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I BROOKLYN EAGLE, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12. 19.0 Students denied R. O. T.

C. Unit Get National Guard Bid Boro College Youths Viewed Newtown Cops to Quit Old Home Tomorro Coney Island 'Streamlining' Starts Monday NLRB 'Juggled' Poll, Legislator Charges Action Gave CIO One-Vote Majority And Plant Bargaining Rights, Says Ohioan Leave, They Heinained Have Modern Building Seml-Annuil Bill Abolishes Civil Service in Labor Board Albany Bi-Partisan Measure Sponsored After 2 Years Probe Albany, Jan. 12 lF)A move to lift civil service requirements from employes of the State Labor Relations Board, recently under fire of the State Federation of Labor, reached the Legislature today with bi-partisan support. Irving M. Ives, Republican majority Assembly floor leader, and Senator Jacob J.

Schwartzwald, Brook "Well, it's high time we changed those duties." Routzohn retorted. "That's what this committee is sitting here to determine," Murdock shot back. "I'm not ready to agree with you on that." SEES BAD PRECEDENT Representative Charles A. Halleck Ind.) suggested that the Board courthouse, who said he remembers the Incident as vividly as if it happened yesterday. Mr.

Keuling was just a stripling then, but he was official stenographer of the old village court and took all his notes in his own system of shorthand, oort 01 a long nana snon nana aoue neUcally, he said. SOLVED FAMOIS MURDER in the long years that have inter- Vened the Newtown police force, now cauea une fimmr.su p.11L approved an $850,000 appro-had a colorful history. Back to the WQrk teKtoyi con. oio vmage a)S, tracts are now in the Controller's a picturesque crural community, for registration, and the for-suTh cfcE KB of signing will be completed "uJts n. th fnmns' today or tomorrow.

As Ideal Type Col. Miiixly Cilrs Advantage of Armorv Train inu By ED RKID The 1.115 students in Brooklyn 1 1 1 o.tohiliih an R. O. T. C.

unit there recently ana mha-e hopes were blasted jesterday bv a thumbs down or Faculty Council, have an invitation1 to join various local units of the National Guard where recruiting is in full swing. The invitation was extended today by Col. Joseph A S. Munriy. Chief of Staff of the New York National Guard, who said that the college students "would be an attractive addition to the Guard." I In the Guard tiie students would be able to enjoy their military bent to the ntn degree under the guidance of Regular Armv experts.

Instead of being limited to tiie use of small arms, such as rifles and revolvers as in the R. O. T. as Guardsmen the students would be taught the intricacies of cannon of all sizes, anti-tank guns, and every, conceivable type of military armament. BIG RECRUTING DRIVE Under orders to recruit up to a new maximum strength, which for Brooklyn is approximately 5.000, the Guard is conducting an extensive recruiting campaign throughout the nm-Aeman i Guldensuppe murder case.

jmc v. ruTof that ok- turesque name was killed in a love tors to the world's most famous re-triangle and his murderer traced sort this Summer will have a newly thrnnoh the neiehbor's ducks wad- renovated and enlarged beach on ing in a bloody pond, it seemea uie killer stuffed tne oooy aon uir cesspool which backed up in the next larm. In more recent years, the New town DOlice handled tne Aiijm Green murder case, that of a young Negro who killed a young Jackson Heights housewife and stuffed her body in the bathtub. He later died in the electric cnair. MODERN EQUIPMENT AT LAST 5 Minnies to 12 Years ami Finally Tt was late In the Summer of 1897 when Town Judge William T.

Monteverde looked up from the bench In the old village court of Newtown on Justice St. and peered over his spectacles at the group before him. "Who are you and why this lntru w6.i,, demanded Up stepped the roundsman ser- geanU in flowing blue cape lined with flaming red to explain: "We are the police of Greater New-York and we've come to take over this building." GET COCRT THREAT Judge Monteverde took out his heavy gold watch, toyed with the chain lor a moment ana announces in grave tones: I'll give you just five minutes to clear out. Out cleared the roundsman and his ha dozen men. slaoninz on i their ugly brown helmets as they hurried from the courtroom.

But back they came In a few hnnrs nnri marie it. rlenr that, the second floor of the three-story wooden courthouse was to be their home. It was a few months before consolidation of the greater city 1 took Place on Jan. 1, 1898, and the City wide police force had already organized and in tills instance was repiacjng; the constabulary of tne old viiiage of Newtown, SQV THEYXL Mf)VE A nH In a t. hi i i 1ri i lt rpmninpH t.hp 0 mniunuw, 160 men strong with nine sergeants ana three neutenanis commano oi (japi.

towara j. unnu, muves io a modern station house at 94-40 43d ine miiiai vlsh oi my cups, to Newtown was recalled today by Gustave Keuling. now cierK oi tne Second District Municipal Court of I Queens still meeting in the old Marcus Expected To Get Promotion First Deputy Commissioner of CnrraplKrtW novifl Mnrcm will he the tins commissioner of the de- partmcnt Deginning next Monaay resignation of Commis- sioner Austin H. MacCormick goes in(0 and the ulk at city uu i-aift. ai' HaU today was that he would be appoint.ed to the vacated place.

hen Mayor LaGuardia was whether Commissioner Mar- Brooklvn man, would be sworn in on Monday, he answered, established "a rather dangerous precedent" by considering evidence outside the formal record in deciding certain representation cases. In the Sorg case, the Board refused additional information outside the formal record when it was tendered by the company on behalf of some of its employes. A previous witness, Fannie M. Boyls, had described how the Board went outside the record for evidence in support of a union case involving General Leather Products Factory, Newark, N. J.

"Do you, think, Miss Farmer, that there should be any different rule applied to such an offer by a respondent (company) as against such an offer by a complainant?" Halleck asked Miss Farmer. "No, I do not," she replied. Mayor to Tell How Cops Solved Engelherg Case Mayor LaGuardia will give the "lowdown" on the Police Department's solution of the slaying of Dr. Walter Engelberg, Nazi consular attache, in the Parkville section of Brooklyn in a broadcast over station WNYC tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. The Mayor has already given commendation to Police Commissioner Valentine and the detectives who worked on the case.

He will speak at the opening of a new police station in Elmhurst. At 10 a.m. tomorrow, over the same station, the Mayor will speak on "Buy Grade Milk." Mrs. Steinbrink Hurt Mrs. Meier Stenbrink.

wife of Supreme Court Justice Steinbrink, is confined to her home at 613 2d it was learned today, with a broken ankli, suffered when she fell on the stairs in her home Wednesday night. Vw th. Truvr To UP the of the struc- courthouse built by the Towr of Newtown in 1983 with its peaked i roof and rotunda in the back, thelue5aay- lyn Democrat, co-sponsored a bill; proposing the action in wake of recent Court of Appeals decision" criticizing the governmental agency for failing to comply wnn tstate law requiring it choose trial examiners by civil service competitive exami nation, i Meantime, (1) Republicans planned to press for legislation designed to block use of relief funds to influence Voters, (2) Governor Lehman invited G. O. P.

legislative leaders to con-i tlnue conferences Monday on the; 1940-41 budget and (3) the Jockey Club said it would offer no alternate to the Parl-Mutuel bill offered by Democratio Senate Minorily Leader John J. Dunnlgan but expressed hope its views would be Incorporated in the eventual statute. Ives and Schwartzwaid are chair man and vice chairman, respec tively, of the legislative committee to study Industrial organizations which will soon submit a report to the lawmakers of a two-year Inquiry into labor board activities. Cop Stricken on Horse I Reported 'Holding Own' Patrolman John Haig. 40, ot xrai-fl whn differed a heart attack yesterday afternoon while riding on his horse in front or state ot was reported to be "holding his own" today at Holy Family Hos pital.

His condition is serious. Haig, who lives at 8008 97th Ozone Park, with his wife and two children, has been on the police! force 16 years. He was able to dismount with the help of a passerby who called an ambulance. Another nat.rolman brought his horse back to Traffic headquarters. Newtown police from that day in i iu nave every moaem wma Votl of the appropriation yes-riartlcirjate'in the Summer of 1897 until today, i for efficient police work.

It is three terday went through without oppo-participaie stories, of Italian Renaissance con- 4U. nP FI tV UUftl UillV 11, bers thev would receive notnmg at least two years. Under the pres-! ent stepped-up military Guardsmen are drilling every nigiu, in some armories. Wd rece-ve $1 for every drill they i As O. T.

C. mem-1 m. a w. The students would have first; Elmhurst, convenience including a arming Tne money wM be obtained consideration because "unofficial! Mayor LaGuardia will officially fountain in each cell. There is also tnrougn the issuance of serial orders" have gone out from Nation-j open the new precinct tomorrow at; a garage with room for the squad and tax not3 for the gen-al Guard headquarters at 80 Center, 11 a.m.

cars and accommodations for emer- construction of a certain sec- Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)-Repre-sentatlve Harry N. Routzohn R. Ohio) charged today that the National Labor Relations Board "Juggled" election returns to give a I. O.

union a bare one-vote majority and exclusive bargaining rights for all A. P. Sorg Paper Company employes at Mlddletown, Ohio. Routzohn's charge was made as the special House committee investigating the NLRB continued its examination of Margaret McDuff Fanner, NLRB review attorney, who handled the Sorg case. The Ohio Republican said his charge of "juggling was not directed at Miss Farmer." WOULD CHANGE DUTIES He indicated that it was aimed at NLRB Regional Director Philip G.

Phillips at Cincinnati who handled the counting of ballots and recommended which of the 16 challenged and contested ballots In the election should be counted. Representative Abe Murdock Utah) interrupted to observe that the Board's rule and regulations give Phillips the responsibility of supervising elections and recommending disposition of challenged ballots. Factory Employment Shows Marked Gain Albany, Jan. 12 () State factory employment and payrolls and Industrial building construction showed a marked gain during 1939 as compared with the previous year. A State Labor Department report set employment figures for every month at a higher level than in 1938.

Compared with 1937, last year saw a 10 percent rise in employment and 14 percent in payrolls. Industrial building plans filed with the department totaled 1,631 last year, second highest in history and represented Investments of $20,200,195. Kelly and Siglsmund J. Trapanl, retained as assistants by District Attorney William O'Dwyer until they had an opportunity to protect their pension rights. Frederick H.

Stevenson, secretary to Supreme Court Justice Harry E. Lewis, was also retired, having reached the statutory age limit of 70 years of age. 6 NEW TYPE TUBES HAS COSTLY R-F STAGE ADAPTED FOR TELEVISION FULL SIZE CONSOLE An ama.inply low i re for this hip, handsome I'hilro iiuperh performnnre. See and hear it at Dnvejta. TKADE IN YOL'R OLD RADIO! (Utnalm new 1940 FULL SIZE RADIOS Cv-i JJ Work of Building Larger Beach Seen Finished hy Summer Losing no time in putting its "streamlining" pro ConPV i.slnnd gram into effect, the Department of Parks today gave orders for the start work on Monday.

With plans all SPt to go before the Board of Esti- -nntrarti. ml! fnr rnmnlet.inn 'of Ihe work by May 15. so that visl- iwuuny n.u.im.s, mr i- thiir A. Johnson Company of Long Island City, general contractors, will send to the beach a small crew of workmen and equipment, the major item of which will be a steam shovel for scooping sand, in preparation for the first item on the program, demolition of part of the famous boardwalk, which Is to be moved back. If work progresses rapidly enough, SO OPPOSITION nuuh, uic uumu nu.i jicviwuoij indicated that about $3,000,000 in in capital outlay budget would be ear marked for the Coney Island lm- provement.

lion oi tne Doarawam, aim ioi cicu- trical, plumbing and heating work for bathing houses and rest rooms. City officials hope to develop Coney Island along the lines which have been followed at Jones Beach. Under Commissioner Moses' plan, the boardwalk will be set back about 280 feet to provide additional beach space. New oatnnouse iacumes win be constructed at the Brighton Beach section. WILL ADD 24 ACRES Relocation of the boardwalk is expected to provide about 24 more acres of beach, to be built up with transplanted white sand, and also about 1.7 acres of adriiona! park recreation area.

Proceiwlings will be undertaken to close the Stillwell W. 12th ends of W. 10th St. and W. 8th St.

An VTVn fl 1 1 1 1 TP of 7fi7.80f) 18 TVO- viripd ln tne eeneral construction Tne boardwalk section to be moved comprises about J.auu lect. Seaside Park will be reconstructed and a comfort station will be built. TVia avict tner f.rnpnnri het wepn Slirf Ave. and Ocean Parkway will be re aligned. Other projected expenditures Include $36,100 for electric work, $21,097 for plumbing work and $816 for heating and ventilating new-buildings.

SET AIRPORT HEARING The board voted to hold a pub- lie hearing at its meeting next week on Mayor LaGuardia's suggestion that the city should lease 1,100 feet of waterfront adjoining Floyd Ben- nett Field to the Navy Department for development as a neutrality Datrol base The board also approved requests by Borough President Ingersoll for additional money for repaying work in Brooklyn, and for the widening of Clarkson between New Ynrlr urM Tlt.lca Aves. The board retired Edward D. save money new home of the Elmhurst police built by WPA at a tosc I prisoners, iui enj ID (rnM mi I i--- tsmcy oqu.u i T.l I V.n wM'-f in tVia ity ju n.w more central location lor jiu.mern Queens. Claim They liroke Into House to Get $25 for Wedding Leonard Cohen, 22. of 132 Wall-about St.

was going to get married this Sunday and William Bluman. 22. of 976 Gates his best friend while they were at one time in the Vrtflj. DarnpmatArv Has crnino TvT" "ZZ thought it would be very nice to pay the rabbi $25. Kn thv told Detective Harrv TlnH.

TlnoV. th. nri the storj. t(yiay by the dctccUve was not particularly impressed. He held Cohen $rooo bail and Bluman without bail for trial in Special Ses- I'Aurl hmh mnn -a i vvl examination.

franco Offers Pope Aid J'pace Vatican City, Jan. 12 U.P- -Gen- any movp to retore peace to Europe and put an end to the dan- i ger of communist expansion, it was sajd authoritatively today. Franco was said to have urged the necessitv of ending the war at once! and to nave neld tnat lhe aims of Individual belligerent powers ought to be to the general: aim of effecting peace among all nations. The memorandum was submitted I to the Vatican thrnuffh the Pnnal i Pnvov at Madrid, informants said. i I I i I "Premature, my oear Watson that why thfy entered tne home contract.

With this sum Commis- Commissioner MacCormick re- of casha at 1803 81st St. last 1 sioner Moses' department will super-signed to become executive director njpht vfse tnf demomion of structures be-of the Osborne Association, a Maktrate Sweeney, who was told tween W. 15th St. and Ocean Park- Juniors, Boys, Preps Students CLOTHING Thii it the event so many wait for and for that very reason we suggett you come in now so yon may get the first and widest choice! Junior 2 KNICKER SUITS and OVERCOATS kUHJm Utk ml 1 rttro Sites 7-12 ItpUtfy Ml" Prep Student REYERSIBLES Silts 12-18 end 33-40 lifuiiilr M8.5D $1385 All Wool MACKINAWS (f Detachable fJoodSizes 6-20 Hpljrlr59.00 695 Prep 2 TROUSER SUITS SiMts 11-18 topUrty 22.50 18 Prep OVERCOATS Siset 11-18 upMti M7.75 $1395 Student 2 TROUSER SUITS Sists 33-40 bplirlr '25 $2175 Student OVERCOATS Sim 33-40 Mprtirhr $1775 Alio sharp rrductiont on Shirti, Tim, Hose, Sweatee Mufflers, Robej. etc.

I Browning King I'KIYN: S47 FULTON JT. cor. DeKALB I Mr Opvt Tkmn. mini Sal. lilt P.M I on an t.XTKNDKD CHARGE ACCOUNT Thrrg arc caryiiii vhargra.

On II January purrhaM you pay tth irt ft rru fuMiS research organizauon in crime ana penology with which he since its associated as a director formation MaCCOrmlCK CK Commissioner salary waSi wltn a $9 900 a Tne recent pay cut, salary of his new post was not announced, but it was said that it was $12,000. Mr Marrns uhn 37. was an outstanding athlete in his high! school days in Brooklyn, captaining ffe'r' 'S fc-f i I3l il I tl ilUi ill wrft i HI" N0 M0NEY DOWN 7qc I WEEKLY oaseoau ana iooioa.1 teams, ne Franco, Spanish Nationalist tended the United States Military i ieader, has offered in a memoran-Academy at West Point, graduating dum t0 Pope pius to collaborate in Kt Manhattan, to cnoose as re- cruits men with at least a high school education. 'ATTRACTIVE ADDITION' "The mere fact." said Colonel Mundv, "that they're in Brooklyn miieo'e and were denied the right (Arm an R. O.

T. C. unit is 1 nothing in their disfavor. "They would be an attractive addition to the Guard and the fact, that they are colleRe students would! Vib rierldedlv in their favor. I here- by extend an invitation to them to, appiy av mni become members of the National: Guard." Commander Michael V.

Mirande of the Ku'igs County American gion today indicated that tne Le- gionnaires wouin come 10 uie sup-; port of those favoring an R.O.T. C. unit as part of the Brooklyn College The Lesion, he said would nsk the Board of Higher Education, final authority in the matter, to reverse the decision of the Faculty Council. faking issue with Dr. Ralph Brideman, dean of the college, who opposed a compulsory R.

O. T. Commander Mirande sharply criti cized the dean exprosed view that any one who wants military training can get It in the National Guard qr in mui'-ary scnoo.s ana uini, aum traininc is more highly rated. "To meet the needs of an expand- lng army in the event that a national emergency is declared," Commander Mirande declared, "men trained in military science are needed as officer personnel. For that purpose the War Department taps the hitther institutions of learning and interests young college students to enroll in the R.

O. T. C. If they pursue the courses and qualify they are commissioned as second lieutenants, reserve status, on graduation from their institutions. Some of thm accept active commissions and maice the Army their career.

"The National Guard," he said. 1 'has the function of training enlisted peisonnel. Although men are commissioned from time to time from tuis class, the Guard is not a school for officers. The primary and only purpose of R. O.

T. is to train rollegr- men as Personals 9 CASH 'o heirs bfineficla rv Heirs Co Fmnlre New Yorlc City. Lost and Found 10 BANKROOK I.O' Bitr.ii, any c.flm.s I'U fi' B.l'Kn re- -n ban one "BANKBOOK -l fiavinai Bar.k if any c.aitii., week. rl" Buhw.ck 1 ri in bank 'A cr.e mi pi'js' BANKBOOK Savings Bank, bp made be Issued BANKBOOK? I o. Jp; South BrucK Ave.

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return airpiane eio-n uisc containing lady's rlnthlnB and 'earv left on I. R. T. subwav at Bnrouth Ma I niton on Jan. 3, 19n MnrMmer Ill Jnhn fit.

RFctn: 2-10J0 VRI8TWATTH Lost: lady, put. num. diamond it'tdded. jentimental. vuniv rialbtuh Ave, Westhury, Tllden Ave.

Reward. INgtrsoll t'-B432. V'RIST WATCH Lo' lady's Lonnlne, while gold Reward. 874 I. -8th St 1 'Apnr'ment R-2 I 6 I Small Credit Charot I i liiNiiiirf i Mil 1 "rnjHjp f- i wsxaa rasKie is: I KEBmiEfiio RADIO PHONOGRAPHS $10 Trade-in Allowance! im una was wcurmeigui, uua- ing champion while a student there.

He studied law while in the army, was admitted to the bar in 1928. subsequently resigned from the army and has been a junior attorney in tne uepanmeni oi justice aim assistant United States attorney Manhattan. Boro Jail Lils 115 Ramond St Jail, condemned by a State Department of Corrections report as unfit for human habita- t.on, today had 41a prisoners confined within its ancient walls. Of thrsp 29 men and two women were admired yesterday. Semi-Annual SALE ENTIRE STOCK OF SHOIt 0 MIN Reduced to 45 645 Not a Mile of few sizes, or lirokon lots Every loi: i indiidetl! Nolliinf re- 1 arrved! Come in tocl.iv.

Browning King SheivOwn Thuri.nntHnl Mil P.M. i Opeti An Clfmlrd Chum' A.ruunt i On this now 1910 Thilco raJio-phonograph model 502P. Has clear, noiee-frec tone on both radio and records. An exceptional value. See and liear it at Davega.

Mie cedDall9 Regularly $39.95 Allowance 10.00 29.93 buy now 50c Weekly 360 Fulton St. Jumaira 163-24 Jnmaica Ave. 31-55 Steinwny St. Fluahinff 36-58 Main St. Hempstead 45 Main St.

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