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The Weather City Edition Full Wire Service of the United Press, Associated Press, International News 2 Herald-News Circulated la Passaic, Clifton, Kutley, Garfield, Lodi, Rutherford, Cast Rutherford, Wail leg Ion, Carlstadt, Wood-Ridge, Moonachie, Lyndhunt, Haa-- brouck Heights, Rochelle Park, Saddle Rim Township and East Paterson FORECAST Generally fair, net much cheng fa umpwnturo too(ht u4 Wdatdy. Freeh t-rly wind ahlftln, to nortbWMt or wxt thfa tftrmoa sad dlmlniehing. Sunrise, 1: 11; snoot. 1:10. Tmpratur today: 1 A.

U. 11; Noon. 71. Temperature ywattrday I A. 18; Noon, M.

the minute news el First Pigs Section TlXTY-THIRD year PHONE PASSAIC 2-6000 PASSAIC, N. TUESDAY, JULY 9, 193S M. ton, 11 hr HOPKINS REDUCES JERSEY RELIEF BURDEN 25 kr g. I Ud tua or fa. ivaat State Speeds Aid to Area; 7 Missing, 2,000 Homeless PRICE THREE CENTS Guardsmen Called to End Looting; Damage Total $10,000,000 Epidemics Feared ALBANY, (AV- Receding flood, water left upstate New York today with IT dead, asven missing, and property damage approximating 14.00, 000.

Flaada Leave 2,000 Hemal More than f.OOO war temporarily homslsaa I a a aeors of villa and eltlsa, prsssntlng a formidable relief problem to gists and Federal agencls. Even befor tha cloudburst of Monday night and Monday had oessed, th Red Close bad ruahsd relist svorkers Into th arse and Uovarnor Herbert It, Lshawn bags soerdlnattng Dial agencies. Including the National Guard, te Lcop With th situation. Troops held la madia at -Hurnell and Elmira, after rspnrts looting bad been received. A dossa towns and cities neap th Pennaylvanls border within A 10-mH radius at Binghamton appeared to be th worst sufferer, Also seriously effected waa th tr (Itory IS jntls or mors northwestward In th heart of th famau rings Lakes reglen sroun4 Watkins Glen.

Th story was th aama thrsaah-out th flood region ruined bomb wrsiksd eommunlcatlon tins and ulllltlss, dsmsgsd highways and bridges, washed -out railroad tracks, and unsattmatsd crop and Hv stock losses At Hnll where watas light and aemmunlsatlana ays tarn war wreaked by tha rolling fteed water, 1J00 rofugaaff wee blng rd fr to privet hem and aama viatim spent th night ping in utsm-kite, City efficlal considered tab Hshlng publto station for Inoculation against disease, ffaveral hundred war temporarily Mayor Turner Pint Rose on Weinberger's Lapel After Stormy Parley This le hard to believe but It actually happened In front of City Hall yesterday afternoon following the beetle Board meet lug. Mayor Benjamin F. Turner pinned a roe on City Counael Joseph J. Weinberger! It waa a big. yellow rose and it looked very pretty against the brown lapel ot the City Counsel's suit.

But the unusual part of the story la that the two City officials had Just finished battling tooth and nail with each other over the question of Zoning Board appointments and other municipal legislation. Maybe there Isnt anything to these political feuda, after all. Harmony in Board Shot, Says Mayor Turner Get His Power Clause in Resolution -Mayor BenJamla F. Turner's heated demand; te know why the clause delegating to hlnf the supervisory power over the City Commission wee emitted from the recently passed, resolution distributing Departmental powera and office brought a simple explanation from City Counael Jeeeph Weinberger yeeterday. The City Counsel's answer waa that the Mayor has the power by statute which makes It Immaterial whether the clause la Included or omitted from the resolution.

Determined to have the supervisory Claus put In, regardless of Mr. Weinberger's, explanation and the aauratce ot other Board members that hla power were fixed by the Btate law which takes precedence over the resolution, the Mayor Inaiated upon having the measure emended to Include the misting clause. Turner Watte Tim Street Director Nicholas Mar tint, taking the chair to put the motion at the Insistence of the Mayor, told the Chief Executive I really cannot ae the necessity for thin Commissioner Whitehead, attempting to adjust th matter amicably, told the Street Director. It really ian't necessary, but It will evidently plea th Meyor and It cannot do any harm -olther way." Carrying out hi announced In tsntion eerlier In th day to question th City Council on th omission of tha supervisory clause. Mayor Turner acted no time at th mooting In making th charge.

That resolution take th eu pervlsory power of th Mayor away from me he declared, reeding a section In th Walsh Act which provides that tha Mayor willed lltlUWO warn aha.1! hav gupervteory power over (Pleas Tuyn le Pee 2. Column 7 IS PAGES Kerosene Barge Explodes, Crew Jumps Into Bay Blazing Craft Drifts from Bayonne Area to Mad Flats of Staten Island 75,000 Gallons Lost BAYONNE, UP The oil berg J. A. Martin, loaded with 7t.0tt gallons of kerosene, exploded after a collision with a tug In Newark Bay title morning. Still biasing.

It drlfted'to the mud flute of Staten Island. 1 Th thro member of th hargte crew leaped from th vessel and swam to safety. They were August Want, th skipper, of New York; Ludwig Leula of New York. and Peter Pearson, of Brooklyn. Th collision occurred north of th Contra! Railroad of New Jersey draw bridge, the J.

A- Martin striking a tug towing another ell barge. Th New Tork harbor police said th ug waa th Spentohbush. but other sources Identified It as th Chlpewe. pulling th barge 1-Grade No. owned by th fSpofilonbueh Fuel Tmnaperte-tlon Compsny -of Nw Tork.

Th J. A. Martin waa believed Owned by th same company. After th colitalen. th burning barge drifted through th open draw and set lira to the bridge structure.

Railroad omplnyea quickly extinguished the flamea before damage resulted. Th berg drifted about Itt yard south of tha brldtre before it beached itself. Flreboata and eoest guard boats remained In th vicinity to protect oil company storage plants In tha Bayonne area, but tha J. A. Martin, beached In a eaf place waa allowed to burn.

The fire boat William Gaynor. of -the New Tork Fir Department grounded aouth of tha bridge but palled lone by 11 own power. -Want Leula and Pearacn wjn to the piling of th railroad bridge and were picked no by New Tork police launch No. I. Heiers Perjury Trial Put Off to August 6 FLEMINUTON.

OP Trial Benjamin Haler, New York rastau rant cashier. charged with giving perjured testimony ae a defenaa witness In th Lindbergh kidnap In trial of Bruno Richard Haopt mann. haa con postponed from July IS to August Th postponement, announced yesterday by Anthony M. Hauek Jr Hunterdon County Prosecutor. wm aTd upon with C.

Lloyd Fisher. a tor's counsel, planned to ho vacationing California during July. Tarantula Bites Fruit Dealer in Jersey City JERSEY CITY. JPl Joseph Realm, 42, fruit dealer. was bitten by a tarantula, poisonous tropic! spider, which dartd from a bunch of banana ho waa handling Rrgla wne treated et the Medic! renter.

I 4- A Inrhdine complete up to Bergen County on of ths Second Y. Fid Fell ky Beef Houses Meat Can Held Up but Are Being Re-routed Fasaskg bf house managers spent anxious moment at thlr phones this morning, seeking new of th whereabout of meat car on way bars from th Chicago packing house New York Btata ftoods, which hav caused heavy to of Hf ond propstry damega. have eut off th Mato Line of th Erl and Lackawanna Railroads to an ara aa Largs aa New Jersey. Meat cart due over tha Erie thla morning era aipected lets today or, mors llkaiy. tomorrow -morning, aa temporary trackage 1 taid to rout Erl pertahabl freight over tha I'ennsyivania of Nw York t'sntral No Hri.tonged "meat famine" I feared.

Th Cudehy racking Company's Passaic hran waa hard hit thla morning, tjuamu'h aa three ears wer due. Tha Henry Muh Company ea-pertsd a car last sight and two more today, none of which had arrived lata tht morning. Armour 4k Company revived word that ther would be a H-Hour delay on a car due today which th Paeasio branch believe will routed ever th Iennaylvanl and lah la tlF Erl via the Marlon yards, Tha three beef house get their shipments via Erl, all having sidings on that railroad First Hire produce dealers, who get the if hlpmnta via Krto over th Ra-uuchsnn pur from fasaelo June-tlon, lieigcn County wta not In convenirnced, since most of thrir produce comew In from New York end sMilhcra prjinta William A. Dougherty. EcU freight agent for Paeasia sod Vicinity, as 14 this morning that there waa vn delay Un frelglit arrivals 'yesterday, elncsymjat ef tha Mldds estern alilymerka were tn transit 4nd est tha flyd arses to fore (tafflf ati-r-tod In the vtcinliy nf Iffunvll end Week of Corning, N.

Its afpetlci delava today but asld perlshahls' Will to given right of way aver ether r-di, with the result that ur fr ght should 1 not be dtdsysd ever 14 hour. throoih paseenger trains came Inin Faesal over the Erie yesterday. No. 9. Oeveland-New i Fork, which peases through each morning at I It and whtoh ro urns at 4.l a No.

ft. ram to this morn (Fisas Tern ta Fag Cstomn 4) Hackensack Dutchmen Led First Inflation Drive in U. S. A. WASHINGTON, (tP) How wampum "Inflationists wracked th plane of currency stabilise-tloalats whan America waa young waa told today by Herbert W.

Krleger, ethnologist of th National Museum. Wampum mad from purple clam abella played an Important part In early Colonial trad a be said. Colonial legislatures tried to lx a value for th bead. But Inflationist defeated them with a Good of "cheap wampum. It earn from wampum run by Dutchmen at Hackensack.

N. Babylon. N. Y. and elsewhere.

Eventually, Krleger eald. tha Colontate had to abandon th clam ahell aa money. Zoning Decision Still Up in Air Turner Demands Rule but Board Waits Th question of who has th power to appoint Passaic's Zoning Board members remained hanging in mld-alr today, when th City Commlaalonoro ytiterdey agroed to wait until next Tuesday for City Couaeei -Joseph J. Weinberger final decision la th matter. City Counsel Weinberger's explanation of th delay In submitting hi legal opinion was that ho requirad more time to study the recently discovered 1114 ordinance dealing with th Board of Adjustment.

declared bad boon handicapped because of th failure of City Clark Arthur D. Bolton to Include th ldfd ordinance among th others whan ha mad hla original research of legislation govern-log th appointments to th Zoning Board. Mayor F. Turner, convinced that th 1114 ordinance gflve him th unquestioned right to make th appointments, finally agreed to uie postponement nought by th City Counsel, but not before bot verbal battle had ensued. In which personalities were exchanged.

At on time, members of th Board found themaelvas on the verge of being forced In th middle on th appointment controversy when Mayor Turner waa disposed to withdraw hla original appointments and submit thorn again for a thraa-year term a provided by th ordinance "I map have been wrong In appointing a secretary." he admitted, "but a a far as th Board Itself I concerned 1 etill think I am right. But you mad th appointments (or only on year Commissioner Whitehead reminded him. -And that waa wrong. tha Mayor arreed, They should bav been for three" When City Couneel Weinberger reminded the Mayor that, ever hi own algnatura, he had agreed to rMlnqulxh any claim to th appointment of I he Zoning B'rd, th Mayor replied: That was anas Judgment (Flaa Turn Pf Clum 7) 1 I I jr. i -'--A Scent along th Went Shorg trarkg of th New York Centra gt Randal, N.

after cloudburat iwept down death and detraction on upper New York State, bringing on ot the wont flood In Eastarn history, (Central Prana Anaoclatltm.) All Hoffman to Use Savings to Cut, Real Estate Tax ales Levy Surpluses to Be Employed to Carry Share of School Costs lovernor Is Pleased WASHINGTON, (Jp New Jr- 11.000,000 monthly relief load 1 be lightened by approximately 4.100, beginning. probably. In I tuber. Federal Relief Administrator any L. Hopktne agreed to grant it is per cent, reduction la the 1 ute's direct relief contribution In a conference with rrernor Harold G.

Hoffman and i tr Bute offlclala Hopktne eald 1 order would be made effective I tiro or three month a ill Help Real Estate Hollroen 'paid a flying visit to t' capital and returned to New sir Immediately after the con-vca plainly elated by the re-0 fc -The Governor said- the sav-ir eould be devoted to' the roll don of real aetata taxes, poe-f through State aid to schools. -late Commissioner of Institute and Agencies William J. Elite 1 Albert, H. Hedden. who will its office July lb ea the new ate Relief Director, were preeent the conference.

Hoffman estimated that the re-ctlon would mean a saving to i State of about 14.104, tot in the fit twelve month, depending the aucceia of the works reran) and tha reduction of the re-i I rolla The Governor said Hopkine had reiterated the plan of the Works Administration to take at least SO per sent, tf Its worker from relief rolla The Fivlera! Government, Hoff -fan eald. plana gradually to get ft of the direct relief picture n-tilj by putting unemployed to fo, under Ui new program baling to the State the car of "unemployable. The Gover-Sr eald the State, through the fw tales tax. already has t-d financing for this type of f. Hopkins urged Hedden and the rvrmor to work eloeely with the P'mm Turn to Rage 2.

Column S) Chamber Early losing Program tarts Tomorrow I 8111 Aftnut Stores Join I new pr- activities for lerchantt," :1 community Dollar Djr a Bummer store closing wa derided uponsat a march-P mrttln at Chamber ot htterc offkwv last night, 1 ''halrman Loula wen ton. tn 'ftnlnf th pro gram. strd th 4 trf co-operatlv effort for th J'trmnt ot all merchanta. and Jtd committee to mak pr lnry plan for th various ae-Th program Include: Summer closing achcdulw rting tomorrow, all torrw to Msi Avtnu section of th I9 at I o'clock on 4aod- aijrhta and some have ten tntetbar In an agreement I O'clock on Wednss-Vh tatter group Includes (lture, radio and refrigeration grehasta, and fur merchant and line wiey fatsr deetd to It. 1 a 1 Btecklsr, Timothy 1 0 Men.

Louts Zankol and MU-Jl dnr nr making plan for Dollar Day a), which will sarty tn August. ITh msrrbgnia ein sndertnk toovtd educational book ov-6i -f Paasatc'a school I J- Starting Wednesday, aa i IB mad to asrur funds PuTehas anuis il.gs of Opening nw perk-NSo to assist fa relieving i to shopping ntr. Italo-Abyssinian Arbitrators Fail to Find Solution Commission Adjourns Indefinitely in Deadlock Over Agenda Umpire Not Selected 8CHEVEXIGEN, Netherlands (U.B Th Itallan-Abyaalnlan Arbitration Commiaalon adjourned Indefinitely today. Th adjournment was assumed to s'-ount to a confession of fallurs to acre on frontier dispute which led to th Itatlan-Ahysslnlan crisis. It wta known that th commission had been In difficulty during all of Its meeting.

American Raertssme Abyssinia Abyssinia was represented by an American and a Frenchman Pitman Potter of Long Branch. N. and Albert Oeoutfr la Pradell of Parle. Tb Italian were Count Lalgt Aldrovanl-Mara-scottl and Baffael Montagna. -When th Laegu of Nations last considered th Abyssinian dispute It vrs agreed th council Should mset July If provided th commission had not agreed and.

In absence of agreement, bad not a lerted a chairman to cast a de elding vote It waa provided further that In any event th council should meet Auguit 1 provided there bad not been aa actual settlement of th dispute. If th arbitrators can not aelact a fifth member before July tt will be th League's duty to do to. It I sepoetod, however, the league leader will their utmost to tb eemmieeien to agree en a fifth member that th eeunetl may win another month' res He before It has consider queetien which threatens Its virtual disruption. Italy la expected to Join Groat Britain and Franc In necking a fifth member, ss Premier Benito Mussolini la endarstood to feel that further delay will not Inter fere with hi plana Today break-up. It waa learned, followed a deadlock precipitated when Prof.

Gaston. Jes. presenting the case for th Abyssinian Oov-srnmsnt. argued that UaluaL where en serious frontier rlssh occurred, waa within Abyssinia, aa map show to he Th Italian com-mlssloner objected to thla argument on th ground that th commission' task was to Investigate frontier Incidents and not problems concerning th frontier aa It stands. Youths Confess Six Robberies in Apartments Ribuffo, Wynne Credited With Solvinf Serieg of Robberieg Solution six rvcsnt daylight pnrtmnt hnu rob br! was nnourw4 tht morn-toff hr Pste drllvc ftr th rrt of two youth pho wr Ukn Into custody )t month ficr th wouodlnff of pcn when thy shot at n.D W.

Railroad trsln with thlr nwljr purchased Th youth Rocco VascrU. ntoct. of 4S Myril Avtnuo, and John Marini, aightn of 41 Lucillo Flac. Their arrvat waa brought about by soma pood datartlv wrArk by Artlng DteUr Rrgant Anthony Ribuffo and Mlcba! tVynna In Invaatltattoff two daylight bur-(fartoa yaatarday afternoon In tha apartment bulMlngg at ft! Henry treat and Iff How Arsnua. Included In th burglaries they oonfcaaad waa tha fut robhry In tha apartment of Xarld Warhalar, 17 Broadway, on June 14.

Mrs. Rachalar left bar apartment for a mqmoftt to put har baby In Us oarrtaga In tha backyard and whan aha ratwrnad dlarowad tha door had baaa rloaad and lockad School 4s Annex (o Be Demolished Hazard to Neighbor- Condemned by Fir Department authorities bsraus of Its frame structure, proximity Id ether frsm buildings and of th fact that tt flow wirwruplfld, th cliol.crtH-Ihg nro)ri to So. 4 Ann, In How Avnu, ft morrow firnoon hut they will nk Board to Meet Erie Engineers on Track Plans Tunnel, With Sution City Hall, Advocated by Director Roegner City (urn mission, ytsterday arrspted Louis Levy's Invitation to mset with Erie Bsllroad Company snglnesra to discus th grad him to hold th mseting to ff public plac rather than in hi home. Mayor Benjamin F. Turner wilt Im naked to notify tha chairman of tha Chamber of Commerce grads crossing eommlttes to that affect, after Commissioner John J.

Roeg nr had suggested It wood mors to order to discuss tha auhjact at City Unit or In tha Chamber of Commerce office. Mr. ljvy, who ha been th principal figure to th campaign to bring about depression or slavetton of tha Erie's Main Avsnss tracks, has arranged to bring Oeorga Fanning. chief engineer, and IL F. Xing, special engineer for the Erls, to this ly for tomorrow conference.

Cemmiseiener sard msmbsrt Rsarie tsld ytsterday ha (Flees Turn I Fo 4 Cel. fram public school building In f'issai'', may soon rb damolUhad. unlaaa tha Board of Education acta to havs again used fr vocational aducational purpoaaa. John Kaily. buatnaaa managar of tha Board last night told Its mam bar that Fir Dapartmant officials had Informad him that In its prassnt eondttloQ It ronatltutaa a fir haaard- ha vara I (Iran Kara ban atartad to tha building by boys ald and tf It should awapt by flamaa, frama homas on ollhar aid would andangarad Mr.

Rally revaala ah offr from tha ERA to damoliah, tha bufldlnc without shargaprnvldad might havo tha materials. Ip until a year ago, tha building Was UMd for hrlrklaylng. carpentry and other Industrial classes hilt wsa4bandoAd for school purposes when tha Hoard was told It waa structurally unsafe for rage ular classes. The building quivered, th Hoard wm told, when' pupils marched in and out of It. Whan Superintendent of ftchoola Arthur Arnold read an aacarpt from tha annual report of Joseph II.

Conetantlne, fHractor of Industrial Education, to whkhha said ha would probably bav a vocational waiting Her nearly equal to tha total regtatratlong tha Board decided Should flot act (no haat- Uy on tha ERA offer Tha entire matter waa referred to the building commltta bwdad by Nathan!) Finch Mr Arnold and Mr, Conetantlna for fnveetlta-tlon and raport back to th Board (Fleas Turn Fag 1 Celwmn 4) Roegner Would Make Survey of City Insurance HeU Hare Sclultiny Go Orer Policie Civilians Covered Amrtlng Diet hr he fc tecet In.urtec tfnt eomplatetnf obout th CtlF ni mth4 ef dlrlrlbutlnf It tutu ran- bttatn, Fubll 1111 DlreGir Job J. It jrMr1 k4 Frn)ilon fc ur rtf mad ef tb poll-l revering hla part men lie said ha would Ilk th prlvlU age of authorising Herman Bibutt in. Jr. to mb tb survey. Iubll Affair plrrlor Zbrl-XI, a.

Ven Hout-o. wha be of munlrllHil tneurenc. ritlly ntt to ComoilMUio Hnrnr rqut. while Flnenc IB rector ltnry C. WhlUbA t-l4 tht Clly Comptroil Or, vor f.

ltolnfmo out4 lv ble 11 lb (1 tr4 Intormetiog row-crnlng lb method of pt(" in, Cltf pollrloe. "I think hogld oultln rompioini I hr among lb le-uranr ote," Comm1lonr "Tbl I Bot lg I). natoi, of rillo4n I will aland wrrwu4 If I wronf II had bar Informad. fc ld. that I her had ba vroat d-wl of blkrtng during lh 11 about lb method wf handling hiteranr.

It h4 flneliy be aervad that It would id bualnao I bandl th by blanket polo-y with eartaig arreng th (Ft Turn fa Pit Clum ft i Warn Rracliri for Stick, Fikdi It's a RattUmtka Mrs. Jams iv.ught of Belmont Avenue, North Hajedon, about to pick up a stray bit of a tre which Mil upon the la of hr home yatardajr aft erneon when aha tcfok second took. THn ati called Charle Vogsl, a neighbor. Mr. Vogel placed a hot over tha ''stick, whir later waa Identified aa a ran kanaka with one button, ft te to be given to tha Boy ftoout for thslr muarum I It'g a lot of truck nd lot of gwsrper for $300, thg price Street Director Nichole Martini paid to Mamaroneck, N.

for thla 1928 weeper. Pgtaaicg plneteen-yegr-old weeper would cost $322 to repair and a new on would cot $7,200, making a problem for cost ex-perta and a bargain no matter what way you look at It. With tha Commissioner arg Arthur Reid, guperintendmt of Street; Joseph Lomaaro, City garaga foreman, and Victor Ron-docna. City garaga mechanic. A (Ft Tarn XL Ctmn I) I.

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