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BROOKLYN EAGLE, APR. 21, 1947 City Hall Slants VACCINATIONS START TODAY IN Jackie Robinson Finds 1st Homer Cured His Jitters in Pleasing Fans By Haroid H. Harris BORO CHURCH OBSERVES 100TH YEAR OF SERVICE 3,000 crt Pressmen's Dancaf More than 3,000 person attended, the 3d annual dance and entertain-, ment of the New York Newspaper, Printing Pressman Union, held ak the Hotel St. George. Proceeds wH be used for the benefit of aged and ill members.

Herman Swltaer iu rhalrman for the event. UTE HOPE MAYOR O'DWYER gets plenty of. rest the next'IT CrUftfil VV two weeks idling around the cactus on his brother's. jLhUULj California ranch. For when he returns May 1 he'll iindi By MILT SMITH The adulation of Dodser fens was another desk-load of municipal Droblems awaiting his at- Four hundred Health Department doctors aided by several hundred beginning to make Jackie Robinson nurses today will start the enorm-'ioge confidence in himself-but he's 1 r'H irVi ('1 oua taste of vaccinating the city's all right now.

The week -long celebration of the Josepn pwyer Is president of the 100th anniversary of the founding! un0n. In 1847 of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, Clinton a and Montague opened yester-, day with the Rt. Rev; James P. De-1 Wolfe. BlshoD of the Dtoreee of; pupils.

Three hours before he hit his first Within about a week all will have major league homer Jacicie con-been vaccinated, according to Dr. Uersation was shot through with tention. On top will be the housing situation, followed by rehabilitation of the subway system and the formulation of a labor relations policy for the transit workers. It is also expected that the Mayor will name a new, salaried chairman of the Housing Authority shortly after he gets back so that the housing program may be lined up and ready to roll into action when Edmond Borgia Butler quits. Next will come a study to regrade Civil Service personnel and the proposed consolidation of the Fire, Police and Correction Departments and Public Works with Sanitation toward possible budgetary Israel weinstein, Health commis-idOUbts and feats.

sioner. High school students in He found that fans applauded him for the most trivial things, but parochial and public schools will be vaccinated first. After they have he knew they wanted hits. Others Long Island, as guest preacher at, the 11 o'clock morning services. Bishop De Wolfe reminded a con-, gregation of 600 that filled the; church for the morning which Included confirmation of a Deen immumwa me notion aim WV.H him nrk.

nurses wil lturn their attentions Th. hit economies. Upon his return O'Dwyer also will be called schools. White wool Athletic Sock too. It all combined to make that to fill two Maeistrate vacancies slated for Brooklynites, and Dr.

weinstein said class of 20 persons, that while the existence of the church for 100 years might seem like a long time to the members it was almost as nothing in the sight of God. Sharing In the service was the look around for candidates for Commissioner of Turchase enotbTu "When I step up to the p.ate my Director of WNYC, and Deputy Commissioner of Marine and rw toryT.ri set tense and I don't swing Aviation. school In most instances this has reely." he said before he hit the been at least eight vears. homer- I I swing at TNTIMATES OF COUNTY REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHNNY 'uni'er'thailSO i MxioU to'pleasejhe CREWS confide that a Democratic appointee to the Fed- more were vaccinated at pubiic wo Methods Offered eral judgeship vacancy may be held up by the Republican-centers yesterday. He felt, at the time of the inter- rontrolled Senate until a satisfactory arrangement is made: To spur the rest of the city's view, that there were two way he 1 7 I Rev.

Dr. John Howard Melish, rector of the church for the last 43 I years, and his son, the Rev. Wil fx -t yx liam Howard Melish, assistant rector. Dr. Melish will preach the centennial sermon next Sunday.

Choirs of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour, the First Presby on the nominees for the three Supreme Court bench jobs population, ionn air rma rueiialCOuiri relieve his anxiety. to be filled this Fall It is reported that the late County I rkArtArw.ai initan Crantr KtMlv nan aprppn tn rpi infill is i i "I could act as if I didn't give damn, and just wait until I hit iKiuviiaia utauii -i uciils iu uiuu a jjuiiuc Bta i ri 41 1.. JU: 4a DAIlllhlioan OI-i1 oVA olAnV Tn a innr Kan lih iinrai a 1c nr 1 terian, Grace, St. Ann's and Holy Trinity Churches participated in zr- vi 'Wvs; vm r. -nut.

that noil work Knii ui hoar hr dv Drivaie DnvRicians. bi-partisan indorsement for all three i because I'm too much involved to the community choir service last night. The celebration continues to no new Milan pox caws were re- ported over the weekend. Of the eight persons known to have contracted the disease two are dead, four are at Cardinal Hayes Con dismiss It." "Or, I could get some hits. All I need is a good one to start hat's the method Jackie used.

Shortly after his first homer i Mrs. Rachel Robinson, Jackie's night at 8 p.m. with athletic eve'its by children of Holy Trinity in the gymnasium of the Trinity Fraternity Club, adjacent to the church. The parish centennial dinner will be held In the gymnasium Wednes- valescent Home in Millbrook, N. 1, and two are "Improving" at Wil-i good-looking wife, said "Jackie's aid Parker Hospital.

i all right now. I never doubted him. because I knew he could do it. I jday night. Ogl Staff photo THE ROBINSON FAMILY Jackie applies the bottle to his son and heir, five-month-old Jack, while his wife, Rachef, keeps a watchful eye on the proceedings.

Comb Suffolk Shore know he'll hit In the 300 percent class, I just know he will. Recalls Early Hitting But a shore while before that is some uncertainty among the county Democratic powers' whether they would like to go ahead with the "deal." especially since the voters will he asked next November to set up a new 10th Judicial District in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Republican strongholds. AFTER HOSPITALS COMMISSIONER BERNECKER com-pleted his periodic medical examination of Mayor O'Dwyer the other day, Bill Donoghue, the Mayor's executive secretary, asked the Commissioner to give him the once-over. Donoghue took one look at the wavering needle on the blood pressure gauge and immediately took off on a week's vacation. JUT ANY A CITY HALL WIT had a field day when Councilman Connolly introduced a resolution to change the name of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel to the "Hercules Mulligan Tunnel" in honor of a Revolutionary War patriot and pioneer politician.

One politico pointed to the fight between Democratic Leader Pat McCarren and Tammany Boss Charlie Murphy, when the cry among the Brooklynites was "the Tammany Tiger shall not cross the bridge." Recalling Jackie said: "I don't know whether For 2 Anglers After can plan this kind of ball or not, (I have confidence, but you really Priest Stabbed at Altar Winning Fight for Life GOP Meets to Pick '48 Convention City Kansas City, Mo April 21 (U.B Republicans should know tonight whether their 1948 national convention will be held at Chicago or Philadelphia. The GOP's National Committee meets here today for the first of a two-day session to nick fie conven can tell until you've played it." i 3 prs. 20 Body of 3d Is Found He believed that he hit rather well East Moriches, April 21 An air In the training camp, but there were no adoring fans around him them. But when I get up to the plate in the park and see horn enthusiastic the crowds are and how eager they The attack occurred during the New Orleans, April 21 (U.Rl md sea search for two Brooklyn men was scheduled to be resumed today after the body of a third 11 a.m. services as Father Courtney Stabbed four times during a high mass yesterday, the Rev.

James Courtney, S.J., was given "better completed distribution of commu tion site and study party finances. If are lor me to make good I grow tense. I want to satisfy them. Brooklyn man was found floating in Moriches Bay off Mastic Beach. nlon at the altar rail of the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

than an even chance to recover today by doctors at Mercy Hospital. The condition of the 47-year-old "Maybe the anxiety Is lust per The body of Nicholas Byrnes, 35, unicago already nas announced Its bid for next year's meeting, at i which a Presidential nominee will 1 be and Philadelphia re The trouble with lots of wool sports socks is-they shrink! But these John Ward socks for active athletes are shrink-controlled to within They're all wool -heavy-" weight wool soft yarn wool that acts as a shock absorber on court, fairway or deck. In white only and only in sizes 11 and 12. Hurry! After the last communicant had sonal, but anyhow it's there." 145 Autumn was found yester that Hercules Mulligan was a charter member of the Order Jackie doesn't feel that he's a Jesuit priest was described as "very good" following a satisfactory night. received communion, Laurentz leaped at the priest, striking him day after a power boat, operated by Ova Becken of Manorvllle, had of Tammany, this City Hall punster remarked: "They couldn't get the Tammany Tiger across the bridge so now once in the neck, twice in the lace "test case" and that the signing of other Negro ball players depends on how good he is.

vealed last night that an official civic group will try to entice the general meeting with a bid almost He was given plasma. Hundreds of persons offered whole blood but physicians said no transfusion appeared necessary. ammed an overturned rowboat. A police investigation revealed hat Byrnes and two other men had ented a rowboat here to go fish they're going to try and sneak him into Brooklyn under with a pocket knife and then, as Father Courtney turned away from him to protect the Chalice, once Refers to Baltimore double that of Chicago's. water via a tunnel." Mayor Bernard Samuels of Phila "I actually believe others will be ing.

signed no matter what fcippens to more in the back. The priest fell to the floor unconscious. Laurentz leaped over the The two other men were Identified pITY HALL INSIDERS SAY that Mayor O'Dwyer probably me," ne said delphia said his city was prepared to lay down $200,000 cash for con-1 vention expenses and $50,000 for1 convention entertainment. Besides Police questioned Don L. Laurentz of Houston, sullen former marine, seeking an explanation for the attack.

The stocky 27-year-old Laurentz, believed to have arrived is Granville Eglestrom, 38, 470 He also believes the best wav for will stay on the sidelines re abolishing the proportional altar rail, seeking to follow up the anyone, white or Negro, to get into Cleveland and William Buck, 19, whose address "was given only is Jerome St. assault, but eight men, most of them ushers, beat him away. representation system of electing City Councilmen. Private Iv, O'Dwyer is believed to favor the ditching of P. de that, he promised 8,000 first class hotel rooms for delegates and 2.000 other rooms which he described aa! tne Dig leagues is to come up after apprenticeship in the minors.

Any other way is "forcing and that is in New Orleans four days ago on a merchant ship, only stared at his Questioners. He admitted he was a New Orleans Archbishop Joseph While flares were dropped from a Francis Rummel Instructed the Rev scribed by some politicos as the "great bingo game," but doesn't wish to incur the displeasure of the Liberal and Oohn Ward not nealthy Lawrence O'Neill, S.J., president of Coast Guard plane, crews of Coast 3uard boats and a Brookhaven Town police boat scoured the waters non-Catholic. Police Lt. Warren Phillips described him as "a non the Jesuit High School in New Orleans, to rebless the church at descript psychopathic case of some vithout success. American Labor parties by an open declaration of his views.

A LARGE PORTION OF GAMBLING CASES brought before "secondary." Patino, Tin Industry King; One of World's Richest Buenos Aires, April 21 Funeral services will be held here today for Don Simon I. Patino, 87- o'clock this morning, sort. Police believe the trio's boat, which had an outboard motor, was overturned by yesterday's rough the Special Sessions bench have resulted in acquittals lem. "Do you think you could flndjcampaign chairman and Mrs. Bar A year ago, when he first signed with the Montreal club, Jackie had another worry.

He wes afraid that spectators and players would be hostile to him. "It was pretty rough in Baltimore the first time, but that cleared up." So far, spectators appear strongly in his favor during the short time he has been in the majors. "I have to duck the crowd after rh hall oania VkA in I itn- water. or were otherwise discharged because of lack of evidence me an apartment in Brooklyn close rett Andrews, national membership year-old tin king, who died in his to Ebbets Fields?" Men's Shoes and Hosiery chairman, will report on interviews palatial hotel suite yesterday. Chief Justice George DeLuca maintains this condition is due probably to the "policy of harassment pursued by the Police A heart seizure killed the mag with 70 Senators and many Repre Becken, who said he did not see the overturned boat until it was too late to avoid hittin git, told police it was anchored.

The boat was rented from the And speaking of Ebbets Field he was reminded of another thing. 'It would be better if the fans would cheer me only when I do nate, one of the world's richest men, whose personal fortune has Department against the gambling element." The jurist has requested an additional court of three justices in Brooklyn, sentatives. Chairmen and vice chairmen of been estimated at between or an extra gambling part to relieve the congestion of cases. I Sunrise fishing station here and thejcrowds can be pretty rough on a three men had brought along their 'fellow. I guess they could tear your something worthwhile, and razn me, the committee for Brooklyn Con-when I pull a boner.

I just want to'gresslonal districts will be elected 000 and $500,000,000. Patlno's control of the tin Indus own outboard motor. Brooklyn: FUtbaih near Church M8 Fulton near Boro Hall Manhattan: 42nd oearMadisoa 1 7 Cortlandt Street Broadway at 25th and 8th Bronx 3 14 East Fotdham Road iwc ultra vi i. iat. the meeting, Mrs.

Samuel Schind- try was so complete that every can on grocery shelves throughout the TWTEMO TO BOROUGH PRESIDENT CASHMORE AND POLICE COMMISSIONER WALLANDER: Isn't it about ler, committee chairman, a I world meant a profit for him. time that some regulations were handed down to speed Urjnfprr Ifl vphirnlar traffic in Brooklyn? DeeD ruts alone I IIIICI 3 If III know how to handle the more zeal- ous fans. a Family Man Women's Peace Action People seem to forget, lie Meets Tomorrow ins a babv In a. hntpi rnnm Dodhai I Women's Action Committee Ave. and downtown Borough Hall are ruining too many good tires.

the for Wage Increases AUSTIN J. TOBIN, executive director of the Port of New; Members cf the New York Tvpo- York Authority, who'll become Mr. Big of the airport graphical Union No. 6 voted yester-development plan, lives at 13 Monroe Place Communists1 10 accept terms of a new con- vour aonits weiM and I have to eat In restaurants lnLaslIng Peace will meet tomorrow at shifts so that one of us is always'2 pm. in the Y.

W. C. 30 3d an' miX hls!" "Port- of national chair-iormuia on an electric stove on a trunk. men on the annual convention of Despite mixing formulas and the committee, held recently in eating in shift he goes to Washlngton, C. Association of New York City.

will make a hero out of Henry Wallace during their May Day demonstration Democratic Leader Nat Math, we believe, Francis Barrett, chairman of the is the first in the county to make his clubhouse available scale committee, addressing the p.m., an hour after the five-1 Mrs. Dana Converse Backus, vice months-old babv's last feerilno- Vhoirman nf t.ho national rommil- That adds up to one more prob- tee; Mrs. Raymond Brown, national for smallpox immunization When President Aleman members in the Livingston. Mexico comes to New York for an official reception May I TS.TS fir HJE ne 11 ne on ine ro irom a.m. unui ine cany nours ui nie and urKed tne members to vote or next morning, according to State Department itinerary.

lis acceptance. The vote of those present was pRANK A. CUNNINGHAM son of the Red Hook Demo-e52ancfor and 211 aaainst cratic leader, is a bit shy about a recent gallant perform-; Tne contract is to run for one Rnce. While standing on the Brooklyn Bridge I. R.

T. sta-ear effective from April 1947, tion, Frank saw a man topple in a faint from the platform scale for days will be $90, and land on the track Hearing the rumble of the approach-eprel SAFE ECONOMICAL Spring Cleaning? WHY NOT LET US HELP CREATE A Charming Selling For You 395 jug capicoo in iic uictam.c, i lauft niv, sents a 112.50 increase for day pushed the man back to the platform. When helping hands, day workers, for night workers took over, Frank boarded the next train and went unas-'and $16.50 for those working the Rumedly about his affairs in the Correction Department. Iobst" Vick, cont.r!K:t als0 oumcuijf ouuu provides for 3 weeks vacations with pay. pORMER MAYOR JOSEPH V.

McKEE today knows that fame is a fleeting thing. McKee sat unrecognized F0R BROOKLYN veterans axy FUR COAT AIRBLOWN STORED INSURED 179 JL SJOv AXY SMvafuatie through a recent meeting or the Boarn or Estimate, a body nver which he ruled when he was Mayor for a year after the resignation of Jimmy Walker Popular song along political alley is: "Oh, Where are Those Promises of Yesteryear?" Practically every would-be politician is moaning about promises that are not being kept Wonder what's Sylvan Kunnan'g VETERAN IN BROOKLYN appears every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday in the Brooklyn Eagle a valuable and reliable guide for Brooklyn veterans confronted with postwar problems. CLOTH COAT (Untrimmed) CLEANED STORED INSURED FUR TRIMMED COAT CLEANED STORED INSURED the reason for frequent City Han-pgg visits of local jurist? We told. Is 995 J'W ANY MvoluarlM amms SAVE ON ONE-PRICE HOUSEHOLD CLEANING! 1 you weks ago that O'Dwyer would i reappoint Charles Murphy of Queens to full ten-year term as magistrate Assistant District Attorney js E. Cone of Bay Ridge was in rioted huddle with Bill O' before the latter left for the coast Those wedding bells are ringing or Kid Goodman, son of Deputy Labor I Commissioner Abe J.

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