May 13, 1955

Estimate Bd votes $50,000 to combat gangs in SE Bronx after receiving Deputy Mayor Epstein rept; Youth Bd chmn Justice Kaplan repts team of 30 workers will move into area where 20 gangs reptdly operate; results of similar project in Bklyn hailed by Bd exec sec Whelan; City Council Pres Stark lauds recommendation for increasing st club workers

Peronistas offer bill in Sen to end Ch's exemption from taxation; ch-state separation would cost Ch $5.7 million yrly in Govt subsidies to Cath schools; R A Carena resigns as Deputy to protest anti-Ch campaign; Cath Action leader C A Begue held

Peng pledges Communist China's support, s, conf; USSR Gen Antonov s to secret session

' 11 alarm'_ fire destroys 2-block indus area, Williamsburg sec, Bklyn; fire started as explosion in Varick Planing Mill; 18 firemen hurt

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