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THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN," WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 1937. Page Three NEW $80,000 WILLIAMSBURG PLAYGROUND OPENED Paralytic Stroke Fold DYKMAN RITES nrr To Battalion Chief Powell ARE SCHEDULED TOBEPRIVATE talion Chief last March and waa assigned to tha Fifth Battalion, with quarters in Spring street near Hudson street. Previously ha had been captain of Engine Company No. 33, in Great Jones street, near the Bowery, which is the night headquarters of Fire, Commissioner John J. McElllgott.

He had. passed almost all his life in the Fire Department in downtown Manhattan. His wife survives. the Brooklyn avenue station, who was off duty, waa the policeman who had a narrow escape from-' one of Romano'a two guns during the chase. While on his way to visit his mother, Mrs.

Etta Rubin, at Nci. 288 New Lots avenue, Rubin saw the pursuit and joined In. One of the bullets, barely missing a vital place, clipped his arm. He was taken to Trinity Hospital. Mrs.

Sarah Markowitz, 53. of No. R7 BULLET HALTS TWO-GUN MAN IN WILD CHASE Policeman and Woman Also Wounded as Shots Fill the Air Battalion Chief Thomas F. J. Powell, of the Fire Department, died at Wyckoff Heights Hospital, yesterday, half an hour after he suffered a paralytic stroke while driving his car at Seventy-ninth street and Metropolitan avenue, Glendale, Queens, on his way home.

He was SO years old and lived at No. 105-20 193d street, Hollls, Quetns. Mr. Powell was promoted to Bat corporation Lawyer Dies Many a man falls to make food because he loved his ease too much. at Glen Cove at 82 After Brief Illness Malta street, sitting in front of her door was struck by another bullet.

She remained at home after being treated for a flesh wound by a Trinity Hospital doctor. The chase began at about 6 p. nr. when Detective Louis Schwartz of the Fort Hamilton station, who was off duty. saw Romano and another man on New Lots avenue, near Snedeker.

When he sought to question them, they ran. Schwartz chased both of them down New Lots avenue to Williams. Private funeral services will be than Iield for the late William Nelson ykman, borough attorney and ex- wuwer irmy officer and Indian fighter, vho died yesterday at hie country lome in Glen Cove, L. after a irlef Illness. The last rites will be at his country estate.

The 82-year-old attorney had prac- After loading police a wild chase through East New York, during which rattling pistol fire sent startled residents tumbling tp cover, Robert Romano, 41, of No. 120 Powell street was to-day in Trinity Hospital apparently recovering from a wound in his stomach. A two-gun thug, police say, Romano was brought down after he haawounded a policeman who pursued him in the arm and a woman bystander had been slightly wounded In her chest. When Romano recoverj, he will face trial on charges of felonious assault and violation nf the Sullivan Law. lised law in this borough for nearly by hixty years and had served as your where his quarry separated.

Ro- mano whipped out two guns, police say, and fired at his pursuer. Rubin, hearing the shots, set out after Romano, but withdrew when i wounded. Schwartz also was out- age rounsel for important corporations. was a former president of the fork State Bar Association senlo member of the law firm distanced, but Patrolman Henry Feis of the Miller avenue station, in a radio car, followed Romano, lif Cullen Dykman, No. 177 Mon tague street.

a clear, cultivating (Wide World rhoto Constructed with WPA funds at a cost of $80,000, the George Washington Monument Park, informally referred to as an annex of the F. H. LaGuardia Playground, at the Brooklyn Plaza of the Williamsburg Bridge was dedicated yesterday. Commissioner of Plants and Structures Frederick Kracke spoke Photo shows scene during the exercises. into a stationery store at No.

358 Col. Dykman resided in this bor- hugh for many years, but In late L-ears had made his home at No. New Lots avenue and fired the shot of that brought him down. Patrolman David Rubin 25, 70 Park avenue, Manhattan. He vas known as Colonel Dykman, he opposed strongly the Walker-Murphy Home Rule Enabling Bill, I hough he did not reach that rank smooth skin the regular army.

He was the father of CoL Jack- giving more power to New York City. Surviving, besides his son, la his widow, Mrs. Belle Annan Dykman. A. Dykman, member of Cullen Dykman, World War veteran and Chancellor of the Protestant Epis copal Diocese of Long Island.

GUNMEN OBTAIN CoL Dykman was born In Cold Spring, N. a eon of the late supreme Court Justice William O. ykman and the late Mrs. Emily rrowbridge Dykman. He was a COPS HUNT TRIO Boro Office Manager Held Up While Driving Back to Plant Iks i Wsnj lr Police today were seeking three armed bandits who held up Abra JfsX ir ham S.

Hirschman, office manager of the Coidlano Can Company, No. 80 Thirty-ninth street, yesterday at Fiftieth street and Third avenue, and robbed him of a $1,548 payroll that he had withdrawn from the Brooklyn Trust No. 5101 Fourth avenue, a few minutes be fore. The robbery was executed WiLLIAM N. DVii lAN with skill and dispatch.

Mr. Hirschmann told the police ember of an old Dutch family and he was returning to the plant in his brother of the late Henry T. Dyk- an, of White Plains. N. also automobile when his car was forced to the side of the read by the ban prominent attorney.

i dits' automobile. Two youne men. "How old Am, do you suppoM?" Admitted to Bar in 878 Admitted to the bar in 1878, Col. unmasked, stepped from the car, thrust pistols against his ribs and forced him to hand over the money. Returning to their car, a maroon- ykman entered the law office here i "I don't think Anne wul mt old.

She's looktd 25 for run." the late Edgar M. Cullen, his colored sedan, the two bandits were uture partner and later a Supreme driven toward Hamilton avenue by ourt Justice and Chief Judge of third man who had remained at 'he State Court of ADDeals. Col. the wheel. Dykman after became a partner the firms of Dykman ft Bergen, fifty two IJears Jgo Riveter Suffers Back Injury Dykmcn Kuhn, DjVman, Oeland Kuhn, end, finally, and until his Falls from First Floor leath, in the firm of Cullen ft DyK an again.

Among the many corporations he epresented were the Brooklyn Joseph Millin. 46 yeare old, of No. 173 Twenty-third street, a riveter at work on a building under construction at Thirty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, fell twenty feet lanhattan Transit Corporation, th Brooklyn City Railroad Company, HEN this chug-chugging steam locomotive drew the first elevated train he Brooklyn Union Gas Company, from the first floor to the basement he Brooklyn Trust Company and he Brooklyn Chamber of Com yesterday afternoon. He waa taken to Bellevue Hosptal suffering from nerce. an Injury to the back.

He was a trustee of the Brook- yn Trust Company and the Amer-can Surety Company of New York a director the Brooklyn-Queens ransit Corporation, International Elevating Company and the Brook yrt Bus Corporation. He wast for- HIT! nerylirector of the Brooklyn Acad-my'of Music and gave generously in Brooklyn on its five-mile maiden trip, TheWilliamsburgh Savings Bank already was 34 years old. It is stronger now than ever. And saving now is more convenient. Almost every elevated, subway, and sur- 1 I'w uttnues.

I Col. Dykman was graduated In i isio irem vwst Point. He was commissioned a second lieutenant lind sent to Fort Brady. and I later to Buffalo. After the Custer massacre in 1876 Col Dykman, as I lieutenant in the Twenty-second Infantry, took part in the campaign I- ligainst Sitting Bull and the Sioux fl Itndians who had slaughtered Cus- ace car line comes close to Iter's command.

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from the army but never lost his Merest In things military. He re cently advocated military prepared ness and waa the president of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy In isu-Zf, vice-president In 1925-28 and chairman of its board of 1 Hanson Place-at Flatbush Avenue, opposite I. R. R. Depot and Broadway at Driggs Avenue BROOKLYN, N.Y.

Open Mondays until 7:00 p. m. 'rustees until recently. After leaving the army Col Dyk man studied law and waa ad mitted the bar the following year. fed from 1898 to 1904 CoL DvKman served as a member of the Cliy Civil Service Commission.

In 1917 he become a member of tha Selective Service District Board of which handled appeals from draft board decisions. THE STATE OF NEW YORK CoL Dykman served as president kf the New York State Bar Asso-Watlon in 1923-24 While president ESTABLISHED 1851.