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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1944
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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,