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Sees The Portsmouth Herald On Yard problems Careful consideration of the Portsmouth navy yard's postwar preblems was pro- Ljsed by Republican Presidential Nominee Thomas E. governor of. New York, at a conference in Al- UflV, N. this morning jth Mayor Charles M. Dale Portsmouth, GOP guber- flatorial candidate for New Hampshire.

Governor Dewey questioned Mayor Dale on details of the navy yard production cutback and with dim the possibilities of les- jjning the shock of mass unemployment in the Portsmouth area by plans already proposed by the Portsmouth Chamber bringing back work now formed out and obtaining repair work contracts for all types of ships. addition to the postwar problem of the navy yard, Mayor Dale and Governor Dewey discussed the Republican national election campaign. Purple Heart Sent to Local Kin Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thome of Xev Castle avenue received thf purple heart this week for their son, Pfc.

Norman D. Thome, USA. 23. was killed in action in Italy May 22. Private Thorne entered the ser- ric? in July.

and received his basic training at Camp Gruber, OMa. He had been overseas since lust December. VOL, NO. 267 Weathef forecast Fair, continued cool. Herald temperatures (past 24 hours)': high, 80; low, 51; noon today, 80.

PORTSMOUTH, N. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1944 nuiny The New Hampshire Gazette Established October 7, 8 PAGES Sc per 2dr per week 0 i a copy delivered NAZIS ADMIT YANK FORCES SLASH TO CENTER OF LE MANS Lt. Com dr. Marvin Hurt; Capt. Ives Killed in Action Capt.

Norman S. Ives, JUSN, whose appointment as director of the port of Cher' bourg in France was an- 'nounced recently, has been killed in action it was an- Mills Visits City Charles M. Mills of Jaffrey, successful candidate for Republican nomination for state senator in the recent primary, and chairman of the legislative committee which studied and urged revamping of the state's primr.ry and election laws to and during the -last regular ifssion of the legislature, was a visitor in Portsmouth today. While here he conferred with J. D.

Hartford, publisher of the Portsmouth Herald. nounced today in Washington by the navy department. The announcement gave no indication of how the 47- year-old officer met his death. CAPT. IVES Captain Ives' wife.

Mrs. Florence E. Ives, and daughter. Mrs. Sig- j.mund A.

Bobcynski, live at 30 Continued on Page Two Lt. Comdr. Robert Marvin, USNR, former mayor of Ports mou has been wounded in action in European theater of war according to word received by his mother, Mrs. William E. Marvin, 152 Middle street, last evening.

Lieutenant Commander Marvin was stationed at the Portsmouth navy yard from April 8. 1941 "until Dec. 31. 1943 when he was detached and sent overseas for special duty. He was called to active duty in April 1941 after serving several months with Brig.

Gen. Charles P. Bowen. director of Selective service in New Hampshire. A year ago last month he was transferred to the third naval district for temporary duty but returned to Portsmouth Sept.

24. Mrs. Marvin, mother of the wounded naval officer, said this -norning that she had no further word concerning the seriousness of her son's wounds but that the navy that word would be sent to her later. Lieutenant Commander Marvin is a descendant of Abner Greenleaf, Portsmouth's first mayor. An uncle.

the late Thomas O. E. Marvin, also served as mayor of Portsmouth in 1873. Ke was graduated from Harvard college and the Boston university law school. He is a member of the New Hampshire Bar association and was formerly ccmmodore of the Portsmouth Yacht club and president, of the James DeNormandie Oiar.audun}.' Arterwy; MARCHING STEADILY ONWARD.

Allied troops are now within 100 miles of Paris. American forces having occupied Le Mans, 110 miles southwest of Paris. Canadian armor has pushed through the German second line of defense below Caen, advancing nearly JO miles in less than 36 hours. According to a battlefront dispatch, German forces are threatened with entrapment near the Orne river. OF 984 European refugees found sanctuary at the Fort Ontario emergency shelter near Oswego.

New York, six-year-old Blumenkranz from Vienna out her first American "hot sad likes it (International) chapter. Unitarian Laymen's While he was stationeif'in Portsmouth. Lieutenant Commander Marvin resided with at the family home on Middle street. Rockingham Loses Red Meat Points (Special to the Herald) Concord, Aug. 9--Effective Saturday, die Rockhigham hotel of Portsmouth will be suspended for one month from receiving rationed meat, fs fish" and cheese according to the state OPA The decision was submitted by Hearing Commissioner Raymond C.

i Baldes of Boston who had held I hearings on an OPA complaint the hotel received such rationed foods without giving ration curren- I cy in return. About 223.644 red points were involved in the complaint. In issuing the order which will be I effective from Aug. 12 to Sept. 12.

Air. Baldes permitted the hotel the privilege of acquiring serving A business survey sheet that -when returned and tabu- butter, on the grounds that such was needed by the patrons at I hotel who depended on the es- of postwar Portsmouth, was sent, along with results of a tabiishment for their subsistence. previous household survey of estimated postwar expenditures, to all retailers, wholesalers, distribution and service business groups in Portsmouth this week by the Portsmouth Committee for Economic Development. R. T.

Hendrickson. chairman I Po-oentla! postwar AVK-. the distribution and service division 0 1 li 1 CXn in charge of the survey, requests I New 'automobiles ni all business groups to fill out the! ,.100 51,000 $2,100,000 sheets and return them "without Used automobiles CED Sends Questionnaires On Postwar Expenditures To Portsmouth Businessmen lated undue delay" so that tabulations may be made as soon as possible. Information contained in individual survey sheets will be "strictly confidential." he said, adding that "only totals of a large enough number of businesses will be used to avoid disclosure of information about individual firms. Household commitments for postwar expenditures in Portsmouth compare closely with the national average computed by the Chamber Bath and plumbing 360 New house 728 Purchase house 728 Electric irons 1.040 Floor covings 1.560 1.560 320 Kitchen range 1.1-±4 Kitchen.

modernization Insulation 524 500 312,000 many of whom are members of the Continued on Page Two Pfc. Austin Of Kittery Is Dead Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Austin of Government Kittery, who received word last Friday that their, son, Pfc.

Russell Austin. 19, USA, jvurmture Heat unit of Comnierce of the United States. Household survey results indicate hat Portsmouth householders will Refrigerators more than S14.000.000 after i Repair of the war. In 1940 these same famil-j house ies saent SS.415.000. The increase of 40 5 percer.t amounts to SS.610,000.

As listed by the committee, here are items people will buy: 416 415 Radio or phonog'phs Sewing machine 400 144.000 5,000 3.640,000 4,000 2,902,000 8 8,320 100 156,000 500 780,000 had been seriously wounded in ac- 600 192.000! tion July 15 France, received 200 228.800 I'word from the war department yesterday that he is dead. "400 166.400 Private Austin, who attended Wil- 300 124,800 i ton academy, came to Kittery about 2.600 1,508 50 130 I a year ago when his father ac- 130,0001 cepted employment at the navy 216,0001 yard. He entered the service in March, 1942. and received his basic 1.612 1.000 1.612,000 i training at Fort Jackson, S. At- tached to an infantry unit, he went overseas last March.

His brother. Richard W. Austin, USA, is On Saipan. 728 125 91,000 I Continued on Page Two Restaurateurs Must File Prices By Midnight All restaurant operators who have not yet flled menus or price lists with the Portsmouth War Price and Rationing board under restaurant regulation MPR 2 must have them in the mail before midnight tonight or face loss of their legal right to sell any meals, food items or beverajejriuntlt -'have flj'ed, board officials Warned today. Restaurant operators who do not use menus or whose menus do not list all Items offered are required to file in addition to the menu.

a. list in menu form showing prices charged for the items not appearing on the menus. Each menu or price list should be signed by the proprietor or a responsible em- ploye. A duplicate copy should be retained by the restaurant operator. OPA Orders Rest for 'Bossy' Gillis Boston, Aug.

9 port's former "bad boy" mayor, Andrew J. i.Bcfsy) Gillis is going to take a vacation after Aug. 20. when an OPA order suspending his gasoline business for the duration becomes effective. The red-haired "Bossy," contend- ing that he "never deliberately ac- I cepteii" counterfeit gasoline cou- pens, as the OPA charged, main- tained in an interview today that "it's too bad to close a flourishing business that I built up from 1,000 gallons a week." The ban on Giliis was announced last night by Chief OPA Hearing Commissioner Ari'nur L.

Brown. Gillis told a newsman he had been working steadily at his gas station Since his release two years ago from Continued on Page Two Kittery May Close School I Possible closing of the Shapleigh because of "teacher shortage I and economy measures" was dis- cussed last night at a meeting of (residents of North Kittery, includ- Canadians Bridge 2nd Defenses By the Associated Press The German high command acknowledged today that American forces sweeping through the old province of Maine have broken into the strategic communications center of Le Mans, 110 miles southwest of Paris. American forces -were reported yesterday within a little more than 100 miles of Paris. The British radio broadcast a report today that Le Mans had been occupied. Canadian armor broke through strong German second line defenses below Caen today in the new Allied offensive against Field Marshal Gen.

Guenther von Kluge's northern anchor in Normandy barring a full scale sweep into the plain coward Paris. Moscow said the Germans were throwing; reserves into desperate counterattacks in nearly every sector of the eastern front in an effort to halt the Red army surge. A communique said all the counterattacks had been repulsed. Sixteen new German, divisions were reported to have reached the Russian front in the past three weeks. Stiffened German resistance, however, failed to keep the Russians from tightening a noose around German Baltic forces, and from driving a deeper wedge west of the Vistula river through Poland toward German Silesia.

The British radio broadcast a report that the Russians had broken into German defenses on the East Prussia frontier. The meeting was called by the superintending school board of which Roy U. Fowler is chairman. Melden E. Smith is superintendent of the school.

It was pointed out that the lack of teachers and funds are "factors pointing toward consolidation steps" by which all grammar school children from North Kittery would attend the Frisbee school. Oscar Farrington, spokesman ftp- the Shapleigh-Fernald PTA. and others, commented that the Shapleigh building has served years as the only community center and is the only available place for hold- Continued on Page Two hours of fighting first army has advanced nearly ten miles below Caen. Canadian armor smashed forward more than five miles in a night attack and captured the enemy- stronghold of Bretteville on the Laize river, nine miles south of Caen. Von Kluge's forces were thrown off balance by the Canadian drive and the British second army's push farther to the southwest.

A battlefront dispatch said German forces wedged between the Orne and Laize rivers were threatened with entrapment. Close in on Brittany Ports U. S. forces were closing in on three important ports in Brittany here were illegal. in mopping up operations but the Germans were said to have sneaked off the bulk of approximately 100 submarines based on Breton ports.

The Allied communique said the Americans were battling the Germans four miles from Brest and converging columns had pushed to within five miles of Lorient. Other forces stormed the medieval parapets of St. Malo and an. unconfirmed broadcast said house to house fighting was under way in the fortress port. Atty.

General Investigates Primary Here The New- Hampshire attorney general's department, with the assistance of the state police, is investigating the alleged use of "open" checklists and other primary and election law'violations'in the recent primary in Portsmouth, it was revealed by Atty. Gen. The- in which State Police- Supt. Col. Ralph W.

Caswell is working -with, Mr. Wheeler, developed as a result of presentation of evidence to the attorney general that the checklists used in four of Portsmouth's five wards July 11 did not bear the party designation of the voters as the primary and election laws of the state require. The investigation was started after a conference in Concord July 31 at which J. D. Hartford, publisher of the Portsmouth Herald, presented to Mr.

Wheeler and Mr. Caswell, evidence, substantiated by witnesses, that the checklists used Lt. Foley Brings Home Interview for Herald By Local Boy in Italy Sit in last Quarter FAIR today's Herald Urtoon "rales Crossword Editorial tliot Ads Here There Kittery Point Legal Notices Xcwfields Newington No. Hampton Personals Public Forum Radio Rationing Sports Street Board to Ask Council for $22,000 A request for appropriation of a total of 822,000 for work of the Portsmouth water and highway departments will be presented to the Portsmouth city council at its next meeting, it was voted last night at a meeting of the Portsmouth Board of Street Commissioners. The commissioners listed in their petition for funds the following items: 55,000 for road repair materials to supplement Sll.OOO originally allotted in the highway department budget, 53,500 for sidewalks at Pannaway Manor.

53,500 for construction of a new sewer from South street to Junkins avenue. Also ST.OOO for widening and rc- pending priority grants, since bonds were issued more than three years ago for. funds for the project. The board accepted an offer from the town of Greenland to cooperate on installation of a water pipeline extension on Portsmouth avenue out toward Exeter. Greenland offered to purchase $2,500 worth of i laying pavement on Pleasant street i agreed to appeal directly to govern- in front of the Portsmouth post- i ment officials in Washington, office and 50 feet on State street' at each side of the intersection, ing engineers.

Whitman and uth attempts to procure WPB priorities sloners a to have a CIt water for the water department for ma- terials to repair the Sherburne pumping station, i If reports show that no progress has been made toward obtaining priorities for material, the board lection of garbage by the city Left in the hands of City solicitor Samuel Levy a claim made by Ralph DeH. Fisher of Greenland through his attorneys, Thomas H. Simes and Son, that construction of the Greenland pumping station by Portsmouth caused his well to dry up. Tne commissioners contended that a Federal Works agency- survey before the station was built Citing the need for revamping of WANTED "perienced Waitresses Cell Barren's Lobster House Portsmouth 1549-W the Sherburne station. Chairman 500 to complete graveling, tarring Fred V.

Kett, of the board re- and grading of Summit avenue and $2.200 for purchase of an air compressor. Supt. of Streets Clayton E. Osborn was instructed to be present at next council meeting the board. to represent To Contact Engineers The commissioners planned last ported that a recent electrical storm would have put the station out of operation if.

an old steam plant there had not taken the load when electrical equipment failed to cording to the arrangement, the pipeline is to be 'he property of the city of Portsmouth. Conduct' Other Business The commissioners also: Signed renewal contracts with the United States army for water service to the Portsmouth harbor defenses. Rejected an appeal from the De- tense Hsmes corporation for lowering of the water rate for Manor on the contention that because the city installed ar.d maintains the mains there the present By SGT. JOHN R. WIGGIN, USAAF (Editor's Note: Sgt.

Johnny Wis in. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Wiggm of 110 Chapel street and former Portsmouth Herald correspondent interviewed 1st Lt.

Thomas P. Foley, USAAC. son of Jlr. and Mrs. Matthew .1.

Foley'of SR Witird street, at their station in Italy. Lieutenant Foley brought Cne following story into the Herald this First Lt. Thomas P. Foley, USAAC, bombardier, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Matthew J. Foley of 88 Wibird street, has returned home from a tour of duty in the European theater of operations and now is on a short furlough in Portsmouth. He completed 51'operational combat missions in Flying Portresses, several with the eighth airforce from other bomb-razed countries." Lieutenant Foley can't decide which of two of his missions was England and finished his tour with the roughest. Frankfurt or Berlin, the 15th airforce based in Italy. He I'botii made out of England holds an air medal and four oak leaf clusters.

Mission Lieutenant Foley is one of the few men who has flown with both the eighth and "I guess Berlin was the worst, though. We encountered heavy and accurate flak and many fighters which gave us no end of trouble. The roughest one out of Italy was a Munich raid, at least as far as our ship was concerned. Flak shot out the gas line on No. 3 engine and we really sweated that mission over the 15th air forces I target and all the way back to the and was on one ase of the first history-ma- i shuttle- run flying missions to Foley and from Russia, He flew from Italy to Russia making.a raid on target in Hungary.

The Fortress formation con- and that since i inu ed on and the crews became the dug well I (irst American airmen to land on work. One of the station's motors, j-chargo is not excessive. he said, is about 25 years old Granted a petition from seven re- anotiier about, 18. i sidents of Sagamore road off Saga- Meanwhiie, he continued, the de- iiiore avenue for earbage, collection, partment-is paying Interest on more I voting that any homeowner on any night to contact the city's consult- than $50,000 which has been idle, accepted, is entitled to col- wells i dry at that time, the Fisher well was a 0 I "and not an artesian well the city Ru ssian soil as an operational could not be held responsible in bafc unit any case. Chairman Hett said at last night's meeting that he will confer this week with officials of the North church in an attempt to arrive-at an agreement on proposed construction of a cement sidewalk around the front and side of the church from the comer of Church and Congress streets to an alley which'-runs off Pleasant street behind the church.

The street board offered to construct a new sidewalk: about two months ago. but no decision on the matter has been relayed to it yet from church The Russian people gave dances and showed movies for the Yanks during their 10-day stay there. While at the Russian base the formation- carried out an additional mission, bombing a Rumanian target, returning to the Russian base. On their way back to Italy they dropped bombs on another target. "Of all the Europeans I've met, Russians are like Americans," he said.

"They didn't know 'quite how to take us but they soon got used-to and swell. They take great pride in their country. Although the land has been pretty- well ruined, they clean up the debris people of Had Narrow Escape On the same raid, his 49th mission. Lieutenant Foley had a narrow escape when a small but ragged piece of flak came up through the ship and hit hig bo'mbslght and struck through to where he had just- been sitting. He has that piece of flak as a souvenir.

The saga of the Flying Hen (Biddie), mascot of Lieutenant Foley's squadron, is his favorite story. Biddie, probably one or the few hens in the army who has been on two continents alive and clucking, has quite an historical background. One of the bombardiers or the squadron. Lieutenant Briggs, bought Biddie and a rooster (Joe) from an Arab for the exorbitant price of one pair of socks. Biddie and the rooster lived on rations for some time and when the air force moved from North Africa to Italy.

Biddie and. Joe, took their places in a. ball turret of a Plying Fortress. When Lieutenant Briggs finished his tour of duty Biddie stayed with the squadron. Although Briggs had willed her with Joe to another crew she refused to vacate her "home" tent and continued to lay her eggs under the bed of one of the officers.

So for a while her new owners fed her while her old crew friends collected her eggs. Continued on Page Two New York, Aug. 9--This is the season of the year when male quartets assail the air more plentifully than even hay fever pollen. Despite the fact there is a liquor shortage, the world still abounds in whiskey tenors, and bootleg baritones. For some unexplained reason, every man thinks he was bom with a golden note in his throat.

And when they are sufficiently ossified, it takes only two such pests to think they are quartet. They are often called barber shop quartets, which is a slur on the tonsorial industry. Barber shops close at 6 pm. Male quartets rarely shut up trntlT after 3 And "Sweet Adeline" is the song that every man knows better than "The Star Spangled Banner." It was always more popular than the national anthem because- it is not, necessary to stand up while "Sweet Adeline" is being sung. It can, in fact, and often is, sung under- neath the table.

There is only one rebuttal for "Sweet Adeline." In the history of" male quartets it has broken up thousands of poker games, it has disturbed the rest of millions of night clerks arid summer-hotel guests it has kept patrol wagons busy and rival quartets That gome-.