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EDITORIAL FINANCE SOCIETY SPORTS BROOKLYN BAILY EAGLE THEATERS LETTERS CLASSIFIED RADIO NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933 2 19 Wedding Ring Industry Here Largest in U. S. Coebbeis Cons it JOHN rncii 1 WKDDINC, KINCS MADE IN BROOKLYN 7km Business of J. R. Wood Sons, Has Totaled $6,000,000 in Peak Years-Loose Diamonds and Watches Included in Plant's Output By HARVEY DOUGLASS This being June, the month of brides, and the Song of Cupid bring in the air, our feet led yesterday to the establishment of J.

R. Wood Sons, oldest and largest manufacturers of wedding rings in Amer (Copyright, 1933, by John Erskine) THE WALTS I THINK I have located that Walt Whitman club of which I spoke some days ago. I came on the group at supper Sunday evening In Joe's Restaurant, near Borough Hall. As yet I am' not certain, but I believe these are the men of whom the rumor reached us In Man ica and which for 83 years, or since original location on the north side of St. John Wood, present president of the company, is a son of the founder and Rawson L.

Wood, a grandson, is the vice president, the other officers being W. Waters Schwab, treasurer, and Arthur Hoppe, mmmmfSl tern tip I 1850, has been in operation in its Atlantic near New York Ave. so 1 5 iWS hattan. There were four of them at the table behind me and after their excellent talk attracted my attention I complained to the waiter of the draught and changed my seat so that I could see them. There was a short man with blue eyes and thlnnlsh hair, 40 or more.

They called him Gus. His speech suggested that he was German, less by the accent than by a winning earnestness in his manner. Next him sat an amazingly tall and thin fellow with a deep voice. He, perhaps, was the baritone who as I told you was taken into the club because Whitman heard America singing. They called him Willie, but I suspect he has some other name for he seemed to And annoyance in the repetition of "Willie." There was some teasing Joke here, which, of course, escaped me.

On the other side, with their backs to me, sat two stoutlsh men of medium size, one showing a bald spot In the midst of a black dome, the other well thatched with gray. The bald one was Evans and no doubt he Is a Welshman. The gray one came from the South, from some State that keeps' Its drawl. His name was Scott. GUS mentioned the word "democracy" and the others did not laugh.

That was what attracted my attention. Those who speak well of democracy nowadays are either very young or else they belong to a literary society. "Should a democracy do such a thing?" asked Gus. "Should it? Hein?" "Democracy is for tomorrow," answered Scott quietly. "We are what he called Then I guesSed they were talking of Whitman and I changed my seat as I told you.

GUS elaborated his doubts about democracy. "He went to his wife's cousin, who has a new radio, and the children turned It on and he heard how It wasn't Schmellng at all who won, but Baer, because they put the fight on early, so it would not rain on that big crowd. "So he came back to Louie's on the corner and stood over the table as though It was pinochle only he was interested In, and then he yawned and said, 'Gus, it Is time we heard soon the fight begin. Shall we go somewhere where there is a "And I said, 'Don't bother me, I have already your five dollars as good as in my pocket, Schmeling I can count on, and just how he murders the fool makes no matter to "So he yawned again, like he was In no hurry. 'Good boy, Gus! You were always sure of "No," I says, playing my hand right along at the game.

"I was only sure of Schmeling. "'You are sure enough to double that bet, he says, as if he thought of it only then. "Have you another five?" I asked, just to say something. 'Another says he, laying the bills on the table. "That makes twenty, and are you sure enough of Schmeling to find forty NEWEST STYLE IN I jsi! jj JJ i 0 they contain.

In 1929 there were In round numbers a million and a quarter marriages in the United States, a figure that has declined some 10 to 15 percent since the depression, but which, with better times now in the offing, may be expected to rise again. Approximately 13 percent of all marriages take place in this month of June, with October the next most popular marriage month, showing some 9 or 10 percent of the total. Decided Upswing Shown i Mr. Hoppe yesterday declared he viewed the business situation as it affects the Jewelry trade with a greater optimism than has been C0y Mil, Ml -i- Jul A I 1 1 vri i jf I I ft 1 the emblems of schools and colleges. I ranging from $5 to $500 to the ulti-as well as signet rings.

mate consumer, with the prices of It is also the sole American sales engagement rings regulated only by agent for the Omega Swiss watch, the size and quality of the gems rELL, I had not forty in and he laughed and said fidence in Schmeling, so opinions my pocket, but it was in the bank, that was also where was my con I borrowed another thirty from the Neighbors in Riot As Borough Park Family Is Evicted An attempt at "direct action" by neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ost-man to reinstall furniture In the apartment at 905 43d from which the family had ben evicted, resulted at 8 o'clock last night hi four arrests. A score of persons gathered around the heap of furniture on the sidewalk last night picked up various articles and began moving them back into the vacated apartment, despite protests of Patrolman John Voccacio, who finally drew his nightstick and was struck with pieces furniture. A dozen other policemen arrived and the small riot was suppressed.

Daniel Sacher, 28, of 884 43d St. was arrested, charged with having struck Voccacio. An hour later an open-air protest meeting was held. That was broken up after the arrest of three persons for disorderly conduct. They said they were Mrs.

Sadie Wexler, 41, of 140 Clara John Larsen, 47, of 875 43d and John Harko, 50. of 905 43d St. The furniture was removed by a truck of the Bureau of Encumbrances. Rouse Re-Elected President of 'Rig 6' Leon H. Rouse, formerly president for 16 years of Typographical Onion No.

6, was chosen president again yesterday in a run-off election in which he received 4,060 votes. The Incumbent, Austin Hew-son, received 3,620. Hewson became president of the local, more familiarly known as "Big Six," an an upset two years ago which ended Rouse's record of 16 years as head of the local. In the election on May 24 last Rouse got 2,970 votes and Hewson 2,567. As neither had a majority, the run-off election of yesterday, with 280 chapels in the city participating, was necessary.

VI fascist utiles To Curb Press Visits Italy to St inly Censor Methods of I) uce's Dictatorship By ROMU.I Special Correspondent of The Eagla. Rome, June 5 Dr. Joseph Gorb-; bels, dictator of the press in Hltle Ite Germany. Is spending a week or two here endeavoring to learn the true Fascist way of dealing with the The little Gorman visitor spent most of his time In the Palazzo I Vimlnalc, where, under the men-i torshtp of Slgnor polverelll, the Fascist head director of the press, he learned a good deal In a short time. He Inspected the practical workings of the system of censor-: ship, which keeps' the Italian government Informed of every move in the world of Journalism.

Every paper from the village rhroniclc to the metropolitan dally I nas its "classier" or record, upon which Its continuance In business depends. Oignor polverelll gave him a copy of the voluminous guld for Fascist writers containing minute instructions and rules of conduct, D. Goebbels was particularly Interested in the chapter dealing with "the reverence to be shown to the sacred person of his excellency, the head of the government." There Is a special record or "tickler" setting forth all instances of the violation of the provisions contained in the chapter. Only recently the editor of one of the leading Journals here was disciplined because he had passed a paragraph written by a careless reporter, who had announced that the Duce would be present at the unveiling of a war memorial in Naples. The reporter himself was dismissed without pay and his nams erased from the scroll of regularly licensed Journalists in Italy.

He had Ignored ono of the cardinal rules of Italian Journalism under Fascist rule, 1. that -t a is to be written on the movirn.ti of the Duco unless by authority of the central press bureau on a re. clal slip of paper beari' the nature of Slgnor The methods enabllr.c bureau to keep a close check on tn publication in Italy Rsirt oa the m-inclnal newsnaners in countries challenged the aiin.i'i titration of Dr. Goebbels. Dr.

Goebbels also vU-ed the great studio of the Fascist film propaganda out In Frascatl, where in the cool shado of umbrella pines he watched the taking of several thousand feet of celluloid. Police Here May Escape Shake-up The shakcup in Manhattan Police Headquarters, under which some 250 patrolmen who have had sinecures are to be sent out into the precincts, probably will not be reflected in Brooklyn Headquarters, It was learned today. Onl eight men are employed in Brooklyn Headquarters on clerical work, half of whom arc in the oince of Deputy Chief Thomas P. Cum-mlngs. It Is thought that there may be some reduction in the staff of the Crimo Prevention Bureau, which occupies the entire third floor of the Brooklyn Headquarters building, but no orders have been received as yet to that effect.

In announcing the shakcup in Manhattan, Commissioner Bolan said that his own staff would be reduced by two women stenographers, who would be assigned to duty In ihe Police Academy, and the transfer of four patrolmen from his office to outlying precincts. Plan 1 Million Jobs by iolscr Washington. June O'ip-third of the country's back at work by Octobei Is Uie aim of Gen. Hugh Johnson, ac Administration's Industrial Dlr Johnson announced tl is evuee.a-tlon 4.000,000 men put ri rolis analn In an address last to a meeting of State relief to co-operate with the pwcra-ment's new relief enterprises Simultaneously Secreti ry Pei-kliu made public statistics of the L-tVcr Department showing braiiy it remarkable increase in irlory payrolls and employment the truest single month's Jump sdve Januarr, 1923, ten years ago. ve -e up to 11.5 for the monin urd employment 4.8 percent, th" showing increased wag te or working time for those einpyd.

Youth Confesses Slaying of Girl Philadelphia. June 15 iv. announced last nlcht the mysterious slaying of Rose McCloskey, 19-year-old salesgirl, in Falrmount Park last Jan. 5 had been solved by an alleged confession obtained from Richard Buch, 20, that he killed the girl. Bach was identitled by police a one of a gang of youths who made a practice of annoying couples in secluded parts of the park.

Investigators stated he related that he had sneaked up behind Miss McCloskey and a friend, Dennis Boyle, 30, as they sat on a bench at night, struck Boyle with a heavy stone, stunned the girl with the handle of a heavy hunting knife and as she lay unconscious cut her throat. cashier. "And hardly was the pinochle game over, which I lost, having my mind too much on this talk, when a boy brings in papers with the fight across the front, and Baer wins! "So I paid him forty and told the cashier I would be around tomorrow and I put on a good smile and said this was what life was, and he said it was Just that most of the time. "So I went home and told a word of it to nobody, not even my wife, but the next night she says to me, 'What a smart man is your partner! While you was losing nickels at pinochle Mrs. Kelly says he listened to the fight early over her new radio and went out to make some bets while there was plenty "Now I ask you! Hein?" Willie put a consoling arm around his shoulder.

"But wait till I tell you," he began (To be continued.) (Copyright, 1933, by John Ersklne) secretary. We learned through this visit. among other things, that the now sometimes forgotten engagement or Detrothai ring antedates by 6ome centuries the wedding ring and the idea of giving a ring to mark a betrothal is not an "old Spanish custom," but an old Roman one, constituting probably a pledge that the marriage contract would be fulfilled. Iron Band in Pliny's Time In Pliny's time conservative custom still required a plain band of iron, but the gold ring was introduced in the course of the second pentury. This use of the ring, which was of purely secular origin, finally re ceived ecclesiastical sanction and the benediction of the ring came Into being in the' 11th century.

Just when and how the betrothal ring evolved into the wedding ring is not made clear in the historical data on the subject nor is it made clear when It became the custom to supplement the gift of the engagement ring with the wearing of the wedding band of gold. Gemel or glmmel rings, from the Latin gemellus, a were made with two hoops fastened together and could be worn either together or singly and were commonly used for betrothal rings in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is possible that the Idea of using one of these to signify the marriage ceremony marks the real origin of the wedding ring. Posy" rings, so called from the "poesy" or rhyme engraved on them, were especially common In the same centuries. A posy ring with the inscription "Love me and leave me not" is mentioned by Shakespeare in "The Merchant of Venice." In the 17th century rings in- scribed with words of good omen or supposed cabalistic power were largely used as wedding rings and such phrases as "Love and Obaye," "Fear God and Love Me," "No Gift Can Show the Love I Owe" and "God Above Increase Our Love," were ommon inscriptions.

Far Cry to Present Styles It is a Tar cry from the first iron bands to the wedding and engagement rings of platinum and diamonds that are now the principal product of J. R. Wood Sons but which, in a measure, are reminiscent of the duplicate hoops of gemel or gimmel rings mentioned above, for the reason that it Is now the custom for the modern bridegroom to present the bride with an engagement and wedding ring of matched design, bearing the same pattern in chasing and carving. The latest fad or fashion in wedding rings, it was explained by Mr. Hoppe yesterday, is a band of platinum containing not a single row, but two rows, of diamonds.

This ring, the design for which was patented by the company in 1932, comes in two styles, one with a double row of diamonds at the top and the other consisting of a double row encircling the entire finger. Mr. Hoppe declared it is this new type ring which is now in chief demand. The company should be in a position to know the trend of the wishes of present-day brides for the reason that out of approximately 20,000 retail Jewelers in the United States the J. R.

Wood Sons Company supplies wedding and engagement rings to some 17,000. $6.000,000 Business In peak years the volume of the company business has reached as high as $6,000,000 annually and it las employed as many as 500 employes, at least 350 of these being expert diamond setters and goldsmiths. If ordinary yellow gold has been largely superseded by white gold and later platinum, with diamonds as an addition for those who can afford them, it has not entirely passed Into the discard and this is true also of the old-fashioned wide circlet of gold, which is still insisted upon by many people in the Southwest and in Mexico. In the Western States wedding rings are still largely worn by both husband and wife, it was declared by Mr. Hoppe, though in the East one sees few wedding bands on the hands of man.

Besides wedding and engagement rings the firm also Is one of the largest dealers In loose diamonds, and there are times when the gold, platinum and diamonds In its carefully guarded vaults have a value of $2,000,000. Valuable Sweepings In the sweepings alone there is recovered annually the sum of from $10,000 to $50,000. Every particle of the dust collected in the factory is saved, crushed, powdered and dried by the refiners to whom it is sent for recovery of the precious metals it contains. The water from every drain and wash basin is similarly subjected to special filtering in order that no particle of value may be lost. When a flue was recently removed from an ancient air vent, $3,000 in gold was salvaged from the dust with which during the years it had become encrusted.

Besides the v.ngagement and wedding rings the company also manufactures a large quantity of graduation and school rings containing iM in nmtiy possible in the last three years and that last month every department of his firm showed a decided upswing in volume. The J. R. Wood Sons is a real Brooklyn industry. The founder of the firm, John R.

Wood, was born Sept 1, 1825, in the little town of Rumford, but came to Brooklyn when he was 21, finding employment in a ring-maker's shop here. This was in 1846 and four years later he had established on Atlantic Ave. the small factory of his own which was the forerunner of the large modern plant of today. Worked hv Hand This first factory, produced plain yellow gold wedding rings, and the process of manufacture consisted merely of rolling a bar of gold into sheets and cutting it into strips which were then cut Into the proper lengths, pounded into shape, beaten into circles, soldered and polished. All of the operations were pcr- ease with Its own weapons, said Dr.

Clyde Brooks of New Orleans. "Lengthening life and strengthening body vigor may bo in store for man," said Dr. Brooks. "Wo look to the future expecting great progress in non-specific protein therapy (treatment). Experiments On young puppies indicate that it is possible to stimulate growth with increase of body weight and muscular power by injecting non-specific protein at an extremely early age." By other experiments on white rats, he said, he apparently had added to their life span by the injection of non-specific protein.

Midnight Deadline For U.S. IncomeTax Midnight tonight marks the deadline for the mailing of payments of all second quarterly Federal Income tax Installments, and remittances postmarked after that hour are liable to a penalty of 1 percent a month. Brooklyn residents make their naymcnts at the Federal Building on Washington headquarters for the First District, which includes Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau and Sullolk Counties. The other three districts in New York are the second, Manhattan below 23d at the Custom House, the third which includes the remainder of Manhattan, at 250 W. 57th St.

and the fourteenth at 322 E. 149th the Bronx, which covers that borough and twenty-one up-State counties. PARENTS TO RAISE FI ND The executive board of the Parent-Teachers Association of Public School 39, Far Rockaway, discussed various ways to raise needed funds at a meeting in the home of Mrs. Joseph Ressner, president, In Garden Court, last night. During the Summer the group will formulate plans to make next season a constructive year.

,1 Longer Life Is Predicted Under 'Immunizer Doctors Abovc, left, the newest thing in wedding rings, a double row of diamonds, set in platinum. Right, present factory of the J. R. Wood Sons Co. on Atlantic Ave.

Left, the first factory of the concern, established In 1850 on the same site, and St. John Wood, son of the founder, who is now the company's president. formed by hand and the same workman carried a batch of rings throiiKh the entire manufacturing process. Ring manufacturing changed gradually, and in 1878, when Mr. Wood's eldest son, Rawson L.

Wood, father of the present vice president of the firm, became active in the business, power had been applied to the rollers for flattening the gokl and also to the lathes that turned and polished the rings. John Wood, a son of the founder, experimented extensively to pori''ct seamless wedding ring, such as virtually all wedding rings now are, but died in 1898 shortly before a successful machine for this purpose was developed. On his denth, Henry Wood, another son, since retired, assumed charge and under his direction a rlngmaklng machine was put in operation and marked the beginning of large-scale production. New Factory in 1917 A new factory was built in 1917 to make a wide variety of Jewelry In both gold and platinum. The first Rawson L.

Wood, who died in October, 1930, saw a large part of the evolution of Jewelry manufacturing in this country. St. John Wood, the present president, came into the business in 1889 and took charge of the diamond business which had just been added. A system of accurate grading was adopted and a little later came the establishment of a cutting plant. J.

R. Wood fi Son, Is thus today responsible for Brooklyn constituting ono of the nation's largest jewelry centers and in the wedding and enpacment ring field Is virtually without any single large-sized competitor. TwoWomenBurncd To Death; Firemen Rescue Brothers Use of Long Ladders Prevented by 'L' at Manhattan Tenement House Fire A fire in which an need woman and her daughter were burned to death at 218 9th Manhattan, last night, also resulted In a remarkable rescue from almost certain death of a crippled 14-year-old-boy and his older brother. The blaze broke out in the four-story tenement house on the east side of 9th a few doors north of 23d St. When Hook and Ladder Company 12 responded the firemen found the 9th Ave.

preventing the use of long extension ladders to get at the fire on the top floor. Harry Johnsen, 14, a cripple with his back in a steel brace, had crawled from his bed to an open window, and to reach him Fireman Hugh Braun crawled up a stationary scaling ladder. From the top of the ladder, he hazardously swung into the apartment window, then passed the crippled boy across to other firemen remaining on the ladder who carried him to the street below. Rescue Efforts in Vain Harry's older brothrr, Edward Johnsen, 17, who had remained by Harry's side despite the threat of being burned to death, was also handed down in the same way. The two boys told, however, that their mother and grandmother were still in the blazing building.

Braun, followed by other firemen, returned up the ladder but in vain. Mrs. Vera Johnsen, 48, and her mother, Mrs. Amelia Olsen, 76, had been burned to death. Harry Johnsen had been severely burned before he was rescued and his brother suffered slighter burns.

HEADS UNDERWRITERS Frank J. Mulligan, associate general agent of the Guardian Life Insurance Company, was elected president of the Life Underwriters' Association of the City of New York at a meeting in the offices of the Charles B. Knight Agency, 225 Broadway. which was the official timepiece used in the last Olympic Games and with which the planes of the Italian Air Armada that Is to fly the Atlantic to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition are equipped. Gen.

Italo Balbo, Italian Air and the aviators who will pilot the planes will also wear these watches. Makes Own Alloys In the manufacture of its rings the company makes its own alloys, buying only the raw gold in bars from the Assay Office. All of Its rings are of the solid metal and are sold only in wholesale lots to re- tailers, the prices for wedding rings Courts Can't Halt Post Office Wage Cut by President Claim That Executive Act Is Unconstitutional Not Sustained by Decision The Federal court is without Jurisdiction to interfere with pay reductions for Government employes put into effect either by Legislative enactment or Presidential order, Judge Mortimer W. Byers held in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday. The court's opinion, which is expected to forestall similar suits contemplated by postal employes in various parts of the country, was rendered in dismissing a suit Instituted against John A.

T. Car-rougher, acting postmaster of Brooklyn, by Bathan Anchanitzky, a substitute letter carrier, at Substation The plaintiff, who has been admitted to the Bar, sought a writ of mandamus to compel the acting postmaster to pay to him his "full salary" of $30.84 for services the first half of the month of April. He refused to accept from the acting postmaster a check for $26.04 which was tendered to him, the payment taking Into account a 6V4 percent reduction In the pay of postal workers put into effect in an executive order issued by President Roosevelt on March 23, 1933. He contended that the act of the President was unconstitutional N. Y.

CHAMP IN BOUT Tommy de Stefano, former heavyweight champion of the National Guard, and Pietro Corri will be the main boxing attraction at the Fort Hamilton Arena tonight. The six-round semifinal will bring Joe Barra against Augie Vaglica. Nat Suess will face Frankle Albano and Caspar La Rose will clash with Paul La Grasse In six. Other bouts will be: Leonard Ncblett vs. Carl Lack-ner, Scotty Somervllle vs.

Jimmy Brakeflcld and Frank Gregory vsfl Soldier Dorr. Teacher Admits Talking When Told By Ryan to Stop Mrs. William Burroughs, Queens Negro teacher who has been suspended from Public School48, South and 159th Jamaica, on charges of creating a disorder at a meeting of the Board of Education on May 24, admitted yesterday she had continued talking after President George J. Ryan told her to sit down. She continued, she said, because she believed it her right as a citizen and teacher "to speak on this matter." The disorder started when the board considered the recommendation of the Board of Superintendents to dismiss Isadore Blumberg.

probationary Bronx teacher, who was allegedly unable to maintain discipline in his classrooms. Roosevelts Deny Kidnap Threat Boston, June 14 UP) The Post says threats to kidnap 14-month-old Sara Delano Roosevelt were revealed today, but a secretary of President Roosevelt, the child's grandfather, said later there was "no truth" to such a report, and James Roosevelt, the child's father, also flatly denied any threats had been received. Rye Beach, N. June 15 VP) The family of James Roosevelt, son of the President, was staying at the home of relatives today as the result of a fire which forced them to move from their Summer place. Assures Completion Of Brighton School The Brighton Beach Parent-Teacher-Student Committee has received assurance of Superintendent of Schools Dr.

William J. O'Shea that plans for the addition to Public School 225 were 57 percent completed and that there would be no unnecessary delay. Milwaukee, June 15 The physician of the future will be an "immunizer" treating the sick largely by injections of foreign materials that will call out all of the body's defense forces against disease, the American Medical Association was told today. "At present we are Just at the dawn of a new era" In treating illness with Injections of substances that are not specific remedies for the disease the patient has, but stimulate the body, to fight the dis Move to Restore Austria-Hungary Prince Sixtus of Parma has arrived at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, as confidential agent of the French Government in connection with the purported attempt to restore the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy, according to private cable messages received in New York today. His mission Is, to win over King Alexander to a solution of the Croatian question In such a manner as to make possible the dual monarchy restoration, the Associated Press reported.

The source of this information is close to Archduke Otto of Haps-burg, claimant to the thrones of both Austria and Hungary. 1 Sixtus, according to the cable information, has been charged with assuring Alexander that Italy fully supports France in the maneuver and that Czechoslovakia also favors restoration of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as the best means of preventing any plan by Chancellor Hitler of Germany for a union of Austria and Germany. Upon the success of the Sixtus mission, it was said, depends the fate of the youthful It was pointed out that Hungary still is a monarchy under a regency..