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-SECTION TWO- WE RECOMMEND Ramon Coffman writes about a South American hero In hi column, "Uncle Ray's Corner," today. See it on Page 20. In backyard bivouac Corky and Judy make Skeexix a quiz kid. See pa.g 8 112TH YEAR ROCHESTER. N.

MAY" 2, 1944 PAGE' THIRTEEN Heard- -Seen 9 GOVERNMENT SITES RULED TAX EXEMPT JURY PICKED IN ANTONELLI PLOT TRIAL 2 Wounded, 2 Captured From Area Two Rochester men are German prisoners of war, two have been wounded in the European theater, and a soldier is revealed to have made his way back to the Anzio beachhead after being reported missing. LEST WE FORGET ALL of us have sons in the armed forces at times feel a little heroic. Our lot is one of. worry and nagging doubt and sleepless nights and dread of a yellow envelope from the "Western Union office. Charles H.

Kramb, who for- KM? IT" s. 1 jf" V-' fr: 7. COURTROOM SCENE AT SABOTAGE TRIAL Shown in Federal Court before jurors were picked yesterday for their trial on fraud and sabotage charges are, from the left, Domenick Barbollo, Joseph DeRitis, Amerigo Antonelli, John DeRitis, Joseph's brother. Hearing of testimony opens today. Pulitzer Award Surprises Eastman School Director By NORMAN NAIRN News that his Symphony Xo.

4 luid won the Pulitzer award for distinguished musieal composition" yame as a complete surprise to Dr. Howard Hanson, whom I found at his Eastman School office at 6 p. 'cleanino; up odds and ends of a busy day. Missing Tank Driver Reported Prisoner Pvt. Raymond J.

Gordinler. 19. aon of Mr. and Mrs. James B.

Gordinler, 288 Murray la German prisoner, his parents learned yesterday. The form card which he mailed said he would be transported to another camp in a tew days, where he could receive mail. ported missing in action in Europe since Jan. 31, Private Gordinier was a tank driver with the Armed Forces. Entering the service in February, 1943, he was sent over- hay mo i j.

seas the follow- i.okdimkk ing December and served in Africa and Italy. He was attending Jefferson High School when inducted. A brother, Pvt. James W.f 20, is serving with the Army in the South Pacific. Africa, Sicily Veteran Listed Wounded Sgt.

Thomas Jenks, 2S, serving with the Army Engineers, has been wounded in action in Italy, his mother, Mrs. Anna Jenks, 11 Winthrop learned from the War Department. In a letter home last Friday, Sergeant Jenks revealed that he was in a hospital i Italy and was recovering from his injuries. In service for more than three THOMAS JKNKS years, he has been- overseas about a year and a half, serving in Africa and Sicily before going to Italy. The sergeant attended t'ontlnnrrf on I'aite Srventeen it DEATH OF BABY HELD ACCIDENT A certificate of accidental death was issued yesterday for nine-months-old Beverly Jean McCoy, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert J. McCoy, 23 Vi Lang who died Sunday in General Hospital as a result burns she suffered Jan. 13 while her mother was preparing her for a bath. Coroner Richard A.

Leonardo said the infant apparently was on the way to recovery when lung and brain complications developed as a result of the burns. He said the baby's death was caused by collapsed lungs and dropsy of the brain. Dr. Leonardo said the child's mother told him she was preparing to bathe Beverly Jean when the fatal mishap occurred. Mrs.

McCoy said she had the child on the canvass shelf of the baby bath, undressing her. Water poured into "the canvass bath earlier had cooled, Mrs. McCoy said, so she picked up a kettle of hot water and was about to add it to the water already in the bath when her other daughter, Roberta June. 2, accidentally jostled her, causing the water to spill onto the shelf on which the infant lay. Hospital authorities said about 40 per cent of Beverly Jean's body was burned.

rrnrricnln of ih "National Anoia. tion of Schools of Music. He is a past president of the Music Teachers' National Association and of the NASM, and a member of various organizations which have to do with educational methods. Other StorY rage 1 Vagrancy Charges Against 3 Dropped Charges of vagrancy against three young men arrested as "Kiss Bandit" suspects last week were withdrawn by police yesterday in City Court. The three, ranging in age from 19 to 24, were taken into custody over a two-day period by detectives and police, who claimed each of the men "strongly resembled" the bandit, as described to them by women victims.

None of the women, however, was able to identify any one of the suspects. piiiuuniiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiimiiiiiiMiiiiiimiiiiiimiiHm EE Foot Speed Shown Questioning Of Panel in A jury of seven men and five women was completed yesterday for Antonelli sabotage and, fraud tiln I in Federal Court. Two alternates, both women," also were selected. Sele i of the 12 was com pleted in three hours and 4 5 minutes a al session which is e- nevea to be a record here for a trial of such Kl.o imporianc e. '( ostan.A Jury picking began at 10 a.

m. and by 3:10 p. m. the 12 had been chosen. There was time out for recesses.

Judge Harold I. Burke speeded the process by questioning the prospective jurors in accordance with law and with additional questions propounded by attorneys for the defense and for the government. Antonelli Jurors Jurors selected yesterday in the Antonelli case in Federal Court are: Clarence G. Brown, 157 Scio St. salesman.

Ralph W. Adams. 128 Child folder at Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company. Frederick O. Mall, 65 Seabrook serviceman for city.

Mrs. Clara E. Britton, 145 Lyndhurst housekeeper. Wilbur. J.

Beehler, 3 Marigold Kodak Park worker. George T. Allen. 99 Rand Kodak Park worker. Albert J.

Alliet, 85 Forgham Greece, Kodak Park worker. Mrs. Dorothy Brozost, 585 Con-key housekeeper. Mrs. Ina R.

Beach, 144 Soutlf housekeeper. Mrs. Carmen O. Schaefer, 17 Galusha secretary. Andrew C.

Salyards, 2 Theodore surveyor. Mrs. May K. Lapham, Five Points Road, Rush, housekeeper. Two alternates are: Mrs.

Pauline Arlidge, 293 Pen-hurst housekeeper. Mrs. Clarice K. McMahon, 55 Delaware Brighton, housekeeper. Stress was laid by the court on whether the jurors have relatives in service and whether this would influence them in arriving at a just decision in the case.

Nine of the jurors picked informed the court they have' relatives serving this country and one of the alternates said she has a son in tho Navy, but all claimed they would be governed by the evidence in their decision. Questioned on this point, Frederick O. Mall, 65 Seabrook eaid he has a grandson who is a bombardier in the IT. S. Air Forces.

When the court pointed out that bombs manufactured at the Antonelli Fireworks Company were Used in aerial warfare, Mall insisted he still could decide the case upon the evidence. Defendants Present 7 While defense attorneys went into huddles over questions for the jurors or use of their 10 peremptory challenges, the defendants sat attentively within the railing of the court proper. They are Amerigo Antonelli, 52, president of the firm, 131 Clifton Joseph DeRitis, 31, of 351 Jefferson superintendent; John DeRitis, 28, Joseph's brother, 50Hancock superintendent; and Domenick Barbollo, 29, of 14 Clifton a foreman. The four, with the Antonelli Fireworks Company, are charged with violation of the sabotage statute and with conspiracy to defraud the Government. A fifth defendant, Angelo Costanza, 34, of 37 Cleveland a.

plant foreman, is charged only witn fraud. Continued on J'age Fifteen NAZARETH SETS CONCERT The, annual glee club and orchestra concert at Nazareth College will be given Thursday at 2 p. m. in the campus theater on East Ave nue. The singers will be directed by Austin Truitt.

the 7 A 1 Immunity Holds Despite Leases, Court Decides Government-owned property 1 Immune from taxation whether the tax is directed against thtf government itself or Bomron who leanea the properly, the United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Constituting a "great disappointment" to corporation counsels Rochester and many other municipalities, according to Corporation Counsel Charles B. Forsyth, the 7-2 decision affects more than J7.500,-000,000 worth of war production equipment, in the words of a Justice Department statement quoted by the Associated Press. Action Test Case Forsyth, member of a committee of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, said the action, applying specifically to Pennsylvania gunmaker who leased government machinery, waa in the nature of a test case watched anxiously all over the country by municipalities deprived of the right of taxing a vast number of federal properties taken? over or constructed since the war began. He said the committee of the Institute was active in arranging the test action and Mrs.

H. J. Pittsburgh corporation counsel, represented the committee throughout. Forsyth said the decision would not cause this city to drop its efforts to assess and tax some worth of government property in Rochester. The federal government already has instituted a court action to compel the city to desist from its efforts and this action will proceed to a conclusion.

Forsyth said. Continued on Rolls Properties which Rochester sought to assess and tax in 1943 and which have been aontinued on 1 1944 tax rolls are the new Hawkev-6 plant. St. Paul 210 North tUnion -St former plant of Art-in-Buttons, now Navy-owned, Ridge Road North property adjoining Kodak Park and Kodak operated. $115,880.

The Supreme Court case revolved about a tax levied by Alleghany County, on machinery valued at $618,000 at the Meat Machine Company, West Homestead, Pa. Your Foot STREET EAST merly lived in Fairholm Road, Gates, is now removed from this worry and nagging doubt and the Jread of messages from the telt graph company. Hut once Mr. Krntmb had thre hoys in th I. Nvy, Those boy me now dd Two of them.

John and Junius Kininb, were killed In thf flint bombardment of the war, at Peail Harbor. Charles H. Kramb Jr. was killed under such heroic circumstances in the. ill-fated effort to defend Bataan Peninsula that he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Ail died in the flrst two months of the war. They were Mr. Kramb's only children We forget our war heroes so easily, probably because new heroes are made each day of the war. But no other Rochester area family has suffered such bereavement as the result of this war as the family of Charles H. Kramb.

I think it is well for many of us, who may. think our lot a hard one, to remember thi3. Mr. Kramb was a man', born and bred here. The mother of his sons died when the boys were in the middle years their youth.

He married again, and his second wife briefly helped in the care of his children. All of the boys were in the Navy, having enlisted sometime before Pearl Harbor and the draft. Thinking yesterday of the Kramb boys I inquired about their father. I learned that several months ago Mr. and Mrs.

Kramb sold theu Fairholm Road home, and transferred theis residence to California, where Mr. Kramb is now associated with an airplan-i manufacturing company in that state. Two of Mr. Kramb's brothers. W.

J. and 11. Kramb, still live in Rochester, and a son cf the latter, and first cousin of the three Kramb heroes, has just been accepted for service with the armed forces AT THE time of the last Red Cross drive, Alexander Russell, vicepresident and general manager of the Rochester Lake Ontario "Water Service. Corporation, contributed $10 in the name of his soldier son, and asked the Red Cross to send the receipt acknowledging the contribution to Pvt. David B.

Russell. Iat week Mr. Russell received a letter from his son. wh Is now fighting on the Anjo heachhead, which contained these sentences: "I hope that $10 contribution to the Red Cross Was not only made in my name but at in expense. Please consign my iir a i aii'iiiii iii iv a yr Each month Private.

Russell allots $15 of his overseas Pay to his father, which is deposited to the young man's account in a local savings bank. This month the $15 allotment goes to the Red Cross. ryHE hanger on the collar of my overcoat was broken when I handed it to "the checkgirl in the Sagamore the other noon. When I came out from lunch a new hanger had been sewed on. "Nice service," I said.

"I do it for all the soldiers and sailors who come in here with faulty hangers," she said. "So why not for a veteran of the other war?" "Don't kid me." I said. "Well, you are a veteran, aren't you?" 4 "Don't kid me." I told her again. We talked further. To my surprise I learned that the check-girl is Jane, wife of Jimmy Casey, perhaps the "rovinest" Merchant Marine sailor this town has known in years.

Jimmy has been a member of the Merchant Marine going on 20 years, and where he is at the moment his wife hasn't the slightest notion. However, later that very day, I had a card from Casey. Just a brief line from the other side of the world, as I have had cards from him from points far in the Arctic Ocean, deep in the Red Sea, from England, from Australia, from heaven only knows where. This Sunshine Brings Hot Dog Parties To City's Parks as the early bird gets the worm, the early picnicker gets the firewood for fireplaces in the city 'parks. Several such parties were observed roasting hots and making coffee in the parks yesterday as the temperature hit a new high for the year at 75 degrees about 2:30 p.

m. It was far from being a record for the date as May walkers in. 1936 got well tanned under a sun that registered 86 degrees on May 1. The current summer weather is not due to stay long, however, showers and cooler being forecast for today. I one contained only two sentences, "I'm over here helping give the Heinies a pasting.

Give my good wiwhes to the members of the O'Connor Chowder and Marching Society." Casey, by the way, since last here, bus been to He hoot, and ia now an officer In the Merchant Marine, Waiting for him, Mia. Casey will repair the broken hanger on your topcoat, if you leave it with her when you, go in to lunch. A wicked and fiendish as a I murderer, the man who attacked a small child, and the report of whose assault was briefly made in the newspapers a week ago, presumably is still on the prowl in this city. Thi necessity, because of the natuic of the assault and the child's tender years, of keeping the victim's name a secret, has naturally tended to dull the public's consciousness of this dreadful affair. It should not be forgotten.

A crime closely comparable to murder has been committed on a small girl, and the criminal is at large. The police presumably are doing" their best to apprehend the fiend and remove him forever from the possibility of further similar assaults. May the police be inspired in their efforts and continue their investigations with dogged persistence until this monster who may be living closely among us is caught, tried and given the severest penalty provided by the law. gOME generals" get in trouble because of a big head; John F. McCann, formerly a technical sergeant, was put out' of the Army for the same reason.

Inducted a couple of years ai'O, Mr. McCann in time was senrlo England, where he served for about 10 months. He is a large, young man, standing nearly six feet in height, weighing more than 200 pounds; large all over. To look at him there is nothirg abnormally large about his head, but the fact is that he take.5 a size eight and a quarter hat, and w'hen field equipment finally was issued to him in England, the quartermaster people foiind that the inner band of the GI. helmet would not 'fit his head.

General Marshall wasn't consulted as to what to do about the then Sergeant McCann, but there was a good deal of confabbing," and the result of it all was that McCann was returned to the states, ultimately honorably, discharged from the Army. He is now back at his old job, artist for the Colorprint Company i.T North Water Street. CITTINO at dinner the other" nlcht next to a tahln exclu sively occupied by Army I couldn't help but overhear conversation concerning tho recent allegedly tactless utterance in London by L.t. Gen. Georgis S.

1'atton Jr. Silently in this group of eight officers sat a lieutenart colonel with hash marks half way up to his elbow and campaign ribbons half way across the left breast of his tunic. Presently one of the younger officers spoke to tho colonel. "Colonel, don't you tfiink something should be done about Pat-ton? This is the second time he's got himself into a jam." The colonel raised his head. "I know very little about the present Incident," he said.

"All I can say about General Patton Is this: He'n never given any ground to the enemy." Perhaps this is the wartime virtue of the man that counterbalances all of his faults. Car Hits Man, 76; Driver Arrested A 76-year-old man was injured seriously late yesterday afternoon at Hudson Avenue and Harris Street and the driver of the car police claim struck the man was arrested. The iniured man. Peter Tellex. 76 Watfuns was taken to Genesee Hospital suffering head injuries Policemen John Yurgealitis and Nicholas Schauber arrested Raymond J.

Partridge, 35, of 129 Kelly St. on charges of driving a car with inadequate brakes and bearing illegal license plates. The pedestrian was police said, after he had alighted from a northbound bus and walked around in front of it to cross Hudson Avenue. Man Held on Charge Of False Fire Alarm Malcolm D. Danks.

36. of 754 Plymouth Ave. was arrested yesterday afternoon on a chnry.n of malicious mischief involving turning in a false alarm after fire companies had been called to Exchange and Barkley streets. Policeman Thomas Shipton took Danks into custody a short distance from the fire alarm box. Shipton paid two women definitely identified Danks as the man who turned in the false alarm.

TO FETE FRESHMEN Seniors of Nazareth College will fete the freshman class at 6 p. m. Monday in the Rochester Hotel. Ruth Lorenz Is general chairman, 1 Comfort Plus Good Style and Extra Service -H- MATRIX Shoes its an honor tnat I appreciate deeply, he said. But the prize comes as no surprise to music critics who have acclaimed Dr.

Hanson's symphony as the best and most concise of all his symphonies. Since its introduction last fall, and in subsequent performances, it lias received unusually uniform critical approval. This writer is one who finds repeated hearings confirm the opinion of its vitality, clarity and compactness. Boston Performance Dr. Hanson titles the new work "Requiem," dedicating it to the memory of his father, and although the four movements are headed "Kyrie eleison," "Requies-cat," "Dies irae" and "Lux aeterna," it is not liturgical.

Dr. Hansonjcon-ducted the Boston Symphony in its first performance in Boston, since which Leopold Stbkowskl gave its radio premiere with the NBC later performances were by Dr. Hanson with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Jose Iturbi with the Rochester Philharmonic. His Symphony No. 1 (Nordic) was completed in iRome in 1921, where he occupied a fellowship at the American Academy, and where it received its premiere by the Augusteo Orchestra, the composer Symphony No.

2 (Romantic) ras composed especially for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Sym- phony, receiving its premiere in Boston in 1930 by the Boston Sym- phony under Serge Koussevitsky. Symphony No. 3, which' has no nomenclature, was performed first by the Boston Symphony on Nov. 3 and 4, 1939. and later in New Ycik City by the same orchestra under Koussevitzky.

Born 48 years ago at Wahoo, his first teaching position was at: the College of the Pacific, San Jose, where he became dean of the Conservatory of Fine Arts. In 1921 he won the award of the Prix de Rome. While still in residence in Rome he was appointed director of the Eastman School, in 1924. Many Compositions A prolific composer, he has written orchestral works, choral works, stage works, chamber music, piano and organ compositions, songs, and the opera "Merry Mount," produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1934. Conductor, composer and teacher, among hia other important works are "Pan and the Priest," "Lament for Bebwulf," songs from "Drum Taps." His compositions have been played all over the world, especially the symphonies, and he has been guest conductor with various orchestras.

Dr. Hanson long has been a champion of the American composer. Nineteen years ago he began a "series of American composers' concerts at the Eastman School, and 14 years ago founded the Eastman School's annual Festivals of American Music. In the interven- ing years he has performed a tremendous number of native scores. His influence on music education has been wide.

For years he was chairman of the Commission on old son reside at 222 Clay Ave. Bound for an Air Forces' redistribution center when, his furlough is at an end. Sergeant Hahn had little to say about his adventure last night. "It was our 15th mission. When the time came I bailed out with the others.

I reported back to my outfit last month." According to flrst War Department word to his wife, Sergeant Hahn was missing in "action over Germany since Feb. 22." Early last month came official word that he had returned to his unit. The sergeant, who returned to this country by plane and spent, several days in Washington before coming home, is a graduate of John Marshall High School and a former Hawk-Eye Works employe. He entered the service in November, 1942, and fent overseas last No vember. Curve for Curve They Match the Sole oi Your Footprint In Leather Gity Gunner Who Escaped Nazis THE INNER sole is molded to fit every curve of the sole of your foot.

This feature is a great help in keeping hard-worked feet easy and comfortable. If foot fatigue bothers you, follow the example of hundreds1 of Rochester men try Matrix. They're exceedingly well made shoes, and are to be depended on for extra long service. Several smart styles, at $12.45 and $12.95. 'After Bailing Out Visits Family A 22-year-old Liberator bomber gunner who managed, by means he can't reveal, to get back to his Dase in England after he and other crewmen h.id bailed out jof their crippled Iship over cn-jemy-h 1 Ku-irope, is spend-; ing a furlough at his Roches ter home.

Believed to be the flrst local fighting man with such an ience to return to the ItOHKKT JIAllN city, he is Staff Sgt. Robert S. Hahn, only son of Mrs. Chester C. Hahn, 231 Magee Ave.

The sergeant's wife, the for mer Arlene Halpin, and 14-months "I Vs s. McFARLIN'S They Pep Up Tired Feet 195 MAIN iniiiiiiiiiiiii iiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin.