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■ T H E W A t C H M A y O l . 112 No. 37 Polish A lliance P a r a d e s MATTITUCK, L I., N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939 PRICE FIVE Views of the Polish National Alliance parade which took place Sunday In Cutchogue. Mattltuck High School Band of 45 musicians, under Waiter Williams, leads marchers from Parish Hall to Our Lady of Ostrabrama Church for Polish and American flag dedication. W a rner P leads G u ilty; Will Be S e n tenced M o n d a y Ex-deputy sheriff and chief clerk in the Sheriffs office, Ferd inand O. Warner, 32, of Greenport pleaded guilty to misappropriat ion and falsification of accounts by a public officer before Justice Mitchell May in the Suffolk Sup reme Court at Riverhead yester day. Warners attorney, Frank J. McMann of Greenport, entered the plea. It was the March \rand jury which handed down a ten- count indictment against him. Warner will be sentenced by Justice May next Monday when he may recieve a jail sentence of seven years, a $1,000 fine o|: both, although the court has the power (Continued on Page 8) RIVERHEAD BANK ANNOUNCES INTEREST RATE REDUCTION Effective July 1, a reduction of the interest rate upon all savings deposits in excess of $2,500 from ^ percent to 1 percent was ann ounced by John C. Stark, pres ident of the Suffolk County Nat ional Bank of Riverhead. In a statement sent to all of the bank’s thrift depositors, Mr. Stark pointel ont that the average yield from the government bonds which the bank now holds is 1 3-4 per cent and that the return from other securities has been cut. The statement also states that, “While the earning power of the dollar is less ythan one-half of what it was in 1929, the expenses of the bank have increased enormously because of increased taxes, var ious types if insurance and Fed eral Deposit Insurance, which the bank is required to carry. N e a rly $2,000,000 A p p ro p riated By Suffolk C o u n ty Supervisors All but $17,000 U Needed to Renew M a turing Obli< gotions; $10,000 M ore for Publicity procedure sponsored by the fiscal agent of the county. The nine resolutions which con stituted the huge sum were; 1. The authorization to County With the approving of nine re-'I Treasurer John G. Peck to issue solutions by the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors at the May meeting in Riverhead a total of $1,883,636 was appropriated for immediate use Out of the entire sum, only $17,000 was “new” money need ed for Government departments. The balance of the $1,883,636 was for the renewal of certificates jf indebtedness maturing June 1 -ind tax anticipation notes, a yearly tax anticipation notes of the cou nty in the amount of $1,200,000. 2. The authorization to borrow $4460,876 on certificates of indebt edness to renew home relief cert ificates of indebtedness due Nov ember 30. 3. Renewal of certificates of in debtedness f o r miscellaneous drainage in the sum of $25,000. 4. Renewals of $14,960 as countys (Continued on Page 8) M .H . S. Seniors L e a v e T u e s d a y F o r N. Y. an d F a ir K a therine W y ckoff Nam e d Valedictorion of 1939 Closs; Ruth Phillips to G raduate as Solutotorian “World’s Fair, here we come”, has been the battle cry of the Mattituck High School Seniors for the past winter as they worked and scraped to provide funds for their annual pilgrimage. It was decided that this year the class would visit the New York World’s Fair and the city itself instead of the usual trip to Washington D. C. The entire class will entrain for New York on Tuesday morning and will return Friday evening after four days packed with sight seeing and amusements. The World’s Fair will not be sighted until the second day when they will spend the entire day on the grounds followed by admiss ion to Town Hall*Tonight, Fred Allen’s radio program. Thursday will be spent seeing the sights offered by the big city and later the fair again during the after noon and evenirig. Miss Katherine Wyckoff has won the distinction of being class valedictorian with an average of 92.242 percent for three and one- half years of high school work and Miss Ruth Phillips holds the honor- of being salutatorian with an average of 91.636 percent. She having won out over Edward, Sledjeski by a mere .136 percent. Others with averages over 85 per cent are: Marjorie Gaffney, 89 .657; Marvin McDermott, 89. 212; Ch&rles . McNulty, 88.848; Wini- Trock, 87.285; Bertha Herman 86.774; June Raynor, 85.600. S o u tham p ton Jew e l R o b b e ry ' ‘C racked’ 'Squint-eye' Grossman Iden tified os Robber in $15,000 Jewel T h e ft a t the Summer Beach Resort One of the many jewel robb eries which kept the police busy last summer has been “cracked\^ Ralph “Squint-eye” Grossman, 30, has been identified by several members of the Southampton Beach Club as the stranger seen in the exclusive shore resort on July 10, 1938. Grossman, the possessor of a long and foul record and a list of aliases, is being held on bail jump ing and burglary charges lodged by New York County authorities. Warrants holding Grossman for Suffolk County on burglary and larceny charges were filed with (Continued on Page 8) TW O HOUSES STRUCK BY LIGHTNING At 8:45 Monday evening the Cutchogue Fire Department was called to extinguish a blaze in the home of Martin Fogarty on Depot Lane. The . Fogarty house was struck by lightning during a brief but intense thunder storm. In the house when the bolt struck were Mr. and Mrs. Fogarty and daughter, none of whom recieved any injuries as a result of the lightning bolt. The bolt hit the house at the peak of the roof and travelled down under .l^e roof ing. The fire department quickly put out the fire before it had gained any appreciable headway. ■ While responding to the Fagarty alarm another call was put in from Capt. George Howard in New Suffolk whose home was also struck by lightning. The fire department’s services as there by but there was no need of the fire departments services as there was little damage done to Howard house. T h ree Y e a r T a x H o liday O K ’d By C o u n ty Supervisors M o n d a y BABE RUTH CRITICIZES LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT The Mattituck Fire Department was called out yesterday after noon to answer an alarm at the home of Harry DfePetris, just west of the villSige on the main high way. Arriving, the firemen found that it was only a small roof fire and had already been put out. Among the bystanders was seen the genial “king of the swat,” Babe Ruth himself, with several friends with whom he had been fishing in local waters. In answer to a ques tion from one of his pals, the Babe said (with a grin) something about country fA’emen not being able to keep the fire going. G reen p o rt M a n Dies A f ter A u to A c c ident { 'N o Evidence of Culpable N e g ligence' Verdict of the Coroner a t Inquest Held in Greenport At an inquest held last night at the Village Hall in Greenport, Coroner J. Mott Heath gave his verdict of “no evidence of culp able negligence of the cars in question” in the death of Nicola Busso, 64, of Greenport, who died in the Eastern Long Island Hos pital Friday, May 19, as a result of injuries sustained in a head-on auto collision on the Main high way in Southold early Monday morning, May 15. Five persons were removed to the Eastern Long Island Hospital in the catastrophe which caused the death of Busso. The car in which Busso was an occupant was driven by John D. Albertis. The other car was owned and operated by Stanley Keleski of Sound ave nue, Riverhead who, with, mem bers of his family, wa^ returning home from a wedding in Green port when the two cars met head- A m ericsin Legion Posts T o P a r a d e O n M e m o rial D a y Memorial Day, next Tuesday, will find many of the residents of the Noi-th Fork lining the Main road in Southold to watch the Legion Posts of Greenport, South- old and Mattituck stage their an nual parade. Assisting them will be groups from many fraternal and social organizations and youn? Americans from every locality in the town. The committee reports that the special efforts which have been made to create a wider observ ance of the day and what it stands for, a day set apart for honoring (Continued on Page 2) Hurricane Victims Exemption from Coun^ State Taxes for Three Yc on Reconstruction Prograi The Southold Town Board is expected to adopt the hurricane tax exemption program outlined below at a special meeting to be held in the Town Clerk’s office at 1:30 today. According to Super visor Dennis Homan of Riverhead, the measure will be adopted by the Riverhead Town Board next Wednesday. The Board of Supervisors, on Monday, adopted by an unani mous vote a resolution granting owners of improved property des troyed or damaged by last Sept ember’s hurricane exemption for three years from state and county taxes on building constructions and reconstructions occasioned by the storm. This action was made possible by the Thompson Bill, now Chapter 409 of the Laws of 1939, which gives county and town boards the right to; declare a three-year partial? tax holiday for the benefit of storm losers. The measure was sponsored in the Assembly by Assemblyman Ed mund R. Lupton of Cutchogue and it was he along with Senator G. L. Thompson who piloted it thr ough the 1939 Legislatitre. This action taken by the board is the outcome of the board’s wish to extend some measure of relief to storm losers and to encourage and promote rebuilding operations. In introducing the resolution Sup- (Contlnued on Page 8) G reenport’s A n n B o e rum C row n e d A s ‘Miss Southold’ Last night (Wednesday) at the Greenport Theatre, Miss Ann Boerum, a striking brunette of 6th Street, Greenport, was crow ned “Miss Southold Town” over a competitive field of 13 young ladies whose female pulchritude made the judge’s decision a most difficult task. One of the larg est arrays of feminine lovliness to be seen in the quest of Miss Suffolk was present at the Green port Theatre last night and, to date, Southold Town leads in the number of entrants in this ex citing contest. Miss Boerum, by virtue of last night’s selection, has earned the right to participate in the final contest which is to be held at the Patchogue Theatre, Patchogue, on Thursday evening, June 1st, at about 9 o’clock. The judges, Mrs. William Viall of Greenport, Mr. Clyde Bailey of Southold, and Dr. John L. Was son of Mattituck, selected Miss Boerum from a quartet of beau ties in the semi-finals. Those who gained recognition in the semi- (Continued on Page 8) 300 M a rch In C u tc h o g u e P a r a d e On Polish-A m e rican F e te D a y Flag Dedication Takes Ploce a t Polish Church; Superyisor Horton and Joseph Krupski LOCAL CLAM DIGGER ARRESTED FOR VIOLATION OF CONSERVATION LAW John “Contractor” Williams, colored, of Mattituck, who is seen occasionally peddling clams in about the villiage, is now con fined to the limits of the county jail in Riverhead. Williams was Speak a t Parish Holl In the first parade held in Cut chogue since the Great World War, the Polish National Alliance, oC which Alex J. Danowski, of Cutchogue is chairman, gather ed at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall in Cutchogue on Sunday at 9:30 a. m., and headed by the 45- apprehended by Louis Kneski j piece Mattituck High School Band for selling clams without a san- | marched through the village and itary permit which is a violation of the sanitary code of the Con servation Laws. Unable to pay the a $10 fine he was sentenced to 10 days in the county jail. up Depot Lane to Our L |iy of Ostrabrama Church where a ded ication of the Polish and Amer ican flags took place. This was (Continued on Page 2)
