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Mr BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1931. 16 A PLAYS LONE HAND LIFE SENTENCE FOR A QUART Medical Care Concentrated, Insists Probe In Job Racket Got Casb Bad II I III Cuvillier Does as He Likes and Fears None Never Penalized for Differing With the Governor or With Fellow Democrats on Merits of Any Bill Because He Is Right Most of Time By CLINTON L. MOSIIER Bnw.o, Caritoi Baildint. Albany, Feb. 13 The gentleman from New York, Louis A.

Cuvillier, steps into the center of the aisle in the Assembly Chamber and starts two one-man revolts against his Democratic associates and Governor Roosevelt. The revolts are capitol. He crept down the center aisle at a snail's pace. The sheer determination of the man brought applause from both sides of the mmr jmmw mmmmb 42 Brooklyn, LL, Inventors Given Patents in Week 2 Women Get Letters, One of Them Devising a Foldable Box Rody Eagle Rurean, Colorado Building. Washington, Feb.

14 Patents were issued this week to 42 residents of Brooklyn and Long Island, Among the patentees are two women, one of whom Invented a fold-able box body and the other breast beautlfiers. Several patents were issued for typographical machines and signaling and telegraphic devices. Those receiving patents were: ALWIN BACHMANK. Brooklyn, assignor to Kearney Ic Trecker Corporation. West All is.

milling; machine. MARCUS B. BEHRMAN, Brooklyn, assignor to the Lox Seal Corporation, tag securing means. MARCUS B. BEHRMAN.

assignor to American Safety Razor Corporation, Brooklyn, razor. JOSEPH BERO, Long Island City. Esther Berg, executor, sound deflector for portable phonograph. JAMES A. CAMERON, assignor to Cameron Machine Company.

Brooklyn, friction resistance device for winding machines. JOHN M. COLUCCt. Brooklyn, assignor! by mesne assignments to P. Sllbcrharts, J.

Silberhartz and H. Scheiner, lighting fixture. SIMON COOPER, assignor to the Cooper Tea Packet Company, Brooklyn, tag with attached string and method' of MICHAEL O. CORSON. Jackson Heights, assignor of three-twentieths to O.

H. Corey. copper alloy and treating same. JOSEPH W. DUCLOS, Brooklyn, display rack.

ADAM B. PAHNE8TOCK. Manhasset, assignor by mesne assignments to the Standard Stoker Company, Manhattan, locomotive stoker. ROBERT H. FENN, Whitestone, automatic, box machine.

MARTIN PEYBUSCH. Brooklyn, assignor to New Jersey Machine Corporation, Hoboken. web tensioning device. THOMAS A. FOLEY, Astoria, derrick ro- tatlng means.

SOLOMON FORMAN. assignor of one-half to B. Forman, Brooklyn, apparatus for making coffee. PASQUALE T. GABRIEL.

Brooklyn, assignor to D. La Valle, Manhattan, wooden heel. ROSE GOODMAN, Brtafclvn, foldable box body. GEORGE F. HANDLEY, Olendale.

assignor to Royal Typewriter Company, Manhattan, tynewrlting machine. VICTOR O. HANSON, Brooklyn, assignor to International Cigar Machinery Company, automatic tiller feed for cigar machines. Edward F. Butler, 45, left, and his attorney, Harry Hayward, preparing papers to appeal a life sentence to the Kansas Penitentiary because a sheriff caught him with one quart of liquor.

A jury found Butler guilty of being a persistent violator of the Kansas prohibitory laws, and by their verdict convicted him of his fourth felonious act, which makes it mandatory upon the trial Judge to sentence him to life in prison. Butler will ask for a new trial, and if not successful, the sentence stands. Prof. Mo ley1 Attacks house and a handshake from As semblyman Edmund Jenks, the dry leader from Broome. "Thanks, Jinx (he always calls hira that)," said Cuvillier.

He settled back in his seat to wait until his bill had been reached. The clerk read the title and Cuvil lier got up and began his motions. It was a highly-involved proceeding. Cuvillier never forgot the fact that McGinnies, an ardent dry, saved the day for him. But the drys in the Senate whipped it on a technicality.

Can Speak on Any Bill Cuvillier can speak on any and every bill. If his remarks wander from the subject matter ot the measure it makes no difference. He fills in the time until the Demo crats rub their eyes and get their bearings. Then some one says. Okay, Louie" and Cuvillier sits down.

When the session adjourns tem porarily for a caucus or to await a bill from the Senate, Cuvillier sends out a page for a bowl of cereal. The other day he was eating from the top of his desk when one of the younger members of the lower house shuffled his feet back and forth on the heavy carpet and touched his finger to Louie's bald head. There was a snap and a spark. Cuvillier went on eating. He hasn't got time for the freshmen.

At night he wanders around the capitol reading bills, looking up old legislation and otherwise tutoring himself. His passion in life is animals. Last year he got into a rumpus with a churcn janitor down in Manhattan because when Louie spread breadcrumbs for the pigeons on the church steps the Janitor told him to clear away the garbage. Cuvillier filled the letter columns of the Manhattan dailies with attacks on this demon. Trains Dog on Trip One day last year he got on the Monday noon train for Albany with a white collie dog on a leash.

He ordered a drawing room for himself and the dog. At frequent intervals throughout the three-hour trip there came from the drawing room the barking of the dog and the voice of its master, first coaxing and then berating the animal. Cuvillier does as he likes and gets away with it because nine times out of ten he knows what he's doing. Lesser Plea Habit Contends That a Person Is Either Guilty or Not Guilty of a Specific Crime and That Prosecution for Any Other Fails to Satisfy Justice Raymond Moley, Columbia professor, research director of the New York State Crime Commission and one of the world's leading criminologists, told The Eagle yesterday that "Kings County is rivaled only by Chicago as the country's worst offender in the matter' Wilbur Finds Committee Survey Says Doctors and Aid Are Unevenly Distributed There is one health worker for every hundred persons and about one physician for every thousand in the United States, and yet medical care is anything but adequate in distribution, In the opinion of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur.

Secretary of the Interior and chairman of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care. Dr. Wilbur made the statement in connection with a discussion released today of the purposes of the committee, the work of which, begun In 1928, will terminate in 1933 after a nationwide survey on the Incidence and cost of sickness. Discussing the Inadequate distribution of medical care, Dr. Wilbur points out that although there are nearly 1,500.000 men and women health workers and 145,000 physicians in the country "a certain North Carolina county with a population of 18,000 has or had only Tour active and capable doctors a short time ago to care for its health." "New York." he says, "certainly does not lack far doctors or for hospitals to which their patients may be sent.

Yet a recent survey of the Mulberry Hill district of Manhattan showed that nearly 20 percent of those too sick to be at work or at school had had no medical care from a physician. "Childbirth is a critical time for both mother and infant. Yet out of about 2.400,000 births each year about 360,000 are attended by mid-wives only, many of whom are ignorant and incompetent. "Even where medical facilities seem to be adequate patients com plain of what they consider exces sive bills from physicians, surgeons and hospitals; physicians protest that much of their work is done for nothing and that many patients pay less than they should and could, and hospitals, even when many of their expenses are paid out of en dowments and contributions, often find it hard to make both ends meet, "Thus, if we think of health as a community, the supply is insuffi cient. There must be something wrong with the 'health Dr.

Wilbur indicates that what's wrong with the industry is the poor co-ordination. "The struggle against ill health, for the most part," he remarks, "is carried on more like guerrilla warfare than like an organized campaign. "It was this situation not reflecting on any individual or group that led to the creation of the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," he continues. "The purpose of this committee is the solution of the prob lem of the 'delivery of adequate scientific medical service to all peo ple, rich and poor, at a cost which can be reasonably met by them in their respective stations in life. Study for Five Years "The work was planned to consume five years, with the backing of the Carnegie Corporation, the Mil-bank Fund, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation and the Josiah Macy Jr.

Foundation. "It had also the co-operation of the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association. It is the first thorough survey of its sort to be made in any country. "Some of the studies so far made Include compilations of existing material on the extent of illness and various physical and mental defects in the United States; a survey of data on the medical facilities available for preventing and treating illness; a study of hospital service for persons of moderate means, and an examination of a typical industrial medical service." "There is no doubt but that the existing rates of sickness, of mental end physical disability and of premature death can be greatly reduced if we apply to them more thoroughly the knowledge we already possess. "Perhaps there is no political or economic reform which may be compared with the attainment of that end, so easily defined and, up to new, so slow of realization." Brooklyn Guests At Atlantic City Atlantic City, Feb.

14 With lent beginning Wednesday, Atlantic City hotels are filling with visitors trom many sections of the country, seeking physical as well as spiritual wellbeing at the seashore. Recent arrivals from Brooklyn include; Ambassador Mrs. M. B. Garai-ner.

Mr. and Mrs. P. Breslau, Mrs J. Thayer.

Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Dr. and Mrs. B. S. Hall.

Mrs. George Muller, Mrs. Elzey Walters. Mrs. Morris G.

White, Mr. and Mrs R. J. Knox, Mrs. MacLear Jacoby, Mr.

and Mrs. W. B. Sellers, Mrs. Frank L.

Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. DeCastro, Mrs. Stewart Curtis.

Mr. and Mrs. T. S. McBride.

Mrs. George Berry. Chelsea Mr. and Mrs. W.

W. Dennis Miss Alice M. McAriie, Miss Marie Edmunds, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G.

Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- (tone, Miss Gloria Lynch. Mr ind Mrs. L.

Stecker, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Calhoun, Miss Margaret McCook. Knickerbocker Mrs.

H. Lavitz. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mehlman.

i Marlborough Blenheim Miss I Katherine Burns, Miss Mary C. I Donnelly, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bowen. Mrs.

Theo Baldwin. Miss Dorothy Low, Miss Harriet Righter, Miss Jessie H. Richter, Mrs. E. A.

Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. I W. J. Whitaker.

Morton Mrs. William Muller, Mrs. M. A. Story, Mr.

and Mis. M. F. Viaford, Mr. and Mrs.

L. D. Kauflman. Traymore Mr. and Mrs.

A. Baker Mr. and Mrs. G. J.

Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. T. J.

Molloy, Mr and Mrs. Nelson B. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Marsdea Detective Denies Claim Of Jacobs Money Was Previously Returned Contradictory statements were given to The Eagle yesterday by Assistant District Attorney Ralph K.

Jacobs and Max B. Krone, head of the Federal Detective Agency, in answer to the question of whether Harry Izzicson and Morris Rubin, indicted for grand larceny as school job racketeers, made restitution before or after institution of a Board of Education probe. According to the district attorney, who declines to make public the 600-page transcript of the Board ot Education report which resulted in the indictments, the two men took $10,000 from 24 people. Of this amount, he says, $8,000 was returned to the job applicants involved. On these facts Mr.

Krone, who started the investigation for the Education Board, is In agreement. Tell Two Stories But yesterday Mr. Jacobs said: "We have records to show that the money was returned prior to the Investigation started by Mr. Krone, I can speak with conviction on that point. But because the records were intrusted to my office by the Board of Education I cannot allow them to be made public." And Mr.

Krone said: "In only about three or four of the cases in volved was money returned before I started my investigation. Most of the money returned was given back after we had started our investigation." Asked yesterday whether he would reveal the contents of the report of the detective agency, Dr. George J. Ryan, president of the Board of Education, said: "It Is a matter row In the hands of the district attorney and we have no right to make the report public. Everything Is up to the district attorney." End of Indictments Dr.

Ryan asked Krone to conduct his investigation early last month. When the survey was completed the matter was turned over to District Attorney Geoghan, who in turn assigned Mr. Jacobs to search for evidences of criminality. The two indictments followed. Mr.

Jacobs yesterday said that he had furthered his study and that there would "be no more indictments." When announcement of the Izzic-son-Rubin indictments was made Mr. Jacobs said that he was able to Indict because of a technicality. The two men, he said, had been guilty of a misstatement of fact. The Eagle learned yesterday that a ruling of the Appellate Division has made It impossible to press charges in many cases such as those presented In the fruits of the "school Job" quiz. As a result, a man who offers to obtain a Job for another in return for payment frequently is not guilty of a felony.

In such cases the person who pays the money and fails to get the Job may sue to recover the funds, but there is no criminality Involved. Trial Is Delayed The Izzicson-Rubin trial, scheduled to go on next Tuesday, will be delayed because Judge George W. Martin, before whom the trial was to be held, Is out of town. The case will be held up until his return. District Attorney Geoghan said today that the Jurist should be back by Feb.

23 and that the case would be placed on the calendar immediately thereafter. Assistant District Attorney Jacobs caused a sensation ten days ago when he expressed willingness to accept pleas of petty larceny from Izzicson and Rubin. The men are specifically charged with having taken $600 from a teacher applicant. Judge Martin refused to allow the plea. Spending Winter At Camden, S.

C. (Special to The Eagle) Camden, S. Feb. 9 Mr. and Mrs.

A. B. Hall and Mr. and Mis. B.

R. Gray are recent arrivals from Brooklyn at the Kirkwood Hotel Also coming to the Kirkwood are Mr. and Mrs. George E. Brown of Roslyn, L.

and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Morris of New York.

Miss Elizabeth W. Post of West-bury, L. has Joined Mrs. A. W.

Post for a visit at Hobkirk Inn. Mrs. Florman J. Davis and Miss Clara E. Davis of Brooklyn have arrived at the Court Inn.

W. D. Burns of Brooklyn is passing February with Mr. and Mrs. John Devine of New York, who are among all season guests wintering at the Kirkwood.

Dancing in the attractive grill is a nightly feature enjoyed by quests at the Kirkwood. Entries for the Washington's Birthday races to be held on the Springdale course on Feb. 23 are WENR, WLS Augment N. B. C.

Midwest Net Washington, Feb. 14 Plans of M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company, to give to radio listeners of Chicago and the mid-West increased and augmented broadcasting have just been made public here. Under the terms of an application for transfer of license, filed today before the Federal Radio Commission, the National Broadcasting Company will be enabled for the first time to have use of WENR, the Chicago station owned and operated by the Great Lakes Broadcasting Company.

The commission was also informed that an arrangement has been made with the owners of station WLS, which is also in Chicago territory. begun and ended within the course of an hour. Cries of, "Sit down, Louie" and "Enough of that, Louie" come from the Democratic side of the chamber. When he has finished his burst of oratory, and only then, Louie sits down. Is the gentleman from New York punished for his short-lived insur gency? Is he reprimanded for holding Demo-cvats on the Banking Committee equally responsible with Republicans for not safeguarding depositors? Is he penalized for dar ing to differ openly with His Excellency, the Democratic Governor of the State of New York, over what he re gards the Gov- clinton Mosher ernors viewa uu a ship canal? Reads Every Bill He is not.

And why? For the simple reason that Cuvillier does what no other Democrat In the Assembly can or will do. He reads every bill. He starts with the title and winds up with the enacting clause. He rereads it. He reads between the lines.

He is the grand old watch dog of the minority. Cuvillier is short, bent ana Dam. He wears a Micawber collar, into which he sinks most of his face. He shouts to the rafters and then to the red caroet on the noor. tie keeps his eyes closed.

He seldom looks at the other members iti the chamber. Past middle age, Cuvillier has little regard for the legislative youngsters who sit around him. Most of the time they irritate him with practical Jokes, laughter and other equally undignified outbursts, but he never shows his anger. Right Most of Time The fact of the matter is that nine times out of ten Cuvillier is the only one on the Democratic side who knows what it is all about. On matters of procedure his knowl edee is second to none unless it be that of Speaker Joseph A.

Mc Ginnies. When the Democrats are shoved into a box by the Republican ma jority some one whispers, "What about it, Louie?" and Louie is in his glory. Occasionally he glances at his manual; more often the nec essary knowledge comes to mm without having to refresh his memory. Only once did Louie trip up, and on that occasion the venerame Speaker saved the day for him. Sickness had contributed to his faulty memory.

Cuvillier had been ill with a cold in his room up near the capitol. His doctor told him that unless he stayed in bed he would catch pneumonia. Both Sides Applaud But they sent word to Cuvillier that his wet bill was on the calendar. It was one of those rainy Spring days last year. Cuvillier dressed and hobbled over to the Schools Increase Job Placements Of Working Pupils New Fields Found in Re cent Survey of Manhat tan and Brooklyn Firms Despite the unemployment situa tion the Board of Education's bureau of guidance and placement secured 56 more part-time positions for pupils during the five months from Sept.

1 to Jan. 31 than during the same period a year ago. The number of co-operative stu dent positions for the two periods remained about the' same. Co-operative students alternate a week at school and a week at employment. In a report submitted to Deputy Superintendent Harold G.

Campbell yesterday Dr. Charles M. Smith, director of the school bureau of placement and guidance, explains that as a result of a personal job canvass by continuation school teachers in recent weeks, 165 continuation school pupils were placed in positions. Dr. Smith reported that large employers, such a department stores and insurance companies, had been beseiged with applicants, but many small employers had need for help.

The smaller employers had been turning to fee-charging agencies, he said. The l.i'st job canvass by the teachers was made in Manhattan, six teachers working 20 days and visiting 774 firms. Requests were made for 332 workers 60 men and 272 women. One of the results of this canvass, Dr. Campbell was informed, was the discovery of new fields of employment.

A specific instance was in the needle trades, where the canvassers found a demand for zigzag machine operators. In January a canvass was made in Brooklyfi by seven teachers who found 102 positions, many of which continuation school pupils were qualified to fill. Speakeasies Teach Wives to be Cautious Victims of Robbers Now Peer at Strangers Through Peepholes and Refuse to Open Doors, Just Like the Leading Firewater Cafes The housewives of Brooklyn have taken refuge, it appears, behind speakeasy peepholes against the inroads of holdup men. That is not meant as a charge that the good wives of this borough have given up Louis A. Cuvillier Britain's Death Rate Is Lowest Ever Recorded Cut Birth Figures for 1930 Show No Gain Over 1929 -Fewer Babies ArcDving (Special Correspondence of The Eagle London, Jan.

30 While the death rate for England and Wales for the year 1930 was the lowest on record, the fact remains that births have not increased, the figures for the year being exactly the same as those for 1929. The encouraging feature of the returns, however, is the decrease in Infant mortality, which also was the lowest on record, being five pel thousand below that for 1928, the previous lowest, and 14 per thousand below that for 1929. In the great centers the death rate was 1.9 below that for 1929 and .1 below the rate for 1923 and 1926, the previous lowest. The live births and deaths (crude rate) per thousand of the estimated population are given as follows: England and Wales: Live births 16.3; deaths, 11.5. One hundred and seven county boroughs and great towns, including London: Live births, 16.7; deaths, 11.5.

One hundred and fifty nine smaller towns (population 20,000 to 50.000 In 1921): Live births. 16.2; deaths, 10.5. The death rate for England and Wales relates to the whole popula tion, but that for London and the two groups of towns to the civil population only. Generous 'You are celebrating your birth day and your husband is not with you?" No, he is doing time on account of my birthday present." Lustige Kolner Zcitung, Cologne. anything about anything.

Who are you, anyway?" The young man produced cards, documents, identification papers. He held them out toward the peephole. The eye grew larger and was presently joined by a bit of cheek and the wavering tip of a nose. The eye was examining the documents. Then the eye retreated quickly.

The peephole closed. From behind it a voice said: "We've had robberies enough, but I don't want to talk about them." Approaches No. 2 Mr. Reporter went to door No. 2, where, also, a robbery had occurred.

There was another peephole. all put them in since the robberies," explained the superintendent later.) opened slightly. Quickly the young man explained who he was. "How do I know you're from the Eagle?" a young woman asked. Out came the credentiials.

The young woman didn't even look at them, khe closed the peephole and retired. A hallboy came by. "You better not stick around here too long," he offered. "These people-how do they know you aren't trying to do the same thing?" One more attempt this time on the top floor. The same routine: peephole, question! explanation, documentary credentials.

"That," said a woman's voice through the peephole, "is what you say. But how do I know you're not one of the men trying to do the same thing?" Warned Away In the corridor our young man met a male tenant and explained his difficulties. "Well," he suggested, "there's another woman around here who was robbed, but you better not go there. She's liable to faint away on you. They're all in a nervous state." It was only by telephoning later and arranging for a personal meeting in the office of the Eagle that the young man was able to convince this woman that he was, indeed, what he said he was.

It was at this meeting she told how a young man had called on her with a bouquet of flowers and as she turned to sign a receipt he followed her and produced a gun. "You can understand how I've been about such things ever since," she explained. JOHN c. F. HORSTMANN, Brooklyn, gam indicator.

JOB HUTCHINSON, Great Neck, carburetor. GEOUOE P. KTNOSBURY, Hollls, assignor to Mergenthaler Linotype Company, typopraphlcftl composing machine. MAX KLINOER, Brooklyn, dental flosa holder. HUBERT K.

KRANTZ. Rockville Centre, assignor to Westinehouse Electrl-2 and a acturing Company, electrical switch. BERNARD KRASNOFF, BrooHyn, artificial denture. KARL KRUEIN1NG, Jamaica, assignor to Kollmorgen Optical Corporation. Brooklyn, lens mount.

WILLIAM J. MAXWELL, Flushing, fUling machine. SAMUEL MARCUS. Brooklyn, assignor by mesne assignments to Markon Manufacturing Company. Manhattan, producing doll heads.

WANDA MERCKELBACH (nee Werner), Flushing, breast heautifler. MAXMILIAN C. MEYER, assignor to Joseph H. Meyer Brothers, Brooklyn, article of manufacture, also a patent on an article of Jewelry. NATHAN MICHELMAN, Brooklyn, metal door.

ABRAHAM NOVICK, Flushing, assignor to F. L. Smithe Machine Company, Manhattan, delivery mechanism. HANS OMENITSCH, Jackson Heights, assignor of one-third to Arthur Bavmann, Elmhurst. and one-third to Herbert Holden.

Manhattan, tire casing cushion. WILLIAM N. PARKES. Brooklyn, assignor to the Singer Manufacturing Company. Elizabeth.

N. bobbin-thread pull-off for lockstitch machine, also a patent for a bobbin-retaining device for sewing machine loop takers. ROBERT 8. PEELLE. IJollls, assignor to the Peelle Company, Brooklyn, warehouse door.

WALTER PORANSKI, Long Island City, compact. SAMUEL RtCHMAN, Brooklyn, tie. JOHN R. ROGERS. Brooklyn, assignor to Mercenthaler Linotype Company, typographical composing and distributing machine and a patent for a typographical machine.

FRED J. SINGER, Rockville Centre, assignor to American Telephone and Telegraph Company, three patents, two for telegraph receiving systems and one for a telegraph signaling system. ALBERT A. SOMERVILLE. Flushing, assignor to R.

T. Vanderbllt Company, Manhattan. vulranl7atlon of rubber. ALFONSO SORIENTE. Brooklyn, Can construction.

SAMUFL E. SPERRY. Hollls, assignor to Intertype Corporation. Brooklyn, keyboard' for tvnogranhlcal machines. MICHAEL TRESECHOW, Brooklyn, assignor to F.

L. Smith Manhat-tnn. wheel. ANTOTNE VFRICEL. Baldwin, assignor to Doehler Products Corporation, metal ft'rniture.

ALBERT E. WOLLNOUGH. St Albans. r-0-nr t- steien Slesinger, Manhattan, toy animal Slightly Modify Grimm For Nonsensical Tales Grimm's "Fairy Tales," slightly modified, supply "Prof." Cecil Widdi-fleld with the new nonsense series he is beginning in the Tuesday O'Cedar program over WABC-Co-lumbia from 10:30 to 10:45 o'clock in the morning. King Midas and his golden opportunities will be featured in thfl first program of the series.

Bennie Watson and Fred Von Ammon provide a still more modern touch for the old tale by their accordion, kazoo and piano background. Hints for the morning housewife are interspersed with the entertainment. YOU can't enjoy living if you are troubled with Constipation. RUMINOL, a pure, full-bodied Russian Mineral Oil, is a safe corrective It will give you intestinal health and a new zest for work and play. Try a bottle and see how much uener you win feel.

Demand Ruminft by name I OhePureRusfian Mineral Oil The Ruminol Company 1491 Fulton Street Brooklyn, N. Y. Time In on WFOX twice dailv and hear Al Hauser tell yon what RUMINOL la. 1' ir lMftUfWV? II MIMMo.Mtin of the acceptance by prosecutors of pleas of guilty to degrees of crime less than charged in indictments." In a summary of the situation which takes issue with every detail of District Attorney Geoghan'a explanation of the practice, as published Wednesday in The Eagle, Professor Moley pointed out that in a recent Crime Commission investigation it was revealed that of all the cases handled in Brooklyn's Criminal Court the "shocking total" of 57 percent end with rileas to lesser degrees of crime. Percentage Drops The total is made all the more amazing, the professor said, when compared with statistics which phow that in such up-state cities as Rochester and Syracuse the number of defendants allowed to plead to crimes of a lesser degree is only a fraction over two percent.

In other words, more than hall the men and women indicted in Kings County are allowed to plead guilty to a crime less vicious tnan than that on which they originally brought into court, whereas only one of every 50 has the same opportunity in Rochester or Syracuse. Although the statistics were compiled in 1929, Professor Moley said that "the situation is precisely I he same today." Quoting directly from his book, Politics and Criminal Prosecution," the professor summed up his opinion of the "lesser plea" situation Dy saying "A person is either guilty or a crime or not guilty. It does not satisfy the requirements of justice a Viiv fnr rna irirtiB hw cause it is impossible to punish him I for the correct one. Speaks of Rating "The value of the services of a prosecuting officer should not be rated by the number of persons whose guilt he has established." Mr. Geoghan had told The Eagle that "technicalities" cften weaken a case and make the acceptance of lesser pleas "advisable so as to obtain at least some punishment." The Columbia authority was not in accord with Mr.

Gcoghan's statement that a prosecutor has no control over the action of a grand jury. Professor Moley said: "The grand jury has come to oe a group of men who function under the dictation of the prosecutor. It ip a mere rubber stamp for the prosecutor, and a means by which he is able to escape specific responsibility for his actions. The grand jury, as an instrument for the routine work of initiating prosecutions, has been supplanted by the public prosecutor. Lapses of Memory "It has been argued that a complainant frequently suffers lapses of memory between the time he testifies before the grand jury and the time of the trial.

Sometimes district attorneys contend that the complainant who is certain of identification at the time of the indictment is not so sure when he takes the witness stand." (This argument was advanced by District Attorney Geoghan in The Eaele interview.) "In such a case, Professor Moley went on, "we are forced to wonder whether it would not be better not to rush it to the grand jury. If the complainant is apt to change his mind, why not hold him for a certain length of time before attempting to obtain the indictment? Prosecutors should always be sure that a grand jury has all the evidence, anyway, before an indictment is a.sked." ost No Factor In antfr to contention advanced District Attorney Geoghan that the acceptance of pleas aids in clearing the calendar and thus saves time and money, the Columbia criminologist said: "If the cost of trials is to be considered as an issue, why not do away altogether with the administration of justice? Under the circumstances, st-nds to reason that cost should not be an issue." The indictment. Professor Moley believes, has been twisted and warped in meaning until it is hardly recognizable. "There is an all too prevalent tendency," he says, "to regard an indictment as a conviction. The average prosecutor, receiving a case, is too apt to say: I guess we'll indict this If this were not done so frequently the acceptance of pleas to lesser degrees would not be so frequently necessary.

There is no reason why the Indictment should be used with such abandon as a means of establishing a case." Another way in which district attorneys have fallen into the habit of disregarding too much the Importance of the grand jury's opinion of a case, says Dr. Moley, is in "the custom of discarding one or more indictments in the acceptance of pleas." For an example, the criminologist points to the frequency with which defendants indicted on several counts (grand larceny and robbery, for instance) are allowed to plead to only one of the crimes and in a lesser degree. In these cases the other indictment or indictments are discarded entirely. Through Trolley Service on Bridge Through service of Brooklyn and Queens trolleys over the Williamsburg Bridge to Manhattan was scheduled to be resumed at 2 o'clock this morning after a lapse of nine years, during which the city operated a municipal shuttle service across the span. Four lines, the Ralph-Rockaway, Reid, Tompkins and Nostrand, will run to Delancey St and free transfers from eight others, which either terminate at or intersect the Brooklyn Plaza, will be given.

This restores five-cent service from interior sections of Brooklyn to Manhattan via the span. Heretofore an additional fare had to be paid on the bridge line. The B. Q. will operate a local service at a two-cent fare in place of the city service which ends as private operation begins.

Old-Time Songs for All Ages on New Programs A series of musical programs a bit unusual in conception, arrangement and presentation will be inaugurated over the Columbia chain the nieht of Feb. 27 at 8:30 o'clock on WABC. Programs of the Dutch Masters will coasist of old-time popular songs and will include vocal, instrumental and orchestral selections. Each half-hour program of the Dutch Masters will be made up of five groups of musical numbers, each group consisting of four selections. Instead of devoting an entire group to a particular period, the Dutch Masters will take each of the four selections in every group from a different period.

One selection in each grouo will be taken from the period of 1895 to 1901. another from 1902 to 1908. the third from 1909 to 1915 and the fourth from 1916 to 1922. It is hoped that in this way each group will contain a selection with which every one is familiar. their homes and their domestic duties for a life of liquor elsewhere.

By no means. The evidence is to the contrary, that they are staying very much at home very much more so than ever before. But in their homes they have taken a leaf of the speakeasy proprietor's book. They have equipped their apartment doors with peepholes through which, without opening a door, they can look over a prospective caller and decide whether he may be safely admitted. In other words, whether he is likely to be a holdup gentleman on business bound.

And Just to make sure that no mistake is made, they usually request all strangers to go away irr mediately, and to stay away. Police Admit Nothting Thus it is that house-to-house canvassers report that their life has become anything but a pleasant one. Many housewives, they tell, answer a doorbell by opening the door a narrow crack and then closing it quickly. Others, without opening it at all, ask, "Who's there?" and let it go at that. And still others, presumably the more progressive members of the community, have gone in for peepholes.

Thus it is that a young Eagle reporter, bound on a mission of discovering facts about a series of burglaries in a midtown Brooklyn apartment house (the police will tell you there are practically no burglaries) was confronted by the speakeasy peephole. The apartment house superintendent was in doubt whether he ought to allow the young man to investigate. "How do I know," he suggested, "that this isn't only another scheme to pull off some more holdups?" The landlord, however, was called Into conference and the permission eventually obtained. Eye Questions Questioner Armed with that and a sense of righteousness, the unsuspecting reporter approached door No. 1.

He rang a doorbell. Nothing happened. He rang it again. A peephole opened cautiously. An eye apeared.

A large round and obviously suspicious eye. "What do you want?" asked the eye. The reporter explained. He vfShed information about a robbery. "Well," the eye answered, "I can't let you in.

Go away. I don't know anything about it, I don't know.