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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1930. M3 FOOD LINE AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS Count 250 Dead 1 Fate of Healy, Tommaney Placed in Hands of Jury Safety Board Directs Attack charges, but he left the way open In Japan Quake; List May Grow Fires and Landslides Add to Havoc Villages Razed, Hundreds Hurt Toklo, Nov. 26 (rVy At least 2M I mill jf JtaHHMMM Rush for Food Begins at City Station Houses Needy Get Supplies in Baby Carriages and IIome-Madje Wagons Police today again took up the task of distributing food to the city's needy families and disposed of thousands of cartons within an hour or two after the doors of the city's station houses were thrown open to applicants. In Brooklyn plans were made to feed some 8,000 persons. The speed with which the police worked Brooklyn was Indicated by the fact that at noon 300 pack-' ages of food had been issued at the Grand Ave.

station house and 475 at the Bergen St. station. Needy ones came with all sorts of vehicles" in which to carry home the Thanksgiving dinner. There were many baby-carriages and home' made wagons. Several persons called at the West 47th St.

station, Manhattan, asking for money with which to pay back rent. One woman saia she had been told to come by a city marshal. A landlord came to the station demanding his rent. Police at the station explained that only where families were in imminent danger of being evicted would the police furnish money, and then $20 would be the maximum. In addition, eight regular breadlines are operating today.

Various organizations, such as the 6th A. D. Democratic and Republican Clubs, are pledged to do their bit in the distribution of free turkeys to needy families 'The Harry Wolkof Association, 1255 Bedford will distribute to 700 persons. The relief station of the Volunteers of America, 11201 Jerome Richmond Hill, will give a Thanksgiving Eve dinner tonight. Similar plans are being made In other boroughs, all the welfare agencies being determined that no poor family shall go without a Thanksgiving dinner this year.

According to estimates, more than 30,000 men and women will be fed tomorrow. The social agencies of the family service section of the Welfare Council Itself will give away more than 15,000. The Salvation Army plans to feed 6,000. Meanwhile, the 53 breadlines throughout the city continued their ministrations, while statisticians reported that 70 percent of those who come for meals are strangers in New York and usually recent arrivals. The treasure chest of the emergency committee has grown, according to Seward Prosser, chairman of the committee, to $2,512,000.

Gen. Jacob A. Coxey of Coxey's Army fame, issued another call to arms yesterday, but nothing came of It. He stood about the Columbus Circle waiting for recruits for a march on Washington to demand jobs, but none appeared. "I guess It was too cold," he said.

This is the general view of the groups of men and women who visited the Bergen St. station in Police Headquarters today to receive cartons of food from the police in the city's campaign to cope with the unemployment depression. Continued from Page 1 to pay $10,000 for the place. Further than that, he asserted Mrs. Ewald had a lawful right to loan Healy the money the Jury must decide whether the loan was made in a criminal way.

At 10:10 Justice McCook began his charge. He permitted the Jury to remain seated. His first observa tion concerned the "talk of motives and methods" used In the prosecution. Reviews History of Case If those motives and methods influenced this situation," he said, "you must consider them. Other wise fy are irrelevant and must be disregarded." Then Justice McCook reviewed the history of the case, pointing out that In the spring of 1927 Mayor Walker, a Democrat, had the ap pointment of a magistrate in mind and that the man named would certainly be a Democrat.

He reviewed the testimony showing how Ewald came to be named and referred once to Healy as "Commissioner Healy." The Justice said it was a function of a district leader to advance the qualifications of a person for office. He dealt with the story of Olvany and Charles S. Hand, saying that any evidence of the practice of Tammany before April and March. 1927, or after that was to be ignored. The amount of power held by district leaders.

Judge McCook asserted, was in doubt, although It cannot be disputed, he added, that the leaders had some power and influence. Nor can it be disputed, said the Judge, that Mayor Walker named Ewald on the recommendation of Ridder and the Steuben Society. "But," added the Judge, "the State contends that Ewald believed Healy had influence and that Ewald counted on that to the extent that he asked for that help and that Healy sold that help. "Healy had some Influence, the evidence here actually shows. All these things, the people argue, Ewald knew and proposed to capitalize." The Judge then traced the politi cal moves which went on when it became known that ex-Magistrate Oberwager would not be named by the Mayor.

Explains Evidence "How much, if anything, Healy knew of the status of Ewald's can didacy before he saw Victor Ridder does not appear here, although It does appear Ridder told him of It," said the judge. "The defendants contend that the racial question was the first con slderatlon leading up to the appointment. They contend that in view of that it is incredible that the Ewalds would have paid a cent. It is for you to decide between this theory and the one that Ewald set out to get Healy's influence when he sought the appointment." From this point. Justice mccook went to the matter of the loan, stating that the defendants contend it was a loan and nothing else.

He then traced the money withdrawn from Mr. Ewald's accounts, through Tommaney's account Into Healy h. He stressed the point tnat tnis transaction was within three days of the appointment. "I should perhaps refer to the story of Jacob Cash, in addition to this testimony," the Judge read from his prepared charge. "After telling his ttory on cross-examination Cash said he gave Healy $2,000 only as a present.

The truthful ness of or lack of truthrulness of this witness is a matter for you to decide and in the light of Mayor Walker's contradiction of his story." This ended the Judge's review ol the evidence, as such, and he began to charge on the law itself. He pointed out that although the indictment contains 3 counts, the defendants are not charged with 3 crimes but with committing one crime on 1 different violations of one law. He charged that the jury must de cide guilty or not guilty on the three for a different verdict for each defendant hy tolling the jury that it could find a verdict separately for each man. He warned the Jury, too, that they must presume the detendants innocent until they decide the evidence rhows they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. He said a substantial reason munt be advanced for such a reasonable doubt.

I Justice McCook also explained the difference between circumstantial and direct evidence, calling attention to the fact that there is a certain amount of circumstantial evidence in this case. If this sort of evidence all points to guilt or to Innocence the Jury should find such a verdict, he said, but he pointed out that all bits of evidence should point the way when that evidence is circumstantial. "When a person who is charged with a crime and has previously borne a good reputation, that fact must be considered In his favor un less it is overthrown by facta," th Jurist added. The defendants rested practically on charatcer evidence. "I charge you to bring in a verdict of guilty if you believe that the defendants offered to cause the appointment of Ewald In return for $10,000, but you must find that the facts in the case substantiate such a finding," the Jurist observed.

It will be necessary to find a guilty verdict if it is decided there was a conspiracy to get this Job for Ewald by the payment or loan of $10,000, Judge McCook said. He said it was not important that the Steuben Society recommended the appoint ment if it was shown that there was such a conspiracy between the Ewalds and the defendants. However, he ordered, if there is no conspiracy found, then the recommend ation of the Steuben Society is of importance. Bertha Ewald had a lawful right to advance this money," he observed, "and the fact that she did is consistent with the Innocence of the defendants. There must be shown beyond a reasonable doubt that this act was unlawful." As a final charge the Jurist went on to say that the true administra tion of justice is the foundation of good government.

"Have we our admiration of the 'good our consideration of money, undermined the righteous ness of our Government? Woe to the city, woe to the nation, when over dinner tables and in meeting places the buying of judtrships is considered a Jest," he said. Jacob Rausch Dies; Well-Known Bowler Jacob Rausch of 67 Atlantic formerly for four years president of the Long Island Bowling Associa Hon and long prominent in bowl ing and yachting affairs, died today at his home after a short illness. He was 58 years old and was a lifelong resident of Brooklyn. He is survived by four brothers, Gustave, Charles, Edward and Louis; a sister, Emily, and his uncle, Peter P. Rupt.

Funeral arrangements have nqt been completed. Good Time to Buy Wheat, Says Legge Washington, Nov. 28 Legge of the Farm Board said tode-y that now was a good time for millers and feeders to purchase wheat. Asked if that meant the price of wheat was going up, the chairman smiled and reiterated that he was not making any promises. W.

P. SWEATNAM DIES Willis P. Sweatnam, one of the best end men that ever cracked jokes in a minstrel show and the creator of a score of Negro charac ters in American comedies, died last night at the Lambs Club, Manhattan, where he had made his home for several years. He was 76 years old and had been on the stage for more than half a century. TUNE IN Wednesday Night November 26 $.00 P.M.

Kutern Standard Tim Over Sution WE A New York On a Cottt-to-Comtt hook-up ot National 8rodcMBtiniCompn OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB PROGRAM fir 1 United Protest Against Poplar St. Women's Court Site Catholic Big Sisters Join Other Croups in Drive for State St. Building The Catholic Big Sisters and the Brooklyn League of Women Voters added their protests yesterday to the scheduled use of the old Poplar St. police station as a new Women's Court and detention quarters and asserted their belief that the property on State St. between Nevins and Bond would be most suitable for the court.

The League of Women Voters, at its meeting at the Central Y. W. C. unanimously adopted a reso lution protesting the establishment of the court in any building where it would be cdjacent to a police sta tion as it would be on Poplar St. The resolution, addressed to the Board of Estimate and Borough President Hesterberg, pointed out that the Poplar St.

site is inade quate, and in a locality remote from transportation facilities; that the establishment of a court and deten tion house in a police station is contrary to the expressed legislative policy of the lower criminal courts. In contrast, the resolution pointed out that the State St. site is "per manently adequate and "fitted in every way. The league will carry its protest to the Borough President later in the week, when Mrs. William P.

Earle Brooklyn chairman; Mrs. Francis Swertz and Mrs. Louis Ehrenberg will confer with him. Mrs. Swertx observed today that in view of the present exposures of cor ruption In the Manhattan Women's Court the need for establishing the Brooklyn court In a place where the maximum amount of constructive work is possible becomes doubly oo- vious.

The People's Political League of Brooklyn, meeting last night at the home of its president. Mrs. Rebecca C. Talbot-Perkins, 108 Hancock protested by resolution the establishment of the court in the Poplar St. building.

Chief objections were the lack of transit facilities and the insufficient accommodations. Spokane Bomb Plot Linked to Rum Expose San Francisco, Nov. 26 IPy Thomas E. Boyle, 24, San Francisco bookkeeper, was being held here today for Spokane (Wash.) officers after confessing he had transported a trunk containing 200 sticks of dynamite from here to the Washington city as an accomplice of Henry A. Ilse in the unsuccessful plot to blow up the Spokane Chronicle building.

Ilse, a bank night watchman, was arrested here Monday. Boyle was quoted as saying Use had operated a prosperous bootlegging establishment In Spokane, but that a campaign by the newspaper had put him out of A On Dock Racket U. S. Trucking Official Def endsLoadcrs Crain Holds a Secret Quiz District Attorney Cram's attempt to rid New York business of the wasteful grip of the racketeer continued today, with the formally organized Committee of Public Safety for the first time directing operations. Cromwell Out as Chairman Meanwhile Cram received a letter from Lincoln Cromwell, who yesterday was elected chairman of the Committee of Public Safety, stating that he could not serve as head of the committee because of his health.

He wrote that he would be willing to continue as a member of the general committee to rid the city of racketeers. Mr. Crain said he had communicated with Charles C. Burlingham, president of the Bar Association and chairman of the executive committee of the safety committee, about a conference looking toward his succeeding Mr. Cromwell.

Victim's of racketeers continued today to call at the District Attorney office with complaints. Some of them probably will be taken before the Grand Jury Monday. Dock Racket Vp Again The investigation today centered on the "dock" racket again, in which so-called outlaw loaders on the piers force payment on merchandise loaded at certain piers, whether they do the work or not. The poultry racket and paper box racket were also again considered. Yesterday Mr.

Crain took four men described as racketeers before the Grand Jury, but was careful to keep their identity secret. This afternoon the special committee of five named by the Shippers Conference to organize trade and shipping bodies against the public loaders on piers meets at the Merchants Association in Manhattan. Chairman of the committee is Albert C. Welsh, traffic manager of the Brooklyn Chamber of Com merce. While attack today centered on the pier leaders, Daniel Reardon, executive vice president of the United States Trucking Corporation came to their defense in a statement to the Eagle, Reardon Defends Leaders "Our company does between 60 and 70 per cent of the trucking from the piers in the port, excluding the handling of fruit," he said, "and the loaders have never given us any trouble.

They are mostly hardworking, decent fellows, and we don't have any trouble getting permission when we need it to load our own trucks. "At 3 or 4 cents a hundredweight it Is true that in exceptional weeks a loader might make $100 a week. But some weeks he is lucky to earn $10." Asked how it was that George Daniels, head of the export department of the U. S. Trucking Corporation, is one of the outspol.en opponents of the pier loaders, Mr.

Reardon said that Mr. Daniels was representing his company and he did not see any point in lining up the company "to fight somebody else's battles." Michael J. White Dies; Machine Corp. Officer Michael J. White, treasurer of the United States Hoffman Machinery Corporation, died yesterday at his home, 1479 K.

10th St. He was born in Manhattan, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Maurice White, and was a graduate of Fordham University. He also was a member of Brooklyn Lodge, 22, B.

P. O. E. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Mc- Alarney White; four sons, Edward.

William, Maurice and Robert: a daughter, Margaret, and a brother, Edward J. White. A requiem mass will be offered Friday morning at 10 o'clock in St. Brendan's R. C.

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S. I. Catrilal.SmptutmnilProliuovrrWjOOOSX'O TRANSIT BODY HALTS INCREASE OF 1-MAN CARS Continued from Page 1 a few weeks ago it got permission to change over eight new lines. Survey Is Ordered But today's plea was promptly set aside after Lockwood called attention to the complaints published In the Eagle. Chairman William G.

Fullen directed that a thorough survey be made of the situation. Studies along this line had been progressing as a matter of routine, but Mr. Fullen ordered that these be broadened to cover all phases pi the matter. He directed that the Commission inspectors observe the operation of the safety devices and pay particular attention to whether adequate service was rendered and maintained continuously on the one-man lines. He also instructed the Service Bureau to complete the survey and make a report within ten days.

After the formal meeting of the commission today, Mr. Lockwood said that the railroad company insisted that it had to install one-man operation or cut down its service, claiming that the 5-cent fare to which it is limited by Its franchises did not yield sufficient to maintain the present standard of service with two-man car operation. Denies Men Are Tired' He also said that the remodeling of cars costing from $1,000 to per unit gave employment to a considerable number of mechanics, and added that the B. M. T.

did not "fire" men released from operating service by reason of the cut in car crews but used them in other capacities. It is pointed out, however, that the reduction is by labor In another way a big cut in the number of men that the company would- In the natural course of events hire to take the place of pensioners, workers who die or leave the company employ for other reasons. At the office of the B. M. T.

It ras stated (hat a study of the complaints against one-man cars was being made by the company and that it was experimenting with one car to lower the step by cutting off an inch of the spring. This brings the car body nearer the ground but also drops the machinery under the car an equal amount and some engineers have advised that this may bring the motors and braking apparatus in danger of snagging obstructions or shorting the current In heavy snow falls. Money Losses Blamed For Suicide Leap After finding that a man who owed him $70,000 had died, Abraham Levine, 50, of 205 Grafton threw himself from a seventh floor window of the Brokaw Building, 587 7th Manhattan, yesterday. He killed himself and his falling body knocked down Isaac Cohen, real estate dealer, of 1686 Clay Ave- the Bronx. Levine was survived by his wife and four sons.

Mrs. Levine told the police that her husband had lost more than $200,000 in business in the list year. persons were killed and several hundred injured today in Eastern Ja pan's most destructive earthquake since the disaster of 1S23. Striking a score of towns and villages of northern Iru Peninsula, the playground of Japan, at 4:03 a.m. (2:03 p.m.

standard time. Tuesday) the quake destroyed or seriously damaged 4.499 build ings, according to an official esti mate. It climaxed a series of earthquakes in that area since Nov. 10. With communications partially restored in the stricken area, which is 125 miles southwest of here, authorities began the tragic tally of the casualties.

Death Roll May Grow Fires, landslides and bursting res ervoirs added to the havoc after the quake had reached its maximum of violence. Many communities had yet to be heard from and their report were expected to enlarge the death roll. Property losses already have been estimated In the score of millions of yen. Reports indicated the heaviest blow fell upon the area extending; from Mtshlma to Numazu, a region about 15 miles long and five to ten miles wide. Village Wiped Out The village of Nirayama was wiped out, 69 persons being killed there.

Nagoka, a Hot Springs resort, also was destroyed, 22 having perished there. A group of small villages in the southern part of the stricken a-rea reported 80 dead. The larger towns on the northern edce of the quake belt escaped with relatively less damage. Mlshima reported four deaths, Numazu one and Ataml three. Fires, however, added to the destruction in these towns but they were controlled.

Definite news from Shimoda, at the southern tip of Izu Peninsula, was lacking, but a naval plane flying over the town reported no serious damage had been observed. A party of seismologists from Tokyo Central Observatory went to the quake belt and Issued warnings that further seismic activity was likely there. Buys House for Friends to Stay In Mrs. Marshall Field's brother, Edward James, who has for some time been attached to the British Embassy In Rome, has bought four houses In the Eternal City, recently remarked the London Mall. One he Intends to Inhabit himself; another to visit in the afternoons; the third Is for his friends to stay In; and for the fourth, says the Mail, he has not yet discovered a use.

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There, said Mallin, they stretch out in rows on the station floor to get their sleep. They sleep in their clothes, tying their shoes securely to their feet to prevent theft. They eat casually, said the Inspectors. Sometimes a subway passenger, seeing one or more of them asleep, makes a generous contribution and then a group of the undergrounds go up above and buy food and eat and eat, saving only a 5-cent piece each for re-admission to the subway. Sometimes a subway newsstand keeper donates a piece of chocolate or other candy.

At the 168th St. station each night, a medical center located In the vicinity, sends down coffee and sandwiches, and that forms the chief meal. They wash themselves and their clothes in the subway station lavatories. Professions Represented In this subway tribe there Is one certified public accountant, one former physician whose license' was revoked, one former priest of the Greek Catholic Church. Others were clerks, small businessmen, casual laborers all victims of the unemployment.

Mallin and Miller know nearly all of these perpetual riders by sight and many of them by name. Some have thus lived underground as long as six months. The number has grown tremendously since the weather turned cool. Between 50 and 60 of them are women. A few are Negroes.

There are old, decrepit derelicts of civilization among them. There is one old woman who appealed to Mallin to be arrested and sent away to a home for the aged and Infirm. He spoke to a city magistrate about her and, he said, was promised that a place would be found for her the day after Thanksgiving. WILL NAMES CHILDREN The will of the late Frank L. Wright of 383 46th St.

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Bob, the promoter whose involved affairs are under Investigation in criminal and civil proceedings, was an uncommunicative wit ss today at a hearing before Stephenson, referee In banknj- at 32 Broadway. UndJf examination by Carl T. Frederick, counsel for the Irvinn Trusi Company, receiver for Charles V. Bob tie Co. and for Bob personally, Xob refused to answer questions on the ground that the answers would tend to degrade and incriminate him.

Bob, carefully dressed and sprucely groomed, gave no outward appearance of1 having been affected physically by vicissitudes that began with a cross-country flight by airplane on Oct. 8. He has lost his city and country homes. Investors in his numerous companies face a loss estimated at from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000.. He is at liberty under $35,000 ball following a grand larceny Indictment.

Bob refused to tell whether he owns property at Montauk Point, whether he employed the Plerson Construction Company to do work there and whether he paid the Plerson Company. The hearing was adjourned with provision that Bob may be recalled after notice has been served on his attorney, Nicholas Pecora. Mr. Pe-cors said that Bob is going away for a rest and that it may take a week to recall him. w.

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