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nnrrv TMXi U. Red MPs Near Gun Fight in Berlin BROOKLYN EAGLE LATE NEWS WEATHER Warm today; clear tonight. York an i 105th YEAR' No. 256 DAILY end SUNDAY icoprriiht, 194S. Th rooklya tu.i BROOKLYN N.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1946 rei Brooklyn T. a 3d OIm IUU M. 3 CENTS SUGAR CRISIS Wallace, Truman U.S., RED MPs WAVE GUNS IN Will Confer Today CIO GALLS OFF PICKETS AROUND A. F. L.

SHIPS Campaign Blast Seen if Secretary Continues to Hit U. S. Policies By LYLE C. WILSON Washington, Sept. 17 (U.R) A rock the administration seemed likely today if Secretary of Commerce Henry A.

Wallace goes through with his plan to oppose State Depart Curran's Order Reduces Threat Of Union War It si Eaele Staff photo PLEA OF INNOCENT Hyman Barshay, left, attorney for the defendant at arraignment in County Court, stands beside Mike Mirandi, center, who surrendered voluntarily to an indictment charging Mirandi and five Brooklyn gangsters with the 1934 murder of Ferdinand (The Shadow) Bocci. Assistant District Attorney Julius Hel-fand is at right. Fish, Fowl Prices Rise As City's Larder Fades Famine Closes 90 of Butcher Shops-Restaurants Must Cut Cost of Meat Meals their attention to fish, poultry and GROMYKO HEADS COUNCIL AS BODY BARS HIS CHARGE Delegates Lined Up Against Soviet Move Hitting Britain, Greece Lake Success, N. Sept. 17 (U.R) Oromyko of Russia today inherited the presidency of the United Na tions Security Council and the dubious honor of presiding over the defeat of his effort to Indict Brit ish-Greek policy in the Balkans.

Delegates lined up almost unani mously against the Soviet proposal to censure Britain for maintaining troops in Greece and to demand specific concessions from the Greek Government. Some of them conceded privately that even if the Russian proposal is voted down Gromyko's objective will have been partly won. They contended the Russian delegate and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitri Manuiisky, wno Drougnt tne charges against Greece and Britain before I the Council, had succeeded in using I the long debate to obtain wide publicity for their allegations against Soviet-dominated Balkans. Two Proposals Up As he assumed the chairmanship for the first time Gromyko quired to seek a vote on one of two tormai proposals nis own resolution, completely unacceptable to the Western Powers, or an Australian aeaiana mot lasuicu trove on Dusmess witnout giving iur- ther Uioutrht to the Ukrainian com plaint. Tne latter would Be suDject to a Russian veto, wmie Britain and the United States with their Big Five veto powers led opposition to Gromyko introduced his sugges tion for ending the Council argument late yesterday.

It was a strongly worded resolution under which the council would i Greek Government and the British troops in Greece of threatening peace ana security. Strong Curbs Asked It would specifically demand that ureece put an end to "tne provocative actions of aKeressive mon archist elements on the Greek- Albanian frontier." stoD "propa ganda about the alleged state or and "halt the prosecution of na tional minorities in Ureece. The Russian also proposed that until Greece complies with these! demands the Council keep on 1U agenda "the question of the threatening situation which has devel oped as a result of the Greek Gov- Swedish Rocket Reports Scouted by Physicist Dr. Manne Siegbahn, Swedish nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner, arrived here aboard the Drottnlngholm yesterday and pressed doubt about recent re; of rockets being fired over Swi He said he examined one of missiles" and found It to 1 meteorite. U.

S. Hasn't Shooners todav were turning dairy meals as 90 percent of the down in face of the meat famine. estimated that the demand for these items, no longer under LASTING WELL INTO '48 Rations Must Continue For Year, U. S. Experts Warn Strikes Blamed Washington, Sept.

17 (U.R) Gov ernment experts warned today the sugar shortage will plague house- wives well Into 1948 and rationing probably will have to continue for rney leei it will be next spring larger rations. The Dresent acute shortaee there is not enough sugar available to honor all valid ration counons re sulted primarily from World War in disruption oi world production. Strike at home and abroad have added to the problem. The scarcity is illustrated bv the tact tnat tne country is now consuming only 73 pounds of sugar annually per person. Before the war per capita consumption averaged 102 pounds, or 7,000,000 tons.

Sugar experts of the OPA look to the Philippines for the final solution. They hope its exports to tnli country can be boosted high enough to Dring an eany ena to rationing. out Koy a. saninger, tne Agriculture Department's No. 1 special ist, reported no sugar irom tne PhillDDines is llkelv to be available to tne united states until 198." The islands normally supply the united estates i.uoo.ow tons nually, or one-seventh of Its qulrements.

But like other war-torn nations that contributed to the world sugar supply In prewar years the Philippines will require another year or more to reach large-scale production. World sugar output this year skidded to the lowest level since 1-24 with only Cuba, Hawaii and the Western sugar beet fields of the united States operating on a normal Supplies to U. S. Cat To overcome the world shortage available supplies haVe been allo cated to "sugar pool" nations, with tne unneo states assigned a.wu.uuu tons some 1,500,000 tons short of demandj-dirring the year. The nationwide maritime strike ana a walkout by 25.000 longshore men in nawan snut on an imports when the nation was still awaiting delivery oi one-iourin oi its snip-ments from abroad.

Baiiinger is pessimistic about lgar prospects for next year, ore-1 dieting that the 1947 world crop prooaory win oe considerably oe- Speed Conversion Of Bennett Field The city today was speeding plans convert Floyd Bennett Field into commercial airline base after Mayor O'Dwyer had revealed that idiewno Airport would not be ready until Spring: and that It would oper ate at only half capacity by that time. It had been originally intended to open Idlewild this Fall to relieve overtaxed facilities at LaGuardia Field. In setting a limit of on capital expenditures for the calendar year 1947 yesterday the Mayor said that three of the six planned runways at ldiewiia would operate by next year. In his report to the City Planning Commission the city executive stated that there was "no doubt" in his mind that the future airport needs of the citv would reauire three fields Floyd Bennett, LaGuardia and idlewild to take care of increased business. The navy last Friday Indicated that it Is willing to turn over the major portion of Floyd Bennett neid to tne city, including tne aq-i ministration Buildine and eight hangars.

The navy wishes to retail use, and these details are now being The airport was sold by the city to the navy in 1942 for $9,250,000. CANINE CONTRAST Ruth Ann Achilles is perplexed by extremes at dog show in Pittsburgh's Schen-ley Park. The 250-pound Saint Bernard and 13-ounc Chihuahua are both dogs, she's told. BERLIN CLASH Soviet Troop Recall Averts Shooting in Row Over Prisoners Berlin Sept. 17 (U.R American military Intelligence officials today revealed that American and Rus- ian troop detachments got into an angry, tommy-gun waving row Sat urday night in which a Soviet lieutenant threatened to call a Red Army company "to fight it out' with a U.

military police detach ment. The row arose over custody Pole and a Ukrainian woman had been arrested by American and Russian military police acting in American officials characterized the row as "the most serious rut Wwn American and Soviet per sonnel which has yet occurred. At one point Russian troops covered the American MPs with their tom-myguns. The Americans retaliated by calling reinforcements, including nn armored car, ana wratui around the MP station, with guns trained on the Russians. Refuse Reds' Demand The fiirht started over Michael Bolinskl, the Pole, and his common-law wife, Benia Glrago, who had been arrested In the U.

S. sector of They were taken to an American MP station near Templehof air-1 drome, where Major Karamatzovl demanded they oe turned over vo him as "Russian traitors" who had The Americans refused and Ka-ramatzov called a Russian MF detachment, headed by a Lieutenant Morosov. Morosov and his five- 'man detachment demanded they be allowed to guard the prisoners in tne American jau. Morosov, the Americans said, became anarv and shouted: "Ameri cans are unworthy of being Allies of the Russian Army!" He instructed his patrol to taKe trie coupie force, the Americans said. Train Guns On OU The Russian patrol then covered tne Americans, neaaec ay uui.

Robert M. Cheal. with their tommy Cheal. who was a Drisoner of war and was liberated by the Red Army, cnargea Morosov was aciiiuj In "an un-Russian manner." I Meantime, Capt. A.

Peldman, an American MP captain, called uf even riflemen and machine gun ners, an armored car and a platoon! of MPs and surrounded the MP station, training their guns on the At this point, the Americans said, Morosov threatened to call una com pany of Red Army troops and "fight It out" with the Americans. Finally, however, the Berlin Kom-mandantura ordered Morosov to take his men away and the Russians left the IIP station. Today, on a Soviet request sent through routine channels, the Gl rago woman was turned Russians after joint interrogation the Russians contended. The Americans still held Bolinski. Yugos Threaten To Snub Treaty Paris, Sept.

17 u.R Yugoslavia threatened today that It will refuse to sign the Italian peaoe treaty if the compromise French line Is adopted as the Italian-Yugoslav Alex Bebler of the Yugoslav dele- cation told the Italian Political Commission, "if the French line is Included in tne peace treaty, we will 'faot sign It." The French line was agreed on by the Big Four as part of the plan creatine a free zone around Trieste. Yugoslavia demands all of Venezia omiia. including iTieste. Bebler said the French line gives "a strategic advantage to yester day's enemy, Italy, to the detriment. of yesterday's ally, Yugoslavia." Deplore Treatment Yugoslavia is being treated like 4a defeated country, Bebler said, and the Yugoslav people never would understand how their government Continued on Page 3 ANNOUNCEMENT No advertising is contained in this issue 6 cept announcements of record.

Newsprint de-f liveries have been cut off due to strikes and the Brooklyn Eagle is en-I deavoring to conserve its diminishing supply in oroW to continue bring-I ing to its readers essen-' rial news and features. Truck Strikers Vote on Plan for Separate Pacts Members of Local 807, Interna tional Brotherhood of Teamsters, A. F. L-, were called together mass meeting In Manhattan Cen ter, W. 34th St.

and 8th Man hattan, at 1 p.m. today to consider! strike settlement formula which, if approved, would start some chain store and newsprint trucks moving I and mleht ultimately end the 17-day-oW truck strike. of the 15,000 drivers strike, were strongly recommending! acceptance of the so-called Bohack formula for a new contract which; would give the men $7.40 a 40-hour week than they previously got lor a M-nour weex, pius hours' guaranteed overtime and week vacations. The H. C.

Bohack chain store company and the Daniels Ken nedy Company, newsprint truckers, each employing 110 drivers, had of fered to sign contracts under these a number of smaller em ployers of truck drivers were reported ready to go along. Others Seen Signing Up Other individual companies, par ticularly food and newsprint truck- wuuiu uegin signing up as soon the 807 members had voted ao- volved. 282 and 816. have author ized tneir leaders to make final agreement and these have nounced tnev will aloni? with M7 Although leaders of 807 wore nopeiui oi memcersrup approval, they cautiously refrained from nr. dictlons, recalling the action of the members two weeks ago In turning down a compromise settlement pro posal by Mayor O'Dwyer based on iB-cent-an-nour raise.

The union originally asked for 30 percent Increase, or about 37.5 cents an hour; abolition of the supplemental clauses" or the present contract, much hated bv rank- and-file members, and elimination of Hugh E. Sheridan, a truck operator, as impartial chairman in settlement of grievances under the truckmen's contract. William J. Kent, counsel for Bohack, has said that his company is ready to waive these requirements. I Employers O.

K. Formula Among some 40 individual em ployers said to be ready to sign a aonacs iormuia contract were Contnnned on Page 7 Nuernberg Verdict Put Off Till Sept. 30 Nuernberg, Sept. 17 (U.R) The In ternational War Crimes Tribunal announced today. that the verdict the 22 German leaders will be announced Sept.

30 instead Sept. 23. An official statement said reasons for the delay In pronouncing sen tence on the Nazi leaders and seven German organizations would bej given "as soon as avauaDie. regarded as tne deadline ior any postponement. Previously there had oeen unconiirmeo reports sucn delay might occur.

only ai nazis, neaoed Dy ner-iann Goerinz. will be present when the verdict is announced. The 22d on trial was Martin Bormann, being tried in aosentia. Charges Pro-Soviet Group Forced Grew to Resign A pro-Soviet clique within the State Department forced the resignation of Undersecretary Joseph C. Grew and ratnes: Hurley, Ambassador to China, according to an article in Plain Talk, a new monthly magazine.

The article was writ- of six persons arrested by the i. last year unoer tne cspion- tge Act. A former State Depart ment employe, Larsen pleaded nolo DUROCHER SAYS Today Is Our 'Mutt' Gam on Page 8 TODAY campaign year explosion which would ment foreign policies. Wallace announced yesterday he would continue to discuss foreign policy in public addresses along the lines of the speech he delivered In New York City last Thursday and which was repudiated by President iniman on Saturday. Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, chairman of the Demo cratic National committee, yesterday discussed Wallace's activities at length with Mr.

Truman. Both men are presumed to be concerned whether Wallace's invasion of the field of foreign affairs will be ac cepted without protest by Secretary state james r. Byrnes. 'Ma Meet Tr Wallace and Mr. Truman are ex pected to get together today at the wnite Mouse, it is understood Wal lace will stand pat on his proposal tnat tne united states no with Soviet Russia's expansion of influence In the Balkans.

But after his White House conference Wallace probably will explain in all future Puduc discussions mat ne is speaa- ing only for himself and that Mr. lTuman ana Mr. Byrnes wno determine our ioreign policies. Unless Wallace so qualifies his foreign policy discussions it is likely Mr. Byrnes will protest against the program of addresses arranged for value Mr.

Truman's statement that, he approved the public expression of opinion by Cabinet officers in disagreement with administration policy. Party Discipline Scuttled Between them Mr. Truman and Wallace have scuttled such party discipline as has existed hereabouts, which has never been too much. Contnnned on Page 7 Vet Housing Gets Lift as New Roads Open Timber Landsi Washingotn, Sept. 17 (U.R) The veterans or.

ram sot unexpected lift todav with nouncement that about 130,000,000 a board feet oi lumber wui made available by construc tion of 14 new access roads to remote Government timber lands. Funds for the roads have been! allocated to the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs under the Veterans Emergency Act. Housing Expediter Wilson Wvatt said the roads would permit! cutting ano naming more tnan additional board feet of lum ber this year and 98,000,000 next ear. iuodIv. assuming that 50 Dercent of I this lumber Is used in house con struction, and the average six-room! house requires 10,000 board feet.

A spokesman for the National Housing Agency said the lumber windfall would make it easier to attain Wyatt's goal of 1,200,000 veterans' dwellings for 1946 and for 1947. Construction has started on 607,000 homes so far this The roads will be built in Mon tana, Minnesota, North Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin, Arizona andi Oregon. One Guided Many of these forecasts have come outgrowth of the rivalry between the navy for control of guided mis sile research. Public relations bureaus of each department, trying to make their respective Drancn appear a le in the field, have come through a welter of stories about weapons of the future. One high officer said this competition has not only deceived the public but has indicated to foreign powers trend of our research.

President Truman has assigned to a joint research and development board headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush the problem of controllng this Meanwhile, military leaders ex press the hope that the over selling Job in the past will no' boomerang. They point out that any war in the next five to ten years most probably would be fought War II. What they fear it that a Public enact in nush -button war fare may protest against, appro-1 prawn- iunos ror present weapons. The danger of inter-union war fare along the city's strikebound waterfront diminished consider today as C.

I O. pickets were withdrawn from piers where ships being worked by A P. sea- len and longshoremen are berthed. The order to abandon picket lines around all ships except those under contract to strike C. I.

O. unions came from Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, after the A. F. L. ordered back to work on their own ships and warned the N.M.

U. to call off its pickets this morning. Curran's action eased the ten sion along Atlantic and Oulf Coast waterfronts where police line had been strengthened in anticlpaUon violence when the A. P. L.

men attempted to return to work. First Break In Strike The picket withdrawal order re leasing all ships under contract with the Seafarers International Union, A. P. for duty at once will affect about 40 of the nearly 400 Idle ships in New York Harbor, C.I.O. spokesmen estimated, and constituted the first break in the paralysing 13-day-old mari- me strike.

The cease picketing order, howler, does not include ships under tract with the Sailors Union of ie Pacific. A. P. and Dreaum- ably will not affect the strike sltua- on on the West Coast. The sent to all N.

M. U. port committees, said: ah ioreign snips not under con tract to the N. M. U.

are not to be Dickered. S. T. icw to be picketed except where thev are berthed at the same dock as u. vessels.

Waterfront ers i to be cleared for work on all Continued on Page I Board to Report On L. I. Rail Road Dispute Monday The report of President Truman's fact-finding board in the threatened strike of 900 Long Island Rail Road and ticket collectors wilt be Issued Monday, only one day before the date which District Mine Workers, A. P. haa for the walkout.

It had been expected that the board would make its report Saturday, but after the union and the railroad had closed the presentation of their cases yesterday, Frank M. Swacker, chairman of the panel, announced that a statement to that effect made when the 30-day hearing opened was erroneous. He said the report was not due until Mon- ay. Guy W. Knight, company counsel.

closed the Long Island's case abruptly with the testimony of Eu-gene L. Hofmann, superintendent the carrier, that to grant a wage Tease of $2,669,894 to the 900 inmen and tiatll collectors would be out of line with the in- granted nationally on ma ior railroads earlier this year. Earlier, Yelverton Cowherd, counsel for the union, concluded his case with a review of collective bargaining negotiations with the railroad since February. The union's rebuttal will be presented today and Mr. Knight said the company would use the day and a half left to it for re- jbuttal if necessary.

Brotherhoods representing railroad's 6,000 other workers are not involved in the dispute. WHERE TO FIND IT 2 1 Nigh' lib 4 1 Novol 3 ObituariM 6 I Pattern 2 Radio 3 I Sodo.r 4 Sports 4 Tak My Wotci DEMS SEEN 40-1 TO HOLD CONTROL OF U. S. SENATE Leader Says G. O.

P. Stands to Lose Ground Delay O'Toole Action Washington. Sept. 17 (U.R) Sen- or Scott W. Lucas chair-an of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said today It is a 40 to 1 bet tnat jjemocrats win retain control of the Senate in the November elections.

Lucas, Just returned from political rjuise-ieeung in tne rwinaie wesi. derided Republican estimates ol winning -rom 10 to 13 seats now neio oy uemocrata. He contended the Republicans themselves stand a good chance of losing some of the 39 seats they now hold. This, he said, is something they are forgetting to mention. Lucas made his statement as the House Camoaiin Investieatine Com mittee met to approve the final draft of a questionnaire that will require about 40 organizations to disclose their political activities and expenditures.

Among tne groups to receive tne forms are the Communist party, the National Association oi Manuiac-turers. the C. I. O. Political Action Committee and Harold Ickes' In dependent Citizens' Committee of Chairman J.

Percy Priest Continued on Page 2 city's retail butcher shops were shut OPa control, sent prices up 10 per- The closed snops mciuaeo 5,000 kosher outlets, and millions of! the city's Jews had the prospect of meatless high noimays, wnicn start Thursday. Jewish consumers concentrated on noultrv for the holiday. suited in a strong demand for the mated that chicken would be scarce in a week as a result of the demand. The dearth of beef was so great that only three of the city's 20 slaughterhouses were operating, and these were running far below Contnnned on Page 7 Dem Vets' Group Setting Up Units in All 24 Boro A. Ds Pledeed the unlimited backing of the Brooklyn Democratic leaders in its organizing efforts, the Kings County Division of the Democratic Veterans Association oi New xor State todav was settina up unite in each of the borough's 24 Assembly Districts to rally veterans' supporti for the State and local Democratic tickets In the November elections.

Campaign machinery was oiled last night at a meeting in Democratic headquarters, 4-5 Court Square, attended by State and local both the State and local Demotic slates, representatives of vet- ns' organizations and personal representatives of each of the coun- 24 Democratic district leaders Continued on Page 2 Mrs. Rizzo explained that both girls had been denied diplomas from Junior high school "because they had lost too much time last year," and it was thought they objected to going to high school with out the diplomas. She added that the girls had played hookey a i Grace and Emtly, she said, are about the same size, both weighing about 120 to 125 pounds and about 5 feet 3 inches tall. Grace has I moderately blond hair, her mother I Emily has black hair. Orace wore a salmon print dress, green short jacket, nylons, black suede shoes and a eold cross on a chain about her neck.

Emily wore blue sillc dress, yellow coat, nylons and black suede shoes. She also wrist watch and a Miracu-edal. Both girls attended Most Precious Biood R. C. Church.

Missile in Its Arsenal 8-State Alarm Seeks 2 Girl Runaways, 15 Washington, Sept. 17 (U.R) Re sponsible military officers voiced fears today that the armed forces, however inadvertently, have misled the public about our guided missile development program. Despite a rash of reports of fantastic new weapons in the works. the fact is the nation does not have single guided missile, rocket supersonic (faster than sound) plana i use ll war comes tomorrow. Furthermore, it mav be vears perhaps five, ten or more before sucn weapons are avauaDie on scale for effective use in combat.

Public relations leaders of the Armv Air Forces, Army Ordnance and the Navy Department Joined In warning that claims for the future or guided missile researcn out of proportion to actual pnsnments. Blame Rivalry of Services This fact, thev said, should be notions are made of rockets cap-hie of reaching the moon or of other long-range missiles charged atomic warheads, predictions, repeat, are not accomplish ments. An eiht-State alarm today from the Missing Persons Bureau for two 15-year-old Bath Beach girls who started from their homes for Lafayette High School week ago and haven't been seen Thev are urace nan, oaugnti of Mr. and Mrs. Matteo Rizzo of 2708 Harway and imny Telesco, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Telesco of 2701 Harway Ave. Neither had ever been away from home, according to Grace's mother, and they have been Inseparable friends for about nine years. "We think they may Just have run away because they didn't want to go to high school," Mrs. Rizzo said, "but we became really worried when 'they didn't come home by the end of the week.

They're both good girls, and they've never done have any boy lriende,.