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WW Mil Sum A sistance iffens In Vst Hours BT forces n1. " .rar,ture 'TIT. S. territory CITY EDITION CITY EDITION LAME COUNTY'S HOME WEWSPAWtt VOL. 103 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1944 NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 21 KScknewblows ru.-- the innei JE Japase home- . forces stormed ffl and established "f- Thursday, a bombardment. . kTVe enemy'. SSZ preparatory to 2 .?r and sea attack in riat "softening up cam , the Pa"011 wan Ut u . . . rman tor Gen. KuniaKi fclB?UIV;L Mitsumasa Kdanew orh . ub. Kes of "ministers of rl . . ... rmiwrnr Hiro- atorday morning (Japan ..Jin announced. Yaheita Saito, described ,g spokesman lor uen. headquarters. two naa mauc ii.. inorlsl nalace and ,.d the situation with kpanese omciais. Liberator duiuucio, nn SaiDan island Chichi Jimi and Haha ih Ronin islands, 650 L. TnVvo. Tuesday, dam- aaolanes ana selling lire ductal vessels. :al Chester W. Nimitz re that Tinian, north of at subjected to continued h lioht surface units to- lith shore based artillery raft from Saipan Monaay sday. southwest Pacific, Mitch ium bombers, continuing tack on enemy shipping1 the Dutch East indies, damaged three more mer- kessels. Heavy bombers bided Falau and Yap in felines. : ';; . - Gen. Seek Killed As Nazi Reprisal For Hitler Singe . LONDON, July 21. (UP) Adolf Hitler opened the flood. gates on a nazi blood bath today in reprisal for an abortive revolt which threatened to plunge Germany into civil war, as Berlin announced the execution of Col. ' Gen. Ludwig Beck, former chief of general staff, as a ringleader of the anti-Hitler conspiracy. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT FDR, Renominated, Accepts From Pacific Naval Base Jie Airman Dead Srida Crash Howard Shephard, 19, of aviation radioman 3-c, in W reserve air force, and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Shep- toute 1, Eugene, was killed irplane crash Tuesday at field, Jacksonville, Fla., I training flight in line according to word just re. 17 his parents, and by his pna, who has been living ion,' her former home, pan Shephard was born at R Jan. 28, 1925. With his he went to Lebanon in N there until 1941. He fried to Norma Postle of July 31, 1942. After year In Portland shin- pphard entered the serv- f, 1843. He trained for u at Memphis, Tenn., ! men nas seen in Florida, rarvived by his parents; ; their dauehter. Beckv Mas; a sister, Mrs. John or Portland, and four cortney E. Shephard of ; Richard, George and D of Eugene. l lervices will be bM in ft the Branstetter-Simon t sner. Mield Man Is pion Victim S. McDaniel of Snri. Poan on the victory ship -"' is reported as M Presumed in. ka ii I r w luak. piosion at Port "aval niuzarin. i u.. (Cisco bay, July n. other r'ealed by officials rtme unions, the 12th Cr. ,ni the war shin. rmtrj,in, are as fol- Brn TV Hoik,.- n . . . lea v.:;:".n- In- r J- Enrich, FaldBoH t lcnard v- r j oauev. Fossil- A PACIFIC COAST NAVAL i BASE, July 21 VP) President Franklin D. Roosevelt, renomi nated for a fourth term by the democratic convention, which gave him 1086 votes on the first ballot, to 89 for Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia, and 1 for James Far ley of New York, made his ac ceptance speech later in evening from this base, where he had come by special train. .' (The text of Mr. Roosevelt's ac ceptance speech is printed in full on page 12.) Aides With FDR Mr. Roosevelt, accompanied by his top military aides, reached this base Wednesday night after a six day transcontinental trip which was locked in the secrecy of mili tary security. Only a few hundred people saw the presidential train as it .moved through 16 states a . sharp con trast to the multitudes which jam med the route of presidents In peace time. Few of those who happened to see the train managed to guess the identity of its No. 1 passenger. He never let himself be seen. The party left Washington the night of July 13, accompanied by reporters for the Associated Press, the United Press and the Inter national News Service. Advisers On Trip With the oresident were Adm. William D. Leahy, 'chief of staff to Mr. Roosevelt; Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, his military aide; Rear Adm. Wilson Brown, his naval aide; Vice Adm. Ross T. Mclntire, the president's physician, and Samuel I. Rosenman, special coun sel to the president and one of Mr. Roosevelt's close advisers. Also on the train was Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information, who explained to re porters he was not a member of the presidential party. He said he plans to leave the group to make a personal inspection of OWI operations. South Revolt Still Spreading CHICAGO, July 21 (P) Texas democrats who walked out of the national convention in a huff over repeated rebuffs called a meeting of dissident southerners today to discuss next steps in their revolt against the new deal. Third party talk circulated and it appeared the southerner's meet ing might take on the nature of i "rump" session. The southerners were asked to meet one hour after today's convention session end, A committee named by, the bolt ing Texan issued a formal state ment charging that "the bureau crats, the CIO political action com mittee, and a liberal sprinkling of communists joined forces to tell Texas democrats just where they stand in national politics." "The action of the Texas con vention was thwarted by the Hill- man, Tobin, and Browder follow. ers who carried the ball behind perfect interference of an army of bureaucrats, the statement con tinued. The convention, on recommend. ation of the credentials committee, yesterday seated both the delega itoris selected by the "regular" Texas democratic convention and the delegation chosen by a pro- fourth term group. Each delega tion was given one-half o( Texas' 48 votes. . Nettled by defeats, Dixie dele. Bates directed their ire at Vice President Henry R. Wallace and headed for the convention hall determined to block his renomina. tion. Their opinion of Wallace, never too high, fell to the zero point yesterday when the vice-presi. dent, seconding the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt, declared "the poll tax must go." Rains Slow Allied Push In Normandy . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, July 21 W) Torrential rains and deep mud bogging the battlefields of Normandy slowed allied offen sives today, but Canadian troops slogging forward a mile captured St. Martin de Fontenay, five miles due south of Caen. British units earlier had pushed eight miles east of Caen toward Paris, in the deepest spearhead plunged through nazi defenses. The British to the west gained 1,000 yards on a two-mile front below the Caumont-Tilly road and Americans pinched off a longer portion of the road from St. Lo to Periers, supreme headquarters said, but virtually continuous rains for 38 hours "interfered with ground operations." . Canadian infantrymen routed Germans from underground shel ters in the advance into St. Mar tin after seizing St. Andre-sur-Orne on the east bank of the Orne river. Attack by Bull Is Fatal to G. E. James George E. James, 65, farmer of the pleasant Hill community, who was butted and mauled by a young bull in a neighbor s pasture Wed nesday evening, died Thursday night at a local hospital, The animal caught him against a log, it .is reported, bruising his body fatally. Born in Yamhill county, Oregon, Jan. 29, 1879, James had lived his life in this state. He was married to Johanna Mae Axt at Moro, Oct. 17, 1900. They had lived at Pleas ant Hill for the past six years. Me was a member of the Christian church at Pleasant Hill. Surviving are his wife; one son, Earl C. James of Oakland, Cauf.; one grand daughter; two sisters, Mrs. James Hollenbeck, Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. P. C. Axtell of Moro. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p. m. at the Branstetter-Simon mortuary. Rev. R. E. Clark officiating and interment In Rest Haven memorial park. GestaDO Chief Heinrich Himm- ler, newly vested with the com mand of all armed forces in uer many, appeared to have sent his legions of vengeance on a ruth less hunt for dissident and sus pected elements, with the wheels of nazi justice already grinding out their toll. Nazi broadcasts emphasized that the revolt was "completely crushed," and Hitler seemed to be in firm control again at least for the time being with all com munications out of Germany fully in his service. Strikes With Speed Hitler struck back with the same speed and fury that charac terized the first great blood bath of Germany on June 30, 1934, which wiped out the last sizable faction of open antlrnazism in tne reich. His first prominent victim was Beck, one of the most distin guished figures in German mili tary life. The DNB news agency, in announcing his execution, said "there is revealing proof of his contact with an enemy power. This evidence is the card on which Germany's enemies apparently staked everything." Another already executed was Col. Count Hans Schenk von Stauffeberg, member of the Gee man general staff, named by the nazis as the officer who planted the bomb which exploded at a conference of the military hier archy yesterday. It burned and bruised Hltlr, killed one of his colleagues, and wounded 12 other gold' braided high officers . in touching off the greatest internal crisis the nazis have known. Beck Called Hostile DNB said Beck, chief of the general staff until Nov. 1, 1938, for years had "played a part in hostile announcements of an im minent general putsch in Ger many." DNB said military elements had executed "some" leaders of the plot, and others had committed suicide." Transocean agency said proof was available that the entire plot "originated, with an enemy power, and contact existed between the clique of conspirators and this power." i w ' ' ' tit f r fez Three-Way Drive Rolls Toward City MOSCOW, July 21. (UP) Soviet front dispatches said today that Russian mobile forces were closing against Lwow from three directions for the final assault on the Polish fortress city and, far to the north, were approaching the frontier of East Prussia. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's arm ored columns swept in over the north, east, and south approaches of Lwow, already battered by a Soviet cannonade and by-passed LONDON. July M. (U.B Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight that the Red army had captured Ostrov, German de fense base eact of the Latvian intler. HENRY WALLACE Still leading In fight for renominatloa Wallace Leadina,Truman Close As Convention Ready To Ballot MUNITIONS DESTROYED London! July 21. wi in the biggest stroke of sabotage since D-day, French patriots at Crugey blew up munition dumps apply ing all German airforce bases in eastern France between June 19 and 22, authoritative French in formants in London said last night. Aproximately 10,000 tons of munitions in more than 7,000 rail cars were reported destroyed. Dr. William B. Morse Dies In Salem Hospital SALEM, July 21 U.R Funeral arrangements are pending today for Dr. William B. Morse, 78, who died at a Salem hospital late yes terday. He had been a practicing physician and surgeon here for more than 50 years. (Dr. Morse is well remembered by his many friends in Eugene). He leaves no close relatives. His wife, the former Ethel Cusick, died in 1908. His record for continuous ser vice is unapproached by any other Salem doctor. , He received his medical degree from Willamette university in 18S1. and was in continuous practice here until his retirement a few weeks ago, due to ill health. He was a member of the state board of health for 20 years, and later was president of the state medical society. R0" -"'"10 000-2 7 1 MMhr; Davis ana Call Issued For Additional Youth Farm Platoon Recruits -rh. llham; Cardoni More boys and girls are needed to complete the 14 farm labor platoons organized Thursday by Miss Lovina Wilson, farm labor assistant, it was announced Fri day by O. S. Fletcher, county agent. The total number en listed in these platoons at the gathering on the Frances .Willard school grounds is 387 and as each platoon should have 40 each, 173 more are needed to complete them. . In addition to these 14 platoons, two more will be organized in Eugene, as two crop growers re quested one platoon each. They will be organized at once and 80 boys and girls in addition to the 173 needed to fill up the others will be recruited for these two. 'ihis makes a total need of 253 boys and girls who have completed the fifth grade work in school and are not over 18 years of age. They are requested to call at the farm labor office at 979 Olive street to register and be as signed to the different platoons, The office is open from 8 a. m, to 5 p.m. Any boy or girl who cannot call at the office may telephone 1831, but It is preferred SEE CALL ISSl'ED STORY FACE F .0. if... MOBILIZING Youth plaloom to harvest Lane crop, were orianlied after retlrtratlon at rrancet Willard Khool pl.yshed Thursday morning. Here, group of the SM boys and (lrl ilgn up for the tn Ihw want U pick, tt. kind ! work that want (RtiUtw-Guwd pboto, wUIJtrt toCKviag) CHICAGO STADIUM, July 21 -VP) The democratic national convention, told that the choice of vice-president was never more important than now, be gan balloting at 4:52 p.m. CWT today on 16 candidates as pre liminary polls pot Henry A. Wallace and Senator Harry Tru man' out in front of the big field. Juvenile Heads Organize Here With the hope of laying the groundwork for an unified juven ile delinquency treatment pro gram in the state, county Judges and juvenile officers of Oregon met Friday morning for a two. day organizing conference in the circuit court room of tne Lane county courthouse. Hope was expressed by those authorities attending that through such an organization which might serve as a clearing house for county juvenile problems some beneficial legislative changes reg ulating juvenile delinquency treat ment within Oregon might be at tained. Lane county District Attorney William S. Fort, presiding at the Friday meeting, appointed the fol lowing nominating committee as an opening step in organization: Judae W. A. Johnson, Grants Pass Judge Clinton Hurd, Eugene; and ton. Irresponsible parents received verbal whacking from the ma jority of judges and officers pres ent at the morning meeting, with citv nolice forces coming in sec ond for a good drurjmng, Dom held up as present impediments in the adequate treatment 01 iuvenile delinquency. It was brought out time ana again by the morning speakers that lack of parental supervision in homes where both parents are working is a prime factor contrib uting to juvenile delinquency. City police systems in many parts of the state also were denounced as helping the growth of delin quency by not cooperating with juvenile setups in their territories, Some city police set-ups are not only uncooperative, but use third degree methods in their treat ments of Juveniles it was asserted by speakers. The problem of the sex delin quent adolescent girl and service men in cities adjacent to military camps also was presented to the morning assembly as being an ever present "headache. A plea for better cooperation between county Juvenile courts and between such courts and training schools was made by various speakers during the inorn ing session. It also was stressed that one of the biggest problems in the state was the lack of ade quately trained personnel to nan die Juvenile delinquency. Lack of personnel and decent detention quarters are two things hamper. Ing Oregon juvenile courts it was brought out. This last not only ap plies to counties but to state train ing schools, some speakers as serted. (A list of officers and visitors attending the meeting will bt found on page 2.) CHICAGO STADIUM, July 2t (Piwith Henry A. Wallace and Senator Harry Truman far ahead and gaining on the Held, tne democratic national convention approached a ballot today on the big and bitter business of; the con-clave-iseiectton 'blT 'vft-presl- dential nominee. At 12:30 p.m.(PWT) Wallace. had a total of 389 delegate votes pledged and claimed in advance of the actual roll call; The sena tor from Missouri had 209, with 589 needed to nominate. Thirteen other candidates were assured first-ballot support ser ious or complimentary and an early conclusion drew prospec tively increasingly remote. Sena tor Alben W. Barklcy of Kentucky, claiming 75 to 100 first-ballot votes, declared: I won't be surprised if there is a deadlock. Anything may hap pen after that." It was a tense, Irritable conven tion that booed at times, cheered often and repeatedly defied the efforts of Senator Samuel Jackson of Indiana to maintain order as nominating speakers and second ers droned on. The galleries, heavy with Wallace banners, let go for the vice-president at every op portunity and, despite the threats and pleas of Jackson, cat-calls and boos for others. Wallace, starting the day with 316 -4 pledged and claimed votes, made his first move when big Ohio caucused and reported 21 of its 52 delegates for Wallace,! with 9 for Truman. New York, which had been claimed heavily for Truman, followed with a re ported 20 for Wallace and 78 for Truman. Truman, arriving at the stadium during a demonstration for Wal lace after a seconding speech, said: It's all right. The more Mr. Wallace gets on the first ballot short, of course, of the needed number the better my chances thereafter. I hope he gets as many as 600." Jake Moore, Iowa state chair man, predicted Wallace would have "more than 400 on the first ballot." He said the vice-president would not come to the convention "until after he is nominated." Jackson tried vainly to restore order when the vice president's friends began a "we want Wal lace" parade down the center aisle. The biggest volume of Wallace chants seemed to come from the topmost balcony. Senator Bankhead, contender for the vice-presidency In his own right, remarked to a reporter: "It certainly looks as if the CIO has taken over the convention." A band struck up "Ioway, Io way, That's Where the Tall Corn Grows," and the confusion grew like Iowa corn in August Three gas-filled balloons, teth ered to 1 parader by a light thread, floated high toward the :eiling carrying a Wallace poster. The demonstration lasted 12 minutes: Presenting the name of Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago termed him "a mine-run man, a country boy from the farm, a soldier in the last war. an athlete of renown, a statesman who thinks." "We want harmony In this con vention," Kelly said, and the gal leries retorted "We want Wal lace." Former Governor Keen Johnson of Kentucky, nominated Berkley whom he termed "ideally equipped to make, a great vice president" on the north, and military quarters were confident of the early libera tion of the biggest German base in lower Poland. At the same time, Russian cos sacks massed in the forests along the west bank of the Bug river norht of Lwow for a speedy sweep across the Polish plains toward the Vistula and Germany beyond. Baltic Drive Rolls' On the Baltic front, Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's third army of White Russia was fighting for the junctions controlling the roads to East Prussia and extending its gains west of the Nlemen river in lower Lithuania. (Nazi broadcasts yesterday re ported fighting at Augustow, eight miles from the border of East Prussia. The Moscow dispatch did not specify the mileage involved in the approach to the German soil.) Big air battles raged over the Nlemen sector as German plane swarmed against the Soviet bridgeheads and crossings in an attempt to slow down the red army advance and gain time for the battle of East Prussia. Lwow Tops Newt The battle of Lwow dominated the news from the long front, wityi dispatches reporting it in the final phase even as the Russians stormed its gates, Indicating that the overwhelming pressure . was expected to throw, out the German garrison in short order. The drive against Lwow wal supported by a new red army of fensive to the north in the Kowel area, forming the southern arm of a pincers against Brest Iitovsk. War Declaration By Turkey Possible LONDON, July 21 W) Sign Increased today that Turkey soon may swing from her tenderly balanced neutral position to a pos sible declaration of war against the axis. (The German appear to be evacuating the Bulgarian. Black sea ports ot Varna and Burgas, a traveler from eastern Bulgaria said today, adding that during the past week he had seen tralnloads of German troops moving west ward from the vicinity ot both ports.) One such indication was a broadcast by the German-controlled Vichy radio that all Turk ish ships had been ordered into. Turkish harbors without delay. and that all navigation in Turkish waters of the Black sea had been suspended. There was a growing belief in London that Turkey may attempt to improve her position at the allied peace table by handing axil diplomats their walking papers. Expulsion of nazi agents hat been at the top of allied requests to the Turks ever since they agreed to end shipping of chrome to Germany. Earlier in the war, Turkey de clined to become a belligerent on the allied side despite delivery of millions ot dollars worth of allied supplies. Attacks On London By Robots Continue LONDON, July 21 W Salvos of flying bombs exploded in London and south England today and Home Security Minister Her bert Morrison, In a grave speech, urged mothers to evacuate the capital and other danger zones. "It is a trying attack," he said at a luncheon meeting, "and there is no point in making light of it." The German radio said regular nazi fighters operated over Brit ain during the night. Weather V. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) Oregon Fair over week-end with fog on the coast; warmer after noons except on the coast. Local Statistics: Minimum tem perature, Friday morning, 49 de- g r e e s; maximum temperature. Thursday, 81 degrees; stage of Willamette river in Eugena at T a. m. Friday, -2.71 feet. . Sunrise and Sunset (PWT)I Saturday, 8:50 a. m. and 8:48 p. m.J Sunday, 5:51 a. m. and 8:47 p. m.; Monday, 5:52 a, m. and 8:46 p. nv SIIISI.AW TIDES rT Salarr H.m Hi: m. l , taw 1 , 1 t:lsp. m. Hlti tow , 1 Mt.m. . I.wa.as. 4:M r 10 ('I i .I
