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United Press Full Leased Wire
Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1944
NO. 133.
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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
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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.