15', near Luzon, on the 15. To dates 2 have been officially reported} SKRABLE BOTS MEET IN HAWAII MM PF fit, I Last April, when the. lists of Mini iberatcd American prisoners in Uiel FOOTBALL STAR, 'hilipplnp*- wrip iclrasrd Mis | 'feller wrote to General MacArthurl Tor information. Her letter wast Jate.cl April 12 and MacArthur's an-1 j DIES AJPRISONER iwer was dated the 24th. The Gen- [ eral revealed that Pfeiter's name I was among' those who were trans- |V hoard Jap Prison Ship ferrcd to Japan, but said he did not! Being Transferred :now when he had been transferred I >r if he had reached his destination. I From Mindanao Bom In New York City, Corporal 'teller lived most of his life in itEPORT 942 LOST Ridgefield Park and Teaneck. He I ,vas graduated from Ridgefield Park High School in 1933, the year he was, I pnsoner of the Japanese smct selected as All-Slate and All-Coun-j J i. fall of Bataan Coipoial Rudj ty. At the Park high school he was! l.lfei of Teaneck, foimeilv o a! 4-year letterman In football ar.dt gefield Park who was All-Coun track. Ho played football under the! , All-State football tackle in 1833 1 .ate Carl Biggs, former Ridgefield j his hie while being liansfeiiec Park coach, and upon graduating m a pi ison camp in Mindanao ti »iis awarded a scholarship to Syra-j ian, it was learned heie today :;use University for hi.s athletic abil-1 hi 30-jeai soldier died last Decem ty. At Syracuse he was also a star I ii i 15 when the ship he was aboaid ^ xlu u,.tl--•-•^L, ,*. ,..• ,... - - 4 yeais J , i bombed and sunk in the Subicuckle and had letteis foi 4 jen gF f in both football and tiack 1'he Wai Depaitmrnt tplpgiam Upon being giadualed Horn ihe •tving them of thch «in death (Jnivei"<ity in 1933 with a B S lecclved bv Mi and Mis Hu- degiee, he taught foi thiee veils in • ,ph Pfeifri Si of 317 Teaneck Jentral High Seliool at Blngham-I Hi -alad Ihthihs weeweekk. Thehy had heard ton, N. T. There he was co-coach •m their son three times sinci e hihis with Henry Merfc, another well- , nture1. The last card was received known Bergen County athlete. He I also substituted at St. Cecilia's for" March, 1944. a time in math and as the football The last the Pfelfers saw their ;oach when Nat Pierce went to I i was jn September&epienijjer, 1041xvti, , whew ULH n *•""— T, left for overseas- He enlisted in Prance In the i-ii Aimy in Maith of that yeal and BHOIHER DISCHARGED ^8 home only on week-end passes Coipoial Pfeifei s biothei Coi-1 never had a fill lough poral William Pfeifei who was I 5tationed at Claik Field in the uedically dlschaiged fiom the Ma- the An Coips bait, "basketbairand"was" on tiackl BOMBED IN STJBIC BAY and wiesUlng team, He won ai ^eeoiding to the lettei which foi- £Cholaiship foi his athletic ability! ved the Government telegiam, heanlj went to Foidham wheie he won! is one of 1618 pn&oners to bejnteimuial Swimming Champion-F • msfened from Camp Numbei S&blp honois L f1. Mindanao. The ship left Decem-1 Tiieu innthM was State Cham-[ 11 and was bombed in the 11. • n I • i i ' ' • '- IJ CORP. RICHARD ISkrables Writel lere Of Meeting] {While In Hawaii] Two of the six service sons off Bivlrs Grace Skrable, of 195 E. Oak-I idene Avenue, Teaneck, have wntteni Ithat they recently met in Hawaii t BThey were Corporal Richard Skra-j able, deft) who started from OarapT BLewis for Pacific service, stopprngl Soft en route, and Sergeant Edwardl I Skrable, who has been in the islands! I for 3 years of his S-year service withl ithe Army j Other Skrable boys serving iPfc !Prancis, In Germany, Sergeant! •Woodrow, now to Pennsylvania after! •African service; Pfc Harry, at F |DIX, and Pfc William, at Fort •after Alaska service, CORPORAL RUDY PFEIF1SU VISITED FBIEND'S GRAVE Captain WildL i While on his Uth mission, Llru-L 'iRIBUR O'HARA, tenant, O'Hara; ran short of fuel and I had to head for Iwo Jlma. In a let-1 %<*ljeaA& Parad«* er to his parents, he told them oil visiting the grave of Corporal Ru-I aolph M. De Cahio, one of his Tea-I ^--Wror Teamed icck buddies. Both he and De-i Janio played on the high schooll reaneck's Independence Daji jaseball team. DeCanio, who was! vlth the Marines, lost his life ong ebration started yesterday withr [wo the beginning of this year. I g raising ceremonies at all thel S-29 Pilot Shot Down Yeoman Geier was killed in ac-1 Colonel Edward J. Kroneke, I ;ht schools and continued with! Over Yokohama On turn May 27 in the Philippines. Ac-1 ! chaplain U. S. Army, of 958 Dar-1 3 athletic events and races ati lording to word received indirectly I | ien Terrace", Teaneck, is home e High School Athletic Field be-| His 17th Trip from one of his friends by Ills wife,! ining at 9 A. M. a 45-day furlough preparatory to I lie was shot by a sniper. He was 1>. I setting out for an unknown des-1 The parade started on schedule I < Yeoman Geier, son of Mrs. Annul 2:30 P. M. from Queen Annel TWO HERE KILLED Geier of Bogota, was graduated I tination. Last week ho addressed I >ad and Farrant Terrace, proceed-1 from Bogota High School in 10381 the convention of the Atlantic Dis-1 g north to Colonial Court and! First lieutenant Arthur P. O'Hara, and was formerly employed by thel trict of the Missouri Synod of the j en into Central Park for the of-1 itcher for the 1912 Teaneck High Royal Indemnity Insurance Com-1 Lutheran Church at Concordia I •jal observance ceremonies, be-g chool baseball team and letterman pany in New York. He enlisted in Oollejre, Bronxvile, and on Sunday I nning with the massing of thel l soccer, is missing in action over the Navy in December, 1841, or"q Igs led by Lt.-Richard Ferris of I | "okohama, it was reported here to- was called in March, the follov I was the guest speaker at. the | e Naval and Marine Cadets of g ay in a release from the War De- year. Sent overseas in June, 1942.1 I morning service at St. Paul's Lu-1 janeck. artment. He served in Newfoundland, Green-1 Jtheran Church, Teaneck. Captain Raymond W. Wild, A. A.j The 21-year-old airman, pilot of land and Iceland as an aviation I A veteran of the First World j , holder of the Purple Heart, Airf B-29 Superfortress, hud taken ordnanceman aboard a FBY but was I I War, Col. Kroneke was a National edal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters and j art in 16 missions on .Japan's key grounded following a crash in Ncw-g Ities. He was on his nth when shot roundliind In August, 1942, He wasl ] Guard chaplain and inducted into I ,h'er decorations, was Honorary | f the Regular Army in 1940. Before j rand Marshal, and with Henry B.j own over the target. 'the only survivor and was hospital -1 Yeoman Second Class Theodore ized for more than a month. j entering- service, he was secretary I tersen, chairman of the PatrioticB lof the Metropolitan Lutheran In-| bservance Committee and Grand* lenry Geier of West Englewood and He returned to the States in Pcb-I :arshai, led the first division" ofF •irst Lieutenant Edward Vagoun of ruary 1944. and was sent to Call-1 3 ner Mission. He lias liv^d in Tea- ie parade, including the Teaneckf iarfield, were listed by the War jneck for the past IS years. 1 in March. He and Miss Gra-I olice Department, the Township 3 Department as killed in action in fried there in April. | Col. Kroneke has just returned] ouncil, Board of Education, servtol ffrom two years in the South Pa-1 en and women on furlough, dis-1 larged veterans, 10th Infantrjj Ing in that area. • Four other 1 cific, where, in his capacity as I jjeBiudS his wife and mother, Yeo-1 1 Chief of Chaplains, he flew more j F egiment and State Guard Unit' -_-,,en County men are reported man Geier is survived by his father, I I /ounded. Henry Geier and a sister, Mrs. Lynn I I than 100,000 miles and in two years I Lieutenant O'Hara has been miss- Merrick. He was formerly a mem-1 I has had only two days leave and! ' ng over Yokohama since May 29 ber of the Bogota Young Men-3 As- j 1 three for illness. Under his juris-1 • Staff Sergeant Harold P. Bergen, | i md according; to details received sociation. I diction at tie beginning of his ac-1 I tin of Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Ber-1 j >y his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ar- Itivities were 300 chaplains, thel 1 ,hur P. O'Hara, his ship was hit FAZIO MISSING SINCE MAX en, of 115 Cedar Lane, Teaneclc,! I number increasing until there I !• rrived home recently on a 30-day a I iver the target but he managed to Pfc Gns Fazio, a member of thel I urlough. A veteran of 22 missions [ 9 ly it to the coast of Japan before 132nd Infantry, has been missing I I were more than 1,000.