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MT BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935 Mr. Ickes Won't Cross Army Officer Submits Plan To Reorganize Dr. Townsend, Father of OARP, Is Cool to Coughlin Merger Plan Asks Liability On Mohawk Be Cut to $10,000 Owners I'lace Blame for Fatal Crash on Freighter in Plea to Court Explains OARP Work Bridge, Even Triboro That Is, Not Until He Comes to It-Such Is His Answer to Rumor He Will Resign Advises Authority to Hire Lawyers By CLINTON I. MOSIIER Washington, Feb. 5 Secretary Ickes today laughed off rumors he is tired of it all and ready to quit.

Peeking out from behind a vase of pink carnations the PWA administrator, badly scarred target of anti-Roosevelt Assembly O.K's Tube Fund Plea Dr. Prank E. Townsend. critics, once again submitted himself to questioning about his refusal to give the Tri-Borough Bridge Authority more money until Robert Moses resigns from the Authority or his park commlssion-ership. i II ocvivwi said, among other things, that the l( bridge would have to be built ana according to the terms of the contract for the PWA loan, alleged oral agreements to the contrary i standing.

He advised the Secretary Ickes Authority to warm up "some of those high-priced law-ers up there." Mr. Ickes on the Stand The interview follows in part: Q. Mr. Ickes, are you going to resign? A. I think Walter Wlnchell said something about that.

He's the great predictor, isn't he? Q. He predicted the Lindbergh baby would be found alive. A. Well, this rumor belongs in the same category. Q.

The Tri-Borough Bridge Authority has prepared a memorandum stating that the bridge cannot be completed this Fall as provided in the contract. The memorandum also says you know about it and have consented to the delay. A. No court of law would sustain any oral arrangement contrary to the terms of a written contract. Q.

What do you intend to do when the original date for completion arrives? A. I will not cross any bridge, including the Tri-Borough, until I reach it. The. bridge will be built according to the contract. They had better get some of those high-priced lawyers up there.

All Letters Answered Q. Alderman Morris, Republican, of Manhattan, has written you asking you to explain your attitude in the bridge fight. A. I haven't seen the letter. I guess he wants a debate.

I won't debate it. All letters are answered. Q. What has been the trend of opinion in letters on the bridge dispute? A. About 50-50.

The questioning shifted to "hot oil." Some one asked. "Mr. Secretary, about that pipe line "Do you mean Texas or Winchell?" retorted the Administrator. $86,108 Collected In Y.M.C.A. Drive Contributions of $86,108 have been received toward the goal of $130,000 sought for the support of Brooklyn and Queens branches of the Y.

M. C. A it was announced yesterday at a luncheon of drive workers at the Hotel Bossert. This was the first report on activities during the 10-day campaign, which was added to the original one of two weeks. Edward P.

Maynard, campaign chairman; the Rev. James D. Adams, pastor of the Concord Baptist Church and Dr. Jesse Moorland, chairman of the board of managers of the Carlton Ave. branch, spoke at the meeting.

$405,625 FOR HOSPITAL FIND David H. McAlpin Pyle announces fhof 40 fi95 in nloHcrpc nnrf rnn- tributions have been received by the United Hospital Fund, which is seeking $500,000 to aid in providing care for 56 voluntary hospitals. The fund's executive committee, of which Mr. Pyle is president, met In the Bankers Club. mm Falls From 16th Floor But Only Breaks Foot Window Cleaner Drops From Sill as Belt Breaks and Dangles From Single Strap as Crowds Look on in Horror Sixteen stories above the madding crowd on 36th St.

at Broadway, Manhattan, this morning, Mike Carp, 36, of 1953 63d was standing precariously on a window sill wielding his squeegee and rag with consummate artistry. The cold wind howled about Continued from Page 1 Slate, the advantages of direct connection with the transcontinental rail systems. Quirk Action Sought The resolution follows, in part: Whereas it was agreed between the two said States that this freight tunnel should be built Just as soon as economically practicable; and, Whereas recent engineering studies Jointly participated in by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Port of New. York Authority and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce have again, demonstrated the great economic advantage of the freight link and the financial benefits to flow therefrom resulting from savings in the transportation of freight through the tunnel instead of by the present antiquated, expensive and uncertain method of transportation by car floats and lighters; and Whereas funds have been made available for self-liquidating projects by the United States Government and few if any projects have been proposed which more obviously are of great public advantage or more certain of adequate financial return; and, Whereas it is of importance to the people of New York and New Jersey to have the rail connection between New England and the South and West completed by a rail connection under the waters of New York Harbor, and the business interests on the easterly side of the port (New York) will benefit by having all-rail connection with the South and West and the business interests on the westerly side of the port (New Jersey) will benefit by having an all-rail connection with New England; 'Without Further Delay' Therefore be it resolved that the Legislature of the State of New York represented in the Senate and Assembly do hereby urge that since the tunnel has been agreed to by the two said States, its need demonstrated and the money for construction can now be obtained that the Port of New York Authority and all other officials having jurisdiction in the premises do everything in their power to start the construction of the freight tunnel between New Jersey and Long Island without further delay and to that end do further respectfully request the co-operation and support of the Federal Government and of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey; Further resolved (if the Senate concur) that the freight tunnel between New Jersey and Long Island project be included in the Federal public works program now being formulated- by the Federal Government and the Secretary of the Interior of the United States and all other public officials and duly constituted bodins having control of all or part of such public works program take appropriate action to include such tunnel project therein; and be it further Resolved (if the Senate concur) that a copy of this resolution be transmited to the Secretary of the Interior, the clerk of the House of Representatives, the secretary of the United States Senate and to each United States Senator and I Member of Congress elected from the State of New York and that the latter be urged to use their best efforts to procure the ac- The AGWI Lilies, shipping organization, which includes the Ward Line, today filed a petition in Manhattan Federal Court to limit its liability through the sinking of the $2,000,000 liner Mohawk the night of Jan. 24 to the amount of salvage, which they estimate will come to about $10,000.

Claims against the company resulting from the disaster, which cost 46 lives, already exceed $1,000,000. In its petition the company makes a vigorous attack on the operation of the freighter Talisman, with which the Mohawk collided. Of the breakdown of the steering gear on its own vessel and subsequent confusion over orders, the company says only that "orders were telegraphed to put the ship to starboard and she went to port." Ten Still Missing The petition also says that of 54 passengers and 110 members of the crew on the Mohawk, 40 passengers and 80 of the crew were rescued, of whom one subsequently died. Bodies of 14 passengers and 21 of the crew were recovered, and one passenger and nine members of the crew are still missing. Among the charges in the petition is that the Talisman, "though requested by radio to stand by and render assistance and although not seriously damaged, put over no lifeboats and rendered no assistance." Charge Incompetence To this charge recently voiced at the Federal inquiry into the disaster, officers of the Talisman said they stood by all night, that the Mohawk M'eboats went toward other rescue craft with searchlights and tha.

the Mohawk did not want lifeboat help. Other charges against the Talisman, also answered previously at the Federal hearings, were incorporated in the petition. They included contentions that the Norwegian freighter was "not in charge of competent persons," that it failed to "keep a good lookout," that it didn't sound "proper signals," that it continued under "excessive speed" and failed to stop or reverse engines "reasonably'' when danger of collision became apparent. Former Judge Gets 2 Years Continued from Page 1 Homes Corporation and converted the proceeds to his own use. "Though jou have pleaded guilty to only one indictment, charging larceny oi $200," said Judge Johnson before sentencing Bermingham.

"the evidence before this court indicates that you are involved to the extent of about $20,000. Records Destroyed "You left town and had to be brought back, and you destroyed some of your records. I can find nothing whatever in this case to warrant leniency." Bermingham was indicted in June, 1934, after he had resigned as police justice and left the village for a long vacation on the plea of ill health. He was found in November, 1934, in Cheyenne, masquerading as "Thomas Edwards," and brought back nere. When arrested, Bermingham said he had merely borrowed money from the corporations and intended to pay it back, and that the reason he left Nassau County was his hope of beginning anew in other surroundings and earning enough money to make good his peculations.

Aldermen Elect Out Joseph J. Kraebel of 1123 123d College Point, was elected by the Board of Aldermen today to succeed the late William Schmidt as Alderman for the 60th Aldermanic District of the 3d Assembly District In Queens. Mr. Kraebel recently resigned as postmaster of the State Senate, a position he had held three years. He is 40, married and has one child.

He is president of the Point View Regular Democratic Club. Alderman Morton Baum, Manhattan Fusionist, resigned from the board today to become counsel for the sales tax division of the Department of Finance. Killed in Fight At Night Club 2 Others Injured as Row Follows Military l'arly -3 Attendants Held San Francisco. Feb. 5 (ffi) An Army major was fatally injured and two other officers slightly hurt a night club fight that climaxed a gay party in celebration of their regiment's birthday here early today.

The dead man is MaJ. Charles Ross, battalion commander of the 30th stationed in the Presidio, He either fell or was thrown down a long flight of steps at the entrance to the night club. Night-Life Figure Held Maj. William F. Lee, one of his companions, suffered a bruised left eye, and Lt.

Winfred Skelton a cut lip in tlw brief scuffle that preceded the tragedy. Held on manslaughter charges are Clem Gaviotti, well known in San Francisco night-life circles, and two of his aides, Joe Vancssi and Sara Ehrlich. All denied being involved In the fight. Scuffle at Door Major Ross and five companions Major Lee and Maj. C.

M. Easley, Capts. Thomas N. Stark and Erale M. Miner, and Lieutenant Skelton arrived at the Club Cairo shortly after 1 a.m., witnesses said, and a quarrel with club attendants began at the door.

"I checked my hat and coat," said Major Easley, "and on returning saw the other officers quarreling with Gaviotti, Vanessi and Ehrlich. I tried to calm the club attendants and told them not to take the major seriously about anything, as he was only kidding. But they insisted on throwing him out." A scuffle ensued. Major Easley said Major Ross was "manhandled to the head of the stairs and thrown down." The major told police that the club employes further manhandled Major Ross outside the building by kicking him. complishment of the purposes of this resolution.

Two Plans Proposed i Two proposals for construction of a freight tunnel from Brooklyn to New Jersey were laid before a special committee at the Port of New York Authority Building, 111 8th Manhattan, yesterday. Walter P. Hedden of the Port Authority proposed a tunnel linking Bay Ridge and Greenville, on the New Jersey waterfront. It would be about four miles long. Col.

William J. V'ilgus, director of the works division of the Department of Public Welfare, countered with a plan to link Bay Ridge and Staten Island on one side and Staten Island and Metuchen, N. Under this plan only two miles of actual tunnel would be needed, but wnoie route would be about 50 miles longer. Rudolph Reimer, of the Port Au thority, who is chairman of the special committee, backed the Port Authority plan on the ground it would be a "taxpayer and not a tax eater" and would save $4 on every car using the tunnel, Has Legislature O. K.

It was pointed out that the Port Authority's plan has been approved by the New York and New Jersey Legislatures and would require no further legislation, while approval of the Wilgus plan would necessitate delay. Mayor LaGuardia and Mayor Myer Ellenstein of Newark attended the session, but declined to comment. The committee members present included Mr. Reimer, Commissioners John F. Murray and Joseph Byrne of the Port Authority; Corporation Counsel Paul Wlndeis, Controller Taylor, Borough Presi dent Raymond V.

Ingersoll, F. L. Cranford, Edwin P. Maynard and Lewis H. Pounds of the Brooklvn Chamber of Commerce, and Borough President Joseph A.

Palma of Richmond. iee, EVERY DELIV- I Mldwood 8.300(1 Lehrenkrauss Corporation's Net Worth Placed at Decision Is Reserved Estimating the net worth of Leh-renkrausa Corporation at $263,770, a plan for its reorganization under Section 77-B of the Bankruptcy act was submitted today to Judge Mortimer W. Byers in Brooklyn Federal Court by a committee of which Elmer W. Hamcke is chairman. Decision on its acceptance, subject to modification, was reserved.

The keystone of the proposed plan contemplates a turning over to the reorganizers of the Lehrenkrauss Mortgage Title Guaranty Company, which was taken over a short time ago for liquidation by the State Insurance Department. The typed plan states that the Superintendent cf Insurance is receptive of the idea. The net worth of Lehrenkrauss Corporation, as estimated, does not Include administration fees to date nor the reorganization expenses, which are still to be determined. Except for $11,978.90 in cash, it is based on a court appraisal of the present value of mortgages, mortgage participations and notes and accounts receivable in the posses sion of the corporation or its sub Bidiaries. Plan of Reorganization The reorganized corcern, tenta' tively named the Pulton Mortgage Corporation, would have an au thorized capital structure of 25,000 shares of common and 5,000 shares of Class A stock, all of no par value.

Class A would be preferential only as to liquidation, receiving up to $50 a share on the initial disbursement. Thereafter the common would receive $25 a share and the remainder would be distributed equally. The raising of up to $100,000 of new capital is authorized by issuance of additional stock of both classes to be sold in lots of two shares of Class A and one of common for $100 the lot. The reorganization committee is composed entirely of holders of Lehrenkrauss Corporation 6 percent preferred stock. Of this stock there are 16,280 shares, $100 each, outstanding.

The committee claims to represent more than 10,000 shares of this total. Holders of this preferred stock would receive one share of common of the new corporation for every two shares they now hold. Brooklyn Trust Co. Secured The Brooklyn Trust Company is Stated to be the only secured creditor, holding mortgages of a face value of $132,500, against a loan of $125,000. The plan provides that it shall retain this collateral and to offset its depreciation shall receive 91 shares of the Class A stock and 4 percent certificates of Indebtedness for $22,014.

Claims against the corporation for a total of $846,969.27 that still are under adjudication are disposed of as doubtful" and not dealt with further in the reorganization plan. They were filed against the corporation by relatives and associates of the former management. McGu mnesses Rescue Baby Continued from Page 1 pressed into her arms two heavy blankets and told her to hurry to the rear chamber where baby Patricia was asleep. Mr. McOuinness then used the bedside telephone to call police headquarters and give the alarm.

As he finished, Mrs. McGuinness came running back through the smoke and flames, with the baby wrapped in protective coverings. Mr. McGuinness led her through the hallway to the street door and she fled to the street. Rouses His Uncle Shouting to awaken his mother, he ran upstairs, flung open the door of her bedroom anj seized her in his arms.

Through a blinding haze of smoke he carried hei downstairs, after shouting another alarm to his uncle, who followed down the stairway. Reaching the Kwer hall, they were forced to run for it through a curtain of flame sweeping up from the cellar. The first firemen at the scene turned In a second aiarm, and the blaze was brought under control In a little more than half an hour. Another two-alarm fire, at 4:32 a.m., swept through the factory of the General Tire Wagon Re-builders at 258 N. 10th causing considerable damage.

The blaze was discovered by a night watchman, Who gave the alarm. Two Die From Gas, Third Unconscious Illuminating gas which escaped from a disconnected wall Jet today resulted in the death of two persons and almost proved fatal to a third. Patrolman George Welch, summoned at 10 o'clock this morning to the third floor of a tenement house at 749 10th Manhattan, found William Gardner, 55, and an unidentified woman dead on the floor. Gardner's wife, Mary, 45, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, in an unconscious condition. The unidentified woman was about 70 years old.

FIREMAN INJURED BV FALL Fireman John Willie, 41, of 435 Dc Witt Jamaica, was taken to Coney Islund Hospital at 12:45 this morning with a badly sprained right thigh. He slipped from an icy ladder and fell 14 feet while fighting a fire in a one-story shop belonging to John Peldzo at 3216 Mermaid Ave. Willie is attached to Hook and Ladder 186. But Apostle of Old Age Pensions Intends to Stay on Right Side of Huey Long Forces By EUGENE DC BOIS Hale and hearty and looking none the worse for his battle yesterday with the House Ways and Means Committee, Dr. Frank E.

Townsend, apostle of old age pensions, arrived In the city this morning from Washington to start the OARP (Old Age Revolving Pension Plan) ball rolling here. The 68-year-old country doctor, who has already enrolled some 25 to 30 million followers in the West, set up shop early today at the Hotel Pennsylvania, In a room next to one In which a salesman of knitted goods was displaying his samples, and announced that, rumors to the contrary, he was feeling as fit as a fiddle. To Appoint Aide Dr. Townsend, In his second visit to town since he emerged from Cali fornia obscurity, told reporters that he felt New York was at last ready to accept his OARP, and that he had decided to appoint Glenn Simpson, an optical equipment manufacturer from Rochester, his chief aide-decamp in charge of the Empire State territory. The money-doctor had with him a staff of two today: Robert E.

Clements, who wears the title of co-founder and national secretary of the OARP, a retired Long Beach, real estate speculator and broker, and Frank Peterson, his press agent, who was born in Brooklyn and lived here until the outbreak of the war. Peterson handled publicity for George Creel in his recent campaign against Upton Sinclair's EPIC plan for governing the Golden State. Has Busy Day Dr. Townsend's program for the day includes a visit to the Empire State Building, an interview with Kathleen Norris, and a business session with Edward L. Bernays, the public-opinion moulder who claims to have made the nation wear wristwatches.

Asked whether he planned to attend any mass meetings of OARP followers before entraining for Boston at midnight, the doctor said that his pension clubs had not been placed on an organized footing here yet, but that he hoped to come back in a few weeks and hold big rallies in Manhattan and Brooklyn. It was disclosed that Father Coughlin, the radio orator of Royal Oak. has been in touch with Dr. Townsend in regard to effecting some kind of a merger of interests. The latter, however, is only lukewarm to the approaches of his rival demagogue.

"I naturally cannot appear to court the other groups with reform Ideas," he replied to questioning. "In the first place I don't have to do it, and in the second place it would make me seem in doubt about my own plan." May Make Liaison The doctor hinted, though, that a liaison with well-organized political groups might have its point: "We would not spit in the face of Huey Long's following," he added. Mownsena, wno was oorn in an Illinois log cabin, admitted that some of his zealous followers have been bestowing great names upon him. "A new Moses," is one such phrase that he has frequently received and another is "a second Lincoln." The gaunt-faced medical man, his tooth-brush mustache neatly clipped, and his black felt spats freshly brushed, told of the terrific momentum his $200-a-month-to-all-non-criminals-over-60 idea has been picking up Washington. "Why," he said, "70 percent of all the mail being received by Con gress these days is from our members, who are not Just asking for it now, but are actually demanding tne UAKr, No IU Health In explaining his recent absence from the political battleground in the Capitol, Dr.

Townsend's staff explained insistently that it was not illness but a visit to Baltimore that caused it. He went down to Johns Hopkins Hospital for a checking-up on his condition, It seems, and was found to be O. K. Asked whether the pensions, which he calls really "only an insurance plan, with the annuities maturing at 60," would prove a boon to California real estate, Dr. Townsend said that he thought definitely so.

"Why, go out on the street and ask the old people how they would spend their pensions," he replied, "and you will soon find out." "What we are driving at," he went on, "is the good old town meeting style of Democracy. The more money we spend, the richer we become. The sweat and muscle are going out, gentlemen. They are obsolete. Machine power is doing the work of the world for us.

Eventually we hope to lower the pension age limit and create a permanent scarcity of labor. We hope to preserve capital and the profit system," he said, in reply to various questions. Answers Skeptics In defending the sincerity of the OARP, Dr. Townsend reminded his skeptical listeners that the organization submits each month to the Post Office Department a complete statement of its financial accounts. This reveals, he said, that the total profit from the sale of the OARP booklet at 25 cents per copy had amounted to $40,000, and that this was practically the only income that the movement had.

This sum is used to maintain a national headquarters in Los Angeles, a small office in Washington, and a salaried staff of about 50 employes. "Ninety percent of our workers," he said, "are volunteers." Ask Three Changes Washington, Feb. 5 Three major changes ir the Administration security bill designed to reduce the cost and take the onus of charity off old age pensions were suggested to Congress today by Secretary Morgenthau. In the statement he read to the Ways and Meant Committee, as one cussing politely outside. Then they saw Mike, hanging by the other side of the safety belt, a few feet under the window.

Thousands of passersby on 36th St. and Broadway stood terror-stricken as employes in the Guttman office pulled him inside. Dr. Whalcn, ambulance surgeon from St. Vincent's Hospital, arrived, found that the Brooklyn window cleaner had a fractured ankle, one of the first ever sustained by a man who fell from something but didn't land on anything.

Death House Fugitive Escapes Ambuscade Of Police in Dallas Dallas. Feb. 5 () Raymond Hamilton's reputation for escaping from "tight spots" still held today after the No. 1 bad man of the Southwest had slipped through a withering volley of lead. A fugitive from the Texas death house, Hamilton fled from an ambuscade at an apartment house last night in a stolen service truck.

Officers believe the young outlaw and his brother, Floyd, who fled on foot, had been wounded. Hamilton was a lieutenant of the late Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, slain outlaws. Sees Trade With Italy Hastening Recovery The proposed Italo-American trade agreement is not only a major step in reviving commerce between these two nations but also in hastening economic recovery throughout the world, Augusto Rosso, Italian Ambassador to the United States, declared last night in an address before the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He declared It is "folly" to believe that Mussolini favors war. him, snow flurries lashed his face, but daredevil Mike calmly whistled a few hars from The Man on the I lying Trapeze." Then, at 9:45 o'clock, one side of his safety belt parted with a snap; Mike pawed the air to regain his balance, then plunged.

But not far. Stenographers in the office of Joseph Guttman Sons shrieked and fainted with abandon as lAike passed from view. Crowd Terror-Stricken No one dared go to the window until they heard the sound of some Cops' Errand Boy Just a Burglar Walter Omillian, 18, of 635 1 E. 13th Manhattan, who has been running errands and in general making himself use- ful at the W. 30th St.

precinct in recent months, admitted being a burglar in Manhattan police lineup this morning. Inspector Joseph Donovan, in charge of the lineup, asked why the youth was so friendly with the police during the day if he was busy breaking into homes at night. "I thought it might be a good idea to make contacts with the police in my line of business," he replied with dignity. Secretary Perkins sat alongside him, Morgenthau proposed: 1. An increase in the taxes levied for old age pensions so as to take care of so-called "unearned" annuities.

2. Transfer of voluntary old age pension administration of the new social insurance board to the Treasury. 3. Elimination oi the farmer, domestic servants and "casual" or transients from me benefits of the old age pension. Sphinx Wins Snow Sculpture Prize The stolid sphinx, this time con- ceived in snow by two youthful playground artists, Gilbert Bloom, 10, and William Kazer, 13, won first prize yesterday in the snow sculp-; ture contest for children sponsored by the Department of Parks.

The Bloom-Kazer brain-child, erected In the Fort playground, at Reservoir, Sedgwick and Webb the Bronx, was part of the work done by children in 100 playgrounds throughout the city. A rhinoceros won second prize, while third money-went to a walrus. Col. Roosevelt Spurs War on Namesake "An aroused and enlightened citizenry can sweep the Democratic party out of Washington in 1936 and save our republican form of government," Col. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the National Republican Club, declared at a dinner last night at the Town Hall Club, 133 W.

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