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of BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1936 A 17 Acknowledgments GROTE -The family of the late AUGUSTA GROTE wishes to thank many relatives and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy and floral offerings in their recent bereavement. DAUGHTER and SON, Deaths Barry, Annie McLaughlin, M. Bennett, Martin McLean, Capt. W. Benson, Edward Martin, Alice Bowen, Mary Mills, George Couney, Annabelle Molloy, Sarah Erasmi, Frederick Moran, Mary C.

Fieseler, Kathleen Murphy, Cecilia Fischer, Elizabeth Nielsen, Tollak Folger, Emily C. J. Pearsall, Alice Gabrielsen, Anna Pepler, Fannie Gollatz, Marie J. Ralston, Squire Harkness, Mary B. Rathjen, Harry Hobley, William Smith, Emma A.

Ireland, Rufus J. Spurge, W. N. Jones, Bethune Stavenhagen. M.

Kromm, Laura Stromberg, Little, Mary Thompson, Robert Lynch, Mary Toedteberg, Emma Lyons, Margaret Van Tassell, O. I. McClure, William Weber, Theresa BARRY-On Friday, February 21. 1936, ANNIE RAPPELYEA BARRY. wife of the late John Turner and beloved mother.

of Mrs. Tremper Longman. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Monday, 2:15 p.m. BENNETT-On Friday, February 21, 1936, MARTIN, beloved husband of Elizabeth and father of Raymond and Martin Jr. Funeral Monday, February 24, from his residence, 436 Bainbridge Street, at 9:30 a.m.

Mass of requiem Holy Rosary Church, Chauncey Street, near Reid Avenue. -EDWARD on February 21, 1936, beloved son of Mary and William Benson, at his home. 476 10th Street. Solemn requiem Tuesday, at 10 a.m., at St. mass Stanislaus Church, 14th Street, near 6th Avenue.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. BOWEN-On Friday, February 21, 1936, MARY BOWEN, beloved wife of Edmund at her residence, University Place, West New Brighton, Staten Island. Solemn mass of requiem be offered on Tuesday, 10 a.m., at Our Lady of Counsel R. C. Church.

Interment Calvary Cemetery. COUNEY-On February 22, 1936, ANNABELLE MAYE, beloved wife of Dr. Martin A. Couney, and devoted mother of Hildegarde Couney and esteemed friend of Recht. Services at Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place Tuesday at 1 p.m.

ERAS February father 21, of 1936, Mrs. FREDERICK, beloved Bertha Hine, Mrs. Robert Reilly and Martin Erasmi. Services at his residence, 4196 Ocean Manhattan Beach, Sunday, 8 p.m. Interment Green- Wood Cemetery.

FIESELER KATHLEEN, February beloved wife of Harold A Fieseler. Funeral from the home of her father, Mr. Thomas Pardy, 72 Elton on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.; solemn requiem mass at Malachy's R. C. Church.

Interment St. John's Cemetery. FISCHER-On February 20, 1936, ELIZABETH ANNA, beloved mother of Charles and Frank Fischer. Funeral services at her home, 10 Wolcott Street, Sunday, 4:30 p.m. terment Monday, 2 p.m., GreenWood Cemetery.

FOLGER-At her home in Gler Cove, L. on February 21, EMILY CLARA JORDAN, widow of Henry C. Folger, in her 78th year. Funeral at her late residence, Sunday, February 23, at 3 p.m. GABRIELSEN-On Friday, February 21, 1936, ANNA, beloved wife of Asser and devoted mother Alice and loving sister of Mrs.

Christense Lanner and Magnus Christiansen. Funeral services the funeral home of George Herbst Son, 6741 5th near 68th on Sunday, February 23, 8 p.m. Funeral Monday, 10 a.m. terment Valhalla Cemetery. GOLLATZ-MARIE suddenly, on February 21, at her home, Avenue Flatbush, beloved daughter of Fred J.

and Margaret Shane Gollatz. Her father is an ployee of Brooklyn Edison for years. She was a member of societies tached to Mary Queen of Heaven R. C. Church where a requiem mass will be celebrated Tuesday at a.m.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. HARKNESS At Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Friday, February 21, 1936, Mrs. MARY BUCKHAM HARKNESS, widow of George A. Service at her home, Great rington, Monday, February 24, at p.m. Interment private.

TO PREPARE People of sound judgment deem it both logical and advisible to pre-arrange 'a funeral. GEO. W. PEASE GEO. W.

PEASE. Jr. Funeral Directors 433 Nostrand Avenue Tel. STerling 3-7700 Deaths HOBLEY WILLIAM February 22, 1936, beloved husband of Lillian. Services at Cooke's Funeral Home, Malteinden Boulevard, Monday, 8 p.m.

Funeral 4 Tuesday, p.m. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. -On February 20th, 1936, RUFU3 beloved husband of Grace Myton Ireland and father of Rufus Kenneth S. and J. Edward Ireland.

Funeral services First M. E. Church, Amityville, Sunday at 2:30 p.m. hee, JONES -On Friday, February 21, 1936, BETHUNE W. JONES.

Services at his residence, 70 Washington Garden City, Monday at 11 a.m. Thursday, February 20, at 3202 Avenue LAURA, beloved wife of Conrad and voted mother of Valentine and Frederick Kromm. Funeral services Sunday, February 23, at 8 p.m. LITTLE- -MARY (nee Duffy), on February 20th, her home, 1019 8th Avenue, beloved wife of Albert and beloved mother of Marie and Albert Earl sister of John J. Duffy and Katherine Strohoefer.

Funeral Monday, February 24, 9:30 a.m.; thence to St. Saviour's R. C. Church, where a requiem mass will be offered. Interment Calvary tery.

LYNCH -On Thursday, February 20, 1936, MARY RANDALL, beloved wife of the late James Lynch, and loving mother of Marguerite L. Wacker, May and James Lynch. Funeral from her home, 112-40 175th Place, St. Albans, L. on Monday, February 24; solemn requiem mass at the Church of St.

Bonaventure, 170th St. and Linden Boulevard, at 10 o'clock. Interment Calvary Cemetery. LYONS -MARGARET on Friday, February 21, 1936, beloved wife of the late Edmund J. and mother of the late Robert J.

Lyons. Reposing at Funeral Chapel, 187 So. Oxford St. Funeral Monday, February 24. Solemn mass of requiem at Our Lady of Victory Church at 10 a.m.

Interment Calvary Cemetery. McCLURE On Friday, February 21, 1936, WILLIAM S. McCLURE, of 1809 Albemarle Road, beloved busband of Gertrude McClure and father of Mrs. Gladys Hunter. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Monday, February 24, at 8 p.m.

McLAUGHLIN-On February 19, 1936, MARCUS McLAUGHLIN, beloved brother Margaret Schmidt and Sarah MsLaughlin. Funeral on Monday at 9:30 a.m. from the funeral home of T. J. Higgins Son, 203 Jay St.

Solemn requiem mass at St. James ProCathedral. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. McLEAN-On Saturday, February 22, 1936, Capt. WALTER L.

McLEAN, of 990 E. 17th beloved husband of Margaret and father of Walter R. McLean. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Monday, 2:30 p.m. MARTIN-On February 20, 1936, ALICE, daughter of the late Robert Martin and Mary Warnick.

Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Monday at 8 p.m. MILLS On Friday, February 21, 1936, GEORGE ROY, beloved son of Thomas B. and Sarah J. Mills, in his 57th year. Service and interment private.

MINERVA LODGE, NO. 792, F. A. are requested to attend Masonic funeral services for our brother, Capt. WALTER L.

McLEAN, at Fairchild's Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. GEORGE E. DECKER, Master. John F. Brooks, Secretary.

MOLLOY On February 20, SARAH, beloved wife of a Martin Molloy, and mother of Joseph, Martin, Eugene, Barbara, Teresa and Sadie Molloy. Funeral Monday at 9:30 a.m. from her residence, 391 4th thence to St. Thomas Aquinas Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated. Interment St.

Mary's Cemetery, Grasmere, Staten Island. MORAN-MARY C. (nee Halligan), on February 21, beloved wife of the late Lieutenant John J. Moran, N. Y.

P. and mother of Charles J. Moran and Mrs. Anne V. Major, Mrs.

Geraldine R. Flanagan and sister of Mrs. Sarah A. Hollern. Funeral from her residence, 1022 71st Street, on Monday at 9:30 a.m.; thence to the R.

C. Church of St. Ephrem, 75th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. MURPHY CECILIA, February 21, 1936, at her home, 2157 Ocean Parkway, dear Avenue U.

Daughter of the late Edward and Mary Orr, beloved wife of the late Richard Ewen Murphy, mother of Sister Cecilia Maria, O. S. J. Brentwood, N. and Lucy M.

Cowden. Devoted sister of William C. Orr and Francis X. Orr. Funeral from her home to St.

Edmund's Church, Ocean Ave. and Avenue Monday, Feb. 24. Solemn requiem will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Kindly omit flowers.

Vital Notices (Deaths, Memoriams, Acknowledgments, Births, Murrages, Engagements), accepted daily up to 9:15 a.m. for first edition; 11 a.m. for second editwn. p.m. for third edition, (including Sunday notice close 5:30 p.m.

Saturday for first edition: final closing 11 p.m. Saturday. (MAin 4-6000 or MAin 4-6200). FUNERAL DIRECTORS SIDNEY LAWRIE Successor to Thomas Lawrie 582 JEFFERSON AVE. JEFFERSON 3-4312 Funeral Parlors, 187 S.

Oxford St. BENEDICT J. THURING 1178 BUSHWICK PARKWAY FOXCROFT 9-3280 JAMES A. MADDEN ELIZABETH F. MADDEN.

Mgr 197 Franklin Ave EVergreen 8-8675 WILLIAM A. MARTIN 764 WASHINGTON AVE. NEvins 8-6821 Deaths NIELSEN- February 21, 1936, TOLLAK, beloved husband of Elevine. Services at Fred Herbst Sons Memorial, 7501 5th Sunday, p.m. PEARSALL Friday, February 1936, ALICE SAVAGE PEARSALL, beloved mother of Oscar Lee Savage, of 121 New york Ave.

Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Interment, a.m. Springfield Cemetery, PEPLER-On Saturday, February 22, 1936, FANNIE PEPLER, aged 89 years, beloved mother of Mrs. Gertrude Murray and William Pepler. Funeral services at her residence, 87-68 97th Woodhaven, Long Island, on Monday, February 24, at 7:30 p.m.

RALSTON-SQUIRE, on February 22, 1936. Services at Walter B. Cooke's Funeral Home, 7th Brooklyn, Monday, 8 p.m. Interment Wappingers Falls, New York. (Wappingers Falls, New York, papers please copy.) -On February 22, 1936, HARRY, beloved son of Adelheid and the late Herman Rathjen; devoted brother of John, Alfred, Louis and Elmer Rathjen.

Services at his residence, 422 Rogers Monday, p.m. Interment Evergreens Cemetery. ida, Wednesday, February 19, SMITH -At Petersburg, Flor1936, EMMA widow of Richard W. Smith, in her 80th year. Funeral services will be held at her home, 214 Linden Road, Mineola, on Monday, February 24, at 2:30 p.m.

Interment in Greenfleld Cemetery, Hempstead, Long Island. SPURGE--On Friday, February 21, WILLIAM at Smithtown, Long Island, beloved brother Warren H. and Addis B. Spurge. Funeral from the residence of E.

Arthur, Main Smithtown, Sunday, February 23, at 2 p.m. STAVENHAGEN-MARTIN, beloved husband of the late Bella Stavenhagen. (nee Nathan) and devoted father of Hortense Greenberg and Frances Wasserman and loving brother of Millard, Samuel and Cora Nathap. Funeral from residence, 554 9th Brooklyn, Monday, February 24, at 2 p.m. STROMBERG On Saturday, February 22, 1936, BETTY, of 1016 Union beloved mother of William, Albert, Ernest and Edward Stromberg.

Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Tuesday, 2 p.m. THOMPSON-ROBERT of Prospect Place, in his 36th year, loved son of Thomas Thompson, and brother of John and Ewart. Services at chapel, 40 Lafayette opposite Academy of Music, on Tuesday at 2 p.m. TOEDTEBERG With profound sorrow the Long Island Historical Society announces the death in John's Hospital on February 21, 1936, of EMMA TOEDTEBERG, who been in the library of the society for 67 years. Members of the Executive Committee are requested attend the funeral services at o'clock, Sunday, February 23, the Church of the Nativity, Ocean Avenue and Farragut Road, Flatbush.

NORMAN TAYLOR, Chairman, Executive Committee. VAN TASSELL-OSCAR IRVING, beloved husband of Florence (nee Barilla), devoted father Mrs. Mildred Eberhardt, Arthur and Donald; one sister, Edna. neral services at his residence, 92d Woodhaven, Monday ning, 8 o'clock. Funeral Tuesday, a.m.

Interment Evergreens Cemetery. WEBER THERESA, of 100-24 205th Place, Hollis, L. on February 21, beloved daughter of Elizabeth Hauck and the late Jacob Weber, loving sister of Edward and Elizabeth. Funeral from home Tuesday morning at thence to the R. C.

Church of carnation. Interment St. John's Cemetery. In Memoriam BRUNN-In memory of FLORA BRUNN. Died February 23, 1920.

McGOWAN-In loving memory of VANE T. McGOWAN, (Aunt Jane). The SHAUGHNESSYS. MEYER-In loving memory of our beloved father, RUDOLPH who left us one year ago today to join our dear mother. Not only today but every day in our thoughts.

His DAUGHTERS. -In sad and loving memory of JOSEPH P. REILLY, who died three years ago today. Masses offered. Marriages LYONS-TAPLINGER Mr.

and Mrs. Lewis Taplinger, of 825 E. 18th Brooklyn, announce the marriage of their daughter, GRACE LOUISE to ALBERT LYONS, son of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Lyons, on Sunday, February 16, 1936.

Passes Passes CARTY-SARAH E. Second anniversary mass will be offered in St. Malachy's R. C. Church at 9 a.m.

Thursday, February 27. In loving memory. Sister PAUL, S.B.S., and CHRISTINE CARTY. THE TIDES (By U. S.

Geodetic Survey) FEBRUARY 23 Sandy Hook 8:02 8:24 2:00 2:26 The Battery 8:28 8:51 2:31 2:56 Hell Gate 10:23 10:48 4:39 4:52 FEBRUARY 24 Sandy Hook 8:49 9:12 2:48 3:10 The Battery 9:16 9:41 3:20 3:39 Hell 11:15 11:36 5:23 5:37 SUN RISES AND SETS Rises.6:41 Sets.5:39 Rises.6:40 Sets.5:40 February 23 February 24 Quayle Funeral Home 134 SMITH STREET Chapel-MAin 4-2069 Residence CUmberland 6-2683 Refined--Economical Service Look Out, It May Be Loaded White- Secretary osity when she examined the ington Navy Yard. All very Drukman Case Never Closed, Says Geoghan Continued from Page 1 have been Shortly before election Police Commissioner Valentine and Corporation Counsel Windels served notice they were applying for inspection of the minutes, and that's the time Valentine made that statement. "I was prompted to resubmit the case to the November Grand Jury because I realized the jury was at fault in not returning any indictments the first time. But before I had a chance I had my hands full with two campaigns, primary and election. And then Mr.

McGoldrick started firing his charges at me. It was unfortunate and very embarrassing, because it would have looked like a campaign gesture to resubmit the case at that time. Cites Kantor Hunt "Now, if I had thought the case was closed and said so, we would never have pressed the hunt for Harry Kantor, whom Assistant District Attorney Hyman Barshay, in a report of his investigation progress a few weeks after the murder, described as the key to the Drukman case. If we had him, we were certain we would have had an eyewitness to that murder. For many weeks, several times each week, I personally called Deputy Chief Inspector John J.

Ryan to ask him whether he had uncovered any lead as to Kantor's whereabouts. If I had considered the case closed, would I have done that? "Not only that, but Assistant District Attorney Hyman Barshay suggested to Detectives Louis Dardis and Charles S. Corbett that the search for Kantor be concentrated in Chicago and Detroit. The Luckmans had relatives out there, and Assistant Barshay and I figured he'd turn up out in Chicago. Accuses Police "We 'all know now that he did.

Kantor fell out of a sanatorium window and died. He either jumped out or fell on Oct. 18 last year and died two days later. If the police here had sent out word to the police of other States, Kantor would have been found, and in the two days he lived might have given us the information necessary to clear up the whole case. But the fact is the Police Department never followed out our suggestion about looking for Kantor in Chicago, and SO New York didn't know about Kantor's whereabouts until the day he died.

He wasn't any use to us then. "A month before Kantor died Police Commissioner Valentine told me: 'My men have manhandled this That speaks for itself. "The Police Department is supposed to prevent crimes and apprehend criminals The prosecutor presents all available evidence to the Grand Jury. Praises Barshay "I say definitely now that all the evidence that we had was presented to the April jury. There was absolutely no suppression of evidence.

Assistant District Attorneys Harry Sullivan and Barshay did fine work in their investigation and presentation of the evidence, and don't deserve to be calumniated. "It was Barshay who unearthed the evidence showing without a doubt that Kantor was the key to this murder, and it was he who first raised the theory that Drukman was murdered because he wouldn't pay back the money he had stolen from the Luckmans. There is no doubt if we had reached Kantor in time we would have solved this murder. A conviction of murder in first degree against the three defendants could have been obtained if we had Kantor's statements. But how could we when the police didn't act in apprehending him? Tired of Attacks "We acted not only as prosecutors but as policemen in the investiga-15 tion of this case.

We haven't any investigating staff. All we have are ten county detectives who really are aides to the assistant district attorneys. We must, of necessity, depend on the police a great deal. "Barshay first discovered that Kantor was traveling extensively through the East and living at some of the finest hotels. Kantor was supposed to be broke and almost on relief.

Our theory was that Ike Luckman supplied him with the Education Duty Of Government, F.D. R. Insists Visits Two Colleges on Washington's Day and Speeds to Hyde Park Continued from Page 2 000 are enrolled in extension courses and Summer schools. I think that we of Temple University--I am exercising my right now to speak as an alumnus- can take special pride in the part that our institution here has taken in this growth. This institution has carried in practice the basic ideal of its great founder, the late Dr.

Russell H. Conwell. He believed that every person should be given a chance obtain a good education and he founded Temple University to meet the needs of those who might not be able to afford a college education elsewhere. He believed that education should respond to community needs and fit itself into the many-sided and complex life that modern conditions have imposed upon us. Will Watch Results shall watch with the keenest interest the working out of the plan recently adopted by Temple for carrying even further into practical application this guiding ideal.

I refer to the plan for forming an organization to be known as the "Associates of Temple University," and to be composed of representatives of the various commercial, industrial, financial and professional interests of the community outside the university's walls. I understand it, this organization will be far more than a mere advisory body, set up to meet on special and infrequent occasions and to draft recommendations of a feneral character. The "Associates of Temple University" will be an integral and organic part of the university's structure; the individual associates will have clearly defined duties and responsibilities, which they will carry out according to a definite routine; and their purpose will be to serve as the eyes and ears the university throughout the community, constantly alert to the changing social and economic needs, and continuously interpreting these needs to the university. Praises U. S.

Record I am proud to be the head of a government that has sought to make a substantial contribution to the cause of education, even in a period of economic distress. Through the various agencies, the government is helping educational institutions to add to their present equipment. Since 1933 the government has made, through the various governmental agencies of the Administration, allotments to local communities for schools, colleges and library buildings amounting to more than 000,000. We are also providing the Works Progress Administration educational courses for thousands of groups of adults wherever there are competent unemployed teachers, and through the National Youth Administration funds for part time employment to help deserving young people to earn their way through accredited colleges and universities in all parts of the United States. We have rightly taken the position that in spite of the fact that economic adversity through these years might impose upon the youth of the country distressing and unavoidable burdens, the government owed it to the future of the nation to see that these burdens should not include the denial of educational opportunities for those who were willing and ready to use them to advantage.

People More Literate Educational progress in the past generation has given to this country a population more literate, more cultured, in the best sense of the word, and more aware of the complexities of modern civilized life than ever before in our history. And while the methods of spreading education are new, the lessons of education are eternal. The books may be new, but the truth is old. The qualities of a true education remain what they were when Washington insisted upon its importance. First among these qualities is a sense of fair play among men.

As education grows men come to recognize their essential dependence one upon the other. There is revealed to them the tru nature of society and of government which, in a large measure, culminates in the art of human co-operation. Appropriate to Democracy The second great attribute of education is peculiarly appropriate to a great democracy. It is a sense of equality among men when they are dealing with the things of mind, Inequality may linger in the world of material things but great music, great literature and the wonders of science are and should be open to all. Finally, a true education depends upon the freedom in the pursuit of truth.

No group and no government can should properly constitute prescribe the body precisely of knowl- what edge with which true education is concerned. The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. Genuine education is present only when the springs from which knowledge comes are pure. It is this belief in the freedom of the mind, written into our fundamental law and observed in our every day dealings with the problems of life, that distinguishes us as a nation. In our ability to keep pure the sources of knowledge, in our mind's freedom to winnow the chaff from the good grain, in the even temper and in the calmness of our every day relationships, in our willingness to face the details of fact and the needs of temporary emergencies, in all of these lie our future and our children's future.

"On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!" a a of Labor Frances Perkins displayed usual feminine curibreech of this 14-inch gun in the Naval Gun Factory, Washinteresting, said she. A Line on Liners By TOM Perhaps it will be remembered that several Sundays ago we wrote a column about the O'Sullivans and the O'Flahertys, the two families that lived in Pernambuco, Brazil, the most Eastern point in the Western hemisphere, and their race to erect piers out into the Atlantic Ocean so that each family might say that it lived farther East than any other family in either North or South America. A number of our readers said that the story was a bit dubious and others openly ridiculed it, but we are gravely assured by the crew members of the Munson liner Southern Cross, which makes the run from Brooklyn down to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, that the story is perfectly true. The latest reports are that the race has come to a standstill, due to a lack of funds on the part of both families. Instead of pushing construction day and night, they are busy trying to find funds to buy more material, their credit and local supply of free materials having been exhausted.

To aid the cause, O'Sullivan is charging a small sum for the fishing points on his and O'Flaherty is trying to incorporate his pier and sell stock. The youngsters in both families have gone to school but are ready to rush back to work the minute any' money is available. To convince the skeptics, we suppose we will have to obtain a picture of the two piers extending out in the general direction of Africa and print it above our column. Perhaps we can even get a story from the two leading characters, explaining just why they will go through the discomfort of living money to travel and stay away from New York. That was hush money.

"Why, Kantor once returned to his Brooklyn home, and the police apparently never knew about that until weeks later. They had orders to get him, and should have kept watch on his house. "I'm tired of sitting back and taking it on the chin. It seems my gentlemanly silence creates a wrong impression. as Policeman' "I'm tired of hearing charges laxity against me.

I couldn't have been more energetic and industrious than I was, and the evidence I gave to Mr. Todd proves that. I played policeman as well as prosecutor. "Those charges were born of utterances made during the campaign. There were charges that I returned the best evidence to the Luckmans and Hull after the April Grand Jury refused to indict.

That evidence was the bloodstained clothing. But the clothing was not returned until after a toxicologist had examined the blood. I handed over the toxicologist's report Todd. "I even turned over to him the report of John Hennessy, C.P.A., also an attorney, who worked for ten days on the Luckmans' books. He inspected and investigated 30 certified checks drawn against Luckman Bros.

Trucking Company. Seventeen of those checks were found to be false. They were indorsed by Kantor. Only one was indorsed by Drukman. Obviously it showed money was being stolen from the Luckmans, Defends His Men "I do not think that Hennessy was ever placed on the witness stand.

There was other important evidence we gave Mr. Todd that never came out in the trial. "I did all in my power to clamp down tight on this case. I did everything I could to discover motive for the murder, because a motive is always important in obtaining convictions. "As far as my conduct in this office is concerned in connection with laxity or misfeasance, I want to show you this letter I just received from Warden Lewis E.

Lawes of Sing Sing. I wrote to him asking for the death house population and where each condemned person comes from. He ported in the letter that out of the inmates awaiting execution seven were convicted of murder in the first degree right here in Kings County." MRS. MINNIE M. BRENNAN of 788 Quincy St.

died yesterday. She was born in New York City lived in Brooklyn for 30 years. She is survived by her husband. John Brennan. and a son, Horace.

Services will held at 8 p.m. Monday at the Peth Funeral Chapel. 15 Palmetto St. Interment will be in Lutheran Cemetery, Tuesday. Capt.

M'Lean Dies; Skipper of Yachts And Troop Ships New Brunswick Native Was One of Four Brothers, All Sea Captains on the end of a pier in order to boast that they live farther east than any one else. from a tropical comedy a dumpines, away to more realistic matters in the local harbor, one of the most interesting characters we have met recently is Dr. Arthur C. Brush, 75, of: 29 S. Portland whom we met the other day at a sailing of the Colombian liner, Colombia, cruising down to Haiti.

Noticing on the passenger list that Dr. Brush was a Brooklynite we stopped in to speak to him and found out that by sailing and out of this harbor he is following a precedent started 316 years ago when his ancestors landed in Huntington in 1620. His grandfather, Conklin Brush, was a trustee of the village of Brooklyn and aided in getting the first public utilities in this section. We asked Dr. Brush, who was accompanied by his niece, Shirley Starbuck, why he was taking the cruise.

"Why stay at home?" he replied and we really can't think of any reason for doing so. Congratulations have been going around the waterfront this week to Hills Brothers, date importers, of 110 Washington Manhattan, for being awarded annual medal for having the best date packing plant in Mesopotamia. That seems like a long way off, but this firm imports a lot of America's dates and their ships compete every year in the date race from Iraq, on the Persian Gulf, to New York. This race is comparable to the old a grain race, from Australia to Europe, and the Hills ships have been consistent winners in the last few years. William McClure Funeral Monday Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Funeral services for William Sherman McClure, 69, of 1809 Albermarle Road, long active in the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, who died suddenly Friday of a heart attack, will be held Monday at 8 p.m.

in the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place. Burial will be in Phillipsburg, N. J. Mr. McClure, who was manager of the Merchants Indemnity Corporation of Manhattan, was stricken while a passenger on the Brighton Beach line of the T.

and was taken off the train at Prospect Park Station. He was dead on the arrival of an ambulance surgeon. He was a member of Nathan Hale Council, Jr. O. U.

A. and had been connected with the order for 45 years. He leaves his wife, Gertrude King McClure, and a daughter, Gladys McClure Hunter. M. Stavenhagen, Pawnbroker, Dies Martin Stavenhagen, 70, dean of the Brooklyn pawnbrokers, who was in business at 29 Woodhull for 55 years, died Friday at his home, 554 9th of pneumonia.

He was treasurer of the Brooklyn Pawnbrokers' Association. His wife, the late Bella Nathan Stavenhagen, was the daughter of the late Ernst Nathan, prominent borough Republican. Mr. Stavenhagen is survived by two daughters, Hortense Greenberg and Frances Wasserman, and two brothers, Millard and Samuel. Services will be held at 2 p.m.

tomorrow. EAGLE BUILDING Desirable office space at lowest rentals in Borough Hall section. Renting Agent ROOM 506 Capt. Walter L. McLean, who served many years as master of various yachts with several years' service in the navy during and after the World War, died yesterday in his home, 990 E.

17th after an illness of two weeks. Captain McLean was one of four brothers, all of whom became sea captains. They are Captains Bruce, Wren and William A. McLean. Capt.

Wren McLean is commodore of the Luckenbach Line. Born Cumberland Bay, New Brunswick. Captain McLean went to sea at an early age and was master of a sailing ship at the age of 23. He went from sail to steam and served 18 years as master of the Frederick W. Vanderbilt yacht Warrior, most palatial yacht of its time.

He once risked his life by staying with his ship when it went aground off Cape Augusta, Colombia, but came through safely. Leaves Vanderbilt Captain McLean left Vanderbilt shortly before the World War. He subsequently served on the Harry Payne Whitney and Thomas F. Cole yachts. The day after the United States entered the war, he joined the and became a commander of troop ships.

After the war he remained in the navy until about 1921 and became well known for his work in reconditioning interned German ships. Afterward he was master of several of the United States liners and more recently was captain of the yacht Sialiah, owned by Archie M. Andrews and formerly the property of Henry Ford. Captain McLean and his wife, Mrs. Margaret C.

McLean, who survives him, observed their 48th wedding anniversary last Christmas. For the first seven years of their marriage Mrs. McLean went to sea with her husband. A son, Walter R. McLean; grandson, Robert Ludlow McLean; three sisters, Mrs.

W. T. Snodgrass, Mrs. Frank Pierce and Mrs. William G.

Kilpatrick, and the three brothers also survive. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Fairchild Chapel, 88 Lefferts Place. William Spurge Reprinted from yesterday's late editions SONS. Smithtown, Feb.

22-Masonic funeral services for William Spurge, 85, retired hotel man of Smithtown, who died Friday in the Mantha Memorial Hospital, Port Jefferson, will be held at 2 p.m. in the home of E. L. Arthur, Sundays Smithtown Branch. Up to 15 years ago, when he retired, Mr.

Spurge owned the hotel which is now the Riverside de Inn. He was a member of the Northport Masonic Lodge. Surviving are two brothers, Warren H. and Addis E. Interment will be in Smithtown Cemetery.

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