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Yanks Tighten Noose on Nazis South of Seine Weather TKIBUNE Forecast: Clear tonight and Wednesday. Little change In temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 86 Lowest this morning 62 Precipitation past 24 fars, - 0 CHANNEL PORTS i Great New Offensive Shrlnk3 Escape Corridor; Canadi ans Drive East on Coast, United Pru Full Leased Wire .ted Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MBDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1944 NO. 129. Allies Pierce Toulon Inner Defense Liberated French Cheer Victorious Yanks BEAT NAZIS BACK AT BAYONET POINT Marseille All But Circled by Invaders Other forces Rampaging Far Inland. Rome, Aug. 22. (U.R) Allied troops cut their way through the last chain of Nazi fortifications guarding the besieged naval base of Toulon tonight and all but en circled Marseille with a slashing drive from the west that carried down to within three miles of the city. Other allied armored forces were ripping through the hills more than 60 miles inland from the twin Mediterranean ports and sweeping out to the north west toward Avignon and the Rhone valley, 50 miles beyond Marseille. French Lunge Out Stalled for 36 hours at the very edge of Toulon, veteran French infantrymen lunged out of their positions in the western and northern suburbs tonight and beat the Germans back into the city streets at bayonet point. A murderous rain of fire from German coastal batteries and warship guns in the harbor slow ed the French, but it was indi tated they were making good progress. - YOUTHliSSTNG IN SEVEN LAKES FOREST REGION A search is being conducted this afternoon In the vicinity of Grass Lake in the Seven Lakes country, for Jimmy A. Boyd, 17. Klamath Falls, who failed to return to the camp which he and his uncle, W. O. Boyd, also of Klamath, had established near the lake The uncle notified the Butte Falls ranger about mid night last night that the boy had failed to return tb camp after spending the evening fishing. The voung man had worked on the Rogue River forest fire suppression crew until August 17 and since then had been camping at Grass Lake with the uncle. Both had been fishing, but the elder man returned to camrj first. When Jimmy failed to show up, his uncle nt first conducted a search Bnd later used the forest service field tele phone to call the ranger. This morning the Klamath county sheriff was notified that the boy still was missing and ar rangements were made with for est officials for a five-man fire suppression crew from the Butte Falls district to make a search. Boyd reported that as he re turned 'o camp, two deer which he startled along the trail ran across a rocky hillside and start ed a small slide and he at first believed that a falling rock mifTht have struck his nephew. The Seven Lakes country Js very remote, being some nfne miles from the nearest road Trail to the lake leaves from the Imnaha guard station, SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Edna Mingus and Anne Early pleased at finding a couple of people who exactly fitted their idea of Dickens characters. Bill Catey due for a surprise by seeing his name spelled right for once. Paul Finnell, manager of the Ashland J. C. Penney store, be ing forced to do his own clerk ing, bookkeeping and Janitor work as vacations and Uncle Sam deplete the staff. The Toltecs. who moved Into Mexico in the sixth century, largely perished by drought, famine and pestilence. In the 11th century, the remainder mi grating into Yucatan and Guatemala. Paris Threatened qk Stint Bar -,Fcomp Ji-sMrW ( jj IE HAVREilOUENcl,rB0l' X STlff V!0"" & S SM'j&fv'Jifajelte St. Gtimain&NLmmtJiz ANGERS - p?$C rowon, Lo Mette-Beuwe. fAcmm Tele photo Allied Annies widen their bridgehead across Seine River, increasing threat of annihilation to Nazi Armies, and drive new spearneads souin of Paris after reaching Versailles. American armor torceo a steej arc around north, west and south gates of French capital wniie oattered sur vivors of German Seventh Annv fled In disorderiv rout. "Black Devils of Anzio" Spread Terror for Germans in Normandy By Clinton B. Conger United Press Correspondent (Representing the Combined U. S. Press) With First Specialist Service Force in Southern France, Aug. 20 (U.R) Censorship released announcement today of the presence in Southern France of the American Canadian first special service force and dis closed for the first time some of the details about the quintuple threat spearhead specialists who already had gained fame as the "Bla : Devils" of Anzio. j The hard-hitting unit, trained in snow, umpnioious mountain, and airborne warfare as well as close-in infantry fighting, was conceived by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbattcn's advisers and was ' born in a moment's ' conversation between U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Chequers in April 1942. The "force" as it is called simply by the men is employed on a world-wide basis, being at tached to various armies at the discretion of the combined chiefs of staff. The force was the first into Kiska and exactly a year later Pumice Cloudburst Caused Transport To Hit Coral Reef SanFrancisco, Aug. 2. (U.R) Giant black clouds rained tor rents of pumice ash from an erupted volcano on a U. S. troop transport in the South Pacific, reducing visibility to zero and causing the ship to run aground on a coral reef, the war shipping administration revealed today. "Day turned into night and the sky was black," an officer of the ship reported. Other vessels backed the troop transport off the reef after two days, WSA said. There were no casualties among troops who were transferred to Liberty ships. The freak cloudburst of pum ice covered the ship's deck with a quarter inch of ash. It was later discovered that the ash also was spread over nearby islands. Pick Your Boche, French Advised By United Press French underground forces are distributing, handbills In Paris, the British radio re ported today In a broadcast recorded by FCC, carrying this message: "Mark down your boche. There will not be enough to go around." TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Northern Franc e 520 miles (gain of 75 miles In week). . Southern Franc e 658 miles (gain of three miles in week). From Three Sides it struck the first blow in south ern France. In between those operations the specialists surged from mountain to mountain on the winter road to Cassino, appear ed on the Anzio beachhead where they terrorized the Ger mans for 29 days of black-faced raiding, and spearheaded the breakout from Anzio to be the first into Rome. The personnel includes cow punchers, miners, trappers, and lumberjacks. There are two with former jail records and two former bodyguards of a movie star and a political boss. L JUNK SURPLUSES Washington, Aug. 22 (U.R) Mayor Florello H. La Guardla of New York today urged congress to Junk all presently proposed surplus property disposal legis lation and to provide for de struction of government sur pluses which would not, through civilian distribution, "aid and promote employment." He made the proposal to the senate war investigating com- mittee as the house resumed con-1 sideration of legislation to set up machinery to govern disposal of all surplus government prop erty. It hoped to pass the meas ure late today or tomorrow. The house reiected 35 to 22 a proposed amendment to the Col mer bill by Rep. Karl Stefan, R.. Neb., to require congressional approval for the sale of rubber and aluminum plants costing more than $1,000,000 instead of $5,000,000 as provided in the. bill. I La Guardla told the senate I committee some surpluses al-l ready are beir disposed of un der "a Junk dealer's philosophy," . and mentioned various goods be ing offered to the New York City government. "Why no later than yester day," he said, "a mortgage com pany offered our city 400.000 battle dressings at five cents apiece; 10,000 dozens pairs of rubber gloves at $.1 OS a dozen for heavy ones, and $3.01 a dozen for light ones; 200 cases of evaporated milk at $3.15 a case OIL FIRMS COOPERATE New York, Aug. 22 (U.R) A new company has been formed by Standard Oil Company of r-nlifnrnla nnd tho Texas com pany for the purpose of directing ! important lorcign exploration and development operations, Harry D. Collier, president of standard, ann w. . a. noagers, president of Texaco, announced today E T AND OIL FIELDS Nazis Stage Bloody Counter Attack in Effort to Hold Baltic Escape Corridor. London, Aug. 22 (U.R) Red army troops on the south ern front, launching twin of fensives against Bucharest and the Ploesti oil fields, drove forward approximately 40 miles on each front and captured the Romanian strong hold of Iasi, and, farther south, Leipzig. 43 miles southwest of Bendery, Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight. London, Aug. 22. (U.R) Soviet armored forces captured the Romanian stronghold of Iasi and swept down on Bucharest and the Ploesti oil fields on a 120-mile front today, Berlin re ported, while Germans in the north launched a bloody counter offensive below Riga in an all out attempt to widen and hold an escape corridor for their trap ped Baltic armies. The Germans abandoned mili tary Installations and abandoned Iasi a DNB news agency com mentator reported, after Russian tank and infantry formations followed up a heavy artillery barrage with thrusts on both sides of the town. Bitter Fighting ' Bitter fighting was in progress along the southern front, extend ing from Targul-Frumos, 27 miles northeast of Iasi, to Tigh ina, 90 miles southwest of Iasi. The stronghold the Germans ad mitted abandoning is the gate way to Galati gap, 100 miles to the southwest, and to Bucharest and Ploesti, approximately an other 100 miles beyond. In a desperate attempt to res cue their Baltic armies in the north, the Germans hurled six additional panzer divisions per haps 60,000 men and 900 tanks into the counteroffensive be low Riga, Moscow dispatches said today. Attack East Prussia (A Moscow broadcast heard In London quoted tl)p semioffic ial newspaper Pravda as saying that the red army was "firing on and attacking the soil of East Prussia," but the broadcast did not say specifically that the Rus sians actually had crossed the frontier.) A Soviet communique last midnight acknowledged that the Germans at frightful cost had blasted a narrow corjidor along the coast of the Gulf of Riga and re-established contact with ele ments of some 30 German divis ions encircled in Latvia and Es tonia. LEG FRACTURES George Boss, 58, logger work ing In the Lake Creek district for Marvin Hamilton, suffered fractures of both logs this morn ing when a snag strurk him as he was faliin? a tree. According to George Davis, ambulance driver for the Perl Funeral Home, the victim has a com pound fracture of the left leg and a break of n less serious na ture In the right leg. Fellow workers brought the man part way in a piekt.p and met the ambulance some two miles north of the Lake Creek store, from where he was brought to a Mcdford hospital and placed In the rare of a local doctor. The accident happened about 9:30 a. m. It Is understood that Boss has no local relatives and that he resided at the lofglng camp where he was employed. 90 POISONED Rochester, N. Y Aug. 22 (U.R) Fifty staff members of Strong Memorial hospital, larg est In the city, were horpitalized today and 40 others were unable to report for duty as a result of food poisoning. ' Cheering French civilians, holding up their hands In V sign and displaying French and American Hugs, urecl American tankmen passing Uiruugh ihdr liberated southern France village toward Toulon, giant French naval tu&a, buiiial Gurus raiuo-telcuUula front luUy. Petain Arrest Prepare London, Aug. 22 (U.R) Swiss reports sald today that the Germans apparently preparing for the evacuation of Paris and the rest of France, have arrested Marshal Henri Pctnin, chief of state of the Vichy governmed Marshal Henri Philippe Pe tain, chief of state of the Vichy government, and taken him to an unknown place in Germany. Earlier reports said Petain had resisted all German pres sure to leave Vichy- and was contemplating turning over his authority to Gen. Charles De Gaulle, president of the French Committee of National Libera tion and his hated rival, as a means of continuing what he regnrds as the legal government of France. The Swiss Journal De Geneve said Gestapo agents seized Petain in Vichy's hotel pare Sunday morning along with a group of his aides, including Gen. Eugo E. Bridoux, secretary I of state for war and air, and Admiral M. Bleuhaut, secretary of state for navy and colonics. Before leaving Vichy, the news paper said, Petain wrote a short letter of farewell to the French people, which obtained Immedi ate and widespread circulation. Meanwhile, authoritative French sources asserted that the bulk of the German garrison In Paris was believed to be evacu ating Paris, if it had not already done so, leaving only rear guards to defend the city against thousands of rebellious patriots. Street fighting between the rear guards, students and other patriots was described as mount ing daily in violence with the Germans turning machine-guns on their tormentors. Skirmish ing has spread to the Champs Elysces in the center of the city, French sources said. With American spearheads already In the suburbs, the pa triots defied a German warning tha't continued resistance would bring the destruction of the city. War Correspondent Killed in Action Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 22 (U.R) William String-' er, 27-year-old Texas-born war correspondent for Reuters Ncwsi Agency, was killed in action while covering the American forces In France, it was an- nounccd today. Reuters said in New York that the circumstances of Stringer's death were not known, but that his last dispatch described ac tion in the Chartrcs area. 10,000-Acre Fire in Paloma Canyon Monterey, Cal., Aug. 22. (U.R) A fire which started Sunday night at the foot of Cahoon grade in Paloma canyon has burned more than 10,000 acres within Los Padres national park and the flames continued to spread south and cast today despite the efforts of 200 men from Fort Ord and 100 from Camp Roberts. STORM HItTtFxAS Houston, Tex., Aug. 22 (U.R) Army air bases along the Texas coast were evacuated today as a severe tropical storm, with winds of close to 60 miles per hour moved inlond from the Gulf of Mexico between Brownsville and Corpus Christi. The full force of the disturbance was expected to strike the coast late this afternoon. 'U,K' Reported as to Evacuate State Bar Elects Eugenean Successor To O. Frohnmayer Otto J. Frohnmayer, Mcdford retiring member of the board of governors of the Oregon State Bar association, will be succeed ed by Donald R. Husband, Eu gene, as new representative of the fourth congressional district it was announced today from Portland. Elections were held by mail, as is the custom, and bal lots were counted yesterday. Husband defeated W. W. Bal derree of Grants Pass, Frohnmoycr explained that the board of governors is made up of 12 attorneys, three from each of the four congressional districts In the state, and that the elections arc, staggered so that one new man Is named from i eoch district each year. F. D. R. Statement Mollifies Nelson Washington, Aug. 22 (U.R) Donald M. Nelson was consider ing resigning as War Production Board chairman until President I Koosovolts formal assurance that his mission to China was "most important and pressing" and that his reconversion poli cies would not be changed in his absence, it was learned to day. In a highly unusual action, Mr. Roosevelt issued a sharp t Huiicmeni lain ycsicruoy to si lence weekend rumors that he I was sending Nelson to the Orl- I lent so that the . reconversion I nrnrtrnm nmilrt lis asltittnft 4n suit the military. Rogue Valley Products Fly To New York City Tonight Pears, apples, flowers and fish from Mcdford will be loaded to night into United Air Lines Cargoliner which will fly to New York city with the first full plane fond of perishables ever flown from coast to coast It was announced today by Jack Meyer, local station manager for United The plane, ncwlvconvcrted, n Douglas DC-3, stripped of all passenger accommodations and fitted with special cargo-handling features, will land at the Metlford airport at 8:02 and take off when the perishables from here are put oboard. Barllett pears to go Into the plane will be furnished by Da vid and Harry Holmes of the Bear Creek Orchards, Graven stein apples will be donated by Wing Orchards, Inc., gladioli will be furnished by the W. J. Warner gnrrtens and some 30 fine Rogue River trout will be contributed by the Jockson County Chamber of Commerce through the cooperation of the following members of the Rogue River Sportsmen's club: Ken neth O. Denman, Donnle Den- &?r PL, ; f t Acme Itwlitfl vlvnhuiu) Germans All of France MILITARY FORCE AS LAST RESORT Washington, Aug. 22 OJ.B Military force must be available for use as a last resort against future aggressor nations, Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., told the senate today as American, British and Russian plans for an international secur ity organization were formally presented to the Dumbarton Oaks conference. Speaking during an Impromp tu hour-long senate discussion of International relations, Van denberg said keeping the peace must bo the temporary but not the permanent responsibility of the major powers represented In the current talks here. The three proposals for world organization were presented during the first business sessions of the Dumbarton Oaks talks. Reading the Russian plqn dur ing the morning session, Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromy ko, head of the Russian delega tion, was Interrupted several times by questioners. Some In quiries were answered, some were postponed for later consid eration. A three-paragraph commu nique outlining the day's busi ness said the American and Brit ish plans were listed for presen tation during the afternoon ses sion. Official spokesmen de clined to elaborate on the brief communique, which gave no de tails of any of the three plans. man, Duke Guile, t.eo McCorkle, J. F. Moore, C. J. Chord. Wil liam Luman and Aubrey Norris. Also to be placed aboard the plane arc neclarberries donated by W. II. Rush. Grants Pass. The special flight Is designed to give a practical demonstra tion of the post war possibilities of shipping perishables by air. and Is being sponsored by Unit ed, Wayne university and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea comnany. The plane, fully loaded, will carry three tons of perishables plrked up at points on the Pa cific coast. At New York the fruits, vegetables, flowers and seafood are to be displayed and tasted nt an "airborne perish ables clinic luncheon" at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Reactions of merchandisers nnd laymen will bo sought as to the appearance, taste and mar ketable vilue of the various Items. Also included from the Pacific coost will be Dungoness crabs, oysters, Columbia river salmon, asparagus, melons and nectarines. Supreme Headquarters. AEF, Aug. 22 (U.R Amorl- can tanks broke into eastern France today in a smashing drive past the ancient forti fied city of Sens, almost 60 miles southeast of Paris and within 43 miles of the Troyes railhead on the main lines tun neling Into Switzerland and the German border. Capture of Troyes would put the Americans within 130 miles of the German border and cut the last direct railway lines of supply or escape for all the Nasi armies In south ern and central France. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 22 (U.R) American tank troops swept down the Selna river for the Channel ports to day In n great new offensive that closed to a bare 00 miles the last escape corridor for the fleeing German 7th army In Normany, while other tank columns were reported Vialf-way around Paris in a lightning thrust to the river Marne. A huge noose was tightening swiftly around tens of thousands of battle-wearied Nazis caught south of the Seine as the Amer icans lashed out for the Channel and veteran Canadian troopers drove eastward along the Nor man coast to within 12 miles of the Seine estuary. Nazis In Flight Between the two converging; armies, the remnants of the Ger man army were In headlong flight toward the handful of tem porary pontoon bridges thrown across the Seine between Elbeuf and the estuary thntoffered their last hope of escape. Headquarters gave no details on the progress of the new American thrust beyond the fact that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Yanks were driving hard along the south bank of the Seine from the Mantes area, The Germans themselves, however, had reported Amer ican armor around Gaillon, 21 miles to the northwest and bare ly 17 miles from the river port of Elbeuf, where thousands of I iiti.i iruups una irHiispon ve I hides were jammed In a tight mass, waiting their turn to cross the Seine. At the same time other Amer- i lean units were across the river In force at Mantes and Vernon, 13 miles to the north, and fan ning out downstream toward the Channel coast and uprlver toward Paris. Nazis Herded In Canadian. British and Amer ican troops, supported by Bel gian and Dutch units, herded tho Nazis Into the Seine river funnel from the east, advancing as much as 10 miles along a 50 mlle front from the Channel coast to west of Argentan. Far behind the eastbound Al lied line, many thousands of Germans milled In the trap bounded by Argentan, Chambois and Trim Some 30.000 Nazi prisoners already had been tak en In the pocket and headquar ters snnkesmcn estimated that 100.000 men would be liquidat ed there when the full count of dead and captured is in. Meanwhile, the battle of Paris nppeared to bo nearlng a show down as American armor pressed In on the city from three sides ogalnst slightly stiffening enemy resistance. Berlin admitted the loss of Etampes. 14 miles south-southwest of Paris, and Malesherbes, on the Orleans - Fontainbleau highway. 3 miles south of the former French capital. Head quarters sookesmen refused to confirm or' deny front report that other American units had plunged across the Seine at Fon tainbleau and driven 40 miles north to the Marne nt Meaux, 22 miles east-northeast of Paris. The reported thrust appeared highly possible, however as the Germans were not believed to have sufficient force in the Paris area for an all-out defense of the city. Pendleton Roundup Adds Bull Riding Pendleton, Ore., Aug. 22 (U.R) Providing contestants with the toughest material pos sible the Pendleton Round-up Association announced today that lt had selected 100 of the nation's top bucking horses, 60 steers and 2.1 Brahma bulls for the celebrated rodeo Sept. 14 to 16. Herbert Thompson, livestock director, said tho show for the i first time since Its inception, . would add Brahma bull riding I to the other contests.
