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Probation Staff
Hears Bates Speak
State Parole Head
Addresses Members
Of Rotary Club
Herbert E. Cooper, director of
the Nassau County Probation
Rtaff, and all his assistants, at-tended
the meeting of the Free-port
Rotary Club in the Elks
club house last Thursday night
when Sanford Bates, State Par-ole
Commissioner, gave the ad-dress.
District Attorney Edward
?. Neary attended as did Elvin
N. Edwards, former county pros-ecutor
and now counsel for the
New York State Liquor Author-ity.
Mr. Bates discussed the ques-tion
as how to punish an offend-er
for his crime and still have
him leave prison a reformed per-son.
He said that the cycle of
opinion regarding punishment
for crime fluctuated, varying
from a demanc* for an extreme
penalty to a more .mellowing at-
Mtude.
Just now, he stated, there was
THE LEADER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1943
emce there was less adult crime,
though the situation regarding
juveniles was not so reassuring.
"No country ever enacted so
many laws to specify what is
criminal conduct and what isn't,
as the United States," he added.
"And we have tried to enforce
these laws."
Mr. Sates said :t was not en-ough
.to look into the prison
problem as of the time a man is
sentenced, but it was necessary
to look ahead to the time when
he will be discharged. He point-ed
out, too, that the prison prob-lem
was one in which all were
whether
penal institutions can be cut. He
said that, at the present time
when there was a demand for
all kinds of labor, the help of
the prisoners was being sorely
sought, but that later there
v/ould be a reaction that might
make it difficult to meet.
Mr. Bates in discussing the
work of the Parole Board told
of the need of realizing prisoners
were individuals and should be
treated as such. He spoke of the
state of minds of various judges
resulting in the imposition of
varying sentences for similar
crime, as one of the problems of
the board, and called for an hon-est
system of sentencing.
He described parole as an ef-fort
at rehabilitation, an extcn-sicn
of the punishment, a help
to those who want to do bctt?r
tnd a check on their bchanor.
As well as being a' protection (. f
the public, it is a help to the
offender, he said. However, he
insisted, the way to solve the
problem is to prevent crime in-stead
of trying to find a cure
after the offense has been com-mitted.
The speaker was introduced by
President W. Sargeant Nixon.
Probation _ officers present beside
Director Cooper, were Gcbr'ge S.
Phesay, assistant director; C.
Pied. Savage, Waldo P. Gillies,
Robert J. Millar, Peter Eckert,
John Worthing, Eric Kcmple
and William Howard.
ff prisoners were be-fng.
fnfectbdT'mentaMy, morally,
and Bodally they would **avc a
bearing..on the Hfc of the Com-munity
as inmates of jaila, pris-ons
and reformatories arc. "our
own people."
Penal institutions can be made
economical and even self - sup-porting,
he asserted. Men sent to
prison to be rehabilitated can-not
be reformed if they are to
be kept in idleness for from five
to 10 years, he continued. With
no job, no trade and no incen-tive,
they cannot be helped, he
added, but if they are put to
work to make things that wHl
not conflict, with industry, the}
will be helped and the cost of
Board Urge* Children
Attend Sunday School
October was set aside as Bi-ble
Sunday School month in a
proclamation issued by the Vil-lage
Board at its meeting Fri-day
night. The matter came up
at a recent meeting of the Nas-sau
County Village Officials As-pociation,
at the suggestion of
i\? Rev. August W. Brustat of
Garden City.
At' that time it was decided to
submit the plan to the individual
villages so it was brought up
by Mayor Clinton M. Flint.
It was contended in the proc-lamation
that 17,000,000 children
in the United States do not re-ceive
the advantages of even a
Sunday School' training, "thereby
contributing in no small meas-ure
to the wave of juvenile de
linquency which is flooding Am-erica
and threatening our free-dom."
"We are vitally interested in
building for a strong and united
America of to-morrow," the doc-ument
continued, "therefore we,
the Mayor and Trustees of the
Village of Frceport, do proclaim
tHe month of October as Bible
courage all parents to enroll their
children in a Bible Sunday
School, and do urge all citizens
to attend the church of their
choice."
Pythian Sisters Meet,
Plan Rummage Sale
At the semi-monthly meeting
of Unity Temple, Pythian Sis-tf.
rs, in 'Pythian' Hall, Monday
night, Mrs. Evelyn Klein, chair-man
of hostesses, reported on
the success of the honor roll de-dication
of Frecport Lodge, K.
of P., on Tuesday night, Sept.
33, Member* of the temple ser-ved
refreshments to the large
number who attended the event
for which they have received the
thanks of Harry Turansky, chan-chellor
commander of the lodge.
Plans were made for a rum-mage
sale to be held late this
month in a store to be selected.
Mrs. Ethel Frcilich, most noble
chief, presided.
Pfc. John L. Agnlttl
Becomes Technician
WHITE CIRCLE TO SERVE
The White Circle -of the La-dies'
Aid Society of Christ Lu-theran
Church will serve a hot
luncheon in the basement of the
church Thursday in connection
with the semi-monthly meeting
of the Society. Mrs, Jens Mor-tcnpen-
is chairman of the circle.
Camp Stewart, Oct. 7 — Poet
Headquarters to-day announced
the promotion of Pfc. John L,
Agnitti, of 111 Liberty ave.,
Freeport, N.R., to the grade of
Technician Fifth Grade.
He was advanced to his new
rank on the recommendation of
hf* battery commander. Post au-thorities
pointed out that his
promotion was based on his at-tention
to duty and his soldierly
qualities.
Wells Proposes Ban
On New Cesspools
Wallace T. Wells, superinten-dent
of buildings, has submitted
a proposal to the Village Board
that it adopt an ordinance ban-ning
the construction Of a cess-pool,
separate system for dispo-sal
of sewerage or a vault where
a sanitary sewer Is available.
The proposal was submitted to
Village Counsel Henry P. Viel-big
at the meeting Friday night.
Action on a communication
:rom the Nassau County De-partment
of Health concerning
the absence of sanitary facilities
a*, the Municipal Bus Terminal
was laid over until the meeting
on Friday .night, Oct. 15.
The salary of Mrs. Louise G.
Kddy, secretary of the local unit
of the Office of Civilian Protec-tion
was increased to $90 a
month.
The temporary appointment of
Mrs. Mary Smith as a stenogra-pher
was approved.
Herbert M. Wood and Fred
S. Howell were appointed archi-tect
and inspector respectively to
make a survey of the building
at 679 South Bay view ave., which
*he superintendent of buildings
has alleged to be unsafe.
^he—board-acted^axacAbbL^Bn
the application of the Fire De-partment
for the restoration of
thr use of the siren at North
Columbus and Grand avcs. The
siren installed as a blackout sig-l
and also used in sounding
fire alarms was discontinued be-cause
of the protests of the res-idents
of the neighborhood. The
O.C.P. approved of the applica-tion
of the Fire Department.
Bicycle Light Law
Enforcement Urged
Insistancc of Frank Schmitz,
rivics chairman of the Northeast
Civ^c Association, that Village
Ordnanijj 27 required bicycles to
be equipped with a rear light
visible at least 200 feet resulted
in a debate with Police Chief Pe-ter
Elar at the Village Board
meeting Friday night.
The chief asserted that the
ordinance was being enforced.
This was questioned by Mr.
Schmitz who said he 'had seen
:,everal children bicycling with-out
lights on his way to the
meeting.
The civics leader said he wan-ted
bicyclists to be required to
have lights so as to reduce the
danger of accidents.
Chief Elar retorted there had
been no serious accident to
v/hich Mr. Schmitz rejoined this
was no guarantee against acci-dents
in the future.
Mayor Clinton M. Flint asked
whether Mr. Schmitz wanted of-fenders
hailed to court. The lat-ter
suggested that it would be
a good plan to take the bicycles
to the police station and hold
(hem until the owners procured
lights.
.No action was taken.
Whatever enslaves man is op-posed
to the divine government.
Truth makes man free.
— Mar Baker Eddy.
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8TH YEAR NO. 19 FREEPORT, N.Y., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943
Diving Planes,
Bursting Bombs
Demonstrate War
Army Production
'Action Overhead* a*
Stadium To-Nlgh(
O. Brooke Bowen, assistant di-rector
of the 'Action Overhead'
production at the Stadium to-night
Issued a statement advls-mg
resident: of Freopoit not to
bo alarmed by the noise of
bursting bombs and the flash*
Ing of flares, after 8:30 o'clock.
The din and the lights wlJ em-
Inate from the Stadium, he said,
and should not disturb anyone.
Diving planes and bursting
wTTT Kring^Tionie To^ TKe
residents of Nassau County to-night
the realities of wai at the
production of the War Depart-ment's
spectacle, "Action Over-head"
to be given in the Munic-ipal
Stadium. The production is
given by the Civilian Protection
School, Traveling Transport U-nit,
of the Army's Chemical
Warfare Service.
The first section is a demon-stration
of how fire bombs of
various types behave and how
thcj\ are controlled when set in
aolion, so _thc average citizen
Gasoline and Ration Book 4
To Be Issued in Schools Here
Will Be Open Tuesday thru Thursday
^rom 1 to 8 P.M. — Instructions
New "A" books for gasoline and Ration Sook No. 4,
will be issued in the five elementary schools of Freeport
5 CENTS A COPY
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on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week from
1 to 8 P.M., Superintendent John W. Dodd announced
to--ddaayw .. *+
Applications for the "A" book
must be obtained In advance and
filled in to get the new books,
but Book 4 blanks will be issued
and filled in at the schools as
the new books arc issued. Mal-colm
Fox, director of the local
rationing board announced that
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the gasoline ration books appli
cations. These contained direc-tions,
that the blanks be mailed
to the rationing boards. This is
not the case, he added. They are
o be presented at the schools.
To obtain a new "A" book,
an applicant must submit his
registration of 1943 plates and
his old tire inspection record
showing an inspection within the
last six months. He should also
produce the back cover of his
old "A" book bearing his signa-ture.
Blah&s
should tonibs atart' to
to fight them with assurance he
can do the job.
Next there will be a simulated
air attack to show as closely as
possible within the limits of
safety what takes place, and
what the organized Civilian Pro-tection
Service may do to pro-tect
life and property.
Proceeding the performance
there will be a parade headed
by Samuel D. Gerbcr, as grand
marshal, and in which the fea-ture
will be the girl twirlcrs and
bands of the Central High
School, Valley Stream;.the Bald-win
and'Freeport High Schools.
The procession will be "headed
tfy a police squad followed by
the color bearers, of William
Clinton Story "Post, A. L.,~aho"
Theodore Henry—Mohr Post,
_ V/F.W. W. Wallace Guest will
-be chief
mg deputy sector
be -JidCsT-Waltgr. Wood,' A. F.
Basectt, "David Knapp, Olin Ed-dy
and Stuart K. .Wallace.
The route of the procession
will jbc f?om Pint and Grove
s(s% TS "SunTtse"^*Highway, to
South Main st., to Mill road to
the stadium which will be rcach-^
cd at 8 o'clock.
There will be a band concert
, by- the three .high.school. groups,.
Richard. A. White, Nassau Coun-ty
Director of Civilian Protec-tion
will give the introduction,
Mayor Clinton M. Flint the wcl-
.come and Lt. Col. Henry C. Hall
will outline the program.
The first act of "Action Over-head"
will be started at 8:30. tn
addition to the Army personnel,
all branches of the O.C.P. in
,Nassau County will be represen-ted
in the production, each of
which will perfo'rin the part for
which it has been trained. The
show is being sponsored by the
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prjy'A'* bqoka may
car
Police Headquarter* and
the Rationing Board at 50 North
Grove st. Car owners on the ap-plication
must give their names,
addresses, where ration books are
to cent and names of employers,
details concerning the car, tirc_
numbers and the speedometer
reading the day the application
is made.
Part B has blanks for the
board number, details concern-ing
the vehicle, tire numbers and
facts concerning the first tire in-spection.
There also are spaces
for the applicant's name and ad-dress.
On. the. reverse side are
spaces for records of three tire^
inspections. The old tire inspec-tion
record. is._to_.be surrendered
when the new book is issued.
--The forms for Ration Book 4,
are very simple providing only
foi the names, sexes .arid' ages-
.
, with! the address and
senting_ the family seeding the
new books.
However applicants will have
to exhibit Book .3, for each of
the group, filled in with the full
address, sex, weight, height and
occupation of each person in the
family.
A person who has no Book 3,
bcfore,he_.can_gct
Book 4. However, the announce-when
Book 4 will be used, but
probably, not for quite some time
to come so no hardship will be
suffered by the delay at this
time." '
As there will be Mo tailoring
of either book, there should be
little delay in obtaining both of
them.
Each principal will be In
charge of the issuance of books
in his or her school, and the
v/crk will be done by teachers
, and volunteer workers.
O.P.A. to Rescind
Power Plant Ban,
Hall Predicts
Petition Urging
___ Acllon-Signod-by -^
All at Meeting
Unless Congressman Leonard
W. Hall proves a false prophet,
the Village Board should receive
word from Washington in a few
days countermanding the order
for it to curtail the operation of
the Municipal Power Plant and
accept current from the Long Is-land
Lighting Co., on Nov. 1.
The Congressman in address-ing
a mass meeting attended by
about 150 persons in. the High
School . awKtoriwm Saturday
'aadecti@K&--;
Two Registration
Day* Only Remain
Only two days of registration
remain for the election on Tues-day,
Nov. 2 — to-morrow and
Saturday. Those who fail to en-roll
cannot vote at that time.
This is an important election,
though it ordinarily would be
an off year, because of the nec-essity
of filling the vacancy
caused by the death of Licut-
Gov. Wallace.
Both parties arc wording to
get out a full vote, as the out-come
is expected to indicate the
trend for the presidential elec-tion
next year.
Registration places will be
open to-morrow from 10 A.M.,
to 10 P.M.. and on Saturday
from 7 A.M. to 10 P.M. ' .
During the first two days,
3,547 voters registered in Free-year.
However, a governor was
elected in 1942, which accounted
for the larger number. Both lea-ders,
Joseph H. McCloskey for
the Republicans and Mrs. Mary
Bannon, for the Democrats, ex-pressed
satisfaction over the to-
,000 Quota
Set for Freeport in
War Fund Drive
Quarters Opened;
Dodd and Patterson
Head New Divisions
A quota of $15.000 has been a.s -.
signed to Frecport by Elvin M.
Edwards, Nassau County chair-man
for the National War Fund
Drive, Dr. Milton B. Waldman,
tht- local chairman, announced
to-day.
Dr. Waldman expressed con-fidence
that the village would
meet this quota. He pointed out
that in the U.S.O. drive a year
ago, ,Kiceport was asked to raise
3ilg^kJ^d3J[u;lud^.$l.Q.QQ^[Qc...
Roosevelt, and went" considerably
over the top.
Further, Dr. Waldman announ-ced
that headquarters had been
opened in the building at II W.
Sunrise Highway, with Mrs. Ha*
rold W. Battin, as executive sec-
.
issue the reversal order. He ad-ded
that the Freeport and Rock-villc
Centre applications were
but two from many municipal
and institutional plants before
the Washington authorities, and
lhat the decisions concerning all
probably would be handed down
down at the same time.
Congressman Hall said the Of-fice
of War Utilities, the Petrol-eum
Administration for War and
the Office of Price Administra-tion
were separate but interlock-ing
agencies and continued:
"I'm sure these agencies have
met and come to a conclusion;
that this village will stay as it
is, and you'll get that decision
from Washington in a few
days.
_
He commended the Freeport
and._..Bockville Centre, officials
fot thc_ thoroughness with .which
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tal. especially as the registration ittary m charge. The telephone
days were moved forward be-cause
of the Jewish holidays.
However, they hope to get out
a greater number during tiic last
days of registration.
G&H Scout* Open
mittee was to get under way
this afternoon at a registration
rally m the Archer St. School
The quota assigned to the vil-lage
is $570.
Mrs. Joseph O'NciM is chair-man
of. the campaign, Mrs. Al-fred
Connelly, treasurer, and
Miss Katherinc Carty, .secretary.
Williams Barash heads the mer-chant*'
committee.
R. Patterson, who s
chairman, would head
TO HONOR STEWART
Frank Corwin, councillor of
Freeport Council, 57, Jr. O. U.
A. M., announced to-day that the
state officers of the order would
pay an official visit to the—local
unit at its meeting in Mechan-ics
Hall, 80 Church st.,-pn Tues-day
night, Nov. 16. The event is
number is Frccport 2320. The of-fice
will be open daily from 9
A,M. to 5 P.M., and evenings if
necessary. All committee meet-ings
will be conducted in head-quarters,
Russell E., Hotal&nz. chairman.
ot club* and pthet^Lgcoup* ah»
, ^*"^K,*$o%yh%;Jk^M*W!^^^w^&!-* expjafn the j?urj*og«* .of" th#-
campafgn.
Dr. Waldman said Dr. John
W. Dodd had accepted the chair-manship
of the youth group, and
Robert
district
the commerce and industry divi-sion.
The Nassau County Red Cross
chapter has commended the pur-poses
of the National War Fund
campaign, Mrs. Henry P. Davi-son,
chapter chairman, announc-ed
today. She pointed out that
the Red Cross and the National
War Fund are entirely separate
activities. •'—• •
"The American Red Cross and
the National War Fund carry on
separate drives and ^dependent
activities," she said. "But they
Freeport." "Hugh Sturnagle ia
state chancellor.. . %.^_ ^
.__,_ Smear
And High School with Paint
Walls of the Frceport High
School and the Memorial Libra-ry
still bear the marks of the
"art work," done by obstrcpor-m
»t%?y%% »=». "" M.ph"\H,,h ,.h«», ""
yifs ..I^L Friday night.
t*ooK 4. nuwcvci, n»; =,.*i»»*.^ It was the second such escap-ment
reads: "It is"H6Y '4tnown< adc by students bf an put of
•' • « * r iL_ =.__..: town high school, for the previ-ous
week a Hempstead group
plastered the stadium wall with
"Hempstead H. S.," and other
markings in big figures. It was
a bad move on the part of both
student groups for in each case
the Red Devils trounced its ri-vals
by a 12 to 0 score.
Mepham students, however,
outdid all other schools in their
vandalism. Not content with
painting up the school walls,
they did a thorough job on the
gray stone library and windows
ol four Main st. stores. At the
Library, they painted "Mepnam
High" in foot high letters on
thr facade of the front wall. On
the stonework to the left of the
door they painted "M.^H. 8.,"
w'hHc "across the oak "doors in
characters of purple, the school
color, they inscribed: "Beat
Freeport 50 to 0."
The job at the high school
was done while a meeting of
men of the armed forces and the
victims - of war." "
The J%cd^Cross will undertake
no fund raising m. the -county
during the National War Fund,
Mrs. Davison explained. As an
organization the Red Cross is
not affiliated with the group of
organizations which will benefit
from the National War Fund.
Democrats to Have
Rally on Oct. 28
- Plans for attending a combin-ed
rally for Freeport and Mer-rick
to be held in the Oak st.
Fire Hall in Mcrrick on Thurs-day,
Oct. 28, will be made at a
meeting of the Frccport Demo
Nassau County teachers was in cratic club tonight in headquar-
" -* —• « ^* :u &
pi ogress in the auditorium. On
both sides of the entrance, to the
auditorium they painted over and
over again on the stone, "Mep-ham
,J)cat Freeport," and similar
inscriptions. They also daubed
up thp aud torium steps.
' Mepham H.S. Beat Freeport/'
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tcrs, 80 Church st., President
Charles F. Egan announced. A
nominating, committee also will
b<: named to report in. Novem-ber
for the election in Decem-ber.
A buffet supper will be
held in K. df C. headquarters,
35 Railroad ave., on Saturday
night, Oct. 23.