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TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1914 We Seen and Heard 1,500 FIREMEN 2 Die, 6 Wounded Among Monroe's Fighters Abroad; The Brfttle of France has cost the lives of two moro Rochester infantrymen and brought wounds to an additional six soldiers from Monroe Count', according to yesterday "a Lt. Elizabeth (Thompson, A NISEI COMES TO TOWN "THE University of Rochester has a Japanese-American scholar of considerable distinction doing research in its laboratories. lie is William N. Takahashi, PhJX, from the University of California at Berkeley, who has come Annette; a sister, Mrs. Mamie Del Monte, and a brother.

Pvt. Joseph Di Pasquale, Fort Dix, N. J. Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 9:15 a m. at St Frail cia Xavier Church.

continue to live in the East after he had completed his year of research under the fellowship. "No." he said. "When, that work is done, I'll return to my old job at the University of California as quickly as the authorities permit me to do so. It won't be too pleasant. There is still a feeling against Japanese-Americans on the coast.

But I feel conscience bound to go back. You see, right now a large number of American born Japanese are fighting in Europe in American uniforms. If these boys are dying for their native country, it is up to the rest of us to prove our -loyalty and our right to citizenship among the people who have been suspicious of us." x- JN Europe today, Dr. Takahashi said, the 100th Infantry Battalion of second and third generation Japanese-Americans, the last named known as Sansei, Is doing valiant service in Europe with the American Army. Many other Japanese -Americans are serving with other units in the European theater.

These soldiers Jfor the most part have no allegiance with Japan. They ere as sound Americans as second and third generation Germans and Italians, Dr. Takahashi claims. "For 6ome curious reason the Japanese-American has been looked upon with much greater physical director for Northern New York District, comes to town to "take the fat" off WACS. Pfc.

Rose Koran, Pfc. Madelyn Kane and Pfc. Penny Rathburg, from left, try exercises. ers still left crop areas parched. In the corn belt east of the Missis sippi River prolonged dry conditions caused injury not only to corn but soybeans and garden produce.

Damage also had spread to Northeastern States, besides New York. There was some loss in the deep South but beneficial rains had fallen recently. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee ap peared hardest hit, with corn dam aged badly. Potatoes and other garden crops were deteriorating in those states, as well as in New York, New Jersey and Massachu setts. INIIHIIIIimillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllW casualty reports.

Pvt. Varian E. Austin Killed in France Pvt. Varian (Pee Wee) E. Austin, 19, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Herschel Cummings, 2553 Clinton was killed in ac tion in France July 18, according to a War Department tel egram received by his parents. Private Aus tin entered the Army in Sep tember, 1 9 4 3, trained at Camp Croft, and went overseas an infantry man last April. He attended VARIAN E. AUSTIN" School 13 and worked at Wally's Aligning Center.

Besides his parents he leaves two sisters, Cora and Madeline, and three brothers, Herschel, Mervin and Richard. Pvt. A. C. Di Pasquale Dead.

in Action Pvt. Anthony C. Di Pasquale, 26, of 325 N. Union gave his life in action in France on Independence Day, his wife, the former Mildred Attaldo, has learned. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Peter DI Pasquale of th Union St. address. A member of an mian try unit. Private Di Pasquale -tered the serv ice in August, 193, and went ANTHONY DI PAStJL'ALE to England last April.

He was a graduate of Edison Technical High School and was formerly employed at Folmer Graflex Corporation. Besides his wife and parents, lie leaves a 17-month-old daughter. Ave. tmmm Sgt. R.

N. Sweeney Wounded Sgt, Robert N. Sweeney, 23 nephew of Miss Nellie E. Sweeney. 37 Ravenwood was eeriousrjr wuunaeo.

in France July 22, according to a War Department telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Sweeney of Industry. An infantryman, Sergeant Sweeney is a veteran six years' service.

He went overseas last December and is Robert n. SWEENEY now in a hospital in England. He has been awarded the Purple Heart. He attended Avon High School. Sgt.

David H. Murphy Seriously Wounded Sgt. David H. Murphy, 19, aon ol Mrs. Ina H.

Murphy, 2178 Norton was wounded seriously in France July 27. He is a member of the Infantry. Now recovering In a hospital In England, Serge ant Murphy formerly at tended William son High School and was m-ployed by Wil-mot Castle Com 7' i pany before en tering the Army last October. He DAUU H. MCBPHY went oversea trained at Camp Croft, N.

and about Apr. 1. Continued on Tut Tw Mercury Hits Record 94, 1 Felled in 5th Day of Heat Record-breaking heat hammered the mercury np to 94 decrees yesterday and caused the prostration of at least one person here, as the current torrid -wave passed its fifth day and the Weather Bureau issued a forecast that did little to dispel MARCH, OPEN STATE MEET Volunteers Stage Colorful Parade Downtown More than 1,500 volunteer fire men and auxiliaries from all parts of the state paraded through down town Rochester last night, as spec tators lined Main Street, in spite of wilting heat. The parade was the curtain raiser for the two-day convention of the Firemen's Association of the State of New York, whose sessions open tomorrow in Convention Hall. Twenty bands, representing Monroe County volunteer fire depart ments, blared accompaniment tto the marching of red, white or blue- uniformed men and women as the parade moved up Main Street and Clinton Avenue North.

City and countv Are units furnished 40 pieces of equipment, shined to gleaming perfection. The march terminated at Franklin Square, where Monroe County firemen showed visitors and residents of Rochester what has been accomplished in the co-operative wartime security agreement between city and county fire organizations. Mead to Speak Meanwhile, a telegram by State President Leon H. Ingersoll yesterday morning confirmed that United States Senator James M. Mead of Buffalo will address the convention at 11:30 a.

m. tomorrow in Convention Hall. No indication was given as to his subject. Delegates to the convention last night were still checking in at capacity-filled downtown hotels and private homes where emergency accommodations have been se cured. The last of the members and guests are expected to arrive this morning, making a total of more than 2,000 firemen and 1,000 wives.

Some 16 headquarters were op erating in the Hotel Seneca yester day, as town and county groups gathered socially. Informal par leys over candidates for state offices were being staged on all floors. Only proposed candidates who have never held office are Britton A. Vannauker of Minoa, expected to receive the nomination to fill out the unexpired term of Levi Rogers to the board of trustees of the firemen's home at Hudson and Arthur M. Heffner of the Laurelton Fire Department, who will probably be the sole can didate for second vicepresident.

Others Mentioned Other names mentioned are: bert J. Foley of Dunkirk, now first vicepresident, expected to move up to take the place of Ingersoll as president; Roswell D. Siller, Ros-lyn Heights, as first vicepresident; Eugene M. Braun, Eggertsville, as secretary; George F. Cornell, Brooklyn, as treasurer and August Kalb, Rockville Center, three-year term on the executive committee.

Slated for re-election to the board of trustees of the firemen's home were: Ralph W. Simpson, Tonawanda; J. Walace Eggleston, Albion, and Joseph B. Mulholland, Troy, five-year terms; Joseph Mar shall, Flushing, two-year term, and Dr. Frank D.

Taylor, Flushing, one-year term. Establishing a headquarters for the first time at a state convention was the Central New York Firemen's Association, representing 16 counties. The group took a room on the mezzanine floor of the Seneca. 4 1 Heart Attack Fatal To Woman Typist Mrs. Margaret Ver Hoven, 27, of 962 Monroe employed as a stenographer by the American Laundry Machinery Company, col lapsed and died of a heart attack while at work in the firm's offices in Bufalo Road yesterdays afternoon.

The body was taken to the Morgue where it was reported that Mrs. Ver Hoven had been ill recently. Coroner Richard A. Leonardo issued a certificate of death from natural causes. V-12 Student Injured In Playing Baseball Joseph Walker, 19, of Gates Mills, Ohio, a Navy V-12 student at the University of Rochester, suffered a dislocated shoulder late yesterday afternoon when he "slid home" while playing baseball at the River Campus, police reported.

He was treated by a Strong Memorial Hospital ambulance sur geon and taken to his quarters. I Starting Tomorrow Morning here under a Guggenheim fellow ship to study plant pathology, particularly that phase of it that treats with virus diseases. I met Dr. Takahashi through an old friend and fellow scientist (and, incidentally, a former Guggenheim fellow), David R. God-dard, associate professor in botany at the University.

He is a short, roundfaced, mild-mannered, quiet-spoken little man whose appearance bears utterly no resemblance to the sinister Mr. Moto type of Japanese many of us, -with racial hatred aroused by the war, have come to believe is the only type of Japanese extant. For a year Dr. Takahashi, his wife and his small son were impounded, together with 70,000 other second generation Japanese-Americans or Nisei, as they are called in one of several Japanese internment camps. A smile touched Dr.

Takaha-shi's lips when I asked him if that experience had been particularly unpleasant. "Well, it wasn't too pleasant," he said. "But mostly it was confusing." I asked him what meant by that. "Well," he said, "you see at first I really didn't know what it was all about. I am a native-born American and have never even been to Japan.

My father has lived here for 50 years, still lives here, and in that time made only one brief visit to Japan. My mother has been here 45 years, and never went back. I can't read or write the Japanese language." "I had thought I was a pretty good second generation American, certainly as loyal to my native country as second generation Germans and Italians. Yet one day, with my small family, I was ordered out of my home, given a bedding roll and impounded in an. Arkansas internment camp as a potential spy, traitor or saboteur.

To many loyal Japanese Americans this was a disappointing and disillusioning experience. We couldn't understand why we were being treated in this manner. TAR. TAKAHASHI particularly couldn't understand it in his own case, since he had been given a clean bill of health both by the FBI and the Army intelligence, and warmly recommended as a loyal American citi-ren, a scholar of distinction and a valuable member of the faculty of the University of California by the university authorities. But a blanket rule affecting all West coast Japanese-Americans had been made and no distinctions were possible.

Takahashi is a Christiao and was reared in the Quaker faith. His mother studied in a Quaker school in Tokyoand later became a member of the school's faculty. Dr. Takahashi was born in Oakland, Calif. As an infant he was enrolled in the Cradle School of the Friends Church and received his elementary education under Quaker tutelage.

Later he successively matriculated at the Berkeley High School and the University of California. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the university he took four years of postgraduate work there and then joined the faculty. He has 10 brothers and eisters and all but the youngest brother who has been made 1-A in the draft are collegre graduates. "When Pearl Harbor happened," Dr. Takahashi said, "I refused to believe it, as I refused to believe the Japanese rape of Nanking until I had been given undisputed evidence of this tragedy by Chinese refugees.

You see, the Japanese people I knew really were Americans. Even those born in Japan who approximate my own age and in this country there are not many of my age who were born in Japan had little understanding of what was going on in Japan. They were kindly and decent people. Their interests were all in America and they were loyal citizens. They were not familiar with Japanese politics.

For my part, I was vaguely aware that a war party had gained the ascendency in Japan, but my interest was in botany, not in politics, and the Pearl Harbor attack was a terrific shock." Dr. and Mrs. Takahashi and their small son were released from the internment camp they moved to Ithaca, where Dr. Takahashi continued in Cornell University his researches in plant pathology. He came here two or three weeks ago and he and his family are temporarily housed in one of the apartments in the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School originally reserved for foreign missionaries returned to this country to study.

He said he and his family had been treated with the utmost kindness and consideration both in Ithaca and Rochester. I asked him if he proposed to tag WACS TRY OUT CALISTHENICS Don't say the WACs can't take it. Because they can and grace fully. Enlisted personnel at the WAC recruiting office in the Federal Building had a chance to prove that yesterday when they started on a routine of daily calisthenics designed to trim their waistlines down to GI specifications. Garbed in trim seersucker fa tigue uniforms, the lady doughboys were put through their paces by Second Lt.

Elizabeth Thompson, physical training instructor for the Northern New York WAC district. The program, ordered from Wash ington, will be directed in daily sessions by Sgt. Mildred Le Fevre. Neither grunts nor groans had any part in the program as Lt. Thompson put the WACs through physical fitness tests designed to reveal the strength of body muscles.

First to take the test here was Sgt. Carol Finney, who did the prescribed pushups, knee-dips, sit-ups, and wing-dips in a creditable manner. Lt Thompson will return to Rochester next month to put the WACs through the tests again and ascertain the improvement in muscle flexibility and strength brought by the daily training pro gram. 4 Antonelli Plea Oi 'Pauper' Denied Amerigo Antonelli and the Antonelli Fireworks Company must present records in printed form when submitting their appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Harold P. Burke ruled in denying the "poor persons" appeals of both defendants in a hearing yesterday.

John and Joseph. DeRitis and Dominick Barbollo, who with Antonelli and the company were con victed in Federal Court here of conspiracy to defraud the government by manufacture of faulty munitions, may cffer their records to the appeals court in typewritten form however, Judge Burke ruled in granting their "poor persons" pleas. The appeal is scheduled to go to the higher court this fall. Roof Painter Hurt- As Ladder Slips August Appelhans, 46, of 32 Mc-Kinster suffered head and body injuries in a double fall yesterday afternoon when a light ladder he had rested on the porch roof of his home while painting he structure slipped from beneath him. Police said Appelhans, who was taken to Genesee Hospital, fell first to the roof and then bounced about 12 feet to the ground.

2 Area Men Jailed On Draft Charges James A. Craig, 40, of Warsaw, and Earl H. Rutledge, 29, of Corning, are being held in Monroe County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail each on Selective Service charges. Craig is alleged to have failed to report for a physical examination and Rutledge is charged with failing to report a change of address. 1 Air Corps Four sworn into the Navy are: Donald K.

locoo. Clyde; Robert Portpr. Holley: nouclaa r. Bryant, 13 Ornfton Fitch M. Davis, ill Rox-borouKh Rd.

Kenneth Mather. Kendall; Howard B. Thurston, Honeoye Kails; Robert P. Whltehouse, 164 AURUfltlne Harold J. Vanden Bout, East Palmyra; Adelbert C.

Galbraith, Nunda; EuKene A. Quatro, Jr. 22 Russell Edward J. Leavenworth, 235 Kenwood Kenneth Scott. 62 Agnes Richard J.

White. 375 Clay Peter Christoff. 404 Lexington Orrln W. Hartweil. Arkport; Carl V.

Tyler, 302 Avenue William J. Rankin, 233 Reynolds John J. O'Mealia. 157 Stutson Thomas E. Au Jr.

679 8. Goodman Anthony Marini, 14 Texas Thurlow W. Sampson. Fishers; Henry Van Hooydonk Jr. 168 Merrimae Joseph 8.

BlsiK. 35 RoChell William Kowal Jr. 1 Farbridge John C. Dasson. 2 F.lll Oates; Donald Dunn, 1270 Park John J.

Clckycys Jr. 142 Durnan Ht. and Frederick h. Brown elj Jr. Bath.

suspicion than the German or Italian American," he continued. "It is impossible for a Japanese-American, to obtain work in a warplant, yet countless numbers of German-Americans and Italian-Americans have been employed in these plants throughout the war. Undoubtedly, of course, Japanese spies operated in this country before the war, but most of them came here solely for that purpose, and most of them have probably returned. I feel that I am just as loyal a citizen as Mayor La-Guardia of New York or Wendell Willkie, both of whom are second generation Americans. Dr.

Takahashi as a child was a fellow student in the Friends School in California with Dr. Goddard's wife. He has been a friends of Dr. Goddard who, like himself, was graduated from the University of California, since 1926. APPLE RAISERS ELECT FRASER Samuel Fraser of Geneseo was elected secretary of the International Apple Association for the third consecutive year, at the association's 50th annual convention in Chicago.

Association office is at 25 North Rochester. Fraser returned to Rochester with a warning to apple growers to be cautious in their reopening of post-war trade with hard-pressed European countries. "With their preponderance of heavy debt and lack of resources caused by the war's destruction of property and human life, exporting to these countries will be a shaky business deal." He added that apple growers, as well as other United States exporters, must develop a new shrewdness in dealing with the nations of old Europe. Holding that Great Britain has a strangle hold on food distribution for Europe, he said, "She will retain her food control, you may be sure, and she will decide who will ship and where." Fraser observed that limiting of crops is dangerous to U. S.

markets, and will be even more risky after the war. "Crop limitation here encourages the increasing of crops in other countries to the detriment of our markets." He cited the partial loss of the American cotton market as an example. The association elected John M. Henderson, New York City, president; S. M.

Cohodas, Ishpeming, vicepresident, and Francis Blake of Albion, treasurer. Baby Found Dead In Bed at Home In Le Roy Vicinity Le Roy Philis Sharon Cross, infant daughter of Philip and Shirley McNish Cross of the Le Roy-Ber-gen Road, was found dead in bed at her home early yesterday (Aug. 14, 1944.) Dr. Merton R. Skinner of Le Roy, Genesee County coroner, viewed the body ana granted a certificate of death from natural couses.

The child had not been well since birth in Batavia on Mar. 27, 1944. Besides her parents she is survived by her grandmothers, Mrs. May Cross and Mrs. John McNish of Batavia.

Private funeral services will be held at the Fee Funeral Home, 124 Bank Batavia, at 9 a. m. today. Interment in St. Joseph's Cemetery in that city.

Leo Arnstein Passes; N.y. Welfare Worker New York JP Leo Arnstein, 67, New York welfare comissioner for 17 months and long active in welfare work, died yesterday after a long illness. A native of San Francisco, Arnstein was a leather mer chant and was at one time president of the Commodity Exchange, Ino. we worry oi nocnesier area, ia.nn- ers over their crops. The day's high, coming at 6:30 p.

was five degrees above the 'record for the day, established in 1901. Scattered showers predicted for this area yesterday were not only scattered, but so light as to do little more than lay the dust. The day's low, 72 degrees, occurred between 4:30 and 6:30 a. m. County Park Warning The heat victim was Frank, H.

Boyce, 56, who was overcome in his home, 349 Parsells in the afternoon. He was treated there by a Park Avenue Hospital ambulance physician. Save Water! Public Urged Householders! Exercise moderation dti using water. This was the appeal of City Manager Cartwright last night following a survey of the city water situation yesterday with Public Works Commissioner A. H.

Wagener and Water Superintendent Lewis B. Smith. For the present, conferees decided, no drastic curtailments measures' were necessary and none probably will be if citizens voluntarily use restraint. Consumption averaged gallons a day last week although Friday was the biggest day in the city's history when gallons were used. Over the past week, city reservoirs yielded 2,600,000 gallons more water than they took in, due to the fact that conduit capacity is not equal to weekday demands.

The city had gallons of water in storage in its three reservoirs yesterday. "We suggest that lawns be not sprinkled between 7 a. m. and 7 p. said Cartwright, "as long as the dry spell continues." Unless a lengthy rain helps the situation, Cartwright and advisers will hold daily conferences concerning the water supply.

The official forecast for today is: "Continued hot and humid, with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening." Motivated by the continued drouth, Robert W. Cochrane, county parks director, issued special orders to his employes to maintain a vigilant watch for possible fires and warned park visitors against carelessness while using fireplaces in the park areas. Cochrane said that despite the dry condition of the parks, and the record crowds who sought relief over the weekend, no fires were reported on land under his jurisdiction. Drouth Widespread Throughout many other parts of the country spotty weekend show- Fireman Succumbs To Heart Ailment Geneva George L. Wheeler, 56, Geneva fireman for 37 years and driver of the Hydrant Hose Company truck until his recent illness, died last night (Aug.

14, 1944) in Geneva General Hospital as a result of a heart attack suffered Aug. 1 while he was vacationing on Seneca Lake. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Maude B. Wheeler; a stepson.

Donald Swarthout; two brothers, J. Leon and Albert H. Wheeler, and a sister, Mrs. Milo Howell, all of Geneva. GLASS FIRM HEAD DIES Pittsburgh VP) Harry Scott Wherrett, who rose from office boy to chairman of the board of directors of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, died Sunday night.

He was 67. SOME forty years ago McFarlin's instituted a new kind of sale. In the course of six months of selling', various broken -lots and single items accumulate in a big clothing store. It was contrary to policy to carry them in stock, and a problem to sell them. DECISION was made to put them all together in one big sale, at drastically cut prices, under the name of Oddments.

The idea caught on at once, and McFarlin's Oddment became one of the most famous clearance sales in the country. McFARLIN'S Oddment has1 this unique feature: All the items offered are high-grade merchandise. All the Oddments are our own fine-quality apparel. WARTIME shortage of merchandise has put many difficulties in the way of continuing McFarlin's Oddment. Nevertheless, this McFarlin tradition will be carried on.

See Tonight's Paper for List of Items McFARLIN'S 195 MAIN STREET EAST 28 from Area Sworn into Navy, WAVES Get Enlistment of 33 Rochester and area residents were reported Dy recruiters here yesterday. Sworn into the WAVES was Frances Leinen, 430 Yarmouth who will leave shortly for officer training at Smith College. Four young men who became memfaers of the Air Corps En listed Reserve include: Tomas E. Lutit Jr. 9 Arnold Warren L.

Fitch, 112 Fairlea Bernard F. Kromer, 126 Tremont Eugene W. Bushnell, 177 Berkley St. and Lawrence R. Baas, Fair-port.

Twenty-eight men who were HiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimniHiiiinmiiHiiffliiiHiHiyiHiinmnw.