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Churchill Says Allies May Win In Europe This Summer; Americans Widen Wedge Across Cherbourg Peninsula T BEARING FRUIT Prime Minister Makes Most Optimistic Speech; Says D-Day Tactical Surprise. London, June 19 (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill was revealed today to have predict ed that the Allies may win the war In Europe this summer. The execution of plans adopt ed by the "big three" at Tehran "is being steadily unrolled and the months of this summer may, by the victories of this Allied campaign, bring full success to the cause of freedom," he said. Remarks Unrevealed Churchill made the predic tion the most optimistic he has yet uttered in a speech at a luncheon tendered in his honor at the Mexican embassy last Thursday bilt his remarks were not released for publication until this afternoon. He tempered the forecast slightly in another part of his speech, however, saying: "It may be that events in the next few months will show us whether we soon are to be re lieved of this curse which has been laid upon us. Whether it be this year or next, the British and American peoples will never fal ter or withdraw their hand from the task they have undertaken." He said the western front was opened in full accord with the Russians and the decisions reached at Tehran, "although the execution of plans adopted there is far from being com plete." 1,000,000 in France Churchill estimated that 1,000,000 men may be fighting on both sides now in Normandy and called this a "great moment in history." "Together with our allies," he said, ''we will go on to the end and the end will be the more ter rible for our foes, the longer the struggle continues and the long er this war is protracted.!' Churchill reiterated that the Allies had achieved tactical sur prise on D-day and said the en emy "had no idea until he saw the ships coming out of the mists of morning when he was going to be hit, how he was go ing to be hit, or where he was going to be hit." GO TO PORTLAND According to selective service board No. 1, twelve men went to Portland June 15 for immediate induction into the navy and ma rines. The Inductees for the navy are: Floyd Henry Baker, Earl Lean McQuigg. Ira Vernon Orr, Charles Ben Wharton. Russell Edwin Stelle. Mason Hammond Ludwig. Max Ray Stanton. Don ald Lee Caton, Alvln Thomas Robertson, George Arthur Fa ber, Ray Melvln Walters. Carl Thomas Dawson was the in ductee for the marines. Men given pre-lnductlon ex aminations June 13 were: Clas sified as fit for general service James Herbert Cummlngl, Charles Edwin Roberts, Ralph Hugh Hamblln. Leonard E. Da vis, Warren William Broemer, Wesley William Coleman and Cecil Howard Coghill. Limited service men include: Stephen Galller Dippel and Donald Au gust Schultz. Rejected were: Samuel James Lemen, Marion Henry Johnson and Walter Doug las Plumley, Jr. S. P. Blocked By Derailment South Dunsmulr, Cal., June 19 (U.R) North and south bound South ern Pacific passenger trains were delayed today by a freight car derailment on the main line at Fisher, Cal., 16 miles south of Dunsmulr. Three of the several cars which were derailed overturned, temporarily blocking traffic. SIDE GLANCES Bt TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mary Fray being forced to turn dctoctive in order to com plete a list of names, Edith Braley using drastic measures In an effort to gind a gardener. Max Henne looking very mili tary in his air transport com mand uniform. Medford United Press Thirty-ninth Year (Acme Radio-Telephoto) NAZI OFFICERS The war is finished for these German officers, captured In battle for Normandy beaches and returned to England, en touts to orlsoner of war camps. Signal Corps radio-teleDhoto from London . Rocket-Propelled Antitank Shell Is Introduced by German Forces London, June 19. (U.P.) The Germans have introduced a new weapon, described as a rocket-propelled antitank shell, which can be used by the infantry, a correspondent for the Exchange Tele graph reported today in a dispatch from the Normandy front. VIIPURI GATES Moscow, June 19. U.R) Rus sian mobile forces, leading a drive up the Karelian Isthmus to knock Finland out of the war, swept into the approaches of Vilpurl today, and military sources said "decisive develop ments" were expected at any time. (The Moscow hint bf "decisive developments" forthcoming, to gether with numerous other un official intimations that Finland may have had enough, suggest ed the possible imminence of Finnish capitulation in the face of the fast break red army drive.) Soviet . spearheads aboard Jeeps and American trucks sped toward Viipuri, Finland's third largest city, from newly-won po sitions around Koivlsto, west coast anchor of the Mannerheim line, and Makslahdenkyla, only 17 miles below Viipuri. Front dispatches' said the Finns were fleeing northward, abandoning line after line, in a frantic effort to save the shat tered remains of their army. 3 ESCAPED PW'S ARE RECAPTURED Denver, Colo., June 19 U.R) Three German prisoners of war who escaped last week from the prison camp at Indianola, Neb., were recaptured today at St. Jo seph. Mo., it was announced at the Denver office of the Federal Bureau of Investigating The hree Germans, Karl Llnke. Marcel Barthel and Al bert Mueller, were armed with home-made knives. Officers said they had been traveling on freight trains at night and hid ing by day, and apparently were trying to make their way by a roundabout route to Mexico. CHINESE DRIVE NEAR JAP-HELD M0GAUNG Southeast Asia Headquarters, Kandy, Ceylon, June 19. (U.R) Chinese troops have driven to the Mogaung river, directly op posite Japanese-held Mogaung town, a communique said today, while other allied forces scored local gains on three sides of be sieged Myitkylna, the main ene my stronghold in northern Bur ma. - British Chindit units r n tinued their pressure on Mo gaung Trom the east after ctp turing a hugt Japanese ammuni tion dump on the outskirts of the town. Full Leased Wire The weapon consists of a tube about four feet in length with an 88-millimeter shell at the nose, and only one man is needed to fire it, the correspondent re ported. As the man holding the tube fires it, a shower of sparks and a sheet of flame shooting out of the rear of the tube. The weapon was said to be in tended only for short range work and the shell neither holds a true line nor maintains its im petus, the correspondent re ported. British officers who ex amined several of the captured tubes were quoted that it was not as good as the British Piat antitank projector. AT ITALIAN FRONT Advance Press Headquarters with Allied forces, Italy, June 19 (U.R) Gen. George C. Mar shall, U. S. army chief of staff, has arrived in Italy for confer ences with allied army comman ders and an inspection tour of the front, it was announced to day. Rome, June 19. (U.R) French colonial troops have fought their way across the narrow waist of Elba to capture the insular capi tal of Portoferralo and now con trol most of the 85-mile island, a communique announced today, while allied forces on the Italian mainland battled through stiff German resistance on the out skirts of Perugia. Driving rains slowed the flow of supplies and men to th allied 5th and 8th army spearheads on the central Italian front, but a communique said that both forces were pounding steadily through the enemy's defense lines before Perugia. ' (A BBC broadcast heard by CBS in New York said 8th army troops had entered the suburbs of Perugia today.) Oregon Delegation To Support Dewey in GOP Convention Portland, Ore., June 19 (U.R) Chairman Henry E. Collier announced today that the Ore gon delegation to the republican national convention would give full support to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who polled 50,000 write-in votes in the Oregon primary election. A majority of the delegation will leave Wednesday for Chi cago. jollier said that although the delegation at its organization meeting had declined to vote a resolution endorsing Dewey, contending that the pledges each signed as a candidate were sufficient, he had been assured that all intended to vote for Dewey for president and Gov. Earl Warren of California for vice-president if they were nominated. uTA T MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1944 CONGRESS GAINS E OF RECESS Senate Accepts Conference Report on Supply Bill Price Control Unity Looms Washington, June 19. (U.R) Chances of a congressional re cess starting this week looked better today as both houses speeded action on Important leg islation. . The senate made a start toward clearing its docket of 11 appropriation bills totaling $58,000,000,000 by accepting a conference report on the $60, 000,000 supply bill for the legis lative' and judiciary branches. The bill goes to the White House. The house, meanwhile, ap proved by a vote of 326-21 an amended senate contract termi nation bill providing procedures for settling an estimated $200, 000,000,000 in war contracts. Price Control Unity Senate-house conferees made progress toward agreement on price control extension legisla tion, and final votes on all issues before the conference commit tee appeared likely by tonight. The senate appropriations committee approved the war de partment supply bill for fiscal year 1945 after cutting $1,217, 000 from the house-approved total of $49,109,022,795. Chairman Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., of the senate appropria tions subcommittee tlftt held hearings on the bill, told report ers it would be taken up by the senate tomorrow. Among senate committee changes was an amendment al lowing the army to use govern ment funds to send back to the United - States men suffering from combat exhaustion. The war department presently lacks authority to return men for re cuperation, rehabilitation or re covery. It has been "stowing" them away on returning planes or ships. The committee disapproved a house provision allowing the war department $1,217,000 to exulore for oil in Alaska. V aim llai provision was stricken from the interior department bill. As both houses cut into their legislative schedule, the plan was to recess either Friday or Saturday until Aug. 1. Five Earthquakes Shake California in Last 12 Hours Los Angeles, June 19. (U.R) Five earthquakes, including two sharp ones, which rocked southern California within the last 12 hours caused only minor damage, police report ed today. The California Institute of Technology seismological lab oratory reported the quakes registered at 8.04.41 (PWT), at 8:06.13, at 12:30 a. m., at 12:53 a.m. None was strong enough to do serious damage, labora tory technicians said. American Liberators Feted By French With Cognac, Wine By Henry T. Gorrell UP Staff Correspondent With the 9th Division, Barne vllle, France, June 19. (U.R) The townspeople of Barneville Jubilantly feted American troops with cognac and wine today while indications multiplied that the Germans were preparing to write off the northern tip of the peninsula as a loss, except for a defense of the port of Cherbourg itself. Reports reaching this liber ated city this morning agreed that those German detachments which skipped out of the trap before the ninth division closed it were retreating southward with no apparent intention of hitting back at the American salient. Moreover, documents captured on German prisoners have lo cated the Nazi headquarters for this area at La Haye du Putts, just south of the American cor (Acme) Teltphoto) DEMOCRATIC KEY NOTEB Gov. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, staunch administration supporter, selected to deliver keynote address at Democratic national convention, which opens la Chicago July 19. JAP STRONGHOLDS By United Press U. S. troops neared the two Japanese strongholds of Gara- pan and Aslito airfield on Sal- pan island in the Marianas to day, while American bombers and fighters delivered two smashing attacks on the Sorong coast of Dutch New Guinea, sinking or damaging 11 Japan ese vessels and destroying 50 enemy planes. Veteran marines and army troops, striking to the north and east from their Saipan beach head, hammered at the ap proaches to Gdrapan, adminis trative center of the Marianas on the island's west coast, and en gaged the Japanese in a bloody battle for Aslito airfield, on the south coast. Landing Thwarted The advances toward the strongholds on the island, 1449 miles from Tokyo, followed a desperate futile enemy attempt to land an amphibious force in side the American beachhead. Armed landing craft, probably LCI gunboats blasted the enemy force and sank 13 troop-filled barges, ranging in size from 10 to 100 men capacity. In the southwest Pacific, American pilots lashed the Jcf man and Samate airdromes at Sorong Friday in a strike t.iat carried within 650 miles of the Philippines. Twenty-eight ene my planes were shot down t..d the others destroyed on the ground. The bombers returned the next day to sink five cargo ships and destroy or seriously damage six coastal vessels. FAMILY FIGHT Redondo Beach, Cal., June 19 (U.R) Climaxing a family argu ment after an 'hour's wait outside a barricaded door, Mrs. Lillian Shubert, 34, yesterday shot and killed her war-worker husband and then committed suicide. ridor, suggesting that the with drawal was the plan of the enemy commanders rather than an unauthorized flight. The task of mopping up the scores of German suicide squads stranded In pockets along the corridor began this morning. These Nazis the young school boy fanatics who manned this area are surrounded and they know it, but, as an Infantry of ficer put it today, "you have to kill them before they stop shoot ing." "These German kids climb trees just like the Japanese," he told me. "This is the nearest thing to jungle fighting I've ever known." . The sight I'saw this morning as my jeep sped along the wind ing country hedgeroads bore out the officer's story. The bodies of German and American sol diers lay sprawled in the ditches for yards on end. Trib;jne United Press Full E USED IN BATTLE AGAINSTROBOTS Air Ministry Claims RAF, Flak Batteries Destroying Projectiles in Air. London, June 19 (U.R) Brit ish fighters and antiaircraft bat teries, went into action today with a new and deadly tech nique to combat Nazi robot bombers as the air ministry tore away the mystery from Hitler's secret weapon with the disclos ure that it is a jet-propelled, one-ton flying torpedo guided to its target by an automatic me chanical pilot. Less than five days after the start of the pilotless bombing offensive Nazi . propagandists boasted would exact a "terrible vengeance" for the Allied air war oh Germany, the air min istry revealed that its defenses were successfully taking on and beating the enemy's robot fleets. Deitroyed In Air It was disclosed that RAF fighters and flak batteries al ready have destroyed large numbers of the projectiles In the air and ,shot down many others into the sea or open country. The British defenders were disclosed officially to be using a new technique and the air ministry asserted that "other of fensive measures" are being taken to blunt the Nazi attack without impairing the Allied aerial offensive against enemy military targets on the contin ent. . . - . . "The extent and character of these methods cannot be di vulged without giving informa tion to the enemy, who is mak ing a strenuous attempt both to discover the steps being taken to defeat his latest form of at tack and to learn how effective this assault has been," the min istry said. Importance Denied At the same time, the minis try minimized the importance of the enemy's new weapon as a major factor in the war, de riding it an as "unmilitary weapon" brought into action be cause of the Luftwaffe's impo tence. In its first official descrip tion of Hitler's new weapon, the ministry said the bombs have a 21-foot, 10-Inch fuselage, with a maximum width of two , feet, eight and one-quarter , inches, and a wing span of 16 feet. The ministry said the bombs attain a speed of 300 to 350 miles an hour in level flight and carry a 2,200 pound explo sive charge in a warhead mounted in the forward part of the fuselage. The Nazis continued to send their robot raiders over south ern Bngland throughout last night and today, wrecking buildings and piling up an in creasing number of casualties. MURDERER OF FIVE E Salt Lake City, June 19. O) Hooded and strapped firmly to a tiny wooden chair, 38-year-old Austin Cox, giant mass murder er, died at dawn today before a five-man firing squad against tho south wall of the ancient Utah state prison. Five high-powered rifles I ark ed simultaneously from behind their canvas curtain in a cell house doo. ''ay at 5:42 a. m., MWT. Cox was pronounced dead three minutes later, Just as the morning sun climbed over the towering peaks of the nearby Wasatch mountains. i The heavily-bearded, six-foot, four-Inch giant killed Ogrien Tl J .., I ... T . . -1 T . . , m iviaii it uuuKe lwis v, irue man and four strangers who crossed his path last July while Cox was on an enraged hunt for a former wife who had recn given a divorce by Trucman. Linden, N. J. June 19 (U.R) Between three and four million gallons of gasoline were de stroyed today when lightning struck and set fire to a tank at the Bayway refinery of the Standard Oil Company. Leased Wire NO. 75. (Acme) Tclephotot NEW WAR FRONT American invasion forces, shattering fierce Japanese counter-attacks against their Saipan beachheads, sweep forward against principal Island installations, Including town ol Garapan, to exploit landing. HEAVY DELUGE; DRAINS OVERFLOW Damage caused by the violent thunderstorm and rain Sunday afternoon was chiefly to hay down In the fields, and grain leveled by the wind, according to County Agent Robert G. Fowl er. Hall accompanied the, storm In some areas and peppered gar dens adjacent to and in this city, the first reports Indicated. Full force of the storm was felt In Medford and in the Phoe nix area, Ed N. Judd, manager of the Medford irrigation dis trict reported He said the storm swirled out of the Wagner Gap country, swept through the cen ter of the valley !nd swerved to the northeast. Reports indi cated the storm did not hit the foothills to the east. Judd said the damage In the Phoenix area seemed to be to hay and grain, from accounts he received. In this city storm sewers were taxed heavily, and overflowed Into the streets In many sections. Power service was disrupted for about a minute. Weather bureau officials re ported that .70 Inch of rain fell yesterday and last night at the airport station Little hail fell in that area and the strongest wind, at 8 p. m., registered about 15 miles an hour. Heaviest of the rain fell between 2 and 3 p. m., when a quarter of an inch was registered, and between 3 and 4 p. m when 20 fell, the bureau reported, 1 KILL WORT La Junta, Colo., June 19. CUP) A Santa Fe passenger train pulled out of a siding too soon and crashed Into two rear coaches of another train early today, killing one person and Injuring .bout 50 others. Many of those injured were military personnel. The injured were taken to the Santa Fe 1. s pltal in La Junta, the station hospital at La Junta air field, and hospitals In Pueblo. A man Identified as Charles E. Edelein of Whcatridge, Colo., died in an ambulance en route here. LAWRENCE W. ANDERSON IS WOUNDED IN ITALY Pvt. Lawrence W. Anderson was slightly wounded May 24 during action in Italy according to a wire received by his moth er, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Andcr-'i, 419 Pearl street today. Mrs. An derson was advised that reports of his condition would be sent later. Pvt. Anderson has been In the army a year and before going into service was employed at the Timber Products company. Henne Here Max C. Henne. former station manager for the United Air Lines In Medford and now stationed in Alaska with the Air Transport Command, Is spending four or five days here visiting friends. Henne who left Medford a year ago. Is en route back to Alaska after spending some time in San Francisco. tXoi relnt iaip UGr I! rla Con V TRAPPED NAZIS FAIL IN EFFORT TO BREAK LINE Remainder of 1 1 6-Mile Front Flares With Violent At tack, Counter Attack. Allied Supreme Headquar ters, London, June IS (U.R) American invasion forces opened the battle of Cher bourg today, striking up through the mid peninsula town of Bricquebec to within seven miles of the great Nor man port, and blasting Ger man targets Inside the city with their 144 millimeter. Long Tom guns. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, June 19. (U.R) Tho United States 9th Division has thwarted a desperate effort by trapped German troops to break through the American corridor across the Cherbourg peninsula, beating back the Nazis and in flicting bloody casualties, it was announced today. The veterans of the 9th slug ged it out with the enemy north west of St. Sauveur-Le Vicomte some 15 miles below Cherbourg and wrecked his first major bid to break out of the trap closing on so;ne 30,000 Germans in and around the great Normandy port. Near Volognei , The Americans not only con tained the enemy but scored new gains to widen and strengthen the trans-peninsula wedge and to approach Valognes, 10 miles southeast of Cherbourg. While the crucial battle of the Cherbourg peninsula was being fought, the remainder of the 116 mile battlcfront flared with vio lent struggles all the way from the no man's land of Carentan to the Troarn outpost east of Caen. British assault forces battled their way Into Tillv-sur-Seulles. 12 miles west of Caen, and cap tured the northern part of the ruined town. The Germans clung stubbornly to the southern part,, but were being driven out in block by block fighting at close quarters. Allies Pour In Amidst ' the massive test of strength on the Norman beach head, it was announced offic ially that fresh allied troops had poured into the battle at many points to strengthen the United States and British forward posi tions. Meanwhile there was no sign of a big scale German counter offensive from the south against the American barricade thrown across the Cherbourg peninsula during the week-end fighting. Dirty weather cut the allied air activity In the immediate bat tle area to a minimum basis of a few standing fighter patrol and a handful of sorties by fight er bombers from beachhead landing strips. The Eighth air force, however, put about 500 heavy bombers Into an attack on air fields and military Installations, especially luftwaffe bases south of Nor mandy. TO By United Press Mldwesterners were promised relief today from yesterday's un seasonably warm temperatures that sent the mercury soaring as high as 100 degrees at Louis ville, Ky., but the Atlantic sea board states were in for at least another day of sweltering heat. While millions sought relief from the torrid temperatures yesterday afternoon, tornado claimed at least 13 lives in the Dakotas. The heaviest death toll from the tornado was registered at Wilmot, S. D., where seven per sons lost their lives. Three were killed at Florence, S. D., and the tiny town of Bath, S. D., was leveled except for a small grain elevator. Thunder showers last night broke the heat wave in some midwestcrn states and the mer cury dropped as much as 30 de grees In some places, the weath er bureau at Chicago reported. Sales to date in the Fifth War Loan Drive S720.441 "E" Sales Quota ..$150,150 $600,000 Total Quota for County S2.2S2,000
