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rr BROOKLYN EAGLE THURSDAY FEB 13 T94T Rush on New Library Strips Third of Boplcs Central Library Open Only ef Week Forced To Limit Borrowings Ferguson Reveals WIDER SCOPE URGED IN COUDERT PROBE I Windels Outlines Plan for Tactual Audit1 Of City's Entire Educational System The legislative committee which so far has concentrated Its Investigation on subversive activities In the public school system took another course today when Paul Windels committee counsel recommended that a professional appraisal be made of the educational system si a In one week Brooklyn readers stripped clean most Of tbe shelves of new books In the Brooklyn Public Library's new central building Dr Milton Ferguson chief librarian re- vealed today At the close of its first week of Caplin Witnesses Take Stand Today I Defense counsel prepared to call several witnesses today in ths County Court trial' of Hymie Caplin picturesque fight manager charged with directing the operations of a caid sharp' Ting Caplin U' accused of fleecing Simpson Manhattan-' bulsneis man of ISAM 'in tww crooked cant games at the Hotel St George In the Spring of 1936 After the State rested its case yesterday Judge Parker Birancato denied several motion for dismissal of the indictment saying he would net permit "this group of thieves-to get away on Two defense wltnesKa yesterday tariffed that Caplin was out of town during the time the presecu- tion contended he -was discussing' distribution of profits from ths swindle functioning the central circulation department found more than one-third of its-Immediately available circulating books borrowed Dr Ferguson said the library had been forced to limit new borrowers to ooe book arid card-holders to two-books each High school students who crowded Into the building by the hundred the day It opened had to barred because the young people's roonl'wKh a special col- lection was not petij lor their use Lack of staff members prevents servicing of the main collection of abmit 370000 books housed in stacks below the street level Dr Ferguson aid The adult registration for the week was' 1488 Books borrowed totaled 3135 The attendance In the children's room was 3960 About 900 children took out cards and 950 bfoka wer borrowed Wltf Wotltf pholi EMANCIPATION The slavery known as if) the Armywillbe considerably lightened when this mechanical potatd peeler is put into use by military mashers Who will be armed with a screw driver instead of a spud knife whole This would Include a study of policies administration methods of appointment and tenure of the public schools and college to be conducted by members of the faculties of two eastern universities according to tlw plan outlined in a letter sent by Windels to Assemblyman Herbert A Rapp and State Senator Frederic CouderV chairman of the committee The plan came on the heels of a refusal by the Teachers Union to turn over its rpembershlp lists before ordered to' do ao by the courts Fights Ehbpesa la Court The group has instituted proceedings In the Supreme Court to vacate a subpena for he lists Issued by the Rapjr-Coudert committee and the motion Was to be heard today Veford Supreme Court Justice Morris Eder in Manhattan Wflllaih Mulligan -Jr who acted for the Teachers' Union Id Its throe-month Unsuccessful fight to retain Its rolls ha been retained by 'the college teachers In his recommendation more fully to study the school system Mr Windels reported that ft leading mld-Westem university president in outstanding authority In the field of had agreed to serve as consultant He declined to Identify the university or the prod' dent and explained that it might embarrass them If no agreement was reached -15 School Heads Consulted He said a budget and detailed specifications of the soope of the survey had been submitted to the committee atari that 15 presidents of universities were consulted in planning "in effective course of action to be followed if and when the Legislature gives Its approval' The counsel warned that Investigations of this kind sometimes failed because they attempted to cover too much ground The first Job of the suggested professional staff he said should be a "factual of the education system After that he added the committee could aim st certain definite objectives such as simplification id the educational set-up improvements in administration and reduction of expenses HO said that ha didn't want the new staffs reports burled in bound volumes and 'pointed out that factual proof and expert opinion In support or recommendations should ha submitted orally In the form of testimony at public hearings Scouts Deny Official Pledge To Aid Woman on Barge Brooklyn Council Boy Scouts of America officials denied today that the organization had -promised to intervene with Mayor LaGuanUa or any other city officials tor Mrs Elizabeth Auterhoff 56-year-old widow who Uvea on a barge She has been ordered to vacate the barge which Is tied up at a city owned dock In Min Balsin off Plat-bush Ave At (he office of the council It was explained that several Sea Scouts aa Indtyiduals had offered to aid rMs Auterhoff repair her barge In the Spring so that it could be moved The offer of helix lt was Id did not come from the Sea Scout organisation mil WorM yhtti HONORS Robert Summers 97-year-old Civil War veteran lays a wreath at the base of the Lincoln Statue in Prospect Park during exercises yesterday Scout Daniel Cocke of Troop-124 assists him' Civil War Vet Recalls First Sight of Lincoln Summon GAR Head Speaks at VFW: Rites League Club Hears Col McDermott SENSATIONAL TOBIN OFFER ft A man who aaw Abraham Lincoln and watched his struggle with the forces of a divided country told about it yesterday In Prospect Park at ceremonies which highlighted Lincoln Day observances held thoughout the borough Robert Summers 17-year-old County Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic delivered the principal address at the annual Lincoln 'Day program of Comrade Post 987 Veterans of Foreign wars held at the Statue of the Civil War President in the flower garden of the park' His talk made In a strong voice was the story of his own experience In the Civil War and his first sight of Uncoln Mr Summers enlisted In Brooklyn and went by transport to Virginia when be fought In 90 A MOST LUXURIOUS FUR-SOFT SILKY LUSTROUS Thasa Bae waaring skina ora moat unusued veduaa rarely obtainable at Ala low price Especially appropriate wlA that new Spring Coat or Bait which you will be wearing noon WPA Completes 47 Projects in Queens Forty-seven WPA projects In Queens Including work on streets and highways water supply and sewer systems parks playgrounds schools and hospitals were completed In the quarter-year ending Dec 91 it was announced today by Acting WPA Administrator Oliver A Gottschalk During the period the 'Queens WPA workers completed 347 miles of highway road and residential street Improvements A total of 339 miles of sidewalk and paths and SiJ miles of euriw was constructed Additional water supply for the borough was provided by the completion of 109 miles of cast iron water mains A total of 150 hydrants was Installed At LaOuanUa Field WPA workers completed a two-story brick and steel building for the Civil Aeronautics Board as wen as two parking lota at tha Administration Building OftH Toeite 9 CONEY ISLANP AVE AT BEVERLY RD BROOKLYN Wladnr 1-1507 OPEN 9 AM 1 9 PAL' GOP SPEAKERS ASSAIL WILLKIE'S STAND ON AID Fih' Nyo Taft Score Ex-Nominoo as Ha Pleads Far a 'Positive' Policy Sharp differences of opinion on the meshanicB of American aid to' Britain today were indicated In the Llncoln Day speeches of Wendell Winkle and other Republican orators throughout theepuntry-Wlllkle appealed' fiir the co-operation of Republicans In furnishing prompt American assistance to Groat Britain and challenged the Republican party last nlghtj to a' positive dpOtrine" Re spoke at the annual Lincoln Day dinner of the Rational Republican Club Hit Terms af Aid BUI Some of the other Republican orators throughout the country sharply criticised the terms of the pending lend-lease bill which WU1-kle has Indorsed with modifications Winkle declared that am here to challenge you to a higher fate than compromise negation and death" He urged the Republican party to seise "a golden and take the lead In furnishing American equipment to "the fighting men of Representative Hamilton Fish of New York Who led the fight in the House against the bill charged In a Republican rally to Baltimore that Wlllkle "is now beating the war drums more furiously than the interventionists and war-makers of the Democratic Rye Taft Scars WlOki District Attorney Thomas Dewey of Manhattan speaking in Washington expressed the hope that the bill would pas but in such form that it could receive the support of both political parties United States Senator Gerald Rye Republican of North Dakota attacked Wlllkle In a speech at Philadelphia as did Senator Taft of Ohio in a speech at Harrisburg Ps Franco Duce Reach Accord Continued from Page 1 reorganisation of Europe" were discussed as well is problems affecting the two countries at this moment The lastmears "the Mediterranean and Africa" this sourcs declared "It can be added that the military and political circumstances of the moment underline Importance is also symptomatic that General Ptanoot who never had personally met Duce cams to talk with him on Italian territory" Qualified observers said (bat Spain's Immediate entry into the war probably was not even proposed although they said Spain might esmtually become a base for attack on Britain's Mediterranean gateway-stronghold Gibraltar franco left Italy this morning by Serrano Suner Unofficial sources i 1 a a Franco was expected to halt en route to Spain to confer with French Chief of Slate Marshal Philippa Pekin somewhere along the Rlverla irane Meets PeUla at Herder Bern Switzerland Feb 13 Generalissimo pttrdsco Franco cf Spain returning from conferences with Premier Mussolini metPrerch Chief of State Fetaln this morning at the prench-Itellan border diplomatic sources reported today PTaneo and Petaht were reported to have driven by automobile to Arles where they lunched before continuing on the Montpellier where they were expected to part company Tlw purpose of the meeting with retain waa obscure The indications however that french officials wen preparing for full-dress diplomatic parley' Vivo premier Jean Darlan was known to bo with Petite on the Riviera and there were report! that Minister of the Interior Marcel Peyrouton might Join them Preach CemanudcaUens Cat Vichy France Feb 13 Communications between Vichy and southern Franco wen cut today' and It was indicated thia was associated with the fact that Gen eraliaaimo Franco of Spain and his suite wer traveling term the south returning to Spain Officials said no calls for the Riviera would be accepted before I pm Reliable sources raid they ex peeled the office of Admiral Fer-met secretory to the presidency (of the Council of Ministers) to be eliminated and Its functions tuned over to General Isure who Is member of Petaln's staff Friends of Pierre Laval who was ousted as Vice Premier and For- Boro-S I Tunnel Advocated as Vital Defense Measure fa! Capital Albany Feb The prapoaal for Brotklyn-BUten Island tunnel baa been revived State Senator Robert Minton Republican of the Rlchmond- Rockland district urging the tun' nel'a construction aa a meaeure vital to defense sponsored a resolution petitioning the New- York City Board of Zrtlmate to make 150000 available to the Rev York City Tunnel Authority for sound-Inge and borlnga Senator Johnson said the tunnel if built would serve to link defense on Long Island with than on Staten Island and along ti Jersey coast "Adequate national defense" he said "demands a direct route be established to connect these defenses" In a letter to Lt Ocv Charles PoletU the State defense coordinator tbs Senator suggested that the Federal Governments co-operation might be obtained to permit the beginning of Immediate construction work He said be had also communicated with Borough President John Caahmon of Brooklyn Dr lacoy to Address Greek-Amorican Group A general meeting of mem ben end Mends wlU he held tonight under the auspices of the Anchor Greek-American Society of Kings County In tfad parish hall of the Greek Orthodox Church of St Constantine Schermerhorn St The purpose of the meeting la to "stress the needs of the motherland" according to Ellas Brallss founder and president of the organisation and to arrange for an entertainment In behalf of the Greek War Felief Association on March 14 In the Palm Oarden 90S 52d at Manhattan Speakers tonight will be the Rev Dr Thomas Laoey rector of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and Thomas McPherson of the Naturalization Bureau DECIDE NOW TO GET BETTER HEAT AT LESS ALBANY STUDIES FLOOD OF IDEAS TO SLASH BUDGET Relief Funds Target Of Several Groups as 3000 Voice Views Albany Feb 13 Republican legislative leaden today studied hundreds of recommendations from civic labor and Industrial organisations for reducing Governor Lehman's £(5000000 budget The suggestions made at a six-hour public hearing before the Senate and Assembly Finance Committees yesterday Involved mpny phases of the Governor's fiscal program There wen demands for a flat cut of (12900000 but the several groups concentrated their protest on appropriations fur unemployment relief Seeking a (15900900 reduction in relief expenditures supporters of the proposal said the national defense program would virtually wipe out unemployment by 1943 The relief reduction campaign will be carried Into the private committee conferences by Assemblyman George Parsons Syracuse Republican Parsons described the Governor's budget recommendations as "hocus-pocus financial Approximately 3000 pereoni paraded before the committees About 50 members of (be Workers Alliance picketed in front of the Executive Mansion They carried algna accusing the Governor of seeking Insufficient relief funds While many groups sought reductions other organizations de mended further 'appropriations tor education the State Labor Department and unemployment relief William McC Martin president of the New York Stock Exchange asked the committees to revise the rates of ths stock transfer tax asserting that the present rates of three and four cents per (hare were driving business to other ex-change where the tax rate was si low as one-tenth qf a cent per share or where no taxes wi levied Fewer Suicides by Negroes Montgomery Ala (UA-SIx times as many white persons commit suicide In Alabama as Negroes Asur vey of the State Health Department discloses that only IS Regross killed themselves In this State task year as against SIS white persons Errol Flyitn Buys Ranch Honolulu Feb IS The Star-Bulletin said today that Rrol Flynn Hollywood movie actor had bought the large Huehue Bench on Hawaii Island for approximately 62500001 8 tel Dfi ft ORtittoe Kills BU Wefcirotae mt JikiMi Sti III ml ths Waifk HiSPhetas gvT nlatt Iraval fcaSk aviftMta tall mUi TtakaS Offiaa Trarai law Bawia hit frequent 1 1 0 trala service frsSl Brssklya I laWeiere CMse WesMeglea 8k UeU lew tom la Boro Queans Firms Gat 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