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MEMBEB A.B.C. (Aatll Ban** «l Clrc*l*Uou) COUNTY fKTACK KVKNTNa JOURNAl.) WEATHEI^i Cloudr tonight and < tomorrow probably^ rain and colder. Vol. 42 No. 365 A Politically Indepeodant Nawapaper NYACK, N. Y., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1929 CIRCULATION Wedc Eadiiic Dae. 14, S,119, Av. Daily Net Paid-^RICE 2 CE '' opraiPB OF couTT, a 1 Plea for Bear M ’ t ’ n Probe to Be O* K ’ d At Meet Tonighl DEMOCRATSTO GIVEHORNA Speed Executive Office Repairs Delegation Plans Trip To Albany When State Legis lature Opens Jan. 6. Rockland County DcmocraU ■willj ffond a delegation to Albany on ' Januao' 0 when the State Icfd^ila* ture convene!! to jffvc AMcmbIy<| man-elect Fml U. lloni a Rood i send-ofT upon the beRinninR of hUj term of office. ToanU for a huc -: ceftRful term and the bcMt of luckj I in RettinR hit proRrain acrosn will j 1 be the'order of the projrram at a I dinner. i Those expected to go to Albany | for the opening oay o^ the Liegis- T I lature are, C. Bertram Leitner, off Picmiont, Raymond Fisher, of; Nanuet, A. J. Bryant, of Nyack,l James A. Farley, formerly of Hav-I erstraw, Michael Gosda, of Haver*! I straw, Rimer DcUoiso, of Gra.ssy ; I Point, and Ktlmund Lawler, ofi I Spring Valley. \ OUieri Expected 'j Others are expected to make res- ler\*atlonB for attending the opening I day of the Aasembly. Horn ha.s Isaid that he will tr> ’ to get as ■ much of the party platform across las possible, and adds that if it does Inot go ocroiis, it will not be be- |cause he locked in Irying. Rockland County headquarters lin Albany will be at the Hotel Ten* IKyek whore Hora has engage-: a. of the White Heut«. Top picture ehovrs hr# at hetgb^jpet radio, sulie of n>om. lU-iiae-Mdi out fay firemen. « Cover efaPrred any Rockland County resident whb| ^ ctructure as •alvager* set to work. t has business with him will always! ____ - . SOUIRENDOF COUNTY FREE HOLD-UP MEN USINGBRAND 'Residents Feel Secure AsjBut “ Boy KiUed ” Ruse Fails Vagrants Give Section i To Impress Gamer- Wide Birth. nUe Men. Assemblyman Horn to Hear Grievances of Taxpa,yers, 2 < With the crime situation at a dc- j cidt ‘ d lull throughout the southern ! end of the county, residents now 1 feel more .secure in their homes j and place.s of buslnefw than they have for quite a while. I Tramps, hoboes and vagrants are I said to be giving this part of the county a wide berth when passing I on their way to other climes, a.s I many of them know of the warm , reception tendered them by the po* Undo Sam U ahowinf how quickly h« can act in amorgon* c>M by bofinotcig to ropair fira damago to the oxosutivo officas lice in these ports. 1 hat the situation i.s well in hand in S;>arklll district of Orangetowm is evidenced by the fact that no criminal court has boon held for over three months, and only one cQ.se of a traffic violation ha.s heenj heard in three weeks. I Piermont Quiet Piermont also reporU a very quiet winter in the field of crime, ! and except for a lost dog case, the I police of th|it village have had I very little to do outside of their regular routine Of pollclngjhe vil- lagc. j Grand View id never heaixl from jin the way of criminal actions and j only one ca.se has popped up there in four month.s, when a few boyfs I broke Into a garage, but did no. GAUNERVILLE, Dec. 27. — A new method of ruse to halt motor ists in preparation to rob them, is believed to have made its appear ance in this .section of the coun ty, since it became known today that Orlando Sarardreo and Mau rice Campoli, of Railroad avenue, were stopped on their way home from Suffern on Christmas Eve, The two men were proceeding along the Sufforn.Hevpr»tmw rAaii late Tuesday, night, when sutldenly in the lonely section of the road near Mt. Ivy, they were accosted by two men who stepped into the glare of their headlights. OrdereO To Slop When the cur had stopped, the two strangers ordered Sarardreo to • ‘ pull ov^r to the sid,^ of the rood,\ claiming that a boy had just been killed there. The driver of the auto was about ,to do so when they noticed several other cars halted along fide the road, and a suspi cion cross^ the mind of the driver that things might not be well and that the story might simply be a method of halting them. Accortlingly Sarardreo stepped on the gas and sped on his Journey^ homeward, and after their arrival I him there if not in the A.Hsem- fest Haverstraw Man Near Deadi After Mishap I damage and no action wa, taken, ,, . ^ . heaving the police hlotW learn who it was who had been — — - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The court nt South Nyack ha, r\®** ^ Offirillle lal.,oonly heuni one ca.e of amorel' ’®®\ f u . l^rilCiaiS iVlOVe into iv ew Senou* nature forquito .ome time.l ‘ “ ‘\ “ Telow noZl^ , ,, , , been killed were fruitless, and it is below normal for tLe holiday and the case In question was on a _ _______ .n,l whil- ____________________ ___ .n. Coon^ Finns and Residents Get Income Tax Refunds ChrlBtnuu prraenU are still com ing for Uncle Sam announced to* day the income tax refunds for 1929. The amounts varied from aix and a half million downward and the main Rockland County refund came to the New York Meeting Toni^t at Highland Falls Expected tnl Approve 'Petition to Chief Executive — Honij: Pledges Himself to Present Case at Albany and! Follow it Through — Secretary Boyd Outline#^ Grievances of Park Tradesmen Against Official^ — Expect Large Crov/d at Meeting Tonight. HIGHLAND FALLS, Dec. 27. — After more than a month'j_ v«..a. w uiw awisg pctltlons BTid affidavits are in shape, and will be submitted Tlip'corpiJretirn whos^ b!Ill^ “ in ' “ “ *®\*™ ‘ *\*' ' ’ '' “ P*^®™ AswicUtlon Sanu Claus was strengthened by J*®'*'\'** CounUes tonight when the members gother at| a return to them of |U,S54. Urs. Lottie Zukor whose summer home (Continued on Page 2.) Weyant's Garage here. At this meeting they will officially receiv#^ these compIainUi for submission to Governor Roosevelt in support their demand for an investigation of the methods of the officials of J Bear Mountain Park. A ii a mhlym an ^ le e t Fe e d R. H e ri i ij w-ja * f* A 1 r-t • i- 1** “ promised to be present at Blame Chief Abe Stern Q 1 a a ■ev* wa aw» ^ ** ’ ® compla O JL U in IP 1 n O n ri n S ' ttml to famlHariie himself with , I course which has been undei Valley Business ibythea..ocuu<m. Will Follow It Up Horn haa agreed to penumaBy Merchants Say too Strict Police Regulation is Biggest • these petitions into the Factor in Holiday Buying Drop; Others. i f * .... U matter through to aecuni Blame Highway Construction '...j.... ... .i — .n — ■ — .-<! SPRING VALLEY, Dec. 27. — Now that the holiday buying aea- kon has come to an end, local merchants have been checking up and it is said thsy find their, business was nowheres near as large this year as it has been in others. Much of the blame, it is asserted can' be attached qq the two-hour parking law and fear that during the day Chief Stem may attach a ticket to a machine which has ftood beyond that limit. Below Normal low the matter through to aeeuti redress for the alleged injuatiglw'^ charged against the authoritiea 1 the Park. The following resume of complaints against the Park ; agement was received today William A. Boyd, secretary of i Courthouse at County Seat Today I J t ^ 7 K V U believed that the story had been in- season and while some blamed the dlsorfcrly conduct clmrge, which ^ ^.It- road construction of the pmd Sum- resulted in Charles Mahoney of P/ ^ ^ ^ Piermont being committed to New * ’ City Jail for two veeks by Justice of the Peace Robert H. Clark. Mahoney was released two dnya WEST HAVERSTRAW, Dec. 7 __ Ralph Machilll, ofSamson- ......... , lie avenue, is reported on the NLtV CITk , Dec. 27. — To^sy is moving day In New City. After | epge of death, due to a peculiar *><(*' ’ 8 *01 J'*®'* •\ P' “ e. ‘ be musty old county records are . before Chrigtmas, and is now back cident, which, at the time it oc- being placed bjnderly in the shiny vault, of the new courthouse do- Ut his home-in,Piermont J urred, was not even serious eigned to house them for another hundred or so years. County treos- ; Another well Icnown figure who iwugh to consider as much. 1 “ «>■ Walter G. Hamilton started housecleaning this morning, moving | has been released from the New Several days ago. Machilli, who Un records into his new quarters. j C cy Jail to spend thrisUna, with mployed as a laborer ‘ be j _ _ - ' 0^ Records of old tax sales, trans- ; family jj \Taxi-cab” Sam Sha'w. the I No reports of hold-up nave been i parking ordinance and evident hur- itlon gang of the West Shore atiroa, ran a splinter into his O v g d 1 1 fl Tv 111 |heek, and thought '\ery liHlo of at the time. His attempts to extricate the plintor some hours later were un- uccessful, and in his repeated ■ cratching, the wound, though j lery minut'e, became 'infected, and Inquiry Set For January 9 fers of county moneys years ago, and numerous other age-old docu ments are being taken into the : nenv building. , Hamilton will be the first official in the new court house and will have- the jump on the rest of thj departments by several days. McNee ’ a Job. Sheriff John McNee is figuring of South Nyack, who was commit- ( Continued on Pfff 2.) turned iii by any of the police de partments who might have been notified by other motorists who might have been victimlied by the- two strangers, and the police are at a loss to know what the thing was all about. However, they are certain there was no boy killed on the Suffem; Haverstraw road on Tuesday night, nor any other night about that time. SPRING VALLEY. Dec. 27. — |tood poisoning set in as a result, j contesting the will of M r a. The efforts of tho two attending willlsm Serafin who died leaving ' ‘ b® best way to get his para- hysicisns have proveil Lnder the tcslument offered for , Pbenialia into the new quartern, [lus far, it.Is said, and the P»- probate $6 to her husband out of \*■1 start transfering the jenfs head is swollen to almost ^ g25,OO0 estate, Leon Daahew ap-1 Prisoners to the new ja'l Monday. Wee its nonnal proportloha. Lit-(poured yesterday before the Kings‘ Shiny cells, clean as a pin, are in c hope is held out for his recov-1 readines.. to greet the prisoners it was reported this ’ morning. [ (Continued on Page 2.) who have lieen In the dingy old . ___________ __ _ _________________ i building. sfvi , .n • Tir 1 J XT 1. \^^be biggest job confronting the umor 1 hat Supervisors Would Wot sheriff IS the transfering of barrels * — - and bottles containing whiskey. Support S.P.C.A.y Branded As False Coming Year Will ‘ ‘ Make Or Break^ ’ Hoover ’ s Regime, is View ; wino cellars of another time. Keg^ .Members of the Rockland Coun-lthis year, and that the work of j<»^ brew and wino line the walla, ' S. P. C. A. in regular assembly caring for animal welfare would | »nd the beer cases, plleil high, are Ist evening at the Nyack Village be left entirely to the generosity ^ cot-ered with a musty . dust that lall. Were agitated by the rumor | of the society and its supporters. . to ‘ he appearance of age. at the appropriation of |S00 pre. 1 In thi absence of President John ' McNee says that ail the good lously granted by the Board of * Miller, this report could not be | old drinks^ in^ the cellar will not be WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. (UP). ' luctance of France and Italy to dls- — President ]Hoovor faces a new i cuss submarine limitation all hold year full of knotty problems, both ' hidden enares which must be dr at home and abroad. Their solu- J cumvented if the conference is tions, political observers say, may | to be successful, it is pointed out determine the success or failure of ; here. his administration. j The new year opena with Presl- Along the more prominent are:d«nt Hoover ’ s law enirorcemant beer and wine. Tho cellar of the i prohibition; the maintenance of a j conimUsion under fire from Con oid courthouse reeembles tho old heavy foreign trade wdth the na- ff*^*** Freeident himaelf re- tiona criticicing America's high | f^utly aaid “ TheE nforcement of tariff policy; naval limitation, and ! ^ laws enacted to give effect to government re-organization. j Eighteenth Amendment is far Another problem is to maintain If™\' ” Control (rf friendly rolaUons with countries to I » \ “ ™®'' ^ •PP* “ the south • continues to be a - M. . . >. * . i perennial White House problem. January will bnng the London ^.^he administration is working ry in shopping to get the car mov. ed in time led store keepers to believe that people had forgoten the tom up streets and were thinking of the danger of getting a ticket When the business men appear ed before the board at the first meeting this month, they request ed that the hour parking ordl nance be laid over for the Winter at leaat, but compromise was made and the two hoar ordinance put In effect This ruling was put through without comment, but it Is asserted that poIlcijRg-'has hod i(s effect InUrMI Layiint Another angle with respect to the lack of holiday interest in the village vtas pointed out in- the sporse attendance at the communi ty ChriiUnas- tree'exercises on Tuesday 'eveijin^ when only about 280 youngaWrs turned out. ' Lost year the adults of thh village were well represented with ,2QP or more while a scant dozen Uiowed ut Tuesday. Thtiro i'salso.aoi dto bs a noticeable decreask in the num ber of cars passing through the village. Just what'i sto'be done i sq hard' problem for the mereEan^,'l;o fig ure out, but it is claimed that when election time ' roits ' araqnd. next March they :Vi!lU-.|uk the sandidates tor a statement m regard to their j ^®™« ‘ association : positions' relative to Stem ’ s con- , ‘ J?\ 77 *- ' tinuanc. i ^ffice as head of the' read ’ This U your Paii police department. | ‘ This la a Public Park. ’ That: In any event many shop-keoprs j disappeared a long time ago, are sai dto be discouraged at the with It vaniahod the freedom • slump in holiday, business and arc the Park, to eontinue their campaign to \Competing against buslnesa i bring outsiders into town! I operating in restraint of trade < -- ----------- 0 I it appears as though they are all [tempting to create a trade [noply in all Jinea of buslneoa. Englewood Chief, Known Here, tamnits Suickle the south end of Orange are engaged. \Against the People\ \The membors of the aseociatio^ are warning the Park that feel the State Park is agidnat ^ are ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Dec. 27. — Chief of Police Michael J. O ’ NeiU, 61, who has been chief of police here for pazt aix years, and is the father of two grown sons, shot himself to death last night at his ' P*®P'»> demanding home, because of ill-heWth f „„ ItnvestlgaUon. Operati ^ gee stetlona and refreahniwfijj which he had b^ suffering for|rtands on the public highway^ months, police I Rout, , Operating the BaW today. IGuniga aa a public ■garag«;.towiajp^ Although tho chief had boon ail- in auto wracks outaldo tho Ing for aomo mon^a, hia auldda) dqing repair work outaldo V act waa unexpected, ai^ haa Park; soiling tires and outo thrown tho dty into sorrow. series; oporating busea and Fade Vv Mifhael J. O'Neill, dilef of the Englewood police department, waa well-known iir Rockland- County and his death came aa a blow npt only to police officers throughout the county; but also to the many NEWS It'c 0 food thuif to koop I in touch with tho nowo of tho world, tho notion and tho Stole • — but il'i o oUll more useful thing to hove pp-to- I minute informolion obout I everydoy opportunitUo end I buainoM condiliont in Rock- I lend County, and that's whot I tho cloMified page glvoa you. I Rockland County Evening Jounwl Nyack 2200 pervisors would be withdrawn i confirmed, and Miss Cornelia F. \m'-cd- Much of it will bo destroy-1 limitations conference, plan-1 l.ri.l.tlo., . ------------------------------------------ Hedoll offered to consult Supervi- cd on the spot .ml broken bo ties, I ; a progmin of pro^ ^lation , ^ MEEtlNG OFF sor Howard Gamer in regard to . cave-in barrels and cases will I k | MacDonald of Great]*® *1 NEW CITY, Doc 27. — Because the assertion. Mr. Garner ’ s tele-] burW when the filling in of ‘ he . , r , failure, observers of ‘ he nuui^ Christmas «rtivitie» j, fpra * p /T j official Washington considers a | leaders and capitalists to aid him. ing of January 8. Much important I Questioned tVils morning, ner entirely discredited the rumor,] ‘ '7' ‘ F*^jcrauc senate iioor leader. It will . Executive's biggest tasks during! SHIELDS QUITS TROOPERS , stating that the appropriation had ' f® ’ '®\' *\ ‘ '7 “ ® f® « “ omobile j b„ bolstered by naval and diplo-1 1930. SPARKILL, Dec. 27. - John I been made as usual in tho yearly i ‘ ' ‘ '**0 P * ** coo ’ “ quar- . matic experts Aside from these minor job# are 1 Shields, who has been connected j budget of tlio Supervisors and that ■ iContinued on Page 2.) Japan s insistence on a high- ., host of small problema tho Presi- j with tho State Troopers for about ; tho $600 wouiddK turned over to _ _______ ! ct ‘ cruiser stren^h; h ranees be-j ^j^at aanta to solve. Among them | six months, haa resigned, it vras ! the society in the same manner as i . vyack jifiLDiNii and iaia . n 1 *'®^ disarmament must , officials mention the building of a j learned today, to accept a position Th. j.nu^r7X'^!.n “ * ‘ ‘ int.«.t ‘ '' “ O '\®''0^*\ ‘ ‘ *>0 Westchester County Commission cars outside the Bail; [ against taxi owners. This,.w« fa^. is unfair, aa the license plates 1 issued to the Park free of ch by the State of New York. \Seizing land, blocking roads and . trying to drive people from friends ha gained through his de-|homes in order to become nnime \ sire to aid at all times. . “f their land. They are also chai?|^ 3 Scheno Fails Ta Secure Freedom Under Writ of Habeas Corpi (Continued on Page 2.) Bc«rh-Nu( ( ‘ nfft* 4Xr %. Ih. llaturiUy. ' BarbM^a (irocuterlti, 1U4 Main >it., Ny* ♦ ’ aefai N. r. ^ bx nweikVKt At ih«tr offlev. No. se North j leagues of nations, and the k^* Hroaduoy on Thtrr>4ay. January 2n«ll from I •. in. to s p it* Alao ia naw 1 \ ■ . ... . ..... .. ' ln*tailment Pluck Will be* (Continued on Paga 2.) Parkway Police. Dundee Marmaladu. 42c a Su Kaiur- V. -Ackt;it.MAN, TKreUryT iNyVN.T.'* • . - 7 , 1 . .. ‘ . ...7 . . .- . Morinf r Rockland Kspress, -Nysek Z, Z aiid III. ■ 1 ttor*. ' darner ilsrdvan Effort* to have Paaqiiale Scheno of Main Street, Nyack, reld,sed from'tb, charge of manslaughter in the second degree under which he Is 1161(1 for ' the. ^cath of John Timm and Lawrence Kovhr were ’ mode th! smoiming before Judge Mortimer B. Patterson, ^heno is under $1,00(1 bail pending the de cision o fthe court.,an a motion by Henry V. Stebblns,'^ his counsel. Patterson !* expected to hand down his decision in the matter by' toiq'ortow morning and if he di-1 cldes in favor of Scheno he rvHI sign habeas corpus imis-rs 'order ing hie relea.sc. Stebbins is asking for die relvaee of his -client on the grounds that there is no evidence of a ci'ime' ‘ bo- ing conjmitted, and that ho might have been wrongfully imprisonedI- on tfie charge. Stebbins amid that Judg, Patterspnlk ruling have to be one of law rrlbirr ’ •tha artual commission of i ilnte there was no evidence I affidavits of Eugene Deyo, tha ol^ fleer making the arrest, riiat i do had committed a crime. The accident for which , is hei'dtook place on Dacepi^ag^fi about 6 o]flock in the eyeii^gp> heavy snow.lmd fallen tha lla|t j fore, qun and frteiinf ' dr had covered tlje roods wldlt < glaze Jhat made driving t Scheno's truck sUllad clow ta i Jewish Cqnvalesceht Hama doxk', and it is claimed thasa* no lighta on the trfick. \ Scheno went tatljn baeX.^ truck to wmm.appraaekisc ’ i Ista and Ha said H* (Oeiddniied^
