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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1944
NO. 127
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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
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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.
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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.
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(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.