Yankees Cut Cherbourg Lifelines; Germans May Abandon Great Port
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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
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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,
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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
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(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. .
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