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L JX lull "ltle todl,y'
tePp'rric FLAMES With
lews .
. .. Mifiiln. ni
tha
r T" Vuuiaiu. wnom "
t'V "Lforo Our torso com
iruck bc'ii nf "hlllh degree"
iun quo tell, of n. n
KCcame from China
nln.
LrHhc day b,?ln 1
PEqHT.Lv.nroni.orwr
the
of
tho
ii,.. Imi. back 25 miles
t ih. nor hrl. Tho blow was
LVJi Sblo by Chinese rein-
fAl0Chlneo army spokesman
CSpMloToftho cnllro Pclplnu-
!-s:,S5,rnKqu'ni
kutlins 01 urn"-
trllE Chinese spoKosmmi
1 1 mcnt, on Its face, sounds
Jtu, .;ntlmlllc. But Gon
l" .... ...I... 1.-- .M.r
era Cnennouu, wuu ..
ju,l.itf Into
Llllon to strike STRAIGHT AT
THE. i -vi
..' i.. ti, i Imo will come
Lon. perhaps before another 12
months nave iwnwu, w.v,. .....
i.n. will bo driven forover from
He mny Know noninuimu
hlnt ycl oecn oiiicwiijr
l fOUNTB ATTfcN i o 1 1 1 m
loHnv Ihnt Jan Gen
ral MulnKiiehl has confessed
(Hum in tils India Invniilon pnd
Ijdmltled that his Invading army
lii in desperate, sinu. mow
lhtii idd that the Indla-lnvad
Ilm Japs are all in retreat or
tWPP . , . ...
Tlie Burma miiicno ro umy
1 1 mllo from Tengcnung, tie
scribed In the dispatches an -on
I Important city ntcciMty 'to re-
i opening ine uurms roan.
...t.c ,-:, ii.j.:.
lAN Salptn. our commanders,
I offer the Japs a. chnnco to.'
lummdor, designating jroute
I for them to come Into our line
mil promising thorn food, water
ana soimy u iney come.
I j. u. Kmeiicr. a l' correspona
I ent on the spot, cobles that tho
trapped japs evidently bfukin
SURRENDER and await death.
I They are surrounded by our
infantry and 'marines, who await
uie signal to bring on the end,
ITN estimating the Jap suicide
1 complex, we must keep , this
nara, realistic fact in mind:
The mvstlc Jnn navaan who In
slits on dying for hla emperor
insteaa ot surrendering when all
hope Is gone doesn't have to be
tea and caret! for by ua.
VfftS GALLAGHER, AP cor
rrwnrlnf In MAFmanlv
CSbfog torinv ihnt th Inumlnn
mm i aved up to Iho expocla
Hons of many, ot its planner."
i ' inn ,nrm nnm n aun a nt
hive fniltfht fnnntlnnll.a n4 tU.
I " lHkHllJ HIIU
WC&thftr hn hAn Unrf u
beginning, hampering our air
vpviauuiis ana our lanaings.
J " rfwu lllltvia V. k UODtUi
Germans. If the Normandy
hioj ua in u lii iuui uic
anding isn't up to expectations,
rLSlild, bc loslcal to expect
landings. -
LAST night wag a relatively
Muict ingni on me nusstan
En j finlv 50n Germans wore
iucu, moscow says.
yun nussian armies are
ariylng westward toward tho
"""ip'ond. One Is 10 miles
i.rom. w "0.- In Poland: .Wllno
IX HI ml M vn. n
troni cast Prussia
"mo of tho German war lorda.
iWi V Pushing west Xrpm
bandoned Kowol. In nnlv as
miiM '.r'-. " ?
an
,: Minima hi orcsi-LiUOVSK,
Bn. i Bug fBI,'hor north. (Tho
r..Lis ""Ppo'ed to bo tho next
-"limn acicnso Una
S In ftln VahI.i.1 i 1 1.
.
dw .S.ini T0'08raph sayg to.
hi f f.'mH oorncs will not
to 'Mf" when tho time comos
SETTLE AcnoTiMTa nith
deV, i ""'' i o a n w h 1 1 e th Is
acsuitory and Indiscriminate fire
linrivion.. . t
u.ivo nooody from his post
WHISTLING to keep British
. oj sa . ah
"ooui mat,
. oupposn thn .Inn. u,i,
coast " g,vcJ7 C,V on the Pacific
Wmil'A '"c,lLd'nB Klamath, Falls.
rubhu w,eb0 co.mn out of tho
wlth m.-u uur pesiroyod homes
inw ,sJn th air scream
IL.LEASE quit; we sur.
grmf WOULD NOT. We'd
'"ting our oiu o-j ......i
woman n1il,u1,tJ00k evory man
m6n a"d child of us to do It!
rElRR-B0MBINa -gets no-
t'on to ifj 1 n?rdon resolu
KiJ: .'O.shed the nt Hnn i
MIL'itW136' T bomb is
it fa w ? ClV"lan m0r-
J. 11 IS WOrfin than Xl
m "hit. exPerlnce has taught
PRICE 5 CENTS
s
Bradley's Men
Launch Assault
On Bot flenecks
By WEB GALLAGHEH
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, July 7 iA'i Lt. Can, Omar H. Bradley's American army.
sprlnaina at dawn today in a now attack on the nail-defended
bottlenecks through the marshy lowlands of Normandy, stabbed
forward more than a mile across the Vira river and captured
the villaa ol Aeriel.
This attack toward the west above St. Lo surged forward
under a concentrated hall from big guns which dated enemy ma
chine gunners and sent German
Liocal American attacks around La Haye Du Flits at the west
ern end oi the biasing 26-mlle front almost surrounded that
pivotal point. The German grip slowly molted under the pressure
around La naye at the western end.
Aerlel, eight miles northeast ol the Important road Junction
of St. Lo., was taken In the first hour oi the new attack across
Mho Vlro.
nnii
mn m in
By NOLANO NOROAARD
ROME, July 7 Wl Lushing
out from outposts of the hcnvlly
lortnicd uotiuc lino in their first
aRgroHSivo notion In two months,
the German defenders of north
ern Italy have brought the fifth
army's drive toward Llvorno
(Leghorn), Pisa and Floronce al
most to a halt, allied heodnunrt-
.et wild, toduy. .
mo eighth army also meas
ured Its gains In yards instead of
miles. .
Stiff Battle .
A stiff house-to-house battle
continued to rago day and night
In tho vlllngo of Roslgnano,
where Amerlcnn Infantry who
have penetrated to within ten air
line miles of Llvorno were at
tempting to smash through heav
ily manned atrongpolnts.
The severity of the fighting
was shown in official reports.
The Americans, who on the pro
ceding day held half of tho town,
wcro nblo to clolm only two
thirds of Its battered ruins last
(Continued on Page Seven)
Invasion Slower
Than Expected.
Report Officers
SUPREME . HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, July 7 (F) The allied
Invasion of Franco has not lived
up to tho expectation of many
of ' Its planners, who had esti
mated tho assault would pro
gress more rapidly than it has.
Officers mado no secret of
this todny, but nt the same time
hastened to say that tho west
ern front, nftor one month of
fighting, could not bo described
as "Unsatisfactory."
"After all, we have landed
and established a front and a
month ago., we were none too
sure whether we could do that,"
one officer said.
Ambassador to
Leave Spain
MADRID, July 7 (P) U. S.
Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes
uni fiv tn Washington tomor
row. He conferred for 80 min
utes yesterday Willi ucnerai
Franco.,
Death To in Circus Fire Nears lSO
Mark Today; 250 Others Injured
HARTFORD, Conn., July 7 (P)
Tho death toll in the greatest fire
In circus history noared the 150
mark today, with the majority of
victims women end children, as
tho full, grim unfolding of the
catastropho' which destroyed the
main tent of the Ringllng Broth
ers and Bnrnum and Bailey cir
cus turned this stunned city into
a center of grieving. .
Dr. Alfred J. Burgdorf, city
health officer, fixed the death
toll at 148 while 250 other per
sons, burned or injured when the
big top first burst into flames and
then collapsed yesterday, were
pattered' In three hospitals.
i Identification Slow t
: t j.inii.ntlnn nf fhn Henri wild
lUBIlI'Mivai.iu., .V.,,,. i
alow, and Mayor William Mor
tensen saia won ij v..
tho charred no no ay musei
. Ua Irttnum-- nrw
nounced that the city probably!!
In The Shanta
artillery observers scampering.
The barrage which initiated
lt was one of tho heaviest yet
seen in Normandy and tho Amer.
lean advance was so rapid the
Germans did not have time to
blow up one of the bridges across
tno river.
i After taking the bridge, the
Mfoptry pushed on for over;
mile' toward the road Junction
of St Joan Do Dayo, two miles
distant.
Around La Have, one Amer
ican column took La Surcllerle,
less than a mllo south and only
slightly west of tho town, while
the column working around from
the east closed in to a similar
position thrco miles southeast
of Ltt Haye.
' Naur Anarf '
At Lo Stirellcrlo the AtheH
leans wcro within a few hundred
yards of the road running south
irom La nnye to L&ssoy, ine
main road out of the town and
the Germans' only escape route.
(A BBC broadcast as reported
by NBC in New York said La
Haye had fallen, but later BBC
broadcasts did not bear out the
report and lt was not confirmed
Dy supremo Headquarters). .
Danger of Trap
While tho Germans here were
in grave danger of being trap
ped, headquarters announced no
major action on the British front
around cacn at tho eastern end
of the battlefront.
Earlier reports to headquart
ers, however, said one of tho
patrols - of the British second
army had reached the dock area
of Caen. ,
Tho report said no Germans
were encountered in the penetra
tlon.
However, front line dispatches
((.oniinuca on rage seven)
Yanks Close In
For Saipah Kill
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
July 7 (P) -United States forces
closing in for the kill on Japa
nese troops pocketed on north
crn Saipan today offered the ten
to IS thousand civilians trapped
with them an avenue to life-sov'
Ina surrender.
AP Correspondent Rembert
James reports from tho Western
Pacific island that American
commanders decreed that a sin
gle highway could be used by the
civilians to come into me u. B
lines.
Already some 7000 Japanese
civilians have been interned by
the marine and army forces wno
have cornered the Nipponese on
Snlpnn's northern tip. The enemy
soldiers seemed determined on a
desperate last stand, doomed
though they were.
would be 'called upon to bury
them.
Meanwhile, a variety of Inves
tigators pressed an inquiry into
tho origin of tho Inferno which
quickly changed a gay throng of
eooOilnto a panic-stricken, shriek
ing mass of humanity with only
one object in mind to escape the
horror of a fast settling, flaming
shroud of fiercely burning can
vas from the big top. ;
Officials Held
As a steady stream of weary
relatives sought to give names to
the victims, who lay beneath
sheets in grim aisles of dead in
the huge, sprawling armory, five
nfflniaia nf 41io nlrpns rnmnnnv
were held in high ball, charged
with manslaughter, . .
They were:
J. A. Haley, vice president;
George W. Smith, general man
ager; Leonard Aylesworth, boss
- Cancade Wonderland
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1944 - Number 10204 fllj Ml 11 fl I U
PVT.B.W. GDE
ACQUITTED OF
L
Acquittal of mansl a u g h t e r
charges was won In a general
court martial at Camp Tulelake
last night by Private Bernard W.
Goc, Son Francisco, the sentry
who shot and killed Evacuee Shl-
ochl James Okomoto at the seg
regation center gate May 24.
Court martial proceedings con
tinued throughout the afternoon
and evening, with five colonels,
one lieutenant colonel and two
captains present from San Fran
cisco to participate. Several Jap
anese evacuees and two attorneys
and other officials of the WRA
were on hand as observers, ac
cording to Lt. Colonel Verne
Austin. TuieiaKe - commandant,
who announced the verdict to
day.
',. Threatening Gesture
j cnyS(S;UDS,WU Ull uic aMlu
In' the evening, and It is under
stood he indicated that a threat
ening gesture from Okomoto
caused him to believe he was in
personal danger and Justified in
shooting. This opporently wos the
basis of the acquittal of the San
Francisco soldier.
The shooting o Okonjote on
May 24 caused coaai-wlde'sen'
satfbff. artd an "extra", edlllon-of
the eolonj paper at Tulelake told
evacuee or tno incident.?- :, .
i .1; v ' Truck DrWer
' OkOmoto, 40, was driver of a
truck Dermuted to pass tnrougn
the center'maln gate, where Pri
vate Goe; was a sentry. ; Some
words passed between the soldier
and the evacuee, and the latter
had, gotten out of the truck Just
tafor the gunfire.
. Shortly after the shooting, a
Moddc. coroner's Jury found that
th sentry shot In the "line of
duty."
. Name Withheld
Private Goe's name was not
given to the press until today,
(Continued on Page Seven)
Women Killed,
Men Injured
In Gunfight
' VANCOUVER, July 7 (CP)
Two women were killed and two
men badly wounded in a gun
fight which started In. a Van
couver residence today and end
ed on n street 11 blocKs away,
Police said Alex Rusan was
being held for investigation in
connection witn tne snooungs.
Mrs. Jack Preston and Mrs.
Laura Rusan were shot dead,
Fred Ransoff and Jack Preston
were wounded.
Police said the shooting be-
Ban in the Rusan home.
Police said Ransoff is not ex
pected to live. . Condition of
Preston was reported as "lair.
FDR's Political
Flans Uncertain
WASHINGTON. July 7 (fl3) A
reporter asked President Roose
velt today , if ne regarded Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
as a strong, opponent, and
brought laughter and. a lecture,
but no direct reply as to Mr,
Roosevelt's political plans. .-
canvas man; Edward Versteig,
chief electrician, and David
Blanchfleld, chief wagon man,
. Held on Boil
After having been detained
throughout the night at p o 1 i c e
headquarters Haley and Smith
were held on $15,000 ball and the
others on $10,000 lor a hearing
July i.
Meanwhile investigators seek.
lng to "establish a reason for the
startlingly rapid spread of the
blaze which all eye-witnesses
agreed mushroomed with Increcl
lble speed from a tiny finger of
flame near the main entrance to
a gigantic Inferno of smoke and
lire. -
Gas, Paraffin
' Police Court Prosecutor James
F. Kennedy 'announced that his
preliminary investigation had es
tablished that the huge canvas
(Continued on -page six)
Appearing at tho country store sponsored by the Fifth War, Loan committee tonight will be
these four WAVES who are stationed at the Klamath navol air station. The four axe Storekeep
ers Irene RoossI, Nancy . Roberts, and Helen Porter, and Yeoman Mazda Follensbee.
Hundreds AHond Openi
Of Klamaih Country Store;
$53,825 in "E" Bonds Sold
The country store, sponsored
bv the Fifth War Loan drive
committee, opened Thursday!
. n ...... . '
waiting outside for .the doors to
open at 7 o'clock, according to
Joe Hicks, Fifth War Loan
chairman.
A total of $53,825 worth of
E bonds were sold with the
large crowd seemingly pleased
over the opportunity of obtain-
CODPE
KEW RETAIL SITE
Klamath Basin Cooperative
has acquired a large site at
South 6th and Midland road
where it will develop a major
retail outlet, it was learned to
day. The cooperative, which Is af
filiated with the Pacific Supply
cooperative in the former Mar
tin Brothers mill plant, will de
velop an outlet here instead of
expanding its plant at Tuleloke,
where it now operates.
This step, it was stated, was
taken in response to urgings of
members at various locations in
the basin who wanted central
rlictrihntinn at Klamath Falls.
While major development at the"
South 6th site will proDamy wait
until after the war, a feed ano
sped store is to be established
immediately, and thereafter
members will deal in those pro
ducts at the new location in
stead of the former Martin plant.
The South 6th site, consisting
of 61 acres, is now an auto camp
and service station, and long has
been owned by former County
Judge R. H. Bunnell.
The cooperative will continue
(Continued on Page Seven)
WAR
BULLETINS
- Bulletin
TJ. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
July 7 OT An attempt by 200
Japanese to escape seaward from
a trap on embattled Saipan was
broken uo by American artillery
fire, Adm. Chester W. Nimlts
reported today in announcing
steady advances on that strategic
island.
LONDON, July 7 (fl1) Mor
than 1100 U. S. heavy bombers
with strong fighter escort shot
down 114 German planes in great
aerial battles over Germany to
day with the loss of 38 bombers
and six fighters, a U. S. strategic
air force communique announced
tomgnt.
LONDON, July 7 (fl3) Russian
armlet continued their westward
advance along their long battle
front today, capturing nearly 400
populated places, including Mir,
a district center in th region of
Baranowici. and Oshkyana and
Ostrovets, district centers in th
Wilejk region, thi soviet com
munique announced tonight.
if if n i
ttavu den Donas
ing the rare items which were
given with, the purchase of the
4 Many items- were .auctioned,
eiut 90 per cent of the pur
chases were made from shelf
stocks at the' prices in bonds
marked. Although much of the
stock was sold, Chairman Ted
Reeves of the' retail committee
stated that the . stock will be
completely replenished Friday
evening.
The band from the Marine
Barracks played during the eve
ning. .
Special features tonight will
be furnished by WAVES from
the naval air station, who will
not only man the store, but will
carry on a special events pro
gram" throughout the proceed
ings. .
Birthday
Today is the WAVES' birth
day and the day has been set
aside for their war bond drive.
(Continued on Page Seven) .
Four-Year-0d
Worden Girl
Killed by Cow
Little Margie Mae McDanlel,
four-vear-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Emery McDaniel of
Worden, was .killed Thursday
evening when she was butted
against the side of the barn by
a cow at her home at Garden
ranch near Worden.
The little girl was in the barn
with her brother looking at a
new-born calf when the cow at
tacked her. The boy carried her
out of the barn and then called
his parents, who rushed her to
a Dorris. -Calif., hospital. She
was Dronounced dead on arrival.
The child, was a native of
Jonesboro, Ark., and besides her
parents is survived by one broth
er ana tnree sisters.
Wards Funeral home in Klam
ath Falls has charge of funeral
arrangements and notices will
appear later.
77 Die in Train
Other Deaths Expected
' JELLICO, Tenn., July 7 m
At least 17 persons, all but two
of them soldiers, were killed
last night when a - troop train
plunged into a 50-foot gorge of
the Clear river 11 miles south
of here.
Dr. E. P. Muncy, resident
physician- of Knoxvllle's gener
al hospital, said the death toll
probably would exceed 40.
1 In Ravin
, The locomotive and four cars
were piled at the ravine's bot
tom, and a fifth hung over the
precipltlous edge, where it left
the Louisville and Nashville
railroad tracks.
One soldier, identified by
-army public relations as Pvt.
Leonard Battag of Evanston,
111., was still ' pinned' in "the bot
tom of a wrecked car 12 hours
after the crash, with four dead
men piled on him. He regained
consciousnessiand talked with
rescuers as acetylene torches
By The Associated Press
LONDON. July 7 (-TV Ger
man reports said the Russians
were advancing today within ten
miles of Wilno, where ; Moscow
reported the nazls iiaatleeiai
martial law.
Smashing beyond the old Pol
ish, bastion of Kowel, the Rus
sians were approaching the Bug
river at a point about 135 miles
southeast of Warsaw along the
main trunk line. Virtually all
the pre-war Polish frontier was
crossed save for a section Detore
Lumniec in the Pripyat marshes,
Martial Law
Wilno, city of 207,750 which
has changed nationality six times
since the last war, lies but 97
miles from the border of East
Prussia and is a rail and high
way center. A Moscow dispatch
quoted Yustas Faletskis, chair
man of the presidium of the su
Dreme soviet of Lituania. as say
ing the German martial law
edict barred persons from the
streets between 8 p. m. and o a.
m. and forbade walking in
groups greater than two. Palets
kis said there had been upris
ings in Kaunas, Mariampole and
Vilnius.
While at least four Russian
army groups pushed westward,
(Continued on-Page Seven). ,
Chinese Break i
Hengyang Seige
CHUNGKING, July 7 (IP)
Chinese troops have made.' a
smashing comeback in Hunang
province, breaking his siege of
Hengyang and driving back a
distance of 25 miles the main
body of Japanese troops which
had by-passed that vital rail junc
tion in their drive south along
the Hankow-Canton railway, a
Chinese army spokesman de
clared today. - -
The victory, scored with the
aid of reinforcements moving up
from the southwest, has "re
moved for some time to come!
the Japanese threat to occupy
the whole of that vital rail line
and cut China in two, the spokes
man said.
Wreck;
cut through twisted steel near
by. The youth, in the army only
13 days, asKed a doctor a ne
was in a Diane. ' :
"It sure looks like it," he
said. "This is a lot better, hole
than on that train." He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bat-
tag of Evanston.
Work Slow
Work of extricating the vic
tims from the locomotive and
five cars which tumbled down
the steep 50-foot bank to the
shallow stream was slow.
The train was a soecial carry
ing only soldiers and the train
crew.
An emergency train was made
up from the 12 cars which did
not leave the track this morn
ing taking 50 of the injured to
Lake City, Tenn., en route to
the government hospital at van
Rldee. Tenn.. and at least 30
other injured service men were
sent to uaic Kiage nospuais in
ambulances.
I UIT IM DAin
Second Attack- on Jap
Mainland Made
On Kyushu . ?
WASHINGTON. July 7 W
Super-Fortresses of the U. S. 20th
airforce bombed the Japanese,
naval base at Sasebo and th
steel center of Yawata on the is
land of Kyushu Friday night, in;
the second attack by. the hug?
B-29's on the Japanese mainland.
- Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief ot
the airforces, announced the as
sault in a communique at Wash'
ington. - It - was the third ttm
since Pearl Harbor that Ameri
can olanes have rained bombs or
Japan proper. ' ' i
- west of Yawata -.
Sasebo. comparable to the U.S.
naval establishments at Norfolk,.
Va., or .Bremerton, Wash.,. wa
hit for the first time since they
start, of the war. It lies to the
west of Yawata', which was thV
target of' the first B-29 Super
Fortress attack, on the Japanese).
nome islands on June 15.
The target of today's attack,
which occurred on the seventh
anniversary of Japan's initiatlon
of the war with China, lies Just
north, of the great Japanese port
of Nagasaki.- - ' ,
. Bofor Dawn -':
The attack- on- Yawata. also bv.
Super-Fortresses of .--the-; 20th
bomber command based in .
China,, occurred in the pre-dawn
hours of June 15. . . .
The great weight of explosives)
was poured on the factories of
that city at the northern-end. of
Kyushu . island, and air forces)'
officers reported a high degree'
of successful hits 'on the Indus
trial targets. .- "'-.' -i-
Four of the B-29's failed to re?
turn to their base in China after."
the- Yawata mission; One was'
shot down, by anti-aircraft fir'."
over, the-target, and operational;'
accidents, prevented two others
from getting. back. The fourth Is
listed as missing. . v ; r ; s
--Yawata's steel plants are esti
mated to produce about one-fifth
of the steel; critically needed by
Japan in its armament and ship
construction program, . -'
Follows Pattara ' '; -'"-''"i'
- The return of the B-29's to Ya
wata after- a : .three-week - inter
val follows the-pattern of strat
egic bombing set in the European
operations an initial attack,
with an . interval during which
the enemy attempts repairs, then
a new. attack to smash the repairs
(Continued ;on.,Page . Seven) , t :
Recognition Not )
Discussed With I
De Gaulle .
WASHINGTON. ' July 7 Wl-l
President ' Roosevelt- said . today ,
his talks with Gen. -Charles de
Gaulle: will -cover a ereat manv
things, but will not include any
discussion of possible recognition
for the. French, national -. com
mittee. The president saidi- today's
talks probably will-deal with the
underground movement within
France particularly southern
France. This government has a.
good deal of information, of its
own on the subject, he said. - .
'Will the question of recogni
tion come in? ' a reporter asked.
No. the president replied, and
said it did not come in during
the London talks, either an obvious-reference'
to De Gaulle's
r e c e n t conversation . with the
British government.: i ;
Commander's Son
Hit on Soipoh ; 4
' WASHINGTON,1. July 7 -'" (JPh
grift, -commandant . of . the ma
rines,' was notified today that his
son, Lt Col. A. A, Vandegrift
Jr., marines, has been wounded
in action on Saipan. , - '-
Young Vandegrift, 33. was
shot in the leg while leading an
infantry battalion- fighting June
28 around Mount Tapotchau. '' r
He ' previously had partici
pated with- the 4th marine di
vision in the assaults on Rot and
Namur in the. Marshall islands
last February. He is unmarried,
and makes his home ' with his
parents, in. Washington..- ; : '.:.;;
FDR Concerned J
Over Cninese War
" ' WASHINGTON,' July 7 (P) 4
Presldent Roosevelt said today
the war In China is not going
well and that we are a good deal
concerned over, the outlook, "
Mr. Roosevelt tempered, his
news conference remark, how
ever, by saying the Japanese are
in a poor, strategic position -because
their supply lines. are so-extended-
and are being menaced
by the allies, ' . . - .1
- The fighting in China does not
seem to be stopping' the Japanese
advances, the prMep said. s