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Thirty-ninth Year
Germans
As Reds
TEN DIVISIONS
12-
E
All Retreat From Riga Cut
Off by Stalinites; Carpa
thia Front Again Ablaze.
London, Aug. 11 (U.PJ The
Russians resumed their all-out
offensive along the 500-mile
eastern front today as Germans
admitted a break-through on the
southern end which put the Red
army less than 17 miles from
the Czechoslovakian border,
and another breach on the
northern flank where th Bal
tic port of Riga apparently was
being rapidly surrounded.
Berlin broadcasts admitted
that Soviet troops driving to
ward Riga, previously cut off
from German forces in lpwer
Latvia, had attacked with 10
Infantry divisions and three
tank corps on a 12-mile front
south of Lake Sskov, and had
succeeded in breaking through
the main German defense lines.
On Wide Front
The admission, coupled with
radio Moscow's announcement
that Red army troops had reach
ed the Latvian town of Madona,
75 miles due east of Riga, meant
the break-through southwest of
Pskov must have been achieved
on a wide front or at least in
several wedges dozens of miles
apart.
The large-scale Russian
thrusts in the north indicated
the three Red army units, one
moving up the Dvina river, an
other southwest of Pskov, and a
third from the north, Intended
to cut Col. Gen. Georg Llnde
mann's Baltic army to ribbons
before throwing the bulk of
their forces into the battle for
east Prussia.
Bypass Kruitplls
Radio Moscow also asserted
that fighting flared up in the
south-western part of the Luban
marshes and added that the
Germans were pressed back in
to Krustpils. Bypassing this
town from the north, the radio
said, Soviet troops cut all the
, ways of retreat to Riga for the
hard-pressed Germans.
Meanwhile, the German com
mentator, Col. Eric Von Ham
mer, also admitted strong Sovi
et attacks east of Warsaw for
the first time in several days
and declared that the Carpathi
an front guarding the entrance
to Czechoslovakia and to Kra
kow again was ablaze.
SEVENAIRGROUPS
SHELLACK NAZIS
London, Aug. 1 1 .(U.R) Sev
en task forces of American Fort
resses and Liberators with es
corting planes totaling 1.000
aircraft carried the air war
against the Nazis' western
Europe defenses into its 12th
consecutive day today, hitting
the enemy's crumbling trans
portation lifelines and oil stocks.
British Lancaster bombers
made smashing attacks on Nazi
U-boat shelters :it La Pallice,
near La Rochclle, and at Bor
deaux. SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUTE REPORTERS
Helen Hinck providing unex
pected diversion at an outdoor
supper party when a bug took
refuge in one of her ears.
Twins Sgt. Roy and Cpl. Ray
Huron observing their birthday
in different seasons, Roy in a
United States summer and Ray
in South Pacific winter.
r.orMnn r.rren trvine to be In
three different places at the same
time in his haste to finish all
preparations for the grand open
ing of American's new packing
plant.
MEDFORDJllii
United Preu
Admit Lines Broken Twice
Resume All-Out Offensive
Average American
Against Debasing
of Currency Value
San Francisco, Aug. 11 (U.R)
A resolution declaring that the
"average American does not
want United States currency de
based by any international group
of exoerts" and advocating use
of silver and gold in the world
fund proposed at the Bretton
Woods conference was drawn up
today at the 11-state western
mining meeting.
The resolution condemned
"printing press currency" and
warned against "paper infla
tion." It read:
"We advocate the use of sil
ver and gold in the international
fund proposed at the Bretton
Woods conference of 44 nations.
"We believe the American
people are in favor of a sound
monetary system, safeguarding
their interests against paper in
flation." WORKERS GIVE UP
WILDCAT STRIKES
AT WRIGHT PLANTS
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R)
The White House announced
today that President Roose
velt has ordered the Office of
Defense Transportation to take
possession of and operate the
103 trucking firms of the Mid
west Operators' association.
By United Press
Settlement of a four-day wild
cat strike at four of the five
Wright Aeronautical Corpora
tion plants at Paterson, N. J.
highlighted the labor situation
today, but elsewhere in the na
tion approximately 65,000 work
ers, including 50,000 truck driv
ers and freight handlers in the
10-state midwest area, still re
mained idle.
Twenty thousand workers In
four of the five Wright plants at
Paterson voted last night to re
turn to work, ending a walkout
which began in protest against
the rehiring at lower grade jobs
of 74 workers who had been laid
off. Production of engines for
Super-Fortresses and other
planes had been curtailed by the
strike.
Operators and drivers In the
truck strike, which spread yes
terday to Oklahoma and Colo
rado, awaited federal interven
tion which Robert May, counsel
for the Operators association at
Sioux Falls, S. D., predicted
would come before nightfall.
Churchill Visiting
Italian Warfront
Rome, Aug. 11 (U.R) Allied
headquarters announced tonight
that Winston Churchill, British
premier, has arrived in Italy.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST
AERIAL ATTACKS
JUSTREVEALED
Airdromes Mindanao Island
Bombed For First Time
Since Capture by Japs.
By United Press
An American offensive to
crush Japan appeared to be mov
ing into high gear today as new
raids bv B-29 Superfortresses
on empire industrial targets were
announced, U. S. airmen began
bombarding the Philippines, and
an amphihious base was estab
lished at Saipan within 1,500
miles of Tokyo.
The B-29's, in their fourth as
sault in two months, hit targets
3.000 miles anart yesterday, set
ting fire to Nagasaki, large in
dustrial center, and smashing
the enemy's major source of
aviation fuel In a record 3,600
mile round trip strike into
Sumatra.
Phllioplnes Hit
Gen. Douglas MacArthur re
vealed that air patrols of the
Far Eastern Air Force had begun
a bombardment of the Philip
pines, which President Roose
velt promised would be invaded
and liberated.
The attacks made on air
dromes at Davao on Mindanao
inland Sunday were the first on
the Philippines since they were
captured by the Japanese In
April, 1942.
Since the capture, MacArthur
has brought his forces "on the
road back" from southeastern
tip of New Guinea opnosite Aus
tralia to Sansapor In Dutch New
Guinea less than 600 miles from
the Philippines.
His communique also disclos
ed that enemy resistance at Ai-
tape on British New Guinea
ceased Wednesday and that
American jungle fighters had
killed or wounded 18.000 of the
45.000 Japanese troops trapped
on the island. Remnants of the
force were fleeing toward We
wak. NAVY TO SPEND MORE
BEFORE JAPS DEFEATED
New York, Aug. 11 (U.R)
The navy's production program
is "still increasing" and "after
the war with Germany is over
the navy will spend more money
than it is now in order to defeat
Japan," Rcar-Admiral Clark H.
Woodward, chief of the navy's
industrial incentive division,
said today,
BASEBALL
National
Boston 6 11 3
Cincinnati 12 17 2
Andrews, Hutchinson, Klutz;
Heusscr, Delaney and Mueller.
With MacArthur and Nimitz
be.an. ind Admiral Cheer WJml, comiuauUer 61 Pacific Meet aad
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EXECUTEDj, JAPS
Red Cross Report Claims
Men Attempted to Escape
From Camp in Manchuria
Washington, Aug. 11. U.R)
Three American prisoners of war
were executed by the Japanese
on July 31, 1943, the navy an
nounced today.
The navy said it had been In
formed by a report from the
International Red Cross, sent to
the state department by Switzer
land, that Seaman 1c Frank
Meringolo, Marine Sergeant Joe
B. Chastain and Marin Corp.
Victor Paliotto, were condemned
to death and executed by the
Japanese.
The navy said the Japanese
foreign office reported the inci
dent as follows:
The three Americans were be
ing held in a prisoners of war
camp in Manchuria. The night
of June 21, 1943, they escaped
camp, and fled in the direction
of Russia. On July 2, they ac
costed a police inspector and
endeavored to obtain food, stat
ing that they were starving. The
inspector questioned them and
they tried to pass as German
aviators, explaining that their
plane-tiad crashed. '. -
"The inspector and two Mon
gols went with the men to the
scene of the supposed accident,"
according to the Japanese ver
sion. "En route, one of the pris
oners killed the inspector with
a kitchen knife and another se
riously wounded one of the Mon
gols. The other Mongol fled and
later succeeded in arresting the,
prisoners with the aid of local
inhabitants.
The three prisoners
were tried nciore a military
court and were condemned to
death."
The Japanese previously had
executed six or eight American
flyers who were shot down in
the first raid on Tokyo in April,
1942.
Kilgore Reduces
Jobless Benefit
in Demobilization
Washington, Aug. 11 U.R)
Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, D., W.
Va., today amended the pending
Murray-Kilgore War Demobili
zation bill to cut the maximum
unemployment c o m p e nsntion
benefits from $35 to $25 a
week.
Sen. James E. Murray, D.,
Mont., co-sponsor, was person
ally opposed to any compromise
with an apparently stronger
states rights coalition of senate
republicans and democrats, but
reluctantly agreed to the down
ward revision.
Installatloni with his lop Pscllle
Southwest P-iflc. who sew the
11, 1944.
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American troops In France have surrounded port ot N antes, big submarine base ot Lorlrnt and transport hub
of Angers while advance spearheads drove closer to Hals beyond Le Mans. Canadians and British made
new advalnces In Caen area. Germans again occupied Mortaln In counter-attack against Yanks fast ot
Avrancbes. French patriot were reoortd to have seized Bordeaux. 170 miles south ot Nan tea.
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PRISONERS ESCAPE
Denver, Colo., Aug. 11. (U.R)
Three Japanese-American sis
ters were convicted today of
conspiracy to commit treason
for helping two German soldiers
to escape from a camp for war
prisoners.
The penalty, will be set by
Federal Judge J. Foster Symcs.
The maximum punishment pos
sible is two years Imprisonment
and a fine of $10,000.
In dismissing the jury, Judge
Symes said that he thought the
verdict was "very fair." Then
he added:
"But in my mind the defend
ants were not guilty of treason.
I don't believe they ever had
any Intent to aid the German
reich."
The three sisters, Mrs. Tsuru-
ko "Toots" Wallace, Mrs. Flor-
ence "Flo" Otani, and Mrs. Bil-
lie Tamgoshl, met the two tier-
man soldiers on an onion farm
near Trinidad, Colo., where the
Germans had been sent to work
Sisters "Dead Pan"
The sisters sat motionless as
the verdict was read, an showed
no emotion whatever.
In being found guilty only on
the charge of conspiracy, the
three women escaped a possible
death sentence which could
have been given if they had
been found guilty on the more
serious charge of treason. They
were acquitted on the treason
accusation.
The defense had not denied
that the women, all of them In
their early 30's, helped the two
Germans Cpl. Heinrlch Haider
and Cpl. Herman August
Loescher to escape and enjoy
two days of freedom, but It was
"love and sympathy" not trea
son which prompted their acts.
The defendants, with several
other members of their family,
were brought to Colorado from
their former home In Inglewood,
Calif., when Japanese and Japanese-Americana
were evacuat
ed from the west coast.
The first microscopic pipette
for Isolating single bacteria was
made in the Philippines In 1913.
Jackson County Tax Millage 10.6;
Medford City Levy Is 40.4 Mills
Jackson county tax millage
for the 1944-1945 tax year will
be 10.6 mills, five-tenths of a
mill less than last year when it
was 11.1 mills. County Assessor
C. A. Myers reports. In the city
of Ashland, where library and
road levy are made by the city,
the county levy will be 7.5 mills.
The city levy for Medford is
40 4 mills, the same as last year.
It would have been less but for
the voting of a municipal pool
levy at a special election re
cently. All other cltiea of the
w School City County Millage
Ashland 18.5 15 5 7.5 41.50
Butte Falls 17.2 20 2 10.6 48.
Central Point 18.7 22 2 10.8 51.5
Eagle Point 24.9 12.1 10.8 47.8
Gold Hill 22.1 31.6 10.6 64.3
Jacksonville 20.1 28.3 10.8 B9.3
Medford 12.1 17.7 10.8 40.4
Phoenix 20 9 14.9 10.8 ' 48 4
Rogue River 29.3 17.7 10.6 57.6
Talent 1J.6 25.8 10.9 52.
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UmnJ Press Full
Yank Drive Surges on Road to
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Japanese Win New
Positions in Rear
San Francisco, Aug. 11
(U.R) Today's advance-to-the
rear department from Tokyo
radio, recorded by United
Press:
"Japanese forces, which had
been putting up a gallant fight
against the enemy In the My
itkyina sector, successfully
forced their way back to new
positions according to schedule
on the night of August 2-3."
POLES, ITALIANS
Rome, Aug. 11. U.R) Eighth
army Polish and Italian troops
lunged forward two miles on a
six-mile front In the Adriatic
sector today to capture hills
dominating the Caesno valley
and occupy Scapezzano, Monter-
ado and Corlnaldo, key rail and
highway towns.
The balance of the Italian
front was comparatively quiet,
with the exception of ' bitter
fighting In the enemy pocket
south ol the Arno river ana east
of Florence. But front dispatch
es reported heavy explosions ac
companied by great flashes In
the German held northern sec
tion of the ancient Rennaissance
city last night.
The explosions were followed
by a heavy rumble as If from
falling masonry, indicating the
Germans were demolishing
buildings In the hopo of block
ing roads with debris against a
British Eighth army drive across
the Arno.
CHINESE BRAVE STENCH
TO ATTACK TENGCHUNG
Headquarters, Chinese Expe
ditionary Forces on Salween
Front, Aug. 10 (U.R) Their nos
trils smeared with sweet smel
ling tiger balm to ward off the
stench of death, Chinese assault
forces battled today through
breaches In the high stone wall
surrounding the ancient ctly of
Tengchung.
More than 200 Japanese
corpses Uttered the wall where
the Chinese have obtained
foothold and have repulsed nu
merous counterattacks to dis
lodge their machine gunners
from trenches on the Inside
slopes.
county show an Increased levy
over last year due to boosts in
school district levies. Gold Hill
has the high total levy of 64.3
mills. Jacksonville Is second
with 59 3 mills, and Rogue Riv
er third with 57.6 mills. The
total Medford levy Is the lowest
in the county.
The state tax millage has not
yet been prepnred, due to one
county of the state not yet mak
ing its report.
Tax millage for cllios In the
county follows:
Total
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FOR FRUIT WORK
Approximately 800 Mexican
national farm workers are to
arrive in Medford next Tuesday
to assist with the pear harvest,
County Agent Robert G. Fowler
reported today. This will bring
to nearly 700 the number of
Mexicans In the Medford dis
trict.
Part of tha men will be
housed at Camp Prescott, al
ready occupied by tha laborers
who spent the entire year here,
and the remainder will be
housed In an emergency tent
city erected on land back of the
Bruce Bauer Lumber company
on South Riverside avenue by
the War Food administration.
Considerably more of the Mexi
can nationals are being brought
in than last year due to the fact
that fewer servicemen will be
available.
The men will be distributed
among the orchards, packing
plants and cold storage plants.
Those arriving next week have
been employed in the pea harv
est in the Athena and other east
ern Oregon districts for the past
several weeks.
WOULD GIVE GI'S
Washington, Aug. 1 1 (U.R)
A formal agreement for amend
ing the soldier vote law to relax
all censorship restrictions on
reading matter for the armed
forces was reached today at a
conference between two senators
and army and navy officials.
Sens. Theodore Francis Green,
D., R. I., and Robert A. Taft, R.,
O., announced after the meeting
that Green would revise his
amendment on the basis of the
agreement reached today. Both
senators agreed that the pro
posed final form of the amend
ment would Iron out "most of
the difficulties" which have de
veloped from a restrictive clause
of the voting act."
The corferces agreed that
there should be no ban upon any
books, magnzlhes, films or other
printed matter for service per
sonnel, except those brought on
by transportation restrictions or
space-limit difficulties.
MANNERHEIM FOR PEACE
WITH RUSSIANS, CLAIM
By United Press
The British Broadcasting com
pany said today that it was re
ported from a reliable source
that Marshal Gustav Manner-
helm, president of Finland, had
advised the German chief of
staff In Finland that the new
Finnish government desires
peace and that consequently it
will try to obtain an armistice
from the Russians.
Ninth Air Force Headquarters,
England, Aug. 11 (U.PJ Brtig.
Gen. Ned Schramm, 48, of
Largo, Fla., has been named
head of the Ninth Air Defense
Command
E
T,
German Rear In Normandy
Threatened; Enemy Re
sistance Is Disorganized,
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Aug. 11 (U.R) The outer de
fenses of Paris, barely 46 miles
west of the capital, were report,
ed under attack by American
armored columns today as Lt.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley's tanks
and infantrymen fanned out
along an 80-mile front in a mul-tl-pronged
drive that also men
aced Orleans and the entlra
German rear In Normandy.
Front reports said the fast-
rolling Americans had driven
55 to almost 70 miles beyond
the shattered Sarthe river line)
last night and were still smash
ing eastward today against dis
organized German resistance.
Chateaudun Stormed
An Allied radio transmitter
in France said forward ele
ments were storming Chateau
dun, 70 miles southwest of
Paris, and the U. S. army news
paper Stars and Stripes report
ed that another Yankee column
was nearing Chartres, 46 miles
from the capital.
The Americans at Chateau-
dun were only 28 miles north
west of Orleans, whose capture
would virtually isolate Paris
from all of southwestern
France.
There was every indication
that Nazi communications wera
falling to pieces under the light
ning American thrust, and that
the enemy commanders them
selves were uncertain as to
where the main attack was
pointed.
Allied headquarters spokes
men, consequently, refused to
reveal the exact location of tha
American spearheads.
Threaten Nail Rear
They hinted broadly, how
ever, that one wing of Bradley's
striking force was wheeling
northward across the lines o
communication of the shattered
enemy divisions holding out in
the Mortain-Viro salient and on
the British front below Caen.
. American troops were dis
closed to have swung east and
northeast of Mayenne In an ap
parent enveloping maneuver
that brought them within 27
miles of Mortain, where tho
Germans had committed four
panzer divisions to a bloody
and unsuccessful attempt to
split the Allied forces in Nor
mandy from the Americans in
Brittany.
The new spearhead also was
only 45 miles southwest of Fa
laise, one of the main anchors
of the German right flank in
Normandy.
Mortaln Itself still was la
German hands early today, but
the enemy pocket was seriously
mcnacedby the Mayenne drivo
as well a's by another American
force that struck southward
from Vire Into the flank of tha
counterattacking Germans and
narrowed their escape corridor
w icsh man iu miles.
Add 4.322 Prisoners
Far to the rear, other Ameri
can forces pressed in for the
knockout on isolated German
troops defending the Breton
ports of Brest and Lorlent, and
captured the Loire valley indus
trial centers of Angers and
Nantes, establishing their south
ern flank solidly on the Loira
river line.
Another 4,322 German pris
oners were added to the Ameri
can bag Wednesday, runnlna
their total of enemy captives
for tho campaign to about 00,
000. Most of the day's prisoners
were taken in Brittany, whera
the Americans now have killed
or captured about 20,000 of tha
25,000 enemy troops originally
defending the peninsula.
On the Caen front, British,
troops seized Vimont, seven
miles down the main Cacn-Parls
road, while other units deep
ened their Orne river bridge
head, capturing Thury-Harcourt
and pushing on to the southeast
toward Falni.se.
The Germans threw at least
20 radio-controlled tanks, load
ed with high explosives, against
the attacking Allies in the sec
tor, but front reports said they
were blown up by British and
Canadian gunners.
Youths Hurl Acid
For Excitement
Santa Ana, Cal., Aug. 11.
(U.R) Juvenile authorities hero
today held two 17-year-old Cali
fornia Institute of Technology
students who allegedly threw
hydrochloric acid at a woman in
a Newport Beach cafe for "ex
citement." They were Identified as Carl
Arthur Price, Long Beach, and
Philip F. Wax, Hawaii.
Mrs. Maybclle Knourek, Pasa
dena, was slightly injured, as
was Bartender Hugo Codebo
who assisted her