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MEMBER A.B.C. CA«dlt Birtfti or CtrfiilftttoDi) COUNTY fNYACK RVRNINO JonRNAI,) WEATHEI^; Cloudy not quite so . cold lonlfht; tomorrow cloudy folio yf e d by snow or rein. V<|l. 42 No. 296 A Politically Independent Newspaper NYACK, N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1929 CIRCULATION Week Ending Dec. 2, 6,133, Av. Daily Net Paid — PRICE 2 CENTS,^ ocTsinB OF cocsTT. I csaiw* |Body of Man Dead t Years to be Exhumed, in Damage Suii •OUR NABBED 'Large Attendance at Church iPEARL RIVER iNYACKAMAZEDlAutopsy to Decide Whether John Trum Died of Natural Causes, or of Bad Injuries AT FIGHT IN DANCE HALL ops QneU Disorder At I Opening of Pleasure Pal ace In Haverstraw. Presentation of Nativity Many Unable to Gain Admittance at Pageant Pres ented at Nyack Reformed Church — Both Performances Crowded WONAN WINS I BV COIORIUI; SEPAMHON XNAS UCHTS TIh ’ Nativity presontotl last eve*! niiisf at the First Refonned Church.: Xyack, had a laijfer nttondanco than ever before in the six years of its presentation, and was pre- sentewl with a finished beauty whicJi niake.s it diihcult to ima^^ine an improvement in its proiluclion. The church wah filled nt 4:.'i0 . o'clock, fully an hour I)efore the pa^r^anl started and in the evening tiio titvor.s were elosH about half an hour before the srhe^led lime. It was estimated tlnd approxi-! niately lOd jicrsons were unable to- witness the p«.Tformance, in spite of the fact that two performances Ipnl been arrnnffed to accommodate Itico The pufreant directed by Dr. Wil liam Neeley Koss, pastor of the '• church, and Mrs. Ross whose skilh ful hands fnshione<i the murals at ^ the back of the 'Holy Family and the ueoempanyinK stage beltings, appear.'* to bo gaining rather than ' losing in popularity as the years, 1 puss. There arc many contributory * featu e.s which lend power to the ' presentation lifting it far out of ! the urwlinary class of Christmas programs. One of the greatest (Continued on Rage 4.) Directs Pageant HAVKKSTUAW, Dec. HI. — Ihc |e.w plen.sure I ’ alace on Rroudway opaned Satunlay < vi nin^ by lie proprietors, the (jizzi brother^, |ul was fill'd with n largo crowd interested penorfs from all .lee- |onB of the county all through afternoon a:ul evt-ning. j At a later hour, however, the iTair wn.** marred by n brawl lic- ke>s.*n four youn.g men, but which quelled in .-ihort ohjer by Ihe Idicc before any real daninge |id been done. I Vineen Rose, IMdie IJaisiey, phn I*onj.*sa and Joseph the ofTehder. Ll. Lawri*nce lanion and Ofheors Hossion and limboli, who wer:- on the hcone I short order, put the \kibosh ” on fight almost before it had |irt4:*d. They hauled the boys to police station where they w re [HmiK.sod after a severe roprinuind Judge Maurice .Maloney. Earlier Fight A fight had .•^tart-'d earlier in i evening at a dance at Fore.s- 1 * Hall, (larnervilie, !t is said. | jiich officer Howard Raymond, |d quelled. Raymond also oust-1 \ ' toePew Offers Resolutions-to fn to the Cjizzi building where : hostillHea wenJ^reaumed. ‘ ho prize waltz Saturday night ■ won by Mr. and Mrs, Kugono , of Rroadway, who arc dun- of note In thiA community, j I'ing taken .»icverai other prizes ( Isuch competitions for some Mr. Vox, who was former- iMisa Edna McCormick, and her pband captured the Fbx trot hmpionship of the county >«;\Tr- k(?asons post*. The priz-.*, a bcau- lil lamp, which they won Last Iht, i» to he suitably engraved pommemomtion of tho occasion. Judge A. S. Tompkins Also^Festive System Is Work of Balmy Weather Grants Mrs. Erhardl $15 ' Nyack Business Men ’ s ; d W eekly Alimony. Association. ! BrmgS Uut AutOS; Cops Kept Busy Yesterday ’ s springlike weather 1 wn.j tho advent of the regular sum- Following the recital of a story' .Nyack shopppis found a Christ- of cruelty through hi-r married ^ ‘ waiting them Satur- life, Mrs. Rosa Erhnrdt, of IVaili^i^y evening when every approach River, obtained a decree of .separ-jto the “ the business elbow, ” the ation with $15 a week alimony co*^cr of Main Street and Hroad- ! mcr ’a tniffic on the Stale and from her hu.sband, Philip KrhonhJi^y under a 'fiucce.<edon of!(;ounty roads in Rockland County, from Justice Arthur .S. Tompkins | brilliantly illuminated arche.i. j .Steady r^treamH of automobiles on Saturday. Mrs. Erhardt told of | There had been little prev(bu;i i were to be .seen going north and how she, had been miHtreated since | discussion of the feature and the ' ;iouth on she and her hu.sband moved toj^ ’ ork of placing the arches was sol over 112,000 cars passed tlio intcr- IVarl River from Yonkers to open : nipidly aecompliahi d that many section of Highland Avenue and ft bukor> ’ . She said her family j I'onrby re.>ident.s were aniaz< d at j Main Street, Nyack Dr. Otfo Schuitze, New TTork Expert and Prominent County Physicians Expected to Attend at Ex amination of Body — Worker Reported Dead of 'Indigestion, on. Diagnosis of Dr. DeBaun — Family Of Dead Man Insist Upon Post-mortem Investi gation and May Start Action Against Trap Rock Co. if Suspicious Are Confirmed. DR. WILLIAM NEELEY ROSS Pftttor of the Reformed Church, Nyeck, under whote direction the ennuai ChrUlmmi pageant was given at hit church. Aid Firemen Hurt in Line of Duty Two yoan ago John Tnim of Rockland Lake died at his homa from acute indigestion and heart trouble, according to the death oer- tihcate hied with Mn. Kate Buehenau in-vha TMrn-ClarkV affica ai I, ' *' r J City. HU body M tw interred in the Rockland Lake caiiwtery. It IS estimated that; ^ . j av ii . i i . Po38ibly- today, and if not today, seme-time this week, hU body will be exhumeo^nd \Dr. Otto Schuitze, assistant medical examiner between 8* YoHc, will perform an autopsy In an attciupb to ,, , . .... 4. u 1- 1 i __ _ ^»o ___ determine whether or not tho cauie or causes of deoth were properiy tiouble.s cu minatcd m her huK- the di.splny. am. and 8 p.m. j . . n «> . • n « > *i. j - v • • . . , , . , rru u 1 1 ' •, . 1. 'diagnosed. Dr. Ralph DcBnun oi Congers w’ as the attending physician band throwing her out of th«* hnufe I I ne arrhc'i combining a large; ' at the lime of Trum ’ s death and tclIinK her never to come back j star aa the center motive, with a \ ever in tlie OranBctown dietrict, j ________ _ ________________ , post-mdrtcm examinatiSn i, K-arland of red and Rreen li«ht.j hut .[ditc a few of the motoriaUj * „ n»lV¥ «> be made na tho result of a rs, beneath, emphn.-iziMl tiie'cxt* nt of wlio were m a hurry to be on their j ■■■■■■ the main business center to a ve-!>v»y found themselves w-ith invi- niarkable degife. To one entering' tations to \tell it to the judge ” . Nyack down Main Street hill thoj Among the violators of tho traf- sight jiriLsented an eape rj^Hy bril- 1 fic Inw.'i who were invited back to ; liant a.ipect, and many late com-^ Rockinnd County arc LeRoy muter.'* on the Tuirj'towri ferr>' re-j-Brown, of Plainfield, N. J., who! marked of the effect from the prill appear before Judge Theodore | |.jvor. ' Jessup tomorrow night, in .Sparkill r I mo I court, to an.swcr to the charge of *** ' , _ [reckless driving, preferred by The CO.**! of installing the lights| (^yj, Rcissman of the Or-! 1/? V A1J D D * I a dnv*ii work nf tho Tomkitia C ovm nnd continuing the illumination , Tho officer pick- l6-Year-01d FranCCS BfUS- “ until Chrietma, ia aaid to be in the .,rf him up on Sylvan Boulevard. 1 Ipy CwR Nrt R ms UIII V m 1 hi, .upp« and after eaylng ho not feeling well, dccMed to go Ilgam. Mr.'. Erhnrdt a.skcd the court for a decive of separation with ali mony sufficient to take care of the little three-year-old daughter. She said she w'a.s married in September 1026, an din 1028 she and her hm> band' ‘ eame to Pearl River to stall in business. She told the judge they spent all their money in buy ing the equipment for (he bakery and because there w'as little left to run the business with, her husband bet'amc angry and abu.sftd her. Worked Early and Late She accused Erhardt of calling RUNAffAYGIRL BACK HOME; GONE 4 DAYS port that Trum waa in an aeci. dent at the plant of the New York^;^ Trap Rock Company in Tomkini Core tho day of hi, death, and it' .. i, uid that >uit will be ntarted for compenaation ahould the autopsy reveal internal inju.le, .auffleient to\^ have caused death. How Trum Died Two yean ago Trum returned t hi, homo in Rockland Lak6 aAi her namep nnd doing things to hmt her. She told the court that she had been required to run the busi- 1 ne,, nnd.hcr home too and that she worked from early morning uptil late at night. Mrs. Erhardt said f her husband accused her of steal* I until neighborhood of f 1,100. This ex-j Three out-of-town motorists! -penditure will-be met by -progras-twere- booked for a hearing beforof sivc business men of Nyack who ; Judge C. Bertrand Loitner, in. believe the brilliancy of the ilium-1 the Piermont Court, by Lieut, Eu- ley Gires No Reason For Strange Escapade* j bed. According To the ,lory7 I died shortly after that time. Ralph DeBaun, of Congota, Dt- Chairman of County Vamps Law Committee Makes Recommendations to Southern N. Y. Group; Would Take Elections From Trustees At a meeting of tlic officers, direetor.«5 and membership of the var ious committe.'a of t'.»c Southern New York Volunteer Firemen'* As- .cociation, held al Borough Hail, Brookl>m, on Saturday, Pierre H. HelVw*, Chairman of the Law Committee of the Rockland County ayor Cooko and Truxtccs Vog-j Firemen's Association, prc.semtcd the following resolution**, which and Coffey represented the offi-1 wore unanimously adopted : of the. Village nt the open- “ Resolved, that the Chairman ofO'- celebration, and officer Nick nboli was assigned to the affair Khc p-olicc deparl-nibnt. the Law Committee of the South- • village fire commissioners or trua- ern New Y'ork Volunteer Firemen's Association be instructed: 1. To secure the enactment of legislation providing for the in- AND P. STORE ROBBED i ■] crease in amount from $3000 to AKNERVILLE, Dec. 16. — lle-| ^4500 jjp pjjjj executors en tho late houra of Saturday udminiatratorH of deceased vol- lit an dthe early hours of yes-j untcer firemen as provided in Sec- lay morning, the local A. and I*, Sub-division 1 of the General Municipal Law. 2. To secure the enactment of legislation which will further clari- liini, to the'methods of aecur-i' P«>v!-ion» of Sec- eatrv the robbers were un-U'®\ ^06 of the General Municipal It was said Ives and groceries and other Ides in stock were stolen Ire was no chsh taken and, ac- In September of this year, Mrs. Erhardt continued, he told her to leave tho house. She claims that Mrs. Uberlacker, owner building in which the bakery is lo cated, also helped Erhardt to throw her out. Mrs. Erhardt said she had no place to go, and finally went to Yonkers where she took a position ns maid in a home. Shu claimed that her husband was tak ing in about |1400 a month in the bakery ' of which about f200 a I month was profit to him. Judge Tompkins ruled that Er- GARNERVILLE,. Dec. 16. ination will create favorable com-1 gene Doyo, and Dorris Crabtree, ’ Without explaining whore she had tiallVd, and after exanUnatiq ment and bring trade from outiy-' of Jersey ^itj^ Janie, J. Jlowell, of been or s^y dvt ^ hat Trum h»i-j ing district to Nyack .stores. j Wov'-Wt j » j.. r-fj Jar.sts Martin ^ Baisiey, 16-year-old runbtraj.*V -vvajjt^ ’ ndlgCTtlon and-a^t The work of installing the lighUi®*' bparkil. Will ..na them,clve,| returned to the family hmsida al-|t;ek. The buriet took placa'iav- wa.s started Wednesday morning reckloM driving to-1 ter having been gone for 4 days. I sral day, later and the mUtcr i when the Mount Vemon Illumin- Thia ii said to be the Mcond ***1 dropped. tees.' Resolution No. 1 provides . for | an increase of $1600 to be P«'d Lari^t ’ “ 8houid'W her *16 a week to the estate of deceased active child. The suit volunteer firemen killed in the per-1 contested by Erhardt. formance of their <Jutiea an auch . . firemen Re£ioiution No. 2 provides an at tempt bo hiadc to clarify the exist ing proviaiona with respect to in juries that ara not fatal. As it now stands the law is sm dto be somewhat ambiguous and an ef- ^ fort wil be made to prevent any ating Company sent a crew of four elcdtriclan.s hen* to carry out the of signed between that firm nnd the Nyack Business Mcn.^ As sociation on Tuesday evening. In spite of being delayed untH after mid-day Saturday, through motor difficuUies in the vicinity of Tarrytown, the crew of four accomplished the work by aStur- day evening at five o ’ clock. The speed -and skill with whicii tho men worked attracted a largo number of onlookers Saturday afternoon. Union Mon Protest Introduction of outside workmen (Continued on Pago 2.) I Says Objector to Nanuet R ’ d Improvement is Actuated By Selfish Motives Norman 6Ioylu, of New Yorkjcpxde of thU young lady. Th«| Several week, It la uM, . City wa, given a week ’ , time tolprevioua occaiion occurred last'word came to the-Trum rnmil y : get back to Piermont by the ob- summer when it was feared thatifnim ana llegcd reliable aoardft liging police lieutenant, and will;riio had jun.,-'d from the bridge j.thqi there „was a queation ag to eir' (K a OrsAWtanrl ' IJSnlaKIn^ f'nm. __ xt. .. — _ t. — J J appear before Judge Loitner on the card to answer to a charge of reck less driving on the Sparkill Via duct. Horn Ready To Receive County Folk After Jan. 1 of\ the Rockland Piniriiing Com- Twhothor the father had died from ; pany into Mirmesceonga creek. natural cause, or whether Uto At that time. Town Officer Mor- . death had come a, the result bjf ’ gan Demareat and Constable Frank ' some serioua injury. I Cox organixed grappling parties to i Witncaie, were found who, it ii ' I search for the b^y of the aup- : claimed, can teatify that Trum j posed suicide, and although these ' .ugcred from a serious injury i parties work for Mvenil hour,, | day of hi, death, and others, ported that there were signs of jury on the body after Trum dia^| To Hold Autopay To decido the question it decided that an autopsy shottM: 1 performed on the body and D Schultxe waa called in. The a I nothing could be found of her. I P.iwnU Frantic For threo days, the parent, ol : the girl were frantic uqtil thqy ________ I were awakened in the late hour, Tho Rockland County Headquar-1 one night by their little ion iwho turn in Albany will be located at j informed them excitedly that tho DoWitt Clinton Hotel after Frances had returned homo and ' topsy will be performed at tba ' ly amateurs, u was sam, ^ T c secure the enactment of ! misunderstanding that might arise ^ le shoo repairing .shop run by I legislation providing for the elec-; umler tho present statute. j Insley Opposed to MiddlctOWn Highway Plan Be ck Simone in the same build-jtion of chiefs of voluntocr flre de-, Resolution No. 3 seeks to effect | Road Would Cut Through Flower I waa not disturbed. j partmenta without the approval of j a change in the present law by . I cUmiimting therefrom the provl- • ir 11 L ■ I 1^*1 M. allowing village trustees or iring Valiev Merenants Jubilant |'•il' “ Ke«« commissioners to ap- ■ ® J j prove the election of chiefs of the Ls Holiday Trade Keeps Them Busyj trzi. « nre- -o -------------- , ; man who has workc dhis way up PRING VALLEY, Dec. 16. — Saturday night crowds have re.sum. through the ranks may be elected bant, arc now able to breathe! ed the proportions of past years, chief by the lire department, but ll of relief a, holi^y trade in I ^ become increasingly may be arbitrarily rejected by a basing volume gives indication ' ...... former patrons hav bn the location of the village ■ a Bummer of torn-up streets. Gardens , Hayes Declares OPPORTUNITIES Are you looking for a good |wd car to use during the nier mnnthsT The auto- ilralfni _ thfoughoyi Iqckland County have uaed gra to auit every neetl, and car, are listed in the lauified column,' of the purnal. lOCKLAND COUNTY EVENING JOURSAL Phone Nyack 2200 I hard to find parking space as the [ Vilage Board and a man of their not Lvuiiable places become filled up. I choice who lias never sewed in an ^ I For a time during the summer ' capacity in. ‘ h'' | alle^ i the merchants were simply mark-! ment. may be named as chief. ■ „ . I ing time, keeping open for such. It is considered that this i, in- , local trade as come in, but, out i jurious to the morale of a fire dc- of town ptople' stayad? ^ partment. It is-ulso felt tluit tho ! afraid of the torn-up streets. How-1 members of a fire department are iever the construction wofk is now I better qualified' to judge of the i entirely finished and the good road | quaUfleations of fire chief than a ; has brought in more people toan ! village board none of tho members : e\ er befoferit i^Knid- ' of which may have ever Vri'cH in\tlwroad. T The Mardi Gra, celebration the I the fiiv de|>artment last of October was tho ftr,t move January 1, it- was learned today. Asscmblyman-elect Fred J. Horn will take a suite of rooms at tho hotel during the K-ssion of the legislature and will there receive Rockland County people, as well i a, tlieir inquiries that coma through the mail. - ' ' Horn said he spent several days I in Albany la>t week making tho I necessary arrangementa for the I tlirce or four moths ho •will spend _________ ; in tho Capitol. On January 1 the . „ . • J L- V, “ !\'mblymcn from the differonl c. to. - Leo B Hayes today, vmteed parts of the staU- will meet in Al- . r being circulated here to stop toe con tructan of the Middletown road under the present plans of the State Highway Dejiartment. I Ktart until the following week 4i» The elimination of the curve ............ - .. .j.which Erne they go into acwiion. the South end of Main street is. your progrcsalvo journaliam in the .. .... au , u f i i looked upop by Hayes a, tho only Jause^f Rockland County. 1 do- : ^' “ r'e ston o Z aensible way fo benefit the village lire to call your attention to tho , , . , i. , ' “ . ,,, u J - .... 1 t • 1,1 legislature and cannot wail to get and the motoring public. He dn- ••Petition ” how being circulated claxrii that the motives behind t'lc'horc in Nanuet in opposition to, '' '! k j i r position now being circuUled s IN ow York State plans for „i^h- ' alleged selfishness on the part of way ijonstroctioii through our . County votcra Hera EnJtosloy. whose property will be i town. , . ' ! cu^n half and his flower gardens You, of course, are familiar with , ” ® e »® ‘ \ ot *o a and,,tennis courts'ruined through 1 the progressive • policy of N o wi *■' ,® ® the ji'ropoSed improvement. Rork State, under the guidance of . ** possi t n g me Haj-os maintains that the.curve | Gov. Roosevelt, in the clumination' meet. NANUET, Dec. 16. to the petition-now was in hia bed. I undertaking, establishment, of The girl then told her parent, i Thoma, McGowcn, in Haverrtraw, that ahe had taken “ French leave ” ; and many doctor, and lurgooia and had been vialting in New York ' Rockland County are expactad to City. j attend. Her mort recent jaunt is pre-1 The autopsy it Is believed, siimed to have been in tho same { determine whether Dr. DoBau manner as the first, although the I rightly diagnosed the cauto girl ha, given 'no reason for go-1 death. It ia raid that if the catssnit^ ing, it was said today. I ii found to be from some interna Who Saidflard Times? Santa Claus Busier Than Ever» Merchants Sai The stock market may gq smash ' toys and everything else they and great financial figures may' This happy condition U feH. talk dolefully of the terrible con-i dition of business, brokerage] houses may speak in dire tones of.; the lack of money because of the| tho business men, who are _ bock, filing contentedly. > ' Even though a possimiiitto; did turii to his mother after g i , . „ Santa Clau on .a race* i crash, but Santa Claus is coming^ remark, “ Goe, a, to Nyack this year ax ho never did | hi awful thin this year, ” before, according' to the local ' dications are that Santa v store-ownere. i “ P before Chriatmia' Daj^ i The people-of Nyack, unaffected: shoulder tllo hug* by the money ahortag* whiclf, ready. elimination is the only way to '. of Grade Crossings and dangerous n,.i - . — - overcome one of the worst danger curves from our highways. BRIDGE REPAIRED ■ swept the country, are . spwt4ing bigger pack than war spots in town and straighten out; . c.rn.d Ooul ir ti ..' P™*', He claims that *her» la ' - . „it, e,v,„ rrv ., j '. P ’ -\f* ‘ ban haa ovfir been spent bo - flmllf . — .,,7 All through this State of ours, bndge over CWsr Pond C^k. just , t^ere is a moro eviilent a small minority who would iinre the road hold up for perhap year* until the plana could be . . , e - advanced communities, this ,outh of Mark ’ s atore which waa ' ‘ \I! ’ , “ ‘ TT ‘ “ e° YFJW* ... . , I the road hold up for perhaps ten 1. „,iiiin».i I , “ •ras store, «nii.n waa, gaiety than ever before financier* may pot to *lw ' Thoae resolution. ’ * will be takon; ^ t ‘ i the Ians eould h » k program la being willingly | iha tu-ftna nf a Ti«r tnifredv' PriJavi . ......... r. . ...itiiMci I . - .»*..• ayini, ui riiiei.y iiinn over* iwiuay : iimj una'.fw 2 d out a \ ‘ .T ’ ’ \bowu. wUh the rapid approach of] new yochU Ticdout., Asan.nijht, when the car of SVed! 4^, Yulotide. The splriL.of the,sea-| brokarq may.^I^ i on tlio part of the merchants to ' Committee of the J ’ *® ” “ \f*' ‘ b* P “ o wrk ^ effectively carried out. As an idraw people to tho village, but I york Association,^ “ “ • ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ ,f%hrSouto end o\f Comant crashed through the pros:\\ .V,\ :Tt. the return is claimed to have been , oo„„dment» to the m 2 \treef ' Westchester, the ' tecting iron fence and almoat top-1 tolt toi raotos ^«l and the a normal level with tshristmaS] ,u«. t fvtptBtuva oi'Hh tha «* •• t » « mountain of solid rock in oixlcrto. reoAired. Saturday afternoon, i j l l aj i - seasion of the Legislatuie with the, , Editor Evening Journal, ; overcome a curve which | eyed ahoppars, who-are outdohn thU year 1 ‘ ’ ----------- ,,,, .............. ------------.' ....... ! thamaelves 'in purchaaing knlci-. Santo '■ ■MoviagT nocm,»j KxpreM. Nira,li|jju|^j,]jj_ luieful artfelas, 1 (tosir! shoppers arriving in numbers.! (Continued on page 2.) (Support of tlw Uiw Committee bf j As a consistent reader of thef' the Rtnte FiremonV .\s«ocialii>n. j Journnl, and an nrdont admirer ol : (Cnntinuoil on I ’ ss* 2.)
