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M2 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1034 MUSIC, DIPLOMACY AMD THE JUNGLE No Drastic Changes Liquor Bribes Called Fake hv Planned Quiz Extended By Blanshard Into 5 Offices Pro he of 'Greatest Im portanee' Begun in Two on ABCL I V.O mtemplates No Extraordinary Drives or Shake- ups, Says Commissioner, as Police Seize 150 in Roundup Jr no i ii Lehrenkrauss Tells of Loans Made by Banks Muh Switching of Collateral When He Was Pressed for Payment Continued trom Page 1 $200,000 mortgage his firm held against the Shore Road Theater, Bay Ridge. Participations Sold Before pledging this mortgage, Palmer developed, $192,000 of participations in it had been sold to the public. Palmer asked if before posting the mortgage as collateral the witness had made any effort to ascertain if participations in it had been told. He said he had not, because it had been "only a special short-time loan that was soon paid off." Bank Kept Mortgage Q. What happened to the mortgage then? A.

The bank refused to return It. They insisted that I sign a new collateral agreement covering my other loans that would add this mortgage to the collateral already posted. Says Vom Lehn Is After Rents Max M. Wolff, former manager of the heal estate division of the Lehrenkrauss organization was another witness of the day. He testified that Vom Lehn is currently "endeavoring to collect the rents on 15 properties belonging to the Omnls Corporation, a Lehrenkrauss realty holding corporation.

Properties on which Vom Lehn is "endeavoring" to collect' the rents were enumerated by Wolff as 15 and 21 E. 88th 155-13, 155-15, 155-17, 155-21, 155-23 and 155-29 Bergen Landing Road, Richmond Hill; 3, 5. 7, 9 and 11 Parkway Court; 49 E. 24th and an apartment house at Archer Place and 149th Jamaica. Palmer said only the representative of the Brooklyn Federal Court had the right to collect rents now on these or other Lehrenkrauss properties.

Old Folks Homes Mulcted Last evening's session ended with pi4)'f VJ ni by O'Ryan rotated the job among the officers of inspector's rank or higher. No 'Big Timers' A hurried examination of the lineup sheets revealed the names of i 111 klg LllliC 1.1 IlllllJM lS. llllUllft those listed were: Daniel Adams, 40. of 315 W. Ulth Manhattan; 29 arrests since 1912; charged with pickpocketing.

William Case. 35, of 1856 Park Manhattan; 13 arrests since 1919; charged with burglary. Thomas Micielli, 29, of 408 E. 74th Manhattan; 12 arrests since 1918; charged with robbery. Jack Hannan, 53, of 212 W.

112th Manhattan; 17 arrests since 1920; charged with pickpocketing. Jack Rabinowitz, 37, of 117 W. 28th Manhattan; seven arrests since 1915; charged with arson in a case dating back to September. 1932. Reports Ordered In a special teletype order sent out late yesterday afternoon, the police commissioner ordered all commanding officers from deputy chief inspector to captain jnd sub ordinates heading special squads to make written reports by Saturday of their opinions as to what effect the civil service regulation providing for preferential treatment of veterans is having upon the efficiency and morale of the police department.

The commanding officers must report what members of their squads are veteraas. whether or not compensation from the Government and the nafjre of their injuries if any. Deputy Chief Inspector Thomas F. Walsh, in command of Manhattan police, has been assigned to investigate charges of "tips" alleged to have been paid policemen on strike duty at a Bronx radio condenser manufacturing plant, Valentine announced today. The assertion was made yesterday in Bronx Supreme Court before Justice Charles B.

McLaughlin in a hearing on applications for damages and injunctions made against each other by the Radio Factory Workers 1 Union and the Cornell-Dubilier 1 Condenser Corporation of 4377 Bronx Boulevard, the Bronx. It came out during the testimony of Oreste A. staDiie. accountant ana company witness, who said, on cross-examination, that a voucher of $85.40 represented money paid to policemen. favored with jobs In his new offce as the veteran county boss' successor.

Before Quayle left for Washington yesterday, he told his staff in no uncertain terms that 10 clock arrivals would not be tolerated. He found the office practically deserted when he came to work shortly after 9 a.m. Senate to Probe 1 1 DtlllKS 1)3(1 LOanS Washington, Jan. 4 (A) Senate investigators said today they would seek to Identify the judges and other political figures of Detroit to whom "bad loans" were made by the National Bank of Commerce. Their decision followed presenta- committee of the bank's directors reported in 1931 that its bad loans included many "policy" loans to "Judges of courts, referees in bankruptcy and other political officials." Investigators said they also had evidence that Henry Ford, his fam- Continued from Page 1 pleased with what they had done.

Said one detective: "Yes, we stepped out, all right. It's Just what we want. We don't mind going out after them if we're sure we'll be backed up." And a patrolman said: "LaGuardia means what he says. We know that we wont lose our jobs If we arrest the wrong guy." Cells Filled The cells at Police Headquarters were jammed as early as 7 a.m. as the police "guests'" continued to come in, and the lineup clerk's desk was piled high with complaints.

The charges ran the whole gamut of criminal offenses from violating the State liquor laws to dope addiction and extortion. Containers of coffee and sandwiches had to be brought from nearby restaurants to feed the growing small army of prisoners. 'Routine' to O'Ryan Commissioner O'Ryan was going through his morning mail when newspapermen broke into his office with questions about the overnight roundup. "What roundup, boys?" he asked. "Well, that's routine, isn't it?" he added when details were furnished.

"I don't think that's so unusual." He was assured that it was unusual. insisd. 'Vhy donyouk chief I Inspector Lewis Valentine about anv orders that may have been sent Then he went back to reading his mail. Valentine Unimpressed Valentine also was unimpressed. "I don't know of any order going out unless it went through the grapevine route.

Or, maybe, John Sullivan sent it out," he said. He smiled, but made no comment when informed that a large proportion of the arrests were made by his own men. "What roundup? There were no such orders," said Assistant Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan. He left for the gymnasium to con- duct the lineup.

It was his first ap- pearance on the rostrum in some time. About six months ago he gave up the work of interrogating prisoners because of ill-health, and the then Commissioner James S. Bolan 4 Queens Men Seek U. S. Jo!) Continued from Page 1 with him the names of about two dozen candidates for deputy Internal Revenue collectorships in the Brooklyn-Long Island District.

He declined to make aaiy of them public, but all are reputed to be men who supported the Recovery cause. So far as could be learned, Quayle brought no new candidates for district attorney. About half a dozen are already in the field with Charles E. Murphy of Flatbush, former president of the Advertising Club of New York, reputed to have a slight advantage. Recovery Men Organizing Recovery party managers of sixteen Assembly Districts who have refused to accept Sheriff Frank J.

Quayle's leadership without membership on the county executive committee began a 48-hour drive today to whip together an organization which can back up its demands for a share of the patronage Quayle is expected to bring back from Washington Saturday. A seven-man committee was named to proceed with the organ- ization of the Recovery wing of the and here for her American debut; top right, Mr. and Mrs. Frank (Bring 'Ein Back Alive) Buck, back from a jungle tour in Southern Asia and the East Indies; Loading Department Commissioner of Accounts Paul Blanshard was engaged today in a socret investigation, said to be of importance," into the conduct of one of the major departments of the city administration that went out of office with former Mayor John P. O'Brien.

In the meantime it was learned that Blanshard has undertaken an. investigation into four other departments besides the four reported yesterday. The matter of "greatest importance" was the subject of a conference lasting more than an hour lat yesterday in the office of Controller Cunningham. Participating in the meeting were Irving Ben Cooper, Blanshard's special counsel, and James A. Higgins, Blanshard's predecessor in the office of the city "eyes and ears." Conference Secret None of the conferees would discuss the deliberations.

Former Commissioner Higgins. whose reports of investigations were pigeon-holed by the Walker and O'Brien administrations, is understood to have opened two or three major lines of inquiry in his last month in office, and to have turned his records and findings over to his successor. Ingersoll Greets Civic Workers at First Conference Secretary Asks Visitors Write Borough President Before They Drop In Borough President Raymond V. Ingersoll held the first of his weekly Thursday morning conferences with representatives of civic organizations this morning at Borough Hall when he received Hernan Rosenthal of the Brighton Beach Chamber of Commerce. Rosenthal said he had discussed civic matteis with Mr.

Ingersoll. Others to call this morning Included representatives of the United Parent-Teachers Associations of New York City, the American Highway Protective Association! and Milton J. Ferguson, chief librarian, and Judge Edwin L. Garvin, chair, man of the board of trustees of ths Brooklyn Public Library. Lawson H.

Brown, secretary to the Borough President, announced after the conferences that in the future people expecting to call on Mr. ingersoll should first acquaint him by letter of the matters the wLsn t0 discuss so that he may be Prepared to answer any I questions they may have and enable to refer the matter to the proper department, Hold 2 as Fake ABC Employes and Edwin Skillman. 32. of 230 E. 71st both Manhattan, were in the lineup at Police Headquarters today charged with representing themselves as members of the staff of Edward P.

Mulrooney, chairman of the State ABC Board. Mrs, Elizabeth Haggerty, of 137 demanded $500 from her to facili- tat.e issuance nf a Honor license. She knew they were impostors, she said, because she had already re ceived her license. Webel denied the charge. "That was only a joke.

I was joking and nothing more." Skillman told Assistant Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan today. 'Save German Music, 9 Nazis Appeal to Jew But Yeluuli Menuhin, Boy Violinist, Tells Hitler Aide He Won't Do a Thing Until They Restore Mendelssohn and Admit Waller It is all an American-Jewish boy's fault, or at least it will be, if "Germany goes to the dogs, musically speaking," says the Nazi Minister of Art. This was revealed today with the arrival of the Italian Sullivan Offers Reward for Proof Lahel Law Effective at Midnight With the "honest label law" going into effect at midnight tonight, further indignant denial of persistent rumors and reports that liquor 11- licenses may be expedited by the payment of bribes came from Mrs. John S.

Sheppard and John Sullivan, members of the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Mis. Sheppard and Mr. Sullivan i met reporters today in the absence of Chairman Edward P. Mulroone7, who was to go to Albany today to hand to Governor Lehman his report, including recommendations for permanent liquor control.

Sullivan Offers Reward Mr. Sullivan declared he would pay $500 out of his own pocket for any information which would lead to arrest and conviction in the case of a bribe offer in connection with license applications. "The public should be made to understand that It takes two people to complete bribery and the public is equally to blame." he said. The announcement that the law requiring distillers and wholesalers to attach labels naming the in gredients in the beverages to each bottle of liquor sold in the city was made todav by I. Robert Wolfe, counsel to the Health Department.

He said he had received no word from Dr. John L. Rice, new Commissioner of Health. The law is part of the Sanitary Code and will be enforced by the Bureau of Foods and Drugs, Wolfe said. Mulroonev announced the tran-; script of tlie testimony of persons questioned in tne investigation ui charges of petty graft in connection i with the issuance of licenses would be sent to District Attorney Dodge tomorrow or Saturday, ine transcripts were the subject of a conference yesterday attended by Mul-rooney, Nelson Ruttenberg, counsel to the board, and Assistant District Attorney Albert B.

Unger. Five to Be Replaced The five inspectors who were dismissed as a result of the probe will be replaced by men who will be certified as eligible following an examination soon to be held by the Civil Service Commission. Mulrooney and other members of the State and City control boards denied discord has developed between the two bodies. Carroll Hayes, head of the city board, denied reports that he contemplated resigning. Werner Settles Wife's Claim by Paying $10 a Week Prisoner IIell as Swindler Gives Bond on His Teaelier Pension Funds The domestic difficulties of Frederick J.

Werner, former Brooklyn school teacher who is in Raymond Street Jail under six indictments for having allegedly mulcted friends and relatives out of $200,000. were settled this morning in the Domes- tic Relations Court in a private i hearing before Justice William I Young. It required barely five minutes, beZend Conrad 'h. Ratner. Werner's lawyer, his wile.

Anne Werner, agreed to accept a bond of $500, tob paid at the rate of $10 a week, for the support of herself and their five-year-old son, Frederick. Pension Fund Used It will be paid out of the $1,142 which Werner had in the Teachers' Retirement Fund. Werner was his usual suave, neat self. He smiled at his wife when he entered the justice's chamber and had a cheery "Hello. Pop!" for his father, who had brought some Christmas cards to show him.

Mrs. Werner, a quiet, pale, dark-eyed woman, gave her address as 257 Fenimore St. Werner Praises Jail In a brief talk with reporters Werner expressed confidence that he will still be able to prove his intentions were "of the best" in securing money from his friends and relatives. He praised conditions in Raymond St. Jail as "good for a city prison." described the food as "clean and wholesome" and the sheets "clean." "Lots of people in Raymond St.

Jail are glad to be there," he commented. Bitz Is Indicted For Jumping Bail Irving Bitz. who with Salvatore Spit-ale was an intermediary in the Lindbergh kidnaping case a year ago. was indicted today for jumping $25,000 bail on a pitol-carrying charge. Bitz forfeited the bal last October when he failed to appear for trial in General Sessions.

He will be arraigned on the new indictment later this week before General Sessions Judge Morris Koenig. to Arrivals on Italian line's Atlan tic speed queen Rex, which docked today. Photograph shows (left) Janet Olcott, adopted daughter of the famous Chaun- cey, a pianist in her. own right simply asked Vom Lehn to go and ask the bank to lend the money. At that time, according to Julius, the bank already held collateral for "between $200,000 and $300,000 of loans advanced." When Vom Lehn returned and advised the money would be advanced.

Julius then testified he had one of his employes give him a list of mortgages available for discount and had sent one or more of these mortgages, of a face value of $75,000, to the bank as collateral. "Did you first ascertain if any participations had been sold against those mortgages?" questioned Palmer. "No," was the reply. The second time the witness was threatened with contempt proceedings was when he had stared in silence for 12 minutes by the court clock at the minutes of a meeting of his organization whereon was recorded that he had attended. about time you answered whether or not you attended that meeting," Palmer then exclaimed, reiterating the substance of the question, asked when the minutes were handed the witness.

Commissioner Blck demanded that the question be answered. He repeated his demand and noted the elapsed time. After he had threatened the contempt citation, Julius replied that he had not attended the meeting. Only Signed Papers Thereafter, the witness met question after question with the response that their substance concerned matters that were attended to by the 100 persons in his employ. Repeatedly he stated that all of the time spent in his offices at 359 Fulton St.

had been devoted to signing papers. Prior to 1932 he said his nephew, Charles, or Richter or various employes were In control. He asserted that he had nothing to do with the hiring or firing of his employes, that having been done by Charles, "but I had complete confidence in my employes." After 1932 he said the entire business was run by James J. Fradkin, sales manager of an Issue of $1,600,000 of Lehrenkrauss Corporation preferred stock that was sold the public. "If I understand you right," said Palmer in conclusion, "you claim Vom Lehn fixed the value of all Lehrenkrauss properties and the amount of mortgages to be put on them, others sold the mortgages and participations and all you ever did was sit in the back and sign what-over was given you.

Is that right?" "Yes," was the reply. llv nrl rnmnanv hoH tntal H.nn.it.11" cuaiges uie iwo men Democratic party. The members i group banks when they closed for named were: Thomas F. Flynn. Michigan bank holiday.

of about $60,000,000 in the Guardian SrouP and the Detroit bankers The banks which held these de-Dosits never reopened, but the Fords have received Kofr part of the money back, investigators said. center, Stanislao Patek, Polish Ambassador to the United States, and lower right, Yehudi Menuhin, celebrated boy violinist, and his sister, Yaltah and Hephzibah (foreground). to the dogs, musically speaking." Proud of Musicians' Stand Yehudi expressed pride in being a musician more than ever "because there was no organization among the artists to remain from Germany, but all had acted independently and according" to their own conscionces, with the result that it was so sweeping and final that no artist of repute had gone to Germany since the edict against Bruno Walter and Jewish musicians." The Rex docked at Pier 59 for the first time, and was de.ayed no Utile by the pack ice which filled the basin and studdied the dver and harbor in floes. Byrd Flies South; Sees Only Ocean Aboard Admiral Byrd's Flagship in the Antarctic, Jan. 3 (via Mackay Radio) (Delayed) () Rear Admiral Richard E.

Byrd and four companions made a three-hour flight today to approximately latitude 72.30 South, less than 18 degrees from the South Pole. The plane's ocurse was roughly along the 117th Meridian, and the flight extended 150 miles south of the flagship. On his return, Byrd reported: "No land. The sea-borne ice continued to the limit of vision." He said, however, that the observations from this flight, combined with those of the flight two weeks ago along the 150th Meridian, 900 miles west, had convinced him that about 200.000 square miles of previously unknown area now can be eliminated from Antarctic maps and be designated simply "Pacific Ocean." a careful reading of the record of the third trial shows numerous grounds for reversal and I believe it, too, will be reversed seem to justify my statement. "As for disciplining, the Radio Commission will tell the gentleman from Alabama that It has no censorship authority over programs or expression of opinion." Washington.

Jan. 4 Judge O. Sykes, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, said today that until he had marie a study of the situation he would not comment on the request of Alabama's Attorney General. Thomas E. Knight that, the commission discipline H.

V. Kaltenbom, national radio commentator. the questioning of Herman Richter, special partner, regarding the sale of mortgages and mortgage participations to German orphanages, homes for the aged and sick benefit societies. At least two, according to Palmer, are shown by the firm's books to have been sold participations in mortgages that previously had been sold to other individuals either as whole mortgages or in the fractional participations. These, characterized by Palmer as "victimized institutions, were named as the the Marien Heim, 876 Ocean Parkway, a home for old German couples, and thePlattdeutsche Al-tenheim Gesellshaft, Hempstead, L.

I Julius a Trustee Julius Lehrenkrauss is a trustee of the Marien Heim. Richter testified. He said it holds $25,000 of participation that Palmer asserted "appears to be no better than a partnership promissory note." The institution at Hempstead holds $150,000 of Lehrenkrauss mortgage certificates. While asserting that there were great many other" German societies and German organizations that bought Lehrenkrauss paper, Richter could recall "at this time" only three more, the addresses of which he did not remember. He named them as the Amt Stol-senauer Verein, a sick benefit society, which holds the Hanover Verein, another sick benefit, $8,000, and the Amt Severner, a Brooklyn German club, whose holdings he did not know.

Richter said he was himself a member of the Amt Stolzenauer Verein. Was 'Whole Business' "Julius Lehrenkrauss," said Palmer, "has repeatedly testified that he was kept so busy signing guarantees that he did not read and checks that he did not examine that he had no time for anything else. Just what part did he take in the affairs of the House of Lehrenkrauss?" "He was the entire business," replied Richter. "He had exclusive charge of the financial end." Referring to testimony given by Richter at a prior hearing that was devoted to the operations of the Omnis Corporation, a realty holding concern of the partnership, Palmer continued: Q. You testified that you were only a figurehead president of that corporation and signed whatever papers were put before you to sign? A.

That is right. Q. I show you the minutes of a directors meeting of Dec. 31, 1932, which lists you as having attended and as elected a director for the ensuing year; were you there? A. I was not.

Not at Meetings Q. I show you the minutes of a directors' meeting of Jan. 23, 1933, which shows you to have been present and bears your signature, certified to, as present and having presided; were you there? A. I was not. Q.

You would sign minutes of meetings without having attended? A. Julius or Herman Hammel would give me the minutes to sign and because Julius told me to, I'd sign them Julius was the boss. Q. You'd sign anything, even If it wasn't true, because he'd tell you? A. Yes.

Julius, aging head of the house, had preceded Richter on the stand. Twice Commissioner Blck threatened to cite him for contempt of court for failing to answer questions. In botli instances he had offered successions of answers in no wise responsive to the questions, then had lapsed into protracted silences which Palmer denounced as "putting on an act." The first instance concerned a loan which Richard Vom Lehn had negotiated for J. Lehrenkrauss Sons with the Kings County Trust last Ort. 3.

It had bren for $75,000. Palmer wanted to know how Vom Lehn had come to negotiate the loan. After bring permitted to leave the witness stand and go into another room and confer with his attorney, Julius returned and said he had LOESER'S' miTON AT OM0. MOOKlVM Ulan. i-tlOO Line's blue ribbon holder when Yehudi Menuhin, 17-year-old world renowned violinist of San Francisco, who arrived home after a tour of several European capitals.

The revelation centered around an exchange of telegrams between Yehudi, Moshe Menuhin, his father, and Dr. Wilhelm Furtwangler, German Minister for Art and former leader of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, during August and September last. Nazi Aid Made Overture First "Dr. Furtwangler," said Mr. Menuhin, "first sent a telegram to my son appealing to him 'to mend the broken threads that have severed Germany from the rest of the civilized world.

Germany has you at heart more than ever today. Help me to divorce art from politics, even if politicians don't always makei easy to do The Importance of such a telegram can best be gathered from the fact that Dr. Furtwangler is a minister of Hitler's Nazi government, and Mr. Menuhin's amazement was expressed more in the shrug of his shoulders than what he said. Aid Qualified "However," he continued, "we answered by telegraphing that 'We are ready for you, but not until the German government will remove the bars against composers like Mendelssohn, whose genius has not been recognized because he is Jewish; and so long as they do not allow Bruno Walter to conduct in Germany, among other things.

"Yehudin Menuhin, a Jew and as liberal as any and all who appreciate any intelligent state of affairs, cannot aid you otherwise." Three or four more telegrams of a similar nature were exchanged before the finale to the appeal was dispatched by Dr. Furtwangler him self in a curt telegram reading: "It is your fault if Germany goes "that it is difficult for a defender to obtain Justice when the entire atmosphere is charged with prejudice against him. That was certainly true in Alabama in the case of the so-called scottsboro defendants, as it is true in the case of any Negro in the South charged with attacking a white woman. It Is something the Judicial authorities cannot overcome, although they may try. Sees New Reversal "The very fact that the Supreme Court of the United States had to reverse the first Scottsboro trial because it was unfair, that the second trial was upset by the very Ala-bajna Judge who presided and that Clearance! ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINES A.

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and Walter G. McGahan, 5th A. D. 1 McKee Workers Meet Practically every McKee worker of prominence in the recent campaign, except Quayle, Undersheriff Jerome Ambro, Commissioner of Records Hyman Schorcnstein. Kenneth F.

Sutherland and Postmaster Frank J. Sinnott laid plans for the showdown with Quayle at a closed conference last night. The move to organize the Recovery leaders who are not members of the Democratic executive committee is prompted by the belief that Quayle will have everything in readiness for distribution of a major batch of Jobs in the Federal Building by the week of Jan. 20. See Quayle After Leadership Quayle's reappointment of many supporters of McCooey to his Sheriff's staff gave rise to the belief tnat the patronage boss was lining up the district chieftains in preparation for a passible test of McCooey county leadership before the Fall executive committee election.

If McCooey decides to retire or becomes the object of a general revolt. Quayle is said to be tacitly agreed upon by the leaders he has Kaltenbom Repeats Scottsboro Criticism, Fears No Radio Action All our floor samples and demonstration machines that have been accumulating during the year plus any that have been slightly scratched or used have all been greatly reduced for this Sale! You'll find a large assortment of famous makes to choose from, all fully guaranteed. Mere are just a few examples: Willi) Despite a request made to the Federal Radio Commission to discipline him for his statement that it was Just as impossible for communists in Nazi Germany to receive a fair trial "as it is for the Scottsboro boys to receive a fair trial In Alabama," H. V. Kaltenbom, radio news commentator and former associate editor of The Eagle, today reiterated that statement and pointed to the record to support him.

Thomas E. Knight Attorney General of Alabama, had marie the request to the commission, declaring that he knew the Negro defendants accused of assaulting two white girls "had a scrupulously fair tr explained," Mr. Kaltcnborn said, ROTARY ELECTRIC DESK, used $33.50 ELECTRIC PORTABLES, used, all well-known makes $1 9.50 $24.50 $29.50 No Mail or Telephone Orders Filled LOESER S-SKWINO MACHINES THIRD OOH OA FOUNDED I860, i.