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FIRST IN BERLIN
SAY MILITARISTS
Reds Much Closer To Ger
man Capital Than West
ern Allies; Moving Faster
By Reuel S. Moor
United Press Correspondent
Washington, July 27. J.R1
Competent military observers
said today the rapid advance of
Russian forces through Poland
increases the likelihood that it
will be the red armies which ad.
minister the coup de grace to
Germany by being the first to
surge into Berlin.
Not only are the Russians
much closer to the German capl
tal than the western allies
about 370 miles as compared to
600 but their rate of advance
is many times faster than allied
progress in the west.
, Greater Power
Moreover, the Russians have
greater power assembled on
their route to Berlin. On the
eastern front from Lwow north'
ward, there are seven red arm
ies hammering crumbling Ger
man defenses. There are only
two allied armies in Italy and
but two whose presence have
been announced in Normandy.
In the east the Germans have
committed such huge forces that
their destruction would be a
mortal mow to the nazis. As of
now, this is not true in either
Normandy or Italy.
There is now no Indication
that the Russians will not be
able to maintain the terrific rate
of progress they have registered
thus far. In one month's time
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Senator Barry S. Truman of Missouri (left), named Democrats' nominee
(or Vice President on second ballot, stands beside Robert E. Hannegan,
national committee chairman, as ha acknowledges convention cheers.
this advance has ranged up to a
maximum of about 250 miles.
The Germans must stem this
movement soon or be in the
gravest danger.
A collapse of their delenses
either in Normandy or Italy
would be serious for the Ger
mans. But it would bring to the
nazis no immediate danger
greater than now exists in the
east.
Observers here believe it is
quite possible that the end of
the present wasting struggle in
Normandy may be the collapse
of German defenses there. But
even so, great distances and for
midable obstacles must be cross
ed before the heart of Germany
can be reached from that direc
tion.
River Barriers
Between Normandy and Ber-I
lin there are such river barriers
as the Seine, Somme, Meuse, the
Rhine, the Ardennes, the fortifi
cations of, the old Maginot and
Siegfried lines, and such new
defenses as the anti-invasion po
sitions along the Pas-de-Calais
coast.
In the same way the western
allies do not have the power to
administer a death blow to the
nazis in Italy. If the enemy s
Pi-Rimini line gives way, the
Germans can stand at the Alps.
An allied victory commensurate,
with the capture of Rome would
carry them no farther than
those mountains and gain the j
destruction of not many German
divisions.
Sardine Creek
Sardine Creek, July 27 The
Hollowell brothers of Grants
Pass spent Friday and part of
Saturday here threshing grain
for S. A. Dusenberry, Roy Eskew
and J. U. and Charles Smith.
Mrs. Marjorie Evans and baby
boy, Gary Lee, returned home
Sunday from the Station hospital
in Camp White. The baby's fath
er Is overseas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Henselman
and son, Phillip, of Medford,
called on Mrs. Nora Wait Satur
day. Phillip is home on a fur
lough from a training camp in
Illinois.
Geraldine Fasel of Central
Point spent last week with Mrs,
Nora Wait.
F. N. Tygart Visited his moth
er and other relatives in Port
land last week end.
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of
Medford called on his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. U. Smith, re
cently. The Smiths recently sold
their ranch on Thompson creek
and have purchased a home in
Medford.
George Smith and daughter.
Geneva, have been camping on
Graves creek, where George is
cutting wood and Ivan Governor
is delivering it to market.
Mrs. Pauline Tygart left Sat
urday for Portland for a visit
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. Nora Wait attended the
Live Oak Grange picnic Sunday
held on the lawn of the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Badley, near
the Rogue river.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wright and
family and other members of
the family from Gold Hill held
a picnic Sunday on the bank .of
Rogue river back of the Lyman
place, near the Old Swinimin
Hole."
Mrs. Nellie Smith of Gold
Hill spent Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith
and to get ecqualntcd with her
new great-grandson, Gary Evans.
Dr. and Mrs. Moser, Mr. and
Mrs. S. Dahl and daughter, Mrs.
lone Moore of Grants Pass, were
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
O. K. Dahl. Mrs. Moore, who re
cently came from Oakland, Cal
has purchased a place on the
Redwood highway out from
Grants Pass and will build her
a home there.
Ma, A. H. Gardner, Jr., com
manding officer of the Lake City
ordnance plant near Kansas City,
Mo., recently said it would take
one man 675 days counting con
tinuously 24 hours a day without
time out for eating and sleeping
to count the amount of ammuni
tion produced at the plant in May
alone.
Our Day
In one dy on the Great Northern Railway system:
Freight cars, of which 44,000 are in operation, move
more than 2,200,000 car miles.
Freight trains produce 54,000,000 net ton miles of
transportation.
Road locomotives run more than 71,000 miles.
More than 600,000 gallons of fuel oil and over 3,000
tons of coal are consumed by locomotives.
$130,000 in taxes come due.
R. S. ROPER, Trav. Frt. Agent
530 American Bank BIrlg.
Portland 5, Oregon
Y SETTING UP
PROCESSING BASES
IN RESORT HOTELS
Washington, July 27 U.Pi
Redistribution stations to process
and reassign army ground and
service force personnel returning
from overseas will be established
at suitable locations throughout
the country in September, the
war department announced to
day.
A similar program already has
been launched by the air forces.
The stations will be located
generally in resort hotel facil
ities suitable for year-around oc
cupancy. Several hotels at Mi
ami Beach, Fla., have been ac
quired for this purpose and are
now being made ready. Negotia
tions are in progress for facil
ities at Hot Springs, Ark.: Santa
Barbara. Cal.; Lake Placid, N. Y.,
and Asheville, N. C.
Processing of personnel will
include complete physical exam
inations, careful reconditioning
of army records as to pay and
allotments, and evaluation of the
most suitable new assignments
from the standpoint of military
necessity and the individual's
mental and physical capacity.
Brownsboro
Brownsboro, July 27 Mr.
Warren and son of Riverside,
Calif., visited at the Jim Tram
mell home July 14.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Works
visited friends and relatives in
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captured Salpan while Invasion of Guam seals off large Jap fore on
strategic Orote Peninsula cootalninc major airfield.
Grants Pass last week.
Bill Totten has returned home
after undergoing a tonsillectomy.
Word has been received that
Don McConald of Fort Klamath
was killed in an automobile ac
cident a few weeks ago. He wbs
one of the pioneers of this
vicinity.
A birthday party was given
July 21 in honor of Miss Char
mayne Lea Charley's tenth birth-
TnuniaT. July . lit MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE tZVZK
Ing the week-end at the home of
her friends, Mr. and Mrs. C. O.
Monla, and daughter, Diana, of
Medford.
Word has been received th.U
Bruce Hansen S 2-c, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Hanrcn, has re
cently been transferred to Great
Lakes Naval Training station.
Apply Now For Oil
For Winter Heating
Everyone using oil-burning
equipment should apply for
their next year's ration at once,
if this has not previously been
done. It was stated at the local
ration board today. New tenants
in houses having oil-burning
equipment should apply now, as
well as those who ordered fuel
last year, it was said.
In spite of the urgent need to
lay in next year's fuel supply
now, It Is reported that at least
25 per cent of the fuel oil con
sumers have not yet applied for
next year's rations. A fuel short
age for next winter is reported
from many sections of the nation
and local ration board officials
urge consumers to buy their
supplies this summer as much as
possible.
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day. Following the games that
were played, refreshments were
served. Attending were Dorothy
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man, Evelyn Rutledge, Dorothy
Wright, Jimmy Trueblood and
Dale Wilson.
Bonnie Rae DeLalre of Med
ford is spending a few days with
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Brown.
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