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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 446 3 CENTS IcttrW Breaktja P. a OUa Hell MtUer i rtn ffVi A7 Bullet Kills Woman As Cop Slays Thief Edward Blum Dies, Noted Merchant Head of A. S. Was Leader in Boro Civic and Cultural Activities Court Action to Jail Him for Contempt Waited Momentarily Washington, Nov. 21 (U.R) The Government today worked feverishly on legal action to punish John L.

Lewis for failure to prevent the walkout of 400,000 soft coal miners. Federal lawyers planned to present to Judge T. Alan" Goldsborough this afternoon a formal request that the United Mine Workers (A. F. president be held in contempt fof defying the jurist's injunction against the walkout.

Edward C. Blum, one of the borough's outstanding for years and a leader in and cultural activities, died last his apartment In the Hotel 1 i A U.N. DELEGATE SHOT DURING STORE HOLDUP Manuilsky Terms Wounding of Ukraine Aide 'Political Crime' Lake Success, Nov. 21" (UJ?) Dmitri Z. Manuilsky, chief Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, charged today that the shooting of a Ukraine delegate an Innocent bystander during a Manhattan delicatessen holdup was "a political crime." Manuilsky, visibly upset by the (hooting, told the United Press that he was making his own investigation of the shooting, and would report on it "In the proper place at the proper time." He characterized it as "political banditry" with a political motive.

shooting occurred in a delicatessen at 36 W. Mth Manhat- after midnight thl morning, when twO' Ukraine, delegates walked into the store during a holdup. One of the delegates. Orerorv Stadnik, was shot in the right thigh nd taken to a hospital. Police said the delegates were slow to obey the bandits' order for them to line up in front of a showcase The Ukrainians apparently failed to understand the order.

Police reports indicated that the two Ukrainians, both large in stature, may have been mistaken for detectives when they stepped into the store. Stadnik, who suffered a fractured thigh, was accompanied by a man identified by police as A. Voina, also attached to the Ukrainian U. N. delegation.

A policeman who arrived at the Scene after the bandits fled called an ambulance which took Stadnik to a hospital. The gunmen had held up the clerk, Joseph Brauspiegel, and taken tlJ) from the cash regis ter. Yanks to Release 4,000 Germans For Home Christmas Mr. Blum was chairman of the board of Abraham Straus. He had been in poor health the past year and had re signed most of his directorships in many business enterprises.

REUTHER CALLS FOR $12,000,000 C. 1.0. WAR CHEST Murray Disagrees, Seeing No Threat Of Strikes in Offing Atlantic City, Nov. 2l OJ.R) WalteT P. Reuther.

president of the United Auto Workers, today urged the C. I. O. convention to provide a war chest of $12,000,000 to fight for new wage increases, but he failed to receive support from Philip Mur ray, C. I.

O. president, who said. "There is no threat of strikes in the: offing." Both spoke just prior to unani- mous adoption of a resolution call- nw tou The court after hearing the Gov- eminent 's suggestions will decide. whether contempt procedure against Lewis shall be civil or criminal. Probabilities favored civil pro cedure in which a judge has unlimited power to impose sentences and fine for contempt.

The proceedings might require TIP FROM NIP, Tokyo, Nov. 21 (U.R) If Jap. tint trains stop toeting their wnuues win mean usaaa iuu- wj uiinnua nave pas a coaj saving scheme into effect. Experts have estimated that approximately 10 tons of coal ara being consumed daily just to blew train whistles. personal appearance of Lewis in court late in the day.

Shutdown Nearly Complete The soft coal shutdown on the eve of Winter was nearly 100 Der- cent complete. And it was aggra- quit work. The union district president in the northern Pennsylvania anthracite district attributed the walkout to erroneous information that Lewi had been Jailed. He ordered tht men to return to work but had little hope of them doing so today. The man selected to present tht Continued on Pag.

II Soft Coal Picture Outlined by Krug 1 Washington, Nor. 21 (U.RV Taeta and figures on the soft coal supply picture as outlined by Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug and Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small: Total supply of coal on hand 57.000.0OO tons.

How long will th coal but? 38 to 38 days. Soft coal supplies held by retailers (Oct. 1) Enough for 13 days. Number of mines affected 2,250. Their average weekly production 10,556,000 tons.

Total days supply of roal for major industries as of Oct 1 Electria power utilities, 78; by product coke ovens, 23; steel and rolling mills, 35; cement mills, 41; railroads, 30; others, 58. Woman Bears 21st Child, Returns to Work in Week New London, Nov. 21 (UJ! Only a week after giving birth to her 21st child, Mrs. Joseph Fire, 39. bustled busily about her household tasks today.

Wife of a Portuguese-Negro construction worker, Mrs. Fine said she was just as "proud and happy" over the newest arrival, Carol, aa she was over her first child, 23-year-old Manuel. WHERE TO FIND IT Only recently Mr. Blum was hon-sc ored by employes on the occasion of his 50th anniversary with the store. On Oct.

22 he received a re cording of congratulatory messages from employes and was presented with radio-phonograph at a cere mony in the Fulton St. establish ment. 'Surviving are his widow. Mrs. Florence A.

Blum, and two children. Mrs. Alice B. Taliaferro and Robert Blum, vice president- and. sec retary ol Abraham St Straus.

Funeral services will be held Sua day at 2:30 p.m. in Union Temple, 17 Eastern Parkway. Interment will be private. Never Forgetful A man of cosmopolitan tastes, with an interest In art and music as keen as that in civlo affairs, Edward Charles Blum played a major role in Brooklyn affairs for decades. Vice president of the Municipal Art Commission and fot many years president of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, he was never forgetful of the tie between business and culture.

Speaking of the Abraham it Straus department Continued on Page 19 II I ll I I 9 I ing for substantial wage increases vated bv mass sympathy walkout to offset a 25 percent loss in take-1 in tne hard coal fields. About home pay since April, 1945, anthracite miners, not di-last Winter's pay boost. rectly involved in the dispute be- "We are not runnine around tween L'8 nd the Government, Bl Staff photo 'HE RAN THIS WAY Mrs. Edith. Mulligan, 1010 Dorchester Road, tells Ben Tucker of Hudson Bay Fur Company how she was knocked down by fleeing George Alexander, who was shot and killed by Patrolman Francis DeFeis of Poplar St.

station, shown at right with fur coat Alexander was believed to have stolen. Bystander in theater Crowd Hit By Stray Slug Fired During Chase r. c.nMM AO nP Aitt PiiloeVI St riiari 1n film. TOTAL CLOSING OF HARD COAL PITS LOOMS 10,000 Quit on Hearing False Report U. M.

W. Chief Has Been Jailed Pittsburgh, Nov. 21 (U.R) jThe United Mine Workers' 400,000 soft coal workers jbac'ke(i up jon Lewis in L1c fihr. wirh thP Government today and quit work in defiance of the coal administrator's order to stay cn the Job. Bituminous production was limited to, a trickle from non-union pits.

Independently organized mines and stripping operations. Output was off 2,000,000 tona a dajf, "Anthracite field "who are "not Involved directly In the Government-union dispute, served notice that punitive action against Lewis probably would idle workers of the hard coal mines. Nearly 10.000 walked out today in a demonstration which a U. M. W.

official said was provoked by an erroneous radio report that the TJ. M. W. head had been jaile. The strike was the second within nine months and caught the na tion with a stockpile of only 000,000 tons in trie face of approaching Winter.

The soft coal fields, scattered throughout 26 States, were reported quiet. There was no picketing. The only demonstration was a parade through the strww of Wilkes-Contlnued on Page 13 3 Borough Utilities Hit Hard by Strike; City Institutions OK The soft coal stockpile of the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company will be exhausted in 20 days and the miners' strike has caught the Kings County Lighting Company with only a 30-day supply on hand, it was disclosed today. The Brooklyn Union Gas Co. has enough for 37 da.ys.

The three Brooklyn companies were among the hardest hit of all the major coal consumers in the city. City departments, with but one exception, had nearly 100 days Continued on Page 20 Consumers to Get Boost' In Basic Sugar Ration Washington, Nov. 21 (U.R) Re liable Government sources said today the basic sugar ration for con sumers will be boosted from 15 to 20 pounds early next Spring, prob ably in April. At the same" time, they said, in dustrial users such as soft drink and food manufacturers will get a comparable increase by having their allocations hiked from 60 to 70 percent of their 1940-41 base period. Boy, 3, Dies as Playmate Hits Him With Toy Pistol Otorge Ross, 3, ol 372D Avenue died yesterday in Kings County Hospital after he was accidentally struck in thehesT with a toy pistol by Louis Vonagura, also 3, of 1817 E.

37th St. while the two' boys were playing in front of Louis' house. Pascoag Results FIRST RACE S70O cUimlnr: thrpt-year-alSn and up; live furlontes. Gar Pad (Powers! 10 0O 5 40 3 80 Mouittaloon (MeCaddMl) 3.40 2 40 Rich, Poor Pay Tribute At Services for Walker Teeming Fifth Ave. Hushed While Saddened Thousands Vie for View of Funeral Cortege aiIow Af wmmrfs infliot.Prl hv for a runaway thief.

downtown tneater crowa lets sit around the bargain u.i. tri uciianu iiuoHv a policeman's bullet intended Mes. Kiernan was in a DeKalb Ave. and Platbush Axe. Ex tension at 8:30 last night, when Patrolman Francis DeFeis of the Poplar St.

station started in pur suit "of George Alexander, 27, of 102 Cumberland Walk, who had broken away from him while being questioned about the theft of a $100 fur coat. Alexander, also known as By JOSEPH H. SCHMALACKER and The exalted and humble, Berlin, Nov. 21 0J.R) Gen. Joseph T.

McNarney announced today that 4,000 German prisoners would be re night of. a cardiac condition in' Bossert. He was 83. IRENE NEEB the rich and the poor, sillt- today to New York's beloved another 10,000 -packed 5th be' tween 48th and 53d and thou' sands more business executives, clerks and stenographers leaned from office windows in Rockefeller Center's skyscrapers overlooking the avenue to watch the funeral proces sion. If, was all like a cross section of Continued on Page 20 ing for the fate of the 11 persons aboard who now faoe their third night in the bitter mountain cold.

Weather Worse The decision to maintain a night long vigil over the mountains came after army air force officials withdrew an earlier announcement that rescue plane had located the missing transport. Capt. Walter Roller of 2315 Loring Place, the Bronx, N. piloted a C-54 over the crash area for seven hours today. On his return to Orly Field he said the weather appeared to be getting worse.

A special train left Udlne. Italy, Continued on Page RESULTS Pegg7. 7.10-4.40; Balloon, 2.70. i i a. i PAID I25.M.

lr i II II 3 Vj I 1 i I II 1 I I I I Edward C. Blum I I I hatted politicians and plain folic who wore workaday clothes and shawls and clutched rosary beads in toil-worn hands leased from Jails under American control on Dec. 15 so they could join mis nation wun a club in our hands intent upon beating the people Into a state of submission," Murray said. Some, delegates believed this was a reference to the coal walkout called by President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (A.

P. employes oi mis nation let Ilx up this national economy of ours; come on, be de- ing table arrive at mutually sausiactory wage agreements with out resort to strikes," he said. Cites Profits "We are going to present to em yiujcis a iormai request lor wage increases, in so doing we are not Jeopardizing our national economy. There is nothing in them that will Continned on Page 2 MEDICAL JOURNAL LISTS TRANSPLANTING OF LEGS AMONG NAZI TORTURES Chicago, Nov. 21 (U.R) Nazi nhvsi- clans tried to transplant human legs and subjected Innocent victims to sterilizing doses of X-rays, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported today.

An article on the brutalities ol Nazi doctors declared some of the experiments were sadistic and were performed by pseudo-scientists and untrained personnel without ade quate reason. The A. M. A. article was based on a renort bv Dr A.

C. Ivv. vice nresi- dent of the University of their families for Christmas. The release order, which will apply to approximately 15 percent of the American zone prisoners, was an' nounced by the American military governor on the first anniversary of his service as American commander Truman in Pink Shirt Goes to Sea in U-Boat George Walker of 327 McDonough was a Negro. Patrolman DeFeis fired one warning shot in the air and four other shots intended to halt the fleeing man.

The patrolman, an expert marksman of World War shot Continued on Page 2 the U. S. District Court in Washington. With the President are Reconversion Director John R. Steelman, who flew here yesterday from Washington; Judge John Caskie Collet, one of Steelman's advisers; Fleet Admiral William D.

Leahy, Chief of Staff to the President, and Ma j. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, the President's military -aide. bade a tearful, lasting farewell former Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Fifth Avenue's traffic ceased roaring, business came to a stand still and the humanity he loved choked nearby streets as a solemn requiem mass was Intoned in St. Patrick's Cathedral for the man whose fabulous, nail legendary career won him. recognition as "Mr. New York Fully 6,000 persons wedged their way into the cathedral ltseii, Oermany. McNarney said persons Jailed by German denazification not oe aiiecieo, said the commutation order was "in keeping with the traditional American spirit of Christmas" and 'would permit prisoners whose terms expire with the Christmas season to be reunited with their families for the holiday.

Army to Fly All Night Hunting Wrecked Plane Key West, Nov. 21 (U.R) President Truman arose early to day, put on tan slacks and a pink sports shirt and went to sea for a morning's run on the U-2513, a former German submarine of the highly secret "Schnorkel" type. There was no variation in the President's vacation schedule due to the coal strike. Members of his staff said there has been no change in the Government's plans. They said Mr.

Truman intended to let the law take its course in the Government's slugging match with John L. Lewis. White House press secretary Charles G. Ross said as the President's party went aboard the submarine, "there's nothing new no developments" on the coal strike. Clark M.

Clifford, the President's counsel, said "all we know is that they (the miners) went out." Members of the President's staff have emphasized repeatedly that the coal strike is being dealt with by Attorney General Tom Clark and Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug. The decision to move against Lewis by a Federal injunction was made last Sunday. It stands unchanged.

Can Well Go to Jail There was no communication between Washington and the temporary White House here after the But the President was expected to receive; an up-to-the-minute report on the' situation when he returned from his submarine trip. As far ax the President was con-i cerned. Lewis could well go to jsil for permitting his 400.000 soft roal miners to strike this morning in de-1 fiance of an injunction issued by 4,983,901 Japs Repatriated Tokyo, Nov. 21 (U.B The Allied Supreme Command said today a total of 4,983,901 Japanese had been reepatriated and that another 591,509 still were awaiting evacua tion to Japan from various part of Asia. Jap Gals Bade Tutors Kumamoto, yapan, Nov.

21 (U.R) Two hundred and fifty high school girls refused to attend classes today until the principal reinstates four men teachers discharge because they permitted the girls to bob their hair. QUICK RESULTS OAS RANCH Slattarr. 4 kurner n4 even: S30; too ootxUUon. STvUns O-OOOO. "I had quick results on aellinc my gas rang Ihroagh a Brooklyn Eacle W.nl Ad." aayi Ml.

L. Dorff, 728 Carroll Si. Hundred! of families today arc seeking ed refrigerator, nniM. Athw LaruLaU u. and eleetrieal equipment.

If have oomethinc to sell. ou can reach readr hovera and mi Uk rmulu with a Rrooklrn Eagle Want Ad. tail MiM Turner, MAia 4-6200, plaea aa ad and charge it. Paris, Nov. 21 (U.R) Army officials reported late today that a nightlong air watch will be maintained over the French-Italian Alps in hopes of spotting signal flares from the American transport plane which crash landed in the Alps two days ago.

Army officials at Weisbaden said that planes would be kept- in the air throughout the hours of darkness, criss-crossing the mountainous region where the plane went down, in hope of spotting a flare or fire which will give a clue to the location. 1 Rescue efforts have been baffled by inability to spot the plane in the rugged terrain and fears were ris BOWIE HW 1Urk' 2.S0-2.M-2.2; Gay Off. I ar.n. itn.na im. t.

Off, V.SiM. DAILY DOUBLE a THE COAL STRIKE Washington, Nov. 21 (U.R) Coal strike at a glance: The Issue The Government refused to negotiate a new wage agreement with John L. Lewis' Lnited Mine Workers on grounds that his demands were so fundamental they should be served on -the mine owners. The Cause Lewis served notice on the Government that the contract would expire last midnight and disputed the Government's argument that he had no right to terminate it.

Principal I'nion Demands To get the present 54-hour pay of $75.25 weekly for a new 40-hour week, the equivalent to raising basic hourly wage rates from to to increase the tonnage assessment for a union welfare fund from the present 5 cents to 10. Men Involved 400,000 by the union's estimate, 350,000 by the Government's, in soft coal mines. (Anthracite miners were not involved.) Miners' Present Earning $75.25 for a scheduled work week of 54 hours, including 35 straight time hours and 19 overtime hours; Government figures, disputed by the union, show average earnings of (52.37 weekly for an average work week of only 42.4 hours. I.at Coal Strike April 1-May 11, May 2(1-29, 194. Coat of Last Strike Estimated by Civilian Production Administrator J.

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