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Newspaper Page TextM !h,J C IL. I . . 4. z gTsCENTS m !g CitR - n if n In Tlui ShaHia-f'iiHviHlo Wonderland July 18, 1944 Max. (July 17) 94 Min 85 Precipitation last 24 houri .00 Stream year to date 9.89 Normal 12.04 Last year 17.78 Forecast; Fair. KtAMATH FALLS. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1944 Number 10213 ..'ppANK JENKINS it LO falls to oi"- American.. Y..Ln mirrlson counter- .krf hard Inst nlKht. driving i7'Ky, buck. II VIM ..,miin withdrawal. Briidley', n"l", !! I, mornlntf. tho uum nfJT (all Into "m 'llll,m PL because SI, Lo I',tkc.. a?pWri5iiT,tir3ii4i, iERMANS., , , V hl campaign l)oforo Rlch" i 5. Grunt. lo wore wring- Ui't le, ,0""c', frcla Ivoly MOKE .tagger When Lcc Imd lost more .Vncn1.- nffnrd. An ita wan imatox came. Tint's Iho way wnr ond. Thai'! tho way this war will H . . . it i.o was first fortified by Pchirlcmaiinc. some 1100 years to. Largely u -icjdpl.ee to fight. It has been Shi over oft and on ovor I"ai Tours, some 180 mile. louthcast of St. Lo. unr ii. Ro'i Bmnclfnlhcr. Charles Ilartcl, slopped for itood and nil he Moslems, who inclni northward from Spain Into westom Europe. Tur wiu p.. Europe whore our men are iphilno. It has been going on Iracllcalty ever since there wore lien to fisht. R1EF note: The good weather renorted aesterdey continues odiy. Our planes nto busy. Araonj .other places, iney imiihod a rocxui oomo exacri- hier.lil factor awav up on-.tlio-i WIUC. r TTHE Russians are (tearing the t But river. It will bo Interest' iij to sec what happens when hey gel thoro. The Bug l tho Ine the German. In Poland lire tuppojed to have been fulling pack to. EROM AP Correspondent ' Gil f more In Moscow comes this loulbly slRnificant dispatch: i mere is every reason to nc llcva In Moscow tnduv that tho tedirmy Is READY to hurl tho ireaicit olfcnslvo In Russia hrte years of war against the itaiscrlne Germans. U miv throw the wholo front (from Romania to Finland) into violent fcctlvlly." . I lhe reason this dispatch may N significant is thnt it passed "i nussmn censorsmp, .. . . TN Italy, our men aro roportcd today to havo forced a bridge head over the Arno river (llm ucrman lino in Italy.) Wo vo nearly outflanked tho im portant Italian port of Llvomo .imaybe Leghorn on your map.) . v. wuoiiy ignore tno inn n fighting. Italy is ANOTHER Placo to kill German.. . tyATCH Guam. If. the pros , cm Pacific hot spot. n,, L in u" uuiiiuvi D battleships, cruisers and do- 3 " rave in today to bom ril l1" ac,re0s. (Our warships ran move In so close becauso tho E'" short of iilr power here This Is the 13th straight M It has been pounded. Is ANnTni.!211'?l:t"nt ""nuse It ANOTIILR .lap strong point ihff.0,0,',1, ot, ialantls defend- the P i nn nn. 41.. rtl.l CMst and Japan itself. T1!? has been some kind of navke-P In tho Jap army and SomXS!" 'i08" wt,s 8 1,ard Jolt. One ,,ly h",?, ' b spaniied. JC?spankt.hM " to. 1 ,s "foonbly all it amounts T?,ys !oclny for homo con to ac?i?n VvPnn has come grcat crhls " ' W umn i TKUT"- But again Toio IUR .conclusions, hard ,,tolls ,tno Jnps they aro f,ohUarderU mak0 thom TH'S Is rather good: stMt l?eDTrno1ls "moved by ftSMtt. has bcon lion L8..m?.v"d to greater trnnlrln. ,T?Jo, UT S"ht that HE, ,,'SIH Of Ihn .1 "URIH 111 a lino. th0 'owly tightening T15 (ront I. vmwaratChlonon P'oside uVKH to the ln. madB fT.,"'? ?oys aro bo- little freednm i ln?ul tnoy hve Ic" todwnhMR 8flys In Si L BHITISH IKE OFFENSIVE ON ROAD TO PARIS Germans Pull Out of Central Normandy Bastion By WES GALLAGHER SUi'RKMK HEAUWUAKTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. July 1U (!) Smushins German line, in u twin break through, American troops today captured the Germans' central bastion of St. Lo, and llritish Canadlnn troops buttered across tho Orno river, buttling oust of tho Orno and southeast of Cucn In a powerful offensive on the road to Purls. Gen. Sir Uvrnord L. Montgom ery's drlvo was a major break through, supported by tremend ous aerlul power. It hit Into the Caen pluin, idoul fighting coun try fur huge-sculc battles with German armor concentrated on this eastern end of tho Nor mandy front. Win Control ,.: .,a .American troops, hammering through suddenly-crumpled de fenses, won firm control of St. Lo tonight,- and tho Germans pulled back as dc&p at two miles along the eastern two-thirds of tho 48-milo doughboy front run ning west of Le.njuy. There was only light opposi tion to Lt.-Gcn. Omar N. brad (Continued on Pago Two) Girl Drowns After Saving Older Brother EUGENE, Ore., July 18 (tV) Within a few minutes after she pulled her brother, Stephen, a year her senior, from the waters of Lost Creek, little Eleanor Louise Parker, 7, of Dexter, was drowned In practically tho same spot Monday evening. Whllo her plnymutes woro ex citedly gathered around young Stephen after his rescue from the wntcr, Eleanor apparently step ped Into tho ttnmc spot, and had disappeared from sight when they turned around to thank her. Tho girl's father was summoned from his farm homo just across the road, and ho retrieved her body from tho water. A doctor was called, but nil attempts to revive her failed. Tho Rlrl's parents,' Mr. and Mrs. John Parker have bought their Dexter fnrm just recently, hnving moved hero Inst week from Santa Ana, California. Berlin Predicts Trip for FDR By Tha Assoclatod Pros. The Berlin radio, which fre quently broadcasts reports In at tempts to glean Information, said today that President Roosevelt soon would visit Rome and that arrangements already had boon mado for his trip by his Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor. There was nothing from any other source to indicate that the German report had any basis of truth. Six At a Clip t 1 CQi 4 ' s, 1 I - I - Copt. F r a d J. Christitnicn Jr., above, of Watertown, Mats., sot a record for lightor pilots rocontly whon he downod six onomy planet on a tingle mil lion. The day't bag brings the 8th air force flghtor't total .-to 22. TOJD RELIEVED AS AM STIFF CHIEF By The Attoclated Prett ,' NEV YORK. July lfl (P) GenccaLlJIdeki Xoio.-lop. -Jap! ancsc war leader, has been" re lieved of lit least one of his posts, that of chief of the army general stuff, in the second dras tic chungc in tho Japanese nign command in two days. Without giving uny indication ot n change In Tojo's status as premier und war minister, the jnpaneso radio told its listener. already shocKca by the loss or. Salpan island and by a navy shakcup announced yesterday thnt Gen. Yoshljiro Umozu, for mer commnnder-ln-chlcf of Ja pun's Kwungtung army and am bassador to Manchuria, had been named chief of the army staff. Guidance of War Domel, Japanese agency, an nouncing the shift, linked the ap pointment with thnt of tho rcla- (Uonunuecl on rage two) Five Nurses Receive Medals AT AN ALEUTIAN BASE July 18 M) Five United States army flight nurses who for more than a year have flown in fair and foul weather to evacuate the sick and wounded from the Aleutian urea were rewarded with Air Medals today. The awards were mado by Mnj. Gen. Davenport Johnson, commander of tho 11th air forco. Tho citation praised the nurses nil second lieutenants of the army nurse corps 'for meritor ious achievement in aerial flights during the period from April Id, 1043, to Juno zu, lim." Swede Sets New Record for Mile STOCKHOLM.' July 18 m- Arne Andersson of Sweden set a new world record for tho mile tonicht. running it over tho Mal- moo track in 4:01.6. or three full seconds under tho recog nized mark of 4:04.8 set in 1942 by his countryman, G u n d e r Haegg. ATTACKS GUAM HINT OF E Intensive Shelling Given Pacific Island U. S. PACIFIC .FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Har bor, July 18 (IP) Bombarded by America's biggest battleships and ripped by the most inten sive rocket attack ever loosed on a Pacific island, Japanese stolen Guam appeared today to bo at the threshhold of signifi cant developments. "Opposed only by ineffective shore bnttcries, the battle wag ons trained their highly de structive guns, along with "the guns of cruisers and destroyers, on Nipponese defenses Satur day. The next day, ' carrier E lanes went after anti-aircraft attcrlcs and barracks with rockets and fire bombs. Attault Opens July. 4 These developments, reported last night by Adm. Chester W. Nimltz, carried, the- defense- levelling.; attacks, on. uuanj . tliroualu la., uninterrupted The assault: fcpMeaVuly 4 four day. before- : Yank invasion force, completed- the -conquest of Salpan, 125 miles to the northeast in the same Marianas chain, an Integral part of Nip pon's Inner defense ring. The Jap airforce on Guam apparently has been1 wiped out and the almost ' Inconsequential losses for the Americans seem to Indicate ground defenses are .t (Continued on Page Two) Dewey Charges Unfair Practice In Soldier Vote ALBANY. N. Y.. July 18 (P) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey,' repub lican presidential nominee, as serting that "a group with un limited financial resources has been playing partisan . politics with the right of New xorK state's fighting men . to vote,' said today "it is time that this campaign of deceit was labeled and exposed." ... tlrtrlno families of service men to write them, "telling them the truth about their right to vote In tho state," Dewey said New York's soldier vote law was "a model of simplicity drawn to fit precisely title z of tno xeaerai law." , Expert Level in Confab Planned : WASHINGTON, July 18 (IP) Secretary of State Hull indicated today that the forthcoming talks on world peace organization here next month would be held at the expert level rawer man by the foreign ministers of Rus sia, tho United States, Britain and' China. Hull said that the conference will not necessarily be on a top level, and that means, he added, that the foreign ministers may not attend. - Wallace Campaign Slowed by FDR's Mild Approval; Opposition Strong By JACK BELL CHICAUO, July 18 (P) Pennsylvania 72-voto delegation, which had boon claimed for Vice President Henry Wallace, split today as Wallace responded to a hurry-up call to take over his campaign for renominatlon. ' Wallace telegraphed ho would arrive at tho democratic con vention tomorrow morning from Washington. His o a m p a 1 g n, which slowed perceptibly after President Roosevelt's mild words of personal approval, faces Its biggest opposition from War Mo bllizer James F. Byrnes and Sen ator Alben Barkley of Kentucky. 41 For, 21 Against How Pennsylvania's delegation divided, In an advisory poll which is not binding, wont undis closed in detail. It was an nounced that 41 voted for Wal lace, 21 against him or not vot ing and tho rest wore absent. Senator Joseph Guffey, a steady Wallace backer, called the result satisfactory. He predicted that 58 or 60 of the Pennsylvan ians would vote for Wallace when tho vice presidential bal loting comes in the convention. More May Enter Whllo tho general disposition among delegates Is to regard the vice presidential race largely as a three-man contest between Wal lace, Byrnes and Barkley, some new arivals such as Senator Francis Maloncy of Connecticut thought upwards of 15 names would, be presented on the first ballot. . . ' ' Senator ElnYpr Thomas of Ok lahoma said his state's delegation likely would present the name of Gov. Robert S. Kerr, the conven tion keynoter, , and Indianans planned to offer Paul V. McNutt, who lost out in the same race in 1840, as a candidate. First Support Predicted The Pennsylvania break-way from Wallace seemed likely to be matched in Montana. Senator James E. Murray told a reporter he thought that while Wallace would get first ballot support, he had no doubt that later the delegates, would' divide their al legiance. There was evidence, also of a split In the Alabama delegation. ' Wallace to Arrive Wallace's Impending arrival at the convention was announced In a telegram he sent Jake More, (Continued on Page Two) Rescue of Buzzbomb Casualty s Mifeirr . A'citualty is lowered from a bombed building, qamigaq ey German, lyinqi robot bomb, somewhere ', in. southern England, eiltaniiwlr ifrftf ) - 4V menace hat been solved, daily allied pounding of launching; sites and strengthened rfightei patrol, are having good effect, r. ". 1 1 : - ' ; El POUND PIERCED One Killed in Accident On Marine Barracks Road Joe Elvis Bowman, 18, a sea man attached to one of the squad rons at the Klamath naval air station, was fatally injured early today when the car he was driving failed to make a turn on the Old Fort road one mile be low the Marine Barracks; Another seaman, Ernesto Gon zales, 19, was injured. Not ser- John Turner Killed During French Invasion The list of casualties from the invasion theater grew today with npws nf another Klamath Falls boy killed in action on June 6 J during the invasion or trance. He is John Turner, son of Mrs. Jack Hales of 1026 Homedale road. A telegram from tho war de partment was received by Mrs. Hales Monday afternoon. Turner was serving in the tank division of tho army. He enlisted from Klamath Falls following the attack on Pearl Harbor and had recently been stationed in England prior to the invasion. ' Before ' enlist ing he operated a news agency at Milwaukie, Ore. Brazilians Join Allied Armies WASHINGTON, July 18 (Pi Arrival of a Brazilian expedition ary force in Naples July 18 to join allied armies in operations on the Italian front, was an nounced today by the war de partment. . The brief announcement said: "A Brazilian expeditionary force arrived In Naples on July 16 to participate with the allied armies in the joint operations in Italy. This Brazilian force has been in training for an extensive period." No additional details were dis closed. , Germans ' Shoot Allied Pilots LONDON. " July 18: W) Ger man captors have- shot 33 more allied fliers, Sir James Grlgg, war secretary, told commons today. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced on June 23 that 50 captured fliers had been shot bv the nazis. Sir James said that in 27 of the new cases, the men were al leged to have been shot while attempting es ' pes. The circum stances of the other six killings were not immediately disclosed. iously hurt were two' other oc cupants of the car, Leona Lee Morgan, 31. 725 Owens street, and Margaret L. Ramsey. 18, 2061 Wantland. Four in Coupe State police said the four per sons were in the driver's seat of the coupe and were driving in the direction of town when the car failed to negotiate a lazy S turn and careened down a steep 7-foot embankment. The machine apparently overturned, throwing Bowman clear. -- Help was given by. the mem bers of a party in a taxicab bound for the Marine Barracks, which came by a few minutes after' the accident.. The cab driv er saw a girl on the highway sig naling, for assistance, and stop ped. . A considerable search in the dark was necessary to find Bow man, who had been thrown some distance. The four occupants of the coupe -were then loaded into the cab and driven to the Klam- atn valley hospital, where Bow- (continued on Page Five) Japs Say Peace Talk Unfounded By The Attociaied Pres. ' ' The Tokyo radio described to day as absolutely groundless reports from Rome that Ken Harada, Japanese minister to the Vatican, had informed Pope Pius XII that Japan was ready to talk peace under certain conditions. The broadcast, recorded by the Associated' Press, quoted Jap anese foreign office spoKesmen as saying the Rome report was "so absurd it is not worth the trouble to, deny. The advices from Home yes terday quoted usually well-informed nersons with close Vati can contacts as saying Harada had presented Japan's views on peace at an audience with the fope last oaturaay. Two Munitions Ships Blow Up 1 In Dual Blasts PORT CHICAGO, Calif., July 18 UP) A. many a. 350 men may have died in the thundering explosion of two ammunition hips at a navy munitions dock here. That estimate today of latt night's tragedy was bated on the navy', official ttatement that at leatt 200 to 250 navy men were milling and pretumed lott, and on a combined civilian crew Hit of about 130 men for the two thipi. - v The venelt. shattered into b!tt by the dual explotiont, were identified bv the new as tha S. fi. Atitnault Vi,tn0 . k Tf-i ed State. Linet, a Victory .hip, and the S. 8. E. A, Bryan, oner ated by the Oliver J. Olson Linet. Almoit every houie in the little town of Port Chicago village of 1500 wa. wrecked. The blast wat felt 50 mile, away, w ww Bii.wa, uio iiiuniugoi ana property aamage will run into many million, of dollari. -The Bryan wa. literally thredded by a mighty explotlon at 10:19 p. m. Only tecondi later the larger Victory .hip blew up and the earth quaked to the thunder in the heaven. c One man. a mile away ulH he saw a "mile-high skyrocket' of red and white flame leap in. v tut: ciuuas. - - Small Boat. Sunk Two small coast euard bnate were sunk by the explosions. Wreckage swept over Suisurt bay, which branches east from,' wan e imiuisco uay. Shortly after dawn today n navy permitted newspapermen; n ," navHi siaiion, where the work of bringing out the bodies had begun, but they were not allowed to enter the dock area. - Feared Lost . - T A naOT snnlrMman r. . : . i - they feajed many of the victims.: literally disintegrated by force of the terrific blast, would never be found. ii "You wouldn't want to aa down there anyway or write about what you see down there' of the 250 navy men who were on the. loading docks when the' ships blew up, the spokesman . Ship. Shredded - The two Pie caren chin shredded into jagged bits of steel uj- me explosion, a nuge chunk from the hull of one was hurled a half mile to the center of the adjoining town of Port Chicago where it half-imbedded itself in a street. ' On the steps of the Contra Costa county and community hospitals in Martinez, trails of blood were mute evidence of the" procession 'of pain that had enters ed the institution. Ice .trucks from - nearby Pittsburgh were5 commandeered to help remove the wounded to hospitals, - , - r-iumatea 650 Previously a -naw rnmman had estimated the dead at 650. Sheriff- J. R. Thornton figured, the toll at 300 dead and the in. jured at 1000. Personnel Injured " An accurate count could nnt be made until after a daylight search of the devastated area, ing walls of houses, r - The dead and - injured were chiefly naval personnel attached to the-Port Chicago depot, some (Continued on Page Two) LONDON, July 18 (IP) The fortifications guarding Lwow in old Poland have been pierced, Premier-Marshal Stalin announc ed tonight. The drive opened a new offen sive in southern Poland, spread ing the fighting along a 550 mile front. Lwow is an' impor tant rail junction town. -. Break Detente. Stalin's order of the day ad dressed to Marshal Ivan Konev said "troops of the first Ukran ian front going over to the of fensive with support of massed blows by artillery and aircraft broke through strong and deeply-echeloned German defenses in the Lwow direction, and in three days of offensive fighting advanced to a depth of 50 kilo meters (31 miles) widening their break-through up to 200 kilo meters - (125 miles) along the front." German broadcasts first had announced the new Russian blows, reporting violent fighting 37 miles east of Lwow. Lwow was the third city of pre-war Poland, and- Is one of Europe's great ran centers.- - EDO Town. Taken . "MBrd than 600 towns arid' lo calities were swept up in-tne advance. Stalin said. Krasne, rail junction 28 milfes east of Lwow, was captured, tne broadcast order recorded by the soviet monitor said. Other towns taken included Zloczow. 37 miles east of Lwow, Radziechow, 42 northeast, Goro-. (Continued on rage. xwoj Staff keeper Fatally Beaten PORTLAND, Ore., July 18 (IP) Ira Edward Briggs. 57. was la tally beaten today in his small vegetable market in suburban Portland apparently by a ban dit who entered the stall in the early hours of the morning. Passersbv discovered the Port land man in a semi-conscious condition. He died a few hours later in a Vannort hospital. Police said Briggs told them he did not see the person who struck him- on the head after robbing him of $40. . Chinese Report Counterdrive CHUNGKING, July 18 Chinese press reports lacking official confirmation said today the Chinese had started a counter-drive along the Peiping-Han- kow railway and at the same time were campaigning to sweep the Jarjanese back along, the Canton-Hankow railway in Hu nan province. These advices.' said the Chi nese had mounted an offensive against Japanese in Honan pro vince, to the-north of the pres ent principal battleground of Hunan, and struck toward Kio shan, ' 150 miles north of Han kow. : It was in- this area of southern Honan that the Chi nese nreviously had : stabbed against the Japanese positions along uie run jiuu uja;vbiiis uc province. AD PI 24..ONE s(P) Police said the death car was registered to C. : W. Bowers, Tulelake. Calif., but added they did not know whether the car actually is owned, by Bowers Don Partin Takes Wife to Bus, Misses Explosion PORT CHICAGO, Calif., July 18 (JP) One of the happiest sur vivors of the Port Chicago ex plosion was Don Partin, gunner's mate 3c 'of Klamath Falls, Ore,. While newspapermen were in terviewing persons receiving first aid treatment at the Port Chicago-Memorial hall', Partin walk ed ud and said: ....... . "Gee, am I lucky,' but .will you do something, for me? "You see, I had liberty today to put my wife on a bus for Klamath Falls. My pal, C. R. Holandsworth. seaman first class, offered to staM my watch. . "My ship was due to sail and I was to board it at San Pablo point. When I left my wife I told her I -would return at once to mv shic The gunner said he went to San Pablo point but not seeing his vessel reported to the shore patrol. They checked and told him his shit) was at Port Chicaso. He immediately took a bus for that point and was between Oak land and the ammunition maga zine when the explosion occur red.' : ' -V J ' "'.',-' "Now if you can only write my story," Partin said, "my wife, Who will read of the1 explosion, will know that I am safe." Dorris Students i To Attend KUHSl ... - - - !J Dorris high school students will definitely be on the roster of KUHS for at least one term and nrobablv two. according to word received here Tuesday by. Arnold Gralapp, superintendent of Klamath schools. Gralapp was notified that the Siskiyou joint union high school district board had taken the ac tion. The Siskiyou board asked that KUHS make possible - en rollment of Dorris students for a full year with the understand ing that if the Dorris school building is finished by mid-terra they may withdraw. - The new arrangement was made as an aftermath of a fire which destroyed the Butte Val ley high school at uorris. con struction of another building; there will-be started soon. Mean while, Dorris students will ride to Klamath by bus. ' , Fire Threatens Douglas Building CHICAGO. July 18 (P) The administration building , at the 33 million dollar Douglas air craft plant in suburban Park Ridge was destroyed today in a spectacular fire which for a time threatened the huge factory which builds the giant C-54 cargo planes. . ' Through the combined efforts of' hundreds : of firemen from suburban departments and from Chicago, the fire . was brought under control after more than: two. hour; of .fighting, and the big . factory was only slightly damaged. Three Chicago fire men were reported slightly itt jured.-- : ... Damage ,-was estimated by John C. Buckwalter, plant man ager, at $1,500,000. Railroad Worker: Fatally Injured : SPOKANE, July 18 OP) Arort man, was killed last night when brushed off an express car by a freight car. parked on a siding in yards here. He was thrown under the wheels ot the expresl car. ' ' t i'Hls brother, Joseph W. An derson, wa. in theLswltch towel and witnessed the accident.