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Thirty-ninth Year
Yankees Cross
Strike Toward Heart Of France
CANUCKS, BRITISH
ALSO SHARE
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Other American Forces Fight
Way Back to Percy; Nazi
Left Wing Crumpling.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Aug. 1 (U.R) American forces
raced Into Brittany toward the
heart of France today, spearing
across the Selune river in gains
of 4Vt miles below Avranches,
while Canadian troops opened a
new attack south of Caen at the
other end of the swaying French
front.
Supreme Headquarters an
nounced that the entire German
west wing sagged back before a
general American advance, as
British forces extended their
gains to ten miles in the Cau-
mont area, and the Canadians
stormed Nazi fortifications
around Tilly La Campagne, four
miles south of uacn.
Cross Selune
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's
armored units smashed across
the Selune at Pontabault and
Ducey, 3V4 and 4V4 miles south
and southeast of Avranches,
crashing the last water barrier
on which the routed and dis
organized Germans might have
blocked the breakout from Nor
mandy. Mopping up behind the spec
tacular armored thrusts, other
U. S. forces fought their way
back into the key base of Percy,
and the Americans cut the Av-ranches-Villedieu
highway just
south of the latter town and
pushed across the Villcdieu
Percy road.
American and British forces
were broadening and deepening
their wedge behind Tessy-Sur-Vire,
the British driving across
the river Souleuvre, 10 miles
south of St. Lo. Headquarters
said the Germans around Tessy
were in a position already ser
ious if not precarious.
Vire Threatened
The sudden British spurt
across the Souleuvre river ap
proached Le Beny-Bocakcs and
established a firm bridghcad
half a mile wide on the south
side of the Vire tributary, open
ing a new threat to the town of
Vire from the northeast. The
new positions represented gains
up to 10 miles since yesterday,
the speed indicating a hurried
German withdrawal.
United Press Correspondent
William Wilson reported from
the Caen front that Canadian
troops launched a scries of at
tacks against heavily defended
German positions south of Caen
early today. He said the attacks
had not yet attained the scope
of a general offensive. German
broadcasts reported flaring ac
tio below Caen and said a large
scale drive "can be assumed to
have been launched."
The Canadians charged out of
their slit trenches three hours be
fore dawn, after a heavy artil
lery barrage, and drove forward
in a heavy fog. Wilson said one
Canadian attack centered south
of Hubert-Folie in the area of
Tilly La Campagne, which the
Canadians captured last week
but lost after a short time. Other
supporting attacks were opened
on the flanks of this thrust.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
M Sst. Lendon Scott going
Into raptures over the tourna
ment performance of his WAC
Softball team.
Clyde Caton, after an hour's
strenuous softhall playing with
fellow Ashland Elks, resem
bling a casualty frcm a six-day
bike ride.
Lt. Don Gillespie very glad
to be home after a year on a
navy carrier and easerly look
ing forward to a whole month
in Medford.
MEDFORD
United Press
Finns Make Mannerheim President
In Action Looking Toward Peace
Stockholm, Aug. 1 (U.PJ The Swedish Telegraph Agency re
ported from Helsinki tonight that President Risto Ryti of Finland
had resigned and Baron Karl Von Mannerheim was made presi
dent by a special parliamentary decree.
The report of Rytl's resignation followed persistent rumors of
a gathering political crisis in Finland and unofficial speculation
here that is revolved around renewed Finnish determination to get
out of the war. '
The Swedish agency said Premier Edwin Linkomies offered a
motion in parliament to make Mannerheim, commander-in-chief of
the Finnish armed forces, president to succeed Ryti, and it was
adopted. 1
The agency's report was based on what it described as an of
ficial announcement in Helsinki.
I
LOCKED IN BATTLE
FLORENCE AREA
Rome, Aug. 1. (U.R) British
and German forces locked in a
swaying battle of tanks and in
fantry almost in the outskirts of
Florence today and official re
ports said the 8th army veterans
were slugging forward yard by
yard against some 50,000 to 75,
000 crack Nazi troops manning
the last hill defenses below the
city.
(London dispatches intimated
that the fall of Florence was
imminent, reporting that Gen.
Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander,
allied commander in Italy, had
appealed to patriots inside the
city to prevent the retreating
Germans from blowing up
bridges and communications.)
An allied communique re
ported that heavy fighting raged
along the entire Florence front
throughout yesterday, with the
8th army making "slow but
methodical progress."
(The German DNB news agen
cy said Nazi forces evacuated
'some parts of Pisa In order to
spare its historical monuments
from destruction. It was indi
cated that German troops still !
were holding out in some sec-i
tions of the city on the north
bank of the Arno river.)
CHAPLIN FATHER
MB. DAUGHTER
Hollywood, Aug. 1U.R)
Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife
presented him late last night
with his fourth child.
Physicians at St. John's hos
pital in Santa Monica said the
mother, 19-year-old former Oona
O'Neill, and the child, a six
pound 1 1V& ounce daughter,
were doing well and that deliv
ery was normal. Everything was
normal, in fact, except the way
the news was announced.
Chaplin's harried butler, who
had his troubles when his mas
ter was Involved in the Joan
Barry paternity case which
still is to come to trial report
ed early in the evening that the
newest Mrs. Chaplin wouldn't
be going to the hospital until
next weak.
About that time Dr. Sheldon
Payne said he was getting ready
to drive her to St. John's. The
infant was born at 11:12 p. m..
and the butler was called to the
phone again to announce: "We're
all asleep here and we've got
nothing to say."
The 54-year-old comic eloped
with the sloe-eyed daughter of
Playwright Eugene O'Neill a
year ago last June, when he was
In the midst of trying to dodge
Miss Barry, who accused him of
being the father of her yet-to-come
child.
Washington, Aug. 1 (U.R)
Sergio Osmena today was sworn
In as the second president of the
Philippine Commonwealth, suc
ceeding Manuel Quezon, who
died earlier in the day at Sar
anac Lake, N. Y.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST
Selune River To
T
By United Press
A successful American landing
on Sansapor on the north Dutch
New Guinea coast put Gen.
Douglas MacArthur 200 miles
closer to the Philippines today
while predictions were made In
London that Britain soon would
send a large proportion of her
naval strength to the Pacific for
the gathering battle with Japan.
Allied forces under MacAr
thur, in a brilliantly executed
amphibious operation, landed on
Sansapor Sunday, by passing
15,000 Japanese troops at Sar
ong, 68 miles down the coast.
The movement was undetect
ed by the enemy and little oppo
sition has developed, MacArthur
said in his communique which
disclosed his forces had secured
their beachhead, advanced to a
strategically important river and
had started construction of an
airport, 600 miles from the Phil
ippines.
Other American forces, In the
same operation, seized the near
by islands of Middlcburg and
Amsterdam.
An Allied spokesman said the
operation brought all of New
Guinea under Allied control and
removed for good the threatened
security of Australia.
CORDON SPEAKS
IGHT
Guy Cordon, Roseburg, United
States senator from this district,
will speak In Medford Thursday
night at a Chamber of Commerce
meeting, it was announced today
by Frank Hull, manager. The
meeting is scheduled for 7:30
p. m. at the Chamber of Com
merce building.
Senator Cordon will discuss
projects and problems of this dis
trict affected by legislation, Hull
stated, and the meeting is open
to anyone Interested.
It is understood that Senator
Cordon will meet with Grants
Pass citizens at noon.
Premier in Exile
Must Deal First
With Moscow Poles
Moscow, Aug. 1 (U.R) Pre
mier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of
the Polish government-in-exile,
who arrived from London last
night, was believed in informed
circles here today to face the
prospect of having first to deal
with the Polish committee of na
tional liberation recently set up
in Moscow before discussing Russian-Polish
problems with Pre
mier Josef Stalin.
Foreign observers, critical of
Mikolajczyk for having delayed
too long in seeking an under
standing with the Soviet govern
ment, thought the Polish govern
ment in London had Moscow in
an awkward position and that
Mikolajczyk must find some ba
sis of agreement with the Polish
committee first.
TIRE SHORTAGE
THREATENS CUT
IN LOG HAULING
Lumbermen and Loggers to
Confer Here Thursday
With Senator Cordon.
Facing a reduction in truck
tire supplies of approximately
65 per cent, lumbermen and
loggers of this district are this
week making a survey of their
supplies and drafting plans to
make available tires last as long
as possible. Throughout lumber
sections of Oregon and Wash
ington it is being predicted that
if the curtailment is prolonged,
production of lumber will be
cut down as much as 50 per
cent.
Southern Oregon lumbermen
are planning a conference here
Thursday with United States
Senator Guy Cordon of Rose
burg. Cordon, with Congress
man Harris Ellsworth of Rose
burg, met with OPA officials
in Portland last week to discuss
the situation and at that time
lt was announced that a five
man advisory committee had
been appointed to work with
the new truck tire panel iu
Portland through which all ap
plications for truck tires must
now be channeled. Named to
the committee is Donald F. Call
of the Medford Office of De
fense Transportation.
Quotas Cut Deep
Oregon's quota for truck tires
for August has been set at 1318,
while in past months it has been
in the neighborhood of 3800.
The reduction was brought
about by Increased demands of
the army and navy and follow
ing the OPA conference with
Cordon and Ellsworth, the lat
ter was quoted as having de
clared, "the army has to make
up its mind whether they in
crease the stockpile of rubber in
the warehouses or whether they
get lumber." Both Cordon and
Ellsworth were quoted to the
effect that unless the tire re
lease is increased, the logging
industry will be faced with a
virtual shut down.
B. L. Nutting of the Medford
corporation stated yesterday
that his firm was making a
complete canvass of all truck
operators to ascertain the con
dition of their present tires. He
pointed out that his firm brings
in about half its supply of logs
by railroad and that the remain
ing half is trucked in. "Some
truckers failed to realize the
seriousness of the situation," he
declared and added that one an
swer to the problem might be
in better distribution of avail
able tires. Nutting had dis
cussed the problem with War
Production Board officials who
stated that at least a 25 per cent
production cut would result
from the tire shortage.
50 Per Cent Cut Seen
A. A. Lausman of the Tiller
Mill and Lumber company re
turned over the week-end from
Seattle where he met with rep
resentatives of the West Coast
Lumberman's association and of
the Pacific Northwest Loggers'
association to discuss the tire
shortage. He said public trans
portation In Seattle was being
curtailed because of the bus
tire shortage and that at the
lumbermen's meetings predic
tions were to the effect that
production would be down 50
per cent in 60 days. He urged
loggers and lumbermen to an
swer questionnaires which they
are receiving from the associa
tion dealing with the tire short
age. Timber Products company Is
also surveying truckers' tire
supplies and gathering figures
for the conference with Senator
Cordon according to the mana
ger, C. H. Herman, who thought
something useful would result
from the meeting.
Charles Skeetcrs, one of the
county's large operators of log
ging trucks, predicted last night
that 75 per cent curtailment
1, 1944
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of Germans retreating down the coast alter smashing a llerce counter-attack below St. Lo In tne biggest U. a
armored victory since Lt. Gen. Georee 8. Pattou Jr. sollt Sicily. Signal Corps radlo-telephoto.
T
IS BELIEVED NEAR
London, Aug. 1 (U.R) Hun
dreds of German nationals fled
from Turkey today and their
embassy staff prepared to fol
low them, as Allied sources pre
dicted that the Turks, defying
Nazi threats of reprisals, would
break relations with Germany
within the next 24 hours.
United Press Staff Corre
spondent Leon Kay reported in
a dispatch from Ankara that the
Germans were crowding aboard
trains at Istnbul in an effort to
get across the frontier into Bul
garia before the break.
Kay said the parliamentary
group of the republican peo
ple's party the sole political
party in Turkey was sched
uled to meet in Ankara this aft
ernoon, presumably to discuss
Turko-German relations.
Travellers from Sofia, he add
ed, reported Bulgarian political
sources expect the break to
come as a result of Turkey's
reported decision to grant mili
tary bases to the Allies and to
expel German agents and Fifth
columnists from the country.
In event the rupture brings
Turkey into the war, he said,
the Bulgarians are expected to
remain neutral.
The Turks, meanwhile, ap
peared to be ignoring a Nazi
warning that a diplomatic break
would have "very grave conse
quences" for Turkey, and Kay
reported the Nazi embassy staff
was packing for an apparently
imminent departure.
Attendance Sparse
As Congress Opens
Washington, Aug. 1. (U.R)
Congress officially ended its
summer recess at noon today,
but faced at least a temporary
delay in the job of passing re
conversion legislation In prep
aration for possible collapse of
Germany.
Despite the prodding of War
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes and both Democratic and
Republican leaders, attendance
at the opening session was sparse
in the senate and house and both
chambers soon recessed until
noon Thursday.
would result in a few weeks If
more tires are not forthcoming
and declared he thought the re
lease would be increased short
ly. Retail lumbermen are appar
ently of the opinion that the
freezing of all No. 4 common
and belter lumber, which goes
Into effect today, was not espe
cially tied in with the logging in
dustry emergency, since the or
der was worked out for the pur
pose of controlling the use of
tho lumber rather than curtail
ing its use. In the future per
sons wishing lumber must have
a certification from one of three
war agencies and In this way it
is thought available lumber will
be chanellcd to points where it
will be most useful.
United Press Full
Tanks Smash Through
Rex Bell Aspires
To Congress Seat
Reno, Nev., Aug. 1. (U.R)
Rex Bell, one-time hero of the
cowboy movies of silent days,
who now operates a pure-bred
Hereford ranch in southern Ne
vada, today announced his can
didacy for the Republican nom
ination as representative in con
gress. Bell, who shortly after his re
tirement from the screen to be
come a working cowboy, instead
of playing tho part before a cam
era, married the then famed "It"
girl of- the silent screen, Clara
Bow. For the last 15 years Bell
has devoted his entire time to
his ranching and to his wife.
JAPS ON T
POCKET ON TIP
Pearl Harbor, Aug. 1 (U.R)
American forces, striving to com
plete their conquest of Tinian
island, repulsed a scries of Japa
nese counter-attacks, killing 300
enemy troops and containing the
remainder in a small pocket at
the extreme southern tip of the
island, Pacific fleet headquar
ters announced today.
Other marine and army troops
on Guam now control the south
ern half of the island, and are
preparing a drive northward
from a new line established
across the island's center, the
communique disclosed.
Adm. Chester W. Nimllz, Pa
cific fleet commander, confident
ly predicted the destruction of
enemy resistance on Tinian.
"The enemy on Tinian now has
little means of resistance and no
means of escape," he said.
Postwar Lineup For World Peace Shows
United States To Lead Sea, Air Power
By Virgil Plnkley
UP Staff Correspondent
London, Aug. 1. (U.R) This
is the way qualified allied ob
servers see tho postwar military
lineup:
On land Russia, the United
States, Great Britain, France,
China.
On sea United States, Great
Britain, France, Russia.
In the air United States,
Great Britain, Russia, France.
These observers told the
United Press that if that power
ful alignment worked together
and kept peace among its mem
bers, no major war could occur
for 50 years or possibly a full
century.
They based that supposition
upon tho expectation that Ger
many and Japan will be ruth
lessly smashed. They also said
that the united nntions probably
would keep up research to
strengthen their armed forces.
It is inconceivable, the ob
servers said, that the Soviets will
relinquish the land lead they
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NO. 111.
Coutances
CAMP ABBOTT IS
BEING DISBANDED;
LAND UP FOR SALE
Washington, Aug. 1 (U.R)
Camp Abbott, near Bend, Ore
has been declared surplus by the
army. It was learned today at the
war department.
Samuel M. Husband, a mem'
bcr of the Board of the Recon
struction Finance Corp. and the
corporation s director of surplus
properties, said former owners
of the 45,000 acres comprising
the camp most of them farm
ers were being notified that the
camp is being disbanded. They
will be afforded an opportunity
to repurchase their former land
at prices set by RFC appraisals,
he said, if they so notify the
agency within 15 days of re
ceipt of the notice.
He said no decision had been
reached yet regarding disposal
of buildings and other installa
tions erected at the camp, but
said they would be removed in
some fashion. He also said the
army would undertake to clear
unexplndcd shells from 10,000
acres that were used as an artil
lery practice range.
Husband said Col. M. J.
O'Bryho, chief of the RFC's real
estate section, had just conclud
ed a survey of the area and is en
routo back to Washington to re
port. London, Aug. 1 U.R) The
DNB News Agency reported to
night that a reward of 1,000,000
rcichmarks had been offered for
the capture of Dr. Karl Gocr
deler, 00, former lord mayor of
Leipizg, who is wanted for com
plicity in tho July 20th attempt
to assassinate Hitler,
already hold.
Red Army Toughest
Despite enormous losses the
Russians have maintained a man
power pool even exceeding that
of the United States. The Rus
sians have been fighting a total
war for a longer period on their
homeland than any other group,
and this has created the toughest
army in the world.
Russia uses four to six million
fighting men at the same time
so that, proportionately, the
Russian soldier gets far more
combat experience than any
other soldier.
The Russians still have great
manpower reserves, tho ob
servers stated, such as 2,000,000
unused winter ski fighters and
8,000,000 youths of near military
age.
Another point toward Russian
land superiority, according to
the experts, is that the Russians
have fought and conquered in
virtually every type of terrain
and under all weather condi
tions. On the sea, the United States
PALL OF SMOKE
WRAPS CITY AS
Russians Storm Across Vis
tula; Nazi Officials, Civil
ians Leaving Capital.
London, Aug. 1 (U.R) The)
Russian government organ Izves.
tla reported today that Warsaw
was enveloped in a great pall
of smoke and the Germans ap
parently were putting the torch,
to the city preparatory to aban
doning it to Soviet assault troopi
battling through the eastern
suburbs.
As the battle for Warsaw roar
ed toward a climax, Berlin said
the Red army had stormed across
the Vistula river 55 miles to the
southeast, and Moscow gave)
tacit support to the enemy re
port that the last big water bar
rier east of German Silesia had
been forced.
An Izvestia dispatch from lha
front indicated that Warsaw,
Polish capital already onca
martyred in this war, was ablaze
under the rolling mass of smoke.
Nazis Evacuate
The United Press dispatch
from Moscow quoting the Izves
tia account said earlier reports
reaching the Russian capital had
told of the evacuation of Nazi
officials and German civilians
from the capital, bearing out
signs that Adolf Hitler had given
up hope of holding the capital
of the first nation he seized by
force of arms.
The exiled Polish government
in London received underground
reports from Warsaw today that
the Germans had evacuated 25,
ooo German civilians, leaving;
only army troops and gestapo
agents in the city.
Polish troops were fighting;
side by side with the Russians in
the suburbs of Warsaw along
the east bank of the Vistula, and
Izxestla said the civilians wera
pelting the liberators with flow
ers and garlanding the giant
tanks crashing in through the
German defenses.
Soviet front dispatches report
ed fierce and bloody fighting in
the suburbs, with some villages
defended house by house. Red
army artillery and tanks were
taking the leading roles in the
break-through to Warsaw, while
cavalry slashed at the enemy
flanks and chopped up the rout
ed Nazi units.
Hurry To Berlin
"We are pushing forward
quickly because it is very urgent
that we get to Berlin quickly,
and that is why we shall be
there very soon," a Moscow
broadcast said.
Polish underground reports to
the exiled government here said
calm had been restored In the
German ranks Inside Warsaw
"after several days of confusion
and panic." They said 25,000 un
derground soldiers were main
taining contact with the Soviet
forces In the district of Kielce,
90 miles southwest of Warsaw.
The Germans were reported
by the underground to have
taken many valuable pieces of
art and furniture to Berlin from
the Royal Palace of Lazienki and
Belvedere Palace, both state
owned. TO BERLIN
By United Press.
The shortest distances to
Berlin from the advanced al
lied lines today:
Russia 330 miles.
Italy 607 miles.
France 623 miles.
took the lead from England in
the experts' opinion, because the
U. S. government undoubtedly
will want to keep at least a two
ocean navy afloat, augmented by
strong naval, land, and air
forces, to protect new territorial
acquisitions or protectorates In
the Pacific.
May Fade France
Although France lined up as
the third naval power, the ex
perts said Russia may edge the
French out In the future with
the soviet combined Baltic and
Black sea fleet and an Atlantic
fleet operating from ice-free
ports.
-Expanding Russian foreign
trade, they said, will result in
a huge Russian merchant ma
rine. Great Britain, according to
the observers, will bo in second
place and should keep her navy
large. Canada and Australia will
strengthen Britain's sea forces.
U. S. productive capacity has
given it a leadership in the air
which is not likely to be chal
lenged for many generations.