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BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1939 3 Ison Testifies to Policy Ring's Weekly Contributions to Hines' Club Hogan Defends Judge's Rulings Secretary Perkins and Leading Figures In Impeachment Proceedings Against Her mmg I I Paging Ferdinand! Cuba Has Bull Fighting Arena at Fair Dark-eyed Senoritas Dance the Rhumba For Whalen at Preview of Cuban Village The first piling for the Cuban jlesque of the Latin sport by Amerl-Village at the New York Worlds! can ment to be staged at this concession rietv modern folk dances in the was staged for Grover A. Whalen, huge public square of the village, president of the Fair Corporation, and a group of Cuban Negroes from and the Fair's Amusement Board. the interior of the island will per-As soon the irst pile had been form exotic Vanyego rites which set a bevy of dary-eyed senoritas dat bac)c t0 the era ol 016 original from Cuba and a few blondes wasjaDriglnes. photographed standing on a shelf of Visitors interested in food and the pile driver in the amusement i drink will find them in spicy pro-area, their gay costumes and flash-! fusion in the two-story Casino Res iyfk.K vi I 4 LLo5 taurant, with a replica of "Sloppy Rep. Martin Dies lit of the committee bearing his name that attracted national publicity.

Representative Dies charged last Fall there was evidence Mr. Bridget had advocated overthrow of the Government by violence. Joe's" bar in Havana on the ground floor and a luxurious tropical gar den stretching out to the walled en- closure' rp i rpi Astors 1 ake 1 neir Tar Plea to High Court Washington, Jan. 28 OP) Recovery of $10,810,857 in Federal estate taxes collected on American property that the Iat Willlam WaIdorf ureal, Diiiam gave to nis iwo sons, Waldorf As tor and John Jacob Astor, was sought today in litigation filed with the Supreme Court. John W.

Davis, New York attorney, appealed from a decision by the Federal Circuit Court at New York that "avoidance of estate taxes practices" In this country was a "substantial motive" for Astor's action. Albany Says U. S. Is Assuming Control of Labor Relation Field Ing Jewelry contrasting with the frigid air, the grime and rust of the big machine. The Dartv then moved to the Ad ministration Building, where Mr.

Whalen and Harry R. Dash, one of the operators of the went over the plans for the village and agreed on the nature of the attractions to be offered there. Showgirls Dance Rhumba Paced by a rhumba band, the showgirls presented a short bill of Conga, rhumba and Mexican dances, which appeared to meet with the approval of the Fair officials. Mr Whalen expressed confidence that the village would proveide a high type of Cuban gaiety for the Fair-going public. Mr.

Dash said one feature of the concession would be a modifed ex hibition of bull fgihting, with all the fanfare of the real thing. The exhibition will be offered at regular intervals during the day and night, and will be accompanied by a bur- Harry Bridges The lanky seaman, who came to this country from Australia in 1920, admits he is not an American citizen but denies red charges. Says he welcomes a hearing that would end "the campaign of redbaiting against me." such regulation should be co-ordinated and Integrated under one act. "Although in 1937 strikes due to wage differences increased substantially numerically," the committee continued, "they constituted only one-sixth of the total number of strikes. This indicates, for the time being at least, the declining importance of the wage issue as a producer of strikes.

It will be remembered that as late as 1934 almost half of the strikes in New York State were the result of differences over the question of wages. Today the question of union recognition looms largest on the industrial horizon." English System Lauded In its study of the English system of industrial relations, the committee said it offers "a great deal" toward solving New York's problems. Tlie present state of industrial peace In England, the committee said, was the result, not of "pious hope, but of a realization, based on costly and sometimes bitter experience, that only through co-operation, mutual respect and mutual responsibility can the interests of both sides be best promoted." The report was signed by the committee's entire membership. Among the signers were three Brooklynites, Senator Jacob J. Schwartzwald, Assembly Minority Leader Irwin Stelngut, ex-officio, and former Assemblyman Benjamin Brenner.

Stelngut and Schwartzwald are Democrats. Brenner Is a member of the Labor Party. Labor Secretary Perkins Target of critics since first taking office, Miss Perkins cancelled a hearing she ordered several years ago on Bridges when a Federal Court in another rase ruled that being a Communist was insufficient grounds for deportation. Amen May Act In Files Case Continued from Page 1 triplicate, a courv clerk said. It was further stated that the documents might easily have been misplaced because recently investigators from the offices of Amen, Commissioner of Investigation Herlands, District Attorney Geoghan and the Guggenheim Crime Commission have sifted the court's records.

Should the investigation prove that the- records were stolen, Amen will take over the investigation, his office said. Under the powers granted to him by Governor Lehman, he must wait until it is definitely established that the records were deliberately removed. Edward L. Rea, administrative assistant to Amen, said that 39 cases are reatiy for presentation and that the new grand jury will be given some of these as soon as they are ready to start work. The first grand Jury, he said, will continue hearing evidence in the bail bond and fur rackets.

Both of these cases are near completion and indictments are expected in those cases within a fortnight. Two of the men on the new panel, Samuel Frisch, a real estate broker, of 2572 Fulton and Hyman Glassman, a furniture dealer, of 1614 Avenue were Indicted by Amen for perjuring themselves in qualifying for service on the first Amen grand jury. Both men pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Supreme Court Justice Francis D. Mc-Curn and are now awaiting trial. planes dropped their loads of bombs nearby.

An estimated 10,000 crossed the frontier today. About half were "legal" refugees passed by the French border control machinery. The others crossed the frontier along smugglers' trails In the snow SHOES ANNOUNCES A Wo PRE-IN' VENTO REDUCTION STARTS TOMORROW AT 9 A.M. Sale Ends February 12th High Grade Comfort Shoes for Men, Women and Children Come early while we have all aizea. Send for Free Booklet! "The Care of the Feel" Aid Dewey in Building Case Allowed to Introduce Damaging Evidence Against Tammanyite Aided by important rulings by General Sessions Judge Charles Nott District Attorney Thomas E.

Dewey yesterday wound up the first week of the retrial of Tam many Leader James J. Hlnes by in troduclng evidence that the policy ring paid a weekly sum to Hlnes club and that the ring contributed to the Democratic campaign fund in the Fall of 1933. The first direct connection pointing to Hlnes, charged with protect ing the policy racket, was given by Joseph (Spasm) Ison, one of the big time policy bankers in Harlem whose bank was taken over by the late Dutch Schultz. Ison, speaking in a blurred monotone, testified that he noticed a $125 Item on the balance sheets kept by the ring, in April, 1932, and asked Dixie Davis, the mob's legal brains, nd George Weinberg, the Schultz clerical aide and contact man, to explain it. Contribution to Hines' Club Davis told him that the $125 was weekly contribution to Hlnes' club, the Monongahela Democratic Club.

Later, in the Fall of 1933, another strange item appeared on the balance sheets, this time $2,500 per week. The item appears twice, Ison said. George Weinberg explained the mystery to Ison. The money was going to the Democratic party, Weinberg confided, and the ring was deeply interested in the election of a Democratic Mayor and District Attorney. After a meeting in the Summer of 1932, held at the ring's open headquarters, 351 Lenox Manhattan, the number of arrests of employes of Ison's bank dropped 'considerably.

Dewey has charged the Tammany boss with using his political influence to insure the unhampered operation of the policy racket. The Schultz mob, Ison related, made promises but never kept them. Like Wilfred Brunder, Dewey's first witness and also a former policy operator, Ison was promised a one-third cut in the profits of his bank. Ison never got this percentage, he swore. Paid Tribute Before Grab Two of the Dutchman's henchmen collected tribute from Ison before Schultz grabbed his bank, Ison related.

Early in 1931 Bo Weinberg and Abe Landau, Schultz trigger- men, took Ison for a ride, during which they Informed him they wanted a cut. They had heard, they told Ison, that he was handling Brunder's business in Brunder's absence. "We're some of the Boys," they remarked, and Bo kept a gun pressed against Ison's ribs to remind the frightened banker of the fact. Ison consulted his attorney, none other than Davis, and Davis advised htm to pay. Ison had to pay $600 a week and it was brought out, under cross-examination by Defense Counsel Lloyd Paul Stryker that George Weinberg collected the money from the banker.

Dewey promptly asked Judge Nott to notify the Jury when yesterday's session began, that the late Magistrate Erwin had a legal obligation to hold the policy defendants who were dismissed in 1932. Dewey explained that the minutes of the magistrate's court cases had been read into the record Friday. Puts Point Up to Jury Judge Nott said he would with hold comment at this time, but stated that he had formed a definite opinion which he would Incorporate In his charge to the Jury. He pointed out, moreover, that the motives prompting the discharges was a matter for the jury to decide. The first bitter clash between Dewey and Stryker arose over Stryker's habit of saying "what?" after a witness had answered a question.

Repetition of damaging admissions might influence the Jury considerably. Yesterday after Dewey's protest and Stryker's explanation that he hadn't heard Ison, Judge Nott scolded both lawyers for their petty" squabbling. With the ending of yesterday's Session Dewey had given the Jury a picture of how policy flourished in Harlem and how one big policy banker after another was gobbled up by the ruthless Dutch Schultz. The District Attorney had also begun to weave a net of testimony involving the Tammany district chief. Dewey had also presented evi dence that the late Magistrate Francis J.

Erwin discharged policy defendants arrested in a raid on the Ison bank. Dewey had named Erwin as one of three public officials "Influenced, intimidated or bribed" by Hlnes. The others named were former District Attorney William C. Dodd and Magistrate Hulon Capshaw. Friday, when Brunder began to describe 'Schultz's invasion of the policy racket Stryker demanded that the State first introduce evidence showing the foundation for the con spiracy, which would refer to his client.

In the last trial this ob Jection had caused Dewey to bring on George weinDerg, who immedi ately implicated Hlnes. Judge Nott overruled Stryker, however, thereby taking Issue with Supreme Court Justice Pecora, who presided over the last trial. Also Scored Thursday Dewey had scored an important Victory Thursday, too, when Judge Nott denied Stryker's motion for the dismissal of the conspiracy count on the ground that it was outlawed by the two-year statute of limitations applying to misdemeanors. However, despite the rulings, the defense has been strengthened by having been able to study all the testimony offered by Dewey at the last trial. Stryker used this knowledge with telling effect in his open- Lawyers on Labor Charges Not He Says, at Dinner Of Stale Bar Group In a speech at the 62d annual dinner of the New York State Bar Association, Frank J.

Hogan, president of the American Bar Association, launched last night a vigorous defense of American lawyers against charges they are "mere obstructionists" to labor legislation i The dinner, marking the induction of Fred L. Gross of Brooklyn as president of the New York State Bar Association, was attended by 850 persons at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. Mr. Hogan declared he resented the charge agaiast American lawyers because, he said, "in the main and as regards most of us it is simply untrue." Wholehearted efforts to bring about the improvement of any law, the speaker continued, never deserved to be met with such a charge. Public's Peace Paramount "I submit to you," he said, "that the time has come to put in first place in all labor relations and the work of all relations boards the paramount right of the public to peace, stability, continuity of employment and the observance of fair dealings." Elsewhere in his speech, Mr.

Hogan said: "One almost hesitates nowadays to suggest even the idea of improvement in recently enacted Federal laws dealing with labor or social security lest he be charged with attempting to block humanitarian efforts in the interest of reactionary elements." However, he declared that fear should not preclude suggestions from the members of the regal profession even in connection with labor relations. The paramount consideration, he insisted, should be the public good. He declared the American Bar Association had no intention of conducting "propaganda" in support of the amendments urged by the association or the views it has expressed. They were offered, he explained, on their merits. Judge Crane Speaks The dinner gathering was told by Chief Judge Frederick E.

Crane of the Court of Appeals that the nation must place its "everlasting hope" on the American system of justice which, he said, provides fair and impartial hearings and decisions on the merits. "The result may be indifferent, It may not be to your liking, but the svstem is immense," he said. "It is the defiance which we today throw out to the entire world that we can govern and will govern according to its fundamental principles; a fair and Impartial hearing without respect to race, color or creed and a decision upon the merits after pain staking consideration. This is the only answer we can make to force and on it we must place our everlasting hope." Judge Crane discussed the work of the 1938 State Constitutional Convention, of which he was the president, and also the work of the Court of Appeals. While constitu tional question were of rare occur said, they were now weekly affairs.

Another speaker at the dinner was Weston Vernon chairman of the Young Lawyers' Section of the State Association. President Gross was presented at the conclusion of the speech-making by Joseph Rosch, the retiring president. Japan Advances Plans For China Government Shanghai, Jan. 28 iP) Prepara tions lor iormation of a Central China Pacification Commission a Japanese-projected Government for eonquered parts of China have advanced so far, it was reported tonight, that some of the members have gone to Kaifeng, which is to be the seat of the commission. This report was carried tonight from Nanking by Domei, Japanese news agency, which disclosed that formal inauguration of the commission was expected early next month.

A report from Japanese military circles that Marshal Wu Pei-Fu, once China's most powerful military leader, would head the new regime lacked confirmation tonight, 24 hours after it was first circulated. Sav Shoemaker Kent tri -i. Leather 'Policy Book' Micnael Lamarca, 64, who oper- ates a shoe repair shop at 117 Central was arraigned before Magistrate Charles Solomon in Bridge Plaza court yesterday on a charge of possessing policy numbers which were written on a piece of shoe leather. He was held in $500 bail for Special Sessions when he waived examination. HUGHES' ITS VALl'E IT WILL PAY VOII To VISIT VS AND SEE Ol'R es Price WHERE WE KNOW IOU WILL SAVE MONEY PLl'S SO YEARS OF RATISFIEn OPTICAL SERVICE Hearing Aids for I he Deaf! OPTICIANS Na 46 FLATBUSH AVE.

it in Street 1. ft. T. Station ores thtrsdats cntil m. i Rebels Push Million Refugees Toward Frontier of France nirrHly Canvenfenl Ovr Rranklyn Caitomera.

ay of Chanra at Canal SI. fur 1 fffV Bowrry StatlttB. Br Aato: ThrM Mtnatta from SII0ES REDLCED L0W jttUM 4 i 1 .4, J) Rep. J. Parnell Thomas The New Jersey legislator started the impeachment ball rolling against Secretary of Labor Perkins by Introducing a bill to that effect in Congress for her failure to deport Harry Bridges, C.

I. O. leader of the West Coast. Span Backed By Chamber Continued from Page 1 this time to help stabilize our In dustries and our shipping is of in calculable Importance. Everything possible must be done to offset any trend of factory removals from Brooklyn and other parts of the city.

The loss of commerce to other ports along the Atlantic seaboard, is, like the loss of plants to other communities, a matter of direct concern to every citizen who earns his livelihood in the city. "The lack of adequate traffic con nections between the intensely industrialized water front section of South Brooklyn and Manhattan has long been recognized as a serious handicap to manufacturers and shippers of both boroughs. But for this condition industrial operation would long ago have become considerably more developed In the otherwise happily located South Brooklyn area. That the full potentialities of the piers, warehouses and extensive shipping facilities of that water front have never been realized can be charged largely to Inadequate opportunity for moving goods to and from these facilities. Cuts Traffic Problem' Manhattan shippers have suf fered because of the lack of direct access to the steamship lines docking in the Brooklyn area.

Thou sands of other business concerns in both boroughs, while they may never have need for a South Brooklyn-to-Battery connection, would, nevertheless, benefit tremendously from the relief in traffic congestion throughout downtown streets in both boroughs. Traffic congestion is a primary factor In high trucking costs. "If something is not done by the City of New York to meet these conditions, the census of industrial pay rolls ten years from now will tell an unpleasant story of the penalty that was paid. "We all know what the project means to vehicular transportation generally as a traffic relief and in providing a necessary link In the system of arterial highways and parkways now completed or under construction in Brooklyn, Manhat tan, Queens, the Bronx and the sur rounding communities. The self-liquidating nature of the project makes its economic feasibility obvious.

Every encouragement should be given to the efforts to consummate plans which would make beginning of construction by Summer possible." Stryker then tore into the three star witnesses for Dewey, Davis, Weinberg and Harry Schoenhaus. Schulti Took Over Bank During the testimony by Ison It was revealed that on Thanksgiving, 1931, the magical Harlem number, 527, broke Ison's bank. Ison had been taking in more than $11,000 daily. The "hit" totaled $18,000 the $11,000 sum. On Thanksgiving," 1931, the magical Harlem number, 527, broke Ison's bank.

Ison had been taking in more than. $11,000 daily. The "hit" totaled $18,000 over the $11,000 sum. Ison went to Davis, said he needed money, and Davis said he would ask Schultz. There followed a conference with Schultz.

Schultz put a gun on the table and Davis said: "Ison is here to negotiate a loan; he's been hit." "What security have you?" the Dutchman asked, according to Ison. Ison said he had no security, and all he had was his business. Schultz agreed to furnish the loan requested if Schultz took over and ran Ison's bank. Ison was promised one-third of the profits. Ison agreed.

Ison asked for a loan of $11,000, which was later given to him. George Weinberg was assigned by Schultz to take charge of Ison's; business. I Later Harry Wolff succeeded Weinberg and he, in turn, was succeeded by Big Harry Schoenhaus. Explains Master Sheets Records of the receipts oi tne policy business were kept on "master sheets" by Schoenhaus, Ison testified. "What kind of sheets were these?" Gelb asked.

They were balance sheets," Ison said. What sort of expenses were kept on the sheets?" At this point Stryker objected. Judge Nott overruled the defense attorney. Later, Nott turned to Ison and asked: "What did these sheets show?" Items of the conditions of the business, expenditures," the witness TREE-MARK SHOES, 6 DELANCEY STREET, NEW YORK OT foot high pass Prat De Molo', iorTH in the court' Crane Continued from Page 1 "a corporation, 93 percent of whose product was concededly sold in intrastate commerce, was held to be under the jurisdiction of the Na tional Board on the ground that a fraction of its product was sold to instrumentalities of interstate com' merce and to Federal agencies. "If the direction pointed out by this line of reasoning continues to be followed by the National Board and the Federal courts, there is some likelihood that the Federal government will assume almost com plete control of labor relations, leav ing the State Labor Relations Act little scope in which to function." Report Only a Preliminary In issuing the report, which goes to the Legislature tomorrow, Chairman Irving M.

Ives, the Assembly Republican floor leader, said it was Intended solely to indicate the committee's work thus far and to show the extent of the task which was yet to be completed before sound conclusions could be reached. Because of the committee's limited facilities and lack of time, a final report was out of the question at this time, he said. The preliminary report contained a factual study of 25 years of strikes and Jockouts in New York State. In an attempt to obtain information on the operation of the Wagner Act and the State Labor Relations statute, the committee said, 4,000 ques tionnaires were sent out to employ ers and labor unions concerned in the administration of either of the laws. The administration of the National Labor Relations Act, the committee said, has created problems which call for further consideration.

Employers' 5 Complaints The report declared that many em ployers were challenging the "fairness" of the procedures employed by the National Board and its agents. Employers replying to the committee's questionnaire voiced five common complaints, the report said. These were: 1 That the board was "prejudiced" against employers in general. 2 That the board was "prejudiced" In favor of labor in general. 3 That the board lacked the "proper judicial temperament." 4 That the board and its agents were not generally well equipped by training or experience to handle labor problems.

5 That the board and its agents "made too free use of their statutory right to disregard the ordinary rules of legal evidence." "There were also many," the report said, "who believed that the very nature of the provisions of the act make fair administration impossible." Would Modify Strike Right "Although the act states that none of its provisions shall te construed as prohibiting or limiting the right to strike in any way," the report continued, "many observers feel that the purposes for which the act was avowedly created, that Is, the prevention of interruptions to interstate commerce, might better be served by modiiyine the rieht to strike until the board has acted. This might be done the lines of the National Railway Labor act. There have been suggestions that. tne complaint and investigation functions of the board be separated from its determining and remedial powers. Many observers have indicated that the functions of the board as now constituted give it the powers of a grand jury, prosecutor, Judge and Jury.

They feel that this is contrary to the American tradition. While this is a question that underlies the functioning of all administrative tribunals, it seems to have raised a particularly serious problem in the functioning of the National Labor Relations Board "There have been some definite proposals made as to the severing of the investigative and Judicial powers of the boards, both National and State. The committee is studying these proposals from all points of view, but does not feel that it can formulate any program until further investigation Is made and a public hearing held." Urges Labor Responsibility If the act is to achieve its purpose of maintaining industrial peace, the committee said, many believe that it should define not only unfair labor practices on the part of employers, but also on the part of labor. "While there are already in the general law penalties for illegal acts upon the part of labor," the report said, "apparently there is a feeling that if we are going to have Gov ernmental regulation in this field, IB mil ID (EE of Continued from Page 1 pressure was on the government's coastal flank. The communications center, Granollers, 15 miles west of Arenys DeMar, was said to have been more than half encircled.

To the west and northwest the story was much the same, although the insurgents acknowledged there was some resistance deep inland where the defense line curved to the north through the Pyrenees to the French 'border. The government army was equal in numbers to the insurgents about 300,000 men but, lacking arms and ammunition, it was being rolled back toward France. French Admit Throngs Border authorities at Le Perthus dropped the chain across a gateway through the Pyrenees Mountains, admitting throngs into France. Sobbing with relief, hundreds of women and children and old men hurled themselves on the border guards. Many collapsed in the snow, hud dling together against the sides of buildings to protect their scantily- clad bodies from a biting wind.

They were too weary to eat, too hungry to sleep. Others grabbed feverishly at great chunks of bread handed out by emergency relief kitchens and gnawed at them ravenously. Most of them had not eaten for two. and three days. Babies Born as Guns Roar There were a few mothers carrying Babies which had been born along the roadside while great guns roared In the distance and war- Labor Battles Billboard Control Legislators Appealed To by State Federation To Defeat Measures Earl Burran.

Capitol Building-. Albany, Jan. 28 The New York State Federation of Labor today came out in opposition to three bills introduced in the Legislature calling for billboard control. All three measures were characterized as "re strictive legislation" which would be opposed, the federation declared, because its own members and those of affiliated unions would be deprived of jobs. In his annual message to the Legislature Governor Lehman re newed his recommendation for appropriate action to control the erection of billboards along highways.

The need for immediate action was emphasized, the Gov ernor said, because of the great volume of traffic which is expected miles west or Le rertnus. Frontier guards found many Gov ernment deserters among the refugees. These armed soldiers were the real menace of the situation. Defeated and cut off from help, they had only one way of escape Into France. In Catalonia there are estimated to be nearly 300.000 government soldiers, and French authorities said they might attempt to fight their way across the border when they found they could no longer resist the insurgents.

Make Gains Elsewhere Even in central and southeastern Spain, the other segment of Spain in government control, government forces were giving ground, the In surgents said, and all the gains made in the last three weeks by the gov ernment's Estremadura campaign were wiped out. Troops which Franco used to occupy and police Barcelona at first were leaving the metropolis for the front tonight, having been replaced by police forces. Breadlines had been organized to function with drill-like precision for the relief of the hungry among the 1.500,000 people who remained In Barcelona when it was captured. to flow through the State as a re sult of the World's Fair and the prospective increase of billboard ad- vertising which was expected to! Moses Support Indicated Among the measures introduced is that of Senator John J. Howard Kings), which is regarded as part of the Governor's program.

The Stagg-Todd bill is said to have the support of Park Commissioner Robert Moses. Another bill pending is that of Senator Thomas C. Desmond Newburgh). In a bulletin sent to members of the Legislature the State Federation of Labor said: "Three separate bills have been introduced in the Legislature to control and restrict outdoor advertising, a form of advertising that furnishes employment for many skilled printers, painters, electrical workers, metal workers, carpenters and other mechanics in their manufacture, erection and maintenance. "An effort in the 1938 Constitutional Convention to authorize such restriction and control was defeated in that body but proponents of such legislation have now con- centra ted in a campaign to secure the same result by statute law." Social Incongruity Docs your wife look upon yon with while your iocialite mother-in-law speaks of you with contempt.

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Roth discusses interesting hands, as played in New York's leading bridge clubs; reviews tournament play and answers readers' questions. Send him your problem to be solved and be sure to read his column every dav in the Brooklyn Eagle tnff statement to the Jury Thursday! nswered..