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Newspaper Page Textni Km & . lav's lews , (T(7Tnr Ml fo) 0) Ll Ml " ' I Mi"' ill L oMif JENKINS ,nrlllill Willi I''0 Amur; llE...?r iW U. weight Off K"" V. na I liny ,no "'.m for Ui'ttlt il I'""' on J" ' r lenders feur dblh m"-fr iters will Jump ilW1'"" ' i. Hint It In Uio fNEFIAL EISENHOWER tolls I Ml 1D1U Id. ," ..W intact.) my '' ""'. V.VU..H ifM lor.1'- 'n r..,r..Tiin." " m ' iu ll (hen Mkc "' "- ; .i l.i- "(l"i' '".. "V."'" Pi . iff llio possibility l o " 5' ' i nut. he In u country so compn vy ,iiiil"l Dy Gestapo method 3 be false l b..e ..ny rc; delation on U.o hopo that ifiy will crack. Internally. OST of us Imvo the Men tlmt ni-finui'fi in iuiu. (mv una nnvy " Ubm followed along quite dlly. . .. . nnlnl s I ml Uio uerman I r ..... iinnKK FIRST 111 the 1,1 wr. It l u-' 1 HHIJ . .. ... Irnk will come when the i Cirr ...i i i. ii w i us i mm tiiiiut nan nrmj - v,v". , . . ,.. n tan I vet. 11 uu L. .,i iini. uit General bison- wcr reminds us. much hord IshtlnK remains to ie none uu- i now aim nun iiuiu. VJR blit sliota n'ro unduly wor- ' rlcd about us on tno home v'.i.i,. i'mv in lm mro. tlmt I he war Is finally lining well for ur side (meaning, of course, the ;uropcaii wur), und Unit burring rime miracle showered down on liitler we ro certuin to win. uui Uc have sense enough lo Know hat wo haven t won yet unci inui I lot of hard fighting remains to dono before wo law win. W nrnn'l enmnlptn afin. Ill Iplte of all-lhe Uilk-niKiut-Jeople- aravint. ineir wur juub huu iiuiiu Inj! bacK Home, the oe roporii LvallahU inllriiltt Dint wnr nro. Iluction ISN'T dropping off. llrA hnmA frfinlnr. Hmn'1 ronlW Id bail as the brass lints FEAli vc arc. ' t , N imporltuit Knutcrn nlrplnno manufacturer tolls the ncnnto Inilltnry committee that In 1040 ic row a detailed Hitler plnn o Invado Uio United Slates. The Idea was to iniiko n feint lliroush Newfnundliind mid then really INVADE through Mexico. Ho savs he eiit tho nlnn IthrouRh diplonuilif sources, mid when he brmiulit it hack to this country he mind tho stnle de partment knew nil nhout U. ft sounds bad. Stl . We muni rnmnmhnp fhnl I- Bnernl stuffs hovo plans lo "ivadc ALL countries. They use tOmn Of tho nlnn nnrl anmn nt Ihcir I gather dust In tho archives indefinitely. It is probnblo that wen in our most pacifist years, our own ncncrnl staff hod plans lor Invading Germany ond Japan. It Isn't Dt all linlllcolv (tint ufl even had pluns for invading Eng land. Making such plans uro what gcnerul stuffs uro lor. It would bo highly unusual if Hit- . i 1 ,,lorls tlul" 1 hBve PlBn 'or Invading us. I IS we must remember thot urn i co'i'liicrors (such as Hitler) are nlwnvc iiirni.. i apt n?,,.!.'''.?1"1 " well as mnko "Mro or when ihev mill hit. uiSS J '.'1 "linn we slmpl MUST tin it ""V?" WB "nP'y hn n.r.i , wor"' wars ore to Ktf lit. !; towcoR. I for iu. . """Muorora Timci anV' " '"aa tiogs they really are" with It ""I (ln conjunction BY nfe,n.ntlons- 11 possible; befoS. ,KSE1rVES lf wo "vo to m.i ' " "'"iig spree. WoHH "lu P"rn or mo pat orn nlUOror', " ls 8 CLEAR pattern, We enn't fall to recog- paUcrn'l'r1-' ,wo rec08nlzcd the hn enough, but wo the rcaiilife 11,0 toM nor " "aiislic courogo to ACT, CHINESE Inflation note: GIVING awaI" ,clu'nKkl"8 ore lion biinkn AY. low dcnominn fe flceinn. 'n ,0 refu8ees who OfCmn?"" !o nunnii-n... . noies are 5an BULKY that cfry them m 0,1 Wh0 ot tllu' "lr sSmL8 POLES over a Suess f .. .i!l0U cnn form value" m thls 88 to their 1bce!;ISnCOrnt"yi.lntlton has ilbi body talk! so f, "ues much. And. IPcnccl.' "u'mn8 much has hap- L?"l.evy now and d,' (ns in itlon gets ioos. thi vvnen t g . the results are terrlhiS 1 PRICE 5 CENTS JUPS SMASH lypsE Push Part of Two-Way Clearing of Railway By 8PENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, July 12 (!') Striking northward In Kwiing tung province, the Japanese leil wing west of the Canlun-Hiinkow railway has reached a point 12 miles from strategically Import ant Tlngtak, the Chinese high command said tonight. This push from the south Is part of the Japanese two-way drive aimed nt clearing the Canton-Hankow railway. Ylng tak Is 70 miles north of Canton and 100 miles south of the Hunan province rail city of llengyang, where the Japanese army reach ing clown from tho north was hailed. Actually operation of Ylnglak would place tho advance elements of the Japanese jaws within less than 100 miles of each other. Henayang right Bloody Tho ' Cnlnose high command declared that bloody fighting lContlhued6irpogdrTwo) ; i - McAuley Promoted News of two Klamath Falls servicemen was announced by the war department In news re leases today. A promotion was received by Milton Kenneth McAuley In the U. S. army air corps, who wns promoted to captain from the rank of first lieutenant. Assigned to active duty was Second Lt. John Earl Everhart. who Is with the army air corps. Ho Is tho pilot of n heavy bomber crew, Johnston Returns From Russia NEW YORK, July 12 W Eric Johnston, president of the United States chamber of com merce, returned In an army transport piano today from a visit of eight weeks in Russia. Johnston arrived at LaGuar dla airport shortly after noon, and said ho was glad to be back home. Ho wns accompnnlcd by Wll llnm h, While, editor of the Emporia, Kos., Gazette, and Joyce O'Horo, Johnston's as sistant. Johnston and O'Hara went on to Washington. Johnston said he did not care to comment on his Russian trip, other than to mention h 1 s conference with Premier Stalin. National Bond Sales Over Top WASHINGTON, July 12 (7P) War bond sales In the Fifth War Loan totaled $18,811,000, 000 through yesterday, Ted R. Gamble, war finance director, reported today. Ho predicted total sales In tho drive would reach $20,000,000,000. Tho quota was $16,000,000,000. Tho drlvo officially closed last Saturday. But final figures will not bo available until early In August because alt E, F and G bonds sold through July will bo credited to the grand total. Bauxite Deposits Found in Oregon cATWAr -Tnlv 19. fPl Sizable deposits ot high-alumina iron ore or nlgn-iron pauxue, wm could bo dug by surface mining, have been found In northern Washington county, the state de partment of geology and mineral Industries advised Governor Snnll fnrlnv The ore averages 20 to 26 per cent Iron, 25 to 35 per cent alumina, u to it per cum smwi nnA is viAti iinnfi nhnnnhnrus. The department sold it Is not Known wnetner mo oiks tun iu be treatod profitably, dui incu cations are that profitable opor Hon l Mlble. Ms Pans NEAR IIM f Tli ShaHtu i Tonvanl Boraer U. S. Advances Despite Stiff German Battle By EDWARD KENNEDY ROME, July 12 (!') American light armored elements pushed forward two miloi along the Italian west coast yesterday in the face of bitter German resistance and captured the town of Cas tlglioncello, thus bringing the fifth army to within eight miles airline of Livorno (Leghorn). Some eight miles inland, however. American Infantry ran Into stiff opposition while advancing from Caiale toward Pastlna, where the Germans showed the utmost determination to delay their progress, (The German radio said nail lines between Poggisbonsl and the west coast were withdrawn two miles northward after par ticularly violent fighting in which 25 U. S. .tanks were wiped out. Heavy fighting was reported on both sides of the Tiber with strong British formations which "launched a large scale attempt to break through." German positions were declared "withdrawn to shortened lines"). American troops further cast By The Associated Press SOoTllKAST ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS. Kan dy, Ceylon, July 12 Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwcll's campaign tu root the Japanese from monsoon-drenched north Burma and drive a land supply route to C III nu reached another milestone yesterday with the-juncture -of Uio Chinese 22nd and 3Btli 'di visions about seven miles vcit of Magaung. This freed the jungle-girt mountain area between Kamaing ond Moguung of all but isolated bands of stragglers. Headquar ters said the road was cleared of organized resistance and that the Chinese Una made local a tacks ut the beleaguered base of Myltkylno, last of three north Burman bastions still portly held In Japanese hands. 16.000 Japs Killed Totol Japanese dead In north Burma stand at more than lfl.000 of which more than 10,000 were killed in May. June and July. The Jopancsc have been clear cd from the Mognung and Fort (Continued on Page Two) , New Baltic Offense Begun LONDON, July 12 (VP) Open ing a new offensive on tho sec ond Baltic front, red army troops have advanced 30 miles on 90 mllo front and captured Idrltsa, 40 miles northwest of Nevel. Soviet troops captured .1000 other populated places along with Jdritsu, 00 miles north ot Polotsk, Premier Marshall Stalin announced tonight In an order of the day. Three More Die In Circus Fire HARTFORD, Conn., July 12 (P) While officials continued their investigation of, the circus fire and tried to meet the mani fold problems created by the disaster, three more victims died In local hospitals, and the death toll reached 162. Damage suits continued to be filed ogoinst the circus and the attachments on Its property rose to $628,000. Many more such actions were expected. Turkish Participation in War Considered in Ankara By FRANK O'BRIEN ANKARA, July 11 (Delayed) (pi Conversations are afoot hero which may lead to Turkish participation in the wur before tho end of the summer. Tho talks are between repre sentatives of Turkey, Russia and Britain. . , . , These conferences of the soviet and British ambassadors ond Turkish leaders, principally Pre mier Sukru Saracoglu, have been taken up nt tho point wheie the Cairo conferences last year left Turkey's position within the United -Nations undefined. Beginning Points ; They must first surmount the bitterness crented by allied charges that Turkey failed to keep her word and tho Turkish counter that the.nllies failed com pletely to equiPf'Turkey for war as had been promised. Actual military talks can begin tllr. - CaHeade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1944 also encountered tough going northeast of Lajatico, where the mi z is counterattacked fiercely, but they repelled the thrust and Lajatico itself was brought under attack, ..Late dispatches from the field said the nazls still were holding out within the town. - In the upper -Tiber valley eighth army troops occupied the villages of Mcone Morra and Mucinnano and cleared . 3000- foot-high Mount Clvitella of the enemv. . At the same time allied tanks crossed the. Mestore rivet, .up per tributary of the Tiber, and advanced -stpme-dtstance-Deyond Ih'a river.V Furlhor, ast .In the Pletralunea' area. . a German counterattack caused' a. slight loss of ground by the allies. Meanwhile on the Adriatic coast Italian troops were cred Itcd with a slight advance In the vicinity of the Musone river and the city of Ancona was brought under, artillery fire by the allies, who now are only eight miles away. English Execute German Spy ' LONDON. ' July 12 (P)Jo- seoh Jan Van Hove, a former Antwerp waiter who arrived here from Belgium last Feb- ruary 11 posing as a refugee, was . executed at Pentonvllle prison today as a German spy the 16th person to be executed in Britain lor espionage since the boeinnlns of the war. Van Hove was convicted on May 24 at a trial at which it was charged he was sent to Britain by the Germans in an attempt to obtain information about al lied plans for the invasion of western t rance, ms mission was described as a complete failure, Lithuanians Killed by Nazis LONDON. July 12 (OT In an article published In the soviet government newspaper Izvestia, Justas Ralekis, chairman of the presidium of Lithuanian soviet, asserted that at least 200,000 Lithuanians had been killed and hundreds of thousands taken to Germany for slave labor. A broadcast of the article to the red army was recorded here by the soviet monitor. "There is not a town or vil lage In Lithuania which has not become a mass grave for inno cent victims of the Hitlerite ter ror," Raleckis asserted. The United States has been fully Informed of the successive steps In the conversations, which got under way about 10 days ago. Simultaneous consultations are taking place in Moscow and Lon don and probably in Washing ton, Beneath Dignity The Turks are said to feel that it would be beneath their nation al dignity to participate in the war by merely giving bases to the allies. Before everything else the Turks want assurance on these two points: 1, Assurance of Turkey's post war political and territorial in tegrity, accompanied by a clear cut statement of allied post-war alms, " -. 2; A satisfactory explanation of how and when and to what ex tent Turkey will be armed If she ttiPllUmiW OW rage two) T LARGE HOLES IN MAZMJME5 Russians 49 Miles From Prussian Border . c. r-nriv niT.MftPr MOSCOW, July 12 UP) The knnekintf lareo new holes in the already sagging Ger man lines, surged westward to day from a point less man t miles cast of the east Prussian unrAnf o a nam which, if con tinued, would carry the fighting to German soil by the end of the weett. (The German communlqui "thi Hrlvancine Soviets' ii.net r.t AlvluK in Lithuania. 51 miles from East Prussia, 33 miles ...lh r,t Kaunas and within 27 miles of the strategic East Prussia-Riga railway over which two nnri irmip! in the Baltic must h. ennnlinri in narL Retreats along the whole central front were reported. Dy rsenm. uw surrounded Wilno garrison was 1.-1 . 1 ! ,1 U.. Bif . .i' ' .. VCM1B BUFl"'" WJ - GenV -.Ivan r Chernaikhovsky's pnvnlrv and tanks drove the .nn.rh.irl Inwsrd East Prussia in a 20-mile advance where the spit of the province known as the Swalki triangle sticks out north of Grodno. - General advances along the en' fir ssn.mllo front between Lat via and the Pripyat marshes .rnnnl thrmioh JTinrp thfln , 400 places yesterday, killing at least 400U uerman soioiers ana onns ing . about the capture of hun dreds more. Tnwnc Thru fined ' The new forward sweeps placed me red army .aciuaiiy within strming distances oi n.au no AS tviiloo nwnvr r.rodno. 56 Tani'luetnlr M nnrl DflllCavmls less than 'l 8. Military observers in Mnoviuf saw- a direct threat to Bailystok and Grodno in the strong central diow. rinss, ai ihn .rloQ nf thp Prinvaf marshes to the south, already was lost (uonunuea on rage awo; Outdoor Gunnery Range Authorized An mifrlnnr rnnnerv ranee at the Klamath naval air station has been authorized Dy tne sec retary of the navy, according to telegrams irom senator uujr Pnrlnn rnr-otupH hPTO todaV bV State Senator Marshall Cornett and. the office of the chamber of commerce. The facilities will include a DinnnDi-j4 Hnrecicrhtinr ranee shoteun sighting training tower and sighting range. .n ap- nrnnith tn ' fhf ta.vlWSVS to the airport was included in the new authorization.- - . Cost of the additions will be approximately $l4,sou. , Use Stamp Fines Being Imposed ' Five dollar fines are being im posed on all those who do not have their federal use stamp, on the windshields of their cars, it was disclosed today by the dep uty collector of internal revenue . Numerous violators have had to appear at the revenue office in the Federal building since the check was started on July o. Dep uties have been checking cars on the streets. Those who had purchased their stamps but had not put them on the windshields were not penal ized If they could prove that the stamp had been bought previous to the deadline. City Employees Top Bond Quota EmDloves of the city of Klam ath Falls more than doubled their Fifth War Loan quota, it was announced today. The Dersonnel were assigned quota of $4580 but they bought a total of $10,925.75 In war bonds and stamps. The fire department went all out in buying $6145.50 to zoom way over its part of tne city quot. ROOFS KNOCK July 12, 1944 Mm. (July 11) i :.....87 Min. ....... 4B Precipitation last 24 , hours... 00 Stream ytar to data 9.B9 Normal 11.98 Last year ........17.78 Forecast! Cooler. Wallace Returns to U. S. t Kz.? if I'. Iff 1 r i ' Vice President Henry Wallace pilot- and navigator who flew him irom China. Col. Richard Kight (center), pilot from Palm Beach. Fla., and Capt. John C. Wagner, Lakeville.- Ind., navigator, filled the same roles .on Wendell Willkle's flight around Roosevelt Reported Ready To Request Wallace as Running Mate, By DOUGLAS B. CORNELf ; WASHINGTON. July 12- (P) President Roosevelt, having ac cepted in advance a fourth term nomination which long had been assured, was reported ready to day to recommend but not de- 13-rear-Od Giri Found in Saipan Harbor WASHINGTON. July 12 (P) The story of a 13-year-old Jap anese girl who spent five days in ' ship-packed . Saipan harbor without discovery or apparently serious injury . was told today in a dispatch, from Saipan's marine-captured Charan-Kanoa hos pital. . ... . . . Yamamoto, as she is known, snent those five days . afloat on a life preserver, her lips, face and arms, blistered, from sun hum. Staff Sereeant Nolle T. Rob erts of Pascagoula, Miss., a ma rine combat, correspondent, wrote that she was picked up 20 miles at sea June 17. - How she. happened to be there, he said ns not Deen . exDiainea.- . "She ignores tne war ana calmly reads a Japanese version of a Peter Rabbit comic book, while doctors marvel that she is alive, Roberts reported. 15 Die in Army , Pfane Crash : SOUTH PORTLAND.'- Me., Jiilv 12 IP?) The death toll in Maine's worst aviation tragedy reached 15 early today ana seven of scores injured when a light army plane ploughed into a war woriters : camp oi iuu trailers and blew up were re ported in danger of dying. ; Six of tne oeaa ana approxi mately half of the injured were children. Nine adults also- per ished. The Identified dead: Lt.' Philip I. Russell.' 23 of South Portland and Staff Sgt. Wallace Mifflin, of Seattle, the planes crew; Edward A. Ger- rish, .32, Orono shipyard work er: James . Little, four; 1 Nancy Little, two; Gordon Gorham, 42; and George ftoDertson, nine months. ; Stimson Arrives In Britain SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. July 12 (IP) Secretary of War Stimson arrived in Brit ain today for an inspection of the European theater of oper ations. - '. -. i ' . .''.' Stimson came to Britain from Italy. He was accompanied by Exe cutive Assistant Harvey M, Bundy. Maj. Gen. Thomas Kirk, surgeon-general of the United States army, atid Maj, Gen. Alex ander D. Su'f-les, army public relations Director.. : Number 10208 (left) pose in Seattle with his the world. (AP wixephoto). in Election mand a- second" fehrt-'6rTVice President Wallace. - V .' i V ' The - decision clinching ; the nomination ahead of time pro duced conjecture that Mr. Roose velt probably would pass upa formal acceptance-speech to the democratic national convention, eitner in person or Dy radio.-. Only .Chore ' ; ;... Selection of a vice-presidential Candidate- is the- single-. major chore remaining for the conven tion starting a week;from today in Chicago. Mr. Roosevelt is ex pected to lend a hand with it by nudging the delegates toward Wallace.'' - ' Today or tomorrow," the chief executive may let it be. known that Wallace is his preference for a running mate,-but that the con- l.ontinuea on p age Two) Japanese Holds Targets of Raid V.S. PACIFIC FLEET. HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jujy 12 (p) Japanese holdings along more than 4000 miles from the Kuriles to Ceratri were' listed in latest advices ' today 'as targets uvme auiea air arm. . ua xne sea, . American war ships shelled Guam Sunday for the second straight day.. (Tokyo radio said that' between July..' 1 and 10 Guam has been raided Dy yyu pianes which , caused "some damage").", ; . ''-. Aground, marines and' soldiers mopped up . enemy pockets n Saipan. : . . The air blows drew the reluct ant Jap" airforce into "battle in only one instance, over- repeatedly-attacked Yap in the western Carolines where Liberators oper ating from the Southwest Pacific shot, down five -of more than -20 interceptors as well . as destroy ing an undetermined number of parked planes Monday. . I. S. Delegation Semes BRETTON WOODS, N. ; tf. July' 12 (P) The American del egation to the United . Nations monetary conference has served a virtual ultimatum on soviet union representatives demanding a final answer on the all-import ant question3 of quotas to a pro posed multi-biiilon . currency stabilization fund.- - ' - - -- This was learned .today from an unimpeachable conference source who added that "the Ru sian group indicated a reply from Moscow might be expected: by nightfall: He said he Was "quite hopeful" the-answer ;Would be favorable. Want Laraer Quota . Russia' is known -to be seeking a auota larger, than 9l.ouu.ooo,- 000 originally assigned to- her in a tentative draft, of the stabil ization fund proposal' and at the same time i to be .demanding credit for . her war devastated areas. The credit would be - 111 th form of a gold .contribution Gl S DESTROY TWENTYTANKS EN SMASHES American' Lines Near; St.' Ley Two Miles i From Lessay . By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,' July 12 (iP) American troops destroyed more than 20. nazi tanks today in smashing back -heavy German counter blows at the center of their lines, and swept forward to both winga of the Zriamile front, slugging to' within two miles of the west ern anchor town of Lessay, and even closer to St. Lo.' , , ' The fierce repulse of German armor, raised to 244 the toll of enemy, tanks taken in France in the past few days. . I - Close oa St. Lo ' In violent fighting, Americans closed - on St,' Lo the Germans' central bastion in Normandy from -two directions, and the nazis counterattacked to cover a German withdrawal to the west. .. Doughboys tonight were with, in less than two miles of St. Lo on the east, ..a front dispatch de clared. . .. . . Charge Into Lines Throwing their heaviest assault toward .'Le . Desert, six miles- northwest., of St., Lo, German tanks and troops charged head., on into U. S. . lines,, and more; than 20 enemy tanks went up in, flames before the nazis retreated.. Le Desert, ' west of St. Jean da Haye, was let in a no man's land, with the doughboys a couple of hundred yards from that village. Despite the heavy- German armored losses. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's headquarters warned that "enemy armor still is strong and he is fighting back' vigorously but is being worn down and -given no rest." - 1 ' ; . -Wing Advances - 5 The;,wesf wing of -thfe -Amer icaif -attack advanced -nearly - a) ; mile; seizing the villages -of An govIlle'Surlay and" La Bburdon-T nerier and carrying to - within (Continued .on Page Two), .r '--; i 1 i Commission Asks . Riequests for Canal Lining - ; The 'city nlanninir commission this','week asked the city to send requests to. the necessary author ities for -post-war construction of a concrete lining as well as fenc ing of, the U. S. reclamation canal.- - - -.- - 'The concrete lining would not only beautify the canal but would prevent seepage into the city.- . i . ... . J. H. Carnahany city attorney, was instructed by the city coun cil Monday night to draft a reso lution requesting - post-war lin ing and fencing - of the canal, copies- of - the resolution to be sent to - this area's senators and representatives in congress and to the U. S. bureau of reclama tion. ' . - - ...... Soldiers Killed In Stolen Car IPOKTLAND,; July 12 (JP) Two soldiers died last night in a. speeding car which a Port land man. had , reported stolen from, a parking .lot a short time earlier.- .- ' Deputy ' Sheriff ' Ralph Davis said the car; roared past him at approximately 80 miles an hour, crashed into a ditch and was de molished against a tree. " The .two were, identified by Portland-army air base, where they- were stationed, as Pvt. Lloyd "G. Perry, ' Bradyville, Tenn., and Pvt. John F. McKelv vy. Moulton, Ala. smaller' "than that required of! other nations. -, -.The-United States , delegation ' reportedly . agreed to hike the Russian quota figure to $1,200,- . 000:000 with the understanding that- she put up one-fourth of that amount in gold or ten per cent of her gold holdings, which ever' was-' the : smaller, or sho could accept' the smaller quota and thereby reduce her gold contribution proportionately un der the formula that would ap- ' plyto; all participants. ;; - , , Misunderstanding 'The Russians, it was reported, have. taken the stand that they liad ' bbtained - pre - conferenco promises from' the American for . the special, war credits, but this! -was said to have been the result of a .misunderstanding, possibly because Of language difficulties. , It was understood that either Premier Stalin or Foreign Min ister ' Molotov woilld have t make the final decision. - .