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WEDNESDAY, BSSSllUf' Jo" Maren vevI UiAp, TWfjCENr, Deputy Revenue Collector Honor Guest and His Progress SECRETS OUT! PANAMA HAT SIMPLY ISN'T THE 1SS REPUBLICAN BEAUTY CONTEST" AT FANNING NITE An Interesting1 Series of Articles Relating t6 History, Accomplishments and Present Day Activities of THE FINN in Bay Ridge APPEARS IN HOME TALK STARTING TODAY TRANSIT'S WOES AIRED ON 1CA BEST BARGAINS CONTEST YIELDS EH Sharpen Your Instincts for Shopping' Values and "Cash In" 14 weekly Awards No Strings Entrants' Con- i sensus to Designate, Winners Well, folks, are yon "all set? The "Ten Best Bargains Contest," as announced in last week's HOME TALK, gets' under way to-day, and you'll want to be in the swim I Judging by the instant response evoked among our readers, as indicated by a flood of letters, 'phone calls and personal visits in which additional are asked, HOME TALK'S innovation in contests is taking hold in a way that delights our. hearts and proves that we have again touched a popular chord, in hitting upon the happy idea. Anyone Possessing bargain ctinct and who will admit that he, or she, not? may win cash prizes each week, from down to $1. A total of 5500 wilbbe awarded'in the "ten weeks contest is to rirtf, and at the end of the -ten weeks, those competing will have another opportunity of being the winner of prizes in valued at from $50 to. $5.

And, don't forget, there are fourteen cash -frizes each week, starting today. Surely, you've got a chance to win one (Continued on Page 26) iIURSEROARADA Mrs. Wm. A. Brodic, Chairman, Announces Com-mittee of Patronesses Assisted a strong and representative committee of the Bay Ridge section, Captain Charles W.

Eddy has enlisted the volunteer services of over three hundred young people, from, among whom will be selected the cast of the Parada which will be held nt the Bay Ridge High School cm the 21st to the 25th of this month. This initial gathering was held in the assembly hall of the Masonic Temple on Bay Ridge avenue, and try-outs were conducted so that from among this number the most proficient might be selected for the cast, which wil linclude in its twenty numbers about two hundred different people. The Parada is an annual event, staged for the benefit of the day -nursery which is maintained in the Columbus Lyceum building at 5114 Fourth avenue, under the supervision of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. In past years the large assembly rdoms of the Bay Ridge High School (Continued on Page 26) Youthful Woman, Medico Aiding Mothers and Babes Dr. Josephine Rera, 1182 Fifty-eighth street, gyneologist and baby specialist, who devoting her life to the treatment of the sick women and babies In Borough Park, with an office at 1182 Fifty-eighth street, is one of the youngest of either sex in her prq-fiseion.

She is just twenty-four year oid. The doctor is i graduate of Flower Hospital Medical College. She has practiced at the Metro, politan and Prospect Heights Hospitals. -Although she is proficient in all branches of the medical pro- 10 HARVES 00 ENLISTED FOR TO Range from $307,000 to to Be Finished in Six Months Bids have been received by the Board of Transportation for the removal of kiosks from the middle of the highway in Fourth avenue and relocating the subway station entrances on the' sidewalks "so that many thousands, of riders on the T. subway will no longer be subjected to the traffic' hazard entailed by having to cross the highway to reach the subway stations.

A In addition to relocating the station entrances at Pacific street, Thirty-sixth street and Fifty-ninth street, the malls from Atlantic avenue to -Thirty-sixth street and from. Fifty-eighth street to Sixty-first streets, are to be removed, while the malls between Forty-fourth street and Forty-seventh street are to be reduced in width." of the reconstruction provide for "building mezzanines so that passengers will be enabled to cross below the surface of Fourth avenue instead Of on it. Eleven bids were received, the informal totals having been given as follows! Pattelli Wilson, $307,000: .0.. JH. -Duncan, 000; Masem Construction Com pany, uorson construction Company.

John J. Kennedy Subway Construction (Continued on Page 28) O.LP.H. Workers Prepare For Card Party at 14th The parish workers of the R. Church of, Qur Lady of Perpetual Help are making preparations for a card party to be- held next Wednesday evening at the Fourteenth i Regiment Armory, Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue, v. ''O'' Euchre, bridges pinochle and five hundred wil be among the games played, The proceeds of the event will be devoted to the building fund of the magnificent new superstructure of the church now being' completed on Fifth avenue from 'Fifty-ninth to Sixtieth streets.

DENTAL DISPENSARY The Dental Dispensary of Har-hnr Hnsnital. Croosev and Twen ty-third avenues, has added another dentist to its staff. They are now able to extract iceui on'iltn dn ntWpr mitinr t.rpatment on Wednesday, as well as' Friday, from 9 to 11. a. m.

lor tnose cnu-dren who cannot afford the services of a regular dentist. The fees range from fifty cents upward for extractions with X- ray at moderate cost. REMOVE KIOSKS MALLS 32 BEAUTIES IN CENTER MUSIC SHOW "STEP" LEWIS B. GINSBERG 'The Bnai Israel Community Centre, Fourth avenue and Fifty-fourth street, is now making final preparations for the presentation of a musical comedy at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wedr nesday, March 14. 1 The centre is desirous of making this event one of the outstanding successes of the present season and to that end no effort has been spared to arrange for the be3t among its membership to appear in the show.

The principal singing and dancing roles have been given out to carefully selected embryo stars. A chorus of thirty-two most beautiful young ladies has been in training under the careful eyes of Miss Annabelle Simons, for, the last three months. Their appearance is certain to be hailed with delight. The. comedy parts in the show will be taken care of by such artists as Gerald De Waltoff, Leo Gruskin, Doc Morganstern and others.

The Sisterhood under the leadership of Mrs. Leo Spingam is participating In the affair and show, most actively. M. Cohen, who' coached the successful Sis terhood show of two years ajro. is again in charge of the Sisterhood and the ladies have been filling the Centre with their melodi ous voices.

Mrs. Becker, Mrs. Rothrosen, Mrs, Wengrow, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. -Kramer, assisted bv a' "chorus "of- Mrs.

Spingarn, Mrs. lovivim, Mrs. Kotschild, S. Goldenbersr. Mrs.

Harrv Goldberir. Mrs. S. Lowenthal and others will attempt to. rival operatic stars.

continued on, Page 26) TESTO After Six Weeks Rehearsal Minstrels Ready for Tonight The popular' minstrels of Thomas Dongan Couacil. 1261, K. of have every thing in readiness for two gala performances tonight and tomorrow night. They have been faithfully rehearsing their parts for the past six weeks and feel assured, con-, sidering the dress' rehearsal, held on Sunday, as their riterion, that this year's show will easily excel all of former efforts. Many of the entertainers are well known amateur theatricals throughout the city and are especially popular, in this section.

The choice of- musid is exceptional, consisting for the most part of popular, up to the' 'minute song 'hitsj, together with a generous sprinkling of ballad solos which would please the most fastidious of music The end' nothing to be desired. The audience will be assured of many a hearty laugh at "the gests and clowning of the six mirth producing imitators of Lew Dockstadter. The costuming is entirely different from anything ever used before by the Dongan Minstrels. To say that it is. colorful, or even kaleidoscopic, falls far short of an apt description.

The show is under the auspices of the Amateur Theatricals Committee of Thomas Dongan Council- of which Charles E. Mundy is chairman. Charles Wolf ertz and Thomas Maher are directing and coaching the entire production. Smhhonians Prepare For First Celebration Leading public officials of City and State have been invited to attend the first review end dance of. the Smithsonians of Kings -County, to be held at Prospect' Prospect avenue noar Fifth avenue, 1 tonight.

The affair wil lserve as a ccle-gration of the progress made by the Smithonians of Kings County. The organization, formed but two months ago, now has a membership of over 600 persons, including many leading professional and business men and women. Prominent among the executives of the organization are Cassidy, Minnie" J. Abel, George P. Donovan, Rebecca Wienbersr, Harry Frazce and Frank Colgan.

A. DQNGANI DON BURN CORK WAR DRUMS BEAT -CIVICS PREPARE WIDENING BATTLE Allign Forces to Protest 4th Ave. Improvement Local Assessment LOSE INITIAL CLASH Principal Fight Will Be' Before Br. of Estimate 700 Petition Fort Hamilton civic leaders and their associates are aligning themselves for what promises to be a powerful and effective campaign against' the levying of a local assessment to pay for the cost of widening Fourth avenue. gjgpngh' President Byrne m-fonSa the Home Talk that as far as he was concerned the matter was closed inasmuch as his plan to change the tax from a 50-50 basis (60 per cent' on the borough at large and the other half oo the local area) to a 60-40 Uiivision (the larger burden to the local) had been approved by the Committee on Assessments last Wednesday.

The main fight, however, will be made before the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Esti mate. Last week battle before the assessment body was consid ered only a formal move. The Fort Hamilton Chamber of Commerce went on record at their last meeting as unanimously od- posed to Borough President Byrne's proposal and unanimously supported the report of its own special committee opposing not only the assessment, but the en- (Continued, on Page 28) CHURCH EMBARKS fii Good Shepherd Congrega tion Undertake $400,023 Building Project. Plans have been filed with the Buildinir Denartment for. a new parish house for the Church of the Good Shepherd, of which Rev.

Charles Trexler is pastor, to be erected on the southwest corner of Seventy-fourth street and Fourth avenue. The edifice, a three-story affair, will cost between $175,000 and $200,000. Ground will be broken about May 1. The congregation plans to replace the church with a larger structure, which with the new parish house' will occupy the entire, block from Seventy-fourth to Seventy-fifth streets. The cost of the entire project will exceed $400,000.

Approximately $110,000 has already been A campaign to raise the additional funds will be held within a year or two. The new parish house will con- fain amphS provision for the recreational, activities which have proved an important factor in making Mr. Trexler's pastorate so popular. The building is to bn constructed of trap, rock and will have- a arid a kitchen in the basement. The street floor (Continued on Page 28) 16th A.

D. Democrats for Ball A. meeting of thecommittee ar ranging for the annual ball and reception of the United Regular-Democratic Organization of the Sixteenth Assembly District, of Which assistant to the president of the Board of Aldermen Kenneth F. Sutherland and Mrs Jennie McMahon are the executive members, was held at -the clubhouse, 25 Bay Twenty-fifth street. It was decided that the afJan- will be held at the Half Moon Hotel, West Twenty-ninth street and the boardwalk, on Saturday evening, March 10.

The project is receiving the support of the entire district. KILLER INSANE Cfaude Priddy of confessed slayer of his wife and two sons, former local residents, on Feb. 1, was declared insane the Lunacy Commission appointed' by County Judge Fur-man. Doctors Horatio Gibson and Charles I Vaux, both of the staff 'of the State Hospital for the' Insane at Central Islip, who comprised the Commission, made their finding in a brief report to District Attorney- George W. Hildreth of Suffolk County.

Cohn Bros, cine the February Furniture Fair with a great mrrnf of values. -See page 7. PR RA sr J. FRANK FANNING Owl's Head Acquisition. Hearing Set for Mar.

1 At a meeting of the Board ot Estimate and Apportionment, Thursday, it was decided to postpone the hearing on the acquisition of Owl's Head Park, until Thursday, March- 1st, -when the Board will vote on the resolution approving the purchase, at private sale, of the property. Although this property been listed on the city maps and used as a public park, it does not belong to the city, the property never having been bought. The Board of Estimate is expected to settle the matter definitely at the March first meeting. 1ST AVLCLOSING Alleges Corporations At-tempting to Confiscate Thoroughfare Probably the most ardent protest against the closing of First avenue, between Fifty-eighth and Sixty-third streets, fenced in by the government during the war and still barred to the public, is Michael O'Sullivan, 837 Fifty- third street, who has written Secretary of War Dwight W. Davis in part.

as follows: "First avenue was opened by condemnation proceedings; paid for by an assessment on the district and there has been ho proceeding to extinguish the public interest thus acquired. Because of the crowth of vehicular, traffic this link of the avenue is sorely needed for public uses. The great manufacturing concerns to; the north and the residents to the south' thereof are alike complaining. "If needed to protect the army storehouses on the three blocks there, the wire fence surrounding the main government land can be extended on both sides of First avenue like the fence now sur-( Continued on Page 26) GiP. DELEGATES J.

Frank Fanning and Mrs. Beatrice V. Stevenson, leaders of the Republican organization of the Ninth A. continue- as State committeemen and executive mem bers. They were endorsed" by unanimous vote of the district members of the County Committee at a meeting at the district organization's headquarters, 817 uvmgton avenue.

In a -resolution adopted unanimously Mr. Fanning was given (Continued on Page 28) B.M.A's to Celebrate at St. Patrick Night Dinner The entertainment committee at the last meeting of the B. M. announced that the annual dinner will, be held this year on St.

Patrick's Night, marcn at tne spotrord, located at 315 Ninety-third street, This change was due to the fact that a good many of the members felt that the -affair should be held in Bay Ridge. Mr. Stoddard, of the Spoff has given assurance that, everything will be done to surpass any previous affair of this popular organization and wil larrange a special menu toward this end. The committee in charge con-sists of James S. McNeill, chair man; josepn itzgeram, Kobert Hanlon, Eugene Sullivan.

Ed' ward Swanson, Bernard H. Mopnep, Augustus Short, James aPulsen. Edward Leach. Abe An derson, Thomas Andrew Gerlach, Thomas Monahan: Walter Dearborn, Frederick Lillick, Peter Marble, Jame3 Corr, Thomas Hughes, Albert Rempo; Daniel J. bchaefer and Joseph McNamara-George J.

McNeel, is ex-officio. W4h-9if jib: O'SULLIVAN HITS FANNING TO PICK William Darling, 18 Gelston avenue, picturesque globe-trotter and one of the original "diggers" of the Panama Canal, has returned from the reunion of the Canal builders at Port Au Prince, Haiti, and regaled HOME TALK'e editorial staff with an account of his trip. k' The New York Society of" Panama Canal Workers, which each year holds a banquet at the Hotel Astor on May 1, the anniversary of the, Canal's opening in 1914, pllanned the trip at its last din ner. Since it rains nine months out of the' year in the Canal one, they jchose the dry season. which lasts from the middle of Decmber until March 1.

About 250 members left New York on two one on January 10 and the other, three days later, with stragglers following on a third boat. When three days out, in mid-V(Continued on Page 28) FORMAN VETS THEATRE PART! Veterans Will Visit Dyker, Then Dine and Dance at Hotel Madrid Pvt. Samuel Forman Post, 1505, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United, States, will hold a theatre party and supper-dance next Monday evening. The Post being composed of ex-service men of the Fort Hamilton' and Bay Ridge the theatre party will be held at the Dyker Theatre, where Miss Sophie Tucker will head the bill, and a supper, revue and dancing will take place in the new Valencia Grill Room of the Hotel Madrid. The entertainment committee under the direction of 'Chairman D.

O'eKefe is to provide an exceptional evennig'g jollification at a very-low charge. Any friend of the Post may secure tickets from the entertainment committee' at the 8916 Fourth avenue. Augustus Ludwig, principal of John J. Pershing Junior High School, Fifty-ninth street and Fourth avenue, has been nominated for president of the Brooklyn Teachers' The nomination was made by the board of trustees in a meeting following the regular meeting of the association in the Unity Club, Bedford avenue and Dean street, and will be voted on at the. next meeting off the association.

As there is no opposing nomination the of the board of trustees wil plrob-ably be elected. Ludwig was educated at Boys' High School, State Normal School, Jamaica, and Columbia University, at which place he obtained the degrees of B. S. and M. A.

He has taught, at P. S. 71 and 80 -in Queens, 122, Brooklyn: Manual Training High School and has been principal of P. S. 164 and Pershing High School, where he is now located.

The Item and Sunday Star con kinds. Save time and money TEACHERS' ASSN. NOMINATES HEAD Ninth -A. D. Girls to Com pete for Ball Belle Honors STAGE "TWING-A-LING" Paul Hennessy and Lucille Jost in Male, and Female Leads of Show All is set for "Fanning Ni'ght," tomorrow, xnursaay.

reuruarj 16th, at Prospect Hall. Republicans and Democrats, alike, of Bay Ridge, will turn out in force that evening, to do honor to J. Frank Fanning, the Republican leader of the Ninth Assembly District, i The occasion is the annual entertainment and reception of the Bay Ridge Republican organization. Following the custom of several year past, a musical revue has been, prepared that will exceed in merit, number of cast, and talent of principals, efforts of former jears. Tom Gid-dings, the coach, has had charge of the arrangements for the production, which will include about one.

hundred young ladies and young men of talent, all residing Bay Kidge. rne name oi tne production is "Ting-A-Ling," and would do justice to the board on Broadway, containing, as it does, many of the most recent musical numbers. A'laren feature of the event will be a beauty contest to choose (Continued on Page 28) Racial Choruses Register Heavily in Local Choir Competition An important feature of the Brooklyn Borough contests of the New York Music Week Association this season will be the borough contest at Bay Ridge for choruses and church choirs Which ich being sponsored by the Sunset Community Centre in cooperation -wit hthe New oYrk Music Week' Association. VC. E.

Smith, president of 1 the community centre, reports that a large number of organizations are registering and that among the number are several- racial choruses, most 'of which are Norwegian. Definite -data for this particular contest will be announced shortly. In the midst of all of this intense activity comes the second Gold Medal Winners concert at Carnegie Hall on April 18. Gold medal winners front Brooklyn, including Miss Dorothy Wagnei. president of the Gold Medal Winners Club; Morris Bialkin, Valen tine Righthand, Henry Kirsch, Alma Olswanger, Philip Frank, David Stimer, Bessie Ziek and Theodore Takaroff, wil take part.

Already rehearsals for the junior and senior string ensembles for (Continued on Page 26) 13th Ave. at 44th St. Leased by S. S. Kresge The S.

1 S. Kresge Company has closed a -long-term lease with Breitbart and Goldstein, covering a plot of 4,474 square feet at the southwest corner of Thirteenth avenue and Forty-fourth street. The plot contains two threerstory single brick store buildings facing Thirteenth avenue and one frame cottage fronting on Forty-fourth street. As soon as possession is had on May 1st, the Kresge Company will demolish' the present structures and build On the site a new two-story office building in which the company will operate 5 to 25 cent store. The lease is for a term of fifty years at -an aggregate rental of $462,500.

This lease was consummated by Tutino and Company as brokers. The S. S. Kresge Company was, represented by Mr. George of Edwards, O'Loughlin George, and the owners were represented by Herman G.

Bobbins, '-v Boys Wanted There is an opportunity for refined boys to make good money delivering Home Talk in the neighborhood of their No interference with school w6rk. Call at the Circulation Home Talk Building, 4808 Fourth Ave. 1AUSTS TUNE UP FOR CONTEST 1 3 Clergymen, H. S. Princi- pal, Editor In Subway mm Appeal If Mayor Walker had listened in oh Thursday night to the program being broadcast from Station WMCA, he probably would have been- convinced that Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst want a new sub-wav badlv.

three clergymen, representing the three outstanding a hit school principal and a news paper editor pleaded for relief. The speakers were tne wev. Father Rubard A. Kennedy, pastor of St. Ephrem's R.

C. Church; the Rev: -C. O. Pedersen, rector of the Norwegian Hospital; Rabbt Max Reichler of Beth Sholem People's Temple; Dr. Harry M.

Potter, nrincipal ot New Utrecht High School, and F. V. Paterno, editor of the Home Talk, the Item and the Brooklyn Sunday Star. William J. Mackin, chairman of the Allied Subway Campaign, un-, (Continued on Page 28) NOTICES POSTED Property Owners Advised To File Blanks Board Of Assessors Notice- to present claims for damages, due to the grading of certain.

Bay Ridge streets, has been given to property owners affected in the area of Improvement, James Meeks, president of the Bay Ridge Chamber of Commerce, advises, i The confir mation of assessments on thoroughfares is also made known with an announcement of the completion of assessments and awards in local quarters. The official notice notice is hereby eiven to -all persons claiming to have been injured ty tne grading oi the following' named streets and the approaches to the same, to present their elaims in writing to the secretary of the Board of Assessors, Koom 800, municipal Buildinsr. Manhattan, New York, on or before Tuesday, February 21, at 11 a. fat which place and time the said Board of Assessors will receive evidence and testimony of the nature and extent' of such injury. Claimants requested to make their claim for damages -upon trie blank prepared, by Board of Assessors." "Copies of the blanlCs may be obtained upon, application at the office of the' Owners' and Tenants' Association, 41 Park Row, Manhattan.

424. Narrows avenue from Eighty-fifth street to Shore road. 429. Senator street from Ridge boulevard to Third avenue. -430.

Seventh avenue from Seventy-third street to Seventy-fifth street. 434. Seventy-first street from Twelfth avenue to Thirteenth avenue. 435. Seventy-seventh street from Fort Hamilton parkway to Tenth avenue.

436. Seventy-seventh 'street from Eleventh avenue to Twelfth avenue. 437. Seventy-seventh street and Seventy-eighth street from Twelfth avenue to Thirteenth avenue. 433.

Sixty-fourth street from Fort Hamilton avenue to Eleventh avenue. Confirmation of Attaiimcnti (Continued on Page 28) LEAP YEAR DANCE The Ladies' Auxiliary of Gen. Phil H. Sheridan Council will hold a "Leap Dance in the new clubhouse at Sixth avenue and Fifty-sixth street, on, Saturday evening, tnebruary 18. Mrs.

Am brose Quinn is chairlady of the arrangements-committee. On page 4, Tarthei Credit Clothiort to the family, located over Douglut Shea Storo, hai many opportunitiet. DAMAG CLAIMS The "Classified" Will Fix It! V. THERE'S WO VSEV (Wm, I TRYING TO FIX THAT AfrA Wm YOURSELF, HE WRY. SJ57 JpH A PiACe fAJ THE WAWT AD 1 SECTfOW AWBRTlilkX; THAt k'nd op has decided to- devote her time If to ftttflnHinp' tn inntorniv obao 1 I and ailments affpeti no VAmn nnri children.

MOTHERS' CLUB EUCHRE A euchre, pinochle and bridge, under the auspices of the Mothers Club of St. Agatha's School, will be held tomorrow -at 2 p. m. in the school' nail, FortyV eighth street and Seventh avenuC CARDS FOR LADIES The ladies of the' Ninth As-lembly District Republican Club, B17 Ovingtoh avenue, will hold the! rregular monthly afternoon card" party, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Bridge, 600, pinochle and euchrei with prizes at every table and refreshments, me the attractions.

All are invited. Mrs. Edna Hutchison is chairman. IWhen anything around the houaa needs fixing it is far cheaper to consult the "Classified" than to try and do the job yourself 1 The Want-Ad. columns of Homa Talk, tain a list of expert artisans of Read the Classified! all V..