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MARCH 21, 1037 Wayor Blows Up Airport Chimney Ending ''rBennett Field Menace, it 1 is I HIMNET This is how chim- DEBRIS PILE To which scores of witnesses hurry, Photos.) described as eye-sore and DEAFENING BLAST which toppled alr-navigators peril into KEY PRESSED by Mayor LaGuardia sets off quantity of dynamite carefully placed under 227-foot elongated pile of bricks which caused 1 to aviation at Bennett Field, ed before Girl Beggar Freed, Wins GKETTRIAL LIBRARY BUILDING Groups Back Bill For Shorter Week In Civil Service IN TENTH WEEK SOON IN BROOKLYN Bennett Airport 'Finest Says Mayor, Razing Stack LaGuardia Dynamites Huge Chimney-Calls Field 'Certainly Good Enough for Post Office Department' in Referring to Contract Fight Many labor unions and civlo ht Sessions Ordered Aid for Starving Family Jail Food Brightens Antoinette, 16, Who Gets Suspended Sentence and Welfare Agencies' Promise of New Home and Cash for 8 Aterias A ray of sunshine has finally broken through the clouds groups are backing the Breltbart Jury Can Get Case bill providing for a five-day week for 15,000 administrative and clerical employes in the State civil ser-vice, which is to come up for heart axt Friday Evening ht sessions will start tomorrow lng in the Assembly in Albany 09 Tuesday. ie restaurant racket trial goes its tenth week before Supreme The bill, introduced at the cur of trouble that have hung over the Aterla family, of 2276 West Ninth St. Yesterday in Coney Island Court Magistrate Llota suspended sentence on Antoinette Ate- Justice J. McCook to insure rent session by Assemblyman Charles ase's going to the jury by Frt Continued from Page 1 spend $2,000,000 to complete the building had been approved and that no opposition was expected at the meeting of the Board of Estimate at which the actual appropriation would have to be acted upon. A 'Remarkable Victory Dr.

Ferguson said that approval of the $2,000,000 proposal in the capital outlay budget was "a remarkable victory" for Judge Garvin and Borough President Ingersoll, and the members of the board of trustees who, he said, had worked unremittingly to have the building completed. His statement pointed out that the unfinished condition of the building had been referred to by the Flatbush Chamber of Commerce as "Brooklyn's shame." If the Board of Estimate authorized the appropriation of $2,000,000 Breltbart of the 21st A. provide! a cut in the present work -week to ria, 16, on a vagrancy charge. Sev BORO LAW STUDENT SEIZED IN LONDON FOR $3,000 THEFT Extradition arrangements 'were be-ing made last night to return to this country James Virdone, 24, a Brooklyn law student and son of James Virdone, attorney. The youth was arrested on an embezzlement charge in England on the complaint of Elections Commissioner Jacob A.

Livingston. Virdone Is wanted in a shortage of $3,000 from a receivership fund on a four-story apartment building at 1368 Bushwick on which Livingston has a $12,000 mortgage. Efforts weremade by District Attorney Geoghan, aided by Governor Lehman and the State Department, to seize Virdone when the Berenga-ria docked at Southampton March 9. He vanished 15 minutes before American authorities there were notified he was wanted. He was arrested in a London hotel March 16 and held to await instructions from Geoghan.

Virdone was reported willing to waive extradition and return here to face a grand larceny charge. He lives at 43 Rldgewood Ave. LOYALIST SHIP GETS MEXICO ARMS CARGO Mexico City, March 20 (U.R) Loading of foodstuffs and arms aboard the Loyalist freighter Motomar at Vera Cruz continued today while the Spanish Embassy here renewed efforts to obtain official nermlsslnn less Justice McCook grants the five full days. ns for dismissal of the indict or mistrial, on which he re decision after hearing argu Soicety in finding a new home for the Aterias. Charles J.

Grella, Manhattan attorney, told the court today that Clementi Giglio, the lm-pressario, whom he represents, would hold a theater benefit for the It has been Indorsed by the State Mayor-LaGuardia, in an address to 1,000 persons gathered to witness the blasting of the 227-foot chimney at Floyd Bennett Field yesterday said: "Without reservation this airport is now the finest in the world. If this field is good enough for the Treasury Department to put its money into and the Coast Guard to chose as a seaplane base, it certainly ought to be good enough for the Post Office Department." The last was a reference to his fight to bring postal contracts to Brooklyn. The Mayor pressed a button and the huge chimney an eyesore and menace to flying, "toppled over. Radio Beam Lease Given The Mayor's button pressing, which touched off dynamite to destroy the Beach, Governors Island and in the northern Bronx, added to the completed Floyd Bennett Airport, will enable the city to accommodate "any kind of aviation," he said. Besides the Mayor and Mr.

Flagg, speakers included Admiral Russell Gracie of the United States Coast Guard and Col. Brehon B. Somervell, WPA chief in New York. Dock' Commissioner John Mc-Kenzie presided over the ceremonies. Officials from the city government, the Department of Commerce, the Coast Guard and local civic groups participated.

Among these was Aldermanlc President William F. Brunner. Leading aviatoors, including Col. Roscoe Turner, speed, ace, and Clyde Pang-born, also were present. era! welfare agencies have become interested in the family's plight and will try to find a new home and furnish extra money.

And, as Magistrate Llota himself said, Antoin Federation of Labor, Central Trades and Labor Council, 300,000 worker yesterday, the attorneys for even defendants will divide the in the International Ladles' Gar- for summation, with evening family. ment Workers' and Amalgamated ette "looks a. lot Better" than she did when she was arrested, cold and hungry, for begging food from store ns tomorrow and Tuesday, cial Prosecutor Thomas E. Clothing Workers' Unions, Women'a Trade Union League, Teachers' will have until Thursday Girl Saves Child With Dress Aflame to sum up against the offi Union, Typographical Union 6, Con sumers' League and other groups, of two union locals and a trade iation who are charged with concetta Lolsono, 8, received conspired with the Dutch keepers on Avenue U. Until yesterday Antoinette was in the Women's House of Detention where she was sent last Tuesday after being arraigned on the vagrancy charge.

Brother, 6, Freed She and her brother, Peter, 6, it is claimed the adoption of the five-day week could be undertaken without any added expense to the State. for the building, it was pointed out, tz eansr in the shakedown of chimney, wag part of the triple ex the financing of the building opera' burns on the body yesterday and her mother and a neighbor were burned on the hands after the irant owners in a racnet wnicn N. Y. Credit Union promise of yielding $2,000,000 agreement reached between ercises designed to put the field among the leading airports of the world, Just before he set off the blast, the Mayor turned over to Fred uon couia be imnaiea through a bond issue. Under an act of the Legislature, the central public library building is exempt from the pro Approves New Laws were arrested by Detective Jospeh Fifteen directors of the New York and defense counsel on the McCarthy of the Sheepshead Bay precinct, when he found them go visions of the pay-as-you-go regula lent of time will mane it pos- State Credit Union League yester day approved legislation to be in tlons imposed on certain public un Flagg, director of aviation for the Department of Commerce, the lease ing from door to door begging food for Justice McCook to begin dertakings.

troduced in Albany this week to harge to the Jury by Friday for the field's radio beam. The transfer several credit groups from beam will be turned on in about Antoinette told Magistrate Llota that there wasn't enough to eat at home for the seven children. Peter was discharged in Children's Court. four H. Schwartz, attorney for child's dress caught fire in her home at 135 Hull st.

The dress was set afire by candles at a religious shrine. The child's mother tried to beat out the flames. Screaming, the child ran to Mrs. Christina Corn-pone, next door. After Mrs.

Com-pone tried to beat out the flames her daughter, Mary, them in a blanket. The child was taken to St. Mary's Federal to State supervision. The Borough President Ingersoll, from the beginning of his administration in 1934, strove to win approval of the library-completion project. He ten days to guide flyers into the directors met with William Reid to ship 21 American-made airplanes N.

Coulcher, secretary-treas- airport. io me vaiencia uovernment. DesDlte thfl Ins nf t.hn Mar nan. City Collector, and an officer of ttie Municipal Credit Union, in the Ground was broken also for the of Local 16, yesterday asked a ial be declared for all the de "The other day when you were brought before me you were cold and hungry," Magistrate Llota told the girl. "I had you held and the Finance Department, Manhattan.

nts on the ground that their The new legislation would permit vas inseparably bound up with tabrico, reported captured March 8 by the rebel cruiser Canarias In the Bap of Biscay, Loyalist representatives continued to load sugar, chick new $400,000 V. S. Coast Guard seaplane base, which will make the field the center of aviation operations for the Coast Guard on the Eastern seaboard. took the position that it was "absurd" for a community as large as Brooklyn to be without an adequate central publlo library building. Start Made In 1899 Brooklyn began its fight for a circumstances investigated for your es B.

Baum. credit unions to accept deposits from its members. At the present defendants are Alador Retek, own good. If I had let you go then, nospitai. uuring the blaze some-oen called out the Fire Department.

Izer of Local 16; John J. Wil- peas ana aDout worth of Mexican arms and ammunition aboard the Motomar. Th Uttr Last of Improvements you might have continued to do the same sort of thing which caused your trouble originally. You look a organizer, and Irving Epstein, ary-treasurer of Local 302, Central library In 1899. At that time the Brooklyn Park Commission Mr.

Flagg said the exercises has been in Vera Cruz since Dec. eria Workers Union, and Philip marked the last of the improvements to the field and that the air was delegated to recommend a site to the State legislature. Grand el, secretary; Harry A. vogel- lot better now. Remember, the commitment wasn't for punishment in the first place." au aiter being diverted to that port while en route to the United States with a careo of Areentinn flaxseed organiser, and Abraham port's opportunities are now without limit.

Army Plaza, which already had become a civic center, was chosen, but attorney of the Metropolitan urant and Cafeteria Assocla- As the Mayor touched the button Father In Jail Mrs. Myra P. Hughes of the Pro- i it was not until 1905 that the site Its departure has been delayed by President Lazaro Cardenas' ban on the export of the American-made planes. to set off the dynamite the eves of time the major work of these organizations is confined to lending money to memben. The directors also approved pending Congressional bills which would permit Federal employes credit unions to maintain offices in Post Office buildings.

More than 400 delegate! will attend the annual convention of the league which will be held at the Laurel Country Club, Lake Sackett in SuMvan County, N. June 4. Scores Homeless 15 Hurt in Tornado Gaffnev. S. March 20 (U.PJ Fif at the southeast corner of Flatbush Ave.

and Eastern Parkway was sel bation Department investigated and reported that the family had been on relief for several years. An in Kansas City ected. As far back as 1912 ground was broken and the then Mayor Dr. W. Coates Killed toinette is the eldest of seven chil the crowd were trained on the tall chimney.

A gasp ran through the throng as a wisp of smoke curled from the chimney's base. In a moment the tall column of bricks quivered, then a loud roar was heard as the column collapsed. lilty in Poll Fraud isas City, March 20 (U.R) lefendants in Kansas City's By Laboratory Wire Dr. Wesley Coates. S4.

a nhvslclst dren. All but one, who is In a convent, are at home. Her father, Joseph, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on Jan. 21 forfstrlk- uaynor assured a distinguished gathering of Brooklynltes that the fight for the Central Library building had been won. Lewis H.

Pounds, now head of the Brooklyn Civic Council, and the late Brooklyn Mav- Assuring his audience that the in the Crocker Laboratories of the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center. Manhattan, was "AU OVHR BROOKLYN" lng his wife. vote fraud conspiracy trial ound cuilty by a Federal Court Offlcet: Breoklyn. Jianln, L. Cltj.

city had no intention of switching any of Floyd Bennett's present activity to other fields, the Mayor said: oday after an hour's delibera- Mrs. Hughes Is co-operating with Lester Bockover of the Children's Eltibllihed 190 electrocuted yesterday while at work or David A. Boody, who was also teen persons were injured and a score of homes were demolished by Four of the defendants are Floyd Bennett Airport Is a nart i. Two other women, who neaa or the board of trustees of the library, were among those in of the comprehensive aviation pro have been tried in the case, no defense, placing them-on the mercy of the court. gram oi tne city.

The city has no Resorts in tne laooratories. According to a police report Dr. Coates was engaged in research work when his hand came into contact with a high tension wire. He died almost Immediately. Dr.

Coates was married and lived Year by year approDrlations were a tornado that struck this town of 7,000 An abandoned cotton mill was blown down and several other smaller buildings damaged by the wind, which swept a Dath about 200 varris made for the building of the Cen erdict today brought the num- intention or desire to remove anything from this to any other field." Ready for All Aircraft Aviation developments at North defendants convicted on con- tral imrary until, In 1931, several millions of dollars had been an- ATLANTIC CITY ATLANTIC CITI ATLANTIC CITf charges to 19. wide and two miles long. at 380 Riverside Drive, Manhattan. proprlated and spent. Thta left Broklyn with a complete foundation for its Central Library and one wing which the chief librarian designated a antiquated and unsatisfarfnrr i5e LIBRARY BUILDING, OFTEN DELAYED, NOW SEEMS SURE With WPA architects first and later fat the 2a5tat ScdlOl rmi 4, ATLANTIC CITY ft't witn tne Manhattan firm of Alfred M.

Githens and Francis Keally of 101 Park Dr. Ferguson worked out plans for what will admltedly be one of the most Central Library buildings in the country. Committee of 100 campaign for the Central building received new incentive with the election of Judge Garvin as 01 the board of trustees in 1930, and it grew to particular Importance in 1938 when James H. Post, with the assistance of Prof. Broderlck Cohen, head of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce library committee." organized a committee of 100 which the Mayor as Its fuest, at a It was shortly following thHmeet-mir that Mayor LaGuardia announced his interest In the protect and promised Borough President Imrersoll that action would be taken before he completed his Civic leaders and heads of local chambers of commerce were enthusiastic yesterday about the termination of one of the country's longest battles for a public improvement.

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