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Daily News from New York, New York • 98

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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98
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Brooklyn section Sunday, February 6. 1938' 2B Layricih)' U. Meveals Flans For Its Fair JExIiifrit Nine semi-classic buildings, a fountain-studded lagoon and a parade ground are included in the exhibit of the Federal Government for the New York World's Fair in Queens. Plans for the $3,000,000 project were revealed yesterday by Theodore T. Hayes, Executive Assistant United States Commis lriew avo si SPEED ROAD APPROACH TO BRONX BRIDGE With two shifts working at top speed, engineers yesterday were pushing construction of the Flushing-Whitestone road approach to the Queens-Bronx bridge.

About a half-mile of it will be sioner for the Fair. y- One structure, to be named the QAonc fnltrif Alr Federal Building, will be the key- (UeenS UCIiege MSK5 flil- Summer Class A smashing drive was launched yesterday against bootleggers who defraud the Government of an estimated $400,000,000 annually in taxes in Brooklyn, Long Island and Richmond. A request for $13,299 to establish a Summer session at Queens College was being considered yesterday by the Director of the Budget. The matter was referred to the Budget Director by the Board of Estimate after the request was submitted by the college president, Paul Klapper. Since no provision for a Summer session is made in the 1938 budget, it was proposed that funds be made available' by transfer from i-some budgetary source or by direct appropriation.

Mine. Wins Divorce for Mrs. Elirlich square feet. The President will address the Fair visitors on opening day from a balcony of the building. Two Towers.

The Federal Building will represent the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the government. A Tower of the Judiciary will be constructed opposite the Tower of the Legislature. The center facade will contain thirteen pillars representing the thirteen original States. Within each tower will be murals and sculptures- depicting the history and activities of its subject. The government has alloted $600-000 for such art displays.

Court of Peace. This building with the other edifices will be grouped about the parade ground to be known as the elevated. High cement and steel pillars were taking shape neat Jorthem Boulevard and on both shores of Flushing River. Elevated structure plans, engineers said, include a lift bridge over the stream. To College Point Causeway.

The elevated section will extend from Northern Boulevard to College Point Causeway, Flushing. It will be thirty feet above ground at Northern Boulevard in order to provide space for connecting roadways. Westbound Northern Boulevard traffic, headed for the World's Fair site, will pass beneath the one-way A decree of divorce was granted Jlrs. Sarah Ehrlich in Supreme Court. Brooklyn, yesterday, after Court cf Peace.

The grounds will be used for brilliant daily pageants or Army and Navy parades. Bids for construction work on the exhibit will be asked Feb. 15. II II IC I EV fa at our Brooklyn store only AMD I RIC Harry bt. Dougherty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District, said he was putting every resource behind the drive, and would enlist the FBI, the Alcohol Tax Unit and other organizations in raids.

In the last year, O'Dougherty said, 200 stills have been smashed. They had capacities of from 350 to 4,000 gallons a day, an estimated annual output of 110,000,000 gallons. Stills cost from $1,800 to $25,000 to erect. Most of those now in operation, federal agents say, are in private houses in quiet residential districts. There are three types of distilleries.

Some manufacture, alcohol from sugar, others from molasses, a third the most dangerous by treating non-potable alcohol. In almost no case does the distiller of denatured alcohol succeed. His customers fill alcoholic wards and the cemeteries. Most of this illicit alcohol is sold for about $2.50 a gallon. The government tax on alcohol is $4.00, almost twice as much.

In the last year, says O'Dougherty, the flow of bootleg has become a cascade. Linked with the drive to smash the ring will be a vigorous campaign to "give bootleggers the limit when they are convicted. And convictions will be had, the prosecutor promised, as quickly as the booze manufacturers can be whisked into court. Eut a federal court demonstrated last week that justice may be tempered with mercy. In freeing Adolph Pietri, 48, of Wyandanch, Suffolk, Judge Robert Inch- suspended sentence a year with the admonition that he avoid bad advice from well-mean Now in Progress! February Sale of SEWING MACHINES I i it I A NEW 1938 ELECTRIC DESK ONE HALF OFF 29.50 (Hap by bUIJ Artil ijurut Arrow shows site for bridge between Whitestone, Queens, and the Bronx.

elevated structure. Eastbound traffic will continue on the elevated level. Willets Point Boulevard also will connect with the express route via a loop roadway. Ready June.l, 1939. Steel work on the elevated roadway will start about May 1 and the approach job and lift bridge are to be finished by October.

Bids for paving the two 27-foot roadways of the main approach will be Made to sell for $19 ii i lj ry a 4 FAMOUS MAKE ELECTRICS. Mrs. Ann Seigel the testified that her husband, Bernard, kept a tryst with an unidentified woman in a Bronx apartment. The matronly brunette, who lives at 25 Tiara Brooklyn, told Justice Alfred V. Norton she banished all thoughts of a reconciliatk the jvtomrnt she saw her husband's companion.

In a divorce action brought by 5lrs. Ann Se'gel. 10 Hart Brooklyn, Justice Norton reserved decision. She said her husband. Hairy Seigel, tried to slam the tivor in her face when, with a This is just a sample cf the excellent buys to bt found in this great sale Limited quantity.

USED SENCER ELECTRICS 39.50 REPAIR SERVICE ing friends in the future. Fietri had described himself as a hard working and industrious laborer, whose family faced starvation because he could find no work. In despair, he said, he turned to distilling, on the advice of a "friend." 5 VTeu ill repair any sewing machine (partsextra) for FC received in June. The two roadways will be separated by a wide mall and commercial traffic will be restricted to outside lanes. It was predicted yesterday that the entire Qneens-Bronx bridge and approaches would be ready for traffic by June 1, 1939.

(Picture on page 1) Plan Lincoln Rites Abraham Lincoln will be honored on his birthday next Saturday by Comrade Post S87, a Brooklyn unit of the Veterans Foreign Wars. The post will make its annual pilgrimage to Prospect Park and place a wreath at the foot of the statue of Lincoln. party cf friends, she surprised him with a irirl in an apartment at 259 S. tth Brooklyn, last July 1. Fight Baring Of Insurance To Suit Jury Juries in accident cases should riot know whether a defendant has insurance, the Queensboro Chamber uf Commerce held vesterdav in LOESERS SEwTNG MACHINES THIRD FLOOR FULTON at BOND, BROOKLYN TRiangle 5-8100 G.

O. P. to Dance A dinned dance by the 12th As 7 ffl 1 yrCisri sembly District Republican Club of Brooklyn will be held Feb. 24 at the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn. Faita St.

ml Hmyt. I'klya. TliMfU S-S7M I TliMflt 5-5 7 1 opposing pending legislation at I Albany. i The measure opposed by the) group, on recommedation of its Urn IT -J i if Is i ii il February Only! After, original prices prevail 1 insurance committee, would compel disclosure to accident trial juries Pet Shop Special! "Hendryx" Cage With Female Breeding CANARY miSN stwet. mcxxrni II PERMANENT WAVES recrularlv G.50 NOW 4.45 NOW NOW JNOW 5.95 7.50 11.50 regularly 7.50 and 8.50 regularly 10.00 regularly 15.00 plrtc of the extent to which a defendant is protected by insurance policies.

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