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oua mu umm 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE 109th YEAR No. 145 DAILY and SUNDAY cwrm nso. m. town imi. Fourth Bookie Convicted: fflnlfo) o) re mm BIG 3 HURLS SECOND TRIAL CONVICTS MAN Boro Cop's Curiosity Culls 5 Youths Riding in Hot Car i Hunt More Victims In Chicago Tragedy Ml rAfiP RETC CHALLENGE AT REDS IN REICH Demand for a Free Election Issued as Berlin Rally Nears HD.

mil liril- IMMMMMIMMMMMMM-MMIM Kb VII VHVL ULIJ Two Others Cleared For Lack of Evidence In College Inquiry After a two-day trial In Brooklyn Special Sessions Court, Vincent Gigante, 21, of 238 Thompson nhattan, was found guilty, of bookmak ing conspiracy the second bookaklng trial and conviction growing out 6f the Brooklyn rackets investieation within Berlin, May 26 (U.R) The United States, Britain and 4 France challenged Russia to night on the eve of a long her Ma alded "peace" demonstration here to co-operate in holding free elections to unify all Ger many. The reopening of the all-Ger many election issue was calcu lated to take some of the wind i week. Three men previously had been convicted in Kings County Court, out of the sails of the Commu 3flL nists who were massing young people in East Berlin for the touchiest demonstration here Gigante, who was continued in $10,000 ball for sentence June 13, was the only one of a trio of defendants In the Special since the tense days of the Rus sian blockade. i fctlt Staff photo END OF A CHASE Five youths captured by Patrolmon Salvatore Di Lorenzo os was driving to work are questioned at the Parkville. precinct.

Standing, left to right, the youths Frank Flynn, Robert Grippo, Harry Delvale, Gerald Cann and Wallace Gray; Patrolman James Cameron, who helped Di Lorenxp take them into Di Lorenzo, still in civilian clothes, holding money found on the quintet, and Assistant District Attorney George Dodd. Seated, left to right. Maurice Rosenthal. stenoaraDher. and sessions may wnonva swing of cotege-stuflent witnesses had iigntffied as the man with, WRpm they, had laid basketball Britain rolled armored cars into Potsdammer Platz, the Times Square of Berlin, to guard against any violence during the rally of perhaps 500,000 Communist youths.

Allied commanders have promised that any Communist attempt to Assistant District Attorney John Mtljer, holdiwg jthe gun one of 'the youths aj jegedly The' other' twoPeter -tiim- I bardi( 28, of 230 Sullivan and Max Spiegel, 57, of 13 cross into West Berlin will be Bank St, both Manhattan, were freed on the ground that the evidence was not sufficient repulsed. TRAGIC SCENE Priest administers last rites to victims of Chicago explosion ana fire beside flame-seared trolley car. Some 100 youths shouted In sults at West Berlin police to to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. day along the Soviet-American sector border. Surrender After Drawing Gun; Admit Robbery A Brooklyn patrolman riding to work this morning pursued five suspicious-looking youths Printer Cleared Spiegel, operator of the Her- Chief Racket Sleuth Fired by Helfand Crack Detective to Get Johnson's Post D.

k. Predicts Speedup of Inquiry By ED REID Against that backdrop, the three Western High Commis Only 1,100 Foot Cops sioners sent separate letters to mine Press at 188 W. 4th Manhattan, was put on trial because he had printed several Toll Reaches 33 In Trolley Crash With Tank Truck Gen. V. I.

Chuikov, Russian commander here, saying: thousand cards used in handling bets on college basketball Some Days: O' speeding in a convertible for a half-mile along Ocean Parkway "My government would be prepared for me to share in the games. Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 11 Police Commissioner Says Special Details Assistant District Attorney Julius Helfand, head of the Brooklyn rackets Inquiry, clenied today that his chief gambling investigator, James F. Johnson, a former Secret Service agent, had voluntarily resigned from the post. Chicago, May 26 (U.R) Rescue crews searched today for more victims of an explosion and fire The court composed of Justices Irving Ben Cooper, Nathan Perlman and Bernard A. Kozicke was not convinced that Spiegel necessarily Continued on Page 11 that killed 33 persons and "in Reduce Average of 2,000 Beat Patrolmen As few as 1,100 men can be on foot patrol fn the entire city "On the contrary, I fired him jured 50 others when a street ploughed into a big gasoline by giving him an opportunity on days when police have been'jsigned to guard payrolls, strike Ingrid's Proxy Rites Held Sin by Church tank truck.

to resign after we had a dis The search crews found evi duty or special details for mais gatherings, Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien admitted today. agreement about a serious mat dence that a hahv died in the explosion. ter about 5 o'clock last night," said Helfand. "The thing had been coming to a head for a Police and firemen dug Pisarra Placed In Sanilciriumr Kept Oner Wafch Special t(th oklyn Eagle Ossining'i New York Rome, May 26 (U.R) A high Roman Catholic Church official through the ruins of seven long time and I had intended to fire him officially on June said today that the proxy mar 15 anyway.

buildings ignited by the searing flames that trapped passengers aboard the crowded street-car. "Now that he has left the Sulphur Bomb Fells 35 at Frat House $150 Weekly Phone Rent Brings Rap Yonkers, May 26 A Brooklyn man accused of renting a residential telephone here to take bets from Brooklyn customers, and the phone subscriber who admitted getting $150 a week rental, were under arrest today. Yonkers police, engaged in a Patrolman Van Clav found a situation over here will im prove considerably and I ex baby's foot lying in the street rear the crash scene. It was riage of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini is "an added sin" in the eyes of the church. "In view of the notoriety of the case," the official said, "Miss Bergman and Rossellini pect that we will forge ahead with the investigation twice as City PoJioe Ir or Nicholas Pisarra, Who "ushed to a fast." McDonald Explain are not only living in sinful So far as the church is concerned, the official said, Miss Bergman still is married to Dr.

Peter Lindstrom, from whom she obtained a Mexican divorce, and Rossellini to Marcella de Marchis. Rossellini obtained an Austrian civil annulment of his marriage. Referring to repeated reports that Rossellini would apply to the Sacred Rota, the Vatican's supreme court for matrimonial problems, for recognition of his annulment so that he and Miss Bergman might have a church wedding, the official said: "The force of a holy sacrament instituted by Christ Himself is still binding on Rossellini. He married in the ManhattanhDs'i; just before he was hedu eo to testify in Rent, to the police laboratory. May Have Died in Fire Officials believed the baby's body may have been consumed in the fire that left four of the Continued on Page 2 Evanston, 111., May 26 (U.R) A sulphur bomb made ill 25 On a typical day, only 2,000 men are on foot patrol in the city.

The Brooklyn Eagle, in its continuing campaign to put cops back on the beat, has encountered hundreds of incidents where presence of a foot patrolman would probably have prevented crime hold-ups, muggings, even deaths. The lack" of foot patrolmen may be ascribed to the fact that the city actually has fewer patrolmen today than it had 18 years ago when the population was a million less, according to O'Brien. There are now members of the uniformed force as compared with 19,315 in 1932. One improvement noted since 1932, according to the commissioner, has been the decrease in the number of policemen di- District Attorney Miles Mc students and 10 firemen in a fraternity house today and rx- crackdown on bookmaking similar to that under way In Brooklyn, nabbed Roland Leggett, 33, of 275 McLean and the Brooklyn rackets investigation, today was in Greenmount-on-the-Hudson Sanitarium. He was transferred from Manhat Donald announced formally this afternoon that Johnson vacated his post after he disagreed with Helfand "on a matter of lice said it may have been set tan yesterday.

adultery in the eyes of the Catholic Church, but with the publicity attached to them they set a most pernicious example in civil society itself. "The possibility of a (Catholic) church wedding for Miss Bergman and Rossellini is well-nigh completely excluded. The church does not recognize their respective divorce and policy." It wag learned that Inspector off by gangsters. The bomb, a commercial-type fumigant, was discharged in the lobby of the Sigma Chi house on the Northwestern Pisarra is under the care 'here Romanian Staff Restricted by U. S.

charged him with maintaining a gambling establishment. Then they picked up Leonty Paves, 37, of 427 Herzel Brooklyn, who was said to have admitted renting the Leggett Mcuonaia said "to date we have no resignation from him." Asked specif lea Ily whether Johnson was fired or whether of Dr. Ralph Stephen Banay, psychiatrist, and that he is being kept under constant he resigned, McDonald said: "Draw your own conclusion. I Catholic rites and his civil annulment is not valid." watch. He is in a second-floor room at the swank sanitarium Washington, May 26 (U.R) Univerity campus as students lay sleeping in their rooms before dawn.

Overpowering clouds of yel- Contioued on Page 2 was Informed by the news- The United States today re stricted the movement of Ro Continued on Page Continued on Page 11 Continued on Page 11 BELMONT RESULTS manian diplomats in this coun try to a 35-mile radius of Wash ington. phone the day after he was arrested in Brooklyn a month ago on a bookie charge. Paves told police he used the phone exclusively to take bets from his regular Brooklyn clients and paid all the toll charges. He was continued in $1,000 bail for a hearing next Wednesday in Yonkers City Court. Leggett was released in $500 bail for a hearing not yet set.

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DAILY DOUBLE PAID $84.50. nia's restrictions on American diplomats in Bucharest. He The Churchman unnffirial added that this was part of the pattern of difficulties with Iron Curtain countries and that the United States may be headed for a full diplomatic break a below-normal 63 degrees. A FIRST SECOND THIRD publication of tho tfnisrnnal THIRD ACI 1 Lint. W.ll BIM KaM Huuili ChirtolMr 3 anew aif II.

Taf 4 DlatU aa OaaM 1 Pkn'l Pal WHERE TO FIND IT "Now that le Rev. William Howard Melis has, in effect, been chareed With nerinrv hv high near 70 was predicted. To i.nurcn, in its forthcoming issue dated June 1. will rail on morrow, it was said, the high will not go above the middle 11 BaUar VM with both Romania and Czech a Roman Cathqlic professor of Page Around Boro Bishop James P. De Wolfe of oslovakia.

Pag MarriagUe. 14 Mary Haworth 1 3 70s. 7 the Long Island Episcopal The United States served The only hopeful sign was a MovIm 8-9 Bridg Brown Bui. Outlook inurcn lor comment on rpppnt forecast that it would "brighten notice of the new restrictions in a note delivered to the Ro i-oranam university, Louis F. Budenz, whose conduct has been backed by Father McGin-Iey, president Jf that institution, we are wjuting to hear what the BishoDbf Lonir Island testimony of Louis F.

Budenz, up at times tomorrow after noon. The Weatherman today promised a gloomy start to the Decoration Day weekend as throngs of Brooklynites prepared to take to highways, trains, buses and planes to observe the holiday. For many it will be a four-day holiday, the exodus reaching lis peak tonight or tomorrow morning. The W. M.

was not co-operative, however, as forecast cool weather and occasional showers today and tomorrow. The 1 p.m. reading today was 10 9 5 25 4 10 10 Calendar Comic CroMWord iormer communist converted to the Catholic faith and now a Fordham Universitv nrnfoasnr Night Lit Nov) ObituariM Sodtty Sports Thatr 9 11 13-14 16-19 8.9 29 The National Safety Council estimated that 30,000,000 auto Dr. James De Wilfe, has to say Dr. Bradr Editorial that the Rev.

William Unwarri mobiles would be on the high manian Foreign Office in Bucharest. It said that henceforth no. Romanian diplomat in the United States will be allowed to go more than 35 miles from the District of Columbia boundaries without special permission from the State concerning this 6candalous attack on a Driest) of his diocese Melish, former associate reotnr Grin and Bwar It 10 PRE-DECORATION DAY AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALS Complete Listings on Pages 20-21 IN TODAY'S BROOKLYN EAGLE ThM Womn Of Hel.V Trinitv tfnisrnnal Hfirnan. 10 Hollywood 9 to whom he has; taken an oath to be a father ia God. ways during the holiday and that 290 persons will be killed in automobile crashes "unless motorist meet the holiday Tommy Holme IS Tuokr 10 Want Ad 20-24 Women 13,14 "Th OTrtent tn -whlrh Bn.

HoRMOOp 14 Ilmrny Murphr 19 lust BatwMB IS unurcn in Brooklyn, is a member of the Communist party. The text of the editorial headed: "What Do You Say. Bishop?" as rplpaeeH h- Tir ehln1 hazards with extra caution and denz lied on trn witness stand in the Draper case, being tried courtesy." LEAOIMO ALL N. T. EVENING PAFEM EAOLE WANT AM ratt tw Witar Cailara.

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