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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1947 Flying Snnta Hurt in Jinx Crash By TED LEWIS of THE NEWS Bureau Washington, D. Dec. 21. The Republican Party organization is in danger of coming apart at the seams in the opinion of some GOP Congressional Gloomy Gusses now traipsing back home in distinctly no mood to enjoy Christmas. The opinionated politicians most alarmed are members of the Yan kee rebel group Tobey, Baldwin, Flanders in the Senate but the situ ation has other Republicans worried, too.

What thev fear is that the party will soon be split wide open and irreparably on two major issues foreign policy and inflation. That would be a fine how-do-you-do in a Presidential election year. The rumblings of trouble be (NEWS lulu Uifiinanl Wrecked Republic Seabee amphibian after it crashed near Roosevelt Field, L. I. came increasingly audible as the recent special session progressed.

Party members split in both House Two fliers were critically injured at 1:30 P. M. yesterday when their Republic Seabee amphibian crashed after a faltering takeoff from Roosevelt Field, L. I Using the south-north runway, and Senate on the amount of stopgap aid needed for Europe and China, Similarly some Republicans rebelled at the superficial way in which inflation 'was grappled with an elephant of a problem surmounted during the special session owned by Ward, a former Vallev the plane cleared the hangars at the north end of the field, but its Stream fire chief, who lives at 33 West Dover Valley Stream, and landing gear scraped high tension has been a source of hard luck, by passage of a mousy bilL Aliory, a combat flier in the war, was taking the plane to, his own shop at Central Airport to repair a faulty oil feed that had forced the plane's owner, V. Tom Ward, tc make an emergency landing two weeks ago.

Made Temporary Repairs. Last Spring the motor conked out tor this widening split on the two pivotal issues of the coming Beat Truman campaign, there has and ward had to make a forced landing in Long Island Sound. He abandoned the ship and swam three miles to Mattituck, L. later wires along Old Country Koad, bordering the field, and it dived into a construction foundation on the property of the United Lithographic Co. The two fliers were on a two-minute flight to Central Nassau Airport in Farmingdale, L.

I. Santa Claus at Controls. to be a whipping boy, and the Dewey-Stassen-Eisenhower supporters are therefore lambasting sending a boat out to tow the plane 1 YCW 1 very bitterly in paivate the dis in. Drove Over in Car. Aliory said he and Crane had made temporary repairs in preparation for their brief flight and he had thought there was no danger.

tressingly cool cucumber chairman of the Republican National Com- Ward was at the field at the time of yesterday's crackup, but tee Brazilla Carroll Reece. Brazilla Carroll Reece Thm whipping boy. Now Reece and his staff get had decided to drive over to Central Airport in his car, thus rapped every time they answer a hite House blurp, but friends say the Taft-backed chairman keeps on escaping being a crash victim. taking it on the chin simply because he is old fashioned enough to At the controls was James Aliory, SO, of 91 South Drive, Valley Stream, L. the flying Santa Claus who parachuted from the same plane last Christmas to deliver gifts to the children of Valley Stream.

His passenger was Stanley B. Crane, 26, of 75 Gerard Bronx, an airplane mechanic who worked with Aliory at Central Nassau Airport. Aliory, a bridegroom of less than a year, suffered a broken nose. But the fuel line clogged when the plane became airborne, and the motor conked out completely as the ship flew over the hangars. Aliory couldn't try for a belly landing because his landing gear had not been retracted, and when the gear topped the high tension wires, the plane dived away to the left out of control.

The plane is the second ship believe there shoCrtd be some live issues between the "Democrat Party," as he calls it, and his own. The me-too GOP Congressmen fondling the coattails of Dewey, Stassen and Eisenhower prefer to have the 1948 undetermined head injuries and a campaign fought out on the 1940 (Willkie) and 1944 (Dewey) basis of fractured shoulder. Crane had head injuries and a severe cut of the face. Both are on the critical list personalities i. how much better an administrator I would make at Nassau Hospital in Mineola.

than the incumbent of the White House in carrying out the same New Deal-generated policies. Tonight Reece smashed in with another statement which the anti- Taft crowd tomorrow will try to start picking flyspecks from. Reece's statement was in the form of a letter to William Norman, organization secretary of the Communist Party of New York State. No Wooin' Today, Ellis Is. Tells Cheeko Commie denunciation of the Republican Party program and record.

said Reece, was understandable "in view of the onen support given the Democrat candidate (Roosevelt) for the Presidency in 1944 by the Communist Party then masquerading as the Communist Political As By ARTHUR MULLIGAN Bearing; nylons, flannel pajamas, silk underwear and Italian pastries Frank (Cheeko) Alfidi tried to run the Ellis sociation." Then he let loose in reply to a letter from the Norman crowd proposing a four-point inflation curb program calling for a price roll back to June, 1946, levels, strict price controls, rationing where needed and higher taxes on the wealthy and lower on the working people. Richmond, S.I., one of Maria's 10 cousins on Staten Island. The cousins, plus other relatives, are waging a collateral war along with Alfidi to get her into the states. Alfidi tried once or twice to slip past the immigration guard, but without any success. Then he waited two hours till Cataneo came ashore.

Cataneo promptly announced that his lawyer will file appeal papers with immigration headquarters in Philadelphia tlay But He Rebels Against Working Under Wraps. That program except for taxes has a "remarkable similarity in substance with the program presented at the beginning of the recent session by Mr. Truman, wrote Reece. There is the Tennessee Republican, say his critics, again making fool of himself trying to make an issue of federal controls alienat ing again the "me too" boys. in behalf of Maria.

Also, Molly Balglau, counsel for Alfidi, will submit formal papers to Watson B. Miller, Immigration and Naturalization Commissioner, asking that she be allowed entry as a GI bride. Cataneo wants to get Maria into the U. S. by adopting her, and i X3 i Alfidi said that would be all right by him, even it did mean two-hour hikes from Yonkers to Staten Island to woo her.

He Loves Her, He Vows. "I don't even care about that," he said expansively. "I love this Reece rebels against operating under wraps, but w-hile it hasn't been too apparent, he has had to so far as foreign policy is concerned. Truman's highly controversial Marshall Plan message to Congress Friday brought forth a prideful party-line statement from the Democratic National Committee, but there wasn't a peep from Reece's GOP headquarters. Why? Well, we can't make Senate President Vanden-berg mad! This highly explosive situation inside Republican ranks will become even more so the week after Christmas.

Senator Taft will then invade Truman's home state for two major speeches, one in St. Louis, the other in Kansas City and he will take apart the Marshall Plan. The senior Senator from Ohio is considered trigger-happy by those who shy away from issues, and he certainly has a tendency to fire before he sizes up the political consequences. Therefore what Taft says in Missouri and on a campaign trip in February when he invades Harold Stassen's private Minnesota precincts may blow off the lid on the party squabble over principles. Big Issue.

They Feel. Will Be Foreign Policy. Many influential Republicans besides Taft, in and out of Congress, now believe that the big issue in the coming Presidential campaign should be foreign policy. Some want to avoid it, of course. But all are figuring that the price issue, whether it should be a party one or not, is slowly evaporating and that by Spring Truman will have been forced to agree to another round of wage increases which will quiet any remaining complaints about inflation.

But foreign policy can be an issue only if Vandenberg weakens on his present all-out, ball-carrying role on the Truman-Marshall team. If he doesen't, and splits sharply with Taft, the rift in the party will really be a beautiful schism which will make Truman's troubles with Henry Wallace about as politically significant as a Washington lobbyist's handout. I girl, and she's told me she would Frank (Cheeko) Alfidi and the gifts he got for Maria. But he never got past the Battery. Immigration guards said "No!" Island gantlet again yesterday to comfort his stranded Italian fiancee.

This time, alerted immigration guards stopped him pnld at the Ratterv. Alfidi, torpedoed Navy veteran marry me. Alfidi, who wired an appeal directly to President Truman, got a nice but rather non-committal reply yesterday from Eben Ayers, one of the President's secretaries. The message said Alfidi's appeal probably would be handed to Truman today, and he, in turn, probably will refer it to the Justice Department and the immigration people who, of course, know all about the case already. No Answer from Clark.

Alfidi also had wired Attorney General Clark, but got no acknowledgement. The News also could not locate Clark yesterday. Alfidi, foiled in his second attempt to see Maria, went lone-somely back to Yonkers with his pajamas, underwear and pastries. But he was still feeling a little smug oyer the fact that Maria has received dozens of other proposals that he forgot to bring them along. En route to the downtown Barge Office and Ellis Island, he restocked on the clothes and pastries.

At the Barge Office, an immigration guard refused to let him pass and referred him to Inspector Joseph Judge. One of Many Cousins. "We can't let any more of you people on today," Judge reported plaintively by telephone. "There's one guy out here who's raising hell now." This turned out to be Michael and lonkers music teacher, had talked his way onto the island Saturday and in a flagrant upset of cold immigration protocol, successfully proposed to pretty Maria For-micola. Maria had arrived here Thursday to find that her first ex-GI fiance had been killed in an auto accident.

Restocks on Gifts. In a burst of sentiment, Alfidi spent Saturday night buying a full outfit of clothes for Maria. He was so excited when he set out Shot, Crash Sf op Stolen Car Chase One shot by Patrolman Robert Young, 20, of 65 Mapes Newark, the fugitive driver, that he lost control and crashed into a telegraph pole at Avenue and Merritt Jersey City. A com-' panion escaped, but Young was captured and held for New York police. The car was reported stolen from Staten Island.

Anderson of the Hudson County, N. park police early yesterday ended a one-mile chase of a stolen auto through Bayonne and Jersey so scared Kichara a. by mail from Johnnies-come-lately. I City. It YonJwyeitexdayjee-erCalaneOj P.ot 3.