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Daily Chronicle FAIR The Nassau Daily Review-Star “Wednesday. February 26, 1941 + (57th Day) = Twexty races WAR SITUATION British .bombers renewed raids on German-held coastal posi- tions; Germany imposed military administration on North Holland. -Page 1 WASHINGTON Size of America's arms pro- duction job emphasized by sur- vey showing total contracts place amounting to $15,000,000,000. -Page 3 ALBANY Proposed \reasonable\ reduc- tion of governor's $47,000,000 un- empleyed | relief - appropriation gained support of Republican bloc. -Page 3 LOCAL Thomas Gallagher, 31, held in tatal shooting of John Gormley, 34, in residence of Mrs. Edward R. Gerken near Great Neck -Page 1 Educational films shown em- ployees and officers of Nassau probation department and related groups (picture). -Page 3 Factions in South Floral Park dissolution action given week to determine procedure required by law (picture). -Page 4 Msyor Heidtmann and Trus- tees DePasquale and Goldsmith renominated by Floral Park Cit}- zens' party. -Page 4 Mayor Fred G. Murray, Trus- tee Fred C. Fox and Howard T. Hogan named as candidates of Farmingdale Citizens party. -Page 4 Anna McNamara, missing since February 12, returned to her home in Hempstead; held as wayward minor. -Page 8 Battle for preservation of de- mocracy centers around youth, John C. Metcalfe, reporter, said at Lynbrook. -Page 8 Practical tests needed to sus- tain claims of \bullet-proof\ glass and steel, Inspector King declared (picture). -Page 8 Three U. S. army air corps men injured when car skidded on sand and crashed into tree. at Garden City. -Page 8 Six members of Nassau unit of ommunications reserve, U. S. navy, ordered to report for duty (picture). -Page 8 Ne much difference in philoso- phies of tet and Churchill, Rev. Dr. John Paul Jones told Methodist clergy (picture). -Page 9 Annulment of damage suits against Adelphi college appeared certain with decision in appellate division. -Page 12 Anthony Fattorosi taken to Pilgrim's state hospital after go- ing berserk at Meadowbrook. -Page 13 Freeport has no problem co- operation will not solve, G. Paul Hurst, new chamber secretary, told Lions club, -Page 20 Closer spirit of brotherhood urged as means of preserving democracy by speakers at first interfaith observance in Rock- ville Centre. -Page 20 EDITORIALS Checki the Fifth Column; Willkie Si Unemployed; Miss Rochester Resigns. -Page 10 FEATURES Playground or Workshop? (Seymour Marks). -Page 1 The War Today (DeWitt Mac- Kenzie). -Page 2 Your Income Tax. -Page 2 Fashion Horoscope. -Page 6 Listen, World (Elsie Robin- son); News Behind the News (Paul Mallon); Child Training (Dr. Garry C. Myers); In Memo- iam. -Page 10 Zoe Beckley's Corner; Guard- ing Your Health (Dr. Logan Clendening); Your Face and Figure (Helen Follett); Nassau County 2§ Years Ago; Human Side of the News (Edwin' C. Hill) -Page 11 Radio Program. -Page 12 \Mata Hari's Daughter,\ serial story. -Page 13 Hollywood (Jimmie Fidler). -Page 13 Your Horoscope (Frances Drake); Needlecraft (Laura Wheeler); The, Marry-Go-Round (Helen Rowland). -Page 16 Cross-word Puzzle. -Page 17 On the Waterfront (Leo P. Hanning). -Page 18 SPORTS Tony Sparando bested George Young to take lead in L. I. bow!- ing tournament; Hofstra prepares to 'face St. Francis; L. I. advisory board outlined plans for sec- tional basketball tournament. -Page 14 basketball team one game away from North Shore championship; Lynbrook and Bellmore scored in southern division games; Sewanhaka trounced Farmingdale. -Page 15 Mitchel field ~ CORRECTION and Mrs. Forbes Baker of visited last week at the of her mother, Mrs. R. J. 119 Perkins - avenue, and not, as stated in a Monday, at the home of her and sister-in-law, Mr. R. J. Niddrie wratHE® roRECast Fair and colder y. Thursday: fair, Hille change in «temperature Mr Alaska home Niddrie de Entered as Second Claas Mailer mi the Postaffice of Freeport, N Published daily except Sunday FOLLOW FIDLER You've got to follow Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood column if you want to know the very latest goings on in the film cen« ter of the world. Jimmy has the inside VOL. XLIII No. 48 METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1941. track and his articles are interesting and informative, PRICE THREE CENTS RIDING MASTER SHOT TO DEATH N EXCLUSIVE NORTH SHORE HOME British Hammer Coast Positions | Alleged Slayer: and Hostess in Killing of R. A F. SWEEPS OVER CHANNEL London Has Air:-Alarm; Nazis Tighten Up On North Holland A strong force of British bombers, guarded by waves of fighting planes, swept across the southeast English coast in the direction of France this afternoon, while air raid sirens shrilled im Lon- don after repeated reports that German planes were crossing the Strait of Dover. London: Alarms Brief Flying in clear skies, the Brit- ish aerial formations tnoved high over the sea, headed in the direc- tion of 'Calais and Cap 'Griz\Nez. Then observers on the coast saw another fortnation 'streaking to- ward Dunkerque, while. a third group moved in the direction of Boulogne. Later the air armada recrossed the Dover strait, hav- ing completed its mission, 'There was no immediate announcement of results pending reports from pilots and observers. The air raid alarms in London weer brief, the all-clear sounding after a few minutes without any reports of bombing or anti-air- craft fire in the capital. A dispatch from Amsterdam, by way of Berlin, today reported Ger- ma nauthorities has imposed .a military administration on: the province of North Holland because of strikes and riots in Amsterdam. The strikers were ordered back to work Thursday and were warned that imprisonment and even capi- tal punishment might follow vio- lations. The proclamation was issued at the Hague by the German military commander, General Friedrich Christiansen. \I have taken over executive power for the province of North Holland in view of the present po- litical situetion,\ he said. Political Parties Banned Marching, meetings and demon- strations as well-as assembling on the streets were forbidden, Politi- cal parties of all the Netherlands were banned from activity in the North Holland province.. The wearing of uniforms or insignia of any kind also was banned. In Rome, the Italian high com- mand announced today that Ger- man land troops had clashed with British armored trucks in Libya for the frst time Monday south- east of Agedabia. In this first contact between \formations of the German corps in North Africa\ and their foe, the communique said, \various enemy trucks and tanks were destroyed and prisoners taken without Ger- man losses.\ Agedabia is about 100. miles south of Bengasi. The German high command made a similar announcement this morning. In Berlin, authorized German sources said that fllhfig planes of the Luftwaffe bomb and set set afire three British cargo ships totalling 21,000 tons northwest of Ireland early today. German fliers reported they observed the ships sinking Claim Destroyer Sunk A Nazi speedboat sank a British destroyer off the squtheast coast of England, the German high com- mand said. It also credited Nazi submarines with destruction of an 8,000-ton armed. merchant ship and a British patrol boat in the stepped-up offensive against Brit- ain's supply lines. German warplanes, the daily communique also. said, set two large merchant ships afire in a British-occupied harbor in Libya and scored bomb hits on port fa- cilities. A British plane was re- ported shot down over Malta. An announcement by the British forces in Nairobi, Kenya eclony, today reported they had captured more than 3,000 prisoners in a rapid drive 70 miles up the Juba river from Gelib, in Italian Soma- liland. U. §, LETS CONTRACT FOR BALDWIN PLANT (Special to The Review-tar) » \WASHINGTON Feb. 26. 'The navy department today} | announced awprd of a contract for construction of an ammuni-| | tion loading plant at the Naval | Ordnance plant, Baldwin. The contract, for $67,966, was | awarded to Chapman-Kruge Engineering Company, incor- porated of New York city. The contract calls for completion of the project within 120 days. NYE SEES AID BIL RAP AT GONGRESG Holds It Would Change Body Into Puppet Parliament WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-(P- Senator Nye (R.-N. D.) renewed the opposition's \war bill\ attack on the lease-lend program today, as administration leaders intensi- fled back-stage efforts to block thev threat of unwanted amendments. Long hostile to administration foreign policy, Nye represented the British ald bill as a legislative de- vice which first would reduce con- gress. to the status of a puppet parliament and then compel it to \rubber stamp\ a declaration of war, Refers To Orient Nye, in the address he prepared to open the senate's ninth day of debate, also charged that the United States navy already was compiling information pertaining to operations on the mainland of Asia. Nye was the second opposition speaker in 24 hours to mention the Far East.. Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.) told the senate yes- terday that an unnamed member of Englafid's parliament had fore- cast America's entry into the war soon \probably by the way of the Orient.\ Where Nye made specific refer- ence to the Burma road, 'China's vital supply line, as the subject of navy interest, Wheeler re- marked that he \would not be sur- prised any morning to learn that American troops had been sent to Singapore.\ , While public discussion pro- gressed, supporters of the British aid bill were endeavoring to en- list the influence of Secretary of State Hull against Senator Elien- der's (D.-La.) proposal that the bill be amended to stipulate tha* it conferred no additional powers on the president to send American troops out of the western hem- isphere, except to U. S. posses- sions. Ellender, who claims that 56 senators have promised to vote for his. amendment, told reporters it was obvious to him that strong administration pressure was being brought to bear to defeat his pro- posal. Winning 1st Job, F. D. R. Says The subject of amendment pro- posals for the British aid bill was raised at President Roosevelt's press conference yesterday, but Mr. Roosevelt declined to enter a detailed discussion. As for Britain's post-war aims- a topic which has aroused opposi- tion criticism in the-aid bill de- bate, the president said he thought the first job was to win the war. He made this remark- in telling a questioner that he knew of no ideas which Ambassador John G. Winant might be taking to London on the kind of peace that might be established when the war ends. Mr. Roosevelt was asked for his opinion on the Eliender amend~ ment regarding the use of Ameri- can troops outside the hemis- phere. The president replied that he had discussed it and numerous Other, amendments with congres- sional leaders earlier, but did not think he should talk about them for the present. It was obvious, he added, that any amendment was undesirable which would change the policy of the government to give all aid to Britain short of war. If congress should decide to incorporate a re- striction on troops, it was a legis- lative rather than an executive problem to decide how the west- ern hemisphere should be defined. % A charge of first degree manslaughter was to be against Thomas Gallagher, 31, left, shown as he was led from the house at Russell-Gardens, near Great Neck, where John Gormley, 34, riding master, was shot to death. At Fight, closeup of Mrs. Mary Gerkin, in whose home at 18 Carlton road the shooting occurred. She was held as a material witness. SCAVENGER HUNT DIES FIGHTING FIRE Recruits Of Carle P—lgu List Event Suffers Heart For March 28 Grass Blaze Near Home / Final arrangements for a \scav- Strigken by a heart attack asflhe enger hunt\ were completed by \@ttemPted to beat out a grass fire the Carle Place chapter of the Re- | at th® tear of his home, John Dug- M 200 ._ | gan, §67, of 22 Commonwealth publican Recruits at a meeting in street Franklin Square, died yes- Felice's restaurant. on Post ave- terday, He was pronounced dead nue, Westbury, Monday night. The by DF Edward Meister, and Dr. hunt will be held March 28. William E. Gouin, deputy medical examifier, gave permission for fu- Miss Elizabeth Lenorak is chair- man of the hunt. On her commit- neral\@rrangements. tee are James Caniff, Walter Duggan had gone to the yard at the réar of his home when a brush Jackowski, president of the chap- ter; Miss Ann. Annand, Miss blaze in nearby fields advanced towards the house. With neigh- Emma Tobey, Miss Helen Sitkow- ski and Miss Lottie Schultz. Miss bors Ble was at work checking the fire When he collapsed. Detec- tives Kenneth Bailing and Harry nog Billingham of the fifth precinct Tobey is in charge of refresh- invesfialedA The fire was extin- ments. guished without damage. Elwyn D, Brawn Elwyn D. Brown, a mechanical enginger, died at his home, 324 Lind@B place, Westbury, Monday, after @n illness of several months. He was 59. Mr. was born at Dexter, Me., Was graduated from the Uni- versity of Maine and was a mem- ber of Beta Theta Pi and also. of the Masonic lodge in Tarrytown, N. Y., where he formerly lived. He @ame to=Westbury six years ago. (On election day last year, he suffered a heart attack and had been (under medical care since Installation of new officers 1150 was discussed, but no define plans were made. The induction will be sometime in April. TO END LECTURE SERIES The last of four lectures by Irma Bradford, director of the de- partment of health education of Nassau, will be heard tomorrow night in the Belmont boulevard school, Elmont, it was announced today by Clara H. Carlson, prin- cipal. Miss Bradford will speak on low-cost menus and recipes. A social and tea will be held then. March 6 at the school for the Sur¥iving~ are his wife, Mrs. mothers who have attended the| Edith Brawn; and a daughter, series, Miss Carlson said. Clara Martha Brawn. JOINS V. POST Attack Battling Oyster Bay's Supervisor Member Of Hicksville Unit Harry Tappen of Glenwood Landing, Oyster Bay town guper- visor, today is a member of the William M, Gouse, Jr., post, Vet- erans of Foréign Wars, following ceremonies last night af the Le- gion clubhouse on Nicholai street, Hickaville. Also welcomed into the organi- zation by Commander John R. Loeffler was Frank Van Valken- berg. Commander Loeffler ap- pointed a nominating committee which will present a slate at the March 24 meeting, -with elections to be held on April 28. On the committee are Frank Sutter, Charles Nicols, Frank Jong, Silas Valentine, Harry: Hicks and Julius Heberer. CHANGES MEETING PLACE The Franklin Square Jewish congress, covering Elmont, Frank- lin Square, Munson and Stewart Manor, has changed its meeting place and date, Henry A. Sha- piro, president, announced today. The chapter will meet the first and third Thursdays of each month, he said, at the American Legion hall on Pacific street, Franklin. Square. The first two meetings of the newly-formed or- ganization were held at the Frank- lin Square headquarters of the fire department. a B& SEYMOUR MARKS (Third article in a series) playground or workshop? HEN the national defense program, which has provided the largest industrial de- velopment Nassau has ever known, begins to taper off, Meade C. Dobson, managing dirgctor of the Long Island what will Nassau do then? association, has a plan which, he expects, will take care of all of N@ssau's-and Suffolk's-mechanics and skilled labor- ers who will find themselves out of jobs when the dynamo of defense airplane produc tion slows down to peacetime speed. \Numerous officials, representa- tives of local organizations, and | the curent issue of the Long Is- businessmen generally in the two land um counties see the necessity for se- More Jobs Needed curing lighe industries in Nassau Citi the great expansion of industri@l activities in Brooklyn and Qugens, and the rapid diminu- tion offthe building available for such ffidustry, Mr. Dobson goes on to Warn, \But even this vast increas® in employment in Brook- and Suffolk counties, not only to take up slack in the labor lag in, airplane factories occurring in. a few years, but also to provide jobs ' for the annual crop of youths leav- ing school, ready for and demand- ing manual employment,\ declares lyn and Queens will not provide Mr. Dobson in a brief preliminary jobs fof all Nassau and Suffolk broadside on his plan, printed in county 'employables. There are thousands of jobs now held by Nassau ard Suffolk residents, ex- ecutives and lesser employees, in Brooklyn and Queens industries and mercantile enterprises, but there are still thousands of em- ployables remaining who need jobs in their home regions.\ \Recruits\ for Nassau's indus- trial development, the Dobson plan holds, could be gained from the in- Continued on Page 2, Col, 6 ¢ Riding aser es cem G. 0. P.CLUB STUDIES RENOVATION PROJECT Theodore Roosevelt Group At Bethpage To Consider Estimate® At March 10 Meeting Plans for renovation of the clubhouse on Wa§hin¢10n street are being studied by the board of directors of the Theodore Roose- velt Republican club of Bethpage, it was announced today by James Norman, president. The directors, headed by Rob- ert I. Chapal,: will obtain esti- mates on the cost of installing a full-size ceflar and placing new walls in the present portion of the structure. 'These estimates will be submitted to the club on March 10. Mr. Norman declared that with the improvements the, building would serve better as a social cen- ter for the community. The G. O. P. unit purchased the build- ing in 1921 from the government. Previously it was an army bar- racks at Camp Mills. FARMINGDALE PERSONALS The Mesdames David O'Donnell, Christopher Belerling, Sarah Kerr, Lillian Allen, Oakley Post, Miss Lina Carl and Miss Margaret Rei- sel were bridge guests, last night, at the home of Mrs, Earl Graves of James street, Farmingdale. -o- Miss Edwina Talbot of Oakview avenue, Farmingdale, entertained at bridge last night for the Mes- dames Florence Keller, Joseph Brune, Jr., William Shedorske, Harry Van Tassell, Louis Scholl, Miss Mildred May and Miss Leona Canda. -o Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Low- man returned to their home in Clifton,\ N. J., after a holiday week-end spent at the home of Mrs, Lowman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Dunkerke of Ful- ton street, Farmingdale. o- Miss Norma Rogers of East Meadow was the house guest of Mrs. Lioyn Seaman of Rose street, Farmingdale, for the past few days. -e- Mrs, Mary Sands of Conklin street, Farmingdale, was hostess at tea and bridge, yesterday after- noon. Her guests included Mrs. Alfred W. Parry, Mrs, Fred Mir- ick, Mrs. Ira Tompkins, Mrs. Vin- cent Civello, Mrs. Fred Baldwin, Mrs. Herbert A. Cobb and Mrs. Fred Breitenstein. U. 5. NAVIRD WORKER HEL FOR SHOOTING Police Detain Society Matron As Material Witness In Case Thomas Gallagher, 31, of 44 Beverly road, Kensington, Brooklyn navy yard time- keeper, was being held in the Nassau county jail today charged with the fagal shoot- ing of John Gormley, 34, of Flushing, well-to-do North Shore riding academy 'pro- prietor. Gallagher was booked at police headquarters. District Attorney Edward J. Neary and Inspector Harold R. King said that he would .be ar- raigned later today in Hemp- stead district court charged with first degree manslaught- er. The shooting of Gormley occurred at the two-and-a- half story brick residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Ger- ken, of 18 Carlton road, Rus- sell Gardens, near Great Neck, at 8:30 o'clock last night. Mrs. Gerken Called Police Polices were first appraised® of trouble in the Gerken home when Mrs.. Mary \Gerken 36, called the sixth precinct and in an. excited voice mumbled something about a shooting. When police arrived they found Gormley dead on the floor of a second-story master bedroom, the door of which had been shattered inward. There was one bullet hole near the heart. * In.an adjoining bedroom» police reported they found Gallagher sit~ ting on the side of a bed, a 38- calibre revolver dangling from his right hand. When police entered he made no move to raise the gun, it was ported, but merely questioned anxiously, \Is he dead?\ Inspector King said that Mrs. Gerken advised him that Gormley was a guest at her home with James Wallace, 45, of 319 Bever- ley road, Douglaston. A house boy, Simons Stimson, 28, also was in the house at the time of the shoot» ing. As police pieced the story to- gether, Mrs, Gerken had been hostess at a cocktail party which began at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Guests had been in and out of the house during the day. Gallagher left about 6 o'clock last night and returned shortly after 8 o'clock. He said that Gormley and Wallace were acting \abusive\ so he took Mrs. Gerken up to her bedroom. While there Gormley came to the door, he- told police, and pounded, demanding that Galla- gher open it. Gallagher said he refued and Gormley then crashed the door in. He told police that he had warned Gormley that be would shoot if the door was brok- en down. Then Gormley barged in, Gallagher said, he \accidental- ly\ pulled the trigger, there was a shot and Gormley slumped to the floor. It was determined that the bullet'struck Gormley on the left side and apparently pierced the left side of his heart. District Attorney Neary and As- sistant District Attorney Albert M. De Meo, Inspector King and Liew tenant William R. Vaughan of the homicide squad . questioned - the witness, until nearly 4 o'clock this morning. Mr. Neary finally ordered Gal- lagher beld for the shooting and Mrs. Gerken held as a material witness. She was detained in the detention cell at eadquarters. Police said that Mr. Gerken. was on vacation in Florida. Gormley was a. proprietor of riding academies in Lake Success and in Flushing, formerly lived im Kings Park and for several years conducted gasoline filling stations, including one at Great Neck Plaza. Mr. Gerken, it was said, im- herited a substantial part of the Edward A. Ridley fortune. He was related to Ridley. Ridley was found beaten to death, as was his man secretary in the cellar of an Allen -street office in New York in May, 1933. He left an estate of more than $1,000,000,
