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Newspaper Page Textr- Weather Forecast Forecast: Dear Kundar and Monday. Little chanje In tein pfrutuie. Tmp. HlKlirt yesterday - 88.3 Lowrst tht morning .... - 61.3 Precipitation past 24 hrs 0 Us Tb MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results " At Small Cost MEDFORD Tribune Oniled Press Full Leased Wire id Press Full Leased Wlr Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1944 NO. 109. ii truu tt: 111 v n N INDUSTRIAL CITIESJFJ1MY Daylight Raid From North China Made With Light Losses. By Ruel S. Moore United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, July 29 (U.R) American Superfortresses in their first daylight raid loosed tons of destruction on Japanese industrial targets at Anshan, f Manchuria and Tangku, China, with good results and "extreme ly light" losses, the war depart ment disclosed today. The raid, originally announced while it was in progress early today, was the B-29's third major strike against Japan's industrial might in six weeks. The other two, carried out at night, wrought ruin' on the Japanese home island of Kyushu on June 15 and July 17. The war department In its sec ond communique of the day on the new attack revealed that the mighty giants of the 20th bomb er command, flying from bases in China, struck heavily at the great steel center of Ashan, 60 miles southwest of Mukden, and at Tangku, a major port of Japanese-occupied north China and an important outlet and storage point for enemy military supplies. The Japanese radio had broad cast a claim that- one of the Superfortresses was shot down, but all the war department said was that "our losses were ex tremely light." Four B-29's were lost In the June 15 attack, which inflicted blazing damage on the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata on Kyushu. From the second raid, in which the 'great home naval base of Sascbo was one of the targets, all of the Super fortresses returned safely. Tokyo Coy The early announcement of today's raid said merely that Superfortresses had hit indus trial objectives in the Mukden area of Manchuria, the vast new industrial empire which Japan has built up in the obvious be lief that it was as safe from enemy action as Detroit, U. S. A. The later communique said: "Further details are now avail- able on the operation of Super fortresses of the 20th bomber command on Saturday, July 29. The targets, which they attacked in daylight, pre industrial ob jectives at Anshan. Manchuria, and at Tangku. the Port of Tient sin in occupied China. "Observed bombing results were good, against moderate enemy fighter and anti-aircraft opposition. The weather was clear with good visibility. The mission was flown from bases in China. Our losses were ex tremely light." The attack was carried out against a mushrooming indus trial area which predatory Jap anese armies siczed by conquest after the infamous "Mukden in cident" of 13 years ago. It was another in what American mili tary leaders have promised will be a methodical chain of heavy blows at Japan s industrial war making powers. Ti,nt th 20th bomber com mand was plotting its strikes iknj;iiv was indicated by the time lapse between blows in the series initiated June 15. In each case, the interval was exactly 22 days. The Manchurian strike mark ed a new phase in China s seven vear war against Japan. It dealt 'devastation to an area from which flows much of the Japan cse military equipment used by enemy armies in China. Ahan is the site of the Showa Steel Works, the second larg est iron and steel plant in the Japanese industrial system. A citv of 200.000. it lies on the four-track railroad between Muk don and Dairen. This area is the Pittsburgh of Manchuria, com parable in productivity to Penn sylvania or Ohio. Washington, July 29 OI.R Deputy Price Administrator James F. Brownlce told a dele gation of southerners today that OPA will refuse to recommend increased price ceilings on flue cured tobacco. 150,000 NAZIS I S Lm I TRAPPED if jr rjjP JJfoufoncesvLo Salle U I &t vjf T7 r? JL? x? ll L ,9n,, reBY Notre Dame-leOnill, FL Meini X ' (Acme TeUpholo) American armored forces, hammering Germans southward In a chaotic general retreat, drive to within two miles of Coutances and outflank that west coast stronghold with a deep thrust to southeast extending First Army's break-hrouEb to IS miles. Capture ot Coutances would trap remnants ol seven battered enemy di visions, among them, Hitler's favorite Das Reich SS Division. HERE ON FRIDAY Portland, Ore., July 29 (U.R) Oregon senatorial campaigns shifted into high gear today wjth U. S. . Senator Guy Cor don's announcement- that he planned to tour the state to "talk shop" with Oregonians. Unless congress intervenes during his planned trip, he will stop at 37 towns, beginning with Medford on August 4. Willis Mahoncy, Cordon's op ponent, will return to Oregon this week to set up headquar ters and prepare for a trip through the state. Republican candidate Wayne Morse doesn't plan to start heavy campaigning until Sep1 tember although he is now ac cepting speaking invitations. His democratic opponent, Ed gar W. Smith, will begin his campaign in September, too, and expects to tour the state. CIO Acts Eugene, Ore., July 29 (U.R) Delegates attending the Inter national Woodworkers of Amer ica's CIO plywood, box shook and door council meeting here today were urged to adopt a the fourth term for President Roosevelt. William Baker, union presi dent, also asked the delegates to support the CIO Political Ac tion committee. MACHINISTS PLAN 10 DEFY UNION San Francisco, July 29 OJ.R) Eleven machinists who worked today and kept a dribble of the normal bearing production of the Federal Mogus shop rolling into war plants, will return to their lathes again Sunday In defiance ot union officials, company spokesmen reported tonight. With only 11 of the normal crew of 135 workers reporting, however, company officials said production will be critically cur tailed. If the work stoppage contin ues, they said, several war plants may be forced to shut down this week for lack of bearings. PEAR PACK PRICE $73 TO GROWER Portland. Ore., July 29 U.R) Processor ceiling prices on the 1944 pack of canned or frozen pears will be based on an aver age price of $73 per ton to grow ers of Oregon and Washington, the regional office of distribu tion of the War rood Adminis tration announced today. Trap Closing on Normandy Panzer Units LOVE LETTER OF IL DUGE TO GAL GIVEN TO WORLD Rome, July 29 (U.R) Benito Mussolini had a loUof trouble just before he fell from his shaky dictator's chair trouble with his mistress, who was elusive, and with his gastritis, which was ever present. He put his sorrow In a letter to his love. Rome's political satirist week ly, Cantachiaro, today published a photostatic copy of the letter, written to the elusive woman, Claretta Petaccl. The letter. In Mussolini's own handwriting, was found a year ago in Clar etta's sumptuous villa in a fash ionable suburb district. The letter, written in anguish when the lady was playing hard to get: , "Clara it Is now three days, gastritis let's call it that is raging. I'm sick, very sick. So sick that today I rang your num ber hoping to find your father (prominent Rome doctor) hoping to get a sedative. A feminine voice told me he was not in and that you had left word you would return at six. "Awaiting that hour, I tried to ease myself by rolling all the chairs from the room. From what is happening, I gather that you, though detesting me, still love me, while I not only love you, but could never detest you. "Excuse the strangeness of my handwriting, but I have been suffering for five hours, and can't do anything but drink sweetened water. I would wel come you back and embrace you lovingly. "Please answer me. "Lovingly, Signed "Ben." It was said that Claretta met Mussolini at Ostia when she tried to break through police lines at his private beach in order to get a glimpse of II Duce. Intrigued by her pretti ness, the story goes, Mussolini Invited her to call the next day. ODDS ON DEWEY CUT TO 9 TO 5 St. Louis, July 29 (U.R) James J. Caroll, nationally known betting commissioner, changed his odds on the re election of President Roosevelt today from 1 to 3 to 2 to 5. At the same time he cut the odds against Thomas E. Dewey from 21 4 to 1 to a new price of 9 to 5. "A flood of Dewey money showed up. forcing us to cut his price," Carroll said. state"h7ghways good Salem. Ore., July 29 'U.R) State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock, returning from a 1500 mile Inspection trip with mem bers of the highway commission, said today the highway system of Oregon was in excellent con- dition. I E CAPTAIN STATES U. S. First Army Headquar ters, Normandy, July 29 (U.R) A captured German captain said today that Field Marshal Edwin Rommel, field command er of the German' armies In Nor mandy, was wounded and un conscious six hours after Allied planes strafed his motor car be hind the British-German fronts recently. The captain said Rommel jumped from his car into a ditch when the planes swooped down on him near Lisicny, on the road to Rouen. Since Rommel was reported by other prisoners to have at tended a battle conference at Percy on the Amcricar front the day before the opening of this week's American ofensive, it was presumed that he had re covered. Unconfirmable rumors cir culated that a French woman had told Allied officers Rommel died of his injuries. Responsible authorities at this headquarters said they had been unable to find anyone who had talked with the "French women" and the rumor, at best, was fourth hand. (The BBC said the rumor that a French Red Cross nurse had reported Rommel dead was one of many circulating In the Amer ican area in Normandy.) T ON RATION LIST Washington, July 29 (U.R) Ration point values tonight were restored to canned corn in an unexpected move designed to hold stocks on store shelves pending the arrival of the new crop. At the same time point val ues were removed from grape jam, tomato preserves and mar malades. Both actions, anounccd by the Office of Price Administration, will become effective at mid night tonight. OPA said these changes would be the only ex ceptions to the general exten sion of July point values until Aug. 13. which was announced earlier this week. The failure of OPA to make Its customary end-of-the-month announcement of point changes was due to the current disagree ment with the War Food Admin istration on rationing policies. NAME SOBRERO COACH San Francisco, July 29 (UR) Frank Sobrero, former all-Amer-lean backfield star under Coach Buck Shaw at Santa Clara, has been named coach of the San Frncisco Clippers In the new American Fotball league, it was announced today. CAMP ADAIR LAND IS ORDERED SOLD BY ARMYJECREE Former Owners Come First; No Word Regarding Fate of Camp White, v Portland, Ore., July 29 (U.R) Forty-five thousand acres of tim ber and farm lands comprising the Camp Adair military reser vation, near Corvallis, have been declared "surplus" by the army and will be sold, with more than 600 former owners given first op portunity for repurchase, it was announced here today. The Reconstruction Finance corporation today was preparing to send registered letters to the former owners, notifying them of the chance to repurchase their old sites. William Kennedy, head of the RFC here, said that the army was retaining approximately 11. 000 acres, including those on which barracks and other camp buildings were located. There was no official confirmation that the entire camp would be re turned to private ownership. It Is believed the Camp Adair acreage Is the first large mili tary reservation to be ordered returned to private ownership. Kennedy said he had' received no word regarding disposal of Oregon's Camp White, near Med ford, and Camp Abbott, near Bend. Military personnel at Camp White has been reduced to a minimum and prisoners of war are being held there. Camp Ab bott originally was an engineer replacement training center and later an army services forces training center. The army an nounced In June that the army service forces training center was being transferred to Fort Lewis, Wash., and no additional use for Camp Abbott has been reported. Kennedy said that land not bought back by original owners would be surveyed and sold in family-sized tracts at fair prices based on present market value, and with deductions for destruc tion of fences and other damage Incurred during the training of troops. The price the govern ment paid the original owners will not necessarily be the price they will pay to get the land back, Kennedy said. By United Press There is an unscasonal num ber of Infantile paralysis cases throughout the country with epi demics prevailing In sections of New York and North Carolina, It was disclosed Saturday night by a United Press survey. Three western New York counties Erie, Chemung and Steuben have been designated as an epidemic area by State Health Commissioner Francis E. Fronzak. The peak of the epi demic Is expected in August, he said. There have been 18 deaths, 12 In Erie county, which report ed 202 cases: three in Chemung county, with 181 cases, and three in Steuben county, with 97 cases. Four new cases were reported In North Carolina Saturday, and 11 Friday for a total of 416 since June 1. Twenty deaths have re sulted, and 4B of the state's 100 counties are affected with 11 counties have 10 or more caseN each. Other localities reported high er than usual number of Infan tile paralysis cases at this time of the year, but health authori ties said there was no Immediate danger of an epidemic. The mid west, generally, re ported scattered cases. There were 15 cases in Iowa with one fatality. California reported a few scattered cases but 20 persons were under treatment in Ore gon where seven of the total of 34 cases have died. RUSSIANS SHELL WARSAW; SET TO BRIDGE VISTULA Soviet Moves To Outflank Polish Capital; Near East Prussia. London, Sunday, July 30 (U.R) Russian troops, swinging into position for a giant outflanking movement to the south of War saw, yesterday cleared a 60-mile stretch of the Vistula river's east bank and. as Soviet artillery be gan to shell the Polish capital's outskirts, Berlin reported that Red army tanks and Infantry were attempting to ford the great river barrier. As other Soviet troops raced to within 22 miles of East Prus sia, the Nazi DNB agency said that Russian troops attempted to cross the Vistula In ferries at Deblini and Pulawy, 58 and 68 miles south-southeast of the cap ital yesterday. London observ ers believed that some Russian forces already may have estab lished bridgeheads on the west bank. Moscow reports said that Mar shal Konstantln K. Rokossov sky's 1st White Russian army had reached the outer belt of defenses before the cnpllnl and that the battle for the first Unit ed Nations' capital to hear the guns of liberating armies had begun. Moscow's operational commu nique tonight failed, however, to report any advances from Kol biel, 20 miles southeast of the capital completely ignoring any reference to fighting in that area in the customary official manner of avoiding mention of progress in the final stages of battle for a great Nazi fortress. Russian forces, however, cleared a great 60-mile stretch of the east bank of the Vistula river between Dcblin, 50 miles southeast of Warsaw, and the San river estuary above Sando mierz, and began to mass their forces for a giant crossing of the last natural defense barrier be fore the Reich. Along the blazing, 1000-mile eastern front onrushlng Soviet troops swept up more than 1320 towns and settlements and ap proached to within 30 miles of East Prussia by the capture of Jannv, 27 miles southwest of Grodno. While the Soviet air force bombed Warsaw and Riga, Red army forces remaining west of the freed Nazi fortress of Hhest Lltovsk tightened the ring of en circlement around an estimated 30.000 to 45,000 German troops pinned down on the Bug river. E 0R0TE- PENINSULA, VITAL GUAM AREA U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar ters, Pearl Harbor, July 29 (U.R) U. S. marines of Guam cap tured the highly-strategic Orotc peninsula and its 4700-foot air field Friday and U. S. light fleet units are patrolling important Apra harbor to prevent the es cape of any of the 2,000 Japan ese who were trapped on the four-mile finger of land, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced tonight. At the same time, Nlmitz dis closed that marines on Tinian Island to the north hacked out new gains against stubbornly-resisting Japanese to win posses sion of approximately two-thirds of that island and are closing in on Tinian Town. Orotc peninsula fell to the first provisional brigate after a bitter battle to exterminate Jap anese defenders who faced only death or capture on the promon tory where the airport, the town of Siynay and former U. S. marine station are located. Portland, Ore., July 29 4U.R) The truck driver was unable to keep those bottles quiet when 200 cases of beer slid off his truck and onto the Broadway bridge. War Bulletins London, July 29 (U.R) Nearly 2000 American bomb ers and fighters today struck powerful blows for the second time in 24 hours at the main source of Germany's dwin dling fuel reserves, dumping an estimated 3000 tons of ex plosives on the great Leuna synthetic oil refinery at Merse burg and oil targets near Bremen. They followed attacks by 1100 RAF heavy bombers last nigh on Stuttgart and Hamburg, Southeast Asia Headquar ters, Kandy, Ceylon, July 29 (U.R) Troops of the British 14th army today had pushed to within seven miles of Burma border in southeast Manipur and less than nine miles from the town of Tamil the jump-ing-off point lor the vaunted .Japanese invasion of India last March. ALLIES DUE TO SEIZE-FLORENCE DURINGIEK-END Eighth Army Is Five Miles From Historic Art Center; Poles Gain. Rome, July 29 (U.R) Eighth army units have smashed to with in five miles of Florence with in sight of the historic mid-Ital ian art center's sun-bathed spires and domes from the west, and tonight its early capture, possibly during the week-end, seemed certain. On the western flank, Ameri can doughboys stormed Gorman defenses across the Arno river in northern Pisa, in what seem ed an almost hopeless attempt to wrest the ancient city from the enemy before he could destroy its numerous art and historical treasures. Meanwhile Eighth Army Pol ish troops, smashing ahead in the tropical weather on the right flank of the Italian line up the Adriatic coast from Ancona, crossed the Misa river and oc cupied the southern half of Scni gallia, a fishing port. Crack New Zealand forces ad vanced toward Florence against stiff Nazi counter-attacks. They extended by two miles their bridgehead across the Pesa river at Cerbaia, while South African units fought they way more than a mile past the Grcve river, be low Impruneta, five miles due south of Florence. At Cerbaia, hub of secondary roads 7'4 miles southwest of Florence, the New Zealandcrs pierced one of the main sec tions of the German defense line to seize a foothold in the hills overlooking the city. Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sunday, July 30 (U.R) At lea.st 45 Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground or In air combat In the first large-scale Allied raid on Hal mahera In the Moluccas Thurs day, Gen. Douglas MucArthur announced today. AT .1 New York, July 29 (UP) Wendell L. Willkic tonight called for the defeat of Hamilton Fish in his campaign for reelection to congress from the newly con stituted 29th district ot New York. BULLETINS (Night Game) Portland .. 9 12 2 Seattle 2 8 1 Liska and Norager; Babich, McClure 6, Dcmoran 8 and Sucme. DOUGHBOYS POUR THRU 5 HOLES ON N0RMANDY FRONT Nazi Left Flank Buckles; Three Divisions Caught In Tank Advance. Allied Supreme Headquar ters, London, Sunday, July 30 (U.R) Triumphant American doughboys poured through fiva gaping holes in the German bat tle lines in western Normandy today, lunging six miles beyond captured Coutanges to the sea and wiping out the last surviv. ors of three of the seven Nazi divisions caught in the path of! their armored columns. The entire Nazi left flank; buckled and broke under the massive weight hurled against it, sending a torrent .of Yankeo infantrymen and tanks racinrf southward toward the port o Graville only eight miles be. yond the farthest point of the advance last night. Crack German units rushed In from the east stiffened the enemy lines momentarily at some points, particularly west of the Vire river below St. Lo, but nowhere were the battered Nazis able to halt the American Juggernaut. The German poekct north ot Coutances was eliminated by an American force that, driving forward 18 miles In six hours, swept down from Tcssay to join up with two other armored spearheads that had fused at Coutances and pushed on to the) sen at Montmartinsur Mer. United" Press War Correspond ent Robert C. Miller reported the destruction of the enemy pocket in a delayed dispatch from the Coutances front. Thcro was no immediate indication o the fate of several thousand Germans known to have been trapped above Coutances by the) first two American columns that reached the city. A high military spokesman revealed, however, that threa enemy divisions, almost half tho force that attempted to stop tha American offensive, had been destroyed. The Germans put up their bitterest resistance In the Tes sy area west of the Vire river. The German second armored di vision, rushed the Caen front, hurled a savage counterattack: against the advancing Ameri cans, only to bo smashed back; with heavy losses. For the mo ment, however, Tcssy itself be came a no-man's-land as the two tank armies sparred around its outskirts. The counterblow failed to) halt the stampede of the main German force to the west. En emy vehicles were jammed bumper to bumper along tha highways In a disorderly re treat towart Brittany, piling up tanks and transport at broken bridges under merciless attack; from low-flying allied planes. COASfCIRllT F L Los Angeles, July 29 (U.R) Tho Pacific Coast ieaguc today declared war on gamblers In tha league's ball parks, with Presi dent Clarence "Pants" Rowland opening the fight through let ters addressed to clubs. Rowland asked tho clubs "to throw out any loud mouthed, two-bit gamblers who mako life miserable for other fans, to prevent congregating in tho aisles and generally to crack; down on disturbing elements, "Gambling in Pacific Coas league ball parks simply cannot be tolerated. There is no room in baseball for gamblers and it isn't fair to regular customers) to be subjected to the uncouth language and tho jostling of petty larceny betters," Rowland said. Midland. Mich., July 29 (U.RJ E. W. Bennett, president ot the Dow Magnesium Corp., an nounccd tonight that the War Production board had ordered the 72,000,000 pound, government-owned magnesium plant at Marysville, Mich., closed.