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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932 LI. 21 News Events and Feature Stories From Communities in Queens and Nassau Ml ABANDON OLD STATION AS GRADE BAN STARTS Each Year Means New Complex Problems Facing LA. Farmers Diets, New Recipes and Price Fluctuations Are Important Home Economic Factors in Controlling Potato Supply and Demand The sixth in a series on Long Island jarms By CHARLES S. LEWIS It's the old question of supply and demand, a study In economics that each year confronts the Long Island farmers. The answer is in a number of things directly and indirectly influencing the market anything to do with potatoes, from a diet to a new recipe so G.

0. P. Would Run Democrat Party Dropped Astoria Club Indorses Justice Weeks, Who Was Mot Designated Only the refusal of Justice Harry T. Weeks to be a candidate will keep him out of the race this Fall, according to sentiment expressed at a meeting last night of the Republican Club of Astoria. Justice Weeks, a Democrat, was turned down for renominatlon by the Democratic executive committee at its meeting yesterday afternoon.

Last night Republican leaders in the First Municipal District, including at least two attorneys who would be In line for the Re Nassau Decides To Seek $500,000 In Open Market Supervisors to Use "Id Method Pending Legal View on Sinking Fund Protest Plan To Close Old Co. I Armory State Adjutant Will Be Asked to Halt Plan to Move Flushing Outfit Public Administrator Alfred J. Kennedy of Queens, who is State commander of the United Spanish War Veterans, has gone to Albany to make a persona! protest to Brig. Gen. Franklin Ward, adjutant general of the New York State National Guard, against a proposed cjosing of the State armory on Northern Boulevard, Flushing.

"The closing of this armory will not only take away the headquarters of the mly National Guard outfit on the north side of Queens but will also the headquarters and meeting place of an American legion pot and its auxiliary, a Spanish War Veterans post and its auxiliary, a Grand Army of the Republic post, and other patriotic organizations," said Administrator Kennedy before leaving for Albany. It has been learned that Brig. Gen. G. R.

Dyer, chairman of the Armory Board of the City of New York, is planning as an economy measure to propose to the Board of Estimate the closing of the Flushing armory. This armory, built 20 years ago, houses Company I of the 14th Infantry, N. Y. N. G.

The company has a record, going back to the days when it was known as the Seventeenth Separate Company, of honorable service In the Spanish-American and World wars. Company I was a part of the Rainbow Division overseas. In recent years the company has an nually won honors in competition with the other companies of the regiment ct 'he Summer camps, it is the only 1 tional Guard outfit on the north shore of Queens. General Dyer's proposal claims a saving of about a year. Of this $7,000 would be in the salaries of four employes, who take care of the place, and $3,000 in the overhead expenses.

Administrator Kennedy pointed out that while they are talking of savin money by shutting down an established armory, they are building a new million and a half dollar armory in another section of Queens. It Is proposed that Company I be transferred to the main bulldin? of the 14th Regiment in Brooklyn, This, It is claimed, would surely result, in loss of membership for the company and would require all the veteran and other patriotic organizations to find new quarters. KK? -i Mtu9mmMrmrr- Mineola, L. Aug. 11 The Nassau County Supervisors, meeting in a special session here yesterday, voted to borrow $500,000 on th open market rather than follow a resolution passed on Monday which provided for the transfer of $500,000 from the bond issue sinking fund to the general fund.

The sinking fund had reached the point where the Supervisors felt safe in drawing upon It, but since Monday it developed that the county had neglected to obtain an opinion from Read, Hoyt and Washburn, Manhattan bonding attorneys. Pending such a opinio it was considered wiser to leave the sinking fund as it is. Coasldcred Great Help The bond Issue, authorized by legislation last Winter to provide funds for meeting tax anticipation notes, had been a great help to the county In a period of financial stress and officials are reluctant to do anything that might be interpreted as opposed to the spirit of the plan. While there was said to be a small question of the legality of drawing on the sinking fund, for the present it was considered wiser to borrow the money which is needed at once to pay county obligations. PLAN INFORMAL DANCE Woodmere, L.

Aug. 11 Another of the series of semi-monthly Informal dances will be held on the lawn of the Woodmere Club Saturday evening. M. Robert Herman heads the committee in charge. BEST'S-LONG Stream, which went into the discard yesterday.

It will be razed before the construction job is completed. Below is view of the temporary station building which was erected to take the place of the old station during the construction work. Club Is Organized To Push Davison As N. Y. Governor Ccdarhurst, L.

Aug. 11 With Supervisor J. Russell Sprague serving as chairman, formation of the first "Davidson for Governor" club in Nassau, which will serve the Rockaway Branch villages, was or ganized at a meeting of Republican county committeemen In the area held last night in the headquarters of the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Republican Club, Central Ave. Unanimous support to F. Trubce Davidson's candidacy for governor was voted by the committee after the slate of officers to be voted upon in Nassau this November was approved.

The resolution Indorsing the Nassau nominees included the ratification of the action of the Nassau G. O. P. executive committee in designating Henry L. Hedger of Glen Cove for county treasurer.

In addition to Supervisor Sprague, other officers 'of the club urging Davidson as the gubernatorial nominee include Dr. Charles Craft, secretary; Andrew Weston, treasurer, and Samuel Ehrman, chair-mann, chairman of the executive committee. Student Nurse Rites To Be Held Saturday Miss Catherine M. O'Donnell, 22. a student nurse at Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica, who died in the Huntington Hospital, Huntington, L.

as the result of an automobile accident, will be buried from the nurses home of the hospital Saturday moAing. The body was brought to the nurses home today. The members of her class, together with many other of the hospital nurses and several of the Sisters of St. Dominic, who are in charge of the institution, will attend the services, which will be held in St. Clement's R.

C. Church, South Ozone Park. The Rev. Anthony Bourke, the pastor, will conduct the mass of requiem. Miss O'Donnell's home was at 117-34 140th South Ozone Park.

She is survived by her parents and four brothers. She had been in training at Mary Immaculate Hospital for two years and five months and had only one more month to spend as a student. She had received her diploma with the other members of her class in June. It is expected, that the members of the June class will act as pallbearers. 'A I Pleads Today for U.

S. Loan on Bridge Will Stress Importance of Triborough Span On Washington Visit Borough President Harvey of Queeflj was to appear before tht officials of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation at Washington today to ask Federal aid for the construction of the Tri-Borough Bridge. Accompanied by 3. Meredith Strong Commissioner of Public Buildings and Offices, Harvey left at 4:30 p.m. yesterday on the Senator Limited from Pennsylvania station.

Although he will devote the major part of his argument to the Tri-Borough Bridge, he will ask also for consideration of the 38th St. East River vehicular tunnel as a subject for financial aid. The Borough President was to review the history of the Tri-Bor ough Bridge and describe to the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion its engineering details. The real purpose of his argument will be to establish the fact that the Tri-Borough Bridge will be, revenue producing and as such will meet the condition prescribed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that all projects receiving its aid must be self-liquidating. Van Wyck Blvd.

Spur Urged for U. S. Loan Share Mayor Walker was urged yesterday to Include the Van Wyck spur of the Queens Boulevard subway among those improvements for which he will ask funds to complete when he goes before the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In his message to Mayor Walker, Joseph A. Coyle, president of the Dunton Civic League, declared that the spur was essential, inasmuch as more than 100.000 residents of the district would be benefiited.

The contract for the spur was ready in June, 1931, but the improvement had never gone further. It will have to wait because of the city's lack of funds for improvements. The spur would extend from Hillside Ave. and Queens Boulevard to Van Wyck Boulevard and 120th Duntorv Residents Victor In Fight on Site Of Freight Depot Valley Stream. L.

Aug: 11 After more than 300 persons had voted against it, the Long Island Railroad Company, at a hectic meeting last night in village office, abandoned its plan to erect a freight station at a point between Merrick Road and the Westwood station, on the West Hempstead branch. It was decided, after a showing of hands had resulted in' disapproval of the project, to put the freight station at the originally scheduled point, on Rockaway Ave. and the railroad tracks. The only sponsors of the alternate plan were two owners of property near the Rockaway Ave. site.

1 The alternate plan was explained by A. C. Watson, chief engineer ol the railroad. Cyril Jacelon Rites To Be Held Saturday Funeral services are to be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock for Cyril Jacelon, 24, of 97-38 92d Ozone Park, at the Woodhaven Congregational Church. Interment will follow In Evergreens Cemetery.

Jacelon died yesterday morning in Jamaica Hospital as the result of injuries he sustained on Aug. 2 in an automobile accident at Sunrise Highway and Farmers St. Albans. At one time he was connected with the composing room of the New York World. He Is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Pansy Sanders Jacelon; a son, Owen Jacelon; his parents and six brothers and a sister. Hempstead Burglars Get $725 in Jewels Special to The Eagle Hempstead, L. Aug. 11 Nelson Hance, locally prominent contractor, today reported to the police that burglars entered his home at 300 Washington St. between Sunday night and Wednesday morning and stole Jewelry valued at $725.

The principal item lost was a $550 diamond ring. Hance said the burglars missed a jewel case In which there was jewelry valued at "much more than was taken." Harvey ISLAND Irs New And v-f f- With the transferring of service from the old tracks to new temporary ones, the $3,000,000 Valley Stream grade crossing elimination program yesterday entered the actual construction stage. The old tracks were being Central PL Girds To Fight Writ in School Bus Row Central Park, L. Aug. 11 The Central Park Board of Education, at its organization meeting last night, authorized Its new president, Andrew F.

Kauima-nn, to engage counsel to defend a restraining order served on the board by Carmelo Mazzara, local taxpayer. The order, signed by Supreme Court Justice James T. Halllnan demands the board show cause whv an Injunction should not be Issued restraining it from entering into a contract with Louis J. Maggl, local bus owner, for transportation of district pupils. The board has until next Monday to file an answer.

The order is a result of the board's action in awarding the contract to Maggi although his bid was $300 higher than that of Charles H. Woop of Farmlngdale. The contract, awarded several weeks ago, stipulated it was to become effective only if approved by taxpayers at the annual school district meeting Aug. 2. At the meeting the taxpayers voted 67 to 5 for approval the contract.

The board voted that all expenses of defending the action are, to be borne by the taxpayers. Besides Kaufmann. who was named president to succeed Henry Schaaf, who refused to run -for reelection, Elmer Henn was re-elected treasurer and John Gifford was elected clerk to fill the place of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunton, resigned. Jamaica P.

O. Bids To Be Asked Aug. 20 That the construction of the new Jamaica postoffice will soon be under way was intimated today by the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce when Secretary Max C. Bunyan commented on a telegram that had been received from Congressman Robert L. Bacon advising that bids for the work would be asked for on Aug.

20. It was originally intended to ask for bids on July 20, but owing to some last-minute details the date was flved one month later. Child Hit by Auto On Elmont Crossing Elmont. L. Aug.

11 While crossing Meacham near Kiefer St, yesterday, two-year-old Barbara Bleler of 532 Evans Ave. was struck by an automobile operated by Charles Sherman of Meacham Ave. The child received lacerations of the lower lip and left forehead. She was treated by Dr. W.

J. Lee. "HIT-AND-MISS' LUNCH Members of the Women's Repub- lcian Association of Woodhaven gathered yesterday for a "hit-and- miss" luncheon at the Summer home of Mrs. Magdalen Broesler at Rock away Point. Mrs.

John Lang was in charge. demand for relief will continue, Mrs. Carll Issued an appeal to county residents to donate outgrown and discarded children's clothes. If the clothes need mending or the shoes need repairing this will be taken care of by the chapter in order thai donations might come more extensively. Donations of men's and women's clothes are also requested.

1 tm' 111 ills; tijasi Mado's "Fly-Away" Hat In Black Velvet im ripped up today and foundations being started for the elevated structure on which trains will be operated when the project Is completed. Upper scene is of the old station building, a landmark in Valley Garden City Limits Truck Use of Streets Garden City, L. Aug. 11 Extending its drive against fast-moving trucks in the village limits, the village through its Police Department has ordered signs placed at many streets banning trucks. Some of the signs were placed on Washington a county highway, which has aroused adverse comment on the part of some truckmen.

They contend that the village has no right to limit the use of a county highway. It is expected that the subject will be brought to the attention of the county supervisors. Waitress Faces Grand Jury Quiz In Jewelry Theft Miss Marie Fischer, 24, a waitress who said she lives at 88-29 163d Jamaica, is being held in bail at the Queens County Jail pending action by the grand jury on a charge of stealing $800 In Jewelry. While Mr. and Mrs.

Margaret Dinsdale of Cross Island Boulevard, Hollis, were on a fishing trip July 31 their son, Howard, 18. fnter- tained a number of friends In their home. Mrs. Dinsdale told Magistrate Peter M. Daly yesterday in the Jamaica Court she discovered two diamond rings and a wristwatch had been stolen when she retained.

Detectives James McKeough and Frank Brierton of the Queen Village squad claimed that 'Miss Fischer, who was a guest at the party, was wearing the Jewelry when they arrested her Tuesday. Miss Fischer waived examination. Greis Installed To Murphy Pcjt Lynbrook, L. Aug. 11 The newly appointed village trustee, Fred A.

Greis, who will take the place of Frank A. Murphy, resigned, was formally installed last night at a special meeting of the Village Board. A motion for appointment was made by Mayor Howard Q. Wilson and seconded by several of his colleagues. The 'move to appoint Greis originated with the Independent party, of which Wiison is the head.

Greis, in his speech of acceptance of the post, said that he would endeavor to fill the post creditably and to carry on the good work inaugurated by his predecessor. Funeral Services Held for R. B. Dale Funeral services were conducted by Joel Mystrom of the West Side Branch Y. M.

C. A. for the late R. Burdette Dale of 84-21 168th Jamaica. Interment will be tomorrow In Burlington, Iowa.

Mystrom was a college mate of the deceased. Dais died on Monday at Jamaica Hospital In his 18th year following an operation for infected tonsils. He was a graduate of Jamaica High School and at the time of his death was a student at Seth Low Junior College, preparing to enter the School of Engineering of Columbia University In the FalL Surviving him are his father, R. Burdette Dale, a member of the faculty of Pratt Institute, and his mother. much so that each year is a new market, new conditions, new complexities.

The past few years, according to the dealers, have shown that potatoes fluctuate much more than other foodstuffs. The diet situation is a factor. Women desirous of cutting down on weight reduce on potato consumption. Not for themselves Individually but for their 'en tire families. Cheap and Nourishing The farmers cannot understand why people would not buy more potatoes In these days of economy.

Potatoes are cheaper. They are nourishing. Why don't the people buy more of them and force the price up? The answer in the farming regions Is that the great masses comprising the working classes don't know value. The farmer says those folk don't know the fundamentals of home economics. "They think," said one farmer, "that a bottle of olives is a greater household need than a bushel of potatoes." That statement, of course, is an assertion.

Economics teaches simply that the bottle of olives may be of greater value than the bushel of potatoes, depending on when either are needed and under what conditions. Price Controversy The potato farmer, of course, places the value his produce highly. He wants high prices to pull him out of the financial rough. The consumer, on the other hand, wants low prices. He hails the chain store and low prices he finds there.

The farmer condemns the chain store for keeping the prices down. He sees the chain store as controlling the whole market. Chain store organizations, it is said, wait until the market is flooded and then offer a price below the prevailing market. They deal in hundreds of carloads at a time and make their purchases forcing the price even lower. The dealer sees the lower prices offered.

How Price Drops He takes it for granted that the price has dropped and, fearing to speculate, he withdraws his orders. He buys only to fill Immediate needs. Then th maket Is flooded and the price really does drop. The dealers had been able and were willing to work to keep prices high, but with the advent of the chain store, they Arid they are unable to compete. There Is a suggestion toward solution of the question.

It is a cooperative marketing association to combat the bearish market. Such an association, it was pointetd out, could control enough of the dealer market to limit the purchasing market of the chain store. See Too Many Hands Now The association. It would eliminate many of the middlemen, but, as It Is, the middleman cannot compete. The farmers believe there are too many hands in the market, making too much of a difference in the price the farmer now gets from that for which the potatoes actually retail.

In one section It was said that the community was supporting seven dealers where all the marketing could be handled by one. The dealers have their views on the subject. Maxim Boblnski of Riverhead. one of the bigger dealers, finds thatthe entire farming industry of Long Island Is subject to the New York City market. I He said that If the farmers re- ceive from 70 to 75 cents a bushel for their potatoes they will get the "even break" of which they speak so much to "make ends meet." 'Not an Order on Hand' 'I have not an order for a potato i snipment on hand, he The quotations of the Eastern shores markets disclose they have been receiving only about 50 which Is a loss.

New Jersey Is Just starting its potato market activities. "Long Island and New Jersey are closely allied In the poUto Industry If the Middle West can supply home-grown potatoes to their consumers, it will mean that New Jersey will be out of luck for any outside supply oulet. i "In that case New Jersey will flood the New York market with Its potatoes and Long Island will also send its crop to New York to take a loss. Would Mean Profit "On the other hand. If the Middle West exhausts its home-grown potatoes, there will be an opportunity for New Jersey to send her crop away and leave the New York market to the Long Island farmers.

"If this condition should come about, it would automatically result in a good price for the Long Island potatoes." Tomorrow: Improving the Long Island potato what is beinf done and what can be done. DEMOCRATS PLAN OITING The annual outing of the Delaware Regular Democratic Club of Jackson Heights will be held Sunday at the American House and Casino, College Point. A ball game between teams of the Delaware Club and the Northslde Democratic Club will begin at m. Dinner will be served at 4 pm, publican nomination, highly indorsed the stand of the Republican executives in the district who had previously announced their Intention of Indorsing the candidacy of Justice Weeks in the event that he was named bv the Democrats. Would Pick Weeks Justice Weeks, although a Democrat, can be the nominee of the Republicans on his merit as an attorney and judge, if he wishes, leaders said.

The Republican Club of Astoria is the largest club In the 1st A. D. and a majority of the more than 900 members were present at last night's meeting. Henry Albert, an attorney, who has been very active in the Republican organization, commended the announcement of the Republican executives of the district as made by Frank Kenna, Assembly District leader. Cites Weeks' Record He pointed out that Justice Weeks was a former president of the Queens County Bar Association and that Gov.

Alfred E. Smith thought enough of his ability to name him a member of the commission which for two years worked on the revision of Practice in the Municipal Courts of the City ot New York. He also pointed out that since Justice Weeks was appointed in April to fill a short time on the bench his record has been a fine one. Frank Motl, another Astoria at torney, who might have been a Republican nominee of this district, also spoke in favor of Justice Weeks. Julius Braunschweig, another at torney prominent in the Republican ranks, expressed the opinion, that in spite of the action of the Democrats, the Republican organization should stick to its original Intention of not playing politics but aiding to keep a good judge on the bench re gardless of political affiliation.

Lauded by Kenna Leader Kenna, said last night after the meeting that it was the intention of the Republicans to name Justice Weeks: "I would like to know what the Queens County Bar Association in tends to do in this matter," said Kenna. "At the Induction of Judges, offi cers of this association do much talking about the Integrity of th bench and about keeping the judge ships out of politics. Not one im portant member of the association came forward when it developed that Justice Weeks was about to be shelved for purely political reasons. Now that the Democratic ma chine, relying upon its usual large voting majority, has taken this step. I wonder whether any of these in duction ceremony speakers will come forward In defense of the principle of keeping Judiciaries ou1 of politics.

Or will they simply remain quiet and let the Democratic organization get away with this." No announcement as to his Intentions was made by Justice Weeks today. Several attempts to interview him at his home were unsuccessful. In some quarters the Astoria club's Indorsement of Weeks Is seen as a gesture of the friedship Kenna holds for the municipal court Justice. Nassau Legion Will Support Lawrence For State Leader Mineola, L. Aug.

11 American Legion members in Nassau County will support Dr. Joseph G. Lawrence of Flushing In his campaign for election as State Legion commander at the State convention to be held in Brooklyn on Aug. 25. 26 and 27.

Decision to support Dr. Lawrence was reached by county delegates and alternates at a caucus at the Mineola Legion Dugout. The county will cast 22 votes in his favor at the convention. Practically everv post in Nassau County will be represented in the convention parade on Aug. 26.

stable on the Pratt estate, where cobwebs made films among the sturdy spokes of the once active vehicle. Touched by a of the old days and their success in the parade, the exempt vamps have decided to keep the truck where it can be seen and have taken steps to possession of an old building on the city parking place that was once the home of Pacific Engine Company, in this building, old and weatherbeaten, they will house their reclaimed wooden wagon and make it their headquarters where tales of the fires of bygone days and of how they fought them "when" may be told over again. 4 '71 air ii i Important! Best's copies 15.00 41 4 New Glen Cove Vamp Group Gets 3 5-Y ear-Old Truck as Gift IMPORTANT because it combines all the chic features of the new hats! The crown that's shallow in front and deep in back. The ornament right on the forehead. The "wings" that turn up and away from the crown adding every possible inch to your height.

Look at the sketch carefully it's more than a drawing on one' hat. It's a picture of an entirely new feeling in hats a reflection of the new silhouette young, fresh, dashing. Franklin and Stewart Avnut, Garden City Phom Qmtdm City SSSO Ampl, 'mrkint Spmom Nassau Red Cross Appeals For Clothing for Children Glen Cove, L. Aug. 11 Harland Phillips appeared before the City Council at the meeting last night to ask that the city of Glen Cove give to the newly organized Exempt Firemen's Association tne 35-year-old wooden truck that they used to run to fires with ii the early days of the department.

Mayor James E. Burns and members of the Council were unanimous in granting the petition. The antiquated piece of apparatus, which was revived for the recent tournament of the Nassau County Volunteer Firemen's Association in Glen Cove, baa been housed in a L. Aug. 11 Welfare work of the Nassau Chapter, Amer ican Red Cross, has continued throughout the Summer season.

A report issued by Mrs. James H. Carll, chairman of production, yesterday showed that more than 700 garments and 77 pafrs of shoes were given out during June and July. Anticipating, however, that the.