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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 3

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BROOKLYN EAGLE, TUESDAY, JUNE '-0 WOMAN'S DEATH iDuryea May Be Freed In Bail After 26 Years Judge Martin Orders Writ Prepared 'fVC! Hid For Supervised Release of Alleged Killer County Judge George W. Martin granted a motion today which may permit 69-year-old Chester B. Duryea to be released In ball for the first time In more than 26 years. Duryea Ls under indictment In the murder of his father. li a tendency among tlKm toward some kind of agreement to permit an early ballot nomination in th party's national convention convening Monday.

i Nomination of a dark horse candidate such as Willkie, Gov. John W. Brlcker of Ohio or former President Hoover appears now to be possible only if the convention encounters a series of deadlock ballots. Dewey took the first pre-conven-tion week trick yesterday when Herbert K. Hyde, resolutions committee member from Oklahoma and a strong Dewey partisan, was elected temporary platform committee chairman by acclamation.

Hyde was boosted into the chairmanship by former Gov. Alf M. Landon, Kansas, the Republican Presidential candidate in 1938, Brig. Gen. Hiram Duryea, Civil War- RAISES TOLL IN AIR CRASH TO 12 Burns Fatal to Housewife Probe Possible Sabotage In Collision of Bombers The death toll in the crash of two United States Army bombers yesterday in quiet, residential Belle-rose rase to 12 today when Mrs.

Emily Kraft of 239-23 87th died in Queens General Hospital at 3:40 a.m. of burns received when one of the plummeting planes set her house afire. Meanwhile, Army officials at Mitchel Field presied an investigation to determine the cause of the crash, which killed all members of both crews, consisting of 11 officers and men. Although no details were revealed, it was understood that the possibility of sabotage waa being examined. Four bombers were flying in formation when one of them dipped and locked wings with another, both diving Instantly to earth.

A second investigation also will be carried out by the office of Queens District Attorney Charles P. Sullivan, he declared. In preparation for this, an assistant will sit In at meetings of the army board of inquiry into the crash, the prosecutor revealed. Meanwhile, Capt. James Fogarty of the Queens homicide squad and Lt.

Ralph Trotter, in charge of Queens Village Dlamonds-lewelry-Silverware THE PRESIDENT DECLARED WAR, SAYS DR. FRANK Charlottesville Speech Termed Unauthorized, Informal Call to Fight Philadelphia, June 18 J) Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican party's program committee, today accused President Roosevelt of making an unauthorized "informal declaration of war" in his recent Charlottesville, speech pledging material resources to the Allies. Frank told Republican platform drafters that the Roosevelt Administration has fashioned its foreijn policy at least in part to funher Its pollical ends at home. "Millions of both parties in this country are distrustful of this administration that proceeds on its own hook to assume responsibilities In Europe that Congress has not authorized," he said.

Members of the Republican resolutions committee, getting down to work on the platform to be submitted to the nationa konvention next week, vigorously applauded Frank's statements. Dewey Off to Good Start District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination is off to a good start today in a wide-open race notable at the moment for indications of a siop-Willkie movement. The spectacular last-minute com-palgn of Wendell L. Willkie.

Commonwealth and Southern Utilities executive, has alarmed some of the 1 party's veteran leaders and there veteran, in the Duryea home irf Bay Ridge at 120 85th on May 5, 1914. Taken Into custody then, he was committed to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. After a prolonged hearing last March, Supreme Ccurt Justice Iiee Parsons Davis in White Plains ruled that he was sufficiently sane to stand trial. The Attorney General's office started an appeal from that decision, but Duryea, meanwhile, was brought to Brooklyn to await trial. Would be Supervised His attorney, James D.

C. Murray, moved today before Judge Martin that the long-sleeping indictment be dismissed for lack of prosecution or that his client be freed in bail. Judge Martin declined to dismiss the bill but directed Murray and Assistant District Attorney Vincent Keough to prepare an order under which Duryea might be released in $10,000 bail under a form of mild medlcnl supervision to guard against possible mental lapse. PM Makes Debut On the Newsstands PM. the new afternoon and Sunday taolcid newspaper, appeared on the newsstands today.

The 32-page paper carries no advertising and news is departmentalized. It is the first daily to be started in New York in 16 years. Ralph Ingjrsoll, formerly of Time magazine, is editor. PM will publish Monday through Fridays and on Sundays. Today's first edition was about half pictures.

The front page headline was based on the Hitler-Mussolini, meeting at Munich. Inside was a letter from President Roosevelt welcoming PM "to New Yoik and lo the American scene." Several pages, Including the front cover, were printed in reddish-brown and black. One department is devoted to summarizing the information givn in advertisements printed in other New York newspapers. Ster infl Wedding; gifta and always acceptable. Sandwich Platei, as hown, with plain ar pierced borders, from $10.

Other gifts in Sterling, from S3. ar ifl MiouJm (fen nl lardy ini aaraa! MMettMM, hM II. detectives, were placed in charge of I i presently massed around the wreck- licemen were on duty there vester- a police Wide World photo SCENE TO BE RE-ENACTED? Bismarck of Germany, the Iron Chancellor (right), and Napoleon III of France pictured in conference the morning after the Battle of Sedan, 69 years ago, when France was brought to her knees by the victorious Reich. In 187) France agreed to terms imposed by Bismarck and a treaty was signed in the famous palace of Versailles. age.

The 11 flyers, however, were i day afternoon and last night, bevond aid. A detail of ten policemen under A rim coincidence was noted in n.Wise Son 2S8 Livingston Street a sergeant was on duty today in i the airplane accident In Tulsa, the vicinity of the two wrecked yesterday, in many details homes, keeping crowds from swarm- like that in Queens, in which two ing over nearby lawns and shrubbery planes were wrecked and three lives to view the wreckage. Twenty po- lost. tOOKtYN The army board, headed by MaJ. Jack C.

Hodgson, held its first session somewhere on Mitchel Field and called nine persona for questioningsix army fliers and two civilian eyewitnesses. The fliers, who were in the two bombing planes which did not crash, were Lts. Leroy L. Stefono-vlcz, Camden W. Lane, Robert S.

Lippincott, James O. Ellis, Roy E. Robinson and Robert F. Schermer. The civilians were A.

L. Soder-green of 131 Allenwood Road; R. T. Watson of 18 Middle Neck Road, U. S.

Acts to Void Citizenship Of 100 Germans, Italians 1 both Great Neck, and Joseph Cameron of 218-17 94th Road, Queens Village. Victim in Terrible Fain Mrs. Kraft, who was 35, was taken to Creedmoor State Hospital and For the most part they were instituted on complaints which set forth that the defendant had obtained his American citizenship through fraudulent representation as to length of residence, manner of arrival here or non-passession of a criminal record. Today 's American citizenship cancellation petitions set forth the following HBINRICH EMMBR. formerly of 1724 Hlmrod Si.

Naturalised I'eb. 2, 1934; returned to Germany September, 1937. Slsned canMllatloiv consent rridavlt before Vice Consul Francis Lan In Bremen on Feb. 20. loan.

i then removed, at noon yesterday, to Queens General Hospital. There lt was said that she was In terrible Is that each Is predicated on an attached affidavit by the affected German or Italian consenting to the voiding of his certificate of American citizenship. Each is sworn to before the American consul stationed nearest the individual's home. "Such consents," Mr. Seigel said, "simplify the cancellation.

Their attachment enables the court to grant the petitions on their presentation, without any need for serving the affected German or Italian or for conducting hearings. The judge in the motion part simply reads the petition and consent affidavit and signs an order voiding the naturalization certificate." Few Filed Previously Prior to the current activity, consultation of the court docket discloses, naturalization cancellations averaged from half a dozen to a dozen a month, and few were based on consent, affidavits. The filing In Brooklyn Federal Court today of petitions to void the American citizenship of four Germans and an Italian disclosed that such action had been taken during the past three months against- "approximately 100" Germans and Italians who returned to their native lands. While conceding that the num-her of these proceedings is unusual, Assistant Federal Attorney Morris K. Seigel asserted that it was in no sense a drive directed by Washington as a result of the current European conflagration.

"The number is unusually large," Mr. Siegel nid, "because they nave been permitted to accumulate while other matters occupied our time. But recently Mr. Kennedy (United States Attorney Harold Kennedy) directed that they be brought up to date, and they are- about so now." A. novel feature about the cases ERIC HARTLAUB.

formerly of 82 Wilson Boulevard ieiip. Naturalized July 20, returned to uermany in De al r.ember, 1937. Slsned affidavit Prankfort-on-Maln Nov. 19. 1939 pain while doctors waged the hopeless fight to save her life.

She was alone on the second floor of the small home she and her husband, Otto, had bought only two months ago, making the beds, when gasoline flames set her home and her clothes on fire. The two children, Helen, 12, and Ruth, 10, were on the way to school. The home was completely destroyed. Col. Douglas B.

Netherwood, commanding officer of Mitchel Field, sent a letter of condolence to Mr. Kraft today on the tragic death of his wife, Student pilots were believed at HERMAN OSTBR, formerly of 5632 Myrtle Ave. Naturalized Aui. 20, 1033; returned to Germany in January, 1939. Signed affidavit at Bremen March 11, 1940.

JACOB ROES, formerly of Brooklyn. Naturalized March 20. 1886; returned to Germany June, 1888. signed affidavit at Bremen March 4. 1940.

COSINO TROS1NO, formerly of Brooklyn. Naturalized In Illinois Aug. 8, 1918; returned to Italy In October, 1920. Signed affidavit In Naples. (Signed with the of one who cannot write and undated.

kf fa i tne controls Because tne purpose of the flight was to train them in maneuvers involving change of po-i sition in the formation, but none survived to tell what actually went Harry Revel Indicted On Passport Charges I South Africa Sends Force i To Mozambique Border I London, June 18 M5) The South African Government has sent a "small military force" to Komarti- on in the ill-fated planes. Eyewitnesses on the ground described the two planes, as they locked wings and then broke away, as "a ball of flame," presently enveloped in smoke. From then until the moment they struck the ground, each of the ill-fated planes ap poort, eastern Transvaal, along the border of Portuguese-owned Mozambique, as a "precautionary measure," it was reported here today. It was emphasized that relations between the Union of South Africa and Mozambique remain "most friendly and co-operative." peared like a meteorite shooting earthward. Twenty-three fire alarms were sent in by residents in the neighborhood who saw the tragedy, and fire engines in large numbers French liner Normandie in June, 1936.

Specifically, it was charged that he gave the "false" name of Revel Instead of his actual name, Glaser, and that he asserted he was born in New York, while actually he was born in London. His brother also is accused of using a false name and with claiming to have been born here while Riga, Latvia, was his birthplace. Edward Freidlander and Benjamin Lawrence were charged with taking money from the Revels on the promise to fix papers that would prove the Revels' contentions of name and birthplace. Lawrence, it was stated by Federal authorities today, has since committed suicide. Harry Revel, popular song writer, was indicted today by a Federal grand jury In Manhattan on charges of attempting to obtain a passport by fraudulent means, Two other men were previously indicted for grand larceny in connection with the case.

Sealed indictments against Revel, member of the team of Gordon and Revel, which wrote many best sellers for stage and screen, and Revel's brother, William, were opened by Judge William Bondy. The song writer is alleged to have used a passport which he obtained fraudulently when he returned to this country aboard the GRJ OBOE) CalL on our Second Floor of our higher priced SUMMERTIME FROCKS want mojm tlMl to enjoy your favorite sport? 'l Why not do your marketing and shopping by tel- TT!" M- ephone, and use the time you save to get out and '4 nlav? WAmm TLhft fihnn hv te ennone acree tnat tvere 16.95 to 35.00 See us for top allowance on your old car. Drive this great, new De Soto, built by the Chrysler Corporation DE LUXE COUPE DE LUXE SEDAN '845l'905 Delliered at rierroit. Michigan. Federal taxe Included.

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