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Today The Portsmouth Herald VOL. NO. 263 PORTSMOUTH, N. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1944 8 PAGES Sr per FMUCJ cop weclt cop delivered BIT HE CAME HOME AGAIN--Reported dead in the Normandy mvasion. Coastruardsman A p.

preets his wife Marjorie (center) he arrives home wounded. At the Union station in Chicago (,,. he reunion are Heft to Mrs. Sylvia. Meier, sister; Diane, niece; Joan Trybalski.

sister-in-law- jUrjorie Coffill: CMswam Coffill; Helen, sister; Ann. niece; and Edith, sister. (AP Wirephoto) New Castle's Hopley Yeaton Became Coast Guard's First Officer 154 Years Ago Today With Hopley Yeaton of New Castle as its first comm a i officer, the United States revenue cutter "service, as the U. S. coast guard, was organized 154 years today.

World War II Is not the coast i have found heroes' graves in the aard-s flm war. Since Captain jungles of Guadalcanal or the wa- pentasula" i i TM a i nf rlio ro-, fUI1 6 8 reat PeniHSUla ItS The War Today By DeWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst The fast-moving conquest of Brittany seems to be developing into an astonishing race to determine" whether the speeding American armored columns can over- Yeaton assumed command of the service and became the first master be commissioned in the United history lists a total of six Tars, starting with the War of 1812. Since the event of the commission- of the first coast guard cutter, Massachusetts, of which he was commander, a long line of cutters ters off the Solomons. magnificent ports before the. weak- The Icarus, the Spencer, the Du- en ed Germans'can bring upSreinl ane and tne Campbell slashed Nazi forcements wolf packs in the Atlantic: Hamilton, Escanaba.

Natsek the and BLITZ SWEEP ACROSS BRETON 1 SOUTHAMPTON Musketget were lost in the North Atlantic: and the Acacia in southern waters. The coast guard has been so far- have written history in peace as well reaching in battle action that it has is sometimes been called the nation's Men of the coast guard today, most effective weapon. Coast guard Jghtint: almost every corner of men and ships have ranged from European waters to Greenland. Attu. Kiska, to the Carolines, the Marianias.

Tarawa and other Pacific battle'areas. During the European invasion coast guard craft in the English channel included everything from Continued on Page Eight Herald Column Will Follow Road to Tokyo Heading for the heart of'Japan, Allied forces soon will be wreaking havoc on the land of the Rising Sun. There will be many problems, difficult to understand from this distance, when the emphasis on war news shifts from Europe to the Orient. To enable its readers to gain a. clearer understanding of the situation in the Pacific, the Portsmouth Herald will start a weekly column next Monday entitled "The Road to Tokyo" written by Jarnes RrYoun; former newspaper executive and correspondent in the Par East and author of "Behind the Rising Sun." by Norman Smiley of High ftreet.

Hampton, this week. Chief Author Visited Mere the slobe. are far too busy to pause celebration of the birthday of service. In the nearly three years since Pear! Harbor, the name of the coast tiiard hns been brought before the American public as never before. It parted with the capture of the snr.eci Norwegian fisherman Busko off Greenland in 1941 and the presence of the cutter Taney at Pearl barbor on the morning of Dec.

7, 1.04!. After Pearl harbor coastguards- jjfn became the spearhead of the invasion forces in the South Paci- ic. M-en of the coast guard since have won battle honors and citations in the Southwest Pacific or Set $1,000 Bail For Man in Hampton Theft George Farr.hofT, of East 3os- was in bail after pleadinjr no; guilty to the theft fas coupons from a car owned 3- Carl C. Bragg of Mill read. Hampton, and gas coupons and a J5 federal-use stamp from a car Thus far the Yanks haven't en- countered any organized Nazi front, and resistance has been comparatively light.

This has been due in considerable degree to the fact that the Hitlerites have had to pull many troops out of Brittany to defend their tottering Normandy line. Of course we don't know strongly the ports of Brest. how Nazaire and Lorieiit--our chief objectives--may be garrisoned. However, we get some measure of enemy weakness in our walk-over at the Breton capital of Rennes. This is a pivotal rail and highway center and i the Nazis would defend it to the I best of their ability.

If the Germans aren't already holding the ports strongly, their prospects are slim. By capturing Rennes the Americans have severed the main railroad into the peninsula and one column is thrusting swiftly across the base of the big) triangle towards St. Nazaire while another heads for Brest at the apex. Allies Bombing- Open Sector Although the southern sector of is. still open, the Allied i CHATEAUHOUX iJJS i jj ii-It i 0 TM 8 TM.aP.on "ghtK Brittany's key defense, an American armored, column today advanced 20 miles the U.

S. column speeded across two thirds of the reported failing in a last stand against the Yanks in were said to be in flirht, abandoning? eauimnent in. rp- treat as the Allies threaten a 40,000 sqnare-mile area between the Seine and Loire rivers in northern France. equipment re IN I I igt. Pndham Mr.

Young, who will be remembered in Portsmouth where he was a visitor in July. 1943, has a wide Jerome F. Karkness of Hampton re- rorieci today. X. C.

Eleney of Everett, pclice. who found FarnhofT selling coupons on a corner in Everett East. He general manager of took him into custody and the Japan Advertiser in Tokyo be- KPT po- fore tne oucbreak of the wa and ved three years as a foreign pendent for American and FamhofTs possession, preS 5 a5 A ter the out break of air armada is making comnvunica- 1 tions devilishly precarious. The sky navy is a 'major factor' in this battle of lightning movement which may teach Adolf something about the blitz warfare he initiated in '39 with so much guttural bombast. The Breton peninsula is a pearl of great price.

Not only will its fine ports greatly increase our capacity in pour troops and materiel into France but--and this is of great importance--Hitler's U-boats have been using Brest. Lorient and St. Nazaire as prime bases from which to raid Allied shipping. i Nazis Miss Rommel Berlin now admits that Marshal Rommel, field commander on the invasion front, suffered concussion of the brain, although he is said to lice. Coupons owned by Bragg and had serv Smiley were fcund on the seat of a correspo Harkness said.

Officer Scott Paul and Chief Harkness went to Everett Tuesday the war he spent many horrible weeks as a prisoner of the Japanese. It was about these horror-filled days Sheriff Charles Osgood and Officer Slroy Shaw of Hampton. Chief Harkness requested a special session of court Wednesday at 5 pm. Judge Garland presided and the case was continued until next Thursday with the defendant held is 51.000 bail. Capt.

Herbert F. Gray and Lt. Ijan H. Hayes of the New Hamp- state police took fingerprints ad State Trooper Herbert Tucker a '-so assisted on the case. Fair tonight.

Herald temperatures t'pasi 24 hours': high, 77: low, 63; noon today, 9Q, a Jibe doing wen. "on! wondei-s how much the Nazis have felt the loss of his undoubted skill. They likely wish now he could have remained on the job. to settle the argument with his old antagonist, Montgom-- ery. For my money, Monty is the better man by a long way.

I followed the tracks of the Montgomery-Rommel duel from El Aiarnein to Bengasi, close to 600 miles, and anyone who saw the pattern in the sands of the desert couldn't doubt who was top man. Allied progress in the battle of Prance is indeed gratifying. As Montgomery says, "We are hitting Continued on Page Eight nieht lor FarnhofT. He then was hac he Mld on ne Occa5ion of is uken the Portsmouth jail by isi here last year. "The Road to Tokyo," which will ap'pear on the editorial page of the Portsmouth Herald every Monday.

will keep the Herald's readers informed on up-to-the-minute developments and expected future developments in the fighting as it progresses on the road to Tokyo. Wounded In Italy Word was received here today by" Mrs. Sherman C. Pridham of Charles street, that her husband, S'Sgt. S.

C. Pridham a wounded in action July 16 in the Italian theater of war. Nothing concerning the seriousness of Sergeant Pridham's wounds was disclosed in the war a t- ment telegram Sgt. Pridham to the soldier'? wife. i Sergeant Pridham has been in i the army for two years and has served with infantry units.

He has been overseas since last December and recently was awarded a corn- bat infantryman's badge. The couple have one child, a son, Sherman C. Pridha'm. Paper fyiyetAotto Tomorrow tie it out" Portsmouth's motto' tomorrow as a city- wide paper collection drive starts at 8 am. All kinds of paper, and cardboard are wanted according to Salvage Chairman Ira A.

Brown for they are the raw products of many different war products needed by the men and women of the armed forces. To remind everyone of Portsmouth's one- day drive to collect all the waste paper in the city's attics, cellars and alleys, a rally will be held tonight at '7 pm in Market square where the Portsmouth city band will give a concert and play for block dancing. Other entertainment also is planned. according to Mr. Brown.

Myitkyina Falls ToStilwell Road Open to China Drowns in Saco River Fryeburg. Aug. 4 CAP)--Esther Allard, 6. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Allard. slipped from a rock and drowned in Saco river yesterday. She had been bathing with two sisters, Hazel, io, and Muriel, 8. foops wlw in ten weeks overcame monsoon, jungle and By the Associated Press Myitkyina has fallen, conquered by hard-bitten Allied The Times--Mtrred with THE HERALD. June I.

15Z5 muiii; The New Hampshire Gazette Established October 7. 1TJS The Day's Almanac FYidar A 4. 1944 War Time pm Suarue am Tide 55 omorroir am Fiiil moon James Tucker Outlines 5-Point Reconversion Plan For City Before Rotarians A five-point plan prepared by the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce for community reconversion to peace was outlined yesterday by James W. Tucker, secretary of the chamber, in a talk before members of the Rotary club in the Rocking'ham He described the plan as a five- bringing new types of repair work sary public works projects when and if federal funds for public works are available for the purpose of taking up employment slack in the interim between production for all-out war and production for peace. Three suggested projects are: a transportation center, permanent housing 3,000 Japanese defending this North Burma base vital to reopening J.he Ledo road back to China.

Southeast Asia headquarters announced Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell's triumph today, saying- that remnants of the 18th Japanese division were wiped out with bazookas, fiame throwers, heavy artillery and mortars in the final hours of the long siege. Stilwell. nominated to be a four- star general, had by this victory cleared more than 200 miles for his now-building Ledo road out of India, which he plans to link up with portant enemy base in North Burma.

Two airfields and Important road and rail terminals came into Stilwell's control with Myit- kyina's fall. The airfields could serve as way stations on the air route from India to China, making it possible to flj- around instead of over the awesome "hump" of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range. FAIR Today's Herald Amusements Classifieds Editorial P'caninirs "Unnin' Here There 4 KiUery 2 Legal Notices Newmarket 2 Personals 8 Radio 7 Kationinjt Sports fcld proposal for immediate action intended to offset a possible serious unemployment situation in the post- endeavoring to obtain work -Roll Up Your Sleeves- war period view of the navy's which may be done profiitablv at "Porairouth proposed cutback submarine con- the yard from other governmental sleeves and is doing an excellent job struction at the navy yard next departments, such as was done af- in the a he declared "and it year, combined with facts secured ter the lust war: can ro" un its Vnrf rfn by the Portsmouth Committee for I investigating thoroughly the eveYSe'tte? job in reconversion for Economic Development, that "prove proposition that prviate industry aeace'' reconversion lor conclusively that under present may use the yard's enlarged and the Burma highway into supply-1 Chinese fighting toward Myitky- hungry China. His Chinese, American and imperial troops have in six months swept down the Hukawng ina from China's Yunnan province broke into walled Tengchung, another major Japanese base, and valley to capture Kamaine. Mo- fought to annihilate the enemy gar- gaung and now Myitkyina.

most im- I rison Tengchung is 60 miles -south nf AjfvirVirino conditions the number of Portsmouth men looking for work in the post war era will far outnumber the jobs which will be available in this community." Five Step? Under the five-fold modernized facilities. 2 Use of every possible effort to nurture and protect existing small industries here and endeavor to see t-hat highly specialized, small and diversified, industries, needing skill- plan. ed labor rather than large amounts Tucker averred, five steps must be of raw materials, are brought taken immcdia.tely: town. I 6 1 1 Use of every possible means of 3. Building of small fishing and FULL TIME CLEANING WOMAN for core ef PORTSMOUTH HERALD.OFFICES Bujineu Office keeping navy yard employment at I the possible level now and in the postwar period by i a seeing to it that work is tapered off and net cut off abruptly: endeavoring to have all jobbed- out manufacturing merly done in to the yard at momeat; processes for- boat-building industries which may use river and harbor facilities and which fit into Portsmouth's tradi- tions.

4. Promotion of recreational industry in nearby summer places and assuring -Portsmouth as a r-crca- The chamber plan is not the only i plan, and not the best, but it is a. plan and something, to discuss and think about, he asserted. An intensive campaign for new chamber members, which will be conducted Monday through "Wednesday, must l)e successful, he declared, if an attempt is to be made to carry out the outlined program which will cost much more than the present limited budget of the chamber will permit. "The program suggested," he asserted, "may be achieved only with 100 percent cooperation on the part cf all business and professional peo- ito the city.

I 5. Having ready proper and Continued on Pass Eight Officiols Clarify Lifting of Law on Minors Driving To clarify evident misunderstandings, motor vehicle law enforcement ofiicials in New Hampshire today explained further the recent announcement that youths between 14 and 16 years of age would be allowed to operate motor vehicles. The lifting of the restriction- applies only to farm vehicles and farm work, they explained. A per- I night that of the enemy have son between. 14 and 16 now may been slain on Guam since the July operate tractors, trucks and other I 20 landings.

motorized farm equipment and may Of conquered Tinian to the north venture onto the public highway i 4.000 civilians-gave themselves up operating such vehicles when it is I to internment, while 7,000 have done east of Myitkyina. Patrols of the Yunnan force- and Stilwell's army were within 20 miles of each other. Squeeze Japs on Guam More than 3,000 miles to the east, American troops squeezed 7,000 Japanese into the northern sector of Guam, giving them the hard choice of death or surrender. The U. S.

soldiers already hold Guam's strategic airfields, harbor and' capital city of Agana. A forested eight miles of Guam stood between the Americans and the sea toward which they were pushing trie Japanese. Adm. Chester W. Nirnitiz announced last Strikers Workers Philadelphia, Aug.

4 (AP) -Roaming bands of strikers threatened violence today to attempting to restore service on Philadelphia's government seized transportation lines and--at the army's request--policemen were assigned to ride all trolleys, buses, subway trains and "el" trains to protect operators. Maj. Gen. Philip Hayes of the third service command, who took control of the system last night on President Roosevelt's orders, said persons with apparent enemy sympathies were attempting to prevent resumption of service. At noontime--five and a half hours after an army back-to-work deadline--only 14 trains were in continuous operation on the Market street "el" compared with a normal of one every two minutes at every station.

Only eight trains operated in the Broad street subway and only the cars on one trolley route were in service and no buses were running. In Washington Attorney General Biddle ordered an immediate investigation to determine whether any federal laws had been violated, with particular attention directed to possible violation of the Smith-Connolly Anti-strike act. The stoppage, which began Tuesday morning in protest against the upgrading of Negro transit em- ployes, had stranded hundreds of thousands, curtailed vital war production and given rise to race violence. Foe in Rennes By the Associated Press Lt. Gen.

Omar N. Bradley's blitz blazed deeper towards the Atlantic seaports of St. Nazaire and Nantes today in an armored blow that swept two-thirds of the way across the Breton i a past Rennes. Strong U. forces were reported beating down German suicide squads in the streets of the old provincial capital.

The capture of Rennes, key to the defenses of Brittany, was announced yesterday, but dispatches from the bttlefront said Germans within the city were making a desperate last stand against American motorized infantry. An armored column that by-passed embattled Rennes galloped 20 miles to the southwest, within 40 miles of St Nazaire. The Moscow communique announced that Red army infantrymen and tanks crossed "the Vistula river on pontoons and rafts, ing 3,000 Germans and capturing 500 in heavy fighting. The Russians poured through a breach in the Germans' Vistula river line toward German Silesia, 98 miles to the west. Vistula Wedge Deepens Marshal Rokossovsky's drive cut a wedge More than 15 miles deep Iroin Bridgehead -1-10 miles southeast of Warsaw and spilt Continued on Page Eight GOP Governors Claim Unity With Montreal Strike Goes into 2nd Day Montreal, Aug.

4 (AP)--A strike by 4,000 Montreal tramways company workers continued through the second day today and hopes of a speedy settlement to restore the street car service appeared less bright. Members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employes said they were ready to carry the fight and spoke of a two- Dewey St. Louis, Aug. 4 (AP)--The 26 Republican governors, asserting that they had achieved "unitv oj thought" with Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, charged today that the asserted failure of President Roosevelt to exchange views with state executives had produced "costly misunderstandings" in the past.

Summing up two days of conferences on what Dewey has called "areas of friction" between the states and the federal government, the GOP governors asserted it was their intention to work closely wit!) Dewey if he becomes president. Calling for postwar simplification and reduction of taxes, the governors conference said in other conclusions that the state and national governments must create "clear- cut labor and industrial policies," must develop coordinated social welfare services and should work- together in the use and control of war resources. In their general conclusions the governors charged that there had been "a constant grasping for power on the part of the federal government" they said thai only through cooperation and "sympathetic understanding" could this nation's system of government be made to work. necessary to do so to get from one section, of a. farm to another, such as from hay field to bam.

The easing of restrictions permit operation of ordinary motor vehicles on the public highway youths. by these so on Guam. On New Guinea the trapped Japa nese suffered heavy losses in four more attempts-to breach the Allied ring in which they are caught. Nearly killed since'the breakout attempts started July 12. The strike followed a 3,520 to 73 vote.in favor of a walkout after a conciliation board has refused to approve a union shop clause.

Name Co-Chairmen For Chest Drive Charles E. Greenman of Eamp- xn and Wilbur E. Tewksbury of Deny have been named co-chairmen for Rockingham county of the New Hampshire War Chest drive scheduled for Oct. 9 to Nov. 11 it was announced today by Robert Booth, head of the New Hampshire War Chest, Inc.

Atty. Stanley Burns of Dover has been named chairman for Stratford county. In Portsmouth, the annual fund campaign of the community chest will this year be combined with the War Fund drive. New York, August 4--Hitler reputedly had his pants blown off in that bomb explosion. That must have left him virtually naked, for he-, had already lost his shirt to the Russians.

Of course, a Nazi would never lie, so when Goebbles tells the German people they will win the final victory, maybe he's simply forgetting to tell them he's talking about World War III or IV. The recently love letter of Mussolini to his in which he featured his terrific suffering; from, gastritis, leads one to that. Via his -more amorous days, Italy's Great Lover used the late Virginio Gayda, to whip out his ardent missives. German prisoners of war In Northern Maine refuse to chop dCwn trees to help relieve our pulpwood shortage. But don't they know one of the Nazis' head men, Himmler, spends practicaJly all his time, swinging ax and never complains? When Hitler in his many earlier speeches frankly admitted he" was greater.

than. Napoleon, he was right in-one respect--Adolf's retreat from Russia has certainly- been a greater disaster than Nap could ever cooked up..