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IP ACT TO BM AM XJ7' if ir if if if FPU WEATHER Fair, mild tonight; increasing cloudiness, followed by showers, mild tomorrow BROOKLYN 1, N. TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1949 Rennvivu ki TIlMriAY APDII 12 1949 fctsrea irooUm o. id cum tui tutm 5 CENTS IVERYWHERI 108th YEAR No. 101 DAILY and SUNDAY icopnunt. im ti Brootiw luit ms-i BROOKLYN 1, N.

iutPAT, afkil ia, ity ET1 fq)o)Eo)( WW C. J. RYAN, ji Ul 50 Thefts II In War O'DWYER FOE, ni IQIOW, NOT NAMED 3 Counts Charged To Broady, Jones And Kenneth Ryan Three alleged investigators in Reformed Boy Gang Fixed Own Quarters, Now Aids Other Lads Entire Tompkins Park Area Chipped In To Help Youths Set Up a Clubhouse 3 3 rS I MOTHER, 22, IS ACCUSED AS LOOKOUT Ex-Convicts Seized With Her After Cops Trail Trio for Weeks Suspected of between 50 and fin hiirpiaries in Brooklyn and multimillionaire Clendenin J. Ryan's "good government" crusade against Mayor O'Dwyer were Indicted today on charges of illegal wire-tapping. By ARTHUR POLLOCK (Second of a Series of Articles) The story of how community leaders in the Tompkins Park tinppna in the last six months, area and a band of street-fighting boys got together and hit two men were booked in the John G.

upon a plan for co-operation opened up a new chapter the Bergen St. precinct early today nf hnrtrlarv and Dos- day boys and adults met for the first time The three-count indictment was handed down by the grand jury in Manhattan against John G. Broady, lawyer-investigator and right-hand man of the crusading Ryan; Kenneth Ryan, a former city detective, and Edward Jones, a former Treasury agent. Jones 'allegedly told police he and Kenneth Ryan were hired to tap City Hall telephones. Actually, only one telephone-that of Hugh Rogers, Manhattan Borough President and head of Tammany Hall was reported tapped.

One count of the indictment The boys, who had terrorized session of burglars' tools. And a pretty, attractively dressed brunette was accused of acting the neighborhood by their run Cade Staff photo ACCUSED TRIO Charged with between 50 and 60 burglaries are, left to right, Michael O'Hara, Mrs. Karlyn Ruth Vuono and Edward Johnson. They are in the 78th Precinct house after their arrest. ning battles with other bellig erent straying groups, always as their lookout.

The woman, r-war widow, according to police, had been liv wanted a boys club. So did the Tompkins Park Neighborhood Council, headed by Municipal The result was that representatives of the boys group met with JudgJ Wecht, Father James Dolan of St. John's R. C. Church and other council members in the St.

John's parish house. Up to that point the boys and the community had been at war. Just as tney were always suspicious of the police, with whom they had had many ing with one of the men. Three detectives had been on the trail Court Jusice Milton M. Wecht.

Leo Laughlin, who had joined charged the men with con of the gang for three weeks. 2 Men on Parole The men. both longshoremen with the boys to help them plan whatever they wanted to do, Police Double Detail In C.CN.Y. Riot Area Cop on Duty for Every Picket as Student Line Shrinks Strike Patrol Later Hiked were Michael O'Hara, 32, of 143 told them he thought the people of the community would help TRUMAN SENDS PACT TO SENATE; ASKS QUICK 0. K.

Rejects Soviet Charge That Treaty Violates United Nations Charter Washington, April 12 (U.R) brushes, the roughs were dis 6th and uawara jonnson, 30, of 404 6th St. They are on parole, police said, O'Hara from them form and finance a good club. continued on Page 8 a penitentiary in canon city and Johnson from Com stock Prison. N. Y.

Police were alerted today for rioting at City College and The brunette, Mrs. Karlyn the detail assigned was doubled- AS -Tt'turned out, however, there were so few pickets that was virtually one cop for every protesting marcher. Ruth Vuono, 12, formerly of Newark, told police she had been living with O'Hara. She said her husband wa killed in President Truman today sent UntiTIatein thsng 98 mounted and kept Court Calls Tappers Moral Degenerates' 4 Held Here in $1,000 Each on Charges Of Illegally Obtaining Divorce Evidence a wary eye or j.iy pickets who weref fiiaig suspension the North Atlantic Treaty to the Senate for ratification as a of two faculty Twicers accused of religious dis the war and she has a young child in a boarding school step "on the road to peace crimination. spiracy and the other two charged illegal wire-tapping, a felony.

Clendeln Ryan, who testified before the grand jury, was not mentioned in the indictment, to D. A. All three surrendered at the Manhattan District Attorney's office soon after the indictment was returned and went to General Sessions for arraignment. In an interview after the indictment was handed up, District Attorney Frank Hogan charged that Broady ostensibly had a law office but actually ran an investigation agency employing seven private operators. He accused him of being "an Inveterate wire-tapper" for whom Jones had worked for several years.

According to Hogan, Clendenin Ryan hired Broady to investigate "alleged municipal corruption" and gave him $10,000 to do the job. Of that sum $5,000 was given to Jones for wire-tapping, the prosecutor said, and within the framework of the "somewhere." Then the number of United Nations. rose to 200. They patrolled the In a message to the Senate Mr. Truman called the pact "a Illegal wire-tappers were called "moral degenerates" by Kenneth Ryan The three pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn Felony Court before Magistrate Masterson.

He held the men without bail and remanded them to Raymond Street Jail. Mrs. Vuono was great advance toward fulfill County Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz today as four men were arraigned before him on a charge of tapping a telephone wire entrances to college buildings between 138th St. and 139th Sts.

on Convent Ave. in Manhattan without incident. A spokesman for the college said that attendance today was ment of the unconquerable will of the people of the United States to achieve a just and to obtain divorce evidence. held in $7,500 bail. Their hear 7 Nazi Bigwigs Found Guilty of Slaughtering Jews Hitler's Press Chief Convicted, 2 Cleared In Last Crimes Trial Nuernberg, April 12 (U.R) enduring peace." The four were Robert C.

La Borde, 48, 25 Brookside Circle Bulgars Protest 73 percent, despite the claim of ing was set for April 18. The threp were nuestioned William Fortunado, president Bronxville, head of the Inves By indirection, the Chief Executive rejected criticism from Russia that the pact con for hours early today by Assist- of the student body, that the strike was 65 percent effective. tigators Technical Service, 1841 Move in U.K. to Sift travenes the United Nations Continued on Page 13 Broadway, Manhattan; his charter. Most of the demonstrators came from the Liberal Arts School, brother, John 39, Narragan- He said the 12 signatory na sett Hotel, Manhattan, an em tions through the pact would ploye of the service; Frederick officials said, with attendance almost perfect in science classes.

exercise their right "of collec he promised Kenneth Ryan $.350. Actually, up to March 10, A. Dormer, 29, 41-22 42d St, Adolf Hitler's press chief, Otto Dietrich, and six other Nazi Bad Heel May K.O. DiMag for Season tive or individual self-defense Long Island City, another em Night students had voted to Religious Trials Term Action Taken Against Ministers 'Purely Domestic' Bulgaria has delivered an In against armed attack" in ac ploye, and Louis Appelbaum, Hogan said, Ryan got $150 and Continued on Page 13 join the day students for the bigwigs were found, guilty today of taking part in the cordance with Article 51 of the 49, 482 Linden Boulevard. charter.

Step on Road to Peace slaughter of European Jewry. An American war crimes tri All pleaded not guilty and were held in $1,000 bail each to second day of the general strike which began with two near-riots between police and shouting, placard-waving students. Vote to Join Strike Joe 1 a I baseball's Yankee Clipper, has suffered an aggravation of his injured He added that the defense bunal continued for the second day the reading of an 800-page verdict in the case of 21 Ger treaty is subject "to such meas await trial. They were charged with wire-tapping, a felony, and, in addition, Appelbaum dignant protest to the United Nations against proposals to in heel and will go to Johns Mop- ures as the (U. Security Council may take to maintain kins Hospital, Baltimore, for The students voted for the man officials in the so-called vestigate the recent trials of and Robert LaBorde were Budget Hearing Picketed by 150 Some 150 pickets representing four locals of the C.

I. strike last Friday by a ma-; and restore international peace charged with conspiracy, a mis Protestant clergymen in that "Wilhelmstrasse" group of diplomats and other policy makers jority of the uptown Manhat further treatment, the United Press learned today. There were rumors that he might be forced to" retire from ana security." demeanor. country. It was the 13th and final war Originally, Mr.

Truman tan college's 7,230 students in the day classes. Last night. The protest was sent to the crimes trial here. planned to send the pact to the baseball, at least for this season, after 18 of the demonstrators, Only two defendants were General Assembly by Secretary- Assistant District Attorney Julius A. Helfand linked the Brooklyn case with the City Hall wire-tapping plot that today saw the indictment of three cleared on all counts Otto von bat there was no immediate confirmation of that from the Senate with a mere letter of transmittal.

Over the weekend he decided to draft a major mes General Trygve Lie as the full i mc-iuciing two co-eas ana several Brooklyn men. had been Erdmannsdorff, 60, former Ger- Assembly met to determine Yankee offices in Manhattan. United Public Workers marched today in front of City Hall, where the Board of Estimate was holding a hearing on the proposed $1,179,026,930 city budget. sage emphasizing his desire for men. Helfand told the court on Page 13 Continued on Page 2 whether the Balkan church early Senate approval.

Robert LaBorde had been "con trials should be added to Its "This treaty is only one step nected for many years" with agenda. The issue was certain INDICTED Edward Jones, right, indicted today as wire-tapper, is shown with Chief of Detectives William T. Whalen. although a long one on the John G. Broady, lawyer-investi Murray Refuses to Send Delegate to Red Session Moscow, April 12 (U.R) Philip Murray, president of the C.

I. The members of Locals 1, 111, to be approved for debate de- road to peace," the President gator working for Clendenin 333 and 444, representing vari said In his message. Prosecutor of Nazis Hails Conviction of 5 Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 13 single action, no matter how significant, will achieve ous branches of city employes, chanted in unison: "Let's Go, C. I. O.

Cit workers want more dough." has rejected an invitation to send two fraternal delegates to the forthcoming Congress of peace. We must continue to U. Canada Plan Bay State Reds Don't work patiently and carefully, Playing a major role in the ney. In 12 previous war crime Meanwhile, James C. Quinn, boviei iraae unions, nere, 11 was announced today.

trials since the big Goering Continued on Page 2 Joint Industrial long Nuernberg trial which resulted in conviction of five big Goebbels conviction all defendants had been acquitted on the Seek Peace Philbrick shot Nazis for planning and secretary of the citywidg Central Trades and Labor Council, A. F. speaking to members of the board, urged bigger salaries for city employes. Two on Critical waging aggressive war was a aggressive war charge. Rule if War Comes Washington, April 12 (U.R) WHO'S ON FIRST? young Brooklyn lawyer who Herbert A.

Philbrick, under Boston and reported on the Pointing out that German List After Canned diplomats Von Weizsaecker was a law clerk when Pearl Harbor plunged the United An overflow crowd of some The United States and Canada union's activities to the FBI. Xever Attended Meetings agreed today to set up a joint was a state secretary in the German1 Foreign Office and States into World War II. committee to study mobilization Soup Poisons Six cover FBI agent testifying at the Communist conspiracy trial in Manhattan Federal Court, denied today that the Massachusetts Communist party, of which The witness, an advertising He is John J. Posner of 811 500 people jammed the hearing room and adjacent corridors, the first time such a thing has happened in years. wartime ambassador to the of the industrial resources of executive, who was a Com Cortelyou Road, now in private Vatican were convicted in the munist member in good stand Six persons were stricken with food poisoning late last night practice at 76 Beaver Man both nations in the event of an emergency.

Nuernberg trial of "instigating, (Earlier details on Page 11) hattan. Discharged from the he was a trusted member while Continued on Page 13 The State Department re army as an Air Force captain after eating canned tomato soup in a Williamsburg home and two of them are in critical con making periodic reports to his planning ana waging aggressive war," Posner declared that this development "should instill in present-day diplomats rosner, wno naa served in leased an exchange of notes establishing the body to be known FBI superiors, was a "peace Army Intelligence and the dition, police reported today. as the Joint United States -Can Judge Advocate General's office party" since the end of the war. Farley Sees Readiness For War Way to Peace Glens Falls, April 12 (U.R) Those affected were Mrs. Sadie ada Industrial Mobilization C6m- the courage and determination to lead the world on the road with the 8th Air Force, eot the Under cross-examination by Gooding; her sons, Roy, 15, and mittee.

job of prosecuting the top trio to peace and security." Defense Attorney George W. Conrad, 12, and her daughter, Function of the committee Former Postmaster General ai uie Nuernberg trial. Crockett the witness had will be "to exchange informa As a prosecutor with the As a consequence, he said, the diplomats sitting in the United Nations should become Gloria, 22, all of 264 S. 1st and two friends of the family, Marion Kearse, 25. and Rose tion and co-ordinate the views James A.

Farley believed that the surest way to world peace told of Communist literature which he had helped to prepare Office of Chief of Counsel, War of the two governments in con crimes, ne prepared and then keenly aware of "the great re Elrode of the same address." is through preparation for war. presented the case against nection with planning for industrial mobilization in the event All were taken to Greenpolnt sponsibility that rests on their shoulders" to lead the world In an interview here, Farley Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker, WHERE TO FIND IT Pag Page Around Boro 5 MoviM 10,11 Baby Parade 5 Night Uf. 11 Book. 16 Novel 9 Bridge 14 Obituarie. 13 Calendar 6 One Man Say.

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nirnsi woermann and Wil said the preparation should not START TODAY "OPENING DAY DODGER LINEUP AND BATTING ORDER FORECAST" CASH AWARDS Detail on Page 18 The committee will co-operate rad were reported to be on the critical list. Also detained in helm Keppler. He was the first away from aggressive war. Posner is a graduate of Eras mus Hall High School, Colum be "for an aggressive war on of the prosecutors to present with the U. permanent Joint defense board.

our part, but in our defense. the hospital were Gloria and Rose Elrode. Mrs. Gooding and U. S.

members will be Dr. "It was not opposed to war. nis case, von weizsaecker was considered so important a de bia University and Brooklyn Law School. He entered the "Let our air force be strong," Farley said. "And let the rest Miss Kearse went home after Mr.

Philbrick replied. John R. Steelman, acting chair fendant that he was permitted army as an air force private and treatment. He had testified yesterday of the world know and ur reacnea the rank of captain The Health Department im that he recently Joined the left man or the National Security Resources Board, and Donald F. Carpenter, chairman of the U.

S. stand clearly that we have to have an American, Warren E. Magee, of Washington, as well as a German defense attor-. mediately opened an investiga within four years. He returned from overseas six months ago.

atomic bombs and would thm in our own defense." wing United Office and Professional of America in, tion, Munitions Board..