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Sanatorium Not Missed by Santa Gifts Galore Pour Into Holts* ville Hospital Create*! Ch. ittma* In Hiilot-y ( *f the Inititutlon at All Suffolk County Unite* in Helping C»u«e HTHROtJ GH the kindhefts of tho ninny * frlohil . -of th. Suffolk Sunatol ' - i«m at Hol tavlllii this yenr lias heen one of the biggest , Chris tmnsRos that the patients , have ever had. All through the day, Superintendent Ed- win Kolb- and the county nurse , Mrs . Blanehard , were busy receiving gifts sent. The Tuesday Club of ' Southold in- . isted-tn having all of the. Santa Claus letters that the children wrote and in filling Hi ei . , requests along with Christmas stockings for everybody. The Suffolk County Auxiliary of the American Legion sent in $2!> 0 for the purchase of a needed poi table ul- tra-violet quartz lamp. The South ' Side Masonic Lodge of Patchogue send in 45 packages of toys and $50 In cash for Dr. Kolb-to spend for the patients. Following is a list of other contri- butions : Arthur Swezey, Patch ogue; $5; Elks '' Lodge , Patchogue , 35 pounds candy ; Rusy-Boh n Auxiliary, Ameri- can Legion , Islip, gifts for ex-service men; Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star, Sayville , gifts for wives and children of ex-s . ryice men; Eastern Star Lodge , Sayville , baskets of fruit for Sayville and vicinity ; The Wo- men ' s Bible Class ot Port Jefferson Baptist CKurch, 150 sleeping caps. C. E. TERRY , HoUsville , two crates '• ' apples; The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.j Patchogue , one crate or- anges;: James Butler Grocery Co. , Long Island City, turkeys for Christ- mas dinner; Wm. Merritt Hailock Post , American Legion , Ronkonkoma , writing paper for ex-service men ; Miss Gertrude Manhart , Patchogue , gifts for Child Welfare Board pa- tients at sanatorium arid 15 pounds candy ? Mrs. R. Burnside P . tter , Smithtown Branch , decorations for as* j _ i, . (Continued on . Bage 4) L . AR- ' be it from us to try to take * away any of the honors won by Master Samuel Collins, Jr., through his having arrived at first place in the . much discussed Kutest Kiddie Kon- test , but we can not help looking for- ward-a:, few year s to the time when \little Sam \ may be , perhaps , in sev- enth or eighth grade at\ school. He may be , by that day, a regular fellow , a noisy, rough , real boy, competing for first- place in basketbal l team. Inevitably this will occur: \Oh , Sammie Collins? He won the Kute Kiddie Kontest! Sure he 'll make it! Sure; he .will I\ a classmate will sing out. ' • Theni , Sam , forge tting the pride and joy he is supposed to be at home , will haul off and hit the taun ting lad on the 'jaw^ Thus , some years from how , will . end Sam ' s glory at haying Won the baby contest. Even as it is an honpr now, it will lie the anthesis when he has put on , \ pants \ and joined the, class of regular boyhood ! And he himself will end it. , , . . . , By Ruby Douglai And ,; speaking of Today and To- morrowi ' as 1927 crowds out 1926 , while wfe feel it is never very good form to praise our own relations , we can hot. let the > year pass on without calling attention to what- one of our own has done. The Patchogue Ad- vance ,.sihee its parents are too shy or well bred to admit it aloud , we must say, has , done something this year of 1926 that no other of , its contempor- aries hits ever done. We , may bring down the disapproval of Ye Edito r , its father in the vernacular of our figure of speech , upon our frank head , but it seems too bad to refrttin from blow- ing a horn- -we so. earnestly want to blow ' . Perhaps. Ye Editor will remem- ber it j . holiday time and if we have a horn we should be allowed to blow it. ' Tliei Patchogue Advance has set a high mark in country journalism Mn ' s year. . XNot only has it published a twenty-four page paper oh Friday, a whole , week's work for the average country, plant , but it tent to work again and issued thirty pages on the following Tuesday. And , withal , the quality/ of liews , editorial comment , feature,aiid advertising has not suf- fered through quantity of production. Now r \if we say it , as shouldn 't , \ wo are p ' toud to be related to The Patchogue Advance and if our kinfolk in the editorial family, cut us off for being so proud of our own connections — -well , we.have erre d in a good cause , and from 'the heart. __ ¦ ; tftP SRBBB AWBTI1J _ M«twt j axie loved tree. * - • Mwr York Wa Io* •&_ • _______> n_, f ___n» _ » __t_ ,fcMm__ _L-~Ad-r. mi SEE II State Park Case Hinges on Funds Matter of Commission ' s Fi. nances Probed Apparent That Park Commh.lon Wa. Determined to Cfct Phrlt Land . — Whitney Ad/niU Altering Bank Record H^HE outstanding feature of llie case of the Pauchogu e Land Corpora- tion against the Long Island State Park Commission seeking to oust that body fro m the former Taylor estate ut Great River and recover damage . 'fo r wrongful seizure over the objections of the owners is the accumulation of evidence that the commission , once having made up its mind to have that l i GOO-ncre tract, lias moved with grim determination to legalize its act, The case wns resumed yesterday nl Riverhead under Supremo Court Jus- tice Dunne , one of the final features of last week' s long proceedings being a visit of the jury to the land itself on Thursday, The Court of Appea l. , having held that the first seizure or appropriation of the land was illegal because the commission had no funds wherewith to pay for it—though the commission claimed its powers wero so broad that it could take any property it wanted and the state would see to gelling the money later—the suit} has settled down to the question of the: second seizure , for tho commission went . a second time through the whole motion of entering and appropriating thc land on September 23, 1925 , with a gift or promise of a gift from Aug. ist Heck- scher , the New York and Huntington multi-millionaire , as its backing. The legislature had failed to produce the money. The commission has clearly, used devious , if allowable , means in its endeavor to correct! its status. There is no question , apparently, that Mr. Heckscher not only made the gift , through the form of stock , but also that the trustees , the bank and the commission tried to work out the ar- rangement completely by the date of the seizure. DUT the evidence last week included *-* an admission that Chairman Robert Moses of the commission had testified to an. untruth when he said the commission actually had the money in the bank at the time (Coun- sel Pollock explained this as tin \ er- ror \); that the Empire Trust Com- pany of Manhattan , through Henry F. Whitney, 'its trust officer , wrote the commission a letter September 23 stating that it could be drawn upon fgr $262 , 000 and Mr. Whitney was not sure what time he wrote it , hut after recess on recall to the stand said he thought he wrote it in the forenoon ' ; that the letter from the Hecksch er trustees to the bank had been sent previous to September 23 but was never signed till in October after Trus- tee Hart , came back from a vacation , and that the bank never had $262 , 000 in money credited to the fund and has not now. Mr. Heckscher himself testified that he had ordered a quantity of stock turned over to the bank for the use of the commission and had promised to make good in cash any deficiency be- tween what it should bring on sale ant\ the amount needed , $262 , 000. The stock , it was shown , had fluctu- ated considerably and at one time he had to put lip 300 share s of North American stock to replenish it. Last week the whole was valued at $280 , 000. Mr. Whitney admitted changing some part of the bank' s! records after he had been subpoenaed , making en- tries to show that the fund was for benefi t of the park commission , which did not previously appear , but he testified that he did not know that he was doing wrong in making a change under the circumstances. ON the question of thd value of the Taylor estate the evidence has varied widely. The plaintiffs have had witnesses to testify th at it , is worth about a million while thc commission has had experts who with ' eq. ua! assur- ance have , claimed it was worth less than . a quarter of that amount, Some of the statements of these men , on both side ' s of the argument, in quali- fying-as \ experts \ were a bit amus- ing. It was shown that the slate park commission paid $90 , 000 for a com- paratively small tract , the old Bel- continued on Page 7) At the annua! election of officers of Old Glory Chapter , Order of the East- ern Star , - Thursday evening, Mrs. Helen Robbins was elected worthy matron and George E. Skidmore was elected worthy phtron. The other of- ficers elected for.the coming year and who will be installed January 13 are as follows : Mrs. Almyra Kaller , as- sociate matron; Mrs . Alice B. New- ins , treasurer; Mrs. Louise Dodd , sec- retary ; Miss Martha Brandau , con- ductress; Mies Jennie Hulse , associate conductress , and Mrs. Lenna Soper , trustee for three years. • MRS. ROBBINS ELECTED WORTHY MATRON OP 0. E. S. South Bay Folks Tell Old Japan What to Eat Prompt Reply to Pitiful Ap- peal Prom Overseas Makes the Mouth Run to Rend What They Say About ,Fi . ing Up Pro- ducts of the Bay Bottoms nnd Flat. ¦VVTHO shall say that the people of ** the good old South Shore will turn a deaf ear to the cry of . hunger coming from faraway Japan ? Who that read in Friday ' s Advance the lot- tor from F. deGaris , written in Tokyo , coul d fail to bet touched with pity for that former Long Islander away out there across the Pacific starving in a land of plenty?—starving; ' for some real clam chowder and fritters , his tongue hanging' out of his mouth for lack of a dish of honest oyster stew? The man just laid his, tale of' misery down on paper and sent it to Tho Ad- vance and Thc Advance' printed ft. . and the re- sponse has been one that ¦rvwill bring be-* -• Idled Christ . mas joy to \ him \ as soon as this issue completes the long trip to the Orient. Read on , and see a few of thc o ffer- ings. Maybe they are just . a starter and there will , come still other speci- fications for making delectable dishes out of Great South Bay products (or such substitutes as Nippon furnishes). ftow this is not a mere private mat- ter , for Mr.. deGaris is in charge of thc English publications of the Jap- anese governme nt , railways , including guide books and advertising, and his writings direct thousands of Ameri- cans and other English speaking- tour- ists in seeing the country, while his home-is a gathering place • for many Americans and Europeans. LIE . is dete ' rmifiert to introduce these * * . South Bay dishes to all comers , and will doubtless see that Long Is- land gets what credit is due when all the dining cars and tank town res- taurants in the realm of the Mikado specialize on oysters and clams a la Paumanake. He will be a veritable chowder missionary, converting the brown men and women fCom eating Cheir bivalves ' plain stewed , or in whatever horrible and untoothsome manner they do devour them now. And so richly will he ' entertain such wayward British or Continentals as may go to Japan before they have come . this way that they will be bound to seek out Patchogue oa their way home and have a look at the j himmer- i-ig shallow sea from thc product of which originated all these delights , and the people who invented them. Incidentally these recipes will do finely by way of islandizing the new- comers here , some of those people who are in steadily increasing- num- bers coming out to these parts to live but have . not yet had time to 'learn the regular way of doing things. Some of them even put their, faith in woe- ful , city-made cook book, and wnsh their oysters before ; cooking them. Imagine that ! They/ throw away the natural luscious liquor arid drown the poor oysters in fresh \ water. \\PHE first recipe that came to hand ¦*• was from a grizzled veteran of the Coast'Guard , or Life Saving Ser- vice , as it was called during most of nts long antl distinguished . service , Captain Fran k Rorke ' of Patchogue , retired. He has commanded the res- cue work at many a shipwreck , and saved even more lives at the mess kettle. He won some special recog- nition from thc goyernment and the state , for the former , and many a hur- rah for tlie latter. Captain Roi-ke , who joined the Coast Guard service at the Blue Point station in 1879 and who served as cap- tain there from 1887 to 1919 , was much interested in the appeal of Mr. deGaris for a clam chowder recipe , (. Continued on Page 4) TAXI: PHONE 3 8 0— ' (United Ciirar Store) Albin , Koe & Terry —Adv. Eleven Injured As Autos Crash On E. Main Street One Car Upset and Complete ly Demolishe d Saturday Car Driven by Bert Griffin , Bcll port , ttftm* Into Brooklyn Car Loaded With Nino People A GAY Christmas pilgrimage to ¦* *• Bellport Willi sadly interrupted here; Saturday afternoon and 11 people more or less seriously injured when it Nnnh car owned and operated hy Daniel Davis of .T . fi . Atlantic Avenue , Brooklyn , containing nine people , wns ..truck by it Stiuli ' thnkoi- sednn owned nnd operated by Burl. Grillln of ltull- p ' ort , who wns ni'c ' pnipnniod hy IVter O'Neil . -tilSo of'Bollpiirt. Wilh Davis ' wns, 1 his wife , .Jack Ab- i-anison of 391- Ocean Avonuc , Brook- lyn! another man , two Indies and three children , and the car was loaded down with Christmas-gifts.nnd toys for Mr, and Mrs. Dnvis w<h e on their way to Bellport to play Sunlit Claus to their six children who -wore staying there. As the Davis cur approached Case Avenue the Stud .(baker sedan - oper- ated by Griflin cartfe , from the east nt it high speed. ] He apparently lost control of the heavy car , Davis /says , for the ma- chine suddenly swerved clear over to the south side ofi the road , anil as Dnvis turned out ; toward the mid- dle to avoid him ,; Griffin started to check the direcliqn of his car and turn hack to the n-ight side of the road. As he did po he crashed into the well laden D^vis car broadside , upsetting it and alrnos t completely de- molishing it; Human beings; toys , mi Ik , bottles and wraps were scattered wholesale over the roadway as the occupants of tlio crii. - narrowly escaped serious injury. Griffin was takei) to Dr. Johix ' w. Bennett' s where three stitches, were taken in his left li jg and O'Neil was taken to Unger ' s^hospital suffering f i-om shock but wis discharged Sun- day morning. AU' j&f the occupants of the Davis caf we . : j taken to Unger ' s suffering from ininor bruises and scratches , anfj .lHiijinid Mrs. Davis ' re-; mained \ over \ the week-end , she \ suf- fering from shock and he from a seri- ous injury to his back. While the Davis car was nothing more than a twisted and torn mass of steel which was later towed to Albin , Roe & Terry ' s garage , the Griflin car sustained only minor damages to the front and one of the fenders. Peopl e Did Heed Appeal to Mai! Early This Year Local Postoffice Did Record Breaking Business Outgoing Chrbtma. Package* anil Card* Reached Peak Load a Day Earlier Than Usual—Incoming Mat- ter Heav y \\THE advice to \ mail your Christmas ¦ * packages early \ was heeded lo- cally to a far greater extent than ever before and Ihis is believed due to the general campaign adopted by. the post- ofiice , the merchants , newspapers anil theatres to . educate the public into get- ting their Christmas mail on-th e way at an early date. Last year , and in years past , the peak on outgoing mail has been reached late the day before Christmas or on Christmas eve but this year the peak was reached nearly two days b efore that, fhe high point in outgoing mail , , was reached at 3:15 o ' clock Thursday afternoon and after .that ^he. egress of mail subsided until a \' norma}\' condition ' had b' e ' eri reached by Friday. . . All records for the \ amount , of mai l handled were broken by the postoffice here throughou t the Christmas rush season , but despite this fact the heavy volume of mail was handled with mol'e ease than in any other year. 'As to incoming mail the parcel ' , po ' st matter was distributed with • comparative speed and ease but thc regular car- riers ' problem was the most difficult one. In some cases between seven and eight hours were necessary to get the mail properly cased for distribution and then the letter carriers had a load th«t took them a full day to dispose of. . ' On some routes, the idea of a helper was tried out with much , suc- cess. A . young man accompanied the regular carrier and took one side of the street , under thc carrier ' s sup er- vision , and the success of thip innova- tion warrants the idea being used on all of the carrier routes next year. Practically all of the incoming mail was disposed of by Saturday noon , which was the zero h . otir for the de- livery of mail , and while some accu- mulated over the week-end to make a fairly heavy delivery yesterday morn- ing, conditions are entirely normal on both outgoing and incoming mail to- day and all ' of the extra help has been dispensed with. The incoming mail did not reach the early peak level that the outgoing did , for the rush of mail for distribution here continued late Friday, The postoffice reports that an aver- age of 1 , 000 packag-es were handled each day last week for distribution In Patchogue and the heaviest outgoing mail consisted of 100 sacks. The re- ceipts of the busiest day this year were $800 as compared with JJGOO for the peak day last year. There were 10 , 000 more letter.) handled ort De- cember 22 this year than last year , for tho records show that 16 , 000 let- ters and cards were sent out of tho Patchogue postoffice a year ' ago that day and the figure on the same day this year was increased to 26, 000. Lafayette Folk Dine and Dance Large Group Attend Annual Banquet at Elks Graduate , nnd Undergraduate * With Their Giie.U Litton to Entertain- ing Proftrnni of Addro. se. and Sen Movie, of Colic , e Lifi . T A FAYETTE College- graduates , *-* both old nnd young, together with a goodly number of undergraduates and their friends as well ns soni c prospective students , gathered ut the Klks ' Club last night for tho uniiuiil banquet of the Lnfnyetto Alumni As- sociation of Suffolk county, It was by far the biggest and most success- ful of the annunl meeting. - , ot the Lafayette people in this section , a group of Oft people being on hntul to enjoy the dinner , listen to nn excel- lent program of addresses and indulge in the dancing after tlie dinner. Eugene Hawkins , Jr. , of East Pat- chogue , president of the alumni asso- ciation and chairman of tho committee In charge of the event , acted ns toast- master and in it few brief remarks ho spoke of the college life nt Lafay- ette as he knew it and his particular wish was thnt Uifayette should turn out more engineers. Each of the speakers had a definite aim for the college and It wns of interest to note the various vocations that they felt should be stressed by the college. The singing of college songs wns led by Attorney Frank W. Shaw of Patch- ogue , class of 190-1 , and the cheers which resounded through the spacious banquet hall , were given loudly and lustily by a group of, the younger alumni anil present students following each of the speeches. The feature of the evening was the screening of moving pictures of Laf- ayette life , taken by Howard S. Conk- lin , of Patchogue , '16 , and Dr. Frank Overton , of Patchogue , '90 , and show- ed by Dr. Overton. This movies show- ed the eve ryday life at the college , scenes taken at commencement and during the Muhlenburg game last fall. Scenes and memories of former days were recalled to the minds of the older alumni as the pictures flashed , across the screen. -Z . Geprge L. . Robiiison o£ , the class} of 1892 , in speaking for the local alumni: called ' to niiiid ' old ' college days \ and gave a number of interesting anec- dotes of college , life \ as it existed at that time. He was followed by _Dr. : B. C. gingham , head of the,depart-; ment of chemistry at Lafayette^ who! Stressed , the great need , and impor- tance of adjusting ourselves .to .an ; eve r-changiiig age. He , brought up a; \ (Continued on Page '8) ' Bird Invades Home and Wrecks Pie THIS is a bird of a- story- in the true; sense of the word and whether there-is or is not a Santa Claus , it happened on Christmas Day, This bird didn 't' come down ' any chimney or in any bird cage but rath , r entered suddenly and unexpectedly through a window and not content with scaring the occupants of the house ' proceeded' to wi*eck a pumpkin p ie and also the appetites of a hungry hdusefiold Who were just preparing to sit down to a. regular Christmas dinner. ' . Mrs. George Roeckel of 178 East Main Street had been working in front of the east windows in her kit- chen at 1 o ' clock , putting thc finish- ing touch es \ on her dinner. After com- pleting her work there she turned to- wards the stove and just as she did so she heard ti crash as though the side of the house was coming in. She stood motionless for a moment as she saw an immense bird , either a chicken hawk or an eagl e , swoop clown onto tho table in front of the window and wreck the now-made pie. Frightened by the unus . ua! occur- ence she called her husband who was in the back yard and the ugly bird , temporarily stunned by his breaking through tlie window, was picked up by Mr. Roeckel , who placed it in a little coop outside with the intention of killing the bird after dinner. In tlie meantime ono of the neighbors came over to look at the feat' iered in- vader ' and on approaching tlie coop saw that the hawk , if it was ono , had battered looso one of the slats by the constant pounding of its wings and just as he got to lli o coop the bird let loose in another frenzy of bat- tling, forced its wny out nml flew away. Whether it was a hawk lias not boon definitely determined but from its de- scription it would seem that it was an eagle. It is bolievod that the bird swooped down to make iuvay with two little bantam roosters that arc kept in the back ya rd and that the bird mis- judged its distance and crashed through the window. Tho entire up- per pane was shattered' and the shade in front of it torn by the sharp talons. The next time that Christmas comes at the Roeckels they are going to put steel blinds on the windows to pre- vent any such untimely arrival of strange birds. Sumner Estate Goes to Widow Is Court Decision Druhan Says There Was Joint Ownership Property in En»t Palclioguo Award- ed to Widow After Two Year* ' Liti- gation—Step-children Oppo.ed Her 1' oieeiiion A FTRlt prolonged litigation and mi- - ** morous hearings Mrs. Maud\ thildc Willis Sumner , widow of tho Iato George Watson Stunner ,, it r«?a . admiral in the. U. S. Navy, wa . ' . dp* clared by Justice Charles J. Drtihad In tin-* .Supreme Court on Friday to be the owner of the \large ostnte dii tho wist shore of Enst Lake , in Kni)t Patchogue , for which her - step-chil- dren , George Albert Sumner , ' John Sumner , Mrs. Georgin. Louise Brt-w- stor nml Ai rs. M^ude Claire linger* man , have been fighting in court , for two yoai-3. The property was \ ac- quired in 1903 , the consideration be- ing £25 , 000 hut due to increase in property values in this section tho es- tate is worth a great deal more to- day. ' ¦ . / ¦ ' ' When Admiral Stunner died about two years ago he loft a will In which he cut off his wife in favor of his f oi^r children , and a . brief memorandum ' i ii his own handwriting said that he and his wife had not been on cordial terms for sometime , claiming that she was trying to gather in his property arid that she had been unkind to the chili dron. All of these charges were de- nied by her. ' ' • • ' \ - ' ¦ • . *' ¦ .!' , Sumn er ' s children of his ffrst wife , sued for the property, conteiiding that their stepmother ' s interest ' . in it amounted to only ? 1 , 000 , on the the- ; ory that her interest was merely 'that, of mortgagee , she having : loaned $1 , 000 to her husband to help-hifa make the down payment¦; of ?8 , O60. She claimed the whole of it as it wis . deeded in the names ' of the admiral and herself together. : ' - . ' ¦ '' - : ' ¦ ¦ (: - , - '' - rV: V '\PRE action started when it Was . (lis- . . ' . , covered that Mrs, , 'Siimher . \ wfls ' In possession of practically all; thit the . a(i_^rhl ^ had _ie . ft^i»J^iscove^^6 . - ^ cpeifjng 'tieftre \]3u rxoga^ Pelletreau - failed to upset : her. ' cl' aipi , that all the personal property ' she ' had Was' her-own !;savings ; or-belongings.. ¦ This wds; foII6Wed ' by an action to es-; ta ' blish rights in tlie residence by. . . . the ' .: four children of: the former . wi fe;aitil ' in tlie meantime Mrs . Sumner ^retained possession on. the . ground^, thafc . ;she . and the admiral were joint, owners before his death aiid that she ' became the owner- on his demise * - ' ¦ ' • ' ' ¦ * > , \ Justice Drujjan in deciding that-she is entitled to the property, comment edr .: . ( • ' • ¦ ¦ , - - ¦ . ' . ¦ . -:. ' - . - 'Z:ZZZZ; * - ' \It should not be overlooked: that the i ' Rrantees were husband and ;wife and that they were presumably living . in harmonious relationship., - In these circumstances there . is a strong -pre - • (Continued on-Pa go ' ^). '/. ' , - ' - ' -- . ' - . - . - ' : ' - River Ave . Man < Accused of Bribery Fred Mattola Charged With Offering: Bribe to Trooper and . .Carrying Dangerous Weapon—Out on $4 ,500 ' Bail ' .; ' . . . ' - . J7RED M ATTOLA. . of River Avenue , -* better known ' perhaps in these parts as \Red Pete , \ is' out on $4 , 500 ball awaiting the action of the grand jury on charges of possessing a : dan- gerous weapon and for giving a ' bribe for preventing his arrest for ihe al- leged possession of liquor. It all caine about lost Friday when Corporal George P. Keenan of the Bay Shore - headquarters of the state troopers visited Mattola ' s place on River Ave- nue. Mattola , it is charged , fearing-ar- rest for his alleged rum dispensing activities , offered the corporal $180 , all ho had on his person at the time. The trooper says he took the money and then arrested Mattola for > ' the poss ession of a .38 calibre revolver and that night brought his man be- fore Judge John H. Morton of Brook- haven. T ;. ; The fact that'Mattola is not a citi- zen alters tho ordinary charge of possessing a pistol unlicensed , ' under the- Sullivan law , und this fact and the serious charges , are expected ,, > .the trooper claims , to. weigh against * hiro when his case comes before thc Grand Jury. He denied having the gun when ho was brought before the judge. . ' Cor- poral Keenan produced the bribe, he said he had taken as evidence earlier in tho day. Bail was set at Wi 'OOO on the bribe giving charge and at $1 ( 500 on the charge of having the weapo^. His wife furnished tho necessary bail, giving as security a piece of real estate on River Avenue , valued tit $10 , 000. ' .. _ dattola is well known in certain ' cir- cles and is said to have made consid- erable money during- the past few- years , with which ho has purchase , d. much property, and is reputed to pwn- a number of fine cars. ' ¦ ~Z : - . . Tin' . oeond fo rced enti'ntii'i! to tbo home., of mminiei- resident*. In this vll- higo . \ . imi. It) light on Christinas liny when Horace Nowitis r .ported to Of- ficer Kurdi'i* that - the HIIIIIIU M' re-si- donci* of Louis Prisso at, 25U Bny Ave- nue Imd been broken into within llm preceding few days . Officer Kordes Hindi* uu immediate investigation and found thai the lock on the rear en- trant. .. had boon forced , but nfloi- go- ing through tlio place could not, find tlmt anything had been taken. Mr. New! ns replaced the lock nnd the own- er \ IIIH notified of lhe break. Some timo ago the nearby summer home of Frank Currier , film uctor of Holly- wood nnd Pntchoguiv was broken into and several valuable objects destroyed ns tlio vandals cluttered up the inte- rior of ti n. home. FIND ANOTHER SUMMER COTTAGE BROKEN OPEN H. S. Basketeers x Doing Hard Practice Will Meet Strong Alumni Quintet on Hi gh School Court Friday Nig ht— ¦Thome* Jefferson.H. S. Here Ji»n. 7. THROUGH- , this is vacation time for * the public schools of Patch ogue il is by no means vacation for Coach Emery ' s basketb all squads , for; these days are going to be utilized in a very strenuous fashion towards keeping the boys in shape and improving their form. The next big game for the Red and Black will be with Bay Shore af- ter the holidays and from all appear- ances this will bo Patchogue ' s most vorthy opponent in this section of the league. Until last Friday Bay Shore loomed up strong as a contender in this section hut after the showing of the Patchogue teams the Patchogue prospects appear unusually bright. But . Coach Emery is taking no chance ' s. . \ During the vacation period the Red and , Black quintets will spend much lime on the River Avenue court. At the timo thc new school was built Coach Emery hail this surface layed out on nearly thc same plans and di- mensions as that of Bay Shore ' s so th at the high sch o ol hopefuls could ac- custom themselves to such a size and type of court. Furthermore thc Bay Shore quintet is made up of a group of fairly tal l and sizeable youth s who will be able to pass over the heads of Llie. majority of thp local lads. To offset,. , this probability Springhorn , Marran . -Magurk , Demarest and other stars of former days are going to scrimmage against the higlj school during vacation so that Patchogue will be able to develop a strong game , both offensive and defensive , against a larger and taller team. Yesterday the squad reported for the first of a series of practice ses- sions iri preparation for the ulumni game on Friday evening on the high school court. While it is not dsfinitely known what the lineup of the alumni quintet will be it is expected that all of the alumni members of the 1925 team will be on hand to meet up with this year ' s fast-stepping aggregation. The next home game on the schedule 5s with Thomas. Jefferson high school here on January 7 and this will be one of the big games f6r the local team , outside of the league objectives. The following week Patchogue plays a league game at Northport followed by the first Bay Shore clash here. When Howard S. Conklin gave Un- people of thin vicinity itn exceptional Biblical window display two wt-olt . ago ho had no idea lunv widespread would bo the inti-Tosl created by this innovation which showed tho Scrip- tures in IS different languages and (li.ilocts, Due to the season of the your , ho could mil keep this display longer tliini it week , but thnt was all too short fur people who wanted to see thu display!' No sooner had hc di . conlinvod ll tlinn people from nut- lying villages and a number from the North Shore miiil e known thou- de- sire that It might he shown ngtiiii. So Mr. Conklin announced this morning Unit the display will be ar- ranged again today and will bo on view for the remainder of the week. The Bibles h^d already been packed and miide rniuly for return .hipment to the American ' Bible Society, from whom they were obtained , but Mr, Conklin is unpacking tli e collection to- day. H. S, CONKLIN TO SHOW BIBLE DISI'LAY AGAIN The Patchogue Advance was desig- nated by the supervisors at Riverhead yesterday as the Republican news - paper to . print the tax sale nnd lax sale redemption notices for 1927 , while the Southampton Times was desig- nated as the Democratic newspaper for that purpose. The Greenport Times was designated as the Repub- lican paper to publish the election notice and canvass , and the Central Islip Messenger was the Democratic designee. The law requires bi-partisan publication of these important notices and each year certain newspapers aro appointed by caucus among the su- pervisors. The last time the Advance had the tax sale advertising was 11 years ago. ' BHA-TD'B New crop Molasses has ju.il arrived. Hlnenl we have liotl in yran , 30c quart. —Adv. ADVANCE TO PUBLISH NEXT TAX SALE NOTICE
