Yanks Tighten Noose on Nazis South of Seine
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Forecast: Clear tonight and
Wednesday. Little change In
temperature. Temp.
Highest yesterday 86
Lowest this morning 62
Precipitation past 24 fars, - 0
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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
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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
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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,
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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.