Portsmouth Herald (Newspaper) - June 27, 1944, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Weather Forecast Pair and warmer Herald temperatures past 34 high 86 low 59 noon day 86 VOL LIX NO 231 H TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 27 1944 Continuing The New Hampshire Gazette Established October 7 Co P TAKING UP THE GAVEL as permanent chairman of the lican national convention today dtp Joseph Martin of declared that the GOP would an enduring peace BRITISH WITHIN THREE MILES OF CAEN CHERBOURG ALL OURS Today By J M ROBERTS JR for DeWitt Mackenzie Capture of Cherbourg comes about js expected after the Germans did everything possible to delay the massing of Allied strength for a from the beachhead In Russia too things develop as expected and with tremendous speed While envelopment of the nay be expected as part of the of- fensive today's developments also point to the possibility of a favorite Sonet play While one army heads toward the Lithuania and Latvia by ray of three others drive toward Minsk through lev and This may be a campaign with two to get into position for the Baltic cleanup and yet without ing out of the way to provide a anvil against which a drive from the area could crush all the Germans remaining in Use pocket southeast of Minsk A new Russian map of the front shows the Red army considerably north and west toward than was announced last spring The line runs from a point lightly northwest of Kowel about 150 miles east and slightly south of Warsaw back to the Dnepr near Gomel and then almost north to the new bulge As this bulge develops it will help form one of the great pockets in the Russians love so well to catch the Nazis There are other reasons for be- I the offensive will gradually be taken up by Red armies to the j south of Zhlobin as on a great scale j It already has developed southward ram Finland i As the Minsk area is enveloped I great salient at Kowel may be pushed on to i while the great armies east of Lwow and lasi take up the fight Eddy Gilmore AP Moscow cor- respondent emphasizes that sian preparations on the parts of die front he has visited exceed thing he has ever seen Last year he told me the same thing about the drive which began July 12 Which means last year was just a preliminary compared with this plans Two interesting facts pointing to early blows in the south are con- with Gilmore's report All of his recent trips outside Moscow so as we know have been into the Ukraine So the Ukraine must be the scene of great preparations And the Germans report that Poltava in the Ukraine is our eastern bombing base Council Passes City Budget by Vote Tod ay The Portsmouth city council by a vole of ing passed through its third and final reading the 1944 budget calling for the raising of by Councilman Kennard E Goldsmith I that this budget calls for an Inne of smith who was absent at the cil meeting last Wednesday evening wnen trie budget was passed through its first two readings ex- his stand Pour councilmen including self as members of the council nance committee spent many nights conferring with various city departments to work out this get I recall that our committee voted unanimously Li vor of a budget appropriation of for the Seacoast Regional Development association I now note Martin Takes Gavel Chicago June 27 Rep W Martin of Massachusetts took up the gavel as permanent chairman of the Republican national convention today with a declaration that his party would save tional government at home and build an enduring peace Martin minority leader in the House told delegates the day of reckoning was at hand for the New Deal because people are tired of bungling and fumbling waste and extravagance arrogance and dictatorship Even some Democrats have rebelled he said We have seen the head of the Communist political party in this country Earl Browder merge his party with Sidney Hillman's CIO political action committee in a drive Objects to Salaries Also under the item of tion in the miscellaneous division of the budget I object to the aries listed for- supervisors and I also would like at this time to ex- press my disapproval of the em- ployment of persons outside Portsmouth as playground ors I think there are plenty of Portsmouth young men who could do this work I recall that our committee also approved a a week as the salary for the supervisor of the ground recreational project The payroll I saw last week called for a week With the rest of the budget I am in complete accord but I object to these points and these are my reasons for voting against passage of this measure Councilman Samuel A Birt took the floor and said I remember Your Honor that we agreed on for the regional association Who ped Mayor Charles M Dale replied that was the amount last year and that it might Continued on Page Eight Rescue Party Rides Down Grand Canyon Russo REPUBLICAN'S OPEN 1944 NATIONAL Dw ight Green of Illinois gives the welcoming address from the speaker's platform center middle background as the first session of the 1944 Republican national held in Chicago Delegates are seated In foreground with standards marking various state delegations AP Yard Floats 15th 44 Subs for a fourth term Roosevelt and the for President election of a Grand Canyon Ariz June 2 AP A second rescue party pre- pared to descend by muleback day into the depths of Grand yon hoping to save by means of a harpoon gun and a en boat three army airmen who Day's Almanac June 27 War Time Sunset pro Sunrise am High Tide pm Tomorrow am Moon Is PAIR Today's Herald Amusements 7 Cartoon 4 Classified Ads 7 Comics Crossword 4 Editorial 4 Events S Gleanings 4 Gunnin 6 Hampton Here There 4 2 Kittery New Castle Newington Newmarket Personals Public Forum Radio Rationing Sports York Congress that will be subservient to the will of those he went on It presents a vital issue of this campaign Do the people want these radical organizations with their avowed purpose to remake America j to control the presidency to secure i a rubber stamp Congress and to j dominate our Of course they don't i The first thing the Republican j party will do when it comes into i Martin said will be to re- store to Congress its responsibility and function I Labor to Keep Rights retain all the essential rights and just privileges it has Martin continued while agriculture will be assured a com- j Continued on Page Eight Me Jury Views Death Bedroom 2 Ellsworth Me June 27 3 ter seeing the bedroom in which 3 i Mrs Erma Johnson 30 was shot j bailed out of a heavy bomber and landed on isolated Tonto Plateau 500 feet above the swirling Colorado river Four seasoned park rangers and Continued on Page Eight The Portsmouth navy yard still stepping up its production pace to bring new furrows to the brows of Axis leaders yesterday afternoon sent its loth and submarines into the Piscataqua The two vessels the Piper and Threadfin were floated from the new Sponsor for the Piper was Mrs Charles W Wilkins wife of Cap- tain Wilkins USN commander of a submarine division in the Pacific Sponsor for the Threadfin was Mrs Frank G Fcx of Evans ton 111 who Continued on Page Eight Portsmouth Will See A Circus But Portsmouth will see a circus July 17 but just where it will sec it is a question At a recent the council voted to grant a license to Wallace Brothers circus to play here otv that date and to rent the old city off South street for that purpose Contracts to that fect have been signed At a meeting this morning the council voted on motion of Councilman Kennard E smith to instruct the city clerk to make every endeavor to suade the circus to its show at some other location because complaints have been registered by residents of the area near the site already agreed upon The circus officials since they have a contract can in- sist on that site the council agreed but the clerk will try to persuade them to move where voluntarily State GOP Delegates Unite to Back Dewey City Council Crumbles A f I i Authorizes As Invaders POOI closure i Tho rV Shell Jap Capital The New Hampshire delegation to the Republican national in Chicago announced last the hotel suite of Gov Robert O Blood that it would cast its 11 votes for Gov Thomas E Dewey of New York for the GOP presidential Before the delegation was polled only two of the New Hampshire gates had been pledged to Dewey Arthur Holden of Hanover of Dartmouth college and Thomas J Manning of chester According to a report the Press the group did not announce its preference for the vice presidential nomination During the meeting which was a closed session Atty Frank J Sulloway of Concord was named j national committeeman and Mrs Edward D Toland also of Concord was reelected national woman Sulloway finance agent for the Granite State Republicans since Nazis By the Associated Press first Japanese capital city to feel the tering weight of U S land artillery is crumbling under at- tacks of American marine and infantry troops who invaded Saipan only 13 days ago to death a superior court jury was w ready today to hear evidence in the speed of the assault against this capital of the Marianas islands indicated the city as of today may already are shuttling across The Japanese were too busy with the land foe boats to smother the The city council this morning on motion of Councilman John hardt voted to authorize its com- on city lands and buildings to close the municipal swimming pool on Pierce island until such time as it is put in proper condition for use Fireman Finds Purse Stolen From Woman A handbag containing in cash was recovered late yesterday afternoon after Mrs Byron Jenness At present last year's stagnant j of Rye reported to police the 1937 defeated Manning to succeed Robert P Burroughs of Manchester Burroughs some time ago announced would not serve as teeman another four years In the race for committeewoman Mrs Toland was opposed by Mrs Nellie Chase of Concord chairman of the Women's Republican club of Concord and by Mrs Grace elder of Hanover Huntley N Spaulding of ter former New Hampshire nor was chosen honorary vice man of the convention delegation yesterday morning by Governor Blood as delegation chairman roughs as national committeeman and Mrs Toland as national com- Other assignments announced by the delegation were Manning to the committee to notify the presidential nominee Harold L Fairbanks of to the committee to notify the vice presidential nominee and former U S Rep Arthur Jenks to the rales committee Sulloway in addition to his tion as committeeman was chosen by Governor and Mrs Toland for permanent work during the convention By the Associated Press American divisions cap- tured Cherbourg completely before dawn today and on the Allied left powerful tish forces advanced behind sheets of artillery and naval fire to within three miles of Caen herding seven German divisions before them and en- gulfing four towns Moscow reported the entire mile German forward salient in White Russia around lev and appeared to be collapsing under tremendous sure of four Red and sian air fleets massed from four fronts Vitebsk and Zhlobin fell yesterday and the Soviets beat in 85 miles of Minsk The Russian momentum may well carry to the Bug river flowing through Brest Berlin said the new eighth erican army corps had landed on the Cherbourg peninsula and taken positions in the southern sector perhaps for a drive south to cut off the Brittany and secure such fine as Brest Lorient and St Male A CBS broadcast from the American captured prisoners yesterday pushing the invasion total beyond Vitebsk Zhlobin Taken A few hours before General Eisenhower announced the fall of Cherbourg after five violent days of Continued on Page Eight Baseball Tonight Portsmouth baseball fans ally will get a chance to see their favorite sport tonight after more than a week of bad ther Sunset league officials an- today that the USO War Workers and the Kidder Press will clash at the South Playground tonight In uled league encounter at 8 pm It will be the first game played here since Sunday June 18 and the first league game since day June 16 Every game since has been rained out Council Allows For 4th Celebration water still is in the Mr hardt told the other members key has been lost so that the pool cannot be drained But since school closed there have been droves of youngsters using the pool on every sunny councilman from 5 also told the committee that repairs are 7 i murder trial of her husband 4 ter 41 be in Allied hands j while fighting in China India needed because youngsters have 6 The jurors were taken to the radio jumping two days i Burma swelled to new climaxes Gen broken up the buildings beside the nf Banker quietly pool and are using the pieces for To the People of this Community Men in our armed forces are investing at the rate of more than 41 million dollars a month in War Bonds This tion is ily rising Reviewing this able record Secretary of Morgenthau The men who are at the fronts the men who snow what this war really means in terms of bullets and bombs or those who are stationed in iso- lated spots and know the war for its loneliness and discomfort do not require much urging to buy Bonds They have hafi a good chance to appreciate the United States and all it stands for and they are ready to invest all they can to protect their homes their comforts the way of life they knew before they wait away The personnel of the Fifth army which is spilling blood every hour in Italy in one of the most bitterly contested campaigns of the war bought Bonds of a value of more than two Million dollars this month There is an example for you the more than THE EDITOR 2 house of Bangor Banker j of the latest accounting from Henry W estate at chester w reported a 1 end of the first yesterday raid south Attorney General Prank I Cowan of Monday declared in outlining his case that Mrs Johnson was shot as she lay in bed and that Johnson had in- formed Gushing his employer that his rifle had been discharged dentally while he was cleaning it Mrs Johnson's son Ellery rence 9 testified in municipal court that Johnson after a quarrel with his wife pointed the gun at mama and it went off featuring f THE 12 CITY HALL AUDITORIUM DOVER N H Protects Clothing Furniture Rugi against damages of This fairly large fleet inflicted no damage Tokyo said in its bland way but 16 Allied planes were downed No Allied report confirmed these claims AP Correspondent William den told of weak enemy resistance to the terrific bombardment which softened for the dier attack Admiral Nimitz followed with a report which said Americans already were scurrying through the southern part of the town which accommodates a population of Nimitz forces made secure the j southern half of the island with the capture of Mt and man peninsula The peak lying east of permits ar- tillery domination of the whole land peninsula sewed up control of Magicienne bay chief Saipan anchorage in U -S formation of a far eastern i rafts in the pool air force a sure sign the Southwest Continued on Eight In other routine business at this Continued on Page Eight bag had been snatched from her hand by a youth as she and her husband walked along Pleasant street near the church The pocketbook and its contents were intact apparently dropped or hidden by the as he fled searchers It was found un- der shrubs iri the garden of Andrew J Buzzell's home at 142 Court street by Carl Akerley of Islington street driver of the aerial ladder at the Central fire station Akerley was called in on the search by Police Continued on Page Eight PLUMBER and STEAMFITTER ALSO EXPERIENCED HELPER Fred L Wood Co TEL 156 65 BOW ST Portsmouth's biggest and best Fourth of July celebration ever was one step nearer reality today after the city council at its meeting in city hall this morning transferred from the contingent fund to irom Boston will be presented the same time at the South ground Everyone Invited Everyone is invited and are urged to bring their help defray expenses of the i the playground Tor the day program Ira A city building spector is in charge of program arrangements Jor the affair ing under the jurisdiction of a council committee made up of Frank W Hersey chairman Glenn A Race Samuel A Birt and George Bridle The holiday program all of it open free to all residents of the will start at 10 am with a bi- cycle parade and will last until 8 pm The bicycle parade will start in front of the Elks home Pleasant street and proceed to the South playground led by bers of the high school band Two bands will furnish music during the day and band concerts will be staged from 2 to 3 pm and 7 to 8 pin Professional vaudeville Brown declared today will be something doing all the time a sports program is planned there will be bottles of tonic and ice creams free for children under 12 James M Culberson and his playground supervisors will assist at the field the rest will be open and a nurse will be on duty all day In addition to a stationed at a parking place for bicycles The entire playground will be opened for persons to enjoy basket lunches and a food concession stand also will oe set up to provide light lunches Schedule Ballgame At 5 pm the Portsmouth Sunset League All-Stars will play a team Continued on Page Eight THE FIRST AMERICAN plane has landed on Saipan here it Thanks to the lar with which the took over the job of getting the newly captured and vitally important Saipan airfield in shape the torpedo plane was able to flv in from a not before it had mixed with the Japs The gunner was wounded and marine sentries stand by he is taken from the plane Inset Is a small map of Saipan upon which fighting is still hot although Americans are now in the capital city Thk an official U radiophoto International New York June D R is re- ported to have under construction a private to carry him in comfort to any point on earth Its cost will be with the plane including elevator dining room bedroom suite kitchen and bath What no nine-hole golf course or a movie projection That however is less than the cost of a Superfort But what the taxpayers want to know is how they're goinY to keep Eleanor out of it After all the First Lady has never been to the South pole to feed ings to glass to the of Zululand There was a time in the think it was during lard Fillmore's when the electorate was shocked to learn that their chief executive had gone and installed a tin bathtub in the White House Oh well with like this one maybe Franklin D intends to become director general of the world and cover the entire territory regularly In which case he might fool us turn the presidential super- plane over to Mr Wallace and let Henry start delivering milk all over ttu
