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-NEWS, DECEMBER 0, 1953 COTY By Found Mysteriously $h1i of Rival Teener Gang liy Howard Wantuch and Henry Lee A lG-year-old member of a teen-age Kronx gang known as the Fordham Daggers waa mysteriously shot shortly after 8 o'clock last night in the hallway of an apartment building at 701 E. lKOth at Crotona ilronx, in which a rival gang has its basement clubhouse. Early this morning, 20 members of the latter gang, which calls itself the Imperial Knights, were being questioned at the Ryer Ave. station. Shot above the right eye, the vie- By EDWARD O'NEILL Christmas needs a story and a Christmas story needs kids.

So here's one aTxmt a couple of husky boys who will have to wait a week or so for their best and longest-lasting Christmas present and then may never realize they got it. The kids are Duncan and Robert Wagner, aged 7 and 9, respectively, the sons of the Mayor-elect. And the Christmas present they will enjoy for the next four years, at least, is being readied by was one ol three you Tim. Jf'ITV I 'l I'rt uhn iumii nn few blocks away at 70:1 K. 1ri7th at Jtejy rnont was in a critical condition early this morning at Fordharn Hospital.

X-rays disclosed that a slug, apparently from a rifle, had lodged in his skull, partly in the brain. Cop Find Zip Guns. In the basement of the building wlu-re Piro was found shot, detectives discovered the rivals' rlub-room and in the room several zip puns. They U-lieve the boy may have been shot when he wan found prowling in forbidden territory. Among those questioned, police side.

Till two weeks ago, he had been employed as a delivery boy. Neither his family nor friends could reveal any motive for the shooting, police said. Piro has a brother, Thilip, '20, pn route to Korea, and two married sisters. His father, Gennaro, works in a fruit store at 170th St. and Jerome Ave.

In Brooklyn, PS-year-old Frederick Aneini sutfered a rainor wound in the left shoulder about 11:30 P. M. when a burst of shots was fired from a passing car into a luncheonette at 6405 11th Ave. Aneini, who lives at 1169 64th was taken to Kings County Hospital. Fliers' Rescue Team Stalled By Icy Storm Reykjavik, Iceland, Dec.

19 (U.R). An Arctic storm raged tonight over the mile-high wastes of Myrdalsjokull Glacier where rescue teams fought to save survivors of a wrecked U. S. Navy plane. The twin-engine Neptune patrol bomber crashed into the ice mountain Thursday with nine men aboard.

Search craft sighted the wreckage yesterday and reported "several survivors. One of two rescue teams attempting to scale the glacier in the race aKainst death radioed tonight that the storm had stalled it for 14 hours. There was no word from the second party, which was made their beautiful mother, Susan, somewhat to the distress, it may be said, of the Municipal Art Commission and the Museum of the City of New York. The gift is nothing less than the new look Susan has ordered for Gracie Mansion, the Mayor's official residence. A practical mother, Mrs.

Wagner dropped in at the Mansion recently for tea with the outgoing hostess, Mrs. Betty Impellitteri, and was appalled to find her home-to-be beautifully fitted with rare bric-a-brac, fragile period furniture and uncounted art treasures furnished Christmas Gift for Italy: 23,000 Prisoners Freed Hy REYNOLDS PACKARD Special Corrmpondcnt of THE NEWS Home, Dec. 19. President Luigi Einaudi celebrated his golden wedding anniversary today by signing a Christmas amnesty decree which opened the prison gates for 23,000 assorted crooks, bigamists, army deserters and political prisoners bringing joy to practically everyone in Italy except Teeing the scene. Patrolmen, in three radio cars discovered the wounded hoy unconscious after tenants of the building telephoned police that they had heard phots.

The boy was last seen by other members of his gang at ti P. they told police. Some time earlier, his mother, Josephine, had met him on the street and told him to go home for supper. However, he never showed up. He had only atiout 70 cents on him.

Young Piro had attended Bronx Vocational High but on reaching Iff, transferred to Continuation School so he could work on the President Einaudi Hie golden anniversary. sponsored the bill, originally intended that it should free only the political prisoners mostly Fascists who were jailed in the turbulent days following World War II. But the thing snowballed to the point where the amnesty embraced almost every crime except murder, mayhem, and counterfeiting. How Communists Are Taking Over Central America U. S.

short-sightedness in Central America is described by Tenold Sunde, foreign editor of THE NEWS, in TOMORROW'S DAILYa NEWS by the Art Commission from the prized collection of. the City Short of putting straitjackets on her two sons, who already show signs of growing up to be plunging- backs. Mrs. Wagner could see no way to move them into their new home without risking the greatest art destruction since the barbarians put the torch to ancient Rome. Treasures to Go, Lifts fo Be Sealed.

And what was worse, from a mother's point of view, was the prospect of shackling her two boys during the years when boys must be wild Indians most of the time just to prove they're alive. So Susan Wagner, who would photograph beautifully in the period settings of the Mayor's official residence, instructed the Art Commission to call at Gracie Mansion as soon as possible after New Year's Day and haul the treasures off to the museum for safekeeping. She ai.o ordered maintenance men to seal off the two self-service elevators that previous tenants have enjoyed. There have been only three official tenants Mayors Impellitteri, O'Dwyer and LaGuardia because the city acquired the mansion in LaGuardia's time. The elevators had to le shut off lecause Mrs.

Wagner well knows, as does every mother who works at it, that you can't curb experimentation by 7 and 3-year-olds. So, if you drive up to Gracie Mansion sometime next year and find two boys and a dog romping on the lawn and tearing in and out of doors, don't let it worry you. The mansion will have become a home for a couple of growing lovs and it couldn't be better used. And that's our Christmas story. To all of you a very Merry Christmas, too.

Former Actinjr Postmaster George A. Bragalini, 43, longtime civic leader anil ex-president of the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce, is reportedly a cinch to cop a top policy job in the new city administration. Braeralini. a vice president of the Manufacturers Trust would be regarded as a non-political "prestige" appointee. He is a close friend of Tammany chief Carmine DeSapio, and is also highly regarded by lop brass of the GOP.

Must reading for bill-drafters is "Statutory Construction," a new book by Justice Francis J. McCaffrey of Municipal Court. A former member of the law committees of the State Senate and the Assembly, the judge shows example the blunders of our lawmakers and how to avoid them. also offers a sharp look into the processes of the judicial mind. lie makes the obseivation that constitutionally shaky law will almost invariably be upheld if it is allowed to aee long enough before being put to a test.

The courts, he ays, are exceeding loath to upset statutes of respectable Hint Was Dropped, but Wagner Let It Lie. Mayor Impellitteri has in his pocket the Christmas present he'd most like to get but he can't give it to himself and nobody else will. The gift is appointment to the lifetime, job as member of the Board of Water Supply. This is the joh that James J. Moran described as the only patronage job he ever had a big salary and no duties, was the way he put it.

Moran was forced out, of course, when the prosecutors started slapping him with prison sentences. Impy, according to a widely circulated report, suggested recently that it would be a nice gesture if Mayor-elect Wagner could see his way clear to cushion Impellitteri's enforced retirement by giving him the plum. Wagner couldn't see it that way. Incidentally, after Moran was disgraced before the Senate crime investigating committee, Impy suggested abolishing the Board of Water Supply. He has never mentioned the idea since, and probably won't like this leminder.

Short takes: The Christmas office party menace could be ended if businessmen would take a tip from the political clubhouses. The politicos spread their Christmas cheer around by throwing parties for underprivileged kids. Saves a tremendous number of morning-after explanations. The Board of Estimate will toss a soiree at the Waldorf-Astoria Dec. 29 to say good-by to Mayor and Mrs.

Impellitteri and Council President and Mrs. Rudolph Ilallcy. the police. The amnesty, most sweeping in Italian history, also quashed pending court cases involving minor charges and crimes, including a suit against bosomy actress Gina Iillobi'igtda for jumping a film contract in order to star with Krrol Flynn in "Don Juan." Here Come the Dips! Throngs that massed outside the ancient I'egirm Coeli prison to welcome the released jailbirds were warnel beware of Cina Lol'obrigida She broke contract. hundreds of whom were the Police figured this Christmas eason would be the busiest of their lives.

One outraged official estimated that more than half of tfie released safecrackers, housebreakers and forgers would be back in jail by Kastcr. Parliament passed the amnesty bill last, night and the release of prisoners started as soon as Einaudi signed it today. Each prisoner was given a railroad ticket to his home town and ordered to report to the local police before taking off elsewhere. Premier Giuseppe Pella, who IIEKLA TlNDhlALLA JOKULL TORFA JOKUL SKAFTARDAIUR I CnN D' irniALStOKULL VIK 20 MILES ATLANTIC OCEAN- NKWS map by Stall Artist) Arctic etorm lathee Myrdalg. jokull Glacier (A).

up of veteran Icelandic mountain climbers familiar with the rugged ice "mass. (Keuters reported that four rescue teams had returned to their bases after finding no sign of the bomber. The report said a wrong location for the wreckage was given when the crashed plane was first sighted.) The stranded airmen could not survive long in the stormy sub-freezing weather. A brief break in the weather permitted a single Air Force plane to circle the glacier late today. But the pilot saw nothing below.

U. S. Steel Forms A Gift Foundation The United States Steel Foundation, a nonprofit body to contribute to charitable, educational and scientific activities, chiefly from grants from the United States Steel was announced yesterday by Benjamin F. Fairless, president. timLt.