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Daily News from New York, New York • 84

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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84
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1 IB EreoVIyn DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1364 Queens Long Island Macy's Mew Idea for Saving Steps JOSE (HE'S 141 FOILS HOLDUP OF GROCERY A 14-year-old Brooklyn grocer's helper foiled a stickup in his boss' store, police reported yesterday in Brooklyn Criminal Court. The teen-aged hero, Jose Robles, glimpsed the gunman from a rear room of the store at 294 Glenmore quietly called police and brought cops to the scene within minutes. The suspect, Robert Jennings, 31, unemployed father of three, of 183 Powell was still pointing an imitation black pistol at the head of his intended victim, police said, when the robbery was interrupted. After School Job Jose, of 296 Glenmore works after school for Augustn Fernandez, owner of the Glenmore Ave. grocery.

Shortly fer 4 P. M. Tuesday, the boy was in the back unloading supplies and Fernandei was behind his counter, when Jennings walked in. 'Without word, police said, he drew the toy weapon, which looked like a gun. On the basis of Jose's prompt phone call, a radio alarm went out fom the Miller Ave.

station. Patrolmen William Cbiofalo and Sgt. Brinislaw Bailo happened to be driving past the store zlL 1 1 i nxj PTS I when they heard the alarm. The rest was easy, although the cops had some bad moments until they found the holdupman's gun was a toy. Jennings was quoted as saying he had tried the stickup his first because he was desperate for money.

Taken before Jndg Georg S. Kader yesterday, he was held in $5,000 bail for hearing March 3 on a charge of assault and robbery. Jose, a ninth grader at Junior School 149, went back to help tend the store. Eerutives examine a model of Macy's Queens store, construction c-f hich if to begin this spring, with completion scheduled for the fall of 1S65. L.

to r. are Jack I. Straus, chairman of the board of K. H. Macy and Oatid L.

Yunich, president of Macy's New-York, and Vheelock H. Bingham, president of R. H. Macy and Co. A model tf the new Macy's store in Queens was unveiled yesterday by JIacy'? President David L.

Yunich. It disclosed a novel s( preach to the shopping-parking- problem in fast-growing urban and mut urban areas. The building on which construction is to bepin in the spring on Qtiens Blvd. between 55th and B6th Aves. will be circular, and peri-rtter parking around three floors of the store-core will provide "curbide parking" for 1,500 cars.

Interlocking express ramps will make it possible for the shopper to reach the desired floor and park adjacent to the department in v.Ht he wishes to shop. Customers will never have to walk more tVan 75 feet to reach the appropriate department, Yunich said. i iarqe Jail Guards 3K iciousiy Beat Youth By EDWIN ROSS and FRANK McKECUYN Two Correction Department guards were accused yesterday of viciously beating with a metal crank handle trd sawed-off mop handle a 20-year-cld prisoner in the Brooklyn IIoue of Detention for Men. Tb crnarH 1 Vi r. i 1 24, of 348 Marion Brooklyn "y4 1 sr B'fdyn Jewish ana Lee lhompson, 30, of 146-01 0th Jamaica, were tr dered arrested after an investi gation by the Brooklyn District Attorneys office.

is. Ihe investigation was initiated after authorities at the Brooklyn prison at 275 Atlantic Ave. in formed them that one cf their inmates had received medical treatment Tuesday. ti i To Take Over GreenpoinMf Fy MARY FLAHERTY Mt. Sinai Hospital, which Mayor Vrnrrtr announced Tuesday will affiliate with City Hospital in Fimhurst, will drop its present affiliation with another municipal icspital Greenpoint, in Brooklyn if the new merger goes through, a Mt.

Sinai official revealed yesterday. Calling the Mayor's announcement cn the pending Elmhurst affiliation "premature," Dr. Martin R. Steinberg, director cf Mt, Firai Hospital, said, "We have Icen studying It and it looks favorable. And we are willing to do anything that helps the city.

If the Elmhurst affiliation becomes firm or definite, then officcne else will take ever Greenpoint." These developments capped a Mries of surprises that started Tuesday when Hospitals Commis i ne injurea prisoner, tawara Robbins, of 130-36 149th South Ozone Fark, had five stitches taken in his scalp after he was allegedly beaten by the guards. Robbins, a 250-pounder, Is in the prison awaiting grand jury action on charges of felonious assault and possession of a dangerous weapon. The beating is said to have followed a dispute he had with the guards. The DA's office Raid Robbins was ordered from his cell at about 6:30 A.M. Tuesday to join nearly 1,100 other inmates in the mess hall for breakfast.

But he wouldn't move from his cot, authorities said, and bad to be forced out. Take a Tasty-break with a new French Apple Pie! Look for the pie with icing on top plump raisins and apple slices inside. It's new! In a red white blue box, too! nen ne continued to give trouble he was returned to his cell. A short time later, the DA's office declared, tbe two guards sioner Ray E. Trussell walked ir.to City Hospital in Elmhurst marched him off to a small day i I I 8jyr'' kill 1 rd, within 15 minutes, suspended Its Board and fired Dr.

room and beat him about the head and body with the mop handle Lester Tuchman as president cf and metal crank. tre board and director cf its meflical service. Robbins was removed to Kings County Hospital where the stitches were taken to close a head wound. The jail authorities The State Medical Society's Icuse delegates at its annual then called the DA. According; to information re- meetinjr in the Hotel Americana, Manhattan, yesterday unanimously passed a resolution condemning Trussell's action as "undemo Although both the guards denied beatine Robbins, the District At cratic and dictatorial." torney ordered them arrested..

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