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ALLIED LEADERS TO MEET STALIN IN IRAN SETTING WINSTON" CHURCHILL, according to Reuters dispatches from London, met ivith other Allied leaders in Cairo, Egypt, to map new world ptans for war. After seeing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who attended the conference with Madam Chiang; Churchill went on to Iran, according to the London story, there to meet with Premier JOSEF STALIN of the USSR. With him was another gentleman, according to the Reuters bulletins. He was FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

(XVERAUSSIMO Chiang Kaj, iesiler the Chinese people war against Japan, met with The Portsmouth Herald PORTSMOUTH, N. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1943 PAGES FIVE CENTS Yanks Advance, Nazis Strike Back in Russia First Deer of Season Goes to Epping Man Deer, hunted in other sections for several weeks, have found comparative haven in Rockingham county. But no mnre. The open season here commenced at daybreak today and many a hunter took to nearby woods at once, the lure of unratloned meat adding to the usual joys of stalking game In local First successful hunter to report (his morning was Louis LaPiante of Epping, a Portsmouth Navy yard worker, who lost no time in getting his share of the bounty. Only a half hour after sunrise he shot a 125-pound doe in the woods just over the Epping town line In Nottingham.

Reuters Reports Climax Rumors; OWI Chief Angry (By Hie Associated Press) Mighty new thrusts against the Axis seemed a certainty today as unofficial reports said President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were speeding to a conference with Premier Stalin in Iran after meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Cario. The reports, emanating from Lisbon and quickly given wide circulotion, climaxed a week of guessing by German propaganda agencies, which have been hinting at the possibility of on imminent meeting of the Allied leaders in Cairo or elsewhere in the Middle East. BULLETIN London, Dec. 1 fAP) the German radio said today that a meeting of President Rimse-velt, Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Stalin and President Chiang Kai-shek "apparently is now taking- place" in Teheran, the capital of Iran. (Persia).

War Fund Over Top Portsmouth's United War Fund drive went over the top it was an nounced today by Chairman Mrs. C. Waldo Pickett. Goal-of the local drive, was S15.00D. The campaign ended yesterday.

Mrs. Pickett over as general chairman after the death of William W. Cromie who had served in that capacity from the start of the drive. Gripsholm Docks Jersey City, N. Dec.

1 fAPl The diplomatic exchange ship Grips-holm at her pier today, Singing safely- home' nearly 1.500 Americans- interned by the Japanese fur nearly two years cf war. By the Associated Press) The American Fifth army advanced three miles on the mountainous spine of Italy to straighten the Allied line in ihe center as ihe British Eighth army continued its advance today beyond ihe Sanzro river in the general area within 20 miles of the Adriatic port of Heavy looses WEi'e exacted from the Germans in the pierced and churned eastern end of their winter line as Allied arms fashioned a menacing arc around the distant approaches ro Rome. The British were reported within two miles of i Lanciano, German defense center IS miles from Pescara where a major transverse highway crosses the peninsula to Rome. An Algiers broadcast, unconfirmed by the Allied communique, said the eighth army had captured Lan-1 ciano. Castel Frentano and Casoll.

Casoli is the inland anchor of the German Sangro defenses. The German communique said a breach City Sees Seven Men Off to War Five army selectees and two 17-year-old navy volunteers this morning were given a farewell reception at the Portsmouth depot as they entrained for Fort Devens, and Manchester to start their training in the armed forces. Acting corporal for the group of army; men was Joseph Eberle, who has been manager of the J. J. Newberry store on Congress street for the past six years.

Private Eberle, 52, is married, has one child. OthEr married rr.cn were Nelson E. Ramsdell, 22, of Portsmouth, an electrician in the navy yard for the past three years, Henry Theodore Yell, 23, of Seabrook, former employe in a shoe factory in Hampton: and Fred Curner, 27, of Exeter, who has been foreman at the Morlcy company for three years. Private Currier is married and hai one child. Lewis G.

Spencer, 13, the only single man in the group, attended Portsmouth High school and was a shipfitter's helper at the navy yard before his induction. The two youths beginning service with the navy were John Morris, a farm worker in Rye and Donald Stevens of Portsmouth, formerly employed as a machinist's helper at the navy yard. Send-off committees included Mayor Charles Dale, who donated cartons of cigarets; Mrs. Mary C. Dondcro, who gave each man a leathEr address book; Mrs.

Rose Murray, representing Uie Service Mother's club, u'ho supplied additional clEgreis; Major William J. Cashman of the Salvation army, who contributed service kits: and Clarence C. Sanborn, Richman P. Margeson. and Philip H.

Sanderson representing iocal Board 19. Boston Navy Yard To Build Submarines Washington, Dec. 1 CAP) Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs committee, announced that the navy plans to build submarines in the. Boston Navy yard, to take up the slack there in destroyer Ann I'nrat air 'n'sfUlers dispatches from London cenrdinr The War Today II tii! A could force unoon-i-kma'. surrender on Germany jErtbwitli.

would that represent the solution of the epochal world TCblem with which wo are faced? mat's question which couldn't lure arisen profitably even six acatt' ago. because Nazidom vustarncr: :err.b harts which it now hears, i arLes rather naturally ta-iay-or should 3 rise in thoughtful Binds because boih Allies and asrsf lint, the European con-Set Is 111 Its final stages. It's of special interest at this because of the flood of peace peculation of it, without the sdtiblancs of foundation1, and the ri-norJ London that Messrs. Churchill and Stalin siv -lie Hitlerites an ultima- which will include a demand lor eapltulation. Would Save Anything? 0( course, an immediate ter-jiuiation of the war wculd In many i'5 be a glorious thing, and let be admitted at once that we muldn': look such a gift horse mDUth.

It would save a jost of precious lives and a vast WW nf sufTnring. That Is. it vet! us f.i; would it actually save lives suffering in the long run? 5 ihink we must stop here to consider whether before the German rtleh has been ground excluding ij-l the mill of war. raiMti't merely result In another sorld ccr.r.agration which would ') even more destructive than ails one. In short, would an im-medinic peace he saving the generation at the expense of jut children? Many people feci that the Allies Inelrl their hand too soon In Ihs last war.

One of the chief reams why wc arc saddled with World War number two is because Gtmary no phvsical hurt In lib lav. -one. She lost many of bfst of her youth, and she great privations. But the pplo as a whole never even heard i piste fired in anger. Corporal I'lmUhment la this wnr the Reich is getting a lasie of the battlefield, thanks a Allied air forces.

Still, while has been 'heavy loss of clvi-llin Lie in the bombings, and cfevssiaUon has been great, Germany hasn't, yet received the necessary to her re-farm. Tnis is one of the extreme asfs where corporal punishment Is the only thing that will work, we mustn-. that when we hav; performed the task of crushing Elllslsm and Prussian militarism, 'e have only started On the reform 51 Germany Lhe trouble-maker Of suroae. slill have to change the -tntfliity cf the Prussian race. Ensign to Receive Commendation Here Ensign Earl D.

Bronson, TJSN, of ar.ii Pass, will receive a tomsierdalion lcr courageous per-ormanci cf duty aboard a United in attacks result" "5 In the sinking or damaging of several vessels. commander of submarine Pacific, will be presented -M-. assistant engineer officer, a a shipboard csremohv Saturday rv Aam- Thomas Withers, commandant of the Portsmouth Navy vard. cold'tsnigh lie iLttsMerEed trith I3E HERALD, Juoe 6, I33J toofiEiua, The scw Hampshire Gazette Established October 1, 17 The Day's Almanac nomorron- 3 .15 un COLDER Moim ncw Bere 4 There Kittery Kiitery Point Newmarket Personals Radio Rationing Rye Sports fsnerjk loy's Herald Clawiflce Ads Morales password 4 jitorial 4 3 VOL. NO.

57 Discharged Veterans Slow to Claim Pay Concord, Dec. 1 (AP) Although a weekly unemployment compensation check awaits returning servicemen honorably discharged from ihe armed forces, only 54 claims have been filed in the first nine months this year, the jobless insurance division reported today. Rye Man Missing in Sub Action It notified that their son, Richard Pickering Goss, motor machinist's mate the submarine service of the U. S. navy, is missing in action.

Goss, a native of Portsmouth, enlisted in the navy in March, 1942. His mother last heard from him September 7. Besides his parents he leaves two brothers. Lawrence E. Goss, headmaster of the Bernardsron, High school: and Phiiip Gois.

a freshman in Hampton Academy and High school, Pvt. Ralph E. Clark Missing Mr. and Mrs. Harold E- Clark of Dover, who received word from the War department.

Notu a that their only son, Pvt. Ralph E. Clark, was slightly wounded, recently were notified that he was killed in action in Italy. Private Clark was graduated from Dover High school and employed at the Portsmouth Navy yard before his induction in March of this year. Besides his parents, he leaves his grandparents, Mr, and Mrs.

Charles Clark of Berwick, Me. Rep. Merrow Blasts U. S. Regimentation Washington, Dec.

1 CAP) Representative Chester E. Merrow ca-N. H.i yesterday told the House that "regimentation of agriculture and industry is apparently the objective of theorists and impractical men in responsible government positions." Urging the lifting of price ceilings to spur production of oil, milk, corn and feed, Merrow deelarpd that "indescribable bungling characterises Lhe administration of domestic af- "The administration," he asserted in his speech, "in many instances has triad to circumvent, bypass ana ignore the intent and wiii of Congress. "Thousands of absurd regulations have been heaped upon our people, Hundreds of decisions, generated without the employment of reasonable intelligence, have emanated from the bureaucrats." Calling upon Congress to put an end to this "bungling and regimentation" he declared. "It Is the duty of Congress to control the bureaucracy, to cut the red tape, to eliminate the hampering regulations, to end government by directive and to preserve the opportunity for free enterprise." A member of the Republican Drive-for-Action committee Merrow urged consideration of "meritorious measures" now before committees, particularly the Disney bill to place all petroleum matters in the hands of the Petroleum Administration for War.

Somersworth Man Missing On Sea Duty Mr, and Mrs. Leonce Roy of 15 Shorey lane. Somerswortli, have been notified by the Navy department that their son. Durard Roy. seaman 1c.

DSN, IE, is, reported missing in the line of duty. He was listed as among th missing after the oil tanker "Altair," on which he served as gunner, collided in the fog with the "Bostonian" Nov. 20 about 60 miles off the coast of Delaware. Seaman Roy enlisted in the navy last March when he Was IT years old. He received his "boot" training at the- Newport, R.

base and at Little creelc, va. A native of Somersworth. he was graduated from St. Martin's academy and was employed in. local dairy before hi nlintrnnt.

several miles deep had been driven in their lines. British warships bombarded the Nazis from the Adriatic as Montgomery's men pressed them front-ally by land and his planes lashed them from aloft. American Liberators ranged lar to the north and bombed Fiumc for the first time! and tangled military traffic between; Pescara and Ancona. They also hit! roads and rails in Tuscany and the Italian west, coast. The American gains were made three miles west of Montaquila and placed the fifth army on more high, commanding ground.

Eighth army gains beyond the Sangro had been won after the bitterest German counterattacks were absorbed. The Allied communique said some of these1 early Nasi thrusts has won seme ground taut 'that "all of this was retaken later and the advance continues." After recapturing Korosten, So miles northwest of Kiev, the Germans intensified their massed counterattack in the Ukraine ar.d stiffened their stand in White Russia, within seven miles of Zhlobln. In the Dnieper bene, a Russian lunge southwest of Kremenchug placed the Red -army wlShin 10 miles of the Important rail city of Znaman-ka. A large force of Allied bombers crossed the English channel for the third successive daylight blow at the after, night, stahs by RAF Mosqaltos. at.

western "Germany and an attack ay Flying. Fortresses on the industrial city of Sdlingen. east of Duesseldorf. Two Forts and five Allied fighters were lost, seven German fighters were destroyed. By-night, the busy RAF had mined enemy waters and damaged two ships in a convoy oil the Dutch coast, A wholly unconfirmed London report from inside Germany said a junta of old-line professional soldiers headed by Marshals Rund-stedt, Brauclntsch and Boch and Admiral Haeder W2s prepared to overthrow Hitler at the opportune moment in the hope of securing Fire Destroys Staircase, Halls A blaze believed to have been started by an overheated furnace caused an estimated S2.500 damage yesterday afternoon at the home of Joseph Geraci cf 37 Maplewood avenue, according to the Portsmouth Fire department.

The fire, starting from the basement, swept up through the center." of the house, destroying the staircase and the halls of the first and second story. Three fire trucks were called out, and the firemen battled the blaze for an luwr and a half before extinguishing it. Mr. Geraci had moved into the house only yesterday morning. ivew yotk, Dec.

ihav ooraoers hit a poison gas factory in Germany the other day. And that is truly one of the Reich's cultural monuments. The administration will roll back the price of bread with an expenditure of 59,000,000 a month. Still, that isn't as much as the Roman emperors did for their people. They gave 'em circuses and bread, News, a bonafidc weekly newspaper, Aristotle Bouras the 13-ycar-old.

In an editor-to-editor "chat with the Herald, the eighth grader lists vital statistics. "Mother and father: Mr. and Mrs, Nick Bouras. My brother is an aviation cadet, studying to be a navigator, at Ellington field, Tex. (His name's George.) My sister Helen Is a senior at Newmarket High school.

am president of the Happy Workers 4-E club and the Intermediate Christian Endeavor, "You might mention that I'm the youngest editor In the country, as my publisher, Mr. Burbank, did in annouacinz nzy forthrmina- erw- peace which would leave Prussian militarism the core for another attempted world conquest. Junker industrialists, agrarians and diplomats were said to be supporting the militarists, who were reported el-ready to have made informal peace overtures which were not regarded' as tenders at all and which were dismissed as short of unconditional surrender. Hitler was said to be aware of thE plot but, unable to oppose it because its strength. He was declared playing it off against such generals as Rommel, Jodl and Zeitz-ler and Admiral Doemtz.

There Was no official basis for the story, which was similar to the. reported peace rumors which Secretary Hull denounced this week as Axis-inspired, Of similar cloth was a Cairo dispatch which said Franz von Papen was about to succeed Von Ribben-trop as German foreign minister because the former champagne salesman could not keep Hitler's puppets in line. Yet another unconfirmed report, this time from Turkey, said the Rumanians were fleeing In mass from the Crimea (where the only exit is by sea), Odessa and Bessarabia before the Russian threat in the south. Kiwanians See Film on War Industry "The Ramparts We Build," Wesunghousc Electric company film picturing the conversion Of American industry to war, was shown at the Kiwanls club meeting at the Rockingham hotel last night by Fred Bacon, Westinghouss representative. Guest speaker was Arthur Hopley, yeoman 1c, TJSN, son ol John W.

Hopley. A veteran of Allied Invasions in North Africa and Sicily, he described the American navy's preparations for a successful carry-through of coordinated landing actions. John S. Dimock was named director-elect, to fill the office of the late William W. Cromie.

Led by John W. Hopley, chairman of the committee on resolutions, a. formal resolution of respect on the death of Mr. Cromie was accepted by the club. It was voted to send copies of the measure to members of his family.

James H. Bangs, Is chairman. I of the. Ladies' night program committee which is making arrangements for the special dinner meeting which will be held next Tues- day night at Howard Johnson's. Nazis.

They can still use him as a scarecrow in some German cornfield. Germany is sending out peace feelers again. This doesn't mean that Hitler has had enough, but only that: the Germans have had enough of Hitler, There's one thing that can be said for the Nipponese naval command. It certainly keeps the U. S.

navy guessing guessing whEn the Jap fleet will ever have nerve enough to come out and fight. er Sept 10. 1943. Became editor Nov. 19, 1043." Justly dignified with the weight of his office and his name, Aristotle proclaimed his responsibilities and aims in a two-column editorial on Page 1 of his first edition.

Devoted to town and county newa with local angles, the eight page weekly tabloid, in Aristitle's first edition, contained 133 inches of news. The editor's comment alter the first publication was, "I like my wort' very, very-much. 1 am the only news-gatherer on the paper, and it keeps me quite busy, but I don't mind it." In comparison, when we consider how our life was spent, to the age of 13, we feel it was half The Lisbon report was circulated by neuters. British news agency, which said it was "know, definitely" in the Portuguese capital that the Caiio meeting already had taken place and that Roosevelt and Churchill had departed lor Iran. A communique on the results of the Cairo conference will be Issued later in the week, Reuters said.

The Reuters dispatch, was broadcast to European countries in several languages last night by the Off.ce of "War Information, which said it had acted with the authority of the Office of Censor- iElmer Davis, OWI chief, declared Inter in Washington that the OWI had broadcast Reuters dispatch "'because'" it "already was all over Europe." The Ger- at yard. (Portsmouth Herald Photos) man news agency, DNB, and "virtually everybody else" has circulated the Reuters report and OWI felt it "should give its customers something, too," Davi; said. At the same time, however, he sharply criticised Reuters, for -put- (Continued On Page Five Queenfish Launched At Yard Her how dripping with champagne, the USS Queenfish joined the navy at 2: SO o'clock yesterday afternoon as she was launched from the building ways at the- Portsmouth Navy yard, Tne new craft was sponsored by Mrs, Robert A. wife of Hear Admiral Theobald, USN, commandant of the First Naval district. Mrs.

Theobald was assisted by Mrs. Rtifus G. Thayer, wife of Commander Thayer, who is now on sea duty. TJrton L. Spiller, representing the woriomen of the navy yard, presented Mrs.

Theobald -with a silver bowl from the employes. The sponsor was also presented a bouquet of roses by Rear Adm. Thomas Withers. USN. commandant of the navy yard.

Prayer for the new ship wa offered by Lt. ijg Lloyd F. Shcp-hard, USNR, yard chaplain. Music during the ceremony was played by the Portsmouth Navy yard band under the direction of Chief Bandmaster William H. Sorrel and a marine guard of honor at the Jaunchins stand was under the command of Lt.

w. B. Bracfcett, USMCR. Guests in the -launching stand included Rear Admiral and Mrs. Theobald: Rear Admiral and Mrs.

Withers: Capt. R. C. Grady, captain of the Boston Naw vard, ar.d Mrs. Grady; Capt.

D. W. Mitchell, (Continued On Page Five) Aristotle Bouras, 13, Edits Real Newspaper Boy jl War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt wasn't talking idly when' he declared America would have to scrape thE bottom Of the barrel to avert a manpower crisis. Or peThaps it's just that youth is finding its place in this world at war, especially in neighboring Kewmart et, where a self- possessed, poised and confident 13-year-old has Just assumed editorship of the 64-yetr-oIfi; JTewmarfcet (TOP) COMMANDANT OF THE FIRST NAVAL district, Bear Adm.

Robert A. Theobald. USN, and the commandant of the Portsmouth N4V-Tard, Rear Adm. Thomas Withers, TJSN, are shewn with the sponsor's party at the launching of the tTSS Queenfish yesterday. Left to right: Sirs.

R. G. Thyer. matron of honor, Admiral Theobald, Mrs. Theobald, from bBiidmr Trays 1-oKblp, I began work a report.