in
Weather
Forecast: Fair tonight and
Friday, with scattered thunder
storms In mountains this eve
ning. Little change In tempera
ture. Temp.
Highest yesterday 07
Lowest this morning 63
Precipitation past 24 brs. 0
Thirty-ninth Year
Nazi Norman Defense Cracks Wide Open
E
SPEEDS TO TRAP
Seven Badly Mauled Divi
sions Menaced as Yanks
Surge Forward Thru Gap
With American Forces In
Normandy, July 27 (U.R)
United States forces occupied
Periers and Lessay late to
day. Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
July 27 (U.R) The German de
fense line in Normandy cracked
wide open today and an Ameri
can armored column raced
southwestward toward the sea
in a fast-breaking bid to shear
oft the Nazi left wing and trap
the enemy's 84th army corps of
seven badly mauled divisions.
The Nazi corps was reeling
back under the heaviest pres
sure, all along the line from the
St. Lo break-through to the At
lantic coast, as Lt. Gen. Omar
N. Bradley sent a tank spear
head careening down the high
way within four miles of the
Coutances transport hub, the
fall of which would virtually
doom the harried German divi
sions. Stream Through Gap
United States armor stream
ing through the breach west of
St. Lo fanned out for gains up
to 12 miles and captured the
road junction of Canisy and Le
Mesnil Herman, along with
scores of smaller towns and vil
lages, as it threatened to turn
the German line in both direc
tions and collapse the entire en
emy front.
Lessay and Periers were by
passed by American forces surg
ing southward in the wake of
what field dispatches Indicated
was a general German with
drawal on the left flank to es
cape the sudden menace to the
armored approach to Count
ances. "The United States offensive
now is rolling at top speed,"
United Press War Correspond
ent Henry T. Gorrell reported
from the front. "Tanks are four
miles from Coutances, and the
enemy caught to the north is
beating a retreat In an effort to
get out before Bradley's armor
bars the way."
Planes Busy
He said U. S. dive-bombers
and assault planes were "hav
ing a field day beating up the
German tanks pulling out" be
fore the record array of Amer
ican armor.
Another front dispatch said
the Americans advancing on
the west flank were encounter
ing some of the thickest mine
fields and bobby traps in
France, but little or no small
arms fire. It said the Germans
moved out during the night un
der cover of a heavy artillery
barrage when the front line po
sitions became untenable under
the mounting U. S. pressure.
Two vital bridges in the vi
cinity of Coutances had been
knocked out by U. S. planes,
making more difficult the Ger
man retirement from the Les-say-Periers
front.
Major- Catastrophe
"It is the biggest German
catastrophe since Cherbourg,"
Gorrell said.
His dispatch filed at 6:40 p.m.
said more thana dozen sizable
towns had been taken in the
last 4 hours and well over 2.000
German prisoners captured.
TJie bulk of the 84th German
army corps was north of Cout
ances. Only a few roads were
available for Its exit from the
hot corner, and "at best esti
mates it can't pull out more
than one-third per night," Gor
rell said.
Already Coutances was with
in range of the mobile artillery
accompanying the American ar
mor, partially blocking the es
cape corridor of the Germans.
WEATHER
Northern California Partly
cloudy with scattered afternoon
thunderstorms mountain and
foothill section today and Fri
day. Little change in tempera-1
tll'C 1
MEDFORD
United Press
Lead U. S. Invasion of Guam
(Acme Telepholo)
Rear Adm. Richard L. Conolly (left), who commanded landings at Roi
and Namur In the Marshall!, Is in charge ot amphibious operations al
U. S assault forces storm ashore on Guam. Commander ot expeditionary
troops Is Brig. Gen Roy S. Geiger (right). U 8 Marine Corps, who
commanded successful invasion of Bougainville.
Marines Wipe Out Quarter
Of Jap Strength On Tinian
Aboard Expeditionary Flagship off Tinian, July 27 (East
Longitude date) (U.R) (via Navy Radio) Marines, led by tanks
and supported by plants, advanced against scattered rear-guard
resistance on Tinian today and won gains of as much as a mile
and a half.
SIX MORE FIRES
T
Six additional fires were re
ported set by lightning in the
Rogue River National forest yes
terday1 afternoon and last night
and another, said to be man
caused, was also reported. The
lightning fires were in the Ap
plegate, where two were report
ed, and in the Butte Falls area,
where four small fires were set.
The man-caused fire was re
ported from Union Creek dis
trict, having been discovered in
the area between Crater and Na
tional creeks on the old Diamond
Lake road. Forest officials were
of the opinion that a careless
fisherman had thrown down a
lighted cigarette which set the
blaze. It spread over approxi
mately two acres before being
controlled.
The thunder storms resulted
In some scattered rain in
the!
Applegate district, but other sec
tions reported none. The valley
experienced considerable wind,
velocity rising to about 35 miles
an hour at 10:30 p. m. and then
subsiding.
Yesterday's high was 87 de
grees, somewhat warmer than
Tuesday's 93, the heat that day
also resulting in thunder storms
and several small forest fires.
Continued high temperatures
and additional storms tonight are
forecast.
Poles Will Seek
Compromise With
Soviet Officials
London, July 27 (U.R) Pre
mier Stanislaw Mikolajszky.
head of the Polish government
In exile, left for Moscow today,
accompanied by his minister of
foreign affairs, Tadeusz Romer,
Polish sources announced.
The surprise announcement
came barely 24 hours after yes
terday's lengthy conference be
tween the Polish leaders and
Anthony Eden, British minister
of foreign affairs, concerning the
effects of the formation of 8
Polish committee for national
liberation in Moscow.
Well-informed sources In Lon
don said that by this visit the
Polish premier hopes to reach
a compromise with Russia and
participate in administering lib
erated Poland
Full Leased Wire
l
1
The Invaders now have se
cured the northern quarter of
the 48 square mile island. They
have wiped out approximately
one-fourth of the estimated
fighting strength of the enemy
on Tinian.
Win New Airstrip
Additionally, the Americans
have won a new airstrip in the
Marianas at Ushi Point. Today
small planes the eyes of the
artillery were making landings
at the Ushi Field.
(Occupation of Ushi airstrip
was announced by Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz last night.)
The flat country being cov
ered at present by the marines
is Ideal for tanks and other
types of heavy armor maneuver
ing, adding further weight to
the fire power against the Jap
anese who apparently have not
committed the main forces
known to be on the Island.
The unofficial guess Is that
they will probably attempt to
maintain themselves in the high
ground on the extreme south
eastern sector where hills some
times are more than 400 feet
high nearly as high as Mount
Lasso, seized more than 24 hours
ago to give the Americans the
best vantage point on the island.
w"ir
U. S. Brands Argentina Government as
Deserter of Neighbors in Needy Hour
Washington, July 27 flJ.R)
Branded by the United States
as a deserter of her neighbors In
an hour of need and as one who
aids enemies of the United Na
tions, the Argentine government
today stood Just short of being
considered a traitor to the west
ern hemisphere.
This country's bitter castlga
tion of the present Argentine re
gime of Gen. Edelmiro Farrell
was delivered last night by Sec
retary of State Cordcll Hull. It
did not, however, provide a solu
tion to the complex problem but
instead, posed a serlei of prob
lems concerning the future of
the good neighbor policy and
the attempt to establieh hemis
pheric solidarity.
Discrimination Charged
(Foreign Minister Orlando
Peluffo of Argentina charged in
a radio speech In Buenos Aires
last night that the United States
had singled out Argentina for
discriminatory treatment. He
said Argentina not only favored
the cause of the United Nations,
but had taken eight rpecificj
measures against the Axis.)
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944.
MOUNTING
FORCES HITLER TO
Special Order in East Prus
sia, Northeast Germany
to Deal With Saboteurs.
By Edward W. Beattie
United Press Staff Correspondent
London, July 27 (U.R) Stock
holm advices said today that
mounting unrest in East Prussia
and northeast Germany, direct
ly In the path of advancing Red
armies, has forced Adolf Hitler
to establish a special unified
command there to deal with
saboteurs and guerrillas.
(A Stockholm dispatch broad
cast by the British radio assert
ed that German youth, once the
backbone of Nazism, was In a
"state of latent revolt" and ges
tapo police camps for both girls
and boys had been established
with authority to "liquidate"
those whom it was found "impos
sible to educate." FCC monitors
recorded the British broadcast.)
Not All Caught
The report came only a few
hours after Nazi Propaganda.
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels,
in his new role as plenipotentiary
for total war mobilization, ack
nowledged Ip a radio broadcast
yesterday that not all those In
volved in last week's abortive
attempt on Hitler's life and
military revolt had been execut
ed or arrested.
Radio Stockholm relayed a
dispatch from the newspaper
Morgontidningcn reporting that
Hitler had put a General Eisen
back at the head of the new anti
guerrilla command of special
troops In East Prussia, Danzig
and West Prussia.
Ships Crowded
Morgontidningcn said that
ships leaving East Prussian ports
were booked weeks In advance
and a black market was flourish
ing in passages.
The Danish press service also
reported that German officers
wounded several soldiers in a
town In North Jutland when a
detachment refused to travel to
Germany in freight cars and de
manded more comfortable trans
portation. STORE MAN NAMED
Washington, July 27 (U.R)
The Office of Price Administra
tion today announced appoint
ment of Byres H. Gitchell, St.
Paul, Minn., as director of OPA's
consumer goods price division.
He is chairman of the board of
the Golden Rule department
store, St. Paul.
About 750,000 married women
with children under 11 are cm
ployed in British war Industry.
Hull set forth for the world to
inspect what an authoritative
government source described as
Argentina's "monstrous doctrine
of desertion." Hull invited its
comparison with the doctrine of
cooperation against the Axis fol
lowed by the rest of the Amer
icas and recommended the dip
lomatic isolation of Argentina.
His bitterly critical statement
brings into the open what Is con
sidered one of the gravest crisis
in Pan American history since
1917 when the Zimmerman note
revealed that Germany had1
promised Mexico American land
if she would align herself with
the central powers. It certainly
is the gravest crisis In the west
ern hemisphere since, President
Roosevelt proclaimed the good
neighbor policy.
The United States decision to
publish In forthright language
Its appeal to the other United
Nations to follow the example
may force the Argentine leaders
to revise drastically their policy
in favor of the Allied cause.
Ambassador Recalled
Both countries have recalled
mMJL ill
ICADE
STREETS OF PISA
FOR Fit STAND
Spotters Atop Leaning Tow
er Direct Artillery Against
Yanks Massing for Attack
Rome, July 27 (U.R) Ger
man troops barricaded the
streets of Pisa in preparation for
a bloody, house-to-house defense
of the city today while their
long-range guns, directed by
spotters atop the famous lean
ing tower, raked American
forces massing along the south
bank of the Arno river.
Working in full view of Amer
ican patrols on tho opposite side
of the river, the Nazis threw
barbed wire and concrete bar
riers across the medieval streets
and planted machine gun squads
along the river bank to meet the
expected American assault.
May Destroy Tower
Allied headquarters spokes
men said German artillery spot
ters had been observed on the
179-foot leaning tower In the
northwest corner of the city and
warned that it might become
necessary for American guns to
destroy the historic building.
Front reports Indicated that
until a late hour yesterday the
Americans hid made no attempt
to shell me ancient nan or t-isa
held by the Germans and the
city's cultural monuments still
were intact.
The famous leaning tower was
begun In 1174 and completed In
1350.
STOCKTON GETS
BIG NAVY DEPOT
Stockton, Cal., July 28. U.P.)
Rep. Leroy Johnson, Stockton,
today said that the navy bureau
of yards and docks in Washing
ton, D. C, had authorized him to
announce that a navy supply
depot will be established near
the ccep water port of Stockton
with initial projects totaling ap
proximately $20,000,000 already
approved .
The site of the project will be
Rough and Ready Island slight
ly downstream in the Stockton
channel from the deep water
port where the Stockton army
ordnance depot now Is establish
ed. The island is about five
miles west of tho city limits.
Lumber production In the
United States was estimated at
17,701,602,000 board feet for the
1 first quarter of 1944.
their ambassadors, with Argen
tina describing Its action as
"first step" In retaliation for the
United States' charges. The au
thoritative U. S. government
source admitted that no thought
Is being given here now to im
plementing the non-recognition
policy against Argentina with
economic sanctions.
This government's reason for
refusing to recognize the Argen
tine regime was mode public by
Hull in a long memorandum In I
which he accused Argentina of
deserting her sister republics In
the face of enemy fire and of
Riving continuing aid and com
fort to the enemies of the United
Nations.
The memorandum was a com
bination of two that already had
been sent to the other Latin
American countries and to
which, It was learned, virtually
all subscribed. The nearly 8,000
word document was considered
here as one of the strongest
statements ever made against a
nation with which the United
Statei was not it war.
United Press Full
GOP Nominees
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Dewey Will Offer Program
To End Chaos in Government
Albany, N. Y., July 27 (U.R) Gov, Thomns E. Dewey, repub
lican presidential nominee, said today he would place a sweep
ing program before the St. Louis GOP Governors' conference
next week in an effort to "bring agreement out of chaos which
has existed between the federal government and tho slates for
12 years."
Dewey's program, which was.
approved by his running mate,
Gov. John W. Brlcker of Ohio,
Includes 15 major Issues:
1 Public expenditures.
2 Public health.
3 Administration of unem
ployment insurance.
4 Administration of employ
ment services.
5 Relationship between un
employment Insurance and em
ployment services.
6 Labor the i.phcre of In
fluence of tho national govern
ment as contrasted to local gov
ernment. 7 Public works, the extent to
be financed and supervised by
the various units of government.
8 Highways.
9 Regulation of Insurance.
10 Ownership of national
lands.
1 1 Water and flood control
and the conservation of national
resources.
12 The national guard,
whether It shall be returned to
the states In the post war era or
remain federalized.
13 The whole problem of
federal and state tax coordina
tion. 14 Agriculture, the extent lo
which agriculture, soil conserva
tion and controls, if any, should
be administered by the national
government of the states reg
ionally. 15 Veterans affairs.
Dewey said the program
would be submitted to the gov
ernors for their consideration,
lie revealed the program at a
press conference on tho front
porch of the executive mansion.
Urickcr snt beside him.
"We (Dewey and Brlcker)
have canvassed the entire field
of conflict between the fcderol
government and tho state and
local government," he said.
"This conflict of authority and
responsibility has been a con
stant source of 'riction for 12
years in this country.
"There have been enough
people spending their full time
fighting each other over the
questions of Jurisdiction and
power between the federal, and
state and local governments to
make up a small army. In fact,
there are almost as many people
squabbling over this thing as
there are squabbling In the fcd
erol government, if that were
possible. We conceive It to be
one of our first obligations to
bring agreement out of this chaos
and to bring unity where there
Is only disunity now."
to Berlin"
By United Press
The shortest distances to
Berlin from advanced allied
lines today:
Russia 300 miles.
Italy 608 miles.
France 623 miles.
Accorlngd to the Missouri
stite highway patrol six per
cent of the total rural accidents
In the state last year were pedes
trian accidents which caused 22
per cent of all fatal Injuries.
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NO. 107.
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. , M
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KILLED AT FRONT
Washington, July 27 (U.R)
Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNalr, the
man who trained this country's
mammoth new ground forces
for the battles they are now
fighting around the world, was
killed in the front line of the
current American offensive in
Normondy, the war department
announced today. Ho was 01.
Before he full, McNalr saw
the start of an offenslvo which
already has smashed through
the German lines and carried
deeper Into the enemy's terrl
tory the doughboys whose train'
Ing he directed.
McNoIr stood high In the
small group of military leaders
who, under Gen. George C. Mar
shall, chief of staff, built tho U,
S. army from 1,500.000 to its
present size of 7,700,000.
Wounded Before
McNalr hnd some narrow
escapes In other wars and had
come close to death once before
In this one. On April 23, 1943,
while visiting the Tunisian front
a splinter from a German four-
inch shell pierced his steel hel
met and lodged a quortcr of an
Inch from his brain.
From March, 1942, until re
cently McNalr was commanding
general of tho army's ground
forces, a post which ranked him
with Gen. H. II. Arnold, com
mander of tho army air forces,
and Lt. Gen, Brehon B. Somer
vell, commander of tho army
supply forces.
On July 14 the war depart
ment announced that he had
been succeeded by Lt. Gen. Ben
Lear and had been given an
"Important overseas assign
ment." Tho war department an
nouncement said merely that
McNalr "was killed by enemy
fire while observing the action
of our front lino units In the
recent offensive."
McNalr, credited with possess
ing one of the best brains In the
army, used to bo known as "the
GIIQ sparkplug."
CIO HEAD ENDORSES
TRUMAN'S CANDIDACY
Washington, July 27. (U.R)
President R. J. Thomas of the
United Automobile Workers
(CIO) today endorsed the Demo
cratic vice presidential candi
date, Sen. Horry S. Truman, as
a "progressive man" and denied
Republican charges that the CIO
was involved In a conspiracy
with democratic machine bosses.
BIALYSTOK FALL
Stanlslawow, Cital Guard
ing Carpathian Passes to
Czechoslovakia Taken.
London. July 27. (U.R) Maw
ive Russian forces burst
through the disintegrating Gor
man battle lines at three key
points along the 800-mile fight,
ing front today and sent lhoir
armored spearheads racing
ahead toward Ciechoslovakla
Warsaw, and the Baltic states.
The entire German arc of de
femes winding northward from
the Carpathian passes, scrota
the plains of Poland and on to
the Baltic sea buckled under lhe
triphammer blows of the red
army as Soviet tanks and infan
trymen struck for their greatest
victory of the month-old sum.
mer offensive.
In three triumphant orders ot
ihe day, Soviet Premier Josef
Stalin announced that his arm
ies had captured Bialystok. un
hinged the Nazi defenses before)
Warsaw and East Prussiai
Stanislawow, at the Carpathian
mountain gateway to Czecho
slovakia, and the Latvian strong
holds of Daugavpils (Dvinik)
and Resenke, on the road to
Riga and the Baltic coast.
London, July 27 (U.R) The
Red army in twin victories at
opposite ends of the battlefront
In Poland today captured Bialy
stok, unhinging the German de
fenses before East Prussia and
Warsaw,and Stanlslawow, cita
del guarding the approaches to
the Carpathian Passes into
Czechoslovakia.
Premier Josef Stalin Issued
orders of the day announcing
that Soviet assault forces had
stormed through the ancient
fortress of Bialystok In two
days of fierce fighting and had
taken Stanlslawow In a coor
dinated flanking maneuver and
frontal onslaught.
Col. Gen. Georgl Zakhnrov's
second army of White Russia
scored the Bialystok victory,
clearing the way for a two-way
push against East Prussia 50
miles to the northwest and War
saw to the southwest.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
army of the Ukraine took Stanls
lawow, big base dominating the
southernmost tip of old Poland,
which Stalin described as a
"large rail Junction and Import
ant stronghold of the German
defenses in the Carpathian foot
hills." Stanlslawow Is 38 miles from
the Czechoslovak frontier, 70
miles southeast of Lwow, and
on the Lwow-Bucharest trunk
railway.
Covering the highway and
railroad lines running south
ward to Warsaw and the roads
to East Prussia, only 50 miles to
the north, Bialystok's fall poised
a twin threat to tho German
armies trying desperately to hold
the Polish capital and at tha
same timo prevent a break
through into their fatherland
soil to the north.
Stalin hailed the city's fall as
a first-rate military triumph and
ordered Moscow's 224 victory
guns to fire a 20-salvo salute to
Zokharov's troops.
Radio Berlin acknowledged
the loss ot the powerful strong
hold little more than an hour
earlier, admitting that the Nazi
defenders had been forced to
abandon the city and fall back
"several kilometers."
WIND-DAMAGED WIRES
CAUSE SMALL BLAZE
Sparks caused by an overload
In the electric - wiring at tha
home of Miss Vera Humphrey,
103 Genesee St., at 10:45 o'clock
last night necessitated a call for
the fire department. Firemen
explained today that wind broke
the ground wire leading Into tha
house, throwing an overload ot
220 volts Into the electric wir
ing system, which burned out
lights, and switch wires on tha
electric stove.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
George Carter sending his of
fice force Into spasms of horror
with his boogy man tactics.
Carl Tengwald thinking up
ways to persuade the women of
the family to port with numerous
back issues of cherished maga
zines. Greta and Frank Humphrey
recounting the strange experi
ence of picking up the same two
RAF hitch-hikers twice within a
wcck'i time.