The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • 2

BROOKLYN EAGLE FRIDAY DECEMBER 15 1939 BROWNING KING Ingersoll Leads 300 on Tout Of $5000000 Central Library Aid to Finland Pair Purged By Reds Take Roto to Union Garment Local Officials Explain Rtand to 30000 'Feather flew today In a verbal battle between the Communist parte and 'leaders of (he Drewnaksrs Union Local 22 of the International ladies Garment Workers Union a result of the expulsion from the party of two union officials who had refused to follow the new parte Five other Oommunlste who are officials of the union announced their withdrawal from the party beeauw of the purge and the seven distributed leaflets explaining their stand among the 20000 union members The two expelled were Ben Ger-oy and Sol Upnack both business agents They were Joined by Hyman Grossman and Meyer Krsvets hurt' ness agents Manrls Rosenberg ex ecutive board member and Abe Fell and Isidore Gnu adjusters Hopes to Have Agency Organized There -Within 24 Hours Former President Herbert Hoover who yesterday took personal charge of the Finnish Relief Fund drive to aid civilian victims of the Russian Invasion of Finland entered Into negotiations by transatlantic' telephone today with a farmer European relief associate In Paris If these negotiations succeed Mr Hoover said he will have a representative in Finland In 34 hour to take charge of organising the -receipt and distribution of food clothing and medicines among the war sufferers The situation in Finland Mr Hoover said In an interview la distressing' "Seventy percent of the people mostly women and children have had td be evacuated and the distress is Pre-Christmas values i For Yount Min of alf Ais 4 i SPORT SHIRTS 1 UlmtnttJ etocc) Sint 14-21 SfIS IqriiiiNI Vittal- Hade of One Peplla ur soft spas Kayea la wild Blue (hmt Lamia Ts Moore Warns Mayor Against Ban on Buses i' New Jersey Governor Threatens Legal Action on Issue 4 Denton J' Dee 15 Gov A Harry Moore protested today to Mayor LaOuardla of New York against a projected ban on operating Interstate buses in a prescribed see tion in midtown Manhattan and threatened legal action to forestall the move "The situation" Moore told La Guardi in a letter "la of such a serious nature that fad constrained to advise you that if the plan to promulgate it to adhered to I wUl request the attorney general of ths State of New Jersey to take whatever appropriate measures may be necessary to protect the dtizens at this State from what I believe la unfair discrimination" Moore said that barring Interstate buses from the midtown area would result "not only in distinct inconvenience to 80090 New Jersey daily commuters who use the interstate buses but will destroy on of the substantial Industries of my State Pointing-out that there had been co-operation between New York and New Jersey such aa ths Port of New York Authority which operate bridgae and funnels Moore told La-GuanUa: EXTRA FARR FOR JERSEYITES "It was not Intended by our State that these facUltlee should be limited to use by private automobiles or trucks as persona without private motor conveyance are certainly entitled to motor bus transportation If that means la more flexible and adaptable to their needs "Your proposed plan will result in such Inconvenience and unnecessary delay as to render the (bue) service worthless There will be placed upon these thousand of commuters the further of an extra fare and the hardship of endeavoring to get to their destination through your local facilities which already overtaxed and overcrowded "This order if adhered to will result (due to the inconvenience caused to the patrons of the Into' state bus Rnaa) in the loss of a great deal of business to all the mercantile establishments of your city "New York City has spent nnf of dollars in the promotion of the World Fair In order to foster good will and attract virttora and business to thsdty from 'all parte Of the world Certainly this order which win result in unjust discrimination to your closest neighbor and beat patron la sot consistent with tip policy at good will which you have heretofore Mum Harriet Rlghter president of the Friends of the Brooklyn Public Library expresses pleasure at the completion of the Central Library during Inspection of the new building Left to right Borough President Ingersoll Edwin JL Garvin president of the library board who has Just been appointed County Judge Miss Rlghter and Dr Milton Ferguson' chief librarian- (Wide World photo) 1 Acknowledgments Cantributiens to ths Finnish Belief Fund reccin' by the Brooklyn Eagle today reached a total of of 1995 Latent eantrlbottons were: Anna JL Nellaoa S5A9 Lawrence WU4 I0t Be KNWHMI 0 IB Sturt BtebiMnk Mi Mrs 1009 A Halteek 5A9 Cb Biles Knndaen Mi Bobby nnd Arthar 1AI Theodora Stitt 1M9 Total today S4MS Frevtonrty acknowledged All Wool KNITTED MUFFLER AND GLOVE SET Slnil-21 $225 Tefal ISMIMII1 I The eel in solid Green IhreMi or Canary Yellow CHARGE The Comm uni it party through Its chairman Israel Am ter accused the ousted men "going over to the enemy" and charged that "whenever the going became tough they wavered doubted and otherwise deserted the struggle" In their leaflet the seven former Communists replied of us aw known to the dressmakers as people who have served the dressmakers actively for many years We will continue to aorta the dreasmaken and the entire labor movement However we could not remain Indifferent when we recited that there an elements within our union who placed factional and party politics above the needs of the dressmakers and our union" Chules 8 Zimmerman manager of Local 32 commended the nun to their 'refusal to carry through the new policy of the Communist party which would lead to disruption our organise tlaon" In lta expulsion statement the State committee of the Communist party said the party under fire from the "capitalist class and the fat an effort to "isolate our party from the masse that follow It" Meanwhile the Government pressed Its drive against Oommunlste It accuses of passport fraud A warrant was teuad yesterday to Jack Stachel former executive secretary the national committee of the Communist party Who has been sought as a necessary witness since Oct 2 Bari Browder executive secretary of toe party in America is under indictment on passport fraud chargee as are Robert William Weiner the party financial secretary and Harry Gannce a columnist and editor on the Daily Worker party organ Gannee has been a patient in Jewish Hospital ainea Wednesday With the 15000000 Central Library Building on Grand Army Fiaaa completed aa a headquarters of "beauty and serviceability" the people of Brooklyn will become more conscious" and redouble efforts to Improve the borough 'k branch library system This prediction was voioed early last night by Borough President Ingersoll after inspecting the long-building three-story structure with IN members of the Friends of the Brooklyn Public Library and man than 200 members of the Library Staff Association The optimism Inspired in the Borough President by the appointments of the Central Building was echoed in brief addresses by Sr Milton Ferguson chief librarian and former Federal Judge Edwin Garvin who will resign as president of the board of trustees to succeed to County Judge William fclace on the bench on Jan 3 Introduced by Miss Harriet Rlghter president 'Of the Friends of the Library the person who had contributed most toward the new building' Mr Ingersoll remarked that lta construction had hot been hampered by "our rigid checkerboard system of streets" MAGNIFICENT SITE "Wo have here" he said "a magnificent site where hundreds of Predicts Borough Will Now Become thousands of people will be inspired by looking at thebuildlng which is well spited to serving children not only from schools In the neighborhood but from all parts of ths Explaining that "modern buildings excite me" and that he was too enthusiastic about modem art" the Borough President pointed out that "this is a modem building and a handsome not too modernistic but with a touch of the classical" Apart from spurring Brooklynites to seeking better locations to branch libraries many of which an now situated In stores he asserted that the new structure would aid adult education a field he added which this borough has led especially with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences" GARVIN ADDS FRAlSE Judge Garvin praised by Mr Ingersoll to "asking and fighting for" appropriations to complete the central building expressed belief that the benefits to be derived from the headquarters would do more than the trustees could to stimulate community action" Although at laaet 20 additional branch libraries are needed Dr Ferguson said the operation of the Central building would permit the borough system to be termed "satisfactory" 1 urging support of an appeal by Mr Ingersoll for donations of books the chief librarian disclosed an amp bltion to equip the new building with a reference library equal to that in the New York Public Library at 5th Ave and 42d BL Manhattan FUND FOR RARE BOOKS It was revealed by Miss Rlghter that the Friends of the Library has created a fund for the acquisition id rare volumes and will continue to provide works In more general demand The organization she said donated 1000 books to the library last year The visitors Inspected the Central building in group of eight and ten setting out from the Young People's Room and general circulation department on the first floor and going through the incomplete second story to ths administrative offices and cataloguing quarters on the top floor Later In the evening the library Staff Association presented a play Mystery id the Third Floor" by Thomas Gilbert Brown -r-gHt Retirement Of Geoghan Is Approved County Salary Is Cut to $22500 a Year Put Ooramiuloner Mom1 M000-000 program for tin atreumlinlng of Coney Island and lta Immediate area was a step nearer realization today following the speedy action of the Board of Estimate in approving 0 map of the improvement submit ted by Mr Moses At the came time the board appropriated 1822000 for the acquisition of four privately-owned parcels of land required for the project which includes widening of the beach and straightening of the boardwalk The total cost wlU be assessed against the entire city on the ground that Coney Island is an attraction for all New Yorkers a GEOGHAN BETIREMENT The board at its last regular meeting of ISM also voted to grant to District Attorney Geoghan a service retirement effective Dee 21 When he will retire to be succeeded by County judge -William O'Dwyer The amount of Mr Geoghanl pension was left for determination at later date 'His: salary is 120000 a year Another resolution adopted by the board reduces ths salary for the post now held by Judge Dwyer from 25000 to $22500 a year The change win be made when Judge O'Dwyer is sueeessed by former Federal Judge Edwin Garvin whose appointment to the vacancy recently was announced by Governor Lehman Borough President Xngersoll moved for ths adoption of the resolution providing for the acquisition of the land at Coney island The tract lies along the northerly side of ths boardwalk-and also is bounded by Stillwell Ave 12th St and 10th St It contains several buildings WILL MOVE BOARDWALK The map chance provided for the laying out of five additions to ths Coney Island beach and the near-by park -The area affected Is bounded by 15th St Surf Ave Sea Bieeee Ave and the boardwalk Tbs City Planning Commission paid the map provided for an additional 30 acre of private property atreet and park areas within the Coney Island beach tea by moving the boardwalk back 380 feet The board also adopted on the recommendation of the Planning Commission a resolution providing to aonlng change In territory-on the Rockaway Peninsula bounded by Jacob RUs Park the ocean from and Jamaica Bay Rale of Xmas Trees On Sidewalks Gets OX to display and aeU Christmas trees wreaths and other decorations on the sidewalk Mayor La-Guardia and John Cashmora vice chairman of the City Council decided at a conference late yesterday If owners of the property Involved approvy Pin Commissioner John- Me-Elllgott yesterday warned depart- tnent store to take special precautions with Christmas decorations end electrical wiring and to poit prominent notices' against smoking The principal firs hasards art in ths careless use of matches and smoking materials Us letter pointed out Stench Bombs Fail As Brdtcder Calls AallyWell Behaved Cambridge Man Dec 15 Al- though goo students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology alternately cheered and Jeered him Earl Browder said today he felt his audU enee was behaved" and called the meeting at which he spoke lively" one Speaking in a packed hall the atmosphere of which wae permeated the odor of a makeshift stench bomb Browder America's No I communist asserted yesterday that Russia's invasion of Finland was necessitated by the fact that Finland "refused to guarantee the safety of Leninrad" Ths student audience UsAd and Jeered this com ment They cheered and whistled however as Browder contended that the League of Nation which yesterday expelled Russia had "risen from its tomb" only because Its action meant "preparation for the holy war against Russia FLANNEL OR BROADCLOTH FAJAMAS Slut Ml $jI5 Jacket in Kiddie slipover style with notched caller: Solid rotors with ranlrasti (rim or rericM striping Mayor LaGuardla's Mew York City committee co-operating with the Fund which had grown to 106 members met 1h City Hail with Mr Hoover to plan maw meetings and other money-raising efforts in the city' MESSAGE FROM RYTI Mr Hoover wu In receipt of assage from Rlsto Ryti prim minister of Finland which read: 'People of Finland rejoice ve much that you Mr President known by people of Finland their cordial frtend for decades are again heading a movement for our distressed people In the uneven struggle against the outrageous attacker for existence and for the holiest and highest human values the people of Finland need every material and morel assistance that possibly can i given "Tie sympathies and the support extended to us by the great people America have a highly encouraging effect on ourselves and strengthen our confidence in the final victory of Justice and the forces of good over Injustlo and violence" Whether Mr Hoover had refused an offer from President Roosevelt to take dharge of war relief In Europe became lost in a series of progressively politer statements and counter-statements Mr Hoover at first said "there is not a word truth In the whole story" printed In the New York Dally News "It is a great pity" he continued "that people will start out to poison the wells of human charity That sort of stuff is an Injury to the Finnish people It Is an injury to the American Red Cross It doesn't hurt The reference wu to implication in the story that Mr Hoover refused the Presidential offer to act head of relief under the Red Cross so that he might have more time to run for President in 1940 the Wind9 Aivaits The IHxie Cheer: or Jeer onight FD at Hyde Park Works on Budget ALL WOOL FLANNEL ROBE ilhutnttd Mew) Sins 1-21 Just like reel grewmup wear! Iu Maroon cud Navy udth white piping outlined by themerlcan republics' MT Roosevelt however wsntedl full official information before commenting whether tho United States would take 4ho initiative in urging I representations to Great Britain and Germany Secretary Hull indicated yesterday that tho question might well be am for consultation by na-1 tiona of the Western Hemisphere I Atlanta Dee IB VJft-tAUanta opened its arms and doubled Its fists for tonight's premiers of "Gone With the Wind" Fbr -three hours and 47 minutes the Hollywood version id Margaret Mitchell's saga of the war between the States will be unreeled before hyper-critical audience of 30th Century Confederates Before midnight the town may be bunting for tbs second time because If ClaHc Gable's Rhett Butler isn't 100 percent Charlestonian and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara lent 24-karat mlddle-Oeorgta there'll be "hell to pey" Of the 2100 persona who will sit In Loewi Grand Theater for the first showing peroeht will be muskets smoked for the Stars and Bara back in 82 (tea misplaced "you and the rebel yell wlU sound again One faulty "sho-nuf" and Selznick Pictures Incorporated may be if not with the wind certainly with the box-office below the Macon and Dixon line Even Clark Gable has felt It despite the almost unbelievable welcome he wu given here In the midst of the Junior League ball last night at which 8000 persona came to their feet when Gable wu introduced he told me "Gone With the Wind" had gotten too big for him Vivien Leigh the little English girl wbo scarcely knew where Georgia wu when she was chosen Scarlett wept at thou- Highland Dec 15 President Roosevelt arrived her early today for a restful weekend at his Hyde Park home -Mr Roosevelt worked on next year budget seeking to pen even more th estimates of his Budget Bureau which In turn were estimated to be far below those of departmental heads At the same timq he carefully studied reports on the sea battle be-tween three British cruisers and the Oermln pocket battleship Graf Spee reports indicating the fight had taken place within the "security Banquet facilities Omfknkr iwfBfad i Firemen Hurt Collision Can tinned from Page 1 Lt Arthur Wallace 30 2715 Kings Highway Isperstions and contusions of the body face legs-and ankle and possible Tract tire of the spine Fireman Jacob Knablock driver of the truck of 146-57 Conroy St Jamaica Internal Injuries and Fireman Joseph De Long of 99-11 138th BL Jamaica fractured ribs and cute on the head and face The others injured were Firemen Alfred Bonanno Paul Valento and Constantino Mlnkevltch who suffered lacerations and shock but did not need hospital treatment They were taken to the headquarters of Engine Company 225 a few doors from the scene where they were attended All the injured men were mambere of Kook end Ladder Company 107 'The hook and ladder truck responding to a minor blare at 61 Berrlman 8L wu going along Liberty Ave at a fut clips The oil truck wu proceeding north on Ashford SL and had a green light giving It right of way tp all traffic except emergency and fire truck The hook and ladder truck struck the oil truck broadside drtvlngit Into the side of the building OIL FLOWS OVER STREET The' contents of the oil truck-1000 gallons of fuel flowed on the street Firemen from Engine Company 225 sprayed the truck with extinguishing foam and drove the oil down the sewers with how lines The Bergen 8L trolley line wu tied up on Liberty Are to some Ume and automobile traffic was detoured to Atlantic Avq Browning King ErKLYN: 547 FHTM STnrMULI OS Oym Xtay HtfU It deacendante of Johnny Betas whose sands welcomed her "back 10-Ycar-Old Warrant Brings Toughest df Fiesels Home chairman of the American Red bis secretary added A concert for the benefit of Finnish relief it was announced will be held at Carnegie Hall Wednesday evening Dee 27 Among the artiste who will perform then giving their services without charge are: Kirsten Flagstad Norwegian Aoprano Karin Braniell Swedish contralto Laurlta Melchoir Danish tenor Lawrence Tibbett American baritone and Eugene Ooossens togllih conductor Ball Roomi and Banquet Rooms equipped to kandl ornaR parties to dinners of I00dancts of 1200 Moderate costs outstanding monua Quotations furnished TOUIERS HOTEl OflMibs HasN Haiti CAH UTSCH Ooml Mbmt" OwteWWMrStLIrsBMya Taka TO Aa tor bpraw la dark fc iMIaa Opin Ar Extindid Chhrfi Account There are na rarrying charges Ou Dec purchases you pay only EARLY BAYS HR WAS ASKED From Stephen Early secretary the President came a statement in Washington that the President before the war started had requested Norman Davis chairman of the Red Crocs to ask Mr Hoover to become a sort of general manager of relief1 in Europe "and since nothing came of the effort apparently Mr Hoover did not want to accept" There followed a counter-statement from Lawrence Richey' secretary to Mr Hoover to the effect that confusion had arisen over two different things Mr Hoover had been asked to take over the work of transplanting five or ten million refugees to Africa but that proposal collapsed with the coming of the wu the wu Mr Hoover hu continuously supported Mr Davis Nealy Diamond Specialist 54 ycara in Brooklyn The toughest of the three Picsel brothers armed robbers and Ufa crackers came back to town today after a ten-year absence to answer a charge of sending a bullet through police sergeant's hat He iaFtankFleael 42 once of 24-32 list 8L Jackson Heights Florida chain gang fugitive who wu released yeiterdsy from the Western State Penitentiary at Pittsburgh after serving five years for a $2000 safe robbery there Detectives Arthur Edge and James Lynch iff the Bedford Ave Station were at the prison gate to meet him with a ten-year-old bench warrant charging felonious assault against Sgt John Padlan now a lieutenant They brought him to the police lineup at Manhattan headquarters today and then to Broklyn for Flesel back in 1929 was wanted along with Charlie end John for series of safe robberleb At 2 am Dec 13 1929 Padlan dropped Into a restaurant at 275 Broadway when he found Flank and John They opened fire Bo did Padlan John Flesel wu wounded Frank fired twice at Padlan missing once and nipping his hat with the second shot and then dived to escape through a window John wu sent away for a long prison term and Charlie was since shot and killed according to police in a robbery in the West Frank avoided police until he got to Florida where he got himself a chain gang term for clicking a safe He escaped by shooting a deputy sheriff in the back and made his way to Pittsburgh where he landed in prison ANNOUNCEMENTS PERFECT DIAMONDS only in tho following llzh Diamond solitairo ring $50-100-22550 atuddod wrist watekoo $125-250-1000 dipt brooch combination 8001350 Mmapphbo riage $175-300 bracelet $125-350-675 marquise solilabw ring $175-325-625 brooch $15225-550 dinner ring $12500500 Plan I Dinner The Long Island University Vanity Club will hold a meeting tonight at University Hall to discuss plans for an alumni dinner It-wai announced by Philip Olade president and former LLU basket baD captain The club is composed at former I athletes who letters In major spoyta AVSXLASLS nth ttomnS an lahtriUness ti ttaslUM Httiar Inhaittiaaa Ct Satin BUM BuUline X( TnL riiuHrlmla S-SIJT firms -ImatSltit nib ksadn tnuU umca 4H Si wti-rj 10 Hoppe Defeats Two Willie Hoppe won both games In his billiard exhibitions last night at Julian 14th street Academy He whipped Art Irwin 15 to 22 in a throe-cushion contest that went 28 innings In 110 balk line Hoppe turned beck Jack Moore 100 to 0 Top Card Auglo Erast boxes Artie Shepherd In a 147-pound bout and Georgia Finn faces Jesse Washington in 100-pound battle to make up the two five-round specials on the! 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