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M2 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930. WALKER LMBIBES SUNSHINE Striking Taxi I Drivers Seized Vause to Face New Quiz Here Hoover Drops Parker Fight; Was Eagle Right in Omitting Gruesome Details oS Ohio Prison Burning of 31tt Men? 4 Borah to Help Hoover on Pact -But Not Much So. I believe, the censorship did not effect what it sought. Eut. of course, my notion is that this news beloived to the reader, not in part, but entire As a regular subfcriber and friend of The Eaifle I instantly resented this invasion of my right to know the legltlmftte facts of a news situation of such "I have a deep sentiment about prison abuses and wish I might do something to promote a rclonn.

I regard our penal system as a ghastly travesty upon civilized progress, inhuman, unchristian, a thousand times worse than futile because it multiplies evils which it should correct and is a sneering repudiation of all modem science by a social order hell bent lor a coward's revenge. I propose to continue to read The Eagle every day and want to trust it to tell me what I ought to know about affairs In a world which I quite well understand Ls not always an entirely pleasant or sale place in whic to live. I believe in the democratic system and that public abuses cannot exist lor long under the glare of newspaper exposure. This Is one reason why I am faithful to The Eagle, famous for its crusades for better things. For 25 years I have known that the Columbus penitentiary was a disgrace to Ohio.

How are we going to discuss these matters intelligently or function as a free press on denatured news, tempered to save the reader from a shuddering moment which, I hold, he as a member of society deserves as punishment for his share in the neglect? If a newspaper goes into Mayor Walker recuperating on the orders of physician down where the balmy southern sun cures all ills. This shows him resting in the sun in the tropical gardens on the estate at H. C. Blackiston at Bermuda. People and Life Bore Only Hairless Cat Paris Show Visitors Fail lo Get Response From 'Wretched Bundle of Bone' hut Get Plenty of Action From Siamese Howlers Supreme By GUY IIICKOK Bureau.

fili Rut Camlwtn. Paris, May 1 What is thought to be the only naturally hairless cat alive, completely disgusted at the attention given to his nakedness, drowses boredly, the focus of all eyes at the cat show in the Salle Wagram. A wretched bundle of bones On Bankruptcy Counsel for Trustee to Call Judge at Hearing on Columbia May 22 County Judge W. Bernard Vause, at liberty under $2,500 bail on Federal indictment in Manhattan charging use of the mails to defraud in connection with the operations of the bankrupt Columbia Finance Corporation, is scheduled for further quizzing in Brooklyn concerning the $400,000 Columbia collapse. Lionel Golub, counsel for Harold M.

Kennedy, trustee in bankruptcy, said today he had decided to summon Judge Vause when the bankruptcy hearings were to be resumed on May 22 in the Brooklyn Federal Building. Judge Vause's name was first linked with the Columbia at Brooklyn bankruptcy hearing on Jan. 31 last, as told in The Eagle yesterday. While Judge Vause was in Federal Court, Manhattan, yesterday afternoon entering his plea of not guilty, Golub, at a bankruptcy proceeding before Special Commissioner Franklin Tomlln in Brooklyn, was quizzing a former Columbia employee in en effort to recover $12,000 of the dissipated Columbia assets. Only $230 Recovered To date only r.but $250 of asseU has been recovered for the depositors, who, the prosecuting authorities contend, have been defrauded of approximately $400,000.

The witness questioned in Brooklyn was Louis Weinberg, who on Aug. 28, 1929, received a $12,000 check drawn to his order by the Columbia. Weinberg testified yesterday that it represented a return of money he had advanced to the company and that the was handed him by Solomon Cruso, president of the corporation. Cruso is the man who is alleged by Federal Attorney Tuttle to have controlled with Judge Vause all of the voting stock of the Columbia. "Weinberg further testified, however, that when he "advanced" the $12,000 he was given Columbia stock for it and that he did not return the stock when he got back his $12,000.

Says He Got $100 Job Weinberg said he finally surrendered his stock to Assistant District Attorney Kane in Manhattan when he was summoned by Kane for questioning. He also testified that when he "advanced" the $12,000 he received a Job with the Columbia at $100 a week, which he held from March, 1928, to August, 1929. Abraham Raynian, an officer of the Columbia and one of the men under Indictment, testified at an earlier hearing that Weinberg did not lend or "advance" the money but bought stock. He alleged that Weinberg did not receive the check from Cruso, but having access to the cash drawer of the company filled out the check, already signed in blank for $12,000, to his own order. Oolub said he has established that Weinberg can neither read nor write, although he has learned to write his own name.

Another witness to be quizzed at the next bankruptcy hearing is Baruch Zuckerman. Zuckerman, according to information In the hands of the trustee, received $3,000 in connection with a transaction whereby $20,000 worth of notes held by the Columbia were cashed by the State Capital Corporation, with which ths Columbia had considerable dealings. 3lh Ave. Zoning Row To Have Day in Court Justice Ingraham in Manhattan Supreme Court has set May 14 for hearing of the application of the Washington Square Association and others to compel Chairman William E. Walsh, of the Board of Standards and Appeals, to file "a correct and complete account" of proceedings before the board in the denial of protests against changing property at 21 5th Ave.

from a residential to a business structure. Alderman Joseph Clark Baldwin 3d, leader of the Republican minority, stated' that he will introduce a resolution before the board next Tuesday calling on Commissioner of Accounts Higgins to investigate the Board of Standards and Appeals. Baldwin's resolution calling on the Mayor to remove Walsh failed of consideration by a vote of 61 to 3 at the meeting of the board Tuesday. PERSONAL ANYONE KNOWINO the whereabouts of Marty Dletz, formerly a newspaper man, please communicate. MAIn 6943.

DEMOCRATIC Bureau' Please urge Tammany Congressman read Stand- Ira union juiv imo. Hiram Mann. LOST AND FOUND Advertisements inserted in the Lost and Found columns of Ths Eagle will be BROADCAST every Tuesday at 12:05 Noon and Thursday at 10:15 AM. over station WLTH. "THE VOICE OF BROOKLYN." BANK BOOK Lost; No.

81958; payment oiuyrM, nuucr uienbe icuiu fiiy Savings Bank. DOG Lost; st. Bernard, male; reward. DOG Found; small airedale. black and brown, female: Bay RidRe: owner or good home.

SHOre Road 3550. VOQ Lost; Pomeranian, brown and white. on luesaav; iioerai reward, rnone WINdsor 7429. DOG Lost; Boston terrier; answers to name oi doois; uettaio Carlton Ave. and Adelphi St.

Reward. BTErllng 6688. DOG Lost; Boston bull; dark brludle: knoo tan. Reward. 1378 President St.

LAFayette 1946. DOG Lout; Boston terrier, dark brlndle. mue markings, answera to name Alike; reward. VIGiiant 2336. KEYS Lost; 6 or 7 on chain, with Ini tial -u.

a. posMD.y in taxi in Brooklyn, Wednesday. April 30. Reward. Call Miss Schutte.

JOHn 5127. PURSE Lost; black; containing money ana jewel ry; imerai reward. Alleera. 3801 Ave. WINdsor 2531.

RING Lost: Eastern Star: black onyx. diamond insertea; a gavel and star: left on wash basin in ladles room at Aibee Theater 4 p.m. Wednesday. May liberal reward. Phone Mrs.

Marv Austin. St. George 5579 or DECatur 6421. ROSARY Lost; itlver; near Franklin, Herpe.i or B'ishwick Reward. BUCkmlnster 1630.

SQUARE PRINT TAN AND RED NECK- akf lost: on way iron. Fulton 15 Clark St. Reward. MAIn 8765. WRISTWATCH Lot; lady's; Hamilton; wnne aoia, oiacx enamel, 2lst Gien wood Road, FlatbURh and Church 10-11 a.m..

May 7. Generous reward. IfANsfleld 1631. As iMany Quit Man Who Stayetl on Job Threatened, He Says Whalen Aks Power Five strikine chauffeurs Black Beauty Taxicab Corpora were arrested today in front company's Manhattan office a' E. 13th St.

on complaint ol Conklin. a chauffeur not on who sud they threatened to him off." The prisoners, all charged disorderly conduct, were Lout M'hein, 32, 3022 Mermaid Ave Island; Irving Laeox. 28. 118 1 Manhattan: Abraham Gc 20, 68 Herzl St William Fri 30. 1513 Ocean nd Ab Wemleld.

21. 209 Atkins Ave. Each was held In $200 Magistrate Reit for hcaruig day. Dimmistraticina SUgrc' Developments in the strike rab drivers in Biooklyn shif day to Manhattan, where loads of strikers, more than all, staged demonstrations. 1 was in front ot the main ol the Black Beauty Taxicab Hon, 613 E.

13th St. Later ti. ited the company's garages at 629 W. 134th St. Neither of the two demonstrations developed violence.

William Larncy, vice president of the taxicab company, telephoned to Police Headquarters shortly after 1 a.m. that there had been a mild demonstration of the strikers and that they would probably proceed to the uptown garage. Police, therefore, were Raiting for the men when the strik-rra got there. They were searched for weapons, but none was found. Then, following the advice of the police, they drove back to Brooklyn.

VYhalrn Askn More Control Agents of a newly formed driv ers' union said that 2.000 chauffeurs of the Black Beauty or Motor Cab Transportation System were out, while the company refused to make any estimate of the total. Action of the cab drivers came Just after Police Commissioner Whalen had testified before the Mayor's committee on taxlcabs at Its first hearing in City Hall, and had told them that limitation of number and size of cabs was necessary. The Commissioner also made a new demand for a fixed rate. According to his statement, taxlcabs, even though they are closely regulated now, must have more regulation by the city If the city ts to keep the streets reasonably safe. Cruising of cabs, and the vast number of them which make no real profit, the Commissioner said, constitute the biggest taxicab problem.

He said that experts estimated that, while taxlcabs use 60 percent of New York's streets, they carry no more than 20 percent of the traffic. Protective I'nlon Kormrd The Commissioner's testimony was the first the new board has taken, but It was evident from ilans outlined by Frank P. Walsh, chairman, that a lot more will be taken before the committee reports to Mayor Walker. Whalen did not discuss any rates. Only one cab so far has been licensed at the new rate, and it is probable no other licenses will be issued until various court actions covering the effort to issue low-rate permits have been finished.

The strike, which yesterday did not appear particularly serious, became so this morning, when the drivers announced that 2.000 men had formed what they termed a Hackmen's Protective Union and that they would demand of the company that it recoEiiize the union. In fact, the recognition demand preceded In importance the of commission percentages on which the strike actual begun. The drivers at the outset i-i to deal with Communists tended yesterday's meetings. sentatlves of the Trade League, organized by Willi i Foster, who is in Jail as a i of the March 6 riots, were i from the Brooklyn Labor I vc at last night's meetings, drivers did take the advice Socialist party. Strike May Spread So far there has been no ei and the drivers said there none.

Sam Katz, president company, said no effort wo i made to keep the Black Ba Black checker cabs in the 3 One garage of the company ir. hattan and four In Brookl affected by the strike order. Possibility of the strike ing to other companies wa. 11 yesterday and last evening, several drivers for Parai Terminal and Yellow cabs recognized, according to acfc Beauty men, In the crowd which filled the Lyceum. Police today were guarding the company's Brooklyn garages, and the precinct houses in which are tlie garaees had orders to be watchful of possible trouble.

IURC COUNCIL EXPLAINS Announcements on public matters by the headquarters of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ hi America voice a general trend of Judgment in the council's constitu ency and are made "without any claim that they have the unanimous support at every member of the constituency." according to a statement Issued today "In the effort to dispel misunderstandings that have occasionally arisen." MRS. MR E. IRESCH IONKUN. a lie of Gnffln B. Conklin of 1198 Pacific died Tuesday.

She leaves her husband and a daughter. Mrs. Ella Cnalin Davies. be hld In the rairrhlld Chapel. S6 Leflerts Place, tomorrow night at 8 MRS.

VINCEN7. PRl UENTE. 73. Of 740 Madison St. di-d Tuesday at her home.

She was born in Italy and lived In Brooklyn for 40 yars. she is surrlved by two sons, a daughter, a brother, 11 grand-chiltlrrn and 10 (treat-grandchildren. The funeral alii be held Saturday, with a mass of requiem in Our Lady of Uood Counsel R. C. Church.

HOTELS AND. RE.SORTS LONG ISLAND. THE GREYM0RE Onr ot hf tnt Summer HotH L. I. Horrlike 'urroundinev Recreation nd hospitality prrvail.

75 Isrir. airy rfoms, miter. hths. Near bv. WatfT nd lurid upon Ooifintt privities.

Cuimpb un-exceiicd. Bccuci on request. RACX, Scans 3 Names Baker and Ilutclieson, Democrats in View for Supreme Court tafia Bareaa, Colorado Bolldiag. Bj HENRY St VDAM Washington, May 8 Within the next two weeks President Hoover will submit to the Senate a new nom ination for the post of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. In the face of the most decisive defeat he has suffered at the hands of Congress, the President realizes the futility of resubmitting the name of jonn Jonnston Parker.

Although a shift of only one vote would have meant the confirmation of Judge Parker, if the nomination were resubmitted the President would be unable to count on Demo' cratic support, and the second rejection would prove more decisive man tne first. Under these circumstances the President has dedided to drop the Parker nomination lor good and to scan witn a new nominee Various names figured in capital discussions but there was nothing au thoritative to show which way the wmie iioise wind is drifting. rne President decie to issoe no statement on the Parker case. No good would come, it was felt at the White House, from further public aiscussion of this affair. Recalls Warren Incident The defeat which the Senate has administered to Mr.

Hoover is com parable with President Coolidge's experience in twice nominating Charles Beecher Warren of Detroit for Attorney General and twice hav ing him rejected. The rebuke administered to Mr. Hoover is far more significant than the narrow margin of hostile votes would indicate. The fact that for the first time in 36 years a nominee for the Supreme Court has been rejected is an indication of the political lm portance of the incident. There Is little doubt that (he Senate's recent practice of considering nominations in open executive session was, in large degree, responsible for the rejection of the Parker nomination.

Had this nomination been considered behind closed doors and the vote kept secret, it is probable that Judge Parker would have been confirmed. Senators Fear Spotlight Various Senators who would have voted to confirm in secret were not prepared to support Parker in public. The open executive session is a direct consequence of publication of a secret Senate roll-call confirming former Senator Irvine L. Len-root of Wisconsin to a post on the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Pari R.

Mallon, a news service correspondent, published this roll-call last May, with the result that the Senate rules were changed so as practically to abolish secret sessions. In the speculation as to the next nomination to the Supreme Court, three names dominated the discussion today, although there was no assurance from the White House that the President would limit his consideration of these men. Most prominent among them was Joseph C. Hutcheson United States District Judge of Houston, Texas, Democrat, whom President Wilson appointed to this post in 1918 at the age of 39. Once Sat in Manhattan Judge Hutcheson is reported to have been second on the list of namss submitted to the President at the time of Judge Parker's nomination.

He is the son of a capta'n in the Confederate armies, desce'ids from aristocratic Virginia families on both sides, is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and is said to be a man of force, character and intelligence. Attorney General Mitchell and Solicitor General Thacher, it is reported, regard Judge Hutcheson as well-qualified for the Supreme Court. Judge Hutcheson is a crusading dry. For some years he sat in the District Court in Manhattan in the autumn, handling equity cases. Baker Also Fancied Another prominent Democrat figured in the discussion today Npw-ton D.

Baker of Ohio, former Secretary of War. If a Democrat is to be appollnted, Mr. Baker will have strong Republican backing in Ohio. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio is prepared to support him, and Ohio Republicans in general would welcome the nomination of Mr.

Baker. Owen J. Roberts of Pennsylvania, Republican, famous as Government prosecutor of the Naval oil cases, is once more to the fore. Messrs. Roberts and Baker are both out standing Liberals.

Not much Is known here, however, concerning the philosophic background of Judge Hutcheson of Texas. At the breakfast today the Presl dent canvassed the situation with Senator Watson of Indiana, Rcpub' llcan leader. with motors roaring wide open, flew over the city this morning on their way to New England. Taking off from Curtiss Field. Valley Stream, where they landed yesterday following the greatest aerial demonstration ever witnessed over New York City, the air fleet flew in formation above Brooklyn, banked gracefully northward upon reaching downtown Manhattan and, after circling the Metropolitan area, proceeded along Long Island Sound Into southern New England.

By 9 o'clock the first units of the air parade had swooped into the air, other squadrons following at regular intervals until 11 o'clock, when the entire fleet was aloft, filling the sky like huge birds on a northward trek. The air armada will fly in formation to Lowell. where it will divide, one wing going to Hartford and the other to Springfield. At these cities the wings will again divide and formations will fly over Pawtucket and Boston. All ships have been directed to return before nightfall.

On April 22 The Eagle published an account of the fire in the prison at Columbus. Ohio, in which 318 men wrre burned to death. With the article the following was published: "In deference to readers. The EttKlc omits all gruesome details of the disaster." The article gave an account of the origin of the fire, the extent of damage, Including deaths, told where responsibility lay, and Included a complete report of the official investigation. Every reference to the shrieks and sufferings of the burning men was omitted.

The Eagle has been criticized in certain quarters for omitting the gruesome details. Editor and Publisher has printed an article by Marlen Pew, editor, In which the following occurs: "It is not often that I am In disagreement with The Brooklyn Eagle, but a spyglass does not bring this policy to my view. I regard this well-Intended censorship as really very unfair to readers. It is a mistaken kindness and Jiijust to the whole theory and fact of public service Journalism. Let's see about this matter! Surely The Eagle deceived no intelligent person.

More than 300 human beings caged like rats in a fire-trap by a brutally indifferent society, still clinging to a medieval idea of punishment rather than reformation of erring souls, were pretty sure to cry out in terror, even as beasts, when the flames crept upon them and blistered their flesh. The Eagle couldn't possibly cut that fact out of the story, no matter how the copy desk might seek to trim horror from the dispatch. The cries would be obvious to any Intelligent reader. Every one would know that bodies were roasted in that fire. Cluireh Session Discord Looms In Cannon Quiz lNeinewit of liielioa Who Go in for Polities Is Arrival at Dallas an Dallas, May 8 iP) With discord scented in the arrival of the Rev.

Rembert C. Smith of Washington, who has promised to challenge alleged political activities- of four bishops, the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South today settled down to enact religious legislation for its 3,000,000 members. Smith sent word ahead that he intended to air the alleped political activities of Bishops James Cannon of Virginia, E. D. Mouzon of North Carolina, H.

M. Dubose of Tennessee and H. M. Moore of Dallas. Election yesterday of the Rev.

Forney Hutchinson of Oklahoma City, as chairman of the Episcopacy committee, was taken by many of the delegates as significant, inasmuch as Mr. Hutchinson had been mentioned consistently as a probable bishop in the event the conference decided to elect. 9 More Cities Go Wet In Lilrrarv I)ifiet Poll Nine towns and cities In the South and West registered wet pluralities In their second reports in the Literary Digest's nation-wide prohibition poll, according to the count made public today. Five of the reporting communities showed a two to one sentiment in favor of repeal, while the remaining four showed an Increase in the dry vote but a con-tinned predominance of the wets. The figures for these cities were: Enforce- MoHifl- in fit.

catinn. Repeal Columbus, Ob. Lewi.ston. Idaho. Rook Island.

111. Kremont, Ohio Piuslon. Pa. Deratur. Ill Ithaca.

N. Y. tun H9 ".4 l.OIB l.m'i 4.12 491) 510 41 rm S.M) 631 9411 P08 1 146 1.9'J7 Somerville, Mass. Lansing. Firebug Eisentein Gels 12'4 Years in Sing Sing Joseph Eiscnstein.

confessed firebug who worked on a 3.000 each fee basis and collected from the In surance money, was sentenced yes terday in General Sessions. Manhattan, to not less than W-i years in Sing Sine. Four others who also pleaded guilty on April 16 to Fed eral and State indictments charging mail frauds and arson, were sen tenced as follows: Ben Greenberg. three to ten years in Sing Sing; Louis Dachis and his brother, Jacob, three years and a year and a day, respectively, in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta; and Hyman Lerner, a year and a day in Atlanta. Fires Two Shots At Kinsman, Mioses Florio Di Luca, 51.

of 44 Hull was arrested last night on a Sullivan law violation after he had fired two shots at his brother-in-law, Pas- quale Ficko, 45, of 34 Thatford accoiding to police. The shots went wild. Di Luca is to be arragned today on the Sullivan Law charge. TO, She Scours Pawn Shops for Lost Cycle Determined to find a 20-year-old bicycle which "has kept me young," Mrs. Clem-ence Hodges, 70.

of 91-17 117th Richmond Hill, today will visit many bicycle stores and pawnbrokers in Central Queens. The wheel was stolen Sunday afternoon. "The bicycle is of no value to any one but me," Mrs. Hodges today told reporters. "Just for the fun of it.

about six weeks ago I asked a bicycle dealer how much he would give me for the bicycle. Wha: do you think he offered me? A dollar and a half." A small reward is being offered by Mrs. Hodges for the immediate return of the bicycle, which, incidentally, has no coaster brake. Because of this Mrs. Hodges says she cannot ride any other type.

I Will Speed Treaty Out of Committee hut will Not lWelt, Belief fcagla Bureau, Colorado Bolldlng. By HENRY SlYDAM Wasliington, May 8 The bewildering William E. Borah of Idaho, one of the principal thorns in Herbert Hoover's official flesh, Is going to support the A 1 nlstration during the next few weeks. This is news. The support will be manifested in behalf of the London naval compact.

It can be predicted, however, that Mr. Borah's enthusiasm for this pact is not such as to result tn spriPR nf l' ringing speeches extolling the accomplishments of Henry L. Stimson and his chief in the White House. Mr. Borah has Just scored on the President in helping to bring about the defeat of Judge Parker, nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

When the adverse vote was announced the Senator's face was wreathed in smiles, pink with pleasure. Now Mr. Borah must at least go through the motions of assisting the President to get ratification of the London pact. A Limit on His Aid According to present indications, the distinguished chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will confine his activities to seeing that the pact is speedily reported out of committee. When the pact reaches the floor of the Senate it Is not expected that Mr.

Borah will speak in Its behalf. The Job of defending the agreement will be left to the two Senators who helped negotiate it at London David Reed of Pennsylvania, Republican, and Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democrat. The Senator from Idaho does not regard the naval compact as a great accomplishment. Its failure to provide real reduction in naval armaments is a source of disappointment to him.

At the same time a rough parity witli Great Britain is established, and the principle of limiting all categories of warships is set up. The alternative to the pact is outright competition. Under these and other circumstances, Mr. Borah feels constrained to support or at least not to oppose the pact. He is, however, not enthusiastic about it.

To Get Pro nipt Action As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Borah will see to it that the agreement gets prompt conslaeration. both in committee and in the Senate Itself. As far as public speeches in defense of the pact are concerned, it is probable that the Senator from Idaho will make none. The general expectation Is that the London pact will be easily ratified.

The opposition to it. while determined, is negligible In Influence. If the issue were close and Mr, Borah had to go out and fight for ratification, he would find himself In a most uncomfortable position. His attitude Is, In large degree, one of Indifference. This indifference is not peculiar to Mr.

Borah. It is general on both sides of the Senate. The disillusion ment which prevails toward the pact is its principal strength. If the Administration will now refrain from putting out grandiloquent claims for this agreement. It will get throueh the Senate without much trouble.

If. on the other hand, a series of challenging statements is issued from Administration quarters, the opposition dwill feed on this diet and the result might prove danger ous. The Senator from Idaho, a law unto himself, has no particular fondness for the job of assuming charge of the President's pact. Ever since the campaign of 1928, wnen he made such rousing speeches in behalf of Herbert Hoover, Mr. Eorah has been In opposition to him.

The fight on Judge Parker was the latest evidence of this attitude. As far as the London pact goes, Mr. Borah considers it a step in the right direction. He is giving the President the benefit of the doubt. The influence of Mr.

Borah is such that even his qualified and silent support will prove advantageous to the White House. Mr. Borah, now 65 years of age. Is completing his 24th continuous year of service in the Senate. He is up for election this November for the fifth time.

Rumors of opposition have reached Washington from Idaho, but Mr. Borah's friends discount them. Idaho, with a population less than half of that of Queens, is proud of the distinction of its senior Senator. There is no reason to suppose that Mr. Borah will not go right on opposing President Hoover until 1932, when, true to form, he will be found once more extolling the virtues of this same Hoover as the Republican nomine for President.

PLANE SAVES DROWNING MAN Peter Johnson 24, deckhand on a private yacht moored in the East River off Hart's Island, was rescued from drowning yesterday afternoon by a Police Department plane. Observing I1I3 fall overboard, the plane, piloted by Patrolmen Thomas Mason and Frank Dieffenbach cn a routine patrol, was glided to a closeby landing ar.d Johnson was pulled aboard. MENDELSON DAVIS Mrs. Abraham Mendelson of Charleston. S.

formerly of Ben-sonhurst. has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Shirley Rose, to M. Martin Davis, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Davis of Bensonhurst.

Mr. Davis is an attorney practicing in Manhattan. LIVING COSTS DECREASE Though still higher than before the war, the cost of living is still decreasing, according to a study completed by the National Indus trial Conference Board, Another ordinary looking cat is tne cat 01 the Chevreuse, doomed to extinction, the cat experts) say, because there rem-'is no Chevreuse Tommy to father the next genera tion. A Brazilian kitten exhibited with the house cats turned out to be nothing less than a baby Brazilian jaguar. The long-haired cats were neglected this year.

Cage after cage of lazy Persians and Angoras yawned through the wire netting into empty space. Nobody had time to waste on them. Aside from his royal nakedness, the hairless cat, the black-eared and black-footed Siameses, with blue eyes and bass voices, ran away with the exhibition. All day long Parisians clambered past 'hem three and four deep, exclaiming admiration. The Siamese has swept the country like an epidemic in the last few years.

They are half savage, and yowl more dismally than any alley law But they are extreme! rlecnrn Mva They leap like kangaroos. And their snort, sun bristles are exceeding inhospitable to fleas. 40 Pupils Win Prizes In Humane Poster Test Forty Brooklyn and Queens pupils were yesterday named prize winners in the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' humane poster contest, conducted among all school children in the city from the first to the ninth school years. Gold prizes were awarded to the following: Doris Brandt, P. 8.

119, Querns. Margaret Klnna. P. 8. 32, Queens.

Sylvia Wiener, P. 8. 109. Louis Laszl, P. 8.

88. Wesley Lang, P. 8. 68, Queens. Bernard Friedman.

P. S. 88. Prank Trinkaus, s. 88.

William Senkrwitz, P. 8. 88 Milton Punk, P. 8. 33.

John E. Kehoe, P. 8. 135. Henrietta Rosenberg, P.

s. 96, Frederick B. Huber. P. 8.

77, Queens Silver medals were awarded to the following: Wopel Tullery. P. 8. 109. James Banyan, P.

8. 22. Hector Bos. P. 8.

109, Queens. Tony Cuaramto, P. 8. 115, Queens. John Strlnnlng, P.

8. 42. Queens. Charles Pokovitz. P.

s. 180 Samuel Ruden. P. 8. 115.

Queens. Daniel Buqulcchio, P. 8. 96, Queens Adele Stasinvas. P.

B. 72. Mice Sandler. P. 8.

88. Jake Marcbese, P. 8. 88. Victoria Leppert, P.

8. 115, Queens. Oemma Dl Glrolamo. P. 8.

180. Benedetto Intravala, P. 8. 11, Queens. Peter De Mierl.

P. 8. 14. Queens. Grace Neeley, P.

8. 222. George Scheldeberg, P. 8. 119, Queens Lloytf Lundgren, p.

s. 96. Joseph Oddo. P. 8.

96. Francis Mitchell. P. 8. 222.

Florence Glessen, P. 8. 217. Vlto Oallo. P.

8. 96. Marie Mazzone, P. 8. 14.

Queen. John Evanlck, P. 8. 130. Queens.

George Johnson. P. 8. 125, Queens. Nancy Hunter.

P. 8. 93. Queens. Charles Roppolo.

P. 8. 171. Crace Holland. BKhop McDonnell H.

Daily consumption of gasoline in New York City is about 500,000 in a thin wrinkled bag of mottled skin, he demonstrates that, whether or not clothes make the man, it is beyond a doubt hair that makes the cat. The complicated geographical divisions on this side of the water have few advantages, and one of them is the increased Interest they give to a cat exhibition. The "rose mousers" from Turkey would be much less exciting if they were merely from one of the United States of Europe. The seven Abys-sianian cats, which incidentally come from Vienna, are infinitely more attractive as from Austria; a definite nation, than if they merely came from a European Chicago. Sacred cats from Burma there are among the others.

They are innocent enough looking, these Burmese pussies. Nobody would suspect from looking at them that each is a Burmese mond reincarnated, at least so the Burmese say. Only a hundred of them are supposed to be alive, 98 in a Burmese monastery, where each awaits the death of his master, ready to receive his soul. Tariff Bill Goes Back to House For Conference Disputed Items Will Be Discussed- Quick Ac tion Expected by Watson Eagle Bureau. Colorado Building.

Washington, May 8 Eight disputed Items of the tariff bill are to be considered further by the conference committee tomorrow. By a viva voce vote the Senate yesterday sent the bill back for conference with the House on the controversial items which Include the farm debenture and flexible tariff provisions. The Senate's action followed objection by Democratic members to a proposal by Chairman Smoot of the Finance Committee that the Senate approve all features of the bill agreed upon in conference. The opposition said the bill would be delayed by this double consideration of the tariff, once on the agreed measures and again on the separate controversial items. Senator Smoot withdrew his proposal in favor of a resolution asking for another conference.

Mr. Smoot listed the exceptions to the agreements reached in conference as "silver, lumber, cement, the debenture, reorganization of the Tariff Commission, the McMas-ter amendment providing that all information before the Tariff Commission be accessible to Senators, the cost of production investigation and the flexible provision." Putting the bill back into conference without an adverse vote on the agreed items would not open the whole bill to change, Mr. Smoot said. Senator Watson, Republican leader, stated the bill might be back in the Senate early next week, as he expected the conferees to act quickly. the 'sweetness and light business it should be consistent.

Just where will the shuddering line be drawn?" The Eagle would like to know what its readers think about this. Was The Eagle right in omitting the gruesome details of the Colum bus prison holocaust? Jig-Slepx Slavrato In Halls of Justice During the height of activity In Kings County Court yesterday afternoon Mr. Mckinley iBoo-boo) Stubbs decided to do a Jig in the lobby of the courthouse main floor. McKinley is 4 years old, a Negro and very much a Jig dancer. He usually dances at 417 Madison where he lives.

Soon clerks, lawyers, defendants and, 'tis said, some Judges were in the enthusiastic audience that watched the jig dancer. It seemed as if police reserves would have to be called, but "Aw," said Boo-boo, "this ain't no place for dancing," and stopped. Tampered' Wife Wins Separation From J. C. Gorey IVegreris Maid in Suit Tcdd Of 'Little Devil' in the If Cosmos Mrs.

Helen M. Gorey of Great Neck, L. who sued Joseph Charles Gorey, president of the Gorey Automotive Parts Company, Manhattan, for separation, $1,000 a week alimony and $25,000 counsel fees, today received the separation in Supreme Court, but alimony was fixed at $50 a week and her counsel fee at $350. Mrs. Gorey charged that she had been "treated like a possessed Idol to be pampered by my husband when he is in good humor and to be abused when he is not." Prize Pup Plays Part Gorey in reply said his wife de manded such propitiation and would have tantrums if he rt-rused to give her her way.

Once, he said, she destroyed with a poker costly objects of art in their home. Another time, he said, she ran away with a prize bull pup and a chest of stiver and then went on a "wild shopping tour." Ella White, Gorey Negress maid. described the situation In this testi mony: "Mr. Gorey's a very kind man but he does seem to have a kind of a little devil In him. When that little devil was around Mr.

Gorey thought of himself as King Gorey. Everybody had to bow before hnn. He was very fond of Mrs. Gorey." Poetess Propitiated Mrs. Hannah Cushman Howes, poetess president of the American Poetry Circle, got a separation today from Ralph H.

Howes, architect and president of the Technology Club. Howes got an unrecognized Yucatan divorce and immediately married Grace Sartwell Mason, novelist. Taxi Crashes Into ltus On Kings Highway: 3 Hurt Three persons were injured last night when a taxicab. pursued by a policeman, collided with a bus at Kings Highway and Remsen Ave. All of the injured were in the cab which was operated by Gerlano Fer-ranti, 19, of 195 Boerum St.

Fer- ranti sustained cuts and bruises as did Jac Rose. 24. of 25 MrKibbin and Nick Millio. 18. of 414 Mel-! rase St.

The bus, which contained 15 pas- sensors, was operated by Ambrose i Arlfuro of 1029 Glenv.ood Road. The injured persons were treated r-t the Kings County Hospital and the taxi drivers were given sum monses for speedins. Prinres Testifies In Alienation Suit I Denver, May 8 (Pt Denial that i her husband found her scantily clad in the New York apartment of Wil- 'liam B. Qulglcy. Denver attorney.

has been made by Princess Alimova Kunkel. a witness in the i 'alienation suit broucht against Quigiey by William J. Kunkel. New York broker, her husband, t-he denied she fell in love with the lawyer, or that Quigiey ever had made love to her. With all spectators excluded, the Princess gave intimate testimony of her marital life which she said ended her love for her husband.

136 Planes Pass Over City On Flight to New England Brooklyn and Manhattan saw their second aerial demonstration In two days as more than 136 planes, One Obsolete Battleship Costs Ten Times More Than Fleet of 140 Fighting Naval Airplanes The combined battle and scouting fleets that steamed past the Brooklyn waterfront yesterday was led by a line of eight battleships. Each ship cost approximately $30,000,000, a total for the eight of $240,000,000. Overhead a fleet of 140 fighting naval airplanes maneuvered and theoretically destroyed the city of New York. The cost of each airplane was approximately $25,000. The entire fleet of 140 cost $3,500,000, or just about one-third of the cost of a single battleship.

Dreadnought battleships are deemed obsolete by many authorities. The money put into a single dreadnought would provide 1,200 airplanes of the type that yesterday greeted New York. Authorities say the most costly and powerful battleship could not survive the bombing of a very email group of airplanes..