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Yankees Cut Cherbourg Lifelines; Germans May Abandon Great Port Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with Mattered ihowera In higher mountains tonight and Satur day. Little change In tempera 'ture. Temp. Highest yesterday 63 Lowest this morning 56 Precipitation put 84 hrs. . I Thirty-ninth Year GERMANS SUFFER SAME STRAFING IN ROME RETREAT Fleeing Forces Now Almost 50 Miles Above Eternal City; Transport Lacking. Allied Headquarters, Naples June 9 (U.R) Germany's ar mies were in full retreat across the Italian peninsula from the AHriatin to the Tyrrhenian sea, almost 50 miles above Rome today, but front dispatches in dicated the Nazi high com' Fifth army armored columns swept into the big railway cen ter of Viterbo. 45 miles north west of Rome, today, after a swift advance around LaKe ui Vaco, and American units mov ing up the Tyrrhenian coastal road captured Tarquinia, almost 50 miles above the capital. jlmand was struggling to reor ganize and turn on the pursu ing Allies. Waves of Allied bombers and fighters strafed German troop and transport columns from dawn to mid-afternoon today and returning pilots said units of the retreating Nazi 14th ar my had reached a point north and west of Lake Bolsena, more than 60 miles north of Rome. Allied reconnaissance reveal ed that the Nazis, stripped of a great part of their transport by savage Allied strafing, were commandeering farm carts and horses in a desperate effort to withdraw their troops and equipment. PALACE GATHERING Rome, June 9 (U.R) A wild burst of gunfire, apparently aimed at Crown Prince Hum bert, broke up a Royalist dem onstration before the Quirinal Palance today as Marshal Piet ro Badoglio turned over the government of liberated Italy to a new regime headed by Ivnnhoe Bonomi, 71 -year -old Italian underground leader. Humbert, to whom King Vic tor Emmanuel delegated all his Royal powers after the libera tion of Rome last Sunday, was . making one of his first formal , appearances in the capital since he fled to escape the German occupation forces last Septem ber. He had Just stepped out on a palance balcony to wave to some 5,000 Royalist demonstra tors gathered in the piazza Qui rinale when the revolver shots rang out. Police searched . the crowd and in the confusion, arrested the wrong man. The gunman escaped. Wounded Soldier In Good Recovery Emmett Mitchell, Camp White soldier, shot in the fleshy part of the thigh, three weeks ago, by State Police Sergeant Willard Ruch, while assertedly window peeping at the Ruch home, was reported today as showing satis factory recovery. Following the incident Mitchell's condition was reported as serious. The fleeing soldier was shot when he failed 4jo heed orders to halt. Sgt. Ruch said he aimed higher than he intended in the darkness. Mitchell is still confined In the Camp White hospital. District Attorney George W. Ncilson said today no formal action had been taken In the case as yet. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dick Baize and his motorcycle proving an Interesting diversion for a group of restless youngsters. Ralph Sweeney patriotically folding surgical dressings at the evening session of a Red Cross group last night. I Mack Lilfard helpfully pre ' senting Tribune reporters with copies of their own newspaper. Eir.o Kcmmila blossoming out In Ray new tie purchased in New York, MEDFORD United Pr Mcme Kadio-telephoto END OF FIGHT Arms upraised, these German prisoners, captured when beach tortlflcatlon fell to Canadians In Invasion ot France, stand amidst Allied troops and equipment. Note stilled enemy block house In background. Official Canadian photo via Siiinal Curbs radio-teleDboto from London. . VAST SKY FLEET CROSSES ALPS TO Allied Headquarters, Naples, June 9 (U.R) A great sky fleet of 500 to 750 fighter-escorted American Flying Fortresses and Liberators slashed through strong Nazi fighter opposition to bomb the Munich area of south ern Germany today tn the first Italian-based raid of the war on that industrial and communica tions center. Striking more than . 500 miles across the Alps from their bases In .southern Italy, . the giant American raiders cascaded a great weight of explosives and fire bombs through a heavy over cast blanketing the city. A powerful escort of Mustang, Lightning and Thunderbolt fight ers, numbering perhaps 500, fought off Nazi fighters that bat tled the formations across Aus tria and the southern Reich. F.R. TELLS PLAN .. FOR REFUGEES Washington, June 9 (U.R) President Roosevelt, announcing Allied plans for caring for Euro pean war refugees, said today that up to 1,000 of them now in southern Italy will be brought to Fort Ontario, near Oswego, N. Y. He said more refugees also were being moved out of Italy to camps in the middle east, with an increase of from 25.000 to 40,000 in the quotas of these camps. A camp is being established in Casablanca, North Africa, to care for refugees, most of them French, who had gotten into Spain. Mr. Roosevelt explained that refugees were pouring out of the Balkans into Italy in large numbers and were intcrferring with military operations. To meet this heavy and increasing influx, the capacity of refugee camps in the Mediterranean is being increased and some new camps are being established. ADVANCE UNIT OF Allied Supreme Headquarters. London, June 9 (U.R) At least one advance unit of the U. S. 9th air force has arrived In France to prepare the way for transfer of air cover from Brit ish bases to FrencV fields close up to the fighting lines, it was disclosed today. The disclosure was made when the London censor passed a dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Douglas Warner, who accompanied the unit to France on a tank land ing craft. Werner's dispatch was date lined "with an advanced 9th air force unit in France." Shortly after the- first portion of his dis patch arrived In New York, London censorship requested that the dateline be changed to read merely "in France" elimi nating reference to the 9th air force unit. Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE Invasion Glider Lands On Roof of Nazi Headquarters Ninth Air Force Troop Carrier Base, England, June 9 (U.R) Behind the German west wall, a flock of American gliders cut loose from its tow planes and slanted for the moonlit land ing zone below. As one wltfe-wlnged troop car-. ---- rier swooped silently across an uL,.i D-J,.; enemy-held town a cloud blotted Wheat Production out the moon. In the temporary To Set Record Is blackout the glider crashed to a ' . ,i grinding stop. . Present Outlook The nose was flipped up and WashlnRt J" 9 nj.R, troops poured out expecting to T. j,rtmo. , -.i.,,ua ro. run for the shelter oi trees and farm buildings. To their amaze ment, Col. Ralph Bagby, Evans ton, 111.,' related today, they found themselves on the roof of a large building Nazis Surprised Working their way gingerly down- through the building they discovered that it was Ge.'man headquarters for the areal in,. -,,- mn-A .,, ,,.;,, v,,i -"" -""" - garrison, rubbing its eyes, tum bled out of its cots and surren dered. This was only one of the D-day adventures - of the air borne troops which were being told around this base as glider pilots arrived back in England, the units they had deposited back of the German lines now joined up with the forces ad vancing from the beachheads. Bagby, a Ninth airforce vet eran attached to headquatrers, made his first parachute jump in the night operation which opened the invasion. He report ed "losses for paratroops and glider units apparently were extremely light, but there sure are a lot of German dead." NAZIS CAN USE 100 Zurich, June 9 (U.R) Of Ger many's total of 300 operative divisions only about 100, averag ing 11,000 men each, are avail able for fighting against the invasion of France, informed sources estimated today. The territory from North Cape to the Pyrenees was reported divided into defense zones with two In France and one each in J Holland, Denmark, norm west Germany, and Norway, each under separate command. Fifty-two of Ihe best divisions were said to be stationed in France. Distribution of others was said to be: 14 in Belgium, eight in Holland, six In Den mark, eight In Norway, and 10 inside the reich. 0PA EXTENSION BILL AMENDMENT ADOPTED Washington, June 9 (U.R) The senate today approved by a vote of 39 to 35 the Bankhead amendment to the OPA exten sion bill which would require cotton textile prices to reflect cotton parity. The senate approved by voice vote an amendment by Sen. Al exander Wiley, R., Wis., to per mit increase of all wages and salaries to the level of $37.50 a week without submission to any government agency for ap proval. METHODIST BISHOP Ocean City, N. J., June 9 (U.R) Rev. Dr. W. Earl Ledden, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, Al bany, N. Y., today was elected bishop of the Methodist church at the northeastern jurisdictional conference of the church. ted today that on the basi of conditions as of June 1. .the United States should produce 1.034.785,000 bushels of wheat this year a new record, and on ly the second time in history that the wheat crop has crossed the billion-bushel mark. ' The department's crop report ing board tempered this optimis tic forecast somewhat, however, ij .""""5 - only fair. The crop reporting board pre dicted that rye output will total 31 608.000 bushels, compared with 30.781,000 bushels in 1943. and a crop of 29.711.000 bush els Indicated on May 1. Oat production was estimated at 1,193.410,000 bushels, com pared with 1.143.867,000 bush els in 1943. Barley production was estimated at 299,533,000 against an output of 322,187,000 bushels last year, ACCUSlORAPIST Santa Ana, Cal., June 9 U.R) Capt. Morrison J. Wilkinson, Jr., today admitted he faked his uncle's college credits to get Into both the army and navy air corps, but was dismissed from both once because his gsades were bad and once because the navy discovered he had a wife. The handsome pilot, who tes tified for the first time In his court martial on charges of sex ual misconduct, bigamy and theft, said that although he had been let out of both services, he later entered the air corps under his own name. LITTLE CHANGE 1 EAST FRONT London, June 9 (U.R) There were no Important changes on the eastern front today, Radio Moscow announced. During yesterday's fighting Russian troops destroyed and disabled 25 Nazi tanks and 27 planes. HANS HAUPT GUILTY OF HARBORING SPY Chicago, June 9 (U.R) Hans Max Haupt was found guilty to day of treason In harboring his son, Herbert, who was executed as a German spy. With his wife, Erna. and four other defendants,, Haupt was tried nearly two years ago on charges that he gave aid and comfort to the enemy by har boring his son, who came to this country on a sabotage mission. New York, June 9 flJ.R) The Associated Press was advised by its London office today that one of Its waf correspondents, Hen ry B. Jameson, had been slightly wounded while covering the landing operation! in France. 9, 1944. BLOOD DONOR LIST TO BE DRAWN FOR JACKS0NC0 U NT Y Public Health Assn. Asks for Volunteers Testing at Labs Start Saturday. Plans to sponsor a list of blood donors to be made avail able to all hospitals in Jackson county were announced this week by the Jackson County Public Health association. A call for volunteers, who will compose the list, was pre pared by a committee, headed by Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, asso ciation president, following consultation with all labora tories in Medford, where tests will be made. Other members of the committee, launching the drive, are Dr. A. E. Merkel, Jackson county public health officer; C. C. Haggard, who has made an extensive study of the need in this county, and Mrs. Moore Hamilton, publicity chairman of the association. Lab Tests Needed Permanent residents of the valley, who are willing to give their blood through transfusion to save the life of any Individ ual in need of it, are asked to contact one of the three Med ford laboratories. At the lab oratory, tests will be made for formation of the blood type list, which will be maintained by the Health association for the use of all doctors in saving lives. The laboratories are: The Medford Laboratory, Medford Center building, telephone 5065. Volunteers will be tested here Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons between 12 noon and 2 o'clock. An aver age of 10 persons can be cared for. The community hospital laboratory, located in the hos pital, telephone 2065, hours 4 to 6 any afternoon, preferably Saturday. An average of 15 persons can be cared for. Sa cred Heart hospital laboratory, located in the hospital, tele phone 2004, hours 3 to 5 any afternoon. An average of 10 persons can be cared for under the blood typing program. Ashland Arranged AH Ashland persons, wishing to volunteer In the donation of blood, are asked to telephone Mrs. Will Dodge of that city, telephone 3727 Ashland. Mrs. Dodge will make arrangements for the volunteers to be tested in Medford as there is no lab boratory in Ashland, where the blood typing Is done. The list of donors will, of course, be made available to Ashland so it is desirable to have donors in that locality. Beginning tomorrow, tests may be arranged for until the end of June. The Jackson Coun ty Public Health association hopes to make up a list of 200 honors, Mrs. Hedberg stated. Persons must be in good health to qualify and It is important that they be of rather perman ent residence in order that the list will be of lasting value. Need Is Acute The need for blood donors in Jackson county has been acute ly and almost tragically felt in several instances In recent coun ty history. When the Instances arose, doctors, hospitals and In dividuals were confronted with the realization that there was no blood type list to which they could turn for volunteers in case of emergency. This reali zation started a study of the possibilities and the Jackson County Public Health associa tion decided to sponsor such a campaign. The laboratories have readily promised to cooperate by mak ing the tests to be financed by the health association. When the testa have been made-the blod type list will be prepared and presented to the hospitals. Any person ' willing to give blood is asked to telephone one of the laboratories listed or Mrs. Dodge in Ashland. FRENCH ARE PROMISED OWN CIVIL GOVERNMENT London, June 9 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in a proclamation to the people of occupied Franco that the civil administration of all territory liber, ted by his Invasion armies will be left to Frenchmen, and promised a swift purge of all pro-Nazi and collaborationist ele ments In public ofiice. ?ress Full Leaied Wire ..fl.l (Acme) Tehphoto) SENT riOME Maj. Den. Henrj J. F Miller oi U. 8. Army All Forces, demoted to rank ot lieu tenant colonel and sent back u D 8 for revealing approximaU date of western European Invasion to guests at English cocktail oarty TO LEARN BR By Richard D. McMillan United Press War Correspondent Representing combined American Frew With Allied Forces In France, June 9 U.R All the French people with whom I have talked in the countryside, In the villages and In the townships of the liber ated area are surprised at the idea that there Is any difference of opinion among the French on support of Gen Charles De Gaule. "We are all solidly behind our leader, De Gaulle," they say. "He as well as Great Britain and America has been our constant hope through the darkest hours. He Is the only leader for us." I found the French Ignorant of what the British people had suf fered while holding out against German air raids, the submarine campaign and the constant threat of Invasion following Dunkirk. The French were even surprised to learn Britain had rationing. They believed Britain was a land of plenty. The French stood wide-eyed as I related British food short ages, such as one egg per month and the coupons needed for milk and meat.. The countryside has not suffered acutely from a food shortage around this section of Normandy. But all agree that food Is scarce In Paris. CAPTURED U.S. OFFICER USES SHOVEL ON GUARD London, June 9 (UP) Capt. John C. H. Lee, Jr., son of Lt. Gen. Lee, deputy commander to Gen. Eisenhower, was captured by German troops on the inva sion beachhead but escaped by k eking hir guard down with a shovel, it was learrcd today. Jackson County Bond Quota Highest Yet; Drive All Set Jackson ' county's quota for the Fifth war loan drive, whl h starts next Monday, will be the hishest ever established accord ing to Henry Zacharisen, county war finance chairman. The coun ty's quota for scries "E" I nds has been set at $600,000, sales to individuals, including the "E" . Washington,. June fl (U.R) President Roosevelt will speak Monday night during the one-hour program which will open the Fifth war loan, Ted R. Gamble, director of the treasury's war finance di vision, announced today. The program will be broadcast by all networks between 7 and 8 p. m. PWT, series, at $1,037,000, and corpor ations, $1,225,000. "H-Hour-' for the beginning of Medford's part in the 5th War Loan drive has been set for 10 A. M. Monday, and on the hour, the air raid siren will be turned loose with all lis volume ri the signal for all the other noise making apparatus In Medford to join force In making the loudest BUNE NO. 67. JAPS CONTINUE RETREAT BEFORE ALLIES IN INDIA Enemy Making Heavy At tack on Last Chinese De fense Line. By United Press The Japanese continued to re treat today before strong Allied forces In India and Burma, al though the enemy was reported making a heavy attack on the last Chinese defense lines on the northern edge of Changsha in Ho nan province. A Chinese spokesman dis closed that the Japanese brought 80.000 men into the assault on Changsha, a key junction on the Canton-Hankow railway, al though there were no details of the fighting. To Fight lo End It was announced officially tn Chungking that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had -instructed the defenders of Changsha to fight to the end for eventual vic tory. Allied tank-supported troops made another three-mile advance southward on the Kohlma-Im-phal highway In India, to reach a point 14 miles below Kohlma. The Japanese were withdrawing steadily from the Kohima 'area, and also in the Kamalng area of northern Burma. In northwestern Dutch New Guinea, American troops, with the aid of tank, artillery and na val fire, were gradually reduc ing the Japanese forces trapped in caves and cliffs east of newly captured Mokmer airdrome, Yanks Near Borokoe The United States troops In taking Mokmer brought their lines within one mile of Borokoe airfield and two miles of the Sorldo airstrip. Liberators again struck at Japanese shipping off the north western Dutch New Guinea coast and scored two hits near the bow of a heavy enemy cruls-. er, the third warship hit by Al lied fliers in that area In four days. Liberated French Beat Nazi Lovers Bayeux, France, June 9 (U.R) The French of this town have gone temporarily berserk with the Joy of freedom after four years of pent-up hatred for the Germans and welcomed the op portunity to punish the collabor ationists. FIRST WHITE CHILD IN NEVADA VILLAGE DIES Genoa, Nev., June 9. (UP) Mrs. Elizabeth Sclby, the first white child born in this l'.'.le town which was the first settle ment and the first capital of Nevada, died here today at the age of 84. Mrs. Selby, who took her first horsebrck ride one year after birth In 1860 .vl-en all women and childrei. in the area were evacuated over the mountains into California during ui Indian uprising, was active until only a few -nonths ago. racket heard here In a long time. Mill whistles, laundry whistles, the police and fire de partment sirens, sirens of the sheriff's posse, church bells, md even the Southern Pacific engine if there, will be one handy will all be picssed into service to' aid In the noise-making and ci.ll attention to the opening of the drive. The request has also been made of everyone with noise making apparatus who might not have been contacted b; the committee add to the noise and help start the drive. - - - It has been pointed out, how ever, that noise alone will not be enough that the noise at 10 A. M. Monday should spur every one In hearing to reach into their ptckctbooks and buy bonds to support the hug : Invasion forces now battling on the continent. Bond headquarters for the 5th War Loan have b -n established at 21 Central avenue with Chas. Clay, Sr., as manager. Bonds may be purchased there through out the day and -ening a- well a. at the many other qualified Istuing agents of the city and ounty. INVASION ACTION SATISFACTORY, IS Beachheads Enlarging Says Eisenhower Spokesman; Nazis Say Fleet Sighted. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, June 9 (U.R) Amer ican armored forces driving west ward against hard fighting into the base of the Norman peninsu la have cut the east coast rail road and highway to Cherbourg, the two main Nazi lifelines to the great port, it was announced of ficially today. A spokesman nt Gen. Dwtght D. Eisenhower's headquarters re vealed that operations generally "continue satisfactorily, with the beachheads enlarging" on the fourth day of the Allied Inva sion of northwestern France. Armada Sighted The Germans reported that a great naval armada of several hundred vessels sailed eastward past Cherbourg toward the as sault area early today, evidently to pour powerful reinforcements into the beachheads. Nazi reports also said an arm ored spearhead was approaching St. Lo, 20 miles southwest of Bayeux and half way across the peninsula, and the Germans might be forced to abandon Cher bourg In the face of the devel oping Allied drive to Isolate it Front dispatches revealed that Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, com mander of the American Inva sion forces, had gone ashore in France as his troops were bat tling their way into the vital transport network supplying the enemy garrison at Cherbourg. Highway Cut At supreme headquarters here It was revealed that Bradley'! forces, battling hard and grimly. had struck across the 27-mile stretch of the Cherbourg-Caren-tan highway at several places. Advanced elements pushing on beyond the highway, cut the broadgaugo railroad between Carentan and St. Mere Eglise, seven miles to the north. An ob scure German high command reference to Allied troops strik ing out from the St. Mere Eglise beachhead Indicated the town might be in American hands. British forces continued t edge forward In the Caen area against stiff German resistance and counterthrusts which still had not reached the proportions of a big scale attack. The main weight of Marshal Erwln Rommel's counteraction was centered around Caen. It In cluded considerable amounts of armor, which the Germans had moved up well forward. Many Prisoners German prisoners have been taken In sizable numbers, the spokesman suld, the total now running Into four figures. The weather, one of the knot tiest problems of the invasion, took a slight turn for the worse early today, the wind kicking In DrisKly from the southwest. The word at supreme head quarters late In the day was that the invasion could be considered "making satisfactory progress." but as Allied beachheads ex oanded, Nazi resistance stiffened. The weight of armor engaged by both slues was Increasing, and the fighting was severe. All enemy thrusts along the battle are from the neighbor hood of Caen to above St. Mere Eglise were held, and ground was gained afterward. (That statement from headquarters sug gested the possibility, without clarification, thai American and British beachheads had been loined to form a continuous front.) A late report said the Amer icans were at St. Formlgny, eight miles west -northwest of Bayeux, Wednesday evening, and presum ably they had advanced since then, The capture o?, Bayeux by British forces was announced yesterday. The Canadian Third division was revealed to be taking part in the Allied advance. Canadian officers and men were engaged In the initial parachute land ings. Fort Lewis To Be One Of Greatest Training Centers Ft. Douglas. Uthh, June 9 (V-P.) Maj. Gen. Frederick Gil- breath, former commanding gen eral of the vital San Francisco port of embarkation, has been assigned as commanding gen eral of the new army service forces training center at Ft. Lew- Is, Wash., the headquarters of Ihe Ninth Service Command an nounced here today. The new Ft. Lewis training center, Initially composed of en gineer and medical personnel. is "destined to become one of the largest military tnstalla'ions of Its Kind In the United States," the command said In announcing uuDreaih' new assignment. . e
