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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1944)
TO (r IM1 UVUU (o) (5) Ml Weather Forecast: Fair ton! eh t and Thursday. Slightly cooler Thurs day. Temp. Highest yesterday 90 Lowest this morning m 45 Precipitation past 21 bra. - Thirty-ninth Year New American Column Spreads Great Outer Trap Around Nazis Squeezing Out of Normandy Net CROSSFIRE HALTS I Entire Western Half of 7th Army Perimeter Collaps ing Under Allied Blows. Supreme Headquarters, AEF Aug. 16. OJ.Ri The German high command said a power ful American army was sweeping eastward within 39 miles of Paris tonight in a new offensive that also men aced Orleans and Tours, as other allied forces to the north joined in a death battle against remnants of the Nazi 7th army in the Normandy pocket. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug, is. (U.R)' The cornered remnants of Germany's 7th army lashed out against encirc ling allied forces in a wild, but apparently losing, fight for life tonight as Berlin reported that a new American armored col umn was sweeping on Paris and the Seine to forge a great outer trap around the Normandy pocket. The sudden emergence of the new American column in the rolling wheat fields east of Paris poised a new threat to the rid dled German divisions that had managed to squeeze out of the Falaise-Argentan Gap at the eastern end of the allied trap. Hounded From, Air Hounded fiom the air by swarms of low-flying allied at tack planes that bombed and machine-gunned every highway as far east as the Seine, the Ger man columns faced the greater menace of American tanks and Infantrymen sweeping across their line of flight. Allied headquarters maintain ed silence on the enemy reports, following the same "blackout" policy that prevailed during Lt. Gen. George S. Pattons out flanking march on Argentan, which sprang the Normandy trap. Meanwhile, the entire western half of the 7th army perimeter was collapsing under the ham mer blows of converging allied armies swarming in tor the kill from the north, south, and west. All German traffic through the Falaise-Argentan corridor was reported at a standstill to-' night because of the savage allied crosslire, but Nazi tanks and riflemen struck frenziedly at the closing wall-of American and British forces in a last minute effort to escape. Thousands Lost Thousands of the enemy were killed or captured in the at tempt and the German Trans ocean news agency admitted that the next few days or even hours might decide the fate of their surviving comrades. WIND SAVES TOWN Moncton, N. B., Aug. 16 (U.R) A sudden shift in the wind today saved Moncton from a roaring forest fire, which had hampered rail traffic in the area and burned through hun dreds of acres of valuable tim berland. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Doc Bill Roncy casting a Ju dicial eye at the bald pate of a friend in order to guess his age. Taxi-man Howard Odcn mak ing dire threats at retaliation if he sees his name in Side glances again. Maude Codding receiving com pliments on her skill with a chicken and frying pan. MEDFORD United Press American Airmen Aim New Blows at Jap Inner Bases By United Press American airmen were re vealed today to have aimed new blows at Japanese inner defenses from the Kuriles in the north ern empire to bases in the south Pacific. A communique from south west Pacific headquarters dis closed that the steady air assault on Halmahera, 250 miles from the Philippines, entered its sec ond week Monday as Liberator and Mitchell bombers battered two sections of the virtually neu tralized enemy base. CITY JS ASKED TO ON WILLAMETTE A-petition bearing the names of 16 property owners and re questing the completion of the sidewalk on the west side of Willamette avenue from East Main to East Ninth street was presented to the city council at its semi-monthly meeting last night. While property owners in the are'a involved must pay for the sidewalk paving, permission of the council must be granted on the grounds the paving Is a nec essary city Improvement, it was explained. Action on the re quest, which stated that the side walk fronting four or five lots was unpaved. will be taken at the next meeting. Zone Changed On recommendation of the city planning commission, the council adopted an ordinance changing the south 60 feet of lots 4 and 5, block 1, Meeker's addition from residence zone IB to light industrial zone VI. The property is on Putman street, where E. J. Ellis of the Medford Neon Sign company plans to erect a repair shop. The council authorized Ralph Woodford, city recorder and city police judge, to take a two weeks vacation beginning Sept. 3, and appointed Allen D. Cur ry acting police judge In his ab sence. Miss Neva Samuels, dep uty city recorder, will take care of the recording duties. Under the city charter, the recorder can not be absent from his position for more than five days without permission of the council. Councilman Frank Runtz was absent. Bond Cash-Ins Heavy As Sales Washington, Aug. 16 (U.R) Bond redemptions in the first 12 days of August nearly equaled sales in the same period, the treasury announced today. Sales of series E, F and G bonds amounted to $121 416.110 while redemptions totaled $119,-224,341. Jap Strategy in Pacific Would Draw Foe in Close as Possible By United Press Japan plans to fight a "de cisive battle for victory" along the arc linking Japan with the Philippines where a grand scale American offensive eventually will be aimed and where the im perial air force "will have un disputed control of the air." Col. Yasuji Nogal, spokesman for the general army staff, said Wednes day. Tokyo radio, In a broadcast recorded by United Press, San Francisco, said Col. Nogal out lined Japan's future military strategy to military attaches of "east Asiatic powers" at an In terview in general army staff Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1944 DESPERATE NAZIS ATTEMPT TO STAY T Violent Counter Attack With Tanks, Infantry, Artillery On First Baltic Front. London, Aug. 16. (U.PJ Ger man forces, striving desperately to stop the red army's summer offensive as it neared the reich's borders, launched a violent counterattack with tanks, infan try, and artillery on the first Baltic front today, Radio Mos cqw disclosed in a broadcast tonight. In one counterattack along the Baltic front the fighting last ed throughout the day, radio Moscow asserted, adding how ever that the Germans lost 1,500 men killed in that sector. The German radio, meanwhile admitted Russian breakthroughs at several points along their lines, despite the countermeas- ures. Concentrated tank forces broke through the German lines at Blrshal, and gains were made by the Russians west of Pskov, north of Biaiystok and north west of Vilkovishki, the Ger man radio admitted. AFL MACHINISTS San Francisco, Aug. 16 (U.R) The navy today cancelled draft deferments, supplemental gasoline rations and imposed a war manpower blacklisting upon AFL machinists who re fused to obey overtime work orders at machine ships seized by the government under an executive order issued by Presi dent Roosevelt. San Francisco, Aug. 18 (U.R) AFL machinists, almost unani mously, today refused to obey navy overtime work orders at four government-seized machine shops despite threatened cancel lation of their selective service occupational deferments and blacklisting by the War Man power Commission. SHADY COVE RESIDENT HELD ON CHECK CHARGE State and city police this morning arrested Charles Leroy McLaughlin, 18, of Shady Cove, on a warrant charging him with obtaining money by false pre tenses. He will be arraigned in justice of the peace court to morrow morning. Police said McLaughlin passed two bad checks totaling $35, one here and one in Shady Cove. He was taken Into custody at Shady Cove. headquarters In Tokyo Wednes day night (Japan time). Nogai first acknowledged that Japan's air power is "only rough ly one-third that of the enemy." "Despite this Inferiority, we have absolute confidence in our victory. The decisive battle for victory undoubtedly will be fought on the arc linking Japan and the Philippine Islands. For here, Japan will have undisput ed control of the air." Nogal summarized Japanese strategy: "In the Pacific, Japa nese strategy Involves drawing the enemy as close as possible. whreas in China, it is positively of an offensive character." Tl DISMANTLING TO Mayor Meeker Says Future of Emergency Housing Learned at Seattle Meet. Medford's 125-unit Victory Housing Center, constructed with government funds at a cost of almost $300,000, will be dis mantled only after the war or when the housing emergency ceases to exist, and not until then, Mayor Clarence A. Meek er said today Meeker, chairman of the Jack son County Housing Authority, made this clear in reporting on the recent meeting of the Na tional Association of Housing Officials held in Seattle to Iron out problems of reconverting and salvaging emergency hous ing projects in the region com prising Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho. Meeker said that the center would not be torn down or sal vaged now, nor probably in the immediate future, as It was be lieved the possibility of a hous ing emergency has not yet ceased to exist. Not Permanent However, he pointed out, Med ford people need not worry that their rental property will be permanently affected by the presence of the center, as the national emergency housing act. under which it was constructed, specifies that It shall be dis mantled when the emergency Is past. Right now, he said, 75 units at the center are occupied. Fif ty units were recently taken off the rental market, and in a fur ther move to induce people to seek private housing accommo dations a ruling has been made to exclude from the center per sons making over $2400 a year, with $240 allowed for each child The ruling was made by the Jackson County Housing Authority at the request of the regional board, the mayor stated. Meeker said that much discus sion was held at the meeting concerning the possibility of converting such projects as the local center to the use of mi gratory workers, or moving sin gle units to rural areas. , WISCONSIN BEATS CIO CANDIDATES ( Milwaukee, Aug. 16. (U.R) The Republicans polled more than 69 percent of Wisconsin's primary election vote, and two congressional candidates sup ported by the CIO's political ac tion committee were beaten by wide margins, nearly complete returns from yesterday's voting showed today. Eighty-one year old Acting Governor Walter S. Goodland won the Republican nomination for governor and Sen. Alexan der Wiley won the G.O.P. nomi nation for another term. Returns from 2,703 of 3,073 precincts gave Goodland 130, 465, Delbert J. Kenny 71,405. State Sen. Milton T. Murray 35,165, Christian J. Otjen 23,522 and Roland E. Vanncnbcrg 13,504. OPA CHIEFS NAMED Washington, Aug. 16 (U.PJ The Office of Price Administra tion today announced appoint ment of two section chiefs in the food price division. Arthur K. Fisher, Chicago, was named head of the specialties and Im port section, and Franklin Gin dick, Sacramento and Berkeley, Cal., was appointed acting head of the fresh fruit and vegetable section. Beachheads Cherbou?? tOerWt J. lLHX ( Y:W-J&-v. . Sfda- u Moe. Bay ot Biscay : Gr ,wCalX" jf: Montouben r" -e V " ST fcTSS-s1)- ;J Marseille 0 MILK 100 1 '"1 CuHolUom CORSICaV! Mcmtf ialephoto) The Allies open a "4th front" against Germany by storming a 100-mile stretch of French Mcuiierrunean coast with Invasion armada ot W)0 ships, thousands ol planei and clouds ot paratroops. The new invasion worm in periecuy with Allies suia&n in -nrinwesicrn France, wuere noose is being drawn on some 100,000 Nazis caugnt in Faiai m Iran. Dewey Assails World Control Plan as Example of "Cynical Power Politics" Albany, N. Y., Aug. 16 (U.PJ Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Re publican presidential nominee, today assailed as "cynical pow er politics," postwar proposals that he said would have the United States, Russia, Great Britain, and China "control the world." Dewey issued a statement as serting he was "deeply con cerned" over proposals ad vanced for the scheduled con ference of the four powers In Washington Monday. Reports Disturb "I have been deeply disturbed by some of the recent reports concerning the forthcoming con ference," Dewey said. "These indicate that it is planned to subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently GETS UNDER WAY Bartlctt picking will be In full swing by the end of the week. All the packing plants will be In operation then, some starting today and the balance tomorrow and Friday. Three hundred Mexicans ar rived this morning from eastern Oregon to work as pickers and were taken to their qunrtcrs. They will be assigned to or chards and start work probably tomorrow. Many orchurdists will employ both Mexicans and lo cal labor. Packers report there has been no sale of Bartlctts to canneries so far and doubt if there will be. French Patriots Open Full-Scale Attack in Savoy Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 16 (U.R) An army of French pa triots launched a full-scale of fensive against German occupa tion forces In the Savoy district of southeastern France today, captured the Nazi stronghold of St. Julien, and hoisted the tri color on every frontier post guarding this section of the Franco-Swiss border. Rifle and machine gun fire and the roar of heavy artillery were clearly audible in the streets of Geneva, and reports from the frontier said the Insur rection had won quick and sweeping sutcess over the sur prised Germans. The uprising began at four a m. today and St. Julien was completely cleared of the Ger mans by noon. Triune United Preu Full Leased Wire Won in "4th Front" to the coercive power of the four nations holding this con ference. "I have consistently advocat ed the maintenance for some time after the war of close mil itary cooperation among the four powers so that If the Ger mans or the Japanese hereafter seek to evade their disarma ment, we may strike quickly, together and with overwhelm ing might. That is a specific re sponsibility of the victors. It Is an essential part of winning the war. This responsibility to keep Germany and Japan disarmed should be shared with liberated peoples, but .it cannot immedi ately be delegated to a world wide organization while such organization is yet new and un tried. Sees Peace Menace "In organizing permanent peace among the rest of the world, after the difficult post war period, very different atitude must be taken. In some of these proposals there appears to be a cynical Intention that the four great Allied powers shall continue for all time to dominate the world by force and through Individual agree ments as to spheres of influ ence. "I hope and pray that no such reactionary purpose will be allowed to dominate the con ference, else the peace of the world will as surely as night follows day again be destroyed. "The fact that we four have developed overwhelming power as against our enemies docs not CLOSE FOR V-DAY Portland, Ore., Aug. 16 (U.R) The Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced today that on V-Day, the day Ger many falls, liquor stores and agencies will be closed In com munities where retail stores close, but may remain open In arras where other stores remain open. Plans already have been made by the Portland retail bu reau to close member stores when victory over Germany Is announced, so Portland's down town stores will be closed on V-Day. If the retail closure Is general over the city, the out lying liquor stores also will be closed. A Jackson County Chamber of Commerce poll has revealed that most Medford business es tablishments will close upon an nouncement of victory over Germany, NO. 124. Invasion give us the right to organize the world so that we four will al ways be free to do what we please while the rest of the world Is made subject to our coercion. That would be the rankest form of imperialism. Such a proposal would be re jected by the American people." Not Force Alone Dewey said that peace is "a task of cooperation among equal and sovereign nations." "Force Is essential In any realistic program for the per manent maintenance of peace," he said, "but in the long term solution of international prob lems, peace and security cannot be left to the sanction of force alone. "To leave them exclusively in the hands of a permanent military alliance of four victori ous powers would be immoral. It would be a denial of the ideals for which we are fight ing." I LUl CENTRAL STATES Chicago, Aug. 16. (U.R) The long August heat wave and a mid-summer drought were bro ken In the north central states today and the weatherman as sured the cast coast that long awaited relief from the heat would be delivered this week end. The rains, which were fairly uniform over an area extending from Michigan southwest thru northern Indiana and Illinois, and into Missouri, brought long awaited moisture to growing crops which had been In danger of ruin. At Chicago the thermometer reached 97 degrees yesterday, the hottest Aug, 15 on record, and it was the 33rd day this summer that temperatures have exceeded 90 degrees In the city where an average summer has only 11 days with the tempera ture above 90, Two persons were killed In Wisconsin by the violence of the 60-mile-an-hour wind which ac companied the rainstorm. Adolph Cayer, 63, was crushed to death at Green Bay when the wind toppled the crane he was operating. Mrs. John F. Burrows 37, Keokuk, la., was killed at La Crosse when she was struck on the head by boards ripped from the pier on which she stood. AERIAL TROOPS BLOCK PATH OF E Allies Capture Cannes; Cas ualties Are Exceptionally Light; Luftwaffe Missing. Rome, Aug. 16 (U.PJ Power fullv-reinforeed Amnrirnn and French Invasion forces stormed eight miles into southern France on a 40-mile front between Cannes and Toulon against weak German opposition today, whilo thousands of sky-borne troops struck far inland to throw a solid block across the path of enemy reserves moving down on the beachheads. German account cnM nnri in stallations at Nice, Cannes, and St. Tropez had been blown up Dy Nazi demolition squads, and front dispatches broadcast by Radio Algiers said the allies had captured Cannes and the village or Lroix Des Gardes, just Inland from the famous resort. Filmly Established Barclv 24 hour nftnr th Initial air and sea invasion that breached the Germans' Mediter ranean wall, allied headquarters announced that everv initial nh. jective had been taken and that the combined American and trench army was firmly estab lished on the coast between Cannes and the crent Tnulnti naval base. Casualties In thn flrct Hn night of the assault have been "exceptionally light," a commu nique said. (Radio France in Algiers an nounced tonlcht tlint Sfino r. An. man prisoners have been taken so far In the south of France.) ine fast-rolling assault forces; ran Into some opposition from German beach troops and coast al batteries last night, but it was announced officially that these defenses had been overrun. Simultaneously, a great force) of paratroops and air-borne in fantrymen were revealed to have been landed far ahead of the main striking force last eve ning to support the original sky troops who spearheaded the In vasion before dawn yesterday. Luftwaffe Missing UnOnnOSPft hv fhn .(ranttAl-. dormant luftwaffo, hundreds of guaers ana transports streamed boldly across the French coast before nilfhtfnll veslnivliiv mil sent thousnnds of fighting men uui omo me network of high days OVer Which thn Hortnnna must move their armor and In fantry If they are to mount an Important counterattack. The glider fleet was described officially as fully 50-miies long. Indicating that the allies were throwing a malor blow lnn thn heart of the Germans' rear de- icnscs. It was announced officially that the air-horn i.nit v.Bri established themselves "success- imiy- across the highways fun- nellini? into thn Tnnlnn'an.u beachhead front and had block ed off the flow of enemy rein- luicuniems. At least flvn unnnmnt Innm. were known to be in allied nanas this evening and there was no siffn thnt th r.ormur,. had yet been able to offer more man isolated resistance. Fleet Aids Ciant naval riflo. of ih. am. fleet, firing over the heads of ino auvancing Americans and French, devastated the Nazis' inland defenses. 1,000 U. S. BOMBERS HIT GERMAN PLANTS London, Aug. 16. (U.PJ More than 1,000 American heavy bombers, escorted bv fichtnr planes in about the same strength, attacked aircraft and engine factories, oil refineries, and airdromes in Germany to day. As the U. S. second tactical air force reported the new as saults on the 5th consecutive day of the heavy allied aerial offensive against Germany and German-controlled acras, the Nazis reported other formations, possibly based In Italy, were over Bavaria. TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Russia 328 miles (un changed for week). Italy 602 miles (gain of two miles In week). Northern France 505 miles (unconfirmed, gain of 28 miles In week). Southern France 665 miles (measured from point near Cannes),
