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Crime Quiz Weaving Spiderweb of Mob, Political Conniving iff, (i ihMr- Big Chankalian, who has been in civil service for 34 years, admitted that he once By CLARENCE GRKEXBAUM The glaring spotlight of the hard-digging State Crime Commission pinpointed last week revelations of astounding rela- tried to get Luchese pardoned by Governor Dewey. tionships between high public Ijurhese Fight Hubprna officials and top leaders of the Luchese some of whose prl underworld and there was Vate testimony before the Com promise of still more explosive; mission, including that about disclosures to come when testi- Judge Murphv, was read into mony is resumed tomorrow the record at the open hearings morning. is not expected to appear be Already the Justice Depart-fore the Commission wraps up ment has received from Man-'the sessions, probably Werihes- hattan I nlted State Attor- day. He has on file in Manhat-ney Myle J. Iane Ihe Iran-tan Supreme Court a motion script of testimony before the for an injunction to stay his ap- Com mission by Armand han-; pea ranee as a witness, and a kalian, l.ane'B administrative ruling it not expected before Tuesdays afternoon The Com mission plans to ev plore tomorrow Ihe delicate ill w-mrn A "-iT? V- mrMMmSt aH WTJ.

subject of the handling of fi AND AFTER The Rev. Martin Paul Luther of the New Utrecht Reformed Church, and nances in Tammany political clubs. Accounting methods Stiff Pholo BEFORE TenantTess for a decade, the old Van Pelt Manor House at 81st St. and 18th Ave. was built in 1686 and in good repair when this picture was taken in 1938.

I his daughter Martha Ann, 8, inspect all that remains of the landmark. will he gone Into, with a wary eye open on whether these clubs rely on contributions HISTORIC HOUSE IS RAZED DESPITE PUBLIC APPEALS assistant. Attorney General P. MoGranery requested the Iran-acrlpl "for such action as he deems appropriate," said last nighl. He also said he Is seeking any evidence of Federal "racketeering activities of Thomas (Three-Finger Brown) and that any such evidence against him or others would be given to a special rackets probing grand jury.

Chankalian is an alleged pal of Luchese. who is reported to be the successor to convicted gambler Frank Costello'g underworld empire. Big Names Pop Up Ben A. Matthews, chief Commission counsel, said at a nress House Probers Study Tax-Free Foundations Maxwell Given Job In New Pollution Dept. Continued front Page 1 at the huge oak beams and heavy masonry and said: from big-shot racketeers.

ln-dec the Commission microscope will also come the re-puled efforts of political district leaders to perpetuate themselves In power all of which Is expected to prove extremely eye-opening to John q. Public. Suave Tammany Leader Carmine DeSapio will probably be quizzed Tuesday. hand-wrought Iron spikes, "Vou never see that kind of By VIXCKXT Bl'RKK become a com- Persons who expected by not appointing thjo'dn pegs and bits of tile. 1.

.1 William G. Christy nor retired to the new agency. Admiral William S. Maxwell, director and assistant director of the old Smoke Control Bu 1MUI1 Hill mui r. ,1 ririi iin.i I (o use a winch to get the place Washington, Nov.

la (U.R) mtttee to spread hysteria and down." A seven-man House committee fear." As Mr. Luther walked away! revealed tociav it win start an Last March, in urging from the wreckage with his lit-jinvesligation Tusedav to de- House Rules Committee t(J tie daughter, Martha Ann, a termine whether tax-exempt fnvp -Haarinn :ca.fra,.liiff" hnv amnilff 1 e( ommentl tlle ln etlgatlOtl, Dr. Greenhttrg, who is now executive director of the Division of Industrial Hygiene and Safety Standards of the State Miss Van Brunt, who lives at 2" Oliver rescued several shutters and hinges, which she said she intends to hold until the city has a proper place for them. Was Substantially Made Meanwhile, in Miami, where reau, to be appointed to the! 0 euUI dllWIldL UMIIIIUUIUIIS UdC conference that Mavor Impellit-jn' I vacationing. City Court- teri.

FpriPi-al Thomas F'l President Rudolph llal- Cox estimated the tax-free of Ail'' JJeparimeni, win receive SM7.ri(in pnm ill ico mior tit tho new city Department spectators said: exerted "un-American and sub- ley. the former Kefauver Com Pollution Control, were uniy One of the wreckers, Michael influence on public foundations spend. $100,000,000 Murphy and Lane would not wnai an om uumy uieu a- versive new department. What good was it?" be called to testify. Mavwell.

who lives at 1375icla of 743 Park pointed opinion. year. K. 2.ld in the Kings Hih-U The committee, set up solely i "This huge amount, if ad for the inquiry, is headed by, mittee counsel, refused to comment on a meeting with F. B.

I. agents. FBI Seeks Halley Tips It has been reported that F. B. I.

Chief .1. Kiigar Hoover has snneilt out ll.lllpv In run. Names of men like Judge Murphy had been bandied about in l.uchese testimony, which prompted former Appellate Division Justice Joseph M. Pros-kauer, the Commission chair- half right, it turned out yesterday. Mayor Impellitteri, making a-I g-awaited announcement, named Dr.

Leonard (ireenburg. a State health official to be commissioner, and Maxwell to be deputy commissioner of the new department. iiiin-lered irresponsibly, can do an incalciiable amount of harm in misguiding American public opinion," he said then. "There are disiiiieling evidences that at least a few of Representative E. h.

Cox (la. Cox has been critical for several years of such organiza-' tions as the Rockefeller and "Robert Mar Find Girl, 8, Spent Life in Attic Prison way district, will get in his new post, a boost of (Kill. Christy, who is also a Brook-lynile, was paid SI 2,000 annually as head of the old bureau. Dr. who lives at 44 W.

77th has man, to note for the record, that jvide his with more in- tne mere mention ot tne names formation ahmlt ti on i national scale, between polities' Public support of Maxwell, construed as a reflection who espoused vigorous en-headed the hygiene and safely, the criminal world. I them. forcement of ami-smoke laws.jdn ision since ln.lo and. before; The disclosures by the Slate Crime Commission come to had been strong and he was that, was Health commissioner shall Foundations and the' the foundations have per-Rosenwald Fund, charging'1 mi ted themselves to be infib some of their grants have 1 ruled by men and women financed alleged Communist who are disloyal lo our Amei activities. lean way of life." He.

has suggested in lie Representatives of some of face of strong opposition the nation's biggest private that legislation may be needed foundations will be called for to correct such "abuses" of questioning. The hearings will Ihe tiiv-evempt privilege. be public and may last three The House, voted last Sum- to five weeks. The committee reported to have been a prime of New Haven. The two days of hearings on Thursday and Friday in an austere courtroom of the Manhattan Supreme Court Building.

source of embarrassment to I'air Sworn In Tomorrow te city administration; Hi ion eh his hiithlv ooiiniar! He and Maxwell will be light as a link in a chain of events that started on Dec. II, I94D, when the Brooklyn Kagle began revealing vicious tieups between high police officials and top bookmakers. There followed the still-con- apparently only scratched the! dirty surface. The chief grist in the mill of; public disclosures, after Ihe dust had cleared from the first' tinilinff rirnhp inln thpo tiaimc Bad Segelierg, Germany, Nov. 13 (U.R) -German authorities disclosed today they had discovered an eight-year-old girl believed to have been imprisoned for her entire life in the dark, attic of her village home.

The girl. Buerbel Suefke, weighed only 18 pounds 10 pounds underweight and is suffering from advanced malnutrition. She cannot walk, speak nor hear and has never see the light of day, authorities said. Doctors were working to save her life. Mrs.

Rose Suefke, mother of the dwarfed child, was arrested today at the family home in the nearby village of Bark, They said she feared her child-w as mentally retarded and shut her off from the outside world shortly after her birth Jan. 17, 1914. Official" said the other two Suefke children, one 12 and the other 15, never knew of the existence of their sister. The secret was so well kept that none of Bark's 200 villagers heard of the third until authorities discovered the child Wednesdav. efforts to wage war on smoke sworn in to tneir new posts dj violators.

Ihe Mayor at 10 a.m. The legislation which created Dr. (Ireenburg will not take the new department was at- over his new duties until tacked by City Stanley M. Isaacs as a measure! Born in Manhattan in 1 by which the Mayor could i Dr. (Ireenburg won a degree in create more patronage jobs and'sanitary engineering at Cnlu in sessions was Ihe a mail the hol(loven Grand liner to set up lie committee must make a formal report ny 'over protests from many mem-Jan.

1 hen it automatically hers, including Representative goes out of existence unless re-Adam Clayton Powell Jr. i created by the new Republican-j N'. who predicted it wouldcontrolled Congress. o. now enjo.veu,Ju sparUe( bv Digtrct A warm frienship with high gov- 0j McDonald, and the i torney sen ernment officials In Washing' ton, Albany and City Hall.

Anything Can Happen dispose of Maxwell and Christy, bia I niversity in a 1'h. D. sational facts unearthed in the case of convicted are bookmaker Harry Gross. The Kefauver Committee captured the minds in public health at Yale in Most of the testimony has been concerned with Manhattan and the imagination of the pub Hunt 2 Boys and an -M. D.

in Ht.iO at thej Yale School of Medicine. He is! licensed both as a professional; engineer and to practice medi-; cine in New York Stale. AFTER 70 YEARS WE ARE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS I Sale held pursuant lo N.Y.C. license 418906 In Rifle Death shenanigans so far, but any-; lie. and the five-member State thing can happen when the Crime Commission was created cover is ripped from the top of March 30, 1951 by executive the politico-crime barrel.

order of Governor Dewey, with Chankalian as confronted powers to probe and act against with a wire-tapped record of a racketeers and the links be-cryptic telephone conversation It ween organized crime and any be had witit Luchese, in whiehunit of government anywhere ABRAHAM fUlTON $1. HOYT Of Sister, 11 FINAL TREMENDOUS Police, hunting two young Bronx bovs missing since thei sister was fatally shot Friday nieht. were kept busy last night chasing down anonymou ne auegeaiy talked about "them this State. Catholic Bishops Rap Godless Classrooms Washington, Nov. 15 (U.R) its importance in public edu phone tips from persons saying thev had seen the youngsters in various places.

One such Call sent two police ears to the Klathush Ave, i i rO)M terminal of the Long Island Rail Road. The boys were not Catholic BTshopa of the United cation." The State, therefore, they there, however. The youngsters, Daniel Kei rontinned, "has the duty to help parents fulfill their task of religious instruction and ler. 13. and his brother Barry 9.

were gone from their home. States asserted today there is a growing move in this country to divorce religion from public education and thus unwittingly play into the hands of Communism. They called this "dangerous Sedgewick when the training. When the State fails this ran only be regarded as bodv of their sister Marion, 11 was found with a bullet wound in the forehead. Police believe an utterly unfair and shortsighted policy." The churchmen went all out the children were playing sol ecuiarism.

secularism is ai view of life based on the: in their attack on so-called riier with their father's .22 rifle premise that religious found nearby, and that Marion was shot accidentally. The rations, as of God and a fu-j -to teach moral and spiritual ture life, should be ignored orjyalues divorced from religion excluded. The Bishops said the and based solelv on social con-strategy of those who followVention, as these men claim to parents. Mr. and Mrs.

David 1'eiler, were attending a movie at the time. The griefstricken father. mis way is first to secularize d0. is not enough." the Bishops completely the public school sa id. "Unless man's conscience construction engineer, last night issued a plea for the boys unci then to claim for it a total js enlightened bv the knowl-monopoly of education." edge of the principles that ex- to come home.

'Please come home, boys, we love you and we're worried of the entire stock of one of Brooklyn's most prominent jewelers about you," Keller pleaded "Your mother is sick. She 10 counter tnts. tney Gods law there can be the State most "not merely, no fjrm an( lasting morality, tolerate religion bat "honor "without religion morality and welcome It as an becomes a matter of in-pensable aid In building thejdjvidual taste, of public opin-romplete good life of Its or majority vote 'ens." Amonz the aimers of the needs you. All is forgiven." The onlv hild left at home 1 Now la th. time to take advantage of our unusual offer.

Thli Linda. 5, who was found out The prelates, spiritual direc- statement was Francis Cardinal side the house, crying, by a neighbor who investigated and tors of J9.otXJ.000 Amertcanjspellman of New York. Catholics, issued their state- Important news for women 20. .30. .40 (OR NOT TELLING!) You can fill your Christmas stocking with cash when you JOIN OUR CHRISTMAS SELLING STAFF Come in tomorrow! A CHRISTMAS SELLING POSITION AT GIVES YOU: Better than average salaries! Immediate employee's discount after 1 week employment! Superb meals at low cost in employees' cafeteria! Free medical care, other important-to-you benefits! Employment Office, Mmmnlnt rV.if, Fulton Stroot at Hoy(, Brooklyn PLEASE BKINQ YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD found Marion body.

ment through the administra The older boy, apparently ter rified by the shooting, emptied his bank of $20 and fled on Marion's bicycle, with Barry it an opportunity that cornea along perhaps once-ln-a-llfetime. We Invite your inspection of our: Diamond Solitaire Rings Bridal Sets Diamond Wedding Rings Custer Rings Diamond Bracelets, Brooches, etc. Diamond Wrist Watches Gold ond Silver Jewelry of every description Silver Hollow Ware, Flat Wore, etc. Watches and Watch Accessories ALL AT A FULL 33V3 OFF! FIXJL! Tumi Back on TV London. Nov.

15 (U.R) A. J. P. Taylor, an Oxford don, became so furious in a television round table discussion on Spain last probably on the handlebars police said. tive board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference at the conclusion of their annual meeting here.

They stressed that they "are not enemies of public education." "We recognize that the State has a legitimate and even necessary concern with education," thev said. "But if religion Is night he turned his back to thel-- mofimionai ruo cuanin cameras and sat out tne rest of the program in silence. I important to good citizenship EfcXSJG and that is the burden of our rational tradition then the State must give recognition, to AT YOUR PI IPC they deserve the best care I1UUO Be proud of otir preriom, ronlr-lo-rrplncr tum by hwnlhrm PROFESSIONALLY i leined onrc a rr. They'll look better, Uit longer -and you'll save money in th end. HI UftTt- Ill FEET HURT? Far mr 2 yn ALAODIS kaa km MtliCMtorllr MTlM twtimri id Si- hm M4 Ahmm.

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16, 1952 M7 Ttfc AYE, M00UYN-S.

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