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to entrap huge German forces In pocket beyond Vlre. giving Allied forces,
according to General Eisenhower's special order ol the day. a "fleeting
but definite" opportunity for major Allied victory, one whose realization
will mean notable progress toward final downlall ol the enemy.
"Old Blood and Guts" Leads
Yanks Racing To Trap Nazis
Washington, Aug. 15 (U.R)
The senate today confirmed
the promotion of Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton to the per
manent rank of major-general
after nearly a, year of delay
resulting from criticism of his
slapping of three American
soldiers.
Washington, Aug. 15. (U.R)
The senate military affairs
committee today unanimous
ly approved the promotion of
" Lt'Cen; GSOYeJe S. Patton, Jr.,
to the permanent rank of ma
jor general.
Sen. A. B. (Happy) Chand
ler, D., Ky., in announcing
that members felt Patton had
the committee's action, said
been "disciplined enough" for
three soldier-slapping Inci
dents which occurred during
the Sicilian campaign nearly
a year ago.
By Paul Ault
United Press Correspondent
Supreme Headquarters, AEF.
Aug. 15 (U.R) Old Blood and
Guts Is on the road back.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
announced at his advanced com
mand post today that Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton, the blustery,
rough-riding tank specialist with
a gift for, getting himself in the
doghouse, is leading the Ameri
can motorized spearheads in
.their race to trap the German
army in western France.
The appointment, kept secret
by the Allied command until
Patton's troops had jammed the
enemy into his present dilemma,
showed Eisenhower's confidence
that Old Blood and Guts is an
inspired leader of motorized
troops.
Long In Eclipse
Patton had been in obscurity
after two mistakes which caused
him to be denounced in Con
gress. First was when he repri
manded a patient in a hilitary
Phoenix Cyclist
Injured By Auto
William A. Hnnscom. 17. of
Phoenix suffered bruises, cuts
and abrasions early last night
when the bicycle he was riding
was struck by an automobile
V operated by George Rutherford,
16, also of Phoenix. The acci
dent occurred on a sidcroad in
Phoenix.
The injured youth was con
fined in Sacred Heart hospital
today and was expected to be
discharged to return to his home
tomorrow.
According to state police the
bicycle was struck by the right
front fender cf the machine.
Both vehicles were traveling in
the same direction.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Don Bagley setting up a "pay
as you go plan" for the use of
certain pieces of equipment in
his household.
Roe Sutheriin outfitting her
self in gala style for a long-
awaited trip to Portland.
Glcnna Manner and Naomi
Miller admitting they wouldn't
mind appearing ui this space.
MEDFORD
United Preu
hospital in Sicily as a coward
and slapped his face. Patton
did not know the man was a vic
tim of battle fatigue nor did
the angry public realize that the
general himself had undergone
abnormal strain of battle.
The second was when he
made an impromtu speech in a
British canteen before the inva
sion and asserted that Great
Britain and the United States
were destined to rule the post
war world. The army later
amended Patton's speech to in
clude Russia. After that the
public heard virtually nothing
about Patton.
United Press War Correspond
ent Robert C. Miller reported
from France yesterday that he
had found the American general
in command of the maneuver.
He couldn't mention his name
but the words the general used
bore the Patton copywright:
"Hell, this is more of a rat
race than a battle."
"It's just a case of we're mov
ing too fast for the Germans,"
the general said. "They simply
refused to believe that we could
cover the distance we have in so
short a time.''
SLEEPING CHILD
STOLEN WITH CAR
San Leandro, Calif., Aug. 15
(U.R) A widespread search de
veloped today for six-year-old
Shirley Ann Gillham, 6, who was
kidnt ped last night perhaps in
advertently by a thief who
stole the automobile in which
she lay asleep.
After a fruitless search
throughout the night, police or
ganized an extensive hunt over
wide area that encompassed
highways leading from San
Leandro.
The Gillhams drove with a
friend last night to a night club
one block from the San Leandro
city hall and parked their car
while they went inside. Since
Shirley Ann was sleeping, they
left her in the car.
Fifteen minutes later Mrs.
Gillham came outside to see that'
the girl was all right. She found
that both the car and the child
had disappeared.
State Democratic
Chairman Coming
Henry Aiken of Heppner.
chairman of the Oregon State
Democratic Central committee,
will attend a meeting of the
Jackson County Democratic
Central committee in the Hotel
Holland at 7:30 Wednesday
night, V. D. Miller, chairman of
the county committee announced
today.
Porter J. Neff of Medford.
state delegate to the Democratic
national convention In Chicago,
will make a report of the con
clave, and Mary Kelly and
Moore Hamilton will report on
the state Democratic meeting
held recently Committee organ
ization work will be planned.
1944 is the 175th anniversary
of the discovery c-f San Francisco
bay by Jose Ortega,
Full Leased Wire
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1944
Battle of Annihilation Opens Against
100,000 Nazis Pocketed In Normandy
SEAL MOUTH OF
EJ
Shuttling Warplanes Bomb
and Strafe Enemy. En
tire Area Flaming Mass
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Aug. 15. (U.R) Allied planes,
tanks and infantrymen opened
the battle of annihilation on
some 100,000 cornered, fighting
Germans in the Normandy
pocket today as veteran Cana
dian troopers and the "blood
and guts" armor of Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's American
third army virtually slammed
shut the enemy's iast escape
route to the east.
Patton's slashing tank col
umns pounded up from Argen
tan to within eight miles or less
of Falaise while the Canadian
first army stormed southward
to within about two miles of
that town and cut across one
of the two main highways east
ward to Lisieux.
Lifeline Impossible
Front reports suggested that
the escape corridor might have
been cut to less than 10 miles,
and the flaming guns of the
Canadian and American forces
already had made that narrow
lifeline impassable.
Wave upon wave of allied
warplanes shuttled incessantly
over the doomed Nazi army,
bombing and strafing every
moving target and turning the
entire area into a burning char
nel house.
Headquarters reports indi
cated that Field Marshal Gun
thcr von Kluge had abandoned
all hope of extricating the rem
nants of his 12 divisions from
the pocket and was reforming
his battle-wearied troops for a
death fight against the allied
armies pressing it from all
sides.
The Germans appeared to be
wheeling their remaining tanks
into a stockade-type defense line
similar to th covered wagon
cordons once used by American
pioneers, and massing their rifle
men, machine gunners, and ar
tillery behind that barrier.
Break Try Hinted
The bulk of the Nazi forces
were concentrated near the
southern rim of the pocket, how
ever, and there was a possibility
that the desperate enemy might
hurl his entire weight against
the allied perimeter there in a
last-ditch attempt to break
through to Paris.
Headquarters sources predict
ed, however, that any such at
tempt would be crushed with
bloody losses to the Germans,
since they now are so heavily
engaged on all sectors that they
have little or no opportunity to
regroup on the scale necessary
for a successful break-through.
TO
Three hundred Mexican na
tional laborers, for work in the
harvesting of pears are due to
arrive tomorrow, according to
County Agent Robert G. Fowler.
The number is only about 30
per cent of what is needed for
the harvest. The original re
quest was for 750 Mexican na
tionals and 500 were promised.
The county agent Is endeavor
ing to have the number in
creased, but is without definite
word, as yet.
Some orchards will start pick
ing tomorrow and some of the
packing plants will open oper
ations. The E. T. Newbry plant
at Talent plans to start Wed
nesday, and all the rest plan to
be in operation the next two
days. Only a few Bartlctts have
been picked so far this week.
Table Rock Gains
In Battle With
Mosquito Plague
Table Rock ranchers, organ
ized a few weeks ago to fight a
plague of mosquitoes reported
to have reached health-menacing
proportions in that area
this year, have noted definite
improvement of the situation
since that time, John Nealon,
spokesman for the group, stated
today.
Nealon states that most of the
ranchers in the area have co
operated in the association's ef
forts to drain bodies of standing
water where possible, and in
prevent ing irrigation water
from providing breeding places
for the insects by careful drain
age from fields. Where drainage
was impractical, surface oiling
of the water was accomplished
to kill larvae.
Efforts of the group will be
continued through the current
season.
NS F
HUGE ARC ABOUT
EASTERN PRUSSIA
Moscow, Aug. 15. (U.R) TwoJ
powertut soviet armies iorgea
a huge arc around East Prussia
from the Niemen river to the
southern approaches of the Ma
surian lakes today wllh one
salient within less than 15 miles
of German soil.
Driving rapidly northward
through the Biebrza marshlands
in a move to. by-pass the Ma
surians, Gen. Georgi Zakharov
brought his 2nd White Russian
army into the fortress city of
Osovets in the closest thrust to
German territory from the
south.
At the northern end of the
tightening 138-mile semi-circle,
Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's
3rd White Russian army was
battling against strong enemy
resistance around Rasciniai, 53
miles northeast of the East
Prussian city of Tilsit.
(The Berlin radio said Rus
sian forces had forged across
the Vistula river north of War
saw and captured an unidenti
fied locality. The exact place
of the crossing was not given.
The Russians last were reported
at Radzymln, 12 miles from the
Vistula at the bend above. War
saw.) Hollywood, Aug. 15 (U.R)
Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hut
ton, who inherited $40,000,000
and married a prince, a count
and a movie star, today admit
ted she has separated from Ac
tor Cary Grant and declared
there vas "no chance of a recon
ciliation." Miss Hutton said she and
Grant had planned a separation
last June but postponed it when
her former husband Count Kurt
Haugwitz-Rcvcntlow refused to
return her son to her custody.
"Cary decided to stand by
me," she said. 'But he isn't happy
and I think it's best we part now.
Besides, it's unfair and dishonest
to take advantage of his name
and protection because I am
fighting to hold my child."
TO BERLIN
By United Jrets
The shortest distances to
Berlin from advanced Allied
lines today:
Russia 328 miles (un
changed for week).
Northern France 595 miles
(unconfirmed, gain of 28 miles
In week.)
Italy 602 miles. (Gain of
two miles in week).
Southern France Possibly
653 miles. (Measured from
point near Kice),
IS NEUTRALIZED BY
Japan's Once Strong Step
ping Stone to Philippines
Target in Heavy Attack
Washington, Aug. 15 (U.R)
Army heavy bombers struck
Paramushiro island in the Ku
rilcs on Friday, bombing ship
ping near the island and the
airstrip at Suribachi, the navy
announced today.
The raiders shot down three
enemy planes, probably shot
down another five and damaged
two of 15 to 20 enemy fighters
which attempted to intercept the
American force. Two Liber
ators received some damage, the
navy said, but all returned.
By United Press
Halmahera, once strong Jap
anese base 250 miles south of
the Philippines, was renorted
"neutralized" today as the Jap
anese Dome! agency announced
a force of 22 Liberator bombers
had raided Iwo Jima island In
the Volcano islands, 650 miles
south of Tokyo.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur e-
ported that the Japanese had
lost completely the flexibility of
the Halmahera base, once a key
supply line running through
the southwest Pacific, following
a sustained Allied aerial attack.
The latest raid Sunday start
ed great fires and explosions
among enemy Installations.
United Press Correspondent
Francis McCarthy, reporting
from advanced headquarters,
said an estimated 25,000 tons of
shipping had been destroyed or
put out of commission during
the Halmahera campaign.
MacArthur's communique al
so reported new air raids on
other enemy bases in the area.
Liberators attacked Manokwari
on the northern coast of Dutch
New Guinea Sunday, dumping
60 tons of explosives on the
heaviest raid on that base since
July 19.
Mitchell bombers hit the
southwest coast of the Vogelkop
peninsula in Dutch New Guinea.
bombing barges and trucks.
The Japanese dispatch, re
corded by FCC, claimed Japa
nese fighter planes shot two of
the Liberators which attacked
In the volcanos yesterday. The
dispatch made no mention of
damage to the island.
Iwo Jima lies midway be
tween the recently conquered
islands In the Marianas and the
Japanese mainland.
Fourth Front Invaders Flabbergasted
By Absence of Opposition From Nazis
By Herbert Matthews
Representing the Combined
American Press
(Distributed by United Press)
With American Forces in
Southern France, 2 p. m. Tues
day, Aug. 15 (U.R) A flabber
gasted American army number
ing many thousands is well into
southern France this afternoon
and going fast. It has been vir
tually without opposition and
with amazingly small casualties.
The Jerries were caught com
pletely by surprise and what few
there were waiting for us have
been scattered or captured. Men,
tanks, artillery and materiel of
all kinds have been pouring onto
three separate beaches since H
hour at 8 o'clock this morning
and by now we have built up
such strength that lt seems al
most certain we have not only
come to stay but to push on.
Decisive Blow
This ought to be a decisive
blow for France, and everybody
is astounded that it went off so
easily.
It had been a night of terror
for all the French along the
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United Preu Full
War Bulletins
Madrid, Aug.' 15 (U.R)
Sporadic street fighting has
broken out in Paris, reports
from the border indicated to
night. The Germans were re
ported attempting to rule Paris
with an iron hand but were
unable to control the French
populace.
AEF, Aug. 15 (U.R)
Supreme Headquarters,
German Seventh army lashed
out in a desperate attempt to
break the Allied trap in Nor
mandy today but was turned
back by a heavy crossfire of
Allied bombs and shells after
a number of tank and infan
try units succeeded in escap
ing to the east.
London, Aug. 15 (U.R)
The Red army, battling for
Warsaw, has repulsed large
German tank and inftntry
onslaughts In the vicinity of
Praga on the outskirts of the
Polish capital, radio Moscow
reported tonight.
Canadian Army Headquar
ter!, France, Aug. 15 (U.R)
British bombing planes acci
dentally dropped a great
weight of bombs, possibly 800
tons, on Canadian troops dur
ing a "saturation" raid on the
German lines at Falaise yes
terday, it was disclosed today.
25,000 POUNDS
'ROUNDED " UP IN
E
About 25,000 pounds of sal
vaged tin cans were collected
from Medford service stations
Sunday morning by volunteers
working for the county salvage
committee and trucked to Camp
White, where they will be
shipped from the salvage depot
there. The cans represented a
week's drive conducted by the
salvage committee with the co
operation of all gasoline distrib
uting firms of the city and the
station operators.
According to Wayne Jamison,
salvage chairman, plans arc
completed for the paper drive
with the exception of naming a
collection depot. When final
permission for use of a desirable
location has been received, open
ing date of the drive and the lo
cation of the collection depot
will be announced.
Mr. Jamison extended his
thanks this morning to his com
mittee workers, the oil distrib
utors, station operators and cal
lection volunteers who gave
time and loaned trucks and oth
er equipment for the tin can
salvage.
beaches and resort places and
some paid with their lives and
the destruction of their houses,
but we held back the heaviest,
tell-tale raids until daylight this
morning.
Three hours of hell preceded
the landing. Bombs, naval gun
fire, and rockets flamed and
roared Into the beaches from
daylight until H-hour.
Before the smoke lifted, troops
were swarming up the beaches,
hardly believing their luck as
the engineers blasted their way
through cement walls and the
tanks drove in and hardly a shot
came from Jerry.
Now comes the build up and
it Is going to be tremendous and
it is going to be quick. Ameri
cans can be proud that this was
their venture from its Inception
to this successful outcome per
haps our greatest single contribu
tion to the war In Europe.
Not Another Aniio
The Germans will, doubtless,
rally and throw In forces to stop
us as soon as they can, but this
is not going to be another Anzio,
and meanwhile nothing counts
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NO. 123.
IDLLE MACHINISTS
ORDER jl WORK
Only Four Men Report for
Duty After Taking Over
of San Francisco Plant
San Francisco, Aug. 15 (U.R)
With few exceptions, striking
machinists at Federal Mogul
Bearing plant today appeared to
have ignored a navy return-to-work
order issued under au
thority of President Roosevelt's
executive order for government
seizure of five machine shops
plagued by an old overtime dis
pute. Only four additional machin
ists reported for work this
morning to join the 18 "rebels"
who remained on the job In de
fiance of a walkout called by
officials of International Asso
ciation of Machinists (AFL)
Lodge 69.
Only 20 Work
This meant that only 20 of the
shop's total of 115 machinists
now were at work.
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bow-
en, who took control of the five
shops to halt Interference with
war production, said It still was
"too early" to draw conclusions
about success or failure of the
navy's return-to-work call.
The union had banned over
time work by its members at
104 San Francisco machine
shops, In deflnnce of War La
bor Board orders. The WLB and
navy reported refusal of the
men to work overtime interfered
with war production. The walk
nut was called at Federal Mogul
in protest against company
overtime work orders. The few
"rebels" remained on the Job to
work 70 hours a week.
Coyote Population
Missing In County,
There Is a dearth of coyotes in
the county, and few complaints
are received of depredations.
Last month a bounty was paid
on Just one coyote pelt, the
couny clerk's office reported.
The stray dogs are also behaving
and no reports of their slaugh
tering of sheep have been re
ceived. HARMON WEDDING SET
Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 15
(U.R) Lieut. Tom Harmon and
Elyse Knox, movie actress, will
be married Aug. 26 in St. Mary's
Student chapel here, It was an
nounced today.
today but Jubilation at the al
most bloodless success of a great
operation.
The units on our flanks didn't
have It quito so easy, but they
too are well inland and moving
fast.
I went straight to the prisoner-of-war
cage where 125 Jerries
were gathered to find out why
they didn't put up a fight from
their coastai emplacements and
strong hill positions back of the
beaches.
It didn't take long to find out
what was wrong. There wasn't
any fight left In them. One mas
ter sergeant said he knew the
army In northern . France had
broken. For three months he had
realized the war was lost,
"There's no reason to fight,"
he said. "For whom should we
fight?"
"You mean you're not fighting
for Hitler any more?" I asked.
'That's It," he replied, "any
way we've got nothing to fight
with.
Their dejection contrasted re
markably with the happiness of
the French.
ILL
FEEBLEDEFENSE
Beachheads Are Established
Alongl 00-Mile Strip Be
tween Nice and Marseille.
Rome, Aug. 15 (U.R) A
mighty Allied Invasion force,
struck Into southern France
from sea and sky today and
within a matter of hours overran,
the Germans' feeble shore de
fenses and established firm
beachheads along a 100 mile,
strip of the Mediterranean
coast between Nice and Mar
seille. A miles-long sky train of glid
ers and transport planes swept
in over the coast before dawn
to shower thousands of Amer
ican and British paratroopers
across the rolling hills behind
the Nazi coastal defenses, and
the main assault force splashed
ashore from landing craft at 8
a. m.
Germans Stunned
Between the two forces, tha
stunned Germans were rendered
almost helpless and their once-
formidable fortifications were)
breached almost without a
struegle.
By mid-morning all the land
Ines were proceeding success
fully according to schedule,
against only light ground oppo
sition and no air opposition, a
headquarters communique an
nounced. "The supporting air-borne op
eration was also successfully ex
ecuted." First reports said American
and French Infantrymen, the
pick of the veteran armies mass
ing In the Mediterranean thea
ter for months, made up tha
bulk of the assault force put
ashore by an armada of- some
800 warships and transport
craft.
American and British para
troops and air-borne infantry
spearheaded the attack, but it
was indicated that the Initia
British army participation was
limited to this phase of the In
vasion. Drive Inland
Reports trickling back from
the thousands of Allied fliers
who swept unchallenged over
the beaches said the Invading
army was striking swiftly In
land, In a drive aimed to tha
northwest at the Rhone valley,
less than 30 miles west of Mar
seille. Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wil
son, supreme Allied commander
In the Mediterranean, declared
that his forces would sweep tha
Germans from their path, mnrch
northward through the heart of
France, and Join up with the Al
lied armies closing In on Paris
frcm Normandy.
' Victory Is certain," he pro
claimed In a ringing message to
the people of France. "Remem
ber 1918."
Even as Wilson's armies
stormed ashore, Gen. Charles
De Gaulle's French committee
of national liberation broadcast
a call to arms to all of France,
ordering patriots throughout the
country to rise against the Nazi
occupation armies.
Blast Blow Due
"The blast blow Is about to
be struck," the committee de
I rlnred.
A full battalion of American
paratroops, about 1000 men,
landed in the St. Raphael area,
the Nazi DNB News Agency said,
while another landing attempt
at Port Dramont, four miles to
the east, was repulsed.
German reports of furious
fighting along the coast appeared
to be purely for home front
consumption, however. Hitler's
Mediterranean wall had been
breached beyond hope of repair
by the first shattering wave of
Allied planes and shock troops
and the thunderous bombard
bombardment laid down by Brit
ish Admiral Sir John II. D. Cun.
ningham's warships.
Planes Riddle Defense
The Allied Mediterranean air
forces hurled some 2700 planes
over the Invasion beaches in
their climactic D-dny punch,
riddling the enemy's coastal de
fenses and cutting their lines of
communication to ribbons.
Some 500 Mitchell and Ma
rauder bombers racej In before
the landing craft to drop their
bombs at the water's edge,
touching off the land and sea
mines strewn across the path of
the Invasion armada. Swarms
of fighter-bombers followed tha
troops ashore and methodically
knocked out enemy strongpoints
at the direction of tho ground
commanders.
Milwaukee, Aug. 15 U.R
While Charles Mehringer sat In
front of his tavern cooling off
today a thief entered the back
door and stole S1748,