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Newspaper Page TextUSE :BM D) EHBL Paper Salvage After you have read th paper, put it In the ulvage bundle. mm Weather Forecast Fair over the weekend with foe. on the eoMt; warmer afternoon ' except on the coast. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Volume Lll THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 2t. 1944 NO. 39 Nominated for Fourth Term 1 TOOOPS LAIND GUAM v ' . ".'" , Y V ' vti' ' t EX ft Si PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT XZtZSl i . , K ,asLnlgnt nt"n'nated Franklin D. Roosevelt as their candidate for president of the United States. He will oppose 1 nomas K ndwov rtMiKiiMH - . , K , ivpumivaii iiuiiuiictr ai me iau ejection, Wallace Claims New Support As Democrats Meet to Name Running Mate for Roosevelt -'However, Truman Remains in Race and Says He Has Good Block of Votes Lined Up for - First Test; Much Political Talk Scheduled Chicago Stadium, July 21 (EE) Democratic orators of fered a dozen or so vice presidential Dossibilities to their party convention today bufr only two of them Henry A. Wallace and Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri had any real voting strength lined up and it appeared doubtfult that euner couia win on tne tirst ballot. l : : . . : Chicago Stadium, July 21 (U.E) The Democrats met in their fifth convention session today to pick a running mate for President Roosevelt, with supporters of Vice President Henry A. Wallace claiming new delegate strength but with Sen. Harry S. Truman of Mis- souri promised Massachusetts' 34 first ballot votes and a good chunk of Illinois 58 votes on the second ballot. Chairman Sam Jackson jtav i elled the session to order at 12:12 p. m. With Roosevelt nominated for a fourth term, it rpmalnprt fnr the delegates to settle a contest travelers from Berlin arriving at between the left and right wings Malmo late today said the Ger- In. State of Siege Stockholm, July" 21 (IP) Air Japan's Senior Army, Navy Leaders Seeking New Cabinet Tokyo Reports Headway Being Made Following .f - Fall of Tojo's Rule; Koiso, Yonai in Charge Japan's two senior army and navy leaders, .designated by Emperor Hirohito to form a new irovernment. were rennrted; making some progress todav in reDlacinir the fallen regime f ri Tf. i l m iii ueii. niueKi JOJO. V spokesman for Gen. Kumaki Koiso. who. with'Adm. Mitaumasa Yonai. was charted to organize a new Jananexft cabinet, said he expects Koiso will be able to submit list of names of ministers to Emperor Hirohito by Saturday morn- ing (japan jimej, lokyo radio announced. The broadcast, heard bv United Press in San quoiea ix. oen. raneita sailo, speaking for Koiso's head quarters.1 The official Domei news agency, quoting a statement issued at "cabinet information headquarters" In Tokyo, said that Gen. Kuniaki Koiso and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai held a confer ence that progressed "very smoothly and earnestly." Koison is governor-general of Korea and Yonai is a former premier and a member of the supreme war council. Each is 64 years old. Saito Is Spokesman The Domel dispatch, trans mitted by wireless to the East Asia Press and recorded by FCC monitors .said the statement was issued by Saito. The conference was held. Do mel said, after Koiso and Yonai visited the Imperial palace and afterward discussed the situation with other Japanese officials, In cluding Tojo. ' A' ' ' - While, the designation of two men by the emperor to form a new government at first Indicated the possibility of a toint Dremler- snip, it appeared that Koiso was taking the lead in the activities. According to Domei. Koiso vis. ited Tojo at the premier's official residence and also went to the army general staff headquarters to talk with Gen. Yoshijlro Ume zu, who replaced Tojo as army chief of staff in one phase of the governmental crisis. of the new deal-democratic par ty and either renominate Wallace or retire him to Iowa. Strength Claimed Wallace claims of additional man capital was in a virtual state of siege. Passengers aboard two planes from Berlin said only SS and ges strength were voiced by Harold -tapo men were in sight, while all tary and campaign manager, who said that since yesterday his man had Increased his total of prom ised votes to 580, nine short,of a mii.u.. ' The Massachusetts decision to shoo,in8 or wvoU- go for Truman on the first ballot ! regular troops apparently had been sent outside the city. They said, however, that Ber lin was quiet, with no signs of was the best of news for the nllssourian. This was one Jargest blocs of votes that had wen uncommitted on the first ballot. "lajiur cawara J. fteuy 01 ni caRo. Illinois democratic leader, said his delegation would cast all 58 votes for Its own Sen. Scott W. Lucas on the first ballot. There a'ter, however, a majority of the Mate's votes will go to Truman, Kelly predicted. An aide to Kelly said the mayor talked this morning with Presi dent Roosevelt and received the President's assurance that Lucas would be acceptable to him as a vice presidential nominee. To Bark Truman New Jersey delegates said the bulk of their 34 votes would go to Truman. A CIO member said New Jersey would cast eight Wallace Stockholm .Julv 21 UP" A trav- jr tne i of the'e'er from Berlin said on his ar rival in Malmo late today that he had heard that "many hundreds" of Germany's best officers had been executed in an attempt to Hull Asserts Nazis Aware ' Defeat Near Washington, July 21 IP Sec retary of State Cordell Hull. warning against "over optimism," said today the attack on Adolf Hitler clearly indicates that the realization of Germany's "In pending defeat" is spreading in the reich. The appointment of Heinrich Himmler as commander in chief of the home front, Hull said in a formal statement, is an illustra tion of the "steadily deteriorat ing military position of Ger many." He warned. "We should intensify our ef. forts here at home to bring about and make all the sooner and more certain the defeat of our enemies." Reich Aircraft Plants Blasted London, July 21 IP American heavy bombers attacked Germany from both Britain and Italy today for the fourth straight day when the eighth air force sent 2,000 planes against aircraft plants in the southeastern reich and the 15th bombed Brux. In the Sudet- enland 130 miles south of Berlin. About 1,100 Fortresses and Lib erators flew from Britain against factories supplying the German air force after British night bomb ers nit targets in Germany, Bel gium, and Northern France. . Round Trip Made The heavy bombers from Italy, flying a round trip of more than l.uuo miles, dropped their explo sives by instruments through a smoke screen thrown up over Brux, dciow uresden near the old Bohemian border. The eighth air force bombers hammered an assembly plant at Regensburg, 55 miles southeast of Nurnberg, the vital ball bear ing factories at Schwelnfurt and Eberbach, also in the Nurnberg area and other military targets in soutnern uermany. Eubanks Reported To Be Improving Ray Eubanks of Bend, who a week ago was shot in the leg by a Corvallis man who thought he was. shooting at a coyote across sss,-."- ssaia ssvi'SM Hitler Strikes To Curb Revolt ter Attack ; Fuehrer Sends Legions Of Vengeance on Hunt i For Conspiracy Chiefs London, July 21 UP Adolf ruuer opened the floodgates on a nazi blood, path today in re prisal for an abortive revolt which threatened to plunge Ger many Into civil war, as Berlin announced the execution of rni Gen. Ludwig Beck, former chief of general staff, as a ringleader oi me ami Miner conspiracy. Gestapo Chief Heinrich Hi mm. ler, newly vested with the com. mand of all armed forces In Ger- irany, appeared to have sent his legions of vengeance on a ruth less hunt for dissident and sus pected elements, with the wheels or "nazi justice already grinding out their toll. Nazi broadcasts emphasized that the revolt was "completely crushed," and Hitler seemed to te in firm control again at least for the time being with all com munications out of Germany fully m nis service. Hitler Strike Out Hitler struck back with the same speed and fury that charac terized the first great blood bath tf, Germany on June 30, 1934, wfiich' wiped out the Taut sizeable tacuon or open antl-nazism in the Keicn. His first prominent victim was Beck, one of the most distin guished figures In German mill tary life. The DNB news agency, in announcing his execution, said "there is revealing proof of his contact with'fcn enemv Dowpr. i nis evidence is tne card on which Germany's enemies apparently staked everything." Another already executed wn Col. Count Hans Schenk von Stauffeberg, member of the Ger man general staff, named by the nazis as the officer who planted the bomb which eXDloded at a conference ot the military hlnrnr.! chy yesterday. It burned and i bruised Hitler, killed ono nf hi J colleagues, and wounded 12 other goiaoralded high officers in Americans Land on Guam ' ' il44 4C m i I iillpiilEi iill tf iSsaraguei i Hi!li:iijiHl&lii!!p:iil;l'' liiiiitapj i i!iijl!!i:!!!ii!ili;;JK . fensiBimil IiiipSiiiiijilipplHp w g HlOrota PsniHw? f v W iPTOfU?A UJ-..-- I-, ,"H t IlitDlTANl i flS .'S-Aiiii 1 " 1 .Miff1 I a r:;--miniiiwawf eirtnniainiB; OppositionNot Heavy in First : !iiili:i!IS; Iii . ! Jonumlli 1P IWIIIIIllip iiijifliiiiilllilii igBtrrl imr:tiititRi:nrn I it, ?; iiu&miikiiifi 9r TfilnlAfAB!! ffjilplfl iiii ill 11 " I MB !ll!Il!lllllSIIlli! 'I '.! . 1 I i i 'I !' i i , MILES Beach Assaults , s. troops have landed on Guam, first impri,n iaiani ait n the Japanese In the Pacific war, a communique has announced. Early nu.i.mcu me tamiiu warn invHueu ai mree points ana tnat resistance was not as strong as was anticipated. summit, today was reported -nsi thVnn... i,... " coming along fine." the United i. A Press reported. The victim and CANADIANS ADVANCE London, July 21 ut Canadian troops advanced southward from captured St. Andre-sur-Odon be low Caen today and seized St. Martin de Fontenay, allied head- his wife and some friends were fishing on the lake at the time of the accident. Eubanks is well known In Bend, and was catcher on the Bend baseball team In mid-Columbia league days. put down unrest and disorders, quarters reported. Pasco Man Killed By Motorcycle Pasco, Wash., July 21 UP) Archie Ellestad, 53, was killed yes terday when he was struck by a motorcycle on a Pasco street. Witnesses said Ellestad was crossing In the middle of the black when the vehicle, operated by Tommy Shrots, emerged from an underpass and struck him. Ellestad is survived bv his wiaow, Matei, reported here to be living at Mount Vernon. Beck Gets Blame DNB said Beck, chief of (he FDR, Speaking From West Coast Naval Base, Accepts Democratic Fourth Term Nomination With President Roosevelt at a Pacific Coast Naval Base, July 21 tLP President Roosevelt, speak ing from this unidentified west coast naval base, accepted the fourth term nomination last night and warned the people not "to turn over this 1944 job this world-wide Job to Inexperienced votes, but Mayor Frank Hague of and Immature hands." ' TtiA nrpsidpnt. sneaKinr xrom the guarded security of his spe cial train In which he journeyed from Washington, said that he would accept the nomination de spite "my desire to retire to the quiet of private life" and prom ised that he would not "campaign In the usual sense, for the office." "In these days of tragic sorrow. I do not consider It fitting." he 'Besides, In these days or (Continued on Page 7) Money Is Stolen' From Local Office Police today were Investigating he theft of $85 from the cash drawer in the safe of the Portland Loan company, in the J. C. Pen ney bulldinir. an renorbxl hv Mrs. found that no forcible entrance global warfare, I shall not be able naa heen made to the office and! to una me iime. i snaw. nuwi.-Ycr. re inclined to the belief that a feel free to report to the people rasual visitor to the establishment the facts about matters of con hlle it was open was responsible cern to them and especially to cor 'or the theft rect any misrepresentations." Roosevelt said that it seemed "wholly likely" that the allies will have gained a complete victory over Germany and Japan within the next few years and the world will once again be at peace under a system that he hoped would prevent a new war. "In any event, new hands will then have full opportunity to re alize the ideals which we seek." He said that In the last three elections not only democrats but forward looking republicans and independent voters have turned to a progressive leadership which; has sought consistently "to ad vance the lot of the average Amer ican citizen who had been so for gotten during the period after the last war." He added that his acceptance of a fourth term nomination was "based solely on a sense of obli gations to serve if called upon to do so by the people of the United States." general staff until Nov. 1, 1938, for years had "played a part in hostile announcements of an im minent general Putsch in Ger many." A tightly controlled curtain of secrecy, dropped over the situa tion in Germany by the nazis, clouded the extent of the reprisal rainpaign against tne elements iomentmg the first known war time rebellion against Hitler. However, the nazis reported (Continued on Page 3) T Bond Sales Gain in Oregon Portland, Ore., July 21 UP) Fifth war loan EVmd sales rose Thursday to $32,417,538, or 85.3 per cent of quota, E. C. Sammons, state chairman of the Oregon war finance committee announced to day. Oregon's oversubscribed total quota was reported at 139 4 per cent, representing sales of $174. 208.696. Oregonlan Ted R. Gamble, na- tional director of the war finance ov win strategy must be carried wno is nere on a brier visit to our. iney do not concern merely iook after his business interests, a party or a group. They will af-! expressed confidence that the feet the daily lives of Americans' state E bond quota would be iur generations 10 come. ' i reacnea. He listed three objectives for America In 1944, to win the war, to form world-wide International nr. ganizatlons and to build an pmn. QUOta test In lhf fifth war Irun omy for our returning veterans' drive. and for all Americans, which will ! "It has been very successful." provide employment and decent i he said. "It appears that the war standards of living. bond sales in this drive will ex- ncii in a statement ODviniii.iv.ceea muiM.rinri.mn iri in nvnr. Roosevelt said he was "at this naval base in performance of my duties under the constitution. The war waits for no election. DpcI. slons must be made plans must division. United States treasury Russian Mobile Forces Cfqse Against Lwow From 3 Sides Cossacks Mass in Forest for Speedy Thrust Over Border Into Germany; Air Battles Rage '.Moscow. July 21 (U.P) Soviet front A ittrmt-hpa aal1 tnrluv Ik.l D 1 it r . . ' . --"" v..-j inai, mmniuii inuuue iorces were rinsinir n cm nut i.wnur fmm three directions for the final assault on the Polish fortress city and, far to the north, were approaching the frontier of LJttni rruHKia. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's armored columns swept in over the north, east, and south approaches to Lwow, already bat- .cii-ii uy H soviet, cannonade ana Dy-passed on the north, and miltary quarters were confident of the early liberation of the biggest base in lower Po land. At the same time, Russian Cossacks matised in the for ests alonjr the west bank of the Bug1 river north of Lwow for a speedy sweep across the Polish plains toward the Vistula and Germany beyond. On the Baltic front, Gen. Ivan D. Chernlakhovskv's third nrmv of White Russia was fiehtlncr for tne junctions controlling the roads to r.ast I'russla and extending its Rains west of the Nlemen river in lower Lithuania. War Near Border (Nazi broadcasts yesterday re ported fighting at Augustow, eight miles from the border of East Prussia. The Moscow dis patch did not specify the mileage Involved In the approach to the German soil.) Big air battles raaed over the Nlemen sector as German planes Will Meet Quota He said substantially nil the states would meet the E bond War Prisoners Receiving Aid Salem, July 21 Materials for relieving the monotony of prison camp routine have now reached American prisoners of war In eight Japanese prison camps, ac cording to information received by the Oreean War chest from the National War fund. The report stated that 23 cases of materials, shipied by War Re-, net services, incwc, a participat ing service of the National War lund, had been received and dis tributed at prisoner of war camps under Japanese domination lo cated at Osaka, Tokyo, Hakodnto, Zentsujl, Fukoka, Korea, For mosa and Kiangwan. Each case was packed as a com pletp unit, the report stated, and contained books, occupational kits and games. Contributions made by resi dents of Deschutes county to the County War chest help the Na tional War fund finance the work of War Relief services and War Prisoners aid which are active In endeavoring to make easier the plight of Americans Interned In Japanese and German prison camps. Vote Is Light As City Ballots On New Budget An extremely light vote was In dirated today as registered voters of Uend balloted on the proposed 4.-J city ouaget or 9213,110. While there were 5.134 register ed voters In the city's 11 precincts enginie to vote, only four had cast their votes at the Kenwood school up to noon, and only eight In the city hall by 1 p. m. Haunting was being done In Marines and Army Join . In Try to Regain First , Base Lost to Japanese - By Frank Tremalne : '. ' ' ' United Vrmm War Curmpondint) ' I Pearl Harbor, July 21 UK V. S,, assault troops, expanding their" . foothold In the enemy's Inner de-1 fense zone preparatory to'strikinn at Japan Itself, landed on Guam early Thursday and seized beach-, heads on the first American Island to fall to the Japanese in the Pa- el tic war, a communique announc ed today. Army and marine forces still were pouring ashore today under cover of a mighty sea and air bombardment and against only" "moderate ground opposition,"' Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's early-morning announcement re vealed. Salpan Conquered The Invasion of Guam, a pre war U. S. naval station 1,579 miles southeast of Tokyo, followed by only 12 days the final conquest of Salpan, 130 miles to the north, at '. the heaviest cost in any single operation in the Pacific war 15,053 killed, wounded, and miss ing. First reports Indicated that the initial opposition was not as strong as that encountered at Sal pan, but the island's 225 square miles as compared with Saipan's': 71 may foreshadow a longer cam- palgn. ' ' The Invasion came while Japan was In the midst of its gravest .' political crisis of the war. Only yesterday, Tokyo announced the fall of the war-lord cabinet of Pre-' mier Gen. Hldeki Tojo as an after-. math of the conquest of Saipan with naval base and airfields 1,439 miles below Tokyo. ': fleet Gives Aid Hundreds of carrier-based' planes and the big guns of battle- ships, cruisers, and destroyers irom the powerful 5th fleet pavea me way tor tne landing , with an almost non stop bombard ment lasting 17 days the most intensive ever mounted for any amphibious operation in the Pa cific war. The terrific barrage of bombs and ells reached Its peak as tiny (Continued on Page 2) Sailors Battle Grassland Fires Pasco, Wash., July 21 UPiAp proximately 500 men on duty at , the naval air station In Pasco . have been battling grassland and grain fires which have been rag ing In the area for the past 72 hours, it was reported today. Working shifts, the sailors were organized so that full crews were available at all times to combat the blazes which already have rloni thnnannHa nf Hnllni-a' umt.li in r u oRairai 1 n e soviet 1 0f damage bridgeheads and crossings In an j The worit fire was reported on ' attempt to slow down the red i the Patterson ran in Hentnn army advance and gain time for ine name or Kast Prussia. The battle of Lwow dominated the news from the long front, (Continued on Page 2) county where thousands of acres were burned over. One sailor suf fered second degree burns when trapped by a blaze In one grass lire. aimed at the youthfulnesa of thejall tales, which Is $4,000,000,000: only the two polling places, all (B) above the quota." voters on the west side of the oamble said the sixth war loan river being required to vote at drive would begin about mid-No-1 Kenwood school and those resld- Wffllwr an4 LntitH elnaat trniinl , kntr nn tha Mil rUn B , V. . ..;.. m ta,t .1.1. .... .i.:.L.r" a, i". i -: z ...... " " -- - j i. wnemer iney i-ean narnor oay. ne saia 11 was; nail, wish to turn over this 1944 job I likely the sixth war loan mlgnt In the last municipal budget tnis world-wide job to Inexpert-1 be scaled down a little from the voting for the fiscal year of 1943 enced and immature hands." $16,000,000,000 (B) ot the filthy 44, only 88 votes were cast. s-year-old republican nnmin Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the presi dent said: The people of the United States Rommel Withdraws His Tanks To Avoid Allied Encirclement Supreme Headquarters, A EF, northwest. St. Andre -sur-Orne July 21 MriAllicd armies drove! was captured, clearing the bank forward In drenching rainlhrough 1 of the river four miles due south five villages in Normandy today: of Caen, and to the west a drive as Marshal Erwin Rommel with- more than four miles below Tilly drew most of his tanks from the sur-Seulles overran the village of expanding British break-through Monts. salient along the road to Paris in; American forces closing in on order to escape a threatened en- Periers, central base of the Ger clrclement. man defenses on the first army A United Press dispatch from I front, captured Seves, 2V miles the Caen front reported that thel north of Periers; raids, on the battle "still Is going well" with j Carentan Periers highway four the definite failure of the German! miles to the north: and Lies Mes counterattack, and "It now Is safe1 nil Eury, eight miles southeast of to say that the allied offensive is over the hump." The battle of Troarn on the left flank of the Caen pocket raged Into its second day, with British assault forces fighting ahead from the captured rail station on the edge of the town. Other British forces were fight ing street battles In Evrecy, south west of Caen, and the vill.ige of Bougy mile and a half to the Periers on the St. Lo highway. Front reports said the nazi com mand was trying to rush armor to Normandy from northern France and Belgium. In that con nection, the royal air force last night carried out a concentrated bombardment of the big rail hub at Courtrai, Belgium. Three main lines from Germany through Bel glum and Into France pass through Courtrai.