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TKe Brooklyn Citizen, ThurarZay, OctoSer 17, 1P40 SAFE FROM BATTLE OF BRITAIN a bath through the strengthen Brltsfc defenses as hurricane and psotftre fighter planes coordinated their counter-attacks with heavy nti-arcraft fire from the ground. PLAN MEMORIAL Polish Countess, Widowed by the Xazin, Dedicates Her Life to Defeat of Hitter HARVEST FETE IS CELEBRATED -it 1 7n T0R.INGERS0LL BY BORO JEWS I I- "tf rr, LATE BORO HEAD Commutet to 3 Offices ANN ARBOR, Mich. UR)-J. Ool don MoDonald claims tome sort ol rsoord for commuting. McDonald has three permanent offices, one In Flint, another In Jackson and on hsre.

Jackson Is thirty-four mllei from here and Flint Is forty. Stones to Cost $1,500 to Be Rabbis Preach Special Ser moos Emptasizing Spirit of Sakkoth Erected at Brooklyn Centra! Library Dog Rrscntt Meter Reader BELLEVILLE, 111. (UP) H. K. Harvey, power company employ, went to the home ot Ellis Erhardt to.

read the meter and was bitted In the left leg by Erhardt's dog. When he left the house the dot bit him again In the other Beginning the observance of tr.s Jewish thanksgiving or harvest Memorial to th. )te Boioush President Raymond V. Ilngenull festival, borough Jews attended moA Thaddrua KosduKiko, Pollih services last night at temple and synagogues. Rabbis preached spe cial sermons this morning to emphasise the spirit of Sukkota, or the Feast of Tabernacles.

patriot, who fought In Ine Amerl-ean Revolution, have been approved by the Municipal Art Communion, according to A. Everett Peterson, executive secretary. The commission alio sanctioned Improvements coillnfc 26.OO0. Including a 1 17.1,000 Pai Department maintenance building adjacent to the boardwalk at Wet Sixth atreet, Cnnev Island, and a J75.000 one- Booths were set up outside homes Unbroken inlerett and safety of principal since men it our proud record, DUSHWICK to symbolize the flimsy shelters the Jews used In the wilderness through hlch they wandered in their I GSAND il. Al WtAHAM AVL.

MOCMUTN search for Palestine. Branches or palms, willow, myrtle and citron placed over the booths signify fruit- fulness. Distinctly a Brooklyn Institution For Reform Jews the feast will tory brick field home and comfort station in the play area located on the westerly aide of Albany avenue, between East New Tork and Lef-ferts avenues. Dr. Peterson aald that the Inger- last eight days and will be one day (Owlnl Prw) Mm mmm longer for Orthodox and Conserva TrrNGS COUNTY tive Jews.

Trust Company During the celebration the cycle is a home bank born of reading the Bible will be com- Refugees from the Battle of Britain, these evacuees are shown as they arrived lure aboard the Northern Prince. At left, are Carol and Msrgaret Von den Broek, 14 and 13' respectively, who on their first attempt to reach the U. S. were aboard the Volendam, torpodoed off Scotland. At right are Mrs.

Enid R. Gunning and her son Peter. Her husband is judge advocate of British army't Scottish command. in Brooklyn El years asro pleted and the new cycle started and serving Brooklynitei with the reading of the first chap ith a friendly, interested ter of Genesis community spirit. Our main Top left.

Count Chlapowaki, who died In a Nasi prison. Top right, one of the Chlapowskl castles in Poland. Lower left, the present eonnt, aide-de-camp of General SikorskI, commander-in-chief of Polish forces in England, stands by as his chief reviews his troop. Lower right, the Countess Helen Chlspowska. Boro Churches to Take oll memorial will De an carved In two granite eapatonea at the terminations of a granite parapet nankin the main terrace atepl of the new Brooklyn Central Library at Flatbush avenue and Eastern Parkway.

The stones will be erected at a coat of J1.500. The commission approved a modified design for two tablets, bearing the name of Thaddeus Koscius-tko, to be mounted on the Brooklyn and Queens portals of the main truss span of the old Meeker Ave-aue Bridge, which was recently aamed for the Polish patriot. office la our only office. It has complete facilities at your command. CAriTAl.

ssee.eee Si kpi.ir M.ooQ.ooe KINGS COUNTY TRUST COMPANY SU fULTON ITIIIT ata FiSml 0 immn Otrmntue Part in Annual Session PLEA BY MAYOR SEEN ASSURING Her husband dead in a Nazi pris REDARMYSAYS GERMAN AERIAL WAR HAS FAILED Of Mission to Lepers refused to flee from their country estate near Pozcn when the blitzkrieg struck in August, 1939. Although the count was retired from the countess, who escaped through the intervention of the King of Sweden and the Queen of Italy. The latter sent Dino Alfieri, Italian ambassador to Berlin, to Heinrich on and ber country crushed by the German blitzkrieg, the Countess Helen Chlapowska, once one of the wealthiest women in Poland and a leader of continental society, lives Two-Daj Conference of Ameri BORO DRYDOCK official life, both were immediately thrown into prison. Twice the countess was put before a firing squad when she refused to become a spy can OrjanLxartioo. Gets Under Way Tooijnt Between one hundred and fifty of the Gestapo or to divulge in Tflf Continued from Page One Continued from Page On Himmler, Gestapo chief, to plead for release of the countess.

As a result, the was allowed to flee to Italy, thene to France. When Paris fell to the Germans, she was forced to take flight again. "I have come to she erplains, "because I think that from here I shall be able to work for lib formation. The guns were raised and she heard the command, "Fire." Medical Stenography Course Ofered by WPA Afterwards she was told it was a sideratlon comprises more than and two hundred Brooklyn churches naval base during the night, the Air Ministry aald today. Attacks on Hamburg.

Bremen and Cuxhaven joke. forty-two acres. I Title Guarantee andTrust Company Founded 1883 are participating in the thirty-third annual meetintr of the American Her husband contracted pneumo LaGuardla told the naval board At Public School 167 that he had been Interested In a nia in his barren prison cell, which remained unheated throughout the Mission to Lepers being held in had good results. It was said. Other British squadrons made a eration of my country.

This can be done only through the defeat of Nazism throughout the world. Like today with but one purpose in life, the defeat of Nazism. Seated in a peaceful hotel room in New York, till a little tired after ber clipper flight from Europe, the wife of the late Polish ambassador to France has before her a small suitcase, holding all her earthly belongings. Fro ii it she takes "the most valuable tiling I have saved fajr diary, kept during the nineteen weeks I pent in a Nazi Jail." The countess explains, "If my memory ever falters, if I ever start forgetting what has happened to my country and to me, I only have to read one page of this Determined to share the fate of their people, the count and countess Manhattan tonight and tomorrow. dinner In the Great Northern my 20-year-old son, who is an aide- super-drydock since he was In the House of Representatives, adding that in the last two years he had had a survey made as to the possibility o'f such a project severe Polish winter, in accordance with the Nazi theory that the Poles are "an inferior race which must be destroyed." Hotel at 6:15 p.

m. tonight opens concentrated attarck on synthetic oil production plant at Leuna. the ministry said, and scored direct hits on munitions factories and power Professional or Non-Profei-libnal Men and Women May Join Clan de-camp of General Sikorski, commander-in-chief of Polish forces in the meeting, followed by a session England, I shall continue to do As a special favor, the count Praising Cashmore's work in be stations in Saxony. ess relates, "I was permitted to be In the Calvary Baptist Church, No. 123 West Fifty-aeventh street, Manhattan, and morning and atfernoon TITLE INSURANCE BANKING TRUSTS MORTGAGE SERVICING half of the drydock site, the Mayor at his bedside when he died." all to banish the evil which took-my husband and my country, but which cannot rob me of my faith in the ultimate defeat of Nazism." declared that Brooklyn had better BERLIN.

Oct 17 (UP) Naals said Few persons in Nazi-conquered sessions on Friday. Poland have been so fortunate as I facilities than any other community. today that German plane fleets had resumed their unremitting attacks The Brooklyn churches contribute The drydock is expected to accom modate vessels up to 45,000 tons. on London funds to the world-wide work to check leprosy and provide medical and humanitarian care for its suf Rear Admiral Ralph H. Whitman, German reconnaissance planes.

DRAFT LOTTERY BRITAIN LIFTS A free course In medical stenography, said to be the first ever offered in Brooklyn, Is being given onder sponsorship of the WPA Adult Education Program sponsored by the. Board Of Education in afternoon and evening classes dally, Monday through Friday, at Publ'c School 167, Schenectady avenue and Eastern parkway, according; to an official announcement. Among the The purpose of the course is to teach shorthand symbols needed for medical reporting or writing, the correct definition and pronun they said, observed "nsw fires in factories and warehouses in London, Title Itanrmttty Banking Offitee NEW YORK BROOKLYN chairman of the board hearing, said that representatives from Bay-onne and Staten Island would be heard at a later date. southern England and the Midlands" fers, which ia carried on by the American Mission to Lepers in cooperation with churches of all denominations and mission boards. ciation of medical terms, and a as the result of bombs dropped during the night 17) RtnuMiSc.

194 Monucua St. JAMAICA 160-08 Juuica Ave. 17fl Breadwty 6 Euc 4di Sc. BRONX )70Eut baalo understanding of human anatomy and various diseases. By It was admitted that raids on Lon eighty students currentl enrolled BANONBURMA ROADTRAFFIC Continued from Page On TOTAKEPLACE BY NOVEMBER 2 Continued from Page One I -t 3 are: court stenographers, doctors' office assistants, graduate and pro don, Birmingham and Liverpool were not as intensive ss on the previous night, partly because of bad weather Oiitho Record LONG ISLAND CITY Snip Plu North Title Insurance Offices WhitrPUuu St.

Cwft, S. I. Kivwhd MimoU bationary nurses and men and worn-em classified ss non-professional. i 5,000 sweating, -singing Chinese coolies had labored all day Thursday to load 2,000 American-built trucks for LONDON, Oct. IT (UP) British fighter planes ranging swiftly through the clouds, ovsr southeast i England fought off strong German aerial squadrons today in many i In ths Sunday School of the South Third Street Presbyterian Church, there Is a small bronze tablet Inscribed to ths memory of Charlie Weber, a lad who died in 1938 from a strange disease, but who had been so Interested in helping lepers, that he used to charge his friends a penny apiece for the privilege of viaiting him, and looking at his legs, swollen by the disease.

These pennies went Into a little box for the American Mission to Lepers. A well known music lesdsr of Brooklyn, Arthur Billings Hunt, la to be the baritone soloist at this evening's meeting. Continued Prom Page One means of an anatomical chart the students learn the names and location of bones, rquscles and other parts of the human frame, and the shorthand symbols used in their designation. Dictation begins at about forty worda per minute and Is gradually speeded up to 90-100 or more. Any man or woman, professional or non-profeaslonal.

may join the course, but special requirements are seventeen years minimum and high school education or Its equivalent. Prospective students may reg-1 Ister at the school any afternoon Mmbt. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. BUTLER At Belleville. N.

Oct. kHIo Rutler (nee Plttard) in each local board and State to insure absolute fairness In the choice of serial numbers. After the local boards have ahuf-fled and numbered the cards, they submit the numbers to the State draft headquarters. The State headquartera then tells national Selective Service officials the highest numbers allotted in the respective short, fierce aerial battles. Only a few Nasi' bombers biased 'wife of Irving F.

and mother of 'Irving T. Butler. Services at the home. 90 Ross- dispatch over the highway to Chungking. TOKYO, Oct 17 O) Newspapers, In angry editorials on the reopening of the Burma road to China, made threats against British States.

Hong Kong today and said that the government would pay particular atention to the fact that ships carrying American supplies for USED CAR SPECIALS more place, on Thursaav evening. o'clock. Interment Evergreens Cemetery. CLARK Monday, Oct. 14.

Daniel beloved husband of the Essie Clark, loving father of Mrs. Esther Zschorna, Mrs. Marguerite Hespe, Mrs. Agnes Ellison, Virginia Clark and the late Mrs. Mabel Brunner.

Funeral from his home, J2 Lexington Freeport, L. Friday. Oct. 18. Requiem mass or evening until 10 o'clock, Mon day through Friday.

Annual Foil Open House Of Goodwill Industries The national authorities determine the highest number allotted In the entire country. Slips of paper will be numbered from one to the highest number allotted by and local draft board. China called there on their way to Burma. It was asserted that the government, regarding the reopening of the Burma road as British-Ameri Twelve New Port'm Twelvwe more women in the Sec $365 floor, he aeemed hardly in what you might have termed an enthusiastic mood. In fact even thought we detected a marked Inclination on his part towards dallying along the way and a distinct stretching out of the greetings he gave his many friends.

On the other hand, Secretary of State Mike Walsh always seems in the best of spirits when it comes time for the parade. He hurried along brisklyi beaming at everyone and hustling the laggards before him. A flat but polite refusal was made by former Assistant U. S. Attorney Jack Starkey, Democratic candidate for the Assembly, at the affair.

He explained that he had gone to the ball stag nad shook his head In a determined "No" when requested to become one of the paradera. CHRIS. '38 cyl. trunk sedan, radio, heater. white wall tires, black finish.

FEINSMITH, Empire Blvd. jpv. 4 -ft ST The annual fall open house of Goodwill Industries of Brooklyn, No. DeKalb avenue, will be observed from Oct 93 to 39, -V DeLuxe Door sedan rsdlo. heater, guar can retaliation to its alliance with Germany and Italy, would be compelled to take "proper and effective measures If British authorities ignored Japan's wlahes and used Hong Kong "as a "base for pro-Chinese and anti-Japanese FORD '39 from to 8 p.

m. Each day the Women's Auxiliary, anteed, low mileage. Henrr Motors, eorl Bins nss 1898 Hlshwar and Chnreh Ave, v. Dfl 3-1 Because the higheat number to register in any local board area was 4.599, the figure reached In one district in Queens. It was Indicated almost positively that this number would be the highest to be placed In the bowl These slips are then fitted into capsules and placed In a bowl From this bowl, national officials, possibly ond Judicial Department, of which Brooklyn is a part, today were eligible for the title of "Portia." They were among the group of 133 lawyers admitted to the bar in a ceremony In the Appellate Division courthouse yesterday.

Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky, of that court, administered the oath, and Associate Justice Frank F. Abel made a brief address. Church of Our Holy Redeemer, freeport, 10 o'clock. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. DOYLE Michael, on Oct.

1. beloved father of Sister Coneolota Maria, Mrs. 'William Goff. James, Martin and Thomas: also survived bv two brothers. Thomas nd James, aid a sister, Mrs.

Xatherine Farrell. Funeral from his home, 7-s 86th Glendale. Solemn requiem mass Friday. 10 a. Sacred Heart R.

C. Church. Glendale. Interment Calvary Cemetery. JIUSTED Mary L.

on Oct 14, in her 73d vear; widow of William A Hurted, devoted mother or Mrs. Wesley Lewis and Mrs. Susie Cq.ii DODGE Sedan 25.25 of which Mrs. Gordon K. Smith Is president, will act ss hostesses to the visitors who will see how handicapped, aged and crippled people can be taught trsvdes and returned to self-support through the reconditioning of cast-off clothing, shoes, furniture, etc '33 PONT.

Sedan .45.45 starting with President Roosevelt, will drew the capsules King Henry Vm of England started the fad for broad-toed ahoes because he was afflicted with gout and thla was the only type of shoe he could wear with comfort. The capsules will be drawn '34 FORD Sedan. 45.45 '33 BUICK Sedan 55.55 '36 OLDS. Sedan. 196.95 '36 BUICK Sedan.

196.95 '38PLYM. Sedan. 196.95 '36 LIN. Zep. Sed.

196.95 '36 PONT. Coupe. 196.95 '36 PACK. Sedan. 196.95 '37 PONT.Sedan .227:25 singly and opened Individually.

If No. 833 is the first number drawn, then every registrant having that Services at her home. 63 Bur- Billfold Empty; 5 Years DETROIT (U.R Edward- Murphy, 81, serving a five to ten year sentence for the theft of an empty billfold from a street car passenger. Recorder's Judge John J. Maher said he had imposed the stiff sentence because of Murphy's record of 100 arrests and twenty-four Jail terms In ten States on similar '34 OLDS.

Sedan 75.75 '34 DODGE Sedan. 75.75 '35 FORD Sedan 75.75 75.75 tls Oyster Bay, L. on Thursday. Oct. 17, at 2:30 p.

m. JiEARA Marv T. (nee Dempsey). loving wife of Edward J. and mnihr nf Anne, auddenly.

'37 OLDS. Sedan .247.45 nVa an on Oct 15. at her home, 1 Cramp- 37 PACK. Sedan. 267.65 '37 PACK.

Cv.Cp. 277.75 '35 BUICK Sedan. 95.95 '35 OLDS. Cv.Cpe. 95.95 '35 PONT.

Sedan. 95.95 '36 FORD Sedan 95.95 '37 FORD Sedan. 141.40 '36 PACK Coupe. 146.45 '36 La SALLE Sed. 196.95 Audio SaLi '38 CHRYS.

Sed. 297.95 37 BUICK Sedan .297.95 39 STUDL Sed. 338.35 39 OLDS. Sedan .439.35 39 CHRYS. Sed.

.499.95 39 BUICK Sedan. 499.95 KAPLAN. HELTA nr-r is rf.SsTvV r- 4 at 11 A. at 118 Wiv.rlv number on his registration eard will be given Order No. It means they will be the first to receive questionnaires concerning their availability for military service.

Those holding Order No. 1 and having no reason for exemption, will be Inducted first Into the army. This process will be repeated until the requisite 400,000 men desired by army official at this tims, have been selected. Because approximately 16,000,000 men registered yesterday, Selective Service authorities believe that the questionalres need not be sent out by the local boards at the rate of more than fifty a week. The draft In this city proceeded smoothly.

A corps of "trouble shooters," under the direction of Dr. assistant superintendent of schools, gathered in tht Board of Education Building, of No. 110 Livingston street, at a. m. yesterday and remained until 11:30 p.

constitutlngthe longest day In schoo history. But there was 'ittle for tiem to do as the 24.000 teachers vrbo worked in two shifts 'a TUschool perfoitned their tasks well BTeTyn. Ford Roadater. Mntnr Vn' '38 Willy's 196.95 U23706. aoct.

Domenick Anutuio. ton Great NecK. i j- Requiem mass Oct. 18, Bt Aloysius Church, Great Neck, at 10 a. m.

RAHAEUSER On Tuesday. Oct IS, Adolph beloved husband of Augusta father of Walter A. Rahaeuaer and brother of Mrs Henry A. Regel. Funeral services at his home, 1830 East Third at, FTlday.

Oct. 18, at 6 p. m. HOLLER Oct. 15, Christian fr-Te loved husband of Bertbaj Men Roller and father of Isabelle Bovd and Norman Roller.

Funeral services at his home, 83 Ketcham Amltyville, L. Thursday at 8:30 p. m. Cremation at Fresh Pond, Friday, 10:15 a m. THE CATHOLIC LAWYERS GUILD of Brooklyn records with deep regret the death of Francis J.

Sullivan, beloved member of its board of governors. Members will kindly attend requiem mas tomorrow. WREN Christopher, on Oct. 15, at his home. 238 Ninety-second st.

Beloved husband of the late Fran-res Timms ren, loving father of ilrs. Grace Martin and Lawrence. Funeral Frldav. :30. Maw of tequiem 8t Patricks Church.

H. KAPLAN. SELLS OCT. 18, 1MO. at 13:10 P.

at 301 Bute B'klv-n, Pontlac Sedan. Motor No. 734696. retaken from Thos. Terronova.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICE -wJIXtt TRADES ACCEPTED EAST TERMS! NEW JERSEY TITLES GUARANTEED MIDTOUri MOTOR MART, Inc. 2040 BROADWAY, Cor. 70th Near Tied M. Mowsr StoHea. OPEN SUNDAYS AND EVENINGS.

LH BANKRUPTCY UNITED 8TATS v.D,"tL,cte.u". District of New Terk. In the matter ot S. HERN AND tl ksws ALBKRT Nl.ltMVIllr MONU MERNANDLZ and A. Hl i.

KANDRZ, BAMRBIPT. iven. that by orlr )V the Unriminuil Piotice is nrDy gi md Oct. 14. 1940.

Nov. 19. 140. hu been filed tn lut day for the niina' of objections to UV hankr'int'n d'erHarr-. Pated- Brooklyn.

N. 01. 14. W1LHOT L. MORE lOUaE.

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