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MEMBER A.B.C. (Alill BirMi of CfrcvlEtloBt) SToxtrnal COUNTY fKTACK BVTNtNO JOITRNAl.) WEATHEl Partly cloudy tonightp tomorrow increMtng . cloudinoEc followed Vol. 42 No. 307 A PoliticAlly Indepondent Nowtpaper NYACK, N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1929 CIRCULATION Week Ending Dec. 14, 5,119, Av. Daily Net Paid — PRICE 2 CE^ OITTSIPt! OF COP. ’ tTT, I ' DEMOCRATIC CHIEFS^ ASK SUPERVISORS TO OUST HOFSTATTER, ALLISON AND DU CEYI Present Bryant for County Attorney, Joseph Shankey for Engineer, Vogler For Clerk, V. Shankey for Chairman^ ISTORMS GETS CLARKSTOWN WELFARE JOB Central Nyack Man, Bank lYOUTH TELLS Employe, Shoots Self STORY OF moup Death Its. Torkier, His Rival. I CHNTKAL NYApK, Dec. 30. — | overMhadgwedb y u aound of an cx. i Urmoving the rear neat from the : plosion in ^hc basement. Young family sedan, propping himaelf in I thought that tho oil-burning hot a comfortably reclining position 1 water heater had exploded and _ ,l ^ • I beneath the muzzle of h!« 12-gHUge ' rifii to the stairs leading to the rSlllS lO Win The * single-bamdied Hhot-gun, after rig- : cellar. I • • I ‘ ging a suitable cable arrangement,' On opening the dpor at the foot AppOintincni* l WHUom K. Lenz, 37-ycar-old bank ! of tlie ccllarw'ay, however. Young ! cashier, committed suicide this j wa.s horrified to find the py^stmte ^ 7 ” • NEW CITY, Dec. 30.-^-At a | morning in thr ba-sement garage ; body of his brother-in-law re- NEW CIT\, Dec. 30. — A dir- 1 edal meeting of 'the Clarkstown | of his home on Mountainview Ave. i dining beneath tb smoking barrel ' hold-up in the neighborhood Floard on Saturday uftemoon, the Charles Young, a brother-in-law ■ of the discharged shotgun. I (»ermonda Saturday night (jenl j at at which Supen'i.wr Schiebcl -1 of the deceased, had gone to the \ The family of the deceased are [ 5>beriff John McNoc, special De- kuth would preside, Thomas II. i Eenz ptorms of West Nyack wns ap-; talking ....r., . ............ .. — . ................. ... ... ; 11 # 1 , pointed director of public welfare j kitchen while the two children knowm he wa.s in good health; thenr * about in the “ pra-.soup*'i told (t an annual salary of 1600. Mrs. I were playing about beneath the were no family difficulties ,and ^ ‘ ^td when the misU of the. {tinselled Christmas tree and their is said .to have been a model hus- ' ^Y''tery had cleared away, the Sheriff McNee and Staff Gel I Qj.j^j.gy Point Mail Gets All Exerted Over ^ , t i x t i i ‘ fairy Tale. ” , Dep t JoD Vacated by Brinkerhof f Tax HAVER.STRAW, Doc. .10 — Iiij home on businosB anil wan al a lo.sa to know what cause, arc y* ’ * ’ • ‘ \ ‘ I I ’ olicc Chief | P “ uncertain terms the Uemocratie j ni? with Mrs. I/Oni in the | in back of the act. As fas as is^'' ‘ ‘ ‘ I Kennedy of I ’ enrl River | '' yes or ay' ■■ told the three Democratic Super-, visors, Victor Shankey, Raymond ifinnle A. Torkier of Conpers was 1 tinselled Christmas tree and their is said to have been a model hus-1 ‘ >>ys ‘ ery nan eieureu ii»ay, ene , Ilrinkerhoff :ind bred .Murks, llmt |I m > nominated to serve al a sal- f happy laughter rang through the band and father. , \ ’ “ ■'I, 1.,-ui hold-up man was In the i the party expected them to rc-deem of »300, but she failcil' to se- ' house. , The officials of the Fulton Sav- [ >' h'l f«h *hc balance of its pledges made to the peojile be- lun^ a majority of the Hoard ’ s vo,e Suddenly the iwals of joy were (Continued on Page 2.) . fh'' week-end. .So was the victim ^ fore election.^ |nd did not get the appointment. ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------- r i f ^ tlircc Supeni.sors wen! not Judge Fisher ma.Ie'lho nomina- TI„L.„„„ W/fU Ploof C i Harold “ schupner^P, and \check- ! ‘ rf\'' '•PP>« Ion of Stomis winch Was second- JuLaDeaS V^OrpUS W Fit Cs/lCarS ing it up in .some of its dcUils, the ‘ he resolution adopted railing by Judge Schmer.alil. and f .1 • I minions of the law decided that |udgc Link put up the name of ScheilO Ol Gullt 111 f “ r a victim Schupiier was a f„ir. ' house-cleaning in the county .gov- OV.-11C11U VJUllL 111 ly good fairy- tale artist, and the! ' ‘ ''I A r'r ’ irltfktxf' TY/ainf'l'bC | holdup of which ho told had been j.fotlay- a».k.k,lLlCllL l.^V.CtLllD I faked to its fullest extent. j If the Democratic . .Supervisors -------------- ---------------- Wanted To Gel Married ! follow the recommendations of the To Get Big Job County Judge .Mortimer R. I ’ at- Torklcr. .Schiclielhuth left ' : chair to second this nomination ' Ihich was put u|i a.-, an ann-ntl- ! lent l».. Fiaber's motion. With Link proajuUng the amend- ; lu.ai w«s vwted on with the re-1 . . . u , dt that flsher. Schnmr.sahl. and I |e Town CloVk. Mrs. Kato Buch-1 7 ‘ -P “ « , S» ‘ “ rd.y niRhl. freeing u, vote<r against Mrs. Torkier. , Srheno, out on *1,000 Vet. Split,.* to 2 . »>ar,r of secomMegree , mteiiHlaughter, in connection with The original motion was then u, and the Board split three ouai in an Aulomobllo oc- to give the plsc tp Slorni lAremBer fl.i West Nyack man fonncrly| granting the ro- |Id ^ of Henry V. Stobbln,, attor- I nvy for Scheno, that the man bo I released, Ju<igo ratterfon said that evidence aubmitted did not Ju^i- the conclusion is inescapable that< It all I]Ap(>ened because young Oie evidence on the part of the j Schupnor bad every intention of getting ir.jrricd on Now Year ’ s fy holding the defendant for the grand Jury. The *1,000 bail Was promptly returned to Schono. Patterson ’ s ruling follows: \I have read the testimony tak en before the police Justice, and hen the overseer of the poor ] oleclive position, and Mrs. Tork- term of office for the -job I out tomorrow. Justice of the lace Jolllffc, whoso Icon of pf- 1 expires tomorrow, was not pre- J**' lotherwlsc there was little doliej 1 the meeting. The bond of Uu; |porvisor, set at *110,000 was proved. On the motion of Link a vote of thanks and pgratulalions wiis extended ‘ to hicltelhuth and Jollille, retiring Imbers of the Town Bounl, foe lir work and iicrvlce.t during lir resiKictive terms, lama Bagaiiese, 24, wept bitter , - tears when ghe«klssed her sister, LOAT5HURG XMAS MUSIC Jennie, good-bye at the end of the lUFFKRN, Dec. 30.— A I ’ f®\ ’ ! special term session of supreme m of Christmas music was ren- court here last Saturday and went back to Letchworth Village where she has been an inmate for the past two years. Lena ’ s sister, wife of a Brook lyn shoomakcr, who cams *40 a week, engaged ah attorney some People, to say nothing of that of fered by tho defendant, did not Justify holding the defendant to await action of the Grand Jury, be cause it-is wholly barren of the elements . ncccNiaty^ proi>- , a crime of mansTkughter in the sec ond degree, which is deflned as ’ im act causing death without a de sign to aiTcct the same as a result of culpable negligence. ’ There is no evidence of culpable negligence and, hence, it must follow that the writ must be sustained, and tho re lator discharged from further de tention by v-lrtue of tho arrest, (Continued on Page 4.) Day to .Marian Miller, step-daugh ter of Fred Smitli, where .Schup- Exocutivc Committee and Ilof.sl.at- ter, Allison and Duccy are for.ed out, there will he Jobs for other men, to fill the Jobs at prc.sont held ^by A. J. Itryantl schedu^d for the nyr had been boarding. The spirit i post of County Attorn^, and Ray was willing to marry but the por- | Brinkerhoff, Supervisor-olcct. ket-boow was frail, and when it M. F. Brophy ofMC^tiissy Point came 4 J a questi-rn of a four j hat keen .(elected to succeed Brin k-celts' biifck' boi-ird bill and a wed- ' kerhoff in the Slate Tax Dhpart- dlBg ring, the purse became a I ment jn New York City after tho vaettum. I fjrgy p[ year. Brinkerhoff rc-i So Saturday night, about » :30. l iimiuishcd bis hold on. the officoi A- BRYANT, the Smiths were sUrtlcd, shocked, | i,;, election as Supervisor of i County Uwnocrslic l•adar. who and surpri lod, to sec their star ; clarkstown. The nppoinUnent of ! ha. bMn racommendad to .uc- border and prospective son-ln-Iaw | , ««d •• County Altomay, Erna.l Executive Committee Urges New County Fathers to ■ Break up “ Business Coalition ” in the Board of Supervisors — Urges Sheriff be Stripped of Au* thority to Act as Custodian of Public Building^ ' And That This Power be Restored to Super* visors— Urges Non-partisan Commission to In vestigate Question of Creating Health Center for County — Asks the Reorganization of Coimty . Planning Board. Girl Sadly Kisses Fond Sister Good-bye, Returns To Letchworth ril by the Men*i Glee Club of latftbun? at the Suffern Presby- lan Church Uwt eveninj; which lucted o number of tlie familiar oil by the enlirp KfouP I direction of E^rl H. Clum. another I FEATURE FOR JOURNAL READERS Beginning on ThurstUyK lanuary 2, another column Jat Is sure lo be a surc-flrc |lt, will be added to the. al- ady long list of Journal leoturcs. Three times a •k , wcykfl ago to institute baboaa ' corpus proceedings in an elTorfIt to have' Lena released from the Vii* ; lage and sent back to live with her anti another married sister wlio ‘ occupy cozy apartments in the I same building In a comfortable ■ section of Brooklyn. > Jennie has acoempanied the ut- jtomey'here.on the past two Satur- |days and hoped and prayed that she might liavc lise sister back home for CJiristmas. That hope vanished, she asked that I-cna be allowed to visit her on New Years | up. and Judge Tompkins, who took the esse under advisement, announced that ho would try and decide tho matter before Wednesday. Lena Kaganese was flrsl com mitted to Randall ’ s island at the instance of her mother-when tho girl w-as led astray by a man much oldor-than she. ’ The girl was then tran-derrod to anothdr institution and Anally to I-etchworth. Dr. Charles Detit, flhK assistant j piiysician at I,etchworth, testiiled that Lena is w-hat is termed a , borderline case, or a dull normal witli the average menality of a come staggering in with his head * out. glasses broken, and a tale of ' a hold-up simply bursting forth. His injuries were taken care of and an immcdiBl-e rail put in for tho Sheriff. McNae Get. Busy MrNee hurriedly railed Jersey and Kcnn.-jy, for the \victim ” ha dintimatrd that two bandits had ! made off toward I ’ earl River. Then the Sheriff set out for th Smith homo and was greeted soon after ward by his deputies who repirb- od no suspicious cars on the way (Continued on I ’ ngo 2.) W. Hofstattsr. present Incum* b-nt and recent storm centre. MVESROB jWILLIAMPAUl, FAJEfTSSHOP i 90, RECEIVES IN NEW on: BEST WISHES Suspicion ^iuts To^caI| American Legion Extends mm Youths, Though Pi Is Lacking. CongratulaHirtis To Civil War Veteran. ' Schuptier talrl hue Uiir, and the trio listened. l^iricrrtiaDcieB poiv pe<J up At oner. Schupnor xaid hr | hiui draHU $85, all tho money hr This seemed a strange banking ' the menacing bars of the WilUim Paul, Sr., oldest Civil ; old Jail, the threat of tho cala-lWar veteran in the county, waa (Continued on I'ago 4.) ! booao newly completed, and fplow- offered the conf^ratulatlom of tho erinp cycH of the minJnna of the j American Idfgion laai Friday on May Sue Pomona Man For (Continued on Paije 2.) Convict Returns Home To Find Son On Way To Serve Term In New City PENN SLINGHER Jill appear on (he Kditoriut of the Journal. Those tho have followed county (fairs are already fiuniliar lith Punn Slinfh.r. They |tve learned to appreciate I caustic comment on local fairs. In the Journal Penn |ker will be at his -best ! b ’ t- foget Thursday, 2 — the ftrst appear- I of Penn 9lin,bsr In the bumal. Thereafter it w-ill every Momlay, Wcil- Isday and Sntunlay. Four years ago Clifford Robin- j son left Rockland County to go to i the “ big, gray house ” known as ; Sing Sing, charged with housc- 1 UVeaking and burglary. His sen- I tenco w-as four to eight years. Sat- i urday night he returned borne to I Nyack, out on parole, j For those four years that he was E ying hU debt to society, the fro dreamed of the day when he ^ uid be able to return to his lit- j ( He family that had been so happy 1 before he had committed the [i-erinie charged against him- With IWatch for iPenn Slingher! XYACK BUILOrNO ANP IK ASSOCIATION Tltt January tluaa nnd tultrMt will be neeivod -gi their office^ No. XO North niooUway on Thuroday. January tud from J a> m. to • p. m. ..\leo a new inHes' of tnatatlraenL HlO'k will be s — n . (t,i- P4ftiiw*r 1 lA too I t fi^rctaiy. /■ this thought mnkieg his conflne- ment more easy to bear, Robinson was a model prisoner, One who obeyed all tho rules in the hope of having his senfeuce cut dow-n. Finally his hopes were realized, and, free of the grim walls which had confined him for four years, he set his footsteps toward where his heart already was, a home in Nyack where his family would be awaiting him. No word liad been sent ahead of him and hia home* coming would be a surprise. But he WHS too latn to avoid a dta- appointment ao great that it must have seemed to him to be the (Continued on Age 4.) law themselves a 'ourglat, was per- »P AAA II A 11. • 1 H i the caWy hours of yes- «5,000, In Auto Collision ‘ *'® ________ j sneak thief nr thieves *20 In SPRING VALLEY, Doc, 30. — ®>\»nK® I*\! \ ‘ ®®® Henry As the result of a sma.'di-up some ' rajen. Not a. single other article months ago at the culvert on Ea.,t ! ‘ “ “ ®''®d »» f®' - ould be discovered. Lawrence street, it i.!!. understood that Charles Falkenberg w»l1 bring suit against Andrew Zackman, of Pomona, for an agifregatc of *5,- 000 for damage to his car and per sonal injuric.s. Tho loss wan not discoyerod un til Fajen 0|H'nc4 up shop yesterday morning and he immediately found Ibttt entrance luid been affected by a rear window wnich had been t . i forced with little difficulty. A The, story goes that Falkenberg was about to emerge from the cul-i nothing else missing, although quantities of candy and cigarettes were within quick reach. Valuable rifles and shot-guns had also not vert with his big sedan, going north, when Zackman suddenly ap peared at the exit with hU truck. The approach it a blind one, nnil to boen dltturbed. avoid ramming the truck, Fulken-1 Suspicion is said to (mint to lo- berg, it is said, swerved to his j youths but with definite proof right, damaging the right side of lacking little hope is held out lor his car, which did not come to an immediate halt, instead, it con tinued its onward couraa and basht ed in the left side against Zack- man ’ s machine. Falkenberg is reported tb hav ,an imedialc arri-st. Fajen, how ever has an ace up his sloevo, and .it is believed that the guilty ones may be brought to terms ihortly. It is said that suspicion paints to n lad thought to have been mixed sustained Injurlea, although they , up in other loeol znoak-thiovery N«w Yooi^'a IpiiiiU ytfttvh Qwxw fc lain tOe lb.: Aoffittad Num yi «« ih. EMa tieniiimwa ^ ATD laid to have been of a minor nature, whllo ■ t^e ledan had iU Tunning boardi,^' fendora, and lo on badly dent^ up. “f: (luring the summerj and If_un ar rest is made he will bo-given.prop “ (Continued on Pac 2.) l ’ Ula»ury-aa4 ttsl.t Madat ■ 1;= ■ Zloney m 'isisn — nscklaod Tills Jtlnswltla i®' ka(!L,Oei,TitaiJ^. _,4Ml>s {UorUMs Uuaiwalsa UmMMuqr. MrMta ’ bar'# B re astKtenarjjatg tre occasion of hli 00th birthday. During tho morning Past Comman der Jnmet Curaton of Moicarella Post vi.'lled the nonigensrlan, and Mrs. rinyton, president of the Post ’ s I.adlas ’ Auxiliary conveyed greetings from that branch of the I'ost. The. big part of the (irogram came in the afternoon, however, wlien the Legion fife e.nd drum corpa under the direction of-Frank Krulish Mrcnadcd Mr. Paul at his home. James List. « blind vctai'- Bii of the World M ’ .vr, accompan ied the boys. After expressing his gratitude iind appreciation for tho honor paid him, Mr. Paul remin isced hriofly on his Civil War ac tivities, Fougf^t Under Hooker He said tl^ -most of hiswtiva camiiaigning waa in thc.wfutcm states under dta leadership of (imieral Hooker, better known r . s “ Fighting Joe ’ ’ Hookar, so namini ebcausa ho wia always on the inoj^ without giving tha enemy a ctvzrice.for a raat Mr. Paul WM Uorn in Haver- struw iu and he bought a farm in IlliBOit, where he enlisted, The removal of County .\t*.orncy Ernest W. Hofstatter and County Engineer Colvin T. .-Mlison, Republicans, and John Diieey, Clerk of the Board of Supcrvi.sors, Democrat, nnd a: ' general hou.sc-clcaning, driving out before it ' ‘ business conli- lion.s ” in the Board \f .Supervisors, an- the chief rceDmincu> dation.s made yesterd y to tlic Democratic'majority in the hoard by tlie Democratic Executive Committer. I Bryant As County Attonnay - The committee also recommended that Aloysius J. Bryant, Demo cratic State Committeeman, nnil prominent Nyack attorney, be ap pointed a.t county attorney In place of Upfatatter; Joseph Shankey, brother of Supervisor Victor Shankey, boVgiycn tho_job of County Engineer, replacing Allison, and George Vogler, of Havcratrnw, ba substituted for Ducry, as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.' Shanks, Chairman Q Victor Shankey, riclected Supervisor for Havnrstraw, wss recom- mendi'd by the executive committee as chairmnn of the BoaM of Bu- porvisors. The committee also recommended th'at the resolution giving tha Sheriff jtower to appoint the ptraonnel of the now court houae b* rescipded and this authority assumed by the Supervlaora thcnlwlncs- The recommendations further utg- ’ the cloee, ndhetenco.'of .Qu v; Democratic majority in the board tx> the Democratic platform so thatL'g the party may either win a verdict of “ well done, thou good faithful aervant, ” or be impeached by tho people for failure. The rerommendations, in fujl, follow: fVa Racommandalicms “ The Executive Committee of the. Rockland, County De Committoo having met in regular session do hereby present to'- Democratic membera of Uip Board of Supervisors ol (flio County ‘ w-* Rockland as of January lot, 1&30 tho following recrenmcndxtions; { * ’ Wc belic\-c that the people of Rockland County by their mandate^ expressed at the polls in the last general elecUoii desire a change •* policieit in the Board of Supervisors for the betterment of edl of tl^^ people of this County, that a ghange of (lolicios can only bo prodwMil^ surcessfully by the co-operation of loyal a.a(l cfficieiit Democrats ' will work in harmony with the hewiy elected Democratic Boanl ' Supervixors to bring about it practical xealixation of tbs progiasat and forward-looking pledges and principles which svera rnunciatsd the Democratic platform and to which every Democratic can'\ ' “ pledged his support prior to the last general election. Public Demands Action “ We also believe that tho citizens of Rockland County desire luiAsdii ate action concerning the principles espoused in the party pUtftw^y and that it ia tho duty of every Democratic member of the Board (jprv| Supervisors of the County of Rockland to do hU individual aitd lective duty to facilitate :the pruticol. realization of the principles 4s^ espousiMl. “ We further urge that tha Damocratic members of the Board < Supervisors of tho County of Rochlsnd organise their said Board.'* tha oarlieal poasibio moment after they assuma of flea and that ima diataly thay requeat tha resignatioot of County Suporinlandant ' Highwaya Calvin T. Allison amd County Attorney Ernest W. Hofai tar and that if tho said resignati<uis are not tandarad forthwith imnsadiato ^ction be takau by tha Democratic mambars of the of Suporvisora to soak their ramovat according to law. Np “ Business Coalitions ’ ’ “ We further believe tJtat upon the organization of the now ! (C^tinitsid;^(^ Psga 4.j Whole Central Nyack Familj Is Overcome By Gas CENTRAL NYACK, Dec. 30 — Because young Herbert Spring steen spent last night at hit grand mother ’ s home in Nanuct, the other members of his family arc alive today, the lad ’ s mother said this morning. * Tho onUre faiflily of eiv people residing in th« David F. Summers home here was overcome by coal gas fumaa an dtoday are couTlncd to their homo and sal <lto be in very poor condition. Tho gai threatened the live* of pix poopln a sthey slept in tile house which had only one window opened. Mrs. Sainmen is iwld to ^ in tho moat lerious condition b^usa jho we* asleep on groun fl«)z with her husbgad. Pgrt of dwtt duiii^S||y^i|||^i^i£d ' W- gas from the hagting pigat i through tha tig Mis' 1 dow tfagt wagj'^eji^ «gg the room on tlig'jM^enil ftagK'r^ usually occuptaii^^ bert SprtafgWvih' aaa el Mm. CWI^j «gi dtod^ ; thing tbgt .cemplote egbSSMtU IVI lad boon # would algo;,_ gealgd the dii^ - tiio beusai Thiiie whe uu said to hg'th yv7 ^ tion thb w embt^iifwlfaJ Dgvlii 1. ' Ml. Geoiig.llth
