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156 Entered in the Brooklyn Postoffice BROOKLYN, N. TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939 (Copyright 2d Class Mail Matter The Brooklyn Daily Eagle) THREE CENTS Cuba Cancels Offer to Refugees Introduced Bill For Moran but Didn't Read It Senator Crawford Testifies It's 'Usual Practice' in Albany State Senator James J. Crawford of Brooklyn admitted today that he had introduced a taxicab bill for former Assemblyman Edward S. Moran Jr. without reading it and said that was "usual practice" in the Legislature.

Senator Crawford, Assemblyman Leonard Farbstein of Manhattan and Nathan Katz, young borough attorney, drew an illuminating picture of committee procedure. in Albany under the adroit questioning of Assistant District Attorney MurI. Gurfein at Moran's trial in ray General Sessions Court, Manhattan, on a charge of accepting $36,000 from taxicab chains Moran, the two legislators testified, prepared the report of the committee they were all on, and both signed this report without looking at it. He also drew up the bill the committee proposed, they said. SIGNED WITHOUT READING "Mr.

Moran came to my office in Albany," testified Senator Crawford, asked me to sign the report. He said that others were signing it, and so I signed it." "Did he tell you what was in it?" asked Gurfein. "No." "Did you ever read the report?" "No, sir." Under cross-examination Senator Crawford said he "depended on the integrity of Mr. Moran as chairman" and that this was "usual prac- tice." GOT JOB THROUGH REICH Katz, who lives at 161 Pulaski got his $200-a-month job as attorney to the legislative committee, he testified, through Joseph Reich, Democratic leader of the 6th A. D.

He explained that he was anxious to do work for the committee as he "wanted to make a name" for himself. Repeatedly, said the tall, handsome witness, he pleaded with Moran to give him something to do. Finally he did. "Go lick stamps," Katz quoted Moran as telling him. Among other politicians who may be called are Frank V.

Kelly, Democratic county leader; for Highways Superintendent James J. Heffernan, Democratic leader of the 12th A.D., which Moran represented in Albany for many years, and Minority Assembly Leader Irwin Steingut. Gurfein also listed former State Senator John A. Hastings, State Senator Joseph A. Esquirol and City Councilman Joseph Clark Baldwin.

'QUITE A ROLL' Burge M. Seymour, president of the Terminal System, yesterday testified that he paid Moran between $15,000 and $16,000 from the Spring 1935 to the Spring of 1937 for his aid "in introducing legislation that would be helpful to my Seymour also swore that he paid about $20,000 to Moran in June, 1936, at the Parisien Restaurant, 8th Ave. and W. 56th Manhattan, shortly after the adjournment of the State Legislature and the 1-cent reduction of the emergency gasoline tax. The $20,000 was obtained from Levin Rank, president of the Parmelee Transportation Company, Seymour testified.

When Moran got the money, the former legislator commented that it was "quite a roll." Judge Wallace interrupted the cross-examination of Seymour by Defense Attorney Hugo Winter to press a few questions, and Seymour admitted that Moran was "a sort of watchdog for me" in the Legislature. In the Eagle Today Page Pare Books 22 Brain Teaser 22 Bridge 23 Brooklyn Fact- 10 Cassel's Cartoon 10 Clifford 18 Comics -22-23 Crossword 27 Dr. Brady 23 Ed Hughes 14 Events 20 Editorial 10 Events 16 Financial ---17-19 Garden Corner- 22 Grin and Bear It 10 Heffernan 13 Helen Worth Boro's Fight for Battery Bridge Whirls Toward Climax Tonight Gird for Big Rally -Art Body Approves Park Approach Plan By LESTER DAVID. Brooklyn was a coiled spring today, set to loose the most defiant civic challenge in its history. Tension mounted hourly as the time drew near when borough's fused forces will fling down the gauntlet for swift and affirmative action on the Brooklyn Battery Bridge project.

At 8 o'clock tonight the drive for the $44,000,000 span will reach a climax when the civic, business and political forces of the borough man their posts behind the battering ram WHERE AND WHEN Occasion: "Build the Bridge" 'Place: Majestic Theater, Fulton St. and Rockwell Place. Time: Tonight at 8. Reason: To demonstrate Brooklyn's unanimous support of the span proposal. Everybody welcome! of public sentiment at the mass demonstration sponsored by the Brooklyn Eagle at the Majestic Theater, Fulton St.

and Rockwell Place. PARK PLAN APPROVED The New York City Art Commission today approved Park sioner Muses plan for the redevelopment of Battery Park when the Manhattan approach to the proposed Brooklyn-Battery Bridge is cut through there, the Brooklyn Eagle learned exclusively. Edward C. Blum, chairman of the commission, presided the meeting in City Hall today at which the decision was reached. The commission heard arguments on the plan last month.

Commissioner Moses' plan, which would cost $500,000, involves relandscaping of the park, the addition of numerous trees, lawn spaces and parking spaces, and the construction of a two-level promenade on the seaward extension of the park. The theater will open its doors at Continued on Page 4 Bids Opened on 2 Belt Parkway Jobs Bids were opened today by the Department of Parks for two more Belt Parkway contracts. One is for the paving of Shore Parkway from its connection with Emmons Ave. through Marine Park to Flatbush including the erection of the superstructure of the Plum Beach Channel Bridge. This is a threespan plate girder bridge and provides a channel clearance of 35 feet above mean high water.

The second contract provides for an underpass which will carry the Cross Island Parkway under the relocated Winchester Boulevard and for the paving of the latter highway. The three low bidders on the Shore Parkway job were: Mill Basin Asphalt Company, 5410 Avenue Johnson, Drake and Piper, Freeport, Arthur Gallow, 260 E. 167th the Bronx, $469,602.50. Low bidders on the Cross Island Parkway job were: Andrew Weston Company, Woodmere, The Immick Company, 50 Church Manhattan, $222,840, and Arthur Gallow, $228,218.40. Dr.

Alexander LyonsDiesat71 Noted as Dean of Boro Rabbis Headed Eighth Ave. Noted Leader Temple Crusaded For Tolerance Here The Rev. Dr. Alexander Lyons, "dean of Brooklyn rabbis" and rabbi-at-large of the Eighth Avenue Temple, with which he had been associated for 37 years, died of a heart attack last night in his home, 295 St. John's Place, as he was recovering from pneumonia.

He was 71. Rabbi Lyons was one of the most conspicuous figures in the religious civic life of the borough, a constant crusader for understanding between Jew and Christian and an inveterate speaker on ethics. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Congregation Beth Elohim, which under his rabbinate became known to all Brooklyn as the Eighth Avenue Temple. The body will lie in state in the synagogue at 8th Ave.

and Garfield Place from 10:30 a.m. tomorrow until the funeral. Cremation will follow in Fresh Pond Crematory. OLD FRIENDS TO PRESIDE The Rev. Isaac Landman, rabbi of the temple, and the Rev.

Dr. Sidney S. Tedesche, rabbi of Union Temple and lifelong friend of- Rabib Lyons, will preside at the services. A eulogy will be delivered Continued on Page 11 Charges WPA Is Red Setup Theater Employe Says Communists Rule Art Projects Washington, June 6 (U.P)- Charles St. Bernard Dinsmore Walton, WPT Theater Project employe, told the House WPA Investigating committee today that the "present setup is nothing more or fence to sow the seeds of communism." Walton, who said employed on the Broadway stage in various connections since 1907, was asked what he meant by "present setup." "The five arts," he replied, referring to the five white-collar projects.

CLEVERLY WRITTEN "The present setup," he said, "in my opinion is nothing more or less than a fence to sow the seeds of communism. Of course, every play does not carry message. They are too clever for that. But you must bear in mind that the theater for centuries has been used to sway public opinion. Voltaire once wrote a play that started the French Revolution." Another witness, Charles H.

White, a Negro, told the committee that in 1930-31 he was sent to Russia by the Communist party where he received instruction in military tactics and street fighting, White, who said he is employed as an "information writer" on the Federal Arts Project in New York, said that while in Russia he met Herbert Benjamin, now secretary of the Workers Alliance. He said Benjamin was "preparing for the Continued on Page 4 Escort Service Chief Fined Despite Pleas by Socialites Testimony offered in his behalf by Park Ave. socialites failed today to save Theodore Peckham, head of the Guide Escort Service, from conviction in Special Sessions for operating an employment agency without a license. Peckham, 24, was fined $250 by Justices Bayes, Doyle and Saloman, who also imposed a three months' workhouse sentence, but suspended execution of the jail term for good behavior and steps he has taken to obtain a license. License Commissioner Paul Moss declared that since Peckham established his service six or seven other similar agencies developed which sent out escorts without having properly investigated their backgrounds.

He said women had been All Royalty Guarded After Shot at Duchess Shellac-Fed Flames Roar 40 Feet High Fire Fulton St. Line In E. N. Service Affected Fire shortly after 1:15 p.m. today swiftly turned a square block of low factory and garage buildings opposite the East New York station of the Long Island Railroad into an inferno.

Four alarms, sent in quick succession, brought all available firemen and fire-fighting apparatus to the scene. After a delay of about 15 minutes, a shuttle was inaugurated on the Fulton St. and the 14th St.Canarsie lines, both of which were affected by the blaze. The shuttle used the eastbound track on both sides, turning all trains from Atlantic Ave. to Montauk Ave.

on the Fulton St. line, and to Rockaway Ave. on the Canarsie line, a distance of four stations. Traffic at this point was delayed five minutes, while trains went to and fro on the same track. Tongues of flame leaped high in the air, setting fire to the wooden ties of the Fulton St.

Elevated line on Snediker 40. feet above the ground. Power was immediaely shut off and service halted on that section of the Fulton St. and Canarsie lines. The block affected by the fire! is bounded by Snediker Atlantic Liberty Ave.

and the Long Island Railroad freight cut. It is between two lines which approach the Atlantic Ave. Station at an angle. The site of the blaze was 150 feet from the railroad station. SHELLAC FEEDS FLAMES The center of the blaze was the building at 36-48 Snediker Ave.

occupied by the Hall Flooring Corporation. Seasoned lumber used in making parquet floors and shellac fed the fire and sent the flames roaring skyward. Adjoining the elevated at 52 Snediker Ave. is the building of the J. B.

Leipiger Corporation, manufacturers of flour and bakery supplies, and the United American Food Corporation, wholesale grocers. That, too, was swallowed by the advancing flames, as was the twostory frame structure at 26 Snediker formerly occupied by the Sealed Oil Products Company, and a garage at Snedeker and Liberty Aves. MANY FAMILIES ROUTED Occupants of the six-family house at Hinsdale St. and Liberty Ave. were routed from their homes, as were those in a string of five twofamily brick houses nearby.

A crowd of nearly 5,000 persons gathered on the stations and in the streets watching the flames. Two blocks from the fire, attendants in the Lutheran Hospital, East New York Ave. and Junius closed all windows to keep out smoke from the wards and sick rooms. AMBULANCES STAND BY The Fire Department ambulance and ambulances from the Lutheran and Trinity Hospitals stood by to give any first aid that might be needed. Deputy Fire Chief John J.

Davin directed the fire-fighting and police were under command of Deputy Chief Inspector Louis F. Schilling. All occupants left the buildings affected on orders of the police. A strong wind was blowing in the area and caused the flames to spread rapidly. Work of the firemen was slightly hampered by a break in one of the hose lines.

Three police emergency squads from Miller Grand Ave. and Herbert St. precincts were on the scene. No one was reported injured up to 2 p.m. French Jail Italian Spy Marseilles, France, June 6 (P)- Gino Maresco, an Italian, was condemned by an army courtmartial today to eight years in prison for espionage.

Belmont Park Results FIRST RACE-Three-year-olds and upward; one mile. St. Anna (Meade) 8-1 3-1 6-5 Silsweep (Longden) 1-3 1-7 Brown Light (Nash) 1-2 Time, 1:41 2-5. Jacaroo, Red Tack, Titanium also ran. (Off time, Suffolk Downs Results FIRST RACE-Three-year-olds; threequarters of a mile.

Friendly Paul (Berger) 10.40 5.00 3.40 A. Rosemain (Barba) 5.20 3.60 Bissakerry (Bowen) 4.60 to 1:12 4-5. Horsepower, Wise 67- Hildred. Prospectus, Lady Solance also sentenced ran. SECOND (Of ftime, RACE 2:17.) -Continuity, first: Distractible, second: Country Lass, third.

Man Held for Firing at Kent's Wife Bared As Communistic Australian Veteran London, June 6 (U.P)-Ledwedge Australian war veteran of Communist the world, was arraigned in firing a sawed-off shotgun near Belgrave Square last night. Although the shot did not strike the Duchess' car, police and Scotland Yard immediately posted extra guards around the homes of the Duchess and other members of the royal family, Lawlor was charged with possessing a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life or damage property. He was remanded in custody for one week, during which detectives will question him closely to determine his motive, so far undetermined by officials. IRKED BY LOW PENSION A fellow lodger at the lodging house where Lawlor, a welder's assistant, lived told authorities Lawlor was an untalkative, apparently unhappy man. He said Lawlor seemed dissatisfied with the amount of his war pension and appeared to have communistic tendencies, although he talked little and avoided arguments.

At the Westminster Court hearing, Police Constable Tice testified that after hearing a shot in Belgrave Square, he chased Lawlor, who was on a bicycle, forced him to the side of the road and held him. Tice said when he accused Lawlor Continued on Page Acts to Renew Relief Taxes Bills to Re-enact Levies Offered Council by Morris Council President Newbold Morris, declaring the Democratic majority leadership had declined to accept responsibility for introducing the measures, introduce today bills calling for the re-enactment of New York city's $70,000,000 emergency relief tax program. The proposed revenue legislation would include the continuance of the city's 1-cent cigarette tax, despite the action of the Albany Legislature in having enacted the so-called "penny for ten' 'levy on smokes. Morris warned, in a statement, that unless the city's cigarette tax was re-enacted, a substitute mesaure would have to be found by the Council. Morris openly asserted that the State was using New York City as a "proving ground" taxation.

"The fact the State New York treats the city of New York as a Continued on Page 4 Braddock to Fight Farr in London James J. Braddock, former heavyweight champion of the world, will fight Tommy Farr in London on July 5 for a guarantee of $25,000 tax free, his manager, Joe Gould, announced today. Braddock will have an option of taking 33 1-3 percent of the gate instead of the $25,000. Tony Canzoneri has been signed to meet Eric Boon, British lightweight, in the semi-final bout of the card. Vincent Lawlor, 45, described as an leanings and with a grudge against Westminster police court today, accused of the Duchess of Kent's automobile in Escapes Assassination The Duchess of Kent Hitler Warns Britain on War Says 'Encirclers' Face Sharp Repulse If They Attack Reich Berlin, June 6 (U.P)-Fuehrer Adolf Hitler warned Britain and other "encirclers" of Germany today that they will be sharply repulsed if they attempt to attack the Reich.

Hitler and Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, his chief aide, reviewed a parade of 12,000 German soldiers and aviators who fought for General Franco in the Spanish civil war. Addressing the veterans in the Lustgarten, Hitler said: "My comrades, I can greet you at last. am happy to be able to see you and I am proud of you. Accept the thanks of the German people. who press all of you to their hearts." WARNS 'WAR MONGERS' After reviewing the unfavorable course of the Spanish uprising during early days, Hitler said: "Your spirit shows that if the war mongers ever attempt to attack Germany, they will be repulsed with sharpness of which the encirclers do not yet have a conception.

"We think of those who died in this struggle for civilization and of Continued on Page 4 27,500 Seats Available For Game Tomorrow The Brooklyn Baseball Club today announced that there will be 27,500 general admission seats available for the baseball game tomorrow night at Ebbets Field when the Dodgers the Cardinals. Tickets for these seats will sale at Ebbets Field at 6 p.m. tomorrow. 26-Foot Python Loose at Fair; Police Comb Amusement Area A 350-pound, 26-foot regal python, 18 years old, was on the loose in the World's Fair grounds today, officials admitted. World's Fair police scored the amusement area and patroled Fountain Lake motorboat in a hunt for the snake.

The management of the Giant Monsters show, from which the male python, known as Jumbo, escaped sometime between its 3 a.m. feeding of live chickens and pigs and 9 a.m. believed the snake had taken to the nearby lake. Jumbo was about to shed its greenish-brown skin. its owner, Cliff Wilson, reported, and at such times pythons demand more water than All Welcome to Bridge Rally at Majestic Theater Tonight; Doors Open at 7 Slams Doors As 900 Fail In Guarantee Reversal of Stand Comes as Surprise, Dooms Hopes of Jews Havana, June 6 (U.P) The government announced today that the 907 Jewish refugees aboard the German liner St.

Louis will not be permitted to land anywhere in Cuban territory. The announcement followed a conference at noon today with representatives of President Laredo Bru and relief committees. The announcement was a surprise, since yesterday it had been indicated that the Government Bars Spain Refugees San Juan, Puerto June 6 (U.P.) The French steamer Richie Sinaia, carrying 1,800 refugees from Loyalist Spain to Mexico, anchored in San Juan Harbor today but was not permitted to dock or land passengers. Members of the Popular Front movement for solidarity with the Spanish republic and labor leaders have asked permission to go on board to greet the refugees. Student Flier, 'Going to Saved at Sea Trawler Fishes Him Out-Destination Was Europe, Mother Hints Rabbi Alexander Lyons Boston.

June 6 (U.P.)-A young Pennsylvania student pilot who said his projected destination was pancaked into the North Atlantic early today and was rescued by fishermen just before his tiny land plane sank in 39 a fathoms of water. A radio dispatch from the rescue ship, the Boston trawler Villanova, identified the pilot as Cheston L. Eshelman of Carlisle, 25, a $30-a week mechanic in an air. plane plant. Eshelman, who had only eight hours solo flying time to his credit, took off early last night from Central Airport, Camden, N.

with only enough gasoline for an hour and a half of flying. Nothing more was heard from him. However, the dispatch from the Villanova quoted Eshelman as sayContinued on Page 4 Martin Greeted On Visit to Court County Judge George W. Martin returned to his chambers in the Central Courts Building today "just to see the folks" and received a warm reception from jurists, court attendants, clerks, attorneys and wellwishers ot all descriptions. He arrived at the building shortly before 1 p.m., accompanied by his son, Walter, about 12 years old.

A constant stream of visitors went to his chambers as news of his presence spread, "I'm going to take a rest," he said. "I'm going to regain my health, and I'm not coming back to this building until September." Looking well and obviously in much better spirits than during the weeks from the time of his indictment on a charge of accepting a bribe until his recent acquittal, Judge Martin declared: "I came here just to see the folks. Apparently they are glad to see me from the numbers that have come in to offer congratulations." The judge said that his granddaughter, Aubrey O'Berry, still was very at the Martin Summer home in Water Mill, L. I. 21, He Gets 199 Years Dixon, June 6 (P)-Russell Gehant, 21, pleaded guilty today the murder of Mollie Tague, year -old spinster, and was to 199 years in prison.

would permit the refugees to land on the Isle of Pines temporarily, on the guarantee that they would not become public charges would seek entry elsewhere later. The offer was good until noon today. TIME LIMIT EXPIRES Lawrence Berenson of the National Co-ordinating Committee spent the morning conferring at the Presidential palace, presumably to complete arrangements for accepting the offer. Then came the announcement that the time limit had expired and the refugees would not be allowed to disembark. The announcement was made by a Presidential spokesman who said that the original proposition, presented at Sunday's conference with Berenson, provided for a $500 cash guarantee to be paid into the Cuban Treasury for each refugee, "plus an additional sum for feeding and lodging them on the Isle of Pines." He said the conditions agreed upon had not been met, and the time limit had expired.

LINER NEARS CUBA June 6 (U.P) -The German' liner' St. Louis was proceding to Cuba today with 907 Jewish refugees, who, after a week of aimless wandering in the Caribbean, shunned at every port, had been offered temporary haven on the Isle of Pines, Cuban penal isiand. A message received here by tropical radio from the St. Louis said the ship was going directly to the Isle of Pines. The offer came from Cuba's President, Federico Laredo Bru, who rescinded an order that had driven the St.

Louis from the Port of Havana last week without permitting it to land the refugees and sent it on an aimless cruise while appeals went out by radio nations of the New World in the refugees' behalf. President Laredo Bru's offer was reported to be conditional. The refugees were to be put in a tration camp on the Isle of Pines and were to provide for selves. Their stay was to be tem. porary, presumably provisions could be made for admitting them to other countries, perhaps the United States.

He said that "indispensable guar. antees" should be given to assure that the refugees would not become public charges as well as to cover the cost of feeding them during their stay in Cuban territory. It was reported that costs of food housing and re-embarkation had been guaranteed by Jewish aid eties. Jimmy Wood 14 Let's Go to Fair 20 Lindley 13 Line on Liners-- 20 Lost and Found 2 Obituaries 11 Radio 22 Real Estate 21 Referees 20 Robert Quillen- 93 Serial 28 Shipping 20 Society Sports -14-16 Theaters Tucker 10 Want Ads --20-21 Women overcharged and were without redress. In Peckham's behalf an imposing array of notables took the witness stand and testified to his good character.

They included Sara Thyrer Winslow writer, of 570 Park Manhattan; Mrs. J. David Stern, wife of the newspaper publisher, and Stew. art French of 202 Columbia Heights. Charles Lewis Sealy of 2018 Voorhies Ave.

made a complaint that resulted in the action against Peckham. He told of performing service in March. When Peckham discovered Sealy's service produced $20 for expenses in addition to a $15 escort fee, Sealy claimed, Peckdemanded more than a stipulated two-thirds return from him. usual. The task of the searchers was complicated by the fact pythons can remain under water that minutes at a time without coming up for air.

The python escaped either through the roof cage which was left unfast-ned inadvertently by an attendant after the feeding or through a window which was left open about 10 inches. The ster is 10 inches in diameter. Jumbo was captured in Java in January and was brought to this country in April. Pythons are not poisonous, although they do bite. but kill by squeezing the object attacked, much as a boa constrictor does.

Rules Junkman's Bells Musical, Not Offensive The tinkle of cowbells on a man's wagon which offended the ears of a patrolman brought nies to thrifty housewives in vicinity of 45th St. and 6th Ave. Magistrate Jeanette G. Brill said to. day in Bay Ridge Court.

And any. how, she declared, cowbells art musical and not offensive. Consequently she dismissed summons against the Frank Anitrano, 60, of 3 clunkman The summons was served by man Alfred Lehman, who charged Anitrano with making unnecessary noise..