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HOME EDITION FINANCIAL NEWS TV Winner with moderate winds tonight Sunset 5:30 1023 YEAR Ne 349 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN THURSDAY DEC 17 1942 ItM (ha litaUf fartafflai Clam Uil (uuwtoawrkM 1M1 Tka Braafea Xaa1 3 CENTS nr rw tors enr enn it tt I 3 i nil i ii 21 JV mL MERCURY HUS 99' BREAKS 23-YEAR MARK Ift Coldest Dec 17 Since Relief It Expected Tonight nc in pnn u-uu II umm JV FUNKING STAB BRINGS NAZIS-NEAR DISASTER Rows Cost Womens Unit Self-Rule in City Patrol 11 Nations Condemn Nazi Slaughter of Jews Suppltmant Pltdgt for Punishfnant Of Thoso Dictating 'Bastial Policy' CITY FACES GAS CRISIS WITHIN HOURS i Plea to lekes Places Supply at Less Than Enough for One Day temperatures KifaifM IUb-1l ll ai a is With tha mercury dropping to IS it 1:23 am- today waa the eoldcat DK IT in yeara Although the tow (Or the date waa 1J back In Uil today cold had plenty of atlnc tor Umm hit by tha ratloninf of fuel oiL The Weather Kan predicted continued cold with diminishing winds todsy but said It would bo warmar tofiight with moderate winds gatfi Cteu te Baildlnga Bus and trolley passengers wilt-tog st corners when lines run to nr plants presented a sorry spec- tsele as hundreds huddled close to tojQdings to avoid the Icy wind At the corner of Washington and1 Jahnwa fits tha thermometer stood 12 abovo aero shortly after I am gtranie sweater-swathed figures trod Nassau? snow-covered atreets1 to the light of a misty moon dur-1 tag the blackout last night Air raid I wardens rummaging through ctets and cedar chests turned out! to strange assortments of knitted and furred wearing apparel rid on Problem A complicating factor present this year for the first Urns since Wbrid War 1 was tha shortage of heating fuel Coal heated offices sad homes had to- raise steam to mi in tain ths prescribed wartime degree! of the OPA fit places heated with fuel' oil ths coupons remaining in the ration book rather than tha thermometer dictated tha temperature fit Nassau County: moot of thoee aha had not received their hooka to last weekend either had been supplied or Issued emergency coupons today Division Ends i Officers Put On Danford Staff By MABGARET MARA Ths women's division of the City Patrol Corps has ceased to exist as an entity it was revealed todsy due to the mounting dissension among the women and partially ever dissatisfaction in tha matter of rating and promotions As a result of the change Me Oeorglanna Canon commanding officer of the women's branch henceforth will be a member of the taff of MaJ Gen Robert Dsn-ford 8 A citywide head of the petrol All other women officers will be on The general staff In the various boroughs and the names of women members win appear on the muster roll with those of the men in tha City Patrol Corps Disagreements had arisen among Contiaaed ra Page il Main Line lyl Trains late Again Montgomery Outwits Enemy Third Time Rushes in for Kill London Dee 17(Ui9-GenCl Bernard Eighth -British Army has cut Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's fleeing Axis forces In tiro In the Libyan Desert threatening thousands of enemy troops with extermination or capture Driving In early yesterday fa a sudden flanking movement advanced British Army forces reached Wadi Matraban 55 miles west of El Agheite on tha GuU of Slrte Thera tha British spearheaded by tanke and armored can suddenly slashed southward Tha result was that Rommel? army waa cut ana force continuing to flat to the west and tha other gsught between the British main army and the British advanced els- mints gaffer Heavy CaauKhs Enemy troop cut off Include ar- mored forces which in desperate -attempts to escape already had sul- fend heavy casualties and "con- tlnue to be severely tha Middle Eastern command ctuninu- 1 nlque issued in Cairo today said -The main Eighth Army wu push- -Ing ahead through thick German- Centlnned an Pago RAF Night Raids Hit Reich Targets London Dec17 SJJ9 A mnaU foireo of 'British bombing planes raided ta'geta in Northwest Germany during the night ard ehot: down ono German Messerachmitt-110 fighter 'plane which ehaTenqed' them the Air Ministry said today Other planes despite be weather mined enemy waters One plane was LL Wiley Howell of Prairie City? Ore te the first United States naval officer ever decorated by a British king Howell went to Buckingham Palace for the investiture Xing George pinned on his uniform the Distinguished PlytLg Cion he won when piloting a Wellington bomber for the A Coastal Command He transferred from the A 7 to the United States Nsvy a few months ago Washington Dee 17 Eleven of the United Nations and the French National Committee today condemned Germany's "bestial of mass slaughters of Jews and resolved that those responsible would not escape retribution The statement wu indorsed by the Belgian Csechoalovak Greek Luxembourg Netherlands Norwegian Polish Soviet United Kingdom United State and Yugoslav governments and the Fighting French Other United Nations are expected to subscribe to it later (British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden read the Allied statement in the House of Commons'at London and tha Moscow Radio braadcut It from tha Russian Bureau of Information) Tho denunciation supplemented a previous pledge by President Roosevelt and Prims Minister Winston Churchill to punish Axis officiate guilty of killing hostages and other offenses Germany Indicted Tha statement on Jewish oppru-ion accused Oermany of "carrying into effect Hitter? oft reputed intention to exterminate tha Jewish people in It charged Jews were being transported from occupied countries "in conditions of ap-paling horror and brutality" that Polish ghettos are being emptied" that the Infirm are left to die or are massacred The text of the statement made public here and In London: 1 "The attention of the Belgian Czechoslovak Greek Luxembourg Netherlands Norwegian Polish Soviet United Kingdom United States and Yugoslav governments and the French National Commit-tea he been drawn to numerous reports from Europe that the German authorities not content with denying to persons of Jewish race in all tie tnrttortee over which their barbarous rate has been extended the most elementary human rigthe are now ci Tylng into effect Hitter? oft reputed Intentlou to exterminate the Jewish people Europe Brutality Cited an the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions of appalln horror end brutality to Eastern Europe "In Poland which has been made the principal Nasi Slaughter house the ghetto ks established by the invader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled workers required for war Industries Note of those taken away is ever heard of again "Tha able-bodied are slowly worked to death In labor camps The infirm are left to die of ex-posure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in maw executions Tha number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thouunds of entirely innocent men women and child re "The above mentioned government! and tha French National Committee condemn in the strong est possible terms this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom-loving peoples to 1 overthrew the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny They reaffirm their solemn resolution to Insure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribution and to press on wit hthe necessary practical mess-urea fo this and" Washington Dee 17 Possibility appeared today that Admiral Jean Francois Darien will become tha center of a sort of provisional Reneh Government for the duration of tha war That wu seen on tha baaia of Darien? repudiation of any political ambition and his pledge that tha Planch people win choose their own government when the time cornea Such an arrangement would carry out President Roosevelt? pledge that tha daal with Dirlan is a "temporary but It could complicate relations between tha United States and the Fighting French unleu the breach between Gen Charlee de Gaulle and Darien can ba healed Wenld laetode Other Flguru If lueh a provisional government were formed It would include other prominent French figures to glvs an all-inclusive political complexion Darla Indicated that that had been partly accomplished by his statement that of tha persons against whom North African officials had taken step because pn-Allil sympathies several now hold places In fcis high commissariat Important Frenchmen are at liberty who might ba induced td Join a provisional government The question of De Ouulie is 1IU-iy to prove more difficult When Dorian's the-Allied cause wu first announced De OaulllsU made clear that they could not Join him That breach continues and is likely to prevent the use of Darlan and Da Gaulle forces together This country la deeply Indebted to Da Gaulle for the use of areu controlled by such New Caledonia and French Equatorial Africa At tha moment Darlan is in a position to deliver more immediately needed help than tha Fighting French The establishment of a provisional government in North Africa would serve several useful purposes Once the Axis is driven out' trade economic political and military arrangements could be more readily made I Werklng Agreement Reported London Dee 17 A Daily Mall Madrid dispatch reported today that' Great Britain had reached a working agreement with Admiral Darlan which would recognise him tender In fact of tha French in i i Y- 4 i 'T i i iV i ii 5f 1 -V fr Trains on the Lons Island Railroad were late aain this moraine for the third consecutive day Cause of the delay waa not Immediately learned liralna on the main line from Port Jef tenon were more than ten minutes late arrivlnr In Brooklyn and at Pennsylvania Station Connecting trains at Jamaica were not held resulting In waits of varying lengths of time upon the windswept platforms On the Oyster Bay line trains were ten minutes late MAYOR FIGHTS OLEO BAN IN CITY'S HOSPITALS Repeal of the State law prohibiting the purchase of Oleomargarine for public Institution! and enactment of legislation limiting the houra of sales In food stores were urged by Mayor LaGuardia yesterday -r-Testifying at the first public hearing of the State Joint Legislative Committee on Nutrition In the State Building SO Centre St Manhattan the Mayor described the butter situation as Mvery While needs for city hospitals for next week were supplied through the aid of a Western city Mayor be Mid he did not know what he would do ufter that "until we go on rl P'o 1 -X -i Capt Margaret Hull BEGIN MEDIATION IN NEWSPAPER DELIVERY STRIKE WLB OrdoK Reitorof Distribution Urges Settlement in 10 Days Manhattan newspapers return'd to general circulation today after a three-day absence caused by the striked of 2000 drivers The sriken members of the unaffiliated Newspaper and Mail De-llverea1' Union voted unanimously at a meeting that ended at 1 sjh to comply with an order of the War Labor Board and return -to work The points at issue between the union and the New York City Publishers Association of which the eight affected newspapers were members were left to be settled by sifeltratiop within ten days if pos- Severe! hours of debate at a meeting Manhattan Center 24th St and Sth Ave Manhattan preceded the union? decision Union tetdere headed by Joseph Simons president at an earlier meeting of their own in the office of tile State Board of Mediation 250 57th St Manhattan had agreed to recommend compliance with the WLB order Issued late yesterday afternoon At the membership meeting at-Centlnued eu Page IS 2 MORE 35-OOO-TON BATTLESHIPS READIED TO JOIN THE NAVY Washington Dec 17 Two more 25000-ton the Indiana and Alabama-should be commissioned or Joining the fleet in the near future as a result' of a speed-up in fitting out warships after they have been launched' Tha Indiana waa launched nearly 12 months ago and may now be in commission The Alabama went down the ways ten months ago If the navy maintains Its pace of a year between launching and commissioning for battleships she should be in service before February Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal revealed recently that the South Dakota and tha Massachusetts are with the fleet South Dakota waa launched June 7 1M1 and Massachusetts on Sept 22 1B41 They must have been commissioned npntlu ago Because of the speed-up In fitting out it was considered not unlikely that the battleship Iowa first of the navy? 45000-tonne re launched Aug 21 may be In commission by I 9 MaJ Georgianna Carson CaaUnaed au Pays New York City is fared with an immediate shortaye of itsollne according to a telegram sent to Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickrt by ths major gasoline companies The message pointed out that there te less than a days supply in the metropolitan area and asked Ickee for an Immediate order from the War Production Board to allocate suollne only to the industries most vital to tha war effort Mayor LaGuardia alio entered the picture with a recommendation to Washiniton that' provision be made to enable vehicle used by tha Police Fire and Sanitation departments to continue operations without an( fuel difficulties Urce Further Driving Carhe The gasoline firms claimed there are more ration coupons in circulation than there Is gasoline in storage -tanka' and suggested that there be a further reduction in drivlnr to SO percent of normal It waa asserted that unless strict priorities are established a rush to cash in gas coupons could drain the stores tanka within a few hours Any Immediate shortage in gasoline it wee flared might bring to a standstill food distribution war transportation and bus operations In addition to the gasoline situation representatives of various fuel companies declared there is a supply of heavy fuel oil In storage' for only two days Jamea Lundy OPA administrator for Queena reported that three building operators In Queena yesterday complained they could not get regular dealers to tumor their coupons because of an Inadequate supply Metropolitan distributors have not made any plans for local rationing Inasmuch as under present regute-ttonr sales cannot-be denied any eis of gasoline users Philadelphia Baltimore Washington ana other East Coast cities are expected to find their supplies of gasoline just as short within a few dira CURRAN SOUNDS DOOM OF FRIGID COURTHOUSE AS 'PNEUMONIA HALL' In the first tsep to "abandon Hall" Chief Magistrate Henry Curran announced tha transfer of the Manhattan Night Court from the West Side Court building 214 64th St to the new Criminal Courts Building 100 Centre St effective tomorrow The public? attention was drawn to the poor heating faculties in the building recently when a magistrate presided In hta overcoat and the temperature in the courtroom showed 43 degrees Magistrate Curran said the Weekend Court also held In the 54th 81 building and the West Side Magistrate? Court will eevntually be housed In ths Criminal Courts Building Slain Officar's Wifi Called Him 'Wild Beast1 Blsbee Arts Dec 17 Margaret Herllhy pretty red-haired daughter of an army officer wu heard ecreamlng for help In an automobile with her new and secret husband Capt David Carr a short time before she shot Him to death a witness testified at her murder trial Bert Claxton testified that he was driving with friends from Ague Prleta Mexico lest Aug 15 when he heard screams from the car The State previously had shown that Miss Herllhy 21nd Carr 27 had been drinking that night at Agua Prleta where they had been secretly married two months earlier A previous witness had quoted her as saying that Carr had "acted ilka a wild heart" Hoover Suggests Peace After a Cooling Period Chic Dec 11 Former Pmkicnt Seibert Hoover proposed hit night that ths United Rations sms now to eliminate an armls-titee period after victory and Impute a -conditional peace" to he Miowed by a cooling off period beta a permanent peace" written ST Hoover said the essence of bh proposals was to 'divide peace sktag into two stages "tha first to te an Instant peace' but will turn the world toward po-btfcal economic and spiritual re-tey without the delays of last said "And then that the world should taka time to cool off ud work out on by one and sepa-itedy tha solutions for lasting tore? Swanky Club Provided For Africa Soldiers Uhlted State? Army Headquarters at Morocco Dec IT CUJD Casa-? most fashionable moving Suture theater the farmer Theater te Paris has become one of the tata dufce in North Africa for bu entertainment of American teWlen Bulldlnp rented by the army in de a large waited garden the water with plush seats a cock-teU lounge a game room a library a dance floor The Servlet tab Club features free cigarettes ta drinks and dances on Saturday fternoon fail! Soy Alexandria Hwt May Go to Allies ktoten Dec1 11 (UJb-The Nasi tar Radio heard by the Ex- Telegraph reported today at negotiations were under way Put the demilitarized French na- fleet at Alexandria Egypt in control of Admiral Jean Frtn- Jb Dstlsn and Gen Henri Honore commanding tha French forces In Africa Brltiih naval and fighting French had no information of any under which the neh fleet Alexandria might ta Allies other sources ex- tat the report was tarste Africa Th agreement does not give Darlan permanent recognition the 'dispatch said but subordinates everything to Un common Allied purpose or organising French Africa Britain recognised it wu said that Darlan had exerted himself to obtain the best results for the Allies and hU that his rule wag accepted both by the majority of French people in-Africa and by all responsible military and civil nu-thorttlea hi Flench Africa Tha agreement wu reached largely through the aid of Gen Henri Bonore Olraud commanding the French African fighting forces tho "lrfh HONEST ABE GETS A TOKIO TOUCH tv UattrJ Pr Abraham Lincoln ones' said to a' White House caller: you may fool all the people soms of the tlmi you can never fool aome of the people all the time but you fool all tho people all the Toklo asserting its own broad-cuts which have destroyed the American Navy three times were always correct and American communiques were not translated Lin- -coin into Japanese and back to English for a propaganda broadcut today It came out "A man esn impose upon the world with honeyed words for the time being end deceive some parte of tho public but not tho entire VO worid forever' 1 HIT-RUN SUSPECT HELD AFTER LAD IS HURT Giuseppe Visaggio 48 of $6-10 Van Cleef Corona was held in 15000 bail for a hearing tomorrow when he was arraigned yesterday before Magistrate urplesJn Queens Traffic Court Kew Gardena on charges of aadault In the third degree leaving the scene of an accident and driving an automobile without a license VliUniv was charged with having struck James Modlca Jr 11 of 56-00 Van Cleef Corona while the bey was coasting In the roadway near his home Tuesday night Visaggio it was alleged then drove away from the scene of the accident The court was Informed Visaggio has been driving an automobile for the last 12 years without a license 3 ELECTION VICTORS TO BE SWORN IN The three Republican candidates In Queens who were elected In November are to be sworn into office ut 2 pm tomorrow by Supremo Court Justice Henry Wensel in his chambers in the General Court House Jamuicu They are Magistrate Anthony Savarese elected Surrogate State Senator Seymour Halpern Third District and Assemblyman George Arcbinal Sixth District Halpern and Archinal were re-elected Warren Ashmead Republican leader of Queens Frank Kenna Republican campaign chairman and relatives and friends pf the three candidates are to attend the ceremonies BORO YANK FINDS ROSE IN AUSTRALIA Mrs Alice Desmond of 515 45th St mother of five strapping sons four of whom are in the armed services with the fifth duo to enlist ufter Christmas heard from an Australian Rose which her sone Thomas 22 Is seeing quite frequently In Melbourne Victoria "We have been eat together quite wrote Rose O'Connor 16 the daughter and sister of aoldieri In the Australian Army She Isa clerk in a grocery store while the boys are away The father of the five boys Is Frank Desmond an-elevator operator in the Central Courts Cuildlng i- BRITAIN TO CALL WOMEN BETWEEN AGES OF 35 45 London Dee 17 Britain will call up for national service under plane being made now women between the ages of 25 and 45 years working In retail distribution trades Ernest Bevln Minister of Labor and National Service told the House of Common todsy It wu understood that the women taken from the pider age group would com primarily from luxury trades add that tha order would narrow the definition of key workers who hive been exempted calls to wu work or tp tho auxiliary anvleai WHERE TO FIND IT IT IS IB 1 Cmbh Nani omimHm Seranatl Ml i 1 Baal Srfalc IS Saaiatr mi ii start iv-ie-ia 11 Taka Wat! 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