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t r‘ Y. HOME EDMION @* Fresport, Rockville Centre, Gare ~'den City, Hempstead, Bald Oceanside, 'Long Beach, Islan Park, Roosevelt and Villages to the East. VOL XXXIX No, T London AndParis Join MEG Program To Construct 4 - 3,000 Planes In Year Defensive Arm LONDON, April 1-(@P)-Great Britain and France em- barked on a joint armament race today to back up the allied might of the British fleet and the French army with at least 8,000 additional fighting planes in the next twelve months. France announced she will build 1,500 planes during 1987 to reinforce the 3,000 to 4,000 first line fighting craft she already possesses. British Plans Secret , How many planes Great Britain will build was a closely held secret of the air ministry but it is esti- mated that 1,750 were delivered in the last fiscal year-just the start of the drive to have 2,600 first line planes in the air by the spring of 1939. April 1 is a significant date in the air history of the two democ- racies whose World war alliance has been strengthened by the fact \they are the only two nations in western Europe who have steered a middle course between Commu- nism and Fascism. The British air ministry an- nounced today the air strength stood at 1,778 first line planes in actual service: 1,280 for home de- fense; 278 stationed overseas, and; 220 assigned to the feet. France Confiscates Factories Since midnight in France all factories making war materials '\have been the property of the state, taken over under the broad matignalization program. The British and French defense experts, working in close co-oper- ation, observers pointed out, have at their disposal the British navy --the most powerful in western with its strength being increased --and the French army-the most powerful in western Europe. Great Britain and France are firmly committed to resist \unpro- voked aggression\ and the cor- dial ; Anglo-French co-operation bas been the most significant de. velopment in Europe during the dew months, featured by their to keep Rurope Spanish civil cat ot the civil war. ©Mecentralization of the French factories into six regions as a pro- tection against enemy air raids has Been started as the first move of the new administration. he objective is to remove as many factories as possible far away from Paris. - By the end of the summer Britain plans to have 1,500 planes for home defense alone as a result of the program started just after Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin admitted in the spring of 1935 that he had under-estimated Ger- man strength in the air. By 1939, Britain's new program will provide for 1,700 home de- fefise planes, 450 overseas and 450 for \'the sea air arm,\ all first line equipment. * The British government is fi- nanc construction of two air- plane factories, six engine plants ® and one propeller factory, Whe only differefice between these- and the French is that the operators mostly automobile manufacturers - will get man- agery' fees instead of 'state sal- aries. «(Private manufacturers are well satisfied with the arrangement as they are getting all the work they ean \handle anyway-the 1,750 planes delivered last year were two and m half times the average of -expansion years. £1 the spring of -1938-when the dual program launched today it leted the combined: air- fests the two western European is expected to total at least 000 first line planes. t TREASURY T WASHINGTON, ' 1-(P)- Mum of on 30: Recei expend 9 I‘S’g'll“ 152: I res 939.45; bal~ $1,777, for the month, $51,048,- 485,904.22; customs Lvfi' U \T HIS is the day for natured m you'll not be fooled when you read today's Review Star «- GROCERY ADVERTISEMENTS ent Alliance Will Back Fleet * And Army With Huge Air Force, To Resist 'Unprovoked Agression' COURT FOES HAIL WAGE AGT RULING Need For Care In Drafting: Legistation Is Seen In Decision By The Associated Press 'WASHINGTON. April 1-Sena- tor Wheeler (D.-Mont.) declared today the supreme court reversal on minimum wage legislation for women had strengthened the op- position to the administration ju- diciary bill. \The latest claim of supporters of the bill is 51 senate votes, I hear, but the proposed addition of six justices to the supreme court could not get more than 35 votes | in the senate today,\ he declared. Wheeler told reporters the les-; son in Monday's supreme court de- | cisions was the need for care in drafting legislation. Careful Drafting Needed Care used in enactment of the sevised Frazier-Lembke farm mort- gage moratorium, he said, ac- counted for its unanimous. ap- proval by the high tibubal, \ -_ Favoring enlargement of con- gressional powers. by constitu- tional amendment he said much legislation desired by the admin- istration could be enacted with reasonable chance for court ap- proval if properly drafted. Dean Henty M. Bates of the University of Michigan Law school dwelt on similar points in oppos= ing the Roosevelt bill before the senate judiciary committee as \a means of future manipulation of the bench with most serious con- sequences of evil,\ \It is no secret,\ his prepared statement said, \that much of the legislation of the last few years was hastily prepared, perhaps nec- essarily so in some cases.\ Democracy's Fall Seen Attorney General Cummings, on the other hand, called the mini- mum wage decision an illustration of the merit of the president's pro- posal. Dorothy Thompson, newspaper columnist, testified yesterday that if the court bill should prevail, constitutional democracy - might \decline and fall\ in this country as it did in Germany and Italy. \You are presented with a pro- posal--not asked to help formulate one-which was not in advance even with the cabinet, to say nothing of being discussed with responsible committees of cog-en.\ she said. ou are asked to take to your- self some! 's baby--but you don't know whose.\ Senator Minton (D., Ind.), one of the mst emphatic pi sonents of the said unless the court is mean, _ inter» Senator Schwellenbach (D., R , 90, is still living. ildren are Charles P. Seaman SEAM, CHIEF UIS AT HIS HOME Former Hempstead Head Is Suddenly. Stricken In His Bid Year WAS PEACE OFFICER FOR HALF-CENTURY Started In Truancy Post; Later Was Sheriff Of Nassa_u_ County | | Phineas A. Seaman, 72, of 48 Meadow street, Garden City, for- mer Nassau county sheriff and Hempstead police chief and a peace officer for nearly a half cen= tury, died at his home early today after a few hours' illness. Death was due to pneumonia. Surrounded by his family, which consists of his widow, five daugh- ters and one son, the former po- lice chief, who was known to thou- sands of persons in all walks of life throughout the county, died at 12:20 o'clock. He was stricken at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Prior to that time he was in apparent good health. | Born In Roslyn | Born in Roslyn, March 15, 1865, | he devoted practically his entire | life to law enforcement. Starting | as a truant officer in Roslyn, he soon became a town constable iny the town of North Hempstead and served in that capacity for seven years. He then became a county detective and held this position | with distinction until he was | fizzled Nassau county sheriff in | 17. f Following a gubernatorial in- | vestigation by Governor Alfred E. | Smith, Sheriff Seaman was re- | moved train office. In 1921 he be- came chief of the Hempstead Hee department and served m3 until 1935, when he resigned after | a local relief case investigation. Since that time he had been re- tired. Mr. Seaman returned from Cor- al Gables, Fla., about a week ago. He drove back in his car with his | wife and was in good health. He «id not complain-v~of.iliness / util immediately before going to bed last night. Mrs. Estella M. Seaman, the widow, and Mr. Seaman would have celebrated their 55th wed- ding anniversary on April 18. His mother, Mrs. Emily Seaman, of Poplar street, Garden City; Mrs. Virginia S. Shurtleff and Mrs. Edna Kelley of Hempstead, Mrs. William Johnson and Mrs. Emily Tappen of Garden City and Mrs. E. V. Colyer: of Freeport. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Ella Snedeker of Roslyn: a brother, Oscar Sea- man of Roslyn, and five grand- children. He was a member of the Free- port lodge of Elks, the Junior Or- der of United American Mechan- ics, Odd Fellows and the Benevo- lent association of Roslyn. Services will be held at the home Saturday at 3 p. m. Burial will be in Roslyn cemetery. MEN'S CLUB TO HEAR JUDGE F. E. CRANE Chief Of State Court Of Appeals To Be Principal Speaker At Hewlett Dinner Frederick E. Crane, chief judge of the state court of appeals and an outstanding member of the New York bar, will address the men's club of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church, Hewlett, at the annual dinner April 14 at the par- ish ball. Plans for the dinner, expected to bring more than 300 members of the club together, w nounced today by Charles P. Fiske, vestryman, club president and chairman of the arrangements committee. 52m. that ars justice \has the power\of a My s VETERAN AND WiFE FACE RELIEF CHARGE éfi (, d Stonesifer, acting rector. - There will be music and a program of professional entertainment. . 'The dinner is set for7 p. m. Officers of the club, more than 500 members out the Five Towns, are Hs aft daughter on the second floor ofthe . METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.- THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937. 7,200 STRIKERS RETURN TO WO Fair Today, Tum-mu U changed; Friday Cloudy, Warm@# >i RK, TENSION EASES IN G. M. LABOR WAR Joseph Gedeon is shown at a Manhattan bar shortly before police took him today to view the body of his daughter, Veronica, who was found slain with vwo others in their apartment on Easter Sunday. Gedeon, an eccentric upholsterer, twice has been the subject of sharp grilling by police investigating the triple slaying. A few seconds after this picture was snapped, Gedeon hurled a glass of beer st the cameraman. Veronica Gedeon, beautiful 20- year-old model, whose slaying police expect to solve shortly, is shown at the right in a characteristic pose. Gedeon's Reaction Watched As He Views Bodies of Slain Husband \And \Of \Dead Women Is | Grilled Continuously « NEW YORK, April 1-(P-While detectives on all sides watched carefully his reactions, Joseph Gedeon was taken today to view the bodies of his artist model daughter, Veronica, and his wife, Mary, slain Easter morning in the triple murders on Beekman Hill. Gedeon, thin, erratic upholsterer | who discovered the baffling crime. WOMAN TELLS AGE | has been questioned almost con- uzxsuousl;l gincse District Atéorney | AN D SU RPR'SES COU RT | William C. Dodge announced yes- -o- i « i Youthful appearances terday that police have a \definite | snmzltlime: deceiving, Justice suspect.\ - Faces James T. Hallinan observed in c oii \To Rereo Nassau supreme court yester- Captain William T. Reynolds said Gedeon faced a charge of| day: . violating the Sullivan anti-fire-| Mrs. Elsie Chappas of 179 arms law because of the finding of | |Fairfield avenue, Mineola, was a revolver in.the apartment where called to the witness stand and he lived. sworn in by Clerk Joseph Reynolds said detectives were; O'Brien. ordered to accompany Gedeon since the murders to funeral serv- 'ces for the two women in the Roman Catholic church of St. Gregory the Great this morning. Considerable mystery surrounds the finding of the revolver, sup- posedly last night. For two days after the murders detectives and reporters searched. every inch of the small premises without uncov. | ering the weapon. 33m only real discrepancy in| Gedeon's story,\ Captain Reynolds said today, \Is his insistence that he wore a grey suit Saturday night when he was drinking at Corri- gan's bar and grill while witnesses who saw him there say he had on a brown suit. \We can't find the brown suit, | and Gedeon says he doesn't re-} member what-happened to it.\ utes later, around 10 p. m. Friday \Mystery Man' Sought night. Another \mystery man\ entered | While the funerals of the Ged- the case today to complicate a con mother and daughter were problem that already -has 'con- \ going on, the body of Byrnef, a founded the bestdetective minds | waiter at a fashionable club and on the force. {now the \forgotten man\ of the Cosmos Candanis, a commercial mystery, lay on a slab in the artist who lives with his wife and | morgue at Bellevue. His body has {not been claimed. He died from apartment house where the Gad-1 stab wounds that penetrated his con women and their English Watch Your Step Today! Or, You'll BeMadea Gowk are | Justice Hallinan turned to the witness and inquired, \Say | how old are you, anyway?\ | \I am 22 years old,\ she re- | plied. | \Okay go ahead, I thought you were only 14,\ laughed the | justice. | Mrs. Chappas, an attractive blonde, is the mother of two children. ®--__________-4 rooter, Frank Byrnes, were killed, said he s a short, powerful man on the stairs 24 hours before the murders. This man, he said, was well dressed, about 35, wore a brown suit and hat, and hid his face as Candanis passed hiny going out for cigarettes, and returning ten min-1 Father and Pretty Victim in Model Slaying | HERMAN DESIGNS INSPECTION CURB \Albany Bill Would Give Appeals Power Over Village Decision | Un’limned powers vested in vil- lage plumbing and sewer inspec- | | tors in permit matters under exist- ing village law will be curbed | ‘through creation of an appeals [board if a bill introduced by As- | | semblyman Harold P. Herman is | [passed by the legislature. |_ The measure, introduced by the |Nassau assemblyman at the re- quest of Freeport and Garden City officials, is before the committee 'on affairs of villages for report. | Inasmuch as it is permissive in | |application and corrects a recog- | \ nized defect in existing law, its [passage by both assembly and senate without opposition is ex- | pected. | No Resort Now \ Under the present law relating \to construction of sewers, the au- thority to issue permits for private | building hook-ups is delegated en- {tirely to the plumbing or sewer in- appointed by the village | board. In the event the inspector {refuses to issue a permit, whether gully or otherwise, the house- | holder has no appeals remedy ex- | cept in the courts. The bill amends section 90-a of the village law as follows: |_ *The board of trustees may pro- vide that a board of appeals may determine and vary the applica- tion of regulations enacted pursu- < | \The powers and duties, juris- | diction and manner and term of appointment of such beard of ap- | needure upon ap- lecision of. such same as those «-- Sudden Outbreaks In Labor Stir lnd_u__stry FLINT TROUBLED Cleveland's Fisher Crews Go Back To Factories; Wide Front Hit DETROIT, April 1-(P)- A sudden outbreak of strikes in General Motors plants that affected 18,400 men at its peak receded today as the company announced that 7,200 men had returned to work in the Fisher Body plant at Cleveland. Offsetting that settlement, however, was a strike that closed the plant of the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturs ing Co., at Pontiac, Mich., this, morning. The company, which employs - several - thousand men, is not a General Motors unit although partially owned by the corporation. Assembly Line Stops Also closed by strikes were the Fisher body plant at Pontiac and the Chevrolet Motor company's fi= nal assembly line at Flint, Mich 30a? or pharuauy closed, because ikes in other plants were Pontiac Motor Co. at Pontiae I” Fisher body plant No. 2 at Flint. DETROIT, April 1-(P-Gene eral Motors corp. said today that 17,300 employees were idle in fou [plants this morning because strikes. The strikes, the compi said, were in Chevrolet plant 2 at Flint, D. ch, and the Fi body plants at Cleveland, O., Pontiac, Mich. Some departm of the Pontiac Motor Co. also wet closed, although there was I strike there, ad Out Of Work Listed a General - Motors | officials . h@r@) said the number of | employ@® thrown out of work by the n#Wh series of strikes included: 8,600 the Pontiac Fisher plant; 2,600» the Pontiac Motor Co. at Ponti 7,200 at the Fish body plant i ILX PRICE C07 EFFECTIVE HERE Rates \War'\ Not Expected In Nassau Territory, Dealers Assert A penkxy drop in the price of milk will\be unlikely to cause a | An undetermined number of, price-cuttiny war here in Nassau, workers in Fish body plant No. % a survey of\major producers and /at Flint were left idle by thei independent dealers indicated this | Chevrolet strike which necessitat=) morning. |ed a suspension of production be« The reduction, which went into cause there was no storage spa6@ effect today when the price-fixing |for bodies with the assembly lind provisions of the state milk ton-lid“, trol law were dropped, was uni- 5 aimer - form. Sheffield, Renken and Bor>+~ Strike Bills Delayed den companies, principal distribG- | Pl“ Michigan senate def tors in the county, announced that | I‘m\ 5:3“! 7 action on three bill® the retail price of Grade B milk | [MHODd@d to prevent sit will be 12 cents when delivered‘ In a radio address t and 11 cents when bought in the Gov. Murphy said \it my store. Grade A milk likewise drop- duty as governor to at t\ to ped a cent in cost. n Several small dealers, who ob- ‘glvf‘mméshezml 1‘me tain the commodity from dairies « 4 in Suffolk, upstate or from a prin- ‘ermyne; d sides in the prese cipal distributing agency in Mun-1 \I have urged,\ he said, \ta been W 3 hattan, announced that the pricehhm he workers out of the fags | tories and - thus end - sit-down) {strikes once and for al | they want that done, they have to get another man for ernor of Michigan. \Those who demand it-and believe that they do so sincerely argue that property rights must \ respected and protected, I with them, but \ feel even greater respect and protection should accorded human rights.\ PEEVED PIG BITES MAN \ FREMONT, Mo.- (P -A pig against dealers who seek to plunge who had no desire to go to mite prices downward was contained in | ket snapped back at K. D. Hedg#« a remark made by Kenneth F. Fee, | peth, While Hedgepeth was t director of the licensing division |ing to boost the animal into of the state board. truck it bit off the end of Cleveland and 900 at the Chevro No. 2 plant in Flint. They said the strike in the Por tiac Fisher plant apparently wi caused by the discharge of a comen pany policeman. A wage dispu | caused the strike at Cleveland, i trend probably would be main- tained. They admitted, however, that a price war starting in New York city might have repercus- sions here. A determination to keep prices at a level that would prevent dras- tic cutting was evident in Albany today when the state relinquished this phase of control over a $2,- 000,000 industry. An informal agreement was reached between state officials and leaders of the principal dairies. | A veiled warning of action | Fee 5:56 that ég’nrmci': thumb. _ N ®t has committed any act infurious | TODAY'S REVIEW-STAR ) to the public health, public wel- fare or to trade og‘commcrm in ponexa Tags» demoralization of the price struc- ree an- ture of pure milk.\ FUN, -~ J- Because of price wars which hit | Law Crimndar ..... farmers and destroyed their mI'rI-ym' dlke | » + seoriont-is ra
