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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 3

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BROOKLYN EACLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940 See Ebel Set to Quit $10,000 Borough Post Works Commissioner May Resume Position BORO AN IDEAL TRADE MARKET, SAYS MOSKOVIT i With Estimate Board Under New Ruling Arthur R. Ebel, whose transfer from a civil service engineering post in the Board of Estimate to Borough President Ingersoll's cabinet set the style for career men in the Fusion administration, is expected to resign soon from his $10,000 Borough Works Commissionership to return to the Rnnrrl of Fst.imatp 20 2d A. D. Groups Back Whirry and Miss Murphy More than 500 persons, comprising delegations from 20 civic, fraternal, trade and political organizations In the 2d A. last night indorsed Joseph B.

Whitty and Miss Lillian M. Murphy, leader and co-leader of the district, for re-election in next Tuesday's primaries, at a meeting sponsored by the Bay Democratic Club in the Chateau D'Or, Ocean Ave. and Avenue U. Forme Councilman Albert D. Schanzer headed the speakers.

Deputy Sheriff Benjamin G. Friedman presided. Can a cigarette h. ft if 'li ii Hi ilfnlMjl mi (Eafle Slaft photo) HIS GAME CAME TO GRIEF Anthony Lanese 12, of 1184 77th smiles from his bed in Harbor Hospital while he receives treatment. Boy was playing in his basement late yesterday when bullet from Patrolman Frank Fudge's gun struck him.

He Urges Brooklynites Broadcast Advantages To Lure New Business Brooklyn was described as "an Ideal industrial and commercial renter" by Harold R. State president of the Affiliated Young Democrats, last night at a meeting of the 18th A. D. division of his organization at 802 Eastern Parkway. "I feel sure that if every Brooklyn resident stopped taking for granted the advantages of his city and went out and told the world about them not onlv would more new businesses move in but there I would be no misguided few to move out," he declared.

Mr. Moskovit officiated at the installation of Louis Sltkin as chairman of the district group. Others inducted were Pearl Adler, co-chairman; Thomas Murray, vice chairman; Harry Wodowitz, financial secretary; Irving Bloomberg, treasurer; Blanche Bernstein, recording secretary, and Janet Pinner, corresponding secretary. Boro Excellent Market Citing the large number of persons who live in Brooklyn and work elsewhere, Mr. Moskovit said: "Brooklyn is not only a good place to locate a plant or office but it is also an excellent market in itself.

Even though It is the fifth largest manufacturing center, it has far more homes than other manufacturing cities possess. In a year Brooklyn residents spend more than $2,000,000,000 in the 37,000 stores in the borough. He said that, although wages in the borough are higher than in "rural Georgia or the hills of Kentucky," work here is so superior that "businessmen who move away get badly fooled." Mr. Moskovit concluded his address, which was entitled "Boost Brooklyn," with praise of the new format of the Brooklyn Eagle, British Steamer Feared Lost With Crew of 40 London, March 27 UP) The 6.574-ton British steamer Castlemoor today was reported overdue 'and was feared lost with all hands. She carried a crew of about 40.

Her home port was London. A Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam said that the Netherlands coasting vessel Saba, 400 tons, was a week overdue and was feared lost with her crew of seven. Sixteen survivors of the British tanker Daghestan, sunk from an undisclosed cause in the North Sea Sunday, were landed at a northeast Scottish port today. The captain and three of the crew were drowned. Boy Hit by Cop's Bullet Smiles in Hospital Bed 'Nothing at All Lad of 12 Assures Mother After Wild Shot Fells Him While at Play Though there was a bullet hole In his chest, Anthony Lanese 12, of 1184 77th smiled bravely in Harbor Hospital today.

Patrolman Frank Fudge of Coney Island precinct who fired the bullet was under suspension after having been pronounced unfit for duty by Dr. Samuel Gross, police surgeon, in Fort Hamilton station last night. Court Restrains Pickets In Candy Firm Dispute Picketing of the Euclid Candy Company, 80-83 Leonard wu halted today oy temporary injunction granted oy Supreme Court Justice Peter M. Daly to restrain, members of the Candy and Confectionery Workers Union, Local 452. from the practice.

The company set forth in 1U application that the employes in an NLRB election Feb. 15 had chosen the Independent Confectionery Workers Union, be eloquent? AT THE HOME GUILD AT 2:30 P.M. TOMORROW Tomato Stuice. For an interesting example of eloquence, apply a match to a Pall Mall. More convincing than words, a Pall Mall itself will tell you that the additional by traveling the smoke further gives you a noticeably cooler and smoother cigarette, and enhances the rich flavor of the superb Pall Mall tobaccos.

Yourself, try Pall Mall critically! "WHEREVER PARTICULAR PEOPLE CONGREGATE" 1940 Amimw Of uflum OftfC MAY RESIGN Arthur ttei, who transferred trom a Civil Service post in the Board of Estimate to Borough President Ingersoll's cabinet, is expected to resign as Borough Works Commissioner to return to the Board of Estimate. Welles Completes Report Aboard Ship Aboard Conte di Savoia, En Route to New York, March 27 (U.R) Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles has completed his report on the European situation and is expected to hand it to President Roosevelt tomorrow afternoon. The Savoia arrives in New Yxirk tomorrow morning. Welles is xpect-ed to go to Washington immediately after landing for a White House conference in the afternoon. He has been in constant communication with Washington regarding developments in Europe since he ended his fact-finding mission for the President.

His aides worked in his suite preparing the final draft. Anthony was playing with another boy in the basement of his home when the bullet struck him at 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Fudge, who was off duty at the time, said he was walking near the Lanese home when he thought he heard screams of "Burglars!" and then spotted a Mack sedan speeding by him. Thinking the car was a getaway car, he said, he emptied his revolver after It One of the bullets riccocheted Into the Lanese basemrnt and wounded Anthony. fudge, arraigned before Magistrate John D.

Mason on a felonious assault charge in Brooklyn Felcfty Cour, was held without bail for hearing In addition, he must face departmental charges. Anthony's mother, Rose, today told a story of her son's pluckiness in time of stress. When Anthony was struck, she said, his playmate screamed and she ran to the base ment. She saw the blood streaming from the boy's chest and became hysterical herself, but Anthony, disregarding his own plight, began to comfort her. "Don't cry, mother." he said.

"Don't get excited. It's nothing at all Some one called an ambulance and the boy was still on his feet, concerned chiefly about his mother, when it arrived. Anthony looks forward to his stay in the hospital, for he is an avid stamp collector and hopes to receive many letters from friends while he is' ill. The boy is considered a bright pupil In the 7-A grade of Public School 201, 12th Ave. and 80th St.

His father is a dress designer. Patrolman Fudge is 34 and lives at 1213 78th St. He has been a member of the Police Department for ten years. He is married and has two children, one of whom Is ill with scarlet fever at present. A local law passed by the City Council last year makes it possible for the Commissioner to resume his civil service status in a position now vacant, as assistant engineer in the office of Chief Engineer John C.

Riedel of the Board of Estimate. The Board of Estimate Job will pay about $5,000, but Mr. Ebel will be able to draw a pension when he eventually retires based on the $7,790 salary he has received during the last five years. Never in District Politics Commissioner Ebel, an independent Democrat, who never took part in district politics, is remaining with Borough President Cashmore just long enough, It is understood, to familiarize other members of the new Borough head's staff with some of the work he has been doing as administrative chief of the office. He will preside tonight at the local board meeting in Borough Hall where improvement items come before the Brooklyn Councilmen.

It will be the first such meeting since Mr. Cashmore succeeded the late Mr. Ingersoll. It will be Councilman Edward Vogel's first local board meeting since he became a member of the Council a few weeks ago, and it willSpftbably be Mr. Ebel's last meeting as presiding officer.

Commissioner Ebel, a small, soft-spoken, studious looking man, is more than an engineer. He is a father of engineers. His daughter, Isabel, is an aviation engineer, and his son, Ralph, ah industrial engineer. Mr. and Mrs.

Ebel and their two children live at 2312 Avenue R. For the last six years Mr. Ebel has been in charge of all WPA projects undertaken by the Borough President's office. He has supervised $6,000,000 in repaving and $2,000,000 in grading and curbing, some 275 miles of road work on 900 Brooklyn Streets. Find Bodies of Nine Smothered by Prunes Santa Rosa, March 27 (JPi The bodies of nine homeless persons, two of them women, were placed in a morgue today after' being recovered from beneath a warehouse that collapsed and dropped 250 tons of stored prunes on them.

Forty rescue workers, directed by Undersheriff Ted Lewis, toiled all last night under the glare of floodlights hunting more bodies. Italy, Hungary 'Firm' For Peace in Balkans Rome, March 27 (J1) Italy and Hungary, reaffirming a long standing friendship, have determined to keep the war from spreading to the Danubian basin and the Balkans, and to maintain harmonioas relations with Germany. Hl Open Thursday Till 9" LARGER WOMEN THE LONG-TORSO LOOK Built-up back ond front of lace with skillfully boned panels of brocade giving perfect contour control of the too-full back, bust and chest with or without the extra support of an inner-belt. Second floor ryant lyn Sizes Sll' 36 PT'A 52 M1 tfv mM roor Anniversary Offer Dress-Up-Brooklyn Drive Is Launched Plans Made to Beautify Downtown Area in Time i For Demolition of 'L' was announced today as a slogan for a movement to rehabilitate the downtown business and shopping area, sponsored by the Downtown Brooklyn Association, looking to ward demolition of the Fulton St. expected to start in May.

Included in the program will be re-landscaping of Borough Hall Park, comparable in many respects, it is understood, to improvements in City Hall Park. Announcing plans for the program which include detailed studies for Improvement of the area, officials of the association cited the recently announced $75,000 modernization of Wallach's men's store at Court and Montague Sts. While demolition of the structure will require some months to accomplish, the association believes that now is the time to formulate comprehensive plans for Improvements to the physical properties in the district. Improvements of both facades and interiors mayJ best be accomplished now and are wholly desirable from the point of view of all who do business In this section in the belief of the association. Plans for actual demolition of the and the improvement of the district are being studied carefully by a committee appointed for the purpose by the association.

Walter Hammitt, vice president of Frederick Loeser is chairman. Other members include Robert Blum, vice president of Abraham Straus; Maj. Benjamin H. Namm, president of the Namm Store; Fred Zeitz, president of Martin's; Philip A. Benson, president of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn; Charles L.

HaroM, manager of the special business bureau of the Consolidated Edison Company, and Henry J. Davenport, who as president of the Downtown Brooklyn Association Is an ex-officlo member. Daddy Snooks to Wed Los Angeles, March 27 (ff) Han-ley Stafford, Daddy Snooks of the radio, and Vyola Vonn, singer and actress, have applied for a marriage license. They plan the ceremony April 12 with Fanny (Baby Snooks) Brice as a guest, Ask for FREE SAMPLE HEALTH FOOD PRODUCTS 238 Livingston Street Opp. Loeser't MAin 4-4433 Free Delivery Service a A New Name for City Subways? Straphangers Know of Plenty MISS BEATRICE GREEN "Inviting Dishes for Spring Appetites" This will be the subject ol a talk bv Miss Beatrice (ircen, Home Economics Department of Maggi Company, Inc.

She ill demonstrate how Miigpi products lend an appealing flavor to foods mil whet Spring appetites to an enjoyment pitch. Watch her prepare Lamb Loaf and Minted Baked Pears and Baked Salmon Home Stvle with pany, back in 1922, the fickle public in almost no time began calling it the B. M. Chief Magistrate Henry H. Cur-ran thought the B.

M. T. could be renamed the Triborough System, or TS, because it serves three boroughs, and the I. R. T.

the Inter-borough System, or (presumably) IS. Borough president James J. Lyons thought the two lines together could be called the LaGuar-dia Lines but the Mayor's name already had been applied to an airport. his friends insisted he was serious in his International string-pulling to give Hitler the first look at Hitler, Mussolini, Goerlng and Goeb-bels In Hollywood's never-never land. "If he (Hitler) gets Charle's point, he'll call his war off and retire to his mountain top, giggling to himself," said Jack Oakie, who plays straight man Mussolini to Chaplin's comic Hitler.

At the Brooklyn Eagle SCHOOL BOOTH STENOTYPE AND STENOGRAPH DEMONSTRATION Given by Browne's Business College of Brooklyn AMOyO OTHER FOODS SERVED AT THE EACLE HOME Utltn IIMHEOS TV ESI) AY THE LADIES EX JOYED MA GOT BOVILLOM A. T. SMOKED HM BITTS STERLING SALT TREAT MtSTARD HEINZ IREPH CTCTMHER PICKLES BOND BREAD SINKWEET PRUNE JVICI PRIZES! A brief survey in the City Hall neighborhood today revealed that nobody knows what name or names the B. M. T.

and I. rt. T. subway lines will be known by after they become city property under transit unification. Whatever official names are chosen, some citizens feared, the lines still would popularly be referred to as B.

M. T. and I. R. habit being what it is.

Other citizens said pooh to habit, pointing out that when the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was renamed the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Com CHAPLIN'S 'BLITZKRIEG' READIED FOR HITLER Hollywood, March 27 (U.R) Charlie Chaplin was reported today to be seeking a World Premiere in Berlin for his forthcoming movie travesty on dictators, and before a one-man audience consisting of Adolf Hitler. Chaplin, who now is giving the picture its finishing touches, maintained his customery reticence, but Batch-Price Fulton and Smith Streets ope RSDAY p. Convenient J' eprhg fashion sh ipping. COATS 1 iT'b Hj'! we are THU until 9 DRESSES SUITS "tljtV Open Thuridoy 'Til 9 SECOND FLOOR Beautiful Photographs Taken of You by an Expert One Hand of Banana Fruit Di'patrh Company Mrs. D.

Kaminsky Two Bottler of Cucumber Pick lea ff- J. Heim Company Mrs. B. Cooper, Mrs. R.

Laxar One Pair of Adjustable Shoaldex Straps Spirelta Company, Ine. Mrs. Satoiky Thre Rap-In-Wa Rap-In-VYax Company Mrs. R. 91 rle Mrs.

B. Cooper, Mrs. B. Cutler A ft.VftO Saylnri Aeeonnt Tbt Motoai Savings Banks of Brooklyn, Qoocna Htaten Wand and Long Island Mrs. Mandell Ono Can of Brill's Spaghetti Sauce H.

G. Brill Company, Inc. Mr. M. KaphnsKv Rollocnrl Comb Clalrot.

Inc. Mrs. R. Bergen A 10 Down Payment on May tar aher and a 1 Down Payment en a Maytag Ironer Tarrian Broa. Mrs.

L. Sherman. Mrs. F. Rubin A Book, "The Legend of Virginia Dare" Garrett A Co.

Mrs. S. Kaplan One Slenderizing Treatment Shampoo and Finrer Wsto Symmetry Khop, Hotel plerrepont Mrs. A. Manassa, Mrs.

Fried Hthden One Bottle Snnsweet Prune Jvlce Duffy Molt CO. Mrs. F. GUssman One Large package Sani-Flwsh Hygienie Products Company Mrs. Braunstein One Hmall GIbm Garden repel Mrs.

Nauls Thrf IoTf Bond Bread i General Baking tampan? Mrs. Beilowitx. Mrs. Hershner. i Mrs.

Fish kin On Tin Rumfnrd Baking Powder I Rum ford Company Mrs. S. Prrsi One Bottle of Grade MHk Renken Dairy Mrs. M. Emerson Twa Tim of Mm it I Bouillon Cubes Majtgi Company, Inc.

Mis. T. Wallman Two Can of Kemp'a Son-Rayed Tomato Juice Son-Rayed Companv Mrs. M. S.

Greenstem, Mrs. Rubin Two Pints of florox Cioroi Chemical Company Mr K. Rubin, Mrs. Evelyn Gut-lleisch One Two Pound Martinson lotfee Jos. Martinson.

Inc. Mrs. J. A. BrocUie, Mrs.

Q. R. Woltta Three Cans of Old Dutch Cleanser tudahy Packinj Company Mrs. I Gnch. Mrs.

A. Mftunchettl. Mrs. 6. Barsha Three Gift Packages of Oakite Oaklte product, Inc.

Mrs Nash. Mrs. U. Stone, Mrs. Senitz One Box of Ritr Cracker National Biscuit Company Mrs.

Mary Penelnick Two Prises of Tea Albert Fhlcr. Inc. Mrs F. Rayliel, Mrs. F.

MUlcr Two Frlres if Beer F. A M. Schaeftr Brewing Company Mrs. A. Silver, Mrs.

F. Schwartz at this special introductory price iiicliirrfl of you or your 'hill. .95 lovely warm Beige Portrait 14 4 Sites 16', I to 2S'A Let there be magic in your silhouette this Spring. Here's the coot to do it. with young fitted lines.

with parallel tucking front ond back. BLACK or NAVY Geras crepe ribbon binding, Ascot. Other coats to size 60 (up to $59.95) jianc gryant Brooklyn IS Hanover PL off Fulton ri rr AND ONE GIFT-SIZE MINIATURE PORTRAIT All Exquisitely Mounted Full Selection of Proofs See Our Complete Line of New Finishes Mo Appointment Neoesmry Basement Photograph Studio Central Blit, TTH Brooklyn Eagle Home Guild Fourth Floor SOS WASHINGTON Neor Borough Hall l.t; iliPIAI.llUiillld1 mm mi rr 15 Hanover PL, off Fulton.

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