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Weather Forecast: partly cloudy gun day and Monday; K-attertd Khonen and thunderstorm. Temp. Highest yesterday , 73 Lowest this morning m 46 I'reclpltutlon past 24 tirs, . . 0 Use The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost ' mm United Press Full Leased Wire U "rail Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1944. NO. 74. MEDFORDTEf i m MM NINTH DIVISION : : j1-. '-- I HEAVIEST ROBOT R fm I YANKEE INVASION t - j. j- j, , " , -' ' ? " - .? " s ' i X attempt lo win bast CLOSING ESCAPE N-MJfc""' ATTACK YET HITS , LaTT FORCE ON SAIPAN ROAD OF NAZIS HM70m- ENGLISH SHORES BEACH ADVANCES Suicide Force Left In City; Artillery Rakes Trans ports; In Retreat. By United Press CBS Correspondent Larry Le- suer, with American forces Normandv. reported that the Americans reached the west coast late Saturday night and that elements of the U S. 9th Division were fighting north and south of Barneville. The thrust sealed the last enemy escape route from Cherborug. barring a new German counter-thrust. By Henry T. Gorrell United Press War Correspondent With U. S. Assault Forces, St. Sauveur Le icomte, June 17 U.R) For hours now a steady stream of German transports has been running a hellish gauntlet of American artillery fire in the last coastal escape road out of Cherbourg and there is every in dication that the Germans are abandoning a suicide defense force in the port city while they try to save the bulk of their forces for a fight farther to the east. Spearheading the westward advance to cut off the Cotentin peninsula is the U. S. 9th Divi sion, it may now be revealed. The 9th is the seventh U. S. di vision officially identified as be- ine in action in France. We can see the German trans port vehicles careening down the highway between here and the ocean, shimmering in ine sun light only nine miles away. The road runs through an Impenetrable marshland so the Germans have scant room in which to dodge the barrage of shellfire which Is raining down upon their escape corridor. The road is lined with shattered and up-ended vehicles many of them staff cars which probably carried officers. Allied Supreme Headquarters. London, Sunday, June 18 (U.R) American battle patrols slashed westward to within five miles or less of the last Nazi escape road from the top of the Cherbourg peninsula today and front dis patches said the bulk of the German forces were retreating down the highway under a hell fire of bombs and shells, leaving a band of expendibles to defend the prize port of Cherbourg to the death. Spearheads of the American 82nd airborne division that cap tured St. Sauveur-Le icomte raced on through the hills northwest and southwest of the town to within sight of the sea, almost closing the Allied lines across the peninsula and threat ening the coastal fishing villages of Barnesville and St. Lo D'Our ville. The German position on the , tipper half of the peninsula was deteriorating rapidly, and it ap peared the enemy high com mand had decided to evacuate as many troops as possible through the coastal bottleneck and make a stand on the high ground north , of La Haye Du Ptiits, a four-. 4 way highway Junction and the key to the Nazis' peninsular de-1 fenes. The latest Allied communique reported additional though slight progress in the American thrust across the center of the peninsula and in the fighting further to the southeast, below Isigny and around Tilly. A number of unidentified vil lages east and west of Tilly were captured and American units striking southward from Isigny advanced two miles to reach the Vire river and the Taute canal. SHEELY NAMED San Francisco, June 17 (U.R) Big Earl Shcely, manager of the Sacramento Solons, tonight was selected to manage the army all-star ba.'cball team In its classic with the San Francis co Seals here Monday night, Dave Kelly, athletic director at McClcllan Field, Sacramento, announced. Artichokes were introduced In to the United States by the Ital ians of California. I . ... -4 v . . - t i Nazi Weapons Shot Down TV?' , b J? T:ZJC. , ' Like Clay Pigeons, Re- guSuan mX umrm V - V ' ' , port; Rhine Bombed. TiiVop? tinian ti xz2nr v -:a 4' ;. ; . x : .j B.dio p.n. bred B medulla' aguimni- i . - '"'"-sss "'viV 4., C. t" ' lin report that the British night f 1 &V&?Sr- ' v sv, 1 JJt v : raiders bombed the Rhineland SAIPAN """" 3 fc9Ue ..f & ' - "" cities of Dinsburg and Ober- ?TINIAN " ALjJ- J : , " J - Jv-f . ' ' 'jSp'' j hausen, while a few planes hit Kan'opviogtog - ' . - ?N I the German capital. 1 . . . : II Agot :. :vV, GUAM I tAcmet Telephoto) B-29 SUPER-FORTS RIP JAPAN This Is the first picture of B-29 -Super-Portresses" which attacked Japan proper In what Gen. George C. Marshall hailed as opening step in new-type offensive against Japa nese. Engineered by Boeing and built by Boeing. Bell end Martin aircraft companies, they're powered with four 18-cyllnder air-cooled engines of 2.200 horsepower each, have speed of over 300 miles per hour and can fly above 30.000 feet. They bristle with guns and cannon, most of whirh have been deleted from photo for security reasons. D. 8. Army Air Force Dbota VITAL FINN CITY London, Sunday, June 18 (U.R) Russian troops advancing on a 65-mile front, pushed to within 23 miles of the Finnish gateway city of Viipurl at two points on the Karelian winter march across the Ukraine. Veteran troops of Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad army ad vanced five to 11 miles through rugged forest and lake country and captured more than 120 towns and settlements, a rec ord one-day bag for their eight-day-old campaign. (Thet British radio said the Finns, preparing for a "desper ate" stand, were rushing reserve troops into their last powerful defense belt, the so-called man- nerheim line, guarding the "bot tleneck" entrance to the Finnish mainland at Viipuri.) Stockholm reports said . the Finns were evacuating Viipuri, a city of 50,000, which was ceded to the Soviet Union after the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish "winter warm." LT. WOUNDED IN ITALY Mrs Maxine Hammond of this city has received word that her husband, Lieutenant Robert R. Hammond was slightly wounded at the opening of the big Italian offensive last month. He re turned to his outfit before the drive on the Italian capital, but no word has been received from him since the fall of Rome. Lt. Hammond Is the executive officer of his company and in direct command of the machine guns and 81 mm. mortars. He is a graduate of the infantrv school at Fort Benning and has been at the Anzio beachhead since January. Lt. Hammond Is the son of Mr. land Mrs. R. B. Hammond of Fern Valley road and a brother of Captain Bruce Hammond. U. S. Marine, now n the south Pa cific. Salem. Ore., June 17 U.R) Oregon Public Utilities Commis sioner George Fiagg was resting easily at a hospital here today after he was Injured In an auto mobile accident late' Friday aft ernoon. Flagg's car collided with one driven by Mrs. Echo Ncal of Portland on the Pacific highway south of Aurora. He suffered se vere cuts and bmK-s. None of the occupants of the other car were injured. UTILITIES CHIEF HURT AUTO CRASH VETERAN FRENCH COMMANDOS RAID ELBA.JXILE ISLE Nazi Resistance , Strong Fifth Army Continues Gains, in North Italy. , Rome, June 17 (U.R) Veter an French commandos and colo nials, supported by American, British and French warships r.nd planes, invaded Napoleon's exile island of Elba early this morning and tonight they were reported charging inland at sev eral points against strong Ger man resistance. Another French force mean while seized the tiny triangular island of Pianosa, 14 miles off the southwestern tip of Elba and 28 miles east of Corsica, while on the Italian mainland Allied 5th and 8th army troops swept forward frrm the Adri atic to the Tyrrhenian sea and reached a point 100 miles north west of Rome. (The Exchange Telegraph agen cy, in an Algiers dispatch, said the French already had cap- tured Napoleon's exile villa on the north coast four miles from h. ui ... ti . r. . and that both the French tri color and the Fighting French cross of Lorraine were flutter ing over it.) Two special headquarters com muniques announcing the first major French thrust of the cur rent Italian offensive did not specify at what point the French entered the arrow-head shaped island lying between Corsica and the Allied-held Grosetto area of the Italian mainland. On the mainland, the 5th and 8th armies, advancing more than a mile an hour on some sectors of the 175-mile front, plunged clear off the maps in headquarters here and officials had to send out an emergency call for new ones to plot the latest progress. There was even some speculation that the bat tered Germans would be unable to carry out more than delay ing actions this side of the Alps. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's 5th army, which swept up the west coast beyond Grosseto to a point 100 miles from Rome, was revealed to have taken more than 21,000 German pris oners in the 37-day offensive. The French drive into Elba put the Allies in position to strike at coastal sealanes the Germans have been using to supply their armies on the west coast. WARREN FREES DELEGATES Fresno, Cal June 17 (U.R) Gov. Earl Warren of California today released the state's dele gation to the Republican na tional convention at Chicaeo without equivocation" from its pledge to support him as the party s presidential nominee. and added that he sought no national political office. TRUCKERS READY TO STRIKE JULY 1 7? (By United Press) Labor unrest continued throughout the nation Saturday while 20,000 truck drivers serv ing vital war centers in the midwest prepared to leave their jobs July 1 unless 112 leading trucking firms grant a seven cent per hour wage increase which has been approved by the War Labor board. Earlier in the day 800 work ers at the huge Dodge plant of the Chrysler corporation in South Chicago, where motors for the B-29 super-Fortresses which bombed Japan are made, walked out but returned a few hours later pending arbitration of a dispute involving a 10-cent per hour wage increase for one tool grinder. United Automobile Workers (CIO) union officials said the walkout was not authorized and urged the men to return to work. A union committee was appointed to confer with the management over the disputed 10 cents per hour issue. In Florida, approximately 5,000 commercial fishermen re mained on strike while National T . D . . . ... , , Labor Relations board offic a s attempted to end the walkout. The fishermen are demanding the right to establish set prices for various fish in order to pro tect the fishermen. 6 WAVES, SAILORS KILLED IN CRASH . Oklahoma City, June 17 (U.R) Six persons were killed and more than a score injured, several critically, tonight when an interurban car packed with sailors and Waves plowed Into the rear of a second Interurban halfway between Oklahoma City and Norman. Among the dead were A. D. Hopper, motorman of the rear Interurban, two waves and an unidentified civilian woman. Shore patrolmen at Norman said at least six were known to be dead. Seventeen of the injured, at least three of whom were In a critical condition, were brought to Oklahoma City hospitals. A number of others were in Nor man naval and public hospitals. Most of the injured were trapped in the shattered wreck of the second interurban which telescoped the rear of the trail er unit of the two-section inter urban ahead. MASS-KILLER GRUMBLES Salt Lake City, June 17 (U.R) Not in the least concerned that his attorney had spent the day pleading to save him from the firing squad at dawn Monday, mass-killer Austin Cox. 38. to night slowly piced his bare death-row cell and grumbled at his last mall. London, Sunday, June 18 (U.R) The heaviest robot attack of the Germans' three-day-old bombardment was directed against southern England last night as Gen. Sir Frederick Pile, commander-in-chief of the anti aircraft command, announced that a huge concentration of guns had been set up in south coast areas to combat the new NaziJ weapon. United Press correspondent John Frank ish reported at 3 a. m. (9 p. m. Saturday EWT) that he stw a number of tha pilotless flying bombs streak ing across the sky together, fol lowed within less than three minutes by two more. Frankish said the tempo of the raids was the heaviest since the Germans began their robot attacks late Thursday night. Reports from the soutn coast areas said gunners were knock' ing down the robot planes 'Iko clay pigeons, and authoritative quarters revealed that a "con- siderable number" were being destroyed in the air. During previous nights there has been an interval of at least 20 minutes between the recent bombs, but last night it war apparent that the Germans Were using two or three emplace ments to project the missiles simultaneously. Shortly after blackout tonight more winged bombs were re ported over southern England and were met by heavy gunfire including tracer bullets. At the same time, the Ger man DNB agency made the fantastic claim that the British government had ordered the evacuation of London as neither raid shelters nor subway sta tions were able to withstand the new bombs. The report was immediately denied in London ING SEATTLE ,20 FOUL PLAY, FEAR Seattle, June 17 U.R) Nor man Buschmann. 20 year -old scion of a prominent and wealthy raclfic coast family, was the object f an intensive search oby police tonight, who disclosed the boy disappeared Wednesday aft ernoon and is believed to have been a victim of foul play. News of the youth's disappear, ance at first was withheld by police at the request of the boy's father, Eigll Buschmann general superintendent of the Nakat Pa cific company here, one of the largest salmon packing firms on the west coast. Mrs. Buschmann told police her son had driven from their country homo to Kent, Wash., to pick up some packages. Last person to see the boy whs a clerk who said young Busch mann left his store about 5:30 p. m. Wednesday. No trace since has been found of Norman or the family car, a 1938 Packard sedan. State Bond Sales 2 Million A Day Portland, Ore., June 17 (U.R) First week tabulations show that Oregonlans have bought war bonds at -the rate of more than $2,000,000 a day in the fifth war loan drive. Statewide sali totaled $13, 111,504 towards the 1125,000, 000 goal. MISS YOUTH I MARIANAS IS. "COCOSI NEW INVASION? The Japanese radio and news agencies report troops trum U S. Invasion task force attempted to land on fulpan Is land In the Mnrlnnas. 1500 miles southeast of Tokyo, and engaged the Japs In "heavy lighting" an Indlratlun the Americans mav have sained a tootbuld on Inland HITLER RESERVES E An Advanced Command Post, Allied Supreme Headquarters, June 17 (U.R) The Allied high command, in the first official acknowledgement since D-day of spreading operations by the French underground, announced tonight in a special communique that a reinforced army of the French forces of the Interior had effectively tied up Nazi reserves in "its assigned role" behind the German lines. The communique cited large scale sabotage which has crip pled rail and road traffic, re portedly completely stopped in the strategic Rhone val'cy. It also mentioned disruption of telephone and telegraph com munications, power plants, and canals, and successful battles against enemy units. These multiple and simul taneous cases of sabotage, co ordinated with the Allied air force, have delayed consider ably the movement of German reserves to the combat zone," the communique said. LUFTWAFFE BASES Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, June 17 (U.R) Up wards of 1,000 U. S. four-cn- glncd bombers and fighters, grinding down the lean strength of the luftwaffe, attacked seven German airdromes in the Paris, Boulogne and southern Nor mandy areas today while thou sands of other Allied warplancs pounded the French rocket coast and raised havoc with Nazi re inforcements. Allied air pressure over the battle zones was restricted again today by weather, but 800 U. S. 8th air force Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by a similar number of Mustang. Lightning and Thunderbolt fighters, battled high wind and overcast to unload some 1,500 tons of bombs on Nazi front line dromes. VICTIM OF GUN Chicago, June 1 7 U.R Mrs. Paula Proctor, 36, wife of a civilian official of the Army Ordnance Department, died to night of a bullet wound inflict ed by her husband's .32 caliber pistol. War Bulletins London. Juna 17 (U.R) A German communique, broad cast by tha Berlin radio, as sarted today that Nasi U-boats had sunk two Allied ships to taling 11,000 tons and on d itrowtr In tha Atlantic Acmmt Telcphotot ALL CHEESE BUT FREE TWO WEEKS Washington, June 17 U.R) All cheese except Cheddar and processed Cheddar will be ra tion point free for two weeks beginning Sunday, the Office of Price Administration an nounced tonight. The cheeses placed on the free list make up about 28 per cent of all cheese sold, it was said. The June values for cheese are 10 points a pound and Cheddar sometimes known as American and Cheddar prod ucts will continue at that value. Points normally used for the cheeses which go on the free list by tonight's action now may be used for butter, beef steuka and beef roasts, the oth er products for which red stamps are used. OPA explain ed that soft cheese stocks are generally at the highest level during the latter half of June and the solo purpose of this ac tion was to prevent spoilage in the hands of producers and deal ers. Zero point values are assign ed to the following cheeses: Cream, Ncufchatcl or creamed cottage cheese containing more than five per cent butter fat and other group two cheeses on the ration value chart; Swiss, Italian, Munstcr, Limburger, Camembert, Liedcrkranz, grat ed, dehydcratcd, brilk, Gouda, Greek, Edam, Bleu, Brie and other group three cheeses on the ration point value chart. BULLETINS Night Games Oaklond - 7 13 0 Portland 0 8 2 Klcinke and B. Ralmondi; Hclscr, Ott( Pulford and Adams. Los Angeles 3 8 3 Seattle 5 6 0 Tcmplcr, Stein and Fernan des; Turpln and Sucme. Washington, June 17 (U.R) The Boston Red Sox evened the series at a game apiece by over coming Washington here to night 11-4. While Joe Bowman held the Senators his motes took kindly to the offerings of Roger Wolff, Alex Carrasquel and Bill Lofebvrc. Six of the Red Sox fifteen hits were for extra bases. St. Louis, June 17 (U.R) George Mungcr chalked up his eighth victory of the year here tonight as George Kurowski poled his tenth homo run of the season will the bases empty In the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie and give the St. Louis Car linnls a 2-1 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates, SAILOR SOUGHT San Francisco Juno 17 (U.R) Police tonight wcro seeking Al len (Barney) Dale, 45, merchant seamon, in connection with the fatal shooting last night of a 47-year-old woman hotel clerk. CHEDDAR, RATI Japs Lose Ships, Tanks and Guns; Widen Beachhead , New Guinea Victory. Washington. June 17 U.R) American invasion forces on Sal pan in the Miarianas have wid ened their beachhead in fierce fighting which has cost the Japa? nese five more cargo ships, 25 tanks, many more lives and an additional strong point, the navy announced tonight. The eemy cargo vessels were destroyed June 15 by an Amer ican destroyer tranrport which reverted back to its combat sta tus for the occasion, the Pa cific fleet communique revealed. Pearl Harbor, June 17 (U.R) American soldiers and marines aided by aerial and naval bom bardment had fought northward and eastward through muddy cane fields on Saipan island in the Marianas to sccuro a beach head 5V4 miles long and two miles wide at the polpt of deep est penetration by Friday night, Admiral Nlmitz announced to night. Despite determined Japanese counter-attacks which cost the enemy 25 tanks and a large toll of lives, the marines and army troops made - gains averaging 1500 yards across tha southern portion of the Island, Nimltz said. Nimltz said our positions were under intense Japanese fire dur ing the night of June 15-16. Be fore dawn Friday tho enemy launched a determined counter attack which "cost the enemy heavily in lives and destroyed more than 25 tanks." Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sundav, June 17- (U.R) Billy Mitchell medium bombers and P-38 Lightnings de stroyed at least 50 Japaneso planes in a Friday raid on So rang, on the northwestern tip of Dutch New Guinea, Gen Douglas MacArthur announced today. It was one of the greatest air victories In the southwest Pa cific in recent months since tho major reserves of Japan's wan ing air power was wiped out In heavy raids on Hollandia pre ceding the Allied invasion there. MacArthur's communique termed Sorong the "cnemy'a last effective air base in New Guinea." L HALSEY TO Washington, June 17 (U.R) Adm. Williom F. Halsey. Jr., who drove most of the Japanese out of his former command In the south Pacific, will continue the chase In a new role as com mander of the U. S. third fleet In the Pacific, the navy announced today. In February, 1942, Halsey led his force In the first raid on Wake Island. The next month he went within 950 miles of Tokyo to raid Marcus island. Previously he had hit the Mar shall and Gilbert Islands, now in U. S. hands. Halsey Is a veteran navy avi ator as well as sea dog. He grad uated from the naval academy in 1904 and served as a destroyer commander in the first World War. After his air training at Pensacola, Fla, when he was 52, Halsey became commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Saratoga and later of a division. Sales to data In th Fifth War Loan Drlvo S589,047.25 "E" Sales $134,656.25 Quota -, inno.non Total Quota for County S2.262.000
