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I OCTOBER 1925. 1 3 THE BRO KLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, 26. Money to Lend On First Mortgage forty-two years we have been lending money on property in this vicinity. We have learned the business. We know how much we can lend safely--the proper rate of interest the fees a borrower ought to pay and where to find the investor who will buy the mortgage.

We do not regard the lending of money as a favor to the borrower but as a business transaction of advantage to both parties. We shall be glad to have your application if you wish to borrow money on first mortgage on real estate in Greater New York or the adjoining Counties on 1 Long Island. Title Guarantee Trust Co. Capital Funds $26,000,000 176 Broadway, New York. 175 Remsen Brooklyn.

13 East 45th New York. 160-08 Jamaica Jamaica. 271 West 125th New York. Bridge Plaza North, L. I.

City, 870 East 149th New York. Mineola, Long Island. 90 Bay St. George, S. I.

Hirshfield Shoots Third Shaft At Police; Frees Gun Prisoner Magistrate David Hirshfleld, whose sensitive judicial dignity was first ruffled two weeks ago by a patrolman who had been up all night and who, after waiting futilely most of the day to testify against a prisoner, dared express a wish for sleep, loosed his third vial of wrath against the police today when he scored another patrolman for something or other and released a prisoner who, it was said, had confessed to living in a room where a loaded pistol had been found. A few moments prior to this Mayor Hylan's former Commissioner of Accounts somewhat startled attendants at the Fifth Avenue Court by demanding why policemen were permitted to stand at the right instead of the left of their prisoners during arraignment. He was told that the practice was universal in he a announced that in his court the the Magistrate's Courts, whereupon situation was going to be reversed. "Moreover, I am going to direct the stenographer to make a copy of her minutes and send them to some one who is in a position to direct that policemen present their cases properly," said Hirshfield. WALKER PROMISES ACTION TO RELIEVE HOUSING PROBLEM Democratic Candidate Scheduled for Speaking Tour in Boro Tonight.

While preparing to make his sec-, ond tour of Brooklyn tonight, Senator James J. Walker, Democratic candidate for Mayor, issued a statement today on the housing problem. In the statement Walker promises to appoint a Housing Relief Committee for New York City with power to recommend relief measures and changes in the zoning law "so that the sections where working men live will be as fully protected from encroachments 88 are the Central Park, Riverside Drive and Park ave, sections." City's Three Big Problems, Walker classes housing a8 one of the three big problems confronting the city, the other two being transit and schools. "The transit suestion is virtually settled," he said, "because we all agree upon a 5-cent fare and the necessity for new subway lines and service. Neither is there any difference of opinion as to the necessity for more more schools until part time is eliminated and classes become small enough for teachers to give individual attention to Favors Credit for Home Building.

Walker declared he still favored proposed constitutional amendment which would permit the city to extend its credit for the purpose of providing homes for working people. Three Speeches in Boro Senator Walker speaks here tonight at Arcadia Hall, Congress Hall and Public School No. 84. Arcadia Hall is at 918 Halsey st, Congress at 2692 Atlantic ave. and Publie School No.

84 at Watkins st. and Glenmore ave. Governor Smith arrives tomorrow and will make speeches in behalf of Walker in each of the five boros. Brooklyn will hear at the Academy of Music on Friday night. His speech will be broadcast by radio.

Dined by Republicans. Senator Walker was dined last night by several hundred Republicans at the Park Lane Hotel. Gen. Leslie Kincaid, Adjutant General under Governor Miller, was among the speakers. Optimistic Tammany leaders, while they refuse to give definite figures, claim Walker will be elected by 400,000 and possibly more.

THREE GOVERNORS PICK POWER COMMISSIONERS Albany, Oct. 26--The Governors 1 of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. have announced the appointment of a joint committee to make an investigation and report to them on the transmission and control of electric power in the three States. The New York members of the commission are William A. Pendergast, chairman of the Public Service Commission: Public Service Commissioner George R.

Lunn of Schenectady and Charles R. Vanneman of Albany, chief engineer of the commission. "Render Unto Caesar That Which Is Caesar's" That she believes in giving when credit is due is a principle which is followed by Mrs. C. Yerrow, 164 75th st.

This lady has just rented the house she advertised in the classified section of The Eagle. "I wish very much," said Mrs. Yerrow, "to give Eagle credit, for it was through it that I was successful." YOU, too, will quickly obtain a tenant for your vacant or apartment after YOU put an ad in The Eagle. Just seize the 'phone and call Main 6200 and ask for an ad-taker. DEATH TOLL OF 21 IN 85-MILE GALE; 500 HOUSES HIT Two Boro Men Drown Off -Devastation in Many States.

persons, five of them in and near New York City, are dead as the result of the 85-mile-an-hour hurricane that ravaged the Atlantic Coast States yesterday and last night, The storm is reported to have kicked up the worst sea in New York Harbor in 25 years. The property along the coast is inestimable. greatest damage, death toll 19 reported from Pike County, where the storm, traveling cyclonic force the Texas coastline, killed 16 persons, injured more than a score and destroyed many homes. 500 Houses Destroyed. The greatest property damage 18 reported to be in Woburn, where 500 houses were destroyed by the gale, and National Guard troops were called out to prevent looting.

Today the town began organized efforts to repair the devastation wrought by the wind and troops are continuing to patrol the littered streets. Injuries to persons and property damage were reported from Bayonne end elsewhere in New Jersey, Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania, and from towns in New York State and Massachusetts. The two-masted schooner Columbia saved by the Coast Guard Cutter Raritan while drifting down on the rocks of Governors Island after both her anchors been had torn away. 17 Rescued from Barges Adrift. Two women and 15 men were rescued by a Coast Guard patrol off Sandy Hook after drifting for hours in the high seas on a string of 12 empty barges which had been abandoned: In New York City, four persons lost their lives, scores narrowly escaped injury and houses were unroofed in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Many trees in Prospect and Central Parks were uprooted or snapped off near the ground, and. in many cases blocking paths driveways. Broken windows, trees and telephone and telegraph poles were reported from all boros. Flatbush and the Eastern District, in addition to other damage, reported a number of streets in a flood condition due to the rain that preceded the windstorm. Two Drowned OfP Rockaway.

Two men were drowned and their three companions had a narrow escape yesterday afternoon when the 30-foot motorboat in which they were returning from a fishing trip was caught in the storm off Rockaway l'oint. The men who lost their lives were Frank Dobeli, 45, of 3180 Bedford commodore of the Bergen Beach Yacht Club, and William C. Hambler, 50, of 2303 Avenue D. They set ut yesterday for Mill Basin on a fishing trip in Dobeli's boat Ruthie, 35 W. 98th Harry Johnson.

35, of accompanied by Harry a Frick, 40. of 101-14 109th Richmond Hill, and Otto Krauss. 45. of 79th st. and 3d Manhattan.

Thrown Out of Boat by Wave. For time Dobell managed to pilot his little craft through the choppy seas. Then when he almost exhausted. a 'huge wave struck it and tilted it to such A11 angle that the five men were thrown into the water. Krauss, who is an expert swimmer.

grabbed Frick and Johnson and helped them back into the boat. Then he looked for Dobell and Hambler but they had disappeared. The boat made Sheepshead Bay safely and Krauss returned to the spot off Rockaway P'oint in a police boat to make another search for the missing men. Expectant Mother Killed. In Manhattan an expectant mother, Mrs.

Lucille Day. 27. of W. 53d lost her life while trying to pull in clothesline loaded with garments. She was leaning out of 2, window in her apartment on the fourth floor when a violent gust of wind gave the line a tug that jerked her out the window and she fell to the court he below.

She was hurried, still alive, to the Roosevelt Hospital, where a Caesarean tion was performed. The child died soon after its mother. John Hamm, 20, of 446 W. 35th Manhattan, was asphyxiated yesterday afternoon when he took a nap in his home and left the gas burning. The wind swept in through an open window and extinguished the light.

Child Crushed to Death. Six-year-old Della Porter of Little Falls, N. was crushed to death when wall of a laundry collapsed under the strain of the wind in that town. The toppling wall broke electrie light and power lines and plunged Little Falls in darkness for hours. Station Roof Blown Off.

Many persons narrowly escaped serious injury during the height of the storm yesterday afternoon when a section of the roof of the Brooklyn Bridge elevated station at Sands and Washington 'sts. was blown off and hurled through the air into Washington where it landed on the trolley wires, tearing them down. halting the trolley service for more: than a half hour. The section of roofing, which was about 75 feet long and 20 feet wide. was hurled more than 50 feet into the air with a territic roar.

Pedestrians fled into doorways for shelter. Stops Car Just in Time. The mass of iron narrowly missed the roof of a DeKalb ave. trolley car in charge of Motorman Joseph Kelly of 214 54th st. Kelly saw the danger in time and succeeded in stopping car just as the 'roof landed in a twisted heap in the roadway.

Trolley service through Washington which affected the DeKalb Graham Park ave. and Myrtle ave. lines, was tied up for half hour, when the cars were rerouted through Fulton st. large part of the roof of a fivestory tenement house at 144 Willow The subject of Hirshfieldian ire today was Patrolman James Anderson, of the Hamilton ave. station.

who appeared against Giuseppi Ferrara, 31, of 350 Hamilton al'rested on Aug. last, after, it is alleged, he had confessed that he occupied a room in which Anderson found a loaded pistol. A. second man arrested by Anderson at the same time, following a shooting affray in front of the Hamilton ave. address, now is serving a sentence for violation of the Sullivan law imposed after his conviction in the Court of Sessions.

Anderson testified in the Fifth Avenue Court today that Ferrara, who does not. speak English, made his confession through an Italian-speaking policeman in the presence of a sergeant. "Is the Sergeant in court now?" demanded Hirshfield. "No. Your Honor," replied Anderson.

"Did you go to this man's room with him "No, I took his word when he admitted it was "What kind of police work do you call that?" asked the Court. "I am going to throw this case out," and out it went. PARK COUNCIL ASKS SPEEDY ACTION BY STATE ON L. I. SITES Report Describes Realty Boom Here as Equal to That in Florida.

Immediate action by the Legislature at its next session. if the State is to be able to purchase sites for the proposed park and parkways system on Long Island at reasonable figures, is urged in the annual report of the State Council of Parks, issued today, which compares the real estate activity on Long Island during recent months with that of Florida. "The last few months have seen extraordinary activity in shorefront sales and Long Island beach the report states. "The influence of Florida developments, increased building and other causes have influenced this activity. The Long Island State Park Commission has watched this activity carefully and is gathering information to show the vital necessity immediate action on the comprehensive Long Island plan." another part of the report it is pointed out that, because State only recently made, provisions for its park system, been forced to buy back at increased prices properties it had sold.

The council, which includes the chairmen of the 11 park districts in the State, declares that its activities for the next year will, be limited to planning because of the failure of its appropriation bill in the Legislature. Robert Moses, chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission, is president of the council. Storm Halts Cops' Trial; Lawyer Stranded at Sea The trial of William Truckenbrodt and Preston Roberts, policemen of the, Stagg st. precinct, on charges of robbery, scheduled to proceed today, was postponed until tomorrow by Justice Lewis In Supreme Court because their counsel, Howard Nash, was marooned on the steamer Commonwealth, which broke a propeller in midsea and had to put back to Boston. The cops are charged with aiding Sol Bernstein, Sol Krevat and another man known as "Nigger," in breaking into the Dvorkin Parlor Suit Co.

at 122 Graham ave. and, removing $5,000 worth of creton and other covering material. BORO MUSIC STUDENTS WIN SCHOLARSHIPS Six Brooklyn and Long Island students at the Juilliard Foundation, 49 E. 52d Manhattan, have been chosen in the group of 49 awarded tellowships in music to study at the graduate school of the institution. They are Thomas Burton of North College Point, Queens, and Marion Costello of 369 8th singers; Ida Bilfelt of 1231 Lincoln pianist: Moses Levene of 429 Howard violinist: Anna Drittel of 2132 73d 'cellist: and Amedeo De Filippi of 52 21st Jackson Heights, Queens.

Sam Wing 'No Savvy' as Court Passes the Death Sentence With his eyes almost completely hidden in his round, puffy face, Sam Wing, described as a gunman of the On Leong tong brought en from Chicago to take 111 arms against the Hip Sing tong, rubbed his hands nervously and turned his back on the Chinese interpreter when the latter read the sentence of imposed by Justice Lewis in Supreme Court today. Sam made such an earnest effort to disconnect himself from the court proceedings that Justice Lewis had the formal sentence written out, gave it to the interpreter and had him read it to 8am. Windstorm Blew Neighbor's Roof Into Willow St. Front-Door Yard The wind storm of yesterday tore house and carried it into a nearby gracefully over the ornamental front trance steps. st.

was torn off by the gale and blown across the street, where it landed on the fence in front of the home of Otis Carroll, at 157 Willow st. Splinters flew 50 feet away, but no one was Injured. Brick Walls Blown Over. At the height of the storm a wall of a three-: brick building in the course of construction at Ave. and W.

6th collapsed, most of the bricks tumbling on the porch roof of a frame house at 205 Ave. T. owned by Leopoldo Annunziato. Another building collapse was reported in Bayonne, N. where the roof and walls of a two-story frame dwelling being constructed at 171 W.

8th st. were thrown in a heap. Two families were made temporarily homeless when a powerful gust of wind lifted the entire roof of a two-story frame house, at 173 Isrighton New Brighton, S. I. Houses Swept Off Foundations.

Two houses being constructed in the Bronx were blown from their foundations and several persons were injured. A one-story frame house at 468 Lawrence ave. was blown 10 feet from its foundation. The other, at Patterson and Lawrence toppled into the cellar. A smokestack 24 inches across and weighing several tons fell into the street from the roof of the 5-story office building at 62 Leonard Manhattan.

No one was injured. The wind was so strong that it lifted 70-year-old Ellis of 15 Bowery from his feet and hurled him against a corner of the Woolworth Building. 'Ellis received lacerations and was attended by an ambulance surgeon. High Waves in Ferry Slips. Vor the first time, as far as can be learned, in the history of the New York waterfront the waves dashed into ferry slips and rose to the level of the bridges.

The sea wall at the Battery was beaten by heavy surf and from Staten Island the high surt could be seen breaking over the sea walls of Bay Ridge. The Spanish freighter Cabo Torres was swept away from its dock in the barge canal at the foot -of Columbia ave. and was carried out into the lower bay with her crew of 40 men. Two tugs came to her assistance and succeeded in nosing the vessel into the slip of the 39th st. ferry house.

Two scows were torn from their moorings off Red Hook flats but were recovered by the harbor police off 49th st. Incoming Lines Delayed. Incoming steamships arrived hours behind schedule and the North German Lloyd liner Columbus was two days late. Capt. Johnsen reported that because of heavy gales he had slowed his vessel down and made it easier for the passengers.

All other shipmasters agreed that, the storm was the worst they ever experienced at this time of the year. Twelve Barges Missing al Sea. The Coast Guard officials at Point Lookout, L. reported two barges beached, three sunk and three men rescued. They say that there were 12 other barges in the string which have not yet been accounted for.

and It is believed that several persons were aboard them. Search is being made for them today by Coast Guard patrols, police boats and volunteer craft. At Canarsie Landing a number of fishing smacks and other small craft were blown from their moorings and headed seaward. Many of their owners put out in other boats to recover them. Falling Tree Rings Fire Alarm.

In Brownsville and East New York window panes were shattered and a number of signs blown away from stores. A large tree at 18th ave. and 59th st. was toirn down. In falling it struck a Fire Department telephone wire causing an' alarm to be sent in.

The fire apparatus responded and the firemen removed the tree from its position across the road. Seven Big Liners Delayed. Old Adirondack Hostelry Burned During the Storm Seven transatlantic liners bound for this, port with a total ot 2.107 nassengers are delayed by the storm from one to three days, according to redio dispatches received from their captains to New York offices. No injuries have been reported, but che storm-bettered ships have been forced to reduce their speed. The rescue ship Presiden: Harding of the United States Lines.

which was expectel to dock last Friday with 28 Italian survivors from the foundering freighter Ignacia Flerio, expected 10 deck tomorrow with total of 207 passengers. The four line's due today but delaye.1 by the storm are expected dock as follows: White sP.r liner Celtic from Liverpool, with 485 pasgenzers, expected Wednesday: Cunard-Anchor liner Tuscania, from Glasgow. with 330 passengers, expected tomorrow: United American liner Mount Clav. from Hamburg. with 207 passengers, expected toI morrow: Roval Mail steam packet Orbita.

from Hamburg, with 016 passengers, expected tomorrow: the Red Star liner Lapland. from Antwerp, with 333 prasengers, due last Saturday, is expected tomorrow: the Cunard liner Scythia, from pool and Queenstown via Boston. with 229 passengers, due today, expected Wednesday. Elizabethtown, N. Oct.

24 (A). Travelers who made their way over tree-blocked roads into this village today said that Hunter's hotne, one of the oldest hostelries in the Adirondack Mountain section. WaS burned to. the ground during the severe windstorm cf last night. The hotel which had been a wayside Inn since before the Civil War, days and probably dated back 1830, was located six miles Mouth of here.

Details are lacking because wire com1 munication has been cut off. BORO BANDITS RUN RIOT. GET $3,770 IN 6 SUNDAY JOBS Card Players Robbed, Stripped Man Blackjacked, Other Mauled. The Eastern District had a crime wave all its own last night. Burglars entered the loft building at 425 S.

5th st. and looted the clothing factory of Frank Meyerhoff of suits and overcoats worth $3,500, which they hauled away in a truck. Yeggmen got into the cellar of the four -story building at 403 Broadway and cut a hole through the floor to the novelty factory of Tobias Berg. They ripped the door off a sate which contained over $4,000 and were drilling holes in the inner door when they were frightened away, leaving behind them their tools. At 2 o'clock this morning Vincenzo Demeri was held up in his garage at 245 N.

8th st. by two gunmen. One took $20 in cash and a gold watch worth $150 from him, while the other took from the cash register. Blackjacked, He Beats Bandit. At 1 o'clock John Schultz of 56 Grand st.

was blackjacked and knoked down by a thug at Grand and Berry sts. He fought off his assailant. however, and saved $80 he had in his pokets. Daniel Puputo of 205 N. 8th st.

ie in Greenpoint Hospital with three broken ribs as a result of an attuck upon him by two men at N. 12th st. and Bedford ave, The men were about to go through his pockets his yells brought Patrolman James Broderick of the Bedford ave. station and the thugs fled. Bandits Rob, Strip Victims.

The boro hall section was the scene of another holdup early this morning. Three armed bandits entered an apartment on the second floor of the Washington Arms Apartments at 302 Washington where 12 men were playing cards and robbed them of cash and Jewelry totaling $500. After robbing their victims the bandits forced all 12 men to strip off their clothing so they could not pur. sue them. Only one of the men reported the robbery to the police.

He was David Klein, living at the American Hotel, in Manhattan. VIe lost $100 in cash and a diamond stick pin. OBITUARY NOTES MRS. ZELMIRA MELLINA of 7006 Perry Terrace died on Saturday. She WaS born In Italy and is survived by four daughters; three sons and a sister.

A mass of requiem will be said in Our Lady of Angela R. C. Church tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock and interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. MRS. MARY MACMILLAN REM- SEN, wife of James F.

Remsen, died on Saturday At her home, 802 St. John's after an illness of three weeks. She was born in Manhattan and came to Brooklyn AR An infant. She was a member of Embury M. E.

Church and the Florence Nightingale Club and Ladies Aid Society of that church. She la survived by her husband; a daughter, MrA. Willard R. Henderson of Leominster. a son, Leonard M.

Reman; a brother, the Rev. James A. Macmillan of Naugatuck, and a sister. Miss J. E.

Macmillan. Funeral services will be held tonight at o'clock, the Rev. C. C. Colle officiating, with interment on Tuesday In Cypress Hills Cemetery.

EBBETS EXECUTORS ASK COURT'S ACTION ON FLORIDA ESTATE (Special to The Eagle.) Clearwater, Oct. 26--Executors the estate of the late Chari-4 H. Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn National Baseball Club. have begun in the Circuit Court here a suit for a construction of the bets will, disposing of real and personal property estimated at mort than $1.000.000. The application for the construetion has been made by Mrs.

Grace Slade Ebbets, the widow: Joseph A Gilleaudeau. a son-in-law, and the Mechanics Bank of Brooklyn. The suit is brought against the other legatees. The citations issued in the are returnable Nov. 5.

Attorneys Here Secretive, Considerable secrecy attended the announcement here today the tion in the Florida courts regarding the Ebbets will. At the offices of Gray Tomlin, attorneys for the estate, it was learned that the construction concerns the disposition of Florida property' belonging to the deceased. Further than that they decline to discuss the case. The Mrs. Ebbets the use of the "Ebbels place at Clearwater for three years.

Since the other Florida holdings are not disposed of in specific bequests, it is understood they form a part of the residuary estate, which is held in trust for Mrs. Ebbets, Genevieve Gilleaudeau, Martha Romayne Ebbets, Anna Marie Ebbets Booth, and a number of grandchildren. Too Much Per Cent Means Too Much Perhaps Big interest rates and big risks go together-too many people think that an extra or is "found money" whereas they are really risking their principal to get it -because a high interest rate means an inflated loan and a deflated equity-toomuch mortgage and not enough margin of safety -The Prudence Company, for example, could pay more than if it would take chances -but it isn't that kind of a Company and it doesn't sell that kind of a Bond. A Prudence-Bond, backed by conservative first mortgage loans, on sound income-earning properties, and guaranteed as to interest and principal by own capital, surplus and reserves of over $3,500,000, is a Bond that you can buy with a sense of safety that no higher rate of interest can ever give! Mail Coupon for Booklet OFFICES OPEN MONDAYS UNTIL 9 P.M. The PRUDENCE THE PRUDENCE COMPANY, Inc.

COMPANY, Bklyn. Inc. 162 Remsen Under Supervision of N. Y. State Banking Dept, Gentlemen: 331 Madison at 43rd New York Without obligation on my part please send booklet "Prudence 162 Remsen Brooklyn Bonds Provide the Guarantee the Demands." 1-770 Prudence Coprriche, 1928, The Prudence Co.

Ine. Name Address wwwwww. the metal roof from a Willow st. door yard, dropping it somewhat uniron fence and the railing of the en- ST. ANN'S PROTESTS CHOICE OF RECTOR TO FILL BISHOPRIC Mass Meeting Called in Effort to Keep the Rev.

F. W. Creighton Here. The Rev. Frank rector of St.

Ann's on the Heights, House of Bishops at the General Convention in New Orleans to be missionary bishop of Mexico, with residence 1 in Mexico City. He has not vet accepted. A mass meeting of the congregation will be held in St. Ann's parish hall, Clinton and Livingston tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock to "protest to the rector personally against his removal from the W. Creighton.

Episcopal Church The was elected by the The Rev. F. W. Creighion. rectorship of St.

Ann's Church a time when his services are so urgently required in the midst of 8 great and growing community," The call for the mass meeting is signed by the members of the vestry a special committee of the organizations of St. Ann's parish. Mr. Creighton was called to St. Ann's Church from St.

Andrew's Episcopal Church in Albany, N. and accepted and took charge in Brooklyn on A April 15, 1923. He succeeded the Rev. Dr. G.

Ashton Oldham, now coadjutor bishop of the ENRIGHT'S VACATION. Denying a rumor that he intends to take an extended European vacation trip in the near future, Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright today said he will take his annual vacation soon after Election Day, but has not yet formulated any plans as to how it will be spent. 11 KILLED, 13 HURT AS COUP CAPTURES A PITA Managua, Oct. 26 (AP) ---By a coup d'etat carried out in the early morning hours of Sunday, Gen.

Emiliano Chamorro, without opposition, captured the fortress of La Loma. and at last accounts was in control of the capital. The movement of General Chamotro was made in protest against inclusion of Liberals in the Cabinet Solorzano, to which is the adherents long Conservative had objected. The tropos of the garrison joined in the coup. There was considerable fighting throughout Sunday, in which the troops attacked the constabulary, commanded by the American Major Carter.

Eleven were killed and 13 wounded in the fighting. SUICIDE CAUTIONED MEN TO WED EARLY George Laxter, A bachelor, 50 years old. of Forest Hills, committed suicide yesterday, leaving note indicating his life was a failure be. cause he never married. Two neighbors, Otis Dodge and Joseph Milne, who had gone to visit Baxter at his home at Austin and Quality failed to find him 011 the ground Poor.

They went to the basement, where they found Baxter dead, seated in a rocking chair be. side a small table, on which stood an empty glass and paper containing a white powder. A note on the table attracted their attention. It was addressed in Baxter's handwriting to his brother Raymond, Madison Jamaica. "My health is gone." the note read.

"There is no use to live, and I want to gO, too. "My advice to all young men is to get married early and settle down. Don't go gallivanting around and lose your health. George." The Queers police also recorded yesterday the suicide of Mrs. Catherine Neezvehy, 38, who had lived with her husband.

Andrew, and two children at 84 Hull Maspeth. Yesterday Dominic Nacones of Maspeth. hunting mushrooms in the woods at Maurice ave, and Rowan opposite Mount Zion Cemetery, found her body in a ciump of bushes. REFEREES APPOINTED. BY MAY.

J. Seashore Co. Nixon, Vincent A. O'Connor. Matter of Lauria.

Arthur Burchell, Leemor Realty Corp. VA. Firma Really Corp. VA Plaut, Samuel Duberstein. Skiein, va.

Ricker Greenberg Realty Corp. Sherk. Schneider VA, Lesenthal. Leonard M. Snedeker.

Gross vs. Stapler. William 8. Overend. City N.

Y. Skolkin, Daniel K. Miller. Steiner VA. Steiner.

Harry J. Rosenson. Kern Pelkan Realty No. Willian A. Moller.

Kern VA. Felkan Realty No. 2, Wallace Dreyfuss. CLAIM EX-CONVICTS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN 23D A. D.

FRAUD Process servers went into the 230 A. D. today at the direction of Special Deputy Attorney General Grover M. Moscowitz, in charge of election law violations in connection with registration and voting. The 23d A.

D. is the district of Hyman Shorenstein, Democrat, and Walter D. Ludden, Republican. Reports have reached Moscowitz to the effect that ex-convicts and others who had no right to register did so in the 23d A. D.

Moscowitz has asked County Clerk William E. Kelly and local court officials for a list of all the ex-convicts in Brooklyn. To Make Complete Checkup. He has called for the registration books in the 23d A. D.

and will make a complete checkup of all the names contained therein. According to information in. Moscowitz's possession, Chester st. was a popular address with many who registered in the 23d A. D.

without being qualitied to register. A hearing will be held tomorrow morning at Moscowitz's office, 189 Montague st. AUDITORE IS GIVEN A CHANCE IN COURT Frank Auditore, who spent six months in Raymond Street Jail, was 111 a fair way to going back for another stretch today, but in view of the fact that his lawyer, John B. Johnston, alone to blame for his non-appearance as a witness to he examined before trial, Justice Cropsey in Supreme Court decided that Frank, although guilty of contempt, could purge himself by comEng to court and answering queslions. This suit in which Frank is wanted for questioning is by Marcus M.

Cullough, trustee in bankruptcy of Frank Auditore, and is directed against Mrs. Anditore. Frank's former wife, who divorced him some time ago, to recover some choice Manhattan Beach real estate and $100,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. STABBED IN A QUARREL. Francisco De Arayo, 24, of 21 Union was stabbed in the left arm during an altercation oVer money matters with Oscar De Abrese of the same address in front of Union last night.

De Arayo was removed to the Long Island College Hospital, where he refused to make a complaint against De Abrese. Two Policemen Put on Trial For Not Foiling Safe Robbery A safe was stolen by burglars from a chain grocery store at Torrey ave. and Northern bivd, in Queensboro, early on the morning of Oct. 3. The box weighed 800 pounds and contained about $200.

Soon afterward 000 it was found, rifled and abandoned. about two miles from the scene of the burglary, Today two patrolmen of the Flushing precinct were put on trial before First Deputy Commissioner Leach. charged with failing to preyent, discover or report the burglary, The accused are George Ferguson and Thomas' E. Roden. They argued they could not help themselves, for they were exceedingly busy.

George Ferguson, tall young man of sturdy build, said that on the evening of the robbery he was doing motorcycle patrol. had half the precinct to cover, from 20 to 25 miles," he explained, "and the only time I had a chance to look at the store there were no burglars there, bor was there any indication that they had been." "Part of that night." said Patrolman Roden. "I was covering the entire precinct- the only man out. The precinct includes from 44. to 45 square miles, and patroled that part of Little Neck that is in the City of New York.

Douglastown, Bayside and Flushing. I tried the door of that grocery store, but I did not have a chance to get back to it during my tour." Judge Leach reserved decision. To Be Wealthy and Wise Go Early to Bed And Early to Advertise MoralPhone Your Sunday Eagle Ads Before Saturday Noon -Phone Main 6200 9 MEN, 8 WOMEN SEIZED AS ACTORS IN WILD RUM ORGY In a spectacular raid staged at 3 o'clock yesterday morning a dozen police of the Special Service Division closed in upon the house of Robert Smith at 2624 E. 26th Sheepshead Bay, interrupted what one detective called a "Bacchanalian revel' and loaded 17 prisoners--nine men and eight women--into three patrol wagons. Detectvies Patrick Walsh and John F.

Healey led the raid. At a given signal half the squad rushed the house, which was a blaze of lights and a babel of noise, while the 'other half guarded the exits. The men women, them young girls, were distributed throughout the house, which is large two-family structure, and nearly all members of the party had liquor in front of them, according to the police. All submitted quietly to arrest with the exception of one, who is alleged to have struck Detective Walsh over the shoulder with a crowbar. Many Others Seized.

In addition to Smith, the prisone." were: Frank Ahearn, 3001 Ocean Frank Brunner, 10 Hamilton Court, Sheepshead Bay; Albert Kerwin, 2531 Humphreys William Cunliffe, 45 Stryker Frank Keeley, 1735 E. 14th his brother, Fred Keeley, same address, and Albert Miller, 377 Argyle all charged with disorderly conduct. Gladys Nolan, 17. of 345 87th Grace Miller, wife Albert Miller; Anna McCann, 22, 7516 3d of and Elizabeth Clark, 22, of W. 33d st, and Canal Coney Island.

also charged with disorderly conduct. Katherine Rosille, 20, who gave Smith's home as her address; Helen Hadley, 19, of 1237 E. 24th May Ryan, 21, of 311 8th and Dorothy Ackerman. 19, of 520 75th all charged with vagrancy. prisoner accused of attacking Detective Walsh was Austin Gload, 1136 E.

35th a builder. He wag held in $1,500 bail for examination Wednesday when arraigned today in Coney Island Court. Charged With Maintaining Nuisance. Smith was charged with maintaining a publie nuisance and violation of the Volstead Act. He was paroled on the first charge to permit his arraignment in Federal Court today.

The eight men charged with disorconduct pleaded guilty in Coney Island Court and were fined deny $1 each. The four young women, hooked under the same charge. pleaded not guilty and were paroled until Wednesday. The four women charged with vagrancy pleaded not guilty and were held under $100 bail each for examination Wednesday. Recently the Sheepshead Bay Board of Trade complained there were a number of houses of illrepute in the neighborhood and when the police failed to act the board threatened to carry the matter to the Police Commissioner and to Mayor Hylan if necessary.

Let the Tower Be Your Guide Vans with white enameled, electrically lighted interiors take your furniture to clean dry vaults--superlative service, superior protection. Long Island Storage Warehouses Nostrand and Gates Brooklyn Phone -Lafayette 3100 Whether Sam understood that the sentence of the court is that he be put to death in the electric chair in the week beginning Dec. 14 1s a mystery. He remained rooted to the spot before the rail when the brief formalities were over until Big Jim Shortell, deputy sheriff, pushed him gently from the courtroom. Sam '19 the first Chinese.

in the memory of the oldest court attache, to be sentenced to death in this county. He was convicted of first degree murder by a jury last week for shooting to death Tom Wong. a Hip Sing tong man, in the latter's laundry on Albany near Atthe night of Sept. 2. lantic on.

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