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-535A eset) -{nEwsrarer) ) FOURTEEN PAGES HEMPSTEAD TOWN, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.-SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1944. »--PRICE FOUR CENTS COUTANCES TAKEN. YANKS PRESS TO SEA GPL, SINLEY, OF DIES IN ACTION Lynbrook Marine, A Battle Veteran, , Casualty Corporal Wilmer C. Sinley of. Lynbrook, was killed 'and Private Joseph P. Kraineik of Mineols, and Corporal Law- rence J. Thorne of Farming- dale-all marines -w ere wounded in action, the navy department reported today. The war department announced j that Sergeant Charles Mildrum of Minecla and Second Lieutenant Richard Dennis of Lynbrook are prisoners of war. Private First Class Clarence Doughty of Lake- view and Captain Ira Flesch of Hempstead were wounded in action. Private First Class John Law- rence Schoeneman, Jr. of Seaford has been injured in England 'and Staff t Edward M. Oliveir, 33, of 36 ige street, Inwood, has PVT. CLARENCE DOUGHTY Mrs. Robert Doyle of 8 Win- throp street, Lynbrook,. recently received official information that her brother, Corporal Sinley, who was with a marine raider outfit, was killed in action at Saipan. had fought at Roi and Namur with - ms Alf - the Eeurm manes division befor®| ori. Lawrence rRorn® seas last January. was employed by the Atlantic and Pa- cific Téa company. A. communicant of the St. James Methodist. church in Lynbrook, the w! was a member of the and ladder company of the Lynbrook fire department. Wounded In Normandy \I've been hurt a little.\ Cap- tain Flesch wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Flesch of 103 Terrace avenue, Hempstead; \A pieceof schrapnel went through my'-cheek, below my left eye. It went into my sinuses and lodged in my upper left jaw, knocking out a tooth.\ The captain, who went to the French coast on the day after the invasion, added that the wound wasn't 00:12: and that he wt} receiving care in a hospital in England. A member of the chemical war- fare corps, the Hempstead officer i the Service: in February, 1941, and sailed to England last Garden City; Another Set For Friday Introductory evidence was pre- and apportionment, assigned by the county court, at. the Garden City. village hall, yesterday. The three men. were appointed to serve in the proceedings to de- termine the: value of 20 acres of land, which the village: of Gar- den 'City is seeking to condemn for 'use im expanding its sewage disposal plant. Another Hearing Friday Leo Fishel of the Littleton and Levy law frm, appeared on be- half, of Garden City Downs, inc., owners of the property. William H. , Cordes ~of' Garden: City is president of the company. The evidence was heard by George H. Munley, attorney 'of 'Great Neck, chairman; former Mayor George M.. Estabrook of Hempstead, real estate and. construction; and . Al- fred 'A. Sorge of Long Beach; real estate. Eugene R. Courtney, vil- lage clerk, -will be the commis- sioners' clerk.. Another hearing will be held 'at the village hall, Friday at 10 a; m, That will be preceded by> an independent: in- spection of the- land involved by was graduated from the Min- High school and Long Island wersity and was teaching chem- in the Mineola High school when he enlisted. His wife, Mrs. Florence'Flesch and 11-month-old i Colonial Second Lieutenant Dennis, who was reported missing over Roma- nia on June 6, is now a prisoner of the Romanian government, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A, Dennis of 183 Ocean avenue, Lyn- brook, have been officially advised. Pilot of a B-24 Liberator, he joined the air corps in March, 1944, the- commissioners, (Tuesday and was transferred to the 15th morning.. =%\ air force in Italy in the latter part Opposition, unanticipated 'by > Garden City, sprang up in protest to the village extending its limits for the sewage disposal plant project. After a public hearing, the vil- lage petitioned the county court to appoint the commissioners. Judge Henry J. A. Collins ruled in favor of in grant- ing the petition. Once the legal technicalities are overcome, according to Village Clerk Eugene R. Courtney, the project for the sewage disposal plant will be pressed by the-vil- lage. Facilities of the plant have been overtaxed because of the large incr@ase in population brought about by wartime condi- tions. New seepage beds will be constructed <to take. care' of the overflow.-and to 'remedy present conditions, the village has said. Ll FRENCH WARN GERMANS LONDON, July 29-P)-The French Committee .of .Liberation in a broadcast today over the Algiers radio, threatened the Ger- mans with reprisals within <the reich itself some day if the Nazis commit atrocities against the of May. The young airman was grad- uated from the East Rockaway High school and attended Brook- lyn academy. A brother, Sergeant James F. Dennis, is stationed at Camp Davis, North Carolina. Top Turret Gunner Missing over Yugoslavia since June 26, Sergeant Mildrum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Mil- drum of 303 Wellington road, Mineola, is now a prisoner of the German government. R A top turret gunner on a B-24 Liberator, She arrived at his base Continued on Page 3, Col. 8 Om Features F's??- : E m;=n\\l French population. Calendar &-18-t f r 6 <+] Empire City Selections cL'L'm' H it. “3... i i; (At Jamaica) ooc. vase luis Tim, \*** )| 1ST-Hal, Isology, Ho-Beau. “7:5“. ities. __| six Day Serial _| 2ND-White Paper, Gallant Bull, dening Ae Music Hall. heer 0\ s/ Garsen ° »| 3RD-The Doge, Chief Barker, *We lm 1] Post Graduate. © 4TH-Singing Torch, Flying Easy, WEATHER FORECAST Ringmenow. aioe toe ence sTH-Wait a Bit, First Fiddle, warty Rather warm and humid. Four Freedoms. Laver, and PAM gTH__Step Across, Fire Sticky, All Bright. Entered as ond Class Matter TTH-Blue Whistler, Strategic, 4% the Postoffice of \QT. N. #. Challedone. * On Today's Casua ist SEs iON HELO [Speci BUREAU WLMNO'S VALUE) FOR VETS FOUR Commissioners. Meet In| Is Not Needed In County, sented at the first hearing before|bureau for the handling of local three commissioners of estimate|veterans'> problems will be con- CAPT. IRA FLESCH &-- SGT. EDWARD OLIVERI Opponents To Plain . ~Declare The ‘possibility of. a special sidered by members of the board 31 supervisors, it waslleamed to- ay. Opposition Is Noted Those opposing the setting up of a special bureau say there is a veterans' vrelief and executive board already located Nassau and that a special bureau, similar to those being established in other parts of the state by Edward C. O. Thomas of Garden City, would be out of place in Nassau. ~ Thomas recently was appointed head~of the new state agency by Governor Thomas E. Dewey and the original plan enveloped a ten- tative proposal to use civilian de- fense organizations \to help the veterans of World war II. Authorities point out that there are several counties throughout ; the state which do not have veter- | ans organizations already estab- | lished and in that case, a new bureau of this sort would be of | considerable value. Nassau's veterans' bureau. headed by 'N. Forrest Jones of ; Hempstead, last year provided | howe relief for nearly 300 families. BENJAMIN HOMANS | MARRIED 57 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Ho- man of 73 East-avenue, Freeport, celebrated their wedding anhi- versary, yesterday. They received greetings and personal visits from many friends. Fifty-seven years ago the for- mer Miss Agnes Thomson of New York city and Mr. Homan of Yap- hank were married: at the home of the Methodist minister in Free- port. A year later they took up residence in that village and have lived there since. Mr. Homan is a registered archi- tect and over a period of years has built many of the fine residences in Freeport and other Long Island villages. Hand carving is his hob- by, specializing in ship models. Many of his models have been dis- played'in the village from time to time. Mr.-and Mrs: Homan are mem- bers of the Freeport Methodist church, and dn former years Mrs. Homan- took an active part in church affairs, 'The couple has no children. SUGAR REPLACEMENTS «NOW ALLOWED BY OPA WASHINGTON, July 290-(P)- Consumers may get replacements of sugar which is lost, damaged, destroyed or stolen by applying to local war price and rationing boards for: certificates, the OPA announced today. This action, effective August 2, adds sugar to previous OPA regu- lations affecting _meats, cheeses, butter, foods. and other rationed food items, OPA said. lty List \CV. VALKENBURE AITES ARE HELD Bishop Mm Attends; 200 Priests Take Part In Seaford Service The solemn mass of requiem for the Rev. Herman J. Valkenburg of Seaford, who died Monday, was sung by more than 200 priests yes- terday in the Church of St. Wil- liam the Abbott, Seaford, where he had been pastor since March 15, 1937. The Right Rev. Thomas E. Molloy, S. T. D., bishop of Brooklyn. and Long Island, gave the blessing. Father Valkenburg died in Holy Family hospital, Brooklyn, after a brief illness, The body was brought to the rectory Wednesday and taken into the church Thursday afternoon where a guard of honor of members of the Holy Name so- ciety watched through the night and until the start of the service of the Divine Office yesterday at 10 a, m. It was estimated that about 2,000 persons visited the church. The Rev. Francis Ryan, pastor of St. Mary's church, Roslyn; who was a close friend of Father Valkenburg since they were boys together in Ireland, gave the eulogy and was celebrant at the mass, The Rev, John O'Doherty of St. Agnes church, Brooklyn, was deacon, and the Rev. Charles Cun- ningham of St. Anne's church, Flushing, was sub-deacon. The Rev. Andrew Heaney of St. Mary's church, Islip, was master of ceremonies. The church, seat- ing about 600 persons, was filled to capacity and many other per- sons stood outside during the mass. About 60 priests and many par- ishioners and friends went to St. Charles cémétery, Pinelawn, for the burial rites. Father Valkenburg, a native of Ballinrobe, Ireland, was ordained at All Hallows college, Dublin, and ame to this country in 1922 after serving in Leeds, England. Before he came to Seaford, he was pastor of St John's church, Bohemia. He is survived by a brother, Joseph Valkenburg, of Ballinrobe. DR. PYENSON'S BOOK ON GARDENS Is OUT The first publication of \Pest Control -in the Home Garden,\ written by Dr. Louis Pyenson of Elm street, Farmingdale, has been released. The book of about 200 pages illustrated with 111 koda- chrome slides taken by the author. In the foreword the publishers have written, \Dr. Pyenson, a backyard gardener himself and instructor in plant protection at the State Institute of Applied Ag- riculture, Farmingdale, has con- stantly kept in mind the problems faced by amateur and experienced gardeners in their war against plant pests. The latest and most effective methods as well as older methods are given.\ A book reviewer noted: that \the volume will be more impor- tant than the most popular best seller,\ The preface of the book, by Dr. Pyenson, announceg that \Millions of people are groWing crops for the first time as the necessary and patriotic endeavor. For those who are earnestly striving to grow healthy plants and take pride in growing crops this book was writ- ten.\ . ARCARO'S INJURIES ARE NOT SERIOUS Eddie Arcaro, jockey, of Rock- ville Centre, who was thrown yes- terday in the fourth race at Ja~ maica, was dismissed from Mercy hospital this morning in good con- dition. He was taken to the hospi- tal yesterday for X-rays and ex- amination. The, accident happened when another mount shied from a piece of paper, then swerved into Arcaro's_ mount, Meadow Maid, which stumbled and threw his rider. Arcaro was expected to ride in today's races. Ground Gains Reported On Both Tinian Anfilam By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Capturing a second air- field, Ameri¢an forces today chased fleeing Japanese into the south half -of Tinian is- . land while other Yanks tight- ened a trap on 2,000 Nips at Guam, swelling the total of more than 27,000 of the en- emy killed im the Marianas. Impressive gains on both islands were Reported by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and front line correspondents The marine @rive on Tinian, the island next to conquered Saipan, was turning imi a rout. Sweeping across eight ®quare miles in a move on sh@ll-shattered _ Tinian town, the le@thernecks at times lost all contack with the Japanese, who were racimg toward eventual death in the hilly south sector. - __ Push Forward On Guam On Guam, and soldiers punched 500 mnore yards out on Orote peninsula, pushing closer to the seaward @nd the 2,000 Nips doomed to dig in defense of an air field and the Sumay naval base. The defeMders hold less than half the peningula on Guam's west coast. - North and outh of the penin- sula, the Yanks crashed inland for gains up to tw@ miles, They threw back a fierce eounterattack, kill- ing 2,000 Japs, They moved within 800 yards of Agana, Guam's capi- tal. city. They won three strategic heights, ranging up to more than 1,000 feet elevittion. Conservatively, 4,700 Japs have been killed @A Guam through Thursday, on@ week after it was invaded, Nimi#z reported. More than 2,000 othérs have been slain on Tinian and 21,036 have been buried on Saipan. On' Tinian, Where the Jap-built 4,500-foot Ushi air field already is serving Ameri¢an planes, the ma- vines seized afother airstrip near Gurguan point __ Richard W. Johnston, represent- ing the combified Allied press, re- ported from @ flagship at Tinian that: \The (conquered) area is con- siderably | gre@ter than Tarawa, Kwajalein - and - Eniwetok com- bined and is Mmmeasurably more vital from a @Wrategic standpoint. \The leatherfiecks killed Japs at a ratio of betfér than 20 to 1.\ In the SoutBwest Pacific, Gen- eral - Douglas: MacArthur - an- nounced today that his planes have sunk two more Japanese ships in the viginity of Ceram and North Dutch New Guinea and on Thursday borbed, - strafed - and harassed 17 objectives, *_ Tokio Afimnounces Raid NEW YORK) July-29-(P-The Tokyo radio id today that 400 Allied carrier=Based planes had raided Palau (island, some 500 miles east of the Philippines, in repeated attacks yesterday. The broadc@®t, reported to the office of wa® information by United States government. moni- tors, also mentlned a \simultane- ous enemy attéick\ by 20 carrier- based planes against an unspeci- fied area \to the south of Palau.\ British Impéfials have driven to within mine miles of Tamu in the rapid clearang of Manipur state of the enemy @fter a 30-mile ad- vance from Palel in six days, Ad- miral Lord Luis Mountbatten's headquarters announced today. Palel and Tamu are on the road running south@ast from Imphal into Burma. The increasingly disorganized state of Japan@se resistance indi- cated the Allies soon would be able to cross fife Burma frontier, The communique said American and Chinese ti@ops had advanced in all sectors in the -battle for Myitkyina, Jap@n's last major base in North Burm@®. Chinese En Tengchung Chinese troops are fighting in the suburbs of Tengchung. main Japanese base on the Yunnan front, after W@apturing heights dominating th@ entire city, the Chinese high ¢@mmand announced today. The Chinese rive into the out- skirts followedithe capture July 26 of Laifengshanysouth west of Teng- chung and last #trong enemy forti- fication outsid® of the sity, The high commandUsaid several hun» dred enemy tr@ops were killed or wounded in th@ battle for Laifeng- shan, and that@arge quantities of Japanese equipment were. seized. FALLS TO SIDEWALK Earl W. Lloy, 43, of 125 Brook stseet, Garden @ity, was receiving treatment at hig home this morn- ing for a possible skull fracture and scalp laceration received when he fell to the sidewalk on Clinton road, north of the Clinton road railroad station, Garden City, last night at 9 o'cl@@k. He was resting comfortably this morning. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - NAMKS CHASE |Six-Mile Advance To South _ -| FAEENG JJAP§,| Threatens Rommel's Defense TIGHTEN TRAP] . Victorious American troops have captured Coutances, driven westward to the sea just below that Normandy road center and pressed on at least six miles to the south in a new threat to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's whole defense of POLAND] Black areas on this map show territory captured by Red armies during the week ending July 29, with shading indicating other areas taken since June 22. Numerals show 10 major cities captured from the Germans in the greatest 24-hour gain of the campaign. - Red Army Spearheads In Sight Of Warsaw By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red army spearheads rolling across the Polish plain were reported within sight of Warsaw today and the Ger- man communique said other Soviet forces had penetrated the Latvian rail hub of Jelgava, which would practically bisect the Baltics. IT («> JAP WAR PLANTS the vanguard out Super Planes In Daylight Raid On Industries In Manchuria By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The roving American fleet of superfortresses struck today at Japan's transplanted war indus- tries in Manchuria in the first daylight attack of the 20th bomb- er command. s A terse communique, issued here by the 20th air force, report- ed only that the' B-20's attacked \industrial objestiv in the Muk- den area, Manchur and added that no further details were avail- able at the time (1:51 a. m., east- ern war time). It was then day- light in Manchuria, The two previous operations of the 20th bomber command- against Yawata on June 15 and against Yawata and Sasebo, third largest naval base of Japan, on July 7-were night attacks, at low level. One of the purposes of today's strike apparently was to test out the B-28's in daylight operation lacking details, those who studied the brief report on the attack as- sum@d that the high-altitude, pre- cision bombing technique used by other daylight strategie bombing forces was followed in the Muk- den attack, In the first night attack on Yawata, four planes were lost, one over the target, hit by flak; one Daugavpils (Dvinsk) and about 21 miles southwest of Riga on an arm of the Baltic sea. Can See The City Brijish dispatches from the eastern front said Warsaw could be seen by advance Soviet forces in the Polish offensive, made up of cavalry, scout cars and tanks, Fighting apparently raged on in the vicinity of Jelgava as the Russians threatened to pinch off German Baltic divisions by gain- ing mastery of the rail line from Siauliai to Kaunas, The Russians already held Siauliai, 50 miles south of Jelgava. The Germans declared they still held Siedice, 30 miles east of War- saw, but Russian dispatches said Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov- sky's right wing was moving on the city for the purpose of joining forces which were battling Ger- mans in the streets after captur- ing Brest Litovsk. Dispatches did not locate the Russian spearhead positions. _ As Ukrainian army units to the south seized Jaroslaw and Prze- mysl, Nazi strongholds on the route to Germany, Rokossovsky's advance units stabbed forward during the night from Kolbiel, 20 miles southeast of Warsaw, and powerful artillery pieces behind them were wheeled. into position. (A London broadcast recorded by OWI sand Russian troops had reached \the outer fortifications of Warsaw,\ quoting Moscow press dispatches.) The marshal left units under Kuban Coasack General Pliev to help special mopping up squads take care of three Nazi divisions pinned against the western bug river. Field dispatches said it was the same old story-thousands of Germans waiting too long to re- treat. Upwards of 20,000 Nazis -were believed hemmed in, with escape virtually out of the questionfivnh Brest Litovsk captured, Rokos- sovsky freed numerous units for fighting against Siedice. In the south, the Nazi strong- Continued on Page 3, Col. 5 / Continued on Page~3, Col. 7 THE ROAD TO BERLIN By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1-Russian Front-337 miles measured from Kolbiel). 2-Normandy Front - 630 miles (measured from Troarn). 3-Italian Front - 605 miles (measured from Senigallia). F {interior France, supreme headquarters disclosed today. -* Thus far 5,000 German pris- oners were reported taken, and Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley's men were 15 to 20 miles south of their jumpoff line of last Tuesday. Of the prisoners, it was esti- mated that 1,500 were rounded up yesterday. Since Tuesday, the Americans have overrun nearly 300 square miles of territory, equal to nearly a quarter of the total taken by all Allied fortes in the previous seven weeks of the in- vasion. Pushing Toward Vire Due south of St. Lo another American spearhead pushed down the Vire river from captured Tessy-Sur-Vire toward the key communications center of Vire, 12 miles away. On the section of the 40-mile front east of St. Lo the road to Berigny and Bayeux was cleared of Germans, St. Jean-Des- Baisa on the lateral St. Lo- Caumont highway and Vidouville were captured. There was no evidence that any large number of Germans was caught in the ~Coutances area pocket formed by the junction of the westward thrust and the drives southward from the region of Les- say and Periers. The absence of a pronounced delaying action in Rommel's pre- cipitous withdrawal was inter- preted by some as indicating that he had had time to evacuate the pocket. However, the Yank onslaught was so rapid and was penetrating so deeply into the ranks of the re- treating Germans that it looks as if Rommel well may have lost as many men outside the pocket as he might have in it. Reported At Brehal The spearhead that closed the Coutances pocket reached the sea south of the Sienne river estuary some four miles below the city as columns from the north and west gained heights over- the city, put it under artillery fire and then quickly moved in. At least two more columns driv= ing south in an 18-mile stretch be- low Coutances have reached St. Denis-le-Gast and Maupertuis on the east-west highway between the Tessy-sur-Vire and Brehal, South of the Cobtances line. An addi- tional force was forging down the Vire river itself. (The British radio, quoting cor- respondents at supreme headquar- ters, said that American tanks had reached Brehal, 41 miles below Coutances and only. 2% miles from the coast. The broadcast was recorded by CBS.) U. S. ninth air force pilots yes- terday knocked out 70 German tanks over the Granville-Villedieu area. They damaged or probably of | destroyed 34 more, and altogether Jelgava, 120 miles northwest of|attacked 1,000 other German ve- hicles, A front dispatch said that six miles southeast of Coutan es ene- my resistance was reported at Montpichon. American armor had yet to dump into an organized enemy line and the Germans were trying to protect their withdrawal with small groups of infantry and tanks left behind as rear guards. Rommel. was reported moving reinforcements westward from the still quiet Caen front, It ap- peared that the whole great American push would force him within the next few days to pull back his forces-roughly to a line Continued on Page 3, Col. 6 CORRESPONDENCE MAPLE SETTEE AND ARMCHAIR 4-POSTER DOUBLE MAPLE BED, COMPLETE. CALL R. V. C. 3327 While we have many letters to answer, the writers of which for the most part, have waited patiently for weeks, and some even since last November and December, we have only time and opportunity today to pick out the easy ones, on account of this tennis match between Flora of Floral Park and Amy of Amityville. Th atch is supposed to be’pfa—yghrxx day next week, but neither Flora nor Amy can be found as they are supposedly prac- ticing in secret somewhere on the island, although rumors persist that Amy was kid- napped so she couldn't do any practicing. Belinda is working on the case. \Veteran\-Sorry, but Bea of classified advises that every- thing in the ad was sold. Vera-Spinach noodles with grated cheese. Oswald-When we were a lumberjack in the state of Washingtom, birling was a favorite sport among the a husky jacks. Events embrace rolling logs, racing logs an« trick performances on logs in turbulent water.