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Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1944 , NO. 121.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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lilt occurred when ne greeted wounded men at an airfield after their
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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.
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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
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