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4il Weather Forecast: Fair and continued warm tonlfht and Wednesday. Temp. Highest yesterday 98 Lowest this morning 52 Precipitation past H hra, - 9 Use The . MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire r United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1944 NO. 135. at mm bases ffla un E SPEEDY DASH TO Swift Advance Over Historic Ground; Opposition Fee ble as Climax Nears. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 29. (U.R) A rampaging American tank army swept tri umphantly across the battlefields of World War I today, broke through the Marne and Aisne river lines and captured historic Soissons and Chateau-Thierry in a mile-an-hour drive on Bel gium and the German frontier. Racing more than 40 miles east and northeast across fields and farmlands where the AEF of 1918 fought and won the blood iest battles in American military history Lt. Gen. George S. Pat ton's U. S. 3rd army troops col lapsed the entire Marne line al most without opposition and plunged on across the Aisne at Soissons. The enemy fought hard for the Aisne river crossing, but was ridden down and dispersed by Patton's wild-riding armor. Soissons, where the Americans launched their great counter-offensive in July, 1918, fell to a fast-moving tank and infantry column that burst across the Marne west of Chateau-Thierry, Srove through Belleau Wood and Chateau Thierry , and then swung 22 miles north to the Aisne. - On their right -flank, other American armored units swept eastward along the valley of the Marne, driving 15 miles beyond captured Chateau - Thierry to within two miles of Epernay. A supporting column drove along the south bank of the Marne and crossed the river at two points southeast of Chalons, 18V4 miles beyond Epernay, and unofficial reports said the Yanks also had broken into the vital railway hub of Vtry-le Francois, 18 miles southeast of Chalons. Headquarters spokesmen indi cated that the tide of American tanks, troops and guns was sweeping on beyond Soissons and Chalons in a bid to collapse the entire Nazi defense position in northwest France. Barely 25 miles beyond Cha lons, which the Germans said Patton's men had entered, lay the forest of the Argonne. and the Alsace - Lorraine invasion beyond that historic Verdun and road to Germany. Headquarters, announced the; German armies of northern ' France had lost 122,000 killed I and captured in their disastrous I defeat in Normandy, and it was I indicated that the enemy had nothing left to make a stand short of the Siegfried line, on the Franco-German border. Patton's troops were speeding through the broken enemy de fenses as swiftly as on peace time maneuvers, with their rate of advance apparently only wiecKea Dy me moDimy oi ineir supply columns. Berlin commentators said Pat ton had thrown three army corps, totaling 10 divisions pos sibly 150,000 men into the breakthrough north of the Marne, with another three divis ions heading eastward from Troves toward Alsace-Lorraine and the Saar valley. As the American 3rd army struck, British, Canatian, and American units north of Paris surged across the Seine bridge heads, brought the river port of Rouen under rifle fire and sent their tank colomns stabbing; northward for the robot bomb . coast. The Vernon and Mantes bridge heads were linked up, giving the allies a solid 30-mile foothold on the northeast bank of the Seine, and headquarters said armored spearheads had been pushed out 1 1 miles beyond the river to Can tiers. Hundreds of allied warplanes swarmed out through a driving rainstorm to bomb and machine gun the fleeing enemy all along: the 200-mile front from the Seine j estuary to the Troyes area, and , preliminary reports said they spread terrific destruction through the Nazi troop and sup ply columns. New York. Aug. 29 U Do mejtic corporate bonds worked Irregularly lower today. (Acme 'I eleithoto) Mrs. cnarles E. Lee, wile ot an Army private, looks at one oi the four baby boys born to ner in Gainesville Ga, hospital. The quadruplets, weigiuug approximately tnree pounds each, are Kept In the oxjgeu-led Incu bators shown ai leiu are reuorted healthy and normal. Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 29 (U.R) The second of the Lee boy quad- , ruplets born at Hall County hos pital Sunday died today, but hos pital attendants said condition of the other two incubator babies ELK CREEK FIRE INS Largest fire of the season is burning on a privately owned tract of land on Elk Creek, ac cording to the Rogue River Na tional Forest service. The blaze burned over about 100 acres of timbered land before the sup pression crew of 100 loggers, ranchers and forest service men controlled it during the night. This morning a crew of 30 ex perienced fallers went to work clearing out snags at the edge of the tract in order to keep the fire from spreading. The fire was discovered about 4 p. m. yesterday and is thought to have started from tractor log ging operations in the district. Its rapid spread was due to the fact that logging operators have been unable to burn the slash and underbrush in recent weeks, forest officials reported. At the forest service office it was point ed out that a carelessly set for est fire in this instance is not only burning valuable timber but has also slowed down log ging operations over a wide dis trict while the logging crews fight fire. FROM EAST SIDE OF ITALIAN LINE Rome. Aug 29 'U.R) German forces on the eastern side of It aly appeared to have made a general withdrawal northward today as British 8th army pa trols found extensive areas In the southern Apennines unde fended and Polish troops In the Adriatic sector crossed the Ar zilla river to Montcriccardo, only three miles from the enemy's heavily fortified Gothic line. Allied reconnaissance units probing northward found no signs of the enemy In the area between Acqualagna and Urblno, eight miles north, or at Rufina, five miles northeast of Pontas sieve, front dispatches reported. The Polish forces, meanwhile, have cleared the whole south bank of the Arzilla river and have sent lancers In to occupy Monte Giove. three miles south west of the Adriatic coastal town of Fano, as well a Carignano, two mjles northeast of Monte Delia Forche, which was taken two days ago. New York, Aug. 29 AJ.B Cotton futures opened unchang ed to four points higher today. Quadruplets Born to Private's Wife I X. N. J f was satisfactory. The father, Pvt. Charles E. Lee, 25, was due to arrive today on emergency furlough from Camp Blanding, Fla., to see his 23-year-old wife, Mabel Lawson This Is Politics Columbus, O., Aug. 29 (U.R) State Auditor Joseph T. Fergu son today charged Gov. John W. Bricker with "deliberately trying to prevent an honest soldier vote" and said that he would obtain a mandamus ac tion from the Ohio supreme court and the federal court to compel the secretary of state to send a black lead pencil with every soldier ballot mailed out. The black lead pencil issue arose several weeks ago. Elec tion laws provide that Ohio ballots must be marked with black lead pencil in order to be valid. Special soldier vot ing legislation did not amend that provision. FRANCE STALLED Rome, Aug. 29 (U.R) German resistance from Montelimar down through the Rhone valley 77 miles southward to the sea ended save in isolated pockets today as French forces drove across the Rhone river to cap ture the ancient city of Nimes and pressed on toward the Span ish border. While the 7th army troops cleared the Rhone valley and pushed out north and to the southwest, the United Nations radio at Algiers said fighting in southern France had reached the "final stages," and that "there is no front and no line." American troops of the 7th army entered Montelimar, 80 miles south of Lyon, near which the battered German 19th army has been entrapped for more than a week. Leaving behind units to mop up the Germans in Montelimar, the Americans drove on five miles northeast to Sauzct. EX-SEN. NORRIS IS SERIOUSLY ILL McCook, Neb., Aug. 29 (U.R) George W, Norris, 83-year-old former senator from Nebraska, was unconscious today after suf fering a cerebral hemorrhage, according to Dr. E. F. Leininger, his personal physician. Dr. Leininger said Norris was resting comfortably but refused to give details. Two daughters In Washington, D. C, and one In Los Angeles have been called home, lt was reported. Norris, who spent nearly 30 years in the senate, retired to his home here in 1943 after being defeated by Kenneth S. Wherryv GERMAN OFFENSE POWER IN SOUTH Lee. The first quad died last night. The first born, it was the weak est of the three-pound babies and had been given special treat ment. HIT YUGOSLAVIA; London, Aug. 29 (U.R) Ap proximately 750 American heavy bombers from Italy bombed en emy targets in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia today, while other Allied warplanes from Great Britain flew through rain storms to pound German trans port lines from the Seine to the Reich border. Objectives of the Italy-based fleet also included the Tatisana bridge over the Tagliamento river between Trieste and Ven ice, and bridges at Borovnica and Salcano in Yugoslavia. A survey disclosed today, Rome dispatches said, that Amor can bombers, with the help of some British and French air units, had achieved the destruc tion of Toulon, France's greatest naval base, before its capture by ground forces. An estimated 3,000 tons of bombs rained down, on the port by the Allied bombers, with de molitions carried out by the Ger mans, left little of value in the way of harbor installations, the survey showed. The wreckage of scores of ships of all sizes dot the harbor, including the battle ship Strasbourg and the cruisers Provence, Condorcet and Mar scllaise. At least 10 submarines were sunk at their moorings and all submarine pens were destroy ed, the survey showed. COMMITTEE ACTS TO T Washington, Aug. 29 (U.R) Chairman A. Willis Robertson, D., Va., of the house committee on conservation of wild life, said today that an adequate number of rifle cartridges and more than 450,000,000 standard gauge shot gun shells would be available for hunters this fall. He Issued a statement which said the shells would be dis tributed through regular com mercial channels and should supply retail dealers with 62 per cent of their purcha.-es In 1941, the last year of full produc tion for civilian use. Robertson said retailers would be allowed to sell 100 shells to each buyer under price ceilings and that "everyone hopes that the black market scandal which characterized the distribution of j shotgun shells in 1943 can be avoided." No shells may be sold for skeet and trap shooting, he I aid. 1 POWERS AGREE ON 3 General Outline Is Identical With F. D. R. Proposals; China Talks Later. Washington, Aug. 29. (U.R) The chairmen of the American, British and Soviet delegations at the Dumbarton Oaks conference announced today they have reached general agreement on three broad principles for a pro posed international organization for peace and security. At a special press conference in the mansion of the Dumbarton Oaks estate, they announced that a future world organization should provide for: "1. An assembly composed of representatives of all peace-loving nations based on the prin ciple of sovereign equality. "2. A council composed of a smaller number of members in which the principle states will be joined by a number of other states to be elected periodically. "3. Effective means for the peaceful settlement of disputes, including an international court of Justice for the adjudication of justiciable questions, and also the application' of such other means as may be necessary for maintenance of peace and se curity." This general outline of a fu ture world organization was al most identical with that pro posed by President Roosevelt on June 15.t Sir Alexander Cado gan, tho British chairman, an nounced upon his arrival here two weeks ago that there was nothing in the Roosevelt state ment to which his government would take1 exception. Today's statement, In effect, added the approval of the Rus sian government, represented at this conference by a delegation headed by Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko. In a separate statement, the American chairman, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., described the rea sons for secrecy which previous ly had been thrown around the tri-partite discussions at Dum barton Oaks. He pointed out that conversa tions with the Chinese will fol low the current conference and promised that "before any bind ing commitments are made there will be full opportunity for pub lic aiscussion. DEWEY TALKS IN PORTLAND SEPT. 18 Portland, Ore., Aug. 29 (U.R) Republican National Commit teeman Ralph Cake of Oregon has reserved the Portland mu nicipal auditorium for a major campaign speech by Nominee Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for faept. 18, Portland party offi cials confirmed today. Portland, Ore., Aug. 29 (U.R) Republican National Committee man Ralph Cake of Oregon has reserved the Portland Munic ipal Auditorium for a major campaign speech by Nominee Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for Sept. 18, Portland party officials con firmed today. Inquiry has been made about using the outdoor Multnomah stadium and the speech Is ex pected to be broadcast national ly, it was learned. Dewey speaks In Seattle, Wash., on the preced ing night, after visiting In north ern Idaho and Spokane, Wash. He is scheduled to leave for Cali fornia Sept. 20. BASEBALL American (First Game) Boston 8 17 1 New York 18 0 Dreifewcrd and Conroy; Don ald, Zuber, Turner and Garbark. Chicago 0 9 2 Detroit 7 13 1 Dietrich, Wade and Trcsh; Trout and Swift. National Philadelphia 1 6 0 Brooklyn 2 0 2 Schnnz and Peacock; Gregg and Owen. LABOR BALKS AT PAC'S DRIVE FOR GOP Chairman Raps Hill man Plan Says All F.R. Talks Now Political. Chicago, Aug. 29 (U.R) Her bert Brownell, republican na tional chairman, said today that it is significant that the first recognition of the Hillman-Brow-dcr menace comes from within the ranks of labor" and claimed organized labor is rebelling against attempts of the political action committee to raise cam paign funds to elect President Roosevelt for a fourth term. Brownell said that a steel workers union at Gary, Ind., has rebelled against a PAC order as sessing each member $1 for a fund to be used in the national campaign. "Sidney Hillman's honeyed testimony before the house com mittee investigating campaign ex penditures yesterday cannot veneer the fact that his PAC is striving for and getting a stranglehold' on tho New Deal party, Brownell said. "Mr. Hillman will not voice a truer statement in this cam paign than when he told the com mittee yesterday: 'We seek to in fluence thinking, the program and tho choice of candidates.' " Brownell said that he believes every American citizen has a right to contribute to a fund for the party of his choice, but that it is wrong for him to be forced to contribute to a party for which he does not intend to vote. Brownell said the republican national committee has received no reply to Its second request to the radio broadcasting companies for free time on the air to an swer every speech President Roosevelt makes before the elec tion. "Every single speech the presi dent makes between now and election day will be political," Brownell declared. "Since the day he was nominated nt the con vention, ho must be regarded as a campaigner and is striving to be re-elected to office. It would be unfair to give one political candidate free time on the radio and deny it to another." E WITH PRESIDENT UNDER MAGNOLIA Washington, Aug. 29 (U.R) Vice-President Henry A. Wallace conferred with President Roose velt today for tho first time since tho democratic national conven tion rejected Wallace's bid for rcnominallon. , The vice-president told repor ters the meeting was primarily a social luncheon with the Roose velt family, rather than a politl-, cal conference. Lunching with the president and Wallace under a magnolia tree on the south lawn of the White House grounds were the president's daughter, Mrs. John Bocttiger, and two of her chil dren, Anna Eleanor and Curtis, and Miss Margaret Suckley, of Hyde Park, N. Y., a cousin of the president. Mrs. Roosevelt sat with the group a short time. Wallace said ho talked primar ily with Mr. Roosevelt about his recent trips Into New England, Texas and Georgia, reporting on his talks with "a great many mayors" about tho problems to be faced with returning service men and dislocated war workers. He was asked about reports that he planned to trail Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the republican presidential nom inee, who leaves shortly for a campaign swing to the west coast. Wallace said he had not heard of such a plan, then added as an after-thought, "Why trail?" He said he planned some cam paign speeches but that no sched ule bad yet been drawn up. War Bulletins Le Bourget Airdrome. Par Is. Aug. 23 (U.R) The charred hangars and bomb pocked runways oi the great airport where Charles A. Lindbergh completed his trans Atlantic flight in 1927 ere ours today after a suicidal stand by- the German garrson in which more than 200 were mowed down and 150 cap tured by a French armored detachment. London, Aug, 29 (U.R) Two Thunderbolt pilots re ported today that they en countered a German ME-262 jet-propelled fighter near the German border during an at tack yesterday on enemy transport lines in northern France, although no further details were given. Chungking, Aug. 29 (U.R) Japanese forces are coun terattacking against Chinese gaged in diversionary assaults units which have been en at more thsn a score of points along enemy supply lines in the Ichang-Tangyang sectors of Hupeh province, a Chinese communique reported today. L Russians Enter Transyl vania and Capture Brectu Near Constanza. London, Aug. 29 (U.R) The Soviet Third Ukrainian army, operating in conjunction with the Russian Black Sea fleet, has captured the Romanian port of Constanta, radio Moscow an nounced tonight. London, Aug. 29 U.R) The Soviet government has denied "rumors being published In the foreign press" that it has recog nized and approved the neutral ity of the Bulgarian govern ment, Radio Moscow said to night. London, Aug. 29 (U.R) Rus sian forces have broken into Hungarian-occupied Transylva nia nt two points and, to the south, have captured Buzau, only 40 miles from the great Roma nian oil center of Plocstl and 57 miles from Bucharest, Ger man broadcasts conceded today. The German Trnnsocean Agen cy, quoting a Nazi military com mentator, said that Soviet troops and tanks had swept across the Tranxylvaninn border after bursting through the Oltuz and Ghlmrs passes. 27 miles apart In the Carpathian mountains north of Focsanl, Tho Russians already had an nounced the capture of Brectu, nine miles across the border. In an advance through the Oituz pass, but latest Soviet reports had placed the Red army still 13 miles east of Ghimcs pass. north of Brectu. The fall of Buzau on the Ccr-nautl-Pluestl trunk railway, cut the oil pipe line running from Plocstl to the Black Sea port of Constanta, depriving German wareraft and transports In the Black Sea of their main source of fuel. Moscow dispatches said other Soviet artillery, tanks and Infan try were streaming south from newly-captured Tulcca on the Danube toward Constanta Itself, the last sizable Black Sea port In German hands. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mildred Meyers frantically packing household belongings and hoping to procure transpor tation to Walla Walla to join Hubby Dick. Joe Farley receiving a big box of candy In payment for winning a wager. Wayne Jamison parking a truck down town with one or two bundles of salvaged paper In it and returning a few hours later to find eager paper savers had it nearly filled. HOPES FOR BEST IN PEACE TERMS Expert Admits Cause Is Hopeless; Fight On To Break Will Of Allies. London, Aug. 29 (U.R) Lieut. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, official Ber lin radio commentator, told the German people tonight they face a future of desperate fighting solely for the purpose of trying to force the best possible peace terms from the Allies and not with any hope of victory. The line Germany must take. Dittmar said, was aimed at "breaking the enemy's will to destroy us," adding that would be achieved only by fighting un til a point was reached where the Allied peoples would feel that further sacrifices to achieve a complete defeat of the Reich were useless. Dlttmnr'jl nrimlcctnn nt 4). hopelessness of the Naz: situa tion was preceaoa Dy one of the darkest reviews of the war ever presented to the German nation. Dittmar prefaced his admis sion with probably the gloomiest war review that hlq flprmnn m. dience have yet heard from their nome radio. He acknowledged the extent of the Allied victories in north ern France, and then broached tho question of a "deal" with the Allies. ."One . thing Is certain," he said; "we continue in the enor mous struggle. We must con tinue as long as our enemies are maintaining their war aims and as long as reason docs not sub stitute for the desire for de struction." Dittmar said the fighting In northern France reminded him of 1940, except that It was run ning In tho opposite direction. 1 he development of the sit uation In the Dast few weelca may have given rise to the hope among our enemies that their aim of German's military defeat is nearer than about three months ago," he said. "The course of events seems In fact to support, to a large extent, their opinion. We do not hide from the German people the scrimisness of the situation at the present moment." AIR 7:15 TONIGHT New York, Aug. 29 flJ.R) The republican party's presi dential campaign moved Into full swing today, with three governors scheduled to broad cast tonight and three more on Friday night on coast to coast radio networks In behalf of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Governor Earl Warren of Cal ifornia, Dwlght H. Green of Illinois and Raymond E. Bald win of Connecticut will address the nation tonight at 10:15 p.m. (EWT) (7:15 local time) over the blue network. On Friday night, Governors Edward Martin of Pennsylvania, Andrew Schoepel of Kansas and Edward J. Thye of Minnesota will sponk over the National Broadcasting Co. network at 10:30 p. m. (EWT). TAT T Washington, Aug. 29 (U.R) . The public debt exceeded $211, 000.000,000 today, rising to the highest level In history. This was an Increase of more than $63,000 000.000 In the past year. Total spending of $14,900,000, 000 thus far in the fiscal year which began July 1 was more than $1,000,000,000 in excess of spending In the comparable pe riod last year. War spending, the treasury reported, total $13,568 000,000 since July 1, about $751,000,000 more than in similar period last year,
