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ALLIES ADVANCE
OF
Americans Now Within 2'a
miles of Last Nazi Escape
Lines From Cherbourg.
Allied Supreme Headquarters
London, June 16 (U.R) Amer
ican troops advanced today to
within 2V4 miles of the main
highway and last German-held
railroad south of Cherbourg
while, on the other flank of the
Norman beachhead, the Nazis
reported they had blown up
sluices and dikes at Caen, possi
bly foreshadowing abandonment
of the ruined stronghold.
The weather turned the worst
since D-Day and German resist
ance stiffened in a number of
sectors, but supreme headquar
ters revealed that the Allies had
hammered out gains, especially
on the Cherbourg peninsula
where Lt. Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley's American troops were
driving to cut off the great
port.
To the northeast the Ameri
cans scored modest advances
between Montebourg and Quine
ville, a four-mile coastal sector
in which they were pushing
toward Valognes and Cher
bourg. Confused fighting still
twirled through the ruins of
Montebourg.
A headquarters spokesman
revealed that the Allies were in
firm possession of Caumont,'
hotly-contested strongpoint at
the center of the beachhead,
and had pushed two miles
southwest from it where Brit
ish units met the enemy in
strength and were fighting "su
perbly." There was no change in the
situation at Villprs-Bocaee, but
British tanks and infantry were
steadily infiltrating the forested
country in the Caumont-Balle-roy-Villers
triangle.
Heavy fighting was in prog
ress between Caen and Tilly-Sur-Seulles,
where Marshal Er
win Rommel had thrown in a
panzer lehr or training divi
sion, probably not so well
equipped as the other armored
forces engaged in the battle of
Normandy.
Bond Headquarters
Given Floral Bell
A big floral Liberty bell,
fashioned of red, white and blue
blosf.ris, is being displayed in;
the window of the Fifth War
Loan drive headquarters, 21
North Central avenue, today and j
tomorrow. The bell is the gift
of the Medford Elks club and
everyone is invited to stop by
the bond headquarters and see
the display.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Doc Charles Kunz feeling
neglected without a recent men
tion in the Side Glance column.
Les Grant searching through
two dictionaries in a futile ef
fort to prove correct his pro
nunciation of a word.
Jap Steel
Washington, June 16. (U.R)
The bombing of Japan's
largest steel mills was "aceu
rate and ffeetiva" when
American superfortresses In
augurated their war of de
struction on Japanese industry
yesterday, the army an
nounced today.
An afternoon communique
also revealed that four B-29s
were lost in the raid one to
antiaircraft fire, two due to
accidents, and on simply list
ed as missing.
The number of the giant
bombers on the raid was not
stated.
By Walter Rundle
Up War Correspondent
Advance Echelon, 20th U. S.
Bomber Command, Western
China, June 16. (U.R) A pow
erful force of B-29 super-fortresses
flying history' longest
air raid plastered tons of de
struction Thursday on the steel
plants of Yawala, "the Pitts
Medford
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WET LANDING These American soldiers started out for Prance with full equipment and plenty of com
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sunk. Slsnal Corps radlo-ielephoto.
HEARING SLATED
FRIDAY, JUNE 23
Public hearing on the 1944-
1945 Jackson county budget will
be held in the courthouse auditorium-Friday,
June 23, starting
at 10 a. m. The budget calls for
the raising of $383,560.28 by tax
levy. This is an increase of 2.3
per cent over last year.
Figures compiled by the coun
ty clerk's office show an in
crease of 208 per cent in estim
ated county receipts for the
1944-1945 tax year, over 1934,
one of the depression years. "Hie
1944-1945 receipts are estimated
in the budget at $433,596. In
1934 they were $140,650. The
current budget shows a 22.4 in
crease over the 1934 budget
total. The estimated receipts in
both years, are for those re
ceived from sources other than
taxation.
The increase is due to higher
receipts from the government,
and receipts of county offices
due to an increase in business in
the ten year . period. These in
clude fees for marriage licenses
which boomed during the two
years Camp White was main
tained at full strength, deed rec
ords, receipts from the O-C land
grant taxes, sale of county land
and timber, and other sources.
Radio Highlights
7:45 p. m., NBC Red, "New
Business for Small Business,"
discussion between Sen. James
E. Murray, of Montana, and
Maury Maverick, chairman
Smaller War Plants Corporation.
Center B
burgh of Japan." Returning crew
members today jubilantly de
scribed the raid as "most suc
cessful." It was announced officially
that preliminary reports showed
heavy damage to the imperial
steel mills at Yawata and that
two of our aircraft were miss
ing. Japs Given Notice
The crew men said the raid
served notice on the Japanese
that the Industrial heart of their
empire Is marked for the same
type of systematic destruction
that was heaped on the Ruhr.
Our super-fortresses set ablaze
the Imperial Iron and Steel
Mills, the largest in the empire,
whose blast furnaces and coke
ovens produce one-fifth of Jap
an's steel.
"It looked like we knocked
hell out of the place," Lt. Robert
Winters, Wichita, Kans., one of
the returned fliers, said.
Pilots said the attack arpar-
oully caught the Japanese off
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German Civilians in Italy
Ordered Home Immediately
Bern, June 16 (U.R) Reports from the Italian frontier said
tonight that German authorities had ordered all German ci
vilians living in Italian territory to return to the Reich imme
diately a move regarded in some quarters as foreshadowing
a Nazi military evacuation of
The orders affecting all Ger
man civilians in Italy were sent
to German consulates in occu
pied , Italy yesterday, the fron
tier reports said. No explana
tion accompanied them.
The move came after a Ger
man military flight of nearly
100 miles north of Rome and
when Allied advices from Italy
were referring to the likelihood
of a quick drive to Florence.
Allied Headquarters, Naples,
June 16 (U.R) Fifth army
troops sweeping northward up
Italy have plunged through
more towns and taken Grosseto,
90 miles northwest of Rome and
65 miles below Florence, it was
announced officially today.
DRAFT LAW VIOLATOR
TAKEN TO PORTLAND
Joseph Pierpont Morgan, held
in the county jail as a selective
service law violator, was taken
to Portland today by Deputy U.
S. Marshal Paul Hanlin, He has
been detained here for three
days. The first name of the pris
oner being Joseph, fellow pris
oners facetiously referred to him
as J. Pierpont Morgan.
. Norwell, Mass.,. June, 16. (U.R)
Apparently the victim of a sex
fiend, the body of 10-yoar-old
Frances McGrath, daughter of a
former Boston city councilor,
was discovered in a patch of
woods here today after a week
long search. '
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guard. Most of the pilots said
they encountered no fighters
and the flak was inaccurate.
Colorful Show
Capt. Ira Matthews, Fayette,
Ala., said, "it was as colorful as
a Fourth of July celebration
no kidding."
First news that the planes
were over the target was flash
ed back to base by radio from
MaJ. Donald Humphrey of Potts
ville, la. .
Lt. Col. William S. Blanchard,
Boston, raced into the map-lined
wardroom in which MaJ. Gen.
George Stratcmcyer, Brig. Gen.
Kenneth B. Wolfe, and the 20th
bomber command staff were
sweating it out.
"I have the pleasure to an
nounce that Betty is over the
target at 10:50," Blanchard
shouted.
Wolfe's tense face broke Into
grin and he said:
' This is only the beginning of
our organized destruction of the
Japanese industrial cmpire."
MAil, SOCKET MISSIIIS
ntMMRIBUNE
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1944.
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TO CRATER
OPEN TO TRAFFIC
The road to Crater Lake is
open to the rim from both the
south and the west, according to
a report from the office of the
National Park service here yes
terday. Crews have cleared a
parking space near the lake
which will accommodate about
20 cars and it is expected that
this will be enlarged before Sun
day. Park officials point out that
while the roads are open, due to
the weather being unsettled
there may be fog at the park and
persons arriving there may be
) unable to see the lake. It was
also stated that there are no
facilities at the lake for camp
ing, for servicing of cars, for
meals, lodging or fishing. The
trail from the rim of the lake
down to the lake has not yet
been cleared.
Snow in the lake area Is still
about four feet deep, the crews
reported.
The name of the tow" of
Manteca is, derived from the
Spanish mantcauilla. meaning
I butter.
Wolfe then authorized corres
pondents to reveal that the B
29's had made an earlier raid
on June 5 when they bombed
the Makasan. railway shops at
Bangkok, Siam, through which
Japanese supplies pass into
Burma.
The Slam raid was described
as a "maximum strike," intend
ed as a shakedown flight for the
B-29s and their crews prepara
tory to the Yawata raid. Re
sults were described as "good to
excellent."
The planes on the Japan raid
started out after a briefing at
which the crews were told:
"If there ever was a Juicy tar
get, this is it."
By Walter Rundle
UP War Correspondent
A Secret American Base, Re
mote Western China, June 16.
(U.R) -Great secret air bases
from which American B-29s
took off yesterday to bomb
Japan were planned at th Cairo
conference and lushed to com
SHATTER FIERCE
Invasion Forces Sweep For
ward From Beachhead-
Latest Landing Important
Washington, June 16 (U.R)
A U. S. carrier task force ven
tured within 600 miles of
Tokyo on Wednesday to blast
Japanese bases in the Bonin
and Volcano islands, the navy
revealed late today. The task
force destroyed 47 enemy
planes, sank two ships and
damaged 10 other surface
craft, the navy said.
American losses were four
planes and five men.
Pearl Harbor, June 16 flJ.PJ
American invasion forces, shat
tering fierce Japanese counter
attacks against their Saipan
beachhead, swept forward today
against principal island installa
tions, Including the town of
Garapan, to exploit their land
ings.
Progress of assault forces at
Aginan' Point at the southwest
ern end of the island indicated
the situation was satisfactory and
that further gains were expected.
Earlier reports said that assault
troops broke through enemy de
fenses at the point, turned back
several armored counterattacks
and struck in to Charan Kanoa.
The attempt to seize Saipan
was considered significant in the
light of its possibilities as a cen
tral Pacific base. It now appears
that the American high com
mand deliberately timed the B
29 raid against Japan with wide
spread assaults in the Pacific in
one of the greatest single series
of attacks against the enemy.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
in his second communique on the
operations, said fighting was
heavy but his troops were mak
ing "good progress" in their
drive through Saipan, lying
strategically in the middle of
Japans central Pacific Island
chain 1449 miles southeast of
Tokyo.
The Invasion of Saipan, a
volcanic-peaked island 15V4
miles long and 4V4 miles wide,
outflanked the enemy's import
ant Caroline islands and placed
the American front line within
five hours flying time of Japan.
San Francisco, June 16 (U.R)
The management of San Fran
cisco's renowned Hotel St.
Francis today confirmed its sale
to an eastern syndicate headed
by Benjamin Swig of Boston for
a ronorteH 5 000.000. believed
to be the largest outright sale,
price paid for a single real es
tate holding in California.
pletion in four months by thou
sands of Chinese farmers and la
borers who undertook the most
massive construction project
here since the great wall of
China was built centuries ago.
Under the direction of 26
American army engineers, 400,
000 Chinese, working with little
else than their hands, converted
ancient rice paddles Into taxi
strips and hard stands which
meet the most exacting engineer
ing specifications.
These Chinese, drawn from
their farms and towns in the
lush plains of western China not
far from the towering mountains
rimming Tibet, sweated and toll
ed hauling 158,000 tons of rock
and sand which went into these
vast bomber bases with their
several thousand foot runways
and inner and outer ramps.
5000 Laborers
A few weeks ago, I stood on
the platform of a newly-completed
control tower and looked
across a heaving sea ol 5,000
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30 MILES INLAND! American and British mobile lorces sm&sh
through center of German's Normandy defense lines at Caumont and
Vllleri Bocage while patrols race southward beyond Le Beny-Bocage,
38 miles inland and far beyond outflanked bases of Caen and St. Lo.
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TO BE INSTALLED
AT ROGUE RIVER
Rogue River, June 16 Ore
gon's first high-grade, low-cost
agricultural limestone plant and
distribution system is being con
structed by the Sullivan Lime
company, W. B. Sullivan, Rogue
River, and H. B. Jorgcnsen, Sil
verton, announced this week.
Price of the ground agricul
tural milestone in carload lots at
Rogue River will be $2.75 a ton,
it is announced.
The plant to handle 300 tons
of ground limestone daily is be
ing built on the Southern Pacific
railroad siding here. The lime
will be distributed from bunkers
to be constructed at various
points In Willamette valley. It
will be handled through farm co
operatives in the vicinity.
Under the plan, the farmer
will receive his lime shipment
directly on his truck from the
bunker at the time he wishes to
spread the lime on his fields.
The deposit of limestone, run-
ning 88 per cent eolclum car
bonate, Is known as the Bristol
deposit and is located on Foots
creek. The rock will be loaded
by power shovel onto trucks to
be transported six and a half
miles to the grinding plant at
Rogue River,
Construction of the "agstone"
plant has rcclcved high priority
rating from the War Production
hopes to be in operation by I
August '
straw-hatted Chinese laborers,
scattered as far as the eye
reached.
Thousands of crude baskets
dangled from bamboo poles bal
anced over the stooped shoulders
of the Chinese filing in endless
procession along the roads lead
ing to the field. They carried
carefully selected water-worn
rock taken from rivers, many of
them miles away, for 20-inch
foundation runways and hard
stands for parked planes. Else
where groups of coolies with
h'immcrs crushed stono for the
filler layers, while crews of
women fitted the stones into
place and painstakingly tupped
them Into the ground by hand.
'This would be a good-sized
Job at home with modern equip
ment," army engineers told me. .
"Hera it s hard even to realize
what we're doing."
From the control tower the
field presented a fantastic pano
rama. Croups ol 13 to 40 formers,
NO. 73.
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Republican precinct commit
teemen and committeewomen se
lected at the May primary elec
tion will meet Thursday, June
22, in the basement dining room
of the Medford Hotel, it was an
nounced today by Kenneth Den
man, Medford, retiring chairman
of the Republican central com
mittee for Jackson county. The
meeting will open at 7:30 p. m.
New officers will be elected
and other committee business
transacted during the meeting,
according to Denman, who will
preside until his successor is
elected.
Democrats of the county have
also scheduled their precinct
committeemen's meeting for the
same date and will meet on the
mezzanine floor of the Medford
Hotel at 8 p. m.
Y.M.C.A. COMMITTEES
APPOINTED BY ELLIOTT
Committee members who will
work out details of a program
for the newly organized Medford
Y. M. C. A., aid with the selec
tion of the association's person
nel, and plan the budget, have
been announced by Dr. B. R.
Elliott, president.
Serving on the program com
mlttce will be the Rev. Harry W.
Hansen, Mrs. Karl Brockhaus
and Homer Blum. Named to the
personnel committee are Mrs.
Dolph Phipps, Frank Redden and
A. C. Pierce while Tony Mnnno,
Mrs. Richard Payne and Rnlph
Cook will make up the budget
committee.
Revealed
each with the name of his native
village painted in black and red
characters on a white banner,
filed by. They were shifts which
moved all day to and from indi
vidual proJccts men from one
village broke rocks, those from
another carried water in buck
ets. Lines of 50 to 200 Chinese
chanted as they tugged at ropes
to drag eight-ton hand-hewn
sandstone rollers the local ver
sion of a steam roller over the
hand-placed rocks on the field.
Sales to date in the Fifth
War Loan Drive
S505,804.50
"E" Sales $112,137.50
Quota . $600,000
Total Quota
for County 12,262.000
WOOSH ACROSS
LIKE Fi BALLS
Fantastic Stream of Pilot
less Nazi Bombers Blasts
Southern, London Area.
London, June 16. (UP) A
fantastic stream of pilotless Nazi
bombers rained fire and explo
sives across southern England all
last night and through the morn
ing hours today, and Radio Ber
lin said the robot fleet had
smashed at London itself in "the
beginning of vengeance" for the
allied attacks on Germany.
Adolf Hitler finally had laun
ched his boasted secret weapon
against Britain and the mighty
invasion arsenal piled up on the
island, and British official sour
ces made no effort to minimize
the gravity of the attack.
Counter Promised
All southern England was
alerted, and Home Secretary
Herbert Morrison confirmed the
existence of the robot raldera
and promised immediate coun
teraction, in a statement to com
mons. A German high command
communique said south England
and the London city area were
bombed last night with "new
type explosives of very heavy
caliber," and Berlin military
commentators boasted that the
mysterious raiders were "a new
anti-invasion weapon of the
greatest effect."
"The new weapon used
against England is the beginning
of vengeance" for the "barbaric"
allied bombing of the Nazi home
land, one enemy commentator
Gaid.
- Also Carry Guns
Reports from eyewitnesses
who watched the Wellsian pa
rade swoosh across southern
England during the night pour
ed into official London today,
including one account that told
of automatic machine guns rak
ing the countryside.
Flashing across the night skies
like a string of fiery comets, the
mysterious projectiles whooshed
down on scores of unidentified
districts in southern England, ex
ploding into gigantic balls of
fire.
Eyewitness accounts of the
raid varied, but all reports indi
cated that the missiles weie
either rocket-bombs or radio
controlled planes crammed with
high explosives set to go off
within a matter of seeonds after
striking the ground.
High Speed
Observers said the projectiles
came over at terrific speeds,
singly or in groups of two or
three, some soaring 3,000 feet or
more in the air and others slam
ming over the rooftops in level
flight.
RAF night fighter pilots went
up to challenge the robot raid
ers, diving recklessly through a
terrific hail of fink thrown up
by the British ground defenses
in an effort to explode them in
mid-air.
Many of the projectiles were
believed to have been hit and
eyewitnesses reported seeing tre
mendous explosions high over
head. Many more fell with tefific
Impact on the countryside, and
preliminary reports indicated
that considerable damage and
casualties resulted. Rescue
squads still were digging through
ine wreckage for victims in a
number of southern districts this
afternoon.
United States Marauder Base,
Eng., June 1 6 U.R) Ninth air
force marauder and havoc
crews, sworn to secrecy, were
revealed today to have pounded
the Nazis' "secret weapon" in
stallations glnco last November,
dropping a total of nearly
11,000 tons of bombs on the tiny
tnrgets in the face of desperate
fink barrages.
The Ninth air force made
more than 7,000 separate at
tacks in an attempt to knock
out the guns before they could
be completed and trained on
southern Kngland. The tonnage
they dropped is in addition to
thousands of additional tons
dropped by the Eighth air
force's heavy bombers.
Industrial accidents last year
took the lives of 18.400 Amer
ican workers, according to the
U. S. department of labor,