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The Brooklyn Etfle. Ine.) tared Brooklyn P. a 24 Ola Ud KsUr JEWS ATTACK Soviet-Finnish Pact DEWEY. GETS REQUEST TO City's Bid for State Aid on Boro Housing Project Wins Approval SYRIAN TOWN. IUMI1.

A I State Housing Commissioner The property already has been at Germany ARABS REPORT Aimed RETIRE TAYLOR acquired by the city for con Herman T. Stichman yesterday announced he had approved the struction of a playground, but Mr. Stichman said the project Claim Raiders Sought win be built on It and an ad heat and gas for cooking. There will be a children's shelter and craft and hobby rooms. Bronx River Houses, estimated to cost $11,929,000, will consist of nine-14-story buildings on a 14-acre site bounded by Bronx River Harrod K.

174th St. and the proposed city's applications for State aid in the construction of Albany-Houses, 828-family low-rent Alone, Reds Claim Food Hagana Men Expect Governor Will Answer Plea Within Few Days By J. H. SCHMALACKKR housing project in the Eastern joining slum area will he cleared later for the playground. The families to be displaced eventually to make room for the playground will be moved into the new project.

Blow Up Foes' Garage Beirut. Syria. Feb. 28 (U.R) Parkway area, and Bronx River Houses, which will accommo Bronx River Expressway. date 1,246 families near Bronx Albany, Feb.

28 The letter of Arab sources said tonight that Park. To Rent for $8 a Room Rentals have been set tentatively at slightly less than $8 a room, Mr. Stichman said. Both projects, Mr. Stichman The site of Albany House armed Jews had crossed the frontier from Palestine Into Syria and raided a village near the Syrian frontier town of RUSSIAN-FINN TREATY TALK Assert Helsinki Not Threatened In Stalin Note New Czech Rule Begins Purge of Press and Radio contains about nine acres.

Only The projects, the Commis pointed out, will be built on vacant or near-vacant land, "thus facilitating new construc 1.1 percent of it will be covered sioner said, are the first of six the Citizens Union of New York ity urging Governor Dewey to recommend retirement proceedings against Judge Franklin Taylor of the Kings County Court is now being considered Banias. pianneo ior irte city witn Mate First reports said the Jews with buildings, however, leaving the rest for play areas and parkjand. There will be fo aid made possible bv the tion without causing even temporary hardship to arty one." carrying bombs and machine 000,000 Increase in State capital ALARMS SWEDEN i Prague, Feb. 28 (U.R) The new Albany Houses, estimated to guns, surprised the Arab vil loan funds approved at the Communist-led government be lagers and forced them to sur by the Governor and Charles D. Ureitel, his counsel, according (U.R) Pre.

letter to Jules K-that Rus London, Feb. 28 mier Josef Stalin's Finnish President Paasiklvi suggested render food, including 23 cows. gan a drastic purge of the press, one-room apartments, 74 of three rooms, 550 of four rooms and 194 of five rooms. Monthly rents have been set tentatively at a room, including light. election in November.

The total State loan fund now has been increased to $135,000,000, he cost $8,255,000, will consist, of six 14-story buildings on a site bounded by Albany, St. Mark's and Troy Aves. and Park Place. to definite indications today. movies and radio today as Com said.

sia and Finland sign a mutual i he Governor usual in referring matters of this Arab sources said the raiders apparently came from Dan, in Palestine, and were suffering from a food shortage resulting Might Force Latter To Reconsider Her Defense Preparations Stockholm, Feb. 28 (U.R) A military spokesman said today munist Premier Element Gott-wald called for the expulsion of assistance pact to prevent fu ture aggression by Germany and was calm and friendly id 'all agents of home and foreign from Arab highway blockades (There was no report of type to Mr. Breitel is being followed. Meanwhile, the Governor's office is making no formal comment. Well-informed sources indicated a conclusion would be reaction." that a mutual defense pact be The action committees which Girl, 16, Celebrates Her Fourth Birthday casualties.) Syrian army patrols reportedly were ordered into the area.

tween Russia and Finland rule all phases of national life fired 216 "negative" employes reached probably in a few days might force Sweden to reconsider her defense preparations SCION OF BORO BANKING FAMILY FOUND DEAD Signs of Poisoning Discovered in Body of Lester Lehrenkrctuss tone, Radio Moscow revealed tonight in broadcasting tha text of the letter. Stalin did not demand a treaty, did not give Finland any kind of ultimatum and did not mention aggression by any power except Germany, the text showed. "If there are no objections of the nationalized movie in Arabs Die in Garage Blast and that the Governor's posi tion will then be made known Several Courses Open dustry and called on the jour Jerusalem, Feb. 28 (U.R) Five Arabs were killed and 30 were The spokesman emphasized, however, that any changes in Swedish defense plans would nalists union to expel 32 news i Several courses are open to paper men, including a mem the Governor. not be directed against Russia ber of the United Nations com injured today when Jewish Hagana agents blew up an Arab garage in Haifa.

Hagana sources said the Jews had averted another "Bon The Citizens Union filed its on the part of Finland," request under the State's new He said it simply would have to be taken into consideration that one of the great powers wrotef "I would propose that mission on freedem of the utreamlined constitutional a Finnish delegation be sent to press. Yehuda Street bombing" by the U. S. S. R.

for conclusion had drawn closer to Sweden. Political observers said that. amendment which permits re tirement proceedings to be in Twenty-seven foreign publi touching off the blast. of such a pact." cations including the Balti -ft Stalin then offered to send a They said the bomb which Ptituted against judges because exploded was intended for the Lester M. Lehrenkrauss, 48, last of the fabulous Brooklyn house of Lehrenkrauss, was believed last night to have committed suicide by drinking poison.

His body was found at 4 p.m. yesterday in a room at the Hotel Prescott. 10 61st Soviet delegation to Helsinki if President Paasikivl consid if such a pact were signed, Finland would be unable to avoid placing her transport and part of her economy at Russia's disposal in case of war. it would mean, these observers said, Jewish quarter, but that Hagana agents surprised the Arabs and of disability which makes it impossible for them to perform properly their judicial duties. The amendment permits a ered it "more convenient to carry on negotiations" in the more Sun, the Chicago Tribune and Time and Life magazines were banned by the Industry of Information.

Ban on Foreign Commentators Broadcasts by foreign com blew up an automobile in which court of the judiciary to be con Finnish capital. the bomb had been placed. All the Hagana agents returned safely to their base, these The text was released to the that Russia had completed the northern link in her east wall i i 1 t' jr-r Manhattan. This was a long way from the pretentious sur official Soviet News Agency mentators over the government sources said. until of defense.

radio were forbidden The explosion touched off roundings young Lehrenkrauss lived in at 19r Prospect Place further notice." Tass and broadcast by Moscow radio as pessimism swept Finland and western Europe speculated that the Finns would meet a fate similar to Czecho sporadic shooting in which 12 Arabs and Jews were wounded. The information ministry an nounced that only two firms- vened by the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, either on his own motion, or on the written request of tTle Governor, the presiding justice of an Appellate division, a majority of the Judicial Council or the executive committee of the New York State Bar Association. Judge Taylor ha3 referred to the proposals for retirement when his father ran a multi million dollar banking, insur one in Prague and one in Brati A large number of Arabs, meanwhile, attacked the Jewish nome riweuisn onservers were disturbed and pessimistic about Russia's request. Elsewhere in Scandinavia, newspaper expressed alarm over the Russian move. In Copenhagen, the conservative Nationaltidende said "dan ance and shipping firm.

slovakia's. An autopsy performed on the slava, capital of semi-autono mous Slovakia would be per Stalin suggested In the letter body showed possible signs of colony at Maanit, 20 miles south of Haifa. An official communique said four lranui Arabs mitted to sell foreign publica that the pact be modeled after mutual assistance pacts, aimed poison and officials planned further examination. Police tions not affected by the ban. A Life photographer and an and two Jews were wounded in ger is getting closer to Scandi proceedings against him as "al I '''V-V.

I at Germany, signed by Russia with Romania and Hungary. that attack. leged recommendations" of the American employe of Charles Today's bombing, which dam University were detained by navia. he newspaper said "the question soon may be the existence of Scandinavia." In Oslo, the conservative Af- Citizens Union. Ropes to Recover Sight Paasikjvf, Red Confer the police for 90 minutes after Helsinki, Feb.

28 (U.R) Presi The Jurist said he had lost aged the garage and two adjoining buildings, followed the discovery of a murdered Jew on the' Haifa-Tel Aviv road. The said a note, addressed to a woman, was found in a book in the hotel room. A partially empty bottle of poison also was found in the room. Hart in Auto Accident In 1929, young lehrenkrauss was in an automobile accident tenposten said Finland faced dent Juho K. Paasikivl received the photographer attempted to take a picture of students in front of tha university.

two possibilities: "either yield one eye In cataract operations and was now considered totally blind. He said, however, he 1 ivlctim had been blindfolded and to the Russian demands and Police and officials of the soviet Minister Lt. Gen. Greg-orl M. Savonenkov today and advised him of Finland's reac 'tlnn tn Prumiai.

rival- Caft' arms were tied behind his disappear behind the Iron cur foreign ministry demanded hoped to undergo another oper-j tain, or oppose the demands back. He was shot through the ana, recover rug sight as bead. Rllssn-FinniKh atltnnra hivuviu! with the possibility of being in auring wnicn, ne suffered a that the U. S. Information Service withdraw from its display window a.

Czech translation of i soon as the right time arrived He said it was "unthinkable" J3i'itlsh trooos aided Hagana volved in a war." fractured skull. It was believed The ailinr 7S-year-old Presi forces in repelling the Arabs at The newspaper compared this had an adverse affect on dent informed Savonenkov of the steps being taken to pro for anyone knowing the facts to wish to deny him the oppor Maanit. him since that time. Russia with Hitlerite Germany the French -British -American protest against the coup. The protest was rejected by Gott- He was married twice and Later today Hagana troops duce a definite reply to the So-viet desire to include this tiny tunity for recovery.

Judge Taylor reaches the retirement age fought off an Arab attack on wald's government without be the Tel Aviv side of the area neighboring country in its web ing mentioned by the press. The Kid Staff photo ONCE IN FOUR YEARS Rita Emit circles her birthday-it's the fourth in her 1 6 years. 'Most Ingenious Paradox' But After All, February 29th Doesn't Come Every Year had two children by the first marriage. Following his father's death, the whereabouts of Lester became a mystery. His father died penniless and the son uec.

31, I'M'). The Citizens Union, while ex copy was removed. bordering on Jaffa. A Jewish refugee ship, carry of "friendship and mutual defense" pacts. Church Service Seeks $1,000,000 Within 4 Hours pressing "sincere sympathy" ing an estimated 1,000 persons President Paasikivi's secre Expel Ex-Prisoners' Leader The association of political tary said no official report of apparently was not provided for.

irom Western Europe, was sighted off the Palestine coast prisoners survivors of war the meeting could be expected. By ARTHUR POLLOCK The dead man's father. Julius xor wnai it termed Judge Taylor's "sad affliction," said it had been forced to the conclusion the administration of the criminal law in Kings County was being unduly hampered and im tonight. i-oiiowing the brief meetin The Protestant Episcopal time concentration camps expelled National Socialist party Lehrenkrauss, a prominent The ship, Identified by Ha which lasted only seven mln- "A A paradox! A most ingenious At her home at 2033 84th St. Rita Emil is celebrating her Church and 19 allied denominations expect to raise Brooklyn banker for many president Petr Zenkl, long-time mayor of Prague and a prison gana sources as the "Builders and Fighters," was spotted by ninnuay touay, put, tliough she is 16 years old, it's only the years, was convicted of grand 000 within four hours today peded by his inability to attend fourth time she has had a day to celebrate on.

Counting by larceny in 1934 and sentenced pianes of the Royal Air Force for their Church World Service. er of the Nazis from 1930 to 1945. court. utes, the Russian Minister went unconcernedly to Helsinki Sta. dium and watched the skating championships in which a' Rus.

sian team participated. Paasi-kivi, ill with a cold, remained to Sing Sing. Mruisn destroyer was sent Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, Not even the Boy Scouts Julius ran the business which out to intercept. presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, will were exempt in the reorganiza his father had started some 70 2d Parley Set Up mrtnciays, she only 4. She was born on Feb.

29. That puts her in the company of Frederic, the upright young man in "The Pirates of tion of Czechoslovak life. Along years ago. It had become a re confined at the presidential Arab League Sends broadcast the appeal at 11:301 a.m. over, three major broad spectable financial citadel sup palace.

with all other youth organizations, the Scouts were absorbed Mediators to Yemen Coincident with the confer On Marshall Plan casting networks. Radios will ported by the life savings of hundreds of Brooklvnites. Cairo, Feb. 28 (U.R) An eight ence, it was reported that Het- by a new "Society of Czechoslovak Youth." man Arab League delegation he set. up in 4,400 churches of the denominations throughout Firm Failed in Penzance," who at birth was indentured to a pirate because his nurse, told to apprentice him sinki's top.

Communist leaders had met in secret conference. headed by Abdul Rahman Az- Paris, Feb. 28 (U.R) Fourteen Gottwald spoke at two mass Eagle on Schedule After Short Circuit Normal publishing operations were resumed by the Brooklyn Eagle yesterday after a five hour interruptidn in electric service had caused delay in the Saturday editions. Sunday's editions were primed on schedule the country and services will In 1933, apparently a victim meetings today to 6,822 armed Western European nations were zam J'asha. league secretary general, left todav for the be interrupted for the church of the depression, the house of police and workers' militiamen to a pilot, was a little bard of invited by Britain and France goers to listen to the appeal.

Lehrenkrauss fell, winine out Arabian kingdom of Yemen to in the old town square after a hearing. He also had two ages. presumably to discuss the Soviet proposal and an intensified propaganda campaign. Leaders of other Finnish political parties flocked with. one blow some $30,000,000 in Collections will be taken up immediately.

The 15-minute broadcast will be re-broadcast victory parade, and to 120,000 farm delegates at the opening investments. Subsequent court Rita's mother, Mrs. Nathan Emil, is inclined to blame it on the stork. The stork dwaled. today to participate in a new Marshall Plan conference next month, it was reported authoritatively.

mediate the selection of a new government and crown a new king. The delegation will crown Seif El Islam Ahmed, Emir of session of the National Peas action showed that, during the three years immediately pre- ants' Union. The pirate king in "The and with power for lighting and In his speech at the town ostentatious casualness to the skating championships which seemed to be providing a "safety valve" for Helsinki's strained populace. in each of the four time zones. The last broadcast will be made at 3:30 p.m.

Last year, relying on less modern means, the service was jliajja and commander-in-chief machinery provided by temporary hook-ups, while Consoli square, Gottwald commented that the crowd's cheers were An informed source said Britain and France proposed that the sessions start on or around March 15. of the realm's forces. He is the eldest son of Imam (King) Hamid El Din, who was slain dated Edison engineers went recognition of the fact that Savonenkov's visit to th Pirates," however, prompted by W. S. Gilbert, explained these things differently.

"For some ridiculous reason," he said, "some person in authority, very likely the Royal Astronomer, has decided tliat. a year in raising 51,000,000. The ceuing tne crash, the father, his son Lester, and his nephew Charles, earned a total of In 1934 Julius was brought to trial for grand larceny. The evidence disclosed a fantastic maze of financial manipulation by the Lehrenkrauss firm, president today was reeardixl about repairing the damage caused by an early-morning service is an organization spon with three of his sons earlv this Czechoslovakia's new security forces would "protect the people against capitalist schemers." by observers as a Krpmiinin. sored by the Protestant Epis month.

dered appearance to imnr short circuit beneath Johnson in front of No. 24, the Eagle copal Church and entered into The two governments favored holding such a meeting earlier, but decided to postpone it after the United States objected it might prejudice Congressional by ID other denominations. although for such a beastly month as February, 28 days as oliice and plant. For a time editors, reporters its purpose is to give ma Truman Halts Walk to Line Up dimea at stemming the approaching collapse. The mis a rule are plenty, one year in terial relief and medicines to the Finns that the Soviet would brook no delay in an answer to Stalin's letter.

There was no confirmation of reports that the Communists were preparing a camnaicm of debates on the European re compositors, pressmen, office every four his days shall be use of the company's assets re distressed peoples of Europe workers and visitors went about covery plan. Recently it was understood, however that Wash and Asia. Some Democratic Votes for '68 sulted in impoverishing scores their business by candlelight reckoned as nine-and-twenty." According to him, Frederic ington had withdrawn its ob Sufficient power had come into demonstrations and mass meet- of persons who had invested their total savings in the firm. Many of these victims testified was the victim of this "elumsyl Key West, Feb. 28 (U.R) ings to back up the Soviet nrn.

jections. The main purpose of the con WEATHER MAN PREDICTS the building to keep linotype machines operating so that the paper could be set-up, but news President Truman today sud posal. against Julius during the SUN, STRONG WEST WIND denly found himself shoved in ference will be to discuss the progress made towards a West trial. arrangement. Slight I)ely Rita's mother, on the other hand, says that when in February, 6 years ago she awarded Thick fog that enveloped the service teletype machines and lighting were cut off.

The first Warns Congressmen to the role of nursemaid for Julius was convicted of con ping and Curtis began to take a dim whimpering view of the goings-on. The President leaned over to comfort him but now two more shining-faced tykes were climbing around the stroller. Grandfather Hingson ob ern European Recovery Pro city and most of the metro verting a $32,000 mortgage after On Palestine Arms Plea some navy children. gram since the original IB-power edition of the Saturday paper politan area late yesterday meetings here (hp slnvk'a armrna.h c-ho r-ntA Aiarsiiail 1'lan Mr. Truman was minding his Former Magistrate wasn't expected to lift until sale of the participating certificates.

He was sentenced to five to ten years in Sing Sing, but for him In itrnn hie hnnllo summer. own business. His white sun snortiy neiore dawn today, ac i( wj IUUHIC 1 started on the presses at 10:40 a.m. one hour and 40 minutes late. Thereafter schedules were The invitations were sent to such memorable da.

as Lin cording to the Weather Bureau. jected mildly to the additions helmet could be seen for blocks Goldstein announced last night that he will make an appeal tomorrow for "reprisals at the polls" against all Consressmen Austria, Italy. Greece. Turkey. coln or Washington Birth- After dawn, the bureau fore iFit on parole in three years.

He died in poverty on Dec. 1, hut by this time the photoe- as he walked along the wharf, rapidly improved. raphers were beseeching the casts, it will be mostly sunny with strong west to northwest twirling an old and favorite day. Instead, delayed no doubt u'' revHe-by pressing business, he made Luxembourg. he Neth-' erlands, Norway, Sweden, Den- Confinned on Page Sfi mark and Switzerland.

who do not support Palestine's bid for American arms. He said President for a shot with all three kids. The others were the 1940. Lester was involved in a mail fraud trial in 1935 with his father, then serving sentence. cane.

winds." The thermometer, how tne appeal will be made at an ever, will drop during the day He stopped to visit one of the children of Lt. Commander Ray Smith, of Green Bay, Rav. below yesterday's lowspot' in his cousin, Charles, and three submarines, the U. S. S.

Requin. GIs 'Digging In' At Korea Red Zone evening rally of Sgt. Oscar Soloway Post, J. W. 203 Atlantic Ave.

3, and Sandra Jeanne, 4. Navy mothers on the side As he left and started for the the upper 30s. The fog canceled most flights in and out of LaGuardia Field. other men. Lester was acquitted.

During this trial, further manipulation of millions of dol- lines squealed in delight. I Deacti, tne president espied a 'cute little boy fidgeting in his lars was revealed. American Broadcasting corre stroller. spondent Ray Falk radioed An elderly man attending the Mother Leaps Into Lake from Seoul, Korea, today that American troops are digging in child gave him a shove toward the President and Mr. Truman bent down to shake hands with along the frontier separating the American and Russian oc But Fails to Save Son Fairmont, Feb.

28 (U.R) Clad only in a housedress, a young, mother leaped into the icy waters of Georee Lskn tn- History of the rJews in Brooklyn' Chapter 8 in Dr. Weld's history of Brooklyn nationalities and races appears today FIRST PAGE, SECOND SECTION OROOKLWJ AGU curtis utno Mingson, nine- cupation zones, ABC reported. WHERE TO FIND IT Pagt fag Auto World 1 5 Muiia 33 Booki 14 Night Uim 53 Busineo Novjl Outiook 16 Obituarist Bridg 9 01dTimr 28 Currt Radio Or. Brad Real Estat rdiioria! 22 Schoois IS 22 Socily 17-19 Hollywood 33 Sports 21-30 4oroscop 10 Ttieatem 31 b' 18 Travel, Rssorti 34 Unaier 22 Veterans IS Mary Ha worth 21 i Want- Ads 3M1 Movies 21 "Foxholes are being dug at Drive Carefully Here are the figures on auto accidents in Brooklyn from 12:01 a.m. Feb.

20 to midnight Feb. 26, together with totals since the beginning of the year. ACCIDENTS KILLED INJURED 86 1 100 ACCIDENTS KILLED INJURED 699 8 860 Only by driving carefully can Brooklynites reduce this toll. Your care today may save a life. day in a futile attempt to save ner mneyear-old son from regular intervals along the 38th parallel," Falk reported to ARC.

"American soldiers are also digging in new gun emplacements." ABC said Falk radioed his re month-old son of Lt. Commander James Mason Higson of Oxford, Ala. As Curtis, blinking in the bright sun, reached out toward the President, grandfather Robert Andrew Hingson set up a cry for photographers. The flashbulbs started pop-1 drowning. The woman.

Mrs. J. A. Van Esp, survived but was taken to a hospital suffering from shock port upon nis return from a visit to tha frontier area. land exposure.

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