The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • 3

Deserted as Exiled Squatters Leave Barren Island School to jt ft lull Mif( Phot Public School 120 on Barren Island shown on the left will be deserted within the next 15 days when Park Commissioner notice to the to vacate takes effect The city will begin work on its new Marine Parkway across the mudflats soon In the center Carl Wills cement-worker reads the vacating order to three of this children (left to right) Caroline Teddy and John while Eva Dorothy Bnanuel and Jonn four others of his family of 11 all bom on the Island look on At the right are shown a few of the houses which will be vacated by nearly 100 families whom the city will move from the marshy low- lands Heartbreak Settles Over Barren Island 19 Brooklyn Elks Nominate Dc Lisio For-Exalted Ruler I a I la Unanimously Picked Elections to Be Held on Friday Anthony DeLlslo of Bay Ridge who has been esteemed leading knight during the past year waa unanimously chosen candidate for the poat of exalted ruler of Brook-lyn Lodge of Elks last night- at a meeting In the clubhouse 150 8 Oxford St: In addition to Mr DeLleio motion to close the nominations left the following slate: Jack Dnbereteln esteemed loyal knlgght Edward Callan esteemed lecturing knight Thomas Cults secretary Frank Primrose treasurer Nicholas 8 Murphy tiler Frank A Cooper trustee Municipal Court Justice George Joyce alternate grand lodge representative Klrrtlon Neat Friday The election of these officers win be lirld at a meeting next Friday night and their Installation will be conducted on the first Friday la April SHinurl Dnbenleln past exalted ruler and chairman of the grand lodge reunion committee reported several reservation received for the transcontinental trip to the Iioa Angeles' convention to be held brtween July 13 and 16 Jiwpph Donnelly chairman of the Mounted Guards announced the first annual horse show of the or-gnnlxntion would be held at Tee- vans Riding Academy on April 35 Thomas Mullaney chairman of the St Night committee advised the members that all preparations had been made for a gala Ume next Tuesday night James Talcott Pays Initial Dividend Directors of Janies Talcott Ine declared an initial quarterly dividend of cents per share on ita recently Issued 514 percent portlet-pptlng preference (lock ($50 par value) payable April 1 to stock hold-era of record at the close of buri-ness March 20 II Bishop to Preach In Boro Tomorrow Bishop Francis McConnell of the New York area of the Methodist Episcopal Church will occupy the pulpit at the 11 o'clock morning service at the First Presbyterian Church Henry Bl near Clark St tomorrow His sermon topic will be of Good WDStrack Leaves Estate of $428657 Wallace track former executive vice president of the Borden Company -who died June 7lh hut at the age of 45 left a gram estate of 5428657 and a net estate of $375-180 according to a transfer tax appraisal filed yesterday in Manhattan Surrogates Court Tlie bulk of the estate consisted of 1300AM In stocks and bonds Mr Strack also left $100871 in notes cash and Insurance and $20000 in real qptate Funeral expenses were listed at $21151 debts at (3715 and deductions for mortangee difficult to collect on at $28802 Beneficiaries of Urn estate are tlie widow Mrs Dorothy Strack and a daughter Patricia By GERTRUDE EMERICK ho romance any more In Steve McKeever's deserted glue works fallen walls and lagged glass windows are Just bitter reminders of the dark future that the folks who live on the mudflats of Barren Island have to face In the next 15 days The rotted piles that support the couldn't understand where the 6th A Backers Hail Weinberger Emanuel Weinberger and Mrs Anna McKnlght Democratic candidates for the 8tate committee from the 6th A were gurels of honor last night at a reception end dance In Mansion SOI Willoughby Ave More than 1000 member and friends of their Peoples Democratic Club hailed them as able to wrest the district from Republican control Republican County Leader John Crews hla brother Assemblyman Robert Crews Aledrman Samson Inselbuch and co-Leader Mrs Marguerite Kuhn were prominent among thou who paid respects But Weinberger's Democratic opponents for the leadership Reich and Comer were conspicuously -absent Henry Feldman a former Reich supporter wu chairman Introducing Executive Member Louis Heller who in turn introduced Candidates Weinberger and MrKnlght Weinberger celebrating hla 61 at birthday too asked for Democratic harmony to win the district The club will hold a rally for Ita candidates on March 17 at 8 148 Ellery St ahd Delmonlco Place Entertainment wu offered by vaudeville and radio stare Robert Bchurr heeded the committee which Included Edward Schaefer Jack Welsh uch Edward Brill and Max Ehrlich Wife No 1 Wins Separation Mrs Marguerite Wink of 10 Haus-tnan 8t who testified that her husband William Bernard Wlnk saving! bank teller obtain a spurious divorce and married Agnes Wallace a co-employe yesterday wu awarded decree of separation and $35 a week alimony by Justice Philip A Brennan in matrimonial branch of Supreme Court Mrs Wink told Justice Brennan yesterday that her husbqnd la living nearby with hla new wife yist of i Jtilih Ml be best- dathcr i Job to betec 1 ftp ft MJOti Jean hi nlatke out 111 pat to ma lOBthl en the But-Jeden of tte iblUtal tlWMp he coo km ef eipoad- i freed uka 3upnn tee ft telegrsa ry ore recorii reewd to to VLt floe tdd feet am ffQthu luoed to led vtt iptini to srgei chsrpj coha ad Juiy in would and to chattf Hanj iiD fho 1 or failed ned Out Johnvu 'ith ipropeh another whik io Dnk- Led Ate ye-In until eld ini Judin ch i tank mer dn I cute ora )n Mon-Id on ment oo flft do- arfH rfH ickad- Suffolk Makes Plans to Enter Tercentenary County Board and Representatives of Town- fillips Vote to Assist Continued from rage 1 other counties of Long Island were explained to those present by Smith secretary of the committee Smith explained that the Issuance of special half-dollar pieces if allowed by Congress would defray the expenses of the celebration He panted out that the coins would be mapped up by collector at a price 'above thel tactual value With the coining of 100000 pieces Smith laid 150000 could be raised by the general committee Would Allot Coins Following the Issuance of the pedal coins" said Smith problem will be to allot a portion of the general sum to each county I should think too that each county hould underwrite the expense! for a reasonable sum to bo paid when the coins are sold" As a highlight of the celebration Smith said an automobile caravan would be organised for a tour of the entire Long Island area It would atop he said In each county "If there la time he said trip wUl extend to Montauk Point If there la not time enough it will have to stop In each county seat" SetUere' Course Fropoeed A suggestion waa made by Morton Pennypacker of East Hampton that a voyage be made along the course followed by the first settlers In Suffolk County a course which would extend from Brooklyn along the math shoe to Southampton Pennypacker explained that a replica of the boat used by the first KtUers could easily be made and that a prise might be awarded to the person in the United States that would gueii closest the time required for the voyage He eald that numerous yachtsmen In the Hamptons were Interested In the proposed voyage and aald the trip might be followed by a modem motorboat race along the course Organisation Started the Long Island Chamber of Contender the guidance of Dobson of mere the actual organisation of committees was started by Mayor Bailey Mayor Bailey asserted he would be unable to serve aa chairman of the Suffolk! committee and suggested the chairman be a person who would be free to devote full time to the duties Involved in that position On the motion of Herbert Austin of this village it wu voted that the chairman be authorised to appoint an executive committee of ten or more persona and that that oody be authorised to appoint various subcommittees It waa also moved that the officers of the executive committee be chosen by members of that body To Name Finance Groap On the' suggestion of Dobson It as moved that a finance committee also be appointed with mem-free to be from each of the ten "ns In the county It Is expected that the members the two committees will be announced early next week according to Mayor Bailey Among those who attended the dinner were Supervisors Edgar A Btop Brookhaven Perry Dur-to East Hampton: Milton Burns Biverhead John Brennan Smith-ton Augustus Hildreth Southampton 8 Wentworth Horton Bouthold also Edward Jenlk tofdent of the Patchogue Round Ixble Club Louie Austin River- fitment until March 17 The petl-ned and Richard Culver super- i Mona of May Borjea the Wright highways Southern- designee for co-leader were rejected Intendent of Father of Baby Boy Held as His Kidnaper 300 Reservations Made for $10 Fete Of Jewish Women Federation Vice President However Warns Against Too Severe Campaign') Though roiling along smoothly with their 910-a-plate luncheon for April 28 at the St George Hotel the workers In the Women's Division of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities were warned against too much Individual campaigning for vice president of the entire Pedera-1 tlon Thirty-five women met for luncheon rally in the dining room at Abraham St Straus yesterday They were weU pleased with the more than 300 reservations that have been received re far and Mr-Rothachlld'i talk hit an entirely new note Ce-operatlm Need Stressed The women agreed however that a returh to a complete centralisation once more would mean greater success for all units composing the Federation and now receiving direct benefits from It Dr Joseph Schwarts executive director of the Federation also stressed the need for co-operation which will assure the Federation of continued activity Mrs Nathan Goldstein president of the Women's Division told the committee members to circulate widely the fact that the annual luncheon was a real luncheon and that funds are needed badly by the central office which la unable to fill all the budgets of the associated groups Mrs Clarence Bachrach chairman of the luncheon Mrs Joseph Rosenthal chairman of rallies Mire Jane Corby woman's page editor of The Eagle and Mrs Abraham Arons executive director of the Women's Division addressed the committee members Parents Received At Friends School The annual Open House Night of the Brooklyn Friends School 112 Schermerhorn St wu attended by more than 400 parents and guests last night who viewed the various projects and accomplishments of the student body during the current year Jean Stubbs president of the Student Council under whore supervision the affair wu conducted wu chairman of the evening after being Introduced by Georgs A Bamewen president of the Parents' Club The principal speaker wu Archibald Smith headmaster of the school who welcomed the visitors A brief report of the various extra-curricular activities of the school 'wu presented by the fid-lowing: Jeffrey Jennings Student Council Emllle Smith Library Club Robert MacCrate Mathematics dub Charles Spear Newspaper Ariine Raebllck dub New Yorker and the Senior Dramatic dub by Ruth Bamewall The assembly wu concluded with a play by the Junior Dramatic dub Who Pare While the Lentils Boll" by Stuart Walker and directed by Edna Conrad of the English Department Exhibitions of fencing and tap dancing were added features of the program Among the group In the dancing were France Trainer Eleanor Field Peggy Wlndels Ham nah end Betty Avery The fencers included Monroe Grossman Martin Johnson Vincent Murphy and Eugene Blsrell Adelphi GirlsHold Athletic Dinner About 120 members of the girls' athletic association of Adelphis Academy and their mothers were present last night at the annual dinner given by the group at the academy 282 Lafayette Ave Two diver cups were given to the association to be awarded annually for individual competition In basketball and tennis The Phi Oamma Sigma Sorority cup will ha given to the best' girl basketball player and Mrs Rebecca Martin Bister gave a cup to be awarded to the heat girt tennis player Mire Mary Bishop president of the association acted toastmaster end Introduced Mrs A Callaghan president of the Perent-T sac hen Association of the school Mias Marion Eno physical education director Mias Dorothy Back-man captain of the basketball team and Mia Dorothy Lamb captain of the hockey team The committee of students In charge of the dinner Included Mire Bishop chairman Mire Dorothy Wlachman decorations and the Mines Gloria Peterson Virginia Colopy Viola Ootthelf Janet Rich Mire Lamb and Mire Beckman 1 by the Board of Elections yesterday Among the acts drawing repeated rounds of aplaure from the audience were the song and dance entitled Boys Who Saw and the first act finale In which a slave girl of the South played by Mrs Wagngr melts the heart of Overseer Kleng Nelson and wins her freedom and a place on Broadway through her singing Other highlights were Mire Mae impersonation of 1 West Dene Outer's rendition to the accompaniment of backstage hammering and a burlesque drill engaged In by nine metiers id the auxiliary The entertainment will be presented again In April for the veterans at the Castle Point Hospital money wu coming from so that hla folks could move Hla buddy Harold Smith 14 repeated: cant get no money to move That's the Joke of the thing" Store-keeper Tony explained that the majority of people are living on relief Supposin' they do move them out of here on the moving vans what's going to happen after he uked WUl Low 92AM Home Which happened to be the ume question that bothered Cecelia end Carl Willis who have managed to raise a family of 11 children including 2 seta of twins all bora on Barren Island They put up a $2000 bungalow two yean ago after their first home burned to the ground you see what It means to us having to get cried the mother don't want anything but to stay here Whet landlord wants a family with 11 Interrupted her husband landlord will Just say and tell us to get And besides I've got my she's living with us if I had my Job I wouldn't ask anything from them" Carl used to earn $8820 a week a cement worker Hla last Job wu the new five-end-ten building on Fifth Ave Know Where To -Torn But If the Willises end their II children ere a ud lot there ere many more on the Island who never have known another home and who have no Idea what they are going to do with their eats and dogs chickens and pigeons children and relative In a stuffy tenement house When the squatters received their dispossess notion yesterday they were Informed that the city would provide transportation for their furniture from the old homea to the new quarten WIU Be Cared For Last night Commissioner Mom explained that further help will ba given them Mayor LaGuardla and ho conferred late yesterday afternoon and It wu agreed that the Barren Island Inhabitants will be fully cared for by the city He admitted that they have a lot of hard but aald that they had been given full warning that they would have to go aoon the financing of Marine Parkway had been completed Parkway la no WPA Job" he declared Work Begins Soon Work la scheduled to begin at any moment and only through the Park Commissioner's Intervention hu immediate demolition of the squatter colony been avoided Each Winter he mid the folks have asked for Just more Spring And In the Spring lfa Just more Now It's only IS days and there'll be no more squatters on Barren Just empty houses being destroyed by workmen who never uw the place before sad shabby houses shook yesterday three item men passed through the rutted lanes distributing grim dispossess notlrn Women folk believe that the Ume had really come to abandon their qiean little shelters Men muttered beneath their breath and even the children who watched homing pigeons circling overhead aald It couldn't be so Never te Retire TO there the city calls them squatters It aeemed aa though death had settled right there fat the soggy marshes The creaking white bridge over the mucky lowlands waa now a skinny finger pointing out the way they will go two weeks from today never to return Almost 100 families ere affected by the city order that reads Tenants St Occupants of There Premises Notice la hereby given the above to vacate these premises on or before March 31st 1036 You are alio notified to remove all build hip and personal property on or before this date If you fall to remove your property by this date It will be considered abandoned and disposed of accordingly ROBERT MOSES As Commissioner of Parka of the City of New York By JENKINS Borough Director Brooklyn" Pet Me Tony Liacebuco who runs the local pool parlor where you can get custard pie penny bubble gum Ice cream and cl rare was tough about the' whole mere He didn't care If he had been notified i gotta put me out before 111 go And callin' in squatters and Tony who's big around the waistline but hla tongue figure he continued "Squatters never pay rent and we did and to lived here 18 yean and I've got no nice feelings about this mov lng bust nets" Tony went to school on the Island when had to come over by ferry through Canarele way He has a lot of friends there too They all chimed In with their tow cents worth and made the air bum Not Keen On Moving Willie Bherbach the bat pool player on the Island lint so keen about having to go And old -Pete Hagan an Irishman wearing cracked derby has eight children to move city folks think not civilized don't they? Wen you tell them that Barren Island la our home and It's no desperate place1 ranted Pete 12 yean a resident and now a local character Outside Tony' store youngsters with their stockings falling down were skipping rope When they found out what was going on they hopped Into the mind-airing sion Need Money Te Move Calvin Malone a little shaver wearing hla dad's khaki Army hat ton $15000000 Tonic Perfume Racket Faces Probe by Dodge Legionnaires and Auxiliary Present Fine Variety Shoio Trade Mark Rights They presented the prosecuting officers with data which they allege reveals the existence of a racket" During 1935 In Greater New York 7305 barber shops were inspected and of this number 4273 were found to have been selling counterfeit merchandise according to Jule God don Eastern sales manager for large manufacturing firm Gordon who acted as spokesman pointed out that this totaled 65 percent of the shops Inspected la not only a matter of money obtained under falsa pretenses we are fighting" ha said great danger In the tale of unknown and possibly poisonous products Unquestionably thousands of eases of face and ecalp infections are traceable to the aale of bootleg con A drive against bootleg hair ton lea and perfumes got under way yesterday when representatives ot a down manufacturing firms conferred in Manhattan with District Attorney William Dodge and turned over to him figures they had gleaned in an Independent survey of the situation The racket la said to yield a of $15000000 annually In Ores ter New York Assistant District Attorney Eugene McAullffe win be In charge of an Intensive Investigation of the Industry-end will handle the prosecution of barber shop proprietors and others caught filling bottles bearing registered trade marks with spurious merchandise Taking part In yesterdays conference waa a committee representing the Association for the Protection of npany of 90 members of the Infantry Post American "Won and auxiliary changed their toume and make-up last night z'totoit the poet's fourth annual at the 109 th Infantry Bedford and Atlantic Avee variety show called JJJJtorelws consisted of sketches tosrei numbers and dancing The will be repeated again persona prerent eon-rtoto about $200 toward the wel-rere fund of the post and auxiliary iwhlch the la a rjfcHt The play was written and by Mire Maude Horner and by her stater Mrs yiolet lner both members of the aux- i.