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ANOTHER doy of plcntUul
news none of It big In the
ansa of bigness Involved In a
landing on. Europe'! embattled
Aliunde adorer, but ALL of it
O'Unl'icunt.
((IMMENSE formation" of
RAF bombers, anld by ob
servers along Britain'! channel
coast to be the GREATEST
FORCE EVER SENT AGAINST
GERMANY and unofficially es
timated at more than 1000
p I a n a i, hits Nuernberg laat
night.
The expedition la described
by the British air ministry ai a
"very heavy attack," a term nor
mally used only for big ituff.
All the referencei to it Indi
cate that It was big enough to
be Intended to SMASH THE
TARGET. Only 33 bombers were
lost '
'J'HAT helps to allay tha fears
O (unavoidably entertained by
uninformed outsiders) that
Monday night' raid on Berlin
might have ' lnwlw4 loasei
greater than we could afford.
"THE Berlin raid cost 68 planes
out of an estimated TOO. The
Nuernberg foray cost 33 out of
an estimated more than a thou
sand. That la a startling reduction
of losses, the reasons for which
we can only guess at. Maybo the
Germans had concentrated their
fighters for the defense of Ber
lin. Maybe we learned lessons in
the Berlin attack that enabled us
to cut our losses at Nuernberg.
Maybe tho shorter distance had
something to do with it.
Anyway, we're still able to
strike from the air with IN
CREASING power. Thai's the
big point.
0
rANOTHER Interesting slant:
Nuernberg has obviously
been added to the Hamburg-Berlin
total destruction list. That
gives us a choice of targots, so
that the Germans can't know
where to look for the next shat-
01 terlng blow.
TJERE'S something we can get
our teeth into:
The Russians, since late last
fall, have advanced (at Sovsk,
which they have Just taken) to a
point MORE THAN HALFWAY
FROM STALINGRAD TO THE
POLISH BORDER.
Tho fighting In Russia has
been give and take, forward
and back, first one side then the
other on the offensive.
This halfway to tho Polish
border statement In today's dls-
Qatchcs proves that tho Russians
re gaining in the exchange of
blows.
..
CROM our headquarters In Af
rica today comes the an-
nouncemcnt that southern Italy's
ENTIRE railroad system has
been disorganized by relentless
allied bombing, with train serv
ice brought almost to a stand
still.. Italy's railroad system con
sists of two main lines, one on
the east and one on the west side
of the peninsula. Because of the
mountainous backbone, there
are relatively fow connecting
lines, Because of nearness to tho
sea at all points, Italy has relied
heavily on water transport
which, is now CUT OFF by our
command of sea and air,
P The point Is that the Germans
n southern Italy can't fight
without adoquate communica
tions. ,
.-'
VINO BORIS of Bulgaria Is 111
rnaybe...
Speculation as to the cause of
his Illness ranges all the way
from a stomach ache to an 1-
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ALLIED BOMBS
1
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Kingpin in Defense
Brought to Near
Standstill
By NOLAND NOROAARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 28
VP) Southern Italy's entire
railway system has been dlaor
g a n I z e d by relentless allied
bombings, with train traffic
brought almost to a standstill, it
was disclosed at headquarters
today.
The railroads are a kingpin in
Italy's defenses.
Sulmona Hit . - ' '.' .
The announcement followed
heavy blast by U. S. Flying
Fortresses yesterday at railroad
yards at Sulmona nearly 100
mites east of Rome for the first
time, and Mitchell bomber at
tacks on congested freight yards
and locomotive works at Bene
vento near Naples.
At the same time, American
B-28 Marauders bombed tha
rail yards at Caserta also In Na
ples vicinity, and light medium
bombers including A-36 Fighter
bombers attacked targets at
Catanzaro, Sibarl, Cetraro and
Paola.
Fighters Increase
Enemy fighter resistance In
creased over the vital rail cen
ters, and 20 enemy planes were
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GOP Chief Ends
Conferences With
Party Leaders
RUSHVILLE, Ind., Aug. 28
(A1) A month's sojourn here,
during which Wendell L. Wlllkte
conferred with scores of repub
lican leaders from all parts of
the nation, ended today as the
titular head of the GOP started
back to New York.
At his departure he was as
reticent about discussing poll
tics as when he arrived. He camo
to the house which was his re
publican presidential campaign
headquarters In 1940 ostensibly
to relax, write and visit his Rush
county farms.
French Resistance
Ordered Wiped Out
BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 28
(IP) Five thousand nazl troops
have arrived In the Haute Savole
department of France with or
ders to wipe out resistance of
French patriots who have been
holding out in the mountains for
months, the Tribune de Geneve
said today. . .
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Mysterious Five-Day Illness Fatal to
King Doris; Child Heir Takes Throne
LONDON, Aug. 28 (IP) The
German radio announced today
that King Boris of Bulgaria had
died, after a five-day mysterious
illness, and that the -premier,
Bogdan Philov, had read a proc
lamation that, the six-year-old
heir had ascended the throne as
King Simeon II.
The Italian News agency,
Stcfanl, in a broadcast from
Rome, said King Boris died at
6:30 p. m.
Heart Disease
The German broadcast, record
ed by The Associated Press, said
it was officially announced that
the cause of death was heart dis
ease combined with trouble in
functioning of , the lungs.
It quoted the official ' an
nouncement of the death of Pre
mier. Philov as follows:
"King Boris III, our beloved
king, died after a brief lllnoss to
day, August 28, ' 1B43, at 4:42
Successor
Norman Armour (above), aea
career diplomat and ambassador
to Buenos Aires, appeared to
have the Inside track as succes
sor to Sumner Welles as under
secretary of state.
REDS PUSH HALFWAY
TO
Germans Retreat 1 5
AHes;LC rtoss - 1
' River Psel -j ' '
LONDON,' Aug. 21 VP)
Soviet forces which yesterday
opened a fourth front by storm
ing into tha German stronghold
of Bvesk, 75 miles south of Bry
ansk, plunged another three to
five miles westward in that sec
tor today and overran mora
than SO additional villages,
Moscow announced tonight.
On two other active fronts,
near Kharkov and In tha Donets
basin, the driving Russian arm
ies also overcame stiff German
resistance to further their wide
advances toward tha Dnieper
river.
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Aug. 28 . (P) The
Russian army's westward drive
across the Ukraine has pushed
the Germans back another 19
miles and reached the Psel river,
a tributary of the Dnieper,. 100
miles west of Kharkov, the army
newspaper Red Star disclosed to
day. This new advance placed sov
iet troops IS miles west of Zen
kov, tho farthest point previous
ly announced as gained by the
Russians in their ' westward
push.
Bvensk Offensive
Only a few hours earlier a
soviet communique announced
that Russian forces had struck
toward the west in a new sector,
overwhelming the German de
fenses at Svensk, midway be
tween and west of Orel and Bel
gorod. Tho new advances place the
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o'clock this afternoon."
The German announcement,
recorded by The Associated
Press, was made at 11:02 a. m.,
Pacific war time, only a few
hours after a doctor's bulletin
had announced that the 49-year-old
- monarch's condition again
had deteriorated.
Tho death followed a mysteri
ous five-day illness, described In
Gorman reports as due to angina
pectoris. In unsubstantiated re
ports elsewhere it was said that
he might have suffered a gun
shot wound in an assassination
attempt. ;
Crisis Threatened
The demise of the king who
had steered his country in a deli
cate course between German de
mands for its wholehearted par
ticipation in . the war and the
wishes of his people, pro-Russian'
In their sympathies, threatened a
violent new crisis, for tha. little.
IMMENSE RAID
BATTERS JERRY
mm city
Nuernberg Placed on
List for Hamburg
Treatment
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
LONDON, Aug. 28 VP Im
mense formations of British
bombers said by coastal observ
ers to be the greatest force ever
sent over Germany bashed
Nuernberg last night, throwing
down hundreds of tons of ex
plosives on that southern Ger
man Industrial city and center
of nazidom.
. Tho air ministry called It a
"very heavy attack" which
meant that the British threw in
an assault intended virtually to
obliterate the targets.
Wide Operations
It was a night of wide opera
tion from this great air base
with Mosquito i attacks of the
Ruhr, Fighter and Intruder
sweeps against railways and
axis air fields in Franca and
the low countries.. Thirty .thrrt.
BrJUso bombers war lotv
- Tha t nasi controlled Vichy
radio reported the RAF was
over northern Franca again this
morning, but there was no con
firmation of this.
The Nuernberg attack was
the RAF's second major assault
of tha week, Berlin having been
blasted on a colossal scale Mon
day night, and with fire and
bursting steel last night's raid
answered, the declaration by
Nazi Labor Chief Robert Ley:
"Owing to its formidable po
sition, Nuernberg la well-protected
against air attacks."
Round Trip
It was a round-trip flight of
about 1100 miles an operation
of such tremendous forces as to
stir the whole of England and
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Mrs. FDR Tells
Zealanders of
Post-War Plans
WELLINGTON, N. Z., Aug. 28
VP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
told a press conference today
that some type of post-war or
ganization would obviously de
velop out of the present cooper
ation between the United Na
tions, but what form it would
take she was not prepared to
say.
'The world is going to think
in terms of a better world for
all its people," she said, "and
unless a great many people are
going to have a better standard
of living there will be no mar
kets to absorb the increased pro
duction which will have taken
place." -
Balkan country.
The German radio denied
that the king's illness had been
induced by a violent quarrel with
Adolf Hitler during a recent visit
to the fuehrer's headquarters or
that the king even had been out
side Bulgaria recently. .
Deny Shooting - 5
Meanwhile a German broad
cast of Sofia dispatches quoted
"authoritative quarters" as deny
ing that the king's illness ' had
originated from "anything com
ing from the .outside an appar
ent reference to rumors that he
had been shot in an assassination
attempt.
.Istanbul heard wholly uncon
firmed reports that the king .suf
fered a heart attack after an un
pleasant two-day conference at
tha headquarters of Adolf Hitler
during which the nazl leader be
came enraged and attempted to
strike the monarch.
Lord Mountbatten, New Asia Commander In Washington
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Vies Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, left, newly named allied supreme commander of south
east Asia, is shown signing a short snorter bill for Capt. G. W. Knight commander of 'the V. 8.
army transport service, shortly after Mountbatten arrived in Washington, D. C where ha imme
diately went Into war conferences with V. S. military leaders. ..
Klamath Bids for Extensive Post-War
Highway Work as Commissioners Visit 1
Here oh Tour of Eastern Oregon Area
Klamath made a strong bid
for important post-war state
highway development on Friday
night when the state highway
commissioners and their party
stopped here for dinner and the
concluding meeting of. an- exten
sive tour .of ' eastern. .Oregon
counties.. ; , ;,. .; .vl ,
Emphasized in the presenta
tion of tha Klamath program
were major Improvements on
The Dalles-California . highway
and the Willamette highway, es
tablishment of through-routes
through Klamath Falls, and
Mother Weds
Seven Soldiers
Without Divorce
' CINCINNATI, Aug. 28 VP) A
blonde - haired, - 34 - year - old
mother awaited extradition to
Arizona today after admitting
to FBI agents she was married
to seven soldiers "without both
ering to divorce any of them,"
Alan H. Belmont, district FBI
chief, disclosed.
The woman, Vivian Eggers,
was being held in the city
prison at Columbus, O., follow
ing her guilty plea before U. S.
Commissioner Robert Newlon
on a charge of feloniously ob
taining a soldier's $50 allow
ance check.
Belmont said the woman told
FBI agents she married five
privates, a sergeant, and a
lieutenant from May,' 1933 to
June, 1943.
. "You Just get to drinking and
having a good time, you meet
some one that's kinda nice
and that's the way it happens,"
she was quoted by the FBI. ,
Danes Cut Off; ,
Speculation Rife .
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 28 (IP)
Telephone communications ' be
tween Sweden and Denmark
were broken without ' explana
tion at 5 p. m. (8 a., m., Pacific
War Time), , tonight, leading to
speculation that extraordinary
events were occurring in - the
tiny nation torn by revolt
against German occupation
forces for the past 12 days.'
; The severing of 'telephone
communications is a . typical
hazi tactic when major events
are occurring. Danes in Stock
holm said this was the first
time telephone connections have
been broken since the Germans
Invaded Denmark and Norway
on April 8, 1940, t
. . .
Monville Pays as.
Sunny Goes to Reno .
! NEW YORK, Aug! 28 (JP)
Tommy Manville said today his
17-year-old bride of a few hours,
Made Marie (Sunny) Alnsworth,
whom he married last . Wednes
day, would board the 8:30 train
for Reno. i: ;:'. -
Manville said that all money
arrangements had 'been settled.
widening of the long-neglected
South Sixth street bottleneck.
While not on the formal. Klam
ath program, the Warm Springs
cutoff, which will cut the dis
tance to Portland via Wapr4ta,
came In for a local boost ., .i,.
f , ' . No Promisea- y -' -.- :
No promises were made by
the state highway commission
ers, who said it appears $20,000,-
000 a year for three years will
be spent on Oregon highways
immediately after the war. They
said they would study the Klam
ath program, and fit it into a
schedule of statewide highway
development that will favor the
general public welfare.
Commissioners Harry "Ban-
field : of Portland and ' Merle
Chessman of Astoria were in
Klamath Falls for the first time
(since their appointment to the
road board by Governor Earl
Snell. Commissioner Arthur
Schaupp of Klamath Falls was
with the party throughout the
dusty eastern Oregon trip, and
remained at his home here Sat
urday after other members of
the party went north via the
Willamette route to Eugene. :
Lakeview Road Work
One announcement of actual
work to be done came out of the
meeting. W. H. Lynch, district
engineer for the public Toads ad
ministration, said that the unfin
ished improvement of the Klam
ath Falls-Lakevlew highway, on
yuartz mountain, is to be put in-
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 12 14 0
Boston 0 2 1
Mungo and Lombardi; Bar
rett,, MacFayden (8), Odora (9)
and Poland.
SC Louis ....... ...... '3 11. 1
Cincinnati ' 4 , 14 0
M. Cooper and W. - Cooper;
starr, snoun (o), and Mueller.
Brooklyn ..........i4 20 4
Philadelnhia 1 10 a
' Barney. Webber (5). Savlex
(5), Davis (7) and Owen; Ger-
heauser, Kimball (3), Conger
(6), ie (8) and Moore.
Chicago :: 4 8 1
Pittsburgh ' 5 10 ' 2
Wyse, Erickton (1),-. Warneke
(3), Burrows (8), and Living
ston; Podgajny, . Gee (3) and
Baker.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 6 , 10 . 1
Chicago 7 12 : 0
Salveson, Dean (6), Heving
(8), and Rosar; Lee, Haynes (5)
and Turner. '
Detroit ...... 5 10 3
St. Louis .........10 14 0
White, Orrell (5), Overmire
(7), .Trout (8), and- Unser; Sun
dra and Hayes. i r
; ') ' ' "
Boston .............. . 2 ilO 3
New York :.. 1 5 0
H. Newsome and Partee; Zu
ber and Dickey.
(NEA TUpkou)
to immediate shape to carry traf
fic until the- permanent project
there can be completed. A good
surfacing was assured. -
T. B. Waiters, chairman of the
reads and- highways committee'
of the Klamath county chamber
of ""commerce, : presented the
Klamath proposals for state pri
mary and secondary highway
work, while City Engineer E. A.
Thomas outlined tha program
for improvements in and near
Klamath. Falls proper. County
Judge U. E. Reeder presided at
the dinner meeting, held In the
party room of the Pelican cafe.
Walters listed the proposed
primary' highway projects as
follows: ' i
1.' Construct relocation from
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Sympathy Strike
Held at Detroit
Plane Factory :
DETROIT, Aug. 28 VP) Day
shift workers of the Murray
Corporation of America's main
plant here, estimated by a union
spokesman to number more
than 9000, stopped work today
because, the union said, of the
disciplining of 200 other workers.-
The union spokesman, repre
senting Local 2, United Automo
bile Workers.. (CIO), said the
men had been penalized for be
ing tardy following their lunch
hour.
Lloyd T. Jones, president .of
Local No. 2, said he had author
ized the strike. . -A
statement by the company,
engaged in aircraft production
for the army, said that Jones
and chief shop stewards of the
local instructed workers not to
comply with working hours
agreed upon, by the company
and union and approved by the
national war labor board. -
Mountbatten,
May Wield Pincers on Japs
Br PRESTON GROVER
NEW DELHI, Aug. 28 (JP) A
vast plncer movement to cut
off Japan from all her new-acquired
southern islands was re
garded as a possibility here to
day as a result of the Quebec
conference decision to lay new
emphasis on this theater. .
. At one end would be Vice
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat
ten, supreme allied commander
for Southeast Asia, and at the
other Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
. Map . Shows Plan '
A glance at the map shows
the possibility. ' Part of the pln
cer operation already is under
way from MacArthur's side. As
it looks from this end, it would
be .the war's most .widespread
battle for air bases. '! .
Lay one end of a- ruler on
Burma and the other end on
the Truk . islands, big Japanese
naval and air base north of New
HIPPOS FLEE
ASM
Vila Also Imperiled:,
Salamaua May
Fall Soon 1
By OLEN CLEMENTS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. '
Aug: 28 VP) Gen.. Douglas.
MacArthur announced today
that all Japanese resistance has
ceased on New Georgia in the'
Central Solomons. ' '
The bitterly-contested ' cam-"
paign. there ended Thursday
when American troops pushing '
up from the captured M u n d a '
airfield 12 -miles to the south
occupied Bairoko harbor. Appar-
ently the remnants of the Japa
nese -garrison, which had held -out
there since Munda fell Au
gust S succeeded in fleeing by
night In barges across the Kula
gulf to -the enemy's base of Vila
on Kolombangara. - '
- : Vila Imperiled ' :
'Vila's garrison also' is imper
iled, not only by New Georgia's '
complete conquest but also by
the recent surprise occupation
by American troops of Vella La-'
veils, island above Kolomban-;
garm'.. ; . '." '
In tha final occupation of Bai
ME
AKE HARBOR
roko, !.- atoiesvY including .-.
much IBoa "arid some vehicles,
were seized. There were no re
ports of Japanese prisoner. The
Bairoko defenses had been
crumbling the past few' days
after the Americana succeeded
in bringing up artillery. , . .
. . . Second Month
The fall, of New- Georgia oc-.
curred near the end of the sec
ond month, of the Pacific offen
sive which opened June 30 with
seizure of Rendova island from
which the Americans immedi
ately started shelling Munda.
Today s communique also dis
closed that elements of the Unit,
ed- States forces have occupied
small islands off Munda in the
vicinity of-Baanga. -Until a few
days ago, the Japanese were
shelling the airfield from Baanga
island.--- ' ' .
V. 8. Inflltratioa '. :
In northeastern New Guinea,
where the fall of the Salamaua
airdrome appears imminent,.
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Former French Head
Held by Gestapo
BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 28
(JP) Albert Lebrun, former
president of the French republic
who will' be 72-years-old tomor
row, has been arrested by mem
bers'of the German gestapo, one.
of whom carried a machine-gun,,
a frontier dispatch to the Swiss
Gazette De Lausanne said today.:
- The dispatch also reported that
Andre Francois-Poncet, former'.
Fjrench ambassador to Berlin and .
later to Rome before the warrt
also was arrested in a ' similar '
manner at La Tronche near;
Grenoble where: he had lived
with his family since 1941. Both
arrests , occurred yesterday. :
Mac Arthur
Guinea. It will give a picture
of the obvious line of attack
open to the allies without un
dertaking the long Job of cap
turing 10,000 islands, one, by
one, by a slow advance from
the outer ring formed by Su-,
matra, on westward through'
Java and; the balance of the
Archipelago paralleling - the'
northwest coast of Australia .'
Canton ea Line
: Directly on the line mad by,
the ruler is : Canton, 1 on the
Chinese coast, with a hinterland
highly suitable for airports.
From such airports land-based
airplanes could attack Japanese
supply lines ' leading to - her
forces In all her southern isl
ands, and make the holding of
them extremely costly.
Japanese bases along the.
coasts of Burma and China and
in the Truk Islands all are ob
; (Continued on Pag Eight) .