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-'w A w-f t- 1 1 -y 1- i 7 'Y 'r Vvv r- --r- fPHB DAILY ITEM PORT CHESTER NY MONDAY NOVEMBER 6 1980 PAGE THIST1EM -v rj: 1 Japanese Need For Christian EducationTold Problems of establishing better JThrjstlan education in Japan war dlecuucd last night at a union -servi-e of Port Cheater Protestant -Churches held at St Peter' Episcopal Church The Rev Dr- John Coventry Smith vice- prtli-deni of the Institute of a Chris-tlan University hi Japan- was -guest speaker The Rev Dr Smith was In' Korea at the beginning of the present hostilities He compared the edurational systems and ad vantages of Korea and Japaa and stated that prior to World War II the Japanese people -had been turning to the government for -tlii-ir education because it waa the best available Since the war' ha said the people have been turn -ing to the churches Because of thia lie said it waa moat lm Rye Town Party Chiefs See Gains' Republican leaden in the Town of Rye today were supremely confident of a clean sweep in this township including the Village of Port Chester four districts in Rye Neck Mamaroneck and' the two districts in the unincorporated section at election And while there has been a lack of the usual enthusiasm about a Fall election In this area due to the fact thaT there era ho Town of Rye candidates up for election nevertheless leaden on both sides an predicting a large vote because of the national state and county condition Democratic leaden while not aa confident aa in previous elections of thia sort an still claiming Walter A Lynch Democratic candidate for governor upset all the political dope" by beating Governor Dewey They pin-their- main hopea-of -a good showing however on the vote far Senator Herbert Lehman for US Senator Georg Smyth Justice of -the Supreme Court Dominie Gaped former Pori Chester Police Judge of 'Port Chester candidate for State and Flora Chudson of Larch-mont nominee for the State Assembly to carry the Town of Ryy When Governor Dewey nn agsinet James Mead candidate on the Democratic and American Labor Party and Liberal Party in 1946 he carried the Town of Rye by 4465 votes Dewey received 7272 GOP votes against 2351 obtained by Mead as a Democratic 364 as the American Labor Party candidate and 92 given him by the LiberarTarty for total of 2807 Youlli FIBST PROGRAM of the sixth eeaion of the Weatchea-ter Newapapers Radio Forum with Min France Mar latt of Mount Vernon center aa moderator yesterday brought to the sir these speakers shown nt --broadcasting table In WFAS Left to Thompson De-Witt Marlatt and Arie Staff Photo JEFFERSON BRAXTON A-hearif attack Buffered at hom at 134 South Main Street Port Chester shortly before noon yesterday caused the death of Jefferson Braxton fifty-one a resl- dent of the community for 15 I- ytajri 1 A native of Urbanna Va Mr Braxton waa the son of Mrs Ce- celia Carter Braxton and the late Zachary Braxton He was a member of the Betheada Baptist Church and was employed by the Empire Brush Company for seven years Surviving besides his mother are his wife Mildred Madden Braxton a daughter Katherine four brothers bVilli of Harrison Richard of New York Benson of Philadelphia and Roosevelt of Bal- timore two sisters Mrs Lay mete Reed of Urbanna and Marce-line Banks of Philadelphia PETER MAO DONALD Peter MacDonald Port dies- tar carpenter died early this morning at the Bel-Air Convales- cent Home on King Street where he 'had been a 'patient several 1 months Previously he lived with his sister- Mrs Frank Faffley at 530 Locust Avenue Port Chester A native of Pelham Manor he i was bom on Feb 10 1593 the sn of the late Allan and Ellen Carson Macdonald Hie husband of Helen Fogarty MacDonald he lived in Port Chesterrmost of his life and was a menjber of the Church of the' Sacred Heart of Jesus' here Mr MacDonald belonged to the Port Chester Local of the Carpenters i Union Besides his Sister his' survivors include a daughter Miss Edna MacDonald of Bristol' Conn four brothers George of Port Chester Charles of Rye and Thomas and Lawrence of Jersey dtyi Slid two other sisters- Mrs Charles Bauniister and Mrs Helen Trapasso both of White Plains DANIEL GENTILE Word was received in Greenwich today of the death of Daniel Gentile father of Ernest Gentile and Mrs Sal Algeria of Greenwich on Thursday in Altoona Pa Mr Gentile who was seventy years old was a retired employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad He loaves three other sonse Patrlck of New York City John of Chicago and Roger Gentile of Bethel Conn and three other daughters Mrs Andrew Martin of AltoOna and Mrs Chrman Clal-della and Miss Madallne Gentile of Chicago Funeral services were held in Altoona today I JAMES BYRNES James Gerald Byrriee son of Mrs James Byrnes of 29 Purchase Street Rye died early this morning at the V8 Veteranff Hospital in Hartford after a short illness He was forty-two years of age Mr Byrnes whose father was the late James pymes attended the Rye Schools He lived in West-port and was for many years the tennis Instructor at Longshore Country Chib fti Westport-During World War II he served for 38 months in the special service of the US Armed Forces He was a member of the Joseph Clinton Veterans of Foreign Wars organization In Westport -Surviving beside hi! mother are his wife Josephine Novello Byrnes brother William and a sister Mildred both of Rye BRAUTIGAM BITES Funnel services for Otto Brautlgam retired meat market owner were conducted Saturday at the Robert Schnautz Craft Memorial Home by the Rev Luther Tl Freimuth pastor of SL Evangelical Lutheran Church Byram Interment followed in Femdiff Cemetery Hartadale with' the Rev Mr Freimuth leading the committal rites -Mr Brautlgam died Thursday of a heart ailment at his home 29 Marathon Place (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) The chase in Hauling on Warhurtun Avcmir wiicic Hit? will Iw the heat in Japan car tfas spotted going north' i Jli talk was augmented by a Sawyer? however swiiclii-il hi di- motion picture showing a Japs lection and headed lau-k toward nep? man and the problems pro New York City tented him while seeking an cdu- The patrolmen pulled abreast of rtlon-the fugitive at the Yonker City line wit were almost off the poriant for the churches to eatab liahr an edurational system which Stressed On WFAS Forum By MAUREEN MeKERNAN Russia's weak spot is the low were agreed yesterday no the Westchester Newspapers Radio Forum when the question Strong Is waa discussed for the radio audience iff Station WFAS -John M- Thompson instructor in Russian history at Columbia University saw this weakness aa one which is inevitable under an studios in White Plains right are John Poole Miaa Anthony Marcus Beatebieurtje power and the RuMisns would yoke of the Stalinists much of their wholesale surrender and civilians to before Hitler's "stupidity ge treatment of the turned Spirit and Soul fenders or their Mr Bestebreurtje opportunity -throw off Krix on Riveruaie Avenue saw- i They hascdiyer momentarily liwt rontrnl ran argument on the: over a Curb and crushed a park- of armies i A'1" Germany in lf' ClOIl lCCOrl and sa-1 urn Riverdale Avenue mto surrendered scl' But hr ovpr the WHITE PLAINS-thousands them into "RHn and 111 firc The right of Janies A Sullivan Miaalng I lMX knocking it over Thr 1 former Yonkers Vice Mayor to homeland" 'trio leaped from the car and tried' vote tomoriow has been chal said are i 0 oau Tiie pntrolmen fired lenged by the Board of Election inclined to count the military and 'tW( during the chase and because ot hi conviction on 'three vast manpower strength only but rvt'll'd ven more a the trio ran felony charges growing out of use these must be clothed armed Sawyer fell fed have transport a tlpn and lead- run Sly'l Ot6 of the City-owned Yonkers Labof Temple (or gambling leading to technical and industrial deterioration Tie aid he yaw no indications of discontent with the existnig ideology of the government The three other speakers were -Anthony Marcus president of the Institute of Foreign Trade Arie Bestebreurtje consultant on European affairs and DeWitt Poole president of the National Committee for a Free Europe All argued that given military i LtlllllQ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) 1 Cnn- 20 times as many miles of railroads illiteracy today prove that Russia's schools still have nothing to show Miming is the heart the morale the spirit the -soul That is what counts Remember that the French Army gave up when most of It hsd not yet been near a battle Yet look at the spirit of the men of the British Army at Dunkirk" -Mr M111 (CONTINUED FICOM PAGE 3 1933 CueaalBg the Outcome Several factors put predictions about the elections outcome the realm of guess work One of them i the state to stay politically put gam it Presidential votes to Republican Thomas Dewey two years for example hut the Governorship went to Mr Bowlqs Another 1 the size of the Jav I) in refusal electoral Governor ago probable vote Dcmocrati ay that an 8000(10 turnout will mean victory for them They express confidence that the vote will hit that figure Tvrtf years ago 890000 of Connecticut's 1033000 voters turned out In 1946 the last off year the vote was 690000 Republican woti every major contest then situation with mounting concern Fifty-three non-Communist nations are sponsors of the first armed peace enforcement action waged against North Ko- roans who invaded the republic jlronK June 25 because it has China and Europe Thompson without defending on condoning communism warned that it ik as dangerous now to underestimate Russia as it was to underestimate Hitler in A -l-p i-v- as a buffer agafnst its only mill' tary rival the United Stales Her population by 1970 will provide more military men than her rival European nation Kremlla Fears People Mr Poole reminded that totalitarian government are never as strong as they appear He cited the first' invasion by Hitler into the Crimea which' disclosed Mr Poole said a desperate die-spread disloyalty to the Staliii Only Hitler's brutal Ireal-ment of the people turned them Rye PC (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Road' Rye brother of Assistant Chief Neil Ball waa injured by a glass fragment He received four stitches on his right leg when taken to United Hospital Five years ago in a tragic STSESSS SS I woman hopse guest died of imoke suffocation I Mr and Mrs Reddall who went to the home of Mr and Mrs Ellis Schechtman nearby while the firemen sought to douse the blaze itood'by unbelievingly as the fire gutted part of their home again remarking over and over that It seemed impossible for such damage to occur twice within five years Damage estimated at 88000 40ne to the Hueco Avenue home according to Roy Jenkins Chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau who is continuing his inspection Cause of the fire is unknown The fire made considerable headway before it was discovered at 12:10 PM by Jack Pelzner owner and co-occupant of the second floor Mr Pelzner was seated with Nathan Witkowaky iii the living room when arose to investigate a sizzling Boise from the direction of the kitchen QUcCUOn DI UlC AllwlCIl Opening a door leading from the kitchen to the attic he found the stairway ablaze and phoned in an alarm to Police Headquar-teraimmediately As Fireman Robert Kelly rush-' scene in the emergency firetruck flamed were leaping from the roof Kelly first saw that Mr Granowitz was removed from her downstairs apartment to jhf Cd £J5 story While Kelly fought the fire from within firemen from all Port Chester companies appeared on the scene in answer to a general aiarm anlj threw up ladders to the The all-clear signal waa blown at 1:36 PM -The fire badly gut- ted the attic and extensive water demage wa done to the firot ami second floor a-m-tm-its At 2 P-M Mrs Granowitz was admitted to the United Hospital suffering from hypertension She had undergone treatment for the same condition dt the hospital on previous occasion a hospital spokesman reported Diges Jury Selection Continues WHITE The tedious task- of selecting a Jury for the trial of three men accused of first degree murder in the Reader's Digest holdup-alay-lng continued this morning -before' Cbunty Judge Elbert Gallagher Examination of the first six prospective talesmen today failed to produce' a Juror Three iff the six were challenged by the defense another was challenged for cause and two excused by consent Four Juror hav beat chosen a maii and three women District Attorney George Fane 111 objected to lengthy defense questions charging that they were summations rather than an effort to learn the attitudes of the jurors No Session This Afternoon Only a morning session is being held today because Peter Sabbatlno one iff the defense counsel must appear before the Appellate Division Supreme Court in Brooklyn this afternoon in another case Mr Sabbatlno represents Chlman Cooper while Samuel Segal is attorney for Nathan Wiasaer and Philip J' O'Brien and Arthur Richardson represent Harry A Stein -The defense has used 12 of its 30 "peremptory challenges while Mr Fane 111 who has a similar number hai used' eight MARRIAGE INTENTIONS The following couples have Hied marriage intentions at the Ry Town Clerk's office: Joseph A Caasara iron worker of -New Rochelle and 'Beatrice Bochic-chlo coil winder of 80 Townsend Street Port Cheater Gregory McStay printer of 23 onlngo Street Part Chester and Lolita Gutierrez secretary of White Plains Rudolph" Marino book company employe of Brooklyn and Mary Brunetti-machine operator of 49 Prospect Street Port Cheater Simon Robert Mayer-hofer engineer of 43S Westchester Avenue Port Qhepter 'and IVpui y- Commissioner Cart Nor said that Mr Sullivan's name ha hern placed on a challenge list sent to City Clerk Francis 1 leafy of Yonker to be forwarded to the 5th Ward 1st Diatri wlirre he is registered It was reported today that coun- gel for Mr Sullivan was prepsr- ing an application to the Supreme Court to have hit name deleted from the register of voters The situation according to official is the result of a change in law several yean ago Previously person convicted of a felony and sentenced to State Pris- -on where the minimum term 4 one year and a day lost his civil rights including that of voting In 1947 the law was changed te make-conviction bf a felony regardless of sentence result in loss of the rights It also provides thaf after a- waiting period of fivs years such a person may petition the Governor to the rights -restored i 9 I Mail Gift Subscription to: I Zona State Sent by: Zona State i i' Moncrieff Dies Was Realtor Oil Executive Ernqst Moncrieff of Manuring Way Rye died yesterday at the United Hospital He was sixty years of age Bom in Toronto Mr Moncrieff waa graduated from Harvard University in 1914 and was president of the Westchester Greenwich Harvard Club During World War I he served with the United States Army and reached the rank of major He waa awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre Mr Moncrieff was affiliated with the Swan-Finch Oil Corp in New York for more than 35 years and was president of the corporation from 1930 to 1948 He was president of the National tion Grease Inatitute and treuur- lLt- from 1934 4flja 1 fit 194ff Mr Moncrieff became a member of the board of direc-j th 8wan Finch Conk and began In the real estate brokerage business in Rye i He was past president of the Club trustee' School and a mem- committee of the World Alliance for Inter national Friendship Through Re-liffon Mr Moncrieff was affiliated with the Apawamis dub the Ma-nursing Island Club and the Shen-orock 8 ho re Club in Rye and was a member of the Vestry of-Chrlst's Church Rye and the Union League Chib Chicago 1 He is survived by his widow Mrs Lucile Calkins Moncrieff of the home a daughter Mrs Austin Day Brixey Jr- of Rye Mm Ernest Moncrieff Jr of Rye one granddaughter Nancy Kathryn Brixey of Rye and a brother Howard i of Rye Mt Vernon Cop Taken In Raid MOUNT AMoupt'vernon patrolman was fwmiriii a building raided by the Vice Squad Saturday morning Chief Inspector of Police William McDonald reported thia morning to Public Safety Commissioner Jay Barth The-officer PtL Luke Gibney a veteran of 14 years on the force la under suspension further investigation'' Chief McDonald reported No-one was arrested during the raid howeVer Vice squad officers surprised occupants of the Star Athletic Club 20 South Sixth Avenue Saturday in a search for an all-day gambling card game supposedly operating in the area Two of seven men found in the building were taken to headquarters tar questioning but were' later released police said Thirteen decks of cards were confiscated "as evidence" officers said The men said they were playing rummy Work Slowdown Hit -Bronx Bus Lines NEW YORK (AP) ik work slowdown 1 service on several bus lines In the Bronx was- reported' by police today They said the difficulty centered in the Surface Transportation Corp-'a garage at 2050 Webster Avenue where driven delayed taking out their buses The driven complkined that bus windows werev dirtar 7 polics said and then remained at th garage while operators put service men' to work washing them -Death Notices XAXTOX Jctleraon on Nov Sth issa Funeral service Wadnt day 10 AM Bellantonl Funeral Hama mtarment Greenwood Unkm CMSftary Rye Friends ny tail altar 7 FJ today Ralph A Manao lie msr Bellantonl unllem TRUES James at A Vet-erana Hospital Hartford Conn Nov I I960 Beloved husband of Josephine Nowlin Byrnes of West-port Conn Brother William -alsUr -Mildred and mother Mrs James Byrnes all of Rye Funeral will ha held from the Fable Funeral Home 1 Post Baud Westport at MO AM Thursday Requiem Mina I AUL Church of the Assumption followed hy Interment Assumption Cemetery Westport Cone 1160 Mar DONALD Peter-on November Sth IISA Funeral from the Russell Shaw Funeral Home Wednesday 1:90 AM Requiem Mam Sacred Heart of Jesus Church Fort Chaster 10 AM Friends may call after 7 PM today 11-7-60 aoirinrr Ernest on Nov i lisa Beloved husband of Luellc Lsring Calkins Monericff father of Mrs Austin Day Brlxey Jr' and Ernest Moncrleff Jr Funeral 1 from his residence Manunlnx Way Rye Servian at Christ Church Rye Wednesday 1 Interment Row Hill Cemetery 'Chicago III 11-7-80 NICOLETTI Anthony on Nov 4 1960 Fifaaral from -Stephen Ktyak ru-neral Home Tuesday 9:30 A Solemn Requiem Maas Holy Rosary Church 10 AM By Bellantonl Funeral Home Inc Ralph A Macaco lie mgr Bellantonl un-: 11-M0 Daath Notleea Cards Thanks IS to 11 -A woth Saturdays on 90s par Una each Insertion YOUR SYMPATHY wml ypowER Phans Byram River (CIO --'JONES FLORIST SW Kill Attest p- -J Byram REILLY FUNERAL- RESIDENCES 'Santa araonwMi a as ttatatty In- a a sartor af a sent rdnNM S-llll RYECHESTER MEMORIALS DAUY AND SUNDAY -44 Grant St PC 5-2158 liui ylWid UrtM MEMORIALS Daslganrs nod Bolldara af Dbtlietha Monumenta Biace iSl RYE MONUMENT WORKSy Inc 14 North 8L Rye Byo7-sss A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF LOCAL INFORMATION PLUS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS POPULAR FEATURES' AND COMICS will be DISCOVERED every DAY BY YOUR-PAYORITE COLLEGE STUDENT WHEN' YOU send a COLLEGE GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TO HIS-OR i County HABBY HUBD WHITE Harry Hurd tixty-aeven of 2 Winthrop Avenue Yeti red office manager of the track division of the New York City Board of Trans ports tlon and a -leader in boy scouting here for many yean died Saturday at White Plains Hospital Storm (Continued from page i) ing Company said this morning that repel? being made today and that the line will be functioning again by night In the Fox island arcs aervice was terminated in 30 hornet while lights went out in five homes on Westchester Avenue and 11 on Wdfeley Avenue AH aervice in these areas hat been restored In Greenwich a telephone line was downed interrupting service to 60 phones in the Jitber Avenue area Robert Goodwin manager of the Port Chester office of the New York Telephone Company aid the service to all 60 telephones waa restored yesterday Then was little other damage done but flooding was reported in POrt Chester on the Post Road op0ositelhe f3rmer5sVSiT estate and at Summereld 'Park where the water went slightly over the curb lines (Street Department employee worked until midnight cleaning manholes to speed the flow of wter Three auto accidents all of minor nature wop reported Saturday afternoon and night in Port Cheater Bund Brook floods In the Town of Rye the Blind Brook overflowed in the Lincoln Avenue section and threatened the home' of Mrs Jhoniaa lynch of Lincoln Avenue alone in the house with' her mother Their call for aid brought Town of Rye Patrolman John Brown who dug a trench to divert the water from 'the house A Town of Rye highway crew also worked through tlia worst part of the rainstorm to relieve thgjoeded areas Elsewhere the storm broke Insulator pins on two poles on Secor Road Scarsdale blacked out 556 street lights in parti -of Scarsdale White Plains New Rochelle and along the Hutchinson River Parkway from 6:15 to M- Abroken light- pole oh Elm Street Ardsley put out 152 street lights for 40 minutes A large limb blown across wires on Oe-cealo Avenue Irvington blacked out 14 consumers and 300 street lights for almost two hours The Bronx River Parkway wpa reported flooded i near Hamilton Avenue -White Plains causing traffip to be rerouted A' fire engine pumped four-and-a-half fee of water from the cellar at the home of Edward' Ackerley in the Height section of Tsrrytown A sand bank was washed over part of the high school -athletic field in North Tsrtytown BOWLING MEET BET UTICA The State women's bowling tournament will open? March JO at Binghamton The tournament will continue for six weeks and- the State Women's Bowling Association will hold Its annual meeting April 21 at Binghamton- A riQmber of there countries have supplied troops air units and warships for the Korean action Theoretically Red Korea ha fought aloqe Actually her troop were armed with vast amounts of Russian weapons Russian-made planes have fought allied air power And the Red Chinese fighting in Korea already have been estimated at three drove back th plunging rush or It Kr- allied forces toward the Manchur ian border One South Korean regiment had already reached the boundary An American tank-led column then wa within few mile of Manchuria Allies oa Defense But allied troops-in the northwest today were waging a grim defensive fight on the Chongchon River line less than 50 miles from the old Red Korean capital of Pyongyang This represented a retreat of 50 mile or more in the face of heavy Communist attacks In the northeast however an American regiment was striking in zero weather within 24 miles of the Manchurian border This force reported no Red resistance Gen MacArthur said the Qbm-munist aggressor has massed great -concentration of possible reinforcing divisions with adequate supply behind the privileged sanctuary of adjacent Manchurian Allied mili(MarJntelligence has force along the Manchurian bor-catlmated 300000 Chinese Red der On million Communist troops are estimated to be within striking distance Gen MacArthur added: "Whether and to what extent these- reserves will be moved for ward to reinforce units now committed remains to be seen Russell Brines Associated Pres Tokyo bureau chief said Gen MacArthur in hit unusual sighed communique plainly waa asking United Nations authority to bomb Manchurian airfields supply bases and' commqnica-tions Gen MacArthur said the influx of new Communist troop failed in the apparent attempt to trap and destroy the Army The South Korean 7th Regiment once on the Manchurian border wa just beginning to filter back into the new allied lines The 24th Division which had struck within 15 miles of the northwest Korea border city of Sinuiju wad pplled back safely Drunk Driving Charge Reduced In Court" WHITE PLAINS- A charge of drunken driving against Arnold Larson of 25 Hilt-side Avenue was reduced in City Court today to reckless driving Laieon was lined 850 on his idea of guilty to Yhd reduced charge Alice Louise Merrill secretary tit 69 Bell wood Road White Plains ia -rrrir back to their own government he said The enemy which the Kremlin prepares most carefully against today he said is the Russian people Mr Marcus who has Just from Europe where he talked with -hundreds of Russian displaced persons said there was a will to resist the Kremlin if opportunity arose He charged that America's propaganda is failing abroad becatae it is in the hands of Incompetent and amateurs He said ne beiicvda that hardly 500000 iff the eix million members of the Communist Party in Russia are really loyal to Staliii and that 95 per cent of the pepple would him to if they hsd the chance Congressional Vole (CONTINUED FROM FACE 1) National Chairman predicted that Democrats will pick up two to four seat in the Senate and strengthen their control of the House Refraining from specific last-minute forecasts GuyG Gabriel-on the Republican National Chairman stressed events in Korea Mr Gabrielson asserted In a preelection statement that a Re-' publican Congress is needed to insure two-party government if Chinese Communist intervention: in Korea leads to "a ghastly i World War HI" lorn GOP Gain Likely Moat newspaper political writers were chary of prediction 1948 when President Truman confounded the but the average forecast was for slight gains for the Republicans in very cka election There were indications of split votes in many' states with the possibility voiced that in' some Democratic Senatorial' candidates woqjd win while Republican Governors were' being or the reverse Our Pridewofthy Portraits MAKE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS Cali For Aa Appointment Today HAMPDEN TUCa' STUDIO Em bo lay Thom ter Building Fort Chester 6-2611 HOME TOWN PAPER! 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