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RUSSIAN OFFENSE Moscow. Eept. 5--flJ.R) Pow erful Red army forces drove to within 22 miles of East Prussia's southern frontier today in a full scale offensive that breached the heavily-fortified Narew riv er line and threatened to split the entire Nazi front covering both Warsaw and the eastern most province of Germany. At the southern end of the long eastern front, Soviet troops stormed and captured Brasov, gateway to the Transylvanian plains leading northward to Hun gary, and struck west and south west of Bucharest to within 124 miles of Yugoslavia. Col. Gen. Georgi Zakharov's 2nd White Russian army opened the new offensive against East Prussia along a 35-mile front southwest of Lomzha and drove a deep wedge into the German lines. Attacking behind a thunder ous artillery barrage, infantry men fought through a maze of minefields, barbed - wire and trench barriers and forced a crossing of the Narew in the Os troleka area, 21 miles southwest of Lomzha and 61 miles north northeast of Warsaw. More than 100 towns and vil lages fell as the drive swept five miles beyond the Narew into Nowawies, 2 miles below the East Prussian border. LST Serves as Portable Landing Strip IS-- A 1 1 n 4W 4 . ' ,8 4 (Acme Telpphmnl Equipped with B portable landing strip, this Coast Guard-manned LST serves as a baby aircraft carrier, dis charging ana receiving airplanes In Invasion operations. This Is the first photo of newest feature of the hard-working, versatile craft In action, launching one of the eight planes it carries. Coast Guard photo SAN MO ACTS 10 With the Eighth Army Before San Marino, Sept. 5 (U.R) The ancient Republic of San Marino mobilized its entire army of 300 today to man its border defenses as the Italian war came closer to the boundaries of this little known state. San Marino, a 36 square-mile neutral country is six miles in land from Rimini on the Adria tic coast. It is the oldest state in Europe and with the Allies about to chase the Germans around the little country, its government Is taking precautions. In order to discourage the Ger mans or the Allies from using their country for the transport of troops, the San Marinesl have torn up the railroad running through their country. rjofl Mill Tribune Want Ada. Wilfred E. Finney, long time resident of Jackson county, pass ed away Saturday, Sept. 2, at the age of 89. He was born in Harri son county, Ohio, April 3, 1855. Coming west 70 years ago, he ! settled at Forest Grove, Oregon, and six years later was married there to Lottie Shearer, who sur vives. From Forest Grove they moved to Washington, and in 1900 came from Puyallup to Jacksonville where they have continued to reside. I Mr. Finney by trade was a car penter and millwright. He is the last of a family of 12 children, ten brothers and one sister. Besides his wife, he leaves one son, Robert N. Finney, both of Jacksonville. Funeral services were held In the Conger-Morris chapel, 1 p. m. Tuesday with Miss K. Hutchings officiating and interment was in the Jacksonville cemetery. The Bank of Nova Scotia was founded in 1832. 080 Mall Tribune Want Ada. Famed Yesteryear Figures Pushed Aside By War Events By Dudley Ann Harmon United Press Staff Correspondent London (U.R) Where are the men and women cf yester year? What's happened to these once-famous statesmen David Lloyd George, Leon Blum, Juan Ncgrin, Alexander Kerensky? Where is Genevieve Tabouis, famous French journalist, who Hitler said, knew more about his plans then he knew himself? Once these were headline names in Paris, London, Wash ington, Geneva and Buenos Aires. Then came war. Twilight fell on Nazi-captured Europe. Some of these men were imprisoned. Others were exiled. All the names disappeared from the front pages. Few were as fortunate as Llcyd George, of whom Hitler said, "He won the last war." Of all the famous ex-statesmen, Britain's prime minister of the other war is almost alone in enjoying a peaceful life. Today he is 81 years old. He is still a Member of Parliament, though he rarely attends ses sions.' Today he puts Into fruit farming the same zeal with Cherbourg , Guam , or Main Street, U.S.A. fp 'i lfi the Pacific Islands, on board ship, in alticd-controtled Europe, and in the United Slates ... wherever there are Army Post Exchanges, Canteens, or Ships Stores . . . you'll find American soldiers and sailors, American commodities and National Cash Registers, The officers in charge find it important to protect the receipts in these stores, for the profits are added to entertainment funds of units in the various locations. So they use National Cash Register Systems just as the retail merchants in your own shopping area. Each must give good service, protect their money, and get controlling records . . . and Nationals provide all these fundamental ele ments of a good business system. Serving ih Nation by Saving 71m. This is on of the many mechinical systems built by National to speed record keep ing, protect money, and save vital man-hours for bminew, industry, government, and the public. Accounting-Book keeping Machines are available through priorities. epfitimal Cmth Rfefrs . AccoMnMftf-BoofcJtaapJng MaeAffMt which he served Britain. He bought three derelict farms, threw them together, and made them pay. He Is both a great grand father and a bridegroom. Last autumn he married Frances Ste venson, the brilliant woman who was his secretary for 30 years and who helped him com pile his "War Memoirs." They live in Surrey, and Lloyd George preaches a doc trine of happiness on the land. Occosionnlly he comes to London to lunch and argue with his successor in this war, Win ston Churchill. Once in a while he writes a preface for a friend's book. Occasionally he and his wife put on a marionette show for evacuated slum children living in their neighborhood. Lloyd George still enjoys tre mendous prestige in Britain. On his last birthday the flood of letters and telegrams, headed by one from the King and Queen, was as heavy as ever. Another ex -premier, Leon Blum of France, is less fortu nate. He is a prisoner of the Germans but reports say a well-treated one living in a lodge in a forest deep in Ger many. With him is George Man del, minister of the interior when France fell. As Jews, they are segregated from the other distinguished French prisoners Reynaud, Daladicr and Gam clin. Blum Is reported to be well treated nnd to keep "the same unflinching spirit as of old." Several months ago his captors permitted him to marry again. His bride, the former Mme. Jeanne Reichcnbach, widow of a French lawyer, is allowed to live with him. Statesmen who have another interest outside of politics are to be envied in these precarious days. Juan Negrin, one-time Republican premier of Spain, has reverted to his former call ing, biology. He is working with the distinguished English scienti, Dr. J. B. S. Haldane, and the two made Important discoveries on air conditions in submarines, for which Negrin was congratulated by the Ad miralty. He risked his life in carrying out these experiments. Ncgrin has nn understanding with the Britith that he will not engage In political activity while here. He lives quietly in the country but comes to town several times a week for lunch or dinner. Friends of his say that he has announced that should he be called back to Spain he will make way almost immediately for younger men. Genevieve Tahouls, famous political columnist for Paris dallies, has transferred her prog nostications to New York. There she edils the French weekly "Pour la Victoloe" in collabor ation with Henri dc Kcrellis, former reputy and famous anti Munichitc. Mme. Tabouis has established T52 Ovr hefory at Daylon, OMo, proudly tint th Army Navy ''" with four tfart 'or "unnaiing " in fha production of prttnion Inttrvmontt and otr war mottritl. The National Cash Register Company 16 South Fir St., Medford Telephone 2015 USED CARS Medford', Largest Buyer Pay, Highest Trices CASH AT ONCE "If it rum we'll buy if" HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 S. Rivenide. Dial 4980 it: in Tnlted States the same con tacts in high places which help ed to make her well known in Paris. She is a close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt and a frequent visitor at the White House. Her paper was pro-dcGaulle until shortly after the American land ings in North Africa. Since then it has attacked the general as a dictator. Another former celebrity, whose exile promises to be per manent, is Alexander Kerensky,' head of the Russian Provisional Government between the fall of the Czar and the reign of the Communists. The years have led him from that position of supreme au thority to a simple farmhouse in a small town in Connecticut. With him is his wife, the daugh ter of an Australian industrial ist, whom he married several years ago. He devotes most of his time to writing and lectur ing. Kerensky has consistently at tacked Stalin. He has called the Soviet a land "where any man of 25 who thinks for himself and gays what he thinks is sent to a concentration camp." He has made many wrong guesses. When Russia invaded Finland he prophesied that this ment the beginning of the end of the Stalin dictatorship. Remember Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet Foreign Minister who held out for collective security and collaboration with the West until he was shelved a few months before the 1939 Russo German pact? Except for a brief term as am bassador In Washington after America's entry into the war, Litvinov has dwelt in semi obscurity. Today he is Deputy People's Commissar, and as as sistant to Foreign Minister Mo lotov, his position roughly cor responds to that of the Ameri can undersecretary of state. Edward Stettlnlus. Today few people could tell you who the Grand Duke Cyril was. Fewer who knew are aware that he is dead. Yet at one time this relative of the last Czar proclaimed himself em poror of all the Russias. Trail ing his small court from Paris to Deauville to Cannes, he was confident that he would be re called to Russia to rescue his homeland from Bolshevism. Grand Duke Cyril died In the American Hospital In Paris In 1938. He left a son, Grand Duke Vladimir, who carried on his claims. The Grand Duke's sister, Grand Duchess Kyra, married Prince Louis Ferdi nand, grandson of the Kaiser. For a time there was talk that the Nazis would make Vladimir puppet Czar of a defeated Rus sia. He was reported to have refused to join in this plan," however, and now his where abouts is obscure. It is believed the pretender to the throne of Russia Is under detention In Germany. JTuMdeT. 8pl. S, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE of committees and obtaining of solicitors to complete the dairy cow survey started after the first meeting. Reports of late develop ments in Josephine county, where a simiar movement Is un derway, will also be given. Mr. Howes states that this meeting Is for all dairymen, large or small, and regardless of where or how they are now sell ing milk or cream. "All dairy men interested in better market ing conditions are especially urged to attend this meeting," Mr. Howes states. BLAST CLAIMS BILL Washington, Sept. 5 (U.R) The senate today passed and sent to the White House a bill authorizing the secretary of na vy to pay up to $3000 on indi vidual claims for personal in juries, loss of life or loss of per sonal property which resulted from the ammunition ship explo sion at Port Chicago, Cal. 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