1942-03-12

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Admit* Five ember*
Five members were received in-to
Nazareth Shrine, Order of the
White Shrine of Jerusalem, at Its
monthly "meeting in Spartan Tem-ple
last Friday night. They were
Mrs. Maude Bradshaw, Mrs. Viv-ian
TJssher, Mrs. Grace Dun bar,
Mrs. Eleanor Combs and Harold
Mrs. Henrietta Fay presided as
Worthy High prleateaa and Louis
L. Leugemann an Watchmen of
Shepherds.
It was a ceremonial night and
numerous guests received the hon-ors
of the East. They were Mis.
Augusta Fecht, Deputy Supreme
Worthy High Priestess of the
flrs't district: William Edwards,
Deputy Supreme Watchman of
Bhepherda, also first district; Mar.
garet Klcforth, Worothy High
Priestess and Walter Kleforth,
Watchman of Shepherds, Star of
Baat Shrine, of New York City:
Mrs. Hannah Harle, Worthy High
Priestess, Bethany Shrine, Flush*
Ing; Mro. Frances Haynee, Junior
Past Deputy Supreme Worthy
High Priestess, Guild Ing Star
Shrine, Staten Island; Edward
Holz, Pant Watchman of Shep-herds,
Star of East Shrine; Mrs.
Anne Lindsay, Mrs. Elmer Tatje,
Mrs. Grace L. Andereen, Mrs.
Melen Blaekmon, MrH. Louise C.
Bohrer and Mm. Theresa V. Thay-er,
past Worthy High Priestesses;
Dr. Gordon Lindsay, Dr. J. Philip
Thnycr, and George Plossl, Past
Watchmen of Shepherds o( Naz-areth
Shrine.
Mrs. Marion Fulton was chair-man
of the commit tele In charge
of (lie social hour which follow-whlch
C. Curtis Ful-off
gifts ,brought by
PJans are underway for a card
party to be held on Saturday,
March 21.
INCOME TAX EXPERT
AT FREEPORT BANK
The Freeport Bank, bhrough its
Cashier, W. bargeant Nixon has
made arrangements to have a
Deputy income Tax collector at
*he bank today and tomorrow,
SODA DISPENSER WANTED
"WANTEiD — Al soda dispenser.
Only . experienced, first class
man need, apply. Viebrocks, 40
South Main St.
Troqsfigurqtion Tea
More than 200 women attended
the first of three Lenten teas
sponsored by the Guild of the
Transfiguration QpiscopaA Church
last Friday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. .pules M Nova, 104 Pine
st. Mrs. Jesse .gmalGi, of 202 For-terfield
pi., will be hostess at the
second on Friday, March 13.
Mrs. Nova was assisted In re-ceiving
the guests by Mrs. R. V.
Holland, Guild president, while
Mrs. John S. Keeler was chair-man
of general arrangements. As-sisting
were Mrs. Reginald H.
Scott, Mrs. Louis D. Amennan.
Mrs. John M. Harrington, and
Mrs. George S. McChesney.
Mrs. William B. Wolff, Mrs
Willtajn F. Kellett, Mrs. Franklin
L. Duerk. Mrs. Maurice Pesce,
Mrs. J. Harry Jenkins, Mrs. J. J.
Mowbray, Mrs. Frederick Schwer,
Mrs. Berkeley T* 8ml Mh, Mrs.
George M. Abbott/ 'Mrs. Edith M.
Dickerson, Mrs. J. R. P. Ooller,
Mirs Elmer Slevwright. Mrs. Eliz-abeth
Harjaaatle, Mrs. W. Si
Holske, MrsV Barry Golding, and
Mrs. Edward P. License assisted
In.conducting the tea."
STEUBEN UNIT PLANS DANCE
The Admiral Schley Unit of the
9teuben Society of America Is
making plans Tor a dance to be
conducted at Niederstcin's in Lyn-brook,.
on Saturday night, March
28. Henry Eckert is magistrate of
the unit.
Gotten Under Woy
Plans for the annual Memorial
Day observance were gotten un-der
way Monday night at a meet-
Ing of participating- groups held
In the Legion dugout. Samuel D.
Gerber, a member of William Clin-ton
Story Post, A. L., was select-ed
to head the committee and to
officiate as grand marshal, posts
he has filled for several years.
T3ie Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and other veterans groups
and various organizations were
represented .
Other committee officers select*
ed were Albert Rebehn, secretary
and Edmund T. Robson, treasurer.
On the general committee are
Commander W. W. Davis of Story
post; Karl Brown, Charles Bar-bara,
Louis W. Fecher, W. Wal-lace
Guest, Robert B. Hickey,
William J. Hanshin, Charles Han-son,
Ernest Hennessy, Theodore
3CUTZ, Percy Merrltt. Louis Miller.
Ban? J. Moore, Joseph Noebel,
John E. Nolan, Thomas Murphy,
Alex ReyinoldsrFred- Roikowitz, -W»
W. Button, Francis B. Savon a and
Walter Talt.
Another meeting will be held
on April 21 in the Dugout.
GEORGE EAMMOND HONORED
George Hammond, son of Drr
and Mrs. Albert H. Hammond, of
134 South Ocean avenue, a stud-ent
at Colgate university, hns
been elected social chairman of
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity of
that Institution.
THE SALVATION ARMY
. 74 South Grove Street - Freeport
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A. M. — '
Sunday, 8 P. M. —
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both in Civilian"Defense and %he@arvice*. You'll
need fresh ener^, and extra tinie. ^pome to Vie*
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Pd^ty o Success
A successful bridge party wae
given by the Parent-Teacher As-sociation
of the Grove Street
School Tuesday night in the school
for the benefit of the Junior Red
Cross unit of 4he school. There
were about 50 men and women in
attendance and numerous prizes
.were awarded.
Mrs. L. Burton Cassin, the
president, welcomed the card
players. On the committee in
Mr& Vdenthe
Mrs. Richard Porter, Mrs*
Miller and Mrs, Stephen Z%poy.
KIWANIS HEARS
Assistant District Attorney Bar-old
Strohson gave a talk on
"Crime Does Not Pay," at the
weekly dinner of the Areeport E3-
wanis Club in the Elks club houhe
last night. He was introduced by
Charles P>\ (Buckley, program
chairman, and\Pregldent Clinton
M. Flint conducted the meeting.
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6TS TEAR — NO. 41. FREEPORT, L. L, N. Y., MASCS 12, 1942 FIVE
Freepdr* Exceeds
$5,500 Quoh In
Red Cross Driye
Also Leods in Totol
Number of Donations;
Latest Contributions
JYeeport has exceeded its quo-ta
of $5,500 In the Red Cross
War Fund campaign. This an-nouncement
waa made by the
treasurer. Mrs. Richard O. Mc-
Oheaney, at the final repart meet-ing
held 'In the Municipal Build-ing
last night.
Mrs. A&cChesney added that she
had filed a list of more than 1,000
individual contributions with head-quarters
tn Mineola,i,the-largest
number for -any community. She
also said, she expected the fund
to be considerably increased, as
Mie South Shore Yacht Club was
to stage a dance in the club
house on Saturday night March 31,
the gross proceeds of which would
be contributed to the cause. Oth-er
organizations also have pledged
contributions to be turned in la-ter.
Workers in the P'reeport Red
Cross war fund drive are rap-idly
ncaring their $5,500 goal as
^n rrnnlt^nf- 'n—nrrinn nf rirrntn
Business Runs Smoothly
As Banks Merge Business
First Notionol Assumes
Citizens' Obligotions
The First National Bank and Trust Co. ha? absorbed the busi-ness
of the Citizens National Bank und everything is running
smoothly. There was no interruption of service as the funds and
records of the Citizens Bank were transferred over the week-end
under police protection.
The transaction was made pos- 3
sible through aid provided by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpo-ration,
Washington, D. c., whioii
purchased $350,000 of sub-standard
assets from the Citizens National
Bank.
All deposits of the closed insti-tution
are - available 100 -per cent,
as-all Citizens Bank deposits were,
made available at the First Na-tional
Bank & T*rust Co.
Announ cement
that
was made also
all customers' checks
held this past week, and the re
ceipt of contributions from sev-eral
organizations.
The nrst canteen unit, to be
graduated served a businessmen's
luncheon to more than 200 guests
at the Methodist Church last
Thursday afternoon to augment
the fund. It was the first major
event to be sponsored by the Free-port
Committee, headed by Mrs.
E. Freeman Miller, assisted by Mrs.
Lajnont N. Ensko and Mrs. Har-ord
W. Battin. Mrs. A. F. Bas-sett,
captain of the unit, was the
chairman of the luncheon com-mittee.
She was assisted by Mrs. Tho-mas
W. Cann, Mrs* David Daniels,
Mrs. Robert L. Doxsee, Mrs. Moe
Oreen, Mrs. James B. Harrington,
Mrs. Chris Knutsen, Mrs. Henry
Lahtar, Mrs. Norman Lowry, Mrs.
Reginald H. Scott, Mrs. Elmer
Sievewright, Mrs. John Harring-ton
and Mrs. Berkeley Smith.
'"Following this event, ti)e mobile
canteen was brought to Freeport
from the Nassau Oouoiy headquar-
, ters in Minepla an^ stationed on_
Main street, last-Friday-and Sat-urday.
* Mrs. IdT Elizabeth Hard-castle,
chairman of canteen and
nutrition in Freeport, was in
charge of the group of women who
served coffee and doughnuts for
two days. Before being stationed
on Main street, the canteen stop-ped
at the Municipal Building
where "Mayor Worden E. Winne
and numerous otiher village offi-cials
purchased a snack to aid the
cause,
Mrs. E. Freeman Miller was
chairman of the campaign, with
Mrs. Lamont N. Enako and Mrs.
Sarod O. Battln as co-vir
. men.
withdrawal orders now outstand-ing
on the Citizens Bank may be
presented at the First National
and all deposit accounts may be
continued in the latter bank as If
there had been no change.
John L. Cecil, counsel for the
FDIC, said that accumulation of
a large volume of substandard
aasets—n**»r A
ON ASPECTS OF WAS
The first of six. lectures on as-pects
of the wnr sponsored by
Hofstra College, will b«' riven.in
the Lfttle Theatre un the college
campus in H^mpetnnd next Thure-
,day night. Constant van de Wall,
assistant professor of fine arts,
(liBCuae "War and Art."
years by the Citizens National,
with a consequent impairment of
the institution's capital, led to the
transaction.
Mr. Cecil added that under the
terms of bhe transaction. FDTC
purchased the substandard assets
of the Citizens National and that
the consideration for the assump-tion
of the First National Bank
of all deposits to the Citizens was
the transfer oj the former to the
latter of higlh grade .assets
cash including cash paid by the
FDTC to the Citizens Bank In ex-change
for its sub-standard assets.
A liquidor lias been appointed
by the FDIC to liquidate the as-sets
acquired by it froTH' the Citi-zens
Bank and Hhe liquidation of
these assets will be conducted in
an orderly manner, having "con-sideration
for the credit condition
of the community."
- Practically all the employes of.
-ilie-..Citizens Bank have been re-tained
by the First National.
There haa been 110 change among
the officers of the bank, Edward
B.- /Thompson- containing as presi^
"dent; Clark "TT"Scott, " executive
vice-president; L. Burton Cassin,
cashier; Em 11 Frenger,' assistant
cashier and assistant trust officer;
Mrs. Grace Betts, trust officer; T.
Frank Bennett, Charles W. Olb-son
jr.. and Dr. George A. New-ton
as additional directors.
Patterson Heads
Commerce Group
Eosterlm Remains
Council Chowwon^.-
Installation Tuesday
Former Mayor Robert E. Patter-son
was elected president, of Uit?
Freeport Chamber of Commerce at
its annual meeting Tuesday night
in headquarters. 12 East Sunrise
Highwty. He succeeds John D
Easterlin who was retained n?
chairman of the Retail Division of
the chamber.
Elected with President Patter
son were W: Sargeant Nixon, and
Sidney Abelson, vice-presidents;
aeveral j Louki Appleton. treasurer, anjl_Ir-and
VILLAGE READY
FOR BLACKOUT
Tn preparation for a blackout
:ig an "alert" should there
be an air raid In thia vicinity,
Herman C. Dun her, chairman of
the Freeport Clcll Defense Coun-cil
has issued instructions tn
owners of stores and residents of
the village.
In the business area merchants
are required to extinguish all un-attended
and Uncontrolled lishta
such as ad\ertising signs and
store window displays which can-not
be eliminated at once should
fhe occasion require.
Xo hmisWioKi lights are to be
left on unless some person ia at
hom^ to put them uui.
"This applies to all lights left
unattended on any and all prem-ises,"
Ilr Dunker announced. The
instructions were issued in pur-tiaiicp
tn telegraphic orders from
Un* Slate Director of Civilian Do-
APPLETON WIRES
FROM AUSTRALIA
Andrews is Nomed
To NominotinS Group
Edward Andrews. Deputy Chief
of the Freeport Fire Department
is a member of the nominating
committee appointed by President
Peter N. Ross, of Garden City, at
a meeting of ^he Nassau County
Fir Chiefs council last Friday
night in the Island Park public
school
The council adopted resolutions
opposing the passage of measures
at Albany which would eliminate
Uie exemption of volunteer Ore-men
from jury duty, and permit
the use of explosive fireworks on
ving Orebinar, Mr. Easterlln, M1I-ton
Danziger, David M. Levy, L.
Burton Cassin, Cord Viebrock.
Donald Smith, Normnn Kuper-smidt,
Michael Hirschthal and the
Rev. E. A. Pollard Jones, directors.
Benjamin Specter was named
vice-chuinnan of the Retail Divi-sion;
Isidore Knshdon, treasurer;
Theodore Spitzler, Milton Jacob -
son; Stanley Gurdnkel, William
Hald, Mr. Grebinar. Abraham Lit-wak,
and Wartin J. Nichols; direc-tors.
The election was unanimous, one
vote being cast for the slates
recommended by the nominating
committee, headed by Mr. Vie-brock.
It ,%aj) decided to hold the
installation next Tuesday night.
All details were left to a commit-tee
consisting of .Mr. Nixon, chair-man;
Mr. Danziger and Mr. Gre-binar,
appointed by Chairman
.Eastcrlin.
Mr, Nixon lauded the adminis-
Lk'ut. Norman Apple ton, son «
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Appleton, of
47 North Long Beach avenue, is
safe in 'Australia after having
participated In the bombing of
Robert E, Moore,
Aclor's Ion, Leads
ConllngenHo Camo
Rev. Dr. J. G. Hynes, '
Robert D. Contpbell ;
Address Selectees
Robert Kmmett %roore. of 700
South I/mig Ileach avenue, snn oQ
Victor Moore the stage star, waa
leader of the twenty-third conk
tingent sent to camp from Selec*
tive Service Hoard 717. covering*
Freeport aud Roosevelt, Monday
afternoon. The assiM»ut leader
was Clifford A. Doxey. of 55[
Powell street, Ronsevelt, while an*
other member of the group waa
Thomas \V. Gann, jr., ann of Mr^
»Trs. T. \V. C»nn. of 268 Lo«
itreot. Young OaMn, a graj*
of Hucknell University, wad
a member of the college glee cluA
white a student and was soloist
at) a concert given by the club to!
t h e MM hod 1st chutch several
years ago. ]
Lawrence L. Luther chair*
man of the board, presided at ex*
ercises In the Court Room in thd
,clmil Huildlng. Mayor Wor-
R. \Vlnue, referred to tin*
cust
attempt to keep them from invad-ing
Java.
Apphnon. a navigator on a fly-
Ing fortr#»H, surprised Ills folks
by t*'lt*phoning on Monday morn-fact,
that his son was stationed in!
Hawaii at the time of the
received from the youth
(hem to k<*pp tlirfr chins up an<9
not to worry. Tht* Mayor
that K i export was Interested *0l
tho»r entering th*' scrvfcu and fix
in;
he
February 16, advistuS them ] their welfare,
'as at Java. Nothing further
was heard from him until Satur--
tration of- - Easterlin and all
JolRed in" the tribute by standing
as he_cpncluded his_. remarks.. Tn*T
Retail Council has. Seen an un-official
organization in -the- -past,
but the by-laws .of the chamber
were amended to provide for the
election of a chairman, vicc-zhairman.
treasurer and seven di-rec'tors
of the group at the annual
meeting. /
. An invitation wus received from
the Rockvllle Centre Chamber for
the Freeport unit to be represented
at a dinner in Hall's Chop House
there on. Monday night. March 23,
to discuss matters of common in-terest.
Mr. Patterson and Mr
Easterlin were delegated to attend
the affair.
APRIL-JUNE GROUP MEETS
The April* May and June group
of the Ladles Aid SocMy of Christ,
Lutheran Church, met ut the home
of Mrs. Dora Brandt,, 71 Centre
street,. laat Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. C. Ottens and Mrs. David O.
Jaxheimer, .were guusta. The next
meeting, will be held with Mrs.
Fred Dammaa, 62 Terrace avenue,
as hostess.
Robert I). Campbell, a past
commander, representing WUHan*
day afternoon when the follow- CHntou Story Tout, told the par*
Ing cablegram was received
the home:
"Am safe In Australia. Feeling
Tine. Love. Norman."
at en in of the Indue tpe.H they
to he proud to have a boy choneH
under the democratic system c.aU-ed
to defend his country. When?
Lieut. Appletoii enlisted In the they came back, he continued,
Ai•my air corps a year ago this they would have a feeling of
month, and has made rapid
vancement in the service.
ELECTION DAY
HERE TUESDAY
NexL_. .Tuesday, March 17, is
Election Day In iJYeeport as well
as St. Patrick's Day^ and as -Elec-tion
Day it Is juat a formality..
Two trustees are to be "elected! ;but
No^-propoBitlons are to pe subinlt-ted
to the taxpayers oT the Village,
only tw(T candidates to be
for are William J. Marvin
and Dr. Herman C. Dunker who
have been nominated to succeed
themselves as the candidates of
Economy Party. Consequently each
vote they receive will be just a
complimentary ballot. However,
Robert E. Patterson, Campaign
Manager of Che party, would like
to see a large turnout of voters
oecause of this fact.
ad*, gratification dver having done d
great scrylce. '
The Rev. Dr. J. Gordon Hynea,
paotorof the KiiHt BaptMt Church,
•representing the InterrFaith Clep?
gy Council said that the relation-"
ship betwuen nations Is preserved
by a precarious balance of power,
which (lie A%l« powers had u"-
set and ft became necessary to*
Irishmen's Turkey
On Yocht Club Menu
resort to amis to etop and
and to..iLSSls.t In ending ag*
presented Testament*
to. the PrnteHttmt members of
contingent, service prayer books
the Catholics ^and rellglona .an"4
other material to the Jews. ^
W. W. Button and Petej;. 9te%H
hen Reck, membPrs of the
and police Chief Toter Elar
They are going to serve Irish*
men's turkey at the South Shore
Yacht Club Saturday night In ob-servance
of St. Patrick's Day, Jack
Godfrey, chairman of the enter-tainment
committee, announces.
And there's go^ng to be ^ an ap-propriate
program too, with jigs-and
reels to dance to, and othei
features.
Tn ad 'lit ion to Moore, Doxey;
and 'Can a, the contingent com-prised:
Samuel L. Troubnlck, 4?
West Me.rrlc,k road; James J. Me*
Cole, 30 North Grove street; Ed*-
ward C. Waldeck, Hicksvllle; Sam-uel
OstrofHky, Brooklyn; Gerald!
J. Griffin, 63 North Bayvlew ave-i
nue; Arthur E. Stevens Jr., 8 Sheaf
court; Robert B. Eastman, 47,
Russell place, a member of the
Nassau County police force:
llam V. SUegelmaler, 63 Eaet Sea*
mana venue; Jontnh H. Trodden,
73 Southalde avenue; Humid A*
Hewlett, 71 West Lincoln plar(%|.
Joseph F. Tines, 66 Charles ati'.et,
Roosevelt; William Miller, 109,.
Nassau avenue; John F. Borman,
166 Colonial avenue, and Wllllaxq'
E. .Noon, 29 Russell place. .
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