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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1944
NO. 139.
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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
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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 :
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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.
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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.
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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