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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1944
NO. 80.
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DOUGHBOYS OPEN
FINAL DRIVE TO
CAPTURE PORT
German Effort to Evacuate
By Sea Fails Enemy
. Weakening Fast.
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London, June 24 (U.R) Ameri
can troops seized the last heights
overlooking Cherbourg today
and swept down to the southern
and southwestern edges of the
city while British warships
smashed a German effort to
carry out a "Dunerque" evacua
tion. With aerial and naval support,
the Yanks had knocked out all
but one of the forts on Cher
bourg's southern approaches and
driven within three-quarters of
a mile of' the main city.
Battered and exhausted after
four days of incessent pounding
and with two of their divisional
eenerals killed, front dispatches
said the 30,000-odd Germans in
and around Cherbourg were
raDidlv weakening.
Late Saturday the doughboys
launched a final aiiacn irom
nau.lv wnn htrhta under
a ringing order to "push the
b s over ana wain mio
town." With a bayonet charge,
they captured a huge stronghold
of 16 subterranean rooms which
had somehow absorbed the snock
of the tremendous, three-aimen-sional
bombardment.
Advance Raold -
Henry T. Gorrell of the United
Press watched the charge irom
an observation point itself only
two kilometers just over a
mile from Cherbough. Earlier
he flew over the beseiged city In
a Piper Cub observation plane
and reported seeing the Ameri
cans "advancing en masse to
ward their final objectives."
"The Infantry's advance
.anU " fjnrrpll said.
He' also noted a number of
German ships in the harbor, pos
sibly meaning that the enemy
would make other evacuation at
tempts like Saturday's pre-dawn
getaway aboard seven small
merchant ships escorted by E
boats and armed landing craft.
The British blockade patrol
nrnmnllv .Sink tWO Of the VCS-
. sels, seriously damaged three
others and left tnem wallowing
helplessly off Cherbourg while
the remaining two succeeded in
running through to Alderney in
the channel islands. The British
forces suffered superficial dam
age and a small number of cas
ualties. Gorrell reported after his Pipe
Cub flight that the front was
surging down on Cherbourg
from the heights north of La
Mare a Canards. The town Is a
mile from the Cherbourg limits
and troops north of there were
within three-quarters of a mile
of the city.
Allied headquarters said that
If the enemy garrison did not
surrender within a few hours
the fighting might develop Into
alow and costly street battles.
Gorrell reported from the
front, however, that the Ameri
cans reached heights overlook
ing the city at 3:20 a. m. with
only slight resistance.
Many Quit
About 1,250 Germans had sur
rendered in the Cherbourg area
In 24 hours and this fact, plus
the enemy's failure to react to
the breaching of the port's peri
meter defenses "indicates a
rapid deterioration of the enemy
morale and ability to defend
Cherbourg much longer," a
front dispatch said.
More than 300 Marauder
bombers saturated Cherbourg's
defenses In a series of raids be
fore noon, but a thick weather
front precluded almost all aerial
support in the afternoon.
Richard McMillan of the
United Press said long-range can
non, field artillery, naval guns,
tanks and infantry as well as
planes were "all massing fire
upon the Citadel, which Is belch
ing smoke and flames as the Ger
mans attempt to destroy it."
Fires were burning In the cen
ter of the city and at several
points east and south of It, ac
cording to a London Evening
News dispatch by a corespon
dent who flew over the front.
Warrens
r pet
li&m. tarns WhlJ
Dov. and Mrs. Earl Warren bid farewell to their children as they leave Sacramento, Call!., executive mansion
for O O. P. convention in Chicago. On top steps (left to right) are daughters Virginia, 16; Dorothy, 13, and
Nina, 10. On lower steps, sons Earl Jr, 14 (left), and Robert, 8. The family, pet, Brownie, wags his goodbye
STRIKE VOTE ON
EYED BY UNIONS
Portland, Ore., June 24 U.R)
Labor leaders freely predicted
that lumber workers would de
mand a legal strike vote under
the Smith-Connally act following
the War Labor Board's second
denial of a general wage increase
in the fir and pine industry, but
no action was taken, pending
outcome of labor meetings begun
here today.
Executive committee members
of the AFL Northwestern Lum
ber and Sawmill Workers con
vened here late Saturday after
noon to map a course of action.
The negotiating committee of
the International Woodwrkers of
America (CIO) will begin here
Wednesday, Worth Lower;,
president, said.
Michael Costello. secretary of
the Puget Sound council of the
Lumber and Sawmill Workers'
union (AFL) said In Seattle he
believed members would take no
precipitate strike action.
"With the Invasion of Europe
now under way and with lumber .
playing a vital role In the war. I
am sure there will be no illegal
work stoppage," Costello said
He said the workers were
less Inflamed now than a month
ago when they staged a wildcat
strike that paralyzed much of
the lumber Industry in five
northwest states. He said he was
confident they would continue
their efforts to get higher pay
in a sane and orderly manner.
IIMf
Washlngon, June 24 (U.R)
The Office of Price Administra
tion tonight denied that it de
scribed as "widespread reports"
that used cars will be rationed
beginning July 10.
OPA said it has not been di
rected by the War Production
Board to ration used cars and
the Office of Defense Transporta
tion and WPB have not reached
any decision as to whether used
cars will be rationed. Price ceil
ings on used cars will go into ef
fect July 10 as previously an
nounced, OPA said.
WALLACE ENDS VISIT
rhiinffklne. June 24 (U.R)
Vice-President Henry A. Wallace
Inft hern todav after a four-day
visit marked by Informal, frank
discussions with Gencralif.nmo
Chiang Kai-shek during which
thv found themselves in agree
ment on the urgent necessity of
defeating Japan, aid to China i
and establishment of a democrat-!
ic peace In the Pacific. I
Leave for GOP Convention
BULLETINS
Sacrahiento, Calif., June 24
(U.R) The Pacific Coast league
cellar champion Sacramento
Solons continued their jinx over
the leading San Francisco Seals
tonight with a 5-2 victory for
their tenth victory in 13 starts
against the Seals.
With Earl Porter dishing up
nine hits to the Seals but hold
ing them to single tallies in the
sixth and eighth, the Solons'
jumped on Bill Werle for 13
hits and two runs each in the
second and third and one in the
sixth- The win cinched the
scries for Sacramento, making
the game count four to one.
San Francisco 2 9 3
Sacramento 5 13 0
Werle and Sprinz; Porter and
Steiner.
Seattle 18 0
Oakland 4 9 1
Speece and Sucme; Pippen
and B. Raimondl.
Oakland, Cal., June 24 (U.R)
Seattle's second-place Pacific
Coast league club found the go
ing tough against the seventh
place Oakland Acorns tonight,
dropping a 4-1 decision in a tight
contest.
Washington, June 24 (U.R)
German planes. In the first an
nounced raid on American ' shut
tle" bombing bases in Russia,
destroyed "a number" of Amer
ican planes and killed three crew
members, the war department
said tonight.
The terse ar department an
nouncement said further details
are not available.
The long-planned "shuttle"
bases were first used June 1 and
2 when American strategic
bombers landed in the Soviet
after bombing Rumania, pre
sumably from starting points in
Italy.
On Thursday and Friday this
week part of a mighty part of
2000 planes wheeled onto the
Russian fields after loosing 2300
tons of bombs on Berlin It was
believed that several of these
bombers landed In Russia from
England for the first time.
Tonight's announcement re
vealed that the Nazi airmen had
blasted at two Russian air
dromes, apparently catching sev
eral American planes parked on
the airstrips. This would indi
cate that the German raid came
In the nature of a "surprise" at
tack. NEW GEODETIC OFFICE
Portland, Ore., June 24 (U.R)
A Portland office will be added
to the coast and geodetic survey
to aid In extensive field work
planned for this area, Rear Adm.
L. O. Colbert, director of the
bureau, disclosed today.
'SHUTTIFBOMBING
BASES IN RUSSIA
RAIOEO BY NAZIS
I Acme Telenhoio)
T
TAKE 470 TOWNS,
CIRCLE VITEBSK
London, Sunday, June 25
(U.R) Triumphant Soyiet armies
broadening their summer-often
sive have captured more than
470 towns and settlements in
White Russia on a 125-mile front
east of Mogilev to northwest of
the virtually encircled fortress
city of Vitebsk, Moscow an
nounced today.
In three orders of the day,
Marshal Josef Stalin announced
that Soviet armies had advanced
as much as 25 miles and on four
separate fronts had breached
strong German fortifications for
as much as 50 miles. The Soviet
objective seemed to be to crush
White Russian defenses In a
single stroke and open the road
to the Baltic States and East
Prussia of the Reich Itself.
Stalin's order also revealed
the Russians had cracked the
Finnish defense line along the
entire length of the Evir river
between Lakes Ladoga and One-
ga northeast of Leningrad and
had freed more than 200 towns
and settlements In a three-day
offensive.
More than 470 towns and set
tlements along the extended and
blazing front from east of Mogi
lev to northwest of Vitebsk have
fallen to Soviet troops in the
first two days of the Red army s
summer offensive, Marshal
Stalin and Moscow's war bul
letins revealed today.
More than 6,100 Germans were
killed as Soviet forces advanced
as much as 25 miles on four
separate fronts in White Russia
and breached strong German
fortifications for as much as 50
miles in a bold effort to crush
Nazi White Russian defenses in
a single stroke and open a path
to the Baltic States and East
Prussia. .
T
New York, June 25 (U.R)
The first casualties of the Nor
man beachhead to be returned
to the United States were Iden
tified by the war department to
day as Lt. Col. Michael C. Mur
phy, a glider pilot, Lafayette,
Ind., and Pfc. James A. Lester,
engineers corps, Clio, Mich.
They arrived here last night
In an ambulance plane of the air
transport command and are in
the old Cantonment hospital,
Mitchell Field.
Murphy's glider steered Into a
tree near St. Mere Eglise dur
ing the first minutes of the in
vasion on June 6. Lester was
wounded by shrapnel while land
ing on a beach In the first wave.
NEEDED TO KEEP
TWO-PARTY ROLE
Gov. Bricker Urges More
H i s t o r y At Crossroads,
Less At Washington.
Chicago, June 24 (U.R) Dem
ocrats and Republicans have
"much in common today," Gov.
John W. Bricker of Ohio said
tonight.
"Neither has much to say In
Washington," he smiled.
Speaking before 2000 persons
under the auspices of the Chica
goland Brisker for - President
committee, the Ohio candidate
for the Republican presidential
nomination said the party must
carry its campaign to "the cross
roads and to the people."
"More history must be made
at the crossroads and less at
Washington," Bricker said. "The
people will be better off for that.
Let us now resolve to make his
tory at the crossroads this year."
America is "strong enough to
change leaders in the midst of
war," Bricker said, "if we ought
to change."
"The president Is the commander-in-chief
of the armed
forces," he added, "but he is not
the commander-in-chief of the
American people.
"The rights of the people will
be preserved in a Republican
victory. A Republican victory
Is necessary to save the Repub
lican party and the two-party
system and the Democratic par
ty as well."
Ward Seisure Hit
Brlcker's address before the
committee was extemporaneous.
Then he made a nation-wide 15-
minute radio broadcast.
Bricker attacked the govern
ment s recent seizure of the
Montgomery-Ward plant in Chi
cago and the "New Deal propa
ganda campaign" by govern
mental agencies.
The seizure itself was ' "hot
half as dangerous," Bricker said,
as Attorney General Francis
Biddle's statement "that no busi
ness in America is Immune from
attack."
"If that philosophy of the New
Deal is true," ho said, "we are
already under a dictatorship."
And the endorsement of Presi
dent Roosevelt for a fourth term
by the Communist party and the
CIO political action commitec
"alone was sufficient to justify a
Republican victory," he said.
ALLIES' SUPPLIES
E
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London, June 24 (U.R) Less
than three weeks after Allied
forces surged ashore on the
beaches of Normandy, the land,
sea and air forces have won the
battle of supply dispatches from
United Press front correspond
ents showed tonight.
Robert Miller, who has been
covering the communications
battle aboard PT boats in the
English Channel, reported from
an England port that supplies
now were moving to France on
an "endless conveyor of ships."
He said Nazi air, submarine and
E-boat Interference had been vir
tually eliminated.
DESTRftTfAKES
FLYER OFF RAFT
Pearl Harbor. June 24 (U.R)
A destroyer of the U. S. fleet ac
companying raiding aircraft car
riers to Pagan Island In the
northern Marianas Thursday
picked up Lt. Cmdr. Robert H.
Pricen, U. S. N. (home town un
available), an air group com
mander of a U. S. carrier, who
had been shot down Into the
ocean 11 days before.
Price was floating about on a
tiny rubber raft awaiting rescue
when the destroyer picked him
up. He was shot down during the
early phase of the Marianas ac-1
tion.
DANE SABOTUERS
BLOW UP LARGEST
ARMAHPLANT
Armed Italian Partisans
Gather In Hills Copen
hagen Under Military Law
London, June 24 (U.R) Dan
ish patriots were reported to
night to have bloiOn up Den
mark's biggest armament works,
causing the Nazis to proclaim
martial law in Copenhagen,
Whifp 80 OnO Tfnlinn ormoH narll.
sans were said to be gathering
in me mountains south of
Bologna.
While French forces of the In
terior damned the flow of Nazi
reinforcements to the Normandy
front by disrupting traffic on
tne vital Belfort-Paris railway,
80 Danish saboteurs late Thurs
day blew up the Dansk Industri
byndikat works which had been
turning out machine guns and
anti-tank guns for the Germans,
Danish dispatches via Stockholm
reported, lt was described as the
boldest and greatest single act
of sabotage in Denmark.
Last night, the Germans
clamped a military rule on the
Danish capital Nazi explanation
for the action was said to have
been to enable German courts
to "treat crimes such as have
been repeatedly committed by
the Copenhagen underworld
more quickly," but the main
reason was believed to have been
the destruction of the armament
plant, located in Copenhagen's
free harbor.
The explosions were reported
to have wrecked a three-story
building housing the main work
shop as well as a metal harden
ing department. Stockholm re
ports said lt was believed the
Germans would not be able to
re-build the plant for another
six months.
E
ROBOT BOMBINGS
London, Sunday, June 25
(U.R) The German robot bomb
ing of southern England was re
sumed early today after a lull
of more than 15 hours, but coast
al reports Indicated that a
mighty 'lect of RAF night bomb
ers was ' again blasting the
French Channel coast In an ef
fort to knock out the launching
ramos.
The flying torpedoes began
crashing Into southern districts
soon after midnight breaking
the longest lull In the offensive
since the Nazis first launched
their robot fleets in force 11 days
ago.
The "breather" had created
hope In some quarters that the
Intensive Allied bombing of the
Pas de Calais area had dislo
cated the enemy s catapult bases.
The aerial bombardment of
that bomb-shattered coastal strip
apparently was continuing with
out leup early his morning.
ANEW LAST NIGHT
London, June 25 U.R) RAF
heavy bombers smashed at Nazi
targets In the occupied countries
and twin-engined Mosquito raid
ers pounded Berlin last night,
following widespread daylight
attacks by four big American
task forces on enemy objectives
In France, Germany and the Bal
kans. Powerful formations of British
heavies thundered out over the
continent during the night and
at least one wave was believed
to have blasted the German ro
bot bomb Installations In the
Pas do Calais area of northern
France.
The roll of gunfire and the
crash of exploding bombs com
ing from the Calais and Dun
kerque sectors were clearly
audible on the British coast.
War Bulletins
Chungking, June 25 (U.R)
Allied troops entered the Japanese-held
stronghold of Mo
gaung In northern Burma Sat
urday, a Chinese army com
munique said today,
Chinese troops entered the
southern part of the town, and
other troops are drawn up at
the northern edge, the com
munique said.
YANKEES SPRING
TRAP UPON NAZIS
ABOVE GROSSETO
Fifth and Eighth Army Grind
Ahead In Italy Hard
Fighting.
Rome, June 24 -MU.R) Fifth
army forces battering northward
against increasing Nazi opposi
tion have trapped an enemy
force In a 225-square-mlle pocket
above Grosseto on the Tyrrhen
ian coast, while other spearheads
have pushed northeast along
Highway 73 beyond Roccastrada,
23 miles southwest of the big
Siena road junction, lt was an
nounced today.
Headquarters announced that
the Fifth and Eighth armies, who
have pushed their lines as much
as 120 miles above Rome In the
three weeks since the Italian
capital fell, were grinding stead
ily northward on an 80-mile
front and that the Nazis were
fighting fiercely as they nearcd
their new defense line above
Florence and Livorno.
On the eastern side of the front
In the Perugia sector the Nazis
were offering strong resistance
east and west of Lake Trasimcno
and 25 miles southwest of Per
ugia a street battle was In pro
gress In the highway town of
Chlusi. '
At least seven allied columns
were slashing through the hills
and valleys in a drive that at
most points had carried to with
in 70 miles south of the German
defense line, the "Gothic line."
On the coast, American tanks
and Infantry fighting down from
the hills cast of Follonica on
Highway One, 22 miles north
west of Grosseto and 48 miles
below Livorno, advanced to
within two miles of that town.
The drive to the edge of Follon
ica, on the Tyrrhenian coast,
was disclosed to have drawn a
cordon around a 225-squaro-
mile sector of the coast. An
enemy force of undisclosed size
was penned Inside the pocket
which was created when the
Americans swung north from
Grosseto and then moved west
ward toward the sea at Follon
ica.
LOS ANGELES IN
Washington, June 24 (U.R)
The population of Los Angeles
has increased 11.3 per cent since
the 1840 census to 1,673,518.
while San Francisco's population
has increased 10.4 per cent over
the same period, the department
of commerce revealed tonight in
a report on special census
changes In the two California
communities.
Los Angeles' population In
1940 was 1,504,277. Son Fran
cisco has Increased from 634,538
to 700,735 In early April. The
special Los Angeles census show
ed that the population of the Los
Angeles congested population
area as a whole increased by
440,508, or 15.1 per cent.
TAX RlOClN
i
Washington, June 24 (U.R)
Chairman Walter F. George. D..
Ga., of the senate finance com
mittee tonight called upon both
nolitlcal Dartics to writo post
war tax reduction planks Into
their platforms as a means of en
couraging business expansion.
TASK FORCE
CONTINUES HEAVY
DEFEATS OF JAPS
Strike Within 753 Miles of
Tokyo; Yap Island Air
Base Raked.
By United Press)
American carrier task forces
continued to press- the war
against Japan in the western
Pacific Thursday and Friday
when they struck within 753
miles of Tokyo and destroyed
at least 82 Japanese planes and
sank or damaged 19 small cargo
vessels and sampans.
Adm. Chester :W. Nimitz an
nounced that carrier-based air
craft hit Iwo Jima Island in the
Bonins Friday in the second raid
of the war on that stronghold, '
shooting down 60 planes in air
combat and destroying 12 which
attempted to attack the carriers.
On Thursday, the force attacked
Pagan island, 712 miles south of
Iwo Jima and sank four cargo
vessels and a sampan and dam
aged two cargo ships and 12
sampans.
The hard-hitting actions rais
ed the impressive toll of Japa
nese shipping and aircraft since
June 10 to 93 ships sunk, prob
ably sunk or damaged and 638
or more planes destroyed.
Forty-four enemy ships have
been sunk, two prabably sunk
and 47 others damaged, a recap
itulation at Pacific fleet head
quarters showed.
On Safpnn Inland fn the Marl
anas, American marines and
soldiers continued to advance
along the northern shore of
Magicienne Bay.
A dispatch from United Press
War Correspondent Richard W.
Johnston, aboard a flagship off
Saipan, reported that U. S.
patrols had entered the suburbs
of Garapan, capital city of the
Marianas on the west-central
coast.
Other planes continued neu
tralization raids on the Caroline
Islands, teaming up with south
west Pacific bombers of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's command
in attacks against Truk and
other bases.
MacArthur announced raids
on Truk, Woleai, Yap, Sorol
and Ulithl in the Carolines
Thursday night. Twenty-two
Japanese planes were destroyed
or damaged at the Yap airfield
12 of them definitely wiped
out, reports from the southwest
Pacific said.
Pearl Harbor, June 24 (U.R)
In hard-hitting actions Thurs
day and Friday, the U. S. fleet
in the Pacific raised the impres
sive toll of Japanese shipping
and aircraft since June 10 to:
Total ships sunk, probably
sunk or damaged 93.
Ships definitely sunk, 44;
probably sunk, 2; damaged 47.
Aircraft destroyed 638 or
more; probably destroyed, 9;
damaged 4.
U. S. losses for the same per
iod include no major combatant
ships. Only four American
ships were damaged and 98 air
craft were lost with 28 flight
personnel.
CALIFlPOTE
IN FAVOR DEWEY
Chicago, June 25 (Sunday)
(U.R) Reliable private advices
from the '.rain bearing Califor
nia's 50-vote delegation to the
republican national convention
Indicated today that Gov. Thorn
Indicated today that Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, of New York,
will have the state's support for
the presidential nomination.
Sales to date la the Fifth
War Loan Drive
$1,287,780.25
"E" Sales ,
....$271,131.25
Quota
..$600,000
Total Quota
for County
. $2,262,000