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ftftEfiURS WWS.REV!W, RCTSeBUrS, Q-REgoTt, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1944.
G. O. P. Convention
Opens, With Certainty
Of Dewey's Nomination
(Continued trom page 1)
have almost complptoly abandon
ed It."
. He said a republican triumph
this year would "strike dread Into
the hearts of the enemy."
"Thev will know, Green said,
"that the government of this na.
tlon has passed Into the hands of
men determined to cut all the
red tape and bureaucratic Inter
ference with the trained leaders
of the United States army and
navy. Those officers will have In
the conduct of the war the un
stinted support of the republican
administration, free from the po
litical meddling of second-string
bureaucrats."
He praised the delegates as
"unswayed by the weird pretense
that an 'Indlspenslble man' ex
lsts" and said they were dedi
cated to work not only for "the
hearalded objectives of the 'four
freedoms' but resolved to rees
tablish here In America the 3
freedoms guaranteed to all clti
Mns under the constitution."
Three pretty girls In American
Women's Volunteer service uni
forms appeared at Gov. Green's
Elbow while he was speaking and
he pledged the state of Illinois
to buy five million or maybe it
was billion dollars of war bonds.
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At any rate, the gesture drew
hearty applause.
Male delegates cheered and
women waved handkerchiefs
when Green wound up his ad
dress by predicting election of
the republican national ticket in
November.
Miss Naomi Cook of Chicago
led the crowd In singing "The
Star Spangled Banner." The Rev.
John Holun, also of Chicago, de.
livered the Invocation.
Clinton McNeal, Elkton
Pioneer Resident, Dies
Clnton McNeel, 79, resident of
Elkton for the nast HO vpnra rllnrl
in Hosebur? Slinrlfiv fnllnuinrr n
short illness. Born in Iowa, Sep
tember 20, 18G5, he came to Ore
gon at the age of 10 years mak
ing his home at Elkton, where
he was married in September,
1000. to RiKslr V Arl.-imu
Surviving are the widow; two
daughters, Mrs. Meta A. Owens,
Melrose, and Mrs. Rulh Vian,
Elkton; three sisters, Mrs. Alice
Haines, Drain; - Mrs. Minnie
Baker, Los Angeles, and Mrs.
Jennie Jones. Potvnr nmi n
brother, Merton McNeel, Salem, j
j-uiit-iui i-i vit-t:3 wnj oe neiri
at the Scottsburg cemetery at 2
p. m. Tuesday, conducted by the
Rev. Glen Ayres. Arrangements
are in charge of Stearns mortu
ary, Oakland.
Flier in Fatal Crash
In Oregon Identified
REDMOND, Ore., June 26.
fAP) The flier killed In a fight
er plane crash at the air base
here Friday has been identified
as 2nd Lt. Charles M. Raymond,
Hillsdale, III. He was a member
of a training unit from the Port
land air base.
PORTLAND, June 26. (API
A pilot whose fighter plane crash
ed as he attempted to land on an
Astoria airfield yesterday was
Identified today by the Portland
army air base at Lt. Desmond
Gay, Houston, Texas.
Gay, who suffered a fractured
skull and head lacerations, was
flown to his base here and taken
to Barnes hospital at Vancouver.
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Murder Charge Trails
Dice Game of Negroes
PORTLAND, June 26. fAP)
A 42-year-old negro shipyard
worker from Houston, Texas.
George Wilson, was In Jail here
today charged with first degree
murder In the fatal shooting of
another negro Milliliter and the
wounding of a third Saturday
night.
IJead Is Leroy K. Logan, 24,
Toppka, Kans. Robert Stokes,
Portland, was hospitalized with
chest and neck wounds. Detec
tives said Wilson told them he
shot the men because they re
fused to pay dice game losses,
then beat him up.
1$ NEWS Of OUR
MEN.WNOMIN
IN UNIFORM
Seaman First Class Wayne
Hughes of the U. S. navy has
been transferred from the naval
base at Astoria to the Bremerton,
Wash., naval base, according to
word received here. He is a for
mer student of the Roseburg sen
ior high school.
Japanese at Bay in
Northern End of Saipan
(Continued trom page 1)
other Installations.
Heavy Losses Dealt Japs
To Adm. Raymond A. Spruance,
Fifth fleet commander who loves
his symphonies, there was sweet
music in the report of damage in
flicted by his ships and planes on
the Japanese fleet In last week's
battle of Saipan. Adm. Nimltz
supplied this boxscore yesterday,
for the June 10-23 period cover
ing the Invasion:
747 enemy planes downed, 30
ships sunk, 51 damaged, two
probably snuk and 13 barges de
stroyed. In the June 18 air battle, in
which the Japanese fleet's planes
sought to Clippie task force 58
and break up the Saipan invasion,
402 planes were destroyed, a rec
ord total for a single engage- J
ment, eclipsing the highest toll In
the battle of Britain. I
Included In this score wrro six !
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enemy aircraft carriers the
heart of modern fleets sunk' or
damaged, probably the entire
carrier force of the imperial
force which declined battle June
19.
Southwestern Pacific airmen
were busy, hitting Sorong airfield
on New Guinea's northwest tip,
and bombing Manokwarl, Palau,
Woleai, Truk and Rabaul. On
Blak, Gen. MacArthur's soldiers
added 345 Japanese dead to the
I record, which since May 27 has
i climbed to 2.333.
Chinese, British and American
forces Inched closer to their
north Burma objectives, breaking
into Mogaung's defenses and ad
vancing doggedly at Myitkylna,
keys to reopening the Burma their greatest prize of the Nor
road. In northeast India the Japa- niandy Invasion the third most
nese were still retreating
from
the British, who now have virtu
ally ended the threat to the
Assam -Bengal supply line.
Air Armadas of Allies
Give Germans No Rest
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miles south of Paris.
British Lancasters and Hali
faxes, also flying in 1,000-plane
strength, got in' their day's first
blows at the Pas-De-Calais rocket
nests.
Hard on the heels of the Brit
ish armada, American Liberators
rumbled into the same area, con
centrating their explosives on at
least 12 power stations which sup
plied electricity for launching the
flying bombs.
During the evening about 250
American bombers and a similar
number of escorting fighters
streaked over the area southeast
of Paris, striking numerous air
fields, including those at Bretigny
and Vlllaeoublay.
Cherbourg Battle Still
Rage; in Mop-up Stage,
1 Continued from page 1)
mandy front smashed into nazi
HufpncA! rulwmn P;trn nnH Tillv.
sur-Seulles. They seized Fontenay I
Lepresnel, two miles east of Tilly. ,
Artillery, one unit to every I
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eight yards, supported this
sweeping assault by Gen. Mont
gomery's tanks and troops.
Supreme headquarters In this
morning's communique said
"fighting everywhere" In the port
of Cherbourg was "extremely se
vere," but that the full liberation
"cannot he long delayed." The
doughboys were rooting out sui
cide squads of Germans as they
neared the end of a fierce, five-
day battle to free the supply port.
The Americans had been fight
ing in the smoking city since yes
terday afternoon when they en
tered lt with a crushing three
way assault.
The allies had all but captured
mndy
important port of France and a
transatlantic base to feed major
drives Into the continent, to Par-
Is, perhaps or Berlin
It was said here that : last
night's German premature re
ports that the port had fallen In
dicated the German high com
mand was out of touch with the
hard-pressed garrison and It was
probable its defense was no long;
or centrally controlled.
Field dispatches revealed the
must puwcnuj American uum
bardment force of the Invasion
was concentrating on the bom
bardment of the Cherbourg forts.
Nazis Fight Like Fanatics
Of the smash Into Cherbourg
by the allies, Associated Press
Correspondent Whitehead report
ed:
The tanks helped the dough
hoys fight their way through
tough, scatttered knots of resis
tance to enter the city late yes
terday. When the Germans be
gan firing from houses along the
route of advance, the tanks roll
ed up and blasted the positions.
In one house a German officer
and three enlisted men lay dead
with bullet holes through their
foreheads, neat round holes put
there by an expert doughboy ri
fleman. The officer lay with a
champagne bottle In one hand
'and his rifle in the other. He had
decided to fight to the last.
Resistance is disorganized. De-
fenders, still manning guns, are
German fanatics trapped like
rats. There Is no escape for them
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They are the last doomed defend
ers of Cherbourg. '
And no one should ever forgot
the battle for Cherbourg. If there
are any critics of the American
soidier of the Cherbourg cam
paign, they simply haven't seen
our troops in action.
I have seen a lot of towns fall
In Africa and Sicily and Italy, but
none tnriiied me so much as the
entrance of American troops Into
mis city, ui all the places storm
ed by skill and guts, this ranks
at the top of the list.
Russians Lunge Into
Vitebsk, German Bastion
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encircled Vitebsk.
More Red Armies Poised
As Russia's vital role In the
allied Teheran master plan to
crush Germany this year unfold
ed front by front, German broad
casts noted with alarm that a
fifth red army had struck in the
Ostrov sector, 165 miles north
west of doomed Vitebsk. That
would make a 325-mile front in
the east, exclusive of the two
Russian armies now battering
Finland.
And at least four other great
soviet armies, equipped In part
with American weapons, are pois
ed on the Polish and Romanian
fronts waiting for the signal for
a concerted push toward Berlin
In conjunction with allied armies
in the west and south.
Rolling over roads strewn with
dead Germans and wrecked
equipment, the Russians had
thrown a broad belt of men and
and machines around the fortress
city of Vitebsk, and were threat
ening the strongholds of Orsha,
Mogilev and Bobruisk to the
south.
P,anic Hits Germans '
More than 16,000 Germans had
been killed 8,000 of them In the
area south of Vitebsk alone. Hun
dreds of big guns, trucks and
other equipment also had been
seized. Machines in full-working
order were abandoned by the
Germans, whose flight was call
ed a "retreat in panic." One en
tire comnanv of the stith nazi in
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fantry division "came over to the
red army side," said the soviet
bulletin.
In a three-day advance of more
more than 25 miles, the Russians
had freed 1,650 towns and vil
lages. Their ultimate objective
appeared to be a break through
to the Baltic sea and German
East Prussia.
Marshall Govorov's Leningrad
army, which had hurled the Ger
mans back from Russia's second
city to the Estonian border, now
is battering its way toward Hel
sinki into Fniland, while Gen.
Meretskov's Karelian front forces
are making headway further
north In a comoanlon drive be
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Plan Was 'Shelved' by FDR Order
WASHINGTON The "National Whirligig," syndi
cated gossip column carried daiiy by hundreds of the
nation's greatest newspapers and read daily by mil
lions of Americans, has charged tha the Townsend
Plan measure, H. R. 1649, is
being "shelved in the house
ways and means comittee by
presidential order." V
Townsendites find this hard
to believe at a time when every
member of the more "than II,
000 chartered clubs is devoting
full energies to carrying out the
"win the war" policies of their
commander - in - chief, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.
Undoubtedly the President
has not had an opportunity to
read this column. If he had, he
would certainlv publicly repudi
ate the thought that he and he
alone is holding up adequate
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tween Lakes Ladoga and Onega.
Petrozavodsk, capital ot the
soviet Karelian republic, appear
ed to be on the verge of falling
to Meretskov's troops, who had
crossed the Svir river on a broad
front. Farther to the north, across
Lake Onega, the Russians had
freed another section of the Leningrad-Murmansk
railway.
pensions for the mothers and
fathers of America's fighting
men.
Every Townsendite owes it
In filmcalf jtnA klc rolintru rt
mail a copy or this syndicated
column to President Roosevelt.
When the millions of copies of
this column reach his desk, it
is certain the President will take
the opportunity to show that he
is not the man who stands in
the way of enactment of the
Townsend Plan bill, H. R. 1649.
Do it. now. Townsendites.
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