Allied Armies Race to Seal Doom of 100,000 Germans
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; 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
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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,
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DOLL STORE LADY
GIVEN TEN YEARS
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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).
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST
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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
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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
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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.
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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?