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Thirty-ninth Year
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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,