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Y ilk ees Take Orleans; Gut France In Two i tiiiu nrn nr n o murium ur uui HEARD IN PARIS AS DRIMARS Canadian Move Threatens to Forge Great New Trap Around German 7th. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 17 (U.PJ Rough riding American tanki and infantrymen were reported storming into the outer sub urbs of Paris, only 22 mlies from the city gates, today and front dispatches hinted that the German army may be abandoning the old French capital without a fight. A German high command broadcast a special announce ment of heavy fighting around the suburban town of St. Arnoult, on the Chartres-Paris highway, indicating that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's arm ored columns had plunged on 21 miles past Chartres and 10 miles past their new Aunay river bridgehead within the past few hours. (The clandestine radio sta tion Atlantic said the Ameri cans were in the outskirts of Versailles, 13 miles from Paris proper. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 17 (U.PJ Powerful Ameri can tank armies closed to within less than 32 miles west of Paris and cut all France in two with the capture of the vital railway hub of Orleans today as Cana dian troops in the north lashed out suddenly toward the Seine In a companion drive that threat ened to forge a great new trap around the fleeing German 7th army. The German battle screen guarding the western approaches to Paris buckled and broke un der the power of the American thrust and front dispatches said the doughboys were plunging on through relatively weak opposi tion toward the outskirts of the old French capital. Paris Hears Guns German reports said the 10 thunder of the American guns could be heard clearly in the streets of Paris and it was in dicated that Lt. Gen. George S. k Patton's tanks, outrunning the official Allied communiques, might already be witliin sight of the city. As the Americans struck, the Canadian 1st army hurled a mighty new offensive eastward and southeastward from the Caen-Falaise sector, advancing more than four miles and capJ turing St. Pierre-Sur-Dives, Rlez Idon and Courcy. Heavy fighting also flared farther south around Barou and Damblainville as the Canadians pushed eastward from captured Falaise. New Thurst At Nails The new thrust apparently was aimed at forcing the Germans back to the Seine, more than 60 miles to the east and pinning them against the river with the Canadians on their northern flank and Patton's Arrericans on the south. Units of the battered German 7th army still were fleeing east ward from the Normandy pocket and it was believed thn the bulk of that force had escaped from one trap into a new and greater net. , Patton's rampaging tanks at Dreux were barely 20 miles from the bend of the Seine above Paris and could easily shift northward in that direction to complete the loop of destruction around the battered enemy. There was no immediate word as to whether the Americans would attempt to break directly into Paris or by-pass the city to the north, but official sources believed the capital was at the Americans' mercy. Landis Reelected Teacher President Chicago. Aug. ".-'-Reelection of Joseph F Landis Cleveland. O., as president of the American Federation of teachers, was announced today. Fifteen vice presidents, chos en at the elections yesterday, included Miss Lila Hunter. Se attle. Wash., and Miss Ruth Dodds, Sacramento, Calif. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Harry Chipman looking the typical picture of the proud papa as he received congratulations on the birth yesterday of a son, Wayne Howard. Ina Alendcrfcr and other Se lective Service employees elud ing tar dust as workmen refinish the city hall roof. Fire Chief Roy Elliott being forced to discard his white cap to prevent being mistaken for an admiral. Medford United Press Thirty-ninth Year Nazis Race From Seme Bay TroujlleVjs jDomfrontsSgS ( Aetna Telepholo) Allied Armies strike from all sides Into what remains ot German Seventh Army in Normandy pocket, killing or capturing thousands ot fleeing troops. Shaken by Incessant pounding ot Allied planes and shelUlre, broken remnants ot Field Marshal Uuntner vun muse's 13 divisions arc splitting up into small bands In frantic escape attempts. Von Kluge's Panzer Force Slips Out of Falaise Trap By Edward W. Beattie United Press War Correspondent On the Normandy Front, Aug. 17 (U.R) The combined British, Canadian and American armies have failed in their primary pur pose to crush Field Marshal Guenther Von Kluge's panzers and once again Allied strategists must set a trap to obliterate the one major force between the Al lies and conquest of northern France, It is evident that the hard panzer core of Von Kluge's 7th army has slipped out of the L ON CHICHI ISLE Pearl. Harbor, Aug. 17 (U.R) Army Liberators based in the Marianas attacked- the seaplane base and adjacent enemy instal lations at Chichi island In the Bonins, 650 miles south of Tokyo, In a renewal of raids against Japan's Inner defense ring Tuesday, it was announced today. Anti-aircraft fire over the Bonins ranged from moderate to intense. Results of the attack were not reported In the Pacific fleet headquarters announce ment. It was also disclosed Ameri can aircraft bombed Maug, 315 land miles north of Saipan for the first time. Maug consists of three small islands, the remains of a partially -submerged, ex tinct volcano. Other planes bombed and strafed nearby Pagan island in the Marianas. , Eleventh army air force Lib erators bombed enemy supply facilities at Paramushiro in the Kuriles in a pre-dawn raid against meager flak August 13. Early Fold-up Seen For Nazis Chungking. Aug. 17 (U.PJ Gen. Ying Chin Ho, chief of the Chinese army general staff, predicted today that Germany will be defeated within two or three months and that Japan will surren der unconditionally within a year. "Opening of the fourth front Is an unmistakable sign of the Imminent down fall of Germany." he said in a radio address. "Once the European war is concluded a rapid turn can be expect ed in the Pacific." TO SEEK NEW TRIAL Denver, Aug. 17 (U.R) At torneys today were preparing for arguments on motion for a new trial In the case of three Japanese-American sisters con victed of conspiracy to commit treason In connection with the escape of two German prisoners of war from a Colorado Intern ment camp. Full Leased Wire Normandy Trap Falaise pocket and today lies somewhere between Falaise and the Seine waiting for another battle against heavy odds a battle which surely will come soon. The brilliant and orderly re treat which the German armor has made out of the pocket west of the Falaise-Argcntan road has won the Germans at best a reprieve of a week or two, The forces now opposed to them are relatively much stronger than they were when the Americans thrust their first thin armored finger out through Le Mans and Alencon to start encircling the bulk of the German 7th army. But Von Kluge has saved the one hard mobile force at his dis posal capable of challenging Al lied progress across the ap proaches to the Reich. So far as is known on the Allied side, Adolf Hitler has no other panzer group on any of his cracking fronts except six or seven di visions battling on the east bank of the Vistula around Warsaw. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's problem now Is to destroy the panzers south of the Seine. If he does he can choose where he would go in France with little effective hindrance. COUNTY TAX LEVY LISTED BY FUNDS The Jackson county tax levy for 1944-45 by funds, according to the county assessor's office will be as follows: General county fund. ...1.8 mills General county schools and school library....3. mills County library .2 mills General road 2.9 mills Bridge fund 1.7 mills Market road 1.7 mills Civilian defense .1 mills Emergency fund .1 mills The total county tax millage is 10.6 mills, five-tenths of a mill less than last year. It will raise a total of 379,535.63 for county purposes. There is no state tax levy. The high school levy In dis tricts not maintaining high schools will be 9.6 mills. Redlands U. Prexy Passes Suddenly Redlands, Calif., Aug. 17 (U.R) Dr. Elam J. Anderson, 54-year-old president of the Univer sity of Redlands, died of a heart attack today as he was prepar ing to leave for his office. Dr. Anderson, known in edu cational and religious circles throughout the nation, collapspd to the floor of his bedroom. His wife, Mrs. Colene Anderson, found him an hour later. FREIGHT LOADING UP Washington, Aug. 17 (U.R) Loadings of revenue freight on the nation's railroads in the week ended August 12 totaled 896,172 cars, an Increase of 9,714 cars from the previous week, the Association of Amcri can Railroad reported today. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1944 FEARS UNFOUNDED SAYS SECRETARY HULL Mo Plan for Military Alliance of Four Major Nations, Is Official's Assurance. - Washington. Aug. 17 (U.R) Secretary of State Cordell Hull today described as "utterly and completely unfounded" the fears expressed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey about plans for an in ternational security organiza tion. Dewey said yesterday that he was disturbed by reports con cerning the forthcoming four power talks which indicated that "It is planned to subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four na tions holding this conference." No Alliance Plan Hull said in a statement that there is no plan for a military alliance of the four major na tions. "No arrangement such as de scribed by him, which would in volve a military alliance of the four major nations permanently to coerce the rest of the world, is contemplated or has ever been contemplated by this gov ernment, or, as far as we know, by any of the other govern ments," Hull said. "Gov. Dewey can rest assured that the fears which he ex pressed In his statement are utterly and completely un founded. "In the Moscow declaration, the four nations placed them selves on record as advocating a 'general international organi zation, based on the principle of sovereign equality of all peace loving states and open to mem bership of all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and se curity." This statement was embodied in the Connally reso lution passed in the United States senate by an overwhelm ing bipartisan vote of 85-5. Meeting Aim Told "The meeting at Dumbarton Oaks is for the purpose of a dis cussion among the signatories of the Moscow declaration as to the most feasible and desirable methods of establishing the kind of organization envisaged in that declaration and in the sen ate resolution preliminary to similar discussion and early conference among all United Nations and other peace-loving countries, large and small. "Any reports to the contrary are absolutely without founda tion in fact." Panicky German Garrisons Flee Before French Maquis Jy Aldo Forte United Press Correspondent In Maquis-Controlled France, Aug. 17 4U.PJ French forces of liberation, striking with mor tars, machlneguns and grenades against panicky German frontier garrisons, have virtually wrest ed control of a large segment of eastern France from the en emy, some of whom have been placed under scige while others fled into Swiss internment. I crossed Into France at the border village of Pcrly and was heartily welcomed by a French partisan lieutenant wearing the dark blue uniform of the Ma quis. A jaunty blue beret was on his head and a silver badge with the red cross of Lorraine on his left arm. He was a former offi cer of the famous 27th Dattalion chasseurs des Alpes and had a string of service ribbons on his chest. Maquis carrying rifles patrol led the streetp and the tri color flew from a flagstaff. Children were playing In the streets and women were chatting on street corneri In prewar days. FIGHT MY TO FLORENCE FOR Civilians Are Slaughtered in Northern Section of City; Food and Water Critical. Rome, Aug. 16 (U.R) Ger man tank units returned to the northern section of Florence yesterday, killing civilians and Carabinieri, and launching a reign of terror which still was in progress today, with the food and water situation growing more critical by the hour. Less than a week ago the Germans withdrew their main forces to new positions Just north of the Mugnone canal in the outskirts of Florence, but since then hey have made a no-man's-land of the suburbs with machine gun and tank fire. Civilians Hungry Many thousands of civilians who remained in that area for aged desperately for food in the nearby countryside, although Allied military government of ficials still were trying to bring food to them across the Arno river from the Allied-held southern section of the city. British Eighth army troops continued efforts to clear the city of enemy snipers, and an order was broadcast prohibiting the carrying of arms by any per sons in Florence except the Carabinieri. On cither side of Florence, from Empoli on the west to Pontassieve on the east, there was little change south of the Arno, with the British troops held up by extensive mine fields, blown up bridges, and other demolitions. The remainder of the line ex tending across the peninsula was quiet. USTllESE OUTf INDIA Southwest Asia Headquarters, Kandy, Ceylon Aug. 17 (U.R) A headquarters spokesman said today that the last Japanese forces were driven out of India yesterday and only a few starv ing enemies were still hiding in the hills. The campaign to clear the Japanese entirely from India thus ended six months after the enemy sent armored columns across the Burmese border and struck menacingly at the Manl pur state capital of Imphal. But elsewhere along the bor derland there was bitter fight ing. At Viry the Germans seized many women and children and used them as a human shield so the partisans would not fire upon them as they retreated across the Carnon bridge toward the town of Valliery, Just across the border from Geneva. An in ternational brigade of French men, Poles, Spaniards, and Rus sians was compelled to withhold its fire. At Annomasse, east of Geneva in the crook of France that pro jects around Lake Geneva, a German gnrrison ot 450 was be sieged and praying for prompt arrival of Nazi reinforcements from Annecy. "Those German troopers dread to see the sun go down," a Maquis officer told me. "Our best Information Is that 40 trucks loaded with troopers broke out of Annecy, which we had surrounded, and arc now en route to Annemasse. They have been delayed at Lc Plot, where there Is a fierce battle going on." O r RI , JUNE United Press Full 25 MILES IfJLAlO F.R. Home From Pacific Trip More Determined That Axis Countries Must Be Occupied Washington, Aug. 17. (U.R) President Roosevelt returned to the White House today after a five-week, 15,000-mile trip to Pacific war areas, more firmly determined than ever before that Japan and Germany must not be allowed to quit the war until the allies have completely occupied their homelands. BEAR TO DEATH AFTER ATTACK Jackson, Wyo., Aug. 17 (U.R) A savage mother bear, attacking to protect her two cubs, was clubbed to death by Bernle Cole, 65-ycar-old rancher, Tues day morning after the animal had knocked him down and left him for dead, friends of Cole re ported today. Cole, a husky, 175-pound bachelor employed as a care taker on a ranch owned by Eleanor M. Patterson, publisher of the Washington, D. C, Times Herald, was attacked by the bear while cleaning ou. a beaver dam on a stream that runs through the property, 16 miles north of Jackson. Cole told Homer Richards, a neighbor, the mother bear Jump ed him wilh a savage roar. Cole had a five-foot long, wa'fr soaked aspen In his hand but he never had an opportunity to use It. , The bear felled him with one swipe of a huge paw, biting him savagely on the shoulders and legs. Knowing that she would crush him to death If he made a single move, Colo lay still desnite the pain. Finally, convinced that he Was dead, the bear wandered off. Cole lay motionless for about 10 or 15 minutes and then got up. The bear rushed out of a clump of bushes and charged him again. "I swung with my club and landed a lucky blow on her head, knocking her down and stunning her," Richards quoted Colo as saying. "After that, I Just beat her un til I was all tired out." LIST MACHINISTS T San Francisco, Aug. 17 (U.R) A large number of AFL ma chinists today again refused to work overtime in government seized machine shops, despite re moval of union restrictions, and the navy announced It was com piling a growing list of names of men subject to severe pen alties for non-compliance with President Roosevelt's executive order. Read Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who directed the gov ernment's Intervention at five machine shops, said lie still was not satisfied with machinists' compllnnce of his orders except at one plant, U. S. Pipe and Manufacturing Co., where near ly all employes were reported working under the new schedule of overtime hours. "t6berlin By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines: Northern France 5M0 miles (gain of 15 miles In week). Southern France 6B5 miles (measured from point near Cannes.) Russia 328 miles (un changed for week). Italy 604 miles (gain of two miles in week.) The populations of the 20 re publics of Latin America total 126,706,843. Leased Wire After a trip that took him into 21 states, Hawaii where he con ferred with his top Pacific com manders and the Aleutian Is lands, the president came home with an admittedly new outlook on the war effort in the Pacific and grimmer, blunter than ever In his attitude toward "uncondi tional surrender by the axis enemies. Unmoved By Criticism In a press-radio conference aboard his special train shortly before it reached Washington, Mr. Roosevelt seemed unper turbed about some critics who said his Pacific trip had political motives. Instead, he focussed his attention on the war, problems of reconversion at home, and the planning of future war opera tions. He plans to confer almost Im mediately with his cabinet, his congressional leaders, Gen George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, Adm. Ernest J. King, commander of the United States fleet, Secretary of War Henry L, Stimson, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and within a mat ter of days, the Pacific War Council which has not met since shortly after the president re turned from his winter confer ences at Cairo and Tehran. To See Churchill Also In near-future prospect was another meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and soon, too. It hns been the Roose velt-Churchill custom to meet about every six months since the war began and their last meeting was In Cairo and Teh ran last November and Decern ber. With Allied landings both In Normandy and Southern France well In progress, the time Is be lieved very near when the presl dent, the prime minister and their combined chiefs of staff will get together and talk over the next major Allied opera tions. Conceivably the Pacific will be the big point In the next British-American war talks and probably one of the basic rea sons for Mr. Roosevelt's Pacific tour was to equip himself first hand for these later conferences At his press conference aboard the train, Mr. Roosevelt took occasion to discuss what proce dure would be followed If the enemy collapses when Allied armies reach its border. Taking Germany as the clos est example, the president said thnt we won't let the Germans quit as they did when the At lies reached their boundaries In the last war. No Collapse Yet If we fall to drive right on un til we have completely captured ihtf whole of Germany, the presl. dent snid, the next German gen eration will be told that their nation actually had won the war. Tho same, he said, goes for Japan. Mr. Roosevelt made plain that In his opinion the recent Internal upheaval In Germany and the rapid Allied advances through France did not add up to Ger man collapse, pointing out that on the basis of past performance, he personally did not expect a collnnso until Allied armies reached the borders of Germany. And that might come from either direction, he said In ref erence to the Russian offensive In the east and the British-American-French campaign In west ern and southern France and Italy. EXECUTION NEAH3 San Quentin, Cal., Aug. 17 (U.R) Florcnclo "Frank" Al calde. 30 year old former ship yard worker condemned to die tomorrow for tho murder of Bernlce Curtis and denied a re prieve by Gov. Earl Warren, wired his attorney today in structing him to "do anything1 to secure stay ot execution. Weather Forecast! Clear tonlfht and Friday. LltUe change in temper ature. Temp. Hlrhest yesterday 91 Lowest this morning AS 1'reclpltaUon past 2 hra. w NO. 125. SWIFT ADVANCE LIBERATES VAST 500 Sq. Miles, Many Towns Freed of German Yoke Paratroopers Aid Drive. Rome, Aug. 17. (U.R) Tha allied 7th army has linked all its beachheads along a 50-mile front on the south coast of France, driven 25 miles inland, liberated 500 square miles of territory and pushed to within 10 miles of both Cannes and the big French naval base of Toulon, a special communique announced today. At least four seaports St, Raphael, Ste. Maxine, St. Tro pez, and Le Lavandou and five inland towns have been captur ed, the communique said. Advance Continue "The swift advance of Ameri can and French troops inland continues," it said, "and numer ous additional towns and vil lages have been taken. "A junction with strong air borne units dropped far behind the enemy lines before dawn on D-day has been effected. French and American reinforcements, Including armor, are pouring ashore. Casualties continue ex ceptionally light." (A German Transocean agen cy dispatch said allied air-borns troops have broken into Cannes and engaged the German garri son in fierce street fighting. The Nazi - controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported from Berlin that the allies had occu pied both Cannes and Nice, 17 miles to the northeast, but this appeared to be premature.) Lorgues Deepest Point The communique disclosed that the allies made their deep est penetration of southern France at Lorgues, 23 miles north of the liberated port of Le Lavandou, which lies 21 miles cast of Toulon. Air-borne troops captured Lorgues, then linked up with ground forces farther south. The strategic road Junction towns of Collobrleres, 7Vi miles north of Le Lavandou, and Le Luc, 11 miles farther north, also were captured. With the fall of St, Raphael. 10 miles southwest of Cannes, the allies won the port from which Napoleon I embarked for Elba in 1814. Frejus, about a mile inland from St. Raphael, also was captured. London, Aug. 17. (U.R) Radio Moscow announced tonight that the German East Prussian fron tier had been reached by Rus sian forces. Tho red army destroyed 200 German tanks and shot down 63 enemy planes In the past 24 hours, It was announced. Heavy losses were inflicted on the Germans who were coun terattacking on the Shuallail front facing the East Prussian border. ' t Russian troops, surging for ward northwest of Miariampol, made the first thrust to the Nazi homeland, the nightly communi que said. BASEBALL National Philadelphia fl 11 1 Pittsburgh 7 13 0 Lee, Karl and Shea, Peacock; Ostermuellcr, Strlncevlch, Res clgno and Lopez. American Cleveland 3 10 0 New York 10 17 1 Bagby, Calvert. Hevlng, Poat, Klieman and Rosar. Susce. Bou- dreau; Dublel and Hemsley.
