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THE WEATHER 5, Weather No Temperature MORNING: TONIGHT 12 WARMER AND "richerpow Year ago Mean average 10 years same Complete Report on Page 2 BROOKLYN 92d YEAR-No. 31 OFFICE ENTERED AS AT 2D THE CLASS BROOKLYN MAIL MATTER POST- NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1933 30 PAGES THREE CENTS NEW BORO TUBE TRAFFIC IS LIGHT Averages 125 Passengers for First 3 Hours Business Rush, Then Drops Wall St. Link, However, Shows Gain -Improvement Seen Traffic was light today on the new Brooklyn spur of the city's Independent Subway System which opened at 6:12 o'clock this morning. The express service running on 3-minute headway out of the new Jay St. Borough Hall station during the rush period averaged barely passengers per hour during the first three hours of the a day.

Travel after that dropped off still more as the riding to business ceased. This was not unexpected since the opening of any new service is always lighter than it will average later, because the Brooklyn public changes its riding habits slowly. Officials of the Board of Transportation who are operating the line as the Board of Estimate's agent said that the people had not yet learned the convenience of the route and how it might serve them. Until they are educated to this it was not expected that the Brooklyn station would do a big business. Heavier Traffic to 'Street' However, the predictions of the Board of Transportation that extension of the 8th Ave.

trunk across hattanancith the district of added lower stop Man- at Nassau would heavily increase the riding on the Manhattan trunk were fulfilled. The trains coming south from 207th which formerly dumped all their loads at Chambers this morning carried a large proportion to the new station in the Wall Street zone. Also the traffic on the trains from the north was much heavier than it has averaged heretofore. Board of Transportation officials declared this proved their contention that a large part of the line's potential passengers in the north of the island desires to reach Wall Street and would not be satisfied so long as they were dumped out on the west side of the town at Chambers extent in figures to which service had inStineThe creased the patronage of the line could not be ascertained today, but Board of Transportation said. at figures would be available tobrrow when the count of today's ravel would be tabulated and comared with past Wednesdays.

Woman Drops First Fare Mrs. Borden Chase, of the St. George Hotel, wife of one of the engineers who worked on the new $30,000,000 subway spur into Brooklyn, opened the new service today from Jay St. Borough Hall station by dropping her nickel into the turnstile. About a dozen persons, including Mrs.

Chase and her husband, were on hand at the station at Fulton Please Turn to Page 3 January Near Warm Record The Weather Bureau calculated its calculations today and foundwhat your ordinary citizen had suspected all along--that the month of January, which ended at midnight, was fairly warm as Januaries go. The average temperature was 40.4, or degrees above the normal for the month. Only one January on the bureau's records had higher average. That was a year ago, when the average was 42.8. The January rain and snow amounted to 1.53 inches as against a normal of 3.66.

The highest single temperature, was on 62 New on Years the 23d Day. and As to the weather for the next six weks, Forecaster James H. Scarr said he didn't know what it would be but, he suggested maybe the groundhog would tell tomorrow, which, is Groundhog Day. Otto H. Kahn's Son, Gilbert, Weds Again Gilbert W.

Kahn, son of Otto H. and Miss Sara Jane Heliker married this afternoon by at Justice Edgar J. Lauer of (nicipal Court, according to a dent issued from Kuhn, Loeb of which firm young Kahn a member. The marriage is Kahn's second, his first wife having been the former Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, head of the United Cigar Stores.

THE EAGLE INDEX Page Books 24 Bridge 10 Classified Ads 24-26 Death Notices 15 Dr. Brady, Dr. Cadman, 14 Eagle Home Guild 11 Eagle Readers' Private Exchange 25 Editorial 18 Financial 27.29 Junior Air 22 Lost and Found, Novel, Comics 27 Radio 24 Ship News 15 Society 19 Sports 20-22 Theaters, Art 13 Woman's Page, Helen 10 DAILY EAGLE is she be stay 3d is Trial 17. for Charlie next by today writes gives th re Hitler by the but 100 It Hel Page bout 111 advance In develop status. 1 seer- Cien Hit- per- eX- our tor al- of WALL STRE 31 First Passenger at Station Mrs.

Borden Chase of the Hotel St. George dropping nickel in turnstile as the first passenger the Jay Hall station when the city's. Independent Subway System opened service to Brooklyn this morning. Behind her, awaiting their turn at the gate, are (left to right): Samuel Adler, 337 Stuyvesant and Joseph F. Badman, vice president of the Erickson EquipCompany, the concern which has just finished installing the track bonding and ventilation equipment on the new line.

Hoover in a Pique At War Debt Deals Might as Well Be Private Citizen, With Government Policies Being Promulgated at Warm Springs, He Thinks-Precedent Set By HENRY SUYDAM Washington, Feb. 1-The attempt to regnum, between the retiring and the tions in the realm of foreign affairs, is strains, both official and personal. There U.S. Steel Off 5 Points: Other Stocks Down StandardOilof N.J.Takes 4-Point Slump- -New York City BondsStrong Financial Changes Stocks opened 1 to 4 points down on U. S.

Steel's cut in its preferred dividend. The losses were later extended. Standard Oil of New Jersey omitted its usual extra dividend. Stock 71010 on a $1 a year basis, against $2 since 1929. Canadian dollars broke cents to cents.

Drug, reduced dividend rate from $4 to $3 a year. New York City 'bonds continued strong. Baltimore Ohio announced closing until Feb. 15 of all shops throughout its system and indefinite curtailment of clerical forces. Financial markets had much bad news to contend with today and broke sharply under its influence.

U. S. Steel preferred, hit by the reduction in its dividend, broke more than 5 points. Standard Oil of New Jersey slumped 4 points after directors decided to omit the usual extra dividend. Leading dividend-paying stocks were naturally depressed as fears for their ments gained ground.

Losses ally ran to about 2 points. Rails, while lower, were in better demand than industrials and utilities. For a time, in midmorning, leading rail shares gained up to 2 points. In the subsequent selling, Please Turn to Page 27 CLOSING PRICES Chamberlain Bans Swap at Debt Parley Britain Can't Return to Gold Base Now, Declares Chancellor London, Feb. 1 (P)- Great Britain does not look upon the approaching debt conference at Washington as a "great swapping deal," Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared today at a luncheon of American newspaper correspondents.

Neither can England "contemplate with equanimity return to the gold standard until we are certain that will work better than it did just we left it." he said. before, Britain believes in a stable international standard of value, but there are many condtions fulfilled before she returns to gold." Lauds Roosevelt Action He enumerated some of those conditions: First, settlement of the war debts problem; second, lowering of trade barriers; modification of the maldistributon of gold, and, fourth, settlement of disturbing world political problems or progress toward their solution. Frankly and candidly the Chancellor answered questions when he had finished speech. At no time did he place treate emphasis upon the meeting held at Washington next month. Recovery of confidence by the nations and the people is the key to the solution of most of the world's problems, he declared, adding that the best, thing yet done was Mr.

Roosevelt's invitation to Please Turn to Page 2 Bitz Indicted For Gun-Toting Free in Killing Spitale Also Cleared in Slaying Rebuked for Chewing in Court Irving Bitz, who was discharged with Salvatore Spitale on a charge of suspicion of homicide in Matthattan Homicide Court today, was indicted by the grand jury this afternoon for possessing a revolver as a felony. Bitz was previously convicted of violating the Harrison Act, which is a felony. Had Deteetive's Gun Detective Fitzsimmons and Lieutenant Hanley of the Elizabeth St. station told Assistant District Attorney Panger before they went into the grand jury room that when they found the detective's special revolver on Bitz at the time of the arrest, Bitz explained that had "found the gun in the maid dle of the Atlantic Ocean." The police records on Bitz showed seven arrests since 1922 with a possessing narcotics conviction in the Federal Court in 1926, for which he received a sentence of a year and a day in the Atlanta Penitentiary. Bitz can receive a maximum sentence of 14 years as a second offender.

Before the indictment was found a representative of Caesar Barra, counsel for Bitz, asked Judge Please Turn to Page 2 Van Namee Renamed For Post on P.S.C. Albany, Feb. 1 (AP) -George Namee, friend and aide Governor Smith, today nominated by Governor a member of the Public Commission, a post Van held since 1923. The expected to approve. Corliss Hospital HITLER OBTAINS DECREE TO DISSOLVE REICHSTAG BudgetHearing Is Seen Likely By Wednesday Director Submits Time Table to Mayor for Action by City Boards Mayor O'Brien today made public a tentative "time table" on the aisposition of his budget reduction proposals.

When he was asked today when he expected to hold a public hearing he sent for Col. Paul Loser, chief assistant to Charles L. Kohler, director of the budget, who said that he expected to have 50 copies from the printers not later than next Monday afternoon. The Mayor then pointed out that on Tuesday the Board of Estimate, sitting as a -theWhole. will set Wednesday for a public hearing.

This is not expected to take more than a few hours, and adoption the budget by the late afternoon. board undoubtedly, will take place Corporation Counsel Hilly declared that the board must act not later than Thursday in order that the Board of Aldermen be given opportunity to act by Feb. 10. When the Mayor was asked today if he had received any reaction to his observation yesterday that a commuters' tax now appears likely, he said he had not. abiot course discussion there as will to be the consider- legality Please Turn to Page 8 Willingdon Hopeful Of Indian Situation New Delihi, India, Feb.

1 (P) -A hopeful view of India's situation was expressed by the Viceroy, the Earl in a speech bethe legislative assembly today, who said there had been a satisfactory change in the political outlook and a growth of confidence N. J. Policeman Shoots Boy, 15 Newark, Feb. 1-Vincent de Matteo, 15, of 259 N. 10th Newark, shot in the groin late last night by a Bloomfield policeman who mistook the boy and four companions for bandits, was reported in serious condition at the City Hospital here today.

The boy was shot by Patrolman Carl Lindsay as he tried to capture him and his companions as they from a stolen car a which had stalled at Arlington Ave. and the Lackawanna Railroad bridge, according to the police. With the de Matteo boy were James and Palmieri, 15 and 13, respectively, 249 N. 10th Rocco, Arthur del Vescovo, 15, of 268 N. 10th and John Maiorano, 15, of 543 N.

11th all Newark. New York police say the boys stole the automobile of John Malagesta of New York, who had parked it in front of 464 N. 11th Newark, where he was visiting. Tariff Raised On Footwear Washington, Feb. 1 (P) -President a Hoover today signed a proclamation increasing the footwear The increases will apply to fabric uppers, -soled footwear and boots, shoes and other footwear consisting wholly or chiefly of rubber.

Palmer Ill in San With 'Chronic 'Fights, Bites and Kicks' IN HOSPITAL Police Who Seize Her IN HOSPITAL Corliss Palmer both addresses, at 1205 N. Tamarind Drive and 2170 Hollyridge Ave. The Guns Couldn't Scare Her Miss Grace L. Putnam, holding Petey, pet cat. At right is her -in-law, Frank E.

Mills. Kinof 'Old Put' 'Chases Gunmen; Tomcat Aids If It Hadn't Been for Miss Grace Putnam Says, Situation Would Have Been Different -She Faces Guns Bravely Miss Grace L. Putnam of 556 credit to her 7-year-old 19-pound off two armed bandits who last of her brother-in-law, Frank E. Willoughby, with intent. Praised for his more or less heroic achievement, Petey purred his satisfaction without being aware that he had done anything in particular, Petey's share in the adventure consisted of hiding himself somewhere in the office of the drugstore when Miss Putnam called for him.

Getting no response from him, Miss Putnam went to look for It was while she was returning with Petey in her arms that the gunmen entered. Kin of 'Old Put' It was the fifth time the drugstore had been entered in the past 11 years, and Miss Putnam, a member of the family of Gen. Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame, was tired of it. Stopping behind the prescription counter, she faced the drawn revolvers, declined to raise her hands as ordered and told them, she said today, "to get out of here, you devils!" Mr. Mills was, at the same time, in the prescription room with no suspicion that the drug-store was being held up.

As he stepped out of the prescription room, he caught sight of a gleaming revolver and ducked back to telephone for help. One of the gunmen saw him but not soon enough to fire at him, if he had any such intention. At any rate, the knowledge that there was a man in the place, who probably could call the police by telephone, scared the gunmen off, and they fled. "If it had not been for Petey," Please Turn to Page 2 Francisco Alcoholism' Film Beauty's Romance With Ex-Boro Pub- lisher Recalled name "Edith Mason" was used by Miss Palmer in an attempted screen comeback, recently, been in San Francisco several seeking weeks" A position as a hotel hostess. Spectacular Romance Corliss Palmer's newest difficulties recall the most turbulent and spectacular romance witnessed in Brooklyn in the post-war period.

It began one day in 1921, when Eugene Brewster, millionaire magazine publisher, picked up a batch of photographs submitted in a beauty contest his periodical was conducting for the movies. From the number he selected one of an alluring blonde. He telegraphed. Corliss, born in the humble Georgia hill country, chucked her cigar counter position in an Atlanta hotel and came to Brooklyn in search of fame. She not only won the beauty contest, but she won Brewster, too, and the publisher shortly installed her in his Roslyn, Please Turn to Page 3 New Elections Forecast for March Following Move by Chancellor to Secure Centrist Support for House RuleDebt Plan Unchanged EAGLE Greene Ave.

today gave full tomcat, Petey, for driving night called at the drug store Mills, at 602 Marcy near Eli H. Bishop, Pioneer Auto Dealer, Dies Founded Firm Here in 1905-Poor Boy When HeCame FromEngland Eli H. Bishop, pioneer automobile dealer of Brooklyn, builder and insurance man, died at his home in Rockville Centre at 5:30 p.m. yesterday, it was announced today, after an alliness of about ten days. He was in his 85th year.

Mr. Bishop was president of the automobile concern of Bishop, McCormick Bishop, with offices at 1221 Bedford which he founded in 1905. He was also head of Eli H. Bishop, automobile surance, which he also founded. Born in England in 1848, he came to the United States a young man of 21, while this country was struggling to get out of the post- Civil War depression.

He was alone and without friends or connections here and his entire material assets were said to consist of one English sovereign in his pocket. His First Job Here The first work he obtained in teds country was that of erecting a cornice on the roof of Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church at" Classon Ave, and Monroe St. He branched out from that aS a carpenter, contractor, wholesale hardware merchant and wholesale grocer. He then went into the building field, Please Turn to Page 15 'Spite Fence' Stay Granted That corrugated iron fence that rises to a distance of 15 feet and 9 inches and blankets the lower windows of Mrs. Sarah Weinstein's two-family house at 787 E.

3d will not come down--at least not for some time. Justice Adel in Brooklyn Su- preme Court, who several weeks ago decreed the fence should removed, today granted a 60-day to Miss Betty Weisser of 791 E. on whose property the alleged "spite fence" erected. so can appeal to the Appellate Division. Bud Weisser, her brother, who also her attorney, came before Justice Adel today with a plea that he be allowed to retain 10 feet of the fence.

Justice Adel made it clear that the injunction he granted required complete demolition of the fence. Berlin, Feb. 1 (AP) cellor Adolf Hitler obtained from President von Hindenburg today a decree for dissolution of the Reichstag scheduled to meet next Tuesday. This means A new election, the sixth in 11 months. Hitler is confident of victory.

Chancellor Hitler had scheduled a special cabinet meeting for 7 o'clock. It was expected that he would be able to present a decree of dissolution signed by President Von Hindenburg. There was considerable speculation as to the reason which would be officially assigned for the dissolution. This afternoon the Chancellor's advisors conferred with leaders of the Centrist party on which the government depends a majority in the Reichstag. but the discussion brough no resuls for he governmen 1 failed 0 answer quesions by he Cenriss regrdaing certain of its policies.

The President is particularly anxious to have his new government supported in the Reichstag, ler's National Socialist party though it is numerically the in Parliament, must have port of the Centrists for a The government, since came its head, has been angling that support to insure the passage of an enabling act which will guarantee the Cabinet six months in office without fear of being overthrown. Prospects for success were not bright and dissolution seemed A certainty. In that event a new election, which the Constitution stipulates must be held within 60 days after dissolution, probably will be held on March 5. EAGLE Eagle Bureau. Colorado Building.

bridge the interincoming Administraproducing some serious will be relief on all sides when March 4 puts an end to an unprecedented situation, which was exposed at its barest when the British Ambassador went to Warm Springs to confer with the President-elect. This meeting brought the President-elect for the first time into direct touch with the representative of a foreign government without the presence of participation of a single officer of the existing administration. It emphasized the that President Hoover is on the outside so far as an debt emphasis negotiations which, from appearances, was most disconcerned tasteful to the principal victim. You might put the present position thus: that Herbert Hoover is President of the United States but might as well be a private citizen, and that Franklin D. Roosevelt is a private citizen but might as well be President of the United States.

The official debt policies are being formulated not in the White House, but at Warm Springs. When the British Ambassador was called home to advise his Govern- Please Turn to Page 8 Burglars at Work While Chief Is Away Hempstead, Feb. 1-Apparently aware that Chief of Police Phineas Seaman, who lives across the street, had departed with his family on a vacation, burglars last night broke into and ransacked the home of Philip S. T. Randolph, Nassau sportsman, now with his family at Pinehurst, N.

C. Havana Results FIRST RACE Chief's Warrior, 110 (J. )Mattioli), 3--1, 1--1, 1- -2, first; Monkey Shine, 110 (G. Moore), 1-3 6, second: Tortway, 107 (G. Pruchniki).

1 third. 1:12 2-5, Preferred, Vestah Clark, Gabrielle, Hamhocks and Chummy also ran. Hialeah Results FIRST RACE- 105 (S. $6.90, $3.10, $2.70, Arst: Bannach Lath, 105 (C. Kurtsinger), $3.10, $2.50.

second: Flag Maiden, 112 (B. Hanford), $3.90, third. Time, 1:12 3-5. Comes June, Mumn. Mammys Smoke Cloud, Classy Tiny Helen, Wrack, Feda- Bran Girl, Dodiodo, Are and Escobamel also ran.

SECOND RACE -Big Dipper, Arst; GoNO forth, second; Shilly Shally, third. To Develop Army There was an indicat proclamation to the army eral von Blomberg, new Minster Defense, that he intends to the army beyond its present "In the not distant fut: pect to make the army the cent guarantor of national ity," the proclamation read cluded also a promise "to all efforts intended to make people capable of defending the.n selves." The general expressed his intention of keeping the army out of partisan politics. These things are in line with the policies of Gen. Please Turn to Page 2 Price Repudiates Confession: Grand Jury Indicts Him of former was reLehman as Service Namee has Senate was in Room San Francisco, Feb. 1 -Booked as Corliss Palmer, an attractive, blond young woman was receiving treatment at the San Francisco Detention Hospital today.

She was entered on hospital records for treatment for chronic alcoholism. The young woman, who registered at the Palace Hotel here several days as Edith Mason of Pasadena, was removed from her room by police, who said they were called after a physician advised she be taken to a hospital. Hysterical and struggling, the young woman was taken from her hotel only after police had placed her wrists in leather handcuffs. At the hospital, said Dr. C.

Geiger, city health officer, she became vio- lent, struck a nurse and attempted to strike him. In the woman's effects police found letters addressed to Corliss Palmer. They said they also found two automobile drivers' licenses bearing the name Corliss Palmer, and two Hollywood addresses. She is listed as having occupied R. Van Lloyd Price, Negro, accused of murdering 6-year-old Helen Sterler, of 1003 DeKalb came before Justice May in Brooklyn Supreme Court today on a writ of habeas corpus.

letter from Price was shown to Justice May. It read: "They hit me wit a rober hose. Bat the shins and kep my coad on so the scars would be hid. LLOYD OSCAR PRICE. He claimed that the confession 1 he made to the police and district attorney was prompted by blows, kicks, beatings and assaults, and asked that a physician be allowed to examine him and that photographs be made of the welts and bruises which he claims police made to extract that confession.

Justice May dismissed the proceeding, telling the lawyers that such an application would have to be made by motion in another part of court. The lawyers hastened away to draw up the required papers, Price was indicted on a first degree murder charge the Kings county grand jury and raigned before County Judge Nova. was set Monday, On the Inside JOHN ERSKINE discusses Adolf Hitler and mustache, with his word about Cha, Page Arthur Pollock pressions of "Evensong' 13, Angelo Patri child sweethearts; Page Some more about reign of Mrs. Oliver H. mont; Page 17..