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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 6

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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934 FLYING TO TOMMY and travel In rtuslcal centers of this and the Old World during the last decade. I STUDENTS VISIT CAPITAL A pilgrimage to Washington will French Train Loses Race to Trackwalker 24 in Trolley Crash Injured; Car Is Derailed i nionAve. Vehicle Rams i I be made April 21 by a group of stu tlie public must interest itself in them and study them. Our present system is inadequate since the public does not wish to vest the entire power of government in one man.

That would be a dictatorship, "The people will obtain a belter government only by a proper study of the matter." Grosbayne Compiles Music Bibliography Formed as a skeleton history of musical conducting, a bibliography on conducts and its history has been comply by Professor Benjamin Grosbatc, lirud of the Brooklyn College music department, to serve as a Terence work for the course irr oiiie.stral direction and interpretation at the college. ft Is entltld "A Bibliography of Books and titles on Conductors. Conducing jjd Related Fields in Various Laiijuages from the 16th Century tfc present." It is made up of maerijl gathered from study dents in the clUzenship classes of the Brooklyn Sctlon of the Na-tional Council of Jewish Women, 285 Schermerhom according to announcement today by Mrs. Theresa Malkiel class supervisor, who will conduct the trip. Gates Ave.

Car in Rain 14 Treated in Hospitals Twenty men and women and four children today are recover-in? from injuries received yesterday afternon when a Wilson Ave. trolley-ploughed head on Into the center Short Story Writing Contest By The Eagle To encqurage and develop the writing of short fiction stories, The Eagle will conduct a scries of weekly contests for its readers. Two ten dollar prizes will be given each week for the two best stories submitted. The winning stories will be printed on each Saturday and Sunday. In addition, The Eagle will furnish individual, constructive criticism of all stories submitted.

They will be given by Jean Gilbert, expert manuscript tritic, who has had long experience in this work. She will tell each writer hat is right and what is wrong with the manuscript. Rll.ES Stories must not exceed 1,000 words. Manuscripts must be typed and written on one aide of the paper only. Easlc employes are barred from the Competition.

Each manuscript must be accompanied by a stamped, addressed return envelope. Anyone who desires individual criticism must enclose 25 cents to defray the cost of secretarial work and postage. Tublication of the first prize winning story and name of the author will appear in the Saturday Eagle of April 28. The following day, Sunday, April 29, the Sunday Eagle will contain the second prize winning story and the author's name. Thereafter winning stories will be published every Saturday and Sunday.

Send contributions to SHORT STORY EDITOR, Brooklyn Eagle. door of a Gates Ave. car at -trtf intersection of the streets for which I the trolley lines are named. None of the passengers were injured seriously, and several of them refused hospital treatment. Nine were taken to Bushwick Hospital, Sway of Cars Indicates 60-Mile an Hour Rate Rut in Reality It's 5 Karle Bureau.

5:1 Rue Cambon. By O. R. PILAT Paris. April 10 The World Exposition scheduled for Paris in 1937 will, among other things, mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first railway in France.

For all practical purposes, however, there is no need to await the exposition to understand advances in railroad development. A single jaunt on the antique train which runs from the Luxembourg station in Paris to the working-class pork of Robinson in the suburbs to the south is quite sufficient. The station itself is cavernous, with feeble, flickering lights every 100 feet or so, platforms of rough stones, two tracks and a tunnel whose roof is lost in darkness. Waits 20 Minutes At the time the adventure begins, in midafternoon, there is only one other passenger on the platform, a lady wearing a hat of the style affected by English queens. Twenty minutes of waiting.

Finally an engine puffs into view, with a stack like thf lartv vovnfpr's hut where for a few minutes the clinic looked like a war time dressing station. Five others were treated as Wyckoff Height Hospital. Driver Edward Murphy of the Bushwirlc ambulance, who reached the scene shortly after the crash, said there was no panic or hysteria among the passengers. With Dr. None of the passengers was in- Mrs.

Thomas Manvillr Los Angeles, April 17 (Pl Dropping all thought of a Reno divorce. Mrs. Tommy Manville, wife of the asbestos heir, is flying back to New York today to rejoin her husband. The former Marcella Edwards of the stage came to Hollywood a week ago today on what was to have been a month's "marital vacation" from her sportsman-husband. While here she disclosed after boarding an airplane for the East last night she thought of obtaining a Nevada divorce.

But daily long-distance telephone conversations with her husband convinced the former actress that she didn't even want a "marital vacation." For seventy-ve years we lTave Keen pletlge'd to one cause, and one only service to our depositors, 'trough loyalty to them we have gone forward crselves. There is no other way We have no stockholders for whom we must make' money. This isi mutual savings Every penny above rutiing expenses goes to our de-1 positors as intent, or into a reserve fund for their protection. The Dime Saving Bank of Brooklyn is nov? serving more thai 200,000 depositors. We believe there is a id connection between that fact and three quarts of a century of loyalty and with white smoke coiling over-jhead.

It looks like some of the early models on exhibition in Grand Central Terminal. It is pulling sev Blumberg Upheld By Crews in Vote On Insurance Bill in conference with John R. Crews, the new Republican county leader. "The Senator did the right thing," said Crews. "I'm for him a thousand percent." The Senate has before It today the bill of Assemblyman Aaron F.

Goldstein, Brooklyn Democrat, making it a misdemeanor for corporations to withhold security given it by em- jployes who are required to furnish Greater Interest In Politics Urged Katie Hlireau, Capitol Building. Albany, April 17 Senator George Blumberg, Brooklyn Republican and lone O. O. P. member from New eral iaaea cars.

Long benches run across the cars. There are dozens of signs. One infracts passengers with dogs where to sit. Another points out that there are no locks on the doors and that to open them while in movement is dangerous. A third calls attention to the fact that agents of the company have been "wounded" recently by objects thrown from car windows.

60-Mile-an-Hour Bumps Whistles are being blown. Bump, bang, lurch. We are off. At last the tunnel walls, massy and damp, are sliding past. The cars sway Michael Bongiorno, he herded the injured into the ambulance.

Mixed signals and slippery tracks, company officials explained, were responsible for the crash, which threw many of the passengers from their seats, shattered windows in both cars. The Wilson Ave. trolley was Jarred completely off the track, but was restored to the rails by Police Emergency Squad 16. Neither Motorman Abraham Sin-gimond on the Wilson Ave. trolley nor Motorman Thomas Taylor of the Gates Ave.

car was injured. Eight passengers were aboard the Dates Ave. car and 30 on the other. Injured treated at hospitals are: Waiter Sodolski, ol, of 669 Gates eontuiions. Mrs.

Marth TJlrich, 50, of 78-07 8Jth Glendale, contusions. Mrs Ler.a Onrraputo. 48, of 100-17 81st done Park, abrasioni nd contusions. Theodore Werderman, 66. of 879 Gats lacerations.

Joseph Walker, 32, of 144 Wetrfield abrasions. Mrs. Olive Cacaci. 41, of 218 Weirfleld sprained left ankle. Mrs.

May Cherol. 41. of 384 Harman bruised forehead nd shock. Dons Cherol. 12.

daughter of Mrs. May Cherol, lacerations of the left foot. Miss Oiga Smoller, 28. of 842 Saratoga contusion. Mrs.

Laura Losendat 66. of 515 Macon contusions and lacerations. Morris Hoffman, 34. of 266 abrasions and contusions. Mlsa Mary Lombardo.

20. of 185 Manhattan contusions. Morris Oilier. 29, of 581 E. 94th abrasions.

Edward McMahon, 30. of 977 Greene sprained back. Max Hoffman, 28, of 2305 Douglass abrasions. Annette Brosman, 16, of 701 Lafayette Ave Helen Kaufman. 14, of 500 Montgomery Bt.

Davis Llnstn, 14. of 171 Stuyvestant Ave. a bond in connection with their job. It passed the Assembly last night. A bill permitting the Hotel St.

George to increase from 50,000 to 100,000 gallons its daily withdrawal of water from underground sources passed the Senate last night. It was introduced by Senator James J. Crawford, Democrat from the district in which the hotel is located. York City In the upper house, said today he had made possible the passage of the unemployment Insurance bill because It is "high time progressive and forward-looking'' laws are passed by the Legislature. The bill, requiring employers to A greater public interest in politics is the best way to obtain better government, William Slater, headmaster of Adelphi Academy told the members of the Central Mid-dav Club at the monthly luncheon at Bedford Y.

M. C. Munroe St. and Bedford this noon. "The government is constantly expanding its functions." he said, "to keep abreast of these developments The Dime savings bank of Brooklyn DEKALB AVENUE Ad FULTON STREET 86th STREfc AND 19th AVENUE Ftatbuthi CONEY ISLAND vVE AND AVENUE set up reserves, would have been defeated by the insurgency of Senator John J.

McNaboe, Tammany Democrat, if it had not been for violently, the wheels evidently being square instead of round. The jouncing would indicate 60 miles an hour, but the tunnel walls are still only receding at a five-mile-an-' I hour rate. After half of eternity, a station i appears. Grinding and groaning, i the train stops and rests five minutes. We are already at Denfert, a BROOKLYN, EW YORK Blumberg's vote.

The other Republicans voted in the negative. "I believe that no matter what slight weakness the bill may have had, It is high time progressive and forward-looking legislation like this LOVE ASSAILS BAR The Brooklyn Bar Association's "cool" attitude toward the Buckley bill to stiffen penalties for perjury was assailed last night by former State Senator William L. Love in his weekly addrass over radio station WBBC. The Buckley bill, which comes before the Legislature for action this week, satisfies the demands of judges driven frantic by rampant perjury in the city's courts. Love said.

should be Instituted," said Blum- between the stations, yet here he is catching up and passing us. I grab a seat cushion violently and open the window. Now I know why those railroad agents were "wounded!" It was because the passengers were jealous of trackwalkers who could reach their destination so much quicker than the train! A WITH us Rl WITH us berg. Crews Praises Act Before he went into the Senate chamber last night Blumberg was whole eight blocks from the first section, and still deep in the heart of the city. A trackwalker appears, striding valiantly.

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