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THE EVENING NEWS OF THE TONAWANDAS — TWIN CITIES OF INDUSTRY ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER

ESTABLISHED IN 1880 We've Won the War NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1945 Let's Win the Peace

THE WEATHER OUTLOOK

Partly cloudy, windy and cool, scattered showers today and to­night Saturday fair and cold.

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U. S. GRABS $5 MILLIONS IN AXIS SILVER, RADIUM Kenmore Defends Grid Title at NTHS Tonight TEAMWORKING TONAS. OK LIVING MEMORIAL

Top Civic Groups Pledge Full Support ior Useful Facilities Honoring 'Win Citiejs* Heroes

In a shoulder-to-shoulder spirit which would have made any of the Tonawandas 5,000-odd servicemen proud to be listening in, 125 representatives from the Tonawandas top­flight civic organizations, service clubs, veterans groups, churches, schools, labor and industry, sat down to dinner and formally took the first step in providing for the Twin Cities a useful war memorial to* honor and perpetuate local boys' terrific war contribution — and to build- BOTH cities!

The "living memorial drive" was unanimously endorsed, and all organizations enthusiastically agreed to convene at a second meeting in the near future after receiving authority from their various groups to vote for the specific memorial to be erected. Each representative to attend the next meet­ing will cast a single ballot for his organization, and all co­operating clubs and groups have pledged 100 per cent sup­port to whatever memorial is voted number one choice by the majority. All groups unable to attend last night will ilso be invited to attend the next meeting and cast a ballot for he "Win Cities" Living Memorial.

The dinner was in the Delaware • kotel, and it was called at the fcvitation of the Kiwanis Club, also the leader in the Tonawan­das Living War Memorial Cam­paign. Kiwanis President Albert W. Sterritt and Vice-President Roswell F Clukey told of Ki­wanis' interest in enlisting all Wk-the-war local groups into l concentrated effort to build a Hseful facility in the cities' veter­ans* honor. The representatives and guests learned from Kiwanis >ast-President P. Beryl Canady t i e results of an opinion poll of

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MAYORS PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the Navy League

Of the United States has been of­ficially designated by the Secre­tary of the Navy to arrange an­nual Navy Day celebration throughout the nation, at it has done since it inaugurated the first Navy Day in 1922;

WHEREAS, this year with our country victorious in this most terrible of all wars this annual display of support of our Navy should be more com­plete than ever before, the Navy League and the Navy Depart­ment working in unison to this end; and

WHEREAS, this year has seen the fruits of the Navy's hard task of winning the war against the Japanese; and

WHEREAS, the slogan for rfevy Day, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five is* MA Strong Navy Guarantees Peace"; and

WHEREAS, Navy Day should be made a day of resolution that never again will our Navy be anything but strong;

Therefore, We, Mayors of the Cities of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda hereby proclaim S a t u r d a y , October twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred forty-five, as Navy Day and call upon all citizens of the Tona­wandas to take part in observ­ance of this day through the many channels open to them and to join in the salute to the U. S. Navy and its co-ordinated sea-air power, the Marine Corps and the U. S. Coast Guard.

Herein unto I have set my hand this 26th day of October 1945.

CLARENCE A. HACKETT M a y o r -

City of Tonawanda MYLES W. JOYCE,

Mayor— City of North Tonawanda

Tuesday Car Crash Claims 2d Fatality, 3d Victim 'Critical'

Mrs. Ann Toenniessen, 37 year old wife of Woodrow W. Toennies­sen of 100 Niagara street, Tona­wanda, died of a skull fracture yesterday afternoon at Niagara Falls* Mount S t Mary's Hospital following an automobile accident Tuesday that also took the life of a 7-year-old North Tonawanda boy. Miss Ruth Krause, 38, of 1278 Payne avenue, another vie tim of the accident, was reported in a critical condition today with a skull fracture by the hospital.

The other fatally injured victim in the accident at the intersection of the Million Dollar highway and the Indian Hill road near Niagara Falls, was William Schreiber, Jr., 7, of 1278 Payne avenue, who suc­cumbed in St Mary's early Wed­nesday morning.

The accident occurred late Tues­day afternoon when two cars driven by discharged servicemen crashed with such terrific force that both automobiles were practically demolished. i Riding in the car driven by August J. Toenniessen, 37, dis­charged from the Navy after six-years service aboard submarines, were the two fatalities, 7-year-old William Schreiber and Mrs.

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Congress Making Attempt At Unity on Tax Cut Bill

Washington (UP) — House and Senate conferees began their at­tempt today to agree on a tax relief bill. Corporate tax cuts raised the greatest obstacles.

The House approved a bill to reduce taxes by $5,350,000,000 next year with only $1,888,000,000 in corporate tax relief. The Sen­ate measure called for total re­ductions of $5,788,000,000 with corporate •benefits of about $2,-934,000,000.

At the core of the controversy was the Senate proposal to repeal the wartime 95 per cent excess profits tax next year and the House provision to cut it to 60 per cent next year with repeal to follow in 1947. The House also proposed cutting the normal-sur­tax rate of 40 per cent on corpor ations to 36 per cent.

War Dept. Reports M. Earl Miles Dead In Leyte Air Mishap

Technician Fifth Grade M. Earl Miles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil­liam C. Miles of 164 Ellicott Creek road, Tonawanda, was killed in an airplane crash on Leyte, Philip­pine Islands, September 5, accord­ing to a War Department telegram received by his parents yesterday. (Cpl. Miles was reported missing in the NEWS on October 4).

With the official announcement of Cpl. Miles* death, the Twin Cities casualty toll reached 411 with 142 dead, 260 wounded, and nine listed as missing.

According to a letter from Cpl. Miles* brother, Sgt. Harold C. Miles Miles on Luzon, Earl was killed as an Army transport plane crash­ed on Leyte soon after taking off for Luzon. All members of the crew and passengers perished.

A member of a medical detach­ment with a Signal Corps Air Raid Warning Battalion (radar), Cpl. Miles was recently transferred from Palawan to Leyte in the Philippines, and was aboard a plane headed for Luzon at the time of the crash.

A native of Tonawanda, he at­tended Tonawanda high school where he played with the band. He was employed by the Colum­bus McKinnon Chain Corp. before entering the Army in November, 1942. After training at Camp Pick­ett, Va., and Camp Blanding, Fla., he went overseas to Australia in June, 1943.

After service in the Common­wealth, Cpl. Miles was shipped north to Port Moresby, New Guinea, one of the largest Amer­ican-Australian supply areas in the Southwest Pacific. He later was stationed at various Allied footholds on the New Guinea coast including Lae, Aitape, and Hol-landia before going to a small island adjoining Palawan in the West-Central Philippines. He left the atoll sometime in late August for Leyte after telling his parents in a letter of his transfer.

Another brother, William J. Miles was recently discharged with the grade of sergeant at Fort Dix. Sgt. Harold Miles, a member of a Chemical Warfare unit, is be­lieved to have left Luzon recent­ly for Japan where he will serve with the occupation forces.

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UNBEATEN NFL TOP ll 'S CLASH AT 8 P.M.

Extra Height, Weight, Subs Rate Red-Hot Champs Edge On Fast, Hard-Hitting Jacks

With the most crucial game on the '45 Niagara Fron­tier Football loop schedule but a few hours away — Ken-more invading the North Tonawanda gridiron at 8 p.m. tonight to defend its three-year old league championship — contrasting atmospheres of gloom and confidence in the

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two opponents' camps give the tip-off on how the battle well may go. And the most loyal friends of the NT Lumberjacks today can see but faint hope for a victory — even after the closest scanning of the records. Besides the champs' supe­rior weight, height, and army of reserves only serve to darken the picture.

SPEEDS FROM ROME

Dying Tona. Baby's Soldier Dad Called

Amvet Post Will Organize In Twin Cities Sunday

An "Amvet" post for American Veterans of World War II becomes a service for the Twin Cities' dis­charged servicemen* Sunday eve­ning at 7 p.m. when State "Am­vet" Commander Raymond D. O'Brien rallies Tonawandas' 1400 honorably discharged personnel to he organizational meeting in Fire-lien's Hall, Oliver and Robinson ttreets. North Tonawanda.. Mayors Clarence A. Hackett and Myles W. 'oyce will appear at the session.

Plans for the establishment of VMVETS here were announced londay by Buffalo health inspec-'

tor Thomas Scovona, Western New York's organizer, who anticipates at least 200 of the local veterans to appear for an interesting pro­gram in the North Side hall.

Designed for exclusive use of the soldiers, sailors, marines, air­men, coast guard, WACS, WAVES and SPARS in uniform during the global war against Germany, Italy and Japan, AMVETS functions in all 48 states, has already establish­ed 35 posts in New York state.

National Commander is Elmo Keel, 30, a former master sergeant

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A Tonawanda serviceman is rushing to the United States on an emergency furlough to reach the bedside of his ten-month-old son, dying of an incurable liver ailment at the Buffalo Children's hospital.

In a cablegram received from Rome, Mrs*. Lawrence H. Cook, mother of the dying infant, was informed that her husband, Pfc. Lawrence N- Cook, has left Italy and will be back in the United States as quickly as the Army can bring him. The Cooks live at 266 Gibson street.

Their baby, ten-month-old John, is suffering from a malignant tumor of the liver and is not ex­pected to live more than a few weeks. The baby has been a patient in the Children's hos­pital since August 7 and has been slowly losing ground, according to hospital physicians.

The Red Cross and hospital of­ficials have both recommended the emergency furlough, the Red Cross sending a letter on August 20 to Pfc. Cook's commandmg officer. In the interim. Cook had been detached from his unit and was attending college near Florence. He left the university in a few weeks because of worry about the baby and returned to his battalion, and was given the emergency furlough.

Every evening, Mrs. Cook, who is the mother of two other chil­dren, takes the bus from Tona­wanda to the Children's hospital to visit her youngest son.

The couple has two other chil­dren, Toba Anne, 4, and Tarry Lee, 3. The baby, whose condi­tion th;s morning was reported

But peculiarly enough, from the Lumberjacks' clubhouse comes a note of real optimism—highly un­usual from a coach whose lads are ratea**lH8!ra poof chance-win. Norm "Doc" Roggow, NT grid boss, told The NEWS, "We're on the very top of the morale peak

which might spell victory. Never has a team wanted so much to win. And with this kind of spir­it, maybe even the out-and-out

:er, taller, faster champs may stumble over our scrappy, won't-lose club. Our job is to stay on

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Nazi Labor Boss Ley Buried in Secret Grave After Suicide

Nuernberg, Germany (UP)—The body of Dr. Robert Ley, the sur­ly labor front boss, who commit­ted suicide in his cell rather than face trial as a war criminal, was buried secretly in an unmarked grave today.

Authorities said the location of the grave would be withheld from the public to prevent Nazi sym­pathizers from exhuming the body.

The fat, swarthy Ley hanged himself last night with a noose fashioned from strips of a G-I bath towel suspended from the overhead flushing lever of the toilet in his cell at Nuernberg jail.

He had stuffed his mouth with rags torn from his underdrawers to muffle his last groans.

It was revealed Ley left a num­ber of documents and personal papers in the cell. These were being translated and authorities said their contents would be pub­lished if of public interest.

If the material proves purely oersonal or relating to his family, however, it will be withheld.

The 20 other toD Nazis await­ing trial in the jail were not told of Ley's suicide, and new pre­cautions were ordered to make certain that none could similarly cheat Allied justice-

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Injury-Riddled Tonawanda Favored in Trott Tussle

Tonawanda's gridiron Red and White rebound off their stinging defeat at Lockport straight into Memorial stadium, Niagara Falls tonight to tackle Trott Vocational in the second feature of Niagara Frontier League football- Game starts at 8 p. m. A large contin­gent of T. H. S. fans will ac­company the team into the Cata­ract City, anticipating a third local triumph over a Falls school.

Christ Tussing's men, despite a brace of injuries, will be up for this tussle after defeating Ni­

agara Falls and LaSalle by iden­tical 19 to 0 scores. If Tona­wanda's record clings to the form chart a victory is eminent for the South Siders as tonight is an "on" night in the on-and-off pro­gram they have pursued this sea­son.

Trott, an underdog by virture of three consecutive set-backs to N. T., Lackawanna and Kenmore, is conceded an outside chance of flipping the tables should its backfield talent sustain the wiz-

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Final South Side Paper Drive To Start at 2 P.M. Sunday

Plans are shaping up for the final paper drive under the Ton­awanda Salvage committee at 2 p. m. Sunday, October 28, ac­cording to Chairman Fred Ful­ler.

"Everything points to the''suc­cess of the drive, although no records may be broken, said Ful­ler. "Over the short years that the War Council has sponsored these mass drives the Council has had splendid response from the community in volunteers and the donation of trucks, all com­bined to establish a record of which the citizens can be justly proud," Fuller continued.

Following are the trucks and drivers that will turn out Sun­day afternoon to assist in the col­lection: Three city-owned trucks: Frank Keller, Walter Schwinger and Henry Fahmer; Stahl Truck­ing company, Earl Stahl; Wulf Bottling Works, Edward Loes-wick; George Eberle, Henry Gar-lock; William Lose, Roy Grof-fenberg and Howard Mackey.

A sound truck has been secured to tour the city late Saturday af­ternoon and early evening, calling attention to the importance of col­lection.

The group will precede the main force by one hour under the command of Eugene Kinzry, Ralph Pfanner and R. Catland.

The Eldredge Bicycle club which has contributed so outstandingly

resented. The following captains will be in charge of groups from the club: Dick Sullivan, Steve Toth, Dick Baker, Bill Loeswick,

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HAD 2 TONA. SISTERS

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Grand Island Soldier Dies as Plane Falls

Mrs. William KIoss of 579 Broad street and Mrs. Gerald Williams of 575 Broad street were notified this morning of the death of their brother, Pfc. William L. Rhode, son of Herman Rhode of Fix road, Grand Island, was one of 19 killed when an Army plane crash­ed last Sunday near Anchorage, Alaska. Announcement of Pfc. Rhode's death came in a dispatel from the War Department to h's father last night and was con­veyed to his sisters in Tonawanda by relatives.

A former employe of the Beil Aircraft corporation in Buffalo, Pfc. Rhode was 38 years old. He was in the service nearly four years, the last two of which were spent with the Signal Corps in the Aleutian Islands.

In a recent letter to his sister, Mrs. Milly F. Vanthoff of White Haven read, Grand Island, Pfc. Rhode said that he expected to be discharged from the service

Marine League Sets 'Birthday Dance'

On Saturday evening, November 10, the Conrad F. Kania Detach­ment of the Marine Corps League of the Tonawandas and its Auxil­iary, will celebrate the 170th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps at a Birthday Ball at the American Legion Hall, Ton­awanda. The use of the Ball room and the facilities of the American Legion Grill have been turned over to the Marine Corps Detach­ment, through the cooperation of the Legion for this event.

The committee in charge of ar­rangements is composed of Harry Dorn, Ray Moeller, Charles Wright, John Sullivan, John Bohlen.

Joining with the Tonawandas* Detachment will be a large dele­gation from the Niagara Falls Ma­rine Corps League. This group which had made elaborate plans for a celebration in the Cataract House was forced to cancel ar­rangements due to the destruction by fire of the famous hotel. The local league is anxious to have all patriotic groups join in this tribute to the Corps. Tickets for the ball will be on sale early next week. Music for dancing will be fur­nished by a seven piece orchestra.

The Conrad F. Kania Detach­ment was organized with but 10 members on September 25, 11)44. Less than two months later, on November 2, 1944 the Charter wis voted closed with a total paid membership of 39. At the end of the first year the membership numbers 65, many of whom are still in active service.

During its first year the detach­ment invited the public to a show­ing of official Marine Action pic­tures at the Legion Hall. A raffle of War Bonds was held on May 7, 1945. A Tag Day Dance, sponsored with the aid of the Auxiliary took place at the Delaware Grill on August 4. Contributions were re­ceived during a campaign to raise funds for gifts to service men and for rehabilitation. The detachment made every effort to learn the names and addresses of Marines

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SON OF DEAD FLIER DEC­ORATED TODAY — The 2-year-old son of the late Lt. Robert Luke, Jr., received his father's Air Medal at a cere­mony in the Army Air Forces Specialized Depot in Buffalo today. Little Robert III was presented the decoration earn­ed by his father in combat before his death in action over Italy on Jan. 30, 1945. Lt. Luke was born in North Ton­awanda on July 11, 1922 and was a graduate of North Ton­awanda high school. His par­ents reside at 54 B South Lane, Nor-Ton Courts.

Auto Tire Rationing To End Dec. 31, Rubber Chiefs Say

By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent

Akron, Ohio (UP)—Two of the tire industry's top men had some good news for American motorists today. * .

E. J. Thomas, president of Good year Tire and Rubber Co., told a group of 16 reporters making a national reconversion survey that "Washington sources" he wouldn't identify, had informed him tiro rationing would be ended by Dec. 31.

A short time later John W. Thomas, chairman of the board of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co, told the same group that if "every­thing goes well" motorists ought to gat all the tires they need some­time in the first quarter of next year.

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Nazis Looted Czech Hospital of Radium, Stored It in Osaka

By RALPH TEATSORTH United Press Staff Correspondent

Tokyo (UP) — American troops seized another $5,500,-000 in bullion and other val­uables — including $2,500,-000 worth of radium stolen by the Nazis from Czechoslo­vakia -— in Japan today.

Sixth Army Counter-intelligence troops found the radium in vaults of the German Consulate at Osaka. It had been sent by Czechoslovakia to Japan in the 1930's for hospital use and was confiscated by the Germans when they occupied the Czechoslovak homeland.

The radium was packed in lead vials in lead-lined caskets, but X-Ray tests at the 36th Evacua­tion hospital revealed that the vials were leaking precious rad­iation. New lead containers were built for it.

The remaining $3,000,000 worth of silver bullion and valuables was seized by troops of the 97th Infantry Division in a raid on a Japanese storehouse near Iida on a tip.

A Japanese airplane designer, meantime, told a Press Confer­ence that the Tayhikawa plant built a long-range KI-77 plane which broke the world's distance record with a 10,306-mfle non­stop flight last July.

The designer, Moriyuki Naka-gawa, who worked four months in 1937-1938 In a Lockheed Air­craft plant, said only two of the huge planes were built. One was shot down while enroute from Singapore to Germany In 1944 And the other will be sent to the United States for study by Am­erican engineers.

While the plane was Intended primarily for use In maintaining

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Probe Of French Blast Which Killed 34 Opens

Rouen, France (UP) — Auth­orities investigated today the ex­plosion of 10 truck loads of dyna­mite and cordite resulting in the deaths of 34 persons, including seven American soldiers. Twenty others were injured.

Victims also included 20 Ger­man prisoners and three women and two children bystanders.

The injured were residents of the village of Asnieres, 500 yards away, virtually leveled by the blast.

Cause of the blast, which oc­curred as the explosives were be-

|ing loaded, was not known, ,

Gale Strews Mines On English Shore

London (UP)—Exploding mines washed up by a gale raging through its fourth day caused damage reminiscent of the Ger­man air raids along the south coast of England today.

Mountainous seas cast up mines at scattered points all along the shore. Sections were roped off awaiting Naval disposal squads who were assigned to handle the mines.

Explosions at Shoreham, near Brighton, and near Victoria pier at Folkestone, blasted windows for 500 yards inland and strew­ed wide areas with shattered glass and other debris.

Scores of ships took up posi­tions along the coast in hope of riding out the storm which dis­rupted channel shipDing. At least 40 were bunched off Deal in the Straits of Dover, several dragging anchors and endangering them­selves and others.

NT Seeks State OK On 2 Postwar Jobs

Two major post-war sanitary and sewage projects have been forwarded to the State Postwar Public Works Planning Commis­sion by North Tonawanda City Engineer Albert W. Spencer for approval. If approved, the State will share in the cost with the City of the necessary plans to begin construction.

Both projects, a sanitary sewer on Sweeney street and Clair ave­nue, and a sewage treatment plant, have been approved by the Common Council and Mayor Myles W. Joyce this week, and the City Engineer has sent the proposals to Albany.

The application accompanying the Sweeney street and Clair ave­nue sanitary sewer and related structures sketch, requests "an allocation of funds toward the cost of plans" as well as show­ing the areas to be served by the proposed sewer.

The sewage treatment ptent, which according • to Mr. Spancer will cost approximately $377,500, is designed for the preliminary treatment of sewage for a popu­lation of 25,000 persons and a dry weather flow oi 4.3 million gallons per day.

Interceptors, based on three times the dry weather flow, have been provided, therefore, the maximum storm weather flow through the plant should not ex ­ceed 13 million gallons per day, according to Mr. Spencer's report. A by-pass will be provided in the plant to handle any excess flow above this figure without treat­ment, Mr. Spencer stated.

52 Food Items to Be Free From Ration Wednesday

Washington (UP) — Price con­trols will be lifted next Wednes­day on 52 miscellaneous food items, including various spices, dried and frozen fruits and some bakery products, the OPA announ­ced today.

In addition, ceilings will be sus­pended for 90 days on vegetable seeds, canned carrots (including canned carrot juice) and fresh, frozen and canned crabmeat. Can­ned carrots sold as "baby" or "jun­ior" foods, however, continued un­der price control.

OPA said all the commodities

were insignificant to the cost ol living and that the action "does not mean that we are letting up in our battle to keep food prices down."

Here are the 52 items to be exempted from price control:

Fish, fats, and oil—all canned or processed fish bait used for sport fishing, imported and dom­estic canned abalone, oysters, clams and fish roe, frozen uncook­ed lobsters, salted lake herring.

Frozen fruits and vegetables — beets, citrus segments, coconuts.

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