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JAN 24 ciB 172181 no rtl 1st COP 10 JAN 2 4 1949 Tiro ID 010 i i fA UtssMy frnM mm. If I Cmplf WEATHER Cloudy, intermittent rain tonight; cloudy, mild with rain tomorrow 3rtkJTC NBW YORK CTTT ttri I 9 BLSEWKERB 4 CENTS (OopTTiiht, 199, The Brooklyn Bail, Ino.) 108th YEARNo. 20 DAILY and SUNDAY fa EE BROOKLYN N. Judge at President Urges Congress to Back Bold' Peace Drive But Some of His Own Leaders Refuses to Testify Decision Premature, Defendants Contend in Early Skirmishing Federal Judge Harold R. Medina today flatly refused to be Are Mystified Washington, Jan.

21 (U.R) Congressmen to help him avert war by supporting hi3 plans for iinpioing the economic lot of other countries. The President said at a breakfast meeting of Missouri Con called as a witness by defense Communists. But he failed to convince the in rapid succession to object. Each, in turn, decfared the ruling was premature, that the defense did not even know yet whether it would have to call him. And each, In turn, took ex ception to it by insisting he reserved the right to call the judge as a witness in the de fense's efforts to prove its con tention that the jury system in the Southern Federal District was "discriminatory, illegal and unconstitutional.

Actually, although the trial is in its fifth day, not a word has been said so far about the trial of the defendants. Question Prospective Jurors Richard Gladstein, one of the defense attorneys, called Her bert Allen, an Investment broker since 1928 and one of the 1949 Catered Brooklyn IMl B0R0C.0FC. URGES FAIR LABOR LAW 18-Point Program Advanced to Aid Industrial Peace The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce today recommended that any new Federal labor law enacted by the 81st Congress impose equal obligations on both management and labor if industrial peace and stability are to be assured. Eighteen specific provisions were submitted to the legislators with the assertion that "they reflect the experience and thinking of the nation's largest cross-section of small, independent industries." As a further step, the Brooklyn Chamber has sent bulletins to its 1,500 employer members suggesting that they write to Congressional leaders of both parties in-the interest of secur ing labor legislation which "will be helpful rather than destruc tive to management-employe relationships and to the na tion's economic well-being." "Labor leaders are pressur ing Washington for a return to the one-sided Wagner Act," the Chamber advised its members. "Congress needs to hear from great numbers of individual employers and other citizens who are concerned for the continuance of a constructive en- Continued on Page 2 Air Show Revised As Union Insists Coughing Is an Art A union ruling that a cough was dramatic art and calls for an actor at a cost of $0 to $12.50 per couch led radio station WMCA officials to act promptly today.

They banished the cough which was to have been "coughed" by an announcer. A station spokesman said that as a result of a ruling by the American Federation of Kadio Artists, A. F. the cough had been eliminated from a pub lic service program on tuberculosis to be presented at 0:30 o'clock tonight. G.

O. P. Rules Out Headline Hunters As Ism Probers Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R) A House Republican leader said today that future G. O.

P. mem bers of the Committee on Un- American Activities will be "men with a passion for anonymity not headline hunters." This leader said the Repub lican high command plans "to bring out some of the best men we have." Republicans are entitled to four places. Two will go to holdover members, Representatives J. Parnell Thomas, (N. and Richard M.

Nixon, if they want the assign ment. There have been reports that the ailing Thomas will s-sign from the committee. Sammy Murray's Toys on Shelf As Little Fellow Grows Weary P. O. 2d Cltu Mail Mutter Chiang Kai-shek BRITAIN TO GIVE ISRAEL DE FACTO RECOGNITION Decision Is Termed 1st Class Diplomatic Triumph for Truman London, Jan.

21 (U.R) Britain has agreed to grant de facto recognition to Israel, probably within the next few days, liable sources in Parliament said today. Some sources said the recog nition jnay come as early as next Monday, the day before the Israeli general elections. Well-informed British quarters expected the United States to recognize the Arab kingdom of Trans-Jordan at about the same time Britain recognizes Israel, The U. S. long has supported Trans-Jord-an bid for member ship in the United Nations but has not established direct diplomatic relations with King Ab dullah.

Parliamentary quarters said the decision to recognize Israel marked a complete change of British foreign policy. One authority described the decision as "a first class diplomatic tri umph for President Truman." Acheson Takes Oath as Secretary Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R) Dean Acheson took the oath today as Secretary of State, a role in which he will be charged with pushing President Truman's "bold new program" for fighting Communism and hu man misery. He was sworn In at 11:13 a.m. in President Truman's office in the White House.

The oath was administered by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson while Mr. Truman looked on. Acheson succeeds Gen. George C.

Marshall, under whom he helped to map the anti-Com- munist Greek-Turkish aid andi European recovery plans. The 68-year-old Marshall resigned effective yesterday, for health reasons. Fort Greene Houses, was forced to give up $90, the day's receipts, which he had been counting. Grable got a fleeting glimpse of the license number, and notl- field police. At 1:30 a.m.

two cops in a prowl car noticed an auto like the one sought turn off the Belt Parkway at the C5th St. exit. They gave chase and forced it to the curb at Ridge Boulevard and 69th St. King. driving it, admitted the car theft, ljut said at first he did not rob the store.

Grable then identified King and the latter confessed to robbing him also, ac cording to police. King had no life FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, Red Trial counsel at the trial of 11 top-level five attorneys, who popped up prospective jurors, to the stand. Allen said he lived in Riverdale. Gladstein asked him if he owned his own home, and Allen replied he "most certainly" did. One of the many daily inter ruptions to court procedure developed when Gladstein sat down twice during his prelim inary questioning of Allen.

The first time, Judge Medina asked him If he had finished, and he said no. The second time, the judge chided him for using "the Philadelphia manner" of ques tioning a witness and suggested Gladstein remain on his feet un til he finished his questioning. Gladstein mumured something about his own comfort and then went on. The courtroom blew up again when he asked Allen "in round Continued on Page 9 less in a corner of the little boy's room. The movie pro jector is high on a shelf in the kitchen.

"Not now tomorrow," sighs Sammy when asked if he wants to play with them. He hardly raises his head from the pillow anymore. Hardest of all to bear, for his mother, Is the way Sammy says to her: "Please go out, Mom, and shut the door. I am so tired." Sammy, apparently a normal, healthy boy until last August, was strirken suddenly and his aiiment diagnosed as cancer of the liver. An operation was performed, but the disease had already progressed far.

Very hqpe was held out to his parents that Sammy would live to Christmas, but by what seemed like a miracle, he clung to life. In the last week, however, "hi3 condition has deteriorated considerably, and his life ex pectancy is very 4 said the physician who attends him Dr. S. Seymour Joseph, of 1119 Foster Ave. So it appears that the little signalman, waiting patiently in the corner, might never flag a train for Sammy again.

Janitor's Helper Found Slain After Drinking Party John Williams, 48, janitor's helper, was found dead with his throat cut today in his cellar room in the five-story, 30-family apartment house at 358 S. 3d Williamsburg, when the superintendent's wife, Mrs. Dora Hecht, sought him at 8 a.m. because tenants were complaining of lack of heat. Police of- the Bedford Ave.

station said a bruise on the man's neck and an empty wine bottle and glasses indicated homicide. A blood-stained kitchen knife was found on the floor, RAIN DUE TONIGHT, TOMORROW, W. M. SAYS Light snow flurries to the con trary, the Weather Bureau saw nothing but rain for tonight and tomorrow. "Don't-get alarmed," was the advice by the Weather Man on the light snow which appeared this morning.

"It won't amount to anything much." Meanwhile, he predicted cloudiness for this afternoon, with a high near 40 degrees. To night the temperature will be in the low 30s, and tomorrow It will bounce up to the upper 40s, but It will be a muddy track all the way. by Global Aid Plans President Truman today askedi MORE IfOPC 01 IfiHT Wl JvUVl 1 1 BY WALLANDER Asks $9,342,583 Boost in Budget To Increase Force BIXLETIV Police Commissioner Walla der today asked Budget Dl rector Thomas J. Patterson for increased funds for 2,076 new patrolmen. HU force now num bers 17,924.

The commissioner asked for an increase of 342,583 for the next fiscal year, the rise also providing for 382 new patrol oars. The total budget request was for $107,. 510,055. Budget Director Thomas J. Patterson today received a request by District Attorney Miles F.

McDonald for a total of In salary boosts for aides in his department in the fiscal year, beginning July 1, Mr. McDonald's budget re quest also seeks a $21,7.34 in crease in operating expenses, making a total of $64,419 over the current allotment for his office. The overall disbursements for the current year is $618,383. The prosecutor seeits a total of 682,802. Mr.

McDonald, who gets a year, asks no increase for himself, but seeks a S600 pay hike for his chief assistant, Kd-ward H. Silver. Mr, Silver now makes $1 1,500. The other assistants making $10,000 apiece would receive $500 extra, if the requests are approved by the Budget Director. In the same manner, three assistants making $8,750 a year would receive $9,000, as would one assistant now receiving $7,750.

Of two assistants in the $6,750 bracket, one would get $7.00 and the other $7,500. Likewise, of five aides in the $7,000 class, three would receive $250 increases, while the fourth would get a $500 boost and the fifth would be upped to the $8,000 category. Two assistants paid $5,750 a year would get $1,000 increases. Of four aides making $5,500 each, two would receive $500 increases, and the other two would be put in the $7,000 class. Meanwhile, the Department of Marine and Aviation, claims to be on a self-sustaining basis for the first time itr many years as a result of recently increased pier rentals, asked $7,692,459 for next year, an increase of $600,602.

vu Let's Face It, She's NOT the Prettiest Gal! Susan Hayward I've a Nice Brooklyn Face, Asserts Susan, But Look at My Noset Hollywood, Jan. 21 (U.R) Susan Hayward took another peek, la the mirror today and announced she is not the "most beautiful girl in the wrld." She says she is "most grate ful" to the American Beauti cians Congress in San Francisco which decided she is. But she'll be darned if she can swallow that one. This proclamation will prob ably rock Hollywood to the very foundations of its press- agenlry. Most movie queens would give their, latest husbands to be named "the most curvaceous" this or the "most glamorous" that.

Now comes along a film star who says she doesn't believe her publicity. What's more, she says, she doesn't even think she's much to look at. The beauticians said they picked her because of "the piquant beauty of her face, which combines personality with classic "Let'a face it," Miss Hayward shrugged. "I have a nice Brooklyn face. But my nose!" Some people, she says, call it 'retrousse." Others call it "pug." "I call it 'my little problem'," La Hayward said, turning it up in disgust.

"If 1 have a good cameraman it comes out all right under a hot light. But let somebody shoot it in a soft light and I'm done for." As for her eyes, she says, she "sees good" out Of 'em. Except when she gets too close to some thing. Then, she says, they have a tendency to cross. Curtain Falls on Singer, Delays Concert 10 Minutes Montreal, Jan.

21 (U.R) When Lilly Windsor, New York opera singer, made her opening bow at His Majesty's Theater last night, a stage curtain dropped on her head. She carried on the concert after 10 minutes out to recuperate. "This bill," Austin said, "would be administered by the Com missioner of Housing. Loans would be repaid in equal annual Installments within a period of 50 years. "This bill is intended to aid municipalities in the rehabilitation of sub-standard areas which are presently a disgrace upon the community," Assemblyman Austin declared.

"It is intended to be the initial step in a redevelopment project." 1 A -X I I YIELDS RULE TO LI, ARDENT FOE OF WAR Reds Reject Nanking Cease-Fire Plea Urge Preliminary Parley Nanking, Jan. 21 (U.R) Gen. eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek re-tired as President of China today and turned the reins of government over to Vice President Li Tsung-jen, an ardent advocate of peace with the Communists. Chiang, however, left open a way to return to his leadership of Nationalist China if peace talks failed. He used a Chinese fword meaning "temporary leave of absence" instead of announcing his outright resignation.

He boarded his private plane and left Nanking in a dramatic flight into exile. He stopped first at Hangchow, 150 miles south of Nanking, to make a motor trip to Tiis home town of Fenghua, in Chekiang Prov ince. Immediately after Li took over the leadership the Cabinet named four leaders to proceed to Communist headquarters at Yenan to plead for an immediate cease-fire and opening of peace negotiations. Reda Reject Cease-Flre Plea Two hours after Chiang's de narture the Communist radio rejected the Nationalist Government's appeal for a cease-fire and said that any peace conference must be held before the end of hostilities. The Communist broadcast obviously had been prepared before it was known that Chiang was relinquishing his 21 -year rule of Nationalist China.

Chiang said In a 300-word statement that he was leaving Nanking In an effort to help speed the Nationalist Government's peace talks. It was considered almost certain that the Communists would refuse to discuss peace so long as Chiang headed the government. It was not known whether Vice President Li would be formally Inducted into office as President. In a brief statement Li said he was "obliged" to take over the presidential duties under Article 49 of the Chinese Constitution. This provides that the vice Continued on Page UAW to Demand $100 Pensions Milwaukee, Jan.

21 (U.R) President Walter P. -Reuther committed his United Auto Workers, C. I. today to a campaign for $100-a-month pen sions in the automobile indus try. Reuther told 2,500 delegates to the U.

A. W. Education Con ference last night that the union's demands for 1949 contracts will emphasize the so- called "fringe benefits" of in creased social security and medical and health programs. "We will fight with all the weapons of labor to enforce our demands," he said. In a statement that might keynote all of labor's demands from management this year, Reuther said: "With some leveling off of the price indexes we feel it Is opportune to direct our attention to social security." WHERE TO FIND IT Paq 10 12 12 8 10 21 22 8 8 Page Mary Haworth 1 1 Around Boro Books Brldga Brown Movlss 6,7 Night LL' Novel Obltuariei Pattern Radio Real Estate Society Sporti 14 10 9 12 21 21 II 15-17 Calendar 'omlcj Crossword Dr.

Brady Editorial rin and Bear It 8 Hefternan 8 Theatert Tommy Holmei Tucker 6, 7 IS ft Hollywood 7j Horoscope 12 Immy Murphy 17 mt Betwssn Ui 13 Veteran In Bkln. 22 WantAde 17-20 Women 11.12 MarrlaqaUc 12 gressmen and others in the Capitol that he will need the co operation of Congress if his efforts to maintain world neare are to succeed. borne of his own Congression-i 81 leaders, however, were bewil- tiered on this first full day of LOYAL TO LENIN Moscow, Jan. 21 (U.R) Russian newspapers reported President Truman's inauguration in 10-line dispatches without coin men today. The bulk of them devoted four pages to today's observance of the death of V.

I. Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, 25 yean go. his Administration by the Presi dent'i "bold new program" for raising the living standards of backward peoples abroad. Ha announced the plan. In his Inauguration address, yesterday and returned' to it informally today.

A member of the Missouri delegation who attended the breakfast said Mr. Truman told the gathering that another war Would be one of total destruction. He again expressed hope that the economic condition of the vorld can be improved. He said i' would assure continued sperity in this country, i "ntions Soviet I Truman was quoted as that, for example, if Aia'i purchasing power could Continued on Page 3 Truman Speech Hailed in London As Anti-Red Tonic I ran Ion, Jan. 21 (U.R) The European press, except for Communist organs, today hailed president Truman's inaugural jad(ltv as a tonic for a weary world.

Communist newspapers gave lit only a few lines of type. iTvpiral of the headlines was jtliat in. tne Stockholm Communist or.jan'Ny Dag "Trtiman no tries to hide his assumption of Hitler's role." Newspapers outside the communist realm published long Recounts of the inauguration, frequently under bannerlines, together with favorable Tie London Dairy telegraph (minded the theme of editorial comment when It said: -The speech will undoubtedly jyma as a tonic to all those jn-iio are struggling to recovery the onslaught of an old jtvrnnny and meet the threat of no les tyrannical system." i The Stockholm Tidningen the inaugural speech "was ia demonstration of United willingness to guide the irile Democratic world to- yard peace." I Czechoslovak newspapers, itthieh are under Communist Vo'ntrol, described Mr. Truman's as a "Message of Im- jviialism." i in Rome the Tightest II Momento said: "The Uc leaders mav know from IjV'W on that any aggression of i heirs win comae witn an 'mrd coalition led by the Ivnited States. It might have hetter If before eivinz this President Truman had tent to Europe a dozen divisions and about 100 squadrons of varplanes." By JANE CORBV Like the "little toy dog cov-rered with dust" and "the little toy soldier red with rust," after the Little Boy Blue of Eugene Field's touching poerrf, "kissed them and left them there," Sammy Murray's beloved Christmas toys, the gifts of sympathetic Brooklyn Eagle readers, stand forlorn now.

Sammy Murray is the blue- eyed nine-year-olds lad who has cancer of the liver and whose story was told in this news paper just before Christmas. In response to Sammy's wish "for a signalman for my train and a movie machine" he got both before the paper was on the streets more than a few hours. Later the story was repub lished throughout the country and there were other gifts. Sam my, the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Murray, who live in meager surroundings at 1011 Foster had a happy Christmas. The Murrays also have two little girls. But now Sammy Rignalman, who waved his lantern faith fully in front of the toy train a hundred times a day for Sammy's amusement, stands motion Butter Drops 4c. In Chain Stores Butter prices were slashed four cents In Brooklyn chain stores today, following a drop in wholesale costs. A general price of 69 cents a pound was reported by the A.

Bohack's, Roulston's and Diibert Brothers. Most in-dependent stores followed suit immediately or prepared to do so. The 69-cent figure was the lowest price since June, 1947, although that mark had been equaled several times since then. At the New York Mercantile Exchange it was said the reduction was the result of a plenti-i ful supply of butter in addition to eagerness of some holders to get rid of supplies on hand. McGarey Enters Hospital For a Minor Operation Surrogate Francis D.

McGarey today entered Harkness Pavilion, Columbia Medical Center, for a minor operation, according to the office of the surrogate. He expects to be In the hos )ital for a week, it was learned 1 Nurse Admits Holdup Of Store, Auto Theft Urges $100,000,000 Slum Clearance Fund Frank King, 42, a nurse of 321 69th was booked at the Fort Hamilton precinct today on charges of grand larceny, as sault and robbery for stealing a 1931 Ford sedan and holding up a candy store proprietor, ac cording to police. About midnight, police charge, King took the car, belonging to Robert Slstto, from in front of the latter's. home at 2715 Har- way Ave. A short time later, he entered the store at 2232 86th with a hand in his pocket as though threatening with a gun.

The proprietor, Stephen Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Jan. 21 A 000 revolving fund to be available for loans to municipalities for clearance, replanning, reconstruction and rehabilitation of sub-standard and insanitary areas is called for in a bill introduced today in the Legislature by Assemblyman Bernard Austin, Brooklyn Democrat. The proposed bill would not take effect until it has been submitted to the people to be voted upon as a referendum at next November's general election. 1 Grable, 40, of 9 Monument when arrested..