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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1944
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ALLIED INVASION'
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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
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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,
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AT
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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
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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.
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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.