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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1944)
I YANKEESARRIVE Invasion Forces Find Eager Welcome in Move Inland; DeLuxe Landing for Most By Dana Adams Schmidt United Press Correspondent (Representing Combined Allied Press) Three miles inland on road from Ste. Maxine and Plan De La Tour, France, Aug. 16 (U.R) French men, women and chil dren stood in front of their houses along this road last night and this morning weeping, laughing, throwing kisses and cheering their liberators.. I moved inland with the first French troops landing in south ern France. All along the way the civilians shouted happily: "The liberators. Long live France. Go get those Boches. Things will be better now." Share Red Wine Franch units mingled with Americans and shared bottles of good red wine which the vil lagers passed up and down to the truckloads of soldiers. The first French civilian I saw was standing in front of a waterfront house which had been ruined by the pre-invasion naval barrage. He alternately embraced the French soldiers and thrust out a bottle of wine. "You Frenchmen, drink!" he urged. "I have lost everything but it doesn't matter. Vive La France! Drink! Drink!" I did not get a swig from that bottle. It was for Frenchmen only. Many women In shorts rode calmly by on bicycles, weaving through the lines of jeeps and trucks. Civilians were scarcer near Sl lnPeetd Steer Beef. Pork, Veal, Lamb. Where Quality Goes Further for Your Points. Choice STEER BEEF Spring LAMB U. S. Inspected Best grade AA or choice tender and tasty. Legs, shoulder cuts, breast and rib chops moderately priced .... LEGS lb. 39e SHOULDER .... lb. 33c BREAST lb. ISc RIB CHOPS, lb. 39c Choice or Grade AA from Marsh Garnett's fine herd. For a grand treat enjoy a STEAK or ROAST there's no finer meat in the Valley! VEAL ROASTS Shoulder cuts, grade A. No points neces sary. Pound SAUER KRAUT, bulk.... lb. 10c f I 1 1 A nice fresh se P I 1 lection of lu- ctous fresh fish here dailyl GUYER'S QUALITY MARKET Piggly Wiggly So. Riverside at 13th and S. Central the invasion beaches around which four out of five houses had been destroyed or damaged by preparatory shelling. Invasion De Luxe This was an invasion de luxe and a dry landing for most of the Americans and French and this correspondent. When I went ashore from a British luxury liner at 9 o'clock last night, troops were flowing from the landing ships onto the beaches where wire netting made a firm roadway leading through breaches blasted in six feet high, five feet wide cement anti-tank wall onto the tarred coastal highway. Only once in the course of the evening and night was there a sign of Germans. That was early in the evening when two Nazi sneak raiders tossed bombs harmlessly into the bay and provoked a brief fire. Later about 150 silent Ger man prisoners were marched out of the darkness like sheep, guarded by a few Americans and they settled quietly at the edge of the beach for the night waiting to be shipped back to prisoner of war camps. SOCIALITE ACCUSED IN THEFT OF JEWELS Hillsborough, Cal., Aug. 18 (U.R) Mrs. . Dorothie C. Kok, wealthy wife of Importer Dirk C. Kok, today signed a warrant charging Gerald Melone, social ly prominent San Franciscan, with ocmplicity in the theft of $18,000 worth of jewels and furs from her home the night of Aug. 15. Simultaneously Mrs. Kok signed warrants charging two merchant seamen with grand theft and burglary. The war rant against Melone involved a charge of grand larceny. Melone, 27, well-known in San Mateo and San Francisco society, once was named as a partner in alleged adultery with Mrs. Anita Zabala Howard, in a cross-complaint filed by Capt. Lindsay C. Howard. 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By Richard W. Johnson United Press War Correspondent Saipan, Aug. 7 (U.R) I stood by a barbed wire fence today and watched a hot and skillfully contested game of baseball play ed without benefit of bats or gloves, and as I turned away a 40-year-old woman walked down a crowded street without attract ing so much as a glance, although she was stark naked. Two pretty girls walked by and managed to smile and bow, despite the five-foot-long four by fours balanced on their heads. Young and old women squat ted on their haunches outside the rows of barraek-like struc tures roofed with tin and sided with thatch. They cooked rice over tiny fires. All of them smoked long cigarettes. People Everywhere There were people every where, sleeping by the dozens inside the houses, gathering at the cisterns in the town square; the women in sleazy blouses and silk ankle length pants, the men In cheap greenish khaki of the Japanese uniform. This was the "city" of Camp Susupe, the home of the 13.000 civilians who fled to Salpan's caves when our attack came and have been surrendering in in creasing numbers ever since. It had grown in six weeks from a tiny compound to the size of a small American town. I wandered around the camp today with Lt. C. G. Barry, a navy civil affairs officer who used to be in the newspaper business himself. The baseball game was In the Korean section of the town, and involved two dozen excited kids of high school age who used an old tennis bnll and batted it with thoir hands. Terror Takes Mind 1 The naked woman wandered listlessly- through the Japanese area, pitiful but harmless, her mind gone in the days of terror in the caves where the Japanese soldiers daily assured the civil ians the American monsters would torture them. She has been given clothing but forgets to wear it. The cleanest, happiest part of the town is that reserved for the Chamorro natives, who look like gentle, dreamy Mexicans, speak Spanish and are all Span ish Catholics. The civil affairs and army and navy and murine officers who have had jurisdiction here have struggled with great problems of food and sanitation. Covered latrines have been dug, but many of the Japanese neglect to use them. There is 'a hospital of tents, with clean cots and cooperative Japanese nurses to aid the white doctors. Camp Susupe is full of evil ! smells and tragic eights, but Friday, August 18, 1944 liupo 15 cumins uatK ill me lines of its one-benumbed inhabitants. NIMUZ EXPECTS E By United Press Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was revealed today to be expect ing, reinforcements soon from the European theater to acceler ate the war against Japan while American airmen struck again at the Philippines and other en emy targets through the Pacific. Nimitz' disclosure was made at a press conference in Guam after a six hour tour of the re captured island. He described the newly con quered Marianas islands as all important to the allied campaign in the Pacific but said that Japan could not be defeated by naval action alone and that bases would be needed in China to Insure victory. He emphasized his belief that even if the Japanese surren dered before the homeland was invaded, the country would have to be occupied to "win the peace." MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREB ANGELS SELL ENGLISH Los Angeles, Aug. 18 OJ.R) The Los Angeles Angels today announced sale of Third Base man Charlie English to the Oak land Acorns in an outright cash deal. 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