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are with for or BROOKLYN EAGLE, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940 LAST TRAIN, FULTON ST. EL, Eagle Staff photo PREPARING TO SLAY THE BLACK SPIDER are Borough President Cashmore (left) and Mayor LaGuardia on the rear platform of the last train to run over the Fulton St. shortly before its arrival for the death scene at Rockaway Ave. last night. EVERYTHING IN REACH ON 'L' IS SOUVENIR HUNTERS' PREY Cashmore Loses Ticket, Almost Misses Funeral -Last Train Same Antique, Thinks Old-Timer By ED REID dred J.

Gould of 7 Sheridan ticket-taker at the Borough Cypress Hills. The Hall station of the now defunct Fulton St. "L' looked suspiciously at the tall, thin man who, he thought, was trying to "crash" the turnstile on his way for a ride on the last-train-out. The tall man tumbled with some papers in his hand. "Where's your ticket?" the takerof asked.

"Oh, I'm the Borough President," said Borough President Cashmore as convincingly as he could, hesitating modestly. "Well, I don't know," the takerof -the-tickets replied. "If you say 90, I guess it's all right." Dubiously he watched the tall, thin man elbow his way onto the last-trainout. A gent with a full red beard that reached to his lower ribs morosely watched the procession from Borough Hall to the stairs of the station which led to the lastHe sat glumly on a bench next the foray: las which flank the Borough Hal and muttered into his heard. A boy and girl cadet corps swung pas with blaring horns and pounding drums.

After them came the alvie leaders of the borough and Borough President. The gent the long red beard muttered, Fle'd probably been sitting nonths. Communists." he said. pulling some kind of ighta run them out of conatry." during the imparade around Borough he Elmer E. Bennett Jr.

ps of the American Lech came from Cypress ike part in the burial of They were invited by the President, who saw them auting une Memorial Day parade and was impressed with their precise rhythm. They were led by Al- ANNOUNCEMENTS Personals CONTRACT BRIDGE PLAYERS in Brooklyn, send for tickets for free demonstration and talk on new amazing system of bidding and playing contract bridge. TO be given at St. George Hotel Tuesday evening, June 11, 1940, at 8 o'clock. The Bridge Mathematician, 16 E.

23d New York City. PLASTERER'S LOCAL No. 30 Special meeting will be held Monday night, 8.00 p.m. union headquarters. Lost and Found 10 BANK -Lost: No 105121.

Bay Ridge Savings Bank All claims must be made within one week new book will be issued. DOG-Lost; female, Irish terrier, 6 months old, name Lucky vicinity Flatbush Reward. INgersoll 2-2926. DOG-Lost: German police, male, black and Reward. Walsh.

40 Buckingham Road. BUckminster 2-8850. DOG--Lost: black and white Springer spaniel, vicinity Brooklyn Ave. and Park Place. Reward.

SLocum 6-4589. TEETH -Lost; upper and lower. Reward $5. Box H-1304, Eagle. ANNOUNCEMENTS accepted until 10 P.M.

for publication the following day or from A.M. to 1 P.M. (11 A.M. on Saturdays) for publication in the next available edition of the same day's paper, MAin 4-6200 IN. Y.

Woman Robbed of $1,500 Gems in Chicago Chicago, June 1 (AP)-Mrs. Eleanor Vose of 1 5th New York City, reported to police last night that a taxicab driver robbed her of jewelry she valued at more than $1,500, and $16 in cash. Mrs. Vose said she became separated downtown from her husband, Charles Redfield Vose, wealthy insurance broker, and 'hired a cab to take her to her hotel. No Rain in Sight For a Change After A Very Wet May It wasn't exactly one of those what-is-so-rare-as-a-day-in-June days today but at least it wasn't raining for a change.

Mostly cloudy today and partly cloudy and moderately warm tomorrow, the forecast said, if any comfort can be found in that. The fog that hung over the city was expected to lift later in the day. Temperatures would avetage around 65, which is normal for the date. A heavy fog rolled over both the upper and lower bay so that visibility at Sandy Hook was reduced to 200 feet and arriving passenger and freight vessels were delayed. Ferry service remained uninter- rupted, however.

Acadia Back From Bermuda The Eastern Steamship liner Acadia, chartered by the United States Lines to replace the liner President Roosevelt, returned from Bermuda, docking at the foot of W. 18th Manhattan, a 9:30 a.m., an hour and a half date. Pushing her way through lowering fog banks, the Acadia passed quarantine unnoticed by the observer stationed there and was not reported until she was actually alongside her pier. The President Roosevelt is in Europe to bring back stranded Americans. The Cunard-White Star liner Samaria, due in from England, and the Panama liner Cristobal, from the Panama Canal and Haiti, were unreported.

A number of freighters waited at quarantine for the fog to lift. It was very rainy for May, the weather man allowed when final computations showed that 6.82 inches fell in 17 rainy days during the month of flowers. But May, 1908, still holds the record with 9.10 inches. The average is 3.24. Airport Operating Three inches of rain yesterday alone brought on flood conditions in many suburban areas and increased the depth of the Croton watershed by many inches.

The water over the dam may be eight inches deep by tomorrow, which will give Sunday motorists up that way a chance to view a miniature Niagara Falls. LaGuardia Airport was operating with only slight curtailments in schedules in spite of the foggy, cloudy weather. Thirty-five planes carrying more than 200 passengers and two army planes bound for New York landed yesterday at Camden Airport, when the metropolitan area was blanketed by fog. Eros, Not Mars, Spurs Nuptials Continued from Page 1 state of war between Miss Fay Wexler of 676 Quincy St. and her husband-to-be, Michael Amaroso of 669 Marcy right there in the marriage clerk's office.

Both agreed that the war had nothing to do with their plans for an immediate marriage. "What will you do if war comes?" they were asked. Fight Starts Early "He'll stay out and wait to be drafted. That's the only sensible thing," Miss Wexler put in. Michael smiled tolerantly, then winked and whispered "I'll be in the second truck that goes out--if there doesn't happen to be room in the first!" Dimple-chinned Marjorie Schuck of 1650 Jefferson Ave.

and Otto Weiss, her handsome and a bit nervous groom-to-be, together with their long-suffering best man and maid of honor, Henry Rudolph of 1450 Gates Ave. and Emma Holland of 1655 Jefferson had waited on the steps of the Municipal Building since 7 a.m. before the doors of the marriage bureau opened at 9. Wanted to Be First "We just wanted to be first," they chorused. It was clear that they didn't think being early for their marriage, planned four years ago, needed any explanation.

The war had nothing to do with it. Piece by piece, over the years of their court- Of All Things Mrs. Roosevelt To Visit '40 Fair For First Time Attends Openings Today -Report Conflict on King Shut Belgian Pavilion Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was to make her first appearance at the World's Fair of 1940 today to participate in the opening of the World of Fashion Building and to join Mayor LaGuardia and Lt.

Gov. Charles Poletti at the dedication of the American Common. The First Lady comes to the exposition as the Belgian Pavilion, closed yesterday without any official comment, provides the Lagoon of Nations with another reminder of the tragic fate of small nations caught in the fury of the European war. A source of surprise among foreign representatives at the Fair, many of whom expressed the hope that it was temporary, the closing of the pavilion, with its $30,000,000 diamond display, does not affect the privately -operated Belgian Restatirant. Hint Conflict Over Leopold There were reports that the shutdown resulted from differences of opinion among the Belgian officials concerning King Leopold and it was noted that Dr.

Joseph Gavaert, the Commissioner General, has asserted that the enterprise was not in financial difficulties. In addition to the ceremonies in which Mrs. Roosevelt has promised to take part, the Japanese Pavilion was to reopen at 3 p.m. with addresses by Edward J. Flynn, American Commissioner General; Borough President Harvey of Queens and others.

Poor weather conditions held down the Fair attendance to 36,030 paid admissions yesterday, but failed to interfere with the observance of Huntington- Walt Whitman Day and the opening of the Threshold Regency House, sponsored by Abraham Straus in the Town of 15,000 Bellow Goodby to 'L' Continued From Page 1 two sections--reached its destination. There, a happy, good -natured crowd, displaying a spontaneous enthusiasm rarely equaled in Brooklyn, so taxed the policemen in charge that for a time the grandstand holding the officials and speakers was threatened. WILL SET DATE SOON Controller McGoldrick and Miss Helen C. Cahalane, whose engagement was revealed last week, have decided to set the wedding date in the near future. The couple disclosed this last night at the execution of the Fuiton St.

which they attended with Mayor and Mrs. LaGuardia. "We're going to announce the date early next week," the Controller said, beaming. Miss Cahalane smiled in assent. Barbara Evans of 68 St.

Paul's Place, Brooklyn's Queen of Forsythia, was caught in the crush on the way to the stand, and it was only through adept execution of a wing -back and other football plays on the part of her companions that she gained her objective. At the rail of the stand she was lifted bodily by a husky policeman and tossed over the rail into the protection of the Mayor, the Borough President and other officials. Mayor Urges Speedup Earlier, on the second section of the last train, which bore the official party, the Mayor in an exclusive interview with this reporter, declared: "I cannot help but take a personal satisfaction in seeing the accomplishment of an objevtice for which I have fought for years. "The elevated lines no longer have a place in Brooklyn, and should be demolished at the earliest date possible. fear, as do other officials, that if these structures are allowed to remain in existence after service ceases, property in these areas will drop in value.

For that reason alone, I have suggested to Commissioner Delaney that actual demolition be speeded. Would Oust Trolleys "I personally am going to fight to get rid of the trolley lines on Fulton St. I know that problems are involved, inasmuch as five lines operate through this thoroughfare, but I will not be content until we have removed the last vestige of antique transit facilities and have replaced them with modern substitutes." With the Mayor's speech at Rockaway which began promptly on the stroke of midnight, service on the Fulton 5th Ave. and Broadway ferry spur elevated lines ceased and the city took title to these properties from the B. M.

T. under the unification program. At the same time the Board of Transportation assumed operating jurisdiction and Commissioner Delaney became ruler of the city's augmented Independent System. The only remaining link in the unification chain is acquisition of the I. R.

T. lines. June 16. May Start July 1 Demolition of all these lines, for which plans and maps have been drafted by the Borough President's engineering staff, under Chief En- Eagle Staff photo BURNED IN EFFIGY- -The black spider, reposing in a coffin, is seen here at the corner of 25th St. and 5th where the symbol of the Fulton 5th Ave.

and Broadway Ferry Spur Elevated Lines thus was disposed of by Brooklyn civic leaders. Italy Orders Autos Off the Roads To Store Up Gasoline for the War Rome, June 1 (U.P.)-Italy ordered citizens to cease operating gasolineconsuming vehicles effective today. The storing of gasoline was one of the final phases of Italy's preparations for war and in some quarters it was believed that Premier Mussolini might announce on Tuesday that he was ready to enter the conflict on the side of Germany. All gasoline-consuming 'vehicles, including private automobiles and motorcycles, were ordered off the streets. Besides electric and cokeburning auto buses, only antiquated automobiles consuming coke and the automobiles of Italian officials were circulating.

Motor traffic throughout Italy was reduced immediately 90 percent. gineer Philip P. Farley, is expected to start by July 1 at the latest. The 600-odd exuberant mourners on the two sections of the funeral train threw restraint to the winds and produced pocket knives, with which they cut down worn straps and car signs as souvenirs. In the first section, which left Borough Hall before 11 p.m., were 500 members of Central Brooklyn civic associations, led by Herbert L.

Carpenter, chairman of the Mayor's Committees on Elevated Removal and Subway Completion, and Sumner Sirtl, chairman of the United Civic Committee for Transit Unification. Reception at Boro Hall On the second section, which left Borough Hall at 11:10, were the Borough President and other Brooklyn officials, who met the Mayor and his entourage at Park Row. Earlier, a reception for the Borough President's Committee had been held at Borough Hall, at which the spirit of the progressive Brooklyn of Tomorrow was much in evidence. Returning with the Mayor and other city officials, the last train rattled out to Rockaway the new western terminal of the Fulton St. Line, for the execution.

David L. Tilly, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, presided and introduced the speakers, who were, in order: Commissioner Delaney, William S. Menden, president of the B. M. Borough President Cashmore and the Mayor.

While Thousands Cheer Thousands cheered the last train en route to Rockaway waving from apartment and tenement windows. More than 15,000 milling Brooklynites gathered at the scene of the execution. The American Legion band's music scarcely could be heard above the din. Others on speakers'stand were Mrs. LaGuardia, Controller Joseph D.

McGoldrick, Miss Helen Cahalane, City Court Justice Murray Hearn, Assemblyman Robert J. Crews, State Senator Edward J. Coughlin, Henry J. Davenport and Thomas A. Swift, president and secretary of the Downtown Brooklyn Association; Mr.

Carpenter, Lloyd I. Herzka, secretary to the Borough President, and Miss Evans. Tomorrow. Sees Bright Future On the last-train-out was Benjamin Grindrod, mortician, in his own right, of 27 Hull who was on the first-train-out in 1888. He told of the puffing steam trains which were the original power plants of the Fulton St.

thought that the wooden cars which constituted the 1t.o. might have been the same antiques which were dragged along in 1888. After three stations were passed on the way to Rockaway Ave. there was not a strap or an emergency cord to hang on to in any of the cars. Souvenir hunters made short work of them.

The noise they made must have roused some of the Fulton St. dwellers who probably didn't realize that the racket marked the last time they would be awakened by the passage of a squeaking elevated train. For we heard no Hallelujahs from them on the last ride. Miss Mary Barnes, ticket agent in the booth at Rockaway sat all alone and watched the crowd file past, the last crowd she'll ever see at the station. She didn't what she would do next, she said, and didn't seem to realize that the crowd filing past was the very last of the Fulton riders to use that station.

She had a bright smile for each and every one of them, however. "Enlist Now!" screamed a sign on the floor of the first car in the lasttrain-out. "'The United States Army needs men like you," it read. Never again would it scream at anybody. Reimer Nurses Fractured Leg Commissioner of Immigration Rudolph Reimer was a patient in Unity Hospital today, suffering from a fractured leg.

It was said at the hospital that he was fairly comfortable. Commissioner Reimer injured his leg when he fell on Memorial Day in the Reimer coal yard at Atlantic Ave. At his home, 2 Montague Terrace, it was said today that if his condition permits, he will be moved to Brooklyn Hospital tomorrow. Man Who Stabbed Girl Taken to Psychopathic Ward Martin Hughes, 35, of 347 Prospect Place, was under police guard in the psychopathic ward of Kings County Hospital today, following a quarrel with Miss Mary Deskin, 29, in the rectory of St. Francis' Roman Catholic Church, 68-24 Ridgewood, where she is employed as a housekeeper.

Hughes, police said, stabbed the girl with a pen knife and then slashed his own throat. He was treated in Wyckoff Heights Hospital, where several stitches were taken, and then removed to Kings County Hospital, under arrest for felonious assault, Italy suffered a severe gasoline shortage during the Ethiopian war, and supplies which she had stored up prior to that campaign were nearly exhausted by the time it was over. Italians were unable to obtain gasoline from other countries because of the "sanctions" laid down by the League of Nations. Special significance was attached to the arrival today of a special military mission which Gen. Francisco Franco of Spain has sent to Italy to inspect Italian defenses.

The mission reached Milan from Genoa, and went immediately to the Brenner Pass. It probably will spend two days in the north and later go to Berlin. Madrid, students demonstrated against the British, demanding Nazis Pierce Dunkirk 'Line Continued From Page 1 saved his army from annihilation by Napoleon's troops. Returning soldiers said Gort had taken personal command of the rear guard fighting. Gort returned to England today, the War Office announced.

Pay Tribute to Gort Grimy but grinning British Tommies, still covered with the muck of battle, said their leader, Gort, stayed behind to direct the rear guard battle being fought to save as many as possible of their buddies and their French and Belgian allies still stranded on the shores about Dunkirk. One officer said Gort faced the danger with the humblest of his men and remarked: "If I know the commander-inchief, he will be the last man to go." The poilus who landed here goodnaturedly accepted the B. E. name for the Dunkirk defensesthe "Corunna line," recalling Sir John Moore's exploit in saving a British army from annihilation by Napoleon's legions in the Peninsular War. Belittle Bomb's Effects The B.

E. F. officers declared that mass bombing attacks have proved to have a stunning effect on troops, but to cause surprisingly few casualties; that this generation of German soldiers is not the equal of their fathers who fought in the World War, and that the German blitzkrieg depends upon a heavy infiltration of spies for a major share of its success. Swarms of fishing boats able to penetrate the shallow waters of the Belgian coast, where warships could not go are playing a big part in the rescue of the B. E.

F. Found Beach Jammed Hardy fishermen and merchant seamen in blue jerseys and high seaboots responded to the call to "get the lads out." They pointed the noses of their saucy little craft Gibraltar for Spain, the Associated 'Press reported. Aznar. leading Spanish journalist, often regarded as spokesman for the government, contended in an article timed to coincide with the arrival of the new British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare, that Britain might as well yield Gibraltar because of its lost military value. rearmed Spain would make Gibraltar indefensible, Aznar Mussolini will meet with his cabinet Tuesday morning.

That night will report to the Fascist on. Grand Council. It already has been announced officially that the cabinet meeting will have an important bearing on Italy's position regarding the war. at the heavily-bombed shores and rescued thousands who otherwise would have been left behind. A silent lot, they had little to say about their share in the exploit.

One fisherman said: "When we got there the beach was as crowded as Blackpool (an English seaside resort) on a bank holiday. Just as we had taken our full load aboard -and a bit overJerry spotted us and started bombing. "But the lads were too pleased to be in a boat to worry. They sang and shouted their defiance at the 'planes." Resume Efforts to Settle Jersey Shipyard Strike Kearny, N. June 1 (AP) -Efforts were resumed today to settle a strike of 8,000 workers at the Federal Shipbuilding Drydock Co.

after all-day negotiations failed to break a deadlock that has halted construction of six United States warships. Employers and representatives of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (C. I. were called back to another conference this morning by a Federal Department of Labor conciliator to seek an end to the tie-up which the union said was "100 percent complete." German Miners Jailed For Calling Boss 'English Berlin, June 1 (U.P)-Two young coal miners have been sentenced, one to four weeks in prison, the other to three weeks, it was made known today, for shouting at their foreman: "You Englishman! You cont belong to Germany; you belong in England." An Aachen court held that this constitued a serious insult "to an honorable German." FO FUNERAL Bros DIRECTORS 1015 HALSEY ST B'KLYN CHAPELS, AURILABLE IN ALL COMMUNITIES Commenting on the banner crowd of 317.058 at the exposition on Memorial Day, Harvey D. Gibson, Fair board chairman, expressed belief that, if figures of a similar size can be rolled up on weekends, the Fair will make money regardless of small weekday turnouts.

Mr. Gibson told reporters that only one "disturbing thing" occurred at the Fair on Thursday and that was, he said, the inability of holders of advance tickets for 40-cent seats at the "American Jubilee" show to gain admission to the theater. To prevent a recurrence and silence protests of misrepresentation by the Fair Corporation, the ecutive revealed, he has issued orders that when 40-cent seats are not available the advance ticket holders are to be given higherpriced ones. Mayor Horace K. T.

Sherwood of Glen Cove announced that more than 1,000 persons will attend Glen Cove Day at the Fair next Friday, setting out on a special train at 10:45 a.m, and returning at 6:45 p.m. Communists in Germany fighting German Comrades Got $18,000 to Fight Hitler, Reds Say the Nazi regime have been enriched $5,000 by the Communist party of the United States during the past six months, the financial report of the party showed today. A spokesman said $18,000 had been sent by the American Communist party to German Communists to aid them in their fight against Hitler since May, 1938. The financial report was issued in connection with the 11th annual convention in session at the Royal Windsor Hotel in Manhattan. The report showed an income of $521,177 and expenditures of $508,756.

William Z. Foster, national chairman, declared that President Roosevelt's armament program was a war program. ship, they have gathered together their furniture, their dishes, and all th equipment of a proud household. And their apartment, fur-' nished to the eggbeater, awaits them at 133 Palmetto St. "If the United States gets into war?" Marjorie thought it over carefully.

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