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mi BROOKLYN 1, N. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1948 Bnbarad Brooklyn P. O. 2d OUu UiU Mitttt 3rcuTC new york city uen 1 9 ELSEWHZRa cent Vh7 Ernie BAR ROADS Vestry, Wardens Revolt Against Melish Activities' Boro Vets Pledge War on Wallace Announce New 'Project' After Picketing Boro Rally Brooklyn war veterans, bitterly opposed to Henry A. Wal CITY BUDGET AGAIN TOPS BILLION MARK Record High Sum Retains 5c Fare, Adds Tax on Autos Mayor O'Dwyer's administration hit the financial jackpot ter a form for reply indicating was indicated, may lead to a lace's political philosophies, announced a new, permanent "project" today.

It will consist of mass picketing of the third-party candidate The nine-man vestry and the two wardens of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church have expressed strong objections to "outside" activities of the Rev. William Howard Melish, asso ciate rector of the church, it was disclosed today. Jn a letter sent out to mem bers of the church without approval of the Rev. Mr. Melish or his father, the Rev.

Dr. John Howard Melish. rector of the church, the 11 lay officials declared younger Mr. Melish's activities were "most detrimental" to the interests of the church. They Inclosed with each let AID TO SPAIN IS CUT OUT OF ERP BILL Conference Group Bows to Protests by Truman, Vandenberg Washington, April 1 (U.R) A Senate-House conference committee today dropped all references to Spain from the European Recovery Program.

It left Spain's participation directly up to 16 Marshall Plan countries." The conferees acted alxiut an hour after the White House announced that President Truman was "utterly opposed" to making Spain a participant In ERP. Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican, also opposed the Spanish provision. The provision (o make Spain eligible under the European Recovery Program was contained in the House version of the bill passer! last night. Hold 2-Hour IHsciinsIoii V.

F. Assemblyman Thomas A. Carney of the 8th A. a member of both the V. F.

W. and the American Legion, and others were in the forefront of the anti-Wallace demonstration. "This is a permanent project," Mr. Carney said today. "Any time Wallace or his cronies come to Brooklyn to put for President each time he comes to Brooklyn for a speech.

The new project was dis closed after 500 veterans, con sisting chiefly of members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Catholic War Veterans, had staged a fnass demonstration against Mr. Wallace last night in the Red Hook section. Harold J. Burke, one of the top-ranking officials of the Report Finns Bar Soviet Border Forts U. E.

W. Officers Lead Plant Raid by U. A. W. 2,100 Members of Mergenthaler Unit Urged to Secede From 'Commie Union' Twenty-one hundred members of the Mergenthaler Unit.

Local 475, United Electrical, Radio and Machine JTorkers, C. I. were expected to be circularized this afternoon and urged by their own officers and executive board members to secede from the U. E. W.

and join the United Automobile Workers. A count of the U. A. W. membership application cards signed by plant workers is to be made this evening.

Delegation Expected to Reject Pact Like That of Hungary and Romania Helsinki, April 1 (U.R) New instructions, believed to be a rejection of Russian treaty demands to fortify Finland's borders immediately, were telegraphed today to the Finnish treaty delegation in Moscow by President Juho K. Paasikivi. whether the members approved or disapproved of the associate rector's work as chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship "as well as his sponsorship or active support of other organizations with similar leanings." tfrferendum Looms At a press conference this morning, Mrs. Bruce Bromley of 104 Willow member of the city Civil Service Commis sion and active in the Heights church for 38 years, disclosed details of the revolt which, it membership in the U. A.

Mr. Dillon said, were authorized at a meeting of officers, shop stewards and other leaders of the unit last night in Lenruth Hall, 444 Myrtle Ave. Vote 33 to 2 lor Move Reporting that there were 125 persons present, many of whom he pointed out were observers William Askew, recording sec Continued on Pnge 13 shares moved, as compared with 580,000 in a similar period yesterday. The market was re ported "quiet and irregular." Meanwhile First Deputy Police Commissioner Thomas F. Mulligan observed the picket lines in order to make a recommendation to Police Commissioner Wallander on the union request for permission to have more pickets at the ex changes.

First inkling of the possibility of the strike moving on to some of the member firms of the exchanges came yesterday afternoon when pickets surrounded the buildings at 61 Broadway Continued on Piige 2 Planning to distribute the circulars and application cards for membership in the U. A. a right wing C. I. O.

affiliate to the Mergenthaler Linotype Company's employes as they report for work today, a committee, headed by the unit's chairman, John Dillon, predicted that by nightfall an overwhelming number of applications will have been signed by the workers. The distribution and the accepting of applications for Negotiations were expected to be resumed in Moscow late today, with the Finnish delegation opposing the signing of a military pact such as Russia now, has with Romania and Hungary. Parliamentary circles said the Finnish Parliament will approve the Finnish-Russian pact if the treaty delegation carries out the instructions telegraphed today. Reliable reports said a majority of Parliamentary leaders ob jected to the second of eight ar ticles in the Russian treaty proposal, which would give Russia permission to start immediately TO ALLIES FOR 2-HR. PERIOD U.

British Reject Soviet Demand to Inspect All Trains Berlin, April 1 (U.R) Russia cut off all rail traffic from Berlin to the American, British and French zones of Germany torlay, but abandoned after two hours roadblocks set up on the boundaries of the Russian zone of the German capital city. Air routes to supply the approximately 25,000 men of the three Western Powers in Berlin still were open and vehicular traffic operated normally along the "autobahn" through the 100 miles of Russian-occupied territory west of the city. But both American and British authorities rejected flatly the demand of the Russians that they be allowed to inspect trains of the Allied Powers to and from Rerlin. The Russians halted all rail traffic as a result of that rejection. Four Trains Halted This is the situation: 1.

Four trains two American and two British were halted during the night by a new Russian check-point at Marienborn, in the Soviet zone west of Berlin. American and British officers in charge flatly refused to let Soviet troops enter or inspect the trains. 2. One American train got through to Bremerhaven, but only after the American lieutenant in charge, who was Identifier! as 2d Lt. Asbury, permitted Russians to search th train.

Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Continued on Page 3 Legion Chief Asks That Nation Be Put On War Footing Washington, April 1 (U.R) National Commander James F. O'Neil said today the American Legion believes the time has come for Congress to put this country on "a war footing" beer-use it is "moving toward war at an accelerated pace." Therefore, he said, Congress should enact a draft, and universal military training immediately. Mr.

O'Neil told the Senate Armed Services Committee tha a standby draft would be a "cowardly out" in view of the tense world situation. He insisted both the draft and I'MT were needed because the United States "is moving toward war at an accelerater puce." He warned that Russia "appears more ruthless anc treacherous than its Nazi prede cessor. "The American Legion de plores Congressional rumor, that I'MT will be brushed asid i favor of setting up a standby selective rervice system under which young men would be registered but uncalled," he said. "The American Legion would regard any such decision as a cowardly out, and an inexcusable exposure of the American people to danger. It is our hope that Congress will advance the program from universal military training and the temporary draft without yielding to politi cal considerations.

He denounced Henry A. Wal lace's testimony against UMT, particularly Wallace's reference to using the trained reserve of 15.0OO.000 World War II veter ans. I he average age of those war veterans now is 20, he said and half of them no loneer v-, r- ifv as draft, elicihlps. WHERE TO FIND It Rain Shrinks Pickets, again today by submitting a record breaking executive budget for 1918-19 totaling SI. 137,306.711, based on the retention of the five-cent transit fare and calling for a S5 and $10 auto and truck use tax and doubling of local business taxes.

The Board of Estimate, meet lng in special session to receive the budget, announcer! that public hearings on it will start 12 at 10:30 a.m. The hear ings will continue April 13 and 11. In the citv's second billion- dollar budget, topping the cur rent outlay by $105,029,65, the basic real estate tax rate is slated to remain about the ame. $2.89 for $100 of assessed valuation, but increased assessments will boost realty revenues by $16,908,950. Because of the Mayors an nounced refusal to use new Republican -sponsored permissive legislation to raise the transit fare and thereby wipe out a $51,000,000 subway operating deficit, and Governor Dewey's denial of additional requested Mate aid, no pro- Vision was made for general Continued on Page 2 Dewey Assails Truman, Wallace In Wisconsin Talk En Route With Governor Dewey, April 1 (U.R Governor Dewey opened his political campaign in Wisconsin today with a bitter attack upon what he called the "bungling" foreign policy of President Truman and the nroeram of "surrender and appeasement" of Henry A.

Wal lace. In a speech prepared for de livery at Racinf, Mr. Dewey paid Mr. Truman and Wal lace, representing "two wings" of the Democratic party, have confused the American people with programs that are "absolutely bankrupt." "If Mr. Truman bungles us Into an early war, even though we win it.

everything we hold dear in all the world might be lost in the process. If Mr Wallace's policy of surrender and appeasement were followed we should ultimately be en veloped and choked to death in a Communist world," Mr. Dewey said. The New York Governor, seeking to bolster his drive for Wisconsin's 27 Republican dele gates to the National Convention, said that with "courageous informed leadership and sound government our nation need not fear war, and we can preserve the institution of human freedom." "The time has come," he continued "to begin to wage peace with all the vigor, the imagination, the skill and energy with which we waged war. It is a tough job and a long job.

But we can be sure of the outcome." Cops on Wall Street Feigns Insensibility, Saves Life and $500 referendum among the church members to determine a course of action against the rector and his son. The letter, daterl March 15, declared that "a considerable number of active members of the church have stated strong objections to these activities; some families have already withdrawn from the church, others have expressed their in tention of doing so, and it is the belief of the vestry that the sit uation threatens the continued Continued on Page 2 Boro Girl, 24, Found Dead in College Room Apparent Suicide Over Love Affair, Parents Informed Dr. and Mrs. George C. Douglass of 50 O.td St.

were notified today that their 21-year-old daughter, a graduate student at Washington University, St. Louis, had apparently commit ted suicide over a broken love affair. The body of Patricia Mae Douglass, a Girls High School and Connecticut College for Women graduate, was found on a bed in her room with two notes and a glass partly filled with an unidentified fluid on a nearby table. "I had hopes," one note read, "that Ted and I might contribute something together, but that now is out. I guess I never realized before how much it hurts when you pinned all your hopes on a love to have it fall through." Mrs.

Douglass was quick to absolve "Ted," whom she refused to identify further, of any pos sible blame for her daughter's death. "I know him quite well," she said. "He's a nice young man and it's unfortunate his name had to be drawn into this." She added that the family had Continued on Page 3. Tax Bill Veto Due CfAMt Tn I MAM TeIMAtll iiwiii II WIIIUII I WIIIWI I WW Washington, April 1 (U.R) President Truman will send a message to Congress tomorrow on the Republican tax reduction bill. The message was certain to be a veto.

Mr. Truman held an unusu al conference with Democratic leaders torlay. Coney Island. Flatbuh and Ridgewood. Two trolley lines were held up for more than two hours each, the Belt Parkway wa covered with more than a foot of water for one and one-half miles, and at one spot, at Wilson and DeKalb 6- Arthur B.

Reynolds, 2.j, a 6-foot 2-inch ex-marine of 297 Dumont saved his life and about $500 in a safe by feigning unconsciousness as two holdup men, one swinging gun butt, beat him unmer cifully torlay in the office of the Household Finance Cor poration, Broadway, ac cording to police. Reynolds, the assistant man ager of the branch, noticed two men loitering on the stairway of the Gates Ave. station of the Broadway as he got off a Continued on Tage 3 on fortification of Finland's bor ders. The article reportedly said Soviet preparations in Finland should be aimed at facilitating the future support of Finland's defense of her borders. The extent of these prepara tions, according to these reports, would be decided upon in sepa rate negotiations after the main pact was completed.

It was reported that all Par liamentary groups except the Communists were opposed to article two on grounds it would give Russia permission to build fortifications in Finland in peacetime. train at the station to go to work. He paid little hoed to them. As he was opening the door of the branch office, onp flight up, thought he heard a noise, turned and saw the pair, one armed, bounding up the stairs. They forced him into an outer office- of the firm and ordered him to open the safe.

Reynolds told them he did not know the combination. The thugs then attacked him, beating him on the head with the gun butt and flooring him. One took his wallet, containing $15. Reynolds' wife, Mary, told reporters later the holdup, man kept hitting him, and asked i him again and again to ripen the safe. Applying marine knowledge gained in the Pacific, Reynolds decided he would he killed if this kept up, so he feigned im rconsciousness.

Disgustedly, the holdup men gave up and fled. Firm officials and Mrs. Reyn olds said he knew the combination. Reynolds was treated at Bushwick Hospital for scalp lacerations. Police of the Ralph Ave.

station put out a riragnet for the holdup pair. An official of the firm said that "maybe as much as S500" was in the safe. U. S. Still Holds Rights to Bases In Greenland Washington, April 1 United States rights to strategic bases in Greenland are in full force for use in any possible emergency, Government off.

cials said today. These officials said an Amerri can-Danish agreement, signed in lfl41 has not been modified by 10 months of negotiations to ward a new peacetime accord. The wartime pact granted the United States permission to build, operate and maintain miliary installations in Green land. Meal amjnr Water. It i tie conterees agreed on throwing out the controversial provision after only two hours of discussion.

Mr. Vandenberg told report ers the action leaves it up to the 16 Marshall Plan countries whether Spain should be dealt into the E. R. P. Senator Vandenberg said the measure leaves membership open to "additional nations which may be invited by the presently participating nations." "Therefore," he said, "the conferees feel that a decision respecting Spain is the function and prerogative of the 16 participating nations which have already organized themselves into a co-operating unit." The conference agreement on Spain removed the major stumbling block in the task of ironing out differences between the House and Senate versions of foreign aid.

It appeared to clear (he way for early Congressional action on the final form of foreign aid The House had wrapped its foreign aid measure into a sin Kle 86,205,000,000 package. The Senate harl passed separate bills for the European Recov ery Program, China aid and supplementary military aid for Greece and Turkey. The Senate conferees wore set to accept the House single-package idea i. I Lets Relax, rrorejsor Chicago, April 1 (U.R) The "ideal college professor" should be well versed in music, literature, sports, popular fiction and the comics, according to a nation-wide survey of college stu dents, conducted by Loyola University. the cellars of 20 stores were under two feet of water.

The Sewers Department re- ported that its offices in the Municipal Muiioing received hundreds of calls concern ng iiooas in HrooKivn, ana mat; two extra truck lines iwere es-l Mi STORM TIES UP 2 TROLLEY LINES MMtriSMaMMaV 5- Matt. fjn jajjf. Drenching rain which cut down the number of pickets and police around the struck New York Stock and Curb Exchanges apparently postponed the threatened extension of the strike to brokerage houses today. Instead of the 500 to 1,000 pickets present during the last three days of the strike, there were about 250 placarded marchers around the struck buildings as the exchanges opened for business as usual There was one policeman for every two pickets, borne of the pickets carried umbrellas, among them 20 white rayon umbrellas donated by a neigh boring umbrella dealer, but most were protected by army surplus "gas" hoods. Officials of Local 205 of the United Financial Workers, A.

F. said they had written 21 prominent civic leaders asking them to "sift the facts" in the strike. Their letter was signed by Alfred Baker Lewis, de scribed as a "prominent busi ness man." In the first hour of business on the Stock Exchange, 430,000 Truman. Aides Confer on Coal Washington, April 1 (U.R) President Truman called a con ference today of top Government officials in the soft coal strike. The President will confer late this afternoon with Attor ney General Tom Clark, Secretary of Interior J.

A. Krug, Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach and Cyrus King, Federal Mediation Director. i The meeting of Government officials was called as some soft coal operators weighed the idea ce i ui uneruig junn u. bewis a new one-year contract with a detailed pension plan in an ef fort to end the 18-day miners walkout.

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The department sent out all of its Pmprgencv crews and truck to clean out tt)e sowers. The two trollev lines tied up re tne wllson Ave Contiantd on Page 13 1 Cay Mood, 5.70-3.40-2.70; Piping By, 3.40-2.60; Craxette, 4.90. Off, 1:30..