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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 11

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 11

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Ml 11 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1930. PHONYPHOTOS By MEB Former I'oliee Soelety I lead Dies in Queeni Urges Rocket School District 15, embracing tiie villages from Inwood to Woodmere. Roosevelt, L. May 5 John M. Varney.

president of the Roosevelt School Board, and Trustee William Collins, both of whom have completed three-year terms, are for re-election and will be jnoprx-sed unless last-mm-ute opposition develops. Queens Exempt Firemen Launch Protective Unit J. Frank. Ryan 1'iiked as Head of Central Coiineil To Iin lutle Rii'liiiioml tOnriVl, John Cremer. James Rourke.

John Barth. Exempt Firemen's Association. Frank Ryan. John J. Mc-j Cocnea.

Mai tin Schaaf, Joseph Kennedy: Woodhaven Exempt men Association. George M. Solan George J. Flee. Charles Llndrmann A.

Kabm: Rockaway. Fifth War Ex- empt Firemen's Association. Frank Baldwin, Oscar Henckel. James I Jamaica Veteran Volunteer Flre-j ben's Association, John J. I Fred Zimmor, D.

Hooper. William jGattmgs. and five volunteer fire-I men's organizations Staten I Lslund. Contests Absent As L. I.

Schools Name Trustees Annual Voting Tomorrow Fails to Stir Opnoniliou Except in One District Freeport, May 5 The annual school elections in Freeport and Rockville Centre tomorrow promise to be Just another expression of approval of the work done by the present boards. There will be no contests in either1 village unless names are written in. Olenwood. L. 1.

May 5 Arthur Dahrtnuer, president of the Village Improvement Association, will oppose Walter H. King as member of the Board of Education at the annual election tomorrow. The newly entered candidate In the race would not state today whether or not he was in favor of the $40,000 appropriation for school planting and athletic field which is to be the main issue at the election. Rockville Centre. L.

May 5-The nnnual election here tomorrow will be a quiet affair, as there Is no opposition to the candidates selected by the school board Mrs. Earl J. Bennett has declined to run aeain and Mrs Henry Oaskell will succeed her John H. Scott will succeed himself and Is president of the board now Lawrence, L. May 5 No contest will take place this Wednesday at the annual election of trustees In termer IMrolmsn Albert Rohlofl.

ho for jears a policeman, died at tiie ot 77 at his home. 1CJ-04 2'J-Uh Queen Village, lost Heart disea.se whirii had bf en troubling him for the 10 vcars ai.d hih was the of liis ret-rement lat February. as the cans: of his death. He as the holder of the department Medal of Honor and one of the best -known policemen la the ciry RohM was one of the charU members 0 the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and served as Its second president. Funeral arrangements will be computed some time todav.

lie is survived by four sons. Patrolman Albert T. Rohloff. attached to the Jamaica precinct, who-is rounding out his 25th year as a policeman, Fredetick, Frank and Charles, and two daughters, Martha and Elsie. IF ro i nv'lilni th finder of It caa niiii find vou It vou use a Eaile "l't niid Fotind" ad When Summer Come Walk In Comfort il vou Shake Into Your Shoes nmi Allan's the tieanng powder tor shoes that pincla lert llut ache.

It takes th tnen Imm theihoesand givesinani 'eliei to corns and bunion, hot, tired. tehine swollen, sweating feet, blister and calluses. Ladies can wear shoe me sire smaller by shaking Allen'ai Foot- Em in eac shoe. eve ry-where. I'nal package and Foot-Ea Walking Doll ent post Fee Addre ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, L.

Roy. MY. Speakers at Holy Name Rally Seore Coiminiiiiin Freeport. L. 1..

May 5 Attacks on Sovle' Russia and racketeers, and comments on the stability of the Catholic Church were the texts o( talks given morning at the Elks Club, where the Freeport Holy Name Society held Its annual communion breakfast, after mass at the Church of Our Holy Redeemer. About 300 men attended. F. Harold Loonam was toastmastcr and Andrew Cunningham, chairman. The principal speakers were the Rev.

James M. Gillis. editor of the Catiiolic World, and James E. Smith, former District Attorney of New York. Others were Village Trustees George M.

Bird and William E. Crovoiserat, Police Albin N. Johnson. Exalted Ruler of the Elks Isador Lewis and the Rev. John OTooIc.

Cedarhurst Will Vote On New Rail Stadium Cedarhurst, L. May 5 Residents here will act this summer at a special election on a proposal to allow the Cedarhurst baseball club to erect a $15,000 stadium at the village park, It was learned Is Ivan Muffchlnskl, the notorious Red, operating on orders from Moscow? "Yes!" say the police and point to the fact that yesterday, a blistering hot day, when snow was impossible on the Sidewalks of New York, Muffchinskl pelted Grover Whalen's silk hat with a snowball which, the police are convinced, was sent from the frozen wastes of Siberia by Russian Reds. a judge it's Character Sheriff's jury to sift the evidence and to determine if there was sufficient to take the whole matter before the Grand Jury. It was explained that the Sheriff's jury acts in the same capacity as does a Cor oner's panel when he hold's an Inquest. llonses Scorched Two fires occurred at the same time yesterday morning.

The blaze In the Newpoint Hotel, In the southern portion of the vilage, was dis covered before It got any headway and it was extinguished rapidly. The alarm from the Wood Lumber Company was received at 1:15. Before the apparatus arrived there the long rambling shed was one mass of flame. Houses on the opposite side of John St. were scorched, by the heat, but firemen prevented the blaze from spreading In that direc tion.

Fortunately, the high wind of the day before had died down. This was also responsible for tne fact that the office building and retail department of the lumber yard, which also carries a large stock of hardware, was saved. Within a couple of minutes after the alarm -ounded the firemen saw that it was useless to combat the blaze alone. Assistance was asked from Farmingdale, Copiague and Lindenhurst. A dozen streams of water were poured Into the building and the blaze was under control after a couple of hours.

Firemen were still pouring water on the ruins early this morning. id "'dJiN4 A rBc Merrick Church Installs First Regular Rector I Mil I I Neighboring Clergy Take Part in Induction of Rev. Can field Van Doran Merrick, L. May 5 At a special service yesterday morning attended by prominent Long Island clergymen and about 200 parishioners, the Rev. J.

Canfield Van Doran, field secretary of the Church Extension Board of the Presbytery, was installed as the first pastor of the recently formed Merrick Presbyterian Church. A specially arranged musical program was sung by the choir, accompanied by Mrs A. B. WeUer, organist, and Carl Stone, soloist. The installation prayer was offered by the Rev.

J. Humiston; installation charge by the Rev. Tracy Orlswold; charge to the congregation by- the Rev, Frank Cowan invocation by the Rev. John E. Ger-stenberger, and the benediction by the new pastor.

The new congrepetion was organ ized about a year ago and until yesterday was obliged to depend on visiting ministers. Fails at Suicide Patrolman George Ackerley of the Richmond Hill precinct and Detec tive Herman Boyman of Richmond Hill found that the bullet from the automatic revolver with which Hansen tried to end his life had ricocheted off Hansen's skull and lodged above his heart. Patrol man Ackley placed Hansen under arrest on a charge of violating the Sullivan law. Hansen refused to say anything when questioned by the police. At the Jamaica Hospital it was said last night that Hansen's condition was serious but that he had an ex cellent chance of surviving.

Bah Following Airport Death Tiff, in Report, Finds Negligence Was Not Responsible for Blast Mlneola. L. May 5 Local ordinances prohibiting the use of aerial rockets which are fired from mortars were recommended to the various municipalities in Nassau County today as a result of the nc cident last night at Curtlss Airport, Valley Stream, in which one man lost his life and another was seri ously Injured by a premature ex plosion of a rocket. This was announced today by De tective Albert Tift, head of the Pub. lie Safety Bureau of the Nassau County Police, who investigated last night's accident.

In a report to Police Chief A. W. Skidmore, Tiff said that there was no culpable negligence responsible for the explo sion. His report also says that per mission to use the rockets had been regularly granted by the Hempstead Town Board. One bomb had been set off and the next was lit and placed in a mortar when It exploded lu the hands of the man holding it.

He was killed Instantly. Pieces of the bomb struck the second man, who was removed to the. Nassau Hospital at The crowd at the other end of the field witnessing the show left witnout knowing that anything untoward had occurred. The dead -man wai Peter Cuccla, 52, fireworks expert, of 2527 Kruger the Bronx. Hie brother, Law rence Cuccia, 31, of 305 E.

Uth St. Manhattan, received severe lacerations of the body. Dr. W. N.

Gil-mour of the Nassau Hospital removed the Injured man to that Institution. Firebug Sought After $150,000 Amityville Blaze Sheriff's Jury to Probe Cause of Lumber Yard FireFind Gasoline Can Amityville, L. May 5 Chief Deputy Sheriff Burton C. Howe, formerly captain of the Amityville Police Department, Is conducting an investigation into the fire which early yesterday razed the sheds of the Wood Lumber Company in this village, causing a loss of upward of $150,000. A Sheriff's Jury will be drawn in a few days to hear the evidence now in the possession of the police, who believe the fire was the work of a pvromaniac.

District Attorney Alexander G. Blue. Howe, Deputy Sheriff Amza rtitgs and local police questioned James Ketcham at length yesterday afternoon. Ketcham is 24 years o'd. a member of the Amityville Fire Department and up until a few months ago was employed by the Wood Lumber Company, which is a branch of the Nassau-Suffolk Lumber and Supply Corporation, of which H.

Tinkham of Amityville Is president. Can Filled With Gas Following the prelllmnary investigation it was learned that police had evdence that Herman Muller of 114 Sterling Place had seen a man throw a large can into an empty lot near the lumber yard. Working on this clue they found the can and in It was a long piece rubber hose containing fresh gasoline. The can in question also had contained gasoline. Wlien District Attorney Blue heard of this he decided that the only thing to do was to empanel a OTHER OFFICES NF.W YORK 170 iVautau Street fOpfoUu lily Hmtl) 219 et sTlh Street Hil-w 71 mnd Kih 318 (Corn; Orrhmrd irrM 12 Sirrcl tCmrnmt ItromJirmy Chanin Building ni Si.

mA Lrxl-elo Aim. I 1697 Pitkin Avenue 87 Avenue BHIT 332 Eaat 1 i9th Street Attempt to Kill Self At Wife's Door Futile! Valley Stream, L. May 5 Sam- uel Hess. 36. a Boston restaurant I owner, attempted to commit suicide here tonight by swallowing a quan- tity of lysol on the doorstep of his wife's home.

They had been es-1 tranged. police say. He was removed to the Nassau Hospital in Mineola in a serious condition His wile, tnzaDesn. re-j sides at 52 Locust St. Hess wrote a note saying that he was tired of 1 living.

FLAN FARM TOl i At a meeting of the committee on agriculture of the Long Island Chember of Commerce, Prof. F. Diets of Fiirm'ngdale Institute was selected as permanent secretary ot i the committee. The committee unanimously adopted a proposal to conduct a fiirm tour of LonE Island the week of July 7-12 for .1 specially Invited group of bankers, merchants business men. civic-leaders and State and county officials.

Plans tor the tour were placed in the hands of a special committee headed by O. Thomas Powell of Cove. mr 111: 4 0 i i- (IGAI UGHTis nytj'ciccoco I I I I We that and any LIGGETT Representatives cf about 9.00C former volunteer firemen in Queens and Staten Island have completed the organization of a central organization known as the Amalgamated Law and Legislative Comr mittee of Exempt and Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Associations to protei the of veteran volunteer firemen and combat legislation detrimental to them. J. Frank Rvan of Flushing has been named "hairman of the organization Other officers are: Geonte F.

Cornell, Rosebank. Staten Lland vice chairman: John J. M'Connell, Flushing, secretary, and Charles Schneller, Elmhurst, Organizations now affiliated with tills central organization, and their representatives, according to the announcement, are: Long Island City Exempt Firemen's Association; George J. Turner, Fred J. Young George J.

Hipp, Henry Hooppner; Long Island City Veteran Firemen's Association. Peter J. Leninnr Anthony Woods, Thomas A. Brown. John C.

Hynes; Newtown Exempt Firemen's Association, Charles Schneller, B. Herold, George Schneller, Patrick J. Dugean College Point Exempt Firemen--Benevolent Association, Christopher a public official, taste is to a 4 Wounds Self Twice With Same Bullet but After Peter C. Hansen, 36, of 120-26 132d South Ozone Park, had pulled the trigger of an automatic revolver which he had aimed at his head yesterday afternoon, he was very much surprised to find that he was still alive. He was also startled to see that he had inflicted two wounds on himself instead of one.

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