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FT3 r r cfmfo) IriyJuii m jl LPil UlLi A. s iJLT Lb Weather Forecast! Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Tuesday with little change In tempera ture. Temp. Highest yesterday .... 77 Lowest this morning S4 Precipitation past 24 hr. m 0 Thirty-ninth Year Pillbox .... "VI JTt- - v W-.' ft (Acme Tctephoto Combat crew ot tank and inlantryaien advance on concrete pillbox at edge ol airfield on Orote Point, Guam. The tank is tiring point clank at the pilioux mole Hying dearis at left) and, as attack pressed close, Japs in side piiiDuxes could oa Heard coounitung suicide with band grenades. Fight for Guam Nears Stage When Japs Make Last Hopeless, Screaming Attack By Charles P. Arnot United Press War Correspondent Aboard Adm. Connolly's Flag ship off Guam, Aug. 7 (Via Na vy Radio) (U.R) Bearded, mud caked marines and doughboys overran hastily-constructed Jap roadblocks and combed the treacherous wilds of northern YANKEES BATTER WINNER LINE; SHELL 38 SHIPS Pearl Harbor, Aug. 7. flJ.B American land, air and sea forces were revealed today to have battered the Japanese along an 800-mile front at the doorway to Japan proper in three days of assaults that de stroyed or damaged 38 ships and wiped out a town. The heaviest blow was struck by planes and warships of a fast carrier task force which steamed to within 600 miles of Tokyo Thursday and Friday and virtu sUy destroyed a Japanese con voy while hammering Installa tions on five islands In the Bonins and Volcanos. Wake Attacked The attacks were announced bv Admiral Chester W. Nimitz who further revealed that sev- enth army air force Mitchell bombers and a single navy Lib erator attacked Wake Island, former American base, Friday for the first time since May 30. The planes all returned. In the strikes into the Bonin and Volcanos, planes and wor ships definitely sank 11 vessels, including one large .destroyer and three destroyers or destroy er escorts, and damaged 27 oth ers, Including a light cruiser. At least nine barges, two of them filled with troops, also were sunk. At the same time, this com bined aerial and naval power . blasted ground installations, air fields and towns on Muko Jima, Ani Jima, liana Jima and Chichi Jima in the Bonins and Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands. Nimitz said the town of Omura on Chichi Jima was destroyed ' by shellfire. Planes Destroyed Six enemy planes were shot down over Iwo Jima and six others destroyed and five dam aged on the ground, while one was wrecked on the ground at Chichi Jima. Sixteen American planes and 19 fliers were lost in the two-day assault. Nimitz made no mention of damage to warships. The toll inflicted in the raids brought the Japanese losses since the beginning of the Mari anas campaign on June 10 to: Ships 58 sunk, four probably sunk, E6 damaged or possibly sunk: planes 931 destroyed, 37 t, probably destroyed and 160 damaged. In the same period the United States lost 198 planes and suffered damage to four ships. M EDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Attack Drives Japs to ble-strewn villages of Ukudu and Liguan by noon. Before nightfall they had an chored their left flank at Haputo . point on the western coast and I were dug in along a line stretch- j ing clear across the island to Guam today in a steamroller drive toward Mount Machanao, where the final battle of this methodical campaign may be fought. Between the front lines and the island's northern tip still are tome five miles of remote jungle terrain and several thousand Japs who insist on fighting a des perate delaying action. Japs Without Hope But they are without hope of escape and their eventual col lapse can now only be a matter of time. Mercilessly bombed and shelled day and night, these bleary-eyed survivors of Guam's original garrison already are showing increasing signs of thirst, hunger and confusion. If this battle follows the usual pat tern, there probably will be a screaming "banzai" attack; then will come the moppfng-up phase. Rising some 600 feet from the extreme northern tip of the isl and, Mount Machanao's wooded hillside offers the only high ref uge for the Japs' last-ditch stand on their western flank, where strong marine forces have plunged forward more than two miles in the past 24 hours. Despite savage terrain and the increasing efforts of the Japs to slow our advance, Lt. Col. E. N. Murray, staff officer of the Third marine division, described our casualties as "light." "Boondocks" Battle To the sharpshooting marines, who must have a name for ev erything, this Is the battle of the "Boondocks" a leatherneck term loosely applied to any rug ged terrain, and particularly to Guam's thicket-covered table lands. Along the strategic curves and hilltops they have camouflaged some of their few remaining 75 millimcter cannon to halt our tanks, and dug flanking "hedge hog" defense pits to challenge our infantry assaults. Overrun Village Fanning out from the strategic Finegayan road junction, tank supported infantrymen moved in two powerful columns north and northwest, overrunning the rub- BARTLETT PICKING STARTS IN WEEK Harvesting of the Rogue Riv er valley Bartlctt pear crop will start next Monday, according to Assistant County Agent C. B. Cordy. He has set up the testing machine for Bartietts and will receive pears for testing. It is expected the Bartlett harvest will be general by next mid week. The labor supply will be aug mented by the arrival this week of more Mexican nationals for farm and orchard work. The number is not yet known. The picking will be both by the hour and the box. . MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, Suicide Lumuna point Just below Mount Santa Rosa on the 'eft flank. Most of the resistance along the western flank has come from groups of 30 to 40 Japs who either try to dig in along the north-south roads or fire from ambushes on advancing ground. On the east flank, the enemy's hold on 840-foot Mount Santa Rosa and the nearby town of Yigo is now threatened by MaJ. Gen. A. D. Bruce's 77th army division which has plunged northward more than three miles along the wooded coast line since capturing Mount Dar rigada. 1 Only a few hundred natives are believed to remain in the trap with the besieged Jap troops. ' Notes dropped from American planes have directed the Chamorros to enter our lines along designated "safety" routes, and for several days ad vancing troops have been passing scores of native families on their way outward to civilian camps. Civilian affairs officials re ported that already some 5000 out of 22,000 liberated Chamor ros have been returned to farms in cleared areas. JAPS WIPED OUT AFTER DRIVING NTO HENGYANG Chungking, Aug. 7 U.!S Japanese troops stormed through Chinese lines into the key rail way city of HengyBng time after time In the past 48 hours but were wiped out almost instantly, a Chinese communique reported today. The Japanese, fighting like wildcats to take 'he most bitterly defended city in Hunan prov ince, threw artillery and air craft Into a concentrated effort to capture the Chinese strong hold. The communique admitted that the Japanese had broken through both the inner and outer rings tor momentary gains. The besieged city, which is held by the Chinese, is surrounded by Japanese, who, in turn, are sur rounded by an outer ring of Chi nese, Hengyang has been under siege for 44 days. 26 INWlEN OLYMPIAN DERAILS Lake City, Minn., Aug. 7 (11.19 Twenty-six persons were in jured, none of them seriously, today when the Milwaukee rail road's Chicago-bound Olympian was derailed, apparently by a piece of an under-carriage that caught in a switch and sent 12 of the 13 cars off the tracks. Hundreds of servicemen, in cluding some veterans of the Kiska and Attu battles in the Aleutians, were in the coach sec tion of use crack train. Bloodiest Battles of Summer Rage on East Prussian Front REICH RESERVES ARE DRAINED EOR DD 0RD1E STAND Hundreds of Thousands of Men, Boys Dig Frontier Fortifications; Reds Gain Moscow, Aug, 7 (UB Rus sian troops driving through the Carpathian foothills to ward Chechoslovakia captured the German stronghold and railway junction of Sambor, 43 miles southwest of Lwow, Marshal Josef Stalin an nounced today ai the Germans hurled "substantial" reinforce ments into an alt-out effort o stop the steam-roller summer Soviet offensive. Moscow, Aug. 7. The bloodiest battles of the Soviet summer offensive raged on the approaches to East Prussia, War saw, and Krakow today as the Germans hurled "substantial" re inforcements of mechanized for ces, infantry, and aircraft into an all-out effort to protect their eastern borders. Front dispatches indicated the Germans had drained off a ma jor portion of their strategic re serves from the reich itself for a "do-or-die" stand before their easternmost province and the largest Polish cities still barring the way to Berlin. Everybody Digs (The semiofficial German na tional socialist party correspond ence said that hundreds of thou sands of East Prussian men and boys, including 30.000 "Hitler youths," were digging frontier fortifications along the Last Prussian border. Within the first 24 hours, the publication said, "the first continuous line hundreds of kilometers long was ready on the frontier.) Soviet gains on the immediate approaches to East Prussia now were being measured in hun dreds and sometimes thousands of yards instead of by miles, and the path of advance was littered with the bodies of thousands of German dead, the wreckage of enemy panzers, and rubble of villages shelled and bombed to destruction. The battle for Warsaw appar ently had resolved into a toe-to-toe slugging match with the Rus sians clamping Praga, its east bank suburb, in a tight siege arc anchored on the Vistula river north and south of the suburb. Mobile Russian and German artillery poured torrents of steel and explosives Into each other's line at close range, while Ger many's reinforced iuftwaffe sought to challenge the red air force's supremacy in the skies. A constant pali of smoke hover ed over both Warsaw and Praga from the ceaseless round of bombings and sheilings. Teachers Needed in Jackson County At the present time there is a shortage of ten to 15 men and women in the schools of Jackson county, country and city, accord ing to County School Superin tendent C. R. Bowman. Both men and women teachers are needed in one-room rural schools, and in special high school courses. The scarcity of men teachers is felt the most, as many have entered military service or gone into defense work where the pay is better. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Doc Jimmy Hayes giving out with a mouth-watering descrip tion of the goodies planned for a posse breakfast, , Doc Francis Hoffatt making a grave pronouncement about the state of his health. Lloyd Rupp taking time out from acting as boniface to track down his "stolen" car, which was just parked on the other side of hit hou 1944 Faith Healers to Demonstrate With Deadliest Poisons Ct. Charles, Va Aug. 7. ttUS Members of the Holiness Faith Healers sect, elated by a successful demonstration; Sun day of their mastery over flames and the venom of poisonous rep tiles, boldly have announced that they will soon offer a more exacting test of their faith by taking one of the deadliest known poisons. Sunday's ritual, performed under a boiling sun on the banks of the Powell river here before more than 3,000 awed thrill seekers, was held in honor of the late Rev. Johnny Hensiey, a former LaFollette, Tenn., cult member who was killed by the bite of a huge diamondback rattier Sunday, July 30. The "saints" toyed with eleven rattlers tha largest number of snakes so far em ployed in a faith demonstration and exposed their flesh for as much as a full minute at a time to a flaming oil torch without being bitten or burned, Hollywood cameramen record ed the scene for the edification of non-believers. NAZIS REPORTED OUT OF FLORENCE Rome, Aug. 7 U.R Eighth army patrols on scouting mis sions in German-held sections of Florence deported today that the enemy had withdrawn from the city except for machinegun nests along the north bank of tha Ar no river, , It appeared that the battle for mastery of the ancient center of the Italian renaissance will be decided in its cast and west sub urbs, where bitter fighting was in progress. (The London radio in a broad cast recorded by CBS asserted that Allied troops "now stand along a 50-mile stretch of the south bank of the river Arno from its mouth near Pisa to a point several miles beyond Flor ence." The sector in the vicinity of Pisa held by the U, S. Fifth ar my was reported generally quiet, with light exchanges of mortar and artillery fire. BURGLARS TAKE CULLEN TOOLS The Cullen Motor and Imple ment company, 123 South Riv erside avenue, was entered sometime Sunday night by burg lars who stole some $200 worth of tools, an electric drill and a typewriter, city police reported today. Entrance was effected, police said, either through one of three windows which were open or through the back door, whose night lork could have been opened from the outside through a small hole just big enough for a finger to reach through. Frank J. Cullen, owner, told police that the tools were in two boxes. Nothing else was disturbed. Identify Hider of $6,000 in House Portland, Ore., Aug. 7 0J.R The elderly bachelor who left some $8000 in goid pieces scat tered about his old two-story house when he died last July 17 was identified today a Thomas Hodron, 78, an operating engi neer employed by the city for many years. Last week searchers found money literally "all over the place" part cunningly hidden in a place designated by a map found in personal effects and part left lying around where it couid have been found easily by burglars. XB'BUNE V Prot Fuil 1 3 JAP-AMERICANS ! GO ON TRIAL FOR HELPING GERMANS Sisters Accused of Aiding Afrika Korps Men to Es cape From Camp. Denver, Colo., Aug. 7 (UJS In only 35 minutes, a Jury was completed today to try three Japanese-American women on charges of treason a crime that might carry the death pen alty if the women were con victed. The three women the first Japanese-Americans to be charg ed with treason since war be gan are sisters: Mrs. Tsuruko "Toots" Wallace, 35; Mrs. Flor ence "Flo Shivze Otani, 33, and Mrs. Billie Shitara Tani goshi, 32. Nails Recaptured The women were accused of aiding two Nazis, members of Hitler's Afrika Korps, to escape from the prisoner of war camp at Trinidad, Coio., last Oct. 17. The Nazis, Hemrieb Haider and Herman August Loescher, both 31 years old, were recaptured 'two days later at Watrous, M, i M. The women, who had been brought to Colorado from their home at Inglewood, Calif., in the evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americana from the west coast, have admitted that they became acquainted with the prisoners while working on the same farm with them, but have denied that they helped them to- escape. During the selection of the Jury, only one man was excused for cause. Judge Symes excused him when he told the court, "I don't like the Japanese." NIPS REIT RAID ON PHILIPPINES By United Press The official Japanese Dorset News Agency reported today that two Allied planes "attempt ed" to raid Davao, on the isiand of Mindanao in the Philippines today. Domei said in a wireless dis patch recorded by U. S. govern ment monitors, that one of the planes dropped three small bombs which it claimed landed harmless!? in the sea. Domei added thai the other plane, which followed on hour later, fled before reaching Davao, The attack, which was not con firmed by Aided sources, would be the first aeriai assault on the Philippines since they fell to the Japanese, TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distance to Berlin front advanced allied lines today: Russia 32S miles gab of 17 miles in one week.) Italy 804 milea (gain of three milea in one week.) France 623 miles (un changed for week.) Hollywood Officials Wash Hands Of Jon HaD, Tommy Dorsey Brawl Hollywood, Aug. 7 0J.S Both the grand Jury and the dis trict attorney today washed their hands of the bloody brawl be tween Screen Actor Jon Hall and Band Leader Tommy Dorsey, "If Jon Hail is willing to have his nose half cut off and to be stabbed and cut and not do any thing about it," said District At torney Fred K. Howser, "that's perfectly sjl right with me." George Armstrong chairman of the county grand, jury, said Itaud Wire NO, 116, PHILADELPHIA AND DETROIT STRIKERS RETURNjra TASKS Two of Worst Labor Dis putes End; 10,000 Work ers St ill Out In Other Cities By United Praia Fifty-eight hundred Philadel phia transit workers and 7.000 General Motors employes at De troit streamed back to work to day, ending two ot the nation's worst labor disputes, but some 10.000 strikers in a score of other cities remained idle end a gen eral walkout of bus drivers Jn New England threatened to dis rupt travel in that section of the nation. The Philadelphia strike, which had crippled war production in that eity for almost a week, was broken last night when the U. S. army issued art ultimatum warn ing the strikers to return to work by midnight or facs the toss of their jobs for the duration. Service on the elevated, sub way ana surface lines took on a semblance of normalcy early to day, under the supervision of rteel-helmeted troops, with bay onets at tha ready, stationed on each train to guard against vio lence. The strike resulted from the company's decision to upgrade negro workers at toe direction of the war manpower commis sion and the fair employment practice committee. The back-to-work movement also was attributed to the arrest ot four labor leaders; who were arrested Saturday ntght and freed under bond of $2,500 each. A hearing on charges of violat ing the Smith-CoBBBtiy anti strike act was scheduled for August 14. At Detroit, tha 7,000 workers at five general motors plants en gaged in making parts for Prstt Whitney aircraft engines, voted yesterday to return to work, end ing an li-day walkout fa protest against a stepped-up production schedule. However, In another Detroit strike, 1,000 workers at the Gear Grinding Machine Co.. voted to continue their waikout which started Wednesday in protest against a 5 to 17 cents an hour wage cut. At Montreal, where some 4000 transit workers are out on strike, the third such walkout in that Canadian city in 17 months, a compromise submitted by the federal and provineiai govern ments. In the midwest, sver-the-road truck drivers, members of the AFL teamsters union, haited inter-city shipment in Minnesota and Iowa and more than t,000 drivers stopped work at Minne apolis in a wage dispute between the Central Slates Drivers Coun cil and the Midwest Operators' Association. JUST HOLLYWOOD Hollywood. Aug. 7 U.R) B. G. (Buddy) Dcsyiva, songwriter and film producer, and his wife, the former Ziegfetd Follies girl Marie Wallace, have separated after 19 years of marriage, friends reported today. No spe cific reason was given for the separation except "they just didn't get along." there would be no investigation of the fight that sent Hail to the hospital with serious injuries un less the district attorney or one of the interested parties request ed such action. At lcat one of the Interested parties Hall, who suffered S broken nose, brain; concussion, foee and head cut requiring 48 stitches, and other contusions and abrasions seemed unwill ing to sign complaint against Dorsey because ot their "tong tiatMSing friendship, - NAZIS REPORTED MOVING OFFICES OUT OF CAPITAL Coordinated Offensive Thru German Orne and lay ering Lines Threatens City Supreme Headquarters. Aug. 7 tiim Powerful American and British armies opened tha battle for Paris today in a co ordinated offensive that bunt through the German Orrta and Mayertne river lines less than, 130 miles front the French cap ital, while other V. S. columns drove for a quick conquest of the great Breton ports after killing or capturing almost 17.- 000 of the 25,000 Nazi troop defending the peninsula. A front dispatclt from United; Press War Correspondent Bab ert Hitter, with the American army, said the "showdown bat tie" that may decide the fate et France and possibly of tee en tire European war appeared to be "only a matter of days away. (tlnconftrmed reports broad cast by the London radio said the Nazis were removing their administrative headquarters from Paris to Nancy, near the Franco-German frontier.) Hasis Wings Buckie Both ends of the German bat tle line before Paris were buck ling under the Impact of the Anglo-American drive as vet eran British units punched across the Orne river below Caen, and Lt, Gen. Omar H, Bradley's rough-riding American tanks swept beyond the May enne river In great strength and plunged toward the big com munications center of Le Mans, 112 miles southwest of the cap ital. Tits British Tommies surged 1 across the Orna two mites north :of Thury Harcourt last night '. and pushed on almost two miles to cut the Thury -Caen highway. The sadden thrust was de scribed" officially as posing a "major threat" to the German, hinge positions south of Caen, where tha entire Canadian, First army was disclosed to have gotta ittte the lines. Flask Dsngered Front reports said the British had moved strong anti-tank, support across the Orne io meet the threat of German counter attack, and that the entire right flank ot the Nazi lines guarding: Paris was endangered. The bitterly-contested Ger man stronghold of Vsre, St miles southwest of the new Brek-Tbewgh, also felt to tha fast-driving allied forces. At tha opposite end of tha battle line, the Americans turn ed the main weight of their ar mor eastward from Brittany in a six-pronged assault that front dispatches said was rapidly cut ting the German left flank t shreds. Bradley's tank columns werat on the march along S0-mil front, giving; the battered, weary Nazis no chance to re organize for a maior stand. Headquarters observers be lieved only the prompt arrival of fresh Nazi divisions could prevent the Americans front river tine running through, Aicncon, Le Mans, and A risers, iittie more than 100 miles front Paris, As the new offensive pound ed eastward, Bradley's tank and infantry forces in Brittany struck hard at remaining enemy troops on the peninsula to seat their victory with the capture of Brest, St, Kaziare and Lori ent. Headquarters announced' that the Americans had taken 13,30?) prisoners and killed another 3.400 Germans, and it was ex pected that those figures would be increased substantially whea reports from ail of Bradley far-ranging columns were tab ulated. The Americans captured Brieue ort the north coast ot Brittany, west of besieged St. Maio, and Auray, IS miles east southeast ot the southern port of Lorlent, while other forces massed for final assault on Brest. GRASS FIRE DAKGERS GOLD HILL PROPERTY Gold Hill, Aug. 7 Spf. A grass fire Sudny morning, o undetermined origin, endan gored the shop of V. M. Whit more, the residence of the Mexi can: railroad workers and tha residence of Wm. Gardener. Through the eforts of Mr, Gardener, who fought the fire, Mr, Whitmsre's shop was saved. The fire truck was called and with the help ot the Mexican railroad workers, the fire was soon under control. A small pita of lumber burned but except for that, iittta daciaja was sJoaa,
