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Caaf ';\
JMejnberR nf
I'ff'v"?
the WUliam QUnfon
Story Pot, American Legion* and
Mohr Post, Vet-erans
of Foreign War this week
launched their annual pre-Mem-
Day poppy drives to obtalh
funds with which to conduct their
welfare work.
Mayor Wordon E. WInne pur-chased
the first poppy from Mrs,
Florence Kurze, chairman of the
Legion Auxiliary's committee, In
the Dugout Tuesday afternoon.
To-day (Thursday) workers with
their popples and banks, are
centratlng In the banks, the ele-mentary
schools and at the rull-wad
station. To-morrow and Sat-urday
Morning they .will concen-trate
ill/the banks and Saturday
afternoon they will visit the the-tres,
From . thpn on until
[emorlal Day there will be a gen.
;ral solicitation.
Mrsl May Larsen, the auxiliary
president, announced that the
village* organization had 2:500
jpopples, made by the veterans of
jthe Wforld War at the Northport
'' Hospital. Funds received from the
Aale of (Kiese artificial flowers are
, ,v divided among the local organlza-r
;klon,',jwhich uses the money to
^ finance its. ivejfare work, the
.«, :,Nassau County headquarters and
. Hospital.
Ampng those, ^ho are assisting
are Norma.Maurer,
Gray,
, Mettle Cole, Agnes!
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.Janet
=,=.^Wd*hmann, Fagone 'and
- (Hie first get together of the
cast' jfor the minstrel revue, "Hit
It Up/' to be given for the be^e*
fit of the Boys' Club in the high
school adul tori urn Tuesday and
Wednesday nights, June 3 and 4,
-wH^-be--neld-in/4heM4Hagc Gourt
Room tonight (Friday). More
than 100 prominent men nnd
women will participate In the
event, an3 "(Re goal Is"$2,000.
"Hit It Up" will,, be produced
under contract by the Rogers Co.,
of Qhlo. It Is one of the most am-bitious,
minstrel revues ever given
In Freeport. Dazzling light ef-fects,
pretty-chorines and tuneful
numbers' by-some of ,the village's
best artlstsTwHl combine to make
"Hit It Up" a splendid bill "of en-tertainment.
'Requests f6r talent
have me), with a spontaneous re-sponse.
:
Mrs. William J, Martin Is chair-man
of the \Boyg\Club Auxiliary,
which Jts helping, to sponsor the
production.
Among those who have volun-teered
to participate are Mayor
Worden Wfiine, Mrs. Robert H.
Earon, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grpy,
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Green, Mr. and
Mrs. W. JSargeant Nixon, Mr and
Mrs. H. Dana Smith, Judge
bert R. Johnson, Chester C Ful-ton,
Edwin Buckley, Dr, Raymond
Morrow, Dr. Elmer Cummins,
Russell E, Hotallng, Dr. Albert
HammomQ, John D. Easterlln, Mr
and Mrs. Harry Jenkins, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Alfred Vollmef, William
J. Marvin, Frank E,, Holland,. Dr.
IkeeTeachefs
Benjamin!
Mrs. W.
Mr.
Jones
"Anna
V, F*^
started tc^day,.
is chairman" of
drive also was
Edna Bnner
charge.
Erehart To Coach Varqity
Basketball Squad—Other
Additions
Three teachers will be added to
the faculty of the Freeport
schools In September, including
Harry Erehart, who will coach the
varsity basketball squad and
teach English In the High School.
Leonard S. Davenport, who has
had nine years' teaching, experi-ence,
is cqmlng from Sewanhaka
High School! Floral Park, to
teach 7th grade geography In the
Junior-Senior High School. Mr.
Davenport is a graduate of
Richmond Hill High School and
Jamaica Training School for
Teachers, he earned his B. S., at
New York University in 19?6, and
has done graduate work at Col*
umbia and Harvard.
Miss Alta Carbary has been en-gaged
to teach the Fourth grade
at- the Seaman ave. School. She
was graduated from the Tupper
Lake High' School and Potsdam
Norrpal School, has had twelve
years' experience ah3 comes to
F^eepprt from Port Jervis, N. |Y. i
Mr. Erejiart Is a graduate of
the. University of Minnesota, B. S.
dggree, and Teachers College,
dolumbla University,' M.- A.—He
also has attended the University
of Minnesota Coaching School, He
has ai^ outstanding records as an
*pach - and , t6ach?jr* In
^ he jcpacKed Indiana High
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bum? are
expecting to get settled this week
in their new residence .at 109
North Grove st,- ..J
Mr. Burns came here recently
to become manager of the W. T.
Grant store on Main street, suc-ceeding
H. V. Maddigan who was
called Into military service. Mr*
Burns previously was manager of
the Grant stores in Rlyerhead. He
Is a native of "Maine, and already
Is one of the strongest boosters of
Freeport.
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1«^ J A voice and champion
! bf every local group
r^lj^ { an j worthy movement
Nassau
County
j
o earnest aervice for
bur ^ entire
YEARrr-ISSUE NO. 51 *ORT, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK THURSDAY, MAY 22,
wu bo Hel
Saturday Nighka—
Stadium Plans
*
MOVIES GROVE THEATRE
Entire Week—"The Great Dic-tator,"
wKK'Charlie Chaplin, Paul-ette
Goddard and Jack Oakle, also
"Blandie Plays Cupid," the Bump,
steads.
FHEEPORT THEATRE
Entire Week—"The Sea Wolf,"
With Edward G. Robinson, John
rfleld and Ida Lupino; also
"Model Wife," with Dick Powell
,and oJan Blandell.
PLAZA THEAT&E
' Saturday through Monday—
"Seven Sinners," with Marlene
Dietrich and John Wayne; also
"Doomed Caravan."
Tuesday and Wednesday—"This
Thing Called Love/' with Rosalind
Russell and Melvyn Douglas, and
"The Trial of Mary Dugan."
Thursday and Friday—"Nice
Girl?" and "Scotland Yard."
School, Indiana, ..Pa.. For the past
eleven years he has been at Garr
field High School; and the Cen4
tral High School in Johnstown;
Pa., where he has .&ad an exceu-ent
record. \
and
Midget automobile racing will-be
resumed at the Municipal Sta-dium
on Wednesday night, May
28, and thereafter, will. be__races
each Wednesday and Saturday
nights, George Canalize, a mem-ber
of the Park Commission, an-nounced
this .week. The races will
be conducted under the jurisdic-tion
of the American Automobile
Association.
• Night baseball Is_.to be a fea-ture
at the Stadium this summer!
Beginning in June the Grumman
Aircraft Co., nine which makes
the Stadium Its home grounds,
will ,play every Thursday and Sun-day
night and the Nassau County
Independent League will stage its
games on, Friday nights.
Plans are also under way for
a fireworks display on the night-of
July 4.
- OET READY FOR
MEMORIAL DAY
and show ^patriotism do
all special occasions with
Rag; "
BaAnera
YA6HT
SAMUISl
To Raise $1,
in Scout Drive
Patterson Heads
Campaign—Many Aid—
Have 1,000 Prospects
Workers under tbe leadership of
Robert E. Patterson are making
a canvass of Preeport homes In
an effort to raise $1,600 In the
village in tbe annual Nassau
County Boy Scout maintenance
campaign. The county goal la $02,-
200. Cards lifting 1,000 prospec-tive
do'nora to the fund have been
distributed, and everyone will be
called on and Invited to contrib-ute
before the drive ends on
June 11.
Chairman Patterson met with
the workers on Monday night In
tbe Municipal Building and urged
on them fhe Importance of putting
#the drive "over the to;:." He re-ferred
to the fact that last year,
when the Freeport quota was
$2,000. only half of that amount
was subscribed. He expressed the
hope tbat this would not happen
this year. Mr. Patterson announc-ed
that the first report meeting
would be held In the same place
"" on May 28.
Active In the campaign beside
the chairman-are District Chair-man
K*K. Quick,. ^Commissioner
jr,, and .Elxia
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You Can Buy
MARX CLOTHES
Manhattan Shirts
ADAM HATS
Brentwood Sportswear
$9 f5o* Mam
?Hk'UDE8T TEXTILE STORE
P
for
I Am An American Day
3x5 PLAMRUCAN FLAG
Complete with
Jointed Flag Pole
and Holder
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FREEPORT
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SPECIAL
BAGS
Regular 1.98
Regular 2.98
LEONARD SHOP"
72 S6TMA1N STREET
Freepdri: %
Harry Turaqsky, Mrs. Abraham
Litvak, Mrs. Reginald Bukawltz
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Getting Plant Ready
For Diesel Engine
Leonard, Singer, To Lead
Village Group off to Camp
Headed by John J. Leonard, of 200 West Merrick road,
better known as jack Leonard, the "Boy with" the Golden
voice/ aev^n local youths will be inducted intj the service with
appropriate exercises in the Municipal Building Court Koom
Tuesday at 7:30 A. M.
_.__ . ^p dm ft call means a great
sacrifice for the 28-year-old
singer, who has been receiving
a wt'c'k during an engage-
RETURNS
Rev. E. A. Pollard Jonoa
The Rev. Dr. E. A. .Pollard
Jones, pasLor of the MeLliodlat
Church for seven years, hag
been returned for another
ye&r. This . action was taken
at the concluding aesaian of
the New York East Cdhferenee
held In the Central-Hanson
place Methodist Church, on
Bishop Francis J.
preaid&d . ^ at the
which continued
ment with the New York Para-mount
theatre and recently sign-ed
a mot Ton picture contract with
Twentieth Century- Fox. A native
of Brooklyn, Jack has lived here
since boyhood and was graduated
from Our Holy Redeemer school.
After three years in the high
school, he quit his studies for a
clerkship with a life insurance
company. After six months*- he
switched to a better paying posi-
.tlon in Wall St., but in another
half year came the crash and he
\joined the army of the unem-ployed.
White collar positions being
scarce. Leonard obtained a work
project job at Jones Beach during
a/ winter when the state park was
being developed. Then he got a
chance to sing at the Roadside
Rest in Oceanside through Samuel
I. Israel, a friend of the orchestra
leader, who happened to need a
vocalist. Jack got the job. later
toured with the orchestra and
finally. . caught on ' with Tommy
Dorsey's orchestra. After several
years he landed with the Colum-bia
Broadcasting system and .then
ascended the' .heights of success
which he /m'ust relinquish for a
ATTEND NIGHTINGALE
MEMORIAL SERVICE
This Wllage was represented at
the 15th annual Florence Nlght-
Tlie editor of The Leader
extemla a special .greeting to
every individual and organ!-
zatlrn here engaged 1» pro-moting
musical and other cul-tuial
arts, and a request* to
coupe rate with this nr \vayaner
in entoui'agJn^ all t.he arts In
Freeport.
Individual mu Air tans, mu»ic
persons Intereattvl 1U"
. t\tc.. urt* Informed
that The Leader will do
everything possible to help
them in developing the artis-tic
Influence here and promot-ing
the welfare of all such
movements.
Young Republicans
Hear About Baseball
Dr. Eric V. Painter, trainer of
the Ne\v York Yankees, und
Georgo (Twlnkletoest Selkirk,
outrieldor of the same team, spoke
at- thr monthly meeting of the
Young Republican Cluh In the
Crystal Lake Hot&l last Thursday
night.
The former said ho realized the
Yankees had gotten off to a poor
arl^ but predl&ted they would
give a good account of themselves
from now on.
Selkirk explained some of the
science of the ballfield. Presi-dent
Albert M. Filblg conducted
the meeting.
Hope To Start
Grades lii
Action Awaits Gran*
Of Funda By Sta^e—
Will Be Elevated
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The Rev. Dr. E. A. Pollard* Jones,
pastor of the Methodist Church
will represent the Freeport Inier-
FaJth Council at the induction
exercises and present New Testa-ments
to Protestants In the group,
while Maurice Stember, State
Inhale memorial services held in • Adjutant, will speak for Clinton
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Leonard Shop
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Harree's Men*s Shop
Rdyol Home Appliance*
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Preliminary , work baa been
started at tbe Power Houae for
the InatalJatlon of an additional
3,000 horsepower dieael engine
which was ordered last October
from the Btiscb-Sulzer Engine Co.
of St. Lpula. .
-The weAt wall of the power-house^
bas been taken out and a
teid^Orary \woodeii wall Installed,
to permit the construction of a
BOlidj6oJicrcite baae^TTae^ deep,
12 feet wide and A46 feet long.
A 40=fo@t%:AMck",#xte;ial<}p, large
enough to accommodate two en,^
glnea; is* ro be bullt*._Tk!KJSlll o4>-
.vlate C&e n^cesaity of .adding to
the building half a. dozeh^yeara
heoce, TKomas F. Dunn, chief
engineer qa<* manager of tbe
plant, announced,- when It Is
Mkely another engine wMWhavo ^o
be added to-rgie villagefa^Htles.
The new engine will be the
eighth Installed at th5 plant and
will bring the totaJj capacity up to
14,900 horsepower. Tbe additional
unit will have a 2,000 kilowatt
hour capacity, increasing .the plant
total to 7,000 Mlawatt houra. T\he
• new 'engine Is expected to be de-livered
by July 1, and should be
"ready to begin operation in Oc-tober.
" Mr. -punn added that,.the coat
*of about $140,000 -would be de-frayed
from the power plant re-ce&
pta ^ will involyb n.o,^bond Issue.
The laat" engine was Installed in
CONVENTION
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\;\! ,2 '• -Anna - WiQeta' will represent /the
^LL2j.pr@epo%% Sone and Daughters of
'^7?Z..iJ6ertyi -^t the iSta^,. Conven-
^r^Udn;''iK-'PoUKhkeepale this -week.
r;.'-^'"',') ..-'-•^ ' • '•• ..^r •' ' • .
Church,
Brooklyn, Sunday night. The ad-by
the Rev.
Brooklyn, who
dresa
Peter
was
Blaesl, of
Story Post, A. L. The seven men,
including two volunteers, will be
escorted to the 71st Regiment
Armory In New York City. Jack
?oke of the services given to ! Leonard has been designated as
humanity by nuraea and paid ' leader of the party, with Chester
tribute to Florence^ Nightingale^.
In the group wer^ Miss Norma
egahap and 'Miaa Doris Moore,
vhc were graduated from the St:
John's Hospital Training School
(or Nurses in Brooklyn last
week;&and Mrs. N. H. M^gahan
amfMra. W. W. Wlnship., All are
the Long Id
ruad trarks through
with remodeling or perhapa r<3-
construction of the passenger eta-tlon
hen*, are det'lnltely on tho
railroad's schedule. It was reveal-ed
tliis week.
Thia joint move will give Frco-port
a |)Hs»ang*»r station more In
keeping with the Village's Impor-tance,
slzp and commuters', pat-ron
»gt\ It also #wl)l pllnilunte
rrosalnRM In mid-town.
two things have been earn^
stly soupht by the Freeport
Chamber of Commerce, as part
'f'Mtx prnKram, and the "Chamber
i flirt* has b(»en pressing the at*
er strongly with J. A. Appleton,
;enernl mitnaper of the railroad,
O!' Ht* vera I w^eka.
P. W. Trlplett, division engin-eer'of
the railroad, with office^
n Jamaica, came to Preoport
his week and discussed the plans.
He said that C. S. Adams; chiet
engineer of the railroad, with of"
memiiers
Church.
of the First Baptist
T. Groecke, of 111 Denhoff ave.,
as assistant.
The others scheduled to leave
qr@ William Richardson, of 17
Helen ave., and Carl Brittwood, of
46 South St., Patchogue, volun-teers;
Charles Schombs, 128 New
York ave.; Milton F. MacBrlde,
443 State St., and* William J. Mon-han,
180 West Lena- ave.
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150 Enroll (or Home Defense;
Get Another Chance Monday
Approximately 150 Freeport women enrolled for Home
defense work in the six schools of the village last week, Mrs.
Curtis T. Brail, who is in charge ,here announced..
The fourth annual reunion
dance for the High School
uates and their friends will be
given In the South Shore Yacht
Club on Saturday night, May 31.
On the committee In charge are
Norman Leek, Larry Shade, Gert-rude
Shade, Al#.4«Ackerman, Rob-ert
Hanse, Doris Allen, Garry and
Betty Goetschlus.
in the Penn Station, J New
York, already has ^I'h-L^y..
prints
HIGH SCHOOL PTA
TO BE REPRESENTED
MernbPra of the Parent-Teach-er
Association of the Freeport
High School will be represented
at the PprlMB Conference next
paae under thd trhcksl AA^f
brook. . '
He Inveetfgatcd the atntion, about
which the Chamber of Commerce
had complained, and agreed that
It was old, outmoded, odorous,
rheprlpsa and not In keeping with
a ylllag th'e size and Lone of
Wednesday at North port by
Curtis T. Brail, Mra. George R.
Kothwell, Mra. Warren Furies,
Mrs. Edith Biand, Mra. K. L..
S^okea and Mra. Douxlan Mutb-
GARDEN PARTY AIDS
SAPTIST HOME
A -garden party given for the
benefit of tbe Baptist Hom«:,for
the Aged In Brooklyn, a,t the
home of Mra. S. G. Myers, -Wil-son
pi., last Thursday was large-ly
attended. A silver offering
aatted J12 for the home.
On the committee in charge
were Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Robert C.
Kowever, she said, she believed
many women are Unfamiliar with
what was expected of them or
more woqld l)a,ve- enlisted for
service,. , ]
opportunity to enroll
giyen Monday fronj 3 to
9 P. M., in "all the schools of the
\ The Parent-Teacher group
I in each school will be In charge,
to 30 listed ^helr -names
. . . of t^e schools. The local
Dennett, Mrs. Keaaett Carl and 1 "°rk ** P""t °f .»
New" officer* of the P-T.A. be-r
». Mat^iewdon, ai'e: Mrs.
and JL% w r e,n%g ..... it%1?!%ltgh ,
vice - presidents; Mrs. Abthwell,
Knapp, correspondln. ?secrptary<
Knappl fb:':es<pohdeAt secretary
and ;Mre. Tbomaa^ Wellborn,
treasurer.
Brail Is chairman of the
s d e f e n s e committee
which Includes Mrs. Austin, Mrs,.
F. S. Soedeker &ad Mrs, ^W. W.
Jones.
FINISH REMODELING
OF STORE Fd6NTS
New brlx^k fronts on tbe triple
store 'building on the East side
of Main street, 100 feet aouth of
Merrick road, are being completed
this week, tibe central store t»
occupied by Pettimanjs Market;
tenants for the other twdP.are ex*
Mlas Miriam Myers.
GUILD GROUP DINES .^
There were twelve tables* at a
luncheon 'and bpldge party given
T>y a group qf the^Ladiw*
of ^ the Transfiguration
Ghwrch in the Savoy Restaurant
Tuesday aftemoonr-iMrs. • ..A, J.
the igrup chairman,
movement sponsored by the
Women's Council on Home De-fense.
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1 (h enrolling each ^woman Jias to
supply the answers to questions of
A%_indMdua)-nature/ahd-lp J3tate
whether she can give full-time j&f
part-time service or dBrve at
or outalde, \AnpU?er series
(CouUaued oo Page %)'-
pected a» aoon re-modermiza/"
tlon 1« completed. The property
la owned by the Welnatein Broth-ers,
who have the tfamyeini Feed
and Fuel Co., Bellmore, and who
recently from
to set the, out*
jutting building frbni . backward
Frneport.
He Indicated that the station
might be Improved somewhat Very
shortly, and that when the tracks*
ure raised It la possible that a
new station will be erected on
the north aide of the tracks, .and
tbe unattractive waiting sheda
removed.
Tbe improvements planned here
me part of^ tbe railroad's genera*
wrade creasing elimination pro-gram
for much of Long Island, for
which the State bonds' were< vote@ "
by State r#*ld*nts, $300,000,000 in
1936, and about $170,000,000 ia
j
The Legislature In the la»t *e»%_
approved Issuance of boiida
covering, several 'Long Tsland-pro--
jpcts, but nct"lncki(flng the Bald""
win"Fr^eport elevation, project.
'* Chief" Engineer Ada ma notified
the .Chamber of Commerce office
this week that State bonds cover"
Ing tbe Baldwln-Freeport project
are expected to be authorized by
the Lekislature when It re-assem* K
bles January i, very quickly, aad
that his owrn office will have
plane all ready to be let to con*
tract as soon as the Legislature^
and P. S. C. act favorablyrTtpiar
Mr. Adams indicated, the actual
contract ..for this elevation and
other-Freeport improvements caA
possibly be let hext-February pr
MaTch, and "only' some political
tangle*' can - prevent the program
from going through on 'th|a,
ule, be asserted.
PLANS
Mildred. Pa/ul,
nle DeGiaoomo andl Mrs, Maflbn?
phargtr of .
f Ihe
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der of 'the Amaranth
June J
Club,
at the South SHbre
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