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to to as THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918. DANIELS CONSIDERS U. RESOLUTION Writes He Has Referred Navy Yard Dry Zone Matter to R.

P. Fosdick. COUNTY CONVENTION ENDS. Publication of German Papers Opposed- -Want Military Rank for Nurses. Kings County W.

C. T. U. received a letter from Secretary of the Daniels yesterday afternoon the closing session of its thirty-fifth annual convention in the New York Avenue M. Church acknowledging the receipt of a resolution favoring the establishment of a five-mile dry zone about the Navy Yard.

He wrote that he had referred the matter Raymond P. Fosdick for investigation and continued: "I am greatly interested in the moral welfare of our young men tioned in the vicinity of New York and the matter about which you write is having the most careful consideration." The association went on record opposing the publication of German newspapers or literature of any sort. Other resolutions asked that military rank: be accorded Red Cross nurses; that Paul Chapman be not executed, but put into a reformatory, and that the study of the Bible be put back into the public schools. All women were urged to enroll for the primaries so they will be in a position to support men favoring prohibition at the primaries next September. Closely allied to this was a resolution which urged the women to send men to Albany who will stand in back of their ratification campaign.

The president, Mrs. W. W. Wicks, announced that since the Democratic platform was not contemplating a dry all prohibitionistsshould get behind' the 1 Republicans and urge them to adopt such a plank, of and thousands promising them the port of white ribbon members throughout the State. A last resolution named The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as the Brooklyn paper through which they preferred to have the information concerning their work and progress given to the The resolutions were placed under the charge of Mrs.

J. R. Strachan. An address on "Prohibition Throughout the State" was given by Mrs. L.

M. De Silva, corresponding secretary of the New York State W. C. T. U.

The reports of the county superintendents followed. Mrs. M. F. Johnson reviewed the current history of the prohibition amendment.

She told of the strides made by prohibitionists everywhere since the beginning of the war. Co-operation with missionary socie-97, ties, the special task assigned to Mrs. A. P. Rowlandson, was reported on, followed by a short address on "Child Welfare" by Mrs.

W. H. Park, who took issue with the people who say juvenile crime is on the increase. She quoted several Judges to prove her contention. What 1s being done to' Americanize foreigners was discussed Mrs.

E. L. Hoyt, evangelistic work by Mrs. M. M.

Rogers, and flower, mission and relief work, by Miss E. Pink. An interesting report on rescue work for girls was sent in by Mrs. R. C.

Talbot-Perkins, who has been instrumental in returning hundreds of girls to their homes or of finding decent employment for them in the city. Preceding the appointment of new county superintendents, Miss Mabel Van Wagner sang a solo. It was voted to adopt a French orphan and the first month's expenses were raised immediately. The following county officials were reinstalled: Work Soldiers, Mrs. M.

C. Ings; Work Work Among Among Railroad Sailors, Mrs. E. P. Elliott; and Firemen, Mrs.

J. W. Potter: Tice; Hospital Temperance and Homes, Literature, Mrs. Mrs. A.

1. G. T. Medical Temperance, Dr. C.

H. Wooley; Sabbath Anti-Narcotics, School Mrs. Mrs. B. F.

Williams: Work, R. L. Jones; Jail, M. Mrs. F.

William Stonehill; Current Topics, Mrs. Johnson; Co-operation with Missionary Societies, Miss A. P. Rowlandson: Child Welfare, Mrs. W.

H. Park; Americanization, Mrs. E. L. Hoyt: Evangelistic, Mrs.

M. M. Rogers; Flower Mission and Relief, Miss E. Pink; Sabbath Observance. Mrs.

R. B. Hull: Rescue Work for Girls, Mrs. R. C.

Talbot-Perking; Medal Contests, Miss E. Birkett; Social Meetings and Red Letter Days, Mrs. E. L. Hoyt; Presentation of White Ribbon Recruits, Mrs.

L. B. Reed: Purity in Literature and Art, Mrs. G. W.

Sammis; Proportionate and Systematic Giving, Mrs. E. G. Underhill; Mothers' Meetings and White Ribbon Recruits. Mrs.

G. F. Pashley; Organizer for Colored People, Mrs. S. A.

Harris; Co-operation with Women's Clubs, Mrs. L. S. Burroughs. HASKEL LEADS 69TH arriving in France.

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The boys of the 165th Regiment, formerly the Sixty-ninth of New York, are more under the command of Colonel William N. Haskell. He succeeds Colonel John W. Barker, who had been temporarily in command since its former Colonel, Charles Hine, was assigned to General Pershing's staff as an engineering expert. Colonel Haskell went to France as 3 lieutenant colonel.

He was adjutant at Camp Upton for several months with the rank of major. Although a strict disciplinarian, Colonel Haskell endeared himself to the men of the old Sixty-ninth through his fairness when he was in command at the Mexican border. Colonel Haskell is a graduate of West Point and has been in nearly every branch of the service. He is .38 years old and is a native of Albany. When the Sixty-ninth returned from the border Colonel riaskell was ordered back to the Reguiar Army with the rank of captain.

He was promoted to major in August and made lieutenant colonel while at Camp Upton. He became a colonel shortly after arriving in France. ME National LIGHT I MEN Association ELECT Closes OFFICERS. Its Ses. sions for Season.

The Brooklyn Section of the National Electric Light Association had its final meeting of the season Tuesday night at the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium in Hanson place.

New officers were elected as follows: R. W. Allen, chairman; R. W. Paine, vice, chairman; R.

B. McWoy, secretary; E. K. Ponvert, financial secretary, and F. C.

treasurer. For the executive committee: R. W. Alllen, chairman; Marshall Stewart. Wolin, Philip Bugg, Fred Watson.

F. W. Morris, F. B. Green, A.

V. Luff. R. A. Tilton, G.

J. Leibman. G. if. Mayer, T.

J. Lynch and W. F. Wells. ex-officio.

The meeting opened by the presentation last competition paper of the season by A. E. Munich of the distribution department, entitled Lighting Engineering and Lieutenant Francis A. Sutton of the try on a special mission to the AmeriRoyal Engineers, in who is in this councan Government, explained the advantages and reasons for trench mortars. Walter F.

Wells, vice president of the company, gave a short talk on a the value of War Savings and Thrift Stamps and stated that the Brooklyn Edison Company was leading all other lighting companies in the division, two its total being greater than the next companies combined. Mr. Wells then announced the competition prize winners for the season as follows: A. G. Gumaer.

$50; W. H. Wells, $25; I. T. Smith W.

Uckele, A. L. Kohlhoff, $5, and A. E. Munich, $5.

LIEUT. E. T. WILLIAMS DIES Springfield, May 9-Lieutenant Earl T. Williams of Brooklyn, and lately stationed at Camp Devens, died in Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Tuesday night as a result of being struck by a limb falling from a tree in Northampton.

The accident occurred Monday afternoon during a high wind. Lieutenant Williams was 29 years old. Lieutenant Williams was the son of Mrs. Harriet Trumbull Williams, now living at 430 Park avenue, Manhattan, and the late James Harvey Williams, founder of the J. H.

Williams Company, drop forging foundry, at 150 Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, Lieutenant Williams was graduated from Yale in 1910. The family lived at one time at 6 Pierrepont street, Brooklyn. DISCUSS SHIP CANAL BILL. The monthly meeting of the Bath Beach Taxpayers Association was held last night Cropsey and Eighteenth avenues. The speakers were ex-State Senator James F.

Duhamel and Assemblyman Kenneth F. Sutherland. Senator Duhamel put the proposition before the meeting of having the yearly Fourth of July celebration in Bensonhurst Park. The tradespeople of the community will take part in the celebration as well as the Red Cross, Police Reserves, Bath Beach ers Association, Gravesend Beach Board of Trade, Public Schools Nos. 128 and 163.

Asesmblyman Sutherland spoke on the ship canal bill that is being presented to the Governor today for his signature. This bill was introduced by Mr. Sutherland and was unanimously passed. If signed by Governor Whitman this bill will do away with the heavy assessments that would have been levied for a drainage ditch that the city had contemplated building. G.

W. CHURCHWELL BURIED. (Special to The Eagle.) Catskill, N. May 9-Funeral services for George W. Churchwell, the well-known resident of the Eastern District of Brooklyn, were held yesterday afternoon in the Baptist Church at Athens, N.

Y. Burial followed in the cemetery at that place. Mr. Churchwell, who was at one time active in the social and political life of the Eastern District, died last Sunday at his home in Athens, N. at the age of 68.

FOUND DEAD FROM GAS. Reuben London, 55 years old, is dead at his home, 107 Ridgewood avenue, a victim of gas poisonMr. London was a retired clothing dealer. His wife, Alice, and her two daughters went out Tuesday afternoon. When they returned in the evening they found London dead in the parlor, and gas escaping from an open jet.

Dr. McManus was summoned from St. Mary's Hospital, but there was nothing for him to do. PARSONS SUCCEEDS Albany, May 9-John S. Parsons of Oswego was appointed executive auditor by Governor Whitman today.

He succeeds George A. Glynn, who resigned in March to devote his attention to his duties as chairman of the Republican State Committee. ISOMERS AND WILSEY WILL BE RE-ELECTED Annual Meeting of Board to Be Held Tuesday. The first annual meeting of the Board of Education will be held next Tuesday and President Somers and Vice President Wilsey, it is confidently expected, will be re-elected for the full term of one year. After that meeting the Board will take up the dent to succeed Dr.

Ettinger. The election of an a associated names of several district superintendents been mentioned and among those who will be considered are Charles W. Lyon, Arthur C. Perry, William J. O'Shea, Benjamin Veit and John S.

Roberts. Mrs. Grace Strachan Forsythe is an avowed candidate and she has presented her claims and qualifications to the members of the Board, Associate John L. Tildsley, who the high schools, says that the Board of Superintendents will get to nomina- tion of a principal for the Morris High School very soon. There are more than a score of candidates.

Among them are: From Brooklyn, Frederick W. Memmott, principal No. 2: Harold Campbell, assistant princiant principal Eastern District High School; Stephen Emery and. Preston Farrar, William Erasmus Hall High Bushwick School; High T. Morrey, School; Harold E.

Buttrick, Boys High School. From Manhattan, Arthur A. Boylan, Joseph K. Van Denberg, Ernest L. Crandall, William T.

Hayward and David L. Arnold. One of the items was a report from the Board of Superintendents, announcing that two additional divisions had been established, No. 9, comprising reation evening centers and and vacation playgrounds, schools, to which Mr. McAndrew has peen assigned, and No.

10, comprising parental, truant and probationary schools. The clerical force of the Department of Education, which is now under the jurisdiction of the Superintendent of Schools, is to be reorganized, and Dr. Ettinger has appointed Superintendent McAndrew. Eugene A. Division of Reference and Research, Niefnecker, assistant director of da the and Frederick D.

Chambers, deputy auditor, a committee to recommend what changes should be made for greater efficiency. Dr. Ettinger himself is determined upon rid of a great deal of routine work which some subordinate can do equally well. Dr. Ettinger was well pleased that Governor Whitman had signed, on Tuesday, the Board of Education civil employees pension bill.

There are many men and women in the department who have been in the service for over thirty years. Women Democrats Entertain An entertainment and reception was held last night by the Ladies' Patriotic Auxiliary of the Thirteenth Assembly District in the clubrooms of the men's organization, at 106 Powers street. There was professional talent and at the end of the vaudeville to program there was dancing. The proceeds will be used in the interest of the boys of the district who are in the Army and Navy. The officers are: Miss M.

Finnigan, president; Mrs. Brown, vice president; Miss F. Dempsey, secretary, and Mrs. J. Wallace, treasurer.

AHNER. KILLED, BROOKLYNITE. Sergeant Frank Ahner, killed in France and reported in Monday's casualty list as from Stamford, was a Brooklynite, it was learned yesterday. He was born in Brooklyn and lived here all his life. His brother, Otto, lives at 175 Jefferson street.

Ahner enlisted in the Army in 1912. He re-enlisted in 1915 and went to France with the first expeditionary force as a sergeant in a Regular Army Artillery regiment. Before enlisting he was a pipefitter in a Manhattan manu facturing company. FATHER HUTCHINSON'S CHURCH. The Loretta Euchre Club held a card party last night at the Hotel Bossert.

The proceeds will be donated to the Rev. Arthur J. Hutchinson, rector of St. Joseph's R. C.

Church, Varysburg, N. Y. Previous to his ordination, on July 10, 1911, Father Hutchinson was a Brooklynlite and was a parishioner of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, on Twenty-first His Brooklyn friends gathered last night to raise funds to assist him in his parish work up- State. WAR ALTAR AT ST.

PAUL'S. Resident of Paris Gives 1 1t in Honor of Soldiers. A resident of Paris has recently presented a war altar to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Clinton and Carroll streets, for the purpose of honoring all the fallen heroes of the Allied nations who have lost their lives on French soil, and a. place where families of American soldiers and sailors may come to pray for those who are now fighting.

Tonight, Ascension night, the Rev. Andrew Chalmers Wilson's anniversary will be devoted to a special war servlice. The parishioners plan to bring a red rose each, to the memory of the sacred dead in France and place them at the foot of the war altar. The addresses will be made by the vicar of Old Trinity, Manhattan, the Rev. Dr McComas, and by Captain Cornelius of the Eritish Army, military instructor at Princeton University.

JUDGE MAY TO WOMEN The meeting of the Ninth Assembly District Women's Association was held last night at 255 Bay Ridge avenue. The meeting was addressed by County Judge Mitchell May, who spoke on "Organization." The president of the association, Mrs. Edward Dougherty, presided over the meeting and introduced Judge May and the newly elected executive member, Mrs. John J. Meagher.

"We believe," said Judge May, "that the women will use the vote that has been conferred upon them and we also believe that the women will help the men in their public duties and help them to keep the law. in The Ninth Assembly elected District County Committee the following officers at a special meeting held last Friday: Mrs. John J. Meagher, president; Mrs. Alexander Geismer, vice president; Mrs.

Edward Dougherty, vice president; Mrs. M. Fay, vice president; Mrs. Kate Doyle, vice president; Miss Lillian O'Connor, corresponding secretary: Mrs. P.

W. O'Grady, recording secretary; Mrs. Timothy Crowley, treasurer, and Mrs. Frederick Burr, financial secretary. CHRIST CHAPEL CELEBRATES The fiftieth anniversary.

of the founding of Christ Chapel, Van Brunt and. Wolcott streets, of which the Rev. John E. Gerstenberg is vicar, was celebrated last night, with a play by the Sunday School children, followed by a reception and reunion. The Rev.

Walter Deforest Johnson was toastmaster at a supper following thre play, at which the speakers were the Rev. Fred B. Bartlett, al former vicar, and now rector of St. John's, Hoboken, and James Mancor, president of the chapel committee. Letters were read from two former vicars, the Rev.

James B. Nies and Chaplain Horace R. Fell of the 102d Engineers. The arrangement committee comprised the Rev. John E.

Gerstenberg, Charles Hirst, Charles Johnston, Abraham Birnie, Frank Geelan, Harry Rogers, C. Gibbons, Joseph Corry, Mrs. C. E. Hirst, Mrs.

E. Schofeld and Mrs. E. Thornley. JUDGE ROY IN GREENPOINT The Greenpoint Taxpayers and Citizens Association had only a brief business session in the rooms of the Commerce Club last night because of the presence of County Judge Robert H.

Roy, who spoke on the "Relation of the Citizen to His Charles J. Schluter presided. Judge Roy lauded the organization for the good it had accomplished since it was organized and he declared that it was organization of that kind which had made Brooklyn famous. He added that the citizen should never shirk his duty no matter what it might be. 10TH N.

Y. VOLUNTEERS REUNION The fifty-seventh anniversary of the mustering of the Tenth New York Volunteers was celebrated on Saturday evening by the annual reunion and dinner in Manhattan of the veteran association of the regiment. Of more than 300 on the roll at one time, there are but 45 now, and but 4 commissioned officers, of which the president, Captain George F. Tait, and the secretary, Major C. W.

Cowtan, were present. Among the comrades present were Past Department Commander Joseph W. Kay, Corporal Edward A. Dubey, Sergeant M. Connery, Samuel E.

Curtis, George F. Tait, all residents of Brooklyn; Commander John C. Norcross and Walter Westlake of Winchester Post of Brooklyn. Officers were elected as follows: President, Thomas Bethridge; vice president, John J. Fagan; secretary and treasurer, C.

W. Cowtan; executive committee, Joseph W. Kay, Henry C. Broas, William McKee. C.

W. Cowtan, for thirty-four years a resident of Brooklyn, is the author of a history of the regiment. FUR STORAGE--Remodeling and Repairing--Phone 6900 Greeley Franklin Simon Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th N. Y.

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N. Y. BANK MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARY Judge Richards Outlines Growth of Savings Institutions. The fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the East New York Savings Bank wa's celebrated last night at the Hotel Bossert by a dinner of the officers, trustees and employees. There were twenty -nine guests present, including the wives of some of the diners.

Adolph Kiendl, first vice president, was toastmaster. Addresses were made by C. Frank Colyer, second vice president, and for forty -nine years a trustee; George F. Middendorf counsel, and Municipal Court Justice Edward A. Richards, who is secretary of the institution.

Frederick Middendorf, president of the bank. is 89 years old, and has been a trustee for forty-nine years. For forty years he has been head of the institution. Justice Richards told of the halfcentury development of the bank and the progress made by the East New York section generally. Fifty years ago, he said, only 1,214 persons voted for President in that section, while at the last election 25,445 votes were east.

Half a century ago East New York real estate was valued at $1,685,000, and the taxes aggregated $25,821. Today the realty tax amounts to based on a valuation of $109,796.000. At the end of the first year the bank had on deposit $35,000. Today its deposits total $4,500,000. Through the institution $300,000 was subscribed to the last Liberty Loan.

Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Middendorf. Mr. and Mrs.

Adoiph Kiendl, Clarence Frank Colyer. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Linz, Justice and Mrs.

Edward A. Richards, M. Linz. Mr. and Mrs.

George F. Middendorf Rudolph Reimer, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Linz, Mr.

and Mrs. Albert H. Ackerman, Mr. and Mrs. John Meyn.

Mr. and Mrs. N. Willard Curtis. Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Brislin and Mr. and Mrs. James K. Alexander.

INSTALL REV. A. I. DUSHAW The Rev. Amos I.

Dushaw, the new pastor of the Kent Street Reformed Church in Greenpoint, was installed last night in the presence of a large congregation. The interior of the edifice was decorated with the Stars and Stripes. and there were also a number of floral pieces. The Rev. George G.

Wacker, Moderator of the Classis, presided. Miss Margaret Woodbridge sang. The Rev. Preston Strauss delivered the charge to the congregation and the Rev. Thomas H.

Mackenzie, the charge to the pastor. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Henry Sluyter. After the exercises there was an informal reception to the pastor in the parlors of the church. CHEROKEE UNFIT IS FINDING The loss of the navy tug Cherokee off Cape Henlopen, February 26, with twenty-eight men, two of whom, First Quartermaster Frederick Elbers, and George W.

O'Reilly, were Brooklyn boys, is blamed by a naval board of inquiry upon the age and condition of the craft. Attention was called to the failure of the commanding officer to report that she was overloaded. Responsibility of the commander, Lieutenant Newell of the Naval Reserve, is mitigated by the board because he went down with the tug and "in view of his youth and lack of familiarity with navy methods." The board recommends no further proceedings. ARREST BOY SCOUTS CHIEF Boston, May 8-Major Willard E. Wood local commander of the United States Boy Scouts, and four officers the organization, arrested by the Provost Guard last night for violation of the law which prohibits the wearing of uniforms resembling the regulation Army outfit, were arraigned before a Federal commissioner today and paroled in the custody of counsel for a further hearing May 15.

Wood and his associates were locked up in an armory overnight. SUIT OVER F. OF A. CASH. Grand Court Claims Fund of Court Italia.

The Grand Court of the of America has brought suit in the Supreme Court against Minziante Senese. treasurer, and other officers of "hat, was formerly Court Italia No. F. of which seceded from the order several months ago, and in body joined some other order. The suit is to recover the dues, assessments and other collections Court Italia members now in from the hands of the treasurer, who declined to turn the funds, to $2,700, over 1.0 the Grand amounting Court.

The Grand Court was represented by ex-Judge Forrest S. Chilton. Justice Callaghan reserved a motion for judgment in favor of the decision on Grand Court. EUCHRE AIDS MEN IN SERVICE A euchre for the benefit of the boys from Greenpoint who are in the service was held last night by the Women's Democratic Organization of the Fifteenth Assembly District in the of the men's association. rooms and Meserole avenues.

Manhattan lowed. Dancing folThe committee in Miss charge comprised ficio; Miss McQuade, president, ex-ofMary Mrs. Margarete Connors, chairJohn man; Bernard McKenna, Mrs. Annie Conlon, Mrs. Gus Mendelson, Mrs.

John McIntosh, Mrs. John Cassin. Mrs. Quigley and Mrs. Henry Sweitzer.

MRS. BUCH'S PUPILS' RECITAL. The pupils of Mrs. H. K.

Buch will give a benefit recital Lutheran in aid of the St. Paul's sailor and soldier fund at enue and Knickerbocker avChurch, evening. street, tomorrow Palmetto POSTPONE SHORT BANQUET The Eastern District Citizens Committee, which is arranging banquet on to the new City Magistrate, James V. Short, and which was to have taken place on the night of Tuesday, May 91. has found it necessary to postpone the event until May 28.

It will, be held Arcadia Hall. Ex-Coroner Ernest Wagner is at the head of the banquet committee with Andrew T. Sullivan and James V. Brady as associates. "WHAT NEXT?" IS REPEATED The second night's presentation of the comedy, "What Next?" by the members of St.

Francis Assisi Dramatic Club, was just as successful the first night. St. Francis of Assisi Hall, Maple street and Nostrand nue, was again filled with an audience that roundly applauded the 1a- vorites in the cast. Joseph A. Finnegan coached the performance and William McKinney had charge of the music.

The proceeds will be turned over to the general church fund. Dancing followed the perfomance. For Health Food Conservation (rape Nuts A BROOKLYN OPPENHEIM, CLLINS Fulton Street, Brooklyn Offer Important Values in Brown Kidskin Oxfords SELECT MODEL As Illustrated. Ha turned Soles Louis XV Heels 5.75 Special Values for Friday Number 1 of a Series of Labor Conservation Chats. The Collection of "Slow" Telephone Accounts THIS AND THE CHATS that are to follow, are published as frank and open discussions of the question of collecting "slow" telephone accounts.

THEY ARE DESIGNED to show that it is desirable, particularly at this time, to save the time and labor that is now expended in collecting bills that remain unpaid after the lapse of a reasonable period of time. WHILE MOST TELEPHONE accounts are paid promptly, there are a number of slow" accounts that require labor, time and expense that might better be devoted to other work that is more directly in the interest of the public's telephone service. W. BELIEVE that this method of bringing the matter to the attention of the public, this frank and open discussion of our aims, is all that is necessary to secure proper understanding and cooperation. 044 11 NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY He Who Saves Serves.

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