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MERIDEN RECORD, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1944 Weather TEMPERATURES a. 87; 12 81; 6 p. 76. midnight, 64. TODAY'S TIDES High water New Haven at 11:22 a.

m. and 11:38 p. low water at 5:16 a. m. and 5:32 p.

m. SUNRISE-SUNSET. Sun rises at 6:40 a. sets at 7:09 p. m.

CITY ITEMS -The collection of tin cans saved by householders of Meriden part of the salvage effort; has been postponed, until October 7, as the will be busy cleaning up the streets after the hurricane. -The Children of Mary of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church will receive holy communion tomorrow morning at the 9 o'clock mass. The meeting will held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. -The Children of Mary of St.

Stanislaus church will hold a special meeting tomorrow after the 9:30 o'clock mass. -A requiem high mass will, be o'clock in church for celebrated Monday, morning at 8 the late Mrs. Mary Frances Merklinger. -All members of Washington Park Drum corpa will meet at 73. Pratt street at 5 o'clock this evening In uniform, -The Chidiren of Mary sodality of St.

Mary's church will display Christmas cards and paper in the school hall Sunday morning between the 7:45 and 10:30 o'clock masses. -The Meriden chapter, Y. D. V. will meet at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Cabin Grill, it was announced last night by Clarence Roys, commander, Local Soldier Dies In Crash In Colorado (Continued from First Page) school In 1941.

He joined the Army In September, 1942, Besides his mother, he is survived by two brothers, Sergeant John W. Gaffey, stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas, and Sergeant Joseph L. Gaffey, who has been In England for two years; three sisters, Mrs. William Wachtelhausen, of Meriden: Mrs. Robert M.

Grace, of New Britain; and Cather ine Gaffey, of this city, Early this morning a telegram was received by Mrs. Gaffey officially informing her of the death of her, son. The telegram said the crash occured at 4:15 p. m. Thursday about miles north east of Peterson field, Colorado, and that positive identification had been made that Corporal Gaffey was aboard the bomber plane.

Arrangements will be made today to bring the body to Meriden for burial. Obituary LT. EDGAR B. WORLEY Military funeral services for First, Lieutenant, in Edgar the U. B.

S. Wor- Army Air corps, who was killed Tuesday in a plane crash at Eglin field, Florida, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Lamphier funeral- home, 122 West Main street. Friends may call there this evening from 7 to 10 o'clock: Lt. Worley received his pre-flight training at Maxwell field, Alabama, his primary training at Tuscaloosa, attended Basic Flying school at and Advanced Flying school at Craig field. where he received his wings and was commissioned second lieutenant on February 16, 1943.

He was assigned to Eglin feld and' was advanced to first lleutenant last December. Besides his wife, Mrs. Lucille Gunther Worley, and a five months' old son, John Gunther Worley, he leaves his mother, Mrs. Mabel C. Worley, and his grandmother, Mrs.

Josephine Close, both of Wilmington, Delaware. TYLER WHITE Funeral services for Tyler White, who died yesterday morning after long illness at Undercliff sanatorium, will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the funeral chapel of John J. Ferry Sons, 88. East Main street. The Rev.

Burtt N. Timbie, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate and burial will be in Pine Grove cemetery, Waterbury. Mr. White was born in Fairfleld, Maine, and came to Meriden five years ago. He was employed at the Alsop Engineering corporation, Milldale.

Besides his wife, Mrs. Gertrude daughter, Mrs. Leon A. BenWhite, her is survived jamin, of this city; Woodville, a son, E. White, of New shire: two sisters, Mrs.

Cecelia Nightingale and Mrs. Joseph 3.3. Berry Sons FUNERAL HOME 88 E. MAIN ST. PHONE 11 John I.

Smith INC. FUNERAL HOME 226 W. Main 90. Tel. 240-W Maine; and a brother, Stillman Barnes.

both of Fort Fairield, White, of Northford, this state. may call at the funeral Friends, evening from 7 to 10 o'clock and tomorrow from 2 to 10. Railroad Bridge In Yalesville Downed By Storm (Continued from First Page) danger existed if railroad officials were not cautioned concerning the washout, no trains had been traveling over line from 8:30 o'clock in the evening, but the warning gave officials of the New Haven time to begin plans for repairs. Six Cars of Stone. Six carloads crushed stone were brought the washout, of, where one of the two original tracks hung precariously over the span.

By last evening, the remainIng track had been propped wooden supports, and with planks on the ties, the lone remaining track was used as a footbridge for the workers. Residents in the neighborhood Meeting House brook believe that logs jammed against the bridge in the heavy currents of the swollen stream, and when the pressure became extra great, pushed the bridge off its foundation. Homes Unlighted Greatest inconvenience resulting from the storm came from the lack of electricity in most homes and stores during the day, but by last night, after working continususly for 40 hours, Connecticut Light Power company crewmen had 80 cent of the domestic and commercial users restored to service. Refrigerators in food and ice cream stores were out of commisson, and most homes were without freezing units because of the lack of power. Several ice cream stores closed, as well 8.8 most taverna where beer was cooled by electricity.

Most of the gasoline stations had to close, since they could not pump fuel while there was no electricity. Complete Repairs Today Albert S. Jourdan, manager of the Connecticut Light Power company here, said, by 10 o'closk last night 80 per cent of domestic and commercial users of electric power were receiving service, and he hoped the balance would have service today. Street lights were generally, out, section. excepting for the The police station.

was without power for 25 hours, from shortly after 9 p. m. Thursday' to about 10:12 o'clock last night. While without electricity, the department was deprived of radio or teletype service as both means of communication are hooked up with power the utility. acy of radio, and demonThe emergency, proved the fallstrated the reason why most police departments, experienced in radio, have turned to the three-way eystem.

No Communication Had Meriden been provided with three-way system, one of the cars could have been stationed cutside the police station and used to broadcast messages 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 headquarters, while several hundred went out of service elsewhere in the city. Use Flashlights Another piece of expensive mashinery 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. C.

Perry Prann, city engineer, said. last. night that about 300 trees were downed in public highways, and possibly 300 more were felled on private property, He said most of the trees were old, large and beautiful and irreplacable. Their value, if they could be estimated in dollars, he said would be about $500,000, since the only trees a.pparently struck down by the wind were the fine elms which have for years graced the city. Augment Crews He auld then of the street department were augmented by R.

Biafore Song and a crew of six men and George Chadwick and a. crew of six men, and these will be employed, until all trees are cleared from public streets, including those with roots in the sidewalk. All public schools closed, Raymond N. Brown, superintendent, making his announcement at .7:30 o'clock in the morning over state radio stations. All schools without power and some had water- in the basements.

Suffered More 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- lashed by the last hurricane. Huge trees blocked streets so, pedestrian, and vehicular traffic, but thoroughfares were reported open last evening, and traffic normal. While the power was off in the outlying districts, traffic signals were not working, had to shift for Itself, especially, noticeable was the at East Main and Broad streets, where: north and south crossed east and west traffic without the usual guidance by traffic lights. No policemen were on traffic duty during the afternoon. GasStationDamaged By Cellar Blast Considerable damage was Inflicted at the Silver City Tire and Rubber company, 64 Cook avenue, at 10:47 o'clock yesterday, morning when a blast occured in the cellar.

Several companies of the fire. department, were called. an alarm was turned in from Box 32. Tractive power of railway locomotives averages $2,000 pounds, an incease of 40 per cent over the figure 20 years ago. wright.

at the International Silver company, and Mr. Fordiant is employed by the railroad. Hannegan States Dewey Acts Like Court Prosecutor Says Accusations Blow Up In Face Of GOP Nominee Baltimore, Sept. 15-(AP)-Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of 1 the Democratic national committee, declared tonight that Republican Presidential nominee Thomas E.

Dewey's attacks on the New Deal were based on the principle of "when in doubt, prosecute." Hannegan said in an address prepared for a meeting of the combined Democratic clubs in Maryland, the advance text of which VaS released by the Democratic National committee in New York, that Dewey "scores as high man in the making of accusations that blow up in his face." Citing Dewey's charges that the IN New Deal had kept the country in a continuous state -of depression for years and planned to keep army after the war seven, because it feared unemployment, and his statement that General Doughs MacArthur should be given a more important role, Hannegan maid: "How will a government that proceeds by prosecution fit into the life of our nation, the lives of our people, over the next four years? "But when the job of building up a world organization for peace reaches the delicate, critical stages where it must either hand or 1 fall, how well will the methods of the prosecutor do that job?" Hennegan -said that Dewey was taced "with the task of trying to make the American people forgive and forget three disastrous Republican administrations" and he declared "the Dewey way to deal with unemployment is the way of Herbert Hoover." The Democratic chairman asked Dewey: "Under the alleged "continuous state of depression' how did our national income from 40: billions in 1932 to 70 bilincrease, lions In 19397 "In this so-called 'depression' how is it that employment in America Increased from 37,500,000 persons In 1932 to 45,800,000 in 19397 xxx "How did farm cash. income In 1989 get way up there at 000.000 from $4,700,000,000 In 1932. "Mr. prosecutor, where is the body? Or. is this a case of kidnaping, in which somebody has run off with Hoover's baby?" Yanks Break Through The Siegfried Line (Continued from First Page) on Belfort at the extreme southern end of the front, it was announced that it had been placed under Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's Western command. Thus S. armies the front, mightiest striking force ever welded together in American history were assembled on the battlefields of Europe for the showdown struggle with Germany. It also was announced that tL.

Gen. Jacob Devers, deputy supreme had been placed in the commander in the Mediterranean, Sixth army group on the Western front, and it presumed the Seventh army was included. The outer works of the Siegfried line were found Jess formidable than many obstacles smashed on the Normandy beaches, a front dispatch said, and there were indications the Germans were in fightIng retreat to a second line of detense on. the Rhine. -Deepest penetration into the Reich was north of the fortified clty of Trier, which itself echoed to shots of doughboys fighting in the outskirts after braving hot machinegun and rifle fire to blast a maze of pill boxes.

Shatter Concrete Barriers, Thirty-five miles to the northwest tanks and self-propelled artillery rumbled up to the edge of Prum supposedly fortress a anchoring the main Siegfried deTense shattering tank barriers, braving artillery and anti-tank fire and routing the Gere mans from pill boxes with bayonet, dynamite and flame-thrower. The German frontier fortress of Aachen, 40 miles farther north, was surrounded by doughboys who fought Into the fringes of the city as massed fire of U. S. guns pounded its buildings Into rubble. A front dispatch said elty was within American grasp.

In a gathering threat to the northern reaches of the Westwall the weaker links from. Aachen 70. miles north -to Kleve other other American forces captured the Dutch city of Maastricht, the first In the Netherlands be freed by Allied arms and Eysden, five miles south. On the south, the last enemy stand in northern France was wiltIng in the fire of the U. S.

Third army, which captured the Moselle riven stronghold of Nancy, capital of German-annexed Lorraine, with only the whiz of sniper bulets contesting the entry. Rugs are tested by a U. S. bureau of standards machine which tmitates the wearing effects of 8.5 many as 48,000 footsteps. There are 70,000 electric lights in the War Department's Pentagon Building.

PEACHES HALE and ELBERTA FONTANELLA'S On The Chamberlain Highway in Kensington Yanks Meet Poorly Organized But Tough Resistance In Reich 3 molished the front porch leaving the unsupported overhanging roof. The water then rushed beneath the house carrying with It everything in its path Including the double pair of garage doors on the rear of the house. The property next door belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C.

Smith lost good portion of the board walk across the front of the house, lattice and swept inland to fresh moorbeen lifted bodily by high ings on meadow land back of the coast in many cases to property owned by other people. News Conference Draws Curtains OnQuebec Talks (Continued from First Page). that he declined to say whether Roosevelt and Churchill might continue personal talks elsewhere pointed to a probability they would do just that. Each will. go "off the record" tomorrow.

The hints of informal, additional discussions between the two United Nations leaders pointed up two definitely factors: de The presence here, belatedly, of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, of Sir Alexander Cagogan, British permanent undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, and of Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. The fact that Allied troops are swiftly wedging apart. the inner tenses of Germany itself, which calls for immediate clarification of policies occupying the 'Reich and keeping it under a heavy Allied thumb until longer threatens to scourge the world. Eden's flight to Que-. bee, it can be said, has no connection with plans for pulverizing Japan.

Actually, those plans 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, Twin Pacific Drives Go Well For Americans (Continued from First Page) the archipelago that Nippon has held since the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. In China's far-flung fighting areas the fortunes of war 'seesawed but were underscored by a major Allied accomplishment in the Yunnan theater near the Burma border. There Chinese forces after annihilating the Japanese garrison at Tengchung effected junction with Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's army Inside However, on another Yunnan front reinforced Japanese captured a Chinese close to Lungling, the Burma road, and the fighting In that sector was described as "savage." Chinese troops broke into Wenchow, port city of Cheklang provInce 225 miles south of Shanghai, and engaged the Japanese In street fighting.

In southern Kwangtung province the Japanese captured Limkong, highway center: Nippon forces were within 85 miles of Kweilin, Kwangsi provInce, 8 key point in China's southern defenses. and an Important American airbase. An automatic' fluttescent lamp has been devised to elimi-. nate blinking. By Edward D.

Ball With Americans In the Siegfried Line, Germany, Sept. 16-(AP)Heavy German artillery Are cut down the crashing momentum of the American drive in this sector tonight as, spearheaded by tanks, the doughboys slashed through outer Siegfried line defenses to push ten miles Into Germany north of Trier. The Yanks are meeting hard but poorly organized opposition. The Americans ran Into artillery fire after they had pierced the outside Siegfried defenses here where the Germans were equipped only with small arms. Yank foot soldiers following the blazing swath cut.

by S. armored units are being forced to blast the one at a time from bunkNazis, and pillboxes that stud a the hills reaching into the German Interior from the Luxembourg border. As each of these sturdily built units in Hitler' fortifications are captured, they are being demolished by 200-pound TNT charges. These German bunkers and are far than some Maginot, of line six-foot fortifications. They of thicknesses reinforced concrete and steel and is against covered with earth.

Artillery, Are except when a direct hit is scored. upon the narrow gun slits. To capture them, the doughboys creep up upon them and plant powerful demolition charges. Through Crossfire To get at some bunkers, American infantrymen have to run gauntlet of raking enemy crossfire. They are doing the job heroically and pressing on.

"I'm through the Arst part of the Siegfried line," an officer said late today. "It may get harder as we go along but we are prepared for that. We are demolishing their fortifications, something they did not do to the Maginot line because they might try to come back and use them. Then we'd have another fight on our hands." Part of the Siegfried line which has fallen into our hands Is as powerful as it has been advertised by Paul Joseph -Goebbels, Nazi minister, of exception propagande, there are with no, big guns. Some Nazi crews consisting of "pickups" who were hastened Into the line from various military surrendered after a brief fight but all $8 (elite guard) crews are fightIng until their fortifications are blown apart.

A typical example of the latter's stubbornness oceurred early today when Pfc. Ray Milligan, Sewickley, had to use 50 pounds of TNT on one 'bunker after hand grenades and a ten pound TNT charge failed to get them out. Grenade Ineffective Milligan crawled on top of the bunker and dropped six hand grenades through a ventilator, but the Germans kept firing. used small TNT charge which failed to work. "That made me mad," said Ray, I there lugged and 50 let pounds them of have that It.

That stuff up got them. They came out ing and cursing. They were captain, lieutenant, sergeant and seven enlisted men and two dead Inside. 'Shoot me. I've done my said." duty the captain "I was willing to oblige Milligan added, "but my own captain said no." "Ray was mad all right, but no madder than the rest of us." said Sgt.

Leonard Mascette, nt Solvay, N. Y. "They kept us busy all night and there is still a lot, of them in back of us. That machinegunning and sniping you hear. back there ain't mall from home.

It's Heinies." "Some Germans fight, some don't," said Sgt. James Reutell, Chicago, Ill. "Early today a German lieutenant marched his men right up to us and surrendered them. They had told him two days to rush into the Siegfried line with his men but Instead he kept an going." Texas Accents All Democrat Electors Austin, Sept. 15-(AP)Presidential electors named by Texas Democratic convention last May -including 15 who Indicated they would not vote for President Roosevelt-were accepted today by Secretary of State Sidney Latham as the official party list but proRoosevelt forces, who have named a substitute list of electors, immediately said his action would be challenged in court.

The 23 electors selected at the convention were pledged to support the national convention nominees only if certain conditions were met. The Texas conditions were not accepted by the Chicago convention. Subsequently the 15 indicated they would cast their electoral "college votes for Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Virginia, Eight said they would support Roosevelt.

At a second Democratic conventionythis week in Dallas pro-Rooseveltl forces took control and chose a substitute list, ousting the 15 anti-Roosevelt electors. They presented the second list to Latham. Record Photos by Iwanicki. -Front and rear views of the tage owned by Mrs. Mollie M.

Powers, wife of Clarence S. Powers, president of the Puritan Bank Trust company, damaged at East River, Madison, Thursday night by high water which accompanied the hurricane gales. The entire wall of bulkhead separating the beach from the cottage was swept away by the high tide which then de- Hurricane Now Heading For Newfoundland reported to state agencies or the Red Cross. Connect cut contrasted the hurcane of 1938 with of 1944 and counted Itself lucky that the latest battering it received from high winds and heavy rains exacted a ligater toll than six. years ago.

Four deaths were reported and damage to the tobacco and apple and peada crops alone was tentatively fixed at more than $2,000,000 as the state tackled the job of restoring train, telephone and elecservice, clearing its streets of fallen trees and repairing damaged buildings particularly, along the shore. What the final cost of last night's 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 caused by the 1938 hurricane. The most conservative estimates fixed the damage of that storm at $150,000,000, with some going as high as $400,000,000. Even more stunning the death of four.

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin put into words what many in Connecticut felt about last night's storm when he expressed gratification that the damage was "so much. less, serious than in 1938." The chief executive, off to an early tour of Long Island sound communittes which were among the severely hit, attributed lighter 1085 "largely to the fact Inat advance warning was so general and so widely observed." Those who died in the storm, 8.8 awesome in its fury even though less destructive than that of 1938, were: Michael L. Waldron of New Havkilled by an electric shock when he came in contact with bigh voltage wire. Frank Schofield, 40, of Bethany, injured fatally by an automobile in Naugatuck.

Merton R. Darrow of Niantic, drowned In Niantic river while -trying Morton to secure a small sailboat. Spencer, 15-year-old boy from Hebron, found, dead by the Coast Guard in a row boat in Long Island Sound near New London. Crop and property damage suftered by tobacco growers was expected to go well beyond 000. Ralph C.

Lasbury, 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 $1,100,000. Russell S. Anderson, assistant farm agent in Hartford county, estimated that the damage to the state's apple crop alone would be $1,000,000. The governor left his car and went or foot to several beaches in the Clinton-Westbrook-Old Lyme areas inspect the damage. It was along this portion of the coast that the storm's center presumably hit and it was there, said the governor, that the scenes today most nearly resembled the devastation in 1938.

Scores of small cottages, had work, porch rails and garage doors, The bulkhead to the Smith property held The first and second floors of both houses escaped serious damage. The damage sustained at the Powers cottage was about the most serious of any of the summer homes owned by Meriden persons at Madison. Russians Hurl Nazis Into Sack Near Warsaw (Continued from First Page) of them, between Praga and Warsaw. During yesterday's actions the Russians and their collaborating Polish army units captured 11 localities north of Praga, Fighting along the Warsaw-Danzig railway on the east bank of the Vistula they seized Apollo, two and onehalf miles northwest of Praga, and a series of other towns stretchIng 12 miles up to the Narew river at Rynia. These captures herded the Germans back Into an 18-mile deep funnel formed by the juncture of.

the Nares and Vistula at Modlia, 20 miles northwest of Warsaw. Inject Political Note Although Moscow its injected a political note in communique by saying that "not a single soldier of the so-called underground army" Polish General Bor was found in captured Praga, there were some signs of an easing of the strained. relations between Moscow and the Polish GovernmentIn Exile Dondon. al The Poles here circulated statement saying that General Bor had reported that Red army planes had dropped food and ammunition to the Poles fighting inside Warsaw. and the Polish Committee of.

National Liberation the. Sovietsponsored organization challenging the authority of the Polish regime--made a broadcast- saluting Warsaw's heroic defenders and promising their -liberation within a matter of days. In southern Poland the Red army drove another spearhead 10. miles southwest of Sanok in the Carpathian foothills, capturing Plonna, which la only nine miles from the Czechoslovak- border. Safety Board Appoints Four To Fire Dept.

(Continued from First Page) ing into the services, and those posts are vacated in favor of; those returning after the war, 80 that anyone accepting a job as a temporary regular does so for duration of the war, or until the fireman whose place is being taken returns. Mr. Dupuis listed as a mill- CLOSED MONDAY and TUESDAY Sept. 18th and 19th To Observe Jewish New Year BROWN'S DUE TO CONDITIONS BEYOND OUR CONTROLLACK OF POWER WE ARE FORCED TO BE CLOSED TODAY BOEHLE'S UPTOWN BAKERY 310 E. MAIN ST.

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