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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1938 Telephone MAiri '4-6000 For Clattifird Ad Retultt Free Baths Get Where Slum Dwellers Can Keep Clean Civic Groups Back Campaign to Restrain City From Creating Dump in Jamaica Bay Incinerator's Job Say This Is 1))j Y- 'iNllf ys5 I i A I 1 3 im Public bathhouse at Huron one of six being reconstructed to provide showers for men, women and children throughout Brooklyn. Inset shows two boys preparing for shower at the bathhouse at Willoughby and Wilson Aves. (Eagle Staft photos.) Cut and cover operation of the Department of Sanitation near Beach 45th St. on Jamaica Bay. Civic organizations claim this refuse could have been incinerated at the Beach 80th St.

plant. Ingersoll Aid Boro Head Modernizing 6 Public Places Here to Benefit Slum Areas Six public hou.ses under Jurisdiction of Borough President Ingersoll provide from three to three nd one-half million shower baths each year to residents of Brooklyn's bathless slums, and Mr. Ingersoll Is now enajed in a program of modernizing these baths, which a vera 5 about 35 years of asp. The Borough President completed reconstruction of the bath at Wilson and Willouzhbv Arcs, last fall. In this case relief labor was employed under supervision of boroush engineers, and all materials were supplied by the relief agencies.

25 Percent' Completed Rebuilding of the Huron St. Bath, located in the heart of near Minhatian which is also being conduced on a basis of WPA supplying all labor and materials, is 23 completed. The city last week initiated a new policy, under which the WPA pro-Tides onlv the labor, while approximately $75,000 for materials and equiprre.it must be supplied from regular city budget funds in the beginning of reconstruction for the Duffield St. Bath, near Concord St. A request of the Borough President for a similar appropriation for the city's share of a reconditioning job on' the Hicks St.

Bath is still pending before the Board of Estimate and may be approved early next year. Mr. Ingersoll's long-range plan provides for the relocating of the Pitkin Ave. Bath on a side street in a new structure. The sixth bath house, on Montrose was rebuilt fix or seven years ago.

Not Generally Appreciated. The maintenance of these public bath and the huge volume of at- tendance is a phase of the city's service to its less fortunate and ill-housed residents not generally appreciated by the majority of New Yorkers, according to Mr. Ingersoll's eff ice. Although most people understand, by virtue of newspaper publicity given to recent legislation on the subject of multiple dwelling laws, that a tremendous number of the borough's old tenements lack adequate lavatory facilities and that ef- forts are being made to require installation of a lavatory for each apartment, the lack of bathing facilities is not nearly as widely known. The city's shower baths are free, but bathers must bring their own towels or they may rent a towel and get a bar of coap for five cents.

Communists Hissed Him, Doherty Claims Woburn. July 23 (U.P Communists were blamed today by National Commander Daniel J. Doherty of the American Legion for ft hissing demonstration during his address before an educational conference Thursday at Columbia University. "There is little doubt that the hissing came from a group of Communists who had come to the meeting," he said. "I don't feel that these persons had anything to do with, the conference, and my belief was suuported when I left the meeting and found communist handbills being distributed.

My remarks were favorably received and I don't believe there were more than ten persons hissing." spreads, or in Winters of extreme cold weather, thousands of rats living in the dumps migrated into homes at Corona and Flushing." Mr. Russell said he once counted 14 rats ir or group on Roosevelt in spite of heavy traffic. "It is my opinion that similar conditions will prevail if the Department of Sanitation is permitted Shirley on to dump at West Island." he said. Protests to Mayor Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger, president of the Park Association of New York City, yesterday protested to Mayor LaGuardia that the city "would be deliberately throwing away the funds it has invested in Jacob Riis Park.

Marine Park, Ca-narsie Beach Park and the connect Vacation Pit PLAIN'S BUS RIDE James A. Bell. VwA 1 1 ing parkways, if it allows Jamaica Bay to become a garbage dump." Mr. Friou pointed out that the plan was not in keeping with previous policies of the administration. A former Department of Sanitation commissioner, he pointed out.

had bailed incinerators as the only modern way to cope with the problem of disposing of garbage. DAI GHTER BORN Mr. and Mrs. Jack Foxhall Schaf-fran of Passaic Park.N.J.. announce the birth of a daughter on July 15 at the Orange Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Schraffan is the former Miss Ethel M. Hart of Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs.

James Cowan of Shore Road have returned from a motor trip to Los Angeles and Mrs. Cowan is spending the remainder of the Summer in Saxtons River, Vt, with her two children. Miss Alice F. Cowan, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

William A. Cowan of 724 Cortelyou Road is on a trip through the Great Lakes, spending some time at Georgian Bay and motoring to Laks o'Bays, Ontario, to remain at Big-win Inn. Miss Ruth Matchett of Short Hills, N. is with her. Mr.

and Mrs. John Mott of E. St. sailed on the Swedish Gripsholm for the North Cape Cr.nse and will visit, Norway. Sweden, Denmark.

Russia and Finland, before their return. Two hundred persons are expected to attend the annual Summer luncheon, bridge and mahjongg of the Long Island Women's Auxiliary, Brooklyn Jewish Home for Convalescents on Wednesday at Surfside, Atlantic Beach. Mrs. Ida Seigel and Mrs. Charlotte Abrams are co-chairmen.

William E. Irvine Jr. of Hancock Emerson L. Cohen of Hancock and Franklyn J. Krooks of Ar-gyle Road have recently returned from an extended motor trip of the South.

They stopped at Mammoth Cave, Luray Caverns. Va and sjient several days in Miami Beach, Fia. Recent visitors at the Endless Caverns. New Market, Include Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Wilkin, Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs, P. Ott and Marcella F. Ott, Astoria. 4 Seawanliaka Club Lists Outfit" Plans 11 A.

I). Democrats to Have Races. Valor Events at N. J. Lakr Sunday Plans for the annual bus ride and cuting next Sunday of the Seawan-haka Democratic Club of the 1st A.

of which Deputy City Clerk James A. Bell is leader, were anno'. need last night by William A. Ryan, chairman of the arrangements committee. Buses will leave the clubhouse a' 103 Concord St.

at 9:30 a.m. for Lake Como Pavilion. Hawthorne. N. Mr.

Ryan said. The program includes a baseball game, foot and hurdle races and a tug-of-war between the senior and junior men of the club. Mrs. Anna Brady, co-leader of the organization and chairman of the women's committee, said the women would participate in potato bag races and an egg rolling contest. A wa ter sports schedule will be featured by high diving contests and races.

Prizes for even's wil: be awarded by Mr. Bell. Edward J. MrCann Is president of the club. ENROLLS AT DICKINSON Carlisle, July 23 Among those enrolled in the freshmen class at Dickinson College, for the A.

B. degree, is James Pcrfetti. son of Mr. and Mrs. James J.

Perfetti of 64 Division Ave. honor graduate of Boys' High School. Brooklyn. SCARECROWS OUTMODED Washington (P) The scarecrow is becoming old-fashioned. Migratory birds are likely to be frightened off by flash guns, revolving lights and a variety of no.se makers nowadays.

What Brooklyn Needs 4 10-poinl goal for ihc development of Brooklyn prosperity Rar Campaign on Rlast by Moses Who Called Projeet 'Nightmare' Injunction Hearing Is Set for Tomorrow Basin? their attitude oh the "Civic Nightmare" text of Park Commissioner Robert Moses, civic leaders have rallied to the support of the temporary injunction halting the city's plan to use Jamaica Bay as a dumping ground. The order granted by Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink and based on a petition brought by George Dyson Friou. attorney for Otto Weigl of 9715 Avenue N. it returnable tomorrow in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Both the city and Sanitation Commissioner William F.

Carey are named In the suit. Called 'Civic Nightmare' Mr. Weigl Is an officer of the Sea-view Terrace Association of Canar-sie. He pointed out that Park Commissioner Moses termed the plan to dump in Jamaica Bay "a civic nightmare." He further quoted Mr. Moses: "It seems incredible that after the recent experience of this administration in reclaiming Rikers Island and Flushing Meadow, an attempt should be made by a member of the same administration to create a worse situation in an equally important recreational area." Benjamin F.

King, secretary of the Flatbush Chamber of Commerce and a resident of southern Flatbush for more than 20 years, advocating incinerators as the modern means to disposing of garbage, said: "From the records of the Board of Estimate, public statements of the Commissioner of Sanitation and his deputies and conversations I have had with employes of the Department of Sanitation. I am familiar with the plan for dumping in the West Island in Jamaica Bay. Feeds 10.000 Gulls "The dump near Floyd Bennett Air Field it not supposed to be a garbage dump. Nevertheless more than 10.000 gulls have had three square meals every day or perhaps more on the material which the department has dumped on that land fill gulls don't eat tin cans and paper. Garbage is the bait that brings them.

"The dump at Flatlands and Ralph Aves. has created an epidetaic of sore throats among the people living within several miles." City Councilman Charles Belous of Queens, who was interested some years ago in ending the Corona dump, recalled the rats that Infested that area, even getting into the homes, and said it would be a step backward to allow the city to dump at Jamaica Bay. 'Cites Rat Invasions' Edward T. Russell, chairman of the sanitation committee of the Community Councils of New York, opposing the Jamaica Bay plan, said: "For many years have been familiar with conditions at various dumps at Flushing Meadows. Rikers Island and various other places.

It hardly seems necessary to describe conditions at these dumps. They are a matter of common knowledge. As a resident of Queens, I witnessed conditions at Rikers Island and Flushing Meadow dally for almost 25 years. The gas created by the putrid vegetable matter frequently caught fire, causing large volumes of stinking smoke to spread through the vicinity. At the time the fire Giants of Old Days Just Average Man New York (IP) The Book of Genesis records that before the flood "there were giants in the land." Science thinks it has found some of them in Palestine.

If science is right, then modern man is more gigantic, a more splendid physical specimen. Sir Arthur Keith sketches the scientific story, in the British journal. Nature. He refers to the bones of men and women who lived 50,000 to 100,000 years ago in Palestine. He quotes Genesis on giants and says: "The fossil people we are now dealing with are almost worthy of such a name.

The men were tall; four of them range in height from five feet eight inches to five feet eleven." American studies of college men and women indicate that height and size are a matter of food. With the diets availabe long ago, these old alestlnians might truly rate as giants. At any rate they were modern man's equals in several respects. Their brains were equal in size to ours, says Sir Arthur. There were lss convolutions in their gray matter.

But they could talk. They were straight-legged. Shests showed they were long-winded. Sir Arthur infers they were good runners. course includes lectures and laboratory sessions covering the important aspects of the automotive business, from the drafting room right on through the factories, and even the dealership Itself.

With the aid of H. L. Horton, At lantic Coast regional manager, and officials from the latter's office, Mc- I Laughlin gave the prospective students at a luncheon Tuesday an outline of the work which the school sets out to do. This was intended to help many of his listeners who plan to enroll for the next session, opening Sept. 12.

Fulton St. removal. Completion of circumferential highway. Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Development of Marine Park.

Atlantic Ave. improvement. Crosstown Highway to the World's Fair. Additional high schools and hranch libraries. Rehabilitation of older sections.

Bay railroad freight tunnel. s-Malen Island vehicular tunnel. Bbro Scout Camp Has Greatest List By Scout Richard Roth Ten Mile River, July 23 The second period of two weeks in the Brooklyn scout camps seems destined to outdo the first. Some of the camps are crowded above capacity. More than, 1.000 campers and staff members are here, the largest number yet at one time.

Many credit this great registration to Uie work of the Boy Scout Foundation of greater New York. Yesterday the boys were visited by Peter McLaren, world's champion wood chopper. Mr. McLaren, an Australian, has held the title for many years. He demonstrated his skill at each of the four mess halls and directed contests in speed log chopping and ax throwing.

The winners received Plumb axes. The camp adopted daylight saving time and will stay on it for the rest of the season. The squirrel is found in all parts of the world except Australia. Only 280 Dajs Till Opening of WORLD'S FAIR Motorists Hail Sunoco Guides "The many expressions of appreciation sent to us by Interested motorists who have used the new 1938 Sunoco Highway Guides have been so emphatic in their praise that we are more convinced than ever before that these new Sunoco maps are really outstanding." says E. C.

Bislaw, Sun Oil Company's district manager. "Literally months of effort were devoted to making these maps as helpful as possible." he continued, "In every instance they are not only up to date, showing all of the latest highway improvements, but In addition they also indicate the main highways through many leading cities and locate places of scenic or historic interest which the tourist would like to see. "The maps are free at all Sunoco stations which, by the way, are also offering free copies of a new booklet which explains the cause of motor knocks. These booklets have been illustrated by Walt Disney, who has produced several exclusive Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck drawings for use in the books." The annual cast of medical care for all people in the U. S.

is estimated at $3,577,000,000 and the wage loss from illness at $1,000,000,000. Bhiriey Temple's favorite horse is "Black Diamond" of the Castle Harbour stables in Bermuda. Shirley and her parents are spending a holiday at Castle Harbour In Bermuda. Latest News and Notes From Automotive Field Mr. and Mrs.

Allan Zee and their the Little Club, Schroon Lake, N. Y. daughter. Miss Hope Zee of 2515 I Mrs. Zee is a member of WHN pro-Glenwood Road, are vacationing adduction department.

Jersey Surf Provides iAire For the Vacationing Motorist Relive Yesterday with the Old-Timers Ford V-8 Engine Chalks Up Record Clwks 92.216 Miles in Detroit Street Railway 2Mm.cnf!rr DSR Bus With 92.216 miles of operation in a Detroit Street Railway bus to its credit, a Ford V-8 bus engine has just recently been dismantled for a yell-earned reconditioning. The veteran engine accumulated Its high miicnrte in a DRS bus ol the 21-pansenger type. The engine operated at around 3.000 revolutions per minute over more t'nan iiaif of the distance covered, it is estimated. A mileage such as this is considered to be a good one a bus engine since bus service is conceded to be about as severe as ran be found. Examination of the cylinders when the engine was taken down disclosed that wear from one-half thousandths of an inrh to nine-thou-thousandths of an inch.

The latter times the thickness of an average human hair, bu engines operate in second (ear a major proportion of the time. A recent check indicates that the proportion of travel in senond sear Is between 50 and (50 percent. In ether words, the engine in a bus of this tpye is turning over at around 3.000 revolutions per minute during the largir part of its life. Many other Ford V-S engines have attained Impressive records in DSR 6ervice. By COL.

WALTER V. III BBARD Automobile Club ol AVtr York The epigramatic "busman's holiday" becomes a reality every year when thousands of Brooklyn and Long Island motorists, from Shelter Wand to Sheepshead Bay, living within the smell of the salt, sea air. journey to New Jersey's shore resorts to enjov surf bathing, golf or deep sea fi-hing. The season reaches its height from the last week in July to the first week in September, but the improved roads, between Atlantic Highlands and Atlantic City, are well able to rarrv the south and northbound traffic. Vacationists who seek Cape May.

at the southern tip of the Garden State, would do well to cross into New York City over the Manhattan or Brooklyn bridges, through the Holland Tunnel to U. S. 1, and N. J. State highway 25.

39 and SO to Seaville. From here there is a direct run south over State 4 to Wildwood and Cape May. Through Staten Island i Lovers of a rugged type of out -of- doors vacation at the seaside will follow a course from Brooklyn, through Staten Island, and thence via U. S. 9 to Toms River.

Here a choice lies between Seaside Heights and Seaside Park on the northern side of the bay, and Barnegat and iBarncfiat, City along the southern shores of Barnegat. Bay. Here the ocean tides are as strong as the bluelish and bass are plentiful the sands are almost white, and the hotels, while comfortable and modern, are not the palaces they may be in other sections of New Jersey. Beach parties, yachting, crabbing and ba tilling in the sunny waters of the coves are the principal recreations fol-, lowed. Atlantic City is.

of course, the "New York" of shore resting places; its mammoth beach and Imardwalk. conv-ntion hall, bridie paths, seaplane base, imri the innumerable shops and hotels make it me'ropolitan in every sense. It may be reached, according to the Automobile Club of New York, over I either U. S. 30 or U.

S. 9. and it is, I in ever- sense, an all-jcar 'round re- Remember the clays when the horseless earriagc was considered a and Jumbo the elephant was the eighth wonder of the world. you recall the llavenieyer Sugar House fire on Kent Ave; or do you know where Ilihernia Hall was located? Reminisce villi the Old-Timers about the days gone by. They exchange questions and answers every Sunday in The Eagle.

It's page that is becoming more popular every week. Look for it and learn many things about yesterday and the "gay nineties." It's a feature you can't help but enjoy. You'll find numerous interesting features today and every day in the Brooklyn Eagle Chevrolet Dealers9 Sons to Form Alumni Body of Co. School yjpbCtAM CITY 4CAPC MAY NMA CW ero yE SfclA MlgL EGlteMgTo I I WD JME i RI iMpY COMMIE CM? QTt SEiEBEtQlSB "RlHjPKy AjPQDpw Al Si RJA CTE DlEWnIE PTlUiNgprtTA Cro Si tfflsws lm EMPi 1 1 AP" ElSME'fMfggA VlEiRif jcjuA sml cMa ImRAC opm Il Tfr rttMsjE "01 PiETMsWElRMTRiElT Chevrolet dealers' sons who have graduated from the company's School of Modern Merchandising and Management are to be organized into a permanent "alumni" body, it was announced by T. O.

McLaughlin, director of the school. McLaughlin was in New York as the representative of W. E. Holler, i Chevrolet general sales manager, who conceived the Idea of providing this intensive training for Chevrolet dealers' sons two sehools, each of seven weeks duration, have already been held in Detroit, and the gradu-Ules now number nearly 60. Their sort.

Small yet attractive vacation sites may be in either Orean Citv or Oi ean Grove: in Monmouth Beach or Spring Lake Braeh; in any case an enioyabie mo'nr tour vacation may he had before the return to Brooklyn,.