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THE WEATHER Light Showers This Afternoon and 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, Tonight,. Tomorrow Partly Cloudy. \ Publsined Dally Except Sunday Wire News by The Associated Press Entered as fnd Class Matter at the Pesteffice of Fresport, N. T. STATE FIGHTS OLDAKER INSANITY DEFENSE FUIMES PEAIL State Confer, |ZMNNG BOA Older Leaving Cell for Murder Trl_ JURY PIDKING COUNTRY CUR oes. see ess s ts ies: U aam EXAAUSTs OnE AT ENTIRE PMEL \'\**~* NPEAMTSUT String Of ~Bathhouses mp For Accused PRICE THREE CENTS VOL XLI No. 109 TWENTY PAGES METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.- TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939. Counsel Rockville Centre's parking \headache which for months has been caused by the problem of whether cars should be parked parallel Present Hempstead Unit Near Main Building Gutted Today or diagonal to the curb, is back again-bigger and more painful than TWO DEPARTMENTS ever. This week, however, the added pain of enforcing a time limit WAGE HOUR'S BATTLE Pope Sends Peace Note To Powers VATICAN CITY, May 9-@P)- Damaga Total Expected A Vatican news service announced today that papal nuncios in various To Be In Thousands At (P92 fP\ 220\ Pms\ (3 he Play Center heads of governments the pope's \ardent desire for peace.\ The news service said that Pope Pius XII, who always has inter- ested himself in peace, did so to- day \more than ever\ and 'was furthering the cause of peace “thmhxsh normal diplomatic con- \It is for this reason,\ the serv- lee said, \that in these days vari- ous nuncios have been in contact with heads of governments and ministers of foreign affairs to communicate to them the ardent desires and prayers of the pope that peace be not com; and that the questions which today exist between the various coun- tries be solved b: means to which they are disposed.\ Interviews between Monsi Cesare Orsenigo, nuncio to Ger- many, and Chaneellor Hitler and between Monsignor Valerio Val- eri, nuncio to Fr and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet took last week. A fire threat to the stately Woodmere Country club build- ing at Keene lane and Meadow drive was averted firemen, who for more than an hour battled flames in the long row of bathhouses and the peaceful say after all Minister Je Beck at W. P Jewph at arsaw FIND MAN WANDERING, $3,000 IN THE BANK Believed Victim Of Amnesia, He Is Tentatively Identified By Bank Receipt An 84-year-old man, found wandering early this morning in Valley. Stream and believed a vic- tim of amnesia was found to have had four savings bank books with deposits totaling more than $3,000. He was tentatively identified by the missing persons bureau as John Scholl by a tax receipt on property at Sheffield avenue and Finley street, Springfield Gardens. The elderly man was unable to identify himself other than by the name of \Springfield John.\ (He said he came to this country near- ly 57 years ago from Germany and that he had \made a little money.\ He was unable to recollect how long he had been wandering around, sleeping in alleys or open fields. He did not appear to be suffering from malnutrition and said he had not been ill since he came to this country. He indicated that he had some money sewed into the lining of his clothes. Bank books were wrapped in an old newspaper. He was found by Patrolman Harry Schroeder at Rockaway avenue and Sunrise highway, Valley Stream, and was being questioned by Detective Patrick Shanley at headquarters. BOY HURT AT PLAY Albertson Youth Injured In Fall Climbing Slide Kenneth Asklund, 12, of Sigs- by avenue, Albertson, was in Meadowbrook hospital today, suf- eu eom aon ml to ihe \head 7 c . ~ \the neck received when e tue “(z-ad Jmmh did dam- [from a slide at the Herricks W Raynor asked the county 32ng shortly after noon yester» pf]: safety bureau to finish?\ Authorities, at the hospital said to Nut-3,13 “vault!!!“ failed | that the injured lad's condition “renal hekcgusc of the fire. was \fair\ this morning and that Wm“? caused no end Of (he was not on the critical list. t to former Mayor | Kenneth was sliding on a play Clinton M. Flint. An early riser. slide with other youngsters during noon recess. While climbing up the slide he slipped and plunged to the ground. He was rushed to the hospital. Patrolman John W. Heffernan of the third precinct, Nassau county police, investigated the accident. the? lif itching up on quickly thought that a nearby service sta- tion was on fire and turned in an alarm and fire engines soon sur- rounded the bewildered ex-mayor. The vamps yawned and laughed alternately as ne explained things and then went back to their sta- ons. Air Reduct .. Allied Chem Am Can .. Am Smelt . .._ 49% East Kodak Elee Auto-Li ROYALTY GOES SHOPPING NEW YORK, May 9-P- A ; I Crown Prince Frederik and in wat was .. n:: # Aol Crown Princess Ingrid of Den- Atchison ..... 22 [Int Harv ... Balt & Ohio . Ches & Chio . Chrysler . Columbia Gas Comi Inv Tr mark returned from a three-day visit to Philadelphia and Wash- ington. They planned a quiet day of shopping and private visits Loews Johns-Manv .. Kennecott ... Kroger G & B Ligg & Myers B on parking is causing additional concern, both to village officials and drivers. Conference Today First, the matter of parking on Sunrise highway. The village and the chamber of commerce wants diagonal parking. |The state has ordered parallel parking to be- gin about June 1. And the village has protested. A meeting to be held today be- tween village and state officials, will, decided. whether a public hearing shall be called on the question. Secondly, the matter of park- ing. on North Village and North Park avenues. Here, the village and the chamber of commerce split. The village wants to keep parallel parking,. contending that it is less dangerous. The chamber of commerce wants diagonal parking returned, contending that it means the restoration of lost business. A meeting of the village board tomorrow night -will be attended by merchants seeking the return of diagonal parking. The chamber has notified the merchants to at- tend en masse. One-Hour Limit Thirdly, the matter of enforcing the on-hour parking limit in the business area. Everybody is in accord with this plan-that is, everyone but the fellow who gets a ticket for Overtime parking. But the- enforcement order has gone through, and 'this week will see the first batch of warning notices m placed on cars over the time them: maps: showing We maps * ons of the 'free municipal parking fields. If, inside of about 10 days, the motorist doesn't catch on, he'll begin to get summonses. The chamber of commerce said that the merchants need summonses to force their own cars off the streets. Mayor Horace L. Allen said \you have something there,\ and put through the order. SAYRE SEEN CHOICE FOR POST AT MANILA Assistant Secretary Of State May *> 'Bucceed McNutt As High Commissioner There WASHINGTON, May 9-(P)- Francis B. Sayre, assistant secre- tary of state, was reported by well-informed senators today to be President Roosevelt's choice for high commissioner in the Philip- pines. Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, who will sail for the United States Thursday, is expected to resign his $18,000-a-year position im- mediately on his return. After he reports to Mr. Roose- velt on Philippine conditions and takes a vacation, friends said, the former Indiana governor will cam- paign for the Democratic presi- dential nomination, McNutt does not plan to make an active speaking tour for several months, his friends reported, but will seek to win Democratic lead- ers to his candidacy. Mr. Roosevelt was said to have chosen Sayre for the Philippine post because he is familiar with island: affairs. He has handled dealings with the Philippines along with his work as chief ne- gotiator for the administration's reciprocal trade program. Sayre headed the interdepart- mental committee which recently recommended that economic in- dependence for the Philippines be postponed from 1946 until 1960. Caroline M. Rohrmann Miss Caroline Margaret Robr- mann, 49, died yesterday in her home at 162 Colonial avenue, Freeport, after an illness of two months. She was a native of Brooklyn, but had lived with her family in Freeport for the past 16 years. She is survived by three broth- ers, Charles and John of Freeport and Otto of Brooklyn, and a sis- ter, Miss Katherine Rohrmann of Freeport. Her parents, John and Marie Robrmann, died several years ago. Mr. Rohrmann was a tailor who conducted a business in Brooklyn for many years. 11 A. M. Wall Street Prices . 8% . 30% . 18% . 35% . 20% Nor Puc . Pac. Gas . Penn RR. Pub Sve NJ Pullinan ... Sears-Rocbuc Bou Pro ... 12 |Bou Ry .... 32%, O of Cal 24%, |8t O of NJ 10434 [Texas Corp 42% [Union Carbid 181% 20 44% 27 20% 12% 50 T S Cons Edison . 31% Mo Kan Tex .. 1@|Un Pac ...... wxmfg'xmds. Tomorrow they will agil'nLProdw $A \ Nat Bise ... 28% [United Gas Imp sail home the 1i & 5 !Nat Pow & L 7% /US Steei ...... m on the liner Queen S% 5.5.2 |NY Central . 15% |Westingh E & MO..... Mary: Du Pont 142% [Nor (Amer .........0... 21% [Woolworth ...........> 44% Declines To Defend Predecessor's Acts Legal action was to be started today by C. H. Tunni- cliffe Jones, village counsel of Hempstead, to withdraw the present board of zoning ap- peals from the three cases be- fore the appellate division, in- volving appeals from three de- cisions made by the former board just prior to going out of office in March. d Milton Pinkus, attorney, told the board that the briefs submit- ted by Mr. Jones, on behalf of both the old and present boards, made it appear that the present zoning board approved of the ac- tion of the former board. He asked the new board to take ac- tion clarifying its positions. 2 Gas Permits Involved The three cases involved in- clude two gasoline permits issued -one to A. G. Patterson at Legion square 'and another to A. H. Courtenay, Jr., on Fulton avenue. The other permit before the court involves a permit issued to Ernest J. Pepper to convert a house on Oak avenue from a one to two family residence. Mr. Jones, who was instructed by the village board last week to withdraw \#s \counset \the fors mer board, said the pres- ent board had not heard any of the evidence in the three cases and should not take a stand eith- er for or against them. He recom- mended that the briefs, as far as they pertained to the present board, be withdrawn. On motion of George E. Nettle» ton a resolution was adopted in- structing -the counsel to take the necessary steps to withdraw the briefs so far as they referred to the present zoning board. A resolution from the Hemp- stead planning board, adopted April 21, asking the zoning board to refrain from granting new ap- plications for gasoline stations for at least two months, was read. Members of the new board were told that a survey was planned and that the planning board de- sired a moratorium on issuance of gasoline station permits until it is completed. No action was taken. George L. Seifert was granted a setback variance for the construc- tion of an apartment house at the northeast corner of Fulton and Cameron avenues. The apartment will be three stories high. Mary Maniscalo was granted a variance permit to construct a business on South Frank- lin street, south of Front street, so that it will extend to the existing building line as determined by buildings on both sides. An application from Joseph J. Almirall for a permit to construct a six-story apartment house on the west side of Fulton avenue, west of Hendrickson avenue, was set down for public hearing June 13. The proposed apartment is a three unit, connected structure for 80 families. The estimated cost is $400,000. ADMITS _CHISELING Garden City Park Man Offers To Make Restitution Of $142 Charles Dacki of Third street, Garden City Park, representative of a council of unemployed before welfare offfcials, was at liberty today under terms of a suspended sentence and probation for relief chiseling. °, Dacki_ pleaded guilty before Judge Joseph P. Lebkuecher in Hempstead district court yester- day and offered to make restitu- tion of $142 to county welfare funds for relief illegally accepted. He was charged with accepting relief from December, 1937 to February, 1938, while employed at $6 per day, and with failing to disclose that one of 'his two daughters was working. Eric Kempel, attached to the district attorney's office, investigated. DIES AT 104 ELKINS, W. Va., May 9 - (P) -- George Bellah, who couldn't get an old age pension despite 104 years, is dead of a heart attack. A native of Lithuania, he came to the United States in 1875 and worked in West Virginia coal mines until several years ago. Not until 1936 did Bellah apply for old age benefits. Inability to prove he had been naturalized made him ineligible. Until last year he made his own living by working in his garden., Fe onit S inl Adal Flanked by Deputy: Sheriff August Kalb of Rockville Centre, wright, and a jailer, Vernon E. Oldaker, 43-year-old Mineola handyman, is led the hammer slaying of 'his 57-year-old neighbor and benefactor, Miss Amna Louise McKee. The trial opened in county 'court, Mineola, yesterday. Review-Star Photographer from his cell in the county jail to face trial for FAIR MAY SLASH Jurors in Qfiaker Trial NIGHT ADMISSION Other Steps Afe Planned To Boost Nocturnal Attendance An enlarged program of free en- tertainment, and entllcements to in- |. duce visitors to come to the fair at night to help the languishing midway was app@rent at the World's Fair today as the chief de- velopments of the sécond week of the show at Flushing Meadows. The midway enticements in- cluded special \com@ on\ shows by troupes from the various play cen- ter entertainments, including a routine by the company of the Cavalcade of Centaurs-the World Fair's elaborately-Bamed wild west show-which Was listed as a regular part of the daily program for the first time yesterday. Night Tariff Fo Drop There was also 'an indication that in a few days the fair cor- poration will announce a reduc- tion in the gate admission to 50 cents after 9 p. m. Commercial and educational exhibits through- out the grounds close at 10 p. m., so that the clit prige would give the greatest benefit to those per- sons who go to Flushing to enjoy the loop attractions, which remain open up to 2 a. m. Large printed yellow sheets list- ing all free entertainments avail- able during the day at the fair- grounds were distributed at in- formation booths throughout the 1,216-acre grounds esterday, and will henceforth be available daily. Additions to the fair's regular schedule of daily free shows in- clude augmented witter spectacles at the Lagoon of Nations and at Fountain Lake, frmerly given five nights a hereafter to be run every nig‘t). School children m Manhat- tan, Queens, Richmond and Continued on Page 2, Col. 6 CLEARED OF CHARGE Bronx Man Wins Dismissal Of Oceanside Resident's Complaint Irving Weitzer, 36, of 932 Kelly street, Bronx, who was arrested on the complaint of Louis Balish, of 50 Lawrence street, Oceanside, on a charge of criminally receiv- ing stolen goods wis cleared of the charge yesterday, after a hearing before Magistrate William Farrell in Manhatta® felony court. The Bronx man had been ac- cused of receiving twelve milli- nery hat dies, the property of the Oceanside man, which had been allegedly stolen in Manhattan, on April 25. 6 Here is the Oldaker jury as it stood at press time for this edition : No. 1-Foreman; George F. Heckler, Freeport, book- keeper. No. 2-Joseph Castor, Mineola, retired business man. No. 3-Leon A. Johnston, Bellmore, electrical engineer. No. 4-John H. Rupprecht, West Hempstead, accountant. No. 5-William S. Higbie, Bellmore, insurance broker. No. 6-William Back, Baldwin, butcher. No. 7-Charles McDonough, Port Washington, clerk. No. 8-Walter E. Stevenson, Freeport, bookkeeper. No. 9-Milton Whitehead, Hempstead, electrical engineer. Telephone company. INDUCTION MONDAY Descendant Of Hamilton To In- stall Chapter Officers Laurens M. Hamilton, great- great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and second vice-presi- dent of the Empire state council, Sons of the American Revolution, will install George _ Burchard Smith and other officers-elect of Long Island chapter at a dinner meeting in the South Shore Yacht club, Freeport, Monday night. Dr. Paul Dawson Eddy, president of Adelphi college, Garden City, will be guest speaker. Members of Ruth Floyd Wood- hull chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will be guests at the gathering and their new officers will be inducted at a joint ceremony. Mrs. Sherman C,. Holaday, organizing regent, will be the installing officer. CHILE PROBES NAZIS SANTIAGO, Chile, May 9-(P)- Education Minister Rudencindo Ortega announced today he had ordered an investigation of re- ported Nazi activity in southern provinces, through which he has completed a tour, He said he gained the impression \there were numerous private educational es- tablishments which are not fulfill- ing our legal requirements.\ A number of Germans live in the southern sector. REVIEW-STAR FEATURES ONE SECTION-20 PAGES Business and Legals .. Child Training (Garry Classified Ads ..... . Clendening, Dr. Logan . Comics .... Crossword Put Editorial .... Ediforia! Cartoon Girl Scout News .... Hollywood (Jimmie P Horoscope (Frances Drake) Human Side of 'he News (Edwin C. Hill) In Memoriam ... seee Listen World (E Robinson) Needlecraft (Laura Wheeler) . Narsau 20 Years Ago .. News Behind the News (Pau) Ma Radio Program Scott's Scrapbook Society News Sport News .... Terhune's Dog Story Your Garden ......... N0: 10-Oscar A. Kelly, Baldwin, engineer for New York La FLAGS FLY FOR FAIR 50 Displayed In Rockville Business Section More. than 50 flags, half of them being the bright orange World's Fair type, flew from poles throughout the business district of Rockville Centre today, represent- ing the first co-operative effort of the chamber of commerce and the village board, to decorate the com- munity. One of the flags was being flown from the roof of The Review-Star building on Sunrise highway, while several were exhibited around the railroad station and the municipal Hall. The next move of the village and chamber of commerce will be to erect a suitable welcoming sign at the western entrance to the community on Sunrise highway. Bids will be asked on the proposed sign, it was announced. HELP FOR MICARD Plane Sought To Rush Aid To Marooned Explorer OSLO, Norway, May 8-(P)-An airplane was sought today to at- tempt to reach a French Arctic explorer, Count Gaston Micard, marooned and \dangerously ill\ in Greenland. |A radio message from Micard's camp at 77 degrees north latitude, on the northeast coast of Green- land where he had been spending the winter, urged immediate as- sistance as there was no doctor with the expedition. The nature of Micard's illness was not stated. Ships are unable to reach the location as the coast is still icebound. Ii GOERING LEAVES ITALY SAN REMO, Italy, May 9-(P) -Field Marshal Hermann Wil- helm Goering, Nazi Germany's No 2\ leader, sailed for Valencia Spain, today aboard the German steamer Huascaran. From there he will proceed to Hamburg. The Huascaran, a 7,000-ton vessel of the Hamburg-American line, was escorted by two German destroy- ets. Narrows Issue To Mental State BLUDGEONING TRIAL ENTERS SECOND DAY 88 Prospective Jurors At First Session, With Nine Chosen With the defense narrow- ing the issue to insanity, Dis- trict Attorney Edward J. Neary today prepared to cen- ter the state's case on prov- ing that Vernon E. Oldaker, 43, was legally sane when he killed Anna Louise McKee, his 57-year-old Mineola neighbor, with a hammer in her home last March 6. Irving Cahn, defense co made frank admissions tioning prospective jurors there would be no other placed before them excer Oldaker was mentally unbals a when he brutally beat to death the kindly, white-haired woman w had been his benefactor because she refused to give him $9 Defense Admits Slaying \I tell you now as a fact that Oldaker killed Miss McKee and that he has admitted it in at least one statement to the district atto mney,\ Cahn told one prospecti juror. \I tell you now tot? only question in doubt is h tal condition at the time.\ Cahn turned down every jJuro who would not admit that he i lieved a person could be ins part of the time and rational rest of the time. Several jur were challenged for cause by the defense on their statement they did not believe in defense of tem- porary \Insanity or would not be convinced by the testimony of ex- pert witnesses. Cahn's statements to the pro- spective jurors that the defense would admit the slaying was a \particularly bloody and brutal killing, committed in a barbaric manner,\ led District Attorney Neary to question closely the ju- rors to make certain they would not consider that element alone as an indication of insanity Oscar A. Kelly of Baldwin, an engineer for the New York Tele- phone company, was seated late today as juror number 10. He was the eighth prospective juror ques- tioned at today's session The prosection and defense each used up two additional peremptory challenges. Nine jurors were chosen when the trial before County Judge Cortland A. Johnson for first de- gree murder was recessed at 6:30 o'clock yesterday. They included e Continued on Page 2, Col. 5 BIG BLAST IN JAPAN Chemical Plant Explosion Kills 11, Injures 260 TOKYO, May 9$-(P-A chem- ical factory and a celluloid plant exploded within 500 yards of an army powder magazine today, and at least 11 persons died, 260 were injured &nd more than 30 are missing. The celluloid factory, in the suburb of Komamezawa, blew up first. Fire spread to the chem works which in turn exploded Six other factories and 20 homes were destroyed by flames. It was the third damaging ex- plosion or fire in military areas in two months. (A powder magazin blew up in Hirakata March 1, kill- ing nearly 200. Five naval ware- houses burned at Yokosuka March 6.) SEND \FLAME\ TO FAIR TOKYO, May 9-P-A \fame of friendship\ for the United States was started on its way to the New York World's Fair today in a silver urn watched over by a Japanese beauty, Miss Aiko Tsu- kimoto. Sacred cypress fagots were lit from the \eternal fire\ of Izumo shrine which tradition says has been burning for hundreds of years. United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and members of the Japanese cabinet witnessed the lighting of the \Hame of friend- ship.\ TREASURY REPORT WASHINGTON, May 9 - (P) - The position of the treasury May 6: receipts $21,849,734.84; expendi- tures $25,347,154.18; net balance $3,078,586,140.67; working balance included $2,413,156,652.87. a
