A End of War in Sight Declares Montgomery
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Thirty-ninth Year
Fighting
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Enthusiastic fighting Free Frenchmen and women in Normandy town of Rostrenen, armed with captured
Germanguns, set out to round up remaining Nazis In vicinity following American entry Into village. Slcnal
Coros radio-teleoho to from London.
French Invasion Forces Enter Toulon;
Yanks Within Nine Miles of Marseille
Rome, Aug. 21 (U.R) French invasion forces entered the
western and northern sections ot the key naval base of Toulon
last night and street fighting was in progress there today as
American forces to the northwest stabbed to within nine miles
of Marseille, France's second largest city.
DEWEY'S ENVOY
VISITS WILLKIE
New York, Aug. 21. (U.R)
John Foster Dulles, emissary of
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Repub
lican p r e s 1 dential nominee,
meets with Wendell L. Willkie
today in an effort to establish
complete party harmony on deli
cate points of this country's for
eign policy now and after the
war.
The meeting was arranged by
Dewey himself after he had fail
ed to get Willkie to Albany for
a personal conference and Will
kie had criticized his recent
statement expressing concern
for the fate of small nations in
the postward world. Willkie, the
1940 Republican standard bear
er, has not pledged his support
to Dewey.
Dulles came here from Al
bany en route to Washington for
a conference on Wednesday with
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
as Dewey's agent.
Kimmel Adds New
Mystery Note to
Hawaii Disaster
Washington, Aug. 21 (U.R)
The full story behind the Pearl
Harbor disaster took on a new
note of mystery today when
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim
mel, naval commander at Hawaii
when the Japanese struck, de
clared that the public "will be
amazed" when "untruths and
half truths" are brushed aside
and the facts revealed.
Sharply challenging findings
of the commission headed by Su
preme Court Justice Owen J.
Roberts, Kimmel called for
"fair play" in a letter to Sen.
Harry S. Truman, D., Mo., Presi
dent Roosevelt's fourth term
running mate. It was written
specifically to deny Truman's
assertion in a recent magazine
article that the "root cause" of
the December 7 catastrophe was
lack of cooperation between
Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C.
Short, then army commander in
Hawaii.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Opie Harrison and Nora Bott
jcr having fun at a sale.
Roy Love coming out of the
hills with at least two inches of
shaggy beard.
Doc Charley Kunz' realistic
looking hand grenade paper
weight causing much excitement
in police and other circles.
Medford
United Press
Free French Seek Revenge
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French forces of the 7th army
entered Toulon, a city with a
prewar population of more than
100,000, after two battleships
and six cruisers had subjected
the part to terrific bombard
ment. ' Le Beausset Taken
Other French forces captured
the town of Le Beausset, five
miles northwest of Toulon on
the main road to Marseille, while
forward elements of the Allied
forces were approaching Au
bagne, key road junction about
nine miles east of Marseille.
In their sweep around Toulon,
Allied troops with the aid of air
and sea bombardment captured
Hotel De Golf, one mile east of
Hyeres, which had been con
verted into a strongpoint by the
Germans; the hilltop town of Le
Revest-Les-Eaux, a little more
than two miles north of Toulon,
and Mt. Caume. nearly two
miles west of Le Revest.
Farther north, Allied forces
driving toward Avignon cap
tured Pertuis, 27 miles north
west of Marseille. Also in the
northern sector, the Allies storm
ed into Valensole, 50 airline
miles due north of Toulon.
Escape Route Periled
Supported by the heaviest air
and sea bombardment since ID-
day, Allied tanks and infantry
captured the hilltop town of Le
Revest-Les-Eaux, a little town
more than two miles north of
Toulon, and Mt. Caume, nearly an(j the Germans threatened tur
two miles west of Le Revest, and bulent Paris.
were threatening the Germans
last routes of escape from the
naval base.
Other American forces ram
med into the outskirts of AIx
15 miles north of Marseille and
key communications hub, after
advancing nearly au mucs in it
hours. The Germans were put
tin? up their strongest resistance
yet at AIx, whose fall would
seal the doom of both Marseille
and Toulon.
Still another American col
umn forced the formidable
Durance river, a tributary of
the Rhone, plunged on another
mile and a half and joined
French Maquis organized
embers of the French forces.
of resistance at Pertlus.
Capture Castellane
Northeast of Toulon and Mar
seilles, Allied forces crossed the
border Into the Basses-Alns de
partment and captured Castel
lane, 22 miles north of Draeuig
nan in the Maritime Alps,
climaxing an advance of more
than 32 miles from landing
points near St. Raphael and
Fre)us.
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wil
son, supreme Allied commander,
announced in his daily com
munnique that some 14.000 Ger
man prisoners have been taken
in the first six days of the fastest-breaking
invasion ever
mounted by the Allies.
A third German general
Ma). Hans Schuberth, civil af
fairs commander for the Basses
Alps district and his entire
staff of six officers and 30 men
were among the latest prisoners
to fall into Allied hands.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST
GERMANS BATTLE
SPREADING REVOLT
IN PARIS STREETS
London, Aug. 21 (U.R) The
German army battled a spread
ing French patriot rebellion in
the streets of Paris today and a
United Press dispatch from the
Franco-Swiss frontier reported
that puppet Premier Pierre La-
tff, 1 an4 hto nnllancinrt r,"nMo")
government had fled from Vichy I
to the German border.
While the Germans placed
Paris under virtual martial law
and threatened it with destruc
tion If thp nntrints rfirt not sith-
slrfo Frpnch Mnnnis conrc-na re-:
Dorted Laval and others In his'
collaborationist cabinet had ar- strength beyond American bom
rived at Morvillars, less than br range,
six miles from the Swiss border. Central Pacific army and
United Press Staff Correspond
dent Aldo Forte, who crossed j
into France from Switzerland
several days ago, said Laval and
his suite were travelling under
a heavy German SS squad, mov
ing swiftly in powerful camou
flaged automobiles.
While the Vichy government
sought sanctuary northward,
French forces of the interior
were reported to have gained
control of Toulouse, one of the
i largest cuies in souinern rranuc.
Portland. Ore., Aug. 21 AJ.R)
State Grange masters from Ore
gon, Washington, California. Ida
ho and Montana today asked the
federal government to keep all
Japanese, now in this military
area, in coniinement ana not
permit Japanese to return to the
west coast after war.
Big Three Pledge Partnership of All
Washington, Aug. 21 (U.R)
The three most powerful nations
In the world promised today to
create a partnership of all na
tions, large end small, to keep
the peace with responsibilities
allocated to each according to
Its powers.
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull opened the three-power
conference on a world organiza
tion at Dumbarton Oaks with re
assurance that the little nations
of the world would be "part
ners" In the international under
taking. Agreeing with him In re
sponses to his opening remarks
were Sir Alexander -Cadogan,
head of the British delegation,
and Soviet Ambassador Andrei
A. Gromyko, head of the Russian
delegation.
Must Act Soon
Cadogan also revealed that
the three great powers were in
general agreement that some
sort of a world organization
must be created "soon" before
the war ends.
Gromyko, .asserting that the
JAPS REEL FROM
SUPERFORTRESS
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B-29's From Secret Bases In
China Leave Yawata Steel
Works Flaming Mass
By United Press
Japan reeled today after its
first round-the-clock Superfort
ress raid on its homeland and,
with its Moluccan defenses
crumbled by other air assaults,
was reported preparing for a
possible airborne landing on
Halmahera, stepping stpne to
the Philippines.
The B-29's, operating from
secret bases in China, struck by
daylight and at night, concen
trating most of their tons of
bombs on Yawala's steel works
and leaving the Oriental "Pitts
burgh" a mass of flames.
Four B-29's Lost
The war department in Wash
ington announced that four of
the bombers were lost in the
daylight raids although it had
no details of the night raids.
The Tokyo radio, In a commu
nique broadcast recorded by the
United Press in San Francisco,
acknowledged both raids, ad
mitted "some damage to our
side," and claimed that 25
American planes were shot
down and that 20 American air
men were captured after land
ing in parachutes.
While the main force of B-29's
hit Yawata, others bombed Lao
Yao, railroad and shipping cen
ter 135 miles north of Shanghai,
and Kaikeng, vital rail junction
on the Peking-Hankow-Lunghai
railways in Honoo province.
Barricade Muluccas
An official spokesman at
southwest Pacific headquarters'
hnri
disclosed that the Japanese
quit using some of their airfields
on Halmahera and other islands
th,e Muluccas and were build-
ing log barricades on the run
ways to prevent landings.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced that the Japanese,
under steady attack by the far
eastern air force,
apparently
their air
were withdrawing
navy bombers made new at
tacks on Nauru west of Tarawa
in the Gilberts and fighter
planes raided Rota and Pagan in
the Marianas and other craft
attacked Mille and Wotje atolls
i in the Carolines.
Liberator bombers damaged
and probably sank a 14,000 ton
Japanese cruiser in the south
China sea Saturday, it was dis
closed today.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The shortest distance to Ber
lin from advanced Allied lines
today:
Northern France 548 miles
(gain of 47 miles in one week).
Southern France 661 miles
(unchanged for week).
Russia 328 miles (unchang
ed for week).
Italy 602 miles (gain of two
miles in week).
time was not far off when the
freedom loving nations of the
world will have won their In
evitable victory, said that the fu
ture International security or
ganization must be based upon
the "sovereign equality of all
freedom-loving people who will
have Joint responsibility for the
maintenance of peace."
"If the future International
security organization is to keep
the peace." he said, "the re
sources cf all the freedom-loving
nations must be used, and espe
cially those resources of the
United States. Great Britain, the
Soviet Union and China the na
tions who today are bearing the
main brunt of the war against
the Fascist aggressor."
Gromyko expressed optimism
about the present exploratory
discussions, saying he was cer
tain they would "bring positive
results In view of the spirit of
understanding In which the
three great nations of the world
are meeting."
Fear Unfounded
Hull used a portion of his wel
21, 1944
REDS UNLEASH
LONG-EXPECTED
Germans Reveal Enemy Of
fensive Believed Aimed At
Great Ploesti Oil Fields
London, Aug. 21 (U.R) The
German high command an
nounced in a communique today
that the Red army has launched
its long-expected Romanian of
fensive, presumably in an at
tempt to break through the
Galati gap to Bucharest and
the great Ploesti oil fields.
The new assault was launched
with strong support from Storm
ovik attack planes south of Tiras
pol and northwest of Iasi, the
German communique said,
plunging into battle the last
quiet sectors of the 1, 200-mile
eastern front from the Gulf of
Finland to the Black sea.
Bitter Fighting
"Bitter fighting is in progress
in both sectors," the communi-l
que said, but gave no further i
details.
The Russians cleared the Ger
mans from Tiraspol, on the
north bank of the Dnepr river
60
miles from the Black sea,'
last April and subsequently es
tablished several bridgeheads on
the south bank, which, however,
never were exploited. Iasi, a
communications center 100 miles
to the west, was brought under
siege by Soviet troops from the
west, north and northeast last
April.
The new Soviet offensive ap
peared designed to engulf both
Iasi and Chisinau, another
strong point about midway be
tween Iasi and Tiraspol, prepar
atory to ' a smash southward
across the Romanian plains to
Galati, 130 miles southwest of
Tiraspol, Bucharest, 245 miles
southwest, and Ploesti, 227 miles :
southwest.
Last Oil Source
Ploesti is the last remaining
source of natural oil for Adolf
Hitler's faltering war machine.;
It has been attacked repeatedly
by Italian-based American
planes.
The offensive also may has
ten Romania's withdrawal from
the war. She has been extending
peace feelers to the Allies
through Turkey for several
months.
BULGARIA SEEN
READY FOR PEACE
London, Aug. 21 (UR) In
formed diplomatic sources said
today that Bulgaria may break
diplomatic relations with Ger
many tomorrow and appeal
openly to Britain and the Unit
ed States for peace.
These informants stated on
the highest authority that Brit
ish, American and Bulgarian
representatives have been In
conference in Ankara, Turkey,
for a week and that Bulgaria
will be granted an armistice as
soon as she makes a clean break
with Germany.
coming address to ihe 40 dele
gates to assure Republican lead
ers again that their fears of big
power domination of the new
world organization were un
founded. "It cannot be emphasized too
often that the principle of the
sovereign equality of all peace
loving states, irrespective of
size and strength, as partners In
a system under law, must con
stitute the foundation of any fu
ture international organization
for the maintenance of peace and
security " Hull said.
Cadoga, who Is the British
permanent secretary of state for
foreign affairs, recalled that
even Adolf Hitler had learned
"that it is not by riding rough
shod over the smaller powers
that the vital interests of the
larger can In the long run best
be protected."
Both men emphasized that the
new world organization must
give to each nation "responsi
bilities commensurato with its
powers."
Asserting that there already
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Over-all map of French battleground shows how Allied forces from the
west and south sweep toward Paris front to drive the German machine,
now in complete rout, back to the borders of the Rhine by cuulng France
In half.
Arrogant Nazi Elite S S Troopers
Burst Into Tears When Captured
By William Wilson
United Press War Correspondent
With Canadians South of
Falalse, Aug. 20 (U.R) Dozens
of elite SS troops, surrendering
to the Canadians with parade
ground finesse, have acded con
firmation to the German infan
try's feeling that the SS is sacri
ficing the Wchrmacht to save its
own skin.
Many of the SS prisoners were
smartly dressed and clean too
clean for men who have been in
battle. And the smartest, clean
est and least battle worn of the
lot were youths who recently
were graduated from the youth
movement.
' There were Germans surren
dering when they met opposi
tion, arrogant SS youths break
ing down before their captors,
and Germans still attempting to
fight their way out In enemy
vehicles under Allied shcllflre
and aerial bombardment.
One SS youth, who had been
manning a machine gun behind
seven infantrymen, making them
T
Accosted in an alley shortly
after midnight Saturday. Grace
Simmons was relieved of $30 by
an unidentified man who spoke
with an accent, she reported to
city police.
The woman told police that as
she turned into an alley off
I Sixth street to reach her home
at 153 North Oakdalc avenue, a
man came up behind her and
ordered her to drop her purse.
She said she complied, and
that the man removed a $20 and
, $10 bill from the purse, which
ne leu on me ground ociorc
running off.
AFL EYES PROBLEMS
Chicago, Aug. 21 (U.R) The
executive council of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor opened
its 10-day qunrterly meeting to
day with a discussion of post
war problems and reconversion,
Nations to
Is "a large measure of agree
ment" among the big three,
Cadogan called upon the dele
gates not to forget the time fac
tor now that the war is nearlng
Its end.
Events Move Fast
"There seems, In fact, to be a
general will on the part of what
are at present the three most
powerful states In the world to
achieve some kind of world or
ganization, and what is more, to
achieve It soon," he said, reply
ing to Hull's welcome address.
"Events are moving fast and
peace mny come sooner than
some expect. It would be folly
to delay construction of at least
some framework of future Inter
national cooperation until the
problems of peace confront us
with all their insistency.
The opening ceremonial ses
sion the only one to which the
press will be admitted was held.
In the high-ceilinged music room
of the 143-year-old Georgian
mansion on a secluded Washing
ton estate, Dumbarton Oaks.
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Squeeze
fight, finally was captured. When
ordered to stand beside a wall
he thought he was about to be
shot. His arrogance melted into
tears and he pleaded with the
tough Canadians who hate the
SS more than I have seen any
Allied troops hate the enemy.
The Canadians laughed at the
"superman's" tears and con
temptuously sent him toward the
prison cage.
CAPTAIN PARSON
HEADS POLICE IN
Capt. Paul Parson today as-
med his duties as head of the
sumed
Medford district of the Oregon
State Police to succeed Bert J.
Staats, who recently resigned to
accept private employment.
Capt. Parson comes hero from
Baker, where ho served for five
years as a lieutenant under Capt.
A. G. (Hap) Dunn, who was for
merly stationed here.
The new state police chief be
gan his career In the department
in August, 1031, being stationed
for a short time at St. Helens.
From there he was transferred
to Astoria, where he remained
for two years before being sent
to Bend for two years. He served
for eight months In Klamath
Falls, leaving there In 1036 to
serve until 1939 as a sergeant in
the Roseburg district. From
Roseburg he went to Baker.
Capt. Parson Is married and
. ... .i'" ium division:
has two children His son Paul,Gen. Elfeidt, commander of the
E., a seaman, 1st class In the
U. S. navy, is now stationed in
California after duty In the north
Pacific. Ills 19-year-old daughter.
Shirley, will begin her third
year at Oregon State college this
autumn. The Parsons will reside
on the Hillcrcst road.
. Lee M. Bown of Salem, deputy
superintendent of the state
police, left here Sunday after
making Capt. Parson acquainted
throughout the district.
Keep Peace
The delegates from the three
powers will meet there twice a I
day, five days a week, until they i
hnvn HrvUpH ll formula for or-'
gnnlzlng the world for peace.
Their deliberations may deter
mine whether this and succeed
ing generations will live in peace
or die In war.
Standing In the middle of the
American delegation, seated at
the bottom of the U-shaped ta
ble, Hull warned that 'the very
character of this war moves us
to search for an enduring
peace." Ho referred Indirectly to
superbombcrs and robots, and
the gigantic rockets and worse
threatened by "the forces of
savagery and barbarism."
"Armed with weapons 6f mod
ern science and technology and
with equally powerful weapons
of coercion and deceit," he said,
"these forces almost succeeded
In enslaving mankind because
the peace-loving nntions were
disunited , . . lacked both unity
and strength . . . lacked a vigil
ant realization of the perils
which loomed before them."
DECISIVE VICTORY
SOUTH OF SEINE
CLAIMEDJEALED
Paris Besieged From. Three!
Sides; River Line Breach
ed; Mop Up Progresses
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Aug. 21 (U.R) The battle ot
northwestern France has ended
In complete and decisive victory
for the Allies and the end of the
European war is in sight, Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery de
clared today as Allied armies
laid siege to Paris from thrca
sides, breached the Seine river
line and swung in from Nor
mandy to finish off the surviv
ors of the routed Nazi 7th army.
"The Lord, mighty in battles,
has given us the victory." Mont
gomery said in a stirring order
of the day to the combined Brit
ish, American and Canadian ar
mies under his overall ground
command.
All News Good
"The news is very good from
the war fronts all over the
world. The end of the war is in
sight. Let's finish off the busi
ness in record time."
Montgomery said the past 10
days have seen the elimination
of the German army south o
the Seine as an effective fight
ing force, and that "terrific"
destruction of Nazi men and ar
mor still is going on in the by
passed Normandy pocket.
"The victory has been defi
nite, complete and decisive," he
said, asserting that the Allied
triumph marked the' beginning
of the end of German military
domination in all France.
"Having brought disaster to
the German forces in northwest
France, we must now complete
the destruction of such of his
forces as are still available to
De destroyed.
"After knowing what has hap
pened to their armies In north
west Franco, it is unlikely that
these forces will come to us, so
we will go to them," Montgom
cry's order declared.
10,000 Surrender
Almost as he spoke 10,000
beaten, dazed Nazi veterans laid
down their arms and surren
dered to the overwhelming Al
lied tanks, artillery and rifle
men massed around them in the
Normandy pocket. At the same
time, British, Canadian and
American troops surgpd east-
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Yankee forces that crossprt th
heme
northwest of Pnri n
fanned out across the enemy's
line of flight.
The mass surrender In the
Normandy pocket swelled the
number of prisoners taken in
that trap to more than 25,000
men, and the spectacular Amer
ican break-through across the
Seine, coupled with a fast-rolling
British push toward the
mouth of the river, threatened
imminent annihilation for the
enemy units that had escaped
that trap.
Three Generals Taken
United Press War Correspond
ent Richard D. McMillan re
ported that the latest bag of cap
tives included three Nazi gen
erals: Lt. Gen. Badinskl, com
mander of the 27flth division?
84th corps, and Lt. Gen Monnl
listed as leader of the 84th di
vision. The forcing of the Seine riv
er barrier virtually Isolated revolt-torn
Paris and menaced the
Nazi robot bomb bases along the
Channel coast.
Allied headquarters announced
officially that the Americans
were across the Seine in great
strength at Mantes and German
radio reports admitted that Lt.
Gen George S. Patton's troops
also forced a crossing 12V4 miles
to the north at Vernon.
KILLED IN ACTION
A wire from the war depart
ment this morning Informed
Mrs. Anita R. Blals. Gold Hill.
of the death of her son, Pfc. Nor-
man P. Blais, 20, infantryman.
Pfc. Blais was killed In action
In France August 3, only a few
days after his arrival overseas.
He had been in service since
February of 1943.
Survivors in addition to Mrs.
Blais are a brother, Pfc. Ray
mond Blals, stationed in Hawaii,
and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mcunler,
744 West Jackson Boulevard,
uncle and aunt. The young
man's father, J, A. Blais, died
last fall.
Pfc. Blals was a native ot
Jackson county and resided at
Gold Hill his entire life until
entering the army. He graduat
ed from the Gold Hill high
school with the class of 1942.