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BROOKLYN EAGLE, WED DEC 18, 1946 I George Currie's That Diaper Shortage-It's Just Dreadful' they would send them in it would solve a real problem or us. We would not be, above taking donations for diaper service. This serv physical rare once the Infants ar placed. But placement today de pends on diapers. Summing up the situation, Misi Flower commented, "Isn't it terri" fit?" "Itmay seem like a funny situ ton material) the Children's Aid, Society is "not fussy" when it comes diapers.

They're sure that lots' ice would be a tremendous help to many faster mothers. A check for the diaper service for six months or a year would be a very good Christmas gift for a baby," Miss Flower said. Diapers or checks for diaper service can be sent to the foster homes department of the Brooklyn Chil ation, but it' not funny at all," Thelma K. Flower, director of case work services of the Brooklyn Children's Aid Society, said today, explaining why she and her case wokers are sending out "a desperate SOS call for diapers." Any one with a half-ounce of discernment in his makeup could of used diapers are neatly stored on closet shelves in homes where there are no longer Infants to be cared for. The call is to bring these diapers out of hiding.

1 According to Miss Flower, the! diaper shortage has been "acute" for a long time, but now "It's Just dreadful." In shopping around the society's workers have purchased dren's Aid Society, 72 Schermer-horn St. The "society's babies" are homeless. It's the society's job to supply clothing, medicine and necessities for these children. The foster parents are responsible for their OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 9:30 detect the amusement in Miss Flower's voice when she emphatically declared that any young fellow, fURKEY can be a problem, around Brooklyn. This I never A guessed until yesterday.

Having become Chef (that's boss) of the Brooklyn Society of Amateur Chefs, I discover I have run Into what might be called trouble. People are sending turkeys, dressed, as presents to their friends and don't seem to realize that a 35-lb. torn can be quite a problem, In a kitchenette. What to do with the monster? Tq be truthful, the local WAA station Is having ah office party, come next Tuesday afternoon. John Stack is chairman of the entertainment, and he has a turkey on order that certainly won't cook on a hamburger pan.

Don't waste any tears upon him. The turkey will toe what they could from Brooklyn and Manhattan stores, but the largest, whether he be aged 2 months or a year-and-a-half, "has got to have order that could be placed any-1 where was for nine dozen from a pants." Seven wards of the Children's SEASONED to lute PERFECTION Aid Society in that age category are In well baby wards of various hospitals awaiting placement, while I II ta- -n -w, ii i iii mmw.w foster parents are ready and anxious to take them in. But be cooked, in a very good oven, too. "For Gawds sake, don't say Where it will roast," pleaded my friend, who is undertaking pSjgf wholesale house. Up to now the diapers haven't been delivered.

I "We are very disturbed." said Mi.ss Flower "It seems terrible that; a thing so basic makes it impossible' for us to place youngsters. If we can't get diapers we can't; place the children." Alluding to the fact that embroidered, monogramed diapers in pink and blue can be bought for $24 a dozen, the society's repre-l sentatlve suggested that there was "something perverted" about di- verting the needed material into such extravagant items. 1 "A lot of people have diapers their children are not using. If; fore any change In domicile can be made the babies must have diapers. "I don't know how much you know about babies but there was one baby who was taken into a foster home where there were only three diapers," said Miss Flower, her voice trailing off as she 27 5 LIVINGSTON ST.

BROOKLYN 17 MAin 4-5170 THE HOUSE OF 93 HENRY ST. (Opp. St. Ctort, Hottl) MAin 5-371 told how at the end of an hour the entire diaper supply was exhausted. "Flannette" or "Birdseye" fa cot- w'rc Jjfi-i rJi ill I llrooUUjn Si ore Open Every Night This Week Til 9 Saturday 9:30 to 6 Garden City and Bay Shore Stores Open Hl 9 Monday thru Saturday Kula Slttt photo LONG "SHORT-SNORTER" A 50-foot chain of foreign bills, which ne claims is "the longest in the world," is exhibited by Maj.

Milton P. Lewis of the Army Recruiting Office in the Brooklyn Federal Building. this major kitchen operation. "Otherwise, we will have an Brooklyn Heights down upon our necks." I promised. Why I should write this I don't know, because when the Messrs.

Stack and Ryan and Donegan are biting into this turkey, Currie will be far away. Not one spoonful of dressing, will I have out of this super-duper bird. However, cooking; a turkey in a kitchenette does pose a perplexity. In the old days, you sent it around to the corner baker. Corner bakers are getting: scarce all over town, let alone Brooklyn Heights.

Sydney L. Gross, prexy of the Sun-Ray Bakers, at Steuben St. and Myrtle told me that he has, upon occasion roasted little suckling pigs In his ovens, for his friends. "Make sure you say friends," he insisted. "We have the heat on and it doesn't cost us anything.

But we can't have everybody come to us with a turkey present or a pig present. I am sure you will understand that. We bake bread and rolls and fruitcake, not birds and pigs." You can see how modern living has handcuffed ancient custom. Mr. C.

did find one shop which will cook the bird, though, at 83 Clark St. It is the King George Delicatessen, which has a sign pasted oh the outside of the window: "You order your turkey now. We'll roast your own." Ente 1 Mr. C. It was obvious that Mr.

Henry Schafer, with a 1. mop of silvery hair, thought I was an inspector of something, snooping in line of He was very busy with customers, who were ordering cold cuts, and potato salad. Harassed, he told me that if I ordered a turkey from him, it would be cooked for $2. So at least I can report that the job can be done, even if you don't know the friend of a friend of a chef. And his big yellow cat did me the honor of purring, the while it batted my hand off its neck with a paw.

But Mr. C. cannot help but wonder what local folks are going to do with their turkeys and suckling pigs all dolled up with red ribbon and sprays pf spruce, if they have only a kitchenette oven. The prospect makes a new tie for the glad Noel seem benign, or, speaking for Momma, another white birch log with narcissus bulbs In pebbles in its back, should seem a lot gladder. Sympathy-and Cash- Go to Tenement Victims of us.

At a time like this we should all stick together and show that we're all brothers," Joe said yes terday at the plant, 781 Kent Ave. Joe works in the Victory Barber Towel Supply Company, Inc. "Maybe I'm not a millionaire but I can always spare a little for those that need lt." That was the way Joe put as he contributed $5 to a campaign he and hts co-workers had "just And so every one from office clerks to laundresses went to the office of the manager, Max Oxnam to contribute. spontaneously" started for the Salvation Army emergency disaster re They proudly gathered around as Mr. Oxnam handed the total, $81, over to Envoy Thomas G.

Craig, borough representative of the Sal vation Army. lief fund. It will aid the victims of the Washington Heights tenement tragedy of last Thursday. Joe and the others in the plant A requiem mass for 14 of the 37 persons who died in the disaster was offered yesterday in St. Eliza had followed the tragic story with deep concern.

They saw pictures of beth's R. C. Church, Wadsworth Ave. and- 187th St. As on the first the tangled mass 01 wreckage wnicn buried the victims of the fire and thought with compassion of those day of services for the victims the church was crowded.

Final rites other victims the survivors who were held for five members of one family. Peter Sloane, his wife Madeline, and their three children, must carry with them always their memories of the horror. "It could have happened to any Rita, Louise and, Judith. Diver in Hell Gate TJAVING thus disposed of the turkey you may get from Santa Claus, out of Texas, or Vermont or Rhode Island, allow Mr. C.

to get back upon the subject of identification of former service men. Perhaps you recollect that one of our boys couldn't pass off his little photostatic copy of an honorable discharge, to prove that he was he, when one of the subway cops caught him stamping out a cigarette butt Hotel Fire Wardens Gropes 70 Minutes For Boat, 2 Bodies as he descended into the Borough Hall rabbit warren. Wallace E. Smith, 1st Sig. of 1555 E.

17th has even a more poignant tale to tell of identification. His crime was trying to get married, nearly four years ago. But let him tell it. "Upon applying for a license to wed and being asked for identification, I presented WDAGO, Form 65, Officer's Identification Card," he says. "You as an officer of World War Ambrose Heaton, 50, of 14 Green Way, New Hyde Park, a veteran diver with the anmy Engineer corps, established a record yesterday for the duration of a dive in the waters of Hell Gate, but failed to locate the army launch Mill Rock, which sank last Wednesday with its two occupants after a collision with a tugboat.

The lost men, whose bodies are believed to be near the wreckage, were Joseph Christopher, 19 know that possession of this card is irrefutable evidence of Proposed in Bill Every hotel In the city would be required to maintain a fire safety warden 24 hours a day under terms of a proposed ordinance introduced into the City Council by Majority Leader Joseph T. Sharkey, Brooklyn Democrat. The measure, Introduced yesterday afternoon, has been referred to the Council Committee on General Welfare. It would provide for a $1,000 fine for each violation. The fire safety wardens would have to obtain certificates of fitness from the Fire Department before being employed.

The wardens would be required to heep all fire equipment under inspection and to Instruct hotel employes In fireflghting. Mr. Sharkey said his bill was introduced as a basis of legislation to make all New York City hotels safe from fire. one's identity. "I was informed by the license clerk that the War De partment card was insufficient evidence in re: who I might be.

So I showed him a battered, outdated driver's license She skis? 1' She shales? She throws a wicked i Locscr's Aorlli Shop jfjf) (II lias exactly Jj0. thegiH Kb illf1 'PPy-ther X'W I I torth Conway she wants! fo ralu theM! r-'nr ft I ear-muffs! White only. 1.98 I 'I V'A I 2- Mm Ii' II our adorable rayon velveteen I I I An. 100 an in It I I i 1 I rirh a-cream black with Wf I i' embroidered Ji mil1 3' adjustable waist, ida III lipper. Bed.

red with blue, fl nalU S. Oxford pilot of the launch, FROM ANOTHER STATE, and this was readily accepted as and Joseph Barbieri, 26, of 22 King Manhattan, a deck hand. Mr. Heaton, who has had 24 years' experience as an army diver, came up after groping an hour and ten minutes In the inky darkness at the bottom of the East River to report that the object thought to have been the boat was only a large rock. According to J.

P. Groenen- dyke, chief of the river and harbor division of the New York office of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Strike Votes Sent To Tug Workers proof of my identity and age! "Needless to say, I was somewhat astonished to find that a driver's license, which I obtained merely by sending 50 cents to the State License Bureau, was considered by a city official to be better evidence of whether I was I than my War Department card, issued only after a thorough check of me, age, past activities, loyalty, etc. "Don't you think our City Fathers should brief the hired hands of law and order on identification forms?" Lieutenant Smith even mentioned that his identification card carried his picture. My friend, who was picked up for stamping out a cigarette, upon entering the subway, had the photostat of a thumbprint on his honorable discharge ticket. I have since been informed by the assorted civic agencies that they need "positive" identification.

None of them could tell me what was "positive." Sorry, my lads, it all seems to hinge upon the ideas of the individual bureaucrat. Mr. C. doubts if he could identify himself, say, this very day, to them. But I was married in 1919 and haven't yet been caught with a cigarette, in the subway.

Maybe I won't have to. previous record for a Hell uate mve was 45 minutes. Mr. Groenendyke said diving would be resumed -when the wreck age is definitely located with the use of a fathometer. Razor Firm Dines 25-Year Employes The annual dinner of the newly Strike ballots addressed to 2,600 tugboat workers were in the mail today.

The workers, because of a breakdown of negotiations yesterday, are asked whether they want to call a stoppage or submit their demands to arbitration. Union members are requested to return their ballots by Jan. 2 and the strike, if it ts called, will occur Jan. 4 or later. Last February a ten-day strike of the workers caused a critical shortage of fuel and oil and closed down the city's business activity for 18 hours.

A two-hour parley between the employer's group and Local 333 of the United Marine Division, A. F. L. International Longshoremen's Union, broke up with the union leadership refusing to submit the owners' proposals for approval. However, both sides signified their willingness to have the United organized 25 Year Club of the Ampnrnn Safetv Razor CorDoration of Brooklyn was held last night in Ughetta Heads Group In 1947 Boy Scout Drive the Park Central Hotel, in a speecn weelcoming the 94 employes eligible for membership in the group, Milton Dammann, president of the corpora tion, said tnat mucn oi tne success of the company could be attributed to the loyalty of the persons at the dinner.

He said that almost 5 per lawyers, Public Service Commissioner George A. Arkwrlght; phy sicians. Dr. Thurman Givan; dentists. Dr.

Eugene S. A. Manfridonia; optometrists, Dr. Paul Wildstein; States Conciliation Service step in; again and Commissioner Frank E. Walsh today was attempting toj arrange another meeting.

cent of the present nave been in the company's employ for a period averaging nearly 35 years and that of the more than 2,000 employes more than 35 percent were veterans of at least ten years serv- public officials, Borough Works Commissioner John J. Lynch; op ticians, J. Patrick Canfield; chiro Dr. Frederick L. Zinke Supreme Court Justice Henry L.

Ughetta has accepted the chairmanship of the Brooklyn professional division of the 1947 finance campaign of the Greater New York Boy Scouts, it was announced today by George A. Barnewall, president Of the Brooklyn Boy Scout council. Edward A. Richards, president of the East New York Savings Bank, is serving as general chairman of the Brooklyn drive. The professional division includes 14 sub-committees, covering a major portion of the borough's economic life.

The sub-committee chairmen nerving under Justice Ughetta are: architects, Adolph Goldberg; ac countants, Benjamin Wolkenbrod; advertising agencies, Howard Swain, managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle; dental mechanics and sup plies, V. J. Luongo; funeral direc tors and monuments, Joseph P. Glavin, and fraternal and social organizations, P. Campbell Brown, Religious material and prayer books for the three faiths will be available ali.

all times, Dr. Whitford Brother Fights Will Giving Half Million To Father Divine A court action seeking to invalidate the will of Mrs. Mary Sheldon Lyon, who left the bulk of a estate to two "Heavens" of Father Divine, Negro cultist, will be pressed in Surrogate's Court, Manhattan, Friday when beneficiaries and executors will be required to show cause why the will should not be thrown out because of "undue influence" allegedly exerted on Mrs. Lyon. She was 85 when she died last Oct.

10. One of the executors Is David Diamond, attorney of 66 Court Brooklyn. The will cut off Mrs. Lyon's nearest kin, her brother, Dr. William Hills Sheldon, now in Rome, with $500, and the show cause order was obtained by George J.

Regan, attorney for Dr. Sheldon. Mr. Lyon lived at 120 Cabrini Boulevard. said.

Herman Romlnger, first employed in 1897, is the oldest worker In point of service. Michael Bart, co-sales supervisor for the New York area, has a 45-year record in the sales department. Of the executive staff both Mr. Dammann and J. B.

de Mesquita, executive vice president, started together 40 years ago. Each member of the newly formed club was presented with a solid gold Tiffany watch by the corporation. Smuggler Keeps Freedom Until Day After Christmas Harry Bookstone, 40, a jeweler of 990 Aldus the Bronx, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of smuggling before Judge Robert A. Inch in Brooklyn Federal Court. The defendant was continued free In $1,000 bail to await sentencing Dec.

26. United States Attorney James D. Saver said outside of court that Bookstone Is alleged to have failed to pay United States customs tax on piece of jewelry valued at $3,384 which he brought Into this country from Brazil on July 1, last, Ministers present Included the Rev. J. P.

Joes of the Union Church of Bay Ridge, Dr. Charles L. Ozer, rabbi of the 9th Street Tern. North Srrontl floor Also at Loeier't-Garden City Y.M.C.A. Dedicates Interfaith Chapel In Prospect Branch The first inter-faith meditation chapel in the history of the Y.

M. C. A. was dedicated last night at the Prospect Park Branch of the Y. M.

C. A. in Brooklyn. Representatives of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths were present at the ceremony, which was presided over by Dr. Robert C.

Whitford, head of the committee which created the chapel, "to permit them to pray and meditate in a common chapel." pie, the Rev. Alger W. Geary, pastor of the Greenwood Baptist Church, and the Rev. Werner Jentsch of St. John's Lutheran Church.

Mrs. Helen Fazio represented the Roman Catholic Church. The sermon for the evening was delivered by Capt. Robert D. Workman, a U.

S. N. chaplain of the 3d Naval District. Brooklyn 1, IV. Y.

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