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
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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.