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OCT 18-W48 C1B 158048 odd LATE NEWS WEATHER Mostly sunny, cod today; clear, cool tonight. 107th YEAR No. 284 DAILY SUNDAY ICopnllht, tMI. Ttaa BrooUffi km, toll BROOKLYN 1, N. THURSDAY, OCTOBER Entered Brooklyn P.

0. Id OUss Ml aUttar 3 CENTS IN NKW TORE CTTt SLSXWBTHI CUTO Folk 14, Igj, brewery Drivers Strike in BflfT mm 500 Establish Picket Lines In Walkout Over Suspensions Most brewery deliveries, Brooklyn and Manhattan were ma niMi uv ojlslnilLUlivJ tied up today by a wildcat 6trike set up picket lines outside breweries and turned back drivers MURDER OF SPINSTER STUMPS COPS Suspect Picked Up During Burial Mass Cleared by Witness Five days after the brutal murder of 80-year-old Mary Gray in her apartment at 17 Madison police today resumed the search for her flayer, starting again as in the beginning with no clues to go on. For a short while yesterday following the funeral mass for the slain spinster in the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity at 20 Madison of which she had been a parishioner, a flurry of expectation stirred the hundreds of detectives, plainclothed Dewey Campaigns In Truman Backyard who were not suspended. The firms and several unions involved, according to police, have contracts oiling for sus pension of drivers who fail to maintain delivery schedules. Both company officials and union spokesmen termed the strike a wildcat one in direct violation of existing contracts.

Picketing began at 5 a.m. today and pickets carried no signs, It was reported. There were 25 suspended drivers at 5 Borough of 500 suspended drivers who the Trommer Brewery, 1632 Bushwlck more than 150 at the F. M. Schaefer Brew ery, 430 Kent and 11 in the can and bottling depart ment ofLiebman Brothers, 36 Forrest Ave.

Pickets set up their lines near garages of breweries in volved or about a block away, police said, and drivers, after taking the trucks out of the Continued oa Page 2 Budenz Charges 90 Of U. E. Officers Are Red, Red-Controlled Louis F. Budenz, former edi tor of the Communist Daily Worker, said today that 90 per cent of the officers of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union. C.I.O., were Communist or Communist controlled.

Writing In this week's Issue of Collier's magazine, Budenz 1 1 1 Dillon Named to Head U. Secessionists and uniformed police assigned to the murder investigatton. During the mass in the church, police outside took into custody a young" Negro seen loitering in the vicinity, described as "nervous" and smok ing one cigarette after another lie said he was employed in the garment district in Manhat- tan, but not working because of the Yom Kippur holiday. A search of the room in which he lived failed to turn up anything In the way of incriminating evidence, and in Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, where she is recovering from an operation, Mrs.

Mary O'Reilly, looked at the youth, listened to his voice and said he was "positively not" the prowler she saw near the house half an hour before the He was released. 130 Questions Forty more tentative "sus pects" were brought to the Classon Ave. Precinct, Classon and DeKalb between mid night 4nd 7 a.m. today, and all said Communist party members subversive activity they are in are trained to infiltrate aa-if0r trouble serious trouble," REDS DEMAND OVERTHROW OF BELGIUM REGIME Brand Premier Spaak 'Nothing but a Puppet Of American Masters' Brussels, Oct. 14 (U.R) The Belgian Communist Party has been ordered by the Comin- form to do "everything in its power" to overthrow Premier Paul-Henri Spaak's coalition government, a high counterintelligence source said today.

The informant said the central committee of the Belgian Communist party had been told a few days ago that orders had arrived from the Communist Information Bureau to "start agitating for higher wages. He taid his organization had "irrefutable proof the move was linked closely with simi lar movements in France and Italy. "We have the situation well in hand, however," he said, "and if the Communists com ply and engage in large-scale the counter-intelligence officer said, Sxt-'; Vrgcd Ouster of Government Two days Bgo Edward Lai mand, secretary general of the Communist party, advocated, the VCi L11I UW VI IIIC OUUidUSl-lsUU servatlve coalition as a "cure all for Belgium's economic trouble." He denounced Spaak as "nothing but a puppet and slave of his American masters In Washington." The bespectacled, haggard looking secretary said: We have now reached the crucial juncture and we must cnoose Between tne Soviet Union and the United States. "The arms and munitions the Americans propose sending to Europe wilj eventually be turned against them. "If America declares war on Russia, which seems to be its ultimate aim, we will not fight to save its cheap capital istic regime but -we will strive to uphold the Soviet Union and all it stands for.

Yes, comrades, ana right if necessary. Elista Landi Very III Kingston, Oct. 14 (U.R) Elissa Landi, former stage and screen actress, was reported seriously 111 today, in Kingston Hospital Miss Landi, 42, entered the hospital last Sunday. She had been under a physician's care for quite some time, but the nature of her illness was not disclosed. of them were also-released.

TheUjroxiroately 200 attending' the President Says Opponent Is Just A 'Me Too' Convert En Route With Truman, Oct, 14 (U.R) President Truman put his fight with Governor Dewey on a bare-knuckle basis today, charging that the G. O. P. can didate Is a risky "me too" convert to bipartisan foreign policy. The President hurled the charge in a speech at St.

Paul last night in which he discarded Dewey's "unity" campaign as a bunch of "catch phrases" and "mealy-mouthed political speeches." Then he headed southward for another run across Minne sota and Wisconsin to wind up tonight with another major speech in Milwaukee. En route to Milwaukee the resident scheduled, brief ap pearances at Mankato, Roches ter and Winona in Minnesota and Sparta, Madison and Wau- Kesna, in Wisconsin. The St Paul speech was the most caustic Mr, Truman has delivered so, far end reflected' the increasing tempo of hi campaign as the Nov. 2 election draws near. Although Dewey has indorsed and participated in the bipartisan foreign policy, the President Coa.tinn.pd on Page 2 ITU, 4 Officers Guilty of Contempt Indianapolis, Oct.

14 (U.R) The A. F. L. Typographical Union and four of its top off! cers, charged with violating the Taft-Hartley law in dealings with newspaper publishers, were found itulltv todav of con tempt of court. Federal Judge Luther Swygert found that the union failed to abide by an injunc- tion he issued March 27.

The injunction restrained the union from discriminating against non-union printers, and from insisting on closed shop conditions prohibited by the Taft Hartley law. The four union officers cited for contempt were President Woodruff Randolph, Vice Pres idents Larry Taylor and Elmer Brown, and Secretary-Treasur er Don HUrd. Enters Missouri With Slogan of Good Government En Route WTith Dewey, Oct. 14 (U.R) Governor Dewey today carried his "good government" campaign into Missouri, home state of his Democratic oppo; nent, President Truman. The G.O.

P. candidate will deliver the second of three ma jor speeches of his current campaign swing tonight in Kansas City. Mr. Dewey scheduled stops at Joplin, Carthage, Monett and Springfield before he reaches Kansas City in the late after noon. 1 As his special campaign train approached the heart of Mr.

Truman's home territory, the New York Governor's staff promised that the Kansas City speech would describe Dewey ideas on "the essential of good government" "He will promise to bring to Washington government that believes wholeheartedly in the American system 01 ireeaom. that knows where it is going; thtit practices teamwork; that has integrity; that is compe tent; and that has vision and faith and courage," a statement said. Wants to Keep G. O. P.

Margin The statement was an accu rate reflection of Dewey cam paign tactics, the G. O. P. can didate is thoroughly convinced that he Is a winner. Now he seems to be concentrating his efforts on keeping the Senate under G.

O. P. control and em phasizing that he plans to give the Federal Government "com- petence" which he claims the Truman administration lacks, As he moved into Missouri, Dewey hoped to insure re-elec tion of a G. O. P.

Congress. Missouri now has four Demo cratic members of the House and nine Republicans. Dewey will do all in-his power to pre serve that margin. Mr. Dewey climaxed a day long tour of Oklahoma last night by denouncing the Tru man administration for building a complicated set of Fed eral agencies to govern oil pro duction.

Hayward Hurt in Crash Hollywood, Oct. 14 (U.R) Film actor Louis Hayward, 39, suffered minor injuries today when his car struck a telephone pole here. BROOKLYN S. J. QCIGLET 11 iii il iiinml 1 1 VVV' New U.

A. W. Local Holds First General Membership Meeting John Dillon, leader of the secession of several thousand members from tne left-wing Local 475, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, C.I.O., was nominated without opposition for the presi dency of the recently formed Local 770, United Automobile Workers of America, C.I.O., at the union's first general mem bership meeting held last night at the Academy or music Charles H. Kerrigan, regional director of the opened the session by giving the ap initiation oath into the union. They pledged to "observe the constitution and laws or, tne union and the Constitution of the United States." The membership was greeted Continued on Page Nab 3 Youths In Robbery of Ex-Cop's Home Three youths', one a juvenile, were under arrest today on charges of burglarizing the home of former Police Capt.

Daniel Prendergast, 60, of 32 Bay Ridge Parkway. The three were seized Jast night by Detectives -John O'Brien and James Ryan of the 15th Detective District, who arrived In a squad car as they left the house by-the front door. Neighbors had seen them force a side window to enter the house. Prendergast was out at the time. Anthony Cucurullo, 19, on probation for a burglary in 1946.

of 7913 13th and Frank Barone, 17, of 7714 13th will be arraigned today in Felony and Adolescent Courts, respectively. The juvenile was remanded to Youth House, Manhattan. Police 'said the boys had taken a flashlight, a pair of sunglasses and a compass. Prendergast, who retired In 1932, said he never leaves money in the house. Argentina May Break Solid Anti-Red Front Paris, Oct.

14 (U.B Argentina sources close to a now collapsed East-West mediation effort today cast doubt on the Blf Three's chances of getting unanimous Western support for Charges that Russia threatened world peace by blockading Berlin. Informants hinted that Juan A Bramuglia of Argentina, leader of the iil-starred media tion undertaking, might abstain in a final United Nations Secur ity Council vote, taking whatk the Argentines called the "third position" between Russia and the United States. Bramuglia. chairman of the council during its debate of the Berlin crisis, was described av critical of both sides the East and the West for the failure of his conciliation efforts. Hits Unyielding Attitude The Argentine delegate was reported to have blamed the unbending attitude of the Soviets and the Westerner, as well as their insistence on standing pat in the face of all arguments.

The prospect Of a rift in the Western ranks arose as Big Three delegates met to put the final polish on their plans for an early and complete N. condemnation of Russia as an Continned on Page Truman Is Urged To Tell More of 'Moscow Mission' Washington, Oct 11 U.R)-t President Truman is being urged by some advisers to give the public a fuller explanation of the reasons behind his short lived "mission-to-Moscow" plan, it was learned today. These advisers, it was under stood, feel Mr. Truman Is being criticized unfairly for considering the plan. They want him to devote some future speech to giving his side of the story In view of the sharp if indirect criticism heaped on him by Governor Dewey and other Republicans.

Mr. Truman has given these advisers no final answer, but in an attack on Mr. Dewey'a foreign policy record, last night, he made It clear that he would not hesitate to plunge world issues into the campaign if necessary "to correct distortions and keep the record straight." If Mr. Truman does devote a speech to the Moscow project he is expected to follow the lines of his statement of last Saturday. It was then that he confirmed he had considered sending Chief Justice Fred H.

Vinson to meet with Premier Stalin, but that he abandoned the Idea on the advice of Secretary of State George C. Marshall. It was not known whether Mr. Truman had planned to consult with Republican leaders had Mr. Marshall approved the project.

Mr. Marshall turned thumbs down only a few hours before the President was to have gone on the radio to announce his peace mission to the nation. WHERE TO FIND IT Paga 22 Po9 10 19 29 20 11.22 IJ-25 Books Moviaa Night Ufa Novel Obttuariaa Radio Raal Eatat Soosatr Spuria Brldq 29 9 29 25 18 Calsmdar Comiaa Crossword Dr. Bradr Editorial 18 Grin and Bmt It IS Haffarnan 1 8 Thaatars Thaaa Woman Tommy Holmac a.9 21 Horoaaop 22 liramy Murphr 25 Iut Betwaan Us 22 Tuckar II Llndlar 18 Marriag Usv 21 Uncla Play Want Ads Woman 29 tl.lt MarrHaworth U. N.

MEDIATOR Dr. Ralph Bunche, who took over as the United Nations' interirn mediator in Palestine offer the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, is shown in Paris as he prepares to report to the Security Council. War Not Worst Evil, British Cleric Asserts Archbishop of Colls It Preferable to 'Utter Degradation' London, Oct. 14 (U.R) The Archbishop of York called upon the Christian world today to fight the cold war to Its bitter end and, if that did not subdue Russia, to "recognize that war is not the worst of all evils." The Archbishop also recom mended that the international control plan submitted by the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, based on the American plan, be adopted at once as a "matter of extreme urgency." "Soon it may be too late," the Archbishop, Dr. C.

F. Garrett, said in his presidential address to tne convocation of xorK. "There are a sufficient num ber of nations ready to join the proposed authority to make a strong deterrent to any state which proposed to use the bomb. Russia could always join later if she so wished, but on Continued on Page 2 Mackenzie King Resting London. Oct.

14 (U.R) Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada, ill of a circulatory ailment, was reported "resting quietly at his London hotel today. Paris, Oct. 14 (U.R) More than 40,000 steel workers In Lorraine agreed today to return to their jobs, ending a three-week walk out and bringing a major break in the nationwide French strikes.

There also were signs the railroad walkout was softening. But no settlement of the 11-day strike of 350,000 coal miners was in sight. An agreement signed by management of the steel plants In northeast France, scene of bit ter rioting a week ago, granted the workers a 10 percent wage increase an dother benefits, in cluding free coal for their homes. They will return to work tomorrow. As the government cracked down on food speculation to lower prices and soften labor's demands, It was known to be quietly working on a possible settlement for the miners, In cluding wage increases and greater family benefits.

An estimated 50 black: market leaders dealing in meat, cheese, wine and groceries were Jailed Inter OM4T BE Aft soft aVIaka life laaal tortus Waiaav OaVMeifr take control of labor unVton and that leaders -boast party member should be aWe 9 atoveat least 1,000 pers pns support of the party As an example, he party members occupy or con trol-the majority of offices in the U. although the union membership "is probably 95 percent non-Communist," Quotes Curran on f. IT. Similarly, Budenz Quoted Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, that there were no. more than 500 Communists amonteunuui 70,000 members.

"Yet this com paratively small number of comrades at one time filled 107 of the Maritime Union's 150 na tional offices," Budenz said, The former party editor who renounced communism, re joined the Roman Catholic Church and became a university instructor on labor rela tions, said Communists begin their campaign to get control of a union by co-operating with current officials, "If a thankless office is unfilled, they volunteer for It; If a difficult or distasteful job Is undone, they do it," he wrote. "They run for office constantly, and are frequently successful because they build up reputa tions as hard vorkers for the union." Hey, Kidsl Looki Chicago, Oct. 14 (U.R) Chil dren may soon be urged to eat a new vitamin-fortified candy instead of their meat and po tatoes. The candy, developed by the U. S.

Department of Agrlcul ture In co-operation with the National Confectioners Associa tion was exhibited today at the National Chemical Exposition, not send out any more com muniques, in a statement assailing Dr Lefkowitz, Rose V. Russell, legislative representative of the union, aeciarea: "uviaenuy ur. Lefkowitz is anxious to prove to 'all possible witch-hunters that he can be depended upon to ferret out all progressive teachers. "Most of Dr. Lefkowitz' hysteria Is traceable to the fact that he quite rightly gave Mr.

Jaffe a satisfactory rating be cause his work is and has been constantly satisfactory and Dr. Lefkowitz has only just begun to realize that he must somehow explain the discrepancy between Mr. Jaffe's rating and his most serious charge." Jaffe was transferred from Tllden to Erasmus Hall High School oa Sept. 9, 1 total of those thus questioned and released at the police sta tion which is headquarters for the investigation has now passed the 150 mark. Many hundreds more have been ques tioned at their homes and on the streets and alleys in the vicinity of the murder scene.

Questioning like that con-i tinued today. Detectives turned their chief attention to check ing laundries, dry cleaning es tablishments and laundromats -where nearby residents wash their own clothes in the hope of locating a blood-stained shirt or other garment which might prove to be a clue to the killer. Similarly, garbage dumps were being fine-combed for a tell-tale blood-stained shirt and also for the knife with which the aged spinster was stabbed to death. The Classon Ave. station is a beehive of activity 24 hours a day as detectives bring in reports, oral and written, and im-mediately go out on new as signments.

No detectives' of the original hundreds assigned to the murder investigation have been relieved. Every crime detection technique known to the police is being employed, but no results have been turned up. An Incidental result has been that, with the tremendous num ber of police concentrated in area, an unusual quiet has descended on the Bedford-Stuyvesant district. Bars and grills were almost completely deserted last night and Ice cream stores were without the usual number of customers who make the stores their so cial centers during tne eve nings. No not even petty police offenses, were re ported.

Report Fantastic Profits in Steel Washington, Oct. 14 (U.W Steel scalpers are making "fantastic profits" at the expense of consumers who want automobiles and other scarce items, according to Congressional investigators. A House Public Works sub-j committee reported that 10 to 12 percent of the nation's steel production is being sold on the gray market at prices ranging up to 200 percent of the established industry price. Since the death of OPA such above-standard prices are not illegal. House Investigators said they have turned over their files to the Internal Revenue Bureau for a possible check against income tax returns of gray mar- ket operators A Message to th 1-Day Strike Hits Italy; French Crisis Eased PEOPLE of Jansen Probes Row Over Jaffe Transfer Christmaa mar still wem far away, but at this lima I ask you to assist us in the Poital Servira bjr mailing your parcels to your friends or relatires in the Armed Services overseas before November lSth (except Japan and other Pacific poinli, which should be mailed prior to November 1st).

Yon mnat alao consider mailing your parcela to foreign countries aa soon as possible. To addressees in Army or Fleet Post Offices you may send up to 70 pounds, but the dimensions must not exceed 100 inches in length and girth combined. Parcels should be endorsed "Christmas Parcel." Valuable articles should be retistered or Insured. No Rome, Oct. 14 (U.R) A nine-hour strike by most of the government's 1,250,000 workers paralyzed government offices today and cut teletype and long distance telephone service.

There was no violence, but reinforced police units were placed on guard at all public buildings. The police broke up street gatherings of more than three people. The strike began throughout the nation at 7 a.m. in support of demands for immediate wage Increases. It was scheduled to last until 4 p.m.

A government parliamentary committee already is studying the problem. The strike will halt all trains for two hours. If fully effec tive, it will be the first complete nationwide railway strike since 1921. Firemen, tax collectors, hos pital attaches, aqueduct work ers, gas and electric employes, traffic policemen, and public market maintenance men joined the walkout, maintain ing only a minimum of serv ices, Superintendent of Schools William Jansen today was in vestigating the dispute between the Teachers Union and Abra ham Lefkowitz, Samuel J. Til den High School, concerning the status of Louis Jaffe, teacher transferred after being ac cused of expounding pro-Soviet views and at the same time silenced both parties in the controversy.

On Tuesday Dr. Lefkowitz had accused the leftist C. I. O. union of using "the Hitler technique outright lying" In its defense of Jaffe.

The union was quick to respond by ac cusing the principal of "at tempting to ferret out progressive teachers." Mr. Jansen said a probe of the dispute was finder way and "the matter would be helped If the conflicting parties would, perishables may be sent, and intoxicants or inflammable matter are unmailable. Cigarettes or tobacco are prohibited to A.P.O.'s in Germany, France, Austria, Trieste and Italy, and Navy Nos. 913 and 963. To addressees in most foreign countries, the dimension! must not exceed 72 inches in length and girth combined.

Limits of weight vary according to the country, and inquiry at any post office station ma be made for this information. All parcels for overseas must be packed in boxes of metal, wood, solid fiberboard or strong, doublefaced corrugated fiber-board, and wrapped in heavy paper, if available. If, for any reason, yon mail your parrels after November 15th, use our Air Parcel Post Service. To Army or Fleet Pom Offices, the cost ia 80 cents per pound or fraction thereof. quire at any post office for rates to foreign countries.

If you will mall these parcela early, and prepare them properly, we in the Post Office will make every effort to see that all Christmas parcela are delivered on time and in good condition. J. Quigley,.