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MAIN EDITION - wo we # - Rockville Centre, Garden City, Hemp- stead, East Meadow, Baldwin, Oceanside, Long Beach, island Park, Point Look- out, Roosevelt, Freeport and Villages to the East. Published 'Daily Except Sunday -Star Wire News by The Associated Press THE WEATHER Rain Tonight and Tomorrow, Temperature Unchanged, Entered as fnd Class Matter at the Posioffice of Freeport, N. T. DFAGIALS PUT ACTION TAGS ONCGOST CHART Democrats' Comparison With Westchester Assailed DEPARTMENT HEADS SHOW THE FIGURES Challenge Party Rivals' Campaign Statistics Point By Point * The Nassau - Westchester pamphlets distributed by the Democratic party locally dur- ing the past several days had been classed as \fiction\ to- day by officials involved. Bureau Heads Speak Up District Attorney Edward J. e County L. (ha sey and Purchasing Agent E. Stanley Bosanko submitted reports to the board of supervisors yester- day in answer to Democratic po- 1 1 charges of waste and ex- gance in Nassau as com- pared with Westchester. Each of the department heads asked permission to submit a re- in answer to a circular put by the Democratic executive ittee comparing Westchester Nassau departmental costs. Mr. Neary declared 'that the Democratic statements were \half truths, treacherous, distorted and on the whole an entirely inac- curate picture.\ Mr. Dowsey informed the Nas- sau board that the Democratic charges constituted \trickery and} chicanery of the worst character h couldn't even be classed as cal sportsmanship.\ Called \Far From Facts\ Mr. Bosanko told the board that the Democratic circulars \were far from the facts or the truth.\ \Comparisons between counties are particularly odious when not based on the truth or the facts. and these are neither,\ he added. District Attorney Neary de- clared that the cost of crime cution in Westchester county re than $150,500 this year as The Democratic circular had :Stated Nassau county of $119,310. that the Nassau cost was $137,310 the Westchester cost, $80.000. unty Attorney Dowsey sum- marized his report by stating that the Nassau county civil-legal costs this year are $152,000 -as (com- pared with Westchester's. cost of $356,419, the latter figure exclud- ing defense of negligence actions which are a part of Nassau's cost. The Democratic executive com- mittee had placed the Nassau cost at $109,676 and the Westchester at $53,140. Purchasing Agent Bosanko told the board that there is one pur- chasing department in Nassau and that there had been twoin West- chester until July of this year, when they were combined. He stated that his &n department's cost this year is $34,505 and that the Westchester bureau, $63,- 508. The Democratic group had harged that the Nassau cost was Continued on Page 2, Col. 5 FINNS\ FINAL REPLY TO MOSCOW DRAFTED Dict Rushes Bills Strengthening Government's War Position; Paasikivi Off Today HELSINKI, Oct. 31- (P) -On the day of the departure of a Fin- nish delegation to Moscow with Finland's \final answer\ to Soviet demands today, the diet hurried is to passage which will give the government a clear hand in case of war. > The diet's action appeared to out predictions in diplomatic circles that Finland's answer to Russia granted few, if any, con- essions. One of the diet's bills would give the government broader powers to execute work decrees and handle ate property for military pur- s. Gifts to a new defense fund reached the equivalent of $1,000,- 008. The government announced would offer about 2,000,000 s of coffee for sale outside ing restrictions at increased This measure is expected $800,000 in Finnish Nooks zo. t gotiating committee head- r Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, is expected to reach Moscow Thurs- day morning. bear s rat pre TREASURY REPORT WASHINGTON, Oct. 31-P)- e position of the treasury Oc- er 28: receipts, $9,679,253.26: expenditures. $15,829,041.32; net noe $1.911,110,688.70; work- alance included $1,211,383,- 253.78; customs receipts for month, $29,738,955.77, - VOL XLL No, 258 METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, Campaign Trickery Exposed |JOGKEY TELLS Deception No. 2 THE fraudulent handbill that has been distributed by the Demo- cratic Executive Committee of Nassau County states that the Department of Purchase of Nassau County costs $34,505 compared to $22,600 for the Department of Purchase of Westchester County. Page 19 of the Westchester County Budget shows that the 1939 appropriation for the Bureau of Purchase and Supplies was $21,025. As long as the Democrats wanted to present an unfavorable picture we cannot justify use of the wromg figure, which was $1,575 higher, on any other grounds than lack of knowledge as to how to read. The Westchester published budget shows that the bureau requested $22,600, but that only $21,025 was allowed. The Democrats made a graver error, however, by their failure to point out that until July 10, 1939, there were two separate purchasing bureaus in Westchester County. In. addition 'to the Bureau of Pur- chase and Supplies, the County Steward functioned as purchasing agent for the Department of Public Welfare, Westchester County hospitals, penitentiary and county home. The Westchester County- Board of Supervisors on July 10, 1939, under Act 9 of the Board, transferred the purchasing functions from the Department of Public Welfare to the Bureau of Purchase and Supplies, effecting a consolidation that met with the approval and recommendation of Judge William F. Bleakley, County Executive, who took office on January 1, 1989. Coincident with the consolidation the Board of Supervisors appro- priated $19,471.10 additional to the Bureau of Purchase and Supplies to enable it to meet its increased responsibilities during the remainder of the year, from July 15, 1939, to December 31, 1939. Disregarding any expense the County Steward may have incurred while he functioned as purchasing agent during the first half of the year, actual appropriations to the Bureau of Purchase and Supplies for 1989 have been $42,483, or $8,000 more than the cost of the Nassau County Department of Purchase. Figured on a yearly basis, the cost of the Westchester County bureau is $63,508, or approximately twice as much as the cost of the Nassau County purchasing department. The handbill's misrepresentation of the comparable cost of pur- chasing in the two counties is inexcusable, whether it may be attributed to ignorance or deliberate fraud. When the executive committee of a major party affixes its name to material during an election campaign, the voters have a right to demand that it be accurate and constructive. Anything that bears the earmarks of research by competent students of gnvewent should be what it purports to be. A major party cannot judiciously entrust research to individuals who are not capable of doing it. Research should be done by compe- tent men with some familiarity with the processes of government and sufficient experience to open a book and copy down the right answers. An honest researcher, failing to find devastating material, aban- dons what he hoped to use against the opponents and embarks upon a new course, continuing until he has obtained accurate and construc- tive data which can be used effectively. The Democrats apparently sent in a novice who got lost in a maze of digits and emerged with a sheet full of figures, all of which are wrong. The wholesale dis- semination of this misinformation by the Democratic leaders with all the pride of men having made sensational discoveries has giyen us our best laugh since the mouse ran up the clock. HEALTH SUPPLEMENT | WITH PAPER TODAY The Review-Star publishes its second annual Health sup- plement with today's regular editions. The first special sec- tion devoted to the health pro- gram in Nassau county was published last October and re- sulted in many recommenda- tions that an annual health sup- plement be made a permanent Review-Star project. The Review-Star has at- tempted to make this year's supplement even better than the first. Contributed articles from health authorities have been added 'to informative stories by staff men and wom- «u, describing Nassau county's health services to it~ people and the- conditions of health in the county as reflected in statistics and activities during the past year. 99s PARI-MUTUEL 1SSUE REMAINS ON BALLOT Court Of Appell- Rejects Suit Attacking Amendment Ques- tioning Legal Status ALBANY, Oct. 31 - (P) -- New York's court of appeals has up- held validity of a scheduled vote next month on a state constitu- tional amendment legalizing pari- mutuel betting on horse races. The tribunal yesterday unani- mously affirmed a decision of the appellate division of the supreme court which declined to bar the amendment from the ballot in the November 7 election. The Rev. Clarence G. Stoughton, president of Wagner college, Brooklyn, sought to have the amendment removed . from the ballot on the ground that it was not adopted properly by the 1938 and 1939 state legislatures. If approved 'by the voters, the amendment would become effec- tive January 1, 1940. LEWIS CHARGE OPENS 3D TERM BOOM SIFT Senator King Asks Full Report Of Alleged Movement To Win West To Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Oct, 31-P)- A charge by John L. Lewis that assistants of two cabinet members had tried to engineer, a. western conference to start a third. term boom. brought from Senator King (D.-Utah) today a demand for a full report on the officials' activ- ities. 3In a letter last night to Gov. Culbert L, Olson of California, Lewis declared that a -January meeting of \progressive leaders\ in 11 western states had been ar- ranged by Norman N. Littell, as- sistant to Attorney General Mur- phy, and Marshall E. Dimock, sec- ond assistant secretary of labor. Lewis said that labor's-non-par- tisan league, which he (heads among other things, labor had been excluded from \making sug- SPRAGUE REJECTS GOST COMPARISON County Executive Holds Fiscal Differences Bar Fair Test County Executive J. Russel Sprague charged today that Demo- cratic campaign propaganda was \outlandishly false\ in attempts to compare Nassau and «Westchester county budgets. At a press conference he pointed out that \it is unfair in the first place to both counties to make any| comparisons between Nassau and Westchester governments because the charters, functions of the two governments and populations served are not comoarable.\ Nassau's Charter More Complete \It will take several years for Westchester county to arrive at the same point in administrative efficiency as we are now, under its charter,\ the county executive said. \The Nassau charter pro- vided both the machinery of new government and the means of ac- twal operation. ' 'The Westchester charter pro- vided the machinery but not com: plete operation. Operation of many of its requirements will be voted by the people by referen- dum whenever the demand is strong enough for the changes, step by step.\ He said that many town and city functions remain unco-ordi- mated in Westchester which are now tiniform county functions in Nassau. As an example he cited the fact that a county board of assessors is in full operation in Nassau while there afe still 18 town assessment departments in Westchester. The Nassau county charter, he said, abolished all town, city and vil- lage welfare operations, while in Westchester: they still function through local units of government. \Obviously said Mr. Sprague, \the. local Democrats have stuck out their necks. They have cir- culated as facts, statements easily Continued on Page 7, Col. 5 LAWRENCE MAN HURT Elias Reiss, 70, Struck By Car In City (3 An elderly. Lawrence man is recovering today in Beth David hospital, Manhattan, from inju- ries--he received when he was struck by an auto last night while attempting to cross Park avenue and 86th street, Manhattan. The victim is Elias Reiss, 70, of 26 Margaret avenue, Lawrence. He Suffered a fracture of the right leg. Injured with him was Rose Sher- idan, 46, of Manhattan, who suf- fered fracture of the left ankle 'and cuts to the right arm. She also gestions for a legitimate program.\ is in Beth David hospital. & JURY HE DOPED DRSE FOR FEE Keppler Testimony And Panza 'Confession' Hit By Defense The defense in the Belmont Park racetrack horse doping case today faced the task of refuting the testimony given by- a former jockey at the track and an alleged confes- sion of one of the defendants read into the record at yester- day's trial session before Judge Cortland A. Johnson and a jury in Nassau county court. Peter Panza, 44, of Albany, ac- cused as the go-between between stable employees and a group of New York city gamblers, and Richard Hohman, 48, of 147-28 90th avenue, Jamaica, who is al- leged to have given a doped car- rot to a jockey after Panza had made arrangements for the doping of a horse, are on trial on a charge of conspiracy to violate section 190-A of the penal law which makes it a crime to tamper with a racehorse. Said Part Of Gambling Scheme The state alleges that Panza and Hohman conspired to induce Harvey Keppler, 20, of Elmont, a former jockey employed at the Belmont Park track as an exercise boy at the time of his arrest last July to feed a carrot containing a\ narcotic to Sun Plume, a betting favorite in the fifth race on June 5. The purpose, according to Dis- trict Attorney Edward J. Neary, was to permit a New York city gambling ring to place bets on second and third choices in the race which they would collect if the favorite lost the race through the tampering. A lengthy alleged confession in which Panza admitted the entire scheme was read into the record at yesterday's trial session over strenuous defense objections. It was read to the jury on testimony given by Nathan Birchall, official stenographer, who took the state- ment in the district attorney's of- fice. Panza admitted, in the alleged confession, that he and Hohman had engineered the doping of four horses, Lauerman at Aqueduct on June 1, and three horses at Bel- mont Park track, Sun Lover on June 3, Sun Plume on June 5 and Weary Flower on June 13. He said he and Hohman were acting for a third man whose name he refused to give, He said the plan | was for the gambling group with which the third man were con- nected was to \slow up\ the favorite horse by administration of the narcotic five hours in ad- vance of a race and to place bets (on the second and third choice | horse; paign and the inclemency of the day is about us. many years. previous issues when there was above this level henceforth. the Fall season, milepost. readers. of this area. medium. progress. This circulation places The Review-Star among the upper 10 per cent of the nation's daily newspapers from th@ standpoint of It represents a remarkable growth during 15 years since The Daily Review could boast only 5,000 circulation early in 1925. The popular demand for The Review-Star is a tribute to the thorough and fair news coverage it is providing for the residents It is evidence of its desirability as mn advertising It is acknowledgment of its contribution to community Without the loyal, effective work of a capable staff, represented in more than 40 Nassau villages, the goodwill représented in The Review-Star's present circulation level and acceptiiice could not have been achieved. We are glad to pay our tribute to the per- sonnel of the newspaper for its part-in this new achievement. also want to assure our readers that no matter What size The Review-Star may become, it is their newspaper for fair news and an honest effort to serve their best interest. 1939. TWO SBOTION® FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS IL DUCE RESHUFFLES CABINET; PARIS SEES MOVE NAZL BLOW Patrolman Arthur Graham of the Hempstead police department is shown above pulling a de- molished bicycle from under the wheel of a heavy truck on §outh Franklin street. Mathenson, 19, Negro, of 39 Elm avenue, Hemp- 11 Hurt on Roads as Storm And Leaves Imperil Travel Unlighted Bicycles Involved In Two Mishaps; 3 Nabbed On Drunk Driving Charges Wet and slippery highways and unlighted bicycles operated on dark streets combined today to bring injury te 11 persons, one of whom'was taken to Meadowbrook hospital in a serious condition. men were for drunken driving as police kept close on the raindrenched roads. Three watch The wind and fain that swept across the county yesterday and last night brough#® a carpet of leaves down to making auto traffic dangefous. 2 Hurt In Bike Mishaps Two youths wer@ injured when cars struck their, unlighted bi- cycles, police reported. One, Wil- liam Mathenson, Negro, 19, of 39 Elm avenue, Hempstead is in Meadowbrook hagpital under treatment for a fra6ture of the left hip, abrasions of 'the right arm, left leg and right itheek and lac- erations of the head. He suffered the injuries whem struck by a heavy oil truck while riding a bi- cycle, last night, a€cording to po- lice reports. The accident happened at South Franklin street Vand Newman court, The boy, said, was operating a bicycl@ which was not equipped with a Readlight as re- Continued OM Page 2, Col. 3 ® 30,000 Review-Stars Daily ESPITE the war in Europe, the Nassau cam- the weather, the biggest news of The Nassau Daily Review-Star yesterday pass@d the 30,000- mark in circulation as a result of steady growth over a period of The Review-Star has circulated 30,000 @opies of many a special demand Wor the paper because of some unusual event; but yesterday for th@ first time its regular day-to-day circulation passed this figure. It will remain The coveted figure of 30,000 is reached primatlly because of an increasing demand for the newspaper since th@ beginning of With many regular readers out of the area dur- ing the Summer, The Review-Star's circulation imfediately after Labor Day was slightly above 28,000. During the emsuing 60 days there has been a continuous day-to-day growth almost unprece- dented in the history of the paper. the usual promotional work of the Circulation Départment and The Review-Star newspaper carrier boys, the demand for the paper increased rapidly during September and October. is still moving ahead at this pace as we pass the iniportant 30,000 Without any s#imulus except The circulation We /E 0a, Publisher William TRIO QUESTIONED IN ROBBERY CLAIM Hempstead 'Man Charges . Assailants Beat Him, Then Took $36 Police today were questioning three men in connection with the assault and robbery of a Hemp- stead man who claimed he was struck on the head with a ham- mer and tossed out of a car at Dutch Broadway and Henry street, Valley Stream, last night. The injured man is John Hig- gins, 51, of 63 Columbia street, Hempstead. He was treated at the fifth precinct stationhouse, Valley Stream, for lacerations of the scalp and possible fracture of the skull by Dr. Charles Tudor, also of Valley Stream. Arraignment Scheduled Today Higgins charged he was riding in a car with three men who at- tacked him, stole $36 and then threw him out of the car. Near midnight Patrolman Rich- ard Thompson of the fifth precinct apprehended Louis Vanacore, 24, a plumber of 107-12 160th street, Jamaica; Frank Bischone, 24, an auto mechanic's helper, of 108-45 157th street, and Anthony Mon- trone, 19, a hand presser, also of Jamaica. They were booked on charges of assault and robbery. Fifth squad detectives who were assigned to the case were ques- tioning the trio this morning. They were expected to be arraigned in Lynbrook district court later to- day. WINNIE JUDD BACK Mad Trunk Killer Stayed Within Mile Of Hospital PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 31-P)- Winnie Ruth Judd, who sobbed and screamed and threw things until given a sedative, was back in the Arizona State hospital for me insane today, carefully guard- The mad trunk killer, dirty, un- | kempt, half-starved, and reciting she saw \horrible things\ during her six days of freedom, was | caught last night leaving an at- tache's home on the hospital grounds after she had entered to' obtain food. Mrs. Judd, who in 1931 lulled‘ Agnes Ann Le Roi and Hedvig | Samuelson and stuffed their bodies | into trunks which were shipped to | Los Angeles, apparently had been | in the vicinty of Phoenix since her | escape. She told Dr. Louis J. Saxe, hos- | pital superintendent, she had been , hiding in a cornfield, about one and one-half miles from the main building, and in a cemetery on the hospital grounds. hospital in serlous condition. not equipped with a headlight as specified by the law, according to the police report. ‘Needlernlt (Laura Wheeler stead, rider of the bicycle, is in Meadowbrook The bicycle was Review-Star Photographer War Bulletins BERLIN, Oct. 31-(P) -An official announce- ment said today that Ger- man scouting troops had crossed the German- French border to explore territory in front of the Maginot line. is was the first Ger- man announcement of the crossing of German troops into France. German - troops - were said to have found a deserted French second defense line close behind the boundary posts and, about a mile from the first French village, an unfin- ished trench system. OPENHAGEN, Oct. 31+ (P) -The United Stat freighter City of Flint, under control of a German prize crew, was reported in advices reach- ing here today to have taken on large supplies of fresh meat and water yes- terday outside the Nor- wegian port of Tromsoe. The vessel was said to be flying the German flag. BERLIN, Oct. 31-(P) -A- United States em- bassy spokesman said. to- day the embassy had been requested to call the at- tention of the German gov- ernment informally to its responsibility for the safe- ty of the American crew of the City'of Flint, now en route to a German haven in command of a German prize crew. TRIAL IN FIFTH WEEK Martin's Conduct In Office Again Under Amen's Fire ALBANY, Oct. 31- (P) -Re- moval proceedings against Kings County Judge George W. Martin brought prosecution efforts today to show through \more than a dozen\ witnesses that the jurist used his office for \personal gain. Opening the fifth week of testi- mony, Assistant Attorney Genera John Harlan Amen said most of this week's two-day session will be devoted to testimony on the fourth of six harges accusing Martin of using his appointing powers to repay personal obliga- tions and obtain other advantages. TODAY'S REVIEW-STAR Section One-18 Pages Beauty _(Helen Pollet Child Training Classified Ads ... Clendening, Dr. Logan . Comics .... Crossword Pull]! Editorial - Editorial CnHDOII Girl Scout News Hollywood . (Jimmie Fidler) /... Horoscope (Prances Drake! ... Human Side of the News (Edwin C Hill In Memoriam Legals and Law Calendar Listen World (Elsie Robinson} Nussmu 25 Years Ago News Behind the News (Paul Mailoni Radio .... aas Scott's 'Scraptook i Society , Terhune's | Theatres Dog Story 7 Ministers, 2 Party Leaders Shifted in Drastic Shakeup STARACE MOVED Alfieri Also Dropped From Post; Graziani Made Army Generalissimo Zoe Beckicy's Corner Section Two-40 Pages HEALTH EDITION By RICHARD G. MASSOCK ROME, Oct. 31 - (P) - Premier Mussolini reor ganized the entire leaderst of the Fascist regime today i a shakeup of cabinet, part and top military posts ur precedented in its sweeping scope. 7 Ministers Shifted Seven cabinet ministers, the secretary of the Fascist chiefs of staff of the army, a force and Fascist militia and fou undersecretaries of state we placed in the drastic reshuff! In addition, Mussolini t yielded the portfolio of r en for Italian Africa to General At- tilio Teruzzi. Chief among those shifted were two Fascist notables widely cred- ited with pro-German tendencies, Lieut.-Gen. Achille Starace, re- lieved of the secretaryship of the Fascist party \at his own request,\ and Dino Alfieri, minister of po lar culture (propaganda). Starace was named chief of party, the the general staff of the Fascist militia Alfieri, ambassador as- signment, Although.some observers saw i the shakeup evidences of a lessen - ing of German influence in Rome. foreign diplomatic circles here generally attributed it to condi- tions within the Fascist party ar government and considered without bearing on foreign policy However, it was noted that came shortly after the G ambassador, Hans-Georg Viki von Mackensen, had left for Ber- lin on Sunday for, his embassy said, \an extraordinary reason.\ No Comment From Berlin (Bérlin officials said they were unable to comment at present on the cabinet, shakeup. They i cated also that von Mackens visit to Berlin was a routine one and not connected with the cabi- net events. (In Paris French diplomatic quarters welcomed the Rome shakeup, asserting that il duces purpose was to create a \govern- ment of neutrality,\ The shifting of Starace and Alfieri was cited a evidence of a partial lessening of Nazi influence in Rome.) Starace had been secretary the Fascist party since December 12, 1931, and was one of il duce's generals in the Ethiopian cam- paign. His successor as party sec- retary will be Ettore Muti, consul genéral of the militia As chief of staff of the militia Starace succeeds Lieutenant Gen- eral Luigi Russo, who had held that position since February 1, 1936, and who was given the po- sition of undersecretary of e in the office of Premier M Dino Alfieri, Italian m propaganda, was named for ambassadorial post, but it was not announced at what capital. Alfieri had been mention waiting at to London in July, but th was filled by Giuseppe Bast Graziani Army Chief Marshal Rodolfo Graziani named chief of the army & staff in place of Alberto while General Francesco Puicoi commander of the second te - rial air zone, replaced Squa General Giussppe Valle as ch of the Italian air forces. Alfieri has been minister propaganda since June 9, 1936, and as long ago as 1929 was un retary of the ministry of c tions in the Mussolini cab Last year he forbade publicatin of foreign comic strips w exception of Walt Disne; tions, and on August 11 r concluded with the Gérman prop- aganda ministry a pact for inten- sive collaboration in journalism. propaganda, the radio, screen stage. Allessandro Pavolini, of the Confederation and Professional Peop! minister of popular culture i re-organization. Ferruccio Lartini president of the natic of social insurance; G uwr‘wr bolli~Gigli, president of the Ita anin and pre of general petroleum agency, and Copnelio Di Marzio, president of the conffderation succeeding Pav- olini. Ettore Muti. who succeeds to the Fascist party secretaryshir soa *T-year-old party hero, 13 3 ounger than Starac and meets Premier Mussolini's require- ment of young men in high posts of the organization. «99
