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Propose Plan to Move County Prisoners Out of Portsmouth Herald LIX. NO. 253 Weather FofocoJI Thunder showers tonight. Herald temperatures (past 24 hours): high, 85; low, 56; noon today. 85.

Tbt with THE HERALD. June I. lit! PORTSMOUTH, N. MONDAY, EVENING JULY 24, 1944 Continuinr The New HunpthJre Estillijhed October 1, A nu 4k A ner 8 PAGES OC PITER SMITH, 6, couldn't resis: the temptation on one of those hot days to cool oft" under an Wtdoor shower in New York City srhile on his way to the butcher shop with 3 can of used fat. the fat was used in making munitions, Pete had gotten pretty hot patriotically running back and forth iiti! he found this solution to his problem.

(fTtternackmai) Plan Would Shift Jail to Brent wood, Cut Double Expenses A plan to have Rockingham county rid ittelf of the expente of a county jail in Porttmouth and keep all itt at the houte of correction at Brentwood, thut reducing the double coit of maintaining two eitablithmentt, was announced today by County Commit tioner Ira A. Brown of Porttmouth. Mr. Brown made the suggestion at the Portsmouth jail never are that the jail building in Portsmouth allowed outside the building be purchased-by the city for use as though "in accordance with state a police station, jail and possibly law the county commissioners in- as a municipal court room. The sug- vestigated the jail, conferred -with gestion met -with favorable comment' the sheriff and received his assur- from members of the Portsmouth ance" that the men would be allow- police commission.

ed out in the exercise yard -which is Mr. Bro-wn based his action seek- provided there but never used. "The ing- to rid the county of the jail prisoners still have not been allowed here on the assertion that "the I out," he added. Portsmouth jail costs approximately Develomnir thp rhpmf rha- tin. $9,000 a year to operate.

Yet last 1a over bv yea, we had an average of only six tSh w'a pol heJqu rters pnsoners there at any one time ancV, and clt lock Brown dared the number has been, known to go that th front part of the buildins as iow as two prisoners there a offers suitable Poffi ma World Bank Go to Jew Congress Bretton. Woods, July 2.4 (AP-- some times." better locker room and osher fa- TT -r i wv- i vuiij ubiici He further averted that the jail cilitles member5 of the police 1 a TM force than are available city Brentwood are adequate to accommodate all prisoners the county would have, that the cell blocks there are modern, well lighted, well aired, furnished with toilet facilities in cell and thus more sanitary. "The county, by moving all its prisoners under one roof, would save the cost of heating, lighting, keeper's salary and maintenance costs now disbursed for the Portsmouth jail." Mr. Brown said. "Another saving would come from i the fact that at the county house of correction in Brentwood.

nearly all the food used is raised on the premises with the inmates providing most of the labor. Under the Rocklngharn county system, which differs from that in the other counties in the state, the sheriff is allowed $1 a day action on the pro- for each prisoner in the Portsmouth city hall. three members of the Portsmouth police commission, Chairman William J. Linchey, Orel A. Dexter J.

Verne Wood, today concurred in statement of their interest "We believe the county jail here would be Terr pood location for a i rolic" ntinrtcrs and if t'-i; h-''-" --T to become available we would be very much interested in hivinj the city it for that the commissioners declared, adding that "of course we would want to study the costs of renovating and operating- it before we made definite commitments." As -to the purchase price and REDS NEAR WARSAW; YANKS WIN IN PACIFIC international monetary fund jail, of which" he "spends "whatever ra in 8 costs. Mr. Brown said to- rid bank for reconstruction is Portion he wishes, to feed the pris- TMy. '-at the binding has been ap- to be aeiayea until the new teess meets next January, an -I'iiv'd source said today. the last of the delegates.to.the Nations monetary con- departed from this White fountain resort, it was pointed out Mr BrOTT1 declared lhat prisoners' this cost wi the saving in county oners.

This would appear to be unsound business practice as'the county treasurer has no record of these Health Situation Explaining further, the health situation as it relates to prisoners, lat although quick action on the TO plans is desirable it will be vir- tally impossible to bring the before the present Congress this enr. Although Congress is scheduled reconvene late in August, the iwmakers are expected to be in re- ess most of the time because of the "ohtical campaign. Furthermore, cixniittee action on the monetary lians would require many weeks of rork. so that the question could not rf brodght before the two houses in I to have the proposals given voner consideration. The capital for the world bank or reconstruction and development Riven a S300.000.000 boost late iaiurday night when Secretary of he Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jt the flnal dinner of the confer- announced the Soviet union decided to raise its quota mm S900.000.000 to bringing the total to 'D.

For dsys the Soviets held out for lower quota, but at the last "Jnute came through with its dra- TMtic decision which brought cheers 'ini the conference delegates. The united States will contribute 3.H5.000.000 to the bank, whose purpose is to make re- "Mstrtiction and development loans the war and to guarantee loans of private investors. "nonetary fund, designed to foreiKn exchange to nations "hose trade balances are temporar- on the minus sidr, has been set S3.800.000.000. praised at SlO.OOO-and "I believe the county would be willing to dispose of it for that." As for operating costs, he'reminded the public that'the-jail costs the county-more than J9.000 a year to operate 'and that Portsmouth pays one third of Portsmouth CAP Unit Wins Drill The Portsmouth squadron was honored for excellence in drill at the three-day maneuvers of the Civil Air patrol in Laconia over the hv rmve to Brentwood, he declared, "a sizeable part of the cost of the operation LI Lie police headquarters would be- met by the saving in the county tax 1 oif.v has been paying to operate the jail." Men Under 26 Will Fill Needs Of Services weekend. Nearly 22,000 CAP personnel at- tended the meet and members from Washington.

July 24 (AP) Most 12 states passed in review before i selective service needs likely can high ranking armv and CAP cers and 5.000 spectators yesterday i rrom rnanpower pool afternoon to end the three-day in- UI der 26 years the House vitation mobilization at the Laconia HITLER WITH GOERING, HKVtMLER. MTJSSO LIN I--Caption accompanying thttBpholo of German origin describes it as showing Adolf Hitler after the reported attempt to assassinate him.ittuking with Herman Goering (lefU. Heinrich Himmler (second from left), Benito Mussolini (right) and otrkr officers. Officer in center is identified only us Loener. (AP Radiopho to from Stockholm) Reorganized Salvage Committee To Campaign for Paper Aug.

5 committee -today reor- and announced it would tion campaign Aug. with 100 tons of waste paper as the goal. New chairman the committee, succeeding the late Frank W. Hollis, is Ira A. George Trefethen remains as treasurer, Wallace F.

Purington is secretary and J. Paul Griffin and Clayton E. Osborn are named to the executive committee. "The United States government is urgently requesting all citizens to save all paper," Chairman Brown said today. "Paper mills are in great need of waste paper for reprocessing for wartime uses.

We have arranged to sell all paper collected to Gutterson and Gould which firm will speed it on its way to the Brown company mills.in Berlin. Further details on the collections, which will start at 8 am Saturday Aug. 5, will be announced i future. Local Man on Airport sponsored by the New Hampshire wing, CAP. Col.

Earle L. Johnson, national commander, CAP, speaking at Saturday evening's dinner for wing and squadron personnel commended the CAP for "a job well done" in keeping interest in aviation alive in the country's young people during wartime when Eying is restricted. "We must maintain supremacy of the air and only through The continuation of present draft in- USAAF uction ar deferment policies. In a summary prepared for the group by Col. Francis V.

Keesling. the national military manpower pool of registrants, aged 19 through 37. was placed at 22.212,000 as of July 1. About 10.251.000 of these were members or former members of the armed forces. "Since the armed forces have al- the youth of the nation can that be read reached their authorized strength," Keesling said, "calls upon servirp ore for maintam- assured.

The program yesterday included City Man nvolved in Accident women and two children injured when according to re- i al Navy Corsairs. a display of aerobatics by five AT-6's ing this net strength. Contingent and 12 P-4Ts from Grenier field. fce of the war. there Saturday afternoon ls reasonable expectancy that forth- tions of spot landings, message pick- coming calls can be met in a lajrge up and an abbreviated aerial re- part registrants 25, with view of CAP planes during the af- a smaller this age." temoon formed a prelude to a dis- play of aerobatics by 12 British Roy- i Deputy i Made Director of Port At Cherbourg rn ra police a car driven by L.

Kardv of 29 Pickering Portsmouth and Mrs Flor- Throughout the three days, mem- bers were noused ta a tent cit erec ted on border of. the airport's Plttsfield. July 24 (AP)-Two deputy sheriffs were convicted today of contempt o' court for discussing with jurors the case of oJhn Grcttoire of 114 Ward street, north-south runway. Meals were F. Novon, during Noxon's first collided at the en- served by three camp kitchens from to the State Industrial school I Fon Devens.

Mass. River road. Manchester, flm which the Hardy car was Saturday afternoon. Gregoire and Leo Bouchard. also of 114 Ward street, Manches" ''ere taken to the Sacred Heart Mrs.

Grecoire had cuts 5ut the head and arms while the had cuts on his forehead. trial on a charge of murdering his infant son. Day's Lt. Garretfs Ship, Buchanan, Ready for Laurels Xotices Xew Cjutle Personals Radio Rationing Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor. July 24 (AP)--A mighty mite of the U.

S. fleet, the 1.700- tcn destroyer Buchanan, is ready for more of the dramatic and daring action which won her a. presidential citation. Tales of bravery, skill and power are woven into her story of 19 month's battling in the Pacific. In 180.000 miles of shell-marked travel without overhaul, she sank a Japanese cruiser, among other game, and assaulted targets from the Bbnins to the Solomons.

The destroyer was damaged slightly in a daring bombardment of the powerful Kavieng; Ireland, last February while duelling with 6-inch shore batteries. She was rewarded then with a trip home for a long overdue has been completed. Lt. Comdr. R.

W-. Curtis, of Detroit. the destroyer's skipper, says: "Now I hope to go to Manila and Singapore. ThU ship action. We are ready to duplicate our Solomons record." In presenting the presidential citation July 22, Adm.

Ernest J. King, commander of the U. S. fleet, said the Buchanan had contributed "essentially to the success of the islands campaign." Her log book shows 153,000 miles of her battle journeys were in the two merchantmen and 25 barges sunk; one submarine probably 'sunk and another -damaged, and five enemy planes shot down, skipper received the- silver star for bravery at Casa. blanca and was presented the bronze star for the Buchanan's bombardment of Kavieng and.Rabaul.

Silver stars also have been award: ed to Lc. Wallace Henry Garrett, I Portsmouth, N. gunnery of-' 1 ficer, and Harry Robert Lindsay, Joplin, gunners mate They also received the purple heart for action while they were attached to I the ship. Capt. Norman S.

Ives, USN, husband of Mrs. Florence E. Ives of 30 Georges terrace. Portsmouth, has been appointed port director at Cherbourg, France, according to an announcement from the navy department at Washington. Captain Ives is the first Allied naval officer to become director of a captured port since the invasion started.

Formerly stationed at Portsmouth. Captain Ives in 1931 was awarded the navy cross for his experimental work on a submarine escape device known as "the lung." He volunteered in 1928. when a lieutenant, as commanding officer of the USS S-4 to engage in the work and participated in the "hazardous duty" until completion of his command Aug. 1. 1931.

A native of Washington, D. and a graduate of the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, in 1920, Captain Ives was promoted to the rank of captain in 1942. In I addition to duty in Portsmouth he has served in Washington. California, Honolulu and the South Pacific theater. In 1942 he was chief of staff under Adm; F.

A. Daubin. Before the invasion of France he did staff work in connection with submarine operations in the South Pacific area. His dauehter. whose husband.

Lt. Comdr. Sisrmund A. Bobcynski, USN. was attached to a submarine Portsmouth navy yard about' with her mother at Pannaway Manor.

CAPT. NORMAN IVES Commandos Raid Simi Cairo. July 24 (AP)--British and Greek commandos have raided Simi, a tiny island off the Turkish coast north of Rhodes, and have accounted for the entire garrison of German, and Italian troops. The strike was made" by night on July 13-14. Fifteen German and Italian soldiers were killed, and more-than 150 captured.

An official issued yesterday said all installations and equipment on the island were destroyed men on tne island were destroyed TO iecretfry i before the raiders escaped "with Vice Pres. George Womersley will Very Slight 'Wavy Yard Buys Bonds Capt. Walter M. Hunt, USN (rett war bonds officer, announces that a Sub lullibee Hugh Edward Sullivan, chief mo- machinist mate, USN, who was reported missing in action on May 16 is now known to have been a member of the crew of the USS Tullibee, one of the two submarines reported missing by the navy dapartment Saturday. His wife is the former Miss Nettie Robinson of 295 Thornton street.

During the attack on Pearl Harbor the couple lived there but Mrs. Sullivan was evacuated to the United States shortly afterwards. Mrs. Sullivan's sister. Mrs.

Elizabeth Batick, was the wife of John J. electrician of Bridgeport. who lost hi-: life when the Squalus sank oft the Isles of Shoals in May, 1939: Lt. Comdr. Clark MissinJ Lt.

Albert H. Clark, commander of the USS Trout, also reported missing, -was a native of Norway, the son of the late Albert L. Clark and Mrs: Clark of Saco, Me. He attended Northeastern University School of Engineering and was to the U. S.

Naval academy at Annapolis by Maine Sen. Wallace who was 'then a representative in Congress. Commander Clark was graduated from Annapolis in 1933 and received his commission as ensign. He was assigned to the cruiser Chester and later entered the submarine service with which he has been connected for several years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Mary Clark, and three children who are residing in California. SEC to Study Portsmouth Gas Co. Sale Philadelphia, July 24 (AP)--The sale of. Portsmouth (N. Gas company to Allied New Hampshire Gas company by Consolidated Electric and Gas company will be considered at a Securities and Exchange commission announced today.

All properties and assets used in the manufacture and distribution of gas in Portsmouth, would be sold to Allied for a base price of $160.000. Allied would assume all liabilities except any indebtedness owing to Consolidated and any tax liabilities. Portsmouth is to be liquidated and dissolved after Consolidated surrenders all of Portsmouth's outstanding stock for cancellation. Proceeds of the sale would be deposited with Illinois National Bank-and Trust company, Chicago, trustee for the collateral trust bonds of Consolidated. Yanks Mop Up Marianas Staff Nazis Die By the Associated Press American marines and infantrymen today were rapidly finishing Japan's 25-yearlong dominion'in the.Mari- anas, keystones of Nippon's oceanic defenses.

Tinian was invaded Sunday and to the south on Guam other U. S. fighting- men closed in from two beachheads to cut off Guam's fine Apra harbor and an airfield. Adm. Chester W.

Nimitz disclosed the Tinian landings only a. few hours after they started, reporting light ground opposition against the first waves of troops. Tinian Ic three miles- south of conquered Saipan and from the latter has been steadily blasted bv planes and artillery. With this preparation, elements ot the second and fourth marine divisions moved in. at dawn Sunday! Fleet- jborne land planes and euns backed them up.

Four days earlier Nimitz' amphibious forces invaded Guam, largest of the Marianas. By Sunday they had taken five miles of west- srn coastline, isolated Apra harbor one--of the Pacific's best--and" cut off an airfield on Orote peninsula, which forms Apra's southern side. Soviet armies punching forward 20 miles have thrust within 50 miles of Warsaw, capital of Poland, Berlin radio admitted today, as Hitter moved swiftly to counteract a rebellion and broadcasts disclosed that two generals had died from the explosion intended for him. The Germans appeared to be falling back in a general retreat across central Poland, Berlin said Naxi forces had evacuated Siedlce, just 50 miles east of Warsaw, and Jaraslaw, and reported battles raging in the great rail cities of Lublin and Lwow. The Soviet tide had reached within 365 miles, airline, of Berlin itself.

Two high generals--Col. Gen. Guenther Korten, chief of the German-air force general- staff, and Maj. Gen. Heinz Brandt, first officer in the general staff's operative section--succumbed to wounds from the bomb-blast touched off against; Hitler Thursday, German broadcasts said.

The fuehrer's double was killed outright. Himmler's Gestapo was reported to have swept out on a'huge purge To the south Agat village and Mt. 7r a( in even to generals on the lifan overlooking t.hp. ha-hm- foil turee maijl battlefronts--and the Alifan overlooking the harbor fell to the first marine provisional brigade and the 77th army division. Then they swung north toward Orote peninsula for a junction with the northern force.

Enemy opposition, compared to that on bloody Saipan, was light on Guam and Tin- N. H. Captain Dies in Air Show Crash Spokane, July 24 (AP)--A Hitler salute -was made, the order of the day for German armed forces in another move to solidify loyalty to the Nazi chieftain. But reliable reports the German frontier declared the leadership of the opposition to the Nazis had escaped virtually intact. Minister Churchill, asserting there were "grave signs of weakness" inside Germany, declared the war "might come to an end earlier than we have a right to say." In Normandy the Allies massed for grea.t new blows from the west after both winning and yielding ground over the weekend, and in Italy the fifth army battled In the crowd of 100,000 people, too stunned I streets of ancient Pisa, and struck to make outcry, watched two within 12 miles of Florence bombers collide yesterday during a war show and fall in flames, killing four men.

The ships, the army counterpart of the navy's Helldivers, were part of the Spokane air service command "Stay-on-the-Job" war show. An announcer had just told the biggest crowd in Spokane's history that the ships were capable of 400 RAF Blastj Kiel RAF bombers blasted the naval base of Kiel--scene of a sailors' mutiny in. 1918--with more than 2,800 tons of bombs last night. Berlin radio said the reich was being attacked again today. Germans on the eastern front were reported fleeing in disorder miles an hour, when three of the throu central Poland before Red ships peeled off in formation to dive i annle standing only 50 miles from on the bowl.

They veered in one War aw after by-passing Brest- direction, then banked away from the crowd toward the center of a natural amphitheater. Stacked up in turning, one of the ships slid into another. Wreckage showered out- from them and they fell the few hundred feet to the bottom of the bowl in. flames. Maj.

Arthur F. Spaeth, public relations.officer, estimated the ships Recounting of ballots in the pri- wjp only 200 feet higher than the I mary for Republican nomina- Continued. on. Page Eight Recount Laraba, Dimock Ballots Wednesday, 9 AM crowd lining the bowl, about 2,000 feet out from the grandstand and 400 feet off the floor of the bowl when they collided. Police had no reports of people I Fuller.

tion for state senator in the 24th district will begin Wednesday at 9 am in Concord it was announced today by Secretary of State Enoch fainting or becoming hysterical. The great crowd rose up, but the The recount was asked for by- John S. Dimock of Portsmouth who people obeyed admonitions to stay tost out to Rae S. Laraba, also of at their seats and viewed the trage- by 47 votes in the orl- dy in virtual silence. ginal tabulation.

Mr. Laraba's total be in charge of, the program at a meeting-of the Portsmouth Lions club tonight at the -Rockingham hotel. The club will vote on election of a total of $148,848 in war bonds and new secretary to replace B. stamps was subscribed by Ports- Mooney, recently elected and in- mouth, navy yard workers I stalled, who has resigned because ofweek's drive held earlier this ill'health. -month.

Dewey, Bricker to Meet Albany, N. July 24 (AP)--GOT. Thomas E. Dewey of New and his. running-mate, Gov.

John Bricker of Ohio will blueprint, to some extent Wednesday the-campaigning responsibilities of each in their joint driye to unseat-a, 12- year Democratic national adminla- "tration. The show, billed as the biggest thing of Its kind ever staged, went on after a delay. Continued on Page Eight was Mr. Dimock's 1,161. The 24th district includes Portsmouth, New Castle, Newington, Greenland, Stratham and Newmarket.

New York, July 24--At the war's start fee fuehrer explained to the German people that he was changing the map of Europe for the next 1,000 years. Through Goebbels he is now explaining, to them how the map of Europe changes from day to day. (Oh, well, everyone knows how things have speeded up.) we Americans all Itnow that the Japs sneak-punched us at Pearl Harbor. But what ever became of the other sneaker? They come you know. If a few more generals of the German high command meet wd- den death, the boss of Teutonic super-strategy is liable to get down to Corporal (And that's what we're all waiting for.) It must be admitted that Adolf has had some swell intuitions.

But did he ever hire Dr. Gallup to find out for which side? There are only 12,582 words with which the average American is familiar. There we terms, with which the Japs are -This enables Tojo, when he speaks to the Emperor about Nippon's war 'progress, to give the descendant of the Sun Goddess double- talk, but of triple-talk..