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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."
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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.
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