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July that ton seized Interest Internal the on 3321. at office July Revenue 375 said of 5, 13 of nf 3 first 30 to violation 111 the a11 DAVID LAZARUS DIES AT 81; LONG TAMMANY CHIEFTAIN David Lazarus, Tammany leader the 6th A. D. in Manhattan for 30 years until his retirement last year, died last night in his Summer home, 147 Beach 125th Rockaway Park. He was 81.

The oldest member in point of service of the Tammany executive committee at the time of his retirement, Mr. Lazarus had served under many leaders, including John Kelly, Richard Croker, Charles F. Murphy, John F. Curry, James J. Dooling and Christopher D.

Sullivan. Appointed to the post of Commissioner of Records the Surrogate's Court in 1929, although at that time he was already past 70, he continued in the office for five years until 1934, when the Board of Estimate came under Fusion control and he was ordered to retire in an action of the board which was upheld by the Appellate Division. Won Despite Defeat He continued as leader of the 6th A. D. and was re-elected without demur until 1937 when he was op- 400 Attend Rites For John Feeley Four hundred persons attended a mass today in St.

Teresa's R. C. Church, Classon Ave and Sterling Place for John Feeley, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Feeley of 578 Sterling Place, who was drowned in Prospect Park Lake Wednesday.

Another one hundred and fifty persons stood outside the church, which was filled to capacity, mostly with women and children. The mass was celebrated by the Fev. Richard Chichester, pastor of the church. Fifty schoolmates of the dead boy, a pupil at St. Tehera's Parichial School, formed the choir for the services.

Burial followed in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City. Mrs. Carmela Di Leo Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Glen Cove, Aug. 3-A solemn requiem mass for Mrs. Carmela Di Leo will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m.

at St. Patrick's R. C. Church here, followed by burial in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Brookville.

Mrs. Di Leo died early yesterday in her home at 7 Hazel after a week's illness. She had been in ill health for the It last seven years. She was born in Italy and came to this country 36 years ago, having lived in Glen Cove for the last 33 years. She was the widow of Carmine Di Leo and is survived by four sons, Dr.

Joseph Di Leo, of Long Island City; Dr. Michael Di Leo, a dentist, of Manhasset, and Paul and Anthony Di Leo of Glen Cove. and two daughters, Marie and Therese, also of Glen Cove. Dr. Way Off to Coast Dr.

Cassius Way, president of the American Veterinary Medical Association and internationally known specialist in the treatment of horse diseases, left for Los Angeles today to consult with California veterinarians on thoroughbred breeding problems and with prominent West Coast breeders of thoroughbred horses. Button, Edward Q'Rourke, Carty, Mary Catherine Di Leo, Carmela Pattenden, Frenger Henry Harry Hanley, Robert Robinson. Anna C. Haynes, Harry Seiler, John Lawler, Emma Staubitz, John O'Brien, Sarah BUTTON--On Friday, Aug. 2, 1940, EDWARD, of 265 Flatbush Avenue, beloved husband of Rachel Button and devoted father of four loving children.

Services at the Duryea Presbyterian Church, Underhill Avenue and Sterling Place, on Monday, 2 p.m. Direction of Fairchild Sons. CARTY MARY CATHERINE, "fell asleep in Christ" July 29, known in religion as Sister Mary Paul, S.B.S., dearly beloved daughter of the late James Carty and Mary Condon Carty and sister of the late Sarah Elizabeth, Charles Francis, and surviving sister, Christine Carty. Mass and interment was at the mother house, St. Elizabeth's Convent, Cornwell Heights, July 31.

(Utica, N. Chicago, San Francisco, Montgomery, Pittsfield, New York Times, Carlisle, papers please copy.) DI LEO--At Glen Cove, L. August 2, 1940, CARMELA, widow of Carmine Di Leo, mother of Dr. Joseph of Long Island City, Dr. Michael of Manhasset, Marie, Paul, Anthony and Therese of Glen Cove.

Solemn requiem mass at St. Patrick's Church, Glen Cove, Monday, August 5, 1940, at 10 a.m. FRENGER-HENRY of 131 Glen Street, August 1. Survived by Fred, Henry, Clara, Hilda, Alma, Elsa; a brother, John; sisters, Maria, and Margaret of Freeport, L. eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral service Sunday, 8:30 p.m., at James A. McCue Funeral Home, 395 Autumn Avenue. Interment Monday, 10 a.m., Evergreens Cemetery. Vital Notices accepted 8 a.m. to as late as 10 p.m.

Saturday night 1 p.m. for publication the same day; for publication Sunday. Sarah E. Corwin, Kin of Executive L. I.

Resident Was Mother Of Bore Auto Firm Head Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Aquebogue, Aug. 3-Sarah E. Corwin, mother of Ambrose D. Corwin, president of the Kings County Buick Corporation, died yesterday in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Augusta Tuthill, here.

Mrs. Corwin who was born Dec. 9, 1843, was one of the oldest women residents of Suffolk County. She had been in ill health for several years. She was the widow of the late Oliver H.

Corwin, who died 35 years ago. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mrs. Tuthill on 1 Monp.m., with the Rev. D. W.

Hutchinson of Patterson, N. who is spending his Summer in this village, officiating. Burial will be in Aquebogue Cemetery. Surviving in addition to Ambrose Corwin and Mrs. Tuthill is another son, Harry S.

Corwin of Aquebogue. Holdup Men Take $1,700 Payroll of Contracting Firm Three bandits, two of them armed with sawed -off shotguns, yesterday held up the paymaster and assistant paymaster of Tully Di Napoli, Astoria, contractors, at Main Ave. and Welling Court, Astoria, and escaped with a $1,700 payroll. The holdup victims were Ronald Boyce, paymaster, and his brother Arthur, both of Bayside. The holdup occurred within a short distance of the Tully Di Napoli office, which is at 30-11 12th St.

The Boyce brothers had obtained the payroll money at the Corn Exchange Bank, Astoria Boulevard and 4th a few blocks from the contractors' office. Ronald told 1 police he was driving his car along the avenue when the bandits, in another car, forced him into the curb, mounted the running board of his machine, smashed the right front window and commanded Arthur, who had the money bag, to hand it over. The bandits sped off in their car, cautioning the two brothers not to move until they were out of sight. Warehouse Employe, 20, Injured by Falling Boxes Garden City, Aug. 3-William Johnson, 20, an employe at the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company warehouse here, today is 1n Meadowbrook Hospital, East Meadow, recovering from injuries received when a pile of boxes fell on him yesterday.

According to police, Johnson was pushing a hand truck loaded with boxes of canned peas. The top of the pile struck an overhead pipe and 14 of the 40-pound boxes fell on him. Johnson lives at 155 8. Bay Freeport. SEILER--On Friday, August 2, 1940, JOHN, beloved husband of Lulu and father of Frank, Roy and Mrs.

James H. Metz. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Monday at 8 p.m. STAUBITZ-JOHN, of 222 Court Street, Brooklyn, died suddenly August 2, 1940. Funeral Sunday, 2 p.m., from Otto Mack's Funeral Parlor, 288 Central Avenue, Jersey City, N.

J. (Take Hudson Tubes to Journal Square, then Central Avenue bus to Hutton Street). Interment New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City. In Memoriam CERULLI- In loving memory of a devoted husband and father, FELICE, whose life was one of devotion to family and friends. Never to be forgotten.

The FAMILY. LUCA-LESLIE In loving memory of our mother, MARY CAROLINE, who died Aug. 2, 1935. KATHERINE LUCA MACKEY. HARRY LUCA.

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Y. au3 10 Dr. James H. Dillard, Educator, Honored for Aid to Negroes Charlottesville, Aug. 3-Dr.

James Hardy Dillard, 84, prominent Southern educator who won the 1937 Roosevelt Medal for his work in behalf of the American Negro, died here yesterday at his home. Dr. Dillard, who was president of the Jeanes Foundation for the assistance of rural schools for Negroes from 1907 until 1931, was largely responsible for the establishment of the visiting teacher plan carried on by the organization. He was instrumental also in establishing the Southern University Race Commission and one time was president of the Phelps-Stokes Fund. A group of Negro colleges of New Orleans which merged a few years ago named the consolidated institution Dillard University.

In 1928 he received a gold medal and $500 from the Harmon Foundation for promotion of good will between the races. Frederic Clemson Howe, 72, Former Counsel of AAA Oak Bluffs, Aug. 3 (P)- Frederic Clemson Howe. 72, former consumer's counsel of the Federal Agriculture Adjustment Administration and a -described "fighting idealist" who spent a lifetime seeking reforms for the "average man." died today in Martha's Vinyard Hospital. Scholar, author, lawyer and authority on government, Howe was stricken ill two weeks ago while visiting at the Summer home in Chilmark of Roger Baldwin, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union.

A native of Meadville, he was Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York from 1914 to 1917, and served on President Wilson's board of experts at the Paris Peace Conference. In 1905, he was appointed a special U. S. Commissioner to investigate municipal ownership in Great Britain. Frederic C.

Howe, was well known as a lecturer in Brooklyn even before his appointment as Immigration tion Commissioner of the Port of New York. As far back as 1910 he Restored Union Delays Filling Of Lanza's Post The United Sea Food Workers Union, Iocal 16,975, was in the market today for a new business agent to succeed Joseph Lanza, ex-convict and one of its organizers, whose resignation yesterday automatically restored the union's A. F. of L. charter.

According to William Collins, A. F. of representative in New York. the business post, which pays $75 a week, will not be filled until after Labor Day, the union officials deeming it inadvisable to hold an election during the vacation season, Lanza, fined $10.000 and sentenced to two and a half years in jail on being convicted in 1935 of violating the Sherman An Law in a shakedown racket at the Fulton Fish Market, resigned in this message to William Green, A. F.

of L. president: "Because of the action of you, as president of the American Federation of Labor, in suspending the charter of the United Sea Food Workers Union No. 16,975, and in the interest of the membership of that union, who thought it proper to elect me as their business representative, I hereby resign my office with this union, and will have no further connection with it, either directly or indirectly." Plane Firm Plans Employe Bonuses Farmingdale, Aug. 3-Every employe of the Republic Aviation Corporation here who shows a satisfactory service record will share in the profits of the organization shortly by virtue of a new bonus plan announced by W. Wallace Kellett, president.

Details of the plan will be revealed later, he said, but every employe whose work has been satisfactory may expect to share in it. Mr. Kellett said the company is prospering and its prospects are "of the brightest." The 2.400 employes of the huge plant are engaged in the production of high -speed planes for the United States and export trade. Wills Filed The following wills are on file today with Surrogate George Albert Wingate: KING. ANNA L.

(July 19). Estate, not. more than $5,000 real and not more than $12.000 personal. To husband. Charles A.

King. 1159 Dean executor. KOHN, REGINA (July 17). Estate, more than $10.000 real and not more than $500 personal. To 601.

Eugene Kohn, 70-01 113th Forest Hills, executor. and daughters. Irene Cannon. Chestnut Place, Reno. Carrie Halberstadt.

134 N. 12th New Hyde Park, N. and Bella H. Kohn. executrix, one-fifth of residue each: son.

Howard Kohn, both of 509 Brighton Beach income from the proceeds of specific insurance in trust, principal at 30. and one-fifth of residue. WEIGAND. CLARA (July 20). Estate, $8.000 real and $6.000 personal.

To German Evangelical Church, 61 Schermerhorn $250: sons. Matthew J. WeiRand. 69-36 Exeter Forest Hills. and William F.

Weigand. 1272 E. 31st one-third of residue each: daughter. Clara P. Weizand.

764 E. 35th executrix, household and personal effects and one-third. of residue. WRIGHT, DUMONT (July 12). Estate, not more than $10.000 personal.

To nephew. Dumont Gavin, 967 Seneca Ave. Ridgewood, specific stocks: niece, Lilite V. Haynes, 79 Richmond executrix. 42 shares of specific stock and residue.

Surrogate Wingate has granted letters of administration on these estates: BARR. SAMUEL (April 9). Estate, not more than $10.250 personal and not more than $13.000 real. To cousin. Samuel Horner 408 10th Ave.

Paterson, N. Other heirs, five cousins WHALEN. MICHAEL (May 101. Estate. not more than $1,700 personal and not more than $10.400 real.

To son, John Whalen, 1435 E. 23d St. Other heir. BOD. 'Gearing Up Drive To Start Off With Says Willkie 'Tribe Shall Declares Joe Martin After Seeing Nominee Colorado Springs, Aug.

3 (AP) Wendell L. Willkie conferred with Republican organization leaders today and said he was getting his campaign "geared up and ready to start with a bang." Chairman Joe Martin of the Republican National Committee, who headed the group of visiting party leaders, attended a press with Willkie shortly and the nominee that "if the election were held today he would win." "What about tomorrow?" a reporter asked. Martin said he believed sentiment for Willkie would "continue to increase." Before the arrival of the Republican strategists last night, Willkie told reporters he would be glad to answer any questions President Roosevelt might have to ask him about public issues. Willkie said he would make clear his position on conscription in his Aug. 17 acceptance address at Elwood, but added: "If the President of the United States wants to ask me any questions in the meantime, I shall be glad to answer him." In addition to Martin, those here for today's conferences were Henry P.

Fletcher, National Committee counsel; Charles P. Goodspeed, party treasurer; Sinclair Weeks of Boston, Eastern treasurer; John Hamilton, Martin's executive assistant, and Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota. 2 Hurt 'as Cycles Collide In American Jubilee Act Two members of the cast of the "American Jubilee," World's Fair patriotic spectacle, were slightly injured when bicycles on which they were riding in the bicycle act in one of the shows yesterday collided.

They were Maude Carroll, 24, of the St. James Hotel, Manhattan, and Janna Perlova, 19, of Broadway, Manhattan. Both were thrown from their cycles to the floor of the stage, the former receiving abrasions and contusions of the chest and the latter contusions of the left jaw. They were taken to Medical Aid Station 3 in the Amusement Area where Dr. John Murphy treated them.

Following treatment they resumed their roles at the theater. Fleet Reserve Groups Install George Ferman was installed president of the Fleet Reserve Association, Branch 2, and Mrs. Adelaide Dragon was inducted to head its auxiliary at joint exercises held last night in the Livingston, 301 Schermerhorn St. Installed with Mrs. Dragon were Mrs.

Anne Bennett, vice president; Mrs. Irene Nelson, secretary; Gloria Dragon, treasurer; Mrs. Mabel Johnson, chaplain, and Virginia Reilly, Mrs. Helen Chiaison, Mrs. Ann Varone.

Mrs. Louise McComb and Mrs. Laura Schmuck, directors. Among the guests were delegates from various veteran organizations and the following auxiliary leaders: Mrs. Eleanor Pignataro, past national president; Mrs.

Rosa F. Allen, past national treasurer: Mrs. Mary Matheson, national Mrs. Lou Manzie, past national chaplain. and Mrs.

Julia Byrne, past national membership chairman. Screen Star to Divorce Pangborn, World Flier Los Angeles, Aug. 3 -The Examiner says Swana Beaucaire, French screen actress, will leave tomorrow for Reno, to divorce Clyde Pangborn, round -the -world flier. "We are still very good friends." Mrs. Pangborn was quoted, "but his work as a representative of the Canadian Government keeps Clyde constantly on the move.

We have seen but little of each other for some time." Set Hearing for Operator In Fatal Lift Accident Michael Misisco, 54, an elevator operator, of 41-27 27th Long Island City, was released in $500 bail for hearing next Friday when arraigned yesterday before Magistrate Frank Giorgio in Felony Court, Ridgewood, on a homicide resulting from the death charge, Thursday of Mrs. Benjamin Berrafato, 30, of 104-30 35th Corona. The defendant was alleged to have left the door of the elevator shaft open on the fifth floor of the office building at 27-01 Bridge Plaza North, Long Island City, where Mrs. Berrafato worked as a bookkeeper. She fell down the shaft and was killed.

Decline in Insanity Seen Sacramento, Cal, (U.P) effect of the war in Europe, so long as it does not actually involve the United States, will be a reduction of insanity, believes Dr. Aaron J. Rosanoff. State director of institutions. He pointed out that unemployment 15 a major cause of insanity and that unemployment 1s on the decrease now due to defense activity, BROOKLYN EAGLE, SATURDAY, AUG.

3, 1940 9 J. R. McCARL, CONTROLLER, 'WATCHDOG OF TREASURY' posed in the primary fight by Sol H. Eisler, who was declared the winner after the votes of the district county committeemen had been counted. Refusing to accept the verdict, Tammany Hall called a special committee of district leaders who voted to recognize Mr.

Lazarus. Again in 1939, Mr. Eisler opposed Mr. Lazarus, but withdrew in favor of another opponent of the Tammany choice, Samuel Fassler, former Commissioner of Buildings of Manhattan, who was elected. Born in 1858 on the lower East Side, Mr.

Lazarus lived all his life in the 6th A. D. and became its leader in 1910, succeeding Judge Benjamin Hoffman. He was appointed Port Warden of New York State 1911 and held this post until 1918, when he was a named Deputy Commissioner of Records of the Surrogate's Court. He is survived by his widow.

Mrs. Molly Lazarus, and two children, Municipal Court Justice Lester Lazarus and Mrs. Belle shein. Harry Haynes A solemn requiem mass will be said Monday at 10 a.m. at Holy Name R.

C. Church, Prospect Ave. and Prospect Park West, for Harry Haynes, a machinist at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the past 17 years, who died Thursday in his home at 12 Sherman St. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr.

Haynes was born in Brooklyn and had lived here all his life. He is survived by a son, Edmond Haynes, and three daughters, Mrs. Florence Myers, and Mary and Florence Haynes. Mrs. Agnes Reardon A solemn requiem mass will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m.

as our Lady of Refuge R. C. Church, Ocean and Foster for Mrs. Agnes Reardon, lifelong resident of Brooklyn, who died Thursday. The funeral will take place from her home at 860 E.

15th at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery. Mrs. Reardon is survived by four sons, Edward, Frank, Joseph and Gerard, and three sisters, Sister Irma of the Sisters of St.

Joseph, Mrs. Rose Byrnes and Mrs. Anna T. Kelly. A.

D. Geoghegan Sr. Special to the Brooklyn Eagle New Orleans, Aug. 3-A. D.

Geoghegan president of the Wesson Oil Snowdrift Company, and chairman of the board of the National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans died here Thursday night in Baptist Hospital. He was 63. Mr. Geoghegan is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edwina Stingel ghegan, two sons, three daughters and a sister.

Helen Thomas Cato Funeral services were held last night at her home at 64 Linden St. for Helen Thomas Cato, who died Wednesday following a fall in her home the Friday before. Burial will be in Evergreens Cemetery today. Mrs. Cato was born in Brooklyn and had lived here all her life.

She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Gillen, and four brothers, George, Edward, Charles and William Thomas. DEATHS HANLEY-ROBERT on Aug. 1. 1940, at his residence, 630 Bergen Street, beloved husband of Stella (nee La Fontaine); father of Eileen and Robert son of william and Margaret; brother of Bernard, Lila and Mrs.

Patrick McGuire. Funeral Monday, 8:30 requiem mass R. C. Church of St. Joseph.

HAYNES -HARRY, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 1940, at his residence, 12 Sherman Street, beloved father of Mrs. Irene Myers, Mary, Florence and Edmond Haynes. Solemn mass of requiem Monday at 10 a.m. at the R.

C. Church of the Holy Name. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. LAWLER--On August 3, 1940. EMMA AGNES (nee Wipper), beloved wife of William F.

Reposing at the Walter B. Cooke, Funeral Home. 1218 Flatbush Ave. Notice of funeral later. O'BRIEN-SARAH, of 336 4th Street; mother of Raymond, John, Thomas; sister of Thomas O'Shaughnessy and Marie Walker.

Requiem mass Monday, 9:30 sharp, St. Thomas Aquinas R. C. Church. Reposing chapel, Joseph G.

Duffy, 237 9th Street. O'ROURKE -CATHERINE (nee Geraghty), Aug. 2, 1940, beloved wife of the late Francis devoted mother of Eileen, Francis and Edward. Funeral from her residence, 141 E. 21st Street, Monday, 9:30 a.m.; requiem mass Holy Cross Church.

10 a.m. PATTENDEN-On Aug. 2. 1940, HARRY beloved husband of Mabel and father of Joan; brother of William and Hazel Hons. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Sunday, 3 p.m.

ROBINSON-ANNA C. (nee Furman), on Friday, August 2. 1940, beloved wife of Thomas E. Robinson and sister of Arthur C. Furman and Sylvester M.

Furman. Funeral from her home at 194 Conselyea Street, Brooklyn. Requiem mass at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception R. C.

Church, located at Maujer and Leonard Streets, on Tuesday, August 6. at 10 a.m. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Washington. Aug.

3 (AP) J. R. McCarl, who was the Controller General of United States, died of a heart attack yesterday in his law office here. He was 60. Known as "the watchdog of the Treasury" during his 15 year term as Controller General.

John Raymond McCarl won the fear and often the enmity of Federal employes both high and low in his efforts to do his duty and keep the government's purse strings tight. Fearless guardian of the Govern. ment's finances, he told presidents, diplomats and members of Congress, as well as thousands of their underlings what they could and could not spend. Sometimes he even ordered public officials to repay out of their own pockets sums they had spent without proper authorization from Economies Were Impartial If his pencil lopped off claims of meals, tips and other items from the expense accounts of Government employes from charwomen to Cabinet members, it was equally alert in crossing millions of dollars sought for Deal projQuew ects which he felt had not been authorized by specific legislation. He practiced his economies with impartiality under both Republican and Democratic administrations, but his ax fell hardest on early New Deal spending, and he proved 43 Awards Given At Council Fire of Girls 4-H Camp Riverhead, Aug.

3-Forty-three clover and swimming awards were presented at the first council fire of the season at the Nassau County Girls 4-H Camp at Baiting Hollow near here. The clover awards and the recipients were: First-year cloverGladys Haddaway, Florence Daley, June Jenkins, Florence Potopinski, Elsie Gozelski, Georgette Wirick, Emily Carol, 'Rose Arresto, Josephine Arresto, Ruth Lindsey, Virginia Stinson, Madeline Pilardi, Norah Partrick, Floreen Ulrich and Naomi Rosenhaus. Second-year clover -Regina Ostuni and Eileen Beza; third-year clover -Edith Muller, Edna, Bailey and Elizabeth Davidson; fifth-year clover Dorothy Dickson, Marie Freyknecht and Doris Brecht; tenth-year clover -Esther Smith and Carolyn Cobb, and eleventhyear clover -Florence Gear. Swimming awards went to the following: Beginners--Doris Davidson. Jeanne Corsette, Carol Druhl, Joan Curlis, Marion Loweth, Florence Potopinski and Florence Daley: swimmers-Marcella Erwin, Mildred Gifford, Charlotte Damm and Dolores Sadowski; intermediates Ruth Lindsey, Madeline Filardi, Betty Peterson, Jaqueline Flattau, Jean Meeks and Jean Verhulst.

Boxer's Death Due To Heart Ailment The investigation into the death of Pete Asero, 20, welterweight boxer, during 8 bout in the New Queensboro Arena, Long Island City, on June 16, was closed yesterday following the receipt of a report from Assistant Medical Examiner Jacob Werne that the death was due to a heart ailment and not to any blows struck during the fight. Assistant District Attorney James P. McGrattan of Queens, who had interrogated Pete Muscanera, Asero's opponent; Referee Pete Hartley and the judges, said all agreed that Asero was not showany signs of distress during the ing fight; but on the contrary was on the way to a decision over his opponent when he collapsed in the fourth round of the scheduled siXround bout. Dr. Werne's report to McGrattan stated that Asero was suffering from "interstitial myocarditis," a heart ailment, apparently the result of some previous Infection.

which, he added. could not have been detected by an microscopic examination. Barbara Kruger Named at College Appointment of Miss Barbara Louise Kruger as director of the personnel and employment bureau at Brooklyn College was announced today by Harry D. Gideonse, president of the college. Miss Kruger has been at work since the middle of July, but assumed her duties officially with announcement of the appointment.

She replaces Mrs. Elizabeth C. Levy, wife of Henry C. Levy, A member of the board of Examiners of the New York City Board of Education. Miss Kruger 1s a native of New York City and has her baccalaureate and master of arts degree from Barnard College.

Columbia University, She is writing a thesis for a doctorate degree, having completed other requirements. WHEN OUT OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN a stumbling block to some of Roosevelt's pet projects, such as the planting of A belt of trees across the prairies. Referred to as the most unpopular man in Washington he stood his ground against the New Deal until it eventually had to subside and wait until his term expired. Following his retirement the President sought to abolish his office under the reorganization bill, but that, too, failed. was a speaker on the program of the New Social Ideal Committee at Packer Collegiate Institute.

He made many appearances as a speaker in the borough in his capacity as president of the League for Municipal Ownership and Operation of Public Utilities. Again, AS director of the People's Institute of New York, Mr. Howe delivered addresses in the borough on the abolition of poverty by law. He was an ardent advocate of home rule for the City of New York and campaigned to free the city from jurisdiction by State laws not suited to local needs. Mr.

Howe fought for the principle of the schools recreational as well as educational centers, insisting they should be made local point of community life. As Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York he urged special education for immigrants who entered the United States after the World War. Under the New Deal Mr. Howe became Agricultural Adjustment Administraconsumers' counsel and special advisor to Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace.

2 Men Accused Of Making Threat To Non-Striker "If you go to work you will be trailed and will end up in a hospital," was the threat George W. Lehman of Lynbrook charged yesterday was made to him by two men as he sat in a restaurant before returning after lunch hour Thursday to his job at the Tirangle Conduit Cabpe Company, Dry Harbor Road, Glendale, where a strike is in progress. Before Magistrate Peter M. Horn in Long Island City court yesterday he charged the two men, identified as Charles Magano, 22, of 126-20 Van Wyck Boulevard, Jamaica, and Arthur Pfadenhauer, 23. of 72-35 6th Maspeth, with conduct.

The defendants pleaded not guilty and were held in $100 bail each for hearing Sept. 10 by the magistrate, who declared he had sympathy for workmen in labor difficulties but would not countenance threats and violence. Collegians Make Bike Trip Of 3,500 Miles on $50 Each Kansas City, Aug. 3 (P)-Two University of Kansas City seniors made a 3.500-mile bicycle trip to Mexico City and back on $50 apiece. But they had to cover the last 550 miles from Dallas, Texas, with only 15 cents and three boxes of oatmeal.

Ross Sheldon, 21. Kansas City, and Willis Cederlind, Union Star, pedaled in last night unshaven. dirty and broke, and explained their "bargain rate" 58-day trip was not planned that way but was forced on them through inability to get a letter to a bank back home. Sheldon was struck in the back by a spent bullet during the election disturbances in Mexico City July 7. He was knocked down, but not injured.

Western Reserve to Add 'Freezing' Laboratory Cleveland. Ohio (U.P.)-A "quick freezing" research laboratory for the studying of protoplasm-the basic substance of all life -is to be established at Western Reserve University. "We will use the freeze technique now used at the University of Chicago with such success." said Dr. Normand L. Hoerr, professor of anatomy in the Western Reserve school of medicine.

"The speed with which this is done arrests and literally freezes the cells in the actual process of living functions." The laboratory is financed by a $10.000 grant from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation of New York. which supports medical Events at the Fair 3:00 P.M. films. Federal Works Agency 3:00 P.M.

-Chinese SOnEs and dances American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Pavilion. 3:00 P.M. and Y. W.

C. A. Co-ed Club Conference. Temple of Religion. 4:00 P.M.

-America House Program. Inter- -America House. 5:00 P.M. -Evening parade with U. Navy Band and battalion from Camp George Washington.

Court of Peace. 5:30 P.M. -Fife. drum and bugle corps contests. Field of Special Events.

6:00 P.M. -Twilight Hour. Thomas Negro composers group. Temple of Religion. 6:15 P.M.

concert by World's Fair Band. George Washington Statue, 9:15 P.M.- Fountain Display. Lagoon of Natione. 9:45 P.M. -Free Automobile Award Magic Circle 10:00 P.M.

displar. Liberty Lake Amusement Area 10:00 P.M -Mass parachute leap Parachute jump 1:00 ME out, Born in an Iowa Cabin Born in a log cabin near Des Moines, Iowa, he worked his way through high school, and finally received his degree as a bachelor of law from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1903. Going to McCook, he met George W. Norris, then a struggling Republican politician. and undertook the organization of Mr.

Norris's first campaign for the United States Senate. He went to Washington as Senator Norris's secretary and four years later became secretary of the National Republican Congressional Committee, In 1921, when Congress created the post of Controller General, President Harding appointed him to the job, which carried with it a $10.000 year salary and A 15-year tenure, subject only to impeachment by Congress. HOLC Sold 4,800 Homes For $16,000,000 in June Washington, Aug. 3 (P--The Home Owners' Loan Corporation reported today the sale during June of more than 4,800 foreclosed homes for an aggregate of $16,000.000. Ivan Carson, deputy general manager, said that the corporation had sold 105,000 homes since it was founded, and nearly 50.000 during the fiscal year that ended June 30.

He said that only three percent of present sales accounts were even temporarily in default. The FHA reported that 4,206 new homes were begun under its inspection during the week ended July 27. Parks to Launch Aquatic Contests The Park Department's annual swimming championships will open next Saturday at Sunset Pool. 7th Ave. and 43d St.

They will continue at several other sites and close the following Friday and Saturday with th staging of the finals for all titles in the Astoria Pool, 23d Drive and 19th St. Amateurs will compete for the A. A. U. diving championship at Sunset Pool; boys and girls under 18 will vie in novice events on Aug.

12 at Betsey Head Pool, Hopkinson and Livonia and contestants in Y. M. C. A. championships will meet on 13 in McCarren Park, Driggs Ave.

and Lorimer St. On Aug. 14 municipal employes will match strokes in Crotona Pool, Fulton Ave. and 173d the Bronx, and the next day will find some of the country's best swimmers competing for State and metropolitan honors in Highbridge Pool, Amsterdam Ave. and 173d Manhattan.

Camp Group Plans Meeting The Colony Camp Association has completed arrangements for its annual mid-Summer meeting to De held Tuesday night at the Hotel Granada, it was announced today. AUCTION AUCTION SALE SALES FISCHMAN. AUCTIONEER. sella August 5, 1940. at 3.15 p.m..

at 220-22 Clifton Place, Brooklyn, all the right. title and interest of Nicholas Kurland in and to all Butcher Fixtures, Appurtenances, Chattels. as listed in mortgage. A FISCHMAN. AUCTIONEER, sells August 1940.

at p.m 5. at 85 DeKalb Ave. klyn. Oldsmobile Se. dan.

Motor No. F787817. retaken from Edgar Jefferson. BANKRUPTCY NOTICES UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -In Matter of 5TH AVENUE RUG SHOP.

Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that the assets of above bankrupt. consisting of Rugs. Floor Coverings. Fixtures.

will he sold at Public Auction day. August 1940. at 10:30 a.m.. on the premises, 8503 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. MILTON S.

GOULD. Receiver, 60 Wall Street, New York. WILLIAN BURR DeLACY. Attorney, 2 Park Avenue, New WILLIAM H. REID.

Auctioneer. 383 Pearl Street. Brooklyn. PUBLIC NOTICES TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Office District Supervisor.

Alcohol Tax Unit. Bureau Internal Revenue, New York. Date publication 20. 1940. Notice is hereby given Ford 1940.

one Coupe, Motor No. 1930 Model. A-3649331. for of Bronklyn 124 au3 Rockawar Code, wit Ser- Any person claiming in property must appear at Charge. Investigator Alcohol Tax Unit.

Federal Building. N. file cost Washing and Johnson Sts. Brooklyn, and claim bond. and Section Inof provided by 3724 the ternal Revenue Code.

on or before 19, 1940; otherwise the Aux. property will be disposed of according to law Wm. D. Moss. jv20-3t PAWNBROKERS SALES JACOB SHONGUT.

INC. Jos. Shongut -Geo. Shongut. Auctioneers Sell at Bowery, N.

at 9 82 Aug. 6-For J. J. Saver. 662 Manhattan Are diamonds, jewelry, cecondhand watches odds and ends from 43033 of Jan.

17. 1936 to 23400 of July 1939. Similar Goods for J. J. Baver, 922 Manhattan Ave from 60000 of Jan.

3. 1939, to 72650 of July 1, 1939. 131-6t o8u.