THE DAILY ARGUS, MOUNT VERNON, N. Y„ MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1941 it T liiiii

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'eacher Union To Surrender Member Rolls

Board Probing Subver­sive Activities To Get List Over Local's Protest

NEW YORK. (AP)—With a war­rant out for the arrest of its pres­ident, the New York Teachers union has announced its willingness to comply with a Court of Appeals ruling and turn over "its member­ship list to a Joint Legislative Com­mittee investigating subversive ac­tivities In the City's schools.

The executive board of the union's Local 5 last night telegraphed the committee that it had empowered Union President Charles J. Hendley to yield its membership list. Hend­ley previously had refused to com­ply with the court order and as yet has not been served with a warrant of arrest as a result.

State Senator Frederic R. Cou-dert, Jr., vice-chairman of the com­mittee, declared that if Hendley surrendered the list the committee "will move for cancellation of the warrant of arrest."

"We have no desire to persecute him," he said.

The union, in announcing its de­cision, pointed out it had employed every legal means to protect its membership list.

"It has recognized," the telegram said, "that the Coudert committee's demand for its list constitutes a dangerous precedent to the whole labor movement. It has sought to protect its own members from un­warranted discrimination, reprisals or publicity which might result from surrender of lists."

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CouderteJBarton Mentioned For Simpson's Post

Lehman To Call Special Election To Replace NewYorkRepresentative

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(above) of New York will be held tomorrow with Interment at Hudson. Simpson died Saturday of a heart attack. He was forty-five years old.

NEW YORK, (AP)—State Sena­tor Frederic R. Coudert. Jr., and former Representative Bruce Bar­ton were mentioned today as prob­able Republican choices for the Congressional vacany caused by the death Saturday night of Representa- I tlve Kenneth F. Simpson.

Simpson, forty-five, died of a heart attack at his home after serv­ing just 20 days in the 77th Con­gress from Manhattan's 17th "silk stocking" District—an office held by Barton until the latter's recent un­successful bid for the Senate.

Chief accomplishment of Simp­son in his brief tenure in his first elective office was the Introduction In the House of a substitute for President Roosevelt's "lease-lend" bill for aid to Britain.

Leader for six years of the New York County Republican Commit­tee, Simpson's political career spanned 24 years In which he gained national recognition as a stormy but effective partisan.

He helped swing the 1940 Repub­lican Presidential nomination to Wendell L. Willkie and in 1937 aided Thomas E. Dewey in becoming New York's District Attorney.

In later factional battles with the Dewey forces, Simpson lost his place on the Republican National Committee, and recently resigned his chairmanship of the County Committee in another lntra-party squabble.

Y.M.H.A. To Hear School Officials

School Superintendent William H. Martin and three members of his staff will discuss the Mount Vernon school system and the needs of democracy at the Young Men's Hewbrew Association tonight.

The session will start at 8:30 P. M., and the public is invited. The speakers will include Assistant Superintendent Catherine I. Rhodes, Miss I. B. Rogers, supervisor of ele­mentary schools, and R. L. Bartlett, head of social studies in the system.

County Rejects U. S. $530,000 Airport Grant

Supervisors Budget Committee Reports Amount Is Inadequate

Obituary News Of City, Vicinity Miss Marie A. Hufeland

Miss Marie Augusta Hufeland, fifty-five, a teacher in Roosevelt High School, New York City, for a number of years, and life-long resi­dent of Mount Vernon, died yester­day at Mount Vernon Hospital fol­lowing a short illness. .

Miss Hufeland was a graduate of Barnard College, Class of 1908, and was a member of the First Baptist Church. She was born in Mount Vernon, a daughter of the late Otto Hufeland, noted historian of Mount Vernon and Westchester County, who died, recently! and the late Minna Trede Hufeland. ,

A sister, Miss. Eleanor Hufeland of this city, survives.

Funeral services will be conducted at her home, 121 North High Street, tomorrow at 2 P. M. by the Rev. Dr. Elmer A. .Love, pastor of the First

. Baptist"" Church. Buriat will be in IKensico Cemetery.^

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James H. Spencer James Henry Spencer, Spanish-

American War veteran, of 105-18 89th Street, Ozone Park, L. I., died Saturday at the Kings County Hos­pital after a short illness. His wife, the former Annie Gould, who sur vives him, was formerly a resident of Mount Vernon.

Mr. Spencer was born in New York City, son of Mr. and Mrs James Henry Spencer. He was a boat captain for Burns Brothers, New York coal dealers.

Funeral services will be conduct­ed at the Burr Davis Mortuary here tomorrow at 2 P. M., by the Rev. A. Tennyson Phillips, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. In­terment will be in Kensico Ceme­tery.

Joseph H. Steves NEW ROCHELLE—Joseph Hor-

ton Steves, sixty-eight, of 55 Maple Avenue, this city, died at his home Saturday after a long illness. He was a brother of Mrs. Jennie Hel wig of 22 South Fourth Avenue, Mount Vernon. Another survivor is a brother, W. E. Steves, a former postmaster of this city.

Mr. Steves was a lifelong resident of New Rochelle and was affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men.

Funeral services will be held to­morrow at 3:30 P.M.at the George T. Davis Memorial, 14 Le Count Place. Interment will be in Beech-woods Cemetery here.

Mr. Steves was a retired Railway Express messenger.

Mrs. John Russell Emma Russell, wife of John Rus­

sell of 114 East Fifth Street, died yesterday at her home following a short illness.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at l;4S PTM. at the Burr Davis Mortuary, with the Rev. William C. J. Weidt, pastor of the

Death Notices HOWEB—At New Rochelle, N. Y„ on

January 26, 1941. Lillian E., beloved mother of Ruth Arderser of 8 Circuit Ronri, New Rochelle. IntermeM, Dubuque, Iowa. Reposing at JerflR Funeral Home. rt|

HUFELAND—On January 3«, 1941, Marie A., beloved daughter of the late Otto and Minna Hufeland and sister of Eleanor Hufeland. Funeral from her residence, 121 North High Street, Tues­day afternoon, 2 o'clock. Directed by

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RUSSELL—On January 28, 1941, Emma Spannknebel, beloved wife of John Rus­sell and mother of John H, at her residence, 114 East Fifth Street. Fu­neral services from the Burr Davis Mbrtuary, 15 Fourth Avenue, Wednes­day, 1:48 P. M. Interment at Kensico Cemetery.

In Memoriam WALLENTSnC, JOSEPH P.—In loving

memory of our son and brother, who de­parted this life January 27, 1933.

We who loved you sadly miss you. As it dawns another year;

In the lonely hours of dreaming, Thoughts of you are ever near.

Time may heal a heart that's broken. Time may make the wound less sore,

But time will never stop the longing, For you dear, gone before.

Father, Mother, Brothers and Sister.

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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, officiating. Burial will be in Kensico Cemetery.

Mrs. Russell was a native of Mount Vernon, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Schoen Spannknebel, and was a life-long resident here. She r as a member of the Good Shepherd Church.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by a son, John H. Rus­sell; three brothers, George and Henry Spannknebel of Mount Ver­non, and Carl, of Cos Cob, Conn., and three sisters, Mrs. Henry Ram-horst, Mrs. John Widman and Miss Minnie Spannknebel.

Patrick J. White TUCKAHOE—Patrick J. White,

Justice of the Peace in East-chester in 1899, died yesterday at his home, 22 Highland Avenue, after a long illness. He was seventy-five.

Mr. White, who had lived in Tuckahoe since childhood, was a charter member of John A. Keogh Council, Knights of Columbus, and served as ts trustee from its founding In 1920 until 1926. He was one of the founders of the Waverly Engine Company of the Eastchester Fire Department, and was an ex­empt member of the Company. He was also a charter member of Mount Vernon Council, K. of C.

Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Kelly; two daughters, Ann and Katherine; seven sons, Robert, Assistant Chief of the Eastchester F i r e Department; Christopher, Thomas, William and Joseph, all of Eastchester, and John of Los Angeles, and Erancis of Washing­ton. He also leaves two sisters, the Misses Sarah and Margaret White, both in New Jersey, and two grand­children.

A requiem mass will be said at the Immaculate Conception Church Wednesday at 10 A. M. Burial will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery. The body reposes at the home.

Mrs. Saverio Vasila TUCKAHOE—Emilia Vasila, sev-

e/ity-four, of 40 Morgan Street, widow of Saverio Vasila, died Sat­urday afternoon at Lawrence Hos­pital, Bronxville, after an illness of one week.

Born in Italy, Mrs. Vasila came to this country 50 years ago, and after living ten years in Mount Vernon, came here. She was a member of the- Church of the As­sumption and a member of- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Sodality.

Two daughters, Mrs. Mary Cap-parelll of Tuckahoe, and Mrs.

WHITE PLAINS —On the claim that the $550,000 allocated to West­chester by the Federal Government for a county airport "is adequate to complete hardly more than an emergency landing field," the budget committee of the Board of Super­visors today rejected the offer from Washington.

After considering three sites, one in Valhalla above Kensico Reser­voir, one near Rye Lake, and an­other near Ardsley in Greenburgh, the committee reported this after­noon to the board:

"The lowest construction cost of any of the sites under considera­tion is approximately $1,500,000 ex­clusive of the cost of hangars, land and highway and access costs. No Assurance Of Farther Aid

"The representative of the Civil Aeronautics Authority indicated that additional appropriations were ex­pected from Congress from time to time, but up to the present no assurance has been offered that the full cost of the construction would be forthcoming. While there was some indication of an interest in a proposed airport for commercial operation, no such venture would be practicable until the field was en­tirely completed."

Debate Club Members Back ParkmgMeters

Two Aldermen Present Viewpoints on Devices To Saturday Nighters

After listening Saturday night to both sides of the parking meter issue, presented by Aldermen Wil­liam N. Altaian and John K. Miller, a majority of Saturday Night Club members approved the devices "be-

ic^use, they ease traffic congestion in the Important business section."

Although no vote was taken after the panel discussion on "Are Park­ing Meters a Benefit to the Com­munity?" at the clubrooms, 310 Garden Avenue, the consensus among members was in favor of the meters.

Alderman Allman, sponsor of leg­islation which provided a six-month trial of the devices, told the club that the meters are worth­while because they regulate traffic, eliminate "frozen parking," reduce traffic violations, eliminate the all-day parking hog and cruising, and do a better Job of enforcing traffic rules than the police.

Revenue during a year from the meters is expected to amount to $50,000, Mr. Allman added, point­ing out that $6,000 has been col­lected already.

Mr. Miller, one of the two Alder­men whojought installation of the devices, said the meters were put in without the consent of the peo­ple and predicted that a general referendum would see them de­feated. ,-

He said he* had received many complaints that the meters drive business away from Mount Ver­non.

Following the talks by the Al­dermen. George Thompson conduct­ed a question and answer period. R. E. Hart, current events speaker, discussed pinballs, the resignation of Supreme Court Justice James C. McReynolds and the defense program.

28 Families Routed By Fire In Fleetwood Area Of Yonkers

Two-Alarm Blaze Does Considerable Damage To Apartment House—Assistant Chief Hurt

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YONKERS —Twenty-eight fami­lies were driven from their homes in this morning's snowstorm when a two-alarm fire broke out in one of the units of the Fleetwood HUls Apartments at 824 Bronx River Road. * * * •

Firemen and police aided the tenants to safety through smoke-filled hallways and down ladders, quickly raised in front of the seven-story building, c ' ••; ,v'

The'fire, of a cause as yt unde­termined, damaged the roof, al­though water seeped through to apartments below. Roared Up Dumbwaiter

Tenants reported the blaze started in the basement and roared up the "B" dumbwaiter shaft, bursting in apartments listed as 1-B, 2-B, 3-B, 4-B, 5-B and 6-B. i

The apartment of John A. Ed­wards on the sixth floor was said to be burned out as was that of Wil­liam W. Knight on the first floor.

Fire officials early this afternoon

Brown Asks Trial Data

Will Claim Le Boyer Child Is Not His

Musicale Staged By Club Members

A quartet, composed of Ethel Johnson, Gladys Wallace, Hugo Stamm and Herbert Holden, was a feature of the service last night at the First Presbyterian Church. The musicale was sponsored by the Co­ed Club of the church. Hilda Ben­nett presided at the piano.

The service was held under the supervision of William A. Morrison, director of religious education, with William Ross and Albert Keegan leading. Plans were made for next Sunday's supper meeting by a com­mittee composed of Margaret Kelley, Mary Bennett, Mr. Ross and Jo­seph Lawlor.

Next Sunday will be marked by the first rehearsal of the Co-ed Choir, led by Mr. Morrison and accompanied by Mrs. Bennett.

Bound For Service, Employe Is Feted

Harold Lang of 3925 Mulvey Ave­nue, the Bronx, was guest of honor at a dinner party given by Armour and Company of Mount Vernon at 244 North Terrace Avenue Saturday night.

Fifty-seven persons were present and Mr. Lang received a signet ring from his colleagues. Mr. Lang will depart for a year's military training Wednesday. Hr is the first employe of the company's Mount Vernon branch to be called for duty.

Angelina Fagnanni of Croton, and a son, Anthony of Tuckahoe, sur­vive. Mrs. Vasila also leaves 22 grandchildren and four great grand­children.

Funeral services will be held to­morrow at 10 A. M., when a solemn high Mass of Requiem will be sung at the Church of the Assumption. Interment will be in the family plot in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, New Rochelle, The body is at the Westchester Funeral Home, 310 White Plains Post Road, this vil­lage.

Title Seareher Dies Suddenly Of Heart Attack In Drug Store

Victim, Edward Lang, Was Former Head Of White Plains Firm's Law Department

Youths Boost Paralysis Fund

70 Attend League Dance at Temple Emanu-El

Seventy boys and girls of high school age helped combat infantile paralysis by attending a "March of Dimes" ball sponsored by the Tem­ple Emanu-El Youth League at the temple Saturday. A total of $8 was raised.

Norman Redlich, president of the group, was in charge. Refreshments were served under direction of Frances Solomon. Assisting her were Selma Levine, Howard Rscher and Eila Fiering. Dance music was sup­plied by a nlckelodion.

Robert Newbergh was in charge of entertainment. Working with him were Edwin Meyrowitz and Ira Quint. Decorations were red, white and blue. Marjory Horn was chair­man of this committee, assisted by Seymour Reiner, Larry Newman and Stanley Bard.

On the reception committee were Barbara Feldman, chairman, assist­ed by Arthur Lohman and Henry Fox. Lester Rabbino, adult advisor of the group, was master of cere­monies.

Testimonial Given Insurance Veteran

A testimonial dinner in recogni­tion of his 30 years' association with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was tendered Henry Man-ker of 128 South Terrace Avenue yesterday at the Backstage Res­taurant, Stevens, Avenue and Wil­son Place.

Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Koch, Miss Helene Pisordi, Carl Briggs, Carl Arena, Miss Vera McNamara, Ettore Bi-sordi and Ernest Moritz.

Edward Lang of 1133 Findlay Avenue, the Bronx, an independent title searcher and former head of the legal department of the New York Title and Mortgage Company in White Plains, died at 11:55 A. M. Saturday of a heart attack in a pharmacy at Gram a tan and Pros­pect Avenues.

Mr. Lang who had. been ill for two weeks, had just visited the law offices of Toomey, Edwards and Connelly, 10 Flake Place. He walked into the pharmacy at 11:40 A. M., and complained of a pain in his chest, when he was stricken.

Dr. Charles Wise of the Mount, Vernon Hospital staff pronounced him dead of a heart attack. Later, Dr. Theodore A. Jost, City Health Commissioner, gave police permis­sion to remove the body to Bun-Davis Mortuary. Mrs. Lang was notified by Detective Eugene Brad­ford, Sr.

Mr. Lang was born in New York I City, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lang. He resided HI White Plains

many years and was a member of White Plains Lodge, Free and Ac­cepted Masons.

Surviving are his widow, Elsie Lang, and two daughters, Mathiel and Theresa.

Funeral services were held today at 11:30 A. M. at the Park West Me­morial Chapel, 79th Street and Co­lumbus Avenue, Manhattan, with interment in Union Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn.

TWO CARS DAMAGED An auto operated by Frank Tin-

trup, 342 Tecumseh A v e n u e , col­lided with the rear of a car driven by Camio Zabatta, 231 North Mac-Questen Parkway, at 4:04 P. M.Sat­urday at Rich and East Sidney Avenues. No one was injured, but both cars were damaged.

WHITE PLAINS — Intimations that Isaac Brown will defend him­self on attempted murder and as­sault charges by claiming that he is not the father of Mathilda La Boyer's unborn child and that stab wounds on her neck were self in­flicted were received in County Court today as his attorney, Tobias Keppler, argued a motion for a bill of particulars in connection with the pending trial.

Mr. Keppler asked the court to order the District Attorney's office to give him a statement of the time and place of alleged intimacies be­tween Brown and the Le Boyer girl, and as to the alleged method of transportation from New York City to the parking lot at the Mount Vernon public school, where the at­tack by Brown is charged to have taken place last Dec. 19.

Furthermore, Mr. Keppler seeks to have the trial of the case post­poned until after the birth of the child, so that "serological tests" of the child's blood may be made. He stated that such a test "would prove the charge fictitious." Mr. Keppler also asked for an examina­tion of Miss Le Boyer's neck wounds, stating that a physician could determine whether or no© they were self-inflicted.

Distript Attorney Elbert. T . Gal­lagher, stating that he had made some of the exhibits, including the rope and wire with which she is alleged to have been bound, and a section of bloody-stained sheeting, available to Mr. Keppler.

He termed the motion a "feeler" and said that the defense "seeks to pry into our case."

Jewish Alliance Has Dinner Dance

An annual dinner dance was held by Branch 302 of the Jewish Na­tional Workers' Alliance last night at the Hotel Siwanoy, with more than 200 attending.

Nathan Nebrasky was toastmaster, and Nathan Okun was chairman of arrangements. Joining in the danc­ing after dinner were members of the Young Folks' League of the group.

COT BY BROKEN GLASS William Scullen, twenty-two, 15-17

Park Avenue, was treated at 3:03 A. M. today at Mount Vernon Hos­pital for cuts of the right ankle requiring three stitches. Scullen said he was cut when he stepped on a broken milk bottle in front of his house.

had not estimated damage, although they said it was "considerable. Several Injured

Assistant Fire Chief Edward H. Siller was cut on the hand* while fighting the blaze. Dr. William H. Gaul, department surgeon, treated him at the scene.

Several other firemen also were treated for minor cuts by Dr. OauL

Firemen from nine companies, directed by Chief Daniel Carnegie and Assistant Chiefs Siller, and William C. Garvin, fought the blaze.

Woman's Death Ruled Suicide

Squire Gives Verdict In Sedative Overdose

Miss Alice Furman, forty, who found dead from an overaoee of a sedative Friday in a garage 'at the rear of her home at 8 Willard Ave­nue, committeed suicide while men­tally disturbed, Medical Examiner Amos O. Squire said today.

Miss Furman, who was suffering from a disease she believed Incur­able, wrote several notes a few weeks ago, indicating she was going to take her life, Dr. Squire said.

Miss Furman, daughter of M. Louis Furman, taught until recent­ly at Public School 152, Manhattan. Born in Passaic, N. J., she was a graduate of the New Jersey Normal School.

In addition to her father and a brother, Abraham L. Furman, with whom she lived, she is survived by two other brothers, Lee Furman, New York publisher, and Edward Furman.

Funeral services were held yes­terday at 1 P. M. at the Riverside Memorial Chapel, 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan. Burial, was in Washington Ceme­tery.

PAY WAIVERS WITHHELD YONKERS—The 15 percent "vol­

untary" salary contribution waiver situation remained unchanged to­day as City employes, including police, firemen and teachers with­held their waivers pending action by the Common Council.

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