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Allied Armies Race to Seal Doom of 100,000 Germans Weather Forecast: Partlr clondy to night with Mattered thunder showers In Slsklyoufl. XueMiuy, fair and warmer. Temp. Highest yesterday BJ Lowest this morning 58 Precipitation past 24 hrs. 0 ; JThirty-ninth Year Nazis Abandon Last Natural Defenses On South Approaches to East Prussia WHITE RUSSIANS TAKE 0S0V1ETS, ENEMYBASTION Reds Careful To Avoid Fate Which Befell Czar's Ar ' mies In Tannenberg Trap ' London, Aug. 14. (U.PJ Ger man troops abandoned their last natural defenses on the southern approaches to East Prussia today and! fell back for a last-ditch de fense of their Nazi homeland in the marshy wastes of the Masur ian lakes. A triumphant order of the day from Soviet Premier Mar shal Josef Stalin announced that Gen. Matvei Zakharov's second white Russian army stormed and captured the Nazi stronghold of Osovlets, 18 miles south of the Prussian frontier. In Full Retreat The German DNB news agen cy said the Nazis evacuated Osoviets last night, fell back across the narrow Bierbrza river and continued northward in full retreat for a narrow land corri dor funneling into the Masurian lakes at the Prussian border. DNB indicated that Zakhar ov's armored columns had forced the Bierbrza and plunged on toward the frontier in close pursuit of the fleeing Nazis. Moscow dispatches made It clear, however, that the Rus sians were moving cautiously in their advance on the Prussian marshes to prevent a repetition of the disaster that engulfed the czar's armies in 1914 when Hin denburg and Ludendorf trapped a huge Russian force in the Masurian lakes around Tannen berg, 100 miles west'of the pres ent battle area. On To Grajevo While the Russian Baltic arm ies chopped through the Ger man flanks in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the north and Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos sovsky's 1st white Russian army probed at the northern defenses of Warsaw and the southwestern approaches to East Prussia, Zak harov's columns were pushing toward Grajevo, where a "land bridge" leads through the Masu rian lakes into Prussia. Grajevo, three miles short of the frontier, is 15 miles north of Osoviets and Soviet advanced guards presumably were closing in rapidly on that border town tonight. The Soviet information bu reau disclosed that the 2nd Bal tic army in the 11 days July 20 to Aug. 1 had killed more than 60,000 Germans and captured B000 brineine to 544,000 the number of enemy troops killed and 175,000 the number cap tured since the start of the Soviet summer offensive June 23. Shaw Would Gixe Everyone Basic Income of $3,200 London, Aug. 14 (U.R) George Bernard Shaw believes that civilization is headed for a crackup and that the only way to check the decline is to estab lish a basic income with cer tain reservations for genius, "which costs more than illiter acy." Writing In the Sunday obscr-i-,. o nn "absentee landlord. capitalist, renter of -ability, and, conviction, a communist." Shaw warned that all civilizations would be wrecked by a division of society into financial classes battling for the bulk of national Income. He recommended that 'ntni,0hmin and dairy maids" be raised toward the financial level enjoyed by geniuses rather than drngaing geniuses down to their level. "To begin with." Sraw said, "a basic income of $3,200 a year would be enough. This, in a scientifically organized society, would command a handsomer life than $16,000 docs now." Medford United Press Roosevelt Enjoys Gl Chow s It,--' is- 1 3.-!S,i?tJ (Acmt Ttlepholn) Flanked by enlisted men, President Roosevelt enjoys a meal of Q L cho served In Quonset hut mess hall during his visit to the Aleutian Islands. Lelt to right Captain A. 1. Price, USN; Ptc William Golf. USMO, Bates vllle Ark; President Roosevelt; Pre. Perdinaud Rutache. USA, Irvlngton, ' N. J, and Brig. Gen. Harry Thompson, u. 8. Navy photo. DOLL STORE LADY GIVEN TEN YEARS J New York, Aug. 14 Mrs. Vel valee Dickinson, 50, former doll store proprietor, was sentenced to 10 years' Imprisonment and fined $10,000 by Federal Judge Shacklcford Miller today for violation of the censorship regu lations. U. S. Attorney James B. M. McNally charged that Mrs. Dickinson conspired to send na val information to Japan, via South America, and that 10 days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she was paid money and given a code for transmission of such Informa tion. The conspiracy was perfected in August, 1941, by Faname Wakasugi, minister and coun selor to the last Japanese am bassador at Washington, Admiral Klchlsnhnro Nomura. McNally said. He added that Mrs. Dickin son had known Admiral Nomura fnr IS vears. and charged that she received $00,000 for furnish ing naval information. Letters Undelivered He charged that Mrs. Dickin son made several trips to the west coast between Jamiary and June, 1942, and subseouently sent five letters addressed to Inez Lopez Mollnari. Buenos Aires, containing Information about American vessels on the coast. The letters, however, were undelivered due to a postal accident "What this defendant did was unspeakably foul," McNally said "It is so horrible that I find It hard to believe that a natural born American, no matter how degraded and low. could be ffuiltv of such arts. Vclvalee i Dickinson all her life had an In ordinate love of money and when i the Japanese offered large sums of it she forsook her American heritage without a moment's hesitation. TO BERLIN , By United Press From the Russian front, 311 miles. From the Italian front, 590 miles. From the French front, 595 miles (unconfirmed). Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST s 7 rfrJ j "V U W .1., - . M Qualifying for general service In the armed forces after success fully completing pre-inductlon physical examinations in Port land lasrweek were the follow. Ing registrants of Local Selective Service Board No. I: Donald Milton Brown, Charles Hobbs, James Orbin Cooksey, Richard Troutfethcr, Paul Jer ome Selby, Noel Parker Kellogg John R. Lilly, Lloyd Ernest Fcrg, Walter James Young, John Har old Fitzgerald, Ivan Spencer Ow- lngs and Donald Charles Great. Tony Mete was accepted for limited service, the local board announced today. Rejected for service were Lindsey Edward Grigsby, George Jacob Haas. Lawrcn Evan Smith, Samuel Salvatore Mete, Frank Leroy Wright, Milton Duanc Singlcr and Melvln Lyle Stein bach. Gen. Martin Warns We Underestimate Japanese Strength Portland, Ore., Aug. 14 (U.R) Maj. Gen. Charles H. Martin, United States army, retired, for mer governor of Oregon, told Spanish-American war veterans that the American people are still underestimating the Jap anese. Gen. Martin spoke at the an nual picnic and reunion for the 2nd Oregon regiment of volun teer Infantry. A veteran of the military expedition to Pciplng, China, during the Boxer rebel lion, he said "It will take lots longer to conquer them than It will the Germans, and even af ter the war ends, those little devils will dig In and guerrilla war will follow for a long time." He recalled that it took three years to clean up the guerrillas in the Philippines." Col. Percy Willis, United States army, retired, command er of the 2nd Oregon regiment, made the address of welcome. p.70 PILOT KILLED Salinas, Cal., Aug. 14 0J.R3 Lt. Frank R. Pate, 25, son of Mrs. CarMyn Pate. 2914 Mont rose, Richmond. Va. was killed when his P-70 night fighter plane crashed near here Friday night, the Palinas army air base announced today. SOLDNS LINE UP FOR FIGHT OVER SURPLUS SALES Hearing Discloses Basic Dif ferences Over Measure Proposed By Rep. Colmer Washington. Aug. 14 (U.R) House members began lining up today for a fight expected to cross party lines over a bill pro viding machinery for the dispos al of surplus war property val ued at an estimated $75,000,000, 000. Basic differences over the pro visions of a surplus property bill by Rep. William Colmer, D., Miss., were disclosed at a hear ing before the rules committee which plans to bring the meas ure before the house for debate tomorrow. Favor One-Man Rule Chairman Carter Manasco, D.. Ala., of the house expenditures committee, which approved the Colmer bill yesterday, said his committee was convinced that authority over property disposal machinery must be concentrated in one man having broad discre tionary powers. Rep. Charles Halleck, R., Ind., member of the rules committee, objected that the bill would nei ther protect adequately estab lished business channels nor pre vent speculation in surplus prop erty. V He said the bill should be amended to avoid giving the ad ministrator "a blank check" and to protect established business men. Another house fight appeared likely between advocates of fed eral and states' rights plans for unemployment compensation. SUPPLIES FLOW Rome, Aug. 14 (U.R) Enemy sniping and street fighting be tween partisans and Fascists in Florence dwindled sufficiently today for Allied military govern ment officials to begin organiz ing a flow of food, water and medical supplies to the nearly starving Inhabitants. Snipers had been cleaned out of Empoli, 15 miles southwest of Florence, where New Zealand troops of the British Eighth ar my were In firm control. Except for the capture of the village of Frontone, 27 miles inland from the Adriatic on the north-south Urbino-Fabriano railway, the balance of the Italian front was comparatively quiet, with activ ity limited to patrols. Yankee Secret Force Leaves Crack Nazi Division Cowering, Waiting To Be Herded Into Prison Pens By Henry T. Gorrell United Press War Correspondent With U. S. Armored Column In France, Aug. 14 (12 noon) (U.R) In the past 24 hours I've seen this column ripping to shreds the crack SS Das Reich division, and the division named for Adolf Hitler himself, as it carried out an Important secret mission. The nature of that mission Is a military secret but I am able to reveal that these fast-rolling Yankee unlrilcrs bowled the en emy over with an impact that shattered his morale ana ien him broken Into disorganized pockets or standing In herds at the roadside, cowering and wait ing to be herded Into the pris oner pens. 20 Towns Freed Riding at the forefront of the column, I saw 20 French villages and towns liberated. French women, some carrying babies In their arms, rushed out to shake hands with tank crews and truck -borne doughboys, while burets still whistled through the streets and Germans 14, 1944 MACHINE SHOPS SEIZED TO FORCE Roosevelt Acts To Halt Long Strike Of San Francisco Workers Against Overtime San Francisco, Aug. 14 (U.R) The navy, acting on authority of an executive order from Presi dent Roosevelt, today began for mal seizure of five machine shops where refusal of AFL ma chinists to work overtime inter fered with war production. The 12th Naval District said that Rear Adm. Harold G. Bowen, USN, in the capacity of special assistant to Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, directed the seizures. Although there had been per sistent reports the government planned to take over the ma chine shops affected by the ma chinists' overtime dispute, to day's executive order announced In Washington appeared to have taken the companies themselves by surprise. By- United Press Two major work stoppages ended today, leaving a strike of 6.500 woodworkers In Wiscon sin, Iowa and Iilllnois as the principal obstacle to lnbor peace In the nation. An estimated 50,000 truck drivers and freight handlers went back to work In 10 mid- western states after a week long walkout. Operation of the motor freight lines was in the hands of the Office of Defense Transpor tation which took over the com panies to avert a threat to war production. Carpenters Strike Members of the United Broth erhood of Carpenters and Join ers (AFL) were on strike at Mer rill. Wausau and Oshkosh, Wis., at Rock Island, 111., and at Clin ton and Bubuque, la. They sought wage Increases of 20 cents an hour. At Detroit, production of air craft and truck parts returned to normal at six plants with the re turn of 10,300 strikers. Seven thousand workers returned to their jobs at five Chevrolet gear and axel plants of General Motors Corporation, Bnd 3,300 other members of the United Automobile Workers Union (CIO) resumed turning out bomber parts at a Briggs Manu facturing company plant. KENNEDY JR. KILLED Hyannis, Mass., Aug. 14. (U.R) Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 27, a naval aviator and son of the former ambassador to England, has been killed In the European theater, according t oword re ceived here today. were burned to cinders In their flaming vehicles scarcely an arm's length away. We arrived In one village to find the townspeople stoning the windows of a house owned by a "collaborator. ' The man him self was burled somewhere In the vortex of an angry crowd. From the shouts of the French it was obvious that he was pay Ing' for having catered to the Germans. One womnn drew her hand across her throat and screamed: "String him up!" I stooped my Jeep beside her and asked what this man had done. "Many Frenchmen In this vil lage have been shot on the ba sis of this man's denunciation," she explained. In some of the villages we were greeted with champagne and flowers The Germans can tinued to fight from others and we cut through them, leaving the woods and fields full of be wildered, shell shocked Germans who still milled around hours aft? ntir nnctaff cnrrvlnff un ' fired machine guns and unex- r. i ilted Preti Full Allied Armies Close in on Paris AtlonltOco, CHERBOURG . --toppe CHANNEL," ISLANDS ft U-s. ionmoar BRITTANY ST. NAZAIRE Sfi3 Anjcii r Loire R. X BoyofSs M. Biscay 75 Ml1" J r, Uiloi Li. e ' 0 25 50 A st Moio , In vast, shz?jzr-w 'ir-id I .. t Moyen (Acmt Telephotol Ahierlcan troops, after retaking Mortaln, drive north Irom Le Man to Alcncon to meet British driving south (rom Caen to trap German Seventh Aruiy of 100,000 men. The Loire River has been crossed while drives con tinue southward toward Orleans and Tours. Strafed, Bombed Nazi Equipment Clutters French War Area Roads London, Aug. 14. (U.R) More than 750 American heavy bombers attacked industrial targets in southern Germany today, while another fleei of similar size from Italy pounded enemy military installations in southern tered the third consecutive day support operation. Along the Immediate battle- front area in northwestern France, eighth and ninth air force fighters spread and deep ened the area of devastation, leaving new piles of German transport equipment smoking and blazing behind them. During the morning, eighth air force fighters had added 301 railway cars, 29 locomotives, and 22 military vehicles to some 600 locomotives, 6,000 railroad cars and 900 military vehicles bombed and shot up in the pre vious two days. Second Lt. Gerald P. Devlne of Ludlngton, Mich., eighth air force pilot who crashlanded, said the roads immediately southwest of Paris were Jammed with all manner of vehicles, front dispatches reported. Correspondents at the front estimated that the luftwaffc sent up a total of about ISO planes throughout the day to meet the great offensive. First Negroes On Philadelphia Cars Philadelphia, Aug. 14 (U.R) The first of eight Negro opera tional trainees, whose upgrading by the Philadelphia Transporta tion company initiated the re cent six-day transit strike, began regular passenger runs on a trol ley line today. ROAMING COWS EATING PEARS IS COMPLAINT Complaints have been filed with the sheriff's office that cows at large in orchard dis tricts of the valley are eating pears, both on the ground and on the trees. Owners of the stock have been warned to round up the cattle or faco com plaints In Justice court. A band of sheep Is also reported Invad ing green pastures and orchards. Most of the entrances have been gained through broken fences ploded grenades waiting for their surrender to be accepted. Nails Whipped "These are not the Germans we knew 24 hours ago," a Jubil ant Frenchman told me. "They are whipped." It was quite a sight to see Frenchmen carrying German Mauser rifles or machine pistols, strutting up and down In front nf Germans they'd lust captured. The Germans Invariably were trembling, their fares twitching, and you could see they expected to be shot by the French when darkness fell. I stonned beside the Jeep of an artillery lieutenant colonel from Des Moines who was at tempting to contact the lead tanks by walkie-talkie. Nearby a Sherman tank was burning where It had been hit by a Ger man anti tank gun overlooked by our dive-bombers. With a wave toward the Ger man gun, the lieutenant colonel said: "We'll get that bastard over there." Even as he spoke, our massive tank deitroyeri wera waddling IBUNE Leased Wire NO. 122. Aratntoiik " .PARIS NORMANDY ,-iifv. Vv France as allied warplanes en of the war's greatest aerial BOB HOPE PLANE FORCED DOWN IN AUSTRALIA FLIGHT Svdnev. Australia. Aug. 14 (U.R) A transDort plane carry ing Comedian Bob Hope and four members of his USO camp show was forced down 225 miles north of Sydney today, but an aboard escaped injury. The transport, en route from Brisbane to Sydney, developed engine trouble and made an emergency landing on a sand bank near Laurlcton, a village of about 300 persons. Hope told the United Press by telephone that the entire par ty was safe and probably would resume their flight to Sydney to morrow Aboard the plane with Hope were Frances Langford, Jerry Colonna, Patty Thomas and To ny Romano. The troupe arrived at Bris bane this morning from Guadal canal and planned to rest In Syd ney for a few days before fly ing to New Guinea. Hope said tnclr plane was wedged tightly In the sand bank and probably could not get off until the tide refloated it. BLArBOTULisM Yakima. Wash., Aug. 14 (U.R) Coroner W H. Banks today said he believed botulism poisoning caused the death yesterday of Mrs. Hazel Snoddy, 51, and her husband, Ira H. Snoddy, a car penter. They became ill after drinking some soup which con tained meat believed by Banks to have caused the poisoning. through dense underbrush to the right. Then their cannon spoke and Just as suddenly the Ger man 88 went silent. Anross the underbrush came the faint cries of "kamerad" as the German crew came running out with Its hands high. Foes Run for Cover Dust and smoke from burning vehicles made the eyes smart as we raced with the column. As we entered one village a gen darme ran out shouting that two German tanks were down a side street. They weren't firing and it appeared the crews had run for cover at the sight of our great column of tanks and mo torized Infantry carrying ba zookas, anti-tank grenades and tommy guns. Church bells rang Joyfully as we entered village after village In some cases against an un dcrtone of artillery and machine gun fire. One little French girl with a tricolor In her hair ran out and pinned a red, white and blue ribbon on my shirt and ex claimed: "We love you. Today we are reborn. " ' UHAVREV 3 I 1 V THREE COLUMNS OF Falaise Junction Of U. S., British, Canadian Forces May Mean Great Victory Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 14. (U.R) Three allied armies converged behind a great aerial and artillery barrage on the ancient Norman town ot ' Falaise today, racing through disintegrating enemy opposition toward a Juncture that would complete the envelopment of perhaps 100,000 Germans and seal the greatest victory of the wir in the west. Only a narrow corridor that by now might measure 12 miles or less remained open to the bro ken remnants of 12 divisions of the Germim 7th and 15th armies reeling back on Paris and the Seine river, and American, Brit ish and Canadian armor was smashing in on that gap from three sides with a power that threatened to turn it into an avenue of death. Canadians Near The Canadian 1st army swung down to close the northern Jaws of the 'rap at noon today. launching a full-scale rttack on the German bolt positions five miles above Falaise. I United Press War Correspon dent William A. Wilson reported that the Canadian assault drove forward 2'i miles in tht first two hours, carrying half way to talalse, through which runs the last practicable escape route for the Germans still inside the allied "sack." The attack was preceded by a rolling aerial bombardment in which swarms of allied medium bombers unloaded tons of frag mentation bombs on Nazi troops in their lines less than 3,000 yards from the Canadian front. Tanks Lurch Forward Tanks and armored Infantry carriers lurched forward as the thunder of the exploding bombs died away and slashed through the enemy lines, carrying a strongly-defended river barrier in the first charge. s the Canadians struck, Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's Ameri can "ghost column" smashed into the southern end of the Nazi escape corridor after a lightning drive up the main Brest-Paris highway that carried them 40 miles in a single day to a point north of Argentan and about 12 miles southeast of Falaise. A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell indicated that part of the American armored col. umn had cut back toward tha Mortain-Sourdeval salient at tha center of the Norman battleline to block the German tank divi sions attempting to pull bacle from that sector. The German home radio ser vice said heavy fighting was under way In the Carrouges area, 12Vi miles northwest ot Alcncon and lHi miles south west of Argentan, Great Triumph Looms Other American forces and the British 2nd army, mean, while, were slashing eastward from the Vlre-Mortaln sectors toward Falaise and Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower declared In a confident order of the day that the battle was shaping up as the greatest triumph of the French campaign. SEVERAL HURT IN S.P. Los AngclM, Aug. 14 (U.R) Seven persons were injured, some seriously today, when tha Southern Pacific Owl struck a freight train that had failed to clear onto a siding near Raven na, 30 miles northeast ot Los Angeles. Most of the Injured were rld Ing in the dining car a the tlma of the wreck. The first engine ot the Owl and five freight cars were derailed. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Klwanlans Al Downs and Ed Nlies serving Lura Tularskl a luscious waffle, filled with string. Burt (Beau Brummel) Lageson arriving down town very nattily dressed but for one small thing no necktie. Julia Spatz proving she has lost little of her oldtlma prowess on the piano keyboard. What ever becama of Al Hagen?
