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Pag* Elgh* THE LEADER, THURSDAY; NOVEMBEA*25; t943
,^_,r._. Bernard
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Mr. ^and Mrs^ Frank Ciotti; of
199 East Seaman ave., have learn-ed
their son, Bernard C*otti,who
arrived overseas last week, has
been promoted from second to
:Rr% lieutpnahC LleutJ
is 28, was graduated from Free-port
High School In 1934.
While employe J by Doubleday
Dpran & Co/In Garden City, he
took correspondence courses and
he was a clerg in the Freeport
Post Office when he was called
*nto service on Feb. 7, 1941. He
received his basic Draining- at
Fort "Monmouth, N, J., later was
stationed at Governor's Island
where be was made a master
sergeant and he was commission-ed
a second lieutenant at Aber-deen,
Md., on Jan. 1, last.
Later he served in Florida 'and
was at Way cross, Ga., before
leaving for foreign service. He is
m the Ordnance Department.
Methodist Women to
Have Two-Day Bazaar
Plans for the annual bazaar oJ
the Women's
.of- 4he .J?rcepori... Metho-dist
Church to be* held in the
church on Thursday and Friday,
Dec. 72 and 3 were completed at
the monthly meeting in the
church on Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Edward R. Robins, the pre-sident,
presided, A donation of
$S was voted to the National
War Fund campaign.
Mrs. Howard Combes, general
chairman of the fair announced
euppcr would be served both
nights. The first night will be
In charge of Mrs. Edward Tow-ner,
and the cost will bt $1.
Mr*. E. A. Pollard janes and
the
Merrll / Sumrhers*
ll.S^ Summers," %lr
. a»d Mrs, . Willis,, M.; Sum-mers
of 177 Wallace st., was Re-cently
appointed a NaVal,.Avlaj
tlon Ca^ej: and transferred to the
Naval Air Training Center,
sacola, Pla., for intermediate
flight training. ^
Prjor to entering the Naval
service, he attended Dartmouth
College, for two years.
On completion of the intensive
course Cadet J3*khmers will re-ceive
hjs Nayy "Wings of Gold"
with the designation of Naval
Aviator, and will be commission-ed
an Ensign in the 'Naval Re-serve
or a Second Lieutenant in
the .Marine Corps Reserve.
Lutheran Couples
Have Barn Dance
the Couples Cluj.b of .. Chri•st
Lutheran Church conducted a
bam dance and sgcial in the
Baptist Circles Man
Joint Meeting/ Dec. 14
There will be a joint meetmg
pf T$e Lakes' Circle and the
.Evening Circle of the-First Bap=_
tist Church in the church on
night, Dec. 14. Plans for
the event were made at a meet-ing.
of the latter group in the.
home of Mrs. William Strunk, 48
Craig ave. There were 21 in at-tendance
and Miss Ruth Ranter,
the president, presided*
Mrs. W. Wi Winship, jr., led
the devotions and Miss Etta
Johnson, conducted the mission
study, reviewing three books on
missions. It was voted to turn
all finished work on hand over to
the Freeport Red Cross Branch
Yul*
Home Oqlpg fund
William Clinton Story Post,
A.L., at its semi-monthly meet-ing
Friday night in the dugout
voted a donation of $10 to the
fund being raised "by the New
York State Department to pro*
vide funds to enable soldiers
lacking money, to go to their
homes over Christmas.
Joseph W. Teller, a veteran, of
World War 2 was elected to
membership. Membership Officer
Paul A. Welll reported the post
had a paid up enrollment of 207.
Marilyn Jean Vogt
Marks 11th Birthd/ay
Marilyn Joan Vogt, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur G. Vogt
of 459 South Crove St., enter-tained
a group of friends ant
class mates from the Archer st
Roosevelt Chapel, Babylon Turn-' school at her home in honor of
pike, Roosevelt, Friday night.
Those who attended were attired
awpper ;, the aecbnc? jqfght-wJJ
J " be "450 cents
Chairman of tAo various booths
are as follows: Baker goods,
Mrs, John W. Southard; dolls,
Mrs. Joseph Zalnor; aprons, Mrs.
Arthur Faurot ; miscellaneous,
Mrs. Edward Young; handker-chiefs,
Mrs. Frederick Richards;
fancy goods, Mrs. Wallace Post,
and white elephant, Mrs. Mabel
Hansen*
P.'T.A. Smorgesbord
Nets $100 for Welfare
Nearly $100 was realized for
the Welfare Fund of the Colum-bus
avenue school Parent-Teach-er
Association at the third annu-al
smorgesbord luncheon served
lh" the social hall of the school
Thursday. Practically all the
in fact. any old. apparel. There
were prizes for the moat grotes-que
and original costumes.
Proceeds of the cyent will be
used to supply Christmas gifts to
the men and women from., the
church in the government serv-ice.
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Mystic Rebekahs Plan
For Two Functions ^
Plans for an entertainment and
Christmas party were discussed
at a meeting of Mystic Rebckah
Lodge, LO.O.F., Thursday «i$ht
In ?ythJa»* HaM. Dates for the
wr be announced later.
Ethel 'Halverid%A
as noble grand.
Thete _ will be a meeting of
Mystic Circle to-morrow after-noon
in the home of Mrs. Ida
Blair, 20 Johnson pi. The. Past
Noble Grands Association will
meet with Mrs. Qladys Gremple,
1 Oak st,, next Wednesday at
2 P.M. ... '• \ •
her llth birthday anniversary
During the evening messages
were received from Marilyn's
two brothers, George"an"cT W al-ter,
who are in the TJiS.N. Air
Force at Olanthe, Kan.
At the party were Madeline
Tunstall, Janet Sielckcn, Barbara
Fisher, Mary Vogt, Patricia
Newhoosc, Mortimer Tunstall,
Franklin Langdon, Richard Mit-thower
and Jack Hibbard.
Lutheran Women Take
Annual Thank Offering
The annual thank-offering for
the Women's Missionary Society
was taken., at a meeting of the
Ladies' Aid Society . o( Christ
Church- Thursday at t-
ship, as guestW sUpe^ak^er^,^ ga vWe ma-
TSIITon the work of Dr. Sea-grave,
a Mu'ssionary to Burma.
Before the meeting luncheon
was served by the Gold Circle,
Mrs. Walter Redding, chairman.
Plans for the Christmas party on
Dec. 16, will be made at the next
meeting on. Thursday, Dec. 9.
of lunc%^n"a^^c^ "and boners
including memKersr residents^SI
tht community and even Jiosiness
men 3rom MainuiL. -were-served:
"" w a js"
cEalrman - of the — arrangements.
committee. Mrs* Cornelius B.
Kelly is the P.-T.A. president.
A N5W/ CLEAN
HVE CHICKEN
M A R K E T
Uva and Dfesaed Broiler;
Ceiling Price —,46c
Dressing 10c pe?-Bird-Extra Z
CHICKEN FEED AT MONEY-SAVING
PRICES. PRATT'S FOOD
Temple Men'@ C#ub
Plan* Dinner, Smoker
Plans for a fall dinner and
smoker to be given in the Elks
'club house-on Wednesday night,
Dec. 15, were made at the semi-monthly
meeting of the Men's
Club of Temple Israel Thursday
night. Myron Cohen, one of Leon
and Eddies* masters of ceremo-nies,
will officiate in that capac-ity
and bring his complete show
with him.
A Hofstra professor will lead
the discussion group at a meet-ing
Thursday night-in the Tem-ple.
Refreshments wore served^
and a social time followed..
Use the "Right PMlnC
for the "Right lob."
Produces a
Soft Velvet Finish
$1.95 per gal:
ThlbAut Wall Papers
J. MIHrr Abr.
A. Siegel & Co.
@f nice In our atore
Sou*h Main 8*.
FREEPORT 6100-01
Open Dally: 7:45 n.m. to G p.m.
y: 0:00 p.m.
MOEY
BUT NOW
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8TH YEAR NO. 26 FREEPORT, N.Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2. 19JS
Air Raid Warden*
Dr(ed to Realize
, Ryan
And Brownlle CauMon
Members of Post J
J, W, Neuodorf er Died in Craah
On Retm^o from Bombing
5 CENTS A COPY
G*rm@n Prl@on*r
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore T. Neuhdorfer, of South Grove
st., were mystified a week ago when they received a War
Department telegram advising them of the death of their
W. Neundorfer, at Chelvesion, England,
were strongly reminded at a
meeting in the basement oj the
Lexington Apartments Monday
son, 2d
on Nov. 15.
They had heard he had taken *
'" on Wilhcl.ns-
BUY WAR BONDS
REAL KENTUCKY
CANNEL COAL
No; Ordinary Soft Coal
FIRE PLACE LOOS 4* dn$! 24
#n«h Sixes
EckhardtFed&CoalCo,
SEEDS - SHEEP and COW MANURE ^ PEAT MOSS
CHEMICA1MWIUHRB — OABOBM-T*
R^C@UPPUES ^"P
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Baldwin 1MO fraepor* 2818
Home Made
French BuMer
and
Cream Caramel;
messages by Richard A. White,
director of Civilian Protection
for Nassau County, and in re-marks
by Cyril C. Ryan, assist-ant
director of Civilian Protec-tion
for Freepo?t;. John ISrownT
lie, sector warden, and Sub-sector
Wardens Stuart Wallace and F.
Jack Godfrey. Senior Warden
John J. Leonard presided.
Director White called for con-
However, the mystery was
up Monday when a let-thcrh
the lieuten-differcncc
between a dimout and
a blackout and advised the War-dens
holiday lights would be per-mitted
if provision was made for
turning them out in the event of
a blackout. He also described the
new butterfly anti - personnel
bomb, its appearance _snj how
80c Ib.
TRY SOME— THEY ABB
SOBE
HOME MADE
CHOCOLATE NUT and
FRUIT BRITTLE
79c Ib.
SEAL GOOD
CANDY APPLES ?0c
Sodas"={;%unches — Candles
WE CLOSE TUESDAY AT 8 P.M.
. Wallace CWpolce of ___,_ __
cent blackout and praised the
wardens of the post for being on
the job. Mr. Godfrey said he had
no complaint to make concerning
the men of Post J. Mr. Brown-lie
spoke of possible post war
projects.
Mr* Ryan told of many men
who never had -interested them-selves
in civic affairs before, but
had '"Joined wholeheartedly in
their work as air raid wardens
and appealed them not to per-mit
themselves to lapse into in-difference
after this work is
ve^ha
iXhe
"We should voluntarily sec it
through until we have a final
dismissal." He- cautioned that any
post-war plan must be of such a
riature as to..hc of real service to
the community.
"The ngl%" kind "6T" planning
over. "The job wc^havc taken
up is not finished^ he asserted.
but had received no indications
he had suffered injuries in that ?"*' ^""^ D. Buwcn, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Buwcn,
of 48 Lester ave., was killed in
action in Italy on Oct. 28, ac-
•—Department
message r^eived by his mother.
He was a member of Our Holy
Redeemer R. C. Church where
prayers for his soul were said
Sunday morning.
Pvt. Buwcn entered the serv-ice
on Oct. 28, 1942, and was
sent to Camp Campbell, Ky.,
where he was trained in the
aimed infantry as a machine
gunner. After five months of
training he was sent overseas.
He was enabled to see his fam-ily
for twelve hours before he
^sailed^ _He^ w-a^s_; -bom in Bin;-
turning home from a mission.
Lieut. Neundorfer, was 21 years
in June, about which
was home on ;
the last time his folk saw him.
Hr was a member of the 14th
regiment, National Guard, when
called into service at the age of
18. He received his wings at
Luke Field, Ariz., last June. He
captained the boxing and golf
teams .while at Freepprt High
[cfply an@" hel37^ihe \ :il3rjpouna
Stl3(^BAohd -gpair^Mg 'titles/
While the '" "' " '
surprised by the bad news that
reached them a week ago, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph S. Chichester,
of 47 Lexington ave., are equal-ly;
mystified a&:,to how their son,
2d Lieut. Stanley R. Chichester,
co-pilot of a B-17, who was re-potted
as missing in action over
Germany, on Oct. 14, turned up
safe in England a month later.
Lieut. Chichester wad supposed
S*or@s Open Nights
Until Christmas Eye
In anticipation of the -Christ
mas season, all stores in Free
port will remain open nightly be
ginning to-night and continuing
through Saturday, Dec. 24, John
D. Easterlin, chairman of the
Retail Council of the Freeport
Chamber of Commerce announc-ed
this week. Beginning Monday
night, Dec. 26, the stores will
return to their regular hours, re-maining
closed Monday, Tues-day
and Wednesday evenings
and keeping open Thursday, Fri-day
and Saturday.
Freeport merchants arc count-ing
on a busy season and have
stocked up accordingly. How-ever,
they have issued a "warning
that it will be a case, of-first"
come first served as they cannot
guarantee,.that they. .wilL.be able
to replenish depleted stocks at
the last mcmcnt.
Buwen is in the Air Corps at
Santa Ana, Cal., training to be-come
a flyer. He has been in
service since Nov. 18, 1942, and
has just returned to camp after
n FreeporL
SATURDAY
Ruth Floyd Woodhull Chapter*
D.A.R* will hold its monthly
meeting at the home of the re-
60 fortcsses were lost. While his
family was hoping against hope
he had parachuted to safety and
been taken prisoner, they recelv-ed
a cablegram from him Inform-ing
them he was safe, would
write later and advising them to
Write to-him at his o1d-addrc_ss,_
They are stHl waiting for a let^
ter that will clear-away, the mys-
"WALLY WANTS TO SEE
Either Station — Sav6 Ga@^=? Go to the Nearest
In our sendee chain.
WAU.ACE & COMPANY
Sun?l@e a# Bpyvlew Avenue
J@rry^Bfpw#V"Ff@6|3@ft A171
7 A,M. to7RM.DAILY
Open
8 to 6 ,
Except
Monday
MAIN $TREET
SERVICE STATION
"TINY*^ 'ED; LANE
MAIN3T. a#*H)EUL
Sunday
9 to 5
SUPERIOR SERVICE STATION
Mewlck Road a* Long Beach
"WaMy'v-Fr@eporl %Qg
8 .to 6 P.M. DAILY
•fun* Upr-SPARK PLUGS-r!
EXlbEBATTEAlESj^CHARGlNG
WINTERTZA
You* daa Now
ANP GEAR OIL CHANGES-LUBRICATIONS
MOBILOIL
iANi> RENTAlS-Sf ARTERS ANDkGENERATCfRS REPAIRED <
""hiunity arouses public, optnjon
and guide* the planners In
-Anally trying— to" improve
community into—a better place
for your wife, your children,
your returning veterans and
you/' he declared.
A report from Samuel D.
Gerber, who was chairman of
the Third War Loan, showed
members of the post sold $213,-
. 424 .worth of bonds, and that
Slgmund M. Kalban led the vil-lae
with individual sales totaling
379,000,
at 2:30 P.M. The committee on
Approved Schools, of which Mrs.
J. Edwin Clark.is-chairman, will
be in charge, and gifts-will be
received for Tammassee, the
D.A.R. school in the South. Mrs.
Frank Wctmforc will be chair-man
of hospitality. .-
Patrolman Hammer!
To Baqome a Marine
Patrolman Wilton I. t^ainmerl,
of 319 I^icll &t., has been ac-cepted
for the U,S. Marine Corps
and will be inducted next week.
He will be the seventh member
of the Freeport police force who
hag been called into active ser-
,226 Raised
As Fund Drive
Approaches End
Village Still Pa*
8hy of $15,000 Goal;
las* Meeting Monday
With the final meeting sched-uled
for Monday night, actual re-ceipts
from donations to the
Freeport quota of $15,000 in the
National War Fund drive to-day
totaled $10,226.85. This was the
sum reported Monday night at
which time additional gifts of
$1,229.68 were reported to Dr.
.Milton B. Wald.nan, the village
chairman.
rom the business groUp, headed
by Milton Danziger; $378,90,
commerce and industry, Robert
. Patterson, chairman; $90 from
employees, Mrs. Frederick White-house,
chairman; $437.50, housc-o-
house canvass, Henry Von-
Elm chairman; $25, South Nas-sau
Communities Hospital Aux-hary;
$23, physicians, Dr. John
y.* Shell, chairman/ and $125,
special gl(ts, JSdward
son, chairman.
,
individuals. They are Roy
Bemthoh, 80 Stevens st.; Mal-colm
A. Bird, 185 Washington
at.; Calvin D. Givena, 10A
erly pi., and William A. Wood,
168 Stokes ave.
Eight others have been called
nto the army and will be in-ducted
following exercises in the
Legion dugout on Thursday
morning, Dec; 9.
They are: John E. Almeya, 43
North Main st.f James L, Bugg,
10 Waverly pi.; Peter C. Cassel-a,
43 Queen st.; Kenneth Law-son,
147 Pennsylvania ave.; Al-
!rcd P. Fendcrson, 36 Newton
blvd.; Douglas J. Main, 5J7 So.
Ocean ave.; James A. Marchuck,
23$ Rose st., and Rocco Vdlcnti,
87 Archer st.
Rotqry Gets Charier
Waldman expressed
that the $12,500 mark would be
passed at the next meeting. He
assured the workers be was not
going to give up until the goal
was reached.
It was asserted at the meet*
ng that at least 3,000 men, wo-men
and boys, all local residents
employed In the varlooa war
plants in Nassau County had do-nated
a Jay*: pay'each to the
campaign for which Freeport did
not receive a cent of credit. It
was pointed out that $1 from
each of these would put the com-munity
over the_ top.
]f cc*n-jejiture.
they, think" he ..may jhave
CTTanhei
rescued/ or some R&p.la-tcd
area in ^Scotland from which
he, and probably his companions,
had to spend some time travel-
— Rotarians -from—near- and - far
joined in welcoming tKc "Rotary
Club of FrceporT'a^No. 5673 in
the order at its charter night ex-ercises
in the Elks club house
irfg to get in touch with the Ar- Saturday night. Heads of other
my authorities. Any way they service clubs in the village join-
40-HOURS' DEVOTION
A mass opening a 40 - hours'
devotion was celebrated by the
Rev/ )ohn J. Mahon, the pastor,
at Our Holy Redeemer R. C.
dhurch Sunday at 9 A. M. It
closed with a solemn high mass
Tuesday at the game hour. There
was a solemn procession of
school children and a guard of
altar.
occ..on.
The cablegram dated Nov. 14 Delegations from clubs in
did not "arrive here until the 18th, Hcmpstead, the sponsoring unit;
The war Department wire advis- Garden City, which co-operated;
ing the family Lieut. Chichester Oyster Bay, Huntingdon, North-was
missing was dated Oct. 25.
Lieut. Chichester Is 26. He
was graduated from the Free-port
High School and was as-sociated
with the Chase National
Bank In New York, when called
with the 7tn Regiment, National
Guard. He received his commis-sion;
and Wings at the Army Air
Base, Dalhart, Texas, shortly
before,going pyerseas,
Lieut. Winton L. MacCarter,
pilot of a Flying Fortress, which
war forced down ove? Grmany on
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port, Glen Cove, Patchogue, Bay
Shore, Moriches, Brooklyn, Ja-maica,
Queens, Farmingdalc,
Sayville, New York, Scarsdalc,
Port Chester, Ossining, Green-wich,
Conn,, and the Overseas
Fellowship responded to the roll
call of Arthur Aitkehhead, May-or-
elect of Glen Cove.
Joseph H. Gray, represented
the Kiwahis Club; Dr. Jr Elmer
Cummins, the Exchange Club,
Fred C. Berge, the Freeport In-ter-
C)ub Council; and*Russell E.
Hotaling, the Exchange Clubs of
the'StateCdf-New .YorE, of-which
^ WiS-ne,
president of, $hc Fr.e.eport
Lions Club was prevented frcm
attending.
Clifton Sparks, who represent-ed
Walter G. Seely, of Port
Chester, district governor of the
174th district,^during the organi-zation
period was toastmastcr.
The Rev. A. Gordon MacRury,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, gave the invocation.
Mayor Clinton M. Flint gave the
official welcome. He said in
years gone by many had made
light of service clubs without
understanding the work they
were doing. .
He added the new group was
made up of representative Mien
of the; village, and that it was a
'great pleasure to welcome the
guests of the evening. He pre-dicted
that the men of Rotary
would 4o much for the commun-
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Legion to Observe
School Mghk&lday--
School night will be observed
William Canton. Story Post,
TaT its "semi-monthly uns^t*
dug-out,
rMs$SLrHarry Gross, super*j-m'temleht
of schbol^Tj^Lthel uii« -
incorp^d rated— aceas^of the Town
of Hempstcad, will give an ad*
dress on /'What Must, Education
Offer to the Returning Vete-rans?"
He will be Introduced by
Dr. John W. Dodd. Most of the
school districts in this vicinity
are expected to be represented
at the meeting.
Major Gross is a veteran of
World War 1, and served. for a"
time in the present conflict. He
was in charge of the Induction
centre at Camp Upton and later
was stationed in Texas.
CARP. PISHKIND HOME
Corp. Arnold Flshkind, H. R.
B. E* Newport News, Va., son
of Mrs. Rose FbhWnd of 62
Church rd., returned to his com-mand
to-day after amending a ten
days' furlough at hla home here.'
He has been in the Anny
teen months. , /
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