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Weathei j' Use The S, Medford Tribune MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Result ' " At SmaU Cost Forecast: Fair and continued warm. Temp. Highest yesterday loo Lowest this mornlnc 57 PreclptuUon past 2s hrt. United Press Full Leased Wire United I o Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1944 A - NO. 134. I mi E T AREA Yankees On Historic Ground Battered Foe In Full Retreat Advance Swift Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 28. (U.PJ Triumphant American troops stormed thru the valley of the Marne today, approaching the historic battle ground of Chateau - Thierry, while a powerful British armor ed force streamed across the Seine above Paris in a double edged threat to the Nazis' robot bomb bases and the borders of Germany itself. The battered German armies of northern France were in full retreat and Nazi reports said one American column had thrust on beyond captured Troyes to reach the Marne at Vitry-en-Francols, 100 miles southeast of Paris and barely 90 miles from the German frontier. As the Americans struck east ward, long lines of British tanks and mechanized infantry swarm ed across the Seine river bridge head at Vernon, 38 miles north west of Paris, and struck out for Fleury, six miles beyond the Seine and 14 miles southeast of Rouen. Other British columns swept across the .Seine in force at Mantes, Elbeuf and a newly-won bridgehead at Louviers, almost midway between Vernon and Elbeuf. Only feeble enemy opposition was encountered by the British spearheads, but headquarters spokesmen warned it was too early to determine whether Hit ler had ordered his troops in the Pas de Calais to hold at all costs or to abandon their flying bomb bases to avoid encirclement. Equally weak resistance met the American columns in their swift thrust up the Marne, and official reports placed the Yank .J,.;.;.. of Chateau-Thierry, barely 30 miles south-southeast of the Forest of Compiegne where the armistice of 1918 was signed and where Germany . imposed her harsh truce of 1940 on beaten France. The most spectacular allied progress in France was that of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tank forces In the Marne valley. Front line dispatches said the Americans In this "third battle of the Marne" were meeting sharp resistance in some places from enemy rear guards num herins ud to 1.000 men but at r most points only handfuls of I Germans barred the way. I Over this historic battle ground, where the Germans were halted in 1914 and broke in 1918 in the second battle of the Marne that preceded the end of the war, the Americans were default. I winning almost by After capturing Meaux, 23 miles east of Paris, they crossed the river and were approaching Chateau-Thierry, scene of mem orable fighting in the last war. Allied headquarters said the Americans had sped on beyond ..ou. ..u. ing more than token resistaneo. and Berlin reported they had reached Vitry, 100 miles beyond Paris and barely 90 miles from the German border. An official announcement said General Patton's men had already captured 65.000 Ger mans and killed 16,000 in the eastern sweep. A "security blackout" barred official news on the progress of the allied forces beyond the Seine bridgeheads, but London! newspapers said the battle of! the robot coast had begun, and one reported the British were 25 miles north of the Seine at an undisclosed point and were headed toward Dieppe. BAB sTcUNTlfTEAST Boston, Aug. 28 Count Kurt Haugwiiz-Roventlow and his 9-year-old son. Lance visited in Newport, R. I., today after re- T. portedly establishing residence March to "Lieutenant" King at in Boston, where the count may Paducah, Ky . today started dl defend the custody suit brought vorce proceedings against her by his former wife and Lance's mother, Woolworth Heiress Bar bara Hutton Grant Troops Get (Acme Kaitio-I eteihoto French troops on the outskirts of Paris get their first welcome from suburban Parisians ana then nrst tlimDse of the famous Eiftel Tower icemen as tney enter city to Help crush last German resistance. SUnaJ Corps raoiu-ieiepiiuto from Cherbourg. POLES SAY NAZIS PLAN MURDER OF Washington, Aug. 2? u.r) ine ronsn government in exne today appealed to allied and neutral governments and to the Vatican to prevent Germany from exterminating a large por tion of the population of War saw "within the next few days." Polish Ambassador Jan Ciec hanowskl delivered the appeal to the state department. It was accompanied by a charge that the Germans "are guilty of an other atrocity, exceeding by far anything they have hitherto done." "The German authorities aim at the extermination of the en llre ,v",Bn rp h , ..m saw' " the ambassador said. "am nnriq nr ine cuv rar All parts of the city captured I and held by the Germans were surrounded by strong military forces and the population of all these districts were deported to Pruszkow, a small industrial town 15 miles southwest of War saw, where a wholesale slaughter camp was installed." GETS LONG TERM Council Bluffs. Iowa, Aug. 28 (U.R) William H. Welch, 19. Riverside. Cal.. who said he used forged documents to pose as a war hero, was arraigned today before U. S. Court Corn- missioner Ralph Ferguson on cnarges or wearing an army oi ficer's uniform illegally. He was arrested at Clarinda, towa, where he visited a prison er ot war camp and demanded salutes from enlisted men. Welch said he had been mos- qucradlng as a second licu,en. for sevclai months, TO OPEN OCTOBER 4 Chicago, Aug. 28 (U.R) The 1944 world series will open at Sportsmen's park, St. Louis, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, Judge K. M. Landis, commissioner of base- ball, announred today after a meeting with lepresentatives of the St. Louis Cardinals of the National league, St. Louis Browns, and Detroit, Boston and New York of the American league. MUCH MARRIED TROOPER Carlyle 111 , Aug. 28 (U.R) Mrs. James C. King, married In soldier husband, A'ho has mar ried four other women and ob tained only two divorces, . First Eyeful of Eiffel V ALLIED BOB PLASTER ESCAPE OF S Bridges And Oil Supply Bases In France, Austria, Hungary Hit London, Aug. 28 U.R) Forces of RAF warplanes crossed the Channel towards the Bou logne and Calais areas tonight, and a short time later the Ger man radio reported planes ap proaching the Reich from the northwest and from the south. London, Aug. 28 (U.R) Hun dreds of Allied fighter planes and fiehter-bombers attacked .German escape routes north ot the Sclne and supp,y routes alnnB the Franco-German border today, while 500 "to 750 heavy bombers from Italy bombed en emy targets in France, Hungary and Austria. Medium bombers from Italy hit bridges in the Lyon area and the Rhone valley, and the heavy bombers attacked an oil refinery 22 miles northwest of Vienna; another refinery on the Danube 50 miles northwest of Budapest, the Avisio viaduct and Ora bridge on the Brenner Pass railway line 30 miles north of Avisio. and railway yards at Miskolcz 100 miles northeast of Budapest and at Szolnok, 55 miles southeast of Budapest. The attack by American and British fighters and fighter bombers on German transport targets was made from both Normandy and England, and In weather which kept the planes almost at treetop height. By noon today the 8th air force, which put 400 fighters into the area of north France, Belgium, Holland and western Germany, claimed 200 locomo tives destroyed or damaged. 200 railway cars destroyed and an other 1000 damaged, and 200 motor vehicles destroyed or damaged. The 8th also claimed damage or destruction of numerous barges, oil tanks, radio and pow er stations. NAVY FLIER KILLED San Francisco. Aug. 28 (U.R) Ensign Carl L. Shanor, 23, was killed Saturday when his Hell cat plane failed to come out of a dive while he was making a glide run on a target In Pyramid Lake, near Fallon Cal., the na vy announced today. SIDE GLANCES I Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Carl Tengwald furnishing the proper spelling of "smorgas-l bord without a moment s hesi tation. Fire Chief Roy Elliott demon- strating the proper procedure for sliding down a fire pole. I Roland Parks lamenting his absence from a "wild west thrill er" at the cinema. Tower -(sr. JCVrW- .vrwssu J8-4' HUMAN MILDLY OF PAD FINANCES Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R). Chairman Sidney Hillman of the CIO political action committee told the house committee inves tigating campaign expenditures today that two ClO-sponsorcd political groups had received voluntary contributions from In dividuals totaling $135,000 with which to pay expenses in connec tion with the November election , and that "if we relied on money , to do our work, we would have scant hope of success." He complained to the commit tee that other political organiza tions were not being subjected to congressional scrutiny siieh as the PAC inquiry, which open ed today with a statement by Chairman Clinton Anderson, D., N. M., that he hoped to get a "full record" of CIO political ac tivities. Reviewing the organization and objectives of the CIO poli tical action committee and the broader national citizens politi cal action committee, both of which he heads, Hillman said he knew of no other pol'tical or ganization "which has so consis tently conducted its affairs in the light of day." He testified that the objectives of the two committee were to place political issues before the public, to encourage the largest possible vote in the 1944 elec tion, and to place the records of candidates before the people. NELSOlSlLICY BACKED BY KING Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) Acting Chairman J. A. Krug of the war production board, In his first appearance in that role be fore a congressional committee, said today he was "in complete accord" with WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson's plans for gradual reconversion of Ameri can industry to civilian produc tion, starting now. The 36-year-old Krug told the senate war investigating com mittee that Nelson's "spot auth orization plan" which provides for resumption of civilian pro duction in areas where man power and materials are avail able is "the best way to get labor and Industry back to civil ian production on a working grass roots basis." BOMBER CRASHES Fairmont Army Air Base, Gen eva, Neb., Aug. 28 iU.RI Eight crew members of a B-17 bomber, assigned to ine tairmoni air base were Klled Saturday when ington, N. M., Col. George A. Blakely, base commandant, an nounced today. SOVIET CAVALRY ENTERS HUNGARY; BALKANS BATTLE Germans Launch Attack On Bucharest Bulgaria Un decided London, Aug. 28 (U.R) Red army troops have broken through the Galati Gap, gate way to Bucharest, and captured Braila, 12 miles south of Galati, Radio Moscow announced to night. London, Aug. 28 (U.R) Soviet cavalry forces drove over the eastern Carpathian mountains through Transylvania and cross ed the Hungarian border today, a Berlin broadcast admitted, while two other Russian armies poured through Galati Gap on Bucharest and Ploesti, where German and Rumanian troops, erstwhile allies, were reported fighting against each other. The German DNB agency ad mitted that Soviet cavalry units had penetrated the Hungarian border at an unidentified point, but claimed that Nazi and Hun garian troops had repelled them and that all the passes in the northern Carpathians still were firmly in German hands. Although Moscow remained silent on the German announce ment, the report indicated that Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian army was mak ing good progress toward a ma jor breach into Transylvania, bone of contention between Ro mania and Hungary since its award to Hungary by German dictate in 1940. London, Aug. 28 (U.R) Adolf Hitler, battling with guns and threats to hold his deserting Bal kan satellites in line, launched a full-scale attack on Bucharest today and rushed his diplomatic trouble shooters to Sofia to block a Bulgarian declaration of war on the rcich. At the same time, signs multi plied that Bulgaria, after break ing with Germany over the Ro manian clash, was on the verge of declaring war against the reich. E HERE IS ALLOTTED $451 Washington, Aug. 28. (U.R) Three federal works agency war public services In Oregon were allotted additional funds to help pay operating expenses through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, the federal works agency announced today. They were: Independence, rec reation facilities for service men, $2455; Medford, child care ser vices, $451; and Milwaukie, child care services, $11,218. Washington, Aug. 28. (U.R) The federal works agency today announced presidential approval of an expenditure of $49,000 for the purchase of the unused Church of the Messiah In Port land, Ore., as a recreational cen ter for the use of industrial workers. KURILES AND YAP GIVEN AIR RAID Pearl Harbor, Aug. 28. (U.R) Army and navy bombers at tacked Onnekotan Island, fifth largest of the Kurile group, starting fires and damaging buildings while other aircraft from Adm. Chester W. Nimltz's command hit Yap in the Caro line islands for the seventh time in eight days, It was announced today. NAB FUGITIVE Philadelphia, Aug. 28-U.R) A man who was identified by police as Lloyd A. Kingsbury, 54, Los Angeles, was arrested here today on a charge of being a fugitive from Justice in California. RELIEF FOR GLUT OPA Bowles Told Early De cision Needed, On Short Portland Stay Portland, Ore., Aug. 28. (U.R) Possible relief in the present northwest market "glut" on lamb appeared in sight today follow ing a "quickie" conference here between representatives of Ore gon's livestock and transporta tion industries, and Chester Bowles, national OPA chief. Bowles, who arrived from San Francisco, allocated three hours between planes to consideration of cases presented, but refused to make any "on the spot decis ions." He said that many prob lems must be approached on a national basis, and promised to "take a good hard look" at the critical lamb surplus situation and contact Washington, D. C, for further consideration of a point holiday or bonus stamp here. E. I. Peterson, director of the state department of agriculture, stressing the need for more inde pendence for local OPA offices, told Bowles that "what we want is somebody who can give us some answers in Oregon." "We need somebody who can say yes or no," Peterson said. Emphasizing tho need for "somebody with authority," Pet erson said: "The way things stand now it constitutes merely a series of meetings and confer ences with no results. If there were officials here with some authority, it would save us a lot of grief and you, too." Bowles replied that because a majority of the problems were national, a "cover-all" policy of administration had to be adopted, and added that "if we let every community make its own decis ions, we'd have a situation like the one in the Balkans." EQUAL BROADCAST TIME PLAN TOLD Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) Acting Secretary of War John J. McCloy said today that he personally made the decision to reverse the army ruling granting the socialist party broadcasting! facilities on tho grounds that President Roosevelt's Bremerton speech was political In nature. McCloy, a republican, said thei liri.t.- tt in ' (diuu xiuuse neiiner expressed any views with respect to the army's original stand nor exert ed any effort to have the de cision changed. McCloy acknowledged that the new plan announced yesterday, whereby equal broadcast time will be allotted to political parties on a schedule, to be an nounced later, avoided any de cision whether the Bremerton speech was political in nature. BY WOOD BULLET Vancouver, Wash., Aug. 28 (U.R) Pfc. James W. Evans of Scdro Woolcy, Wash., a member of the 101st airborne division. Is In Barnes general hospital here recuperating from what Is believed to be a wooden bullet in France on June 11, his wife said here today. Hospital authorities have made no official comment on the case yet, but his wife, here with her husband until he is better, said the bullet was so shredded no attempt could be made to re move it. If the Injury was caused by a wooden bullet, lt will be the first such case known here. RELEASE RAISINS Washington, Aug. 28 U.R) The War Food Administration announced today that It is re leasing approximately 2.500,000 pounds of raisins from govern ment stocks for civilian distribution. War Bulletins London, Aug. 28. (U.R) Twenty six persons were killed today when a plane, be lieved an American Sky Mas ter mail plane from iha Unit ed States, crashed Into a dwel ling at Prestwick, Scotland, Tha victims Included seven crewmen, 14 passengers and five occupants of the demol ished house. Tha plane was understood to have circled twice before it crashed. Prestwick Is one of the world's busiest air junctions and the eastern terminal of the trans-Atlantic ferry route. Paris, Aug. 28. (U.R) French partisans and police, aided by allied troops, searoh ed Paris today under orders to shoot on sight German snipers and armed collaborationists following the death of at least 15 persons in a series of abor tive attempts to assassinate Gen. Charles de Gaulle during a "liberation parade" Satur day. Chungking, Aug. 28. (U.R) American B-24s bombed Amoy harbor on China's Fu kien coast and attacked Jap anese supply lines and Instal lations from Changsha to Hengyang on the Canton-Hankow railroad In widespread weekend operations which cost the 14th air force one plane. It was announced to day. By United Press The Japanese Dome! News Agency, reviewing the last American B-29 Super-Fortress raid on Kyushu, today paid special tribute to two naval filers named Osaki and Endo, who. It said, shot down three B-29s and damaged two others In that attack. PAPER DRIVE IN COUNTY TO OPEN T Wednesday of this week has been set as opening day of the paper salvage drive and the old Chamber of Commerce building on Main street near the railroad tracks is to be used as a collec tion depot according to Wayne Jamison, county salvage chair man. Everyone who can Is asked to bring their salvaged paper to the building, which will be open from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., with members of the city police force having charge of the building during the drive. Mr. Jamison states that lt is most Important that the paper be properly bun dled for ease In handling and to save space. Newspapers are to be laid flat, in the manner In which they are sold, and tied in bundles about 12 inches high. Magazines and books should be bundled about 18 inches high and securely tied. Cartons should be flattened out and tied In bundles. Waste basked paper, consid ered the least acceptable because of Its comparative bulk, may be packed tightly into cartons and' tied. It is stressed that these dif ferent types of paper should be tied separately, and not mixed up. Boy Scouts are to assist with the paper drive, Mr. Jamison suites. BULLETIN Chicago, Aug. 28 (U.R) By ron Nelson, playing for his third all-American open champion ship, shot a thrce-under-par 33 today for the first nine of the fourth and final round and gain ed one stroke on the field. Teeing off with 211 strokes for 54 holes, the Toledo, O., pro fessional fired his best single nine of the tournament as Har old (Jug) McSpaden and Cpl. Buck White, shot 37 tnd 34, re spectively to lose pace. They started out tied for second with 213 strokes apiece but White lost one stroke and McSpaden four as Nelson apparently was headed for a new all-time money winning mark of $25,468 in one year. New York, Aug. 28 (U.R) Cotton futures opened 4 to 8 point higher today, AMERICANS TRAP , 15,000 NAZIS ON OF RHONE Death Or Capture Await Nazi Horde In South Advance Swift Home, Aug. 23 (U.R) Arm ored patrols of the 7th army have reached the Swiss fron tier three miles south of Geneva, the Canadian service newspaper. Maple Leaf, said today, without quoting the source of its Information. Rome. Aug. 28 (U.R) Ameri can tanks and artillery, racing more than 50 miles overland in to the Rhone valley, closed be hind the beaten remnants of tha German 19th army at Montell man today and turned a murder ous fire on some 15,000 Nazis trapped against the east bank of the Rhone. With their bridges across tha broad Rhone cut by Allied bomb ers, the Slirvlvnra nt 41,. laiu army faced Imminent death or capture Detween the converging gUnS Of thA tvialn AM-l y ...Mi.. muciii;aii forces moving up from Avignon iiu ino enveloping column at Montellmar, halfway between the Mediterranean coast and Lyon. Headquarters spokesmen, who previously had Issued an am blguously worded statement in dicating that 15,000 Germans were killed, wounded, or cap tured Jn the new. American stroke, explained that that fig ure referred to the number of Germans now pinned against tha Rhone river. The trap was sprung by a strong armored force that swept into Montellmar after a secret forced mnrrh Grenoble highway more than 50 mnes to me east. The battered NnW the east bank of the Rhone, raced into Montellmar to find the Americana rB-1v Oni tarn 1 4 Ing. Front dispatches said the startled Hprmnni tnU the river edge and braced for a acom Dattie against the Ameri cans rlnslnff arAiinil (ham Throughout yesterday. United i-russ var uorrosponaent Dana Arlnm Krhmlrlf rnnnrln Am.!- con guns poured a deadly firs into the cornered pnpmv. American riflemen and hun dreds of warplanes Joined In that slaughter and casualties among the Nazis were described official ly as "enormous." Among the already-decimated German units brought to bay against the river banks were elements of the 11th panzer and 198th Infantry divisions, possib ly reinforced by troops from three other divisions. ODT OPPOSED TO LABOR DAY TRIP Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) The Office of Defense Trans portation today predicted un precedented Labor Day traffic and urged prospective train and Intercity bus travelers to "can cel their plans unless their trips are directly connected with the war." "Only actual service with the armed forces or business directly connected with the prosecution of the war Justify taking up space on trains at this time, since the railroads of the country, taken altogether, have now reached the full limit of their capacity to carry passengers," ODT Director J. Monroe John son said. PACK MULE INSPECTION Elko, Nev., Aug. 28 4U.R) Gov. E. P. Carvillo and a pack train was well embarked on his annual Inspection tour of the range areas of the Ruby moun tains. AIR SCHOOL ABANDONED Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) The war department announced today that the Cal-Acro Flight school, Ontario, Cal., will be abandoned by the AAF on Sep tember 11.
