The Daily Item from Port Chester, New York • 3

THE DAILY ITEM PORT CHESTER SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 1939 PAGE Pelham High" School Five Wms 200tK ame For Hails Plea -By Hopkins DBS MOINES Feb 25 American business men today tudled Invitation Irom Secretary of Commerce Harry Hop- kina for labor agriculture and business to Join government "on the- lime aide of the te -work out the natlon'e economic problems In a speech filled with referenced to "private and confidence' the 'Secretary- here last -night asserted the National Administration is out to promote re- covery all the vigor and at its Government earnestly wishes that these things (recovery) be accomplished and we ask thdt labor the farmer and busipesa men join us not but on the same side of the table' to aocom- Coach Carl Schilling of Pelham Memorial High School Is shown last night as he went over the record book Sri th hit basketball team to show their victory' over Tuckahoe High School was TT? 1 Dal'y Item Staff Photo the 300th win since Schilling became coach Left to right are Paul McCarthy Dominick Bertoldf Joe DeFUlipo Coach Carl Schilling Pete Zambcrnardi Joe Spero and Elbridge Devine Rye Wonders About Report Of Plan 9 Utilities Honor Prezzano For Long Service NEW ROCHELLE Feb Edward Pressano president of the Westchester Lighting Company and the Yonkers Electric Light A Power £ompny' was honored -last night at a "testimonial dinner at the New Tork A- Travers Island given by 135 department heads -and supervisors of the two companies The dinner commemorated Mr Pressano's completion of 15 years service-with the utilities the last three as president He' was presented with a traveling bag by Henry Doerlqg a vice president Tributes wers paid the guest of honor by Mr Doering Vice Presidents John William Green Stuart Wilder and William Diehl and Col Oscar Fogg vice -chairman of th board of directors of the Consolidated Edison The speakers cited Mr Pres? loyalty to the firm and its 3000 employes Mr Pressano declared that without the friendship and loyalty of the workers he never '-'could have accomplished as much as has been done by the company He paid a'special tribute to' John Radcllff 47-year veteran of the Tonkers company- At one end of the banquet hail was decorated with a "ladder 'of which marked-- the- various milestones in- Mr Pressano's career while at the other end was displayed a large silhouette of the utility president Hr Pressano has been associated with the gas and electric industry nines 1901 when he started as a file clerk with the Standard Gas Lighting' Company He was elected secretary of the Westchester Lighting Company in 1934 and on Feb 35 1936 succeeded the late Eugene Rosenqulst as president kins asserted' Favorable Reaction First comment from business circles indicated a favorable reaction In general to -the Cabinet member's speech However there were some who- softened -their appraisal 'of his plana with a suggestion that business wait -for a practical demonstration of his program' first formal address since Joining President Rposevelt's Cabinet was made In- a business' setting He was introduced to a DesMoines Economic Club -dinner -by Kaufman a bank presb dqnt la -New Tork Floyd'B Carlisle chairman of Consolidated Edison Company of New Tork and Wen-del 1L Willkle president of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation commented favorably on speech Carlisle 'said the Secretary's comment on utilities "dearly indicates a desire on the part of the admlnatratlon to remove doubt ad to the competitive fields of publlo ownership and operation and the fields occupied by the private Foleys Claim Error In Bid WHITE PLAINS Feb 25 Folef Brothers Ine- of Pleasantville low: bidders for' -the contract to build the new Fleetwood toll bridge today notified the County that they made mistake and asked that all bids be cancelled and new bids sought This was revealed when the Park Commission met -to consider the bide received yesterday and postponed action until Chester A Garfield engineer charge has a chance to investigate the matter The Foley firm according to Jamee Howorth seefetarjr of the Park Commission Said that in figuring their bid they submitted a total only of costa and' foiled to Stale May Demand Smarter Teachers ALBANY Feb 35 (AP)-HeadP of New Tork colleges gathered here today to consider proposal that five yeans- of'hlgher learning be future requirement for the high school teachers The proposed extra year of graduate study added to the present four-year course requited of- secondary teachers woifld lead to tho degree "Master of WISH GRANTED The Zoning Board of Appeals today granted permission to Frank Rende to add two rooms and bath to the rear of 1 a present frame dwelling at 31 Grace- Church Street The property is la a bust-a ass district and new conetruettea must be fire-proof-- but the boarg granted an exteuaion of present non-conforming use Train: Wreck In Wypming Injures 15 LARA MU! WyoFeb 35 The overturning of five railroad cars loaded with westbound vacationist left 13 people including several executives of an Iowa In- surance company In a hospital here today Four- Pullmans and the club car of the Union 15-car Express carrying visitors to San 'Francisco' Golden Gate exposition and ski enthusiasts to Sun Valley Idaho careened down a 35-foot embankment three miles west of Boater Wyo at 10 test night Ambulances plowfcd through a heavy fog In xero weather to bring 15 Injured persona to a hospital here Three of them were released early today after treatment ter a minor Injuries MBS SAYWABD Mrs Winifred 8 Say ward a resident of the Osborn Memorial Home' Bye died' -at the home Thursday night after a lingering Bora In Boston the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Thbmaa Jefferson Grant she was the -direct -descendant -of -an old Colonial family' Her husband the' late John F( Bayward was the son of John Sayward Sr one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence He was a direct descendant of the Rev- John Hancock The only survivor It a son John Sayward of Hawthorne neral services will be held at the Osborn Home Monday afternoon with the Rev Montag pastor of the Harrison' Presbyterian Church officiating Interment will follow In Xensico Cemetery MBS RATHE BINE SCHAUMANN Mrs Katherine Bchaumann 2 died yesterday at her home 342 South Water Street-' East Port Chester 'Mrs Bchaumann the widow of Georgs Bchaumann was born in Denmark on Sbpt 1856 She had -resided in East Port Chester 56 years and was a member of the Danish Sisterhood The funeral will be Monday at 2 from the home' The Rev Frederick Grunst" pastor of St Evangelical Lutheran Church of East Port Chester will officiate and Interment will be in Greenwood Union Cemetery Rye Surviving are four daughters Mrs Anna June and Mrs Helena Christiansen of East Port Chester Mrs -Katherine Hansen of Brooklyn and Mrs Hannah Seaman of New Tork and three sons Cl sorgo Hans -Peter and Chester j' all Of East-feint Chester a construction program of public buildings at a cost of $70000000 In the second session of that Congress the tend was increased to $130000000 To carry out this law appropriations totaling $36000000 have been made Congress- was asked today to appropriate" $30 000-000' and eventually the remainder of $64000000 must be made svail- able The above despatch ad Rye and Harrison officiate guessing today The amounts mentioned are the same as those long ago allotted for the Rye and Harrispn Post but the Rye Post Office already has been built and presumably paid for No other Rye Federal building project ever has been considered in Rye Recreation Workers Adopt Constitution WHITE PLAINS Feb: 35-County recreation workers met here yesterday -and wrote a constitution for their newly formed organisation The Westchester unit will affiliate with the National Society of Recreation Workers It was decided These attending the meeting were: James McCrudden Ton-kers president of the society Walter Ca'mmach Mount Vernon Boris Russell Port Chester Walter Welnert WPA Supervisor Peter 'Mayers New Rochelle Vivian Wills East Chester and Frank Hanlon White Plains The recreation beads will meet again Wednesday' Mareh 15 at West HaiTlson STOCR8 GAIN SHARPLY NEW TORK Feb 35 Stocks moved up at a fast pace in today's early market dealings leaders gaining fractions to around two points One-Day Went Ad Finda A Tenant BRIGHT airy apartment -of two or three rooms com- plete kitchen heat and continuous hot water phone park space residential see- This Daily Item Want Ad brought a desirable tenant to Mrs John Gordon of 134 Has-eeo Avenue after the very first insertion Have you tried to rent your 'Vacant' room or apartment through a Bally Item Want Ad? WASHINGTON Feb New Federal buildings in Rye and in Harrison are projected is the Treasury and Post Office appropriation bill which was reported to Congress today The proposed limits of cost are 35 Rye $134000 Harrison $80000 During 'the first session of the 75th' Congress in 1087 a 'law was passed authorising a three-year Plarie Crash-Fatal To 10 BERLIN Feb $5 Lufthansa German aviation company announced today that a plane carrying ten passengers and crewmen was lost yesterday somewhere in-the Mtditerraneaa The plane was on a special flight from Germany The company said it had not determined exactly where tbs plane went down Polisb-Atnerican Teams Sweep Double-Header -Lsdbyjpambcrg andFssxe wskl who registered 13 and 10 points respectively the Polish-American Seniors rapped the Byram Sports 44-21 last night In an independent eage tiff at 'the Polish United Hall A preliminary argument went to the PoUah-Americea Juniors by a 36-35 count over the Byram A Witek sinking the winning basket in the final minute of play MBS JOHN BEDELL Mrs Ainas Erlckamn Bedell wife of John Bedell of Edge-wood Drive Port Chester died early today in United Hospital from a heart attack Mrs Bedell whose husband is an electrical en-Glaaer ka the employ of the New Tork Telephone Company and a member of an old and well 'known Rye family had resided in Port Chester for the last two years She had been in charge of the Rye Adult Education School sewing classes hobby enterprise at Bye High School -prior to her recent illness Surviving besides her husband are Mrs parents Mr and Mrs Nils Krlcksson of Springy field Mass two sisters Mias Constance Ericks son of Port Chester and -Miss Muriel Ericks son of New Tork and one brother George of New Tork The funeral arrangements are incomplete Grass Fires Are- Quickly Doomed In Port Chester An unidentified 13-year-oid boy turned In a general alarm for a grass fire in the rear of the Port Chester Motor Sales used car lot North Main and Ree-tory Street at 6:15 yesterday The- flames were quickly smothered by the army of firemen who responded with screaming sirens from all parts of the vit-Ixge Four hours later the emergency apparatus was called to upper Madison Avenue for another minor grass firs.