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The messenger., 1944-10-01
TOWN MEETING APPROVES INCREASE IN BUDGET

A budget totaling $224,161.73 was approved at the annual town meeting held Monday, October 2.
 The figure represents an in crease of $6,863.O4 over the bud get of year ago and is $18,212.O2 more than was actually expended in the last fiscal year not includ- ing another $1,5OO requested by the town recreational committee which item will be passed on at an adjourned meeting October 16, and notwithstanding a reduction of $4,833.79 in the redemtion of debt account.
 Most of the overall increase in the general fund is accounted for by siezable boosts in the amounts allocated to the Board of Finance continguent fund, the police de- partment and the highway ac count. The School budget was also increased by $1,674.82.
 Of the total $136,118.05 is for the general account of which 1850 is said to be refundable by the state for highway purposes. The School budget is $1O8,O43.68.
 As customary, the laying of the tax rate was tabled until the March meeting.
The messenger., 1944-10-01
KIN OF LOCAL FAMILY
 AWARDED FLYING CROSS

S/Sgt. James J. Leahy, Hartford, nephew of Fred B. Pinney and well-known here, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while serving as top turret gunner on a Flying Fortress in combat bom- bardment missions over Germany and German occupied countries" S/Sgt. Leahy receiving his train ing at Fort Myers, Fla. He oper- ates from an Eighth Air Force Bomber Station in England.
The messenger., 1944-10-01
CROTTY AND DUMEER
 GET COMMISSIONS

The Air Force paid rare com pliments to two Bloomfield boys last month when they presented Jack Crotty and Albert Dumeer with the Navigator's Wings and commissioned both Second Lieu tenant.
 The unusal in Crotty's case is that he earned his commission after 14 months training. Dumeer's dis tinction is that he has just at tained his twentieth birthday, thus becoming one of the youngest technical officers in the Air Corps. Both men rated exceptionally high in their training class courses.
 It. Crottv, the son of Mrs. Az nes M. Crotty of 37 Tunxis Ave-, entered the service July 23, 1943. After receiving his basic training at Gulfport, Miss. he spent sev- eral months at Ceder Falls, Iowa. Tn January this year he was trans ferred to Santa Ana, California, for special training as an aerial navigator. He was moved to Hondo, Texas, in May and it was at the latter Post that he was given his wings and Commission on September 25. He is now as- signed to the air field at Lincoln, Nebraska.
 It. Dumeer entered the service as an Air Cadet December 21, 1942, and was first assigned to the air student school at Bucknell University. At later periods he took on other training assignments at Nashville, Tenn, Maxwell Field, Ala, and Moody Field, Ga., but he was graduated as a navigator and presented his wings and com mission at Selman Field, La. Sep tember 4. He has been assigned to B-24 squad at Walla Walla, Wash. Dumeer is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert J. Dumeer of Blue Hills Ave. His 19 year old brother, Arnold, is with the US. Engineers in France.
 Both It. Crotty and It. Dumeer were home for brief travelling time visits following receipt of their commissions.
The messenger., 1944-10-01

Hearing that the girls have the choice of wearing hose that bags at the knees and ankles or painting their legs, the few local boys left hereabouts swear they will do their Christmas shopping in the paint stores.
The messenger., 1944-10-01

MT. and Mrs. James w. Garfield and family of 97 Wadhams Rd. have moved to Newington, Conn.
 Mrs. Joseph Douville of Park Avenue is home from St. Francis Hospital where she was a patient for three weeks.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Russia
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lieutenant general was captured, as
well as Gen. Canaan.
The new roundup brought to
IS $50 the number Of German cap
tives taken on the southern sector
of the White Russian front up until
yesterday.
The offensive against the Firms
on the far northern front between
Lakes Ladoga and Onezhskoe
(Onega) progressed just as steadily
Moscow reported, and during the
day more than 80 places on this
sector, including the district center
Of Pryazha, were taken.
Germans Routed.
Since June % four Soviet armies
have crushed across q 250-mile sec
tor on which the Germans had
stood almost unmolested since Feb
ruary and on which they had built
some Of their strongest fortifica-
tions.
In turning the sudden German
defeat into a rout, the Russians
have announced the killing or cap
ture Of 183,930 enemy troops in a
|tabulation admittedly still incom-
plete Moscow accounts said the
weeks figures should rise to at least
$50, 900 dead and 75,000 captured.
The gains also put the Russians
slightly closer to Berlin than are
the Americans and British in
France and Italy. The three major
Allied fronts all were a little over
800 miles by air from the NaZi
capital.
Moscow dispatches reported the
Germans still were trying counter
attacks in White Russia, but indi-
Gated they were desperate, short
lived maneuvers. '~ 81 -a'
Marshal Stain In an order of
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Boyle
Continued From First Page

tacular break through last night
along the Beaumont Hauge- -Greville
line with our doughboys after shak-
ing them up with artillery.
They failed to use q lot of strong
defensive positions that would have
done q lot of good. We kept the
pressure of them so steadily they
never were able to get set any
where
The Germans had an unexpected
quantity Of artillery-75s, 105s, 155s
and about five huge railway guns
They had been shelling the Amer
leans with two OF these biggest guns
but the three others were un.
manned.
Their artillery was very mobile
They would fire for a half hou,
from one position during the night
and then shift to another. =
Overnight the Americans flushed
out two German commanders, 1t
Col Mueller and 1t Col. Kiehl, from
their pillboxes. Kiehl, a fanatical
Nazi, insisted "a hours ago that the
Germans keep on firing despite
heavy casualties, apparently be-
lieving they could tie up the Amer
leans enough to await an expected
German counterattack from the
south.
The Nazis might have fought
longer if they had brought more
liquor, Judging from the condition
of goodly number of prisoners
But they also ran out of ammuni-
ton in many cases.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Denmark
Continued From First Page.

service said, and the last ferry de-
parted for Sweden at noon.
With Denmark almost completely
cut OF, it was difficult to obtain q
clear picture, and most Of the re-
ports came in from the under
ground or from the few refugees
who managed to get to Sweden.
A report circulating in Malmo said
the Germans had threatened to
shoot hostages and bomb the capital
unless the Danes called of the
strike.
The Danish press service de-
clared, however, that the disorders
would continue until curfew and
state-of-emergency orders were
lifted and the Nazis withdrew the
1000 members of the Schalburg
Korps who had been sent in to en-
force them. y
The Germans were reported in
possession of the national bank,
the town hall, the central station
and other ofncial buildings and had
seized the water, gas and electricity
works in order to get the utilities
running again.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Citizenship Restored
10 Poles Aiding Reds;
Church Curb Eased
~ the Associats Pre6s.

~ the ASsoctAted PTe1a.
s MOSCOW, July 1.-The Soviet
Union took steps today to restore
Polish citizenship to Poles Ia Russia
fightiIik the Germans and to per-
init Russtans reviving churches
throughout the nation to deal d.
rectly With the government.
The Supreme Soviet issued de-
cree granting inhabitants Of ths
western provinces Of White Russia
and the Ukraine, Is well Is Soviet
citizens Of Polish nationality else
where, who are serving In the Polish
army in Russia or who are aiding
in the fight against Germany, the
right to adopt Polish citizenship.
Members Of their families were In.
cluded.
They would be exempt from . de-
cree Of November -, 1880, which
declared Inhabitants Of the western
provinces Of White Russia and the
Ukrainian republics were Soviet
citizens.
The council Of peoples commissars
set up new committee OF religious
a1airs for handing matters be-
tween all creeds and the govern
ment. giving rise to belief that num-
erous faiths may open churches
throughout the nation.
That right already Is granted un-
der the constitution, but there has
been no wide-scale religious re-
vival. Moscow, for example, has
only one Roman Catholic church
and there has been no oflicial chan
mel through which to deal with the
government.
The Council Of Polish Patriots,
following the citizenship decree, re-
nounced the London Polish govern
ment-in-exile as based on ''the ille-
gal constitution Of 1885"
1t declared that the National
Council of Liberation was recog-
nized as the organization which
would lead in forming provisional
government truly representing the
Polish people"
The number Of persons who will
have the right to cl1ange from RUS
sian citizenship to. Polish Is not
available. The decree said Poles
could apply either to the committee
in the presidium OF the Supreme
Soviet-which includes representa-
tiyes Of the League sof Polish Pa
triots-or through the command of
the Polish Army.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
London Poles Say Decree
Fails to Settle Dispute
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July l.-Poles in Lon.
don saw little hope today. OF an i'm.
provement in relations between
Russia and the Polish government.
in-exile here IS q result of a Sovie,
decree enabling Poles fighting along.
side the Red Armies to regain theil
citizenship.
They said the decree did not impl,
that the lands where the fightine
Poles formerly lived. now called b,
Moscow Western White Russia anc
the Western Ukraine-incorpor
into the Soviet Union in 1899 after
the German and Russian invasion.
OF, Poland-would be considered 9
part of Poland.
In fact, they thought that the at.
tack by the Council of Polish Patriot,
on the administration OF Premier
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's exile gov.
ernment, which appeared stimuli
taneously with the sdecree, only
added to the dispute.
The decree was interpreted here
a applying to the Poles who fied
to Russia ahead Of the German ad-
vance, or were in Polish territory
which the Russians occup1ed in 1899
Evening star., 1944-07-02

at a crossroads for approximately
half an hour. Still it seemed the
entry to Cherbourg could not be
long delayed.
Actually this regiment sent patrols
into the town, which proceeded az
far as the water front that night
But this was a long way from the
capture OF the city.
The next morning they were
forced back little. We arrived Just
after a battalion headquarters had
been hit by an air-bursting shell,
seriously wounding five officers and
men. 1t seemed that the position
was more dubious than 1t had been
the day before.
Cold and Drizzly.
1t was cold. drizzly, disheartening
The little group of reporters and
photographers billeted with the 9th
returned to division headquarters
prepared to write our stories and
call 1t a day. But no sooner were
typewriters opened than word came
that elements of another regiment
which had approached the city
through the southwestern suburb OF
Equeurdreville with its grim, frown-
ing hilltop fortress actually were
fighting in the streets Of Cherbourg
and had proceeded as far as the
docks.
We crossed the hill upon which
snipers still were firing and which
was a tangle of barbed wire and
went down a sunken road where
Maj. Woodrow w. Bailey of Laurel,
Md, had established his command
post on the very edge of Cherbourg
Three companies were in the city.
Two photographers and myself had
the dubious honor of being the
first correspondents in the besieged
city. but We were driven out a few
minutes later by the most intensive
fire have ever known.
Command Post Moved.
The antiaircraft guns had been
turned on us. Mai Bailey had to
move his command post, although
the infantrymen remained in the
city. Crossing the hill again in, the
face Of sniper fire was d perilous
undertaking, but there was no way
out of it.
The next day, in a driving cold
rain, l followed Gen. Eddy to, the
temporarily rebuffed Octeville Sec
tor where the troops also had pene-
trated close to the edge of the city
and set up command post in q
suburban church yard
The general questioned some
French civilians as to where the
enemy were located, and was told
that some staff officers were at the
Villa Maurice. lovely old home
about 500 yards down the street.
We proceeded on foot with due
caution. There was no sign of life
in the villa 1t seemed obvious that
the prey had escaped The infantry
deploying through gar
dens in the face of heavy sniper
fire.
Battalion Takes Over Hospital.
Disappointed, We went to the
Equeurdreville sector when the in
fantry battalion. which had pene-
trated the city the evening before,
now was in complete command and
had just taken over hospital full
OF German wounded, with about $50
wounded Americans who had been
prisoners there.
The place had been an inferno.
There was only one surgeon. The
air was fetid with the smell of
gangrene. Still the wounded Amer
leans said they had been well treat
ed insofar as this lay within the
power Of the Germans, but they were
Evening star., 1944-07-02

are called. The first day I found
myself in the center of a couple
of hot ones.
Col. Kaufman's battalion had
been halted by the presence of 8
strong German position on a hill
side about a mile away. 1t was
deemed wise to reduce this position
before proceeding. A mortar bar
rage was ordered.
Enemy Caught Unawares.
We crawled through ferns to q
hilltop to watch 1t. We saw the
enemy moving about carelessly
entirely unsuspecting the nell that
was about to be let loose On them
We rather pitied them.
Suddenly came the sharp COM
mand, Watch out!" and sniper
bullets began to whistle around
Five Germans had crept up on us
One Of the party was nicked in the
neck.
The snipers we're rounded up
and one of them shot before they
could do further damage. But in
the meantime, the enemy mortars
had spotted our position and shells
began falling dangerously close.
There was nothing to do but
run for it along a deep ditch by
the roadside. falling on our faces
every minute or SO. At almost the
same time a hell of artillery fire
landed on nearby village, wrecking
most of the houses and catching
several American jeeps.
The next day the division was
deluged with correspondents. Word
had gotten around of its astounding
progress. One regiment was almost
at the outer southern defenses of
the city, which was concealed be-
hind high hills
Infantry Advances Behind Barrage.
A concentrated bombardment
from the air was ordered for nearly
two hours at five minute intervals.
Hundreds of tons of bombs were
turned on the hillsfdes.' t'' 'i*t'
There seemed bare possibility
that the enemy might be SO disor-
ganized by this that it would be
possible to pass through these outer
defenses without much resistances.
This was futile hope. After the
air bombing. the infantry advanced
behind an artillery barrage. but it
was f1re fights and more fire fights
all the way.
The bombing, it turned out later.
had put some of their big guns and
strongest positions out of action.
but it had done little to subdue the
numerous centers of resistance all
along the way.
For the first time this afternoon I
saw a white flag go up from an
enemy position on a mortar blasted
hillside about half mile away.
Finally about 80 soldiers risked the
fire and came out. Some stayed
behind
Met Stiff Resistance.
The ones who surrendered were
-gunned by those in the
stronghold as they came through a
gap In a hedge. Progress was slow.
The fall of Cherbourg still seemed
a long way OF.
Most of the correspondents got
tired OF waiting and returned to
Army headquarters. But two DAYS
later one infantry regiment was
found in the outskirts of the town
OF Octeville, one of the suburbs.
They were meeting stiff resistance.
A group of us were pinned down
by shellfire in a Stine farmhouse
Evening star., 1944-07-02

ucdl VI COllCcIu dS W ucW ~ COulC
be accomplished.
Actually at Nehou it was q rather
shallow stream with wide marshes
on either side. The bridge had only
been partially demolished when Col
Kaufman. one of the most pictur-
esque battalion leaders in the Army
and who played big part in the
capture of Bizerte, had pushed
through to the eastern bank of the
Douve.
Rest Of Regiment Crosses.
Gen. Eddy ordered the men taken
across on tank destroyers, which
were to play notable part in the
campaign. The rest of the regiment
crossed the Douve that evening.
| Information of an enemy counter
attack became more alarming. The
corps commander ordered a "sere-
made" of the area where the counter
attacking troops were supposed to
have assembled. This consisted of
simultaneous battering Of an area
400 yards square on given signal
by every gun in the corps, using
the artillery both of the corps itself
and Of its three divisions. 1t worked.
The counterattack did not materi-
alize.
The next day was an easy one.
characterized chiefly by the capture
of an abandoned German hospital
near Nehou. 1t had been aban-
doned in a hurry. The Germans
had left most of the food and med
ical equipment behind.
The place was a scene of utmost
confusion. It's wards and yard We're
Uttered with debris of blankets,
straw-filled mattresses, helmets.
broken guns, boots and clothing.
Every man in the 9th Division head
quarters had two meals of fresh
fried eggs as result of that
windfall.
Second Vital Accomplishment.
Early the next morning the d.
vision commander was wakened
long before dawn with the report
that another infantry regiment had
pushed on to the sea. American
troops were in Barnville. This was
the second vital accomplishment of
the campaign.
Before nightfall elements of two
regiments had reached the sea and
the German 77th Division was
caught in a trap that night. It's
commanding general, trying to
escape southwark, was killed when
his convoy was trapped by tank
|destroyers.
We did not know he was dead
at the time His body was not
among the 80 or more which Law
IN the road or crouched at the
wheels of the wrecked vehicles.
One man literally had been blown
to pieces. His body lay in ditch in
2o parts, but we could not find any
generals insignia on the clothes.
1t was assumed that Gen. Stege-
man probably was fugitive among
the hedges. Later it developed he
had been killed by another outfit
of the 9th Division later that
night.
Fought for Days at Time.
The next day the whole 9th
Division made a quick turn north
ward on Cherbourg. The original
mission, the men had thought, had
been only to cut the peninsula. This
had been accomplished with unex-
pected speed, so that the division
now was in peculiarly favorable
position for drive at right angles
to its previous direction.
For week the men had marched
and fought for days at a time
They had had only cat maps under
hedges, but as the new plan un-
folded there was tremendous en-
thusiaSm.
On the Cherbourg" became n
battle cry.
In my memory this northern pro-
gress now is confused tumble AZ
fire fights, as the hedge row battles
Evening star., 1944-07-02

dirty. They were walking skeletons.
The next morning the fortress and
arsenal, which had held out during
the night. fell without resistance and
the city was completely In American
hands, The fortress Of Europe had
been preached.
Evening star., 1944-07-02

the DAY announced the liberation Of
Borisov, but this had been a fore-
gone conclusion.
Soviet accounts described the
Germans falling back into Minsk as
demoralized remnants, with storm
troopers and Gestapo agents LASH
ing frightened troopers into Or
ganizing defense of the city.
You'll forget how you spent II. but
not how you saved 1t. Let's all back
the attack: Buy more War Bonds.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Club PIons Folk Music

A program Of recorded Peruvian
Indian folk music as played on ma
tive instruments will be presented
at a meeting Of the Club de las
Americas at pm. Wednesday in
the National Archives auditorium.
Evening star., 1944-07-02
Music Event Slated Friduy

The Public Library summer series
OF recorded music will be continued
Friday in the garden Of the Pet
worth Branch Library Georgia ave-
nue. and Upshur street NV. The
concert will start at 7:45 pm.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27

MR.. WELLES proposes first
wi that East Prussia be de-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Nonpolitical Candidate Roosevelt
By BENJAMIN DeCASSERES

son nor Cleveland, neither Madison nor Theodore
Roosevelt, thought it un-American or beneath
their dignity to run in the usual partisan political
sense" -
NIOW, what meat hath this our goodly squire
~ from Hyde Park fed on that he repudiates
the fundamental political procedure Of his country
political partisanshp?
Above the two-party, or dozen-party, system
of free democracies stands oneparty dictatorship.
Of course, no one accuses Candidate Roosevelt
of any such hidden motive-yet
But isn't it curious, nevertheless, that Candi.
date Franklin Delano Roosevelt should assert that
he would not run in the usual partisan political
sense?
In what manner, then, is he running?
AS commander in chief of all the people!
Is he as military head Of the Army and Navy
commanding us to vote for him?
If we are not to vote for or against Candidate
Roosevelt in the usual partisan political sense"
how then are we going to vote for him!
If he isn't a candidate of partisan political
party, why was he nominated by one and why did
he write letter of acceptance to the chairman OF
national committee Of partisan political party!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Back to Common Sense
Q,yE;;;7;7

2-The treatment OF Germany
would be decided by "the time when
she surrendered. :"
3-He would not" surrender the
sovereign power of this country to
declare war.
q Negro segregation" in the
army is a military problem.
5-People who make it their bust
ness to divide the American people
should not be entrusted with the task
of government. (That is, apparently,
a reference to the New Deals H.
year attempt to widen the breach
between capital and labor and estab-
lish mutually antagonistic classes.)
6-The essence of substantial re-
covery lies in PRIVATE ENTER
PRISE.
IA third term is destructive
of the highest American traditions"
8-The Securities Exchange Com
mission law should be changed so
that larger number of good securi.
ties will become available to the
public
9-"Foreign policy" concerns a
problem which the world has mot
yet succeeded in solving, meaning
world peace. "
uERE is the very absolute OF COM
IL mon sense.
There are no promises impossible
of fulfillment
There are no highfalutin book
born principles.
There are no theatrcalltles, no
bemuddling rhetoric, no cocksure-
ness about the hidden future, no
hysteria, no I AM egotism in those
answers
They are the answers of a plain
American to plain questions.
1t is quite evident that Gov.
Dewey is going to run for president
on his own platform, taking from
the Chicago declaration what he likes
and modifying those things he dis
agrees with.
There is no faint of foreign inf1u
ences in either Dewey or Bricker.
They are way back Americans,
as completely U. S. A. from toe to
crown as pumpkin rie-or Lincoln.
They mean return to sanity
and their unuttered slogan is: BACK
TO COMMON SENSE!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Brain Game

Give yourself 10 for each correct an
suer through question six. 90 each Tor
remaining two questions For each In
correct answer subtract ave. ANY score
ss, or higher. Ia excellent