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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1948
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A niajs Of Junk reiAaiM of truck atrudc by freight train.   Plains  veteran  lotrt Ufe  in tJia  debris.
Freight Trains Claim Two Lives; Plains, Hazleton Men Victims
Palestine Tense for Blow; UN Receives Urgent Plea
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Two Luzerne county men were fatally injured in seperate acci¬ dents involving Lehigh Valley Railroad freight trains here yes¬ terday.
Victims were James E. Reynolds, ». of 39 Nicholson street. Plains, truck driver for Capone Coal Co., and John Yaokel, 88, of 28 N. Cedar atreet, Hazleton. Both died in hospitals without regaining con¬ sciousness, making it necessary for authorities to piece together ¦ome of the details.
Reynolds drove a five-ton truck that was struck by a nine-car lehigh Valley freight which Plain.-! police said was travelling back¬ ward at 25 miles per hour. Struck at Farmer's Crossing, which runs off River Road near Henry Col¬ liery, the truck was pushed 390 feet down the tracks and reduced to a pile of junk, as seen in the above photo. Two iron steps were broken off the engine.
Rushed to Mercy Hospital, Rey¬ nolds was admitted at ht20 yester¬ day afternoon and passed away at 4:19. Death was attributed to mul¬ tiple injuries. Dr. Robert S. Striek¬ er, deputy coroner, said. ^ Chief of Police Joseph Chahutski Plains investigated, tie'said the
of   Clarence John Lumley,
*te "of  the  accideiTt   Is  a  private j O'Malley,  conductor,  alt  of  Pitts crossing. The train crew consisted ton.
The victim was a veteran of World War n, having served two years ¦with the Army in the European theatre. He is survived by his father, George Reynolds, and a brother, John, stationed with the U. S. Army at West Point, N. Y. ,
The   funeral  will  be  held   from the McCarroll residence, 39 Nichol¬ son street, Piains, at a time to be announced. Loses Both Legs
Yackel, victim of the accident at Hazleton, was admitted to State Hospital at 4 oclock yesterday morning, shortly, after he had been found on the Lehigh Valley tracks, about 100 feet from the Pine street crossing. Both legs were cut off and he suffered other injuries.
Several men walking south on the street heard moans and upon Investigating found the man with logs severed almost at the body. City and railroad police, as well as Deputy Coroner John Salvator jr., were immediately summoned to the scene and took Yackel to the hospital In a police vehicle.
The   train   responsible   for   the
_   .        _ fatality was not identified, as three
fireman, and Thomas | different   trains   passed   tha   point
I between 3:40 and 3:52 a.m., accord-
iing to officials of the railroad.
Chiang's Leading Rival Quits Race for Vice-Presidency
Nanking, China. Sunday, April 25 (UP)—Dr. Sun Fo was assured re¬ election as vice president of China today when his two opponents sud¬ denly withdrew  from the race.
Gen.     La     Tsung-Jen,
pulled  out race.
The    announcement headquarters ,said   he
of the hotly contested
from    Li's  ,      had   with¬ drawn because rumors were spread- „• .,       ing   that   he   would   use   the   vice 'presidency  to oust Chiang within
political     foe     of     Generalissimo j three months, if elected.
Chiang Kal-aiek, led Sun on the first ballot in the national assem- "ai.v voting Friday and stretched the lead to a 216-vote margin on the aecond ballot yeaterday.
His withdrawal was announced in a half-page advertisement in this morning's Hain Min-Pao. Oheng f^ien,   the   third   candidate,   also
Ll is director of CSiiang's Peiping headquarters but entered the vice presidency contest as a "reform" candidate. Although he has kept silent, his supporters have openly and freely criticized the general¬ issimo and the present regime.
Chiang himself was re-elected In earlier voting.
COSTA RICAN REVOLT LEADER IS NAMED FOREIGN SECRETARY
San Jose, Ooata Rica, April 34. (UP)—Gen. Jose Figueres was named acting foreign secretary tnd public security secretary to¬ days as his victorious right-wing revolutionary trooi>s marched into tha capital.
Acting President Santos Her- rera announced the appointment and other mem'bers of an interim cabinet.
Figueres has announced that after May 8 he wiil set up a mlll- tarj- government junta, re-write the constitution as the basis of the "second republic" of Costa Rica and eventually call for gen- •rnl elecl.ions.
ALIENS MADE MILLIONS IN U. S. SPECULATION
Washington, April 24 (UP)—A special House committee investi¬ gating speculation will hold hear¬ ings Thursday on charges that non-tax paying aliens made mil¬ lions of dollars in t^e commodity markets.
Rep. August H. Andresen (R., Minn.) who heads the investigating group, said his committee haa made a comprehensive investigation of the part played by aliens in com¬ modity market speculation.
He said he and other members of his committee believe that any alien who makes money In this country, should pay the same taxes on his profits that an American would pay. The group may recommend tax law changes, he said.
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Clay Defies Soviet Ban Qn Planes
Says Air Traffic Will Go On as Usual Into Berlin Ports; British Get Barges
Berlin, AiprU »4. (UP)-Oen. Lucius D, Clay declared today that U. S. planes will continue to fly to and from Berlin despite Soviet pi-ess demands for a sharp cut in air traffic between here and west¬ ern Germany.
The military, governor of V. S.- occupled Germany told a press con¬ ference that "we win abide by four- power safety regulations governing the air corridor, and we will con- ^tlnue to use the air corridor." Soviets Free 12 Bargea
On another front in the "battle of oommunications," 12 barges were allowed to pass a Soviet canal block into the British zone. An estimated 180 river boats have been tied up by new Soviet •water traffic regfula- tlons.
Clay, who Is weekending here be¬ tween international conferences in London, said he could not "hold out much hope" for a break in the three-week deadlock over Russian road,  rail  and water travel  rules.
He said there was no immediate prospect for a meeting of the four-,j power Allied Control Oouncil. The council broke up March 20 when Soviet membera "walked out, and none of the three meetings sched¬ uled since has been held.
llie U. S. general said that the new Russian traffic regulations were a one-sided aBfair which could be discussed among occupation offi¬ cials without any need for a coun¬ cil meeting.
He denied that Anglo-American authorities have any present plans for creating a separate western Germany currency, but added "we would do so . . . with great regret ...  If we felt it necessary."
Banks In the U. S., British and French zones of Germany are now united under an agreement which would permit theJn to Issue cur¬ rency if the Western Powers or¬ dered H.
IBS U.S. Wants Sino Troops MEE HOURS To Keep Holy Land Peace
frank W, Sandford, Who Founded Kingdom, Inc, Is Dead at 86
Durham, Me., April 24 (UP> - followers remained faithful and in Frank Weston Sandford, 86, who 1908 Sandford led a crusade aboard wore purple robes and ran a two- the yacht "Coronet" which ended " int investment into a million dollar jin disaster and death from scurvey
ligious  retreat, has  died,  it was; of eight passengers, learned today. Sentenced to Prison
Dr.    Williard    M.    Gleason    ot,    A Federal court sentenced Sand
tore
Revere, Mass., aaid the bearded man who claimed to be the Prophet Elijah died in Massachusetta. Glea.s-
ford to seven yeara in the prison at Atlanta, Ga,, after the episode. It was testified the passengers died off
•on refused to say wiien or where'the West Coast of Africa. The sur death occurred. > ivivors   were   finaHy   rescued   by   a
Sandfcrd  founded  the  Kingdom, j boat from Portland, Me. Inc,  after  graduating  from  Bates     In 1919 Sandford retired and. dis- College. This became known as the'appeared. But the retreat at Dur- Holy  Ghost   and   US   Societv   and ham wai maintained, attracted     followers     by     the     In 1946 and 1947 wild gun battlea thousands. there  brought the sect again  into
Though   started   with   only   two the ne^vs. «enta,   the   sect   soon    acquired   aj    In   1946,   Irenee   Laprise   a   war <,000-acre tract and achieved world-; veteran   tried   to   "take   over   the" wide  publicity  through  Sandford's sect and he and Dr. Charles Deed- Phrophecy   that   the   world   would er, 39, who lived at Shilhoh were
l^id In 1907.
This failed to come true.
but his
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killed in a gun battle.   ,
The next year Alfred Belanger, 33, of Auburn started another gun fight by going to Shilhch and an¬ nounced lie had been directed by the Lord to take over the society. No one was killed in this battle.
Sandford is believed to have left two sons, John of Durham and Frank oif Amherst, N. H. Cult leaders refused to say where or wfaen their leader had been buried.
Raid on Union Hall By Officers Termed 'Senseless Action'
Kansas City, Kan., April 24 (UP)—Two Kansas City labor of¬ ficials today Issued a joint state¬ ment from Kansas City's wrecked Packinghouse Workers' Union HaU bitterly Attacking a police assault on picket lines at a Cudahy meat packing plant here.
The joint statement was signed by James J. Leary, CIO regional director, and Ralph M. Baker, director of District Four of the UPW,
"Messages of outrage and sym¬ pathy are pouring in from all over the country. Shaming the city of¬ ficials for this senseless action," the statement said.
It charged that police attacked pickets "without any attempt to make   arrests   of  file   charges."
Police said they used clubs yes¬ terday because strikers had failed to heed a court restraining order limiting the number of pickets at the main Cudahy gate to 10. llall Blood-Spattered
Then the police followed retreat¬ ing pickets inside a union hall ¦opposite the plant gate, and left the interior of the building wrecked and blood-spattered, A detective captain leading the police said he was jerked inside the hall when he attempted to talk to the strick- firs, and his men followed, swing¬ ing.
The union leaders' statement said: "The walls of our head¬ quartera are smeared with blood. The soup kitchen, p. a. system, and telephone were wrecked, hat.s had been cut with knives In pure vandalism.
"It Ig inconceivable that in the land of the free, officers of tho law would attack In this fashion, enter an'd wreck the building of a free organization without any kind of warrant, strike men and women alike, and threaten wit¬ nesses with like treatment If they did  not  look  away."
The union leadens charged Kan¬ sas   City   police   with   specific   in- | stances    of    "senseless    brutality." They  claimed  to  have  statements on flle to back up their charges. Allege  Woman  Struck
"In one case," the statement said, "a woman was whirled around by the shoulders and struck on the head. WTien she got up and reached out to an officer for sup¬ port, he shoved her against the wall, at which time her assailant returned with his club causing her to  flee.
"An elderly one-armed mari was beaten by three policemen who pounded his head and the stump of his arm."
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BODY ON ISLAND IN LEHIGH
Elaston, Pa., April 24—(UP)—The body of a man was found on an Island in the Lehigh River near here yesterday. Detectives believe it WEM that of an unidentified man who jumped.
Sees U. S. Trusteeship Getting Nowhere, Dangers Elsewhere
Washington, April 24 (UP).—Sec¬ retary of State George C. Marshall came home from the Bogota con¬ ference today and got a quick start toward working out the weighty international problems that have piled up while he was gone.
Chief among these is Palestine, A showdown in the Holy Land Is Imminent and U. S, plans for a UN trusteeship and a truce in the fight¬ ing presently are getting nowhere. Dispute Over Authority - President Truman and some Con¬ gressmen presently are at odds over whether the Administration has authority to send U, S. troops to Palestine to keep the peace. It has offered to do so If other United Nations will.
Marahall landed at National Air¬ port at 9 a. m. He said the inter- American conference at Bogota, disrupted by a bloody revolt, has reached decisions on most of the_ fundamental issues it considered. Meets Truman Tomorrow
After three hours ot conferences, Marshall left to join his wife at their Leesburg, Va., farm for a weekend of rest He did not see President Truman today, but will do so Monday.
MarshaU appeared tired when he stepped from the plane. He was accompanied by Brig. Gen. Mar¬ shall Carter, his aide, and William McChesncy Martin, president ol the   Export-Import  Bank.
He would not comment when asked whether the Bogota confer¬ ence had helped the general world situation. But when newsmen ask¬ ed him for a statement about the mating, he sald:
"I was sorry that I hnd to leave before the coriipletion of the con¬ ference, but as a matter of fact the conference has reached decis¬ ions on most of the fundarrental considerations, particularly the or¬ ganic  pact.
"There still remains problems of economic    consideration.    Progress has been made in reaching; decis¬ ions on the Issues Involved." Accumulation Of Problems
Most officials here believed the .secretary's abrupt decision to leave Bogota before the conference end¬ ed was prompted not by any par¬ ticular crisis in world affairs but rather by accumulation of prob¬ lems that need his immediate at¬ tention.
ONLY BIG ARMY CAN RETAKE HAIFA
Haifa, Palestine, AprU 24 (UP) — The Arab exodus from this Jewish- won port and oU line terminus slowed perceptibly. Some Arabs were returning to their homes de¬ spite their leaders' pleas that depart.
The shooting  part of the  battle for Haifa had ended,   Jews were in
CHINESE SILENT
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Lake Success, N. Y., April 241 Jerusalem, Palestine, April 24 (UP).-The United States today ¦ (UP)—Pablo Azearate, chairman stepped up its etforta to get the | of the United Nations Palestine troops 'needed to impose a United' Commission, left for Lake Success Nations trusteeship on Palestine today to report to the Security aU! despite Jewish warnings thaj; such Council Uiat the urgency In Pales- force would be met with force, tine can now lie measured in hours. • Chinese sources revealed that "I am going to Lake Success to American diplomats are negotlat- ] try to impress upon them the ur- almost complete control of Pales-jing for possible use of Chinese^gency in Palestine, which now can tine's No. 1 deep water port—thej troops to force trusteeship on the | not be measured in weeks or even richest prize yet to fall into their Holy Land in conjunction with days, but hours," he said, hands. American contingents. He left amid growing indications
Arabs Cut U>m Figures American  diplomaU  also  pushed ^/"^'^ «"''^^* ^'^'^ prepared a coup
Arabs    reduced    their    previous talks   with    Britain.    France   and ^or May 1. casualty   estimates   and   said   ap- several medium and small nations Bloody Settlement Foreseen proximately  80  Arabs  were  killed outside the Russian bloc in a des-     The signs that the fate of Pa^- and  several   hundred   wounded   in Perate campaign to whip together tine may be settled by blood m the the   "battle  for  Haifa"    Of  these'the  international   force  needed   to 21 days between now and May 15, casualties, a spokesman said, only iback Its trusteeship plans. when   the   British   mandate   ends
six were Arab soldiers. The re¬ mainder were women and children, he aaid,
Arab committeemen said four Arabs were wounded by Jewish gunfire today but Jewish sources denied they had broken the cease¬ fire agreement.
An official government announce¬ ment in Jerusalem said Jews open¬ ed an attack on the village of Balad Ash Sheik on the outskirts of Faifa last night but withdrew early to¬ day to allow British military forces to remove Arab women and chil¬ dren.
Arabs asked for a truce early this morning and Jews demanded they hand over all arms, the announce ment   said.     When   only   22   rifles were surrendered, Jews attaciced at 4 a. m. but at 6 a. the   engagement   and evacuation to begin. Big Prize
The magnitude ot the Jewish victory became more apparent hourly. British officers said nothing short Of a full-scale organized of¬ fensive by excellently-equipped troops could dislodge the Jews from Haifa. On one side is the Mediter¬ ranean Sea. Jews command the heights on the other side and con¬ trol all roads into the city.
No Promises Yet [officially,  and  before  the  UN  has
An American  delegation spokes-j "';^,«'°«f. f°"°«' =
man said the United States had not yet received any definite promises Several UN observers wondered whether the United States was pre¬ pared to use its troops against the Jewish Haganah in case the Jews carried out their threat to oppose trusteeship with force.
The American spokesman, queried on this possibility, asked: "What makes you certain that the Jews would defy a decision of the General Assembly?" He refused to comment further.
However, a British spokesman said    -      - ¦
Haganah leaders Indicated they will not wait until May 15, but will try to consolidate a Jewish state with swift blows, as at Haifa.
Jewish sources say Haganah will strike quickly if it decides to fight for Jerusalem, by seizing command¬ ing positions and driving Arabs into the old walled city where their supplies could be cut off.
Jewish  forces are rushing  forti¬ fications in their sections of Jeru¬ salem. Wealthy Leaving
Wealthy Arab women and chil¬ dren  are  leaving  for Transjordan
the   Palestine   situation   had!
deteriorated so much it was doubt-iand Lebanon, although their exodus
ful  tbat any kind of Intervention has not yet reached the  point of
could accomplish  its objectives.        mass evacuation.
m   broke" off *'*''• ^^'S^t Accept Two British constables were shot,
Allowed   the     -Arab state spokesmen at the UN \ one fatally, by Arabs at Mamillah
have indicated that the Arabs might! Road   at   noon   after   the    Arabs
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Stassen, Taft Tilt For Ohio's Delegates
Cleveland,   O,   April   24   (UP)—
Republican    presidential    aspirant
, Harold   E.   Staasen   today  assailed
Arab    officials    reiterated    thati gen.  Robert A. Taft  for  opposing
every single Arab would be evacu-|the renomination of David B. Lili-
ated.   The Arab National Commit-, enthal as chairman of the Atomic
tee  met  with  Jewish  and   British r Energy Commission.
Lilienthal Appointment Again Splits Senate COP
leaders at the city hall and de¬ manded that the British supply transportation, food and gasoline so that the 30,000 Arabs still here could be moved out.
From  atop a hill,  motor  barges | nating'convention' could  be  seen  moving  across   thei    The former Minnesota governor bay   toward   Acre   and   north   to,toid a press  conference  that it Lebanon.    Large  crowds of Arabs|..the wrong kind of politics to hold jammed    the    docks    waiting    for ^p j^e appointment of a qualified
Taft announced his opposition to Lilienthal in a radio speech ,last night. -Taft and Stassen are cam¬ paigning simultaneously for Ohio delegates to the Republican nomi-
Former Opponent Changes Attitude; Taft Will Oppose
Washington, April 24 (UP)—Sen¬ ate Republican leader Wallace H. White said tonight that he may support David E. Lllienthal's re¬ appointment.
White made this disclosure as the Senate squared off for another battle over Lilienthal which may split ths Senate. Republican leader¬ ship. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O.), will oppose confirmation but Senate President Arthur H. Vanderberg is expected to support it.
President Truman nominated Lilienthal for five years as chair¬ man of the Atomic Energy Com¬ mission. The original appointment was for one year.
Just one year ago White accused Lilienthal of being "soft" toward Communists. Today the Maine GOP leader said "My vote of a year ago is not necessarily an ap¬ praisal of hia work at this time."
White's stand suggested that this
time the atomic chairman may have support of other top (SOP leaders in addition to Vandenberg, who backed Lllienthal's original one-year appointment.
"I have no basis of criticism for hU functioning," White said. "I'm not sold on the idea that because he's not a Republican he ought to be barred."
Meanwhile, Chairman Bourke B. Hickenlooper of the Senate-House congressional atomic ^ergy com¬ mittee called Senate members of his group into conference on Mon¬ day. Hickenlooper, whose commit¬ tee must approve Lllienthal's nomi¬ nation, said his prime Interest is to assure continuity of the atomic pro¬ gram—including the production of bombs.
Under study In certain 'Senate quarters tonight was a possible re¬ vision of the McMahon Act, which governs administration of the atomic program by the all-civiUan commission. The revision would merely extend until next year the expiration dates of terms now be¬ ing served by the five commission¬ ers.   They now expire In Augu.st.
docks
transportation.   Some of them have
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Million Mourn At Roxas Rites
Manila, P. I., Sunday, AprU 25—(UP))—Nearly 1,000,000 tear¬ ful Filipinos stood 10 deep on the sidewalks of war-scarred ManUa today to watch the body of their first president, Manuel A.  Roxas,  borne  to  its grave.
Twenty-seven American P-47'c and a lone Philippines Army plane  roared through the cloudy
a man   on   a   political   basis there is Some new evidence against Mr.   Lilienthal   he  should   be  con¬ firmed   for  another  term."
Taft predicted last night that the Senate would block LUienthal's re- nomination for a five-year term, but Stassen said today that- con¬ firmation of Lilienthal "is simply a question of qualification and fit¬ ness."' Differ on 'Liberalism'
Stassen further emphasized his disagreement with Taft in a talk to the Cleveland City Club. He said he agreed with the senator on tlie meaning of "liberalism" ex-
skies  overhead,  dipping  in  trib    , , , _
ute to the lifelong friend of the  I cept for two ' signicant differences
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Roxas died Thursday, April 16, shortly after a speech at war- famed Clark Field pledging that Filipinos would stand beside Americans in Worid War III if it came.
Taft came back in a radio ad¬ drese tonight charging that Stas¬ sen's program was vague while he had pushed adoption of laws and Introduced legislation that "repre¬ sented concrete action as opposed to proposals."
"I submit that a large part of my program ia the program of the Republican  Party,"  Taft said.
On the subject of the armed forces, Taft said he believed In a strong Air Force and an adequate Army and Navy. He said "we may have to have" conscription and added that he waa opposed to compulsary military training. "Mr. Stassen is for something less than compulsory and more than volun¬ tary—whatever that means," Taft .is I said.
The favorite son candidate for , ithe Republican Presidential nomi- Ination said Staasens ideas on re- ! vision of the United Nations char¬ ter were "neither original nor dif- ferent from those I have long ad¬ vocated."
On Palestine, Taft said, "1 join In condemning the reversal of our government action on partition. 1 think it ought to reverse its posi¬ tion to be supported by a United Nations armed  force."
Stassen will go to Oregon Mon¬ day to campaign for convention delegates against Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Stassen will make his final appeal to Buckeye voters by radio the evening before they go to the polls.
The Minnesotian described his campaign through Ohio this week as a "remarkable trip" but decUned to estimate how many of the 23 delegate candidates pledged to him would win.
Kid Killers from Brooklyn Slums Take Life of Innocent Youth, 18
'Saber Dance' Has Khatchaturian On Soviet Hit Parade Blacklist
Moscow, AprU 24 (UP).—Aram Khatchaturian, composer of 'the American juke box hit, "Saber Dance," was warned today he never will make the Soviet hit parade again If he doesn't get in tune with the times.
Communist newspapers said Khatchaturian and other composers [still have not explained satisfac¬ torily the "mistakes" of which they were accused by the party's central committee in February. The com¬ mittee at that time advised them their work was Ideologically incor¬ rect auid "inexpressive, poor, in¬ harmonious and muddled."   -
One-by-one composers have spoken out against "anti-demo¬ cratic" music at the AU-Unlon Conference of Ctortposers, which opened here Monday. Their rea¬ sons for having created "anti- peoples" music were neither sharp enough nor inclusive enough, how¬ ever, to satisfy their fellow musi¬ cians from cities throughout the Soviet Union, the Communist press reported.
Khatchaturian was criticized de- sDite  his  public   disavowal  of  the „
sunnort he and otfeer 'formalists" J through the heart on a street cor-, cursing him as a Tiger. Gottlieb wire eiven abroad when the cen- ner last night in one ot the Brook-'denied membership in the gang and tTal committee decree was an- lyn slums that were the happy denied taking part in the raid on nnMnoprt hunting grounds of "Murder,  Inc." Red  Hook.  Al  this  point John  in-
One   newspaper   said    the   con-1 At it turned out, he wasn't a mem- tervened   to  back  Gottlieb's  story, fem^ce     noted     "Khatchaturian's! ber of the gang-it waa a case of One of Uie Presidents  produced a
I New York, April 24 (UP)~Three lieb were leaving a bar when they idents" were arrested for possessing • boys confessed today that they saw the three "Presidents" coming pistols. They were Vincent Desleno, ;served  as  an  execution  squad  for|dcwn the street. 118,  who was  said to  have the .S2
itheir gang and killed an ether boyi "I knew we were in for trouble: caliber pistol with wbich Gottlieb I because   they   thought   he   waa   a because  they are tough  guys," he I was killed.
I member of a rival gang. isaid. {    The other was Vincent DasCalo,
William   Gottlieb,   18,   was   shot*   The three boys grabbed Ciottlieb, |18.
When the boya were suraignad they were so busy trying to act Ilka gang heroes that Magistrate Sur- pless waa impelled to remark: "Tou are charged with murder. Dont be so nonchalant." promise   to   strain    with   all    "cis'mistaken  identity. !pistol,and   clubbed   him   with   it,!   He   then   turned   to   Scardaofs
might   to  create  music   along  thej    John Murphy, 15, was with Gott- knocliing him down. !father   and   Lucera's   mother   and
Une suggested by the central com-lieb and John's stcry to police led' "The next thing I remember wasiasked if their igns ever attended mittee" and his recognition of thelto the arrest of Anthony (Blackis) hearing a .sh t, and then (Sottlieb church. The Veeping parents "deep justice and timeliness of theiLucira.  17,  (^orge   (Red)   Boundy, jwas lying oy me," he said. 'looked questioningly at tJieir sona
central committees  instructions."    il6; and Thomas Frenchyi Scardaci,|    From his description of the boys:who shook *heir heads negatively. Pravda said, however, that Khat-117,  all members  of the  "Preaident jand  his  account  of  the  conversa-1    "That   is   the   trouble   with  you chaturian should have spoken more'Gang" of Brooklyn's notorious Red, tion,   detectives   who ^eep   a   close boys,"    Surpless    said.    -TTou    and sharply and exactly and  not onlylHook  slums.  AU  the  boys  carried itab on the boy gangs of the Brook-1your kind need all the church yoa about his musical activity, | weapons   but   Lucira   admitted   he lyn    slums,    rounded    up   all    the'can get."
was   the   one   who   fired   the  ahot "Presidents" they  could  find.   The f   Police said the "Presidents" and through (xottlieb's heart. three   members   of   the   execution the    Tigers    were    long    standing
Last    week    members   of    "The squad were said t   display no par- rivals.     Their     rivalry     "included Sergei   Prokofieff,   have   not   yet;Tiger" gang, of a neighboring .slum ticular remor.se- they  felt Gottlieb everything   from   stickbaU   to  wo- spoken   at   the   conference,     Vano section, invaded Red Hool; and at- as a "Tiger" had gotten what was men." one detective said. Muradeli,     whose     opera     "Great tacked   members   of   the   President coming to him. :    TTie   boy   gangs   of   New   York's
Friendship" touched off (Communist Gang   on   their   playgrounds.   Last 8 Charged wiUi  .^lurder slums   have   been   a   proWem   for
Party criticism of dissonant, caco- night "the execution squad" went The three boys w ere charged with social workers for years. Many are phonous, moderniatic music, spoke into the Tiger's home section, seek- homicide. A grand jury will be social and athletic and harmless. on Thursday.    He  failed  to  makejing revenge. asked to indict  them  for  first  de- Others     manifest    era
an impression, the press said. '   John Murt^y said he and C>ott-|gree   murder.   Two   other   "Presi-idenoies.
Several of the composers criti¬ cized in the February decree, in- eluding   Dmitri   Shostakovich   and
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