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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL SECTIONS OF SUFFOLK COUNTY Hol y Name Society March at St. James Is Joined b y Smithtown Organizations TWO HUNDRED CHICKS BURNED TO DEATH Dewey ' s Candidacy Endorsed by Suffolk Columbi an League Babylon Ju dge Enforces Buildin g Code in the Townshi p Stude nt Pilot Rescued When Seaplane Capsi zes on Bay. Holy Name Rally at St. James. • . SeVeral thousand men participated hi the parade and rally of the Suffolk Count y Diocesan Union Holy Name So- cieties held on Sunday afternoon at Gaynor Park, St. James. Besides the many societies from all sections of the coun ty,, various fraternal and civic or- ganizations of Smithtown Township took part in the affair. Included among the marchers were State and Smith- town police, Sherwood Brothers Post No. 1152 , American Legion : Sergt. John M. Cooke Post No. 395 , V eterans of, Foreign Wars; Ncsconset and Smithtown firemen , the Smithtown Fire Department and High School Bands. Ceremonies held later featured a talk by the Rev. Roderick Hunt , C.P., o f the Monastery of Immaculate Con- J ception at Jamaica. . 200 Baby Chicks Die , in Blaze. • Two hund red baby chicks were burn- ed to death last Thursda y when fire destroyed.a chicken hous e in the yard of John Grosshan of North Windsor avenue , Brightwaters. The fire was cau sed by an overheated brooder stove , accor ding to Bay Shore volunteer fire- men who responded to an alarm. Columbian -League Backs Dewey. The Suffolk County Columbian Re- publican League has endorsed District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey as Repub- lican * nom inee for President , according to Anthony Malsano , president of the New . York State Columbian Republi- can League , w ho introduced the reso- lution at a recent club , meet ing. ¦ ^a- v?' ?. ¦ * . ' ¦ ¦ • ' ¦ • gv ¦/ !>. <;. - Fined for yiolatin r . B11Udine. Code. . - A warning that Violations of the! Babylon building code will not be tol- erated . was sounded last week when Sam Lisa of Brooklyn was fined $10 by Justice of the Peace John Clinton Robblns for erecting a garage on Clare- mont avenue , Babylon , wit hout first having ' obta ined ' a permit) from the Building Department. The complaint was s igned by Building Inspector Prank 8, Weber. . Pilot Saved When Plane Crashes. Caught in a stiff crosswlnd , a sea- plane with a student pilot at the con- trol s capsized while taxiing to Its base at King ' s Point , Babylon , one recent morn ing/ Robert \$ ,WJ»lto , 21 years old, o f Babylon , a student at the New York Institute of Applied Agriculture, the pilot, ' crawled from tlie cockpit on to a wing; from which lie was res- cued by a fishing boat. Suffolk Motorists Penalise!! Eight fluffolav motorists haw had the ir ctrlvero ' licenses either revoked or sus pended for recent violations of motor vehicle laws , It was announced yesterday by .Carroll E. Medley, com- miss ioner , of rrmtor vehicl es . Berna rd V. Scrinurr o f Farmlngdale . naa had his license revoked , fox drivin g, while Intoxicated . . suspen sions . jtaolude George ' \ Allferl *; ' AmltyvUle , habitual violator : Davlo H; Wagner , 'Ba y Shore; Eddie WjrjocUl , Aquebo gue , licenses Ir- regul arly , /obtained; - Sarah Hones, H untington, reckless driving; William Nypoe , \ • North ' ' li ndehhu rtt; driving 'Wljilla :.Jlatnaa *»s revoked; Warren QwalneY HMj ppauge , and Warren Odell Eafoyjon, Improper use of plates. Hi*\ , Hospital at PsUhogwu . , Completely renovated , the three-stor y struc ture on Bay avenue and Newlns str eet , Patc hogue, formerly known as th e Comnmnl ^ will be opened within a few days as the Patchogue General ^ofpiffll., ttie new Institution , which Will have W bads , 1* to bo operated by Mrs. Oeoftlno ijurWiard t , a registered , nurs e ,. ' wHq hoi had a number of years ' exps rlencS'ta tttU ty pe of >ork. Tho hospital will be , governed by a board , or physicians from Patcho gue and vicinit y, ' , ' t.. v V i • . ' , ' . • ' ¦ ' . ' . ' ^ • ' , ' . \ > ¦ ' . ' . ¦ ' .• ' ' , Drive m Penny Wot Machines, f , A campaign i«olnit r#hny slot; ma- chines, in whibh nlgli; school; pupils h»vs,been loalrig lunch money has been Wune^ed ' byjtttl p Town , ' polios' , taut WeUnasday , ' . flsrtiW fcheppwd * Rhodes a^. ' CntlMf .Beb; Oalur seised gum and •4WWW oh ailos . . ' wnohlnes at . .Toriy ¦^Ip jli^ibMijit' W Wmrtli , ayenue . land o gunv hi»<))ljll<» ot a store operated , by . .BanU ' ns: ' Can 1at 104 ' Fourth i avenue, ' My.^hm/Mut iiums are hear sehool bullUJna s in ' that community, • ¦ ,V; 1 ^ /' ' ' VA' tlvU i' \ !' - 'Vv ' ' - ' ' \\^. - ' -¦ ' ' ¦ ' ¦ I ¦< ¦ > ' ; , Dr. Alice Mulkey is Found Dead in Gas-Fill ed Home Dr. AKce Mulky, 71 years old , of 289 County Line road , Amityville , was found dead on Sunday night in her hom e by Joh n E. Wilson , husband of the dead woman ' s niece , Mrs . Patricia Wilson , who lived in the same house. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson hod been away during the day and were unable to ent er the front door when they re- turned that evening. Police reported that Wilson discover- ed the bod y after entering the house through a broken cellar window. The house was filled with gas which had escaped from an open jet In the kit- chen oven. Dr. Man uel DeBono of Copiague said death was caused by com plications arising from a possible heart attack , acute Indigestion and the in halation of gas fumes. The de- ceased had been in ill health in re- cen t years. Dr. Mulkey, the widow of John E. ' Mulkey, a newspaper editor of Hanis- burg. 111., was graduated from Forest Par k College at St. Louis. Mo „ and studied for her degree in medicine in New York City. She is survived by a daughter , Mrs. Shirley Hausman , and three grandchildren , all of St. L ouis; two sisters , Mrs. Grace De Well and j Mrs. Pay Cole , both of East Oran ge. ] N. J., and two brothers , Harold S.| Martin of St. Lotus and James A. Martin of Roosevelt. Band Concerts at Jones ' Beach ^TeS hlgh school bands wWbe heard at' Jones Beach State Park this sprin g in a series of concerts to be held each Saturday, Sunday and holiday after- noon. All the bands which will take part in these concerts are highly rat- ed for both attrac tive appearance and Instrumental performa nce. The con- certs will be given at 3 p. m., at the Music Shell adjacent to the board- walk in the Central Mall area of the park. The first concert will be given on Sunday, May 19th , by the Fiecport High School Band. T he complete schedu le is as follows: Sunday, May 19th , Preeport; Saturday , May 25th , Hempstead ; Sunday, May 28th , Law- rence ; Decoration Day, May 30th , Val- ley Stream ; Saturday; Ju ne 1st , Baby- lon ; Sunda y, June 2nd , Malverne ; Saturday , June 8th , HicksvlUe ; Sun - da y, June 9th , Rockvillc Centre ; Sat- urda y, June 15th , Glen Cove; Sunda y, Juno 10th , Mepham . These concerts have been arranged to give the gen- eral public an oppor tunity to witness the f ine musical accomplishments of these local school bands and to af- ford extra pleasure to the park visi- tors. Town Moy Probe Dog Quaranti ne. The quarantine of Babylon Town ' s canine population , ordere d by the State Department of Health-has been protested by the Babylon Town Board followin g receipt of a letter from Percy D. Sherwln , do g war den , who stated last Wednesda y that there has been onl y one case of rabies In the township. Mr. Sherwln declared Hint the \ S tate De portm ent has been misinformed as to actua l cond itions In this township, and I would suggest that the town board , on the basis o f this report, start' an Investi gation and expose those who caused It. \ Bpra gue Speaks at Dewey Dinner. j. Russel Spra gue , mana ger of Dis- trict Attorne y Thomas E. Dewey ' s cam- paign , for tho Repub lican nomination for President , was a guest and a prin- cipal ' speaker o f the • •DoWey-for-P res- Idont\ dinner given last night at Troy, N. V. , by tlie Renssela er Count y Re- publican organisation. Edwin F. Jaookls , Re publican State ' chairm an , and an ¦active , suppor ter of the Dowey candi- dacy, .also, attended ( he . dinner , which was hold In the crystal Ballroom ol the ilendrlck Hudson Hotel s . Walth er Lea gue Names Officers. • Howa rd Ellors of Huntln ntoh Sta- tlon was elected presiden t of Uw Long Island Zone of the Woltlwr Loajue at o ' recent convention held In S(. Piter ' s lAiihe ' ran plluroh , Huntin gt on afatlon. UU* Ilslen Warinko of Mlneola was elected' Vice 1 ' president , s wWl e Miss Ma; rie gutter ol Hlckivllle woi elected wo* wiary-tMBsur er. : ,; , •/;. .y DISMISS OLD INDICTMENT S I N S LO VA K MAN O R FRAUD Old perjury Indictments against Mrs. Ethel Smolens Goldner , convicted in the $2 , 000 ,000 Slovak Manor land fraud , were dismissed , recen tly In Gen- eral Sessions Court , New York . City, u pon recommendation of Assistant District ° A ttorney General Benjamin He ffner , who told the court that in the opinion of the Attorney General , Mrs. Goldner , w ho Is now serving three to Ave years In prison , has been pun - ished sufficiently for her connection with the swindle. She had been named in two indictments for falsely swearing to an affidavit. Mrs. Goldner , whose home was ' at Deer Park , was sentenced In 1938 as the \brains \ of a ring that promoted Slovak Manor near Deer Park and reaped a huge profit from gu llible purchasers. Woods Fire in East End Panned ' by a stiff wind, f ire swept across several , sec tions of pine and scrub oa k woods on Tuesda y after- noon hear Flanders , East QUogue .and Riverside. ' Ten volunteer fire com- panies from nearby villages , includ- ing CCO volunteers at Sag Harbor , fought the flames for soverol hours. Tho fire ' destro yed 25 acre s of the former Charles F, Murphy estate at Hampton ' , . Bays and leveled a barn , several , chicken coo ps and killed some wild game ' In that vicinity. A sum- mer board ing house at East Quogue owned by J. L. Turnell , a lso was des- tro yed. ,;• ' F.nroll In Coast Guard Reserve. Several hundred Long Island private boat owners have qnro lled In tho newly or ganised ' Coast Gua rd Reserve arid officials ' predict tliolr number will be increased ot-a t housand as tho sum- mer boat)n g season gets under way. Flot i llas , consistin g of 10 or mora mem- bers ortho fleet , alread y have boon es- tablished at Baysldo , Rockawoy, Free- p ort, Bay Shore and Brook lyn. Others will follow In step with enrollments. ,, Fu nds tor Highway Intersection. F umuWor tho construction of high- way Intersections under the 10(0 road progranivhavo been approved by the Board ot' Supervisors as follows: Por- tion -road Intersect ion, Brookhnveh, »3 ,B0Q ; Horseblock road Intersection, 14 , 600 , an d Crooked HU> road , Smlth ' - town , |J ,W0. Su ffolk Hoys to Attend Session. S uffolk. County will send a quota of IS bnyi ' to tho third annual Umpire Boys I State of the New York Depart- ment Of the American Legion to be , held a t the state Fair Grounds , Sy>- acuMi ' betwoen.Jul y 0th and 14th. ac- c ording to Dean Fred L. stone 1 : of Syracuse. '¦ ,i , . Smith to Attend Con vention. , . ¦ The aoerd of Supervisors ¦ lias au- thqrjsed 'p, P, Smith, county staler of weighty' And measures , to attend a no- tlohai ymveritlon in Washin gt on , D O,, from iuno ttn to 'Jru ne 7lh, ' ' ¦ , *' • * ' ¦ ' 'vkv.yV'' \ ¦ .'; , ¦ ' ' . ' ¦ ¦ • ' ¦ ' ' ' ' • ¦ ' v ¦ ¦¦ ' •¦ ¦ ¦ '' -7 Wi ' 1 ¦ ¦ • • ¦ ' ' • . ; ' ¦ ' ' ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ • ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . \ ; ¦ ) \ ' ¦ • ¦ - iv KV V.v ¦ ¦ ; ' . • ' • ..> , ' . v.;. . '' , ', ,, ;¦ \ ¦ • . ¦ • ' • . ' • • . * OLD GRAVESTONES FOUND IN WOOD. Lawrence Gangi Elected Head of Sag Harbor Republicans. County Delays Funds for Purchasing New Rights-of-Way. Two Arrested in Connection with Fire at East Quogue. Halt Rights-of-Way B uy ing. With m ore than $1,000, 000 o f co un ty money tied up in the purchase of rights of ways for State highwa y pro- jects, no additional funds will be uted for this purpose unlil the State com- pletes some of its contemplated jobs , it has been announced by members of the Board of Supervisors. T wo Held on Arson Charge. John Zebrowski . 20 years old. of East Quogue. and Rocco Bruno . 2G years old , of Riverhead , have been held for action by the grand jury following their arrest on arson charges. Tlie two men were taken into custody in con- nection with a recent fire which de- stroyed two brooder houses unci 1 . 500 chickens on the property of Dominick Bruno at East Quogue. Zebrowski and Rocco Bruno waived examination. / ;> City. County Dispute Near Climax. Canity Welfa re Commissioner Irvin u . Willia m:; l::i s informed the Board of S upi' . -vii.oi ¦ : that a dispute be tween N\\ v York City and Suffolk County over paymi-nl. of hospital bills of relief clients in cases where the patients are hospitalized outside of theii * districts will soon reach a climax. Commission- er Williams pointed out that the city has refused \to pay our claims for hospitalization of relief clients who i come from the city, and we in turn iliave refused to approve their bills. \ | Home relief costs are considerably iiib 1 \' .'. iuu \-t\.y, uu j-njiuLcu u ul. i Fi nds Gravestones in Scrub Oak. Islip Town Officer John Connor of Brentwood stumbled across something of a mystery the otiier day when he I found two cenlury-old tombstones in a clump of scrub oak while patroling ut North Brentwood. The pieces of slonc , which weighed 100 pound s each , were taken from the abandoned Smith- town Cemetery on Kings Park road. i They had marked the graves of Alfred and- Moses Smith and their wives since Capt . Holers Heads Educators. Captain Ira G. Rogers , president of the Heliport Board of Education , has been unanimously elected president of the Brookhaven Town School Boards Association. Other officers elected to serve for one year include Edward Pir- ner of Medlord, first vice president; John S. Ryd er of Miller Place, second vice president; Frank J. Mooney of Lake Ronkonkoma. secretary-treasur- er; Chester V/ilcox of Center Moriches , Dudley R. Me rrill of Patchogue. Daniel Yeager of West Manorville, Benjamin Hawkins of Setauket and Grover E. Woodward of Port J _ clTe rson , members of the executive committee. 1837. Ga ngi Iliads Republican Ciub. Lawrence Gangi has been unani- mously elected president of the Repub- lican Club of District 2 at Sag Har- bor. Other officers named are Clother H. Vaughn , vice president; William Ja cobs , secretary, and Linwood Rob- erts, treasurer. Tlie executive commit- tee is to be appointed at a meeting to be held on Friday evening, May 24th , according to the new president. Suffolk County and City in Dispute On Hospitalization in Relief Cases f f l & VVf f i ^ FIGURES show thai about one out of \Show me those big soft coil sprin gs every five able-lo-purchuse new-cur you lulk about—and what ' s the business buyers really wants a Buick more than ubout recoil-mount ed Knee-Action , uny other car. heaviest frames at the price , five-foot front seat room in Super models , and Not all will buy one. six dozen new 1940 features?\ Too many of them will shake their When you ' ve got the onsvvers throu gh heads and sigh , \Nope! A car that a tfood long ride-ask one more ques- big and handsome must be out of my ««on: \ How much?\ reach ' \ Current pricesf start at $895 *for the ,. ... , . .. .i. . i business coupe , delivered at Flint , You 'll be smarter than that , we know. Mic|) To th , g udd |rnIlsportation bnsed You 'll realized doesn ' t cost a cent to on \ M r , at \ ' s tn / e and l ° c f to . xe\ ^ - . . . n • i. r „i, „,i ...i.... any), and optional equipment and acces- find out how u Buick feels —and what '/' ' „. * , r „. !rf i . ,., i „„, . . ... . . sones —and you 11 still get mighty low its delivered pri ces are. . .. . ~ delivered prices. So you 'll wal k in to the nearest Ruick When the bug bites you , get the facts — dealer and say: \ Let me have a good and you 'll get a Iluick and be happ y! look at that car that ' s showing the rest r-jr-;— .. .. , w ... ¦ ., . . . . . . ^Prices subj ect to chance without notice. what modern style is. • » • \ Let me try out that big straight-eigh t om «\» *¦* ™ tll - m , d \ \* th0 \•\• . ., . . . ,, . , , > , your Buick dealer I* nukin g! engine that s electricall y balanced after m MsM assembly lo waterworks ' smoothness. ^ft^ # m ^ m »iz«fAttvi &* f Cf c i r% ^r\W mMMj M W*^ ^^ IXIMNA * Or OINHAl MOtO M VAUJI U&J * ** r wm ik ^^^^ ^^MMMMMM W^MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm^^. ^^^ H :, ' v ' \ ' , ¦ , v;\ ^ 1 ' ' ii \ s 1 V\ '</\ ' \\ 1 J^^^Kf ^aMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmUaMMa ^. ftukk prkoi btfli|vqt | ll^mm^ J ^^^ m m^^^ m^L ^mmmmmm I -Iff^^fRp^llilHBS^H^Sii^^^^^^^^^^^ i - ' GRADr ^TO ^ COmNY^ ^^ i , i ¦ ; ¦ ¦ „, . ., ' \ . MONTAUK mq ilWAY yJ KM . SAV VIfctK , N. V. , . '\ TEI i ^ BAVVTtMl IW ^ • ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ' ¦ ' ;I :' . \ ;;/ ; ' . VatonMBH i |U VHMIN ttMM0tHl l^llin AT TH| NIW V6RK AN0 IIU^ mNCIlM i |^ .• . ' . ¦ ¦ . .^¦ , ./' - ' ¦ ; . . - - , ' , ¦ >; ' . . !.S : ' , ' ,:. > ; ,. : ir. : v, , • .; ;¦ ' ¦ \,. . :Y. - :. - , : .y.^i ; - ::^ Tlie annual District 1 , Boy Scout Camporce for Huntington and vicinity will be held today and Saturday at the Brush' s Pastures located on the Hunt- ington-Groenlawn road , it was decided at a meeting of. commissioners and Scoutmasters at the Huntington Hotel. Boy Scout Camporce. COUNTY NEWS SPORTS ANCIENT HISTORY Officials of the Suffolk County Coun- cil , Boy Scouts of America , have launched the annual campaign for funds to meet the 1040-41 budget as the. result of a recent Jijcetln e-of lead- ing finance officials of the many com- munities and districts -In the county at Port Jefferson. The proposed new budget calls for $28,000 plus $1 , 000 to be applied to the reduction of the $5 , 000 mortgage on Camp Baiting Hollow at Wading River ' . Surro gate Richard W. Hawkins , coun- cil'president , has again been chosen genera l campaig n chairman , and Hnrry T. Peters of IsUp will again be chair- man of the special gifts committee. Rombo Buys The Watchman James ff . Rambo , Mnttltuck mer- chant nnd a former Justice of the Peace In Southold Township, has an- nounced , t he purchase of The Watch- man , a. weekly newspaper nt Matti- tuck , considered to be Suffolk Coun- ty ' s o ldest newspaper. Mr. Rambo has also bought the printing plant of tlie Matt ltiick Press. The Watchman was founded In 1826 at Sag Harbor and later was published at Green- port under the editorship of the Intc Henry A. Reeves, In 1937 tho plant was taken over b y Cedrlc II. Wick- ham. Patriotic Sour to Be Published. \Our Good Old U. S. Ai , \ a son g wr itten by Miss Thelma M, Enos , for- mer music su pervisor nt Babylon High S chool , has been accepted tor publica- tion by the ' Success Music Company of Aurora , 111., and wi ll be used chiefly at national conventions t his iprlng. Miss Unas ' la at present prominent In music c ircles at Hornell , H. V. While at Bab- ylon alio made a lar ge number of friends and participated In many mu- sical programs. License Plates Boost Spuds. , . To help publicize Long liinnd po- tatoes , the Suffolk Far m Bureau Ik now luriilshln B' nt cost ainnll riietul plat es to be attached to tho car and truck license plates of potato growers and others. The plates bear tho slo- gan ; \Est tho Best , Buy Long Island Pbtatoos j \ . ¦la y Stack Destroye d by Fire. •Wki believed caused b y «pontn neous ! combustion destro yed 200 tons of hay stacked on the Btum pp! and Walter daffodil ' (arm nt Isli p one recent morn- Ina ;, ni)<i t prpad , to a section of scrub oak nearby . Isli p fireme n extinguished tho ' bruili fire; but the hay w qs a total lOSS 'i ¦ ¦ . ' /. i ' . ' '> , ; . ' , \ ¦ ¦ , - .. ^ : ,v , ; , , ' Marine Weather Roparla /M arine ' vwatluir repor|a . to guide ¦ fishermen olid yachtsmen in waters adj acent to - K« - Yorit ( and . Including < W^;i slM fiouhd iihdi , tha ' 'N ew Jer« ¦vr.: «od«i ' . , w«t': . . ' l»5iiB^flo iifc by WN«W , Naw yoj* nt frequent inter- yiU durln ar each' KrVJ eU^hd'durin g the B iunmir , itartln i JHfldaV/Miy 'ilUi. ¦ ' ' 7, 1 ' V ' , V ¦ _ . . ' \ , \ ;¦ , , .\, ' ' ' ;¦ .! ¦ ' . ^ ; .,, SCOUT OFFICIALS LAUNCH FINANCE DRIVE IN COUNTY I r Mothers ' Dav
