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Weather Forecast: Fair Sunday, con tinued warm. Temp. IllSliest yesterday 100 Lowest this imiriiins 55 Precipitation past 21 hrj. . 0 M"IDTVT?nTT JlL Us Th MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost 1KJLBUJNE I mnxjhiar"r'-TMMgy sirZ : United Press Full Leased Wir " United Press Full Leased Wire 1 Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1944 , NO. 121. fj?ff jt" ppl H PJZIS I . . FOE BEWILDERED REEL INTO TRAP Junction at Argentan Near; Berlin Says Gen. Patton Leads Mystery Force. Allied Supreme Headquar ters. London, Sunday, Aug. 13 ' (U.R) An American "ghost" army and Anglo-Canadian col umns today were reported with in 15 miles of a junction near Argentan that would snap shut a trap around possibly 100.000 - Germans reeling back in retreat under a bewildering succession of Allied blows. More than 200 American Ma rauder and Havoc bombers, an swering a direct call for aid from the converging ground forces, drenched the last few miles of the escape gap with high explosives and fragmenta tion bombs late Saturday, con centrates on the area just west of Argentan. In the first official indication of the whereabouts of the Ameri can "ghost army" since it left Le Mans five days ago, Ninth Air Force Headquarters said that German forces were trying to withdraw in the Argentan area "under the pressure of American advances from the south." Doughboys cashing in on the withdrawal swept back into the embattled Mortain and Sourde val, anchors of the German salient below Virc. To the east, British and Canadian columns joined forces 10 miles below Caen and wiped out another salient in the forest of Cinglais dubbed the "forest of the dead" for its heaps of German corpses. Gains up to five miles were scored on both sectors and in directly responsible were the sweeping operations across the German rear by American fly ing columns which have not been officially pin-pointed since they left Le Mans five days ago. The whereabouts of these Yanks, who Berlin Insists arc led by Lt. Gen. George S. Pat ton, Jr., obviously is the key to the entire situation and for ex actly that reason the situation beyond Le Mans "must remain obscure for security reasons,1' it was announced. For two days, the Germans have been trying desperately to determine the direction of the main attacks and the strength employed, first suggesting that they had driven close to Cha teaudun and Chartres on the road to Paris, then switching Saturday to a report that they were beyond Alencon. This would represent a 30- mile jaunt north of Le Mans ana put the Americans within 35 air line miles of the Canadians driv ing on Falaise. with the bulk of the German Seventh army now apparently beginning to with draw through the narrowing gap. The blackout of official news is tvpical of any major offen sive particularly when the stakes are so great. Wild reports putting the Americans any where off in the blue beyond Le Mans to the outskirts of Paris itself are completely lacking in official sanction. It can onlv be said that the; American offensive is progrcs-j sing with a success that still has many observers groggy and everv hour that the Germans re-1 main in the Vire and Caen areas their peril grows. The Germans have proven masters of with drawal but it appca.ed they would require one of their great est disengaging jobs ;et to got out of their present predica ment. BENOWlL OPEN SIX WEEKS Bend. Ore., Aug. 12 TUP.) Operation of the Western Pine association's pilot plant in Bend will begin in about six weeks, according to C. A. Rajmusscn, engineer in charge. Airmen Strike Triple Blow Against Japs CHINA 'istA 'W Shanghai J i J Hongkong j HAINAN Ll THAI N " v( INDO J U china So bong Os. YStk (BORNEO ... 'V1 I f rrom "Tcie. Air Basel in India. JAVA as f Acme Tclephoto) B-29 Super-Fortresses strike at Nagasaki, on Japans nome tsiano oi Kyushu, while others of the giant bombers hammer Palemonng oil centel on Sumatra. Gen. MacArthur sends planes to pouna Davao, In tlrsi Philippines raid since tall ot Isles to Japan. CALIFORNIA DEMOSfJAP SHIPPING IN GLORIFY BUREAUS 10 WIN ELECTION Sacramento. Aug. 12 (U.R) Concluding two days of delib erations and speech making, the Democrats elected William M. Malone of San Francisco as state party chairman and com pleted organization for the cam paign for party nominees. Malone declared that the "bu reaus and agencies of the Demo cratic administration" are re snonsib'e for production of war goods which has marie victory possible. He scored Republican policies he charged were re snonsible for the present war and said that "ontinued Demo cratic leadership was needed to "win the peace." Other speakers emphasized that the democrats should shoot for victory in 1946 state elec tions as well as in this year s national voting. "We are laying the frame work for return of the demo crats to power in California In 1946," Attorney General Robert W. Kenny declared. Edwin W. Pauley, democratic national committeeman for the state, said that a ticket headed by Mr. Roosevelt had "licked the republicans" thrc- times in a row and would do it again. With Kenny, he predicted that some republicans would aid the numerically superior democrats in winning the November elec tion. .OF AXIS BLASTED By United Presi Eighth Air Force Fighter bombers. In one of their most successful days over northern France flew more than 1.000 sorties up to 7 p. m. They were reported officially to have de stroyed" or damaged 325 locomo tives, and 2,860 railway cars, in cluding 359 laden with fuel and 172 with ammunition. War Bulletins London, Aug. 12 (U.R) Gen Pierre Koenig. commander-in-chief of the French forces of the Interior, hat ordered all patriot army units to launch intensified guerilla actions in 18 reinforced reg ions of France, it was an nounced tonight. London, Sunday. Aug. 13 U.R The RAF In great strength attacked the German cities of Brunswick and Rut selneimt lait night, it wet learned today, while other planet attacked targets In north France. RAIL EQUIPMENT IJAPAN FORMOSA. PHILIPPINE) NJtrv.lSLANDS. 'Va MINDANAO rif v3 NFWGUINEA - I V. " J v T Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sunday, August 13 (U.R) Medium Mitchell bomb ers, in a blitz bombing of the Japanese-held Island of Halmah era, sank a 1,000-ton freighter, seriously damaged another of 3,000 tons, five coastal vessels and 28 barges, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. The Allied air force also sank 10 seaplanes and hit 31 parked Japanese planes, MacArthur's communique added. Boston bombers, sweeping the Vogelkop peninsula on Dutch New Guinea, sank three 1,000 ton freighters, seriously dam aged another and destroyed or damaged five coastal vessels and eight barges, the communique said. A single Liberator bombed the Davao waterfront on the Philip pine Island of Mindanao Friday night. Forces in the Aitape area on New Guinea reported an addi tional 1057 Japanese have been killed and 18 captured in a final mopping up. This made a total of 8084 enemy killed and 95 captured in operations on that sector through Friday, the com munique added. TO YIELD YANKS Ankara, Aug. 12 (U.R) The Hungarian government has re fused a German demand to sur render 570 captive Anglo American pilots, diplomatic cir cles reported today. The refusal resulted in a riot yesterday in the Budapest Mo gacz theater, the report said, and many persons were wounded when pro-Nazis tried to break up a meeting of the government party. FR's Timetable Bremerton, Wash., Aug 12 (U.R) The latest timetable on President Roosevelt's current trip: July 13 Left Washington. July 19 Arrived San Diego. July 20 A c c e p t e d fourth term nomination from San Di ego. July 21 Departed by cruiser for Pearl Harbor. July 26 Arrived Pearl Har bor. July 29 Left Pearl Harbor by cruiser. Aug. 3 Arrived Adak. Aug. 12 Arrived Bremerton aboard destroyer. cr. AUSTRALIANS" REDS AIM WEDGE CHOP UP BALTIC Smash Deep Into Estonia and Latvia; Nazis Driven Back to Dvina. London, Sunday, Aug. 13 (U.R) Two mighty Soviet armies, yesterday began hammering a great wedge between East Prus sia and embattled Warsaw while other Russian troops smashed deeper into Estonia and Latvia in a drive to chop up Germany's trapped Baltic armies. Hurling the Germans back from powerfully-fortified defense lines, the 1st and 2nd White Russian armies commanded by Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos- sovsky and Gen. Ma vei Zak harov linked forces astride the vital Bialystok-Warsaw railroad and smashed forward in an at tempt to outflank Warsaw to the north and East Prussia to the south. At the same time, three Soviet armies in Latvia and Estonia ex tended their breakthrough south west of Lake Pskov, -"rove the grimly-fighting Nazis back against the Dvina river south east of Riga and struck out to ward the Baltic Port of Leipaja (Libau). At Szepetowo, the combined armies were three miles south of the big highway junction of Wysokie Mazowickie, and had flung a semi-circular arc of steel around the town of Zakharov's capture of the rail station of Wnory. five miles northeast. Meanwhile, Zakharov's army raced to within 20 miles of the great rail and highway junction of Lomza, a southern bastion of Eust Prussia by the capture of Kyrtuly. Simultaneously, the northern wing of Zakharov's army was driving toward the big East Prussian rail Junction of Lyck, and advancing along the Bialy-stok-Lyck railroad, captured Monki, 35 miles southeast of the German town. Routing the enemy from two Intermediate defense lines. Zakharov's troops flung back German counter-attacks and cap tured Klivianka, two miles from the Auguston canal, as they drew level with the German defense line along the canal and the Bicbrza river along a 28-mile front. ENEMY SHIPS IN By United Prett Tn th ihirri hlow in three days against Gorman sea communi ratinn. TtritUh carrier-based planes vesterday smashed enemy shipping, shore installations mm airdromes between Alesund and Kristiansund in the Norwegian Leads. Two of three armed v pl attacked were set afire. seven grounded planes were de stroyed or damaged and consid erable havoc caused among hangars, radio stations, gun po sitions and oil repots, the ad miralty announced. Two British planes were reported missing. BULLETINS Sacramento, Aug. 12 (U.R) Ray Prim, veteran Los Angeles moundsman, got up nut of a sick bed to pitch the Angels to a 3-1 victory over the Sacra mento Solons here tonight In a Pacific Coast League baseball game. The victory extended the An gels' lead in the league stand ings to 7 games, as the San Francisco Seals dropped their fifth In a row to Portland and slipped to third place as the Hollywood Stars climbed to second spot. The win was the fifth In six starts for the south erners over the Sact in the current ferfrs. Night game Los Angeles 3 9 0 Sacramento 18 1 Prim and Fernandes, Sarnl (5); Fletcher and MarcuccL FLORENf F FALLS TO ALL s ARMS. r JVE OUT A.M.G. Ta Over City Mas sev.jrman Fire Gains Village. Rome, Aug. 12 (U.R) Allied forces have occupied all of Flor ence, center of Italian Rennais sance art, and AMG officinls al ready are taking over, it was announced today, but the Allies have been forced from the vil lage of Can Culombano. five miles to the west, by massed German fire from the Gothic line. The Germans, who for weeks took advantage of Allied hes itancy to shell Florence's art and architectural treasurer, with drew at 5 a. m. yesterday, and within an hour Allied military government personnel had crossed the Arno and entered tho heart of the city. Greeted enthusiastically b y Italians, the AMG men found that the Germans had blown tin the railway station and build ings along the water front and the ancient Via Porta Santa Ma ria which intersects the river at the historic Vecrhio bridge. Ger man snipers still remained in the nty. Ilalia-is told AMG officers that Italian women and children were shot bv snipers as they went through the streets, seeking food and water. The Nazis, since the Allied en try Into southern Florence, had Imnosed a 24-hour curfew on all males, front reports said, and in recent davs had entered and searched private homes, confis cating watches, cameras and any other valuables attracting them. Meanwhile, sharp fighting broke out west of Florence as the Germans battled furiously to hold the Oirce shallow pock ets south of tho Arno In that sector. In the first pocket, the Allies were blasted by an Intense bar rage from heavy German guns, some of which fired from for ward positions in their bristling Gothic line, the next Nazi fixed defense in the path of the ad vancing Eighth army. TITLE USE BY F.R. Pawling, N. Y., Aug. 12 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Repub lican presidential candidate. worked on campaign speeches tonight tn the seclusion of his Quaker Hill farm. . The governor began dictat ing "the first drafts" of the speeches to Miss Lillian Rosse, his personal secretary, after spending most of the day dispos ing of slate affairs The topics of the campaign speeches were closely guarded. But it was in dicated that President Roose velt's use of the commander-in-chief title may be slated for an early discussion, E Durham, N. C, Aug. 12 (UR) Bishop Paul N. Garber, who recently was selected to head the Methodist church's recon struction work in nine Euro pean countries, said tonight some $25,000,000 would be spent in re viving churches, restoring prop erty and meeting the needs of war-torn European peoples. Dr. Garber disclosed he would go shortly to north Afri ca to begin his work and later make his headquarters at Gen eva. CRASH CAUSES FIRE Salinas, Cal., Aug. 12 (U.R) State forest fire control crews from Carmcl and King City to day battled a brush fire, be lieved to have been started when a P-70 night fighter plane crashed yestcrduy, killing its pilot. FDR Greets Pacific Wounded It-. fy - cy fc'o . ' ' 'I VUm -u. . ... ' ... , . , j (Arm Telfphotot One of the mast rr.cvtn? Incidents on President Roosevelt's Hawaiian lilt occurred when ne greeted wounded men at an airfield after their rrr.oval from transport, v.h'.ch nad flown them lrom 8alpan Here h chats with a wounded acidier whose face Is cropped out by censors. U. B Navy photo. T FOR SERVICEMEN Portland, Ore., Aug. 12 U.R) Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, who played hide and seek with the Japs on Guam for 31 months, ran up against the mid night ruling for servicemen last nlaht and he didn't like it a bit. When he payed his check at a Portland nightclub at 11:55 p. m., the cashier warned him that he had only 45 more min utes "because you are In uni form." . Tweed left, but when talking to friends later ho questioned why a man in uniform of his country. Indicating that he was ready and willing to die for It. should be made to leave public places two hours before civil ians. He resented the ruling thnt servicemen cannot enjoy social privileges with civilians and wants to know why a person In uniform who behaves himself should have his fun cut short. "If he dors not behave he will get Into trouble regardless of the hour and clothes he wears," Tweed asserted. The 42-year-old seaman, who managed to elude the Japs on Guam from December 10, 1941, until July 10, 1944. when he was rescued, is now visiting In Port land before he returns to active duty. San Diego, Aug. 12 U.R) If It had not been for native help George R. Tweed, the "ghost of Guam," who escaped after 31 months on the island, would have starved to death, his wife. Mrs. Mary Tweed, said tonight. "He lived off deer he killed and food the natives brought him." Mrs. Tweed said. "He used the leather from the deer to mak" shoes." After the war, Mrs. Tweed said she and her husband plan to return to Guam and go into business. EXAM DENIED New York, Aug. 12 (UP) Mrs. Velvalee Dickinson, who Is confined In the women's house of detention pending sentencing on Monday for violation of cen sorship regulations, today was denied permission to bo exam ined by her personal physician for an alleged heart condition. The California state unemploy ment fund had over $500,000,000 in June, 1944. 1 PLANT OF HITLER AT MAIDAN FOUND Roman Karmen Soviet War Correspondent (Written for United Press) Lublin, Poland, Aug. 12 (U.R) In the course of all my travels Into liberated territory I have never seen a more nbomlnnblc sight than "Maldan" near Lub lin, Hitler's notorious vernich- tunpslager extemlnation camp where more than half a mil lion men, women and children were masmcred. "Flabv Yar," the Kiev grave yard of some 100,000 civilians, was a country cemetery com pared with Maldan. Even now when SS guards no longer call to each other from the watch towers and there are no more barking dogs, I cannot believe my own eves walking through Maldan officially known as Da chau concentration camp No. 2. This was not a concentration enmp; It was a gigantic murder plant. Save for 1000 living corpses the Red nrmy found when it en tered, no Inmate escaped from here alive. Yet full trains dailv brought thousands here from all parts of Europe to be coldly, brutally massacred. In the center of the camp stands a huge stone building with a factory chimney the world's biggest crematorium. The Gcrmnns attempted to burn the crematorium but most of lt still stands a brorze monu ment to the Third Reich. Groups of 100 people would Le brought here to be burned almost alive. They already had been stripped and then chlorin ated In special gas chambers ad joining. The gas chambers con tained some 250 persons at one time. They were closely packed in a standing position so that after they suffocated from the chlorine they stilt remained standing. Executioners then would en ter, remove the suffocated vic tims, somo of whom still stirred feebly and place tho bo lies in special carts. The carts were dumped into a roaring furnace heated to 1,500 degrees centi grade. The whole thi.ii was or ganized with diabolical ef ficiency. Sacramento, Aug, 12 (U.R) Tho California campaign for re flection of President Roosevelt was officially under way tonight, based on claims the national Democratic administration Is re sponsible for war and produc tion successes. IDENT Undisputed Control of Pa cific Area Held American Weed, in Bremerton Talk, Bremerton, Wash., Aug. 12. (U.R) President Roosevelt re turning to home waters after a lengthy cruise to Pacific war? bases, today proposed a virtual postwar quarantine of Japan un til "years of proof have shown that the Japanese will cooperate) in maintaining permanent peace. Speaking from the deck of a destroyer in the Puget Sountl Navy Yard shortly after arrivint from Alaskan waters, the chief executive told a nationwide ra dlo audience that "the word oi honor of Japan cannot be trust ed." thus creating the need tor an elaborate network of forward bases nearer to Japan In thu years to come. Fresh from a first hand vlev Of Powerful hnsps nt Pnni.1 TTqm. bor and Adak and Kodink In thn Aleutians, the president charted the need for "undisputed con trol" by this' country of tha great circle course for sea and air navigation from Puget Sound to Siberia and northern China. Mr. Roosevelt came home af tcr an absence from Washington since July 13 more confident than ever of victory, but he de clined to forecast or even hint at when an end to the war either? In Europe or the Pacific would come. Urqet Public Support He followed his reference to his inability to predict nn on to the war by appealing for con unuea, lull-strength public sup port of the wnr effort, saying tha conflict would end sooner If tho people maintained a continued production of "necessary nun- plies and ships and planes." nir. Kooscvclts address was largely devoted to a survey ot the high points of his trip whlcli took him tn Penrl llnrhni nnrl the Aleutians, referring particu larly to his conferences with "my old friend, Gen. Dougla.1 MacArthur." He warned, however thnf a proper view of the Pacific war? effort must take into considera tion "the enormous size" of tha Pacific, pointing out that tha Hawaiian Islands, for pynmnln. no longer can be regarded as an outpost. As to the future riefenna o the Pacific aeainst nprrpssivi. at tacks by nations such as Japan, ivir. itooscveii said it was "essen tial" that "our control" of a sea and air navigation line extend- Inff from PllUPt Rnnnrf nnrth. ern China must be "undisputed" after the war. "Yotl who live In thn Pnrlffrt northwest," he said "have real ized that a line for sea and air navigation fntlnwini thn frra circle course from Puget Sound to Liberia and northern China passes very close to the Alaskan coast and thence westward along the line of the Aleutian islands. Control Sea Route "Front thn nninf nnllnnnl defense, therefore, it Is essential mat our control of this routo shall be undisputed." He went on to say that "every body In Siberia and China" Knows -wo nave nn ammuons to acntlire land nn thn rnntinnnfe of Asia," but that despite our op position to aggression the Ameri can people were "Insistent" that outer nations must not in mo "foreseeable future" be allowed to commit "sneak attacks." "Therefore," he added, "it is essential that we bo fully pre pared to prevent them for all time to come. Tho word and honor or Japan cannot be trust ed." Mr. Roosevelt followed this) theme by declaring the neces sity of new defense bases for this country bases nearer to Japan, He spoke, too, of the de fensive need for some of tho hundreds of islands In the Pacific, which nominally are territories of other United Nations." "We have no desire to ask for any possession of the United Nations," ho said, "but the Unit ed Nations v.-ho are working to (Cuutinutd on P aiij
