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Page Eight THE LEADER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943
Kniffin Warns
Of Loss of Faith
In Money of P. S,
Talk* on Inflation
To Ro*a?v Club;
Oroup Win; Approval
A warning against American;
losing faith in their money was
issued by William H, Knimn
president of the Bank of Rock-villc
Centre Trust Co., in a talk
on "Inflation" to the Frceport
Rotary Club at its weekly dianer
in the Elks club house Thursday
night.
He pointed out that loss of
faith is evidenced by a desire to
turn money into other things as
the buying power of money de-creases,
Mr. who was intro-duced
by W. Sargeant Nixon,
president of the club, said at bh«
outset he wanted to take the
mystery .nut. of...the...term
tion. He explained, that if
prices" or the "high cost of liv-ing/'
is substituted the "mystery
will disappear." He said that
when a person goes up in an
elevator the doors seem to be
going down. This he added is an
optical illusion, which he applied
by saying money remained the
same but prices went up, the
buying power being the thing
that changed.
"Inflation can d.o more harm
than a pestilence or a tornado,"
Mr. Knimn added. He showed
how it could hit workmen, savcus
Freeport Kiwams Ball Tossers
Know How the Dodgers Feel Now
and, holders ot insurance pol-fcfes,
and continued: "We can*
afford to Jose values in the things
we prize most next to human
life."
The banker said the words that
wrecked Germany after the last
war could wreck this country.
These were, "A mark is a mark,"
which here would be a "dollar is
@ dollar," He said tibere were
"creeping inflation/' and,
away inflation," when everything
got out of hand as was the case
in Germany. There one week a
.worker got 1,000 marks, then
10,000 the next without his wife
getting anything more for her
money, until 630,000,000,000
J marks were worth only one dol-lar
in American money. He ex*
hibited a 500,000,000-mark note,
which before World, War 1*
.._ .would have been worth $125,-
000,000, but on which a friend
... had written*-a letter saying the
bank note-was-cheaper than sta-tionery.
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Rockvllle Centre Club
Humbles Team, 40 to 6
The Freepprt Kiwanis Club
softball team which swept every-thing
before for two years now
knows how the Dodgers must
feel. For it got a big dose ol
the treatment being haoded out
to the Durochcrites when it
stacked up against the Rockvillc
Centre Kiwaniana following an
outdoor supper on the grounds
of the Elks club. The visitors did
not mince matters in the least,
they just went rough shod over
their hosts to the tune of 40 to
6 in four innings.
-When the Rockville Centre
men rolled up 9 runs in the first
frame, the locals weren't worried.
For hadn't they given, their
Hempstead brethren a handicap
of eight runs in the initial stan-za
of their recent encounter, and
then trimmed them in. the end?
in the second inning and, 14 of
them crossed the plate, it was a
different story. <
Seven men. circled the bases in
the third. And, then came the
fourth. The winners rushed so
many subs into the fray it was
impossible to keep track of them.
So the scorckecpcr added, ten
more runs for good measure and
let it go at that. This brought
the total to 40, he said, and no
on.e disputed his figures.
As for the home team they
managed to push four runs
across in the second and two
more in the fourth. The bravest
man of the contest was Howard
Lawrence who made his debut
as a pitcher for Freeport and
stuck to his guns until the last
*man, was out.
Play of the visitors indicated
they had spsnt considerable time
at practice, for they certainly put
up a bang up game. Nothing
need "be said about the* work of
"the Frecportcrs. The score tells
the story.
Bousing Board
Beady to Bequest
Project Funds
Exchange Club Hear*
Edward B. Thmpson,
Authority Chairman
Edward B. Thompson, chair-man
of' the Freeport Housing
Authority, advised the Freepprt
Exchange Club at its weekly
luncheon in the Elks club house
yesterday that within a few days
an application would be made
to the New York Housing Au-thority
for a grant of approxi-mately
$750,000 with which to
carry out a project in Benning-ton
Park.
Mr. Thompson explained that
the improvement had been given
the approval of the Village Board
and Planning Commission, and
that the application would be
forwarded to Albany just as soon
T-^J,,.,J?crhaps...ihc..-,SMman. Avenue,!.as ,it.;could,..bc, approved .,by.,,the
awl^^might And a worthy ojppo-ncnt
in. the victors. Their man-ager
might like to contact Her-bert
Kastncr at the Dodge ofncc
in Rockvillc Centre.
,/' he explained;
"was that in"Gcrmany the noors
stood -attll, but the elcvatdi' Went
through the roof."
He added. that President
Roosevelt had "authorization to
have $3,000,000,000 in paper
money printed, at any time he
gave bk-e order, but people who
knew the disaster that would re-sult
we/e .appealing to him not
FOR THE BEST
CHINESE AMERICAN
FOOD
T*» ORMMNA1
SAVOY INN
88-90 W. MERRICK ROAD
Edward I, Hong
CHOW-MEIN TO TAKE OUT
to exercise this power. He said,
there were four escapes from in*
uation, getting gold, which is
out of the question, all of it
buried at Fort Knox; buying
commodities, which he ad,vised
against; buying real estate, which
he said was being'done now, and
buying common stocks. If all
these were carried to extremes,
he remarked!, things would get
out o! hand and there would be
no escape except by wipfn* out
everything and starting afresh*
Mr. Knimn warned, against a
spending spree after the war. He
said attendance at prize nghts
and movies, the prosperity of
restaurants and the Sunday travel
by train, indicated a tendency to-ward
a spending spree right now*
He pointed to the efforts in
Washington to stop this tend-ency
and, prevent people from
[oing haywire with their money.
CliKord, Sparks, pqst president
of the Hempstead Club an-nounced
District Governor Wal-ter
Sccley, of Portchestcr had
approved of the Freeport group
a provisional Rotary club and
announced it would receive its
chatter late this
iPrcsidant Nixon appointed El-vin
N. -Edwards, WllKam Lehr-feld
and Robert B. Paterson, a
committee t% nomlnaterthree oU-Tectors
fpr..election at .the nicctr;
ing"tonight. He also announced
the club has been increased to
30 members by the addltiohr-of
Barney Mcadc, Frederick E. Pat-terson,
Walter J. A. Mark and
Clifton B, Smith. Mr. Meade,
formerly active in a club in St.
Louis, led the singing.
Miss Jullanna Davis
To Wed Army Officer
The engagement of Miss Juli-anna
Davis, to Lieut. John Fred-crick
Rushmorc, U.S. Army Air
Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Edward Rushmore of Hcnryville,
Pa., has been announced, by her
parents, Mr. and Mr*. Wilbur L.
Y. Bavia, of 40 Woodbine Drive
Eaet..
Mis? Davis was graduated
from Frceport High School and
later attended Miami University,
Oxford, O. Lieut. RusJwnore is
assistant air corps supervisor of
a.Hying training detachment sta-tioned
at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Pvt. Barasch Writes
From Toccoa, Ga.
Ye Strolling Scribe is in receipt
of a post card (postage free)
. from Pvt. Baraschj Co.
35th Signal Const Bn., Toccoa*
GaJ Pvt. Barasch advises he is
now in the Smoky Mountains of
Georgia andrit is significant, that
as soon as he, Barasch, got in
the service, Mussolini decided to
call it a__day. «-r
There were aSmonlt ions on the
card-tor the .Scribe-of a personal
nature,- not exactly unprintable,
but certainly confidential mfor-
-mation, even if it was despatched
by Post Card. 'Oh well, lots of
luck, Herman Old Keed, and 111
keep 'em tossing till you return,
if you know what* I mean .....
The Strolling Scribe.
The chairman outlined the
history of the Authority.. He
pictured conditions in Benning-ton
Park, which he characterized
as an eye-sore to the village.
He said the project would be
financed entirely with' a bond, is-sue,
maturing in 50 years, to be
Boated by the state. It will be a
self - supporting proposition, he
added, and will not cost the tax-payers
of the village a cent.
, After the state had, given its
approval, experts from the au-thority
will map out the district
to be improved. Property then
will be acquired in. the name of
the authority so construction can
be started immediately after hos-tilities
cease. Mr. Thompson as-sured
the Exchange!tea that peo-ple
from neighboring villages
•would, have no opportunity to
"horn In" in Frceport, as the Au-thority
would see that only per-sons
who had lived in Bennihg-ton
Park would be permitted to
move into the apartments when
completed.
He said, that assessed valua-tions
would be frozen when the
property was acquired, and rc-
Uons Congratulate
Rockvllle. Centre
The Lions Club at its weekly
dinner at Otto's Tuesday night,
instructed Secretary Fred, Plump
to send a letter to the Rockvillo
Centre Village Board congratu*
lating the community on its 50th
anniversary, which fell on July
15. Plans are under way for a
celebration in September, it was
announced*,
President Worden E. Winne,
presided.
main at the same level for the
nfty year term of the contract.
Rents will average $5 or $6
a room, he added. Interest on
the bond issue will be about 2
percent and the state will give an
annual contribution as a subsidy
toward meeting the cost of the
project. He also said there would
have to be park and recreational
areas so that when completed
the project would, be, a great
boon to the village. The estima-ted
$750,000 cost of the improve-ment
is based on the limit of
2 percent of the assessed valua-tion
of the village, fixed by law.
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by John J. Randall, program
chairman for August and Dr.
J. Elmer Cummins, the president,
presided.
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and
SOFTBALL
EQUIPMENT
SPORTING GOODS
TOYS — LUGGAGE
70 So. Main Street
Tel. Peeper* 4480
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VIOORO — AORICO — SHEEP and COW MANURE
GRASS SEED — PET SUPPLIES — PEAT MOSS
POULTRY PEED — GARDEN TOOLS
BABY CHICKS — DUCKLINGS
ECKHAHDT PEED-& COAL
COMPANY
55 CHURCH ST. Tal. PREEPORT 2816
>M CHURCH ST. T*L BALDWIN
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IN VIEBROCK'S
ICE CREAMS
ARE FRESH
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9UNDAE 25c
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PEOPLE LIKEI
FRESH ONES — LOTS
OP "EM IN OUR
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AX,X, !CM Pit HAM — NO ICBS XX IT
28c Pin* 55c OuaM
VICTORY VANILLA XCE CREAM
AT
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,40 SOUTH MAIN STREET
Sodas — Lunches — Candles
WE CLOSE TUESDAY AT 8 P.M.
MONEY
BUY NOW
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W&R BONDS
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8TH YEAR NO. 10
NASSAU COUNTY
FREEPORT'S
OFFICIAL
PAPER
Village Saves
$1,000 in Cost
Of Insurance
Coverage Extended
Following Survey by
Home Rule Group
As a result of a survey con-ducted
by the Travelers Insur-ance
Co., the Village Board has
saved approximately $1,000 in
premiums on four policies al-ready
issued and expects to save
additional amounts as others ex-pire.
In addition, better coverage
is provided in the new policies
than under the old onjes.
One of the first acts of the
"^M&d^%wMl«c%o^o^
Rule Party on taking office in
April was to order an Insurance
survey which was conducted un-der
the direction of Robert S.
Prcyer, a local agent. The sur-vey
revealed that numerous lia-bility
policies of various limits
were in effect, many of which
were too small, calling only for
from $20,000 to $40,000. These
have been increased to $100,000
and $100,000.
Members of the Volunteer
Fire Department receive greatly
increased benefits under a pol-icy
voted by the Village Board
at it; noting last PtidagJ njr#«!
And the village will saive $275
in premiums. Under the policy
in effect when the Home Kuie
Party came into power, the wid-ow
of a fireman killed in the
performance of his duties, would
have received a maximum of
$3,000, plus $25 a month for each
child under 18 years of age, with
a limit of $50 a month.
Under the new policy, the
widow would be paid 30 percent
of the average weekly salary of
the fireman, for life, with an
addition of 10 percent for each
son or daughter up to 18, but
not exceeding an average of
66-2 3 percent of his weekly wa-ges
with maximum payments of
$150 a month for the family. '
Firemen' temporarily or per-
-jnanently disabled in the per-formance-
of their duties also
will received increased^ allowan-ces
over "niose""fprmerly paid.
Until, now they have received^
medical expenses up to only.
$500. Under the new policy, no
limit is fixed. Previously 'there
was no coverage for funeral ex-penses.
Now $200 is allowed.
Mr. Prcyer; asserted that this
would be go^d news to all fire-men.
He added that had the for-?
mcr administration desired, It
could have given this protection
to the firemen last year.
There* has been a saving of
about $800, about half of which
was the result of general rate
reductions, in insurance covering
the village automobile fleet, in-cluding
the cars of the Munici-pal
departments, Fire and Police
departments. And the single lia-bility
limit has been doubled at
a cost of only an additional $12
in premiums. Heretofore the
Coverage has been $50,000 to
$100,000. Now it is'$100,000 and
"$100,000.
"this benefit als.o has been ex
(Continucd on Page 8)
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Naz!*, Fall: InEnglwh Channel
Forced Back on Mission to Kassel
After Bombings of LeBourget Field,
Trondhelm, Kiel and Hanover
Following successful bombing flights over the LeBour-gct
Airport, near Paris;Trondhcim, Norway; Kiel and Han-over
in Germany, as co-commander of a Flying Fortress,
Lieut. Robert D. Patterson, of Freeport, and his crew wei
turned back by the Nazis while over Belgium cnroutc to
..
*
the American airmen are having
h anything but a picnic, the lieu-tenant
relates that the five mis-sions
in which he participated
were carried out in ten days. It
is interesting to note that the
LcBourget Airport is the one on
which Charles A* Lindbergh
Kassel, Germany, on Friday, July 30,
With three of their four mo-tors
out of commission, five
members of the crew bailed out
over Belgium and are reported
while
he. craft, landed in the
English Channel just off Dover
and were rescued by a flying
boat.
Lieut. Patterson describes the
ill-fated . trip in a letter to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
S. Patterson, of 185 Randall ave.,
received on Monday. To show
from Roobevelt Field over the
Atlantic to France.
The Frecport flyer wrote to
his parents that as the Fortress
set out for Kassel, it reached its
assigned altitude just as it cross-ed
the Belgian coast. When three
miles inland, three 88 MM. anti-aircraft
shells hit the plane one
of which knocked three of the
four motors out of commission*
The lieutenant continues that
Lieut. Jutzi, the other pilot, saw
the No. 2 motor smoking badly,
so they gave orders for the crew
to "stand by to bail out." In-stead
of waiting five of them
bailed out immediately and have
been reported as lost. Lieut. Pat-terson
..adds he was thinking
about jumping too, but changed
his "mind when the ship didn't
start to burn. His oxygen tank
was hit by a shell, but he found
another which he hooked U
his system. .
L__ "I then turned back to Eng=
land on our one motor/' the let-ter
continues. "I knew we would
not be able to make England so
we started preparing to crash in
the channel. We sent out distress
signals, and Collins, turret gun-ner,
and "Ginsberg, navigator,
started throwing out all remov-able
equipment. When we got
down to 3,000 feet, we could see
the coast of Dover. I never
thought that I would see the
white cliffs of Dover and be so
happy about it.
"When we got down to about
600 feet, Jutzi and I strapped
ourselves in securely. Collins
and Ginsberg and our top tur-ret
gunner sat down in the ra-dio
room. We hit the water in
normal landing attitude, but we
hit it pretty hard. Jutzi anjl I
had to get out a little window
and I .never believed it could be
done until I did it."
(Continued on .Page 3)
Priority Denied
Sound Blackouts
O.C.P. Official*
Shocked by Action
Taken In Washington
FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943
Village Declines
To Part with Trippers
A request from the New York
State Department of Public
Works for permission to 'remove
the trippers which control the
traffic lights on Sunrise highway
for north and south bound traf
fie so they could be used "at
strategic locations in the vicinity
of various aircraft plants" was
denied by the Village Board at
its meeting Friday night.
Mayor Clinton M. Flint ex
plained that these trippers had
been purchased outright by the
village. Police Chief Peter Elar
added that they cost $15,000.
Christ, Sheehan
Committee Posts
Nose Out Schryver
In Close Republican
Primary Contest
Otto J. Christ and John J.
The War Production Board J Sheehan, sr., were elected Rc-
Vielbig Appeals
Again for Delay
In Oil Decision
Polnts to Need
Of Uninterrupted
Current Here
Village Counsel Henry P. Viel-big
has sent another letter to N,
Knowlcs Davis, chief of the Al«
location Section, Power Division,
Office of War Utilities, in Wash-ington,
appealing for a delay in
the decision as to the amount of
oil allowed the village with
which to operate its Municipal
Power Plant until the oil situa-tion
is established.
"War giants and _vit_al ^c
nees consume' about 75 percent
of Freeport's total output," he
wrote on Friday. "For those
purposes it is again urged that
uninterrupted current is not only
advisable but indeed indispens-able.
Freeport provides such ser-vices
while on the other hand,
the alternate source of power,
has turned down the application
of the Village Board for priori-ties
to enable it to purchase
three Gamcwcll Horns with
which to sound blackout signals.
This action, announced this
week, came as a shock to the
local council of the Office of
f-^thd'^-'^
publican
quest of the
Long Island Lighting Company,
committeemcn in the never has, and because it trans-
166th Election District, with F. mits its juice over a stretch of
Wade Schryver finishing third in from 15 to 20 miles of overhead
an exceedingly close race in,the cables, never can render this
only Freeport contest in Tues- service. Its numerous outages, a*
day's primary election.
Only 16 Votes cparated theireord to
againat Freeport's moot reliable
three
the contrary,
had agreed to appropriate $4,000
with which to purchase the
horns.
Contending that
"dead spots" in
there were
the village
where the village fire horn and
the various sirens could not be
heard, the Advisory Counsel of
the O.C.P., appointed a commit-tee
late last year, with Chief Sec-tor
Warden John Brownlie, as
chairman, to select the best horn
that could be obtained to sound
the blackout signals, so as to be
prepared in the event of an ac-tual
air raid.
After trying out 'various devi-ces/
the committee had a survey
made by the Gamcwell company
which recommended the placing
of three horns at strategic pla-ces
in the village.
On receiving this report, L.
kts.fop.the two com-lconthMie.* " /\.';\ ., \. //•'•:'r;7VA'lL-iZI
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Sheehan, a newcomer, and they supply whose units of produc-polled
351 and 144 votes.respect- tion includes the Columbian
ively. Mr. Schryver, senior com- Bronze propeller organization, is
mittceman from the district, run- the U.S. Navy. The Columbian
ning independently for re-clec- Bronze Corp., ia one of three
tion received 135 votes, 16 less major propeller producers for
than his former co-committee- the U. S. Navy and requires un-man
and only nine less than Mr.
Sheehan.
There were no Republican
contests in the other fourteen
Election Districts and none at
all in the Democratic elections.
In addition to electing com-mitteemen
candidates for offi-ces
to be .filled at the annual
election on Tuesday, Nov: 2,
were nominated. Here too there
were no contests. Frceport has
one representative each on the
Republican, Democratic and
American Labor tickets. They
are Comptroller Tl}c,o.dp,r_e Be-interrupted
service of power
supply which Freeport to date
has furnished. The Navy is vi-tally
interested in this problem
and we will furnish continuous
power if oil is granted us.
"Because of the frequent out-ages
taking place on the Long
Island Lighting Company lines
in territory surrounding Free-port,
we feel any dependence on _
this source of service might be
disastrous for our war industries,
and the responsibilities for chan-ging
to such an uncertain source
,pf supply is something the Free-
Burton Cassin, assistant Jjrecj.orJ.dell, s«eKmg re-election on the por^ officials dp.not care to as-of
"Civilian Protcctfoir^For Free- Republican slate;
port; Mr. Brownlie, Fkc Chief Mack, Democratic nominee for
Kenneth Lewis and othetTap-..District Judge in.the first dis-pcarcd
before the Village Fath-' trict, which takes in the entire
ers at a special meeting. They county, and Edward Marks, Am-explained
the situation, said that erican Labor Party choice for
adoption of the plan would help judge in the second district,
to maintain the morale of the
800 Air Raid Wardens and other Village Deposits
O.C.P* workers, and best of all
would provide an alarm system
that could be used by the Fire
Department when the danger of
air raids was over.
After listening to these argu-ments,
the board agreed to the
plan, and ordered the horns.
Total $419,359
Vlelblg on Bench
In Johnson's Absence
Village Counsel Henry P.
Vielbig is enjoying his first ex-periences
*on bench. He is
acting Village Magistrate during
the absence of Judge Hllbert R.
Horace F. Carpenter, chairman
of the finance committee, re-ported
at the Village Board
meeting Friday night that the
village had $419,359.70 on deposit
in the two local banks.
Judge Hilbert F. Johnson col-lected
$164 in fines in the local
court during. July, his monthly
report showed.
CRICKETS START CHIRPING
Crickets started chirping this
week. And everyone knows this
means we'd appreciate some of
Johnson at his country home in | this hot weather six weeks from
Maine. now.
2^. (<F wo port f aspect fully recom-mends
and asks that in view of
the foreging facts and -state-ments,
the decision of the prop-er
authorities be deferred until
such time as the oil situation is
established."
Alpha Council, D. of A.,
Plans for Reception
Plans for a farewell party for
Mrs. Wilhelmina Brocre, of Ba-bylon,
deputy state councilor,
and Mrs. Lillian Johnson, of
Frceport, the district, deputy,
were made at a meeting of Al-pha
Cpuncil, D. of A., at its
meeting Friday night in Pythian
Hall. The event will take place
at the next meeting on Friday
night, Aug. 20,
Mrs. Helen Ray nor, chairman
of ways 'and means, is in charge
of arrangements assisted by Mrs,
Elizabeth Pettigrew. Mm. Emma/
Terry, the councilor^ presided.
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