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Daily News from New York, New York • 430

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Daily Newsi
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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 23. 1937 IK Binds Mm, By, uuiw Ummdts FlMhush mase Ily DOUGLAS SKFTON A fast-talking young man who claimed he was working his way through college inveigled his way into a Ilrooklyn apartment yesterday and robbed a 40-year-old woman of a diamond ring and $19 cash. Aided by two companions who followed him into v-iM Ka? IV I Wrfwnb3.im urn mmi i iiwiWMSfawpMaB til imhm the second-floor apartment at 5418 Avenue the intruder menaced Mrs. Mildred Karon and her 10-year-old son, Michael with a revolver in the belief she possessed a seven-carat diamond ring. Mrs.

Karon protested that she knew nothing of such a valuable ring. The men, in their early HOs, pushed the woman before binding her hands with a necktie and throwing her onto a bed. When Michael complained, he was tied to a chair. The three Let the Drums Roll Out! Drum majors in winning bands at CYO ninth annual drum corps competition in 106th Infantry Armory, Bedford and Atlantic strike victory pose. L.

to r. are Doris Kahn of St. Albans, Louise Zolezzi of St. Catherine of Sienna. Raymond Crole of St.

Mary's, then ransacked the apartment, tearing clothes from closet and dumping the contents of drawers COURTIN' TROUBLE In a complete reversal of form, a burglar broke into repeat, into Williamsburg Court sometime over the weekend and made off with $38 in cash and a $90 portable typewriter, police reported yesterday. Embarrassed court officials said the culprit probably got in through one of the 10-foot high windows in the back of the court. The bottom half was locked but Hot, alas, the top. Once inside, the burglar ransacked desk drawers until he found a batch of key arid used one of them to open the locker of Marie Pipitone, an administrative assistant. Then he lifted the typewriter, owned by Miss Pipitone, and the which constituted the court employes' "do-gooder" fund.

Money is drawn out of the fund to buy flowers for ailing personnel, to purchase farewell gifts for retiring employes and for various other occasions, Miss Pipitone explained. Cops dollar as Alibi Pro ves Thin as a Dime Maybe Anthony Messina, 21, wouldn't be in jail today If two of his pals hadn't told a pair of policemen that they Mere waiting for a cab when all they had was a dime be on the floor. Ihey turned up a one-carat ring valued at 1.000 and the 19. Warning the woman and boy against calling for help, they made their escape. Detective William Sutton of the Brooklyn Ave.

squad said the gunman's request for the large-aized ring indicated the job was set up by someone in the neighborhood. But apparently the hoods got their victims Karbara Hader of St. Clement Pope, Barbara Serio of St. Leo's, Betty McCrystal of St. Camillus Senior and Lynn Uyan of St.

Camillus Junior. Dual Probe Launched Unto Coney Pier Blaze By WILLIAM A. RICE Two teams of investigators combed the charred remains of Steeplechase Pier yesterday to" discover the cause of the blaze that destroyed a 900-foot section of Coney's pier and to determine the possibility of repairing or replacing the damaged portion. Shift Refugee Center foBoro While Fire Department inspec tors pushed their own inquiry, tween them. Park Department engineers were estimating the damage unofficially placed at $50,000 and determining what will be required to replace the pier.

The fire was spotted about 500 feet from the boardwalk shortly before 4 A. M. Fanned by a brisk Sorority Helps Out Sorority members of Tilden HS will form a motor caravan today to deliver 1,200 campaign kits to the homes of volunteers in the Brooklyn Association for Mental Health's fund-raising appeal. The girls, members of Chi Rho Delta, will supply workers with pamphlets to be distributed in the door-to-door campaign to raise Monday night. off-shore wind, it spread quickly to the end of the wooden pier where it destroyed the two-story Stationery Store, 6323 Fort Hamilton Parkway and saw a figure fleeing down the block.

Spina gave chase but lost his man. A short while later the Zito boys identified the runner as Mexsina, who was arrested at his home. Police said Messina, who had squeezed his way between bars to enter the utore, became excited when he saw the Zitos with cops and smashed a window to tier. Police aaid that across the street from the ntore was an auto stolen from Hector Arroyo of 2'JO IUake Ave. Magistrate Hilda Sohwartj held the suspects in $10,000 bail each for hearings Monday.

Hut they did and yesterday Messina, of TM'H 81st and Jii puis, Salvatore Zito, 20, and liis brother, Agatino, 18, both of V.ifiO 75th were charged in Jdnoklyn Adolescent Court with auto theft and burglary. It wa 3 A. M. when Patrol-run Tobia Spina and Morris A liboIaHta ran across the Zito builders loitering at 54th St. and I oith Hamilton Parkway.

One Thin Dime The 7. it said they had just f.eft a party and were waiting for II taxi, but the cops got mighty when they could pro- only the dime. Just then the policemen heard crash and Spina rushed to Sol's Camp Kilmer, April 22 (Special The Hungarian refugee reception center here will close April .10 and all future processing will bo conducted in the Hotel St George, Brooklyn. John II. Owens, officer In charge of the Immigration and Naturalization Service here, said he did not know how many refugees would arrive after April 30.

He added that the President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief and the Immigration Service were conferring in Washington on the program. Details of the plan to switch operations to Ilrooklyn were not revealed. The military post will be locked up by June 1. building that housed Park De partment offices and a food con cession. Topple into Ocean The building, its supporting timbers weakened by the fire, out scurried to safety.

No one toppled into the ocean. ine few risnermen who were on the pier when the blaze broke Dodgers Will Stay, Cashmore Tells dally was hurt. Sixteen pieces of fire apparatus and a fireboat responded to alarms turned in at 3:50 A. M. and 3:56 A.

M. Firemen had to lay hose on the beach in order to play water on the pilings. Many Used Pier The blaze, declared under control at 5 A. was stopped about 400 feet short of the boardwalk. The pier, used by thousands of summer strollers and fishermen each week, juts into the ocean opposite Steeplechase Park.

It was built in 1904 by George C. Tilyou, builder of Steeplechase Park, and has been operated by the Department of Parks since 1939. 1 t- J- illlll mill uojr uhu khi -t phalanx of Dodger rooters with banners and band cheered Uorough President Cashmore at a noon-hour rally yesterday when he in-i stoutly that the Dodgers are going to stay in 'Miklyn. 'Brooklyn would not be Ilrooklyn without the Dodgers," he told a Itnrough Hall assemblage of l.n K) oxlilied by the Commlt-t h-ei th Dodger in Brooklyn. He had hurried from a City Hall meeting to the rally.

Wagner and I have ai.t we will do, and we are doing, everything ponsihle to keep tlie.ii here," Cashmore asserted. "Their victories are an inspiration to our youth. They are fning to win more pennants and World Series right here in Henry general chairman of the committee, said he could not understand how anyone could want to uproot the Dodgers after their three-quarters of a century in the borough. "Bob Moses was ill-advised in trying to move our Dodgers to Coney Color Film Museum Feature "Coney Island, U. S.

an experimental color film of merry-go-rounds, aerial swings, para-, chute jumpers against the sunset and night lights, will be amone- I j2 ,1 I five films shown at the Brooklyn Museum at 8:30 P. M. tomorrow for members and at 8:30 P. M. ii i (NEWS foto by Leroy Jakob) Brooklyn small fry go to bat at Borough Hal! rally to keep their heroes, the Dodgers, in the borough.

lnursday for the public. Heads Foundation The Kings Countv Chanter of Queens," he declared. He pointed to the admission of 100,000 Knot Hole Club kids a year to games at Ebbets Field as an effective weapon against Juvenile delinquency. Some 600 boys la baseball uniform from the Parade Grounl League, Little Leagues, Kiwanis Club teams, PAL and Catholic Youth Organiiation, were present, as were girl members of various Dodger fan clubs. The 40-piece band of Our Laiy of Perpetual Help Church, Fifth Ave.

and 69th played. The committee seeks 1,000,000 signatures to a petition to Mayor Wagner. Today 200 business men will add their support at a luncheon meeting in the Hotel Bossert the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation has elected Mrs. Dorothy Eckhaus of 6701 Colonial Eoad. president..

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