official and enemy reports agreed hat the twin American offensive was making spectacular strides over battle grounds where hundred of thousands of men fought and died 1918 to take and hold a few yards ridors, even as we press onward." Youth, 15r Ousted By Marines, Faced Draft Charges Aug. 30 JJ.R) A be-j of tensive. Ploestl is about 32 miles north of Bucharest, cayltal of Romania and second objective of the great Ukranian offensive.

In mast sectors, the Russians were sweeping forward at will. The fall united Press War Correspondent Henry T. Ocrrell said In reporting long-dead monarch of the Nile. "I know I shouldn't feel this way," she said, Tut I don't want that vase around any more." reaved mother tried today to give away an ancient Egyptian vase after the unexpected death of her pretty, artist's model daughter, to Her daughter was given the vase whom the pottery was presented by while on a morale tour of Lawson a wounded American soldier. General Hospital by a soldier who The young woman, Mrs.

Mary had been on duty In North Africa. of Constanta removed the last obstacle north of the Bulgarian border. 60 miles to the south, and Soviet troops should reach there before the weekend. The Russians were not expected to cross the bor Bea Rivers Brown, 25. died Mon- He told her it had brought him luck urd his assistants might flee Ger along the Marne and Aisne Rivers, since he picked it up in some ruins many," Hull said.

tne sensational sweep of the American armies through the Aisne and Marne valleys. American riflemen poured swiftly through the breaches created by their plunging tank spearheads, while swarms of Allied warplanes ranged before them to bomb and strafe the retreating enemy. Beyond Reims and Laon, American spearheads were 30 to 35 miles from the borders of Belgium, while other Yank columns pounding eastward from Chalons were 95 miles or less from Germany. Lt. Gen.

George S. Patton's 3d Army tanks and riflemen drove Representatives of local museums Inspected the vase and said it was der, hewever, since the Soviets and Bulgaria never have broken off re- Had Registered With 3 Boards as 19 Years Old So He Could Volunteer Eugene Gottlieb. 15, of 2354 84th is going back next month to his studies at Lafayette High School, but please don't ask him to be enthusiastic about it. After almost three months in the marines, keep-ine un In evervthine with the other 'Explosives' Box day after an attack of asthmfc. from which she had suffered for several years.

Mrs. Guy Rivers said that, as "a broadminded person," she hesitated to even consider such a across the Marne at Epernay, possible it came from the tomb of lations. some forgotten pharaoh of the fa- Constanta was captured yester- mous King Tuts time, but were 'day by Gen. Feodor I. Tolbukhin's unable to tell the Egyptian era 3d Ukranian Armv and Red Fleet oushed 13 miles northward to Reims and then swept on more than 10 miles beyond that historic town to toss the Aisne at Neufchatel.

Simultaneously, Lt. Gen. Court- fantastic possibility as a curse hav with which it was associated. marines in a combined land and ing been put on the article by some Simultaneously, British, American sea assault under -rover of a heavy leathernecks and a darn sight bet-bombardment by Russian planes tr than some, the Drosrject of the Garden State Results and Canadian forces linked their n(ey "odees'f lst Army veterans bridgeheads across the Seine above ftormed UP from Soisson, Paris into a solid SO-mile front and Continued on Page I humdrum classroom routine is more and warships. Tolbukhin's 1 Dout'r Gl.

1090. 5 70. 3 60: Skip Bid. 18 40, (.40. Run Bud Run, 5.40.

Oft troops slashed 37 Pauline Befz Wins U. S. Net Match Blue miles south from the Danube River time, 2 Alatomo, 7.60. 4 20. 3 00; Bootits, 6 30, 3.50; O'Hurry, 2 80.

depressing than ever. Fate and an over-sollcltous mother brought Eugene's military career to a.halt Just as lt was fairly launched. of Tulcea to reach Constanta cull LATE NEWS BULLETINS daily DUl'BLfc rAiu nmic nunuitti rmpio. wKL.yaurK.1 3 Johnnie 3 40. 3.00.

2 .90: isolar marines made an R2-mil amnhihinns Todav he was home with an honor- Forest Hills, Aug. 30 (U.R) Miss star, s.oo, sbo; bu of Nerve, 3 On Beach Found To Contain Sand A wooden box, 2 feet long and 18 Inches wide, with the words "Explosives, 20 Charges, Black Powder" conspicuously marked on it, was discovered today on Manhattan Beach at the foot of Corbin Place, near the Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Station. Walter Miller of 78 Webster a Park Department attendant, found the box and notified police. Emergency police squads from the Sheeps-head Bay station, a police launch and bomb squad police arrived and took over. Gingerly the bomb squad moved the box to an open section of the beach, soaked it in oil and opened it.

It contained oil and water-soaked sand. V1a icrVi a rrraa njirnn Vilm torn iL'olrfi Pauline Los Angeles, opened I zDead heat for second. her defense of the National Women's 3 Tennis Championship today with RAC 1 Binao Brinaet 4 Maon Dixon 5 Flange 2 Bisnal Corps 3 Moselem Continued on Page aftflr ne completed nis hoot train- Narragansett Results irinTtians. in re- 'm Rasing the story, made much of the 2 citv Bred, 5.80, 2.80, 2 40: My Zaca. complicating circumstances that time' 3 Flame' 3 80 0f i Eugene faced charges of draft-dodg-' daily' double paid sKi.nn ing preferred by two draft boards s-Beidine, 3.20.

2 60 2 Nancy's But when asked about it over the Corner, 5 40, 2.80; Son Admiral, 2.60. Off hj i j. time, telephone today he replied in a dead 4 Jeiweii, 3 60, 2 2 40: spring Pa-! voice that "that's all been taken "mV. Itl 50; Ptr8t lrl' 3 40 care of." He did not seem to be 6 4, 8 3 victory over Mrs. Eleanor P.

Cushing of Wallington, Fla. The red-haired star, seeking her third consecutive title, toyed with her opponent after building up early leads In both sets and won much FIRST SECOND THIRD EX-BANK GUARD HELD ON ROBBERY CHARGE Fred Essman, 54, of 5701 3d a former bank guard, was arrested today on charges of assault and robbery. Mrs. Sadie Goldman of 563 16th St. told pol'T the man she identified as Essman entered her liqi store at that address at 11 a.m.

today and held her with a gun, taking $2.50. Shortly afterwards policem of the Butler St. Station in a radio car picked up am at Cane St. and Cheevers Place and Mrs. Goldm.

i charged he was the holdup man. When arrested, poll -said the prisoner had some money on him but no gun. Mrs. Louise Stanley Munn questions. He was held for interrogation by the District Attorney's office.

Mrs. Munn, wife of wealthy naval Lt Charles A. Munn was in serious condition In Lenox Hill Hospital with face and head lactations and a possible brain concussion. She was taken from Lloyd's rooms after she had telephoned her physician shortly before 3 a.m. Detectives reported that Mrs.

Munn told them at the hospital that she and Lloyd had been drinking in his suite, that they quarrelled and that he had beaten her and walked out. William E. Brown, manager of the Ambassador, said that to his knowledge Mrs. Munn lived at the Hotel Pierre, but the management of that hotel said she was not registered. Police reported that some of Mrs.

Munn's clothing and effects were found in Lloyd's suite. She had recently returned from a visit to her parents at Springfield, police said. Lloyd is a former vice president of the Franklin Simon Department Store. He is a top-rank amateur golfer and is the husband of the former Helene Simon, daughter of the late Franklin Simon. He and his wife maintain an apartment at 983 Park Ave.

Mrs. Munn was known on the stage as Louise Stanley. She is the daughter of Alvin Keyes, assistant director of the Illinois State Department of Public Safety. Munn began divorce proceedings against his wife at West Palm Beach, last Winter. He accused her Marlboro Results fifth race i relieved 1 Valdina Alpha 5 Brldleour rjntfUoh rrf Mi th morina rmm Continued on Fce 15 1 1 Chamful, 4 90, 3.30.

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3 40; Penden-clero, 22.50, 8 20. Cackle Time. 5 60. Off time. 3: 32 '-i.

THIRD U. S. Bombers Hit Robot Coast, Kiel SECOND by registering with a draft board as 19 and volunteering for immediate induction, Success came at the third attempt. That was why two other draft boards, with wtiich he nad also Continued on Page 11 Washington Park Results '1 Runaway. 17 00.

8.20. 8 00; Heewi-date, 7.20. 6.00; Mias Observer, 7.60. Off time. SECOND RACB 1 Trademark V-Devils irland 2 Fireworks 8 Private Joe 3 In the Bat 9 Gay Captain 4 Session 10 Stanino 5 Stork of Peace 11 Lucky Barney 6 Dauntless Bo Dade Park Results Detroit Results 1 Ewlng Sistr.

12.20. J.40, 2 80; Ken- FIRST RACE uckr Rose. 2 80. 2 40; Day Comins. 5.00.

1 Spread Eatle Japs Call Diet Session London. Aug. 30 (U.R) The German D. N. B.

agency reported in a 6 One 7 Beir.coda 8 Victory Prince 9 Okoole Maluna Off time, 4:02. I war Bonne 3 Maechanee FIRST SECOND THIRD ThictU Down Pffdilrc. I PU to colors 5 Magnetism 1 Henry M. 14 60. 00.

3.00; All Steele. 3.00. 2 20; Merry Bid, 3.60. Off time. 4:16.

FIRST SECOND THIRD Tokyo dispatch today that the Japanese Government had published a decree calling a meeting of the BASEBALL Loco! Teams Diet for five days beginning Sept. 6 5 1 7 0 London, Aug. 30 (U.R) American warplanes estimated at more than i.OOO strong attacked the German naval base at Kiel, targets in the bremen coastal area and eight flying bomb sites near Pas do Calais today, apparently co-ordinating the latter raid with the reported British land drive on the same section. Approximately 600 Flying For i.resses, accompanied by about 300 Mustang fighter planes, struck Kiel and Bremen through clouds which forced them to bomb by instrument and prevented observation of results More than 250 other heavy bombers struck the flying bomb launching platforms in the Pas de Calais ire a The assault on the flying bomb 'ites was made shortly after 1.000 Britisn night bombers returned from olastering targets over a widespread area of Germany from Berlin to the big Baltic ports of Stettin and Koenigsberg. Murder Case Lineup Parades 20 Women There was a special lineup in the with Mrs.

Newmark for a year and Giants 00000010 12 Braves 01000021 4 Batteries Pyle, Tobin, Maai. Red Sox 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 Yankees 1 3 1 0 1 0 2 Batteries O'Neill, Partee; Borowy, Garbark. rhillies at Dodfers, night. Manhattan district, attorney's office a half, was under arrest. At the today as police pressed their search 'same time what had appeared as a for a clue to the Planetarium mur possible direct clue vanished when der" of pretty Dlond Mrs.

Phyllis L. police cleared Marine Pvt. John Gil-Newmark, whose bodv was found lligan of Camp Lejeune, N. C. near the Hayden Planetarium last1 Arraigned in General Session MANHATTAN STORES TO KEEP OPEN V-DAY Depatment stores on Manhattan's 5th Ave.

will be closed on day, Capt. William J. Pedrick, Intern Revenue Collector for lower Manhattan and executl vice president of the Fifth Ave. Association, stated tods after completing a conference with Mayor LaGuardla i City Hall. BOARD RULES EPSTEIN'S NAME OFF BALLOT The name of Louis Epstein, Liberal party nominee for State Senate in the 16th District, today was ruled off the ballot by the Board of Elections in Manhattan because of insufficient valid signatures on his nominating petitions.

Representative Emanuel Celler, Democratic and American Labor party nominee for re-election in the 15th District, was okayed for the Liberal party nomination as well, when the board ruled enough valid signatures had been garnered for him. POPE COMPLETES SCRIPT FOR FRIDAY BROADCAST Vatican City, Aug. 30 (U.R) Pope Pius has completed the manuscript of the world-wide radio broadcast he is to make Friday on the fifth anniversary of the war, it was announced today. The Pope's speeches, in Italian, will begin at 1:30 p.m. (Brooklyn time) and will be followed by English, Polish, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese translations.

SPELLMAN LEAVES FOR FRENCH FRONT TOUR Rome, Aug. 30 (U.R) Following several confidential talks with Pope Pius XII, Archbishop Francis J. Spell-man of New York has left Rome for the French front, it was learned today. Spellman will visit American Catholic chaplains and soldier units in France, it was understood, and will return to Rome within a few weeks. PREWAR FRENCH AUTO MAGNATE ARRESTED Paris.

Aug. 30 (U.R) Paris police today arrested Francois Le Hideux, a pre-war French automobile magnate accused of making tanks and trucks for the German army during the occupation. Le Hideux formerly was manager of the Renault Car Company. of "extreme cruelty and violent and ungovernable temper." She filed a counter suit and charged that he had a violent temper. They were married in New York two years ago.

Both actions are pending. Prior to her marriage to Munn Mrs. Munn had been the wife of Dennis O'Keefe, actor, whom she married in 1937 and divorced the following year, and Addison Randall, cowboy movie actor. She divorced Randall, remarried him and then divorced him again. WHERE TO FIND IT BELMONT RESULTS (Saratoga Meeting) Friday.

Court, Manhattan, Lawless was held More than 20 feminine friends in $10,000 bail as a material witness, and acquaintances of Mrs. Newmark He told Judge Sullivan: assembled by investigating police, "if i can help, as much as I pos-took part. As they lined up. thej jsibly can I will. I have told the 4 1:23) (1:55) (2:23) (2:56) 1 Insolate 5.90-3.00-2.40.

Fire igh 3.00-2.40, Stormy Bill 3.10. (Off Laughter 4.40-2.80-2.70, Oh Ma Ma 23.50-10.70, Frances D'Or 4.80. BELMONT DAILY DOUBLE PAID SU.60 3 Forest Ranger 5.30-3.10-2.40, Fieldfare 3.00-2.40, Hot Spirit 3.20. 4 Bobrich 6.20-100-3.10, Lord Hairan 4.50-3.40, Good Ante 3.90. 5 Jack 8 5.90-3.60-2.30, Bankrupt 9.60-3.00, Salto 2.40.

(3 6 Busher 6.40-4.80-3.90, War Date 27.60-11.00, bLeglie Grey 5.90. (4 bLongrhamps entry. SEVENTH RACEr 1 Hasteville 5 Bardia 3 Tulachmore 6 Spook Ship 3 Eire 7 Sea Fare 4 Birlette 8 Meneither FIRST SECOND THIRD were carefully observed by a man District Attorney everything." still left unidentified by the authori- Blood on Uniform ties, but believed to oe a hotel era- Gilligan was picked up Friday at ploye who said he had seen Mrs. 100 W. 79th Manhattan, not far Newmark in the company of a blond from the Planetarium, by two mili-woman on the day of the slaying, tary police, on the charge of being Ex-Sailor Is Held A.

W. O. L. There was blood on his Police and prosecuting authorities uniform, and the M. after read-blieved that the missing blonde ing of the Newmark slaying, noti-might have Information 1 fied the city authorities, would lead to the killer.

After the! Police today said, however, that "lineup." however. Assistant. Dis-jGilligan explained he had been In trict Attorney Jacob Grumet de- a bar with a soldier, Pvt. Thomas 52 BORO, QUEENS, L. I.

MEN IN CASUALTY LISTS The War Department today announced the names of 41 Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island men killed in action In the Asiatic, Central Pacific, European, Mediterranean, South Pacific and Southwest Pacific areas, and the Navy Department announced 11 casualties. The complete latest casualty lists for this area are on Page 13. 2 Men, Woman, to Die Cincinnati. Ohio, Aug. 30 (U.R) Two men and a woman were sentenced today to die in the ohair at Ohio Penitentiary on Dec.

8 for the holdup-slaying of Jacob Reinstat-ler, elderly Cincinnati Jeweler. Page Page Bridge 16 Radio 19 Comics 19 Real Estate 16 Crossword 15 Society 6 Dr. Brady 10 Sports 14.15 Editorial 10 Take My Word 10 Financial 16 Theaters 8 Helen Worth 6 These Women 19 Horoscope 19 Tommy Holmee 15 MaryHaworth 7 Uncle Ray 19 Movies 8 Want Ads 15, 16, 17 Novel 12 Wartime Obituaries Ml Problem! 13 Our Fighters 13 Women 6 Patterns 16 1 clined to disclose whether any of iMasterson of TJtica, and that he got the women had been identified byjhts blood stains in a fist-fight that the observer. developed there. Police checked and Meanwhile, Charles Lawless, 23 Ifound that the soldiers were there dishonorably discharged sailor who and they were in a fight in which said he had been on Intimate terms! blood flowed.

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