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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • 13

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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NEW YORK SUNDAY APRIL 22 1928 A 13 the rate of 2000 persons per minute In SANBORN MILLION Daylight Saving Starts HOFFMAN SEEKS CHANGE OF VENUE LEFT TO DARTMOUTH Sanborn's mother before her marriage was Mary Webster- daughter of Ezeklal Webster a brother of the famous Daniel Webster The rest oi the $1000000 fund a to be used for purchase of books and upkeep of the Dartmouth library Bequ3sts of 510 000 each ere mac tc thi Church cf Christ at Dartmouth in memory oi Mrs Mrry V'ebstex Babcock to the Da'-tuiouth Outin3 Club for th'i purchase of equipeut £nd to Pobert Hammond of 77uh st this bore URGED STSTION II Iff! ST LINE COST 5618000 Naval Bureau Approves $13000000 for Buildings Tplhuhington April 21 The Navy Department was preparing today to transmit to Congress the naval shore building program involving aa expenditure of approximately 11 000-000 The program was approved yesterday by the Budget Bureau The Budget Bureau also approved an increase in the cost of repairs and modernization of the battleships Nevada and Oklahoma from $13150000 to $13600000 and allowed an addition of $200000 to the cost of th obtain a fair and impartial trial by a jury on Staten Island The third trial has been set for May 7 in Richmond County Court "Hoffman always had told me he could not obtain a fair trial or Staten Island so I sent six operatives under Alexander Green and John Grossman there to obtain affidavits" Snit-kin told a reporter They obtained 150 affidavits from persons who said they were prejudiced against noff-man and they are obtaining more" Snitkin calls attention to the fact that 475 talesmen were examined before the Jury box was filled at the first trial Frar Prejudice at His Third Trial for Bauer Murder AppPcatin for a el-ange of venue for th hLd t-itT of rem Hoffman of moving picture ope a to accused of tue murder of irc Maude 1 Bauer on Mach 1924 was filed in St George yesterday by forme Judge Leonard A SiitMn counsel for Hoffman SniKin mriitains Hoffmrn cannot Attorney 'a Will Provides for Hev Memorial iuudi-ig ApprjximcteV 1OC3000 was left to Dartmouth Ooilegi at by Edwin Wehcter Stillborn rttirtd uttorner uf 375 Pari ave Manhattan who died on March 18 it wa disclosed in the will of Mr Sanborn which was iiled in Surrogate's office today He vs a son of the late Edwn Sanborn who was head of the English department at Dartmouth CoUege To erect building tc be known as Sanborn House $400000 is given to tin? 'ollege with instruction that it be to pomo'e the -nterests of U12 -epartnont of Elh fcanborn House i-nd thj Lbrpiy building ara to b3 construction of the submarine V-4 Next Saturday Midnight Put Clocks Ahead I Hour New York automatically goes on daylight-saving time at midnignt next Saturday The clocks go ahead an hour ther and for the rest of the spring and curunr the city Ivel'e-s will je ole to aLe advantage oi the extra r-oi-r ol light It all ends the last Saturday in September however when the of licial winter grind oegLis Althougi the Board of Aldermen hasn't passed a lormal resolution and may uot the XAe passed wo years ago stands Tie Board didn't bother to paoS a resolution last year cjid probably will not now But it is not expected that New York will have anytliing like the difficulty that is facing Ithaca a-id Cornell University Up there the town on Eastern Standard time and will pro'opbly remain so But the ollegt in order to mak enough iayliglit for football practice thi: spring has decided -o conduct itelf on daylight-saving time It ir quite certain that Ithaca is dw lar some interesting mixuns making the total cost Wen Declared Against Spain 3d Years Ago Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the declaration of war against Spain According tc the records of the War Department 51 of the present 95 major and crigadw generals oi the Reg-al? 1 Army served in the Spanish- American War most them on the day hostilities were declared on April 21 18S8 National On? rd units iu this boro will hold gatherings of veteranc during the coming we3k to commemorate the event 1 m3zy Transfer Terminal to Relieve Congestion at Canal St Board of Transportation an-JJLj yesterday that a contract SfJ awarded during the coming Zk for the construction of addi-S transfer facilities between the Street "Eastern Line and the ay-Fourth Ave Line of the system at Urrion Square Ln Manhattan which when ZZZud will accommodate 40 00000 passengers annually help to relieve the present trans-Sri-i'4stion at Canal si 11 bids for me construction of enlarged transfer passageways 'X union Square -Park received fSe board last we-k showed Hart Co "Established Nearly a Century" FULTON AND SMITH STREETS BROOKLYN axd to his vo sisters Kate SenbOiTi and Mrs Mary Webster Babcock Mr I one direction In order to provide for this added rapid transit facility and to permit of sufficient headroom over the mezzanine platform it was necessary to raise the level of the grade of Union Square Park In this connection it is proposed to relandscape the park area and beautify it The program for this improvement calls for the relocation of the existing historical statues It is proposed to clear the malls and paths of the park of all monuments or other ornaments which might impede pedestrian traffic The relandscaping program embraces a clan for the erection of the Liberty flagpole containing -a copy of the Declaration of Independence in bronze This is to be set up in the center of the park The statue of George Washington is to be moved cut of the highway and into the park to facilitate the traffic situation at 14th st and 4th ave Expect Big Increase In its plans for enlarging and improving the transit facilities at Union Square the members of the Board of Transportation have also had in mind the increased traffic from the proposed extension of the 14th st subway line from its present terminus at 6th ave and 14th st to a point between 8th and 9th aves This extension will enable passengers to make connection with the City's new subway system under 8th avo Traffic experts for the Board of Transportation estimate that when the 14th Street-Eastern Line is extended and open this summer to East New York through a connection with the present Broadway (Brooklyn elevated line the traffic at the Union Square station of the 14th Street-Eastern subway will be 26000000 passengers annually At present with limited facilities the transfer traffic between the Broadway line and the 14th street line of the system at Union Square is 60000 passengers daily in the morning and evening rush hours At present the Canal Street transfer facilities between the Broadway-4th Avenue line and the Jamaica East New York and Canarsie lines of the system require approximately 37000 passengers in the morning rush EDUCTION PALE taciosedUransfer connection be-ZJnthe elevated and the subway ST 149th St and 3d aye in the St the low bidder The bid is CHILDREN COrTTUC? CI LB The course of lures lessons in parliamentary lay end nubile speaking given at the Children's rusum tor tha boyc and giru was completed yesterday afternoon at thJ museum with a large group of children in attendance The instructor Mrs Esther Coster of The Eagle gave each child an opportunity to speak on an assigned subject Ihe children during the course learned how to organize an actual club draw up a constitutions and wa-laws and the necessary formalities of conducting a meeting POST HALL Third Avenue at State Street The Newest and Most Conveniently Located Residence Club fcr Business and Professional Women (25 to 50 years ot age) Operated by A of Brooklyn Hot and cold water and telephone in each room attractive furnishings use of library swimming pool gymnasium roof garden A FEW CHOICE ROOMS LEFT Weekly rates $650 to $11 Triangle 1190 "23 50 The otner digs raiigeu "618777:50 to $97145550 rL new transfer faculties at Union St wiU consist of an enlarged Sanine with a platform area of Kno square feet which will be cqn-ZZaM ramps or passageways with Sl4th Street-Eastern mezzanine iL be twelve starways from new mezzanine to the Broadway-2Te train platforms and twelve Ser stairways to the 14th Street-aitim train platforms These additional facilities will ac-jBunodate passenger traffic over the entire mezzanine and ramp system at Newest High Qrade Spring COATS hours and 29000 passengers in the evening rush hours to cross on the street level of Canal st from Broadway to Centre st 68 mar 1928 I 1858 Founder Day Many of Them Are One-oa-Kmd Sample Coats Formerly Up to $165 A very exceptional sale exceptional because the savings come right at the beginning of the season exceptional because seldom can such high grade Coats be bought at such a popular price The materials include Kashmir Brameena Satin Faille Silk etc Every detail fur-trimming throw scarfs or beading Every proper shade with plenty of navy blues and blacks In Ludwig Baumann's 70th Anniversary I SIZES FOR WOMEN AND MISSES A YEAR AND A mTune in Station WSGH Tuesday at 6:45 PM and Hear Mise Amy Farnsworth Stylist A Fashion Adviser of The Namm Store Talk on Spring Summer Fashions for Infants THE NAMM "A GREAT METROPOLITAN INSTITUTION" Biggest Day of the Year biggest day of our career is dedicated to the memory of the founder whose courage and vision made possible this Great Homefurnishing institution Each department is putting forth its best effort for this big day! Really a day and a half for we're going to stay open until 9 o'clock tomorrow (Monday) night Not everything will be half price but enough to furnish hundreds of homes Buy tomorrow for your future needs We'll hold your purchases until you're ready for them HALF TO PAY TERMS Purchase Deposit Monthly $100 $5 $600 200 10 1200 500 25 3000 1000 50 5000 2000 100 10000 Brooklyn Fulton Street TRIangle 6700 You Can Pay Weekly Open Tomorrow Until 9 Accounts Opened trom 5 to 93UUU HALF PRICE SPECIALS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT! PREMIER Has Created 3 New Models at 3 New Record Prices! To simplify the task of house cleaning and give new leisure to the housewife All three Premiers have a motor drive brush and super suction Each is for a particular need You need one Let us tell you which one and show you why you need it $1250 Allowance for your old vacuum cleaner $487500 of Living Room Suites Many HcrffTPricel $19600 Single Pieces Many Half Price! 6975 Duncan Phyffe Secretary mahogany veneer and gumwood $3975 2975 Two-in-One Tables Regularly $23950 75000 Sale Price $11975 44950 $5 First convenient payments make Payment it very easy for you to own one Mohair Suite reversible cushions 3 Pea Brocatelle or Mohair and Frieze down cushions 2 Pes All Mohair and Frieze or Damaek all colors down cushions solid mahogany hand carved frames 2 Pes Mohair all over and Frieze 3 Pes Overstuffed Mohair and Moquette 3 Pes Lawson Suites all mohair down cushions 3 Pes Chesterfield Suite with John Bunny Chair all over Mohair and Frieze 3 Pes mahogany imish on gumwood 2475 Odd Chests mahogany finish on gumwood 595 Book Trough mahogany finish on gumwood 1495 1698 298 34500 23975 19850 55000 78500 49800 31900 29800 67500 99500 Junior $6G if 2450 Tea Wagons in rad or black with Japanese decorations 1875 2375 Telephone Sets in $337500 of Dining Room Suites Many Half Price! 1750 1975 Regularly Pes Duncan Phyffe Mahogany Veneer 10 $43900 Sale Price $28750 46950 manogany iinisn on gumwood 3950 Spinet Desks in mahogany and gumwood 5950 Odd Dressers wahxUi- and gunwood $110 Tuxedo Sox? in tapestry-designed denin Chinese Chippendale Mahogany Veneer 10 Pes 65900 French Renaissance Walnut Dining S975 I Room Suite imported genuine Macassar ebony tops 10 Walnut Veneer and Gumwood 10 Elizabethan Walnut Veneer 10 Spanish Dining Room Suite 10 $12000 Reed and Fibre FURNITURE 8895 Odd Reed and Fibre Settees in assorted cretonnes $1698 1975 to $39 Odd Reed or Fibre Chairs and Rockers 984 5975 Loom Woven Suites 3 Pea "Cafe au Lait" decorated 3975 16950 Stick Reed Suite 3 Pes Antique ivory decorated 12500 475 Bar Harbor Chairs of natural willow 298 H75 Odd Tables of Reed or Fiber 698 1198 Fibre Suite 3 Pes Robin Egg Blue decorated 12900 Hundreds of Chairs Many Half Price! 27-50 Cogswell Chairs tapestry or velour $1 874 3250 Karpen Occasional Chair Solid Walnut 1874 595 Birch Finished Mahogany Windsor Chairs 298 6450 Club Chair Tapestries or Damasks 4975 4500 Occasional Chairs in a selection of Mohairs 2248 3850 Georgian Wing Chair Damasks Tapestries Inezes 5975 850 Cogswells in Mohairs' nd Tapestries down cushions 6975 4750 Needlepoint Tapestry Occasional Chair 3950 Open Tomorrow Till 9 99500 21975 3980O 54500 175000 29800 54500 108900 Pes Pes Pes Pes $415000 of Bedroom Suites Call TRlargle 57C0 for ctemorstralioh in your own home Many Half Price! Regularly Beds and Bedding Many Half Price 7 2753 our Poet Ped--ali sizes $1369 2850 Cretonne Coerea Pungaiow Daybed 3550 WaLiut Metal 2nd Double Daybed creconns covered 7775 5450 Wood Erd "Rome" Pes $37500 Huguenot Walnut Veneer and Gum-wood 4 Louis XVI Suite JDiamond-Matched Walnut Veneers 7 Pes 77900 Sale Price $23750 38900 107500 29350 36900 42500 44900 Kelvinator Electric Refrigerators 10 Down Refrigerators and units for your own ice box with a long record of satisfactory service-giving behind them Call us or write for booklet and we will show you how to solve your refrigeration problems Priced at $210 and upwards 3259 Heppelwhite in Crotch Mahogany with marble tops 7 Pes Blue Enamel hand decorated 7 Pes Earlv American in Maple 7 Pes Walnut Veneer and Gumwood 4 Pes Spanish Suite carved 7 Pes 135000 395X0 45000 85000 57500 Special! Nammson Vacuum Cleaners Regularly $4475 $25 Double durabk Lick 6950 Kroenler Revolving Double Dcybed tapestry upliclscereu 119 Sticlcley Daybed -Laoesti ies 1335 opn conatrjetion coil sprnig- -all skea 1498 100 Cotton Layer Felt Roil -Ddge HI si'JS 3990 Wood Finiih Soiic Panel Metai Bet1 al c5icres 4975 875C 684 749 Savage Health Motors reeom- Ludwig Baumann A Porcelain Washers priced $1S5 and $175 Ironrite and Gray-Bar Ironers $155 and $165 Conover Dish Washers $140 mended by beauty specialists as ideal reducers Convenient terms 0ur Ony Brooklyn Store Hoyt and Livingston Streets Vmmi'i Mlectrieai Appkanc fourth Floor 174S oitiorrow Tll 9 STOKES Open All Are on Sale at Out Household Branch Stares JNEWYOKK STORES Jamaica 90-87 Sutpbin Boulc rvjue? rf ook'yn 1137 Flatbrak Avenue Rrckoiinser 9716 Jamaica 562C.

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