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Thirty-ninth Year
Sisters Accused of Treason
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Here are the three American sisters of Japanese descent who are accused
In Denver, Colo, Federal Court ot helping German prisoners to escape
from war prisoner camp: Mrs. Florence (Flo) Shivze Otani (left, above),
Mrs, Billie Shltara TaclKoshl (walking), and Mrs. Tsukuko (Toots) WaJ-
Witnesses Contradict POWY
In Trial of Japanese Women
Denver, Colo., Aug. 9 (U.PJ Attorneys for the government
suddenly rested their case against three Japanese-American sisters
accused of treason, after only nine minutes of testimony at today's
session of federal court.
DRAFT QUOTAS TO
CONTINUE UNTIL
JAPS ARE BEATEN
Salem, Ore., Aug. 901.13
There will be little chance of a
material reduction In draft
quotas Immediately after the
end of the European war, Maj.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director
of selective service said here
today.
Replacement of battle-weary
troops must be a primary con
sideration now, he said. Those
who have been in the fight the
longest should have the first
chance to get out, he said. There
is the deterioration of trdops to
consider.
Demobilization is the one big
Job now facing the draft set-up,
General Hershey said. It must
be done slowly enough so that
millions of men are not put back
into civilian life at one time, and
this gradual release of men
would be of great assistance to
the process of reconversion.
The selective service system
in Oregon, under the direction
of Col. Elmer V. Wooton, has
done an outstanding job, Gen
eral Hershey said. He had high
praise for Wooton, and termed
him a selective service expert of
national standing.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Softball Player Earl Schilling
reprimanding Umpires Howard
Oden and Clint Baughman for
being "blind as bats."
Friends declining Tod Porter's
offer to buy thfir morning cof
fee and complaining that his
voice carried a ' martyred'" tone.
Aubrey (Tubby) Dean making
a neat stack out of the salvaged
cans brought to his service sta
tion and patriotically urging ev
eryone to add to the collection.
Medford
United Press
t Arme TaUnhntnt
Only two witnesses were
called by the government this
morning. They were Phillip
Shuey, a former aircraft com
municator for the Civil Air
Patrol at Trinidad, Colo., and
Thomas B. Canaday of Denver,
an observer at the U. S. weather
bureau.
Both testified concerning the
weather on the night of last Oct.
16, when Heinrich Haider and
Herman August Loescher, two
German soldiers escaped from
the prisoner of war camp at
Trinidad, allegedly with the
help of the three women who
are charged with treason. Shuey
said that the night was clear,
and Canaday said that the moon
came up at 8:47 p. m.
Loescher testified that he
could not Identify the three
women who met him and Haider
in an automobile outside the
prison camp, because it was too
dark to see them.
The three women on trial are
Mrs. Tsuruko "Toots" Wallace,
Mrs. Florence "Flo" Shivze Ot
anl, and Mrs. Billie Shitara Tan
igoshl. "Toots" Is Dreisy
"Toots," who has been Iden
tified by Haider as the person
who provided civilian clothing
and maps for the escape attempt,
appeared in court today in the
third outfit which she has worn
In three days, a black net blouse
and a black skirt. Billie, who
prefers suits, wore the same grey
suit that she had yesterday,
while Flo appeared in a flowered
print blouse and black skirt.
Haider, who had his picture
taken with Toots In his arms
while both were working on an
onion farm near Trinidad before
the escape, was not In court to
day. Neither was Loescher, who.
testimony has Indicated, had
never met any of the women
until the night that he and
Haider walked through a hole
in the prison fence and entered
the automobile in which the sis
ters allegedly were waiting to
take therftinto New Mexico.
YANKEE MAID WINNER
HAMBLETONIAN PURSE
Goshen. N Y., Aug. 9 4J.R)
Yankee Maid a bay filly owned
by A. L. Derby of W ichita Kas.,
and driven by Henry Thomas
of Lexington. Ky., captured two
straight heats to win the $34,427
Hambletonian trotting classic
before 1S.000 fans at Good Time
track today.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1944.
FIGHT FOR RIGA,
Iron Ring Tightened On
German Divisions in Bal
tic States Doom Seen
Moscow, Aug. 9 (U.R) Two
Red armies opened the battle
for Riga and tightened their en
circlement of the remnants of 20
to 30 German divisions in the
Baltic states today with con
verging drives through swamps
and massive forests on the south
eastern and southern approaches
to the Latvian capital.
Front dispatches said the 1st
and 2nd Soviet Baltic armies al
ready have won the first round
by smashing the most powerful
German attempt yet to break out
of the Baltic trap, and by knock
ing out more than three German
divisions in a fighting advance
across the Aiviekstes river 65
miles southeast of Riga.
Contest Every Yard
Despite their initial setbacks,
the Germans continued to hurl
reserves, including guards regi
ments, Into battle to contest
every yard of ground on the
Luban plains marking the ap
proaches to Riga. Battles raged
for every strongpoint, dispatches
said, and in some sectors the
Germans were counterattacking
a dozen or more times a day.
Only by penetrating the
marshes and forests lacing the
Luban plains have the Russians
been able to execute sweeping
flanking maneuvers that cracked
the enemy's main bastions, the
army organ Red Star said.
Informed military observers
said the Germans' Baltic armies
apparently have decided against
an attempt to escape by sea and
intend to fight it out on land.
The eventual collapse and de
struction of the enemy units is
certain, they said.
HERBERTFBOTTS
MISSING IN ACTION
Tl
Sergeant Herbert R. Botts,
Medford man serving with a
paratrooper division has been
declared missing In action In
France since the sixth of June,
according to word received by
his mother, Mrs. Mayme Botts,
312 S. Central Ave.
The following message was
received from the adjutant gen
eral: "The secretary of war desires
me o express his deep regret
that your son, Sergeant Herbert
R. Botts, has been reported miss
ing In action since the sixth of
June In France. If further de
tails or other Information are
received you will be promptly
notified."
A graduate of Medford high
school with the class of '39,
Botts enlisted in the service
March 4, 1942.
Luftwaffe Done,
Belief Of Allied
Air Chief Marshal
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
London, Aug. 9 (U.R) The Al
lies may have fought their la-t
big air battle over western
Europe, Air Chief Marshal Sir
Trafford Lelgh-Mallory told a
supreme headquarters press con
ference today.
The Luftwaffe disappointed
the Anglo-American air com
mander, by falling to resist in
vasion when the Allied sky
fleet was set and waiting for the
Germans. Since then the Nazi
air arm has failed to put up a
determined resistance and Mar
shal Leigh-Mallory said he be
lieves it unlikely that they will
increase their effort.
"C will be very much surprised
If the Luftwaffe stages a come
back they have gone too far,"
he said. "They have still got
good equipment, as In the last
war, but even new equipment is
not likely to pull the Luftwaffe
out of Its tailspln."
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TRUCKER STRIKE
Union's Agreement With
Army to Keep Supplies
Rolling Reported Violated
By United Press
The government sought today
to settle a strike of estimated
50,000 midwest truck drivers
and freight handlers without is
suing a presidential order seiz
ing the motor freight lines.
A White House spokesman
said the dispute over the failure
of approximately 125 firms to
abide by a war labor board
order for a seven-cent hourly
wage increase had been put into
the hands of several agencies
for study.
Although the union and the
army had an agreement to keep
war supplies moving, there
were several reports of interfer
ence with war shipments by
motor freight.
Companies Blamed
At Minneapolis, Ray Wentz,
labor representative of the war
production board, said the union
had stuck to the agreement but
that the WPB has "had some
difficulty" with trucking com
panies. At Chicago, David I. Olin,
president of the Service Whole
sale Drug company, reported
that he had not been able to
make drug shipments to Minne
sota and Iowa since the start of
the strike. Other drug compan
ies In the Chicago area reported
they were having difficulty in
moving supplies to drug stores
and hospitals.
Philadelphia, Aug. 9. (U.R)
Federal Judge George A. Welsh,
charging a grand jury to investi
gate every phase of the Phila
delphia transportation strike,
today told the Jury to remember
"what happened in Philadelphia
can determine the outome" of
the national elections in Novem
ber. Warning the Jurors that retri
bution to the ostensible leaders
of the six-day strike was only
one part of their duty, Judge
Welsh ordered them to Investi
gate every reason behind the
strike and to carry their investi
gation as far back as three years
in a study of the corporate struc
ture of the Philadelphia Trans
portation company.
Remember Election
'The reason given for the
strike," Judge Welsh said, "is
one of racial intolerance. I hope
that is not the real cause. We
must be cognizant of the fact
that a national election is lying
neid this year, and what hap
pened in Philadelphia can deter
mine the outcome of that elec
tion." The strike started when the
PTC upgraded eight negro em
ployes in an operator training
program. All operating em
ployes of the company immedi
ately walked out.
John L. Mum on
Window Entrance
Boise, Idaho, Aug. 9 (U.R)
Glowering, bushy eyebrowed
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, today de
clined comment on momentous
national and International af
fairs, but his sister-in-law, Mrs.
C. P. Charrier, suggested he
might tell reporters how he
gained entrance to her home by
climbing through a bedroom
window last night.
Lewis, visiting Boise en route
to the west coast, did not think
that matter worth discussing,
either.
DIME STORE DAUGHTER
WILL WED CHINA BOY
San Francisco, Aug. 9 (U.R)
Miss Velma Lowe daughter of
Andrew Lowe, vice-president of
the National Dollar Stores, will
become the bride of Tse Kiong
Sun, grandson of China s first
president. Dr. Sun Vat Sen, here
Saturday.
Sun, a graduate of the Uni
versity of California, Is a mem
ber of the staff of Consul Gen
eral C. T. Feng He Is the son
of Dr. Sun Fo, chairman of the
legislative yuan of the Chinese
government
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American armored columns Imperil the entire German Seventh Army u they over-run the tiriluuiy Penin
sula and send last-moving spearneads toward Paris in swliieit moving attack In France eluce U-Day. Key
towns on the peiuusuia are expected to tail niuuiuiiuruy aa the drives on Le Mans. Laigle, Falalse and ParU
meet with siiaai re&iauim
Fibber and Molly Picture Barred
From Army Screens as "Political"
Washington, Aug. 9 U.R) The Washington Dally News In
a copyrighted story said today that the army had banned the
film "Heavenly Days," starring Fibber McGce and Molly, from
army camp screens here and overseas.
"This Is the first Hollywood,
feature to be put on the shelf as
not conforming to public law
277 (the soldier vote law) which
bars pictures which have a poli
tical import from servicemen,"
the News said. "The army calls
It a satire on the New Deal and
thumbed It out."
Tho News said administration
of the law may also bar-the
film on the career of.Woodrow
Wilson from army camp screens.
"If it Is presented on the enmp
screens," the News said, "there
certainly will bo a howl that
servicemen are seeing a motion
dcture that has definitely poli
tical implications. Editorial corr
ment has already Interpreted the
film as helpful to President
Roosevelt, politically."
Thi. News snld the Fibber Mc
Gce and Molly film advertised
as a "one-man war on congress
to set things right for Mr. Aver
age Citizen with Molly in there
pitching for the housewives."
Medford Girl, 15
Says Her Husband
Has Another Wife
Suit seeking the annulment of
n marriace performed at Reno,
July 28, was filed yesterday by
Irene Medley, 15, througn ner
guardian ad litem, Gladys M.
Waltermire, against incoaore
Medley.
The complaint sets forth that
at the time of the Reno wedding,
the defendant had another wile
from whom he has not been di
vorced. It Is further claimed
that within the past six months,
a suit for divorce from this wife
has been filed at Reno but no
decree has been granted. The
comnlalnt further claims both
the first wife and the defendant
are bona fide residents of Jack
son county.
The complaint also asks that
the plaintiff be restored her
maiden name of Irene Walter
mire. Attorney George M. Rob
erts represents the plaintiffs.
MEDITERRANEAN CHIEF
REVEALS ITALY MOVE
Rome Aug. 9 U.R) Gen. Sir
Henry Maltland Wilson, supreme
Allied commander in the Mca
Iterranean theater, announced
tonight tho removal of Allied
headquarters from North Africa
to Italy.
The transfer was made some
time ago but not previously an
nounced The shift included
headquarters of the Royal and
U. S. navies, the Allied air force,
the Mediterranean Allied coast-
air force and tho U. S. army.
NEW WHEAT RECORD
LOOMS FOR NATION
Minneapolis, Aug. 9 U.R
Cargill, Inc.. one of the nation s
biggest grain firms reported in
Its crop bulletin today that the
United States is on the verge
of an all-time record In wheat
production.
It predicted that the govern
ment rpport, scheduled Thurs
day, will show a small decline
In the wheat crop, but not
enough to prevent the new mark.
Tribune
United Preu Full
Armor Overruns Brittany
CONQUEST
L PHASE;
1010 JAP DEAD
By United Press
The American conquest of
Guam was entering its final
phase today while. Liberators
struck again at Halmahera, 250
miles south of the Philippines.
Marines and army troops,
scoring new gains, were closing
a death trap on beleaguered de
fenders of Guam in the cam
paign to take back the first
American territory seized by the
Japanese In the Pacific.
More than 10,000 enemy dead
already had been counted and
the remaining Japanese faced
the prospect of being cut In two
as U. S. forces drove to within
a mile of the north shore.
Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz
disclosed new widespread air
raids against bases extending
from the Central Pacific to the
Kuriles In the north.
Gen Douglas MacArthur's
communique revealed that Lib
erators pattered two Japanese
airdromes on Halmahera with
48 tons of explosives Monday.
The Liberators, without meet
ing opposition, destroyed 13 en
emy planes on the ground.
GEN. EISENHOWER NOW
QUARTERED IN FRANCE
Supreme' Headquarters. AEF,
Aug. 9 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower announced tonight
that he has moved his Allied su
preme headuuartcrs from Eng
land to France.
Warm Welcome by French
Delays Yanks Taking Town
By Henry T. Gorrell
UP War Correspondent
Laval, France, Aug. 9. (U.R)
"If it hadn't been for the mob
of celebrating French Includ
ing some of the prettiest gals
I've ever seen we"d have cap
tured Laval far sooner than we
did," Capt. Charles Freeman,
Hackensack, N. J., asserted to
day. He was speaking for his chief,
Maj. Joseph Novelllno, Pater
son, N. J., who was busy at the
moment directing final mopping
up actions against the still-resisting
German rearguard.
"With bullets flying In all di
rections and with German staff
cars racing around In an effort
to get away from the crowds,
the French refused to get off
tho streets, rushing out with
American, French and British
flags, anxious to kiss and hug
th liberating Infantry," Free
Leaied Wire
NO. 118.
BASH STUTTGART
IN BAD WEATHER
London, Aug. 9 (U.R) More
than 1500 American warplancs
defied bad weather and fierce
enemy fighter opposition today
to bomb the German railway
hub and Industrial city of Stutt
gart, while BOO heavy bombers
based in Italy attacked an oil
refinery, an aircraft factory and
two airdromes In the vicinity of
Budapest, Hungary.
Liberators In the fleet from
Italy attacked the oil refinery,
second largest In Hungary, at
Almas Fuzlto on the Danube
river, 30 miles west of Budapest.
Flying Fortresses smashed the
Mcsserschmltt fighter plane as
sembly plant at Gyor, between
Vienna and Budapest.
Meet Luftwaffe
The fleet from Italy encoun
tered no enemy fighters, but the
formations from England met the
first serious opposition the Luft
waffe has offered for days.
A fleet of 750 Flying Fort
resses and Liberators, escorted
by 750 Thunderbolt, Mustang
and Lightning fighters, encoun
tcrcd at least 100 German single-
engine fighters in one area.
Returning American fighter
pilots reported the Nazi planes
were attacking the bombers
when they arrived on tho scene.
The American and enemy fight
er planes Immediately became
locked in a battle which In a
few minutes brought the com
batants from an altitude of four
miles to tree-top level.
The Americans destroyed a
number of the enemy planes
without loss to themselves.
TITO IN ROME
Vatican City, Aug. 9. (U.R)
Marshal Tito, leader of the
Yugo-Slavian partisan forces,
has arrived In Rome with his
staff and visited the Church of
St. Peter yesterday, the semi
official news agency announced
today.
man said.
"German officers deserted
their men, who because of the
crowds were unable to get away
on foot, although they ran like
hell with their tongues dragging
out."
Freeman said the several hun
dred prisoners taken apparently
were of top caliber young,
husky, and wearing brand new
uniforms.
He said our forces captured
a big-time French collaborator
named Milon, responsible, ac
cording to the French patriots,
for sending thousands of French
to German labor camps.
A special cordon of troops had
to be thrown around "this little
scared rabbit of a man" to pro
tect him from vengeful crowds
who strove to string him up Im
mediately. Freeman said. He
was handed over to French po
lice.
ALLIES PRESSING
AS
U. S. Columns Roll Swiftly,
Ahead 25 Miles After Cap
ture Important Le Mans
Supreme Headquarters. AEF,
Aug. 9. (U.R) Canadian shock
troops broke through' the first
and second German defense lines)
more than 15 miles below Caen
today whilo American armored
columns to the southeast storm
ed up beyond captured Le Mana
in a surge that the Nazi radio
said had carried to within 87
miles of Paris.
The two main enemy defense)
lines covering Paris had been
breached in a day of furious al
lied attack and the Americans
and Canadians were pressing
their twin break through to tha
full.
Nasi Lines Break
The Nazis' Sarthe river line,
their strongest natural barrier
on the southwestern approaches
to Paris, broke wide open with
the fall of Le Mans and a front
dispatch from United Press War
Correspondent Ronald Clark
said German resistance below
Caen was cracking under tha
blows of the Canadian first
army.
German reserves were report
ed streaming to the American.
front in a desperate attempt to
stem the wave of tanks and rifle
men closing on the French capi
tal, but front dispatches said the
Yankee columns were rolling
ahead at a pace almost rivalling
that of peacetime maneuvers.
The German radio said ad
vanced American elements wera
some 87 miles from Paris In tho
Le Mans sector, Indicating that
tho eastward drive of Lt. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley's armor had
penetrated about 25 miles be
yond Le Mans,
La Mans Easy
Le Mans, an industrial city
and five-way railroad Junction
on the Sarthe river 112 miles
southeast of Paris, was taken
almost without a fight by tank
forces thnt broke into the city
before the hard-pressed Nazis
had time to organize Its de
fenses. There was nothing to Indicate
any serious obstacles In the path
of the Paris-bound Americans,
but headquarters spokesmen
said they were moving cautious
ly pending destruction of tha
enemy pocket of resistance at
the hinge of the American and
British lines cast of Avranches.
The German attempt to sever
the allied lines at that point ap
peared to have been frustrated,
however, after two days of bit
ter fighting that cost the coun
terattacking Nazis about 20O
tanks destroyed or damaged.
On the Canadian assault front,
the Dominion troops deepened
their breakthrough by another
five to six miles and captured
"Bald Pate Ridge" near Potig
ny, about five miles north of
Falalse.
Allied artillery already had
brought Falaise under fire and
the fall of that ancient Norman
town, birthplace of William tha
Conqueror, apparently could not
be long delayed.
In less than two days ot fight
ing the Canadians had broken
the first two German defense
lines before Falaise and Clark'
dispatch said the Nazis were
surrendering In increasing num
bers. "For the first time the allies
have cracked into a major Ger
man defense without the usual
determined casualty-making re
sistance, and for the first time
it appears that there Is a sub
stantial Inability to ward off our
blows," Clark wrote. "There is
an Increasing number of prison
ers and an Increasing resigna
tion among troops who know
they have 'had It'."
Mother-in-Law's
Picture Alibi In
Alimony Relief,
Washington, Aug. 9. (U.R)
Harrison Bates, 48-year-old foo
mcr war production board offi
cial, today filed his mother-in-law's
picture as an exhibit in
connection with his district
court plea to be relieved of pay
ing alimony.
The mothcr-In-law Is Mrs.
Jessie W. Nicholson of Chevy
Chase, Md., former prohibition
crusader.
Bates' motion read:
"It may Be If the court will
observe exhibit E (the photo
graph). In connection with the
composition of exhibit D (a let
ter by Mrs. Nicholson), that the
court may be able to properly
conclude that the defendant
never was able to make suc
cess ot his marriage."