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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1944.
NO. 74.
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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