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in or a a a a a a a a a a a of thereof. 12th. for For Classified du Results BROOKLYN EAGLE, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939 Telephone MAin 4-6200 9 Deaths Brady, Mallon, Elmer P. Thomas J. McGuire, Alice Brouard, Isabelle McLaughlin, Crossman, James E.

Imogene Meddis, Letitia Doody, Albert C. Munson, Lyn G. Hunter, William A.Parker, Howard Irwin, Julian Praeger, August Kehm, Annie M. Quinn, John J. Knudsen, Straub, Hermina Waldemar Weller, Frank S.

MacKirdy, Jessie BRADY July 12. THOMAS J. BRADY, beloved husband of the late Margaret A. and devoted father of Vincent T. and Alice M.

Mainardy. Funeral from the Macken Mortuary, 52 Clinton Rockville Centre, 15. Mass of requiem St. Church, 10 a.m. Kendal BROUARD-ISABELLE loving wife of the late Henry and devoted sister of Herbert R.

Roy, on July 12. Funeral from her residence, 145 Hancock Street, on Sunday at 2 p.m. Services Saturday, 8 p.m. Direction George T. McHugh.

CROSSMAN -MORNING CHORAL regretfully records the death of M's IMOGENE CROSSMAN, an active member for 15 years. Mrs. RALPH JONES, President. DOODY--On Tuesday, July 11, 1939, ALBERT C. DOODY, of 1938 9th loving husband of Anna R.

and devoted father of Mary Ruth Ann and Albert C. brother of Mrs. Augusta Harris and David Doody. Funeral from his residence on Saturday, July 15, at 9:30 a.m. Thence tc St.

Edmund's R. C. Church. Interment St. John's Cemetery.

-On July 13, 1939, WILLIAM of 285 Eastern Parkway, beloved husband of Minnie L. (nee Coyne), devoted father of Mrs. Thomas E. Crowley and Cyril W. Hunter.

Reposing at William A. Martin Funeral Home, Classon corner Sterling Place. Funeral Saturday, 9 a.m. Requiem mass St. Teresa's Church.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. IRWIN-On Thursday, July 13, 1939. JULIAN, beloved husband of Hannah L. and devoted father of Evelyn Locke and James J. Irwin.

Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Sunday at 8 p.m. Kindly omit flowers. KEHM-ANNIE MARY, wife of late John A. Kehm, died Long Island College Hospital, July 12, aged 65. Survived by son, John C.

Kehm. Services Saturday, 2 p.m., 690 Roosevelt Lindenhurst, L. I. Interment Lindenhurst Cemetery. KNUDSEN Captain WALDEMAR, on July 11, at his residence, 47 Remsen St.

Services at Chapel, 8th Saturday, July 15, at 2:30 p.m. Cremation at Fresh Pond. MacKIRDY-On Tuesday, July 11, 1939, JESSIE M. (nee Clackner), beloved wife of Edward J. MacKirdy.

Service at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Saturday, 2 p.m. MALLON-ELMER at his residence, 2139 Coleman Street (Avenue U), beloved husband of Elizabeth C. (nee Clark); father of Mrs. Harry Edgeworth, Mrs. Edward Holloran and James.

Funeral from his residence, Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Solemn requiem. mass Church of the Resurrection Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, McGUIRE On July 11, 1939, ALICE, beloved mother of Mrs. Alice Schnepf, John and William McGuire, at her residence, 968 McDonald Ave. Funeral on Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

Solemn requiem mass at Holy Cross Ghost Cemeterch. Interment McLAUGHLIN-JAMES July 12. beloved husband of Anna (nee Steinblinck), devoted father of Dorothy and Edward, brother Margaret and the late Patrick J. McLaughlin. Funeral from his residence, Madison St.

Requiem Our Lady of Victory C. Church, Saturday, 10 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. MEDDIS-On Wednesday, July 12, in her 78th year, LETITIA, beloved wife of the late John Meddis, beloved mother of Mrs. Kathryn Baukney and Mrs.

Helen Oman, also John, William, Robert and Raymond Meadis, all of Hempstead, L. I. Funeral service at her residence, 24 Covert St. Hempstead, on Saturday, July 15, at 2 p.m. Interment Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead, L.

I. MUNSON On Wednesday, July 12, 1939, LYN husband of the late Laura Elizabeth Munson and father of Lynda L. Proom, Ruth Weekes and John C. Munson. Services Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Friday, 8 p.m.

MUNSON-Hill Grove Lodge. No. 540, F. A. announces with deep regret the passing of Worshipful Brother LYN MUNSON.

Services be held at Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Friday, 8 p.m. J. E. RAINEY, Master. A.

E. Kerzenmacher, Sec. PARKER- -On July 12, HOWARD beloved father of Frances Raabe and Howard devoted brother of Samuel and Amy. Services Friday, 8:30 p.m., at his residence, 179 Marine Ave. Funeral Saturday, 10 a.m.

Interment United States Cemetery, Pinelawn, Long Island. VITAL NOTICES (Acknowledgments, Births, Condolences, Confirmations, Deaths, Engagements, Marriages, Masses, Memoriams, Resolutions) accepted until 10 P.M. for publication the following day or from 8 A.M. to 1 P.M. (11 A.M.

on Saturdays) for publication in the next available edition of the same day's paper. The Vital Notice rate is 90 cents per line. MAin 4-6200 Rites Tomorrow Capt. Waldemar Knudsen Veteran ship master's funeral will be held tomorrow. August Praeger, Auto Body Maker August Praeger, founder of the firm of A.

Praeger Son, automobile body builders, at 398 Johnson died yesterday in the Memorial Hospital in Manhattan. He lived at 190 Weirfield St. His wife, Gesine Praeger, died 12 days ago. Mr. Praeger was born in Germany and founded his business about 50 years ago.

The concern originally built wagon bodies, but in later years built commercial automobile bodies. Surviving Mr. Praeger are two daughters, Mrs. Hilda Steckinger and Mrs. Augusta Sanger, three sons, Frederick, Charles and Herbert.

Services will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Weigand Brothers, Chapel, 1015 Halsey St. Burial will be in Evergreens Cemetery. Mrs. Henry Wortman Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Amityville, July 14-Services will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.

in Powell's Funeral Parlor for Mrs. Emma F. Wortman, 81, of Freeport, who died in the home of her Wednesday, Robin Smith of Copiague. A native of Manhattan, Mrs. Wortman also leaves her husband, Henry L.

Wortman, and a son, Frank L. Wortman of West Palm Beach, Fla. The services will be conducted by the Rev. J. Gordon Hynes, pastor of Freeport Baptist Church.

Burial will in the Friends Burying Ground, Westbury. Deaths PRAEGER-AUGUST, on Thursday, July 13, 1939; husband of the late Gesine, devoted father of Augusta Sanger, Hilda Steckinger, Frederick, Charles and Herbert Praeger. Services at Weigand Bros. Parlors, 1015 Halsey Sunday, 8 p.m. Funeral Monday, 11 a.m.

Interment Evergreens Cemetery. QUINN-JOHN July 12, member of N. Y. P. D.

Homicide Squad; survived by his wife, Evelyn; three daughters, Theresa, Jacqueline and Mary; his mother, Mary; two brothers, Eugene and Edward, who is also a member of the N. Y. P. D. He was a member of the Policemen's Benevolent Association, Honor Legion of the Police Department and the Detectives Endowment Association.

Funeral from his residence, 626 McDonough Street, on Saturday at 9:30 a.m.; thence to Holy Rosary Church where a solemn requiem mass will be offered at 10 o'clock. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, STRAUB-On Wednesday, July 12, 1939, HERMINA, wife of the late Frank devoted mother of Angela and Alma. Funeral from her residence, 1018 Hancock on Saturday, July 15, at 10:30 a.m., thence to Our Lady of Good Counsel R. C. Church.

Interment St. John's Cemetery. WELLER On July 13, 1939, FRANK beloved husband of Welier, father of Evelyn W. Murtfeldt, Dorothy W. Schultz and Alanson Y.

Weller. Services at his home, 79 New York Saturday, July 15, at 2 p.m. In Memoriam REYNOLDS-In loving memory of a devoted father, JAMES G. REYNOLDS, died July 14, 1933. Masses offered.

SON, DAUGHTERS. Masses Masses COLLINS-A month's mind requiem mass will be offered for the repose of the soul of MARGARET A. COLLINS at the Church of the Assumption, and Cranberry St. between Henry Hicks, Brooklyn, on Saturday morning, July 15, 1939, at 8 o'clock. In Memoriam The Eagle has published a booklet of "In Memoriam" Verses You may obtain a copy of this booklet, without charge, by calling an Ad Taker at MAin 4-6200.

Captain Knudsen, Sea Veteran, Dies Officer and Master For Big Lines Once Served in Siam Navy Funeral services for Capt. Waldemar Knudsen, veteran ship master, who died suddenly Tuesday of a heart attack in his home at 47 Remsen St. will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in the Halvorsen Chapel, 5310 8th Ave. Cremation will follow at Fresh Pond.

Born in Denmark, Captain Knudsen completed his education at the Royal Danish Naval Academy in Copenhagen and for a time thereafter served as an officer in the small navy of Siam. Later, until 1926, he was master officer of ships for they American Transatlantic Company and the Foreign Transport and Mercantile Corporation. During the World War he commanded vessels in submarineinfested waters. From 1927 to 1931 Captain Knudsen was a ship's officer for the Standard Oil Company of New York, and from 1932 to 1935 served in a like capacity for the Cities Service Oil Company. Since 1935 he had been retired.

ATTENDED PARTY OF COUNTESS Captain Knudsen was one of the first masters to take a ship into a Russian port after the Bolshevik revolution. In an interview he told of attending a dinner party given in what is row Leningrad by a countess whom he met while she was selling dairy products at a market stall. He learned that his hostess was the wife of one of the Czar's aides, and that many of the guests, who took pains to avoid recognition until safely indoors, were former officers in the Czar's guard. During his extensive travels, Captain Knudsen made a hobby of collecting paintings. Many of these hung on the walls of his Heights residence and others are stored away in his old home in Denmark.

His most immediate surviving relatives are sisters in Denmark. Queens Policeman Commits Suicide Queens police today ascribed the suicide of James Merrigan, a 37- year-old Woodside policeman, to "family difficulties." He was found fatally shot in the apartment of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth McGowan, at 40-71 Elbertson Elmhurst, last night. Merrigan, attached to Troop A of the Mounted Division, Manhattan, and his wife. Mary, had their home at 55-03 31st Woodside, expected their first child in September.

They had been married for about three years. The policeman, who had been on the force for 12 years, visited the home of his sister and her husband, Edward, shortly before lunch on his day off yesterday. He stayed through dinner after lying on a couch for most of the afternoon. At about 7:15 p.m. he locked himself in the bathroom and a few minutes later the McGowans heard the report of a pistol shot.

They called the police, who broke down the door and found Merrigan lying on the floor with a bullet hole in his temple. His service revolver, from which one shot had been fired, was nearby. The body was removed to the morgue at Queens General Hospital for an autopsy today. William A. Hunter, Ex-Flatbush Vamp William A.

Hunter of 285 Eastern Parkway, superintendent of the plant of the Gould Mersereau Company, in Long Island City, died yesterday at his home after an illness of four months. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, 69 years ago and formerly lived for many years in Flatbush, where he was a member of the old Flatbush Volunteer Fire Department. He is survived by his widow, Minnie L. Coyne Hunter; a daughter, Mrs. Thomas E.

Crowley, and a son, Cyril W. Hunter. The funeral will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow from the William A. Martin Funeral Home, Classon Ave.

and Sterling Place, with a solemn requiem mass in St. Teresa's R. C. Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Elmer P. Mallon Elmer P. Mallon of 2139 Coleman who died Wednesday at his home, was for 23 years employed in building department of the B. He also was vice president MoT the Democratic Club of Flatbush Center, in the Second A. He was a lifelong resident of Brooklyn and is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Clark Mallon; two daughters, Mrs.

Edward Holloran and Mrs. Harry Edgeworth, and a son, James. The funeral will be held from the home at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow with a solemn requiem mass in the R. C.

Church of the Resurrection. Interment will be in Cross Cemetery. Mrs. Cyrus S. Ching Private funeral services were held yesterday in the Fairchild Chapel, Northern Boulevard, for Mrs.

Anne M. Ching, 'wife of Cyrus S. Ching, director of industrial and public relations the United States Rubber Company and one of the most widely known men in his field in the United States. Mrs. Ching Wednesday at her home, 35-47 80th Jackson Heights, after an illness of several months.

Born in Nova Scotia, she had been a resident of Queens for about 20 years. The services were conducted by the Rev. Leland Carey of Hartford, former pastor of the Community Church of Jackson Heights. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are three sisters, Floyd T. Smith, 58, Noted Explorer Brought Many Rare Far Eastern Animal Specimens to U.

S. Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Mastick, July 14--Floyd Tangier Smith, 58, of Mastick, an explorer who had spent many years in the Far East and brought many specimens of rare animals to this country, Including, several giant pandas from Wednesday. Born in Japan, Mr. Smith began exploring in China in 1915. In 1930 he went there at the head of the Marshall Field Zoological Expedition, intending Lo spend several years surveying animal life in China, Siberia, Indo-China, Siam and Tibet.

Difficulties with bandits, during which his tents and supplies were burned, caused his return in 1932. Found Rare Specimens From this expedition Mr. Smith brought back one of the first giant pandas seen in this country, a stuffed specimen. He returned with some 10,000 specimens, many of which were of extreme rarity. Among them were a bat for which science had no name and a family group of takins, goatlike antelopes seldom seen by white men.

Mr. Smith went to western China again in 1937 and captured four giant pandas which he brought back alive. One was for the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx. QUARREL OVER PANDA Mr. Smith was a partner of William H.

Harkness who died in Shanghai in 1936. Later that year Mrs. Harkness brought a baby panda to this country, and Mr. Smith issued a statement charging that the creature was one his party had been observing and planning to capture as soon as it became old enough. This panda died in a Chicago zoo in 1938.

Surviving Mr. Smith are his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, and a sister. Miss Ruth Smith, both of Mastick. Frank S.

Weller, Masonic Worker Frank S. Weller of 79 New York active in Masonic affairs, died yesterday after a brief illness. He was 75. Mr. Weller was born in Newburgh and lived in Brooklyn for 30 years.

He was a member of Hudson Lodge, F. A. Hudson River Commandery, K. and Mecca Temple, A. A.

O. N. M. S. He also was a member of Central Presbyterian Church.

Surviving are his widow, Evelyn A. Weller; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn W. Murtfeldt and Mrs. Dorothy W.

Schultz; a son, Alanson Y. Weller; three grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. George Olmsted, of Chicago. Services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the hc 1e with the Rev.

Frank Murtfeldt, associate pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, officiating. H. W. Parker 61: Veteran of 2 Wars Howard W. Parker Sr.

of 179 Marine a retired master sergeant in the United States Army, who saw service in the Spanish and World Wars, died Wednesday. He was in the army for 30 years and was stationed for many years at Fort Hamilton. Mr. Parker was born in Harrisburg, 61 years ago and was a member of West End Lodge, 62, Shepherds of Bethlehem. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.

Frances Raabe; a son, Howard W. Parker three stepchildren, Mrs. Ethel Sickles, Mrs. Gladys Lyons and Philip Lynwood; a granddaughter, Mary Ethel Sickles; a brother, Samuel and a sister, Miss Amy Parker. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 o'clock tonight at the home.

Burial will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the national cemetery at Pinelawn with military honors. Business Women Use Vote Machines in Poll Kansas City, July 14 (A)-Businesslike in everything, delegates to the National Federation ness and Professional Women's Club convention ballot for officers on five automatic voting machines today, The machines record the totals for all candidates, making it possible to announce the results shortly after the polls close. The executive board also will announce the site for the 1941 convention, sought by New York, Boston, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Fort Worth and Los Angeles. Candidates for president are Mrs.

Rosa E. Cunningham, investment consultant, Des Moines, and Dr. Minnie L. Maffett, gynecologist and surgeon, Dallas. Mrs.

Cunningham is first vice president and Dr. Maffett second vice president. Barrymore Counsel Scouts Reconciliation Argument on the motion of Elaine Barrie to dismiss the separation and accounting suit brought by her husband, John Barrymore, was adjourned today in Manhattan Supreme Court until July 21. Maurice Hotchner, counsel for Barrymore, insisted that the adjournment in way pointed toward a reconciliation. Barrymore is suing Miss Barrie, his fourth wife, for separation and for an accounting of $300,000.

LEGAL NOTICES SUPREME COURT. KINGS COUNTY Re: General assignment. benefit. of NATIONAL KINDLERS CORPORATION. Notice is given that the undersigned will sell at public auction, through JULIUS BLOCK, auctioneer, on the 19th day of July, 1939.

at 10:30 a.mtt., at No. 56 Box Street, Brooklyn. N. assets of the assignor consisting of machinery, flares, etc. BENEDICT GINSBERG, Assignee.

MICHAEL M. PLATZMAN. Attorney for Assignee, 19 West 44th Street, New York City. Services Held James A. Ward Services were held last night for Mr.

Ward, who died Tuesday. He was treasurer and traffic manager for an importing concern and lived at 43 Buckingham Road. Mayor Defends Selling Data to Insurance Firm Supported by Dr. Rice In Plan 'to Assist Science Research' tical purposes. FAVORED BY 3 TO 2 The action of the city to sell confidential information made by physicians in death reports to the Department of Health to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for statistical data, today was defended by Mayor LaGuardia, Health Commissioner Rice and Dr.

Louis I. Dublin, vice president and chief statistician of the insurance company. The Health Department information will be made available to the insurance company for 50 cents a copy. Dr. Dublin announced that the insurance company would in no case request the information until after the death claim was paid.

The Mayor said the matter had been under advisement for a year and that the information would be available to all insurance companies for statis- Dr. Rice gave out a statement declaring that the decision to sell the confidential information to aid science and research was made by a special committee. The vote was 3 to 2. Dr. Haven Emerson of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a former health commissioner and authority on health matters, voted with Dr.

John E. Jennings, surgeon, agains the plan. Dr. Thomas M. Rivers, well known in medical research, A and David M.

Heyman, lay member, were in favor. Dr. Rice cast the deciding vote. Hitler Detains Danzig's Leader For Long Parley Munich, July 14 (AP)-Danzig's importance to Adolf Hitler was emphasized today when it became known that the Fuehrer had kept Albert Forster, Danzig Nazi district overnight at Berghof, his Obersalzburg home, near Berchtesgaden. Forster arrived at Berghof yesterday and immediately went into conference with Hitler.

Since then they have had plenty of opportunity to discuss when and how the Free City is to return to Germany--as Nazis say it will. Observers quickly recalled that Konrad Henlein, then leader of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten Germans who were agitating for union with Germany, visited Berghof last Sept. 1 and that soon thereafter the intensive Nazi drive against Czechoslovakia got under way. Charlie Ross Returns To Claim Huge Fortune Philadelphia, July 14 (P)-The man who sued for the name "Charlie Ross" and won in the Arizona courts by default was "back home" today to claim a share of a purported $437,000 Ross family trust fund but announced he'd deferred plans to be remarried. The Charlie Ross, officially recognized in Arizona as the principal in the sensational kidnaping of 65 years ago, is Gustav Blair, 69-year-old Phoenix carpenter.

Mrs. Blair accompanied her husband on the motor trip East. He had planned a remarriage using the name "Charlie Ross," but he said the wedding had been "deferred for the time being." Julian Irwin Julian Irwin of 374 Bergen a building contractor, died yesterday after a long illness. He was born in North Sterling, N. and lived in Brooklyn for the last 22 years.

He specialized in plastering work and was a member Templar Lodge, 203. F. A. M. Surviving are his widow, Hannah L.

Irwin; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Locke and a son, James J. Irwin. Services will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place.

AUCTION AUCTION SALE SALES JAMES M. POWER. AUCTIONEER. will sell at public auction one Plymouth P6 Touring Sedan Automobile, Serial No. 10548579.

Motor No. 139309A. at 9:10 a.m. on July 19. 1939.

at Artwin Motors, 1246 Coney Island Ave. Brooklyn. N. for account of Emanuel and Sara Rich. Charities Named In Warnken Will Retired Grocer Leaves More Than $100,000 To Various Agencies More than $100.000 was left to charities by the will of John H.

Warnken of 276 14th retired grocer-butcher, who died in St. Peter's Hospital on June 6, which was filed today in Surrogate's Court. The value of the estate was described as "more than $10,000 real and more than $10,000 personal property." Largest of the specific charitable bequests was $50,000 to the Plattdeutsche Altenheim Gesellschaft of Hempstead. He also left $10,000 each to the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, at St.

Peter's Hospital. the Samaritan Hospital, Wyckoff Heights Hospital, Long Island College Hospital and the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men. To the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities and the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross he left $2,000 each, also $500 to Christmas Seal Fund of the Brooklyn Chapter. NEPHEW GETS $40,000 A nephew, George H. Wollrab, of the Central Branch Y.

M. C. was left $40,000 in trust for life, with the right to dispose of the principal in his own will. An uncle, Henry A. Wollrab of 745 Classon was left $1,000.

A cousin, Henry C. Wollrab of 534 Grassmere Terrace, Far Rockaway, received Swift International Company stock and $12,075 worth of HOLC bonds; $2,000 went to another cousin, Richard Bursch, of 373 92d St. A mortgage for $3,475 was cancelled for Christine Glasen of 267 E. 9th St. and a $2,100 mortgage was cancelled for James and Frances O'Connor of 727 Hicks St.

He left $2,000 to a friend, Richard Oertner of 274 14th and $1,000 to a friend, Henry Heitman, of 6916 3d Ave. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 7th near 6th received $1,000. The rest of the estate was left the Plattdeutsche Altenheim. CHILDREN INHERIT Eliza Jane Dunbar of 195 Halsey who died at St. John's Hospital on July 5, divided personal her property estate of equally more than among $20,000 0 her children, Margaret E.

Dunbar, and Robert Dunbar, both of 195 Halsy and William C. Dunbar of Boise, Idaho. William George McConkey, who died at his residence, 163 S. Oxford on May 6, left his entire estate of less than $20,000 personal property to his wife, Edna of the same address. Laura Lorina Rockefeller of 90 who died June 30, left not more than $7,500 real and not more than 000 personal property equally to her niece, Helen Rockefeller, and her sisterin-law.

Mary Rockefeller, both of 12 Tilrose Oceanside. SONS ARE NAMED Alfred Alderson Archer of 54 S. Elliott Place, who died June 17, left $16,000 personal Frederick, property of equally the divided to address; his same John, of 2784 Marion the Bronx, and Edward of 45 Argyle Road. Mary E. Dowd of 413 E.

28th who died June 30. left $8.600 real and $6,000 personal property. She left her house, furniture and personal effects to her daughter, Anna C. Dowd, of that address. and the residue equally to her children.

Anna, and John of 3021 Avenue I. Mary Baker, who died at her residence, 368 77th on May 29, left $1.800 real and $6.900 personal property. She left one-third of the estate each to her daughters, Kathryn Baker Macey of the same address, and Genevieve Baker Hackett of Utica, N. and 1-21st each to seven grandchildren, YETTA FERBER WILL Yetta Ferber, who died at her residence. 2525 Church on June 9.

left not than $1,000 personal property, which she more than $1,000 00 real and not more divided equally among her husband, all Abe. of and children, Bernard and Irene, that address. William Scholl of 666 Putnam who died July 1, left his entire estate of not more than $1.000 real personal property to his wife, Elizabeth, of the same address. New Yorker Slain Near Panama Club Balboa Canal Zone. July 14 (U.P)-Madison Love, 33, of New York and D.

was shot dead outside the fashionable Union Club in Panama City early today. Panama police detained for tioning Mrs. Robert Watson, 30, wife of a Canal Zone surveyor for the American Bureau of Shipping. It was believed that Christian name was Eileen and that she was from Texas. Mrs.

Watson was quoted by police as saying that she had left her husband and had been a close friend of Love. Recently, they said, she and Love had had differences. Police said that Mrs. Watson, in a car with another woman. passed the club as Love was standing outside it.

Four shots were fired at Love. Greason Designated Mineola, July 14-The Nassau County Republican executives committee last night chose District Judge Samuel Greason of Garden City as party nominee for the sixyear District Judgeship. Judge Greason at present is filling a one-year short term. County Chairman George L. Brennan presided.

LICENSES 3y7-2t PAWNBROKERS SALES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Beer Wholesalers' License No. C-87 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer at wholesale under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law in the premises located at 2-30 Baltic Brooklyn, Kings Y. WESTERN BEER 2-30 Baltic Brooklyn, Kings County, N. Y. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Beer Wholesalers' License No.

C-259 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer at wholesale under the Alco-1 holic Beverage Control Law In the premises located at 529-543 President Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. HOFFMAN BEVERAGE COMPANY. 529-543 President Street. Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. 7-2t NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT License No.

C. B. 238 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer at retail under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 482 Franklin Brooklyn, Kings County, N. for on premises consumption. BROOKLYN LODGE.

NO. 14. Loyal Order of Moose, 482 Franklin Brooklyn, Kings County. N. Y.

CANAL AUCTION ROOM. INCJohn J. Gibbs, J. F. Sullivan Sr.

F. P. Mulhern. auctioneers, sells at 152 Canal Manhattan, N. Y.

City. At. 11 a.11.. July 17, 1939. for McAleenan's, 150 Lawrence unredeemed pledges of diamonds, second-hand watches.

ry. silverware. No. 3228. May 1938.

to 4111. June 10, 1938. and all pledges held over from previous sales. 110-6t 'Bundle' Hurled From Car Was Injured Girl Found On Nassau Road Had Left Home for Fair Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Mineola, July 14-When Charles Kerr, attendant at a refreshment stand on Nassau Boulevard, about 100 feet west of Lakeville Road, Little Neck, saw bundle hurled from the rear of the second of two speeding cars at 1:30 a.m. today, he became mildly curious and walked over to the roadside to see what was in the "bundle." He found the unconscious form of a 22-year-old girl, identified at Nassau Hospital here, where she is unconscious and in a critical condition with a fractured skull, as Anna Wonyetye, a nursemaid employed by Mr.

and Mrs. Nathan Berkowitz of 1638 Pinehurst De- troit, Mich. NOT ATTACK VICTIM According to doctors who examined the girl, she had not been criminally attacked. hailed the next car and asked the occupants to summon police. County Detective Norman Johnson respont and had the girl removed to the hospital.

She was identified through a letter in her pocket to her sister. Betty, of 17154 Warrington Drive, Detroit, who has been notified. PLANNED TO VISIT FAIR According to Detective Johnson, Miss Wonyetye came here days ago with the Berkowitz family, who are visiting Mrs. Berkowitz's mother at 86-44 125th Richmond Hill. She left yesterday at 1:30 p.m..

Berkowitz told police, saying she wanted to go to the World's Fair. When found she had 33 cents in her purse and a package containing a newly-purchased knitted suit. Detective Johnson said that the girl was separated from her husband, Frank Bunk, of Windber, and that the couple have one child. L. Parker Titus, 86, Railroad Veteran Special to the Brooklyn Eagle July 14-L.

Parker Titus, 86, veteran railroad conductor who had been with the Central Railroad of New Jersey for more than 50 years, died Wednesday at his home, 101 Union Place, here, after long illness. He retired in 1931. A native of Easton, Mr. Titus had served on runs between Jersey City and Philadelphia and between Jersey and Allentown, Pa. He was chairman of Delaware Division 37, Order of Railway Conductors, of which he was a member for 42 years.

He was widower. Surviving a daughter, Mrs. Arthur C. Hoyt of Pleasantville, N. and two sons, Russell P.

of Lynbrook and Henry C. of Manhattan. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow Easton. Burial will be in Easton Cemetery.

Mrs. W. A. Morris Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Freeport, July 14-Funeral services were conducted today at Fulton's Parlors for Mrs. Lillian Morris of 285 Ray St.

who died at her home on Tuesday at the age of 67. The Rev. David Goodwin Jaxheimer, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, of which she was a member, conducted the services. Burial was in Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens. Mrs.

Morris is survived by her husband, William A. Morris; a son, William and a grandson, Harold. -SERVICE UNFAILING EFFICIENT COMPREHENSIVE Funeral Directors 433 Nostrand Ave. STerling 3-7700 PUBLIC NOTICES STATE OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WATER POWER AND CONTROL COMMISSION In the matter of the application of RANDFORCE AMUSEMENT CORPORATION. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that, pursuant to Section 521-A.

Article XI of the Conservation, Law, the Water Power and Commission will meet in State Office Building. Centre and Worth Streets, Borough of Manhattan, Now York City, on the 20th day of July. 1939, at 10:30 o'clock. Daylight Saving Tune. in the forenoon of that day, for the purpose of hearing all persons, waterworks corporations.

municipal corporations or other civil divisions of the State of New York that may be affected by the execution of the plans of RANDFORCE AMUSEMENT CORPORATION involving the installation and operation of a well 8 inches in diameter and about 81 feet deep on property located at 9400 Church Avenue, Kings County, the pumping of water therefrom at a rate not In excess of 150 gallons per minute, for air-conditinning the Waldorf Theater, and the to the return of the water ground, plans for which have been filed with the Water Power and Control Commission. at its office in New York, N. where the same are open for public inspection: and for the purpose of determining whether approval of this application will protect the public health and public welfare in conserving the supply of water of Long Island for domestic consumption. All persons, waterworks corporations, municipal corporations of other civil division of the State of Nw York, who have objection to the execution of said plans, in order to be heard thereon. must file such obiections thereto in writing in the office of the Water Power and Control Commission.

80 Centre Street. New York City on pL before the 19th day of July, 193. Every objection so filed must cularly specify the grounds thereof. No person, waterworks or municipal corporation local authority CAn he heard opposition thereto except on objections filed. Dated.

Albany, N. Y. July 7, 1939. WATER POWER AND CONTROL COMMISSION R. Suter, Secretary to the Commission.

Hold Rites Tonight For Lyn G. Munson Former Federal Bank Examiner Was Active In Borough Societies Funeral services for Lyn G. son. former Federal bank examiner of 1060 E. 39th who died Wedesday after a brief illness, will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place.

Burial will be private. Mr. Munson was a lifelong Brooklynite and during the World War period was an aide to the Alien Property Custodian. He was past master of Hill Grove Lodge, F. A.

and a member of the Society of Old Brooklynites and the Lewis Avenue Congregational Church. Mr. Munson was the husband of the late Laura Elizabeth Munson and is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lynda L. Proom of West Englewood, N.

and Mrs. Ruth Weekes; a son, John Craig Munson, of this borough, and two grandchildren. Mary J. Robinson's Estate Appraised $176,540 Net Value Placed on Holdings; Four Children Named Mary J. Robinson, who died Sept.

15, 1938, left a a a gross estate of 218.41 and a a net estate of a 540.56, according to a report by State Transfer Tax Appraiser David F. Soden, on file today in Surrogate's Court. Chief asset of the estate was a block of 3,850 shares of Armstrong Cork Company stock worth 812.50 at She also held other stock, an $8.000 house at 1336 E. 23d a mortgage certificate and five bank accounts. The estate passed to two daughters and two sons.

Joseph Borack, who died May 31, 1938. left $84.000 gross and $9.000 net, there being $75.000 in mortgage losses. The assets were three four-story apartment houses, a $45,000 one at 190 Legion a $30.000 one at 435 Hinsdale and one at 446 Alabama in which he had a $9.000 one-third interest. The estate passed to his wife. Lillian, of 546 E.

54th A son and a daughter James Tully, who died Jan. 2. 1939, left $58,390 gross and $56.104.61 net. including several parcels of real estate, stock and four bank accounts. all passing to his wife, Mary of 2717 Cortelyou Road.

DR. JENNINGS ESTATE Dr. Frank D. Jennings, well-known phy. sician and surgeon, who died Jan 26.

1924, left $33,431.09 gross and $31,010 net, including insurance and two bank accounts. all of which passed to his wife, Hannie, of 1083 Bushwick Ave. Abbott E. Araff, who died May 9. 1939, left $33.211.94 gross and $30,668.94 net.

including bonds. six bank accounts. two notes, five checks and insurance passing to two sisters. Catherine Magee. who died May 13.

1939, left $6,132.85 gross and $5.527.85 net. including two joint bank accounts, and $3.550 for a house at 2137 63d transferred before her death. all. passne to her daughter. Elizabeth M.

Magee, of the same address. Fred R. Marvin Westminster West, July 14 (AP) -Fred R. Marvin, 70, one-time editor of the old New York Daily Commercial, died during the night at his farm home. A native of Garden City, he began his newspaper career as reporter on the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review and later worked on several papers in the West.

Walter B. Cooke -INCORPORATEDDIGNIFIED As Low FUNERALS As $150 OUR FUNERAL HOMES BROOKLYN 151 Linden Boulevard- -BUckminster 4-1200 50. Seventh Avenue- -MAin 2-8585 1218 Flatbush 2-0266-7 QUEENS 150-10 Hillside Avenue- 6-6670 158-14 North. 3-6600 STATEN ISLAND 98 Beach Stapleton- Gibraltar 7-6100 MANHATTAN 117 West 72nd Street- TRafalgar 7-9700 1451 First Avenue- RHinelander 4-5800 BRONX 1 West 190th Street- RAymond 9-1900 347 Willis Avenue-MOtt Haven 9-0272 WESTCHESTER 214 Mamaroneck Avenue--White Plains 39 Phone for Representative or Write for Illustrated Booklet 'D'-No Obligation PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS P. W.

A. PROJECT. DOCKET NO. NY 1778-F. BOARD OF EDUCATION UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.

29 TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD NASSAU COUNTY. NEW YORK. Separate sealed bids for: LIGHTING FIXTURES Contract No. 6. SEATING AND MISCELLANEOUS FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENTContract No.

DRAPERIES AND WINDOW SHADES--Contract No. 8. For North Merrick Grade School, North Merrick. New York. as shown on the drawings and according to.

the Contract Documents prepared by Frederic P. Wiedersum. Architect. 240 Rockaway Avenue. Valley Stream.

New be received by the Board of Education, Union Free School District No. 29. Town of Hempstead. Nassau County, New York, at the office of the Board. in the present Grade School Building.

located at the northwest corner of Camp Avenue and North Merrick Avehue, North Merrick, New York, until 8:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Saving Time, on July 26th, 1939, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud. The Information for Bidders, Form of Bid. Form of Contract, Forms of Bid Bond and Performance Bond. Specifications and Drawings may be examined at the office of the Architect, and copies thereof obtained upon payment of $10.00 for each set. Any bidder, upon returning such set in good condition, within ten days after the dete of award of contract.

will be refunded his payment, and any non-bidder upon so returning such set will be refunded half his payment. The Board of Education. Union Free School District No. 29, Town of Hempstead. Nassau County, New York.

serves the right to waive any informalities in or to reject any or all bids. Each bidder must deposit with his hid security in an amount not less than five per centum (59) of the base hid in the form and subject to the conditions provided in the Information for Bidders. Attention of bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid under the contract. The estimated costs of the work to be performed under these contracts are: LIGHTING FIXTURES, Contract No. 6.

$1.300. SEATING AND MISCELLANEOUS FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT, Contract No. 7. $3.300. DRAPERIES AND WINDOW SHADES.

Contract No. $1.650. No bidder may withdraw his bid the of within 45 days after actual date the opening Dated. July 1939. JOSEPH METZGER (Official Responsible Advertisement).

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Union Free School District No. 29. Town Hempstead, County. New York. J14-2 7.

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