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IUIMT DOIirC rADTAIKKUnor CfnirHCatholie Debater, BROOKLYN EAGLE, MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1941 lllll I VLIVb VTT.r I rlll To Hold Card Party AT ERICKSON HOLDUP Principals See Waste of Coal In Shortening of Yule Vacation Untermyer Queried Bookie on Alleged Presence Of Official Before Slugging, Prosecutor Says Special to the Brooklyn Eugle Morristown, N. Nov. 17 Frank Erickson, Queens bookmaker, slugged Milton F. Untermyer, elderly millionaire stock broker, when the latter refused to pay the dues of LaJunta White, woman golfer, at the Englewood Golf Club, the State for it, and the same goes for mem-I bers of my office staff.

They have been getting too much or nothing, particularly teachers. This is a business, and teaching Is a business. WAXEY GORDON NABBED FOR QUIZ ON MURDER RING Insists He's Working As Police Seek Link To Professional Killers Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler. one-time gang leader who now claims he Is a salesman, was arrested today on a oharge of vagrancy and brought to the police lineup. Three detectives.

Francis Dem-arest. Walter Clancy and Jomes Stapleton, all of the E. 104th St precinct, on patrol at Park Ave. and 96th recognized Gordon as he was entering an apartment house at 1230 Park Ave. with a well-dressed woman, believed to be his wife.

"Hey, Waxey," they called to him. He turned and grunted. "Whv are dead telephone and asking for the State police, according to Hegarty. Apparel, Cuff-Llnki Missing It was then that Erickson charged Untermyer, the prosecutor said, resulting in severe injuries to the When Untermyer regained consciousness, the Angora coat, sweater, shirt and cuff-links were missing, Hogarty said. The next day "a box containing the cuff-links was mailed to Untermyer," Hegarty continued.

"In the corner of the box was the name F. Erickson, Forest Hills, Long The coat, shirt and sweater were never returned." The other woman, who allegedly accompanied Miss White to Untermyer's home on the night of the assault, was Mrs. Mary Lucas Crawford, former Broadway show girl. Both women, who face charges as being accessories after the fact, were present in the courtroom as the prosecutor delivered his opening statement. They will be tried at future date.

On the coal-wasting phase Mr. Ma.son declared: We make a great point about saving paper in the schools, urging economy in such petty ways as writing on both sides of a sheet of paper. But here is a question where we may save a dollar's worth of paper and lose $2,000 worth of coal." Miio P. McDonald, principal of Bushwick Hih School, said: "I think the schools should be clo-ied on that day because of the expense involved." Doubts Many Will Attend Classes Charles E. Spr.r.smeyer.

principal of Franklin K. Lane High School, remarked: "I don't see how we teachers can make any valid objection to the order. The only point Is the practical question of whether or not the attendance will Justify opening the schools for the one day. Of course, from past experience, I am very doubtful whether the attendance will be sufficiently large to make it really worth while." One head of a Parent -Teacher association who voiced emphatic approval of the Board of Educa-i Hon order was Morris Bernard Adler. president of the Abraham Lincoln High School Association.

Mr. Adler, an architect with offices at 16 Court "If the teachers want an extra day off. let them pay for It. In my office. If I want a day off I pay SPik On Head With Rock, Flees Fire One Burned to Death In Locust Valley Blaze Flames Damage Theater Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Syosset, Nov.

17 James New-some, Negro potato picker. Is a heavy sleeper, os it was not until a fellow worker had struck him on the head with a rock that he awoke and escaped flames that were consuming a one and a half-story frame house on Woodbury Road here yesterday. A kerosene stove exploded on the second floor, setting the house afire. Four Negro potato pickers sleeping on that floor got out safely. They banged on the door of the first floor, where Newsome was sleeping alone, but there was no response.

Then onf of them picked up a rock and hurled It through a window, thinking that the noise would awaken Newsome. The latter was struck on the head, after which he got out of bed and staggered out of the house. He later was taken to the North Country Community Hospital, in Glen Cove, suffering from a slight concussion. Special to Vie Brooklyn Eagle Locust Valley, Nov. 17 Ralph Scarfa was burned to death In a THE OLD WINE MASTER ADVISES- I.Y.C.

WINHiri, charged today at the opening of Erickson 's trial here. Erickson is chsrged with atrocious assault and battery and simple assault, committed at Untermyer's home In Kinnelon Borough early on the morning of May 25 last. and his housekeeper were alone in lie house that night. Prosecutor William F. Heggarty told the Jury.

At 11:30 p.m. Miss White telephoned and said she wanted to bring Eiiskson and "another lady" out to see Untermyer's bar. "Mr. Untermyer agreed, dressed and went downstairs," Hegarty said. He was wearing an Angora coat, an Angora slipover sweater and a white shirt, with cuff links.

Discussed Attempted Holdup 'They talked of commonplace things and finally got around to the attempted robbery of Erickson at the New ork Athtletic Club. Untermyer aasked Erickson If a certain New York police captain was with Erickson at the time, and If it was the same police officer that committed suicide several days later. Erickson said that If he had no more manhood than that, the police officer should have died." (The robbery attempt occurred on April 24. last, but the only suicide on record, linked to the case, was that of Lyman Finell, 38, an ex-convict, who participated in the holdup. Finell killed himself after being trapped by police.

A patrolman. George Schuck, 42. of 69-23 43d Woodside, was wounded during the chase.) Hegarty declared that after a few more drinks Erickson got "ugly," grabbed Unteermyer by the shoulder and aasked him why he "didn't pay Miss White's dues at theEngle-wood Golf Club, asserting that he (Untermyer) had plenty of money and also the influence to have her reinstated there as a member." Untermyer replied that there was no reason for him to pay Miss White's bills, and sought to frighten the bookmaker by picking up a Norris lo Retire At End of Term Washington. Nov. 17 (U.R) Sen ator George W.

Norris, Nebraska Independent who Is in his 40lh year bf continuous service In Congress, is going to retire when his present term expires next year. "I'm not. going to run for reelection," he said today. "I'm all in. I'm wearing out.

I couldn't do my work properly and I would be ashamed to take my salary." Norris said he intended to live in McCook. but had no idea what he would do. "Some of my friends have been urging me to write a book about my experiences," he said, "but I'm not going to do that. Too many people are writing books about themselves." He said he did not Intend to attempt to practice law. "I'll be 81 on my next birthday," he said.

"I'm too old for that. I've lived my allotted time." Norris has been in Congress continuously longer than any living member. He entered the House March 4. 1902. He was elevated to the Senate on March 4, 1913.

Newsies Reject Proposal, Threaten New Boycott The Newsdealers Federation Labor Union, A. F. has rejected the joint proposals of eight Manhattan newspapers and will resume its boycott unless satisfactory terms are gained from each of the publications, In individual conferences, today. The vote to resume the boycott was taken yesterday at a meeting in the Hotel Diplomat. 108 W.

43d Manhattan. Papers affected are the World-Telegram. Journal-American, Post, the Sun, New York Times, Daily News and Daily Mirror. The Brooklyn Eagle would not be affected by the boycott. My solution would be, let us save the fuel and also save the salaries of the entire teaching staff.

If we are going to be economical, let's be economical both ways." Teacher organizations, rallying behind Mrs. Johanna M. Lindlof. Queens member of the Board of Education, today fought against the board's action. The board, by a vote of 6 to 1.

with Mrs. Lindlof dissenting, reversed the custom of previous years by which schools remained closed on Friday's after holidays falling on Thursdays, permitting the one million children and 30,000 teachers In the city's schools to enjoy a long weekend. This custom, however, will be observed this week In connection with the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Dr. Abraham Lefkowltz, principal of Samuel J.

TUden Hih School, who is the legislative representative of the Teachers Guild, Local 2. of the American Federation of Teachers, charged that the board's action breaks up what could lnve been a 12-day vacation. Dr. Lefkowltz added that many teachers already have made commitments for their return to school on Jan. 3 In accordance with previous customs.

four children will be better off on relief than having this loafer around the house." William H. Barr, the defendant's attorney, In a brief plea for his client before sentence was Imposed, reminded the court "this man had his pay in his pocket and a full load of liquor in him at the time of the alleged crime. William Pakula, attorney for the complainant, was given permission by Judge Downs to speak before sentence was Imposed. Pakula said: "I am not speaking In behalf of Miss Johnson but in behalf of the entire community, regardless of race, color or creed. This man is a sex-depraved maniac and should be put away where he cannot harm any one else.

There is nothing vindictive about this. We are not Just seeking vengeance, but this man should be punished Jacobs stood silent during the entire proceeding in court. doing business," asserted the G-mui. "and Weiss said: 'I don't know anything about the mine. You know how it is when you are on the lam.

You want something to cover yourself. All I wanted was a vice presidency or something." Not only did Weiss, accused with Lepke and Capone of the slaying of Joseph Rosen in 1938, also have a Colorado automobile license made out to James W. Bell, according to Aman, but had the ironic misfortune of being turned over to Joseph Bell, in charge or the Federal Narcotics Bureau In Kansas City. BUT THEY'RE SMILING! Above are two entrants in a "husband-calling" contest at Chicago's Lake Shore Club, Mrs. E.

M. Loftis and Mrs. E. A. Herrick Jr.

Mrs. Lester Griffith was the winner. Maybe she cut out the smile and substituted the proper note of asperity. NOT ESKIMO IGLOOS, BUT DEFENSE HOUSES These odd-shaped dwellings In Washington are the result of the building industry's effort to keep pace with emergency housing needs. Sand and concrete are sprayed on huge balloons, which later are deflated.

The homes have two bedroomsaliving room with fireplace, kitchen and bath. The Catholic Debating League of the Diocese of Brooklyn will hold its first card party tomorrow evening at the Columbus Council, K. of C. Proceeds will go to defray the league's expenses. The leagut Is now composed1 14 teams representing as many parishes and K.

of C. organizations. Each year It conducts a tournament In which all the member teams participate. William R. Brophy Is chairman of the affair and Mrs.

Frank E. Gallagher is assisting him with a women's committee. fire in his second-floor apartment at 380 Forest Ave. at 10:20 o'clock last night. The fire started when a kerosene stove exploded in the Scarfa apartment.

Scarfa's wife and daughter awakened him, then fled, thinking that he had accompanied them and became separated from them upon reaching the street. His body was found in the apartment after the fire had been extinguished. A slight fire of undetermined cause which broke out on the roof of the Little Neck Theater, 254-08 Northern Boulevard, Little Neck, at 5:26 p.m. yesterday was extinguished with slight damage by fire companies arriving at the scene a few minutes later. Several hundred patrons In the theater at the time were unaware of the fire.

"-r. i- -ax; arrnnrt ia OUAtTt', CALIFORNIA AIL SUPERB COCKTAH A NO DMSIRT VYINIS" Story fortj. MauatoA Dry Sh.rry White Part Tokay 0 Angelica AcofcoSe Confeitt 30 er Vobaw DINNII WINES Clarvl Zlnfandal luraunoV Hock I Soutarno Cftoblla Rhino WIm 1141, Cnlan Wlnw, Tup 1 Amn-I. Cil. A Qi SHERRV CnwHT Father of Four Jailed In Abduction of Girl, 20 Joining a number of other Brooklyn rcgh school principals in sharply criticizing th? Board of Education's orOr to reopen the schools Friday, Jan.

2. therebj cutting the Christmas vacation, Gabriel R. Mason of Abraham Lincoln High School today aneri the discussion by making an alternative sugges-ton. would be much L-'er," he to keep the open Dei'. and claed Jan.

2." Acvrrse comment by the high school was ba.d pen-eraUy on the argument that opening the schools tor one day before a weekend womd occasion a waste Of coal that would not be justified by the amount of instruction that could be imparted to pupils attending class chiefly to maintain their attendance record. "Teaching is a continuous proc-5." sad Mr. Mason. You can't Start it and stop it and start again abruptly. It seems to mo that Dec.

24 would be north much more from a teaching point of view than Jan. 2. The ordinal for closing the schools on Dec. 24 was to give teachers time for re-Union with their families at Christmas. But in these days of rapid travel there are not more than one-tenth of 1 percent of the 38.000 teachers whose families live at such distance that ii would take a day to get there." Spy Suspect Wrote With Invisible Ink Carl Reuper admitted In Brooklyn Federal Court today that he had spent the proceeds of a $500 check he received from Germany via Switzerland shortly before his Arrest in the spy roundup last June.

One of the 15 defendants on trial, he explained the check last Friday as one entrusted to his keeping by a German friend as a hedge against anticipated post-war Inflation in Germany. His cross-examination by Assistant Federal Attorney T. Vincent Qulnn also brought out today that the inscriptions "Stisgfranzler" and "Fehpaulse" in a notebook Reuper carried meant, respectively, Franz Stiegler, a co-defendant, and Paul Fehse. one of 18 former co-defendants who have pleaded guilty. Rpuper admitted sending "about ten letters" reporting American automotive production data to Germany, but insisted It was to an "Interested friend'' and not lo a Nazi He said the date was inscribed in invisible in on the backs of innocuous personal correspondence "so it would get past the British censors." ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Noticet IjOAVS without comakers with Bark" Y'-ariV.

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Shown: Lady's ij, 17 jewel, coral gold i $35.75. Man's smart, dependable, steel back utility watch $13.75 Open Thursdays to 9 f. ft. DIAMONDSMEWflBY 5IIVERWABE STATION ERY I 1 I you bothering me?" Although lie had $350 In his pockets, the detectives took him to the station house shortly after midnight and booked him at 6:30 a m. on the vagrancy charge.

There the 53-year-old racketeer Insisted that the "old Waxey is dead and that he was now working as a salesman for a Canadian cleaning fluid concern. According to the police. Gordon lives at the Park Ave. apartment with his wife, daughter and son. Well-dressed In a blue suit, a doubb-breasted gabardine topcoat and a brown felt hat, Gordon was Indignant In the lineup where he was questioned by Acting Capt.

John Stein. When he gave his address as 429 4th Manhattan, Captain Stein asked: "Isn't that your hotel, the 4th Ave. Hotel?" "I did own It," Gordon replied. That's where you brought people to rob them?" Stein continued. "That's wrong," Gordon replied angrily.

"Stay out of New Yorw City," Stein went on. "Why, I was born here," Gordon protested. Detectives Indicated that Cor don would be questioned about the Brooklyn Murder for Money ring. He was recently ordered out of California, following his release from the Federal penitentiary, where he had served a seven-year sentence for income tax violation. He was to be arraigned in Harlem Magistrate's Court.

Gordon, who began his criminal career as a pickpocket, has a record of 14 previous arrests dating back to 190j. He was convicted seven times. Testimony at his income tax trial in 1933 indicated he had accumulated a fortune as a beer czar during the prohibition period. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, then chief assistant United States Attorney, conducted the prosecution which resulted in his conviction for income tax violation.

Nazis Act to Suppress Dutch Pastoral Letter Berlin, Nov. 17, (U.P) German authorities in the Netherlands were reported today to have taken measures to suppress a pastoral letter sissued by Dutch Bishop urging Catholics to refrain from cooperatin with the Nazis. It was said no arrests were made. German officials professed that they had no knowledge of the letter, which was reported to have been Issued last August. One report said that the Catholic Bishops said in their letter that cooperation with the Nazis would put Dutch Catholits beyond the pale so far as the church was concerned.

Berlin Silent on Report Of Ship Seizure by U. S. Berlin, Nov. 17 (INS) A German Government spokesman declared today that foreign reports conflicted in their accounts of an alleged Axis merchant vessel cap tured by an American warship in equatorial waters. Therefore, he said, there will be no German announcement regarding the incident pending further investigation.

"No facts regarding the matter are known here," said a foreign office "Flying foreign colors is a favorite British habit. "If the actually flew foreign colors it be in the company of the United States' best friends." (fee? William K. Jacobs, 29, of 116-15 200th St. Albans, a former city fireman, today was sentenced by Judge Thomas Downs in Queens County Court, long Island City, to serve from two to four years In Sing Sing on a charge of abduction. The abducted girl was Betty Johnson.

20, a Negro, of 117-45 165Ui Jamaica. Jacobs pleaded guilty to that charge on Nov. 10 last. Judge Downs, in imposing sentence, announced In court that there has been another complaint lodged against Jacobs Involving a woman and that he has been identified. The Judge did not give any further details.

"Tills man has been a consistent loafer for the last three years," Judge Downs said. ''AH he thinks of is getting his pay check, buying liquor and chasing women. He is just a selfish bum. His wife and New Yorker Found Suicide in London London, Nov. 17 (INS) Harry Lukens of New York, about 60 and long a resident of England, was found dead of a bullet wound today in the company headquarters of the American Home Guard In London.

A verdict of suicide was returned at an inquest. Lukens leaves a widow and a 17-year-old son. Lukens, who at one time was regarded as wealthy, formerly represented a number of large American business interests in Britain. C. I.

O. Delays Strike Action Against Bell Aircraft Buffalo, Nov. 17 (INS) One thousand C. I. O.

employes of the Bell Aircraft Corporation today decided to withhold strike action until the C. I. O. convention at Detroit rules on the dispute between the union and the Government's Defense Mediation Board. More than 10,000 workers are engaged at the company's two plants here In the manufacture of the famous Air-cobra combat plane.

House Authorizes Fish To Answer U. S. Subpena Washington, Nov. 17 (U.R) The House today adopted a resolution "authorizing" Representative Hamilton Fish to appear when the House Is not In session before a Federal Grand Jury which has subjenaed him to testify in connection with its inquiry into foreign propaganda. Weiss, While 'On Was Stickler for Detail MM.

CALIFORNIA WINES CASH FOR MORTGAGES Mortgage Owners Please Call Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss was a stickler for detail when he "took it on the lam" last year and tried to elude Federal agents as James-W. Boll," County Judge Taylor and a blue ribbon Jury were told today at the murder trial of Weiss, Louis Capone end Louis (Leplcei Buch-alter. One of the State's final witnesses, Federal Agent Albert E. Aman, related that his arrest on Weiss in Kansas City last April 6 revealed that, Weiss was carrying selective service, social security and business cards, all duly made out in the name of the mythical Mr. Bell.

Intrigued by the business pasteboards, identifying the "Chihuahua Tungsten Corporation. Mining and Developing. Black Hawk. Col-James W. Bell, vice president." the witness testified, he asked Weiss what it was all about and was informed the fuglilve had "put $500 in it." "I asked him If the mine was WHEN OI OF TOWN REGISTER FROM BROOKI.YV Chafes? lisps Surprising rtel from It tinging lowieM follows the cu.tC"3 iim of wot hinff, dependable.

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