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Ended Delivery. 7 Complete WEATHER Cloudy, Rain Tonight; Showers, Cool Tomorrow 104th YEAR No. 193 DAILY and SUNDAY oopniht, ms, Tht Brooklyn eei. inc.) BROOKLYN, N. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1945 Entered Brooklyn P.

O. 2d Class Mill UV.ter rtKITC rv TORK CTTT i Vtn I 3 ELSEWHERE 4 CTHTS1 Emm Mfli wm Scores of Fruit Stores Join in Shutdown AIR A NEWSPAPER DELIVERY STRIKE ENDS Trucks Roll Again Issues Up to WLB And Private Arbitration M1EITI abea War on Black Market Spread of Protest Movement Threatens To Paralyze Industry Throughout City The of Brooklyn and Queens retail fruit and lORflBARD OSTO vegetable stores in protest against the black market today spread to hundreds of additional establishments and threatened to paralyze the Industry in the entire city, Some 2,000 merchants have real Truman, Stalin and Aides Hold Preliminary Parley The 17-day strike of newspaper deliverers which deprived some 000,000 readers of their daily papers ended abruptly today. Louis Waldman, rounsel to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, announced at 10; 10 a.m. that a "satisfactory aRreement" had been reached for the return to work of 1,700 men. 'Practically I'nanimous' At that time, Mr.

Waldman said, vote was being taken by the union membership in Webster Hall, Man- hattan, at a closed meeting. After Rock Homeland After Carrier Assault President Host morrow night In Manhattan Center. It was also learned that a plan is under way to organize the Rock-aways before the end of the week. At last night's meeting a special committee was formed to enlist unaffiliated stores in the holiday. Meanwhile a difference arose today as to the number of shops actually closed.

Abraham Zion, honorary president of the Associated Retail Fruit and Vegetable Merchants, which originated the shutdown, estimated that 1,200 stores were closed yesterday and that the number would increase rapidly. The Markets Department, however, placed the number shut at 500. 'Retailer Vs. Black Mart' At the Biltmore meeting speaker after speaker told an overtlow crowd that the retailers were "not at war firmed their Intention of staying closed ''indefinitely" until a remedy is applied to what they claim is a "squeeze" on their business between wholesale overcharges and retail ceiling prices. Meeting last night in the Biltmore, Flatbusli and Church they gave the "holiday" leaders a unanimous vote of confidence.

Scores of the merctianUs attending eagerly filled out application blanks signifying their Intention of Joining the shutdown. More Groups Join In addition, several other organizations Joined the ranks of those closing. The Victory Fruit and Vegetable Retailers, numbering 300 stores in Brownsville and East New York, has completed plans to close by tonight. About 100 storekeepers To Red Chieftain By WILLIAM F. TYREE Guam, Wednesday, July 18 U.R) The Pacific fleet steamed almost to the gates of Tokyo today to unlimber Its dreadnaughts' huge batteries against Japanese shore targets and pile tons of high explosives on the Japanese homeland already rocking from the continuous air strikes of 1,500 American and British carrier-born planes.

350 Persons Flee Fire On Great Lakes Liner Passengers Dive Overboard as Moored Ship At Luncheon By MERRIMAN SMITH Communists Set Is Cut Adrift Scores Rescued by Small Craft Port Huron, July 17 (U.R) The 30-year-old Great (A mutual network broadcast 'from an American battleship re. ported that the correspondent was speaking from a dreadnaught at that moment engaged in battering part of the Japanese homeland only i 25 miles from Tokyo.) Potsdam, July 17 (U.R) President Truman, Premier Stalin and their foreign ministers in Coney Island and Brighton Beach with the Government, the Mayor are expected to follow suit at aior tne consumer" and that they Lakes liner Hamonic, with an estimated 350 person's aboard, meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at i were only waging a fight against the To Oust Browder caught fire at her pier at Port Edward, today and fr an hour today Lewis Ave black market. cut adrift with her whistles screeching for help and passen-iat the temporary White House; In a drive to urge every store- Retailers In Manhattan and the Bronx are scheduled to vote on the question of closing at a meeting to- gers diving overboard In panic. preliminary to the formal Continued on Page 7 Although no serious casualties were swamped his boat at times and 0f jne gig Three con- had to arn some of them away.

His immediately after reported, more tnan too boat carried four loads of survivors icieiii.e NOW YOU'LL GET YOUR BROOKLYN EAGLE With the end of the newspaper deliverers' strike, all normal deliveries of the Brooklyn Eagle were resumed today. Papers delivered at homes by newsboys went out on normal schedules in addition to those supplied to newsdealers. In addition to this many thousands of persons continued to rome to the office at 24 Johnson a habit increasing numbers had fallen into during the 17 days of the strike. hi announcement he went to the meeting, emerged, and then told reporters that the vote to return to work had been a hand vote and that is was "practically unanimous." Deliverymen whistled and cheered, then began streaming from the hall to start delivery trucks rolling. Mr.

Waldman announced cessation of the strike in an Interview with 25 reporters in his offices at 305 Broadway, Manhattan. The settlement followed an exchange of telegrams between the union attorney and Robert K. Burns, chairman of the Daily Newspaper Commission of the War' Labor Board in Chicago. Two-Method Decisions The general effect of the telegrams Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimlt reported that the naval bombardment opened up on the factory city of Hitachi and its industrial suburbs 75 miles north of Tokyo.

The attack started before midnight last night and was still In progress today. (The Mutual correspondent said that the fleet was standing less than ten miles off shore, battering targets over a 25-mile area north and northeast of Tokyo.) From Command Party Seen Ready To Resume Class War Under New Leader were treated ai ine carina uenerei ignore. lunch Hospital, Sarnia, for burns and! George Andrew, harbor master at r.nrv,cimn. ctiin no. vtr shock.

jPort Edward, estimated the damage rt 1 1 iiiumaiij lu.iviifwii Kucai. wit i mc piri aim me amp at buuul imroductory conference in the introductory second President's office on the floor of his Potsdam villa. wumeu auu uauies, were laKen iiom the water by rescue boats. Onej The fire broke out In the Ca-rescuer, Harry Simpson, aboard a nadian National Railroad freight Hospital Crisis Laid To Work Conditions Kings Institution Operates With 40 Of Staff Despite Pay Hike Given Nurses By JO ANNfc TAGGAUT c. vrnall rmft he hptnpH tulf 0 a IvMlt 1 chHe athnra onH eurnrvt alnna ih.L WII.SOV July 17 0J.R1 Ameri- A 7 I 7 1 7 7." Stalin, accompanied by his stall Washington peiMjii num uie water, mciuuiiig waiei noiit 10 ine snip, ownea Dy arrivp(j at Mr Truman's villa at Iowa in Forefront Admiral William F.

Halsey's 3d Flet was carrying out the attack, the Northern Navigation -n nirtv un orrfterf nn'cari Communists are about to boot twu uuuitra miu sevriai women. X.1,. -1 T3.niay ntli nf tUa Mtl- the steps of the villa by the Presi Simpson said fear-stricken per- The liner was cut adrift to escape sons struggling In the water almost the flames, but too late. jcommana in a maneuver lowara iru oy uie uuiucsnip lowft na aide resuming tne class war they a'oan-i other dreadnaughts. It was ths dent's military aide, Brig.

Harry Vaughan, and naval Capt. James K. Vardaman. Bad working conditions lfl city hospitals are responsible uuiieu iieauy iwu raia ngu uuuci uuiu jiiMiwie i Lav uil inr uap- his leadership. anese nomeland within four days Browder persuaded the party tojby Halsey's rampaging battle- Stalin and Foreign Commissar V.

Mnlr.nv BwnmnnnipH t.hp aides for the loss of 60 percent of Kings County Hospital's necessary staff, despite a recent pay raise to nurses in city wagons. Royal Navy at to the office where Mr. Truman andigIveuuP lUs active political status and Secretary of State James F. Bvrnesi become the Communist Political were waiting. The initial tails of Af nation.

It was his theory that the American and Russian e'PmenA of the PPulaUon of planes smashed Hitler and Eva In Argentina, Reporter Says U. S. flattop a diminishing in the Tokyo was to agree that minor issues Of targets number district. wa. conducted through official unuea oiaies coum live, worn and prosper together.

Other Com- terpreters. The meeting of Mr. Truman challenged Browder, Stalin the way for the Big! Now after more than a month Three to get down to of public discussion in the Corn-Prime Minister Churchill had called 1 munlst press these developments hospitals. The new raise, which went Into effect July 1, gives registered nurses in city hospitals a minimum monthly wage of $150, with meals and laundry, compared with the average private hospital wage of $130 a month, also with meals and laundry. Many private hospitals pay as low as $110 a month.

Although nurses are essential workers, and therefore restricted, a switch to a higher paying Job in a city hospital would be possible, Bombardment of Hitachi opened at 11 p.m. (Japan time. Moving at high speed, the surface naval force moved almost to the gates of the Japanese capital before It leveled the big guns of its battleships, cruisers and destroyers against th selected targets. Chicago, July 17 (U.P Chicago Times correspondent Vincent De FELDMAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN WIFE MURDER Benjamin Feldman, 37-year-old pharmacist of 1236 Union was arraiimer! todav in Countv Court On Pascal has reported from Monte-l" lhe President for an informal appear te nueiy. video that he is "virtually ulk J'PSierday while they werel j.

Removal of Browder and se- Adolf Hitler and his the delayed arrival of. lection of an advocate of the class EM-a Dronn afa in in a lar- Stalin. BS AniPWcan Pommllnlst BORO DEMOCRATS CONSIDER 9 FOR COUNCIL RACE By JOSEPH II. SCHMALACKER The Brooklyn Democratic leaders are considering plans to name as many as nine candidates on their party slate in the coming City Council election race, it was learned today. Although no final decision on the actual number to be designated Is expected until after petitions have been filed in mid-August, reports now emanating from Democratic headquarters seem to Indicate at least a tentative agreement on most of the candidates likely to be named.

Party chieftains close to County Leader Frank V. Kelly assert Mrs. Rita Casey and William M. McCarthy are expected to be on the 1945 slate. Bath are former Demo Hitachi and adjoining Sukegawa would be decided at an Immediate hearing of the Daily Newspaper Commission of the War Labor Board and that the major issue the 3 percent general welfare fund would be submitted to private arbitration.

William Mapel. vice president of the Publishers Association of New York City, In another telegram, agreed to participate "If all the men return to work." He announced that wages, hours and working conditions meanwhile would be similar to those prevailing at the time the dispute arose. Told to 'Do Good Job' Mr. Waldman told reporters he had made a brief address before the returning strikers and that he Continued on Page 2 man-owned estate in Southern Mr- Truman sat at the head of leader. William Z.

Foster, a veteran are center'? of th? largest and Argentina. ltne luncheon table. Stalin, wearing of the movement, seems to be a most important complex of industrial targets north of Tokyo. according to a War Manpower Com His rfisn9fi.h rarried In ww- i -cessur, wai Mm I mission regulation which makes it ct nf u.a tn tlio Drar irlon 'm rrVi permissible for a nurse to obtain 2. Abandonment or the "political Plan" Attack at Dawn association" type of organization in More than 1,500 American and favor of a regularly organized no- British warDlanes.

launched from terday's final edition of the Times. Nex' "From informa ion just received jN pavlov and from Buenos Aires," De Pascal mui 1U- murdering nis pregnant, wna im reiease from a hospital under litical party a mighty combined fleet of per strychnine. He pleaded not guilty and waa remanded to Raymond St. Jail with wrote, "I am virtually certain Adolf Hitler and his Eva Braun, a i.ip.iiu pri i jitin tile Presidential yacht Potomac served the meal. After lunch the party 3.

An aggressive Communist bor haps 150 man o' war standing off "certain conditions." Low pay is listed as one of the conditions. Object to Working Conditions The answer to why nurses in private hospitals will not transfer to the latter dressed in masculine i Continued on Page 2, Continued on Page 1 out bail to await trial. Continued on Page 7 Before he was taken to Jail, how city hospitals lor higher pay lies ever, he was brought before Magis Col. Douglas to Fill Allied Post in Rome Rain and More Rain Forecast for Today trate Surpless In Felony Court for clothes, landed in Argentina and are on an immense, German-owned, estate in Patagonia." De Pa.scal's information, which he said was received through "reliable channels," was that the onetime master of Germany was living on one of a number of estates in the desolate Patagonia area "purchased to provide sanctuaries for the Nazi 1 ir i i Lord Haw Haw Pins Trial Hope On Boro Birth a previously scheduled hearing on a charge that he killed his mother- Scattered showers, light rains and i Rome. July 17 (U.R Col.

James in-law, Mrs. Gussie Berkowitz, 47, in the bad working conditions which exist in city institutions. In some cases one nurse is assigned to a large ward for an eight-hour stretch. All borough hospitals feel the nurse shortage keenly, but It is especially prevalent in city Institutions, where the nurse Is also hampered in many cases by incapable assistants and an acute shortage of supplies. Tomorrow Is Waste Paper Day Tomorrow Is collection day for waste paper.

Have all your old paper newspapers, scraps, wrappings bundled and on the streets by 7 a.m. of 379 Rockaway Parkway, also with strychnine. cratic members of the Council who lost out in 1943 when the Brooklyn off-year vote sagged heavily and permitted Brooklyn as a whole to elect only six members of the 1944-45 Council whose term In office expires this year. 4 Democrats In Now Just plain rain were predicted for Henderson Douglas of Air Transport today by the Weather Bureau. jCommand and former executive sec-Highest temperature should bejretary of the Chicago Chamber of about 75.

dropping to 65 tonight. Commerce, is expected to arrive ln the forecast continued. Tomorrow: on July 24 to succeed Admiral Partly cloudy with temperature Ellery Stone as chief of the Allied near 80 Commission in Italy. 77 1 London. Julv 17 (U.Rt-Willlam schemes for world conquest ln.

Lord Haw of Berlin aIy'n i radio notoriety throughout the war, De Pascal said that the pair re- will g0 on triili f()r trPason tomorrow One registered nurse at Kings County told a Brooklyn Eagle re- puncuiy miuii-u uu a loneiy snore r.nlrai Criminal Court at Old Assistant District Attorney Charles N. Cohen asked a three-month adjournment of the hearing and when former Assistant District Attorney Michael Kern, Feldman's attorney, objected, said he had no obiectlon to dismissal of the The outgoing Brooklyn delejition: from a German submarine which Continued on Page 2 Boro Flier in Crash later surrendered to the Allies, De Pascal wrote that there "cer Alexandria. La July 17 (U.Rl Pvt. Jerome Harris of Brooklyn was one See U. S.

Restrictions On Sale of All Insignia tainly are enough Nazi sympathizers in Argentina who would jump at the chance to give a haven to the of 13 men killed or missing Saturday Bailey, It was understood, however, that Joyce's attorney would ask a postponement of the trial until September because of the delay in oo-taining defense documents from the United States. Joyce apparently hoped to claim American ritizenshirj. naminc Premier Soong Returns After Moscow Parley when a bomber based at Esler Field crashed near Weldon, Texas. in tne council consists of four Democrats, one Republican-Citizens Nonpartisan Committee member and one Communist The four Democrats are Councilmen Anthony J. DiGio-vanna, Walter R.

Hart, Majority Leader Joseph T. Sharkey and Edward Vogel. All are veterans in the Council's service. Mrs. Genevipve B.

Earle, elected on the G. O. Continued on Page 2 Chungking, July 17 (U.R) Chinese Premier T. V. Soon returned to Blanket restrictions on the sale of; as yet available, although open living symbol of Nazi socialism." "In thus connection," he added, "the utmost significance is now attached to the words of Gen.

Basilo Pertine at a banquet on June 4: "I am glad tot announce that our friends are safe at Brooklyn as his birthplace, in military Insignia, including hon-action is expected soon. charge. Magistrate Surpless thereupon dismissed it. Mrs. Harriet Feldman died Dec.

9, 1943, in Beth-El Hospital, two years after her mother died, supposedly of heart failure, repeating what he rmother said at the time of her death, "Don't touch my feet!" Doctors ascribed Mrs. Feldman's death to tcnany superinduced by pregnancy. Chungking today from a two-week series of conferences with Premier Stalin and other high Russian of orable discharge buttons, are likely Open and unrestricted sale of the following his investigations, United discharge buttons was first disclosed ficials in Moscow. eftort to avoid conviction and a possible death sentence as a British traitor. Soong was accompanied bark to Chungking by A.

A. Petrov, Soviet Ambassador to China. Jamaica Results States Attorney John F. X. the Eagle when two reporters Gohey's office in Manhattan indi-iwere sent out to garner the pins, cated today.

Posing as discharged veterans, but "We are trying to build up a case carrying no identification, the two for criminal prosecution," a spokes-j were able to buy as many buttons as man for the office "The army! they wished. Prices of the buttons and navy were busy early ln the varied, but all were above the 7-cent 13 Cars Leave Rails As Rain Loosens Ties Chicago, July 17 (U.R) Thirteen British Honor 7 Mules Dropped by Parachute London, July 17 (U.R) The War Office announced today that seven mules dropped experimentally by parachute from a Dakota transport EMPIRE CITY MEETING FIRST RACE Thrf e-yfar-ods and up; three-quarters mile. cars of the Union Pacific stream PUin Son (Permanr) 24 SO lift) Grand Parlv (Sloull 15.60 so and made no definite answer on; charge the army makes for them liner, the eastbound City of Los Angeles, were derailed early today near Royal Weista twrmhtl 6.50 nr illocrnl ciln nf inla'h011 man ic c-h a ro.d Demands Ocean Beach Act to Restore Flag Time 1:14 2-5. IVIco, SabatlJ Dunlap, Iowa, after a cloudburst had in a test for the use of such tactics pduia. in Thanks, signia, but now the War Depart-1 The ribbons being displayed by in Burma had been decorated with port loosened railroad ties.

Purple Heart, xJuJube ais ran. Kin nn. nac inlnrarl anynrriina in FnrCPS. be 1 TlOITie. 132.

the wings of Parachute Foi attached to their harness. uin flf Pa rarh lit 7 o.vw.v.. 1 field Northwestern Railroad officials. aOormer-Brrnlcow entrv. mourning for the late President Roosevelt, VE-Day, Decoration Day, the nation's salute to General Elsen Special to the Brooklyn Eaglt Ocean Beach, July 17 The flag-ipole in this Fire Island village has 'stood stark and naked for some ment has more time to devote to many civilians today are also re-rulings governing those things." jstricted by regulations.

They can Discharge papers or credentials prove very Important to veterans must be presented to retailers before seeking jobs. One who has been discharge buttons or other military overseas is more likely to find em-Insignia are sold, army sources at ployment than the non-overseas 90 Church Manhattan, have de-i veteran, and if anyone is able to clared, but a recent survey by the buy and wear them, they will los Brooklyn Eagle proved that military their importance and meaning, insignia can in most cases be ob-l The forthcoming crack-down will tained without any identification. likely result In widespread reforms hower and the Fourth of July the Stars and Stripes never was flown Gl's Magic Wand Transposes Cider Into High Powered Brandy on village property." Casualties Include 19 From Area The War Department today, announcing the names of 146 soldiers killed in action, 103 wounded, 28 missing and 112 liberated, listed four Brooklyn and Long Island men dead, two wounded and two missing, and four released from German prison camps. The navy listed four local men dead, five wounded and two missing. Local casualty lists on Page 7.

Call the Brooklyn Chapter, American Red Cross, and arrange to donate a pint of blood NOW. TRiangle 5-8040. Berouse Mayor Fred M. Fisher Is often in New York, attending to business Interests, It Is not always Further proof that the Insignia in the sale and manufacture of th buttons, ribbons and pins. can be obtained by civilians lies in t.hA fait that, mnnv rwrsnn H'tth I nigh Command took in a weapon, the more menial the possible to get his reactions to varl ous village problems.

By ROBERT MUSEL According to Mr. Duntze, a letter Bremen. July 17 (U.R)-When it come, to beating thU gadgeteer finds for it relativ 0VewM WParln(5 cam. I Willing comes from Bellflower, Cal. I sought him palgn ribbons or other military deco- WHERE TO FIND IT time now and Village Trustee John A.

R. Duntze, a former Brooklynlte, has taken up the cudgels to get Old Glory flying again. Right now It looks like a one-man fight. Mr. Duntze, who runs a drug store and is a professional artist during the Winter, has failed to draw any official reaction from the other members of the village board.

Mr. Duntze outlined the situation today In a statement which he made public for all and sundry. "The Fourth of July has passed," he declared, "joining the ranks of has been sent to the Mayor but no action has been taken or indicated. wraa imo piowsnares, ine Bremen eneve out barracks where he ha, hls ow reveip lvslrm rations "Sentimentality does not enter Pctqei 14 Paq 7 Infrt tha ttojritirr if infill on1 In. pride to Pvt.

Robert (The Whii) Willing. He poured cider Into one end of a batch of cap- rigged up for unappreciative GK By pressing a button he can send Our riqhiets Another village official, according to Mr. Duntze, said it would be dangerous to climb to the top of the pole Stunning gusn siirnla-. states Htent mm. Brown Comics tured German radar equipment and out of the other of sound rolling across the ground.

His bitter mates mented yesterday to fix the halyard. Mr. Duntze nH rami, tilvh fftnEinn ralva ivne hmnrW. eomnlain that he has the horn no situated that the1 Agents of the United States At- CtofswutJ greets that one with "Piffle It: 3 6 6 Patterns Hadio rVrls 1 Tnicti My Wcrd TheciKvs Thetta Women Among the former visitors to this What went on between the eider end and the brandy noise deflected from his own quarters and thus SJ 2 flagless days In this busy little vil village are General of the Army end Is known only to Willing 11 IS 9 6 14 I II i George C. Marshall, chief of staff of can go rifm oarn 10 sieep.

spU the msiglua without check- The Germans in Bremen still talk of what Willing, jng on the credentials of buyers. Fditnriai Gnn and Hmr V. 6 the War Department, who owned a cottage here at one time; the late lage of Ocean Beach. A rugged but unpatnted flagpole with Its dangling, tattered halyard stands stark and naked and neglected since the 1945 season started and that was early in April. "1 won't tell you how I did It, except that I supplemented the radar system with two coeoa tins," he explained.

"From the way it works, this might be another secret weapon." Us friends thai lb mar grids the George Gershwin, and Gene Fowler, author and former newspaperman, did on the Fourth of July. Taking a small dump of German panierfaust (batooka), he converted them into rockets. Then he made the pannerfsust guns Into rocket platforms and shot the fireworks Into the sky. An Investigation is also said to be under way In Brnokltn through the office of Miles MacDonald. United States Attorney for the Eastern District.

Details of this probe are not Horosop Miry Haw.nth Novo! Obi(unts 1 i Tommy Holmes 9 I Tucker 1 4 I Unda Pay lfl Women who still has a cottage near the "During th pMiod national flceanfront,.