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f erman .'Assassins Started auairroet o yam Overrun by Yank Marines, Infantry ghl Troops Plunge Inland While Bombs Fall Landing Follows Pulver jing Attack on Japs by Air and Navy Craft V. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar ters, Pearl Harboro, July 21 VP) United States marines and in fantry are pouring ashore on Guam, first American territory "seized by the Japanese, and fighting their way inland under cover of a pulverising aerial and warship bombardment, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. " The landings, a auick follow- up to the great victory on Sai pan, started yesterday morning, and "are continuing against moderate ground opposition," Nimitz' communique said. 'United States marines and srfcv assault trooDS established beachheads on Guam island on July 20 (west longitude U.S. time) with the support of car rier aircraft and surface com bat units of the fifth fleet," the earl y-morning communique continued. "Enemy defenses are being heavily bombed and shelled at close range." Guam is the southernmost and largest of the Marianas group of Islands. Its capture would strengthen Saipan's pos ition as a base from which Japan can be mortally assault a r,nm u 130 miles south west of Saipan and both islands are within easy superfortress range of Tokyo and the whole of Japan, Philippines Vulnerable The Philippines, lying some 1,500 miles west of Guam and Sigjpan, likewise are vulnerable to the mighty forces Nimitz is hurling across the Pacific. The Guam landings came after 17 days of the most ter rific warship-plane blasting given any Invaded Pacific Isl and, with battleships adding their heavy shells to the tor rent of explosives poured from cruisers, destroyers and planes. Guam, seized Dec. 10, 1941 two days after Pearl Harbor (Dec. 8, east longitude time) presumably will offer the same bitter, bloody resistance the ma rines and army troops encoun tered on Saipan in 25 days of fighting. It was believed the Guam garrison was as strong as (Concluded on page 10, column 3) Phoney Play Held Possible 3y Lord Robert Van Sittart (As told to John A. Prrl ot th l ' London, July 21 U.R What ever it is that is happening in Germany today, let us not for get that whether the nazi lead ership or the Junkers military .ase gains the upper hand it will emerge with the same idea: "Salvage what we can and get in shape to launch another war." : As I see it, there are three pos sible explanations of the events in Germany: 1. The attempt to kill Hitler and his top nazt-minded gener als and admirals may have been genuine a bona fide effort on the nart of the conservative generals to get rid of Hitler and sue for peace with the al lies. 21. What information is avail able also raises a strong pos sibility that the attempt to as sassinate Hitler was staged like other famous hoaxes in nazi German history. It would give Hitler a chance to proclaim his indispcnsability to Germany and give ruthless Hemnch Himmlcr a strangle-hold on the home front. 3. There is a possibility the "assassination" was staged to test reaction in allied countries This last point is subtle with grave portents. The Germans now realize that the war is lost and that it is only a matter of time until thpv are hnalpn. The nazi leaders undoubtedly are trying 10 salvage whatever they cari and are attempting to main tain position from which they can launch another war. Capital A 56th Year, No. 173 Intense Over Contest for Vice I 1- Dr. W. B. Morse Dr. W.B.Morse Of Salem Dies Dr. Willis B. Morse, dean of the local medical profession, died at Salem General hospital at 4:30 o'clock. Thursday after noon in his 7t8h year. Ten weeks ago he was sent to the hospital due to an arthritic at tack. However, he had return ed home, but last Sunday was again taken to the hospital fol lowing a paralytic attack. For over 53 years Dr. Morse has practiced his profession In the valley and he had continued active up to the time of his hos pitalization a few weeks ago. In fact, his Illness forced him to cancel arrangements he had vir tually completed for an exten sive trip through southern Cali fornia as a member of the hon orary consultant board named by Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, surgeon general of the navy. Surviving are several cousins including Mrs. P. C. Patterson of Salem, Miss Anna McBride of San Francisco, John Woods of Seaview, Wash., and George McBride of Portland. His wife and mother died many years ago. Funeral services will be held from the Cloiigh-Barrick com pany chapel Monday, July 24, at .2 p.m. (Concluded on page 5, column 4) 93 Meat Markets Receive Warnings Portland, July 21 U.R Op erators of 93 Portland area meat markets received license warn ing notices for violations of OPA maximum price regula tions today. Price Specialist Fred Parker reported 1013 violations at 100 markets checked; 360 concern ing price violations and 653 for failure to post grades or prices. Bombers Rock Vital German Points Fourth Straight Day London, July 21 (U.R) American heavy bombers attacked Ger many from both Britain and Italy today for the fourth straight day when the 8th air force sent 2000 planes against aircraft plants in . the southeastern Reich and the 15th bombed Brux, in the Sudetcnland 130 miles south of Berlin. About 1100 Fortresses and Liberators flew from Britain against factories supplying the German air force after British night bombers hit targets in Germany, Belgium and north ern France. The heavy bombers from It aly, flying a round trip of more than 1000 miles, dropped their explosives by instruments through a smoke screen thrown up over Brux, below Dresden near the old Bohemian border. The 8th air force bombers hammered an assembly plant at Regensburg, 55 miles southeast of Nurnberg, the vital ball bear ing factories at Schweinfurt and Eberbach, also in the Nurn- berg area and other military Entered rs second elui matter at Balem. Oregon Excitement Rocks Big Stadium Red Army Gets Deadly Hold on Baltic Front London, July 21 VP) Russian troops have captured Ostrov near Latvia, Premier-Marshall Stalin announced tonight. Ostrov, 10 miles from the Lat vian frontier, and 25 miles from Estonia, fell to troops of the third Baltic front "as the result of a skillful outflanking ma neuver combined with a frontal attack," Stalin said. He describ ed the city as a large communi cations center and powerful German strongpoint "covering the way to the central districts of the Baltic area." Moscow, July 21 VP) The red army seized a deadly strangle-hold on the Germans' Baltic front deep inside Lithu ania today, hurled a massive blow toward Poland's martyred capital of Warsaw and sealed the fate of the nazi stronghold of Lwow. Pouring Across the trans-Lithuanian railway, soviet forces captured the Junction of Sko pishki, 50 miles west of Dau gavpils (Dvinsk), 85 miles southeast of the Latvian port of Riga and 165 miles east of Memel. Warsaw, a little more than 100 miles from the red army vanguard, was the objective of concerted attacks west of the nazis' broken Bug river line defenses. The nazi garrison at Lwow was doomed, with the Russians five miles away in the suburb of Doroshev. It faced the same kind of disaster that overtook more than four German divi sions encircled earlier in the week at Brody, 55 miles north east, where they are now be ing annihilated. The luckless garrison's resis tance failed to check the pace of the first Ukrainian front of fensive, which engulfed the rail junction of Rawa Ruska, 30 miles northwest of Lwow, and over 300 settlements. Acutely endangered by the soviet advances were the Ger man fortresses of Brest Litovsk and Lublin, on the eastward approaches to Warsaw. Nazi rear guards in the railroad town of Korbee Kobryn, 27 miles nortseast of Brest Litovsk, have been liquidated, and at other points the red army troops are about 10 miles away, front dispatches said. targets in southern Germany. The 1100 Flying Fortresses and Liberators escorted by 800 fighters, carried 3000 tons of high explosives into Germany before noon, bringing the 72 hour total for American heavies to about 20 enemy targets. The first bombers and fight ers to return reported that, with one exception, the luft waffe again was absent. The exception was a force of 30 to 50 Gernyn Interceptor planes which spent 15 minutes diving through their own flak mak ing pass after pass at a lone Liberator group. Bombers which were able to hit their targets visually in cluding precision targets at Schweinfurt, Regensburg and Eberbach said their bombs plummeted squarely into the marked areas. Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 21, 1944 I ' miiniin' ' Green and Truman in Huddle VP) Sen. Harry Truman (right) of Missouri, reportedly labor-approved candidate for the demo cratic vice-presidential nomination, listens to a point by Wftliam Green, American Federation of Labor president, as the pair had breakfast together at the convention city. Downpour Fails to Curb Allied Invasion Advance Supreme Headquarters, AEF, July 21 (U.R) British and Ameri can troops plunged ahead through six villages today despite a downpour which drowned out big scale action on the Normandy front, and German armor was reported pulling back from the nose of the break-through salient southeast of Caen under an encirclement threat. Canadian troops drove ' forward a few hundred yards from St. Andre-Sur-Odon to capture the neigh boring village of St. Martin de Fontenay a little over four miles south of Caen. Five vil lages scattered along the Brit ish and American front had been taken earlier. Both allied and German troops soaked miserably in their slit trenches, while a 36-hour downpour continued. British Advance. Easy To the west British forces scored gains against light op position south of the Caumont-Tilly-Sur-Seulles road. On one two-mile wide sector near St. Croix de Landes they slogged ahead up to 1000 yards. A United Press dispatch from the Caen front reported that the battle "still was going well" with the definite failure of the German counter-attack, and "it now is safe 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 fighting street battles in Ev recy, southwest ' of Caen, and the village of Bougy a mile and a half to the northwest. St. Ande-Sur-Arne was captured, clearing the bank of the river four miles due south of Caen, and to the west a drive more than four miles below Tilly-Sur-Seulles overran the village of Monts. Nazis Try to Rush Help American forces closing in on Periers, central base of the German defenses on the 1st army front, captured Seves, 2 "z miles north of Periers; raids, on the Carentan-Feriers high way four miles to the north; and Les Mesnil ' Eury, eight miles southeast of Periers on the St. Lo highway. Journal President's Job I t?ssl Silverton Man Is Silverton July 21 Rev. and Mrs. O. Leonard Jones received official word Friday morning from the war department that their sonvIrving Leonard Jones, a paratrooper with the 82nd division, had been missing in ac tion since June 8 when he took part in a raid over occupied France. Rev. Jones is pastor of the Methodist church of this community. Sixth War Loan May be Smaller Portland, Ore., July 21 U.R Fifth war loan E bond sales rose Thursday to $32,417,538, or 85.3 percent of quota, E. C. Sam mons, state chairman of the Oregon war finance committee announced today. Oregon's overburdened total quota was reported at 139.4 per cent, representing sales of $174, 208,696. Oregonian Ted R. Gamble, national director of the war fi nance division, United States treasury, who is here on a brief visit to look after his business interests, expressed confidence that the state E bond quota would be reached. He said substantially all the states would meet the E bond quota test in the fifth war loan drive. "It has been very successful," he said. "It appears that the war bond sales in this drive will exceed $20,000,000,000 in overall sales, which is $4,000, 000.000 above the quota." Gamble said the sixth war loan drive would begin atiout mid-November and would close around Pearl Harbor day. He said it was likely the sixth war loan might be scaled down a little from the $16,000,000,000; of the fifth. Price Five Cents 4 a pa Cfrannfri Marshalled bv Henry Wallace Chicago, Stadium, July 21 VP) Henry A. Wallace broke into the strongholds of the big-city vote today by capturing the support ot about 20 of New York's 96 votes in a furious bat tle in which the bulk of the Empire state's votes were pro posed to Senator Harry S. Tru man of Missouri for the demo craitc vice-presidential nomina tion. With delegates elbowing their way into this stadium for the climactic, and possibly last, session of a meeting in which they nominated President Roosevelt last night and heard him accept by radio, the vice president showed unexpected strength in a downtown caucus of the New York group. At that conference, the fore es of Edward J. Flynn, national committeeman who is backing Truman, delivered the support of about 76 of the delegates to the Missourian.. They were un able, however, to make it unani mous as they had hoped. At the same time, a Massa chusetts caucus gave 12 votes each to Wallace and Truman, pledging 5V4 to Senate Major ity Leader Barkley of Ken- lucky. The remainder of the state's 36 were not recorded. The vice - president, Mr, Roosevelt's first choice for his running mate, previously had come out ahead in a split of ilhe Ohio delegation which gave him 21 of its 52 votes, and as signed 9 for Truman. Wallace Claim Boosted The action of the three states boosted Wallace's pledged and claimed votes to 36914, with 20 counted from New York and lifted Truman to 171. count ing 76 in New York. For nomi nation, 589 are required. Rhode Island added 10 to Truman soon thereafter. Announcement of the' New- York action was made by Chair man Paul Fitzpatrick, who gave the estimate of 20 votes for Wallace. The motion to put the New York delegation on record for Truman was made by Flynn, seconded by Tammany Leader Edward Laughlin and Brooklyn Leader Frank Kelly. Meanwhile, Senator John Bankhead of Alabama swung up as a new threat from the south. With Alabama's 24 promised to him on the first ballot, he collected Mississippi's 20 at a caucus today. (Concluded on Dago , column 81 Goering Names Ex-Generals Blamed for Attack on Hitler BT the Awoclated PreM) Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering's flat statement that the at tempted assassination of Hitler stemmed from "orders of a miserable clique of former generals who had to be chased from their posts" suggested today (Friday) that Goering was pointing the finger of accusa-- tion at seven high ranking German military leaders re lieved of their commands. Goering, in a speech to the German people broadcast by the Berlin radio, asserted the dis missed generals were guilty of a leadership "that was as cow ardly as it was incompetent." Most recent to get the axe was Field Marshal Karl Ru dolf Gerd von Runstedt, whose displacement as commander of Germans forces in the west by Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge was announced two weeks ago. Rundstedt was a general staff officer who was cited for brav ery in the first World war, I and who became a lieutenant Himmler Ordered Remove Generals by Blood Bath As Possible Revolt Hits Reich Execution of Group, Including Col. Ludwig Beck Announced; Fuehrer Charges Attempt on His Life Conspiracy With Enemy Powers; Secrecy Prevails London, July 21 VP) A purge of German generals by Helnrlch Himmler apparently was proceeding In Germany today as an aft ermath to what Adolf Hitler described as an army clique's at tempt to assassinate him and pave the way for surrender. Berlin announced that Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck, former chief of the general staff, was dead. Broken communication masked actual conditions within Ger many, leaving only the German accounts and a flood of rumors in neutral countries. A traveler who reached Sweden said two German divisions had revolted in East Prussia Wednesday, ap parently touching off the movement against Hitler. There was no confirmation of this, nor of various reports of street fighting In German towns. Field Marshal Gen. Guenther von Kluge, whose forces are op posing the armies of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in France, found it neeessarv to issue an order of . the day to his troops, urging them to "inflexible determina tion and unconditional loyalty to the fuehrer." Censorship Clamped Down "There will be no repetition of the year 1918, von Kluge de clared, according to Berlin broadcasts. i Switzerland clamped down a rigid censorship on the trans mission abroad of reports that reached there from Germany. A German Transocean News agency (propaganda) broadcast said that "certain precaution ary measures" were taken last night in the center of Berlin. Besides Back, Berlin an nounced execution of a whole group of conspirators linked with the plot to overthrow the fuehrer and prepare the path for peace in the defeat-riddled and bomb-tortured Reich., Among them was the colonel who was alleged to have plant ed a bomb which exploded only a little over six feet from Hit ler while he was surrounded by his highest personal military aides. Deputy Press Chief Sunder man declared in connection with Beck's demise that there was "proof that a connection was established with an enemy power," Berlin broadcasts said. Beck was removed as chief of the general staff in Novem ber 1938 because, Berlin dis patches stated at the time, "he failed to see eye to ey with Hitler." He was reported to have dis agreed with the fuehrer's plans to seize Austria and Czecho slovakia. Berlin Controls News Field Marshal Gen. Karl Ru dolf Gerd von Rundsledt was removde as commander of an army group at the same time. Von Rundstedt, restored to fa vor in the war, was removed from his command in western Europe only a few days ago. Stockholm newspapers were cut off from their Berlin cor respondents at 8:40 p.m. last night, and communications still were blocked today. Other sources of neutral information from inside Germany likewise were blocked. The world therefore was re stricted largely to the view put forth by Berlin and other Ger (Concluded on page , column 4) general by 1929. He led the Germans In southern Poland at the outset of this war with smashing success, and later his exploits in France won him the rank of field marshal. He dis tinguished himself also in Rus sia in the Dnestri and Dnepr areas. His dismissal in Nor mandy came after a reported disagreement with Field Mar shal Erwin Rommel. Other generals and field mar shals who have been dismissed include: Field Marshal Gen. Walter von Brauchitech former com mander In chief of the German army; frequently said to be at odds with Hitler; was reported in 1941 lo have been fired from supreme German command but (Concluded on paie 10, column t) by Hitler to - Americans Stab Across Arno Rome, July 21 OJ.mAmeri- can combat patrols of the 5th army stabbed across the Arno river today, while the Germans, entrenched on Monte Pisao guarding the approaches to Pisa, opened a long-range artillery bombardment of newly-captured Livorno. The patrols were probing Ger man defenses on the north bank of the Arno, where the enemy was believed to have construct ed strong points of pillboxes and antitank guns at fording sites, in an effort to halt the American drive toward Pisa. The main body of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark's 5th army, already spread along a 23-mlle front on . the south bank, was cleaning out the German points..by-pass--ed In the rapid nine-mile drive lo the Arno from Livorno. The. few German positions were between the Antlfosseto canal, a few miles north of Li vorno, and the river, and appar ently were left behind by tha main nazi forces for delaying purposes. Virtually every caliber of gun was being fired by the Germans from Monte Pisano, where the enemy had a clear view of LU vorno and also Pisa, just to tha north. Field guns and ainti-alr-craft batteries lined the heights of Monte Pisano, with machine gun pillboxes stretched along the approaches. American engineers confirm ed that the Germans, before fleeing Livorno, had destroyed every potentially valuable port facility and sank 16 ships In tha harbor. , ; 3 Salem Men Blast Victims At least three Salem men were lost In the ammunition ship explosion at Port Chicago, near San Francisco on July 17. Louis Widner, 19, of the Uni ted States merchant marine, son of Mrs. J. W. Weekly, 65 Abrams avenue, was among the fatalities. Claude Lewis Chas lain, 26, and Dclbert R. Hutch ison, both of Salem, are miss ing and presumed lost, says in formation released by maritime unions on casualties among mer chant seamen. Among others was Jack Leland Albin of Cor vallii. Chastain's wife, Lor raine M. Chastain, lives at 292 South Cottage. Gallon of Gas Daily For Men on Furlough . Washington, July 21 ()--A member of the armed forces after next Tuesday can get a gallon of gas for every day of his furlough from three to 30 days long, the office of price administration ruled today. The limit is thus changed from five gallons a furlough to 30, OPA said, explaining it's a fairer system for the man who has only one long furlough. No ration is to be granted for leaves or furloughs of less than three days, at the suggestion of the army and navy, OPA staled. The Weather Fair except for morning cloud iness todav, tonight and Satur day with slowly rising temper ature.. Max. 80, mln. 49. Rain, 0. River, -3.4. ft.
