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Vol. XXVHM + ville Centre and after 11. o'clock ing in Lynbrook. m few seconds. fow board. 200 lincg at a time. Ing\ of the old board. gide of Brooklyn. ness. rond, opposite the new lice headquarters, It i business location in the will be devoted to reat insurance, Archer B. ¥reeport, ln the TELEPHONE C0. - OFFICE OPRNS IN LYNBROOK Central\ Moved From Rock- ville Centre Without Inter- ruption of Service EXPANSION NEEDED - in Design Almost unknown | to - the more than 7000 telephone sub- scribers in Lynbrook, Rock- Stream, the 69 girls who an- swer \number please\ shortly night shiffed their headquar- ters from the old and crowd- ed building in Rockville Cen- tre'to the new telephone build- The transfer of Lynbrook and Val-! Office on South Grove Shea is comfortably fully recover, but a relapse ley Stream service from tha old. to - to business . followed.»; a the now a requieq |-- street was built by Alfred = housed ina well-lighted\ the mew. see» M tive The pulling of a ster cords in Rockville Cen-) tre \Killed\ the old switchboard. The‘ making of a few master connections Jn Lynbrook gave \life\ to tke. new Slightly more time was required to 'make the transfer of Rockville Cantre service, due to the fact that the change-over had to bé.made with This required weveral minutes for & complete \kill- However, before midnight Satur- _.day night, \central\ had pronounced her last. weary \number please\ in the old buffding, jerked cords, and fitted over to the shiny new building In Lynbrook to take her place before the confusing array of plugs, lights, and connections on the new switchboard there, Modern Building» +- The new bullding in which \cen- trai\ is now located im said by tele- phone experts to be the most modern in design, construction and equip- ment of any on Long Island out- Jt is Doric archi-[dit is disguising himself as a flap- tecture, simple and unimposing, ¥et per, wuggestive of eMclency and usiful- It i# located at Washington avenue and Remsen street, Inside the building is the 10,000. line mahogany .switchboard, places for 36 operators at one tine, » ot county m o village, estate W manager, Lmerasen advertising vefers to this dombmtnity as \Stately Merrick, wnd It is a cognomen wel! applied. No. 198 FREEPORT, N. ¥., MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1925 MISAPPROPRIA TED .Y REVIEW LONG ISLAND'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER TEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS CHARGE ROOSEVELT BANK CASHIER 72,318.50 IN BONDS PRESDENT 0 BANK DEAD IN HEMPSTEAD 'George H. 8“th Succumbs to Long Iliness; Well Known Business Man HEAD 2ND NATIONAL Freeport's New Post Office af _':lb Technical Held Many iaomible Posi- \mafia? Lnyt Ward. tions; 31 Years Secretary of B. &L. Association George H. Baukney, Presi- dent of the Second National Bank of Hempstead, and one of the leading business men of Hempstead and Nassau Coun- ty, as well as one of the best- known, died at his home, 180 Front street, Hempstead, at 6.30 o'clock,Sunday morning, following a long illness. At one period it appeared that he had rallied sufficiently to Valley Saturday Freeport's -new Post Postmaster Sylvester P. that is an added feature The staff of tion of the village. CUARDSMEN - BACK HOME FROM CANP Gliedman. and ventilated building Mr, Baukney was born in Memp - stead on June 7, 1868, and always lived there. He went to the public schools of Hempstead, and pursued his entire business career in the place of his birth, going rapidly from one responsible position to another, and at the time of Dis death he held many important .offices. His integrity in places of trust made for confidence in every\ undertaking in which \he was concerned. ~ Was Editor For forty years he was on the staff ot the Hempstead Sentinel, one of Hempstead's weekly newspapers, rig- ing from the post of reporter to that Here's Little Balm For Returning Vacationist Dictramshell, Bavaria-von Hin- Gerburg, 18, gets up at 7:30 every day and whiks four miles through forests. Vienna-Formres Prince Joachim of Prussia is leading a band here while has no police; all three are suspend- ed with the chief when he is caught In raid on gamblers. Hoboken, N. J.-Firemen, aftract ed by sbficks of \Ob Lord\ find her lant parrot yelling near his prostrate his cousin, the ex<Kaiser, i% SAWINE) mistress, . . wood at Doorn. - Arrive in- Hempstead Sunday, 200 finally becoming port i antities . of| _ Philsde!phia-Lyman Ford makes Met by PM Paid Of wner. Even'in later years after he Leningrad - Great - quan(iic® a half-mile parachute jump from a d haft abandoned the newspaper field jewels have been found in the house the Czar's tailor used to live in, Rome-Mussolini becomes godfath- er to 250 children all at once. Buenos - Aires-Prince of Wales battles senoritas at the races-with viole Worcester, Mass.-A fugitive ban- Mr. Baukney retained his love of \the (Continued on page 2) Quiet Week Swampscott, Mass., Aug. 21.- (AP)-President Coolidge began another week of vacation today with indications that it, will be perhaps the most quiet he has enjoyed since his arrival here late in June. He plans to con- tinue his practice of conferring from time to time with high government officials and con- gressional leaders, but few ap- plane, lands safcly on top of a moter truck, Is knocked off and breaks leg In ten-foot drop. Romton Lakes, N. J., Holy Roll- ets object to mixed bathing by other campers. New York-Hope Hompton, youth ful star of the films, is to be a moth» er-in-law. Yvonne Brulatour, daugh- ter of her husband, is to marry, NEW MERRICK at Armory ‘HAVE. FINE RECORD Fourteenth Second in Entire! State*in Efficiency and Records Following their annual two- week camping tour at Camp Smith, Peekskill, the two lo- cal companies of the 14th In- fantry, New York National Ashburnhani,> Mass, -The | town with | CAT GROWS HAR ON ELMHURST MAN'S HEAD New York, Aug. 24.-(AP) i \ I pointments have been made for I this week and It is likely to be comparatively free of engage: ments. Guard, Howitzer Company and Company K, arrived in Hempstead yesterday after- -Licks by the tongue of a cat have grown hair on the once bald pate of Rudolph Althans, 60 year old retired POLICE HAVE € - oro of 'East Elmhurst, noon, and, with greetings and + ipa cheers of friends and relatives Student Sh.\ innate rels | s s ous Stately Merrick\ to Be Boomed\ sh. hirsute “max but student was beaten todeath and Realtor in His none of them worked. few State Armory, re they| a companion slugged by gang» b, or in [j months a his ent Mike, were paid id \checked\ i sters yesterday following a fan- Advertising started the shiny , a A \\ cled insult to three sisters which Peel [|| dome when Althans took Ris nn, meeg of the establishment of| CAW SUDPlies and equipment.! was resented by the escort of Hiden. wma tiken 'a\ tan Piel hogan when |netter police protection the unin-| The: 69th Division of New Cariinn 21. mined by the lease of a suite of offices in theif thans was awake. i za u A York City replaced the 14th] police as the leader of -the new Nagele building in Merrick ati Now. his head is covered igquar s ~ attack, are under arrest, con- thé northeast corner of with a growth a quarter of. || fessions _ having been obtwined avenue and the Long Island {an inch I_ were || from four of thei. and and open 5 ¥inced tintgood In the was store, large a u lst. Genernt group of mil and ald to It“! [tion 'of the grand. fay - About 3. Wei yesterday a hunt-7L\. hs a RECENT BRIDE IN ALBERT P. STEINER ALLEGED Mrs. George Porter Smith, Here is a picture of Mrs. George Porter Smith, nee Olive Post, attired in her wedding veil aud gown. Her marringe to Mr.- Smith was a brillian social event Her husband is a violinist. She is the daughter of Jacob In Freeport. well known concert Post, wealthy: realty owner. HUGE CROSS BURNED __ Burning of a huge cross in front of their home at No. 173 Central avenue, Baldwin, at four o'clock in the morn- | and Fred Smith. | Aroused by the roaring of the flames and the crackling timbers, Morse and Smith rushed to the scene just in the nick of time to prevent the burning cross from top- pling over against the house, An it was the privet hedge was burned. On the front porch was left an empty suit case inter- preted as a hint to leave town. Morse thinks it was the work of wage.. In a twinkling scores in the neigh- borhood leaped from their [L- beds and gathered, exchang- ing views. NEAR BALDWIN HOME | ing awakened Archie Morse | n who-e®/600\ named (n the statement was TO HAVE TURNED SECURITIES - OVER TO BROKER RELATIVE Directors at Midnight Session Vote to Make Good Loss and Institution Continues Busi- ness As Usual-Shortage Discovered When Effort Made to Obtain Money to Cover Up-Bank Carries Insurance Amount- ing to $40,000 Albert P. Steiner of Rockville Centre, cashier of the First 'National Bank of Roosevelt, and his brother-in-law, T. Smith Buckman of 63 Village Avenue, Rockville Centre, a New York J broker, today were charged with appropriating $72,318.50 from the bank. he The men were under guard in the McAlpin Hotel, New York, after voluntarily surrendering themselves to representa- tives of the American Surety Company. Counsel for the bank questioning they were turned over to the federal authorities. Directors of the bank in a midnight session which continued until early hours today voted to immediately make good the shortage, without any loss whatever to stockholders or de- positors. - The bank did business today as usual with a federal examiner and a representative of the Federal Reserve System present and declaring that everything was in good order. The shortage was discovered when Steiner made attempts to obtain funds from one or more directors to cover his de- falcations. He knew that a list of bonds supposed to be on file with the Park National Bank in New York as a depository for the Federal Reserve Bank would shortly reach the Roosevelt Bank and that the shortage would be discovered. The directors -| approached immediately inaugurated an investigation which || showed the defalcation. The money, in the form of honds, were - apparently . turned . over . to Buckman, who is known as a Buckman - who bas been putting them up as security in at least three !f broked.\ According to Steiner, brokerage es in New York. {I most ¢ the profit went to Buckman a Imitted his part in but the bank officials do not uccept 5 bank officials. this view in its entirety. with Buckman The audit committee of the bank [[last week sent a statement to the t of the bank for exchange Federal Reserve in New York Stein-| The deposits at the Roomevelt ec knew of this and realized that the| Bank today were fur in excess of bond shortage would be discovered.) withdrawels, showing the gonfidence ‘IHe then attempted to cover his short-| which business men have in the in- age and the loss was mado known.|stituption. . Seventy-five thousand On Saturday the Roosevelt bank re dollars in cash was received today ceived a statement from the Federal j from the Federal Reserve Bank Bank that bonds specified by the/and more can be obtained if neces |f Roozevelt Bank were not listed with) sary, | Two police officers were om the Park National, Bank Statement M Directors of the bank had a long |fmession late last night and early to day, The following statement wis Issued to the press: \The Board® of Directorn of the First National Bank of Roosevelt when futervicwed atated that-its cashier, Albert P. Steiner had made defalcationa of the funds of the bank In an Amount of more than $25,000; also that the bank is bonded for hore than $40,000 and without waiting for payment on the bond, the board of directors has already made good all the loss, #so that the bank ham its entire funds intact; that the bourd has personally. assumed all or any Hability, and the stockholders and: depositors are folly pro-\ tected. The bank will open a» usual.! The amount of \more than $25, guard at the bank, Friends Start Fund Friends of Steiner in Rockville Centre started a movement to make good the loss, It was stated that $32,000 . had been promised. . With the help of some of Steiner's rela- tivol in \Pennsylvania it- was hoped to obtain enough to wipe out the shortage. Speiner's friends in Rock ville were shicked fo hear of the charge against him. Many expressions . of . sympathy | were heard, It was stated by scores that Steiner had carried a' repotu- tlon for honesty and integrity Steiner's: Record + For ten years Steiner was con nected with the Bank of Rockville Centre, starting ns a ledger book keeper in 1913. Tn 1018 he was pro- motéd to gqreral ledger bookkeaper, and a year later, in 1918, he was de amistant cashler of the bunk. During his connection with tie Bank of Rockville Centre, hin serv» fees were more: than satisfactory. He was a hard-working, a careful iter found to be $72,312.50, as stated. is'probable that some of thig may be obtained from Steiner and Buck Iman worker, and 'm trusted employes directors who atlended: the] \Albert was an intrinsteally hon» Ht meeting: were Marlow Math e#tboy,\ sald Dr Frank T. Del.anc, president, Jacob William|bresidenf .of the Rockville Centre ; Whitabouse, Charles D.|Bank this morning.\ \I cannot be trim. Harry Katy,SNéve that he in responsible for te , -Sonatban Chataway theft. He wuan't the type of follow , President Matheron ia f {is who would try. to live by his wit 1 don't believe he wat clever chough todevise a plan for robbing a tank 'by 'hiftmel. \Personally 'I nin convinced *~\. iContimaed on pate T f ls
