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10 VETERANS SAY: Paige Doesn't Mind Talk When It Sells War Bonds They Want Jobs Different From Brooklyn's Man of the Week: trlf I v. Ones They Had By VIOLET BROWN An estimated 1.300.000 combat veterans and fathers ill re'urn to civilian life this year thouch the majority is expected to go hack lo prewar jobs, many veterans will want to use the skills they learned in the service for other jobs. i i fi 1 lift. ir I i traveling as vice president of the International Gas Union. On one of his visits, the ancestral Morgans would have been pleased to note, be was presented at court.

His list of activities takes in everything from the Red Cross and Boy Scouts to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the National Safety Council and the Salvation Army. He is active on behalf of various hospitals, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the Long Island College of Medicine, and is something of an enthusiast on the subject of combatting juvenile delinquency. Withal, he gets home to dinner three or four nights a week (to the joy of the Paige cook, for he is an appreciative and "omnivorous" eater) and has time to garden As befits a man who has been exercising his larynx on behalf of good causes for some decades, Clifford E. Paige, president of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, has a handy collection of after-dinner stories. Topping them all, in his opinion, is the one about President Arthur Hadley of Yale University who, when asked by a visiting preacher how long he might speak in chapel, replied: "There is no limit at all.

But we have found that no souls are saved after 20 minutes." Mr. Paige, however, has been talking for a good deal longer than 20 minutes about war bonds. He became chairman of the Kings County War Finance Committee two years ago at the start of the Third War Loan and is still going strong this Sabbath as the Do you intend to return to your prewar job? i Answers of 10 recently discharged Brooklyn service men1 i follow: j.IAMKS V. HAY, 25 Technician 5th Grade 75 71 Ave. With all the traveling around I did in my four and a half years or take candid-cam in the service, I've developed a wanderlust.

I was a grocery store clerk he-! fore the war, but I definitely don't want to be tied down to that again. I would like Tfoh. Slh Gratlt Jamr P. Hav i to have a job as an interstate i mUmr-nr-i i rr i if HYmTumnT.i r4MSIHh" i ff.i i .1 Seventh gets rolling with just short of $2,000,000,000 to the committee's credit since he took over. It's been a personally rewarding experience, too, take it from Mr.

Paige. "I'm constantly being amazed at the devotion of our workers," he said the other day in his long, quiet, windowed office at 176 Remsen St. "After six drives their devotion is unflagging, and their skill in selling now is such that our sales 'grow greater as time passes, rather than less. It's a fact that in all these years, out of the thousands of persons I asked to co-operate in selling war bonds, I got exactly ne refusal that's all." As organizer and truck driver. 1 would Ret around and see some of the country that way.

First, however. I'm taking four or five weeks off to take a trip to Wisconsin to see my future wife. I met her while I was stationed there before going era pictures. There are four grandchil-tdren in the Paige family, too (he and Mrs. Paige have two sons, Lincoln and Stuart, and a daughter, Marjorie, who is Mrs.

Albert A. Tel- ler), and their grandfather is their devoted, if restrained, admirer. Secret of Mr. Paige's ability to juggle manifold activities without affecting his digestion or his affable, dimpled smile is his system. As a successful man should, he rises early 6:30 a.m., to be exact.

He has read the morning papers on the train coming in from his home at Greenwich, by the time he is at. his well-ordered desk at 9 a.m. He is in constant telephone communication with the MARITIME SERVICE'S PRIDE AND JOY The Cope Frio in Long Island Sound on one of her weekly cruises with a class of officer students aboard. Inset is Brooklyn-born Comm. William B.

Oakley, skipper. Crews Who Will Staff Supply Ships in War on Japan Are Trained Aboard Vessel Skippered by Brooklyn Man JACK STKIXBKRC, 32 Technical Sergeant, Sri421st Ave. By PAIL BLAUVELT I would like to go back to my prewar job but 1 may not be able to. I was a textile salesman in all their time, except that alloted for sleeping and eating, to study- ling and practical operation of the complicated machinery, vast stores of supplies required by the Pacific! Rncc nf )ha trainW nrnram anH man nrimariiv Moving the Chicago, a war calls for ships-and more ships. And ships call for horse-j for the fact tnat more 300 such offlcers already power steam or Diesel, hut increasingly Diesel.

at sea, most of them in the Pacific, is Lt. Commander A. although I rep resented 1 "un 10 ndn ue ine inoUhanus 01 norseiDorr of New London, who, despite his Connecticut resi several York firms, bottled up in the cylinders of mammoth marine engines became technically 1 worked for my dence and Maine birthplace, is a rabid Dodger fan. Drill Students in Many Operations He's assisted in his operation of the combined engineroom-classroom by Lt. C.

M. Kistler of 45-23 40th Long Island City, a problem for the maritime service nfa long ago when more and more ships were built with the powerful engines that operate on fuel oil without leaving a tell-tale streak of smoke across the horizon. self. It's a i i i a Tech. Sft.

Jack hard field to swnhfr. 1st assistant engineer. Together they drill the officer students get into at the present time, but From the brass hats in Washington came down the order if I could, I'd like to get into the that a training program be set up to get those engineers. That's' enlne operation ana repair, ciecincuy, remgerauon, macmns all that came through-the orders. Procedure was something; shoP wnrk.

water softening, water purification and a dozen other import and export line in tex tile selling. related or unrelated subjects. Commander Dorr and Lieutenant Kistler are looking forward to Tuesday, Maritime Day, when their charges, for the first time, If that isn't possible, I guess I'll try to get a job with UKRRA left to the men charged with putting the program in service. Training Ship Xow in Service The result, an all-welded C-type vessel, commissioned less than a year ago, with specially laid-out quarters and training space, is on exhibition today at Pier 4, the foot of Fulton and go overseas again. I think 1 11 stay home for awhile first, however.

Four years is a lone time to be out of touch with everything. JOHX V. HKALY, 27 will receive public recognition on their "graduation" day, for tha present class of 28 men, ranging in rank from lieutenant commander down to ensign, will be "cleared" of their studies in public ceremonies to be held aboard the vessel. One of the 28 will be Lt. tj.g Dante J.

Parziale of 1079 75th St. Brooklyn Men Aboard Of course, it takes a regular ship's complement to keep the Cape Frio running in true spick-and-span maritime service order. And practically every vital rating is represented by Brooklyn men, many of them with years of sea experience behind them. War Finance Committee and schedules his various "cause" appointments each day along with his regular business appointments. It means that he has to account for every moment of his day and also that he has to be able to shift from debentures to slogans with the closing of a door.

But far from finding it exhausting, he finds it "exhilarating." When he has an odd moment amid appointments, meetings and telephone calls, he is likely to catch up on his technical reading which, since he is executive of a utility, is considerable. He prefers detective novels to heavy literature for relaxation, as a result, just as he goes in for "light" motion pictures, with Irene Dunne and Greer Garson high on the list of actresses Mrs. Paige can use as bait to get him to go downtown. At the moment the Paiges aren't attending many movies, though. They never do when there is a bond drive on.

For although Mr. Paige has never failed to see that a thing gets done when he has decided it should ten years ago, for instance, he thought he ought to give up cigarettes and he hasn't touched one since he also knows that prodding helps. Especially in selling, director of the greatest financing operation ever conducted in Brooklyn, Mr. Paige himself sets the keynote for this devotion to bond-selling. As far as he's concerned, "buying bonds is as much of an obligation as military service," and that's that.

Brooklyn's "man of the year" for 1911 was born in Cleveland in 1884. He came here from Boston to become vice president of the gas company 21 years ago. Before that, he held executive positions in various New England utilities, having started as the traditional office boy at a respectable $8 a week. His first job actually was as a $3-a-week grocery clerk, but he soon decided there was little future in crackers and spices. Instead he went back to school at Wes-leyan Academy in Wilbraham, an episode he considers noteworthy solely because it was there that, at, the age of 15, he decided Alice Cutler Perty, a schoolmate, was the girl for him.

It was ten years more before she actually became Mrs. Paige, but he always has been pleased that so momentous a question was settled in, his own mind at least good and early. A descendant of Miles Morgan, who left Bristol for Boston 308 years ago, Mr. Paige made the trip back to England several times foi all who buy war bonds to see. And proudly strutting the bridge is one of Brooklyn's sons, Commander William B.

Oakley, who, unfortunately, now lists his home address as West Palm Beach, Fla. He's the Brooklyn-horn skipper of the Cape Frio, the only training ship of its kind in the maritime service. A real old searlog, Captain Oakley although his rank Is commander, he's captain of the vessel has just completed 45 years of continuous service on the water, which included turns Technician 5th Grade, 925 Union St. I was a stock clerk at a dental supply house before I got into the army, but I don't intend going back there.j0n the bridges of such ships as the Leviathan, Washington, Presi-1 here was no (cnt Roosevelt and the old California, now the Uruguay, future in it. They include Chief Boatswain's Mate Paul E.

Brewer of G2-21 Fort Hamilton Parkway; Steward's Mate, 1st Class, Ciriaco Calantropio of 370 38th Machinist's Mate, 1st Class, Ernest Corbell of 470 Ellon Seaman, 1st Class, William J. Dugan of vvnnlrl lit-n mill nuunu His sailing now, however, is confined generally to the waters 251 Sumner Yeoman, 1st Class, Bernard Finander of 70 get into the airline busi- of the East River and Long Island Sound, where the Cape Frio's. 9th Fireman, 1st Class, Francis G. Monroe of 264 Saratoga ness or, at! takes its complements of maritime service officers for practical Storekeeper, 3d Class, George C. Weinmann of 90 Russell least, the of-j training amid the mass of gadgets, engines, pumps, dials, piping, i and Boatswain's Mate 2d Class, Alfred Werner of 7003 3d Ave.

Trrh. Mh Crade John W. Hpalj fice part of it handles, wheels and other paraphernalia in the spotless engine I haven't made any definite even for Uncle Sam. plans yet, hut I intend to study They are among the men permanently assigned to the Cape Frio, who are responsible for the trim appearance of the vessel. They are the typical merchant marine men, whose jobs aboard the Cape Frio helping to make new engineer officers, or in the Pacific carrying the stuff of war are so vital to the success of the battle against America's enemy so far across the sea.

up on the subject. room. The Cape Frio is a floating classroom for from 20 to 10 officers who are getting their last schooling in engineering before receiving their papers and going out as the big bosses of their own enginerooms. And they really get a going-over, giving practically O'LOUGHUN DESCRIBES: Pfc. ANTHONY FERRARO, 27 How Hook-Gowanus Wars Ended 392 St.

Mark's Ave. I was a men's clothing salesman before I entered the service a printing press, but I don't J. SMITH, 29 tend going back to that job. I Channel." The Creek section aow I want to rest up awhile the Old Timers Association, who was horn In Red Hook (Mills and then open nave a and child now and the salarv he said, "began on the south side of Hamilton and along the Technician 5th Grade, 1671 Dahill Road I owned a garage before the war and had to sell it when I entered the service. So far I and Columbia Sts.) 60-odd years ago and who speaks with au eastern side of Columbia St.

to 1 1 1 wasn't enough, jjf the Bay and Gowanus Canal." a clothing business of my own. I worked for that firm for six years and I know the business I'll take a short vacation and haven't made tnen 1 tnink 1 ary Plans ex- thority on the customs of that region in the late eighties and the gay nineties of the last centuryrelates how a.s a "Creeker" he had to attend Visitation School in Red Hook. His family had moved to Dwight' Cc- I'll look around to rest Tern. 4th Grade I i for some sort Byron Am awhile. I don of a clerical position or some-; think I'm go- Very Well.

rfc. Anthony Ferraro The burning question of "where Red Hook ended and Go-wanus began," which several of the Old Timers in that section asked me to look into and report on, still continues to arouse the interest to many Scores of letters "touchin' on and ap-pertainin' to" the boundaries of these two historic spots still continue to reach me, and some of these missives stir nostalgic memories of the days when State Senator Mike Coffey was the boss down there and when every recurring Election Day Under the GI Bill of Rights 1 A poll of letters reaching me seems to indicate that Cunningham is right in his recollection of the boundaries. Frank Lawson of 67th St. and 7th who was born down there 64 years ago, says Frank has given the best Interpretation. "In fact Cunningham is correct," says Lawson.

"Many a fight I was in with thing in maintenance mechanics. wilt be Given to start a lumbia thus makiey him a Gowanusite, and, of course, he business. I always wanted to be1 SJOLl'XD "9 ing to buy another garage, but I know one thing I don't Mh Cradt Tfrh UU ill CJNNil aiiu una lO chance. John 3 Smith Technician 5th Grade S14 Union St. want to work for any one else.

1 guess I'll go into some sort of business for myself. the Creekers," he writes. "Some' Last Wednesday I went back to the New York Life Insurance Company. I was a statistician Pfc. AUGUST J.

GALLO, 32 1155 59th St. The first thing I want to do Is take it easy for awhile. Before the war I operated a die stamp times they would chase us as far as Wolcott where we would Borouah GI Tells of make a stand until reinforce' brought the clans out fighting to settle a feud that seemed never mcuts came, and then we'd drive ending. naturally had to run the gantlet of "the Pointers" to get to and from sq'iooI. He Needed an Escort "I think at the time," he writes, "I was the only pupil fiom the Creek to attend Visitation School and had to be escorted home every day by my teacher, Brother Henry.

Both my brothers were wounded in the many fights that took place down there. Many of the priests and the police tried to stop the fights, but it was all to no avail. The making of Coffey Park stopped the throwing of stones for all time." the 'Creekers' all the way back to Columbia St." Fights on the Ice Gowanus (habitat of "the deckers) and Red Hook, (home of "the were constant. there before the war and Aiding Japanese had been with' them for Join Ancestors -vcars- Iwo Jima (Delayed) Fifth The company Division Marines on this island treated usma(e quite a bit easier for pretty 1 their Japanese foes to "save while we wereiface- by airiing a modernized ing press and I may go backj to that job because I know more about it than anything else. I want to, go down to the! Iy at war as bitter as the border These fights were as real to the boys as'the big battles of the present war.

They used "slingshots made from the top of an Tfrh. Sth Grade Hrlie A. Siolund wars between medieval Scotland and England, as endless as the War of the Roses, bnt not as bloody, perhaps, or as fatal but exciting enough, when all is said old shoe which, when swung version of the ancient custom of hara-kiri, reports Staff Sgt. rto. Aut-uit j.

Gaiio Veterans Ad-jaway, sending us packages and ministration, however, and seeiews of the firm. They gave what my chances are for going; me my 10-year bonus even over your head a few times" pniiM rlelivar "half a hrirlr with Henry Giniger of R09 Rutland and done. as tne oounoary line ot accuracy of a buUet The grown-up men fought it to an auto mechanics school. I was away and gave alb Rnad, a marine combat corre That's what I want to do most, 'of us three months full pay be-5ponrient. region known as Gowanus) it I guess.

fore we left. out at the polls whenever any one Mas to be elected and the mall boys kept it up all the rest of the year, with stone fights, was, according to Coakley, "from Richards St. and Hamilton Ave. According to Giniger, a marine patrol reported a group of 10 Japs assembled on a ridge in to about Lorraine St. and Hamil Lawson says there was a swamp where Coffey Park afterward stood, and another between Columbia and Dwight and "when Ihe ponds froze in the Winter, the warring clans often fought it out on the ice," expertly skating in and out of the lines a semi-circle about another ROBERT H.

FLEMMING, 32 Technician 4th. Grade 903 Hemlock St. Corp. MARK J. KEARNEY, 35 4 Sherman St.

I had a civil service job before the war as a prison guard. Natu -even ton west to Columbia St. fist fights and ambuscades whenever one unlucky lad appened I THINK I'D BE ANXIOUS TO GET HOME NOW- if I didn't come from Brooklyn. apparently their leader. After much consultation, the leader! including Dwight at the time only one block long (Delevan to to stray into the territory of the stood in full view offering a1 rally, it has all the advantages of; I haven't decided yet what rivals.

of battle, Often the ire caved in target. A dozen marine, TWO BROTHERS UNITED -ack Bger of the infantry and Verona Cunningham Is Right want to do now that I have my civil service 7 such as perma- John F. Coakley, president of rifloc nnonorl nn nr, him anrt ho discharge papers. I do know with all hands, friend and foe alike, struggling in the water. dropped.

Then, one by one, the 'N ARMY UNIT AFTER Frank Cunningham, former chairman of the finance com Alexander of an anti-aircraft battalion are stationed in the same unit and see each other Di jevery day and twice on Sun- Japs got to their feet 3 YEARS SEPARATION The filling in of the swamps, the introduction of rival baseball teams and the patronizing of n- sion and sick and vacation pay. It's the kind of job 1 know all about Ann, one ny one, each Jap went to meet his ancestors. With the 95th Infantry vision in Germanv Most however, that 1 don't want to go back to my prewar job as a clerk in a meat packaging house. The hours were of Jack made the startline dis- each other's dances finally mittee of the old Board of Aldermen and now leader of the 3d Assembly District (since the death of Tom Cullen), who was horn and brought up along the South Brooklyn waterfront, had Holy Trinity P. T.

A. these brother meets brother covery one day that the new in-stories in the armv have a fantry outfit that moved in and brought about "a melting of the animosity" and about the middle of the first decade of the The Parent-Teachers Assorla- tion of Holv Trinitv Hieh School' slightly unhappy flavor because had established its headquarters IN THIS SECTION Feature Sports Movies Radio Classified Ads Art Drama Financial Schools Real Estate very had and I nnl' "SL will hold a card and bunco nartv the brothers usually can spend: within a stone's throw of his declared Red Hook to be "all present century, the "Creekers" and I Intend Corp' back. BYROX AMES, 2T Technician 4th Grade 268 89th St. Before the war I worked on and "Pointers" appear to have that territory south of Hamilton beginning on the west side declared a truce and have lived want, a job with more of a fu-June 1 at 140 Montrose a comparatively few hours command post, had a fellow by ture now. I'm going to take a Music will be provided by the! together.

name of Berger in it. He rest and then start looking Holy Trinity orchestra. Games1 This one is different. After got curious and investigated. It around.

'will start at 8 p.m. Ithree years of separation, Lts.jwas Alexander. and let live, as brothers, from of Columbia and over to the waterfront, known as Buttermilk that day on. i.