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Ml A 3 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1931. DIGNITARIES SEE BIRTH Olf' $10,000,000 WARSHIP Jalincke Sees Keel Laid for Veteran Bonus Loan Rush Cut Yonkers Crash Spurs War on $10 Offered for Best Reply to This Letter Editor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle: A great problem confronts me. It is too big for me. Perhaps your readers can help in its solution. Jn two years 1 shall be free of the need to make money.

1 will have sufficient income to keep my wife and children in comfort. And what then? Shall I give up my business and travel? (I am not yet 40). Shall 1 pursue some interesting studies? Shall I continue In business and accumulate more money? Shall 1 devote my energies toward bringing about a cleaner government In New York? These and other numerous questions arise. 1 would like to know what some of your readers would do under like conditions. WORRIED.

Send your letters In reply to the foregoing to "Worried Editor, Brooklyn Eagle." Answers and award of $10 prize will be published in The Eagle, Sunday, March 22.. To 4,500 Daily New York Bureau Has 00,000 Applications and Fills 4,000 Daily The rush of veterans applying for loans on their bonuses, to which they are eligible under the new law, continued to fall off during the past week, which Tf the second since the bill was passed. An average of 4,500 applications a day for the week were received by the Veterans' Bureau, 225 W. 34th Manhattan. This is a marked contrast to the first two days after Congress passed" the bill, when 40,000 men stormed the office.

The decline was steady dmlng tha week, as only 2,500 applications were filed Friday against 8,000 Monday. These figures Include ppllca-tlons received In the mail, a great number of which were beginning to come in from foreign countries. The New York bureau, due to the fact that the boats land here, is handling all applications from Europe, Central and South America and Porto Rico. There are 30,000 men eligible for loans In Porto Rico alone. The bureau now has on hand approximately 80.000 applications and the staff Is sending out checks at the rate of about 4,000 a day.

Frank J. Hoesch, regional accountant in charge, reports that the demands for loans are being paid In tha order received and that at present it requires about three weeks for an applicant to receive his check. The office force Is more than doubled and is working In two shifts from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. The amounts of the checks range from $75 to $750, the average belnK around $300.

Of the loans applied for, about one out of seven is an original application, the others having previously borrowed the amount to which they were entitled before the new bill was passed. Suggests Miss Beaux As Art Group Member Mrs. Dooliltle, Urging Woman lie Named lo Com-mission, Cites Qualifications of Manhattan Portrait Painter-Other Artists Listed The name of Cecelia Beaux, outstanding American por trait painter, was yesterday suggested for membership on the Municipal Art Commission, now composed exclusively of men, by Mrs. R. Edson Doolittle, chairman of the Art Division of the New York State Federa- ABRAHAM tv present year and that no new nominations will be made until next year.

At present none of the delegates of the 18 clubs which make up the Fine Arts Federation are women. WAV FULTON ST. HOYT to to JO 71. are very CO Rear Admiral De Steiguer drives first official rivet in the New Orleans, while Assistant Secretary of Navy Jahncke looks on. Above, crowd surrounding Rear Admiral De Steiguer and Commander J.

O. Gawne (shown by arrows) at conclusion of ceremony. Years in Navy, glad lo welcome Mine. Maggy llouf I lie distinguished Modiste of Paris One-Man Cars Court Action Ordered by Mayor Local Hearings Wait Out-of-Town Data Walter T. Edgerton, chief of the Transit Commission's Service Bureau; Philip Hodcs, counsel, and Mack Nomburg, assistant secretary, are touring mid-Western cities to study the operation of one-man trolleys in comparison with two-man service.

is the lawyer who has been conducting the hearings for the commission on one-man operation in Brooklyn, where there has been a widespread protest against the system, and Edgerton is the expert who has been directed to make an analysis of the one-man plan. Meanwhile a smouldering agitation against one-man operation burst into flame in Yonkers following the death of one woman and the injury of a score of other persons when a one-man car got out of control, coasted dow na hill and crashed into a building. Pointing out to The Eagle that the Yonkers railroad was charging a -0-cent fare and that this should be enough to insure a safe method of operation, Mayor John J. Po-garty of that city said last night: Orders Court Action "When I heard of this accident I instructed the corporation counsel to begin court action Immediately to stay temporarily the operation of one-man cars by the Third Ave. and Yonkers railway corporations.

I also appointed ex-Mayor William D. Walsh as special assistant to the corporation counsel to probe thoroughly the entire question and see what steps should be taken to eliminate the evil." Prank Murphy, 30, of 136 Park Yonkers, operator of the wrecked car, had been operating the front end of a car only a month or less, it was disclosed. He had been a conductor and was trained as a motorman just before the en tire system in Yonkers was changed from two-men to one-man operation on March 1. Murnhv. who has a broken col lar bone, lacerations and other injuries, showed signs of improving last night in Yonkers General Hospital.

Edgerton and Hoaes recently visited Philadelphia and Boston to survey surface operation in those cities and the present trip is de signed to cover Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Chicago. It will consume about a week. Meanwhile, the hearings on the Brooklyn situation have been suspended for a' month to give the commission's, experts opportunity to check up on the claim of the B. M. T.

that one-man operation has nroved successful in other lo calities where congestion of traffic approaches conditions in Brooklyn Attempts to obtain information as to one-man operation in other cities by mail have failed to bt satisfac torv. The commission representa tives Intend to inquire particularly as to accident records in the cities they visit and as to the safety de vices required on one-man cars by regulatory bodies or employed voluntarily by the railroads. The data thus far obtained in Philadelphia and Boston is said to be indefinite because conditions of operation were widely different from those existent in Brooklyn. Coast to Coast Air Service Due Continued From Page 1 bined air mail-passenger service; 8,480 miles exclusive air mall service and 10,000 miles exclusive passenger service. 1 Additional schedules by lines were announced as follows: National Air Transport, one round trip, New York to Chicago; one round trip, Cleveland to Chicago; two round trips, Chicago to Kansas City 3,936 miles daily.

Eastern Air Transport, one round trip, Richmond to Jacksonville via Ealeigh 1,166 miles daily. Trans-American airlines Corporation, formerly Thompson Aeronautical Association, four round trips, Chicago to Detroit; six round trips, Detroit and Cleveland 1,588 miles daily. Boeing Air Transport, one round trip, Chicago to San Francisco 4,060 miles daily. The schedule for the through transcontinental tri-motored plane service was announced as follows: Westbound, leaves New York 9 a.m. Arrives San Francisco 1:18 the following day.

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Eagle Office, fjv-inr ynr name, address, aire, present work, and farther information wiH be sent to you. New Orleans First Rivet Is Driven by cle Setiguer in His Last Formal Appearance The keel of the 10,000 ton cruiser New Orleans was officially laid yes terday noon at the Brooklyn Navy Yard at a ceremony attended, by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, a native of the Louisi-anna city after which the warship is named. The ceremony was brief. At 11:45 Secretary Jahncke arrived at the Sands St. gate and was met by a marine guard mount and a salute of 17 guns.

At 12 o'clock. sharp Rear Admiral Louis R. de Steigner, commandant at the yard, grasped the air hammer to drive the first official rivet, while Capt. Paul B. Dungan, manager of the yard, seized a dollybar and "bucked up" on the ether side of the keel.

At 12:15 Secretary Jahncke had shaken Rear Admiral de Steiguer's hand and said what a pleasure it was to participate in the ceremony and the affair was over. Lastt Formal Appearance Virtually all of the commissioned personnel of the Navy Yard, as well as the civilian workers, who had been let off a few minutes earlier than usual so as to attend, cheered when the actual driving of the rivet was finished. Secretary Jahncke, who had flown from Washington in the morning, had lunch with Admiral de Steiguer and Mrs. de Steiguer before flying back to the Capitol. The driving of therivet probobly Is the last formal appearance of Admiral De Steiguer, who, having reached the age limit of 64 years, retires next Wednesday, to be succeeded by Rear Admiral W.

W. Phelps, now commandant at the Portsmouth (N. Navy Yard. The New Orleans construction, of which is expected to cost should be finished by June, 1933. She is the first cruiser to be started following the return of the American delegates from the London Naval Conference a year ago.

While this conference was in progress, work had begun on molds and templates for an unnamed cruiser at the Brooklyn yard. Old Plans Scrapped When the delegates returned it became apparent that the type of warship planned was no longer de-6ivable, in view of the types being built by foreign countries. So in June, 1930, the molds, templates and plans were scrapped and work stopped. Work on the new plans, which made the New Orleans a shorter, speedier, more heavily armored vessel, incorporating more welding and steel alloys for lightness than any previous warship, was begun two months ago. Those present at the ceremony yesterday included Capt.

C. M. Simmers, construction officer in charge of hull work; Capt. A. K.

Atkins, construction officer in charge of engins work; Commander J. O. Gnwne, superintendent of outside work; Richard Corry, master ship-fitter, who had charge of the preliminary work on the warship; and Charles E. Botts, master rigger, whose men had charge of lowering the keel into position. AnnaM.

Ahlstrom Estate Estimated At About $200,000 Herbert P. Murcolt, File Manufacturer, Left His Property to Relatives Surrogate Wingate yesterday granted letters of administration on the estate of Anna M. Ahlstrom, who died Feb. 20 and left an estate valued at "not more than $200,000." The letters were granted to, Jennie Bechtel, a sister, of Hollywood, Cal and Carl F. Ahlstrom, a brother, of 19 W.

54th Manhattan. Miss Ahlstrom, who lived at 164 Park-side left only one other heir, Laura ARhlstrom, a niece. Herbert P. Murcott, file manufacturer, who died March 4, at 949 Bushwick left an estate of "mors than $20,000" to his family. By terms of the document numerous small bequests of stock in the Murcott Company are made to nieces and nephews.

Bequests to Relatives Edna Flint, a niece, of 949 Bushwick gets 25 shares of the same stock, $10,000 and property at the Bushwick Ave. address. Two thousand dollars goes to Arthur C. Flint, a nephew, of the Bushwick Ave. and Mary Kearney, a friend, of 44 Cedar inherits $1,000.

Arthur, a son, gets property in Merrick, L. and the residue in trust until he is 30, when he gets the residue. Herman Mathenius, former Hamburg-American Line official, who died Feb. 28 at 623 Jefferson left an '-state of $10,000 to his widow. Florence, filing of his will with Surrogate Wingate revealed.

Hans D. von Fehr, marine captain, made his widow, Sigrid. of 7408 7th sole beneficiary in his will. Captain von der Fehr, who died Feb. 15 at the 7th Ave.

address, left an estate of $10,000. Isabella T. Withington, well-known Negro charitable worker, who died at the age of 85. Feb. 27, named several public Institutions in her will.

The testator lived at 543 Putnam Ave. and left an estate of $3,700. Th3 Colored Aged Home cf Long Branch and the Brooklyn Urban League received $300 each and the Church of Red Bank, N. gets 1100. Numerous relatives are named tor small bequests.

on to her first visit Brooklyn Old Age Pension Work Lags, With Staff Inadequate Bureau Is 'Snowed Under' by Applicants Probe in Eacb. Case Necessary The Department of Public Wel fare, authorized to pass on the awarding of State old age pensions provided in accordance with a law passed more than a year ago, has been increasingly "snowed under" by applications, it was learned yes terday. Up to Nov. 1, 1930, 10,209 applica tions for pensions had been re ceived. Since then an additional tlOO applications have been filed, very few of which have been decided.

The rdeason for the delay in pass ing on applications was given yesterday as the inadequacy of the in vestigating staff, coupled with the fact that an extremely thorough individual probe must be made in each case to make sure the applicant is more than 70 years old and has no relatives to help. According to Victor S. Dodworth, director of the work, one out of four applications must be turned down, because the would-be pensioner is found to have a bank account, to own real estate, to have a job or relatives to support him or to be younger than 70. An Example of Delay A case illustrating the length of time necessary to get an old-age pension under present conditions is that of a Brooklynite who filed his apers on Oct. 28, 1930.

He was lame, out of work for months, and a brother living on Norwood who previously had supported him, was no longer able to do so. After months went by, this brother wrote The Eagle. Inquiry developed that the lame man's first monthly pension check of $38 had just been mailed from the office of Commissioner Frank J. Taylor of the Department of Public Welfare. Applications for old age pensions are handled on the basis of "first come, first served," it was said, one case not being investigated until the investigation of the previous application is finished.

Auto Show Ends With Attendance Records Smashed Dealers' Cbief Says Buying Proves End of the Depress ion Is Near Crowds that reached record breaking proportions visited the 106th Infantry Armory last night for a final look at the 20th annual automobile show under the sponsorship of the Brooklyn Motor Vehicle Dealers' Association. The show closed following a week's exhibit of'the outstanding models in the motorcar industry, the results of which were highly pleasing' to dealers and officials connected with the exposition. As the curtain was lowered on the 1931 presentation, congratulations poured Into headquarters of the show committee on the success of the undertaking and its effect in stimulating sales. "In a sense the Brooklyn motor show was a test of general business conditions," said President E. F.

McConaha of the dealers' association. "As a test, the show demonstrated that the public Is buying automobiles, which means the business depression of the last 20 months is well on the way to an end." Although official figures on total attendance during the week could not be obtained last night, it Tas said it exceeded that of last year. The same also was true of sales and prospects recorded during the week of the show, officials said. New Extract Halts Bleeders' Disease Chicago, March 14 W) A new method for the treatment of hemophilia, or bleeders disease, has been developed at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and has proved successful experimentally in arresting the disease in two patients, Dr. Carroll L.

Birch said today. The treatment, not yet accepted as a cure, consists of injecting ovarian extract into the patient's body. Won of Women's Clubs and well-known lecturer on art. Miss Beaux Is the only American woman to have a self-portrait in the Ussizi Gallery, France. Only four other American artists have won the same distinction.

They are the late Frank Beneveck, the late John Singer Sargent and Geary Meschers. Although a native of Pennsylvania, Miss Beaux now has a studio in Manhattan. Others Listed Among other women artists living in the city who would qualify for a place on the Art Commission, Mrs. Doolittle listed: Anna Hyatt Huntington, Malvlna Hoffman and Harriet Fishman, all midely known sculptresses. Mrs.

Doolittle herself Is quite an authority on art and is well-known to clubwomen in Brooklyn and Long Island. She was chairman of the Second Division of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs and chairman of the art division of the Long Island Federation of Women's Clubs for many years. In recent years she has led dele Rations of American clubwomen on art tours abroad and has conducted many art tours of New York City tor women groups. Nominations All Made "Women should certainly have a place on the Municipal Art Commission," she declared. "Some of the most outstanding artists in New York City are women.

One can very easily be chosen who will fully qualify." At the Fine Arts Federation the group which nominates the members of the commission it was said today that all nominations for membership in the commission have already been made for the Charges Klansmen Flogged Two Reds Kansas City, March 14 (P) Paul Cline, Communist party districi or ganizer, today charged members of the Ku KIux Klan with abducting and flogging Lewis Hurst and C. J. Coder, Communist organizes, at Dallas, Texas, last Thursday. He alleged the police had connived with the mob. Cline said Hurst and Coder were under the care of a physician, recovering from a beating administered by "14 armed Klansmen." Harvard Wins Radio Debate Over Chicago Harvard upholding the affirmative of the proposition, "Resilvcd? That Anderson plan as embodied in the Wickersham report constitutes the best method of dealing with the present prohibition problem," yesterday was awarded a unanimous decision over the University of Chicago in a radio debate, says the Associated Press.

DIAMOND Engagement RINGS Here is one of the finest collections in Greater New York a grouping of exquisite engagement rings with which any woman will fall in love at first sight. We can please you in every respect style, mounting, price. The beautiful ring shown above a is special value at Others from $50 to $5,000 WM. WISE SON, Inc. Jeweler mnd StWwwilaa 1S3 440 FULTON STREET BROOKLYN A Bridge db Hrl Ala, De Steiguer, 40 Does Not Want He won medals as an ensign in the Spanish-American War.

He won the distinguished service i.iedal for heroism as captain of the aread-naught Arkansas in the World War. Now, after approximately two score years of service in the Navy, he has won a hard-earned rest. Yet Rear Admiral Louis K. de Steiguer, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard since July 12, 1928, would prefer to go on working, even though the lules say tr.at because he is 64 he must retire next Wednesday from the service and hand over his job to Rear Admiral W. W.

Phelps. "You see," the retiring officer said yesterday, "when a man gcra a little along in years he doesn't like to go ashore. Particularly after he's been with the grand fleet. It's a Dewey Relics Omittedin Will Continued From Page 1 time in, travel, said Mrs. Dewey never had confided in her relatives what she wished done with the relics.

He said he was awaiting the expression of her desires in the will. The second will, dated Oct. 23, 1923, made some specific bequests and then left the entire residue to Mrs. Dewey's stepson, George Goodwin Dewey of Chicago, only son of the Admiral. Deyer filed protest against ad mission of the 1925 will, saying it was obtained by fraud and undue influence of "A person or persons him unknown." Application was made for a collector to take charge of the estate pending disposition of the contest.

Eagle Raised Home, Fund The house in which Mrs. Dewey died is not the one presented to her late husband in 1899 by the American people, following a subscription campaign conducted by The Eagle. Admiral Dewey transferred the latter house, at 1747 Rhode Island Washington, to Mrs. Dewey shortly after their marriage, Nov. 10, 1899.

In 1907 the Deweys moved from the gift house into the home Mrs. Dewey's father had given her at the time of her mariage to Gen. William B. Hazen, her first husband. Later Mrs.

Dewey sold the Rhode Island Ave. home and it has been remodeled and now is occupied by stores. In 1899 when The Eagle suggested the subscription campaign to buy the Rhode Island Ave. home for the hero of Manila Bay, President Mc-Kinley gave it his personal indorsement as did the governors of many States. A total of $53,000 was raised and the house was given Admiral Dewey about month before his wedding, to 'Go Ashore' little difficult to decide where your place is." Admiral de Steiguer once wa commander of the battle fleet, and third highest officer in the Navy, but he prefers to recall the days when as a youngster from Onio he went through the Naval Acsilemy and made his first cruise.

There weten't any aircraft, when he "inincd up." "I've seen many changes in our ship equipment," he told the Associated Press. "When I first left the academy I trained on the Constellation, a wooden, powered sailing ship. In the old davs, the ships had horsepower of 300 to 400. Re cent ships have 160,000 or 170 000 horsepower. Now, of course, all ships are steel.

You know the Navy started the steel industry the United States." 38 Kin and Friends Host to Woman, 75 Thirty-eight descendants and friends gathered at the Hotel St. George last night to honor Mrs. Jennie O'Brien of 634 59th on her 75th birthday. There was a birthday cake with 75 candles. Re-gina O'Connor, 21 months old, and George O'Brien, 12, the qoungest grandchildren present, presentee, to Mrs.

O'Brien a basket of 75 American Beauty roses. Mrs. O'Biien had 11 children, seven of whom died. The four children living, who were present, are, William, Michael and Miss Kathryn J. O'Brien and Mrs, Agnes O'Connor.

Of 22 grandchildren 12 are living. There is. one great-grandchild. Mrs O'Brien is the widow of Michael J. O'Brivn.

Mrs. VANGELIA SCRAGG, widow Of Jmes Scragg, died at her home, 9321 40th Elmhurst, on Friday. She la survived by two daughters, Mrs. Irving Lake and Mrs. Fiederick Rltter; one grandchild and one great-grandchild.

The Rev. C. Xawson Wlllard, rector of St. James P. E.

Church, will officiate at the funeral services at her hme on Sunday afternoon a-t 4 o'clock. Interment will be in West Plttston, Pa. HOME REPAIRS Porch Enclosures Screens Re-roofing Additional Rooms in Cellar or Attic LOW DOWN PAYMENTS 2 YEARS TO PAY NO FINANCING CHARGES Write or Phone for Information Louis Bossert Sons, Inc. 1301 Grand Street, Brooklyn Phone PUIaski 5-8600 MME ROUFF is as a guest of the French Government in this country. Smart women who arc fond of Maggy Rouff fashions have found her 1931 collection more dashing, and piquant than ever.

She allies two vivid colors. She uses heavy, dull materials, and a pure, simple, almost severe silhouette especially in evening clothes. She sponsors Valenciennes lace and emhroidery. These are her contributions to 193i fashion. And these are the very details you will find in this season's fashions at Tuesday, March 17th, at 11 A.M.

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