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IMS mm ALA XT in Weather ' Forecast: Fair tonight and Sat urday, slightly cooler. Temp. . Highest yesterday 90 Loweit this Morning 68 Thirty-ninth Year Strong Task Force Pummels Jap Base Oh Southern Tip of Paramushiro Isle IS 5,000 Projectiles Crash Into Installations at Karabu Zaki Air and Sea Station. " Pearl Harbor. June 30. U.R) United Slates armed forces en Saipan have suf fered 9752 casualties, includ - ing killed, wounded and miss ing, since the opening of the military campaign there. Ad miral Chester W. Nimitx dis closed today. Admiral Nimili said there was no accurate estimate available of Japanese casual ties. He announced Ameri cana hare burled 4951 Japa nese dead, however. By Russel Annabel United Press Correspondent Aboard a U. S. Flagship off Paramushiro, June 26 (U.R) A strong naval task force com manded by Rear Adm. Ernest Gregor Small, New Haven, I Conn., subjected Karabu Zaki, Japanese air and naval base on the southern tip of - Paramushiro Island, to a half-Hour bombard- ment early today, hurling ap ' proximately 5,000 projectiles into the enemy's installations. The attack apparently was a complete surprise, despite the warm of small craft encoun tered in the heavy fog and early morning darkness several miles offshore. There was little, if any, nemy resistance and no dam age or casualties to the Ameri can force. Destroyers Close In While high capacity shells from larger warships crashed among the hangars, barracks and storage dumps of Kurabu Zikl, our destroyers, close in against the beach, engaged the mall craft in a fierce, spectacu- lar action. t. It was u .determined in the fog and darkness whether the enemy craft were armed patrol vessels or torpedo boats sent out In a desperate attempt to trap the task force, but the fast, hard hitting destroyers racing thru the ghostly murk with automa tic weapons lacing the fog with tracers, charged time n.id again Into the flotilla and at the con clusloi of the action a number of Jap vessels were stopped, ap parently damaged or sinking. Thirty Minute Action ' The action lasted from 4:30 to 3 a. m. The attack was the third against the Kuriles rince Febru ary and as in the others, enemy resistance was feeble with little, if any, return fire from shore batteris. Enemy aircraft took off as the warships were withdrawing and attempted to locate the force under the fog bl '-at. but retired when friendly bombers from the Aleutians appeared over th3 task force. BOEING FIELD CONTRACT Washington, June 30 (U.R) a i . 1 (U4 R58 contract for improvement at Boeing Air field, seatue, ns"., nounced today by the war de partment. It is for extension of runways, construction of addi tional parking aprons, taxiways. and the installation of flood lighting. SIDE GLANCES By ..... . TRIBUNE REPORTERS -v.. UTallrar hannllV SiVlflB out news of the expected arrival home of a daughter from away down in South America. Keith Bates and Jimmie Hall . stretching their game of golf too ' far after sundown. Etha Wall and George Codding making far-in-advance plans for the next meeting of the "Last Man's Club." M EDFGRD Unlled Press Maj. Gen. Charles Gerhardt Leads 29th Div. In France m 'J ' . JT -C CHARLES H. GERHARDT TO MAKE JOBS IN Salem, Ore., June 30 U.F0 a tntui nf $73 000.000 is on hand for postwar construction pro ana rtt iha stntp enuntv and municipal governments, Gov. Earl Sneu was aavisea luuojr uj hi. nnctwnr develoDment and re-1 adjustment commission. This amount is it per cent oi the total estimated projects which have been planned. Total amount needed for them will be approximately $348,000,000. The tunas on nana wumu jive .nintimsni tn 3A.O0O men at ci onn a von i nnp thisd of the es timated unemployment load. Twenty-six counties ana iu miinirinnlitlpi have announced they are ready to start plans as soon as men, equipment ana ma terials are avanaDie. fpi.A 4etvn onvprnment has ...(kn-tvwi miillnnc nf dollars for riroann ihm commission report-. ed, but there win oe no appro priations made until auer ure emergency. A KvaolrHnum nf the CSSh On hand shows the state government has S13 31,1211 coumies w, $2,000,000; highway commission, SI 0.000.000: Multnomah - Port land Moses plan, $24,000,000; Willamette vaney, zu.uuu,u-ju, nch,,t. ri45 fiscal year), $1,250,000; municipalities, $750,- 000; and school districts, iuu, 000. HAUGWITZ FLITS MHjPNCE Ho'.lvwood. June 30 (U.R) Count Kurt Haugwitz-Rcventlow has slipped out of California with Lance, his nine-year-old son by his former wife, Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, and his attorney Indicated today they have no Intention of releas.ng the boy to her custody. Lance was due to come to live with his mother, now the wife of Film Star Cary Grant, today under terms of a divided custody agreement approved by a British court. , , , But the Danish nobleman s lawyer, Joseph L. Lewinson, an nounced he had Informed coun sel for Miss Hutton that Revent i.... loft iho state yesterday a short time after he had with drawn a suit seeking an Injunc tion to prevent the boy s motner from "poisoning Us mind against his father and from using Im proper language in the child's presence." Dearborn, Mich, June 30 U.FD Production of the 5.000th Liber ator bomber by the Willow Run plant In less than two years was announced today by the Ford Motor company. Vj Full Leased Wire London, June 29 (U.P.) Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt is commanding the United States 29th infantry division in France, allied, headquarters disclosed to day. Gerhardt, born In Tenessee on June 6, 1895, commanded the 91st infantry division at Medford, Ore., early in July, 1942. He flew to England in July, 1943, to assume command of the 29th. Maj Gen. Gerhardt arrived at Camp White on July 7, 1942, to assume command of the 91st Infantry Division, which was activated Aug. 15 of that year, and left early in July of 1943. His successor as commander of the 91st was Maj. Gen. William G. Livesay, who arrived here on July 14, 1943. While stationed at Camp White, Gen. Gerlfardt accepted an invitation to become a mem ber of the Medford Rotary club. ,F Rome, June 30. (U.R) Amer ican and French troops poured through gaping holes in the Ger man battle line in western Italy today and raced northward to within 20 miles of Livorno (Leg horn) and seven miles of Siena, driving the Nazis into headlong flight behind a screen of mine fields and demolitions. All along a 50-mile front ex. tending inland from the Tyr rhenian seacoast the Germans were in full retreat, breaking off contact completely at many points in a hurried withdrawal toward their Pisa-Florence-Rl. mini line, only 30-odd miles to the north. The pursuing American and French columns captured almost a dozen key towns yesterday and hammered out advances running to about nine miles. Simultaneously, the British 8th army cracked through strong enemy rear guard resistance west of Lake Trasimeno, captur ing the fortified towns of Castig lione del Lago and Montepui ciano, and fanned out to the north and northwest toward Arezzo and Siena. IN FLACK CASE San Francisco, June 30. (U.PJ A jury of six men and six women today adjudged Mrs. Louise Flack, 27, guilty of man slaughter in connection with the starvation death of her invalid eight-year-old daughter, Dclores, and recommended leniency. The superior court Jury delib erated but 50 minutes before re turning Its verdict. Mrs. Flack burst into t-ars when Foreman Austin Kanzee announced the verdict, and, ad dressing Judge Fritz, said: "May I ask that you be lenient with the defendant?" Later, when she could speak, Mrs. Flack exclaimed: "I am very, very lucky. God was with me." Banks Criticized For Low Salaries Chicago, June 30 (U.R) Fed eral Judge Michael L. Igoe to ri y criticized banks which pay low salaries to employes in re sponsible positions as he placed on probation for five years Ed ward F. Muzick. 43, former tel ler of the Cicero State bank, who was charged with embez zling more than $41,000 over a period of 10 years. Judge Igoe said: "This man had an excellent reputation. He was living on a salary ($160 per month) that a canary could not have lived on, let alone a family. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944 OF NATIONAL G.O.P. MMITTEE Man Who Managed Dewey's Gubernatorial Campaign to Head Presidency Effort Republican Campaign Head quarters, Chicago, June 30 (U.R) Forty-year-old Herbert Brown ell, Jr., who managed Gov. Tho mas E. Dewey's successful 1942 gubernatorial campaign, today was elected chairman of the Re publican national committee to direct the governor's presiden tial effort. Brownell was named in closed session after Dewey had told the committee men and women in a brief speech that: "We will all make a gigantic effort to do our best to save the republic and win the war." Change Customer Brownell succeeds Harrison E. Spangler, of Iowa, as national chairman. He is one of the three men who conducted the pre-con-ventlon "draft Dewey" cam paign which culminatedin the 1,056-1 vote by this week's Re publican national convention to nominate the New Yorker for president. A change in commit tee chairmanships is customary when a new group is taking over party affairs. In his address to the commit tee, Dewey charged that the Roosevelt administration sought to divide the country and the RepubMran party. "In the months to come, re gardless of the propaganda agencies of the national govern ment, we will stand united as we are today," Dewey said. Four vice chairmen were cho sen to serve with Brownell Ezra R. Whitla, Idaho; Werner W. Schrocder, Illinois; Mrs. Howard Sayre, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Kathcrine K. Brown, Ohio. Jouett Ross Todd of Kentucky was elected treasurer and Har old Mason of Vermont was re elected secretary. Marooned Fliers , Reach Canyon Rim Grand Canyon, Ariz., June 30 (U.R) Three sun-blistcrcd army airmen, marooned for 10 days on an isolated plateau near the bot tom of mile-deep Grand Canyon, reached the canyon rim today and celebrated their rescue by gulping down a bottle of whis ky that had been dropped to them for medicinal purposes. Peas, Asparagus, Tomatoes Back On Rationed Food List Washington, June 30. (U.P.) The Office of Price Administra tion returned canned peas, as paragus, and tomatoes to the ra tion list today and warned civil ians that their supply of canned vegetables and fruits during the next 12 months would be smaller. The action ended a point holi day for canned peas, asparagus and tomatoes that has been in ef fect since early this year. 'Everyone no doubt has heard that record food production is expected this year," said OPA chief Chester Bowles, "but the amount needed for our armed forces also is far greater than a year ago. . 'The net result will be less canned fruit and canned vege tables for the home front dur ing the year ahead." OPA announced that effective July 2 the popular No. 2 size containers of asparagus would require 10 ration points and sim ilar size cans of peas and to matoes would require five ration points each. Brandied, spiced and pickled F OF Fresh German Forces Rush ed Into Attempt to Stem Montgomery's Advance. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, June 30 (U.R) British armored forces steadily expand ing a firmly held salient between the Orne and Odon rivers despite intensifying German counter attacks, have driven from the southwest to within three miles of Caen, it was announced of ficially today. The assault arc pressing over the approaches to Caen was within half a mile of one of the city's main air fields, it was re vealed. Fresh German elements have rushed into battle in a full scale attempt to stem Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's push in the Caen sector, and the Nazi command was expected to step up the number and scope of its counterblows from all directions as they swing fnto action. Nasi Losses Heavy Gen Dwjght D. Eisenhower's headquarters reported late today that the British hnd beaten off all Nazi thrusts and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy while grinding slowly but steadily tor ward for important strategic gains. For the first time it was dis closed officially that the famous 51st Highland division Is fighting in France. American forces mopping up German nests of resistance on Cap Dc La Hague west of Cher bourg encountered heavy artil lery fire In the area of Beau mont Hague, eight miles from the occupied Normandy port. 12,086 Jap Planes Marine Corps Toll Washington, June 30. (U.R) The navy revealed today that army, navy and marine corps fliers have destroyed at least 12,086 Japanese planes in the air or on the ground since Pearl Harbor qt a loss of 2,726 Ameri can planes a victory ratio of almost five to one. LECTURER WEDS Winnemucca, Ncv., June 30 (U.R) Ruth Mitchell Knowles, lecturer and author, and sister of the late Brig. Gen. William Mitchell today revealed she was married May 24 to Benjamin H. Jackson, mining man of Boise, Ida., and Winnemucca. fruits, were restored to the list of rationed canned goods at the same high point values as other canned fruits. OPA also announced thatd ur- Ing July many housewives would use all of the first strip of blue ration stamps in war ra tion book four and would begin using the second atrip, begin ning with coupon A-5. All cou pons in the second strip are worth 10 points, not five as printed on the face. Five more blue stamps total ing 50 points W-8, X-8, Y-8, Z-8, and A-5 become good for buying rationed processed foods on July 1, and will remain good indefinitely, OPA said. Other point value adjustments for July were minor. Small re ductions were made In points for spaghetti sauces and tomato sauce because of slow movement of stocks and somewhat heavier production. Point values for all large No. 10 containers Were ad justed slightly to bring them Into multiples of 10, which OPA said would be a convenience to ' wholesalers in keeping inven ! tories and other records. ilBUNE United Press Full To Minsk rDnskj-1 THIRD OAV OF I "iT- NtW OFFINSIVC S at"" jf POLAND J fK Lsptl. l:$'i,XinkiM . Wilsjl. U PfsrwyfP r V y X 10,01 ' fV VVK;I ?ori.ol liCfDMANDIVl if? U. S. S. R'iMcWiL (Acma Tetephotoi' Here Is where four Russian armies, totaling more than a million soldiers are annihilating ana routing the Germans. If Minsk main German bastion, falls, the enemy will probably (all track to Brest-Utovsk, 201 miles southwest and only lis miles east of Warsaw. .... Reds Pour Across Berezina To Outflank Fortress Minsk Moscow, June 30 U.R) Marshal Konstantln Rokossovsky's 1st White Russian army poured across the Berezina river, last natural defense barrier before Minsk, on an ever-widening front today and began to outflank that fortress city from the south. Cavalry led the pell-mell pur suit of the disorganized enemy legions and reached a point 30 miles Bouth-southwest of Minsk In a drive that raised a threat of encirclement against the White Russian capital, next obstacle on London, June 30 U.R) Marshal Konstantln K. Rokos sovsky's first army of White Russia killed 50,000 Germans and captured 23,680 between June 23 and 29. the Moscow radio reported today. In the same period Col. Oen, Georgi Zakharov's s e e o n d White Russian army killed 30.000 Germans and captured 3,250, the broadcast said. the ancient Invasion route to Warsaw and Berlin. The Soviet high command re ported the Germans were fleeing so rapidly and in such disorder that they had no time to man their intermediate defense lines. Groups of hundreds of Germans, engulfed by the Russian flood, surrendered with all their arms and baggage. . (A London broadcast recorded by CBS said two more German generals, the commanders of 53rd army corps and the 306th Infantry division, had surrender ed.) The Russian press hailed Rokossovsky's forcing of the Berezina, along which Napoleon lost his army In 1812, as sealing the doom of Minsk. Youngsters Should Hurry Application For Summer Camp Young people planning to at tend the Salvation Army camp at Lake o' Woods, which opens July 6, must have their applica tions filed at the army head quarters, Fourth and Bartlett streets, by noon on Monday, July 3, Major Nettle Brown stated today. Those having ap plications now should return them at once, she stated, and those desiring to apply must do so over the week-end In order to have the applications re turned by the Monday noon deadline. Major Brown particularly called this to the attention of young people in the outlying districts who have been quite slow this year in returning the applications, she said. The camp will be open for two weeks and will be divided Into two peri ods, one from July 6 to July 13, and one from July 13 to 20. About 200 young people an nually attend the camp, BASEBALL National New York 7 18 2 Pittsburgh 5 10 1 Feldman, Adams and Lombar ds Mancuso; Sewell, Rescigno and Davis, CamelU. Leased Wire NO." 85. and Berlin! MILES 0 SO TRDDP CARRIER SUNK OFF SICILY; 1,700 SURVIVORS San Francisco, June 30 (U.R) Tha 0,135-ton troop ship Santa Elena, formerly a luxury liner operated by Grace Lines, has been sunk in the Mediterranean sea off Sicily by enemy bomb ers but 1,700 soldiers survived and were rescued by the Matson liner Monterey, the War Ship ping Administration announced today; The rescued troops were all Canadians. The sinking occurred in mid November, 1043. The bombers attacked in darkness and during adverse weather conditions. De spite heavy wind, rain and swells the stricken vessel was abandoned in good order. The Monterey, skippered by Capt. Ellis R. Johanson, located the Santa Elena and moved In close for the rescue. The crew of the Monterey lowered life boats, scramble nets, man ropes and ladders to haul the Santa Elena's crew members and sol- ' dicr-passcngers to safety. Announcement of the sinking coincided with disclosure that Capt. Johanson has been pre sented with the Merchant Ma. rlne Distinguished Service med al "for distinguished service in I action with the enemy. I The citation pointed out that there was no loss of life during or as a result of the rescue op erations. It did not specify whether thvre was any loss of life in the bombing of the Santa Elena. EE Chungking, June 30 (U.R) Evacuation of civilians, indus trial plants and publishing houses from Kweilln, capital of Kwangsi province, was report ed today as tho Japanese offen sive moved swiftly southward from Hunan province. A communique announced si multaneously that Chinese troops, on the offensive along the Salween front in Yunnan province, were closing in from three sides on Tcngchung after breaking through the outer en emy defenses along a line from the northwest around to the southwest. All but one road In to the Japanese stronghold has been cut and the Chinese are within three miles of tha city. IS EOF Quarter Century Diplomatio Relation Is Wrecked By Little Country's Decision. Washington, June 30 (U.PJ The United States, abandoning all hope that anything but shells and bombs will force the Finns out of the war, today severed a quarter of a century of diplo matic relations with Finland. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in advising the Finnish diplomats here of the United States decision, called attention to the announcement of the Fin nish government on June 27 of complete agreement between Finland and Germany to carry on the war. Partnership Admitted "The Finnish government has thus formally admitted to the world that it has i.ow entered a hard and fast military part nership with Nazi Germany, ir revocable throughout the war. for the purpose of fighting the Allies of the United States, in alliance with the enemies of the United States." Hull said that up to the pres ent the United States has taken every opportunity to warn Fin land of the inevitable conse quences of continuing its asso ciation with Nazi Germany." Two Envoys Here Alexander Thesleff, the Fln- n i a h charge d'affaires, was called to the state department this morning to receive the note advising his government to break. The department said it had notified the U. S. charge d'affaires in Helsinki, Edmund A. Gullion, that relations be tween the countries were "now impossible" and Instructed him to request passports for him self, members of his staff, and their families, Hull's note said the United States has asked Switzerland "to assume immediately tha representation of American in terests in Finland." Relations with Finland had been tottering since June 16 when Hull ordered former Fin nish Minister Hjalmar J. Pro cope and three Finnish legation counselors to leave the country as soon as possible because of action "inimical" to the United States. Procope's p Tsona non grata status was announced the day after Finland had paid its semi annual Installment of $148,000 on a post world war I debt. President Roosevelt told a press conference later that the for oign policy of the United States was not for sale for $148,000. , NNER TUBES FREE OF RATIONED LIST Washington, June 30 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion, In a move to conserve tires, today abolished all rationing re strictions on inner tubes, which have been rationed since Janu ary. 1942. The OPA, announcing at the same time that passenger tire al locations for July and August will be 50.000 a month above the June quota, reported that the Inner tube stockpile has grown enough to meet the anticipated future demand for 1,500,000 tubes a month. OPA emphasized that avail able tires will continue to trail far behind demand and pointed out that by making new Inner tubes more readily obtainable It hopes to diminish tire wear A good tube properly Inflated, of ficials cxnlained, will extend the life of a tire. Nazi Commander's Death Announced London. June 30 (U.R) The death of Colonel General Frled rlch Dollmann, commander of German forces on the Norman front, was announced today tn a special order of the day Issued by Adolf Hitler and broadcast over the Berlin radio. tales to date la the Fifth War Loan Drlva $1,515,247.03 "E" Salei $354,987.25 Quota 1600.000 Total Ouota for County $2,282,000
