Allies Break Center of Enemy Line in Normandy;
Nazi Suicide Divisions in Effort to Stem Advance
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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