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Gunmen Invade Duker Heights fo) Shoot at Jl U.S. Says ygh Powdir Tirw Dp Feet in Warning-Flee With $459 By I. KAUFMAN A couple of masked bandits early today invaded It Won'tPORT-WIDE 'God lTotd rMe toSporeWif Slayer of 3 Children Says the Dyker Heights home of wealthy importer Habib Merhige, 40, and for an hour kept the household in a reign of terror while they searched for money and jewelry that wasn't there. They left, finally, with $459 which was turned over to them but which thev Take Reds'No'on A-Plan as Final THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, HYMN-SINGING KILLER swung a crowbar on his five injuring two. TURNS ON HOT-WATER I I I 111 A ii i i I If Washington, Dec.

10 (U.P.) The White House laid today the United States is "very hopeful" that Russia will accept President Eisenhower's atomic proposal "for what it is a serious and feasible first step toward atomic oeace." 1953 nun mtm Home United Frew Telephoto Frank Holt shows how he children, killing three and FAUCET AND BOOM of blazing brands tumbling into her second-floor flat. Caught in their beds by the explosion, Mrs. Alvino's daugh ter, Louise, 18, and son, Vin-: cent, 16, were burned when the flaming wreckage ignited bed clothes. They were taken to Coney Island Hospital with their mother. 'Oh, My Baby Mrs.

Alvino, her clothing smoldering, was rescued by a iv 1 The White House expressed the same belief that United Nations diplomats had voiced: First critical and key U. S. Congressmen Soviet reaction to Mr. Eisen hower's Tuesday speech does not necessarily represent the U. S.

S. final decision. r- I 1 I Typical of Soviet comments so far was Moscow Radio's assertion that "Eisenhower threatened' atomic war and made i eulogy of this policy of force." In a formal statement read by Presidential pres secre tary James C. Hagerty, the White House said "we do not believe that immediate reactions to President Eisenhower' atomic proposal necessarily represent the considered decision of the Soviet government." Tha White House spoke out as U. S.

atomic officials and key Congressmen proceeded with plans for sharing the peaceful fruits of atomic energy Woman's animal's head and knocked it out. Carole pleaded to let her take the dog into another' room, and they let her. At this point Merhige and his wife arrived home and were ordered into the living room. There all four were lined up against a wall, and the masked man with the gun, facing them, delivered a grim lecture. Pointing the gun, he said he wanted jewelry and he wanted money and no monkey business.

Mrs. Merhige said there wasn't any, she kept no jew elry in the house and they rarely had any large amounts of money, but he could hav anything. "If you think this Js a toy and I can't use It," the gunman warned, "watch!" He fired once into the floor, not far front her feet. Mr. Merhige said there was some money, rents that had been recently collected, and he told him where it was.

"Go and get it," the man or dered his pal, who found the rent receipts, about $450. The gunman wanted more. He snatched a purse from Carole, emptied it of $9. You shouldn't let a child have that much money," he snarled. "I don't know." the trunman went on, half talking to hln self.

"What'll we do with them? Shoot 'em now would be good idea. On the Other hand "Don't be foolish, son," Mrs. Merhige recalled later that she argued. "What good would that do you? Take whatever you want, but dont be foolish." At one point the nervous gun man upset a valuable lamp. After an hour, the pair left, and Fort Hamilton police were notified.

SUNSET PARK Newborn Baby Found Abandoned On Sidewalk A newly born baby boy was found wrapped in a bed sheet on the sidewalk by a restaurant worker on his way home from work early today. Carl Hansen, 44, of 4205 7th heard a baby's cry. inves tigated, and found the infant lying against the Sunset Park fence on 7th Ave. near 41st St. The baby was in a cardboard box, wrapped in a brown paper bag and the bed sheets.

Hansen took the baby to hi? home where his wife cared lot-it while he called police at tho 4th Ave. Precinct. The babv was taken to Kirgs County Hospital where condition was described as fair. INSIDE The Eagle Waller Rolh.child. Chi.f.

Hon-ord at Federation Dinner Page IS Sutherland Cites "United Action" in Grady School Victory Page with or without Soviet par ticwation. These plans were being gradually shaped even before the President addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. The White House statement matle it clear that Mr. Eisenhower's plan has a long way to go before it is translated into a detailed protect for interna tional co-operation to develop atomic energy's peacetime, pos sibilities. "After all," the White House said, 'the President always recognized that his suggestion would require thoughtful study." "Therefore," it added, "any; Continued on Page 2 and strict international control." Moscow Radio echoed him in even stronger vein, charging that Mr.

Eisenhower had "threatened atomic war." See Ike Major Victory Their concerted action left no doubt that both spoke on orders directly from the Kremlin. Nevertheless, the UN diplomats said Mr. Eisenhower had scored a major victory. They said his plan directing international energies, including Russia's, toward develop- Continued on Page 2 Russians' Rebuff To Ike Stuns UN 4 Hurt in Bath Beach Building As Blast Sets 0ff2-Alarm Fire HIRING RULE SEEN GOAL Moves to Organize Waterfront Bosses, Possibly in U.M.W. CtLBJfJIVEi By HAROLD PHELAN And RICHARD J.

ROTH Anthony Anastasio moving to extend his power on the waterfront by or eanizine a new union for hiring bosses and pier su oerintendents who have bgen orphaned from other dock unions by the -new waterfront law, the Brook lyn Eagle learned today. If he is successful, Anas tasio could conceivably con trol the hiring of regular dock gangs throughout the port, Unlike extra workers, mem bers of such gangs are not required to report for work at the employment centers now operated by the hi -state Waterfront Commission. Anastasio's lawyer, Joseph J. Petito, said the new union would be chartered by a "par ent body" but declined to iden-! tify the group. There were strong indications, however, that it would be the United Mine Workers.

The Mine Workers "District 50" is a catch-all union open to workers from trades other than mining. Inferences were drawn that it would now include dock laborers when John L. Lewis, president of the U. M. met in the Hotel Barclay, Manhat tan, last week with Joseph P.

Ryan, president emeritus of the old International Longshoremen's Association. The new organization will be known as the International Brotherhood of Pier Superintendents and Hiring Foremen of the Port of New York. Petito, who is also counsel for Anastasio's Longshore-! men's, Checkers and Clerks Social Club, confirmed that the Continued on Page 10 leaflets on the startled audience below. Another Tossed Out Another agitator shouted sim ilar protest from the opposite side of the hall and began toss' ing leaflets from' the gallery. He also was seized by members of the audience and was thrust outside where a small group of street demonstrators were assembled.

The two were arrested. Marshall had just been lauded in the presentation speech as an humanitarian with "a clear and passionate understanding that the only objective to be obtained by war is to make another war impossible." He was selected by the Nobel committee as the man who did most In 1953 to promote brotherhood among nations, Th leaflets attacked both! Continued cm Page Killed to 'Clear Way to Heaven Vet Asserts Steubenville, Ohio, Dec! 10 (UP) A young father who beat three of his five children to death with a crowbar and kicked them unmercifully said today he spared his wife because 'God told me to." The two surviving children were critically beaten at the same time, turning the home of Frank Holt, 34, "into a slaughterhouse." Hospital authorities said they had almost no chance to live. Holt was arrested in the yard of his home singing hymns. He was held on an open charge pending a mental examination. The young veteran told police he "had to kill" his children to "clear my way to Heaven." He added he had "never been to church in my life." "The Devil tormented me for 84 years," he was quoted as saying.

"Now I'm through with him." The dead children were San Continued on Page 23 Ike Fires 2 Dems, Picks New 3-Man War Claims Unit Washington, Dec. 10 U.f) President Eisenhower today fired the two remaining Demo cratic members of the War Claims Commission after they refused to resien from their jobs. He named a new three-man commission all Republicans to replace the two dismissed Democrats and Chairman Daniel F. Cleary, also a Demo crat, who died recently. Mr.

Eisenhower notified Mrs. Georgia L. Lusk and Myron Wiener that they are being re moved from office as of tomorrow. Both had refused to sub mit their resignations as re quested last August. The President named as new commissioners: airs, jreari tarter race, former member of the Ken tucky Republican State Cen ti-al Committee, of Burkes, vllle, Ky.

Whitney Gillilland, 49, of Glenwood, Iowa, assistant to Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson. Raymond T. Armbruster, 47, New York lawyer and World War II Air Force officer. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty was asked why Eisenhower asked for the resignations.

Hagerty replied the President asked them to resign and removed them from office after they refused to quit. The War Claims Commis sion, set up in 1949, acts upon claims of American citizens who were held prisoner or forced into hiding by the Japanese during World War II. Under present law, th conv amission eHRire March 31, 1955. didn consider enough victims of the bandits' ter ror tactics, in addition to Merhige himself, were: His wife, Georgette, 35; daughter, Carole, 15, and his mother, Helen 70. The importer a top execu tive of a linen importing firm and Mrs.

Merhige were away visiting friends and young Carole, a Berkeley School student, had gone to bed, shortly after midnight, when the door bell rang at the Merhige home at 8314 11th Ave. Carole's grandmother opened the door and found herself facing two youths in black leather jackets with handkerchiefs- over their mouths one of them with long-barreled pistol in hand. "Get away from here!" she shouted, striking out at them and trying to shut the door against them. They pushed her aside, al though she kept up the futile fight, forced their way in and went into the large liv ing room. "Hit down.

We don't want to hurt you," they told her. Carole, hearing the uproar, got out of bed and came down accompanied by a large watch dog. The older of the two masked men, apparently about 20, smashed his gun on the passerby, Nicholas Siminara 36, of 47 Bay 26th St, Driving to work as foreman in a slipper factory, Siminara heard the explosion and saw Mrs. Alvino stumble in a daze to the kitchen window. lie Jumped from his car and ran toward the building.

Mrs. Alvino leaped from the window, on the second floor, into his arms. Police said it Continued on Page 23 with the information required from all future appointees and all employes promoted or transferred into the depart ments. The lint of 12 questions asks the employe to tell, among other things, his ad' dress for the past 20 years, whether he has ever used an alias, whether he ever signed a petition backing a Communist candidate for political of fice, and whether he has ever been a member of the Com' munist party or any other subversive group. FAIR AND COOLER DUE TONIGHT, TOMORROW Fair and cooler was the pre diction for this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow, in con trast to this morning's wet, windy and warm weather.

Temperatures were dropping from a high near 60 early in the day to a more seasonal 45 or so this afternoon. It will be! United Nations, N. Dec. 10 (U.R) The Russians curtly rejected President Eisenhower's "Christmas present" offer of peaceful development of the atom todaj but amazed and concerned United Nations diplomats hoped it did not represent the Kremlin's final itand. -Russian delegate Andrei Vishinsky cast a pall over the' closing moments of the UN General Assembly Wednesday when he said the President's plan could not be considered without the unconditional prohibition of the atomic weapon 212,000 to Get City Loyalty Quiz Oslo Reds Insult Marshall As He Receives Nobel Prize By LESLIE HANSCOM A shower of flaming debris injured three persons today when a Bath Beach mother turned on the hot water in the kitchen sink and thereby set off an explosion and two-alarm fire.

Mrs. Jenny Alvino, 43, of 1458 86th said she turned the spigot and instantly heard a loud blast that crumbled the kitchen walls and sent a shower Abortions Probe To Start Monday A grand jury Investigation into criminal abortions in the borough will start next Monday, District Attorney Miles F. McDonald announced today. First witness will be Dr. Louis M.

Hellman, director of obstetrics at the State University Medical Centerwho told a public meeting at St. Ann's Episcopal Church, 132 Clinton Tuesday night, that the loss of life from abortions in Brooklyn is "great." He added that half the 1,200 to 1,500 such op erations a year at Kings County Hospital alone are "induced." Dr. Hellman will be asked, among other things, why only 30 such cases were reported to the Health Department and police since Jan, 1. Charles Town Results FIRST RACE $1,300: etaimiac: two- tbout four an4 otl-hl furionw. LuJy Croat (Sarontino) A.

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uxm, An el. Ics Oum. naMaHn (M m. Otl, onstration staged by the Reds.dred By WENDELL HANMER All of the city's 212,000 Civil Service employes eventually will have to answer loyalty questionnaires it was indicated today with the announcement that sample questions already had been sent to 18 city department heads. Frank A.

Schaefer, secretary of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, said his agency had sent the quiz sheets only to departments which the State had named "security agencies" under the Security Risk Law of 1951. Most of these departments had received the designation, he said, with the approval or at the request of their administrator. He added, however, that the Board of Higher Education and the Traffic Department had notified the city that they did not believe they fit into the security category. Schaefer said the sample questionnaires were Intended to acquaint department heads Oslo 10 (U.R) Cominu- nist agitators today staged a rowdy anti-American demonstration inside Oslo's University Hall at the moment Gen. George C.

Marshall was pre-I sented with the Nobel Peace Prize. Agitators showered the audience with leaflets tossed from balconies of the large hall and shouted anti-Marshall and anti-American slogans. The demonstration began at the moment General Marshall arose from his seat to accept the coveted award. King Haakon Present King Haakon VI and Crown rince Olav witnessed the dem- Today's Chuckle Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize mistake when you make It ogam.

aa tell Ul pictic waa jjicatiiLcu with the prize in recognition of his statesmanship in fathering the post-war Marshall Plan for rehabilitating war-torn European nations. Marshall stood throughout the demonstration, apparently undisturbed. He received a thunderous ovation when he bowed and accepted the award after order had been restored. As Chairman Gunnar Jahn said: "On behalf of the Norwegian committee I have the honor to voice from the rear gallery of the hall interrupted with the shout: "No. No! This is no action of peace." Persons standing near the person who shouted grabbed him and dragged him out of the hall.

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