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MAIN EDITION -* * *- Rockville Centre, Garden City, Hemp- stead, East Meadow, Baldwin, Oceanside, Long Beach, Island Park, Point Look- out, Roosevelt, Freeport and Villages to the East. THE WEATHER Fair and Cooler Today. Tomor- -Star Wire News by The Associated Press row Cloudy, Warmer. Entered ms 2nd Class Matter EIGHTEEN PAGES a In hona te Pement I o. METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N: Y.- SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1939. , PRICE THREE CENTS russ cunt [Rime Ness OB (CHILD CRUSHED UNDER TRUCK: Hae fmricsoon FORTNIGHT ROAD TOLL NOW 8 RETO BEN \*- | \ V é lice a on Traffic Accidents Bellmore: Disappearance To Hitler Sympathizers; crucial Point In Crisis kidnA tip originating in Philadelphia that Nazi sympathizers But Upsets Nommating i oa T C Cirl Meets Death Jay D. Whitham, Jr., 27 1d 'of Man- , Over Corridor Se@n hatten physician, was Investigated along with a mounting! Board In Selecting In 24 Hours pequa last Tuesday morning. While Lieutenant Theodore Ma- gee, in command of the Nassau maze of other \clues\ by police today as five days passed without a definite indication of the fate of the missing man J- BERLIN TAKES VIEW WARSAW MUST ACT Fuehrer Remains Silent On Plans But Anger Is Apparent such a theory \improbable\, it was learned that a Philadelphia news- paper began an intensive investi- gation of the information early to- day, The source was reported to be a friend of Whitham who lived in Philadelphia for two years while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Criticized Nazis * \We understand that 'young Whitham held strong views criti- cal of the Nazi party in Germany, but we do not believe there was any cause for any such drastic move against him as a kidnaping,\ Lieutenant Magee said. \He was not an active worker against Nazi- ism and we do not believe his disappearance could be attributed to that source.\ With a two-day search by planes failing to locate the ul 4 sedan Whith: dro WARSAW, May 6-@P)-)| disappeared, Nassau police pressed A belief that the next alwwdmgzmwfimmn ture of Pow 5:12: li won tie +. -n: A tions prevailed here today as nmflm lump-m; Poland awaited gm full h(ier- tre mark pad ffluflc’ifi; man reaction to Foreign Min- this POE ' ister Beck's speech rejecting mmwflmumgufiwtwwlmwd young man's parents, who still not convinced that eith-r fill? car are not somewhere assapequa vicinity, he the brush off some m Fom which he suffered since & child should a have been a; oa arch expec to theory at rest definitely. Nassau county police plane ive hours in the air Thurs- searching the south shore in eastern Nassau and western Suf- folk for the car. Yesterday, two United States army bombers from Mitchel field flew over area for four hours. Ea GERMANY JIBED IN FAIR SPEECH LaGuardia Gets Ovation As Rumanian Hall Is Dedicated The absent member of the \fam- ily of nations,\ Germany, the only major country of the world: not represented by an exhibit at the World's Fair, seem today to have been set up as fair game for pavil- ion opening speakers. Hall Packed For Ceremony Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the fiery chief executive of New York city who has, in the past, had transatlantic battles with Nazi officials, brought a loud, long ovation from the packed hall at the Rumanian pavilion yesterday when, with a dramatic sweep of his arm he indicated an historical panel on the wall, and the words painted beneath it: > \Rumanians resist the barbar- ians, found MoMavia and Wall- achia.\ \You today, proclaim to all the world,\ Mayor LaGuardia shouted, \that Rumania 'resists the bar- barians.\ « The pavilion, built of native marble with a ceiling of rock salt panels taken from the gov- ernment-owned . mines, . glowed with ~ soft, opalescent light througtout the morning ceremony. 'Speaking at the dedication were Dr. Andrei Popovici, deputy com- missioner to the fair and master {Polish corridor). added, however, that the impetus for further discussions must come from Colonel Joseph Beck, the Polish foreign minister; who in a parliamentary speech condemned as \one- sided\ those demands and Hitler's denunciation of the Polish-Ger- man non-aggression pact of 1934. At the same time a flood of newspaper - comment spread through the controlled German press which tried to put Poland in the unhappy position occupied by Czechoslovakia last fall before the fuehrer's demands caused the dis- appearance of that little repyblic. Yon Ribbentrop To Italy i 'azis denounced Colonel Beck's 20-minute address as an \insult\ to Hitler, no word came to ease fhe tension from the mountain, chalet near Berchtes- gaden where the chancellor planned for the future. Hitler's foreign minister, Joachim Von|Of cetemonies; Grover A. Whalen, Ri Mmeznwnh him |president of the fair; Edward J. six hours and left short-) Flynn, United States commission- yesterday ly before midnight for Italy, It was believed Von Ribbentrop took with him Hitler's pronouncement on the address to a conference with Count Galeazzo Ciano, Ita}- ian foreign minister. The semi-official mouthpiece of the 'German foreign office. Deutsche Diplomatisch - Politische * Continued on Page 3, Col. 3 COME THROUGH CRASH ABERDEEN, Scotland, May 6- (PI-A severely injured Royal air- force flier, who had been trapped mboltmu hketrl militartyo plane for abou ours, was found Korrespondenz, said that the new |by a gamekeeper after a narchbd‘l: Polish - British assistance pact|the' naben mountains. . The shows \an unmistakable tendency injured man . was carried toward a coalition directed eX-/stretcher across the moorlands to clusively against Germany\ -and/an ambulance. \it is a parallel to the Czech- Prench-Soviet system .. .\ IRISH OFFICIAL COMING DNB, official German agenty, DUBLIN, May 6-(@Pi-Deputy reported a \stream of GermaN|Prime Minister Sean O'Kelly left \type: as a result of Polish ter-| Dublin today to board the S. S. rorism\ and said \the German| Washington at Cobh for -New population of the village of Wolz] York. He was accompanied by J. was terrorized by Polish bands in| J. Hearne, legal adviser of the de- ai unbelieveable way.\ partment of external affairs, missing persons bureau, declared\ by more fire ___ ELMONT FIREMAN SETS A 18T AT- FAIR Jules Ergenzinger of 22 Rock- mart avenue, Elmont, today holds 'the distinction of being the first uniformed. volunteer Greman to enter. the World's Fair. Ergenzinger, (decked out in his eight-button firemanic out- fit, waited at ruler“ nourbrthecxfifd ion to open yesterday. Fire officials said he was the first volunteer fireman t's ion n. Comm who disappeared from his family's summer home at Manuf- '\ Johnstown Is Favorite As 3-Year-Olds Go To The Post By GAYLE TALBOT LOUISVILLE, -Seventy thousand hearts will of minutes ted-(y of the nation's year-o drum around the m Chm-ell!3 hill Downs track in the 65th run- of the Ken Derby. ning al lull” finest thoroughbreds .m thn’d loving care can produce after 6:30 (New York time) and begin the mile and one-quarter struggle for the garland of roses and nearly $50,000 in cash that go to the winner. To the sensitive, slender-legged colts the two minutes that follow will représent 'the high climax of careers that were pointed, since their first breath of life, toward winning \the derby.\ One owner will be so proud tonight he could pop. The others will drown their sorrow and start looking forward to a year from today. converging on Louisville. He unicofled, they were ed to bet more than a million dollars on the. derby and 'the eight other races on today's program. The bulk of the derby money will be riding on Johnstown, the great bay colt of William Wood- ward's that won the Wood Memo- vial last week and ran such a sen- sational derby trial \ve days if]? that those who witnessed it s are gasping. The big, rugged fel- low has become such + predomi- nant favorite that he might: face the barrier less than an even-mon- ey choice in the mutuel machines. NEW CAMERA TAKES LARYNX IN COLOR Brass Tube Inserted In Throat Enables Photographer To ' Get. Scientific Movies *'BOSTON, May 6-(P)-A movie camera' which takes \action pic- tures\ of the human larynx in color through- a brass tube in- serted in the throat was described today as a new aide in' science's fight against cancer. Drs. \Adrian Solo, Nathan L. Fineberg, and George Levene, of Boston, who devised it \specifical- ly for study of diseased and nor- mal conditions in the larynx,\ said its proved success \perhaps has paved the way for motion pic- ture study within the human lung and other -internal organs.\ The investigators, members of the staffs of Massachusetts Me- morial hospital and Boston uni- versity med al school, said their instrument was \a simpler, less expensive and more practical\ de- velopment of techniques perfected by other scientists. \ COTTAGE: BURNS $1,000 Damage Caused In North Belimore Blaze Police today 'are checking the ovum-sh? an unoccupied cot- tage on Virginia avenue ear Jer- usalem road, North Bellmore, de- stroyed by fire at 4:30 o'clock yes- afternoon. The loss is esti- mat at $1,000. Deputy Chief William June of the North Bell- epartment, Team a me fos Sa squa a rot e ion had failed to reveal the cause the blaze. Although the firemen responded promptly to an alarm sent in by nearby residents, the one-story, frame building was a mass of flames on their arrival and they concentrated their efforts on pro- tecting surrounding buildings. «+ Ky., May 6-P pump in swing time for a couple . whilé the cream Ten-or, at the least, eight-of leap from the barrier at a little For days the ctowds have‘bxue; tend Vice-President (Picture On Page 4) Oscar L.. Terrell, chief of the. Wantagh fire department, today is president-elect of the Nasser council following his election last. night at a meeting in Floral Park which produced slate of candidates proposed by the nominating committed, president and elected him. Departments Polled after Chief Terrell. had been elect- ed by the routine one vote cast by the secretary, Joseph Scully, when the name of William Kirk, Jr., ex- the contest for vice-president by Bernard Loonam of Freeport. Malverne, had already been ad- vanced, by the nominatifig, com- mittee headed by Percy Sweezy of Baldwin. Following a poll of each of the 38 departments represented at the council meeting which was held in the fire headquarters building, Floral Park, the tellers announced that Kirk had been elected with a vote of 79 to 9. Other officers of the council elected are: Joseph J. Scully, chief of Point Lookout department, see- retary; ter: N, Ross of Garden City, who was substituted for Kirk, originally nominated for this post, treasurer; Alfred Schere, ex-chief of Farmingdale, financial amt-11; Fred Leyboldt‘, 0:4}th Hempstead, sergeant-at-arms; the Rev, Arthur A. Pennell, of Rosew chaplain, and mgr: Borley, \ex-chief of Hicksville; Richard Raynor, chief of Freeport, and Mario Pollini, ex-chief of Malverne, three-year directors. * Installation will be held May 26 at the South Shore Yacht club, Freeport. George Clough, marshal and retiring council pres- ident, presided at the meeting. It was seported by the mem- bership committee that 265 chiefs, ex-chiefs and'deputies were on the rolls of the council compared to 213 last year. More, than 200 persons \ were present at last night's meeting. The average at- ance was reported to be 104. William Cristy, chairman of the firemen's memorial committee, ex- hibited -an. artist's conception. of the appearance of a memorial flagstaff to be dedicated to those firemen who haye lost their lives in the line of dety. The staff was shown set in concrete base with a bronze plaque affixed thereto car- rying the names of the deceased vamps, The estimated cost was placed at $600, FOREIGN DIPLOMATS FLEEING CHUNGKING General Flight In Progress After Jap Bombs Leave Provincial .. Capital In: Flames CHUNGKING, May 6 - (P) - Foreign diplomatic officials joined a general flight today from this bomb-wrecked Chinese capital, parts of which still were burning from Japanese air raids that caused an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 |. casualties. The British consulate and em- bassy were moved from their bad- ly damaged buildings to the south bank of the Yangtze river. Staffs of the German embassy and con- sulate, whose buildings were not damaged, took new quarters 'n the outskirts. (Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, Brit- ish ambassador: to Tokyo, in- formed Renza Sawada, assistant secretary of foreign affairs, of the \gravity\ of the bombing of the British consulate in Chungking and described as \entirely unac- ceptable\ the Japanese explana- tion that anti-aircraft units were located 'near the consulate. Chungking, whose normal popu- lation of about 650,000 'had been swollen by refugees to an estimat- ed 2,000,000 before the raids on Wednesday and Thursday, began to ume a deserted aspect as hundreds of thousands crossed the river or fled to the countryside. Nearly all foreign firms in Chung- king proper prepared to move across the Yangtze. Fires started mostly by incendi- ary bombs had been brought un- der control, despite a water short- age. REPORT PROGRESS ON PACT ANKARA, May 6-(P)- The newspaper Akcham said today that British-Turkish negotiations on security \have succeeded.\ For- eign Minister Sukru Saracoglu-was reported to have explained to the Republican People's party that the basis of the agreement was mu- tual assistance for security in the Mediterranean. +County Fire Chief's an upset when members re- fused to follow entirely the and nominated from the floor their own candidate for vice- The unprecedented action came chief of Inwood, was thrust into Charles H. Kenney, ex-chief of county fire' @ County police are doing their utmost to stem the tide of traf- fic accidents that have caused the deaths of eight persons within the past two weeks. Above, police are seen using a device for determining blood stains on the fenders of a car brought in for examination in conection with the hit and run death of a Belle- rose Manor man. 'The inset is a picture of Matilda Alexander, 4, killed by a truck #ear her home in Bellmore yesterday. Review-Btar Photographer 2 Pigeon-Fancier Cops Put On Trail of Cote Raiders 141 Prize Racers Stolen In Month In Five Breaks By Experienced Handlers Two , Nassau coulfity detectives, esch of whom is himself a pigeon fancier and familiar with the more valuable breeds, today had been assigned to track d&wn thieves who have raided the cotes of five pigeon owners in county during the past 30 days and gotten TTABBY STORK FLIES | HIGH AT FREEPORT The stork was flying high when he brought a fitter of kit- tens to Freeport, yesterday. He dropped them on the roof of Mrs. Edward McCracken's home at 171 St. Ma¥k's avenue, who promptly called police to ask for help in binging the kittens and their mother down to earth. Police im turn re- ferred the call to Clinton Wal- ling, superintendent of the municipal line department, and a ladder crew soon rescued the feline family. Police reported (that the mother cat belongs to a neigh- vor of Mrs. McCracken, whose name they did not e. But she was surprised, they added, when she learned of the sudden increase in pets. BENES GETS GUARD FOLLOWING THREATS Former Czech President Protected By Police After (Telephone Warnings In Fork Wayne FORT WAYNE, Ind., May 6- (P) -'Telephoned thr@ats against Dr. Eduard 'Benes, former presi- dent of Czechoslovaki, 'ed police to guard him closely ms he spoke here last night. Benes, on the University of Chi- cago faculty since G@rmany took over his country, talked at a boy scout merit badge show and later lectured in the same Building un- der sponsorship of the Lions club. Scout executives whp would not allow use of their names said they had received many ciills warning they would \be sorry if they let Benes speak. They said the callers were Nazi sympathizefs, This city of 115,000 has a large German population. TAX REVENUE SLIPS State's Return This ‘elr Down, Graves Reports ALBANY, May 6 - (P) - Al- most as many New York residents paid personal state intome taxes in 1938 as in 1937, but Tax Com- missioner Mark Gravé® estimated' their returns this year will be \20 per cent. less.\ In 1937, he reported, taxes to- taling $107,100,000 were due from 664,000 returns, while f 1938 \taxes due on 647,000 ireturgs re- ceived approximate $86,500.000.\ He explained the figures inqlude shares of both the state and /mu- nicipalities. away with 141 of the birds. Thefts Began April 5 Lieutenant Marcel Chagnon, head of the burglarj' squad of the county police, assigned Detectives Frank Newmann and Richard O'Connell to get the birds and to get whoever has been taking them. Losses have run from $8 to more than $100. The series of pigeon thefts, most of which have been at Merrick, started on April 5 when Thomas O'Brien, of 254 Elsie avenue, Mer- rick, lost four pigeons valued at $60. _ On the night of April 16 two cotes were raided and 83 birds stolen, Jean Pine, of Merrick road and Soma avenue, Bellmore, lost 70 pigeons, and 13 more, valued at $8 were taken 'from the coop of Frederick Nau, of 183 Common- wealth avenue, Merrick. Two days later 31 flight pigeons were taken from the coop of Hen-- ry L. Bruning at-233 West Merrick road, Merrick, who placed his loss at $77.50. The latest theft reported was at Valley Stream on the night of April 22 when 23 Tieger Cap pig- eons worth between $75 and $100 were stolen from William B. Sam- islo of 123 Berkeley street. Police have warned all pigeon owners to take extra precautions to guard their birds, particularly at night. An organized gang with a knowledge of the value of pure- bred pigeons and facilities for handling and disposing of the birds is suspected of being respon- sible for the series of thefts and all bird lovers of the county have been urged by the police to co- operate and report' immediately any: information which might aid in identifying the pigeon thieves. ANCIENT SHIPS HULK MAY BE RALEIGH'S Roanoke's Imagination Fixed As Diggers Press Excavation Amid The Dunes MANTEO, N. C., May 6-@)- The hulk of an ancient ship, ex- posed to view in the sand dunes by a recent storm, and now partly excavated, fired the imagination of Roanoke Islanders today. Roanoke Island, site of the early English colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that disappeared two years later without leaving a trace ® its fate, is steeped in maritime legend. A. W. Drinkwater, versed in a sea lore, expressed the opinion the ship dated back at least to the 16th century. The ship's planking and timbers are hand hewn, and she is held together by hand- fashioned trunnel pins and bronze spikes, COUNTY HOPEFUL OF BIG THL SALE Steady Improvement In Lien Market Aided By Legislation Nassau county legislation, which has already tended to stabilize realty transactions and values, is expected to be further emphasized during the sale of 1937 delinquent tax liens, scheduled for July 3. County Treasurer Harry L. Hedger reported that financial conditions of the county relating to tax collections have greatly im- proved since peak difficulties were encountered in 1931, Redemption At Low Point At that time redemption of de- linquent taxes was low, purchase of liens by commercial or outside buyers was proportionately lower than ever before and the county was compelled to hold the maxi- mum value of liens in its history. For the 1928-29 tax year $780,- 117 was returned by the town re- ceiver to the county treasurer for collection, resulting in the county acquiring only $65,600 in liens, the rest being redeemed or sold to pri- vate buyers at the sale. The following year of 1930 re- sulted in a return of $1,039,215 of which the county had to put on its books, $353,620, indicating in- creasing business depression at the time. In the 1931 sale the returns climbed to $1,712,643 and the peak of unsold liens amounting to Continued on Page 3, Col. 2 NAZI ENVOY BACK Vou Welczeck Returns To His ' Post In Paris PARIS, May 6.-@@P)-Count Jo- hannes Von Welczeck, German ambassador to France, returned to Paris today after being absent from his post since March 20.- He was summoned to Berlin then to \report .on the situation\ the same day that Robert Cou- londre, French ambassador to Ber- lin, was summoned to Paris after Germany occupied Bohemia and Moravia. Coulondre returned to Berlin April 25. WHISKY LOST IN FIRE FORD CITY, Pa., May A spectacular fire visible ten miles away. swept a three-story war - house at the Logansport distillery of the Pennsylvania Distilling company last night, destroying npproximateli‘ulgfloo barrels of bonded (Guci eimer) whisky. Review- Star's Offer in Hit-Run at Bellerose Hailed by Cops Nassau's mounting toll of automobile fatalities today had reached eight for the past two weeks with the death late yesterday of a 4-year-old Bell- more girl who was crushed under a truck. Killed Near Home The latest victim is Matilda Alexander, daughter of Walter and Mary Alexander, of 305 Shore road, Bellmore. The accident oc- curred near the child's home yes- terday afternoon. With The Nassau Daily Review- Star posting a $250 reward for information leading to the arrest of the hit-and-run driver respon- sible for the death of Walton Tay- lor, 74, of Bellerose Manor, Wed- nesday night, police today re- doubled precautions to stem the rising tide of highway fatalifies and continued an intensive sc£ch for the hit-and-run motorts® The offer of the reward by The Review-Star today has raised hopes of police that persons who might have seen the black sedan strike Taylor and speed away would be encouraged to give them information that police do not now possess. -* Review-Star Stand Latded Lieutenant Jesse Mayforth, in command of the homicide squad, and Detective Joseph Hizenski assigned to the investigation of the hit-run case, said today that no important clues have been dis- covereds Commissioner Abram W. Skid- more said that the Review-Star was performing an important pub- lic service in providing reward money, inasmuch as public funds could not be used for reward pur- oses. He and Inspector Frank E. McCahill consented to act as sole judges in awarding the posted re- ward fund. The eighth fatality was added to the list yesterday when the Alex- ander child fell beneath the rear wheels of a two-ton truck oper- ated by Andrew Sochacki of 16 Belmont place, East Hempstead, who was backing into a yard to deliver a load of topsoil. The wheels passed over the child's chest, She was rushed to Meadowbrook hospital, where she died shortly after admittance. As- sistant Medical Examiner William E. Gouin viewed the body and gave permission for funeral ar- rangements, County Detective William Maitland of the first squad, Merrick, investigated. Besides her parents, the child is survived by a brother, Walter, Jr., 15. She had lived in Bellmore about three years. Her father is an employee of the New York city sanitation department, working in Far Rockaway. 8 Deaths In 2 Weeks Despite intensive patrolling of main traffic arteries throughout the county since the opening of the New York World's Rair, Death has been riding Nassau highways and grinning at the best efforts of police to restrain him. In chron- ological order, he has taken his victims as follows: April 23: Frank G. \Sunrise\ Holly, 78, 19 5th avenue, East Rockaway; Stephen .Gerdick, 31, Grand boulevard, Westbury; Ai- bert Ianotti, 22, 57 Lenox avenue, Westbury. * April 24: Thomas Troccoli, 35, 470 Winthrop street, Westbury. May 2: Mrs. Loretta Peterson, 38, 74 Locust avenue, Rockville Centre. May 3: «William Walton Taylor, 74, 248-51 188th drive, Bellerose Manor. & May 4: Anna Stroh, 6, Fort Lo- gan, Colo. May 5: Matilda Alexander, 4, 305 Shore road, Bellmore. REVIEW-STAR FEATURES ONE PAGES Page Bird Notes (Robert Arbib, Jr.) a Business and Legals Child Training Classified Ads .... Clendening, Dr. tof Comics .... ...... Crossword Puzzle Dally Pattern (Anne Adams Dale Carnegie Editorial Editorial Cartoon haren + Hollywood (Jimmie Fidier) Horoscope (Prances Drake) 1!an Side of the News a Knifin, Wiliam A - bck Listen. World (Rlsle Robinson} Nassau 25 Years Azo Needlecraft (Laura Wheeler: H. News Behind the News (Paul Mallon: Radio Program . .- . Real Estate «4 Reviewing the News (John M. Greene) . Scott's Serapbook « Society - erhune's Dog Sto our Garden ..... 14 L F (Edwin C
