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Newspaper Page TextLA inMfpM MP lyj uJ Lk? Lni ul M. asanas Weather Forecast: Fair tonlfht and Wednesday; little chance In temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday - 77 Lowest this morning , 48 Precipitation past 24 hra, . 0 Thirty-ninth Year Convention Chairman Sounds Call For Republicans and Democrats To Battle Against Regimentation F DECIMO GOAL Rep. Joseph Martin Rallies Perspiring Delegates Aft ' er Election as Chairman. Chicago Stadium, June 27 (U.PJ The republican leader 01 the house, Rep.' Joseph W. Mar tin, Jr., Mass., today summoned republicans and anti-fourth term democrats to a "war between two eternally hostile ideologies" between the New Deal and "regimented" society on the one hand and the GOP and a "free" society on the other. Martin rallier perspiring dele gates to the republican national convention in a free swinging - speech shortly after he was elect ed permanent convention chair man, the same post he held four years ago at Philadelphia. Dewey Assured He addressed a convention which already had made up its mind to nominate Gov. Thomas. E. Dewey of New York for presi dent in an all-out attempt to drive from office an administra tion which has held power for 11 years. The latest count assured Dewey of at least 792 of the con vention's 1,057 votes in tomor row's balloting. But the convention was having more trouble in drawing up a platform for his guidance. While Martin was telling the delegates in Chicago Stadium that their job was not merely to elect republicans in November hut aim to "emancipate the Hmoprats" from the New Deal the resolutions committee head ed bv Sen. Robert A. Taft, K O., still was trying to hammer together a platform which would be acceptable to all complexions of republican thougnt. Tough Job Taft admitted it was a tough Job. He said he would be unable to present anything to the convention before 4 p. m. It appeared Martin would have either to call a special session this afternoon or put the plat form over until tomorrow morn ing before the "man who" orators get going with their nom inating speeches. The platform was to have been adopted In today's morning ses sion. That was ruled out by the delay, however, and it was im probable that the delegates could get to it tonight, because former President Herbert C. Hoover and Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, R., Conn., both are scheduled to speak then. Mr. Hoover arrived In Chicago today. Practically his first re mark was that the tentative plat form, "so far as I have seen it, is In the right direction." Willkle Crltlciies He differed sharply with Wen dell L. Willkle, the party's can didate of four years ago, who from a pillbox on the 23rd floor of No. 15 Broad street, New York, has been sniping at 'the platform makers. Willkie's first shot landed In the convention as Gov. Earl Warren of Califor nia was making his keynote ad dress last night. Hoover, wno said he "natural ly" had been In communication with Dewey, would not comment on Willkie's statement. But he did say that the convention had "developed very good prospects" both as to platform and candi dates.. Martin roused the delegates to cheers with broadsides at the "autocratic, power-lustful bu reaucracy" of the New Deal. He drew cheers with the assertion that: "The democratic party has been captured by a minority whose philosophy It despises. Thank God, some of its leaders realize this and have had the courage to revolt." MEDFORD United Preii They're For Dewey Girl workers at Gov. Thomas Dewey's convention headquarters at Chicago display their well, their the New York governor. Any wonder Sunday crowds applauded? Foreign Policy International Cooperation Conevntion Headquarters, Chicago, June 27. (U.R) The full resolutions committee of the 1944 Republican convention today approved, virtually without change, a foreign policy plank which last night drew criticism from Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 presi dential nominee, and a group of E I IN WHITE RUSSIA London, June 27 (U.R) Red Army forces stampeding through the crumbled Ger man defenses of White Rus sia today captured Orsha, next to last bastion of the Nasi "fatherland line" which had been isolated by a swift Soviet flanking drive. Moscow, June 27. (U.R) Red armies surrounded Orsha and were battling their way Into Mogilev, 40 miles to the south, today and those last two bas tions on the enemy's so-called "Fatherland Line" in White Rus sia appeared on the point of cap ture. Even as Soviet tanks, guns, and infantry stepped up their assault on the crumbling center of the White Russian line, two other Russian armies slashed deep Into the northern and southern flanks of the 285-mile front in a vast enveloping move ment aimed at the ancient cita del of Minsk on the north-central invasion route to Warsaw and Berlin. The 3rd White Russian army, already 55 miles beyond newly raptured Vitebsk, was speeding toward Minsk from the northeast at a pace of nearly a mile an hour and at last reports was 80 to 85 miles away, while the 1st White Russian army was a simi lar distance avay from the southeast, though meeting heav ier enemy resistance. Front dispatches disclosed that the 3rd army also had cut all highways and railways radiating from Orsha, an air base and strategic junction on the Mos-cow-MJnsk-Warsaw line, sur rounded the city and broken into its suburbs in heavy fighting. Col. Gen. Georgi D. Zakhar ov's 2nd White Russian .army drove into the suburbs of Mogi lev after cutting all its commu nications except the railway to Slnlzk and the .highway to Bob ruisk, dispatches said. Ftill Leased Wire sentiments, anyhow In tavor ot Plank Favors Republican governors. The resolution, still subject to a vote of the full convention, possibly late this afternoon, pro posed to put the party on record in favor of postwar participa tion in "cooperative organiza tion" among sovereign nations but banned any participation in a world state. Instead, It recommended that the international organization it envisages "should develop ef fective cooperative means to di rect peace forces to prevent or repeal military aggression." Pending formation of such an organization, it pledged continu ing collaboration with the United Nations to assure those ultimate objectives. Phony Phrases Willkie's criticism last night was aimed at what he called "phony phrases such as 'world state' . . . and gentle language such as 'peace forces'." The full committee added one paragraph, however. The added paragraph prom ised that the party would devote itself to "re-establishing liberty at home," and "at the earliest possible time after the cessation of hostilities we will bring home all members of our armed forces who do not have an unexpired enlistment and who do not vol unteer for further overseas duty." The foreign policy plank was the first approved by the full committee as it speeded up its deliberations In an effort to pre sent the whole platform to the full convention this afternoon. It pledged the party to prose cution of the war to total vic tory. For the protection of American sovereignty it stipu lated that any postwar treaties or agreements with other na tions shall require a two-thirds vote of the United States sen ate for ratification. It favored maintenance of a postwar military force of ample strength for defense and safety of the United States, its posses sions and outposts, maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, and for meeting any military commit ments determined by congress. Radio Highlights G.O.P. Convention on NBC and CBS stations from 7 to 7:45 p. m. PWT) today and from 8 to 8 45 p. m. (PWT) on NBC only. I MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1944. GRAND OLD PARTY Program Embraces Desires of American People As a Whole, Declares Warren. Chicago Stadium, June 27 (U.R) Gov. Earl Warren of Cal ifornia, who likely will be the Republican vice presidential nominee, last night keynoted his party's national convention by calling for election of repub licans in November "to get our boys home again" and to assure through international coopera tion that they need never fight again. That was the theme of War ren's address before a cheering audience of 1057 delegates, their alternates and thousands of spectators. The republicans, Warren declared, "mean busi ness" and their program em braces the desires of the Amer ican people as a whole. The newspapers and pro .Tarns ' which had b;cn fash ioned into fans in an effort to alleviate the discomfort In the huge humid stadium, still hold ing, the heat of Chicago's hot test day of the year, were al most stilled as Warren spoke. But the audience stomped and whistled when he shouted: "In Washington, where the bureaucrats live, there is still a democrat in the White House. But out where the people live, the country is predominately republican." They gave vent to their big gest demonstration when War ren declared: "For 11 long years we have been in the middle of the stream. We are not amphibi ous. We want to get across." Warren said the republican party was ready to accept the responsibility of the nation in wartime. He did not mention President Roosevelt by name, but he assailed any suggestion that Roosevelt Is an "Indispens able man," or that the demo cratic party has a monopoly on winning the war and peace. Alice , Longworth Joins Dewey March Convention H e a d q u a rters, Chicago, June 27 (U.R) Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a backer of Gov. W. Bricker, to day joined the parade of those predicting selection of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as republican presidential nominee on the first ballot. "That's the, way It looks now," said the daughter of the late president Theodore Roosevelt and widow of the late Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the house of representatives. 0'MALLEY CRITICIZES REPUBLICAN'S KEYNOTE Washington, June 27 (U.R) Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyo., of the democratic senator ial campaign committee, said to day the voters will repudiate "overwhelmingly" the "defeat ist doctrine" enunciated by Gov. Earl Warren of California In his keynote address before the re publican national convention. O'Mahoney said the "general ities" of Warren's speech prom ised "the dullest campaign since Landon was overwhelmed by the democratic landslide of 1936." I Sales to date In the Fifth War Loan Drive $1,430,174.50 "E" Sale .. Quota ..$301,037 $600,000 Total Quota for County IJ.26J.000 SET JULY 14 FOR IL LEVY Municipal Project May Be Memorial to Local Boys and Girls in War Service. The city council, at an ad journed meeting last night, unanimously adopted an ordi nance providing for a special election July 14 at which time legal voters will ballot on the proposal to raise $62,500 by tax levy over a period of the next two years to finance the con struction of a municipal swim ming pool. Polls will be open, in the city's four wards, from 1 to 8 p. m. Polling places are: Ward 1, Roosevelt school; ward 2, county courthouse; ward 3, Fiohtner's garage and ward 4, city hall. Frank , Farrell, city attsrney, said that any regis tered voter In the city would be qualified to cast a ballot. Memorial Suggested The council, on a suggestion by Councilman J. C. Collins, discussed the possibility of des ignating the swimming pool, if the election carries, as a mem orial to all Medford men and women in the service. In conjunction with the elec tion ordinance, an amendment to the city charter was proposed which would provide for the es tablishment of a three-man board of swimming pool com missioners. . The council tabled the proposal for the time being in order to more fully study the plan. T San Francisco, June 27 (U.R) The only legal recourse left to Harry Bridges, an appeal to the supreme court, will be discussed today by his attorneys and de fense committee following a ninth circuit court of appeals decision upholding a deportation order issued against the Pacific coast labor leader in 1937. The appellate court in a 3-2 decision denied Bridges' petition for a writ of habeas corpus, thereby sustaining the order for his deportation issued by Attor ney General Francis Blddle. Although Bridges' attorneys would make no definite state ment regarding the appeal, they previously asserted they would carry the fight against his de portation as far as necessary to obtain a reversal of the order. GERMAN BIG BERTHAS SHELL DOVER REGION London, June 27 (U.R) Ger man long-range guns near Bou logne fired a dozen shells across the Straits into the Dover area at 9:30 a. m. today. Hulking Nazi General Surrenders While His Troops Fight On To Hold Cherbourg By Henry T. Gorrell United Press Correspondent Field Headquarters, U. S. Troops Cherbourg Area, June 26 (UK) Lt. Gen. Carl Wll helm Von Schlieben, Nazi com mander of the Cherbourg Fort ress, stepped out of an Ameri can jeep and flinched as a bat tery of photographers recorded his arrival at American head quarters as a prisoner. He stood for a moment before the door a hulking figure of a man, over six feet tall, with gorilla-like shoulders the strain of days of defensive fight ing written on his features. Then he strode rapidly up the stairs to meet the American general who had forced his sur render. General Questioned The American general sat In shirtsleeves at his desk. He shook hands formally but al lowed Von Schlieben to stand while he questioned him through an Interpreter. Was he ready to surrender the rest of bis troops 7 United f full Yanks T :e Cherbourg Hill i:ii.yc MfiJb Ctrl IX J tt$ mm-X' mi r. . 33 -4' Sr American Infantrymen cautiously advance along line of hedge to take lest hill before Cherbourg. A few hours after this picture was taken, troops stormed Into the key port from three sides to com plete capture. STRIKE HOLDS UP L Johnstown, Pa., June 27 (U.R) A strike of 1,200 workers in the Franklin car shops at the Cambria plant of Bethlehem Steel Corp. today halted pro duction of army railway cars destined for the European bat- tlcironts as well as domestic freight and mine cars. The strike began yesterday when 500 men In the wheel and axle assembly unit walked out after five fellow workers pro tested that a change in the job process had cut their earnings by approximately 13 cents. The afternoon shift of 700 joined the strike. Ralph E. Hough, general man ager of the plant, said the five men struck because they were denied wage increases, and charged that the walkout was a "clear violation" of an agree ment with the CIO United Steel workers. CONVENTION HEAT KILLS KANSAS GROUP MEMBER Chicago Stadium, June 27 (U.R) C. C. Wilson, 65-yoar-old attorney of Meade, Kan., col lapsed from the heat at the re publican national convention to day and died a few minutes later In the emergency hospital of a heart attack. He was a mem ber of the Kansas delegation. The German said emphatical ly: "Ncln." He acknowledged that he was out of contact with rrtost of his troops, who were fighting In isolated groups. The American general asked how, from a moral standpoint, he could Justify surrendering himself while permitting his men to fight on hopelessly. Von Schlieben shruRged his big shoulders and explained that It has been his experience in Russia that small groups of die-hards could achieve major delays. American assault forces bagged Von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walter Hcnnecke, the German naval commander of Cherbourg when they were pre paring to storm the entrance to an underground tunnel in which several hundred Germans were bottled. A German lieutenant suddenly emerged and goose stepped through gunfire toward our lines carrying a whits flag. He was taken to the general of an awault division, whom he informed that he wished to iur- . ";UNE Leased Wire No. 82. Dewey's Old Home Saves Enthusiasm For Final Success Owosso, Mich., June 27. (U.R) Thomas E. Dewey'a native town, taking his assured Repub lican presidential nomination In Its stride, la saving Its enthusi asm until such time as he re ceives the nomination and Its celebration for event of success at the polls. Mrs. George M. Dewey, whose son Tom Is remembered by citi zens here as "that smart Dewey kid" who ran a magazine route, made a point of shunning report ers yesterday and today. She was aided by neighbors who re fused to be pinned down as to where she might be found, and explained that Mrs. Dewey still doesn't consider her boy a nomi nee for the nation's highest of fice. However, it was reported that Mrs. Dewey had left Owosso to drive to Chicago, and was ex pected to arrive there tomorrow. SUSPECTS HELD Houston, Tex., June 27 (U.R) Houston police today held two men believed to be fugitives from Denver police. One of the suspects. Identify ing himself at Bill New, 20, re portedly admitted that he and the second suspect, McLaurine Brooks, 28, were two of the four prisoners who sawed their way out of the Denver jail last Wed nesday, render the two top Nazi com manders. The general gave the order to cease firing and sent the lieutenant back to the tun nel to bring them out. In a few minutes, Von Schlieben and Hcnnecke came out, followed by upwards of 300 Germans, all with their hands in the air. Other batches of Germans continued to surren der in this area during the en suing hours until the number exceeded 7,000, bringing the total bag for the peninsula cam paign to roughly 20,000. The American commander or dered a loudspeaker brought up to Inform the defenders of the Cherbourg arsenal that their commander had quit and that further resistance was useless, but the Germans threw a heavy volume of small arms fire from their concrete bastions through the night. A colonel of artillery .sur rendered and brought 300 men with him. A thousand wounded Germans were taken in a hospital. HHP I M fl SCORE GAINS IN VICINITYJFCAEN Scythe Like Swing Aims At Outflanking Of German Base; Weather Turns Bad Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, June 27. (U.R) Tank supported British infantry has captured eight villages and cut the main transport lines south west of Caen in a big scale of fensive opening a new phase of the Norman campaign, which has cost the Nazis at least 70,000 casualties, it was reported offic ially today. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery lashed out in a scythe-like swing southwest of Caen in an effort to burst through the thick swamp country onto the Norman plain and outflank the stubborn German base anchoring the southeastern corner of the allied beachhead. Cherbourg Secure The announcement of the new allied offensive, scoring initial gains of more than six miles, closely followed the official dis closure that American troops had completed the conquest of Cher bourg, securing the great Atlan tic port for developing the drive into Nazi-held Europe. The new phase of the allied invasion the Caen offensive began as the final mop-up of the Cherbourg peninsula moved rap idly toward Its close. The entire northeastern tip of the peninsula except the Maupertus air field was cleared by last midnight, and the only resisting Germans were in the extreme tip of Cap de la Hague, where they were trapped without hope of escape. Advance Six Miles Supported by Churchill tanks, the British struck southeast from the area of Tllly-sur-Seulles and advanced more than six miles, seizing eight villages in the last 24 hours and cutting the rail way and highway between Caen and Vlllers-Bocage. The allied advance now "fol lows the textbook pattern pre pared long In advance of D-Day," a headquarters spokesman re ported. The British captured consider able high ground northwest of Villers-Bocage, In the bitter fighting in "appalling" weather conditions all day Monday and through the early hours ot to day accounted for in reports re ceived at headquarters so far. The railroad was cut seven miles southwest of Caen just northeast of the village of Grain-ville-Sur-Odon and southwest of the village of Mouen. Grainvilla lies just off the Caen-Villeri highway, which also was cut,. Torrential rains drenched the battlefield yesterday as the crack British and German troops clashed In encounters described officially as "going entirely in our favor." Airmen over Normandy re ported that the battle raging west of Caen turned the coun tryside into a maelstrom of shell fire that from the air appeared to be enveloping great sections of land. "Whole sections of the coun tryside just started to disappear for a distance of five or six miles," one pilot reported. An other said the area was "like a great rectangular box of smoke and dust. It did not seem as if anything could live in it." Sentence 63 Nisei In Draft Violation Cheyenne, Wyo., June 27 (U.R) Sixty-three Japanese American residents of the Heart Mountain, Wyo., relocation center today were under three-year sentences for violation of the selective service act. In a mass trial before Federal Judgo T. Blnke Kennedy the Nisei, former residents of the west coast, were found guilty of failure to report for pre-lnduc-tion physical examinations. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dorothy Taylor In from Gold Hill to see what makes side glanccr tick. Bob Bauman Informing hit parents of his approaching ar rival home from a naval base with a one-word telegram, read ing "Yipcel" C. Lyle (Fid) Fidler indus triously making hay while the sun shone. Jlmmle Grigsby stalking a printer badly needed In bis print shop.