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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1939 T H E WATCHMAN PAGE NINE * # I M a ttituck T h e a t r e | przemowi do wasz ekramu!!! Coming to this theatre Sunday and Monday, Jan. 29 and 30, “The Little Adventuress” with Edith Fellows, Richard Fiske and Cliff Edwards. When Fellows’ acrobat parents are killed, she and Ed wards, who is a horse handler, head West to join her cousin, Richard Fiske, whose racing stable unknown to Fellows, has fallen on hard times. She convinces him that Counto, one of his horses, is really a racer, and she I winds up by coming through to win a $50,000 purse. Also “Billy the Kid Returns,” a top notch Western, starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Mary Hart and Morgan Wallace. On this screen Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, “The Return of the Scarlet Pim- pernell,” starring Barry Barnes, Sophie Stewart and Margaretta Scott. The story deals with Barnes, known as the Scarlet Pimpernell, lured back to France by the cap ture of his wife by Robespierre’s men. The convention overthrows Robespierre and Barnes finds him self in prison. The excited mob, hearing of his seizure, storms the prison gates, and frees Barnes and his wife, after their long battle of wits. Bames saves the now wretched intelligence chiefs Czwartek 2-go Lutego Dziew- ceta 2 Nowolipek. To- wstrzon- sajacy dramat obyczajowy z zycia dziewczdt. To- prawda zyciowa, ktora To- krzyk dziewczat, rzUconyck w wir wielkiego miasto! To- nojpiekwiejsze Polskie ar- tystki: Elzbieta Barszczewska, Zamara Wiszniewska, Jadzia Andrzejew- ska, Mamra Jaraczowna, Hanka Brzezinska. “The Dawn Patrol,” a great aviation epic of the World War, will be the presentation at this theatre Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3 and 4. The cast is headed by Errol Flynn, and Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp and Melville Cooper are featured with him, as well as a large cast of others. It is a tale^of the heroism and tragedy that were the daily portion of brave young knights of the air who engaged in aerial combat over the Western front during the early days of the War. It is the story of one squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps during several fateful months of 1915 — the story of an endless stream of gallant but untrained youngsters who reported blithely to squadron headquarters and then sallied forth unflinchingly to al most certain doom; and it is the story of the soul-searing torture suffered by' the few older and adequately trained members of the squadron as they were forced to witness and even abet this awful sacrifice of the flower of Britains youth. Foiled Chinese Pirates Squadrons of Chinese junks, manned by thieving pirates, were a menace to foreign vessels near Hong Kong early in the last cen tury, and were growing bolder every year. By 1855, piracy had reached a climax. Strange, flat bottomed craft, built with high sterns and Siquare bows, would lie in wait for some hapless merchant ship. Propelled by lug sails, made of cloth or matting, and manned by cut throat crews, they would pounce upon some unwary vessel to plun der and murder their victims. Singly, these junks were no match for the ordinary warships of that day. Collectively, they were able to overpower much larger trading vessels and get ^way with the spoils. An indif ferent Chinese government failed to suppress their activities. Faced with this condition, the commanders of the American steam frigate Pov/hatan and the British sloop Rattler joined in a common enterprise to suppress the pirates. U. S. marines and sailors, together with a British naval party, engaged the pirates in Ty-Ho Bay in a battle which lasted for several hours. As a result of the encounter seventeen pirate junks were cap tured, another was blown up by the pirates themselves to prevent its capture, and many of the band were taken prisoner. Several ma rines and bluejackets were killed This actitm had a saUit'iry ef- feot upon niracy in Chinese wnters, lu’t d=d not end it, for even to t1>is day, these sea ma- r:\udors opp'-^HG plon*' the Chinc^' or iii 'Ml t^^e Yangtze. At Hon\ Koivr there is a monument to the bnn’o men who diti not die in vain. Although they failed to wipe out pii acy alt isether, t)ie” broUL'ht an increased measure of safety to trading vessels in those waters. April 30, the report discclosed that less than 10 per cent o^ the $155,000,000 Exposition remains to be completed. The aimual banquet and enter tainment of the Riverhead Fire men’s Association will be held at fire headquarters on Feb. 14; The Ladies’ Auxiliary will serve the dinner, and invitations have been extended to officials of the Suffolk County Association, the Southern New York Firemen’s Association and the New York State Fire men’s Association. Westhampton Inlets Fast Being Closed The four large dredges costing nearly $3,000 a day and handling 1100 cubic yards of fill every 24 hours, are filling in the wide inlet broken by the hurricane near the Potunk Coast Guard Station. This will soon be completed, and then comes the wide inlet opposite Moriches, which presents many difficulties due to the depth and width of the channel, with the low sand bars on both sides, which are under water at all high tides. Only One Taxpayer Of Many Who Suffer Showing that approximately 15 cents out of every dollar of rev enue goes to help pay for schools, police and fire protection, public health, relief and other essehtial public services, a tax study made by the South Bay Consolidated Water Company also reveals that the company ranks among the ten biggest taxpayers of Suffolk County. The company will this year foot a total tax bill of $73,444, the ag gregate sum of levies due the Federal, State and local govern ments. The combined state, coun ty and town tax, based on the valuations of the company’s real property fixed by the town boards of assessors, and on the special franchise assessment fixed by the State Tax Commission, amounts to $50,166.04. In addition, the company will pay $6,608.54 to the several incorporated villages of the county in which it has real estate, buildings and other tax able property. The company will make pay able to Uncle. Sam’s order checks for $4,600 in Social Security taxes and $170 for the tax on bond in terest, a total of $4,770. One Fed eral impost the company escapes; its recent earnings have not been sufficient to require payment of an income tax. Into the State treasury at Al bany will go tax payments total ing $11,900, which can be br6ken down as follows: Special unem ployment relief tax of 2 per cent on gross income, $9,500; gross earnings tax, $2,400. Most of this conies back to the localities the company serves in apportionments based on the valuations of the local taxing districts and will be used for local purposes. The tax study reveals that the bulk of the money paid out in taxes goes to the local commu nities: the county, towns, villages and school and other districts; and this is as it should be, say com pany officials, pointing out that the companys sole source of in come is from the sale of water and fire protection service in these communities. Taxes payable to the town and village receivers figure out to, 11.86 cents of each revenue dollar, while 3 cents of each revenue dollar goes to meet State and Federal levies. The study shows that the South Bay’s total tax bill has increased more than 50 per cent in a five- year period, jumping from $48,363 in 1935 to $73,444 this year. A substantial part of the increase is represented by new State and Federal taxes. Farmers of the United States spend about $32,000,000 a year for telephone service, it is esti mated. REPORT ON PROGRESS OF 1939 WORLD'S FAIR A report on the “State of th ' Fair” was made public Saturc’ay by Grover A. Whalen, president of the New York World's Fair 19?‘». With fifteen weeks still to f?;' before the opening on Sunday, ROLLER SKATING RINK at the F a i r G r o u n d s IN THE POULTRY BUILDING Opeii Afternoons 3.30 to 6 Open Evenings 8 to 11 2 to 6 Saturday and Sunday Afternoons: CHICAGO PROFESS’ONAL SKATES HAMMOND ORGAN • POPULAR PRICES OPEN YEAR ’ROUND When I read Dorothy Thomp son’s article on hats in the Jan uary issue of the Reader’s Digest, and her trials when she tried to select one from among “chopping bowls, pancakes, bird’s nests, lean ing towers of Pisa,” etc., my thoughts went back to that era of the “black bonnet with ostrich tips and bow under the chir>” ^to which she relegates women “if we don’t protest.” Fashions certainly do run in cycles, and the present “millinery madness”' is proof of it, because I recall vividly that bonnet, made on a little buckram frame, cov ered with silk, velvet, straw or lace, and the ostrich feathers placed at the extreme height of the creation, often extended over the profile to a ridiculous dis tance. The hat covered little, if any, of the forehead, and was curtailed at the back to give place for a small round knot of woman’s crowning glory. A youthful ver sion pf this style was called the “Dutch bonnet” and one. in par ticular I recall, when as a child I was allowed to accompany my father into the balcony of the Presbyterian Church in Cutch- ogue, where the choir sat at that time. Of course I should have had my mind on the service, but that hat took my eye as a thing of beauty (and it really was) and is worthy of , description. The frame, so tiny,/ was covered with gorgeous pansies, and black, vel vet ribbon was fastened at each side, crossed under the chin, and pinned at the back of milady’s beautiful black braids, which were wound around at the back of the head, the hair exposed quite as much as with the styles of today. Another type, built on the same plan, was worn with bangs over the forehead and was minus more of the crown, to allow a “psyche” knot to protrude upward from its center. These small hats were not “bizarre” but they were “fussy,” and women’s wearing apparel had the same trend, with all kinds of frills and burbelows. The “Merry Widow” sailor, so large it must be tipped sidewise to go through a door and with a false crown of greater dimensions to make the model symmetrical, was as much of a menace to the public as the long feathers that are being used today, because one’s head was in danger of being cut off, if that stiff rough straw happened to contact the neck of its neighbor in traffic, as they were vicious things. I have not mentioned the inconvenience 6f them at public gatherings, but they were indeed a trying style in that regard. If it were not for the fact that hoop skirts might impede the pro gress of this swift moving gener ation, I presume we might be subjected to that handicap by the style kings and queens. We may thank our stars for a little level headedness on that score and be assured that bus^iness women can be fairly certain of practical styles in skirts as long as they drive their own cars, as I cannot pic ture a profusion of wires that are liable“to. get mixed up with the gears and brakes, passing the motor vehicle laws. However, with the automatic shift in the new cars this year, we may come to them yet. SHOPPERS and BUYERS ' -DIRECTORY- 'e ? AUTO PARTS Second Hand AUTO and MARINE PARTS C. H. BENJAMIN G R E E N P O R T 289 AUTO REPAIRS NASSAU POINT SERVICE STATION Lubrication Service and General Repairs M A R T I N DOROSKI, Prop. BARBER SHOPS E l i m i n a t e C h a n c e s of Infection! We use only Sterilized Instrum e n t s Hospital Clean for Your Protection MATTITUCK SANITARY BARBER SHOP F R E D D Y DEMING, Prop. BUILDING MATERIALS L UM B E R - MASON M A T E R I A L S MILL W O R K - P A I N T S H A R D W A R E T. & S. LUMBER CO. 415 Roanoke Ave. R I V E R H E A D COAL WILLIAM M. BEEBE’S SONS COAL Baskets and Crates C U T C H O G U E , L. I. P h o n e Peconic C553 FEEDS h e a d q u a r t e r s for BEACON FEEDS BEACON SERV'CE SUFFOLK MILLS 303 Osborne Ave., a t R. R. R I V E R H E A D , L. I. SIGNS TRUCK and WINDOW LETTERING D I S P L A Y C A R D S C O M M E R C I A L S I G N S QUIN TUTHILL P H O N E 8337 M A T T I T U C K INSURANCE P. HARVEY DURYEE M A T T I T U C K Representing H A R T F O R D F I R E INS. CO. NIAGARA F I R E INS. CO. H A R T F O R D A C C I D E N T & IN D E M N I T Y CO. SERVICE STATIONS DOWNS’ SUPER SERVICE STATION Pure Oil Products J. H A R V E Y DOWNS, Mgr. AQU E B O G U E , L. I. Phone Ja m e s p o r t 987 TAILORS S. W. WOLGO Merchant Tailor Complete Line of Men's Clothing at Reasonable Prices M A T T I T U C K , L. I. UNDERTAKER FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND AMBULANCE SERVICE REGINALD H. TUTHILL Phone 2403 R I V E R H E A D , L. I. VETERINARIAN DR. S. B. FISCHER SM A L L ANIM AL H O S P I T A L and BOARDING K E N N E L S H O R T O N ’S LANE S O U T H O L D P h o n e 3598 THE WATCHMAN • * A D V E R T I S E IN • \
