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Weather Forecast: Fair Sunday and . Monday. Wanner Sunday. Temp. Highest Yesterday 75.S Lowest this morning . Sti.3 Precipitation past 24 hrs 0 Use The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost EDFORD RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1944 NO. 86. 1 1 ii HV nQ IL M A a rpri7 Ffl r? iv MM u UUUU VI NORMANDYFRONT Cherbourg Resistance Ends; Rommel Mass Tanks To Thwart Paris Drive. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, July 1 (U.R) No fur ther gains have been made in the strong Allied bridgehead across the Odon river, but en emy attempts to infiltrate into the Allied positions have been repulsed, a communique said to day. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, July 1 (U.R) Vast Al lied forces streamed to the Caen front tonight for a showdown battle on the road to Paris with seven German panzer divisions believed under Field Marshal Er win Rommel's personal com mand, as American troops wiped out the last enemy resistance on Cherbourg peninsula. It was again Rommel vs. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and as the desert antagonists squared away their forces, a tremendous artillery barrage by both sides, reminiscent of the night before El Alamein, was thundering across the Norman orchards, filling the sky with flame. New Landings Told (A German DNB broadcast heard by the U. S. federal com munications commission said that new Allied landings were being effected behind a thick smokescrer n east of the Orne es tuary above Caen. German re connaissance pilots sighted an Allied fleet of about 300 ves sels in front of the estuary, in cluding battlf ships and heavy and light cruisers the agency said. (A German Transocean News Agency broadcast said that Al lied battleships were shelling the town and harbor of Le Havre.) German counterattacks intend ing to ease the British strangle hold continued for the fifth day, but on a, diminished scale, and mntrp trnnns recantured cround which had been temporarily lost I along the snouiaers oi ineir sa lient across the Odon river be low Caen. The period of regrouping and Jockeying Is almost over and of ficial quarters said It is clear that Montgomery soon will spear deep into the interior of France to speed the destruction of the Wehrmacht. Rush Supplies United Press Correspondent Ronald Clark reported from the Caen front that hundreds upon hundreds of vehicles were jam packing roads leading inland from the beaches in preparation for the decisive battles. Rommel, with 250.000 troops and possibly 1000 tanks at his command, may try an upsetting attack as he did with disastrous results before the Mareth line. At best he could only delay the start of Montgomery's offensive, it was said. The end of German resistance In the Cherbourg area came when Lt. Gen. Omar N. Brad ley's Yanks mopped up Cap De La Hague by capturing the vil lages of Omondville La Petite, Omondville La Rouge and Gre ville. , , A few stragglers remained to be hunted down in the woods, the last of 50 000 enemy tro.-.ps who fell captive or died on the field In the brief but bloody bat tle for Cherbourg port A German DNB broadcast ad mitted that the fight for Cher bourg and the northern capes of the peninsula had ended. Be tween 30 and 40 minesweepers entered Cherbourg Saturday, and garrisons in German strong points commanding the road stead had no more ammuni-lon with which to attack them, DNB said. Mexico City, July 1 U.R U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard arrived here tonight by train from Washing ton. NO PAPER TUESDAY The Mail Tribune will go to press at noon Monday and will not publish on Tuesday, Julv 4th. Dewey-Bricker Breakfast Table ft J . - W I t.tf,TiBfliiltli - (Acme Telephoto) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (right), Republican presidential nominee, confers with his November running mate, Gov. John W. Brlcker, over breakfast table in Chicago on morning following Dewey's acceptance speech at O. O. P. convention. ANTI-NAZI RIOTS UNRESTSPREADS Scores Killed, 700 Wounded General Strike Cause Of Uprising. Stockholm, Germany, July 2 (U.R) Wild street riots that bor dered on revolution were report ed in Copenhagen early today and Danish press dispatches said reinforced German troops had killed at least a score of persons and wounded up to 700 more in an all-day battle against 15,000 rebellious patriots. Information trickling Into Stockholm indicated that anti- Nazi disorders and protest strikes were spreading like a flame through Hitler's one-time model protectorate, despite ruthless counter measures. German machine guns and ar tillery were reported to have opened fire on the rebels In Co penhagen and one account said Nazi planes strafed the street crowds, killing and wounding many. All roads leading to Copenha gen were reported to have been blocked by the Germans last night as troop trains rushed re inforcements into the capital and Gestapo squads prowled through the streets, rounding up hos tages to be executed if the up rising continued. Reports reaching Malmoe from Copenhagen said the Gestapo ar rested 100 trade union leaders and three of the city's five bur gomasters, threatening to shoot them unless the general strike which provoked the uprising was called off immediately. An estimated -300,000 to 400, 000 Danish workers were be lieved Involved in the strike, which was called in protest against the German-imposed cur few and the arming of the Dan ish Nazi Schaburg corps. At the height of the street bat tle yestfcrday crowds of patriots assembled outside King Chris tian's residence at Sorgenfri castle to demonstrate their loy alty to the king. IN SAIPAN FRAY Washington, July 1 flJ.B) The navy revealed tonight that American troops fighting the bloody battle for Saipan com prised the veteran marine Sec ond and Fourth divisions and the army 27th Infantry division. The hard-fighting expedition ary force identified for the first time in a curt Pacific fleet head quarters press release, has taken approximately half the Japanese held Island at a cost of more than 9000 casualties the highest loll yet paid by American forces In the Pacific. OF GERMANS TAKE TOLL IN ENGLAND Southern England, Sunday, Ju ly 2 (U.R) The roar of explod ing bombs and the crash of fall ing buildings ushered in the 17th straight day of the German ro bot offensive on southern Eng land this morning, adding to the toll of lives and property already lost in the Nazis' campaign of vengeance. Spieading death and destruc tion across the blacked-out coun tryside in blind reprisal for the Allied bombing of Germany, the enemy's flying torpetioes land ed at a number of points during the night. One bomb landed squarely on a shelter in which an unknown number of peisons were believ ed to have been sleeping, and another damaged a nearby school building. RAF and American heavy ' bombers struck back at the en emy's launching bases in the ' Pas De Calais area of northern ; France yesterday afternoon and! evening with undisclosed results. I A number of schools, hospitals and playgrounds were among the targets smashed by the blind bombers yesterday. NAZIS.READY TO London, July 2 (U.R) The London Sunday dispatch today published a Turkish radio re port that the German High Command has decided to evacu ate all of the Italian peninsula, leaving a small force to defend the approaches to southern France. The dispatch said word of the German decision was reported by radio Ankara. It added that Italian patriots In northern Italy have received Instructions to "paralyze" all German communications serv ices in that section within the next week. Holiday Exodus To Be Largest In Years Br United Press Despite pleas by the Office of Defense Transportation urging the public to remain at home, the largest Fourth of July holiday exodus in years occurred Satur day in all parts of the nation. Travel in the midwest was pre dicted te be the heaviest, with the east and south Jamming transportation facilities almost as tightly. Portland reported railroad movement approximately the same as last year with trains re maining closed to regular travel because of overtaxed facilities. PEDESTRIAN TOLL Salem, Ore., July 1 (U.R) Au tomobile accidents caused the deaths of two pedestrians In Ore gon during the first five months of 1944, a report Issued by the secretary of state said today. Conference f 1 t 1 " if i I i 'Ji'fx ' "fa FIFTH ARMY NEAR PORT OF LEGHORN IN ITALYDRIVE French and British Also Advance Florence De clared "Open City". Rome, July 1 (U.R) Ameri can Fifth army troops have ad vanced within 17 miles southeast of the great Port of Livorno (Leghorn) after outflanking the coastal stronghold of Cecina, while French forces to the east have driven through the moun tains to points six miles south of the anciqnt Siena road junction, it was announced today. One American force driving up east of Cecina forged across the Cecina river and then swung westward to its mouth, reaching i a point 17 miles from Livorno, and another pushed five miles northwest from Bibbona to break into the 'southern outskirts of Cecina. The French elements of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth moving northwari' toward Siena, 41 miles east of Cecina, and Florence, 33 miles beyond Siena, reached the area of La Villa, six miles south of Siena, and Grotti, a mile west of La Villa. (The United Press listening post in London heard the Oslo radio say that Adolf Hitler had declared Florence an "open city" In order to "safeguard and pre serve its historic treasures.") In the center of the allied line stretching 170 miles across Italy from the Tyrrhenian to the Ad riatic, British forces cleared the entire west shore of Lake Trasl mcno and pushed east, west and north from Perugia despite stiff German resistance. On the Adria tic section other units of Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver Lesse's 8th army crossed the Chlcnti river at a number of points and reached the vicinity of Civitanova, 23 miles below the Port of Ancona. The allies were driving for ward steadily to the next Nazi defense line the Pisa-Florence-Rimini "Gothic line" on all sec tors. ' CALIFORNIA GETS San Francisco, July 1 (UP) California received two-thirds, or $18,807 388,000 of the $28, 351,827,000 in war contracts given the 1 1 western states from J June 1, 1940, through April 30, 1 1944. the California State Cham-, ber of Commerce said today. Washington was second with $5,786,754 000, and Oregon third I with $1,478,678,000. Aircraft construction was Cali fornia's major war industry, the total mounting to $10,095,121, 000. Ship construction totalled $4,065,065,000, ordnance $337. 867,000 and other types of war supplies $1,277,131,000. LT. DIES IN ACTION IS WORD TO Death Came In Rome Cam paignWidely Known in This City. To the growing list of Med ford servicemen reported mis sing or killed in action was ad ded the name yesterday after noon of 1st Lt. Robert R. (Bob) Hammond, 33, commander of a heavy weapons squadron with the 45th Infantry Division in Italy. A graduate of Medford high and the University of Oregon law school, one of southern Ore gon's leading golfers and man ager of the Southern Oregon Medical Service association prior to enlisting in the army, Lt. Hammond was killed in action in Italy on May 28, according to a telegram received from the adjutant general's office by his wife, Maxine, employe of the California Oregon Power com pany. No details of the action in which Lt. Hammond lost his life were contained In the message, but Mrs. Hammond was told that a letter, with more information, was following. Lt. Hammond's death occurred just two days after he had suf fered slight wounds, which re quired medical attention for a day. It happened Just one day after he returned to his outfit, while Allied troops were making their big drive which resulted In the capture of Rome. On May 28 the Americans were less than 30 miles from the Italian capital. With United States troops, Lt. Hammond spent many weeks on the Anzio beachhead and partici pated in all of the bitter action there. Then, when the push was launched that was to shatter Nazi defenses there and below Rome, Lt. Hammond's outfit was a part of the show. The widely-known, highly popular young man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Ham mond of Fern Valley road. Mi. Hammond is manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company here. A brother. Cap tain Bruce Hammond, is a marine i:i the south Pacific. A sister, Virginia Hammond, and aunt, Mrs. Nell Minklcr, live here. Lt. Hammond was a member of the Medford Elks lodge and was one of the best golfers in the city. He captured the annual Southern Oregon-Northern Cali fornia Invitational tournament twice, In 1929 and 1931, and al ways finished in the upper bracket. After enlisting in the army he received his basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif., and his of ficers' training at Ft. Benning, Ga., where he was commissioned. He had direct command of a squadron of heavy machine guns and 81 mm. mortars. LONDON TRIP BY PRESIDENT SEEN London, Sunday, July 1 (U.R) The London Sunday Times said In a front-page article today that President Roosevelt may soon visit Great Britain for confer ences with British and Russian leaders. "President Roosevelt Is be lieved to be more than willing to visit tnls country during the. (Mi-scut jt-di, me iiuica wiim, "No doubt he has been assured, If assurance were needed, that a great welcome awaits him here. Renewed contacts betwien the leaders of Britain, America and Russia may soon be neces sary." The Times' political corre spondent expressed the opinion that the forthcoming American presidential election would not prevent the president from mak ing the trip.' MEET POSTPONED Portland, Ore., July 1 (U.R) Meeting date of the Democratic state central committee In Port land has been postponed from July 8 to July 29, the executive committee announced today, I NEW "SOIL MIXER" TO OUTMODE FIVE FARM IMPLEMENTS Virginia Official Embodies Book Theory In Machine, He Reports. (Copyrlqht. 1944, by United Prms) Charleston, W. Va., July 1 (U.R) A "soil mixer" which Is expected to outmode five farm Implements and to revolutionize farming in Mne with theories ad vanced by Edward Faulkner in his book "Plowman's Folly," has been Invented by West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner J. B. McLaughlin, lt was revealed to nieht. McLaughlin, who discussed theories of preserving soil mois ture with Faulkner before eitner the book was written or the ma chine built, said his soil mixer would orepnre a seed bed "twice as good as can be made with ex isting equipment" at a rate of four acres a day and at a cost of 2 50 an acre. The new method will cost one fifth of the present amount re quired to nrepare seed beds with a plow, disc harrow, sniketooth harrow, cultlpacker and fertiliz er spreader and will do the job In one-fifth the amount of time In one operation. "Plowman's Folly" attacks the moldboard plow, which turns earth back and over as it tills. Faulkner says the plow promotes soil erosion which wears out farm land He said moisture was lost by the creation of an air Docket beneath the surface, through which capillary action could not function. "Many agriculturists have agreed with Faulkner in theory, but have said there was no ag ricultural implement which would farm Faulkner's way. Mc Laughlin says the soil mixer is the mechanicnl answer to the question posed by the book. DEMOCRAT TREATY PLANK PROPOSED Washington, July 1 (U.R) Chairman Sol Bloom, D., N. Y., of the House Foreign Affairs committee today started a cam paign for Inclusion in the dem acratic party platform of a plank calling for ratification of peace treaties by both house and senate by majority vote. If he succeeds, it would place the democrats on record in fa vor of exactly the opposite pro cedure advocated by the repub licans. The G. O. P. adopted a platform advocating that any treaty "or agreement" to attain international aims of the United States "shall be made only by and with the advice and consent of the senate of the United States, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur." PAIR AT EUGENE Eugene, Ore., July 1 (U.R) Triplets, the first in Sacred Heart hospital's eight-year his tory, were born at .the hospital today, but it was nothing new to the attending physician. Dr. A. B. Peacock delivered his third trio, this time to Mr. and Mrs. E. Lyman Rowe, of Eugene. The triplets, a boy and two girls, weighed about four pounds each. New Deal Also Puts Accent On Youth Washington, July 1 (U.R) The Democratic party, In a move interpreted as a step toward matching the Republican accent on youth, tonight announced that freshman Sen. Samuel D. Jackson, D., Ind., will be per manent chairman of the party convention In Chicago this month. Jackson's selection was made by a newly-created executive committee of the Democratic na tional committee. War Bulletins London, July 1 (U.R) The British Air Ministry an nounced that RAF transport command planes have brought more than 3,000 wounded back from the invasion bridgehead. Air evacuation Is working so well, the announcement said, that one RAF fighter pilot wounded in the leg dur ing an air battle over France, received treatment in Eng land only five hours after he took off on his mission. London, July 1 (U.R) The Exchange Telegraph Agency said today in a dispatch from Istanbul that the Germans were evacuating the Dodecan ese islands. Ships were passed through the straits by Turkisn authorities after they had sat isfied themselves they were of commercial character, the dis patch said. Nazi Main Line In East Is Threatened by Swift Ad vance; Enter Poland. London, July 1 (U.R) Three nrturorful finvlnt nrmlna Ininnri ' forces along the Berezina river , east of Minsk lodny for a frontal assault on the White Russian , capital as other Red army spear heads, outflanking the city from the south, drove to within 25 miles of the Minsk Warsaw-Berlin railroad, the Nazis' main life line in the east. Driving ahead at Incredible speed, Red army tank, infantry, cavalry and armored forces swept all German resistance be fore them, enntnrrrl Rnrimu 4S I mtlo. nAV,...( T ; 1. J 'va ivi ..iii-is ui ifitiinn, aim closed to within 3 miles of Polotsky, five-point rail Junc tion at the northern end of the blazing 400-mile White Russian front. At the same time, Red army trooos advanced 22 miles Inside the Polish border with the cap ture of Hcrmanolchl, 41 miles west of Polotsk, and by the seiz ure of that town rolled to with in 56 miles of Dvinsk in Lithua nia. More than 530 towns and set tlements were swept up In the Russian flood and Moscow's op erational communique reported that Marshal Konstantin K. Rok- ossov.sky's 1st White Russian ar my Friday took 12,000 German psisoncrs, Increasing the num ber taken from June 23 to June 30 by this army to 35,680. The Germans seized included the commander of the 6th infan try divisions, Lt. Gen. Hevne. and the commandant of captured Bobruisk, Mul Gen Hammann. F OUT OF HOSPITAL Seattle, July 1 (U.R) Former Film Star Frances Farmer, who was committed to the Western Stale hospital at Steilacoom, Wash., nearly three months ago after a nervous breakdown, has been pronounced completely cured, her mother, Mrs. Lillian V. Farmer, disclosed here to night. The actress will be released within a few days to the care of Mrs. Farmer, who said she was "convinced Frances had re covered from mental trouble." Miss Farmer plans to become a nurse's aid, her mother said, cither in Seattle or California. Full Report Due On Argentine Affairs Washington, July 1 (U.R) High American officials tonight prepared for a full review next week of United States-Argentine relations which admittedly have reached the lowest level In many years. U. S. ambassador to Argentina, Norman Armour, Is en route to Washington "for consultation." He was ordered back by Secre tary of State Cordcll Hull. RUSSIAN ARMIES MASS FOR FRONT ATTACK ON MINSK CENTRAL PACIFIC AIRPOWER OFJAP E Enemy's Fleet Chased Home Losses High;1, Death Rate at Saipan Heavy. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, July 1 (U.R) Hard-hitting United States carrier-based planes have virtually , eliminated Japanese air power in trie Uentral Pacific and chased i the Japanese fleet back to its home waters in 19 busy days since June 10 when the Mar ianas campaign opened. Since that date, carrier planes have carried out strikes against Jap-held bases or battled enemy naval forces on all but five days and three of these days they were busy covering the Saipan island landings. The statistical result of this unprecedented activity which opponents of carrier warfare once believed an impossibility is as follows: Destroyed: 760 Japanese planes; 21 Japanese ships; 17 small craft. Probably destroyed: 19 planes; 2 ships. Damaged: 14 planes, 50 ships, 12 small craft. " This activity has cost the U. S. force 151 planes lost and four ships damaged. The practical result has been to prevent aerial or naval Inter ference with American landings on Saipan and subsequent ground i action which contributed In large measure to U. S. dlficulties at Guadalcanal and in New Guinea. Despite the absence of all but night nuisance raids, ground fighting on Saipan developed in to the bloodiest battle of Pacific in which marines and army troops are killing Japanese at a rate of better than 3-to-l. Japanese dead have amounted to at least 4,951 buried by U. S. forces while others probably have been burled by the Japs themselves. This compares with 1,474 U. S. dead. There is no estimate available on the number of Japanese wounded but estimates of the number of enemy troops on Sai pan have ranged from 20,007 to 30.000, of which possibly 50 per cent have been knocked out of action in the first fortnight of the campaign In which U. S. ground forces have gained con trol of more than half the Island at a cost of 9,572 casualties the highest price yet paid in the Pacific war. E Canton, O., July 1 (U.R) Nine thousand CIO workers In four Canton plants of the Tim ken Roller Bearing Co., re mained onstrike for the fourth day today, completely halting production of war-vital parts for B-29 superfortresses. Jeeps, tanks, trucks, heavy guns and marine engines. Only 1,000 supervisory "em ployees and maintenance work ers remained on the Job as Finas Reynolds, president of the Unit ed Steel Workers of America (CIO) local here, asserted that the strikers would "not return" to work until "true labor rela tions" are restored. The Timken company, which operates under a slogan "every thing that has gears or wheels moves on our bearings," is the nntion's largest manufacturer of tapered roller bearings, a vital part in nearly every type of military equipment. Sales to date In the FtlUi War Loan Drive 1,580,613 "E" Sales Quota . $393,706 $600.000 Total Quota for County ..$2,262,000
