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rights BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, 'APRIL 11, 1932 M-3 L. I. 23 News and Features From Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Communities Suffolk Delays State Work on Sunrise Road Deadlock Holds Up Right of Way Needed for Grading Extension The State Department of Public Works is prepared to carry forward a substantial highway construction program in Nassau and Suffolk counties during the balance of 1932, according to a statement made to the Long Island Chamber of Commerce by State Highway District Engineer J. J. Darcy of Babylon.

One of the important projects in Nassau County for which funds are available, is the widening of the Little Neck-Old Westbury Road from Horace Harding (Nassau) Boulevard to the junction of I. U. Willets and Power House Road, a distance of about two miles. This improvement is vitally needed, according to the Long Island Chamber's highway committee, take care of the increasing volume of traffic entering Nassau County from Horace Harding (Nassau) Boulevard, which is becoming one most popular routes to the North Shore of Long Island. Seek Right of Way Right of way for the widening of this road from 16 feet tostarfect of pavement is yet to be by the Nassau County Board of Supervisors.

In Suffolk County, the principal project which the State Highway Department is ready advance, is the grading, with several highway grade separation structures, of the Sunrise Highway Extension from its present terminus west of Amityville, north and easterly to Great River, a distance of approximately 16 miles. This work will cost approximately $775,000, and the State Highway Department is in a position to proceed if the county authorities will provide the right of way. The failure of the County Board of Supervisors to organize since Jan. 1 has prevented any progress in securing the needed right of way. Need County Action "In both of these instances," said Ira L.

Terry, chairman the committee on highways and highway traffic of the Long Island Chamber of Commerce, "un'ess the county authorities take prompt action, it is highly probable that the State Highway Department will divert the funds available for these projects to other parts of the State. This would be unfortunate." Long Island State Parkway construction for 1932 will proceed with new appropriations totaling 000. according to Mr. Darcy, under the supervision of the State Department of Public Works on plans approved by the Long Island State Park Commission. To Complete Spur State Highway authorities are preparing let contracts for the complation of Wantagh Spur Parkway from Southern State Parkway at Wantagh State Park to the Jones Beach Causeway.

The grading and construction of five grade-crossing eliminations have already been completed by the State Park Commission. and this important traffic relief artery awaits only the paving. The Legislature granted an appropriation of $373.000 for this project. The Southern State Parkway from present terminus at the Massapequa- -Hicksville Road is being constructed eastward to the Suffolk County line. The Legislature appropriated $340,000 for completing and paving, this project and contracts be let shortly.

Parkway Assured In Queens the continued construction of Grand Central Parkway from Queens Boulevard at Kew Gardens to the Nassau County line at Creedmoor is assured by appropriation of $1,000,000 by the State Legislature. additional sum of $75.000 was appropriated for landscaping this project, which will be carried out upon completion of the paving. The Legislature also appropriated $75,000 for carrying on engineering studies to extend the State parkways through the Borough of Queens, connecting Grand Central Parkway with the Interboro Parkleading to Brooklyn, and with the Tri-Borough Bridge, also linking the Southern State Parkway with Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn by, way of Sunrise, Highway. State engineers at work these surveys in co-operation with the engineers of the borough Queens. "If all of the above projects can be advanced with the co-operation of local authorities the State will expend during 1932 on Long Island for arterial highway and parkway construction a total sum of approximately $2,800.000.

Armaments are said to be insurance against attack; but if it goes on long enough there will be ing worth insuring. PROPOSED NEW HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL LEE ED Here is sketch of the proposed new Huntington Hospital, plans 1 for which have been revived by the Huntington Chamber of Commerce after having been temporarily dropped last year when campaign for funds failed of support. Chamber hopes construction work will start this fall. Harlem Resident Held in Burglary At Queens Home Police Find Much Loot at Theus Apartment Traced by Auto Plates James Theus, 26, colored, who the police say has confessed to burglaries at six homes in Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and Richmond Hill, pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Magistrate Frank Giorgio yesterday in the Jamaica Court on an attempted burglary made by Allen Huke of 38 Kingston Road, Jamaica. He was held in $5,000 bail for examination today.

Detectives Horace Holden and Theodore Burger of the Jamaica Squad on Saturday went to Theus' apartment at 141 W. 139th Manhattan. Several thousands of dollars worth of clothing, turniture and other articles, including a new vacuum cleaner, were in the rooms. The entire was taken to the Jamaica Police Precinct by automobile. Mrs.

D. M. Fernandes of 25 Beverly Place, Kew Gardens, and J. C. Tressler of 115 Pr mbroke Place, Kew Gardens, yesterday afternoon picked several dresses, coats, the vacuum cleaner and other pieces from the pile.

They claimed the articles had been stolen from their homes on April 1 while Fernandes family was to a theater and the Tresslers were on a trip. According to the police, an attempt was made to break into the home of Huke on April 8, but the burglar was frightened away. A neighbor of Huke noted the make of automobile and license plates used by the burglar and called the police. Through a check up on plates, Detectives Holden and Burger claim, they located the automobile owner, who said he had loaned it to the defendant. Theus, when first questioned by the police, said the machine had been stolen from him.

Truman Ireland Dead at Melville Melville, L. April 11-Truman Ireland, for the past eight years a foreman for the highway department of the Town of Huntington, died at his home yesterday morning of scarlet fever. He had been ill for only a week. He was 36 and a descendant of an old Melville family both his father and mother, Arthur and Luella Smith Ireland, having been born at Melville. His widow, Ella F.

Oakley Ireland, and a 7- year -old son, who is ill with the same disease, survive. Mr. Ireland was a member of the Men's Bible class of the Huntington Baptist Church, and the pastor, the Rev. Frederick Sterne, offciate at the funeral services at West Hills this afternooin at 3 o'clock. L.

I. Woman Escapes As Train Hits Car East Patchogue, L. April 11- Mrs. Anna Miller of Summit West Patchogue, narrowly escaped death at 12:30 p.m. yesterday when her car was struck by an eastbound express train of the Long Island Railroad at the Evergreen Ave.

crossing. Mrs. Miller saw the train approaching and stepped on her brakes. The front end of her auto reached into the path of the train and was struck by the locomotive. The auto was spun around but remained upright.

It was slightly damaged. Mrs. Miller received concussion of the brain and abrasions. She was taken home. Jamaica Man Delivered Last Dispatch Received by Lincoln Recalling the assassination of, Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington 67 years ago this coming Thursday, William H.

Edmonds, 85-year-old Civil War veteran, says he probably delivered the last dispatch Lincoln received from any of his war generals. Edmonds, who lives at 90-40 150th Jamaica, declares that just three days before the assassination he took the communication from General Grant to President Lincoln at headquarters in Washington. In his talks with friends the veteran tells of the sympathetic attitude Lincoln had for his soldiers and those he came in contact with. Edmonds observed his 85th birth-" 'Cold Storage' Race Held by Yachtsmen 'Cold Freeport, L. April 11- Eager to start the yachting season, four members of the swanky South Shore Yacht Club held cola storage regatta Saturday in the Great South Bay.

They were at the helms of 16-foot leg-o'-mutton racers and sailed over a measured mile. Vice Commodore Stephen Merritt captured first place; Commodore E. Wilbur Johnson, sailing Peanuts, fell overboard but climbed aboard his boat and finished second. Rear Commodore Al Mayer in Cocoanuts finished third. Fleet Capt.

Sam Ellis, sailing Chestnuts, broke the rudder soon after the start of the race and dropped out. Gustave Steiner Services Held at Astoria Center Veteran L. I. City Man Was President of Congregation Former Leader More than 700 friends and relatives gathered at the Astoria Center of Israel to pay their last respects to the late Gustave Steiner, resident of Long Island City for more than half century and president of the Center since its establishment more than six years ago. Sunday activities at the Center were suspended in honor of Mr.

Steiner. Rabbi Joshua L. Goldberg, rabbi of the Center, delivered the eulogy. A squad of motorcycle police escorted the cortage to Mount Hebron Cemetery for interment. Mr.

a Steiner, who was 74, died Friday evening at his home, 30-32 36th Astoria, following lingering illness. He was well known in fraternal organizations and was at one time, before the consolidation, Democratic leader of Long Island City. Honorary pallbearers at the funeral were Exalted Ruler Frederick E. Field, Queensborough lodge of Elks; Adam Bayer, president of the Long Island City Turnverein; Alfred E. Slade, master of the Island City Lodge, F.

A. Louis Baumann, president of the Congregational Beth-Jacob, Astoria: E. William Eislowfeld, Odd Fellows; Magistrate Peter M. Daly; Isaac Baer, honorary president of the Center, and Jacob Klein, treasurer of the Center. Surviving Mr.

Steiner are his wife, Bella Mendel Steiner: a daughter, Mrs. Minnie Krieger, and two sons, Jack and Charles. Suffolk Potato Growers Slow in Asking for Loans Farmers May Borrow Up to $35 an Acre-Old Limit Was Fixed at $20 Riverhead, L. April 11-Suffolk County potato growers may borrow up to $35 a acre for the purchase of fertilizer and spray materials, according to a new ruling made by Secretary Hyde of the U. S.

Department of Agriculture. Prior to this new ruling potato growers could not borrow more than $20 an acre. Application blanks for Federal crop production loans can be obtained from the Farm Bureau office, Court House, Riverhead. According to Farm Bureau office, many farmers have applied for loans as yet. This is probably due to the fact that no one farmer can borrow any more than $400.

Seek Seed Loans However, the farmers' seed loan office in the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Washington is doing what might be called a rapidfire business. Applications are going into the Washington office at the rate of over 5,000 applications a day. Assuming that these applications ask for the maximum amount of $400, as probably most of them do, this would mean that requests to the extent of $2,000,000 a day are made for Governmen as- sistance.

$50,000,000 Available Since only $50,000,000 has been appropriated for this purpose it is probable that the Government will be able to take care of only the most urgent applications. Farmers who can from banks are urged to do so, so that the more needy can be taken care of by Government assistance. The full text of the new regulations relative to loans for crop production is as follows: "Loans for the purchase of fertilizer and, spray materials fo potatoes in England and New York and tobacco in Massachusetts and Connecticut may be made on the basis of the actual cost of those materials, not to exceed $35 an acre, the total loan to any individual not to be in excess of $400." Weidners Mark 50th Jubilee, Daughter, Silver Anniversary Nearly 100 persons honored Mr. and Mrs. Pius Weidner at a "family reunion" in honor of golden wedding yesterday at their home, 104-37 128th Richmond Hill.

They also celebrated the silver wedding of the couple's daughter, Augusta, to Peter Muhlhausen of Glendale. Mr. Weidner is 75 years old and his wife 70. Both were born in Germany. Soon after their marriage in that country on April 10, 1882, they Officer Saves Woman, 78, in Queens Blaze Housekeeper Carried From Burning Le Page Home by Patrolman Mrs.

Katherine Holden, 78, housekeeper in the home of Joseph LePage. was rescued shortly after midnight last night as she fell overcome by smoke in a fire on the first floor of the LePage home at 95-13 Woodhaven Boulevard. Ozone Park. The fire was discovered by Patrolman Andrew Hagan, 33, of the Maspeth precinct, who lives around the corner at 95-20 Woodhaven Court. Hagan ran into the house and found the elderly woman lying unconscious in the living room.

He carried to the street through dense smoke and flames and was partly her, overcome by the time he had complead the rescue. Both were given first aid treatment by Dr. Barron of Jamaica Hospital and were allowed to go home. The fire was confined to the first floor of the single family residence and did considerable damage there. Members of the LePage family arrived home half an hour after the blaze had been extinguished.

Nab Paroled Youth Cracking Store Till Frank Massi, 17, of 114-10 202d Bellaire, be arraigned in Jamaica Magistrates' Court today following appearance at the lineup, on a burglary charge preferred by Detective Jac Keefe of Queens Village squad who says the found the youth trying to pry open a cash register in a cleaning and ed dyeing establishment at 195-25 Jamaica Hollis, early lastnight. A passerby saw a shadow in the store and summoned Detective Keefe. Police records show Massi spent a term in the Catholic Protectory and is now on parole. Queens Bus Group Protests Awards To 2 Companies Committee Will Meet in Jamaica Tonight--Fear Franchises to B. M.

T. A protest meeting against the proposed award of Queens bus franchises to the North Shore Bus Company and Jamaica Buses, will be conducted by the Queens bus protest committee, a boroughwide civic organization, in the Jamaica Town Hall tonight. It is expected that an attack against the proposed "dual" franchise award will also be expressed. Henry J. Haarmeyer, chairman of the committee and also president of the Central Queens Allied Civic Association, will preside as representative of the organizations who have attended meetings of the of Estimate will tell of the current INs situation.

The bus protest committee opposes the "hand picking" of recipients of the franchises without evidence warranting such preference. The committee charge that the franchises will be ultimately surrendered to the B. M. T. or one of its many controlled subsidiaries and are fighting against a monopoly or twin monopoly of bus transit in Queens.

Delaney Bus Plan For Queens Opposed The Harvey-Berry Bus Plan Association in a letter to the Board of Estimate today protested against the proposed Queens bus franchise awards offered by Chairman John H. Delaney of the Board of Transportation last Tuesday. Michael R. Iorio, president of the association. attacked the proposed awards as "unsound." Emma V.

Reardon Services Tomorrow A requiem mass for Mrs. Emma V. Reardon, widow of Capt. John E. Reardon, late of the Police Department, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Irene G. Lane, 90-21 187th Hollis, Saturday, following an illness of six weeks, will be sung at St. Gerard's Church, Hollis, at 10 a.m., Tuesday. Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Mrs.

Reardon, who was 68, had been living with her daughter for a year. In her earlier days she was prominent in the 14th Ward, Eastern District. She was particularly active in church work with St. Vincent de Paul Church and St. Peter and Paul's Church, Brooklyn.

Surviving her are three children, Mrs. Lane, who is secretary to District Attorney Charles Colden, and two sons by a previous marriage. James A. and John W. Corcoran, and seven grandchildren.

HENRY KLEIN RITES Lawrence, L. April 11-Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Henry Klein, pioneer developer of fireproof wood products and a Summer resident here, who died Saturday night at his town home in the Century Apartments, Central Park West and 63d Manhattan. The rites will be held in the Universal Funeral Parlors, 52d St. and Lexington Manhattan, at 10 a.m. The body will be cremated at Fresh Pond Crematory.

Mr. Klein was president of Henry Klein with a plant in Elmhurst. Mr. Klein was active in charitable enterprises, chief among which was the Followers, an organization that aids cripples. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Jenny Klein. VISIONS VICTORY George J. Reardon Glendale Driver Held After Car Runs Down Trio Ebert Faces 2 Charges in Cross-Bay Blvd. Accident--Man in Hospital Adam Ebert, 35, of 66-65 70th Glendale, is being heid in $1,000 bail for a hearing April 14 in the Far Rockaway Magistrate's Court as a result of an accident early yesterday morning at Cross Bay Boulevard and 19th Broad Channel, in which three persons were injured. The most seriously hurt, Jacob Adler, 34, of 92-05 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Hammels, is in the Rockaway Beach Hospital with a possible fracture of the spine.

His son, Charles Adler, 14, and a relative, Anna Eckstein, 14, of 217 Beach 75th Arverne, were attended for contusions by Dr. Horowitz of Rockaway Beach Hospital and then were permitted to leave for their homes. Adler claims that was crossing Cross Bay Boulevard with the two children when a machine operated by Ebert struck them. His complaint to the police brought about the arrest of Ebert on charges of reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. bail was set by Magistrate Frank Giorgio yesterday in the Jamaica Court when Ebert pleaded not guilty to both complaints signed by Patrolman Herman Stoesser of the Rockaway Beach Precinct.

MARY KENDALL RITES Lynbrook, L. April 11-Mrs. Mary E. Kuy Kendall died Saturday at the home of her daughter, 262 Ocean Ave. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs.

Nellie H. McArdle, Mrs. William H. McPherson, Mrs. Anne E.

Muir and Mrs. Laura L. Holmes. Funeral services will be held tonight at the Ocean Ave. address.

OWNER HELD AS TIPSY Valley Stream, L. April 11- Henri Benn, 36, of Bellerose, was arrested and locked up in the Fifth Precinct station last night on a charge of intoxication as the result of an accident at Corona Ave. and W. Argyle St. The police report that Benn lost, control of his car which jumped the curb.

Mrs. Hendrickson Assumes Job As Aide to Register 5th A. D. Woman Leader Succeeds to Post of Late Mrs. Ellen Cahill Mrs.

Mary G. Hendrickson, Democratic State Committeewoman of the 5th A. D. of Queens and coleader in the district with deputy County Clerk Peter F. Albrecht, this morning was inducted as secretary to Register Peter J.

McGarry. The ceremony was conducted in the register's office, Jamaica near 161st Jamaica, About 100 women attended. Mrs. Hendrickson succeeds the late Mrs. Ellen Cahill, Woodhaven Democratic woman leader, who died a few weeks ago.

The position, which pays an annual salary of $3,500, came through the indorsement of Dorothea Courten, co-leader with John Theofel. Mrs. Hendrickson has been active in Democratic circles for many years. She was an executive member of the 5th A. D.

for some time and when Mrs. Dorothy Julig resigned two years ago as State Committeewoman, she suggested the secretary to be her successor, The election of Mrs. Hendrickson later was unanimous. During the seven months Bernard M. Patten served as borough president of Queens after Maurice Connolly, Mrs.

Hendrickson served as his confidential secretary. Reardon Sees Democrat As Next President Ex-Nassau Leader Says Primary Tilt Has Improved Local Party Took Girl's Clothes To Avenge 'Standup' Two Nassau Lochinvars Spend Night in Babylon Jail After Brother Phillip Glimpses Sister's Raiment Falling From Window Lindenhurst, L. April vars have learned that Suffolk and while Clifford Vorkman, Head, and Frank Rykowski, 18, for a date with two local they ended up with a date with members of District Attorney Alexander G. Blue's staff before Justice of the Peace William F. Wolter here.

Had Other Dates Vorkman and Rykowski left their homes early Saturday evening to visit Olga Vollmoeller, 17, daughter of Philip Vollmoeller of 1st Lindenhurst, a chef in the county jail at Riverhead, and Betty Brush, 19, of Lindenhurst, who was spending the evening with the Vollmoeller girl. When they arrived at the Vollmoeller home Olga told them that they already had a date for that night, and turned them out into the night. Shortly before midnight the lads returned and found that the girls had gone out, and were greeted by Olga's brother, Phillip who granted their request that they might come inside. Phillip, however, kept his eyes open, and found the lads throwing Olga's clothes out of a second-story window. When they ran downstairs, picked up the clothes and drove off in their car, Phillip notified Patrolman Eddie Morlock at the Lindenhurst police station.

Held for Larceny Patrolman Morlock arrested them at the Venetian Inn, Lindenhurst, and held them for larceny. They were lodged in the Babylon jail overnight, while some $25 worth of clothing was returned to Olga. They were held for a hearing before Justice of the Peace William F. Wolter in the Lindenhurst court room. Corona Man Dies When Struck by Hit-Run Motorist Hartnett Returning From Synagogue Reception to Democratic Leader Flushing detectives are searching for an automobile with broken headlights which struck and killed Lawrence Hartnett, 25, of 34-20 100th Corona, shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday morning at Kissena Boulevard near Kalmia Flushing.

Hartnett attended a reception and dance Saturday night at the Flushing Free Synagogue for Mrs. John J. Keenan, Democratic woman leader. He was on his way to the home his brother-in-law, Robert Tobias of 46-27 157th Flushing. when the automobile struck him.

From broken glass a and other evidence found at the scene of the accident the police believe that the body of Hartnett was dragged and then tossed across the road by the machine. The motorist failed to stop and aid the youth. Hartnett lived with his parents at the Corona address. MARY SCHERER RITES Franklin Square, L. April Miss Mary Scherer, 38, who had been ill for some time, died Friday morning at her home, 33A Lincoln where she had lived for the past eight years.

She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Scherer: a brother, William, and two sisters, Mrs. Louise Olson and Mrs. Barbara Spiess.

Services will be conducted Tuesday with a requiem mass at St. Catherine of Sienna Church by the Rev. Conrad B. Lutz. Interment will be in Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury.

ALOYSIANS PLAN MINSTREL Great Neck, L. April 11-The Aloysians, the play group of the parish of St. Aloysius Church, is rehearsing a large cast in "A Study in Minstrelsy," a benefit production to be staged in the school hall on April 25 and 26 under the direction of William Heuston. Dancing will follow the performance on Monday evening and a special show will be given for the children on Sunday afternoon, 11-Two Nassau County LochinCounty girls are hard to get, 21, of Glen Cove Drive, Glen of Roslyn Heights, started out Queens Lutheran Church Breaks Ground for Wing New Extension to Grace Edifice to Double Present Seating Capacity A special service was held yesterday afternoon at Grace Lutheran Church, Queens Village, to mark the groundbreaking exercises for an extensive addition to the present edifice at Springfield Boulevard and 102d Ave. At the church service the Rev.

Louis Henze, superintendent missions of the Atlantic district of the Lutheran Church, was the principal speaker. The Rev. Henry Kratzke of Bethany Lutheran Church, 210th St. and the Rev. Walter Schwolert of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Bayside, also took part in the service.

The outdoor ceremonies were conducted by Rev. Louis S. Wagner, pastor of the church, assisted by John G. Heins, president of the congregation; John Paar, Sunday School superintendent; Mrs. J.

Harold Litt, president of the Ladies' Aid Society; William Luebkert, president a of the Men's Club: Stanley Lundquist, president of the Young People's League; Miss Ruth Bender, president of the Girls Club, and Charles Mutter, Scoutmaster Troop 114. The pulpit end of the present building will be removed and the new structure added to give the building a cruciform shape. The addition will be 50 by 80 feet and will double the seating capacity of the church proper and provide a large auditorium for Sunday School and other parish purposes, Herma Menth Gives Garden City Recital Garden City, L. April 11-Herma Menth, Viennese pianist, offered a recital here Saturday night in the Georgian room of the Garden City Hotel with a program of selections from Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, berft and Rachmaninoff. The patrons and patronesses were: Charles Stewart Butler, Lawrence Smith Butler, Mr.

and Mrs. Loren M. Cowdrey, Mr. and Mrs. William Cruikshank, Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick R. Coudert, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic R.

Coudert Mr. and Mrs. C. E. L.

Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Louis DeGumoens Mr. and Mrs. George E.

Devendorf, Allen W. Evarts, Mr. and Mrs. Devereux Emmet, Mr. and Mrs.

George L. Hubbell. the Rev. Francis J. Healy, Colonel and Mrs.

Howard Thayer, Kingsbury, Mr. and Mrs. Barent Lefterts. Mr. and Mrs.

Peter Merilion. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Osborne. Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Peters and Mrs. C. Walter dall, Mr. "and Mrs.

Woodford T. Stewart, Mrs. Herbert L. Smith, Mrs. Henry S.

Schley, Bishop and Mrs. M. Stires, and Mrs. G. P.

T. Sargent, Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Veigel, Mr.

and Mrs. Lawrence Grant White and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Whitney, HERMINE CARROLL RITES West Hempstead, L.

Hermine Evelyn Carroll of Brooklyn Ave. died Saturday mornat the Floral Park Sanitarium. She is survived by her husband. John a son, Lawrence, and a daughter, Evelyn. A requiem mass will be said Tuesday by the Rev.

Joseph B. Smith at St. Thomas Apostie Church, West Hempstead, and interment will be in Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury. Freeport, L. April.

11-George J. Reardon, former Democratic leader of Nassau County, in dressing the newly "Smith for President" Democratic Club, here, yesterday predicted a victory for the Democrats in the Presidential campaign. "Such a remarkable interest manifested by the Democrats throughout the country in the Spring primary is, without a doubt, the forerunner of a record vote in the Presidential election this year." Reardon said. "I believe it will not be necessary for President Hoover to ballyhoo very much to bring about that result. Sees Democrats Alert "Never has the rank and file of the Democrats been quite as keen to participate in the routine or preliminary work of selecting National candidates.

"Victory in the nation, therefore, seems certain. The renomination of Smith and the adoption of a platform plank modifying or repealing prohibition, I believe, will clinch the election for the Democratic party in the nation this November." Democracy of Nassau stands to greatly benefit by the recent primary contest between the Krug faction of the party, represented by Hamilton Rainey and Mrs. Jeanne Marion Doane, State committeemen, Reardon said. Cites Record "The largest vote ever cast in a primary contest 'State member of the Democratic committee was recorded last Tuesday," he said. "It exceeded the reached in the contest of the previous year between Thomas J.

Cuff, now Supreme Court Justice, Mrs. Doane and myself. "It has been said that competition is life of trade, and, if that is true, obviously the rule applies to politics. Competition by members in the Democratic ranks for party honors stimulates party workers and will eventually bring about the election of logical representatives for party councils, workers devoted to the upbuilding of the organization in the townships and the county. For no good reason, Nassau is still the -called banner Republican county of the State.

150 Rabbits Die In Incendiary Fire At Amityville Blair Hutches Destroyed in Early Morning Blaze -License Was Opposed Amityville, L. April 11-Fire believed to be of incendiary origin destroyed 150 rabbits and, two rabbit hutches owned by David L. Blair of Locust Drive early yesterday morning, and did a damage estimated at $1,500. The hutches were kept on the Summer home of Timothy Hushin, a patrolman with the 47th St. station in New York City, which Blair occupies.

Blair was awakened by a reflection of the flames about 2 o'clock, and turned in an alarm. Members of the Amityville Fire Department laid 1,500 feet of hose through the scrub oak from Western Ave. to the scene of the fire, but it had gained too much headway. A garage was also destroyed, although firemen saved car and prevented flames from spreading to nearby buildings. The hutches were about 12 by 15 feet.

Fire Chief William Torns investigated, and said he believed the blaze to be incendiary, as the hutches had no stoves and were not wired for electricity. Many of the rabbits are said to have won prizes. Residents of Locust Drive petitioned the Amityville village board on Jan. 25 to prohibit Blair from erecting the hutches on the ground that the breeding of rabbits would become a menace to the health of the community. Blair was granted a conditional permit with the understanding that rabbits would be raised for commercial purposes.

He filed an affidavit stating that he planned to raise rabbits only for experimental purposes, and to experiment in the construction of modern rabbit hutches. CAR HITS CYCLIST Valley Stream, L. April 11-- Alexander Barthelemy, 11, of 181 Horton received bruises and cuts of the left hand, shoulder, left ankle and ear yesterday when he lost control of his bicycle and collided with an automobile at N. Grove St. The car was operated by Joseph Kreps of Montgomery St.

After treatment by Dr. Faust Marseglia the lad went home. day on Aug. 1 last. When he was only 14 years old he joined the "boys in blue" as a scout and spy.

He served under the Stars and Stripes until mustered out in 1865. He a'so served in the cavalry and commissary units. Despite his years of service, Edmonds was wounded only once. He suffered a saber cut in his arm when a "rebel" attempted to take his horse. Edmonds also served three terms in prison during the war and was captured in the battle of Antietam.

Edmonds has seen all of the Presidents of this country since Lincoln's regime. In his room there photograph gallery of the country's leaders. Queens 'Three Score and Ten'. Club Admits Juniors of 60 came here, making their home in Brooklyn. For the last 25 years the couple and their family have resided in various parts of Queens.

Weidner is a retired iron worker. Mr. and Mrs. Muhlhausen were married 25 years ago this past Saturday. Mr.

and Mrs. Weidner were the parents of 10 children, six of whom are alive and attended party. Thirteen grandchildren also attended. Older residents of Central Queens, will soon have an organization of their own where they can swap tales and ideas for mutual benefit. Known as "Three Score and Ten Club," will be the formed Saturday, 2 p.m., organization, in the Central Queens Y.

M. C. A. Building, Parsons Boulevard. Jamaica.

In spite of its name, the club will allow men and women between the ages of 60 and 70 to join. These youngsters will be known as "jun- members but will have full and privileges. The first meeting will be ducted and addressed by the Rev. Edward Eells, a retired Congregational minister of Hartford, Conn, He will continue to act as chairman until officers are elected. The object of the club is to promote the acquaintance, sociability, health, comfort, happiness, and usefulness of its members.

According to the Rev. Mr. Eells, eight such I clubs are already in existence..