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• p By CHARLES L. MOONEY \ ¥ 7 E ALWAYS HATE to spoil someone's story, especially * * when the fellow is as good a friend as George Wolfgang,

the printer who observed his 50th anniversary in the trade this month. * $

In an interview in the Schenectady composing room where he now holds forth, George said one of his fondest memories was of the night of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, which broke early in the morning and necessitated an extra he and one other printer put out on The Knickerbocker Press.

We hate to disagree with George, but the Lindbergh kidnap­ing story broke in the middle of the evening. We recall the night well. It was Mar. I, 1932, and we were covering Police Headquarters for the old Knickerbocker Press. George Wolf­gang was foreman of the composing room on the same news­paper. 7 > 0

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A LB ANY WAS A GREAT news town/in those days, and there -r- *ere numerous big police stories that broke at night. We had sort of a set routine on nights when we weren't out on stories.

We used to eat quite frequently in a restaurant called The Pagliaccio, which an old friend, Tom Rose, operated at YOUNG LAWYERS MEET-TA. Young Law-that time in Beaver St. just below S. Pearl. Tom used to' JX«" Section of the. State Bar Association met to-have a varied clientele and among his fairly regular cus- d*y •* • » Diw,tt clintoa «oiel for its annual turners were John Oley, Manny Strew! and Percy Geary,; inference. Chatung before the meeting began three of the men now in prison for the John J. O'Connell Jr. kidnaping.

Ordinarily, after our nightly sustenance, we'd step out to the corner of Beaver and Pearl to get the air. The corner by the mail box made a good spot, since a reporter could meet some of his friends out for a stroll and perhaps pick up a bit of gossip.

THE KNICKERBOCKERNEWS Albany, Y Y „ Saturday, March 3 1 , 1 9 5 1

conference. are: left to right: Jay Cox

Th* Knickerbocker Nr» Photo newly elected secretary and chairman of arrange­ments for the meeting; James J. Beha Jr. of New York City, retiring president; Herbert T. Slade of Syracuse, newly elected president, and Irving

O'Brien, Albany, I. Waxman of Albany, counsel to the State Uni­versity of New York,

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C. of C. Opens Drive to Improve Downtown Parking Conditions Then, too, there were no police prowl cars in those days, the

sergeants and lieutenants who were on the street used to walk, and Beaver and Pearl ordinarily was one of the points where the! patrolman'would meet his superior, so it may be seen there was A move to improve downtown;adequate parking space on busi plenty of activity about the corner and a police reporter could [parking conditions has been start-!men and their employes, learn from the sergeant or lieutenant just about what was doingjed by the Albany Chamber of: Terming businessmen and their

Elect New Officers

Approximately 130 members of the Young Lawyers Section of the State Bar Association met in Al­bany today to elect officers and outline projects for the year. The group is made up of attorneys under :*.« years of age.

At the morning session at the DeWitt Clinton Hotel. Herbert T. Slade of. Syracuse was elected chairman of the section, succeed-

:ing James J. Beha" Jr. of New ,York City. Mr. Slade had served as vieechairman.

Theodore T. Weiser of New [York City was named vieechair­man and Jay Cox O'Brien, Al­bany, secretary. Mr O'Brien" is chairman of the committee which

j arranged the meeting, i The young attorney's decided

I on three major projects for the jcoming year:

Work toward having Legal Aid Society offices and legal referral service offices set up in each county in the state; the bringing up-to-date of a pamphlet explain­ing state laws relating to prob­lems of young men in the armed services, and formation of a pub­lic information service and speak­ing program for panel discussions, debates and forums*.

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PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANCY Former Detective Sgt. Anthony J. Dean, is shown taking his oath of office following him promotion to detective-lieutenant today. Administering the oath is Pol fee Commissioner Kirwin. Lieutenant Dean will remain with

the Night Squad.

Sgt. Dean of Night Squad Promoted to Lieutenant

in his bailiwick. Commerce. Striving for imme- employes as 'the fly in the oint-

notes that the customer parking space is essential for the exist- a r e designed to

Detective Sgt. Anthony J. Dean, veteran member of the Albany Police Department Night Squad, today was promoted to lieutenant

WuTeTe Legal" Aid Societies j ot„ detectives by Police Commissioner Kirwin. The appointment ie

ence of a downtown business dis­trict.

Tdiate action. Carl A. Fraser, ment," Mr Fraser wrote: •All-1 The letter from the chamber We chanced to be standing at the corner when the chamber president, has inaugu- day parkers in the business dis-i president contains a return post-

Lindbergh story broke. The late Al Carson was city editor rated the program among cham-jtrict are generally employed in card on which store operators

in-

of The Knickerbocker Press and the first word we had of per members. the big story was the arrival of Francis Kelly, now an Al-i I n a circular letter to the 1,050 bany fireman, at that time an office bov on The Knicker- m e m b e r s v M5 Eraser places bocker Press. * , a rf e^a r t o f t h e b l a m e f o r

Carson had sent Kelly out to round up the staff. The kid knew Jie'd Jind JIS at Beaver and^Pearl. He Founded up Zeke Smith and some of the other reporters at scattered points and the wheels were started toward the extra edition the story war­ranted.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS of frequent extras, and we oc­cupied a somewhat enviable position, for we were the only

reporter on the late night trick and, after covering a police story, we'd have to come into the office and write it.

In the dead of night these days The Knickerbocker News ire in darkness, but we can still see things as they were

the district. They use their auto­mobiles to and from work when they should make greater use of nublic trartsit. They hog space from 8 to 10 hours a day."

• Beginning at 8 a. rtv, the first to arrive downtown are the all-day parkers—office and service employes, store owners and man­agers. This group occupies a large portion of all . available space. By mid-morning, all space; is taken and no place ramins for customers. If they do find a place, it is usually many blocks from their destination"

Mr. Fraser declared overtime

Some IUU employe, of R a m s e y , ^ * , Is b e * n n i n « l° s l r a n g l e

Chain Company Inc.. Menands,

are to sign a pledge for support of the program. The pledge cov­ers store owners and managers and employes.

can afford only help those who • minimum fe«|

effective tomorrow. He becomes the second lieu-

for legal service, the legal refer-1 tenant of detectives in the his-ral service would aid, it was said, [tory-of the department. The post

Ramsey Firm Faces Strike Monday

2 Albanians" Hurt Slightly In Accidents

•90 per cent of a county's popu­lation."

The referral service would make a list of attorneys available to persons needing legal advice and would provide a set fee for the first conference. Referral services now exist in counties in the state. J

was created by the Board - of Estimate and Apportionment. The other detective-lieutenant is Lt. Robert Seward, assigned headquarters.

Lieutenant Dean, a Coast Guard chief petty officer dur-

Thompson's T

Puts 'Curfew9

° On Early Birds

ing World War 2, was appointed to the force Jan. 1. ItK. He was promoted to detective Mar. 16, 1836, and to sergeant of detec­tives May i:t, 1048.

Commissioner . Kirwin said Lieutenant Dean will remain on Night Squad duty.

in the late '20s and early '30s.

downtown IS

business in a

section jured in automobile 'the will strike in a wage dispute Mon- ' a n d ^ l s ' e s u ; t i n « in. a **"»* to" I Albany early today. day morning, an" official rof t h e * ? * decentralization which, he, J g f * ^eehan :*, o f n Mc_

r Henry B. (Barney) Kraft was the news editor, and many C I ° U n i t e d Steelworkerk said;P°'nts ~ J > • a m*n,anc*J*RP™P; Ardle Ave., suffered a cut on the were the big stories on which we worked together. The K n i c k 1 0 ^ , *y' l c f t k n e e w h e n c a r h e W M

Vincent Evan, staff representa driving jumped the curb in front

Guests of honor at the confer­ence luncheon included- Russell G. Hunt, president of the Albany County Bar Association; Jasper S. Levinc, vicepresident of the Sche­nectady County Bar Association; William R. Murray, president of the Rensselaer County Bar Asso­ciation; F. Walter Bliss of Scho­harie, vicepresident of the State Bar Association, and Jos< ph \ <>ulh D e n i e s ( i l l i l l Roach of Albany, past president of the State Bar Association. i „ T'U^f* *-- - - 11........

Speakers at afternoon sessions I n T h e f l f ™ m H o m e were: Emery A- BrowneHr of Rochester, secretary and execu­tive director of the National Legal Aid Association; Arthur

had a fluctuating press time on the late final edition, and word !t i v e o f t n e unfc) ^ mem ^ In a .plea to make downtown o { W 5

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F B l v d a n d i t r u c k a John Keeffe of Ithaca, professor

An Albany youth who. is ac-

The early morning coffee and cake crowd that has gathered at Thompson's Restaurant since "time immemorial" will have to find a new eating spot.

Beginning tomorrow, and until further notice, the State St. res­taurant which formerly operated on a 24-hour basis will be closed from midnight until 6 a. in.

At its present address since 1824, the restaurant-cafeteria barred its doors to patrons whose tites flourish during the early morning hours only once before. According to Frank Cushane, manager; .these same closing

cused of entering a Madison Amlwpi* were enforced two yean home last week and stealing $«0 ago for two weeks.

of a big story was sufficient to hold up the presses.

Then the editorial room would be a busy place. i too workers met at the union hall shopping a

this pleasure." Mr. Fraser

i, ;•!"' vidii'iiui'i nus morning and. ,. , , , . , . D , j confirmed their previous strike

(\\hne>) Loonan was night boss of the mailing room, and v o t e with

Francis V. (Happy) Wren waa the stereotype room boss.[votes. He They'd come upstairs to see what was cooking. George (voted to strike last Saturday, with

only said

Seminary Bids four dissenting the group had

Wolfgang would come downstairs, and the scene was muchJthe deadline Monday, and a nego- £ J l l © 1̂ 1 © X t i V C C K more exciting, to us, at least, than the present davs. (tiations meeting this week failed

'to make progress towards a set- _. . , „, , . .. Looking about the composing room where George Wolfgangtlement

held forth, we still see today a few of the fellows with whom we worked on The Knickerbocker Press. Fellows like Francis McCaffrey, Jack Maguire, Joe Keleher, Sam Keith and Frank Tremblay, with whom we used to ride the old otw.1 bus; Dave

tree. He told police the steering at Cornell University Law School;

Company officials could not be Proposed new seminary of Our gvan,Lady of LaSalette in Altamont.

The Rev, Joseph Fennessey, su­perior of the seminary, said it is

mechanism broke Mrs. Eva Clifford, M, of 3M

First St., suffered a head injury when thejlaxi in which she was riding was struck from the rear when it stopped for a traffic light at Washington Ave. and Dove St. The cab driver, John W. Cum-mings, 33, of 447 Central Ave.,

and Charles J. Rarmey, Troy at­torney.

The conference ended this afternoon with a reception given for the Young Lawyers by Capital District attorneys,

Rice, the old basketball star; Earl McMahon, joe Hansen, Charley Cole, Bill Hotaling, Joe Keiterman, Jack Fearey, Bill'McNeill, Lonnie Belk, Pat Joyce, Jack Plotz, Horace Frazier, Harold Dowse, Gene Halter, Ed Cooke, Everett Kerr, Dick Domery, Art Baldes, Jack Bernier, Chauncey Dudley, the old jockey; Fred Wolfgang, George's brother, and Joe Tansey.

SON FOR FILM ACTOR Santa Monica, Calif. — (UP) —

A son, Stephen,'' was born at Mt John's Hospital last night to actor MacDonald Carey and his Betty. —-*

Mr. Cushane, who reeeiwed tha pleaded not guilty in Police Courl.oTder i ^ ^ t h - 5 M t a u t a n t . , N e w

today to third degree burglaryiyork City o£fi*e, said he ha.̂ no and petit larceny. idea how long the "curfew" will

Arthur Stevens, I7fc of 87 Clin- 1 ton St, arrested by Detectives John J Carr and Francis Robin­son, was sent to Albany County Jail by Justice Dobris to wait grand jury action.

Police charge fte entered a basement apartment occupied by Catherine Van Garden at 111

wife'Madison Ave. and stole the 'money.

was not injured. Driver of the reached for comment. Mr. tom\™Woiu*^Kin*u^i» ^ ^ ̂ W M G e r a M H o u l i h made this report on it: ™e Rev Joseph Fennessey, su- ^ Y g t w V i H Schenectady.

The union asked a 'substantial- Pfr!or o f t h e sem»nary, said it is: ^ ^ i n j u r e d p € r s o n j ^g,., general wage increase, raising of {P«nned to start construction th is . t r e a t e d ^ A i b a n y HospiUl. the minimum from 75 cents to .vear a n d t o comolete it in a-»mr» '-- r-„„ - '. L ~ il^ri an hour and a job classifies-:8 y^r- T h e ^^ » estimated at ; _ . tion and evalution program. Iti™*!"* than *l million. VtllfltiP PrinriWtdlJ rejected a company offer for an The new seminary, to be on the f • • •«*•«> m y sS5-cent minimum and a general'site of the ©ne that burned in _ increase of S cents an hour. M»*», *''U be larger than the old I OKPS i r - l l rOst

The union also seeks seven paid o«« Father Fennessey said it holidays (the company has would have a caoacity of :*\ to 7.*, 1^^ ,^ j^ Dooiin, principal of offered 8); three weeks vacation students, compared with the old (Martin H. Glynn High School,

'T'HE PRINTERS, stereotypers and pressmen used to sitfafter lo years (the company hascjne's 35 to 40 and ot i«i to -^iValatie, since ifMfl, has resigned A ar«nd the copy desk for awhile after the nights work, o f f e r e d a two-week vacation), priests, compared with the old t o accept a pott with the General

TS^tMSS STKSS tUS.i7X*,;rSS5"- "nd ^sr* r^oi s s r^ 5 ^^- >*-w - mme,m«•*—A,b^Visi,or Hurt

last.

Moihrr Leaveg $12,000

T o D r . J a m e s H. F l \ n n

Dr. James H. Fly nn, S3-Lenox Ave., will receive a legacy of *l2,ooo from the S2U17 esUte of his mother, Mrs. Margaret M. Flynn, who died Sept. is, accord­ing to papers filed in Rensselaer County Surrogate*! Court

A daughter. Mrs. Kathleen E, Aram, 188 Fifth Ave., Laming-burg, will receive real estate at that address according to terms of the will. The two heirs will

An ancient a t e tree that had begun to show traces of weakness | s h a 5 € "*J« residue of the estate. caused by age'-was removed from the northeast/corner of Washing-i L l U WCK. Rens-

City Fells Ancient Elm Tree;\ EarlyMorningTraffScRerouted

ton Ave. and t a r t St. early today by workmj Parks

from the Bureau of

We don't doubt that on some morning or other, in his h n u r

old da\s on The Knkk, George Wolfgang rolled up hisi sleeves and. undoubtedly with the aid of not more than one P T A o f V o o r h e r s v i l l e of his assistants, put out an extra, But we know if wasn't thc( Lindbergh kidnaping story. At any rate, George, heartiest congratulations on having

attained the 50th milestone, and may you spend many-aAore years in the chapel.

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rfi by 13.' feet. The architect is S.

'PEAKING OF restaurants, as we were earlier in this, column, a visit to "21" appears to be all the rage in AlbaVy these

spring evenings.

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To Pretwnt *FolIicB,

Driving (Charge Denied By I >«'lm;ir Resident

Eramus i. Sigler, .V», of sm Del-oldtime skits and vaudeville acts, aware Ave., Delmar, pleaded {not

f i s Police to reroute early-morninf aeronautics and ordnance depart- t p i»r . « t a t e =f - ~y'A Colonie Police today wet* In

J. Passanesi, Middletown, Conn,lments. He went tc Valatie frorn; r " K • ™___ t > l1m vestigatini an accident at «;» Bids art due at the office of Wil-|Rensselaer as assistant prinelpgl liam J, Carson, West Hartford, in UM2. -Conn., consulting engineer. —; .

selaer, who died Mar. 19, left an estate of less than f5,ooo, accord­ing to papers filed in Surrogate's Court. Heirs are her sons, Frank N. Hendrick Sr„ m Quail St , and Charles Hendrick, flion.

The Parent Teacher Associa­tion gf Voorheesville Central School will present the -'Follies of Youth/* a show made up of

Stone to Go on Trial

In Fonda Court Jane 11

at the school auditorium at 8:15 jguilty in Police Court today to p. m. Thursday and Friday nights.{driving1 aa automobile without •nlflr's't

UHea (Miss Lucinda Wright is director [operators license after his arrest1

Which is to say thaU in somewhat ornate surroundings Wlth, ? a v i f M£? s>r t n e y a« tfh-jin Clinton St. by Detectives Kaye 21 Rlk m »rrn« fr«m iMd.m% P»k l>.4 P.««. j.'nical director. The chorus will beSorenson and Thomas Tansey.

_ « * 3 : . ! y - * * Academy Park, Pat Pait*a to d i r e c t e d b y M r g K e n n e t n v.nSigler was released in iso bail irreelinir the carriage trade, JAlstyne. lunffls hearing Friday.

Pat is an oldtimer in the night club and restaurant business, and it is quite a genial boniface he makes. We don't know whether Pit plays the piano, but we know he's an old minstrel man who can sing and even dance a buck and wing if a customer requested.

Pat has a wide acquaintance and we're happy to see that his latest venture is the success it already has become.

Two Tipplers Make Themselves At Home in St. Johnsville Jail

After what happened yesterday, the St, Johnsville jail i,« con­sidering pulling in its welcome mat.

Until now, the lockup, on the first floor- of,, the fire station and* police headquarters, has been left unlocked when not occupied

Yesterday two transients, listed ~ as Charles Fltzmaurict, 48, of Al - jVar ie ty S h o w T o n i g h t bany, and Edward Carrigan, 40, « . , . « , , . „ . of Boston decided to make them- T ° A , c I * * A f e a ^ B a b y ael*es at home. When police hear-- A v a r ^ty «how to raise money mg a commotion, investigated, f or„ th« J u d y Su"* ^n"^ ^ " d they found the two -guests" par- w U 1 3 8 t * f t d t o n i * h t i n th*' Uking freely4of alcoholic refresh- auditorium of Columbia High' menta. (School, East Greenbush, featur-

The two men, described as m I m o r * than 20 acta made up of "hilariously happy,"* were placed amateur and professional enter-under arrest on public intoxica- tainers from the Capital DistricV tion charges and put in Jail, this Judy Stark, eight-month-did time with the door locked. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George

The story ended when.a justice Stark, formerly of Hampton of the peace agreed to give them Manor, has been confined to a suspended sentences if they left Hew York City Hospital with a town in 19 minutes. They did. serious illness tor six months.

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Ernest A. Stone of Schenectady and Albany will go od trial atj front of Fonda June 11 on a charge of.Armory.

ree murder in the slay-j ing of William A- Waterman, The date was fixed today by Justice Willard L. Best of the. State Su­preme Court.

No date was set for the trial of Stone on andther first degree indictment accusing him f kill­ing Waterman's g4sl riend, Jeanne L. Stone. Trie U i-aged couple were found shpt to death Oct. 1 in Phillips Parli, near Amsterdam. , The park, it used frequently as a spooning spot.

Bureau spokesmen said" t h e i p " m - y ^ r S i y Tn̂ front of 1TO7 "rEATEENTTY NAMES TWO base of the tree had become rot- colonie Ave., Colonie, in which Two Albany men have been ten and had been fiHed with con- Frank Smith, « , R. D. Coopers- named to Tau Beta Pi, honorary crete to keep the? trunk intact.'town, suffered a head injury. engineering fraternity at Rensse-Dnvers of United Traction Com- Smith, who had been in Albany j laer Polytechnic Institute. They pany buses had complained the, visiting a sister, Mrs. Louise Teal, j are Robert B. Abernethy, 74 Van lower limbs were scraping the:'<f££ Clinton Ave,, was admittedjSchoick Ave., junior in the me­lons of their buses when they to Albany Hospital. He told pqr chanical engineering department, stopped to pick up passengers in lice he had been walking on the and Allan R. Huntley, 26 McNutt

the Washington Ave.ihlghway when he was struck bylAve., junior in the chemical S car. which failed to stop. jgineering department.

Chief Air Kaicl Warden J

Selected fur Colonie -Albert H Southwell, Stop 38, Troy-Schenectady Rd., has been appointed chief air raid warden for the town of Colonie, William K. Sanford, deputy director of Civil Defense for the town, ai nounced today.

Mr, Southwell will be assisted by John R. Davis, James P. Wol-folk and Eugene C. Harvey. AU the men served as air raid war-dens during World War 2.

Th« Kittekfrboekrr !»••• rtma LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER—afrs. Thtodore Halltn-heck of Hudson, who served in the Women's Army Corps in World War i, adjusts th* new WAC cap worn by her daughter, Nancy, w o enlisted at Albany to-'-y and l*ft lor Fort Lee. V*. Nancy, It. is a I9S0 graduate of Hidson High School. Mrs. Halltnbeck served m the WAC from May, 1944, to September, 1945. at Fen

Ogltthorp, Ga. pad Mttchol field,

LAUNDRY ROBBED

Peter Leung, operator of a laundry at »" Green St., told

'Albany.Police today someone en­tered his establishment during

;the night.by forcing a rear door and stole t¥t from a cash box The theft is heing investigated

(by Lt Joseph Shields snd Patrol-|man Owen Brittell.

RETIRES FROM INSURANCE FIRM—Mrs. Elisabeth H. Zeh has announced her retirement' a, ter 26 years with the Albany office of the Massachusetts Mutual Lift Insurance Cor^Bstty. Seated besrde Mrs, Zeh at a luncheon in her •

hi nor in the DeWitt Clinton Hotel is NortoH J. Ha) . agency president. left ta tight, are Gerald L. GriUm, geaernt ageat and Carroll McQueen; member ai th* agency i home etice it Sprmgheld, Mass.

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