Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • 5

THE BINGHAMTON PRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1945. City Takes Over Supplies of Coal To Rush Emergency Deliveries Bus, Train New Model of Link Trainer 111 Dog Leads To 3 Victims Of Coal Gas All Revived at Hospital and Discharged; Faulty Stoker Blamed Simulates All Actual Flight Characteristics of Airplane Schedules off After Storm 23-MiIe-an-Hour Gale Causes Closing of Rural Schools If pZr 3L' Bus and train schedules were iss A A iKrrS- A sick dog led to the discovery early this morning of three persons overcome by gas at 45 Exchange Street. The victims, later taken to City Hospital in the police ambulance, were soon revived and were to be discharged. They arc Mrs. Mabel L.

Bennett, 47; Mrs. Louise Porter, B3, and her husband, Curtis E. 111 I- -A -A if- 1 4. ft TfifntfiT' Inm rtifulrw 4r 0Wk 5 All Photo by a UinKnamlun frets ('hiiiocraphui CITY SUPPLIES EMERGENCY FUEL-To deliver fuel for shivering householders, city employes load 50-pound bags of coke and 100-pound bags of coal on a municipal truck at the city barns today. Mayor Walker B.

Lounsbery put the city in the coal business as manpower shortages hampered retail dealers. 1 Labor Here Available to Build Homes NHA Proposes 150 New Housing Units This Spring Sufficient labor will be available in the Triple Cities next spring for construction of 150 additional housing units here. This was reported today by Robert J. Bockstahler, assistant area War Manpower Commission director, who said that he has told the War Production Board (WPB) that labor shortages here would not hold up construction of homes proposed for this area by the National Housing Agency (NHA). Mr.

Bockstahler was asked by the WPB to make a survey of available construction workers in this area after Charles S. Ascher, regional NHA representative of New York City, said that he plans to forward a program for construction of 150 housing units to the NHA central office "if it is determined that the necessary labor is available." The WMC official said that he had been informed that approximately 300 workers would be needed to carry out a housing program here. In a letter to Paul F. president of the Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Ascher previously indicated that if it was proved there are more essential demands for labor in the Triple Cities "the housing program will have to be postponed." Because Mr.

Bockstahler has determined, after surveying construction companies here, that labor will be available, it is presumed that speedy rpproval of a housing program will be forthcoming and arrangements will be made to get the program under way next spring. Mr. Bockstahler said that by spring, Triple Cities construction companies will have completed the major part of essential building work and will be able to transfer those workers to housing work. He said the 300 men needed "would not become available all at one time" but that they would be free from war construction work in increasing numbers as "we get further into the spring season." Life in China Is Described 8 4. IT NOW HAS THE 'FEEL' Edwin A.

Link, inventor of the Link Instrument Flying Trainer, sits at the controls of his newest model which will go into production soon at the Hillcrest plant. Full Panel of Flight and Engine Instruments Provided, 21 in All Production to Start in Near Future Edwin A. Link, president of Link Aviation Devices, today unveiled the newest model of the Link Trainer Porter, 73. Police were summoned shortlv after 4:30 o'clock by James De-Felippo tf 35 Kenwood Avenue. who found the two women overcome in Mrs.

Bennett's apartment alter he had taken Mrs. Bennett'i sick dog to a veterinarian for treatment. Mr. DeFelippo told police he was summoned to Mrs. Bennett's home and requested to take the dog.

obviously ill from efTects of the coal gas, to a veterinarian. He said that when he returned to Mrs. Bennett's apartment from the errand he found her unconscious along with Mrs. Porter, who was visiting there. After she was revived at the hospital Mrs.

Porter gave the key to her apartment on the second floor to police who returned and found Mr. Porter in a semi-conscious state in his bedroom. Investigation disclosed the coal gas to be escaping from the cellar which was locked, police said. The emergency squad of the Fire Bureau was summoned. The firemen forced their way into the cellar and reported finding a faulty stoker on the furnace.

They shut off the motor and aired the cellar. Police said the building is owned by Louis Borello and Samuel Gialanella, who were notified. Jury Decides 'No Cause' In 2 Negligence Actions A no cause of action verdict was returned by a Supreme Court jury late yesterday in the combined negligence actions of two Town of Union residents who sought $7,500 damages for in juries received in an automobile accident last Aug. 27 at Fayette and Hawley Streets. In one action Mrs.

Virginia Hutchings of Johnson City, sought $5,000 from Ralph J. Lee, owner of the automobile in which she was a passenger, and Donald I. Lec. driver, both of 49 Ethel Street. Johnson City.

In the other action Robert Rob inson of Johnson City R. D. 1 sought $2500 from the same defendants. He also was a passenger in the Lee machine when it was involved in a mishap with an automobile, ownership of which was not established. The plaintiffs were represented by DeWitt Schneebcrg and the two Lees, father and son, were represented by Donald W.

Kramer. At the completion of the trial. Justice Martin W. Deyo adjourned court to Feb. 12 when Justice William F.

Santry of Oneida will take over in a series of hearings with a jury. Blazes in Truck, Auto Cause Only Slight Loss Firemen, called out at 12:30 a. m. to check a blaze in a truck and again at 11:45 o'clock in connection with an automobile fire, reported only slight damage. A shortcircuit in a generator wire in the truck of Howard Sprague, 636 State Street, sent the firefighters to 352 Chenango Street on the first call.

The other call sent firemen to Park Avenue and Morris Street where they found a minor blaze in the automobile of Samuel Micalizzi, 60 Rush Avenue. They said alcohol leaking from a radiator connection had ignited on the motor. inn mum STATE HELPS WITH COKE-Aiding city employes in handling fuel for emergency use are employes of the New York State Highway Department who are unloading coke into 50-pound bags after obtaining it from a retailer who lacked help to bag it. disrupted and most of Broome County big rural schools were closing today in the wake of a heavy wind storm which choked travel routes with snow during the night. A steady gale of 23 miles an hour was recorded during the night at the Binghamton Weather Bureau and estimates were as high as 38 miles in rural areas.

Accompanied by a half-Inch fall of snow early last night, the wind drifted old and new snow into travel lanes which in many cases had just been opened to traffic. Broome County highway crews still were on the job today after an all-night battle, and officials estimated that some rural roads would not be cleared for three days. Plow crews were concentrating on main routes today. More Snow to Come The troublesome wind continued today on a somewhat diminished scale, and Weatherman Thomas E. Reed predicted no substantial let-up tonight or tomorrow.

Snow flurries are in prospect for the next 24 hours, he said. Chenango Forks Central School did not open its doors today, and officials said classes would not be scheduled for tomorrow in view of the impassable condition of school bus routes. Windsor Central School closed at 11 a. m. today, not to re open until Monday.

Also closed were central schools at Maine and Whitney Point Classes at Vestal Central School were to be dismissed early this afternoon. Deposit Central School however, was on normal schedule with some absenteeism reported among rural students. Greyhound Lines reported that service to Syracuse and Rochester was canceled late yesterday after noon and remained at a standstill during the night and this morning A bus was scheduled to start to Syracuse on a "trial run" this afternoon. Trains Running Late Trains through the Triple Cities were running between one and three hours late today, particularly on routes from the north and west. Many rural roads already were channeled between drifts as high as 15 feet on eith'-r side, and last night's wind filled the channels with snow in many cases.

County highway crews today were running into considerable difficulty in attempts to plow more snow to the packed roadsides. Cold weather held sway, and Mr. Hood forecast temperatures ns low as 5 degrees above zero tonight. This morning's low was 9 degrees; the mercury this afternoon had climbed only to 15. 4 'ABANDONED' DOGS BRING ABOUT PROBE BY HUMANE SOCIETY Abandonment of four dogs, reportedly left in an apartment at 105 Water Street when the occupant moved recently, was being investigated today by officials of the Broome County Humane Society.

Preliminary investigation was conducted early last night by police after the caretaker of the building, Charles Praefke of 101 Water Street, reported the deserted dogs. Police went to the Water Street address and reported finding the dogs with food but no water. They said that one dog, blind in each eye, was hungry. Police fed the blind dog, gave the others water and notified the Humane Society. Employes of the Humane Society this morning placed the dogs in detention quarters in Hawley Street pending outcome of the investigation.

Police said Mr. Praefke identified the owner of the animals only as "Mr, Blodgett" and reported they were unable to find anyone in the vicinity who knew where the dog owner had moved. Women's G. O. P.

Club Names 11 Committees Chairmen of 11 committees were appointed for 1945 today by Mrs. Charles W. Hawkes, president of the Broome County Women's Republican Club, at the club's first meeting of the year at the Arlington Hotel. Named as committee chairmen were: Program, Mrs. Helen Gould: hospitality, Mrs.

Benjamin linker; auditing, Mrs A. K. Hoberts; finance, Mrs. Carleton W. Russell; legislative, Mrs.

Helen Cnmen; membership. Miss Pauline Mills; peace plans, Miss Helen C. McNamara: sunshine, Mrs. John C. Bush; telephone.

Mrs. James C. Nelson; publicity, Mrs. John W. Brown-I'eld, and cakes for the Yank Service Center, Mrs.

A. P. Hanley. Hostesses of today's luncheon meeting were Mrs. Camen and Mrs.

Frank J. Parks. WAVES ENTERTAINED Storekeeper Third Class Helen Redwood, accompanied by Storekeeper Second Class Virginia Hy-den, were guests at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin J.

Klee of Port Crane, last weekend. The two Waves arc stationed at the Pre-Midshipman School at Asbury Park, N. J. concern. will be placed in production an improved "rougn air" device, it was explained.

The new trainer also retains Mr. Link said, such distinctive features of previous models as a mechanism which introduces wind into flight problems, an automatic radio compass, and an automatic recorder which traces, in ink, a record of each "flight." Pilots Feci at Home This latest Link development was described as an outgrowth of nearly 20 years of experience in the synthetic training field "If an experienced pilot were to step into the cockpit of the new trainer with his eyes closed," the announcement of the new trainer said, "he would feel risht at home when he opened them. Practically all of the controls, knobs. levers, switches and handles to which he is accustomed are there." B'laps and undercarriage are available on the new model for "low approaches." When they are lowered, power and altitude must be handled accordingly Other optional equipment in cludes a unit which will record all conversation between student and instructor. This device affords the student an opportunity to hear his own mistakes, correct his voice technique and learn proper nan dling of microphone and radio telephone procedures.

The records also provide a chief instructor with a check not only on the students but on the instructor as well. Link Instrument Flying Trainers are now standard equipment for the air forces of the United States, Great Britain, the United Kingdom and Russia. In addition, Link Trainers also are used in instrument flight refresher courses received by the pilots of all major airlines. It has been proven. Link officials said, that the air time required to train a pilot in instrument techniques has been reduced by 50 per cent through use of the Link trainer.

"listen TO USA SERGIO. BLUE January Was Tops-if You Like Your Weather That Way Weatherman Thomas E. Reed, hopefully turning the leaves of his calendar to Feb. 1, today gave official confirmation to the fact that last month was the severest January on record for the Southern Tier. at the Hillcrest plant of the The new model, which in the near future, is described as a trainer mat reaiiy lues like an airplane." Whereas previous Link Trainer models taught pilots to "fly by instruments," the new trainer does this and more besides, according to Link "It performs like an airplane; it reacts like an airplane, and, above all, it 'feels' like an airplane," says an announcement of the new model.

"For the first time in a ground trainer, the actual flight characteristics of a modern aircraft have been simulated." Older instrument flight training. oTicials said, involved mechanical methods and procedures for which previous Link Trainer models were satisfactory. Pilots told the con cern, however, that the old models "don't fly or feel like airplanes." In the cockpit of the new model, officials said, there is a full panel of flight and engine instruments, 21 of them in all, all of which are used during a practice flight. A translucent hood is used on the new model, in contrast to opaque hoods used on older models, so that embryo pilots may practice either daytime or nighttime problems. Common reactions experienced in modern airplanes are simulated in the new Link model.

"Torque Effect" Provided During operation, for example, the pilot may kick the new stirrup-like rubber pedals and then remove his fopt. The trainer swings accordingly, but then also swings back in the opposite direction, as the pedal is compressed and released. This is called, "weathercocking." Or the pilot may Increase the power of the trainer. As in an airplane, this causes the machine to veer to the left. This Is "torque effect." In announcing the new trainer, Mr.

Link said that the 1945 model handles "much like an Army AT-6 or Navy SNJ plane." "We have designed this advanced model," he explained, "to fit smoothly into modern methods of teaching instrument flying by the 'full panel' system. "We think that with it we've come as close to simulating he flight characteristics of a modern airplane as is possible in any trainer which doesn't leave the ground." Some of the specific new features in the trainer are: Trim contols, engine instruments, a completely new stick (or wheel) and rudder control system, and RIDLEY'S Day and Evening rioes for 1 Monday, Feb. bin, Now rormrog STUDY Stenograpny. Secretarial Accounting. Business At Kicuey Today'.

sun Biag. Bagged at City Barn and Parceled Out in Small Quantities The City of Binghamton was In the fuel business today as the emergency situation caused by shortages of anthracite and manpower in the Triple Cities mounted. In an extraordinary measure aimed at overcoming manpower bottlenecks in Binghamton, Mayor Walker B. Lounsbery yesterday afternoon directed that the city purchase supplies of coke and coal, bag the fuel at the city barn and deliver it in small consign- CONSERVE GAS Fifteen large industrial users of gas and all household consumers today were called upon by the Binghamton Gas Co. to "curtail the use of gas in every possible way for the next 36 hours." Irving K.

Peck, president of the utility, said the plea was a move to "forestall any possibility of a critical nhortage in gas caused by heavy consumption from the system in the West and Midwest, as the result of exceptionally cold weather." ments to consumers lacking a source of heat. At the same time, Carl Seltzer, chairman of the Endicott committee of the Solid Fuels Administration for War (SFAW) said it "may be nip and tuck" whether the supply of fuel in the yards of Endi cott dealers will run out before "a resumption of normal coal shipments." SFAW Make Survey It was disclosed meanwhile that Ralph Warren, a SFAW field repre sentative, was making a'survey of fuel supplies on hand in dealers' yards in the Triple Cities. Asserting that a complete report would not be available until tomorrow, Mr. Warren said the preliminary survey indicated conditions were "more criflcal" in Endicott than in Johnson City or Binghamton. Mayor Lounsbery reviewed the fuel emergency in Binghamton with retailers at a meeting last night in his office and said today that it appeared the city would weather the emergency.

It was generally conceded among Binghamton retailers that the supply of anthracite was at a low level, but Mayor Lounsbery said it was believed there was sufficient coke and soft coal on hand to overcome the deficiency of hard coal. State Department Helps Meanwhile, Frank W. Donovan, district engineer of the New York State Highway Department, assigned a state truck and a crew to the city to assist in transportation of the small fuel lots. Deliveries are being made up to a maximum of 500 pounds by state and city employes and Mayor Lounsbery said the largest per centage of the fuel being handled by municipal workers is coke. Coke is being placed in 50-pound bags and coal in 100-pound bags, with coke amounting to about 80 per cent of the fuel being delivered.

Public Works Commissioner Arnold F. Mitchell said that approximately 15 deliveries were made by the city yesterday and that in only one instance did the consumer refuse to accept coke. Mr. Mitchell said that consumers unable to obtain fuel from their regular dealer and absolutely out of coal may obtain emergency help by calling the SFAW office in the city barn. Deliveries will be made upon receipt of orders, he added, but stressed that fuel will not be sold by the city to consumers who have a supply on hand.

Endicott Horse Off Concerning the supply in Endicott, Mr. Seltzer declared: "The fuel situation in Endicott is still potentially critical, but there is no immediate emergency because emergency calls for fuel have not been more numerous than we can take care of. Every con sumer who has asked for coal so far has got some, but it is not certain how much longer we can continue to supply consumers in the event of a continued emergency." Mr. Warren said there "is a definite shortage" of fuel in Bing hamton, but said the situation here was not as bad as in other upstate cities. The shortage has led to a NETWORK EVERY MONDAY shutdown of virtually all public buildings and stores in Syracuse and Albany.

After it was learned the city is taking a hand in fuel deliveries in Binghamton, Mayor Lounsbery was asked whether action similar to that ordered in Syracuse and Albany was being contemplated for Binghamton. lie said the situation here did not appear to be critical enough for such drastic action. Fuel supply at. City Hospital Is below normal, the maypr asserted, but said arrangements had been made to move fuel from a private consumer's stockpile if the condition warranted. In addition to the coal and coke purchased by the city from a local retailer.

Mayor Lounsbery said arrangements had been made with an over-the-road trucker to deliver 12 tons of coal within the next day or so to the city. This will be bagged for emergency use. The mayor said that in order, to avoid competition with private dealers the city was charging the same amount for deliveries as a consumer would pay if the coal were purchased from a dealer. Weather Gets Blame Binghamton dealers attributed the difficult situation here to a number of causes, in particular weather conditions which have snarled freight deliveries led to a 72-hour embargo on freight movement of all except war materials last weekend. Another factor in the current shortage, dealers said, was the SFAW limitation order of last summer which prevented dealers from putting in a consumer's cellar more than 50 per cent of the anticipated winter's supply.

Thus, dealers said, consumers are now running out of coal at an earlier date than if they had been permitted to fill bins to capacity last summer. All consumers are limited to per cent of the fuel they consumed last year. If he had not been recognized as a missionary by a Chinese bandit leader shortly after he was raptured by bandits deep inside China, "I would not be here today to tell you about it." This is what the Rev. Francis Dirk. 23 Birch Street, told the Binghamton Kiwanis Club this noon at the Arlington Hotel when he gave a resume of 20 years' experiences as a missionary in China.

Mr. Dirk, whose mission work was sponsored by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, said he and another missionary were captured about two years ago shortly after Chinese bandits had been beaten by Chinese Government troops. "The bandits were angry," he faid. 'They were out for blood and they would have sent us to our death if a bandit leader hadn't recognized us and ordered us to be set free." The speaker implied that the bandits had Communist leaders. He said he returned with his family from China about a year ago after spending seven years on his last assignment abroad.

He pointed out that China is made up of "not one people but of several creeds." The people who are really suffering in China, he said, are the collar workers" who have no land on which to grow food. Inflation, he said, has impoverished such people. Kachmarik Hurt in Fall, Is in 'Fair' Condition George Kachmarik, 55. of 10 Colfax Avenue, who suffered a fracture of the left leg in a fall in Clinton Street early last night, is reported in fair condition at Lourdes Hospital where he was taken in the police ambulance. Police said Mr.

Kachmarik had just left a restaurant at 291 Clinton Street and was walking along a path through a snowbank toward his truck when he fell. Mrs. Gertrude NIckerson, 40, of 6Vfc Charlotte Street, who injured her right hip in a fall at Jarvis and Charlotte Streets this morning, is reported fair at City Hospital where she was admitted at 7 o'clock. Mrs. Gertrude DeAngelo, 43, of 245 Chenango Street, whose left index finger was punctured by a r.eedle at work at a Chenango Street dry cleaning establishment, was discharged from City Hospital after treatment at 10:30 o'clock this morning.

George Rhodes, 25, of 136 Conklin Avenue, who suffered a left cheek laceration at work late yesterday, also was discharged. 'Pussyfoot' Johnson, 82, Now Critically III Here Condition of William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson of Smithville Flats, 82-year-old retired prohibtion cru sader. who was admitted to City Hospital Tuesday night, was rte ported serious today by hospital officials. Mr.

Johnson's physician, Dr. O. Chamberlain, could not imme diately be reached for comment, but it is understood Mr. Johnson may have to submit to surgery. Before putting your dress away after wearing, air it to get the wrinkles loosened.

The month piled up an all-time high of 41.9 inches or snow and was the coldest January in 25 years with a daily average tem- perature of 16.3 degrees. On only four days in the month did the mercury climb above the freezing point, Mr. Reed pointed out, and most of the month's total snowfall remained on the ground today 24 inches deep after allowing for settling. 6 Sub-Zero Days Six days of the month brought sub-zero temperatures compared with a normal of seven such days for an entire winter season. The 16.3-degree daily average temperature compares with the previous low of 15.2 in January, 1920, and a normal of 24.1 degrees.

The 41.9-inch snowfall during the month was nearly half a foot over the previous record of 36.5 inches which fell in January, 1925. Total snowfall so far this season would engulf most tall men. Now standing at 73.9 inches, the season's fall has only 3.5 inches to go to tie the all-time record of 77.4 inches which fell in the winter of 1915-16. Record Single Storm The heaviest single storm last month piled up 15 inches of snow on Jan. 16 and 17 a record for any 24-hour period, Mr.

Reed's backward glance showed. There was no appreciable thaw during the month even on the four above-freezing days. Snow on roofs, however, melted from the heat of buildings and resulted in some of the biggest icicles ever seen this side of Niagara Falls. OIL DRILLING IN MICHIGAN Mich. U.R The Michigan Oil and Gas Division of the State Conservation Department approved 741 permits to drill for oil and gas in 43 of the state's 83 counties during 1944.

Since 1927, when the first drilling permits were issued, the state has approved 11,314 explorations. Here Expected W. B. Goudey, vice-president of the electric company, predicted that when the regulation is generally understood cooperation will be "good." Binghamton police will check violators and report them to electric company officials. Willful violators may have their electric power shut off by order of the WPB.

The "brownout" order is designed to save fuel by cutting down on the amount of electricity consumed. IAN0UH FORMULA 70... Watch dry skin become smoother, softerj quickly with the regular use of. Botany lanolin Formula 70. Richer in lanolin, the precious oil that helps maintain oil balance.

Knead it gently into your skin once or twice a week and "Feel the Difference." $1 2S-, $2. Tightening of the 'Brownout' (plus taxi Cosmetic but ffce quality remain uncnanged. Observance Stricter observance tonight of the War Production Board's "brownout" regulations limiting outdoor display and advertising lighting is expected by city officials and representatives of the New York State Electric and Gas Corp. Police Chief M. J.

Hanifin said a few violations had been reported to him, but he said compliance with the order, which went into effect at 12:01 a. m. today unquestionably would be better CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 240 MAIN STREET Extends a Hearty WELCOME to Triple Cities Holiness Association for the Annual Revival, Feb. 1 to 11 As a church we deem it a real privilege to be host for this evangelistic group. We indeed welcome all members of association and the general public to these services.

PAUL S. GILMORE. Pastor Street floor, Yow may find this item "Victory Pocked," TI tit..