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NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1945.

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Transfer of 4 City Colleges to State Proposed by Sen. Coudert

Municipality Lacks Funds, Says Sponsor

Bill Guarantees Protection to Employees Shifted

Special to the World-Telegram.

ALBANY, Feb. 2.—Sen. Frederic R. Coudert Jr. and Assemblyman MacNeil Mitchell, New York City Republicans, today introduced in the Legislature a bill which would transfer municipal colleges to the state.

Sen. Coudert and Assembyman Mitchell said the bill had been introduced as a basis for discussion further to focus attention upon the problems of City, Brooklyn, Queens and Hunter colleges, now supported wholly from city tax funds of about $9,000,000 annually.

'Need Revenue."

The two legislators said these institutions need additional revenue and that they have outgrown their original status as purely city institutions. In 1910 the day session enrolment was but 2744. In 1941 there were 67,000 students on full- or part-time basis.

In substantiation of this the New York City legislators quoted a recent statement of the president of the Board of Higher Education that "the city cannot do much for the support of higher education, yet we are not doing the things we should do in this area."

The proposal would make the schools available to the entire state.

Complete Transfer.

Under the provisions of the bill control of the four colleges and all functions, powers, duties and obligations of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York would be transferred and assigned to the New York State Department of Education. Officers and employees of the local board also would be transferredand assigned without impairment of salaries or other privileges.

New employees would be eligible for membership in the New York State Teachers' Retirement System.

Legislative opposition to Gov. Dewey's proposal to freeze the state's 1945-46 surplus into the postwar reconstruction fund appeared to be centering around the state income tax.

Democratic Tax Plan.

Sen. Elmer F. Quinn and Assemblyman Irwin Steingut, Democratic leaders of the Legislature, introduced a bill to forgive the state tax on personal incomes of 1944 and substitute a pay-as-you-go system starting this year.

A Republican bill sought a 50 per cent reduction in state tax on 1944 incomes, so that taxpayers who helped to build up the surplus "be given a break." Neither bill was regarded as anything more than a gesture. Gov. Dewey has already urged continuance of the 25 per cent reduction in the levy.

Mead Tells Liberals Wallace Will Win

Sen. James M. Mead told a Liberal party rally last night he was "quite confident" that Henry A. Wallace would be confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Commerce, "with the united support of public opinion."

The rally heard Dean Alfange, Liberal party leader suggest that Mr. Wallace could be "the next President of the United States" if he would lead "a movement for a genuine third party."

The American Labor party announced today it would conduct a door-to-door week-end canvass for Mr. Wallace.

Urges Legal Aid For Accused Vets

Veterans with other than honorable discharges who may have been made criminal offenders "in the head of battle" deserve expert legal advice to obtain reviews of their cases, Harold J. Burke, legislative representative of the Kings County Veterans of Foreign Wars, said yesterday.

Mr. Burke, testifying at a public hearing before the City Council committee on civil employees and veterans, urged support of a measure which proposes a legal office be set up in Washington to represent New York City veterans.

New Policy Court Holds 3 Women

The city's new Policy Court opened in the Criminal Court Building, 100 Centre St. ,yesterday and all three of the defendants who appeared before Magistrate Anna M. Kross were women.
Adelaide Lewis, 55, of 1797 Third Ave., and Hattie Carden, 67, of the same address, pleaded guilty to being policy collectors and were held in $500 bail pending sentencing Monday. The third defendant, Marie Lees, 47, of 100 W. 143rd St., pleaded innocent and was held in $500 bail for rearrangement Monday.

Aviatrix Runs U.S. Chinese Paper

Lee Ya-ching, Noted Flier, to Stress Rebuilding China

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Miss Lee Ya-ching, with Chinese copy and Chinese type.

"There it is." A tapered, red-enameled nail pointed to some Chinese characters. A smile wreathed the delicately featured face of Miss Lee Ya-ching. The only Chinese woman managing editor of a daily newspaper was as thrilled as a cub reporter over her first byline.

The sleek-haired Miss Lee, noted Chinese aviatrix, is not quite at home yet in a newspaper office. She has just been appointed managing editor of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, 20 Elizabeth St., oldest and largest Chinese paper in New York.

The black eyes crinkled at the corners. "You know," she said, "there have been many stories about me in your newspapers. But when I saw my name on my story I was terribly excited, and frightened at the same time."

The flier grew serious, crossed and uncrossed shapely feet encased in the thoroughly American fur-lined galoshes she wears in the city room. "I really don't deserve the title of managing editor," she confessed, "because I'm just learning the business. My job is promotion, to build circulation."

Good Will Ambassador.

The daughter of a Hong Kong industrialist is confident that she will succeed. Since 1938 the lithe-figured pilot has been a flying good will ambassador in this country and Latin America for United China Relief and she intends to contact all the Chinese friends she has made.

Picking up the eight-page copy of the paper, Miss Lee translated into English her front page signed editorial. All her compatriots living out of the continental confines are called "overseas Chinese" and in her article Miss Lee called their attention to the present and future importance of aviation to a China that is railroad poverty stricken.

"I discussed," she said, "how troops were transported to China by air in five hours. If they had marched, the trip would have taken them a month. Then I pointed out that our railroads were on the seacoast and now, that we've had to move inland, how economically depressed China is because of her transportation difficulties. I urged Chinese youth to take up aviation training; not just flying, but design and manufacture."

Studied in England.

Miss Lee, who learned to fly in Switzerland, after attending school in England, and took advanced flying instruction at the Boeing School of Aeronautics, Oakland, Calif., plans to write a series of articles on aviation. 

She hopes to see American journalistic techniques and mechanics adopted by her newspaper. But, she sighed, typewriters and linotype machines, there are none. "All the copy is hand-written and all the type is hand-set. But a company is working now on both, so perhaps we can have them at the war's end."

The pretty pilot in the short, black Chinese dress, slit at the knee and closed at the high neckband with hand-fashioned white frogs, again studied her editorial. "You know," she grinned, "You could almost learn to fly faster than it took me to write this. I worked on this article for an entire week."

Boy and $11,000 Safe in Jersey

Special to the World-Telegram.


BRADLEY BEACH, N.J., Feb. 2.-Even such a little boy as Donald Jay Edelstein can remember old pals, can't he?

It was Don's desire to see Snooky Lerner, a former playmate, and nostalgia for his old home here that brought him all the way from Augusta, Ga., his pockets bulging with $11,000 of his foster father's money.

The 11-year-old youngster was a little surprised to learn that police had practically turned the Atlantic Seaboard upside down in a search for him.

Don, who slipped through dozens of officers at Penn Station Wednesday, turned up here later the same day and made his way into the Agudith Achim Synagogue, where he told Rabbi Seymour  Gewitz his name was Wallace Deutch and that he was looking for his parents.

Rabbi Gewitz took the slightly built, bespectacled lad home, gave him supper, and then the pair set out and located the home of David "Snooky" Lerner, with whom he had played when he was boarded out with Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Stom by a Jewish orphanage in New York City. After Mrs. Stom died several years ago, the child was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Edelstein of Augusta. 

"Snooky" knew the visitor at once. "Wally," he shouted to the former playmate he had known as Wallace Deutch.

Then Rabbi Gewitz saw a newspaper. He read the story of Don's flight from Augusta with a roll of eight $1000 bills, four $500 bills, fifteen $100 bills and one $50 bill. Donald admitted his identity readily and produced the money, which was all there except for his expenses from Augusta.

Rabbi Gewitz put the money in a Bradley Beach bank and put through a telephone call to Mr. Edelstein in Augusta.

The foster parents were jubilant. "We're as thrilled to have him as if he had just been born," Mrs. Edelstein exclaimed "As far as we're concerned now, it's a closed matter, and when Donald comes home we're going to forget about everything."

Mr. Edelstein was too busy to talk. He hopped a train for Bradley Beach to take the youngster home.

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Deferred Men Told Their Role Is Vital

Occupationally deferred registrants of Local Board No. 25 were being spurred to great efforts in war work today by letters signed by Maj. Alfred I. Scott, retired Army officer and board president.

The letters from the board's office in the Hotel Endicott at 100 W. 82nd St. pointed out that many men drafted for the armed forces would never reutrn and asked that men in the 2-A and 2-B groups do their "best work in war production or in support of the war effort."

Col. Arthur V. McDermott, New York City Director of Selective Service, declared that the response from labor and industry alike had been enthusiastic and spontaneous."

Jersey Seeks Hospital
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TRENTON, Feb. 2.-Construction by the federal government of a general hospital in New Jersey to provide treatment for the state's war veterans was recommended yesterday by the Veterans Commission of the State Legislature.

Man Badly Burned In Apartment Fire

An elderly man was seriously burned and two policemen suffered smoke poisoning early today when flames from an overturned oil heater in the five story apartment house at 122 [[?]] 98th St. drove 20 families to the street from the building and an adjacent dwelling.

The fire started in the ground-floor apartment of Williams Uhns, 78, who lived alone. At about 2 a. m. he apparently upset the oil heater by accident and others in the building heard his outcries as he tried to put out the flames.

One of the tenants found Mr. Uhns, a former merchant seaman, lying in the hal, his face, arms and hands severely burned. An alarm was turned in as patrolmen Frank Jost, 42, and Louis Lipschitz, of the E. 104th St. station, arrived in a radio car.

The policemen made their way to the roof, arousing 10 families. Most of the first floor was in flames when the firemen arrived, and a second alarm was turned in as the blaze spread to an airshaft separating the building from 124 E. 98th St.

An ambulance doctor from Beth David Hospital treated the policemen for smoke poisoning and took Mr. Uhns to the hospital, where his condition was reported serious.

Pair Convicted In Gas Stamp Theft

Mrs. Verna Mae Bihn, 35, and George Wesley Bennett, 37, both of Poughkeepsie, today faced a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment and $10,000 fine each following their conviction in federal court of conspiracy to steal gasoline ration coupons.

The government charged that when Mrs. Bihn was employed by the First National Bank in Poughkeepsie she gave the coupons to Bennett, who sold them. A jury found them guilty before Judge Grover M. Moscowitz after deliberating two hours and seven minutes. They will be sentenced next Friday.

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Meat Shops Close Mondays to Let Butchers Aid GIs

5 Million Pounds Await Boning for Overseas Shipment

In order to permit New York butchers free time to prepare more than 5,000,000 pounds of meat for shipment overseas, this city's non-kosher meat shops will be closed Mondays-starting next Monday.

Kosher butcher shops already are operating on a five-day week, remaining closed Saturdays and Sundays.

To make sure that members use their day off to report for work in boning plants where army meat is being prepared for shipment overseas, union butchers in Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties were given the alternative of facing union charges.

Members of Local 242, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen of North America, AFL, voted last night to inflict union penalties on those who don't cooperate.

Orders to work in the boning plant was contained in a resolution adopted unanimously at a meeting held in Plaza Hall, 350 Fiatbush Ave. Extension, Brooklyn.

At least one New York neighborhood-the area bound by 14th and 59th Sts., eat of Fifth Ave.-will attempt to solve its own meat problem Monday night at a rally of consumers, butchers, and officials. Henry J. Epstein, chairman of the Joint Emergency Meat Conference, will speak at the meeting in Central Commercial High School, 214 E. 42nd St., Monday night.

The meeting is sponsored by the Lower Midtown Manhattan Committee for Citizens Action.

Msgr.Andrews New St. Andrews Pastor

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph A. Nelson, D.D., Vicar for Religious of the Archdiocese of New York has been appointed pastor of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church, Duane St. and Cardinal Hayes Pl., by Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, it is announced by the Chancery Office of the New York Diocese.

Msgr. Nelson succeeds the late Rt. Rev. Msgr. William E. Cashin, who died Jan. 17. Msgr. Nelson for many years held the Chair of Sacred Scripture at St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers. He was raised by Pope Pius XII to the dignity of a Domestic Prelate in 1941. Msgr. Nelson was appointed by Archbishop Spellman last year to the post of Vicar of Religious for the New York Diocese.

Adm. Kelley Urges National Service

National service legislation, with one year's compulsory military or naval training for the youth of the nation, was urged by Rear Adm. Monroe Kelley, commandant of the Third Naval District, last night at the 96th annual dinner of the Brooklyn Bar Assn. in the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn.

Passage of a national service law now, Adm. Kelley said, would warn other nations that the United States now is war-minded. He declared the youth training program should be controlled by the Army and Navy to avoid "possible boondoggling."

Billion Approved for Advance Bases

By the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-A $1,500,539,500 Navy Department authorization bill providing nearly a billion dollar for construction of advance bases is awaiting House consideration of minor amendments.

Many of the projects were labeled confidential. However, $986,000,000 was set up for advance base construction, $230,222,000 for ship repair facilities, $65,500,000 for ordnance and lesser sums for other facilities. The Senate passed the bill yesterday.

Army Wants Tongue-Tied Tessies

War Department Learns Its Girls Can Keep Secrets

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"Miss Military Secret."

By ROBERT H. PRALL, World-Telegram Staff Writer

Can you button your lip, Margie, and keep it that way? Are you willing to make your life a closed book and tell nobody nuthin'? Are you patriotic and do you want to go to work?

Yes? That's fine. The government says it loves you and wants you and will do just about anything to get you. But there's just that one hitch or stitch. You've got the job sewed up if you don't go blabbing to everybody you know. Talk is taboo.

Not a Single Slip.

That old saw about a dame not being able to keep her tongue from wagging is a lie, a complete bust, Lt. Ralph Allen of the War Department in Washington said here today as he threw out lines to lure you tongue-tied Tessies to government jobs in Arlington, Va. Not a single slip of the lip by a girl in this branch of service since the war started, he said.

It's all very hush-hush, this job business, and we can't spill the beans. But Lt. Allen says the jobs are real nice and where the government puts you up for the night everything is peachy.

Here's the story. You won't ever get to be a Molly Pitcher of the Big War, but you'll be doing the government a big service in a job which pays off for all of us. The work is at a Signal Corps post in Arlington and is closely connected with actual battle operations. Nothing more can be added.

Two Types of Jobs.

There are two types of civil service jobs. For gals with full or two-year high school education there is clerical and business machine work with pay checks that range from $146 to $164 a month at the start. For college girls there is work that in "analytical in character and which requires a certain amount of deductive reasoning." Salaries range from $1970 to $2190 a year. Members of the weaker sex with a background of business experience, science, mathematics or languages will be greeted with open arms.

The government pays your way to Arlington and you can live very reasonably at a big housing project where there are recreational activities, food, sewing machines and everything, Lt. Allen says.

So if you're between 17 1/2 and 45 and can keep your trap shut, Lt. Allan wants to see you at the U. S. Employment Service office, 10 E. 40th St.

Rebels Aim to End Loughlin's Power

By RAY GHENT
World-Telegram Staff Writer

Strategy of the rebellious Tammany district leaders was seen today as aimed at destroying whatever influence Tammany leader Edward V. Loughlin may have in city Democratic councils in picking a municipal ticket this year and further moves to that end are unexpected.

With Edward J. Flynn, Bronx leader, and Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn away on vacations, the city Democratic chieftains have yet to meet. Meanwhile, the Tammany rebels are trying to make hay in preparation for their announced intention of putting their own ticket in the primaries. However, opinion is that they will need the backing of a substantial group to make any impression, and this backing has yet to appear.

Meanwhile, political circles were treated to something unique when Frank Costello, slot machine figure, added fuel to the revolt embers when he attacked a leader of the rebels, Assemblyman Patrick H. Sullivan. In a statement he denied that he used influence in Tammany recommendations for state patronage and his attorney hinted that he had had past professional relations with the Assemblyman. Mr. Sullivan promptly came back with a disclaimer that "at no time did I have any professional or personal relationship with Frankie Costello, and if he makes an allegation that I did I shall personally chase him out of New York."

Final official vote figures released at Albany show that President Roosevelt got 51.7 per cent of the state's civilian vote, against Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and 62 per cent of the 406, 829 valid service votes.

Little Hope of Relief For Heatless Homes

Two thousand State Guardsmen and volunteer workers labored today to overcome new weather setbacks in the transportation crisis after the imposition of a second civilian freight embargo, effective at 12:01 a. m. tomorrow, banned the shipment of all goods except essential supplies of coal and food.

In the city, Fuel Administrator Edwin A. Salmon gave little hope of immediate relief in the fuel emergency, which he described as "more and more acute," while in Nassau County the seriousness of the situation was emphasized by the action of the American Red Cross emergency committee in equipping the Hempstead Armory to care for some of the more than 200 families frozen out of their homes.

The new civilian freight embargo, ordered yesterday by the Office of Defense Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission, covers eight Eastern states and is less drastic than the one in effect last week end, since it permits almost normal movement of coal and essential food shipments.

Lowered fuel stocks caused Gov. Dewey to order the closing of state offices in Albany from 5 p. m. today until 9 a. m. Monday to save 100 tons of coal. Commissioner Charles H. Sells, named by the Governor to head emergency transportation operations, warned further deliveries of anthracite are "extremely uncertain" and suggested families close off rooms and double up.

In the city, the Health Department reported 2850 no heat or no fuel complaints yesterday, and Mr. Salmon warned that cold water flat tenants face acute distress from lack of kerosene. Appeals have been made, he said, to the Solid Fuels Administration for War for coal for 15 of the city's emergency depots and the Petroleum Administration for War has been asked to approve release of kerosene for city delivery.

Senators Consider Williams Nomination

By the United Press.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The Senate waded into another controversial Presidential appointment today-that of Aubrey W. Williams as Rural Electrification Administrator.

The Senate Agricultural Committee called a closed session to act upon the Williams nomination, with promises of vigorous opposition led by Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield (R., S. D.).

Chairman Elmer Thomas (D., Okla.) said he would seek early committee action on the nomination, but Sen. Bushfield said he would demand public hearings.

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