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Daily News from New York, New York • 5

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4 DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1953 V. Testifies Talked ofSmorrf Suicide far Lme Eleanor Morgan Satterlee was so infat uated with Dr. Richard IIofTraan, her Park Ave. psychiatrist, that she threatened to kill herself with an old sword when he said he could never marry her, a paid companion of th Morgan heiress testified in Surrogate's Court 4 yesterday. 1 Impy Vi'evs Miami Skyline jl ifr.yc set TO Mrs.

Sarah Sutherland Graham, who kept a day-to-day diary during the two years she worked for the late granddaughter of the elder J. P. Morgan, reported that on one occasion, in February, l'J50, Mrs. Satterlee brought up the subject of marriage with Dr. Hoffman.

"Dr. Hoffman said he'd never marry her, that he was a married man Mrs. Graham declared. Eleanor, the witness wept bitter- ill 3 1 i ti jr. -y i i 'a MAYOR IMPELLITTERI.

who is recovering from an attack or pneumonia, points to the sunny Miami skyline from hi hotel balcony at Miami ISearh, as his wife looks on. (Cnited Press Telefofo) This foto, taken 50 years ao, established the identity of Mrs. lella McKeon as heiress to aunt's fortune. Gets VUMow '4796. "The Colonel," Mrs.

Craham said, referring to Rosenblatt, "told her to put it out of her head, that the doctor would never marry her." The trial, in which Dr. Hoffman and Rosenblatt have been accused of teaming up to unduly influence the will, will be resumed at 10 A.M. Monday. Dr. Hoffman as a mark of her esteem.

Mrs. Graham said Eleanor spoke of her love for Dr. Hoffman to her attorney, Sol A. Rosenblatt, who was named as residuary legatee in the will which her sister, Mrs. Mabel S.

Ingalls, is now contesting before Surrogate George Franken-thaler and a jury. Dr. Richard Hoffman ly, then said she would "buy" Holf-man's wife away. When Mrs. Satterlee repeated her suicide threats, Mrs.

Graham said, the sword was hidden from her the same sword, the witness added, that Eleanor later gave to St. Louis, Nov. 27 (U.R). A widow in ill health who has lived in a slurri section here for 20 years today was declared heiress to a $479,730 fortune on the basis of a photograph taken 50 years ago. She said she "hopes to be able toj buy a dress or two.

Orphans Court in Pittsburgh Clemente Denies Pier Loading Gyp Waterfront boss Michael Clemente denied yesterday that he had forced trucking firms to pay public loaders for work they did not do and said any trucker who did so was a "damn fool." Tell Your Bartender Permits allowing night spot operators to remain open untd 8 A. M. New Year's Day may be obtained at local Alcoholic Beverage Control Board offices, the State Liquor Authority announced yesterday. A $10 fee will be charged. Applications must be filed by Dec 7.

"had $100 to play with" and wanted to "do the same thing" for loaders that had been done by a predecessor firm. He said he didn't get any of the money himself. I'nion Mea OK With Clemente. Assistant District Attorney I rv-ing Slonim asked whether Clemente though it "improper" for a public loader to impress his own service on truckers. "If they're union men ruled that Mrs.

Delia May McKeon, 67, was entitled to a share of the $3,500,000 estate left by an aunt, Mrs. Sara M. Weller, widow of a wealthy oil company attorney Mrs. McKeon 's relationship to Mrs. Weller came to light when attorney Charles Spinelli, appointed by the Pittsburgh court to find the niece last heard of 50 years ago, found a picture of her in the album of a relative.

Spinelli traced Mrs. McKeon here. She identified the photograph as one taken when she was 17 and sent a cousin as a Christmas present. She had been living with a son, John J. Phelan, 47, in a two-room slum apartment, but when news of her fortune got around, she went to the home of a Triend to hide.

Phelan. a $62-a-week mainten- a pier where the Davie firm was unloading. Earlier, Vincent C. Carpenter, secretary-treasurer of Davie's, testified he had discussed with Clemente payments of $60 and $40 per boatload of newsprint to prevent interference with Davie's own workmen. Clemente acknowledged discussions with Carpenter altout unloading operations, but said he assured the trucking executive he did not have to use union loaders.

Clemente quoted Carpenter as saying he Testifying at his. perjury trial in General Sessions, the 44-ycar-old ex-convict also denied that he received any money intended for union loaders in connection with newsprint shipments brought to the pier by the Davie Transportation Co. Firm's Secretary Testifies. Clemente Is accused of falsely stating to the State Crime Commission, during its recent investigation of waterfront corruption, that he knew nothing about $7,000 in payments to stand-by loaders at ance man for a garment factory, said she moved to get away "from salesmen and newspapermen." Phelan, until now the sole support of his mother, said she has been unable to work for the last 23 years because of a nervous Joe Brooks, All-America Tackle, Kills Himself fh.i'it 1 it Joseph W. Brooks, famed football player, airplane pilot, World War-1 hero and insurance broker, was found dead in his bachelor apartment at 375 Park Ave.

early yesterday by a doctor friend to whom ne had telephoned a warning of self-destruction a few minutes earlier. 'V When Dr. Lonis Bishop Jr. reached crooks apartment, be found him dead in bed of a bullet 1 Kupillas, insurance firm of 220 K. 42d St.

On Dec 23, 1931, Brooks married Alicia Patterson, daughter of the late Joseph Mtdill Patterson, publisher of The News. Eight years later the marriajre was terminated by a Florida divorce. Miss Patterson, now Mrs. Harry F. Guggenheim, is publisher of the Long Island daily, Newsday.

All America Tackle. Brooks, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Belvedere Brooks, leaves a brother, Bruce, an attorney of 22 Catherine Court, Hempstead, L. Both of Brooks' grandfathers were Confederate officers, his paternal forebear, a Texan, having fallen at the battle of Shiloh.

A strapping, handsome man, Brooks broke into the football limelight at Williams College in 1903. Transferring to Colgate, he was named All-America tackle in 1913. After his irraduation from Colgate, he coached football at Columbia, where he became a close friend ot Lou Gehrig, then a student. With the military tradition strong in him. Brooks, in World War I.

enlisted in the first Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg and later became captain of the 150th Machine Gun Battalion, Rainbow Division. He served at Chateau-Thierry and at St. Mihiel and later was in the Army of Occupation in Germany. Turned down by the Air Force in World War II because of his age. Brooks served as a pilot at an air navigators school in Canada.

Later he joined Gen. William J. Donovan's OSS here, was made a lieutenant colonel and sent on many European missions. Funeral services will be held at 11 A. Tuesday in St.

Paul's Episcopal Church, 71st St. and Madison Ave. wound in the right temple and clutching a .32 caliber revolver. No notes were found. Dr.

Bishop said Brooks had been ill nearly a year, suffering from several ailments, including serious stomach ulcers. The doctor, who lives in the same called on Brooks on Thanksgiving Day and invited him to join them for dinner, but he declined. He said Brooks had appeared as usual, with no special evidence of depression. In the Insurance Business. At 9:10 AM yesterday, when Brooks telephoned that he was going to shoot himself, Dr.

Bishop dashed upstairs to intervene, only to find that he was too late. The doctor called police, who later, in the 51st St. station, listed the death as "apparently suicide." Brooks, who was 62, had a permit for the pistoL He was president of Brooks Michael Clemente Tctfifiet mt perjury trial. on the trucks," Clemente said, "there is no reason why they can't go down and load their own trucks." Slonim asked if it wouldn't be doubly wrong to extract money from a trucker who unloaded bis own trucks without help. "I think, said Clemente, "you'd be a damn fool to give him the money if you did the work yourself." Joseph W.

Brooks building, said he and his wife had.

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