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Cal ad VOL. XLVII, No. 289 SIXTEEN PAGES HEMPSTEAD TOWN, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.-MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1945 -=PRICE FOUR CENTS EISENHOWER 'GREAT LEADER, GERMANS SAY PTTON, HURT [Baby Mystery Still _ [SVMEY SHOWS An A IN GAR GRAGH, (5 PARALYZED General Reform To Be Resting Comfortably In Hospital By International News Service An official army bulletin de- clared today that General George S. Patton, Jr.. was paralyzed from the base of the neck downward but 'is in a \satisfactory\ condition fol- lowing collision ofhis sedan. with an army truck yester- day. The colorful formet Third army commander also sustained a simple fracture of the third cervical ver- tebra between the neck and shoul« ders, the announcement said. He was quite comfortable and com- pletely rational following'a restful night. The announcement sald that Mrs. Patton, flying from Washing« ton to the bedside of her husband int Heidelberg army hospital, would arrive in Paris at 1. a, m. tomorrow (E.S.T.), and continue Has Police Puzzled HOMES NEEDED FOR WAR VETS Central Aégrfiy Set Up In Village Effort To Solve PBblem Mayor W. Harry Lister of Rockville Centre was engaged today in working out the de- tails of a survey of the housing situation in the village as a result of a conference Satur- day in the municipal building with local real estate men. One-third of the 3,000 Rockville Centre boys in the services have been «discharged and a real emergency exists to find homes or living quarters, it was revealed. Ask Temporary Emergency 'The mapor today established a central headquarters in the munic- ipal building through which the local veterans' agency, the selec- real estate firms and individuals, home owners and the veterans, themselves, could work out solu» tions of housing problems. The meeting disclosed that serv- Mrs. Gordon Speciale of 40-8th street, Garden City, south, holds her three-months-old son who was removed from his car- riage and abandoned on the front lawn of 639 Euston road, West tive service board, the Red Cross, |, for a possible skull fracture. Maidica was treated Hempstead, half a block from his home, * icemen are returning at the rate of 20 a day and a large percentage had applied to various agencies for help in finding homes. Suggestions were offered that temporary housing projects be undertaken on undeveloped land and. that ~zoning ordinances be amended to permit home owners renting out quarters to relieve the situation. It was proposed that Mayor Lis- her journey to Heidelberg either by rail or plane Dislocation of a vertebra just below the fracture was reduced today, the bulletin said. General | Patton remained \neurologically unchanged,\ with \prognosis guarded.\ | At Mrs. Patton's request, the aAnouncement ad&ed, Dr. Hugh Cairns, Oxford university. neuro surgeon, was flown from England, Nassau Daily Review-Star Photographer A. three-months-old<baby boy caused excitement and complications in the fifth precinet, Nassau county police, Sat- urday afternoon as reports were received of an \abandoned baby\ being found on a West Hempstead lawn, a frantic father was held by the highway patrol, claiming that his child had been kidnaped, and, finally, a report from a frantic mother that her child had been \kidnaped.\ The situation \ironed out\ when Mrs. Nellie Ardolino, 32, of 57 Lincoln ave» nue, Mincola, being consoled by her brother, 21« year-old Michael Maidica of the same address, following a two-car collision at Washington and Chestnut streets, Garden City, Mrs. Ardolino was taken to Meadowbrook hospital to be treated HUNT ST LL ON for 'a slight laceration of the forehead. Children gaze on the scene with awe as Patrolman Wil- liam A. Wilson of the Garden City police depart- ment treats the injured woman., Nassau Daily Review-Star Photographer Two Critically Hurt arriving.at Heidelberg this morn- ing \Mrs. Patton will be accompa- nied: by Colonel Glen Spurling (Louisvile,. Ky., _ surgeon) and Ligutenant Kerwin of the war de- partment operations division,\ the buitetin said. The bulletin:declared in part:; Patton's condition December 9 was diagnosed as a simple frac- tuse of the third cervical vertebra, with a posterior dislocation of the fourth cervical. Prognosis guarded. \He spent a restful night, sleep- ing five hours, He-is quite com- fortable.\ The report confirmed also that Major General Hobart R. Gay, General. Patton's «chief of: staff, was uninjured. «Gay was riding in the front seat, while General Pat- ton sat in the back with his hunt- mg. dog, Willie. he two generals were on their way to shoot pheasants when, ac- cording to somewhat conflicting reports, a two-and-one-half ton army truck crashed into the big sedan at an intersection near the Mannheim city limits. R The army newspaper Stars and btnpe; said the Patton car was traveling about 35 miles an hour and the truck moving at approxi- mately half the same speed. Neither Technical Sergeant Rob« ert L. Thompson, -driver of the truck, nor General Patton's chaut- feur, Private Horace -L. Woodring; were considered at fault, it was reported. Neither was injured, al- meg“ the sedan was badly dam- aged. VICTORY BALL; CARDS FEATURED BY CHURCH (Picture on Page 3) Several hundred persons gath- cred Saturday night:at the Garden City hotel to attend the Victory ball and card party of Our Lady of Loretto R. C. church of Hemp- stead. During <the party ' tribute -was paid to the 18 members of the church who were killed while in the service. Robert Mahn served as chairman of the-event, assisted by Mrs. Raymond Earle and Wil- liam Courtney, co-chairmen, 32 HUNTERS DIE HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 10- (¥)-Hunting deaths 'in Pennsyl- the police tied the story together, finding that the three-months-old child, son of Mr. and Mis. Gordon 3m: le of 40 8th 331-me ty th, was. repo! by \13-year-old Jean: 'Woods of 123 Euston road, West Hempstead, on the front Jawn.of the home owned by Mr. and Mrs. George Vachuda of 630 Euston road, West Hempstead. The girl, seeing the child crying in Jts blanket on the. front lawn, called aitention to Mrs. Vachuda, asking if it wasn't too cold to leave a child \alring on the front lawn.\ The Vachudas live a half block away from where the child was moved: from. The Vachudas reported finding the child to the fifth precinct police headquarters. The »next report that the police had was that the highway patrol was holding a man, Gordon.Speciale, a dental techni- cian, . for: speeding 'and passing signal lights. He claimed his child had been kidnaped. It was then that the police received the report from Mrs. Speciale that her child was, missing. -» Mrs. Speciale said her husband had taken the two other children in the family with him in the car to visit relatives in Queens. Upon discovering the child missing, she called her husband in Queens and found that he 'did mot have the baby, either. She then reported the matter to the police. When- Patrolman James McCue of the 5th precinet and detectives arrived on the scene they straight- ened the matter out and returned the child to its frantic mother. Fifth squad detectives still are investigating -- to discover. who moved the child from its carriage. SPRINGFIELD, Vi., Dec. 10-- (P)-New \England police officers who claim to be adept -at deliver- ing* babies in emergencies were challenged today to beat the rec- ord of seven minutes flat estab- lished by two cruiser-car Spring- field patrolmen. Officers\ Sherman Martin and Richard Fullam were sent by ra- dio orders to the home of Mrs. Cora: Jacksen, 27, just as the stork was alighting on the Jackson roof, They delivered a seven-pound baby boy, Mrs. Jackson's eighth child, in seven minutes. Mother and child were then taken \to Springfield. hospital, vania stood at 32 today with almost a month left in the 1345 season. In addition to the 32 deaths from gunshots, five duck hunters were drowned; six men were stricken with heart attacks while hunting: and. one man burned to death in a hunting camp tent. THE WEATHER Enites FORECAST (Enited Slates Weather Bureas) NEW YORK CITY AND YICINITY-Partly cloudy and considerably colder today with . temperatures . in - (he - thirties; fresh, - sccasionally ' strong - northwest winds, Tonight fair and ch . colder thas last might. Tomorrow partly cloudy freezing . temperatures. YORK-Snow Aurries, uch colder today. EW YORK-Mestly cloudy to- day with stremg winds and becoming _ much celder with snow flurries. NEW JERSEY-Partly' cloudy, windy and camsidersbly colder today CONNECTICUT -- Mostly _ cloudy . today. I t In the afternoon; tarming f weh colder tonight. | mostly c HIGH TIDE TOMORROW Freeport. 1:05 /a. m., Inlet, 12:14 a. om, 17 Fire, Island. Leag Beach. Zest Reckawa Nessae Daily Review-Star is entered as Bud Class matter at the Postefice at Mempstes¢, N., T. Published Daily Except Sunday &+ Janes port, Saturday between 1 and. 7 where doctors said they are doing nicely. WORKERS' ~BENEFITS IN WEEK TOTAL 221,164 ALBANY, Dec. 10-(P)-State unemployment insurance benefits were claimed by 221,164 persons during 'the week ended November 23, about 2,500 more than in the the labor depart- ment 'reported. today. New York city led statescities in. unemployment (benefit claims with 101,160. Other figures includ- ed: Buffalo, 46,093, Syracuse, 13,- 631; Rochester 10,914; Albany,. 6,- 668 and Utica, 6,629. WHEEL, TIRE STOLEN A wheel and. tire-were: stoien from a.car parked on Sunrise high- way wes. of Church street, Free- p.m., according to Freeport police, who were notified of the theft by the owner of the car, Irene Rea, of 321 Archer street. Freeport, yester= ter declare a tempora-y emergency and confer with the board: of ap- peals, 'with a view .to modifying zoning restrictions. The mayor and trustees are. to thrash out the problem at meetings this week and subsequent weeks, Lister. suggested. -to the real estate men present thal they or- ganize &. nassociation and co-oper> ate with the .@illage board in working out a plan. to meet the crigis. One cof the suggestions made and which will be considered in conference, is to utilize Allen and Hickey fields for the erection of, temporary home units and also xé‘permit the establishment of two- family homes for the period of the emergency. It was also proposed that investi- gation be made into the possibility of utilizing Mitchel Field and St. Albans veteran's hospitals for tem- porary living quarters for veterans unable to find accomodations in their home village. Lister warned that the situation was acute and he appealed to resi- dents to become \veteran minded\ and co-operate with the village board in the effort to work out the problem. Home owners who can \make room\ for a veteran or veteran and wife, are' invited to call at the municipal building and talk it over with the mayor's hous- ing committee. PREDICT RICE RIOTS AMONG JAPANESE TOKYO, Dec. 10-(@P)-A warn- ing from influential farmers that tice riots are inevitable without stronger government agrarian pol- icies coincided today with General MacArthur's second blunt demand that Japan's feudal land system be altered immediately. Fifteen farmer representatives from Akita province in northeast- ern_ Japan declared muddled 'gov- ernment policies: have: produced such lack 'of confidence that the rich Tohoku district may sell only 60 per cent. of its rice crop to the government. Meanwhile, continuing his roundup of criminal suspects, Mc- Arthur directed the arrest of 57 Japanese accused of committing atrocities against United Nations nationals held in. the ill-famed Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines, in prisons, camps and hospitals in Japan proper, and on the prisoner of war ship Oryoku Maru during the vessel's night- marish voyage from the Philip~ pines to Japan. & Also ordered arrested were three Japanese naval officers, in- cluding a repatriate from Wake is- land. Two of the trio are being Continued on Page 11 Col. 4 court martialed by the Japanese. Terrier Saves Mistress, Then Dies In Flames the stairs leading to the garage, but the dog turned back into: the apartment. The flames and heat kept Miss Glenn from reaching him and he suffocated. Volunteers of the North Mer- rick fire department worked three hours to put out the fire and re- ported considerable damage and partial destruction to the two and one half story building. The building is owned 'by Christian Bahnsen, Merrick. Tad, ddl HONE Two-Year Situation ~Now Acute, Check By The , AP Reveals ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 10-P:- New York state needs homes for about 150,000 families-and pos- sibly two or three times that num- ber-to relieve its, housing short- age, an Associated Press survey indicated goday. These conclusions were based on reports from the state's principal cities and larger villages. Although (a 'severe housing shortage has prevailed in many areas of the state for more than two years and Governor, Dewey had created. a, 'state division of housing in July, 1944, no estimate is obtainable from state or federal authorities on specific needs. State Housing: Commissioner Herman T, Stichman, asked. for an estimate of units required, said none was available. He explained no general program had been [formulated to combat the situa- tion, but that the state was seeking to utilize surplus »wartime build- Angs throughout New York. tichman, appointed to his $12,- 000 a year post July 7, 1944, ex- pects the U. S. government to give the state $50,000,000 worth of sur- plus structures-army, navy. and industrial-for 'use in an emer- gency program, The state will add another to make the structures: into .\temporary\ hous- ing units, he said. Under Dewey's leadership, the state has begum steps to take over armed service installations in the New York city region to provide quarters for an estimated 10,000 persons. Privately - backed _ construction barely . has ~ started. Contractors and building supply firms say they are held back by shortage of ma- terials.. They also complain of a scarcity of skilled builders and of governmental price restrictions, Those are some of the reasons why Governor Dewey, predicting that a million veterans would re- turn to New York in the next 12 months, recently estimated the housing squeeze would last five years. The «Associated Press survey covered a large cross-section of the state's communities, from vil- lages as small as Webster, N. Y. A little fox terrier dog today had lost his life in a fire after his barks had awakened. his mistress .and nabled her to escape unharmed. Miss L obena Glenn, resident of a three-room apartment over a garage at 46 Richard street, North Merrick, was awakened by the barking of her dog at 4:10 a. m. yesterday to discover her apart- ment filled with smoke and flames burning through the floor, She and her dog starte! down FOR NAVY AIRMEN 217 Planes. Jgin In. Search Off .Flocida- Coast On Fifth Day MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 10-@P-Atr droned seaward for th@ fifth successive day today, eager Mo scan more closely the area Where floating objects yes- terday) raised - then dashed - hopes Uthat survivors among 27 missing navy airmen had been sighted, 'Rafts' Only Packing Cases At dawn 193 navy planes from Jacksomville and 24 long patrol® bombers from Pensacola were fung into the renewed search for the crews of five tor- pedo bombers that winged out over the Atlantic Wednesday into total 'gilence. a \We haven't given up hope yet,\ @ navy spokesman said. \If those fen are still alive we'll do everything possible to find them.\ Navy air and surface craft were the: hunt 'by. scores of army Planes based in the state. It Was an army bomber from Boca Raton Field that yesterday sent Fescue vessels and planes speediMg eastward with a report that cfew members were \almost sure\ Whey had spotted two. life rafts fossing on the ocean about 300 miles due east of Melbourne. Hopes were exploded when the navy (Feported that investigation proved the' \rafts\ to be- packing cases Bobbing in the water. A sort time after the bomber's alert, ithe tanker Erwin Russell flashed) word it was standing by in theUsame area to pick up sur- vivorsifrom a liferaft, but a cor- rective message once again blast- ed hopes. The tanker radioed it had béen mistaken and that its find was merely a naval tow target used in gunnery practice. the navy announced it hadi abandoned a futile land- hunt ® the desolate swamplands of noFth central Florida: where flares \blinking signal lights\ were.eported late Friday night. DEWEY TO SPEAK TO NEWS EXECUTIVES ALBANY, Dec. 10-(P-Nearly 100 upstate newspaper executives will Bear an off-the-record ad- dress By Governor Dewsy tonight as a highlight of the annual New York S#ate Associated Press meet- ing. Dewey, with Paul: E. Lockwood, his se@retary, and James C. Hag- erty, Bis executive assistant, will be. gusts at a dinner. The gov- ernor &@lso will hold an informal news @onference. 05 All of the one-day meeting are at the Aurania club. Charles Honce, assistant general manag@r in charge of all A. P. featur@ services, will speak in the afterngn on plans for feature ex- pansioB, Other speakers and dis- cussion) leaders include: Whithey Martin, A. P. sports columfist; Red 'Kosslow, picture editor of the Buffalo Evening New'sLHoward Lenpon, telegraph editor 'of the Wail?“ Times; Milt Morris, AP. onist, and W. Nof#is Paxton, ny chief of bureats range | critical list this morning. Cars Meet Headon A headon collision of two cars ut Front street, east of 7th street, | East Meadow, yesterday morning 'at 8:15 o'clock, sent three to the | hospital. The injured are Richard Duffy, 51, of Chestnut street, East Hemp- stead, possible fracture of the ribs on the righi side; John Novak, [24, of Jerusalem road and Preston street, East Hempstead, possible skull fracture and lacerations of the forehead; and John Simpson, 18, of Saginaw, Mich., lacerations of the lip. Duffy and Novak are on the danger list. A car driven by Duffy was in collision with a taxicab operated by. John Mellor, 31, of 8 Smith street, Freeport, Although the terrific. impact <caused the two machines to buckle completely in front, Mellor was. unhurt, al- though badly shaken up. The three injured pérsons were given emergency treatment at the scene by. Dr. H. D. Yazujian, be- fore being taken to Meadowbrook hospital. Sergeant Charles O'Hearn of the first precinct, was at the scene. 2 Hit And Runners Fifth precinct: police received reports of two hit and run acci- dents over the weekend but no one was reported hurt. Michael Grandazza, 31, of 29 Acorn place, Lynbrook, reported last night that at 9:35 o'clock while he was pro- ceeding east along Sunrise high- way, just west of Rockaway ave- nut, Valley Stream, an unknown black coupe going west, struck his left rear fender and bumper, and continued on. An alarm was broadcast. Charles W. Reichert, 25, of 47 Elmwood street, Valley Stream, reported yesterday that at 12:15 o'clock noon, while. a panel body truck. he was operating was parked in. front of 21 Primrose street, Valley Stream, a coupe backed from a driveway and struck it, the operator leaving without identifying herself. The right rear fender was damaged. He gave the police a- license num- ber. Mrs. Catherine Haff, 65, of 125 Union Lynbrook, received scalp lacerations while~a passen- ger in a car operated by her son, Leonard B. Haff, 38, of 401 Ocean avenue, Malverne, \when it was Continued 'on Page 11, Col. 2 AUTO OVERTURNS, «DRIVER NOT HURT A car overturned after its operator lost control of the. wheel, while driving along Fulton street, one-half mile east: of Wantagh causeway, East Meadow, at 4 a. m. Friday. The operator, Dr. James W. Ward, 46, of Mastic beach, es- caped injury even though the ma- chine rolled over twice after skid- ding along the wet pavement, ac- cording to first precinet police, A Meadowbrook hospital ambulance arrived at the scene but examina- tion of Dr. Ward disclosed no injuries, Patrolman Ben See's re- port. stated. is on Calendar of Coming Events page & When Autos Collide Six people were seriously injured accident$ over the weekend. Four of them. were Tushéed to hospitals where two &re on the *% FORD 5 PROPOSAL REFUSED BY UNION Flat 30 P. C. Increase Is Demanded In Terms Offered Today DETROIT, Dec. 10-P-The Ford Motor company's role in the auto industry wage dispute shared the labor spotlight today as the C. I, O. United Automobile workers pressed their demands against the strike-bound 'General Motors corp. The U. A. W.-C. I. O., seeking a flat 30 per cent..pay increase from all the major car manufacturers, has drawn up what it termed an \unprecedented\ company security guarantee for presentation to Ford negotiators this aftergoon (1:30 p. m. E. S. T.). Negotiations between Ford and the union have been in progress since November 21, but discussion of wages has been delayed by the company's demand for protection against unauthorized work stop- pages and slow-downs, Richard T. Leonard, national U. A. W. Ford director, said the union feels its plans 'for penalizing \wildeat\ strikers was \so good it will be readily acceptable to the company.\ u Leonard turned down a Ford proposal to assess the union $5 for each day a member engages in an unauthorized walkout 'but de- clined to. divulge details of his counter-proposal. It was given the final touches by union leaders yes- terday- and has been approved by international 'officers, he. said. Ford, the industry's most in- dependent producer and now hastening to gain a competitive advantage in the 1946 car market, frequently has beer reported ready to go beyond its rivals in the way of wage offers despite its rejection of the 30 per cent. demand. What it would be willing to con- cede in return for a satisfactory guarantee against wildcat strikes has been a much discussed topic in the motor city. MARINE KILLS HIMSELF IN ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL NEW YORK, Dec. 10 -(P)- A young marine, Private Harold R, Dunster, of Auburn, knelt in the first pew of historic St. Paul's Episcopal chapel yestergay after- noon and there, alone in the peace and quiet of the church, fired a fatal bullet into his head. Detective Joseph Gill said Dun- ster, 18 years old, had been at- tached to the New York navy yard and recently 'had patient at St. Albans Naval hospital. INJURED IN FALL Mrs. Daisy Kileinfelder of 64 Willow street, Garden City, suf- fered lacerations of both knees and aosprained left thumb in a fall on- the sidewalk in: front of 653 Franklin avenue, Garden City, Friday. She was treated by Dr D. S. Duncan of the army at the Garden City hotel. aits Ambu|ance HEHEVEI] Hm | BETTER THAN OWN OFFIGERS Witness Discloses Reich Did Not Recognize U. S. Strength (Copyrighted by The Assesisted 'Press} NUERNBERG, Dec. 10- (P)- German army intelli- gence officers regarded Gener- al Dwight D. Eisenhower as a \great. military leader,\ above even German generals, because of his skillful military planning and his ability to \over feelings and objec- tions on political grounds in the interest of achieving the one thing that was important -the successful accomplish- ment of military operations.\ The author of that statement is Major General Erwin Lahousen, star progecution witness and Ger» man army intelligence chief who evaluated the fighting qualities of various Allied armies from the German viewpoint in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press. General George S. Patton. Jr., mated\ the American army at the was looked upon as the-best and most feared of the American field commanders by the Germans, La- housen: said. Soon Learned Error The German army. \underesti- start of the war, lokoing upon Aimerican soldiers as \well-fed football players,\ the German gen- eral said, but soon learned: its error. ' He said .that at the- end <of-the war there: was- little difference, from a German viewpoint, in the American, British or Russian arm« les, but early in the war the Rus- sinns were 'better at exploiting break throughs and more daring in leaderghip compared with the British-American combination. \In a tatical or dashing sense in military operations, Patton was no doubt the outstanding. American general,\ Lahousen continued. \In order to be perfectly clear, I mean that Patton was outstanding as a leader of troops in the field. \He had the necessary military and tactical ability to carry out operations that had been planned and prepared by Eisenhower, who was the great planner and who had the necessary political ing «t to carry out those plans, it: com» trast to the German gencrals who were experts on the battlefield out who would have been as helpless as children had they faced a sim- ilar situation.\ Make Best Of Situation Lahousen, who said. he was in Turnisa during the Allied drive in 1942, declared General Eisen» hower has made the best of the political situation there to- drive his troops forward, while the Ger- man generals \just saf on the side- lines and let the Arabs and Italians wrangle.\ \That is what I mean when. I said we considered Eisenhower a great military leader,\ the former intelligence officer said. Lahousen said his mission in North Africa was to \use the na- tionalistic elements among the Arabs to cause difficulties and dis- turbances for the ordinary move- {Tent of supplies behind the front nes.\ ON DUTY AT FIELD » Red Cross workers of the Ca- thedral Guild of the-Cathedral of the Incarnation,. Garden City, served at Mitchel Field recently. FUNNY WORK 1933 Plymouth coupe, heater, good con- dition. Reasonable. & Ordinarily -we. might have been interested in 'the coupe sold through the ad, but now- adays all our thoughts are of the gorgeous Zureka, the springhtly new member ~of Flora's literary coterie. On ' Saturday the coterie held its second meeting of the season in the cabin of Skipper Lau's houseboat, the \Water Lily,\ and Bill, Lu's husband, hid us behind a screen. Zureka read a paper on \The Newtonic Theory of Gravitational Attraction and its' Relationship to: Atomic Phenomenon.\. When she con- cluded, the members applaud- ed vociferously, although, as Bill observed later, there wasn't one of 'em who had. even a vague understanding of what it was all about. Following Zureka's talk, Flora announced the annual election and appointed her friend, the Dutchess, to pass around. a basket\ in which members dropped slirs of paper. We dropped in six votes for Zureka. That made more ballots than members present and Flora suspicioned \funny work somewhere\ and put the election over a week. I
