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
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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.
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Thirty-ninth Year
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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