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k as FREE PRESS NTT. lttl * U second-class matter ft, J*U, at the postofflce at take, N. Y., under the «• aet of March 5, 1879. TUPPER LAKE FREE PRESS and TUPPER LAKE HERALD 1 HERALD EOT. 1890 Entered as second-class matter in 1896 at the poatofflce at Tup- per Lake, N. Y., under the act of March 6. 1879. •vmsrr YEAR NUMBER 49 TUPPER LAKE. N. Y. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937 $1.00 YEARLY FIVE CENTS COPY iTUPPER LAKE *At VIGILANCE IS Or HEALTH I VS. MICROBES •jr U T. ten days has brought serious automobile ac- Tupper Lake. One of > MStfUJ to the death of two . While aaotbsr wiU prob- permanent disability hartly y«t in akidls would aeem that lm- and thoughtless youth a* . as tponsh middle and old ace «0«UL.take a lesson from th«M *SM disasters. Its a safe as- •MttoB that 99 out of every 100 WMktoaU result from the poor &N we human being, carelessness of a driver or disregard of sign*, too Imah liquor and too much speed imei «fl directly responsible for of our automobile accidents It Is especially dangerous now until May first because 4tftks snow and tee. No driver Jhrtt4 iet Us ear get beyond Us «o»troL Even at the expense of • speed of ten miles an hour less tt Is safest to \play safe.\ Ten tM» number of poUcesnen * prevent such disasters. Good Judgment and brains on the psti of the driver Is the only is the time of year when break out and (or tt calls for vigilance cars on the part of village, •ad school authorities to be watchful and on the Job •dmte. Speaking before Lake Rotary Club two St. Mred Graves at the PLAN tO OPEN NEW SKATING RINK ON PARK HEADS OF CIVIC ORGANIZA- TIONS, VILL,AGE,BOAJU> OONFEK ON PLANS FOS KINK — TO MEET AGAJN DEC 14TH One phase of winter sports ac- tivities that baa been sorely missed here—ice skating—will be made possible again this winter If plans discussed at a meeting here Mon- day night are successfully car- ried through. Due to construction work about f™ v haa not been able to at hoss* for a -' m Tupper Lake's new high school tho -fact that surveyors' stakes for grading are in place where tho public rink was developed In past winters, there was no rink, in the uptown area, last J?<*.~or Faced with the same condUJx this winter a group representing various local civic organisation* conferred with the village board Monday night Present were J. Herbert Uttlefleld, representing the board of education; Robert B. Mlnnleh, president of the chanf- ber of commerce; William H. White, president' of the Rotary Club; Dr. Carter Morse of the lions Club; Stanley Clark, \Rod and Gun Club president; George H. DeLalr, president of the Pio- neer Sno dub, and\ Paul E. Mar- tin, supervisor of the Town of 'Altamont. After some discussion Mayor Prank J. MeCartay suggested that the representatives present should bring the matter up at their vari- ous club-meetings this weak and see to what'extent each group could contribute toward the sup- port of the rink. Then, on Decem- ber 14th, another meeting will be held at the chamber of commerce oflce at which definite plans can he formulated. It is probable that the new publio rink will be located on the village park, across from the Testier Lumber OB. punt, or on tdjwent Raqaecte Pead. tt wUl Two Died in This Wreck Sunday The wreckage of the light sedan In which Hasen T^wie, 19, of Russell was instantly killed and Miss Viola LaJTave, 16, of Tupper,Lake was fatally Injured early Sunday morning, is shown on the curve at the foot of Raymond's hill as passers-by inspected it Sunday. The culvert against which the ear crashed, with the (rant door-plate of the car still securely battered over it, is in the foreground. W. ANDERSON TO To Visit Tupper VISIT TUPPER MOOSE LODGE LOCAL OFFICERS PUSH PLANS fOB KNTEBTAIM- MENT OF RANKING MOOSK EXECimVt ON DEC 21 A signal honor will be conferred On Tupper Lake Lodge 840, Loyal Order of Moose, o n the evening of December 21st when WllUain A. Anderson of Indianapolis, IwL, general Dictator of'the order, will pay an offldal visit here. Mr. Anderson will be the first General Dictator of the order to visit the Meal lodge. Dictator PARKED CABS MAKE SNOW-REMOVAL JOB HERE MORE DffriCDLT Again this year local po- lice Urge Tupper motorists to co-operate In the Job of keeping' the main village streets free of snow by apt leaving their cars parkM in that area over night Already cars left parked and locked along the eurb have added to the troubles of the men who cleared away the drifts left by thin week's heavy snowfall. Rather than risk paying a tow-Mil when it is found necessary to haul parked cars out of the. way, the wise motorist will leave sis auto in some leas trouble TWO KILLED, ONE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS HERE; DRIVER FACES MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE HAZEN TOWNE, 19. OF RIISSKLL INSTANTLY KILLED WHEN CAR HIT CULVERT AT FOOT OF RAYMOND'S EDLL EARLY ( SUNDAY—MISS VIOLA tAFAVE DIED IN MERCY GENERAL HOSPITAL TUESDAY NIGHT — ANOTHER DRIVER MAV LOSE LEG Death of Miss Violal LaFave, 16, Tuesday night at Me>cy Gen- eral Hospital brought thfr toll • of auto accidents in the vicinity of this village Saturday niiht and Sunday morning to twi killed and one seriously injured. In the accident' which (resulted in Miss LaFave's death, a /19-year- old boy, Hazen Towne pfj Russell. N. V., was instantly killed. Har- vey Evelin, 19, of Tioga Center, N. Y., the driver, escaped with only a bump on the head. The Ford coupe in which they were riding crashed into a concrete culvert at the foot of Raymond's hill, about one mile from Faust on Pierceflcld road Sunday morn- inf, at 1:46 o'clock. All three were riding In the front seat. Towne on the right side, which bore the full brunt of the crash, and Mtas LaFave in the middle. It is be- lieved that the shifting lever struck her, puncturing the blad- der. Clarence Bedore and Collins Stackhouae, who happened along juit after the wreck,, rushed the badly-injured girl to Mercy Gen- eral Hospital where Dr. T. J. Col- ltnaon operated about 4 a.m. As coroner's physician, Dr. CoUlnson authorized the removal of Towne's body to the DeShaw undertaking rooms. Coroner VWliam Wardner of Saranac Lake was summoned and Sunday afternoon Dr. Collln- son and Dr. Roy Bury performed an autopsy. Evelin was arraigned I before Justice James Powers Mon- day morning and held fdr~the grand jury on a second degree manslaughter charge. He was taken to Malone by state troopers. The crash which- claimed two lives followed within a few hours an accident near Minerva in which Erwin Ramsay, 33, an em- ploye of the Belmar Construction ]Co. of Troy stationed here, was ! seriously injured. Ramsay suf- fered a fracture of the rteht leg, above the ankle, when tHf-car which he was driving overturned about three miles from Minerva. Dr. T. CoUlnson, who attended him at Mercy General Hospital, stated that the ligaments had been torn entirely away and in all probabil- ity the leg will have to be am- putated. R a m s a y's companion, Frances Robare, 18, of South ton, N. Y M escaped with minor fatal Raymond hill crash rred about 1:46 o'clock Sunday morning Towne an a :Bvelin, both employes on an Em- [portiun Forestry Co. lumber Job [at ([ale, had visited several dine and TESTIMONY OF AL OCCUPIES SECOND LISIEWSKI TRIAI GOES OVER EVENTS ON NIGHT I.KRRO WAS STABBED HERE. DEFENSE ATTORNEY MAIN, Tupper Lake residents are fol- lowing with k«en Interest the ac- tion In the trial of John Ustawsfci, Sunmount patient,, for Us legsd kmfenlsytaag. of ~* * ing dance resorts about town (Continued en Page 8) [CE CLUETt DAYOF^OHN . AT MALONE 0*T AUGUST 0 WUErTTtWN UNDER QUESTIONING OT PIOSBCUTOR UEMAWAT : mumbling\ on the nearby told of accompanying » «M to Me thsyhttre Qmunit of person. They strike . and poor; the high and Dor this same reason should be We have been for- »f*r you* hmaasi we have SCHOOL BAND TO PARAUrilC NEW UNIFORMS T JLMJk BAND WBX MAJOC mtST rCBUC APFBABAMCBI tr»t«Uotu,. • • • ••€/*': AGO your life es> at birth was 40 years today it has increased to This increase is due the wonderful work In the field Of medicine by scientist*. The story of the work done along thta line by any one of more than a'hundred men and women of the pact century would make Intsrest- ISY reading. Betenee has worked along two lines in the field of preventive medicine. First there ti the group that has worked to prevent microbes from a tfUmatt acquaintance with a second group ha* . _ ndag the body so ttatVttt tm cannot get a foot***, wttstt dbie arrive. Baboaia plagae, er, diphtheria, sbnUar. mterobee are Mktag their '.at etananfoatpi. For this iaelaUfSik s^armnUne la ^W|y to prevent ak?ne does not increased microbes are water, files and renders quar- „ , the scientist has come aid of mankind and cut -more the microbe's line of by chlorinating _^. water supply, exterminating mosquitoes and pasteurizing our mOk. Science early learned that a|an develops immunity to cer- tain diseases. The question that naturally follows is \Why can't aft artificial immunity be built up III QM body to microbes that re- spond to no other known treat- ment?\ So we' toughen the body go, that germs will- noEt find a foot* hold. When you are Inoculated - for typhoid you are artlncally ac- cMirmff an Immunity against the disease. The body'Is fooled by matting-It believe that the dread .typhoid germ has obtained a foot- ftftg\ and it immediately'' starts nuuMtfaoturing antitoxiAS to fight the'gem. The same ttnng fol- lows the second and third la- deulations affl] the body learns Its '^•son so that when the real •jtfterobe arrives the body goes to Work oa it In earnest and destroys it The inoculations only contain the poison or toxin from the ty (Continued on psge 8) Resplendent In smart new forms, the Tapper Lake school band will stage a dress parade downtown FMdajr afternoon at 13:48 o'clock Tomorrow's parade win tamfk their first pubfic appearance In the new uniforms; and It is ex- pected that a good crowd will be out along tike \mala stem\ to give the bend a hand as it ings, efestroBBY down from the IN NEW BBWALIA BOW AT A ONE •to high aeaoM and thfottgbthe main village ..streets) trjtown.* Smith •\•fttpCaWk iltABtHBBB^iBBBtSt lism* wtnUgW wntm. . \ Tbe aew wriforms are In th» 11OUL eotors* af red sad bJsvok. 9> ta the. band, win wear a BtadsBSkp atmllar to the patty West Point cadet cap; cape, «aier and trousers. The girls' uniforms feature skirt, sweater eape and shako in red and black. The school band boasts) a splendid record in intersectlonal music competition and has always played a-prominent part in local civic parades, tt holds a warm spot In the affections of Tupper residents and a goodly crowd should be out t o welcome them at tomorrow's parade. tvenr eflfatt paafiUe to ssautn-ru appUcettosis of thatr aoa-mam&er id frtostda for Dr. L. Foote Attend* Meetings in Albany, New York Thit W«ek Dr. Uland Foote, past-presi- dent of the Tupper Lake LJons Club, left Friday afternoon for Al- bany Where he attended a Uonn International conference in ses- sion Saturday and Sunday at Hotel DeWItt Clinton. Dr. Foote was one of eleven committeemen appointed at tho last state Lions meeting In Troy last June to confer on plans for redlstrictlng the state Uons organ- isation. Following tho Albany confer- ence he went on to New York to attend the annual December Greater New York dental confer- ence. Delegates from the first and second (Manhattan) districts of the New York State Dental So- ciety convened through the week at Hotel Pennsylvania. Dr. F6ote was accompanied by his wife and his mother, Mrs. N. F. Foote. William A. Anderson joined In- WinspoMa Lodge, LO.Oil. more than twenty years ago and rose rapidly in Uw order in that city. XI the July, UM, convention at Atlantic City, the delegates unan- imously elected Mr. Anderson to the office of Supreme Prelate, and at (the July, 1MB, convention at Boston, he was unanimously elect- ed to the office of Supreme Vice Dictator. In Chicago, In July, i, he became Supreme Dictator (Continued on page 7) 2* Transaction Tax Proceeds Given Out At Townt'd Meeting \More than four thousand new members are being enrolled In the Townsend movement weekly,\ Dr. J. W. Williams of Potsdam, Townsend organiser for the 31st Congressional District told mem- bers of the Tupper Lake club at e meeting Monday night at the town hall. Bright prospects for the passage of the Townsend general welfare bill were claimed by the speaker \A Townsend Legislative Bureau was recently opened at Washing ton which is working every day for passage of the bill, backed by the entire strength of the great Townsend. organization. The steer ing committee is* determined to have the. general welfare bill brought on the floor at the next session of Congress in January.' Proceed* of the 2% Townsend transaction tax, instituted here by the Tupper L&ke club with the co-operation of many local mer- chants was distributed to the fol- lowing membei-s at the meeting Alfred Valllancourt, Lyman New- ell, Frank Rich, Minnie Gadway and Mrs. M Bouzie. F. E. Lafleur, Finance Officer at Sunmount, Will Be Transferred Frederick E. L&fleur, finance of- ficer at the Sunmount Veterans Facility, will be trannferred to the U. S. Veterans' Facility at Bedford, Mass., It was learned today. The transfer will be effective on December 16th. A native of Malonp, Mr. Lefleur han been stationed at Sunmount for the past thirtcn years. He came hero in 1924 from the U. S. Treasury Department at Washing- ton, n \ c. tOVE V% T* t DCATV CLAIMS MSB VfDLA LAPAVC, 1ft, AT MBBCT GEN- ERAL HOSPITAL TUESDAY- NIGHT — FUNERAL SATUR- DAY Miss Viola LaFave, lff-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix LaFave of this village, died Tues- day night at 8:10 o'clock in Mercy General Hospital of injuries re- ceived in an auto accident early Sunday morning. Bhe was the second victim of the crash which occurred early Sunday morning on Pierceneld road, details of which are given in this issue. Hazcn Towne. 19. of Russell, N. Y., was instantly killed in' the same accident.' Funeral services for Miss La- Fave will T^held Saturday morn- Ing at 9 o'clock at St. Alphonsus Church. Monsignor E. O. Her- vleux will officiate at the requiem Mass. Burial will be in St. Al- phonms Cemetery. Friends of j BOA0S, 1X-DTCH SNOWKAIX BBBjrtlvr DC SEV- EBAL MNOB \AUTO MIS- HAPS HEBE At least three minor auto acci- dents were reported here as the first big snowstorm of the season broke, piling up approximately a foot of snow on the level. Heavy, wet snow began fall- Ing late Monday afternoon and continue*! steadily throughout Tuesday, turning highways- in this sector into a glare of ice. Traffic proceeded at a alow pace along Demars Boulevard aa drivers peered through windshields clog- ged with snow swirling in off Raquette Pond. First mishap occurred Monday night on Demars Blvd. when a car driven by Raymond Snyder of Brushton was hit by one driven by Iver Richardson, Faust, as tho latter attempted to pass. Richardson pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident without reporting and jary •s»f of the way Tuesday was given over to the testimony of Mas AHee Ohtett, Lerro's companion on the night of the slaying, under the questioning of Defense Attorney Were to Have Wed In answer to the questions of the young girl are paying their was fined $10 by Judge John Chal- last respects, tonight at the Basil mm Tuesday morning. The Sny- LaFave home at the corner of j der car was not badly-damaged. McLaughlin and Silver streets, A car driven by Miss Nellie where the body Is laid out. i Carter of Sunmount was hit by She was born In Tupper Ijikc another w\ich approached from on Nov. 1, 1921, and attended behlna abo* noon Tuesday on the local schools. Since September j Sears Hill: Miss Carter failed to <£ Urn were to have been married as soon as Lerro had gained a di- vorce from his wife. Before the noon adjournment, Miss Cluett told under direct ex- amination of sitting on a porch at the side of a gasoline station close to the spot where the state contends LUdewski stabbed Lerro to death while she heard \scufn- testified, '1 started down the .—~, —- slid In her low votoe. \1 he- came nervous. There was a man [JUfJJVUElliyil C vl q -F^E *** *^—i ^^V^^B mm^rj *• • • • • • v •#*•• w w^« — • • • • -^ »» ^^— •—• ——— Harold W. Main and Prosecutor .following me—a man In a white John W. Genaway. fHlrt. He came up to me and — ~ put his arm around me and said, *Let's go out and make a night of it' I said' I was going home to bed. - Then he said, 'So am I,' and took, his arm from around me.\ She continued walking and later, she said, she saw ' Lerro running down the road behind Uaiewskl. 8ays Msa Was Uatewtikl After she had heard the scuf- fling while she was sitting on the (Continued on Page 2) ,. . K. . ~ Progress of Legion Camp in Past Ten Years* and What' It Means to Tupper It Subject of Rotary Talk by J. A. Burns What the American Legion Mountain Camp on Big Tupper Lake has accomplished during the past decade here, and what it has meant to Tupper Lake waa outlined by Joseph A. Burns, superintendent, in .an address be- fore the Rotary Club at that group's weekly luncheon in Hotel A-ltamont Wednesday. the greater part of which is spent here in Tupper Lake. Many of the camp employes are recruited here in Tupper. In addition, the Legion Camp has dpne this vil- lage a valuable service In the way of publicity. As an Instance Mr. Burns cited a 3-pag« story In the American Legion Motfchly. a magazine with over a million cir- she had attended Bloominpdale Union high school, meanwhile making her home with Mr. and Mrs. William Plumley at Franklin take the name or license-number of the other driver. A car driven by Dominlck J. Camelo and a truck driven by Falls. Miss LaFave had been! Alex Stepinock, both of this vil- strlcken by pneumonia the week j lage. collided at the corner of before Thanksgiving and was still ill whe\h she came to Tupper Lake to spend the holiday at her home here. Illness prevented her re- turn to Franklin Falls after Thanksgiving, and the day she waa fatally Injured was the first that she was well enough to be out. Surviving besides her parents. Lake and Mill streets Tuesday Last Rites Tuesday At Holy Name Church For David McKnight Funeral services were hejd Tues- day morning at Faust Holy Name are \four\brothers\^. Maurice 19 :churc h for David McKnight, 80. W. Arthur 18- Marcel R 14 ' Rp v Raymond Fitzpatrick of- and John R. LaFave. 6; and one ] floated at a rcqulcm_ low sister, Geraldine, 12. Masons Attend M.E. Church Services in Burial was in Holy Name Ceme- tery. Mr. McKnight died Sunday in Ogdensburg State Hospital, where ho had been confined for the past » ai l fourteen months. A. M.I Born In .Scotland, he came to | this country as a young man and Members of Mount Arab Lodge. I waa employed for 17 years as 847, F\ &,A, M.. observed their i gardener at .1. P. Morgan's sum- anrj)jal \Go to Church Sunday\ i mer estate Camp Uncas, on on Dec. 5th by attending; the 10:30 | Raquette iJiko. For thr»e years, o'clock morning services at Grace', prior to his admittance to the M- K. Church in a body. j jtato hospital, ho resided at Hotel Rev. Roy K. Sheffield, pastor Arlington in Faust, ami chaplain of the local Masonic ' Hf was unmarried and had, no lodge, used as his sermon-subject rolativrs here \Light from tire Bible.\ | morning about 11 o'clock. lUUIK-JIll »* CVlUCOV«xjf • IllU^tL^lIIC W1UI UTCI O. lUllliui l »-»» The camp was established | cu iation. which brought the story originally to provide an lnstitu- O f the camp at Tapper Lake to h th hbl dia i thht Aica originally to provide an lnstitu O f the camp at Tapper Lake to tlon where the honorably dia- legionnaires throughout America. charged World War veteran might; Circulars are sent out regularly convalesce from Illness. A second from the camp to over a thousand function--to provide a mountain Legion posts in New York state. resort for vacation purposes- -was j A. moving picturq of Legion camp developed later. From the out-1 jif^ produced at, a cost of $750. set the camp became increasingly | has been made knd 12 copies of popular, Mr. Burns said. By way the film worv jerently released. of comparison, In 1926 only 54 patients were cared for at the convalescent area, as compared bringing widespread publicity to this village. ! Tho camp endowment has Jump- CunVttlvnl ^ UL ill t» , €»*, \_wi..fn»* ~ v. 1 I1U UtMI!l-> IMHIUWHl' i n «.i*o j — .-.f- to 1»6 in 1937 season. This year i ed trom $265.0O0\in 1926 to W85,- 6,776 days of hospital treatment \ QQQ j n 1937, Mr. \ Burns said. It were given almost treble the is tne goa i o f the American Legion 1926 total. A corresponding jump I to eventually attain a mllllon- it\ camp upkeep costs was noted. 1 dollar\ investment. \An annual expenditures increasing from $11,- income of from $50,^00 to $59,000 500 in 1926 to $25,987 in 1937. At the Paradise Point recreation area 1,095 guests were received in 1937, as -compared to only 40 in 1926; approximately $50,000 will suffice to keep the camp open the year around A major achievement of the American Legion Mountain Camp and one which provides its spon- has been spent in repairs and im i sora w it n grt>at satisfaction, said prqvements in the past decade. | Mr Burns, is the fact that in As compared to the 1926 appraised valuation of $270,000, the camp property today Is valued at $33f>.- 000; with the endowment fund, -It represents almost a three-quarter million-dollar investment. The Legion Mountain Camp, which has always had tupper Lake's hearty support and co- operation, has amply repaid the village for Its Interest, the speak- er pointed out. Approximately $20,000 is expended by tho camp 111F . I1U ..., t ,,,... annually In materials, labor, etc.,' at the high school the past decade more than 6,000 men who arrived here broken in health have been sent home after treatment In this healing Adi- rondack climate, benefited phy- sically and in shape to i resume a useful place In society. ' BASKETBALL FRIDAY Court fans here Will be able to see what should be one of the season's beat game* tomorrow- night when Tupper ptays Massena
