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24 CIm UmA lUwt 106th YEAR No. 27 DAILY and SUNDAY BROOKLYN 1, N. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1947 Truman Told U. S. Can Aid Europe, Slash Prices Too Advisers Say He Must Decide Quickly on Course to Be Taken Washington, Sept.

27 (U.PJ President Truman's Foreign Aid Committee said tonight that the Administration must 0 choose quickly whether it is more Important to hold down prices at home or to see that needy nations get enough to eat. The committee posed the touchy question In a report to Mr. Truman on world food conditions. The group, known more Informally as the Harriman committee, has been cataloguing possible American aid to Europe under the Mar- plan nCrVChCUAiirVlll The committee said feeding of Enrl Staff photna IXLIJ 1LrlMNl Ulliwheat to livestock would have to be VET LEADERS Left to right ore County Commanders Michael J. Buckley, Army and Navy Union; Daniel O'Neil, V.

F. and James T. Watters, American Legion; Borough President Cashmore, William A. Dawkins, United Spanish War Veterans, and Samuel Huth, commander of Navy Yard Garrison, Army and Navy Union, at Freedom Train. SEE FREEDOM TRAIN Genera! view of some of thousands who crowded around Freedom Train during its one-day stop in Brooklyn yesterday, eager to view the Originol historic documents it is carrying all over the country.

Many were unable to get in and will try today in Jamaica. reduced, presumably by pricing it out of that market. It also urged consideration of grain-use restric ORDER U.S. ARMY TO QUIT GREECE tions, but opposed direct price ana rationing controls on the grounds that, even If Congress restored them, they could not affect the lm-. mediate crisis.

Americans, it said, should be persuaded to eat less meat, butter poultry and eggs. Committee Recommend! Gromyko Launches Sweeping Attack on Our Policy in Europe Lake Success. Sept. 27 (U.R) HANNEGAN QUITS AS CHIEF OF PARTY Will Stay On as Postmaster General Throng of 150,000 Hails Bow Visit Of Freedom Train Crowd Gathers Hours Before Doors If western Europe's food needa are to be met, the committee said, lt will be essential to: 1. Reduce the amount of wheat Russia and Poland teamed up in the United Nations General inriov fnr a KwepDinff attack fed to livestock from a possible Senator McGrath Slated for Political Helm 0n united states pohcy in Europe.

I Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Washington. SeDt. 27 (U.R) Robert E. Hannecan. who nramvko launched Russia's de jwas instrumental in putting Harry S.

Truman in the White 400,000,000 bushels to about 350, 000,000 bushels. 2. Acquire substantial stocks of government wheat now before lt is fed to livestock. Then the gov ernment will have the wheat next Spring either for export or to meet domestic needs if the grain situation at home should become worse. The committee said that unless tensive tactics in the U.

N. fight over the Balkans, calling on the House, resigned today as Democratic National Chairman predominantly hostile Assembly to order American and British forces Open-Only 11,000 Able to View Exhibits By VIOLET BROWN Red, whue and blue under the brilliant sun, the Freedom Train' brought its precious cargo of liberty to Brooklyn yesterday and got the welcome it deserved. Hours before the doors of the train opened at the Vanderveer' Park siding of the Long Island Railroad, a stone's throw from where the men of '76 raised their Lib- and will be succeeded by Senator J. Howard McGrath R. a party wheelhorse with New Deal leanings.

out of Greece and to assume super' vision of all foreign aid to Greece. Mr. Hannegan, master-mind of the late President Roosevelt's YUGOS RELEASE fourth-term campaign, stepped the Agriculture Department, which is responsible for food procurement, launches an aggressive grain purchase program at once, wheat may not be available next Spring when lt will be needed most. It warned, however, that such a down because of continued poor Polish delegate Oscar Lange matched the Soviet assault on the Truman doctrine with a denunciation of the Marshall Plan which, he charged, has split Europe in two and threatened to squeeze the gathered erty Pole, the crowd health. He presumably will stay in the cabinet, however, as Post 3 U.

S. SOLDIERS SPORTS TRIBUTE SET master General. In a further shakcup of the purchase program Inevitably will result in higher retail prices In this country. It said wheat prices probably would rise sharply, carrying lile out of Lange asked the I Assembly's 55-nation economic easer to see the 130 documents and flags marking the growth of freedom in the United States. When the doors opened at 10 a.m., there were enough people on hand to pass through the three exhibit cars of the seven-car train until it was time to close at 10 p.m.

HELD FIVE DAYS Trio Rides Into Trieste Democratic high command, Gael Sullivan of Providence, R. resigned as executive director of the national committee. It long had committee to denounce economic most other commodity price up with It. which the United been rumored that Sullivan, who Nations ostensibly the Marshall On Horseback Say They nrooram and to assume responsi Those who came at noon barely Were Treated Well got himself In the Whit House doghouse last Spring, would quit If lie did not set the chalrmaaship Barney Ross, KreH Fltzsim-mons, Cliff Battles and, probably, Bay Robinson and Gus Lesnevich will head a group of sports celebrities during the sports part of the Freedom Train program on the Borough Mall step tomorrow at noon. AUo aiding to the program will he Joe Moran, Ray Whitely and his Cass County Boys from the Rodeo as well as the six girls in attractive cowboy costumes.

bility for International economic made it and by 1:30 p.m., Police activities. Offers Counlerplan Trieste, Sept. 27 (UP1 inree when Hannegan resigned. Doubts Rationing Would Help "A policy decision need to bi made as to which horn of the dilemma to seize," the committer said. It said the relmposition of "direct controls" presumably mean-ing price and rationing controls-could not help out in the' present crisis even if Congress were inclined to restore them.

American soldiers were released by The choice of Senator McGrath Gromvko. renewing the new to succeed Hannegan with Mr ALLEGIANCE TO FREEDOM On Freedom Train, Cynthia Goodison, 13, of 251 Clifton Place, signs pledge of allegiance as other youngsters, waiting their turn, look on. and Inspector David A. Condon of the 15th Inspection Division had sent for 30 more policemen to augment his force of 70 patrolmen, five mounted police, a lieutenant and seven sergeants just to be on the their Yugoslav captors today Truman's blessing came as somewhat of a surprise even though his name had figured in recent familiar Russian charge that the Western Powers and Greek reactionaries are fomenting trouble hi the Balkans, offered a counterpro safe side in case the crowd which speculation. McGrath, one of the original But lt said Immediate considera already stretched to Avenue I and Flatbush Ave.

clear around E. 32d posal to Secretary of State George C. Marshall's plan for a long-range Truman for Vice President late this afteir.uon rode their horses across the Free State border at Outpost No. 5. where they were seized by Marshall Titos troops at gunpoint last Monday.

Escorted by a Yugoslav ensign and two soldiers, the American lieutenant and two privates ar train he called it "the most unusual tion should be given to other types of controls which might be en grew too large to handle. boosters in 1944, disclosed that it U. N. border watch which would was not until this week that Han- protect Greece from a Communist train in history" and nearly all of the borough's celebrities were pres negan definitely asked him to take Pot allegedly fostered by tne kus- 450 Jews Taken Off Ship After Sea Battle ent. But mostly the day belonged Albania, acted in time to help.

These might Include smaller bread loaves, an increase In the flour extraction rate and restrictions on zraln lor sum satellite states oi the Job? although he first was ap Blugaria and Romania. As Gromyko took the floor tor a afcohol. to the people, those who had inherited the tradition the train signified and those who had helped to preserve it and would in the future. There were children by the thou rived at the frontier where they were met by their regimental in proached about it three weeks ago. McGrath, a staunch New Dealer during the Roosevelt regime and described now as a "two-fisted, 10.000-world blast at the United The Agriculture Department's telligence officer.

Major Michael States, Great Britain and the present Greek Government, Albania Guisse of West Virginia. sands on line, including babies in Famed Outpost No. 5 is north fighting liberal democrat," will be formally elected party chairman Oct. 29 when the national commit and Bulgaria notified the committee they were rejecting a highly present policy is to buy grain when the market is weak. If Ulis policy is pursued, the committee said, too much grain may be fed to livestock this Winter, leaving too little for hungry humans.

qualified Invitation tovappear tee meets here to choose the date Police estimated that more than 15C000 persons came to see the; train, but most of them had to be content with just looking at the! outside. At 5 p.m., by actual count, 6.527 persons had filed through the exhibit cars, and the line still was blocks long. By closing time, more than 11.000 persons went through the train, far more than had been accommodated daily at Grand Central Terminal, when a total of about 18.000 saw the exhibits in two full days and a night-time preview. The train will be at the Jamaica long Island Rail Road station to-ciav. and will be at the Van Nest station of the New Haven Railroad in the Bronx tomorrqw.

Celebrities Present Borough President Cashmore headed the ceremonies opening the their own defense during tne as and place of the 1948 Democratic National Convention. Hannegan's sembly debate. arms, although the American Heritage Foundation had announced that children under 12 were not to be admitted. There were disapled veterans, including one who had given most of his sight to his country but still wanted to squint at the Constitution and know that he had helped maintain it. There were men and women of every color, some of Meets Leaders Tomorrow, British Sailor Kills One Refugee Seven Others Wounded Near Haifa Jerusalem, Sept.

27 (U.R) Some 450 Jewish illegal immigrants who attempted to reach Palestine in a former American Army tank landing craft the Despite were brought into Haifa Harbor by British sailors tonight after a bloody 20-minute battle at sea in which one Jew was shot dead and seven wounded. Reliable informants said the ref- resignation and Sullivan's will be Meanwhile, there were these come effective then. Thus, McGrath will have the job The committee decided over vigorous Slavx opposition last week that Albania and Bulgaria, neither of them members of the U.N., could defend themselves in the debate only If they agreed In ad other developments on the food-price, foreign-aid and cost-of-ll ing front: of directing Mr. Truman's 1948 Presidential campaign if. as now appears likely, the chief- Executive whom stopped just a little longer west of Trieste.

The soldiers are Lt. William T. Van Atten, East Orange, N. Pfc. Earl O.

Henrlck, Arlington, and Pfc. Glenn A. Myers, Edgely, N. D. Release Follows Apology Yugoslavia announced yesterday the three men would be released and apologized to U.

S. Ambassador Cavendish W. Cannon for seizing them. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladimir Vele-blt told Mr. Cannon the soldiers would be freed at Pliskovica, near Gorizia.

The original Yugoslav announcement said Van Atten, Henrick and Myers would be released immediately. There was no explanation runs for a full term. vance to accept the requirements laid down by the U.N. charter for than most beside a sheet of ruled paper bearing a scrawled proclama- At a press conference. McGrath ugees would be deported to Cyprus, discourage underwater sabotage such cases.

Albanian representa- attempts against the waiting trans Continued on Page 31 tive Theodor Heba notified the refrained from political comment, but observed facetiously that he thought the committee meeting here next month would "advance ports by Haganah "frogmen. Transfer of the refugees from committee Albania still wants 1. President Truman scheduled weekend of work and no visitort in preparation for a momentour White House meeting with Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders on Monday. Presumably he will bring up the Harriman Committee report then. Ft hopes the Monday meeting will produce a formula for getting stopgap aid to Europe's "Marshall Plar Continued on Page hearing but not with those strings the Despite to the transports began as soon as the vessel docked President Truman chances for attached.

A similar note came from Dr to await legal entry into Palestine, and will not be returned to their port of embarkation as were the 4.500 who arrived July 18 aboard the "Exodus 1947" after a battle in which three were killed. Two explosions rocked Jerusalem and touched off alarm sirens for the first time in two weeks as the Despite entered Haifa. One blast War Yet Has the Word re-election a bit, and the chances Spanish and proceeded quietly. It was com will keep on improving a little each pleted before midnight without day from then on." opposition. Nissim, Mevorah of Bulgaria, who warned the committee that a decision in the Greek case "taken in our absence would be seriously Reece Comments of the 24-hour delay.

Then at For Freedom Train: 8 pm. today Yugoslav headquar Republican National Chairman was reported from the center of weakened In its authority." After a long and smoky pro ters alerted American headquar Carroll Reece commented causti cedural debate over the Albanian Millions Turn Back Their Clocks ters to prepare for their arrival. The U. S. soldiers were taken town ana me oiner Detween rnej Damascus and Herod gates.

Thei explosions were believed caused by acting as volunteer motormen and Bulgarian replies, the commit prisoner by a Yugoslav patrol, with barkers. Holmes, Burr Named Scorers tee overrode the Soviets and voted 39 to 1. with 11 abstentions, to let cally on McGrath's designation as Hannegan's successor. He said that if the Democrats National Committee accepts McGrath, it will "serve to confirm the Democrat party's partnerships" with the political whom they had been friendly, Crowds Wait for Hours while Van Atten was talking to! both governments appear as wit Patient crowds jammed inside them across the new frontier Millions of Americans turned back their clocks an hour last nesses but not as participants In Bv MARGARET MARA Wonderful! Wonderful!" exclaimed Spanish War veteran Jacob Marks. 69.

of 884 as he emerged from the Freedom Train yesterday and stepped carefully along the uneven paving Ftones of the anderveer Park railroad siding. drawn between Yugoslavia and pamphlet bombs. British reports said the casualties aboard the Despite occurred when a British sailor fired five shots to ward off an attack by refugees armed with crowbars after he was cornered on the bridge. The gunfire killed one Jew and wounded two. Five others were injured about barricades with nothing to look at for hours except bunting and flag- Continued on Page 31 the Free State of Trieste.

The Continued on Page 31 i Cincinnati, Sept. 27 Tomrm night to mark the end of daylight savings time for this year. Did apology did not explain the ac draped buildings of an adjacent coal yard. tion. Treated Well First the band from Fort Jay and then the band from the the head by club-swinging blue- The returned soldiers said they Holmes and Harold Burr of tt Brooklyn Eagle and Dan Daniel the World-Telegram were name today as the official scorers for th World Series by Baseball Commls sioner A.

B. Chandler. Holmes Is president of the Base-ball Writers Association of America. Dressed in a campaign hat and a topcoat beneath which he wore fjrted blue trousers from his Brooklyn Navy Yard, jackets. had been treated well and sub Tito Asks 6 Americans Check Greek Charges made the waiting more bearable jected to nothing more than ques Rniinish-American War uniform you? Daylight time, in effect since April 7.

ended officially at 2 when all the nation went back on standard time. Daylight time was observed In some 650 communities in the United States and Canada and in 19 foreign countries. with snappy selections. nd his uniform shirt weighted mith medals the veteran wa one When the bands took breathing The landing craft, 'used by the Allied armies in the invasion of Italy, was painted gray for her unsuccessful attempt to run the British blockade and flew the blue and tioning and "the usual bad Yugoslav army food." The men rode in from Vipacco, 15 air miles north of Trieste, ac He and Burr, who covers the Dodg spell, WNYC, the city station, pre of the first to pas through the ers, are two of the outstandina train. visit the Yugoslav frontier of baseball writers in the country.

white ZionLst banner. A huge companied by their big mongrel unanoier also announced the blackboard with whitp IpttjM-iniy sented recordings of stirring marches over a public address system with Thomas H. Cowan, com-menatator, and David McClay, engineer, acting as disc jockeys. Commander of Thomas H. Barry Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, in Bay Ridge, Mr.

Marks observed that the coming of the said this was the Haganah snip Tanker Clears Sandbank Af Al Pi," in English, the "De- London, Sept. 27 (U.R) The 10, Greece, and such other parts of Yugoslavia as they may deem necessary, "to see for themselves what the true situation is. dog "Tiny, who followed tnem when Yugoslav troops took them into Yugoslavia. Guisse had the men dismount The Yugoslav Government yesterday invited six prominent Americans, including former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, to Yugoslavia to "see for themselves the true situation" regarding charges of Yugoslav threats against Greece.

Others Invited by Sava N. Kosa- Although there was a preponder sPtie- 172-ton American tanker Little Big umpires and radio announcers From the National League he named Babe Plnelli and Larry Goetz, with George Magerkurth as alternate. The American I are William McGow.i and Ed Freedom Train to Brooklyn was Steel-helmeted British sailors, Horn ran onto a sandbank in the and brought them to Trieste in an ance of exuberant boys on hand all day, there was no hint of He added that he was aware English Channel today but freed gomethtn? "never to be bandsmen from Fort Jay navigated the vessel as she entered Haifa Harbor, where two trans prankishness or rowdyism. Police the mission may entail considerable personal sacrifice and incon herself without damage. She was headed for Bremen from Galyes- headed by Inspector David Conden ports waited.

Escorting British de. riressed in suntans, found Flatbush a little chilly but only atmos- novic. Yugoslavian Ambassador to Rommel, with James Boyer as alternate. The radio announcers will be Red Barber and Mel Allen Kt.rnvpr rirnnmul pharaot In'lnn maintained good humor as well as ambulance, but the soldiers maintained lt wasn't necessary because they were in perfect condition. Tito Raps Capitalists Belgrade.

Yugoslavia, Sept. 27 iU.Pi Marshal Tito said today that nhericallv. venience on the part of the members, but it was suggested "only "We're all blue babies," said one, the United States, are: Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Harold E. Stassen. candidate for the Repub because my government believes rhafine cold hands.

that the occasion offers so urgent WHERE TO FIND IT Just then the A. W. V. S. canteen an opportunity to serve the ends lican nomination for President; service rolled up with a warm wei' of peace and justice.

United States monopolists and capitalists are leading international reaction in a rebirth of Fas Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. pastor rome and the musicians crowded Drive Carefully Here are the figures on auto accidents in from 12:01 a m. Sept. 19 to midnight Sept.

25, with totals since the beginning of 1947. In a statement accompanying Auto Woiid emeritus of the Riverside Church, Manhattan; John Gunther, author around for coffee and doughnuts handed out by Mrs. Mack Wasser- his release of the letter, Kasan cism but that "popular progressive ovic said he had a "very great and Hanson Baldwin, military Books Brady Budq man of 2054 79th chairman, hope" that all those Invited would analyst of the New York Times. and Mrs. Emma Sterling of 2038 good conduct.

Ambulance on Duty Also alerted was the Department of Health, represented by a new-white Cadillac ambulance from Kings County Hospital. It arrived early and stayed late, with the: driver and the interne, Dr. Milton Levine, enjoying box luncheon at noon. The 30 members of the naval band found freedom a reality when they filed into Pauls Restaurant on Flatbush Ave. for lunch and were informed: 'You can order anything you want." "Hey," Inquired one, "does that include filet migon?" ACCIDENTS KILLED INJURED accept and that the group might Bav Ridge Ave.

Fosdick said he had engagements booked far ahead and would be be able to leave for Yugoslavia Oamora Currl "Brooklyn is the only place that within the next week or two. unable to accept the Invitation. 169 251 Pjqe Paq 20 Muik- 2b 10 Night U(e 2b 18 Novel 18 28 Obituaries 17 14 Old Timers 20 3 Pollack 14 Haio 21 28 Real Estate 30 lb flchoois It 15 Society 12, 1 18 Sports 21-24 6 Theaters 242 .8 Travel. Resorts 2,1 16 VotinBklyn. 74 Want Ads S-'fl feeds us," said Band Leader Sgt Andy Zamiewski of Bristol, In Minneapolis, Stassen said he would await arrival of the official Businesi Ou'iooit Editorial Freight Crash Kills Five between ouaffs of coffee.

forces will stop such efforts." Addressing 1,200 delegates to the Peoples Front Congress here, Tito said international reaction Is "repeating its previous performance" and was bringing back Fascism and turning it again into an aggressive force. The Yugoslav premier extolled the United Popular Front movement and contrasted it with the multi-party system" in which many petty politicians create ACCIDENTS KILLED INJURED Two of the bandsmen revealed Yugoslav invitation and then dis Ashcroft, B. C. Sept. 27 (U.R) that, they were not far from home cuss it with Senator Arthur Van- Helen Worth Five men were killed and one injured today when a Canadian Na 5293 82 6753 denberg and Secretary of State tional Railway freight train George C.

Marshall. Hollywood Horoscope Undloy Mary Koi They were Pfc. James Hartman of 1101 Avenue I and Pfc. Edward Toiisey of 217 Hawthorne St. The Flatbush Ave.

trolleys were rubberneck wagons all day, with crashed into a rockslide 37 miles Kasanovic said that he had ThoRe pawing through Freedom west of A-shcroft, derailing the en been Instructed by Marshal Tit. to Only by dj-iyj: cgi thte toll. Your We to efWjy can Brooklynites reduce tayTmajr save a life. Contfnved on Pff 31 gine and 19 cars. 24-26 Movroo invite six leading Americans to.

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