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THE HERALD-NEWS, APRIL 3, 1958 Passalo-Cllfton, N. J. 30 Circus Crowd-and Wife- See High Wire Artist Plunge Can Eliminate Passaic Agent, Must Keep Station Passaic Board Denies Evading School Problems Asks Citiztns Committee to Help $olvt One; Educational Policy Discussed The Passaic Board of Education last night strongly de fended itself against the charge of disappearing behind a cloud pf unsolved problems made by the Citizens Committee for the Passaic Public Schools. The meeting at the School Administration Building attracted a crowd of about 80 persons, but was generally kept on a fairly friendly basis. zens committee, said the By Barbara Bundachn NEW YORK (UP) Harold Alzana, the most daring and death-defying high wir artist, slipped ancf fell 18 feet to the floor of Madison Square Garden last night at the opening per formance of the Rlngling Broth' ers, Barnum and Bailey Circus.

The billed as The Alzana, broke a wrist and Great One Convict Still Free, Three Caught Two Taken After Chase; Last Man Has Many Contacts PHILADELPHIA (tf) Police today pressed their search for the last of four men who staged a daring break lor freedom at the gates of Moyamensing Prison. Still at large is Christopher J. ONeill, 39. Recaptured yesterday were Robert Payne and Alexander Brown, both 23. The fourth man, Frances A.

Murphy, was caught by pursuing police moments after the break Tuesday night Detective Capt. William J. McGowan said the search for ONeill may be a long one, since the ex-convict has numerous underworld contacts. The FBI will be called into the case if it appears ONeill has left the state, McGowan added. Two Flee The trail of the two captured convicts was picked up yesterday in Norristown.

Detective John Mayor Paul and John J. Schneider, of the Passaic committee on track removal, voiced the commuters objections. Their contention was that the inconvenience to the com- -muters outweighed the railroads financial losses. The same reasoning was also followed in Gerards final recommendation. After citing legal decisions, Gerard waa of the opinion that the public interest of the commuter mutt override the private interest of the rail- road.

William N. Gurtman, city, counsel, had presented Passaics case. Nicholas Martini, repre- senting the Passaic County (freeholders, supported Passaics contentions. Also opposing the Lackawanna economy move was James M. Davis, of the railroad telegraphers.

Davis said elimina- tion of the Passaic ticket agent' would overburden ticket agents in Hoboken. Gerard handed down a similar recommendation earlier this week which called for removal of the Lackawanna ticket agent in Lyndhurst. Augustus Nasmith represented the Lackawanna Railroad in both hearings. A compromise has been reached in the conflict between the Lackawanna Railroad nad it Passaic commuters, 1 Th services of tha station agent will be discontinued but the station building will remain, for use by passengers, according to the recommendation of Charles N. Gerard, examiner for the State Board of Public Utility Commissioner.

For economy reasons, the railroad petitioned the commissioners last November to discontinue maintenance and ticket sales at the Lackawanna's Passaic passenger station near Van Houten Avenue. Commuter objected. A public hearing, which lasted nearly four hours, was held last January in Newark before Gerard. Passaic county and city of-fiicals told Gerard the station played role in long-range city planning. Passaics argument centered around the proposed removal of the Erie Railroad track in downtown Passaic.

If the Erte tracks were ever to be removed and the Lackawanna station in Passaic was closed, then Passaic would be without railroad passenger facilities. jured some years ago when they fell 33 feet from a high wire. Their father, Charles, stepped beneath them to break their fall, but the younger Alzana received a broken back and all three were in a hospital for months. His fathers neck was broken and the sister was also seriously injured. -His fall last night came just before the grand finale as vir tually all the circus personnel were lined up in the Garden's wings in the costumes of an Arabian nights revue.

Alzanas wife, Minnie, in an ostrichdecked blue leotard, was among them and rushed to her husband's side. The Greatest Show on Earth was its good old-fashioned self, gay with animals and clowns and giddy with high-sky acrobatics, and not one, but two human space-girls shot skyward from an atomic It also took an old-fashioned spoof, at the sputnik age. The circus sputnik landed on the tan bar and was immediately sur rounded by clowns. They opened the door. Out stepped the small est man on earth, a 28-inch high Margelito, dressed like Elvis Presley, carrying a guitar and singing Houn Dog.

a leg bone but ceived no further reported at St Clares Hospital. A spokesman, sounding amazed, said he was resting comfortably, in satisfactory condition and probably will be up and around again in a couple of weeks. Alzana had earlier danced, turned somersaults and skipped rope on wireNhigh under the roof of the Garden. He was descending a wire at about a 45-degree angle when he lost his footing and fell onto a rubber mat over the solid floor. The aerialist, billed in the cir cus traditionally florescent prose as the most daring and death-defying artiste of our time, has worked, as always without a safety net.

Alzana, 39, had been with the big show since 1947. He and his sister, Hilda, were seriously In committee was for promotion from within the staff provided qualified candidates were available, Some of the speakers in favor of promotion from within were Samuel Schey, Miss Claire Donahue, principal of Memorial (No 11) School, representing the Passaic Association of Educational Administrators, Supervisors and Directors; Mrs. Sarah Rusch, Mrs. Herbert Groendyk, Wallace Allen and Salvatore Lomauro. There was considerable discussion of the possibility of a Joint meeting of the board and the citi zens committee to discuss the areas of conflict with the super, intendent.

Benjamin Weiss, board president, invited the committee to participate in such meeting. Steinberg said that the committee as a whole had met and approved such a meeting and had authorized the steering committee to represent it, and Weiss said this was acceptable. There was some discussion of whether to have the meeting open or closed, and Steinberg said that if the board wanted it that way it would be all right with the citizens committee to bar the press. Members of the audience objected to a closed meeting, and for a time it looked as if the meeting would be closed only to the press, but open to any interested Passaic citizens. A.

James Sederis, of the board, said that open meetings were a poor way to get free and open discussion, and the matter was dropped there. Packanack Explorers Face Busy Week-Ends During May Birch Sees, Shanley Win By 170,000 Eight Countits Openly Support Him, Manager Reports Special te Tba Herald-News MORRISTOWN Bernard Shanley will aweep through the New Jersey primary with a plu rality of 50 per cent of the bal lots cast, it was forecast last night by William Birch, Shan ley manager. Addressing the candidates Morris County campaigners at campaign headquarters, Birch said his figures were based on a total of 340,000 votes. He said his forecast was based also on the current political climate. Birch said that Shanley, former presidential secretary, will win the GOP senatorial nomination with at least 170,000 votes.

Robert Morris, of Ocean County, will poll a mere 55,000 votes, he predicted. Establishing a basis for his optimism, Birch pointed out that eight county organizations, headed by Bergen County, endorsed Shanley. Another eight counties support Shanley, he said, but have not announced their endorsements. Using Bergen County as an ex ample, Birch said his figures were conservative even when citing those from Shanley strongholds. In his forecast, he said, he counted on Bergen for only 25,000 votes out of 45,000 to be cast.

Bergen leaders contend they will deliver closer to 40,000 to Shanley. A poll of Shanley Mortis County workers disclosed they expect to deliver 15,000 votes to Shanley, about 80 per cent of the expected 25,000 votes to be cast Among those at the meeting were Hugh Strong, former mayor of Kinpelon, and Edward Toner, former mayor of Boonton. Firemen Prevent Machinery Damage Quick work by firemen In covering expensive machinery with tarpaulins was credited by a Passaic printer, whose office burned yesterday, with making it possible for him to continue in business today. Robert Ackerman, president of B. and B- Printers, 1-3 Wall Street said the firemen moved swiftly to get the tarps into place before opening the hoses, and as a result the machinery was undamaged.

Water in the linotypes and presses would have required expensive repairs and a long shut down, he said. The one-story building was full of smoke when the firemen arrived at 4:09 and thera were flames around a window frame in the office. The fire worked its way up through the partition to the cockloft above the ceiling and damaged parts of the roof. After getting the machinery covered, the firemen opened a large hose line and got the fire out Damage to the building was estimated at $2,000 and to the contents of the office at $250. Ackerman said the only piece of machinery damaged was a typewriter in the office.

Firemen attributed the fire to careless smoking. Battalion Chiefs Peter Surdyka and Robert Hare answered the alarm with Engines 2 and 3, Truck 2 and the emergency truck. Lutheran Pastor Arrives April 13 WAYNE The Rev. Carl Brink, formerly of Isanti, Minn, will become the first permanent pastor of St Timothy Lutheran Church on April 13. The church was organized last year.

Easter week services at Preakness School will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Ralph Hjclm, of Upsala College, in observance of Maundy Thursday at 8 oclock tonight; Good Friday service at 8 p.m. tomorrow, by the Rev. Dr.

Dale Lund, chaplain of Upsala College. The Rev. Dr. Lund will conduct the Easter services at 11 a.m. Dr.

Holbeek to Fill Gap The strongest defense of the board came from Mrs. Thane E. Bowen, who asked the citizens committee to assist in resolving the areas of conflict with the superintendent which led to the resignation of Dr. Clark W. Mc-Dermith, superintendent, and to the formation of the citizens group.

Mrs. Bowen read a four page prepared statement, the text of which will be printed to morrow. She discounted a number of the problems which the commit, tee charged the board with evad ing. In addition, she said that the board did not have to be con cerned with the appointment of a temporary superintendent to take over following Mr. McDer-miths departure May 18 and to serve until a new superintendent is appointed.

Dr. Elmer S. Hoi beck, deputy superintendent and high school principal, will fill the gap, she said, with Miss Reba Eaton, vice-principal, filling in at the high school until the end of the year. Mrs. Bowen threw in a paren thetical promise of disagreement with the boards own curriculum committee headed by Miss Cath erine Woolley.

She denied that the board had accepted the idea of homogeneous grouping of classes as the citizens committee implied, and she warned that this radical change in school organization would be accompanied by grave socio-economic conse quences. Homogeneous grouping would mean the segregation of students according to scholastic ability, as opposed to the present system of taking potluck. Miss Woolley herself denied that the board had ever had an opportunity to consider such philosophy, since the curriculum committee itself had been so occupied with its first assignment to study the junior high school curriculum la time for inclusion in the plans for converting the old high school into a Westslde Junior high that it had only recently gotten into the question of educational philosophy. She said she thought the committees feelings on the subject were implied in its recommendation that ninth graders be taught science at three different levels, depending on ability and interests. Details Not Worked Out PACKANACK LAKE Dr.

Fred Bauer, of the U.S. Rubber Company, (poke on Advantages of Advanced Education at the latest meeting of Scout Explorer Post 104. John Van Haelen, Robert Lommel, Alfred Bentley and David Minasian presented a skit on How to Apply for a Awards were presented William Woodhouse, Alfred Bentley, Victor Cox and Rendy Banks. Donald Hoover was welcomed as a member. There will be a charter review on April overnight camp in Wanaque, April 12; dance for teen-agers, April 25.

A district campore will be held the first week-end in May; a camp out at McGuire Air Force Base, second week-end in May; A Wayne-aree, third week-end, at the Packanack Lake peninsula; Boy Scout car-, nival, fourth week-end; expedition to Sterling Forest, fifth week-end. A father and son over-nighter wiU be held in June. Ham High. For Easter, Turkey Not By Associated Press Turkeys are forcing the traditional Easter ham to share top billing on the holiday menu this year. Supermarket chains and neighborhood groceries are offering the onetime Thanks giving-only bird alongside smoked and fresh ham as their No.

1 attraction for the holiday week-end. This is partly due to turkeys increasing popularity as a year-around food and partly due to prices. Hams are more expensive than normal for Easter because buyers bid up slim stocks of porkers. Hog marketings are running about five per cent below last year and warehouse supplies on hjarch 1 were off one-third from a year ago. Pork prices may ease for a few weeks now, livestock men say, then climb to a seasonal bigh this summer before dropping sharply in the fall.

Turkeys Plentiful Turkeys, on the other hand, are plentiful with record storage crops pulling supplies up to last years 80,000.000 gobblers. Mckeman received a telephone call that the two escapees were in a rooming house at the east end of town. As McKeman and other detectives approached the house, Brown and Payne fled through the back door. State Trooper Joseph Caracci spotted the pair near the Bridgeport Borough Hall. He ordered them to halt.

One of the escapees swung and knocked Caracci to the ground and the other grabbed his gun. Both fled across the railroad tracks behind the borough hall. The escaping convicts fired several shots at Caracci during the chase, one of which hit his patrol car. Abandon Truck Payne and Brown forced moving van driver, John Clark, 50, to drive them back to Philadelphia. The convicts left the truck in the northwest section of the city.

Shortly afterward they were seen a few block away. Police and the fleeing convicts exchanged shots, and the pursued pair split up. Payne was captured later when he tried to fpree a motorist to drive him away. He was subdued after a vicious struggle and then taken to Temple University Hospital for treatment for cuts. Police then learned that Brown had commandeered truck on North 16th Street He forced the driver, Charles Stevenson, 53, to drive him to Mor-risville.

Police spotted Brown as he was doubling back toward Philadelphia. He surrendered meekly. Both Payne and Brown were scheduled for hearings today on 11 separate charges growing out of the escape. Barbers' Tools Stolen Front Shop in Passaic The Grove Barber Shop, 53 Grove Street, Passaic, waa entered last night through an unlocked rear window, and $50 in combs, razors and barbers tools, plus' $10 in coin, were taken, detectives reported. Anthony Presinzano, 61 Norwood Avenue, Lodi, operates the shop.

Paterson Wants Holdup Suspects NORTH BERGEN Police say two men caught in the act of burglarizing a home here have admitted to robberies in several other North Jersey communities. The two, Raymond Behrens, 33, of New York City, and Robert John McKeman, 24, of Jersey City, face arraignment here on charges of breaking, entry and larceny and possession of dangerous weapons. Police Chief John Schlicht said yesterday detainers against the pair have been filed by Bayonne, Hoboken, Newark and Paterson. They were arrested Tuesday night at the home ef Mrs. Eleanor Eberling here.

Police said Behrens had a gun in his hand when apprehended and that jewelry and other valuables from the Eberling home were found on both men. Excavator Driver Injured in Crash POMPTON PLAINS A 44-year-old Public Service employe was pinned under a back-hoe type excavator yesterday after noon for approximately five minutes while police and first aid squad members worked to free him. Jerry Picemo, of 112 Wanaque Avenue, Pompton Lakes, was traveling in the slow lane of southbound traffic on Route 23, about 500 feet north of the Pe-quannock First Aid station, when he was struck from the rear by dump truck and overturned. The truck was driven by Albert H. Hague, 31, of 410 Ringwood Avenue, -Pompton Lakes, and was owned by E.

Van Dorsten Company, Pompton Plains. pinned under the two-ton excavator, but according to Chilton Memorial Hospital, has suffered no fractures. However, he received injuries about the face and possible internal in-, uries. Picemo was reported in good condition this morning. Assisting in freeing Picemo were State Police from the Pompton Lakes barracks, Pe-quannock Township police and first aid squad members.

State Trooper John Milewski issued a summons for careless driving to Hague. 2 New Ford Cars Debut By Herald-News SUIT Writer NEW YORK Two more European cars bowed into the American market in Central Park yesterday. The Ford Motor Company unveiled the new Taunus passenger car made in Cologne by Ford of Germany and the new Thames 800 estate bus, made by Ford in England. The combination utility bus and station wagon carries eight to 10 people and gives up to 27 miles per gallon fuel economy. It has a New York port of entry suggested retail price of $2,411.

The price on the five-passenger Taunus has not yet been determined. This line will be imported into the country beginning next month. This is Ford Motor Companys way of entering fully into the expanded, imported- small car market in the United States, said Howard O. Lund, of Cedar Grove, manager of Fords imported car sale Mer-cury-Edsel-Lincoln division. Lund said the growth of sales of English Ford line vehicles i there are 10 in this line) had led to the decision to import the Taunus.

The new Taunus and the English Ford lines will be on display at the International Auto Show in New Yorks Coliseum beginning Saturday. 1 r- WHITHXR YOU want to buy or tall, rant or borrow (et a Job or hlro aomeono go Into buiineaa or find a lot article you will act tha beat Results In tho Want Ad columns of Tho Herald-Nawa County to Pay More For Polling Places PATERSON Passaic County Freeholders voted yesterday to hike the rent paid for polling places in private buildings from $15 to $20 for each election. Other election fees will remain unchanged. Janitors in public buildings will be paid $20 each election regardless of the number of polls in each building. Other officers clerks, drivers and tabulators will continue to be paid $20 each.

Boy, 9, Is Of Starting Blaze PATERSON Police questioned a nine-year-old boy after a fire of suspicious origin damaged the third-floor apartment where the boya family lives at 555 11th Avenue yesterday afternoon. Damage was confined to the bathroom. Firemen found a number of matches near where the fire started. Deputy Chief Joseph Davenport suffered a hand cut requiring 14 itltphes fighting the fire. Dripping Oil Causes Auto to Take Fire LITTLE FALLS Oil dripping on a hot muffler started a car fire at 6 this morning on Route 48 near West Diner.

Volunteer firemen were called to the scene iut the fire was out before they arrived. Driver of the car waa Carl Gambutl, of Hackensack. Damage was slight Preakness Camp To Be Abandoned PATERSON The Camp Hope Commission has voted to shut down its Preakness camp formerly Camp Christmas Seal and expand the facilities at its West Milford camp. The Preakness camp, formerly operated by the Passaic County Tuberculosis and Health Association, was taken over by the Camp Hope Commission two years ago and operated in connection with the camp at West Milford. The county owns fthe land on which it is built.

The Camp. Hope Commission yesterday asked the Board of Freeholders to hire an architect for its expansion program. First step will be to add campers cabins housing 20 children each at a cost of less than $15,000 each. At least one is to be built this season. The new improvements will be financed with funds that would have been used otherwise for re pairs at the Preakness camp, according to freeholders.

Much of the Preakness equipment will be moved. Freeholders voted to program to the county legal and engineering departments. Cor Wheels Stolen EAST RUTHERFORD Ed ward Rusch, 539 Second Street, Carlstadt, says he fell victim to an industrious thief, Tuesday night While his car was parked on Morton Street, someone acked it up and removed both front wheels. East Rutherford Man Jailed EAST RUTHERFORD Walter Moren, 241 Carlton Avenue, spent last night in jail in lieu of $25 bail Hit wife Theresa, brought charges of being drunk and disorderly against him. FOAM 3R.T73E!2S33EE, CTEETTEK Reduced to its simplest Miss Woolley said, the curriculum committees position was that children have varying abilities and rates of learning, and that this should be recognized in our educational system.

No details have been worked out, she said, and anything the committee rec ommends will certainly be ex. tremely flexible. She suggested that there might be a child in top level English and in the lowest level science. There will not be three rigid levels at all grades, she said. She said there would be plenty of opportunity for full public cussion before the board is asked to approve any change in educational philosophy.

She added, however, that if the board did not approve the committees 'philosophy the committee might feel it ought not to continue, since the philosophy is basic to the whole curriculum study. Miss Isabel Haggerty, principal of Franklin (No. 3) School, said she thought homogenous grouping would create more problems than it would solve, by encouraging a kind of intellectual snobbery in the students. Peter Cannicl, high school biology teacher, criticized the cur riculum committee for interview ing individual teachers in private homes. The 1 interviews amounted to a cross examina tion of the teachers as to what was wrong with the system.

He said the curriculum ought to be left to the school directors and administrators who had it under constant study and were quail fed to give a professional opinion. Group Meetings Better Miss Woolley denied that there had been any cross examination. She said that the committee had tried individual interviews as means of discovering what the teachers thought ought to be done but had concluded that group meetings were more satisfactory. She said the commit tee in at least one case had been won over to an opinion it previously had not held by a very determined and vocal teacher. A number of speakers took issue with the citizens committees support of Dr.

McDermiths proposed criteria for the new high school vice-prindpal, which would prevent any local candidates from applying. William H. Steinberg, chairman of the, citi (III Z(I(I fid' I I I I III I 4 I Employes Protest Zabotinsky's Job PATERSON A written protest by Passaic County Civil Service Council an employe group to the appointment of Isadore J. Zabotinsky was filed with the Board of Freeholders yesterday. Zabotinsky, Passaic Republl can leader, who was ousted as undersheriff last November after six years, was named to a newly-created job of assistant superintendent of county buildings last month.

The job pays $6,000 year. The board of trustees of the Civil Service Council most strongly objects" to the appointment without a promotional examination, said a letter signed by Garret Jsugarbaker, secretary. The trustees said career employes have been denied the right of promotion and free holders Indicated a definite de sire to by-pass these faithful employes. An appeal has been filed to the State Civil Service Department to disapprove the appoint ment, the letter said. Freeholders received and filed the letter and referred it to County Counsel Nicholas II This would maintain consump tion at about 1957s 5.8 pounds of turkey per person.

Some stores are offering higher-priced cuts such as rib roast of beef and sirloin or porterhouse steaks for the holiday. Shrimp, too, is a frequent special in seafood areas. Chuck roast and hamburger are missing for the week. Butter is down one to six cents a pound in some areas and egg prices are down two to 10 cents a dozen, as predicted, over a wide area. Best buys among vegetables are carrots, topped beets, turnips, peas and storage potatoes in areas where theyre readily available.

Tender new potatoes, which normally are available for Easter and Passover dinners, are slow to come to market in any great number this year. You can blame cold and wet growing weather in southern potato fields. Produce men rate collar ds spinach, cabbage, endive, esca' role, mushrooms, iceberg lettuce and broccoli as good to fairly good buys. Asparagus is in the same category, but reportedly shows a wide range of quality and condition. Thats because heavy rains in 1 the California growing areas are damaging and delaying the crop of grass.

Celery Higher Celery, on the bargain list re cently, is sharply higher this week. Its called a moderate buy, along with cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onions and beans. Onions, incidentally, are expected to get cheaper in three or four weeks when the delayed Texas crop starts coming to market in heavy supply. Apples, enjoying a banner year in view of less than usual citrus competition, remain just about the best bet in the fruit department As might be expected, however, the cheapest ones are also the most ripe and if youre planning on keeping the apples for a few days youll have to pay more. CubAn pineapples also look good pricewise and other good buys are Michigan rhubarb, pears and lemons.

California navel oranges are reported sharply higher and Florida citrus is tapering offfrom a light supply. Woman Found Injured On Paterson Street PATERSON Miss Evangeline Moore, -41, of 125 Water Street was treated in General Hospital for a head cut requiring three stitches after she was found, semi-conscious, in the roadway at Temple and Water Streets at 4:30 this morning. She told police a man hit her with an electric iron. Police said she had been drinking. Another assault victim was Joseph Burns, 99 Hamilton Avenue, who was hit on the head and robbed of $1.25 by a youth near his home at 8:30 last night.

111 I I. P1 i mm Buy directly at the Factory and Save up to 60 Factory store hours -Daily Sat 10r6Mon.lFril0-9. Man Says Bandits ToofoJobless Pay PATERSON James Clay, 167 20th Avenue, told police he was robbed by two men with a .38 caliber automatic yesterday afternoon. He said he had cashed two unemployment compensation checks for $69.90, and was walking in Broadway near Straight Street Two men drove up and called to him, he said. He walked to the car and the man seated in the back pointed the gun at him and ordered him to get in.

He did, he said, and while they drove around the robber took his money. Clay said they drove about a dozen blocks before the robbers ordered him out of the car at Broadway and the Susquehanna Railroad tracks. ompton Plains Tea Cart Formicartopped I Usually $79.95 Mrs. Charles Aldon, Newark-Pompton Turnpike, is donvalesc-ing at home after surgery at St Josephs Hospital 40 Tearful Fair Lawn Meeting Ends 54-Year Separation ini ii i ft ni 1 1 ,,1 Usually $159.95 I79 -Tims Payment Plan Available whm A fantastic value 2for4405 Pltutic covering Cash and Carry Damage Slight in 2 Pequannock Crashes PEQUANNOCK Slight damage was done to both cars involved in a minor accident at intersection of Newark Pompton Turnpike and East Franklin Avenue yesterday afternoon. According to police, a car driven by Mrs.

Reba Taylor, of 28 New Street, was traveling north on the Turnpike when she attempted to pass another car, making a left turn. Her car collided with that driven by Miss Mary T. Carson, of 309 Boulevard. An accident which took place at 10:30 p.m. Monday was reported to police yesterday by William Hollendyke, of 30 Fourth Avenue, Haskell.

Police said Hollendyke said that a car crossed in front of him at the Jackson Avenue traffic circle As he traveled Route 23. Driver of the car traveling west on Jackson Avenue and into the circle was identified as F. 18 Prospect Avenue, Pomp ton Plains. PASSAIC, 412 BROADWAY Daily 10-g Monday, Friday 10-9 Saturday 10-9 (Picture en Page 1) FAIR LAWN The lights finally dimmed at 10-08 Canger Place early yesterday morning, as three sisters temporarily put aside the effort of filling a half-century gap in their lives. Mrs.

Bella Prechner arrived from Sydney, Australia, shortly before midnight Tuesday and greeted two sisters, Mrs. Fanny Hoch, of 10-08 Canger Place, and Mrs. Sadie Benason, of Brooklyn, N. for the first time since 1904. They spent most of the night talking, after a tearful reunion at Airport in Queens, N.

Y. Mrs. Prechner took the tiring, day-long flight in stride, according to her sister, and is looking forward to a 10-week visit with the sisters who were teen-agers the last time she saw them. After the death of their mother In Warsaw, Poland, their father came alone to this country to start a home for his family of five daughters. When he sent for them, Mrs.

prechner decided to stay with her grandparents. Mrs. Benason and Mrs. Hoch and a sister who has since died, came to America. The fifth sister went to Russia, and has never been heard from.

Mrs. Prechner remained in Poland until German troops marched in in 1939, then went to Israel, and finally settled seven years ago with a daughter in Australia. Mrs. Benason, with whom Mrs. Prechner will spend half her visit here, recently retired after 40 years as a sixth grade teacher in the1 New York City, school system.

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