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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, AUGUST 231976 15 By WILLIAM HEFFERNAN The expected resignation of city Correction Commissioner Benjamin J. Malcolm has produced a bitter split between two Democratic power blocs over who will nssjme command of the city's troubled prison syste sources close to the dispute disclosed yes forced the commissioner, to con-clde that no longer could he be useful. "I'm sorry to sese Ben Malcolm depart," Sutton said, "but I understand there have been some conflicts between him and the leadership of the newly constructed Board of Correction that have given him a feeling of being undermined." Sutton said he felt Williams would have the "compassion, imagination and experience to do the job if given the opportunity," but acknowledged that other forces were at work for other candidates. Williams, who has virtually been a commissioner without a department since the city disbanded his veterans affairs staff for budgetary reasons, has long sought the corresction post, only to be rebuffed by Malcolm's ability to survive numerous political moves to replace him. terday.

Malcolm, who is expected to resign next month and accept a post with the Health and Hospitals has, according to department sources, already delayed his resignation for more than a month because he is unhappy with the replacements being touted by th two opposing political factions. Top candidates for the commissioner's job the sources said, are: Commissioner for Veteran Action Milton Williams, who has the backing of Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton and Bronx political chief Patrick Cunningham, and Deputy Investigation Commissioner Edward Hammock, who is being pushed by Deputy Mayor John Zuccotti, Investigation Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and Board of Correction Chairman Peter Tufo. Malcolm is said to be pushing his own executive assistant, Ar-nett W. Gaston, for the post but is receiving little political support. A source involved with the Zuccotti-Scoppetta-Tufo bloc, who asked not to be identified, said that that group wants Hammock in the job.

But the faction also has a second choice, Special Narcotics Prosecutor Sterling Johnson, because their favored candidate, Hammock, might accept a post with the State Parole Board. Asked about his interest in the city correction job, Hammock said he had been "interested for quite some time" but was no longer sure he had "the stamina to withstand the pressures that have been put on Ben Malcolm lately." During recent months the Board of Correction has been taking a more aggressive stance on prison problems, under new powers granted by a change in its charter. Those actions have caused open conflict with some correction officials. Hammock said he was not sure those conflicts would disappear through a change in commissioners and that assurances that they would disappear would be needed for him to accept the post. Sutton, who has stated his strong support for Williams, also alluded to recent pressures on Malcolm, which, he said, had 1M Benjamin J.

Malcolm Unhappy with candidates NEWS BRIEFS Topless hMMUs Bottom Girls Baring All Despite Court Edict By RICHARD EDMONDS Ycu might say that they are break ing the law, but the show is still going on iaby ioy (Hied occasionally with audience participation at an East Side topless bar that has been the target of a concerted official attack for a month. The bar is the Bottomless Pit at 140 E. 53d where the Off They'll Go Into the Wild clientele often includes local businessmen and out-of-town visitors. Agents of the State Liquor Authority have been unable to halt the performances of the bar girls despite a recent Criminal Court ruling that allows police to arrest topless and bottomless dancers without a judge's warrant. State liquor laws prohibit drinking establishments from featuring "lewd and indecent" entertainment.

But those laws also have failed to halt the Bottomless Pit's show. License Revoked In an action against the bar and a growing number of similar hard-core sex showplaces, the State Liquor Authority revoked the bar's liquor license last July 28. But the state Supreme Court is permitting the bar's licensee of record, Alexander A. Koren, to continue operating while he makes the necessary changes to clean up his act. Authorities maintain that UPI conditions of the court-stay are being ignored.

In B-Floor Plunge A 20-month-old boy was killed yesterday morning when he climbed through a broken window in a city housing development and plunged 13 floors to the street. Police of the W. 135th St. station said the baby, Carl Jones, apparently climbed through a window in his apartment at 225 W. 129th St.

shortly after 10 a.m., while his mother, Doreen Jones, was in the next room caring for his twin brother. The child was pronounced dead at the scene. William Heffernan School Registration Dai es Are Set The city's public schools will be open for registration on Sept. 8, 9 and 10, with youngsters entering school for the first time or who have moved since June 28 required to register, the Board of Education announced yesterday. Students must be accompanied by parent or legal guardian and must bring birth certificates or other proof of age, plus proof of residence in the school zone and a report card or transcript from the former school in the case of transfers.

Lefky Wins the Cake-Mix Battle State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz said yesterday that he has won an assurance of discontinuance from the General Foods Corp. in which the firm promises it will label its cake-mix packages on the front to show that no frosting is contained inside. Lefkowitz had charged that an illustration on Swans Down cake mix showed an iced angel food cake, while the package contained no icing ingredients. Con Ed Rate Hike Hearings to Resume Hearings on a proposed $250 million rate hike for Consoli-" dated Edison will resume at 11 a.m.

tomorrow at the offices of the Public Service Commission in the World Trade Center. session will involve cross-examination of witnesses favoring the increase. Order Partial Opening of Parkway Ramp The 77th Blvd. ramp, carrying traffic into the eastbound Grand Central Parkway in Queens, will be reopened to traffic at 9 a m. tomorrow by the Department of Traffic and will remain open except for evening rush-hour periods.

The ramp was closed because of the traffic congestion it caused on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Plans to widen sections of the Grand Central Parkway, however, are expected to ease that problem during nonrush-hour periods. The ramp will remain closed between 3 pm. and 7 p.m. on weekdays.

Harlem Day Preview Slated Mayor Beame will host a preview tomorrow of the daylong Harlem Day '76 festival which is scheduled for Saturday. The preview will be held in City Hall's Blue Room at 11 a.m. and will include a press conference-reception for business, civic and cultural leaders. Samples of Harlem Day's- hundreds of attractions will be on display. Israeli Group to Meet Beame A delegation from the Israeli city of Tiberias will meet Mayor Beame at 2 p.m.

tomorrow in City Hall. The 34-member groupwill be led by Tiberias Mayor Moshe Tzahar. The Israelis are making a three-day tour of New York. Crewman Hurt as Gas Tank Breaks A storage tank aboard a barge carrying 16,000 barrels of gasoline ruptured early yesterday in the East River, critically injuring one crewman. None of the fuel spilled, the Coast Gard reported.

Although there was minor leakage within th ebarge, which was being ahuled by a tugboat, it continued its to Eastchester, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The injured crewman was overcome by fumes-from leak. An emergency Fire Department boat removed his from th barge and took him to Bronx Memorial Hospital. The incident occurred about 2:30 a.m. as the barge neared the Bronx Whitestone Bridge.

Bob Kappstatter The stay order, first returnable before Justice Arnold L. Fein on Lts. Charlotte Greene, Draper, LTtah; Mary Donahue, Boston, and Shirley Popper, Dayton (L to at Air Force Academy. They are among first 18 women selected to attend Air Force pilot training at Williams Air Force Base. Phoenix.

Aug. 6, was continued by Fern until next month. The order states that Koren must have his girls wear pasties and G-strings and refrain from "flashing" their private parts at customers. Yet a visit to the Bottomless back part of her G-string and vaulted the countertop onto the customer's lap. Then the girl bounced up and down on his lap, the fragile wooden chair squeaking under their combined weight.

As long as the customer kept handing out dollar bills, he was free to caress any part of the girl's anatomy. Pit by a News reporter the other day revealed that the girls there still were not dancing as much as crawled over on her knees to greet the new arrival by poking her bottom, and then her pelvis, at him. For this she asked for a dollar. "You have to give me a gift," said the brown-haired girl, who appeared to be no more than 18 or 19 years old. The girl then said: "Let me slide down on you." She pulled they were flashing.

Most of the space in the dark ened room is taken by two small circular bars around each of which are placed bentwood soda fountain chairs. No drinks are served from within the circles, Report Texan Alive which are stages for the girls. any of them. Investigators ques Continued from page 3) The stage is at the customer's knee-level and all that separataes the topless performers from the drinkers is a narrow countertop. Greeting the Customers The drinks are hustled by scant ly clad waitresses who wander about the room and de mand dollar tips, for serving $2.75 beers and $4 cocktails.

tioned all Hilton Inn employes who were oii duty between Monday midnight and 8 a.m. Tuesday but failed to find anyone who saw Hughes leave. The missing person alarm originally described Hughes as 5-feet-10, 160 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. When a News reporter called Hughes' Texas home, his brother-in-law answered and said family members had been advised by their lawyer not to discuss the case. a blood spots in the missing mi-lionaire's motel room disclosed that it was human blood, freshly shed.

"We can't tell if the blood was from a shaving cut, from a nosebleed or something else," said Detective Sgt. Donald Bromberg, who. is in charge of the investigation. Detectives learned that Hughes had scheduled several business appointments in Manhattan on The reporter confirmed written statements by State Liquor Authority investigators who testified in court about the sexy As soon as a customer took his seat, the topless, G-stringed girl Tuesday but had failed to keep on the inside of the circle.