Daily News from New York, New York • 331

SUNDAY NEWS, MARCH 18, -1956 I OT YAM ALB. By EDWARD O'NEILL The rough and tumble of the job has battered and scarred every correction commissioner in the city's history, and Anna M. Kross is no exception. So the report that she may soon leave the hot spot of a Special Sessions justice spirit among her friends. For "Our Anna," as she's railed at City Hall, was a highly regarded magistrate.

When Mayor Bob Wagner appointed her the town's first lady correction commissioner, veterans around the Hall were dismayed. Traditionally, the Correction Department is a troublesome, scandal-ridden, brawling member of the city family. And Anna is finding a lady's presence no deterrent to the brickbats that go with t.SEWS fio by John Imitreyi Norse Marvlou Honahoe oxygen mask to Sonia Garcia's fare at St. Clare's Hospital. She was one ef eight overcome by g.

Kays of Life and Death (ill ftlme. idiot-Curie the job. A department seldom touched by sunshine. Correction deals with pain, suffering, and the enforced housing of the dregs of the city. Not often can it turn out more than one type of story the bad, belittling, reputation-ruining kind.

Through the years, many a commissioner has winced as Page One was enlivened with stories of jailbreaks, guard kickbacks, bribery, brutality, and fights between the top man and powerful, autocratic employe line organizations. Anna, too, was the unhappy victim of some unpleasant publicity over hiring of relatives. So it is no surprise that she is "the latest Correction boss to seek a more peaceful vocation. Indications that Anna may get her wish came last week when Wagner abandoned his policy of backing his commissioners to the hilt and consented to a City Hall gripe session of the five Department of Correc tion line organizations. This was Fumes K08 In Paddy's Clam House Snow and ice, which ek-gged an escape vent, caused carbon monoxide poi-rning of eight iiersons iUut 1:30 P.

M. yesterday at Paddy's Clam House, 315 W. 34th St. The victims wre two eulo-Birs vt employes, ami a hot! l-eu5 keeper next door. Oxygen was administered at wm, ami the eight were takrn St.

Clare's Hospital, none in rnMis condition. 2j Inner I'ndrMurbed The carbon monoxide ram frm a basement hot-water gas heater. arvi the vent was cleared I. a Consolidated Edison rrfw. -V ottr rbntimtrd for 250 other (finer in the restaurant.

The employes, must of whom rc in the basement, wrre: Soia Garcia. of 452 W. St I'etro Hernandez. 45, of Iff! MadUon IVtty Harris. 2, 4f W.

12Vth Max laeer. 46, of K. 2th lsLlyit. anal lila llarnwn, 4, ef J71t Jamaica, toeen. p- I plir The seeped upstair, felting tu rUAlMiirro, Frederick 71.

of 12tJ-15 147th Jamaica, and Jean liassul. 5J, of f2 Hay Parkway. Brooklyn. la the basement of the I'enn Terminal Hotel. 317 W.

24th the housekeeper, Jo-farra kaha. 57. of 215 W. 34th St i titliivinr. Mother, Sens And 2 Held Up gunmen Murk up five per-, including a woman and her teen-age son, in the office of Herlm Brothers, l-eer distributors MtJ Eighth Brooklyn, at o'clock la.t nijrht aiul got away with )731.

The he'd tip were Irvinr Frankel. the nianairer. of 24 Hills I lae, Brooklyn, hi wife, Kuth; their n. I.arry, 19. ami Mitch-ell.

13, an.l a driver. JmM Il'Aoiora. All five were henled it a wahrMoi. which then I a alril with beer caes. for the more peaceful duties has evoked a congratulatory Anna M.

Kross Tnc job never u) done over Anna's head, and she commish Francis W. H. Adams i Irene Joliot-Curie died today was her famous father of the hich both kill and cure man 1 Sts I hit back at her emplove malcontents. But they had succeeded in Paris, March 17 U.P. of blood cancer, a victim as mysterious radioactive rays kind.

The Nobel Prize-winning daughter of the discovers of radium was 58. I tors said death was caused by progressive leukemia incurred by the radiations to which he had exed herself in her work on artificial radioae-tiv ity. lluhand Lol Pt Mme. Joliot-Curie wa- the wife of physicist Frederick Joliot-Curie who was fired from his p4t as high commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission of France on grounds of Communist sympathies, tier husband had added Curie to his own name of JolHit in order to perpetuate it. The daughter of I'ierre and Marie Curie, who discovered radium in 18W, died in the hospital named in honor of her parents shortly after midnight.

Her hus-hand and two grown children were at her side. Mme. Joliot-Curie was one ef the most noted women scientists ef the 20th Century. Hut she was refused membership in the American Chemical Society in 1V54 he-cause of her pro-Communist lean- leaking her lose much face by getting to Wagner. Insiders claim that Wagner, with secret information, was trying desperately to head otf a dangerous prison strike situation that got beyond Anna's control.

They also contend that the situation, eased somewhat by Wagner's move, is nonetheless still dynamite-laden and could blow up at nny time. But Who Would Be the Next One? On top of this comes the "leak" that Anna would just love to le a Special Sessions justice. And one and one still make two, even in Correction. Moving Anna up to another job would be only half the solutiqn to Wagner's problem. He would have to find an iron-fisted successor who could clean out the department, crush the ever-present opposition from the line units, and make the jails scandal-proof.

The onlv two men on the horizon for this job are Police Com- i missioner Steve Kennedy and ex I. Kvt'wvl In 154S, she was detained over- Anti-Fascist Refugee Com-niKht on Ellis Island by C. S. Old West Point Coach Comes Back as Super Washington. March 17 (P).

Maj. Gen. Garrison (Gar) II. Davidson, famous West Point football coach of two ago. is going back to the school on the Hudson who both know they be crazy to take it.

Some fancy maneuvering, involving big Democratic names, is under way over the upcoming vacancy in the General Sessions judgeship of Jonah J. Goldstein, whose term runs out on Dec. 31. The plan is to give Goldstein's post to West Side Congressman Irwin Davidson, with Franklin D. Koosevelt Jr.

resuming the Congress seat he held before his ill-fated bid for state attorney general. Hegan's Spot Eyed by Davidson? Wagner's aid, Stanley Lowell, is ilso reported in the running for the job. Davidson had also been touted as a successor to DA Frank Hogan, with Frank becoming a surrogate, but he will be dropped from this consideration to make stepping down more palatable to Davidson-shy Hogan. A lot of city judges have got hot under the collar over a new rash of tickets being hung on their cars by the cops. One magistrate, ragged from a day of jousting with long lines of traffic violators, really erupted when he found a crisp, green $15 parking ticket dangling from the family bus.

His indignant sputterings, it's said, were never learned in law school. Controller Larry Gerosa and City Greeter Dick Patterson are involved in a snappish feud. Gerosa, who got top red carpet treat- ment from Italian President Giovanni Gronchi on his visit to Rome last year, charges Patterson deliberately shunted him into the background and kept him from repaying Gronchi's courtesy when the Italian chief of state visited here last week. The city's top elected official of Italian extraction, Gerosa complained bitterly to Wagner. The row promises to be a sizzler, and the angry Gerosa doesn't care who listens in.

Short takes: Albany sources report that former Dewey secretary 11. Burdell Bixby will soon resign from his high-salaried job as a member of the State Thruway Authority That job as public relations counsel in the Dept. of Licenses newly-created by the Board of Estimate went to Eddie Doyle, with the blessings of Joe Sharkey. More short takes: Manhattanite Guy Ribaudo pushed for the next Municipal court vacancy It will be Mayor Wagner Night at the First A'e Boys Club shindig on Thursday at Weder-man's Hall, 16th St. and Third Ave.

Assistant Corporation Counsel Bernard Licht is chairman of a PS 149 alumni group which hopes to establish a memorial tree in Israel Security Forest in memory of the late Harry L. Katz, beloved oldtime teacher at the East New York Junior High. Health Commissioner Dr. Leona Baumgartner will be a hostess at the annual convention of Food Drug Officers of the U. S.

at the Hotel New Yorker, May 5 through 11. Joliot-Curie if oivn rescorcn Victim immigration officials when she fiew to New York for a lecture il. i Found Morale At Low: Kross Correction Commissioner Anna M. Kross found her bureau "completely demoralized" when she took office, she asserted yesterday. The men even felt that they had to get permission to hold a Communion breakfast, she said, and 60' V.

of the prisoners were "just locked in their cells" doing no useful activity. She was "amazed," she said, that the personnel felt they had to seek permission for the breakfast and. so far as prisoners were concerned, she felt the department "was not correcting, though we are a Department of Correction." "Locking in does not correct a criminal," she said. "Inactivity only creates greater criminal tendencies." In answer to corrections officers who complained to Mayor Wagner that the transfer of several deputy wardens was "unwarranted, unfair ami had for morale," Mrs. Kross said she had aked their grievances in writing.

They are to be submitted to her Tuesday. "No one ever told me their fctMvances," the complained. 1 i a 1 its superintendent. SV.n-la of the Aimv Viller II rirurkrr announced ai iKi.intnn nt tonight as the V. Military Academy's 44th auperintenient.

Kefore Itavuison fought in two wars World War II and Korea he held various athletic posts at Wet Fotnt. including assistant a ami intrtH tir front the time of his graihiation in 127 to when he heel a six-year tt iu as head roach. Was Yeuneet Ceneral When, at the asrc of r.t, he wa Htel to briK'ier general was the vun(rrt general fficr in the ground fr-rs- laiion succeeds l.t. Ccn. M.

Hrv a academy erintendrnt. Bryan ha leen ijtued commandrr of the t'nited State?" Army, Pacific, with headquarter in HawaiL lavHistn has len commandant the (Viiimantl ami Onial Staff Mi'e July, lt'54. vet. Lar UavkIms Rmtmrning tm i Httdn.