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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1944
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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
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ALLIED BOB
PLASTER ESCAPE
OF
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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
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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.