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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931 2 Jobless Require Aid in BrooklynAlone $2,335,644 Is Raised Toward City's Relief Fund of $12,000,000 Registration of Brooklyn's unemployed continued today at the borough's eight branch offices established by the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee of Greater New York. More than 6,500 unemployed men registered yesterday throughout the city. Registration was heaviest in Brooklyn at 12 Lafayette Ave. and 187 Osborn St. On Monday, according to figures made public today, 877 registered in Brooklyn, out of a total of 4,327 for the entire city.

Miss Helen P. McCormick, president of the Catholic Big Sisters of Brooklyn spoke over the radio yesterday pointing out that 64,000 Brooklynites with children need aid employment. In behalf of the city committee Col. Edward B. Underwood of the Salvation Army spoke over the radio last night.

The speakers bureau of the Brooklyn committee will be organized at a luncheon tomorrow, at which Assemblyman Albert D. Schanzer, chairman of the bureau will be host. The luncheon will be at the Elks Club. Volunteer Speakers Henry M. Fettretch will act as secretary of the bureau.

Many of Brooklyn's leading citizens and jurists have indicated their intention of serving as members the bureau. Some of these are Federal Judge Edwin L. Garvin, Supreme Mitchell May, City Court Justice Alexander Geismar, Magistrate Jeannette G. Brill, Municipal Justices Jacob S. Strahl and Nathan Sweedler, the Rev.

Dr. Simon R. Cohen, Assemblyman William C. McCreery, George E. Dennen, Joseph A.

quirol, Former Assemblyman George W. Stewart, Maximilian Moss, Dr. John Elliot. Ben Freedman, Joshua S. Lev, Frances G.

Hochhauser, Nathan, Mandel, Samuel William Rothstein, I. Edward Siegal, Burke, David Rosenberg, Thomas O'Rourke Gallagher, Ira Gluckstein, Daniel Kohan, William B. Fletcher, Edward A. Vosseler, Herman M. Frank, Milton E.

Bander, Paul Goetz, Abraham L. Siegal, Vincent J. Ferreri, Aaron H. Kaufman, Maurice H. Matzkin, K.

N. Kinn and Herman Mendes. $2,335,644 Raised Total subscriptions toward the $12,000,000 fund the city- wide committee seeks stood last night at $2,335,644.30. The Theatre Owners Association, the Variety Managers Association. the Motion Picture Producers and Association of America yesterday volunteered to give benefit performances.

The Women's Division of the Greater New York Committee will hold a report luncheon tomorrow on the roof garden of the WaldorfAstoria, Manhattan. Formation was announced of a central committee representing all postal employes in the city. Free Coffee Urged The Flatbush 12:45 Club was asked today to provide free coffee for the several hundred men who are registering for jobs daily at the Flatbush Station of the Emergency Relief Committee. If the club will provide coffee, members were told, Walter Ebinger, president of the Flatbush Boys Club and also president of a large bakery, will supply rolls and buns to those waiting for emergency jobs. The men now assemble at the Flatbush Boys' Club, 2245 Bedford where the committee makes its headquarters, about 6 a.m.

Registration does not start until 9. Most of them are hungry and cold. 1,893 More Register The Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee today reported that 4,893 persons applied for work yesterday at the various registration bureaus throughout the city. The total for the two days of registration is now 9,620. Registration yesterday was distributed among the boroughs as follows: Manhattan, Bronx, 790; Brooklyn, Queens, 665.

Registration in Staten Island will begin today. Laval Sends Hoover Confidence Message Washington, Oct, 28 (P)-Premier Laval of France believes conversations with President Hoover will be beneficial to world reconstruction, This sentiment was expressed yesterday in a cablegram sent to President Hoover from the ship bearing the Premier back to France. "I am returning to France greatly pleased with our cordial conversations." Laval said, "and I feel confident that their results will be beneficial to the cause of FrancoAmerican relations, as well as to world reconstruction." On New Bridge 1st Year Port of New York Authority today estimated toll receipts for the George Washmgton Bridge would be between $4,000,000 and $5.000,000 the first year of operation. Here are specific toll rates: Pedestrians .10 Bicycles .25 Motorcycles .25 Horse-drawn vehicles. .50 Passenger automobiles, .50 Passenger autos (with .70 Trucks (to 2-ton capacity), .50 Trucks (2 to 5 .75 Trucks (over 5 tons) 1,00 Tractor and trailer (6 1.25 Tractor and trailer (8 1.50 Buses 14 1.00 Buses 16 wheels.

1.10 Special 1.10 A total of 17.131 vehicles and 6.767 pedestrians crossed yesterday, STARS OF EARTH, AIR AND SEA IN LONDON GALAXY FOUNT MERE cay MISS ENCL.AND IT Sir Malcolm Campbell's auto racer Bluebird, Sir Charles Wakefield's Miss England II, and the Vickers-Supermarine Rolls Royce seaplane S-6-B, all world's record holders in their respective classes, seen on exhibit at the Mot or Show held at Olympia, London. Registration Deferred, Jobless Bronx Women Stage Near-Riot Two near-riots occurred early day when hundreds of jobless men and women in the Bronx sought to register at Emergency Unemployment Committee Bureaus. Unaware that the date of registration had been deferred until Monday, 500 women from 16 to 60 years of age, many of whom had waited since 5 in the morning, stormed through the doors of 384 E. 149th St. when they were opened at 9 o'clock.

Resentful, and bitterly disappointed on learning that John Kadel, in charge of the campaign to raise $800,000 in the Bronx, had changed the date for women to register, the women became SO violent it was necessary to summon additional police from the Alexander Ave. station. As the throng scrambled about, Mrs. Rose Murphy, 60, of 165 St. Ann's the Bronx, who had been standing in line since 7 o'clock, Seeks to Divorce Husband She Says Blonde Won Away Mrs.

Idabelle D. Alexander Says He Left Her After 7 Years of Happiness Mrs. Idabelle D. Alexander went before Justice Byrne in Supreme Court today, seeking a divorce from Harold P. Alexander.

He was described as without occupation and living in luxury on the bounty of his father, a high official of the American Smelting and Refining Company. When they married March 1, 1923, Mrs. Alexander said, her husband had nothing to do but pay attention to her. So they lived happily seven years when he suddenly began to absent himself from home, the wife charged. Eventually he disappeared and, after a search that lasted weeks, located 1 him at 287 W.

4th hattan. Schuyler Grey, social registerite of Greenwich, and Miss Minerva Silver of the Bronx, friends of Mrs. Alexander, told Justice Byrne that when they crashed Greenwich Village apartment on the night of Feb. 7 they found him very much at home with a blonde. Mrs.

Alexander did not ask for alimony. They have no. children. Justice Byrne reserved decision. $196.259 Estate Of Hemmerdinger Goes to His Widow Life Interest of Leather Merchant's Property to Pass On to His Son An appraisal of the estate of the late Henry Hemmerdinger, leather merchant, who formerly lived at 363 Crown and died March 15, 1930, filled in Surrogate Court today, revealed that it has a gross value of $249,642 and $196,259 net It consists principally of stocks and bonds and an interest in his leather business.

The widow, Carrie Hemmerdinger, is made principal life beneficiary with her interest passing to a son, Myron, of 4150 Ocean upon her death. John M. Monahan, today filed a petition for his legal rights in the estate of his wife, Annie, who died at their home 348 60th July 22 last. A will which Mrs. Monahan had executed before her marriage.

divides the greater part of the estate, which is of an unnamed amount, between three nieces. She married two years ago and never revised her testament. Annie Evans, formerly of Brooklyn, who died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 22, leaving an estate of more than $40,000, bequeathed $10,000 in cash and a one-third In the residue to a son. Frederick.

The rest of the estate is to be divided between two other sons. Henry and Norman, according to the terms of her will which was filed today, Kresel Seeks Month Delay in Perjury Trial Untermyer Says Law- yer Is Tied Up by Erlanger Estate Suit John W. Davis and Samuel Untermyer appeared today in Supreme Court, Manhattan, in opposition to plan of Assistant District Attorney Wallace to start the perjury trial of Isidor J. Kresel on Nov. 10 or 11.

Justice Samuel J. Harris of Buffalo, sitting temporarily in Manhattan, reserved decision. The indictment is based on Kresel's repudiation, at the trial of Bernard K. Marcus, president, and other officials of the Bank of United States, of testimony alleged to have given to the grand jury. Untermyer argued for postponement of the Kresel trial until the first week in December.

He explained that Kresel is counsel for the estate of the late A. L. Erlanger and Special Assistant District Attorney Max D. Steuer is counsel for Miss Charlotte Fixel in her court action to be adjudged Erlanger's common law wife. This case is now and Untermyer said indientions were that it would last about five more weeks.

Ask to Inspect Minutes Wallace answered that Steuer had assured him that Miss Fixel's suit would be adjourned to release him and Kresel for the latter's trial. Untermyer vehemently denied that any such plan had been considered. Neither Untermyer nor Davis raised any objection to Wallace's motion for a blue ribbon panel. Davis requested Justice Harris to authorize then defense to inspect that part grand jury minutes pertinent to Kresel's original testimony, citing a recent decision of Court of Appeals in a similar case, Wallace said he had not heard of the decision and asked time to study it. He was given permission to do so with the suggestion that he file a memorandum.

Court Bars Rice From Detailing Past Convictions 'On Leave' From Atlanta, He Ends Defense and Sums Up Own Case George Graham Rice. Atlanta convict and erstwhile stock promoter, acting as his own lawyer in his Income tax trial in Federal Court. Manhattan, rested his defense this afternoon and began summation. The case is expected to go to the Jury tomorrow. Rice began by telling the jury he is "on leave" from the Atlanta Penitentiary, where he is serving a fouryear term for mail fraud in connection with the Idaho Copper case of 1928.

If he serves the Atlanta term and another term of five years in connection with the Idaho Copper cAse on which sentence has been suspended. he will be 69 when he leaves Atlanta, he explained. Judge Bryant at this point sustained an objection of Special Assistant Attorney General Carlton Fox to any further discussion of Rice's previous convictions. The indictment on which Rice is now on trial alleges income tax evasion, failure to make returns and failure to pay. He is liable to A maximum sentence, if found guilty, of eight years' imprisonment and $40,000 fine.

Rudy Vallee's $6,250 A Night Suit Basis The high cost of employing Broadway entertainers for publicity purposes figured today in a suit in the Supreme Court in which the Shoreham Hotel of Washington is suing Connolly Swanstrom, theatrical producers, for $6,250 as the fee it had to pay Rudy Vallee for one night, Vallee was engaged to supplant Harry Richman, who, it was declared, was ready, to appear for $1,500 at the opening of the hotel in October, 1930. The action declares the producers required Richman to appear in St. Louis, forcing him to break his Shoreham contract. Urge Sending Women Prisoners Upstate Resolution urging that all Brooklyn women prisoners sentenced to 30 days or more be confined at the Gray Court Women's Prison, upstate, rather than on Welfare Island and that Adams St. Womens' Court be moved to Flatbush Homicide Court, were adopted today at the monthly meeting of the Kings County Division the New York State Federation of Womens' Clubs.

in session at the Church of Our Saviour, Pierrepont St. and roe Place. Mrs. George R. Hardie presided.

Grief Keeps Mother From Sheridan Rite Riderless Horse, With Cadet'sBootsBackward in Stirrups, in Cortege West Point, Oct. 28 (P)-In the tiny Catholic chapel where he worshipped as a cadet, Richard Britsley Sheridan Jr. of Augusta, went to his last mass today. a While the cadet choir in he sang scarcely more than whispered "Nearer My God to and Father J. A.

Langton, Catholic chaplain, celebrated the requiem mass, the body of the young soldier lay in a flag draped casket before the altar. There was no eulogy and the services were of the simplest, lasting only half an hour. Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, mother of the cadet who died in New Haven Monday after injuries received in Army's football struggle with Yale, was too griefstricken to attend. The only relative at the ceremony was a brother, Gerald.

Sheridan's father, hurrying from Augusta with a daughter, Mrs. J. L. Herman, did not arrive in time for the services. Comrades in Tears While the rest of the military the enlisted men.

To Lie With Heroes academy routine moved forward as usual, despite the pall of grief that hung over the post, the Catholic members of the corps were excused from classes for the ceremony. They marched in full dress up the hill in the brilliant sunshine of A perfect Fall day and all but filled. by themselves, the tiny chapel which stands on a knoll looking down on the broad expanse of the Hudson River. The tenseness the corps feels inside, while outwardly maintaining the stoicism of soldiers, came surface as the organ played softly, the choir whispered the old hymn and the priest intoned the prayers for the dead. Lined in solid formation in the middle pews, erect soldierly even though on their knees, the corps members of Sheridan's faith often passed the white gloves that a soldier wears with full dress array, across their eyes.

Morale Kept Up It has been desperately hard for West Point to keep its balance as it went about the task of laying to rest Dick Sheridan. 149 pounds of brown-headed hustle and fight. president of the second year class, honor man and all soldier. Later, while an honor guard of four cadets, rifles on shoulders. pace beside the coffn.

the corps will time. file past him for the last The mourning for Cadet Sheridan, expressed even by outside universities in the presence of delegations from Notre Dame, Harvard and Yale, among them Capt. Albie Booth of the Elis and William Bingham. athletic director at Cambridge, extended from the highest academy officer to the lowliest of The procession to the burial ground, where such illustrious Army heroes as General Custer, Winfield Scott. "Fighting Bob" Anderson and George E.

Goethals are was arranged with the post military band at the head, followed by the entire corps. Then was to come the caisson bearing the casket, and the riderless horse. with Sheridan's boots turned backward in the stirrups. But tomorrow work will go on as usual. The football team will resume drills for the Colorado College game Saturday and the Army, despite its feelings inside, will be living up to its rallying cry, "Carry on." Bacon Asks Flushing P.

O. Site Be Picked Eagle Burean, Colorado Building. Washington, Oct. 28-Representative Bacon appeared today before the Interdepartmental Committee on Postoffice Sites to urge immedlate selection of a site at Flushing and to present A recommendation. for inclusion of nine Long Island cities in the sixth installment of the public buildings program, appropriations for which will be asked of Congress in December.

Cities which Bacon recommended for inclusion in the sixth installment of the public buildings budget. with the amounts allocated each are: Garden City, Mineola, Floral Park, Bay Shore, Huntington 000: Riverhead. $125,000: Great Neck, $140.000, and Lynbrook, 000. Pinchot to Give Jobs, Board to Residents Harrisburg, Oct. 28 (P) Relief camps for able-bodied men who are unemployed, to be financed from State funds, will be lished in Pennsylvania, Governor Pinchot said today.

"I preparing to establish relief camps under canvas for rod work, which any able-bodied citizen of Pennsylvania can go and find A job, including 8 place to sleep and three meals a day." he said. Open Road Lures 3 Children; Two Fall in Creek: One Drowns Special to The Eagle Freeport, L. Oct. 28- -The three children of Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Loonan of 508 Archer St. left home this morning on an expedition. Walter 4, was the leader. Then came Patricia, 3. And toddling along was Bernard, They arrived at the foot of Archer ending their wandering by playing in the meadows and on the banks of Milburn Creek.

Walter returned alone shortly after 10 o'clock. He told his mother. Grace, that Patricia and Bernard CAREER CLOSED John McEntee Bowman Woman Picks Stein as Thief At His Trial Declares Man Freed in Vivian Gordon's Murder Drugged Her The trial of Harry Stein, 32, who was acquitted of the murder of Vivian Gordon in Bronx Supreme Court last June, was started today in General Sessions for the robbery of Mrs. Lola E. Baker, a dressmaker, of 61 W.

51st Manhattan, April 7, 1930. Jewelry valued at about $2,000 wale taken. The trial is before a jury and Judge Corrigan, Mrs. Baker testified that in April, 1930, she was living at 28 W. 56th St.

and that until Jan, 7 of that year, a friend, Mary Ward, had lived with her. She said that April 7 she received A telephone call from a man who inquired, "Is that you, Mary?" She said she answered, "No, maybe I will do just as well." That night Stein called, she having told the man on the telephone he might come to her apartment. She left the witness chair and walked to where Stein was sitting and pointed him out as the man who visited her. April 11 he visited her again. They went to a restaurant and when they returned to the apartment sat on A.

couch reading a newspaper. "I was tired and leaned back. closing my eves." she said. "He placed a handkerchief with an odir on it over my nose, putting me to sleep. "When I regained consciousness I was on the floor with a comforter over my head and something wound around my neck choking, me.

He was stooping over tried to bit his fingers and he hit me on the jaw." Dreiser Asks Borah To Start Mine Probe Washington, Oct. 28 (P)---A proposal that he sponsor a Congressional inquiry into conditions in the mines of Harlan County, Kentucky, is under consideration by Senator Borah. The appeal was made by Theodore Dreiser, chairman of the National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners, who charged a "reign of terror" existed. The author previously had begun organization of his own investigating committee to inquire into conditions. Two Get Jail Terms For Selling Heroin Leon Schulman, of 562 Sackman St.

and Jacob Scheffler of 494 Powell each 29, were sentenced today by Federal Judge Inch to serve six and four years imprisonment, respectively. They pleaded guilty to having sold $10 worth of heroin to Federal Narcotic Agent Martin Meyer last Aug. 25 and $27.50 worth of the drug to Agent Robert Primrose on Aug. 27. Slayer Knocks Out Prosecutor in Court Chicago, Oct.

28 (P) Bell. only one of five convicted murderers reprieved an hour before they were sentenced to die recently, fought loose from four bailiffs at a sanity hearing in Criminal Court today and attacked his prosecutors, knocking one unconscious. Guards quickly pounced upon the killer and dragged him to his cell. Ellis Island Stay Protested by Artist museum director. is Manhattan Joseph Gudiol, young, Spanish today after an involuntary and trying weekend at Ellis Island.

Mr. Gudiol arrived in New York harbor Friday from Vigo, Spain, planning to study then collection, of Spanish primitive Frick Library. Returns After 15 Years and Is Seized Watermill, L. Oct. 28-For 15 years Frank Rabinski, 44, has remained away from this village- ever since he was indicted for assault, in May, 1916.

He returned yesterday, expecting to find that the lapse of time had wiped out his alleged offense in the memory of the courts, as it had his own, But he was immediately arrested by representatives of District Attorney Blue and held for trial. Babinski was alleged to have assaulted Michael Dziminski of Bridgehampton. John Bowman, Head of Hotel Syndicate, Dies Noted Sportsman and Leader of Horse Show HadHumbleBeginning Masonic Services For John Bushell Masonic funeral services for Bushell will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at his home, 378 Sterling Place. Mr. Bushell.

who was 64 years old, died at 3 p.m. yesterday at home. A native of Seattle, he came to New York 30 years ago and became a proofreader on the old Daily News. When that paper was purchased by the late Frank Munsey, Mr. Bushell was placed in charge of the proofroom.

He later held a similar position on the New York Herald. In 1920 he joined the staff of the Sun and at the time of his death was in charge of the proof. room in the third shift. Mr. Bushell was a life member of the Naval Lodge 69 of the New York F.

A. of the Corinthian Chapter 159, of the Royal Arch Masons, and of the 32d degree Consistory of York Commandery. He is survived by his father, the Rev. John Bushell of Seattle; a sister, Mrs. Nan Bushell, with whom he lived, and two half-brothers.

L. I. Jury Disagrees In Garage Death Case Mineola. L. Oct.

28- A jury in the Supreme Court here last night failed to agree in the case of John Milton Carroll. on trial on a charge of murder in the second degree as a result of the death of Carl Swanson in a garage at North Bellmore on Aug. 9. Justice John B. Johnston, who presided at the trial, dismissed the jury and Carroll was remanded to jail to await the action of the District Attorney.

The two men were partners in a garage and frequently quarreled over money matters, it was testified to by Carroll. He said that during one of these quarrels on the night of the death of Swanson the latter threw some boiling water over him and he picked up a knife to defend himself. He said he had no recollection of having struck Swanson, who was stabbed to death. George Loft Heads South Side Trust George W. candyman, who Rockville L.

Oct. 28- lives in Baldwin, was elected president of the South Shore Trust Company last night at a special meeting of the directors. He was formerly chairman of the board of directors, which position has now been abolished. Mr. Loft succeeds former Mayor Charles E.

Richmond, who to become assistant to the president, Frank B. Gardner of the First Notional Bank of Rockville Center. Edward C. Devorrennes of Rockville Centre, a former director of the South Shore Trust Company, was elected a vice president of the bank, another such officer being added. 18 Arrested in Raid Freed by Magistrate Magistrate Thomas Doyle in Far Rockaway court yesterday dismissed a charge of disorderly conduct against 17 men, arrested in a raid.

At the same time a complaint of maintaining a place for gambling at 1018 Beach 19th Far Rockaway, where the men were arrested, made against Charles Pedian, 33, of 8324 Healy Far Rockaway. was dismissed. Police of the 13th Inspection District, Queens, charged that when they raided the place, they found the men shooting craps. Pedian lives at 8324 Healy Far Rockaway, Queens Blvd. Beauty Drive Starts Tonight Many reservations have been made for the Queens Boulevard committee meeting of the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce to be held tonight at the chamber headquarters in Jamaica.

Chairman William L. Savacool that large number of the property owners along the boulevard are interested in the cooperative beautification plan suggested and have indicated a willingness to do their part toward making Queens Boulevard. the main central highway in Queens, one of the finest in the City of New York. Music Director Given Scholarship Jascha Fastofsky, director of the music academy of the Jamaica Jewish Center, has been awarded a scholarship by Prof. Ottakar Sevcik.

Bohemian maestro. The scholarship gives him free instruction during the visit to America of Professor Sevcik. John McEntee Bowman. 56, hotel operator and horse lover. whose hotels operated by the BowmanBiltmore Hotel Corporation, stretched across the country and down to Cuba, died at 2:45 a.m.

today in the Post -Graduate Hospital in Manhattan. He was operated upon for gallstones on Oct. 12. Mr. Bowman was head of the National Horse Show Association, whose annual show opens at Madison Square Garden on Nov.

5. As the result of his death, Frederick D. McKay, of Brooklyn, will probably take up the reins of the organization. Beginning Was Humble From an humble beginning, Mr. Bowman in a comparatively short time became one cf the widestknown hotel executives on the continent.

He was born in Canada and came to New York when he was 17. At one time ho had 50 hotels within. short distance of the Grand Central Terminal. During the World War Herbert Hoover, then food administrator, appointed him at the head of the Hotel, Restaurant, Dining Car and Steamship of the United States Food Administration. Mr.

Bowman was a close personal friend of former Governor Smith and participated in his gubernatorial and national campaigns. The Smith headquarters during the years that he was Governor were maintained at the Biltmore. Headed Jockey Club One of his best-known hotels was the old Westchester-Biltmore Country Club. In 1925 he was elected president of the Havana American Jockey Club. He became president of the United Hunts Racing Association in 1923 after the death of August Belmont.

He is survived by his the former Miss Clarice Patterson, daughter of Mrs. M. Patterson, well-known in Brooklyn some years ago. Mr. Bowman Is survived by his widow, a son, John McEntee Bowman and a daughter, Miss Clarissa Anna Bowman.

The funeral will take place from the Hotel Biltmore Friday afternoon. The services will be at 2 o'clock at the Central Presbyterian Church, 64th St. and Park Manhattan, the Rev. Dwight omciatinz. Interment will be in Hillside Cemetery, Rutherford.

N. J. fainted and was carried to a store, where she was revived. Meanwhile, the quarters of the which furnished accommodaUnion Settlement, 237 E. 104th tions for a men's registration bureau, another throng of 700 got beyond control more police were rushed to the scene.

Five clerks were unable to handle registration of the men who had begun forming in line at 3 o'clock in the morning. There were at least 500 waiting when registration began at 9 and by 10 o'clock there were 700 milling about. Emergency Squad No. 6 finally untangled the crowd men jamming the short flight of steps leading to the Settlement entrance and lined up, four abreast, east toward Second Ave. A rope barrier, one end of which was attached to the Settlement railing, was improvised to hold the line in check, and two additional policemen were detailed from the 104th St.

station. Exchange Club Asks New Depot At Far Rockaway Group Charges Present Station Is Menace a and a Community Eyesore The Rockaway Exchange Club will press its demands for immediate improvements to the Far Rockaway railroad station and plaza. This was announced yesterday by Dr. Joseph Baum, chairman of a committee named by the club to act on the matter, at a luncheon meeting held in Columbia Club, Greenwood Ave. Dr.

Baum said that a. letter asking that the station and plaza be improved sent to William H. Gerard, general superintendent of the Long Island Railroad, "has so far been ignored." club proposes to press the matter with renewed vigor," Baum declared. "Conditions at the station are intolerable." In in his letter to Mr. Gerard, Dr.

Baum said that the station represented a community eyesore and "a menace to the health of the people of the section." H. P. Naesch, chief engineer of the electrical bureau of the New York Telephone Company, addressed meeting, using as his topic "Transoceanic Telephone." His talk was illustrated. Charles Bunker, president, announced that no session of the club will be held next Tuesday, but on Thursday the group meet with members of the Woodmere Exchange Club at a luncheon in Anthony's Restaurant. Woodmere.

Delegations from the Valley Stream and Lynbrook clubs will also attend. Hawks Hops Off For Kansas City Capt. Frank M. Hawks, speed flier, left Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, North Beach, Queens, at 10:49 a.m.

today for Kansas City, where he is scheduled to speak tonight at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. On Friday he plans to proceed to Beatrice, to join a State air tour. On Saturday he will fly from Omaha to Houston, Texas, to take part in an airport dedication, on Nov. 2 he will go to Wichita, to have his plane overhauled at the Travelair factory. That done, he will proceed to the West coast, to remain there about two weeks before returning East.

Tribute Paid Edison At Electrical Exhibit Brief tribute was paid today to the memory of the late Thomas Alva Edison as part of the services incident to the acquisition by the Electrical Association of New York of the $500.000 exhibit of the Westinghouse. Lamp Company. at the Grand Central Palace. The exhibit was turned over the association by Walter Cary, president of the Westinghouse company, with Clarence Law, general commercial manager of the New York Edison and president of the association. making a short speech of acceptance, Former Mrs.

Telegen Weds Danish Count Salem. N. Oct. 28-Mrs. Isabelle Craven Dilworth Telegen, former wife of Lou Telegen, actor, was married Saturday to Count 3.

Danneskold Samsoe of Velloe, Denmark. This announcement was made last night by John Dale Dilworth, prestdent of the Salem Glass Company, father bride. The bride's father said his daughter obtained a divorce from Telegen Nov. 22. 1928, at Los Angeles, and Aug.

19 last obtained a judgment against him for $12,000 representing unpaid alimony. The former Mrs. Telegen is the granddaughter of Governor Dale of Virginia and a cousin of the Earl of Craven. 15th A. D.

Tammany Colonizing Probed Assistant Attorney General Paul J. McCauley today opened an quiry into charges that Tammany is attempting to steal the election in the 15th (Manhattan) Assembly District, through use of floaters. This district is represented by Abbot Low Moffat. Republican, member of the Hofstadter City inquiry committee. Keyes Winter, Republican leader of the district, has charged repeatedly that Democrats have "colonized" the district.

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19th Ave. 83 Sande Se had fallen into the water. Mrs. Loonan ran down the street. She was joined by John Kearns, driver of one of the village trucks.

Both jumped into the water. They rescued Bernard and recovered the body of Patricia. Bernard was none the worse for the ducking, but Patricia failed to respond to emergency resuscitation methods. The Freeport. Fire Department rescue squad worked over her with an inhalator, using up six tanks of oxygen.

At the end of two hours she was pronounced dead..

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