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to to to to to to to to SPORTS FINANCE RADIO MUSIC EDITORIAL' CLASSIFIED BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE THEATERS RIAN JAMES 2 17 NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930. Einstein Creating New World for All Chemist Says Savant Is Evolving New Idea of Universe With Limit By O. R. PILAT The old-time classical type of professor may have been. as the wags allege, absentminded enough at breakfast to scratch his pancake and pour maple syrup down the back of his neck, and he may also have been gullible enough to buy real more stock, estate but than he and his did share more non-existent of for his oil underwater alert fession than the business professor, who is taking place.

suggestion was inade today by Prof. Martin Meyer, chemistry expert at Brooklyn City College, in discussing the latest achievements of his friend, Prof. Albert Einstein, who, he, believes, is in process of stating mathematically a new world, complete even to heaven and hell. He characterizes Einstein as one of the "classical" type of professor, though not, absentminded or gullible. While most of the scientists here are busy trying to guess what Einstein may have said in his latest work, Dr.

Meyer has the first half of the German scientist's latest discovery and is now making a personal translation of it, as he has done with previous discoveries. "Try to be Business Men' "The trouble with most professors now is that they are trying to be businessmen," said Dr. Meyer, "and, not knowing that businessman often gets his work done by telling a good joke first, they continually pull out their watches and make appointments here and there. They SO busy working they have no time to think. "One manifestation of this attitude is the way scientists stick to experiment.

Every little theory must be checked up with an equally small experiment. Einstein has gone beyond that and has learned to make big jumps and justify them by a crucial experiment." Modern chemistry has furnished means for a super-Hades; according to Dr. Meyer, and now Einstein has furnished the rainisters with the best hint yet of heaven, though they do not seem to realize the fact. "Dante's story of hell is grand poetry, but it shows poverty imagitation," the City College professor explained. "Modern chemists can ordinary mixture of illuminating gas and air with an acetylene torch and get a temperature of 6,300 degrees Fahrenheit, or liquify helium to get temperature of minus 458 degrees, less than four degrees above absolute zero.

Think of the possibilities of eternal torture at such temperatures! Sees End to Space "Einstein has pictured a four-dimensional space. Though limitless in extent, he sees that there is, nevertheless, an 'end of What is at the end of space is unknown, but whatever it is it is not more space and hence has none of the phenomena of which we are familiar in space. "There is where the theologians are missing a chance to point a moral. Einstein assumes that the human mind cannot go beyond space, that there is a limit what it can know, as we have always been told. That is where God heaven logically come in." Dr.

Meyer said that his great interest in evolution comes from the fact that Einstein in gradually setting up mathematical formula to describe various aspects of space, is gradually working down toward the minutest form of matter. "'Pictures a New World' "The reason for the numerous attempts to popularize Einstein is precisely because he has pictured a new world, a new description of matter and space which affects us all, and supersedes the old maic and Copernican cosmogonies," Dr. Meyer concluded. In his latest letter to the Brooklyn chemist, Professor Einstein says in part. "I am of the conviction that a deeper knowledge of physical phenomena is to be won only upon the basis of hypotheses of the nature of He also says curtly that the scientific attack made by Dayton C.

Miller of the Case School of Applied Science two months ago on one phase of the Einstein theory "rests upon experimental errors." Most Significant Figure To Professor Meyer, Einstein is the most significant individual of the 20th Century, and the attempts which he sees to depreciate the German's work infuriate him. Professor Meyer himself, who lives at 131 E. 21st has specialized in research with organic sulcompounds, lead tetraethyl, dehydrothiotoluiden and perfumes for the last 15 years at City College. If you think dehydrothiotoluiden a mouth-filling word, you may be interested to know that as a graduate student Professor Meyer experimented with a chemical 'compound to which he gave a name of 83 letters, said to be the longest devised in the language. Much shortened, this word is dibenzothiazolyfuchsonebenzothiazolylimine.

It's a dye. Gull Flies Off With Golfer's Ball Wildwood, N. March 30 (P)- Ted Austin, Wildwood high school golf champion, and Walter Green approached the final hole on the links here today with their match even. Green's shot fell 20 feet front the pin. Then Austin drove, the ball landing on the beach near the green, but a sea gull picked up the ball and started seaward.

The ball was not retrieved. Allyn King, Ex-Follies Girl, Dies After 5-Story Jump Allyn King, former Follies actress. died yesterday in Bellevue Hospital from injuries sustained when she jumped from the fifth-floor bedroom window at 116 Waverly Place, Manhattan, Saturday. Her mother and sister had left her bedside shortly before she died. Miss King's legs and arms were fractured.

Doctors expected her to live but she suffered a relapse. She had been despondent because of increasing weighty LAUDS EINSTEIN Prof. Martin Meyer Grundy Attacks Atterbury; Fears, Raid on Treasury Calls Philadelphia Wing of G. O. P.

ConspiratorsPinchot Backs Him Up Philadelphia, March 31 (AP) Opening his campaign to succeed himself in the United, States Senate, Joseph R. has trained his heavy artillery on W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and members of the Philadelphia Republican organization's "war board." Senator Grundy is a candidate for the Republican Senatorial nomination at the May primaries against Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, who is backed by the Philadelphia organization and a number of up-State leaders.

Former Governor Gifford Pinchot, gubernatorial candidate, also has taken a fling at members of the "war board," mentioning specifically Councilman Charles B. Hall, Sheriff 1 Thomas W. Cunningham and State Senator Samuel W. Salus. The local organization is supporting Francis Shunk Brown for Governor.

Pinchot is making the fight independentiserted that Atterbury was the "directing mind" in an alleged conspiracy to seize control of the State government and the public treasury. Characterizing the Philadelphia organization as one of the "most corrupt on earth," and asserting that Hall, Salus, Cunningham and its other leaders represented the "very worst" in politics, Mr. Pinchot declared that the election of Brown would mean that these men "would move into the Capitol at Harrisburg and raid the State as they have raided Philadelphia." Davis Sees "Hokum" Washington, March 31 (P)--James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor and candidate for the Republican Senatorial nomination Pennsylvania, said today that efforts to challenge his legal residence in Pennsylvania were "hokum" and would react in his favor. Pennsylvania Democrats have charged that Davis was named Secretary of Labor from Illinois.

and that he is not a resident of the Keystone State. P.S. C. Orders Borough Gas to File Rate Data Consumers League and City Hope to Show Firm's Charge Is Excessive Public Service Commissioner Lunn today ordered Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to supply data called for by the City of New York and the Gas Consumers League, with which the city and league hope to show that the rates charged by the company are excessive. The company supplies gas to the Coney Island and South Brooklyn sections.

The session today reopens the long-fought case which was once decided largely in favor of the company. Maurice Hotchner, counsel for the Gas Consumers League and the Utility Consumers League, declared that the commission should reconsider the decision rendered in the former hearings on two points, namely that the charge of $1 a month per customer is in reality a service charge and forbidden by law and that the rates are "grossly excessive and discriminatory against the mass of small "With the 'data we have called for," said Hotchner, "we expect to show beyond possibility of doubt that all the distribution costs are relatively greater in sparsely settled sections, where the larger customers are found, than in densely settled sections, where the smaller custhe reside. "We shall show that even the flat rate is relatively discriminatory against the small users, and that the initial charge greatly increases this discrimination. "The claim of the company is utterly unfounded that the small users are not paying their way. The fact is, as we shall show, that the small users produce the profits for the company, and that the initial charge greatly increases the excessive and discriminatory burdens placed upon them." Commissioner Lunn set 2 p.m., April 22, for the next hearing.

Fayette Dapron Dies; Well-Known Artist Fayette Dapron, illustrator and etcher, died yesterday his home, 255 Ocean after a long illness. Mr. Dapron was born at Davenport, Iowa, 43 years ago. Many of his etchings have been exhibited in American and Canadian cities. Funeral.

services will be held in the chapel at 500 State at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Burial will be, in Evergreens Cemetery, Blind Deputy Shows Skill as Sculptor Scapini, Who Lost Sight in War, Overcomes Handicap by Uncanny Touch and Makes Busts That Have Merit By GUY HICKOK Eagle Bureau, 58 Rue Cambon. Paris, March 23-Lawyer, Member of Parliament, author sculptor is enough versatility for any man to boast. But Scapini is all of these--and is blind. He is a familiar figure at the Palais de Justice, in his black attorney's robe, its cravat and the black monocle that covers the torn eye socket that did not heal smoothly.

He is always present at the Chamber of Deputies, if the session is important. You would know he was blind by the way he listens, not turning his head to see what is happening behind him. He leans slightly forward, as if trying to hear every slight sound in the farthest corners of the great hall. Chamber Respects Him and George Occasionally he rises and, looking straight forward, not at' the presiding officer, utters a few sentences, to which every one of the 600 members listen silently. It is an unwritten law that Scapini is not to be heckled.

For 15 years, ever since at the age of 20 a machine-gun bullet seered its way across both his eyes, Scapini has lived in darkness. Yet recently he has become a sculptor. A reporter found him working on the head of a child. "Come nearer, little one," said Scapini. The little girl approached.

The sensitive fingers of the blind man brushed lightly down her cheek. He repeated the same gesture on the head of clay. "The ear is not right," he said. And he worked the clay for a moment, then touched the child again. "About four months ago I had one of my friends bring me some clay," he explained.

"I had never done anything of the kind before. But I tried to make the head of a woman as I saw it in my mind. My friend exclaimed when he saw it and said that I should try doing a portrait. I laughed at the idea. Then I thought that it would be great to realize a work outside of myself.

I made a portrait bust of my wife. I made one of myself. Look!" He uncovered two life-sized heads. The resemblance was striking and a little uncanny. "Blindness opens certain unknown horizons, passionate perspectives," he said.

"Like all blind men I have a certain intuitive knowledge of things. You see lazily with the eye. We receive our impressions indirectly by combining the imponderables that lodge in our minds and which constitute an impression. "I understand that these portrait busts are not meticulous likenesses of the originals, but that they have the same air. believe they have qualities that they would not have if I could see.

"I believe that if we were in the right state of evolution we could get along without sight altogether. mysterious sense, at once powerful and delicate, replaces it." Bucket-Shop Racket on Wane, Washburn Finds The bucket-shop racket, one of the most troublesome and profitable that city, State and Federal authorities have to cope with, is temporarily on the wane in New York, according to an analysis just completed by Assistant Attorney General Watson Washburn, head of the State Bureau of Securities. He attributes this to two things: The diminishing number of "sucker" customers resulting from the recent market crash; the record number of injunction proceedings brought by the bureau in the past 12 months, as well as the vigilance of other law enforcement agencies. Drivers Warned to Stop Dropping Coal on Streets Sanitation Commissioner William Schroeder Jr. in a general order today decrees that coal truck drivers who carelessly drop coal on the city streets be summoned to court.

Superintendents of coalyards and shipping stations will be warned to prevent the overloading of trucks. Commissioner Schroeder said that in addition to helping keep the streets clean a considerable waste to consumers will be prevented. Engineers of the department have figured that in the course of a year hundreds of tons go to waste in this way. Assassin's Shot Wounds Deputy On Merrick Rd. Spent Bullet Flattens on Victim's Head -Truck Is Seized With 300 Cases (Special to The Eagle), Lindenhurst, L.

March 31-Chief Deputy Sheriff Burton G. Howe was on the job again today, even though he had been dazed by a spent bullet, evidently shot with intent to kill, which flattened itself out against his skull while he was driving on Merrick Road to his Amityville home last night. The first thing this morning Howe, who has recently been active in on liquor sellers, went to Riverhead closing up speakeasies and warring to tell the story of the attempt on his life to District Attorney Alexander G. Blue and Sheriff Ellis H. Taylor of Suffolk County, to whose office he is attached.

The bullet, penetrating the rear window of Sheriff Howe's coupe, hit him with sufficient force so that he was dazed, but he was able nevertheless to stop his car. Traffic was heavy at that point and by the time he had 1 found the flattened bullet and the hole it had made in the glass he was unable to say where the shot might have come from. Two men, drivers of a truck laden with 300 cases of assorted liquors which was seized on the Montauk Highway near Eastport Saturday by a group of Federal dry officials in the company of District Attorney Alexander G. Blue, are to be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court today on charges of possession and transportation of liquor as a result of the new Federal mopup of the east end of Long Island now under way. The group were on their way east to investigate several tips regarding rumrunning activities when they met the track and seized it.

The presence of so many dry officials was due to a lengthy conference Friday between District Attorney Alexander G. Blue and Maj. Maurice Campbell, Prohibition Administrator for Eastern New York. In the group Saturday were William C. Nolan, Deputy Administrator of Brooklyn; C.

B. Carter, chief of the investigating agency of New York headquarters: C. M. Forbes, assistant chief of the same agency, and M. Raincones of the Brooklyn office.

Just beyond Eastport the party came upon this truck, which was identified at once as one of those suspected of running rum. The load is said to have come from one ofthe best-bnown "drops" on the east end of the island. The driver, Lawrence John Gieger of Watermill, and his assistant; Jack Brown of Fox Bronx, were both arrested and taken to Riverhead, where they were arraigned before Justice Burnside on charges of possession and transportation of liquor and were held in bail of $2,000 each for arraignment in Brooklyn. They were locked up for the time being and the truckload of choice liquors placed in custody by the dry officials while they continued on other business. With this list of prohibition notables on the island a concerted warfare against rumrunning is seen inevitable.

This is the first time in years that there has been such an apparent attempt on the par of Federal men to bottle up the sources of supply on the east end of the island. It is said to follow a long period of investigation and undercover work. SOCCER GIANTS LOSE Providence, March 31-Providence defeated the New York Giants in an Atlantic Coast League soccer game today by the score of 3 to 1. The last half was played in a heavy rain. COP WHO CONQUERED THREE SOLDIERS PEA.

Patrolman Joseph Flurey of 104-17 Rosita Ozone Park, telling niece, Dolores, how he conquered three of Uncle Sam's soldiers who were beating up a civilian at Church Ave. and 18th St. The trio gave their names at the Parkville station as Corp. Patsy Pietto, 29; Private Francis Hanlet, 22, and Private Maynard Madows, 22, all from Governors Island, Tilson Lauds Hoover Plans To Help Idle Glover Says New U. S.

Ships to Take Ocean Record From Europa Washington, March 31 (AP)---Majority Leader Tilson of the House is sponsor for the assertion that Democratic reviews of President Hoover's first year have been marked by "such a concealment of facts as to make it appear that there has been a studied effort at misrepresentation." "So that the situation may be clarified, and the record kept straight," he said in a statement issued for publication today, "I list here some of the high lights of the legislative proposals recommended by President Hoover and passed by Congress." He enumerated six items -tax reduction, farm relief, the Public Buildings bill, Congressional reapportionment, road improvement legislation and act establishing a permanent Federal Radio Commis- sion. Has Aided Business The roads and building measures, he said, represent Government's contribution to business stability and to the comprehensive program "which President Hoover proposed so promptly and energetically after the stock market crash last fall as a means of restoring confidence and alleviating unemployment' Tilson also listed among the Administration's accomplishments the adoption of the Haitian policy, after a study of the situation by a Presidential commission. The Farm Relief bill passed last summer in conformity with the President's recommendations, he said, has "already brought help and courage to agriculture." He saw an illustration of the board's ability to assist the farmers in "the recent embryo wheat panic" which, if left alone, he said "might have precipitated a major disturbance in commodity prices generally." Sees New Ocean Record Assistant Postmaster General Irving Glover also came to the ident's defense, "One of the outstanding achievements of President Hoover's term of office will be the restoration of the American merchant marine to its proper place with the fleets of the world." This came in a statement comparing the outlook for American ships to compete with the Europa and the Bremen, German-built ships. Mr. Glover advised Americans to lift their hats to the gallant German ships but slip them back on so they can take them off again "to one of the giants of the new merchant marine of the United States which is fast coming into being will soon wrest gently the 'blue pennant' from the present 'Queen of the North Atlantic' and place it where it properly belongs, at the masthead of an American-built ship.

built by the brains and brawn of American workmen in the shipyards of America." Famous Beauty Card Girl' Dies in England Marie Studeholme, Musical Comedy Star, in Beauty Series London--Memories of the George Edwards musical comedy era at is zenith and the vogue of the "picture-postcard beauty" are revived by the death of Miss Marie Studholme, the former musical comedy actress, from heart failure after a short illness. Miss Studholme had been ill with rheumatic fever at her home at Hampstead, N. W. The fact that Miss Studholme was only 54 years old will probably surprise that generation of playgoers which knew her, but, she retired in 1913 when only at the height of her popularity. Miss Studholme was held in almost idolatrous affection not only by regular patrons of the Gaiety and Daly's Theaters, but also by countless thousands of people who knew her only by her portraits.

Made Debut in 1891 It was soon after her stage debut -a one-line part in "La Cigale" at the Lyric Theater in 1891, when she was only 16-that the picture-postcard boom started, and as a result of her beauty she became one of the first actresses featured in the deluge of "Famous Beauties" postcards. Miss Studholme maintained her fame and popularity by her talent and hard work. Born at Eccleshill, Yorkshire, she came to London at the age of 15 to earn her living, and a year later went on to the stage. After a short period of understudying Letty Lind, she was chosen by George Edwardes to play the lead in "The Messenger Boy" at the Gaiety. From that time her success was assured.

"An Artist's Model," "The Greek Slave," "The "The Toreador," "The Orchid," and "Lady Mad-her personality is associated with the memories of all these celebrated musical comedies. Miss Studholme toured South Africa in 1910 and 1911, and her last London appearance was a suburban playhouse in 1913. She retired shortly afterwards. Kept Wedding Secret Miss Studholme's marriage in 1908 to Mr. H.

G. Borret, an actor, was romantic. They met during the run of a piece the Gaiety, in which she was the leading lady and he in the chorus. Their acquaintance soon developed into friendship, and it was noticed that in whatever musical comedy Miss Studholme played Mr. Borret secured a place in the chorus.

They kept their marriage a secret for weeks. The adopted two children, who are now at school. LOW MANSION IN PIERREPONT PLACE Low Family Came Here 101 Years Ago First Seth Laid Foundation of Fortune--Their History Recalls Clipper Ship Days, When Brooklyn Was a City It is just 101 years since came to Brooklyn, and the name annals of the borough ever Seth was the name of the in 1829, and it was who shed much luster on the family name later by being elected Mayor of the old City of Brooklyn and later Mayor of Greater New York. The real history of the Low family begins away back in 1605, with the birth at Ipswich, of Thomas Low, who became a deacon in the church at Chebacco, later renamed Essex, holding that position for 30 years. According to the records, he took a very sensible view of things in connection with the Salem witchcraft excitement, and was in every a model citizen.

He died at leaving several children, one of whom was the first of four David Lows in a direct line. In Military Service All four Davids were distinguished for participation in various military operations, the fourth one having taken part in the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Battle of Long Island, and also was at Valley Forge with Washington. This fourth David Low married Hannah Haskell of Gloucester, Mass. Among their children was the first Seth Low, who married Mary Porter of Gloucester. They had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters.

It Beth Low who came to Brooklyn in 1829 and established himself as a merchant, laying the foundation of the family fortune, and taking a very active part in public affairs. of old City of Brooklyn, and He tine was one the incorporators son, Abiel Abbot Low, founded and was elected as His eldest headed the great shipping firm of A. A. Low and Brothers, the fame of which became world-wide. The Lows owned a fleet of clipper ships, principally engaged in the China trade.

Inspired Longfellow The launching of one of them, the Great Republic, furnished the inspiration to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for his famous poem, "The Launching of the Ship." A. A. Low was president of the New York Chamber of Commerce for many years and took a prominent part in financing the laying of the first cable across the Atlantic. He was treasurer of the Defense Committee during the Civil War, and was extremely active in all matters pertaining to the advancement of Brooklyn. His son, Seth Low, who was destined to bring more fame to the family name, was born Jan, 18, 1850, at 165 Washington a short distance from the present Eagle Building.

Soon after the birth of Seth his father erected a fine mansion at 3 Pierrepont Place, from the windows of which he could watch the coming and going of his at the piers below Brooklyn Heights." Seth Low received a thorough education and a splendid business training from his father. In 1880 he married Annie Wroe Scollay Curtis, who the sister of the wife of his was, William G. Low. From early manhood he took 9 keen interest in politics. He was twice elected Mayor of the old City of Brooklyn, serving from January, 1882, to the end of 1885.

In 1889 he became president of the first of the Low family has been prominent in the since. Low who left Massachusetts Columbia University, but 'in 1897 he was drawn back into the political field by the Citizens Union, which regarded him as the strongest candidate for the position of first mayor of. Greater New York. He was defeated, but consented to run again in 1901, when he was elected, serving one term, Interested in Farming In 1904, upon his return a long European tour, he established his home on a 200-acre farm at Bedford Hills, N. taking a deep interest in farming, and helping to establish the Farmers' Co-operative Association in that section of West chester County.

He died in 1916 at Bedford Hills, in his 67th year. Mrs. Seth Low died at her on Park Manhattan, April 1, 1929. She was 81 years old. Another Seth Low Surviving members of the Low family include Seth Low, grandson of Abiel Abbott Low and nephew of the Seth Low who was Mayor of the old city of Brooklyn, and William G.

Low, stepbrother of the late Seth Low. The latest to bear the historic name of Seth Low is president of Roosevelt Field, and one of the rising young men in the aviation world. 'He lives at Brookville, L. I. William G.

Low, hale and hearty at the age of 85, lives ct 85 Remsen St. There are several families of Lows, who are listed in the social register, and who are related to the various branches of the original Lows. Dorman Promotes 22 Firemen in Brooklyn, Queens 29 in Whole City Receive Boosts--Two Here Get Rank of Lieutenant Fire Commissioner Dorman today announced the promotion of three lieutenants, two of them in Brooklyn companies, to the grade of captain, and of 29 firemen, 20 of them in Brooklyn and Queens companies, to the grade of lieutenant. The promotions were made from the eligible list recently passed by the Civil Service Commission. Promoted to captain were Lts.

Phillip G. Hettrich of Engine 259, and George J. Lachat of Hook Ladder 107. The following were advanced to lieutenants: Firemen John J. Feeney, Engine 205: Pasquale Angeloro, Engine 206; Edigio P.

Muto, Engine 247; Leo J. Wheeler, Engine 310; Peter W. Cartwright, Hook and Ladder 165; George P. Meserschmidt, Engine 238; Dennis B. Shea, Engine 310; Louis Y.

Meny, Engine 213; Howard W. McKay, Hook and Ladder 112; Charles T. Leary Hook and Ladder 120: Alfonso E. Fiorello, Engine 234; Edward P. McConville, Hook and Ladder 123; James J.

Cummings, Rescue Squad Thomas J. McGrath, Engine 215; Joseph F. Fissel Engine 312; James P. Flynn, Engine 281; Richard B. Hayes, Engi 276, and John J.

Murray, Engine 278. Why Are These 17 Classes Exempted From Jury Service? Officiating clergymen not following any other Practicing physicians, surgeons or surgeon dentists. Licensed pharmacists or pharmaceutists. Registered veterinary surgeons. Licensed embalmers.

Lawyers. College professors and public school teachers. Editors, editorial writers, reporters and press association employees. Federal, State, county and city officeholders. Captains, engineers and other ship's officers and licensed ship's pilots.

Superintendents, conductors and engineers on all railroads except street railroads. Telegraph operators. Members of the National Guard and former members honorably discharged after five years' service. Former members of the Fire Department and former members of fire companies of all kinds honorably discharged after five years' service. Licensed engineers of steam boilers.

All executives and employees of a State asylum for lunatics, idiots or habitual drunkards. All persons employed in a glass, cotton, linen, woolen or tron manufacturing company. An accused person is entitled to trial by a jury of his peers. Does he get it? Equitable's Stolen Cash Traced Here Bookmaker's sRidgewood Account Shows Half of Rogers' $86,500 Fondness for betting on horse races is responsible, according to Federal. investigators, for the fact that C.

H. Rogers, former supervisor of the draft advices division, foreign department, of the Equitable Trust Company, is today under arrest in Boston awaiting removal to New York on the charge of embezzling $86,500 in two years while in the trust company's employ. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Sylvester, who has been assigned to prosecute Rogers by United States Attorney Charles H.

Tuttle, more than half of the total amount stolen has been traced to the bank account of a Brooklyn bookmaker who deposited it, apparently without any knowledge of Rogers' acts, in a Ridgewood branch of the Corn Exchange Bank. Rogers was a consistent player of favorites, hunches, best bets and parlays. Directed 11 Bookkeepers Rogers, who is about 35, was born in Salt Lake City, graduated from Holy Cross High School, Worcester, and is a widower with a son 5 years old. He received a salary of $2,760 a and directed the work of 11 bookkeepers. In order to carry out his embezzlement scheme he made and caused to be made hundreds of false entries and "robbed Peter to pay Paul" in juggling accounts.

In Mr. Sylvester's opinion, the mental strain which must have been caused by that sort of bookkeeping and the necessity of preventing suspicion on the part of the bookkeepers as well as his superiors must have "kept him on the anxious seat 100 percent of the time." Among the foreign organizations whose accounts were juggled, enabling Rogers to make deposits in the Fidelity Trust Company at 17 Battery Place under the name of J. Rogers," are the Mittledeutsche Kreditbank of Hamburg, Germany: the Bohemian Union of Prague, the Creditor Italiano and banks of Milan, Memel Genon and Frankfort, Pennsy Holdings In New Haven Up 100,000 Shares Control, With Help of Pennroad SeenReport Shows Big Gain The Pennsylvania Railroad increased its holdings in the New York, New Haven de Hartford by 100,000 shares during 1929, its annual report disclosed today. On Dec. 31 it had 173,025 shares, against 73,025 at the end of 1928.

This is approximately 8.39 percent of the 2,061,546 shares of voting preferred and common stock of the New Hayen now outstanding: This increase led to the belief in some quarters that the and its affiliate, the Pennroad Corporation, now hold working control New Haven, but since the Pennroad Corporation holdings on have not been disclosed the exact amount of New Haven stock held by Pennsylvania interests is in doubt. The Pennsylvania's assets crossed the $2,000,000,000 mark for the first time, the general balance sheet showed. On Dec. 31, 1929, assets were stated as $2,078,388,584, an increase of $90,338,626 during the year. Net income for the year set a new record at $101,378,518, equivalent to $8.82 a share on capital stock.

Railway operating revenues totaled $682,702,931, the highest since 1926. when the total $709,817,450. and equipment year Net capital expenditures, for road amounted to $53,869,776. The road's freight traffic increased 8.8 percent over 1928, while passenger traffic gained 0.5 percent. The Systern.

was shown to have a road mileage of 11,550 miles and a total track mileage of 28,053 miles. Theater Robbers Get $3.900 Here In 2 Burglaries Safe Is Stolen at the Kingsway, Strong Box From Fox Ambassador Between the last show at the Kingsway Theater, Kings Highway and Coney Island last night and 8 o'clock this morning burglars carted off a safe from its office on the second floor, which, police say, contained about $2,000. Abel Thornhill of 85 Kingston porter, discovered the theft this morning. Detectives that an exit door found, Island Ave. side of the theater was open and believe that the burglars concealed themselves in the theater after the final show.

Porters opening the Fox Ambassador Theater at 776 Saratoga Ave. this morning, discovered that a burglar, or burglars, had broken a basement door during the night, gained entrance to the theater office and removed a strong box 12 by 15 inches, containing the weekend receipts of $1,930. The manager of the theater, Sidney Falk of 1475 President was notified and called in the Liberty Ave. police. SLAYER ELECTROCUTED Bellefonte, March 31 (P)- Ralph Russell Sloat, 30, of Philadelphia, was electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary today for the murder of John Lowry, Scranton taxicab river..