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BACK LATE NEWS WEATHER QffD Rainy and windy today, I IC I fair tonight. IQ JV O. Cites Kfl sUtUf DAILY and SUNDAY 'IROOKLYN 1, N. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24,1951 Bnteret BreeUra F. 5) LTQ rrWrt.

i. biti a ir.i Bomber Wing's five-day toll of I enemy planes to four Commu nlst Jets destroyed, three prob ably destroyed and five dam aged. Not a single American plane was hit. Three other American jet for mations flew boldly up North west Korea's "MIG Alley" with out challenge, however. Thirty-two more Thunderjets from the 27th Fighter-Bomber Wing hurled bombs into three tunnels at Nichon without sighting enemy planes.

Forty F-80 Shooting Star jets hit bridge targets at Kunn nd Believe U. S. Planes Bagged Russian Jet, Hit 2 Others Seize Pro-Red Papers Opposing Ike in Paris Cops Arrest 65 Defying Government Order Barring Mass Meetings Against General If i Paris, Jan. 24 (U.R) Police seized the press runs of two pro-Communist newspapers and arrested 63 persons today for distributing Communist leaflets in defiance of a government order GROSS COMES CLEAN Harry Gross, head of bookmaking ring, washes fingerprint ink from his hands after pleading guilty yesterday to 66-counr bookmaking and conspiracy indictment, abruptly ending his Special Sessions trial. Court had turned down his offer to plead guilty to one count.

Now he faces prison term of up to 68 years. 5 CENTS EYERYWHERI BOOKIE KING TO TELL ALL, FINGER COPS Faces 68 Yrs. in Jail, $33,000 Fine After Admitting All Charges King of the Bookmakers Harry Gross, police and prosecuting of ficials believed, was preparing today to "sing" in a big way. In Raymond St. Civil Prison after his guilty plea in Special Sessions Court yesterday, and facing a possible 68 years in jail and $33,500 fine when he is sen-, tenced Feb.

19, Gross was evidently ready to tell all. When he does, one official predicted, "all hell will break loose." Gross operated a a-year bookmaking ring witn, the aid of a "ice" pay-off to the police until District Attorney Miles r. McDonald's men raided him out of business. The next act In the unfolding rackets probe drama, McDonald's men were confident, would be with words and music by H. Gross and cops of high and low degree playing their unwilling roles on the stage.

Abandoned by 'Friends' Up to now Gross has been silent but not because he didn't have interesting lnforma-tion to tell. "Everything was supposed to have taken care of," a witness reported yesterday that Gross remarked just before the Sept. 15 raid on the ring's Inwood, L. wire Since then he has been puzzled and bewildered, it was reported, particularly by the fail ure of the friends he had among police whom he had "taken care of to come to his rescue, or even to send him a kind word through his wife. He suddenly halted the trial yesterday, after Morton Kapel.

sohn, once his trusty lieutenant and confident, began to read off the names of police on the Gross payoff list and wljen Eleanor Migden, who had worked as a switchboard operator In one of the Gross offices and was present at confidential Gross-Kapelsohn conversations, added ner corroboration. Gross pleaded guilty to all 65 Continued on Page IS Seek lo Delay Vels' Transfer Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Albany, Jan. 24 A Joint resolution seeking to delay transfer of veterans at the Halloran Veterans Hospital, Staten Island, until Dec. 31, 1952, or until other metropolitan facilities are available was introduced today by two Brooklyn law-makers. Senator Mario DeOptatis and Assemblyman John J.

Ryan stated jointly that the plan to move the veterans, 87 of whom are paraplegics, out of Halloran Hospital and to disperse them throughout the State is a "heart less, ill-conceived measure." The contemplated transfer, they added, will cause the break-up of many of the veteran's homes and will make visits by their relatives extremely difficult, if not impossible. Pensioner, 86, Kills Self St. Louis, Jan. 24 (U.R) Otto Bernhard, 86-year-old pensioner, took his life esterday by standing on a box, placing a clothllne around his neck, and then shooting himself in the temple. WHERE TO FIND IT Pag Around Boro 8 Pag Niaht Life 1 ATTLEE MAY HS2, Dr.vin 3 riui Foreign Secretary, III for Months, Now Has Pneumonia London, Jan.

24 (U.R) British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin developed pneumonia today and there was immediate specula tion that Prime. Minister Clement Attlee himself might take over British foreign policy. Bevin, 69, has been serious ly ill for months with a heart ailment. Doctors said his con dition was not critical. The pneumonia so far is confined to one patch on one lung, but it was apparent that he would be out for weeks.

Bevin's Illness coincided with a grave split in American-Brit ish basic foreign policy over the question of Chinese Communist intervention in Korea. Britain is hedging on an American de mand that Red China be brand ed an aggressor. No Outstanding Candidate Many sources long have urged Attlee to replace Bevin, feeling. that Britain needs a younger and more active man at the helm of foreign affairs during the world crisis with Russia. Attlee may take Bevin's illness as an opening to bring a younger man into the Foreign Office, But there is no outstanding candidate available.

Bevin, a trade union leader for 20 years, commands great respect from both the so-called left wing and moderate sec tions of the Labor party. It was feaered that no other man, except possibly Attlee himself, would be able to keep har mony within the party. Because of this it was thought that Att lee might take over the job of directing foreign affairs for a temporary period. Others Mentioned However, two other candi dates nave oeen mentioned as possibilities to succeed Bevin. They are Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross and Secretary of State for Scotland Hec tor McNeil.

Bevin's pneumonia followed on the heels of an attack of in fluenza which had confined him to bed for several days. Meanwhile, the split between the United States and Britain over Communist China appeared to be widening. From opposite Continued on Page 13 she presented two witnesses! who testified that in their pres ence the husband told his wife that he had never intended to keep his premartlal promise that he had made it knowing that she would not otherwise have married him. Doubted Corroboration Judge Garvin, in his opinion, wrote that he long had entertained doubts as to the sufficiency of such corroboration. He concluded that the testi mony of the two witnesses was not corroboration of the fraud, "confessed" by the defendant's failure to contest the allegation.

"The testimony of the two Wide Smuggling Seen 110th YEAR No. 23 FRANCE BACKS U. S. AGAINST CHINESE REDS Declares She'll Vote With Us in U. N.

on Aggressor Resolution bulletin Paris, Jan. 24 (U.R) France announced today that she would vote side by side with the United States in the United Nations on the question ol Com' munist China. Lake Success, Jan. 24 (U.R) The 12-nation Arab-Asian bloc planned a new appeal to Com' munist China today, calling for a seven-power conference to settle terms for a cease-fire In Korea. Informed sources said the Arab-Asian bloc, led by India, would ask the United Nations' Political Committee for priority on a vote on their resolution, thus delaying again American plans to brand Peiping an ag-gressor.

The new resolution, informed sources said would call on the United States, Communist China, Britain, France, Russia, India, and Egypt to meet as soon as possible at a time and place fixed by the president of the U. General Assembly. Would Overcome Objections Informants said the new Arab-Asian move was designed to overcome objections of many delegations, led by the U. who are impatient over the time wasted in seeking constant clarification of Peiping's cease fire terms. However, U.

S. Ambassador Warren R. Austin was expected to tell the committee that this country insists on passage of the aggressor resolution. Soviet Russia apparently was cheering silently from the sidelines at the squabble among the Western powers over what to do about Red China. High-level conferences went on until the last minute to reconcile the British to the American demand for naming Peiping as an aggressor and asking a committee to report as soon as possible on what collective measures the U.

N. can take next against that aggression. Senate Brands Red China In Washington, the Senate yesterday unanimously de manded that the U. N. brand Communist China as an aggres sor in Korea and that it bar Mao Tze-tung's government from U.

N. membership. The of Representatives passed a similar resolution last Continued on Page 13 Clearing, Colder Weather Que After Windy Rains A windy rainstorm hit Brook lyn today, precipitation amounting to a half-inch by morning and the winds hitting 30 miles an hour at times. There will be clearing weather tonight and it will turn colder, the Weather Bureau reported. The low will be about 25 degrees tonight Storm warnings were posted along the Atlantic Coast at 3:30 a.m.

today. Woman, 52, Killed, Fire Lieutenant Burned in Blaze A 52-year-old woman was burned to death yesterday in a fire which caused extensive damage to a four-story brick building at 564 E. 4th St. Mrs. Susan Franks, wife of the superintendent of the house, John Franks, was found dead near the door of her apart ment.

Fire LL Richard Healy of engine company 281 was burned on the right hand in fighting the blaze. WANT A JOB IN BROOKLYN! 10 rmkljra Ead.rment Oortltlei Appear In th IAGLI WANT ADS 5th Air Force Headquarters, Korea, Jan. 24 (U.R) American Thunderjets probably shot down one Russian-built jet fighter and damaged two others today in the fifth dogfight over North west Korea in five days. Sixteen U. S.

F-84s and 16 to 20 enemy MIG-15s tangled in the 15-minute battle near Anju, 70 miles from the Manchurian border. Another 16 Thunderjets were in the American forma tion, but too far east to get into the action. It brought the 27t Fighter UN TANKS RETAKE WONJU, PUSH ON NORTH 10 MILES Patrol in Wide Gain South of Hoengsong Finds No Foe in Sight Tokyo, Jan. 24 (U.R) United Nations tanks and infantry re-occupied Wonju and' pushed on another 10 miles to the north through scattered enemy resistance today. The U.

N. patrol at last re ports' had crossed a bridge less than a mile south of Hoeng song, 11 miles above Wonju, with no enemy in sight. Allied planes kept a constant umbrella over the spearhead. It wa the farthest northward advance on the central Korean front in more than two weeks. Sweep Across No-Man's-Land Other United Nations forces on either side of Wonju swept across th Korean no-mans land into the east-central moun tain stronghold of Yongwol and an unidantifed town south of Seoul on the western front.

Air "strikes knocked out enemy opposition in both towns. U. S. planes also hurled a 500- pound bomb into a mine be lieved to hold Red troops and supplies between Seoul and Suwon, 17 miles to the south Smoke poured from the en trance, but there was no word whether it had been sealed. Small Communist groups also were on the move in ne-man's-land below Seoul, an 8th Army communique reported.

Some entered Ichon, 30 mile3 south east of the former South Ko rean capital. Both sides have been in and out of Ichon in recent days. Thrust North on 3 Fronts The northward thrusts of all three ground fronts were be lieved reconnaissances in force to seek out enemy strength. The task forces presumably will withdraw to the main Allied lines at dusk. Three tanks led the push in to bombed-out Wonju, followed by three anti-aircraft tracked vehicles and infantry.

Finding Wonju itself empty, the patrol foiled on to the north. It ran into 30 to 60 enemv troops seven miles north of Wonju and sent them scurrying to the hills with small arms fire. The patrol routed another Continued on Page 13 In Gem Heel' Arrests U. S. Believes Seizure of 3 Indicates Many Millions in Jewels Are Involved The arrest of three hollow heel diamond smugglers may be the tipoff on an international smuggling ring involving gold and gems worth millions of dollars, Federal authorities said banning demonstrations against Eisenhower, meanwhile, held conferences with high military and government officials on the French contribution to his At latic Pact army.

The general met with French Gen. Pierre Koenig, who is ex pected to get a big command assignment in the European army; British Air Marshal Sir William Elliott, French Premier Rene Plever and Defense Min ister Jules Moch. Will Visit Iceland He will leave tomorrow for Iceland, Canada and then to Washington. The leaflets distributed by the Communists urged Pari sians to defy the government decree against a mass-meeting. The Communist party news paper L'Humanite and the pro- Communist daily Liberation were raided and the papers seized.

L'Humanite devoted half of its front page to a tirade against Eisenhower and urged "every one" to attend a mass-meetins in front of his Astoria Hotel headquarters tonight Mass Meeting Outlawed The government has out lawed the mass meeting and called it treasonous and an 'intolerable scandal." Some 5,000 police guarded the headquarters. The Communists, despite a 20 more destroyed a locomotive and hit other railway targets unchallenged. Lt Gen. George E. Strate meyer, commander of the Far Eastern Air Forces, jubilantly announced that the Thunderjet has exceeded all expectations, both as a close support tactical weapon and as a fighter." Since Nov.

1 the Far Eastern Air Forces have destroyed 27 Communist planes in air combat, Including 17MIG-15 jets, Seven other jets probably have been destroyed and 39 damaged. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. government threats of severe punishment, worked at fever pitch to pull off the demonstra tion.

They plastered billboards with posters protesting rearm ament of The poster snowed the shadow of a Nazi S3 trooper standing astride the graveyards at the Dachau prison camp. Other postert de manded that Eisenhower "go home and leave France in peace." It was an uneasy "homecom ing" for Eisenhower in his whirlwind tour of Atlantic Pact capitals to the place where he will make his temporary headquarters while building a Euro pean army to light Commu nism. Joker Calls GIs to Base They Win Kisses Anyhow Fakenham, England, Jan. 24 (U.R) -r A local movie house flashed on its screen last night message for American GI's to 'return to your base." The GI's kissed their trirls goodnight, shouted "This is it" and commandeered cabs to their base. The duty officer at the base told them a practical ioker had phoned the theater to flaslrthe message.

out marital fraud. The threat to easy annul ments is a technical one the sufficiency of proof. It was raised by Official Referee Edwin L. Garvin in denying an annulment In the Brooklyn Su preme court case of Caleca against Caleca, now being ap pealed to tne Appellate Division. The plaintiff in that action alleged as fraud that her husband had promised before marriage tftet they would have children, that she married him in reliance upon that promise and that he has since In corroboration of her allegation PointAJp site already proposed, would be eventually recommended to the Jboard or Estimate.

His office declined to name the borough projects in mind because it was "not ready to make an announcement" inasmuch as the necessarv naoers were still in the preparation stage. It was obvious, however, that the committee, which includes Corporation Counsel John P. McGrath and John C. Riedel, chief engineer of the Board of Estimate, both Brooklynites, intended that Manhattan's slum clearance and housing needs were to be given priority. Other members of the Slum! 5 of the U.

S. for black market sale overseas and buy diamonds to smuggle back into the U. S. for black market sale at twice their normal price. Woman, 26, Jailed Mrs.

Eta Hoffman, 26, Czecho-slovakian wife of a Belgian rabbinical student, was jailed in default of $150,000 bail yes terday on charges of smuggling 1,000 cut and polished diamonds worth an estimated $1,000,000 from Antwerp in the soles and heels of her black platform wedgies. She was arrested Mon day after alighting from a plane at Idlewild Airport. Yesterday afternoon at Mi ami, Eli Stern, 29, of 287-A Hart Brooklyn, was arrested and held in $5,000 bail for trying a similar trick. Customs agents said they found al most $120,000 worth of cut and polished diamonds in' the hoi- Continued on Page 13 Rum for Puerto Rico? San Juan, P. Jan.

24 (U.R) The Chamber of Commerce said today that 2,497,027 cases of alcoholic beverages had been imported during 1950. There are 2,210,703 persons on the island and a dozen rum dis tilleries and breweries. ance committee said the site was the only stretch of blighted residential property remaining in the oatch of the Brooklvn. Queens Connecting Highway. Under the National Housing Act of 1949 $16,000,000 has been set aside by the Federal Government for 1950-51 to help finance condemnation of slum areas throughout the city.

The city would contribute $8,000,000 to the movement. Manhattan areas listed by the slum clearance committee for redevolDmpnt were Wash- ington Square South, South Vil lage, ueiancy Corlears Hook, Harlem and North Har- llem. Easy Annulments Facing Court Hurdle today. U. S.

Attorney Frank J. Parker said two Europeans and a Brooklyn man caught trying to bring In diamonds worth some $1,600,000 concealed In hollow heels of their shoes In the past three days apparently "are part of the same inter national ring." He said a full-scale investigation had been ordered Of re ports that New York diamond merchants are involved in a syndicate to smuggle gold out witnesses," Judge Garvin wrote, "is nothing more than cumulative in establishing the truth of plaintiff's testimony that defendant made the post-marital statement to her." Judge Garvin pointed up his decision with a quotation from Sec. 1143 of the Civil Practice Act, holding "A judgment annulling the marriage shall not be rendered without proof of the facts upon which the allegation, of nullity Is founded. The declaration or confession of either party to the marriage is not alone sufficient as proof, but other satisfactory evidence of the facts must be produced." proximately $100,000,000. The Williamsburg middle-cost nousing development proposed for erection by private capital with assistance from the city in the form of condemnation and assembly of land would contain 2,383 dwelling units.

Under the plan there would be 15 fireproof, modern 20-story buildings covering 7.8 percent of the area. Lying south of the Williamsburg Bridge and a block from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the borough area under study is bounded by Marcy Hewes Wythe Wilson St. and Division Ave. The report of the slum clear-, Undefended marriage annul ments soon may not be so easy to obtain as the result of a case that was scheduled today tor review by the Appellate Di vision. So popular have such judg ments become throughout New York State that the undefended annulment has succeeded the undefended divorce as a vehicle for terminating marriages that no longer appeal to the partici pants.

Like divorce, obtainable onlv for adultery, there is only one basis for annulment fraud. But attorneys have learned more than 150 ways of spelling ine recommendat. ons wpre made by the committo. nf Which Construction tor and Planning Commissioner nuvei i Moses is tne nead, in the face of the Master Plan artnntoH by- the City Planning Commission on Nov. 2, 1949.

Listed in the Master Plan were 13 Brooklyn areas described as "substandard" and suitable for clearance and redevelonmpnt Maybe One or Two More When Moses office was queried on the apparent disparity, a Brooklyn Eagle reporter was told that his boroueh could expect that one and possiblv two more clearance projects, in addition to the Williamsbure' Slum Razing Plans Brooklyn's 'Stepchild' Role By DAN NOONAN Municipal authorities today were studing plans to clear and redevelop only one Brooklyn area in contrast to six in Manhattan despite Mayor Impellit- teris assertion. that persons who claim Brooklyn had been treated as a "stepchild" were shortsighted." The "stepchild" role this time was thrust upon the borough when the Mayor's Committee on Slum Clearance recommended that only one of seven pro jected privately financed slum clearance housing projects be located in Brooklyn. Manhattan was advocated as the location for the other six. Clearance Committee are Philip J. Cruise, chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, who lives in Queens, and Controller Lazarus Joseph of the Bronx.

It was at the annual luncheon-meeting of the Downtown Brooklyn Association Monday in the Hotel Towers that Im-pelletteri declared that those who said Brooklyn was being cast in a "stepchild" role were "short sighted." He listed a series of Brooklyn Civic Center projects which, when coupled with the still-to-be completed Brooklyn-Queens Connecting Highway, he said, represented an outlay, of ap Novel 25 Obituaries 13 Pqtterns 16 Radio )7 Real Estate 25 Society IS, 18 Sports 18-20 Television 17 Theaters 10,11 These Women 25 Tommy Holmes 18 Tucker 12 Uncle Ray 25 Want Ads 21-24 Women 15,18 Bridge Brown Comics Crossword Dr. Brady Editorial rin and Bear It 12 Heffernan 12 Hollywood 1 1 Horoscope 25 Jimmy Murphy 18 lust Between Us 1 6 Mary Haworth 1 5 Movies 10. It Mujig 1 1.