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Daily News from New York, New York • 5

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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY. SEPTEilBER 20, 103G CO Cohn ernes Me Fooler 27 At the Finish You have until 2 P. M. this afternoon to keep alive your hopes of winning a share in the Ikaed Mam The Woman of 12 Shouldn't Go Steady, Judge Advises Cleveland, Sept. 19 (U.R).- Juvenile Judge Albert A.

Woldman today urged parents to discourage young girls from "the dangerous fad" of going steady. "Too many girls only 12 years old are going steady," he said. "It's a dangerous fad and parents should discourage it. One 12-year-oldj girl told me that if a. girl's not going steady, the other girls make her feel like an old maid.

"Along with the three Rs of school days, we now have the three Ds dating, drinking and driving." Little Fooler's $2,500 cash jackpot for N'o. 27 in his series of puzzles. That's the deadline for all entries. Your hid for the boodle must be in our Grand Trial To lie at By NORMA AIJRAMS Central PO Box by that time. Don't miss it.

In this case promptness can pay off. Former Assistant U. S. Attorney Itoy M. Cohn flatly denied under oath yesterday that he urged turnabout testimony in tha witness Harvey Matusow to give fals i 1952 Smith Act trial of 13 second-string Communist leaders.

Cohn's 35-minute appearance on the witness stand climaxed the third day Matusow's perjury 1 1 1 before Federal Judsre John I-. X. JtcGohey and a jury of '0 men and two women. The perjury 1 charge is based on Matusow's an affidavit in 1 alitgraUuus the convicted which won two of Commies a new trial. Convicted at Second Trial The two defendants Alexander i if i TV Hoy M.

Coha Perjtlry trial witness Patsy I)e Pinto (back to camera at right) addresses the lunch-hour rally of subway workers at Transit Splinter Boss Hits Wagner' according to Matusow, Cohn replied that that wasn't enough, such conversation Did arty Trachtenberg and George Blake Charr.ey were convicted again and were sentenced this week. Preceding Cohn on the stand yesterday were two other foi mer assistant U. S. attorne'-s. John M.

Foley and Albert H. Blincer, who had a part in the trial and who also disputed Matusow point by point. Cohn, who was on the prosecution staff at the trials of atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and former Commerce Department official William Remington, explained under questioning by V. S. Attorney Paul W.

Williams that he had presented evidence to a federal grand jury against the Commies in 1951 and prepared the indictment against them. Matusow's Side of It Matusow's story hinged around two conversations he claimed to have had with Cohn on Dec. 19, 1951, and Feb. 17, 152 and a book, "Law of the Soviet State," by the late former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishin-sky. Matusow declared that Cohn had told him it would be "important" to connect the book with the accused Commies and had asked if he ever had discussed it with any of them.

He said he had talked with Trach take place regarding the (k1c enberg?" asked Wil- and Trach Hams. "It did riot, Cohn answered. A lunch-hour rally of 150 subway workers at the IND car repair shops at 211th St. and Tenth Ave. yesterday heard Mayor Wagner blasted as "the labor-hating son of a labor-loving father" who should be defeated in his race for the U.

S. Senate. The attack came from James Donegan, president of the American Transport Union, a transit splinter group that claims 11,000 members on city-owned bus and subway lines. Donegan said the union will picket Wagner wherever he makes a campaign appearance. say to Matusow that "Did yoK it was important to connect tha book with the defendants?" Again Chn said No.

Cohn acknowledged that he ha-i talked to Matusow once "in tha winter of 1951-52." The meeting-took place bn an auto parked "at the foot of khe Fast River Drive." in company with Foiev, Blinder Pilots' Choice: ork Or a Court-Martial and two other federal men. Thvy were intert lewmg Matusow as possible tness, and Cohn sa( H. Bridges San Francisco, Sept. 19 (U.P.). Longshoreman leader Harry Bridges, who has fought many court battles against alleged left wing connections, confirmed today that he has registered as a Republican for this fall's election.

Bridges refused to give hii reasons. Matusow himself brought ur tha tenberg and that Trachtenterg had mentioned something about "the importance of sales," but. Here for a Twirl in the Movies i subject of the Vishinsky book. Williams asked if Cohn decide! then to use Matusow as a witness. Decided to Use Him "N'o, sirA I couldn't maKa that decision," jCohn replied.

"But after talking to Matusow I decided that, ail things being equal, he could be used as a witnes-i-" But he swore that was the only conversation he ever had with Matusow. He declared that th Feb. 17 meeting during wfcjeh Matusow alleges Cohn questioned him from 10 A.M. to 0 P. M- did not even take place.

Cohn wa(s still on the stanf when court adjourned for the day. The trial wiii resume at this morninjr. Egyptian authorities posted a notice threatening Suez Canal pilots with a military court-martial if they failed to continue work after nationalization of the canal, a returning U. S. pilot said yesterday.

Capt. Joseph C. Ivancich, 49, of 45 Windsor Road, Port Chester, a 14-year Suez veteran and one of the two Americans in that work, arrived at International Airport. The other U. S.

pilot, Capt. Aimer W. Beale, came in Tuesday. Not Afraid of It, But Asked if he had feared the court-martial threat, Ivancich replied: "I didn't know the technicalities of the law, but we didn't like it. We are free men." Like others, Ivancich declared that long training was required to make an expert canal pilot.

Technically he is on vacation. He said he had no wish to go back until the canal crisis is ended. (NKWS foto by Jack Clarity) Capt. Joseph C. Ivancich arriving at International Airport yesterday.

No Bail for Beaten Prowler tc. A -s rf I 1 x-A, i 1. 1 Food Stamp Details Given Washington, Sept. 19 CJ.P The Agriculture Depaitmcnt today unveiled details of a 3- I ttamp plan that apparently tv i increase consumption and reduce food A department study sal In plan would co $1." -n a year if used to distribute food to ail 15 million person eligible for it under a bill introduced but not passed in last session of Congress. Unless the plan is operated on this scale, the study said, it wouli not be likejy to have very great impact.

Under the plan, low income families would be givea stamps 'which could be exchanged at groceries for surplus ood. A 27-year-old prowler who Bronx. When jshe told him to "take my pocketbook," Bell replied, "I don't lvant your pocket-book," and dragged her into the hallway and began beating her. Her sons, Edward, 27, and John, 25, both six-footers, heard her screams and rushed out of the Walsh apartment to her aid. They subdued and held Bell until police arrived.

Mrs. Walsh was treated at Lincoln Hospital for was roughed tip by two husky brothers when he accosted their mother early yesterday, was held wthout bail later in Bronx Magistrate's Court for grand jury action. He is Ralph Bell, of 760 E. 15th Bronx. Police said he approached Mrs.

Margaret Walsh, 50, shortly after midnight as she entered her home at 444 147th A ntfrtcn AirIim- iotot Three baton-carrying. 16-year-old Southern belle arriviig at IaGuardia Field yesterday are (I. to Suzanne Ballard, Amanda and Bunny McCpMunt. The gaU, all from Piggott; Ark ill be in town for two weeks during the filming of new movie. They will play the parts of drum majorettes in the picture.

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