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4 Brooklyn eagle, Saturday, april 26, 1941 Coney Figures Itself In for an Old-Fashioned Summer With Plenty of Fun for Everyone a the "Horses' and the 'Carousel'I wZZwJ th. test of time5. Nearly every year aom. kind The Tilyou family have been part toJ Steeplechase Gets Parachute Jump Fair and Ed Tilyou Thinks It'll Be a From World's Gold Mine By ROBERT FRANCIS ment, one admission price to Coney Island Is stretching Itself and taking off the Win- ter underwear. Now that the Flushing Meadows extravaganza haa dropped Into the limbo of forgotten things, Coney Island llgures Itself in for an old-fashioned Summer.

So the Dalnt Vf PUTTING 1 brushes are out already, and of the day. The Fair won't be quite forgot ten, as we found after moseying around Steeplechase Park the other day. The "Parachute Jump" has been moved in, piece by piece, and Is in the process of being assembled at the Boardwalk entrance to the park. It Is already up a hundred-odd feet with another two hundred to go, and when completed will be as much of a permanent landmark as it ever was out on Mr. Whalen's flats.

Eddie Tilyou, tanned with Florida sun and with blond moustvcl bristling with energy, is as busy a one-armed paperhanger with his blue prints and specifications. You'll gee It for Miles "This is going to be a big season," he announces Joyously. "After every fair we have one. It's a sort of tradition. And that 'Parachute Jump' will be a gold mine! What a spot for It I You'll be able to see it for miles." He looks fondly out of the office window at the huge piles of steel sections that busy workmen are sorting out.

"Lot of work to get that up. Those concrete foundations go down 30 feet. Have you seen our 'Wheat Poles'? They're from the Fair, too." We have a hazy recollection of those hundred-foot golden stalks swaying somewhere in the Exhibit A SHINE on the rocket ships ot Coney. 1 Kyi; pi HEFFERNAN Says: If We Want Unity Let Us Have a National Aim In discussing the other day the lag with respect to overt acts of hostility between a President signally honored and greatly trusted and the people who gave him the trust of power and the honor of a third term in the White House, I left my comment at a loose end because the situation seemed to me to be at a loose end. It Is a sort of a "so what" EARS TO THE GROUND By CLIFFORD EVANS in- clude everything, Horaet, Carousel Moat Popular "Of course," says Eddie, "the av- erage cimmer never uses up nis comblnatlon t'ckt- The kids qo.

jury gu uiruugn two 01 rm. But mostly people come In and Just wander around and make their own fun. "The most popular features? Why, WHERE YOU'LL HAVE FUN Coney's opening day. stopped him. They greeted each other affectionately and then Sedley said, "Walt a minute, Joe.

I'll be right back." Of course Webb left hours later, after waiting for Sedley to return. And nobody had the heart to tell Webb that Sedley had slipped out of the club without bothering to wave a farewell to an old pal. The FBI li warping hotel men to double check refugees seeking jobs in Brooklyn hotels Edna Davis, maid in D. A. O'Dwyer's home, is embarking on a piano career Lido Beach Club's Frank Seiden suggests those Government dollar-a-year men be called "Buck Privates" Brownsville's Jack Lawrence wrote "You're Looking for Romance" and Bushwlck'a Ink Spots recorded the tune for Decca That beautiful Oriental lass at Lum Fong's bar the other night was Amy Fong, the Chinese Venus now at Brooklyn's Star Theater.

No relation to Lum Fong A band worth watching is Frank Carroll's a local unit with plenty of rhythm. Next engagement is May 3 at the St. Moritz That was Assistant D. A. Turkus and Actress Ida Lupino walking through the Hotel Astor the other night.

What Hitler doesn't understand, Ralph Navarro observes, is that if you can't speak freely you won't speak truthfully, Lely Says Greece 'Will Fight On' Nicholas Lely, Greek consul general in New York, speaking today at a Greek war relief benefit performance in the Astoria Grand Theater, 31st near Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria, declared that "no invader can thrive in Greece." "The spirit of Greece has been a rock through the ages," he said. "Greece is not dead. She will fight on." Gregory Taylor, New York regional director of the Greek war relief organization, said that "if Greece ever neded help she needs it now." About 1,500 persons attended the performance. It was estimated that $15,000 was raised. i Lepke will stand trial for murder around June 1 In Kings County Court before Judge Taylor Bay Ridge is agog over the report Fort Hamilton is to be converted into an air base John Leon, the former boxing promoter and realtor, now is a liquor salesman Applications for package store liquor licenses number over 1,000 with the quota only 200 County Republican Leader against the vandals of the twentieth century.

"To quote Thomas Jefferson: 'If we are faithful to our country, If we acquiesce with good will in the decisions of the majority and the nation moves in mass in the same direction, although it may not be that which every individual thinks best, we have nothing to fear from any Again: The last hope of human liberty in this world rests upon us. We ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment and every That Is the counsel of unity. While still entertaining a faint hope that headlong folly may be checked, I dread a serious Internal division in the face of actual danger from without. DR. BRADY says of new trick ride la Invented, bus sooner or later the thrills get itale nd another one comes along to top It.

The 'Horses' and the good old 'Merry-Oo-Round' seem to go on forever. "When do we open up? Well, of course, the 'Parachute won be reauy jor vwu ui mi we're going to have everything els going on weekends through May. guuig uit Decoration Day Is always the grand opening Unwrapping the Steeplechase HELEN WORTH Reader Suggests Organization to Preserve Morale Dear Helen Worth I am a loyal, sincere American who always practiced tithing. I am certain we need a society for the preservation of morale among the local yokels. Let the big men of our city organize this and let It be separated from the superefflcient charity organizations.

Sometimes I wonder if they Justify their existence with their systematic panhandling (they are probably tax exempt, too). When I needed help I was given the grand runaround. What say you? D. O. My dear D.

G. Doubtless evils exist in organized charity. But all virtue is not vested in the underdog! There are those who are in need but too proud to use this fact as a battering ram against society. And others whose attitude is that the world owes them a living, so what the heck do they care about work or personal responsibility. There's much to be said on both sides.

There are several agencies that seek to restore morale, but the supply obviously cannot meet the demand. In a Utopian Government this could not happen 1 I am sorry that your own experience has been so unfortunate. HELEN WORTH. Interests for Invalid Dear Helen Worth I wonder If any of your readers could help me by suggesting some type of work I can do at home to keep an interest in life. I am a middle-aged man and am, I hope, recovering from a heart attack in a local hospital.

I have been here over two months and according to the doctors can never go back into an office. Suggestions will be appreciated. CARDIAC. My dear Cardiac In two cases of which I have knowledge stamp col- Linens 6966 Touch of Embroidery materials needed; Illustrations of stitches; color schemes. To obtain this pattern send ten cents in coin to Brooklyn Eagle, Household Arts 259 W.

14th Manhattan. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER. a I exacv. T.iTt o.V.V 7 Dorn ana uiuuuu nc, but back around 1912 moved up to the Park Slope. Steeplechase be-longs to all five of them, but sisters, Marie and Eileen, leave the active planning and management to brothers, Eddie, George and Prank.

So here they are starting off their 45th season. As long as there's a Coney Island there will always be a Steeplechase, and probably a Til- you or two to run It. horses in readiness for ARDIE WILBER, whose "sock- ette" is a hit with the dancers at the Homestead Hotel in Kew Gardens, lecting became one man's hobby; light cabinet work the other's. Perhaps cabinet work is not the term, but the general idea was occupation with wood, scroll saw and simple tools. Probably many of the readers have known some one like you-some one with an active mind ft whom physical idleness was Imposed.

Suggestions from them would be appreciated. HELEN WORTH. Here's the Address Dear Helen Worth Some months ago you published the name and address of a place in Mississippi where the sisters use beads, trinkets, in handicraft work for the Indians. I cut out the clipping but can't find it now. Please print it once more.

SUSIE. My dear Susie The desired address is Sister Constance Marie, Holy Rosary Mission, Philadelphia, Miss. HELEN WORTH. Brothers Guilty Of Holdup Murder Edward Hicks, 21-year-old Negro, today faced death in the electrlo chair, and his brother, Myles, 17, faced life imprisonment. The brothers, who live at 2290 Dean were convicted after two hours' deliberation by a Jury in County Court last night, on the charge of beating and strangling to death Max Graboff, owner of house furnishing store, during a holdup at the Graboff establishment, 1579 St.

John's Place. The robbery netted $5.25. At the request of Assistant District Attorney Charles N. Cohen the Jury recommended mercy for the younger brother. No date was set for sentence by Judge Leibo-wltz.

who characterized the verdict as "perfect." Singers to Give Concert The Brooklyn College Madrigal QlnAV. i will 1VC a vuiiueib IUII1UI row afternoon in the Unitarian Church of the Saviour, Pierrepont St. and Monroe Place. Jean Paul Morel will conduct. I frmmi iii fW v3 J'l i "spit and polish" Is the order Area last Summer.

With the lights in the kernels their transplanting ought to add an effective touch to this year's edition of Steeplechase. "You know," he goes on, "we've had a lot of stuff here that came from fairs. The old Ferris Wheel out there is from the first one in Chicago, and the 'Flying Turns' came from the last. Maybe you won't remember It. but we had the 'Trip to the Moon' here for a year after the Buffalo Exposition, beto-e Thompson and Dundy moved It up the street when Luna Park opened.

"Trip to the Moon' wasn't really suited to our policy. My father founded the park on the idea that shows slow things up. 'Let the public amuse themselves' was his motto. They've been coming In and doing just that since 1896." The late George C. Ttlyou's Idea was a good one.

Eddie doesn't exaggerate. Steeplechase Park has become an institution. It grew up around three original attractions, all invented by the elder Tilyou the "Horses," the "Hoopla" and the "Razzle Dazzle." It burned out in 1907 and was rebuilt on the plan in effect today, with mast of the area occupied by a huge enclosed "Pavilion of Fun." So in fair or foul weather the park is always ready for business. It was conceived as a place for family type amuse- Bay Ridge the result. were not pleased with Did you know Tony Kelly born Lento was Coney Island's first cabaret owner, operating the Rose Garden, where Jimmy Durante played the piano.

Kelly, a Bensonhurst resident, now Is a boxing manager. Rosenthal, boss at the Palisades Amusement Park, years ago ran Golden City Park In Leonard, world lightweight boxing champion at the time, trained at the Palace of Joy, a boxing club in Luna Park McGuiness, the Register, worked in a cooper shop in Green-point. certain hours of the day you could ride on the Hamilton Broadway or Atlantic Ave. ferry for 1 penny Nathan, the Frankfurter King of Coney Island, started with a little stand selling was a time when you could get an order of steak and French fried potatoes for 15 cents. The day that Seymour Susnman of 888 Utica was born, a cousin of his also was born and also named Seymour.

Before moving to Brooklyn, Sussman had lived on Seymour in the because of the late hour, he stayed over at a hotel in Times Square area the Hotel Seymour. And Oddly enough, the girl he is romancing has a brother named Seymour. Joe Webb, piano-player at Marty Cannons Old Clarendon Restaurant, dropped into the 18 Club the other dawn. Roy Sedley, lately added to the 18 Club show, came out to do his stuff and Webb turned to friends at his Uble and elatedly said "I broke him into show business. Sedley later passed by and Webb THIS YOKE DRESS IS CRISPLY SMART Pattern 1347 -B Clever little details give special Interest to this new version of the tailored dress that Smart women prefer above everything else for general daytime wear at home, for traveling and shopping.

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Ben had made news by saying (in 1773) he Imagined neither wetness nor cold contributes to the causation of colds. Next day the same paper had pictures of Dr. George B. Foster, a bacteriologist whose uncanny diagnostic acumen John Crews and his brother, Bob, the Assemblyman, will sponsor a boxing show on Tuesday at the Broadway Arena. Proceeds will benefit the annual Matzoh Fund.

That was Kirby Hlgbe, Ducky Med. wick and Van Mungo at the Cafe Francaise putting away huge orders of steak. on a new restaurant at Hopkinson Ave. and Fulton "Don't Eat Until This Store Opens." The sign has been there for about ten Grace V. Twyford and Joseph Rowland will make it permanent on Aug.

18. She is vice president of the Flatbush Young Democrats and he is the former Erasmus Hall H. S. and Hobart star Brooklyn's Ben Hyams obtained the first broadcast rights for C.B.S. to the music of Bishop Fan S.

Noll, former Premier of Albania. Arrangement was made possible through another Brook- lynite, Frank Paterno, who is rep- resenting the bishop here. 1 46th Street Theater Manager Levi bedded with a heavy cold. Vow it can be told that the visit of Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway to i Brooklyn on Easter Sunday was not to have been made public. A slipup somewhere along the official line resulted in the fact being revealed in a press dispatch and the result was exactly what the Norwegian Minister had hoped to avoid.

Thousands of Norwegians failed to attend services in their churches on that day in order to be on hand at the Trinity Norwegian Lutheran Church to see the royal members. Norwegian churchmen throughout started the "long search within American laboratories to nail down the cause of the common cold." It seems that a laboratory worker one day complained of feeling tired, sneezing, getting chilly, nose stuffed up, unable to smell, and like a flash (as one gathers from the newspaper story) Dr. Poster diagnosed "You've got a chill," and so gained as much space for his pic- or iower temperatures, and expos-ture as my column gets some days, ure to diffuse daylight, quickly Next day even more space in the or renders harmless any known situation. However, the crisis is too real to leave It a "so what" situation. Our Government has placed us in a posture of active intervention by a series of self-contradictory pronouncements.

It has thundered in the Index, but there is some doubt that aid to Britain has been quantitatively or qualitatively adequate. An Instance was the President's telegram of praise and encouragement to the poor boy King of Yugoslavia, when there was no pos-aibllity of opportune and adequate aid. John Dryden once wrote of a power which "placed like a painted Jove, kept idle thunder in his lifted hand." The poor people of Yugo slavia, and perhaps of other lands, may come to look upon us as a "painted Jove" in view of all the Implications of our foreign policy sine Mr. Roosevelt's second election. We've Got to Make a Decision It is a condition for which a rem edy must be found.

A decision must soon be made. The popular attitude has been one of drift, al though the drift has been directed by the course of events abroad and the drumfire of propaganda here. I still believe the final decision should be predicated on the popular will which is Indicated in the Gallup polls and which could be definitely ascertained within a week by a referendum. In a fine and significant speech at the Jefferson Day banquet of the National Democratic Club, the distinguished Brooklyn lawyer, State Secretary Michael F. Walsh, indi cated the way of wisdom.

Said Mr. Walsh: First a National Aim "Let us start at home. American democracy is what Jefferson defined it to be. All of that and nothing but that. Man has inalienable rights, or he does not.

There cannot be a 'no man's land' between those two propositions. Government exists for man. or man exists for the State. There is no twilight zone between those two. In this country you are American, or you are totalitarian.

American democracy is not self-operative. Upon us is the burden as well as the inherent right of self-government. "Leaders on every side crave for Unity In our crisis. Jefferson gave us the platform of unity. Let us understand It, and then here at home meet the destructive ideologies with the logic and the inspiration of American democracy.

IX we want unity, then let us have a national aim. and let that na tional aim be the preservation and the perfection of the American way of lUe. "Every thinking American now realizes that "rugged individual- the liberalism of laissez-faire, i was carried to a destructive ex- treme. Every patriot recognizes that Government intervention was I necessary to remove some of the distressing Ills which grew up in our i great economic expansion. Within I the pattern of American democracy these Ills can be eliminated.

I Unity "We still have reason to fear the i effect of a possible totalitarian Europe, Africa and Asia. That fear can be completely dispelled by an adequate national defense on land and two oceans and by a generous support, we pray short of war. of the nations which are today courageously defending their firesides Concert Set for Thursday Maurice C. Rumsey. organist and chol8 master, will ronducf the roa-cert of the Church of the Messiah and Incarnation on Thursday even ing, May 1.

in the Bedford Branch T.M. C. A. i rwl Photo hv J. Nisnoff PARACHUTE JUMP now be m9 erected at Steeplechase 'Park, Conversational Spray Spreads Infection during coughing, talking.

And there is good scientific evidence to support the belief that unless such droplets reach your face, your nose or mouth directly, the germs or virus in them quickly lose virulence and hence droplets which may float about in the air are prob- ably harmless even if inhaled. Ex-! posure to air at room temperatures germs or respiratory oisease. (More about this later.) Rahy Needs No Shoes Last year sent for your advice ahnvt driving across country when I was expecting my baby. You sent the booklet "Preparing for Maternity." I followed every instruction, have a fine baby a year old now, and he walks a little already. He 'mis never had shoes on, but people keep telling me it will make him sick if I don't put shoes on him.

Mrs. A. W. M. If he were my baby he'd have no shoes until the wear and tear on his feet becomes too great.

The longer he goes barefoot or with only stockings or socks or soft moccasins or sandals, the better for his health and the development of his feet. Phenolphthalein notice in your monograph on "Constipation" you recommend phenolphthalein tables or lozcn- I do not recommend it. I merely say It Is one of the least injurious laxatives. Nervous Obsession Wouldn't a tea or coffee drinker be wise to give up tea or coffee entirely he a very restless C. M.

F. No. nerhans it would be unwise. 1 MttltViA- ta nrtr wffA ran IntArfor. with sleep if it is not taken within three hours of bedtime.

Many adults Ret more satisfactory and re- freshing sleep if they have their tea or coffee regularly as usual. ilnw to Gain Weight How can I gain more weight? Are there any vitamins or minerals of special value? I am 20 years old. five feet three and weigh only 101 fxmnds. I seem to tire easily. Miss W.

C. L. Send a S-cent stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph "How to Oaln mmmmm same paper was given to pictures of Admiral Robert E. Peary, who said his men caught colds only back home; Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who never caught cold in three years of; Polar exploration, and Admiral Richard E.

Byrd, whose Little America expeditions suffered few colds. 'Startling' Conclusion From all of this evidence the startling conclusion in heavy headlines was that "Cold Is a Misnomer." By the fifth day the "peripatetic" Dr. Victor G. Heiser's picture monopolized the page, his best seller. "An American Doctor's Odyssey," received free mention and the doctor's notion of the way to avoid respiratory infection was presented thus: "Straphangers and people who sit in subway trains are always breath ing other people's breath.

I there- fore prefer to stand and keep my Pes. I thought you opposed all I lives. C.T.H. urnu nuuvc ill uik.ii.uue. And that Implies, if you know no better, that infection occurs via the air, that you get the disease by breathing the same air others have breathed.

If that were really so it would be hopeless to sttempt to i avoid infection at. anv Mmi vnll might enter a room or vehicle where any one with any infection is present. The truth is that no known disease is spread that wav. There is no evidence, no scientific evi- dence, to support Dr. Heiser's quaint notion.

Spray Is Dangerous So far as we know, the chief If not the only way respiratory infec- tions spread is via droplet or spray mar, the grmi or virus or the disease is carried in droplets, some visible, some invisibly fine, of secmion or mott.ur prayed forth from nose and mouth i Put Gay Applique on Your PATTERN Simple Patches With a Decorate cloths and other linens with these gay applique tulips (cut them from scraps). The stltchery is quickly aone, loo. rauern osoo contains a transfer pattern of 8 motifs ranging from vix9 inches to 2'ixVl Inches; 80 Inches of scallop; applique pattern piece;.