1942-12-10

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THE LEADER THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 3, 1942
Xmas
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
The SUirYhut"%f^"*CKfistmas 'possible/"The Star that
has brought peace and happiness to millions throughout
, & . the centuries.
* X Xmae Music
UNCLE SAM'S 48 STARS
Born amid strife for freedom and still Hying, proud and
unsullied; the Old "Glory of the United States of America
stands for the highest alms of all mankind.
THE STARS IN AMERICA'S WINDOWS
Ever the symbol of those citizens who believe not only
in freedom, but in the equal duty and privilege of all
j, to fight for it. I
A DAILY RENDITION OF
FINE MUSIC APPROPRI-ATE
TO A WAR-TIME
CHRISTMAS, WILL START
AT AN EARLY DATE UN-DER
THE COMBINED
AUSPICES OF THE FREE-PORT
CHAMBER OF COM-MERCE,
THE VILLAGE,
AND THE INTER-FAITH
COUNCIL.
THE COUNTRY'S BADGE OF MERIT
The,coveted Navy "E/* which might well be matched
by another emblem recognizing the splendid, unselfish
—efforts of the great army on the home front, the war
workers, the^civilian defense and other groups,. And last,
but not least, the rationed and harassed merchants^ who,
- this^year.. particularly^ are. struggling^ -against greaf'odds'
R5 provide the gifts for home^/CSHips, and overseas, that
much to our morale.
f•or
Announcements/
"Where Friendly Service Awoits You
Shop os eorly os you con ... Shore your cor... C&me in groups . . * Toke your chonge in Wor Stompg
NASSAU COUNTY
7TH. YEAR NO. 28 FREEPORT N. Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 10, 1942 FIVE CENTS
Legion's leaders ,
Address Kin ol
Men In Service
Notionol Head
Hits Beourocrocy
And Regimentation
Roane Waring, of Memphis
Tenn., national commander; Ar-thur
G. Bouton, of WesLchester,
_ and Frank Becker, Nassau County
commander, were among the speak-er;
who addressed a rally of the
families of" "Freeport.'s Fighting
by ..William .CMn-
A.L., on Saturday
night in the Freeport High School
auditorium. .
Commander William W. Davis,
presided, and State Adjutant Mau-rice
Stember, a past commander
cJ the post, Introduced Command"
er Waring. Several hundred pa-rents,
wives ai«$ other relatives of
tne 1,200 Freeport men in the arm-ed
aervicea of the country attended.
Sigh .School band, directed
-Wettlaufer;
ton Story Post,
gave the invocation. Mayor Wor-den
Winne welcomed the dls-tinquished
visitors Lo Freeport, anol
other; speakers were District ALLor-ney
Edward J. Neary and Super-intendent
of Schools'* John W
Dodd.
Commander Davis said Lhat when
the honor roll on the grounds of
the Freeport Memorial Library
was dedicated on April 13, it con-tained
438 names, and' the number
had grown to more than 1,000, in-cluding
eight 'names in black-face
plates, representing that many gold
star families to which he extended
the sympathies of. the post.
Commander Waring condemned
the trend to what he termed beau-zocracy,
regimentation and com-munism
In thia country and
called for the restoration at the
jclose of the_war of all civil rights
enjoyed . prior to the 7 start of the
"conflict. - - .-".*.
.of you who have a-son
^^i.
a husband or a relative in service
.may take just pride in having
raided a youtrr^who proved ready
and At, In the hour of need; to
serve his country on the battle
line," he said. "These sons, hus-bands
and relatives of yours pos-sess
the basic qualifications -which
,brlng a glow of satisfaction to all
L-4ound^ minds in sound bodies
You have a right in being thrilled
in knowing your own flesh and
blood today is part of that living
wall of defense that stands be-tween
our country and our alllei
and their enemies."
.He developed three points, the
Grat that men serving in the mili-tary
or naval services are acquir-ing
an education that no institution
in the nation could give them, sec-ond
that whjie "we glory here U-nlght
in the valorous service of
our sons, husbands and other rela-tives
let us devotedly recognize our
own responsibility/' and third the
need of holding the country back
to its fundamental basis while the
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I Ration* Formula
Many Face Cold Home*
Ickes Device Foils Down os Means
Of Equitably Alloting Fuel
There will be many a cold home this winter unless someone
in Washington comes to the rescue and provides a formula for
rationing fuel oil that will work.
The device formulated by some® -^"-
Yule Music On Air
Storting Mondoy
theorist aide to Petroleum Coor-dinator
Harold Ickea has fallen!
down completely and there will be
no just and equitable rationing %f
oil until a workable substitute is
found for iL.
It has been the general im-pression
that Lr*e average family
would .be granted from twoj-thlrds
to three-quarters of the maount of
oil that was used last year. But
the Ickes formula hasn't worked
out that way. Some families have
received coupons providing for
only one-third of their total for
the past year, some for Rfty per
cent "and others for more than
that amount, but few have re-ceived
rations that would keep
them warm in cold weather.
One . woman informed officials
at\ the Freeport Branch of the
had been allowed 450
gallons of oil to keep a ten-room
house warm all winter. She al-ready
has purchased 400 gallons,
so still has fifty cbming Lo her.
Thousands of consumers are yet
to receive their coupons. Many
who filed their quesLionnalres the
first day of regisLraLion arc going
to find Lhe LruLh of Lhe adage,
"The first shall be lasL and the
last first."
The committee in charge of oil
raLioning comprises WalLer J. A.
Mack and Frank H. Holland, of
FreeporL, and Don D. Lovelace of
Baldwin, wliile Mrs. RoberL H.
Earon, a volunLeer worker, is in
charge of Lbe clerical staff getting
Lhe coupons "tailored" for sending
out. They are doing Lheir best
to meeL a chaoLif: situation. '
Mrs. Earon explained the alloL-ments
had air-been mage buL
triad lack of clerical help had *de-layed
the work. At-one time,
said, she had about, 150 helpers,
;but something happened and doon
had practically none, with the
result- that/on Monday shl had
to appeal to the high school au-thorities
to get the assistance of
some students for a , time. The
work is being done In the Colum-bus
avenue school, the Merrick,
North Merrick and Baldwin
schools.
Any persons who would like to
assist may call at the rationing
office, 50 North Grove street, to
volunteer their services.
Each ration sheet contains cou-pona
providing for 1,050 gallond
oil. TTiere -are a fifty-gallon and
100 ten-gallon coupons. If the
person receiving the 'ratlonig fig-ures
Is "entitled" to less than 1,050
gallons of oil, enough of the ten-gallon
coupons are taken out to
reduce the total to the quantity
desired. ""Then a validating stamp
has to be attached to a space in-dicated
and the serial "number of
the person receiving It written in
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Weller Criticizes
Oil Burner Owners
Who Failed to Convert
Owners of oil burners who failed
to convert them back for the use
of coal were criticized for this fail-ure
"by Augustus B. Weller, Nas-sau
County Rationing Adminis-trator,
in a statement issued this
week.
"Rationing Board personnel, who
have been checking the users of
fuel oil applications have been
amazed at the high percentage of
home owners who state that their
facilities are convertible, but ap-parently
have made no serious ef-fort
to accomplish conversion," he
.paid. . • * . . • . _ , ..,..'. , .
sacrificed the assurance of com-parative
comfort In the , vague
hope tli at In some mysterious
fashion adequate fuel oil supplies
wc-uld suddenly be made available.
Such home owners as can convert,
are again urged to proceed to do
so immediately."
Broadcasting of Christmas mu-sic
over a loud speaker atop the
Olive building at Main street and
Sunrise highway, will get underway
on Monday night. There will be
transcribed music daily from 4 to
5:30 and 7:30 to 7:45 and a daily
feature by some local musical group
from 8 to 8:30.
Robert T. Tavls, Jr., is program
director and the transcription is
through the courtesy of the Sny-der-
Garvey Co. The Freeport Com-munity
Christmas Committee has
charge of Lhe wiring.
The features as arranged to date
follow: " " - -
December 14. Monday, Hill Billy
Band, David J. Freudenbergcr, di-rector.
December 15, Tuesday, Walter
Blalle, organist.
December 16, Wednesday, Mrs.
Carl H. Tewksbury, organist.
December 17, Thursday, 8-8:30
p.m., Freeport High School Band
J. Maynard Wettlaufer, director.
December 18, Friday, Freeport
Athena Choral, Mrsr*J. Maynard
Wettlaufer, chairman, Mra, .John '-, . • ' '. -VJi.-' -\—;\ • ' '.." -J «? v 1" </*• L"'**-*.-*- i
A**m&**-* W*t*h^H j*4*&MM*X* E^
50 P. C. More Light
Allowed Moin St.
Main sLreet is noL going to b?
so dim for the Christmas holiday
shoppers as had been anticipated.
Merchants who have had Lhclr
illumination tested by a light me-ter
find they are entitled to 50 per
cent more light than Lhe amount
by the local Civil Protection
board.
December 19, Saturday, George
Porter Smith, violinist; Cornelius
VanRees, organist.
December 21, Monday, Freeport
High School Olrls' Chorus, Miriam
Roberts, director.
December 22, Tuesday, Freeport,
Elementary School Choais, Mr. Ta-vis,
director.
December 23, Wednesday. Robert
T. Tavia, Jr., baritone;,Betty Oeer,
organist.
December 24, Thursday, 7:30-8
p.m., Christ Lutheran Church
choir. Harry Magnussen, director.
Slarl Enrollment
OlMear-Old
Youths Tomorrow
' Registrotion Will
Continue to Dec. 31
At Draft Offices ^
Registration of youths who have-reached
Lhe age or eighteen since
July 1, will be started -by Selec-tive
Service Board 717 tomorrow
(Friday) and continue through
the month. The young men must
register in Lhe ofTlce .of the draft
board, 24 South OroVe street,
Peter Stephen Beck* the chairman,
announced.
The youtns have been divided
into three groups for the purpose
of tlmelng their enrollment* Those
whose birthday anniversaries oc-curred
between July 1 and Aug. .
31, must register any day between .•<
Dec. 11 and 17, that the Selective
Service Board oSlce is open; those '^
who reached eighteen between/,.
Sherman Moreland, chief air
mid warden for Nassau County,
will address a meeting of Post A
in the Municipal Building Monday
night. He will describe the meth-ods
(or attacking the hew type of
Incendiary bombs.
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^ Su/i&zy
""Treeport's - second . annua+r-
OuL-Lo-Church-Sunday proved even
more successful "than--the first a
year ago. All pastors preached Lo
congregations that filled Lhcir edi-fices
Lo capaclLy and in some
exLra seats had Lo be provided.
At Lhe Transfiguration Episcopal
Church the morning .service was
conducted in the parish house, as
1L was realized the small church
edifice would not accommodaLe all
who deslrdd to attend."
In Lhe Freeport Methodist and
Christ Lutheran Church
sliding partitions separate
main edifice from the Sunday
School room, these had to be
raised to provide for the overflow.
At the Salvation Army both the
morning and evening congrega-tions
were larger than usual and
the priests at OnxvHoly Redeemer
R. <C. Church gay the attendance
at masses exceeded the usual turn-out.
""**•*•
__.The_aame was true at the First
Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. David G Jaxhelmer
reporLed 250 aL the early service
and 350 at Lhe laLer meeting in
Lhe LuLheran Church. There were
509 aL the MeLhodlsL church, the
Rev. E. A. Pollard Jones, Lhe min-
IsLer. announced, while at the
Episcopal church Lhe recLor, the
Rev. Reginald H .Scott, said the
count wad 329 aL Lhe 10^45 serv-ice.
The Rev. J. Gordon Hynes,
of the FirsL BapLlsL Church, re-porte<^
172. Figures for Lhe other
were not announced.
Rabbi B. Leon Hurwltz expects
a large turnout at the Temple Is-rael
service tomorrow night.
The "invitors" headeS ' by Ed-mund
T. Cheshire will meet in
the Episcopal Parish house Bun-day
evening to submit their re-porta.
The Rev. John J. Mahon
will give the address.
those who attain eighteen from
Nov. 1 Lo Dec. -31 hnve to list
Lheir names beLwecn Dec. 26 and
31. The office will be open for
regisLraLlon dally from 9 a.m. to
5 pjn. and Saturday from 9 Lo 13.
There will be only one place of
registration for Freeport and
Roosevelt youLhs, that is in the
draft board office, Mr. Beck said.
Aa young men aLLaln the age
of eighteen after Jan. 1, they will
be require^ to register on the an*
niversary of their birth, Mr. Beck ,
explained, unless Lhe date falls on
a Sunday or a holiday, when they
must do so Lhe nexL day.
When Lhe 33d contingent of
draftees seL ouL for LJie physical
examination centre Tuesday mom-
Ing, a considerable number of
men whose ages ranged from 36L.
to 45 were Included m the mbre
Lhan 100 In the group.
-This acLion was Laken, Chairman
Beck announced, "because no
clal ^insLrucLlons-had JKen
ceived from; Gen. Lewis J)..
\sney, national director of selec-tive
service, to eliminate these
men frpnr~tKe contingent.
The War DepartmenL issued or-ders
last Saturday LhaL "effective
at once and unLlI further notice"
the acceptance for the Army of
men 36 years old and older "la
suspended."*
The announcement added that
It might be necessary to waive
this suspension from time to
Lime to enable the Army to ob-tain*
skilled men not "otherwise
available.
All who pass the physical teak
will be inducted into Mhe Anny
next Tuesday following the uaual
exercises conducted In the" MUn^
clpal Building for oontingenta_j
they, leave for. a reception centre. }•&
Freeport Offew
Best Volues