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399690 ROSENBERGS GIVEN NEW STAY BROOKLYN EAGLE 1950 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER for "fho most disinttrostod and meritorious public service." WEATHER Fair and cold tonight and tomorrow. BR-air and cold h4lAR No. 47 -DAILY one" SUNDAY tonmtki imfm Mtttw Mk BROOKLYN N. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 mur o. mui 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE FEB 18 953 VICE TRIAL BAN UPHELD ULMER PARK CASE SOLVED ROSENBERGS HIGHER COURT SAYS SECRECY Vet Admits Killing Disabled Teen Pair on Cropsey Ave.jOF EXECUTION 0 IKE IS SURE RUSSIA HAS ATOM BOMB At First Press Talk Ho Disputes Truman Against Early Tax put) Washington, Feb.

17 (UP) President Eisen bower said today that it is absolutely true that Russia has the atom bomb. He also told his first news conference that he is defi nitely opposed to cutting taxes until the budget is balanced. The President's first meeting with Washington reporters attracted an overflow crowd. Calmly, deliberately, he discussed four major subjects-farm prices, taxes, price controls and the atom bomb. Thea! he threw the meeting open for i questions.

In addition to his atom bomb and tax comments, the confer ence produced these key points ot news: 1. He reassured American farmers of his Administration's desire to keep agricultural prices as stable as possible. He promised to abide by the present price support law until December, 1054, when it expires. meantime studying plans for the tic -t possible substitute. 2.

He said he does not plan to ask Congress to keep a "stand-by" price control law on the books after the present law expires April 30. He said he thought the laws of supply and: demand would take care of thej iituation. 3. He said that at present he Is not considering recommending a blockade or a trade embargo against Red China. Won't Replace U.

S. Forces 4. He rejected the idea of re placing all American forces in Korea with South Koreans, saying that as long as the United Nations has a responsibility in Korea and the situation is dangerous, UN forces should not be removed completely. His statement on Ru; Staff Phot PROBING HIT-RUN DEATHS Assistant District Attorneys Louis Andreozzi, right, and, next to him, Aaron Silver, examine battered auto that killed teen-age couple on Cropsey Ave. early Sunday, and question car owner Oscar Sokolinsky, 30, of 3016 Neptune Ave.

Sokolinsky's wife Tessa, 27, back to camera, is walking away at left. Taking notes is District Attorney's stenographer, Maurice Rosenthal Sokolinsky was charged with vehicular homicide. Claims 'Blackout' After Crash -Damage to Car Proves Key Clue! Oscar Sokolinsky, 30, house painter, and, he said, a partly disabled war veteran, was arrested today for the hit-and-run killing early Sunday of a teen-age GET NEW STAY Appeals Judges Set March 30 Limit to File High Court Plea A stay of execution pend- a review of their case by the United States Su preme Court was granted today to condemned atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by the U. S. Court ot Appeals.

In granting the court gave defense attorney Kmanuel H. Bloch until March 30 to file the papers for the high court review and contin ued the stay pending a decision by tne supreme court. Only yesterdav, Federal Jud Irving R. Kaufman had st thej week of March for carrying out his sentence for their elec-; trocution in Sing Sine Prison. I Bloch told the court that! there' was a constitutional question involved and that his clients were entitled to thisj opportunity lor a review he-' cause it was a capital case.

Judge Jerome X. Frank, who had sat on previous panels denying the Rosenberg i today said he would have it on his conscience unless he gave! them a full opportunity to have the case passed on by the Su-, preme Court. Has Rejected Case Twice The Supreme Court twice has refused to intervene in the case of the Rosenbergs, convicted ofj passing atomic secrets to Rus- sia. The other judges on thej three-man circuit court, Augus-j tus N. Hand and Learned concurred and said the high! court should have an opportunity to decide.

Assistant V. S. Attorney James R. Kilsheimer, argued that the defendants were entitled to "no relief" and pointed to a previous Court of Appeals "rnori onrirelv a new rxP and 1' tne Rosenbergs under the jdw were entitled to a nign losing, the presiding judge said, "We will give until March 30. If your petition is Hied, then you have a stay until the Supreme Court passes on it.

This stay is not automatic. It does not evpire until there is a Supreme Court derision." U. S. Marshal William Car- heduled 5 Boro Ministers Sign Rosenberg Clemency Appeal Five Brooklyn ministers were among the clergymen listed on an appeal sent to President Eisenhower today, asking him to reconsider his decision to doom convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Among the signers of the petition, which questions "the po litical and spiritual wisdom of the sentence, were the Kev Dr.

John M. Coleman, rector of St. Philips Episcopal nurci: the Rev. Bruce T. Dahlberg.

the l.eflerts Park Baptist Church: the Rev. Dr. Phillips Packer Elliott, minister of the First Presbyterian Church; the Rev, Dr. John Paul Jones, of the In ion Church Ridge, and the Rev. Dr.

John ii. Lathrop, of the First Cni-tarian Church. Cropsey Ave. from a Valentine DECREE IS OK Justice B. F.

Schreiber Terms Blackout of Press a Valid Action By AL SALERNO and LESLIE HANSCOM State Supreme Court Justice Benjamin' F. Schreiber today upheld General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente's decision to bar press and public from the Mickey Jelke vice trial. Shrinking behind dark glasses and a turned up col lar. Marguerite Cordova, ex-hatcheck girl whom Mickey Jelke is accused 1 luring into prostitution turned up at the oleo heir'ST.

trial today to add her story to, the prosecution's case. Miss Cordova was the only one present of the all-star lineup of witnesses previously ex pected to appear. Diane Golden Girl) Harris, Nancy Hawkins and Erica Steel were the other all girls being awaited by newsmen. The slender but curvaceous Miss Cordova displayed an unprecedented shyness today as she did her best to thwart photographers. Earlier she had obligingly posed for them.

Today nie comely renneao even employed the collar of the while blouse which she wore with her black and white check suit to shield her face from the cameras. She refused all comment to reporters. Today's witness was the girl whom Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Liebler told the jury that Jelke had "convinced to put her talent to more fruitful purposes." She fled to Chicago when the scandal broke net was picKeu up as a witness there. -s Cordova was due to take stand after a brief recess which followed the testimony, of a handwriting expert.

The man as said to have been asxeo 10 Continued on Page I BULLETIN A sneak thief who, according to police, had burglarized some 75 homes, chiefly in Bay Ridge, since 1, was under arrest today after being caught by two brothers whose apartment he had broken Into at 7020 Ridge Court. The burglar, whose nightly depredations were said to have terrorized Bay Ridge and adjacent arras. Identified himself as Edward Savaglio, 22, a sales man, and said he was living at the F.astcrn District Branch ST. C. 17 Many Ave.

WHERE TO FIND IT Society I Sports 13-Television Theater 6. Theee Women Tommy Holmes is Dr. Brady Editorial GI New. Grin Bear It 8 TV Key 8 Uncle Ray OlWantAdi 16- Hoi oscope immy Murphy 1 Women 11, Mary Haworth 1 1 I vrovnmivc, if rr rar will na Ihia Wlntfr? Hr aura, ha aatf! tea fd ftfr. In taaaT'a Aala- Moblla lactlon.

Safe aefelr. Sokolinsky was charged with vehicular homicide and leaving located a car yesterday ij ing at W. 37th St. and Graves- couple strolling home along! Day dance. iend Ray.

It had been damaged Taken to Parking Lot It proved to be registered idtfrftna hel.t however, that this the name of Tes-a Kkolmk Oscar's wife and she was noti urn it na.i uir.r. owe iicm possession of the atom bomb was the result of an interview in which ex-President Truman expressed doubt that the Soviet U. S. JURY CALLS MORE COPS IN BRUTALITY QUIZ Monaghan's Ouster Demanded of Mayor City Facing Suit Firing of Police Commis sioner George P. Monaghan was demanded today as a Man hattan Federal grand jury pressed an investigation into charges ot police brutality.

Monaghan ouster was demanded of Major Impellitieri by the New York branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which attacked a reported agreement between the Police Department ana tne Department of Justice now abrogated to keep the FBI from investigating the city's police. An inquiry into the alleged secret agreement was deman 1-ed by the American Civil I 10-erties Union on the ground that such a compact itself might Continued on Page fl1 ernoveu 10 ubj mm 101 oDlluon and QeClSHKl, W. 20th near her home. Police assumed it had been stolen and abandoned but someone noticed it fitted the description of the hit-and-run car as given by young Mc- Bride's cousin, James och rane, 20, of Massapequa, who was a short distance away when the fatal crash occurred. Police returned and ques- Eagle atf Photo bj Kruh BELATED MODESTY Professional playgirl Marguerite Cordova tries to elude photographers as she strides into court today to testify against her alleged former boss, Mickey Jelke.

Miss Cordova has said that Jelke gave her a list of "Johns" to contact but that she found them all "out of town" and dropped the call girl trade then and there. tioned Mrs. Sokolinsky and thenitravel to Sing Sing today to set her husband. At 5:30 a.m. today, a date for the execution, said after at first persisting heknewjhe would not make the trip due nothing of the collision, the court ruling, said he admitted he had been ADLAI MEETS IKE, BUT NOT AS RIVAL Attorney Louis Andreozzi said he recalled driving at the scene of the accident and hitting "something." Rut he claimed he "blacked out" result of his wartime injuries and remembered nothing else.

Planning to Wed The hit-and-run victims were Patricia Ann Bradley, 19, and her childhood sweetheart. fred McBride, 17, of 2552 Cropsey Lane, who were planning to announce their engagement on the boy's 18th birthday in April. They were approaching thel girl's home, 1st WalK, in the I liner Park housing devel opment, when a car hurtled out of the dark and plowed into them. Police of the Bath Beach sta ion who had been on the alert for the hit-and-run killerj Harry Gideonse, president of Brooklyn College, pending re ceipt of an official committee transcript, and that the same procedure apparently had been followed in the cases of two! others. They are Hyman Gold.

registrars assistant at Citv Co lege, and Richard Austin, an administrative employe in the registrars ottice at mat college. No action had been taken as yet in the case of the fourth employe involved Dr. Oscar H. iShaftel, assistant professor of r.ngusn at Queens College. I he spokesman said the prac tice in these cases Is for the! suspensions to he meted out while the Board of Higher Edu briefing on some of it BORO COLLEGE PROF AND 2 DROPPED FOR RED QUIZ DEFY Union had the bomb.

Mr. Eisenhower prefaced his own remarks by reading brief ly from a statement bv Gordon iiean, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Dean in' this abatement sometime ago Continued on Page 2 10,000 China Reds Reported in Revoltj Taipeh, Formosa, Feb. 17 (UR) Ten thousand Chinese re volted against the Communist government in southwest Yunnan Province early this month nnd gained control of eight counties, according to national' ist iptelligence reports quoted today by the Tatao news agency. M.

On. Chang Yl-tiag, spokesman for the Ministry of Itcfense, declined either deny or confirm the report. Tatan, a nationalist agency, said the rebels occupied key points in Chaili, Fuhai, Man-rhlao and Chuanyuch cnun'les nnd partly occupied points In Kiangcheng, Hzemao, JNing-kiang and Liushun counties, according to intelligence ports. Yunan Province is in Son Mi thins and borders on Burma. Today's Chuckle For thousand of ytari women hove suffered In every way in vey way, the it, but I silence.

Washington, Feb. 17 (U.R), Dwicht 1). and Arilai Stevenson meet far. to face today for the first tune ince the hard-fought P52 I "res- idential campaign made them rivals for an office that each had Kaid he didn't want I Pr lent Ki inviied logemei at tne i on, his TaMsJafced Democratic on.611" ('lul 111 Ghicago in Continued on Page 0 cation digests the official transcripts. When the board com pletes its examination of thej records, it will make public its recommendations.

Professor Bressler, who lives at 15 Ludlam Place, and is an ex-chairman of his department, was called in by Mr. Gideonse yesterday and lold of the suspension. Members of the Board of; Higher Education held theirj monthly meeting last night in! Hunter College. Manhattan, but the cases were not on the agenda. Presumably, the mat Continued OH Page hie spots he ill i-n.

former Illinois Governor Hid he planned to do mot ioning than talking while he was in tne rresiuent ottice. It was the first meeting 1 tween Mr. Eisenhower and Stevens rhtir only previous meeting! "My "urnig the war when Mr. Eisenhow cr 'Jdot cn mem. Fire in Ship's Hold Naples.

Feb. 17 (U.R) The French steamer Ferdinand del carrying 4W) passen- get arrived today front Slier ith a fire in the hold. No casualties were reported. Three teachers or aides in municipally operated colleges, including Joseph Bressler, assistant professor of health and physical education at Brooklyn College, have been suspended for refusal to tell a Congressional subcommittee whether they were or had been members of the Communist party. The suspensions were con firmed today hv a Brooklyn uonege apoKesman.

Abranam i.eitei -man, presi dent of the Teachers Union, had stated flatly that the trio had been dismissed, but the spokesman pointed out that Bressler was suspended from rut duttes only yesterday by ponent In the White House for a friendly private chat and lunch with a group of Repub lican and Democratic Con- (resamen. Announced purpose of tjit meeting was to discuss Steven- forthcoming trip around olid. He sails from San! Francisco March 2 and will ipotul most of his time in the Far East. Before going to the YYhlti House, Stevenson scheduled. meetings with several Slate Department officials to get a.

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