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Leaps F—o; Safety Bring Rescue To Fanily TRAPPED ASLEEP Valley Stream Residents Have Close Call In Night Blaze Trapped in their beds .by flames that were sweeping through their Valley Stream farmhouse from zellar to at- tic before being discovered, seven members of the hmilg of John Reising escaped dest by leaping from second story indows in their nightclothes ly today. Two Badly Burned Two 'of the. sons, Joseph, 27, and Emil, 25, were. seriously burned about the face, hands and wrists . in - fighting . their way thro a flame-filled. hallway to an??? rest of the . family in 5 mraiiea mie in the | leap to the ground. _ Two daugh- m3, Eve, 25]: and Julie, 17, the mother, Julia, and the father escaped. uninjured. 4 the flames from king the side, walls, firemen said. 'The lower P Lv \+/ CTC C Trooper-Bartender Brawl Brings About Investigation District Attorney's Office Probes Circum:- stances Of Hempstead Fracas The district attorney's office entered today into the investigation of the bartender-state trooper brawl in a swanky Hempstead night club, as search for the alleged assailant continued. District Attorney Martin W. Littleton opened his own probe yesterday, when he ques- tioned closely all the available reported principals in the case. | Village Opens Probe | SSc AM DM REPORTED SUNK ous skull injury and the alleged Craft Under Charter Of assailant still 'at liberty, «despite extensive 'search: by village and British, Message Says; Shelling Heavy county police, the prosecutor took up this probe, which began yester- d y morning, <in an. attempt to the responsibility for the er's release. Police Chief \Pames H. Ricker of Hempstead, who started a probe of his own yesterday morning when -he learned of the incident M. Estabrook and Corpor- . H. Tunnicliffe Jones.. After the conference it is likely that Lieutenant James Gal- lagher, who was on duty when the bartender -vas réleased, will be from duty tal trial, the chief said. interrogated - various of the village depart- ment, waiters and owners of The Place from early morning until SANTANDER, Spain, April 6- (P)-The mineral boat Andra of Panama, said to be under charter to a British shipping firm was re- ported today to have been sunk by the insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera - oft\ Castro 12 miles east of Hilbao on the Bay of Biscay.\ Heavy Shelling Reported Reports of the Basque govern- ment, allied. with the Madrid-Va- lencia government, asserted insur- heavy bombardment of the Basque coast as: a part of their drive against Bilbao, Radio messakes, said to have been: picked: up from insurgent sources, indicated a concentration of virtually an entire fleet in the Bay of Biscay. G e cruisers. Espana, Canarias and Almirante Cervera were said to be the nucleus of the concen- tration: New Pressure On Italy LONDON, April 6 - (P) -- France and Great Britain were reported today ready to bring \last resort\ pressure against Pre- mier Mussolini to halt any pos- sibility of Italian withdrawal from glund, . who is recovering from a possibly fractured skull at Meadowbrook hospital, reported to Lieutenant James Gaffney, his su- m that O'Connor came from ® the bar, armed with a chair, and- broke it over Berg- The two governments, informed sources in Paris declared, would attempt to hold Italy- in line with the . 27-nation . fon-intervention agreement by a threat to steer the > stat y from that e\ y >_ \% TH CAK POUICE FACTION IT OuT Non HEARMC Warring Groups Present Their Claims Before Herman And Hall SESSIONS CONTINUE -. AT CAPITOL TODAY Rating Power Center Of Village And County Cops' Dispute (Special to The Review-Star) ALBANY, April 6-With the village police bloc opposing the Herman amendment to the county charter delegating police rating powers in department mergers $0 |., the county, standing adamant against the measure, conferences will be resumed here today by representatives of the opposing factions before Nassau's blymen Harold P. Herman and Leonard W. Hall. Factions Still At Odds The hearings operied yesterday at the capital when the two Long Island | legislators | brought © the warring - groups - together - to thresh out their respective stands on the amendment proposal. Un- der the plan the county would be given \the: power 'to decide what gating; the transferred men would ave. Holding that they . were not ep- posed to the charter as originally presented before the Nassau voters and that, in fact, its fi gent . warships . had . launched for their group came largely from members. of- the- Nassau county police tonference and the Superior Officers'. association, Their delegation included Judge Reginald Moore of Glen Cove, Ernie Adamson and Raymond Klaess, Rockville Centre attor- neys; Sergeant James O'Donohue, Patrolman Joseph P. Garvey, Rockville Centre; Patrolman Henry Schaeffer of Lynbrook, president of the Police conference; Andrew Conroy of the Supervisor Officers' association, and Arthur J, Dacey of Long Beach. Supporting the side for passage of the Herman amendment, now before the committee on rules, were delegates: from the county police whose verbal remarks sup- plemented the communications and petitions, in favor of the measure; from the assemblymen's constituents. Already petitions bearing 5,000 names have-been received in Albany and over 4,000 communications favorable to the legislation have been recorded, it was announced at the Nassau rep- Stressing the point that the pro- revision in the charter ia E the in« im« H CLAMBIGGER'S DEATH WAS DUE TO APOPLEXY trewerasen'} f. N. ¥.- TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1937. mennonite Eee s Inspector _R.'King of the Nassau county police is giving Patrolman Ed- ward McCauley a helping hand as the wounded officer limps from the fifth precinct station at Valley Stream for triptobullet the hospital. Ban- daged foot showswhere from gun alleg- PACT | \WH E En IN MOTOR STRIKE Emerson, Swanson Sworn,Jensen Hopes Raised For Speedy Named Acting Mayor As Board Reorkanizes Two munc- were sworn in and four appointments made at the reorganization meeting of the i Island Park village board, held Accord; Parley Heads iast night in the municipal build- Refuse Comment ing. --« Trustees Chatles Emerson and By The Associated Press John Swanson took their caths of I..ANSINC;.§1 Mitch\ ChADfli 6--A office administbred 'by Police Jus- prediction that the Chrysler au-) tice Walter Wasley, (aaa Sinn milt tan in rine nere raised hopes. that ugno| * workers would-be back at their) SPOhsored by the aqministrative motorcar and | PAY, while Swanson won at the week. ~ recent election over Emerson's Mum Carl Swift.. Swan- son's e broke the tight hold of Mayor Charles Talbot on the village board. Trustee William Jensen was named acting mayor; Francis Wil- liams, village attorney; Ned Dano, assessor, and. Judge Norman S. w judge, The Dano ap- t was a new one. Further appointments will be made: on :| April 15. Personal Mention ~_ _(Minouls) Mre. Richard M. and son, Bruce, of WM road, Mincols, returned from a visit in Hudson Falls. edly discharged by negro prisoner Cauley. Inspector William C. Yochum is at right, McCauley's alleged assailant, shot during cap- ture by Queens police, is in hospital. struck Me- Review-Btaz Photographer LOST GIAL HOME 2 OTHERS SOUGHT Theasia Cataldi Returns To Elmont After 6-Day Disappearance Two additional Nassau residents have been added to the list of missing persons while an Elmont girl, - gone since: last: Wednesday was reported returned to her home yesterday. Lieutenant Theodore Magee and Detective Patrick J. Shanley of the missing persons bureau are in- v the disappearance of Herbert omas Wagoner, 16, of Barnum avenue, Plainview, who was last seen March 31. A missing persons -alarm also was sent out for Alberta White, 45, employed as a maid at 15 In- graham avenue, New Hyde Park. Her employer, Arthur man, s that she disappeared last ednesday. / She was descri as six feet in height, brown eyes and gray hair, The case of Theasia Cataidl,-14, of 22 Crowell street, Elmont, who disa last Wednesday was solved when she returned to her home over the week-end. Rewards of $150 Offered For Hit-Run Information P \ ers. About 5:30 a. m., he put on IN 'CET-AWA Escape Try is Fail As Officers Stop Him: With More Shots \THRILLER\ OCCURS - IN VALLEY STR Patrolman Injured Pair Grapple About '\ Stationhouse ( A sensationai shootf affray which started. in Valley Stream police and ended in Ozone Pa after a wild chase afte® a fleeing prisoner early thim) morning, resulted in wounding of three person & negro prisoner, a Ni county patrolman and & year-old woman. George Petersen, 32, a who was released only yes from county jail, is in. Ja hospital with several wounds, Patrolman Edward Cauley, 35, is in Nassau ho with a slight bullet wo left foot. An unidentified Q woman is recovering from & wound. & Grabs Cop's Revolver Petersen, arrested. yesten afternoon at West Hempstead o vagrancy charge, had spent night in solitary confinement the Valley. Stream eause of trouble with other pi a + T 6 u 4. \At act', arousing the. pree _| with sereams for food and Patrolman McCauley, who into Petersen's cell to quiet was pushed aside several tim Patrolman Kurz then inte when the prisoner started to f i his way out of the cell. While th@ two cops struggled with Peter J the latter - grabbed - gun from its holster and fired I shots. One penetrated the patrols} man's left foot. ( Patrolman Kurz then fired, 6 bullet creasing Petersen's two bullets going through prisoner's coat without: toudl him. /The two cops failed to due the man, however, and & eral gun battle followed,. Mill shots flying all about the Wi One bullet hit the main desk, © Continued on Page 2, G CHARGES DISMISSED Massepequs Judge And Two Fet mer Officials \| Larceny indictments Police Justice Michael Frank Cryan, former pollen tice, and Peter Col n, form mayor, of Massapequa PM connection with real estate nipulations were dismissed by Judge, Charles C. Nott, I® New York general sessions Coun Assistant District Atto tin Binder joined in the deed motion for dismissal of the fd ear - sa compl chael Fitzpatrick, asked secutich be dropped and th district attorney's office doubtful there was any criminal action involved ged manipulations. n 4
