PLAY DIRGE FOR
STUBBORN NAZI
Commander Of St. Malo Pre
fers Death Underground
To Surrender
By William R. Higginbotham
united Press War Correspondent
St. Servan, France, Aug. 13
U.PJ American guns were
playing a dirge today for stub
born Col. Adrian Von Aulock
who prefers to die in his under
ground citadel than surrender.
The German garrison com
mander, who has whipped some
300 rag-tag remmnts including
cooks and dishwashers into a lo
or die stand within the "cap
tured town of St. Malo," showed
no signs of weakening.
(Today's communique from Al
lied supreme headquarters said:
"Remnants of the German gassi
son of St. Malo still hold out in
the citadel.")
I stood in the siege line arou.id
his fort the first major siege
line in the battle of France
and watched American troops
working in the face of 88's and
bigger enemy guns trying to
blast him out.
Can't Stay Forever
"He can't stay down there for
ever and he can't keep us out
forever," said 2nd Lt. Robert S.
Long of Chattanooga, Tenn. "We
can pound him longer than he
can take it. "
From 15 miles Inland square
ly up to point blank range of 600
yards, American guns were blast
ing the fort apart but the colonel
did not budge.
Less than 24 hours ago he
sent out this message:
"Thank you for fighting fair
ly. Even if the American army
was fighting on the Rhine, we
Germans should continue fight
ing because capitulation, accord
ing to my conception, is not
compatible with the honor of a
German soldier."
I toured the siege lines all the
way from our big guns far in
land to the street immediately
back of the colonel's fort where
the Germans had laid 30 feet of
Craterian Stars
r
Now showing at the Craterian
is "Gaslight," with Charles
Boyer, Ingrid Bergman and
Joseph Cotten.
concrete over old fortifications
which dated from Roman days.
On Top Of Fort
First Lt. Carl Gamble of
Rudolph, Ohio, told me of the
difficulties of assaulting the
citadel,
"We attacked direct with In
fantry and the boys beat their
way squarely atop the fort," he
said. "They dropped hand gre
nades down on the Germans.
Then those German guns, which
had been worrying us opened up
on the fort itself. They knew
they wouldn't hurt the Germans
down below and they blew us
right off of the top."
A short truce was observed to
day while German and Ameri
can ' wounded were removed
from around the fort and then
fighting resumed with American
dive-bombers going after the
German emplacements on the is
lands. "It ain't half so hot here now,"
said Pvt. John Kuznich of Nor
wich, Conn., who was holding
down a siege spot between two
buildings. "But look a. that."
The doughboys had Just
rolled up a tank destroyer gun
which started banging away at
the fort, knocking off chunks
of concrete.
AIR FORCE TO KEEP
PEACE IS PROPOSAL
Washington, Aug. 14. U.R
An international air force to put
down aggression anywhere on
the globe is one of the proposals
to be discussed at the interna
tional security conference, ac
cording to Sir Alexander Cado
gan, head of the British delega
tion. The conference opens here a
week from today.
SECRET WEAPON
DECLARED READY
London, Aug. 14. U.R A
German spokesman told neutral
correspondents today that Ger
many's new secret weapon,
"V-2, had been completed and
would be used by the German
army, navy and air forces at
"the supreme tactical moment."
The spokesman's remarks
were reported in dispatches
from neutral capitals as the Ger
man bombardment of London
with "V-l" robot bombs" near
ed the end of the second month
without sign of slackening.
The spokesman said the new
weapon was not a variation of
the robot bomb, but rather was
"a completely new and absolute
ly secret weapon" which can be
fired even by ships at sea and
over long distances.
Another dispatch reaching
London said the Germans were
planning to use robot incendiary
bombs' against England.
British sources attributed the
increasing number of reports of
German secret weapons to a
Nazi desire to spread alarm
among the allies and to lessen
dissatisfaction on the home
front with the setbacks on the
eastern and western battlefronts.
Prospect
Prospect, Aug. 14 Wayne
Bradley was injured August 10
while unloading a truck, near
Prospect, and was taken to the
Community hospital at Madford.
One arm is broken and he also
sustained a back injury, and
deep lacerations about the head.
Mrs. Bradley is staying in Mcd
ford this week, and her chil
dren, Lois and Glenn, are being
cared for by Mrs. Bradley's
niece, Mrs. Dorothy Sisk.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bcrtley
of Roseburg stopped at Pros
pect August 10 on their return
from a trip to Crater Lake, to
visit a few hours with Douglas
and William Smith, the new own
ers of the Fol(z sawmill.
Mr. and Mrs. James Heston
Grieve and two older children,
Janet and Billy, and Mrs.
Grieve's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Cauller of Southgate,
Calif., left August 10, for The
Dalles, to visit Mr. and Mrs.
Farrell Fish and other relatives
for five days. Grieve's two little
sons. Kern and Scott, are stay
ing with Mrs. Florence Austen,
in the Laurelhurst district, dur
ing their parents' absence. Mrs.
Rose J. Kelley Is taking Mrs.
Grieve's place at the Prospect
postoffice.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Klien
hammer of Ashland spent August
8 visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
McGrew.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stearns and
daughter, Deana, moved to
Eagle Point August 9.
Mrs. R. E. Breeding of Red
Blanket district is fully recover
ed after a couple of days in a
Medford hospital following a
tonsillectomy recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Car! Kludt and
children, Donna Jean,-. Deanna
and Carl, Jr., of Portland, are
greeting old friends and visiting
relatives here. They are former
Prospect residents, moving to
Portland about two years ago
Other members of the Kludt
family here last week included
Lt. Willis Kludt, who, after his
leave is up next week, will go
to Baton Rouge, La., and be as
signed to the second air corps:
also Sgt. Harold Kludt, on his
first furlough since he has been
in the army air corps over two
years, most of this time in the
Panama Canal zone. Sgt. Kludt
has a 21-day furlough, after
which he will go to Monterey,
Calif., for reassignment. The
The Kludt boys' parents live in
Medford.
Mrs. John Cancellor of Cen
tral Point visited Mrs. Raymond
Artmire, August 11, and took
her son, John, home with her.
The latter was a guest of Frankie
Artmire all of last week.
Mrs. Guy Tex of Central Point
and little granddaughter, Linda
Kay Asquith of Medford, spent
last week visiting Mrs. Tcx's
sister, Mrs. Mary E. Grieve, at
the Prospect hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Slagle
left August 10 for two days'
visit with their son, Pfc. Robert
Slagle, of the U. S. M. C. R., at
San Diego.
Mrs. Howard Waggoner had a
telephone call August 11 from
her son; Donald, of the navy, an
nouncing that he had just ar
rived in San Francisco from the
Hawaiian Islands,
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Z SAYS JAPS
MAY CAPITULATE
BEFORE INVASION
Pearl Harbor, Aug. 14. U.R)
Admiral Chester W. Nimttz
believes Japan may capitulate
before American forces invade
her home island but he wants
the islands occupied to guaran
tee that America wins the peace.
Nimitz' report was given at a
press conference at his Pacific
fleet headquarters yesterday
after his return from an inspec
tion tour of the recently cap
tured bases in the Marshalls and
Marianas Islands, where the
Americans were poised less than
1500 miles from Tokyo.
"I am not sure nor am I con
vinced that invasion by assault
will be necessary," he said, "but
I do believe that occupation of
Japan will be necessary to vin
sure that we win the peace.
Unused To Losing
'This was is a new experience
for Japan. In recent times they
have been on the winning side.
We don't know how much they
can take before they will throw
in the sponge."
He promised that the full
power of the allied forces would
be brought against Japan until
victory was achieved.
"I can only hope thnt our
operations develop at such a
tempo that we never give them
time to prepare a defense," he
said.
Pointing out that it was hard
ly possible to bomb Japan on
the same scale as the RAF and
the USAAF mighty campaign
against Germany, Nimitz said
the defeat of Japan would result
from a combination of the entire
military power "blockade, air
bombardment, possibly surface
bombardment and possibly inva
sion.
HOSPITAL ASSN.
Grants Pass, Aug. 14. Arti
cles of incorporation and a con
stitution were drawn up and
accepted Friday at the Jose
phine county Rural Health Pro
tective association, the county
court, and the Josephine Gen
eral hospital board met jointly,
bara Wertz of the Farm Secur
ity association said today.
The newly-formed association
is offering pre-paid hospital care
to rural families of Josephine
county and to other groups that
express a desire for affiliation,
who upon petition are accepted
by the association.
The association Is an out
growth of a year's experience
with prepaid hospital care in
cooperation with the Blue Cross
hospital service plan of Port
land, with which this association
is no longer affiliated.
Members of last year's group,
Monday, August 14. 1944 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE THREB
however, are considered renew
als. The organization is now
opening for new members and
hopes to enroll at least 300 fam
ilies in the association. The
group is co-operative, is non
profit in plan, and will operate
on co-operative principles, Mrs.
Wertz said.
Last year 104 families and 15
individuals enrolled in the plan
on August 1. A full year of ex
perience with those families re
veals that of the 343 people thus
protected, 35 entered the hospi
tal. Although five members stay
ed the full 21 days, the average
for the group was eight and a
third days, and the average cost
to tho organization was $7.20 a
day.
KLAMATH LEASES PORT
TO NAVY DEPARTMENT
Klamath Falls, Aug. 14. City
officials last week signed a lease
to the United States navy on
the Klamath municipal airport,
home of the Klamath naval air
station.
The action was taken after
considerable discussion of pro
visions which city officials
feared might make It difficult
to get the airport back after the
war. Navy officials gave assur
ances the navy would turn the
station back six months after the
war, and would hot Impose un
due restrictions on commercial
aviation.
Though cancer Is thought te
be primarily a disease of older
people, more persons under 30
die of it than of infantile par-alysis.
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