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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Austimt 7. 1948 DICTATORSHIP RUMORS SWEEP QUAKING REICH (Continued From Page One) the war end, and the other urg ently demanding that Germany hold out to avoid "unpredictable . catastrophe. " Throughout Germany posters .labeled "either or" have been put up, he said, picturing a uer man mother and child marked "victory" and a Russian soldier swinging a bloody scythe marked "Bolshevist chaos." Germans Shut Up The traveler said he found It difficult to talk to Germans, who shut up within themselves. Sol diers, he added, turn their shoul ders when attempts are made at conversation. He said the workers still felt bound to make an effort to pro vide for the needs of the army. But he estimated production had fallen about 19 per cent in the last year. LONDON, Aug. 7 (JP The German International Informa tion bureau, a propaganda agency, said in a broadcast to day that it was "understood in Berlin that a number of impor tant discussions of a military and political nature have taken place in the fuehrer's headquarters the last few days." Fear Raids This indication from German sources of a rising crisis came as reports filtered to London telling of fears in Berlin approaching a "state of panic" over the possi bility of massed air raids on the German capital, serious strikes and German peace demonstra tions. The broadcast, also made by DNB, official news agency, said German newspapers had pub lished photographs of such top nazis as Reichmarshal Hermann Goering, Foreign. Minister Joach im von Ribbentrop, Gestapo Chief Hemrich Himmler, Propa ganda Chief Paul Joseph Goeb bels and Martine Bormann, chief of the nail party chancellery, at the scene of the discussions. DionlUrUs Present - Abo present, it was said, were Field Marshal WUhelm Keitel, chief of the high command; Ad miral Karl Doenitz, commander in chief of the navy; Air Force Field Marshal - Erhard Milch chief inspector of air forces; Col. Gen. Hans Jessehonnek, chief of the general staff of the air forc es; Gen. Kurt Zeiizler, chief -of the general staff of army infan try, and Artillery . Gen. Alfred Jodl. ....... It 'was announced that the Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshimo had been received by Adolf Hitler at his headquarters in the presence of Ribbentrop and Keitel on July 29. St. Andrews Hotel Man Robbed Again PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (P) A pimply-faced ' gunman held up Howard Pierce, manager of the St. Andrews hotel, early today and escaped with $86 from the hotel cash register. Four days ago Pierce was held up by two men who bound him and used his keys to open the hotel safe and obtain $700, po lice said. LAST DAY I I TOMORROW 1 I Tf Starts Sunday J f?Akl fJJ V j J ' ' 'A -VfA f Tt HI KENNY JL PATRICIA "V . L. . I, A l.X, k.Aji l'.iB.'3y7 ft!tiUmr7) ll PBAKER M0RIS0H V vBEUtt KSoMUll """""" mtm nrnm I K-z.nl tStCTIr Vj ; 'rs Klamath Showing J' pikkii I 2nd Big r h WILLIAM BOYD J jJf IwWLl LErNl II Jamdy ciypeQII mWS brown Cfer WfJM?mm,-? f ' r5r Uquor Store Has More Customers Than Stock The state liquor store here continued Saturday as a place with more customers than mer chandise, despite the fact that Saturday's allotments are now double those of week-days. ' Would-be customers lined up long before the noon-time sale Saturday, the queue extending into Fifth street. The noon-day allotment lasted until about 1 p. m. Another whiskey sale was to take place starting at 5 o'clock. Under present methods, a weeks allotment of liquor for sale at the local store is .divid ed equally into seven parts. Two parts are sold on Saturday, the one part each of the other days of the week. Whiskey is placed on the shelves for sale each day at 12 o'clock and S o'clock in the afternoon. T COOLER, DRYER L July weather was cooler and dryer than usual, the weather man reported today. Mean temperature for the month was 68 degrees, compared to a mean of 68.4 degrees for all years. Last year the mean was con siderably higher at 70.4 degrees. Last month's maximum temper ature was reached on July 30, with 93 degrees the top mark. Minimum was 40, on July 12. Only .07 inches of rainfall was recorded, compared to a normal precipitation of .29 inches in July. The year's total was high er than usual, however, with 17.85 inches recorded to August 1, while the normal is 12.23 inches. " - - . The weather man recorded no cloudy days, seven partly cloudy. ana 24 clear. . Albert Gienger, Early Chiloquin Merchant, Dies (Continued From Page One) meter : loins there while Mr. Gienger remained here ' for ' a time. Later Mr. Gienger moved to Chiloquin, sold the business. and again went into the dry goods business in the north Klamath town. He operated that business until the time of his death. . His son, Leroy, is operator of an extensive grocery business at Chiloquin and also has a store at Sprague River. Mr. Gienger is survived by nis wile, Julia; a son, Leroy; a daughter, Mrs. Grace D. Greene, Klamath Falls, and several rel atives at Tillamook. The remains are at the Earl Whitlock funeral home, where funeral announcement will be made Monday.! ER IRAN NORMA 11 II I HA MKUUrKM MAI lU Ot AM SSgW' I LAST TIMES TODAY "Lady of Burlesque" I ! I II I VITAL SICILY GRABBED F (Continued From Page One) ing the communications town of Adrano, 14 miles southeast of Trolna on the main road skirt inn Mt. Etna. The Germans de molished nine bridges and a 12 mile stretch of road as they fell back before the British. The first division of Maj. Gen. Terry Allen yesterday smashed the formidable defenses of Troina, on the central sector 20 miles inland from the north coast. . Troina ShI.ld The Germans, apparently us ing Troina as a shield to cover withdrawal of their forces from the south and central sectors around Mt. Etna staged one of their bitterest defenses there. Allen's troops had to storm up sheer, rocky hill and mountain sides against savage fire from all types of nazi weapons. Its fall opened the way for an attack on the flank of the German troops believed to be pulling out to establish a new defense line to the northeast of Mt. Etna. Allied airplanes paced by heavy bombers struck Messina yesterday with the heaviest. most concentrated assault yet attempted during the Sicilian campaign. Tons Dropped Approximately 350 tons of bombs were poured on the small strip of territory around Mes sina. The huge concentration of enemy anti-aircraft guns about the port described as rivalling the defences of the Ruhr area of "Germany offered "consider ably less fire" yesterday, re turning airmen said, and no enemy planes were sighted. Other allied planes ranged over- the narrowing Messina bridgehead, pounding road com munications and supply centers around Mt. Etna and strafing evacuation beaches on the coast. No Italian troops were re ported fighting anywhere on the Sicilian front. Police Hunt Lone Spokane BankiBandit v-: (Continued From Page One) , have - left town, since a west bound freight train passed through the district at about that time. Frank Graff, branch manag er, said the bandit handed him a note saying 'This is a hold up," and followed it with a box for the loot. Graff said he start ed putting in $1 bills, but that the bandit then came around the counter, showed him a box of explosives and . demanded bigger denominations. If it's a "frozen" article you need, advertise for a' used ons in the classified. . . - . - ROM JERRIES Visiting Soldiers To Be Entertained A large group of visiting sol diers will be entertained at the Commando service unit this weekend, it was announced by Captain Bernie Hcidcmann. The soldiers, members of a tank destroyer unit, will leave Klamath Falls Sunday afternoon. DRAFT 'NASTY NOT BIGSMASHEY , (Continued From rage One) be lucky if 2,000.000 of them could pass the physical exam ination (their average age is 31 compared to the army's average of 24), and I don't believe we will have to take all of them anyway within the next 12 months." The other reservoirs he cited as (1) the current 3,000,000 4Fs, some of which might be re classified; (2) the 100,000 avail able youths becoming of age (18) each month, of which more than half probably would meet requirements; (3) those who might be spared from vital in dustry. The general said a "liberal" policy would be followed in de ferring workers in aircraft and shipbuilding, and particularly farmers, because "we don't want to interfere with the production of essentials," but he added that I am certain the aircraft and shipbuilding industry after the war doesn t want to be remem bered as a haven of draft dodg- U. S. Airmen Bring Ruin to South Pacific Jap Bases ... (Continued From Page One) counted and there likely are many more. (A dispatch from William Hip ni Amnciated Press war cor respondent at : South Pacific headquarters said army engi neers and navy Seabees were un riortaVlnff immediate reDairs to battered Munda airdrome for use in coming operations against Rabaul, 420 miles northwest. Munda was captured in mid afternoon August 5, Guadalcanal time. The enemy concentrated an estimated 4000 trooos on New Georgia island, among 10,000 be lieved holding strategic enemy bases in the central boiomons. Hippie declared the immediate tucir nhoaH nf our forces is the capture of Vila airfield on Kolombanbara island, only nine miles north of Munda.) ; Kahili Left Tn the Bmieainville air fight 16 of our planes sought .battle with 30 Zeros, downing seven Continuous From 1:00 P. M. I LAST DAY I "City Without Men" "Law of the Northwest" Starts Sunday NAZIS EVACUATING SMOLENSK REGION (Continued From Page One) tisans said the Germans were moving the population to the west and also taking away all metal and other potential war materials, even the tin roofs ot houses. iwo Russian army groups which outflanked Kharkov from the north in ' a swift drive through Belgorod, were threat ening the rear of the German positions around that third Inrg est city in the soviet union, front line dispatches said. . Push at Bryanik Descending the valley by way of the Uby river, the Russians raced through Zolochcv, a little more than 23 miles northwest of Kharkov In a flank attack simi lar to the action farther north which drove the Germans from Orel and opened the way for a simultaneous push toward Bry ansk. Both Kharkov and Bryansk, 275 miles to the northwest, were threatened by the broad ad vance. ' Advance 37 Miles Russian troops battering their way westward beyond Belgorod have already advanced 37 miles to cut the Kharkov-Bryansk railroad at Zolochev, 23 miles to the northwest of Kharkov, the Russians reported. (The German radio said In a broadcast recorded in London that another Russian column was poised at Chuguyev, 24 miles southeast of Kharkov, which gave rise to the belief that the Russian high command was pre paring another pincers operation similar. to the one which pinched oft Orel at the north end of Kurks salient. (The German communique said the Russians were attacking with strong Infantry and tank formations southeast of Belgo rod toward Kharkov, but de clared the thrusts were turned bsck "after hard and fluctuat ing fighting."); 1 while we lost one. .The scene of the action was at Buln-Faisi which includes . the enemy's Kahili airdrome. Now that the Japanese have lost in succession the Guadal canal (Henderson) and Munda air fields,. Kahili Is the biggest air base remaining in their hands in the Solomons. I've got a Last Times Tonight MICKEY ROONEY ..... in ... Th Human Comedy With FRANK MORGAN "There's a Great Romance coming Into your lift mora fun than you've ever had before . . . Yes, it's all in tha Stars (who happen to be your favorites! . . .)" Ray MILLAND Paulette GODDARD in "WESTERN WHOOPEE" (Variety) SEVENTH COLUMN (Pete Smith) BAND ACT LATEST NEWS OBITUARY ALBERT CHARLES OIENOER Albert ' Charlos Gienger, for the last 34 years a resident of Klamath county, Oregon, passed awny at his late residence In Chiloquin, Ore., on Friday, Aug ust 6, 1943, at 8:30 p. m. He was a native of Wurttenburg, Germany, arid at the time of his doatli was aged 68 years, 8 months and 28 days. Surviving are his wlfo, Mrs. Julia G longer of Chiloquin, Ore.; one son, Le roy J. Gienger of Chiloquin, Ore.; one daughter, Mrs, Grace D. Greene of Klamath Falls; two brothers, Earnest and George Gienger and. two sisters, Mrs, Anna Hathaway and Mrs. Lena Thompson all of Tilla mook, Ore. The remains' rest In the Earl Whitlock Funeral Home, Pine street at Sixth. No tlco of funeral to be announced later, BABY KIDNAPPING . WMIIf (Continued From Page One) FBI office In Portland, said, "At present we are not tn on the case as there has been no violation of federal laws." Kramer declined comment on the possibility that the FBI would participate after seven days have elapsed as permitted under the Lindbergh kidnaping aci. At Standstill Police activity here was at a standstill. Completely baffled officers said they did not know any further course to take. There was no Indication that they had questioned anyone since yester day. Notes of testimony taken from hospital attendants and others questioned earlier in the week were being transcribed. Meanwhile, Mrs. W. B. Gur- ney, the child's grief-stricken mother, held out hope that the tot would be returned un harmed. Mrs. Ourney Improved Dr. E. Lew Hurd said Mrs, Gumey, who had been In a pre carious condition. Improved no ticeably after her husband, a la bor union official, pleaded over a radio hook-up for the child's safe return. With her hopes rising, she spent her first quiet night since the tot's disappearance, the doc tor said. message for you! YES "THE CRYSTAL BALL" With Gladys George Virginia Fields Cecil Kellaway William Bendix ADDED HITS SUHPflV Starts Tonight at Midnight I Ends Tonight! "ChotUrbox" and "Wrecking Crew" I J f 7 1 ' fWif-'k mi Mi