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Newspaper Page TextPAGE .TWO Th CZI&0:MWVI&11 Ccltm. Qrejon. Scrhsday Morning, July 8. 1SU W4 Heavy Planes Pound Central CeiroaHard ' LONDON, Saturday, July 8-(JP) British heavy bombers - attacked .military target in enemy occu pied territory last night while a force of Mosquitos again bit Ber lin, it was announced officially .today.-1 -. S" - The new attacks followed quick ly after aaaault. in daylight Fri day by more than 1100 US heavy bombers which cast 3000 tons of bombs on 11 high-priority targets in central Germany -- an opera tion that stung the Germans ' into , putting up the biggest aerial bat-V-tle m six weeks. A total of 114 enemy planes were ' shot down while the Americans lost 38 bombers and six fighters. ' Another great battle In the . clouds raged over German Silesia, where about 75 miles southeast of Breslau more than 500 heavy- . weights from Italy struck oil 'plants near Blech-Hammer and Odertal, leaving them wreathed in fire and explosions. An undisclos ed number of German intercept ors was shot down. . - : The big task force from Britain . -went after an assembly plant at Mockau, synthetic ) oil r plants at Lutzkendorf, Bo hi en and Merse berg, a bomber assembly plant at Bern burg, a bomber component ..plant at Ashersleben, engine works and ball-bearing plants at Leipzig, and an assembly and re pair plant at Halle. Some of these plants had been v partly rebuilt since being hit pre , viously. '; !-: ' v ' ii The twin attacks were closely synchronized, the - bombers from : Italy striking at the targets near the Polish 'border only 15 minutes a fter . the ' last . bomber had left Leipzig for the return to Britain: Thunderbolts, Mustangs - and - Lightnings led the attack which "handed Hitler his biggest aerial setback since D-day, They knock ,': ed down 75 planes a ratio of . more than six to one, while the '" gunners of the bombers knocked , off the other 39. j ; This was the greatest bag since - a task force raiding Berlin May - 19 knocked down 125. Allied Drive pe for v SUPRiafi HEADQUARTERS 1 ALLIED ' JOCPEDITIONARY rORCE; July 7-ppjIt was freely ' admitted . vround this headquar ters today that progress of the sl ' lied- Invasion of France, has not -been as fast as: was hoped for - when the western front was plan ned, because -of fanatical resist- ; ance by j the Germans on every foot of ground. While officers made no secret j' of this, they hastened at the same :' time to say that after one month - of fighting, the front could hot be described as unsatisfactory," and noted that it had engaged or 1-tied up 50 enemy divisions, as ; the Russians had 'asked. Headquarters .has definite in ! formation . that the Germans have k been forced to use fad France divi- sions which were earmarked for 2 the Russian- front, ' , J F -After' an, one - officer said, ; we have landed and -established a front, and a month ago we were .: not too sure - whether we could : Slowness of rprogressr has been attributed to a number of causes Vby various officers, but the chief ''one that emerges is mat- the Ger itnans have' reacted violently and fought fanatically for every bit ' of ground In Russian -stylo, v ' The 'worst June weather in 25 .years lua prevented the allies 'from using their air superiority '. to the fullest extent, and a chan nel gale caused considerable dam- age and delayed unloading of - Ship.' . . - .r-. The weather has been important ! because it wag at -its worst during the early unloading stages, when ' more supplies and troops might -have paid ; big . dividends before the Germans could get get EscaineTrv (Continued from' Page ' 1 ) j trasted with previous attempts to - land from barges at night behind t the American lines. That trick i slso was futile."- ' .' : . . . ; J Tanks Txuh Ahead ': . ' ,: I The Americans had . pushed against strong opposition to with in two miles of Inagsa point, at the northeast tip of Saipan, r Nimitz: announced that a total ' of 8314' enemy dead had been I buried The original garrison was v estimated at about "23,000 ; V .? Another heavy ' strike at Truk, ; about 753 miles to the southwest, USHaltsJap ! was made: Wednesday by heavy - ?. bombers of-the 7th army air force. 'Thirty tons of bombs were drop - ped. Neutralizing raida continued t' the , same day' against bypassed enemy bases in the' Marshall islands.' ' y-i r The enii fef the fighting was in siht on Saipan, not only for the r bewildered Japanoa soldiers but ' also for civilians' trapped with .' them. The Americans , offered ' sanctuary to all civilians wanting to accert it . -.; Jap Women, ) y ' ..3 ; i r 4 ... 1 ? r Japanese women and children whose husbands and fathers are opposing American irobps! oa Saipan m the Ifarianaa are gurded after comfortably nartered, (AP Wlrephoio from IJ army signal corps Yank Troops Surge Aliead In Normandy (Continued from Pago 1) Americans were doing to enemy defenses In that area. ; Swift-moving Infantry seized dominating high ground west of St Jean and other doughboys moving down . from the northeast late in the afternoon bridged the canal linking the Vire and Taute rivers which forms a natural bar rier on the northern approaches to the town. Engineers Help This pincers movement was made possible by engineers who threw a foot bridge across the ca nal in 20 minutes. La Haye was in even sorer straits, and it appeared that the enemy soon must fall back to Lea say, four and one-half 'miles south, or let the Americans sprigs the trap which was a scant two miles from closing south, of the city. There the Americans were in possession of the wooded heights of Mont Castre, two miles east of La , Haye, unhinging all German holdings in the sector and leaving the Americans in a position to strike for the dry soil of the plains below, toward Lessay, less than five miles away. ' They had pushed to a point three miles southeast of La Haye, and across the only road south leading to Lessay they were in firm possession of La Surellerve, one mile' south and slightly west of La Haye. From there they drove to within 200 yards of the high way. Seizing Hill 121, three miles southeast of La Haye, American guns commanded the slope lead ing down to Lessay. ,! As doughboys fought back into the ruins of La Haye, the Ger mans threw reinforcements ' into battle in an attempt to salvage a rapidly deteriorating situation, counter-attacking all the way from around La Haye to the Ca rentan marsh, but the Americans burled them back. " Wilno in State Of Siege as Reds Push On (Continued from Page 1) frontier of this Baltic state, how ever, lies 15 miles on to the west of Wilno. To the north, where Gen. Ivan Bagramian's First Baltic army was battling toward ' Latvia, soviet troops crossed the Drissa river and cut the highway between Dzisna and Idritza. - Reds Drive Ahead South of Wilno the red 'army plowed within four miles of the important railway junction of Baranowicze and in the area of the Pripyat marshes soviet forces captured the center of Stolin, only 38 miles from Pinsk, the broad cast Russian communique said. Nearly 800 towns and villages were . taken by the sweeping ad vance on all fronts and more of Germany's " disorganized . - forces were killed or" captured. . The liquidation of. encircled en emy pockets in the Minsk area continued, : and. the - communique said .4000 - German officers and men had; been slain during the day and 3000 captured east of the white -Russian capital. One Ger man general was taken prisoner in this roundup and another was M ( . v , v f L'vcrytcily Sponsored by Capital Post Children Rounded V - Jf V iHJssMisVBSHHriBhi being rounded ap for removal to a f' TURBA N Grscs Johasoa, Los Angeles actress, sets a mew ostdoor fashtoa with a bath towel for wear as a tar baa. captured in a forest south of Polotsk. ' " - ,--.-.!. .-. Wilno (Vilna), which has been Polish, Lithuanian and Russian at various periods of its turbulent history, apparently ' was the - ob ject or the immediate soviet drive northwest of Minsk, "where more than 250 places were occupied during the day, but at the rate the Russians were advancing they might reach : the original soil of the German reich within -four days. ' " I ' " . I FDR Doesn't Like Questions (Continued from Page lj the president would make a state ment before the convention starts July 19. Mr. Roosevelt replied he couldn't tell,f that he had not thought of it I 1 Then, aiteirf the vice-president query, a reporter wanted to know what would be in the platform and how longi it would be. Mr. Roosevelt said he. was not writing the platform.;! . Juvenile Officer Confesses Theft SEATTLE, July 7HProsecu tor Lloyd Shorett reported today that a Juvenile probation officer. employed to keep boys out of trouble, had confessed to the theft of $60 from a home In which ho was a guest yesterday. The man is Leon Stanley, 29, Washington State college school of social ad ministration graduate? and former case worker for the Oregon, wel- zare commission. . Juvenile Judge William C, Long said , Stanley had been hired a month ago on trial after "the high est recommendations." ... Qark Considers Pro Coaches Job SEATTI?July 7 -( -Earl "Dutch, Clark, famed former Colorado college, all-American back and long-time professional football ' coach,! continued confer ences here today on the possibility of accepting the Seattle, coaching post in the projected American pro league. Reports indicated he tnigh sign with Owner Al Davies to morrow. The west coast league will bring Seattle its first full fledged professional team. ; Vc!cair.2 No, t, American Ler!-a -j Up on Saipan a eonspoand whero they art bow newsreeL) I I: Hill Praises New Flax Group (Special to The Statesman) OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Corvallis, Jul tr-FOrmation 6ta newv ittas; groip was commended highly today bytr. D; IK HOI, chairman of tie Oregon flax and lineniboard. .11 , j . - : . Heitermed the projjected Oregon Fibre! Flax association "a tremend ous step that can; well become the most important j single j step in insuring a permanent fibre flax industry for Ibis state." j V Drj Hill sal the jindustty had grown beyondj the point wherein any Ifew individuals or groups could properly watch their in terests ..if . Paid Carpenter, extension marketing specialist who drew up the tentative organization! plan, explained that li the committee named to incorporate the new group could file (whatever articles of incorporation! had a general agreement, without binding future membership as to officers pr by lawsl If . i Plants represented at the or- ganization mieeting included the Northwest, HillstioroJ Dayton, Sil verton,' Harrisburg, I Mt , Angel, Benton County, St. Paul and Mo- some of , the representatives fromj the nine plants wefe not ready to commit their " plants to actual membership, j'Mr. "Angel's representative particularly ex plaining that his group favored "a less elaborate; organization and one icomposedi 4nly j of coppera- tivesj" GMnee End Japs9 Siege Of Hengyang (Continued from1 Page 1) ly were these Senend lines Weed down, the hh. command! . said, that Japanese troops! in the Heng yan( area hadj to receive supplies and iunnaunitionbyj plane in the sam manner al Chinese troops previously naa been; supplied. ' However, inf tHis wartime capi tal of China, while the claims ap peared - to have heartened the populace, the more cautious pre ferred to wait sind see hor the situation developed before yield ing to general jubilation. . I s ! ; Dr.G.WuTruett Dies Friday DALLAS, July 7 ff)-!-Dr. George W. Truettr 77, Interna tionally known Baptist who was pastor ot Dallas' Tirst - Baptist church-for almost 47 years,! died late jtonight' f. 4-- ,f The silver-haired, massive framed, former president of the Baptist World lAXliance, kept from his pulpit by illness since 1 July, 1943 ,5 tendered his resignation to his church June 4, but its bers 'unanimously declined to ac cept It, and voted him an .associ ate pastor. Hei had been critically ia several days, it Snatched by ah " enthusiastic congregation from ja contemplat ed career as a-criminal lawyer, Dr. Truett earned the title "Prince of Preachers' from! the Southern Baptist church and became great; name in, Baptistdom. j Conthmevs from t 1b tb,- ". . -BsssssPaw a ssss- t I JF a .6nd . ,a" I I Superforts Pound Jap Naval Base (Continued from Page 1) lishmentof that "Pittsburgh of Japan." !"''' (A Dome! dispatch broadcast to North America said the big port of Nagasaki, ..sooth . of Sasebo, , also was struck and claimed that "re ports available : so far indicated three planes were 'shot down: ' 7 (The . broadcast Isald incendiary bombs were dropped, that ;MsmaIl flres1!, were fgctinguished. tby: the air raid defense corps1 "and de clared there jwas practically, no damage" The!broadcast was- heard by the federal communications commission, j , ' v '" " t An imperial headquarters com munique jnade no mention -of any planes, shot down,', but said, that "more 'than' 10 enemy planes" ap pearing over Japan were prompt ly' repulsed by the Japanese air force which suffered "hardly any losses.' It identified no targets and hke the Domei account did not identify the' planes as the new Super-Fortresses.), ' V., Sasebo is one of the three great naval construction, repair and sup ply yards in Japan proper. It is on the island jof Kyushu and lies west of "Yawata, which is located on the same island. Comnarable to the United States naval bases ai Bremerton, Wash ington, or Norfolk, Van Sasebo, just north off the important port and. industrial city of Nagasaki, contains an arsenal and a marine corps establishment as well as a naval air service base, in addition to the sprawling navy yard itself. Gen. Arnold! issued the commu nique in his role as commander of the 20th air force. Because of their great range and tremendous bomb load, the Super-Fortresses of the 20th air force-Uof which the Chi na-based 20th bomber command Is a part operate directly under Ar nold's command and the direction of the joint chiefs -of- staff in Washington. Gen. De Gaulle Predicts Nazi End in France WASHINGTON, July lVP) Gen. Charles DeGauue, predicting that the last German will be chas ed from France before the end of 1944, opened today his talks with Pres. Roosevelt . aimed at laying a foundation j of friendly under Standing. 4 ' r - Beforehand Pres. Roosevelt told a news conference, the .talks would deal chiefly with the fight of the French underground,' now approaching :the scale of ' full fledged battle with the Germans in southern France, and would .touch in a general way on prob lems of civil j administration. Mr. Roosevelt declared that the question of recognition of the French national committee would not come. up, las it had not -come up in De Gaulle's recent talks with British Prime Minister Churchill., . j With this prime obstacle out of the way, it appeared that the two leaders would be able to discuss military problems and the re- constitution of a free France on a basis that could lead to com plete erasure -of the strain which -has characterized; Franco-Ameri can relations during the past few months. j . Before going to the White House for lunch with Pres. Roosevelt and the start of their talks; De Gaulle made two brief speeches. one before the French .Civil Mis sions here and the other before the French military and naval missions. His theme was that Franco must rise from the war as a great, strong 'and free power. STMTS TODAY! w mm V i rrcsys c-iASisia 'tils iiAa-ixoM-;isz:v'''-: i Reds Make General Advance :r IUTHUANIA& tshkeHzC' 3ttytoli Arrows tocato major red army IT. rrwaaa7 't -j-aeewvfcJr eiin wiis assaaaa Kowel in old Poland. Rannlng northward aioar uo mm. towns captared were ZhitkovichK LyaknovichL Jshkolds, Jvenets, Mikhalslki and AdamoTO. (API Wirephoto.) ' -' OUtheHOLIEFROllT H nam chiids The girls (and for that matter the boys, too) around our office are getting excited about the pros pect of postwar jewels. ; ; y -.V' j - '( . . According to "Busiaess Week" synthetic white sapphires, now used in war instruments, are be ing produced for about lc carat; rubies for about 5c ."The synthetics," says the magazine, "are just as hard as natural gems and even more perfect except for microscopic gas bubbles, which cannot be seen under a jeweler's loupe." .-' "' v: vj . WeW-wondering what sort of glass would reveal the bubbles, because , we have a friend, who will sure enough put out the money for one! What is it the Bible says about good names and rubies? It is just possible that all of us may, in postwar years, have names . good enough to be worth more than rubies at the market price. Yanks, Nazis Battle Bitterly (Continued from Page 1) sions, reinforced by hundreds of new guns, mortars and other wea pons, fought hard to- give nazi en gineers and labor battalions' time to complete this defense belt Rec onnaissance disclosed, vf or exam ple, that the enemy is working feverishly on fortifications in . the Futa pass area, 20 miles north of Florence, though allied troops still are 20 mountainous miles south of Florence. Although - the enemy- was knocked off high ground at sever al points yesterday, the day's fighting left the front substantial ly unchanged all the way from the west i coast to the Adriatic. The ' interruption of the allied march was regarded here as like ly to be only temporary, but it was obvious that the drive into the gothic line would be slow and arduous. Burns Hunters Bag 90 Coyotes From Plane r' BURNS, July 7 -)-Two Burns aviators were back home today af ter a 10-day coyote hunt which netted them 90 coyotes; The civil ians, , hunting in a plane which plunged within 20 feet of the ground when a coyote was spot ted) began curing the coyote skins for sale to furriers. . 4h - CONTINUOUS FROM 1 tM. r1 shew out . . m a ami 'r7 uuutr L1' LUISS RAIHER ARTURO U CORDOVA - . PAUL LUCAS ' 1? Hi r 1 ) Sfaraya Ptkov ftgsia RUSSIA- H2 PolotkfTfonr Jun fMegeetde' f 'advances tedndWJeaptsu of Germans Lose FoiirMore , Top Generals LONDON, !july -lP-GexIaaay has lost four more of its generals two killed I and two captured it was announced today, increas ing to 31 the number of ton-flight nazi officers killed in action or ac cidents or taken by the allies since warfare blazed out on three fronts in June. I - v- " 1 - The . German radio announced that two generals had been killed on June 23, the same day- that CoL Genl Eduard Dietl, commander of the nazi forces in Finland, died in a plane crash. r Simultaneously, the Russians announced two others had 'been captured in the day's fighting on the eastern front . : ; The generals whose deaths were announced were Gen. Emfl ."Von Yickede, commander of n army corps, and Lt Gen, Karl Eglseer, commander of an Alpine corps. Both were identified as east front veterans. The- Berlin broadcast gave no details of their "accident" but implied they might have died with Gen. DietL ' - Moscow's war bulletin an nounced capture of Mai. Gen. MuHer-Bulow, commander ' of the 246th infanntry division, and Lt Gen. Traut, 1 commander - of the 78th German assault group. -Vl Since the Russians started their current offensive they have ac counted for 15 nazi generals four killed and It captured. Dcors Open al 10A.IL to Accommodate the Crowds 7 i ( 1 k n MO . S ft .. isms uncHEii imi escemi AITH01T pill - ClrtcM ay - VTIUJAM A. WEltMAN i oi if 'Mole-iocsnoI T4...-rrX;i . A f V STATUTl MH.CS ":::V ... y m. si a Companion Feature! - The Year's :- Surprise Laugh Picture! infTYyiiliinSIIIW III iVi''"- A SPECIAL! co:.iMuroTY sn;G! CCOO?! LATEST VYJ1 IZT."3 nCTJTZ Lircus maze Toll Hits 152; sts (Continued from Page 1) hysterical mas t yesterday s as flames tore through, the big top. " What equipment there was, said Alcorn, "was manned by "wade-, quate- personneL" , Tent Highly Onflammable - , ,- " -. "There is also in our posses sion,' he asserted, information that the tent itself had been in use only since i the s road show started this season and that it had been treated with paraffin which was diluted with gasoline,, mak ing the entire tent highly inflammable.- . . ' 'f; - Saying that all agencies were determined not only "to ascertain the exact cause of the fire but also to fix responsibility, if any, for the tragic loss of life, Alcorn ad ded: -.!- "It Is probable that after the ad journed hearinsr'by the fire mar shal and after the coroner's in quest additional warrants will be issued." " Questions 40 Persons In his capacity as . state fire marshal, 1 Klckey questioned be tween 40 and 50 . persons during the'day. In the group were circus officials and workers and spec tators who were at 3 the circus grounds when the big. top col lansed In a fierv hean soon after the discovery of a small flame. -Once during the mcruiry. Hick- ey left the. hearing room with six ": ushers ' who - contended that , the fire apparently was caused' by a cigaret carelessly. 1 thrown by , a man against a sidewall of the tent Hickey and the ushers went to the circus grounds to examine the probable spot of the fire's origin. - Later, Hickey said the ushers' story had "stood up under oath." . . Even, while officials, sought . an explanation for the disaster, ap proximately one-third, of . those who lost their race with death In ! the terrifying scramble out of the tent remained unidentified. State Bond Bales ' v ' Well Beyond Quota! . PORTLAND, July ' jfyOn gon mounted to 115 per cent ol its Fifth War Loan quota today, but sales of E bonds still inched along at only 54 per cent of the goaL;'t;l:;:,'"-''-'"i'"''"C;:f' '-' ' The state went into the last day of the drive with E bond sales of $206369. , The goal is $38,000, 000. Total sales are $1448707. The Uild Ucsl Lives Again ia the Idfo of It's Ilosi Colorfal Hero! - Adventure : and ro- mance, in an epic as - big u the screen i Al tfto odvenfwe, mc J Hoe end romoeeo that mode ktm An erica's aiost coterfsl kerot: Vim ;