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16 A BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, APRIL 5, 1936 Neiv $53,000,000 Subway Line Ready to Open Wednesday Night Nations Hasten liiM JlllHlil i x.rxx,x xm I mSMMmmiiMMrngmMmrM "ml I I (psai lip 1 I 'Mi: piiIP i IplBP ylWSPIl III If; Jvlll II lit' I -1 ill 11 tBtSf Jlfcfcii t. s' i ljf tit 1 'mm-m ff rwrttiiaa 1 i -l 1 11111111 illinium- ii ii mi i I SilfilfW 1 IBSiiS fcLJ Brooklyn's Empty Trains Now Running Daily in Tests Less ftoise and Better Lighting Are Features of 5-Mile Citv Tube By LEO EGAN For the past week empty trains have been roaring under Fulton St. on Brooklyn's new $53,000:000 subway. At each station the trains stop, wait for non-existent passengers to get aboard and then roar onward. Perhaps roar is too strong a word.

There have been many implements in subway' car construction underground railway operation was started. One is a marked reduction In noise. With the cars empty it is possible to carry on a conversation in an ordinary tone on the new line. Many other improvements will be noted by patrons of the new line when it starts carrying paying customers at midnight next Wednesday. The station lighting is much better than it is in the I.

R. and B. M. T. stations and in the Independent line stations when operations first started.

Glare Eliminated The lighting fixtures are the same fls in the other Independent line stations, but the Board of Transportation, which built and will operate the new line, has learned things about paint, A soft white is now Used in place of the harsh, glazed white first used. As a result the lights don't glare. In a week of trial operations without passengers no defects have been found in the construction or equipment. Your reporter attended a preview or the new line during the week, and is able to report that he found everything in readiness for the formal opening and also learned much about subway operation. The run from the Hoyt-Schermer-norn St.

station in the downtown shopping district to Rockaway Ave. In East New York takes 16 minutes. From the Smith-Jay St. station, where the new line branches off the line now operating to Church the run to Rockaway Ave. will take 184 minutes.

Whole Line Four-Tracked At the beginning of service only local service will be provided. Express service, for which the line is fully equipped, will materially reduce the running time. The express equipment has been fully tested along with the local equipment. The new line extends under Schermerhorn and Fulton Sts. for about five miles.

It is four-tracked the entire length. Carrying out the scheme of indicating various localities by separate colors, established when the Independent system was built, the color of the station signs changes as the trains reach new communities. At the Court St. station the signs are placed in a green box, trimmed with blue. The Schermerhorn-Hoyt St.

station is similarly decorated. The Lafayette Clinton-Washington Aves. and Franklin Ave. stations are trimmed in light green. Stations Commodious When the trains enter the Bed ford section passengers will be greeted with station signs and trim In rose beige.

This color scheme is followed at Nostrand Ave. and at the Kingston-Throop Ave. stations. Entering East New York, the color changes again, this time becoming maroon, The stations themselves and the platforms are much more commodi- ous than those on the I. R.

T. and B. M. T. All of the platforms will accommodate 10 car trains ith ease.

The Hoyt-Schermerhorn St. station is the largest on the line and also one of the largest in the city. It cast about $3,000,000 and has four platforms and six tracks. Extending for 660 feet under Schermerhorn it is 143 feet wide. The tiling alone cost S131.000.

Besides the four tracks for the Fulton St. line, it has two tracks for the Brooklyn-rrasstown line, which will run into Queens. The latter won't be completed until some time next year. Staff of 600 Ready Passengers at the Ralph and Rockaway Ave. stations will have to rross wooden platforms over the local Swaying in tntrirnte contortion bent of dm nil.

vaoiliio dancer I fpubiirly ifi Havana. 1 i i gift nB will! ill Transatlantic Airplane Tests French and British Push Plans to iMeet Challenge of Nazis London, April 4 W-With Germany's huge new dirigible, the Hin-denburg, about to start for America, Great Britain Is pushing preparations for her first big step In the commercial air conquest of the North Atlantic. France also plans to move her whole transatlantic air service with the seasons in 1937. In Britain an all-metal, two-decked flying boat and the unique "pick-a-back" combination of a long-range seaplane and a flying boat designed to carry it into the air for launching are being made ready for trial flights. Experimental tran.satlantic flights, looking toward the co-operative regular service of the United States, Canada, Great Britain and the Irish Free State, are planned for the com-in, Summer.

But not until 1938 do British air experts expect the projected regular service of four round-trips weekly to be in operation over what they call "the most valuable but by far the toughest" of the ocean air route. 'Air University' Busy While workmen are speeding construction of the British transatlan tic planes, a handful of airmen have embarked upon intensive training at the "air university" at Hamble, Southampton Water. Further groups are to take up the same work until 180 men will have been trained for the eventual regular service. Full details of the new planes have been withheld by the constructors, but it is reliably understood that the new flying boat is designed to be faster but lighter than the American clippers, used on transpacific flights. Based on available details, a comparison of the British transatlantic boat and the American transpacific plane shows: British Wine span 114 fret American 130 feet Overall lencih 88 'i feet 89 "a feet Heifht 29 feet 24 feet High speed lapDrox.) 200 m.p.h.

180 h. Number of motors Four Four Weluht fully loaded 17 tons 24 tons The British flying boat, will be a high -wing monoplane with no external bracing of the wing. Floats fixed to the wing-tips will help preserve stability on rough water. Short Take-Off Devices Four engines will be mounted In the leading edge of the wing, two on either side of the hull. The boat will be entirely of metal except for fabric covering small portions of the wing and the tail.

It will have a number of devices to insure take-off and landing runs. These will include controllable-pitch propellers and flaps on the trailing edge of the wing to steepen glide and reduce landing speed. NAZI ROOKIES MIST STl'DY Berlin, April 14 UP) German army recruits, under a new decree, must attend four lectures on eugenics and racial topics in their first year in the service. QUITE AN ENVOY Stockholm, April 4 (Pi The Hon. C.

G. G. Anderberg, Sweden's Minister to Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala and Panama, has been accredited also to Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador. croquet during tea-time, and we almost had a fight." Dancer: "When we lived at St. Cloud Pavlova danced at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees.

She saw me and liked me. Pavlova was a beautiful lady with beautiful thin legs and eyes that looked as though they had a lamp in them." Proletarian: "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead six years but he didn't smell. He was' the one who started the Revolution and ever since Russia has been Brothers: "Richard is never go-lng to get married. He says you have to work too hard when you are married Patience, am nosi- tively going to be a hangar.

I grouped around 'the II -r vim One of the train that ha hcen roaring in at the Court St. nation on the new Fulton St. line, Moonlight and Romance Woman Constahle Ignores Auto Spooners Chardon, Ohio, April 4 OP) Ohio's only woman constable has little use for her "old meanle" fellow officers who prey on young couples taking advantage of secluded roads on moonlight nights. "Most constables forget the mystic influence of the moon and balmy evenings," says Miss Pauline Hunt, aged 24. "They seek to force their officiousncss on couples who are often wont It.

C. Tnnerman testing the twitche. Top; Edward ISugrnt, motnrman. vim i running the neu train under Fulton St. He flop at the Klntion, tcaiti for non-existent paenger, then roar onward again.

Globe-Trotting Child Authors Find Fun Just in MeetingPeople tracks to reach their trains. There are no switches at Rockaway Ave. tor turning back the local trains, only the express trains. Until something is done about extending the line, all trains will use the express tracks beyond L'tica Ave. A staff of approximately 600 persons to man the change booths and act as Dorters and cleaners has becn engaged by the Board of Transportation in connection with the opening of the line.

Most of them are now undergoing training. Additional cars and train personnel are also being provided. The train crews making the test runs over the tracks are all experienced veterans of the Independent line. Edward Nugent of the Bronx, who piloted the train which carried your reporter over the line, is an old steam railroad man. who has been with the Independent line for several years.

He says the line is completely ready for cash customers. Voodoo Dancers In Cuba Gyrate On Citv Streets Havana, April 4 For the first time in many years Cuban authorities have permitted "nanigos" to of-fe public rituals and demonstrations as a side attraction to the annual carnival season. "Niniguismo," a voodoo cult, is numerically strong in Cuba. The practices and rituals are flarebacks to the jungle of Africa and have withstood civilization throughout the Wett Indies. Cult Modifies Language Even the "nanigo" language holds closer to the African tongue than to Spanish.

Hundreds of Afro- Cuban words have crept into the everyday language and are so foreign to Spanish that special dictionaries of Afro-Cuban words have been published. of the rhythm of "Cuban" music comes from the chants and rituals of the "nanigos." The beat- ing of twin drums, the scraping of gourds and the various clatter de vices of the rhumba are offshoots of the cult. Because the ban against public ceremonies has been so tight up to this year, photographs of the most colorful of all "nanigo" ceremonies, the "conga." have been rare. Most highly developed of "nanigo" dances it consists of a series of bodily contortions executed to the beat of drums and chants of voices. Crowds Follow Dancers Men and women participate in the "consr.is" and the dance goes on for hours through a restricted area in Havana.

The chants and drums can be heard for miles A "conga," in public, always draws a huge crowd and often dark-skinned spectators join the writhing In the rhythm of chmil and the hat been permitted to appear to park, wrapped in the spell of not me." "Of course, if I thought their Pleasantly tell them to move the car a smile and then depart," she added. Some of thee old constables forget they were ever young." Miss Hunt won her badge without campaigning. Her name was mentioned at a towaship caucus, she consented to file, and that was that. ic- sV! Not Much Money, So Family of 16 Evolves 'Svstem' Knoxville, April C4 "Just a matter of system," explain Mr. and Mrs.

John Johnson, who with their 14 children live quite comfortably here for about $20 a week. The children include a set of triplets and a pair of twins. The father is 42, the mother 38. They were married 21 years ago. The RoU Call The children are Claude, 20; Garnett, 18; Joe, 15; Ruth, 13; Hel Bonnie and Johnny, twins, 11; Teddy, Archie and Kermit, triplets, Henry Quentin, Alice, Pauline, 4, and Betty Lou, 2.

Following the birth of the triplets nine years age a six-room house was purchased by public subscription and presented the family. There is no rent to pay so the family's average earnings of $20 a week go almost entirely for food. "I make from 100 to 120 biscuits every morning for breakfast," Mrs. Johnson says. "We use 50 pounds of flour a.

week." Operate a Truck The father and oldest boy, Claude, do hauling jobs with a truck they operate. Mm. Johnson earns $8.25 a week on a WPA sewing job. Garnett, 18, attends vocational school and receives $6 a month from the National Youth Administration. Joe, 15, stays at home, takes care of the baby and runs the house.

The ten younger children attend school. "Raising them is Just a matter of system," Mrs. Johnson says. "In a family of this size each child learns to taks care of himself pretty well. Until lie does, the older children are always trying to help." GERMAN BANKRUPTCIES UP Berlin, April 14 UP) Business in Germany in 1935 was represented as Improved but, according to the official gazette, 2.919 commercial failures were registered in that year, besides 776 compulsory settlements with creditors, while in 1934 the figures were 2,777 and 770, STUDENT WRITES NOVEL Durham, N.

April 4 14 The senior class of Duke University counts a novelist among its members, in J. Stuart Gillespie of Stanford, whose first novel was accepted for publication. It Is "Hangover 1936." NAZIS HELP BUILDERS Berlin, April 4 (P) The Federal Labor Ilnistcr has decreed the appropriation of 5,700,000 marks for new houses and reconstruction of old dwellings to help remove a housing shortage and create work, no change, except for spelling. They have met incredible numbers of people and liked them; they tell why, too. Specimens: Mamma: "Mamma is very excitable.

Of course mamma Is always mad at papa. And she always said she made a mistake to take up with a photographer." Papa: "And papa says, 'You musn't mind mamma, children. She's Shimmy artist: "Gilda Gray and Gil Boag came to see us (in France) and took us up to San Simeon, where we had tea, and played croquet on the lawn. Aunt Gilda be came very angry at ths English peo- ple because they played too much nenet dirigible, emerge from it by comparing it bulk uith th mm JJATIENCE and Richard and John abbe call their book "Around i the World in Eleven Years." They might as well have called It "The I World Through Children's Eyes." That is what it Is. Th'-se three children of James i E.

Abbe, internationally known pho-I tographcr, and Polly Piatt, former I New York actress, were born in Paris and have lived almost everywhereRussia to a ranch at Larkspur, Col. They have made a book of themselves, Patience, the elder, being writer-in-chtef and her two brothers being leg men and collaborators. The book has been published with The llindenhurg, Germany' large! airnhip i may lit judged lh roof of the hangtw ri mmmjji love, on the secluded highways. But car was endangering traffic I might to a less dangerous spot, give them iiui crest Civic Group 10th Minn rvl Slum- The tenth annual minstrel show of the Hillcrest Civic Association will be given in the Civic Hall, 164-32 76th Flushing, from April 25 to May 2. Admission will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children under 12.

HOME FOR VACATION Thomas H. Towers of 115-11 Cur-zon Place, and Richard Schubert of Park Lane both of Krw Gardens, are home from Dartmouth for their Spring, vacations. Husbands Cost Ill-Laws Money Calcutta, India, April 4 To relieve their father of the burden of providing heavy dowries inr their marriage -liree Bengali sisters committed suicide, it was revealed at a coroner's inquest here. A fourth daughter, who participated in the pact, but recovered, provided details of the trauerly. The girls' fniher is a government pensioner Mraitened circumstance, with 11 daughters, five of them married.

Everywhere he went, he testified, dowry of $500 In cash plus jewelry was demanded for prospective husbands of his social rank. Ajv" Committees Named For St. Mary's Dance Dr. John G. Glynn has been chosen executive chairman of the dinner and dance to be given by physicians of St.

Mary's Hospital staff May 7 at the Hotel St. George. Committee chairmen are Peter J. Dulligan, arrangements; Dr. Edward A.

Keyes, program; Dr. John B. DAlbora, mailing and printing; Dr. John A. Shields, press; Dr.

John J. C'ollings, dance; Dr. Thomas M. Brenimn. floor; Dr.

Frank B. Hamm, tickets; Dr. Charles H. Loughran, music, and Dr. Albert J.

Keenan, entertainment. The reception committee, headed by Dr. William V. Pascual, and the committee on seating and table arrangements, headed by Dr. William McCollom, have not been completed.

Si. Paul's Women To Give Curd Party The Ladies Aid Society of the St. Paul's Reformed Church, Jamaica, will give a card party In the chapel on April 15, They plan to sponsor a travel motion picture on April 23 and a Mother's Day supper on Mav 6. AIM IIDI KE HEADS SCIENTISTS Budapest, April 4 (P) Archduke Joseph von Hapsburg, nephew of the late Emperor Franz Joseph, has been elected president of the Hungarian Academy of Sclenct, 021 su iLi.