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M2 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1934 HOSTAGE FOR RENT? Woman Companion in Exile Here Are 1934's Silliest Stories Nazis to Banish U.S. Woman for InsultinsHitler Professor Who Labored and Brought Forth Largest' Prime Number Win in a Breeze-Boys Knitting Cluh and I. Q. Testers, Hitler's Longing for Peace Night and Day, and Healtbiest Boy and Girl Among Qualifiers Miss Sittell, Who Called Fuehrer Jew, May Now Never See Her Parents ST 1 1 Flynn to Resign His State Job at Closeof 1935 Governor Urges Him to Stay Another Year for Party Harmony Sake By MURRAY SNYDER Staff Correspondent of The Eagle Albany, Dec. 31 Edward J.

Flynn, debonair Bronx leader and key figure In the "New Dealized" State Democracy, is to resign as Governor Lehman's Secretary of State at the close of the 1935 legislative session, The iagle learned on good authority today. Flynn wanted to retire from his cabinet post at the expiration of his term today. In fact he offered his resignation to the governor at about the same time Superintendent of Insurance George S. Van Schalck and Superintendent of Banks James ing to Arthur Brisbane, aren't nearly as healthy as one good gorilla. 8.

That heated etymological-grammatical-phraseological discussion as to which one eats more correctly: Pie with cheese or cheese with pie. 9. Herr Adolf Hitler announcing again that he longs night and day for nothing but peace. And 10. The story entitled: 'Here are 1934 Silliest Stories." Waldmohr, Germany, Dec.

SI W) Banishment forever from Germany was the prospective penalty today for a young American woman who allegedly laughed at Nazi storm troop uniforms and called Reichfuehrer Hitler "a Jew." The judge who will hear the case of Elsa Sittell. 31, of New York, a naturalized. American citizen, said this sentence probably would be passed soon after New Year's. Thus Miss Sittell, who spent her ninth day Incommunicado in a tiny cell of the Jail here, may never again see the aged parents she wanted to surprise with "fine presents" for Christmas. She was en route to the Saar, of which she is a native, to vote in the Jan.

13 plebiscite when arrested. Family Welfare During Week Gets Gifts of $250,000 53,213 Join List of Contributors to Fund After Public Drive Closes By WILLIAM WEER 1 List of Unimportant Stories Editor It is customary at this time of the year, or at least it is being made customary right now to review the year's happenings, to list the least outstanding and least important news events of shall we 1934? Yes. we shall say it. 1934. In other words, what have been the littlest news stories of the year? What (more specifically) have been the ten littlest? One quickly thinks back over the year that's dying, dying (let it die, you sap, you can't stop it) and what does one think of? Well, frankly, I don't know.

It has been SUCH a year for outstandingly unimportant little stories that one is at a loss where to begin. Professor Is VVinnah Undoubtedly, however, first place on the list must go to the professor in Chicago who labored and labored and produced what he guaranteed to be the largest prime number (a number, that can't be divided by any other whole number except one) that any one can figure out. The number was- something like That, mind you, wasn't the number, only something like It. The right number (which is even longer but just as silly) can be found by any one who wishes to look it up, under the professor's name in the index department of this newspaper, which we newspaper men quaintly call "the morgue." The trouble is, of course, that nobody can remember the professor's name. In Glass Coffin So much for first place.

The remaining nine places (2 to 10 inclusive) are listed herewith, together wUti their outstanding unimportant nes events and such comments as the editor feels bright enough to make about each: 2. That gentleman (Oh, what IS his name?) who buried himself alive in a glass "coffin" somewhere on Long Island with the object of becoming famous. 3. Formation of the students (boys) knitting club at Columbia University. Some one should really investigate whether the boys are sticking to their knitting.

How Do We Know? 4. Discovery of that infant prodigy with an I.Q., or intelligence, higher than Professor Finstein's. This was a VERY unimportant event not because of the boy, who is no doubt a boy and all right, but because what about the people who devised the I. Q. tests how do we know they were intelligent enough to invent such things before taking an I.

Q. test themselves? 5. Discovery by Dr. William A. Wirt that President Roosevelt was Kerensky, that Donald Richberg was John L.

Sullivan (in disguise) and that Greta Garbo was a movie actor named Rin Tin Tin (in disguise). 6. Election if he was elected of the other Senator from Louisiana. 7. Election of the healthiest boy and the healthiest girl at a livestock show in Chicago.

Funny thing about this Is that both of them, accord Ruth Neligh, who is alleged to have been held in the home of Mary Humphrey in Omaha, for an unpaid bourd bill. Mrs. Viola Neligh, Ruth's aunt, hailed Mrs. Humphrey to court, who, in turn, placed the girl in the hands of Omaha juvenile authorities. Townspeople said she was jailed after a declaration she was going to vote against reunion with Germany, but the official version ger.

'You can't say that here srouted one. "You are a guest in. Officials asserted she refused to pay duty at the border on the gifts which she was taking her parents. Germany and you must keep your opinions to American Released Laughs at Uniforms While customs men deliberated, Mettlach. Germany, Dec.

31 (P) Associated Press Photo Frau Dora Koerwin with Dr. Walter Kraft on their arrival in Guayaquil, Ecuador, recently. Frau Koerwin was companion in exile of Dr. Friedrich Ritter in their South Sea "Garden of Eden" until his death on Nov. 21.

The Hancock expedition stopped at Charles Island, where Ritter and Frau Koerwin lived, after identifying the bodies of Dr. Alfred Lorenz and a sailor on Marchena Island. the official said, she went into the station restaurant and engaged in conversation with storm troopers. An intensive campaign since the day after Christmas has resulted In subscriptions of $250, 0 to the Citizens' Family Welfare Committee, it was announced today by James G. Blaine, chairman.

When the public phase of the campaign closed Dec. 19 contributions totalled $3,071,000. Since then 53,243 persons have been added to the list of contributors. The number, Mr. Blaine said, is Increasing daily and is expected to reach its peak around the middit of January.

The funds help family relief agencies meet demands. Chester Watkins, a native of Chattanooga. was released today after two days' detention because "Those are awful uniforms you he had no permit to enter the Saar territory, where he now lives. the official quoted her as saying. "The continued on the same level when sud denly the girl said, 'Hitler's a Jew His parents were His release came after relatives In Washington cabled the governing commission of the Saar for an ex planation of why he was held.

The storm troopers rose in an- Amnesia Case Solved By Headache Tablet When confronted with baffling amnesia cases police of the Bergen St. station in the future are likely to prescribe headache tablets. They are tempted today to take a few themselves. V. Broderick did a few weeks ago.

But the Governor insisted that the boss stay on to undertake one of the most Important tasks in the new all-Democratic State administration this Spring, just as he prevailed upon Van Schaick to hang on to the reins of the crucial mortgage situation pending the establishment of a mortgage authority. Flynn's abilities as a diplomat Will be employed to smooth the path of the Democratic legislative program, according to a reliable authority. Sole member of the quintet of New York City bosses with more than a year's service as a county leader behind him, Flynn is looked upon as a necessary factor to the harmony Governor Lehman hopes to see blossom forth at the opening session Wednesday and bloom to final adjournment. Although the Democrats have control over both houses for. the first time since 1913, the margin in the Assembly is only 77 to 73 with the possibility that a recount may upset the 15 vote victory of Julius Helfand over Samson Insel-buch in the 6th (Williamsburg) District and change it to a slim 76 to 74.

Absence of any excessive cordiality between Senate Majority Leader John J. Dunnigan Irwin Stein-gut, who is expected to be elected speaker of the and a few similar party weaknesses impressed upon the Democratic powers the Importance of Flynn's remaining in Albany in his official capacity so he may be on hand to exercise his political influence in times of crisis, according to the Insiders. Stelngut Seen Victor loss of memory and a headache. For seven hours Mrs. Cuppels was questioned by Detective John McLaughlin and Lt.

David McClunn Shortly after midnight Patrolman Arthur Fuyster reported with Mrs. Nora Cuppels, 29, of 37 Grosham Yonkers. Only the policeman didn't know she was Mrs. Cuppels, nor did Mrs. Cuppels know it.

All she remem TO THE USERS OF ELECTRIC SERVICE They did everything possible to help an amnesia victim so they thought. Finally in desperation they thought of food. But nothing happened. Then McClunn produced, a headache tablet. Soon Mrs.

Cuppels said something snapped again and her memory returned. She then said she was planning to visit her mother, Mrs. Josephine bered was she had attended mass somewhere early the day before and started on a visit to her mother who had a phone in the Sunset exchange. The remainder of the day she spent on the subway. Gray of 354 47th and she likewise recalled all other simple facts that the police had sought so earnestly.

Coming down on the train, Mrs. Cuppels said, something in her head snapped with two results: A The election of Steingut is re In New York City Westchester County garded as certain by party leaders gathering here for the inaugural of Governor Lehman and the opening of the new session, in spite of mut terings of revolt in Brooklyn. N. Y. Investors Action Asked 50 Shots Fired In Saar Clash Steingut's friends are preparing an anticipatory celebration tonight and most of his fellow district lead ers from Brooklyn will be on hand The New Year's pageantry will begin officially, at 9:30 tonight, however, when the Governor, surrounded by members of his family, department heads and their wives, takes the oath of office at the executive mansion, administered by his brother, Judge Irving Lehman Continued from Page 1 stages of 77B proceedure are still exploratory.

As matters stood, we were convinced that Judge Mos-cowitz would have to hold the Banking Department's position untenable. But we are making doubly sure by seeking immediately reorganization of New York Investors, The following letter has been sent to the members and counsel of the Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Public Utilities. of the Court of Appeals. with the Prudence Company as an integral part of New York Investors." The Firm's Assets As of Dec. 31, 1932, the latest consolidated balance sheet available, New York Investors had, after suc Immediately the Governor's party will proceed to the 10th Infantry Armory where hun-' dreds of the brighter lights in the State Democracy will gather for the Inaugural ball.

The gaiety of this function will be In marked contrast to the atmosphere of the 1932 inaugural, saddened by a death In the Governor's family. Tomorrow morning at 11:30 a guard of honor will conduct the Governor from the mansion to his executive offices in the Capitol, Where Secretary of 8tate Flynn will administer the public oath. The Governor will deliver his inaugural address after a short speech by former Gov. Alfred E. Smith.

The Governor and Mrs. Lehman will entertain a few out-of-town guests at the mansion in the afternoon. Saarbruecken, Saar Basin Territory, Dec. 31 (JF) A pitched battle was fought early today between Nazis and anti-Hitlerites in Mal-statt, a suburb of Saarbruecken. More than 50 shots were fired.

A Hitler youth was injured and the restaurant where the fight took place was wrecked. Anti-Nazis asked the League of Nations governing commission today to institute semi-martial law in order to suppress "terrorism gripping theSaar." A petition asking that troops of the International Army sent here by Geneva to maintain order said "the secrecy of the plebiescite vote has been assured but freedom of speech in the campaigns has not." The outbreak was the second violent one of the weekend. Several persons were Injured yesterday at Blieskastel when an anti-Nazi political meeting was broken up, allegedly by a band of Nazis. Half a dozen unidentified men, described by Nazis as "German emigrants," were said to have attacked a group of Hitler youths in the restaurant by breaking in through the door and windows. Guns were drawn and the Nazis barricaded themselves behind chairs and tables.

The attackers fled when residents, awakened by the shooting, ran to the scene. Charges that France is financing Catholic opposition to Reichsfuehrer Hitler in the Saar Basin territory were made by Hugo Hagn, editor of a Catholic newspaper. He resigned his post in protest. French mining interests, the editor asserted, were back of the alleged subsidies. Award $61,474 cessive write-downs from 1929 values, $66,206,561 of assets applicable to current liabilities of $39,987,996 and an additional $40,323,072 of assets applicable to $38,987,928 of funded and other liabilities.

Besides $20,000,000 borrowed from the R. F. C. for payment of dividends on guaranteed securities sold by its Prudence Company to the public, New York Investors' liabilities are now almost exclusively contingent, being its guarantee of mortgages, mortgage certificates and preferred stock sold by the Prudence Company and subsidiaries. New York Investors, itself, has been in equity receivership since July 14, 1933.

Through various subsidiaries and in co-operation with syndicates, it engaged In a vast variety of activities. It has owned a railroad and still owns 10 percent of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Combined Circuses. The latter, incidentally, is reliably reported to have earned $400,000 net profit last season, under the management of Samuel Gumpertz of Coney Island. For 30 Parcels Awards for 30 of the 228 parcels taken by the city for the Avenue Improvement, between E. 80th and E.

92d Sts. and from Rockaway Parkway to E. 108th were an nounced today by Justice Lockwood In Supreme Court. The awards total $61,474.85. The owners claimed $105,073.76.

The city experts said the parcels were worth $55,026.86. Honorable John J. Dunnigan, Chairman of Joint Legislative Committed to Investigate Public Utilities, The Capitol, Albany, New York Honorable John E. Mack, Chief Counsel of Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Public Utilities, i0 East 40th Street, New York City Gentlemen: I have been authorized by the Trustees of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York to propose, putting into effect as to our electric companies in the City of New York and Westchester County the so-called Washington Plan for rate reductions. Our business deals so intimately with the public that the questions of its-service, its properties, its rates and its earning power are all matters of proper, and vital interest to the public no less than to those who have invested their money in the enterprise.

If private capital is to provide the means of rendering. this essential service to the public, it must receive a fair Teturn. On this point fair-minded men agree. But the spirit of the times demands that this return should be linked with some plan by which the public is given prompt advantage of the results of greater economies and greater earnings by reason of additional volume of business. Such a program the Washington Plan provides.

It began with rates considerably higher than those in effect in our territory. By successive reductions over a period of years, the retail rates have been brought down to a point lower than ours. This has been accomplished, not only by company economies, but by a steady increase in the average consumption of electricity which is now higher in Washington than in New York. For its adoption and successful operation, the Washington Plan presupposes a spirit of frankness and genuine cooperation on the part of the companies and the. community.

It involves rates' based on a-limited return upon an agreed base from which any elements of water or write-up have been completely taken out. It faces realistically the problems of taxation, simplification of corporate structures, and revisions of rate structures. All these are details that require fair working our. But the purpose of the plan is to provide lower rates and, by increased consumption, progressively lower rates, taking into account always the proper interests of employees and investors. It is with this end in view that we propose its prompt adoption in this territory, and ask for an early conference at which the first steps may be taken.

For the Trustees, Floyd L. Carlisle, Chairman A quarterly dividend at the rate of 2'2 perannum -Hill be credited to depositors January 1st, 1935 on all sums) entitled thereto. This is the 238th consecutive dividend paid by the Bank to its Depositors. Resources over 110 Million Dollars THE BROOKLYN SAVINGS BANK CHARTERED1827 CORNER OF CLINTON AND PIERREPONT STREETS I THE BOROUGH HALL DISTMICt OLDEST SAVINGS BANK ON LONG ISLAND.