SLAUGHTERED IN
SEINE JEFENSE
Prisoner Says Two-Thirds
of Company Lost in Futile
Effort to Stop Yankees
By Robert Richards
United War Correspondent
With American Forces, Be
yond Seine, Aug. 21 (U.F9 It
was plain slaughter and it did
not make sense.
But a small force of Nazis,
making fanatical and futile
counter-attacks against Ameri
can infantrymen who swept
across the Seine in force in the
vicinity of Limay about a dozen
miles north of Paris asked for
it and were getting it.
I stood behind a stone wall
observation post on a high hill
this afternoon and watched
while the infantry's 105 cannon
hammered i dump" of frees
where the enemy was concealed.
Doesn't Make Same
'It just doesn't make sense,"
said 1st Lt. David W. Hall of
Ridgewood, N. J., forward ob
server for a cannon company.
"They started coming yester
day afternoon and they're still
coming. Look at those fellows.
They're either dazed or Just too
damned cocky for their own
good."
Through field glasses I could
see five or six German soldiers
staggering along as if still at
tempting to advance despite
overwhelming adds against
them. Now and then a shell
would splatter the earth near
one of the figures and he would
fall never to rise again.
Directly below us the loud
bark of guns could be heard as
American troops moved against
another group and drove them
steadily back.
One group of Germans at
tempted to fortify a building
and hold its position. Within a
few minutes it was a smoking
ruin all the occupants either
dead or captured.
"It beats me what they are
trying to do," 2nd Lt. Lawrence
R. Maroon, Cleveland, O., said.
"It's plain murder but they're
asking for it and we'll give it
to them."
Knocked Off Balance
Most of the American officers
V;
"The earth must have more than a
thickness of ten miles of air around it
. . . that isn't a year's quota for me!
vfiXiL I DO from morning
il to night is pump air into
these blankety blank tires!"
snorted Joe Smith, who works
for i Gilmore Independent
Dealer. "The more tires, the
more air the more air, the
more tires I'm in a rut."
The fact is Citizen Smith is
1 swell tire man Fussy, mind
you, and at times he's secretly
irascible But he's so good
at keeping motorists tires
lasting for extra thousands
of miles his Gilmore 'In
dependent Dealer boss has
him concentrate on this essen
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way Gilmore Dealers are
they know how to pass years
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along to their customers.
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line at huge Wichita, Kas., plant while dozens of sister ships can be seen at right and In background In vari
ous stages of completion. More and more of the giant bombers are rolling off assembly lines throughout th
nation In largest production program ever conceived for a single weapon of war.
were convinced the Germans
were knocked off balance by
the rapidity of the American
crossing, made in assault boats
some of which were lashed to
gether and powered by out
board motors.
This morning a pontoon
bridge was firmly established
and troops and supplies rolled
across unchecked. There were
no' American casualties during
the crossing. Five GI's have
been killed sinca landing.
"It looks to me as if these
boys we are shooting at were
sent on an old mission to keep
us from crossing," a colonel con
jectured. "They don't know at
German . headquarters we're
crossing yet arjd think this
small bunch is enough to hold
us on the other side of the river.
One prisoner told us most of
their officers had been killed.
So I can imagine their stubborn
and stupid non-coms telling the
men: 'We're supposed to stop
these guys and we're going to
do it.' '
Another prisoner said two
thirds of his company had been
slaughtered.
Many of the dead were scat
tered through the woods,
sprawled where they fell after
attempting a flanking move on
bicycles yesterday afternoon.
Woods Full of Dead
Stretched out on the hay In a
barn, Pfc. Gershell Marshall of
Poteau, Okla., told me:
"I looked through a crack In
the wall and there were five
Jerries creeping along the fence.
I let go with my automatic rifle
I and killed a heap of them. But
I that didnt faze them. More
i Germans kept coming. When
i we got through shooting the
woods were full of dead.
Most of the Germans appear
ed young and probably were en
gaging in their first battle, the
colonel said.
"But I'll say this for them,
though," he added. "They
haven't much sense but they're
good soldiers. I watched them
i through glasses when we were
; pouring it to uiem. iney cms
. in but as soon as the firing was
us again.'
TRUCKS, CARS RELEASED
BY ARMY TO CIVILIANS
Washington, Aug. 23. (U.R)
The army has released 52,000
light trucks and 7,000 passenger
automobiles for civilian con
sumption in the last few months,
Maj. Gen. Lucuis D. Clay, direc
tor of army procurement, told
the house committee of postwar
policy today.
Testifying on surplus mater
ials and equipment in the armed
forces, Clay said the passenger
automobiles and 20,000 trucks
have gone into civilian use and
the remaining 32,000 trucks
were released to the treasury'
procurement department in the
last few days and will be avail
able for civilians soon.
INCREASE IN AID
Washington, D. C, Aug. 23
(U.P -An increase of $1711 In a
previous federal contribution for
recreation facilities for service
men In Medford, Ore., was an
nounced today by Major Gen
eral Philip B. Fleming, federal
works administration.
The president's approval has
been given on the increase and
there has been an extension of
the period of assistance for one
year through June 30, 1945. The
total of the fund Is now $8606
and will be used to continue the
operation of a Junior Officers'
club to serve about 500.
An Icelander, Thorfinn Karl
sefni, settled for three years in
Vinland in 1003 A. D.
Ashland Sawmill
Installing Pond
For Log Storage
Ashland, Aug. 23. A mill
pond to hold one million feet of
lumber is being constructed at
the Jansen Lumber company
mill at East Main street at the
railroad tracks. The adjoining
deck will have a four million
feet capacity and the deck and
pond, when full, will hold
enough logs to operate one shift
four months.
The part of East Main street
which passes the mill is being
raised about tlx feet so that the
logs may be floated under the
street from one pond to the oth
er on their way to the mill.
Provisions are being made for
unloading at either pond. Deck
ing of the logs will be done with
a gas shovel.
The street will be resurfaced
and plans call for space to be
provided for the city to place
sidewalks past the mill If they
should care to do so.
At the present time, traffic Is
being routed via Garfield street
and California street.
"KING FOR DAY
Gloucester. Mass. (U.R) Pvt.
Joseph Albert, 28, a former fish
erman, knows what it feels like
to be literally "King for a Day."
Albert served In that regal ca
pacity at a colorful ceremony
dating back to the 12th century
of Gloucester's Portuguese col
ony. MONTQOMERY WARD
A wire from Sen. Guy Cor
don to the Jackson County Rec
reation committee two days ago
stated that the fund had been
allocated by the works adminis
tration. The application was sub
mitted early in April and had
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COMMANDS AT BEND
Ft. Douclas. Utah Ana 9
(U.R) The ninth service com
mand reported today that Maj.
William Clegs has asmmerl m.
porary command of the service
forces ordnance shops at Bend,
Ore., succeeding Capt. Wayne E.
oauey, now temporarily assign
ed to ordnance shops In Oak
land, Cal.
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Perfect Wife Of
Moving Pictures
Divorces Second
Hollywood, Aug. 23 (U.R)
Myrna Loy, the perfect wife of
innumerable movie dramas, re
turns to the film capital today
from Cuernavaca, Mexico, where
she announced surprise ending
to her second marriage yester
day by filing a suit for divorce
on grounds of Incompatibility of
character.
She and her husband, John
Herts, Jr., New York advertis
ing executive and car rental
magnate, had agreed to separate
amicably, she said, and did not
elaborate on the Incompatibility
charge.
Her first husband was Film
Producer Arthur Hornblow. Jr.,
whom she divorced only six days
before marrying Hertz.
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1,000 Pints Blood
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Washington, Aug. 23 (U.R)
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D-D ay Closing Is
Plan For Taverns
Sacramento, Aug. 23 flJ.FO
James H. Quinn, member of th
state board of equalization, to
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taven owners in Alameda and
Contra Costa counties to follow
a general closing of retail es
tablishments planned for the
day of the announcement of the)
end of the war with either Ger
many or Japan.
TRAVEL HAZARD
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nadine Rt., Covlnia, Cal., told
police today that someone pick
ed up her suitcase, the contents
of which she valued at about
$1,000, as she was paying a cab
driver In front of a railroad station.
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