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a a NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928. 2 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, Miss Earhart in Southampton and Coast Where She Landed Here is a typical coast line view of the section of Wales where Miss Amelia Earhart landed. It shows the estuary at Barmouth the west coast, north of Burry Port, where Miss Earhart's plane came down. MISS EARHART RUSHED BY EAGER CROWDS AS SHE LEAVES HER HOTEL Continued from Page 1. air woman I started to the home of Mrs.

Frederick Guest, backer of the transatlantic flight, for luncheon. There was a rush toward her as she crossed to' the waiting car and soine of the women attempted to embrace her. It was only with difficulty that the flier got on her way to the Guest home. Stultz Goes Sightseeing. Bill Stultz and Slim Gordon, the other two-thirds of the Friendship's crew, started out early today to get what thrills they could from the London sights.

Gordon is a cheery, whole-hearted youth who takes the Atlantic flight most casually. He got a great laugh over the fact that the Friendship's little store of provisions included some pemmican, which is the mainstay of Arctic explorers. When the plane encountered a snowstorm, Gordon suggested it was time to get out the pemmican. It was he who brought joy to the Friendship's crew by sighting land. After their arrival at Southampton Gordon delayed the landing of the party from the Friendship for several minutes by methodically going about his work of covering up the engines, oblivious to the dignitaries waiting ashore.

He did not seem any more excited than if he had just hopped Long Island Sound. After the excitement of yesterday and the fatigue which their great achievement involved, the three transatlantic fliers arranged to take things easy today. Like Miss Earhart, Wilmer Stutz and Louis Gordon planned to reply to the hundreds of cables, telegrams and letters which she found waiting on her arrival in London. To Dine With Backer of Flight. The party was to have dinner tonight with Capt.

Frederick Guest and his wife. Despite her fatigue of last night, Miss Earhart was a comparatively early riser today. She wa's up at 8:30, and shortly afterward bad breakfast in her room, where she stayed all the forenoon. The first caller to be admitted was Ray Atherton, Charge D'Affaires of the American Embassy, who presented formal congratulations. One of Miss Earhart's first acts on beginning her outside activities will be to leave cards at the American Ambassador's residence for Mrs.

Alanson B. Houghton. Going to a Dance Tonight. I After lunching with Mrs. Guest, the American girl intended to spend the afternoon shopping.

She planned to go to the Embassy Club tonight for a dance after dining with the Guest family. Miss Earhart was exceedingly pleased with the congratulatory messages she received from President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg and Governor Fuller of Massachusetts. She intended to make them the first to which she sent replies she plunged into the heap of messages, which is still growing rapidly. On a vacation, as she expresses it, Miss Amelia Earhart intends to improve herself in her profession. She hopes to see how England carries on its social service work, which she says is her profession.

Receiving the acclaim of London, Miss Earhart expressed a desire to visit the various settlements and especially Townbee Hall, educational and social center in London's East Side. Mystifies Newspaper Men. Newspaper men interviewing her did not seem to understand why she nad flown the Atlantic with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon in the Friendship and asked many questions in an effort to determine the reason. She denied that her flight had been a race with Mabel Boll to see which would cross the ocean first. She stated emphatically that she did not intend to capitalize on her adventure by entering the motion pictures or going on the vaudeville stage.

Was it true, asked one reporter, that she made the flight to obtain funds to lift the mortgage on the family homestead in America. "No," said Miss Earhart, "that's absurd. My profession is social work. This is my vacation." Throughout sincere her talk, Miss Earhart paid tribute to the men who flew with her. She told of their skill and ability in navigating by instruments.

Many accidents, she asserted, undoubtedly had been caused by attempting to fly without proper instruments. Finds Wallet With $100; Seeks Owner of Cash Thanks to the honesty of Alfred Dilger of 268 92d who has a sick wife and child at home, a brown wallet containing $100 today is awaiting its owner at the Fort Hamilton police station. Dilger found the wallet last night in a 4th ave. subway train at the 72d st. station.

Unable to find anyone in the car who could prove ownership, he took it to the police station. A year found ago he found $61 and eventually the person who had lost it. His honesty at that time won him a job. The police reported this afternoon that no one has claimed the money yet. REFEREES APPOINTED.

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Patterson, Willlam E. Stewart. a a a a a a a a a Hoover Avoids Reporters More Than Ever; Fears He Will Rock Political Boat Never Adept at Sparring at Press Conferences, He Now Does Not Feel Safe in Talking About Mass of Unsettled Campaign Matters. Eagle Bureau, 901 Colorado Building. By JOHN Washington, June 20-For five been the Republican Presidential face to face with newspaper He has not spoken a single word routine at his st.

home and hisson Commerce Department office he has held the press at arm's length and vouchsafed it not one item of authentic news. A strange new fear has seized him on the matter of personal publicity, and shrinking into his private quarters, he is scared to say even "Good morning," lest it rock the political boat. This Hoover performance, it is said, is quite without precedent in the realm of national politics. A Presidential candidate, upon his nomination, becomes a public character, who welcomes the press with one hand and performs adroit political tricks with the other. The truth of the matter, is that Mr.

Hoover never was man in personal publicity, and now that he has reached this glaring eminence he trembles at the sight of his own shadow cast across the front pages of the country's newspapers, and retires into the shadowy depths of his own home and office. The "Bashful Violet." Twice a day George Akerson, the Secretary's trusted secretary, greets the newspaper men in a plain office room on the seventh floor of the Department of Commerce. Twenty-five or 30 newspaper men congregate there. Somebody begins thus: "Well, what's the bashful violet doing now?" Akerson, fluttering a bateh of papers, reads off a list of callers upon Mr. Hoover.

What they discussed, he says, he doesn't know. There are other questions, real and comic, but Akerson has no answers for them. Fifteen or 20 minutes pass in idle talk. That is all. Last April, when Mr.

Hoover began the serious accumulation of delegates to the national convention, he called off his departmental press conferences. He found that the reporters were far more interested in his political activities than they were in foreign and domestic commerce, the imports of Siam and the exports of Germany. They asked pointed questions and Mr. Hoover is a poor hand at turning a pointed question aside in a friendly way. He is simply silent and embarrassed.

Can't Spar With Press. Now the temperamental forces which caused him to halt his pre-convention meetings with the press are driving him into even deeper and more earnest retirement. He does not feel freeto talk about the mass of unsettled matters relative to the campaign on which no decisions have been made. He knows that if he sees reporters he will asked these questions which he doesn't want to answer. He simply doesn't know how to handle political press conferences, with its sparring back and forth, and therefore he doesn't have any.

Instead, he sends Mr. Akerson out to meet the corresopndents who, he imagines, are ready to claw at him and divulge all his secrets. Even when he meets a reporter in the hall of the department he looks like a hunted animal seeking escape. "Mr. Secretary- the reporter begins.

Mr. Hoover smiles, shakes his head emphatically, lifts his right hand in a little protective gesture- -and never utters a word. He has told friends that "a badgering game" is on between him and the press and he is not going to be lured from his resolve of silence. But now the prosaic Mr. Akerson has announced that his chief will give an audience to the press of the country after the National Committee meets tomorrow.

If he does, it will be his first public appearance since his nomination. Europe Dry in Ten Years, Distler Avers, Sailing Wtih Arion Society for Big Tour By E. K. TITUS. All Europe will be dry in 10 years, Ernst F.

Distler, big Brooklyn brewer who once manufactured 100,000 barrels of beer yearly in the Munch Brewery at 238 Vernon predicted today when he sailed for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart. Mr. and Mrs. Distler, who live at 56 Lenox will travel through Europe with the Brooklyn Arion Society, a singing organization which is to give concerts in Berlin and Vienna. "Prohibition?" Mr.

Distler replied to a query. "All Europe will have it in 10 years. They see the good effects of the savings bank deposits in this country and they will follow suit. Beer Not What It Used to Be. Miss Earhart Receives Proposal From Admirer London, June 20 Miss Amelia Earhart denied yesterday that she had received any proposals of marriage following her feat of being first woman to fly across the Atlantic, she was speaking the truth, but she would not be able to say the same thing today.

In this morning's mail the first proposal arrived. It was from some suitor in Europe, but when queries were sent to the flier as to who the aspirant might be, she declined to divulge his name. Nor would she let the world know in just what words he had offered his heart and hand. SMITH AND MOORE DEDICATE 2 BRIDGES IN CEREMONY TODAY Governors Deliver Addresses to Celebrate Opening of Staten Island-Jersey Span. Newark, N.

June 20 (P) -Their spans, stretching across the Arthur Kill, connecting the State of New Jersey with Staten Island, two bridges were ready today for their formal dedication. The entrances to the giant structures were guarded by single ribbons as members of the official party left from New York on their tour to the terminals of the bridges to deliver dedicatory addresses. The crossing connects Elizabeth with Howland Hook and Perth Amboy with Tottenville, and the planned ceremonies included messages by Governors Alfred E. Smith New York and A. Harry Moore of New Jersey.

Silzer Presides. The exercises, which culminated a project that materialized from an idea born shortly after the close of the Civil War, were under the supervision of the Port of New York Authority, whose staff directed the construction of the crossings. Former Governor George S. Silzer, chairman Port Authority, was master of ceremonies. The Howland Hook Plaza of the Goethals Bridge was the scene of the first ceremonies.

This crossing, cantilever type, has a total length of 8,000 feet, with a center span of 672 feet and a clear height of 672 feet. After speeches at the Elizabeth Plaza, the official party was to leave for Perth Amboy. The Perty Amboy Tottenville Bridge, known as the outer bridge crossing, has a total length of 10,200 feet. This also is of the cantilever type. In addition to the Governors' addresses.

State Senators Arthur N. Pierson and Morgan F. Larson spoke. As finishing touches were still necessary, the spans will not be opened to the public until next week, the Port Authority announced. THOSE who answer promptly get the best Engle Classified Offers.

"Beer in Germany is not the same as it used to be. I really think one can get better beer in this country than in Germany, "The German chemists are SO clever they make He explained that they made a substitute for barley. "These German chemists will have it so we don't eat any more hotel he added. "We'll only eat pills for food. "During my 57 years in this country, I have traveled back to Germany nine times, and I have had an opportunity to observe conditions.

While I don't favor Prohibition myself, I believe it is here to stay, and that Germany and the rest of Europe, seeing the desirability of putting grain bread instead of beer, will come around to it. "Forty percent of Germany's food now comes in from other countries. Certainly, they will soon come to the conclusion that they can't use any of this for Is Wet, but for Hoover. "Do you favor Al Smith for President?" "No," said Mr. Distler.

"Although I am opposed to Prohibition, I favor Mr. Hoover, because I believe he is best for the country." a a a a a a a a a to 0v9 78r el LATIMER'S DEATH L. I. R. R.

CRASH ROUSES PROTESTS Rockville Centre to Insist on Protection for Forest Ave. Crossing. Rockville Centre, L. June 20- Failure of the Long Island Railroad to protect the Forest ave. crossing with gates and a watchman was bitterly scored this morning by Mayor Charles E.

Richmond following the Yearn last night of G. Byron Latimer, 67, former village president and a retired banker who was killed there in his automobile during a severe rainstorm. The accident happened shortly after 6 p.m. as Mr. Latimer was on his way home and it is believed that the train obscured his vision, as well as that of the motorman of the eastbound train that hit the Latimer car and demolished it.

Flays Railroad Officials. Mayor Richmond did not spare the railroad officials from the new general manager down and showed a mass of correspondence with the railroad dated as late as June 1, 1928, when the road officials stated that "the volume of traffic at Forest ave. does not warrant gates and a watchman." "For months we have been trying in every conceivable manner tc interest the Long Island in protecting Forest said Mayor Richmond. "All of our attempts were unsuccessful and at the meeting of the Village Board tonight we expect to put through an ordinance that will compel the railroad to put gates at Forest and Ocean aves. within a certain period of time or else pay a penalty each day thereafter." Inquest Today.

A search of the village records last a night showed that when Mr. Latimer was village president in 1923 he endeavored to get protection at Forest Dr. C. N. Bulson, also a former village president, narrowly escaped death there.

Coroner Edward T. Neu will hold an inquest today, although he stated that there was apparently no evidence of any criminal negligence on the part of the train crew, consisting of Dennis Reilley, the motorman, and 8. W. Haff, conductor, both of Babylon. The train had just left, the Rockville Centre station had gained considerable speed.

Rain was falling heavily at the time. Mr. Latimer's body was thrown about 200 feet and terribly mangled. Parts of his automobile were strewn along the tracks for about 1,000 feet and others were wedged beneath the first car of the train so that the car had to be sidetracked. Traffic was tied up for more than an hour and a fire started by a short circuit resulted in the fire department being called.

A warning bell is the only protection. Investigations Opened. District Attorney Edwards, who artrived in Rockville Centre shortly after accident, instructed Police Capt. Tyree Bacon to render a full report of the tragedy as soon as possible. Several persons witnessed the accident, it was said, and the police started an immediate search for them.

Several investigations were were started by railroad, county and village officials. It was first rumored that Mayor Charles E. Richmond and several others had been killed and the police were besieged with calls from frantic persons in search of information. It was not until Mr. Latimer's effects had been found that his identity was established.

His grandson, Byron, 13, identified his straw hat. Village in Mourning. Coroner Neu ordered the body removed to Forbell's morgue. No funeral arrangements have been made. This morning the village's flags were at half staff.

Mr. Latimer lived on Latimer named for him, and had been a resident of the village for 40 years. He helped organize the Rockville Centre chapter I. O. O.

F. He was formerly cashier of the Irving Savings Bank of Manhattan and of the First National Bank of Rockville Centre. He is survived by his wife, Jeanette; a son, Milton, and a grandson, Byron. FRAUD IS CHARGED IN SALE OF LOTS BYE. A.

WHITECO. Woman Sues to Recover Her $6,384 Savings, Alleging False Representations. Miss Barbara R. Schulz of 1196 Myrtle ave. appeared before Justice Byrne and a jury in Supreme Court today with a suit against the E.

A. White Organization, asking the return of $6,384 which she said she paid as a deposit in 1926 to buy eight lots on the Jamaica-Hillside tract, which had a short-lived boom. Miss Schulz alleged she was 1 induced to part with the money, constituting her savings, by representations which were known E. A. White Organization to be false.

Her uncle, F. M. Schulz, an agent and sales manager for the White Organization, told her, she said, that the Jamaica-Hillside tract would be developed as one of the garden spots of Long Island, that "within two weeks" work would be started on a $780,000 apartment house, that many lots had been sold on which highclass private homes would be immediately constructed and that the E. A. White Organization would immediately pave the streets and install gas, electricity and a water system.

None of these things was done, she told the jury. There are only a few scattered houses on the tract, she declared, adding that the E. A. White Organization posed as owners of the lend and failed to disclose that the and was owned by the J. A.

Wigmore Land Company, for which the Guarenty Trust Company acted as trussee. The trust company is also named as a defendant. The E. A. White Organization has fled an answer denying the accusacon that false statements were made admitting that it received Miss Schulz's to $6,384.

the north The Jamaica Hillside tract is Queens, near the entrance to the motor parkway. MES. MARY DOYLE DONNELLY of 9921 215th Bellaire, died Monday after a long illness. She is survived by her husband and six children. A requiem mass will be offered in 85.

Joachim and Anne's R. C. Church, Queens Village, tomorrow morning 10 o'clock. Interment will be in St. John's Cemetery.

MAIL BOX CAPTURED AFTER HALLWAY BATTLE Found Hiding in Home as 7 He Escapes Apartment House Scuffle. PEA tumultuous throng which greeted her at Miss Amelia Earhart is shown being honcross the Atlantic. Miss Earhart is wearher, wearing a a a a a a a fedora, is John Savage, right in a silk topper is SouthampPolice and city officials had to hold the to pass, while the two men shared her transmitted by cable. HOUSTON PERKS UP AS HULL ARRIVES FOR CONVENTION Candidates' Headquarters Open as "Wet" and Farm Planks Take Spotlight. Houston, Texas, June 20 (P)-This Southeastern Texas city, where the Democrats will open their National Convention next Tuesday, took on new life today with the arrivai cf the first candidate for the Presidential nomination, Cordell Hull of Tennessee.

Mr. Hull dismissed questions concerning his candidacy with the statement it was too early to make campaign predictions. He explained that he came a week before the opening of the session because of his duties as a member of the convention committee on arrangements and as National Committeeman from his State. It was understood his supporters planned to open a headquarters tor him today. Headquarters already have been opened for Senator James A.

Reed of Missouri, who is expected to arrive the latter part of this week. George R. Van Namee, campaign manager for Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, is due tonight. He will be accompanied by Norman E.

Mack, Buffalo publisher and National Committeeman for New York. Frank Hague of New Jersey, who has been mentioned as convention floor manager for Governor Smith, probably will reach Houston Saturday. With the invasion of committeemen and campaign workers under way, considerable interest has centered on various proposals for the party platform. Farm relief and ProHibition furnished the basis for many of the informal discussions. Clem Shaver, chairman of the National Executive Committee, and Jesse H.

Jones, Texas' favorite son, repeatedly have declared the farmers, denied admittance at the Republican convention, will be given an opportunity to present their case here. Louis A. Cuvillier, chairman and general counsel of the National Constitutional Liberty League of America, has announced he will seek favoring a referendum in each State on the liquor question. Announcement that the youthful Texas Governor, Dan Moody, would arrive Sunday expected to start a rally of dry forces. Giants' Games Off Boston, June 20-Rain again caused the postponement of the doubleheader billed here today between the New York Giants and Boston Braves.

The teams will appear in a bargain bill tomorrow. Big News KALTENBORN In the midst of the Southampton yesterday, ored as the first woman to ing her helmet. Just behind the American Consul, and ton's official town crier. way open for the aviatrix ovation. The picture was DEPUTY SPLINTERS WOMAN'S DOOR TO SEIZE HER GRANDSON Mother Secludes Self With Two Other Boys to Await Court Decision on Custody.

Following the forced service of a writ by deputy sheriffs banging down a hotel door and a mixup in court orders, Mrs. Ralphina Lowenstein, with her two older boys, today once more secluded herself behind the locked doors of her mother's suite at the Hotel St. George, to await the outcome her husband's writ toone morrow before Justice Valente in Manhattan Supreme Court. Mrs. Lowenstein is the wife of Louis Lowenstein, president of the Nassau Smelting Company, is a brother-in-law of Justice Frankenthaler.

Two weeks ago, Mrs. Lowenstein left their home at 41 W. 83d Manhattan, with her three young sons and came to stay with her mother, Mrs. Amelia Steinhardt, at the Hotel St. George.

Suit and Counter Suits. The next day Mr. Lowenstein started an action for separation in the Manhattan Supreme Court, charging desertion. Mrs. Lowenstein started a counter suit in the Brooklyn court, alleging cruelty.

On Monday counsel for the husband obtained an order from Justice Valente directing Mrs. Lowenstein to produce the children in court yesterday. The mother disappeared with the two older boys on Monday afternoon before the order could be served, leaving the younger boy with his grandmother in the hotel. Mrs. Steinhardt resisted service of the writ by barricading herself in her hotel room and ordering her meals served through the transom.

Yesterday afternoon, at 2:30, two deputy sheriffs, accompanied by a uniformed patrolman from the Poplar st. station, chopped down the grandmother's door, in order to serve the writ and escorted Mrs. Steinhardt and the child to Manhattan Supreme Court. Meanwhile, a stay had been obtained by Mrs. Lowenstein from Justice Lydon.

The parents compromised to permit the father to have the little fellow and the mother to have the two older boys, pending Justice Valente's decision. N. Y. Banker President Of Baptist Convention Detroit, June 20 (AP)-Arthur M. Harris, New York banker and volunteer religious worker, today was elected president of the Northern Baptist Convention to succeed W.

C. Coleman, Wichita, Kansas, manufacturer. Today's By H. V. Nobile and Amundsen Are Heroes of an Arctic Drama On Monday night Roald Amundsen, Lieutenant Lief Dietrichsen and Rene Guilbaud left Tromsoe, at the northern tip of Norway, for Spitzbergen in a large French seaplane to hunt for Nobile.

They have not been heard from since. A Swedish and an Italian seaplane that left for Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, at the same time, arrived at their destination without mishap. Another seaplane that left on Tuesday also made the 600-mile journey across the northern waters successfully. The world is beginning to wonder what has happened to the wellknown explorer. June is a bad month for Arctic flights.

Fogs abound. A slight deviation from its straight course might carry a plane far into the unknown Arctic. But so many more hopeful surmises are possible that there seems little reason to as- sume that there has been an accident. The discoverer of the South Pole has long been known as an explorer who prefers to keep silent until he has accomplished what he sets out to do. It is quite possible that Amundsen has established his base at Advent Bay in Spitzbergen and is en- gaged in reconnoitering flights over Northeast Land.

Major Maddalena, flying a large Italian seaplane, failed to discover General Nobile and his five companions in a six-hour flight over the area where they are located. Nobile and his companions saw them and vainly endeavored to attract their attention. This is the third time a plane has passed within two miles of the little red tent established on the rough ice off Northeast Land by the injured Italian explorer and his five companions. But the keen eyes of Captain BILLINGS Jr. five full days Herbert Hoover has nominee and he has yet to come reporters in a professional capacity.

word for publication. In his daily GANGSTER CURSES JUDGE AS HE GETS A LIFE SENTENCE Flayed Jury Also When Con- victed of Robbery With Gang--Tries to Burn Himself. While cursing Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, the District Attorney, the police and the United States, John Boylan, 27, an ex-convict with a long record, was today sentenced to life imprisonment upon his conviction of robbery in the first degree, While waiting in the prison pen to be taken before Judge Rosalsky, he took a match he had his pocket and set fire to his clothing, burning the left side of his shirt. Court attendants extinguished the fire and took him before the court coatless, with his shirt open at the neck.

Flayed Jury at Conviction. Boylan had acted similarly on May 25 at the time of his conviction, when he flayed the jury with many epithets. In the courtroom today he remained quiet until Judge Rosalsky commended the police for arresting the gang of which Boylan was a member. Then the prisoner began his vituperative attack. Half a dozen court attendants surrounded him but could not keep him quiet, Boylan was sentenced under Section 2191 of the Penal Law, which gives the Judge the power to impose sentence up to the life term.

This law antedates the Baumes Law by more than 25 years. Boylan was convicted of holding up with three members of the gang the S. B. Garage, at 142 E. 120th Manhattan, on March 19 last and stealing $390 from Raphael Platsky.

The gang was traced to an apartment at 317 W. 116th Manhattan, where all were found. Five revolvers were also discovered. Three Others Convicted. Other gang members convicted and given long sentences were Herman Bernstein, 24, of 479 Manida Bronx: Jacob Abramson, 28, of 163 E.

105th Manhattan, and Victor Orreo, 21, of 1317 Inwood Bronx. Judge Rosalsky ordered that he be sent to Sing Sing Prison immediately. After his conviction Boylan was sent to Bellevue Hospital for observation. Dr. Menas Gregory reported he was not insane but had a psychopathic makeup, was not well balanced and was emotional.

In Elmira Prison in January, 1921, he became violent, started an insurrection and was transferred to Dannemora. Boylan and the others were also accused of robbing Edward Roth of 235 E. 112th st. of $242 on March 16. HELL GATE FREIGHT PETITION DENIED Washington, June 20 (P) -A petition of the Port of New York Authority asking that the Hell Gate Bridge be opened for transportation of freight from Long Island territory to west of New York and Pennsylvania by the establishment of through routes and joint rates was denied today by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The carriers were required, however, to establish rate schedules permitting the use of the Hell Gate route times of railroad emergency or traffic congestion. 5th Ave. Realty Prices Go to $370 Per Sq. Ft. Real estate on 5th Manhattan, reached the top price of $370 a square foot in 1927, according to the annual report of the Fifth Avenue Association distributed today to the bers of the organization.

It sets forth in detail the measures taken to prevent 5th ave. from losing prestige and quotes letters of praise and requests for suggestions from all over the world. It also discusses in detail the proposed East River-38th st. tunnel, describing the traffic relief it would afford Brooklyn and Queens, as well as midtown Manhattan. SUTTON NEW HEAD OF WORLD ROTARY Minneapolis, June 20 (P)-I.

B. Sutton of Tampico, Mexico, third vice president, was elected president of Rotary International today as the organization discarded its usual machinery for balloting and named him by acclamation. Cupid Nets 5 June Brides In Post Hall of Y. W. C.

A. Romance has invaded Post Hall, the new Y. W. C. A.

building at State st. and 3d and girls there have become or will shortly be June brides. As the newlyweds had homes, Post Hall was not called upon to provide a setting for wedding ceremonies, but the rooms on the eighth floor stand ready for any prospective bride who cares to avail herself of the privilege. So attractive are these rooms with their early American furnishings that several girls have signified desire to be married at their adopted home. Miss Mary B.

Harris, director of Caught pushing a wire hook, made from an umbrella handle, into a mail box in the apartment house at 156 Kenmore Jacob Sackstein, 24, of 241 Bristol gave the superintendent of the apartment house a hard fight last night, then got away and tried to hide in a private home at. 25 E. 21st st. He was caught there and arrested by Detective Bell of the Snyder ave. station.

Michael Bacci, the superintendent; going to the lobby of the house about 7 o'clock, saw Sackstein at work on the mailbox, and grappled with him. There was a short and bitter battle, during which Sackstein finally escaped by pulling off his coat and running. A crowd chased him, and he finally eluded them, slipped into the house of John Schneider Jr. and tried to hide. He told Schneider he had been hit by a motorcar.

Snyder gave him water and brushed off his clothes. Schneider, became suspiclous when' Sackstein seemed to be faking injuries, and told him to wait while he tried to find out what all the noise in the streets was about. Then Sackstein ran for the Schneider followed him, and there was another short battle. But by that time Bacci had called help from the police station and Detective Bell had arrived. Bell snapped handcuffs on Sackstein's wrists and hustled him off to the Snyder ave.

station. Later police went to the Bristol st. house and said they found more than 60 envelopes addressed to Flatbush people. Sackstein said he had been robbing apartments of mail some time, the police declared. He was held on a charge of robbery and will probably be turned over to the Federal authorities.

Detectives said Sackstein had been arrested for forgery in New Jersey and charged that he looked through the letters he stele from the apartments for checks and then cashed them by forging signatures. WIDOW GETS BULK OF G. H. BUEK ESTATE Property Left by Brooklyn. Man Valued at $332,381.

Riverhead, L. June 20-The gross value the estate of Gustave H. Buek of Brooklyn and East Hampton has been appraised for transfer tax purposes at $332,381.74. A tax decree. of $1,685.44 was entered here today in the Surrogate's Court, The widow, Mrs.

Hannah L. Buek of 466 Classon Brooklyn, received under the will $11,550 in securities, $7,020 worth of furniture and the income on $259,224 for life. Other bequests were the Ladies Village Improvement Society, East Hampton, $500; East Hampton Public Library, $500; Old South Burying Grounds, East Hampton, $500; East Hampton Emergency Hospital, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, $450; Anna Hartman, a sister, of 466 Classon Brooklyn, William T. Dobley of 364 Lexington Brooklyn, $1,000, and Emmi Luckhardt, a sister, of Mount Vernon, $8,726. The "Home, Sweet Home" house owned by Mr.

Buek at East Hampton was sold to the village for $60,000 on Feb. 8, 1927. The house at one time was the home of John Howard Payne, composer of "Home, Sweet SEEK MYSTERY GIRL IN SUICIDE EFFORT Dentist Writes He Is Not Worthy of Her. Dr. Irving J.

Bernstein, 32, a dentist, of 184 Stuyvesant was reported recovering today in Kings County Hospital following his attempt at suicide yesterday by inhaling illuminating gas, according to the police. Meanwhile police are trying to discover the identity of a woman named "Fannie," whom the dentist left a farewell note. Bernstein was revived with the aid of a pulmotor. Two notes were found, one addressed dear Fannie" and the other "My family." The to former read: "I must hurt you just once more, but it's the last time. I could not bear it any longer.

You can understand with what heart I am writing these words. Be happy, forget me. I'll be better off where I am going. I. could never prove worthy of you, my' dear girl.

The only pleasant moments of my life were spent with you." The letter to the family requested them to take care of Fannie and his sister, Mary, and asked that he be cremated, "if it is not putting you to too much trouble." Riser-Larsen, Lt. Luetzow Holm or of Major Maddalena and his two companions failed to see any sign of life on the ice. Yet each time General Nobile's radio carried word that the planes had been seen and that every effort to attract their attention had failed. We have here one of the most dramatic situations in the history of Arctic exploration. First, the successful flight of the Italia over the North Pole with hourly bulletins ing of progress, success and the slow return against adverse winds.

Then silence. The world had about given up hope for General Nobile and his crew when two weeks later radio sets in various parts of the world began to hear his faint calls for help. After several days skepticism gave way to certainty, when the Italia operator's private signal identified the party and located General Nobile and five companions on the ice floes a few miles from the shore of bleak Northeast Land in Spitzbergen. His radio soon told the story of the Italia's forced descent, the probable death of most of the crew and the plight of the rest. Sealing vessels, airplanes, icebreakers and huge seaplanes were rushed North from all parts of the world.

Money has been spent without stint or limit by Sweden, Norway, France, Russia and Italy to render what aid they could. Roald Amundsen, General Nobile's arch-enemy ever since they flew over the Pole in the Norge two years ago, forgot differences and volunteered to help find the Italians. He is now risking his life in the effort to render them aid. The world applauds the rescuers and hopes for their success. This strange dramatic tale deserves 8 happy ending.

Mr. Distler also founded the Excelsior Brewery on Pulaski near Sumner ave. His former Munch brewery is now a cold storage plant. Mr. Distler has become a director of the Erasmus State Bank at Church and Rogers aves.

In Vienna, Mr. Distler said, the Arion Society will sing at a great festival where 180,000 singers will be present. In Berlin they will sing with the Philharmonic Society. Among Those Sailing. Dr.

G. E. Seyfarth of 17 Palmetto president of the society, heads the voyagers. The itinerary will include Bremen, Hamburg, Muenchen, Innsbruck, Zurich, Luzern, Interlaken, Bern and Karlsruhe. Members of the society sailing included Mr.

and Mrs George Bruekner, Stephen S. Chan, Mrs. Eugenie Feuerbach, Fred L. Feuerbach, William Feuerbach. Miss Lillian Luckenbach, Mrs.

Margaret Moehle, Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Rau. Miss Minnie Seitz and Louis Zoeliner, Most of the party will return the S.

S. Sierra Cordoba on Sept. son Donn Byrne's Death Laid To Faulty Steering Cork, Irish Free State, June 20 (AP)n -Death of Donn Byrne, AmericanIrish writer, today was attributed to the defective steering gear of his new -Ar automobile. A verdict of accidental was returned. Miss Burkett, his secretary, said that shortly after they left the Byrne home she noticed the steering gear was out of orders and asked him to return, but he refused.

After three crashes she got SOL out of the car and him proceed. alone. "I ran along the road calling his name repeatedly," she said, after the car disapneared. "I could get no reply, so I took off my shoes and waded into the water at the side of the highway. Presently my foot touched something and I saw it was.

Byrne's leg. The awful reality dawned on me then -that he was' pinned beneath the car." She WAS unable to release him. Post Hall, has become very interested in the brides and has promised that should any prospective bride choose Post Hall for this "everything will he fixed just as pretty and bridelike as if it were her own home." Miss Sarah Black, A secretarial nurse. was married yesterday. Miss Ruth Fetzer, secretary in a publishing house, was married on Saturday.

Miss Gertrude Woodhouse, an office worker, was married a short time ago. Miss Virginia Moore, a Government employee, and Miss Hettle Smith, a teacher, have chosen June 30 as their wedding date. W. H. Childs and Family To Sail for Long Trip Mr.

and Mrs. William Hamlin Childs and their daughters, Betty and Sally, will sail at midnight on the Aquitania for a three months' European trip. The Childs will visit France, Italy and Switzerland and return to their home at 53 Prospect Park West on Sept, 20..