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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1935 MI Church of Saviour Receives $10,000 Memorial Mosaic Special Services Planned to Dedicate Parker Offering Tomorrow A 15-foot, $10,000 mosaic, made of favril glass, with the figure of an angel on an iridescent blue background, has been erected in the Church of the Saviour, Pierrepont St. and Monroe Place, and will be dedicated tomorrow. The mosaic, called "The Angel of Immortality," is the gift of Mrs. James 1 H. Parker in memory of her husband, Dr, James Henry Parker, who died in 1915.

Dr. Parker was member of the Church of the Messiah, Manhattan, and was later of the Community Church. Frustee, a veteran of the Confederate Army, which he joined after running away from his birthplace in Jackson County, N. and was former president of hte Cotton and the Produce Exchange a Bank. Exchange, the United States Bank Mrs.

Parker gave the mosaic originally to the Community Church in Manhattan, of which Dr. John Haynes Holmes is pastor. When that building was torn down to make way for a new structure, the mosaic removed and placed in storage. When Mrs. Parker expressed the desire to have the memorial in a Unitarian Church, Dr.

Holmes suggested the Church of the Saviour. The Rev. Dr. John Howland Lathorp, pastor of the Church of the Saviour, will conduct special servIces tomorrow morning to dedicate the memorial. State Phone Rate Inquiry Dropped The Mack Investigating Committee has abandoned 1:3 intended inquiry into telephone rates in the State as a result of the Legislature's action in limiting its appropriation to $300,000, it was definitely indicated today.

Governor Lehman, who is expectea to sign the $300,000 appropriation, since Speaker Irwin Steingut of the Assembly was intrunental in getting the bill through the lower house of the Legislature, is understood to have been told by John E. Mack, counsel to the committee, that the phone rate inquiry would have to be dropped unless $600,000 was made available for the general utility investigation. Majority Leader John J. Dunnigan of the Senate, chairman of the committee, waged a losing battle for the $600,000 appropriation. Set Youth Week Parade for May 4 The Brooklyn Youth Week parade and review, in which more than 10,000 boys and girls are expected to participate, has been announced for Saturday afternoon, May 4, as the closing event for the week.

Assembly for the parade is to be at 12:30 p.m. at Court and Remsen from where, enmasse, the marchers are to cross over to Borough Hall to hear addresses by city and borough officials. Tthe parade will go from Borough Hall to Prospect Park to join in a Maypole festival. I. David Cohen, principal of the Brooklyn Boys Continuation School, and Helen P.

McCormick, president of the Catholic Big Sisters of Brooklyn, are co-chairmen of the Brooklyn Youth Week committee. Brooklyn Lawyers Scramble for Jobs Democratic county headquarters and the various Democratic clubhouses throughout the county have taken on the appearance of firstclass employment agencies in the past few days with more than 1,500 Brooklyn attorneys stepping on each other's heels trying to land the five new jobs on District Attorney Geoghan's staff created by the Legislature. As yet. Governor Lehman has not signed bill providing for the posts. The prosecutor is said to be desirous of appointing an assistant for appeals at $7,500 a year.

The other new assistants would receive about $5,000. No salary figures were specified in the bill and the Budget Director would have to approve any pay suggestions made by the District Attorney's office. Republican Fund Drive Planned The Republican party prepared today to launch a nationwide drive for funds to keep the party machinery in full motion until the usual pre-Presidential campaign fund appeal next Spring. Plans for the drive were completed yesterday at conference in this city between Republican National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher and party leaders from New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The drive in New York County will get under way Monday with $250,000 as the objective. Mr. Fletcher expressed optimism over the immediate future of the party. "From the reports I get," he said, "the prospects of the party are improving rapidly and very satisfactorily." Let Uncle Sam Make Your Deposits Writs for Bank by Mail' leaflet BUSHWICK SAVINGS AS Grand St. at -Graham Brooklyn Easter Lily Queen and Her Court Miss Ellen Gardner Fields for Bermuda's Easter cilla Lombard, New York; R.

Miss Elizabeth Baker, Overflow Throng Sees Unveiling of Olafson Altar An impressive Holy Thursday communion service at which the new altar given in memory of Mrs. Helen Chittick Olafson Was unveiled and viewed by members of the church for the first time was attended by an overflow congregation at the Fourth Avenue M. E. Church, at 47th last night. The Rev.

William C. Judd, pastor, was assisted by the Rev. Ray L. Torrey of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The altar was given as an Easter gift in memory of the late Mrs.

Olafson by her husband, Olaf Olafson, president of the church board of trustees, and members of the family, including two sons and daughter. They are the Rev. Harold Summerfield Olafson, pastor of St. Paul's Church of Flatbush, at Church and St. Paul's Place; Stanley Olafson, and Mrs.

Helen Thompson. Mr. Olafson was the first to partake of communion at the service. He led last Sundsy's confirmation class of 30 to altar for the reception of their first communion. Coney's Water Road One Bidder No acceptable bids for the contract to use the Steeplechase Pier this Summer have as yet been received by the city.

Dullness in bidding is due to waning popularity of the water route from Coney Island to Manhattan, says Arthur R. Ebel, Assistant Commissioner of Public Works for Brooklyn. A bid of $2,000 was received, but it was too low to accept. The city is considering the adviability of readvertising. Bermuda News Bureau (standing), Providence, R.

who was selected Queen of the Lily lily week. Members of her court are, left to right Miss PrisMiss Betty Doig, Brooklyn, N. Miss Nancy Read, Providence, Fargo, N. and Miss Betty Russell, Waterbury, Conn. Twinkling Fingers Tell Story Of Deliverance to the Deaf The story of the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt was intoned last night by Rabbi Samuel Pelper, not in Hebrew but in simplified English.

Yet 100 persons attending the second Seder of Passover heard not a word that was spoken. They were inattentive. The 100 persons gathered at Hoffman's Restaurant, 1529 Pitkin were paying attention, but were their eyes, their ears being impervious to sound. They were deaf. And their eyes, fastened on Mrs.

Bella Blumenthal, read every word as with twinkling fingers she translated into sign language the story of the "Haggadah" being pronounced by the Rabbi. Even the four questions, asked in The service was, likewise, the niversary of Mrs. Olafson's last visit to the church. She attended the Holy Thursday evening service four years ago. The altar has a chancel screen, or reredos, of mahogany finished wood, with a large inset cross on either side of which is a vase.

The cross is illuminated by indirect lighting. Dedication of the new altar would be some time in June, the Rev. Mr. Judd said. NICHOLSON-McCORMACK Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas J. McCor- mack announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen Teresita McCormack, to M. Francis Nicholson, son of Mrs. Sarah Nicholson, will take place at St.

Teresa's Church, Classon Ave. and Sterling Place, on Saturday, April 27, at 9 a.m. The bride will be attended by her sister, Miss Jeanette McCormack, and Raymond Treacy will be best man. The bride attended St. Angela Hall Academy and is a graduate of St.

Francis Xavier Academy. Mr. Nicholson is a graduate of Fordham School of Business Administration and is president of Zeta Chapter of Kappa Tau Lambda Fraternity. RECONSTRUCTION SALE OUR STOCK MUST MOVE FROM DAY TO DAY! In Time for Easter! 100 DRESSES 975 formerly 16.75 to 25.00 Exceptional Values All Fresh, Seasonable, Regular Stock BALCH PRICE FULTON and SMITH STREETS For Fur Storage--Call TRiangle 5-5900 Syrian Pastor Holds Feet- Washing Rites Chanting in Syriac Accompanies Solemn Service Conducted Annually on Good Thursday in Underground Church 9 A chorus of 30 voices hollow echo sounded through as 500 pairs of knees crashed flickered. the Rev.

Mansour boys, last night officiated at the impressive "Washing of the Disciples Feet," the service held annually on Holy Thursday at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite R. C. Church, 295 Hicks St. This is the only Syrian Church in Brooklyn at which such a service is held and one of the few churches In the country which conduct this solemn religious services. It is an annual ceremony in all the churches A simple English by Joseph Blumenthal, 11, normal son of deaf parents, were translated so that all could follow the ritual that has come down through the ages of Jewish folklore.

After the prayers were spoken and translated, a typical Seder meal of bitter herbs dipped in charoseth, gufulte fish, knedlach, meat and four glasses of wine was consumed. The affair last night was sponsored by the Brooklyn Hebrew Society of the Deaf, a an organization which is under the a auspices of the Council of Jewish Women, of which Brooklyn A section of the National Mortimer Brenner is president. Mrs. Nathan Mandel was chairman of last night's affair. Mrs.

Randall Wins W.C.T.U. Poem Medal Mrs. R. L. Randall, second vice president of the Flatbush Branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, has been awarded a medal as the winner in the organization's children's medal contest.

Eight women took part in the contest, which required the recitation of an appropriave poem or story dealing with temperance. chanted solemnly in Syriac and a a small underground church to the floor and while candles Stephen, assisted by 12 altar of Syria. Pastor Washes Feet While the choir chanted in unison the story of the Last Supper, a sexton, Frank Noah, vested Father Stephen in his white and purple vestments on the altar before the entire congregation, after which the twelve youths acting as disciples seated themselves and bared their respective right Each extended was washed feet.of in blessed water by the officiating priest and after being dried kissed. Meanwhile the Gospel was chanted behind and the candles burned lower and lower as the draped statues in their mourning cast strange shadows on the white plaster walls. Following the washing of he feet there was the Service of the Cross, and while the entire congregation knelt in prayer, ancient religious music was played by organ and violins.

The complete ceremony lasted two hours. The little church, most of which is under the ground, was built in 1903 3 and has the largest Syrian congregation in Brooklyn. Fitzpatrick Bids For Retirement Application for retirement from the police force has been filed with Commissioner Valentine by Inspector James J. Fitzpatrick, head of the 12th Division, which takes in the Flatbush and Brownsville sections. The inspector is 60 and has been in active police service for nearly 33 years.

The pension would be $2,950 a year. Born in 1875, Mr. Fitzpatrick joined the New York police force at 27. He is married and lives with his family on Hollis Queens Village. Two Brooklynites Fired 1st Shot in War 18 Years Ago One on Ship's Bridge Gave Order, Other Pulled Gun Lanyard Sunk U-Boat Eighteen years ago today, two Brooklyn men aboard the armed merchantman Mongolia in the English Channel fired the shot that marked the entry of the United States into the World War.

Lt. Bruce R. Ware U. 8. was in command the Mongolia and gave the order to fire.

James F. Conley pulled the gun lanyard. The submarine that had arisen alongside the Mongolia was sunk by the shot. Today Commander Ware is aide to commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Conley is a New York policeman and lives at 8501 Fort Hamilton Parkway.

They met recently at an American Legion gathering. Lehrenkrauss Trustees to Be Curtin, Wilson John J. Curtin and Robert H. WIson were made permanent trustees for reorganization of the Lehrenkrauss Corporation at a meeting of creditors before Judge Mortimer W. Byers in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday afternoon.

A plan for the reorganization, under Section 77-B of the Bankruptcy Act, was filed several weeks ago. It is to be voted upon May 9 after it has been subjected to any modifications that may be necessary due to claims that may still be filed. The last day for filing claims against the corporation is April 26. Of more than $13,000,000 of claims filed to date, all but some $600 has been ruled out by the court. Junior Misses and Suk-Dels ore NOT LITTLE WOMEN Young feet must NOT wear shoes designed and built for grown-ups.

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