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J M J3 Nazis in Fury wuxm WAR BONDS Demolishing thedouglAs:county daily mum TO IP xTtlO VOL. L NO. 93 OF ROSEBURG Athericans Extend Invasion : ''' British Also Gain in Lunge Toward Paris Germans Surrendering in Droves as Their Line of Eighty Miles Crumbles SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 1 (AP) Ameri can tank columns stormed across the Selune .river from captured branches today, carrying the invasion into Brittany. The Germans' whole 80-mile front appeared shattered and their disorganized legions were surrendering in disconsolate droves. In the central sector east of the Vire river tne British Joined up with the American drive south east of captured Torigny and swept over tough, wooded ridges across the Souleuvre river only five miles from the key communi cations town of Vire. Just south of Caen Canadian .Iroops, after a deadlock of near ly a week, captured Tilly-La-Champagne, but later front dis patches said the Germans had driven them out again. Already the unchecked Ameri can armor had enveloped Pon taubault, four miles due south of Avrancehs, and had overrun Du cey, five miles to the southeast. The allies were on the move along the whole ; 80-mile Nor jmandy front. vr. , ,. , Strategic Advantage Won Villedieu was being hemmed in by American units closing in from both the north and west. The Americans now were within two miles of that Normandy road hub city which is 11 miles north east of Avranches. A front dis patch said other units had smash ed past the town to the south. Still further to the northeast heavy fighting was raging near Percy and nortwest of Tessy-Sur-Vire. Lt. Gen. Bradley's tank ad vance beyond Avranches puts the Americans in position to strike 100 miles across the Brittany peninsula base or to turn east (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE B-29s strike again! This time in MANCHURIA, where the Japs have been moving their heavy industry OUT OF JAPAN, as the Russians moved theirs east of the Urals when the Germans were threatening Mos cow. THE consistently pooh-poohing Tokyo radio says the harm done was negligible, but B-29 pilots returning to their base say " the damage to Manchuria's indus trial city of Anshan was so seri ous it may take a year to repair. THE big Forts also hit Cheng hsien, away up on the Yellow river, where the Japs are pour ing In men and supplies to re build the Canton railroad. The attack was In DAYLIGHT, at high elevation. Losses are unreported as this Is written. The Japs claim to have shot down at least one. in .Nuuiiauuy our Americans have broken through Into OPEN TANK COUNTRY'. They no longer face massed German strong points with fixed anti-tank guns. To stop us now, Rommel has to attack OUR TANKS with HIS TANKS. Where to get tanks enough to turn the trick may be a problem for him. If he brings them from the Caen end of the Normandy line, thus weakening himself there, Montgomery will swing a haymaker at him. THE Germans say the Ameri cans are using 12 motorized divisions and 2500 tanks. (We've Identified 10 German divisions In (Continued on page 2) . -V REVIEW Daring Mortar Platoon "Theft" Gains Award of Distinguished Service Medal for Lieut. Leland Russell An act of theft in the armv usually merits severe nunlshmpnt. I But when Lieutenant Leland Russell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Russell, Roseburg, stole an entire the Distinguished Service medal for "gallantry in action." The medal was presented at a cere mony in a French farmyard less than a mile from the battlefronl Ti.r .... " . ..u,r... , . 1 guns were still on a boat some place in the English channel. The Infantry unit to which his platoon was attached became pinned down by fire from German ma chine gun nests and was unable to advance. Mortar support was desperately needed, but the out fit had no guns. Lieutenant Russell sent out some non-commissioned officers to "procure" some guns. In the army the word "procure" moons to get the desired Item by any possible method. In a short time a master sergeant appeared not only with guns but with an en tire platoon, men and all, having discovered the outfit along a rodd waiting for work to do. Enemy Pillboxes Braved Attaching the commandeered! platoon to his own outfit, Russell took a portable radio set and i crawled close to the enemy pill boxes directing the fire of the mortars until the German posi tion had been crushed, enabling the rifletroops to advance into the positfons-without meeting re sistance. Most of the Germans had been killed and one was taken prisoner. Lieutenant Russell, graduate of. Rocket-Propelled Plane of Terrific Speed, Unproved Effectiveness, Latest German Weapon Launched at Allies LONDON, Aug. 1. (AP) -The Germans have now taken the wraps off another new weapon a rocket-propelled fighter and all allied fliers who have encountered the planes agreed today they are capable of terrific speed. Little is known so far of the ef fectiveness of the craft. Only sev en have been met and they did not stand to fight, but speed at which they ran away underscores the importance they might as sume if the Germans manage to produce them on a mass scale. Berlin has been hinting at rocket-p r o p e 1 1 e d planes for months. The U. S. air force an nounced last night that allied bombers and their convoy of fighters ran into a group of the new planes over Germany Fri day. The allies have recognized for some time that nazi jet and rocket-propelled planes, if allowed to appear" in big numbers, could challenge allied air superiority, and it is understood here that is one of the reasons the U. S. Eighth and 15th air forces sent 27,000 bomber sorties against Ger many industry and oil supplies in July. Allies May Have Answer But the allies might have the answer to this new German weap on in a new fighter of equal or superior capabilities. A joint British-American announcement some months ago said the allies were experimenting with a successful jet-propelled plane. There has been no announcement it has gone Into action. Rocket-propelled planes differ from jet-propelled craft In that the oxygen which helps power them is carried aboard in combin- ,hon or rye whiskey through Au ation with other elements instead gust and price reductions of 50 to of being taken from the air . , - - t tnrougn wnicn tne plane passes. I Col Alvln P. Tacon, Jr., Mo- bile, Ala., said his Mustang for- iiidiion encountered jive 01 the. War Prisoner Reveals Weidemann as Recruiter ST. DENIS LE OAST. France. Aug. 1 (AP) a German pris- oner captured here said he was a graduate of Yakima (Wash.) high school and was recruited for ser- Camp Abbot at Bend, Ore., vice by Fritz Weidemann, former comprising nearly 20,000 acres, German consul In San Francisco, has been declared surplus by the The prisoner said the consul War department, and the gov sold him on a life of adventure as ernment-owned portion probably a follower of Hitler and member, will be sold by the Reconstruc of the SS troops. 1 tion Finance corporation. ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST mortar platoon, he was awarded Roseburg high school and Univer sity of Oregon, was a News-Review sports writer while in high school. Following graduation 1 f v. f Lieut. Leland Russell from the school of journalism at the university, he became spoils editor of the Idaho Statesman at Boise. planes. He said he was unable to get his sights on either of two he tried to catch. A Mustang can do better than 400 miles an hour. Nazis Still Battle For Florence, Pisa ROME, Aug. 1. (AP) Eighth army troops are making slow, methodical progress in their ad vance on Florence against five German divisions fighting a des perate last stand battle before the city, allied headquarters announc ed today. "It is clear the enemy is deter mined to make a real stand as long as he is able, but the Eighth's advance is relentlessly forcing him from successive strongpolnts," headquarters said. The lull continued, meanwhile, on the Fifth army front, with artillerymen keeping an eye on the leaning tower of Pisa which the nazls have been accused of using as an observation post but taking no shots at it. Whiskey Bonus Extended, Price Reductions Set PORTLAND, Aug. 1 (API Continuation of the monthly bo rum tf a fifth nf unhnnHnH Rnnr. w itrm a. uumc uu 11111 itu 1 Louneed today by the Oregon iquor control commission. Th hnn.i i.o In addition to ner- mit holders' regular ration of a quart or fifth of any type of whiskey. Camp Abbot Land Will Be Sold by Government I WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (AP) I t End Hearing For Japs On Guamjinian U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 1 (AP) American soldiers and marines, sweeping swiftly across southern Guam and through the capital town of Agana, today squeezed the Japanese tighter in the Island's northern half, there to be pounded mercilessly from the air, ground and sea. On Tlnian, 130 miles north of Guam, the battered remnants of the enemy force huddled in a small pocket near the Island's southern end with no hope of es cape. Marines on Tinian opened an assault Sunday on what Adm. Nimitz termed the "last enemy defenses." With Tinian's conquest near, a Nimitz spokesman said also that "the worst Is over on Guam most of the difficult fighting is behind the Americans." Allied warships formed a semi circle of steel and flashing fire around northern Guam and pour ed into the Nipponese usurpers of the former U. S. naval base the punishment of their heavy guns. More than two and a half years after Japan seized Guam, the southwestern part of the island was functioning again as an American naval center. Allied ships steamed in and out of Port Apra, best harbor in the Mari anas, and a procession of war planes operated from Japanese- (Continued on page 6) Congressmen Not To Be Summoned WASHINGTON, Aug. l-(AP)- IThe house democratic leadership has decided to hold sessions every three days until after Labor day, unless an emergency arises be- hfore then, majority whip Ram- speK reported today. Accordingly, no general call will be sent out for congressmen to return to their posts unless a special need arises, he told a re porter. Instead, committees consider ing postwar reconversion legis lation will be urged to work at full speed so bills can be submit ted to the membership as soon as possible, the Georgian said. Ramspek, who made the asser tion after a conference with Speaker Rayburn, said "the coun try will suffer no loss by this ac tion." "We will be better off gener ally if we take time in commit tees to prepare good, sound leg islation, rather than rushing in with some unsound propositions," he added. German Marshal Busch Is Reported Suicide STOCKHOLM, Aug. 1. (AP) The newspaper Aftonbladet re ported today that Marshal Ernst Busch, commander of German armies retreating from White Russia, committed suicide follow ing the generals' plot against Adolf Hitler. The report, carried under a Basle, Switzerland, dateline, said the marshal killed himself after undergoing third degree treat ment at Hitler's headquarters. Bag of Allied Shipping Reported by Germans LONDON, Aug. 1 (AP) A Berlin broadcast asserted today that German "human torpedoes" and submarines had sunk 124, 000 tons of allied shipping off the Normandy coast and on other al lied supply routes In July. The claim was entirely unsup ported by allied reports on ship ping losses. Jap Sub Given K. O. CHUNGKING, Aug. 1 (AP) U. S. Liberators on a sea sweep off Hongkong bombed and prob ably sank a partly submerged Japanese submarine, Lt. Gen. Stllwell's headquarters announc ed today. 1.1 944. Into Brittany t - I Third Wife of Comedian Charlie Chaplin Presents Him With Fourth Child SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 1 (AP) A baby girl was born to Oona O'Neill Chaplin, wife of Comedian Charlie Chaplin, at St. John's hospital last night, Dr. Sheldon Pavne announced today. "They wanted a girl and they 're both very happy," said Dr. Payne. The baby weighs six pounds 111 ounces. The physician said the 18-year-old mother and baby were doing well and that the 54-year-oid father "got by pretty well." Mrs. Chaplin, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, and the film comic were married at Carpinteria, Calif., in Juno, 1943. This Is Chaplin's fourth child. The first, a son born to him and the late Mildred Harris, died In infancy. Two sbns, Charles Jr., IS, and Sydney, 17, were born to his second wife, Lita Grey Chap lin. Joan Berry, the comedian's for mer; dramatics student, still has a civil action pending against Chaplin in which she seeks sup port for her 10-month-6ld daugh ter, Carol Ann, alleging that he b the father. M'Arthur Now Has All New Guinea ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Aug. 1 (AP) An unopposed leapfrog landing which placed Gen. Mac- Arthur's forces within easy bomb er range of the Philippines and completed the strategic recon quest of New Guinea was an nounced today. Sixth army units Sunday cap tured the tiny village of Sansa por at the northwestern tip of New Guinea in a 200-mile am phibious jump westward from American-occupied Neomfoor is land. Sansapor Is little over '600 miles southeast of Mindanao, main Island in the southern Phil ippines, and less than 200 miles from the Japanese strongpolnt at Halmahera. The surprise landing trapped an additional 15,000 Japanese troops, concentrated around Man ckwarl, some 150 miles eastward. Since the invasion of Dutch New Guinea, the allied forces have advanced 600 statute miles. The Japanese have been pushed back to the position they held in February, 1942, after losing more than 100,000 men, hundreds of planes and innumerable ships and barges. Rescue Aide Named SALEM, Ore., Aug. 1 (AP) William Fordyco, Portland, was appointed today by Jack Hayes, state defense administrator, to assist in setting up an airplane crash rescue service In Oregon to assist the army and navy air forces. Bomb Plot Failure Leaves Hitler in Full Control of Reich; Germany Will Pay for Misdeeds, Soviet Writer Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (AP) First reports reaching official Washington from inside Germany disclosed today that the nazls ap pear to have crushed definitely the factions Involved In the bomb plot against Hitler. The reports, which are official as distinguished from the Ger man radio and neutral capital gossip, indicate that for the mo ment at least, Hitler has firm control. The best description of the pop ular German reaction to the bombing attempt was apathy, the information says. So far as Is known here, there was no rioting In Germany following announce ment of the attack on Hitler, nor were there any demonstrations of rejoicing at the escape. It would appear that Helnrlch Hlmmler evidently took advan tage of the unfulfilled attempt to kill Hitler to liquidate a number of persons of whom he was sus picious, but who may not actual ly have been involved In the plot, the reports Indicate. Hitler named him chief of the entire German home army In the shake-up and purge which follow ed the bombing. Reds Bent On Vengeance The soviet embassy bulletin, In VOL. XXXIII NO. 6 Instructors For Roseburg Schools Hired Only two vacancies In the teaching staff for the Roseburg schools remain following a spe cial meeting of the board of school directors last night, when six instructors were elected. Paul Elliott, acting superin tendent of schools, announced the election of Omer J. Monger as principal of the senior high school. Mr. Monger will fill the vacancy created by the resigna tion of Clyde H. Beard, who has accepted a position with Linfleld college. Mr. Monger Is a graduate of Earl ham college, Richmond, Ind., and has had graduate work in education at the University of Oregon. He comes to Roseburg from Maupln, Ore., where he was superintendent of schools for the past six years.-He previously was school superintendent at Santa Clara, Oregon, for three years, and has had teaching experience at Junction City and Corbett, Oregon, and in Montana schools. He Is Interested In sports and at present is working as a direc tor of the recreational program (Continued on page 6) "America First" Smith Scored by Gov. Dewey SPRTNGFIELD, 111., Aug. 1 (AP) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey charged Gerald L. K. Smith, head of the America First Inc., today with a "sinister effort to smear" Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, the G. O. P. vice presiden tial nominee. Commenting on the action of the America First group In "nom inating" Bricker as a running mate for Smith, Its presidential candidate, Dewey said: "Gerald Smith Is one of those rabble rousers who, like Adolf Hitler, makes racial prejudices his stock in trade. " Bricker previously had repudi ated the America First action. Russia Gets U. S.-Made Planes by Way of Alaska EDMONTON, Alia., Aug. 1. (Canadian Press) Strict secrecy that has cloaked the mass move ment of fighting planes from the United States to Russia over the Canadian and Alaskan wilderness route was lifted today after near ly two years of the heavy lend lease traffic. It was learned from U. S. mili tary sources here that approxi mately 10,000 Amcrican-bullt planes have been sent to soviet war fronts since the fall of 1941, with about half of them being flown via Alaska. an article apparently based on similar Information, suid today "it is not mutinous generals that will bring Hl'li'i- Germany to her knees, but we and our allies. We don't rely on any Germans whether stupid or clever, whether purblind or awakened. We rely on tanks and shells and gren ades." The article, by Hya Ehenhurg, one of RussU most promlm't Journalists,, pointed out that Ger mans can't expect to evade the consequences of aggression by simply kicking out Hitler. "Conquering Europe U not a game of bowls you can't say 'I've had enough' and go home," It said. "The Germans had a good time robbing and pillaging. Now they are paying the price." As for Hitler, lt went on, a bomb "would be too easy a death for him . . . I.i one way or an other he will have to die soon. But a rope Is better. A halter around his neck Is the thing for him." 104 OF THE EVENING NEWS Quezon, Exiled President Of Philippines, Passes Manuel Quezon. S ARAN AC LAKE, N. Y Aug, 1. (AP) Manuel Quezon, 65, ex iled president of the Philippine government, which he had head ed since 1935, died today at a summer home here from tuber culosis. Quezon fled from his native Lu zon in a submarine February 20, 1942, after the Philippines fell to the Japanese. His widow and two daughters and one son were at the bedside. Long a disciple of Philippine Independence, Quezon cast his lot with the Americans when the Ja panese invaded his homeland. Previously, he had opposed occu pation both by Spain and the United States. Quaker Rite Joins White GirUap SPOKANE,Wash." Aug. 1 (AP) Miss Esther Schmoe, duughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Schmoe of Seattle, and Gordon K. Hlrabayashi, Japanese-Ameri can youth who gained nationwide attention by bringing a test suit challenging government evacua tion orders, were married Satur day, they disclosed today. The father of the attractive white girl and S. Hlrabayashi of Welser, Idaho, the groom's father, sat side by tilde as the bride and groom stepped Into the Ledger wood Evangelical church for the first Quaker wedding to be solem nized in Spokane. Frederick Elkington, a Seattle overseer of the U n 1 v e r sity Friends meeting, of which the bride and groom are members, read the statement of Friends. The couple made their vows and exchanged rings. Both attended the University of Washington. Hlrabayashi car ried his test suit unsuccessfully to the United States supreme court, and last month was arrest ed here on a charge of failing to fill out and return a selective ser vice questionnaire. He now is -at liberty under bond of $1,000. Abolishment of Lamb Rationing Probable PORTLAND. Aug. 1 (AP) Possibility the national OPA will reverse Its stand against point rationing holiday on lamb In Ore gon was seen today as lt askea District Administrator McDan nell Brown to clarify four points regarding the state's lamb sur plus: Is the surplus attributable to a manpower shortage? What ef fect would an August holiday on lamb rationing have on ship ments of Montana lambs to the eastern market? What is the lo cal situation respecting grades of I lambs? Have efforts been made I to dispose of the surplus to the army anu navy, Brown said he could not see what difference the grade situa tion would make. The army has been buying some lamb locally, he said, but military purchases of food ordinarily are cleared through Washington. Patriotic Forger Sent To Oregon Penitentiary PORTLAND Ore., Aug. 1 (AP) George W. Livingston is In the Oregon penitentiary be cause he has too much patriot ism. On probation after pleading guilty to a burglary charge, he was charged with passing a forged check, his probation was revoked and off he went to serve out his two-year burglary sen tence. His forged check, for $375, was for a war bond. City Itself Assault Matched by Gain In Reds' Three-Pronged Drive to East Prussia LONDON, Aufl. 1. (AP) Warsaw was reported In flames tonight as Russian masses pressed upon its northeast suburbs behind a deluge of shells and bombs. Billows of smoke were re ported rolling from the an cient Polish capital, Indicat ing the Germans were put ting It to the torch In prepa ration for evacuation. Mos cow said Warsaw was under siege; that three columns were assaulting Praga, the eastern Industrial suburb across the Vistula river. MOSCOW, Aug. 1 (AP) Driving in from three directions under hundreds of planes, Rus sian and Polish troops today at tacked Praga, Industrial suburb of Warsaw across the Vistula rlv er east of the capital. Russian fliers reported demo litions exploding In the heart o Warsaw and Izvestla said "the Hitlerites in their fury are burn ing and blowing up many build ings." A front dispatch said at least one German infantry divi sion already had been routed In the battle for Warsaw. , Marshal Rokossovsky, himself; of Polish descent, personally di rected the red army's mammoth assault on the metropolitan area of the Polish capital of 1,265,700 from an advanced headquarters. One of the greatest artillery concentrations of the entire east ern front ripped Into German en trenchments on the edge of Pra ga. Warsaw, first united nations capital to hear the roar of liber ating cannon and the keystone of Germany's east wall, also was threatened by flanking maneu- (Continued on page 6) Zbof-SuifersFoes " Battle All Night I VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 1 (CP) A gang of from 80 to 100 men and youths led by a group o merchant seaman paraded through downtown streets here last night shouting as a battle cry "we want zoot-sulters" and at tacking a number of civilian youths they met along the way. Sporadic fights were reported by police on street-corners throughout the downtown section, some of them stemming from the organized parade and others from small groups of persons baiting the civilian youth dubbed ' "zoot-sulters" because of their ex aggerated attire. The fights continued through out the evening and into the early morning hours with the merchant seamen's gang last re ported heading towards the city's east-end section In search of more zoot-sulters. The riots, which reached a cli max during the weekend with a melee involving 1,000 persons In front of a downtown theatre, were said to have been started by gangs of merchant seamen out to avenge a comrade allegedly knocked unconscious In a scuffle with a zoot-sulter a week ago. Gen. Stilwell Nominated For Advance in Rank WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (AP)' President Roosevelt today nom inated Lt. Gen. Joseph Warren Stilwell, American commander of Chinese forces In Burma, to be a full general In the army of the United States. The proposed promotion, rais ing Stilwell to a rank held by Gen. George C. Marshall, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower, suggested the probability of new and more Important work for Stilwell In the Burma-China area. levity fact Rant By L. F. lUlnnstala Pity th corn consumer: First rhe OPA hoists the points on butter from 12 to 16 for thoso who prefer corn on tha cob; then corn In the can Is put back on the ration list. Offsetting comfort for Oregonians: Corn Juice bonus for Oregon Is ex tended by the liquor board into the month of August. , if 1 1
