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Newspaper Page TextD 0) o) IMl fo) rui 11 fo)M ISS1H GUAM. RDTft ROOSEVELT TO July 11, 1944 Max. (July 10) 82 Mln. ...48 Precipitation, last 24 hours 00 Stream year to data 9.89 Normal 11.97 Last year ...17.78 Forecast! Cloudy. ACCEPT DEMO r-. CU-.II merican imps jubh Islands South of ' Saipan I.;1. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD LiERS. I''-rl Harbor, July ' .imrk Ires I l)IPW I."?", d Slu over the week- 82m .S i o . lew tl.nn ifmlto wiilli o' Saipan, which "Pii-.-..iiirml by American lhcl ,H lh, c iico Jpii look tho ion.d'1 " .. ii 11)41. amim L-Una w ; . , ,, ,3 whl0 tint w" , ,;"v.v. 1., She Saipan iaiuiiim i"- T'Pcnrl lliirbor communique a'VP" noaltlcin E nd small craft .long ithe bcac i". lsianas m Planes of ft carrier ii.k &rS .iM boh, Ou.m n.. . unnri IV Willi uuiiiuoi 1. . - 1. 1 i 1 11 1- 1 1 I tw 12 U II HrO One carrier piano was lost, but destroyer rcscusu u "".v- . a ...... . who Hllcecl ntly through ihe Marianas by Inking Saipan nunwa uuwi 1. .... i.rt iimniiPitit unifier It nd straiiiilors l large on that ulind. Belated enemy civilians 1I10 were trickling In to ur render. . Attack Basea finuhllp. Liberator! from L..-i -...1 tfn..lli.uMt Parlflc ccnum " puu.nn... - base collaborated upon nttacka (Continued on rago iwo; Bond Sales Soar To Five Million 1 1 1 w Dollar Mark RcmiIU of the bond sales In the Fifth War Loon drive for Klamath county nro driving tho totals itlll further over tho $3,815,000 quota not for tho county, according to Joe Hicks, Fifth War Loan drlvo chairman. Totals have soared to over J5.0OO.OOO today with results itlll coming In. Bonds sold up until July 20 will bo counted In' the final figures, although Ihe drlvo Is officially ended. E bonds sold , on the payroll saving plan are still yet to be completely tabulated and it Is expected tho results will drlvo tho figures even higher. Judge U. E. Boeder, chairman of the bond sales for county em ployes, has announced that tho quota of $8300 has boon exceed ed by $300, and other reports nave verified tho fact that most individual quotas have been flllcd, Travelers Left Stranded SEATTT.I!' T..1.. 11 m A practical example of what travel jnd government officials recent ly have warned occurred last "Wit when numerous civilian Slcr" ,wcro loft stranded In Seattle railroad stations. ; .?urods of naval officers irtifu loiS " lcavc 'fom an un H"ccd .''"P that reoched 2lSoJ"ld a'tcr mor than 20 of m,sc?.in sevcral theaters bn,?,Mllled th0 caches of cost-&GreJ,t,orthern- Northern ffi n,d Mlwaukeo trains. t Dfchoice of Wallace Reported her h,,,"lr Rsvelt sold to cent . fhuand s decision to ac to her. Urthtcrm waa 811 news 'iMUadv1.' knw ' u- e "'esc lETX oosn't discuss ISCUSf add' d, "Mn mc sno add- docs, bu, yn,Pe.opl. lhlnk that ho 1 ee It It, iEP dccl,l,P 18 when " m tho papers." toss of Sub Announced July u ml HSement PRICE 5 CENTS leiing f . ' t - , 1. j ' 1 5 , . . " . ' ' , ) - ' ' ' Shown above la the new marine gymnasium that will provide .recreation for the boys sta tioned at the Marine Barracks. The gym Is nearing completion. Two' basketball courts of ordi nary sise are contained In the gym and a court equaling that of any college it contained length wise. In addition a six-lane bowling alley for use of the marines Is insldje one-of. the wings. Grand Jury Indicis Indian For Second Degree Murder An Indictment, of second de cree murder. was brought in by tho grand Jury at tho close of Its session Monday; against Imo- gono Fisher, Klamath Indian Woman. "In "conndctlon" with Hie Willkie Views ! Not Submitted ; NEW YORK, July 11 m Wendell L. Wlllklo sent-a draft of a proposed platform to the recent republican national con vention but his views which differ from those In the adopted platform wcro not submitted to the delegates. . 1 Tho 1B40 republican presiden tial nominee, who last night mado public tho text of the docu ment, said his representatives In Chicago wcro unablo to offer his proposals due to tho speed with which tho convention disposed of tho platform. Ticket Booths " Burn at Field Two ticket booths . at ' Modoc field burned about 6 o'clock Monday evening and about 13 feet of fence was also charred by the- blaio.. Origin of the fire is not known, according to the fire department and KUHS officials. . The fire department was also called Into yesterday afternoon and evening to extinguish two fires, one on Van Ness ond the other on North' Second. Thoro was no serious damage. Kefso Veneer Company Burns : KELSO. July 11 (VP) The Kel so Veneer company, where about 20 persons were employed on war contracts, was destroyed by fire last night. Tho loss was es timated by P. J. Landry, presi dent of tho firm, at $20,000. : Sevcral roof fires which start ed as tho brisk wind blew fire brands over a wide area of North Kolso were quickly under con trol. , ' Rall'trafflc on the Seattle Portland main line was stopped for about a half hour. ; Shipyard Worker Admits Slaying : SEATTLE, July 11 (A5) A 31-year-old shipyard worker, his arms and wrists slashed, was under guard In a hospital hero today after ho confessed, officers of a protty 14-ycar-old school gir noignuor in nor. oumuuiii. Tho girl, Harriott Loulso Llnd ulrnm. was anffHcd with a rayon blouse, stabbed through the mouth and beaten aooui. mc iw with an Iron stove shaker. She was . tho only child of Mr. and Mrs.. C. R. Llndstrom, who moved here recently from Miami, Fla. The father is a Booing air craft worker, ' Prosecutor Lloyd Shorett and Sheriffs Capt, ., Wesley Miller nti va UntiAi-llncr nrimlttcd the oniu h-m.ii"o killing: after rallying from a suicide attempt. . : In Th Shattia Gymnasium Nears Completion fatal stabbing last month of Wat kin Davis, also an Indian. Mrs. Fisher had previously been held under a first 'degree murder charge. Arraigned in cir cuit court Tuesday morning, the defendant took time to plead. She will appeor to enter her plea be fore Circuit Judge Dovld R. Van denberg Monday, July 17. at 10 a. m. 1 - , : .-Three other-true bills were re turned by the grand Jury yester day evening. An- indictment charging him with rape was brought in against Orblc Coplln. Allen Virgil Whorton was In dicted by the grand Jury on a (Continued on Pago Two) . , Chinese Troops Recapture Town CHUNGKING, July 11 (JP) Chinese troops attacking the outer ring of Japaneso defense flung around the Hunan pro vince rail city of Hengyang have recaptured Yungfcng, 45 miles to the northwest, the Chinese high command announced to night . The communlquo made no mention of tho new Chinese of fensive launched to the north in Hupeh province, but declared that In the south, in Kwanrtung province, fighting continued abovo Tslngyun, 40 miles north west of Canton. Allies Lose . 1284 Aircraft Supreme headquarters allied. expeditionary FORCE, July 11 (P) Allied' air forces flew approximately. 158, 000 sorties from British and French bases In tho first month of the Invasion and lost' 1284 craft In all operations, supreme headquarters announced today. The fliers destroyed 1067 Ger man plnnps in the air. Lt. Hamm in Siaies Again , After Adventure in Europe Plenty glad to be back: In tiic'i United States again is f irst li. Lowell Hamm, who has just re cently returned from duty with the air corps In Italy. . ,Lt. Hamm'. has had a lot ;of Interesting experiences since he left the States. He was reported missing in April when he had to bail out of his crippled plane in a raid over Ploestl, Hungary, but a month later he was back at his base. , Details of his trip back can't be told until after the war. -. He was a bombardier on a B-17 and had completed 12 missions. When , he parachuted, it was tho first jump he had ever made from a plane. ' - His, family, Mrs. Ethel Hamm and sisters Vesta and Velma, are now living in Portland; He spent two weeks with them and then visited with Klamath Falls friends until this last Sunday. , Lt. Hamm has lived In Klam ath Falls most of his life and Is a Klamath Union high school graduate. Ho was also art em ployo of. tho Merild and News for some, time. . ,. .., - Caneadc Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, YANKS WORK NORTH ' ' Bv NOLAND NOROAARD ' ROME. July 11 '(PiErriAldy: Ing - encircling atactics against stubDemiy-dcicnaea ananeavuy fortified German strongholds, American .troops .were, w.orking their way steadily northward to day In a bfdad enveloping, move ment -aimed atj. the. key Italian port 0: Livorno iL.ognorn. . Allied headquarters announc ed that fifth army- forces naa by-passed, tho town of Lajatico, 21 miles southeast of Livorno in one Dhase of this movement and had . stabbed on ahead against fierce opposition . ',' , By-Pass Pomaja . A similar operation resulted In -the bypassing of Pomaja, about eieht miles inland from the Italian west coast and ' ap proximately midway between Lajatico and' the coastal town of Castiglloncello. . Troops which drove around Pomaja on the east subsequently captured the vll ; (Continued on Page 'Two) Deseret News Speechless . SALT, LAKE CITY, . July 11 (PI Tho Deseret News, an In dependent dally' owned by the Latter-Day Saints (M or nvo n) church, today published the fol lowing In columns one and two at- the. top. of its editorial page: "The same old hat In the same old ring." . .. v . . -. "WASHINGTON (VP). Roose velt 'Will 'accept fourth term. (This Associated Press flash- was received .this morning at . 9:30 o clock from the nation's cap! tal." .; .' -t . Four and one-half -inches of double column white' space fol lowed. ... v. .... ' Then: ; ,'; c ;''.' ' .lt'-.-,"'; "The surprise was so great.,we were rendered speecniess. ' He left Sunday for . a Santa Monica redistribution . center where he will be reassigned. 1 Lt. Lowell Hamm TUESDAY, JULY II, 1944 British Forces Occupy Western Bank Of River ' By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. July 11 IP) American troops bursting forward in new offensives sluqged today to a point .within two miles of St. Lo, junction-bastion of central Normandy, and zipped through nasi defenses in two sectors farther west, on their flaming 40-mile front. In eastern Normandy. British-Canadian forces struck ahead a mile across the Orne river east of Caen against the Germans making a fierce stand in the suburbs of Vaucelles, and occupied the west bank of the Orne on a four-mile stretch from Caen's outskirts. U. S. troops and tanks, advancing under a pulverizing artil lery barrage, gained from two to three miles in the drive on St. Lo, and other doughboys farther northwest also pounded for ward, seizing four towns in a few hours. - One of these columns strik '. Friends were saddened by the news today of the passing of Mrs. W. B: Barnes, pioneer resi. dent of Klamath Falls, at her home on South Fifth street Tues day morning. Mrs.'. Barnes was a native of Irbhton, Missouri, and came itq Ktamith Falls In 1904;. At' the iimf-nf 1ier- death she was 73 year .old,- She hai been. a life. long memrjer 01 me meinoaiai church and was ictive In church circles. : Surviving are her widower; William B.- Barnes;, two . sons, Marion of Olene, and Major Zed Barnes, with, the army air corps in -China; -one daughter,. Mrs. Webb Kennett of San Jose; and three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral is under . the direc tion of the Earl Whitlock Funeral- home- and v arrangements will be announced later. . , Oregon Vote on Vice President Uncertain PORTLAND,. July : 11 (JP) Neither Willis Mahoney-nor any other person knows how the Ore gon delegation to .the national democratic, convention will vote on the vice presidential nomina tion, Thomas R. Mahoney, dele gation chairman, declared today. "That will be up to the entire delegation- when it meets in Chicago," said Chairman Ma honey. . Willis Mahoney, demo cratic cahdidate for U. S.' sen ator from Oregon, was quoted In Washington yesterday as predict ing the delegation will favpr re nomination of Vice President Wallace. Move on Pasto BOGOTA, Colombia, July 11 (P) Minister of Government Al berto' Lleras Camargo announc ed today that loyal troops were moving on Pasto in southern Co lombia,' where President Alfonso Lopez was held prisoner by a group-of rebellious army-offi. .cers. -'....'.'. ' ; Lleras Camarffo declared . the troops from garrisons in Tuquer- res and lplaies would-., ','sutio cate the subversive movement." Tho people could be assured, he said, that the situation -will be "totally, controlled. . . - Numerous army garrisons and firominent Colombian military caders declared their loyalty to the president. i' . (In Santiago, Carlos Martinez Barrero, charge d'affaires at the Colombian embassy, said his in formation indicated . the disor ders in Colombia were localized in one small area). Prisoners Arrive At Camp Adair : SALEM, July 11 () ' A company of less than 200 Italian prisoners arrived at Camp Adair last Friday to work at salvage operations in the cantonment, Capt. Douglas McKay, post pub lic relations officer, said today. - McKay , said he does not know whother more prisoners will be received at the camp. ing south from Carentan cap- tured La Maugerie and La Rose rie four miles from P.eriers,. and another bitting west- from the vire rtvjer seized Haur'Verney and Le." Mesnil-Augot, '..three miles beyond fallen St. Jean de Daye. These two blows were coordi nated with the new offensive against St. Lo., jumping off at dawn and closing, on .the town from two directions. The dough boys pushed to within two miles of at. J-.0 against heavy resist ance by crack parachute troops ana lorces.- -- - - 1 1 ' Occupy Colambellee " British troops in - their first Advance' from-positions east' of the Orne in several weeks drove south a mile,-and occupied Co lonibelles, -on- the' Outskirts of the suburb of Vaucelles. Canadians in a fast mop-up . ; (continued on rage Two; Marine Warns Against Peace Compromise SAN DIEGO, Calif.. July 11 () L,t. uoi.. tvans Jt Carlson 46, marine raider leader wound ed in rescuint! a Brooklyn tiri vate on Saipan. was home today with words, of caution against a compromise peace with the Jap anese. ,. "It always has been mv nnin. lop that the Japanese high com mand has hot always honestly be lieved it could beat us," said the veteran officer jn an Interview at the naval hosmtal. "But rather they intended to graD-.au tney could, then hold on to', it and, If possible, effect a compromise peace thus retain ing a large share of the areas conquered in the Pacific. "It is just this move, that the American- people - must avoid This would mean just a breath ing spell and the Japanese would continue their dreams of world conquest. We must completely conquer uieir army and navy.". Snell to Attend Governor's Meet V SALEM,' July 11- OP) Gov ernor Earl Snell announced to day he would, attend the confer ehce of republican governors in St. .Louis August 2 and a. "He said. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey telephoned', him a week ago asking him to attend.; He quoted Dewey as saying he want: ed to' talk with" Snell and Gov. Earl Warren . of California on west coast problems and pros- pects.i ........'i .-. . .' - . i Bomber Fleets Attack Munich Area, StrikeToulon in Southern France By GUADWIN HILL LONDON, July 11 (P) A sky blackening fleet of 2000 Ameri can planes .attacked the Munich area of southern Germany today while another force of U. S. Lib erators struck from Italy at Tou lon In'-the south of France. . . By .night, .British; Mosquitos bombed Berlin with two-ton ex plosives. Some 1100 of the Mun ich attack force were heavjr bombers, the rest were fighters.,- Sixth Attack ' 'Toulon, graveyard of the scut tled French fleet, lies to the east of. the Rhone valley, a historic Invasion avenue; It was the sixth attack on this port from Italy; the previous raid being on July S. Crewmen reported a good pat tern of bombs on the harbor in stallations, . ycluding German submarine pens. Number 10207 Sib - To Run Again ' Franklin Roosevelt, today, an nounced his decision to accept the democratic nomination . for presidency, if the nomination Is offered him. . - '.J . .. ' By The Associated Press LONDON,, July 11 (PJ-RuS- sian troops streaming deep into Lithuania thrust within strlkintf distance today of the -east Prus sian frontier- and moved swiftly toward the Baltic coast in- wide enveloping advance "Wh rch threatened to trap two German armies in the north. ... ; Russian forces have driven far ther to the .west -and southwest beyond Wilno but the garrison of that encircled city continued to repel attacks from all sides." the German communique said.. . Menace Pinsk . ... other army groups beat toward the rail center of; riialystoK and directly menaced Pinsk.-. .The Germans reported a massive new soviet offensive in Romania north of the, rail center of last a drive threatening the Galati gap and the Ploestl oil fields, already ex tensively ruined - by American bombs. - - - - The Moscow communique said the Germans suffered "tremen dous losses" in -a' general v Rus sian forward surge an the way from-the Latvian border to the (Continued, on. Page .Two) : ; Japs Report ; lttactV on Guam ;i NEW YORK, July .11 (fl3) The Japanese radio, said today that "a. very (powerful - enemy fleet, consisting of two. aircraft carriers and more than 30 cruise ers and -destroyers are plying the waters- northwest of Tinian island" in the Marianas'.;, The radio report, a' Dome! asencv advisory recorded by;U. S. government-monitors, said 90 planes attacKed tne stolen Amer lean island of Guam in the Mari anas on July 10 and that cruis ers and 'destroyers shelled:.Jap-anese- positions on Guam- while other aircraft were DomDing Tin ian and Rota. All are : in- .'the same island sroup as captured Saipan, 1465 miles from' Tokyo. A Swiss communique said sev en American bombers landed in thatv country, southwest of Mun ich. .... ;.-.',..': : With ' American planes "operat ing on Munich-and Toulon, Brit ain's great black-winged Lancast ers with fighter escorts attacked flying 'bomb installations, in northern France, from which' the nazis dispatched more robots' at London after dawn. . . . . I. Weather Foul ' . The targets were; not Imme diately identified. Weather w' foul, forcing Fortresses and Lib eerators to cast their high explo sive loads by instrument through cloud layers. ' .'. ;' . ; The Munich attack was -the second massed American blow at the reich in five days. Last Fri day, a star-spangled' armada bombed oil refineries and air plane. plants around Leipzig, de RENOMINA TION Pjans - -Disclosed In Letter to; Chairman -' : ' Hannegan By HOWARD FLIEGER ' WASHINGTON. July 11 UP)-. President Roosevelt declared to day he will "reluctantly, but as a good soldier" accept renomU nation by : the democratic na tional convention and serve an. other four years in : the . White House If elected. -.-.,. . In : a letter - to Democratln Chairman,: Robert E. Hanneean. Mr. Roosevelt said he .personally. wanted to retire and avoid pub lic responsibilities and the pub licity that Vfollows. every step'!, of the president. bui u tne people command- me to continue in this' office and in this war," he added, "I have as little right to withdraw as the) soldier has to leave his post In . . Locked Doors . The president's letter wan madeipublie at. a White House, news . conference ' which . grew tense with: expectancy' when Mr. Roosevelt told 99reporters gatn. ered in his oval office that that doors "had been locked- A re porter said that must mean somen uung important was coming. . v Another' renorter raisori h familiar j fourth-term ' Question, and, grinning Mr; Roosevelt- dis. closed that .this time the big newi was coming. Heeds Letter He then read his exchanffa n letters with Hannegan. Han-' negan wrote the 'president in a letter, dated-July -10 that enough delegates to the party conven- uuu buiiuiib a ween-irom tomor ro w ' are. committed-' to his ' re nomination to assure it. - "" "If - the -convention ' should, carry this, out, and nominate me for the presidency, I shall' ac" cept," Mr. Roosevelt wrote Hani, negan; . ''If the' people elect me. T-wiirserve?'"'-' 1 The; president said "he would prefer. to retire ".but "I will ac- . ' (Continued .on Page Two)- Entertainment Jyforines Entertaining several hundred men at- the Marine " Barracks Tuesday noon was Bert King and his' group - of: entertainers who are now appearing at Cal-Ore. ' Helen- Mack on her- accordion was featured and: the' group pre sented one-half, hour of musig for the' men. "; " , ' ' "V - f ... " ; .. . . Saipan Clean-Up : In ' Progress i . WASHINGTON. July 11 (JP)4. Routing out -Japanese hiding in hulls of wrecked boats or swim-, ming -.through .'shallow water, American troops swarmed over Saipan Sunday wiping out small groups of enemy' soldiers- -. ALtne same time, Adm. Ches ter W. Nimitz. Pacific fleet . oom manderrln-chief,: reported today, warships to the south of the Mar lanas . . . continued .. -shelling . of Guam,;former,American base- Bombardment. of Guam has been' under way for nearly a week an,d. could mean- that invas ion inere is planned. . , - Nazis Resume ; ' Bomb Attacks t LONDOW.-July- 11 (P) Fly ing bombs. started slamming down, -on: London. and southern England today after the capital's first free night from the German terror weapon in almost a month. The attacks were below the peak of previous V assaults. .'- . . .. -' While the buzz-bomb' attacks continued on southern.. England, even these assaults were not as heavy as they have been and, damage and -casualties were re ported light.-, . - ' stroying 114? German planes at a price of .-36 bombers: and six fighters.- . ; - ' - j The Germans told of sky bat tles over Munich itself, southern German shrine city of .the nazi party. . Intense 'flak 'was declar ed- thrown up at the - attacker's. Munich (pop: -828,323). Is a rail way center for traffic, into Italy and France and a frequent allied target-.-. It- Is Germany's fourth city, the capital of Bavaria and 25 miles north of . the foothills of the Alps. While one group of Mosquitos gave Berlin, burghers, anothes sleepless night,, other formations of this ,'night '.cavalry of ths air" coursed over northeast France harassing German troon bivouacs and transport. Berlin said Mannheim, near the reich'! western border,. was ona of ths (Continued on Page Two)