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BROOKLYN EAGLE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 19 10 Telephone MAin 4-6200 Navy Yard Housing Seen Ready Early in 1941 as State O. Loan Tor CltiMtifled Ad Rfsults Brand New Pupil-Brand New School Is There Anything Here That You Recognize? Jobless Swamp IFF 'fejxliiiiiiiffii Rents Higher Than Those in U. S. Projects Rochester Ave. Area Plan Wins Approval Of City Commission The world's largest public housing development was virtually assured for Brooklyn today following approval by State Housing Superin-tedent Edward Welnfeld of the city's application for a $20,000,000 loan to finance a 3.528-famlly project in the Navy Yard district.

The State's readiness to provide the money, together with annual grants to Insure low rents, was made known yesterday coincident-ally with approval of the City Planning Commission of a site for Federal housing project in what was sailed the Bedford-Stuyvesant section until the City Council adopted a resolution that the name be changed. This site Is bounded generally by Rochester Pacific Howard Ave Dean Ralph Ave. and Ber II TLiw 3 Spring Term GetsUnderWay In City Schools Budget Deficit Fails To Curtail Classes Expect Action Later Despite the $1,000,000 deficit In the school budget, every school and classroom, including kindergartens, in the city opened on time today for the new Spring term. Dr. Harold O.

Campbell, Superintendent of Schools, announced there was no delay in organization work and no regular teachers had been dropped, although about 300 fewer substitutes are to be employed this term. The budget deficit will have to be met sometime between now and June 30, unless money Is forthcoming from the city or the State, Dr. Campbell said. However, If any further consolidations or cuts are to be made action will be taken toward the end of the term. Teachers were assured that they would not be called upon to take a payless furlough.

MANAGED SOME SAVINGS Because of the steadily decreasing school enrollment three elementary schools have been abandoned and three others consolidated with nearby organizations, thus yielding a saving In administrative costs. The elementary division will have 129 fewer classes this term than last, Dr. Rufus A. Vance, assistant superintendent, said, and teachers of these classes have been placed in "excess" and are to be used in place of substitutes. Twenty-five new principals, 20 in the elementary division and five in the Junior high school department, will take up their duties today.

At a special meeting of the Board of Education yesterday it was voted to permit principals, first assistants and other supervisors to give afternoon or evening courses In the local city colleges. At its last meeting the board passed a resolution prohibiting the supervisors to teach for pay. A complaint from the colleges that classes would be disrupted if they had to find' replacements at this late date brought about the rescinding vote, and Dr. Alberto C. Bonaschl, Bronx member of the board, as chairman of a Joint committee of the board, and the Board of Higher Education, will study the whole problem.

Thirty-two supervisors were Involved in yesterday's action. James Marshall, president of the board, and William R. Orowley, Brooklyn member, voted against the resolution. 'I 4 ma.u ay Camera Determines Brightness of Stars Pasadena, Feb. 1 OP) Using an odd camera which makes round stars into square ones, William H.

Christie has determined the brightness of 68 globular star clusters. "All the stars in the clusters are hotter and more brilliant than our sun," says the Mount Wilson observatory astronomer. "The total brightness of the smaller clusters is 6,000 of the sun, and that of the larger 500,000 times. "Despite their brilliance, only two clusters are near enough to be seen with the naked eye." 2 Killed in Factory Blast Monroe, Tb. 1 (P) Explosion of a steam pressure tank killed two men and injured five others of a crew of 18 at work in one room of the Consolidated Paper Company plant here shortly before last yr-S, I Come and get it! Missing any radios, coats, rings, necklaces, etc.

if so, take a run over to the Stag? St. police station and look over this loot, garnered in the home of a 21-year-old Negro prisoner, Percy Maddox of 243 Moore St. (Eagle Staff photo.) 4 Storehouse of Loot Is Found After Overcoat Traps Thief Census Offices In Boro, Queens 2,000 Stand in Line In Jamaica Despite Word of No Hiring A mistaken report that Uncle Sam would start hiring census takers today brought a crowd estimated by police as at least 2,000. persons to the building at 161-19 Jamaica in which the Queens census office is to be opened. The eight-story building Itself was not open until 8 a.m., but at 5:30 a line began to form, which grew rapidly In spite of the cold, requiring the calling out of police.

There was no disorder, but the 2,000 clung to their places for hours In spite of the pleadings of about a dozen policemen that the offices were not yet established. Finally convinced by a statement from William A. Corwin, Queens census director, that applications will not be available until Feb. 15, they left at 10:30 a.m. Hundreds of persons meanwhile flocked to the nine district offices In Brooklyn, similarly hopeful of making applications for census Jobs.

MUST WAIT A WEEK They also learned that the offices had not actually been opened or that, though open, application forms were not ready for them. Thus at the 7th Congressional District office, It Court several score applicants were Informed by police called in for that duty that there would be no application forms for at least a week. George I. Swetnlck, Brooklyn census director, said in his office at 641 Washington Manhattan, that those who visited the district offices today did so under a misapprehension, as the forms are not expected to be ready for distribution until about Feb. 15.

He will announce the exact date as soon as he knows It. Applicants should then go to the offices nearest their homes. TWO GROUPS ON JOB The census takers, when named, will work In two groups one on the population schedule and the other on a housing schedule. The first will be paid at the rate of 4 cents per name, the second cents per housing unit house, apartment or flat. The census takers will have to ask and the citizens answer a number of new questions that have never appeared In any former cen sus.

These include questions about social security, the status of women and of army andna vy veterans. About women, Uncle Sam will want to find out: "Has this woman been married before?" and "Age at first marriage" and "Number of children ever born." Workers Start Putting New Face on Trylon Work was under way today to give the towering Trylon at the World's Fair an outer covering that will stay put. The plaster covering, pieces of which blew off in high winds last year, has been removed and workmen of the J. A. J.

Construction Company of Brooklyn have started replacing It with plywood. It will take 50,000 square feet of five-ply fir, hair an Inch in thickness, and weighing a total of 150,000 pounds. It is being Installed in sections measurinz 32 inches by 96 inches, and each section receives a coat of paint immediately after be ing nailed in place, it is expected that the work will be completed in two months, well in advance of the opening on May 11. Continued from Page 1 down a fire escape leading to O'Ksne's quarters, found the overcoat hanging on a fence, apparently left there by the thief to permit free movement in gathering his loot. Police reported that Maddox was somewhat hazy In discussing his past but finally admitted that he had served a two-year term In South Carolina for stealing an automobile in 1936 and that he had previously been arrested there on a similar charge but discharged.

In organizing the r.omiclde and felony bureau, District Attorney O'Dwyer placed Assistant Burton B. Turkus In charge and assigned Assistants John J. Rooney, Edward Heffernan, William Siegel, Henry Martuscello and Julius Helfand to aid him. The bureau will be a flying squadron in an intensive campaign against crimes of violence in Brooklyn, ready to give full co-operation to the police. It will function day and night and Mr.

O'Dwyer gave Turkus permission to call out the whole office If an emergency should arise. The lightning success In the cases of the slaylngs of Michael Fitzpat-1 rick, in the garage at 6024 8th and John E. Glass, the New Jersey bridegroom, in the bar and grill at 22d St. and 6th and the stick-up in the home of John Licht at 1782 E. 35th St.

was the Incentive to the creation of the new bureau. During most of the time that Turkus and other assistants worked Flrtt pupil to an-far near FuhUe School 2ilf Empire Blvd. and Troy Avr.t which opened ill doori today on jirtt day of new term, was Milton SheU don Herman, kindergart ner, for whom it wit firtt day at a gchoalboy, Milton it grated by Principal Charlet T. Trace. New Youth Center Opens in Bushwick A new youth center, the chief purpose of which will be the operation of a Job placement bureau for young men between the ages of 16 and 23, was opened today at 1383-91 Myrtle In the Bushwick section.

The center Is sponsored Jointly by the Police Athletic League, of which Sixth Deputy Police Commissioner John H. Morris Li head, and the Bushwick Youth Council, of which United States Commissioner Martin C. Epstein is chairman. The center is deslgend to replace store and cellar clubs In the section as a recerational center for young men of the neighborhood. A recent survey showed that there were 68 such clubs in the section, with an estimated membership of 1,700.

The Mutual Placement League, tried out by the P. A. L. with considerable success in Manhattan, is the basis for the economic experiment at the center. Under the sur pervlslon of the league, members of the center will operate the Job placement bureau for themselves.

In this connection, membership for the first few months will be limited to boys between the ages of 16 and 23, the first time a P. A. L. youth center has been set aside for the exclusive use of older boys. One of the methods to be used by the placeent bureau will be a mass Job canvass of neighborhood merchants and manufacturers.

Joseph F. Wingebach, Principal, Retires Joseph F. Wingebach, teacher and principal for half a century, retired yesterday as the term ended. He was principal of Junior High School 73, Elmhurst. He lives at 109-32 Hannibal St.

Albans. Mr. Wingebach was one of the founders of a school to teach policemen English and city law. He also was active in winning recognition for evening high schools from the Board of Regents. He said he had no plans for the future except to pursue his hobby of music.

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To Give Finns Cash for Arms gen St. Certification was made by the commission that the site Is In conformity with the master plan for sections containing areas for clearance, replanning and low rent housing. Confident of early adoption of plans for the Navy Yard undertaking by the Planning Commission and the Board of Estimate, Mr. Weinfeld said a contract for the loan and grants would be prepared Immediately and the improvement would probably be completed by the Spring of 1941. The downtown project, the first to be launched under the recently enacted State Housing Law, will involve the reclamation of 39 acres, the exact location of which, according to Mr.

Weinfeld, will not be revealed until the city has taken over title to all the property. RENTS MAY BE HIGHER Stressing that the site covers one of the city's "worst-blighted" slum areas, the State official asserted that 99 percent of TOO dwellings to be torn down "lack adequate heating facilities, sanitary arrangements, are badly planned and In need of major repairs." They will be displaced he added drying and storage rooms, and up-by light and airy six and, perhaps, nine-story structures, occupying only 23.7 percent of the 39 acres and equipped with elevators, laundries, to-the minute sanitary and kitchen facilities. Conceding that rents would be somewhat higher than at the Federal projects, mainly because of a 'different method of financing," Mr. Weinfeld revealed that three-room apartments would rent for about $23 a month, Including gas and electricity for all purposes. He pointed out, however, that "certain adjustments" might permit a reduction of $2.50 in the rents at the development, for which the city will build new schools, rezone the neighborhood and alter the street plan to eliminate a major traffic artery through the project.

In rental of the apartments, available to families with incomes not exceeding five times the annual rent, or, in cases where there are three or more dependents, six times the yearly rent, preference will be given residents or former residents of the Navy Yard district. In financing the Improvement, Mr. Weinfeld disclosed, the State will issue bonds covering the full cost, which will be repaid by the City Housing Authority over a 80-year period. The annual grants to Insure low rents will be matched by subsidies from the city, "It should be pointed out," con-eluded Mr. Weinfeld, "that under the State Housing Law, the city will continue to receive at least the same amount in taxes from the new project that it is now getting from the land and buildings which occupy the site.

"Since some of the property involved undoubtedly is tax delinquent, this will probably mean a Ctdy, Bean Steeves DENTISTS I. g. tor Fulton Smith, Brooklyn ANNOUNCEMENTS Ptrtonals JjffORMATION wlwreabouU Jinn Wft-ton CSoaU. Communlcatt A. Chotn, Wllo't flow.

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1 PM. (11 AM. Saturdays) ftr puHi-! tatitn in thi ntxl tvaiUblt tdititn ihi itmt Jtf'i I MAin 4-6200 on those cases at breakneck speed, O'Dwyer was in bed with a serious cold, but his telephone was in con stant use although his doctors vainly urged him to "forget it for a while." With a string of Important Indictments already "In the bag," the prosecutor returned to his office late yesterday and rushed through his plans for the new bureau. The Fitzpatrlck murder was solved after police arrested two men heard bragging in Manhattan about the new "bankroll" they had acquired. Turkus and Police Captain Bals questioned them for 15 hours, with the result that George Downey and Walter Dowllng disclosed they were "in it" and identified their alleged finger man as Arcangelo D'Agosta.

All three signed confessions, it was reported, and are under indictment on charges of first degree murder. Police seized Albert Gattl in the Glass murder case and Turkus left a social gathering in his tuxedo and helped police question him all night. Gattl named Downey as his accomplice and both are facing Indictment. O'Dwyer did a bit of personal investigating in the Licht holdup by-telephone and ordered Turkus to the 5th Ave. police station to question Joseph Mascarello, a prisoner.

The latter confessed to the holdup and also to another crime of violence and named an accomplice, not yet arrested. And when Turkus wasn't obtaining confessions he was working on preparation for the trial of Ernest Haas in the Engelberg murder case. "I am proud of my men," said Mr. O'Dwyer. "I have to rush back to bed whether I want to or not.

This cold is getting the best of me." ing at the World's Fair last Summer, has become press liaison officer working with foreign correspondents In Helsinki, according to a confirmation by Y. A. Paloheimo, executive of the pavilion, yesterday. LEFT TO AID COUNTRY He said that she had returned to Europe in November and when the Russian attacks on Finland began left Stockholm to return here. She holds an M.A.

from the University of Helsinki, he said, and Is a member of the Lotta Svaerd. The National Lutheran Council, which will begin a campaign this month to raise $500,000 for war relief In Finland, announced yesterday a gift of $10,000 from the board of publication of the United Lutheran Church in America. The Rev. Dr. Oscar C.

Mees, director of the drive, also announced a gift of $104 from a small Lutheran congregation In Juneau. Alaska. Former President Hoover, chair man of the Finnish Relief Fund will place a wreath today on the monument at Chester, presented by Finland to the people of Penn- sysvania In 1938, commemorating the arrival of Finns in America in 1664. Next week has been designated as "Help Finland Week" and many benefit affairs will be held through out the country. The Brooklyn Eagle has been receiving contributions for the Finnish Relief Fund and will continue to receive and forward such contributions.

They may be mailed to the Finnish Relief Fund, care of the Brooklyn Eagle, 24 Johnson Brooklyn. SAVE ON HEATING rii ts 1 ui i a larger cash tax revenue to the city than it is now collecting. The project will give employment to almost 9,000 men for varying periods and will pay them more than In wages. It will require 15,500,000 worth of building materials." The Rochester Ave. area development will Include a public playground bounded by Pacific Howard Ave.

and Dean St. SUBSTANTIAL AREA "The Authority's application brings out," the report adopted by the commission yesterday stated, "that the buildings in the vicinity are many of them In bad condition and unquestionably constitute a sub-standard and insanitary area of the kind for which the preparation of plans for clearance, replanning and reconstruction are specifically contemplated by the terms of the New York State Public Housing Law." The proposed development has heretofore been known as the "Bedford Stuyvesant Slum Clearance Project," but the City Council last Tuesday adopted a resolution requesting the city, State and Federal Housing Authorities to discontinue the use of this name. This action was taken In response to complaints of residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the borough that the contemplated project was in actuality not in the district, and that the use of the name was tending to drive down real estate values in their community. STREET OPENING ROW A number of Queens civic organizations were ranged against each other at yesterday's meeting on a proposal to widen and improve Cypress Hills formerly called Old Stony Road, between Cooper Ave. and Interborough Parkway.

Frank White, representing a group of Ridgewood and Olendale civic associations, declared that the street was originally an old Indian trail and insisted that it wasn't much better today, despite the heavy traffic demands made upon it now. At some points, he said, the road narrowed down to only 23 feet, with a consequent traffic congestion that is "disgraceful." Other speakers favoring the improvement of the street were Henry D. Barmore, of the Cypress Hills Board of Trade, and Robert Elliott of the Queens Chamber of Commerce. Heading a large group of taxpayers appearing in opposition to the project were Theodore Ruppell and Alexander Kelsh, of the Liberty Park Home Owners Association. They contended that the road was wide enough for present needs.

Under questioning by Chief Engineer John C. Riedel, the group admitted their main opposition to the improvement was the fear of a local assessment being levied. However, John J. Beggs, of the Queens Topographical Bureau, told the commission that he had the assurance of Queens Borough President George U. Harvey that this was a "special case" and there would be no local assessment levied.

The hearing was closed and the matter laid over. State Starts 2d Year Of 'Jobless' Benefits Albany, Feb. 1 (Pi New York marks the second anniversary of the issuance of its first unemployment insurance benelit checks today with $167,463,430 already paid out In benefits. Employers' contributions to the Job insurance fund amounted to $170,113,566, with $1,271,712 In checks outstanding as of Dec. 31, the State Tax Department announced.

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ST SEA BEACH UNf FLORSHEIM SHOE DELICIOUS CANDY FOR THRIFTY BUDGETS Declaring that he was not taking refuge In the statements that he spoke only as a private citizen but that he spoke "as a Christian and as a Bishop of the Christian Church," Bishop William T. Manning of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York last night urged that the United States give Finland money for arms as well as for relief, Bishop Manning spoke at the dinner of the Church Club of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan. "I say that as Christians and Americans we are untrue to our ideals and traditions unless we give Finland not only funds for relief but also funds to enable her to purchase the arms necessary for her continued resistance and defense," he said. SHARE RESPONSIBILITY am certain that as Christians and as Americans we cannot take the position that the Issues in this world conflict are no concern of ours," he continued. "We share responsibility and cannot escape responsibility for the maintentnee and preservation in this world of those principles of Justice and human liberty upon which our nation Is founded and without which a Chris-tion world order cannot be established." Carl W.

Ackerman, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, said that it was the duty of Christians here to extend the internationalism of Christianity in the Western Hemisphere by overcoming our ignorance of Latin and South American countries. Ilta Elslnlus, 25-year-old Finnish girl who served as attache of the travel bureau at the Finnish Build WAYS TO CHOCOLATE COCOANUT ROYALS 26 SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK MILK CHOCOLATE FRUITS and NUTS 47 Here's fair warning to every man who hasn't yet profited by this short-time value eventl Our stocks are fresh and complete and we're equipped to serve you In person, by mail or phonel But the Sale is definitely over Saturday so act todayl Florthelm prices may neverbe so low again. w895 forsnem SHOE SHOPS 401 Fulton Fulton St. Brooklyn 64 Trinity Plaoe 137 E. 42nd CkrytUr BU(.

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