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PAGE TWELVE T H E WATCHMAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939 SULUVAN DEMANDS BUDGET MADE PUBLIC (Continued from Page Supervisors have made excessive expenditures during the past fiscal year and that they have gone so far in debt that it will be neces sary to float a bond Issue or bor row money to meet current ex penses on the basis of anticipation of taxes after the new budget is approved. Mr. Sullivan’s letter follows: “October 17, 1939, Hon. Edgar A. Sharp, Chairman, Finance Committee, Suffolk Coun ty Board of Supervisors, Patchogue, New York. My dear Supervisor Sharp:- I am writing you as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors of Suffolk County because I understand that you are in charge of the prepara tion an4 collation of the annual estimates which will go to make up the Suffolk County budget for the coming year. I understand that the proposed budget may not be filed until after Election. I think that the voters and taxpayers of Suffolk County are entitled to know what the proposed budget contains and that the Democratic candidates for Su pervisor who are all pledged to economy should have an oppor tunity to study the proposed bud get prior to Election and make such criticism and suggestions as they might deem for the benefit of the people at large. Therefore, I make this public demand upon you that as Chair man of the Finance Committee in charge of the proposed budget you should file the budget with the Board of Supervisors of Suffolk County or the Clerk thereof im mediately in order that it may be scrutinized in the light of day prior to Election. I also would request that you furnish me and the Democratic candidates for Supervisor in each of the ten towns with a copy of the proposed budget immediately after it is filed and becomes public property. I wish that you, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, would also furnish me with a statement as to all unpaid bills outstanding against Suffolk County and advise me whether or not there is any truth to the rumor that the more than four hundred and fifty thou sand dollars recently borrowed in anticipation of taxes is not nearly sufficient to cover such outstand ing indebtedness. I think that all of this informa tion should be made available to Ihe public prior to Election. I am sending a copy of this letter to each member of the Finance Committee and to the Chairman of the Board of Super visors. Yours very truly, CHARLES H. SULLIVAN, Democratic County Chairman.” <*. Collision And Fist Fight Result In Fines Of $60 (Continued from Page 1) Henry Tasker, and the men were fined $10. How the accident occurred or why- the fight ensued was a mys tery to Southold Town Officers Antone Chituk and Patrick Kelly, who investigated the accident and fight, explaining that the battle occurred a few minutes after the two autos collided. The machine driven by Bates and carrying the other negroes as passengers was headed north on Peconic lane when it crashed op posite the Peconic School with an auto operated by Raffaele Man- tone and having Frank Russo, Thomas Dembino and Castare as passengers. Both parties jumped out of their cars, an argument followed, and the white men proceeded to beat up the colored men. Walter Ken ny was stabbed, in the hip during the fight, Ralph Bates sustained injuries of the head, while the other .two escaped with swollen eyes and bruised. Raffaele Man- tone was fined $10 for reckless driving. Dr. Benjamin Leaves Estate Valued At $99,202 (Continued from Page 1) has not yet been entered. Mary Ella Hallet, widow, receives the bulk of the estate. Charles Henry Smith of Shelter Island, who served as supervisor of that township for many years, and was chairman of the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, left a gross estate of $72,140.84, ac cording to the schedules filed in Surrogate’s Court, Riverhead, this week by William J. Hattrick, at torney for the estate. The tax decree has not been entered. The will disposing of the net estate of $69,379.84 gives Albert R. Smith, son, a 36 acre farm, $3,000 in cash and all livestock and farm implements and tools. The residue of the estate is willed to the widow, Florence Wade Smith. Elizabeth B. Corwin of Green- port, mother of Fred L. Corwin, editor and publisher of the Suf folk Times in Greenport Village, who died October 7, left an es tate valued at $10,000 in personal and $5,000 in real property, it was revealed in the filing of a will for probate in the Surrogate’s Court, Riverhead. According to the .will the entire estate was left to her husband, Isaac T. Corwin, who predeceased her. The will provided that in the event of the death of the husband, the homestead residence on Main street, Greenport Village, was to go to her son, Fred L. Corwin, who also was to share equally with his own daughter, Virginia Corwin Dorman, a granddaughter of the testatrix, of Parsons, W. State’s Oldest House Still Standing In Cutchogue Loses Finger In Fight With Cot>8 I ' (Continued from Page 1) and only the fact he was wearing a heavy overcoat saved Macomber from being severely injured. According to the story, Stulski, who was pronounced under ^he influence of liquor by a physician, was finally subdued by the officers and placed in jail. As the cell door was being closed by the offi cers, Stulski, in an effort to pre vent the door being closed, caught the small finger of his left hand, mangling it painfully. He was taken to the Eastern Long Island Hospital, whei’e the attending phy sician amputated the finger above the first joint. Stulski was then returned to his cell and arraigned before Judge Bassarear the fol lowing day charged with disord erly conduct. A fine of $25.00 was imposed and a jail sentence of 30 days, the latter being suspended by Bassarear. { ADVERTISE IN ) 1 THE W A T C H M A N I ORPHANS OF W A R An outgrowth of Japan’s war on China are the hundreds of needy children who are “on the prowl” in Shanghai. In pairs and in packs of fifteen to twenty they scavenge, snatch and steal from shopkeep ers, ambush lone pedestrians, and then claw one another 'for the loot. Va., in the residuary estate. They are the orphans of war. These youngsters hide in alley ways, in unused lofts, and in hall ways, striking swiftly, and then shifting to another part of the city. Their cunning tactics of melting into crowds and pretending to be the children of strangers defy police detection and make difficult estimates of their numbers. It is believed that there are more than 5,000 of them in Shanghai and its environs. Hardly a district is without these children. On the busier thor oughfares they are stationed about every ten feet, begging for cop pers. Frequently they crack show cases of stores to steal the con tents. Many of them scavenge in the devastated Chapei area, where thousands of homes have been demolished. Schooled by hunger and fear, most of them have come to be suspicious of any show of friend liness and kindness. They fight hospital attendants and health of ficers who try to take them to refugee camps and hospitals. Many of the smaller children were separated from their parents in the exodus of hundreds during the early part of the war. Hun dreds, too young to fend for them selves, have died each day. Paralleling this acute problem in Shanghai is that of hundreds of babies born daily in refugee camps, vacant sites, and on pave ments. Each morning a pitiful procession of mothers bear new born babies to impoverished clin ics and hospitals for care. W H A T AN A R M Y ! The world’s strangest standing army is commanded by Richard von Opel. It fights for no country and is more often defeated than victorious. Each of its forty-eight members has “died” at least once on the battlefield, and they have all been trained to carry eigh teenth century spears at the prop er angle, to ride horseback in suits of armor, and to operate modern machine guns. Three years ago the troop did not exist. It was the creation of von Opel, who came to the United States in 1932, but found his ac complishments as a soldier and a gentleman little in demand. But his occasional visits to the movies had left him appalled at the in efficiency displayed by the screen Yacht Club Fetes Commodore (Continued from Page 1) recipient of a present. Mr. Kolle in a short installation ceremony introduced each of the officers, who were received with great applause. The toastmaster read telegrams of felicitation from Dr. Walter Schilke, Commodore H. M. Knob- lock of the Orient Yacht Club and Commodore Grant Harrison of the Old Cove Yacht Club. Among the out of town mem bers present at the dinner and the dance which followed were Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Roon, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Glendenning, Mr. and Mrs. John Kemp, Mr. and Mrs. Her bert Adler, Mr. and Mrs. Fred erick Kolle, Mrs. Marie Bruenner, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Katzenburg, Dr. and Mrs. Alec Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Miller, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Collison, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Wirth, Roliert True- benbach, Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Bru- dermann, Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Daly and Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Mott. The committee for the evening were Dr. S. B. Fisher, chairman; Miss Ruth Tuthill, Tom Currie- Bell, Arthur Gagen and Walter Williams. armies, so he decided to train a “regiment” which would be really professional. For the most part he recruited his men from gasoline stations, soda fountains and department stores; a few came from colleges and high schools. Von Opel put them through months and months of military ■ exercises, fencing, horsemanship, and gymnastics. Today his “army” is the finest in Hollywood. In the last two years it has ap peared in twenty-four pictures, and is still in constant demand. Whether a studio requires a Mac edonian phalanx or a crack High land Scottish brigade, an heroic Swiss Guard for Marie Antoinette, or red-coated troops, for Napoleon to command in Conquest, von Opel’s army is ready to march at a moment’s notice. —The Commentator Magazine. (Continued from Page 1) ^ ford and Payne houses in East Hampton, which claim eight or nine year's greater antiquity. But he said that their dates were ex tremely controversial and that in any case the Horton house was richer in architectural treasure. The so-called salt-box shape of the two story gabled building, produced by the lean-to effect on one side, was a result of an addi tion built many years after the original structure, according to Mr. Pope. The old wall is still standing, however, under the lean- to roof and contains Elizabethian casements which have been re placed by newer type windows in the rest of the house. The walls were filled with reddish brown clay and seaweed as an insulator. The two main timbers of the house’s frame ran its entire length and were 13 by 9V^ inches, and the rest were almost as large. The stairs were of the winding type. The ceiling and side walls were plastered over hand-split laths fastened to the beams with hand-split nails. An old chimney takes up an eighth of the original floor space in the middle of the house. The Horton house, which has not been inhabited for over fifty years, is owned by the five sons of the late Frank Case. It is used as a storage building for farm implements and tools. Mr. Case was a descendant of the Wickham family, which bought the struc ture in 1691, although it has been in other hands at various inter vals. The builder, Benjamin Horton,, was the son of Barnabas Horton, who came from England to Hamp ton, Mass., in 1638. Barnabas was one of the first twelve Puritans to desert New England for Long Island. It is rumored that the property will be leased from the Case fam ily and converted into a park in conjunction with Southold’s Te centenary Celebration next y THE REEVE MOTOR SALES ★ ★ ★ ★ EXTENDS A CORDIAL INV ITATIO N TO YOU TO VISIT THEIR SHOW R O O M S A N D INSPECT THE ★ ★ ★ ★ NEW 1940 CHEVROLET CARS and TRUCKS RIVERLEIGH AVE. RIVERHEAD ■ WORMS WHILE INVISIBLE SHOVEL COAL AND HAUL ASHES Wouldn't It be fun to burn coal without shoveling H? You never even dreamed that vwrmi could ttoke your furnace, empty ashes, set drafts, and keep your home perfectly heated, even while you slept. It's so and we'd like you to see them. Furthermore they can be fitted right into your present furnace—so quickly your house won't even get cold. 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