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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 6

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M2 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936 Gains As Scrapbook Contest Grows School Children Sent Copies of Rules-Historical Groups Aid This is the second day of 'The Eagle's Tercentenary Scrap Book Contest and already many requests have come in to The Eagle office from school children in Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties, for printed copies of the rules of the contest. Copies of the rules have been dispatched to those requesting this information. The contest rules are also being prominently displayed on bulletin boards in private, public and parochial schools in the four counties. Historical Groups Aid In addition to receiving valuable assistance from the Long Island Historical Society in the selection of the pictures for the Scrap Book Contest, many other historical SOcieties have forwarded excellent suggestions for enhancing the educational points of the contest. The Long Island Historical Society officers, including B.

Herbert Smith, vice president; Guy Du Val, assistant treasurer, and Richards Mott Cahoone, secretary, have been co-operating with The Eagle in bringing about the Scrap Book Contest. Yesterday's picture was that of the old Erasmus Hall Academy. Contest Rules for Scrap Book public, private opera parochial schools Brooklyn and Long Island. contest is to older students connection with the celebration to commemorate the 300th anniversary of founding of the first white settlement Island in 1636, the Long Island Society, in co-operation with Brooklyn Daily Eagle, is conducting Book Contest among the pupils public, private and parochial schools Suffolk stimulate interest in, and counties les of Kings, Queens, Nassau of, the history of Long Island. CLASSES OF CONTESTANTS 1-Students in 7A and 7B or first year Junior High School are eligible in this class.

2-Students in 8A and 8B or second year Junior High School are eligible in this class. 3-Students in first year High School or third year in Junior High School are eligible in this class. 4-Students in second year High School are eligible in this class. 5---Students in third year High School are eligible in this class. 6-Students in fourth year High School are eligible in this class.

CONTEST PLAN The Eagle is publishing daily, pictures of men and women who have been prominent in the history of Long Island, also illustrations of historically significant institutions and buildings. Contestants will cut out these pictures and paste them in scrapbook of dimensions not to exceed inches. Under each illustration a fitting description of not less than 25 nor more than 50 words must appear. The contest which began April 27 will continue to May 26, inclusive. Immediately following the conclusion of the contest, contestants will mail or deliver their scrap books to The Eagle Tercentenary Scrap Book Contest Editor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn.

N. Y. The contestants having the best scrap books in the designated classifications will be awarded prizes. If contestants desire to have their scrap books at completion of contest, they must call for them at The Eagle office. HOW AWARDS WILL BE MADE A Board of Judges, composed of men and women of prominence in the educational, historical and editorial fields, will select the scrap books which they consider to be the best from the standpoint of historical accuracy, neatness, spelling, sentence structure, punctuation and general attractiveness.

The students getting the highest rating will be declared the winners and receive the prizes announced herewith. Decision of the judges will final. All scrap books must be received Here's Your Second Picture 2-Denyse's Ferry, Now Fort Hamilton Vocational Day Brings 350 Visitors to Eagle Equipment and Efficient Speed of Modern papers Inrtigue Boro Students, Who Evince Keen Interest in Plant The equipment and efficiency plant intrigued 300 boys and girls, who visited and inspected The day of national Boys' and Girls' In eight groups the who included more than 100 girls, watched the editorial, pictorial and mechanical workings of The Eagle and marvelled at the speed with which news and scenes became stories and pictures on the printed page. Attractive Points Of 'particular interest were the index department, or where thousands clippings and pictures supply immediate background for the unexpected news development; the machines which bring to the office latest news from press associations; the pressroom' and the reelroom, where rolls of newsprint are fed to the presses. The thousands of students participating in the week's program also visited Floyd Bennett Field, the New York Museum of Science and Industry, the General Electric Company's House of Magic, the Navy Yard, Sperry Gyroscope Company's plant, the Brooklyn Edison Company and the New York Telephone Company.

Winifred a student of Girls High School, who was chosen as Miss Brooklyn, was formally presented to prominent Brooklyn women yesterday afternoon at a reception at the Children's Museum. Her court of honor included Nancy Colgan, Miss Flatbush; Ruth Christian, Miss Brooklyn Heights; Betty Lou Milliken, Miss Greenpoint; Start Celebration Of Adelphi College 41st Year on May 6 Visitors' Day Program Will Open Exercises, Dr. Blodgett States Special to The Eagle Garden City, April 28-Adelphi College will begin observance of its 40th anniversary with a visitors day program at the college here May 6, President Frank D. Blodgett announced today. An inspection of classes and labsessions in the morning and activity program in the afternoon comprise the day's arrangements.

The activity program includes exhibition of games and swimming by the physical education department under the direction of Miss Janet Marshant and Miss Camille Springsted; selections by the Glee Club under Maurice Garabant; a one-act play by the dramatic department; an exhibition of art work and an historical exhibit assembled Joseph Bowden and Dr. Courteney R. Hall. Committee Members Prof. Owen G.

Groves is chairman of the faculty committee, which includes Dean Signe E. Hagelthorn, Dr. Bowden, Prof. Ruth Aikman Damon, Dr. Hall, Dr.

Emory Holloway, Miss Marchant, Miss Marion Viets and Mrs. Withers. Miss Arlene Stucklen is chairman of the undergraduates committee, Leila Brady, Elaine Denton, Regina Dombroski, Mary Norman Gorshen, Edna Keshefsky, Grace Kolson, Marjorie Lake, Jacqueline London and La Vonne Plastow. Stage Celebrities See, Doctor Wed Chorine Williston Park, April 28 More than 60 persons, them Broadway celebrities, attended the wedding of Miss Isabel Pulsford, former Ziegfeld chorine, to Dr. Harry L.

Fulton of 163 Primrose Road, East Williston, Sunday. The couple were married in the Community Church of East Williston by the Rev. T. C. Bookhout, pastor.

A reception at the bridegroom's home followed the ceremony. Good Will Court Jam Necessitates Annex Additional Term Formed to Meet Emergency as Aid Seeks With Domestic Problems Swamp Tribunal So numerous were the Will Court last night that an At the invitation of Municipal ler, Michael Cohen, night Marie Nadro, social director of the Flatbush Boys' Club, and Miss Frieda Miller, teacher of law at Brooklyn Vocational High School, were the judges for the emergency term. On the original bench sat, the Rev. Martin C. Hoehn of Immaculate Heart of Mary R.

C. Church; Frank W. Linder, newscaster of the Christian Science Monitor, and Murray Sachs, guidance counselor at Samuel Tilden High School. Hear Mother's Distress Tale They heard the story of a mother's distress because her daughter insisted on consorting with a married man and they heard another mother recount the course of her young daughter's runaway marriage, repeated separations and reunions, during which the mother had kept the daughter's oldest boy for three years. When the couple recently took up home again, they had taken the boy away and she wanted him back.

She was satisfied that they should be happy, she said, but she had had the child since he was 1 month old, she loved him felt she could give him better care. The judges explained that she had no legitimate claim to the child and suggested a reconciliation with her daughter and son-in-law as one means of seeing her grandson. Jealous Husband Counseled A turbulent marriage of 17 years, finally climaxed by a separation, was revealed by a jealous husband, who, in the presence of his wife, her father and a minister, accused her of undue intimacy with the clergyman. Handicapped by the after -effects of a stroke, the father, speaking with painful effort, told of arriving to find his son-in-law brutally beating his wife and of the recurrence of The Old World beer that's made in the new! Piel's uses only imported hops and yeast. Piels Beer "PIELSNER" Pilsen style beer.

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M. Installment Plan. Dr. Linville Given Guild Directorshp Dr. Henry R.

Linville, who reretired as president of the cently Teachers Guild, has been appointed executive director by the Guild's executive board, it was announced today. The Guild has a also voted a regular monthly contribution of $150 to the Linville pension fund. which has $12,300, exclusive of the reached group's contribution. The goal is $15,000. Albert Lee Smallheiser, vice president, is serving as acting president until the annual meeting next month.

persons seeking aid of the Good additional term was formed. Court Justice Nathan Sweedsports editor of The Eagle; Mrs. such attacks despite the promise that they would never be repeated. The minister, in reply to questions by the judges, declared his association with the wife was the outgrowth of his desire to help her. Critically ill' and sorely tried by marital unhappiness, the woman had sought his guidance and won his friendship.

Moreover, he was teaching photography to one of the couple's four children. When further questioning showed that the couple were unalterably incompatible, the judges counseled the husband to reconstruct his life and to leave his family in peace. Seeks Gambling Curb Declaring "I think a lot of my husband," a good-looking woman, after 20 years of marriage, sought aid in efforts to curb her husband's gambling. Strong undercurrents of loyalty and affection continued through her story of frequent embarrassment through her husband's gambling debts and of a disagreement last Christmas, as a result of which he left home. When the court announced its decision to invite her husband to the next session at The Eagle Building, in order to effect a reconciliation, she left, thoroughly cheered.

ORDER COW INSPECTION Mineola, April 28-Nassau County cows will be inspected for tuberculosis for at least another year, the County Board of Supervisors decided yesterday. TONIGHT! at The Eagle office not later than noon of June 2. Each student, in submitting a scrap book. must print on the outside cover his name, school, grade, class and home address. Announcement of the awards will be made as soon as the entries have been examined and judged.

Prizes will be awarded the winners of each class in Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, making 12 prizes to be awarded in each county. The six contestants in each county winning first prize will automatically be entered in the final contest for which a grand prize will be awarded in each of the six classifications. Prizes to Winners TWELVE CASH PRIZES FOR THE BEST SCRAP BOOKS AND SIX GOLD WATCHES AS GRAND PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED. County Prizes For the best two Scrap Books in Class One in each county: FIRST PRIZE $15.00 SECOND PRIZE $10.00 For the best two Scrap Books in Class Two in each county: FIRST PRIZE $15.00 SECOND PRIZE $10.00 For the best two Scrap Books in Class Three in each county: FIRST PRIZE $15.00 SECOND PRIZE $10.00 For the best two Scrap Books in Class Four in each county: FIRST PRIZE SECOND PRIZE $10.00 For the best two Scrap Books in Class Five in each county: FIRST PRIZE $15.00 SECOND PRIZE $10.00 For the best two Scrap Books in Class Six in each county: FIRST PRIZE $15.00 SECOND PRIZE $10.00 Grand Prizes THE FINAL WINNER IN EACH OF THE SIX CLASSES WILL RECEIVE A GOLD WATCH Freeport Exposition Shows Fishing Guide Freeport, April 28-One of the features of the Freeport Housing Exposition now being conducted in the village is a 100-page fishing guide compiled by. the Jones Beach Surf Fishing Club, headed by Edward Buckley.

Among the contributors are former president Herbert Hoover, Jay "Ding" Darling, former head of the Biological Survey; first vice president of the club; Harry Waldron; Helen Jepson, the Metropolitan Opera star; John Miles Flynn, president of the Nassau County Chapter, Izaak Walton League; Capt. Tom Carman of Freeport and Miss Marion Sauber, secretary of the Long Island Unit of the League of Coast Guard Women. Great Combination! PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHICAGO MILWAUKEE ST. PAUL ANC PACIFIC -from Yellowstone to the Pacific Ocean. Mt.

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Cobb, General Agent No. SURPRISE THE FAMILY WITH STRAWBERRIES AND DRAKE'S CAKES IT'S AN ECONOMICAL SEASON FOR YOU ef. In the on Long Historical The 8 Scrap of in the and knowledge CLASS CLASS CLASS CLASS CLASS CLASS of a modern newspaper students in borough schools, Eagle yesterday, vocational Week. Mary C. Sanchez, Miss Williamsburg; Rita Root, Miss Park Slope; Marjorie Hanley, Miss Coney Island; Scott, Miss Bushwick; Alma Fasciglone, Miss Bay Ridge, and Roslyn Greenfield, Miss sonhurst.

Brooklyn women who attended the reception were Mrs. Edward C. Blum, Mrs. William H. Good, Miss Anna B.

Gallup and Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw. Today is boys and girls day in entertainment and athletics; tomorrow will be the day in schools; Thursday citizenship day when the boys take over borough, county and city offices, and Friday will be health day. The program will be concluded by a parade of 20,000 boys and girls from Borough Hall Saturday afternoon. Shot Kills Convict In Alcatraz Break San Francisco, April 28 (AP)-A bullet fired by a guard was credited today with halting the first escape attempt since Alcatraz Island became a Federal prison. While Sanford Bates, Federal director of prisons, was inspecting the island yesterday, Joseph Bowers, 40- year-old mail robber, was shot and killed by a guard when he scaled a wire fence at the west side.

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Inquire now about popular tours, or plan one of your own The Brooklyn Eagle Information Bureau is prepared to help you--with suggestions, literature, and the actual working out of details. The Eagle's Bureau is the largest of its kind in the country, rendering a courteous, dependable travel service. You are Invited to use its facilities, without charge or obligation. CALL, PHONE OR WRITE Brooklyn Eagle Resort and Travel Information Bureau 311 Washington Brooklyn, N. Y.

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