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mm maw mm Weather Forecast: Partly clonfly to cloudy tonight, with thunder storms In mountains and mat tered Bhowers In valley. Little temperature change. Thursday, partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Temp. Highest yesterday - no Lowest this moniing 63 Thirty-ninth Year BRADLEY'S FORCE 1J0RM0RY American Armored Columns Rapidly Lash Out West and South of Pontorson By United Presi Allied forces in Normandy surged ahead today towards a general break-through from the Cotentin peninsula in the wake of the Americans who were on their way to Rennes, almost half way across the Breton peninsula. The Americans already had made a complete break-through at the western end of the front, spreading out southwestwasd in to Brittany and eastward in a major flanking threat to the whole German line. Prime Minister Winston Churchill disclosed in the House of Commons that British troops in the center of the line had broken out into open country 12 miles south of Caumont and that heavy fighting is going on below Caen, where the Canadians at tacked yesterday. Battle For Warsaw The Russians opened the bat tle for Warsaw and the Vistula river line, making the first cros sings of the last natural barrier east of the Reich. To the north they began a battle of annihila tion against perhaps 200,000 Ger mans cut off in Latvia and Es tonia. German resistance at the west ern end of the Normandy front seemed to melt away as the enemy fell back in too great a hurry to lay mines or destroy bridges and dams. The advance appeared to be intonHoH in rut nff the Brittany peninsula, with such big ports as Brest and Lorient. The Germans were known to have greatly weakened their forces In Brit tany, withdrawing at least four infantry divisions in a futile ef ' fort to bolster the Normandy front. Germans Flanked Striking eastward towards the roads leading to Paris, one American column passed through Brecey, nine miles east of Av ranches: Montgothicr, eight miles southeast, and Vezins, nine miles southeast. These columns were cutting behind the German line anchored below Caen in a dan gerous flanking movement. The Americans and British to wards the center of the front were engaged in wiping out the i;nnt ti'hirh the Germans DailtlH I1UJII had made strong counterattacks in an attempt to breaK up me west coast drive. On the eastern front the Rus sians were on the march all the way from the Baltic to tne Car pathians. The First White Rus sian army stormed through the eastern suburbs of Warsaw for a frontal attack and with the First Ukraine army was assault ing the Vistula line on a 200-mile front south of Warsaw to Kra kow. Reds Cross Vistula The Russians made a crossing of the Vistula on pontoon bridges, small boats and even barrels and logs. It was evident ly their intention to flank War saw and probably by-pass it in a direct drive across the Polish plain toward the frontier of the Reich. In the north, three Russian armies were tightening the noose around the Germans caught in the jppor Baltij states and driv ing steadily on F.ast Prussia. The First Baltic army sprang the trap on the Germans by smash ing to the Gulf of Riga at Klap kans. west of Ri;a. All roads of escape were rlnseH cvrrnl hv sea. and the dis organized Germans were under naval and atrial gunfire. Hot Fight In Italy In Italy the British Eiehth Yanks Reds army was engaged along 20- M EDFORD Unittd Prtii Full Leased WUi Near Rennes, Begin Annihilation Trapped New Pacific Landings Reported RUSSIA: BORNEO "SenMpof NEW 4 ' C V-' )l J&ll ALEUTIAN ISL. t $ ySv n ' PACIFIC OCEAN ) r O 'MIDWAY -VfORMOSA MARIANAS ISL. rv SoipiV; . WAKt " Q mSTjniont HONOLULU Vj miLIPPINE"".. ! . tea 3 1 ISL. WAM -.El i t MARSHALL ISL 3 (Acmt Telephoto) Japanese reports Indicate that Americans are "attempting1 to lana oi Rota Island in Marianas, where we already hold Saipan and are swarm ing over Ouam and run an. In New Guinea. General MacArtnurs forca swept ahead following new landings at Sansapor only 600 miles Irom Um Philippines, and on nearby islands. China Defeat Threat Erased By Allied Pacific Victories Chungking, Aug. 2. (U.PJ Chinese forces continued their stub born defense of Hengyang, key railway city in Hunan province, hurling back 10 Japanese thrusts yesterday, while a government spokesman today said that allied victories in the Pacific and air attacks against Japan had removed the threat of a possible defeat in China. "It is clear that Japan's fate has been sealed by the combina tion of forces now being brought against her," said the spokesman, P. H. Chang. "The crisis has shifted and now confronts the enemy." The spokesman said he did not minimize the importance of local situations in the China fighting, but "all we can do in these situations is fight to the best of our ability and cooperate with the allies to the fullest." Counter Planned Asked if China was prepared to launch a general counter at tack In 1944, as promised last January, Chang replied: "Yes, we are still prepared to do that. We may see a counter offensive developing "yet this year." The fighting around Hengyang meantime continued unabated, as Japanese forces encircling the Fierce fighting also raged in the city sought to storm its gates, suburbs to the east and north. (Tokyo radio reported that American ground troops were fighting In defense of Hengyang. A broadcast recorded by United Press in San Francisco said American Infantrymen were dis patched from India via Kun ming. There was no allied con firmation of this report). Gen. McNair Killed By American Bomb Washington, Aug. 2 U.R Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, for mer commanding general of the army ground forces, who met death in Normandy, was killed by an American bomb, the war department announced today. The bomb was dropped In an Intensive aerial bombardment of enemy lines preparatory to the present large scale American breakthrough in Normandy, the department said. mile front below Florence In what front dispatches said was the bitterest hand-to-hand fight ing since Cassino. Only small gains were reported in the southwestern and southern out skirts of Florence, but to the east the Germans withdrew slightly to straighten their line. Berlin radio said Allied field u.in were shellina Florence and repeated the assertion that the Leaning Tower of Pisa had been shelled and damaged. The Ger mans did not withdraw their re port of yesterday that they bad evacuated risa. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1944 J PALMYRA IRITAIN SOLOMONS SAMOA V BY NARROW EDGE; SEN. CLARK FAILS . ' By United Press The renomination of Rep. Hamilton Fish, Jr., pre-war Iso lationist, In New York's reappor tioned 29th district, highlighted the primary election returns from four states New York, Missouri, Kansas and Virginia today, but in Missouri, another ardent isolationist, Sen. Bennet Champ Clark, was trailing State Attorney General Roy McKit trick by nearly 16.000 votes and apparently was defeated for the Democratic nomination. In another contest In a newly- aligned district in New York, Rep. Vito Marcantonlo, seeking renomination for a fifth term, won both the Democratic and Republican nominations, defeat ing Democrat Rep. Martin J. Kennedy, of the old district, 10, 051 to 7812 and Republican Rob ert C. Palmer. 2948 to 2720. Fish's opponent, Augustus W. Bennet. Newburgh attorney, con ceded the nomination early to day. Bennet, however, was unop posed for the nomination of the Democratic and American Labor parties, and will oppose Fish In the November election. The Margin of victory was the smallest ever piled up by Fish who battled for renomination in a reapportioned district in which voters of three counties were strangers. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Assistant Police Chief Joe Cave nostalgically reminiscing on his career as a city cop, which started 23 years ago to a day on August 1. Ashland's Mayor Thornton Wiley debating whether or not to run for a fourth term along with F.D.R. .George Davis back In his old haunts and wearing fivettollar imlle, Big Traffic Center; TURKEY BREAKS WITH NAZIS AT: Threats of "Grave Conse quences" Ignored; Bulgar ian Peace Effort Expected London, Aug. 2. (U.PJ Nazi Germany's political mastery of Europe cracked today as Turkey broke off diplomatic and com mercial relations in a defiant move that threatened to squeeze Hitler's Balkan satellites out of the war and force a general German evacuation of Greece and the Aegean islands. Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu announced the long-expected break at a meet ing of the national assembly in Aankara today, declaring that the rupture, effective immedi ately, was decided upon at the request of Great Britain. Threats Ignored ' Saracoglu brushed aside Ger man threats of "grave conse quences" stemming from the break and declared that it Is for the relch to decide on war or peace with Turkey. The action was expected to be followed by a Bulgarian attempt to make peace with the allies, with Romania and Hungary pro bably following the Bulgars out of the axis camp. The Turkish diplomatic stroke came hard on the heels of an other blow to Germany's pres tige in the north, where Finland appointed Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Manncrhcin presi dent in an apparent move to ward peace for that unhappy satellite. Manncrhcim's appoin t m e n t appeared to presage a (Jencrul re-shuffle of the Finnish govern ment that rejected Russia's peace overtures last April. Saracoglu disclosed his gov ernment's decision to break with Germany in a defiant speech to the national assembly which Immediately ratified the cabinet action by unanimous vote. He revealed that Britain had asked Turkey to sever relations with the Nazis under the terms of the Anglo-Turkish military alliance, and that the United States had supported the British in this request. Authoritative sources In Lon don described the Turkish break as a diplomatic defeat of the first order for Hitler and his wily ambassador Franz von Papen, who has spared no effort In Ankara to try to keep the Turks in line and maintain the solidarity of Germany's Balkan coalition. 17 Killed When B-24'8 Collide Muroe Army Air Base, Calif., Aug. 2 (U.R Alrbase officers today believed that 17 men were killed in a collision of two B 24 Liberator bombers over Death Valley yesterday. One man es caped. Col. Gerald Hoyle, base com manding officer, said wreckage was strewn over a wide area. The planes were on a training flight. PASTOR DIES El Ccrrlto, Cal., Aug. 2 (U.R) Rev. Harold H. Griffis, 61, pastor of the University Chris tian church, El Ccrrlto, died suddenly last night, apparently of a heart attack, while attend ing a meeting of the church board of directors. TO DRAFT OLDER MEN Sacramento, Aug. 2 U.R) With draftable men 25 and under practically "cleaned out," men between 26 and 29 wilfmake up a larger proportion of California draft calls In the future, state selective headquarters 'reported today. REQUEST M. SIBhh. GOP Governors And Gov. Dewey In Conference St. Louis, Aug. 1 (U.PJ The Republican Governors confer ence convened today under guidance of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential candi date, to establish a domestic pro gram upon which to challenge President Roosevelt's 1944 bid for a fourth term. - The conference will run through Thursday. Mr. Roosevelt already Is under campaign charges of having fail ed to cope with pre-war depres sion and of bungling post-war economic plans. T U. S. Marine Cemetery, Guam, July 23 (Delayed) (U.PJ On this red clay hill, overlooking the town of Agat and the seas be yond, lie the first dead of our invasion. Twenty-four hours ago it was a battlefield where we killed 68 Japs. Burial services have Just been concluded for 80 marine officers and men, including two "un- later by their fingerprint rec ords. A Jap shell exploded within 200 feet of the cemetery while services were being read, but they continued. Cocoanut trees waved i nthe breeze, and Amer ican artillery shells whirred overhead enroute to demolish enemy positions. 8 to 1 Toll Taken In Battling Jap Airplanes in July Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific. Aug. 2 U.R Al lied planes and light naval craft took an 8-1 toll of Japanese air craft and sank, probably sank or damaged 86 enemy vessels and 166 barges during July, a re capitulation of Gen. Douglas M a c A r t h u r's communiques showed today. A total of 176 enemy planes were destroyed or probably de stroyed. Of the enemy vessels blasted by air patrols covering the East Indies, the Carolines and the wa ters between New Giflnoa and the Philippines, Jl merchant ships and transports, 34 barges and 29 small craft were definite ly destroyed. Hundreds of Japs Stream From Caves For Surrender to Marines on Tinian By Clinton Green (Representing Combined Allied Press) Distributed by United Press Aboard Expeditionary Flag ship, Tinian, Aug. 2 (UP.) (East Longitude Time) (via Navy Radio) (U.R) Hundreds of Japanese civilians streamed from hidden caves on Tinian to day to give themselves up to American marines while other leathernecks pressed the Job of cleaning out remnants of an estimated 8300 enemy soldiers on the Island. Final figures probably will Indicate that the Japanese garri son on Tinian was completely wiped out. Bodies Cremated The commander of the island apparently ordered all Japanese killed either In action or by our prc-invasion bombardments cre mated. The crematory Is located In Tinian town which the marines 1 . . r. n A flrmtnurirl, , 1 1 1 n II n They also have renamed most of the streets after those in Man hattan. in nrltMInn tPnfM nf RnlHicrS ' were burled in the island's cane- Tri'iune Unlt.d ' "ull Nazis OF PUBLICUBRARY Postwar Expansion Pans to Be Drawn Sale of Three City Lots Authorized The city council last night went on record as favoring the postwar improvement and en largement of the public library after an informal discussion with John C. Boyle, chairman of the library board, relative to Im provements needed In order to place the institution in first class condition. The council passed a motion, made by Larry Schade, that the library board have plans and specifications drawn for neces sary additions and improve ments, following Boyle's recom mendation that some sort of legislative act be passed to pro vide for a library building fund. Library Outgrown Boyle told the council that the library was not large enough for a city of this size, both as to floor space and the number of books listed, and that it needed a new floor, new linoleum and other repairs. The council agreed that improvement of the library was a necessary post war project. The council authorized the sale of three lots owned by the city. They were lot 9, block 1, Page addition to Lloyd D. Smiley for $300 provided the title is clear; lot 15, .block 1 Tuttle's second addition to Earl M. and Marianne Harrison for $100 and about an acre of ground on the west side of Boar creek at the fairgrounds to Dr. C. W. Lcmcry for $300. The latter land is ad jacent to Dr. Lemery's small ranch. Renew Coniracts Renewed were two contracts with Foster and Klciser com panw for two sign sites on lot 7, block 9, City of Medford, and lots 12 to 15, block 5, Riverside sub-division, A retail class B beer license was granted to Bert C. Mc Donough, operator of the Casino club. Report of the city police Judge showed $2B9.50 In fines and bail resulted from 40 police court cases in July, Councilman Field was absent. fields which the marines over ran Armrrllno in a hieh-ranking American officer it Is possible! that several thousand soiaicrs, plus comparable number of civilians are hiding out in the cavelike communities where they stored up food and water many weeks ago. This planned dlgglng ln pro cess has made lt necessary for the marines to probe Individual areas to take the holdouts. At the rate civilians have streamed in up to the present, tho task will be completed speedily. Further, many civil ians already have asked for and received permission to return to certain cliffs to persuade their relatives and friends that the Americans will not kill them. Tedious Task Marines familiar with the Job of cleaning out soldiers from caves were confronted with the same task at Marpi Point on Sal pan where the enemy daily was rooted out from hiding places. It is a tedious and unspectacular assignment, but the marines are taking lt in 'stride with their usual shrug. With organized resistance on Tinian ending at 6:35 p.m. Aug. i Leased Wire NO. 112. Obtains Divorce (Acmo Telephoto) Shirley Evans Hossau, blonde, 23-year-old film player, who once charged that Actor Errol Flynn was father ot her baby daughter, smilet In Los Angeles court after she won divorce from Henry Hnssau, vocalist and ex-Scnbca. AT NOT YET READY FOR RFC ACTION Washington, Aug. 2 (U.PJ About 45,000 acres of land In cluded In the Camp Adair, Ore, reservation, have been declared surplus by the war department and available for other uses and have been turned over to the Surplus Properties Administra tion for disposal, lt was learned toclnx- It was revealed Monday that Camp Abbott, Ore., likewise had been declared surplus. The Unit ed Press at that time quoted Re construction Finance Corp. offi cials as saying the Camp Abbott land would be offered to the for mer owners for repurchase at prices to be set by RFC ap praisals. ' Today, however, the RFC of ficials said there had been a misunderstanding and that they were talking about 45.000 acres of Camp Adair land which pre viously had been turned over to the RFC for disposition. They said Camp Abbott had not yet been given to the RFC. Camn Abbott Includes 1874 acres held by the army under lease, which will be returned to Its owners. There also are 17,860 acres of government land which under normal procedure would be certified as surplus to the RFC for disposal. 1, the marines needed that total of 226 hours and 15 minutes to secure what could be the base for heavy bomber raids against the Japanese homeland Itself. In the closing hours of the fight for Tinian, the Japs failed to come out for their usual "banzai" attack but used instead small groups of a few hundred soldiers for counter-attacks. Ma rines were so close to enemy strong points that only certain types of arms were able to be used. For example, tho proximity to the enemy made strafing mi- possible to carry out. Other spe cialized weapons were held back rather than risk accidents. Casualties to the marines were "very light," considering tho scope of the operation and the known strength of the en emy garrison which apparently staked ncurly everything in a first night attempt to drive the marines buck into the sea. It is probable that the enemy never recovered from the losses it suf fered on this occasion and the garrison commander, seeing the hopelessness of the situation, de cided the only thing to do was to light delaying action. J y a ft. f I - p 111 EXPECTS JAPAN WILL FOLD SOON AFTERGERMANY Buzz Bombs Only Dark Spot In Optimistic Speech Allied Victories Summed London, Aug. 2. (U.PJ Prime) Minister Winston Churchill told commons today that allied vic tory in Europe "may perhaps come soon" and revealed that German flying bombs had killed 4,735 persons, caused the evacu ation of 1,000,000 persons from. London, and might be followed by long range rockets carrying heavier explosive charges. In perhaps his most confident and optimistic speech, Churchill took a sweeping glance at a world war approaching Its clos ing phase" and expressed a firm conviction before commons that the defeat of Japan will not be long delayed after Germany is crushed. Robots Only Worry The only dark spot in his 105- mlnute review was the Nazi flying bomb attack on Britain he said 5,340 robots had been. launched so far and the possi bility of its intensification with more destructive rockets. Ha said London probably would be the target of the new weapon and advised evacuation classes and those not engaged in war duties to leave the capital. "I fear greatly to raise false hopes, but I no longer feel bound to deny that victory may perhaps come soon," Churchill said at the climax of his resounding summation of allied victories, actual and prospective,, around the world, 17,000 Houses Razed In addition to the 4,375 per sons killed by the 4,500 tons of flying bombs launched - against Britain between June 15 and July 31, Churchill said 14,000 were injured more or less ser iously, while 17,000 houses were destroyed and 800,000 damaged by the robots. Again he affirmed, however, that the secret weapon attack would have not the slightest ef fect on the course of the war. Covering the whole range of global war in rolling, oratorical phrases breathing confidence in every line, Churchill made these additional points: Germany Totters 1. 'Tremendous events" are taking place Inside Germany, "which must shock to the foun dations the confidence of the people and the loyalty of tho armies. The highest personali ties in the relch are murdering one another or trying to while the avenging armies nf the allies are closing upon the doomed and ever-narrowing power." 2. The latest news from France is "extremely good" and the Americans may be approach ing Rennes In a drive half way across the Breton peninsula's base. German losses have been about double those of the allied armies which are "equipped as no army ever was equipped be fore." 3. India has been defended successfully against Invasion and the British fleet In eastern wat ers will be "greatly strengthen ed" by the end of the year, even while the Japanesc fleet is pre occupied with tho United States navy "which already Is double the size of" Japan's. 4. Allied losses to U-boats have been "almost negligible" this year as against those of former years less than one-half the losses inflicted on the "dwin d"ng and largely Immobile naval resources" of the enemy in both the east and the west. Turkey With Allies 8. Turkey has broken off rela tions with Germany and "no one can tell whether Germany and Bulgaria will attack the Turks, but If so we shall make common causo with her and shall take the German menace as well as we can In our stride." 6. "It is the Russian army who have done most of the work in tearing the guts out of Ger many" and but for the soviet ef fort no force in the world could have broken the German army for several years. 7. "I firmly believe that our 20-ycar treaty with Russia will prove to be one of tho most lasting and durable factors In preserving tho peace and good order of Europe." 8. Relations with the French committee of national liberation have Improved greatly and It is only becoming that Gen. Charles de Gaulle "should stand first and foremost In the days when France shall be raised to her rightful place,"
