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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 30

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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937 30 1IHOOKI STORE 8) Furniture, Rugs, Pianos, Radios, Lamps, Solving Machines open tonight (Wednesday) till OPKX XIGIITS I Marconi Mourned by Skipper Rescued by SOS 17 Years Ago Capt. Morasso, Sole Survivor, Tells How Wireless Brought Aid as Ship Crumbled on Rocks Bridge Traffic Flow Revives Road Demand Trade Board Outlines Street-Widening Need in Eastern District Increased vehicular traffic on Williamsburg Bridge has led to a revival of the late Representative Stephen Rudd's campaign for a direct thoroughfare between the bridge and Bushwiclc Ave. The Eastern District Board of that help was in the offing made me stick. "To Marconi's wireless I owe mv life today. What other tribute or expression of regret can I give to The civilized world mourned today the death of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless and father of radio, but none grieved so sincerely as Capt.

Alfred O. Morasso, who owes his life to the scientist's genius. While the rest of the world accepted as theirs the things the inventor labored so hard to give them. Captain Morasso, now of the Sea- a man whose genius has saved not only mine but scores of lives," he i said. I men's Church Institute of Man-! hattan, told how 17 years ago an SOS tapped over a radio in the Trade, an active group in the cam- i fast-flooding wtreless room of the A al our Brooklyn store only 1mCjEI1TO1L JULY SALE! paign, points out that the proposed freighter Macona, saved his life road might serve as an added link while 49 companions perished.

to the World's Fair, Tribute From Amateurs Two radio "hams," known to outsiders as amateur radio operators, and who learned to love their apparatus so much they are now earning their livelihood from it, made this comment on the Inventors death: "We'd both be digging ditch now if Marconi hadn't invented this thing 36 years ago." From the Department of Commerce, figures showed yesterday that almost 500,000 people were employed directly and indirectly in the radio and wireless industry while persons in the United States listened to their radios each night. And even as the city slept, the police radio, another by-product of Mflrroni's pnorh rnfklpri thrnm'h Even as the inventor body lay in state in his native Rome and even while the captain related his harrowing tale of 14 hours in an open boat, the same ships which for 36 years have utilized the epochal invention spun messages out of the air, and over the same radio they have listened to before, millions heard eulogized the memory of the man who made all this possible. Girl Guesses Wrong To this funereal atmosphere was injected a lighter color, where in The plan, which includes the widening of S. 5th St. from the entrance of the bridge to Montrose calls for a road through private property to Beaver St.

at Flushing ending at Bushwiclc Ave. Would End Confusion The Rudd plan also proposed the widening of Bushwick Ave. to Jamaica Ave. It was emphasized that construction of the road will eliminate traffic confusion in streets and 7.98 brand new town. SSI 005 and vara I ion drevssevs the night "Cars 365, 12.

4 28 leading to the bridge during rush Radio City, a building made possible hours. by Marconi's genius, a girl singing The late Representative presented trio took 3 minutes and 14 seconds his proposed route to the Board of to determine who Marconi was. And Aldermen when he was a member of in a drug store in the same build-the board, although no action was ing, frequented by radio performers, taken because such a project, it was big and small, the cashier thought felt, would require the levying by Marconi was an "aviator or some-the city of a heavy local assessment thing." on the area's property owners. i But the amateur wireless opera-The Eastern District Board of I tors reminded each other that the proceed to burglars authority PEE No Traffic Light For Williamshurg An attempt by businessmen and civic leaders in Williamsburg to obtain a traffic light at the intersection of Broadway and Roebling St. fc yC.

jjf' Locser's Thrift Corner scores again! ftv success fashions of the season I -ssSTV! iVLvV marvels of style and quality of- ifli flD 1 lsfA llYwx fered tomorrow at 3-98! Ahhoufih -C Jj H-l' 1 "Sv il there are 400 brand new dresses, we 0 Jf advise you to be here early these ryPc? I miracles of value will walk out in foil? CwA threes and fours. Fifty styles. Many On sale tomorrow In op Jp? few of a kind! Sizes for misses, popular Thrift Corner Tlen' ''tC'C WOmCn' Second Floor instrument they were tinkering with was discovered by the man who now was dead and that at that very mo mpnt. men saiipri thp spas sprpnplv failed today when police officials I Trade today feels that such an assessment can be eliminated by proving to the city that the proposed road would be an arterial highway connecting with others leading to the Interboro Parkway and the Sunrise Highway. confident that, should danger come, I stated that such a light would tie up a simple cryptic message through bridge traffic needlessly, The civic workers had contended the air would bring to them aid just as it did to Captain Morasso off the Swedish coast on midnight of Jan.

that the Intersection is dangerous when the traffic policeman assigned there is off duty. They explained that a.iiomobiles from Williamsburg Bridge, along Broadway on Roebling St. and along S. 8th all converge at that point. The Jam of vehicles ties up traffic Deaths of Couple Now Laid to Gas Monoxide Found in Vital Organs of INewlywcils Police Reopen Probe Traces of monoxide gas In the vital organs of George Chinery and his wife caused police today to reopen their investigation of the 1 for a long time, the civic leaders i complained, and, when the crossing I is unguarded, a pedestrian often Is i compelled to wait many minutes be 18.

1920. Now 41, married, the father of two children. Captain Morasso told how, caught in a gale, the freighter was ripped to pieces in the angry sea. Just before half of the ship sank, an was flashed. Hour of Suspense "It was midnight.

I knew the message had been sent and received and yet didn't know how near help was. One by one the men dropped into the sea and drowned. I tied myself to a spar and prayed while the gale lashed the remaining half of the ship, caught on a rock. fore he can cross. Several trolley lines further complicate the situa; tion, they said.

iFire Damages Store At the end of the 14th hour, a At tne ena oi tne I4tn nour, a strange death of the newly-married eath of the newly-married I Wall aVtrtut Moe-L-of They were found Monday Swedish Coast Guard boat appeared alldUUUl lYldlKtH couple. out of the fog and took me off, the i night in their apartment at 53-57 sole survivor of a crew of 50. Fire in a two-story brick building at 223 Market Ave. in Wallabout Market caused damage estimated at $5,000. The building, occupied by Joseph Jaffre, is used as a produce store.

Firemen responding to the fire Blarm, turned in by market workers flashed a second as a precautionary measure. Flushing Ave. surface cars were tied up for a short time. Deputy Fire Chief George T. Mc-Aleer, in charge of Brooklyn and 65th Place, Ridgewood, with all windows shut and an electric fan blowing.

Police and Assistant Medical Examiner Howard W. Neail were unable to find the source of the gas. Carbon monoxide is usually found In the exhaust from automobiles and in released from explosions. Police at first believed the couple died of food poisoning. The two had been dead since Friday night, police said, although the bodies were jiot discovered until three days later.

Chinery, a warehouse employe, was sprawled on the bathroom floor. His wife was in an adjoining bedroom. Both were partly clad- but neither body bore signs of violence. The vital organs were sent this morning to City Toxicologist Alexander Gettler for further Queens, directed the firemen. The I "Many times would I have tossed myself into that sea with the rest of my shipmates but the knowledge Correction It was erroneously stated In The Eagle of Monday, July 19, that Mrs.

Anna D. Hrrper, coleader of the Patrick Diamond United Democratic Club of the 8th A. had resigned to become an executive member of the Mickey McNamara Association. Neither Mrs. Harper nor Mrs.

Celia Reynolds, also mentioned, has any ties with the group. Others also erroneously associated with the organization are Mrs. Margaret Colletti, Mrs. Anna Man-cel, Catherine Penny, Augusta Phalcas. Mary Kenney, Mabel Shone.

Loretta Burke, Rose Colletti and Martha Green. wte4w, 11 wm a 11 cause of the blaze was not de termined. InrnULAR fl l' or Hark Print i iHsW' 1 1. .1 IV. Slips That Pass in the IVight at Brooklyn Police Headquarters Y-sk esl'.

-r 'f BUCKS II If Ml YOU 1 11:59 p.m., 60th Precinct JENNIE GRECO, 21, of 2835 Brighton 7th psychopathic case at residence. Dr. Rafe-telch of Coney Island Hospital attended Ilrooklyn si ore only UP VIA EASTERN ADUiiNALmA 1 1 rm IFASMKOM F'JLdDdDlR STEAMSHIP LINES FARtf T. M.llfM VaniMutli MZ.M nt war til mm my 5,7 trl Ul nuna- trip (i Ah 1 her. Removed, to Kings County Hospital, i 12:21 a.m., 71st Precinct RL'SSEM, KNIGHT, 25, of 562 Flatbush at res- Jdence.

Alcoholism ami Iodine poison tne. Attended by Dr. Bill oi Kinga County Hospital and removed thereto. 2:08 a.m., 83d Precinct PETER SANZO, 0 months old, JOHN SANZO, 2 ypars old. ROSE SANZO, 3 years old, of 22 Central believed abandoned by mother.

Bridget, and father, Peter Sanzo, at, above ddreES, in custody oi FRANCES RASSEN- ELLO. Last known address of parents. 602 14th Ave. Children snt to Brooklyn Nursery, 396 Herkimr St. Detective Widder of 83d Squad Investigating.

2 44 a 77th Precinct Fire occurred 1705 Dean St. in woodshed in rear, owned and occupied by REI.EE i ARRET, tame address. unknown. Damage trifling. SORRY.

NO MAIL OR TELEPHONE ORDERS. All quantities limited. All items subject to prior sale. All sales final. Color and size selections incomplete in many instances.

S. X. sails from New York (0 Yarmouth July 22 (thereafter every Monday and Thursday) at 10:30 A. M. (D.

S. (See time folder for exceptions to regular sailing times.) Sailings from New York to Halifax are made on July 29, Aug. 12. 26, Sept. 3 and 10.

Stateroom accommodations as low as $1 (to Yarmouth). Delicious meals. Broad decks. Restful lounges. 2.98 to .3.98 Washable Frocks J0.93 lo 16.93 Dresses for Misses, Women, Little Women 500 dowered cotton prints for town and country! 300 pastel cotton shantungs.

Sites for misses and women. 550 Summer Drssief for avery daytlma occasion. Pure dya tripla sheen in print! or solids. Whita. pastel and printed crepes, including washables.

All sires represented in the 3.40 a 77'h Precinct Fire at I6fi7 Atlantic Ave. Auto truck owned by a. nd A. Truck Company, same address. Defective Ignition.

No damage. 4:15 a 63th Precinct Collision be-twpen Hook te Ladder 170 operand bv WALTER SNOW and pafneer ttro operated by GAD WARREN al Rockawav Parkway and Far rag ut Road Summons nerved for ailina to give right nf way. WARREN, 37, 91 Fulton Hi lacerations of right leu. forehead and abrasions of right arm. ARKIE FOSTER.

39. of 455 Sumner Ave lacerations nf forehead. ODESSA SHAN'MS. 26, nf 455 Sumner lacerations of chin. All patenters in auto attended by Dr.

Feidman Of Beth El Hospital and sent home. .1 400 PRINTED BEMBERG SHEERS lor misses, woman, little women. Formerly 3.98 to 5.98 2.98 4S0 WASHABLE RATON PRINTS lor misses and womsn. Formerly 3.98. .98 FIFTH FLOOR DRESS SHOP group.

A lew tor larger women. Many one-oi-a mna. 225 DRESSES FOR MISSES. WOMEN, LITTLE WOMEN. Pure dye triple sheeri.

Laces. Nets. Crepes. Washable pastels. One-piece.

Jacket ensembles. Formerly 10.95 to 19.95 7.7." BUDGET DRESSES SECOND FLOOR Loir rat far auf anwa ccampan'atf kr paaaangara Fr farlh.p InfarmatUa ui m. rvitloni, roar Irt.u aal at Pier la, N.rla Trk 1 44,, COrtl.aJi 7-9S0O. 6 42 a ROth Prefin-" OALOSSKY, 66 of 2945 ldence. Dead on arrival.

SOLFIRA SO- 33d 8., at rep-Dr. Romendich Natural caiifv i.HJ MtlTliliaia'iliM'ilaH Af Of Coney Island Hospital 5.98 to 10.95 Sports Dresses Cottons, rayons. Pastel and dark colors. Misses' and women's sixes. SPORTS DRESSES.

For misses and women. Formerly 10.95 lo 16.95. ft. 98 SPORTS SHOP SECOND FLOOR $5 to 8.75 Summer -Millinery 150 Felts, straws. Black, nary, colors.

Included are 30 Knox hats. 150 STRAWS. Black, nary, natural. Formerly 55 and S.75 1.98 MILLINERY SECOND FLOOR 5.98 Dressmaker Bathing Suits Just 100 suits in tha season's most wanted styles. Misses' sites.

JO TWO PIECE SLACK OUTFITS. Sharlc-skin or flannel. Pastels and dark tones. Misses' siies. Formerly 10.95 to SI 5.

7.98 BEACH WEAR SECOND FlOOii :i.98 to 6.50 Better Hloiises 100 Sheers, silks, cottons. Prints or solid colors. White and pastels. Misses' and women's slses. TWO-PIECE LINEN SUITS.

Dark tones. Formerly 7.98 to 10.95 5.98 SKIRTS AND BLOU8ES SECOND FLOOR $10 to 10.95 Coats and Suits 29.75 to 39.75 Iletter Coats for Misses, Women, Little Women 5M lust 75 lightweight coats! Full-length, three-quarter or "jiqger." Sizes 12 to 40. Dressy and casual models. 15 100 Coats! Mostly black and nary In Forstmann's and other tine woolens. Casual and dressy types.

Mostly un-trimmed. A lew woman's and misses' coats are iur-trlmmed. BETTER COATS SECOND FLOOR TAILORED SUITS. Cool Summer fabrics. White.

Sites 12 lo 20. Formerly 10.95 5.98 BUDGET COATS AND SUITS SECOND FLOOR FRANKLIN AVE. AT 9th GARDEN CITY Garden City 1800 FULTON AT BOND STREET, BROOKLYN TRiangle 5-8100 list.

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