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or Deaths 1 Emma S. Berje, Christiana Bonney, E. B. Borjes, Edward G. Burns, Sarah F.

Conway, Ellen V. Cummings, A. R. Daly, Elizabeth De Lutio, J. Diehl, John H.

Faulkner, Anna Fisher, Charles Foos, Maud Grenner, Mary A. Haddow, John Hazeldine, G. W. Heffernan, Mary Henderson, Rose Henning, Else H. Holzmacher, Anna Hussey, William Jones, Jewett, C.

Ella H. M. Kelly, Mary M. Leary, Mabel A. Lindsay, Mary A.

Maurer, F. Merlin, George C. Neefus, Margaret North, Joanna J. Ostergren, C. M.

N. Pyke, Laura Quirk, Reilly, Christopher Schanbacher, F. Shute, Eliza A. of Sayville, L. on Thursday, May 25; beloved mother of Mrs.

Richard V. Thursby and William H. Averill, and grandmother of the Rev. Irvin G. Thursby.

Services Saturday, May 2 p.m., Raynor's Chapel, Sayville, Long Island. BERJE- 1 beloved (nee wife FackCHRISTIANA lamm), on May 25, the late George, and devoted mother of Margaret Field, Katherine ser and Herman Berje; grandmother of four granddaughters and two great-granddaughters. Services Benson's Funeral Home, 83-12 Parsons Boulevard, Jamaica, Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Interment following Lutheran Cemetery. BONNEY-ELIZABETH of Rock wood Avenue, Baldwin, Thursday, 1944, beloved wife of John devoted mother of Ellen Pvt.

John P. Reposing at Weigand Funeral Home, 24 South Grand Avenue. Baldwin. Services Sunday. 3 p.m.

Funeral Wood Monday, 2 p.m. Interment Green- Cemetery. BORJES EDWARD, Thursday, May beloved husband of Catharine Borjes (nee Gutting); brother of Mrs. Anna Foerschner and Charles Borjes. Service at the Fairchild Chapel, 31 164th Street, Jamaics, Saturday, at 8 p.m.

Interment Cypress Hills Cemetery Sunday at 3:30 p.m. BROOKLYN LODGE, NO. B. P. Elks-Brothers: Funeral service for brother, JOHN DIEHL.

Friday, May 26.0 9 p.m., his residence. 57 Grove Street. ANTHONY DeFRONZO, Exalted Ruler. Thomas F. cuite, Secretary.

BURNS--On May 25, 1944, SARAH beloved mother of Grace Peschka, Andariese, Margaret Roberts, Sally Shanahan, Catherine Sheehan Irene Fitzpatrick. Funeral from Darraugh's Funeral Home, 8813 5th Avenue, Monday. Solemn Church, 10 requiem a.m. manterment Patrick's Holy Cross Cemetery. CONWAY-ELLEN at residence, 277 Gates Avenue, beloved wife William also survived by three sisters, Catherine, M.

Esau, Sister Maria S. S. Gertrude A. Kerrigan. at the Chapel, 187 South Oxposing ford Street.

Solemn requiem mass at the Nativity R. C. Church. a.m., Saturday. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.

Directors John T. Kenny, Inc. CUMMINGS-The Rev. ARTHUR beloved husband Kathryn father of Arthur R. Kathryn George W.

and Anne brother of George W. Cummings; suddenly, May 25. 1944, at his home, 85-01 118th Street. Celebration of Holy Communion, Saturday, May 9 a.m., and the burial office, a.m., the Church of the Resurrection, 118th Street and 85th Avenue, Richmond Hill. L.

I. Interment Green- Wood Cemetery. DALY-ELIZABETH, May 24, mother Mrs. John Nolan, William and John; also survived six grandchildren four greatgrandchildren. Reposing at Chapel of McCourt and Trudden.

130-02 Liberty Avenue, Richmond Hill. emn requiem mass at St. Teresa's Church, 10 a.m.. Saturday. Interment St.

John's Cemetery. DE LUTIO-JOSEPHINE, on May 25, 1944. at her home, 67 Duffield Street, beloved mother of Jeffery, Gasper. Anthony, Louis. Arthur, Mrs.

John Buglioli, Mrs. Tedaldi and Mrs. Julia Guagliardo. Funeral from her home Monday. Requiem mass, St.

James Cathedral, 10 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. FAULKNER-ANNA (nee Mechler) of 609 Onderdonk Avenue, Ridgewood, in her 41st year. vived by her husband, Daniel her father, Valentine Mechler; brothers, Sgt. Valentine Mechler U.

S. Army, and Pfc. Vincent Mechler. U. S.

Army; two sisters, Louise and Rose Mechler. Funeral Monday, 9:30 a.m., from the Chapel Charles Morton, 578 Onderdonk Avenue; thence to St. Aloysius Church, Onderdonk Avenue Stockholm Street. where a requiem mass will be celebrated. Interment St.

John's FISHER-On May 24, CHARLES, beloved brother of Mrs. Mary Moniot, Helen and Elizabeth Fisher. Reposing at 519 Clinton Avenue til Saturday morning. Ebbers-Hill, Directors. FOOS--MAUD oll Thursday.

May 25, 1944, of 117 Meadbrook Road, Garden City. L. beloved wife of Col. John W. Foos; mother of Caldwell Mrs.

Donald Donaldson, Mrs. John Haffey. Service at her residence, Sunday, at 8 GRENNER-On May 25. 1944. MARY AGNES, beloved wife of late Conrad Grenner; devoted mother of Angela and May.

posing at her residence, 675 Decatur Street. Solemn requiem Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Monday, 10 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. J. J.

Gallagher Sons, Directors. HADDOW-On May 24, 1944. JOHN, beloved father of Margaret B. Hislop, Elizabeth Scott, Mary Peetz. Thomas James D.

Robert dear brother of MacLean, Annie Dieffenbach, nes Heaton, Katherine Kimmerle, Robert B. and Thomas eight grandohildren and two greatgrandchildren. Masonic services his residence. 27 Fuller Place, Brooklyn, Friday, 9 p.m., by Eagle Lodge, No. 53, F.

A.M., Jersey City, N. J. Religious services Saturday, 2 p.m. Interment Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen, N. Read Sunday's Sermons in Monday's BROOKLYN EAGLE HAZELDINE -GEORGE w.

years, dear father George and Frank. gervices. at George Werst Chapel, 71-41 Cooper Avenue, Saturday, 8 p.m. HEFFERNAN-On May 25, 1944. MARY A.

HEFFERNAN, beloved wife of Commissioner William J. Heffernan; devoted sister of Mrs. Edward J. Raleigh and Thomas E. Lynch; aunt of Mrs.

J. Meehan and Captain E. J. Raleigh, U. S.

A. Funeral from her residence, 554 60th Street, on Monday, May 29, at 10:30 a.m. Solemn requiem mass Our Lady of Perpetual Help R. C. Church.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. -ROSE on May 24, 1944, devoted aunt of August G. Henderson. Member of Kings Coun.ty Hospital Nurses Alumni Association. Funeral from Walter B.

Funeral Home, 50 7th Avenue, Brooklyn. Requiem mass Boniface C. Church, Saturday, 9 Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. HENNING-On May 25, in her 57th year, ELSE H. (nee Rauer), beloved wife of the late George Henning.

and dear mother of Ruth, George Robert and Theodore Henning. Funeral, her residence. Sunservices, ass day, May 28. at 4:30 p.m. Interment Evergreens Cemetery, Monday a.m., private.

George H. Klages, Director. HOLZMACHER-ANNA E. (nee 5 Sullivan), on May 1944, beloved wife of the late Theodore; devoted mother of Theodore, Joseph, Anna Kiernan and Margaret McGrath: of Bridget Halter and Helen Murphy. Funeral from her home, 1672 E.

53d Street, Brooklyn. Solemn requiem mass Saturday, 8:30 a.m.. at the Church of Mary Queen of Heaven, Avenue and E. 57th Street. Interment St.

Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y. Cooper Street. Requiem mass Monday, 9:30 a.m., St. Martin of Tours 1 Church.

Interment St. John's Ceme- -May 25. WILLIAM, beloved husband of Mary; father of William, Arthur, John, Francis. Robert and Mary; at his residence, 173 tery. Joseph J.

Galligan, Director. JEWETT-ELLA on May 25, 1944, at the home of her dear son, Albert F. Jewett. 86-84 Palo Alto Avenue, Hollis; beloved widow of the late Dr. Frederic A.

Jewett of Brooklyn. Funeral at the Quenzer Hollis Funeral Home. Hillside Aveat 187th Place, Hollis, Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Gerard of Majella R.

C. Church, Hollis, 10 a.m. JONES -C. H. unexpectedly on May 25, in his fifty-eighth year.

home Montvale, J. Services will held at Universal be" Chapel, 597 Lexington Avenue, New City, Friday, May 26, at 8 p.m. Funeral Saturday, 2 p.m., private. KELLY MARY M. (nee Brennan), on May 24, beloved wife of Howard mother of Pic.

John U. S. Army; Margaret Langlois, Seaman Arthur U. S. Navy; sister of Catherine Connor, Helen Dempsey and Edward Brennan.

Reposing at Funeral Home, 187 S. Oxford Street. Requiem mass Saturday, May 27, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 10 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. LEARY-On May 24.

1944, MABEL beloved mother of Mrs. Frank Benitz and Mrs. Ralph Hocker, and sister of Benjamin Bates. Reposing at J. J.

Gallagher Sons Funeral Home. 25 Aberdeen Street. Service Friday at 8:30 p.m. Interment Saturday, 2 p.m., Cypress Hills Cemetery. LINDSAY-MARY on May 25.

beloved widow of John devoted mother of Mae, Mrs. Joseph Madden, Mrs. William Altrenter, Edward, John, Howard, William, Vincent and Sgt. Warren, U. S.

A. Funeral from Martin's Funeral Parlor, Springfield Boulevard and Hollis Avenue, Queens Village, on Monday, at 9:30 a.m.: thence to Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Requiem mass 10 a.m. Interment Calvary. MAURER-FREDERICK.

of 101 Canton Court. Gerrittsen Beach, beloved brother of August, Amelia. William and Emma Carpenter. Services at E. C.

Waldeck's Home for Funerals, 7614 4th Avenue, Saturday, 2 p.m. MERLIN On May 24, 1944. GEORGE beloved husband K. Estelle and father of the late Gladys E. Merlin.

Services at the George W. Pease Son Funeral Home, 437 Nostrand Avenue, at Hancock Street. Saturday, May 27, at 2 p.m. NEEFUS-MARGARET, at her home, Main Road, Laurel, L. May 24, 1944, beloved wife of Frank B.

Neefus and mother of Hope V. Richardson and J. Furman Neefus: Sister of Mrs. William V. Perry and Mrs.

Edith Fisher. Funeral services at her home. Friday evening, May 26.8 o'clock. Interment Green- Wood Cemetery Saturday, May 27, 12 noon. NORTH JOANNA suddenly.

on May 24. 1944. of Garden City. Long Island. Services at the Fairchild Chapel.

86 Lefferts Place. Saturday at 2 p.m. OSTERGREN May 24. 1944. CHARLOTTE M.

NORTON of 412 73d Street, wife of the late A. Henry: beloved mother of Mrs. Ednah D. Sandford: dear sister of Ai S. and George A.

Norton. Services at E. C. Waldeck Home for Funerals, 7614 4th Avenue. Friday evening, 8:30.

PYKE-LAURA, May 24. beloved I mother of Allen and Victor and sister of and Enock Burgess. Augusta McRae. Julia Wood, Grace Killan and Mary Burke. Reposing at E.

F. Higgins Funeral Home, 1285 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn. Funeral services Friday, 8 p.m QUIRK-CECILE after a long illness at Roosevelt Hospital. posing at Columbus Circle Chapel, 43 W. 60th Street, New York City.

Requiem mass Paulist Fathers' Church, Saturday 9 a.m. Interment Montreal, Canada. -S Sgt. CHRISTOPHER J. of 1804 Church Avenue, killed in action April 29, 1944; beloved son of Christopher and Blanche Reilly and brother of Mary Rita Condit and Katherine Fahey, and nephew of Sister Mary Stella and Catherine Dore.

Requiem mass Holy Cross Church, Church and Rogers Avenues, on Saturday, May 27, at 10 a.m. at REV. A. R. CUMMINGS DIES; Charles M.

Burt, EPISCOPAL RECTOR IN QUEENS Greenport Leader The Rev. Arthur Rowland mings, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection. Richmond Hill, died yesterday at the rectory, 8501 118th St. He was chairman of the examining board of chaplains of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. Bishop James P.

De Wolfe of the Long Island Episcopal Diocese will conduct funeral services at the church at 11 a.m. tomorrow. assisted by the Right Rev. James I. Blair Larned, Suffragan Bishop of Long Island.

Burial will be in Green- Wood Cemetery. Mr. Cummings born in Brooklyn 57 years ago, was graduated from Cornell in 1909, earned his M.A. at Columbia in 1914. He was graduated from the General Theo- Rites Tomorrow For Lt.

Corroon Garden City, May 26-A solemn m355 of requiem for Lt. j.g.) James F. Corroon 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. James F.

Corroon of 25 Rockaway Road, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Joseph's R. C. Church.

Lieutenant Corroon who was a member of the night flying squadron stationed at Charlestown. R. was reported missing in the cresh of a navy plane in the Cape Co1 area last Thursday night. Lieutenant Corroon was born April 19, 1919, in Freeport, and at tended Canterbury School and Yale University. He was a member of the original navy flying unit of Yale, made up of 16 students.

and received most of his training at Pensacola Fla. He received his wings in 1942 in Miami. Mrs. Heffernan, Church Leader Mrs. Mary A.

Heffernan, wife of Commissioner of Elections William J. Heffernan, Democratic leader of the 7th A. died yesterday at her home. 554 60th after several months' illness. A lifelong resident of the borough, Mrs.

Heffernan was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Lynch. She had long been prominent in Catholic parish and benevolent activities and was a life member Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor and of the Auxiliary of St.

John's College, a member of the Ladies of Charity of the Immaculate Conception Day Nursery and of Villa De Sales. She also was active in the various women's organizations of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 5th Ave. and 59th where a solemn mass of requiem will be offered Monday at 11 a.m. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Besides her husband.

a former State Senator who has been active in Democratic politics for more than 35 years, Mrs. Heffernan is survived a sister, Mrs. Edward J. Raleigh; a brother. Thomas E.

Lynch; a niece, Mrs. J. Ross Meehan, and a nephew, Capt. ward J. Raleigh, U.

S. Army Air Service, stationed at Morrison Field. West Palm Beach. Fla. C.H.M.

Jones, Aide Todd President Montvale. N. May 26 (U.P.) -FuIneral services will be held in New York tonight for C. H. M.

Jones 38, assistant to the president of Todd Shipyards Corporation. who as a newspaperman in 1915 was credited with the first to get the story on the torpedoing of the LuBurial will be tomorrow. Mr. Jones, who joined the Todd organization in 1919, died at his home yesterday. He was in charge of personnel and public relations for Che corporation.

Born in England, he began his newspaper career in London and in Now York worked for the Journal of Commerce, the New York American and other Hearst organizations and the City News Association. He was known to newspapermen as "Casey" Jones. Surviving are his widow. Mrs. Wanna Jones; three sisters, Mrs.

M. J. Bluman of Buenos Aires, Miss Edith Jones and Mrs. Fred A. Cocks, both of Southampton, England, and a nephew, the Rev.

M. T. Shepperd of Hankow, China. Louis Alphonse Heutte Huntington, May 26-Louis Alphonse Heutte, 80, a former resident of Huntington for 20 years, died May 16 in Norfolk, the home of his son, Frederick, of Parks in that city. He was born in Kibeuf, Surviving, besides Frederick.

are his widow, Minnie Heutte: another son, Rene, in France. and three brothers, Alphonse, Joseph and Raymond. Deaths SCHANBACHER FREDERICK. 011 May 25, 1944, aged 68 years, dear other of Howard; grandfather of Ruth and Carol Ann; brother of Emma Schoening. Service Sunday, 8 p.m.

at George Werst Funeral Home. Hart Street, corner Evergreen Avenue. Funeral Monday, 1:15 p.m. Interment Evergreens Cemetery. Member of Long Island Council 173, R.

A. CHUTE--Of 84 Park Street, Montclair, N. on Thursday, May 25 1944, ELIZA beloved sister ct Mrs. A. W.

Simpson. Mrs. Martha W. Pinckney and Mrs. Emma L.

Cobb. Services at The Fane of Meayer Lundquist. 107 Valley Road, Montclair, Monday, May 29 2 p.m. Interment Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.

23irtbdap Remembrance GUNN-MARY E. Birthday remembrance of a dear wife and mother. Masses offered. HUSBAND, SON and DAUGHTERS In Memoriam -In loving memory of MATTHEW V. O'MALLEY.

May 26, 1931. BROOKLYN EAGLE, FRI, MAY 26, 1944 11 Telling It Briefly logical Seminary in 1915 was ordained a priest in 1916. He bezan his work as a missionary in Sheepshead Bay and went to Richmond Hill in 1921. In addition to being on the chaplains examining board of the diocese, he was trustee of the General logical Seminary, a trustee of the Estate of the Long Island Diocese. member of the Diocesan Standing Committee.

chairman of Selective Service Board 279. former president of Richmond Hill Clerical Union. member of the Brooklyn Clerical Club, Phi Kappa Tsi, and the Long Island Alumni, General Theological Seminary. Surviving are his widow. Mrs.

Kathryn Cummings; two sons, Pvt. Arthur R. and George two daughters, Kathryn and A Anne; and a brother. George W. of Brooklyn.

A solemn mass of requiem for the Rev. Francis X. Connor, C. M. professor of languages at St.

John's University, will be offered tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the Church of St. John the Baptist, adjacent to St. John's University. His brother, the Rev.

Henry J. Connor, of St. Vincent's Mission House, Springfield, will be the celebrant. The Rev. Frederick J.

Russell, professor of history at St. John's, will deliver the eulogy. Father Connor died Wednesday in St. Mary's Hospital. Burial will be in St.

John's College, Princeton, N. J. John J. Walsh, 71, Spanish War Vet John J. Walsh, plumbing contractor and Spanish War veteran, who was long a leader in Queens political circles, died Wednesday in the United States Veterans Hospital, the Bronx.

He was 71 and lived at 35-50 160th Flushing. A native of Manhattan, he tended public schools there and was graduated from City College. He saw service in the Spanish- American War and many years ago organized the Mohawk Democratic Club in Flushing, becoming its first president. He also was a founder of the Broadway Country Club and helped to start the Beechhurst Democratic Club, of which he was first president. Mr.

Walsh, who was active in the affairs of St. Andrew's R. C. Church for many years, was a former auditor of the Public Service Commission and a former superintendent of garages for the Queens Borough President's office. Surviving are his widow.

Mrs. Catherine Walsh. and three daughters, Mrs. Gertrude T. English, Eleanor and Catherine Walsh.

Eliza A. Shutz, 88, Teacher 52 Years Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Montclair, N. May 26-Eliza A. Shutz, retired Brooklyn public school teacher, died yesterday in her home, 84 Park at the age of 83. Born in Mount Vernon.

N. Miss Shutz lived most of her life in Brooklyn, where for 52 years she taught at Public School 26. She retired in 1926 and since 1931 has lived here with her sister, Mrs. A. W.

Simpson. Also surviving other sisters, Mrs. Martha W. Pinckney of Brooklyn and Mrs. Emma L.

Cobb of Queens Village, Queens. A. Dr. Walter T. Marvin New Brunswick, N.

May 26--- Dr. Walter Taylor Marvin, 72. dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University since 1925 and a member of the faculty for 34 years, died today at Middlesex Hospital. He suffered a heart attack in his office at the university yesterdav. Dr.

Marvin announced his voluntary retirement. effective June 30. at a meeting of the faculty of the college May 17. He was acting president of Rutgers University from June 30, 1924, until Oct. 5, 1925.

Greenport, May 26-Charles Monroe Burt, prominent in philanthropic and civic work in Greenport for many years, died yesterday in Eastern Long Island Hospital. Mr. Burt was president of Burt Coal, Inc. He was member of the Greenport Board of Education from 1923 to 1942, when he declined renomination because of ill health. From 1935 to the end of his career with the board he was its president.

He was a member of Greenport Methodist Church and of the Empire Council, Junior Order U. A. M. Surviving are his widow. Mrs.

Katherine Burt, and a son. Otis, who is in business with his father. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Horton Funeral Home. Mrs.

Emma Averill, Sayville Resident Mrs. Emma Smith Averill, 84, of 200. Greene Sayville, descendant of the founders of Smithtown, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Richard V. Thursby, 331 E.

18th St. Besides her daughter, Mrs. Averill is survived by son, William H. of W. Smith of Sayville Sayville, and two brothers, Charles Smith of Islip.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Raynor's Memorial Chapel, Sayville. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Sayville. Simon Baumann Rites Conducted Freeport, May 26-Funeral sgervices for Simon Baumann, 82, head of furniture stores in Astoria, Hempstead. Jersey City and Freeport, and a former banker, who died Tuesday, were held yesterday at his home.

64 S. Ocean Ave. The Rev. B. Leon Hurwitz, rabbi of Temple B'nai Israel, of which Mr.

Baumann was founder, officiated. Baumann, a native of Strasbourg, France, came to the United States at an early age, opening his first store when 19, and continuing in that line for 63 years. Mr. Baumann is survived by three sons, Leo, William and Jerome, all associated with him in the furniture business. Burial was in Mount Hebron Cemetery.

Eagle Staff photo PROBED Window at fire escape which is being investigated because it was blocked, according to deputy fire chief. Three Die in Fire In Williamsburg Continued from Page 1 head and head injuries when he jumped from a second story window. He wa staken to Cumberland Hos- pital. Owner's Relative Hurt Another casualty was Michael Hauptman, 50, a relative of the owner of the factory, who was cut on the hand while trying to escape from the second floor. Firemen carried him down a ladder to safety and he was treated at the scene.

After going over the wrecked interior, Deputy Fire Chief Edward Conway said that an investigation would be made in connection with a fire escape leading from a secondfloor window. The escape had not been used by any of those trying to flee from the place. Deputy Chief Conway said that he had observed that a heavy machine had been placed close to the window. The factory owner estimated total fire and water damage to be approximately $100.000. The company manufactures pillows and cushions and is said to have Government contracts.

Mrs. Billings Heads Louis Rossi, 76, New Church Group Bakelite Official Mrs. George M. Billings was elected president of the recently formed Brooklyn Council of Church Women at the first meeting of the new organization today in Plymouth Church House. Other officers appointed were Mrs.

Edwards L. Cleaveland, first vice president; Mrs. Phillips P. Elliott, second vice president; Dr. Margaret Underhill.

third vice president; Mrs. William Haldenwang, recording secretary; Mrs. T. Washburn, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Cyrus Wilson, treasurer, and Mrs.

Donald Decker, assistant treasurer. Those named to serve on the board of directors include Mrs. Roscoe C. Henderson, representing the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Mrs. Orrin R.

Judd, Baptist; Mrs. Garrett V. S. Ryerson, Congregationalist; Mrs. Hugh D.

Darsie, Disciples of Christ; Mrs. Martin Paul Luther, Dutch Reformed; Mrs. William Howard Melish, Episcopalian; Mrs. Philip J. Anstedt, Evangelical and Reformed; Miss Emily Kneemeyer, Lutheran; Dr.

Margaret Underhill, Methodist; Mrs. Edwards L. Cleaveland, Presbyterian; Mrs. Cyrus Wilson, Quaker (Friends); Mrs. Carl T.

Washburn, Swedenborgain; Mrs. Ford Dunn, Unitarian; Mrs. William F. hall, Universalist; Mrs. Frederick M.

Briggs, World Day of Prayer; Mrs. Edward B. Hart, Daily Vacation Bible Schools; Mrs. Thomas E. Haines.

English House Committee; Mrs. Phillips P. Elliott. May Day Fellowship, and Mrs. John Weinstein, Protestant Day (Week for the Blind).

Members at Large include F. A. Chappelle, Mrs. L. Wendell Fifield, Mrs.

Maude G. Johnson, Mrs. Moses H. Lovell, Mrs. Edwin P.

Maynard, a Mrs. Herbert T. Miller, Mrs. Louis W. R.

Mernahan and Miss Emma Jessie Ogg. Mrs. Matilda Bowen Huntington, May 26-A solemn requiem mass will be offered at St. Patrick's R. C.

Church tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. for Mrs. Matilda Bowen, who died Tuesday night at her W. Main St. home.

The Rev. Thomas F. Murray will officiate. Burial will be in West Neck Catholic Cemetery. She was born Oct.

5, 1871, daughter of James and Catherine Carroll, and was the widow of Bowen. Surviving are a daughter, Helen R. Bowen of Huntington, and three sons, John and Frank of Huntington and Clarence, in the U. S. Army.

T. H. Hughes, School Official Queens, Author of Textbooks Thomas H. Hughes, 59, assistant superintendent of schools of three districts in Queens and the author of several textbooks on geography and history, died yesterday at Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica. He lived at 83-09 Talbot Kew Gardens.

A native of Manhattan, he was ducated at City College, graduating in 1906 with a B. S. degree. He beran teaching in the public schools the same year and in 1912 was appointed an English teacher at Morris High School, the Bronx. Later he became assistant principal of P.

S. 32 in that borough and in 1920 he was appointed principal of P. S. 112 in Brooklyn. He was made principal of Junior High School 57, the Bronx, in 1935 HARRY T.

PYLE MORTUARY, INC EST. 1897 Our Funerals Start at $150 You Determine the Cost All Funerals Given a a a a a Dignified Service 1905 Church Ave. BUekminster 2-0174-0175 Continued from Page 2-PLATOON FIRE SYSTEM TO START HERE Brooklyn and Queens firemen will start on the twoplatoon system June 1, according to orders issued by Fire Commissioner Walsh. Firemen in these boroughs are now working on a three-platoon system. Commissioner Walsh said the change, which will affect the 1,000 firemen in these boroughs, is necessary because of the "impending Summer activity" at Coney Island, the Rockaways and other resorts.

COPS HUNT PUP WHICH BIT THREE CHILDREN If you see a shaggy, light brown puppy wearing no collar and bearing no identification marks, police request that you notify the Board of Health, so that the dog may be examined for rabies. The puppy, last seen in the neighborhood of Schenectady Ave. and President has bitten three children, including a 16-month-old baby. BOY, 17, CHARGED WITH FALSE FIRE ALARMS A 17-year-old boy who told Magistrate Hockert in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court that he often worked between 12 and 14 hours a day helping to clean out ship boilers was held in bail of $500 for a hearing in Brooklyn Adolescent Court on a charge of turning in a false fire alarm. The boy, Raymond Avifsata of 481 Henry was said to be responsible for turning in four false alarms last night.

Avifsata was arrested at Columbia and De Graw Sts. by Capt. William Neilan of Engine Company 203 as he was about to turn in a fifth alarm, according to Neilan. Union Chief Raps Shipyards Waste about 20.000 men on their payrolls They sometimes send their men into regular yards and the shipyard men find the subcontractor's men are getting more pay than they are in addition to traveling time. It shatters the morale of regular yard employes." At yesterday's hearing, several War Shipping Administration inspectors testified that loafing, payroll padding, gambling and labor hoarding were prevalent in at least three Brooklyn shipyards.

The inspectors 236 fellow workers who to represented. prevent suspension of their jobs next Wednesday. Will Ask For Probe After hearing portions of the timony, Representative Henry M. Jackson, Wash.) announced he would ask the Justice Department to investigate 'and seek criminal actions against the concerns, which include the Todd Shipyards Brooklyn Division, the Mercantile Ship Repair Company and the McNulty Shipyards, all of Brooklyn, and Bethlehem Steel's Hoboken Division. According to John S.

Kirk, one of the nine inspectors who testified. work sleeping at the was Mercantile part of yards the on day's the days he visited the plant. On one day, said, he found from 50 75 men of a 230-man repair crew sound asleep, and the next day saw at least 100 men of a 300-man gang asleep. He protested. he said.

and the shipyard operator "reduced the grand total of men by 30." But, added, he was threatened with bodily harm on several occasions for making his reports. yard When concern Jackson would asked if the shipmuch more money on a cost-plus "make tha basis" by employing too many men, Kirk answered, "Yes." 32 Men on One Job Carl R. Stern, another of the inspectors, said he found a total 32 pipefitters at work on one job for five days on a ship in the McNulty yards. The entire job, he said, could have been done in far less time with fewer men. At the Todd yards, according Bernard Rosen, he watched a 15- hour loading of fuel and ammunition aboard a troopship, during which time no welding or burning was permitted because of fire danger.

Yet, he testified, the day's cost sheet showed operation of 10 welding machines and services of eight welders and several burners during the loading period. He said he was offered the explanation that the skilled men were hauling cable, but he said such highly skilled labor never was used for ordinary laboring jobs. Robert M. Lennon, whose ship perience includes a hitch in Seabees a and work for two shipyards before the war, told of a search through a merchant vessel in Bethlehem Hoboken yard for weeks before he found a gambling den where 100 men were in a crap game. There also were several card games going on in the same section of the ship, he said.

Reperts On Gambling "I reported the games to my but InterestingA series of facts sponsored occasionally by William Dunigan Son A carpenter's hip is the ridge where the two sloping planes of a roof come together plumber's elbow is a right angled pipe joint The inside mar gin of the pages of book. where they are bound, is called the gutter The solid portion of the earth is known as the lithosphere. WILLIAM DUNIGAN SON Funeral Directors DeKALB AVE. ROGERS AVE. MONTGOMERY ST.

Tel. MAin 2-1155 Continued from Page 1 PUBLIC NOTICES BOARD OF ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 100 Broome Street. New York 13. N.

Y. May 9th. 1944. Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 81 of the Election Law notice is hereby given of a Special Election to be held on the 6th day of June, 1944. to fill the vacancy in the office of Rep.

resentative in Congresg for the Fourth Congressional District of the State of New York. in accordance with the Proclamation issued by the Governor of the State of New York, dated the 4th day of May in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. S. HOWARD COHEN. DAVID B.

COSTUMA. WILLIAM J. HEFFERNAN. JOHN R. CREWS.

Commissioners of Elections. m12-4t TRADEMARK "CONTINENTAL UNDERGARMENT CO. 38 Sixth Avenue. BrookLyn, N. has filed with the Secretary of State of New York its trade-mark CUTEES for underwear for women misses and m15-21t fice at 39 Broadway." he testified.

"but the condition continued. They just moved the dice game to another part of the ship and I was unable to locate it again." Lennon also produced the man of the year-a foreman in the Bethlehem yard whose timesheet showed he 20 hours a day for seven days straight, collecting $246 for the week. Lennon expressed his doubt of the accuracy of the sheet with the remark that it "seemed a physical impossibility." The inspectors testified during the subcommittee's inquiry to determine if their jobs should be eliminated. All those testifying held their had saved the Government $10,000.000 000 in ship repair costs and that inspectors in shipyards were necessary to efficiency. Representative Louis J.

Capozzoli, Manhattan Democrat and chairman of the subcommittee pointed out that the navy employs between and 19.000 men for the same work on few. ships, while the WSA's present personnel is only 430. He urged the WSA staff be increased to at least 1,500. Loafing Case Submitted There was no mention during the day's hearings of charges of loafing and gambling in the Bethlehem Steel yards in Brooklyn, but it is known that the allegations of a Bethlehem employe before Magistrate Charles Solomon in Bay Ridge Court, over-staffed recently have that been the yard brought was to the attention of the subcommittee. The Bethlehem employe had told Solomon that bets on horse races were taken during working hours.

that men appeared for work in the morning and were not seen any more until time to check out and that he had been threatened when laid off an "employe for gambling. Mansfield Rossi, native of Flushing, where he was born 76 years ago, died last night in the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He was vice president and director of the Bakelite Corporation in charge well as head of mansfacturingin panies. He joined the General Bakelite Company in 1910. In 1923.

when the company changed its name, he was advanced to the vice presidency. Educated at Columbia University School of Mines, he was graduated in 1899 and worked for the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company before going to the National Fireproofing Company. A former member of the Perth Amboy Board of Education and City Planning Commission, he took part in many Catholic activities and was member of numerous technical So societies. gan, died survived His wife, the former. LanAgnes, by one son, Thomas Langan Rossi.

and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Meacham. His home was at 135 Rector Perth Amboy, N. J. Brooklyn Firms Declare Quarterly Distributions Brillo Manufacturing Company, declared dividend of 25 cents on common.

and regular quarterly dividend of 50 cents on Class both payable 1 to record June 15. Same amount was paid on common April 1. On July 1, last year, 20 cents was paid. Bush Terminal Company declared regular quarterly dividend of $1.50 on preferred, payable July 1 to record June 16. THE WEATHER Officoal Weather Report of the U.

S. Weather Bureau. MAY 26. 1944 FORECAST This afternoon mostly cloudy. occasional rain or drizzle, moderate temperatures, highest 63 to 68.

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BROOKLYN. N. Y. NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals covering Construetion and Electric Work for Alterations in Basement. Third Separate Battalion Armory.

801 Dean Street, Brooklyn. N. Y. in accordance with Specification No. 11.817 and accompanying drawings.

will be received by the Adjutant General. Division of Military and Naval Affairs, 112 State Street. Albany. N. until 3 o'clock p.m.

(Eastern War Time) on Thursday, June 8. 1944. when they will be publicly opened and read. This shall supersede the previous advertisement. Proposals shall be accompanied by a certified check made payable to the State of New York.

Division of the Treasury, or money deposit of of the amount of the bid. Successful bidder will be required to give a bond conditioned for the faithful performance of the contract and A separate bond for the payment of laborers and materialmen, each bond in the sum of of the amount of the contract on contract in excess of $500.00. Corporations submitting proposals shall be authorized to do business in the State of New York. Drawings and specification may be examined free of charge at the following offices: State Architect, State Office Building. New York.

N. Y. State Architect, State Office Building, Albany, N. Y. Third Battalion Armory, 801 Dean Street.

Brooklyn, N. Y. Drawings and specifications may be obtained from the State Architect. State Office Building. Albany.

Y. upon deposit of $5.00 for each set. Proposal blanks and envelopes will be furnished without charge. If a proposal is duly submitted by any person or corporation -making the deposit for plans specification and such proposal is, accompanied by the required, the certified check of or other sefull amount such deposit for one copy of the plans and specification shall be returned to such person or corporation if the copy of the plans and specification used by such person corporation is returned in good condition to the State Architect. State Office Building, Albany.

N. within thirty days following the award of the contract or the rejection of the bids. Fifty per cent. reimbursement will he made for the return of all other copies of the plans and specification in good condition within thirty davs following the award of the contract or the rejection of the bids. Dated.

May 17, 1944..