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SPOUTS SCKIMKSAYS: Section Rochester New "Jrth tor's proclivities for pilfering International l.rnftue cushions otrtshmh nw any and all pmioun base stealing stunts." 117TH YEAR ROCHESTER, N. SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1949 Local Tar Off For Norse Port After Sub Loss 'M tmomt cJj wuMe Fire Chief Asks Care to Avoid Grass Blazes Rochesterian Safe, Former (S fth I I 1 Brockport Native Among Victims Onft of 84 survivors in the tragic sinking of the IT. S. submarine Cochino in storm-lashed Arctic waters, Anthony Fantazza, 26, of IRS Lincoln was on hi way to the Norwegian naval base at Tromsoe yesterday. Fantazza, son of Sam Fantazza of the Lincoln Ave.

address, was aboard the Cochino Friday when the new Snorkel-type sub sank in the Norwegian Sea 150 miles from the Norwegian coast after being Slattery Warns of Peril In Careless Use of Matches, Cigarets Alarmed by the potential danger ef grass fires. Fire Chief John A. flattery la-t night Issued an urgent appeal to thP public "to exercise extreme care and vigilar.ee in use cf matches and cigarets." The appeal extended to oil and gasoline companies operating here in a request to wet down grass and rther accumulations near their properties to minimize the danger cf a serious conflagration. In an order to police, Chief T. Herbert Killip ordered them to watch for fires in vacant lots in the city and fields adjacent to the city and to warn gas station owners In outlying districts to be on guard.

80 Grass Fire Call From Monday at 8 m. up to last night, records of the Fire Bureau showed, city fire companies answered 80 calls for grass fires, Chief Slattery said. Most of these calls were in the Northwest section of the city. A perious grass fire broke out between Lake and Dewey near St. Bernard's Seminary, Friday, and nine companies were called to extinguish it.

Declaring the prolonged dry spell 'laws. 'v 1 i ripped asunder by a series of bat tery room explosions. According to a United Press dis patch from Hammerfeet, Norway, northern-most world port, the U.S. submarine Tusk, heroic rescuer the Cochino's crew, headed south at 7:20 a. m.

(ED.) yesterday, shepherded by the Norwegian de stroyer King Haakon VII. Fantazza, a graduate of Jeffer son High School, is a veteran of THE CHAMP SHOWS HOW eight years' service in the Navy submarine eervice, having enlisted in 1941. 258 Verona Miss Lois E. Giles, superintendent of the playground; Elaine Post, 8, of 367 Colvin and Richard Giancursio, 11, of 131 Emerson many-time winner. YOUTHFUL PRIZEWINNERS in athletic contests at Edgerton playground receive awards.

From left are Phyllis Roncone, 11, of 195 Blos3 Robert Marscocci, 12, of York; Hans Berliner, Washington, D. champion Paul Morgan, Rochester champ, in discussion at opening of state tourney here. Larry Evans of New York City, left, who is defending his state chess championship, explains move to Dr. Edward Lasker, New State's Chess Masters Battle li Out City's Youth Vie I i I Brockport Native Prowned A native of Brockport, Lt. j.

Wilson Manley Shafer 26, of Stamford. who is related to several Brockport residents, and five other crew members of the Tusk died in the heroic rescue. Also lost was a civilian radio technician, sole victim aboard the Cochino. Lieutenant Shafer, who report- At Weight Lifting, It so quiet in the Kodak Park recreation hall yesterday you could hear a pawn drop. With dual-controled clocks beside them, nearly 50 of the world's top-notch chess playeds huddled in deep concentration Fishing, Racing iedly was to have been married to a Four of the six Rochesterian playing in yesterday's tourney won.

their matches. Dr. Herzberger defeated an internationally-knowa expert, A. E. Santasiere of New York, while victories were also netted by E.

W. March md, W. A. Wagner and Paul Morgan, local champ. I-Othrr w'nnem 1mtif 'with 'x i Si? over the checkered boards, hoping to capture not only their opponents' kings, but the title of New York ha- created a constant menace to and property in the community from fires.

Chief Slattery said: of debris and grass have become so dry that they ignite like tinder and often spontaneously. Calls for Vigilance "I wuld urge most earnestly that the people of the city exercise extreme care and vigilance in the use of matches, cigarets, and I urge children to be ever bo watchful in the interest of their own safety. "I ask also that oil companies Stamford girl Sept. 24, was swept into the towering, icy seas and Rochester's citizens of tomorrow drowned with six others when the state chess champion One of yesterday's mott interesting matches was between 17-year-old Larry Evans, state champion, and Dr. Edward Lasker, international master.

Both are of New yesterday became later-day Huckleberry Finns, junior Tarzans and fleet-footed Paavo Nurmis in the Tusk sent a rubber boat to the sixth day of the city's Youth Week. Cochino in an initial rescue attempt. He was graduated from the U.S. vri k. 1.

MoCormitk of r.ast Completely ringing -obb Hill York City. At another table was N. J. wi-r Arthur jimiii. The 1949 State Chess Association Congress tournament, which opened yesterday noon, will continue until Sept.

5. Adhering to the Swiss tourney style, the winners of yesterday's matches will vie against each other today, with play continuing on the same basis tomorrow. castinsflNaval Academy in 1944. He leaves Lake in a fishing- and M. Rosenthal.

BrooWyn: J. T. Woawt, rodeo, 400 "Huck Finn'c" dangledihis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson ten-peny sinkers, tree-limb rods Manley Shafer or Stamford; a wet down grass and keep it wet ar.d also wet down other accumula and bent ping into the wind-riffled sister, and the following Lrock- Louis Persinger, violin instructor at Julliard School of Music and teacher of several noted concert artists, including Yehudi Menuhin.

Other players competing in the tournament are Hans Berliner, young champion of Washington, tions near their properties. waters from dawn to dusk. At port relatives: Mrs. Charles ii. According to tournament rules, afternoon's end, the majority ofiWadhams, an aunt; Mrs.

Manley the lake's rockbass, sunfish, blue- Shafer, his grandmother, and L. B. each player is required to make 40 moves in a two-hour period. After "If everybody will cooperate, I am sure the number of grass fires can be reduced and the menace iirooklyn. ovfr S1 Rjihlnow, A.

Eisguirr. Nw York, wer Dr. A. Mencarinl, New York: J. F.

Ponnvtr, Brooklyn, enrr J.irf Barry. Detroit; H. M. rhillips, Nfw York.j fiver M. i Roean.

Knclteater: Dr. B. Krljmidt. Detroit, over i'rcl Tudai, lirnokljrn; Morton gtirS. Btirf.ilo, over EU ItoMmm, Brwk'yn vMty.

Brooklyn, over J. 8 Batil. Howard Harrison. New York, orver Ijouis remintfir. New York; Jick Poudi-kifv.

New Yock. over Mark Kueher, I-troit; Leo Kupcrsmith. Brooklyn, mer Karl Bureer, Brook.yn. an1 Berliner, Wa.hineton, over V. W.

Wmana RcheRtpr. grille, perch, bullheads and large jShafer and rank bhaier, uncles. D. Donald Byrne, Yale Univer- that. 20 moves must be made each largely eliminated." mouth bass reposed, sizzling, in Minutes before the tusk weignea hour.

A time clock supplied each student, and George Kramer, couple records the time taken fori international star, who copped the family frying pans. I anchor in Hammerfest yesterday a The fire chief said instructions were issued to battalion chiefs to Winner of the contest, run as 'Norwegian seaplane lanaea in tne pach nlav anri adds an element of state championsnip title wnen ne i harbor with a contact responsible officials of oil was only 14. Providence. R. aboard.

The Navy jsugPense OI tne companies here to carry out the was 13-year-old Arthur Boehley of 530 Ray St. Young -Art." who used physician boarded the Tusk to I'i program for wetting down land. ad jacent to storage tanks. minister to the injured, five oflHJJ worms to snare a total of 17 fish. whom were burned in the expIo-j won a complete fishing outfit.

An sions aboard the Cochino. 4 Men Arrested Subs on Maneuvers In Crap Shooting THESE DIDN'T GET AWAY other worm advocate, 11-year-old Jackie Dench of East Rochester, went home with five fish and another complete fishing set after nosing all comers in the girls division. Numerous other prizes, tack'e boxes, minnow buckets, rods and reels and jacknivee went to sc ores of runnerups. The Tusk and the Cochino, ac-, companied by the Toro and Cor-; sair, two other Navy submarines, were on cold water maneuvers when the disaster struck. One-jE Grinning winners of Youth Week fishing "rodeo" held at Cobbs Hill Lake yesterday, 11-year-old Jackie Dench of East Rochester, left, and Arthur Boehley, 13, of 530 Bay proudly display their catches.

Their angle? Worms. thousand-pound lead sulphate type Four men were arrested on charge of participating in a game where money was at in the rear of 31 Leopold St. shortly before 5 p. m. yesterday.

Fgt. Turgealitis and Patrolman Naylon Louth said they answered a complaint to find an oldfashioned cn-the-ground dice game in prog batteries, which can give off highly-volatile hydrogen fumes when charged, were in the Co- THE ENTHUSIASTIC response to our Friday night shopping hours during the Summer, indicates to us that many of our customers would like to have evening shopping hours-continued. We shall, therefore, be open Monday nights throughout the Fall and Winter season. chino's battery room, according tO In the casting contest, wherein competitors attempted to toss plugs into colored rings afloat in the water, Jerry Michael won the Clasfi A prize of a fishing line. Class winner was Steve Carlucci of 3 St.

Jacob who won a Rochester's Episcopal Bishop the dispatch. The rescue, termed by Cmdr. ress. Nobody was charged with be ing the keeper of the game. reel.

Howard Bigelow won the To Offer Resignation at Meet Class competition. Girls division Robprt K. R. Wrorthington of the Tusk ns the "most dangerous Job" he had ever experienced, was cf-j fected after the Tusk, commanded hy Lt. Cmdr.

Rafael Renitez, was; maneuvered close to the stricken Parked Car Rammed; Boy Hurt, Driver Held The Kcv. liartel II. Kcinlieinier, bishop of the Rochester Protestant Episcopal Diocese, is anionjr 11 bishops who will submit their resignations at lie "denomination's convention next month, it, was announced yesterday from New York. winner was Patty Lec of lf" Berkeley St. who took home a reel for her accuracy.

Contest chairman Elmer Messner, Times-Union "Rod and Gun" columnist and cartoonist, made sure that very nearly every junior Izaak Walton who visited the scene received some kind of a prize. While hundreds of beach bathers looked on at Ontario Reach I'ark will be offered Cochino, so close that pounding waves sent the two craft crashing, together time after time. The Co-j chino crewmen ran across a nar-jE row wooded plank laid between the craft to gain safety. Lieutenant Shafer was among 13 Er nirn swept from the Tusk's rubber The resignations Pennsylvania; the Rev. Wiley R.

Mason, suffragan bishop of Virginia; the Rev. William Scarlett af Missouri; the Rev. Robert Collision of automobiles in front cf 44 Fro.t Ave. shortly after 6 o'clock IhfX night resulted in a r.eck injury for a 12-year-old boy end the arrest of a driver. The boy, John Mazzucco, of 44 Frost was Fiting in a parked automobile whf-r.

it was by an automobile driven by William H. Matte-no 2. of 374 Manltou Hd. Matte-f was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving. The parked car cwned.

according to police, by Nicholas F. Mazzucco, of 53 Wal-rut St. in Charlotte, nuriy weigni-nncrs hefted every cumbersome object in boat by heavy seas on the first res-i cue attempt. Six were dragged from the sea after heroic TuskS at the 56th triennial convention at Sun Francisco Sept. 26-Oct.

7. Nine of the bishops have reached the retirement age ef 72, church officials paid, and two seek retirement because of ill health. The other 10 are: The Rev. Charles K. Gilbert of New York City; the Rev.

G. Ashton Oldham of Albany; the Rev. William P. Remington, suffragan bishop of sight, including each other, in the crewmen had tied lines about their 1949 Lake Ontario Weightlif ting waists and plunged into the Spencer of West Missouri; the Rev. Fred Ingley of Colorado; the Rev.

M. M. Thomas of Southern Brazil, and the Rev. Lloyd R. Craighill, of the missionary district at Anking, China.

Championships. McFarlin's will be open Mondays Noon 'til 9 p. m. Starting Tomorrow Hard, 108, Flies Today to Last Reunion grabbing those washed overboard. Hospitalized Man Reports Robbery A 43-year-old man was in General Hospital with a possible fractured skull last night, and his alleged assailant was in Monroe County Jail as an aftermath of a reported In the 123-pound 'class, Dave Stoll, of the Catholic Youth Association, whipped through the military press, snatch lift and clean and jerk elimination lifts with a 305-point winning total.

Phillip E. Lord, Western New York champion in the 132-pound class, continued his winning ways by amassing a total of 550. Carl G. Nicoletti, like Lord also a Central YMCA member, won handily in the 148-pouni clas3 with a total of 510. Raymond Elser took the 165-pound class with a 585 and Chris Johnson the 181-pound class with 540.

Both salute from color guards of the city The nation's oldest member of the Grand Army of the Republic, will board a Gannett Newspapers plane at nooti today and head for his last official reunion with the boys in blue. Only five of his former comrades will be on hand the sole and military groups. Ceremonies at the airport will be recorded for broadcast over WHEC at 2:30 p. m. resentatives able to attend rc As the only representative of New York State to attend the GAR en robbery in Manitou Rd.

Harry Mael, 90 Hand suffered campment, Hard received the best are Central YMCA members. a severe neaa laceranon anu In the heavyweight division. wishes of Governor Dewey in a letter which referred to him as a sym ible skull fracture. He was "taken S3rd and final encampment of an organization that once numbered more than 408,000 persons. With his brushed blue uniform packed neatly in his suitcase, James A.

Hard yesterday was looking forward to the occasion but admitted he felt sorry to 4 bol of "the undying patriotism of the Empire State." Robert Blinco. Central Western New York Heavyweight champ, oiiKted runnerup Tony Silipini with a 6fi0 total, 70 more points than the for a ride" by two men and two women and slugged over the head with an automobile jack, he told Greece Policeman William Gray. Airport Ceremonies Ceremonies at the local airport latter amassed. Gray, who arrived at the scene, Judges were Fred Little, Bob Warner and Frank Carbone with pe tne once-poweriul organization drawing its history to a close. While certain members of the GAR have urged continuance of the Thursday, 5:30 p.m.

in front of 506 Manitou in response to a report from a neigh Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:15 a.m. to William J. Cox doing the announc today will include brief messages from Vicemayor Frank E. VanLare, Chairman Gordon Howe of the Board of Supervisors, and Fred A. ing.

bor, arrested John J. Ridley, or 203 Hudson on a charge of third degree assault. Ridley was arraigned before Peace Justice Elsewhere on the Youth Week front yesterday, 1,000 howlingly happy youngsters thundered up and organization with annual meetings. Hard faid "it was bet" that this year's enrampment should be the at- 'The affairs of the organiza Glover, business manager of The Times-Union. The Rev.

William Hallork, state chaplain of the Sons of Union Veterans, will give the Arthur Rickman and remanded to down the old University of Roch ester athletic field in Main St. E. Monroe County Jail. Hearing was set for Wednesday night in Greece Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

-J vr tion bp nettled while the few remaining veterans are able to dispose cf any issue." benediction. in every imaginable kind of race for a bevy of prizes. The field day Town Hall. Among the veteran groups elated Gray aid Mael met Ridley and sponsored by the Northeast Ki Fat or Reunion with Rebs He fliil declares, however, that to pay tribute to Hard prior to his departure are the American Legion, Club of Rochester with his companions in a grill at tne corner of Kelly St. and Joseph Ave.

Georee Fritsche as its chairman he would be in favor of a final Veterans of Foreign Wars. Disabled saw 300 pounds of peanuts, 1.600 pet-together cf the GAR with Con American Veterans, National and accompanied e-m in their automobile. In Manitou he told bags of popcorn and 6,000 suckers federate veterans a proposal that Guard, Sons of Union Veterans, Rochester Lodge of Masons, the consumed during a long afternoon Gray, the car was stopped and Ridley struck him with the jack. Mael i was coo'y greeted at last year's con He pointed out that the or of snorts-eatine. The Elks clown claimed he was relieved of $.0.

band was on hand for some melody. will continue to exist as Gray said the money was not re Five hundred youngsters stormed long as a single member survives. Eagles and Moose. Motorcyclist Injured In Crash with Auto covered. Greece Toliceman Kooert the length and breadth of Edger prf5Cribed in the GAR by-laws.

Br fore departing for Indianapolis, Fisher assisted in the investigation. ton Park Paddock in a similar pro gram of games supervised by where the initial GAR meeting was Rochester playground instructors Miss Lois Giles. Edgerton Park MeFAHBILlLM SLASH F.I IX KNIFING Involved in a fight in a doorway in Joseph near Kelly held in November, 1866. Hard will receive "bon voyage" wishes from a detachment of National Guardsman, Legionnaires, police and sher '--f instructor was in charge. From 8 to 10:30 p.

m. today the Hurled from hia motorcycle when it collided with an automobile in front of the Harding' School in Spcncerport Gate, shortly before 7 o'clock last night, William Mclntyre, 20, of 273 Cole was iffs deputies. They will escort the 195 EAST MAIN STREET Genesee Valley Park bandstand will resound to the tunes of New wmmmmsmmmmm aged veteran from Main St. W. and York musical extravganza produc Fitzhugh St.

N. at 10:30 a. m. today shortly after midnight yesterday morning. Bertha Wilson, 24, of 72j Joiner was cut severely on the left forearm.

She was taken to: Strong Memorial Hospital. Police were looking for a 22-year-old I tions against stage settings worthy of od Broadway as the footlights GAR Chief of Staff Albert Woolson, 102, of Duluth. breaks crackers into his soup after he arrived in Indianapolis to attend last GAR convention. bruised and cut severely on the head. He was taken to St.

Mary's Hospital. The drived of the car waa Emmett Akey, 31, Of 55 Isabelle St. to the Rochester Airport, where he win be greeted by delegations from patriotic, veteran and civic groups. He will board the plane after a final go un on the City of Rochester's ilis woman as the knife wielder. si 1949 Youth Review..

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