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Newspaper Page TextAJtT Weather Forecut: Sunday and Mon day clear and warm. Ttmp. Highest yesterday sjj Lowest thli mornlnt sz.s Precipitation past 24 hri. 0.0 Use The V MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results 'K'1 At Small Cost Tribune EDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1944 NO. 133. Id) 0) Mr M o)ml?fo).( ALLIED ADVANCES POINT AT SEDAN, ITZ AND VERDUN Battle For Germany Shapes Foe Is In Full Flight; British Drive For Calais. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sunday, Aug. 27 (U.R) Six Allied columns raced head long for the borders of Germany Saturday, and early today their spearheads were reported point ed toward the world war fort resses of Verdun and Sedan, where Adolf Hitler's legions cracked through the Magmot line in 1940. Both objectives lie 130 miles beyond Paris, indicating spectac ular Allied advances as the bat tle of France swiftly resolved in to the battle for Germany. More than 2,800 heavy bomb ers "paved the way for the al most parade-like Allied thrusts across the French flatlands, blasting the retreating Germans from the Marne eastward and raiding Sedan and Verdun them selves as well -as Metz, gateway to the Moselle valley route to the Rhine. An Allied spokesman indicat ed that the pattern of air at tacks indicated "the march of battle." Sedan is only 18 miles from the Belgian border and is the spot where Gen. Corap's army collapsed in 1940, permit ting a Gefman break-through that carried all the way to the English channel. On Historic Ground Verdun, scene of some of the bloodiest battles in history, is 50 miles from the German fron tier and only 35 miles from Metz. British second army troops, "leap-frogging" over American positions, crossed the Seine northwest of Paris Saturday and drove for the Pas De Calais robot bomb coast and an Ameri can vanguard which forced the river below the capital was re ported within 100 miles of the German frontier in a smash to ward Metz. The British bridgehead was established in the Vernon- Louvicrs area. 40 miles down- stream from Paris, where the Americans smashed up to the I river on a broad front earner this week, and markec' the sixth Allied crossing of the Seine. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters broadcast a warn ing to the people of Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine, whose bor ders converge with Germany's in the Metz corridor, that our armies soon would cross their soil en route to the Reich. Ger man broadcasts virtually an nounced that a full-dress retreat to the Rhine was under way. Reconnaissance pilots report ed a huge stream of German traffic moving eastward from the Marne and heavy bombers blasted the retreating enemy in, the area of such famed battle-j grounds as Verdun. Metz and Kortsm The nilots blasted fuel dumps at Rouen and reported Allied artillery was shelling that Seine city. TO STARVE PARIS By Robert C. Miller United Press War Correspondent Paris, Aug 26 (U.R) Ger many would have starved Paris to death if the Americans had not come, two French women told me today, weeping and kissing my hands and cheeks. "Thev took all but two per cent of our food away from the city." one woman said, ' al though they promised when they first came in to take only 85 per cent of the foodstuff." "Nothing came into Paris dur ing the last lew months," the other woman said, "because all transportation was stopped on account of the Allied bombings but we were glad to hear the rumble of the bombs and guns." The women, who ate heartily of my K rations, said tnat only parsley had been plentiful for several weeks. Allies Join Patriots to Crush Nazis in Paris f ' """ - : ....."-r."-- - f?n ,l 1 1 111 f pi fit fLJ$ 1 Crowds of French patriots surround this Allied Jeep, one of the first to enter Paris, as American and French armored forces drove into city to Bid hundreds of thousands of Parisian patriots battling against fierce German resistance. Final capitulation of the enemy garrison with all arms and equip ment was announced by Paris radio. This photo, one of the first made inside the city since its libera tion, was radioed from Cherbourg to New York, telephotoed from New York to San Francisco, rushed o Mail Tribune by Acme Newspictures, Inc. TRAIL IN TEXAS Dallas, Texas, Aug. 26 (U.R) Veteran Congressman J. J. Mans field of Columbus and Rep. Nat "Cousin" Pal ton of Crockett were trailing their opponents in the Texas Democratic run-off primary election tonight on the basis of early and incomplete returns. Mansfield, chairman of the house committee on rivers and harbors, fell slightly more than 600 votes behind State Senator L. J Sulak of La Grange in the race which determines whether the 84-ycar-old congressman re turns to Washington for his 16th term. With returns In from five of the 15 counties in the Ninth dis trict, none of them complete, Mansfield had 3171 and Sulak had polled 3821. Patton, running for his fifth term in the house, was trailing District Attorney Tom Pickett of Palestine on the basis of re turns from eicht of the 12 coun ties in the 7th district, one of them complete. Pickett had 10, 698 and Patton 9952. Rep. Sam Russell, the third incumbent who was forced into a runoff, a two-termer from Stephenville, picked up an early lead over Clyde Garrett of East land. Russell defeated Garrett in the 17th district in 1940. Gar rett had polled 9455 to Russell's 10,372. E By United Press Only a handful of the Seventh army was getting away to join the German 15th army the last sizable concentration of Ger mans in upper France in its precipitate retreat toward the Rhine. The Luftwaffe came up in force Friday to cover the lat ter withdrawal but failed to fend off Allied raiders who destroyed enormous quantities of enemy equipment including 56 tanks. Fifty one German planes were shot down. The disorganization of enemy communications in the Pas de Calais area was credited in Lon don quarters with the decline in flying bomb attacks, and Allied columns beyond the Seine were now reported within reach of the bombsitcs themselves. War Bulletins Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific. Sunday, Aug. 27 (U.R) Liberator bombers blast ed Japanese ' airdromes on Ceram and Amboina south of Halmahera Friday with 101 tons of bombs, starling large fires among parked planes without meeting enemy air interception. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Lisbon, Aug. 26 (U.R) Rail and air communications be tween Porlunal and Germany have been suspended. It was revealed tonight. Commercial planes of the German Lufthan sa line ceased operating be tween the two countries sev eral days ago. Numerous mall bags and 10 tons of parcels Bre piled up in Lisbon awaiting transport to Berlin. E RED DRIVE (By United Press) A Berlin military spokesman, quoted by the Transoccan News Agency, said Marshal Konstan tin K. Rokossovsky's First White Russian army, after a month long, slogging battle northeast of Warsaw, h.id opened a drive of the ."greatest possible extent " j Hugh new forces of Russian troops were thrown into the "bloody battle" this morning. Berlin said, and It appeared that the final assault to take the Pol ish capital had begun. At least 12 to 14 infantry di visions and stvcral tank corps went over to the attack on a 50- mile front after terrific artillery preparations, the German DNB agency said. The German high command admitted that "several breaches" Jiad been drwen into hard-held Nazi lines northeast of Praga, Warsaw's great Industrial east ern borough, while other Ger man broadcasts said that vthe "climax of the fighting has not yet been reached." The Red army was attacking between the Vistula and the Narew rivers. Berlin said, indi cating that Rokossovsky's forces had swept across the Bug river, running crimson with the blood of thousands of Germans, and were sweeping north of Warsaw in a great outflanking move ment, perhaps coordinated with ! Russian attacks from Vistula ' river bridgeheads south of the capital. Riverside. Cal., Aug. 26 UP) I The temperature reached 112 degrees today In Riverside, the hottest day since Aug. 22. 1943,1 when 113 degrees was registered. tAt'me Uadto-Telephoto) LIBERATE VICHY; AIDES ELEE London, Aug. 26 (U.R) The French forces of the interior, in a spectacular drive, have liber ated Vichy, for four years the symbol of France's humiliation, according to a special broadcast from FFI staff headquarters there today. With Paris in their hands and seven more towns freed during the past 24 hours, Maj. Gen. Jo seph - Pierro Koonig's patriot forces now control 60,000 square miles of territory. The FFI broadcast announc ing that Vichy had been freed and calling upon the city s in habitants to maintain order and cooperate with the new authori ties, came as reports from neu tral capitals indicated that Mar shal Petain's erstwhile diplo matic representatives abroad were scurrying to abandon the sinking ship. An uncont'rmed Algiers re port that Petnin had been arrest ed by the FFI at Metz and shot was termed ' incredible ' by au thoritative French quarters here. It was recalled that the FFI "collaborationists' death list" is sued some time ago did not con tain the name of the aged mar shal. A free French spokesman at that time said Petain would probably be Iried by a French court after the war. OF I R, IS Manchester, Mass., Aug. 26 (U.R) Miss Paulina Longworth. 19, daughter of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and grand daughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt, was mar ried here today to Alexander McCormick Sturm, 21, of West port, Conn. The ceremony, held In the Emmanuel (Episcopal) church, was performed by the Rt. Rev. Oliver J. Hart, bishop of Penn sylvania, who was assisted by Dr. Phillips Osgood of Boston. Fewer than 200 guests attended the wedding which was simpli fied because of the recent dath of the bride's uncle, Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Miss Longworth were a cream colored duchese satin gown with a long train and a crown of orange blossoms that was matched by her bouquet. 21 OIL CEN l,S '.(ED BY AIR AT I ACKS Mustangs Lash at Brest Belgium Roads Blasted; Warnings Given. London, Aug. 26 (U.R) Some 1500 American planes smashed anew today at oil refineries and synthetic oil centers in the Reich where 21 such targets have been hit in the last 48 hours in a round-the-clock campaign t o leave Nazi motorized forces dy ing of thirst along their routes of escape. Seven hundicd and fifty Fly ing Fortresses and Liberators struck from the. Ruhr valley down into southwest Germany, following approximately 1000 night raiding British bombers which hit five of the great oil centers. American bombers pre viously had hit 16. Plastering their targets in clear weather, the American heavies scored good result. s They met no fighter opposition but flak was moderate to In tense. Escorting Lightnings and Thunderbolts swooped down to rake railroad yards and high ways on a broad belt from Bel gium to Dijon, 150 miles south east of Paris. About 300 Mustang-covered Fortresses lashed at German for tifications at Brest, presaging an i all-out offensive against that im portant port. ' Indications that the Allied air assaults continued into darkness were given In a German radio warning late tonight that Allied bombers were aproachlng Schles-wig-Holjtein in northwest Ger many and a Budapest wireless anonuncement of planes over Hungary. A report from Helslngborg I said a "very large number" of Allied bombers crossed southern Sweden this evening, indicating possible heavy raids on northern Germany. Ti OF Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 27 (U.R) E. H. Crump, Shelby county political leader, today blasted the Republican party, and serv ed warning to officers of the law who divide their duty with busi ness interests, as In case of Con stable Burmah Hobbs, who killed two Ford plant workers at his night club last week. Referring to the republicans. Crump said: "Every presidential year the Republicans arc look ing for the 'Queen Isabella.' They Want money; a lot of It." "The local Republican treas urer said $15,000 of a goal of $45,000 for this district had been raised. At that ratio with 10 dis. tricts in the state, the Republi cans would have $4.r0,000. "There are 48 states and a great many are lager and rich er than Tennessee. The Republi cans are evidently figuring on big money far beyond what the law allows," said Crump. He took a broadside at Carroll T. Reece, congressman from the first district, whom he accused of trying to use the legislature on a questionable power deal; "It was one of the worst grab bills I have ever known of. It was proposed to take over the power business In six east Ten nessee counties, taking all auth ority from the State Public Util ity Commission, setting up their own board as to rates and every thing else. To say it was a grab bill Is putting it mildly." NOPENSIONrCUT Portland, Ore., Aug. 26 U.R) Old age assistance payments will not be In danger of curtail ment If those receiving them arc employed in seasonal or temporary work, the Oregon public welfare commission an nounced today. E Bulgaria Asks Terms, Mar tial Law In Slovakia Hungary Acts. London, Sunday, Aug. 27 (U.R) A Romanian communique quoted by BBC said today that Romanian troops had encircled and were liquidating a powerful German force which had gath ered in the forests outside Bu charest for an attack on the city. The Germans tried to rein force their troops in the Bu charest area with strong forces which crossed the Danube at Girugiu but in a counter-attack the Romanians forced them back across the river. London, Sunday, Aug. 27 (U.R) Adolf Hitler's Balkan front collapsed Saturdny as Bulgaria announced it had asked the Al lied Big Three for peace terms, Romania accepted a Russian ar mistice offer and Hungary and Slovakia were reported bolting the Nazi camp. Hitler, startled by events In Romania which found American bombers supporting the Romani ans In their fight against the Nazis, was reported t o have called a conference of his po litical leaders at his Bcrchtcs gaden retreat in Bavaria, Hungary was said to have frustrated a German coup against the government, execut ing 500 Nazis and clamping 36, 000 Into concentration camps. The Bratislava radio said Al lied parachutists, possibly part of Czech brigades operating with the Russians, had been dropped in Slovakia and that martial law had been declared In that pup pet slate after the parachustists, assisted by local guerrillas, at tacked Slovak troops and police. Slovak Deputy Premier Sano Mach, In a curiously worded broadcast, urged the people "not to betray" the Germans, assert ing that the country had not been occupied (by the Germans) and that if order were kept, guarantees had been given that its freedom "will be left un touched." Developments in the Balkans tinderbox of Europe were reaching a swift climax as the Nazi eastern wall crumbled un der the Impact of Allied diplo macy and Russian arms. E OF By United Press Again official silence shroud ed the exact whereabouts of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army in its advance probings, but authoritative quarters said that German reports of an Allied column having forced the Marne and reached the cathedral city of Reims were 'not Impos sible." (The secret radio, Atlantik, said that some American units had crossed the Marne between St. Dizler and Chaumont, south east of Reims.) Reims is 106 miles from Ger many, 82 miles from Luxem bourg and only 52 miles from the Belgium frontier as well as only 96 miles from Metz by di rect hignway. RULED BY ALLIES By United Press Overjoyed Paris was under the complete control of Allied troops and her citizenry, except for isolated knout of resistance, notably In the Champalgny sec tion, It was announced that a German garrison of 10,000 had surrendered Friday to French armored forccj which entered the city. A Soldier's General On the American Front, Or leans, Aug. 26 (U.R) "About this Patton thing," said Pvt. "Bomb" Baugh of Winder, Ga today, to United Press War Cor respondent Robert Richards. "You can tell the folks back home that as far as we are con cerned, Patton can slap our whole damned regiment, one by one see? He can line us up and knock us in a heap, and we will still bounce along after him. You know why? Because he knows how to fight, that's why, and we like guys who know how to fight." in ON M'KENZIE, IS Eugene, Ore., Aug. 26 (U.R) Former U. S. president, Herbert Clark Hoover, Is perfectly will ing to talk about Oregon's scenic wonders and fishing streams but ho remains silent on the political situation. . Hoover, who Is vacationing at a McKenzle river lodge near Eugene, only once answered a reporter's questions on politics. When told that Lane county Is launching Its Dewcy-Brickcr county-wide organization this week-end and asked if he could give It a word of encouragement, he said, "Mr. Dewey and Mr. Bricker can be elected If the Re publicans work hard." To all other questions his answer was "I have nothing to say about politics. That takes too much time." Mr. Hoover leaves here Sun day for Palo Alto. With him are his younger son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Hoover, and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mattie of San Francisco. TROUBLE WARD AT TULE LAKE EMPTY Newell, Cal., Aug. 26 (U.R) The isolation area for segregat ing trouble-makers In the Tulc Lake center was empty tonight for the first time since it was established last November, the War Relocation Authority re ported. The WRA disclosed that a to tal of 388 men have been In terned In the area for periods ranging from one to 10 months, during the last six months 28 aliens were transferred from the isolation area to the internment camp at Santa Fc, Ariz., which Is under the justice department. Medford Third In Safe Traffic Tests Salem, Ore. Aug. 26 (U.R) Winners In the first half of 1944 In traffic safety competition among Oregon cities were As toria, The Dalles Lebanon and Enterprise, the state department said today. Each one of the cities regis tered the lowest number of traf fic accidents for a city In Its population classification Medford Is In third place among cities of 10,000 popula tion and over. BULLETIN (Night Games) Sacramento 0 5 0 Portland 2 9 2 Fletcher and Steiner; Llska and Norager. San Diego ... ail 1 Seattle 8 15 2 Lucler, Valenzuela (8) and Salkeld; Demoran and Spindel. (Night Game) Washington, Aug. 26 U.R) The New York Yankees picked up a full game on the St. Louis Browns, who lost to Detroit to day, by downing the Washing ton Senators here tonight 10-3. Hank Borowy held the Sena tors in check while his mates battered the offerings of Dutch Leonard and Bill Lefebvre. New York 10 18 0 Washington 3 10 5 Borowy and Garbark; Leon ard, Lefebvre (6) and Ferrell, Evans (8). AMERICANS ROLL1 IN SWF BREAK Plan to Cut Off Enemy Re treat and Join Eisenhow er Army. Allied Headquarters, Rome, Aug. 28 (U.R) The Nazis were In full flight from southern France tonight as American mobile forces rolled up the his toric Rhone valley invasion route to Germany and smashed to within five miles of the Ital ian frontier on the northeast with the capture of Briancon. The swift break into the Rhone valley northwest of Mar seille overran the towns of Avig non, Aries and Tarascon, spot ted along a'20-mile stretch of the cast bank, and headquarters an nounced that the Americans im mediately veered northward with the avowed Intention of joining Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's armies In their march on Germany. (A German broadcast admitted that Col. Gen. Johannes Bias kowitz' southern forces were re treating up the Rhone In an ef fort to get out of southern France and Join the Nazi armies of the north for the final showdown battle before Germany. Berlin said the bulk of Blaskowitz' men had reached the area between Valence, 68 miles north of Avig non, and Lyon, 125 miles north, of Avignon. The enemy claimed, that an American column which, had captured Grenoble was mov ing toward Lyon, 58 miles to tho northwest, to cut across the top of the German road of retreat.) Far behind the 300-mlle front curving up from tho Rhone to near the Swiss border and back to the Mediterranean around Nice, French troops virtually completed their conquest of the great naval base of Toulon after an eight-day siege and continued mopping up Isolated enemy rem nants In Marseille to the west. T SEAT DISCOMFORT Chicago, Aug. 26 (U.R) The) circus may always be the circus, but followers of P. T. Barnum no longer believe in fooling all the people all tho time. Their first step toward a realistic ap proach is going to be Installation, of spllnterlcss, saglcss, commo dious metal seats, as soon as wartime priorities permit. "We've been fooling the fans too long Into thinking they have been comfortable on narrow board seats," an official of Ring ling Brothers. Barnum and Bai ley circus said tonight. "Now we plan to make them so com fortable they will believe any thing " That Isn't all. A fireproof tent, and perhaps alr-conditionlng will be installed as soon as pos sible, to make the greatest show on earth even greater, he said. "Wc want a streamlined cir cus," he said, "but wo also want a completely fireproof one, to preclude occurrence of another disaster such as the fire at Hart ford, Conn., last month." Since tho fire, the circus has given 27 outdoor performances at Akron, Detroit and Chicago, using ballparks, fairgrounds or any other available space. En gagemcnts In small cities which) do not have adequate grand stand facilities have been can celled, but the circus will con tinue Its tcntless travels until November. YANKS HOLD CATHEDRAL Paris, Aug. 26 (U.R) Amer lean troops who entered Paris Friday morning and advanced to the heart of the city, captured the Notre Dame cathedral quar ter, lt was learned today. Salem, Ore. Aug. 26 (U.R) There are 130 fewer private pas senger cars In Oregon now than there were a year ago, figures released today by tho state de partment show.