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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 16

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14 A Mf BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1931. FALLEN HEROES ARE HONORED tent to be erected on the corner oflner will be served botl. eves' rjgs. 81st St! and Ridge Boulevard. There 1 Mrs.

William A. Brodie of 16l 83d will be games and dancing and din- St. is chairman of the Pink Rats and Purple Fish Visible Without Rose Glasses Fleet of Planes To Be Carried Tribute Is Paid Postal Workers Who Died in War readily to color tests. It is to be seen in blue, scarlet and faun. Others which have produced startling color effects are the Zebra fish and the blood-fin.

Have you a Star Spangled -Banner? By the Akron Navy Dirigible, Being Built, lo Have Room for 5 Scout Machines V. F. W. Auxiliary Holds Services at Post Office Firmin Is Speaker Celebrate Decoration Day by displaying our BENEFIT GARDEN PARTY The Union Church of Bay Ridge will sponsor a garden party for the benefit of the Parish House Building to be held afternoons and evenings of June 5 and 6, in a large nation's glorious em blem in your win dow or on your house front. MEN WANTED This is the story of a unique offer, made in an attempt to get Brooklyn money back into circulation.

Charles W. Flelschmann, breeder of rats, mice and tropical fish extraordinary, is willing to produce a rat, mouse or fish of any color you want. There is no catch to it. If you want to have a purple rat, or a red-white-and-blue fish, Mr. Fleisch-mann will give you one.

He has his laboratory at 107 Flatbush Ave. On certain colors, he will be able to meet your demand imediately. On others, he says, you may have to wait a year before your order is filled. But it will be filled. It isn't as crazy as it sounds.

Mr. Fleischmann is perhaps Brooklyn's leading student of methods of breeding animals and fish. He Is particularly interested In coloration. Adhering strictly to the Mendel theory, he has actually bred rats with blue, pink and chocolate colored fur. What's more, at the present time he has spotted rats and ones that are black to the waist and white the rest of the way down to their tails.

The fish which Mr. Fleischmann also offers to supply in any We illustrate a fine Bunting Flag with Tribute to more than 500 men of the Brooklyn Post Office Department who saw service In the World War between 1917 and 1918 was paid at 11 a.m. yesterday in. a simple memorial ceremony conducted in the Federal Building, Johnson and Adams by the' Ladies Auxiliary to the Post Office Department Post, 930, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Postmaster Albert Firmin placed a poppy wreath above the bronze honor roll of department names and said a few words in tribute to the sacrifices of the boys.

He was assisted in the service by Mrs. Ida Schoenfelder, president of the auxiliary, and Mrs. Elsie Littwitz, secretary. After placing the wreath, Postmaster Firmin purchased the first sewed stripes 4 ft. 6 ft.

complete with 7i ft, jointed pole, bracket and rope Washington, May 16 OT) A fleet of airplanes able to hop off in mid air to meet any attack will be housed in the new navy dirigible Akron now ncaring corripletioif at the Goodyear-Zeppelin hangar; in Akron. The airship will be the first in dirigible -history to can'y airplanes as part of its equipment. Pioneering in a new field, designers of the 6.500,000 cubic-feet air-thip to be launched this Summer, are drawing on the Navy's experiments with the Los Angeles in attaching and detaching planes. The airplane compartment, housing four and later five heavier-than-air craft, probably will be one of the last of the Akron's features to be completed. Actual plane tests will not be made until after the airship's trial flights at Akron.

Iv v. ft 4P Decoration Day Special at A large corporation which will bear the most stringent investigation, has just placed in production a non-competitive automobile device that will startle the. automobile world by actually returning dollars and cents to the user. This corporation is about to engage in an extensive advertising campaign and the Advertising Department is in need of the service of six (6) men in the Brooklyn' territory who, by their past record of sales, can prove that they are qualified to be considered as men of the proper caliber to become a part of this organization. It Is also essential that men be able to finance themselves, as drawing account specialists do not interest this organization.

For appointment phone Mr. Johnston, MAnsfield poppy in the buddy poppy appeal which- opened officially yesterday. A trapeze for launching and And for your windows, a silk flag, 12" mounted on gilt cross bar and finished off with silk cords and tassels. This costs but QjFjr catching the planes is being de He made his purchase from Commander Max Michaels while Edward Haussman, chairman of the drive, velopcd, which is an improvement flu il over the one used on the Los An looked on. peles.

A specially built rail to hold the planes within the airship also is The Veterans of Foreign Wars will desired shades are as interesting as the rats. There is the Siamese Fighting Fish, for instance, which builds a nest of bubbles in which to hatch its young. This fish has responded Left to Mrs. Elsie Littwitz, secretary oj the Ladies Auxiliary of Postoffice Department Post, 930, V. of F.

Postmaster Firmin and Mrs. Ida Schoenfelder, president of the Auxiliary, as wreath was placed on Honor Roll tablet in Federal Building yesterday. conduct memorial services today in all national cemeteries of the being constructed. "A system of four mono-rails to support the planes has been dictated by the dimensions' of the room allowed for airplane storage," according to Commander Gurland Fulton, Navy construction corps expert. We regret that we cannot accept Mail, Phone or O.

D. order While you are in our stores, look at the complete and attractive stocks of furniture, radios, rugs, china, curtains and draperies. A small deposit installs any purchase in your home balance payable weekly or monthly, in moderate sums. Open Monday and Saturday Ennlnqt Old Paris Mansion Recalls Great Love The storage room win measure roughly 70 feet long by 60 ojf 70 feet wide. The four pails radiaflhig frorrt above the centrl opening in the bottom will accommodate one country.

Widow to Administer J. F. Savage's Estate Surrogate Wingate has granted letters of administration to Edna Creem Savage, Leverich Towers Hotel, on the estate of her husband, Joseph Francis Saveg, who died April 18 at the Leverich Towers, leaving an estate of $285,000 and no will. Mr. Savage, broker, was a member of the Stock Exchange.

He was only 46. Besides the widow, five children, Edna, Joseph Marion, Daniel and Thqmas Savage, share in the estate. Ilalir Grand Piano Transfer of LEASE FOR BALANCE DUE. By special arrangement with company purchased, dealer will assign agreement to responsible party. Just continue payments.

Over one-half paid for. Must be moved at once. Act quick. Information must be confidential. Write Eagle Office, Box No.

659. Home of 'Travelers Club' on Champs Elysees, plane each. A fifth plane may be suspended from tMe trapeze." Such planes as now are available will be used at first, the commander said, but, a special type fhip will be used. Each plane will carry an engaging hook on its upper wing. A tube carrying the hook will extend forwand far rjpugh to art as a partial guard protecting the propeller against damage In striking the cross-bar of the trapeze.

As the plane approaches the OLDEST FURNITURE HOUSE IN AMERICA' Oowniown-N. Y. 70S park row 55-57 Flatbush Avenue third avenue at Chatham Squar lot. Furtan St. I.

R. R. at 121st Stract Built by Nobleman as Shrine for Adored Wife, Left Unchanged by Time By GUY HICKOK Eaitle Bur, Paris, May 15 The only building left unchanged in the Avenue des Champs Elysees is the residence that now houses the "Travelers Club." I 1 trapeze, which will extend 15 feet or Behind this dignified and rather solemn facade, thpugh great was the hold upon him of La nothing suggests it now, burned one of those passions that make a legend. Here lived "La Paiva," lancer, Paiva that he let no day pass with out shutting himself for a time in the room with the crystal coffin. It was only a little before the Great War that he gave up the rite.

Death FT whose husband so adored her that When she died he placed her body in a crystal coffin, in alcohol, and kept lt in a room of his chateau as a stopped him. Few changes have been made in the house in the Champs Elysees. kind of altar. Even the Travelers Club, its present Living, this house was a shrine for owner, has kept lt almost intact her. Into it the Count Henckel von Donnersmarck crowded every art The onyx and silver bath is maintained as a museum piece, and the treasure with which his fortune could surround her.

club bar la in the dressing room, The house is full of men, as always. Hired Great Artists In 1865, when it was built, the more below the dirigible, the hook will be locked to the' crossbar automatically and the shock absorbed by movement and friction of the support. The plane then may be pulled by a winch into the storage compartment within the dirigible and attached to the monorail pulley and pushed over to its position. The planes are expected to add to the scouting values Of the airship and aid in warding off attacks Id war operations. The navy's interest in using airplanes with airships dates from 1919, when a light plane was launched from a lightcr-than-air craft.

Serious study of the possibilities began in 1927 with the Los Angeles after attaching and launching experiments had been made by the Army Air Corps. The first attachment of a service type plane to a dirigible in flight was made in 1929 by Lt. A. W. Gorton and at the 1929 National Air Races the first transfer of a passenger by plane from airship to ground was carried out successfully.

Week's Program To Mark LI.U.'s Commencement Coffin Sidetracked; bath of onyx and silver was one of the city's marvels. Marble, bronze, Damages Awarded mosaic an inlaid floors made the place a treasure house. Most of the Special Correspondence of The Eagle Paris, May 12 The Outer Circle Railway Company of Paris has famous artists of the time were commissioned by von Donnersmarck to make an interior worthy of the dancer. .5 been mulcted in $125 damages In Dalou, Carriere-Belleuse, Legrain, an action brought by a citizen who sued because a coffin containing the body of his mother-in-law was lost Lenormand, Baudry. Delaplanche carved and painted for her.

It was toward the end of the Second Empire. Paris under Napoleon III was a little crazy with gold braid, clanking sabers and plumed hats very ornamental on parade in transit. It seems that the coffin was to have been brought from one fo) station on the line of the railroad YOU CAR UY to another, but the coach in which the casket had been placed was mislaid in the process of shunting. The funeral party had assembled but not adapted to the coming war with Prussia. Up at the end of the wide avenue workmen were building the great Arch of Triumph, to the first Napoleon it is true, but from which the third Napoleon hoped to for the burial and had a long wait in consequence.

The suit was brought as a result, and the court has just handed down a decision in Wilbur lo Be Speaker at Exercises June 11 favor of the son-in-law. shine a little in reflected glory. Banished by War Von Donnersmarck was proud of Academy of Music in Invitations to Long Island Unl versity's first commencement to be held at the Academy ol Music tne evening of June 11, were sent out last nieht. They announce the ON CREDIT his beautiful dancer; and had her keep open house. Names on the list of guests make a roll of fame of the time.

Then came the France-Prussian War, and the Polish-Jewish ballet queen and her German count had to leave Paris for a time. It wa a short war; and they were soon back in the Champs Elysees. This time the house was a hive of Intrigue. La Paiva tried international politics, managecr to bring Leon Gambetta, one of the founders of the Republic into her drawing room tried to arrange that he should meet Prince Bismarck there nearly succeeded. Somebody spoiled it by circulating the story that Count Henckel von kept in adjustment by the unchangeable law of hydraulics.

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Further lowness is contributed by the fact that the squeakless, jointless Mono-Piece Steel Body is mounted directly to the chassis without body sills sharing the strength and steadiness of the heavy frame. Dodge Hydraulic Brakes, are always Now Is the Time Buy Your AwniflRS ml Save 20 to 40 bunpruf Awning are all that line quality awnings should be. Every detail Is ol the finest workmanship rnstproo: frames heavy-weight materials newest patterns and the LOWES1 PRICES IN GREATER NEW YORK. Get our estimate and we know we ll get the order. Donnersmarck had stood in the entry in German parade uniform to watch the German Army march down the Champs Elysees.

La Paiva was accused of being a spy. Both she and the count were hooted at a theater; and the foreign minister advised them to leave the city to WRITE avoid, more and worse. nt i OR I complete commencement week program. At 8:15 p.m. on June 5 the graduation exercises of thea university's College of Pharmacy will be held at the Academy of Music.

Degrees will be awarded to 200 by Dean William C. Anderson. There will be a dance on the S. S. Tomona, leaving pier 5, Battery Park at 9 p.m.

Saturday, June 6, for graduates of the College of A.s and Sciences. At Central Congregational Church, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman will preach the baccalaureate at 11 a.m.

Sunday, June 7. The senior class business meeting will be held at the Academy of Music June 8, and graduates will be guests of the Student Council at a dance at the Hotel St. George that evening. Farewell assembly of the university will be held In trie Albee Theater at 9 a.m., June 9, with an academic cap and gown procession, and the awarding of two-year certificates to students who have completed the work of the lower two-year division of the college. Dr.

Louis K. Ampacher, lecturer, will speak on "The Modern Cultural Ideal." The senior faculty luncheon will be held at the Bossert at 1 p.m.. June 9. At this" time the seniors will present Dean George R. Hardie with an oil painting of himself.

Senior night exercises will be held at the Central 55 Hanson Place, June 10. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Dean Hardie will be the commencement speakers June 11. Bachelor of arts and sciences degrees will be conferred Go to Silesia To a chateau In Upper Silesia Sunpruf PHONE TRIANGLE 5-4497 for Our Jtrpretentati With Complef Detail Count Henckel took his beautiful Awning Co. dancer, where she died in 1884 at 1S4 Livingston Street the age of 65. Brooklyn, N.

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