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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1053 20 FIRST WORLD SERIES PILGRIM Simc Silverman Rites Wednesday; Savs Realty Reorganizers Were Handpickcd by Fox LVONOO Mr. and Vincent J. Luor.jo nve Carmeiita Mecca announce tre birth of a son.FIORE Sept "2, Feck Memorial Chevalier Sails 4 For Home Today On He de France 11 Liners Leaving Port L. I. Polo Star Goes on His Honeymoon Voyage Grover C.

Walsh, Dies; Champion At Trap Shooting Merrick Man Won National Contest This Year Hail Been 111 2 Months Editor of Variety Continued from rage 1 York Investors, the amount so nhfnined from it." Manhattan. Of 2,400 bondholders Determining Value who have qualified for represents- tion in the litigation by film proofs SPJ2J'JZ Ernr.ctt.C. O'Connor. Canning, Bernard Margaret A. Croatman, C.

A. Pitman, Carolyn C. of claims, the commutee now has, the power-of-attorn-y to represent antee New York Investors was of Rogers, Caroline Dougherty, Mary little value and that any payment on Theatrical Publisher's Death Shocks Broadway and Hollywood Friends Funeral services for Sime Silverman, founder and owner of the theatrical magazine Variety, who tome 2,275 Edward Brown, of B. counsel, has testified. its guarantee of the bonds would have to be paid back to it by Realty Associates Securities Corporation? Merrick, Sept.

23 Grover C. Walsh, 48, of Merrick Ave. and Merrick Road, Merrick, one of the outstanding trapshooters in the United Elliott. Jennie Galvin. Ellon Hopkins, Ellen MrLaiisnlin.

C. May. Elizabeth P. Muhin. Catherine Van Wagner.

A. Weston, C. H. Wildey, E. Witherspoon, Sister Mane Gabriel Wolpert.

Rubin States, died in St. Vincents Hospital, in Manhattan, yesterday, following an illness of two months, it was learned here last night. The French Line flagship lie da France and 10 other ships are leaving port today, in the usual Saturday exodus. Maurice Chevalier, French motion picture actor; Guy Hickok, Paris i correspondent of The Eagle; Wil- liam T. Dewart, president of the 1 Sun, and Carl Laemmle.

president of Universal Pictures Corporation, are among those leaving on lie ds France. William Post 2d, Long Island socialite and polo player, is sailing I today with his bride, the former Elizabeth Fowler Andrew of West He was a native of New York, but was found dead yesterday in his apartment in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, will be held next Wednesday in this city. The passing of the noted Broadway figure shocked his friends here and in Hollywood. Death was caused by a lung hemorrhage. Mr.

Silverman was without question the most widely known man had lived in Merrick for 20 years. For many years he had been financial secretary of the Percy R. Pyne I estate, in New York. Mr. Walsh this year won the national trapshooting contest con Point, Ind on the Grace liner ducted by the Pennsylvania Athletic Club of Philadelphia, a contest in which he was opposed by some of the best trapshooters in the United 51 Percent Sufficient A vote of 51 percent claims is sufficient to put through a reorganizationtermed composition in bankruptcy.

If the opposition can establish that the committee represented a legally adverse Interest, accdrding to Jacob R. Schiff, its principal spokesman, the committee will be disqualified from voting its proxies in behalf of the reorganization offer. Since the filing of the voluntary bankruptcy petition on July 10, avowedly for the purpose of effecting a reorganization, representatives of the corporation have bent every effort to bring their offer to a vote. Conversely, the opposition has fought tenaciously to prevent this until, according to Schiff, "it can be ascertained if the offer is equitable and the management of the corporation such that its continuance for the next 10 years would be in the best interests of their clients." Must Know Operations "Much of the company's extensive operations with affiliates In the purchase and disposition of first "Mr. Brown told us," answered Parker.

Palmer asked the same question and received the same answer from the next witness, Mr. Kennedy. He thereupon made a part of the court record an attestation by Alfred T. Davison, counsel for the bankrupt, and by one of the bankrupt's officers, filed with the clerk of the court July 8, that Realty Associates Securities Corporation on that date had assets of a "marketable value of $10,000,000." Next he introduced a copy of an attestation by officers of the New York Investors, when petitioned into an equity receivership recently, that it had an excess of assets over its $42,000,000 of liabilities and was solvent, though most of its assets were frozen. New York Investors owns all of the capital stock of Realty Associates Securities Corporation.

Queries, 10 Percent Offer "If as their officers have set forth under oath in this court Realty Santa Barbara for Panama, Colom- i bia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. i Scholars Sail Twenty-four Rhodes scholars sail Art Felsch of Milwaukee arrived in town today and settled in front of the Polo Grounds box office, determined to buy the first World Series ticket. He has two weeks to wait, so he brought shaving tools and a campchair. BENNETT Suddenly, 011 Sept. 22 1933.

CHARLES BENNETT of 254 Cooper the beloved husband of Sarah Bennett, and father of William and Charles Eennett, Mrs. F. Jagels, Mrs. E. E.

Cuffle and Mrs. Charles Packer. Funeral services will be held at B. J. Thur-ings Funeral Parlors, 1178 Bush-wick on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, interment Cypress Hills Cemetery.

CANNING On Sept. 22, BERNARD, at his home, 44 Ashland Place, father of Richard and brother of James P. Canning, a member of the 14th Regiment Camp, S. W. V.

A. Funeral from 187 S. Oxford St. Monday at 9 a.m. Requiem mass St.

Edward's Church. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. CROATMAN On Thursday, Sept. 21, at his home, CHARLES beloved husband of Elizabeth D. Croatman and father of Charles L.

today on the Holland-America liner Veendam to begin three years' study at Oxford. They were given on Broadway. I life work was the publishing and editing of a weekly paper written in the language of Broadway. Broadway Fixture Variety was the handbook, guidebook, directory of Broadway as well as the glossary of its argot. Silverman crammed his publication full of opinions, reviews, personals and gossip every line edited or written by himself and every line couched a dinner and plenty of good advica by a group of former Rhodes schol- ara aboard the ship last night.

States. He was a member of the New York Athletic Club, the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, the New York Lodge of Elks, the Lido Country Club of Long Beach, the Freeport Council of the Knights of Columbus and the Nassau Trapshooters Club. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs-Lillian Walsh; a son, James, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10:30 a.m., with solemn requiem mass at the Church of Leaving on the White Star liner 1 Judge Clearwater, Veteran Jurist, Fleeing Gunman Kidnaps Trio in Their Own Auto Britannic for Queenstown and Liverpool by way of Boston are Prof. Felix Frankfurter, R.

S. Hudson, firpt parliamentary secretary to the Is Dead at 85 in the curious mixture of shop talk, underworld expressions, sporting Associates Securities has $10,000,000 of currently marketable assets and New York Investors, which guaranteed the bonds, is solvent;" do you think the 10 percent cash offer that phrases and impatient short-cuts which are the language of Broad Our Holy Redeemer, in Freeport. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in Long City. An Unidentified Desperado Former N. Y.

Supreme and second mortgages and installment contracts for the purchase of homes over the past several years will have to be known before we can act intelligently," Schiff told Judge Moscowitz when the latter granted has made is equitable, Mr Shoots Officer, Steals 3 Kennedy, Palmer asked. Court Justice One of Bar Association Organizers Girl, 4, Gives 3-Inch Cars in Wild Getaway Brown objected to the question way. Sime was a fixture at every opening night in this city. He was born in Cortland, N. and at an early age headed for New York City.

Here he turned naturally to Broadway and before long had a Job on the old Morning Telegraph. He was fired when he the current Investigation. Yesterday forenoon he went again and was sustained by the referee. Kingston, N. Sept.

23 (IP) Some 50 hondholders who had sat quietly throughout the day listening to the testimony became vocal. Alphonso T. Clearwater, former British Ministry of Labor, and Mrs. Hudson. The Dollar liner President Taft, from Mamila and California, is tha passenger vessel due today from a foreign port.

Brooklyn residents leaving on the i Munson liner Munargo this after- noon for Nassau, Miami and Havana include Miss Josephine Reilly, T. I Burke and S. S. Roggemann. Mr.

and Mrs. J. H. Anthony of KeW Gardens are also making the trip. The Furness liner Monarch of Bermuda Is sailing today for Ber- muda and the Furness Prince liner Eastern Prince is off for Rio da Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and; i Buenos Aires with her passenger list including Georgia Schermerhorn Funeral services on Sunday, Sept.

24, at 3 p.m. at his residence. 8511 88th Woodhaven, N. Y. Interment private.

DOUGHERTY On Thursday, Sept. 21, 1933, MARY DOUGHERTY, mother of May Gallway. Funeral from the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Monday, Sept. 25, at 9 a.m.; thence to Church of Nativity, Classon Ave. and Madison where requiem mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m.

ELLIOTT JENNIE, on Thursday, Sept. 21, beloved daughter of the late Thomas H. and Jane M. Elliott and dear sister of Thomas James John W. and Evelyn.

Canton, Sept. 23 (JP) Three persons were released near here today after being abducted by a Wounded man who commandeered their automobile last night. Officials broadcast a general alarm for the man. justice of the New York Supreme Court and one of the best-known Jurists in the State, died at 7 a.m. today after an illness of two days.

Auto to Save Light Mary Ivonne Axelson, 4, whose father is a professor of economics at City College, sat down yesterday to ponder the plight of Bamegat Lighthouse, the old New Jersey landmark to which the Atlantic is Judge Clearwater, who was 85 wrote a too critical review of a vaudeville act and then started his own paper. It originally consisted of 16 pages and had a staff of three. Today it has 225 employes and often runs more than 100 pages. He is survived by his wife, the former Hattie Freeman; a son, Syd; his mother and two sisters. Thomas W.

Reilly before the judge and asked an audit of the corporation's books supplementary to one which the corporation had prepared. Schiff said he desired an audit that would show bonuses to affiliates and what profits, if any, accrued personally to officers of the interlocking directorates of the affiliates from their transactions. Judge Moscowitz heard arguments for and against the request for three hours, then referred it, too, to the referee for further testimony and a decision subject to his review. Some testimony, largely of a technical nature, was taken by the referee on the audit question last night. Sept.

11 last, was one of the organizers of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute, and had served as president of the New York State Bar Peoria, 111., Sept. 23 (P) The fate laying sinister siege. At the end of of three unidentified persons kidnaped in their own automobile was They shouted demands that Palmer be permitted to "get to the bottom of things." It was some time before order could be restored. Under questioning by Schiff, Kennedy said he had never owned any of the bankrupt's bonds and had become a member of the committee at the request of Reimer, to whom he was "under obligation." Reimer, he said, telephoned him "the latter part of June that he was going to Europe and asked me to serve his stead." Named Chairman Q. On what date did you become a member of the committee? A.

July 13 I was elected a member and Katherine Andrew, Mr. and i her meditations, Mary decided to contribute her favorite motorcar to the rising wall of junk which Bar-negat residents are building to save the lighthouse. The car, a green He entered public life in 1877, a mystery today as authorities conducted a widespread search to ap Mrs. Fred Post and Miss Frances Post. when he became district attorney of Ulster County, an office which he touring model about two inches high and three inches long, was prompt Newark, N.

Sept. ZJ Thomas W. Reilly, 50, major in the Mexican army of Pancho Villa, soldier of fortune and former newspaper man, died last night in the held for live years. During the rest of his long life he was closely ly dispatched with a letter which Mary dictated to her mother. It said: "Put this between the lighthouse Committeemen Quizzed At the protracted afternoon session he presided over the examina Identified with public service, serving as justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the State Proration Commission and a member of the Niagara Falls States Reservation Commission.

and the ocean, on the top, the very Services at her residence, 212 Skill-man on Sunday evening, Sept. 24, at 8 o'clock. Stella Chapter. O. E.

and Queen Esther Court, O. of friends Invited. GALVIN ELLEN, Thursday, at residence, 37 Park Place, widow of Thomas F. Galvin, dear mother of Mrs. John Lynch, Thomas Philip Galvin; sister of Miss Sarah O'Connor.

Requiem mass St. Augustine's R. C. Church, 6th Ave. and Sterling Place, Monday, Sept.

25, 9:15 a.m. HOPKINS ELLEN HOPKINS, (nee Cavanaugh), at her home, 9711 Seek Blue Ribbon i Racket Case Jury Assistant District Attorney Henry J. Walsh next Monday will argue a motion before County Judge Fitzgerald for a blue ribbon Jury to try Jacob Mellon, alleged czar of the top of the heavy things, so they prehend their abductor, armed with a pistol he snatched from an arresting officer whom he shot. The fugitive, also unidentified, confronted an automobile containing a man, woman and child at Kingston Mines, 111., last night and at the point of a gun forced them to speed away with him as a passenger. It was the third automobile he had used in fleeing earlier In the day from Chief Deputy Sheriff Henry Donnewald of Clinton County after seizing his revolver and shooting him in the arm.

The won't smash it. I'm not so sure it tion of Henry S. Parker, secretary of the bondholders' committee; William Kennedy chairman of the committee, and Otto E. Reimer, a won't break down, but it will help He was born at West Point, N. and chairman.

Schiff presented another letter, dated July 14, approving the reorganization plan. He demanded: "And within 12 hours you approved this letter to bondholders advocating acceptance of the corporation's offer?" Y. He was married In 1875 to Miss Anna Houghtaling of Kingston. committee member, until It does." U. S.

Gold Profit "When did you assume the duties Judge Clearwater's death was due to heart disease. He died in his Medical Center, Jersey City. Four days ago he suffered a heart attack. Machine gun bullets, received in the World War, had impaired his health. Several years ago he was appointed superintendent of the Newark watershed by the late Thomas L.

Raymond, Mayor of Newark. Reilly was born in Newark and was a graduate of Holy Cross College. He served In the Far West with the Regular Army and joined Villa's army after his discharge. He was a captain of a machine gun company in the World War. His widow and six children survive.

of secretary of the committee?" apartment in the Hotel Stuyvesant. Schiff asked Parker. "June 8," Parker replied. Until two days ago the former Su preme Court Justice was active and Tops Two Billion escape occurred as Donnewald was leading the man into the county isrooKiyn laundry racket, it was announced this morning by District Attorney Geoghan. Notice of the motion was served yesterday on Mellon and his two aides, Morris Rothenberg and Samuel Solomon, the three who are named on the two pending indict appeared to be in good health.

Praises Officers Kennedy replied In the affirmative and added he would do so again. He lauded the officers of the corporation for integrity and business acumen and said in approving their 124th Richmond Hill. She is survived by her husband, Charles four dauehters, Frances. Acnes. Rita and Mrs.

Raymond Mcnden-hall; four sons, Charles, George. He is survived by his widow, jail after arresting him at Carlyle on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Washington, Sept. 23 (P) The United States has made a book brother, Ralph: two sisters, Viola and Vera Clearwater, and a nephew, Thomas H. Clearwater.

ments. Mellon, Rothenberg and Edward Lollo received suspended sentences 1 from Countv Juries McLanirhlin. I Q. Know any of the members of your committee before your appointment? A. No.

'At Banker's Suggestion' Q. How came you to be appointed? A. At the suggestion of a vice president of the Manufacturers Trust Company (trustee of the corporation's three bond issues). Q. When did you first meet the committee? A.

On June 8 in the office of Colby, Brown Pollock. Q. How did you happen to go there? A. At the suggestion of Frank Fox. Q.

When did you first talk to Fox about being secretary of the com when they pleaded guilty to an indictment charging them with con spiring to burn and wreck laundries, oner ne was acting in the best in- terests of the bondholders. "The future," said Schiff drily, "will determine whether you should receive a monument or a medal." Davison objected to the comment and demanded that the referee call Schiff to order. A brief heated ex. change between the two lawyers followed. Brown, interjecting his objection, was told by Schiff that "this proceedings is not going to be any tea party; I expect to call you to Elizabeth P.

May Dies in Hospital Miss Elizabeth P. May of the Hotel Granada, one of the oldest members of All Souls Unlversalist Church, died today in the Peck Memorial Hospital after an illness of profit of something over on Its gold holdings on the basis of the price of newly mined gold as officially fixed day by day by government authority. While still carrying monetary gold stocks on the books at the old fixed rate of $20.67 an ounce for a total of $4,327,701,530 as of Sept. 1, the higher price resulting from the nation's abandonment of the gold standard has increased this book value almost 50 percent to This does not mean that the United States has any more gold than before leaving the gold stand Events Tonight Gerard, Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Hopkins.

Funeral Monday. 11 a.m. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. Mclaughlin Cornelius MCLAUGHLIN. Sept.

20, 1933. Funeral private. MAY ELIZABETH P. MAY, on Sept. 23, 1933, daughter of the late John and Mary A.

May. Services Monday. Sept. 25, 1933, at 2:30 p.m., at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place. Burial private.

MULLIN On Sept. 21, 1933, CATHERINE, beloved wife of William and loving mother of Mrs. Sarah F. Hickey, Bernard Dr. William Henry Charles and Josenh A.

Mullin. Funeral from Ernest E. Thurber Ernest E. Thurber, 58, for 38 years a captain of municipal ferry boats, died yesterday Bt his home. 2065 67th He Is survived by his wife, Lucy Thurber, Funeral serivecs whl be held at 9 p.m.

tomorrow in the J. Smith Memorial Chapel, 24B Prospect Park West. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Thurber was a member of Altair Chapter, 237 A.

Grecnpoint Lodge F. A Nathan Hale Council, Jr. Newsboy Is Hurt Leaping on Car Merrick, Sept. 23 William Silski, 11, of Merrick Road and Central Boulevard, Is at the South Nassau Hospital, Ocean-side, with injuries received while he was delivering newspapers, according to the police, he attempte dto board the running board of a car driven by Walter T. Fredericks, of 58 Smith Merrick.

The Silski boy lost his grip and fell to the street. mittee? A. Possibly two weeks before the bankruptcy. Didn't Remember Motion Referring to the minute book of trie stana, Davison turned with forced calm to complain to the referee, and Schiff spun round angrilly on him once more- He pointed to a table heaped high with ledgers and Conclusion of Mardl Gras at Coney Island. Andrew B.

Yacenda- Democratic Association ot 14th A. D. annual entertainment and ball at Brooklyn Labor Myrtle and Wllloughby Aves. I Dinner and danco Intercommunity Central Baseball Club at Hotel St. Oeorga, 1 8:30.

Siler anniversary celebration of AuKUi-i tana Home for Aged on grounds of noma, 1680 60th 8. three weeks. Miss May was born in Manhattan in 1849, the daughter of the late ard, but simply that its worth on John and Mary A. May, but resided In Brooklyn the greater part O. U.

A. the Master Mates aim the foreign gold markets has been considerably boosted. the bondholders committee meetings, Schiff asked who had made the motion appearing therein for "You talk about giving us all the of her life, where she was interested in philanthropic work for many years. records and documents and help we want and you hand me that-enough rope to hang myself with, Crazed Rancher She is survived by a brother, John May; two nieces, Florence G. not help." Brown and Ethel M.

Schmidt, and two nephews, Raymond M. Gunni son and Foster GXinnison. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Kills Family, Self Fresno, Sept. 23 (IP) What police said was the killing by an apparently crazed rancher of his wife and her two grandchildren before he fatally shot himself was under Investigation here today.

Pilots' Association and tne L.onee Point Association. He was a descendant of one of the earliest settlers at Patchogue, L. I. Mrs. L.

Blackwell Mrs. Lillian Coe Blackwell, former chairman of the Bliss Memorial Home in Whitestone, Queens, and wife of George C. Blackwell, who Is a member of the family for which Blackwell's Island was named, died Thursday of a heart ailment at her home, 108 E. 38th Manhattan. She was born in Richmond, 44 years ago and was active In a number of charitable organizations.

She headed the Bliss Memorial Home when it was opened about five years ago. Services are to be held tnis afternoon. Monday in the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, with the Rev. Cornelius Greenway officiating. Burial retention by the committee of the Colby law firm.

Parker said he did not remember. Further questioning elicited the information that the committee's headquarters were the law firm's offices; that the' committee was formed in the offices, and that on the day It was formed, but before the formation, he had seen Mr. Fox in these offices. Parker testified further that the committee had approved the reorganization offer purely on the oral ANNOUNCEMENT, To thes County Committee and Voters of the 20th Assembly District The Hon. Joseph J.

Monahan HAS NOH WITHDRAWN as Candidate for the Democratic Leadership of above district as announced in the local papers. This advertisement 1 contributed by friends of Joseph J. Monahsn Argue on Personalities Davison protested angrily that the proceedings was degenerating to personalities. "What of it?" Schiff demanded. I'm not afraid of you.

Your sophistries might go in the 3d Ave. Railroad, but not her. Why don't you bring down George Davison and have him testify why you resigned as a member of the board of directors?" Threatens Contempt will be private in Greenwood Ceme her residence. 2584 Bedford Monday, Sept. 25, at 9:30 a.m.; thence to Holy Innocents R.

C. Church, Beverly Road and E. 17th St. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. O'CONNOR On Sept.

22, 1933, at her residence, 978 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, N. MARGARET A. O'CONNOR, widow of Timothy B. O'Connor.

Solemn requiem mass will be offered at Church of St. Gregory, St. John's Place and Brooklyn Monday, Sept. 25, 11 a.m. Masses requested.

PITMAN On Thursday, Sept. 21, 1933, CAROLYN COVEL PITMAN of 547 Madison Brooklyn, mother of Florence Pitman Glfford. at rest after years of illness, in her 64th year. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2:30 p.m.

ROGERS CAROLINE (nee Web The rancher, E. J. Switzer, 53, fired a bullet through his head In his home at Caruthers, near here, as a deputy sheriff threw a tear gas bomb at him last night. To what board of directors Schiff recommendation and explanation In the home, officers found the bodies of the wife, Mrs. Elmlra referred was never explained.

Referee O'Connor pounded for order and threatened to issue citations lor given it by counsel. He never owned any of the corporation's bonds, Parker testified, tery. DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE BRIDGE The Democratic Junior League of Kings County will hold a benefit bridge tea, Saturday, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan. The committee in charge includes the Misses Ethel G. Murphy, chairman; Mary E.

McGrath, ex-officio; Lillian C. Muley, publicity; Anne J. Boylan, reception; Ethel Byrne, prizes; May R. Corboy, secretary; Josephine Corsello, treasurer; Helen M. Haggerty, door; Margaret M.

Geoghan, hotels; Margaret Repettl, tickets, and Pauline Fischer, Obituaries Switzer, 60, and the children of her contempt of court if order was not restored and maintained. Davison son, Mary Goodwater, 10, and Ellen ofckooLrand Colteffes and indicated that he had been Goodwater, 13. asked to serve because of experience MRS. F.LLF.N GALVIN, a resident Brooklyn 50 years, died Wednesday h.m 37 Parle Place. Born and Schiff sat down and Meyer Co-Educational Boys and forms; Men Ireland, she as a memoer oi mi cteties oi Bt.

Augustine's R. C. cnurcn PACKER COLLEGIATE begun studying the proposition as far back as last December and was convinced the present plan was In the best Interests of the bond La Salle Military Academy Senior and Junler High Seheel SaTTtlle UO OAKDALB, L. 1 INSTITUTE Preschool, Kindergarten. Elementarr School.

High School. Junior College. O. I. B.

B. Examinations and Regents at the School, 170 Jorolemon St. TRiongl 5-6645 holders. DROSPFfT IforBOTg, 14 Kendwarta Place) MAns. 8-890S I taught "You think the present plan good SCHOOL by men as a member of reorganization committees of other companies.

Asked regarding his compensation, he replied: Tay Hinged on O. "If the reorganization plan Is approved the company has promised to compensate the committee. When Mr. Fox asked me if I'd serve and I asked him regarding compensation he said the amount would be up to the committee." "When did you last see Mr. Fox?" asked Schiff.

"About a week ago," was the response. "I was appointed by the committee to wait on Mr. Fox and er), on Thursday, Sept. 21, 1933, beloved mother of Amelia, Lillian and William Rogers: sister of Christina Madden, William and Frederick Weber. Services at her residence, 102-07 Flynn Howard Beach, Sunday, 9:30 p.m.

Funeral Monday, 10:30 a.m. Interment Lutheran Cemetery. VAN WAGNER On Thursday, Sept. 21, 1933, ALEXANDER husband of Carrie Van Wagner. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 8931 164th Jamaica, L.

on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. and that the corporation should be reorganized according to it and the present management left in con Girls and loon? Women THE CHASE SCHOOL 78-878 SL Mark! Arenoe Kraushaar, another bondholder's attorney, queried the witness. He asked: "Did you not know that most of the mortgages held by the Realty Associates Securities Corporation were small, on homes? "Yes," replied Kennedy. "And you know, don't you, that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is refinancing such mortgages? Btown objected to the question and was sustained.

Reimer, the last witness, testified that he had been in the realty and mortgage business In Brooklyn for 50 years, that he had never owned any of Realty Associates Securities Corporation's bonds but did own 300 shares of the common stock of the trol?" he was asked. Complete Secretarial Training and ss the widow of Thomas P. Galvin. A dauehter, Mrs. John Lynch; a on, Thomas and a sister, Miss Sarah O'Connor, survive.

The luneral will be held Monday at 9:15 a.m. from the home; thence to Bt. Augustine's R. C. Church, where a requiem mass will be offered.

Interment will be In Holy Cross Cemetery. BERNARD HAGERTT, a Spanish-American war veteran, died Thursday at his home, 34 4th Bt. He was born In Brooklyn, a son of the late Dennis and Hose Hagerty, and Is survived by three brothers, George, a police sergeant; Michael, a retired fireman, and John. The funeral will ha held on Monday at 10 a.m. from the "I do," he replied.

"They are men In Connection with, or Separate From. IIIE BERKELEY INSTITUTE HIGH SCHOOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN Ont-of-Door Pre-Kfndergarten Grosn III Lincoln Place TeL NEtIds 8-3251 Term petti September I8lh Aranemie Work Tel. LAfavette 8-6814 of the highest integrity and represent the best brains in the city in the country, I will say." Palmer read from the minutes of EAGLE BUILDING Desirable office space at lowest rentals in Borough Hall section Renting Agent ROOM 506 Main 4-6200 Ext. 64 ADELPHI ACADEMY Open Now for Fall Registration 282 Are PRospect I-S73S the board meetings of the corporation a list of names of half a dozen Academy of St. Joseph BOARDING SCHOOL TOR IOUNO LADIES1 ascertain if the composition was approved what the company had in mind as to compensation.

Mr. Fox said he had in mind about $300 for Brentwood, Long Island. N. Funeral Home, 498 Court with Interment In Holy Cross Cemetery. firm's parent company, New York Investors, Inc.

BEDFORD INSTITUTE ELEMENTARY DAT SCHOOL The Misses PURDY WMcDoBonth Jt. HAddinrway 8-4M5. MISS KIRK'S SCHOOL lit Woodruff Are. Bl'rkmlniter t-0180 KINDERGARTEN AND ELEMENT ART DEPARTMENTS figures prominent in real estate, engineering and finance. "You mean those are the best brains in the country?" he asked.

"I do," replied Reimer. "That's fine," said Palmer. "According to this record they resigned as directors in January, 1932. Do you know why they resigned? Reimer said that he did not. The CHASE SCHOOL Mrk Avenne Slementary and High 8chool Department Complete Secretarial Training Course Offlcenowopen LAfayette 3-68K SHORE ROAD ACADEMY Only Country Day i School for Girls WESTON CLIFFORD H.

WESTON, at Port Washington, L. Sept. 23. Funeral services at Knowlcs Funeral Home, Sunday, Sept. 24, at 8:15 p.m.

WILDEY On Sept. 22, EDWARD VILDEY. Funeral services at the home of Mrs. K. Staubes, 177 Hall Sunday, Sept.

24, at 8 p.m. Kindly omit flowers. WITHERSPOON Sister MARIE GABRIEL, O. S. daughter of Asked to Join "When the bondholders committee was formed," he testified, "I was asked by the company Mr.

Fox or Mr. Greve (William M. Greve, a director of the bankrupt and pres HOTELS AND RESORTS Shore Read, near 92nd Ft, Atlantic 5-7SJ 3Jn epemorfam ADRIAN VERA SKELLY ADRIAN. Anniversary requiem mass Monday, Sept. 25, at St.

Martin's R. C. Church, Amityville, at 7:30 a.m., also at Our Lady of Victory Church, Floral Park, at 7 a.m. ALLERS In loving memory of our dear father and grandfather, GEORGE ALLERS, who entered BERMUDA Asked then how the committee had selected its counsel, Reimer referred Hsnry. tar.

Moirtiiui FALL TERM BlftiBI Sept. IS those who had done most of the work and about half that for the others." Cites Letter to Bondholders Achibald Palmer relieved Schiff as inquisitor. He read excerpts from a letter of last Sept. 1 which the committee mailed all bondholders. The letter set forth the reorganization offer and the committee's recommendation that it be accepted.

It also advised bondholders to file their proofs of claim with the committee and offers to vote such claims for or against the plan, Secretarial ALL BERMUDA'S ATTRACTIONS at the BU George Hotel Oolf and Beach Club to a $20,000,000 loan which New York Investors had obtained from the Reconstruction Finance Corpo c. f. Torma school I SIDNEY PI ACE MAIn 4-0793 In old St. George's. Bermuda.

BEDFORD ACADEMY Kinderfsrten, Elementary, Hi(k Sctool J96Newor Avenue ident of New York Investors) to be one of i "Did you know that New York Investors had guaranteed the bonds of Realty Associates Securities Corporation?" he was asked by Schiff. "No," he replied. He said he sailed for Europe on ration for another subsidiary. The LICENSES Business Schools into eternal rest Sept. 23, 1920.

Prudence Company, and for which it had pledged the stock of Realty NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the late John and Dalton Witherspoon, on Sept. 21, at the convent, 5901 6th Ave. Requiem mass Monday, Sept. 25, at 9:30 a.m. at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 59th St.

and 5th Ave. Interment private. It is kindly requested that no flowers be sent. TERRACE SCHOOL. Primary and Pre-Primary Grades Open air studies and plav in beautiful spacious garden overlooking harbor.

Tel. MAIn 4-5593 10 Montague Terrace SON, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW and GRANDCHILDREN. CHARROT In fond memory of as the bondholders desired. Miss Dunbar's School Secretarial Training for Girls ENTRANCE SEPT. 25 186 Joralemon Street EVENING COURSES In elvIL electrical, mechanical, chemical engineering Polytechnic Associates Securities Corporation as part collateral.

Cites R. F. C. O.K. 'The Reconstruction Finance Corporation," he testified, "advised us to retain independent counsel.

Mr. Fox told us Colby, Brown te Pollock were acceptable to the RFC and we retained them." Referee O'Connor closed the ses July 30 and returned about Aug. 27. He said he approved the reorganization offer recommendation of the committee in letters sent out while he was here and an active member of 'the committee and would have approved those sent out during his absence. Convinced flan Is Good Institute of Brooklyn.

99 Livingston St. THE FLATBCSH SCHOOL Niwklrl (. it B. M. T.

Statin. Ca-Mueatlitml Country Diy Sctml. BUtmiltr a-6331 license number N. Y. B-11857 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail under Section 76 of the Alcoholto Beverage Control Law at 42 Johnson Brooklyn, Kings County, to be consumed upon the said premises.

THOMAS P. PARLEY. GERARD P. PARLEY. 42 Johnson Brooklyn.

S16-23 -2t NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT license number A-9381 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail, under Section 75 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 306 Re.d Brooklyn. Kings County, not to be consumed upon the said premises, HENRY J. STEEN. 108 Reld Brooklyn. 23-Jt our dear mother, CAROLINE M.

CHARROT. CHILDREN. O'DONNELL In loving memory of our dear mother, CATHERINE O'DONNELL, who departed this life on Sept. 23, 1921. Anniversary mass for the repose of her soul at the As a reason for favoring the reorganization offer, the recommendation stated as the committee's Judgment that the New York Investors guarantee of the bonds "is of little value" and: "If any sum could be recovered on this guaranty from New York Investors, we are advised that the reorganized corporation might WOLPERT At Miami, on Sept.

20, 1933, RUBIN, beloved husband of Rae, and devoted father of Helen Greenfield and George Wolpert. Services at Flat-fcush Memorial Chapel, 1283 Coney Island Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. Interment Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Hefilev Business Schools THE WOODWARD SCHOOL Bove and Girls. Agee te 14 S31 Clinton Avenne MAIn 1-049 Hanson Place STerllng S-1 sion with the announcement that He testified that he had given AcrnnNTANrT rrnrTHir.

cnurcn of Our Lady of Solace, Coney Island, this morning at 8 O'clock. Her DAUGHTERS, considerable time studying a means LAMB'S BUSINESS SCHOOL the next will be held from 10 am to 10 m. on Monday, Marketing. Advertising and Selling Classes then be obligated. to repay to New of reorganizing tha company, bad PACE INSTITUTE, 23 Broadway, X.

X. 171 NINTH STBXIX SOnth -iSS i.

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