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Allies Break Center of Enemy Line in Normandy; Nazi Suicide Divisions in Effort to Stem Advance Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to night and Thursday, with show ers in mountains. Little chance in temperature. letup. Highest yesterday 72 Lowest this moriting 51 Precipitation, past 2-1 lira. m X MEDFORD RIBUNE AS BOTH SIDES United Press Full Leased Wir Unll.d Pint Full Leased Win Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1944. NO. 71. . (Acme Undto-TeUnhnlo) THEY PAID INVASION PRICE Row upon row of sheet-covered bodies American and German alike. '. await burial on Normandy beachhead. Photo by NEA-Acme photographer Bert Brandt lor War Picture Fool, transmitted from London by Signal Corps radio-telcphoio. LIKE GERMANS, Fl t By Edward V. Roberta United Press War Correspondent Representing combined American Preea Allied Advance Command Post, June 13 (U.R) Noi all of the French welcome the Amer ican invasion forces, I learned yesterday on a tour of the beach head with Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's caravan. We were told of the capture ' of a number of French women snipers who have been shooting the Americans In the back and of the finding of women's cloth ing and toilet articles in German billets and dug-in positions, in dicating they had been living with the Nazi soldiers. The Germans were popular with many of the young girls, it was reported. Several maternity cases, admittedly of German pa ternity, are receiving care from Allied medical units. As our cars rolled through villages, many of the French residents shouted and waved greetings, but others stared woodeuly or turned their back "A certain amount of resent ment must be expected," mili tary experts told us. "You can't smash their homes, commandeer their fields and buildings and bring them the general disrup tion accompanying any military movement without it." TRIAL TIME EXTENSION SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT Washington, June 14. (U.R) President Roosevelt announced today that despite objections of the secretaries of war and navy, he has signed legislation extend ing to Dec. 7, the time in which trial proceedings may be insti tuted against persons accused of responsibility for the Pearl Har bor disaster. Technically, the measure ex tends for six months beyond June 7 the date on which the statute of limitations would bar Institution of the proceedings. That statute originally ran out on Dec. 7, 1943, two years after the actual date of the attack, but it was extended by congress until June 7. 1ZZY GOMEZ ILL Alameda, Cal., June 14. ' Izzy Gomez, San Francisco rcstauranteur and the city's leading Bohemian, was reported critically 111 at the Alameda hos pital today, suffering from ure mic poisoning. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS City Suoe Frank Rogers being forced tj go In debt in order to raise funds for a morning cup of coffee. Don Caton declining to pre serve his "girlish figger" and in dulging In a second helping of ice cream and cake. Lulu Saulsberry having diffi culty in assembling letters so they would result in "Aleutian." Pearl Harbor Surprise Held Due To Colonel's Mismanagement and Machinations of Nazi Contractor Washington, June 14 (U.R) A congressional committee de clared today that "mismanagement" by an army colonel, and his collaboration with a German-born contractor, had delayed completion of an aircraft warning system that would have detected the approach of Japanese planes in the Pearl Harbor attack. In a lengthy report compiled after months of secret investi gation, a House military affairs I subcommittee said that the Japanese assault could have been1 robbed "of much of the element of surprise" had there been no "neglect and delay" in carrying out the contracts for the warning system. Boozin' Companions The report criticized Col. Theodore Wyman, Jr., district army engineer at Honolulu from June, 1940, to March, 1942, for "discriminating" in favor of Hans Wilhelm Rohl, leading Hawaiian contractor, In the award of secret army construc tion contracts. It named the two men as companions on wild drinking parties. The subcommittee said that Rohl, who became a naturalized American citizen four months before the Pearl Harbor dis aster, had resided In the United States as an alien for 28 years. During that period, it said, he was aggressively pro-German and associated with a man "now alleged to hold a high position in the Nazi regime." FIVE KILLED BY L Pasco, Wash., June 14 (U.R) The underpinning collapsed to day under a large storage tank being constructed at the Hanford Engineer Works north of here, killing five persons and injuring two. The men were at work on the tank when the underpinning col lapsed. The victims were Delbert Anthony Hlckey, Bartlesville, Okla. I. M. Scott, Everett, Wash.; J. C. Moore, Yakima, Wash.; Charles Irvln Brazeal, Sanford, Tex., and C. A. Wualsett, Peters burg, Neb. 30 YEARS HARD LABOR FOR CONVICTED RAPIST Santa Ana, Cal., June 13 (U.R) Capt. Morrison J. Wilkin son, Jr., 28-year-old veteran fighter pilot who saw duty in China, today faced 30 years at hard labor and dishonorable dis charge from the army after 10 m a n court martial found him guilty of four sex offenses, big amy and theft. KLAMATH BOMBER FALLS IN MONTAGUE SECTION Seattle, June 14 (U.R) Three men were killed when a medium navy bomber from the Klamath Falls, Ore., naval air station crashed late Tuesday about one mile southeast of Montague. Calif., headquarters of the 13th naval district reported today. E OF STATE GRANGE Morton Tompkins, Yamhill county, was re-elected master of the Oregon State Grange at the annual session being held In Grants Pass this week, A Jackson county man on the roster of state offices is Roscoe Roberts, elected steward. Rob erts is a member of Roxy Ann Grange. Elmer McCIure of Clackamas county was named overseer and Mrs. G. W. Thiesson of Clacka mas county won the lecturer's position. Bertha Beck of Mult nomah county was elected for the 26th consecutive term as secretary of the grangers. Serving on the executive com mittee for the coming year will be Ray W. Gill, Multnomah county, Peter Zimmerman, Yam hill county and Allen Wheeler Lane county. Other officers elected were chaplain, Arthur Brown, Polk; treasurer. Glen Adams, Polk; gatekeeper, Ar thur Hahn, Harney; Pomona, Pauline Ross, Malheur; Flora Bertha Hanscom, Umatilla. A runoff election was to have been held this afternoon for the of fices of assistant steward, Ceres and lady assistant steward, first voting having resulted in no majority for any candidate. (More about Grange on page 8) SHEEP SHEARING NOW WELL ADVANCED HERE Sheep shearing is now well advanced in the county and the clip is estimated at approximate ly 100,000 pounds by County Agent Robert G. Fowler. The shearing is late and warm weather, needed to bring out the oil in the wool and Increase its weight, never came. MOWERS, SWEEPERS ARE NEEDED ARTICLES Washington, June 14. (U.R)--A War Production Board ,-n-sumer goods survey revealed to day that such items as lawn mowirs, carpet sweepers, tea kettles, and wash boilers . .w rank with alarm clocks and gar bags cans as the most sorely missed household commodities. BROKER BUYS" ESTATE New York, June 14. U.R) Joseph Miller, Beverly Hills, Cal., investment broker, today was revealed as the purchaser of the million dollar East Isl- 1 estate of the late J. Plerpont Morgan, including a 54-room mansion and a pond. T FAR ABOVE ROME Fast-Rolling Fifth Army Swings Into Hills To Hit Germans Beyond Base. Allied Headquarters, Naples, June 14 (U.R) American armor ed columns by-passed the Ger- man coastal stronghold of Or-1 b.tello, 70 miles above Rome, and smashed through the: enemy's hill defenses five miles beyond that port, it was dis-j closed today, while other 5 th I army forces battered slowly through fierce Nazi resistance, around Lake Bolsena, 40 miles' inland. Headquarters spokesmen re vealed that the fast-rolling Amer icans swung into the hills east of Orbetello and turned back to hit the Nazis five miles further north at the junction of the coastal road with highway 74, which extends inland to Lake Bolsena. , Near Grosseto One wing of the American force drove northward to within 18 miles of the highway hub of Grosseto, while the second knifed two miles eastward along high way 74. More than 3,000 German trucks, cars and tanks have been smashed by allied planes in the month-long retreat from the south. Savllle said, asserting that the enemy's transport system has been wrecked and that it is doubtful whether he can put up. a major defense short of the Rimini-Pisa line 100 miles furth er north. LIFE IN PEN FOR HAUPT'S FATHER Chicago, June 14 (U.R) Fed eral Judge John P. Barnes sen tences Hans Haupt, father of the executed Nazi 'spy, Herbert Haupt, to life imprisonment to day on a charge of treason. The judge refused Haupt's rjlea for a new trial. Barnes, who also assessed a fine of $10,000 against Haupt, said he would have imposed a death sentence except that the jury recommended leniency. Haupt was "a fanatical Nazi," Barnes said, and "cannot be re formed." "He sacrificed his only child to the Nazi cause," Barnes said "and adhered to the enemies of the United States." Chaplin Agrees to Support Joan Hollywood, June 14 (U.R) Charlie Chaplin today agreed to support Joan Barry and i Carol Ann, the baby she claims is his until her, trial of her paternity suit, postponed until at least Dec. 13. Terms were not disclosed. Mrs. Gertrude Berry, Joan's mother, succeeded today by At torney A. H. Risse as the baby's temporary legal guardian, last week asked for an early trial on grounds the child was destitute. War Bulletins London, June 14 (U.R) The Brltlih Press Association reported tonight that Gen. Charles De Gaulle, chief of the French Committee of Na tional Liberation, was on the Norman peninsula In France. Algiers, June 14 (U.R) The French committee of National Liberation tonight threatened to take reprisals "if the Ger man government carries out its threat to shoot members of the French resistance groups" who hare been tak en prisoners in France and the threat was at once broad cast by Algiers radio. London, June 14 flJ.R) The German DNB news agency said Allied warihips opened a heavy bombardment against the channel port of Le Havre today. L PARITY L House Rejects Amendment Which Administration Sup porters Say Meant Veto. Washington June 14 U.R) The house today passed and re turned to the senate a bill to ex tend the price control act to June 30, 1945, with many amend ments. Washington, June 14 (U.R) The house today rejected, 87 to 191, an amendment to the price control extension bill which would have required that cotton growers receive parity prices for their product and would have guaranteed a cost-of-production price for textile manufacturers. The proposal a modification of the Bankhead amendment ap proved by the senate last week was rejected after assertions by administration supporters that President Roosevelt would veto the bill if, as finally passed, it contained the amendment. They also charged its enactment would wreck the price control program. Minimum Rule Loses The house also defeated, 103 to 189, another amendment which would have made it un lawful for any price to be paid on agricultural commodities, or any product manufactured from agricultural commodities, lower than tho parity or support prices established under the stabiliza tion act'-. . --. . , Democratic Floor Leader John W. McCormack, Mass., and Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott, R., Mich., both told the house that approval of the Cotton proposal would de stroy price control. McCormack said It would mean "price Increase all along the line," and that its adoption would cause a veto. Wolcott term ed it "inflationary." Rationing Predicted Rep. Paul Brown, D., Ga., sponsor of the proposal, told the house that "if you don't adopt this amendment you will have rationing of clothing in six months." Rejection of Brown's proposal came as a victory after a long series of defeats for adminis tration adherents and some republican;- supporting them, vhe already had warned that many proposed price control restric tions were "legal booby traps"! which will give the black mar-' kcter a field day and turn price! control into "price chaos. COWBOYTFoONER AHEAD IN IDAHO PRIMARY VOTE Boise, Idaho, June 14 (U.R) Gen Taylor, former singing cowboy radio entertainer from Pocatello and recently a west coast war worker today led Sen. D. Worth Clark by 41 votes in a close contest for the Idaho Democratic senatorial nomina tion. It was believed the final result of yesterday's primary election balloting would not be known until after an official canvass. Medford Pilot's Favorive Pin-Up Photo Is Flaming Jap Cruiser Which He Bombed By Dan Bowerman United Press Correspondent Aboard a U. S. Aircraft Car rier In the Marshalls, June 13. (U.R) The two favorite pin-ups of Lt. (JG) Don Gillespie, 23, Medford, Ore., are photographs of flame and smoke roaring skyward. Gillespie takes more than a mild personal Interest in these pictures since he was the pilot responsible for the fireworks shown in the shots. The first photo shows a Jap anese cruiser belching flames from a hit amidships made by Lt. Gillespie's bomber over Kwajaleln lagoon Dec. 4, 1943. A following bomber caught the picture. That raid was the first time Gillespie had ever dive bombed on a Japanese fleet. Fale Undetermined "The bomb hit ber just aft of I . ' .)...' ,,Wi8WCTUIIII mil I . I jag 1 jik3,V . If HAVRE' ) JrL I fCotitpnceSi ( . , 7 NiTV' FRANCE L Ferte-Moite Pontons ' S D . S 0 10 20 30 40 ,M , (Acmt) TcUpholo) ANOTHER KEY TOWN FALLS Americans capture vital Junction ot Carentan atter bitter fighting. Berlin acknowledges, putting Allies in position to fan out against even more Important positions Allied forces push ahead in St. Lo sector, continue fierce battle for by-passed Caen. U. S. Fleet Blasts Islands Only 570 Miles From Japan Pearl Harbor, June 14. (U.R) The United States fleet roaming Japanese waters -attacked the southern Mariana chain Monday and Tuesday, following up the weekend carrier assault against the islands, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today. Battleships, cruisers and de stroyers bombarded Tinian nnd Saipan, staging bases for the im perial fl;ct and air forces. The surface fleet started large fires at Tanatag harbor and in the town ot Garapan and Cha-ran-Kanoa. Our ships- suffered -o damage. ' ' " Carrier aircraft attacked Pa gan island, about 190 m.'les north of Saipan. - Ships and aircraft of the Pa cific fleet also attacked the Kuriles. A task force bomba.ded Matsuwa Island. Aircraft bomb ed Shumuhsu and Paramushlro, major enemy bases in the island chain north of the home archi pelago. It was the first time the Marl anas have been attacked from surface craft, but the second time for the Kuriles. There, the U. S. warships moved through the murky north Pacific to within 570 miles of the Japanese mainland to hit Mat suwa. Admiral Nimitz simultaeausly Bnfioi:ireH that rnnr thsit CO survivors of a Japanese vessel sunk northwest of Saipan have been rescued and made prisoners of war. The unprecedented surface at tack against the Marianas fol lowed swiftly and significantly after the three-day aerial assault which sank or damaged 29 enemy ships and destroyed 141 planes In the Mariana group. Pacific fleet headquarters of fered no details of the attacks against the Marianas beyond the fact that they continued. BASEBALL American Detroit 3 7 0 Cleveland 0 6 2 Gentry and Swift; Smith, Hcving, Pat and Rosar. the bridge," he said. "We didn't see her sink so the navy didn't list her as destroyed. I haven't any idea whether she went down." His second picture shows flames and smoke towering Into the sky from what was left of a Japanese ammunition dump on Truk artcr Gillespie hit it. "I dived down on a big wood en warehouse that was about 400 feet long," Gillespie said. "I let go with the bombs and as I came out of the dive the plane Jumped and bucked and stuff from the ground seemed to be flying up pas', me. 1 looked back to see if the tail was still on the plane and saw flames and smoke from the target shooting up to what looked like a thousand f"Ct higher than my own altitude. I got out of there as fast as 1 could." FLAMING JELLY TO BE USED ON JAP HOMELAND Linden, N. J., June 14 (U.R) A new incendiary bomb which shoots out two and one-half pounds of flaming jellied gas after It hits and detonates has been developed by the chemical warfare service. Known as the M-69 and weigh- ing six and one-half pounds, the new bomb eventually will be used against the Japanese home land. It was developed by the Stan dard Oil Company of New Jer- :cy after the army a:!:cd for an incendiary agent more destruc tive than either the magnesium or thermite bombs used by the Germans against Britain. The answer was a bomb con taining the jellied goo that ad heres to and Ignites any com bustible surface. First tests in Britain failed to satisfy the Brit ish, so scientists here set about to perfect it. Out near Dugway, Utah, they built a strange village, part ly of buildings similar to those found in Japan. Others simu lated typical German construc tion. Toland Medical School, found ed in San Francisco in 1862, later became the Medical School of the University of Cal ifornia. Holds Air Medsl Gillespie holds the air medal for participating in strikes on Tawawa, Wake, Mill, Kwajaleln and Truk. He also partlclpited in the air attack which support ed the American landing at Hol landia April 22. The flier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Gillespie, Medford Ore , was a football quarterback at Medford high school it. 1937-38. Lt. Gillespie graduated from Medford high school in 11)39 and attended Oregon State col lege for two years. He has been In the navy since November of 1941 and has been flying In the South Pacific war theater for nearly a year. Dan Bowerman, author of the dispatch, is a friend of the flier, and at one time worked on Medford news papers. The Gillespie home Is at 1319 East Main street. Germans Launch Five Major Counter Attacks; Allied Patrols 30 Miles Inland. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, June 14. (U.R) Ameri can and British armored forces have broken through the center of the German line in Normandy, sending patrols as far as 30 miles inland, but the Germans have thrown crack "suicide divisions" Into five major counterattacks in an attempt to stem the allied ad vance. Supreme headquarters reveal ed late today that the tide of bat tle swayed back and forth, with the hotly contested town of Montebourg, 14 miles southeast of Cherbourg, changing hands several times last night. Throw in Everything Both sides were throwing In everything available for what may be the first big showdown battle of the Norman invasion. The British even wheeled up the battleships Nelson and Ramilliea to blast away with their big guns against the towns of Caen and Troarn, most stubborn strong points in the enemy defense sys tem. Allied mobile units smashed all the way through the primary German defenses to open coun try below the line from Caen to St. Lo in a sudden onslaught which took the Germans by sur prise and outflanked those two key strongholds. Later it was revealed officially that the Nazi command had as signed four panzer divisions to the area of Caen and Tllly-Sur-Seulles, and that great armored battles of mounting intensity were going on around the rim of the bulge hammered into the enemy defenses. Local Successes Three of the German counter attacks were launched in tho general area of Caen, one against Carentan and one against Mon tebourg. American forces tiad captured the latter two towns on the Cherbourg peninsula, only to have the Nazis batter back Into them. The Germans scored some lo cal successes, headquarters re ported, while allied advances continued around Caumont, cap tured by the spearhead of the break-through assault southwest of Caen, and in the area of Pont L'Abb. half way across the Cherbourg peninsula. Record Air Action Aerial support ot the Invasion hit a new peak when more than 1300 Flying Fortresses and Lib erators the biggest force of heavy bombers ever In action scattered bombs across a broad reach of the continent while thousands of other plnne ham mered the Nazi lifelines behind the French battlcfront. The allies had flown more than 4,000 sorties by midafter noon, and it was announced of ficially that they dropped 42, 000 tons of bombs on the enemy in 56,000 sorties during the first week of the invasion. Allied air losses In the first week of the invasion were 554 planes 139 heavy bombers and 415 medium bombers, fighter bombers and fighters. Nazi losses were 396 plnncs destroyed in the air. The war shipping board an nounced that so far not a single American seaman or merchant man engaged in the invasion operations had been lost. STILL CITIZENS Los Angeles, June 14 (U.R) Federal Judge Peirson M. Hall today held that pre-war mem bership In the German-American Bund Is not grounds for cancellation of citizenship. Judge Hall ruled 21 former members of the Bund were within their legal rights in join ing the organization, and dis missed a government suit to cancel their citizenship. - The case had been under ad visement nearly a year. Ruling was withheld oil Fredcrlch Carl Mcnslng, an admitted member of the Nazi party. Sales to date In the Fifth War Loan Drive 8372,592 "E" Salei $63,575 Quota tfinn.nna Total Quota for County S2.2S2.000
