1943-07-01

              FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943
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Fellow Parents an
ort!
Having made many 'careful Inquiries during the
past week, we are convinced that, all other consid-erations
notwithstanding, a substantial majority of
our neighbors In Northwest Freeport feel that we
should have q new school site and have It NOWII
Vote" Yes"
On Site B
DEMOCRATIC process that calls for the rule of the
majority, this Committee, regardless of Its own per-sonal
opinions, is more than happy to grasp this
opportunity to put such belief Into ACTUAL PRAC-TICE.
THEREFORE, WE PLEDGE OURSELVES TO VOTE
FOR SITE "B" at the coming election on June 25th,
1943, and it is our sincere hope that a majority of
our fellow voters, sufficient to insure the selection
of fhfs sffey wfll see fft to follow our example.
FROM THE OUTSET of this campaign, It has been
our SOLE INTENTION to try to secure only the VERY
BEST In the way of schools for the Village of Free-port
as a whole. Therefore, this Committee further
pledges itself that, should Federal Aid FAIL to be
forthcoming PROMPTLY at the end of the WAR EMER-GENCY,
It will lend the limit of both its Moral and
Financial support in an effort to secure for Freeport,
WITHOUT DELAY, the schools wMth are .so badly
the community.
DON'T FORGET, Mr. Voter,
that site "A" has already been
jejeJdejdJWICE by the voters
of Freeport. ' r^r"-
DON'T FORGET, Mr. Voter,
that a vote for site "B" DOES
NOT MEAN A VOTE AGAINST
s!te "A" — If you want site
"B", and DO NOT want site
"A", be sure to mark "X" In
the proper columns.
DON'T FORGET, Mr. Voter,
that any other marking, other
than the_ .legally prescribed
"X", will INVALIDATE your
ballot — DO NOT use the
words "yes" or "no", — DO
NOT write In any other word-ing
on your ballot.
DON'T FORGET, Mr. Voter,
that most of the members of
this Committee have children
of their own of school age.
Their best Interests are CLOS-EST
TO OUR HEARTS.
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Independent CMzens
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XL LETFORD
J, D. PATTERSON
V. 6ROBER
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WM. F.WALTON
FRANK DEMAREST
ROBERT JOY
MAXPANTZER
GEORGE PANTZER
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NASSAU COUNTY
PRHPORT'9
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8TH YEAR NO. 4 FREEPORT, N* Y., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943 5 CENTS A COPY
Aid of Russia
Would Stop Japs
Powell Asserts
Attrocltles Victim
Addresses Dinner
Of Service Clubs
If Russia can be induced to
join the United States and its
allies in the war on Japan, the
Japs will be doomed to a quick
defeat, John B. Powell asserted
In an address following a din-dcr
sponsored by the Freeport
InterJService Club Council Sat-urday
night in the Elks club
house.
Mr. Powell, former editor of
the Shanghai Daily Review, lost
both his feet as a result of the
treatment he~was subjected to by
the Japanese during three months
imprisonment following the fall
of the city. He was induced to
come to Frceport to tell his
story by Edward L. Hong.. Mar-tin
H. Weyrauch as master of
c e r e m o n i e s introduce^ the
speaker.
The torture victim said Satur-day
was the first anniversary of
his release from the "Black Hole
of Shanghai." He described the
quick downfall of Shanghai on
Dec. ?, 1941, and said the for-eigners
were not greatly dis-tu%
4*ed22»n.t& **» 20th .of the
month vjnea the" arresting of peo^
pie began. Then he was taken
to the Bridge House, an old
apartment the cellar of which
the Japs had secretly converted
into a prison.
There after being searched and
everything except his clothing
seized; he said he was told very
politely, "We want you to stay
here for a while/'
Then he was ushered into the
cellar prison in which from 30
to 40 persons, men, women and
children, were herded into a cell
12 by 14 feet in area with no
sanitary facilities. Here he was
kept for three months "during
which time many died and the
others, he added, would have
welcomed death. During his im-prisonment
he dropped from 150
pounds .to. 74^ound's""ui"wcTgRt.
- The jilacc was not heated and
.jTs a result of tbeirnphysicardcte^
rioration, ^gangrenous infections'
attacked the .h&nds and feet of
many 6?"the iprisoners^ltjwas as.
a result of this that he lost his
feet. ""' '
Mr. 'Powell described the pro-gress
of he Japanese as they
seizcid one country after another.
He said there were thousands of
Americans and British civilians,
as well as soldiers, who are pris-oners
of the Nips and expressed
apprehension as to what will
happen to them when the war
really begins to go against them.
The speaker told of how the
Japanese had been planning a
war of conquest for n(ty years,
and said their program had teen
carried out according to schedule
except that they had to turn
sooth when they realized they
cduld not conquer Siberia.
By their conquests, Mr. Powell
said the Japanese had obtained
unlimited supplies of coal, iron,
gold, oil, rubber, tin, antimony
and manpower. He added that
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Demonstration by Army */ */
Features Monday Show
Freepor* O* C. P. Plans Interesting
Program In Front of High School
L. Burton Cassia, assistant director of civilian protec-tion
for Frecport and other heads of the local O.C.P., are
planning an interesting demonstration to be conducted in
Pine St., ^between South Grove and Church Monday, start-ing
at 7:30 P.M.
They have been unable to
veal what is expected to be the
highlight of the evening, a dis-play
of equipment from Mitchel
Field, because Army officers
have not let them into the sec-ret
as yet.
However, they arc counting on
something unusual between 7:30
and 8:15, that no Frccporter
should miss;-There
features also. The auxiliary fire-men
arc to give a demonstration
of pumpers, trailers and other
equipment valued at $25,000 they
have received from the Govern-ment.
Former Chief Bernard J.
Loonam will be in charge.
The Nassau County Police
Emergency Squad will' have a
part in the program under the
direction of Inspector W. C. Yo-chum.
The crew of the Frccport
Fire Department First Aid Truck
will be on hand.
Another feature will 6e the
hospital unit of the Naa-local
branch will
its equipment. The demolition
truck and decontamination unit
of the. local O.C.P., will be
shown; there will be a detail of
Nautical Cadets under Guy Rus-sell
and a band is expected from
Mitchel Field.
The Columbian Bronze Corp.
will, have a display in the high
school lobby, and after the out-door
program, there will be a
showing of motion pictures
loaned by the War Department
in the auditorium. Between films
there will be exhibitions of judo
wrestling, resuscitation using
the pulrnotor, by the firemen's
resque squad and a demonstra-tion
of how airplane observers
signal air raid wardens' when
necessary.
Richard A. White, director of
Civilian Protection for Nassau
County, will be the principal
speaker. Samuel.p. (%rberm^ll
be In charge of Jkhese-features. ""
Seymour Ooldblum
Become* Bombardier
Camp Midland, Texas, July 1—
Seymour Goldblum, son of Mr.
and Mrs. David Goldblum, of 50
Leonard avc., Freeport, has been
graduated from the local field,
one of the four comprising the
West Texas Bombardier Quad;
rangle.
He has had twelve weeks of
intensive training and will be as-signed
to one of the Army Air
Forces , navigation schools, an
operational training unit or a
post as an instructor for future,
classes of "lords of the
sight/'
Lobaugh Directs
School Playgrounds
Lawrence C. Lobaugh, prin-cipal
of the Seaman avenue
school, and widely known sports
omcial is supervisor of the sum-mer
playgrounds being conducted
perintendent of Schools John W.
Dodd has announced. He suc-ceeds
J. Wesley Southard, jr.,
now in the service.
There will be programs at the
Archer street, Columbus, Cleve-land
and Seaman avenue schools
Mondays through Fridays from
9 A.M., to noon, and 1 to 4 P,M.,
weekly. The playgrounds will be
closed on Saturday, Auv. 14.
T. Redmond "McKcnna will
have charge of spores at Archer
and ^3&ra* Harbld
. ...*;.'^-j»«'! supervise
Sanitation Workers
Ge Monday
Employees of the Department
of Sanitation are to be given a
holiday Monday, Edwin McKee-man,
manager of the department,
announced today.
This means there will be no
collection of rubbage on that
day. Mr. McKeeman urged that
everybody co-operate by getting
out all the rubbagc they can to-morrow
and Saturday. He said
every effort would be made lo
catch up with the collections
early next week.
Ensign Awlghl lo*#;
Wa$ Fpoepor* Lad
Ensign Richard A. Arrighi. son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Ar-righi,
of Post Lookout, a Coast-guardsman
who lost his Fife
crafts
there. Bichacd StrattOM, principal
at Cleveland avenue will take
charge of his own school, and
Frank Lane, sixth grade teacher
at Seaman avenue will have di-rection
of the Columbus avenue
playground. Mr. Lobagh heads
the work at Seaman avenue.
Athena Club Plan:
Luncheon July ?2
Plans for a box luncheon to be
given on the lawn of the home
of Mrs. William Martin, 67 No.
Bergen pi., on Monday after*
noon, July 12, were completed at
a meeting of the executive .board
of the Athena Club in the home
of the president, Mrs. Harold C.
Wilson, 89 North Bergen place*
l^ohday afternoon*
^rr/he—event is to be sponsored
by the Defense..,Chairman, Mrs.
Edward M; Robins. -Should-the
weather be inclement it will .be
postponed A ;lay, -^ -
- Mrs,]' Robins announced the
names of her district chairmen
as follows: Mrs, Henry Kranz,
Mrs. A. Robert Purdy, Mrs.
Frederick Janaen, Mrs. William
Ktanna, Mrs. Henry Single, Mrs.
J. Wesley Southard Jr., and Mrs.
Maurice B. White; and also Mrs.
Horace Weed and Mrs. Edward
Everett. ^
up in recent action in Atlantic
waters, was a fo'rmer resident of
Freeport. He attended the Ar-cher
sL, and Columbus ave.,
schools before his parents be-came
year-round residents of
Point Lookout.
Ensign Arrighi was a star run-ner
at Syracuse from which he
was graduated in 1942. He was
inducted into the Coast Guard
last November, trained at the
New London Academy where he
received his commission and had
had no leave since he
the service. _ -v
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M6f#a DJeT*
Hay Meme
JFraeport has lost another land-mark.
"For longer than most peo-ple
remember Charles and Burt
Willcts have been familiar sites
as they conducted their one-horse
express business throughout the
village. The nag had pulled many
a heavy load, but Sunday after-noon,
apparently' a victim of the
heat, he collapsed at Smith and
Grove sts.. as he was pulling a
load of salt hay to his barn on
Smith st., near Church.
The *hook and ladder was called
out and willing firemen did all
in their power to revive him, but
to no avaiK Then with Charles
holding the shafts and Burt.push^
ing. the Willcts brothers got the
hay into the barn.
Now._they arc 'looking,
other-horse. -~
School te Vote
in Fall as
2 Proposals Fail
Many Blank BaNots
Prevent Either
[Getting Majority
Another special election will
be called by the Board of Edu-cation
in the fall to select a site
for a new building for the Sea-man
avenue school as a result
of the failure of both the alter-native
sites to receive a majority
in last Friday's election.
Due to the large number of
blank ballots cast, each received
a plurality but under the law a
majority of all votes cast is
needed— to— select— a— site; — : --- 7
Site A, the Cohen property, in
the western end of the district,
which would have cost $20,000
came within ten votes of being
carried. In all 803 votes were
cast, so 402 affirmative ballots
were necessary for a choice.
Three hundred and ninety-two
voted for the site, and only 301
against it, a plurality of 91, yet
it lost. Of the remaining ballots
were blank and 14 void*
Site B, the Lenkcr property in
the eastern area, which would
have coat J&.100,000, received 313
aSirmatlve /vote*, .270
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BAPTIST MEN ELECT
John H, Diemer has been
elected president of the Men's
Club of the First Baptist Church
with Alfred Toell and William
Stmnk as vice-preddenta; Carl
H. Tewksbnry, secretary, and
Joel K. Pitcher, treasurer.
Win* lieutenancy
George Brockway. of 28? Mil-ler
ave., an air raid warden as-signed
to Post N, until he en-listed
in the Army on Dec 7,
last, was commissioned a sec-ond
lieutenant in the Army En-gineers
at Fort Belvoir, Va., on
June 2, friends here have learned.
Lieut. Brbckway is married
and has three chUdren. He is a
graduate of the Mineola High
School. Friends believe he is the
first air raid warden from Free-pot
to receive a commission.
Jonh V)eb?ock Awarded Z" 1_
Lieutenant'; Bap
Fort Benning, Gzq-July 1 —
John Vicbrock, son of Mr, and
Mrs. Cord Viebrock, is the lat-est
resident of Freeport, N. Y.,
to receive a commission as sec-ond
lieutenant. He was graduat-ed
from the Officer Candidate
School here Monday and was as-signed
immediately to Washing-ton
and Lee University, Lexing-ton,
Va., for additional training
in the Morale and Liaison Of-ficers
School.
Lieut. Viebrock's mother and
wife the former Miss Jean Bo-gan,
have gone to Lexington to
visit him. He* entered the serv-ice
last October.
^^vofd: y • ;'
of tSe 288,p«ra6n9,
who registered, but faiJ«d to
vote, cast baMots the result
might have been different. The
number of blank ballots was as-tonishing
to the election ofRcials,
especially in the case of Propo-sition
2, where 25 percent of the
voters failed to indicate a choice
for or against the proposal to
acquire the Lcnkcr property.
In all 101 persons voted "Yes"
»n both proposals. *
As soon as the result was
known, Leo F. Giblyn, president
of the Board of Education an-nounced
another election would
be held in the fall. He said, also
that the Cohen property having
been rejected three times, would
not be submitted to the voters
STEPHEN HUNT HURT
Village Treasurer Stephen F.
Hunt fractured his collar bone
when he * fell in his home, 61
Church St., Saturday evening.
He will Ipe unable to use his
left arm until the creak is healed.
. Some residents-. of the district
asserted that in the meantime
some way must Ke 76_und to get
%he residents pi., the District _to_
agree on on& plot for a new
school, so that the-matter could
be settled the next time. Failure
to do so probably would cost
the district any outside aid in
constructing the school as a post-war
project.
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Plan D#@@*r# Bridge
Plans for a dessert bridge to
be given on the lawn of the
home of Mrs. William J. Marvin
at 1.30 P.M., Thursday, July 15,
were made at a meeting .of Julia
Ward Howe Chapter 0, of U.,
1861 "5 held at the horn A of the.
regent, Mrs. George J. Glenz,
88 Atlantic ave.* Thursday after-noon.
The event is to raise funds
for the chapter's war efforts.
Contributions were voted to
the Freeport War Service Acti-vities
and the Salvation Anny^
Mr*. Wilbur G. Vogt was a
guest at the meeting, phe last
untU ^September. ^- .
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