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A 3 HILL WILL BRIE REPORTS BESIEGED BCffiiS STILL Three Examples of English Beauty This Month Is Coldest To Wed 57. K. Vcnderbilt August With Mercury a JL 67.5, Five Behw Normal THE BROOKLYN" DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK1. SUNDAY, AUGUST 2S.

1027. been approximately 67 5 decrees. Average for 56 Years Is 72.5. Rainfall Up 3 Ins. Snow at York, Pa.

Weather Bureau Puzzled. it" 3 7 Lawyer's Move Stirs Report Youth Plans Return to Face His Accusers. Streator. Aug. 27 OP Strea-tor'i belief that Harry Hill soon will return to answer to a charge of murder In connection with the alaylng of his mother vat strengthened today by the hurried return to the city of Arthur Shea, Streator criminal attorney, who has been on a vacation In Canada.

It was reported here that R. C. Osborne, attorney for Dr. H. C.

Hill, father of the missing youth, had wired Shea to terminate his outing and return here. tUA d3 beauty, plus talent, and are ill stirs This combinition shows the latest exclusive studio portraits oJ and Malvini Longfellow. Mexican Consul's Message Sent Too Early, Stat Department Believes. Washington. Aug.

27 t4" Uncertainty continued today at the State Department as to the plight of 13 Americans reported besieged, Thursday, in their homes at the Amparo mines in Mexico, when the mining properties were seized by radicals. A telegram, dated 1 yesterday, from Consul Salter hue at Guadalajara, informed the Department that telegraphic advices from Amparo were that no Mexican troops had appeared. This report contrasted with assurances given yesterday to the American Charge d'Aflaires by the Mexican Acting Foreign Minister to the ellect that the military had matters In hand and the "situation" of the Americans at Amparo was "satisfactory." State Department officials said the contradcltton between the two messages might be more apparent than real, inasmuch as Satterwhite's report was probably based on information coming from Amparo in the early morning, before Mexican troops had opportunity to reach the mines. Three Battles Reported. Nogalcs, Aug.

27 OP) The Nogales Herald says a composite report of rebel activities on the Mexican west coast received today from Oua-dalajara says three heavy engagements and four skirmishes have occurred in the State of Jalisco in the past week, with heavy Josses on both sides. Broken bands ranging from 50 to 1,000 men each are reported to have been unusually active in Jalisco with the zone of fighting spreading over the line into the State of Nayarit, where an American girl. Miss Flor- ence M. Anderson of Los Angeles, I was fatally wounded in a train at-r tack last Tuesday. Aks 5100,000 Reparations.

i Los Angeles, Aug. 27 (D Mrs. Paris. Aug. 27 (P) While William K.

Vanderbilt Jr. of New York and Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton Jr. of Philadelphia are reticent about their plans, it is believed their long-expected marriage will take place some time during the week of Sept.

4 in the Mayor's office of the 16th Ward. Paris. It is thought likely they will sail for the United States about the middle of September. FOUR HELD IN SLAYING OF CHICAGO JUNK DEALER Chicago, Aug. 27 UP) Four men were under arrest here today as police searched for a fifth in connection with the fatal shooting of Max Brav-erman, junk dealer and father of five children.

Braverman was shot from behind, police said, after he had tlirned to walk away from a gang of alleged sluggers, who had corraled him and about 50 other junk dealers in a yard on the West Side. Members of his family told the police he had refused to join an organization of Junx dealers. aclysm was the intense storm early in the week that raged off the coast. There were three days on which rain more than an inch in depth fell. While there were few really bright davs six.

to be exact there were also few which were entirely overcast. Sun shine was mixed with shadow. The month. It is said, may end as it start edunder a cloud. Postponement Record of Steps And Missteps in Dunne Case Here are some of the date on which things happened, or failed to happen, in the now famous Dunne brewery case: Aug.

6, 1926 The Manor Brewery on Staten Island was raided and seized. Aug. 18 Six "keepers," or custodians, were put in the brewery. But the gates were not locked. Oct.

19 Guard was reduced to three, each man working alone for eight hours. Brewery gates were still unlocked. Jan. 8, 1927 Grand Jury found indictments, but they were sealed. Feb.

1 1 Indictments, until then sealed, were opened. Feb. 19 Brewery, according to charges by a former Prohibition agent, stopped operation on big scale. Feb. 28 Bench warrants were issued for John J.

Dunne and his father. March 2 Warrants were received by the U. S. Marshal. March 8 Warrants, after lying six days in the Federal Attorney's office, were sent to Trenton for service.

April 10 Political club in Brooklyn held a party with what was said to be Manor Brewery beer and ale. April 25 Dunnes surrendered. Warrants had not been served. May 17 It was decided to let Dunne plead June 6 That falling through, trial was set. It was postponed because Bernard Dunne was sick.

June 22 Bernard Dunne still reported sick. Another postponement. July 18 Federal Attorney Chiert got postponement because "the Government isn't ready," Aug. 14 Grand Jury began to investigate charges brewery was operating when it was supposed to be closed by the Government. Aug.

15 Another trial postponement. Dunne is sick again. Federal Attorney made no opposition. It's the coldest August on record, whatever it is due to. That's the Weather Bureau's story and the bureau will stick to.it, until it has sufficient information some months hence to enable it to put two and two together and find out what the cold is all about.

Though August will not end until Wednesday midnight, there have oeen enough low temperatures already to break the records. In the 58 years during which the New York bureau has been jotting down the daily temperatures, the average Tor August is been 72.5 degrees spread over all 24 hours. So far, this month, the average has nard Dunne and his de luxe son. John J. Dunne, together with that of others arrested, was set for June 6, 1927.

Mystery Illness Delays Trial. It wasn't held. Bernard J. Dunne was in St. Vincents Hospital suffer ing with a mysterious disease which the hospital authorities wouldn't dis cuss, which his doctor didn't care to discuss, and which the Federal authorities took for granted.

The trial was put over until June 22. That day rolled around. Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan went into court and showed a certificate that the elder Dunne was still 111.

He was convalescing then. The trial was postponed again, this time until July is. Chiert Causes New Delay. On that day the Dunnes were In court. But this time remember it was almost a year since the brewery had been raided Chiert got to his feet and insisted that the "Govern ment was not ready." So the trial was postponed until Aug.

15, 1927. Remember, too, that there is on the record no plea made July 18 that Bernard Dunne was still 111. When August 15 rolled around, sev eral things had happened. Johnson had made his charges and the Grand Jury was hearing them. Some of the peculiar coincidences of the case ha come to light.

Besides It was rather warm in the Federal building that is the weather was rather warm. Once Again Postponed. In any event, on Aug. 15 Bernard Dunne appeared to be ill again. Samuel Hirschberg, as attorney for Dunne, came into court and told Judge Sheppard that his client was not strong enough to prepare lor a rigid trial.

There was no opposition to the request for another postponement by Chiert. And once again the trial went over, this time until Sept. 6 considerably more than a year after the brewery was raided and after Dunne was known to be living in or near West New York, N. J. But the fact remains that the Dunnes haven't been tried yet, that all sorts of peculiarities have developed in handling their case, and that the Federal Grand Jury has yet to report on the charges made by Johnson.

The next step is problematical, but it does not seem apparent that it will include explanation of any of the peculiarities or minor mysteries which have so far surrounded the Dunne brewery case. of the British stige, favorites March 2. At that time both were living in West New York, N. and appeared to be in good health. The warrants were not served but when the marshal got ready to act, the Dunnes, father and son, flew to Florida.

Odd Plan Sidetracked. Then on May 7 It was admitted In tt.e Federal Building that the Dunnes might be allowed to plead guilty to the violation charges. If they did they would get a fine of perhaps and no prison sentence. No explanation was made then as to the status of the brewery itself and you recall how no permanent libel was asked by the Federal attorney. Had those plans gone through in May the Dunnes, if they Wished, could have taken back a $2,000,000 outlaw business by paying a fine of $18,000 for operating it.

But the plans did fall through. Just why Is another of the Dunne mysteries. In any event the trial of Ber UtJOll Vtt.OVJll, BU1IU V. lUHIIVfc Anderson, California school teacher, who was fatally wounded in a Mexican train attack last Tuesday, said she had demanded through the State Department reparations from the Mexican government of $100,000 for her niece's death. SERVING BROOKLYN SINCE 1865 ABRAHAM STBAUSJk which is five degrees off and unat end almo-vt two whole degrees lower than the shivery August.

1903, when ihe month averaged only 69 2. "Is it, alter all. asked The Earle representative, by way of provocation. ot Dr. James H.

Kimball of the Weather Bureau, "due to sun Fpots'" 'I don't know what it is due to." he replied, "but one thmg I do know is. that it isn't du to sun spots." "ow that. Dr. Kunball?" "I say It couldn't be sun spots, or any other astronomical cause, because if it were it would extend over all the earth, and not over only a certain section ol it. We haven sumcient formation now to tell the month ljJit over yet and it will requne months to assemble the data lrom everywhere on earth.

"But," he added, "there is no rea son to believe it Is below normal everywhere. It is chilly in the northeastern section of the country, but not all over the United States. Today It is cloudy and rainy in New it one, over New England and down the coast as far as Cane Hatteras. but west of the Appalachians the skies are clear and sunny. Dr.

Kimball digressed to say that It probably would continue disagreeably rainy all of Saturday night and much ot Sunday and that the temperature wouldn't change so that you could notice It. Rain today, therefore, will make the seventh Sunday out of the ten since June 15 In which week-enders have found their arrangements upset by wet weather, not to speak of the con- cessionnaires at Coney Island and other resorts who have received so many financial setbacks from the weather this season that they ere about to give up the ghost. They were moaning yesterday when the total rainfall for the month had reached 7.41 inches, which is almost three Inches more than the normal of 4.53 for the month, although not a record, as In 1916 It rained 7.57, and in 1875 it rained 10 inches. The sun-spot theory advanced by Herbert Hanvnn Browne ol wasn ington, who last spring predicted a "summerless summer," has come into favor among lay weather prophets recently, although in July, when the city sweltered and a dozen died Irom prostration, Mr. Browne's name was not invoked with blessings.

The most pronounced effect upon the city has been the working of umbrellas overtime, the use of more bed clothing and an earlier than usual use of topcoats. Snow in One Seclinn. August's freaky weather in the North Atlantic States this year, the Associated Press says, has included a violent storm with wind of high velocity and even snow in one section Yesterday was an example of August. 1927, weather with a report from York, of snow falling and a temperature of 48 degrees above zero; another from Rochester. N.

reporting the coldest Aug. 27 since 1922, with a minimum of 51 degrees, and still others from other sections, all echoing the Identical refrain of crop damage by low temperatures and road destruction from heavy rains. Bad Month for Aviators. The month has been an unusually disappointing one lor aviators awaiting good take-off weather for lgnq hops. The more so, according to the Weather Bureau, since August is down on record as the best month in the year on the North Atlantic.

The wincis have been decidedly contrary and the visibility poor. The outstanding atmospheric, cat- i and ours I ft These are three examples of in London dramatic renditions. Queenie Thomas, Elsie Carlisle ODDLY POSTPONED DUNNE CASE IS A CURIOUS MYSTERY Continued on Page t. when operation is supposed to have ceased. There are a great many other things.

They are incidents, details, coincidences. Together they all build up the amazing story. No Actual Owners Found. Beginning at the start of events the Manor Brewery was raided by Prohibition officers on the night of Aug. 6 and "850 empty half barrels were taken from the place.

Criminal action was taken against those found in the place and against the supposed owners. But right there came the first mysterious step. There were no actual owners. The Eckstein brothers had owned the brewery, but it had been sold. And the Manor Brewery wasn't registered, filed no bonds, and so did no business under Federal supervision.

It was actually an outlaw business. No Record of Seizure Action. There is no record to show that beyond a civil action which re sulted in a libel on the plant under the custody of Deputy Marshal William Sonshine, any effort was made by the Federal Attorney to seize it. The fact remains therefore that should John J. Dunne and Bernard Dunne be acquitted of the Prohibition charges against them they can get back a business which makes beer and ale and which is unregis tered and not supervised by Prohibition officials.

That, however, was only the first unusual incident. Immediately after the seizure six guards were sent down to Staten Island from the marshal's office in Brooklyn. Two men were to work together on eight- nour snnts. Among the men were Alex L. Lane, Richard Brennan.

Charles Schmltt. Fred Robinson and Albert S. Johnson, all of Brooklyn. Lane, Brennan and Schmltt are known in the political field, Lane and Brennan being active members of the Tenth Assembly District Republican Club here. Schmltt was once a candidate for the nomination of State Senator.

Several Coincidences Happen. Several coincidences happened after that. For one thing, two men went to the plant from the Prohibition Director's office and made reports. The exact nature of those reports is confidential, but closely following them two different men from the Marshal's office visited the plant and unscrewed the main couplings on the big beer pumps. There are witnesses who say that the two men were Winnie and Cy Moore, sons of Jesse D.

Moore, U. S. Marshal, but neither of them actual deputy marshals. Cy Moore is a probation officer in the Domestic Relations Court. Three "Keepers" Removed.

Late in September three of the "keepers" were taken away, leaving only three men, each working alone on eight-hour shifts to guard the plant. The Manor Brewery is not a small plant. Indeed, it is one of the largest In the Metropolitan dis trict. Robinson had from midnight to 8 a.m. for a time: Johnson had from 4 to midnight, and Schmltt from 8 to 4 in the daytime.

It is Johnson who has charged that from Aug. 16 to Feb. 19 the plant was operating full blast. To substantiate his charges, he said, he has given Harry Chiert, Federal attorney who has had charge of the Dunne case, the names of two others who will corroborate him. One of the two Is Robinson.

The other is Arthur Stcngcr, fireman In the Manor Brewery. Neither has yet been stibpenaed by the Federal attorney, although the Orand Jury has had the case for more than a week. Johnson's Charges Well Aired. Johnson's charges that the brew-cry was nmning full blast have been aired. He has given dates and actual occurrences.

They also have been told. It Is understood, to the Grand Jury. But there, too. was an odd circumstance. Johnson asserts that before he was called to testify Chlcrt insisted, begged and threatened him so that he would sign a waiver of Immunity.

"I was making charges, not defending myself," said Johnson, "and I refiived." He went before the Grand Jury and he told his story. What that story Is. of course, cannot be told because the Grand Jurv cllorta are always secret. Johnson refuses to tell one word of what went on behind closed doors. He will not even say definitely tint he told his full story there.

Activities Mlnre Frbrusry Odd. Whether the brewery operated from Aug. 16 to Feb. 19 is something for the Grand Jury to decide, ot course. But activities at the brewery since Feb.

19 are Interesting, tno. There Is r.o question but that II the brewery is ft! 11 operating or was two weeks bio it operating th a skeleton force and pmtiably not with the knowledge of the Dunnes. But there Is a Prohibition agent ho Is said to have visited It twice slnre Marrh 1 and found bottled beer both times. Onre, it is said, he found some In the cistern of the big house nn the hill which Is part of the very extensive brewery land. The other time, It Is said, he found It In the engine room of the plant Itself.

Agent Not Called, It Is Raid. Incidentally, as far as could be learned, that Prohibition agent hai not been called before the Grand Jury. The only man who has appeared so far as lar as the secrecy of the body will permit actual statement of fart to make charges that the brewery has operated at any time since Its tenure Johnson. He has given tin tiaiucs A others to corrobo- Osborne denied calling upon Shea and the latter merely smiled when Informed of the rumors. Russell Hanson.

State's attorney, hopes-to obtain Mrs. Hill's will in an eflort to ascertain it contains a motive for the murder of the woman, found buried under her home a lew days ago. tore Affair Hinted As Motive. 'William Brvdees. a friend of the missing son, and one of the last to see him before he dropped irom signt.

In Chicago the day after the body was found, told the coroner's Jury Harry had said his mother had disinherited him. A reason for this, Brydges declared Hill indicated, was his love affair with Alice Sawyer, a Streator girl. Mrs. Hill was divorced from Dr. Hill.

DISTRICT BATTLES LOOM IN PRIMARY; TO BE HARD FOUGHT Interest May Surpass General Elections Many Brooklyn Leaderships Contested. Contrary to general expectaton the primary election to be held on Sept. 20 today have every Indication of sur passing in Interest, with one excep tion, the general elections In Novenv ber. The exception Is Governor Smith's coming battle to defeat the p. O.

P. constitutional amendment neeklns to increase the term of Goy ernor to four years, with the elections hpinor h1ri in Presidential years. On the outcome of several of the boro primary elections depends the leadership control of the districts. Should young Laurence F. Carroll be named in the Democratic primaries in the 11th Senatorial District to succeed til late father.

Senator Daniel J. Car roll, it may well mean the demise of Joseph Lentol as Democratic leader In the 14th A. D. Other district primary elections for Alderman and Assemblymen, which are but a test strength for the party leadership contests to be fought out Jn April, worm watcning are tne Democratic contests in the 8th A. D.

23d A. 14th A. 7th A. D. and 3d A.

D. Strife in G. O. P. Ranks.

In the Republican ranks the effort of Thomas Bcnnardo to unseat George Eilperln, leader of the 14th A. takes precedence in the po- tentlal leadership contests. Another lively skirmish will be the contest be- tween Assemblyman Edward E. Fay and ex-Congressman Lester D. Volk for the Republican nomination for Municipal Court Justice In the 2d district.

But the subject about which the ReDUbllcans are lust now most In terested in is the O. O. P. action of giving official indorsement to two In surgent Democrats. Carroll for Sen ator and Hugh J.

Hoehn for Alder man in South Brooklyn. Indorsements of Democrats. So far but two O. O. P.

leaders. Mrs. Mat M. Gooderson, co-leader of the 11th A. and John R.

Crews, leader of the 6th A. have voiced public disapproval. But It Is known that many of the Republican leaders have let it be unofficially known that they would not have agreed to giving Renubl can sunDort to a Democrat, should the case have come up in their districts. Governor Smith will stump the State In October In an effort to de feat the four-term amendment. H.

takes the position that it was drawn iin bv the o. o. P. with trie sole in tention of gaining a party advantage. McCooey Keeps Out of Squabbles, Democratic County Leader John H.

McCooey so far lias succeeded In keeping himself out of the Dem ocratlc party squabbles. Many of his district leaders have not been able to follow his example. License Commissioner Patrick J. Diamond, Democratic leader of the Ptli. Is having his right to the leader ship again challenged by Michael Reilly.

Hyman Shorensteln. 23d A. D. leader. Is being troubled by Irving Kotcher.

head of the James J. Walker Democratic Club, who has entered a full set of candidates against the "regulars. In the 14th A. Carroll Is aiding tn his fight against Leader Lenlol by Alderman Joseph Sullivan, one of the late Senator Carroll's political lieu tenants. In the 7th, Thomas P.

Burke Is seeking to displace Alderman James J. Mnlen, as the first Men In deposing Democratic Leader William J. Hetieman. And In the 3d A. Alderman Frank A.

Cun nlngham is being opposed by three Democratic aspirants Thomas Shields. John Kushmer and Hugh J. Hoehn. the Republican-Democrat. It Is probable that Cunningham will be re.

turned for his 19th consecutive year in ins Aiacrmamc body. Earl of Gainsborough, Soldier, Dead at 43 London, Aug. 27 () Arthur Edward Joseph Noel, the fourth Earl of Oalnsborough, died today, in his 43d year. The Earl of Gainsborough was the ton of the third Earl of Gainsborough and Marie Dease. He was educated at Downside and at Exeter College.

Oxford. He was private chamberlain of sword and cape to Pope Benedict XV and Pope Tlus XI He served as president of the British Amateur Gymnast Ir Asportation and vire preldent of the British Ol'fnpic Association. From 1BI1 to 1914 he was attache tlie British KmbaMV at Washington. He wai mentioned for honorable service dur lug the World War. UTILITY SERVICE What Dollar You Spend Buys More Value? BROOKLYN Pots and Pans Now Rival I tlie Rainbow andgrccn glistening and shining ia their gay coats of colored en- a note of festivi- ty they add to the kitchen, what cheer they radiate.

fw And matching oil cloth for pincli.jhclvcj, table run- I nc" kitcheni are lisL if.J now blossoming forth in IV chccticst of dress. vA V4 A In iKe SSESSTISf Ifjp fij Houseware! Department Ua. A' AM A A Fjf bring color tht kitthtn. EU-Ji fiS Canister p. rX Colored Handled Cutlery gjj jj I II Dread and Cake Boxes 83,11 1 P3ri rt to Pe in n't it ii fY to mn.h thue culurt in ihe 1 fmiih of ihe fumnurc jnJucwiil Show you wlut fun il ii liiJcmr.

IT'm? stc kitthen in your own IV'V-t' choice of Wch.vc man, FMr" Huful pircerf onraimeiHitthen fa furniture, pmej li -r" 11 Your Interest rate him to Chiert, but those others have not been called. While considering the brewery sit uation after its seizure, it is recalled that it was a full 12 months ago- August. 1926 that the plant was raided. Warrants Issned for Dunnes, Johnson charges that it operated until Feb. 19, 1927.

It was on Jan. 8, 1927, that the Dunnes and several others were indicted given six months in which no action was taken. From Jan. 8 until Feb. 11 the indictments remained sealed.

Then the brewery stopped operation, and on Feb. 28 bench warrants were asked and issued for the arrest of the Dunnes. But there is something else. On Feb. 28 the bench warrants were issued and on March 2 they were given to Marshal Jesse D.

Moore for service. He didn't serve them, principally because the Dunnes lived In New Jersey. He returned them to the desk of Chiert, and for six days they kicked around there. On March 8 they were sent to Trenton for service in the New Jersey district. Warrants Never Served.

During that interval the Dunnes, father and son. went to Florida. It is another peculiarity of this case that the warrants were never actually served. The Dunnes surrendered in Jersey City on April 25. It was just before the surrender that two startling incidents which concerned the Manor Brewery came to light.

Johnson tells one. The other comes from several sources. Johnson says that Just before he quit as guard at the plant in March he discovered some bottled beer in the engine room. He asked one of the men there he gives the name-about it, and the man after some talk said to him: "IX you report this youll ride." Reported and Was Arrested. Johnson says he reported it.

Now let him tell the rest as he told It to this reporter. "I reported it," he began, "and about a week later Deputy Marshal John Mattl, Winnie Moore and Cy Moore, the latter two men being unofficial so far as I could find out, came down there and I was arrested. I was charged with conspiracy with Adolph Deynzer, engineer, and Arthur Stenger, fireman of the plant, to violate the Prohibition laws. They were also charged with transportation of beer. "They admitted they took beer out of the place for a christening.

They took one-half barrel. Deynzer was fined $50 and Stenger was fined $150. But both agreed I had nothing to do with the removal of the one-half barrel. I was acquitted of the charges against me. But I didn't go back to the Manor Brewery." Johnson Jests at Arrest.

This man Johnson makes no mystery of his arrest. He admits It freely, and he says it was nothing to worry about. In fact. It appears from the record that Chiert himself moved to dismiss the charges against Johnson In court. But It was Just before the surrender, too.

that another batch of beer and ale lelt the brewery. This story Is told by Stenger and Stenger, bear In mind, has not yet been called before the Grand Jury and It. like some of the others. Is a remarkable tale. It, too, contains names, but because of the general situation the names are withheld.

Stenger savs he went to the brewery on the night of April 8. 1927, and with two men. both of whom are fairly well known Brooklyn politicians of the second grade, removed a motor car load of ale and beer. He mvs he took It to his home that night His home, incidentally, is on Staten Island. Rays Republican Club Got It.

The following night, he says, he drove that beer to Brooklyn and It was unloaded at a Republican Assembly District club. Stenger doesn't know what happened to that beer, CoBrt Clerk Feted at Time. But It Is history that on the night of April 10 there was a party at that club for Chief Clerk Fagan of the Municipal Court. It was a jolly party. This chain nf Interesting coincidence Is in Itself remarkable.

But It isn't all by any means. Consider the Dunnes, father and son, for a mo- ment Warrant wert put for (hem 00 A Growth of electric service is evidence of the close bond between the com-panies which furnish it and the public they serve. You want the best service possible, at the lowest possible price. Naturally, we want to sell as much service possible, to as many customers as we can get. We can do this only by supplying service satisfactory to you.

Thus, in working for our own interests we are inevitably working for yours. The future growth and progress of this Company depend upon our recognizing and serving your interests to the best of our ability. Brooklyn Edison Company Other A. on 4, 5 and 11.