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TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1951 1 1 0th YEAR 1 27 DAILY and SUNDAY uh, ru 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE fnlflUfl fill (SM A (P-H MAR) iii WfnPRAonMAffuiAfl fl fi ll ill I RUSSIA-RULED Pulitzer Prize Won By Brooklyn Eagle JAPS ALSO ARE MASSED Kremlin Entry in War, He Says, 'Would Be Very Serious Matter' Washington, May 8 (UP) Gets Top Honor Of Journalism For Crime War The Brooklyn Eagle's role In i ill U. S. FLAYS MORAN AS BRAZEN LIAR' Perjury Cos Placed in Hands of Jurors After Stinging Attack on O'Dwyer Appointee James J. Moran's "big, bold lie" before the Kefauver Com Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall said to the war on crime, now being wased on a national scale day that Russia has massed a "considerable force" of against racketeering and corruption of public officials, received full recognition by the Pulitzer Prize Committee, which yesterday awarded this newspaper its gold medal "for the most disinterested and meri- troops in striking distance of Korea and that Soviet- mittee was "one of the most brazen effronteries in history.

Assistant V. S. Attorney Eugene F. Roth charged today in summing up the -Government's perjury case against Ae former Water Commissioner. i controlled Japanese troops also are concentrated in the same general area.

The "brazenness" of Moran, nothing in common with the policy king, Weber." the prosecutor said. "What were they do who denied-he was visited as deputy fire commissioner by Marshall told a Senate ing behind locked doors on all Brooklyn policy king Louis Weber more than six times, was those committee investigating Gen. Douglas MacArthur's He asserted that Moran chose even more "breaktdking" since he spoke before a television audience of millions, Roth de to perjure himself rather than i i dismissal that the Soviet reveal his with forces are near the cities of clared. Weber. I i SV Am Ks Government witnesses at the trial in Federal Court.

Manhat Other Pulitzer Prize stories on Pages 4 and 18. torious public service rendered by an American newspaper" The award was made for the campaign agatast organized crime launched Dec. 11, 1949, with a series of article by Ed Reid, Eagle reporter, and which has continued since. A direct outcome of this newspaper's campaign was the Brooklyn rackets investigation, which has already uncovered fir-flung "protectbh" of crime by bribe- taking police and has led to numerous arrests, resignations tan, testified that Weber visited Vladivostok, Russia, and Dairen, Port Arthur a nd Hirbin in Manchuria. He said he had "forgotten exactly how many thousands" In a brief, summation, a few minutetj artier.

Joseph, Leary Delaney, defense attorney, who had called no witnesses, told the jury of seven women and five men that the Government Moran. a close associate. former Mayor O'Dwver. more than 100 times. "Moran, a city otficial and a confidante of the Mayor, had Continued on Page of troops are massed in these places.

1 aon know," lie continued, there are any plane Crime Series by Reid under fire, indictments and convictions with more of the same expected to follow. Nationwide Results concentrations in relation to Sakhalin, but there have been reports of troop concentrations and particularly prisoner former prisoner organizations, presumably of indoctrinated Japanese on the Sakhalin (Island) point, which is not very fair off northwest Effects of the Brooklyn rackets investigation have not been confined, however, to the limits of Kings County. Since It started, other communities, Sparked Boro Inquiry Reporter's Expose of Police Corruption Here Played Major Role in Crusade by Eagle Ed Reid, Brooklyn Eagle reporter whose articles on corruption in the Police Department sparked the Brooklyn rackets probe, played a major role in the journalistic crusade Hokkaido (Japan). having seen what wag done in Brooklyn, proceeded with a 'Very Serious Matter house-cleaning of their own. Marshall told the Senators that "from the information es Eventually, Congress became convinced that racketeering and its evil influence on law en won the Eagle the 1951 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for dis- timates that I have' seen, it would he a very serious matter" if the Soviets decided to enter the Korean War.

The Defense Secretary dis Ed Reid, Brooklyn Eagle re forcement and politics was a national as well as a local problem. The creation of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee porter whose articles on corrup in a presentment by the December grand jury and its continu closed that MacArthur had been tion in the Police Department ance up to the present so that it might look into the shocking sparked the Brooklyn rackets probe, played a major role in under strict orders to keep troop and Naval units away from Soviet Siberia and portions of northern Korean ad- followed. The investigation of corruption in Brooklyn, sparked by the Brooklyn Eagle, started conditions he disclosed. Subsequent investigation by District Attorney Miles F. McDonald, the journalistic crusade which r.on the Eagle the 1951 Pulit We Are Proud to Have Served jacent to it.

Bhortly after the of his aides and the jurors proved zer Prize in Journalism for disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an Marshall disclosed these special precautions, designed to avoid any incident with Rus. sia, in a second day of testi a series articles in the newspaper at the close of 1949 which prompted District Attorney Miles K. MeDonaJd to open a American newspaper. the initial picture presented by Reid. Expansion of the leads set forth in the initial Eagle Continued on Page 4 His expose in December, 1949, shocked the city and resulted I Coil "sued on Page 14 mony.

MacArthur, Marshall said, was "cautioned" against plac- Fire Fatality Laid To Mask Shortage Continued on Page By DAX NOONAV greens Cemetery with full Fire Congressman Dies Indictment Due Today of 70 Cops In Rackets Probe The eight-month investigation nto the $1,000,000 a year graft conspiracy that kept bookie Harry Gross $20,000,000 gambling ring in business comes to a climax today with the naming of between 65 and 70 policemen in a sealed indict Department honors following The city's failure to provide Mary Astor Tries Suicide; Family Woes Blamed S. Koreans Pace UN Drive North As Foe Braces Tokyo, May 8 (U.R) South Korean troops spearheaded a mile and a half gain by United Nations forces against increasing Communist resistance 18 miles northwest of Seoul today. The South Koreans pushed the Reds back across the Kong-nung River In the area 14 to 15 miles south of the 38th Par services at 1 p.m. in the Wal-deck Funeral Home, 7614 4th Avenue. its fire fighters with gas masks was directly responsible for the death of Fireman Arthur During Meeting The Kings County Medical Examiner's office confirmed Washington, Mav U.R1 had been despondent for some Van Nuys, May 8 0J.R I that the report signed by Dr.

Mary Astor, 45, Academy EXCLUSIVE time over family matters. He disclosed she had attempted Representative John Kee (D V. 7G, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Com Frank Melomo, Assistant Medical Examiner, listed "smoke Award winning actress, at tempted suicide today by gulp suicide on two earlier occasions. poisoning along with "coro ing an overdose of sleeping pills mittee, died today while presiding over a committee meeting. Miss Astor, who won an award in 1942 for her sup In the library of her San Fer ment.

The Indictment will be handed up by the holdover grand jury today but it will not be opened until tomorrow after nary occlusion" and "myo-car-dinal infarction" as the causes of death. nando Valley home. Doctors porting role in "The Great was a star of both silent and said she would recover. allel. Some United Nations forces reached within 12 miles of the Parallel.

On the east coastother UN troops pushed nine miles north of the Parallel, reclaiming much talking pictures. Howard Barry, a trustee of the U. F. who said he was C. Smith, 40, of 300 8ih members of his family and the Uniformed Firemen's Association charged today.

Smith, who died Saturday in Long Island College Hospital, was felled by smoke last Wednesday during a fire in the basement of the College She made her film debut in Dr. George W. Calver, Con. gressional physician, rushed to the committee room when Kee collapsed while presiding over a closed meeting. Calver and two other doctors pronounced him dead at 11:10 a.m.

Members said hewas stricken in his rhanr at th head of the The actress was rushed to Valley Receiving Hospital after police found her sprawled on a cot in her home clad only in a talking for the entire firemen's "Beggars Maid" and signed contract with Paramount Pic organization, declared that the "smoke poisoning" was the of the territory lost in the Red offensive two weeks ago. the defendants are 'arrested. Some of the policemen, who go as high as inspector in rank, have resigned from the force, it was learned. About 22 of the Continued on Page 9 tures early in the 20's. Her big break was a leading role oppo nightgown.

She later was transferred to Culver City Hospital, r'y i V. Pharmacy, 333 Henry St. "trigger" which brought a car- Continued on Page 9 Both sides continued sending Continued on Page 2 site John Barrymore in his He was to be buried in Ever Police said the actress' library was strewn with sleep committee's table. He attempted to rise and step into another first picture in Hollywood, "Beau Brummel." ing pills. They officially listed room but fell unconscious.

Starred With Barrymore the case as attempted suicide. Her husband, Thomas Wheel LIRR IN DRIVE TO END DANGER TO KIDS She later starred opposite Bar WHERE TO FIND IT ock, a stock broker, was not at rymore again in "Don Juan." Her talking picture successes home when police arrived. The Long Island Rail Road and the Board of Education made a tour of the Bay Ridge included such films as "Jennie has started a safety 'campaign Gerhardt," "Dodsworth" and, to end the menace to children cuts yesterday and agreed on "However," he maintained, "if the road built fences 50 feet nigh, children would still get in. Besides barriers, we must awaken our youth to the deadly repaired and checked, according to spokesmen for Gen. William H.

Draper, sole trustee of the road, and of the Board of Transportation. Scores of local vounesters more recently, "Cass Timber- lives represented by the rail the joint educational plan. The project was outlined fol Officers were called to the actress' home by the Rev. William .1. Smith of St.

Cyril's R. C. Church in nearby Encino. He told police another priest at the church received a telephone -call from Miss Astor lane," "Little Women" and road's cuts through Brooklyn "Any Number Can Play." sections, it was announced to danger in the yards." Her first husband, Kenneth day. lowing an account in the Brooklyn Eagle of the electrocution of scores of Brooklyn boys who In order to further this aim, Hawks, was killed in an air The railroad will work with have been killed and maimed by touching high tension wires after they got' into the cuts.

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fa- police assigned to the Long Island Rail Road, Patrolman ventured into the death-dealing cuts of the road and the BMT subway system. Capt. John L. Reynolds, ex cate venturesome youngsters to the fact that deadly danger John Campbell arfd Patrolman Continued on Page 8 cal when she called. He said he went to her house and found ecutive assistant to General Draper, said that the road is asking him to send Father Smith to her house at once "because she was very ill." Third Suicide Attempt Father Smith said he "suspected something was wrong" because Miss Astor was hysterl- In addition to the educational Eugene Trosko, have prepared lurks in the cuts and that the "Keep Off signs mean Just continually checking and re campaign, all fences guarding a 20-minute motion picture for tha door ajar.

Without entering, summoned police. WANT a JOfe IN BROOKLYN? nl 1 rMklrs liBtlcrnml 0rtnlUa Avwar la tb AGLB WANT ADS Long Island Rail Road cuts and pairing fences surrounding the that, cuts." Father Smith said the actress Continued on Page 24 Representatives at the roadEAIT subways cuts art being.