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Telephone MAin 1-6000 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1937 For Clmtifird Ad Police Question Woman in Attack on Yacht Owner at Point Lookout Without Clues Democrats' Secret Session I. Cop Tried 1 Students Give LaGuardia School Yell Highest Court Act on As New Brooklyn College Opens Doors Won Delays Action on Jobs InChasingQuiz; Continued From Page 1 They Continued from Page 1 Wire Seizures Sanders Heard stacks of lng on tl is and reports bear-numerous contested budget After chatting with his colleagues else ii "It 1( at attention while the college orchestra played "The Star-Spttngled 2.000 Spectators More than 2.000 spectators augmented the student throng of 5.000 voung men and women. Deputy Police Inspector Thomas and Capl Stephen Crowley and their men had nothing more to do than look re- ourselves worthy of this great gift? Yes. if the Alumni, the students and the faculty put honor in the front rank. If they realize that progress means the constant solving of new problems and that their solution means patience and pain.

Yes. if in their personal, professional and public lives they give comfort to the movements which strengthen peace, establish tolerance, promote liberty, reinforce democracy. If they drive firmly forward toward the better road the On Mutilation Of Executive Attractive Housekeeper Dozing on Deck at Time of Assault. She Say Continued from Page 1 slept in the cabin and Mrs. Hamlvn dozed on deck In a steamer chair.

Toxicologisus are making scientific tests to determine whether Johnson was drugged Police are checking up all boats within cruising range of the spot where the IV was anchored when the attack took place and wiu Accused Lawyer Tells of Getting Cases From Quen Patrolman The first of It polloemen accused of being linked with alleged ambulance-chasing activities in Queens Believe Justice Black Took Part in Deliberation on Decision Continued from Page 1 Labor RelatK.is Board which held the company guilty ol unfair labor practices. prepared to make a bitter fight to insist that all mandatory salaries be maintained a.s fixed In the arlous departmental budgets as well as that all statutory positions be retained. The latter group, it la understood, would include not onlv the various county offices such those of Public Administrator Prank V. Kelly. Democratic leader of Brooklyn, and Commissioner of Records Hyman Schorenstein.

but also various deputvships created bv statute. Maas of Evidence While the Bayor and two borough presidents were waiting in the quonu present and adjourn the meeting until this afternoon" Aldermanic President William F. Brunner arrived in his office down stairs at about that time. splendent in the ir uniforms and tell i folks which way to go. and where as me result.

01 an investigation shortly afterward came Borough road of political peace, economic The tribunal refused to review a justice. Intellectual and spiritual freedom and moral integrity Yes. If they believe in the rights of others and respect those rights. Yes. if their future lives are marked by i ordered by the Appellate Division.

Brooklyn, was placed on trial today at Brooklyn Police Headquarters be-fore Trial Commissioner Michael A. Lyons. Third Deputy Police Com- The defendant. Patrolman Leonard Smith of the Jamaica Precinct, entered a plea of not guilty. Scott of the who room 1 THANKS MAYOR Dr.

William A. Boylan oltn of the The program was under the direction of Dean E. N. Oosensa. Prof.

James Nell acted as marshal. On the grandstand sat the speakers, many officials and members of the Board of Higher Education and the city Board of Education, including Dr. James Turner, president of the latter; Ernest P. Seelman and Albert Weiss, member of the former clear thinking, generous, unsclfi; President Jamea J. Lyons, the Bronx, then Borough President Samuel Levy.

Manhattan, accompanied by his aide. Vincent Marc-lav, and finallv Controller Frank J. Taylor. It is not known whether Borough President Joseph A. Palma of Richmond was present at the conclave The greatest secrecy was maintained about the meeting to determine Democratic strategy on the budget, some of the officials even deymng knowledge of It.

God pun budget director and officials from the Department of Finance headed Smith, trooped into the public meeting room fthe board across the hall, to be in readiness if they were summoned into the executive attacked him. be-a dog expert de-ave inflicted such del islon against, tne company oy the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The high court also: Dismissed, "for the want of a substantial Federal question, an appeal from a decision by lie New York Supreme Court sustaining constitutionality of a 1935 State law barring civil actions for alienation of affections, seduction and breach of prom- Dlsmissed an attack on a ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals sustaining an attempt by the State to Impose a tax on cosmetics sold within the State which had been purchased outside its borders. The Supreme Court said: "It does not appear from the record that there is a imal The 1933 securities act required Sanders, an attorney of 170-01 -84th Road. Jamaica, against whom the Queens County Bar Association preferred charges of ambulance-chasing and whose activities were probed by Official Referee Burt Jay Humphrey In Brooklyn, was the irs' witness called today.

cause the ami clared. could injuries. District Atto early today story should I decided Lit 1 body. Prof Joseph D. McGoldnck.

Controller Frank J. Taylor and other dignitaries were on the platform. 1 Mayor LaOuardla said, In part: I "I am very proud of this moment, I derive from it a greater gratiflca-I tion than from anything I have More Buildings Needed Dr. Howe spoke of the extraordinary development of the college since it was established as a distinct unit ln the municipal svstem in 1930. "We have gone much farther than kindred institutions in the city's college system were able to progress in the corresponding period of their growth.

And after looking back we may well look forward to a Still more impressive development when this splendid group of buildings is Mrs. Hamlyn's i to the grand subpena to ap-y on Thursday, to go home. Nine specifications against Patrolman Smith were outlined by As 14 Lose Right Trace Elixir To Party Names In 7 Deaths done in my administration as sistant. Corporation Counsel Charles pear -nat ooav a Then he allowed her There is no charge agai Johnson first story er VVeir.stein the prosecutor, opening to the court. Smith Brooklyn College to attend what I was described as a commencement I noted the very fine faculty and of fonlinued from Page 1 torney" on four oc propiaca issues ot stocks with the Securities Commis- be built.

To relieve i ment of a plan that has eventuated librarv fears of the taxpayers who in these beautiful buildings and of thuslastlc receptlo Those attacking the subpenas were the Ryan Florida Corporation of might worry about the cost of Brooklyn College, let me say the interest rn the city's share of the cost is less than the amounts heretofore paid erected it with the explanation he ared Mrs. Hamlvn would be un-lstly accused. Left Dock at 10 A.M. They left the yacht club dock at i miiyn, inuuine ixoyauir- uompanv of St. Petersburg and the Florida Tex Oil Company of St.

Petersburg. lhey contended the commissions "When we contrast what we have with what we had, we have reason to rejoice. We are beginning a new era in college history. We have now a plant that realizes our ambition that will match with any-other of its kind in this city. This.

I think, is an occasion when we should express appreciation of what Randolph Evans and his associate, architects Corbett, Harrison and McMurray have done to create an ensemble so well adapted to a spa- In Johnson's cruiser, named a-uHtw oiuun was an exploratory scarrti for evidence and "constituted said casions between Sept. 24, 1930, and May 8, 1933, and of having received five checks totaling $21 from "an attorney during that period. When the trial opened. Weinsteln asked that 19 books of testimony taken during the hearings conducted by Official Referee Humphrey be listed for identification. The court so ordered.

Weinstein then asked that counsel representing all the policemen-defendants except Smith be excluded from the trial room. An objection by Julian V. Carrabba of the defense was sustained by the Under questioning by Weinstein. Sanders said that he had been practicing law since 1927, that about 90 a sail 1 field. Charges in Petition Ingeraoll Picketed' Him "Borough President Ingersoll also was fired with the ambition that Brooklyn College should have new buildings, campus and equipment commensurate with Its standing as an institution of learning and he picketed the Mayor from time to time in the effort to speed up the "I asked whether a site had been and I was told Numerous sites were offered, but all ihese students of physics know that you cannot put two buildings on one anchored off "I congratulate President Boylan and all you students upon a dream at last come true.

This college now has an equipment to match its high scholastic standing. Let us hope that its student will always be appreciative of the great opportunities which the city is providing for them here and that this college will always be the pride of the borough. More From Street Campus President Boylan said credit was due President Roosevelt and city- penas directed the Western Union Journal Issue) Warning Sulfanilamide has been the sensation of the medical world during recent months because of a broadening field in which it appeared to be useful. For several weeks the Medical Journal has been cautioning against the dangers of the drug. Several doctors have reported that patients treated with sulfanilamide developed new and serious symptoms.

The Medical Association said the elixir used at Tulsa was manufactured by S. E. Massenglll Company Bristol. Tenn. "From tests by the laboratory of the American Medical Association not yet complete." the Journal will say Thursday, "this elixir appears to be a solution of approximately 40 grains of sulfanilamide to a fluid ounce of a menstrum containing about 72 percent diethylene glycol.

"The solvent diethylene glycol is itself not an Indifferent substance. a brother of Republican County Leader John R. Crews. The Trades-Union and Antl-Communlst nominations of the following Democratic candidates for delegates to the Constitutional Convention fro mthe 7th Senatorial District: Register Aaron L. Jacoby.

James S. Regan and Abraham Kraditor. Benjamin Brenner's City Fusion nomination for Assemblyman In the 2d A. D. Regular Democratic Nominee Charles K.

McConnell Trades-Union and Anti-Communist nominations for Assemblyman in the 5th A. D. Francis E. Dorn's City Fusion nomination for Assemblyman in the 10th A. D.

Former Assemblyman Aaron F. Goldstein's City Fusion nomination for Assemblyman In the Hth A. D. Democratic Nominee Fred J. Morrill's Progressive.

Trades Union and semblyman in the 17th A Harold K. Barons Progressive nomination for Assemblyman in the I 18th A. D. George Kaiser's petitions for nom-' ination In the Anchor party for Assemblyman in the 22d A. D.

Democratic Assemblyman G. i Thomas Lo Re's Trades Union and and Postal offices in Tampa to produce telegrams sent, or received, between May 1. 1936. and March 30, 1 1937, by the Ryan corporation "pertaining particularly to oil royalties, in the Wimauma section of Holls-borough County, Fla." of Mut the dock of the Brighteye Fishing Company a' Point Lookout and crank severa About 2 30 pm she said. Johnson went below to take a nap, while she remained on deck to sleep.

When she awoke two hours later, according to her story, she went below '0 awaken Johnson and found him lying to a welter of blood. He had been brutally mutilated. Sailed Boat to Shore Johnson, daxed. could not explain what had happened, she said, but managed to get up from his bunk, cut the anchor rope and sail his boat to Pont Lookout, where, with the help of three men, he got into a tax-cab. Mrs.

Hamlvn accompanied him to Merrick Road and Henry where she got out, Instructing the cab driver. Jack Doyle, to take the Injured man to his home. On his arrival there, his sons called Dr. William H. Madriien.

the family hu petition said, directed i the Postal office in St. Petersburg to produce telegrams sent or received between Jan. I. 1937, and March 12, 1937. by the Florida Tex Oil Company and Income Royalties "which Dr.

Howe closed his remarks a tribute to President Boylan, college faculty and the administ use is not permitted in food of Florida Tex Oil Company, or to "Then the Mayor exercised hU Vf ttt ITS prerogative. and tlite "concerned Used now, and lost his temper conform t0 the movements always lose my temper when I want rpinfon, He said: something done I was not inter- college. 383 Pearl in real estate but a site. We BrooUyn college. Avenue and snapped through the Board and I Bedford Ave Merplv a cnange ln found myself with a great piece of postomre address, but to vou stu-land.

The Government was giving dents t0 vou members of the fac. a great deal of money for Improve- profoundly significant change. We ments and we had no plan. were noused loft buildings, we "I have to admit we did some- now nrid ourselves ln palatial quar-thlng a bit illegal. We hired the ters, Our campus was the congested architects.

We told them they would streets of downtown Brooklyn; we get paid if we got the money. They ow have 42 acres which are being drew plans, let nobody see them, landscaped to make a beautiful set-took a chance. ting for beautiful buildings. We F. D.

Gave Him More Time had a soul, a spiritual entity in the "The President said to me: 'Fior- aspirations of our students and the ello. do you think you can get this efforts of our larultv. but dtsem- products because of the absence of enct i its harmlessness beyond doubt Since the patients had been tak 111 011 royalties, or oil leases In the Walker farm or tract of the Crescent pool. Oklahoma the Fitts pool. Oklahoma, or the Jacob pool Texas, or to anv transaction or proposed transaction in any such secur- ing sulfanilamide tablets without ill effect over a period of two weeks U.

S. Vice Fugitive Gives Up in Jersey Trenton, N. Oct. 18 f-F Surrender of Samuel fCappy) Hoffman, a paroled convict and fugitive in the Federal Government's Anti-Communist z.V: Maddren notified po- According uies, ana particularly any and all such telegrams, or copies thereof sent to. or received from, George Creager.

Oklahoma Cltv. or A Childers. San Antonio, Texas 1 The labor litigation grew out of a 1935 controversy between the Jefferv-union of the United Brlcir numan eyes ana. nespiti tleton, Mrs. Ham-housekeeper tor student body today by William faculty, i United States At said: and the President approved the contract.

"Just a year ago the President looked at the building- and said: Isn't this the group of buildings you promised to finish in a year? i year? ornev prosecuting the case. Hoffman. Smith said, had been and "then developed the typical train of symptoms after taking the elixir." the journal asserts "it would be clear that the diethylene glycol rather than the sulfanilamide was Warning to Physicians The patients all developed serious symptoms 24 to 48 hours after receiving the substance. "The tragic experience should be a final warning to physicians relative to prescribing and administration of semi-secret unstandardlr.ed preparations." the Journal will say in its College? Sanders was centered in the Jamaica magistrates' court, and consequently he became acquainted with Over the objections of Albert Short, defense counsel for Patrolman Smith. Weinstein read into the record a list of questions and answers from the transcript of preced-lngs before Official Referee Humphrey.

Sanders said that quotations of his. Sanders' testimony was "substantially correct," The quotations recounted that Sanders had obtained many cases from the recommendations of policemen. "Were any rases recommended to you by Patrolman Smith?" asked Weinstein. Cheeks Exhibited "About a half-dozen matters came into my office through a Patrolman Smith, but I do not recall what his first name was." replied Sanders. He was from the 103d precinct The patrolman on trial is attached to the 103d precinct, Sanders was excused by Wein- dence three checks, which were made out to Leonard Smith, and subsequently cashed Knute Erickson, 174 East New York Valley 8tream, was the next Erickson testified that he was Involved In an automobile accident in Jamaica in 1930 and was called upon to appear in Magistrates' Court, Jamaica.

There he said he met the defendant Patrolman 8mith. "He told me that I had a good cause for action, and that, he had a good connection, said Erickson. Where is Brooklyn Col-1 that is past. We are Reichsbank Note i Circulation Of Berlin. Oct.

18 Pi The Reichsbank statement as of Oct. 18 shows the following changes ilnthousands of relehsmarks) Notes in circulation 4,876,000. decrease 159.000; gold 69 998. decrease 83; foreign currency taKing our place now in lacilities. id they in equipment, ln building and cam-absolu- pus with the other great colleges would be and he gav tigitive since Aug.

29 when Fed-ral Bureau of Investigation agents tade sweeping raids in three States "a' woman identified by F. B. genu as Hoffman's wife has been ree under $2,000 ball since her ar-est in New York Sept. 27. Booked a material witness she gave her lame as Jean B.

Hoffman. 26. of 207; biiS exchange and checks 5 002. Workers of America, an Americaii Federation of Labor affiliate a nnmsVa.S at plant June IS. 1035, and there were conferences between union and company officials.

"These discussions resulted in deadlock," the company petition said, "and on June 20 the were advised positively thai the demands of the union would not be met but that employes could rt'urn 'o work if they so desired." 1 he Labor Board ordered the company to bargain collectively with the union and to offer employment to Dr. Johnson recently for five days while his regular housekeeper. Mrs. Estelle Brown, was away. She is the wife of William Hamlyn.

a house painter, and has one son, 20. Questioned All Day Mrs. Hamlvn was questioned by the District Attorney and several detectives all day yesterday and late into the night. She was given frequent rest periods, left in the care of a matron. No charge was lodged against her.

She clung steadfastly to the story that she had no idea how Johnson not until late Saturday night that he realized what had happened to him. Dr. A. W. Freirich, toxicolo- gist at Meadowbrook Hospital, was or not he had been drugged.

Report Pair Chloroformed Flshbein. editor of ade the editorial pub- il "for the protection 803. decrease 282.617: other daily maturing obligations 674,894. decrease advances, 32,539. decrease 3.132; investments 104.674.

increase 14. and ratio of gold and foreign currency to notes 1.8 percent. The rate of discount was 4 percent. REVENUES DECREASE Dr. Emile Legouis, Author, Dies at 76 Pan.

18 (UP1 Dr. Emile Legouis. --ary professor of the Universities of Paris and Lyon and doctor honoris causa of Oxford, died tion and more time. You win te ot liberal ni ts and science of the able to vision what this will look country yes. of the world, like ln a year from now when the "It wouid have pleased me greatly, landscaping and other details are it would have pleased all connected completed.

with the college or interested in it, "Education Is necessary for the if we could have fittingly dedicated continuance of democracy. One the college todav. But we are still thing is vital. No democracy can i in the process of becoming Our survive except it assures economic 1 new equipment place. needed to solve the problems of our landscaping our grounds, nation.

Brooklyn College has won I'rges Students Be Grateful a high place ln the country. Wei "Two questions arise, 'Are we are all proud of it. I am very eratelul? prove ourselves happy to be able to dedicate these worthy of this great The handsome buildings for the use of first que, tion is readilv answered. Brooklyn and the future of Brook- Mayor LaGuardia. President Ir.scr-lvn.

Mav vou derive full benefit soli. Controller Taylor and other from it. You have as fine a faculty representatives of the Board of Es-as there is in the country, with I tlmate and Apportionment, Mr, buuliP as modern as any college. I Eisner. Dr.

Howe, members of the I know vou will do your share be- i Board of Higher Education. I speak cause Brooklyn College has as fine for the Alumni of Brooklyn Col-a group of boys and girls as anv 1 already numbering several college in the world." i thousand, for the present student Ingrsoll Speaks body well beyond 10.000, for the Borough President Ingersoll. after hundred 01 members of our faculty being prasied bv Mr. Eisner for his and force, we are un'irmg effortson behalf of Brook- deeply Ktateful. This is truly the Revenues for the transit ind lor the week ending Oct.

9, cased on reports received fro City Drivers Drop Accounting Suit ir.pai.i within the protection of the Wagner Labor Relations Act at the time of the alleged unfair labor practices. The Circuit Court ruled to the con- He told me to take my case to Mr. 76. He Sande In Sm 11 siv other i Thor Cn-Author of Literature History Dr. Legouis was known chiefly as the co-author of "A History of English Literature." a major achievo- Frenchmen in the University of Paris to the study of English litera- Sues to Erect Beach Apartment Kadien in Brooklyn today granted a motion made by Joseph F.

Toro-nello and Louis Anemone tot discontinue a suit for an accounting of the funds of the finances of the Chauffers and Drivers Protective Association, of which Tomello and HELD FOR FIRING RIFLE Joseph Casclatta. 34, of 990 WB loughby Ave was arraigned toda tion ot a dream and 11 has all 1 "pieme ourt Justice Kadien accomplished in seven short Calvados, and attended the today granted to the Token Realty "On of my greatest privileges of been the past four years has been to help years, i the solution of a major problem 1 din a'ld Brooklyn College. How to get into bel i the of Ala. 1 us. ne ittiuitu ai corporation an order requiring ese buildings sprang University of Lyon and was Charles R.

Ward. Brooklyn Com--he lamp was com- Professor of English and of missioner of Public Works, to de-he great American Kngiu-h liierature at the Sorbonne. fend a suit for a pereptorv write of today. They are Patrolman John E. O'Brien of the Miller Avenue Precinct.

Patrolman Valentine Stumpf of Mounted Squad Two. Patrolman William H. McSweeney of Queens Headquarters, Patrolman Raymond Horn of the Flushing Precinct, Patrolman FredH.Rogeof the Astoria Precinct, and Patrolman Eugene Murphy of the Jamaica Precinct, Listed for trial on Oct. 25 are Patrolman Michael H. Abt of the Poplar Street Precinct.

Patrolman John C. Feltz of the Jamaica Precinct. Patrolman Joseph Allen, Ozone Park Precinct; Patrolman Vincent F. Durning. Long Island City Precinct; Patrolman Bernard Ennis, Grand Central Parkway Precinct; Sgt.

Joseph Schlipf, Bergen Street Precinct, and Patrolman Francis 8. Brierton, Rockaway Boulevard Precinct. rowded downtown loft buildi of $200,000 In proble'm Thiols a splendid sue but that fed it. I found in the hearts and in 1922 he again visited the permit to the realty corporation. In It had been held at too high a price anQ cooct will of the President of United States as Turnbull lecturer its complaint the company set forth Some advocated building skyscrapers the United States and li.e distin- at Baltimore that Ward has refused to grant It on the old reaervolr Site on Eastern SUished city officials who grace this An authority on Worciswoiih.

Dr. a permit to erect a 76-familv apart- Parkway six or seven acres and no occasion. Legouis wrote two biographies of the ment luuse on property which it bpace Now that is being prepared "The second question is not so English poet and a translation of his owns at Oriental Boulevard and lor an addition to our easily the South Shore Yai a and died present address. While Freeport police were called tohe Johnson honie 2 Killed in Oastl cas' tumed ov ToDLsuictAttor-1 Of Plane in Jersey ney Littleton, who, with Nassau de- Colo-la. Oct 18 UP) Two tectives.

headed by Inspector Har- men were killed today when their ANNOUNCEMENTS Hey, hew about a mmmm cup of good tta? I'm doggone near Boy Admits Killing Cousin, To Be Given 10-Year Jail Term fagged out. She The minute we home! Invite the gang and I'll serve manslaughter He had agreed to the plea to White Rote-a little makes a loll White Rose TEA A LITTLE M4KCS 4 LOT LARGEST-SELLING CAMELS 7i AM. to 1 PM- i 1 on Ir, tu Hon tf iht lami da "MAin 4-6000 CIGARETTE IN AMERICA.

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