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M2 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932 BARES GUILT VICTIM AND SCENE OF MYSTERY BLAZE Rent Lien Bars On Walker's $485 Levy Hotel Furniture Hoboes Hunted In Search for Levy's Killers New Theory Js Broker Sought to Oust Derelicts From His Garage $10,000 Gems Found in Room, Suspect Seized Police Says He Admits 2 Jewel Shop Breaks Part of Loot to Girls PX-: i 11 fi fj) if' i ti Amy Johnson Mollison Safely Jewelry valued at about $10 000, allegedly stolen from two Brooklyn stores, is held by the police to day with 61 pawn tickets for other jewelry. He is said to have admitted stealing the jewelry. The Jewelry and pawn tickets were found in a furnished room at 134 Remsen which, for two weeks has been occupied by a man, who described himself as Philip Greenspan, 24, and who sild he was a radio engineer, a poet and scenario writer. Greenspan waived examination before Magistrate Sabbatino in Adams Street Court on a charge of burglary. He was held In $10,000 bail for the grand Jury.

Confesses Theft The police said the prisoner told them he took $2,500 worth of jewel ry from the store of Albert Gross, 828 Broadway, Oct. 18, and again en tered this store early Monday and took jewelry valued at $1,000. On Sunday night, a few hours preceding the second Gross burglary, the prisoner, according to his alleged admissions, entered the August Volk Jewelry store, 1255 Broadway, and carried away $2,500 worth of jewelry. In each of these alleged burglaries Greenspan forced entrance to the stores through rear windows, he is said to have told the police. He is said to have admitted several minor burglaries.

The prisoner, who has a wife and two children living at 200 Tapscott also is said to have told the police that he had been giving stolen jewelry to seven girls. The gifts to the girls were small, however, and the bulk of the jewelry was found in the prisoner's room. Trapped by Girl Greenspan was arrested by Detectives William Kenna, William Neu-bauer and William Bachschmidt. They had gone to the house at 134 Remsen St. to investigate a report made to the police by Rebecca Estel, another roomer in the house, that someone had forced entrance to her room and opened a trunk.

Suspiciou pointed to Greenspan, and the detectives went to his room. tound the Jewelry and the pawn tickets; and arrested him. The pawn tickets show that articles valued at $5,000 had been pledged. Reich Restores Men to Jobs By Bonus Plan Continued from Page 1 daughter, Mary Dunn, were In Berlin, so I phoned in great excitement to see if they were safe. My wife had not even known about martial law, so quietly had the thing been done! "On July 131 will never forget that day all banks closed.

You couldn't get a nickel, even with travelers' checks. After three days pach dcDositor was allowed. I think. 25 marks and a week later 100 marks. There was at no time any line at the banks or any excitement.

And no depositor lost anything. No Change in Sight As for politics. Mr. Pohl expressed the belief that the present party in control of Germany would remain in power for some time. Restoration of the monarchy would only become possible on the death of President Von Hindenburg, he said.

"There is no successor in sleht for Hindenburg," said Mr. Pohl. "The oldest son of the Crown Prince Is mast spoken of as a possible emperor in the event of a restoration. Personally, I think such a possibility is remote, but if it develops. It will be In an orderly manner." The Hitlerites now have most of the young people, though they have lost some of their following recently to the Communists, he said.

Improvement In Industry will wipe out both Hilterltes and Communists as important factors, Air. Pohl ventured, and pointed to a slight loosening of bank credit In Germany and the prompt payment to that country of many millions loaned to Russia three year ago as indications that improvement in business is coming. Before sailing for Germany last February, Mr. Pohl said he sold his home at Ditmas Ave. and E.

19th St. He Is now living temporarily at 164 Oxford Boulevard, Garden City. LET CINDER CONTRACT Hempstead. Nov. 16 A contract for the supplying of 2.000 cubic RtrP8m bV Hempstead Stream by the Hempstead Town Bcrd yesterday.

The cinders will be delivered to the park for 74 cents a cubic yard. Society Woman, that $500 had been paid on the decorating bill. Mr. Walker gave up his apartment in the Mayfair House at the time he sailed to Europe, about two months ago, and maved to the Ambassador on his return a little over a month ago. He did not give up that apartment when he sailed again last week, and his personal belongings were automatically levied on for rent for the future.

Pamper YOUR DOLLARS DOLLARS deposited in this bank are pampcivd dollars. They don't know -what it means to be handled or invested carelessly. They repay this attention by earning for you 3'j compounded quarterly from day of deposit. Also you may withdraw all of them (plus the interest earned) or any part of them whenever you ask. It takes but a few minutes to open an account here; Rtiotmts tier $196,000,000 Proiprroui tret 7 yean THE DIME SAVINGS BANK OF BROOKLYN Dekalb Are.

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Prlnir frpev ofn with Mink lail-i ana- I collar and rulia 283 Livingston St While former Mayor James J. Walker was on the high seas, bound, according to report, for India and later a new home in Paris, a deputy sheriff late yesterday afternoon descended on the Ambassador Hotel, Manhattan, in an effort to levy on the ex-Mayor's four-room hotel suite in a Judgment for $485. obtained by a decorating firm. The deputy, Joseph A. Lanman.

was defeated in his purpose, however, when the hotel management notified him that Walker's effects in his suite were automatically tird up by a lien for rent and other hotel charges. Deputy Sheriff Lanman left a notice of the levy, ana it was said that other efforts to levy on the ex-Mayor's property would be made. The decorator's claim was assigned to J. P. Daly.

It was learned Football Ticket Muddle Settled Difficulties between Seth Low Junior Collie and Columbia Coi- lege over the obtaining of free football tickets by Seth Low students i were reported straichtcned out today by Robert F. Moore, assistant to the director of athletics at Co- lumbia. Bills for tickets to which the Seth Low students were not entitled will be sent to the students and not to the college, as originally 1 announced. Brooklyn students were reported to have obtained these tickets, to which they were not entitled. Says Canada Seeks A Slice of Maine Toronto.

Nov. 16 (A) An Ottawa dispatch to the Mail and Empire said today some Members of Parliament were digging into the Ashbur-ton treaty seeking a basis for a demand that the United States turn over a slice of Maine to Canada as a condition to ratification of the St Lawrence Waterways treaty. 58 Dead7300 Missing-In Wave of Typhoon Tokio, Nov. 16 Crippled communication lines brought in reports today that Monday's typhoon dead were known to number 58, and that 250 to 300 more were missing and feared lost at sea. SPECTACULAR COD 15 Hanover PI Was Benjamin Levy, prominent real estate and insurance broker, bludgeoned to death Sunday by a homeless derelict he surprised in his dessrted garage at 346 Maujer St.

This possibility was given considerable credence today as detectives of the homicide squad, after 48-hour investigation of the slaying, were unable to definitely establish the motive for the murder as either revenge or robbery. Basis of the Theory Several known factors seem to bear out this theory: First, the garage, a converted stable, Is located in one- of the most desolate and deserted sections of Williahmsburg. It'is on the southeast corner of Maujer St. and Morgan Ave. and faces the coalyards of the Brooklyn Union Coal Company.

Newtown Creek, with its coal and grain barges, is only 100 yards away. In the rear of the garage about SO feet is partitioned off where 40 horse stalls remain. Moldering hay lies about. All of the window panes are broken and entrance is barred only by flimsy boards easily broken. For the last year the property has suffered from vandals, who have used it as a "jungle" to cook their "mulligans" and guzzle their "smoke." Known for His Temper Levy was known to have had a fiery temper.

On several occasions he had threatened interlopers with physical punishment or arrest. The autopsy revealed that the broker's right hand was broken and the knuckles heavily abraised. It Js possible that these injuries were received as he attempted to guard his head, from the blows that crushed his skull, but they also might have been received in striking his attacker. Detectives under Capt. Ray Ho-nan of the Homicide Bureau and officers from the Stagg St.

station today began rounding up and questioning every homeless man they could locate in this section. But the police have not relaxed their search for the man last seen with Levy departing from the Brooklyn Elks Club at 10 a.m. Sunday. One polec theiry Is this man lured the broker to the garage and there killed him, but the reason for this attack has not been explained. Here, again, the police say, the quick temper of the dead man may have started a fatal argument.

Suspect Released A man was picked up early this morning and questioned for three hours at the Stagg St. station on the possibility he was the one last seen with Levy. Several employes of the Elks Club confronted this man but all were positive they had never seen him. He was released. Robbery, mistaken identity, woman, all are being considered, but no evidence has been unearthed so far which would substantiate any of these motives as having prompted the ruthless bludgeoning of a man who was not known to have a single enemy, a secret affair of the heart or had ever been involved in a case which would incur the anger of the underworld.

May Be More Than One There is evidence also to Indicate that more than one person took part in the murder, for Levy, while In his 59th year was a big, strapping man, over six feet tall and weighed over 250 pounds. The man with whom he was last seen has been described as being about five feet seven inches tall and weighing not more than 150 pounds. It is considered doubtful Dy tne police that this man would attempt to attack the broker single handed. The last person known to have neen Levy alive with the stranger is William balton, an undertaker and fellow member of the local Elks Lodge on Livingston St. A few minutes before 10 o'clock last Sunday morning Dalton, on entering the clubhouse, passed Levy and this companion on their way out.

He nodded to Levy and gave his companion only a cursory glance. In describing this companion of Levy's to The Eagle yesterday, Mr. Dalton said he was in his early thirties, about five feet seven inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds, wore a dark overcoat and dark soft hat of good quality. "Did he look like a person who might be a purchaser of a large garage site in such a section In Williamsburg?" Mr. Dalton was asked.

"Most emphatically not. I can't say exactly why I reach this conclusion but he had all the earmarks of a man who lived by his wits, 'there was nothing about him to Indicate that he was a garage man or a real estate broker. He lookrd too sharp and nervous." Visit Rogue Gallery Dalton was taken to police headquarters late yesterday and shown photographs in the Rogues Gallery but was Unable to pick out any picture which resembled the man he saw with Mr. Levy. The next known Inquiry for Levy cime at the Elks Club, where the dead man had resided for the last two years, shortly after five o'clock from an unidentified woman.

She asked if he was on his way to keep an appointment with her. She was told that he was not about the premises. The police questioned persons who were In the neighborhood of the scene of the crime when It was committed. That there was no outcry by Levy before he was struck is proved by the fact that Mrs. Louisa Henry, who lives lust back of the garage at 342 Mauler or her two small terriers heard no disturbance at anyi time Sunday.

Although $2S In rash and a watch and chain were found Intact when the body was discovered the police tive not entirely discarded robbery Phillips Greenspan as he appeared In court today. See U. S. Insist On Some Debt Pay on Bee. 15 Continued from Page 1 the debts.

He said: "The people owing us are paying many times for armaments what they are required to pay us." Later the Pennsylvania Senator visitei Europe, and on his return said he felt that most of the countries owing the United States were "better able to pay than we are to cancel." England, France and Belgium stood side by side today, eagerly awaiting the outcome of White House conferences on this nation's answer to separate but similar requests for a reopening of the com-ulex debt problem. Belgium has joined the lead of her two fellow-debtors in seeking an extension of the Hoover moratorium and re-examination of the huge war obligations held by the United States. Her brief note, making "the same request" coincided with indications the administration believes this government should adopt an attitude more rigid than that of granting of extensions. Apparently it was felt that soms debtor nations were well able to pay their share, of th due Dec. 15.

Belgium Owes Million Belgium, which has paid of a debt funded at and owes $2,125,000 in December, referred In her note to the British and French requests, recalled that she adhered to the moratorium and later, "in the interests of peace and economic recovery," to the Lausanne agreements. The note added: "In so doing. It consented to make sacrifices which were particularly heavy and which have profoundly affected the financial situation of Belgium. The Belgium government remains convinced that the difficulties with which Ue world is faced today cannot be overcome unless the nations pursue a resolute policy of co-operation and mutual assistance." The President, It was reported in high quarters of his administration, believes that declaration of another year moratorium such as he once sponsored would not provide the answer to the debt situation. Representative Parks Ark.) today told newspapermen that any attempt to have this or the next Congress extend the Hoover moratorium or revise the war debts will meet in failure." Parks spoke against the Hoover moratorium in- the House last December, saying It would be an opening wedsse for the European debtors for cancellation.

Representative Rainey, Democratic floor leader of the House, held a similar view. Rainey said he saw "no reason why the United States Govenment i should give the foreign debtors any more money." In Mississippi. Sen- i ator Harrison, prominent Demo- crat, predicted Congress would not i "modify" its expressed position apainst further reduction or can- collation. Sentors Swanson. Virginia, and Fletcher.

Florida, were two other Democrats joining in this view. Report Italian Move Rome. Nov. 16 UP) Rumors that Italy was preparing a debt postponement request to the United States today elicited a femi-offlclal statement that there was "nothing to it so far." Financial sources expressed the belief that the Rome government was waiting to study the American reaction to the other request before deciding on any similar move. Gas Station Held Up In Mineola; Loot $33 Special to The Eagle Mineola, Nov.

16 Nassau County's epidemic of gasoline station holdups ontinufd today with the daylight robbery of a station operated by Charles Fttterer here. Fitterer was robbed of $33 by three men. One caried a gun. Nassau police are seeking the perpetrators of five similar robberies in county villages during the past two days. Tied in Hohlu husband and the maid.

Elizabeth Cat tin. With the victims unable to move, the burglars lighted candles and threatened to burn Mr. and Mrs. Fra.ier feet unlevs thry told where their valuables were concealed. They also threatened to burn the two children and the maid Then they were told where the Jewels lay.

Kraicr Is the srn of O. Harrison Frazier. Identified for years with the sugar Industry, and a great- grandson of George L. Harrison, founder of one of the great family fortune of America. Upper Ten-family tenement at 74-76 2d Place, where fire of suspicious origin swept two floors today.

Lower Miss Annie Cu-curillo of 78 2d Place, cut by falling glass from upper window, being attended by ambulance surgeon from Holy Family Hospital. Wales Arrives In Armed Camp Of Ulstermcn Continued from Page 1 mile range of hills overlooking Belfast Lough as the Prince's ship slipped in. Nine bombers soared overhead as the Prince landed. Sirens screametl, dock workers waved flags and cheered, and two warships boomed 21-gun salutes. The 12,000 men of the guard were further put on Ihe alert today after two disturbing incidents last evening.

One of these occurred In Falls Road, where a British Union Jack was torn down. Another was the sudden appearance of protest posters. The police went about the city, already displaying pictures of the Prince on every hand, and tore down the protesting placards. Two men were arrested. Valera Paper Attacks Visit Dublin, Nov.

16 iO President Eamon de Valera's newspaper the Irish Press, today denounced the Belfast visit of the Prince of Wales. The editorial saw the new parliament structure as a British effort to perpetuate "that gravest of all wrongs, the dismemberment of a nation." "Great Britain has paid for Stor-mont. It Is her own like act which partitioned Ireland." The nest of the barn-swallow is usually infested with a variety of bed-bugs. Each fully developed apple requires about 40 to 50 leaves for Its growth. as a possible motive for the slaying.

It is possible that the dead man had more money In another wallet and! that when this was found the assailants beat a hasty retreat with-. out further search of their victim 3 clothes. Funeral services for Levy held today. were WHERE BROKER WAS 5 16 in Hop to Cape flight from Oran in a little more than 13 hours, landing at Gao at 12:30 p.m. yesterday.

She hoped to make the 1.200 miles to the Gulf of Guinea by 6 p.m. Capt. J. A. Mollison's record for the flight Is four days, 17 hours, 19 minutes.

When Mrs. Mollison reached Dou-ala she had covered more than 4.500 miles of the distance and would be almost 24 hours ahead of Mollison's record at that point because she omitted one of his desert stops. Two Are Arrested In Theft of Supplies Charged with theft of several hundred dollars worth of supplies from the Strauss Stores Corporation at 109 Richmond Port Richmond, S. Bernard Yarus, 21, an employe, of 96 Albion Place, Port Richmond, and a friend, Edward Kaufman, 23, of 159 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, were taken into custody last night on suspicion ot grand larceny. Capital Marchers Get Police Warning Washington.

Nov. 16 (Pi If the columns planning to march on the capital persist in the face of police warnings, officials here have decided that when and where they eat and sleep is their own lockout. Another point, Superintendent E. W. Brown has Just made clear, is that truck and automobile caravans must find their own parking places, as police will not provide a rentral space for the vehicles as they did last year.

Hotelmen See Beer Too Weak for Smiles Light wines and beer may be a boon to thirsty Americans, but they will not restore prosperity to Impoverished hotelmen, delegates to the New York State Hotel Association convention were warned yesterday. Arthur L. Race, chairman of the association's committee on prohibition, speaking at the Commodore, said hard liquor alone would bring the ring of shekels In the hotel tills. SENT TO NAPANOdl MTheola, L. Nov.

16 Countv Crosses Desert Dakar, Sengal, French Africa, Nov. (Ay-Amy Johnson Mollison, Britain's daring woman flier who is trying to beat her husband's record from London to Cape Town, has successfully crossed the Great Sahara desert. She landed at Goa. on the upper Niger, yesterday and took off for Doula, on the Gulf of Guinea, when she was unreported after leaving Oran, Algeria, at midnight Monday for the dangerous desert hop. Mrs.

Mollison made the 1.400-mile GREAT NECK D. A. R. MEET Great Neck, Nov. 16 Mrs.

Oscar H. Osswalt of North Clover Drive was hostess yesterday afternoon to the membra of the North Riding Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution Mrs. Harry Hicks, regent, presided. Andre Baron played a group of violin selections and was accompanied on the piano by Adelaide Reigerand. Mrs.

Willis E. Dodge read "The Purpie Heart." Assisting Mrs. Osswalt as hostesses were Mrs. Louis A. Linz, Mrs.

Willis E. Dodge, Mrs. Lemuel Bolles, Mrs. Alfred B. Babcock and Mrs.

Charles P. Coulter. MVST PASS EXAMINATION Hempstead, Nov. 16 All petitioners for plumbers' licenses in Hempstead township hereafter will be required to submit to an examination as the result of action by the Hempstead Town Board yesterday. The action of the, board was to amend the plumbing code, striking out a portion which permitted plumbers engaged in the trade for five years or more to secure licenses without an examination.

BEATEN TO DEATH Judge Cortland A. Johnson in ln County Court ent Vincent Petrettl.l Plnt Lookout was let to Hen- nf Pmnt st drlckson Brothers. of Valley A Burns Own Bonds, Frees Tirol' fct't rwtiv rv. llnquents at Napanoth. Petrettl pleaded guilty to grand larceny In the second dgre In stealing a car owned by Nathan Israel.

Steve Klzenlck. 44. of Hlcksville. pleaded guilty to assault In the second degree and will be sentenced Dec. 1.

HEAR TALK OV BOOKS Long Beach. Nov. 16 "The Value of Books In the Home for Children" was the subject of the address made Monday night bv Miss Marlon Fiery head of the juvenile department of i G. P. Putnam Sons, as guest i speaker it the second meeting of the East School Parent-Teacher Association, held at the school.

Miss1 Fiery was formerly connected with 1 the New York Public Library and with the author. Annie Carrol Moore. The subject was chosen as appropriate to the opening of National Anual Book Week. Dr. Leo Gordon, chairman of the proxrum committee, introduced the speaker.

i I I i Philadelphia, Nov. 16 (A) Mr. and Mrs. O. Harrison Frazier so- daily prominent, and a servant were bound and gagged and threatened with torture In their Chestnut Hill home early today by two burglar who escird with $9,000 in Jewelry and cash.

For two and a half hours, they lav helpless, struggling with cloths anl i ropes Pinally Mrs. Frazier managed to crawl to an ash tray, strike a match. burn her own bonds and release her Detectives examining the spot where Benjamin Levy, prominent Brooklyn real estate and Insurance man, was found beaten to death In the rear of an old garage he owned at 346 Maujer corner' of Morgan last Monday. The police search Is centered In locating the man who Is believed to have posed as a possible purchaser of the garage Just to lure Levy to his rendezvous with death..