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WATCHMAN VOL 112 MATTITUCK, L I., N. Y., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938 No. 16 Cycle Thief Awaiting Grand Jury Watchman Editor Has Motor- cycle Stolen; Recovered Within 24 Hours Last Sunday while attending a liill climb sponsored by the South Shore Motoreyclc Club and held at l^incoln L^dge, jiist off Jericho Tnrni)ike near Huntington, the editor had the misfortune of having his motorcycle stolen. The machine was a 1937 Harley-Davidson with a valuation of about $375. l\rr. AVickham first missed his machine about 'i o'clock in the af- ternoon when preparing to leave. After looking abiMit and making sure there were no practical jokes involved, he reported the theft at the Huntington Police Station, •where it was imn^ediately 'put on the wires.' The State Troopers were also notified that same after- noon. ISlay we quote the editor In saying, \It was hot but I didn't sweat until that cycle was miss- ing.\ Machine Located Within 24 Hours The cycle was located Monday evening at 6 p. m. by the Troopers after receiving a call from a rider who Identified the machine. One (Continued on Page 10) Gliri Injured in Fall From Bicycle About 7:30 last night, Oene- vleve I^iColla, 16, while coasting down the steei) hill near Ye Okie Mill on the North roiid, fell from her bicycle, siifferlng contusions and bruises,,and lay In a seml- consclou.i condition for approxi- mately ten minutes. Mr. and Mrs. CJray Clark of Mattituck, passing by, noticed the young iTirl's body lying in the middle of the road, and rushed her to the office of Dr. Stanley P. Jones .vhere several stitches were taken In her nose. Some of her front teeth were knocked out by the impact of the fall. AVhen ques- tioned, Miss LaCoIIa was rather iiazy as to what actually hap- pened, but rumors that a pass- ing motorist had struck her wore unsubstantiated. According to information received from her parents today (Thursday), her condition Is .satisfactory and she Is well on the road to recovery. Dr. Radford Gives Talk On Drama Talk in Brookhaven Was En- thusiastically Received By Listeners The members of the Fireplace Literary Club enjoyed a most In- teresting and Instructive addre.ss in the Brookhaven Library last week by Dr. Percy E. Radford, whose subject, \Contemporary Drama,\ was so enthusiastically received that the members were^ filled with a desire to become familiar Avith more and better plays. Dr. Radford in his talk confessed two hobbies—the theatre and de- tective stories. But it was evident that music played a large part In his life too. He said, In part, that culture came with the margin of time beyond that which it takes to make a living. Civilization has reached such a point that we all have leisure and should .^lend some of time in studying the b^st (Continued on Page 10) Village Doin's June 20—Monday afternoon at 1:30. Home Bureau Salad Making demonstration in the rresbyterlan Chai)el. June 21—Tuesday evonlng at li. Young Ladies' iluild .sui'l\'\ and special meeting of Board in tho l'n>.sbvteMun (\hapel. June '.M- -l''rl(lay afternoon at Mlssiiinary SDcirty nn-t'ts at till' home of .Mrs. .\nKelin<' Uolilnsun. luiie 2ti Sunila>' ninht at Baccalaureate sciinon in th'- High Scliool .tuilitoi-luu). luni' 27- -Monday nl.u^lit at (^iinunenceuiont cxirt'l.ses in the HI K I I School auditoiiuiM. July 2—.Saturday n.ornlnK at m. Cake .sale to be held in t^ie •'Bank i'ark\ in Uu- villa^«'.| Benetlt ol the U< d Cro.-^s Water Safety <'ampal;^n. July IS Bfd Cros.v; Water Sai'rty l'anii>algn starts at the Break water. Three Murder Trials In the County Court rt Is an unusual situation to have three men tried for first degree murder at one term of court in Suffolk County, but such is the case, and Monday Robert F. Gam- mon, who is ehai'ged with killing his fellow worker at the Govern- ment wireless station at Amagan- sett, will probably go on trial. Two others, Michael Hermanowski and AN'illiam Steinbrenner are also on trial for their live.s. County Attorney Edgar F. Hazle- ton has been assigned by County Judge L. Barron Hill to defend Giunm^on, who shot his associate la.st March as he was entering the station to relieve him at midnight. The motive for the crime is still unsolved. Stanley Fowler of Rivcrhead has been a.'^slgned to defend Stein- brenner, and he claims the young man was drawn into the crime by Hermanowski, whose parents they haA-e confessed killing at their little roadhouse at Smithtown for an in- surance policy of ?1,000, which Mr. Hermanowski carried. It was one of the most brutal and revolting crimes conunltted in (Continued on Page 10) Polish Club Initiates Many New Members t At the re«-ular monthly meeting of the Polish American Indepen- dent Club uf Southold Town, held last Thui'sdii>' evening at thefr clubliouse \Lake Lodge,\ 22 new members weri' initiated and sworn ill. I Mans wer<' aisn laid for a ban- Muet to ln> held 1)11 the Uith t.>f .July celelirate ihi^ si'cond auniver- H..ry of ilii.s club .\iitlii»ny Urban i f Gieenport \sas i hosen as cbair- tr Ml i)f (his anni\i'r .sar.\' liamiuet .lull (lan -.e. Thi -re i:, iu» duiibt but t at tl i^ afl '.ilr wiil IM «\ I - \'ery p ill.:!' iiiasiiiiii')i as Mr. rrl-aii n e.:.rned a iiMst eiivluhle reputa- tion for hl.s zealou.^ liiduKtry ami a. > I -s.sh (? al i ;it.\' in iii.s i)ast un- dert.ikln.Lis in la-hall' of the club, John K'lijauiki of \Ve:U .Matll- •Ui-lc was selei tt d as eha nii.in to hi 1(1 ihe dani'e coiMiiitiei' lor the iiionth (ii .Inly. Tlu- danee.s run at \Lake Lodge\ I.:vf proven hiMl;ly jiopula,'' and Mucce.ssful, and the club is to be commended for Its visjon In se- kctlng so beautiful iwid eo;.unuijd- ing a site for its clubhouue. Man Found Dead in Cornfield Missing Since Saturday Eve. Murray Will Defend Nazi Defendants Schoenfeld Withdraws From Case; Counter Suit On Officials Threatened At the trial of the six officials of the Nazi .sympathizing German- American Settlement League, o\V|n- ers of Camp Siegfried(iit Yaphank, .set for trial before County Judge L. IJarron Hill at Hiverhead on June 27, JameS D. C. iMurray, noted criminal lawyer ot New York City, will appear for the defendants in place of Herman J. Schoenfeld of I'atchogue, who has withdrawn from the case. . Although Mr. Murray did not ap- pear in person, he was represented by a member of his firm when the six men pleaded not guilty and were continued in the same bail. The defendants are charged with violating the State Civil Rights Law, which reijulres the register- ing of names of members of the society with the SeQretary of State. James AVheeler-HJll denied that members were recpiired to take oaths, and he- said the member.shlp list was open to government agen- cies. Those indicted by the Grand Jury are: Ernest IMueller, the presi- dent, Henry Hauck, Henry Wolf- gang, Bruno Haehnel, Addo Biele- feld and Herman Schwarzman. Following a secret session of the League held at Schwa'ben Hall, In Brooklyn, Fritz Kuhn, the national leader of the (Jerman-American bund, .said his organization had plenty of money to spend for this litigation. Denouncing the proceed- ings as unjust and un-American, Kuhn said the case would be fought all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, if that Is necessary to prove whether or not democracy really does exist In this countiy. He also threatened to In- stitute a counter-suit to prove that \certain Suffolk County officials are guilty of unfair practices,\ say- ing the Bund has twelve witnesses ready to testify that the Grand' Jury was Influenced In indicting the six men. (Continued on Page 14) Riverhead Iron Men Take First Place at Tourney Highway Position Still Unsettled^ Bishop Refuses to Turn Over Books; Special Counsel Engaged Rain Dampens Everything But Firemen's Spirits; IVIattl- tuck Men Get Cup Inclement w e a t h e r Saturday failerr to dampen the ai'dor of the fire laddies at the annual tourna- ment of the North I-^ork Firemen's Association held'at Shelter Island. While the parade was held in a hard rainstorm the weather man relented and held off further rain during the holding of the contests in the afternoon. The point trophy was again cap- tured by the \Iron Men\ racing s(iuad of Riverhead, for the third consecutive time Avith a total of 42 points, as the result of taking seven first places, two seconds p.pd a third. Greenport was placed Sec- ond with 225 points, Southold was third with lOi, Orient fourth with S, Shelter Island fifth with 3 and Mattituck last with 2 points. Mat- tituck finished third in the effic- iency and running hose contests and the department also captured the prize for the best appearing department with under 50 men. The \Iron Men,\ jarho won the State championship in 1935 and 1936 and the Suffolk County cham- pionship in 1937, were, captained by Walter Worthington, assisted by Walter Ruland and Francis Walsh. The parade of the departm-ents of Mattituck, Riverhead, Southold, Orient, Shelter Island and Green- port was held during a mi.serable rain but the several thousand on- lookers nevertheless lined the (Continued on Page 14) Edward Stone Thought Mur- dered; Autopsy Finds , Death Was Natural (By Jimmie Downs) Date Set For Dial Phone Cut-Over Seventy-three-yoar - old Edward Stone, a retired Hiverhead business ' man. was di.scovered, dead, la.st Monday evening on the od.w of a cornfield at the southern portion of the William H. Howell estate, north of I'econic Bay Boulevard, In A(iuebogue. The corpse was In a partly decomposed condition, having been theie during the heavy rains Sunday night. Missing since Saturday evening. Stone's 1930 Oldsmobile fcoupe was spotted, by searching relatives, in a wood road a short distance from the death area. A search of the fields revealed the missing man's body. Riverhead Chief of Police Frank Sowinski was hastily notified and Immediately he and Officer Tony Danowski rushed to the scene. Shortly afterward Sheriff Jacob Dreyer and Dr. Victor K. Young of Riverhead and Coroner J. Mott Heath of Greenport arrive'd follow- ed by State Troopers from Rabl^Ion and the new barracks in Flanders. The ground around the death spot' was roped off to prevent the gath- ering crowds from obliterating any possible footprints or clues, A. pre- autopsy examination of the body and a search of' the surrounding property was executed, but no death weapon was revealed to ver- ify murder, which had at first been considered because of a wound found at the base of the skull In back of the victim's left ear. Stone's body was removed to the morgue at the Danowski Funeral I'arlors in Aquebogue and it was announced to newspapermen by Coroner Heath, that an autopsy would be performed by Dr. George B. Bergmann, Tuesday morning. However, it was found, after prob- ing the wound, that Stone was not shot to death as no slug was re- covered. It was learned the following day [ that Dr. Bergmann determined that No More Cranks After June death was caused from a heart at- 23; Peconic, Mattituck, information quelled the Southold Affected f The controversy as to who really is head of the county highway de- partment still CDUtiiuies in a decid- ed mix-ui). The Suffolk County Board (jf .Suiiervlsors have engaged sin'Cial counsel In thf iK'rsun of Klliot Kai)laa of .Manhattan to act in the matter fur the board with tlu' vli'W iit^nfoi'clng the t('rnj>< of the ri'oiilution of that body ap- puliUiuk' Marry 'T. Tutlilll of St;- tauki't to the i)osition. .\cting upon Kaplan's advlOf .Mr. Tiitliill took a new oath of otfice admiulsteiH'd by County Clerk Maikvart. Supervisor Kverett C. Tuthlll of Shelter Island, chairman ol the liluhway antl brlilge com- mittee introduced the resolution to appoint Kaplan, si)eclal counsel, over tlic protest of Suptrvlsor Ho- mun of Rivenhi'ad. Chairman War- ren Greenhulgh adnUtted the posi- (Continued on page 7) Eight o'clock on Thursday morn- ing, June 23, is the time set for the transfer of I'econic, Mattituck and Southold telephones to dial operation. J. B. Fanning, manager at Itlverhead for the New York Telephone Company, announces the \cutover\ of the three new central offices will be.made simultaneously, and has been so a^-rangcd as to cause no api)reciable interruption of sei'vli e. These central offices are iioused In the three recently completed telephone buildings. The Mattituck ibullding is located on the we.s't side of the .Main road near .\'i'W Suf- folk avenue. In Southold the new liuildlpg is on the east side of Youngs avenue not far fi'om the Main r(jad. and tlu' I'econic ce!i- tral oH^^cc' building i:s in (\utchonue on the north side of th<- .Main road near .New .Suffolk aveuutj. With the nt'W service, subscrib- ers in these central olfice districts will no longer use the cranio taaudli- to signal the or)eratf)r. In aciord- ance with the individual instruc- tions given at the time the new teleiihones were Installed, the sub- scriber will sinu>ly lift tlie receiver, listen for \dial tone\ and then dial the local number desired. The new jnechanlcal c^entral office e(iulp- (Continued on Page 14) fear In the commimitty that a mur- derer was still at large. The dead man's son revealed the knowledge df his fathar's long known heart aliment. The dead man had apparently been digging young cedars on the George H. Taft property, adjoining the Howell estate. Several small trees of that variety were found In the rumble seat of his coupe and he was on the way back with an- other when the fatal attack over- took him He was foynd lying face uj) and at his feet the burlap-l)ound shrub. Farm-hands who had been work- ing In the as[)aragUB fields on tho Zaloga farm, near the vicinity of the death spot were <iuestioncd at length by the n..\.'s men late Mon- day night. Walker to Succeed Vincent Browne Bertram \\'alker, known all over the county as \Bert \lce-com- mandei' of the bounty .American Legion, has bein put forward by his fellow members in Huntington Town to succee»l \'incent Browne of Mattituck as I'ounty I'onunand- er. Walker has been a nu-mber of Huntington I'ost for 19 years aiul Is regarded as a typical 100 per cent American with an outstanding record in county Legion activities.
