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drowned, three suffered sub- mersion, and in a series of emergency treatment Depu'y County Medical Exa: ner William E. Gouin. Samford avenue, Flushing, and his mother-in-law, (Mrs. Martha St. John, 49, of19 East Tist street, Oo \ Shut Jett at Long Beach, by Mnahattan, were burt when Brown lost control of his car and Harold Briel, 18, of 9009-202nd crashed into a telephone pole on North Briel was drowned with Fred Crand OPPOSE |rtensel, 33, of 9318 202nd street, when a boat in which they were fishing west of Reynolds channel Meadowbrook causeway bridge, overturned. Hensel's body was recovered guards- men, but the body of Briel was carried off by thestrong tides. A third fisherman swam to safety. REVIEW-STAR FEATURES ONE PAGES Grand terrace, Baldwin, Saturday owbreok hospital, Brown for pos- sible fractures of the left ribs and cuts and bruises of the left knee and leg, and Mrs. St. John for a possible fracture of the skull, cer- ebral concussion and lacerations of thehead. avenue, Farmingdale, is recover- ing in Brunswick hospital, Amity- ville, today from cuts and bruises of the arms and legs suffered when she was struck by a car mear her home yesterday after- noon, avenue at Nelson avenue when she was hit by a machine operated by Leonard S. Weisberg, 33, of 168 Ash avenue, Flushing. He was re- leased after questioning. $62 Liberty avenue, Williston Park, was recovering at his home today from injuries of the left arm and right leg. received when Continued onPage 18, Col. 1] Terhune's Dog Story MAIN EDITION -* * *- Rockville Centre, Garden City, Hemp- stead, East Meadow, Baldwin, Oceanside, 'Long Beach, Island Park, Point Look- out, Recsevelt, Freeport and Villages to the East. Watered as Ind Class Matter at the Posteflice of Presport, N.T. Published Daily Rreept Sunday VOL XLL No, 108 METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.- MONDAY, MAY 8, 1939. -Star Wire News by The AssociatedPress TWENTY PAGES THE WEATHER Cloudy Today, Intermittent Rain. Tomorrow Showers. PRICE THREE CENTS QLDAKER ON TRIAL IN HAMMER SLAYING ONE DEAD, 14 HURT IN WEEK-END TOLL; MERCURY HITS 38 «« +87 «» 88 a«.81 +. 80 ««« 77 person was the William A. Brown, 31, of 160-15 They are being treated at Mead- Dorothy Lemneli, 11, of Linden The girl was crossing Fulton Four-year-old Richard Fox of HEART ATTACK Solv SENT WAH T0 TRAGIC END Funeral Held Today For Man Found In Auto On Canal Bottom - Two Youngsters While funeral services are being held in Philadelphia, Pa., today for Jay D. Whit- ham, Jr., 27-year-old: son of Dr. J. D. Whitham of Man- hattan, two alert, sharp-eyed Massapequa youngsters are being praised for their part in the finding of ~Whitham's body in a deep canal at Bilt- more Shores, Saturday afternoon. Whitham had vanished early Tuesday morning and his par- nts feared that he had been tidnaped. Too young to join «« 67 ... 65 ... 68 «+71 ... 76 ... 79 .. .82 ... 85 ML a> ONDAY ...86 3 a. m. ... 48.7 10 a. m. ...59 Highest temperature Satur- day: 86. ”Highs-t temperature Sunday: noon Massapequa, Young A. &: SMITH, 58, FREEPORT DEAD Descendant Family Is Stricken By_ |miss> Heart Attack the boy canals near their homes for the ng man. || Boys Follow Own Clue . Saturday, they recalled having noticed that a maple sapling, one of a row set out 'CLEAN READING® -ORMNEDPENED | Catholics Take Pledge To}| Fight\ Salacious Magazines A boycott of all dealers and vendors of publications carrying indecent literature, Mustrations or advertisements, was threatened to- day as more than 100,000 Catholics in Nassau county began organiz- ing as part of a diocesan drive to \clean up\ the newsstands, Thousands Pledged ' in every Catholic church in the county yesterday stood at masses and pledged them- selves to participate in the organ- ized campaign. been recommended by the Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Molloy, Thousands ported to police that he had been treating Mr. Smith for several. years for heart trouble. Mr. Smith is survived by a daughter, Mrs, Eva May Pearce, with whom he made his home; four brothers, Elmer, John Wil- bur, Howard and Clarence Smith, Oyster Bay; a sister, Mrs. Edith Neville of Copiague, and three grandsons, Edwin, Gordon and Osmond Pearce, Jr. His wife, Emma, didd in 1934. A native of East Norwich, Mr. Smith had lived in Freeport t 45 years, He had been at the United States Naval ordnance plant in for 15 years, retiring Previously, he had worked at the hospital today with injuries suf- Columbian Bronze corporation on North Main street, Freeport. He was a member of lodge, Sons and Daughters of an airplane searched e for traces of Jay D, disappeared from the sum- ents in Massapequa last boys noted automobile tire tracks in the sand# near Biltmore canal, Bilt- more Shores, Massapequa, Saturday afternoon and traced them t# the canal bulkhead. They told the proprietor of a nearby roadside stand, who informed poli¢e and a diver shortly after JACOBS, JR., 39, DIES. IN HOSPITAL West Hempstead bu Succumbs To Pneumonia; 20 Years With Railroad Henry V. Jacob# Jr., and south shor The pledges h an who Jr., 21, mer home of his Tuesday, two bishop of who also announced Rev. Edward Lodge Cur- 'ran, president of the International Catholic Truth society, would head the diocesan drive. ' Pastors in- many churches inted out that motion pictures drive members of the Legion of ve m rs of the Legion of Decency. The same pressure would HENRY V. to remove \sala- cious literature\ from the public. stands, church-goers were told. Each parish is to organize a lo- cal committee to canvass stores in Dealers will be request- ed 32d removeb jmtyl ngluines tr:- gar as objectionable on the - threat of losing the trade of those North Maple street, West Hemp who have taken the pledges. \NEW MUNICH CYCLE\ IS SEEN BY FRANCE Paris Government Braces Itself Newly-Signed Italian-German Pact PARIS, May 8-(@P)-France to- day viewed the Italian-German pact of Milan as an atte start \another Munich cycle\ an braced herself to resist it. Informed. French circles ny and Italy, now to n a political and mi tary alliance rather than the in- formal axis relationship, had three immediate aims: 1. To have Premier Mussolini intervene in the Polish-German dispute over the free city zig as he did in last Septembe crisis in German-Czechoslovak re- lations. 2. To set up a \Macedonian free state\ in Yugoslavia while Croat- Serb minority negotiations break down-the free state to be Ita \political domain\ in \reward\ supporting Reichsfuehrer Hitler. 3. To renew Fascist demands on France for a share in French North African holdings. &-__-- 11 A. M. Wall St Allled Chem Am Smelt .. Am Tel & Tel _.. & Ohio Ches & Ohio Chrysler .. - Columbia Gas Comi Inv Tr . Cons Edisen Del L & W . Du Pont East Kodak Brooklyn, that the all of after a now be exerted employed a drink, but sh last year. went alone in his father's car. its areas. of 56 stead, died of complications at late hospital, Jamaica, Saturday. He was 39. Immacu- Mr. Jacobs was barn in Brook- lyn, the son of Henty and Cath- erine Jacobs. He moved to West DROWNING VICTIM'S BODY I$ RECOVERED Harold Briel, 18, Of Hollis, Swept To Sea From Capsized Boat Identified By Brother The body of the second victim of a fishing tragedy on March 18 had been recovered today, having been sighted Saturday afternoon Whitham apparently suf- er heart attack as he driving along Biltmore boule- ; el with the canal, which his home. Hempstead 10 years ago. For the past 20 wears, he was employed by the Long Island rail- road, his last positio® being signal maintenance man. Henry V. Jacobs, was recently pensioned by the railroad. Mr. Jacobs was & member of the Mizpah lodge of Masons, Elm- the Long I#land railroad Square club and th® Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America. Surviving are his wife, Mildred Jacobs, a daughter, Paula Jane Jacobs, of the same address; two brothers, William of Baldwin and Fred of Jersey City; a sister, Mrs. Anna Low, of Baldwin, and his parents. Resist SEEK CHARTER Republican Recruits Of Carle Place Prepare Petition Republican recruits of Carle Place will draft a petition to the county council of the organiza- tion for formal recognition as a chapter of the Nassau Recruits to- Walter Jackowski, chairman of the group announced today. His father, the car overturned as it * t; fell, but landed on its wheels at the bottom,. facing towards the hurst; she lieved Ger two fishermen. The victim be bound Dr. William F. Gouin, assistant morrow night. pronounced Whitham dead at 4:56 p. m. and ordered the body to Meadowbrook hospital,. where. an autopsy was performed 'by 'Dr. : Theodore J. Curphey, also an assistant medical examiner, Saturday night. His report revealed that the au- topsy showed water in the lungs and- stomach, indicating that Whitham had been alive when the car entered the water. Detectives Richard Meyer of the first squad, Merrick, and Thomas Bonanza of the 'homicide. squad, who investigated, closed the case as an gccidental death. Besides his father, Whitham' is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary F. Roberts Whitham. The body was taken to the home of his grandfather, G. W. B. Roberts, in Philadelphia, where funeral serv- ices were to be held today. Because of his heart condition, Whitham had been forced to aban- don his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, been a student for two years. For the same reason, he had been un- able to enter business and had de- voted most of his time to building and rigging ship models, medical examiner, street, Hollis. Carle Hempstead boulevard, at 8 o'clock, More than 150 members and guests of the Carle Place group 'attended a dance held by the or- ganization at the Republican club Saturday night. Guests included Nathal L. Bennett, William Nash and Arthur Blanchard, delegates of the county council, and James H. Pinckney, head of the Garden City chapter, Place near the of Dai by coast DIES IN BROOKLYN Mrs. Meta Hollwedel, 77, former resident of Wantagh, died Satur- day at her home in the Ridgewood section of Brooklyn, She is sur- vived by her husband, John; a son, John, Jr., and a @aughter, Mrs. Anna Starcke of Cornelius ave- nue, Wantagh. County YATES IS DRAWN ST. ANDREWS, Scotiand, May 8-(P)-Charley Yates, most popu- lar United States golfer in Britain since the halcyon days of Bobby Jones, was thrown into a \bracket of champions\ when the draw for the British amatejir championship was announced today. The tourna- ment will be held at Hoylake, May 22-27. With the defending cham- pion in the third quarter of the draw are four former titleholders: Robert Sweeney, Jr., 1937; Hec- one, Many cit aining ( . Classified Ads Clendening, Dr Comics Logan Editoria) Cartoon Girl Scout News .... « Hollywood (Jimmie Fidler) Horoscope (Prances Drake) Human Side of Hith ...l... In Memgriam reet Prices 28% Pullman .$. , |Bears-Roc Bou Pac Sou Ry . St O of St 0 of NJ . Texas Coi Union (United 8 Steel... - Westingh ® & . 35% Woolworth ... Elect Auto-Lite 4 [Gen Mot . Goodyear Tire Kennecott .. Kroger G & B .. Ligg & Myers Nat Bise .... A|Nat Pow & N Y Central Nor. Amer Nor Pac . 2!4 |Rac Gas Pub Bve N J . where he had Nazsau 28 Years Ago News Behind the Radio Program Scott's Serapboo Society News . Sport News hide ms Imp Thompson, 1927; Tweddel], and Cyril Tol- ley, 1920 and 1929, e_ Massapequa Mystery le 2d located the Whitham car with the youth's body inside, at the bottom of the canal. photo shows the death car being dragged from the water after Robert Taylor of Freeport, a pro- fessional diver, seen at right going down, had attached cables to it. .Immediately above, County Detective Thomas McMahon questions the- two alert youngsters, Tommy Murray, left, 11 old and Fred Corbett, 10. Child Drowned as Mother Faints Giving Her Bat Floral Park Baby, 13 Months Old, Slips Under Water; Hour's Rescue Work Fails Marielliene Hirsch, 13 months old, of 24 Lewis avenue, Floral Park, was drowned in a few inches of water Saturday when her mother, Mrs. Shirly Hirsch, fainted as she was bathing the child. -as The baby's grandmother discov- ered her in the tub and Mrs. Hirsch on the floor of her home and hastily summoned police of the third precinct, Nassau county department, who worked over the child for more than an hour, giv- ing her artificial respiration in a vain effort to revive her. Dr. Walter Roettinger of Nas- sau hospital responded to a call for an ambulance, but was unable to revive Baby Marielliene. prenounced the child dead shortly The session will be held at the| before 8:30 o'clock. Republican club,} Mrs. in his conditibn. hospital. The top left years « Review-Star Photographer Hirsch was giving her young daughter her daily bath in their home, she told police, when she was overcome by faintness and lost consciousness before she was able to lift the child from the water. The baby dropped back in- to the tub when her mother's hands, that had been supporting the child, fell away as Mrs. Hirsch dropped to the fioor. Suffering from first burns of the face and body, Wal- ter Cerep, nine and one-half months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Cerep of Grand avenue, Baldwin, is on the danger list at Meadowbrook hos- pital, today, but attending physi- cians report slight improvement degree South The baby was scalded when he pulled a percolator of steaming coffee over on himself as he lay on the kitchen table, morning. He was given emergency treatment at South Nassau Com- 1936; Dr. W.\ munities hospital, Oceanside, and later removed to Meadowbrook Saturday 18 WITNESSES @ ON STATE LIST AS CASE OPENS Defense Is Expected To Summon As Many To The Stand ACCUSED NERVOUS ON ENTERING COURT Insanity Made Basis Of Fight To Save Him From Chair BullEtin George F. Heckler of Freeport, a bookkeeper, qualified and was accepted as the first juror shortly be- fore noon today. He there- FJ |by becomes foreman of the Jury. Frank J. Eller of Garden City was excused as a con- scientious objector to capital punishment. The state used a peremptory challenge in excusing George R. Depew of Malverne, who said he as a commercial artist. The excused George La- Mott of Floral Park because he gave the district attorney a flippant answer, Vernon E. Oldaker, 43, the Mineola handyman accused of brutally murdering A n n a Louise McKee, his 57-year-old neighbor and benefactor for $9, went on trial for his life today in Nassau county court. Wan and nervous after a stay of six weeks in the Nassau county jail awaiting trial, Oldaker was brought to court handcuffed to two deputy sheriffs, He had a whispered conference with his at- torneys, Irving Cahn and James G, Blake, assigned by the court to his defense, before the trial opened. Neary To Use 18 Witnesses District Attorney Edward J. Neary will try the case, the first first degree murder trial in Nas- sau county since John Reo was convicted in February, 1938, of murdering two Elmont women. Mr, Neary will call 18 witnesses to submit proof of the state's contention that Oldaker killed Miss McKee, that the slaying was done with premeditation and for the purpose of robbery, and that Oldaker was sane and knew the nature of his act. The defense is expected to call about the same number of wit- nesses, including alienists who are expected to submit evidence that Oldaker is suffering from a form of insanity that might result in violence of the type that charac- terized the slaying. Oldaker's 80- year-old mother, brought here from Iowa City, Ia., is expected to testify that the family has a X'flstory of insanity. Today's morning session was to be taken up principally with se- lection of a jury from the panel of 100 regular trial term jurors summoned for the murder trial Selection of a jury is expected to be a difficult task because of the widespread publicity given the case. Excuse First Juror In questioning prospective jurors, District Attorney Neary probed carefully into the possi- bility that they might have con- scientious scruples against capital punishment. Frank Voges of Baldwin, the first prospective juror, was excused on this ground. The district attorney also in- sisted that a juror be willing to swear that he would not be prejudiced in favor of the defend ant because he is the father of four children. He also brought out that Oldaker was unemployed and poverty-stricken for a long period and demanded that there be no prejudice because of sym- pathy on that score. Defense Counsel Cahn warned prospective jurors that the state would produce blood - stained weapons and clothing. He asked th@t they be certain they would 'not be swayed by the grisly char- acter of the evidence, @ahn said it would be charged among other things that Oldaker had committed crimes of bigamy, burglary and forgery in addition to the alleged slaying. He insist- Continued on Page 4, Col. 5 * U
