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22 Mt Emm What's Your Ptt Worry? 10 Brooklynites Ttll Theirs-See 19 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE WEATHER Sunny, mild today. 105th YEAR No. 110 DAILY and SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1946 (Caprniht, IMS. Th.

Brooklyn Ins nured Brooklyn P. 0. Jd OUm Mill Mtttst Fire Wrecks Terminal, Guts 6 Myrtle Ave. Buildings Flames Attract Thousands in Boro Hall Area Boro Congressmen Hit! OPA Curbs, See Threat' Of New Industrial Strife Stress How They Opposed Bill in House, Differ on What Action Senate May Take BREAD SLASH HITS HOMES TOMORROW Drastic Cuts Ordered In Store Deliveries See Famine Averted 5-CAR TRAIN DESTROYED- By JOSEPH H. SCHMALACKER Deep concern that the crippling of governmental price control threatens the country with renewed large-scale industrial strife was expressed in the ranks of the Brooklyn its home-coming members deplored curbs Imposed on the OPA The staff of life will be dices shorter and much harder to get for Brooklyn and other New York housewives as a result of President Truman's plan to aid the starving millions of Europe and Asia, according to spokesmen for the baking industry.

Delivery of bread to retail outlets will be sharply reduced starting tomorrow, the spokesmen said, with the housewives hardest hit. They pointed out that restaurants can use cracked wheat and graham bread ordinarily not carried by the neighborhood stores. Bread delivery-men, In line with orders from their companies, notified de'alevs yesterday of curtailed routes and quantities. An official of the General Baking Company, 420 Lexington Man hattan, makers of Bond bread, noted that this was the first cut In bread production In the country's I historv and said customers would need time to accustom themselves 10 me reaucuon. ne aaoea wm i because of the large variety.

Says Cut Was Expected The Ward Baking Company at 475 5th Manhattan, said thei reduction was expected by the In dustry ever since the first official reports on widespread hunger over- The Hotel Association of New York City reported that each Individual hotel would have to decide for Itself how to handle its reduced t1r. -11 -H tYd riivft I bsnoueWu111 bmk Ve' b.market iTme Euranowner. expressed hope bvA u. i i by many housewives who found they would be allowed to serve less! hrJL Hi.r wmeat at bove-ceillng prices. They bread to each diner, but pointed out LOOKING DOWN ON THE FIRE General scene showing Ave.

line when fire broke out. three cars of train caught on Stl guff photo Bridge St. Station of Myrtle Py lne anti-Adminlstratlon coall tion In Washington. Members of the group differed In tntir opinions as to the extent to which the Senate would modify or reject some of the more drastic amendments forced into the price control extension mil by the com binatlon of Southern Democrats and Republicans from Northern and Western States in the past week's antl-OPA revolt. Representative John J.

Delaney of the House Rules Committee declared there was no doubt in his mind that if living costs skyrocketed because of the lifting of price controls, labor unrest would be rekindled. Representative Donald L. OToole went a step further and said he believed the result would be "chaos" and a renewal of industrial strife on a wide front. Hopeful of Senate Changes Representative James J. Heffer-nan and Representative Delaney both expressed confidence that the lsnate would eJect fme 01 'he AMldtUlUCllLS, UUt Representative Leo F.

Rayfiel said he was not too sure that representatives from the Southern and farm States would give up advantages which they had gained through the reduction of the OPA's powers. Rep. John J. Roonev declared the mail he had received in favor of the OPA's continuation was nearly the heaviest he had got during his Con. gressional career.

The effect of the crippling of price controls, he. said would be "appalling." particularly on lamiues in the low Income groups. All members of the erouo who were available for comment in Brooklyn emphasired that the Democratic-controlled nine-man delegation representing Kings County had voted solidly to sustain the Truman Administration's position on the OPA during the battle In the House. "I am proud," said Mr. OToole, "that the entire Brooklyn delegation stood up loyally for the Administration during the gruelling hours of voting and that not one of Its members left the floor during the roll calls and debate from 10 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Curbs Veted by House Mr. Delaney said the House-approved bill was now before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. In its present condition the measure extends the OPA for only CnUnned on face Say Russia Keeps Army Only to Protect Self April 20 (UP) The military editor of the Russian newspaper Pravda told newspaper editors today that Russia is maintaining a strong postwar army "only to protect our own borders." The statement was made bv Gen. Mikhail Romanovich Oalakitonov at a roundtable of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Two other Russian newspapermen participated Ilya Ehrenburg, a member of the staff of Izvestla, and Konstantln Simonov, 30-year-old writer for the Russian army newspaper Red Star. President Will Spend Easter With Family Washington, April 20 (U.R) President Truman will observe Easter with his family tomorrow, and then leave In the afternoon for a cruise during which he will watch the start of naval carrier maneuvers in the Atlantic, What the Trumans' Easter plans are the White House would not say tonight. Bright Skies to Smile On Easter Paraders Fair Sex Trots Out Furs and Finery As Hatters Guild Picks 10 'Best-Bonneted' ARMY HITS BACK AT CRITICS OF COURT-MARTIAL House Group's Report On System Is Held Not Based on Fact CHINA REDS RULE CHANGCHUN, AIM FOR HARBIN Plan to Seize Manchu Northern Metropolis After Russians Leave Chnnokinf Anvil 20 (IIP) finv.1 With clear skies and abundant sunshine in prospect Washington. April 20 (U.R-The!that before an alarm could ha slaiea 101 lne granaesi snowing in me rosier NO INJURIES A spectacular fire in down town Brooklyn yesterday de stroyed the Bridge St. station of the Myrtle Ave.

elevated line and damaged half a dozen adjoining buildings. Thousands in the Borough Hall section looked on as the flames leaped from the blazing station and fire fighting apparatus responded to four fire alarms. A five-car train that had Just pulled into the station was wrecked. The fire was under control within an hour after It broke out at 1 p.m. and police reported there were no persons injured.

Normal service-was restored by nightfall, except that the trains went only as far as the Navy St. station. The Board of Transportation announced that repairs at the Bridge St. station, terminal of the line. probably would not be completed until after tomorrow.

Starts In Drip Pans The spectacular blaze, which tied up downtown traffic and caused rerouting of half a dozen trolley lines, began, according to fire officials, in oil-soaked drip pans which hang beneath the tracks. Only a few persons were on th platform, the one five-car train In the station having just discharged its passengers. Mast of the people were at the Bridge St. end of the platform, about to descend to the street. One bystander said he heard a series of explosions, but police on fluty on the corner of Myrtle Ave.

and Jay St. said they heard nothing to Indicate how the blaze might havt started. Ablate in 5 Minutes In less than five minutes the platform and cars were it roaring Inferno, flames shooting 20 to 30 feet above the roof of the wooden station. Intense heat started fires In at least eight brick buildings lining both sides of Myrtle and, by the time firemen had the elevated blaze under control, the three top floors of a furniture store operated by Michaels Brothers at 90 Myrtle Ave. were afire.

The blaze broke out In the center of the station, just over Lawrence fit anrt xnrear! ranMlv turned In it had enveloped nearly half the length of the platform and two of the empty cars. The drip pans, which catch oil and grease falling from under, parts of the elevated cars, were installed less than a year ago when the station became a terminal. For many years the trains had gone past It, over the Brooklyn Bridge to Parle Row, but the line was cut off at Jay St. as part of the modernization program for downtown Brooklyn. Furniture Store Hard Hit Most seriously damaged of the buildings was Michaels, the three top floors of which were burned out.

WatM nm I 1 ing elevated structure cascaded down inside the stoie. One of the plate-glass windows also waa smashed Other buildings damaged were M.vrue 5mn Quality furniture Company, which occupies 94 and 09 wmilj a nwiiy mm navy oiOfC Kb ino '88. The three upper floors of the four-story building at 92 and 94 were gutted. The three-story building at 96 was damaged on the too floor. The fourth and fifth floora Continued on Page Police Aviation Bureau Will Move to New Dorp Nf York City Police Avla Paal rs Music Au'oWotirl 22 1 Novel Bet'r Housing 34 Obituarist Paa rs IT rs Biidge Camera Club 15Padio Crofswoid Comk-i i Real ICurrie 3 I Schools Dr.

BioH 16 Society 16! Spot's MlTaUMy Woid 18 IS Theaters 15 Trav.l. Pes'ts 26, 71 7 I Outdoors 7-i tajv.tinPklyii r.RlWnnlAds 30. iauonai 'Gardens Hoflernan In'n Worth ind Hmy Haworih and other Srjrinetlme raiment in recent years, Snen of Catnolic University America will preach on "Easter" LJ the cathedial, the 10. 11:45 and 12:45 masses at Mishop Thomas E. Molloy will celebrate solemn pontifical mass in House delegation yesterday tAiltK lABLti SHORT ON MEAT, STORES EMPTIED But Warehouses Bulge With Carcasses-OPA Blames Black Market Ham, steaks, chops and juicy cuts of roast beef were conspicuous on borough tables this Easter Day by their absence.

No change for the better appeared In sight for Brooklyn and the rest of the city and where mcat dld gnce "tnf was its source. Despite the shortage in retail shops, particularly In chain stores where ceiling prices are observed. warehouses and cold storage vaults of the wholesalers are bulging with beef, lamb and veal carcasses and .9 offi cials. Wholesalers were said to be withholding their products from the stores because of the current rnk left requests at their small neighborhood shops, where they are known, and returned later for whatever they could get. Beside paying black market prices, short weights were the rule rather than the exception on their purchases.

A survey of Fort Oreene Market yesterday disclosed great scarcity in all the major meat products with a few chickens as the main item. As a result, many retail shops sold out their scarce stocks and closed early for the day. The OPA, meanwhile, Intensified its drive against the illegal traffic in meat, with 15 percent of the agency's entire staff of field inves tigators deployed throughout the metropolitan district. Callman Gottesman, chief enforcement at' torney for the area, charged that dealers "are not anxious to sell in the presence of Investigators." Farley Spurns Governorship; Wife Says So James A. Farley, former Demo- cratlc State and natlonai chairman, was silent on political developments when he retturned from Europe last night, but Mrs.

Farley, won met him at LaOuardia declared he would not be a candidate for Governor. As he stepped from a Trans World Airlines plane from Paris, which carried 33 other passengers, Mr. Farley was questioned by newspa permen about his position in the coming State-wide campaign. "I don't want to comment on poll-tics," he said, after his five weeks abroad In the interest of the Coca Cola Company, of which he is board chairman. In London he met Prime Minister Attlee, Foreign Minister Bevtn, former Prime Minister Churchill and former Foreign Secretary Eden.

He conferred also with U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Asked whether there was an Indication that Justice Jackson might be the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Mr. Farley said, "No." Dulles Calls for Aid To Overseas Blind Declaring that In the war-torn countries of Europe "the prevailing but thVtThe cil frorVJse whogfhave Th added misfortune of blindness," John Foster Dulles, vice president of the American Foundation for Overseas Blind, yesterday Inaugurated a campaign to raise funds to aid the destitute sightless abroad, at the organization's headquarters, 598 Madison Ave.

Associated with Mr. Dulles in this appeal are William Nelson Cromwell, M. C. Mlgel, William Zlegler Eustace Seligman, Richard L. Morris and Helen Keller.

The foundation pointed out that ordinary -relief agencies cannot supply the special equipment and special rehabilitation program which blind people overseas require, and that assistance must come largely from the United States. Ask World News Probe Washington, April 20 (U.R) The American Society of Newspaper Editors today adopted resolution calling for the appointment of a committee to study the question of worldwide dissemination of news by the United States. as army struck back at Congressional critics of its court martial system itoniaht bv charaina- that a House of'Mllilary Affairs Subcommittee re- 01 "P'eaa miscarriages oi Justice contained many statements and conclusions not based on fact. Undersecretary of War Kenneth Royall defended the army against than as a means of dispensing im partial justice. The subcommittee's report, now awaiting action by the full committee, revealed that 142 army men have been executed for St.

James Pro-Cathedral at 10:301 llMr snuwininiuee cnarge mat it a.m. The Very Rev. Dr. John J.USM tlle court martial system to Heneghan, vice chancellor of the discipline and to impress Brookivn Diocese, will Dreach the local populations abroad rather for todav. miladv's new bonnet Paraae lna' lne Clly nas seen ine weatner Bureaus promise 01 weatner Bureau promise oi "highest temperature near 60 de suits and ensembles, traditional to1 the Easter morn, would be topped t.nL.

f.MKi furs. "Moderate north to east winds" would be sufficient to spread the fragrance of a sweet-scented gardenia or toss a veil at its prettiest. Resounding through the city's churches, the Easter "Alleluia" pro claimed for thousands of worshlp- had an added significance on this first peacetime Easter years. With grateful hearts and in unison with Christians everywhere Xhe faithful offered prayers of thanksgiving for peace in the world. Likewise, they prayed for the nation's fallen dead.

In service and In sermon the glory of the Risen Lord, it was foreseen, would be proclaimed before altars rape, murder and desertion on the ppari u.rhnr 7ii i i "riien standing on the smolder Pearl Harbor, and 33,741 have been sermon. The Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation will hold outdoor Easter lwn services In Prospect Park for the first time in several years. Dr Earl P. Adams, executive director of the Greater New York Protestant Council, will deliver the Easter message at the service, scheduled for 7 a.m. Several other Easter dawn services will be held In Brooklyn and Queens.

Easter flowers cost New Yorkers an estimated $500,000. slackening-off In the heavy which reached Its that they were obliged by OPA regulations to main the quantity and quality of the meals In accordance with the measuring stick period of the celling prices. 'v II. 8. Officials Confident Washington, April 20 (U.R) With the lives of millions at stake, U.

S. officials were confident tonight that their new compulsory food saving enterprise would product results quickly enough to prevent nuuu starvation abroad. Faced with the alternative of food or death for the helpless hungry of scores of lands in Europe and Asia, they were determined to make compulsion work where purely voluntary conservation efforts had failed. They agreed, however, that compulsion would not be enough that the willing cooperation of America's millions of producers and consumers Is essential if their giant life-saving program is to succeed. The new program for geetlng grain to those whose lives depend on it was promulgated last night.

Its key element is an Incentive bonus Continued on Page I 'I AM AN AMERICAN DAY' TO BE MARKED MAY 19 In line with the Presidential proclamation setting aside May It as "I Am An American Day," Mayor O'Dwyer yesterday Issued a proclamation announcing that New York City officially will observe the day with ceremonies on the Central Park Mall. The Mayor said stage and screen stars and other prominent city leaders will head the program, which will be similar to those presented every year since 1940 on "I Am An American Day." Police Scour Arkansas For Plant Fugitive Walnut Ridge, April 20 (U.R) Police searched Northesat Arkansas tmifght for ex-army pilot Vernon B. Simpson, 21, after the plane which he stole from a Columbia, airport was found In a rice field last night. Police said the pilot who escaped from the Wichita Falls, Jail recently landed the plane In the rice paddy without difficulty and then fled on foot. He stopped at the nearby home of Mrs.

Ora Bruce and asked for a drink of water. He told her he'd been forced to land because the plane was out of gas, but police said the tank held plenty. Kansas City Gem Bandit Found Slain in Gang War Kansas City, April 20 U.P Tom Kelly, 27, notorious Jewel bandit, was found slain in a heap of tree limbs near scenic and Isolated Cliff Drive today. Two small-calibre bullets had ripped through his head. It was Kansas City's third "spot" murder this year and marked the renewal df a gang warefare stemming from holdups of big-time gambling games and liquor operators.

Truck and Dock Strike In Louisville Ends Louisville, April 20 (U.R) The 100 A. F. L. truck driven and dock-men on strike for nine days voted today to return to work 'Monday under terms of an agreement Interpreting a company union contract guaranteeing a 48-hour Week. The unauthorized strike halted transfer of all but perishable freight in and through Louisville.

Forty-two oompanlea were affected. laden with the tall, stately Easter1. artH tw Qm.in.m. fi travel, A peak Friday i. i i-" wuBji Biiu mcu mi iiiuuc.i vui-Kie nouse-mrnisniiigs at bt.

transportation, was reported yes- hwou'd H. H. Reastaurant at 96 and m.u mcito the army and the system of 1 Francis Cardinal i in ne nrtt time i me nrsi lime ai pontificate for P.sl.r Ttvinrt nf th. rhnW the 10 a m. mass in St.

Patrick's v. Cathedral. Monslgnor Fulton J.1 imprisoned for lesser crimes, Including two sentenced to life Imprisonment for being absent without leave. The navy reported that no death sentences were Imposed on navy, marine, or coast guard personnel during the war. Mr.

Royall said any conclusions 1 uhm-u on uie rrrjon in in Dresem juoufc. in some wav reached the Dress." Koyau saw, "I tnink It only appro' priate to say that It contains nu merous incorrect statements, both as to particular cases which can be Identified and also to alleged general practices. "It also contains numerous state-1 ments pretaced by the words. 'It is without giving the source' of the information and in manvl instances these statements are en i the fall of Changchun to Chinesel communist troops, who were be- troops, who were be- lieved to be exploiting their first nmjor oi ine unaeciarea civil war In Manchuria with plans to seize Harbin as soon as Russian forces evacuate that northern metropolis on April 25 A government spokesman disclosed a second serious defeat for nationalist forces in Manchuria. He said the communists had hurled the crack American-equipped nationalist 1st Army out of Szeping-kal on the road to Changchun and recaptured the city.

Government forces now are hoping to bypass Szepingkal and try to retake the Manchurian capital, the spokesman said. It was indicated that another major battle was shaping up at Kungchuling, 36 miles south of Changchun. the next communist stronghold on the road north from Szepingkal. Communist capture of Changchun has doomed all nationalist hopes of throwing sufficient forces into northern Manchuria in time to insure their occupation of Harbin when the Russians withdraw. 'Harbin is 145 miles north of Continued on Page 3 contribution was used by the council to employ an additional professional field secretary for one year.

A special council committee was aet up to give direction and guidance to the project and a field secretary was secured in November, 1944 This secretary resigned In January and the present secretary Joined the council staff In March. 1945. The committee decided: 1) That effort should be directed toward attacking the problems in a small area of Brooklyn. (2) That the emphasis should be on development of more adequate services for youth. Area Selected In deciding upon a demonstiatlon area, these factors were deemed essential: (1) That the area be diversified a to religious and racial grouping and thus be "typical" of Brooklyn.

i Social Planning Council Fills Vital Need For Youth Guidance in Typical Boro Area tirely Incorrect." ion Bureau, which has been oper- The House Investieation was tln8 lftnd nd planes out of headed by Representative Carl T.Guafdia Field, will transfer, pos Durham N. C). who said the s'bly before the end of April, to Report Covers First Year's Program Thls ls the story of an experiment In community organ- lzati0n t0Ward a Specific al-the mobilizing of available resources In a "typical" Brooklyn neighborhood to improve services for children and youth. From the historv of the In a nae Hftnlrlfn nine till domestic airlines Continued on Page 30, was seieciea ior iae Droiecu ine probe began quietly six months ago I Miller Field, at New Dorp. S.

I. after widespread complaints against Miller Field, wnich Is Federal both army and navy court-martial property and which overlooks the proceedings. iloer bay. was used up to 1940 as The subcommittee report said the 102d Observation Squadron bae some of the "most striking the New York National Guard, riages of Justice" have taken place part of the war, it served abroad. It said many soldiers con- a motor repair base.

vlcted of rape probably were cent but were found gulltv for dis-li Tn ClUn it clplinary reasons or to impress the I TINU I I local populations. Herewith is the report of the youth activities project in the Brownsville, East New York and Ocean Hill area conducted by a special committee set up by the Brooklyn Covncll for Social Planning under the chairmanship of Surrogate Francis D. McGarey. This project grew out of the seria of articles on juvenile delinquency printed weekly in the Brooklyn Eagle for a year and then published in book form. Following it up, a contribution bif the Eagle made possible the employment by the council of a professional field secretary.

Miss Flora M. Davidson. The report cites the concrete accomplishments of the first year, makes constructive recommendations for further activities, analyzes the problems of such' an area and lays down a pattern which should be of tremendous value in any. other local community in Brooklyn or elsewhere. The project is now being carried on for another year.

The report is signed by Surrogate McGarey as chairman and Miss Davtdson as secretary of the committee. origin ana development of this Youth Activities Project undertaken by the Brooklyn Council for Social Planning, the problems faced and the progress made, conclusions may be drawn which are of significance not only for the local area, out for almost any urban community which sets out to cope with delinquency or other anti-social manifestations of its young people. Following a series of 52 weekly crUcle on Juvenile in the Brooklyn Eagle In 1943-44 the publisher of the Eaglo offered a financial contribution to 'Jie Brooklyn Council for Social Planning, the borough's federation of social, health, recreational and civic agencies, to enable the council to take more specific action toward co-ordination of community elforto to deal with the problems of Juvenile delinquency, The Eagle's .1 mitt it, nave reuuus uut noi extreme dellnatiencv Problem? lerritirv covers 23g thlrltlv "Oman 10 Ueatn Competent observers agree, Uie subcommittee said, that in general army courts err on the side of severity. Ohio Maid, 16, Admits ii APr11 20. W.Rv Ethel DJ1M- 10' mam.

conie.wea to po lice today that she clubbed to death Mrs. Mary Shulman. 47. Miss Burks, employed bv Mrs. Lawrence Tarloff (3) That It be (a) already serveded square blocks with a total hv nrnorani.

fnr vmifh clearly In need of further social resources. An area of some 70.000 residents. Most of th. dwellings are dilapidated, filmsy fpersed with a variety of amall onunuea on rag square mile covering section! ofl'Vu mr. bi Ukfn di.Miki MrV Shul Brownsville, East New York anjjm fiM who lived next door to tiw vkcvii niu nirv uiwe wnuiuuiw ana Movie 24, 15 Women.