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Weather Forecast: Scattered showers Sunday with thunder storms In mountains. Cooler. Temp. Highest yesterday T , ,.. , 85 Lowest this morning ,.. B7 Precipitation past 24 hrs. 0 Use Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Medford TTkTTHTTl United Pint Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1944 NO. 68. in ul (f fpfUlRfo)Q)ff?,jO EMS ALLIED INVASION' HINTEDBY AXIS Vichy Broadcasts Toulon Bombarded; Beachheads Joined in 2-Prong Drive. ' B7 Edward W. Beattie United Press War Correspondent Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sunday, June ll-MU.R) Allied invasion armies threat ened the first-class, modern port of Cherbourg with imminent capture early today while Axis control'ed Radio Vichy broadcast that Allied, warships were bom barding the huge naval base of Toulon on the French Mediterra nean coast, 600 miles to the southeast. American forces on the Co tensin (Cherbourg) peninsula were advancing on the port in a powerful two-pronged drive and communique No. 10 of su preme Allied headquarters re ported that the invasion forces had linked up a solid 42-mile beachhead belt along the Nor man coast. British Broadcasting corpora tion listeners heard the Vichy ra dio broadcast soon after Swiss press dispatches from1 Berlin claimed that the Germans feared an Allied Invasion of southern France was imminent. The dis patches cited German authority for the allegation that a huge Allied fleet was cruising off Allied-held Corsica, 80 miles off the French coast, and its neigh boring island, Sardinia, to the south. In an all-out effort to break four-day deadlock around Caen near the east flank of thel tnvn.inn front Allied artillorv , of every caliber and medium bombers and fighter bombers in overwhelming strength deliv ered an obliteration bombard ment on German positions there Saturday. The air phase of the "on through German motor con assault was described as the voys moving toward Caen until most concentrated of the war, a B". v" Nonrjanrly were with the possible exception of th battered, smoking the blow that destroyed Cas- hulk.. Other piloto reported do sino. Good News Due Latest information at head quarters indicated that good . news very good newt could be expected shortly, but corre spondent! were not permitted to speculate on its nature. An American column striking due west across the Cotentin peninsula was reported to have traversed more than half its 25-mlle width and was nearlng the highway running up the west side, severance of wnicn would complete Cherbourg's iso-i London, Sunday, June 11 U.R) jatjon .The greatest air support ever Another column battling due concentrated in a single area, north from positions above Care-'barring perhaps only Cassino. tan, still German-held, had by! was thrown yesterday against the enemy's own admission, the embattled Caen region by driven the Nazis to the north Allied medium and fighter bomb an f thP neninsula and Radio ers In an attempt to seal off . . ... Berlin said "tne Dauie oi bourg has begun." Stockholm reports said the Yankees were onlv 10 miles from the port. Struggling through German created flood waters along the coast, the Americans captured Trevieres and Isigny to Join forces with Anglo - Canadian forces in the Bayeux-Cacn sec tor, where heavy battles were raging last night. St. Croix, seven miles southeast of Bayeux. also has been captured, making a total of 13 towns known to have been liberated by the Al lied armies. Official reports here said the main beachhead was now 30 miles wide, from nAr Caen to the Isigny area, but front dis patches said the front stretched unbroken for 42 miles from beyond Caen to the edge of j Carentan, counting the curving shoreline. VAN FLEET NAMED Portland, Ore., June 10 0J.R) Clark C. Van Fleet, Portland, a former OPA district rat'Hiing officer, will manage the V Mam ette Wood Chemical company plant to be built near Eugene, Ore., it was announced today. VETERANS FLIERS KILLED Salinas. Cal.. June 10 U.R Two army fliers, one a veteran ( i i conomn and China, were killed today when their A-20 twin-engincr night fighter crashed and burned V l& , 'fe'l ft nM'Z (Aetna Radio-Ttiephotot FIRST SANK WOUNDED - Wounded Americans, hit while storm lng Nazi defenses In northern France, relax as they reach momentary safety of chalk cliff at their backs and await medical attention. Blg 1 nal Corps photo via radla-telepboto from London. SCATTERED OVER Ninth Airforce Fighter Base, England, June 10 OJ.Rl Sup plies with which the Germans hoped to hold Caen now lie scat tered on roads all over Nor mandy or are immobilized in railway carriages that are help- it',"t helr. , engi""' Thundebolt fighter pilots report- ed today after returning from one of their most successful mis sions against German transport. The Thunderbolts blasted a 10r mile trail of fire and destruc- CHS UL ULllliail lonnuj mi . standing helpless without their engines within the German sup ply area close behind the fight ing. In their desperation, the Ger mans are sending horse-drawn artillery rolling toward the beachheads in such numbers that the pilots are convinced the Ger man tradition of attacking with excellent motorized and arm ored divisions Is a thing of the past because of Allied air su premacy. Supreme Allied Headquarters, .the the vast German effort to rein force its divisions there. T KILLS 1 38 HURT Vallejo, Ca!., June 10-U.R) Two men were killed and 38 In jured early today when a huge explosion ripped a 150-foot hole In the concrete floor of the ma chine shop at Mare Island navy yard, tossed machinery Into the air and shattered hundreds of windows in the area. Dead were: P. L. May, 4135 Manila blvd., Oakland; A. M. Armado, 191 MacDougall ave., Vallejo, Injured seriously were: E. F. Daly, Vallejo; R. B. Warner. Val lejo: A. M. Frazier, Concord, and E. A. Ruegg, Albany. A preliminary investigation by the navy reported the blast was apparently caused bv accumulat ed gases in pits beneath the ma chines. A possibility of sabotage was discounted. FLIER LEAPS, INJURED Los Angeles. June 10 (U.R) Lt. William Milton. 21, San Dl- eeo. was Injured in the arm and legs when he leaped from his P-38 over Duarte this morning, I army officials announced, ft . vn rrv.v AT E London, June 10 (U.R) Gen. Charles De Gaulle, head of the French committee of national liberation, told a French news a gency.jn.. London tonight that General Elsenhower's proclama tions regarding temporary gov ernment for liberated French areas were "obviously not ac centable for us" and Algiers po litical quarters Immediately saw this as a "burning of bridges" presaging his early return there. Algiers said the statement of De Gaulle that he would be hap py to' talk to President Roose velt did not Indicate that he would go to Washington imme diately and he certainly would not go during the first period indicated by the president, which was before the end of June. De Gaulle told his interview ers that Eisenhower's plans seemed a seizure of power by the Allied "military. It was be lieved in Algiers that he would not have spoken with such sharp ness had not his conversations with Prime Minister Churchill been unsatisfactory. ' De Gaule said "France brings. Into the great battle for the lib eration of the world all the in ternal and external forces at her disposal . , . but it is obviously in full sovereignty that she In tends to wage war today and to morrow make peace." IDENT T Washington, June 10 (U.R) The White House disclosed to day that President Roosevelt has signed legislation cutting the cabaret tax from 30 per cent to 20 per cent and raising the national debt limit from $210,000,000,000 to $260,000, 000,000. The 30 per cent cabaret tax had drawn strong criticism on grounds that it was forcing night clubs out of business and working hardship on service men seeking entertainment. The reduction to 20 per cent will become effective July 1. RETURNTO ROME Washington, June 10 U.R) President Roosevelt has asked his personal envoy to Pope Pius XII. Myron C. Taylor, to return to Vatican city "as soon as pos slble" Acting Secretary t State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr, an nounced today. Taylor, who was appointed to the post In December, 1939, has been in this country serving as special advir-r to Secretary of 'State CordeU HulL BY Move To Deflate Rise and End Auto Hoarding Is Surprise. Washington, June 10 U.R) Price Administrator Chester Bowles today placed price ceil ings on all used passenger cars to curb soaring prices which since Jan. 1 have been rising as rapidly as $50 a month. The order was designed to dis courage hoarding of automobiles as well as to deflate used car prices. It came as a complete sur prise. Only two weeks ago Bowles said the Office of Price Administration was no nearer to a used car price regulation than it was a vear ago. Bowles told a press-conference that used car prices have in creased an average of 10 per cent since the middle of March and that in some areas, particularly in Texas and the west coast, the average increase was even higher. The used rar business, Bowles said, grosses approximately $2, 000,000,000 a year jnd is the largest industry not previously under price control. Dealers, he said, have patri otically tried to hold down their prices, "but in spite of that, the average prices have continued to rise." "Under those circumstances," he added, "we cannot any longer withhold the issuance of a regu lation to control used car prices." Fiat prices reflecting January, 1944, levels were established for about 600 models of 23 different makes of used cars manufac tured from 1937 through 1941. The 1942 models, however, will sell for the same price which new models of the same year brought on Feb. 29, 1944. The regulation will affect all sellers private Individuals as well as dealers. STRIKE IN DIXIE TO OF TIME CLOCKS By The United Press Workers in two southern war plants returned to their Jobs Saturday while employes of a third walked out In a dispute over the placing of time clocks. Between 700 and 800 workers at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., Fairfield, Ala., tin mill quit their Jobs following a dis pute when time clock stations were placed so that negroes and white had to form lines close together. The plant employs 2,000 per sons and produces sorae 1,0000 tons of tin plate daily. Spokes men for the United Steel Work ers union (CIO) said the union had "nothing to do with the trouble because the clock sta tions are not on company prop erty." t At the E. I. du Pont Nemours Rayon Division plant, at Old Hickory, Tenn., where an esti mated 2,500 had walked off the Job following a D-Day strike, workers voted 424 to 125 to re turn to work. Negro employes at the Ten nessee Firestone Tire and Rub ber Co., at Memphis, Tenn., vot ed Saturday morning to return to work after a 24 hour strike which practically stopped pro duction. GENERAL'S SON WEDS Santa Monica, Cal., June 10 (U.R) Barbara Douglas, pretty dark-haired daughter of Air nna TtiiUHpr rinnalH W. Doug las, tonight became the bride of Lt. William Bruce Arnold, son of Gen. H. H. "Hap" Arnold, 4nmmnnripr nf the U. S. army air forces, who Is now In London. TROV WINS MEET Pasadena, Cal., June 10 (U.R) A Trojan tean paced by Frosh Star Al Lawrr .ce today romped away with tne third annual .Pasadena gai: ; v as tournament 'records fell by the wayside. T Helsinki and Berlin Report Lull at End in Finland Two Objectives. London, June 10 (U.R) The Finnish high command said to day that Red army forces, breaK ing a lull of more than -two years on the Finnish front, have launched a general offensive on the narrow Karelian isthmus above Leningrad. The Finnish war bulletin, broadcast both by the Helsinki and Berlin radios, claimed the attack began early Friday morn ing, supported by powerful ar tillery fire and strong forces of warplanes. Military observers here be lieved that if the Russians-had launched such an offensive it was designed to crush the esti mated seven German divisions In Finland under the command of Gen. Eduard Dietl and clear the Soviet northern flank for a deeper thrust into Estonia and the other Baltic states. The Russians, who usually announce the start of major drives only after they have been in progress several days, report ed that in minor actions along the various fronts Friday, So viet forces shot down 14 German nlnncs. The Finnish bulletin, broad cast by both the Helsinki and Berlin radios, claimed the attack began early Friday morning, supported by powerful artillery and strong forces of warplanes. thus breaking a lull that began on the Karelian Isthmus in No vember, 1941, when the Finns pulled up after rewlnning all the terrain they had lost in the 1939-40 winter war with Russia. The Immediate objective of such a drive would be to clear the southern coast of Finland across the Gulf of Finland from Estonia, and remove a menace from the flank of Soviet forces which drove into Estonia during the past winter. Stockholm dispatches report ed that the Soviet drive was launched with "the ferocity and power" of the offensive in Feb ruary, 1940, which broke the Mannorheim line and brought the 1939-40 Russian-Finnish war to a quick conclusion. LUFTWAFFTFUEL DEPOTS! ITALY Sunreme Allied Headquarters London, June 10 U.R) Paced by 1,000 U. S. heavy bombers and fighters, mighty Allied air fleets "backed the attack" of invasion armies today, blasting troop concentrations, airfields and rail communications from one to 160 miles beyond the French beachheads. ! Simultaneously, bomb-carrying Lightnings of the Italy based I U. S. 15th air force attacked luftwaffe fuel resources In Ro- mania, hammering the "only remaining" oil refinery In the Plocsti area, Rome announce-1 ments said. Some 750 Italy based U. S. heavy bombers also attacked oil Installations, rallyards and an airdrome near Venice and at Trieste and Bologna, In northern I Italy, Including one of the larg est oil refineries available to the Nazis outside Romania. Taking up the air offensive In support of Allied troops after RAF heavy bombers overnight lashed four of the forwardmost luftwaffe airdromes behind the German lines, up to 500 Flying Fortresses and Liberators swept over airdromes In Normandy and Brittany, including one at Vanncs, on the north coast of the Bay of Biscay. KURATLL DENTIST HEAD Pcrtiand, Ore., June 10 'U.R) Pre 4 nnt of the Oregon State DcnUil association for the com ing year will be John H. Kuratli Jr., Portland. ROMANIA BOMBED j (Armt Hrrff-7 f Ifphntti) ALLIED HIGH COMMAND British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey, Allied naval commander-ln-chlet; General Dwight D. Elsenhower, supreme Allied invasion chief, and General Sir Bernard L. Mont romery. Allied ground forces commander (left to right!, conter aboard British warship during early momenta o! Invasion. Otilclal Brltlsn Admiralty photo via Signal Corps radio-telepnoto from London, NAVY HAS BATCH SECRET WEAPONS Washington, June 10 U.R) The navy tonight permitted brief mention of a whole batch of se cret new or Improved weapons, some of which even now are be ing tested on the European ln-( vasion ironi. These weapons along with many others which may not even be hinted at were unveiled for newsmen in a recent tour of na-, val establishments authorized by Secretary of Navy James W. For- j resiai. The reporter Inspected: A brand new twin-engined fighter planes of unprecedented firepower which climbs prac tically straight up. The navy version of the Jet propulsion plane, known to the men who fly It as "swish'' be cause that Is the way it goes. Improved rockets and rocket guns that won't do the enemy any good. Battleships with 100 times the firepower of battleships built three years ago, and a new 27,-000-ton battlccruiser which will be the first vessel of Us kind in. the U. S. fleet. Aircraft carriers from whose decks twin-engined medium bombers will be able to take off. F.R. TO BROADCAST Washington, June 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt will address the nation Monday night when the $16,000,000,0(10 Fifth war loan drive officially opens with a radio program at 10 o clock (EWT) on all networks. The president will speak from the White House during the last three minutes of the one-hour program. The program will em anate from Tcxarkana. Texas Arkansas, where Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., and some 20 radio, stage and screen stars will broadcast In the opening of the drive. Mail Tribune To Publish Platform Views Of Willhie At the request of several newspapers Wendell Willkie is writing a scries of eight articles dealing with subjects which he believes the Repub lican resolutions committee should consider in connection with the party's national plat form. The Mail Tribune plans to publish Monday the first In stallment, entitled "Federal Power and States' Rights." Subsequent articles will tfp pear daily thereafter. LONDON REPORTS F London, June 10 (U.R) Mul tiple indications of an insurrec tion by Frenchmen outside the tiny Allied beachhead of liber ated France were highlighted tonight by reliable reports of full-scale revolt of the local population of two French de partments near the Swiss fron tier. French underground sources reported that Radio Vichy had broadcast a general mobilization order to all French militiamen, instructing them to report im mediately to their assigned con centration points." Another report reaching Lon don said that the French town of Bellegarde 18 miles from Geneva had been cut of by patriots after heavy fighting with the Germans. The newspaper Le Suisse re ported that other French pa- Iriots surrounded Grenoble in southern Fiance and placed it under "siege" but there is no confirmation of this action. GUTTED BY FIRE Springfield, Ore., June 10 (U.R) A $50,000 fire tonight gutted the hog-fuel storage plant of the Mountain States Power Co., which feeds the $1,000,000 Booth-Kelly lumber mill less than 100 feet away, and put the city of Springfield In dark ness. Little of the loss, covered by insurance, will be charged to Booth-Kelly, although some of its equipment is stored on Moun tain States property. However, one mill official said he thought work on vital defense contracts wbuld be held up one week. The mill employs 300 men and pro duces 175,000 board feet an eight-hour shift. Firemen said the fire started In the fuel bin and probably would burn all night, although lt was under control. IN WAR CAMP Santa Cruz, Cal., June 10 (U.R) Lieutenant William E. Ryder, pilot In the army air corps who was reported missing over Austria May 10, Is .safe in a German prison camp ac cording to word received here by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ryder. NO NEW CASES Santa Cruz, Cal., Juno 10 (U.R) No new cases of Infantile paralysis have been reported since yesterday In Santa Cruz, It was announced tonight by Dr. John D. Fuller, county health officer. nnniunriri n h mi i lMm!l,HH U Ul IIIMUI ILLU HULL GERMANS SUFFER CATASTROPHE IN ITALIAMIGHT Fifth Army Reaches Tus cania; Nazis in Disorgan ized Rout Face Ruin. Rome, June 10 (U.R) The Germans have suffered a "catas trophe" In Italy and are now facing "complete destruction," it was announced tonight as American troops of the Fifth army swept into the town of Tuscania, 50 miles northwest of Rome, and 8th army troops cut deep into the enemy's Adriatic coastal lines. An official military summary described the blows suffered by Field Marshal Albert Kessel ring's Nazi forces during the 42 days of the present allied offen sive as catastrophic and added that "the German forces In Italy now, for the first time, are faced with complete de struction before they are able to establish another line similar to the Gustav or Adolf Hitler lines." The German armies west of the Appenines have been brok en into two separated forces, with the Fifth army engaging the 14th north and northwest of Rome and' units of the British 8th army seeking to knockout the 10th army in the hills east of the- Tibtr rlvor , . The bruised and battered 10th army was fleeing toward the Rimini-Florence-Pisa line,' BO miles north of Tuscania which the Americans took after a gain of 14 miles in a single day in pursuit of what headquarters called a "completely disorgan ized" enemy army. Stragglers from a variety of divisions and units of the 10th army were falling into Allied hands, unable to keep up with the pace of the general retreat. On the Adriatic side, where the Germans were carrying out a fighting withdrawal, British 8th army units, officially de scribed as "now on the move" after a five-month lull, struck out on a 12-mile front. They topped five towns and slashed across the Foro river at several points. Among the towns taken were two where some of the ! bloodiest struggles of the Ital , lan war have been fought the nnp limn Nnzl mniintnln anchor point of Orsogna, which fell without a fight, and the key highway Junction of Guardiag relic, four miles to the south west. Other units of Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver Loose's veteran 8th army, driving ahead five miles along the western slopes of the Appenines, captured the road Junction of Arsola, and astride highway five leading eastward to the Adriatic. Northwest of Rome, British forces pushed out four miles parallel with the east bank of the Tiber river to take the town of Moricone, 22 miles from the I cicrnai iuy. near guara units ot tne uerman turn army, aiaea by difficult terrain, were offer ing strong resistance in that area. This was the only major 'German resistance reported west of the Appenines. The sweep into Tuscania rep resented a 14-mile gain for the) Fifth army from the Tarqulnia Vctcralla line which was reach ed Friday and It placed Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's men In posi tion for a drive up the west shore of Lake Bolsena. The pace of the Allied north ward advance was being main tained at a general rate of 15 miles a day and sincn the start of the present offensive on May 12 the British and Americans have travelled 119 miles from Cassino. BULLETIN By United Press 12 Innings Los Angeles 1 11 1 Portland 2 10 2 Osborn and Fernandcs, Sarny (2), Grief (8); Wilson and Adams, Norager (7). Oakland S 7 0 Seattle 2 8 2 Klelnke and B. Raimondl; Specce and Sueme.
