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£. 0. ENTRY FREEPORT, N. Y. MAY CURTAIL RELIEF TO FINANCE PAYMENT OF VETS' BONUS VOL. XXXVIH, No. #2 METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936. racks THE: WEATHER Fair, Colder Tonight; Warmer Tomorrow Mayor's Vote Refuses Pay Restoration To Employees TRUSTEES UNABLE] \BALANCING\ THE BOOKS _ Tl] GET ngTHEH \Continued BorrowinfigflHas Boosted Rockville's Debt] Back TaxesA‘ ON WAGE SLASHES \Cuts - Say Greiner And Klaess At Rockville Centre; Voluntary\ Declares Mayor, But Beats Return To Level Although members of the Rockville Centre village board are divided on the question of whether village employees have I been making voluntary con- tributions for the past three years or whether their salaries were - actually decreased, a three to two vote decided last night that the employees will not be restored to the salary level in effect three years ago. Mayor Horace L. Allen said the deductions were not salary slashes but were voluntary con- tributions made by village em- ployees at a time when they were needed and appreciated but Trustee Lee W. Greiner and Francis J. Klaess took the stand that the village em- ployees wages had been de- creased. Mayor Decides The Vole Trustees Chester P. Parrington and Sherman. Moreland, Jr., sided with the mayor on the voluntary contribu- tion stand but when it came time for ® vote on Trustee Farrington's reso- lution restoring employees' to their former | wage scale, Mayor Allen switched and voted with Trustees Greiner and Klmess to defeat the mo- tion. Trustee Farrington's resolution read: '\Resolved that the resolution passed by this board on or about April 2, 1934, authorizing the deduc- | tions from salaries and wages of em- ployees of the village be and the same is hereby revoked and annulled and that the salaries and wages of said employees be restored to the respec- tive amounts which the employees were receiving prior to said resolu- tion. \This resolution shall not be held to affect the salaries or wages of those to whom said reductions have heretofore: been restored, not shall it affect the salaries or wages which have been increased by an amount equal to or greater than the respec- tive deductions. 'This resolution shall take effect February, 1986.\ Cover An Emergency Trustee Sherman Moreland, Jr., seconded the motion with a statement | in which he pointed out that there | was no doubt in his mind that there | 1 but | had been no salary decreases simply a voluntary contribution, that | the contributions in somie cases were | inequitable and that,-as a matter or; principle and fair play, the deductions should be discontinued. \It is my opinion that these-con- | tributions or deductions should 'be re- turned -to employees,\ he sald. \T reached this conclusion after- an investigntion of the whole matter re- sulting from @ resolution offered a few months ago by Trustee Farrington. Being comparatively rew on the board l when this\ resolution ~was <offered, -I | was completely. ignorant of .the sel- | | up and elrcumstances In regard _to these deductions. -and when. no one , seconded Trustee Parrington's motion, I mentioned that I- would -like an opportunity to study the matter before I went on record either way. \First: of. all it was evident from the records that these deductions wire intended by the board and the em-| ployees to be temporary in char-cue“; to caver an emergency, 'The wording | of the authorization -signed »by the | employees clearly shows this. | Not Uniform, He Says | During the three year period mc‘ salaries: have been carried along on the paytoll ind 'bedget the same as before,\ continued, Trustee Moreland. One of the reasons given is that it | was done so as-not to disturb the em- ployees\ retirement pension fund. Em- & the New Deai with \bribery practiced | agreed upon a settlement, dismissing ployees have been paving into the | DMsi@ for the rental change is found T G ht Over BMW In Africa in the name ogwhmmnny\ ‘Lh' Jury. peasion fund- an umount based on DY determining the cast of Women on lg , u rfi'fi. arctan Tor the firs us» MOTHER OF GLORIA heir old Flon: < . | I % one their oid without the dedue. ||_| nt the Brnpa¥ianin terminal and 4.____ --_-_______&| VATICAN QMY, Feb. 6~4P)-Pope Plus X1, dedicating his pontificate 20% (0 *CXccmisqner presidentisi | INSSTS ON GUARDS | duction were Cat 1D 9°\ | twelfth of n 5 per cent. interest | Mujer meetingw scheduled for to © DMCC: the 14th vol Me an posi (to Sil h vol a \ candidate determined better porary | charge on the propertiss. night ar leted here; other meetings O Peter today amid slarms of war. 'The T#-year-old pontiff passed the -_ ~~~ \Half-Frantic'' Over Stickup \The unfairmais and Jack of uni-) TD® Comparstive perceniage of the will be feund in the secial calendar day in comparative quiet. He devoid» most of it to reading. hundreds of Con f et A eis At Westbury Estate formity of the deductions aided in Iiland railroad cars snd the |on the society page. messages of congrataistions which came to him from virmally all the world. SET APRIL my decision that both deductions PetDa¥frania cars which 'run over Prespart Otherwise, in accordance with His g p edes should be returned. | This was clearly | the tracks is then computed, and | | \of offi6ete, | seectice of avoiding #¥ery unnécessiry = shown in the press in the past few Drforntage of the grom cont M A5\ sup.chapter of Pallite' Duy we hotlce days. - Bome employees received 10 **A to the Long Imand. chapter. Rainbow division, Legiondug. | Stn,. he took no special at per cent deductions while others as \THA he Pentao)vanin +0978! | sut goneue nighray, #30 p. m. the occasion. high 'ms 30 per cent. Moreover the | Sout the tate Abd £64 the totals | Floral Park iin bnaver ms see's eductions of the greatest num ® | - West Civic masociation Osseren employees is greatest under ur'zzw“ the Long liland checks the house mig veriue, # h‘ mm n“. “fl. reduction column und smallest under | \hatees: they siinply pay the rental,\ on Avlantis a aa wae} u‘d‘. foi great threat\ the relief. colum; (80 that if the un. | MKtd Leon C, Godley who presided. “m‘ t Park Knights muwgm...‘ lhe -M employment deduction only is | . MF. Rawsun repiled, building. M“ sYentt, | Serpeeted. 'by informed sources -< returned i will mean very litle, gom | _ \TBat's not the way m“ nak\ | at 5:25\ X ,.. pouihle m...”- L2 UC\ | alserved Commissioner . answer Ao any. Continued aon Page 4, Col. 6 Gaedsh City the pontiff has not stopped the Timi» C_ sons I HALL MAY INSTALL Vilage board, municipal Wthicplan war. TekAastay mtcurrrs Avomblymin Lesoard W. Hall is /*? \* Next Wednniday, the WASHINGTON, Pob, 6-(P)-The) expected 40 install the officers of the | * mmests | of he coronation, hs\ holiness #1 of The: treadury Pebruary 4: | Wasthary Republican club at w meet. | | Democratic club, Jefferson club~ | amend a pontifica) mas in the Me- sceipts, ~40,798,800.12; . expenditure Amey, | Douse. 8 p. m time Chipel. 119.756,400.44; net balance, $1.948 remi; | Wiltisten Park | _ Doartien years ago, the Coflegs of M1TIO1: customs \wecsiple for (in | lonserrow, wight. ~Refresbmenta will |. Wilision Democratic club- head-] Csrdinale mowith, 43,000,136.01. be served afer: tin meeting. quarters arouse, 4 9. m. | « | b \to the Light Plant to a Total Exce \Trustee Defends Right To Use Of Funds To Cut Village's Debt; Policy Permits Economies Without Reducing Spending (This is the second 'in x series of three articles on the Anancial set-up of the village of Rockville Centre.) + By JOHN W. DESMOND The theory under which Rockville Centre has borrowed large sums of money from its electric light department every year has been that the money would be paid back out of funds accruing through payments on back taxes. However, | to date, the village has expended more of its back taxes on} | current expenditures and has made no attempt to reduce its debt to the light plant. In the current 1935-1936 budget, the | revenue from back taxes will be inadequate to meet the deficiency caused by current tax delinquencies and the village | will have to borrow additional sums from its electric light department fund. r Ruling May Be Reversed What authority the village has for | this policy has not been definitely established in law. At present, there | is before the court of appeals an ac- tion known as \the Boonville case\ which will determine the question of whether or not a village has the right Continued on Page 2, Col. 3 Village Board Criticized For. 'Unsound Practices' \Moreland Urges Loans From Light Plant Be Repaid; Sees Serious icati 'The Rockville Centre village government today stood accused by one | of its own members of unsound business practice in the administration of the village's electric light fund profils. In a statement read to the village board last night, Trustee Sherman Moreland, Jr., who has been a member since last June, criticized his col- leagues and advocated that provision for the repayment of light department loans be made in preparation of the 1996-1937 budget. Two Defend The Board Mr. Moreland's recommendation was met by Trustee Lee W. Greiner VILLAGE HALL PACKED | | and Mayor Horace L. Allen with a categorical defense of the board's ac- FOR BOARD MEETING | | tivities, and upheld by Charles | Grandt, member of the Home Protec- | tion party, with a denunciation of the | | board for not making its affairs \open to the taxpayers.\ The series recently published in The Nassau Daily Review rela- tive to salary deductions of Rock~ ville Centre village employees and the \borrowing\ by the village of funds of the village electric light plant was 'held accountable for | « . . I have frequently questioned the capacity attendance at the| | my colleagues on the advisability of village board meeting last night.) using the funds of the electric light When the meeting was opened Mr. Moreland arid. \It has sharply at 8 o'clock by Mayor bet argued that it is good business Horace L. Allen, the seating capa- | t0 We the funds of the light plant city of the village hall was over- taxed Taxpayers, evidently anxious to hear what village fathers had to say about these two important issues, filled not only the seats but all available standing. space. There was no heckling.. Several taxpayers ad- dressed the board but all limited | themselves to constructive sug- | gestions and helped. make the | meeting an {orderly one. [ rather than to borrow the money from the banks. . I am inclined to agree with them, provided the money (is paid back to the electric light | fund, but I am sorry to say this has not been done, 'The final outcome may be determined by a decision of the court now pending.\ Quoting from an-article that ap- peared. in: The Nassau Dally. Review yesterday, Mr. Moreland declared the policy \if pursued. indefinitely would lead the. village into serious finan- cial complications.\ Continuing, he said: \It is my opinion that such | from the electric light fund should have been shown on the budget for the new year and paid back to the électric -light fund, of, on the other | hand, that the- delinquent taxes of past years should not have been | placed in the budget as estimated. rev- enue for the current year, but should | | I H | I I LONG ISLAND PAYS FIGURES OF PENN. No Checkup Made, Engineer Admits As Transit Commis- fund approximately $171,000, which sum includes $29,000 used in the water department up to March 1, 1033, -It is probable that at the end of this fiscal year, the village will owe the electric light Though the cost of New York terminal facilities to the Long Island railroad is based on a checkup of cars made by employees of the Pennsyl- vania railroad, the Long Island never checks the figures arrived at, charges for the terminal, it mitted yesterday by Hobart consulting engineer for the land, during his seventh d witumas stand in the hearing Transit commission offices York on the application for crease in commutation rates. Finding The Rental Charge The engineer brought out that the | $13; ig sigg eding for current expenses of the village | | i FINANCIAL STATUS OF LIGHTING PLANT The financial statement of the Rockville Centre light plant for the year ending February 1935: Assets Fixed capital ......... $1,765,211 Current assets (includ- ing $142,000 lent to village and $29,000to water: plant) J.. 420,883 I Total assets ..... .. $2,195,004 F Linbilities I Bonded debt . ..$ 367,000 | | Depreciation . 491,842 Accounts payable 57,927 Total liabilities .. . 916,769 Net assets . 1,278,327 Earnings At Plant Gross income ...... $ 334,520 | Operating expenses .... 216,860 Interest on bonded vl vl sek. 16,882 Discount on payments and incidentals Net income .... 12,866 87,012 4 TO 60 TO VOTERS Rockville Centre Village Board Decides On Referendum To Settle Issue The Rockville Centre police depart- ment will not be. merged with the express their wishes at a referendum, Mayor Horace L+ Allen said last night at the meeting of the village board. \This board has realized for more than a year that some change would have to be-made in the police depart- ment,\ said Mayor Allen. \Action was pending when the mandamus ac- tion was brought by one of our tax- payers. Change Will Be Made \The police department will be placed either under section 188-A of the village law which has civil service requirements or we will merge with the county,\ said the mayor, \How- ever, some change will be made very soon. \Investigations are now being made on the costs and benefits of joining with the county police department. But, nothing will be done on this matter until the people have their say in the matter. If we find out What the countysystem is economical and efficient we will submit the ques- tion at a referendum,\ concluded the mayor. Trustee Sherman Moreland, Jr., in- troduced 'the police topic when. he read a prepared statement in which he expressed his views not only «on the police department situation but Page 7 BANK CLERK'S ERROR Visions of \daring bank: robberids and <payroll boldups flashed through the minds of half a dozen third pre- TATYS OF POLE county system- until. after -the votens of the village have an opportunity. to STIRS STICKUP SCARE | Head Of Church Spends Quiet Day Distressed | &_ U.S. HOGKEY TEAM IEFEATS REICH 1-1 AS OLYMPICS OPEN, Americans Draw First Blood After 1,000 Athletes From 28 Nations Participate In Impressive Sport Ritual | | | | | GARMISCH - PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, Feb. 6-(P)-The United States opened its drivefor the olympic ice. hockey. champlonship today by | nosing out Germany's stubborn forces, | 10. |_ A goal by Gordon Smili of Boston, | | late in the opening period, represented | (the Americans' winning margin. | Smith scored on a pass from Jack | Garrison, another Boston ace, after a | | frenzied mixup in front of the Ger- | man cage. i | | GARMISCH - PARTENKIRCHEN,| Germany, Feb. 6 -(@)-The fourth ! {winter olympic games, drawing a rec- | ord entry list of more than 1,000 com- | petitors from 28 nations, were for- runny opened by Chancellor - Hitler today. A large and cosmopolitan crowd packed the ski stadium to watch the colorful parade of the mations and hear the reichsfuehrer speak the words that inaugurated an 11-day carnival of international competition in skiing, speed skating, figure skating, bob-sled- ding and hockey. Weather Conditions Perfect From a winter sports viewpoint, weather conditions were perfect, So thickly was the snow falling that the peaks of near-by mountain ranges were entirely obscured. ' Pacing some 1,500 tanned, robust, eager athletes Reichsfuehrer Adolf | Hitler today opened the games amid a. scene of unique grandeur. The Nasi chieftcin spoke the words escribed for the opening . ceremony | y the international olympic commit- tee: ~ *T proclaim open the winter olympic games of. Garmisch - Partenkirchen celebrating the fourth winter olym- piad of the modern era.\ } Simultaneously a German army | band played the Olympic hymn, all church bells of Garmisch-Partenkir- chen pealed, the flames of the olym- , plc fire soared heavenward from a | gigantic steel tower next to the ski} | jump, a signal division of the Ger- | man navy hoisted the olympic flag | and saivos of cannon thundered | from the mountain heights, reverber- | ating from valley to valley | 28 Nations Compete | Since 10 a. m. the competitors fram 28 nations had stood ready with their | trainers and olympic delegates on the | | road leading from the little village of | Partenkirchen to the Gudiberg with | its festively decorated ski max-ml | and anow-clad hillsides, About an hour later Hitler arrived | with his adjutants, and was conduct-1 ed 'to the balcony of the olympic club house, where the fuchrer greeted 1 the diplomatic corps who had come | from: Berlin to see the representatives of their respective nations match ath- | letic prowess. The German national anthem. was | played, whereupon at eleven o'clock in | | No sirree, and the next time these youngsters go they are going to make sure that the ice is safe. It wasn't when Stanley Belz, 8, of 11 Wesley street, Baldwin, went skating after school Tuesday afternoon on the Jngoon at Lake drive, near his home. Stanley, the tow-headed youngster shown with the covers pulled up to his chin. fell through. His pal, Edmund Garvey of 86 Kings parkway, seen sitting beside his bed ran for help and Alan Peterson, 12. and John Graham, 19, both of 12 Twain street, shown at the left, went to the rescue. They also fell through and the trio was finally rescued by Edward Held, 42, of Lake drive east, who threw them a rope and hauled them out. The youngsters are recovering at their homes under the care of Dr. H, McDonald Painton. R Review. Staff Photographer | HEMPSTEAD BOY GETS f No Ice Skating Today, Boys ROOSEVELT SEEKS TO HALT SPENONE BY ALL AGENCIES Fight Over Inflation Sharpens In Congress With Patman Forcing Vote On Issuance Of New Currency WASHINGTON, Feb. 6- | problems arising | from the bonus, farm relief and iother scheduled spending im- | pelled the new deal today 'into |a search for places to cut ex- \penses. High administration officials indicated relief might {feel the ax. | President Roosevelt also ' called heads of other spending agencies into conference today to determine what funds, au- thorized but still unspent, could be saved. Democrats were not mone in say- ing that the hunt for possible places of retrenchment was in progress. Sen- ator Barbour (R., N. J.) said recent moves proved he was right in predict- ing a month ago that bonus payment would \place the brakes\ on govern- ment spending. Inflation Fight Sharpens As the president called his mmalst- ants into the fiscal conference for the spending check-up, the fight over in- fiation sharpened in congress In the face of a fit prediction by Speaker Byns that no \greenbacks\ will be issued, Representative Patman (D., Tex.) planned to force a vote on paying the $2,237,000,000 bonus in new currency instead of through borrowing or taxes. Patman attacked bankers, attribut Ing to them the recent movement of gold out of the United States. \An attempt is being made to carry several million dollars worth of gold out of this country in an effort to scare us, but it won't succeed,\ he said. \It's the old shell game again. \The country can afford to lose $1,000,000,000 in gold without any damage to our monetary position.\ With the financial budget knocked far out of kilter by the bonus pay- ment bills and the invalidation of processing taxes with which the ad- ministration hoped to finance existing erop control contracts, President Roosevelt discussed farm relief taxes with Secretary Morgenthau, Secretary Wallace and others last night The only word afterward was that methods of financing the new $500.- 000,000 farm program were \still in the controversial stage.\ Relief needs for the next fiscal year ‘hnve not yet been estimated by Pres- | Ment Roosevelt, but efforts some time | ago said $2,000,000,000 might be sought. Now high officials say that ® new study of the prospective relief load is under way to see if that fig- ure can be reduced. President Roose- velt was said to have ordered the study $10,000 IN SETTLEMENT | greement Reached As $50,- 000 Action Nears Close B. Willot Burston, Hempsterd at- torney, won. a $10,000 settlement for | |a 13-year-old. client. im m $50,000 | | negligence suit aginst. the Ward * | Baking company just before the case | was to go to the jury before Justice Thomas C. Kadien, -in. Nassau mi- | preme court, yesterday. z The settlement was- Jn. favor of | William: Basil Cook 'of 109 Front 6-P-From | street, Hempstead, who was' injured | coast to coast, the political wars in-| when struck by a truck owned by the tensified today, with batiling leadets|defendant company near his home, | fiimging such terms as \bribery\ and | October 14,1934. 'The boy was bad~ | \predatory powers' st each other, |ly crushed In the mecident and doc- In: Fiotida,, Postmaster Genersi| tors testified that the injuries were tled the 'American Liberty | permanent Justice -Kadien called A-recens. Just ing for \reactionaries.\ | before the summations in which | Colonel Prank (Knox, speaking at | Charles R. Weeks, counsel for the Vincennes, Ind., last -night,- charged | defendant, and: Burston for the. boy I A | { salute. Most of the competitors from foreign lands returned the salute, in ses AMALEATM |IBEMM LEAD an ensign bearing. the name :of Ats mation. marched into the stadium. As each. national. delegation' marched. past Hitler with flag lowered, the fuehrer gave~ the Nazl 'We Germans want to show the“! Speaks For \Reactionaries | world that, true to the command Of | _ He Sa Knox Charges New our fuehrer, we desire to make these | Deal \Btibery\ me | games a real festival of peace and un | Continued on Page 2, Col. 4 HOME BUREAU TO MEET The Rockville Centre Home bureat will hold mn wll day sewing class a Bt, Marks Methodist Episcopal church, Monday, beginning at 11 ®. m BAFK of every can of pears,. prunes and peaches,> apricots or applesauce,. you are guarded by the watch» fulness of the canners and protected by the pure food laws of state and nation. Then your nelghbor- hood grocer is always alert that . the foods you buy are pure and wholesome. © That: is why he is 'safe .to pledge 'his word and reputation -when he --ADVERTISES in REVIEW
