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O. CUM VUU aUttar Emm. Us Vrx VrV Ua ran nnijjEijji niAr i i Lra Lru uuuu i Workers Hlyir 30 As JAMAICA RESULTS SARATOGA MEETING 1 Eternal Flirt, 4.704.30-3.00; Son Distance, 12.40-7.20; Cougar, ACHESON SAYS NO PROVISION AFFECTS THEM Warns House Group Russia May Attack If Plan Is Rejected Washington, July 28 (U.R) Secretary of State Dean Ache-son assured Congress today that President Truman's arms aid program makes no provision for sending American troops to Europe. Secretary Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee the only exception would be providing technical aid to the countries whose armed forces Mr. Truman wants to 33 NEW POLIO CASES LISTED IN 24 HOURS Brooklyn Shorefront Hardest Hit as 17 4:30.

Off, 1:154. 2 Texas Brags, 1st; Ringoes, 2d; Sea Fare, 3d. DAILY DOUBLE PAID $91.00 BOARD OPENS ITS STUDY OF UNION DISPUTE Figure Includes Wages, Insurance, Pension Demands CIO President Philip Murray disclosed today that the fourth- Sticky Heat Bakes City As Merc Heads for 96 More Are Stricken Here The Health Department dis closed today that 33 new cases of infantile paralysis 17 of round wage increase demand of With No Relief in Sight them in Brooklyn had been bolster. reported in the 24 hours up to his 1,000,000 member United Steel Workers of America (CIO) is 12 cents an hour. 9 a.m.

The total for the city Opening the Administration's fight for fast action on the full since Jan. 1 is now 271, with Murray's disclosure came as 146 cases in Brooklyn. According to the depart he opened the union's case be program, Mr. Acneson saia it is only the beginning of a plan to build up Western European forces against possible Russian fore President Truman's fact ment's reports, the Brooklyn shorefront, including Coney Island, is hardest hit. The aggression.

-A: II vvl rrr- i-v 1 finding board which is sitting In an effort to find a settlement In the dispute between the Gravesend Health District, cov Says Reds Won't Take Chance 1 if if i 4 ering Sheepshead Bay, Brigtv Mr. Acheson said he believes ton Beach, Coney Island and union and the nation's steel industry. The fourth-round wage de Russia will not take the chance of war if Congress approves the hea Gate, reported six new cases, while the Sunset Park district had four and the Bay arms program. But, he said, Russia might take such a gamb mands of the union had not been disclosed before. Murray Ridge area three.

three new deaths were re toy! the board that the union proposals a total ler's chance if arms aid is not provided to free nations In Western Europe. ported, bringing the total since cost to the companies of 30 Jan. to 17. One of the new He counted growing Congres cents an hour." sional demands to put off con "These encompass 124 cents per hour in wages currently deaths was in Brooklyn, the other two in Queens. Of the total, Brooklyn now has had 10, Queens has had five, and Manhattan and the Bronx have payable; 11:23 cents per hour sideration of the full program until January by saying "we cannot begin too soon." Mr.

Acheson also told the in wagei.defer.rHi for pension, and 6.27 cents per hour for so had one each. Staten Island has committee that any effort to cial Insurance, Murray said, Set Pattern In Past had none. Eight Cases In Manhattan force 'Western European nations into a joint military plan In advance might wreck the The breakdown for the other Tht steelworkers union is one of three key industrial boroughs showed Manhattan to unions which have set the pat have had eight new cases program. "That is exactly the way not to get any action," he said. tern for the three previous Queens six, and the Bronx two.

His assurance that American Staten Island had none. In Brooklyn the situation, troops would not be sent to v-k. according to health districts, showed: "KIDNAPED" BOY IN ISRAEL Steven Horowitz, 3-year-old Brooklyn boy whose mother, Edythe, says her husband, from whom she is separated, kidnaped him on pretext of taking him to movie, is shown enjoying ice cream cone with his father, Irving, in Tel Aviv. Mrs. Horowitz says her husband has informed her she can only see her son again by going to Israel.

She has refused. Bay Ridge, Brownsville, Bushwick, Flatbush, 1: Gravesend, Red1 Hook, Sun set Park, 4. Europe came in answer to a question by Rep. James G. Fulton, Pa.) "There is no provision, or plan, or contemplation of using American troops except in providing technical assistance" as provided under the North Atlantic Treaty, Acheson said.

In answer to another ques- Contlnned on Page 11 A Health Department spokes rounds of postwar wage increases. In 1946 the steel workers received an 184 cents hourly raise. In 1947 they got 15 cents more. Last year they received 14 cents. Murray's figures covered the three issues in demand by the steel workers when they threatened a paralyzing strike July 15 against the steel industry, which supplies the basic material for 40 percent of the country's industries.

The strike was avoided when the companies acceded to President Truman's request for a 60-day truce while the presidential appointed fact-finding man said there was nothing Continued on Page 11 WHY SWELTER? These kids have found a leak in a hose in their Summer playground at Public School 47, Pacific and Dean and are cooling off in the way they prefer. Of course, there's a sprinkler available, but they crave adventure. Showers Du Tonight but Won't Help-Erratic Thunderstorm Snarls Traffic state Board Meets Cops Seize 167 in Raid On Gambling Fortress Heavily Guarded New Jersey Hangout Yields $40,000 in Predawn Crackdown Maple Shade, N. July 28 (U.R) State police raiders battered their way into a guarded fortress-like gambling house Babs Can Keep Son for Six Extra Weeks Court Grants Petition On Rehearing After Ex-Mate's Protest Dedham, July 28 (U.R) With Teamsters On Milk Price Cut Cohen Aide Dies Of Wounds After Filmland Ambush board inquires into the issues. The President gave the board It was a rip-snorter of a day today, hot and muggy and The New York State Tempo Condoned on Page 11 the Weather Man said it would get more so.

The official temperature, which stayed within an eyelash near here today, arrested 167 men and seized almost $40,000, The gamblers' nest, which rary Commission on Agriculture met at the Hotel Roosevelt today with representatives of Metropolitan Area Teamsters Unions to discuss the Commis of a warm 80 throughout the night, soared to 92 at noon and Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoi, boasted a steel look-out tower fessional. There were a battery oft-married Woolworth Heiress, the forecaster said, might touch 96 this afternoon and again to WEATHER TABLE bested her second husband to sion's findings on possible means Los Angeles, July 28 (U.R) Edward (Neddie) Herbert, 38, top aide of mobster Mickey Cohen, died today from shotgun gangsters made a predawn attempt last week to rub out Cohen, dapper gambling king. His death in Queen of the Angels Hospital came as a county grand jury investigat of reducing the price of milk to morrow. For both days and the inter Sells Daughter, 3, For $500, Buys Second-Hand Car Bessemer, July 28 (U.R) Aa unemployed miner ad of slot machines, dice and card tables, a race book board and a ticker. Raiders seized three revolvers and one 30-30 carbine rifle from a hiding place under New York City consumers.

day by gaining permission to keep their son at her side for six extra weeks while trying The meeting was similar to and a four-inch, steel-reinforced inner entrance, was described by police as a hangout for some of New Jersey's "kingpin gamblers" and part of a "big-time gambling syndicate." It was not an establishment frequented by society people, police said, but was strictly pro vening night, the forecast was: "Very warm and muggy, with a trap door. to regain her health at Italian that held in April with city milk dealers and will be followed by a consumer meeting in the Fall. the lowest temperature tonight Fourteen of the shirt-sleeved beach and mountain resorts. Senator Austin W. Erwin, chair Continued on Page 11 mitted today he sold his three-year-old daughter for $500 and spend the money on a used car.

Probate Judge Arthur W. not below 77. This despite scattered showers predicted for man of the commission, said. It Today Yesterday Ttmp. tlmm.

Ttmp. Ham. Midnight 80 83 74 77 1 a.m. 81 80 73 78 2 a.m. 80 80 72 86 3 a.m.

79 82 72 86 79 80 72 87 5 a.m. 80 76 72 88 6 a.m. 78 76 73 88 7 a.m. 78 80 73 87 8 a.m. 80 74 73 86 9 a.m.

83 69 75 86 10 a.m. 89 54 77 82 a.m. 90 52 81 76 12 Noon 92 52 84 71 1 p.m. 91 50 88 63 ing alleged police-protected vice prepared to return indictments against three high-ranking police officials and at least two Davis decreed that her 13-year was to be devoted to an ex this evening. old son, Lance, could remain Thunder showers yesterday change of views on questions of lowering the cost of city dis other members of the police de with his mother until Sept.

7, partment. Originally the lad was to afternoon had not prevented the mercury from climbing to a Dewey Flays Truman On China-Aid Stand Herbert death came eight have been returned Tuesday to custody of his father, Count Yesterday's thundershowers, days after gangland assailants ambushed him, Cohen and two tribution raised by the commission's report. David Kaplan of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) headquarters and Francis J. Murtha, union econ Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, Police held Leman Alvin Edwards, 26, for investigation. They said he had signed a confession admitting that he sold his daughter, Viree, for adoption.

Edwards also admitted that another daughter, 16-month-old Sandra Lee, was up "for sale." W. H. Sessions, operator of the Stadium Grill here, said he had started adoption proceedings for Viree but added that the $500 he gave Edwards was others in front of Sherry's Res which in an erratic pattern struck norther New Jersey, upper Manhattan and the Bronx had voted an $18,000,000 appro Hamilton, N. July 28 (U.R) taurant on the Sunset Strip, so he could spend part of his vacation at Newport, R. before entering St.

George's add to the humid, steaming priation for the nationalist playground of film personali omist, headed a group of eight and Queens, but almost entirely quality of the city's weather. government shortly after he de- ties. skipped Brooklyn, snarled up School there Sept. 15. manded more aid to China in Cohen, hit in the shoulder, traffic, caused one death in New union men representing tour milk-drivers locals in the city, Westchester County and Governor Dewey accused the Truman administration today of throwing the key to world peace "into the bottom of the Pacific" because of its "no-poli-cy-at-all" toward China.

The storms broke out about Continued on Page 11 But the arrangement was up Jersey and only appeared to is recovering, as are bit player Dee David and Harry Cooper, set when his mother, whose November, 1947. "Last year further appropria tions were made but our govern investigator from the State At The work of the commission a gift rather than a purchase ment has shown no real inter In a speech prepared for the torney Generals office, who fortune was built from five and dime stores, asked that she be permitted to keep Lance with her until Sept. 15 a move payment. had been assigned to guard Cohen. Sessions and his wife said they wanted to give the little has been devoted to analyzing the spread between farm and city consumer prices with a view to reducing city prices.

Colgate University foreign policy conference, he said all is not lost with the Nationalist est in China and instead it ad ministers a contemptuous rebuff each time a despairing ap Senate to Quiz Lewis On 3-Day Work Week Any suspects arrested in the Continued on Page 11 girl a good home and had paid forces if the United States peal is made by any leader of amblush plot now will be liable to murder charges. Edwards the $500 In hopes he would leave town and stay offers Immediate and continu ing aid. away from the child. Mr. Dewey said the U.

S. has Washington, July 28 (U.R) WHERE TO FIND IT mine boss, he said, will be asked to testify "at his own conveni John L. Lewis, President of the won "an uneasy stalemate" in Europe through Marshall Plan her government," he added. The Governor said China, an ally In World War II, had fared worse at American hands than Japan, which is now being reconstructed with U. S.

Funds. He cautioned against the prospect of rebuilding Western ence." United Mine Workers, will be FREE COFFEE CURE URGED aid. summoned before Congress to The Senate Committee has been trying to find out if Lewis' testify about the three-day work FOR SLEEPY MOTORISTS Hartford, July 28 (U.R) Free policies, especially the three- week he recently imposed on the hot coffee served by smiling Europe "if Asia is in chaos." coal Industry, it was disclosed day work week, are promoting monopolistic practices within Dewey predicted that if all today. the coal industry in violation China should go Communist, Senator A. Willis Robertson, How to Guard Against Polio Here arc the preventive measures recommended by medical authorities to help prevent the spread of Infantile 'paralysis.

1. Most important Is avoiding over-exertion in children, although normal activities should not be curtailed. 2. Immediate medical attention should be given any fever, headaches, nausea, upset stomach, muscle soreness or stiffness. 3.

Although there is no objection to swimming in clean water, children should not be crowded together at beaches or pools. All other crowds also should be shunned. 4. Sudden or excessive chilling; of the body should be avoided. 5.

Surgery involving the aose, mouth and throat should bs postponed until cooler weather sets in if not urgent. Page Page Around Boro 12 Movies 8,9 Bridge 8 Novel 18 Camera Newi 22 Obituaries 1 1 Comics 21 Pattern 14 Crossword 21 Radio 21 Dr. Bftidy 10 Ralph Trost 15 Editorial 10 Society 13 Grin and Bear It 10 Sports 15-17 Horoscope 1 4 Theaters 8, 9 limmy Murphy 17 These Women 21 lust Between Us 1 4 Tucker 1 0 Lindley 10 Uncle Ray 21 Marriage Lie. 14 Want Ads 18-20 MaryHaworth 13 Women 13,14 of the spirit of the Federal antl lndo-Chlna, Siam, Malaya and Va.) said a letter would be trust laws. "What is to be done about China?" he asked.

"I know and you know that there is no simple answer, but you and I know equally well that there can be neither excuse nor reason for timidity and muddle-headness on the part of our Government in attempting a solution. "Surely we must have a policy and the will to carry it out and surely our present habit of no-policy-at-all must go." Dewey recalled that Congress, Labor unions are now exempt from these statutes. But former Burma would follow. That, he said, would bring the Communists within easy reach of the Middle East oil supplies. sent out before nightfall inviting Lewis to present his views to the Senate Banking Committee which has been investigating the effect of the short week hostesses was gugested by the Highway Safety Commission today as a way to reduce accidents caused by sleepy drivers Merritt Parkway.

The commission, worried by the State's mounting traffic fatility rate, noted that motorists on Parkways from Metropolitan New York Into Connecticut have no opportunities for refreshment 1 I Assistant Attorney General Thurmond Arnold, once head of the Justice Department's anti-trust division, has, recommended that this exemption be cn coal production. Robertson is in charge of the inquiry. The Governor pointed out that while saving 270,000,000 Europeans, the U. S. may be losing a billion Asiatics to the Communists.

QUICK SATISFACTION In rrntlnr. Millar, hlrins mni finding with Brooltlrm Catle He said no date has been set Hint Ad. rnona MAIn 4-60t ik far for Lewis' appearance. The abolished. aa aa-takar and charge It! in.

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