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THE WEATHER THE UNION. Continued cold to-night; to- morrow fair and warmer. (Full Weather Report on rase 1.) LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY BROOKLYN NEWSPAPER VOL. tfo. 190.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, CITY, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1927. 18 PAGES. U. S. MARINE FORCES EFFECT NEW LANDINGS AT NICARAGUA PORTS EXPLOSION IN B-M.

T. PLANT KILLS 2 MEN, AND TIES UP ALL LINES If Attach Chaplin Riches. Short Circuit in Power House at Thirty-eightK Street and Fifth Avenue Causes Blast of Heated Cables Firemen Recover Bodies Effect of Shutdown Spread Over Wide Area, With Subways, Trains and Trolleys at Standstill. Administration Officials Await Reply of Calles Government to President Coolidges Message to Congress Ignore War Scare Talk of Opponents in Congress Diaz, in Lengthy Statement, Cites Further Proof of Ammunition Running and Aid Given to Rebel Leaders. Flurries Begin at 11 A.

onj. Heels of Coldest Snap of Winter Near Zero Weather Here. Once again snow has slipped into town in spite of the Weather Man's predictions of fair weather. The flurries which started shortly before 3 1 A. M.

to-day came on the heels of one of the coldest snaps so far this winter. Starting at midnight last night the mercury dropped from ten to three degrees above zero and at daylight It reported that some of the thermometers street level were hovering around the zeio mark. Although the mercury started a romevvhat rapid rise at this time and had reached 14 degrees by 8 A. considerable suffering had been caused and the Municipal Judging House and various shelters for the homeless were besieged all night by a crowd of Rhivering humanity, whiih was housed, fed and cared for as rapidlv as possible. Little hope for any real relief Is held out for the near future.

According to the Weather Man, It will be fair to-night and continued cold. Wednesday, it is said, will also be fair and somewhat warmer. However, chill northwest winds will keep pedestrians and others conscious of the cold, although they are expected to diminish slightly to-znori on. El Mayors Extension Until Thursday Also Carries Reminder That Best Offers Should Have Been Original Ones. Anxious applicants for bus franchises are to-day going through what is regarded In some quarters as a futile gesture' in submitting to the Board of Transportation notices of amendments to their various offers of service.

The Major has allowed until Thursday morning for the submission of amendments. He has Indicated, however, that he does not think the amendments mean anything. He has pointed out that any bus applicant who has not already made his best offer was not sincere in bis original proffers to the city. -The Board of Transportation's report, according to Chairman John H. Delaney, will be practically a perfunctory statement of what changes the companies wish to make.

There is no time for a complete he said. Meanwhile, the Mayor is determined to propose a motion at Thursdays meeting of the Board of Estimate, that the Board of Transportation draw up forms of contract for a three-borough franchise for the Equitable Coach Company and a one-borough franchise for the Surface Transportation Corporation, a sub-sidiaiy of the Third Avenue Railway Sjstem. Friends of the Mayor say he is confident of finding tho twqlve votes necessary to approve the Motion. Several amendments were formally submitted yesterday by Borough Presidents. Byrne submitted three, the amended offer of the C.

I. and G. Bus Corporation, subsidiary of the B-M. the amended offer of tho ABC Way, and a joint amendment submitted by Hector McGowan. Curren.

The Curren amendment was fer the Rhccpshead Bay and Brownsville bus lines. The B-M. T. amendment, which was kept under cover by tho company for some weeks. Is based on a flat five-cent fare, except on one route, the Ocean parkway and Lafayette avenue.

The B-M. T. now offers free transfers at intersecting points, with second transfers fop three cents. The B-M. also increases its offer pt return to the city from three pe cent, of its annual receipts to five per cent.

The corporation also agrees to Secure the rifcht of free transfers at points of intersection between hror routes and street railroads In its original offer the company sought a faro based on the cost of service. live Cent Basis. The A Way offers to operate twenty-one routes in Brooklyn, on a basic five-cent fare with a limitation of ten cents as the maximum cost for any ride. It offers a commutation rate system for high school, elementary school and college students. as well ns free transportation for ettv employes on duty.

It offers free transfers. It seeks a four-yenr franchise, with recapture features. It offers the city five per cent, of its receipts, charges to begin on the first (Continued on Page 3.) ALL BUS HI church, can proceed to trial and At 8 P. M. yesterday the tempera-.

clear up one of the most Interesting lure was 22 degrees, which was the cases in Texas court history, avemge for the entire day, several Back of the charge against Norris degrees below the average for the to which the minister pleads selfsame day last vear. The barometric defense lies a long story of Norris pressure was 3008. At 8 A. M. to-J campaigning against many things in "5 10- ii Dr.

J. Frank Norris, Foe Fort Worth Mayor, Accused of Killing Merchant Long Storm Centre in Texas. of (By baited Fresi AUSTIN, Jan. 11. -Attorney for the Rev.

J. Fiank Noiris, Foit Worth's shooting parson, accused of murder, must answer to-1 day as to whether tney aie ready to proceed with Norris trial, Until this answer is given, it will remain uncertain whether or not the case In which the minister and fund amntalist Fader Is accused of shooting to death D. E. (hipps, a merchant, in the study of Norris this part of Texas, Some years ago Norris came to Fort Worth as a Baptist minister. A first-class showman, Norris soon attracted the attention of all Fort Worth bv his violent war on vice.

He kept this up through his sermons and his church papers. Through the course of years, Norris kept up his harangue, his congregation, which grew to 8,000, built a million dollar church. Revival meetings added hundreds of converts. Norris was constantly in the public eye. He made hundreds of enemies.

His attacks from his pulpit and over the church radio and his paper, the Searchlight," cen-, tred on the city administration, Catholicism and all kinds o( real or imaginary vices in Forth Worth. AH this time the fiery Fundamentalist pastor taunted opponents, swaggered up and down In the pulpit as he shouted his defiance in "hootin' words at his enemies. Texans wondered that these shootin words had not led to a possible shootin' match." There was the time, Norris announced, that he had received letters threatening him with death. His enemies Immediately accused him of writing the letters himself. He was (Continued on Page 2) MAN DROPS DEAD, LIQUOR SUSPECTED (fly United Press) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jmii.

United Slates sailors and marines to-day Merc carrying out the desire of President ('oolidge that the Nicaraguan revolution against the administration of Adolfo Dial bo suppressed its soon as possible. Sailors ami marines front the United States special service squadron commanded by Admiral Julian Latimer mado another landing on the east coast of Nicaragua and established another neutral zone, this time at Prinnpolkn, thirty miles north of Uio Grande. ape Gracia and Smi Juan Del Norte to-day ncre the only Important places on the cast coast Mliielt had not bccu neutralized by the United Mates WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. With Washington still discussing to-dav Trcsident.

Coolidges charges to Congress that Mexican officials are aiding the Nicaraguan revolution, endangering American interests, attention centered on Mexico. What will the Mexican Government say now and what will it do? was heard in the Congressional lobbies, at the foreign embassies and among Administration officials. Wlnlo opponents ot the administra- --tions policy in occuping Nicaragua! insisted the President should have submitted his charges to Mexico for answer before indicting that country before the world, everyone admitted that President Calles must answer now. Basing their prediction on three press denials previously made by Calles, many expected him to deny again that his government has had nny official connection with tho Nicaraguan liberal rebels except to recognize them as the only constitutional regime. He is expected also to reply to the CoolldRO charges, which do not directly implicate his government, that the United States refuses to take responsibility for activities of its reserve officers and that it, too.

has failed to stop in the past Illegal American gun-running ko China, Mexico and Nicargua. Administration officials to-day were inrllned to discount in advance the replies. They insisted that the alleged menace to American in-forests would not exist In Nicaragux without Mexican support, and they were determined to put a quick stop to that support regardless of argument and at almost any cost. Fight of Motor Co. Against $31,000,000 Extra Levy Opens Senator Couzens Charges Spite on Mellon's Part.

(By United rr DETROIT, Jan. 11. -A story of finance written In eight, nine and ten figures began to unfold here 'o-day ns nine original stockholders of the All B-M. T. subway, trolley and elevated lines in South Brooklyn were tied up at 11 oclock to-day when heavy feed cables in a powerhouse at Thirty-eighth street and Fifth avenue short-circuited with a violent explosion and burned two Italian workmen to death.

Two other workmen jumped fod the only ladder and escaped injury Andrew Trapp, of 34 Foxhall street foreman of the repair gang, who had been in the pit a moment be fore, vas nearly knocked over by the explosion Knowing what it meant, he lm infdiatclv oidorcd the huge dynamo iut off the line It was one of four, any one of which is capable of supplying noonda needs for the en tire aiea. At noon an hour Liter the trains nianv of them standing filled with passengers between stations, were 'till without power, while electrical evpei ts worked to repair the damages The dead aie Guiseppe Guanco. 4 0 jears old, of Cl Aberdeen, stieet, in the Bushwlck section. Joseph 43, of 202 Rtagff street, Oreenpoint. With two other workmen they were laing insulation on the live feed cables in a long narrow pit extending for ninety feet under the station's four huge dynamo's.

Thu pit is six feet deep and barely four feet wide. The victims were at one end, working apart from the others. Suddenly thoie was a violent ex plosion and a burst of blue flame. Firemen Recover Bodies. Fire companies, were summoned and bfgartBoinTWtrWgrff sulatiun.

Within a few moments they were able to pass down into tho pit on the now "dead" cables, and pull out the bodihs of Scurto and Guarico. An ambulance surgeon from the Norwegian Hospital said they had died almost instantly. It was. his opinion they had been killed by the intense electrical flame rather than by the heavy current itself. Electrical pressure in the cables wes 575 volts.

District Attorney Dodd's office was at once notified, and Trapp was taken to the Fourth avenue police station for questioning by Detectives John Osnado and Frank Bals. Trapp was unable to say what bad caused the short circuit and the re sullant disaster. As far os he knew, everything was In good order, and the work was progressing smoothly enough, he Is said to have explained. Effects of Tie-up Spread. Meanwhile the effects of the tie-up were spreading far beyond the limits of the district the powerhouse served.

Brighton line subway and elevate 1 trains bound for Coney Island began accumulating in long lines at th. edge of the district, as did trains on the West End, Sea Beach, and Culver lines. Trolley cars over an area of many square miles were stalled wherever they happened to have been at ths Ford Motor Company went before tho outstanding Ford stock to Henry in 3919. Tax of $20,000,000 has Already been paid. caring of the greatest tax case in history, with tho unparalleled rise of the Ford Motor Company to a "bil- lion-dOUar corporation in twenty-five years as its background, opened in a banquet hall courtroom at tho Statlcr Hotel when Joseph A.

Davies, ex-United States Commissioner of Corporations, questioned the right of the Givernment to alter its original valuation of Ford stock, and asserted that alue was "far too 10 Three members of the Federal Board of Tax Appeals John J. Sternhagcn, John J. Marquette and Ernest H. Van l'ossan sat as a court in the case of the Internal Revenuo Bureau vs. United States Senator Janies Couzens, and others, in what opposing counsel freely admitted would reveal much hitherto undisclosed data bearing on the phenomenal rise of tho Ford Company.

While Senator Couzens is tho most heavily interested of all, with the possibility of being ordered to pay a jeopardy assessment of lie did not appear here for the hearing, electing to star at Washington, scene of his fud with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, which forms a significant hut not vital background for the case. Couzens has charged the added assessment was levied because he was not regular." 1 1 'i 'kV3 M-in ft; -f a I 7S t. i P. St A. rhoto.

Idta Grev, after filing suit for divorce against Charlie Chaplin, screen comedian secured a court order at Los Angeles, tying up the actor's entire resources, variously estimated at" from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000. Laborers for Spencer-Kellogg Firm Shaken Driver Is Held in $2,000 Ball. One man was badly hurt and about twenty-five others were shaken up or suffered minor injuries when a bus in which they were riding to work smashed into a brick dwelling at the intersection of the Gorge and River roads, Edgewater, N. J. The bus Mas bound from Hoboken for the Spencer-Kellogg linseed oil lefihery on the Hudson Rier shore in Edge water.

It was descending a steep grade on the River road, which jrUns down the Palisades, when It np parently went out of control. The River load is at the bottom of the steep incline. The injured man was John Vilato, of 225 First street, Hoboken. He suffered a scalp laceration and was tie-tamed at St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken.

Other passengers were taken to that institution aud to the Englewood Hospital and lie Holy Name Hospital in Tea Neck. According to the Kdgewater police, the driver, who described himself as Fredeik Schmitt, of West New York, said the trip was his first over the route and that he was engaged ns a substitute, this morning. He was held $2,000 bail pending action by the county prosecutor. The police said the bus was owned by L. J.

Kraemer, of 115 Seventh street, Hoboken. THe Accident Is the second within a short time in which tho Ppejicer Kellogg name has been Involved. 1fss than a month ago the Launch Linseed King, carrying prospective workeis to the plant from Manhattan, sar.k In the. Hudson Rier with tho loss of many Ihes. The passengers fthe bus were extra woikcrs.

After swervin'- to the left the bus turned sharply about He River road ad struck the front dor of a three-story, three-family brick detached dwelling on the right hand side of the road. Tho door of tho house was broken In and a number of bricks In the dooryny were knocked dowp or loosened. BRITISH WARSHIPS ARRIVE AT HANKOW Follow Closely on Appearance of American Cruisers. SHANGHAI, Jan. 11.

Eight Brit-Ish war vessels arrived at Hankow to-day, and it was understood that the American, Admiral Williams, had arrived there with three cruisers and marine reinforcements. The situation here was ominously quiet, as authorities concentrated on the task ot corralling notorious agitators. There have been ninny arrests. Browne Announces Ice-Skaters Utopia Ball Up Everywhere Ice skaters Utopia Mas announced to-day by Park Commissioner James Browne. Every park lak in the borough la open.

The big lake In Prospect Tark is open and may sported over ufttll II P. M. instead of 19 V. M. as heretofore.

Dreamland parking space, at Coney Island, hn been flooded. It 1b perhaps the finest sheet of ice of all and is free to skaters. And at this time of yefcr motorcars rnuy be parked free nearby. I Proceeding on the theory that poisoned liquor may have been responsible for the death of Rudolph C. Newman, 41 years old, a mechanical engineer, of 514 Kightv-third stieet, at 1.50 A.

M. to-day, Detectives Thomas McQuillan and Angelo Trezza. of the Fort Hamilton station, are seeking fuither information. Newman, who lived with his wife, Elsie, and their eighteen-year-old j' son, Edward, collapsed at the doo step of his home. Dr.

M. Starr. of Vlmitiistratinn Ignores War Scare. It was regarded as significant that no administration spokesman has seen fit to take exception t0 the word v.ar used in connection with lexicon iclations by Congressmen niitl Senators. This official silence was explained in informed quarters, not by any belief that Mar is in pros 1 ect, but by the hop that the present how of United States naval strength in the, Caribbean and the sharp Coolidge message Mill serve as il warning before tho President lakes further action.

What the President would do If Mexico proposed to submit the dispute to arbitration, officials would not say. Congressional opponents of the ad- ministration paltry claim the United States probably Mould lose an nr 'bitral decision. They pointed to the belief of Senator Borahand other international lawyers that the Mexican-recognized rebels are the actual constitutional government, instead of the Diaz government, supported by the United States. T. S.

Vaca. Nicaraguan rebel agent (Continued on Page 2) $300,000 FIRE SWEEPS NEWBURGH BUSINESS AREA NEWBURG, N. Jan. 11. Nine buildings were destroyed or severely damaged by fir in the business district of Newburg to-day.

Damage was estimated at $300,000. Sixteen families were made homeless, and several firemen were injured. The thermometer stood at zero, the cold weather handicapping the firefighters. Chaplin $10,000,000 Fortune Is Tied Up By Wifes Injunction Thousands of shoppers watched firemen extinguishing a small blaze to-day Ip the second 'floor apartment Mrs. Hannah ushington.

at 423 Gold street, opposite the Albee Thea-tre. It was necessary to call out of 8302 Sixth avenue, was called, but I police reserves to keep traffic lines Newman was beyond aid. Dr. Haley, I Hoar. The fire started from an over-of the Norwegian Hospital, also ar- heated oil heater.

Damage Was time of the explosion. Th he B-M. T. Company slight. No one was injured.

day the mercury registered 14 and the pressure was 29.96. BOSTON, Jan. 11. Storm warnings were Issued by the Weather Bureau here to-day for the coast between Block Island and Eastport. Me.

Weather Bureau officials said northeast and north gales would be experienced during the day, shifting to northwest, and diminishing to-night. CANT DRIVE AT NIGHT OVER MANHATTAN BRIDGE Motorists who ordinarily use the Manhattan Bridge between 8:10 P. M. and 6 A. M.

will have to uie the BroOklj'n Bridge for the next elx weeks, according to an announcement by the Police Department today. The change goes Into effect to-night. The main roadway of tho Manhattan Bridge la being repaved and makes it necessary to divert traffic. SCRATCHES TO-DAY. FAIR GROUNDS.

Kiist Race Southland Boy. Second Race Green Back. Secrecy. Master Sweep, Jeannette Foundation. Harry llellmann.

Third Rare Kuperfronk, Ragtime, Massillon, iftindark, Frattle, Venus. Fourth Race Geo. de Mar. Sixth Race Good Night, Chief Tierney. Seventh Rare Briggs Buchanan.

Clear and Fast. should not be appointed for his affairs pending trial of the suit, and why he should not pay counsel and allmonv fees. Keeping to the letter her threat to tell all," Mrs. (iiaplin, In her complaint, prepared by six attorneys, outlined a marriage of terror that ran the gamut of threats on her life to the appearance of another one month after their hasty marriage nt Kmpnlme, Mexico, on Nov. 23, 1324.

This marriage won't Inst long Ill make you so damned sick of me that you won't want to live with me." rhnplin was quoted ns saying nn the train when the couple were returning from their elopement. a month after their marriage, the complaint went on to say. Mrs. Chaplin learned her famous spouse was spending a great deal of 'time with a prominent motion picture actress. When she demanded an explanation, he was quoted as saying: Yes.

I am In love with her and dont care who knows It. I am going to seo her when I want to and whether you like it or not. Shortly afterwards he demanded that she accompany him to this woman's home, adding the threat: (Continued on Tage 2) SHIP WORKERS SKULL IS FRACTURED IN FALL Losing hla footing while at work on tho steamship Keno. Which Is docked at Pier foot of Harrison street, John Jackson, 56 years old. of 131 Baltic street, to-dny a fractured skull when he fell to a lighter which was working alongside the steamship.

(By United Vre.) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11. The movie fortune of Charles Chaplin, estimated by his wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, at $10,000,000, was tied up by injunction to-day pending settlement of her suit for divorce on charges of cruelty, indignity and misconduct. Motor Stocks Show Decline Under Reactionary Trend Prices in Many Securities Yield Under Heavy Selling Market at Opening. Finds Prospect fountains Closed to Thirsty Citizens.

Have You a Complaint to Make A reactionary trend prevailed in the Wall Street stock market to-day, and prices gave ground under selling. The reaction was led by the motor shares, under leadership of Nash, with General Motors, Chrysler, Willys-Overland and others all showing declines. waa making-efforts at noon to shunt trains to and from the edge of the district. In order to keep the tie-up from (spreading to the downtown 3 93 94 4 2 6 54 13 89. The wheat market was steady, with prices unchanged, to off 54, May was off 54, at' 13854-Cotton was steady and up 2 to 4 March was up 8, at 13.13.

Italian Hr gained 1 td Belgian belgla lost 54, ta Radio Features To-niglit 5VGBS (8:35 P. Chorus and Yioltnlstr. -WJZ (9 P. Opera Excerpts. 5VF.AF (9 T.

Flonzalcy String Quartet. WLWL (9:50 P. Artists' Concert. WRNY (10:50 P. Playlet.

To-day Index A thirsty resident of Prospect Talk South has tried to get a drink at the fountains outside and inside the park. In a letter to this newspaper to-day he says the fountains have all been shut off and no drinks could be obtained. rived and made a similar report. On a table in a room in the house wore found two quart bottles of liquor. Newman, it was declared, had had no previous Illness.

The county medical examiners office was notified and on analjsis of the liquor is now being made. BROWNINGS COUNSEL'. CHARGES COLLUSION WHITE PLAINS, Jan. 11. Counsel for Edward W.

Browning, rich realtor, declared In argument before Supreme Court Justice Frank E. Youpg here to-dny that Browning's marriage to Frances (Peaen-es) Heenan was the result of deliberate scheme to drag Browning into the marriage for the months, until she and her mother obtained the material gains they sought. The argument was on a motion by Henry Epstein, attorney for Mrs. Browning, to have vacated a notice of examination before trial and notice of a plan to take a deposition of Miss Anna Otson, formerly a tele phono operator and later employed ns a maid In the ladies' room at the Kew Gardens Inn, in Queens, where Browning maintained an apartment. Brooklyn Engineer Has Clever Scheme to Crash City Payroll 'That's a new way to get a job," commented Mayor Walker, when a communication from Horner G.

Shockley, civil engineer, of 3S7 Pacific street, was read at the committee of the whole meeting. Mr. Shockley offered to give the city patent rights on a conduit system for sewage disposal, provided the city would appoint him consulting engineer upon "sewage or transportation problems, or both," "He Tlves In Rrookh n. Tleret ft to President said the Mayor. Mrs.

Chapllnts complaint, filed yesterday, startled even the Hollywood movie colony, used to sensation and scandal. The 18-year-old wife of the comedian, whom he married In an elopement to Mexico in November, 1924, charged In her twenty-four pugo complaint that he wronged her under promise of marriage. That, after ho had delayed marrying her until she was publicly lflimili-ated, ho made her his wife and told her on tho honeymoon trip that he would soon make her sick of living with him, and that a month after the marriage, he admitted being in lovo with another film actress. It was quite a different picture, this picture painted in the twenty-four page complaint, than that of the Charlie Chaplin of reel life Arnei lea's Plerro, of the Inimitable mustache, the battered derby, the monstrous brogans and the agllo cane. Mrs.

Clmplln, at the conclusion of her long hill, demanded custody ot the two children Charles Spencer, 18 months old, and Sidney Ean Cluiplln, 9 months old, and a reasonable sum for support, counsel foes, costs and funds for the education and support of our two baby boys." His entire resources tied up by the Injunction obtained by his wife, Chaplin finds himself with no more funds than a normal amount to pay his expenses pending trial. Fifteen minutes after she filed her consolidated complaint and petition, his wife obtained the Injunction from Presiding Judge Wood of gu- 26 source. At the same time Chaplin was ordered to appear next Monday morning and show cause why a receiver The weakness In Nash followed the placing ot tho stock on a annual dividend basis through a declaration of a quarterly dividend of fl- For the year ended Nov. 50 Nash showed earnings of 18 50 a share oh 5,730,000 shares of no psr common stock, against 5 50 on the same shnto basis In tho precedlt year. Nash was split up ten for one i early last scar, so Its earnings were equivalent to 85 a bliaro on the old stock.

American Can, 47 American Icc, ISOS, off l's: Atchison. 1 6 ft 54 up 'i Baldwin, ft 2 4 off B. tip Beth Steel, 47-'i. up 1-8; t'rjsler. 4 1 To oft 54 I Hupont.

175. off Gen. Motors. 15314, off 1 1-S: Hudson, off Int. Nickel, 43.

up 1 Mack truck. 94 54, up MRt'land fill, 57 3-S, off 1-8; Nash Motors, 084, off 5 1-8; N. Y. 1419,. up 54 I Packard Motor.

36; 575s. up 1-8; Pierce-Arrow, 52. off 3-8; Heading, 96; Htudebaker, 649,. off 5, U. P.

6 2 54. up 9s: I'. S. Rubber, 8154: IL 8. Hteel, 15894, off 1-8; Willys-Overland, 234.

off 94. fall money renewed at 4 54 per cent. i Foreign exchanges were lower. Sterling was unchanged at 14.94 13-16; French francs, oft .54. at TTe wants an appeal sent to the Bark Commissioner to turn tho water on again.

The appeal fcar been sent along. The letter follows, 'with other complaints received to-dav: Bays Prospect Park Drinking Fountains Arc Shut Off. To Oi Editor of The Standard Union: The drinking fountains are nil jihiit off at Prospect Tark. This state bf affairs is terrible. No one ran get a drink at any of the fountains lnatdo or outjdo of Prospcrr Tark, The peoplo in general need drinking water, rieaso put it up to too Park Comniisioner.

Sincerely, PROSPECT PARK SOUTHWEST. The text of the altove letter has been sent to Park Commissioner James J. Browne. Snys Joe on Victor jr Field Us Not Kept Fit for Rknters. To tho Editor of Tho Standard Union: We are readers of your paper and note you have done so much for the community that perhaps you ran help us.

What we are after is better lco. Victory Field, Woodhaven and Myrtle avenues (which is the only park in the vicinity for skating), is turned over to skaters for tho winter senson but the ice la not taken care of. We were wondering if you could help us in having the ice taken cate of in order that It is suitable for skating while the cold weather lasts. Saturday tho lco was covered with about two or three inches of snow (or scraping of the skates on the ice) and It Mas still that way Sunday. We are positive that the skaters would uo willing to help clear the ice off, or even pay a small fee to keep the ice In good condition, but we do not see why this should be necessary as numerous parks where they have ire skating throughout New York City are taken care of, sod no fee Is charged, Anything you nuiy do will (Continued on Page 11).