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JUN 20 1951 1st COPY TO C. JUN 2 0 1951 306412 mm 1951 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER "for the most meritorious public service rendered by an American during the year." WEATHER Warm tonight and tomorrow. 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE BROOKLYN 1, N. Y.f TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1951. 110th YEAR No.

168 DAILY anil SUNDAY mi. Brooklyn ault, Ins.) enter Brooklyn Clses kUU Itstter Sigims Tygpir km McDonald Tells Eagle: Allies 30 Miles Past Hit, 30 Routed ASM ST1I 1 18 reI ffiKllll EWi WILLIAMSBURG ADVANCED FUNDS- TRUMAN SIGNS Mindszenty Trial To Have Encore 3 Ousted From Army For Youth Re-enlist Civilian Life Proves Too Dull After Stretch In Uniform Only Wish Is to Serve Together Three Williamsburg youths who, last Steptember were discharged from the Army for being under age, were back at recruiting headquarters, 39 Whitehall today agreeing as FOOD! A CommunisY prisoner in Koreo, his wounds hov-ing been treated by U. S. medics, gets his first taste of Army rations. UN Forces Reach Farthest Point In North Korea Since November By EARNEST HOBKRECHT Tokyo, June 19 ftl.PJ The United Nations shoved their Korean battle line nearly 30 miles north of the 38th Parallel toddy and damaged four more Communist jets in a new dogfight just below the Manchurlan frontier.

they took the oath that "We long as we're together." Roll call on the truculent trio, all three now under the age- limit wire, sounds like this: Leonard A. Wersan, 17, of 156 Sumner Louis Minkin, 18, 15 Monteith and John San-taly, 156 Lewis Formerly the' Brooklyn mus keteers were members of 245th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Batta lion, a local National Guard out fit Tifhich used to drill at the FOR LOCAL, U. S. AGENCIES TO ACT Says Both Operate on Small Budgets and Lack Adequate Staffs Alarmed at the mushrooming reports of drug addiction throughout the city. District Attorney Miles McDonald re vealed todav that he, together with Assistant District Attorney Irving Slonim of Manhattan, had f.pwaled to State officials to invctigate the nar cotics problem as far back as January of this year.

In an exclusive interview with the Brooklyn Eagle, following his talk at the American Legion narcotics clinic at the Waldorf, McDonald disclosed that local district attorneys had been pressing for new narcotics legislation and treatment facilities at the executive session of the New York State District Attorney's Association last February and that State Senators Sidney Hafpern and MacNeil Mitchell had been contacted to introduce "remedial legislation." Has Been Co-operating McDonald explained that for the past two years his office has worked In close co-operation with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Narcotics Squad of the Police Depart missing far a new Red offensive. Allied stormed "Punchbowl eastern spawning gretmd'Tor Communist offensive, from newly won heights above Inje. The- assault on the four-mile-wide valley on the east-central front carried the Allies deeper into North Korea than at any time since the abortive U. S. dash to the Manchurian frontier last November.

All the rest of the way across the 100-mile Korean front, UN rank-infantry patrols jabbed at Communist forces believed Strike Halts Flights Of United Air lines Travelers Stranded as Pilots, Clerks Mechanics Quit, Picket Company Hangars U. S. Newsman Slated to Face Czech Red Court Frankfurt, June 19 (U.R) The Czechoslovak government plans to put William Oatis, Associated Press correspondent, on trial in the next few days, pre sumably on espionage charges, it was disclosed today. Oatis, 37, native of. Marion, was arrested by Czech secret Dolice April 23 and the Government announced later that he was charged with spying.

A United States Embassy spokesman in Prague reported by telephone today that the embassy had been informed by the Czech government that Oatis would be tried "within a few days." The spokesman said Ambas sador Ellis O. Briggs was given the information last Friday by Czech Foreign Minister Viliam Siroky when Briggs went to discuss the fate of two missing U. S. Air Force jet pilots. The spokesman declined to state whether Siroky had said there would be other defend ants at the Oatis trial.

Before the Associated Press bureau manager was seized, three members of the AP Prague bureau either were arrested or had disappeared. About the same time Oatis was picked up, a Czech employe failed to show up for work and did not return to his home. Czech officials turned down repeated requests by embassy officials to see Oatis. Cigarettes sent to him were returned by prison authorities, who said he did not need them. Second Daughter Drowns Chicago, June 19 (U.R) Last July, Marie Traut, 14-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Bernard Traut, drowned at a Michi gan City, beach. Yesterday their other daughter Helen, 11 drowned in a Chicago Park pool. Seventy-five pilots and 300 mechanics and clerks went on strike early today against United Air Lines at LaGuardia Field, as part of a nation-wide strike of several thousand ment, both of whom are "in-adequately staffed and operat- Ing on a small budget," he added. Naval Man Sees Hope Of Red China Revolt Badger Tells Mac Probe Committee U.

5. Can Bolster Prospect by Aid to Area BILL EXTENDING TEEN-AGE DRAFT Tougher Law Permits Summons at 1 8V2, Ends Exemptions for Many Washington, June 19 (U.R)- President Truman today signed a new and tougher law which lowers the draft age to 18 and allows the induction of 385,000 registrants 19 through 25 who now are deferred. The law also sets up the framework for a post-emergen cy universal military training program. Congress would have to pass another law to get it started. Under the new law the draft age limits are 18H-through-25, as -opposed to 19-through-25 un- kJer present JaW However, each local board must call first all available men 19 and over.

Con gressional eperts said it will be months or even years before any registrant younger than 19 is inducted. The present 21-month draft term is extended to two years. Organized reservists and National Guardsmen, who" have been or may be called to active duty, also must serve 24 months, Continued on Page 2 G.O.P. Picks Javils For Council Head The five city Republican leaders today designated a reluctant Representative Jacob K. Javlts of Manhattan as their designee for the City Council presidency.

However, there was much doubt as to whether Javits would be the Republican nominee when a final selection is made before this Fall's election. Spurns Cash, Takes Beef Akefield, June 19 (U.R) A burglar spurned the cash register at Ayer's market yesterday but took 50 pounds of choice beef. conviction that persecuted." I am being Dr. Fordrung was referring to a three-professor committee which conducted an investigation last Winter on complaint of four students who objected to his teachings. Second Study Made Another committee recommended the suspension after making a long inquiry into the charges.

Members of the second com mittee devoted their time, from November to March, to 118 interviews with Dr. Fordrung, 81 with students chosen at ran dom from his classes, and talks with 14 members of the Physiology Department the dean of the college and the four students who had complained of the doctor teaching methods. The specific charges are con duct unbecoming a member of the staff, Inefficient service and neglect of duty. The charge of neglect of duty was said to be "based primarily on the insufficiency of his hygiene instruc tion." "Voluminous evidence Indi cates," it was charged, "that he has devoted about 50 percent of his class time to matters out-j side the syllabus of his hygiene By RAYMOND LAKE and JOHN L. STEELE Washington, June 19 U.R) Vice Admiral Oscar C.

Badger one of the Navy's top authorities on the Far East, told Sena Plot Charged To Successor Of Cardinal Budapest, June 19 (U.R Arch bishop Josef Groesz, 64, successor to imprisoned Joseph Cardi nal Mindszenty ashead of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, will be tried with eight accomplices Friday on charges of plotting against the State, it was announced today. Archbishop Groesz and the other defendants, including Ala jos Pongracz, a Hungarian em ploye of the U. S. Information Service. alt will, bt charged with black marketing and aid ing Hungarians to escape to' the Urest, The indictment against thfe nine defendants was published in Budapest newspapers.

Pongracz was arrertea a month ago. The newspapers said his inclusion among the defendants shows the "legation of an imperialist power mentioned in the indictment is the U. S. Embassy in Budapest. Other defendants Include three monks, a member of the former Upper House of the Hungarian Parliament, a member of the Hungarian Parliament and a former tax official.

Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1949 on charges of treason. The indictment said Archbishop Groesz and the other defendants, like Cardinal Mindszenty, had made "full confessions." Meanwhile, the deportation of "undesirable elements" from Budapest continued today. Yesterday an undisclosed number of families were told to leave the capital within 24 hours. The continued deportation ended hopes that last Saturday's official communique revealing 924 upper and middle-class families had been banished in the past month would end government action. Suspended A suspended sex hygiene pro fessor, accused of giving "sensational and unwholesome" lec tures at Hunter College, said today he was only "endeavoring to teach youngsters to be modest, chaste and patriotic." Dr.

William J. Fordrung, a faculty member at the women's institution since 1933, said he parents tney saw Robert hiding in some bushes because he was afraid his mother would -whip him for running away. "I ain't gonna go back no more," 10-year Bernard Streid, the older brother, said Robert told him. Bernard said Robert ducked out of sight when one of the searchers 'approached the bushes. The area was roped off as soon as Robert's story became known.

Mrs. Edgar B. Continued on Page 9 I Air Challenge Beaten fleets of Allied warplanes supported the ground forces ana Deal on a tommunisi air challenge for the third straight day. Twenty-seven American Sa- brejets found an estimated 30 Soviet-built MIG-15 jets waiting for them 30,000 feet over Son- chon, 35 miles below the Man- Continued on Page Admiral Badger said this chance can be fostered by American steps in the political, economic, military and humanitarian fields steps he said should be taken as the basis of any "war plan" prepared for possible use in the Far East. Badger was called before the Senate committee Investigating the discharge of Gen.

Douglas MacArthur. The committee is awaiting word from MacArthur as to whether the general wish es to give rebuttal testimony before the hearings are closed. In China areas outside of Manchuria, Mongolia and possi bly North China, Badger said, there is still a chance of revo lutionary repercussion against Continued on Page 2 MERRICK tors today there still is "a chance" that much of China will revolt against "Communist tyranny and imperialism." don't care where they send us as armory at, Marcy and Heywood Aves. before it was federalized Aug. 14 of list year.

The three made no secret of their youth at the time, but Army red tape moves slowly and they found themselves at Fort Bliss, Texas, before the papers came- releasing, them trora service. Minority discharges in band CoatUmed on Page 1 the A.F.L. Air Lines Pilots' Association. It culminated lengthy negotiations between the company and the A.L.P.A. on the pilots demands that they be paid on a mileage rath er than an hourly basis.

In a statement, also Issued in Chicago, W. A. Patterson, JUMPED GUN, U. S. SAYS Washington, June 19 (U.R) The National Mediation Board accused United Air Lines pilots today of Jumping the gun in their nationwide strike against the airline.

Thomas F. Bickers, secretary of the board, said the strike was "contrary to all the concepts of the Railway Labor Act" He said the dispute still was in mediation and that the pilots, technically, were not free to- strike until after a fact-finding board reports on the dispute, followed by 30-day cooling off period. U. A. L.

president, said that the line had agreed to pay increases for pilots and co-pilots, but "would not concede demands for mileage limitations which, in effect, would lower the present maximum of 85 flying hours per month." The strike will not affect Continued on Page Cohen testified for the prosecution at the trial of four former firemen on charges on conspiracy and extortion in a Fire Department shakedown allegedly masterminded by Moran, intimate of former Mayor O'Dwyer. He obtained the schedule of shakedown fees to be paid for routine inspections they ranged from $5 to $35. depending on the size of the oil tank Continued on Page 0 workers against the lines. United Air Lines operations were halted at LaGuardia, 24 outgoing and 26 Incoming flights for the day being called off. There were eight pickets four in front of the United Air Lines hangar and four in front of the administration building.

Flights were canceled, too, at Chicago, Washington, De troit, Philadelphia, Newark, San Francisco and other points. Hundreds of would-be pas sengers were stranded at air ports throughout the nation, and United transferred them to other air lines, trains or hotels. The strike was announced in statement from Chicago by David L. Behncke, president of while scanting the ex tremely full course content itself." 'Smokescreen' Seen Dr. Fordrung said his case appeared to be "a smokescreen to divert attention in the city away from efforts to root out Communism in the schools." He must stand trial on the Continued on Page 9 1 He pointed out that on sev eral occasions it was necessary for him to advance funds to both, of these units so that they might make purchases of narcotics.

He declared that the budget of the Narcotics Bureau is so inadequate that they are only alloted $500 a year for nar cotics "buys. 'Late last year," he conti nued, "following reports from the New York City Youth Counsel Bureau which indicated a rise in drug traffic amone youths, Chief Assistant District Attorney Edward S. Silver conferred with Dr. William Jansen, Continued on Page SAYS TRUMAN WILL FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL FOR RE-ELECTION IN 1952 Washington, June 19 (U.R) President Truman's biographer believes he will fight hand-and- tooth for re-election in 1952 be cause he is convinced his foreign policy will lead to world peace. Jonathan Daniels, author of "Man of a biography of Mr.

Truman, and Democratic National Committeeman for North Carolina, after visiting the President at the White Hoiisp. said: "Hp ic irvn. vinced that his foreign policy is tne only thing that will stop Russia and bring peace (o the world. He will fight with both hands and all the way. The more they attack him, the harder he will Tight." WHERE TO FIND IT Prof Charges Persecution House Unit Opens Probe of Reds In Defense Plants Washington, June 19 (UR) The House Committee on Un-American Activities opened a study of Communism in defense plants today by calling four men who worked In Baltimore in World War II.

All four now work in or near New York, but were in Bam-more until 1949 or later. Two are officials of unions expelled from the C. I. O. last year on charges of Communist domination.

The witnesses were listed as: Herbert Kransdorf of New York, former port patrolman in Baltimore for the National Maritime Union "(C. I. Walter McManamon, organizer for the C. I. Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' Union, who was transferred a few months ago from Baltimore to Perth Amboy.

Milton Unterman, New York, employed at the Glenn L. Mar tin aircraft plant at Baltimore World War II. Irving Dvorin, port agent of tht C. I. Marine Cooks and Stewards in New York, formerly port agent in Baltimore.

The committee picked Baltimore for the first of its area-by-area hunts for Reds in defense work. W4NT JOB IN BBOOKLTKT I nl 11 stoeklja laihrwil OtowIoIUm Avpar hi lb BAGLS WANT ADi Shakedown ijees Paid By Public, Trial Told A WOL Boy Baffles 500 Hun ting for Him tried to "teach my students to be modest and proper in dress and habits, not to comport themselves lewdly or lasciviously." "I have tried to prove false, when the occasion arose, such concepts as free love and the use of the Klnsey report as the new standard of sex morality and the denial of the existence of God," Dr. Fordrung said. In announcing the suspension last night the Board of Education did not elaborate on its charges of sensationalism. A board member said, how ever, that Dr.

Kordrung naa made "loose and indiscriminate accusations against large groups of colleagues." and had at tempted to plant his own views in the minds of his students. "It's mv belief that this whole matter stems from an in vestieation demanded by the American Jewish Congress some time ago on charges that was anti-Semitic," Dr. fordrung said. "There was an Investigation and a college committee found no basis for any such charges. The findings of the committee suggested I was teaching morality akin 'to that found in Roman Catholic dogma.

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Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Merrick, June 19 Five nun dred searchers hunted 8-year- old Robert Richartz along the marshy waterfront here for the third successive day, puzzled as to whether they were seeking a frightened lost child or a Peck's Bad Boy determined to live "wild." At the outset of the search it was assumed that Robert was lost had met with an accl dent or perhaps had been kidnaped or killed. But last night two small brothers told their.