Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archiveArchive Home
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 1

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 1

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
Issue Date:
Page:
1
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

OCT r3 Ms to Climb Flog W. L. P.C. 96 57 .627 95 58 .621 GB 1 TODAY-BROOKLYN AT PHILA. (2 P.M.).

BOSTON AT N. Y. (2 P.M.) GB BOTH RACES AT A GLANCE W. L. P.C.

NEW YORK. 96 57 .627 BOSTON 96 57 .627 Emm 16 PAGES OF COLOR COMICS EVERYWHERE WEATHER Fair and warm today. (CopTrtsht, 14. Th Brooklyn Inf .) Unbred Brooklyn P. O.

24 Cl Mall Matter BROOKLYN 1, N. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1949 108th YEAR No. 271 Worn Russio Boro Woman Named to City Tug Flock Sure of Tie; Cards Bow-Yanks 4Cinisequ cue Quints Born to Lioness in Zoo PEACE HOPES DIM IN STEEL, COAL STRIKES Nearly Million Idle As Pension Disputes Curb Industries Pittsburgh, Oct. 1 (U.R) The sinews of American industry, steel and coal, were hamstrung tonight by strikes over pension issues. There were no prospects of an early settlement in the economy-shaking tie-ups in the two vast and basic industries.

The number of workers idle soared toward the million mark. C. I. O. President Philip Murray said his United Steelwork-ers would stay out until the union's demands for company-paid pensions and social insurance are met.

John L. Lewis, whose 380,000 soft coal miners east of the Mississippi have been idle two weeks, was just as adamant. Truman Won't Intervene President Truman does not plan to intervene in the steel strike which began Friday midnight. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said as far as the White House is concerned the situation could be consid ered a complete blank.

Murray late today restated the union's demands: Company- paid pensions and Insurance or a 30-cent-an-hour wage increase. "No amount of prevarication on the part of the employer," he said, "is going to convince the American people and the employes that industry has given full consideration to the recommendations of the factfinding board of the President." U. 8. Steel Stands Pat Soon after Murray's statement, Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel reaffirmed Big Steel's determination not to bow to the "ultimatum" of the striking steel-workers that it "must" accept the pension plan approved by the Presidential fact-finding board.

In a letter to the stockholders of the nation's largest steel producer, Olds said "United States Steel declines to bow to that ultimatum. The President of the United States gave express assurance in advance Continued on Page 2 Transport Workers Give Blood for Union In the largest single mass blood donation ever made in Brooklyn, 250 members of Local 101, utility workers division DAILY and SUNDAY COME ON, DON! On the strong right arm of big Don Newcombe, Dodgers' freshman linger, rests the, hopes of Brooklyn to clinch the pennant today. BORO BUSINESS TO HIT JACKPOT IF DODGERS WIN Hotels, Restaurants Prepare for Crowds-Casey, Fitz Ready Business will boom Is the general opinion of the bor ough's hotel, restaurant, and snack bar managers if the Dodgers cop the pennant. Kennetn H. Mcbeuan, gen eral manager of the Hotel St.

George, explained the St. George was to be the headquarters for visiting pressmen and for mem bers of the Brooklyn Dodger Farm System, if the borough team wins. And again IF the St. George will hold a reception for the press visitors. About 150 rooms are being held.

General manager Thaddeus E. Snodgrass of the Hotel Bos- sert expects good business, too. if part of the series is played at Ebbets Field. Rooms are also being set aside for out-of-towners and friends of the team. "We're praying the Dodgers will bring home our bacon," said Eddie Auerbach, who holds the hat checking concession at Freddie Fitzsimmons bowling lanes and restaurant.

120 Empire Blvd. "Our bowling alleys have been reconditioned and the place has been painted. Just in case, ya' know. Just in case our Dodgers take the pennant." Also near Ebbets Field is Hugh Casey's Steak and Chop House, 600 Flatbush Continued on Page 30 I TV, Education Post Gladys M. Dorman Chosen to Fill Ribman Vacancy on Board Gladys M.

Dorman, Brooklyn attorney and mother of two children, will be sworn in Tuesday afternoon by Mayor O'Dwyer as a member of the Board of Higher Education, it was learned yesterday. Miss Dorman will fill out the unexpired term of the late Ben jamin C. Ribman which ends in For many years active in Brooklyn legal and communal work, Miss Dorman In private life is the wife of Benjamin R. Raphael, also an attorney. They live at 8801 Shore Road with their two children, Stephen, 8, ar.d Allan, A'3.

On Tuesday, Mayor O'Dwyer also will reappoint Edwin Kleinert of Brooklyn to another term as a Commissioner of the Board of Standards and Appeals at an annual salary of $8,500, Bay Ridge Residents Both Commissioner Kleinert and Miss Dorman are Bay Ridge residents and members of the 9th Assembly District Democratic organization, head ed by Leader Joseph J. Madden. Both appointments are being made upon the recommendations of Borough President Cashmore. The Board of Higher Educa tion consists of 21 members who are appointed by the Mayor for nine-year terms at Continued on Page 2 French Cabinet OKs Labor Plan Paris, Oct. 1 (U.R) Premier Henri Queuille tonight won cabinet approval of his compro mise solution to nation-wide labor demands for higher wages because of franc devalua tion.

The, ministers were in session for six hours. At the same time the cabinet called for a European economic conference to iron out the con tinental monetary and economic problems resulting from devaluation. The acceptance of Queuille's formula by the cabinet, which had been split for two weeks ended the threat that his one year and 20-day-old govern ment, the longest in office since 1937, would fall. The ministers have been meeting almost daily since devaluation. The compromise rejected wage increases until the effects of devaluation could be ascer tained.

It included these points: 1. Recommendation for low ering government -controlled prices of meat, butter and other foofls, coal, electricity, textiles and certain other industrial products. 2. A decision to maintain and reinforce the government's tight control of credit. Three Home Runs Upset Boro Nine, 6-4 -Cubs Win by 3-1 By HAROLD C.

BI RR Eagle Staff Correspondent Philadelphia, Oct. 1 The Dodgers tried to stand up under a withering Phillie home run fire, but went down under the bats of Del Ennis, Andy Seminick and Puddin' head Jones for a 6 to 4 defeat that threw the National League into the final game of the campaign. The Yankees, refusing to be counted out of the thrilling American League race, rallied to nip the Red Sox, 5 1, to gain a first-place tie with the Beantowners at the Yankee Stadium. Thus the hectic. A.

L. race also went clown to the final day of play, thanks to an eighth Inning homer by Johnny Lindell after Boston had grabbed an early 4 0 lead. Out in Chicago the Cards lost their fourth straight to the lowly Cubs to leave Brooklyn still clinging to first place and one to go. The best the Missounans can get out of it Is a three-game playoff with the Dodgers. But the once frightening Red Birds looked choked up.

The Dodgers could wrap It up tomorrow If Don Newcombe is able to beat Russ Meyer, who has won nine straight. Five of the Phillies' six runs today were manufactured on homers Into the left field seats at Shibe Park. Ennis tied it up Continued on Page 22 Fire Beats City's Demolition Plans, Gutting Structure Fire beat the city to its own plans to demolish ca five-story abandoned brick factory build Ing at 231 Concord St. yester clay, casting a pall of black moke over the downtown area and leading many pedestrians to inquire if the Navy Yard or the New York Telephone Company building was afire. The blaze was believed started by five children.

The old factory on the cor ner of Concord St. and Hudson Ave. was to have been demol ished by the city to make room Farragut Houses and the lirooklyn Queens Connecting Highway. The fire was discovered by Dominick Gennico of 247 Hud- pon Ave. at 12:45 p.m.

He told Deputy Chief Fire Marshal Martin Scott that he had re peatedly chased boys and girls out of the empty structure, which until two years ago was occupied by the Eagle Soap Company. Approximately 20 pieces of fire apparatus responded to the three alarms and under command of Fire Chief Peter Lof-tu had the blaze under control In half an hour. In addition to Gennico, an employe of a garage adjoining the building, Edward Ruckert. tow Deputy Chief Marshal s'Fir Army Bulgaria Joins Stalin Satellites Accusing Tito Belgrade, Oct. 1 U.R Yugo slavia sent a blunt note to the Soviets today warning them that they would have to assume responsibility for the "conse quences ot tneir anu-iugu-slav activities.

At the same time the official Yugoslav Comunist newspaper Borba said that the Jugoslav army now has enough arms to 'eive worthy answer to an wno would attempt to endanger the freedom of our homeland. These developments came as a third Russian satellite followed the Soviet Union in denouncing its friendship treaty with Yugoslavia. Bulgaria was the latest to follow in the footsteps of Russia itself, Hungary and Polarid. 'Threats' Charged The Bulgarian note, delivered to the Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Sofia, accused Yugoslav leaders of "threatening" Bulgaria, claiming Bulgarian territory and sending spies into Bulgaria to undermine its government. Romania and Czechoslovakia Continued on Page 30 Says Royal Navy Guards Shipments To Chinese Reds Washington, Oct.

1 (U.R) Rep resentative Harold O. Lovre (R S. charged today that British merchant ships have been running supplies to the Chinese Communists under the protection of the Royal Navy. Lovre said that since last June British vessels have delivered more than 130,000 tons of vital supplies to the Communists at "three to four times" the normal market price. The South Dukotan, who is in the Far East on a House committee tour, made the charge in a statement issued from his office here.

Lovre's statement came as the State Department awaited word from the Chinese Nationalist Government on the status of three American merchant ships being held off the China coast. The three vessels were halted by Chinese Nationalist war ships at the mouth of the Yang-tsr River, near Communist-held Shanghai. The State department said American diyflmatic officials at Canton havaUbeen instructed to ask the Nationalists for details of the incident. The department refused a re quest from the Isbranutsen Lines of New York, owners of the vessels, for an escort of American warships to conduct one of the ships into Shanghai. WHERE TO FIND IT Page 13 12 36 12 13 13 18 36 Page 19 23 27 29 17 141 1 22-24 25-27 28 10 30-35 Bocks Obituaries Old Timers Radio Real Estate Schools Society Sports Theaters Travel and Resorts Veterans Want Ads Bridge Business Outlook Crossword Dr.

Brady Editorial Heffoman Horoscope lust B'tw'n 15 15 Marriage Lie. Moviei Novel 25-27 12 BIRTHDAY PARTY AT ZOO Conrad Ciferi, a keeper at the Prospect Park Zoo, bottle-feeds one and holds another of five new-born lion cubs. Another keeper, Devillo Homes, holds three of the cubs. Erin Bids Godspeed To 402 on Tiny Boat Won't Hinder Voyage of Landing Craft the Transport Workers Union i'1 not hinder the Atlantic voyage of the Victory, the C.I.O., yesterday gave a pintjwar surplus landing craft built for 52 soldiers on which 402 of blood each to establish a blood bank on which members their families may draw I when transfusions are needed.their own frteam, may God be Shy Cops Rescue Stylish Stoat Trapped in Salon 's Slenderizer Eagl Staff photoi Keeper to Feed Cubs as Mother Roughs 'em Up Rhoda, a 4-year-old African lioness boarding at the Prospect Park Zoo, gave birth to quintuplets yesterday, a rare thing in the animal world and a bit of a problem to Brooklyn lion-keepers. Conrad Ciserri, a keeper in the lion house came to her cage early yesterday morning and found the new family.

Usually a lion litter consists of three cubs. P'ive cubs are to a lion's life just about what the Dionne quintuplets were to Mrs. Dionne. Rhoda didn't like it much. Ciserri had to remove the cubs, each weighing about Continued on Page 30 onvention Melish Plea congregation on the subject of dissolution of pastoral relationship shall be conclusive," Is now in the convention's Committee on Canons.

To become effective, it must be passed by the fiOO-member House of Deputies and the 100-member House of Bishops. Would Change Church "This resolution," the delegate, who asked that his name he withheld, said, "would fh effect, make the Episcopal Church Into a Congregational Church." He said he would oppose it. Yesterday the SGth Triennial Continued on Page 2 Temple Rites Tonight Usher in Yom Kippur to U. S. From Red Tyranny The Irish Government said today sail to the new world "away with them," a spokesman for the government said.

"We won't hinder them. On the contrary Ireland has always shown Itself ready to give every assistance to anybody in distress." Citizens of Cobh and Cork came down to the docks all day long, bearing food, chocolates Continued on Page 30 Episcopal Weighs 2d Special to the Brooklyn Eaale San Francisco, Oct. 1 Delegates to the Protestant Episcopal Church Convention today had under study a resolution which would give a parish congregation full control over pastoral relations of its ministers. It was the second attempt by supporters of the Rev. John Howard Melish, ousted rector of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Church, to bolster their fight to retain him as their spiritual leader.

The new resolution which, in the words of one Brooklyn delegate, "would give an interpre tation of the General Canons to the effect that a vote of the Carrying Refugees Cork, Ireland, Oct. 1 (U.R) European refugees hope to from Soviet tyranny." "If they can get away under their eight eyes as they passed the beauty parlor dressing room. fl More to the Rescue Not equipped to deal with Mws Chance's mischance, they telephoned for more help, and in no time, Emergency Squad 13 arrived from the Butler St. Station six patrolmen plus Sgt. Ernest Emmon in command.

In they went, their 14 eyes also shielded thev were no cads. There was Miss Chance stand ing up in her slenderizing ma chine, with her left elbow caught among the rollers. In two minutes, the emer gency cops removed five rollers and freed the prisoner. Just then an ambulance arrived from Jewish Hospital, with Dr. Anita Sternberg.

"Sissies!" said Dr. Sternberg, boldly walking in with unshielded eyes. She treated Miss Chance for minor bruises. The sheepish policemen returned to their precincts and the beauty parlor to Its normal quiet. tomorrow moraine and Scott that about 10 minutes be-jag0gues 0f Brooklyn, after this fore smoke began to pour outfjay'g sundown, will mark the Eleven Brooklyn policemen shielded their 22 eyes yester day as they went to the rescue of pretty Patricia La Chance, 20, of 47 Madison trapped in a beauty parlor slenderizer.

They rescued her, too, but not without some gentlemanly em barrassment. Miss La Chance, it appears was in the slenderizing machine in a beauty salon on Flatbush when, at 11 a.m., a strand of cloth got jammed under a machine roller and the rollers stopped and couldn't be budged. Mild pandemonium broke iut among the other beauty parlor patrons, some 20 ladles in various stages of undress, preparing for their turn at being slenderized. Somebody telephoned the police, and presently two prowl cars arrived, with Sgt. Edward Morris and three patrolmen from the Bergen St.

Station. As the four cops walked in, the cops later said, they shielded Kol Nirlre servicps in the beginning of Yom KiDPur. most significant and solemn of Jew ish High Holy Days. For Yom Kippur, lasting from sundown tonight until sundown tomorrow, is the Day of Atonement. Throughout the world all Jews who keep the faith, be they Orthodox, Con servative or Reform with the exception of the very old, the very young and the ill will fast rigidly for 24 hours.

Re pentance and expiation are the traditional themes of the day. In Brooklyn's temples the pattern of observance will in general Involve a ritual Kol Nidre service and a sermon tonight, ritual services and a ser- Yizkor, or memorial services for the dead, tomorrow after- noon Some large temples will be so well attended that dual ceremonies will be held. For example, at Union Temple, 17 Eastern Parkway, the Rev. Dr. Sidney S.

Tedesche will preach a sermon on "Knowledge Without Wisdom" for one service at 8 o'clock tonigrtt, while at another, at the same hour, his assistant rabbi, the Rev. Alfred Barnston, will preach on "The Modification of Instincts." Toploi of Sermons At 10 a.m. tomorrow Dr. Tedesche'g theme will be "Divine Discontent" and Rabbi Continued on Page 2, ji me odj uauij, saw four boys and a girl leav ing It. FAIR, SUNNY FORECAST FO? BALL SEASON FINIS The Weather Man has prom ised that it will be sunny and fair for today's American League pennant-deciding contest at the Yankee Stadium between the Yanks and Red Sox.

The same kind of weather Is on tap for Philadelphia, where the Dodgers wind up their regular season, and in Chicago, where the Cards meet the' Cubs. The high for today locally Will be in the upper 60's,.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

About The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Archive

Pages Available:
1,426,564
Years Available:
1841-1963