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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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