Record-Journal from Meriden, Connecticut • 2

MKRTTOW RECORD SATURDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 1ft 1044 BOWERS RESIDENCE AT KMUMSON DAMAGED "KJB "OfiSPHfc TEMPERATURES A 87: 12 II: 8 78 midnight 84 wrlght at th Inti: national Bilvar company and Mr Fordlan! la employed by the raiiresf Hanneqan States Dewev Acts Like Court Prosecutor Says Accusation 1 Blow Up In Face Of GOP Nominee Yanks Meet Poorly Organized But Tough Resistance In Reich By Edward Ball i hand grenade snd ten pound With American In th Siegfried TNT ehsrf felled to 8t them out Line Germany Sept Grenade Ineffective Heavy Germen artillery fir cut Mm crawlld top ot the down the crashing momentum of opped lx hand Krf the American drive In thi n(dei through ventilator but th tonight as apaarheaded hy tanks 0rmtBI lp ftrng He thsn used th doughboy slashed throughout- imal TfjT rhlrg which failed Siegfried line defense to puih 7 tea mile Into Oermany north Jmd mar td ay Trir I luggsd 50 pounds of that stuff The Yank ere meeting hard but hsv Tht poorly organized oppeeitlon The' American ran Into ertlM fir TIDES High water at New Haven at 11:22 a and 11:88 low wa ter at 8:16 a and 8:32 SUNRISE-SUNSET Sun rise at 8:40 a eete at 7:09 it end mn two deed me done my duty o1dlr tha lalll Baltimore Sept Robert Hannegin chairman of tha Democratic national committee declared tonight that Republican Presidential nominee Tbomaa STiJ-S VVrSDoii an they bed pirtd'Vh outli Siegfried defense her where th Germans War equipped only with small arms Ytnk foot soldier following the forced units are being to bleet th Nazis one a time from hunkers and pillboxes that stud th hills reaching into the Germen Interior from the Luxembourg border As each of these sturdily built unit In fortification ere In doubt prosecute" Hannegsn said in address prepared for a meeting of th combined Democratic club tn Maryland tha advance text of which waa ralaaead by th Democratic National committee In New York "I wii willing to oblige Milligan added "but my own captain ald no" mad all right but no madder then the reel of said Sgt Leonard Meecette of Solvay "They kept tie buey ail night and there la still lot of them In hick of ue That meehlnegunnlng end inlplng you hear beck there that Dewey "core high men In th making of eccueetion tha by 200-peund TNT chergee These German bunker snd pill blow up in hie face" Citing Dewey' charge that the boxes are far stronger than eome New Deal had kept th eountry in Maglnot line fortification! They don't" aatd Sgt Jam Reutell a eontlnuou atata -of depression built of eix-foet thlckneesee of Chicago 111 ''Early today a Ger- ain't mell from home It's Halnles "Some Germane fight reinforced concrete end steal and man autnant marched hi men right up to ue end eurrendered them They bed told him two dtye ego to rueh Into the Siegfried line with hie men but Ineteed ha kept on going" covered with earth Artillery fir Is IneffeNIve age last eome of them except wmen direct hit Is scored upon th narrow gun elite To capture them th deughboye creep up upon them and plant powerful demolition charges Through Crossfire for seven year end planned to keep a large army after th war because It feared unemployment end hi statement that General DougVee MacArthtir should be given a more important rola Hanne-gan said: will a government that proceeds by prosecution fit Into th Ilf of our nation th live of our people ovbr the next four years? Texas Accents All collection of tin cane av-ed by houaeholder of Meriden aa part of the aalrage effort ha been poetponed until October 7 aa the truck will be buey cleaning up the etreeta after the hurricane Children of Mary of Our Lady of Mt Carmel ehurch will receive holy communion tomorrow morning at the o'clock maes The meeting will held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon Children of Mary of St Btanlalaua church will hold a sps-clal meeting tomorrow morning after the 8:80 o'clock maaa requiem high maa will be celebrated Monday morning at 8 o'clock In St church for the late Mra Mary France Merk-llnger member of Washington Park Drum corpa will meet 78 Pratt atreet at 6 o'clock thli evening In uniform -The Chld-ireb of Mary sodality of St ohurch will display Christmas cards and paper In the school hall Sunday morning be-twesn the 7:48 and 10:30 o'clock masses Meriden chapter A will meet at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Cabin Grill was announced last night by Clarence Roy commander To get at some bunker when job of building can Infantrymen have to run up a world organization for peace gauntlet of reking enemy cronflre reaches th delicate critical stage Thy are doing tha jeb heroically Prderltla eector! named hv whare it muat alther hand or on Democrat Elector and pressing on "I'm through tha first part of tha Democratic convention list May Siegfried an officer eald late -Including 18 who Indicated they today "It may get harder es WOuld not vote for Preetdent Rooe-go along but ar prepared for that sr demolishing their fortiftoations something they did Mlry of State Sidney Latham as not do to the Maglnot line be- the official party list but pro- how well will th method ef th prosecutor do that Hannegsn aald that Dewey wa faced "with th task of trying to mak the American people forgive and forget three dleastroue Republican administrations" and he declared "th Dewey w-y deal with unemployment le th way of Herbert Hoover" The Democratic chairman aeked Dewey: "Under the alleged "continuous cause they might try to com back and us them Then htv another fight on our hand" Part of th Siegfried line which he fallen into eur htnde 1 a powerful It has been' advertleed tt of depreaalon' how did by Paul Joeeph Ooehbeli Nazi our nations! in'-om Increaee from minister of propagmAg with Roeeevelt forcee who htv ntmed a substitute list of electors immediately said hi action would be challenged In court Th 23 electori eelected at the May convention were pledged to support the national convention nominate only if certain conditions were met The Texas condition were not accepted by the Chicago convention Subeequently th 15 Indicated they would cast their electoral 'college votes for Sen Harry Byrd Virginia Eight said they would support Roosevelt At a eecond Democratic conven-tlomthii week In Dnllae pro-Roosevelt? forces took control end chose a eubetltute list ousting the 15 entl-Rooeevelt electors They presented th eecond lilt to Latham Local Soldier Diet In Crash In Colorado on fatal exemption (here are big guns 8om Nazi crews consisting of who were hastened lnt th line from various military unite eurrendered after a brief fight but all 68 (elite guard) crew art fighting until their fortification ere blown apart A typical example of th etubbornneei seeurred early1 today when Pfc Ray Milligan Sewlckley Pa had to uee 50 pounds of TNT on on bunker aft- 40- billion in 1932 to nearly 70 billions in 1939? thla so-called how le It that employment In America increased from 37800000 pereon in 1932 to 48800000 In 1939? "How did ferns cash Income tn 1989 get wiy up there at $7700-000000 from $4700000000 in 1932 XXX "Mr prosecutor where 1 th body? Or 1 thle a caa of kidnaping in which aomebody baa run off with Hoovar'a (Continued from Firet Page) Barnes both of Fort Fairfield Maine and a brother Stillman White of Northford this state Friend may call at the funeral home thi evening from 7 to 10 and tomorrow from 2 to 10 Railroad Bridge In Yalesvillo Downed By Storm (Continued from Firet Page) danger existed if railroad officials were not cautioned concerning the washout no train had been traveling over the line from 8:30 o'clock In the evening but the wtrnlng gave officials of the New Haven road time to begin plan for repair Cara of Stone Six carload of crushed stone were brought to th washout where one of the two original track hung precariously over the span By last evening th temaln-lng track had been propped by wooden supports and with plank on the tie the lone remaining track was used as a footbridge for the worker Residents In the neighborhood i Meeting House brook believe that logs jammed against the bridge in the heavy current of the swollen etream and when the pressure became extra great pushed the bridge off It found tlon Homes Unllghted Greatest Inconvenience resulting trom the storm cam from the lack of electricity In most home and stores during th dayr-but by 'est night after working continuously for 40 hours Connecticut Light A Power company crewmen had 80 per cent of th domeatic md commercial users restored to service Refrigerators In food and Ice cream atores were out of commle-son and tnoet home were without freezing units because of the lack of power Several ice cream atores loaed ss wel) as most taverns where beer wsa cooled by electricity Most of the gasoline station had tv close since they could not pump fuel while there we no electricity1 Complete Repair Today Albert Jourdan manager of the Connecticut Light A Power company here aald by 10 last night 80 par cent of domestic tnd commercial user of electric power were receiving aervice and hoped the balance would have service today Street light were generally out excepting for the downtown section The police station was without power for 28 hours from shortly after 9 Thursday' to about 10:12 o'clock last nigdt While without electricity th department was deprived of radio or teletype service as both mean of communication are hooked up with power served by the utility The emergency proved the fallacy of two-way radio and demonstrated th reason why most police department experienced In radio have turned to the three-way system No Communication Had Meriden been provided with a three-way system on of the cars could have been atatloned outside the police station and used to broadcast message to men In other cars around' the city all radios working on batteries Deprived of electric power the local police force had to return to the trusty telephone which remained In good condition at police headquarter while several hundred went out of service elsewhere In the city Use Flashlight Another piece of expensive machinery owned by the city which failed to function was the portable lighting equipment Brought to police headquarters Thursday night to provide lights when the utility power failed the machinery working on a gasoline powered engine failed to function and the policemen had to work with their trusty flashlights and oil lamps Perry Prann city engineer said last night that about 300 trees were downed In public highway and possibly 800 more were felled on private property He said moat of the trees were old large and beautiful and irreplacable Their value If they could be estimated in dollar he said would be about 8800000 since the only trees apparently struck down by the wind were the fine elm which have for year graced the city Augment Crew He aaid regular -esagtspe of the street department were augmented by Blafore A Sops and a crew of slxmen and Georg Chadwick and a crew of six men and these will be employed until all tree are cleared from public streets including those with roots In the sidewalk AH public schools closed Raymond Brown superintendent making hie announcement at 7:30 o'clock ih the morning over state radio stations All schools were without power and some had water in the basement Suffered More In 1938 Apart from the Inconvenience because of a lack of train transportation power and telephone service the city suffered less Thursday night than It did on September 21 1938 when It was hy the last hurricane Huge trees blocked streets 40 pedestrian lsand vehicular traffic but all thoroughfares were reported open last evening and traffic normal While the power was off In tha outlying districts traffic signal were not working Trtffle had to shift for Itself especially noticeable was th condition at East Main and Broad streets where north and south crossed east and weet traffic without the usual guidance by traffic lights No policemen were on traffic duty during the afternoon echool In 1941 He joined 6te Army tn September 1942 Beeidee his mothar he 1 eur-rived by two brother Sergeant John Gaffey Jr stationed at Camp Bowie Texas and Sergeant Josspty Gaffey who ha been In England for two year thre alatars Mrs William Wachtslhaus-tn of Meriden Mrs Robert Grace of New Britain and CaSiet in Gaffey of thi city Record Photo by Iwealekl work porch rail snd garago door Th bulkhead to th Smith property held Th first nd second floor of both houses esc sped serious dsm- Th damage sustained at tha Power cottage wt about th meet serious of any of the lunmer home owned by Meriden pereens at Madison mottehed th front porch leaving th uatupporfed overhanging roof Th water then rushed beneath th house carrying with It everything In lt path Including the double pair of garage deor on the rear of th house The property next door belonging to Mr and Mr Wayne Smith loat a good portion of th board walk aero th front of th houee battle Front and rear rlaw of th cottage owned by Mr Motile Powers wife of Clarence 8 Power president of th Puritan Bank A Trust company damaged at East River Madison Thursday night by high water which accompanied th hurricane gales Th anttra wall of bulkhead separating th baaeh from th cottage wsa ewept away by th high tide which then de- Yanks Break Through The Siegfried Line (Continued from Firat Pag) CLOSED MONDAY and TUESDAY Sept 18th and 19th To Observe Jewish New Year Hurricane Now Heading For Newfoundland (Continued from Firet Page) Russians Hurl Nails Into Sack Near Warsaw (Continued from Firet Page! Early thl morning a telegram waa received by Mra Gaffey officially Informing her of the death Of her aon The telegram aald the crash oc-eured at 4:15 Thursday about five mile north east of Peteraon field Colorado and that positive Identification had been made that Corporal Gaffey was aboard the bomber plane Arrangement will be made today to bring the body to Meriden for borial been lifted bodily by high water and swept inland to fresh moor-ing on meadow land back of th and in many eases to property owned by other people New Conference Draws Curtains OnQuebec Talks (Continued from First Page) BROWNS Obituary DUE TO CONDITIONS BEYOND OUR CONTROL- LACK OF POWER WE ARE FORCED TO BE CLOSED TODAY that he declined to say whether Roosevelt and Churchill might continue personal talks elsewhere pointed to a probability they would do juet that Each will go "off the record" tomorrow The hint of informal additional discussion between th two United Nation leaders pointed up two definitely rrleittd factors Ths presence here belatedly of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Sir Alexander Cagogan British permanent undersecretary of state for foreign affairn and of Secretary of the Treasury Mor-genthau The fact that Allied troop are swiftly wedging apart the inner defenses of Germany itself which call for Immediate clarification of pollciee on occupying th Reich and keeping It uner a heavy Allied thumb until Nari m(htTUKn longer threaten to scourge the world 3800-mile flight to Quebec it can be said has no connection with plans for pulverizing Japan Actually tho'-a plan had been fairly well worked out before the American president and British prime minister ever made their second Journey to this picturesque capital of old French Canada on Belfort at the extreme southern end of the front it was announced that lt had been placed under Gen Dwight Elsenhower's Western front command Thus four 8 armla th mlghtleat striking fore vr welded together In American history were assembled on th battlefields of Europe for th showdown struggle with Germany It also was announced that tt Gen Jacob Devers deputy supreme commander in th Mediterranean had been placed In command of th Sixth army grdup on th Western front and It was presumed th Seventh army was included Ths outer work of ths Siegfried Hnfc were found lass formidable than many obstacles smashed on th Normandy bsachss a front dispatch said and there were Indications the German were In fight-lng retreat to a second line of defense on the Rhine Deepest penetration Into the Reich was north of ths fortified city of Trier which Itself echoed to th shota of doughboy fighting in th outskirts after braving hot machinegun and rifle firs to blast a maze of pill boxes Shatter Concrete Barriers Thirty-five mile to th northwest tanka snd self-propelled artillery rumbled up to the edge of Prum supposedly fortres anchoring th main Siegfried ds-fen-w 'wne--- shwttwmi'-'etmwfft-tank barriers braving artillery and anti-tank flra and routing the mans from pill boxes with bayonet dynamite and flame-thrower The German frontier fortress of Aachen 40 miles farther north was surrounded hy doughboys who fought Into the fringes of the city ss massed fir of 8 guns pounded Its buildings Into rubble A front dispatch said this key city was within American grasp In a gathering threat to th northern reaches of the Westwall the weaker links from Aachen 70 miles north to Kiev other other American forces captured the Dutch city of Maastricht the first In the Netherlands to be freed by Allied arms and Eyaden five miles south On the south the last enemy stand In northern France was wilting in the firs of the 8 Third army which captured the Moselle riven stronghold of Nancy capital of Gsrm an -annexed Lorralns with only th whiz of snlpsr bulet contesting the entry i of them btwn Praga and Warsaw During action the Russian and thalr collaborating Polish army unit captured 11 localities north of Praga Fighting along tha Waraaw-Danzlg railway on the east bank of the Vistula they seized Apollo two and one-half miles northwest of Praga and a series of other town stretching 12 miles up to th Narew river at Rynia These captures herded th Germans back into an 18-mil deep funnel formed by th juncture oIJthJSAr4i(HLAiidYl- tula at MofiHti 20 mil northwest of Warsaw Inject Political Note Although Moscow injected political' note In Its communique by saying that "pot a single solder of the so-called underground army" of Polish General Bor was found in captured Praga there were some eigne of an easing of the strained relations between Moscow and ths Polish Th Pole her circulated a statement saying that General Bor had reported that Red army "plane had dropped food and ammunition to the Pole fighting inside Warsaw and the Polish Committee of National Liberation th Soviet-sponsored organization challenging th authority of th London Polish tnade a broadcast- ealut-ing Warsaw's heroic defender and promising their -GTBKratlon within a matter of day In southern Poland th Red army drove another spearhead 10 miles southwest of 8anok In Urn Carpathian foothills capturing Plonna which Is only nine mllee from th Capchoslovak border LT EDGAR WORLEY Military funeral aervlcee for Firat Lieutenant Edgar Worley Jr 29 a pilot In the Army Air corps who was killed Tuesday in a plane craih at Eglin field Florida will be held tomorrow afternoon at 8 o'clock at the Lamphler funeral home 122 West Main street Friend may call there this evening from 7 to 10 o'clock Lt Worley received hfs pre-flight training at Maxwell field Alabama hie primary training at Tuscaloosa Ala aUsbded Basic Flying school at ftlvthxiU Ark and Advanced Jfty-ing school at Craig field where he received hie KWTwtri'' rthftttffwteWd' r-ondfl'Utenant on February 18 1943i He was assigned to Eglin field and was advanced to first lieutenant last December Beside his wife Mrs Lucille Gunther Worley sod's five old son John Gunther Worley he leave his mother Mr Mabel Worley and hi grandmother Mrs Josephine Close both of Wilmington Delaware -v UPTOWN BAKERY 310 MAIN ST TEL 321 teported to tt agenda or tise Red Crose Connect1 cut eon treated the bur-r can of 1938 with that of 1944 and counted itself lucky that th latest battering it received from high winds and heavy rain exacted a much lighter toll than atx year ago Four death were reported and damage to th tobacco and apple and peaos crop alone waa tentatively fixed at more than 12000000 a the state tackled th Job of re-ztorlng' train telephone and lc-trtc service clearing I ts atreet of fallen trees and repairing damaged ouildlng particularly along the shore What the final cost of lent hurricane would be in property damage no official was yet ready to estimate But all agreed it would be only a fraction of the damage caueed by the 1938 hurricane The most conservative estimates fixed the damage of that term at 8150000000 with some going as high as 8400000000 Even -death of" four Governor Raymond Baldwin put into words what many in Connecticut felt about last night's storm when he expreaetd gratification that the damage wa much less eeriqu than in The -chief executive off to an early tour of Long Island aound communtt'ea which were among the most severely hit attributed the lighter loee "largely to the fact rpat advance' warning wa so gen-c-al and so widely Those who died in the storm a awesome in ita fury even though lea destructive than mat of 1938 were Michael Waldron of New Haven killed by an electric shock when he cams In contact with a high voltage wire Frank Schofield 40 of Bethany Tnjured fatally by an automobile In Naugatuck Merton Darrow of tan tic drowned In Niantlc river while trying to secure a email sailboat Morton Spencer 15-year-old boy from He'uon found dead by the Coast Guard in a row boat In Long Island Sound near New London Crop and property damage suffered by tobacco growers was expected to go well b'eyond $1000-000 Ralph Lasbury Jr director of the Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural association said that a check with two-thirds of the association members had placed the loss already at $1100000 Russell Anderson assistant farm agent In Hartford county estimated that the damage to th state's apple crop alone would be $1000000 Thd go rernor left his car and went or foot to Several beaches In the Cllnton-Westbrook-Old Lyme areas to inspect the damage It was along this portion of the cot that the storm' center presumably hit mnd It wa there said th governor that the enss today most nearly resembled the devastation 1938- Beore of small cottage had Twin Pacific Drives Go Well For Americans (Continue! from First Page) Walnut Grove Dairy Milk It Your Guaranteed "Bottle Of Health" school time again and yeur children used more energy to keep mentally alert Give them plenty of milk to drink heforei sad after school Safety Board Appoints Four To Fire Dept TYLER WHITE Funeral services for Tyler White who died yesterday morning after long illness at Undercllff sanatorium will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 in the funeral chapel of John 'Ferry A Sons 88 East Main atreet The Rev Burtt Tlmble pastor of the First Baptist church will officiate and burial will be In Pine Grove cemetery Waterbury Mr Whit was born in Fairfield Maine and came to Meriden five year ago He was employed at the Alsop Engineering corporation Milldale Beside hi wife Mrs Gertrude Tompkins White he 1 survived hy a daughter Mra Leon A Benjamin of this city a son Harold White of Woodvllle New Hampshire: two slaters Mrs Cecelia Nightingale and Mrs I Rugs are tested by a bureau of standards machine which tmt-tntes the wearing effects of as many as 48000 footsteps (Continued from First Par) lng Into th services andTfiwr posts are to be vacated 4n favor of those returning after the war so that anyone accepting a Job ss a temporary regular doe so for th duration of the war or until th fireman whose place is belnR taken return Mr Dupuis ft listed as a mlll- There are 70000 electric lights tn the War Pentagon Building the archipelago that Nippon ha held since th fall of Bataan and Corregtdor In China's far-flung fighting area tHe fortune of war 'seesawed but were underscored by a major Allied accomplishment In th Yunnan theater near the Burma border There Chinee forces after annihilating the Japanese garrison at Tengchung effected junction with Gen Joseph army lnelde Burma However 'on another Yunnan front reinforced Japanese troops captured a Chinese position cloae to Lungllng aatrlde the Burma road and th fighting In that sector was described aa Chinese troops broke Into Wenchow port city of Chekiang province 225 miles south of Shanghai and engaged the Japanese In street fighting In southern Kwangtung province the Japanese captured Limkohg highway center Nippon forces were within 68 mites of Kweilin Kwangsl prov-lncet a key point In southern defense and an Important American airbase PLEAS RETURN ALL YOUR MILK BOTTLES Do this at onct Wa mutt hove Start looking them up today FUNKHAL HOMI MAIN ST PHONI It GasSiat ion Damaged By Cellar Blast Considerable damage waa Inflicted at the Silver City Tire and Rubber company 84 Cook avenue at 10:47 yesterday morning when a blast occured In the cellar Several companies of the flra department were caUetiwhen an alarin turhed ln from Box 32 PEACHES HALE and ELBERTA On The Chamberlain Highway in Kensington ROBERT and NORMAN GREEN BACKER Prop OLD COLONY ROAD John Smith rUNERAL HOME TIL 80T8-W or 6078-R Tractive power of railway locomotive averages 92000 pounds an injeas of 40 per cent over the figure 20 years ago An automatic flukrsscent lamp AUrts- his bssn dsrissd Uml-rats blinking.