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Redeemer
THE LEADER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1944
Meet
Mrs. Alfred Fassino, presi-dent
of the Women's Auxiliary
of Our Holy Redeemer School,
entertained the other ofncers
and committee chairmen^ at an
executive board meeting in her
home, 11 Lincoln pi. Plans were
discussed for the future work of
the group.
In attendance were Mrs. Fred
Weber, vice-president; Mrs. Jo-seph
Walsh, corresponding sec-retary;
Mrs. William Barry, re-cording
secretary; Mrs. Francis
X. Mcrklin, financial secretary;
Mrs. Joseph Ustica, treasurer,
and the following /Committee
chairmen: Mrs. Joseph Carpcn-itei,
ways and means; Mrs. Jos-eph
Griesmer and Mrs. William
Mullooly, hospitality; Mrs. Ray-mond
Coughlin, membership;
Mrs. James A. Fraser, publicity;
Mrs. Joseph Ttemcy, 'printing;
Mrs. Roy Yager, and Mrs. Ed-jar
W. . Booth, entertainment;
Mrs. William Sanon, health;
Mrs. Matthew Doyle, welfare;
Mrs. James Gilchrist, parliamen-tarian;
Mrs. Edward Riley and
District Deputy Attends
Nazareth Sh/lne Meeting
Mrs. Dorothy Hansen, a past
high priestess, and district dep-uty
of the First District, attend-ed
the January meeting of Na-zareth
Shrine, Order of the
White Shrine of Jerusalem, .Fri-day
night in Spartan Temple.
Mrs. Mildred Herrmann, worthy
high priestess, and George
Plossl, watchman of shepherds,
presided. A hand crochctted bed
spread donated by Mrs. Marga-ret
Hcrpick, was awarded to
Mrs. Marie Schaedler, of Queens
Village.
Past Worthy High Priestesses
and Watchman of Shepherds in
attendance were Mrs. Elma Tat-je,
Mrs. Louise H. Bohrer, Mrs.
Anne Lindsay, Mrs. Helen Ge-muth,
Mrs, Teresa V. Thayer,
Mrs. Helen Blackmon, Mrs.
Grace Anderson, Mrs. Henrietta
Fay and Mr. and Mrs. C, Cur-tlu
Fulton.
Mrs. Edward F. Mcancy,
blanket club. The hostess serv-ed
refreshments.
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Ruth Floyd Woodhull Chapter,
D.A.R., will give its annual
birthday party at its February
meeting in the home of Mrs.
A. W. Place, 186 South Ocean
avc., Saturday^ afternoon.
The Americanism Committee,
of which Mrs. W. Carl Critten-den
is chairman, will have charge
o/ the program. Capt. H. F. Glo-ver,
commandant of the Naval
Ordnance plant in Baldwin will
give the address. Mrs. Robert
C. Dennett, the regent,, will pre
side at a business meeting.
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H.N.S. MEETS MONDAY
Robert Love will show seve«
rat reels of travel films at a
meeting of the Holy Name So-ciety
of Our Holy Redeemer
Church Monday night in the
school hall on Pine at. Luke M.
Dorney, the president, will pre-side.
Christian Science ,
"Spirit" is the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Churches
of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday.
The Golden Text is: "We
though the Spirit wait for the
hope of righteousness by faith"
XGalatians 5:5).,
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8TH YEAR NO. 36 FREEPORT, N.Y;, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1944 5 CENTS A COPY
RYAN AND WOOD HOME RULE PARTY CANDIDATES
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Member Freeport Chambe.r of Commerce
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80 SOUTH MAIN STREET
FREEPORT 3371
S T O R E H O U R S
Mon* Tues., Wed.^9 A.M. to 6 P.M.
THURS. and FRI.—9 A. M. to 9 P. M
SATURDAYS — 9 A, M. to 10 P. M
MADE FROM
OUR OWN KITCHEN!
- HME-MADE
FRENCH CHOCOLATE
UR BEST FKENCH CHOCOLATES
IN BEAUTIFUL HEART SHAPED BOXES.
$[.49 Ib. $2-2? 1% Ib.
EXTRA PANCY
Workers Organize
For'44RedCroM
War Fund Drive
Dodd Pick* Aide*
For March Campaign;
Quota Is A walled —
With Dr. John W. Dodd as
chairman, the executive commit-tee
which is to conduct the 1944
Red -Cross war fund drive start-ing;
March 1, met in the confec?
cr.cc room in the Municipal
Buildmg Sunday afternoon and
Cecil H. Ma Hood principal of
the Archer street school, was
named chairman for the Junior
Red Cross; Russell E. Hotaling,
c h a i r m a n for organizations;
George A. Scavcr, executive-vice-
president of the Columbian
Bronze Corp., chairman for com-merce
and industry; Henry Rob-erts,
chairman for the house-to-house
canvass and special gifts;]
Robert E. Patterson, for theatres'
and Mrs. Roy R. Gockley public-
'ty- . . .
*Dr. .Dodd stressed t^e. need of,
mdbrtance ,
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would make an especially good
showing during the first week
of the campaign.
It was decided to meet again
on Sunday, Feb. 20 at 3 P.M.,
in the Municipal Building and to
arrange for a meeting of all
workers on Monday night, Feb.
28, at a place to be selected later.
Sunday, Feb. 27, was designated
as Red Cross Sunday when ap-peal
will be made in the
churches of the villages. The first
report meeting will be on Tues-day
night, March 7.
Dr. Dodd expressed the hope
that residents of Freeport would
car-mark any contributions they
make in the places of their em-ployment
so Freeport will re-ceive
credit for them. He said
the village quota Haft not been
announced yet, but that it "
P(c. Paul C. Behrend*
Killed In Action
Pfc. Paul C. Behrendt, jr.,
whose parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul C. Bchrendt formerly lived
at 36 Porterfield pi., was killed
in action while fighting in the
Mediterranean area, the War
Department has announced. His
folks moved to Brooklyn last
July.
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of the B.P.O. Elks with State President Michael J. Gilday
(left) and State Chairman John F. Scileppi.
The Freeport Lodge is playing*
its part in the campaign to fur-nish
500,000 pairs of clippers for
servicemen in Government hospi-tals.
Starting at 9 o'clock Sun-day
morning, members of the
lodge ' will tour the village in
trucks loaned for the purpose,
picking up materials, left on the
curb by residents of the com-munity.
Materials wanted are carpets,
rugs, linoleum, oil cloth, auto
covers, leather^ leatherette, mus-lin
felt, cotton goods, mattress
covers, canvass, draperies, sheets
and pillow cases and towling.
H. Alfred Vollmer is the lo-cal
chairman, while Thomas N.
dcGiacomo is exalted ruler.
Selected to
For Trusteeships
At March Election
Both Aggressive
And Campaign Will
Be a lively One
Cyril C. Ryan, of 109 Randall
avc., has been selected by the
Home Rule Party to succeed
himself as Village Trustee, with
Walter J. Wood, of 451 South
Grove st., chief clerk of the per-sonnel
department, of the Chase
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G.OJ, President
Installed by Gehrig
As Republican Head;
McCloskey Is Heard
Herman C. Dunker, on being
installed as president of the
Freeport Republican Club in
Spartan Temple Thursday night,
pledged to devote himself solely
to doing everything possible to
have the village roll up the high-est
majority possible for the Re-publican
candidate for President
next November.
He said -he did not count, nei-ther
Joseph H. McCloskey, the
leader, nor even J. Russel
leader, but
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Hove you done your port in the
"\7"OCR gallant Aghting men arc giving
X . all they've got to put over the knock-out
blow. But you mu*t do )'o»r share
to back them up. *
}'o«r share in this all-out drive mean*
investing in War Bond* until it hurts.
The very least you can do is invest in at
dollar Bond
and as ma»y n*or* a*
least one
(costs $75.)
possible.
Help your company meet its quota.
Display (he 4th War Loqn emblem at
home. Do this and you'll help your
country . . . help yourself.
Tbi* I* *o ofScial U. S. Treasury ailvematmeot—prepared un'**^ '*"* <• "itr*" »f T^@**ury Department and War Advertising CowcM.
MEMBER F.O.I.C.
$17,223.76.
"" ^MrsT Richard G,
to be] treasurer, and Mrs. How-ard
Pehl, secretary. Other mem-bers
of the committee are Mrs.
E. Freeman Miller, branch chair-man;,
M?s. Harold W. Battin,
Milton Danziger, Alfred T. Da-
Ivison, Dr. Herman C. Dunker,
/Charles F. Egan, Mayor Clinton
K. Flint, F, Jack Godfrey, Gco.
'W. Goeller, Leo P. Hanning,
Richard Wyse, the Rev. David
G. Jaxheimer, Mrs. William .J.
Martin, Joseph H, McCloskey,
Mrs. Robert Munkelt, and Cyril
C. Ryan*
NATIONAL BANK end
TRUST COMPANY
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W. O. SMITH PROMOTED
Arthur "H. Smith, son of Mrs
Harry Slepegrell of 288 South-side
ave., who has been station-ed
in New Caledonia, in the
Southern Pacific, for two years,
has just been promoted from
warrant officer to chief warran"
officer of hTs group. i
#644,790 Mark
Reached in 4th
War Loan Drive
All Seats Sold
For Bond Show
On Tuesday Night
Bond sales totaling $148,355 The nominations were made at
during the past week brought *^ monthly meeting of the Par-the
total for Freeport up to ^ Monday night in Junior Or-
$644,790 in the Fourth War der Hall, with Dr. George A.
Loan drive Monday night, Rob- Newton, the president, presid-crt
E. Patterson, chairman for *ng,
the village announced. This is Trustee Ryan was placed in
far short of the goal set for the nomination by Mr. Wood -who
community and means that hun- told o! Ma_deyotion to duty dur*
^^^
ork, as
the candidate for the Bother va-cancy
on the Village Board to
be filled on Tuesday, March 21.
Both arc aggressive and a lively
campaign is assured.
.=,. _ a Republican
"Presiding Supervisoc^JamcB N.
Gehfig installed President Dun-ker
and the rest of his staff. In
an- address following the induc-tion,
Mr. Gehrig assailed the
President and others in author-
.ty who Were trying to live down
the New ' Deal title, -which they
so proudly created, and wanted
to be called the "Win the War
Party." He asked what right
they had to seek such a desig-nation
especially as it was due
largely to their policies that the
United States entered the war.
"The war does not depend,
and the end will not depend on
whether Mr. Roosevelt continues
in office," Mr. Gehrig continued.
"The war will be won by the
men who have gone out from all
over the country, guided by the
generals, admirals and all those
in command.
"We would be in a sorry
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Dr. W. L Johnson
Commends Village
On Religious Unity
More than 250 residents of
Frceport attended the dinner
given by the residents of the
community to the members of
the Freeport Inter-Faith Clergy
Council Tuesday night in the
Elks club house. They represent-ed
every congregation in the vil-lage,
and gathered as an Indica-tion
of the unity existing among
the religious groups of the vil-lage.
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Dr. Willard L. Johnson, assist-
.anti_tp the president of the Na-tional"
Council-/ of "Christians "anjd
ys, gave-.ther?nnc%pa% address.
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Freeport is to'make even a »-**""**« the-development of Abe
spectabfe showing. f vHJaga and predicting he would
All .«a*. have b«@n dMpo.ed «* valuable add-on to the
of for the $300,000 bond
He commended the
Council and said*"the people of
Freeport were giving a demon-stration
to America and to the
world that "we stand for justice,
freedom and our own happiness."
After appealing for unity, he
concluded by declaring:
"No hate movement will ever
disrupt Freeport again. As I
sec Frceport from the outside,
the spirit of this community is
something I have not seen dup-licated
in this country. If this
spirit continues, Freeport will
give, as it is giving now, a spirit
no other community on Long Is-land,
in the United States or
anywhere in the world can give."
Past presidents' pins were giv-en
to the three men who have
Century Circuit Theatres an-nounced
to-day. O. Brook Bow-en,
chairman special events gave
out the program. !
The event will get under way
at 8:15 o'clock with a number
by the orchestra. Then will fol-low
remarks by Mayor Clinton
M. Flint, Mr. Patterson and
Surrogate Leone D. Howcll;
songs by Cantor Maurice Gan-choff,
a message by a Naval war
hero, Pauline Alpert, WOR pi-anist;
Vera Hollcy, Columbia
Broadcasting System singer; a
sketch by two WACs, who..jiave
seen service, Jessica-^Rogers and
Doris., Packer; Ruth ^Barnes, ac-ic
dancer;-sclectT6ns by the
Quartet, also the
served as executi;tves of the
council since its organization
John R. P. Goller, presented one
to the Rev. Reginald H. Scott
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Glen Brown trio, a monologue
by Jean Doyle, "the "Can You
Top This?" group; 'Maginis, a
magician and ' the film "The
Lodger," starring Merle Obcron,
Laird Cregar and George Saun-dcrs.
Sometime during the night
Lou ,Lchr will drop in.
A Nazi flag captured in North
Africa is in Frceport to-day to
Thomas Cann. When
the votes were counted, it was
shown that Mr. Ryan had re-ceived
56 out of a possible 59;
Mr. Wood, 32; Mr. Cann, 27,
and Mr. Wallace, 5. On recom-mendation
of Village Counsel
Henry P. Viclbig the nomina-tions
of Mr. Ryan and Mr.
Wood were made unanimous.
In expressing appreciation Mr,
Ryan declared it was a great
honor and a privilege to be nom-inated
by the Home Rule Party.
He recalled that last year, .there
were pnly. 13 persons present at
the mecting^Rsr the selection of
the candidates who were" swept
into b^Rce__dcfeating one of
chasers. This morning it was at
the First National Bank & Trust
Co., this afternoon at the Frce-port
Bank, later at Viebrock's,
and to-night after being display-ed
at the meeting of the Rotary
Club of Frceport in the Elks
club house it will be shown at
the various theatres. It is plan-ned
to take it back to England
from where it will be carried
over Berlin and dropped from a
Flying Fortress.
tory o _ . . .
hcwcvcr, that to win again this
year, everyone would have to get
out and hustle.
Mr. Wood asserted that if be
did half as good a job as Trus-tee
Ryan had done, "I'll think
I've done a good job."
It was decided to start circu-lating
the nominating petitions
quickly as possible. President
be autographed by bond pur- Newton was authorized to ap-point
a Committee to !Fill Va-,_
cancies and a campaign commit-tee
headed by Robert S. Preyer.
Only Mr. Ryan*s name had been
placed in the prepared petitions
leaving his running mate to be
listed later.
Before the nominations the
by-laws of the party were re-vised.
The third Monday night
of each month was selected -as
the meeting day. However, the
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