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BROOKLYN EAGLE, NOV. 28, 1948 TRUMAN AIDES SEE INFLATION TREND ON WANE CIVICS BATTLE FISH PACKING AT SHEEPSHEAD I raiL ISIilBlilllfil pill x2 liiSdr pill 1 piiiilillli k-. lllliltfel -J Eaglo Staff photo GOOD SCOUTS, GOOD COOKIES Two Girl Scouts make a sale in the lobby of the Hotel St. George where the Brooklyn troops held a special two-day cookie sale winding up their 1948 contribution campaign. The customer is making her purchases from (left to right) Faith Shailor, 12, and Barbara Belmont, 11.

OLD AND THE NEW No more squinting to read in the subway stations, at least not in the four new ones on the Fulton St. Independent line being opened today at Liberty, Shepherd, Van Siclen and Euclid Aves. Left photo shows spotty bare-bulb light in older station. At right is soft, even lighting of flourescent lamps in new stations. New stations are 10 times brighter than others.

REALTORS SAY RADICALS BACK PUBLIC HOUSING Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R) The National Association of Real Estate Boards said today that promoters of public housing are working toward State socialism. A pamphlet published by the board's legislative committee said a "clever propaganda campaign" about housing has been developed by a coalition of "Planners," Socialists and radicals. "The objective of this powerful coalition is simple! State Socialism, with all its dangerous implications," the group asserted. "Control of housing is their first and logical step." The pamphlet, entitled "the world owes me a living," apparently was an attack on public housing features of the Taft-Ellencter-Wagner bill.

President Truman will ask Congress in January to revive and enact this measure. The bill failed to pass in the 80th Congress. It would lay down a long-range housing program, including incentives for private industry and Federal subsidies for construction of 500,000 units of low-rent housing. The real estate group pointed out that many people think meat costs to much. Yet few of them, the pamphlet added, would propose that the Government go into the meat business.

"Why, then, should the situation be so differen when the commodity is housing?" The realtors asked. "Why the loud demands for the Federal Government to launch a gigantic low-cost public housing program?" "GOING PLACES?" PHONE MA. 4-6200 FOR IDEAS 9 A.M.-5 P.M. 'World's Neediest Millionaire, Family of 6 Have $36 Month Stations Open 'Dry Runs' Fulton Subway After All-Night Service on the new, four station extension of the Fulton St Independent subway was to begin today. The first train, not for passengers, but to acquaint the motorman with the run, was to nose into the Liberty Ave.

station at 12:01 a.m. Trains here to continue to make "dry runs" until 7 a.m., when the first passengers would be picked up. The other stations are a Van Siclen, Shepherd, and Euclid Aves. The opening of the extension stretched the train posed to have left $13,000,000 worth of iron ore mines, cash and real estate." From beneath his mattress cover he dragged out a dirty piece of paper, allegedly a birth certificate, which showed Roesler was Dietrich's first cousin, born in the United States in 185-1, the son of Diet rich's mother's brother. "We answered that ad Im mediately but never heard any thing about it until last week," said the mild-speaking miner who quit his job 12 years ago because of coal dust in his lugs.

"Last week we received a letter ffom William Soeder, a retired German consul in Bre men, who claimed he has ar ranged everything for us if we agree to hand him 20 percent of the fortune." Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R) Administration aides mapping a campaign against high prices are keeping an eye on the possibility of an economic bust. Most economic policy makers believe Inflationary forces still dominate the economic scene. Some of them feel, however, that these forces may be about spent. One top-level fiscal official put It this way: "Inflationary pressures still outweigh the de flationary forces.

But they aren as great as they were a few months ago." Many Government econo mists agree that inflationary pressures have subsided some what In recent weeks. They have adopted a wait-and-see policy. They want to know how much President Truman will ask for "cold war" spend ing. HCL Drops Slightly Among economic barometers indicating at least temporary subsidence of inflationary pres sures Is the cost of living. As measured by Bureau of Labor Statistics living costs dropped slightly between mid-October and mid-November for the first time In seven months.

And de partment store sales have been below their usual pre-Christ- mas levels. Economists say heavy spend ing for the armed services and foreign aid could change all that. President Truman's 000,000,000 ceiling on defense spend Lng may have to be Doosteo, some onservers say. And military aid for China and lend-lease arms for Western European governments could swell the cost of foreign aid. That kind of spending, econo mists say, puts more money in circulation and reinforces inflationary pressures by bidding up the price of scarce material and labor.

Stresses Danger of Bust One high Administration ad viser says the anti-inflation campaign will be designed to stabilize the economy against both boom and bust. "It is not correct to regard the two as separate and unre lated," he said. "They must be dealt with together and the danger of the boom is the bust itself." Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, head of the President's Council of Eco nomic Advisers, has been charged with mapping the Ad ministration economic pro gram.

He must co-ordinate pro posals of five government de partments Agriculture, Com merce, Interior, Labor and Treasury plus the Federal Reserve Board. President Truman already has indicated he will ask Congress for standby controls on prices and reserve authority to channel scarce materials into industries where they are badly needed. Mr. Truman also favors high er taxes, especially a tax on excess profits of corporations. rice Merchants Worry as Women Are Slow With Xmas Shopping Civic Group Seeks 14 Transfer Points The civic committee of the 7th A.

D. Regular Republican Club has asked the Board of Transportation to establish transfer points between surface. subway or elevated lines at it spots in Bay Ridge, Borough Park and South Brooklyn. According to David V. Kirs chen, committee chairman, the organization has conducted survey for five months of points in the area where traffic would warrant such transfers.

Spots listed include: 8th Ave trolley line at 3d Church Ave. and the Sea Beach sub way at 62d 5th Ave. trolley line at Lorraine Hamilton 40th-53d fiOth Bay Ridge Ave. and 75th 3d Ave. bus line at 30th St.

to the Church Ave. trolley, 40th-53d Sts. and at fiOth and where the 40th-53d St. bus crosses the 4th Ave. and Sea Beach subways.

Albert J. Marino, leader of the club, said he had visited the Board of Transportation offices and received asurance that the recommendations woulrl be studied and a decis ion made shortly. Petrillo Named To Plan Inaugural Show for Truman Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R)- James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians, has been selected to whip together a giant inaugural eve entertainment show in hon or of President Truman.

Petrillo's appointment as music chairman of the National Participation Committee for the inaugural was announced tonight by Melvin D. Hildreth, general chairman. Mr. Truman will be inaugu rated Jan. 20.

The show in his honor will be held in Wash ington's National Guard Armory the night of Jan. 10. Inaugural officials didn't say who will be on the program. But they promised three hours tcontinuous entertainment. Two stages are being construc ted so the show cen be kept moving without a break.

QUALITY LOOKS BETTER LONGER ride to 21 miles, from the up per reaches of Manhattan al most to the Queens line at Eu clid Ave. Top city officials, Including Mayor O'Dwyer, Borough Presi Cashmore, and members of the Board of Transportation as well as representatives of civic and taxpayer associations, were to inspect the four stations at 11 a.m. The Inspection party was scheduled to start from the Euclid Ave. include the new Pitkin storage yard of 23 acres in its tour. 1.

Unseasonably warm weather has caused shoppers to post pone their Christmas chore. 2. Election results may have Influenced sales. Some retail ers think disappointed voters are hanging onto their money. Others believe customers are holding off in the hope that President Truman may bring down prices.

See Consumer Resistance 3. a a 1 consumer resist ance may be making itself felt. Some merchants think prices of all commodities are now so high that many customers have had to postpone or restrict their department store purchases. Because most merchandise is plentiful housewives may be returning to shopping habits which prevailed before wartime shortages made "first come, first served" the usual shopping rule. valch I brooklyn a i.

The Independent Civic Asso ciation of Sheepshead Bay yes terday prepared to ask Borough President Cashmore to halt wholesale fish packing business on the barge moored to a structure in the bay off the foot of E. 27th St. A delegation, headed by David Shane, president of the associa tion, will visit Cashmore's of fice early this week to enlist his aid in preventing the water front there from becoming "a busy Fulton Fish Market." The group had been consider lng taking the case to the Supreme Court. However, Joseph B. Milgram, its secretary, who made the announcement, said there were two reasons for the Hew line of attack.

In the first place, he said, the structure is a cover for a 38-foot norm sewer outlet Into the bay and is therefore under the jurisdiction of the Borough Presi dent. He said it is not a pier as first believed, and therefore Is not under the control of the Department of Marine and Avia tion which issued the permit to the-fish concern last month. Cosily In the second place, the group feels, according to Milgram, that Cashmore will settle the dis pute and thereby avoid the necessity of costly litigation in the courts. "This is not an action against any individual or business enterprise," he declared, solely an effort to prevent the water-front from becoming commer-! cialized. This would blight a community that has been growing into an attractive residential end recreational area." He said that as long as 20 years ago residents of the sec tion were aware of the danger of commercialized docks when the city proposed to clean up Emmons Ave.

and construct modern piers for pleasure fish lng boats. Civic, religious and trade or sanitations banded together and fought the proposal strenuously he pointed out, until in 1929 the city authorities assured them that "the use of the piers and wharf properties shall be re- ftrieted to pleasure boats and the type of craft known as pleas lire fishing boats." Sot Ordinary Piers' He added the piers were of a special pattern for a special purpose and not ordinary commercial piers to be let to the highest bidder. They were deliberately built narrow so that trucks could not roll onto them. Though the E. 27th St.

struc ture is 50 feet wide, Milgram declared it never was intended for mooring purposes, but built as a cover for the storm sewer "As a matter of fact," he re marked, "the city had it fenced off against all use all these years. But now an opening has been made and ice and fish trucks pull in and out con Ctantly." He said there had been numer ous attempts over the years to break the commercial regula tions, but "up to now the city-officials have held to their original restrictions pledged to the people." 'This fish packing barge, moored directly in front of 103-year-old Tappen's Restaurant," he asserted, "marks the first time the restrictions have been Violated." The Brooklyn Civic Council, composed of about 70 civic the Sheepshead Bay jioai uwners Association anc the Marine Park Civic Associa tion have pledged full support to the independent group in the light, according to Milgram. Dies of Burns Received On 'Last' Voyage Osaka, Japan, Nov. 27 (U.R) John Mclntyre, 56, of New York City died Tuesday from burns received on what was to have been his last merchant marine voyage, ttjs army an liounced today. Mclntyre was burned when fi tank exploded aboard the army-chartered transport Wa bash last Sunday.

Slain When He Steps On Other Man's Toes Chicago, Nov. 27 (U.R) Joseph CI -eda, 27. accidentally stpnnprf nr man's toes toriav apologies were not He was shot and I a few minutes later noliee squad found Charles norey, zb, standing over the body with a gun in his hand. WEDDING SET $300 Inel. Fed.

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Store operators are wondering whether 1918 Christmas shopping will fall below last year's record volume. It would be the first such slump in 11 years, wot since nas me Christmas rush failed to produce a new sales record in de partment stores. Slump for Third Week The Federal Reserve Board reported that last week's sales again failed to come up to the corresponding 1047 week, it was the third week in a row that that has happened. The board's figures show the slump, was nationwide. Sales for last week were 6 percent below the same week last year.

For the four weeks ended Nov. 20 sales were 5 percent below the correspond ing period last year. Federal Reserve Board of ficials have not tried to explain the slumn. Their offhand guesses which pretty well match the views of big retailers, sound like this: Eschweiler, Germany, Nov. 27 (U.R) If there is a fortune of $13,000,000 awaiting him in the United States, as he belives, then 67-year-old Heinrich Dietrich is the world's neediest millionaire.

He, his wife and five children live here on a $36-a-month pension. The retired Ruhr coal miner, who said today that the fortune was left by a relative in Massachusetts, has never received any of the money. Resting on one of the two chairs in his three-room apartment, he told of first reading about the fortune nine years ago in a newspaper ad. "They were looking for relatives of Johann Joseph Roesler of Boston," he said. "He is sup- New Subway Horn Easier on Nerves-Yeah? Subway workers have been warned by the Board of Transportation to listen for horns as well as whistles these days.

Seems the board decided the shrieking whistles on subway cars were nerve-snattering, not only to employes but to passen gers as well. And when 760 new cars were ordered, the board stipulated they were to be equipped with horns like those on the streamlined Diesel engines of big railroads. The horns, the board pointed out, are just as loud as the whistles, but they give out with a deep-toned sound that's a lot easier on the ears and nerves. At least, that's what the board thought. One board official, however, privately admit-! ted the other day that when he1 first heard one in the confines: of the subway "I nearly jumped out of my skin." Easy on the nerves? $375.

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