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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-
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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
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IRITAIN
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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.
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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,"