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BROOKLYN El CLE. FRIO VY. NOVEMBER 3. 19.19 3 Dies Galls for Probe of Red Activities in the Panama Canal Zone Hamilton High Field Becomes Charge of City 1 Dock Strikers Refuse to Let U. S.

Mediate Ship Brings Romance, Adventure, Mystery Norwegian Girl Goes to West Indies to Wed Alan She Met Once, Who Proposed by Mail i Witness Tells Of Communist Hold on Union Committee Counsel Instructed to Make Study of Charges Washington. Nov. 3 Iffy A complete investigation of union organisation activities in the Panama Canal Zone was ordered today by the Dies Committee. Have No Confidence In Board, Declares Kvan, Head of Union The Norwegian-America liner 'Byrd Antarctic Expedition, sailing Stavangerf jord docked in Brooklyn from Boston on Nov. 8.

Bendik was today with 743 passengers, brimming with Byrd on the Arctic Expedition jwith romance, adventure and mys- from 1928-30 and on the Antarctic Itery. Expedition. 1933-35. I From the lips of the beauteous My.stery came in the rumor that blonde Mauda Evv Steohansen i Gren Garbos mother was a pas- Continued from Page 1 we slder the proposition to them." submitted daughter of a Norwegian shipping stngcr. A 6i-year-old woman.

Mrs. man. came the love story. She is: Anna Gustafson (the same name as nn hr av tn iniha an island In Greta mother), was on board, but Rhea Whitley, committee counsel, as instructed to make a thorough study of the subject after a witness. Frederick C.

Phillips, former National I Ml c. '''ii WANT 5-CENT INCREASE the Dutch West Indies, to marrvj Customs men revealed she was a That was a compromise proposal Irving- McCarthy, a chemist with Norwegian woman on her way to for a 5 cent hour increase over the Standard Oil Company, whom; visit friends in Minneapolis. She was for a 5 cent an hour increase over day i here once before for the same pur- the present 95 cents, as agains alnd Jaif Thpv mH when 10-cent increase and a 40-hour week i was 'iirtn? the West Indies on one; Kirsten Tliorborg. Metropolitan previously demanded. The operators' of her father's ships a year wo and Opera contralto, returned for the counter-offer of a 90-day extension have corresponded ever iince.

Six season. She was delighted to be back I weeks ago he proposed by mail. in America, of the present contract, said Ryan, The Stavangerfjord had a stormy would not be accepted by the men. ARRIVES TO JOIN BYRD i voyage. She encountered a Coast Eighty policemen under four ser-1 The story of high adventure came Guard plane on Wednesday and geants patrolled the North Rlverfrom johansen.

an ice pilot two destroyers a few hours later, waterfront, from the Battery to 14th 1 gnd fajijng master from Tromso. She could not identify the Manhattan, but during the morn- 'Norway, who arrived to Join the' ity of the destroyers, ing hours today found nothing to do i Maritime Union official, told the committee a man named A. Btoudt, whom he identified as a Communist, was an organizer for the C. I. O.

union in the Canal Zone. Phillips said Stoudt was appointed to his Job through the influence of John L. Lewis, C. I. O.

president, on Uie recommendation of Joseph Cur-ran, head of the Maritime Union. Phillips told the committee that although only about seven to ten percent of the organization's membership was Communist, this minority held so many strategic positions it was able to maintain control. The witness, who said he was "illegally" expelled from the union for opposing Communism said that "American seamen do not like communism" but that most of them were "intimidated." aW The came from the Green-, ih n.i, onri riiari s. station, settlement of this very unfortunate Urges Hi-Weeklv and were under the command of In- strike." sDector John W. Conway.

i As far away as Port.and. the Meetings of Council effects of the strike were lm- COMPROMISE REFUSED mediately felt. There Marshall The strike was called yesterday Haraden, agent of the Eastern field, with the school to have priority rights. Those at the ceremonies are, left to right: Borough Secretary Ludwig H. Gerber, Borough President Ingersoil, Dr.

Jacob M. Ross, principal of the high school; William E. Finnegan, vice president of the field association; William S. Webb, president; Roswell Corwln, secretary and treasurerand S. Stanley Kreutzer, attorney for the association.

(Eagle Staff photo.) Borough President Ingersoll receives a formal presentation signifying the turning over of the Alexander Hamilton High School athletic field to the Park Department at ceremonies In his office today. The field, at Albany and East New York was donated by former Controller Herman A. Metz In 1906 to a private organization of alumni and faculty for maintenance In the Interests of the school. The field will now be developed as a playground and athletic Meetings of the City Council twice a week instead of once a week was urged today by James Amadei, Republican candidate for that body. afternoon, following a breakdown of steamsnip unes, saia uie I mens struce in New xoik.

Dy ois iirguuauuua tv. a new trl-weeklv frelaht serv men had asked for a wage increase jce between New York and Port- He also proposed that Councilmen Those who openly opposed the Communist faction, Phillips said. of 10 cents an hour and a 40-hour land, would throw 80 men out of reduce their three-months' Summer week as against the present 93 work. One freighter, the Sandwich, vacations, and that they be elected had been tied up for some time in the same time as the Mayor every cents an hour and a 44-hour of strike action lfou, vears wnen mat was aeennea tne union often lost their Jobs by being "framed" or'were beaten up by "the beef squad." McCUISTION IN COURT Meanwhile, in police court, William C. McCuistion, who preceded Phillips as a Dies committee witness in its investigation of un-American activities, refused to waive extradi County Bar 0.

K's Strahl Contlnaed from Page 1 Park Bureau to Run Hamilton High Field Will Be Modernized as Playground Area For Neighborhood With School Priority i offered to compromise on an in-i 'crease of 5 cents an hour. The ship! companies again declined but of-! i fered to continue for 90 days under i extension of the existing con-! tract. I John E. Craig, vice president of IBALCH-IP1MCE Housing Needs Cited by Pink State Official Urges Wider Development In Jamaica Area tion to Louisiana on a murder the roll call, and the Strahl indorse- merit, listing him as "preferred" Phillips identified correspondence from Thomas McOowan, Boston and 00111 his opponents, H. Broad-agent for the Marine Firemen, Oilers man Epstein, Republican, and Frank The athletic field of Alexander mately $3,000 has been paid from Hamilton High School, located at donations by individuals, the General the Clyde-Mallory Lines and labor spokesman for all the companies affected, said the companies did not feel that conditions warranted a pay increase.

It was pointed out that while freight rates on deep sea lines had gone up, that was not true of coastwise operators, whose rates had remained unchanged and Water Tenders Union, to Moe Monaco, Laborite as "qualified-' was voted. Albany and East. New York which was donated by former Controller Herman A. Metz in 1906 to a field to private organizations for Uhould be made livable, State Su-athletic purposes. perintencient of Insurance Louis H.

Bamett Rosenfeld, president, re private organization of alumni and faculty members for maintenance in former chairman of the State Thus there was no additional rev- The association, which has run thejpink fused today to comment on the situation. Said Mr. Rosenfeld: "I dinner jenue, it was explained, out of which neiQ lor years, consists oi Boarn told the sentatives of the school faculty of tne QUeensboro Council tne union demands could be met wasn't there. I'd rather not say anoiner union omciai, in in which McOowan expressed disappointment because a proposed waterfront meeting was not held, "because we were lined up witn baseball bats waiting for our friends." In another letter, which Phillips laid was in the handwriting of McOowan and addressed to Byne, Whitley read, "we shall see that brother Stewart meets with an accident before then." ailimni. anriQi WplfarA at ICpnf Oarripns yccd uva iivtq xmi if If anything about it." Other officers Those participating in the cere-: Inn last night.

involved in the strike are Mr. Pink's housing philosophy was the BuI1 Ljne, ciyde-Mallory Line, exp-essed specifically about the, monies at Borough Hall are Bor-j ough President Ingersoll, Dr. Jacob M. Ross, principal of the high! the interests of the school, was turned over to the Park Department tod8y at ceremonies in the office of Borough President Ingersoll. The transfer of the deed from the "Commercial High School Association" (the name of the school originally was Commercial High School) will culminate a long series of conferences participated in by representatives of the association, the South Jamaica Housing Project, i school; William S.

Webb, Roswell Corwin and William Finnegan, rep-1 were even more reticent. They said nothing at all. Action taken on the other candidates follows: SUPREME COURT Edward G. Morftch, preferred. A.

Duvid Benjamin, preferred. Joseph Fennelj, preferred. William R. WlUon. preferred, frank K.

Johnson, preferred. Alex Kahn. preferred. Nicholas H. Pinto, preferred.

James Fawcett, qualified. Robert Haskell, qualified. I. Cirrus Gordon, qualMled. Francis McGarejr, qualified.

Bertha Robinson, qualified. which he thought should be a part; mac" uuu unes 01 M00re MC" of a movement to develop properly Cormack, Morgan Line, Newtex 1 the entire fouth side of the tracks! Line, Pan-Atlantic Llne, Savannah in Jamaica. On the other side, he Line and United Fruit Line, pointed out. are some of the most i Un on officials said that strike expensive and impressive homes in Queens- action against the United Fruit "i.et.'5 make hnti, dries of the track Line limited to small ships resenting the association: S. Stanley Kreutzer, attorney for the association, and Borough Secretary Ludwig H.

Gerber. who represented the Borough President in the nego-i tlation. I Foe of Mangano Hits 'Vigilantes' Park Department and the Borough President. In consideration of the transfer to it of the title to the field, the Park Department has agreed to de Joseph Tuviln, American Labor PLAYGROUND NEEDED livable." Mr. Pink declared.

"The 'operating in the coastwise service, The attention of the Borough property on the south side is well but would not affect that ship's President office was directed to the located and there is no excuse forid sea operations to the Carib- party nominee lor Sheriff, last night velop the property as an up-to-date athletic field with general play- assailed the vigilante movement ground facilities for the neighbor- fleld and the powblhty of making valuable Iand. bean, on which longshoremen re- hood. Alexander Hamilton High It available to the general public ceive $1.05 an hour under an exist- V. VJI ABU HUH VH 1 Clmilarlll School will have priority of use. the 1 1 IV.

liiiiuu vuiitiavb. ji iiiiini i i Bull Line and the Moore fc McCor-mack Line are not affected as to Mr. Pink pleaded also for housing projects for the white collar worker and for a program that will tie up when a petition was received from neighboring property owners complaining that the field constituted an eyesore in its present condition and their deep sea services, operating Government projects for improved from tne fool of Atlantic Ave. and urging that steps be taken to provide 1 housing with the general planning Montague Brooklyn, respec tively. badly needed playground facilities development ol the city.

for children of the neighborhood. "The existing subsidized projects am that "there's only Commenting I VjLrilllllCllllllBl 1UV LIIIIV. Villi This heavily populated section haslare i vr oi waV t0 meet a slrike' close no nearby playground facilities other i L. down operations, oii 01 saia. nousing suuuiu uc iivacu chl -j tlorf nn located across the street from the Uie to make rapid succession, as soon as one I' for eVery oeeiaion sponsored by Sheriff James V.

Mangano, Democratic candidate for reelection, as at variance with counter-espionage plans of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, Assembling of the vigilantes. Tuvim charged at a rally in P. S. 253, Oceanside Ave.

and Brighton 6th "Is a vicious attempt to destroy democratic rights." "It is high time for Kings County he went on, "to take back of their overmanned and expensively operated Sheriff's office which could point to only one accomplishment last year the ridiculous threat to stop the Dodgers' night games at Ebbets Field." In common with other A. L. P. candidates, Tuvim, an official of the International Ladles Garment Workers Union, hailed Mayor La-GuardlVs county reform prog-ram under which the five Sheriffs' offices would be consolidated under the direction of one city-wide Sheriff. Pending adoption of the program, he promised, "I will serve as a dol- living, Dreaming organism.

another of them complete 78 field. This school has an enrollment of 2,200, but its yard is open to the use of the children generally during school hours only. CITY cpURT Jr John Francis Moore, preferred. Louis Ooldstein, preferred. Murray Hearn.

preferred. Louts P. Goldberg, preferred. J. Raymond Bala, qualified.

Arthur Levinthal, qualified. Joseph Gallather, qualified. MUNICIPAL 1st District Michael Dttore. preferred Bernard Reswick, qualified. District Philip Hodes.

preferred. Edward A. Wynne, preferred. Henry I. Naaln, preferred.

William J. McNulty, qualified. Lennle L. Oeorre, qualified. Si District Charles J.

Carroll, preferred. Julius Relnlleb, preferred. Louis Lambert, qualified. 4th District H. Broadman Epstein, qualified.

Frank Monaco, qualified. Jacob B. Strahl, preferred, Sin District George Rirkln. qualified. Roger Brock, preferred.

Harry Rosen, qualified. Harold O. Gates, preferred. Samuel Sweet, preferred. Philip Simon, preferred.

th Diatrlet 1 Sidney Tartlkoff, qualified. Charles H. Brellbart. preferred. Ellu Gartman.

qualified. 1th District John Bladen, preferred. Peter Ruvolo, preferred. Ludwig Gerber, qualified. lh District Benjamin 'Brenner, preffered.

Lester Dvotk. preferred. Harold J. McLaughlin, qualified. mr rf price $98 TO SPEND $119,250 A total of will be expended in the transformation of the property from its present dilapidated state to a modern recreation center.

Of this total the WPA will contribute close to $107,000 in labor and materials. Originally both Alexander Hamilton High School and Girls High School maintained athletic fields on this same block, the entire tract being the gift of Mr. Metz. The Girls High School property was sold last Spring and an apartment house has been constructed on it. The Alexander Hamilton High School tract occupies the entire frontage of 190 feet on Albany Ave.

and runs west along East New York and Lefferts Aves. for a distance of 460 feet. The assessed valuation of the property Involved in the transfer is $240,000. Not being a Board of Education property, no city funds have been available for the field's maintenance or improvement. The annual maintenance cost of approxi- Mtnk dyed ftfuskr There are 14 such projects in the their present voyages.

Freight men State, Mr. Pink said; some the various companies sent out been cleared, and in all rents are on freight shipments, lower than those In the general real notifying shippers that they were estate market. These projects came unable to make delivery of mer-successfully through the depression Ichandise. years, Mr. Pink said, but their prog- Joseph p.

Ryan, head of the long-ress recently has been made impos- i snoremen's association, used all hu sible "because the city government energleSi he saij to try "to pre-wlll no longer co-operate with the on sides to be reason- State In granting the tax limita- aDle and not destroy this Industry. Hons to encourage these projects." I But tne men felt that their compro-Other speakers at the dinner were jmise proposal was a reasonable one. City Planning Commissioner Cleve-'Officers of the New York district land H. Rodgers and Henry M. Prop- council and I will hold ourselves per, secretary of the City Housing available for any conferences that Council.

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