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Newspaper Page TextWeather Use The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Forecast: Sunday continued fair, Utile chance In tempera ture. Temp. Hichett yesterday gg.j Lowest this morning 48.0 I'reclpltaiioa past 21 hrt. . o.o EDFORD RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1944 NO. 127 nran n m i s IBE TO OF CHIEF OBJECTIVE Patton's Tanks Form New Pincers for Foe; Escape Route Closed, Supplies Burned. Allied Sunreme Headnuarters. London, Sunday, Aug. 20 (U.R) With U. S. reconnaissance van guards already reported in Paris, Allied armies trapped part of the German Seventh army Saturday! 4, across the escape gap east of Falaise and drove the bomb blasted enemy troops who es caped that pocket into the clos ing arms of a new pincers liear the mouth of the Seine. Reliable reports said that as; the Yanks struck into greater I Paris, the German garrison, hopelessly isolated, began blow-, ing up stores and arsenals in ap-1 tinn for with-1 ...., h" --f drawal across the storied river Marne to the east. To the northwest, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's main tank columns smashed up to the Seine or close to it on a 20-mile llUllb cAitimjiifi ... ,j DU miles irom me sea, nuuug" Mantes-Gassicourt to the Poissy area about 10 miles from Paris. Striking north nearly 30 miles from their last officially report ed positions near Druex, Pat ton's tanks formed the southern arm of the new pincers. The Canadian First army, lunging east from its long-held Orne es tuary bridgehead, drove along the coast six miles to within 18 miles of the Seine mouth, form ing the northern arm of the pin ccr and forcing the Germans into a narrow corridor. ; I Climaxing an historic 200-mile drive in three weeks half the time that it took the German army to reach Paris from the same distance in the original blitzkreig of 1940, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's brilliant tank men apparently could take Paris at a moment's notice. Paris is a great political and sentimental prize but the prim ary military consideration was to !. ..,.- thai tho Seventh armv would never fight again and if: possible to hurl the ue-man iinu in the west beyond France's bor ders to the Rhine itrclf. A Thus only light, probing ele ments were believed to have en tered the limits of the great sprawling city of nearly 5.000. 000 normal population. Vichy reports via Madrid said that U. S. tanks were milling through Croissy and Manteuil in the western suburbs of Paris and other unofficial advices said they had entered historic Ver sailles, four miles vest of the city proper. Patton's smash to the Seine in the Mantes area, 30 miles north west of Paris, had cut off the city garrison from any possibility of relief and at the same time trussed up possibly 100,000 men of the beaten Seventh army in a tight box 75 miles wide and 50 miles deep at its broadest point. ' nnrman rpnorts 5310 tnai American troops were trying to force the Seine in the Vernon 1 area. 11 miles northwest of Mantes and only 50 miles from the sea, and had smashed up to the river south of the area, thus putting the city In a clamp whose nnri rnctnH nn the river. Back in the Falaise gap, thej German escape corr,dor had; shrunk to a mile in width and every encmv troop column or, machine that tried to get! through came under withering, fire from Allied cannon, ma-j chine guns and even rifles as the j range decreased. Canadian ana American troops reached their closest point of Juncture not in the immediate Falaise area but in the Trim area some 10 miles to the cast, catching in a second pocket a considerable body of enemy forces that had escaped the first at Falaise. Odds and ends of 18 German divisions were being mopped up in the fluid area to the west as the sides of the original pocket collapsed, and although thou sands of prisoners had been taken, there was no authorita tive estimate of their number in the confusion. Southern France Invasion Casualties Removed to Hospital Ships yank casualties. Injured while making D-Day landings In southern Prance, watting hosnltai ships. Casualties In this sector continue to be extremely nemv to hurl invaders back. Sumal TO EATT Allied Armored Columns Enter Vital Rhone Valley; Many Prisoners. Rome, Sunday, Aug. 20 (U.R) Swift-driving Allied armored columns, seizing more than 10,- 000 German prisoners In five days, thundered onto the ap proaches of the vital Phone val iey above Marseille early today, threatening to trap the disor ganized German 1st and 19th armies, while to the east out flanked Nazi garrisons were re ported preparing to abandon the Toulon naval base and the Riviera Gold Coast citadel of Cannes. , The American and French spearheads, in lightning ad vances which carried them 50 miles into southern France, ripped east and west through mediocre opposition, and a sen ior Allied staff officer reported that the German high command had exhausted virtually all its reserves in France. His report indicated that the enemy was pulling out fast and adding strength to this were dispatches from the front and the Franco Spanish frontier which said the Nazis were blowing up stores and installations. MaJ. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Seventh army by-passed the beleaguered Toulon base to cut it off from three directions and raced toward Aix-Een-Pro-vence, 33 miles from Marseille, in a 10-mile advance aimed at gaining control of the strategic Rhone valley, virtually the last escape route for Col. Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz's armies. "Their tails are certainly up and they are on the way," a special announcement quoted the staff officer as saying of the Seventh army. LEGIOPIll FOR PEACE TOLD Indianapolis, Aug. 19 U.P) Suggesting a "complete and con clusive" victory as the primary prerequisite of an "enduring peace and a sound and expand ing national economy." the pre liminary program of the Ameri can Legion's commission on post-war America was revealed today by Col. Louis Johnson, Clarksburg, W. Va., commis sion chairman. The commission's report, to be presented to the executive committee in Chicago Septem ber 17. and to the national con vention there September 18-26, dealt with military, industrial, economic, security, agricultural and international questions. Grand Forks. N. D., Aug. 19 (U P.) Cincinnati won the mid west sectional tourney of the American Legion Junior Base ball championship tonight de feating Minneapolis Rfhficld post, 1943 champs, 8 to 1. fUe- . c; :' f j ----- ' t f . t ? $ ) ? LEGION POTS BAN UPON CANDIDATES AT FUTURE MEETS Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 19 (U.R) Nevada Legionnaires at tending the 1944 state conven tion here yesterday got their fill of politicians and speeches after they admittedly made the mistake of inviting a number of this year's candidates, to speak. As it turned out, practically every candidate for a state of-1 fice showed up whether Invit-. ed or not prepared to extoll his virtues. One candidate for the United States Senate, Kenneth M. Johnson of Carson City, was quite irked when he did not get a chance to address the group and two others, Senator Pat McCarran and Lt. Gov. Vail Pittman engaged in a more or less verbal duel to the death, i Result of it all was the Le gionnaires said they were worn out by and also embarrassed, so to save themselves hereafter, they passed a resolution: "No person who is then a candidate for a remunerative public office will be invited or permitted to ( aaorcss any Ltugiun uuiivchliuii or banquet hereafter and all ad vertising in Legion papers, magazines and programs will I be limited to announcements of candidacy." Chicago, Aug. 1 9 U.R Post war veterans' welfare plans and a program for swift post-war re habilitation of returning service men will keynote the 45th na tional encampment of the Vet-1 erans of Foreign Wars of the United States, which opens at Chicago Tuesday, Commander-in-Chief Carl J. Schocninger, Detroit, said today. He estimated the encampment will act upon nearly 400 reso lutions, many of them concerned with "winning the peace," and said his keynote speech would include discussion of a proposed V. F. W. program which would commit the organization to an expenditure of $1,2S0.000 for veteran rehabilitation during the next year. Oregon Per Capita E Bond Sales Lead Portland, Ore., Aug. 19 (U.R) Oregon's per capita purchases of E bonds were $3.19 ahead of its nearest competitor in the Fifth War Loan drive, it was re vealed here today by E. C. Sam mons, chairman Oregon war finance committee. WANTED FOR MURDER Los Angeles, Aug. 19 (U.R) Spurred by information that up until a week ago, he was chef at a large Los Angeles hotel, Cali fornia authorities tonight in tensified their hunt for George Lee, 60 charged with the mur- jder of his first wife, whose body I was unearthed accidentally last 1 week. are carried by Utter crews to beach llgm as Allies still tind no evidence Corps raoio-teiepnoto lrom Itaiv. TO LAST 2 YEARS OPA Czar Says "Imponder ables" To Rule Rationing; America Lucky. Dallas, Texas, Aug. 19 (U.R) OPA Administrator Chester Bowles predicted here tonight that government price controls would continue for at least two years after the war. There were too many impon-j dcrables." he said, to say when! rnlinnlnf wnnlH pnH ' The administrator was in Dal las on his first visit to the six state fifth OPA region on a swing from Washington to the west coast to learn at first hand how the southwest was getting along with rationing. In the final analysis. Bowles told reporters, the production and distribution of war-rationing commodities held the an swer to when the government's inflation-control system would be abolished. Among the "Imponderables," he said, were how much food would have to be shipped to Europe and other war-ravaged areas, what disposition was made by the army of stockpiles and how fast European nations could get back Into production. Frankly admitting success of the rationing program, the OPA chief gave most credit to Amer ica's "luck" In having three years of bumper crops. Education and understanding largely were responsible, he said, for the negligible number of vio lations of price controls. Other factors in the success of the anti inflation program included rec ord production, inherent hon esty of the American people, their coqperation by saving through bond purchases and the price control measures taken by the government, he added. London, Sunday, Aug. 20 (U.R) The Nazis unleashed an other flying bomb attack on London and southern England shortly before last midnight. The sky In one area along the coast blazed with heavy anti aircraft fire and was also light ed from time to time by the flash of exploding robot missiles The cannonfire of RAF fight ers was heard over the Channel, where more of the winged bombs were shot down. Last night's assault came after a day of Intermittent attacks which caused damBge at several places but no fatal casualties. It was the second successive day officials had reported no deaths during daylight hours from the blind tcrrot offensive. Portland, Ore., Aug. 19 U.R) Rep. Everett M. Dirksen, Rep., III., Is here today attending the conference of Oregon republl can officials who are planning campaign tactics. 1 (Acme Raitio-Telpphoto) where tnej r will oe ncu " ol any general all-out ellort b PEGLER TO QUIT pi TO JOIN HEARST New York, Aug. 19 (U.R) The New York Worid-Telegram said today that Westbrook Pcg ler, Worid-Telegram columnist, is leaving the Scripps-Howard newspapers by mutual consent at the termination of his present contract to Join the Hearst news papers, which will syndicate his column through King Features. In response to a request for comment, Roy W. Howard, edi tor of the World-Telegram, said: "Scripps-Howard has never ex ercised control over the subject matter, or the opinions of Mr. Pegler as they appear in his col umn, but we have Tjeen unable to satisfy many of our renders on this point, or convince them that Pegler has always ex pressed Pegler without regard to the opinions or policy of Scripps-Howard. "It long has been, and con tinues to be, our opinion that Mr. Pegler is one of American journalism's most colorful, con scientious and effective crafts men. Those of us who have been closely associated with him, and who have enjoyed his sense of humor and his comradeship, wish him all the best wherever he elects to pitch his tent." STILWEUTFORCE Southeast Asia Headquarters, Kanday, Ceylong, Aug. 19 (U.R) Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's North Burma forces, consolidat ing a 56-mile front between Pinbaw and Kazu, have clashed with Japanese troops at the confluence of the Irrawaddy and Nam Tnbet rivers six miles southwest of Nampniing, a com munique reported today. American-led Kachin Tribes men, who assisted the Chinese in the capture of Kazu last week, were revealed to have swung west In a 14-mile plunge toward the strategic Myitkyina Mandalay rail line down which the 30th Indian division Is push ing toward I'inDnw. REPORT FROM ROME Rome, Aug. 19 (U.R) The Vatican newspaper Osscrvatorc Romano today mentioned "the announced occupation of Paris" in its daily front page story, but did not say who had announced it and gave no further details. GRID STAR HURT Portland, Ore., Aug. 18 (U.R) Edward Stnmm, Jr., three year varsity football star at Stanford University and now an ensign In the navy, Is recuperat ing slowly from hand and eye Iniuries received in an acciden tal explosion in a demolition laboratory, his father reveals. BULLETIN (Night Game) San Diego 3 11 1 Snerfimenlo 4 7 1 Dnmlcr and Bnllingcr; Drcise wcrd and Stuincr. MEET CHURCHILL E, Flat Denial It Will Be In London or Paris; Hanne- gan Warns. Washington, Aug. 19 (U.RV While there has been no official indication of where President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will hold their forthcoming confer ence, it was the almost univer sal belief of observers here to night that it probably will be somewhere in the European area. One published report naming London or Paris as the prospec-j five scene drew a flat denial, however, from White House Sec retary Stephen T. Early, who said "I can simply say this single fact the story is untrue." Washington. Aug. 19 (U.R) -Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, emerging from an hour and 20 minutes conference with President Roose velt, tonight described as "fav orable" the prospects for re turning Mr. Roosevelt to the i White House for a fourth term. But he warned that "everyone must guard against dverconfi dence." Hannegan, chosen personally I by Mr. Roosevelt to mannge his ' fourth term campaign, said he ! and the president discussed ' "rnliHrc In nphfirnl " Hp rnnlied . . . . - - ... n ' negatively, however, when a re porter asked if they talked about the role Mr. Roosevelt will play personally, and said he had no idea if the president would make any speeches. Mr. Roosevelt said In his ac-i ceptance speech that because of the war he would be unable to campaign in the accepted sense touring the country and mak ing speeches. They also discussed the speech Sen. Harry S. Truman of Mis souri Is to make In Detroit on Labor Day, Hannegan said. OIL FIELDS HIT IN ALLIED RAID London, Aug. 19 U.R) Al lied aerial guns and bombs cut a swath across imprisoned Eu rope again today, wreaking In credible destruction to tho ene my's armor In the Normandy trap and Including among other targets Romania's Ploestl oil fields for the second straight day. Other American and British planes smashed at oil and manu facturing plants, flying bomb In stallations rail lines and high ways and port installations. Bremen, large and important German seaport, was raided by RAF hnmhprs during the night nnH hnon fires were started. ! In Fr.ince, the American score In 1000 sorties under bad weath er, was 320 motor vehicles, sev- . ,. lnnnMn,l,,nB fwn . en imiiks, ai iuiiiiiiiiu.v.1, ..... I large guns 122 railway cars and , 22 armed vehicles destroyed. In addition, 55 barges, mosuy on the Seine and thought being prepared to move German troops across the river, were sunk. The Luftwaffe came up to challenge fighter-bombers over tUn Spin nno i?roiin of Thunder- j bolts from the Ninth Air Force battling 30 enemy planes. Amer ican fliers reported the Germans were sending In more experi enced pilots against them. In the northern Brnisn sector of the pocket area yesterday , 1U74 venicies were leu in naini: j and an additional 1909 were 1 damaged. Seventy-one tanks were set afire and 91 were dam aged. PLAN BIG PORT Los Angeles. Aug. 19 (U.R) Plans to quadruple the size of; the Ios Angeles airport and to convert It Into a $25,000,000 terminal were announced today by engineers and public officials. War Bulletins London, Aug. 13 (U.R) Strengthened by ammunition and weapons dropped from Allied planes winging a 900 mile route. General Bor's Warsaw Liberators today oc cupied Gorman SS headquar ters in the historic city after a day-long battle, a Polish communique said tonight. SOVIET IMPROVES L NAZIS BACK London. Aug. 19 flJ.R) Bat tling over a graveyard of hun- dreds of Nazi tanks and thouv sands of German bodies before! the gates of Warsaw, Russian troops have Improved their po sitions east and northeast of Pra ga, the Po'ish capital's great in dustrial eastern suburb, Moscow announced tonight. Marshal Rokossovsky's 1st White Russian army was report ed to have thrown back all Ger man counter-attacks, while Ber lin Indicated that a great battle for the Polish capital had begun. The German high command said that Rokossovsky's power ful army had gone over to the nttnrlr nn n 43-mtla front he- twecn Wolomln, eight miles I northeast of Praga, and Sokolow, I 50 miles east-northeast. The German Trnnsocenn Agen cy said a new battle for War saw was brewing, citing the ma jor movement of Russian troops between Bialystok and Brest Lltovsk. Moscow's operational commu nique In part confirmed this, by reporting, in the first mention of this area in several days, that Gen. Zakharov's 2nd White Rus sian army, driving a wedge be tween East Prussia and Warsaw, had captured more than 80 towns and settlements west and southwest of Bialystok. Striking out from the rubble of Sandomlerz on the Vistula Bridgehead Marshal Koncv's Ukrainian veterans were thrust ing northward bent on outflank ing Warsaw from tho south and southwest and splitting the Ger man armies In central and south west Poland. T IN AUTO MISHAP Mrs. Chester Gault, 48, of 115 Kenwood avenue, was confined In Community hospital last night with head lnurlcs she suffered when struck by a car on North Riverside avenue In front of tho Coffee Pot about 9:15. She was believed not seriously Injured, although a complete examina tion had not yet been made. The car, city police said, was operated by Philip John Sands of Trail who was given a ticket for reckless driving. Sands, ac cording to city police, was trav eling north on Riverside avenue, his car striking Mrs. Gault as she was crossing the street. Po lice quoted Sands as saying he didn't see the woman until It was too late to avoid striking her. MISS SPROUL WEDS San Francisco, Aug. 19 (U.R) Miss Caroline Sprnul, member of a socially prominent Pennsyl vania family, and Lt. Blaine F. Fairlcss, USNR, son of the presi dent of United States Steel Corp., were married this after noon at St. Peter's Episcopal church. SECY HULL REPORTS Washington, July 19 (UR) Secretary of State Cordell Hull said tonight that the United States and its Allies arc record ing "steady progress" in tho de velopment of permanent ar rangements for safeguarding the future peace. CARTOON HITS VATICAN London, Aug. 18 (U.R) The London Evening Standard's world-famous cartoonist David Low created a minor political sensation today with a satirical cartoon criticizing tho Vatican's foreign policy. The Revolutionary War com menced In 1775. POLICY ISSUE IN Policing of Germany Up to Liberated Lands, Separ ate From Peace. Albany, Aug. 19 (U.R) Gov. Thomas !. Dewey plans to make foreign policy one of the major issues of his campaign for the presidency but is willing to "co operate" with President Roose velt in working out basic ideas for a "durable and lasting peace," it was revealed tonight. The republican presidential nominee's position was disclosed by John Foster Dulles, his for eign affairs expert, at a press conference held in Dewey's presence. "I don't think it is healthy or desirable to eliminate from the campaign a discussion of these international problems," Dulles said. "The only way in which a democracy makes up its mind, and makes up its mind In a way thut sticks, is by having these issues debated and discussed." Dulles met with the press shortly before ho began a series of conferences with Dewey and Lt. Gen. Hugh A. Drum on the peace plan he will present to Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington Wednesday.' Dulles explained he is operat ing as "go-between" for Dewey and the Roosevelt administra tion. He said that "one thing which I think all Americans or prac tically all Americans are united on and want to achieve Is a practical and effective organiza tion for a durable peace." The organization he said, must not bo charged with the responsibility of policing Ger many and Japan after the war. Ho said the policing activities and. future world peace must be separated. Tho United States, Russia, Great Britain and some of the liberated countries such as France, Belgium, the Nether lands and Norway will have to be held responsible for keeping Germany disarmed and under control, he explained. China, Great Britain and the United States should be charged with controlling Japan, ho added. TRAVfFlTS POLES' UPRISING Moscow, Aug. 19 (U.R) Prav da, official party newspaper, said today In a front page dis patch that the Warsaw insurrec tion was doomed to failure from the beginning and that the men who died fighting Nazi mechan ized troops in the Polish capital were "foully deceived by a group of adventurers and polit ical speculators of London emi gre governments." Not one city has been freed by the combined blows of Soviet troops and citizen Insurrections. Pravda pointed out. although hundreds of cities have been lib erated by troops alone In Russia, Lithuania, White Russia and Po land. "The reason Is that only stu pid adventurers think success is possible by the Insurrection of Inadequately armed civilians In cities filled with German pan zer troops, planes and guns," Pravda said. Road Fires Blames On State Autoists Salem, Ore., Aug. 19-(U.R) Oregon motorist's have been re sponsible for many roadside fires which caused cxtenslvo damage to valuable grain lands, farm fields, and forest lands, Charles Pray, state si.nerinden dent of police, said today. Pray said burning material thrown from cars caused tho fires and reminded motorists of the state law prohibiting such ac tion. Managua, Nicaragua, Aug, 19 (U.R) Major Carlos G. Zelaya to day was apointed Nicaraguan consul general in San Francisco, Cal.