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a BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931. SHE WEDS AUTHOR LEARNS TO FLY IN 100 MINUTES at Hunt Leader Of Racket That Bilks Teachers Report Great Profits Made By Bank Heads Loudon Lauds, Natives Attack, Indian Scheme lNalionalit Hold Plan 'Vaptie Verbiage, Say Self-Rule Camouflaged Dress Carriers Hurl Dcfi at Tribute' Ring BroolilynaiulQiieonslWon Plan United War on TroWTtion" Racket "No more tribute" was the ultimatum delivered 'last night to marauding gangsters by represent a- Offer $1,000 for Dog I.nnf in C.hap of Cat Mr. and Mrs. George H. Johnson of 4(U Stale St.

today advertised offering a reward of 11.000 for i he return of their police dog Lady, for whom they paid $50. The dog disappeared 14 months no when it Jumped from the Jonnscns' automobile In Flushing In pursuit of a rat. The dog Is two and a half years old. dark brown on the back tapering to a much lighter brown underneath Johnson said that he was ottering the unusually high reward because of the aflectiim he and his wife frit, or the animal. Lieberman.

vice president and treas -J r. According to the driven, who In the long process. Jobbers and return, the gangsters Panted out b'" have used strong-arm methods more 10 thf round-table ennfer- than once. Their method of ap-i''" Mr yesterday, must be Ukert proach has been to send six or by the natives of India themselves seven "gorillas" to the firm's offices composing their communal and to demand the money for protec-1 racial differences so that the de-tlon. If refusals were encountered tail" nmv be supplied the skeleton the trucks of the compuny were al-1 Federal Government scheme evolved most certain to4)c robbed on their during the two months of work, next trip.

I here. No Small Carrier Safe' 'First reports from India of th All of the films paynig tribute are reception given there to Mr. Mac- small and Independent companies, Mr. Field said. The number on the racketeers' list was at first small, but Ihe conference were anything it has grown constantly in two years; but, hopeful of Its acceptance by until, "no small carrier Is free from Indian Nationalist elements, who the tribute." the round-table sessions Owners and drivers said Inst night and were not represented here.

i lives of more than 200 Brooklyn and Queens dress transportation companies. Approximately 35 delegates, organized as the Associated Dress Carriers of Brooklyn and Queens, gathered last night at Vienna Mansion, 105 Montrose to take initial steps toward protection from racketeers who have mulcted "protection money" from them during the last two years. Present I'nilrd Front Fearing to muke Individual complaints because of alleged threats to "fix drivers and owners of the trucking companies now present a united ficnt against the efforts of hoodlums to exact tribute. Each of the more than 200 (Inns bus been forced to pay $15 monthly to the ring It was learned from representatives. Moreover, what was.

lermed by the gangsters themselves as "Inltlalion fees" of $100 were also! demanded and paid. Refusal to pay the required amounts has been met during the! last two years by robberies of dress- laden trucks, beatings and some times threats of demands for more money for protection. Arthur N. Field, attorney, of 50Court, St. has been retained by the association as counsel.

'Fight From Now On' "The association will pay no more tribute to the gangsters who have levied on the carriers for two years," Mr. Field said last night following the meeting. "From how on we fight." A guard of uniformed patrolmen and several plainclothesmen was thrown about Vienna Mansion at the meeting last night. Telephoned threats of violence had been received by members of the organization when it was learned that a protest was to be made, it was said. No Interruptions' were excrienccd.

Drivers who acted as delegates at the gathering refused to give their London. Jan. 20 M3) The scene of India's fight for srlf -government today shifted back to India, where the British Government hoped Its proffer of eventual (iialifid dominion status would prove acceptable to the millions who asked outright Donald pronouncement oi rn British Itovernmrni policy in cios- Nchrme Is Condemned Bombay, India, Jan. 20 (T1 Widespread condemnation a a heard In Indian Nationalist quarters today of the scheme of federal India evolved at the London round-table conference, and Ihe British Government's proffpr of an eventual qualified dominion status. Leader I.n.se Klfht rounds AhmadHbad.

India. Jan. 30 lPl Mahatma Gandhi has lost eight pounds on the prison fare at Ye-roda, near Poona. where he Is eon-fined, friends here revealed today. He now weighs but 9fi pounds.

A letter from him published toda? said: "It is true that I am not In the best, of my health and must make constant changes In my diet li keep myself In condition, but I ann going through my daily routing of spinning, studvlng, meditating and praying as usual." Will Ask for Work For Navy Yard Here Republican State Chairman W. Klng.sland Mary and Republican County Leader Meier Rtelnbrmk plan to go to Washington tomorrow to call upon Secretary of tha Navy Adams to persuade him to assign a considerable share of battleship repair and remodeling work for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Henry Bierds, 17, after successful solo flight at Roosevelt Field In preparation for which he had received only 1 hour and 40 minutes Instruction. He is a mechanic and lives at Valley Cottage, N. Y.

Miss Mildred McCoy, leading lady in David Belascb's comedy "It's a Wise Child," will be mar ried at 4:30 p.m. today at the Little Church Around the Corner to Sheridan Clbney, young playwright. After the marriage there Will be an early wedding supper, with only a few friends attending, and after that Mrs. Gibney will act her role at Brandt's Flatbush Theater, for "the show must go on." Mr. Cllbney Vlll watch his bride from a box.

Dr. Kerr Heads City Medical Association Dr. LeGrand Kerr of 460 Clinton Ave. was elected president of the Medical Association of the City of New York at a moeting of the association last night at the Academy of Medicine, Manhattan. Other officers elected were former Health Commissioner Dr.

Thomas Darlington, vice president; L. Howard Moss, corresponding secretary; Louis P. Bishop secretary, and Leon T. LeWald, treasurer. Dr.

Kerr Is consulting physician to children at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, at the Rockaway Beach Hospital and the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Rev. Brown Named As Fire Chaplain Fire Commissioner John J. Dor- man yesterday appointed the Rev. Robert A.

Brown, rector of Cal vary P. E. Church, as chaplain of the Fire Department to succeed the Rev. Harry Handel, who died several weeks ago. The appointment was made on the recommendation of Bishop Ernest M.

Sttres. Controller Berry promoted Spencer C. Young to chief of the bureau of real estate In the Finance Department to succeed Andrew Keating, recently appointed a deputy commissioner. that they expected violence would; result from then meeting. However.

they said that they would Use all; robberies In presenting their case to' the District Attorney. jne association win meet again, soon. Edisons Leave For Winter Home Newark, Jan. 20 P) Thomas A. Fdison left, at a.m.

loday for his Fort Myers, winter home. He was accompanied by Mrs. Edison and her sister, Mrs. W. W.

Nichols. The inventor, looking as tired as he said he fell, stated he first planned to rest upon his arrival in Florida and then to resume his experiments to obtain ft rubber substitute from plants. The party traveled In the private car of Harvey Firestone. Von Luckner Sails Minor repairs having been made and her hull-bottom cleaned, the four-masted auxiliary schooner Mopelia sailed shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon on a shark-fishing cruise In the West Indies and off the Florida coast. The ship left from the Crane plant of United JJrydocks In Erie Basin.

Aboard were the owner, Count Felix von Luckner; the Countess Ingeborg von Luckner and several guests. names, fearing, thev said, that they I would "get theirs." However, alliVeSSel KepairCd, Izzieson Gives Details as Further to How (lash Bought Licenses While school officials were studying a detailed report of the operations here of two alleged racketeering rings which promised to get teachers' licenses, hack licenses, pos'offlce Jobs and citizenship papers through political pull, the Federal Detective Bureau of 122 E. 42d Manhattan, a private concern retained by the Board of Education, continued its investigation today into alleged rings in other boroughs. At the siime time private detectives had under, surveillance at least two Brooklyn men under suspicion, should they attempt to leave town before District Attorney Oeo- Khan can act on the evidence. The District Attorney will receive evi dence In the case tomorrow.

They were also searching for a "Mac," said to be. with two others, the leaders of the second Brooklyn ring that ha own operating In and around Borough Park. No Collusion Detected President George J. Ryan of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea.

studying the 150-page report of the two alleged lings' operations, submitted last night by Max B. Krone of the detective agency, said today that thus far no evidence of collusion with lyiy school official or school employe had yet been detected. Harry Izzieson of 486 Sackman alleged by Krone to have been connected with a "ring" that operated in East New York, Brownsville. Williamsburg and Ridgewood, In a signed statement to the Eagle told of his connection with the matter and placed the blame on Morris Rubin, 468 E. 54th who Is alleged to have represented himself as a person with political pull.

The report in the hands of school officials contains the cases of eight young women who paid sums from $300 to $600 for teachers' licenses and teachers jobs, one of whom received her license on her own merits. Izzieson mentions three teacher cases and a news stand license case in his signed Called In Rubin The young women were, according to Izzieson, Mollle Kreitzer of Williamsburg, Bessie Spivwack of E. 93d St. and Ida Swartz of Marcy Ave. Izzieson declared that Miss Kreit-zer, having failed In her oral test on her license No.

1 examination, "came to me and wanted to get a license and was willing to pay $600. I called in "Dr." Rubin and asked him what to do. He said O. "After that," Izzieson went on, "he (Rubin) promised her, for the other $300 left In my possession, a Job on Nov. 12, 1930.

but when the time came he put her off and did not get her the Job. "One Saturday evening about Dec. 8 she came to me and said: 'Mr. Izzieson, this man is faking "I refunded her $100 and gave her my check for $200. "But before this Mollle Kreltzer brought another customer who wanted a license.

Her name was Ida Swartz. he deposited $300 with me for Rubin. I said I would not give Rubin the money until Ida came and told me to give it to him. "Also a girl named Bessie Spivwack came about a license. Her father spoke to me about it.

I told him on about Nov. 25 I thought Rubin Is faking." Parson's Mansion Damaged by Blaze Vest Long Branch, N. Jan. 20 Shadow Lawn, the $3,000,000 home of H. W.

Parsons, president of W. Woolworth was damaged by fire early today. The blaze was discovered in a second-floor room of the house by a watchman. His alarm brought apparatus of Long Branch and West Long Branch, and firemen were able to confine the blaze to the room where it started. The house was unoccupied except for servants.

Firemen were unable to determine the cause of the blaze. The house is not entirely completed yet, only part of It being occupied. Gas Trucks Explode But Drivers Escape Orange, N. Jan 20 IP) Two gasoline truck tanks exploded near the Spring St. yards of the Standard Oil Company early today, showered the flaming fuel over the street and caused destruction of two houses at 158 and 160 Spring St.

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$1, $2, $5 and $10 per week. BANK OF MANHATTAN TRUST COMPANY Counsel Seeks Light on Private Wealth of Marcus and Singer The Juggling of millions of dollars from the vaults of the closed Bank of United States through its affiliate chain of 57 enterprises. Into which the bank's money poured in the form of unsecured loans, was being examined into today by Fed- eral and State authorities to estab lish fabulous profits reported to have accrued to the banking group's "inner circle" through the affiliate operations. The Federal bankruptcy investiga-tion so far has developed that only lour of the 57 varieties of investing and real estate speculating affiliates are listed as having offices or telephone numbers ot their own. The remainder, authorities believe, had their offices And business affairs carried in the hats of Bernard K.

Marcus and Saul Singer, chief executive officers of the bank and directing heads of the affiliates. Because of the illness of Referee Robert P. Stephenson, before whom the Federal bankruptcy hearings are being held, Marcus and Singer today won a respite In their grilling on the affairs of the bank and its affiliate string. James N. Rosenberg, counsel for the Irving Trust Company as receiver for four of the bankrupt affiliates, yesterday adduced testimony from Singer that unsecured loans from the bank to the affiliates were not discussed at meetings of the bank's board of directors.

The counsel for the receiver then charged Marcus and Singer with sole responsibility for the loans and the operations of the affiliates. The reported large dividends paid by the affiliate group to the of- ficers directing the enterprises, and while the affiliate corporations were heavily in debt to the bank, as well as. generous salaries paid to the heads of the affiliate concerns, are being probed preparatory to being entered in the Federal record. Although nominally bankruptcy hearings proceed in the absence of the referee, the proceedings in the bank case have reached such a contentious point that Rosenberg and Robert P. Levis, counsel for the bankers, agreed today to adjourn the hearing until tomorrow after- noon.

Rosenberg, at the close of yester- day's session, sought to question Marcus and Singer on the wealth possessed by their families, but. Referee Stephenson ruled that this questioning was relevant only in the event that the rereiver counsel can establish that bank or affiliate assets have been improperly diverted. "In view of the fact that they (Marcus Singer) used these subsidiary properties ai their privately owned properties, I believe I have a right to determine if they were using the corporate funds for their personal se" Rosenberg asserted to the court. "I have the right to ask them about the personal affairs of themselves and their families. I want to make it clear that I do not charge that they did use the corporate funds for their personal enrlch-" ment I want to find out." Deals in Millions Rosenberg brought out from Singer that while the latter was Interested in the Garment Center Capital Corporation, which owns a building valued at $18,000,000, and was an officer of the tlmk and the City Financial Corporation, the City Financial bought $3,250,000 of debenture bonds from the garment concern and then sold of I the notes to the closed bank.

Max D. Steuer is expected to an- nounce the plans of his dual inves tigation in the offices of deputy At torney General and assistant Dis trict Attorney late today. Steuer lunched this afternoon with District Attorney Crain and it Is believed that the program of the dunl investigation was discussed. The Grand Jury today heard for the fifth day the testimony of Banking Department Examiner Horace S. Andrews, who was in charge of the examination of the closed bank from June to September last.

Wales, Speaking Spanish, Boards Ship to S.America Vigo, Spain, Jan. 20 (P) The of Wales and his youngest brother, Prince George, sailed from Spain today for South America after a day spent sightseeing along the northern Spanish coast. The Prince of Wales, saying fare-- well in Spanish, promised his hosts that when he returned to Spain he would speak their language more fluently. Leaving their ship, the Oropesa, at Coruna, they motored along the coast to Santiago de Compostela and Vigo, where they went back aooard the Oropesa this morning shortly before its departure for Hamilton, Bermuda, Jamaica and Panama. Tho motor party stopped long enough at Santiago de Compostela for the princes to visit some famous Galician monuments, the Prince of Wales particularly admiring the Cathedral where, among other sacred relics, are a thorn from the crown of thorns, the skull of Saint James and a phial of the Virgin's milk.

At Vigo a lariie crowd awaited their and after an enthusiastic poputar reception they attended a dinner and official reception at the City Hall. It was after midnight before the two royal went aboard the Oropesa, whicn meanwhile had crawled into port. From Panama the two Princes will proofed down the west South Amer-Jcan coast, cross over the Argentine, and in March, at Buenos Aires, they will open the British Exposition. Upon their return to England they will have completed a trip of about 18,000 miles. Bomh Breaks Water Main in Havana Street Homes Flooded City Is Near Panic as Blast (luls Potable Supply Havana, Jan.

20 (A') Part of Havana was without water service today, many homes were flooded and residents were terror stricken because of a bomb explosion which wrecked a water main at Llinas and San Carlos Sts. early this morning. The blast rattled the windows of the neighborhood and brought sleepers out from their beds in fright. Water gushed from, the broken main quickly flooded the streets and poured into homes in the neighborhood. Property damage was considerable, and there was a near panic, but no one was reported injured.

Police were without a clue to the perpetrator of this newest of a scries of bombings, and there was a belief that the bomb had been placed by the same forces which have disturbed the city in anti-Government manifestations for some time. Buenos Aires Bombs Kill 3 Buenos Aires, Jan. 20 (P) Three bombs exploding at strategic places on railway lines entering Buenos Aires before dawn this morning killed three persons and injured a dozen others. The first exploded in the Western Railway Terminal Three coaches of an incoming electric train were wrecked and three persons were killed. The second explosion was in the Southern Railway Station.

The third bomb exploded within a coach of a train departing for Tigre, just a block from the new United States Em bassy. A. W. McCann Dies After Broadcast Alfred W. McCann, well-known writer and lecturer on food and nutrition topics; died suddenly yesterday on his return to the Park Royal Hotej, Manhattan, after broadcasting his daily food talk over Radio Station WOR.

He gave no indications of being ill before his broadcast. Mr. McCann was 52 years old. As a young man Mr. McCann played In repertoire with Sothern and Marlowe during his student days.

He became interested in food and health problems while suffering a serious illness, during which he was limited to little more than a milk diet. Mr. 'McCann wrote for daily newspapers and was the author of various books on food and health subjects. Are Your Sunday Roasts HEW in loveliness HEW in lower prices were unanimous in declaring mat the gangsters' "racket" was at an end. Plan OHiclal Action As soon as enough specific cases of extraction of protection money can be secured, it was learned, the association members will present, their case to the District Attorney.

Until that time no Individual actions will be taken. At the meeting officers were elected as follows: Saul president; David to exterior and interior, presents two otner great REPORT GOVERNOR PLANS BROOKLYN BENCH INQUIRY Continued from Pane 1 place in Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond without a specific direction from Roosevelt is based on the quotation from Justice Lazansky published in last night Eagle. Replying to the request of Mrs. Catherine Parker Clivette, president of the Society for the Prevention of Unjust Convictions, for an Appellate Division inquiry. Justice Lazansky said, "I have presented your communication to the Bench, and they feel that a general investigation at this time is not necessary." Plans a Petition It was learned today that this story in the Eagle caught the Governor's eye last night.

The story went on to say that Mrs. Clivette intends to draw up a petition of 50,000 signed by leading civic workers and churenmen, calling on the Governor to initiate a probe. The Governor is also familiar with the Eagle story two weeks ago in which it was pointed out that magistrates sitting in Adams Street Court have been signing illegal commitments of wayward minors arraigned before them, a situation identical with the one in Manhattan where 77 girls were sent to Bedford Reformatory without the hearings made mandatory by law. Further, Roosevelt is aware that there is under way at the present time an Appellate Division investigation via Referee James C. Van Siclen of the business connections of Magistrate Jacob Eilperin, who is accused of acting as counsel for the Security Coal Corporation while retaining his seat on the bench.

Altitude Changed Last summer, after he had ordered Presiding Justic Victor Dowling of the Appellate Division in Manhattan to look into the magistrates' courts undr its jurisdiction, Roosevelt conferred with Justice Lazansky during the Governor's annual up-Stat inspection tours. After that brief conference, which took place on the running board of the Governor's car, Lazansky said "the Governor had no message for me." But since that time, the Governor's attitude toward the lower courts in Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond has undergone a marked change. During the last gubernatorial campaign, the Republican broadside, based on his refusal to clean house in the flv Democratic controlled boroughs, stung the nominee. It is perfectly evident here that If the Governor believed an extension of the investigation into all the magistrates' courts in the city is warranted, he would not hesitate through any fear of ruffling the feelings of the Democratic leaders, among them John H. McCooey.

Roosevelt displayed his independence at the beginning of the year when he ignored the patronage requests of both McCooey and Tammany Leader John F. Curry and named Thomas F. Behan of Albany, a non-active Democrat with long experience in the department, the Superintendent of Insurance. Clivette Petition Plan Gets Backing Mrs. Catherine Parker Clivette, president of the Society for the Prevention of Unjust Convictions, today stated that her appeal for church and civic organizations to circulate petitions to Governor Roosevelt asking investigation of Brooklyn and Queens magistrates' courts was meeting with widespread approval.

The society expects to secure 50.000 nums to Its petitions by the end of the month and then to have a delegation prsonally present them to the Governor, she said. Michael Gold, counsel for the society, yesterday sat in at a hearing of vice and wayward minor cases before Magistrate David Hirshfield in Adams Street Court. Today he complained that better methods of segregating women of confirmed poor character from those detained for the first time shoul4 fra developed. beauteous new dress il ijl the Jrierce-Arrow ot lyu a9 Free wheeling the method whereby momentum is released to do its part in propulsion yet held subject to the driver's will is outstanding among the new operating features. There is increased power in the mighty engines of all three groups; new means of deadening and eliminating road shocks are common to all groups; even the subdued hiss of air through the carburetor is gone.

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