The Daily Item from Port Chester, New York • 1

1 jncaiTiDES Tomorrow MoMy Tuesday Wednesday THE WEATHER Mostly tunny and cold today dear cold tonight Sunny cold tomorrow 'with Jiitfieat 'temperature about 48" Noon temperature 50 8:46 am 9:21 pm 9:44 am 10:18 pm 10:36 am 11:10 pjn 1123 am" 1158 pmt ESTABLISHED MARCH 2 1899 HBBB ASSOCIATED HUM PORT CHESTER SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25 1944 cubes Aron inui or cibcclatiox -PRICE FIVE CENTS r- t- or Hits For Rambunctious Rams Ready To 'Razz BigBadBenga Is --In-Season Finale Victim Dead After" AskUnified SchoolPIaS County Seat eleven has won abf bf Ttr ucveirstarts and played one a 13-13 game against and supports-of the-team are confident that ft wlU repeat lait 122 triumph over the Rams Pnrt toe tha irmly to hold a victory Tokyo Industries Blaze THE scholastic football season to the area will 11 wind up to a Maze of glory at Ryan Memorial Stadium this afternoon when tha Rama of Pert Chester High School will entertain their bitter tra-ditionai rlvab from the County the White Plalna Tigers Kickoff tlMO sriieiluled tor 2:30 Since their first meeting way back to when college players wors whiskers and high achool piasters would have too had they beat able to raise anything on their faces but peach tha Rama and the Tigers have tangled 23 times White Plains boasts a wide margin In' the aeries having won 19 off the games Port Chester has taken three and the other encounter was a tie This year Coach Lew Newton of the Bengal brings an -unbeaten squad to Ryad Stadium The over Stamford has a season's record of four wins and three lorara and I riding tha wave of a three-game victory Notwithstanding the divergence to the records of rivals Coach Silvio Suriano's Blue and White eleven is expected to give the Tigers a real battle Favoring the home team is the fact that Whit Plains has had only one zest since its Thanksgiving Day game against Watertown but even so Port Chester will have to rise to the heights to order to ivset the big bad Bengali Savage Figliting Slows Allies In Aachen Sector LONDON Taria Radio sold today that French forces were moving toward a Junction between virtually Jlber ated Btraabonrg and Colmar to v- tbo aonth awteging abut a 'trap on German troop la tbo 'Vosges Mountains While the Germans were' using every means to pull back across the Rhine to the homeland in the souththe savage resistance of 10 ee 12 Neel dhdeinne In the Aeefcon Lt Frank Daur Missing After Jap WarPlants To Be Target Of Relentless Blows Slat -U 8 BOMBER COMMAND SAIPAN Mighty Superfortress Bombers left industrial aecttoift of eontrsl Tokyo- in flameo aa American eommaadora today proclaimed tha historic noeuday bombteg aa tha opering of a relentless campaign to knockout pint Flying $00 miles round from Saipan bases captured flve month ago the feareomeai (Tokyo laid there wore" planes) flew In high above the cap-itml at mora than flOt milN an kNrjMtrdiTlMl'IU Thursday EWT) and plmd thair bombs with deadly sMS Recopnalssanoo' ph otographa showed fires still burning several hours1 later with smoke rising to great heights Two of the Supertorts were acknowledged lost In this first land-d raid on Tokyo n' dty of nearly 700000a The Industrial heart of the Japanese Empire was bombed once before April IS 1942 by carrieilaunched B2S Mitchell Medium Bombers led by Lieut Gen Jimmy Doolittle (Tokyo radio last night broadcast -an Imperial communique claiming that fivn of the raiders were shot down and nine others damaged and dismissed the attack as ineffective because it arid the Superfortresses carried only light bombloada and dropped them wide of their intendedtargets no damage suffered by important tiie broadcast sridSefT an indirect admission thatrifluor tar-gets were hit) The bombers approached Tokyo through a hazy overcast but found a dear area over the dty- They funnelled substantial portion of their bombloads on tha Masashina aircraft plant a principal supplier of army and navy planes Other choice targets were zjpptd and razed Lieut Gen Millard Harmon interviewed at Saipan said have the whole of Japan under our bombsights ore- not bombing people ws are bombing the Japanese war machine" He Said we have? seriously crippled the war industries on the toughness in the world save the -15 Pints Of Blood Are Given-Lad Who Fell Intolncinerator SQUIRE INVESTIGATES Herbert Whitcomb 16k of Hillside Avenue Elmsford tor whom Thanksgiving vacation pleasure ride turned into sudden terrifying tragedy died at 5:10 last night at United 1 HnapitaL'The -Whitcomb boy 1 only son of Mrs and Mrs Rune 11 Whitcomb fell myiter-ioualy into the Village of Mamaro-neck garbage incinerator Fayette Street and Northnip AvsnU yesterday morning For eight houre with a staff of hunea always at his bedside and wltirthrec or- four doctors con-stantly in attendance tha boy fought death valiantiy hospital official said this morning fully regained conadousnen it was added used everything medical science makes available' it was reported at United Hospital Blood tranatosiona were administered throughout the day plasma equal to 15 pints of Mood waa taken from the hospital supply in what proved to be a vain attempt to save 'the life of the lad County Medical Examiner Amps Squire will conduct an inquiry at Elmatord probably this afternoon Th Whitcomb hey had Intended to spend the holidays- with friend Loula La Luna 439 Willett Avenue Port Cheater Yesterday morning he requested George Wesley 169 Terrace Avenue Port Chester to allow him to with him on -his rounds as a private garbage collector Tie asked me two or- three Mr 7wey' explained each time said he lud better not' hut- finally agreed1 1 Disappeared fie waa sitting on the front eat and he wa not helping truckman said got to the incinerator I got out to empty the truck Hubert was sitting In the front seat When I got into the truck acme-one said and before anyone could anawer there was a scream I ran down tha three flights of stairs and' puUad him out of tha furnace Then ha waa taken to the hospital -in-a police car or an ambulance I remember Mr Wesley' was treated at United Hospital yesterday for hums suffered in the rescue attempt The truck is owned by Joseph GaJ 350 Willett Avenue Port Chester War Show Tells Town Of Rye TaxWyiesJTo An aggregate reduction of at least 341703 for the Town of Rye to the 1945 State County and Town tax levies was announced today by Supervisor Arthur Sammarco This figure was based upon tentative figures received by County Budget Director WH-lism BFolger and the fact that the proposed 1945 Town of Bye budget is $32973 under the current figure of $17864799 According to figures received train Mr Folger the Town of share of State and County tax levies tor 1945 will be $720 under this year The 1945 State County and Town of Rye total levies now stand- at $58914086 compared with tha current figure of $630-84523 Mr Sammarco pointed out also that the proposed State County and Town total may be reduced even further following public hearings on the 'Town of Rye budget Wednesday night at the Rye Town Rooms 125 North Main Street Port Chester and the hearing on the County budget which wfllhe held At the Chambers White Plains at Dec Jll At these hearings proposed appropriation can bs reduced but no 'items dan be incresssd GhesterArthiir Killedlriitaly FamilyLeams Pvt Chester 1 Arthur was killed in' action with tha Fifth Army to Italy his' parents were notified this week by the War Department He ls the son of Mr and Mrs Georg Arthur of 355 Weaver Street Byram He had served to this infan tor two years and had been over-seas sines May While training at Fort Bragx he had won medals fois marksmanship sharp-shooting expert marksmanship and good conduct Pvt Arthur attended Byr School Greenwich High School and was employed as a ganbrae before entering the service 1 Besides his parents he leaves a sister Mrs William Rickart-af' Warren Point Fainily-LoyaltyDay At St Famfiy-Loyalty Sunday win be observed at St Evangelical Lutheran Church tomorrow at which every family is requested to be represented As to former years this service on the last Sunday of the Church Year still he a of the There still also be reception of new adult member into the congregation Legislature To Get Plan Juuuryi Rye Votera To Ballot In Spring 7 MAN BOARD SET-UP Consolidation of Rye school districts into a unified ajatem under single Board of Education independent of the City Council and beaded hpaaupariq tendent of schools has been recommended by a special commission which has studied the matter for two years and whose recommendations have- been approved by the was an-' nounced today In a statement from the Council i( unanimously approved by the- Council will be submitted now- to the Legislature as an amendment to the Ctty Charter and If passed will be submitted to the voters of -v the several school districts affected' 1 -Supporting the majority report of the Rye School Consolidation Commission appointed by then Mayor Livingston Platt to February 1943 the City Council! statement summarised the major provisions of the report to include: Consolidation of all sdiool districts lying wholly or partially wlthlh the City limits Into one district eo-termlnous with the City boundaries under a single Board' of Education of seven members elected on a ward basis at special school elections" and completely independent Of the aty Council to slL educational matters with a superintendent of schools at' the head 1 of the sdiool system' vy Operating budgets and capital expenditures prepared the Board of Education shall be sub mltted to the aty Council tor approval by conference If -necessary and by the voter foyflpaj decision in event of disgree-Hiefttr3uflgetr wiH-cbe snbnrib-ted to vote at a school district meeting and -capital espeuj-: tureS creating a funded debt will be presented to the voters of the aty rv To Apportion Bbt Service charges (interest and amortisation) on the xbting bonded- Indebtedness-of District 2 and the Central High School District and an equitable percentage of the service charges on the fuTnWi debt 6 would be assumed aty School District-' 1 la Its statement the Council asserted that it believes con- niMHnn Of tea existing school districts into one City-wide District la logical and practicable -and will mult to a better coordinated more economical and improved school system tor the It added Council believes (Continued on "Page Five) Louis Bugniazet Hurt In Germany Official word that Louis' Bugniaxet of the 109th Infantry was slightly wounded in Germany on Noy A was received by his parent Mr and Mm Gustave Bugniazet 4 Horton Street Rye the day before Thanksgiving ft was learned today According to bis mother Louis told in a recent letter of having been with the fanes which liberated Paris He aim told of participating to the parade that fallowed as overjoyed Parisians weir coned the Allied Armies Pfc Bugniazet has been in the Army tor 32 months of which 13 months has been spent overseas While stationed toe England -he met his brother Pfc 'Joseph Bugniazet of the Field Artillery and is now fighting somewhere to Holland Both studied 'at Fordham UWversity w' Could You Use Someone To -Help You Similarly? Results ea the following ad 7 1 Hired- 6 Still GENERAL HOUSE Part tlms afternoons Adult 4 loom apt TsL Gncnwtcfc To Secure Help Call 800 THE DAILY ITEM Want Ad Result Number sector held the advance of three Allied armies to a slow crawL In Strasbourg French armored forces were battling at close quar ters to smash the German! from their last dockfront stand guarding a big Rhine bridge to Germany The Paris Radio said other French armored units ranging along the west bank of tha Rhino from Strasbourg were within eight mile of a meeting with advance units of tha French First Army surging down the Rhine from CM mar A front dispatch yesterday said Allied 4atrolr were reported to have thrust across the Rhino from Strasbourg but then was no official confirmation and no fur ther report Pnttoa Crosses Saar1 Off tha central portion at the western front Lieut Gen Georg Third Army had won a crossing on the rain -swollen Saar last Mg barrier to th Rhine at a print 28 miles south of Saarteucken To the -north 'a three -army Allied assault teany made up of tha American Fbst and Niqth and the British Second fought on fpot-by-foot on the flooded fiat lands of th Cologne Plain 3500JapsDie-As jPlaiies Rip Leyte Convoy- PHIL 1PPINES A four-ship convoy carrying reinforcement! for tha embattled Japanese on Leyte Island has been destroyed by American fighter planes and an estimated 2500 Nipponese were killed or drowned a communique announced today Tha Leyte-baaed planen strafing at mast height and acting afl dive-bombers sank three transports and a destroyer escort bringing to about 15000 the number of Nipponese perishing in attempts to re ad toe bland fights inf PolisliQuestioh Up InAir Again LONDON The sudden resignation of peasant-horn Stan-biaw Mikolsjczyk aa premier of the Police govemment-ln-exila dealt a severe blow today to Britain and American efforts to settle the Russlan-Polish dispute Mikobjczyk was the one man iff tha Polish government in London acceptable to Moscow and toe Soviet-recognized Polish Commit tee of National Liberation at Lute lin Jan Kwapinskl a Socialist and deputy 1 premier in Mikolajczyk's cabinet has been asked by Preai- dent Wladyalaw Raczklewicz to form a new government Kwap- inski a member of a group that has been denounced by Moscow BRINES ON WFAS Chariea Briner area director of Red 'Choas chib hospital and field work In tha South Pacific will giva hb story of life with tha GI'i in- an interview over Station WFAS tomorrow at 1:30 PAL Mr Briner returned in September after 21 months in New Hebrides New Caledonia and tha Island! LIEUT FRANK DAUB JR Judge Landis Dies 24 Years Baseball Gzar CHICAGO (AP) Kenesaw Mountain Landis 78 commissioner of organized baseball since 1921 died at St -Hospital 525 A MCWT today death at St Hospital followed an illness of about seven week! He entered -the- hospital on Oct 2 to be trested fqr a--severe cold and to obtain a rest and physical checkup Last night his physician reported his condition as but there was no Indication later during the night and eariy meaning hours that death was imminent Members iff his family were at his bedside when he died The death of tha wfiite-hahbd colorful baseball chief -ended the peer of one of the outstanding Sports I leaders and Jurists his fame stemmed originally from his fairness and courage as a Judge His hospitalization prevented him for the first time to his almost 24 years as commissioner from attending a World -Series his physician having advised that he not go to St Louis 'tor the snn Fall classic His death came Just one week and a day after a major baseball committee has neon-mended that at the expiration of his current term on Jan -12 1944 he be reelected tor a seven year term- He observed bis 78th birthday last Monday Col MacyTake8 State Dept Post WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department' today announced appointment of CoL Noel Macy of Ossining assistant chief in the International Information Division CoL Macy formerly chief of (he News Division of the Army Bureau of Public Relations has been Maced in charge of media in the State Department office which sends information through films radio and publications He is president Of Westchester County Publishers Die and co-owner Radio Station -WFA5 with the Army since GERMANY A great fleet bombers headed toward and touched off enemy air raid warnings' bomber armada appeared of maximum size Action In Italy AHyi ioldler haTbeeitTevealed in and one from Poet Chester is recovering from wounds received in nomhat-ao-cording to word received hen this morning Second Lieut Frank Daur Jr aerial bombardier who was assigned to overseas duty about Sept 1 toiled to return' to Ms base to Italy after a mission in the Mediterranean' It is disclosed The officer who has qient moat' of the past two years training tor Ms work as an airman -s tha aon of Mr and Mr Frank Daur Sr 8 Fern-wood Avenue Rye' A sister Jean also lives at home- that the- 20-year-okl flier was a casualty was received at his home Thursday He was employed as a clerk by Ms father a builder prior to entering the service and is a graduate of both the Milton and Rye High Schools Flniak SkrsieU Hart The Port Ouster soldier Pvt FTsnk Skrockl was wounded in F'ranc Sept 10 He mads his home srith his sister Edward Rock' 304 Willett Avenu and sirtth to vtotiprl(Fpk the me Address Although thWsr Department described Pvt SkrockTs as Might" an -Army nurse' writing fa the solaier says he was wounded in arms legs and elsewhere on hie body Most of the injuries have healed however but he is? still confined to' E-bMpftal to France The 25-year old fighting man attached to a' tank battalion Ja a veteran of more than three years at service He went overseas February of this year fcvt Skrockl attended Port Chester High School and was later employed by the Homelite Corpi He has been awarded the -Purple Heart for wounds received fa action The decoration waa received at his horns this week Hall Demands Jur Trial Acting on the request iff the defense attorney Thomas Connolly Acting Police Justice Charjea Dalton today act Friday night Dec 1 tor a Jury trial for Joseph Hall 27 of 5 Martin Lane Greenwich on a charge drunken driving Hall waa arrested Sept 13 after his ear had Injured Charles Mead 149 Highland Street Port Cheater lee and North Main' Streets Port Chester Mead suffered severe "body lacerations and several fractured riba when after bring a truck his body became Jammed beneath Hall's car' and waa dragged on Adee Street to a point near King Street before the Greenwich man topped his machine MCGOWAN ON WFAB The Rev John McGowan pastor of the Church of the Resurrection Rye and director of the Westchester Catholic Hour and John Brawn will Join to a "Review of -the on Station WFAS tomorrow afternoon from 1:30 to 2 on the regular Catholic Hour program Sixth Lcian- Over aO Quota $SA50MM0 grid Friday Bold ynvlsaaly' $8181MJR Total arid $844A54A sun 4o go MAMAUAO Quote for Corporation 150AMA6 Sold Friday ftdiOOdAO Srid peovloualy IWNM Total sold 6141A00AA 8tm to go 83AOSAOOA6 Quote for IadWidiula 1M for 670MMA0 Sold Friday 68 for $515415 Bold pnMfi M88 tor $87- 5420 Still to go tor WIKv TT Thrills Port Chester Folks Wliy To JBuy Bonds IppiPpFI ml REPORTED MISSING ON THANKSGIVING Sp 2C Timothy Manning Jr ex--pected home tor the holiday foiled to arrive In hia jdace a telegram reported him miming in action in a plane crash on Oct 31 apparently while en route home Ha tha huaband of tha former Ethel Johnson of 31 First Street Harrison and the ton al Mr -and Mra-Mannlng Sr at 105 De Lancey Avenue Mamaro- neck Carrier Planes' Hit At Manila Assert MANILA (ENEMY American carriar-hcrns planae returned td tha attadi an Manila today tha Japanese controlled liuilla Radio reported 60 planes raided Manila and nearby Clark Field the radio said The report was without American confirmation but Manila or Tokyo radios have always been first to report new air strike at tha heart of the Philippines ADRIAN DIES MOUNT KISCO Joseph Adrian 52 of Brewster a member of the New York Stock Exchange died yesterday at Northern Westchester HoipftaL Adrian was a former lawyer and stock broker 4' 4'i -fi ly moved within easy striking distance of the green-shrouded camouflaged pillboxes At this printwith machine-gun fire emanating from tha vantage prints and with American rifle and machine-gun fire answering in staccato as blue smoke curled skyward over the Stadium the Yank bazooka team followed closely by -the one-man deathdealing flame thrower close in on the snipers Suddenly one 'of the most effective of all infantry Continued on Page Ftvel s- I POINT IBB MLK DENVER (AP) A Denver housewife sought a permit to buy Jan 27 194L canned milk without points be-'1 cause she feared supply of milk for nine pupa was inadequate Sorry said the Ration Board but if tha pupa have canned milk the prints still have to be laid on the line of and has been ihoMBS FOR LONDON of heavy Germany today a series of The to be Tint snnxe of BATTLE billows over Ryan Stadium aa an Army Infantryman hurt death at A Japanese pillbox during the mock battle yesterday afternoon The flamethrower pk fared above Just a pert of the armed might dbplayed during the of Port Chester" an xhiwr itarigiurf to promote enthusiasm for the purchase of War Bonds hero Photo Special News For Young Readers: Christmas Story Begins Thursday This is special news tor young and tor tha parents of those boys and girls too young to read it themselves It is to tell you that this newspaper will begin another Christmas story on Thursday which will continue every day Tl Thursday Dec 2L The name of the story is rSanta and the Musle Boat" Teachers who have already read it say it is tha best Christmas story ws have ever had You will find it fun to read Kindergarteners and first graders will enjoy having it read to them every day Ws spoil it by telling yqp the story hero but there arc fairiea and gnomes and Santa Claua all of whom help a littia boy outwit tha Witches and get a Magic Music Bos to make a little Princess smile -a three-inch" smile before Christmas a commentator who' gave' the crowd a account of the battle in whleh toe squad oflnfantrymen was engaged explained that the weapons deadliest ever devised which Unde Sam into the hands of hb fighting man are paid for by the people back home toe vast army of War Bond buyer Infantrymen crawling creeping heads low aa they approached the strongholds menaced by mines which lay in their path and exploded Intermittently final More than a score at American doughboys combat veterans stormed a simulated Japanese pillbox at Hyan -Stadium yesterday afternoon capturing it by employing 'rifles light and heavy machine guns a mortar and a flame-thrower in an exhibition of American fighting weapon The stirring show la Your Infantry" was by at least L000 enthusiastic spectators ZiIoudspakrTsysttnrfet up foc-fiw occasion and manned for.