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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 5

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BROOKLYN EAGLf, FEB. 2, 1951 5 Moss, Polier ClashiScheduled Air Lines Fleet Tripled Library's Unfinished 2d Floor Opened for Signal Corps Exhibit In Forum Debate Five Years. Traffic Club Told 4k Ml I I Un Released lime Comparisons of airline condi 1,000 airplanes in scheduled airline service in this country, al tions in 1941, the first year of The controversial released-! most one-half of which are four- World War II, and today were engined transports. A rapidly made In an address last night increasing number are new, at the annual "Aviation Night" more efficient, larger and faster twin-engined craft Martins Spectators at the Central Building of the Brooklyn Public Library on Grand Army Plaza climbed stairs today that been roped off to the public for 10 years. The library threw open the mezzanine of its still unfinished second floor to give borough citizens a view of the $100,000 Army Signal Corps time religious education program of the Board of Education was discussed at a forum sponsored by the Albemarle Chapter, American Jewish Congress, last night at the Flatbush Jewish Center, 500 Church Ave.

meeting of the Brooklyn Traffic Club, held at the Hotel Granada. and Convairs. In the five years since the The address was prepared and end of the war, the commercial was to have been delivered by airline fleet has more than Ralph S. Damon, president of party Iok for tripled, the carrying capacity Trans World Airlines, but a Speaking for the program was Maximilian Moss, president of the Board of Education. Shad has been multiplied about ten Exhibit, "Your Signal Corps in times and the average speed of Polier, vice president of the read by Jack Martin, eastern regional sales manager of the airline, because Damon was air travel has almost doubled Peace and war.

Brooklynites were led by Wac guides past a fabulous dis A. J. spoke against released time. In addition there has been giv n-h-tcens grounded in Kansas City, due en the country and its civilian to the weather. Both speakers confined their play of Signal Corps economy, a full fledged air talks to released-time as it oper Martin was introduced by activity and wizardry which in- cargo service that operates on ates for the Jewish faith only.

Gordon Gllmore, TWA direc eluded such disparate items as regular schedules. TWA alone tor of public relations, who The view taken by Moss was a bullet-torn signal flag, wig offering a DC-4 Sky Merchant czs lillf II mm ii wnr MijiMwtrifiiaiimffiSiw that if the program succeeded in turn was presented by Paul wagged during the Civil War, and an example of the latest in Cleveland, treasurer of the Trat in making a better Jew of "one flc Club and senior sales rep vounester. or 10 youngsters, or radar-controlled rocket bombs, They were also shown mam' resentative of TWA. thousand youngsters an for it." He said that some 65 In 1941, according to the Da flight daily in New York and three daily all -cargo DC-3 flights. Met Korea War Needs The address also told of the commercial airlines meeting the request of the Military Air Air Transport Service for 66 four-engined aircraft when the centers for released-tlme reli mon report, the scheduled air moth areas of the uncompleted lecond floor which still remain tot be turned into study lines had 358 airplanes, all but gious education are now in a few of them twin-engined operation in synagogues ana and reading rooms for the mul equipment.

The government Jewish centers throughout the titude of people who need and took 175 of these In May, 1942, city. depend upon the library It also requisitioned 168 new Made specially for the small-size las who yearns for sophisticated clothes this rustling, nary rayon taffeta dress adds a dash of sparkle in the dotted white collar and cuffs. Sizea 8 to 14. 8J93 IN-B-TEENS SHOP, FABULOUS 4th FLOOR trouble in Korea began, which gave MATS a breather to mobil planes the Industry had on order books. That left 183 air The legal basis for the program was attacked by Polier, who said public schools in the United States were historically The exhibit will remain on display through this month as ize additional flying crews.

Daniel A. Hackett, city freight an event of double significance. planes to a civilian economy straining at every seam to expand to a full blown war effort. agent of New York Central places where upcoming genera It is both a tribute to the Sig nal Corns and a special ob R. president of the club, con ducted the meeting.

Today there are more than tions of Americans learned how to live together. He said the released-time program teaches children how to live separately and is divisive "Today, more than ever be fore," he said, "we need unify ing forces, not divisive first of a series of three being sponsored by the chapter. "Should Germany Be Rearmed," will be the subject of a program scheduled for March 1. "Religion and Politics in Israel" will be the forum topic April 5. Irving Nussenbaum, chapter president, is moderator.

the list of excusable absences from public schools to include absence for religious Instruction. The constitutionality of the program was upheld by the State Supreme Court in 1948 and 1950. An Appellate Division decision Jan. 15 upheld the Supreme Court verdicts. The forum last night was the State Law Upheld Em1 Otaft Fboto BARRIER DOWN Gregory Weinstein, oldest member of the Brooklyn Public Library's board of trustees, removes rope barrier at ceremony in central building, Grand Army Plaza, last night, thus admitting the public to the building's long-uncompleted second floor.

Army Signal Corps exhibit will be displayed here through February. Looking on, left to right, are Wac Lt. Mary Schiller, Sgt. Claude Talbot and Henry J. Davenport, president of the board.

The released-time program is administered by the Board of Education under a State law passed in 1940, which enlarges servance of the library's 10th anniversary in its modern, streamlined building. Preview for Guests The exhibit was launched last night with a simple ceremony at a preview for invited guests. Henry J. Davenport, president of the library's board of trustees, spoke briefly of the present building's history, and Gregory Weinstein, oldest member of the board, removed the rope barrier across the stairway. A pretty Wac private first class then led the group through the exhibit, explaining with imple- non-technical narrative nd dramatizing her words by controlling trick lights and mobile gadgets with a few smooth push buttons.

She detailed the corps' history, its standards, its methods of training. She illustrated St. Leonard Grads BROOKLYN FULTON STRIET Have Reunion Smoker The St. Leonard's Academy Alumni Association, at its sec if. Double savings ond annual smoker reunion last with moving chains of light on an illuminated map how a com night, decided to use the association through the school, as a with the academy for more thanj 40 years, and several old timers of classes from 1887 to 1905.

During the business meeting Joseph Acker, Class of '32, was elected president to succeed Peter M. Sweeney, '18; Francis Mullane, State parole officer, '33, was named vice president, and George Horn, '05, secretary. Charles O'Donnell, '12, vice munication network operates in clearing house for employment cattle. information. This action was She launched a toy rocket bomb and showed how It is taken on the suggestion of in our February 1 clearance! Brother Philip, O.S.K., association moderator, who discussed placement possibilities.

controlled by radar. She displayed a pocketslze walkie-talkie and a "dog tag type" de president of the Industrial tector to be worn around the James J. Murphy, Brooklyn Eagle scholastic sports editor, was toastmaster at the affair in neck of a soldier or civilian for the purpose of testing whether he is exposed to atomic radi Banic ot commerce, was reelected treasurer. Among the sports star's present were Fred Wilt, George Eastment, Tommy Holmes and place of the Rev. John McCor-mack, who is ill in a hospital.

ation. See Yourself In TV Francis R. Yacenda, Class of Sid Gordon. Radio and televi 12, president of the Kings Coun The item which is likely to ty Grand Jurors Association, was honorary chairman. Among prove most popular at the ex sion entertainers included Henry Finnergan, William Perry, Thomas Haynes, Michael J.

Darcey, Josephine Monachino, Paul Kosloskl and Frank the guests were Brother Paul, hibit was saved for the end. Back on the library's main floor First, big savings on fine fur coats, reduced from our own stock. Many are one and few-of-a-kind specials. Second, big savings on special purchases of new fur coats, purchases that could not be made today when fur market prices are on the upswing. O.S.F., principal of the school; Brother Maurice, who has been again, the young was aimed a television camera at her audi ence.

Suddenly they saw their structure down to its steel skele- own likenesses projected on tnn flnrt ronuilt if aa a unif two separate screens. Telephone Coin Boxes There is a detail of Wacs and the modern library, regarded as one of the finest In the country. GIs from Fort Monhouth, N. Anell De Luzio, 21, of 131 Bay 53d St. and Joseph Carrafa, assigned to the library for 28, of 2925 W.

19th St. were re month to show the public the Formerly JV'OW same show. Tours will be con leased in $500 bail each to await trial in Queens Special Sessions ducted at regular intervals Below is just partial lilting; Mink and sable-blended back muskrat coats every day. on charges of malicious mischief, following a hearing yes SJ65 There is also a display of the library's own. illustrating the 45-year struggle to erect and Ypllli IJ i lYl Wi vfVv if Mi Mnnf'" I Vp; I jj i 4 v-' complete the central building.

Golden Age Club to Hear Talk on Social Security Sponsored by the Golden Age Club of Bay Shore and Brightwaters, Stanley Fior-ese, director of the Social Security Office in Patchogue, will speak on social security before a group of members at the Percy Williams Home for Retired Actors and Actresses at East Islip next Wednesday. 225-250 199 Mink-dyed squirrel capes. terday before Magistrate Paul Balsam in Rockaway Beach Magistrate's Court. No trial date was set. They were accused of taking $19.30 from two coin telephone boxes on the platform of the Long Island Rail Road station in Edgemere Jan.

17. A portion of this exhibit ehows in photogiaphs what has been called "one of the major 245 200 surgical operations in archi tectural history," which is 1937-38 stripped an earlier standing Pastel-dyed Northern muskrat capes. Sable-blended Northern back muskrat coats 295 250 399 Natural sheared raccoon coats 319 FUITON BROOKLYN 450-525 Canadian beaver coats, 35" long- 350 499 350 Grey Persian lamb coats. Let-out mink-blended Northern muskrat coats 449-499 399 Black Persian COatS (tomt mink-trimmed) 450-595 399 Black Persian COatS Isome mink-trimmsd) 550-650 499 Black Persian COatS. (some mink-trimmed) 650-795 5 99 a ffrvim -J 650-750 5 99 Grey Persian lamb coats Now at new low prices! ur-trimmctl coats Black Persian coats, (some mink-trimmed) 775-1400 099 Canadian beaver coots, 46" long.

'98 oie de Vivre by Elizabeth Arden'a Matara and black Alaska seal coats 1500 1 099 1995 1500 2500 1850 3500 2 8 50 Natural ranch mink coats. Natural wild mink coats. It's the natural hormones that recapture beauty. This perfected hormone cream is enriched with a natural crystalline estrogenic substance. If you are thirty or more you'll want to see what this remarkable cream can do to give you a more youthful, beautiful appearance.

Formtrly 4.00 Nose 3.50 Formerly 7.50 ftote 0.50 regularly 115 to $160 Special purrliasos! Reductions from our own stork! Every coat in this group is made of an extra-fine, luxurious woolen broadcloth or suede! Every coat is lavishly trimmed with a fabulous fur silver fox, sheared beaver, mountain sable or muskrat! Pyramids, fitted coats and boxy styles! Taffy, green, beige, grey and blark. Misses' sizes 8 to 18; women's sizes l-IVi ,0 2ll2- Sizes 9 to 46, but not all furs In all sizes All prists subject to federal tat Formerly 1 4.00 JVoie 10.00 FIR SALON THIRD FLOOR 11 prices plus fed. Hi COSMETICS STREET FLOOR COATS THIRD FLOOR tine one of Marfiit'f deterred payment plant FULTON at BRIDGE STREET, BROOKLYN..

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