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Weather Use The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Smalt Cost MEDFORD Tribune Forerait: Clear Sundav and Monday. Temp. Illchest yesterday S3. 9 Lowest hli morning: . 41.4 Precipitation past 24 brs. w 0.0 United Press Full Leased Wire "d Preu Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1944 NO. 139. M 1MB mi 1EICH FRONTIERS IS Lorraine Evacuated Before Patton Drive British Close To Calais. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sunday, Sept. 3 (U.R) American armored columns have driven across the Belgian border, front dispatches said early to rfnv. n Berlin rpnnrtpd nnnthpr 1 U. S. tank force has speared to Thioville on the Moselle river. only 11 miles from the German frontier. The mystery radio station, At lantic, said that Allied troops had crossed the German and Luxembourg frontiers as well as into Belgium, but there was no substantiation of the report. Front dispatches to the ex change telegraph reported to night that the Americans had crossed the Belgian border at Maubeuge, France, and near Tournai, 45 miles southeast of Brussels, and that the enemy re treat northward was completely disorganized. Lorraine residents are being evacuated from villages in the old Maginot line along the route of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army advance, a Berlin broadcast said. The Yanks swept into Belgium after seizing the frontier forts of Hirsun, Sedan and Charleville in the Maginot line.front reports ', said, and other" Allied columns were driving up to the border on a 100-mile front. Abbeville, channel port where German armor burst through to the sea in 1940, fell to a Canadian column which had mopped up al most half of the robot bomb coastt, and American troops en tered Compiegne after fighting through the "Armistice forest" to the south. Lt. Gen. Courtney Modges' 1st army also captured the famous world war landmark of St. Quen tin, 37 miles southeast of Arras, where the Germans launched their last great juggernaut of fensive in the spring of 1918. German broadcasts said that still another column reached Longwy, two miles from the frontiers of the tiny duchy of Luxembourg and 16 miles from ' Luxembourg city as the Allies harassed the retreating remnants of the German armies in France along a 250-mile front. The British Second army swiftly brought up the left flank of the front, pounding in three powerful columns into the rich industrial area of France's Nord department in gains up to 15 miles that took them within 15 miles of Belgium. . Overrunning V 1 m y ridge, where Canadian troops fought one of their bloodiest battles in the last war, the British cap tured Douai, Lens, Pernes and , Cambigneul and drove within 14 miles of the great textile center of Lille. 39 miles' of Calais and 35 miles of Dunkcrque's his toric beaches. Climaxing a 60-mile march up from Rouen, the Canadian First army seized three Somme bridges nt Abbeville which the Germans in their rushed retreat had left intact, completing the isolation of German garrisons and robot bomb crews in the Le Havre and other areas by-passed in the ad vance. (BBC said the 51st Canadian Highland division had captured, St. Valcry on the Somme Es- tuary west of Abbeville where, the same outfie made a gallant i rear-miard stand in 1940. losing: two brigades.) The Canadians also occupied, the Port of Etretat, 12 miles, north of Le Havre, and the in- land towns of Bolbec, Yvctot and , Fauville-en-Ccaux. midway be- twecn Etretat and Dieppe. Labor Crisis Hits Grants Pass Area Grants Pass. Ore.. Sept 2 UP'Evcry able-bodied person in the Grants Pass area has been asked to help in the harvesting of the remainder of the district s $1,500,000 hop crop, farm labor officials announced today. The crop is now threatened with loss due to lack of pickerj. Col. William S. Biddle Decorated I II 11 yi-myii mim w --r-- , ... claim - wrafe. mm PW&mn fir WW m : : Col. Biddle. nephew of Mrs. Gordon Voorhies of Eden Valley Orchard, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action in France. He previously won the Bronte Star for mechanized training skill. His mother, Mrs. Margaret Biddle of Portland and Chiloquin, is a frequent visitor here. IN LONDON GAVE State Department State ment Reveals Most Fa mous Spy Case of War. Washington, Sept. 2 (U.R) The state department, for the first time revealing details of one of the most famous spy cases of this war, disclosed to tiinhf that whpn Tvler Kent. young code clerk in the Amer-1 ican embassv at London, was : . . . i i ...hi, i arrested in imu ne nau wuu him ' 1500 embassy documents, many of them highly secret. A 2000 - word department statement also reported it had been established definitely that Kent had transmitted some of the papers to a German agent. It revealed that at the time of his arrest, he had in his posses sion two newly-made and unau thorized duplicate keys to the embassy's index bureau and code room. Kent, a 22-year-old native of Washington, is serving a seven vpnr snntrnre in a British Dris- on and faces the possibility of further prosecution Dy ine uim ed States when he is freed The state department had been criti cized in some quarters for waiv- tntf Knrti'a Hinlnmntie immunity so that he could be tried in Brit ish courts. Apparently answering those critics, the department said Kent "displayed a snocKing aisrcgara for every principle of decency and honor so far as his obliga tions toward the United States were concerned." ELITElAOF By United Press The OWI Saturday quoted two travelers who arrived In Switzer land from Berlin as saying that German military reverses have caused a fissure within Heinrich Himmler's Elite guards many of whom arc taking out post-war "Insurance" by performing fav ors for their political opponents. "The belief that the Elite SS troops are universally behind Himmler is absurd," one ob server said. "When the show down comes, the SS will fall to pieces." ENEMY SHIPS SUNK London. Sept. 2 'UP) Allied coastal force, continuing to blockade French channel ports threatened by onrushir.g British and Canadian troops, sank three pnemv vessels last nicht and to day as they attempted to squeeze. through the naval patrol and reach northern havens. -.1., , -i. BULLETIN Portland, Ore., Sept. 2 CU.R) Two home runs tonight gave the Portland Beavers a 2-1 vic tory over the San Diego Padres, with the final four-base rap breaking up the ball game in the lOtrt inning. Ted Gullic clouted the first homer into the left field stands in the second inning while Buddy Gill homered into right field for the deciding run. San Diego, after trailing score less until theninth inning push ed over a tying run when Lazor was doubled home by Vazelich. Lucier limited the Beavers to five hits while the Pedres touched Cohen of Portland for eight hits. Outstanding fielding behind Cohen kept San Diego from capitalizing on several scoring opportunities. Each team committed one error. Portland almost came back in the lost half of the ninth to win but O'Ncil was tagged out between second and third to snuff the rally. Score: San Diego 1-8 1 Portland 2 5 1 Lucier and Salkeld; Cohen and Adams. E STREET PROPERTY Purchase of the three lots on the corner of Sixth and Grape streets now occupied by the for mer Maid-Hite Sandwirh shop and the Groceteria parking lots has been announced by A. Z. (Tubby) Dean and Mrs Dean. The three lots were purchased from Edgar G. Whiteside. Med ford, and Ward E. Whiteside, Portland, of the Whiteside Es tate, and the transaction was handled bv the Harold H Brown acency. Mr. Dean stated. The Whitesides had owned the proocrty for 56 years. Mr. Dean, who has been In the automobile and automobile supply business In Mcdford for the past 17 years, states that he will erect a super-service station on the site as soon as materials can be obtained after the war. The dealer added that his de cision to build the station was materially influenced by the In creasing popularity of Pontiac cars, which he handles. Mr. Dean's present station is located on Sixth and Grape, di rectly across the street from the newly purchased lots. MILES TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines: Northern France 395 ' miles (from point east of Ver dun. Gain of 95 miles In week). Southern France 580 miles 'from point near Voi ron. Gain of 10 miles in week). Italy 565 miles (from point northwest of Pctaro. -tr .- itWil -" I - 4 Served 40 Years In Con gressFinal Rites Will Be Held Tuesday. McCook. Neb.. Sept. 2 (UK Former Sen. George William Norris, one of the nation's most distinguished statesmen, died to night after suffering a cerebral hemorrage and parlytic stroke Tuesday. He was 83 years old. Dr. F. W. Shank and Dr. E. F. Lciningcr, who attended the senator in his fatal illness said he died at 5:05 p? m., CWT. Norris, known as "father of the TVA," was stricken Tuesday in the little stucco home where he had lived since he was de feated in his bid for a sixth term in the senate to which he was elected after having served 10 terms in the house a total of 40 years in congress. He was the last of six senators who voted against American en try Into the first World War. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Monday at the Mc Cook Congregational church. The rites will be conducted by the Masonic lodge of McCook. Norris, who was known" as the "great Insurgent," served In con gress, beginning In 1902 when he was elected to the house, and ending In 1942. when he was de feated for re-olection to the sen ate by Kenneth S. Wherry. For 33 years he was a Repub lican, but for the last six he was an Indenendent He achieved his first national prominence in his fight against what he claimed was the one-man rule of the house of representatives by Speaker Joseph Cannon, a bat tle he won in 1910. His battle against "Cannon ism" led to his election to the senate in 1912. In the upper chamber. Norris aligned himself with Sen Robert M. LaFol lette. Sr., and became one of President Wilson's "little group of willful men," who defented the war president's bill to arm American merchant ships. During his long years In con gress he attained a hich record for constructive, liberal legisla tion, the most notable of which was the Tennessee Valley Au thority bill, which he sponsored. OPA AIDE RESICNS Portland Ore., Sept. 2 (U.R) Earl Hald, OPA price specialist, has resiened to accept a posi tion with the Fedpral Reserve Bank at San Francisco, It was announced todav by the district OPA chief. NO PAPER MONDAY There will be no issue of the Mail Tribune tomorrow (Monday) cn account of Labor Day. In tc-erdance with long established tustom and to give employes a brief vacation. EUROPE WAR ENDS IN 60 DAYS, POLL BY PARRES SHOWS Official Exiled Regimes Ex pect To Be Back Home Christmas. By John A. Parrls London, Sept. 2 (U.R) The Nazi regime which Hitler boast ed would last a thousand years will crumble within 60 days, and the war in Europe will end then. This is the concensus of high est officials of eight exiled Gov ernments as American, British and Russian armies approach the borders of Germany at the be ginning of the sixth year of the war. The officials with whom I talked Including prime minis ters, foreign ministers and war ministers decided to permit the use of their names on the grounds they were not necessar ily speaking for their govern ments, but that their opinions were representative. They all expressed the firm belief that they will be in their l respective countries not later than Christmas and disclosed they already have made their plans for leaving. Without breaking a confidence I can disclose that Dr. Edward Benes, president of Czechoslo vakia, believes the war may be over in Europe as early as the first of October. As long ago as April Benes predicted Germany would collapw) within three months after the Allies liberated a substantial part of occupied territory. Jan Masaryk, Czech deputy premier and foreign minister and one of the best informed ! foreign diplomats in London, ex plained he is "not much for prophesying, but I think It is only a matter of weeks until the curtain falls. Czech, Belgian, Greek, Dutch and Yugoslav government of ficials said they were prepared to return home at a moment's notice. TOKYO 11 ISLES UNDERWAY By United Press Pacific fleet headquarters re ported Saturday that a navy search plane, attacking a con voy of five vessels in the Vol cano Islands, sank one cargo vessel and damaged another Thursday. Other navy planes continued attacks on Yap Nauru and remaining enemy positions in the Marshalls and the Marl anas. Japanese announcements Sat urday said that Chichi Jima in the Bonin islands, little more than 600 miles southeast of Tokyo, had been attacked by warships and planes. The enemy broadcast, reported by the FCC, indicated that the action might not yet be completed, saying that Japanese forcc "are coun terattacking." The attacks were made Thurs day and Friday, according to German broadcasts heard by the United Press in London and Japanese broadcasts recorded by the FCC. "Enemy" warships, the broad casts said, shelled Chichi Jima Friday, and about 100 carrier based pintles bombed it the same day while others attacked Iwo Jima in the volcano group south of the Bonins. A German broad cast quoted a Japanese front cor respondent who described the at tacks as a "major American op eration." Chichi and Haha Jima In the Bonins and Iwo also were bomb ed Thursday, the Japanese broadcasts continued. Tokyo ac counts said that "some 40 fight ers and bombers raided Chichi, seven attacked Haha and 80 ap peared over Iwo." The Japanese Domel News Agency said about 40 I! 24 Liber ator br riberi attacked Davao at midday Friday, PARIS TARGET OF WEAPONM Pick-a-Back Planes Fall In London Damage Both Cities Light. London, Sept. 2 U.R) The Germans sent flying bombs hurling into the Paris area for the first time last night, caus ing some damage, while a new secret weapon launched against England a "pick-a-back" robot plane launched from an ordi nary, piloted aircraft was offi cially pronounced a failure. The exact location of the Paris area attacked by the flying bombs was not announced as the Germans sighted their bombs on the newly liberated French cap ital as well as England in an at tempt to expend them before all their launching sites are lost to the Allied advance. The newest weapon directed against the London area was de scribed as two planes in one, controlled by a single nilot. who cuts loose the under craft with I its load of explosives over the target area. The so-called "pick-n-back" plane, composed of an obsolete Junkers-88 bomber and a ME-109 fighter plane, was said by Al lied pilots to be a "sitting duck" target in the air, and ground de fense forces pronounced it an easy objective for ack-ack guns. Its speed was estimated at 150 I miles an hour, or less than halt of that of the V-l flying bomb, and its alining possibilities were said to be no better than those of the robot bomb. Aviation experts described the new weapon as an obsolete bomber on whose top the fighter plane is mounted. The fighter plane has complete control of the under-plane's engines and controls and actually flies both planes. The bomber Is loaded with two to four tons of explo sives and is cut off by the fighter pilot near the target area. Its controls are set for a glide to the target and it was surmised In some quarters that it was ra dio controlled. Two of the new weapons struck in southern England last night, causing some damage, it was announced, but not In thickly populated or vulnerable areas. F E London, Sept. 2 (U.R) Fin land abandoned Germany to- night, announced it had asked Russia for an armistice and had demanded and received Ger many's agreement to wihdraw all Nazi troops from within Fin nish borders. Faced with an Impossible mili tary situation. Premier Antti U. Hackzell. after days of frantic maneuvering, announced over the Finnish radio that his coun try, rejecting the German Fin nish agreement concluded by former Premier Rlsto Rytl "now has taken the first step toward a return of peace." "Many German forces no longer believe In vlrtory," Hack zell said. "Therefore, a new phase has begun In German Finnish relations." The premier said the Soviet offensive launched In June had forced withdrawal of Finnish troops from forward positions and that "the military situation has also become worse for Ger many." As the premier spoke, the Hussion Juggernaut was inexor ably eating Into Finnish ter ritory, but many observers be lieved that Premier Joseph Stal in had deliberately slowed the pace of the offensive to give the Finns time to make up their minds. While Germany wanted Fin land to remain at war, Hackzell said, "It was not possible for Germany to give us sufficient help." War Bulletins Allied Supreme Headquar ters, London, Sept. 2 (U.R) The German garrison on Ce sembre Island off the harbor of St. Malo in Brittany has surrendered, it was announced tonight, ending a siege of more than three weeks. The Island was the last Ger man stronghold blacking the use of St. Malo harbor. Ger man troops in the garrison had resisted all Allied at tempts to obtain their surren der, and had retreated deep into caves in the island rocks to avoid air bombardments which had shaken the island for the past week. By United Press The American broadcast ing station in Europe, quoting an Algiers dispatch said Sat urday that Gen. Henri-Honor Giraud, former commander-in-chief of French forces was in jured slightly when a Sene galese soldier fired at him. The broadcast, recorded by OWI, said the shooting was an accident but gave no details. E SOVIET ADVANCE London, Sept. 2 flJ.R) The Bulgarian home radio reported tonight that a new Bulgarian government had been formed, with a premier believed to be "satisfactory" to the Allies, in dicating an early resumption of peace negotiations at Cairo which were interrupted by the resignation of Premier Ivan Bagrianov. The new premier, described In a Berlin broadcast as "leftist" and therefore presumably friendsly to the Russian govern ment as well as the Allies, was Identified as Kosta Muraviev, former minister of war, who was In the cabinet that accepted the Versailles treaty for Bulgaria. London, Sunday, Sept. 3 (U.R) Russian troops, adding their menacing weight to Bulgaria's internal crisis, reached the 1940 border of Bulgaria along a 72 miles front between the Danube and the Black sea yesterday, while Moscow revealed that So viet forces had killed or captured more than 318,600 enemy troops In Romania. While the Soviet Information bureau revealed that Adolf Hit ler had suffered a 12-day dis aster approaching that of Stalin grad in Romania, Moscow dis patches reported that onrushing Soviet spearheads had driven to within 100 miles of Yugoslavia toward a Junction with the par tisan armies of Marshal Tito. Berlin nt the same time indi cated that the battles for East Prussia and Warsaw were blaz ing anew as the Red army re portedly drove deeply Into Nazi lines befoe the eastern border of East Prussia and threw some 450,000 men into the struggle for the Polish capital. T IN SOUTH FRANCE 14 MILES OF Rome, Sept. 2 (U.R) Four Allied armored spearheads, clos ing to within 14 miles of Lyon after a sensational 34-mllo ad vance In 24 hours up both sides of the Rhone river, tonight threatened from three direc tions the dismembered German 19th army's main escape route from southern France. Although tonight's communi que limited Itself to placing the Allies south of Lyon, unofficial sources here were confident that American troops were far beyond the city and that nu merous other towns many miles beyond the ofricially-designotcd front already had been cap tured. In a new spurt of power which has carried them more than 180 miles into France in 17 days, despite rains for the past 48 hours. NEW DEAL LACKS PEACE JOBS PLAN Leaders Critical While FDR, Perkins and Dewey Laud Strife Within. . Washington, Sept. 2 (U.R) Labor Day tributes to the war production record of American workers were punctuated to night with sharp criticism of federal wage restrictions, com plaints that the government Is not taking adequate steps to as sure postwar jobs, and con tinued intra-labor wrangling. President Roosevelt, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and leaders of organized labor all praised the country's war work ers in statements anticipating the 50th annual observance of Labor Day on Monday. But George Meany, secretary treasurer of the American Fed eration of Labor, declared that "of realistic, practical action to guarantee that war's end will not mean widespread unemploy ment there has been scarcely any." "Coupled with our feeling of joy at the progress of the United Nations," he said, "is a feeling of profound concern at the al most total failuro to date on the part of Industry and govern ment to do anything more than talk about the problem of giv ing decent jobs in the days of peace to the many millions of ex-servicemen and ex-war work ers." The United Mine Workers journal, complained that "tho administration has no announced plans for reconversion to peace time economy" and that "tho President has shied away from intervening in the controversial unemployment payments" issue before congress. AFL President William Green warned that Allied victory "must be the forerunner of finer things to come, the begin ning of a new era of world peace in which all the people of the world will be able to grow and expand and prosper in any environment of friend ship and security." Dewey, the republican presidential candi date, said the country must make certain "thot by next La for Day there will be an end to wartime restrictions which have been imposed upon labor." He warned that those restrictions "could destroy the Institution of a free American labor move ment and totally end the right of collective bargaining." Mr. Roosevelt took the posi tion that "our immediate job is victory" and that the difficult problems of transition from war to peace would be faced "once the forces of tyranny have been overcome." Meanwhile, the nation's lead ing labor organizations con tinued at odds among them selves. John L. Lewis' UMW attacked the CIO, AFL and rail road brotherhoods for doing "nothing more than denounce" the little steel wage ceiling for mula. By United Press The German high command said that Marshal Konslantin K. Rokossovsky's 1st White Rus sian army had renewed break through attempts northeast of the Polish capitol, nnd that more than 30 Russian infantry divis ions, perhaps 450,000 men, were attacking between the Bug and the Narew rivers In an attempt to outflank tho embattled capital to the north. Several Russian tank forma tions and hundreds of planes were taking part In tho battle to capture Warsaw nnd free the fourth European capital from Nazi tyranny. The Germans, however, aided by 12 tank di visionsthe greatest concentra tion of enemy armor fighting on any front
