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Thirty-ninth Year
Hitler Names Goering Sub-Dictator
To Wring All Aid From Conquered
DECREE IS ISSUED.
OF NAZNIEIIE
Goebbels to Help Carry Out
Mandate; All Constituted
Authority Superseded.
London, July 25 (U.PJ
Adolf Hitler ordered the full
resources of occupied Europe
harnessed to the German war
effort today .adapting "in ev
ery respect the entire public
life to the necessities of total
warfare," and commissioned
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer
ing to execute the unlimited de
cree. Struggling in the Nazis' grav
est hour to avert threatened dis
aster. Hitler appointed Goering
the sub-dictator of Germany and
the overrun countries, with full
power to wring from them the
last ounce of strength to defend
the Reich, and he named Propa
ganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels his right hand man to
help carry out the mandate.
Use All Forces
"The present war situation
makes the full employment of
i all available forces lor the
" armed forces and armaments,"
Hitler said in a decree promul
gated through the official DNB
news agency.
The decree superseded all
constituted authority in the
Reich and all personal rights
from the highest Nazi digni
taries to the lowest peasant un
der the Hitlerian jackboot.
It came as the Nazis strug
gled with an internal crisis in
which Hitler narrowly escaped
assassination qnd countless sus
pects had paid with their lives
in a great blood purge, and as
the Russian army raced across
the Polish plains toward Ger
many and proclaimed the vir
tual destruction of the German
army on the central front.
EOENSEESHOPE
FOR ALLIES IN
London, July 25 (U.PJ For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden
revealed in a carefully-worded
statement to Commons today that
the British cabinet met last night
to consider the sudden crisis in
side revolt-shaken Germany, and
declared that Allied powers
'might Justly draw encourage
ment" from the split between the
Nazi regime and elements of the
German high command.
Eden rcused to elaborate on
the scope of the cabinet discus
tions or on steps which he said
have been taken for an exchange
of information with Rjssia on
the situation in Germany.
His statement Came as German
broadcasts said the Nazi regime
would introduce within the next
few days ''very decisive" meas
ures to tighten its control over
the nation.
Swiss reports said one of these
measures would be the mobiliza
tion of all able-bodied -eterans
of the last war for service in a
new Nazi home guard.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Scth Bullis offering to pay
for a betwccn-moals snack for a
friend and then adding the sum
to J. D. (Mac) McPherson's bill.
H.irry Morris proudly emerg
ing the victor fri-m an encoun
ter with a 12-raUle rattlesnake.
Francis Walker admitting an
other birthday, but declining to
give it a number.
German Leaflets
- Urge Britons To
Quit Aiding Joe
British Second Army Near
Caen, July 25 U.R The Ger
mans tried desperately to check
the British offensive today by
plastering the countryside be
hind the lines with propaganda
pamphlets urging the Britons to
stop "fighting for Stalin."
"Stalin," this pamphlet said,
"will take all the profits. The
traditional War between Ger
many and Great Britain has al
ways been conducted in a gen
tlemanly fashion until Stalin
crept in uninvited."
Another leaflet shows the
picture of a girl answering the
telephone , with a caption de
signed to say "You will never
hear her sweet voice again."
This handed out a general
laugh. The German army's Eng
lish expert had misspelled
sweet. He wrote it "sweat."
JAP RESISTANCE
By United Press
American Invasion forces were
revealed today to be meeting bit
ter Japanese opposition after
scoring initial gains on Guam
and Tinian islands in the south
ern Marianas.
On Tinian, U. S. marines
plunged a mile inland and en
gaged the defenders In fierce
fighting for Ushl point airstrip.
Army troops on Guam, after cut
ting off Orote peninsula and its
large airstrip within bomber
range of Tokyo, encountered
stiffer fighting as they sought to
isolate the Apra harbor naval an
chorage. Beachhead Enlarged
Marine forces which had con
quered Saipan extended their
beachhead two and a half miles
along the northwest Tinian coast
line in the first day's fighting,
and drove a third of the way
across Ushl point. "
Radio Tokyo In a broadcast
recorded by the United Press in
San Francisco, claimed 1200
Americans were killed in the
Tinian invasion. The broadcast
repeated early Tokyo claims that
one U. S. battleship and two de
stroyers had been set afire dur
ing the Invasion.
Rota Island, midway between
Tinian and Guam, was attacked
by carrier-based planes Sunday,
the communique said.
Two other air raids were re
ported In the central Pacific
one on gun positions and harbor
Installations at Ponape and the
other by navy Ventura search
planes on .the Shumushu island
airfield in the Kurilcs.
SLAIN BY FATHER
Sherwood, Ore., July 25 (U.R)
A father who said he thought his
17-year-old daughter was going
"to shoot it out" with him was
held In the Clackamas county
jail today after the slaying of the
girl.
The father, Winfield L. Hen
derson, 48, told state police that
when his daughter. Donna Lee,
fled out the back door during a
quarrel he thought she would
barricade herself behind heavy
posts at the end of the driveway
and engage him In a gun duel.
He described her as a "crack
shot."
The girl was felled by a shot
in the back of the head. Police
said a .22 caliber target pistol
was used.
According to the state police
report, the shooting Monday
climaxed a quarrel that began
Sunday. The daughter had ob
tained a warrant for the arrest
of her father, charging that he
bad beaten her and her mother.
INDEPENDENCE OF
IS
Reds Disclaim Intention to
Communize Liberated
Country; Over Polish Line
London, , July 25 (U.R) The
Russian "government, defining
its new frontier with Poland as
west of the Bug river, today
disclaimed all intention of com
munizinj post-war Poland and
declared that the Red armies
will liberate the remaining German-occupied
Polish areas to
permit the resurrection of an
independent, Democratic Po
land. Radio Moscow announced
that the Soviet foreign office
had issued a formal statement
declaring that Russian troops
finally had penetrated what it
considered Polish territory and
that the battle for the liberation
of the "friendly Polish people"
had begun.
Ignore Exiles
The foreign office statement
Ignored the authority claimed
by the Polish government-ln-exile
in London and asserted
that administration of all liber
ated territories in Poland would
be turned over to the Polish
National Committee of Libera
tion a Russian-sponsored or
ganization. The Russian statement was
the first definite pronounce
ment from the Kremlin of its
territorial claims on Poland. It
made clear that, Moscow does
not recognize the Polish gov
ernment in London, with which
it broke relations last year.
GERMANS TOTTER
Moscow, July 25 OJR) Rus
sian armor raced westward less
than 50 miles from Warsaw and
to the south struck within sight
of the Wisla (Vistula) river as
military sources proclaimed ju
bilantly that the entire group of
German armies on the central
front had been virtually de
stroyed. German military power In the
Kast appeared to be tottering in
he balance under Red army
blows opening the way for a
whirlwind advance which prom
ised to bring Warsaw under
siege by the week end.
Siedlce, 50 miles due east from
Warsaw was being stormed and
had been by-passed. The great
fortress cities of Lwow and Brest
Litovsk were under siege far be
hind the Soviet vanguard. Rus
sian troops were pouring across
the San river 60 miles west of
Lwow. The ancient citadels of
Jaroslaw and Przemysl were
threatened.
Captured German Generals
Urge Break With Dictator
Moscow, July 25 (U.R) Six
teen captured German generals
issued a joint appeal today to
German officers still In action
against the Allies to break at
once with Adolf Hitler and re
fuse to carry out Nazi orders
and thus bring the war to its
end.
All veterans of both the pres
ent and last World Wars, the
officers expressed their convic
tion that further struggle by
Germany was hopeless.
All the generals and officers
who realize their responsibili
ties face the alternative either
to wait until Hitler leads the
German at my to catastrophe
and drags the whole German
people down to the grave, or to
answer with force resist Hit
MEDFORD, OREGON,
UNITED STATES
Ambassador to Washington
Recalled of Hull's Mem
orandum on Policy.
Buenos Aires, July 25 (U.R)
The Argentine government re
called Dr. Adrian Escobar, its
ambassador to Washington, be
cause Secretary of State Cordell
Hull announced that he had sent
a memorandum to other Amer
ican republics redefining United
States policy towards Argentina,
it was revealed today.
Escobar was Instructed to re
turn to Buenos Aires to report
on Hull's statement, the official
announcement said, adding that
if It were confirmed, the dignity
of the Argentine people and gov
ernment would have been in
jured. The announcement was made
shortly after midnight last night,
but was withheld from foreign
countries until dawn today to
HiveEscobar time to receive the
ouiciui instructions uuiuru uic-y
were published.
The newspaper La Nacion
commented that "the declara
tions to which the communique
refers are that the Argentine
government has remained aloof
from inter-American system of
cooperation and that the deliv
ery of raw materials and food
stuffs to Allied nations was noth
ing but a series of commercial
transactions."
TULE LAKE JAPS
Newell, Calif.. July 25MU.P.)
Fourteen Japanese -Americans,
isolated for several months in the
stockade area at the Tule Lake
segregation center and termed
trouble-makers by the War Re
location Authority, today began
the sixth day of a hunger strike
calculated to obtain release from
the isolated area.
R. R. Best, project director,
said food is being delivered reg
ularly to the 14 men, 13 of whom
have been in the stockade since
December and one since Janu
ary. All are citizens.
A maximum of 350 men were
placed in the spccla; area after
the army took control of the
center last November follow
ing disturbances among the Jap
anese residents. WRA hearings
subsequently returned many of
the men to the regular residence
area on good behavior, while
others were transferred to alien
internment camps.
Early In January the men
staged a similar hunger strike.
ler, refuse to carry out orders,
break with the Hitler regime,
thus finishing off the war," the
appeal said.
"Don't wait until Hitler
brings you to disaster. To fight
Hitler is to fight for Germany."
The appeal was signed by
Generals Voclckers, Gollwitzcr,
Mueller, Baron Von Luolzow,
Traut, Amler, Klammt, Stcin
kelier, Conrady, Trowitz, Enbel,
M I c h a e I i s, Mueller-Iluclow,
Gehr, Gottfried Von Ermans
droff, and Schmidt.
Each was identified with his
command, which included that
of army corps, divisions, and
fortified regions. They repre
sented the command of the for
mer central group of the Ger
man army on the eastern front.
TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1944
V
(Acmt Telephoto
Town of Anuria on northwestern coast of Ounm Island, one objective of new Invasion by combined American
forces. Architecture bears greater resemblance to that of American towns than any other In Central Pacific
Damaged buildings in foreground prove accuracy ot carrier strikers on June 15. when tills photo was taken
Hish oa bill u right background la Jan Olflccn' dub.
Admiral King
In Composition of Japanese Cabinet
Washington, July 25. (U.R)
Admiral Ernest J. King, com
mander in chief of the U. S.
fleet and chief of naval oper
ations, SjJid today that "no aid
or comfort", could be gained
from the composition of the new
Japanese cabinet.
King said the fall of the Tojo
cabinet portended a change in
Japan's method of waging war.
Their future operations will be
either more offensive in char
acter or more defensive, he said.
"The Japs will continue to
wage war with all the power
they possess," King said. "We
can expect some change in their
method of waging war, but
whether they will go more near
ly on the defensive or become
more aggressive remains to be
seen."
Dissatisfaction Shown
Asked at Secretary of Navy
James Forrestal's press confer
ence how he interpreted the
change in cabinet, King replied:
"Obviously the cabinet would
not have fallen unless there was
dissatisfaction on the part of the
military forces with the conduct
of the war. However, there is
no aid or comfort to be gained
from the composition of the new
cabinet."
Asked what he meant by a
KILLED IN FALL
A motorcycle accident on the
Klamath Falls-Lakcvicw high
way about 30 miles east of
Klamath Falls Monday aflernoon
took the life of Lloyd Gale Bal
derston, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde V. Baklerston of Route 1.
box 117. The mishap occurred
about 5 p. m. and the youth
taken in an ambulance to a
Klamath Falls hospital, died
there at 0 p. m. of a fractured
skull.
State police here said their
Klamath Falls office explained
that young Bnlderston, riding his
motorcycle toward Klamath
Falls, apparently struck some
loose gravel on a curve on BIy
mountain, causing the machine
to plunge over a bank onto Jag
ged rocks. It was not known
who discovered the accident and
called the ambulance.
The youth, who had recently
enlisted in the army air corps
and was awaiting his call, was
returning to Mcdford . from a
visit with his sweetheart In
Lakcview. He was a 1944 grad
uate of Mcdford high school.
Perl's funeral home, which
was to return the body to Mcd
ford today, is in charge of fu
neral arrangements. A complete
obituary will be published later.
Yank Objective on Guam
Suspicious of
more defensive warfare on the
part of the Japanese, King said
he thought they might pull into
their inner citadel, but added
that Manchuria and Korea arc
definitely part of that inner
citadel.
Admiral William F. Halsey,
who now commands the third
fleet In the Pacific, also was
present at the conference, and
was nsked for a prediction on
the end of the war.
Halsey replied that he had
stopped "gazing into the crystal
ball" on Jan. 1, 1943, a refere
ence to a previous victory pre
diction he had made. He added,
however, that if they "keep the
stuff coming to us and we can
shove it in," It will shorten the
war.
Haftcy said the third fleet was
"nothing new" and that he had
commanded It for more than two
years. He explained that this
was just one of his titles, the
others being commander, South
Pacific force and South Pacific
area, and that he had fought
himself out of the other titles.
Plenty of Action
He added that the third fleet
had seen plenty of action.
Halsey said that the Japan
ese were still like rats they
Will fight until they are extermi
nated. Although more Japanese
are being captured now than In
the beginning of the war, he
said, they still seem to want to
die for the emperor.
Asked if the occupation of
FRESH PEAR ROOF
Washington, July 25 (U.R)
Fresh pears soon will be placed
under ceiling prices for the first
time and. as a result, they will
soil for about 20 per cent less
than last year's retail prices, the
Office of Price Administration
announced today.
Under the new order, which
will become effective "shortly."
the highest retail price for pears
from the beginning of the sea
son up to Sept. 10 will be about
15 rents per pound. The figure
will probably be Increased to a
high of about 17 cents per pound
by next April, OPA said.
Army Bomber Falls
Into San. Fran Bay
Hamilton Field, Cal., July 25
U.R) A four-motored army
bomber crashed Into Snn Fran
cisco bav today shortly after It
took off from Hamilton field on
a combat training flight. Nine
crewmen were missing and be
lieved dead. The body of the
tenth was recovered.
Witnesses on the Rlchmond
San Rafael ferry said the plane
appeared to explode as it struck
the water, ,
NO. 105.
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A.
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Changes
Saipan and our present position
in the Marianas will enable us
to close off sea supply lanes be
tween Japan and the East In
dies. King replied that the Jap
anese can still go down between
Formosa and the mainland and
added that although American
submarines have provided and
nre providing interference of
"considerable magnitude, those
supply lanes are not entirely
closed off.
LIEUT. BOSHEARS
LIBERATOR PILOT,
First Lt. Jerome T. Boshears
of Mcdford has been reported
missing in action In the Euro
pean war theater as of July 9
according to a wire from the ad
jutant general received yes
terday by relatives. The lieuten
ant is first pilot of o H-24 Liber
ator bomber and had but recent
ly been advanced In rank.
The wire, sent to his mother,
Mrs. Charity E. Boshears of 404
South Grape street, stated that
no further details were available
at this time. The message arrived
but one hour after the return to
Mcdford of the aviator's wife
and small daughter from Calls-
toga, Calif., where they had
been temporarily residing. Mrs.
Boshears, the former Alice Wall,
will remain In Mcdford with her
husband's mother.
Lt. Boshears has been station
ed in England since April and
had been on many missions. He
Is a graduate of Mcdford senior
high school and is well known in
this district.
VALUES HIGHER
Total assessed value of Jack
son county public utilities, as as
sessed by the state tnx commis
sion for the 1944-1943 tax year,
is $8,813,127. According to As
sessor C. A. Myers, this Is an
Increase of $72,439 47 over
1943, when it was $8,745,087.37.
The assessor has not yet segre
gated the assessed valuation of
individual corporations.
The total assessed value of
property as assessed by the as
sessor for 1944 is $27,747,670, an
increase of $035,950 over Inst
year, when It was $27,111,720.
Tho total assessed valuation of
Jackson county, both corporation
and private, in $3fl. 505, 797.37.
This Is an increase of $708,389.47
over 1943, when lt was $35,857,-407.50.
Armies Buck Fierce Nazi Re
sistance in Moves Toward
Heart of Normandy.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
July 25 (U.R) The British sec
ond army drove forward mora
than a mile through two towna
in a new offensive below Caen
today, and to the west the Amer
ican First army launched an at
tack supported by 3,000 planes,
including more than 1,500 U. S.
heavy bombers the biggest
force ever dispatched on a single
mission.
Both Allied armies bucked
fierce German opposition in tho
synchronized assault toward tho
heart of Normandy, and the
Nazi air force swarmed out In
the greatest strength since D
day to Join the defense of the
ring around the Normandy
beachhead.
Desperate Opposition
Neither supreme headquar
ters nor limited" field dispatches
revealed where Lt. Gen. Omar
N. Bradley's troops mounted the
new offensive, as on the British
sector, they ran Into desperate
opposition, and early reports did
not specify their gains.
The German DNB News
Agency said the Americans were
attacking below Carentan and
were trying to drive across the
St. Lo-Le Mesnil-Vigot highway.
Le Mcsnll-Vigot is 10 miles
northwest of St. Lo.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gamery sent his Infantry and
tanks charging down southeast
of Caen on a three-mile front
astride the Falalse highway. In
the first few hours they overran
St. Martin-de-Wontena and Ver
rlcrs, four to five miles below
Caen, and last were reported
fighting In nearby Tliyy-la Cam
pagne, Mont gomcry's headquarters
said the second army attack had
limited objectives, and was not
designed to smash entirely
through the enemy fortifications
blocking the way to the Interior.
Street fighting in Tilly-la Cam
pagnc and May-Sud-Ornc was go
ing on when the last reports
from the Normandy front reach
ed headquarters late In the day.
Tho British and Canadian as
sault forces were driving the
Germans out house by house in
bloody struggles at close quar
ters. Nails Use Tanks
Tilly Is about a mile south of
Bourguebus and three miles east
of May-Sur-Orne. The Germans
had thrown some tanks Into the
fighting, and may have a con
siderable number ready for a
counterattack. They were known
to have at least two crack SS
Panzer divisions in that area.
The British were supported
heavily by the home-based Royal
Air Force as well as medium
bombers and Normandy - based
fighters and fighter-bombers.
But that air effort paled In
comparison with the all-Amerl-can
air assault on Bradley's
front. Spearheaded by more than
1,500 Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators, the U. S. armada includ
ed at a rough estimate 500 med
ium and light bombers and as
many more fighter-bombers. Five
hundred fighters escorted the
heavies, powcr-dlving to trectop
level to rake the Nazi positions.
Casiino Faded
The American planes laid an
estimated 5,500 tons of explo
sives on the Germans Immediate
ly ahead of the U. S. troops In a
close support assault outweigh
ing the bombardment of the Cas
sino fortifications In Italy.
The U. S. Eighth and Ninth
Air Forces set out to "anaesthe
tize'' the ground defenses at 10
a. m. with a torrent of fragmen
tation and lightweight explo
sives,, used Instead of heavier
bombs In order to avoid plow
ing up the battlefield and making
the Infantry advance difficult.
The all-Amerlcan air assault
continued until 12:30 p. m. By
then the assault troops were
battling forward.
With the weather good, des
pite a slightly lower celling this
afternoon, it seemed certain that
the overall operations by the
combined Allied air fleet would
make this one of the biggest days
aloft since the Invasion of Nor
mandy.
Radio Highlights
Washington, July 25 (U.PJ
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim-
son will speak over the Blue and
Mutual radio networks at 7:19
p. m., PWT, today, about his re
cent trip to Italy, Normandy
and Great Britain.