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A3 BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, TTT3 Judge Avenges Death City Gets Formal Title To B.M.T. Properties Last of $1 47,000,000 in Bonds Paid-Haskell to 'Make Best of Bad Bargains' Ceremonies marking the formal transfer to the city of title to the B. M. Q. T.

properties and final payment of $147,000,000 In city bonds to security holders were held at vAs Firemen Mourn I 1 Mrf V- Gives 30 Days to False Alarm Ringer As Witnesses Prepare for Pal's Funeral City Hall at noon yesterday. At the same time, Transit Com "The firemen who are here as witnesses are anxious to i get away to attend a funeral," said Patrolman Edward J. Hill in Weekend Court yesterday. Willie Harris, Negro, 29, of 1397 Fulton St. interrupted to plead guilty to turning in a false fire alarm at Tompkins Ave.

and Fulton St. at 5 a.m. yesterday. "It's the funeral of a fireman who was killed a few days ago answering a false alarm," Hill added. Magistrate Blancnfield said he would do his part to discourage the practice which endangers the lives of firemen.

He sentenced Harris to 30 days in jail without the alternative of a fine. his associates for having conducted the negotiations "with lovalty, Integrity and devotion to the interests of Jie city." The Mayor then thanked Mr. Dahl and his associates for their patience and hard work and paid tribute to Chairman William G. B'ullen of the Transit Commission and his associates for their cooperation. No Market Movements The Mayor pointed out that his gratitude represented "something more than the usual thanks because of the long drawn-out bitterness between Transit Commission and the city" and that although he had sought abolition of the commission he had realized there was only one thing to do and that was to co-operate.

The Mayor recalled that the Wld World photo irl i --w; Victim Takes Obliging Bandit Enoh of Irvingrcn, has Cot 1(1 Q'lAcx trt I I Vt 1 i lIMW WMII I come the honor of being color girl this year at Annapolis. Two men drove down washing-1 On June 4, she will transfer ton Manhattan yesterday after-! i noon, headed for the nearest sub- ithe Academy colors to the way keeping of the Second Com- one was an aqrroable holdup steal Mnu tnr novf Monr Pnk man who had promised to Raffle Staff Dhoto only $300 worth of jewelry from his missioner Reuben L. Haskell served notice that despite his opposition to the unification plan he would, as compelled by his oath of office, "help enforce these contracts and endeavor to make the best of bad The ceremonies took place in the Council Chamber, in the presence of Mayor La Guardia, other city officials, members of the Transit Commission, representatives of the B. M. T.

lines and security holders. Although; Commissioner Haskell made no comment at the ceremonies, he issued a printed release with reference to the formal closing of the transaction. Seeg Fare Raise Threat "On- June 27, 1939, and on August 29, I Kted against the B. M. Q.

T. unification plan and the Interborough and Manhattan Transit Systems unification plan, and filed dissenting opinions giving my te statement declared. "Contracts of unification having been signed, realed and delivered pursuant to the directions of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment am the Transit Commission, it is obligatory on my part to comply with the provisions of these contracts despite my adherence to my opinions that these unification contracts are unsound because of the exorbitant prices to be paid and the threatened annihilation of the five-cent fare. "I am compelled now by my oath of office to help enforce these contracts nnd endeavor to make the best of bad bargains." Final Payment Made The document closing the transaction between the city and the B. M.

T. officials and stock and bondholders for acquisition of the was chosen by William Croft of Aiken, S. corn- victim, leaving him with $410 in in return for the ririe to ihe Three blocks away the cops cornered the fugitive behind a on the roof of 52 Barrow St. He said he was Salvatore Guiffre, 23. of 391 Montauk Ave.

At the Charles St. station. Manhattan, he was charged with felonious assault, robbery and vlo'a-t ion of the Sullivan law. Wachtler said Guiffre boarded his car when he stopped for a red light at Washington and Clarkson Sts. He said he pleaded that the $410 represented collections, that he wasn't bonded and the jewelry was insured.

Wachtler works for the Fair Jewelers, 156 E. 34th Manhattan. PROFESSION OF FAITH Auxiliary Bishop Raymond A. Kearney of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn administers Sacrqment of Confirmation to one of a class of 300 boys and girls at ceremony held yesterday at Our Lady of Charity Church, Dean St. and Schenectady as the Rev.

Stephen Cottone, right, pastor of the church, assists. Father' Cottone is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his ordination. mender of the Second Com-, subway- At Hudson the victim. Max pony, when his regiment won wachtler. 38.

a jewelrv salesman. the inter-regimental competi- tion for the honor. sighted a radio car and the deal was off. He yelled, attracted the attention of Patrolmen Patrick Magner and Michafl Morrissey. and the bandit bolted without the jewelry.

Mayor Renames Kern, Ends Ouster Rumors Municipal Civil Service Head, Under Fire Of Council, Starts Second 6-Year Term Wolkof Calls Off Feud With Carney In the 17th A. D. Assemblyman Moritt Doing Well, Won't Be Cily Takes Over All But Six ol B. M. T.

Officials Addison, Frederickson Retained, But Menden, President, Isn't Included California Grape Growers Begin Battling Insects Fresno, Cal. (U.B An early Spring growing season and prospects of plentiful irrigation water indicate substantial crops in Cali room In which they were meeting was that in which, in 1852, the franchite was granted for the first horse ars on Broadway, He said that "ntver in the history of the nation had a merger of such magnitude been accomplished without some movement in the stock ticker" and the fact that there had been no fluctuation in the market in the long negotiations leading to the transaction was "a tribute to the integrity of all concerned." He also thanked John H. Delaney, chairman of the Board of Transportation, for his "calm and unassuming counsel during the negotiations" and pointed out that at one minute after midnight today the city would actually take over the lines. Asked later about the possibility of removing the trolley lines now operatlnf along Fulton the Mayor said the subject was "a matter of divided opinion" between himself and engineers now studying the proolem and that it would have to be worked out. He remarked that now that the Fulton St.

elevated structure was about to come down it "seemed a pity" to leave the trolley lines on Fulton but that some of the "long haul" trolleys would have to be left in service for the time being. Following the ceremonies the directors of three B. M.T. subsidiaries, the Williamsburg Power Company, the South Brooklyn Railway Company and the New York Rapid Transit Company, met to resign their directorships and four city officials were named temporary directors fov the purpose of dissolving the companies. i subway, elevated and surface lines was presented to the Mayor and to I officials of the company and rep- resentatives of the security holders I for their respective signatures by Chester E.

Cuthell, special counsel on trans.it unification to the Transit Commission. At the same time the final payment of $147,000,000 In city I bonds was formally handed over to tain potency. A specially con- structed spraying machine wafts a fine spray of the solution upward on the vine. The spray would be applied before the crop sets to avoid staining the fruit. Heavy, early Spring rains forced olive growers to await dry ground'; in their orchards before the Spring olive tree pruning began.

The dense shade of the trees, which are so large their branches Intertwine across the rows, made the drying' a slow process. Knots Are Menare Olive growers are extremely cau-' tious in pruning trees during continued wet periods. Fresh cuts on' the trees during wet seasons enable olive knots to form, the' growers explained. Growers in the Delano district have escaped this blight. However, it has been re-" ported within 50 miles of the Del--ano district.

Horticulturists, farm advisers" and farmers have been unable to determine the cause of olive One theory holds the knots are started by seeds carried by birds. Horticulturists hold the knot in the same class as pear blight. Growers have treated the olivs knot by excising the knot and sterilizing the wound to prevent other infection. Olive pruning in the Delano dis- ministration of the civil service commission, of which Alfred E. Smith Jr.

is chairman, had completed its study. Rumors that Kern would resign or be replaced have been current for some time. The council's investigation is based on charges of alleged favoritism, radical tendencies and general mismanagement of the commission's affairs. Commissioner Kern is 32, was born at Ann Arbor, educated at Columbia Law School, where he later taught, and was formerly an assistant corporation counsel by appointment by Mayor LaGuardia. In August, 1936, he was made a member of the Civil Service Commission and was named president on Jan.

1, 1938. He lives at 41 Central Park West, Manhattan, and is a member the American Labor Party. Paul J. Kern, youthful president of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, and currently the target of an investigation by a special City Council committee, was reappointed and sworn in by Mayor LaGuardia at City Hall yesterday to a second term of six years at an annual salary of $8,500. The Mayor made no comment on the delay in the reappointment.

Kern's term expired Friday and no word was forthcoming at the time from the Mayor as to the possibility of reappointing the incumbent or naming a successor. Ends Rumors of Resignation The Mayor's silence on the subject had inspired rumors to the effect that the post might be left open until the special City Council committee investigating Kern's ad The city's acquisition of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit. Corporation system, which became effective last night, included the transfer of all except about six employes of the B. M. executive offices, it was learned at the offices of the Board of Transportation.

Among those entering the city service are James Addison, former B. M. T. controller, who becomes general auditor, and Joseph A. Frederickson.

who is named as assistant secretary in the Board of Transportation. The board's offices explained that while the B. M. operating force becomes part of the city system, there was no complete information available as to the exact number of executive office employes who were concerned in the transfer. B.

M. T. officials for distribution to the security holders. Gerhard Dahl, chairman of the board of the B. M.

made a brief speech pointing out that the transfer was the "consummation of one of the most difficult financial problems in the business world" and paid tribute to the Mayor and fornia's fertile San Joaquin Valley as farmers and fruit growers begin their annual battle with a crop of destructive infects. The pruning of thousands of acres of grapevines In the grape-growing districts has been completed. Owners conducted a campaign to control cutworms in their vineyards. Many of the growers have applied insect repellents to their vines to starve the cutworm army. The young cutworms lie dormant during the Winter months but regain appetites and activity when green shoots appear on the vines.

Pest Successfully Trapped A sticky repellent has been successful in trapping the worm as it attempted to crawl across the treated area at the vine base. Growers said sucker vine shoots would be removed from the vines when the new vine shoots were six to eight inches long. Pyrepheum oil spraying is beiun at that time. This spray is used to control leaf hoppers and is applied to kill the over-Winter brood before thpy would hatch eggs to develop during the Summer. Pyrepheum 'oil spray is made from an oil pressed from South American and Asiatic flowers and may be highly diluted and still re Swing of 10 Boro Delegates To Willkie Claimed, Denied xr-asnn.

Unlike eranevine Druninc- By JOSEUH H. SCHMALACKEB olive trees cannot be shredded because of the wood hardness. The larce limbs are trimmed and saved- fnr firpwood. Boro Plans Gala Fete For Fathers at Fair Thousands Will Honor Dad June 16 As Entire Nation Celebrates HIS Day When the third Sunday in June rolls around, June 16 to be exact, Father's Day will again be observed from coast to coast. Locally the celebration will be held at the American Common at the World's Fair with a number of prominent Brooklynites, headed by Harry Marcus, manager of Sears, Roebuck I resourcefulness and stalwart ehar- A small number of B.

M. main office employes decided upon retirement, it was said. The chief executive official who was not included in the shift, it i was said, was William S. Menden. the B.

M. T. president and veteran railroad official, who began his ca- reer as a rodman nearly 50 years ago at Chicago. Mr. Menden became the chief operating official of the old B.

R. T. in 1919 when he took over the du-! ties of the then retiring president. Col. Timothy S.

Williams. first that it was "too absurd" to warrant comment. "The Kings County delegation is split wide open and 10 of the delegates have told us," Mr. Babcock said, "they will support Willkie after a first complimentary ballot for Dewey to conform with the pledge made by John R. Crews, Kings leader." Mr.

Babcock said the committee was concentrating in winning delegate support for Mr. Willkie among the Kings G. O. P. "Our work is entirely voluntary and we have no campaign fund, except such money as may be contributed toward our expenses of operation by Willkie enthusiasts," he said.

Opposed, He Decides Amicable political relations were restored yesterday between the Carney Wolkof Democratic groups in the 17th A. D. The factional strife, which began when Harry Wolkof, clerk of the 2d district Municipal Court, sought to overthrow the leadership of Stephen J. Carney, ended conclusively when Wolkof announced that hostilities would not be extended into the Fall party primary. Although Carney decisively' defeated Wolkof In the April primaries for the district leadership, the contest left Carney's supporter, Assemblyman Fred G.

Moritt, facing the threat of a primary fight for renomination at the hands of Woi-kof's supporters. After meeting at his headquarters, 478 Gates with his campaign supporters, including Norman R. Silver, his campaign manager, Wolkof announced that, in the Interest of party harmony, the threatened contest against Moritt would be dropped. "After having gone over Assemblyman Moritt's record and the bills he introduced at Albany," Wolkof said, "I am satisfied that he has undertaken to do much good for the people of the district. He originally sponsored the proposal to allow the State to derive the benefit of hundreds of thousands of dollars in unclaimed insurance funds.

"At a time, such as the present, there is no room for factional differences within the party. Under the leadership of Frank V. Kelly, the Democratic party of Brooklyn has made great forward strides. The future assures still greater progress." Queens Telephone Decision Upheld In a three-to-two decision, the Public Service commission after a rehearing affirmed its previous ruling to drop the Richmond Hill exchange of the New York Telephone Company. The second hearing was given at the request of the Richmond Hill Board of Trade and other complainants, who charged that loss Of business will result from the change.

Objectors to the plan also pointed out a considerable sentimental attachment to the name Richmond Hill. Commissioner George R. Van Namee, who wrote the original decision to drop the exchange and transfer the subscribers to another central office, found there was nothing new In the complaints to warrant a change of opinion. He was upheld by Commissioners Neal Brewster and Maurice C. Burritt.

Chairman Milo R. Maltbie and A swing to Wendell L. Willkie for President after a first ballot vote for Thomas E. Dewey by 10 of Brooklyn's 16 Republican convention delegates was claimed and immediately contradicted last night. The claim was made by Charles J.

Babcock, chairman of the Brooklyn Willkie-for-President committee, with headquarters at the Hotel Towers. Babcock's assertion was promptly challenged by John R. Crews, the Republican county leader and one of the main backers of the Presidential drive for District Attorney Dewey. "The claim Is ridiculous," Chairman Crews said, after declaring at 1,1 1 1 1 ,1 1 1,1 I 11 ii'IiIIlI'IiI (lij if. ill.

nil fl rT I if il'r'J I lir1 MS kl LOOtMNGDALB'S Sky Greenhouse I ft acter, in a word to see him rise, step by step, to the dignity and rugged stature of a man, makes every day a Father's Day. And the same may be said for a daughter. To see the unfolding grace not only of physical beauty but the finer grace of gentleness, good manners and true womanliness gives a father a great inner pride." Dr. WaJton added that "fathers do not desire effusive sentiment and are embarrasfed by emotional pyrotechnics." Committee Members Among the active members of the National Father's Day Committee are Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, Mrs.

John Philip Sousa, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. William B. Bank-head, Mrs. Eddie Rickenbacker, Mrs.

E. T. Stotesbury. Mrs. George E.

Ruppert, Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett and Miss Anna Case, The Brooklyn Father's Day Committee includes Irving Jacobson of Wallach's, Edward Amster of Weber Heilbroner, Marvin M. Friedman of John David. R. E.

Blum of Abraham Straus. Frjd Zeitz of Martin's, Maj. Benjamin Namm of Namm's, Henry Modell Modell's Sporting Goods and Joseph P. Day of Manhattan Beach. lime to plant" GARDEN CLEARANCE Limited Quantities 1.

EVERBLOOMING ROSEBUSHES will be in charge of activities. Borough President Cashmere is honorary chairman. As chairman of Brooklyn's Father's Day Committee, Mr. Marcus yesterday urged a wider observance of the day which was begun in 1910 by Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane, in honor of her father who had raised tev-eral motherless children.

Not 'Forgotten Man' 'Fathers," Mr. Marcus ooserved. "have long suffered in comparative silence while many jokes have been made at their expense; even when humorists have gone so far as to call him the 'forgotten That he is not, the 'forgotten man' is shown by the ever increasing importance of Father's Day throughout the country. "The training for good citizenship begins in the home. Here it Is that the father can set an example of loyalty, honesty and kindness during the Impressionable years of a child's life.

Only in this way can the ideals of our democratic form of government be perpetuated and made safe from the destructive forces that today are seeking to undermine our free institutions." Thousands Expected Father's Day this year should take on added significance to both parents and children alike because it is recognition to those who "have made us a great people and a great nation," he said. Complete plans for the expected to be attended by thousands of Brooklynites. will be announced shortly. Dr. Alfred Grant Walton, pastor of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, whose voice is heard over the coast to coast facilities of the National Broadcasting Company on the "Call to Youth" series sponsored by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America, declared yesterday in connection with the coming celebration: "To watch a son grow stronger daily in body and mind, to have him develop ambition, alertness, topper white or pastels summer in sugar cooling Natural Bridge White Shoes 1 yf Span the gap between i VV fe-fl style and comfort with 1 these exceptional tV A "VELETA," tmirt while kiri i "LISA." Trim ffrk, 1 white calf lit.

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tall 100 fnr 1.69 AGRICULTURAL LIME Sweetens our soil 100 lbs. for 1.19 EXHIBITION DAHLIAS Our best varieties miitil 12 .69 TUBEROSES Double sweet scrntfi, white 12 fir .29 BARBERRY HEDGES Red beiries 10 fnr .69 SCOTCH PEAT MOSS 2 im. for .98 SCREENED POTTING SOIL Prepared 1 bit. fnr .89 HARDY WATER LILIES hi.r, vellow strong root, leaves, flowers 8 fnr .98 FLOWERING TREE COMBINATION 2 Rosr of Shnroti, 2 Hourrtnij Crah I Smoke Trcr. All 5 to 6 ft.

tall 5 fnr .98 GARDENIA PLANT 2 -J ft. nil. Rudded, flowering. Roots balled in soil. each .69 2 1,29 I 'i 7a mid 'rt 'i Commissioner George R.

Lunn found the complaining subscribers i were "entirely reasonable." Prisoner With Experience Offers to Fingerprint Self Bethlehem, June 1 (JP) Taken to the detective bureau for Boxy and young in light-as-fluff wool in sugar white, blue heaven, shrimp pink or eggshell. I Navy Mothers Form Boro Club I Mothers of navy men have organ-! ized the Brooklyn Navy Mothers I Club as a unit of a national organization, according to a recent announcement, and will hold their next meeting next Wednesday, June 5, at the Navy Yard Y. M. C. 167 I Sands St.

I The group now has about 60 mem-ibers. Officers are Mrs. Gussie Sil-jverfine, commander; Mrs. Helen in fingerprinting, a Negro prisoner told Capt. C.

E. Smith; "Man, I'se been fingerprinted in ev'ry city in dls heah country and I can do it ma'self." He drew a 10-day sentence for panhandling and disorderly conduct and another set of Order by moil or phone TRiongle 5-2435 janegryant fyrooldyn 15 Honover Place, oH Fulton fs'l TH lor f-i- StMrsii- Mail and phone nrders jtllfd fnr .00 mnrr SEVENTH FLOOR LEXINGTON ot 59rh VO. 5-5900 Schocn, first vice commander; Mrs. Lucy Kinnear, second vice commander; Mrs. Anna Sessa, adjutant; Mrs.

Margaret Munson. financial secretary; Mrs. Barbar Steifox, chaplain; Mrs. Wilhelmina Pringle, judge advocate; Mrs. Marie Reubor, ma- tron of arms; Mrs.

Gertrude Gal-lager and Mrs. Monica Crolkshank, color bearers; Mrs. Margaret Ken-nan, Mrs. Anna Nelson tnd Mrs I nnctx nf i.on'l "It's in Abrnhnm Strnus Bnsrm-nt Pnirv In Hnns nit X'ttnK 1 Low Elizabeth Swanson, trustee..