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of of 500 M2 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930. Navy Treaty to Face Senate Defeat More Than 30 Votes Lined Up Against Any Entanglement Abroad Eagle Bureau, Colorado Building. Washington, Feb. 20-It appears almost certain on the face of the present trend of the London Conference that the Senate will reject a naval treaty which embodies political features. An agreement providing for consultation among the Powers in the event of a threat of war will have little chance of ratification.

One can go even further and predict that the Senate will hesitate to ratify a treaty which provides for limitation uwarr to the extent of a construction program of between $750,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 in the nexht five years, even if this treaty ise devoid of the slightest political commitment. Conservative estimates of the Senate opposition to the political feature place its strength at more than 30 votes. This group includes most of the Insurgents, several Old Guard Republican isolationists and a group of Democrats. Something of the split in the Democratic attitude can be from the fact that Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader and delegate at London, has just issued a statement opposing a political agreement, while Senator Walsh of Montana, assistant Democratic leader, is making speeches in favor of such an agreement. Objections Varied There are about Republican votes against such a proposition, to which must be added a group of Democrats who indorse Senator Robinson's attitude.

While it is true that Mr. Robinson. in denouncing political agreements refers to those which involve the use of force, he provides a text in the following sentence: "My understanding is that the people of the United States quite generally adhere to the traditional policy of our Government to avoid, if possible, involvement in European politics." The opposition will come in general from the Insurgents, MiddleWestern Republicans and Southern Democrats. It would take 33 votes to defeat the treaty, assuming that the entire membership of the Senate was present. The objections to an agreement providing for consultation in event of war are varied.

In the first place, the Republican isolationists will vote against it on prinpricinle. In the second place, it is contended that no parallel exists between an agreement, with respect Europe. and the four-power touch pact signed in 1922 with respect to the region of the Pacific. In the Pacific the United States had a series of well-defined polIcies reflecting definite interests. The historic rule of the oven door.

the American attitude of protection toward China, Great American territories of Phillipines and the Hawaii, all gave a certain logic to participation in the four-power pact. No such interests. it is claimed. exist with respect to Europe. An Alliance Broken.

Furthermore, the United States entered the four -power agreement because it received a handsome concession in return. That concession was the cancellation of the AngloJapanese allionce which Mr. Hughes regarded as a menace to the United States. In return for the proposed Amer1can adhesion to five-power Eurovean pact nothing is offered except a slight amelioration of the French tonnage demands, itself insufficient to reduce the vast construction which the fotrhcoming naval agreement promises to impose upon the United States. Some of the Southern Democrats, who represent the 100 percent American or Ku Klux attitude, will oppose such an agreement on the ground that it entangles us in Europe.

There is, however, a more intelligent Democratic school of thought which believed that a fivepower political agreement would set up one more organization against the League of Nations. The French do not take this view. At Paris the idea is that a fivepower compact woul supplement the objects of the League in the same spirit as the Locarno treaties. The League Democrats, on the other hand, are suspicious of getting the United States into the European field except through Geneva. While it is true that the Kellogg Trety went through the Senate without much opposition, the principal argument in its favor was that the agreement meant nothing concrete.

The proposed fivePower agreement for consultation is definite. It binds the United States to, consult with the four other major Powers for a definite purpose. That purpose is to decide what steps shall be taken to deal with the threat of war. The four-Power Pacific pact states that the object of such consultation is "to arrive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken jointly or separately to meet the exigencies of the particular situation." Borah Ready for Fight Sizing up the Senate sentiment as a whole, it is clear that Senate ratification of such a political agreement with respect to Europe is almost out of the question. The Senate, quite apart from the political aspect of the question, is not enthusiastic at the prospect of a naval limitation which means an enormous expansion of existing strength, costing hundreds of millions to the American taxpayer.

Senate sentiment is still in 8. somewhat amorphous stage, and it can be said, on the credit side. that much will depend on the language of the proposed treaties, especially with reference to the possible political side. The Administration will have one strong card in its hand. It can argue that if the naval treaty is rejected, the alternative is the resumption of competitive building, which in the end will cost the United States more than the construction programs proposed at London, COP CONGRATULATED ON CAPTURE Samuel Sobel and his 11-year-old son, thanks to Patrolman Louis Robinson, youth after bandits had held up and in his grocery store at 496 Bradford John Taormina, 16, was arraigned in yesterday.

At same time three other in Manhattan in connection with Legal Advisers At Parley Begin Submarine Talks Informal Conversation Not Binding French Are Expected to Stand Pat London. Feb. 20 (P)---Although the work of the London Naval Conference was at a standstill today because of the week's adjournment voted yesterday, legal advisers of the various delegations, including the French, began discussions of the submarine question. The conversations were purely informal and without any binding effect, but the experts expected to thoroughly into the problem of undersea craft. In circles close to the French delegation it was said that no matter what government might be formed in France, the French naval position would remain as it has been from the beginning of the conference.

While participating in the conference only as observers now, the French are continuing their technical studies in view of the problems raised last week. Thus when a new delegation is appointed, France will be ready to continue the discussions. The chief American representatives Colonel Stimson, Senator Reed, Ambassador Morrow and Secretary Adams--went to their offices this morning to clear up odds and ends. Colonel Stimson planned to go to his country place at Stanmore this afternoon. Plumbers Want Building Code to Require License Patchogue Board Names Committee to Confer on Proposed Law Changes Patchogue, L.

Feb. 20-As a means toward controlling the plumbing work done in Patchogue and to make the present building and plumbing code enforceable, the master plumbers of Patchogue have asked the Board of Trustees to add an amendment to the code providing for the licensing of all plumbers now in the village and the examining of all plumbers who do business here at any time in the future. According to the plumbers, the code now calls for a certain type of material, but it does not specify the requisite of the piumber. To bring this about the local plumbers propose that they all be licensed by the village at a fee of $5. They further propose to set up a board of examiners among themselves, who shall pass on the worthiness of all future plumbers who come to Patchogue through a written and practical test.

After gaining village approval they would seek to have the town of Brookhaven adopt the same licensing code. The Board was at first rather favorable to the idea and Building Commissioner Ernest E. Petty indorsed it as the only solution to the problem. Several Board members questioned the authority of the present plumbers to organize and pass on the competency of future ones. Finally the Board decided it did not want to adopt any such amendment on short notice and a committee of Trustees Snedecor, Butler and Haase was appointed to confer with the plumbers and to report back to the next meeting.

Round Table Knights Elect Officials for Hollis Club John A. Hennessy was elected grand knight of the Knights of the Round Table at the annual election held in the home of W. Heineman on Foothill Terrace, Hollis. Other officers elected were: Richard A. Clinchy of Manhattan, second grand knight; T.

G. Desmond of Kew Gardens, third grand knight; James S. Schlacht, treasurer; Magistrate Lawrence T. Gresser, financial secretary: Fred H. Heineman.

secretary, and J. W. Heinman, master of ceremonies. Dr. Doran Mum On Jury's Rap At Dope Squad But Says He Knew of N.

Y. Situation-Mills Silences His Aides Eagle Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington, Feb. 20-The Treasury Department from top to bottom adopted an attitude of absolute silence today with respect to the findings of the Federal Grand Jury in New York denouncing the narcotics bureau there as incompetent and in need of reorganization. Prohibition Commissioner James Doran, in charge of narcotics, said he had known of the New York situation for some time through papers found in the Rothstein investigation. "I have not received an official copy of the Grand Jury's presentment," Dr.

Doran said today, "and until I do there will be no statement to make." Mills Orders Silence Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills issued orders this morning to officials in Washington and New York that there was to be no public discussion of the case at present. It was said, however, that a statement might be forthcoming when the Treasury Department had studied the case. Questions put to Col. L.

C. Nutt, Deputy Commissioner in charge of narcotics, whom the Grand Jury denounced, and Assistant Deputy William E. Blanchard brought the answer that newspapermen should see Dr. Doran, who in turn declined to discuss the case. Dr.

Doran discussed the case with United States District Attorney Tuttle in New York over the long distance telephone today. Tuttle to Ask Shakeup United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle of Manhattan was preparing today to send a the Grand Jury presentment which accuses high officials and agents of the Federal Narcotic Bureau here to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and to the Attorney General. The Grand Jury not only suggested the move but also gave it as its opinion that "drastic action" should be taken by the Washington officials, The presentment reports serious dereliction in New York and tells of evidence, offered to the Grand Jury, of collusion with big drug sellers. It reports that one of the members of the squad still on duty the day before the presentment was filed was an addict and there were suspicions that other agents also were.

"Padded reports" which gave the squad credit for 354 cases which it never handled but which the New York Police Department prosecuted were included in the presentment. It says that these cases were included in the bureau report with the knowledge of an Assistant Deputy Commissioner in charge of narcotics Washington. The Rothstein Loan. L. P.

Mattingly, son-in-law of Rolland L. Nutt, Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition in charge of narcotics in the entire country, was termed "indiscreet" in that he borrowed about $6,200 from Arnold Rothstein, the gambler, later murdered. Rothstein has been accused of organizing and directing a large dope ring here and he was one of the most active bailers of narcotic prisoners in the city when he was alive. The presentment was signed by all the members of January Grand Jury, of which Arthur S. Cox was foreman.

The inquiry which it was based is to be continued by a new Grand Jury to be sworn in at once, according to Mr. Tuttle, who declared that the work done by the January body was the "best since the Grand Jury which investigated bankruptcy cases here." Although the presentment itself does not mention names, Mr. Tuttle explained that the testimony was complete with names and dates. How Padding Occurred. The reported "padding" shows that agents were sent to Police Headquarters and there copied all the detailed reports of 354 cases.

At the narcotic squad offices those cases were given file numbers. Then complete files were made out as if the Federal agents had handled them, and they were sent to Washington, ultimately to be included in the optimistic report which was sent to Congress. According to the presentment, testimony was given in the Grand Jury room that although most orders were sent by letter from Washington the one which ordered this action was given by telephone. The Grand Jury reported that in one case where several agents had "surrounded a sale" the principal in that sale was permitted to get away although the buyer was caught. It accuses the agents.

of making no effort to trace the narcotics in th case and of failing to' try, even, to get at the men responsible for it. The report shows that Mattingly borrowed money from Rothstein. Then, when Rothstein was brought before the Internal Revenue Board to pay additional income tax, he engaged, by power of attorney, Mattingly's company to represent him. The presentment shows that Mattingly and Rothstein did not actually meet, but it also adds that the case against the gambler was compromised. In the matter of the drug addict agent, the Grand Jury says that evidence was available last July that he used drugs, but that nothing had been done.

and that the man' was still a member of the bureau. Another agent, who changed his testimony on the witness stand after an indictment had been based on his original charge, is also still in bureau although Mr. Tuttle, so the G. H. PLIMPTON DIES George H.

Plimpton, who was for many years interested in the study of goldfish, died yesterday after a short illness. He was 76 years old. Services will be held at 340 Clarkson tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Mr. Plimpton is survived by three brothers, William Horace and Herbert Plimpton. DAVIS, KILLER OF BRIDGETTS, WILL BE FREED Continued from Page 1 and should be released and freed.

During the trial Mrs. Davis never left her husband's side The jury found Davis guilty of first degree manslaughter, and in March, 1925, he began a sentence of "not less than 10 nor more than 20 years." A year or 50 ago Mrs. Davis began to receive offers for the corporations that owned and operated the surgical suture business. The Bard-Parker company offered 000,000. Mrs.

Davis, who had lived in the shadow of Matteawan and Dannemora, to be near her husband, met opposition from him. He brought an injunction suit against her. His civil rights had been lost when he became a convicted felon and a trustee was appointed by Justice Mitchell May to act for him. The litigation resulted in an amicable agreement. Subsequent orders signed showed that the business had been sold for almost $3,000,000 to the American Cyanamid Company, most of which goes to Davis.

All his money is tied up in trust deeds for his beneft, and it is expected he will retire quietly, It is not believed by those intimately in touch with the situation he and Mrs. Davis will become reunited. The Davis case is on dar of the Parole Board for its meeting next week at Clinton Prison. Willie's Death Terrible Blow For Lincoln President's Grief Was So Great There Was Fear He'd Succumb Not long ago there was presented to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln two Bibles.

One is a large family volume somewhat worn. It contains plates, steel engraved, and on the rfont cover in gilt letters is the name, Mary Lincoln. The family record begins with an entry in Lincoln's own handwriting, "Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd married Nov. 4, 1842." Then follows an entry in the writing of his eldest son, "Robert Todd Lincoln and Mary Harlan married Sept, 4, 1868." In the column etr births Abraham Lincoln wrote, 1834; Edward born March "Robert Todd Lincoln, Aug. 1, 10, 1846; William Wallace Lincoln born Dec.

21, 1850; Thomas Lincoln born April 4, 1853." In the column for deaths there is only one entry in Abraham Lincoln's writing: "Edward B. Lincoln died Feb. 1, 1850." When William died, "Willie" is the name by which he was always known. the President was so prostrated that it was feared by many that he would succumb entirely to his grief. Son Made Death Entry The entry for his deoth was made by Robert Todd Lincoln.

"William Wallace Lincoln died Feb. 20, 1862." Then follow these entries in the handwriting of the son: "Abraham Lincoln died April 15, 1865, Thomas Lincoln died July 15, 1871, Mary Todd Lincoln died July 16, 1882." The other Bible is the one. used at Lincoln's first inauguration and is only' about six inches long by four inches wide, printed at Oxford in 1853. On the flyleaf at the end is a certification to which the seal of the Supreme Court is affexed made by William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the court "that the copy of the Holy Bible is that upon which Hon. R.

B. Taney, Chief Justice of said court, administered to His Excellency, Abraham Lincoln, the oath of office as of the United States on the date of the day hereof, March 4, 1861." Mystery Blaze Razes Building at Baldwin Baldwin, L. Feb. 20--A fire of mysterious origin early today gutted a two-story frame dwelling at Eastern Parkway and Bay Front Drive Baldwin Harbor. The Nassau police are conducting an investigation but refuse to say what they have found in the ruins to warrant the probe.

The blaze was discovered by Patrolman John Weinman on his beat and the Baldwin Fire Department called out. The dwelling was unoccupied but completely furnished. The owner has not been located by the police. Damage was estimated at $4,500, RITES HELD FOR ELMER FORD Hempstead, L. Feb.

20-Funeral services were held last night for Elmer Ford, 52, who died at his home on South Linden West Hemptsead, Monday. He is survived by his wife, Helen, and a daughter, Elsie Clark, with who mhe lived. Services were conpastor the Evangelical Luthern ducted day the Rev. H. P.

Pfost, Church. Interment was today at the Lutheran Cemetery. DESIGNATE LEGION DAY Patchogue, L. Feb. 20-Monday, March 3, has been set aside in Patchogue as Legion Day, the village trustees having granted a request yesterday of Commander Arthur Mullen of the Patchogue Post to aid making the day a signifleant one, and Mayor Arthur M.

Swezey has agreed to issue a proclamation for the date. War vets are to put on their annual minstrel show that evening. POLICE SPONSOR DANCE Rockville Centre, L. 1., Feb. 20-- The annual dance of the Rockville Centre Police Benevolent Association will held tomorrow night in the Masonic Temple.

About 1,000 persons, including Mayor Charles E. Richmond and other village officials, are expected to attend. SURVEY ROCKAWAY ROAD. Enginees from the Queens Highway Department are at work surveying the lines of the North Side Drive, the new artery of travel soon to be established in the Rockaways, in order to establish the grade. Highway Superintendent Irving Klein announced today, BRITISH AMBASSADOR QUITS CAPITAL P.

Du COLUMB Retired from post because of Esme Howard, Ambassador well to, Washington yesterday boarded train having reached age limit, Sir from Great Britain, said fareas he and Lady Howard for New York. Mrs. Brandon Spars Under Cross-Quiz Seeking $500,000 From G. J. Gillespie, Woman Lawyer Battles With Questioner-Asserts Defendant 'Destroyed' Her Mrs.

Frances Marion counsel, who is suing George Board of Water Supply, for a swords with Gillespie's counsel, examination, as the trial today, in heated tilts. At one time the testimony became so dramatic that Mr. Kiendl inquired whether Mrs. Brandon hadn't conceived the trial in the same way she writes movie scenarios. Leaning forward in her chair and fixing Kiendl with a glare, Mrs.

Brandon said to him, "I certainly did not." It was during testimony; regarding that the sharpest tilts arose Mrs. Brandon's earnings, host ver, 1, Kiendl insisted con ascertaining what Mrs. Brandon's earnings had been after she was admitted to the bar in 1918.0 As to Earning Power is "Were they ever as much as so he asked. "They must have been," said Mrs. Brandon.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Valente, before wrom the case is being tried, reprimanded the woman tor her answer. "Then I don't: remember," Mrs. Brandon snapped. "Well, was there any year, when you earned as much as Kiendl insisted. "As counsel for Alice DeLamar I earned $100,000 a year, whether I got it or not," she declared.

your salary as corporation counsel?" "It was something over. $3,000 a year," said the witness. Mr. Kiendl was archly sympathetic. "I see," he said, "You started at bottom and worked up--like Mr Gillespie?" "Yes," she said, "but I didn't start so low, I hope." She Tells of Tryst Symbol Turning to a cross examination of the alleged intimacies between Gillespie and Mrs.

Brandon, Mr. Kiendl recalled that Mrs. Brandon used a scarlet letter in her diary to mark dates of her tryst with the defendant--a symbol styled by Mrs. Brandon as a combination of the scarlet letter and the eternal triangle. "Did you use the 'eternal triangle' in sense of its meaning a man at the apex, with his wife on one side and his mistress on the other?" Kiendl inquired.

"I wasn't Gillespie's mistress!" she snapped again. Judge ordered the rest of her remark stricken from the record. "Did you then use the scarlet letter, knowing that it stands for 'adulteress' 9" "I never knew it had that meaning," said Mrs. Brandon: Q. Well, haven't you ever.

read Hawthorne's 'Scarlet- Letter'? A. Oh, yes, indeed. Says Other Woman Knew Mrs. Brandon reasserted her contention that Giliespie's late wife knew of the relations. between herself and the defendant but her recital of the facts proving this contention left Kiendl dissatisedd.

"Mrs. Gillespie is now dead," he reminded her. "Well, she isn't dead through any faullt of mine," Mrs. Brandon said. Q.

You mean Gillespie poisoned her? A. He might have. He destroyed me. But you're doing the dramatizing now, Mr. Kiendl.

Hollywood would never. let me go if I could do half as well as you're doing right here. She continued to declare that she believed Gillespie was a holy holiest I ever knew." When Gillespie accused her teasingly of trying to seduce hini through her habit of sitting 011 8 chair with one leg curled under her, Mrs. Brandon said she considered colossally "innocent unworldly." "I thought he was the dearest, most unworldly man I'd ever known," she said. Talked of Marriage Gillespie later told her, she said, thata if he ever succumbed to temptation he would be irrevocably committed to marriage.

"You knew he was married at the time?" asked Kiendl. did." "Yet you permitted him to yield to temptation on Jan. 30, "I ruined him, he said." She accused Gillespie of trying to wrest from her the account of her most important client, Miss Alice DeLamar, through blandishments, because of the money involved. When- Kiendl inquired if she was "one of these 'idoal' feminists not interested in money," she said, "No, I'm not. I'm just a natural easy mark." Gillespie sat through the trial Russians Find Eielson's Body Near Wreck Arctic Flier Hurled 200 Feet From His Plane in Siberia Snows PEA Milton, convey their who captured one robbed Sobel of $100 Ave.

Held as thug, Bridge Plaza Court youths were arrested same robbery. Letters Reveal Elsman's Money Spurned by Wife Baby Not for She Wrote to Former Kings County Lighting Head Reno, 20-Judge George A. Bartlett in the District Court here today heard more argument, by counsel for Mrs. Beatrice J. Elsman, for permission to delve into the records of her divorce from Ralph Elsman, former president of the Kings County Lighting Company of Brooklyn, in an effort to find the obtain completes custody of their "reasons" present move to -old boy, Mrs.

Elsman, who was the gas magnate's second wife, obtained a divorce here in 1927, custody of the child going to her husband, while she was permitted an occasional visit. Elsman today opposed his former wife's latest effort to make the whole proceedings public. Meanwhile, Mrs. Elsman won one round of the long-drawn battle with the reading of an exchange of letters between herself and her former in Reno, E. F.

Lunsford. Lunsford's letter, dated Sept. 30, 1929, advised Mrs. Elsman to settle the case once for all by a money settlement. Elsman, said Lunsford, was ready to make a $15,000 settlement in return for absolute custody, and he suggested that if she wanted he would "make a fight for it" on the basis of $25,000.

Her reply, however, said in part: "I was surprised when you mentioned that it would be advisable to accept money rather than be sO humiliated on my visits to my son. This advice coming from you was so startling that I could only answer I would think it over." Of the $15,000 offer she wrote: "Now I consider this the rankest insult to any mother, especially in this case, for my son has never been for sale at any time. Please tell the District Attorney, Mr. Summerfield, to inform Mr. Elsman that my baby is not for sale for fifteen or twentyfive thousand dollars.

"I have suffered all sorts of indignities at Elsman's hands, even to the extent of living under the same roof with the nursemaid who robbed me of my husband and my home and now thinks she has the power to rob me of my own flesh and blood." The "nursemaid" referred to is the former Florence Diehl, who had been the boy's nurse and is now the third Mrs. Elsman. Huntington Plans Trade And Professional Unit Huntington, L. Feb. 20-A business conference for the purpose of bringing together business and professional men of Huntington will be held at the Hotel Huntington Thursday, Feb.

27, at 12 o'clock noon, according to an announcement issued by the Huntington Chamber of Commerce today. Invitations have been sent to all business and professional men who are members of the Chamber to attend the meeting prepared to discuss plans for the establishment of some type of regular meeting whereby these men may gather to discuss problems common to them all. Athlete's Damage Action Is Dismissed in Queens Justice Edward J. Riegelmann in Queens Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the $25,000 action brought against John Heverin, dentist, of 7 Halleck Ridgewood, by George Gillespie, 23, of A A A 104-78 127th Richmond Hill, at the end of the plaintiff's case. Gillespie, who is a Brown University athlete, was suing for the injuries he received when a sled on which he was coasting collided with an automobile owned by the defendant in Richmond Hill.

Babylon Town Board To Study Pension Fund Babylon, L. Feb. 20-The Babylon Town Board yesterday authorized Tax Assessor Chester Lunt to write Albany for information relative to the pension fund on behalf of employes of this township. Mr. Lunt told the board that he and some of his fellow workers have been discussing the possibility of joining the State pension fund and sought the views of the Town Board on it.

Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb. 20 (P)- Having 1 found the body of Carl Ben Eielson, Alaskan pilot, rescue workers today awaited an opportunity to, fly out of the Northland with it and the body of his mechanic, Earl Borland. Word that Eielson's body had been recovered Tuesday from the spot 90 miles southeast of North Cape, Siberia, where his plane was wrecked last Nov, 9, was wirelessed to Fairbanks last night by Crosson, one of the American pilots engaged in the long hunt for the missing birdman. Borland's body was found last Thursday. Crosson, at the ice-bound fur trading motorship Nanuk near North Cape, to which Eielson and Borland were flying when they crashed, reported that Eielson's body had been found more than 200 feet from the fuselage of his wrecked plane and under less than one foot of snow, the wind having swept the spot nearly clear.

Eielson's body was located about 150 feet from the place where that of Borland lay, indicating that their ship crashed with terrific impact. Wreckage, of the plane, located Jan, 25 by Crosson and Pilot Harold Gillam after a long and discouraging hunt, was scattered over a wide area. The motor, near which Borland's body was found, was hurled 100 feet beyond the fuselage, while one wing was found 200 feet from where the main portion of the plane crashed. searching party headed by Commander Elipneov, Russian pilot, 10- cated Eielson's body and word of the discovery was taken to the Nanuk last night by Crosson. The bodies were placed aboard Slipneov's ship, to be flown to the Nanuk as soon as weather conditions permitted.

They will be flown then to Alaska. Borland, whose wife and two small children live in Alaska, will be buried in Seattle, while the body of Eielson will be taken by his father Ole Elelson, to Hatton, N. for interment in the family plot. The elder Eielson now is in Alaska awaiting the return of the body. Eielson, conqueror of both the Arctic and Antarctic in airplane exploration, was Alaska's best known aviator and he perhaps did more than any other person to establish the airplane as a means of transportation in the Polar regions.

Brandon, assistant corporation J. Gillespie, president of the half million dollars, crossed Theodore Kiendl, in cross- this morning, apparently unperturbed by the testimony. When, time after time, Mrs. Brandon pointed an accusing finger at him, he merely looked away without show of either interest or emotion. He was as unmoved when she admitted calling him a "holy man" as he was when she referred to him as an "aged, unkempt, pot-bellied, slick little political shyster." The trial continued this afternoon with Mrs.

Brandon still on the stand. Christy Urges Merrick Central High School Plan G. O. P. Club Head Sees Local Children Barred in Other Districts Soon Merrick, Feb.

20-William S. Christy one of the leading civic workers in this section and a resident here for a good many years, has come out in favor of a central high school for the villages in this section, a movement that is being agitated at the present time. Mr Christy is president of the Republican Club and a past president of the Merrick Civic League. "Merrick is faced with the problem of a rapid growth," he said, "and with it comes the need of high school facilities. The problem must be solved in a manner that will give satisfaction to the taxpayers and secure facilities for our children of today and tomorrow.

"Fortunately for small communition like ours, where there is no high school, we are permitted to send children a to nigh schools in adjacent villages. The district must pay a fee of $50 for each student and the State pays another $50 Owing to the growth of all of the south shore villages, the high schools are filling rapidly and within a few years the villages that have high schools will not be able to care for outside students. "It would be a good deal cheaper for Merrick to continue as it is doing now than to try and maintain its own high school and it would seem that the project of a central high school would benefit us and cost less than we are paying now for such education for our Queens Village Group Plans New Clubhouse As a result of a dance, to be held 011 Washington's Birthday Ev. in the Queens Village Community House, the Queens Village Democratic Club expects to be quartered It a nev clubhouse during the spring. At present the club is quartered in the Community House, 216th St.

end Ave. John. The fel, chairman of the executive commitsee; Surrogate Richard S. Newcombe and A emblyman Joseph D. Nunan.

now at Albany, will attend. The committee, headed by William M. includes: James Dixon, Assistant District Attorney William Gautier, Frank Fields, Sinnott, William Winnie, James Connolly, William Beirns, William Harley, James Conlon. Thomas Hayden, James Higgenbottom. Charles Curran, Thomas Gibbons, I J.

O' Brien. Fred Schmidt, Nicholas Comastri, Charles Hugh Hrostoski, Starr, William William Weeks Bergen. Philip S. O'Brien. Remove Beach Stones For Rockaway Walks Thousands of tons of stone, put in a number of years ago in order to establish several jetties in front of the Edgemere Club at 32d Edgemere, and now in the line the third section of the Rockaway Board walk from B.

56th to B. 21st are being removed by the D. W. Construction Company, contractors in charge of the erection of the walk. Several owners are being used to remove the stone.

which is embedded in the sand. The contractors expect no delay in the erection of the walk by May 30. LADIES HOLD SUPPER The annual supper of the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Reformed Church was held last evening in the hall, on Central Far Rockaway, Mrs. Emma Pitt was in charge. Coalition Halts Farm Bloc in Tariff Boosts Agriculture Increases May Hurt Chances of Debenture, Is Warning Washington, Feb.

20. (P)--The Senate today checked to some extent the onrush of increases in tariffs in the Agricuitural schedule after warnings had issued from both camps of the coalition forces that undue raises in farm rates would endanger the chances of the debenture plan being retained in the bill. The warnings, from Democrats and Republican independents, were issued at the time Senator Brookhart, Republican Independent, Iowa, sought to raise by more than 300 percent existing rates on lard and oleo oil and oleo stearin. The Iowan's proposal to boost the lard duty from one to four cents a pound was rejected 53 to 23, and the oleo increases were turned down without a record vote. The Hawes amendment to increase to 3 cents a pound in the duty on crude horseradish was approved.

The present rate is 50 percent. the bill rate preserved mushThe Harrison gar proposal to reduce rooms from 10 cents a pound onl drained weight and 60 percent to 10 cents and 45 percent was adopted. The present rate is 45 percent. Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York, lost amendment to give a separate classification for kippered herring so it would take a rate of 114 cents a pound instead of 3 cents in the bill. Copeland said the 3- cent rate would tax the 2,000,000 Jewish people of his State $24,000 on which he described as a "national dish" of the Jews.

W. S. Christy Re-elected Merriek G.O.P Head Merrick, L. Feb. 20-William Christy who for several years has headed the Merrick Republican Club, was re-elected last night at the annual meeting held in the Oakwood Avenue Fire Hall.

Other officers are: Vice presidents, Albert C. Doane, Mrs. Edith Hallock, James F. Mulcahy, Charles Reinhardt and Robert H. Johnson corresponding secretary, Mrs.

Wella Edgar; recording secretary, Charles Westlake; financial secretary, R. H. Johnson treasurer, Edward A. Martin. Board of managers -Edward A.

Martin, Alexander Hallock, Mrs. Katherine Christy. Mrs. Eleanor Dettmer, Mrs. Edith Hallock.

The election was followed by a. reception, games and a buffet supper. NEW DIAMOND RACKET Manuel Ruiz, 32, of 38 New Bowery, Manhattan, was remanded for investigation and sentence until Saturday, by Magistrate Sabbatino in Bridge Plaza Court today. Ruiz was arrested when he attempted to sell a patrolman in plainclothes an alleged diamond ring for $5. He is alleged to have told the patrolman that the and other pieces of jewelry were his share of the proceeds of a holdup of a jewelry store last night.

No such theft was reported as the diamond was paste. Police said they believed the story of the holdup was another new sales racket. ADDRESSES CIVICS. Queens Highway Superintendent Irving Klein addressed the members of the Bayswater Civic. Association last evening in Public School 104, Mott Far Rockaway..