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EDITORIAL FINANCE RIAN JAMES SPORTS BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE CLASSIFIED LETTERS THEATERS RADIO NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1931 2 17 PITY POOR OLD MOBY DICK! Stories of Old Brooklyn Brooklyn Tyro Helps Show Up Old Whalers Four King Brothers Pioneers in Dentistry Burglar Shot At Rubel Home Nabbed Later Collapses Willi 3 Poliee Bullets in Chest Day Following His Escape A burglar In the home of David Rubel, wealthy coal and Ice dealer, at 2523 Avenue N. escaped early yes Chicago Union Chief Hunted in Racket Killing Film Operators' Agent, One of 5 Sought, Said to Have Million Income Chicago. June 22 (T Murder Intensified today tne State's Attorney's investigation of racketeering In 1 Bennett Field I i Now Home for Naval Reserve Aviation Unit of Students Has Hangar ami Owns Ten lliplanei The Naval Reserve Aviation Ba has found a permanent home for its flying activities at Flovd Bennett Field. For a year the unit has been at Valley Stream. The contract at the Municipal Airport covers use of the field and hangars, at a cost of $1 a year snd is renewable annually.

The reserve has been housed In Hangar 5, where office, workshop and plane accommodations arc all under one root. Have Ten I'litne The Reserve has ten biplanes. A machine and rigging shop hat been jiet, up In the hangar for servicing and overhaul of planes. According to Lt. R.

F. Whitehead, U. 8. commanding officer of thu Bennett Field base, 16 students am being trained as officers for Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve aviation. The students are hero lor a four-month training period.

They have been recruited from colleges. Students get 15 hours of flying-two hours In preliminary Instruction. 10 hours dual instruction and three solo flying, after which those passing the work are sent to the Navy Aviation School, Pensacola. Then they get a year's active duty with the fleet at Quantlco, with I he marines. All are college If Wll a ft, Four brothers named King, who were pioneers In practice of dentistry In Brooklyn a half century ago.

Kin of General Grant Lealer in Development of Profession Here in Days When Praetitioner 'Served His Time as Apprentice' By MAI'RICK K. M( I.OKilll.lN A half-century ago, if a young man wanted to become Boye Flood, Brooklyn whaler, shown with head of 10-foot-long modern harpoon. In Its head is a bomb, timed to explode so many seconds after the harpoon is fired, releasing the umbrella-like prongs and holding the harpoon beneath the layers of whale blubber. a dentist, he had to "serve his time" In the office of a practitioner. If the latter was very good natwred he would devote some rx Ulp fn tlmo In rylvintr terday morning through a cordon ot detectives and the Police Emergency Squad armed with a machine gun.

A neighbor notified police of the Vandervecr Park police station that some one was in the house, from which the Rubel family had departed for a vacation more than a week ago. Lt. Julius Chenu, Detectives Philip Suss, Frank Mulludy, Dennis Shce-han and William Leahy and Emergency Squad 13, with its machine gun, surrounded the house. The detectives saw the beam of a flashlight on the lower floor and called to the Intruder to come out. It was still dark.

Suddenly, a form leaped past Detective Mullady, who emptied his service pistol at the fleeting figure. He heard a cry of pain and made a search for the wounded man, but could not find him. A general alarm was sent out to all hospitals. Today Stanley Thomashevsky. 25, of 158 E.

59th collapsed on the street in front of Gouverneur Hospital, Manhattan, from three bullet wounds in his chest. Detective Mullady went to the hospital and questioned the man who, he said, made a statement in which he admitted it was he who was in the Rubel home. A charge of burglary was made against him, but there was little hope that he would recover from the three bullet wounds. Probe Air Crash Killing Pilot and Wife at Pelham Mr. and Mrs.

Myron S. Hutchinson Die as Craft Plunges at Golf Course Pelham Manor, N. June 22 The Department of Commerce today began an investigation Into the airplane accident on the Pelham Country Club golf links yesterday afternoon that caused the death of Myron S. Hutchinson, district sales manager and pilot of the Stlnson Aircraft Corporation, and his wife. The Hutchinsons lived BP145 89th Jamaica.

Returning from Boston, the home of Mrs. Hutchinson's mother, the Hutchinsons were in a Junior model Stinson monoplane. At North Pelham the plane was seen to be in difficulty over a golf course crowded with Sunday players. The craft quickly lost altitude, with the propeller not turning. Refusing to stretch its glide over a small grove, the plane crashed Into the top of a tree, cutting oil lis top.

The Impact threw the tail in the air and nose dived into the turf bordering a fairway. Hutchinson, 28, was the son of Harvey O. Hutchinson, Superintend ent of Schools In Elmira, N. Y. Only last week he had a forced landing in a potato patch at Syos-set, and the farmer Impounded the plane until the damage to the crop was guaranteed.

Mrs. Hutchinson was Grace Elizabeth Jcrdon. The Hutchinsons were married last year In Chattanooga. Envoy of Good Will Misses Bullfight But He Sees Jai-Alai Game, Hears South American Joe Humphreys, and Wife Wins a Bet She Thought She'd Lost By WILLIAM WEEK Staff Correspondent The Eagle On Board Santa Maria, June 3 This is a larger and more sedatj Grace Line motorship than the one we left at Callao for a brief stay in Lima. We flee steadily southward along a mountainous coast, a half mile or less of it.

The hills rise abruptly from the water-s Tells How Green Men Used Modern Methods to CaptHre Leviathans By O. R. PILAT The first nd only American ex-neriltion to the Antarctic in search of whales In the last 20 years has proved a success. Moreover, it has scuttled the old theory that you have to be in the business from boyhood to direct the hunt for leviathans properly. These assertions were made today by Boye J.

Flood of 360 75th first officer of the floating factory Frango, which left Brooklyn last September. The captain of the Frango, Johannes Smith of Sayville, never had been whaling before. Flood, himself, although a salt of 26 years experience and a former naval of-. ficer, never had been in the Antarctic. The Frango arrived recently at Santefjord, Norway, with 50,000 barrels of oil, the result of the capture of 536 whales.

Flood crossed to the United States on the Norwegian American liner Bergensfjord, docking in Brooklyn, to report to the owners of the ship, among whom is A. D. Carver, Manhattan ship broker, while negotiations for tale of the oil were going on. "There was a lot of laughter among oldtimers when we started out," said Flood today. "They seemed to think a man had to he born with the spiked wooden shoes you use on bloody, slippery decks, or you Just couldn't be a whaler.

"Capt. Smith and I found that was bunk. You get down in the Antarctic and cruise around until you see whales. Then you send your killer boats and their harpoon guns out after them. "If you don't find whalps you spend your time fiddling with a direction finder.

Each ship has a code to send messages from its killer boats to the floating factory or mother ship. If you pick up a flock of messages from one ship, even though they are in code, you know things are happening and go in that direction. Need Expert Decoder "To be a successful whaler, it might be a good idea to carry a code-deciphering expert. You start off on luck, then it is a matter of follow the leader." According to Flood, who seems to enjoy smashing romanticisms, killing whales is largely a formality, under present conditions. "The whale comes up and blows three times," he said.

"F.ach time you ave a 10-foot high curved mark to shoot at. If you are good, you aim at the left side under the fin, piercing the heart. "If your shot is not so good, well you get another In from to 15 minutes when the whale comes vp again." The three killer boats of the Frango are 200 feet long, with engines to hold in a whale once it is harpooned. Ice the Real Peril Not once on the recent trip was one ol tnese Doats menaced by a whale, though at times a leviathan escaped through the snapping of some portion of the 500 feet of warp attached to the harpoon. The real danger in whaling Is ice, Flood said.

Icebergs ranging In length from 15 mllej to a few hundred feet are always a menace. The temperature ranges around 17 de grees below zero. "We showed them a few things even in getting through the ice the Brooklyn mate said. "The year before the Frango came into American hands, she limped back to Norway with two hole3 in her bow. We brought her back in sound shape, for the first time in the last four seasons." However, there is one flaw in Flood's American boasting.

Though he ar.a captain smith are Americans now, both were born in Norway and nearly all the others in the crew of 110 are Norwegians, with generations of whaling men behind them. 5 Brooklyn Men Pistol Experts At Cavalry Camp Qualify for Highest Rating on. Mounted Course Howlett to Review Unit Special to The Eagle Pine Camp, N. June 22 Five members of the Brooklyn units of the 101st Cavalry at their annual encampment here have qualified as experts on the mounted pistol course. Qualification tests on the pistol and saber courses were among the outstanding events of the regiment's first week at camp.

This week the features of the schedule will include a review for Col. James R. Howlett on Wednesday and musketry problem that will engage the troopers in mimic warfare tomorrow. Saturday the regiment went through itjs annual camp muster and inspection. Virtually all the shooting on the ranges has been completed.

The expert qualifications by troops: A Troop Sgt. Gordon Battle, marksman; Thomas Gonsalves. marksman; Corp. George Barker, sharpshooter; Adolf Rasmussen. marksman.

A Troop still has men to be sent over the course. Troop Capt. Marshall Grout and Corp. Edward J. Walsh.

I Troop Capt. Gilbert Acker-mann, Donald Leeds and Lt. Alvin Tuck, these they caught a speeding ball and returned it against the wall with more speed. A sort of glorified handball, but wilder. An ancient Basque game, I am told, transplanted to these parts.

And very picturesque It was, too. what with three gentlemen in red berets walking up and down in front of the stands and shouting. First the leader shouted, in a voice like Joe Humphreys', and then the other two. They shouted so: "Dies a siete! Dies a siete! the Motion Picture Operators Union. 'Thomas Maloy, business agent of the union, was one of five sought for questioning in the murder Saturday night of Jacob Kaufman, a member who opposed Maloy's control.

Kaulman was shot to death by a young man while waiting In a west side garage until a radio was Installed in his automobile. Sought, In addition to Maloy, were Danny Stanton, chief of Al Ca-pone's labor racket syndicate; Ralph O'Hara, Maloy's chief aide; Eddie Donovan, a Stanton hoodlum; Jack Quln. union official, and Frank Clifford, assistant business agent. Assistant State's Attorney Charles E. Lounsbury said he believed union officials were anxious to get Kaufman out of the way for fear that, he might give damaging evidence to the grand jury Investigation.

The jury labor racketeering in quiry, resumea wany. was swrcms out. Lounsbury said, to include jo-spnh Malov. Thomas' brother and head of the City Motion Picture Bu reau. The Assistant Stute's Attorney said the membership of the union has been keot at 580 for the last len years, no applicants being admitted.

The rest of the operators working in the city are called "permit men," imritinir under temporary cards. These must pay 10 percent of their wages into the union treasury. This permit practice, Lounsbury said, aids Malny to make a reputed annual income of from $750,000 to $1,000,000. Kaufman, asked 11 he had any enemies, was quoted assaying. "Only the officials of the union.

They all hate me." Policemen Beaten By Throng After Raid on Dice Came Run Itilo Trouble Seeking Missing Witness Couple Under Arrest Twn nolieemen are in St. Vln- cent's Hospital today suffering from blows from a mob. The condition of one. Patrolman Jerome Wondcrsack of the Eliza- beth St. precinct, is serious.

Wondersack went to 144 Baxter Manhattan, to get a witness tor a night court case when he woke Into 20 men shooting dice. He picked up the dice and money left by the fleeing players. He proceeded on his way, but libla demanded the dice. In the fray, Wondersack and Patrolman Joseph S. Connor, who rushed to his assistance, and Irbla were beaten severely; traffic was held up and a crowd of 5.000 had to be dispersed by the emergency squad.

Irbla and his wife were arrested, charged with felonious assault. suddenly and cause the animals to act in the apparently irrational manner. "After a migration the number of lemmings remaining is small. Their number increases quite rapidly, and when the population has become sufficiently dense a bacterial disease may quickly gain epidemic proportions Believed Due to Hunger "Dr. Vernon Kellogg, one of the leading biologists, says hunger is what causes the migration.

I have reached no decision. They live cn fungus growths that seem to be plentiful, but It is possible I there is a particular kind of growth that appeals to them and this may become scarce. "Three kinds of birds seem to live entirely on lemmings, a white owl, a horny-footed hawk and a bird resembling our seagull. "In lemming years these birds are plentiful, in other years they are scared Dogs attack the lemmings, but they will eat only the head. The reason for this is unknown.

"Charles Elvon of England is making a study of periodicity in animals, and among other anirnab he is studying the lemming and the years of their migrations to learn If there Is any cause that may me correlated with sun spots, as has been found to be the case with other animals." Mystery Migration Thought Due to Craze I. Alio IMmii nurse More than 1.500 applications have been rerclved for the Marine Corps reserve training course. The course did not Include flight tialnlng, but ground work, except as a passenger with one of the officers. The course corresponds to National Guard training, with classea two days each month and two week active duty each year. Instruction are given in radio, gunnery, bombing and engines.

Two new squadrons of 100 men each will be formed from these applicants. Calls Bankruptcy Reprisal Act bv Milk Control Rinjr Fraud Is Charged by Deal er Who Refused lo Pay Dues to 'Priee-Fixers Because he refused to pay "dues' to an association alleged to be seeking to control the price of milk and cream, his firm was fraudulently petitioned Into bankruptcy last week, accorjlng to William A. Levy, president of the Eastern Cream Company, 209 N. 9th St. Levy's allegation Is contained In an affidavit filed tr 'iv In Brooklyn Federal Court by his lawyer, Samuel C.

Duberstein. The affidavit sup Duber-steln's request for an order calling upon the Northland Dairy Association to show cause why the court should not dismiss tin bankruptcy petition. The order, which wai granted, requires that both sides appear be'ort Judge Inch and explain the situation tomorrow afternoon. While he was absent in Florid last January, Levy states, an agent of the association talked to an officer of his company, who agreed to Join, subject to Levy's approval, which was never given. For the month of April Levy saya he was billed $9,000 and for May $10,000.

He refused to pay and, says, was advised by certain executives of the association that they would obtain from a "friendly" Judge In Watertown an injunction that would tie up his business. Kills Her Sister's Husband After He Threatens Family Woman Says Sont Under Abuse by Male lo rest Victim. Asvlinu Joseph Colaclno. 37, of 621 President St. was killed last night by his sistcr-ln-law, Mrs.

Jennie Muzio. 35. of 721 Union St. Mrs. Miizlo, held for homicide, told the police she shot Colaclno after he threatened to attack her and members of her family when refused admission to her apartment to see his wife, Mrs.

Muzio's sister. The latter was released Saturday from the Creedmore Branch of th Brooklyn State Hospital. According to Mrs. M-izio, Colaclno threatened to cut the throatl of all in the household when re fused permission to see his wife. When he tried to enter, Mrs.

Muzio is said to have fired. Mrs. Muzio told police her reason for not admitting Colacino was a feeling he was largely responsible for her sister's mental condition, Colacino was the father of fiv children, three of whom are in an orphan asylum. Ul OJJCll yyj the "apprentice" tips on extractions, drilling, filling, and, most essential of all the tricks of the trade, the gentle art of bookkeeping, though they do say that the dentists of the good old days hurt ths nerves of their patients more than their pocketbooks. A few months ago, the writer recorded the history of Dr.

David Salmon Skinner, a real pioneer dentist of Brooklyn, who lived In a fine house at Montague and Henry which. In the 40's was considered a "suburban" district. Tour Brothers Pioneers Today we present a picture of four brothers named King who followed in Skinner's footsteps, and helped, in the 70 s. to relieve toothache and build bridges over gaps that helped prominent Brooklynltcs to face tough beefsteaks with im- plInity. and also preserve their po sltion in society.

Keacing irom icu 10 ripm. uie photograph, we find on the upper row Isaar m. King, the oldest of the quartet, and Thomas Jeiferson King, and in the same order on the bottom row, Louis H. King and William Wallace King. Isaac was one of the founders of the Dental Society of New York.

He learned the ins and outs of his profession in the office of Dr. Waldo Hill, a fashionable Heights dentist of the Civil War period. When Dr. Isaac King opened "on his own." ha established himself In a house at Bedford and Gates where he soon gathered a "swell" clientele. Mn, Gould His Patient Among his patients was Edith Kingdon, who became Mrs.

George Gould, moving from her modest little home on Quincy St. to the millionaire's mansion on Fifth Ave. As Miss Kingdon she was a leading member of the Amaranth Dramatic Society of Brooklyn, from which she stepped to the stage of Augustin Daly's Theater, where she attracted the attention of Mr. Gould. No doubt the fine work done on the teeth of Miss Kingdon Increased the brightness of her smile, and helped to win her success on the stase and a rich husband as well.

One of Isaac King's sons, Charles took up his father's profession, but the others boys and girls fol lowed other careers. One of them, William Grafing King, was a prodigy as a boy violinist. He is now concert master of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Kin of General Grant Returning to the other members of the quartet pictured above, we find that Thomas studied with Dr. Joseph Brown and had an office in Liuuia no at ji cuuc and Bedford Aves.

and William practiced on upper Fulton St. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was a second cousin of the Kings. If you are a student of physiognomy, take another good look at the picture and you will observe a striking family resemblance in all four to the KrRat clvil War Police Horse Hit Car, Car Didn't Hit Horse Ben W.

Boas of 2305 Avenue denied today that his motorcar hit the horse of Traffic Patrolman Gaines Saturday, at Brighton and Coney Island as stated yes- terday In The Eagle. It was Just the other way around. Boas explained. His explanation was confirmed by the official report at the Coney Island precinct. According to the report, the horse became frightened at a passing trolley car and shied Into Boas' machine.

The report lists the horse as "the party responsible for the accident." of W. 1 IGNORED II JEWS Harry G. Fromherg H. G. Fromberg Elected Head of Israel Council Kdiii'Hlional Body's Work Praised by Hoover in Telegram to Convention Harry G.

Fromberg, Brooklyn attorney and Republican candidate for County Judge In the last election, yesterday was elected president of the National Council of Young Israel, Jewish educational society comprising a membership of over 17,000 young men and women. Of the 600 delegates attending the convention at Asbury Park, N. which opened Friday and closes today, more than 300 represented the 7.500 members enrolled in 13 Brooklyn chapters. Other Brooklynltcs elected were J. David Delman.

vice president, and Miss Ruth Gordon, recording sec- rctary. Praised by flnnvrr At the installation of officers bnn- i quct held last nisht the following message from President Hoover was read: "The of such organizations makes an Important contribution to the spiiitual advancement of our country." Borough President Levy of Manhattan and Assemblyman Samuel Mandelbaum commended the work the organization. Mr. Fromberg is also president of the Yeshivah of Flatbush. Presidents of Young Israel chapters In Brooklyn who led delegations were: Louis Garterhaus, Bath Beach; Daivl Cohen, Bensonhurst; Lo'jis L.

Cohn. Borough Park; Charles Liss. Brownsville; David Law, Brooklyn; Morris Russelem, Coney Island: Harry Hesiger, East New York; Isidore Landes, Eastern Parkway; Nat Weissman, Flatbush; Frank Gottlieb, Williamsburg; Samuel f-par, Jamaica; Ben Lasser, Rugby, and Abe Yablow, Mapleton Park. M. ErBishop Offers Cure for Depression Birmingham.

June 22 (Pi-Reduction of armaments, war debts and tariffs is prescribed by Bishop N. Ainsworth of the Methodist Church, South, to cure the worldwide depression. In a sermon yesterday the Bishop urged America to take the lead in international rehabilitation. Lemmings, Traveling in Straight Line Until Death, Try to Swim Oeean if lt Lies in Their Path, Declares Dr. Clyde Fisher By JOHN J.

O'NEILL Science Editor of The Eagle Animals that seem to go crazy and migrate in vast numbers, always traveling in a straight line until death overtakes them, were described by Dr. Clyde Fisher of the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. The animals were observed edge, recede and rise again. They are great sweeps of yel low, or brown, or, where the mountain tops merge with the sky. a blue gray.

But no green. There are no trees, no leaves of any sort, nothing but billowing wastes of sand. The clouds come rolling up from the east, they say, crash against the towering Andes and pour out their moisture over the jungles. The strip along this Pacific side is the land of Never-Never-Raiu. At noon the sun looks down directly from the North.

I missed a bullfight Mn Lima, which was Sunday, a day before we arrived. Your correspondent was highly disappointed, you may be sure, for it is his purpose to view the customs of these South American countries, including their sports, and Interpret them for the gringos up North. Thus would he carry out his mission of ambassador of good will. But I missed it, and bullfighting Is non-exitent farther south. Whereupon your foxy old reporter pulled another rabbit out of his journalistic bag: He, in brief, went about the business of getting a true report of the Lima bull fight from persons who had seen it.

He approached the bellboy of the Bolivar Hotel and explained. The bellboy understood. Rum Fight Anyway "Ah," he asked, "the senor is sad because he did not see the fight of the bulls? Let not the sencr be sad It was a bad fight very bad. It was nothing Nada." The senor next put the problem up to a traffic policeman on the corner. Or maybe it was a Peruvian soldier, for he carried a rifle instead of the conventional nightstick, but he was directing traffic.

The soldier-policeman was at first sympathetic, then enthusiastic. "Moy," he said, "I wish to congratulate the Norte American senor I have seen this bullfight, and the bull he was a coward and run away and the matador he was altogether without the Art. Oh. yes, senor. It is one great bullfight to have miss." The North American senor by now was desperate.

But he had one last trick, which is to question another newspaperman. And he played it He called on Senor Luis Leon Plaza of El Comcrcio and the Associated Press. Mr. Leon sized up the situation at once and gave his answer in a confidential tone of voice, as between one newspaperman and another. In Mexico City," he said truth fully, "they have excellent bull fights, and also in Spain.

Yes." Thus was Latin-American cour tesy poured out to assuage the keen est pangs of a gringo's disappoint ment. Basque Sport Far Away That night we went to the Jai- Alai (High-Lie) games on the Ave-nida Progreso. The contest was between the Blancos (Whites) and the Azules (Blues). Whites and Blues were equipped with larse curved gourds strapped to one wrist. With I I "What," asked Eve, "are they shouting about, with their pretty berets?" Your correspondent explained it was odds they were shouting, odds of 10 to 7, and that the Blues were favorites.

"Why?" asked Eve. "Because they are ahead. It Is 15 to 12 now, and the Whites are the under dogs Eve Loses, But Wins "Then," said Eve, "I will bet on them. Here, muchacho, I want to bet on the Whites. How much is it.

10 soldes? There you are." She got a bit of paper for her soldes. and just then Senor Adolfo of the Blue team made a terrific return and he was followed by his' teammate, Mr. Estudiante. who was just as good a player. We all rose and shouted: "Bueno Muy bueno!" All, that is, except Eve, who kept on cheering for the poor downtrodden Whites.

But It didn't do her any good. Once in a while the Whites scored a point or two, but they always were followed by three or four Blue points. Came a final terrific drive by Captain Adolfo, which both Whit players missed and the game was ended with a Blue victory. Very sad was Eve, for she does not like to see the under dog lose. But the Peruvian Jose Humphreys was shouting again right in front of her.

"Senorita!" he shouted, and then handed her 17 soldes In cash. The senorita was puzzled, you bet but not your correspondent. "Why, of course," he explained. "When you gave him 10 soldes, and the odds were 10 to 7, he put your money on the favorite. Didn't you know you were betting on the Blues all the time." Senorita Eve pocketed her winnings but was sorry for the White boys just the same.

Bible Class Lauds Anti-Dry Mayor Atlanta, June 22 P) Mayor James L. Key, whose criticism of prohibition while he was in Paris as a guest of the French Govern ment started a flood of both approval and disapproval here, will be welcomed back to Atlanta by his Bible class of the Grace Methodist Church as "a great statesman and a fine Christian gentleman." No mention was made of Key's description of prohibition as a by Dr. Fisher in Lapland, to which place he has made two trips. On the first he succeeded in observing a migration under way. Last year, despite diligent search, not one was to be found.

These peculiar animals, the lemmings, are rodents and resemble guinea pigs in size and general appearance except their fur is much shorter. They live up on the Arctic circle. For years nothing will be seen of them. Then there will come a "lemming year," when they swarm. Destination Unknown "Why they swarm and migrate no one seems to know," says Dr.

Fisher. "The Lapps say the lemmings are crazy. "They certainly act in a peculiar manner. When they start to go to their unknown destination nothing intereferes with their progress. "They cross fjords, they cross glaciers.

If the ocean lies in their path they enter it without hesitation and keep on swimming until they become exhausted and drown. "The cause of the migrations Is unknown. Dr. Einen Lonnberg of the Riks Museum of Natural History, who accompanied me on the trips during which I studied the lemmings and their migrations. thinks some disease may spread.