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MADDEN GIVES LIE TO MARTIN STORY By HOWARD WHITMAN. Taking the stand as a surprise rebuttal witness. Assistant District Attorney Francis A. Madden, himself under indictment in the Brooklyn corruption cleanup, gave en Ci Aim Is 5-3 Jap Ratio Washington, D. June The Navy, making a tremendous spurt in the world race for sea power, placed orders today for two battleships and twenty-two other vessels.

The new armada is expected to cost $350,000,000. KUHN CHARGES ARREST WAS A GAG ATTEMPT His "relentless campaign of public enlightment" resulted in his indictment as a common thief, Fritz Kuhn announced yesterday. But the Fuehrer of the German-American Bund hastened to assure all patriots he would go on fighting are Tiwt alteram Jt--: taw -s CS 5 ct vi ri. Vvi Count Judge George W.Martin with his daughter, Mrs. Jean Morton, who testified for hint yesterday.

the lie to County Judge George W. Martin yesterday, flatly contradicting the 63-year-old jurist's previous defense testimony. 3 Assistant Secretary Charles son indicated that a major purpose of this action, unprecedented since' the World War, was to speed restoration of the five-to-three ratio was established in naval treaties, but the treaties are nwo defunct. Edison told reporters today: "To the best of our information, the margin is now only about five to four. Japan and Great Britain were building during the years when we were idle." Order Start on 19 Ships.

Without waiting for funds to become available July 1, the start of a new fiscal year, the Navy ordered work started on 19 of the 23 ships for which Congress provided in the $773,000,000 appropriation bill President Roosevelt signed last weeK. me other five ships ordered today had been authorized previously. Dividing the work between Gov ernment and commercial shipyards, the Navy awarded the two battle- snips and 10 other vessels to navy yards and let contracts for 12 craft to private builders. The Navy's order involved tons which Edison said was "a good size naw" in itself All but two seaplane tenders are combat ships. To Carry Nine 16-inch Guns.

One battleshin will Wit of the New York Navy Yard and the other at the Philadelnhia varH Edison disclosed that they would be armed with nine 16-inch guns, same as tne six battleships alreadv hnilrfino- ami will have top speeds of "more than 2g knots" (32.5 miles an hour). This is an increase of more than five knots over the speed of the 15 older capital ships already in service. Four new type litrht cruisers, Edison said, would be somewhat like oversize destroyers. They will be armed with six-inch guns. Contracts for four destroyers, three submarines of 1.475 tons each, the four rrniccrs and the aircraft carrier nornet were awarded to commercial shipyards.

Navy Yards Get Share. Aside from the battleships. navy yards were alldtted the construction of four destroyers, three submarine and one of 700 tons, and two sea plane tenders. Remaining to be undertaken are two new type cruisers, about which Edison said the Navy was "not talking much," an 800-ton submarine and a repair ship. Meanwhile Edison reported that ADVERTISEMENT 1Q00 P.

M. The trial, before Justice Francis D. McCurn and a jury in Supreme Court, Brooklyn, will resume at 9:30 A. M. today.

Summations will follow the appearance of one more character witness. ockawavs Beauty Ifloctor Moses Park Commissioner Robert Moses will throw open to the public today his latest job of plastic surgery on the face of New York, the new Rockaway improvement, a $22,000,000 Secretary Edison Restoring naval ratio. work on 74 ships already started was "clicking." In addition to saving time at the start, the assistant secretary, who is in charge of shipbuilding, said that by duplicating plans without sacrificing quality, the time of building destroyers was reduced from 36 to 21 months. Actual preliminary work has started, he added, on the cruisers and some other vessels. Shorts Help Tips, Say Waitresses Houston, June 2 (U.R).

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ADVERTISEMENT "until a truly free America is again achieved." I General s- Isions Judge Cornelius F. Collins, who yesterday refused Kuan's lawyers permission to inspect the Grand Jury minutes, did not share the Bund chief's view. Fritz Kuhn I dont regard this charge as a political crime," observed Collins, "but as a plain, everyday charge of larceny." Kuhn is accused of stealing of Bund funds'. Kuhn, with characteristic modesty, called attention to the "success of the Bund under my leadership in unmasking the true enemies of the United States and in stimulating anti-Marxist activities on the part of other American groups." He assured the public, "on his honor," that he was innocent of any wrongdoing. Strut for of the old viaduct, providing ample facility for the expected throngs of week-end traffic.

As Moses summed up the improvement, "We have torn out junk and trash and replaced it by recreation areas and a parkway." A toll of 10 cents for passenger cars will be charged on the new bridge. Tolls for trucks and buses range up to 50 cents. SEE THEM! twS Year's Greatest Used Car TMhV I ViIium feature! Nnw Bv -1 Snapping out his answers tinder he incisive questioning of Prosecutor John Harlan Amen, Madden, whom Amen indicted as the recipient of $9,000 in bribes to protect the Brooklyn abortion racket, completely overturned significant portions of Martin's story from the witness stand on Thursday. Admits Paying Bribe. Martin, a lean, wiry litle man, is cn trial for purportedly accepting a SI.

000 bribe to dismiss an abortion indictment against Dr. Louis 1. luke, confessed malpractioner, who, testifying for the People, ad-in i ted paying the bribe. Martin insisted he dismissed the indictment simply because "the evidence was insufficient and there wasn't any case." He told of a meeting in his chambers with Madden, then prosecuting the Ihike affair, and quoted Madden as agreeing that 4here really isn't much of a case." He added that Madden said to. him.

"Anything you do is O. K. with the District Attorney's office." Madden Says He Had Case. By contrast. Madden testified: "Judge Martin called me to his chambers and said that he had the Duke case before him.

He told me be thought there was no case there anil I said I did have a case. I told liim I felt 1 made a prima facie ease. Judge Martin and I disagreed, as we dil many times on questions of "Anything else?" Amen asked. "When he said I had no case. I aid, 'If that's not a case.

I don't I now what a case is, Madden replied. Previous to Madden's rebuttal testimony, the defense rested at 12:55 P. following brief appearances of a half dozen character witnesses. Another of Martin's daughters, Jlrs. Jean Morton, testified early in the day to clear up details of a meeting between the judge and William Lurie, Dr.

Duke's lawyer, ho admitted handling the bribe money. Lurie testified Martin had given him his wallet as a present after he had admired it while they ere having cocktails together. Mrs. Morton, who said she was present at the time, reviewed an ironic bit of conversation which took place. "That's a very pretty wallet," Luri" said.

"There's only one trouble it never has any money in it," Martin replied. Another witness, Samuel Behr-man, a leather goods manufacturer, testified Martin did not give Lurie the wallet, but instead that he, Behrman, ran across the street to his shop and gave Lurie one just like it. The new Cross Bay Parkway Bridge with six lanes leading to Rockaway. conversion of rag-and-tatter beach into a streamlined resort with slick thoroughfare and bridge approaches. The improvement, actually inS REWARD three parts, includes widening and reconstruction of the Cross Bay Parkway Bridge, construction of streamlined approaches to the beach, plus complete renovation of a mile and a half strip of beach area, including a new Shorefront Parkway.

Modern buildings and landscaping of the Jones Beach variety have supplanted the shoddy midway that formerly was strung along the boardwalk. Official opening of the improvement will be at noon, with Moses as master of ceremonies. Among the speakers will be John J. Halleran, Queens Commissioner of Public Works, and Andrew J. Kenny, president of the Rockaways Chamber of Commerce, i More than TOO buildings, most of them ramshackle structures along the old boardwalk midway, were demolished to make room for the modern Shorefront Parkway with play areas spotted along the beach.

The erstwhile congestion at the bottleneck where the Cross Bay Route entered the Rockaways has been eliminated by a traffic separator of the type used on the Henry Hudson Parkway. The new Cross Bay Parkway bridge is a six-lane reconstruction In a recent statement to the public, the president of the Ted Brooks Clothing Co. of 91 Fifth N. Y. announced his company was placing on sale, at only $22.97, the genuine, authentic, hand-woven, homespun Harris Tweed garments the identical fabric that is loomed by crofters in their cottages on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.

Letters from manufacturers, merchandise buyers and the public poured in all reflecting upon the truth of the statement as well as the sincerity of this offer. The Ted Brooks Clothing Co. admits its price was ridiculously low for this international famous fabric, but the fact remains that the offer was made and the public was invited to see for itself $35 to $45 imported Harris Tweeds for only $22.97. To lay at rest any further doubts as to the genuineness of this fabric, the Ted Brooks Clothing Co. will pay $1,000 to any one proving this merchandise is not as represented in its every detail.

The public is also invited to see a complete assortment of fine imported and domestic suits and topcoats consisting of imported Donegals, Shetlands, English Cheviots, Flannels, Coverts and many other top quality fabrics including pure Worsted Gabardines priced at $22.97. Also, a selection of new summer featherweights at only $16.97. -Sizes from 34 to 52. A visit to the Ted Brooks Clothing Co, 91 Fifth near 17th St. (entire street floor), will convince you these famous garments are regular $35 to $45 values, sold on a 100 guarantee or money refunded with no questions asked.

Men who want clothing of the better kind at substantial savings, are urged to act today. Li 2:15 Court was adjourned at.