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THE LEADER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, t942
Mlneola Fair
To Open Tuesday
Sprogue ond Neary
To G^e Addresses;
Mahy New Exhibits
The centennial exhibition of the
Queens-Nassau Agricultural Society*
will get under way at the Mlneola
Fair Grounds Tuesday morning
and continue through the week.
President J. Alfred Valentine will
introduce Surrogate Leone D.
Howell, as master of ceremonies
at the opening exercises at 1.30
p.m. and County Executive J. Rus-
%1 Sprague will give the formal
address.
District Attorney Edward J.
Neary will deliver an .address on
behalf of the American Legion to
the soldiers of the current #ar. A
squad of fifty students from the
(J. S. Merchant Marine Academy,
U. S. Maritime Commission at
Kings Point, Lt. Com. J. F. Wilson,
will participate with a battalion
of Coast Guardsmen from White
Plains.
^ ^ One thousand carrier pigeons, be-ing
trained by members 'of the
Hempstcad Homing Pigeon Club
and the Sunrise Pigeon Club for
. the United States War and Navy
Departments, will be released dur-ing
the opening ceremony in con-nection
with a training race for
which the Agricultural Society is
alTering special cash prizes.
One of the most outstanding of
the new departments will be an
•exhibit of farm Implements and
horse drawn vehicles used through-out
Long Island during the past
century, some of them dating back
..to cojonial .days. This exhibit Is in
charge of William S. Lubeck of
Brooklyn, collector of vehicles, who
has the best collection in America
outside of any public museum.
Another innovation is the new
hobby show under the direction
of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Elinan of
the Columbia Broadcasting System
and In charge of Kenneth B. Van-dewater
and Mrs. F. Wllbert Ed-gar,
both well known Long Island
hobbyists. Another new feature
will be the wild life exhibit under
the direction or the Bureau of
Fi&iheries. New York State Conser-vation
Department. James H. Hll-dreth,
Superintendent, assisted by
. George E. Stevens of Albany, and
John L. Halpln, nlao of the' Al-bany
office of the Conservation
Department; Judge Jay T. Fox of
Seaford, and William J. O'Neill.
Stress Is being placed _pn De-fense
and Air Raid precaution; and
" the Nassau County Chapter "of the
Rear.Cross\ Mrs. Dorothy L. Taps-
_cot, executive secretary, will have
an "exhibit to., include practical
working units of. every department
conducted T)y the Red Cross for
emergency situations arising from
war conditions. This exhibit will
have a plaza of its own half an
acre in extent and adjacent to the
Nassau County War Council's elab-orate
exhibit, Colonel Edward C.
O. Thomas, director. Both the
Nassau County Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts have arranged preten-tious
outdoor exhibits exemplifying
their war activities in addition to
their customary display of peace
time activities.
Wednesday will be Queena^Bor-ough
Day with Borough President
James A. Burke delivering an ad-dress.
Thursday, Nassau County
Police Commissioner Abraham W.
Skldmore will award honors and
medals for the year at the Fair
Grounds, after the annual police
parade. Thursday evening there
will be an American square and
folk dance festival with ribbons
und prizes, and Friday will mark
the annual Nassau County public
school day. There will be rodeo
performances dally afternoon* and
evenings, and a midway carnival.
Plan Schools' Parl
In War Service
(Continued from Page 1)
patriotic drives, the need of ad-vising
older students regarding the
various branches of national serv-ice
and the. opportunities for play-.,
ing a part in the war program,
considered the .advisability of form-ing
a victory council in each
school, and referred to the part
the teaching of mathematics, citi-zenship,
English, modern languages
and* health ajnd fitness may play
in times of war.
Leo F. Glblyn, president of the
Board of Education greeted the
faculty members and a feature
was the showing of the National
Education Association film of
school activities taken in Freeport,
which is being exhibited as a trail-er
at motion picture houses
throughout the country. Represen-tatives
of the' p.T.A.'s, slvic, serv-ice
and other organizations at-tended.
Smoll Cockpits Bar
Toll Army Pilots
The cockpits of Army Air For-ces
fighter planes of the "P" group,
which Includes thp Aircobra. Ki
tyhnwk. Musttmg, the Thunderbolt
and others, arc built to accommo-date
pilots not more than Ove feet
nine Inches tall and not over 170
pounds in weight, the War De-partment
points out. It is prefer-red
that they be shorter and
lighter than the maximum.
The cockpit, which Is just large
dnough for a man the size, indi-cated
to nlovc about, utilizes every
bit of space, it contains the ne-cossaiy^
Oight instruments, controls,
both for the armament and Bight:
has armored_walls, and its' pro-
(ecteoT'bucket seat 'Is- so designed
that "it will hold the pilot, equip-ped
with his ]chute, comfortably,
If a bjt snugly.
Holding down the size of the
cockpit makes for streamlining
which, In turn, makes for greater
speed and maneuverability.
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DISCOUNT
TO
OET WOMEN OF THR
SERVICES
LONG ISLAND'S LEADING PHOTOGRAPHER
Church Street F. H* Lauppe Free port O020
Jewish New Year
Starts Tomorrow
Rosh Ho-Shonoh Ritgs
At Temple Isroel
Plonned by Robbi
Services in observance of Rosh
Ha-Sbonah, the Jewish New Year,
will open tomorrow evening at the
Temple Israel and continue thru
Sunday morning.
There will be separate services
for the conservative and orthodox
members of the congregation, 'with
Rabbi B. Leon Hurwitz in charge
of both.
Orthodox rites will be conducted
at sunset In the social hall, led
by Cantor Jacob Margolics, as-sisted
by the Rev. Mr. Berzen.
Conservative services will follow at
8:30 o'clock with Henry Goldberg.
formerly of Berlin, as visiting can-tor.
Rabbi Hurwitz will preach at
both on the topic "The Angels'
Query."
Services will be continued for
the two groups Saturday at sun-rise
and. 8:30, with "Batons Chal-tge,'
as the sermon topic. There
will be n joint gathering at 6:30
p.m.. Saturday, with separate, ser-vices
Sunday at sunrise and 8:30.
Habbi Hurwitz's theme will be "Is-iael's
Weapons."
The Rev. Mr. Goldberg, by a co-incidence
was cantor at a large
temple, in Berlin in which Mrs.
Henry A. Boyer, soloist for the ser-vices
here, was a member of the
choir. He has been in this coun-try
four years.
Rosh Ha-Shonah marks the be-ginning
of the 5,703d year of the-
Jewish calendar. It begins with
the period of as the "Ten Days
of Penitence,' which culminate in
the Day of Atonement. During
this period Jews- are' expected t<
reflect, to repent and to resolvt.
for a nobler conduct in the coming
year.
A special feature Is the blowing
of the shofcr, n ram's horn, com»
memorating the incident of th*.
binding of Isaac as n divine pro
test against the practice of hu
man sacrifice.
Stores to Close
For Rosh Ho-shonoh
The following stores will be
closed from 6 p.m. tomorrow until
6 p.m., Saturday due to the ob-servance
of Rosh Ha-shonah, the
Jewish New Year:
Alberts, Hosier}' and Lingerie.
Appleton Hardware Co.
Barasch Department Store.
Milton Danziger, Inc., sporting
goods.
Esquires Men's Shop.
Fashion Shop.
Freeport Glazing Works.
Ben Goldman's Shoe Shop.
Carol Green's.
Harrccs Men's Shop.
Irving's Men's Shop.
Kornel Thrift Shop.
K & E Novelty Shop.
Leonard Shop.
David Levy Men-a Wear.
Long Island Army & Navy Store.
New Mode Millinery.
Norman's Specialty Shop.
Pearl's Millinery Shop. "
Snmrt's Ladies' and Children's
Wear.
Stephen's Smart Shop.
These stores will not reopen un-til
Monday morning:
Beverly's Curtain Shops.
DeLeon's Departmenqt Store.
Freeport Drug §hop.
Hager's Delicatessen.
Jack Jill's Children's Shop.
Lltwak's Dept. Store.
Louis' Curtain Shop.
Weber Stores.
Weiss Silk-Cotton Store.
Joon P.
To Wed H. K. Gufer
Mystic Rebekohs
Elect Next Meeting
OfTlcers of Mystic R e b e k a h
Lodge, I.O.O.F., will be elected at
the meeting in Pythian Hall next
Thursday night. A social hour and
penny sale will 'follow. Contribu-tions
of canned goods, jams and
jellies 'will be collected for tor
Odd Fellows' home In Ho 11 Is.
At the semi-monthly meeting
last Thursday night, Mrs. Ethel
-M. Halverson presented.a^-Bible to
the Ixxlge, in honor of her parents
Mr. and MrsJ""George..Hatton, of
WCTORY SPfCUL, * * *
We Will Poy
25c
FOR
ANY
OLD
Fountoin Syringe
or Hot Woter Bottle
WITH THE PURCHASE OF A NEW
AT $1.09 OB OYER CHP BUCK'S 4)rug Store
Main At Sunrise
PHONE
BRING OUT\THAT OLD
RUBBER FOR UNCLE SAM
Weymouth, Mas-s. Mrs. 'Helen
Smith presided as noble grand.
Members of Mystic Circle will
meet at the home of Mrs. Ada p.
Smith, on Sportsmans avenue, to-morrow
afternoon with Mrs. Min-nie
Smith as hostess*
The engagement of Miss Joan
P. Viebrock. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles R. Viebrock, of 231
Woodcleft avenue, to Henry K.
Outer, son of Mrs. Mary Outer,
of Roosevelt, was announced by
her parents at a surprise party
given in the Sunrise Village, in
BeMmore. Friday night. The party
also marked Miss Viebrock's 21st
birthday anniversary. Sixteen of
her friends attended.
Miss Viebrock was graduated
from Freeport High School and
is employed in a secretarial capa-city
by the American Locomotive
Company, in its New York office.
Mr. Outer ia a technical sergeant
stationed at Fort Sunning. Oa.
Myrf/e f. Renfon
7"o Wed D. D. Lovefoce
The wedding of Miss Myrtle E*
Ren ton, daughter of Mrs. Mary
Lauretta Ren ton, of 83 Evans
avenue, and Don D. Lovelact, ex*
ecutive vice-president of the Bald"
win National Bank & Trust Co.,
of Baldwin, will be solemnized in
the Freeport Methodist Church
next. Thursday,at .7 p.m..
OUTFITTED* TO
HOME OF
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX
CLOTHES
MANHATTAN SHIRTS
ADAM HATS
YOU'LL BE SURPRISED!
VlEBROCJP
40 South Main Street
Whitman — Page & Shaw — Louis Sherry Candies
FOR
CANNEL COAL
FIRE PLACE LOGS
16 and 24 Knch
GRASS SEEDS - SHEEP and OOWMANUE - NITRATES
FERTILIZERS - CHEMICAL . VIGORO - AORIOO
PEAT MOSS . .\. GARDE3T TOOLS
PET SULLIES. POULTRY FEED
Eckhardf Feed & Coal Co. 85 Ohurch St., Freeport 2818 $ 31 Church St.\ Baldwin 1340
6000 The NASSAU COUNT?
Unofficiof
Pope?
7TH YEAR NO. FREEPORT N. Y., THURSDAY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942 FIVE CENTS A COPY
Bronze Plant
Moves To Curlail
Smoke Discharge
y "Educotionol Unit"
To Be Installed As
Test, It Announces
In an effort to eliminate the
metallic smoke which has I brought
complaints from people living in
the vicinity, George A. Seaver, ex-ecutive
vice-president of tha Co-lumbian
Bronze Corp., advised the
Village Board this week that "an
educational unit" of a control sys-tem
la to be installed by the
Westlngihouse Co. If this proves a
success, an entire system will be
installed, he indicated, The com-pany
is making propellers for the
Navy Department.
He wrote that to prevent the
fumes from escaping through
transoms, doors and windows, an
entire air-conditioning system
would be required, the cost of
which would be prohibitive.
"You will recall that some time
ago a complaint was made by a
civic group," Mr. Seaver wrote,
"that the smoke from our factory
was, causing distress in bhe neigh-
'village that the smoke
zinc fumes and was not deleterious
• to health or property, but that
we would dp everything possible
to alleviate the situation.
'- "Since that time ,we. have been
making surveys* and taking bids to
And the most satisfactory'#pe of
equipment, to do "this jAb. At qne
time we thought- the Navy. De-partment
was going to install the
equipment in connection with a
new facility, but a change of pol-icy
in Washington precluded that
possibility and it again becomes
our problem.
"We have just received permis-sion
from the War Production
Board with a comparatively high
priority rating and have placed
our order for an.educational unit
to be installed by Westlnghouse
Company engineers. If this proves
satisfactory, we will "undoubtedly
proceed with the installation of
the. separate system. The equlp^
ment'is prohibitively-expensive and
the .-controls'. for the affair - vUl
have to be housed in-a "separate
building with considerable jRopr
area. It is for" this reason, that
we are installing -an educational
unit rather than proceeding with
Che complete job. The complete
installation will remove the smoke
from our chimneys, but, of course,
will have no control over the
smoke which is drawn from the
factory through transoms, windows
and doors. To remove all this
smoke would mean a complete air-conditioning
job which would run
into fabulous figures.
"You have undoubtedly noticed
that we have made every effort to
landscape the entire factory prof>-
erty and we assure you that policy
will continue as we expand. It la
our earnest desire to 'co-operate
with the village whole-heartedly.
We want the village to be proud
of the fact that It lias a pro-gressive
industry which is contrib-uting
a vital part of < the war
Women's Stamp
Success/uf
Dms/Qn Gives
Luncheon
Fashion Show Also
Features Event
The bridge luncheon and fashion
show given by the Women's Divi-sion
of the Freeport War Bond
and Stamp Staff, of which Mrs.
Clark I. Scott is chairman, at the
Elks club house Tuesday afternoon
was a complete social and financial
success. Three hundred and sixty-six
persons partook of the lunch-eon
and the proceeds realized w.ill
be enough to meet the overhead
expenses of the division for some
time to come.
Mrs. W. Sargeant Nixon was la
charge of the fashion show at
which numerous fall modes were
shown with Miss Marjorie Knapp
and Miss "Kathryn Fridlich doing
the modeling.
A $?5 war bond was awarded to
Mrs. John R. Scott, Jr., of Sioux
City, la., mother of Mr. Scott, ex-ecutive
vice-president of the First
National Bank and Trust Company.
Miss Anne K. Eldridge headed the
committee of arrangements.
Women Voters' Leogue
To Meet Tomorrow
' League for Women
Voters will resume its activities to-morrow
when it meets at the home
of Mrs, R. O. Fonner, 314 North
Long Beach avenue, at 2 p.m.
Members will report on interview?;
they have had with various can-didates
for office concerning the
issues of the coming campaign.
Mrs. Robert L. Doxsee, the presi-dent,
and other officers are urging
all members to work for the elec-tion
of those candidates they feel
will live up to their campaign
promises. Plans for the meeting
were made at a meeting of the
Executive' Board at which Mrs.
Doxeee presided.
"Bicycle Goroge"
Colled Too Small
The Village Board a its meeting
Monday night received a letter
from Herbert I. Goldiny, recom-mending
that' the "bicycle garngc"
at Brooklyn ave., and North Grove
St.. be enlarged. Hp complalntfd
that when he tried to make use
of the shed at 2:30 p. m., no space
ever was left for his bicycle. Mayor
Worden E. Winne referred he let-ter
to the village engineer and
clerk.
Sondy A.W.O.L. Foils
To See Boys Off
Sandy wasn't on hand to see the
29th contingent set out from the
ofTice of Selective Service Board
717 for physical examinations
Tuesday morning. Sandy is the
pet of Mra. Peter Stephen Beck,
wife of the chairman of the
board, and has been the mascot
of nearly every group as it set
out for camp.
She went A.W.O.L. Monday af-ternoon
as Mr. Beck was on a
business in the vicinity of West
Merrlck road and Church street,
but waa located and restored to
her owners.
Consequently Sandy will be on
hand to officiate as mascot as the
boys \vho pass the physical tests
leave for the induction centre on
Tuesday, Sept. 29.
Boord Tokes Up Plon
For Semi-Centenniol
AIR RAID WARDENS CRT
SHACKS FOR USE
The application of Air Raid
Wardens of Post B for the use of
the two sheds at North Long
Beach and, Mount Joy aves., in
which tools were stored during a
sewer^ building project, was granted
by the Village -Board ac Its meeting
Monday night. The Wardens plan
to remove the shacks, and., combine
]them-"lnto- one structure at a cost
Of' a"bout'$156.
$40,000 BOND ISSUE
OFFERED FOR SALE
At its meeting Monday night, the
Village Board set Thursday, Sept.
24, for the receipt of bids on $40,-
000 in bonda to cover cost of the
installation of sewers In District
3, In the northern section of the
village not met by th'e payment of
assessments- by property owners,
The cost of the project was about
$89,500.
WANTS RAGWEED DESTROYED
The Village Board at its meeting
Monday night acknowledged the
receipt of a, letter from Mrs. Rose
Kraaz urging the village to see
that all ragweed In vacants lots
be destroyed.
Buy
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Bond*
William J. Marvin, village" clerk,
called the attention of the Village
Board at its meeting Monday
night to the announcement made
by the North End Civic League
last spring thnt the 50th nnnlver-ary
of the incorporation' of Free-port
as a village would occur on
Thursday. Oct, 22. The Board took
the matter under advisement.
The same acUon was taken con-cerning
a suggestion by The Lead-er
as to the nature such a cele-bration
might take. This was that
the festivities be spread over four
days, starting with Merchants' Day,
Oct. 22, and followed by School
Day, the 23rd, the Church day on
the 25bh. The main celebration
was suggested for Saturday after-noon
Oct. 24Lh, to take the form
of an historical parade. in which
all organizations of H?e village
could ^participate, each to provide
a float or some other feature for
the procession.
Woter System Linked
To L
The Village Clerk advised the
Village Board at its meeting Mon-day
night that the connections De-tween
the village water supply
system had been made with Che
system of the Long Island Water
Corp., at two points. There are at
Babylon Tump\&e at the junction
of Independence ave., and Oak st.,
and at the northern boundary of
the village and Pennsylvania ave.
DiGesu Low Bidder
For Sidewolk Job
Frank DiOesu with a bid of $540
was the lowest of three bidders
for the job of laying sidewalks in
front of ten parcels of property on
Ray street and Stokes avenue or-dered
by tke village. The bids
were opened at a meeting of th?
Village Board Monday night, and
referred to the village engineer.
Building Code Chonge
Hearing Is Colled
A hearing was set for Monday
mat. Sept. 28, by the Village
Board at Its meeting Monday night
on a recommendation of Superin-tendent
of Buildings Wilbcrt F.
DeMott that the Building Code be
amended to permit the conversion
of buildings In apartment zones,
having central fire-proof walls into
two or four family dwellings.
The amenj^ment*. would exso scr-mtt
the erection of two-story bufId-
Ing of tlUs type with accommoua-ttons
llmi.W. to fojir families. 14 is
proposed to amend ' seven sections
of the Building Code.
Urge Souvenir Connon
Be Used As Salvage
' Letters from Caroline E. Boiler,
of the Nassau County Water Coun-cil
and Judge Serenbctz, of Hemp-stead,
chairman of salvage for Nas-sau
County urging the salvaging of
souvenir cannon and other metal-lic
war trophies in Freeport were
read at the meeting of the Village
Board Monday night. They were
referred to Fred S. Howell, Jr..
&nd Village Counsel Samuel M.
Levy.
South Shpre Y. C.
Stog Cruise Soturday
The annual Ht«K rrultnror thn
Sou*.h_Shoro Yiich (,_(,: hit) will bo
sailed Saturday. The crulao.com-mlttee-
hsa-lSBued^hstructlonB for
nil Intending to parnolpate to
-assembly at the club at 10-a. m.,
so n« to get started as early as
possible.
On the committee aro: Darius
Sylvester, George Smith, George
Merrlck, Srhuylur Smith, Henry
Rruun, Frank Gabriel, George
Grathwohl, Kred Hallam, R. A.
Hawkins, Shorwood Klssell, Al
Maler, Kd Mooru, Guor^e Muen-zer.
John Wherry, Tom Whlttak-er,
Ed Ege, PYank GrSen,- Earl
Griffith, BUI -Klenzlng, George
Owens, Sam Glover and Bill
Saundere.
AUGUST FINES TOTAL $228
The reports of Police Justice Hil-bert
R. Johnson and acting justice
Samuel M. Lavy^ submitted to the
.Village Board atTlts meeting Mon-day
night indicated that Ones to-taling
$225 were collected in the
local court during August.
Victims Describe
life In Japanese
Prison Camp
Worn Americons
Agoinst Complocency
In This Situotion
Herded 10 to 12 persons In corri-dors
10 by 12 feet, on dally allow-ance
of seven ounces of rice and
5 ounces of vegetables and a like
amount of meat, Including bones,
and gristle, with an occasional slap
—this was the description.ot what
350 Americans went through In a
concentration camp outside Stanley
Prison, Hong Kong, from January
5 to June 30, as given by the refu-gees
at the dinner given by the
Frecport Inter-Service Club Coun-cil
at the South Shore Yacht Club,
Tuesday night. And no bedding
was provided on which to sleep.
The speakers were N. F. Allinan,
a member of the Shanghai Muni-cipal
Council, who was In Hong
Kong when it fell, and W. F. Car-man,
director of Civilian Defense
in Hong Kong and an official of
Standard Oil Company. Both re-turned
to this country aboard the
Swedish liner Gripsholm. More
than 160 attended the dinner. Mrs.
Isabel Tree, president of the coun-cil,
presided, and presented Asa A,
TrencAara^ as" 'tb
Kennedy, of Merrfck, who served
with the American Volunteer filers
in Chinn before thr force was ab-sorbed
by the regular army, was
introduced.
Mr. Ailmnn warned of compla-cency
about the war situation in
this country. He said this condi-tion
existed in Hong Kony. which
was attacked on December 8 and
fell on Christmas dny last year.
"The Japanese mean to destroy
us completely and utterly,' he said.
"They have got a good start and
we've got to make up our minds
to turn things the other way
around,"
Though Hong Kong surrendered
on Chrustmas day, Mr. Allman said,
it was not until January 4, that
the Japanese took possession. Dur-ing
the night of January 5, orders
Were issued for all except the Chi-nese
to report to Murray s Parade
Grounds the following morning.
About 1,600 did. so. THey—never
were jretumed to their homes,; but—
marched to hotels taking what they
had brought with them, and crowd-ed~
slx*T)ersons each in rooms about
.6. &y 1? .snd kept_ there fox*" ^hreje
weeks. ~ —
During the first 48 hours*. Mr.
Allman said, they received no food
except whau they could buy from
hawkers. Later they were trans-ferred
to the grounds of Stanlej
Prison and kept within bounds by
wire fences. Mr. Allman said they
were not abused, except that if a
person failed to understand what
a Japencse grunt meant, he or, she...
received a slap—a favorite practice
with the Japs. There were about
3,000 In the camp, mostly British,
who are still there as the Japa-nese
insisted they were already on
their own territory.
Military prisoners were not
treated as well as the civU 'pri-soners,
he said, and he expressed
fear concerning what was being
done to American soldiers caRture**
In the Philippines.
"We should make qp our mlnda
Continued on