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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1930. M1 14 Charity Workers Hold Final Meeting Citywide Merger Seen Effective This FallDue to Jonas Gift The Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, which was organized 21 years ago and today numbers more than 25 hospitals, orphanages, community centers, relief societies and other social service institutions among its constituent units, held its last annual corporate meeting yes1 afternoon the Union Temple, 7 Eastern Parkway. our For the several New York months a Federation committee of Jewish Charities, under the chairmanship of Justice Joseph Proskauer of the Manhattan Appellate Division, nas been working with a committee of the Brooklyn Federation, under the chairmanship Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky of the Appellate Division, 2d Department, to effect a merger of the two groups into one rity- wide agency. Merger of the Brooklyn and Manhattan federations, according to Dudley D. Sicher, president of the latter, creates an immediate need for larger funds than in the past, in order that all organizations may be placed on a comparable basis.

Mr. Sicher's forecast was made in connection with the submission of his annual report to a meeting of the Manhattan organization, in the community house of Congregation Emanu-El, Manhattan, yesterday afternoon. The report showed that the 91 tion spent $97,181,956 local agencies of the Manhattan, federacommunity chest was established in 1917, and within the same period contributed to. affiliated organizations a total of $47,819,505. Plans to raise $500,000 annually during the next do four years for relief of declassed Jews in Soviet Russia were adopted at a meeting of the People's Tool Campaign in Beethoven Hall yesterday.

Result of Jonas Pledge, The negotiations were direct result of a pledge made by Ralph Jonas, Brooklyn. capitalist and philanthropist, to subscribe 000 to a city-wide federation. Announcement was at the meeting of the Brooklyn Federation Jewish Charities yesterday that negotiations had reached the point where the actual merger of the two groups will probably be effected in the fall. The gift of Ralph Jonas, whose humanity and generosity were lauded by Maj. Benjamin H.

Namm and other speakers, was made on condition that the present deficits of the two groups be liquidated before the merger is accomplished. It is expected that the deficit of $130,000 on the books of the Brooklyn Federation will be wiped out within the next few months. The meeting was opened with an invocation by Dr. Sydney S. Tedesche, the rabbi of Union Temple.

Nathan D. Shapiro, who was re-elected president of the BrookLyn Federation of Jewish Charities for a second term, presided. In reviewing the accomplishments of the during 1929, Mr. Shapiro pointed out that the membership had increased to 12,442, an increase of 3,000 over the preceding year and that the receipts from membership dues reached $692,185, an increase of $35,000 over 1928. The allotments to the 25 societies mounted to $790,100, Discussing the proposed merger of the two groups, Justice Proskauer said in part: Proskauer Cites Benefits.

"It is fitting that on this occasion we should review with pleasure and satisfaction the distinguished record of achievement of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, and, despite that splendid record, to congratulate ourselves and the community on the circumstance that this is probably the last annual meeting of this federation. For we are about to enter into a new sphere of communal activity based on broader principles and with a wider horizon." dent of the Brooklyn Federation, Justice Lasansky, a former insisted that "Brooklyn will not dump its responsibilities into the lap of Manhattan" when the merger becomes effective. The jurist expressed the hope that rumors he had recently heard, to the effect that Brooklyn business men contemplated reducing their contributions to the federation, would not become actualities. He pointed out that eventually city- -wide federation will include all worthy Jewish charitable activities in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond. Officers Elected.

Maj, Benjamin H. Namm and Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May also spoke. The following were elected officers of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities for 1930: Walter Nathan D. Rothschild, president. first vice presiMorris Salzman, second vice Grover Moscowitz, third vice president.

presi- Hugo H. Piesen. treasurer. Benjamin C. Ribman, assistant treasurer, Mrs.

Max William Linder, assistant secretary, Herbert Abelman, Posner, secretary. assistant secretary, DIRECTORS FOR THREE YEARS. Max Blumberg Nathan S. Jonas James Emanuel J. Celler Brooke Edward Lazansky Morris Dlugasch Harry Aaron E.

Lewis Levy W. Benj. B. Englander Alfred W. Norek Adolph Herman Gabbe Feldblum Nathan D.

Shapiro Nathan Strauss Moses Ginsberg Hyman Zeitz DIRECTOR FOR ONE YEAR. Jacob H. Cohen. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS FOR 1 YEAR. Mrs.

Abraham Samuel Kramer Arons Albert A. Levin Morris Clarence G. Bachrach Sylvan Levy L. Baird Emanuel Lieberman A. David Benjamin Daniel Lipsky Adolph Bergida David Malbin Louis Berglas Barnet M.

Malta Alex. A. Bernstein Mitchell May Jr. Max Blecher Simon Newman Alex. Block Sydney R.

Newman John Bogart Philip Novick George Boochever Hyman Rachinil Herman Brickman Albert Rosen Samuel D. Brightman Jerome Roth Irwin 8. Chenin Samuel Rubel Henry Citron Henry Sakolsky Mrs. Abraham N. Samuel Salzman Davis Albert D.

Schanzer Abraham L. Doris Mortimer Schwager Allan D. Emil Henry Seinfel 1. Ettlinger Henry Shambroon Isidore Fine David Shapiro Jacob A. Freedman Abner Siris David Groberg Edward J.

Sovatkin Henry Gold John Sklar Morris Goldberg Benjamin Spitzer Charles Goell Mrs. Benjamin Murray Hearn Spitzer Milton Hertz Mrs. Meler SteinMax Herzfeld brink Emanuel Jackson Milton Stolitsky Ralph Jacobs Carl Troy David Jacobs Nathan Sweedler H. Louis Jacobson Sidney Weinburs Charles Jaffa Harry Zelts Meyer Keilson NEED WHALEN WIT $8,000,000 skyscraper to replace present Powere included in request for $14,801,255 forwarded to the Board of Estimate and yesterday. Commissioner Whalen termed inadequate.

Architect's drawing of proposed building is shown above. Glider Carnival Planned on L. I. 2 Days in April At Least 100 Pilots Are Expected Take Part in Affair at Bayside Field The National Glider Association of Detroit, sponsors of the glider movement in the United States and program to train 1,000,000 glider pilots by 1935, today announced plans for a New York Glider Carnival to be held at Old Belleclair Country Club, Bayside, L. April 26 and 27.

The two-day carnival, organized to stimulate public interest in this form of sport, will be under the auspices of the glider association and the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, American Motorless Aviation Corporation, the New York Glider Club, and Aero Club of Long Island. 100 Pilots Expected. Plans for an lice Headquarters for police needs Apportionment present quarters Invitations have been mailed to 15 glider manufacturers and to every glider club in the district to enter the carnival. It is expected that at least 100 pilots and 50 gliders of all types will take part. The carnival is planned as part of the preparation for the First National Glider and Soaring Contest to be held in the vicinity of New York City in September.

All glider pilots and clubs in the United States will be asked to send representatives. The general committee of the New York Carnival includes Edward Warner, chairman; Casey Jones, Prof. Alexander Klemin, Luther K. Ball, Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce: Prof. Alvin C.

Busse, New York University; Gen. John F. O'Ryan, president of Colonial Airways, and Capt. Frank Hawks, transcontinental airplane record holder. A model airplane contest will be held in conjunction with the carnival, it was announced.

Program for Affair. The tentative program of the carnival is.as follows: Saturday, April 26-Experimental glider flights for N. G. A. licenses; elimination trials airplane model contest; demonstrations of training gliders; elimination trials airplane Contest.

Sunday, April 27-Demonstrations of primary training gliders (shock cord launching); demonstrations of secondary training liders (auto towing); demonstrations of secondary training gliders and soarers (airplane towing); spot landing contest (STG and soarers), Finals--Airplane model contest, primary training glider contest, secondary training glider contest; arrival of Capt. Frank Hawks, concluding transcontinental glider flight. City's Sunshine Tested Against That of Country St. Louis (A) contention that city folk get less sunshine than their country cousins is being put a scientific test. Two sunshine recording machines have been set up here to determine the difference, if any, in the amount of sun that shines in rural and city districts.

One is at Shaw's Garden, near downtown St. Louis, while the other is 40 miles away, in the country. Each apparatus consists of a large crystal ball, mounted on a concave brass holder. The crystal acts as a burning glass and burns a record of each ray of sunshine on specially prepared paper placed beneath it. The machines were made in England.

JERSEY GIRL SUICIDE Miss Wilhelmina Peters, 18, drank poison in the hallway of her home, 401 Palisade Jersey City, early yesterday, according to the police, and died shortly after the arrival of Dr. Kagan of Jersey City Hospital. Jersey City police say they have uncovered no motive for the girl's act and that no one was with ner so far as they know when she drank the poison. The girl's parents claimed her body, Whalen Asks $8,000,000 New Headquarters Plans Skyscraper With 418-Foot Tower- Wants $3,000,000 for Site Now Police Commissioner Whalen has asked the Board of Estimate for a new Police Headquarters building in the midtown section which is to cost $8,000,000. The total amount needed for the building and for other requirements of the department in 1930 will be $14.000,000, the Commissioner said.

The Commissioner said it would not be necessary to provide for the entire financing this year, but that the site should be taken now. He estimated the cost of the site at $3,000,000, insisting that a plot about 200 by 300 feet would be needed. He said that the lack of an quate headquarters has "made the administration of the department most, difficult and expensive." He pointed out that the police college, the hack bureau and several other departments which should be in the headquarters building are scattered in about eight different buildings about the city, The new building, according to tentative plans drawn by Police Department architects, is of the skyscraper type. Commissioner Whalen would have a tower 418 feet high, with the office of the Commissioner located at the very top. Below him would be the deputy commissioners and the departmental offices would be below that.

His tentative plans call for a gymnasium and running track and a swimming pool as well as a cafeteria in the new structure. The Commissioner insisted the expenditure for the new building would be a real economy. Putting Big Job On Texas River Austin, Tex. (A) -Texans con template spending $100,000,000 to make the mighty Brazos River work for them. It is a huge task they have in mind for the river and its tributaries.

They would irrigate thousands of acres of land, turn the wheels of many industries, develop electrio power, supply drinking water and even use the streams for recreation. The Brazos River conservation and reclamation district created to direct the project will seek the financial aid of State and Federal governments. The first white man on record to visit Indiana was LaSalle, in 1669, The cypress doors of St. Peters Church in Rome last 1,000 years. Delaware is called the Blue Hen state.

SOCIETY HONEYMOONERS AT HAVANA a PEA. Newly married, Mr. and Mrs. John H. G.

Pell, prominent in New York society, are shown during their Havana honeymoon. Bride was the former Pyrma Tilton. Barber Shop English Has Queer Wrinkles Dr. John J. Tigert, president of the University of Florida, said recently at a as quoted by the Detroit Free Press," "Our immigration laws are strict, but we still hear some very queer English as we move about.

"In a barber shop the other day the dispute. barber The and a patron, patron running got intout to get a paper, lost his place. He said bitterly when he came back and found his place taken: a man koom in and go oudt, has "The barber with a fierce laugh answered: "'Ya, ya, he yos, but he aind't." Somewhat. "Has Smithers recovered from that accident?" "Not quite. He asked for $10,000 and got $600." (Special to The Eagle.) Portage, small theater manager for 35 years during the heyday of melodrama, slapstick comedy, Shakespearian tragedy and the blackface minstrel show and a friend of hundreds of troupers, great and small--that is Alex H.

(Dad) Carnegie of Portage, Wis. "I knew them all." said Mr. Carnegie, who managed the Portage Opera House from 1889 until it closed in 1924. "John Dillon, John L. Sullivan, Jake Kilrain, Frank Keenan, Lincoln J.

Carter, Robert Mantell, William Owen, Frank I. Frayne, Ida Van Courtland, Col. Will Fisher -hundreds of others. have seen them grow to greatness and plunge into Reminders of bygone are contained in two large scrapbooks filled with programs, handbills, newspaper clippings and photographs. The Portage Opera House was built in 1879 by John Dulligan, who managed it until 1889, when Mr.

Carnegie took it over, The building recently was wrecked to make room for a department store building. Mr. Carnegie was bill poster, ticket seller and collector, stage manager and policeman, as well as manager. saloon under the opera house made policing of the gallery wags necessary. Theatrical "Growler." Had Trapdoor For Quenching Actors' Thirst Got Beer Up to Stage by a Variation of Oaken Bucket' The thirst of the actors led to the development of the opera house "well," a trapdoor back stage which opened to the saloon below.

A pail with the money in it was lowered through the floor and drawn back full of beer or whatever beverage was desired. In this manner many actors, especially comedians, were "primed" for their acts. "East Lynne." "Ten Nights in A "Lucretia Borgia" and "Quincy Adams Sawyer" were favorites of stock companies until about 1910, and were carried on the repertoires of all. Interspersed with the common types of plays were the Shakespearian plays. Semi-annually appeared "Uncle Tom's Oabin." Audiences in those days were thrilled by Robert Mantell and Frank Deshon as Othello, Romeo or Hamlet.

Local talent supplied much of the town entertainment, with amateur theatricals, concerts and graduation exercises. On a program of the 1891 graduating class of Portage High School is found the name of Owen McCaffrey Dies; Policeman 40 Years Owen McCaffrey, 79, who spent 40 years as a member of the old City of Brooklyn and Greater City Police Departments, died Saturday at his home, 172 Willoughby Ave. He retired in 1916 while attached to the Prospect Park station. He born in Williamsburg, March 10, 1850, the son of Owen and Mary McCaffrey and is survived by two sons, Thomas and Francis McCaffrey, and four daughters, Miss Josephine McCaffrey, Mrs. James Cunningham, Mrs.

Rudolph Bender and Mrs. Thomas Quinn. "A requiem mass will be offered tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in Queen of All Saints R. C. Church and burial will be in St.

John's Cemetery. Frogs cover themselves with mud in the winter. The average income of the people in India is $20 a year. AES COMPANY wan AND THE MARCH OF THE MILK BEGINS Zona Gale as giving the class ore tion, "Ad Astra." Minstrel First Motorist. Minstrel shows were frequent with their blaring bands and colorful street parades.

Every one remembers Georgia minstrels, Hi Henry's and Gorton's minstrels. Hi Henry drove the first automobile through the streets of Portage. Unlike today, when the great acare seldom seen outside large cities, the most famous of all troupers were forced to show in the smaller towns in order to make good living. Broadway Many past and and the present movies stars of played in the old opera house, says a Portage man in the Milwaukee Journal. George M.

Cohan took the part of Peck's bad boy on one occasion. Noah Beery, now a movie took a similar part in "Way Down East." Sullivan Boxed Kilrain. John L. Sullivan, shortly after he won the heavyweight boxing championship, and Jake Kilrain. another famous boxer, toured the United States with the musical farce Trip Across the Ocean." During the show John L.

put on a friendly bout with his former opponent, Kilrain. Several times a year the old opera house was rigged up to show motion pictures, the favorite, of course, being "The Birth of a Nation, which was shown annually for about 10 years. Lyman H. Howe's travelogues thrilled thousands with pictures of all parts of the world. One of the favorite devices was to have a camera attached to front of a locomotive to give illusion that the the entire theater was moving.

India produces the finest tea in the world INDIA LEA This mark identifies INDIA TEA Daniel Reeves' Stores Recommend Tea Bearing This Trade Mark Pyramid Tomb Idea Grows As Years Pass I Can't Sidetrack It With Theory of Meridians, Avers Prof. Magoffin The belief that the pyramids of Egypt, and especially the pyramid of Cheops, the largest of the three in the Gizeh field across the Nile from Cairo, are more than mere Pharaonic tombs, recurs more often than once every generation. The matter surges to the front at least once every decade. An Englishman of repute is the latest to state that the pyramids are not simply mausolea for Pharaohs, but are constructions for meridian purposes. He tells how the ancient Egyptians had recourse to the pyramids for their studies in astronomy and meteorology.

The idea is not a novel one, explains Prof. Ralph V. D. Magoffn, N. Y.

University, as quoted in the Washington Star. In the 1798 expedition to Egypt a scientific commission worked out the triangulation of the pyramid of Cheops, and discovered that it was a marvelous cone action in its physical and mathematical aspects. Its four faces are oriented toward the four cardinal points of the compass. The angles are calculated with precision. Star and Shaft.

A certain inner shaft is so cut that the polar star at time (Alpha of the Dragon constellation) looked directly down it. A series of geg metrical relations seemed to indicate that the Egyptians knew the value of the proportion of the diameter to circumference better than did the Greeks. That the Egyptians soon learned the use of surveying instruments might be asserted because of their need to re property lines after the fall of the Nile overflow, even if there were not proof of it. That they knew considerable about astronomy and geometry is certain. There is however, no question that scientifically the pyramid of Cheops is the most carefully built of all the pyramids, and that its construction is a marvel of engineering skill.

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