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Thirty-ninth Year
RED TROOPS DEAL
NAZI OILSUPPLY
Capture Stryj in Southern
Poland in 7-Mile Lunge;
Prussia Invasion Near.
By Robert Musel
United Press Correspondent
London, Aug. 5 (U.R) Rus
sian troops dealing a crippling
blow to Adolf Hitler's dwin
dling oil supply, today captured
Stryj, an important Nazi base
in the Carpathian foothills, and
Berlin said that other Soviet
forces had breached German
lines near the East Prussian
frontier station of Eydtkuhnen.
The capture of Stryj in the
region of great Galician oil
fields in southern Poland by
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st
Ukrainian army was announced
in an order of the day issued by
Premier Josef Stalin a victory
celebrated by the firing of 12
salvos from 124 guns in Moscow
tonight.
Seizing the town in a seven
mile advance, Konev's forces
cut one of the two remaining
railroads across the high Car
pathians into Czechoslovakia,
over which the Germans have i
been routing oil to their labor
ing war machines.
Stryj lies only 15 miles east
of Drohobycz, great refining
center for the extensive oil
wells of Boryslaw. Advancing
westward toward Drohobycz,
1 the Russians were threatening
" to seize the oil center, only one
other great oil producing region
the much-bombed Ploesti oil
main to feed the insatiable maw
fields in Romania would re
of the Wehrmacht.
Near Czech Border
Konev's forces took Stryj
ifter crossing the river of the
Fame name, and as powerful
elements smashed all German
resistance in the city, other
forces smashed southward along
the railroad from Stryj to Muk
acevo in Czechoslovakia, and
drove to within 39 miles of the
Beskid Pass border of that en
slaved country.
Meantime, German broad
easts hinted that Russian troops
already may have invaded the
German soil of cast Prussia.
At the same time, erupting
i from the Vistula river bridge-head
northeast of Krakow,
other Soviet forces were less
than 35 miles from the ancient
capital of Poland as they raced
toward the coalfields of Ger
man Silesia.
The Russians also were at
tacking west of the Lithuanian
town cf Kalvarija, 17 miles
from the frontier, Berlin ad
mitted, while the German High
Command said that Gen. Ivan
D. Cherniakhovsky's 3rd White
Russian army was attempting to
break through to the home of
Jimkerdom from Sakaia, 25
miles north of Virbalis and 10
miles from the border.
ON LAP, IS II
Portland, Ore., Aug. S (U.R)
Paul Jasney, national OPA
meat ejiert here to study the
northwest lamb situation, hint
ed in a press conference today
that the OPA did not favor the
30-day point holiday still sought
here as a means of relieving
the glutted market.
Referring to a request made
to the national office by OPA
Administrator Charles R. Baird
of San Francisco, and Portland
OPA Director McDannell
Brown, Jasney said that to be
fair to the whole nation it might
be necessary to waste something
of some product in every pro
ducing center from time to time.
As a part answer to the over
supply , he suggested shipping
some cf the lamb to other west
ern centers and he mentioned
Seattle, Spokane. San Francisco.
, and the army. When asked who
m would pay the extra freight
"charges to these centers if the
OPA did not raise the ceiling
price, he replied that freight
charges always were the ship
per's problem.
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American armor races virtually at will through Brittany to points 20 miles below Rennes, 81 from the south
coast and 17 southwest of Dlnan In multi-pronged fanout threatening to collapse last orcanized German re
sistance. Threatened are St. Nazaire. Brest and Nantes, three most imDortant Nazi U-boat base.
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Rome, Aug. 5 (U.R) Eighth
army troops have occupied all
Florence south of the Arno river
against withering enemy artil
lery fire which the Germans, de
spite repeated claims that the
great cultural center would be
an open city, have massed along
the river's northern bank within
the city.
As dusty and battle-weary
British, Dominion and Indian
troops plunged to within two
miles of the river on a 25-mile
front on either side of the bit
terly contested city, the Ger
mans drew up artillery forma
tions and rushed in crack para
troops in a final effort to hold
the Arno river line.
(The London radio, heard in
New York, reported that Allied
troops already have penetrated
into northern Florence over tem
porary bridges thrown over the
Arno. The Germans earlier were
reported to have destroyed all
but one of the six bridges span
ning the river at this point.
Because of the tremendous
historic, architectural and artis
tic value of the great Tuscan
city, it seemed most likely that
the Allies would hold off shell
ing the city until the last mo
ment in the hope that the Ger
mans would pull out without bit
ter and devastating street to
street fighting.
It was feared, however, that
the Germans would take advan
tage of this situation to bog
down the Allies along the Arno
river as they have at Pisa, the
ancient Tyrrhenian city on the
far western Allied flank. '
New Deal "Incompetence" Is
Charge of Governor Dewey
Pawling, N. Y., Aug. S (U.R)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, com
pleting a 2.350-mile trip through
pivotal mid-western states, re
turned to his Pawlinfc farm to
night after charging the Roose
velt administration has "failed
to show a degree of cor.petencc"
necessary to prepare the nation's
war industries for peacetime in
duction. The republican presidential
nominee said he planned to get
his first real rest since he began
the trip which took him through
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri
and Indiana. The governor re
tired to the seclusion of his
Quaker Hill farm immediately
after stepping from his special
car at 7:37 p. m.
Dewey's latest attack on the
New Deal came at a press con
ference, which was held aboard
the train en route from St. Louis.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6,
Push on Big Ports of
Nazi Casualties
Set At 9,000,000
Since War Start
By United Press
The German .army has lost
9,000,000 men killed, wounded
or missing since the beginning
of the war almost five years ago
and is left with 4.000,000 troops
to face the combined power of
the United Nations, ABSIE, the
American broadcasting station
in Europe, said Saturday night.
The broadcast, recorded by
CBS monitors, said the Wehr
macht numbered 3,000,000 men
at the outbreak of the war in
Sept. 1939, and added 2,000,000
men to this force in each of the
five succeeding years.
ABSIE said 7,500,000 of the
German casualties were inflict
ed by Russian armies. And as
serted almost 1,000,000 of their
total losses were suffered since
the beginning of July in Rus
sia, France and Italy. Those
casualties, it said, prompted the
recent German generals' revolt
against tw Nazi regime.
Spike Rumors Army
To Occupy Hotels
San Francisco, Aug. 5 (U.R)
Rumors that the army service
forces might take over five ma
jor San Francisco hotels were
spiked tonight by Charles Lawr
ence, Jr., acting director of the
President's committee for con
gested production areas in
Washington, D. C.
He had been assured by rep
resentatives of the Army Serv
ice forces, Lawrence notified
the San Francisco office of the
CCPA that it is not planned at
this time to take over any hotel
accommodations in ' San Fran
cisco. Hollywood, Aug. 5 (U.R)
Actress Bette Davis was dazed
for a short while on the sound
stage today when two stage
hands moving a barn door set
accidentally clipped her on the
head.
He told newspapermen that to
bring about orderly reconver
sion there must be extensive
planning, and challenged the
ability of the present democratic
administration to prepare post
war blueprints.
"There is no one thing that
can be done to speed reconver
sion," he said. "You could do
one thing well and still the whole
thing can break down. For ex
ample, a large automobile com
pany may have a hundred com
panies that manufacture parts
to be fed into the main plant. If
so much as one of those com
panies is not handled with equal
speed, the other 99 and the main
company and all the employes
of all of them wil be idle.
"It requires a degree of com
petence never yet shown by the
present national administration
in anything."
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KILLS 45 NEGROES
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 5 (U.R)
Atlantic Coast Line railroad of
ficials tonight blamed a broken
rail for the wreck of a speeding
passenger train near here last
midnight which killed 45 Negro
laborers and injured 38 others,
but miraculously spared the
lives of battle casualties from
Normandy who were en route
to an army hospital.
The railroad announced to
night that its earlier count of 48
dead had been revised down
ward following a careful check
of the dead.
The Negroes, members of a
railroad work gang homeward
bound to Alabama for the week
end, were disgorged from a car
which was torn open by the im
pact, and their bodies, broken
and mangled, scattered over the
ground.
In another car, bodies of the
Negro workers were thrown to
gether and "stacked like cord
wood," according to Capt. Val
entine Bay, provost marshal of
the nearby Moody army air field
who directed operations of mili
tary police dispatched to the
scene.
It required four hours, Bay
said, to extricate one of the
men.
"But when we cut our way
to him, he was able to walk
away from the wreckage the
only walking wounded taken
from the car," Bay said.
The wounded troops from the
Normandy battlefields were rid
ing in a Red Cms hospital car,
last coach of the 14-car train.
The derailment occurred in a
desolate, palmetto-dotted sec
tion of southwest Georgia that
was almost Inaccessible to rescue
parties. The train was en route
from Savannah to Montgomery,
Ala.
The scene was described by
Turner Rockwell, editor of the
Valdosta Times, as "a terrible,
mangled mass of bodies and
parts of bodies."
BULLETIN
Chicago. Aug. 5 (U.R) Five
Chifago White Sox errors gave
the Detroit Tigers an equal num
ber of unearned runs Bnd a 5-3
victory over the Chicagoans be
fore 17,257 here tonight. The
Sox. who had previously hand
ed Hal Ncwhouser three of his
six defeat, touched the Tiger
southpaw for 11 hits but could
n't stop him from winning his
17th of the season. With the
score tied at 3-all, Detroit scored
their victory runs In the ninth
with an error, a fielder's choice
end an intentional pass filled the
bases. Jim Outlaw then drilled a
single over second to score both
markers. t
1944
STRIKE LEADERS
10 BEJRRESIED
Violation Anti-Strike Law Is
Charged in Warrants
Troops Back Ultimatum.
Philadelphia, Aug. 5 (U.R)
U. S. Attorney Gerald A. Glee
son tonight authorized Issuance
of warrants for the arrest of
James McMcnamin and three
other leaders 'of the Philadel
phia Transportation company
strike, charging them with vio
lations of the Smith-Connally
anti-strike law.
The others named were James
Bixie, also known as James Dix
on; Frank Carney and Frank
Thompson, members of the
strikers executive committee.
The warrants were turned
over to the U. S. marshal's office
for service immediately, Gleeson
said.
McMcnamin and other leaders
called the strike early last Tues
day and it was put into effect by
the men reporting for duty, but
saying they were "sick." The
controversy started when the
transportation company upgrad
ed eight Negro employes to the
position of operators. The strik
ers contended that the action
threatened their seniority.
Hayes In his ultimatum to
night said that "the war cannot
wait while the employes of this
company make up their minds
whether they will come back to
work or not."
"Federal troops are being
brought to Philadelphia to see
to it that operations are re
sumed in accordance with the
provision of the president's exec
utive order," he said.
"It is not my intention to re
place by any soldier any civilian
employe who is ready and will
ing to work. Soldiers will be
used only to operate vehicles
which otherwise would remain
idle. Soldiers will ride as guards
on every bus, trolley, subway or
elevated train thut runs over
this system. These armed mili
tary guards will go on duty this
evening. The soldier drivers will
be assigned to transit operations
as soon as they are available."
Deadline Set
The ultimatum directed all
employes to report (or the "first
regular shift" on Monday be
ginning at 12:01 a. m., and that
"steps will be taken at once to
drop from the company's em
ployment rolls all who do not re
port at the scheduled time or
present a physician's certificate
of Illness."
He cautioned that those who
report and later leave their Jobs
"will likewise be dropped from
the rolls unless they present a
doctor's certificate."
He read a ruling by Frank L.
McNamce, regional director of
the War Manpower Commis
sion, which said that no other
employer could hire an em
ploye of the Philadelphia Trans
portation Co.
"I know that these are all
drastic measures," he said, "but
when we are fighting a war, our
first consideration must be the
advancement of the war effort.
"Evcr day these troops have
to be kept here means a day's
delay in getting them to the
battle fronts. We cannot shell
any Germans or Japs with
troops who drive transit vehicles
in Philadelphia."
Portland, Ore., Aug. 5 (U.R)
Oregon's fifth war bond sales
topped the quota by more than
$60,000,000 E. C." Sammons,
state chairman of the Oregon
War Finance committee, an
nounced today.
Final tabulations from the
Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco sot Oregon's total at
$187,701,038 in comparison with
the $125,000,000 quota.
Taking a last minute spurt,
E bond sales reached $44,628,
508 after lagging for weeks be
hind the $38,000,000 quota.
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United Press Full
Or?" S PETITION
Ul 1 1TE AREA FOR
SI1 AMISSION
Setic onange in Absentee
Voter's Law to Insure
Count of Soldier Ballots.
Portland, Ore.Aug. 5 (U.R)
Democratic party workers were
circulating petitions in Multno
mah county today calling for a
special session of the state leg
islature to amend the absentee
voters" law so that service men
and women would be insured an
opportunity to vote.
The petition is in accordance
with a resolution passed by the
Portland Lodge of the Elks
which petitioned Gov. Earl
Snell to "immediately" call a
special session . . . for the pur
pose of enacting legislation to
change the independent candi
date filing date from Sept. 23 to
Aug. 15 or some date there
abouts, to give soldiers addition
al time to receive and return
their ballots for the November
election.
300 Too Late
The Elks asserted that ap
proximately 300 ballots from
soldiers from Multnomah coun
ty were returned too late to be
counted in the May 19 prima
ries. Since that time, however,
the army and navy have set up
airmail service to handle the
ballots for the general election.
After checking with clerks In
all counties, Secretary of State
Robert S. Farroll, Jr., said that
the airmail service coupled with
cooperation of clerks, would
make It possible to receive bal
lots from all service men in
plenty of'time.
Gen. Hershey Will
Speak at Launching
Portland, Ore., Aug. 5 U.R)
Maj. Gen. Lewis B Hershey, na
tional director of selective serv
ice, will be guest speaker at the
launching of the tanker Beacon
Rock at Swan Island shipyard
here next Tuesday, and Mrs.
Hershey will sponsor the ves
sel, it was announced today.
Gen. Hershey will visit Port
land during the course of a na
tional tour of selective service
offices. Col. Elmer Wooton and
Col. Walter Delong, selective
service directors in Oregon and
Washington, will accompany the
general here.
He-Man Heroes Mussed in
Series Of Hollywood Brawls
By Frederick C. Othman
United Press Hollywood
Correspondent
Hollywood, Aug. S (U.R)
The rip-snortingest scries of
movie fights yet, In which no
body got paid for their fistic
endeavours, left half a dozen top
flight picture heroes dribbling
blood tonight from their hand
some noses.
They Included Jon Hall, whose
wife, Frances Langford, was
overseas with Bob Hope while
Hall was wounded In the neck
on the home front; Edward Nor
rls, the he-man of many a movie;
Tommy Dorsey, the horn tooter;
Pat Dane, his beautiful wife;
Charles Bickford, who usually
tangles with lions; Barney Old
field, the race driver; Mike Ram
anoff, the bogus prince and res
taurant proprietor, and several
others yet to be identified.
The bloodiest of the brawls
was at the home of Dorsey In
the Sunset Plaza apartments,
where he threw a party for
numerous movie beauties and
their escorts. The party broke
up in fervent thanks and emo
tional goodbyes at dawn; a few
minutes later Norrls and Hall
returned to pick up a purse left
by a feminine guest whose name
they wouldn't reveal.
Miss Dane opened the door,
according to witnesses, Hall
threw his arms around her, and
she bopped him In the nose with
the purse. This, the goggle-eyed
bystanders said, made Dorsey
unhappy and he took a poke at
his erstwhile guest.
Then, as if movie doubles had
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ROBOT BARRAGES
London, Sunday, Aug. 6 (U.R)
The Nazis early today resumed
their flying 'bomb barrage
against the British civilian front
In London and southern England
following Saturday's relatively
light attack by the blind missies.
The sharp reduction in cas
ualties and damage from ex
plosions of the robot bombs yes
terday was attributed to a con
centrated three-day rain of Al
lied blockbusters over the flying
bomb installations of northern
France.
Royal Air Force and Ameri
can heavy bombers, out again
today with their loads of one
and two-ton bombs, wound up
three days of attack against the
bomb launching platforms along
the French coast of Pas do Calais
to Dippe last night and recon
naissance pilots said It appeared
that the Germans had abandoned
the sites.
gone In there pitching, all was
confusion. Norris found himself
on the floor, with two ladies
kicking him In tho stomach.
Somebody rang all the door
bells In tho apartment, sleepy
neighbors filed out and one of
them according to a celebrant
who wasn't quite sure what he'd
seen but thought it was a knife-
went to work on Hall's neck.
The handsome hall, who has
been wearing embroidered skirts
lately In the movies as a slave
of Maria (queen of the Nile)
Montez, wound up In Hollywood
emergency hospital, with five
flesh wounds on his neck and
shoulders. He said he didn't
know whether his attacker used
a knife or n broken bottle.
Hollywood's other battles dur
ing the night were little lulus,
too. but paled by comparison.
The 68-year-old Oldfield took
on the debonair Prince Mike,
who has done all his fighting
with words and legal writs, over
a traffic row and dropped him
with one punch. Seems that the
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Bickford, whose best known
fight was with a lion that nearly
killed him In a movie, took on
some strangers In the Somerset
House, restaurant de luxe, whose
conversation didn't sound pa
triotic to him.
With he-man Bickford was
super-press agent Russell Bird
well, who produced an account
ot the fisticuffs that could run
into tho next column. Suffice to
say here that Bickford knocked
them all out, one, two and three
Or so said Birdwcll.
PORT IS ENTERED
AFTER 140-MILE
DASHJNJ DAYS
Penetration of St. Nazaire
Believed Near Paris
Drive Looms Next Move,
By Edward W. Beattie
United Press War Correspondent
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London Sunday. Aug. 6 U.PJ .
Triumphant American tank
forces smashed into the famed
World War port of Brest Satur
day after a sensational 140-mile
dash in five days to the tip ot
the Breton peninsula, and simul
taneously scaled off the whole,
vast cape by reaching the mouth
of the Loire near Nantes.
Unofficial reports here said
that Nantes, and possibly St. Na
zaire as well, had been invest
ed by the Americans, whose ad
vance had thrown a net around
four depleted German divisions
whose strength might total 25,
000 men.
Adding to a day of stunning
triumphs, the Yanks also tore
29 miles eastward from the base
of the cape, captured Mayenno
and crossed the Mayenne river
in a powerful new drive on
Paris, made possible now that
the big entry port of Brest la
withni our graps. '
British troops, following up an
abrupt German withdrawal from
the Odon river salient southwest
of Caen, seized the enemy's erst
while anchor positions at Villers
B o c a g e and Aunay-Sur-Odo,
Breaking into rolling tank ter
rain from the confining hills and
hedges of the Bocago country,
the British applied tremendous
pressure and the German retreat
was believed continuing beyond
the Orne.
Near Nanles
In their advance to the Loire
river mouth, the Yanks captured
Rcdon, Allied headquarters an
nounced, and smashed on 30
miles to reach the river at
a "point to the southeast, ' which
would put them In the immedi
ate vicinity of Nantes.
The Loire estuary is several
miles wide along its 25-mile east
west course from Nantes to tho
sea and by reaching the river
the Americans scaled off tho
peninsula as effectively as if
they had first struck to the At
lantic at St. Nazaire, just north
of the estuary.
Robert C. Miller of the Unit
ed Press reported in a dispatch
filed from France at 8:15 p. m.
(2:15 EWT) that it had been an
nounced "elements of American
armor are within the city lim
its of Brest."
He also reported that an Amer
ican force had driven across tho
Mayenne river, which runs 40
miles cast of Rennes, In an ap
parent drive toward Paris, 120
miles beyond the stream.
The eastward drive was
launched from newly captured
Fourgeres, 25 miles southeast of
Avranches, and Involved a one
day smash of 27 miles to tho
Mayenne river at a point two
miles below the city of Mayenne.
Defense Crumbling
Another spearhead plunged
several miles below St. Glides Do
Bois, Itself only 18 miles north
cast of St. Nazaire. as the dough
boys ran roughshod In all direc
tions against disintegrating en
emy defenses In tho Brittany
area.
It was just a little over 27
years ago that the Americans be
gan landing at Br.st, making It
the main debarkation port of
the first AEF. More than 300,000
troops eventually were landed
there along with 250.000 horses.
This time they came from a
different direction and in a far
different manner, rumbling
overland in a tide of tankpower
to climax one of the stupendous
drives of the war As they ap
proached, more than 100 RAF
heavy bombers blasted Brest
harbor to forestall the escape
of Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz's
main U-boat fleet.
The last previously reported
position of the two Brest-bound
columns had been approximate
ly 100 miles cast of the port and
they thus appeared to have cov
ered that distance in about 48
hours a speed of 50 miles a
day.
British troops crashing trough
In tho wake of tho retreat cap
tured tho deserted but heavily
mined fortress of Villers-Uocage,
tho strongholds of Evrccy and
Esquay and more than a score of
other key points as the enemy
fell back across the Orne on an
eight-mile front, abandoning an
area totaling altogether about SO
squaro miles.
To cover the withdrawal, tha
enemy launched a furious coun-'
ter-attack from recaptured Vira
In tho center, but the British
held their lines and were being
joined late Saturday by ait
American column