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Newspaper Page TextI feBI Jbt.rnlfr,v,;'HlSi.-ms HSM ' BBS. ; r" TiThta is but not spec fllllf' . v ..... . g 1 normal a.uv jubsi year i.o f , - . in Th Shanta-Cancadc Wonderland ' YHIUC RIP I III PRICE 5 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1944 Number 10210 InlllxU LI 1 0 III " n ri Jl II I fpY. ' ueiting Acquainted Aitape Attack Smashed wxj :w$m m i m m w,az'jCf... set. m. v,.s. mi mm-- mc m ,1ECcrnuM,SKKM.tlert o k2K? "n No-nnnVlV than VI. ...irii rout. HM.C :,. llllllU.thcy can l.iiibelr," imnll llinv Krt of i "u,Bl bortl! tnM'iy- . . o'umkL, threw In everything iS i.i"t " Brltl": JjJ , The (ll'Ktcl.ci., roporl I rir.HTY German In """'r.'V" ,Vh,.i,oiiI o VpoNSTA NTLY hammering t CONS'" ,.,iini ons syn- VXmri; y today that urht'1?"r.V.Af.TV of huso- K'hvln " imrlnnt ef S on the mobility of nail I" ,0rC"- .- Hnt.hl (hat ITf" I Vrloiriy hamper- the G"mn air forco-what Hit oi i. , , , rllEItE are rumor In tho air Snhi. ,. ,. Ankura (Turkish capita ) ro- V.. hnt "cnnveniot on" are 1" which ma? result In Turk Cl llon In the war be i the end o( tho lumracr. mkyUf?lnit tolve to Bet In n l( he U to have anything lo ay at the peace l",)l0- Madrid (Spain) 'V that Ger ,ny ho made at Icaat SIX Bl Sipl, lnco February to gain a Miollatcd peace. A ncKotlalcd peace l about al tho Cormaim have lett to tlgnl . . . iN oddly lntcrclln Ultlo tale A comc from Mocow to the that tho Russians were In- but NOT SURPRISED by FDR'i announcement that ho wants a fourth term. . ... .J..T. In Russia the IndUpcnaablt man theory In fully ?VM: They know they couldn t t ilong without Stalin. For one thing, Stalin Isn't go Inn to LET them get along with out him. . . THERE Is obviously a race on In tho Pacific. The Japs are driving hard to open the railroad that leads down from northern China lo Canton. It Is usually described In tho dis patches as the Canton-Hnnkow or the Canton-Pclplng lino. It la a little more revealing lo describe It as tho Shnnghal-Cnnton rail road for Shanghai is a great and accessible port, across the East China sea from Japan, that connects with this railroad to Canton. Over this railroad, tho Japs want to get men and supplies from their homeland and oc cupied northern China to the southern China coast and the In terior that lies behind this coast. In this Interior most ot our lirflclds are located, 9 WE need to get ashore on the south China const. Wo need ogot ashoro before tho Japs got ho shore lino strongly held and milled against us and boforo hey GET TO our, airfields In he interior, , Tho Japs need to got set bo foro wo can got there. Hence tho race. WHY, you ask, don't we Just , nil In and land? Wo have J navy thnt Is capable of taking S f . ,'ho JnP "avy lf 11 tries lo interfere. What arc we waiting for? ttaiiin. 8 ft" answer: Wo are !ff w can bet BASES 2nr.i"frlklng distance of the Mh China const. Our warships bo? !tcam bnek t0 Pcarl ar Z'Z ven to the Marslialls. nmmunltlon. HEARBYhaV0 ' hava 8 base Gh'!,ln8 such a baso is what 'fenflRhtlngsohardfor Ve mm ' ?ut 11 tak0 time. mt S no only got Saipan iroviJu un,t on thoro- We must SSdamW fBcll'tlo, w that lackSW,911' can be got Thai" il "1 tne "81'tlngT, low. 8 wht we are doing r HsoEuuaPrir ac1"8 'o Bet the hero vt?bt!foro wo can got Wbofore- t"l- Trao1"8 t0 et led up. ore 11,6 Japs can got It 'Thcanrevni;80 'portant that PnffChh,lnesB hava been fight ettInRg y-, But they are 'r. Thev 1 ihe"A of their ! the scveny?a Snd eacl year 1 8ht wfth y 8Ve had leM lies. E lnem as effejttlvo 45 000 J PS TURNED BACK INJflTILE Nipponese Offensive Appears Imminent On New Guinea ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, July 14 W) Crafty, hungry, du torminod vanguards of 45,000 trapped Jnpanoso troops In Brit ish Now Guinea were smashed with heavy losses in a prelimin ary attempt to break allied en circlement, but a well-planned Nlpponesa offensive appeared imminent today, Headquartors announced the bloody checking of a Japanese assault In force Wednesday at dawn against allied outposts 21 miles east of Altnpo. Tho con flict, on a Jungle-choked battle ground, produced some of the most savage fighting of tho en tire Now Guinea campaign. Drove West Tho Jopaneso survivors of the by-passed 18th imperial army drove westward at the al lied lines which had cut them off since the April 22 leapfrog rnnturo of Altana. . They hit strong outposts, heav ily supported by artlllory. Tho full range of allied ground fire flashes at them while aircraft sowed 53 tons of explosives among Nipponese concentrations, A headquarters spokesman (Continued on Page Two) Shasta Dam Power Staris i WASHINGTON. July 14 m Power from $87,167,000 Shasta dam In northern California be gun flowing today into the elec tric system serving tho exten sive war Industries of tho Pa cific coast. Interior Secretary Ickes an nounced that the first genera tor at Shasta had begun opera tion, bringing to more thun 1,150,000 kilowatts tho addi tional power capacity installed at reclamation projects through out the west since Pearl Har bor. , Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE ... R. H. E. Chicago'-;. 0 2 , 2 Detroit .2 6 2 Dietrich and Turff; Ovcrmlre and Richards. R. J-I. Boston 3 2 i Now York ' 2 Hughson, O'Nell (B) and Wag ner; Borowy and Homslcy, Gar bark (8). Reds Take Two Cities In Advance On Border By The Associated Press LONDON, July 14 Marshal Josef Stalin in two orders of the day announced tonight the capture of the city of Pinsk in the Prlpyst marshes and the railroad Junction of Wolkowysk, 2 miles directly east of Blalystok. . The fall of Pinsk, the Germans' last stronghold in the Prlpyat marshes, advanced the Russians directly on the road to Warsaw and Brest Litvosk, e point on the Curson line which the Russians have proposed as the postwar frontier of Poland. Warsaw is 200 miles west of Pinsk and Brest Lltovsk Is 100 miles west. Pinsk had been caught in a wide circle of pressing Russian armies which had advanced . to within five miles of the town before the Germans in their communique early today announced their withdrawal from the swamp-buttressed stronghold. ' , Wolkowysk is 90 miles northwest of Pinsk and its capture advanced the Russians more than half way from Baranowlcse to Blalystok,; one of the strongpoints in the German system for de fense of their western Polish conquests and East Prussia. Pinsk, Stalin said, fell to a combined assault of troops and a Dnepr river flotilla, following the crossing of the Yeselda and Pripyat rivers. Stalin ordered 20 salvos irom 224 guns to celebrate the vic tory, which advanced soviet forccstto within 200 miles di rectly east of Warsaw and 100 miles from Brest Lltovsk. Northern Advance To the north, the German radio, said, , the Russians were even' farther- advanced. A Ber lin. broadcast said the Russians twice bad broken into Grodno, 20 miles from the Suwalkl tri angle of East" Prussia. . . West of Luck, the German communique .announced a new ; (Continued on Page Two) BASTILLE DAY PUSH By NORLAND NORGAARD ROME, July 14 (P) French troops, spearheading a Bastille day advanco in Italy, captured Pogglbonsl today and moved to within 21 miles of Florence in a stab through stiffening German rcsistanco before the Arno river, nn outpost line of tho enemy's Gothic defenses. Pogglbonsl is 17 miles up the Alsa river valley from the Em' po)l crossing of tho Arno, river,: Outflanked ' "The town was outflrnikecTyeF tcrday when tho rrcnen captured San Gimignano, five miles to the west. In a 21 mile march from Son Donato, and the nearby vil logo ot La Casette. Capture of tho town, a com munications center between the port of Livorno (Leghorn) and strongly held Arczzo, gave the fifth army a strategic Jumping (Continued on Page Two) . Madame Chiang Now in Brazil WASHINGTON, July 14 tP) Madnmo Chiang Kai-Shek has arrived in Rio do Janeiro for a rest, tho Chinese embassy here said today. Sho is accompanied by Ma dame H. H. Kung, wife of the Chlneso minister of finoncc, who is now heading the Chinese delegation to tho United Na tions monetary conference at Brctton Woods, N. H. The Chinese . embassy said that the wlfo of the generalis simo was not expected to come to this country and that the moln purpose of her trip to Brazil wos rest, , Chlno's first lady wos last hero in November, 1042, when, after spending some time In a New Yi rk hospital, she wos a guest of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at Hyde Park and later made a triumphal tour across the country. Jap anese Reverses Added To By Loss of Admiral at an. Attacks on Guam Saip V S PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- powerful fleet units which paced QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July I the invasion of Saipan, Increased ii an nnnth amidst nuiiiiuuv- ing dofcat at Saipan of tho Jap anese admiral who led the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor added .weight today to Nippon's western Pacific reverses even as Tokyo radio betrayed Increasing con cern over Guam. Adm. Chester W. Nlmltz dis closed last night In a communi que that Vice Adm. Chuichl Nagumo, who directed the blow which opened the Paclfla war, perished along with 16,000 other Japanese on Saipan. Task Force Attacks .' Nlmltz in an earlier communi que announced the ninth straight day of task force attacks on the former U. S. outpost of Guam and last night the Tokyo radio reported battleship and carrier plane blows extending these into the tenth day. . , Tokyo said an American bat tleship twice bombarded Guam Thursday and a large formation of planes attacked the Island. Presumably these were units of mighty task force 68 which tho navy in Washington said Is ready for "continued and uninterrupt ed attacks." 1 Nlmltz' communique, last night gave these attacks, by the same significance when he said: Major Breacn "The seizure of Saipan con stitutes a major breach In the Japanese line of inner defenses, and it is our Intention to cap italize upon this breach with all means available." In other actions capitalizing on this breach, marines have over continued on Page Two) Jewish Town Ifcctfltened With Nazi Atrocities rASHINGTON, 3&y'u"m In ''new denunciation of nazl atrocities -In Europe, Secretary of State Hull declared today that the entire Jewish community of 1,000,000 persons in Hungary is threatened with extermination. At the same time, he declared that "the cold-blooded murder of the p o p u 1 a t i o n of Dlstomo (Greece) Is another shocking ex ample of 'the reign of terror which the nazls have instituted in Europe and which becomes more savage as they become more desperate." Hull issued separate press con ference statements on the Hun garian Jews and the Distomo de struction and promised in each one . that punishment "will be meted out" to persons responsi ble for the atrocities. ' . M ahoney Opposed To Wallace PORTLAND, Ore., July 14 (1P Thomas Mahoney, chairman of Oregon's delegation to the Dem ocratic National convention, de clared today he was opposed to Henry Wallace as vice presiden tial candidate. "But," he added in a speech before the Willamette democratic society, "I am obliged to vote for him at Chicago by the pledge I took when I became candidate for delegate." Other delegates,' apeaking at the same meeting, said they .did not consider themselves bound to support Wallace. No vice presi dential candidates appeared on Oregon's primary ballot, but Wal lace received the greatest num ber -of write-in votes. - Germans Report Entry Into Town NEW 'YORK, July 14 f) NBC today quoted a German .underground : .radio station, as reporting inai "Kussian armies entered Rozanka, in East Prus sia at." noon European - time." Such' a town is not shown on available gazeteers, which how ever, list a Rozanka in old Po land on the Bug river 35 miles south' of Brest Litovsk. . Five Marines to Receive Decorations in Ceremony Five marines w(U be decorat ed in a ceremony to be held on the parade ground at thoi Ma rine Barracks Monday morning, MaJ. Clyde C. Roberts, execu tive officer, announced today.- The men are Sgt. Talbot E. Vogler, who will receive the Bronze Star; Cpl. Hugh J. Os wald, Cpl. Elmer E. Blanchard. PFC Elston S. Gamel and PFC Herbert J. Shattenberg, all of whom will be awarded the Pur ple Heart for having been wounded iln action In the South Pacific. Sgt. Vogler's citation, signed by Admiral -W. F. Halsey, reads In part, "For Heroic achieve ment in action against enemy forces . . . on Bougainville qii November 7, 1943." In face of rifle, grenade and machinegun fire, Sgt. Vogler. went to . the side of a wounded comrade and administered first aid. When the fire slackened, the citation continues, he continued to evacuate the wounded and contributed . to the saving of many lives. Ho was a member of a Utter-bearing section. 10 BE IN FRIGE By HAL BOYLE WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN NORMANDY, July 14 (Pi Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 'Teddy" to his troops will be buried tonight with full military honors in the land he twice fought to free from the Germans. Roosevelt, one of the most colorful and best loved generals in the army, died from a heart attack late Wednesday night after an exhausting tour of the front which he made against his- doctor's :" advice'. ; "He refused to rest despite the fact he had suffered a slight attack only four days before. Doughboys to Attend High-ranking officers,- includ ing Lt. Gen. Omar -N. Bradley, commander of the first army, and Maj. Gen. Joseph Lawton (Continued on Page Two) 800 Massacred By Germans LONDON. July 14 m The French press service said last night nearly 8U0 persons were massacred June 10 by the Ger many in the village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, central France. It said the men were shot, and the wom en and children died inside a locked church which was first dynamited and then set afire. Only "seven or eight" of the town's population escaped, the agency said, and all buildings were burned. There were contradictory re ports as to the reason for the Ger man act. ' "Some say an arms dump was found in the village, others that some Germ a n s were killed there," the agency said. Thief Polite, But Unreliable PORTLAND, July 14 m Henry Nelson told police today that the thief who took his car last night had beautiful man ners, but his promises were un reliable. An armed man, Nelson said, approached- him in a park, asked for money. Nelson hand ed over $20, then offered his watch. "Oh, no," said the bandit. "I'm not that kind of guy." Then he asked Nelson for a ride out of the park. A few blocks, along he. told Nelson he would have to bor row the car. "I need it only a half hour for another' job," he said. "I'll return it with the tank full. Would you start 'it lor mev v . Nelson obeyed, climbed down, "Thank you," said the bandit, driving off. The car was. recovered later at a nearby corner. But the gas oline tank was empty, - De Gauffe Hailed as Hero ' ALGIERS, July 14 (if) Alger ians hailed - Gen. Charles de Gaulle as a returning hero today at a parade and ceremonies cele brating Bastille day. Tightly, packed on downtown .balconies and - overflowing the postoffice plaza, crowds cheered and applauded the French na tional committee leader who was making his first official appear ance since his return last night from conferences in Washington and Ottawa. Getting acauainted for the first tima with his 3-month -old son, Gary Phillip, is corporal Forrest Altord, who is shown here collecting from Scott Reed his free pass given by the Klamath theatres to all Klamath Falls servicemen home on furlough. Cor poral Alford will be in town until July 22, when he will leave to report for duty at a camp in Arkansas. Passes are available to all servicemen home on leave, in the city whose names appear in the servicemen's . registry found elsewhere in this paper. - Fisherman on Lake Shot In Leg by Coyote Hunter - Mistaken for a coyote. Ray Eubanks of Bend was shot In the leg while he was fishing from a boat on Lake Tymbanogas near Cascade Summit, in northern Klamath county, early today. Eubanks, his wife, and W. E. Spangler of Bend, accompanied by Fred Garrison of Crescent Lake, were fishing when they heard a, shot from ' across the lake, according to reports from there. ' ' I.-, .; A 'moment' later",' another shot rang out and this time Eubanks seised his leg where a bullet had penetrated. The party went im mediately' ashore, where Eu- . . banks was given first- aid. An Oakridge ambulance was called, and. the Bend man was moved to a Eugene hospital, where he is being treated for a badly splintered lower limb. . State police and sheriff's Of ficers were called from here, and were understood this after noon to be questioning a Mr. Pratt of Corvallis in connection with the shooting. The Corval lisite is reported ' to have said he had seen covotcs previously near the lake, and fired when he saw what he thought was a coyote moving on the opposite bank. The local officer? had not re turned with further details this afternoon. , '. ' 3 Much-Married Woman Sentenced -Ko- DETROIT. July 14 Ma rine Buckner, 35-year-old auburn-haired dress designer, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $2000 today for fraudulently- -obtaining servicemen's allotment checks from two of the 15 or; 16 husbands she told the FBI she remembered marrying. Judge Frank A. Picard sen tenced the smartly-dressed pri soner in federal court,' directing she serve her term in the nation al reformatory for women at Al derson, W. Va. If she took- the names of all her remembered husbands, she would be Mrs. Korine Labyatt Hopkins Coffey Sperrow Fitze Barker Stormanns Neumann Patchett Zerich Wilhelm Os worth Horn Galvln Stankowlch. To avoid the difficulty of de termining her proper legal name the government used her maid en name, . and she answered prbmptly when "Korine Buck ner" was called before the court. Rural Districts Bond Quotas Top . Klamath rural districts are all well over the top in their Fifth War Loan quotas, witn Merrin Malin leading at 149 per cent, it waa announced today by Fred Peterson, general chairman for tne is-iwanis ciud rurai uismti committee. j. Here are the districts, with tho chairmen, amount of quota, and percentage of quota sold, eiven in that order: No. 1 Algomft. Chiloquln, Fort Klam ath, Modoo Point, Klamath Agency- Ed Geary, chairman; ?(,U73; uo per cent of quota. No. a Dairy. Bonanza. Poe Valley, Ingell Valley Charlei Henderson, chairman: S38.750; 121 per cent of quota. No. 3-Malln, Merrlll-Dlck Henzel; Siao.OOO; 149 per cent of quota. - No. 4 Bly. Beatty. Hlldebrand. Sora- gue River, Ivory Pine community Lee McMullen: S83.220: 101 oer cent of . quota. No. 5 Keno, -Henley, Lower Klamath- Henry semon; 90,ooo; 123 per cent oi quota. No. 6-Klrk. Chemult. OUchrllt. Cl cent Lake, PeUcan Bay camp Fred Fateraont fa,Q237 luq per cent ox. quota. Addition Made To Hospitality Program Here Anotner addition has .been made to the Herald and News hospitality plan for- local men and women in. service who are home on leave. - . In addition to theatre passes Klamath boys and girls can now get a fountain permit that' will entitle them to any kind of foun tain drinic or. ice cream novelty t u t d: T-.i . Ajuai. mver uaLLy These Hermits, which arf fur. nished through the courtesv nf R. C. Woodruff, manager of Lost River Dairy, may be picked lip with the theatre passes in the editorial room of the Herald and News as soon as the man or wo man's name appears in the col umn telling of service people nome on leave. - - French Minister Killed in France LONDON. Julv 14 (jiF The Vichy radio said tonight that Georges Mandel, interior min ister in Premier Paul Reynaud's cabinet at the time of the fall of.. France, had been "killed while being transferred from one prison to another." . . Reich Troops Leavd Western Anchor '- Point By WES GALLAGHER " ; SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 14 W American-" infantrymen, slowed in their at tack, on St. Lo, burrowed .inter the.: ground and held resolutely to their positions two miles out-, side that highway center of the Normandy peninsula today inr the face of an increasing Ger man artillery fire sweeping the approaches. ; . To ..the west, however, the American army, was on the mova from St. Lo to the sea, with in fantry, and tanks only one and ' one-sixth -miles from the Ger, mans', western anchor at Lessayi and supreme headquarters : said the Germans apparently were, making an ."orderly withdrawal."- -; " ... -v Between Lessay and St.. Lot the Americans had virtually com pleted, after several days hard fighting; the ironing out of si' German salient which had, bulged toward Carentan in the middle oi the beachhead. No Change ';'. . Late supreme headquarters an-' nouncements mentioned no' changes in the battlelines at Caen, at the eastern end of the front, and Gen. Sir Bernard 14. Montgomery's British and Cant adians' apparently were at a standstill there, as the Amer icans were at Si Lo. FiKhtina south and southeast of Carentan the Americans cap-. wrea auxsjs, ijea unamps der Losque, Es-Aubrls and La Vin centerie. .These advances left (Continued on Page Two) : Woman -Sentenced 111- . 5 . F6r Kidnaping . SAN DIEGO. Calif.. Jiilv 1 W).. . 1 Mrs. Helen McDermott K r e g e r, 23,. of Vancouver.. Wash., today was sentenced by Superior Judge Gordon Thonn son. to Tehachapi prison for women 'for, not . more than 20 years on a child-stealing charge. xne judge passed sentence after : Mrs. Kreger, . who - had pleaded guilty, withdrew ' her application v for probation at a' hearing today. She told the court she. wished to be ; sen tenced to the California state prison for women in the' hope, that the "mental quirk"-' which caused her troubles might be cured there. . -1 . . i Oyster Bay Flag : At Half Staff : - OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 14 (fl--Oyster Bay lowered its flag on the town hall pole today to half staff in memory of Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ' The national emblem flutter ed in mourning position,' too,-in front of the brick clubhouse ot Quentin Roosevelt post, Ameri can Legion, named for his broth er; Quentin, who died and was buried in France during the first World war. . ..' , Mrs. Edith Roosevelt Williams, aniece of the general, -said his -widow.vMrs: Eleanor Alexander Roosevelt, had taken bravely the news of her husband's death of a. heart attack Wednesday nigh) in Normandy.. ' Destruction of Ukrainian Malin Commemorated by E KEamath County Namesake - Citizens of Malin, in' Klamath county, yesterday commemorat ed thf) first anniversary of the ruthless nazl destruction of Ma lin, in the Ukraine, by adopting a resolution calling upon all Americans of Czechoslovak or igin to "do everything possible" toward "just punishment of all axis degenerates who have sav agely violated the laws of hu manity." . -. ,. .. : ;!. '- Residents ,- of the Klamath county town, founded by Czech colonists in 1909 recalled that it was on July 13, 1943, -that the town of Malin in - the Uk raine, similarly N founded - by Czech ' colonists 70 years .ago', was burned down and 374 Czech settlers . were . brutally mur dered. . - --: "... .5 1'. Another Lidice - Malin of Ukraine has been described as "another Lidice" in recollection of the' nazl de struction of Lidice, Czechoslo vakia, in 1942. According to the resolution adopted yesterday, the nazis drove, the Malin in habitants into a church and other buildings, which-were 'set on fire. Nazi soldiers shot ev erybody attempting to escape. Wbmen and children praying for mercy were killed and thrown back into the flames; Only three - persons succeeded in escaping death. -"The only effective way tb stop this reign of terror is to speed up the war effort and to achieve full victory in the shorts est time possible," said the reso lution. '--..'-'. Telegram From Minister ' ' Mayor A. Kalina of the Klam ath county town read a tele gram from' Dr. Jan PapaneK, Czech minister plenipotentiary in London, as follows: : "Deeply appreciate your corrt memoration of your namesake, Cesky Malin, 'in Ukraine. Hope fervently all Lidices of this wa"r will . be redeemed by the ap proaching victory of the United Nations and- a just peace." .Both the Klamath county town of Malin and Malin in the Ukraine, were named for the town of Malin, in Bohemia, by colonists. , Many original Czech colonists of the Klamath town, and their descendents, still' live here, and it is regarded s one of the most prosperous farming communities of thlk region. -