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vO ret. CLASSIFIED COMICS FEATURES SPORTS Daily Eagle POLITICAL PAPADE George Upton Harvey BROOKLYN, N. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1937 WHERE there's smoke, it has been said, it's usually George Upton Harvey and his trusty briar pipe. That pipe has seen plenty of action political and otherwise. It even had him publicly rebuked by a headwaiter who in Cruiser Brooklyn to Get Silver Service of 'Ancestor' sisted that only cigars and cigarettes could be smoked in that particular Flushing restaurant.

Harvey threatened to walk out, but the owner of the place recognized the Queens Borough President and begged him to stay. He almost missed a meal during the bank holiday, more than four Itvgh f- jW 7 years, ago, when he spent his last $10 before the banks opened. He was about to starve through lunch, but a process server walked into his office, handed him a summons, and the customary dollar bill. Mr. Harvey felt better after lunch.

Since the subject seems to be food and Mr. Harvey, we'll dig another anecdote out of time Mr. Harvey almost was the food. It happened during a vacation in Georgia, when an alligator upset the canoe he was in. The late Albert C.

Benninger, member of the hunting party, fired several shots at the giant reptile to frighten it away. Mr. Harvey achieved prominence in New York as "the fighting Alderman." As Republican Borough President of Queens, he's still fighting the Communists, the WPA, the New Deal, Roosevelt, free education advocates, and a dozea other causes or crusades. He was born in Galway, Ireland, 2 a.m., Aug. 15, 1881, and was educated at Coleraine College, in County Londonderry.

Sports followers in Ireland and in France may remember him as a sensational wing three-quarters, a rugby position. He scored 42 goals during the championship season of the Monkstown Rugby Club of Dublin, Ireland. Coming to America as a youth, 23, Harvey decided he wanted to continue his travels. He wound up as a photographer and correspondent for the Army and Navy Register, a Government publication, and, in 1904, roamed the seas aboard the U. S.

S. Alabama. His allegiance to the military forces of the United States still holds he's a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Army Reserve and regularly spends two weeks each Summer at R.

O. T. C. camps. (CopyrliM 1RST Tht Brooklyn Dill; Ei(le) But Mystery Shrouds Four Missing Pieces Summon Members of Crew of Battleship to Present Old Boro Gift When the new cruiser Brooklyn goes out on her first or shakedown cruise in a few weeks, she will set forth with ft pnllnnt.

t.rnriitinn a. certain amount of mystery and. the distinction of being a distinctly new type of war canoe. In the matter of tradition the new cruiser has plenty to do to match the career of her immediate predecessor, the Brooklyn, which served as Admiral Winfield Scott Schley's flagship at the battle of Santiago hi ioao. mat aougniy vessel practically Stood off the pntirp Snanieh navy until the big fellows came up ana unisnea me jod.

Style Setter In the matter nf mvstprv thp no cruiser has two problems. She is an American version of the pocket battleship. Much of her structure ha been welded instead of riveted. The saving in weight of thousands of rivets has enabled her designers to do things with her armament which maxes me new vessel a nasty turtle in a auarrel and Ei ready is classifying ships as Brooklyn type." The details of her construction are cloaked in secrecy and mystery but the biggest problem Is one of a icsuve nature. When the third nf thp "Brmt.

lyns" is commissioned, one of tha big ceremonies will consist of presenting to the new tho service set which graced the ward room or the Spanish War heroine. This ornate array of dishes will be presented by as many of the old cruiser's crew as can be mustered ior the ceremonies. Silver Is Missing The difficulty that, a few nlerp- of the set are missing. And a large stein, which was nrpxpntpri thp nin cruiser by the former Kaiser has not yet Deen accounted for. Pictures reveal it as a cavernous muff which might have served as a deck: nownzer naa trie ex-uerman ruler seen fit to equip it with wheels.

Two calls were ixsupri tnriau Charles L. Amey, past county com mander ot the United Spanish War Veterans: A call for members of the old crew to take part in the presentation. A call for the culprits, who swiped four nieces of that silver service more than 30 years ago, to return them. Amey has a special Interest in tha silver service. So has Brooklyn.

In 1896 when the Brooklyn was launched Kings County citizens donated $10,000 to purchase the 500-piece set. Each piece was stamped with the heroic seal of the old City of Brooklyn a spread eagle clutching a sheaf of arrows in its claws. When the old Brooklyn was scrapped, it looked as if the silver service wa.s in danger of being scrapped, too. But Amey and the Spanish War veterans, recalling Santiago, insisted the set be saved. Senator William Calder and Congressman A.

Kiine pushed a bill through Congress turning the silver service over to the Brooklyn Museum. There, the service was displayed once, and before stowing it away, the pieces were counted. Four items were found to have disappeared before the set reached the museum. The disappearance may have been due to some visitors to the old vessel who wanted a souvenir of their visit. The new cruiser, launched last November, will soon be commissioned.

Sept. 30 is the date tentatively set. About two months after the commissioning, just as the vessel takes on her crew and prepares to start on its shakedown cruise, public officials, civic workers and leaders in every phase of the life of Brooklvn will flock to the Navy Yard to watch some dignitary probably Mayor LnOuartlia--present the silver service to Capt. William D. Brereton, who will command the Brooklyn.

One or the old crew, Sgt. MaJ. John LeSacte of 2159 Beverly Road, marine officer who stood guard when the silver service was presented to the old Brooklyn 40 years ago, lias already applied for his old role. New Items Boost Budget $9,776,866 Budget increases totaling faced taxpayers for 1938 in requests of the Fire Department, General Sessions, Domestic Relations and Supreme Courts. Of this total $9,343,266 is asked by the Fire Department and $433,600 by the three courts.

Fire Commissioner John J. Mc-Elhgott told Acting Budget Director Kenneth Dayton at a public hearing yesterday that he wished to provide mainly for the installation of the three-platoon system approved by the voters at a referendum last November and for the city's share in the departmental pension plan. Dayton criticized one item in the budget request of the Court of General Sessions which provided a rise of $7150 for a court interpreter now paid $4,000 a year. The request of the Supreme Court and Appellate vision of the Second Department, which includes Kings. Queens and Richmond, submitted by John J.

McQuade, general clerk, was for $1,060,703, a rise of $20,336, most of it for salary creases. He was on the staff of the International Confectioner, a trade paper, and eventually became its editor and publisher. When the United States entered the World War, Harvey enlisted. He was made captain of Company 308th Infantry, 77th Division, and saw service with the 308th, the famous "lost battalion," at Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and in the Argonne.

He was decorated for bravery, and recently received the Order of Miecze Hallerowske, Polish Army citation. With the war's end, Harvey returned to New York to become the Long Island District Director of the State Income Tax his first public office and two years later, in 1921, Alderman from the 58th District in Queens. He served on the Board of Aldermen for four years, and, in 1925, was defeated by Joseph V. McKee when he ran for presidency of the board. Two years later he resumed his Aldermanic seat, to be elected President of Queens in 1928 after leading the fight against Maurice E.

Connolly. He's been called a fighter, has broad features, beak-nosed with a shy smile, and the decisive action of a steel spring. His small stature conceals the strength of his athletic and martial background. He walks for recreation, raises cabbages and stays at home. One son and one daughter.

Divorced Boro Mother Fails To Win Son's Love or Custody his checkered past. This to us. It never occurred to us the minions of the Government Mrs.DahlHad To Spy to Save Her Husband Rebels Made It Price of Sparing American Prisoner, She Says Cannes. Prance, Sept. 10 (U.R Mrs.

Harold Dahl, blonde American orchestra leader, revealed today linw she had" desperately undertaken to become an amateur spy In exchange for the life of her aviator husband, Harold Dahl, sentenced to death by the Spanish Insurgents. "I failed at It," she said ruefully. However, she waited hopefully today for word that Gen. Francisco Franco, insurgent leader, had spared her husband's life. Everything else having failed, she appealed directly to Franco for mercy, enclosing her photograph.

Expects Leniency She has not yet been Informed that her husband is to be exchanged for some captured rebel filer, but his received intimations that Franco will be lenient. "Although he wa.s in prison." she said todav, "my husband has been able to write me. I have received several letters since July 13, when he was captured, intvhich he com plained of the cojfl and the bad food in prison. "I wrote to the Nationalist authorities several times trying to get his release. They finally replied, offering me a confidential mission to do, in exchange.

"I was to try to find out how many Nationalist aviators were prisoners of the Valencia government, but I failed. Then I wrote to Franco, enclosing my photograph, hoping a personal appeal would help. If my husband is freed, perhaps my appeal will be responsible, but I have had no confirmation yet." Dahl is from Champaign, 111. Since he had been flying for the loyalists, beginning last December, Mrs. Dahl has been leading a woman's orchestra at a casino here.

Asked about her husband's reasons for joining the loyalists, she said: "He did not sign up for political reasons, but because he was well and is an enthusiastic flier." SENATOR HOLT'S KIN WEDS Gree.iwich, Sept. 10 (U.R) Jane Holt of Washington, sister of Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia, was the bride today of Ralph K. Chase of Washington. Senator Holt was best man and Mrs.

M. C. Holt, sister-in-law of the bride, was maid of honor. said, and projected further meetings between mother and son have been "indefinitely postponed." Saying she had not seen her son for four years, Mrs. Frankel sued this Summer to regain custody of the boy from his father, Julius Frankel, of Linden, and the second Mrs.

Frankel, whom the father married after divorcing the boy's mother in Reno. The boy testified he loved his father best, his stepmother second-best and his real mother not at all. Herr planned meetings between mother and son so they could become reacquainted, and they met once at the courthouse. Health, said today that infantile paralysis cases reported so far this year up-State were slightly higher than the number reported in 1936, but have at no time reached epi demic proportions. Up to Sept.

1, a total of 118 cases in the State outside of New York City were reported. Grin and Bear It Real heirloom silver Kill be the heritage of the new cruiser "Brooklyn" when she goes into service. The silver service, part of tchich is shown at the left, which belonged to the old cruiser of the tame name, will be presented to the new ship. The huge stein shown above, which had been presented to the old ship by the former German Kaiser, is at present unaccounted for. At the upper left is a picture of the old Brooklyn and below it a view of her successor.

Landon Denounces F.D. 'Dictatorship Sees End of Free Government If Congress Delegates Legislative Power Colorado Springs, Sept, 10 'UP) Alfred M. Landon observed his 50th birthday anniversary last night with a denunciation of President Roosevelt's economic and Supreme Court programs which, he said, could lead to dictatorship. He told the national convention of Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity: "If Congress delegates the legislative power to the President, or to code authorities; if the Executive, displeased with court decisions, may deprive the courts of their power, there is the end of free government." He said that if legislative power were delegated without restraint, "then Congress may meet in January, pass one net authorizing the President to enact such laws as he thinks the people need, and then adjourn." "I need not tell you what that means. It is lie government of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini." He termed the Supreme Court controversy "the mast significant debate we have had since the Civil War." He assailed the Administration's attempts to "stretch" the Interstate Commerce Act "to a point where a bureau created by Congress can tell a man how much he can charge for pressing a pair of pants, or tell a farmer what or how much he shall raise." Building Service Strike to Spread The openine of the renting and moving season was signalized by the start of a campaign to unionize apartment and oil ice buildings, with about ten more buildings scheduled for strike action today.

Service employes of 10 buildings were called out in Manhattan yesterday by the Building Service Employes International Union, Local 32-B, A. F. of L. The "big push." it was announced, however, will not come until Monday. i The death of one emplove who refused to join the strikers at 4(1 86th and an alleged assault 1 on the brother of tiie owner ot the building at, 574 West End Ae.

I marked yesterday's Manhattan 1 strikes, nine of which were settled by 3 p.m. Albert Hoeflcr, 46. superintendent of the building 40 86th attempted to carry on the work of the 12 employes who walked out, but was seized with an attack of coronary thrombosis and died in the office of Dr, Joseph Haas in i the building. Housing Projects' Neighbors Improve S3 10,000 Is Expended on Properties Near Site in Williamsburg Landlords in the secton adjoining the Williamsburg housing project have spent $540,000 in improving their properties, according to Romer Shawhan, district manager of the WPA housing division. Urged by local bankers to spruce up rooming houses, antiquated flats, shops and theaters in a circle three blocks away from the Government project, many owners responded eagerly.

Work, however, has been held up by the strike of Brooklyn painters, District Council 18, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper-hangers, which reported today the shutdown of virtually all operations in the borough. A monthly survey, maintained Mr. Shawhan, shows that face-lifting has been resorted to In some rases; in others new plumbing was installed and in many Instances entire buildings were remodeled. By Licbty Things Are Better WE FEEL that we can say definitely and authoritatively that prosperity has arrived, or at least is casting its shadow before. Our reason for this bald statement is that in the past few weeks we have received two invitations from press agents to be taken to lunch.

Back in '28 and '29 all we had to do was to take a walk around the Borough Hall section and we were sure to bump into at least one press agent we knew who would take us to lunch. Sometimes we'd meet two or three in a day and since it's our policy never to turn down a free lunch you can imagine that we were rather overstuffed at times. When the depression began the free lunches began dropping off whether because nobody could afford press agents any more or because the press agents couldn't afford to buy us lunches, we don't know. But since 1930 we've been buying our own lunches. Now that the luncheon invitations have started to arrive again we're certain that the bad days are over and good times are here again.

Abrupt Diplomacy MORE and more do we become impressed with the fact that no matter is too minor, no sum too insignificant, for the Government of the United States to treat it lightly or without proper solemnity of language and procedure. Recently, desiring a copy of a bill passed by the last Congress, we blithely and innocently dispatched a brief note to Washington re Elizabeth, N. Sept. 10 7P) Not until Mrs. Rose Frankel of 2018 Voorhies Brooklyn can visit her 12-year-old son, Howard, in "natural surroundings" will she make further efforts to win his affection and custody, her counsel said today.

Meetings in the courthouse arranged by Advisory Master in Chancery Dpugal Herr, before whom Mrs. Frankel sued for custody of the boy "are apt to create reserve," Stephen Piga, the mother's lawyer, said. "The mother wants Howard to look upon her as a companion," he Infantile Paralysis Cases Rise Here An increase in cases of infantile paralysis in New York City was reported during the final two days of last week, it was revealed by Dr. John L. Rice, Commissioner of Health.

On each day, 13 cases were reported. The total for the week was 36, and for the three days ending Labor Day the total was ten. The commissioner said no prediction on future cases could be made on the basis of the two-day increa.se at the end of last week. He said it might be due to more prompt diagnosing and reporting, and was not of suffi cient significance to indicate the need of special measures. Slightly Higher Up-Stale Albany, Sept.

10 Dr. Edward Godfrey State Commissioner of proper authorities?" he demanded He said he would communicate with State authorities at once. Meanwhile Jimmy, son of a Williamsport restaurant proprietor, sank deeper into coma and doctors at Mu nicipal Hospital said he was near death. The boy was brought to Philadelphia, by airplane Wednesday and was placed in a respirator at University Hospital. Last night, however, authorities ordered his removal to Municipal Hospital because of a city ordinance which says that all contagious diseases must be treated in a city hospital.

questing that the copy be sent that our wish was not law to Philadelphia Angered at Role Of Host to Boy in 'Iron Lung' of which we are a part. But several days later our letter came back. Attached to it was a yellow slip marked "Notice" in large type. It made us feel important to read that "Your communication of recent date is herewith returned, calling attention to paragraphs checked below, which we hope furnish the desired information." The paragraph checked was the one that read: "Prices of publications now available have been indicated on your letter herewith returned." It went on to say that "This office Philadelphia, Sept. 10 (U.R) Probability that 11-year-old Jimmy Kappas would die served only to arouse official indignation today over the fact that the boy, victim of infantile paralysis, had been brought here from Williamsport, for treatment in an "iron lung." Dr.

William C. Hunsickcr, director of public health, wa.s furious because a patient with a contagious disease was brought into the city without advance permission. "What right has anybody to ship a patient with so deadly a disease into this city without notifying the Is obliged to adhere strictly to its rule that requires remittance in advance of shipment." And there, marked in pencil on our letter, was the amount of the remittance necessary 10 cents, one dime, a tenth part of a dollar. What really deflated our feeling of importance, however, was the footnote in italic type which told us "No record has been made of your communication, which should therefore be returned with further correspondence." "for the life of me, John, I runt see how you expect microbe to live in such.