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Weath With Heat Unbroken 1 THE WEATHER CITY ED ITI0 FHICE 3 CKiXTS Fair and Continued Warm Today and Probably Tomorrow. 6 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR BROOKLYN; NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 193618 PAGES Rises till litie HIX FT VERITAS 'Vrsfr a J.i;L -iir III I v-iii II ft the left is shown the 123th St. apiirfMich. at Second Manhattan, scene of today's ceremonies. The cameraman was perched atop one of the bridge towers to take the center picture, whirh looks towards the Brons.

At the riglit is the" view yon would get if you 'I lilKiioiiKh Rrltlep, which us altcudeil by ninny notables. At Three irws of the nuisshp oined today at fornml 'ceremonies Tribo 1 IV I Opened: mam roMiiDTiaze 7 9 4 7 r.A-. Tim Union Photxw. and gazed towards Astoria. Blistering Week-end for En- tire Metropolitan Area Is Now in Prospect.

NO RELIEF IS SIGHT Flock fa Beaches; More Than a Score of Prostrations Reported. in 4it I til 4 Heat Klills 4 More; 5 Drown In Brooklyn and Queens Roosevelt at I UHVt rtitu nnr ror rr in ro Three-fourths pf Nation EikC- JD rM lo rLLt IMUMI1 MIIVII0 Banker Declares Act May Prove "Cruel Jest" on Persons It Seeks to Aid. President Addresses Officials, Engineers and Public on Historic Event. ACHIEVEMENT IS WAILED Paraders Inspect $60,000,000, IN AFRICA BACK FLATBUSH BLAZE 0UW1 a VUUOSS 11U1US UU 6 p0yce Tilj 2 Shots Fell Him Span Linking Manhattan', Bronx and Queens. I Damage in Apartment Op With Pr' Roefr Psite Parade, Grounds as a guest of honor, the Held to $10,000.

Continues to Slash Despite Wound in Each Leg; Bluecoats Called in Wife-beating Complaint. Roy Richter, a former officer in the United (States Navy, said to have been retired less than a year ago, last night was taken to the Cumberland Hospital with a bullet wound in each leg after he had held six policemen at ibay for more than 20 minutes, wielding a navy cutlass when they attempted to arrest him in the bedroom of his Police said the man was intoxicated and crazed by the heat. 000,000 Triborough Bridge, linking Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx was to be formally dedicated andiJ Hourly Temperatures Tuteraay j0'ir Tolv 79. 7 A. 7 SO A.

82 M. 9 A. 84 55 10 A. 88 53 11 A. S3.

Noon 1 P. '2 P. if 3 P. 4 P. 5 P.

M. mounted one of the bridge towers U1J. Off revolver and ordered Richter to (put down his weapon. When the man refused Holt lunged' at Rich-Iter's sword arm, but withdrew when the former sailor slashed at him. Holt, police said, fired one shot at Richter's lee.

partially crippling him. He then continued to Mash at the pulkc from a crouching position. iahcs IK-pite Two Wounds Holt, according to tiis fellow patrolmen: then fired, a shot into Richter's other leg. Even after bc-i mg twice wounded, police said. Richter continued to struggle as he was taken to the hospital.

Kteht'-r was a 'prisoner at the hospital, charged with' felonious assault. His condition was said to be not critical. Police at the Classon ave. station said they had been called to the Richter apartinent several times during the past several months to 'quiet family. disturbances.

WILL FIX 2 Their Mothers, Both Seriously Hurt on Cruiser, Unaware of Deaths. A magistrate's inquiry was determined upon today to fix responsibility for the. gasoline explosion that killed two baby girls and injured their mothers and the grandmother of one of them nt White-stone shortly after 4 P. M. yesterday.

1 The young mothers are' both in Flushing Hospital, too badly hurt to be tol'd that 'their children are dead. The blast wrecked the 60-foot converted rum runner Commodore, which had been taking on Btni gallons of gasoline, in Long Island Sound at the foot of 154th Whltestone. Jennie Newberry, months- old, of 40-15 81st Jackson Heights, was pronounced dead on arrival at. Flushing Hospital. Doris Patricia ltrow month, of the same address, was dead when taken from-the water with grappling Irons more than four hours after the blast.

Mrs. Irene Brown, SS. the mother of porls Tatrlela, and Mrs. Uorls fCimtfnuta' an follouini) J'upcJ COR BLAME FOR BLAS KILLING BABES gulfed Today With Killing Tes DEATHS PLACED AT 400 Millions of Dollars Worth of Crops Are Burned Into Worthless Dust. i Bj WILLIAM MclLF.lTH fCvpsrwht, VJ3f, by Vntied Prrssi I Chicago, July 11.

Three-; fourths of America was en-; grulfed today in killing heat. The United States from th.i Rocky Mountains to the i reeled in record-smashing temper-' attires hich have taken 400-lives since July 1 and burned a quarter of -a billion dollars' orth of farm I crops Into worthless dust. Only' Northern New England and the West Coast escaped the torture of a glaring sun burning pavements in Illinois and Indiana, warping the gigantic girders of New York City's bridges, souring milk before it could be brought to market. filling hospitals with sufferers. Weather forecasters predicted at 'least two more days of the terrific heat.

Scattered Showers Scattered showers may fall today of tonight in Western South Dakota, Northern Minnesota and Northern Michigan. Cooler weather may follow in those areas Sunday. For the rest of the nation there was not the slightest hope that they might escape from the dry. sizzling heat which trans- (Confmnflf FelfoK-iKJ Papt) Hyde Park, N. July 11.

Mrs. Ruth Bryan" Owen, Ambassador to Prnmark nnd daughter of William Jennings P-ryan, will be married to a of the Panlsh King's Guard, Roerge Rohde, here at 5 P. M. today with President and Mrs. Roosevelt as wedding guests.

The eeremonv will be rend in St. James" Protestant Kptseopalj Church by the Rev; Samuel M. Shoemaker, of New York City, who called on Mrs. in Pen mark i last year while on a European tour, i Following the wedding, the rou-i plo will be supper guests of Presl- i dent nnd Mrs. Roosevelt.

Altboueh attendants were not i announced. It was understood they would be Fnnnlo Hurst, novelist, and Robert Lehman. Mrs. Owen's son-in-law. and a cousin of Gov.

Herbert H. Lehman. Rhodo came here from Denmark this week. He has been a guest In the Rohert Lehman home at Sands Point. N.

Y. Immediate plans following the wedding were not announced. It is known, however, that Mrs. Owen plans to make few campnlgn i I speeches for President Roosevelt before returning to her post. She has announced she III use the limine of Ruth Hrynn Owen In her otflclal niul literary work.

THISTLEDOWN MUTUELS Three Races Paid 97. SO Five Races Pnld J1S7.20 Seven Races Paid .:63 RUTH BRYAN1EN WED TODAY I Ti Thirly-six families occupying an apartment house at 2 St. Pcul's opposite the Parade Grounds, were flee to the street at because of a fire which caused damage estimated at about flft.noo. Two firemen, caught under a shnvrr nf fatltnc crlnss. were in- jurcd and required treatment at the Caledonian Hospital.

They were John Russell of Engine Company 2S1 ahd John McGillicuddy of Hook Ladder Company 147. None of the apartment dwellers was injured. About b()0 motorists, d'lving in the neighborhood when the blaze occurred, aided the firemen in battling the blaze. They parked their cars on tho Parade Grounds and directed their bright headlights at the blazing apartment. Hundreds of other residents of the vicinity who were swake at the time because of the heat left their homes and went to the scene to watch the firemen fight the flames.

The blaze started in the kitchen of an apartment on the fourth floor of the six-story building, occupied by Mitchell Schneider, an underwear manufacturer, and his wife. Schneider was returning with his wife from an automobile ride when their maid, Patricia Wilkinson, rushed out of the apartment crying that the kitchen was ablaze. Mrs. Schneider turned In an alarm hile Schneider and William Kimonsen, the superintendent, went through the building to wain the occupants. Klremcn fought the blaze for 4ft minutes.

There wns about $5,000 damngo in the Schneider apartment. Radio Police Wrenches Ready for Hydrant Use All police radio cars carried hydrant wienches as emergency equipment today, and for tho second successive day a general order wns sent out over tho pollco teletype and radio calling catling at tention to tho danger "Sf children opening hlgh-prcssurp hydrants In their efforts to keep cool. Tollco wero ordered to glvo spe-: clnl attention to Brooklyn's "high presRuro" areas, west of tho navy i yard, and on Fifth ave between 1 Klntbtish ave. and 42nd South Brooklyn. 1 Connecticut Expects I Relief From the Heal Hartford, July 11.

Overcast skies and lower temperatures today gave promise o( rr breaking I up of the heat wave Which has Iclitlmed II lives In Connecticut since early Thursday. Yesterdny wns the hottest dnv In, Hartford In ten yearn: Tho (her-niometer son red to 100 degrees, equalling' the nll-tlme record for Jut 10. Hhowi'in 111 the evening hrouitht (some relief nnd prospects were for rain today. FIREMEN hi I Ethiopian Warriors Continue! to Battle Invaders With Rainy Season Now On. By HEXRY T.

GOBRKLL ll'iutrd Press Staff Correspondent Rome, July 1 1 Ethiopian warriors waging implacable warfare against Italian forces of occupation forced Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. Viceroy of Ethiopia, to put his arniies back on a war footing today. Only two days after he ordered the demobilization of lflO.OO'i Plack Shirts Graziani found h's armies, bogged down In "chlka," knee deep mud, at the height of the Ethiopian rainy season. The lull following the war of occupation conquest, which was climaxed by the Tlight of Emperor Hailo Selassie and Italian capture of Addis Ababa, has ended. The war of pacification has begun.

Tho massacre at Jlmma, where 20 Italian aviators, including high ranking officers, wero ambushed and killedj and serious uprisings along the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railroad, Ethiopia's life line to the sea, Hhattered Italian dreams that her pacification of Ethiopia would bo an easy task. Graziani, hard bitten colonial soldier. Is noted for his ruthlcssness In quelling uprisings and avenging native, attacks on Italian administrators. Ho won fame as commander of pacification forces In Libya and Jtallan Somallland. where his troops took wholesale reprisals against rebels.

He now faces the same job In rnln-sodden Ethiopia. CRUSHED SCHOONER TOWED BACK TO PORT Tho fishing schooner Benjamin W. Itham, badly crushed above the wnter line, was towed toward this port today by tho Coast Guard cutter Champlaln. Tho Champlaln took the 4 -foot schooner In tow 80 miles southeast of Ambrose Light Vessel at A. M.

after tho Monarch of Bermuda had relayed an appeal for nidi The Monarch of Bermuda stood by until tho cutter arrived. The schooner is owned by Charles fere, of 672 Lincoln" nnd was bended for port when dnmaged. Reports from the Cham-plain did not say how tho schooner was damage dor If any of the crew of 14 wero Injured. It whs proceeding at four knots when It last reported. Roosevelt Schooner Sails From Maine Dark Harbor, July 11.

Tho trim whltc-hullcd auxiliary schooner with three of President Roosevelt's sons nbonrl. lenves hero today for llorklnnd to pick up Cnplnin Elden Colbreth. Colbrethhns been nt his Swan Island homo for. Ihree days an, I James. Urn nV I In, Jr and John Roosevelt have been acting ss their own skippers of the 66-foot yacht.

ON WAR F00 I POINTS DANGERS Increases Dollar Value Uncer- tainly, He Says, Urging Current Plan. Charlottesville. July 11. In a blistering attack on the Federal Security Act. Wi'nthrop W.

Aldrich. chairman of the Chase National Bank of Nciv York and one of the outstanding economists of the country, declared night that it 'was "a dangeV to aggregate security" which might turn out to be a "cruel jest" on the very persons it' is de signed to niil. before the Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia. r. Aldrich based attack on the unstable condition of the dollar and what he termed our "24-hour monetary policy" which makes the future of the dollar uncertain.

Huge Cost Kctralctl Asserting that the social security program will cost about $3,000. 000-ooo annually in 10 years and Involve a reserve balance of annually in ten years, Mr. Aric-h said' in part: "It may be observed that it is a strange proceeding to make plans running through fifty years creating insurance obligations and rights which run in terms of dollars and which are calculated with respect to present wages and en FollmtiHp Paget Pittsburgh. July 11. A slight improvement In the condition of the Rev, S.

rnrkes adman. Urook-lyn clergyman, today gave new-hope to members of his family that he would recover from his grave Illness. "While he is s-tlll critically ill." Frederick Cadman. his son. said, "there, is more hope for his recovery than nt any other time since his lliness.

beenme acute." The clergyman! suffering from peritonitis nnd a ruptured appen-dix. Oxgyeh was administered Thursday after he became delirious land much weaker, miring his lucid I moments, Ir. Cndmnn 'expressed a 'desire to live. His vitality has nmnzed attending physicians. I 1-ast night Pr.

Cadman showed 'enough Improvement to enable 1 members of his family, who have been constantly at his bedside, to retire for the night. Pr. Cadman I held "his ow during lha night jund seemed slightly stronger today. I Alrred Huist, Pr. physician, said tho churchman had a chance of recovery.

Tho Protestnnt ministers of Pittsburgh again today requrstur prayers be offered In the homes und' churches "thnt the life Of this servant of (lod and friend of man may be spared, nnd that he may be returned lo his srent work." i' Hundreds of messages still pour rd Into tho ChampUiln Valley llos pllul today from well-wishers throughout the world. One friend' who visited Pr. Cnd-'matt said the minister spoke Irrn-itlmiHlly, addressing an Imaginary radio Audience, CADMAN KEEPS GAIN OVER IE opened today in a ceremony marking another momentous chapter in the history of the city and in the annals Of i engineering. The bridge ill be (brown open to the public at 1 T. M.

Thousands of invited guests drove across the section of the structure from the foot of 125th Manhattan, to the junctiop at Randall's Island where police directed the drivers to the parking facilities on the island adjacent to the new Municipal Stadium. A uniformed force of 1.44fi patrolmen under the direction of Commissioner Valentine and Chief Inspector John J. Secry routed the traffic down the ramp to the island and cleared the sections In the front of the main grandstand. Detailed to the bridge to assist In the direction of traffic, were five deputy chief inspectors, four In- fCnn(inliirf on Pnti Three.) Albany Blisters After Night of Cooling Rain Albany, July 1 1. Temperatures rose again today In up-State.

New York after a night of rain and cool breezes. Slight damages were reported in sections from a violent electrical storm. Two deaths were attributed' to the heat last night. Isadore Weln-stein, 21. Brooklyn, member of a CCC Camp at Hennsseler County suffered, a sunstroke.

lie died nt Albany Hospital. Nicholas Glvio, 75, of Troy was the other victim. More Than Pleased With Times Union Ads PE sdverliier below had to mny repliei to her TIMES UNION il. that the it more thin pleased with the reiulti. A fact that help! adverbieri Ihe TIMES UNION enlert 90.000 hornet every evening.

Here it the ad thai did the good work. Boarderi Wanted PBIVATK 'FAMILY will board nna child, any ate, In enmfnrtahl hnm: food: healthy atirrntinillni; large yard; pedal rare: (1 wrrklv. l.AUIlULTiiN Telephone Your Want Ads To TRiangle 5-1200 i I I At the Classon ave. station police said Richter's wife, Helen, and his 17-year-old daughter. Florence, had complained that the retired seaman had attempted to beat his wife.

Patrolman Albert Schuh was sent to the Richters' apartment on the fifth floor at 94 Clinton to take the man to the station house. "I'll Carve Your Hearts:" When Richter resisted arrest. Schvih sent for reinforcements and five more patrolmen responded In radio cars. The retired saikr grabbed an old cutless and backed slowly into the bedroom, keeping the police at a distance. "Y'ou come near me and I'll carve vour hearts out!" the man was quoted by the police as threatening.

Patrolman Charles Holt drew his Secret Negotiations Under Way to Avert Big Break By Lewis Elements. By JOE ALEX MORRIS (Vmted Prtsa Washington. July 11. Peacemakers of the American Federation of Iibor turned today to private' 'effort to prevent a split in labor's banks iue to the tlon of 11 powerful unions led by Johji It was learned that one plan for compromise action by the Federation Kxecutlve Council had been dKcusscd unofficially and that per-hnps two such-proposals would be presented to the council before it makes a final decision on. suspension of the rebel unions.

In the face of an statement 'by Tresidcnt William Green that only surrender of the Insurgents would be to the council, a conciliation- committee headed by George Harrison continued study of the possibility of delaying or preventing a final spilt In the Federntlon, Lenders rmrrtuln Lenders appeared uncertain whether any definite settlement of the quarrel could be achieved, but I fConlmard oa Folhutng Vast) LABOR CHIEFTAINS MOVE PRIVATE TOPREVE NT SPLIT I I I A blistering' week-end is in prospect for the metropolitan area as the death toll of heat and drowning victims mounted today and scores of additional prostrations were reported in Brooklyn and on Long. Island. Fair and continued warm today and probably tomorrow was th official Weather Bureau forecast As the unprecedented heat waya) continued to bake the city's millions, police and hospitals weraj working at top speed to keep abreast of emergency heat cases. Four additional deaths from th heat In Brooklyn and Queens wer reported, while four persons lost their lives In adjacent waters. More than a score of additional prostrations were reported In th local area by police.

i New lioconl for July 10 While yesterday's high mark wu 2.3 degrees below tho record set Otl Thursday when the mercury soared to 102. degrees for an all-ttma) record, the cumulative effect of aov. eral days discomfort took a heavy toll durins tho day. In touching tho 1on mark, th heat set a new record for July 10. The recording was five degree higher than any ever before registered on that date.

The theremome'ter In tho-Ccntral Park Observatory registered 140 degrees In the sun nt 2 P. M. Phad temperature was 102 degrees there. With tho vitality of workers sapped to an alarming point, hy th continued heat, rltv officials and employers generully throughout th metropolitan area closed down early lnerde.r to permit the em ployes to seek cooling breezes. Employes Get Time Off Mayor LnOuardla Issued an order that all city employes with tho ceptton of policemen and firemen were to be released at 2 P.

M. dur Ing the duration or tho hot spoil. The order superseded tin earlier edict thnt work In iinmlelpil office would suspend nt 4 P. M. and foU lowed a conference between th Mavor and Acting Health Com mln sloner William H.

Rest. More than ion. 000 WPA worfcerd were seht borne for the day at noon after 75 WPA seamstresses had fainted while at work on a sowing (CinlinMcd oh FMtoulng tQl.

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