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Rain THE Tonight Warmer. and WEATHER: Tuesday. The Brooklyn Daily Times. Wall Street THE CIRCULATION BROOKLYN NEWSPAPER Edition SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR BROOKLYN. NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926-22 PAGES PRICE 2 CENTS 33 DROWN AS FERRY UPSETS IN HUDSON $11,000,000 FOR BORO BIG PARK drowne Seeks $6,000,000 for Drives and Breathing Spaces in Many Neighborhoods.

EFORE BOARD OF ESTIMATE Erne's Public Building Projects Judicial Centre at $3,500,000 Downtown. Che list of Brooklyn's requirements public improvements, including streets and parks, for 1927, totals orly $11,000,000 out of a grand total $713,000,000 requested for corporate ick issue from all departments of municipal government. his does not include the contemted subway lines to be constructed te, or police stations, fire houses, iter mains or other public improveInts. Borough President Byrne requests Hee major projects -a central Irt building to be located in the rough Hall section, costing removal of kiosks and subentrances in the centre of arth and elimination of presstreet centre malls, at a cost of 10,000, and the construction of two abination magistrate and municicourts, costing $400,000 each. Byrne Asks $4,770,000 'he total amount asked by Borth President Byrne is $4,770,000.

Borough President intends to like the central court building the icial centre of the borough with ice for two city courts which go operation January 1, the County Irk's office, the District Attorney's Ice, the First District Magistrate's Art and the First District MuniCourt. onsiderably larger is the the list requests of Park wne for street and park improveits for 1927, totaling $6,140,126. mong the street improvements ed for are the following: for completion of the upper level Shore including widening of banks and embellishment. of ASKED IN 1927; PROGRAM BEHIND THE BARS "RED" GRANGE 'RED' GRANGE HELD 3 HOURS IN PRISON Four Other Members of Yankee Football Team Arrested and Fined in Texas. By United Press.

Dallas, Texas, Dec. 20. "Red" Grange and four members of his New York Yankee football team spent three hours in jail today following arrest on charges of drunkenness and disturbing the peace. Grange was charged with disturbing the peace while the others rs were charged with disturbing the peace and drunkenness. They were 4 eways from.

AKE OF EVIOUS CUMENT crete benches 'and promenades Ocean $70,000. omplete development of Canarsie completion of Dyker ch Park, construction Greene Park, walks Ft. Hamilton, compleof Gravesend Park, plete development of Lincoln ace Park, improve- (Continued on Following Page). ODAY'S $5 JINGLE Christmas shopping was over, We checked up the list to see surely we had all our presents For all in the family. course, Father dear was forgotten and so that he wouldn't feel bad.

decided to order five tons of coal a Christmas present for Dad, M. F. GOLDEN, 28 Russell st. See inside for other Jingles and ails of contest in which $10 is arded daily for eight-line gles. The subject now is "Shopping." DEATH NOTE LEFT BY MRS.

INGERSOLL CLEARS PROBASCO District Attorney's Office Says Letter Shows She Shot Friend and Then Took Own Life. PREVIOUS THREATS CITED Color Artist Is Still Detained at Hospital Where Wife Is at His Bedside. The District Attorney's office today practically exonerated Wallace McLean Probasco of the homicide charge against him as a result of the shooting yesterday in the apartment of Mrs. Roberta Ingersoll, wife of the watch manufacturer. Mrs.

Ingersoll was killed and Probasco, whose own wife was the daughter of the late Robert G. Ingersoll, the famed agnostic, was severely injured. Investigators, after working all night on the case and talking with Probasco at Bellevue Hospital where he is under technical arrest, said they believed a note in their possession, written probably on Saturday by Mrs. Ingersoll, contained the solution to the entire affair and that it would show the case plainly was one of suicide on the part of Mrs. Ingersoll after she had fired upon Probasco.

Mrs. Ingersoll was found shot through the heart in her fashionable apartment at 55 Park Manhattan, last night. In an adjoining room lay Probasco with three lets in his body. Although Probasco told police that Mrs. Ingersoll had shot him and then herself, the revolver, however, was not by her body, where it lay across a bed, but on a desk in the adjoining room.

Probasco was under technical arrest at Bellevue Hospital. His Condition Critical. At the hospital today, he was rerted in a critical condition, with ya chance to survive. One bullet ered an inch over his heart. others were in his arm.

he tragedy 1 was the climax of an ir between Probasco and Mrs. irsoll which began when the manufacturer failed for 100, five years ago. ace that time, Mrs. Ingersoll had living on friendly terms with asco, who has a wife and ren, from which he had been ated for several years. $.

Ingersoll was 55. She had separated since last year from atch magnate, who is 72. Proseparated from his wife at the same time. He is 52. Ingersoll took up residence Park ave, apartment and her rusband retired to the Hotel Ivania.

He gave up his watch in 1921, and has not been business since. utter Not Made Public. contents of Mrs. Ingersoll's ere not revealed, but it was that one sentence said: ing terrible is going to hapDr. Charles Norris, Medical said the letter clearly inhat Mrs.

Ingersoll has prebreatened to kill Probasco. rut 5:30 last night, Mrs. Probasco, waiting for her husband at her apartment, which is near Mrs. Ingersoll's, answered the telephone. It was her husband.

"Come quickly, Maude," he gasped. "No. 55 Park eighth floor." Then he collapsed. She came in a taxi. Her husband lay on a couch in the living room.

"She shot me," he whispered when (Continued on Following Maxwell's at- fidavit. MIKADO STILL LINGERS Hayama, Japan, Dec. condition of Emperor Yoshihito was unchanged at 4 o'clock this afternoon, a bulletin of attending phynear death for almost two weeks sicians said. The Emperor has been with pneumonia. Bridegroom and Girl Found Dead From Fumes in Auto Perth Amboy, N.

Dec. Canby T. Oates, 22 years old, of 266 Oak st. here, was found dead today in his coach-type automobile beside a young woman who is still unidentifled. Police were inclined to believe at first that the couple might have frozen to but the bodies, according to the undertaker, were not frozen.

The girl had on a black fur coat and Oates was wearing his overcoat. He was slumped over the wheel and the girl's left shoulder was in contact with his right shoulder, as if they had Maid Eating An Apple Finds $800,000 Gem Two Alsatians Arrested In Paris for Stealing the Famous Rose Diamond After Its Chance Discovery In Hotel. Dec. chance hunger of a chambermaid for the police announced today, has resulted in the recovGrand Conde, or Rose Diamond of France, variously $300,000 to $800,000. Alsatians, charged with entering the Chateau de Chanbefore dawn on October 12 and stealing the rich stone jewels of an aggregate value of more than $1,000,000, arrested, the police said.

Two others, allegedly rethe stolen property, also were held today. Since the robbery, the alleged thieves have remained in: 8 Paris hotel and there they hid their choicest loot, the pinkish hued gem which once belonged to Prince De Conde, marshal of King Louis XIV. The hiding place, the police said, was in an apple, left with the appearance of mere fruit on a table. There a hungry chambermaid saw the fruit and bit into it, striking the diamond with her teeth. Presumably from information obtained from this girl, the police recovered the rose diamond, unmounted from its tie pin cluster of pearls.

but intact. Other pieces of loot, including the ruby and emerald dagger of Abd-El-Kader, had been thrown into the Seine by the thieves, who feared to keep such bulky proof of guilt about their rooms or persons. The rose diamond was the most gorgeous jewel in France and the search which culminated in its recovery extended throughout the world. French police first sought the assistance of Scotland Yard, across the channel. Since 1897, the tie pin in which the Grand Conde was set had not been worn.

Paris, an apple, ery of the valued at Two tilly just and other have been ceivers of GETS FUNERAL COST, THEN ENDS HER LIFE Widow, 60, Leaves $22,000 in Brooklyn Banks. With more than $22,000 on deposit in six Brooklyn savings banks, Mrs. Jacobina Borisdorf, 60, a widow, had nothing left to live for. Neighbors in the ordinary apartment house at 258 Irving smelled gas today. It was traced to the small five-room apartment Mrs.

Borisdorf. occupied at $27 a month. She was on the floor of the dining found, Patrolman Shelland of the Wilson ave, station, with a gas tube in her mouth. She was dead when Dr. Kelly of the Wyckoff Heights Hospital arrived.

The widow evidently had been thinking of suicide for some time. In April she called up Charles Morton of 578 Onderdonk undertaker, and asked how much it would cost to bury her. She told Mr. Morton his price was satisfactory, and said she would be needing him soon. Mrs.

Borisdorf had no relatives. Her husband died about six years ago. Her attorney, Charles Oecher, will make the funeral arrangements. SUBWAY IN MUNICIPAL BLDG. The new entrances to the Borough Hall station of the East Side subway, two in front of the new Municipal Building and one opening inside the basement, were officially put into use at noon today.

Jack Mahon, 12, of 1282 Park was the first customer to go through the turnstiles. The opening of the two outside entrances was under the direction of Station Inspector John McKenna, The entrance in the basement of the Municipal Building was opened by P. R. Brothers, custodian of the building. RAIL OFFICIAL DROPS DEAD W.

R. Scott, of Southern Pacific, Victim of Heart Disease. By United Press. Los Angeles, Dec. 20.

W. R. Scott, 65, of Houston, Texas, president of the Southern Pacific lines in Louisiana and Texas, dropped dead here today of heart disease. Mr. Scott was en route to San Francisco to spend the Christmas holidays.

If You Want the $7500 Travel and Pedestrian Accident Insurance Policy for $1.00 Sign Coupon on Page 8 Today 5 DIE IN 40 FIRES AND GAS MISHAPS DUE TO COLD WAVE Red Hook Charities Bureau Blaze Destroys 1,200 Christmas Dinners. 5 HAVE NARROW ESCAPES Man Burned to Death in Roslyn -Woman Is Burned by Oil. Twelve hundred Christmas dinners for needy families and hundreds of toys for the poor children were destroyed by a fire in the Red Hook Branch of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, at 146 Union st. The blaze was one of forty which kept the fire departments of Brooklyn and Long Island busy over the weekend. One man was burned to death in a fire at Roslyn, and four persons were victims of gas, most of the fatalities being traced directly to the cold wave.

Only for the absent mindedness of painters in leaving a ladder against the wall when they work on Saturday, several lives quit probably would have been lost in the Bureau of Charities fire. Michael Reilly, the caretaker and his family occupy quarters on the four floor of the structure. By the time the fire was discovered, about 7:30 A. M. yesterday, escape by the stairway, had been cut off.

Patrick McGuire, Mr. Reilly's brother-in-law, however, discovered the ladder. He quickly informed the other members of the family. Reilly and his wife fled down the ladder while McGuire remained behind and tossed Reilly children, James, 3, and Aileen, 1, to their. father, after which he also climbed to safety.

Aileen, however, who was ill, was so chilled that she is in the Long Island College Hospital in a serious condition. The fire is believed to have been caused by a defective flue. Loss Promptly Made up. But even though the dinners and in the neighborhood were destroyed, toys valued at $5,000 for the poor! the unfortunate who look reau for their Christmas joy will not be disappointed. Late yesterday while the embers of the ruined building were still smoldering, I Branch President William Parke called a meeting at his residence at 1 Pierrepont and arranged to go ahead with the Christmas plans.

Ready check books made up the deficit and the Christmas toys and dinners will be distributed as usual. Monsignor A. Arcese, pastor of the R. C. Sacred Heart Church.

gave the bureau a room in- his parochial school which will serve as headquarters. The building was valued at $20,000. It cortained a health centre on the first floor, a boys' club, a girls' club and floor, a and free the kindergarten headquarters on of the the second offi- cers of the bureau on the third floor. Reilly lived on the top floor. Miss Lydia Rometch, secretary, arrived at the bureau today at 9, to gin the work of distributing the presents.

She found 'only embers. Woman Badly Burned. Mrs. Mamie Weinstein, 40, of 2668 Atlantic is in Bradford St. Hospital, in a critical condition as a result of burns suffered today as she rushed from the kitchen to put out an explosion of the oil stove in the dining room of her home.

Her two children, a boy, 7, and girl; 5, had just finished their breakfast, when Mrs. Weinstein heard the explosion. She ran into the room, and the flames ignited her clothes. She rushetd from her apartment on the second floor screaming frantically. Patrolman Ryan answered her appeals, wrapped his overcoat about her, and carried her her into (Continued on Following Page).

OTHERS MISSING, MANY INJURED AS ICE SINKS LAUNCH The "Linseed King," Bearing 60 to 100 Men, Goes Down in Midstream When Rammed by Big FloeTwenty-seven Bodies Found in Cabin After Tide Drives Boat Six Miles Up the River -Exact Death List May Never Be Known. HANSON PL. CHURCH IN $150,000 DEAL Methodists Sell Part of Plot to Williamsburgh Savings Bank. A portion of the property of the Hanson Place M. E.

Church has been sold to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank for $150,000. The tion was a piece of unoccupied land in the rear of dwellings on Ashland pl. and 15 feet of the Hanson pl. church building in the rear, which was used as a kitchen, the offices of Dr. Tali Esen Morgan, musical director, and a few small classrooms.

The sale straightens the property line of the bank and the church. In making the announcement today the Rev. Dr. J. Lane Miller, pastor, said: comes a most acceptable Christmas gift.

The $150,000 will enable us to pay off our mortgage of $55,000 and gives us $95,000 cash towards the proposed new Methodist Church Centre which we are planning to build, together with the Summerfield Methodist Church, on this site." Alterations are now under way to care for departments of the church affected. The work of the church will not be interfered with until the new Methodist Centre plans for rebuilding go into effect. The Williamsburgh Savings Bank recently emerged victor in a protracted controversy with 10 other savings institutions and won the right to establish a downtown branch and erect a 16-story bank and office building at Hanson pl. and Ashland pl. With the purchase of the parcel formerly owned by the church the bank now holds a plot extending approximately 200 feet on Ashland pl.

and 100 feet on Hanson pl. DR. MAC VEAN FOUND DEAD Passes Away in Rented Room-Saved From Morgue by Attorney. The morgue was cheated out of the body of Dr. Charles H.

MacVcan, 55, for 20 years a physician 110 Borough Park and at one time deputy superintendent of Kings County Hospital, today, when And. rew Van Thun, attorney of 189 Montague identified the body and notified the widow. Er. MacVean also lived at 42 Gates at one time. Dr.

MacVean was found dead in a furnished room at 250 47th by the landlord, early today. The police found a letter from Mr. Van Thun in the dead doctor's pocket and they turned to him for information before sending the corpse to the morgue. The doctor had come to Brooklyn York, N. where he has been living with his family.

His errand in town has not been learned. Mrs. MacVean has directed that the body be sent to York for burial. JAMAICA BAY FREEZES Traffic Tied Up for 24 Hours Until Slight Thaw Opens Lanes. For the first time this winter Jamaica Bay is virtually frozen over along the entire Rockaway Peninsula.

The freeze-up occured Saturday morning and it was not until yesterday that sections of the was navigable for barges and scows. The treeze-up, in the opinion of old-time residents, marks one of the complete coatings of ice the bay has ever experienced. BIG POUGHKEEPSIE FIRE By United Press. Poughkeepsie, Dec. swept city block here today causing probably $100,000 damage.

The flames originated in a lunchroom and spread to an adjoining garage and store buildings. At least thirty-three men lost their lives when the Linseed King, a stout launch, tore into an ice floe in mid-stream in the Hudson at 6:30 o'clock this morning at a point opposite 120th st. Manhattan, and capsized. The Linseed King, which is operated as a private ferry between 96th Manhattan, and Edgewater, N. by the Spencer-Kellogg Linseed Oil was jammed full of men when she left the Manhattan side on her first trip of the day.

It had been understood that a number of new men would be employed and a crowd of applicants joined the regular employed who piled into the craft. With between 60 and 100 men aboard, the "Linseed King" had reached mid-stream when she rammed a big floe. Apparently there was a rush of passengers to the side and this, together with the impact of the collision with the ice, capsized the boat. Many Hurled Into Water. The luckier of the passengers were hurled into the icy waters.

Others, doomed, were trapped within the cabin and drowned there, helpless. Twenty-seven men died in the cabin. The launch, bobbing like a cork in the swift and treacherous current, and carrying its cargo of dead, was swept upstream at high speed and had reached 254th distance of six -before its flight was halted. Only dead men were found aboard her when police and fire boats, which had been hotly pursueing through the crashing ice floes, drew up alongside. The exact death list may never be known.

Three bodies reached the Jersey shore and three others reached the Manhattan shore. Many of those aboard were rescued in spectacular fashion. Some of them were badly hurt and others suffered seriously from submersion. WARM DAY TO GREET "OFFICIAL" WINTER Break in Cold Spell Will Send Mercury to 45. Although winter is not "officially" due for two days, even the weather man admits this is real winter weather.

He promises, however. the cold spell will be broken today. with rain and warmer temperature forecast for tonight and tomorrow. At 10 A. the mercury had climbed up to 30, where it will remain most of the day.

which By tomorrow it may rise to 45, temperature will welcome official winter Wednesday morning at 9:34. The lowest temperature today was 18 degrees at 3:20 A. M. Yesterday was a bitter cold day, the weather man readily admitted. The lowest temperature for the day was 9 above zero at 8 A.

and the highest was 25 at 3:30 P. M. The cold weather yesterday brought the usual number of fires and accidents. The Pennsylvania Railroad reported some of its western trains an hour late because of the cold. SKATING AT 8 PARKS There is ice skating today at the following parks: Prospect Park.

Brooklyn Playground. City Park. Dyker Heights. Park. McCarren Park.

McKinley Park. Red Hook Park. Sunset Park. Police Raid Biarritz Club Eleven detectives were a wet blanket to gaiety at the Biarrity Club, 210 West 54th Manhattan, last night when they crashed the gate and arrested the alleged proprietor and bartender on charges of violating the Volstead act. Outside Listening In Eric H.

Palmer, of Brooklyn, nationally known radio expert, has become associated with the Brooklyn Times as Radio Editor, and will conduct the "Outside Listening In" column daily on the Radio Page. Mr. Palmer was a newspaper man before he specialized in radio. He has traveled extensively in the States and in Europe in the interest of better broadcasting. He was official American observer in Europe of International Broadcasting.

Mr. Palmer until recently was 'associated with a prominent manufacturer- a connection that he has now severed. He will take Brooklyn Times readers exploring the air through his elaborate receiving station at his home in Flatbush. Brooklyn Times Radio Programs are uncensored. Tell your friends.

Darkness had just lifted above the Hudson and lights burning upon river craft were throwing zigzag paths over the water when the Linseed King started upon its final and fatal trip. Pale gray showed above the rim of the Palisades, in the direction of which the launch started with its heavy cargo. The semi-darkness of the early morning was in itself responsible to' a great extent for the heavy loss of life. Had the accident occurred later, more men, it is believed, could have. been dragged to safety from the Hudson's ice-choked water.

The accident threw the upper Manhattan waterfront into wild citement, and all craft in the vicinliy of 125th raced to the rescue. Sirens shrieked and hooted as spectacular rescues were made, some I those struggling desperately in the ice-filled water being dragged, to safety by fish hooks. None Identified At least two of the 14 dead are negroes. Identifications have not been made. It is feared that the total of lives lost will increase, as difficulty was found in a check of those who had been taken to hospitals.

The luckiest man of the day was a negro who raced up to the Manhattan pier just after the "Where's the boat?" he cried. A police sergeant indicated mid. stream. "There she is out there. Better be glad you missed It," he said grimly.

Captain Swims for Jersey The Linseed King was under the command of Capt. John Rowhelter. He gave one of the first accounts of the accident. He was hurled Into the water by the impact and swimming for the Jersey shore. He started, was picked up by a boat before be reached it.

"We suddenly heard a crunching he said, "that was almost like an explosion on the north side of the launch. The bow sank 1m- mediately. "There was a rush of water aft. "I was pitched forward with the rest. The stern trembled in the air, the launch rolling dizzily just before it sank.

"The next thing I knew I was swimming north. I was able to make no progress because of the coldness of the water. I was almost unconscious when picked up by a tug." The bulk of the rescue work went to the tug Buffalo from the Erie coal yards which ground into the ice as the Linseed King was sinking. In freezing temperatures the ofticers and crew of the Buffalo risked their lives in rescuing the workmen. A lifeboat was put off from the Swedish motor freighter Tercero and three men were rescued.

A Standard Oil tanker and several tugs also were able to reach the fallen asleep in that position. Oates had been married only fourteen months. He lived with his wife at the Oak st. address. He was employed as an engineer on a steam shovel on a construction job at Hope Lawn, N.

J. At 10 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Elizabeth Kotacz, of Helen Kinsey's Corners, was on the way to the store. She was attracted by the even throbbing of the engine of the coach and looking in that direction saw the man and the girl on the front seat, close together. She notitled the Perth Amboy police..