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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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),