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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1944
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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.
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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
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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
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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.