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I I tiff i Lru Booki King Wanna Snarl Belt Parkway' With Two Cars Snailing at Legal 35 MPH Kefauver' Beaten In Florida-Taft Sweeps Ohio Poll Off List Keeis Brass Of Big 'ft' STASSEN CRUSHED AS 'MR. GOP' WINS ENTIRE DELEGATION '5 1r frrri'' i XL ill i.f.f.M i a GEORGIA SENATOR'S MARGIN FALLS FAR SHORT OF 2-T0-1 GOAL Miami, May 7 (UP) Senator Richard B. Russell 'handed Senator Estes Ke-fauver his first primary de Columbus, Ohio, May 7 (UP) Senator Robert A Taft clinched all 56 of his home State's Presidential delegates today and pulled ahead of Gen. Dwight D. feat today in Florida's Pres By RICHARD J.

ROTH Harry Grois burst into his long-awaited song of corruption today and startled the departmental trial of five cops linked to his bookie empire with the revelation that he had an "arrangement" with former Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien. Unhesitating and seemingly relieved to unburden his tale of graft, the dapper Gross smiled as he told Assistant Corporation Counsel Victor Herwitz, prosecuting the trial in Borough Hall "I had an arrangement with Inspector O'-Brien, who later became Police Commissioner." Eisenhower in the overall race for delegates to the idential popularity contest. But Ketauver apparently had Spiked Russell's chance to win Republican National Con vention. the decisive victory his backers Taft swamped Harold said he needed to make a strong bid for support outside the sen, his only G.

O. P. opponent South. in yesterday's Ohio primary. The former Minnesota Governor Russell didn't take a clear-rut lead in the see-saw battle had won nine delegates in an Until earfy today.

invasion of Senator Taft's hcne State in the 1948 Ohio Presl 7 -i- The latest count, with 1,432 of the State's 1,683 precincts dential primary, but he never reported, gave Russell a 274, S99 to 248,191 lead over the Jf came close In yesterday's balloting that attracted an estimated 1,500,000 voters. Kefauver Victor crime buster. If Ex-Jockey Runs Two political unknowns, Senator Estes Kefauver of Charles Compton, ex-jockey, Tennessee, bucking the organ and Carroll Shaw, television ization-supported slate of favor repairman, received only a ite son Robert J. Bulkley for 31 'X token vote. Millionaire Dan McCarty made Democratic convention votes out of a possible 54, won 23 gallant bid to win the Gov votes and was leading for four The "arrangement" with O'Brien was the same as that established at each of his horse parlors, which blanketed Brooklyn and extended over into Manhattan, Gross said.

This was the payoff: $200 a month, distributed among the lower ranking cops, for each parlor. $25 to $50 a month for the lieutenants in the area. $50 to $100 a month for the inspectors. Calmly Reels Off Xames Gross was calm and relaxed as he broke his curtain of silence which had wrecked the conspiracy trial of the five cops and 13 of their fellow offiers last Fall and their first departmental trial on departmental charges later. Speaking softly, with his ernorship without a runoff.

others. Bulkley, former U. Returns from 1,367 precincts Senator from Cleveland, had i Kal tM Photo by Kruh 'SPEED LAW TIES UP TRAFFIC On Gowanus Parkway two drivers doing legaJ limit of 35 miles on hour lead procession of angry, impatient would-be speeders. Road ahead was empty, indicating no one there was staying under limit. gave him 284,302 votes to 190, clinched 27 votes, the majority 361 for oil man Brailey Odham, by the fact that many of his Mccarty nearest opponent.

candidates were unopposed. With 8,644 of 10,160 pre. cincto reporting, Taft's State Florida's senior U. S. Senator Spessard Holland had little trou- Contlnned oa Page 1 Drivers Get Screaming Mad As Scribes Make Traffic Test By VIC TIMOXER and KKX JOHNSTON' yff REDS CAN BOMB U.S.

IN 2 YEARS Continued on Page 2 POLICE GUARD NEW FIGURES IN SCHUSTER CASE By HAROLD PHELAX and Mil) FHIGAM) Additional police have been Dear Boss: A couple of your reporters did a mean nasty thing. They fouled up traffic on the Belt Parkway and got a -VANDENBERG lot of firivers screaming mad. The best that can be said for your reporters is they didn't Washington, May 7 (U.R) break the speed law. But they Gen. Hoyt S.

Vandenberg said Truce Secrecy Lifted; Captives Still the Snag i Airfields and Russia Issues Settled, But Prisoner Problem Holds Up 'Package' Panmunjom, Korea, May 7 (U.R United Nations and Com almost got their noses pushed the speed limit on the Belt Parkway is 35 miles an hour. in because they didn't. today that within two years Russia "will possess the means Nobody, but nobody, likes this CAN'T CONTACT O'BRIEN At the Copperweld Steel Company, 177 Liberty Manhattan, where former Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien is now employed, a secretary said Mr. O'Brien was out for the day and could not be Immediately reached for comment.

Iiele Stall Photo by Lambert Harry Gross "Rings sweetly!" They kept a lot of other of launching against this coun assigned to guard the homes of principals involved in the Arnold Schuster murder, i was learned today, and other guards have been ordered to protect fellows from breaking the law, maybe even saved them from try a long-range atomic attack in force." law. And practically nobody obeys it. The two reporter got in their cars and went riding on the parkway, doing 35 miles, an getting tickeU. But did they get any thanks? persons whose Identities have "Unless effectively opposed munist negotiators tentatively settled two of their three truce deadlocks today, but Red for forcible repatriation of not yet been revealed. and countered, this attack could You should have heard what hour, just as you told them and neutralize our own ability to they got.

On second thought, 6A00O war prisoners still blocked a Korean armistice just as the signs say. The new police alert in the three-month-old unsolved shooting of the man who fingered retaliate and at the same time Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway One reporter tried to pass could seriously cripple certain key centers of industrial pro the other, only with both doing maybe you should have got it. A couple of irate fellow citizens chased them, ran them up against the curb, cursed, disputed issues holding up an armistice.

promptly informed the Reds In a virtual ultimatum that there can be no cease-fire in Willie Sutton was believed to be prompted by the discovery of one or more "good" witnesses ductivity upon which we de pend for ultimate victory in vilified and abused them, and 35, he didn't pass him very quickly. This was on the two-lane stretch, the part called Gowanus Parkway. In almost no time, in fact in who actually could clinch the Red negotiators offered to withdraw their nomination of Russia to the neutral truce in war," the Air Chief of Staff Korea unless they drop their case against the murderer. said. threatened to punch their faces off.

All this, you understand, be spection commission, and the Vandenberg's statement was Insistence on the forcible re turn of prisoners who have re pounced Communism. hands folded on his lap, he be-i gan reeling off name after name1 of policemen, of high and low; rank, to whom he claimed he; regularly paid bribes to operate hit far-flung gambling He showed an amazing iowl-edge of the and geographical setup of the Police Department. O'Brien, a firm friend and ap-( point ee of ex-Mayor was not the only inspector he' paid off, Gross told 3d Deputy Police Commissioner James A. Continued on Page 17, Still operating under strictest secrecy, police and the District Attorney's office refused to Allies offered to drop their de cause of a silly law that says Continued on Page 17 read to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee by Gen. Nathan mand tor a ban on military airfield construction during an comment on the "new" wit F.

Twining, Air Force vice nesses. However, it was learned Lifting of the secrecy agreement that has cloaked meetings of the truce teams during the i past week disclosed that the chief of staff. Vandenberg. who was to have given the testi- JOE ADONIS FAILS that last week top police brass armistice. But both offers were contin- Continued on Page 2 frantically phoned the officials UN and Reds were in agree Continned on Page 2 of a New York newspaper to ment on two of the last three TO WIN A PAROLE Continued on Page 17 DODGERS BACK AT THE TOP Adonis, who pleaded no de HILL SECTION I L.I.R.R.

Trains Up to 20 Minutes Late in A.M. Rush Trenton, May 7 The New! Jersey Parole Board today unanimously denied a parole to fense a year ago to chargas of conspiracy concerning book- Flock Going After Cleanup With Reds Joe Adonis who is serving a making, pool selling and keeping a gambling resort, becomes I 1 J. 1 two-to-three-year prison term in Pyromaniac Is Sought In 6 Tenement Fires Several thousand Long Island eligible for parole consideration State prison for gambling commuters reached the bush Ave. station np to 20 min By HAROLD C. BURR William P.

O'Brien meVif.s?" the a three-game series with Phillies in Flatbush. The board also announced that because of the illness of uiesiaie ini morning, ana this month, after serving one-third of his sentence. A rehearing will be granted at the expiration of his minimum sentence. Brooklyn Eaglt Staff Writer which a fire was set by a tenant who was returning home. After being bid a cheery hello by the I Long Island Rail Road man explained that "equip.

Cincinnati, May 7 Having Salvatore Moretti, whose brother was murdered last Fall, Sal- Chris Van Cuyk will try to put a fitting finish to the trip. The towering southpaw has ment trouble" on the 7:10 out of Freeport was responsible. cooled off the red-hot Redg at Crosley Field last night and moved back where they belong vatore's eligibility for parole from a similar term will be con quite a checkered career, pitch ing good and bad baseball in his sidered on May 28. in the first place again while three starts. Frank Hiller, arsonist, the tenant discovered the fire as he entered the building.

The suspect was described as a Negro of medium build and about 30. the Giants were taking it on the former Yankee, will go to the chin from the Cardinals in St. Louis, the Dodgers are going hill for the Reds In an attempt to get an even break for Manager Luke Sewell's wonder Robbed for Fourth Time, 'Good Thing, Ho Says Rochester, May 7 (U.R) For Fire'marshals and police were combing the Hill section today for a "weekend pyromaniac" who set six fires in heavily populated tenements during the early hours last Saturday and Sunday. The fires were discovered in cellars, in first-floor hallways and in upper stories of the crowded buildings. No one was injured, but many persons were routed into I he night as firemen doused the flames.

Chief Kite Marshal Martin Scott revealed that investigators had a good description of the pyromaniac, who was seen While declining to cite spe after a clean sweep of the bob The crippled train had left Babylon at 6:25 a.m. and soon I developed a hot bearing on a motor. At Freeport the dls-( abled car was shunted to a aid-J inK and the rest of the train I continued on Its way 20 min- ntes late. Ten other trains following also were delayed from four to 19 minutes. BULLETIN A holdup man today attempted an armed ntickup of a candy store at 318 Troy Ave.

and he slugged the store owner with a gun butt, but fled when the proprietor began to yell. The bandit, was captured after a block-long chase hy two detectives who happened to be on team. WHERE TO FIND IT Paq Paq Around Boro 25 Moviot 14, IS Bndqe 31 Nil Lire IS i Brown 16 Obituarist 17 Calendar 25 Pattern 20 Camera Clubi 25 Radio 21 Comics 31 Real Estat 31 jCrnsswoid 31 Society 20 IDr. Brady 21 Sport 22-24 iTditorial 16 Television 21 Gl News 25 Theaters 14, 15 'Ctranms 16 Thene Women 31 jGnnSRearlt 16 Tommy Holmes 22 I Harbor Lights 31 Tucker 16 rWoncope 31 Uncle Ray 31 'limmy Murphy Want Ad 26 30 i'ust Pe'ween Us 20 Women 13-20 Mary Hcrworth 19 1 .4 The Reds were the stubborn tail series tonight. Last night's triumph assures Brooklyn's return to Ebbets Field with a winning per the fourth time in four years George Vesel's diner was burglarized while slept a few feet away in a reconverted meat team the Dodgers were told to expect.

They capitalized on centage in the West. They have couple of breaks that sent last cific addresses of the fires, Scott said that they were discovered in the general area bounded by Fulton St. Vander-bilt Atlantic Ave. and Classon Ave. Three of the bla7.es were set between 1 and 5 a.m.

Saturday. The other three were discovered between 1 and 3 a.m. Sunday. cooler. won five out of eight on for "It's a good thing, too," he night's game into extra innings, and they can be expected to eign field with one left to play.

explained. "I've got heart trou radio ear patrol In the area. He WANT A JOB IN BROOKLYN? 1 Mt af 10 BrMklra Enplarntat OnwrtuutlM ApMr in th I lAGU WANT AM After tonight they will be Idle fight It out to the final putout ble. I don't want hear bur- was Identified as Carl George, until Saturday, when they openi in the game this evening. lleavlng one of the buildings in glare.".