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-2 1936 C1B IFILL Storks and Curb Closing Prices THE WEATHER Daily EAGLE AIR. CONTINI 1.1) 1 0U tOMl.ll 95th 362 1 NEW YORK CITY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1935 26 PAGES THREE CENTS Geoghan Takes Oath City's Whoopee LINDBERGHS DOCK TO SEEK PRIVACY OF WALES HOME 32 IN SWEDISH RED CROSS KILLED AS ITALIANS BOMB AMBULANCE UNIT FROM AIR Son-in-Iaw of Selassie The Eagle will not be published tomorrow, New Year's Day. Italy to Omit New Year's Revel Rome, Dec. 31 Fascist Italy today faced a somber observance of New Year's Eve. Gaiety was reduced by prospects of a more intensified strife and increased bloodshed in Ethiopia and the self-imposed restrictions adopted to combat League closings have been ordered to conserve heat and light, and champagne has been barred as symbolical of sanctionist Tonight to nail Prosperity Era New Yorkers Evidenec Renewed Confidence as Gay Spots Sell Out Yorkers look forward today to the happiest, most hilarious and hopelui New Year since the depression, as they prepare to ring out the old and ring in the new with all the gayety and merrymaking that marked the advent of a year in tne oaimy aays oi sxy- rockctir.g prices and bulging bank rolls.

ly evidence were retired to prove that prosperity has finally staged a comeback, it. was supplied by the hotels, night clubs and other magnets of New Year's Eve festivities, virtually all of which announced that all available reservations were taken despite the fact that prices ranged irom so to iu nigner man last year. Still further evidence of a new day economically came from the Alcohnlic Hi ontiol Hoard which reported that 1,168 special licenses for all-night celebrations had been issued, as compared with only 700 at the close of 1934. All the n- a ord near-record rush in business and aii im it at I. pmntt to I git at- est demonstration or elbow bending in his city since the demise of prohibition.

Pro-Noise Policy The city administration has de cided to do everything in its power to aid and abet the debut of 1936 by suspending its anti-noise cam paign for the night, a move that apparently set the stage for the loudest and most sustained racket that has greeted the birth of vear in many a decade. The weather man also did his bit promising an Ideal New Year's ve weather menu with blue skies above and plenty of brisk breezes to induce merrymaking activity. ine only New yoraers wno were Dt looking forward with high spirits to the ushering in of the New Year were the bluecoats, who will face their customary tough Continued on Page 2 To Stay With Anne's Kin-Desired to Flee HauptmannExecution, Crew Says-Spokesman for Host Disputes This Liverpool, Dec. 31 The Lindberghs Charles, Anne and Jon reached British shores today to stay, a family spokesman said, "for some! time" in peaceful Wales, seeking privacy and security for their second son. While the famous little family rested in the seclusion of a Liverpool hotel following their arrival from the United States, a member of the J.

L. Morgan family in Llan-daff, Wales, disclosed the Lindberghs will be guests at the Morgan The Morgan spokesman said the family understood the Lindberghs were seeking some degree of privacy in England, fearful lest Jon meet the same fate as befell their first son, Charles A. Lindbergh kidnaped and murdered in 1932. Due Soon In Wales L. Morgan, at whose home the Lindberghs will reside, is the father of Aubrey Neil Morgan, widower of Mrs.

Lindbergh's sister, the former Elisabeth, Morrow. The Morgan family expects the Llndeberghs to arrive at Llandaff tonight or tomorrow from Liverpool and to stay there "for some time," it was disclosed. Efforts to determine whether they will establish a permanent home or to learn the exact length of their British stay were unavailing. Colonel Lindbergh, the Morgan spokesman said, probably will make no public statement until he has nad time to survey me situation. Members of the crew of the American Importer, on which the Lind berghs arrived this noon, said they understood the vovaae from Amer Starting his second term as Kings County District Attorney.

William F. X. Geoghan (left) is shown taking the oath of offioL' while Police Commissioner Valentine looks on. Geoghan Picks Aides 2 Women May Cause New Chemistry Era ica was made to avoid being in the "TrnitecT states at the tlrherWMtie Guffey Coal Act Ruled Invalid By IIS. Court Declares Tax Destroys Business-Suit Attacks Dollar Devaluation Kansas City.

Doc. 31 vTV-The Guf fey Coal Law was held invalid under the taxing powers of the Constitution today by Federal District Judge Albert L. Reeves who declared the tax imposed by the act was "so bundensome and onerous as to destroy the business of the plaintiffs." Krt inded down ili opinion after six Missouri coal companies had asked for a temporary injunction to prevent Federal officials from collecting taxes provided by the "Little NRA" of the coal ta in granting the injunction Judge ves asserted the Guffey tax stood a penalty to compel submission a national regulatory code, and that there was no authority under the Constitution enabling CFongress to stabilize the bituminous mining industry and promote i terstate commerce. Suit Attacks Gold Act Washington, Dec. 31 UV, A inv.li attack on the constitutionality of 01 uongress abrogating clauses in contracts caning ior pay ment in gold was filed today wit! the Supreme Court.

The appeal was presented bv Colombia concern, Compania de In- versiones Internacionales, which contended the law did not apply to International transactions between nonresidents of the United States. The action was brought against uie industrial Mortgage aanK OI riniana in an eirort to recover $5. 307 on securities instead of the face value of $3,135. The larger a was asked on account of the the dollar's gold weight to 59.06 percent ot the content at the investment was made. New York State cour which the appeal was filed, denied tne larger amount and awarded Judgment for the smaller The Supreme Court, at its last term, upheld the right of the Government to bar payment of private oonas in goia.

Briefcase Bandit Gets Store's $195 A lone Negro bandit entered the Long Island Furniture Company, 46 Myrtle shortly before 9:30 a.m. today and at the point of a gun forced Harry Schopp, the manager. i transfer $195 in the cash regiM.M ito a brief case. Two cashiers, Anna Lambert, 400 17th and Sylvia Posner, 199 E. 91st were ordered to stand in le rear of the store while the gun-an coolly carried on his work.

After Schopp placed the money in the brief case the bandit took it alked out of the store to the Jay St. station of Uie Independent subway. Filipino Bandit Chief Slain by Constables Manila, P. Dec. 31 (P)-Con- stabularymen reported today they had killed the long-sought bandit chieftain, Tcodoro Asedillo, anc of his companions, near the village of Caldon, in Tayabas Province.

Authorities were simultaneously advised another bandit band led by the notorious Cant. Kii. murdered two constabulary guides Saturday near Cagslay, Tayabas. Accuses Eaton OfSeekingDcal ForG.O.P.Fund Tried to Exchange Con vention Delegate for okle; Albany, Dec. 31 (P) Intraparty Republican strife ove- organization of the 1936 State Legislature was pushed Into the national political arena today by Representative Hamilton Fish a Borah-for-President backer, who gave his support to insurgent forces seeking to unseat State Chairman Melvin C.

Eaton. In a Washington interview the New York City Congressman said he as in entire sympathy with Erie County Chairman Edwin V. Jaeckle of Buffalo in the fight against the Old Guard faction of the New York State Republicans. Albany, Dec. 31 UP) Edwin F.

Jaeckle, the persistent Erie County (Buffalo) Republican chairman, attributed to State Chairman Melvin C. Eaton today a tale that Eaton recently attempted to negotiate a $100,000 Republican campaign fund contribution in exenange ior selection of a certain delegate to the Republican national convention. "On Dec. 5," Jaeckle said, "the State chairman told me he was negotiating for a contribution of $100,000 to the Republican campaign fund if he could procure tne selection of either one of two men promi nent in Uie metropolitan district as Continued Page 2 Origin of Cellulose and Advancement of bcience. Cellulose, the product of all trees and plants, is used to make synthetic silks, paper and the thousands of household articles which cause chemists to call this the "cellulose age." No one previously has ever been able to see how plants make their cellulose.

The discovery is a first step toward a possibility of facturing cellulose partly by chine, without aid of plan change which would make available limitless supplies of paper and clothing and mean another chemical revolution. Studied Cotton Cells The microscopes of Mrs. Wanda K. Fair, associate cotton technologist ot the U. S.

Department ol Agricul ture, and Dr. Sophie H. Eckerson spied out the origins o( cellulose. Both work at the Boyce Thompson Yonkers. While examining fibers of cotton, which is 90 percent pure cellulose.

they saw nature's cellulose-making piocess a in the cotton cells. Powerful Microscopes The cells are visible only under powenul microscopes. I Continued Page 2 Con. Gas Pays City $9,536,038 Arrears; arrears and interest amouiu-o were paid to New York City today by the Consoli dated Gas Company and subsidia- The sum 54; principal and $741,491 interest due from the Consolidated Gas system for the cit special tiancliiM- t.u for 1934 and 1935. a Feminine Scientists Solve Pave Way for Manufacture of Limitless Supplies of Paper and Clothing St.

Louis, Dec. 31 (TP) Two women scientists today announced solution of a maior mystery of science the origin of cellulose in a report to the American Association for the Reports Attack-More Troops Sent to Front hy Fascists in North to Comhat Growing Ethiopian Opposition Addis Ababa, Dec. 31 iTP) A wireless message from Ras Desta Demtu. son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie and Ethiopian commander on the southern front, said today nine Swedes and 23 Ethiopians, composing an ambulance unit, died under an Italian aerial bombardment. Ethiopian Government com munique said today: "Yesterday morning a Swedish Red Cross ambulance was bombarded by Italian planes 30 kilometers about 19 miles) irom Dolo on the Guenale Dona River.

"The ambulance chief was Jured." Proteat Church Burning The Ethiopian Abuna, or arch bishop, today telegraphed an appeal the leaders of all Christian religions in the world to Join in "condemning the sacrilegious act" of the nanan army miring its retreat irom Abbi Addi. The iv asserted the Italians burned all the churches in that region. Athens, Dec. 31 UP) The Holy Synod, highest executive body of the Greek Orthodox Church, adopted a resolution today protesting the "barbarous bombardment of the unarmed populace and hospitals at Uessyc by Italian airplanes." Italians Reinforce Front Copyright, 1935 by the Aasoclited Pren Asmara, Eritrea, Dec. 31 The Italian high command moved heavy reinforcements up to the northern front today to combat the mounting Ethiopian opposition Fascist officers realized the next Continued on Page Market Closes Year With Spurt; Commodities Up In a brisk end-of-the-vear rise today, stocks made millions of holders happy, closing 1935 with the prices seen ior Hundreds of undpr the best of thg Finals were only year averaging all stocks.

The day advance to an average of points in industrials, and about point average in rails and utlll-t, Oils, steels, aviations, chemi cals and housing stocks led the way up commodities also advanced, though moderately. Bonds showed good gains, espe cially speculative rails and utilities. European gold currencies improved against the dollar and sterling. Sentence Suspended On Youth for Aiding Counterfeit Expose Philip Sheehan, 22, son of the head keeper at Welfare Island, received a suspended sentence today in Brooklyn Federal Court from Judge Mortimer W. Byers on his recent guilty plea to a charge of possessing five counterfeit $20 bills at Rockaway Beach on Aug.

25. He was placed on probation for two Clemency Wl a representath Ice advised th( extended him after of the Secret Serv-Court the youth not only confesse med the bills, but on Dee. 4. in Pittsburgh, testified on behalf of the Government at the successful prosecution of two men who had been distributors of large quantities of counterfeit money through New York find Pennsylvania Sheehan's address was given as 450 E. 139th the Bronx.

MAIN 4-6000 FOR RESULTS! INEXPENSIVE, GRATIFYING! Some Honest Fellows Go 1 Around With Crooks I But iheM ftllowi mu.t feel a btl I hrrpilh WhMI ihfv wr how Unt 1 1 Adi hnd flock) of huiinru oppor- Iseti foi younelf. seep on ih Busbbu Opportuaiiita column, -I IV Ulr Wsnl Ad Action, Indict Trucker In Kickback On WPA Funds Hugo Tcitlehanm Faces Federal Charge-Formerly Ran Baking Co. Hugo Teitlebaum of 83 Winthrop was indicted this atternoon the Brooklyn Federal grand iurv charge of conspiracy in paying employes less than the prescribed 1 wage lr om money he received on Works Progress Administration trucking contract. Indicted with him was Harry Dorf, 767 E. 45th with whom 1 Teitlebaum last August formed the Harry Dorf Trucking Company, 89 Broad Manhattan.

Teitlebaum formerly was head of the Teitle baum Baking Company, i business. On Sebt. 3, according to the in dictment, the Dorf Company was awaraea a contract unaer wnicn eight of nine trucks they had bought on the Instalment plan were engag ed, together with drivers, for 80 days of eight hours each, the drivers to be paid $6 a day. Their ninth truck, a smaller vehicle, was sim ilarly engaged at a slightly lower rate of compensation to the com- Pald $2.50 a Day, Charge The Treasury Department, through the WPA, the indictment sets forth, paid for eight trucks at the dally rate of $11.95 a total of 7,648 and for the ninth truck a daily rate of $11.20 to the total of $896. From this the drivers received only $2.50 a day instead ol the prescriDea so.

the indictment charges. The drivers were paid in cash dv Teitelbaum at the Teitlebaum bak- tag plant. 629 Parkside accord- ma iu James G. Scileppi, In charge of the They were then made to sign Is, which they were not per mitted to read. Mr.

Scileppi said. When WPA Investigators sought to examine the books of the trucking company, Mr. Scileppi added, the uiimiT.t trucks were surren dered to the financing companies through which they were being bought and Teitlebaum had the trucking company put into a Supreme Court receivership. TeitieDaum last Apru i petitioned the Brooklyn Federal Court for a reorganization of his baking company under Sec. 77-B of the bank ruptcy act.

This business had some $75,000 debts. When no reorgan ization plan acceptable to the creditors was forthcoming, Judge Grover M. Moscowitz adjudicated the baking company bankrupt and on Dec. 6 appointed Harold L. Turk trustee to liquidate it.

Mr. Turk last week sold the physi cal property lor su.uot) to inter- 5 that be plating starting a new baking pany the old plant. Other sets of the company were reported to tne court as consisting ot eral thousand dollars worth of standing accounts. A first meeting ol the Bankrupts creditors is to held before Referee Eugene' O'Connor in Brooklyn Federal Court at 10.30 a.m. Thursday.

'Night Flight' Author Missing on Long Hop Grave fears were held tonight, for the safety of Antoine De Sainte-Xupery, flier and author of "Night Flight." unreported for two riavs in an attempt to set record for a Rlffhl hrUprn 1 Paris and Saigon, French Indo- Air Mmislrv prize, lane not been a added Mine leavme Benahazi i Libya. Off 2 Time 1:0 Do. Wiley B. Bryan, Mr. Mar 10 80 K.iprn.1.

Do Valera Masked Revue. Creole Bird, Benares. so to I I in 90 r- Swears in Tomorrow Due To Be Warmer Increased Cloudiness to Follow Clear Night Snowfall Is Unlikelv Warmer weather was in view for tomorrow to aid New York in freeing itself from the chilly blanket of ice and snow in which it was wrapped by the blizzard of yesterday and Sunday. Two deaths and numerous injuries stood today as the storm's toll in the city as every available resource was employed to restore street traffic to normal. A clear, cold night, was promised for New Year's Eve revelers by the Weather Bureau, with increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer tomorrow.

Early it was expected but weather officials this afte suited none Is expected. I'mpeiuiure at noon which is 10 The Continued on Page 3 Find Signs of Riches In Cold, Bare Room Where Recluse Died Jersey City, Dec. 31 (P) Books and papers found in rooms occupied by the late John B. Hill were studied today as authorities attempted to figure out whether the aged recluse was wealthy or poor. Hill was found dead last night his flat in a squalid tenement house.

Evidences of poverty were everywhere. The rooms were so cold that ice had formed in the wash basins, The clothes of the 89-year-old man were threadbare. But a bank passbook showed eight, pagSS of deposits made bv Hill prior to 1929, one deposit, being listed as $10,000. Other papers indicated he owned 10 or 12 parcels of land in Jersey City. Police also found 20 suits.

50 suits of underwear, several hats, rune pairs of shoes and several boxes ot bow ties. None of the clothing had 1935. she'll be doing well." he stated. "There were 25,000 licenses issued here this past year, and that's a new record, no matter how you look at it. I doubt that the leap year can surpass it." According to Boll and Leary, the situation Ls explained readily.

Most girt adopt (he altitude that, getting nrried in leap sslp, the till: band dillereiiee i four aeeiin (to Ft ure to dt tennl 1 400 New Staff Madden, Baldwin, Le-vine, Seideriuan and McGinn Are New in Job DiGiovanna Gets Rise By MURRAY SNYDER -District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan announced today till fcl-lowing new appointments his staff: FRANCIS A. MADDEN of the 9th (Bay Ridge) A. D.

Assistant District Attorney at $5,000. ALEXANDER R. BALDWIN of the 11th (Hill Section) A. Assistant District Attorney at $4,750. EDWARD H.

LEVINE of the 2d (Flathinds) A. Assistant District Attorney at $4,750. EDWARD J. McCANN of the 1st (Downtown) A. Assistant District Attornev.

at $4,750. SEIDERMAN of the 18th (Bedford) A. Deputv Assistant District Attornev at $4,185. ANTHONY DI GIOVANNA, 19th (BushWick) A. promoted from Deputy Assistant to Assistant District Attorney at $5,000.

Sixth Job Is Vacant The jobs filled by Baldwin. Madden, DiGiovanni, Lcvine and McCann were created by an act of the 1935 Legislature. A sixth i sts as a result of the recently of Miss Mary The District Attorney said today that the remaining job will probably go to a woman. The appointment will be made in the near Relatives, friends, well-wishers and district leaders who had sponsored the appointments of the new assistants jammed Geoghan office Continued Page 2 Strict Enforcement Bars Million Aliens Washington, Dec. 31 MM Strict consular enforcement of the immigration laws, the State Department contends, held back a flood of alien immigrants Irom American shores during the last five years.

The department estimated that "enforcement of the excluding provisions" barred approximately aliens who might have added "to the ranks of the unemployed" from Oct. 1, 1930, to June 30, 1935. According to the Associated Press, among the eligible bachelors are Frank Crowninshleld, 63, editor of Vanity Fair; Alfred Gwynne Van-derbilt. who comes heeled with 10 to 20 million dollars and is still in his early twenties: Jimmv and Woolworth Donohue, the brotherly heirs to the Woolworth five ar dime fortune; J. Edgar Hoover, tl first G-Man of them all; U.

S. Sei ator Rush Holt of West, Virgin! the baby of the Senate, and six-count 'em movie actors who ha' never been married-not even one They are Dick Powell. Fred Mai Murray. Randolph Scott. Henry Wl coxon, Dene Raymond and Nelst son the woods are full of prospects.

ind Mr tag execution of Bruno Richard Haupt-mann during the week of Jan. 13. No Business Trip, Is Claim The Morgan spokesman, however, Indicated the Lindbergh's motive was more complex, and added busi-Continued on Page 2 $50,000 Requested Bv Dodge as Fund For 4 Title Trials Prosecution of officers or directors of four defunct title mortgage companies, under indictment on charges of having mulcted huge sums from thousands of investors, may cost the city at least $50,000 more, District Attorney William C. Dodge revealed last light. The prosecutor made public a copy of a letter he sent to the Board of Estimate in which he asked $50,000, at the suggestion of Governor with which to retain a "skilled prosecutor" to try the remaining The Governor, in his letter to Mr.

Dodge, said that after the grand jury had consulted with him at Albany he felt that a special pros ecutor, especially skilled in this type el i -unuiil Me onraeed to with the extensive array of legal laient, uie banners nave engaged. 5 flames Drawn In Quebec Sweep Special to The Eagle Sherbrooke, Dec. 31- names of five Brooklyn and Long Island residents were drawn in the Sherbrooke Hotel Dieu sweepstake nein nere today, iney are: Nat Zimmerman, 22 E. 96th Bella Leifer. 1231 51st D.

Door man, 202 Washington Park, all of Brooklyn, and Maurice Cantus, Lido Club. Long Beach, and 4437 Lawrence Flushing. They drew horses in the Tatter-Mils Cup. which will be run at Syd ney, Australia, tomorrow. First prize will be excess of $10.0 hi Today's Easle CIhiHM Adi DHth Notices May Fight Locust With Fire Sirens St.

Louis, Dec. 31 '(P) Sound waves from fire sirens may be used next Summer to begin killing off an important insect pest. J. A. Hyslop of the U.

S. Department of Agriculture today presented his proposal for eliminating the periodical cicada, popularly called the 17-year locust, to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Cicada is known best by its intermittent whining song on Summer nights. The noise is the sex song of the cicada, Hyslop declared, which is produced only by the male insects to attract the females. A fire siren of the proper pitch might be used, he believes, to "mask these sounds or to dampen them to such an extent that the receiver can no longer distinguish them and thus put a definite obstacle In the way of reproduction." Anti-British Riots Renewed in Cairo Cairo, Dec.

31 (Pi New violence flared here today with the opening of the International Surgical Con gress in the Cairo University Building. Two British outriders, escorting the motorcar of Premier Nessim Pasha, were roughly handled by a crowd which yelled: "Down with England Egypt for Egyptians!" The Premier was prevented from reaching the university by students who on the car and damaged it. The Egyptian Minister of Justice also was given a hostile reception and manhandled by the students. Stray Bullet Strikes Mother Holding Babe A mysterious sniper, possibly a child carelessly using a rifle which was a Christmas gift, shot Mrs. Anna Holmes of 169-43 149th Jamaica.

Queens, in the back last night as she was pacing between the kitchen and dining room of her Bashful Suitors Doomed to Disappointment; Leap Year Girls Won't Leap, Sages Predict RECEIPTS ARE GREETING The nler and hjs mechanic, scck-EmpoiHIin. Pa, Dec. lil Tony i me SOO IIOU frnne inhnni S.ISOOili Musculo. holiday greeting to cus owed hun money was receipt stamped "Paid in Full." Tropical Park Results evelation is made this morn ing by two oracles in high places concerning the age-old custom of leap year courtship on the part of the women. James Bell, deputy city clerk, and Thomas Leary, chief license clerk, announced definitely that leap year, per se, is a thing of the past and that shaking suitors, who hoped to have 50 percent of the burden of courtship lifted from their shy shoulders during 1936 a leap year, if there ever was one are doomed to bitter disappointment "Leap vear!" snorted Mr.

Bell. from the confines of the marriage license oltiee in Borough Hull. "You mean relief year, don't you?" Mr. Leary, his associate and com- panlon in cynicism, took a more practical "If 1930 has more marriages than FIRST RACE Five and onc-hi -Sangal, no (H Dabson Old Ironsides, 114 (J. Brvson -Heigh Tetrurch.

110 i R. Watsoni ALSO RAN Spinning Memory, el, Portunus. Exaggeration SECOND RACE -Six furlongs Jim John, 118 'W D. Wright Wedding King, 117 (J. Renick' home singing to a 3-months-old baby.

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