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VOL. L NO. 88 OF ROSEBURG
Americans Punch Fotii wHe
Breach in German Defenses
On Normandy Battle Front
Combat Of
Armor Staged
inroangny
Foe Halts British Thrust
Below Caen; Reich Cities
Bombed by Air Fleets
(By the Associated Press.)
American armored forces
punched a breach four miles
deep on a two and one-half mile
sector of the Normandy front
west of St. Lo today.
With sharpshooting doughboys
riding on top, U. S. tanks smash
ed into Marigny, strategic hub of
secondary roads flanking the St.
Lo-Coutances trunk highway and
threatened with entrapment Ger
mans on the St. Lo-Periers road
to the north. The Americans
slugged it out with strong Ger
man armored forces in the streets
of Marigny. The Germans threw
In 52-ton Tiger tanks in an ef
fore to stem the American drive.
Other American forces captured
La Chapelle-en Juger below the
St. Lo-Periers road.
Waves of American bombers
blasted a path for the advance.
On the Russian front, U. S.
planes operating from bases in
Russia gave tactical suport for
the first time to the red armv's
;drlve westward, and U. S. bomb
ers from Italy attacked military
Installations at Vienna.
Rommel Checks British.
Battling with nazl fanaticism,
Marshal Rommel's forces check
ed the British thrust below Caen
and regained some ground at a
heavy cost in German dead and
wounded, a front dispatch said.
British gunners repelled a
strong German thrust against
Verrieres and held on to the shell
wrecked village, five miles south
(Continued on page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THE what-is-it in Germany is
still the most fascinating sub
ject for speculation in the world.
But we still don't know JUST
WHAT it is.
L
ONDON calls it a "vast and un
precedented blood purge" to
get rid of Hitler's enemies inside
Germany.
Berlin insists it is a SUCCESS
FUL and nearly completed "put
ting down" of an abortive at
tempt by a few wicked traitors
on the blessed fuehrer's life.
Churchill frankly calls It a
REVOLUTION.
WHAT is probably the best pic
ture is offered by the AP,
which says in a London dispatch:
"On the German frontier, the
Associated Press has learned
from reliable but secret channels
that the Himmler purge has
BARELY TOUCHED the REAL
LEADERS AND ORGANIZERS
of resistance to Hitler."
It adds:
"Superficially, Germany is
quiet today, with SS and nazi of
fleered units in apparently uncon
tested control, but the leaderhsip
of the internal opposition to the
nazis, except for a very few gaps
created by the blood purge, has
REMAINED INTACT."
THE "committee' and resistance
organization, the AP con
tinues, has existed in Germany
for more than six months. Its
members include not only the
military but representatives of
the German Evangelical and
Catholic churches.
It then answers the hitherto
puzzling question as to why such
an upheaval (if it is an upheaval)
should have started with the
mere tossing of a not very efft-
(Continued on page 2)
REVIEW
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ACCUSED OF SLAYING DAUGHTER Winfieid L. Henderson,
48, Sherwood, Oregon, farmer and former high school teacher,
arraigned yesterday at Oregon City on a first degree murder
chage, following the gun slaying of his 17-year-old daughter,
Donna, in a family quarrel. The daughter previously accused
Henderson of beating her and her mother.
Oregon Postwar Highway Projects
Cail for $50 Million, Commission
Chairman Tells Roseburg Meeting
The Oregon State Highway commission has outlined projects
calling for expenditures of approximately $50 million on postwar
road building, T. H. Banfield, chairman, reported last night at an
informal dinner meeting, arrang
ed by the Roseburg chamber of
commerce to compliment the
commission and highway depart
ment officers stopping in Rose
burg on a tour of western Ore
gon roads.
The commission, Banfield said,
has made a survey of needs and
has completed all of the engineer
ing details upon each of the pro
posed projects. It will take sev:
eral years, he said, to do all of
the work which has been outlined
for the postwar period, but the
state highway department is
ready to reach into the hopper lo
draw out as many road Jobs as
may be required to meet post
war employment needs, the chair
man said. The amount of work
to be done, he reported, will de
pend in a large measure upon the
extent of federal aid.
Other Speakers Heard
Marshal Pengra, KRNR man
ager, presided over the brief pro
gram,
introducing the members
of the visiting group. Commis-
sioner Merle Chessman, ' Astoria, i ing of his 17-year-old daughter,
and Congressman Harris Ells- Donna.
worth, Roseburg, made short I Sheriff Reaksecker said Hen
talks, prior to the report by the derson admitted shooting the girl
commission chairman. Congress- Monday after she swore out a
man James W. Mott, who had warrant charging him with as
been expected to come to Rose- saut and battery against her
burg with the commission, was mother and herself
Included in the party
,uere
Commissioners Banfield, Chess-
man anu . w. acnaup i, jviamaui
Falls; R. H. Baldock, engineer;
C. B. McCullough, assistant en-
filTi. JA?. ?evL"' ittorn:
i R'i utri i uidisyvi, eicii y , vv.
H. Lynch, district director Public ; The rl was shot wnen she
Roads administration; Ralph returned home to pick up some
Watson of the Oregon Journal Personal belongings. She and her
and Wayne A..Pettit, The Ore- mother had left the farm Sunday
gonian night, the day before she came
The 'commissioners and other P,,JcL"ln "JT'
rn er had beaten her and her moth
officers are conducting a gener- . auarrel
al inspection of highways, having, u ,quamM: , ,
left Salem Monday for Portland, ' Hendcnon took up farming
travelling the Columbia rive.erc fur, y.
highway to Astoria, down the '",t,h?lcs, an? anathema cs In
s ' : high schools of Renton, Wash.,
Port Angeles, Wash., and Long
Officials Of 4 States Beach, Calif.
To Mull Fire Situation ! Teacher Shortage in
spokane, wash., July 26 Douglas Stands at 25
TAP) Officials from four states
headed by Governor Arthur Lang- Lula C. Gorrell, county school
lie of Washington will meet here superintendent, stated today that
Friday to plan an educational there are 25 vacancies for school
program on prevention of forest teachers In Douglas county, ex
fires In the Pacific northwest, eluding Roseburg. Some of these
said to be facing one of the worst are prlncipalships and at least 10
fire conditons since 1900. are vacancies from high schools.
ROJVV OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1944
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coast to Newport, inland to Cor
vallis, then over the Alsea high
way to Waldport, down the coast
highway to North Bend and
Marshfield and over the Coos
Bay highway to Roseburg. Today
the commission Is en route to
Grants Pass, Medford and Kla
math Falls.
They report that despite loss of
a large number of department
workers, all highways are in good
condition, due to extra hours of
labor given by the employes re
maining on the job.
Ex-Teacher Faces
Charge of Murder
SHERWOOD, Or., July 26
(AP) Winfieid L. Henderson, a
retired high school teacher, was
charged yesterday with first de-
gree murder in the fatal shoot-
uui ii. ail us saving ntr llltru ill
self-defense, fearing his daugh-
ter had a gun concealed in her
.., Poliro found nn eun In thp 1
,"Lf ,.i,! " J",:?.' I
body In the driveway of their
farm home near Shenvood.
Russian Tide
NearsGoalof
East Prussia
Railway to Baltic Also
Severed, Threatening to
Trap 30 Nazi Divisions
MOSCOW, July 26. (AP)
Hard-riding Cossacks drove the
severely mauled Germans to the
east bank of the Wisla river to
Hhv In thp Pulawv area. 66 miles
! southeast of threatened Warsaw.
Far behind the front, other Rus
sians surrounded the v battered
German garrison inside Lwow
and broke into that great rail
center. , '
I Around Pulawy, the Russians
were within 358 miles of Berlin.
The drive also carried to within
142 miles of German Silesia.
Other Russian's driving fron
tally on Warsaw along the main
trunk railway from Kiev were
reported between 40 and 50 miles
from the Polish capital.
Hungary and Czechoslovakia
were in the path of yet another
Russian army group which vir
tually surrounded Stanislawow
and reached within 28 miles of
the Hungarian-held Tatar pass in
the Carpathians.
German garrisons at Bialystok
and Brest Litovsk, far behind ad
vancing Russian lines, appeared
trapped.
Baltic Escape Valve Periled
Gen. Bagramian's First Baltic
army group encircled Daugavpils
(Dvinsk), largest city in eastern
Latvia, after severing the railway
to Riga on the Baltic. Red troops
were less than 70 miles from
Riga, the last remaining escape
valve for two German armies in
the Baltic region. Perhaps 30
nazl divisions were threatened by
the snapping of the rail line.
"Other Russians were on the ap
proaches of east Prussia. They
captured Llpsk, three miles from
(Continued on page 6)
Argentina Labeled
Deserter to Cause
Of Allied Nations
WASHINGTON, July 26 (AP)
The government of Argentine
stands accused today of having
"deserted the common cause" of
its neighbor nations.
The accusation is made in a
stinging statement circulated by
ithe United States among he
governments of 19 other Ameri
can republics In support of the
policy of non-recognition of the
Buenos Aires regime.
Prepared here and subscribed
to by the other countries, it now
becomes, in effect, the basis for
that policy and it means contin
ued diplomatic isolation of the
Argentne government.
In fact the rest of the Amer
icas put the rulers and people of
Argentine on notice that they
will not extend recognition until
'there are "conclusive acts and
demonstrations that there have
been fundamntal changes in Ar
gentine policy toward the United
Nations." These acts would have
to show a pro-allied course in
the war.
Dr. Adrian Escobar, the Argen
tine ambassador here, was re
called by Buenos Aires yester
day. Like Norman Armour, the
American envoy recently in Ar
K ""' "au ' rewBiiiu
diplomatic status, but the deds-
gentina, he had no recognized I
ion to take him out showed, even
so, that Buenos Aires has given
up for the time all hope of win
ning a more friendly attitude
from this government.
Chinese Battling Japs
In Foe-Held Leiyang
CHUNGKING, July 26. (AP)
Chinese troops have broken in
to the railway city of Leiyang,
taken by the enemy in a drWe
several weeks ago which by-passed
encircled Hengyang, and street
fighting is in progress, the Chi
nese high command said tonight.
Bitter fighting raged within
Hengyang Itself, 31 miles to the
north, and the high command
Said the positions were unchang
ed since yesterday, with the de
fenders repelling Incessant ene
my attacks.
The Japanese evidently hold a
portion of the city, but the Chi
nese said for the most part It still
was in their hands.
VOL. XXXIII NO.
Primary Vote Spells"End of Senate
Career of ' Cotton Ed'; Lone Woman
Member, Mrs. Caraway, Also Loses
. , (By the Associated Press)
, The end, of a senate trail that he set out on nearly 36 years ago
beckoned today for the vociferous and colorful "Cotton Ed" Smith,
Now Deal-hating senator from South Carolina. He Is within a month
of 80 years of age.
Smith was far back In second
place In yesterday's democratic
primary and the man he trailed
was Gov. Olin D. JohnsWh, who
tried unsuccessfully, with Presi
dent Roosevelt's help, to unseat
the vetran In 1938.
And In Arkansas' democratic
primary, the senate's only woman
member, quiet Hattle . Carawy,
lagged far behind in a renomlna-
tlon try she had apparently
thought was so safe she could
afford to campaign only leisurely.
The leader there was Rep. J.
W. Fulbrlght, 39, who is serving
his first term in congress. Ful
brlght, Ozark mountain native
who grew up to become a Rhodes
scholar and university president,
gained his first real fame as the
author of the "lasting peace" res
olution in the house.
Arkansas Runoff Looms
Fulbrlght, while polling heavily
as returns mounted, may not at
tain the majority of the total vote
of all five candidtes. he needs to
win the senate nomination out
right. Latest returs indicate an
Aug. 8 runoff between two high
candidates will be necessary.
If 1 Johnston's lead stands up,
there will be no need of a South
Carolina run-off. When more
than half the precincts had re-
portea tins supporter of President
Roosevelt had a majority of all
cast.
While the new deal was the
principal Issue in the Soifth Caro
lina 'voting. In Arkansas there
were; no particular issues. Mrs.
CaraWy, who has been in the sen
ate sce November 13, 1931,01-
lowing me aeath of her senator
husband, released a letter in
which President Roosevelt spoke
of their "long and enduring
friendship."
hmith Is dean of the senate
and chairman of its agriculture
Fire Destroys Oldest
Hotel at Reedsport
REEDSPORT, Ore., July 26
(AP)i Careless smokiner was
blamed by firemen today for a
blaze that destroyed the Pioneer
hotel here yesterday.
ine two-tory frame hotel was
Reedsporfs oldest. Mrs. Ella Nel
son, owner, estimated loss at
$4,000, of which $2500 was cov
ered by Insurance.
Eden Pledges Aid in
Dealing Justice to Japs
LONDON, July 26 (AP),
Foreign Secretary Eden said in
the house of commons today that
the American people could rely
on the full support of the British
government in the announced
aim President Roosevelt to brine
to Justice all the Japanese re
sponsible for the execution of
American fliers who bombed the
Japanese homeland.
Woman Welder Drowns
In Front of Dormitory
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 26
- IAP) The body of a 20-year-old
welder, drowned last night
while swimming In front of the
Hudson house dormitory where
shi- lived, was w.,., ered from the
Columbia river today by the coast
guard.
The woman, Mrs. Betty White,
is survived by her husband, Vir
gil, now In the navy.
Overdose of Sleeping
Pills Causes Girl's Death
PORTLAND, Ore., July 26.--f
AP) The death of a young girl,
found dying In a locked hotel
bathroom Friday, was attributed
by the corner today to an over
dose of sleeping pills.
One capsule of the medicine
was fouqd beside her. The girl,
whose belongings Indicated she
might be from the state of Wash
ington, has not been Identified.
Prune, Plum Prloes 8et
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26
(Ah1) Oregon orcharlsts will re
ceive an average of $48.50 a ton
for fresh prunes and $56 for
plums under grower celling
prices announced by the1
War
Food administration and OPA.
99 OF THE EVENING NEWS
committee, his political career
built on aid to farmers (espec
ially cotton), outspoken advocacy
"Cotton Ed" Smith
Mrs. Hattie Caraway :
of "white supremacy,-' opposition
to tariffs and flat denunciation of
new deal practices.
German Collapse Not
In Sight, Stimson Says
WASHINGTON, July 26 (AP)
Exhorting the home front to
display the same determination
he found on the fighting fronts,
War Secretary Stimson left with
the nation today a warning that
no German collapse Is yet ap
parent. Reporting In a radio address last
night on his recent trip to Italy
and Normandy, the civilian army
chief said Germany's "armies
and her people are shaken and
shot through with doubts. But in
no sense are they yet broken."
When Germany and Japan
"see that they are about to be
completely overpowered when
that fact Is physically and unmis
takably carried to their door
steps then and only then will
they collapse, he added.
Jap Cemetery Again
Desecrated by Vandals
PORTLAND, July 26 (AP)t-
Dcsecration of the Japanese cem
etery here for the second time
within a year was blamed today
by a Juvenile court officer on
adults rather than boys.
Ponderous gravestones were
broken and tossed Into heaps at
the cemetery fence like a child s
set of blocks so scattered that
Officer George J. Clauss said he
doubted that graves and monu
ments could ever be rematched.
Wooden markers were splin
tered and set al)la,o.
Wife, Children See Man
Die in Clackamas River
ESTACADA, Ore., July 26
(AP) Fred II. Wade, former
musical director at West Linn
high school and assistant mana
ger of a Portland .theater, was
drowned last night In the Clack
amas river while his wife and
small children stood helplessly on
the shore.
Wade fell on a rock while wad
ing eight miles east of here. For
est service employes, summoned
by Mrs. Wade's cries, recovered
his body.
Bomber Crash Kills Ten
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., July 26
(AP) Ten men were killed In
the crash of a four-motored
bomber Into San Pablo bay yes-
day.
,f V- (" J.
Foe's Strategic Barriers To
Philippines Targets of Raids
By Allied Naval and Air Forces
(By the Assoetated Press)
The Tokyo radio said today that a U. S. task force, consist.
Ing chiefly of aircraft carriers, had penetrated to the vicinity of
Palau island, about 500 miles east of Mindanao tn the Philippines,
and that about 30 carrier-based planes had attacked that island.
The broadcast also carried announcement of imperial head
quarters that a large allied task force of cruisers, destroyers and
submarines yesterday bombarded Sabang harbor at the western
end of the island of Sumatra.
The Japanese asserted without confirmation that at SabanoJ
they had sunk two of the destroyers and one submarine as well
as downing a number of carrier-based aircraft.
It was the second such strike on Sabang within a little morel
than four months, a British task force under Admiral Somervilla
having hit the port last April 19.
Referring to the "American at
tack on Palau, the broadcast as
serted that Japanese ground units
"shot down two of the enemy
plunes."
Tokyo also reported that Ameri
can planes had raided Yap island
in the Carolines east of Palau.
As usual the Japanese claimed
that damage sustained in the
raids on Yap and Palau was
slight.
There was no Immediate Amer
ican confirmation of the assault
on Palau.
The German news agency
DNB, In a broadcast heard In
London, quoted the Tokyo radio
as saying "two more landing at
tempts were carried out by the
enemy today on Guam."
Barrier To Philippines
Palau is headquarters of the
entire Japanese South seas gov
ernment and Is known as the Jap
anese Singapore, which suggests
why It must be neutralized or
taken before Invasion of the
Philippines, the southern end of
which lies 530 miles due west.
The Palau group consists of
about 100 islands providing a
powerful fleet base for the Japa-
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E Bond Quota of
Douglas County
Oversubscribed
Douglas county has officially
been credited with surpassing Its
quota on Series E bond sales in
the Fifth War Loan campaign, H.
O. Pargeter, chairman of the
county war finance committee,
announced today. Mr. Pargeter
was notified from state head
quarters that clearance through
the Federal Reserve bank show
total E bond sales of $532,102, as
compared with a quota of $529,-
000.. and oversubscription of
$3,102.
The county's oversubscription
of bonds will be considerably
higher, however, when all sales
are counted, Pargeter stated. Two
county banks, the chairman an
nounced, had failed to report
sales since the first week of July,
which practically accounted for
the discrepancy In figures be
tween the local committee and
state headquarters.
Appeals made last week end
met with excellent response, Par
geter said, enabling the county to
Immediately obtain official credit
for attaining Its goal. Sales are
continuing and the committee Is
assured that at least $20,00 addi
tional sales will be cleared before
the drive officially ends July 31
In all departments, the county's
quota of $1,124,000 has been over
subscribed $392,750, Pargeter said
sales amounting to $1,516750,
divided as follows: Series E,
$532,102; Series F, $42,763; Series
G, $68,300 Series C, $77,513; 2'2
per cent, $7,500; 2 per cent,
$132,172; 1 1-4 percent, $167,100
7-8 percent $489,300.
Brickcr Confident of
G. O. P. Win in November
ALBANY, N. Y., July 26 (AP)
Gov. John W. Brlcker of Ohio
predicted at a press conference
today the republicans would cut
deep Into the border states In No.
vember and carry Missouri, des
pite the democrats' nomination
of Senator Harry Truman of that
state as a vice-presidential candi
date.
Here for conferences with Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, G. O. P. presl
dentlal nominee, Brlcker said he
was confident the republicans
could win In November.
Plane Crash Kills Ensign
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., July
26 (AP) The crash of a fighter
plane Into the waters of Goose
lake, In Lake county, yesterday
brought death to Ensign Valen
tine Jack Goehring, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. J. Goehring of Con
gers, IN. X.
Guam Japanese
Trapped By Yanks'
Pincers Thrust
j
Enemy Garrison en Nearby
Tinian Island Severed by
Aerial-Naval Bombardment
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD.
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July
26. (AP) Yank invaders of
Guam, so firmly established that
their general said "there's not'i
Ing the Jap can do now to run us
off," laid fiery siege today to Nh)
ponese trapped by a Juncture cC '
American forces behind Port ,
Apra.
Some hapless Japs jumped In
to the ocean, reported Al Dop
king, Asociated Press war cor
respondent, as battleships, car
rier planes and hill-based artil
lery blanketed the sealed off
Orote peninsula.
Dopking said all Japs have
been wiped . out at the beach
heads; the enemy hasn't had a
plane over the area since July 8;
and the Nips are abandoning .
much food and ammunition.
.More than 100 miles north of
Guam at Invaded -Tlnian.-.aerlal ';
bombings and warship bombard
ments of rail and highway junc
tions split the Island's Nipponese
garrison into north and south '
forces.
Marine conquerors of nearby ,
Salpan, bidding for complete seiz. ,
ure of partly occupied 4,500-foot
UshI airfield on the northwest
tip of Tinian, mowed down the
tank-led Japs.
Jap Despair Evidenced
From a flagship off Tinian,
Richard W. Johnson, represent
ing the combined allied press, re
ported the airfield defenders
came out on the first night of the
Invasion screaming and waving
Samurai swords In the suicidal
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Lt.LH.McCauley
Listed as Killed
Second Lieutenant Leon H.
McCauley, 45, son of Mrs. W. J.
Clarke, 842 Hoover St., Rose
burg, reported missing at the
fall of Corrlgldor, has been listed
as killed In action, the mother
was officially notified today by,
the war department.
Serving In the quartermaster
corps, Lieut. McCauley had been ,
called from the reserve while re
siding In Honolulu and was trans
ferred to the Philippines, where)
he was reported wounded In ac
tion In March, 1942. He was later
reported to have returned to ac
tion, but following the fall of Cor
regldor, Mrs. Clarke was notified
that her son was missing In ac
tion. I
The letter received today an
nounces that a review of the case,
upon more recent Information,
detailed nature of which cannot
be revealed, Indicates that Lieu
tenant McCauley was killed and
has been so listed on War depart
ment records.
Explosion Burns Youth
ALBANY, Ore., July 26 (AP)
Dale Walker, 17, Sclo, was In
Lebanon hospital today with se
vere burns on his face, neck and
arms from an explosion that oc
curred when he struck a match
In a service station restroom.
Astrologer Adolf Hitler, in
his effort to control Germany,
teems to have lost faith In the
second sign of the lodlac, Tau
rus, the bull, In his murder In
spiration from the tenth sign,
Capricornus, the goat.
evjfy pact Rant
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