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ILL BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1933 8 AIDS HOSPITAL 3 Fire Factory? Ruin Machines Hausler Child Takes First Ho ly Commun ion Hit-Run Driver Kills Girl, 19, Injures Sister Leaves Two Garden City Park Girls in Road Repeal Will Boost Crime-Mrs. Colvin Inwood, L. May 22 Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment will Increase crime, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the New York State Women's Christian Temperance Union and chairman of the State Prohibition Emergency Committee, told members of St.

Paul's Church yesterday morning. "In her talk on "The Present Status of Temperance and Prohibition in the United States," Mrs. Colvin pointed out that most conditions in this country have grown better with prohibition. She was introduced by the Rev. Roby F.

Day. Rum Chasing Ends For Ten Cutters Atlantic Beach, May 22 Ten Coast Guard cutters, a part of Long Island's famous crew, are today heading for Curtis Bay, Maryland, where they are slated to be dismantled in the interests of economy. The boats, coming from various Long Island stations, assembled at Atlantic Beach station yesterday for refueling. The elimination of the boats is regarded as the first major, reduction in the rum fleet. Eiyht of them are 36 feet long while two are 75-foot cutters.

The cost of each boat's night operation was conservatively placed at $25, exclusive of the cost of crew and maintenance. 'v Charles J. Dodd, in Brooklyn, last week, before whom the father sought out the writ, Catherine had lived with them, and they brought her up in the Roman Catholic faith. They told the court the father never objected to the child living with them, although he knew they were Catholics, and it was not until recently, when he learned that the child was to receive her first communion, that he made any objection to their guardianship, also seeking an order for the custody of the child. Hausler told the court that he remarried a year and a half ago.

His other two children, he said, live with him and he wanted Catherine to make her home with him also, where he would give her proper religious training. Yesterday morning Catherine, dressed in white and weairng a white veil, walked to the church with her aunt and uncle, who remained In the church until the conclusion of the mass, at which the little girl received her first holy communion. Hound Watchman Escapes Death hy Free-iiig Self From Bonds Three men overpowered and bound the watchman of the National Quilting Company, 40-20 23d Long Island City, early this morning, damaged several machines and set fire to the place. The watchman escaped death by fire by freeing himself of his bonds and extinguishing the flames. According to the watchman, Dennis Young, of 53-11 Haskell Woodside, the trio climbed to the second floor of the five-story building- about 1:10 a.m., overpowered him and bound him with a rope to a chair.

They then proceeded to break up some of the machines, apparently using a hammer on the stamping machine. Before leaving the premises one of them set fire to a pile of waste material in the factory room. Young was able to free himself soon after their departure, and. after calling the Fire Department, set about extinguishing the flames, which did slight damage. According to employes at the plant this morning, the company had no labor trouble whatever.

Park Association Directors to Tour Nassau and Queens More than 35 directors of the New York City Park Association and representatives of the Democratic Service League of Queens will make an Inspection tour of the State parkway routes of Queens and Nas sau on Wednesday, according to plans announced yesterday by M. Lawrence Cramer, the association's executive secretary. The tour will be under the direction of the Long Island State Park Commission. It will start from the Kew Gardens Inn at 9.30. Particular study will lbe made of the highway system of Queens in Its relationship to parkway plans.

A definite route for a cross borough express highway or parkway from the Grand Central Parkway extension to the Triborough Bridge and the Rockaway Penintula will receive the special attention of John H. Morris, a vice president of the Service League. Miss Marrett Dies, Teacher 30 Years Hewlett, May 22 Miss Felicle Marrett, 75, for the last 30 years a teacher of French to socially prom inent New York and Long Island children, succumbed from the ef fects of a heart attack as she was visltine friends In Hewlett Neck yesterday morning, Miss Marrett, who made her home at 175 E. 90th Manhattan, was met at the Woodmere station by Mr. and Mrs.

A. M. Van Rensselaer, Phillips Neck, Hewleltt Neck. She complained of a pain In her heart and was rushed to the Van Rens-saelar home, where she was pronounced dead by Dr. O.

Wood of Far Rockaway. Her body was taken to the Mes-erole Funeral Parlors, at Inwood, where funeral arrangements are being completed today. Civics at Long Beach Seek Lower Fares Long Beach, May 22 A movement for action among Long Beach residents to force reductions of railroad fares and gas and electric light rates is to be launched by a "Citi zens Council," which will hold Its organization meeting at the Long Beach Court House tonight. Taxes, city finances, Insurance rates and rental problems are other subjects which the Citizens Council proposes to tackle at later meetings. HADASSAH PLANS FETE Long Ecach, May 22 A straw- bery festival and card party will be conducted by the Long Beach Chapter of Hadasah at the Ocean Crest Hotel tomororw afternoon.

Commander Theod ore Schmidt, heading a committee of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Nassau County Council, which will, hold its first annual veterans' field day at Curtlss Field, Valley Stream, on Sunday, July 6, for the benefit of hospital relief. Woodmere Seeks $1,000 Town Fund For Bathing Unit Woodmere, May 22 Harold Spltz-er, local attorney, will go before the Hempstead Town Board tomorrow with a plan for protecting bathers at Woodmere dock this Summer, Announcement to this effect was made at Mr. Spitzer's office this morning, following a conference with officials of the United States Volunteer Living Saving Corps, who have agreed to furnish the men If the town supplies needed equipment. According to Spitzer, the town will have to appropriate J1.000 to make the necessary improvements, which include the erection of a frame dwelling to house the unit; purchase of a catamaran, several first-aid kits and an inhalator. If the Town Board agrees, 24 men will be as signed to the beach.

Police Give Warning On Dance Ticket Sale Freeport, May 22 Nassau County Detective Bert Bedell has Issued a warning not to purchase tickets for a dance on May 31 by the I. Chapter, Disabled War Veterans." There Is no Long Island chapter, according to Bedell. Missing Servant Seized in Thefts Bellmore May 22 Mary Wilson, 20, a domestic, who has been missing three months, was arrested Sat urday by County Detective Bert Bedell and arraigned yesterday before Justice of the Peace George S. Johnson on charges of burglary and grand larceny. She was held to await the action of the grand Jury.

The young woman was found working at the home of Berfjamln Shindler, 70 N. Main Freeport. According to the police, she worked at the home of Mrs. Jessie Avidan, 19 W. Lincoln Place, Free-port, In March, and is alleged to have stolen two watches valued at more than $500.

When arrested, she admitted the theft, Detective Bedell said, and claimed she threw the witches into Freeport Creek. Detective Bedell and Sgt. Edward Robinson took her to the creek, where, after three hours, they recovered one of the timepieces. The girl's arraignment followed. Garden City, May 22 More than 200 gayly-costumed children participated tn an old-fashioned May Day celebration on the lawns of the Garden City Hotel recently under the direction of Miss Eileen O'Kane.

First honors for originality of costume went to Miss Nancy Tibbs ani Miss Susan Rchm, who, after the award, dajiced a minuet under the May pole. )cct Light Nassau Vote In Repeal Poll Wallace Thinks County Will Toll Percentage Similar to State's Minroh, May 22 A light vote but an exceedingly heavy majority for repeal is expected tomorrow when Na.vau voters name their delegates to the State convention on repeal of the 18th Amendment. "As the State goes on repeal, so will Nassau CouiNy," Assemblyman Edwin W. Wallace, Republican leader, predicted tomorrow's vote. The State vote for repeal might be 10 to 1 or 6 to 1, Mr.

Wallace said but whatever the proportion mipht be, he declared that the county would poll a vote in the same 'proportion. He didn't expect, however, that the poll would be heavy. Sfl.000 Expected According to the opinion of officials generally, it will be surprising if more than 50.000 present themselves at the ballot boxes between the scheduled hours of 12 noon and 10 p.m. Some 147,000 voted in the Presidential election. Mrs.

Clinton M. Flint of Freeport, head of the Nassau County W. C. declined to make any comment, declaring that "I never predict the results of any vote." Party Lines Eliminated "The county will vote 75 percent vet." according to the estimate of Francis G. Hoolcy, Rockvllle Centre village counsel.

"I do not question that the vote will be decidely in favor of repeal declared Howard E. Pearsall. Free-port village cleric. "Everything Is favorable for repeal." said Sanford Davison, Lyn-brook attorney, who has been known as the supporter of the dry cause. "Both the Democratic and the Republican machines are set up In favor of It." "Of course the vote will be overwhelmingly wet," declared City Clerk James J.

McCabe at Long Beach. "This is the first eletion I've ever known where both parties are uniformly and unanimously of one mind." Labor Mobilized For Liquor Poll Sixteen labor units, representing approximately 30.000 union workers In Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties, organized by Roland S. Morgan of Baldwin, traveling agent of the National Democratic Committee, labor dvision, during the campaign last Fall, were mobilized today as an adjunct of the Democratic party in a new campaign to defeat the Eighteenth Amendment The latest call to action was sounded by Morgan on Saturday when he made a circuit of Long Island in his sound-equipped campaign automobile with banners calling upon voters to "Defeat the Eighteenth Amendment." From the Kings County line to the farthermost extremity of Long Island union workers will devote themselves to the task' of getting out the vote at tomorrow's election, according to Morgan. In each of the labor units, delegations have been appointed to assist district leaders in an effort to poll a record vote. Five Men Injured In Drinking Brawl Five men were Injured, one of them seriously, and two of them were arrested on charges of felonious assault during a free-for-all battle in a beer garden at 23-87 23d Astoria, at 2:30 a.m.

yesterday, Jack McDonald, 24, of 31-60 33d and Patrick Moran, 33, of 21-55 27th Astoria, were arraigned before Magistrate Marvin in the Flushing Courts yesterday morning and held in $.500 hai for a hearing in Long Island City today. The most seriously injured was Bernard Flaherty, 25, of 19-18 24th Road, Storia, who was removed to the St. John's Hospital by Dr. De Canio with a possible fracture 'of the skull. Detectives of the Astoria station alleged In a short affidavit that it was McDonald and Moran who struck Flaherty over the head with a chair.

The prisoners suffered deep lacerations of the hands and they too received hospital treatment. Others injured were Thomas Manning, 31, of 21-43 24th and Carl Johnson, 37, or 23-40 33d Astoria, the latter being the owner of the beer garden. They received treatment for cuts of the face arid hands. Auto Crasli Ends In a Romance MissLillian Kraverath, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Kraverath Of 111-15 203d Hollis, will be married to Earl McCloskey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McCloskey of Philadelphia, on June 11 at the Hollis Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Lome W. Brown.

The couple first became acquainted last Summer after their automobiles collided In Jamaica. Following the wedding, scheduled to be held at 5:30 p.m., a reception and dinner will be given at the Triangle Ballroom, Richmond Hill More than 109 persons are to be guests. The couple will spend thcii honeymoon at the World's Fair in Chicago. Upon their return they will make their home at 94-40 210th Bellraire. Miss Florence Kraverath, sister of the bride-to-be, will be the made of honor at the wedding and the best man is Lesley White.

Edward Robb and George Kraverath are to be ushers. Miss Kraverath Is the private secretary of William A. McLaughlin, Jamaica attorney. Exj i I 150,000 Visit At Rockaways Few, However, Enter Water New Parking Rules Are Enforced A crowd estimated at about thronged the Rockaways yesterday, with about 5,000 of them In bathing costume but very few courageous enough to swim. Many of the bathing pavilions and amusement places were open for business as well as restaurants and other eating places, but the proprietors of these resorts stated last night that there had been comparatively little money spent.

The police yesterday put Into effect the' new automobile parking regulations which prohibit the parking of automobiles between Rockaway Boulevard and the ocean-front, from Beach 117th Rockaway Beach, to Beach 149th Neponsit. From Beach 36th Edgemere, to Beach 116th Rockaway Beach, parking is permitted on one side of the street only, In the section from the boulevard to the beach front. This resulted In many complaints from owners of homes north of the boulevard, who last night told the police that the new regulations forced motorists to park in the residential sections and caused a great ileal of congestion and confusion in those quarters. Feminine Wear Vari-colored pajamas and white trousers with colored Jumpers or slip-ons were the popular feminine at lie in the Boardwalk parade which started early in the afternoon and lasted well into the evening. Edward Lcvinson, 31, of 8 Van Ness Place, Manhattan, narrowly escaped drowning in the surf off the end of Beach 37th Edge-more, yesterday afternoon.

He was caught in the undertow and was being carried out when another bather, who left before his name could be learned, saw Levinson's plight, dived into the surf and pulled him to shore. Dr. Black of St. Joseph's Hospital revived Levin-son after half an hour's work and removed him to the hospital where It was said he would recover. Jones Beach Host To 50,000 Throng Wantagh, May 22 Some 50,000 persons welcomed the first Sunday of the official Summer season at Jones Beach yesterday.

About 25,000 donned bathing suits and a few went in the water. There were 300 bathers admitted through the East Bathhouse, and 400 through the West Bathhouse according to Superintendent Kenneth Morgan. About 5.000 cars were parked at the beach. The first of the "free advertising seekers," persons who pilot boats off shore close to the beach, towing a raft or another boat bearing ad-vertiising matter, made his appearance yesterday but fled when the J. B.

Navy went after him. It was announced that the pool shows, featuring Georgia Coleman, Agnes Geraghy and Kru-ger, will start on May 27 instead of in June as first announced. The. 1933 model bathing suits made their first appearance at the Town Park at Point Lookout where thousands of residents of the Town of Hempstead journey daily during the summer. Also at Melster Beach and Beau Rivage, at Freeport; Quigley's Beach, Baldwin, and other bathing resorts on the South Shore.

FROWNS AT "SHORTS" Topless bathing suits will not re ceive police approval along the Far Rockaway shore front this summer, Police Captain Isaac Oppenhcimer, in charge of local precinct, announced today. A similar edict was issued at Rockaway' Beach a week ago by Capt. William Streib of the local precinct. Hospital Seeks Car Fees Dropped By Long Beach Long Beach, May 22 The Long Beach Hospital will supplant the City of Long Beach as collector of parking fees from visiting motorists If the City Council issues at tonight's meeting the permit which It Is understood has been promised to the hospital The fees collected by the hospital, however, will be "purely voluntary contributions," according to Saul K. Wolff, president of the Institution.

"The hospital ambulance Is kept very busy throughout the Summer season," said Mr. Wolff today, "and nursing service and medical care cost a lot of money to maintain during the months when the city and the beaches are thronged with visitors. An opportunity will be given to contribute 25 cents to the hospital funds, in the form of a parking contribution which Is courteously suggested rather than demanded. "The city administration has done what it can for us, this year, but the help extended has necessarily fallen far short of its contributions of previous years. The parking fee operations of the City of Long Beach, ana more especially the fact that only small amounts found their way into the city treasury despite the great number of cars parked in the streets during the Summer months, were severely criticized by the State Comptroller in a report Issued in March and were still more strongly condemned In a presentment handed up on May 11 by the Nassau County Grand Jury.

The presentment was followed by an announcement on behalf of the city administration that the city would not seek parking fees this year. Meeting to Press Building Ramp Plans for a mass meeting to urge the speedy construction of a ramp between the new municipal subway arid ihe Culver elevated at McDonald Ave. and Cortelyou Road will be the chief business Thursday night at the monthly meeting of the Ocean Parkway Civic League. The session will be In the Ditmas Gardens, 408 Ditmas Ave. President Thomas F.

McCormlck will preside. The opening of service on the western spur of the city's now underground line and its connection with the Culver Conev Island route will make a transformation on west Flatbush, the league believes. Neigh boring property owners units will be asked to participate In the contemplated mass meetine. Meanwhile the grous's membership drive will be given impetus at Thursday's meeting, according to McCormick. Consumer Pays No Tax on Beer Bottle Albany, May 22 W) The man who buys a bottle of beer in New York State will not have to pay the one percent sales tax on the bottle, Mark Greaves, president of the State Tax Commission, ruled today.

Neither will the housewife who buys a bottle of milk be subject to a tax on the bottle. This is true even though a deposit Is required. The ruling places the obligation for the tax upon the manufacturer or dealer who sells the bottles or containers to the retailer. In figuring his gross taxable receipts, the retailer may deduct the amount he received for deposits on bottles and containers. On the other hand, candy boxes or other containers which are not tt be returned for reuse are taxable if there is a special charge to the customer; if not, they are non-taxable.

PARTRIDGE RETAINS TITLE Elmsford, N. May 22 Melvin W. Partridge defended his title by conquering Frank Bowden, 8 6 63, 62 in the final round of the Hudson Valley tennis tournament here yesterday at the Fairview Country Club. Catherine Hausler, 6, was one of a group of small children who received first Holy Communion yesterday in St, Pancras R. Church, Myrtle Ave.

and Deboo Place, Glen-dale. The Rev. Hyman J. Pfeifer, pastor of the church, officiated which was attended by the relatives and friends of many of the boys and girls who received their first Communion, Catherine had been the subject of court litigation instituted on the part of her father, harCles Hausler, of Hicksvllle, who sought a court order to prevent the child receiving her first Communion yesterday on the ground that he is not a Catholinc and did not wish his child brought up in that faith. The action was defended, successfully, by Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Steg-meier, maternal uncle and aunt of the child, of 2847 Cooper Glen-dale. Since the child was 3 weeks old, when her mother died, the Steg-mciers told Supreme Court Justice Memorial Rites Honor U. S. Covert, Late Educator Rockvllle Centre, May 22 Practically all of the South Shore schools were represented at a memorial service yesterday at the South Side High School for the late Superintendent of Schools William S.

Covert, who died early this month from a long iHness. He retired from active work In February after serving since 1905, when he became principal of the High School. He was a graduate' of Princeton and served as high school principal in Texas; Marccluus, N. Y. and Manchester, Vt.

He was buried In the last named city. Andrew J. McElroy, who preceded. Mr. Covert as principal of the' nsldedl, was chairman of the program and the three speakers were Dr.

Frank T. Delano, who was president of the School Board when Mr. Covert was engaged to teach, and Alfred E. Ives and Michael J. Madi-gan, who served on the board during his tenure of office.

Others who fcad a part In the program were: The Rev. Wilfred Clark Phelps of St. Marks M. E. Church, the Rev.

Ono Williams of the Presbyterian Church and Rabbi Moritz Speier of Temple B'Nai Sho-lom. A quartet from St. Marks Church rendered several selections. Assisting Mr. McElroy with the arrangements were Mrs.

Charles B. Mount Jr. and Dr. Frank T. Delano.

Mayor Horace E. Allen and members of the Village Board and Superintendent of Schools Floyd B. Watson and John H. Scott and members of the School Board were among the village officials present. Bus Firm Assails Street Disrepair The neglected condition) of Crocheron Flushing, was given today by officials of the North Shore Bus Company as one of the reasons why buses of the company's Bayside West line are unable to use the route specified by franchise and are forced to use State St.

instead. Apprised of the fact that Borough Fresident Harvey has asked Police Commisisoner James S. Bolan ot bar the Bayside West buses from State St. west of 164th Frank Dugan. superintendent of the North Shore Bus Company, said today; "It Is absolutely Impossible to operate buses safely over Crocheron Ave.

from Northern Boulevard to 164th St. as provided for in the specifications of Route Q28. Crocheron Ave. is in such a state of disrepair as to constitute a serious hazard to the thousands of passengers we cary over the Bayside West line." Lawrence Names Jacobson, Weeks Lawrence, May 22 Charles Jacob-son and Louis Weeks have been renominated as trustees here, Warren Thorpe, chairman of village nominating committee, announced this morning. Residents of the village will meet on Tuesday evening, June 1, in Firemen's Hall to accept the report.

The election takes place on June 20. According to local political observers, a contest is unlikely as both trustes have strong backing in all quarters ofjhe village. Mr. Jacob-son is serving his eighth term, w'hile Mr. Weeks, who was appointed a year ago to fill out the unexpired term of Dr.

F. A. Lowe, has been conspicuous in village affairs through his activities in connection with the establishment of a sanitary sewer system In the village. Before the christening Mr. and Mrs.

Roosevelt were hosts at a buf fet luncheon at their home. Guests include the sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Weinacht, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt of Sagamore Hill, Miss Emily Carow of Italy, who Is the guest of her sister.

Mrs. Roosevelt; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barringer, Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel A. Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Van Sant Voort Merle Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

James B. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mr. and Mrs.

Grover O'Neill, Dr. and Mrs, Richard Derby, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.

P. Thatcher and Mr, and Mrs. J. C. White, Mr.

and Mrs. Philip J. Roosevelt and Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt.

A reception followed the Near i 1 a ay Mlneola, May 22 A hit-and-run driver, speeding along the darkened Jericho Turnpike, near Emory Road, at 9:15 last night, left two sisters lying in the roadway, one at the point of death and the other badly cu and bruised. The dead girl Is Miss jeniiie Frank, 19, of Garden City Park. She was crossing the road with her sister, Sophie, 27, when a small automobile, proceeding east at rapid rate, struck them down and continued on its way without stopping. Taken to the Nassau Hospital, the younger sister was pronounced dead some 20 minutes later. Sophie is receiving treatment at the hospital.

None of the witnesses of the accident was able to obtain the automobile's license number, according to the police. The turnpike is not well likhtcd in the neighborhood of Emoy Road. Hulsen's Score World Record Huntington, L. May 22 One of the largest entries of the season at the skeet shoot of the North Shore Skeet Club was that yesterday afternoon at their grounds on Jericho Turnpike. The members of the club and their guests were greatly pleased at the announcement that the National Skeet Association had recognized the score of John Hulson, on of their members, of 188 straight hits as a world record.

The previous record was 182. The scores: Hlt H'cap Total ueorge srusn 0 Gus Johnson 43 0 John Hulson a H. Eshenbach 47 8 Wallace Ketcham 41 8 Dr. ZlnblnsU 42 8 C. C.

Simpson 44 8 H. Anderson 37 12 John Vtrnie 42 10 A. Juliana 48 4 H. Lee 33 8 R. Marano 44 M.

Reardon 34 E. Kelly 29 E. Plshel 44 H. H. Helna 42 W.

Ashler 34 A. Stoll 45 H. Williamson 46 Dr. A. S.

Baylls 40 John Wohlfarth 48 10 23 4 8 3 3 12 3 3 4 12 8 2 3 19 25 P. H. Dewey 44 Milt 44 W. P. Mathewson 37 W.

Pecclone 42 8. C. Fowler 29 O. Wattj 48 C. Fowler Jr ao Tom Fowler 24 PARENTS INSTALL TONIGHT Long Beach, May 22 Installation of recently elected officers of the Junior-Senior Parents Association of Long Beach will take place tonight at the Park Avenue school, with Dr.

Reuben Gross, retiring president, officiating as installing officer. l'lan Music Studies For P. S. 193 Pupils Plans for providing sudents of Public School 193, located at Bedford Ave. and Avenue with music and art lessons independent of the regular school curricula at a nominal cost a re being studied by Mrs.

Charles M. Winkler, chairman of the music committee of the Parents' Association of the school. Mrs. Winkler plans to confer with Dr. John Ersklne.

director of the Juilliard School and other authorities before the next meeting of the association. A broad program studying teaching and recreational methods of the city's advanced echools. such as the Anglo Patrl School, has been formulated by George Dvson Friou, president of thej parents' group for the instruction of its members. Legion Auxiliary installs Officers Election of officers took place at the second meeting of the newly organized Junior Auxiliary of Flat-lands Post, American Legion, on Saturday afternoon in Flatlands Memorial Hall, Nostrand Ave. and Ave.

I. Bertha Knaup, 12, was elected president of the group. Other are: Rosemary Reeren, secretary. Jean 8heeran, treasurer. Margaet Lee.

chaplain. Thee.ia SchiHbauer, welfare chairman, Oeraldine Sheeran, ergeant-at-arnu. Eileen Sheeran, coupon chairman. El. pen Higins.

lllalson orchestra. Evelyn Doherty, publicity chairman. Joan McDonald, color bearer. The new auxiliary will hold lta first bunco party nejit Saturday afternoon at Flatlands Memorial Hall. The auxiliary which was or-Ranized two weeks ago has already donated jigsaw puzzles to patients at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital and clothing to poor children.

Mrs. Louis B. Heeren of the senior auxiliary is in charge of the group. floored Shaw, once In the seventh and again in the eighth round. Canzonert's superior speed and hitting ability, combined with his aggresyive attack, kept the slower Shaw on the defensive.

Referee Moran gave Shaw two rounds and an even break in another. One of the jidges awarded four rounds to Shaw and the other gave him two rounds and one even. Shaw weighed 136 '4 and Canzoneri 13C. Shaw won the welterweight title recently from Johnny Jadick of Phlladrfphla, who had wrested It from Canzoneri. In 1932.

Wife Kills Self As Husband Loses His Relief Work Mlneola, May 22 Returning to his home, 407 Burkhard shortly after midnight, Herman Schwartz, one of 11,000 Jobless men laid off Saturday by the Emergency Work Bureau, found that his wife, Helen, 50, had ended her life with gas rather than be a burden to him. The couple were in comfortable circumstances until two or three years ago when Schrwartz lost his candy store In Mlneola Boulevard. They lived on their savings for some time and then Schwartz got three days a week work on the county road. The $12 a' week from that source was their sole Income when all employes were laid off pending a checkup, after which it was intended to take 4,000 back. Flushing Man Dies On Way to Home Edward Harry of 146-37 Jasmine Flushing, for the past 20 years an employe of Cavanaugh's Restaurant in Manhattan, died while being carried Into Flushing Hospital from a taxi cab at 4:15 a.m.

yesterday. He had bailed the cab, driven by Max Feldman of 2091 Prospect Bronx, in 23d between flth and 8th Manhattan. The driver was ordered to proceed to Flushing and when the cab arrived at Main St. and Roosevelt Feldman noticed his passenger slumped in his seat. Funeral services will be conducted at the home at 2 p.m.

tomorrow and interment will follow In St. Mary's Cemetery. Flushing. Survivors are Mr. Harry's wife, Nora, and a daughter, Meredith.

Concord Baptists End 86th Jubilee The celebration of the 86th anniversary of the founding of the Concord Baptist' Church of Christ was concluded yesterday morning with a on "The Challenge of a Crisis" by Prof Lester R. Loomis of Keuka College. The church, which has had but three pastors in the past 70 years, began its anniversary program on Thursday with a sermon by the Rev, James Rose of Rochester, and on Friday members of the congregation presented a play, "The Lost Church," which was directed by Miss Claire Dallas, religious worker of the organization. The Rev. James B.

Adams, pastor, conducted the services yesterday. Weinbaum Group Elects Officers Assemblyman Albert M. Cohen of the 23d A. installed officers of the Max Weinbaum Kinsmen Asso-ciatlom at ceremonies last night at a meeting In the Mldwood Republican Club, 1708 Ave. J.

Assemblyman Cohen Is a member of the organization. He also gave a talk on "The Powers of the Legislature." The officers instaled are: Irving Oumberir. president. Samuel Katz, first vice president. Prank Selinman.

second vice president. Mix Theresa Berman, recording secretary. Mrs. Dinah Benjamin, corespondlng secretary. Samuel Wclsbern, financial secretary.

Mrs. Betty Weinbaum. treasurer. As is the custom, the family celebrated last night recent events of interest in the family. These included the 43d wedding anniversary of Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob Rosenfeld, the ninth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Levine, the engagement of Miss Selda Sugar-man, daughter of Mrs. Rose Sugar-man, to Lester Gerwertz; the marriage on May 25 of Miss Es telle Glaubinger, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Glaubinger, to Zack-ery Greenberg, at the Park Manor; the marriage on June 11 of Miss Agnes Rivkin, daughter of Dr and Mrs Joseph G. Rivkin, to Dr. Martin Frcderlch, at the Garfield Temple. SARADA IN BIG RACE Chicago, May 22 The latest nomination to the $35,000 Classic, three- i year-old attraction on the Arling ton Park stakes program, Is that of Sarada, which was received today by the Arlington Park Jockey Club from Frederick A.

Griffith, owner of the colt and a Palmyra, N. sportsman. In Minstrel Show Peter K. Roosevelt Christened, Grandchild of T. Cousin CanzonerPs Manager Wants Jr.

Welterweight Title Abolished Oyster Bay, May 22 peter Kean Roosevelt, two-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kean Roosevelt of Meadow Spring, Glen Cove, and grandchild of a cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, was christened yesterday afternoon in Christ Church, by the Rev. George E. Talmage, who has christened many babies in the rtooscvelt lamily.

Mrs. W. Baxter Uickson of New York City was godmother and Humphrey Clarge of London was godfather. The baby Is the fifth child of Mr. and Mrs.

Roosevelt, the others being Dorothea Virginia, W. Emlen, James Alfred and Elizabeth Emlen Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt is the former Miss Eliz A. Weinacht, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Weinacht. New Orleans, May 22 (IP) The Junior welterweight title, which Lightweight Champion Tony Canzo-nerl regained in a ten-round decision yesterday irom the Mexican, Battling Shaw, may be abolished if Canzoneri's manager has his wish. Sammy Goldman, business manager, said he was glad the title had come back to Canzonerl because "I want to have It abolished. "It never was of any use to anyonejust a bit of ballyhoo," he said.

Canzoneri, a native of New Orleans, was cheered by approximately 6.000 spectators as he outpointed the Mexicau. Twice his hard rights The 35th annual entertainment and dance of the Morris Park Council, Knights of Columbus; at Richmond Hill recently, had a minstrel show as its chief feature. Miss Mary Wiley, left, of 148-28 87th Road, Jamaica, and Miss Emily Hickey of 92-43 212th Place were members of the minstrel show cast..

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