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WOU 2 1953 fl 1 A Emm fir Complete WEATHER Fair and cool tonight and tomorrow. A Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Newspaper Champion of It Community (Coprtf M. ItU. The BrooUrn tul Ins.) 113th YEAR No. 299 DAILY and SUNDAY BROOKLYN 1, N.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1953 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE -Sound rvtj r. 0. CUu MiU lutut Threatens to Lock Up Milk Negotiators 1 Mm ltqu A 2 BORO COPS FIGHT IT OUT WITH THUGS Gjves Principals 'Several Hours' To Reach Accord Yegg Slain in Duel on Dark 19th Floo U.S., Soviet Gird For Battle in UN Over Atrocities Lodge Prepares to Debate New Revelations of Korea Butchery Pal Seized After Battle, Hand-to-Hand In a pitch-dark office 19 Ufones above Broadway in mid Manhattan, two Brooklyn policemen early United Nations, Oct. 30 (UP) United States officials today began drafting an official request for debate on Communist atrocities in Korea before the United Nations General Assembly. today fought a savage By IRVING COHEN Negotiators in the collapsed milk talks were brusquely told by Mayor Impellitteri today that, if no pact is reached today, he will "keep them locked up at City Hall with the aid of my Police Department until agreement is reached." The Mayor's ultimatum came after representatives of both sides in the dispute asked for an extension of "several hours" in the city executive's invitation to come to City Hall.

That invitation was forthcoming after the union walked out of the contract parley at 2 a.m. in the Roosevelt Hotel. "There have been too many delays," the aroused Mayor stated. "I will not tolerate anv battle with a pair of safe crackers trapped while at It was expected to be ready work on a "job." in final form for consideration next week by the steering committee of the General Assembly. 14 The two main antagonists on the issue introduced Monday by Dr.

Charles W. Mayo were listed to speak shortly after the main political committee 4 The cops fired four times at black shadows in the dark. The burglars swung Committee approval expected next" Monday would send the matter before the full assembly. The atrocity debate request met. New Evidence Expected sledgehammers and crow-bars.

Then police and bur further delay. sabotage" as fire broke out In If both sides do not come a truck garage as his company Mayo, an American delegate to the UN, produced documents to show that fliers were sub to an agreement in several hours, I will keep them locked up at City Hail with the aid of glars grappled and when, in a few minutes, the battle was over and the lights were was being prepared as tue United States and Russia geared for a final exchange today on the earlier American ritarge that the Oomtnosfists a torture mill to extract phony gk'fm-flrar confessions from rajttered American fliers. my 3 Police Department until an agreement is reached." jected to mental and physical tortures, to Indues themHo say the United States engaged -in germ warfare, ife was expect- turned on, one of the safe prepared to hand out 50,000 quarts of milk to a screaming, shoving mob. Joseph Vice president of Gold Medal Farms at 1157 E. 156th made the charge when the blaze damaged the Tcneke'rs'May.

mortalb It was revealed that the bar assed negotiators, weary from lack of sleep, had shifted the wounded and his confeder Contlnned on Pag 1 company garage. More than ate was a prisoner. One policeman had a scratch on the 500 persons on line watched parleys today to the Hotel Commodore. In the Bronx, meanwhile, a milk company official charged firemen fight the fire. cheek.

Sale of milk, however, pro The battle was fought in the 1 3 ceeded after the blaze was put out. 24-story office building at 1384 Outlook Confused On PW Quizzing EAST NEW YORK Broadway, between 37th and Damage was estimated at $50,000. 38th Sts. There, at 4 a.m., a night watchman on his rounds Robert Abelow, attorney for the dairy companies, said that Panmunjom, Oct. 30 (U.R) the union representatives left the meeting in the Hotel Roosevelt after telling the compa- Charles Liggins, 57, of 2816 8th Manhattan, heard voices on the 19th floor, In the office of Select-Teens Sportswear, supposed to be closed for the night.

He got to the telephone, called 19 Milk Strikers Robbed of $1,000 Two gunmen stuck up 19 milk strikers and a company United Nations, Chinese Communist and North Korean officers who supervise the truce. It has not met since Oct. 20. The Communists may want to discuss either the question The questioning of anti-Red war prisoners by Qommunlst brainwashers may be resumed the W. 30th St.

precinct, and in a few minutes Patrolmen Rob ing of anti-Red prisoners or a ert Hayes, 30, of 8220 Fort tomorrow or there may be a new blowup in the increasingly explosive situation. Lt, Gen. K. S. Thiraayja, In Neutral Nations Repatriation Hamilton Parkway, and George forman last night as they were playing cards in a locker room at the Ferndale Farms Milk Commission investigation of DeMott, 33, of 122 69th ar dian chairman of the Neutral the murder of four prisoners HOW TO GET MILK Syracuse, Oct, 30 (U.R) An i tified businessman from milkless New York boarded a plane yesterday with six quarts of the precious stuff under his arm.

"My wife told me not to come home unless I bring milk," he said. Company, 219 Liberty Ave. Nations Repatriation Commis rived on the run. Both are ex-Air Force sergeants, both have received commendations for ilia Photo by Lambert BATTLERS IN THE DARK Patrolmen George DeMott of 122 69th left, and Robert Hayes of 8220 Fort Hamilton Parkway, at W. 30th Sr.

station, Manhattan, preparing to go home after pitched battle in dark with two safecrackers which ended with one of the thugs dead, the other a prisoner. Note patch on DeMort's cheek, covering up only battle injury to police, and knocked-off safe tumblers in police hands. who apparently changed their minds and Jet it be known that They lined their victims upl they wanted to go home. burglar arrests. sion, said the 7300 anti-Red North Korean prisoners had agreed to face Communist Questioners who will try to against a -wall and robbed them of $1,000.

The questioning of anti-Red North Korean and Chinese Tne striKers naa been on prisoners has been suspended HURLED FROM CAR NEAR GOWANUS CANAL picket duty and had come inside the plant to escape the get them to go home. But he added that the North Koreans had made certain de for 13 days because the Ko reans refused to face the Com Vp on the 19th floor they heard the sound of a sledge hammer pounding in the Select-Teens office. With guns drawn, they stood outside the glass office door and Hayes shouted: "Come out, with your hands up!" The hammer sounds stopped rain. They were ready to go mands about procedure, that munist brainwashers and the back to work in the event of Ride Victim's Body Found Communists refused to ques a strike settlement. tion Chinese prisoners first.

Police believe it was an "in For the moment the whole niea that they saw "no further point in continuing current sessions." "No further meetings have been scheduled," Abelow said. He reported that the breakdown came on the wage issue. He said that the deadlock developed with the industry offering a package proposal totaling side" job, as one of the bandits was masked. the commission had rejected them and that he could not be sure the questioning would really start. Shortly afterward, the Communists suddenly called a meeting of the Military questioning situation was con Minutes After Murder William Ontonakos, 45, of but nobody came out.

Into the dark office Hayes then fired once, shattering the glass panel. Wo than reached in and oneneri fused. Indian spokesmen issued conflicting statements. 313 22d foreman of drivers rushed to the sceene. Thecops for the company, was fe principal victim, being miiked for A preliminary examination the doOTi Both patroimen moved By HAROLD PHELAN and KEN JOHNSTON Armistice Commission for tomorrow to discuss prisoner But Thimayya said the UN and Communist commands had been notified that the prisoner interviews would be declared the body had prob $6.50 in wage benefits and the also revealed a skull injury and a bruise on the dead man's $600.

The others were robbed ably been dumped from a car A 45-year-old South Brooklyn in cautiously ana witn guns drawn. As they moved, with in problems. The commission consists of of amounts ranging from $10 construction worker was mur resumed tomorrow morning. nose, both possibly suffered when the body was dumped to $80. union demanding $12.50.

The breakdown came In the face of mounting public protest Continued on Page I creased caution, Hayes tripped The gunmen escaped in a from a speeding car. dered early today and dumped from a car near Gowanus Canal, favorite spot for waterfront over a floor ash-tray and out maroon sedan. Police said Montemarano only minutes before its discovery. The body was still warm and, although rain was falling heavily, the clothes were only partly wet, 'detectives said. A single wound near the of the deep dark came a shadowy figure swinging a gangster "ride" slayings.

WEST HEMPSTEAD DELIVERY lived with his wife and a seven-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son who recently The body of Ralph Monte-, marano of 405 19th St. was dis Foes Try to Capture Edge From Wagner sledge-hammer at him. it missed. The shadow stepped back, and this time threw the hammer. Hayes, half-crouched covered lying on the curb at joined the Marines.

He had no police record. Douglass and Ne'vins Sts. at 1 a.m. by two men driving through the deserted industrial Early quizzing of relatives heart was believed the, cause of death Whether it had been inflicted by a knife or a bullet, police could not Immedi as he was getting off the floor, ducked and it passed him. He Housewives Get Milk Under Police Guard By RICHARD J.

ROTH and friends of the dead man of City Hall, mainly through the back door" during the The Mayoralty campaign area on their way home. The pair called police who Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 ately say. moved into its final stages to regime of William O'Dwyer, Halley said, and his influence day with the opponents of Robert F. Wagner the Democratic candidate, desperately West Hempstead, Oct. 30 i extended into the administration of Mayor Impellitteri Planners Doom Boro Subway Spurs Local housewives had milk on the table today 1,600 quarts trying to cut into the big margin which most political ob Wagner would have this "po servers feel the Democrats now Informed circles that the city's The strikers had threatened to dump the milk, according to Sawice.

But police saw to it that it was delivered to the housewives without Incident. It was not known where the milk came from or where it was pasteurized. struction) Budget amounting toi not yet approved the plans or litical heritage," he charged, and he pointed to Wagner's attendance at waterfront din of it delivered by a non-union driver who had a police guard hold. By DAN NOONAN The City Planning Commis-I ambitious subway construc At the same time Wagner $531,745,343 and recommended its approval to the Board of in doing so. tion program was dead at ners sponsored by McCormack sion today sounded what may well be the death knell for The driver, Edward Sawice Estimate.

as evidence. least if the program depended on the $500,000,000 in exempt sought to divest himself of the Often-criticized charge that he had made a deal with Michael routes of either the Brooklyn or Manhattan subway projects. The possibly fatal blow to the Brooklyn? extensions came when the Commission adopted a proposed 1954 Capital (con- of 57 Park Garden City, Brooklyn's proposed Nostrand Charging that a McCormack Little Hope Seen for Expansion It suggested that $113,123,000 telephoned Nassau County po funds. and Utica Ave. subway oil firm has been "cheating" J.

Quill, the transit union lead lice early today and said he of the $500,000,000 In debt ex The $113,123,000 earmarked INSIDE Tht Eagle the city on transit contracts Halley said: en for City Hall backing of Quill's' attempts to organize for transit in 1954 added to the At the same time, the com was being threatened by strikers in the milk dispute. He said empt transit funds be allocated during 1954 for the transit sys Red Crow Winds Up "Wagner cannot break the the Folice Department as a $375,000,000 proposed to be spent during the succeeding he had aboard his truck 1,600 tem. Tsar Fljht foe GX- record of the favored con branch of his union. quarts of milk. It came through The Commission further pro five years amounted to tractor.

His past record proves Rudolph Halley, the Liberal ErawUcai Hon foe A 74 Marks 111 mission virtually passed the buck back to the Transit Authority and the Board of Estimate for its failure to include the Brooklyn lines in the city's proposed 1954 Capital Budget. the picket line and was pas posed that an additional he is unable to stand up and party candidate, accused Wag 75th Annirwiary Paf 11 teurized here. 000,000 of the debt exempt funds be earmarked each year ner of being "on the side" of William J. McCormack, mil Pags fight. In the Board of Estimate we found him where his political ties necessarily put lionaire industrialist who is Paq Musis 11 MoviM 10,11 N.

Y. at Night II Around Bore 21 Bridg 27 CLEAR AND COOLER FORECAST FOR TONIGHT him on the side of 'Mr. often called the "Mr. Big" of HOKE HUNTING? Choose From Over 500 Listings on tho Classified Real Estate Pages of Today's EAGLE WANT ADS Wktre BrMkljiitM Bij uJ Sal Calendar Comics the waterfront. Harold Republi 13 for "transit purposes for the following five years "when a program has been agreed upon." The Commission's phraseology would conceivably leave Obituarist There will be no rain today The commission said it could include neither the Brooklyn transit extensions nor the proposed 2d Ave.

aubway in Manhattan unless and until the: Transit Authority formally submits plans for the routes' can candidate, linked- both McCormack was "in and out Crossword Assuming that most of the total would be used to rehabilitate and improve the existing subway system, there would only be $11,877,000 left to build the Brooklyn and Manhattan lines. Estimated costs of the original $500,000,000 program, as outlined several years ago. 4 Continued Page 13 Wagner and Halley in concen after four days of precipitation, the Weather Bureau stated In forecasting cooler weather. trating on the crime issue. He 17 11-20 17 10,11 17 11-28 15.16 Radio Sports Television Theaters rvitr Want Ads Women said the city would become the room for the Transit Authority to develop some form of Dr.

Bradr Editorial GINrwi Going Plaoss Harbor Lights Horoicop The low tonight will be 40 Today's Chuckle Maybe the meek will Inherit fr earth, but right now wt can't why thea" wont It. and they are "validated" by the Board of Estimate. The Board of Estimate has crime capital of the world" i Continued. Page 3 in the citf and freesing in the suburbs. a subway expansion program.

But there was little doubt la.

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