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Newspaper Page Textrail rTmnfxnrr U uuuujua (IWTv 1FNKINS Br r""";.,: , . finrmnnv. W 11 But tltl much feLtd.t.rmln.d 1""n B.Vlc. lv superior, fe", n b. . pooh-poohed . , . . ' '-, full of rumor,. ' deserting and lIM7 - n Germany." (Mos- orlouM.....lc rode. I Iram Germany, vim Denmark, KwWicwr II homb nil." AINTAIN OKDHR. And o on. -ESTAPO CHIEr HIMM. LEH (th Butcher) ha milirth power o! III Zi de.lh. the pow.r lo , KILL AND KILL German it hU own discretion. IIAYBE there whs n bombing, lu.vhe NOT. Hitler and is nml crow mny hnve dreamed lo the bombing Inle as an ex- llit to KILL Otr mo ni- ininllod ucniinn ni..P ihom we've been hearing rumor h'- ... . I ii nisy uo m " true the luenrer in ui "i liat the people will rally around iim to the death In hl hour ol STILL, the fact remain (baud on fairly depend, ible ldnee) that aimn ;. irt shooting Carman i HELPING US to kill ' off . Gtimim, which I what will ) tnd th war. bHERE ii thl note of caution: Whntcvor ha happened. Hit or ind hli crow are nil 11 In eon rot of the radio. Wo'ro hearing oplouily from them, but NOTH NO from the alleged revoltor. far ii the Russlun aro con 3 cerncd.; they nron't pulling heir punches whllo Iho rumor In the north, they are only 85 -niles from Rlitn, on tho Doltlc. n the center, they have, stormed across the Bug mid nro 1cm than 100 miles from Warsaw and itill going. In the south, they have Lwow pretty well surrounded.' The Germans seem to bo blowing It up and getting ready to leave. . N Normnndy, tha weather stays 1 pro-nnzl as It ha been from the beginning. Torrential rnlna bog down Montgomery' tank cut of Caen. Lowering skies continue to hnmpcr our air opera tions. Pro-Gcrmon rnln pour on the Italian front. "NE more rumor, before, wo "quit for the day: The Vichy radio (German) im TURKEY IS COMING IN ordering her ship Into harbor, etc If Turkey IS moving In, It I dependnblo sign tho Germans " cracking. p la not surprising lo learn this . morning that our marine and infantry nrc pouring Bslioro on "iii. wo ve neon preparing 'to way now for more than two weeks. Admiral Nlmltz' communl W says tho landings are con IinulnE "luminal MnnroiTF I'tomy ground resistance." That probably meuns Hint the re Wtarico from tho burrowed "raw Japs is pretty tough. ,iA"cr, -Salpan, they will fight "M wildcats to hold Guam. QUAM is believed to bo gar risoned by about 20,000 Jap rotmh V tlin nmn n. nt snT"' U hns 11,0 M hUl i uml croviccB a salpan In these hills and caves n.ircJvl.ccs the JnP may bo 10 the ln8t man flahiWlll!lbo B hBrd and bloody hav u5ul. .we wln WIN- We "'vo what It takes to win. . 0N 'ho home political front, cajUm.w?s.,ono o' tho minor deveE!.0 lhc "'"rt'lng world the Tim i pco, hi luck n w w!S!a-ot the news do- CMptirfen JPf'W a dramatic ontrrtv0u hls ,ourth nomlna lr In 'tng ',cro'", th0 oun not ove? . s,e.crocJ' (Probably knowln. nL'L111"110" People ""O the mlnnn-i. "u unse lo Wot ft oni on the great . Tho fiilS2lcaB0 convontlon. :nose this . ' ,na. tho! osps !ll Hetatti PRICE 5 CENTS SHIPS GIVEN Violent Bombardment Prepared Way For New Attack By CHARLES 8. McMUHTHY V. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS. Pearl Hurbor, July 21 ()) United Stutcs marlnca and Infantry lire pouring nhoro on Guam, first Amorlcun tcr rilory seixed by tho Japanese, and lighting their way Inland under cover of a pulverizing aerial and warship bombard ment. Adm. Chester W. Nlmllv: announced today. The landings, a quick follow up to the great victory on Sal pan, started yosterday morning, and "aro continuing nRiiln.it moderato ground opposition," Nlmltz' communique said, Establish Baachheadi "United States marines and army assault troops established beachhead on Guam island on July 20 (west longitude U. S. time) with the support of car rier aircraft mid surface combat unlt of,Uo fifth (loot,'-' tho early morning communique continued. "Enemy defenses are being heavily bombed and shelled at cloto range." Guam Is tho southernmost and largest of tho Marianas group of islands. Its capture would strengthen Salpun's position as base from which Japan can bo mortally assaulted. Guam is 130 miles southwest of Salpan and both Islands arc within easy Superfortress rnngo of Tokyo and the whole of Japan. Tho Philippines, lying some 1500 miles west of Guam and (Continued on Pago Two) Germans Fire at Fallen Livorno ROME, July 21 (VP) Big Ger man guns in the hills behind Pisa lobbed n harassing flro in to tho stricken city of Livorno todny whllo fifth army pntrols probed Into enemy defense lines north of tho Arno river for the first time. ' .Allied headquarters an nounced that American units still were finding and extermi nating pockets of oncmy re sistance on the south side of tho river yesterday, described as ono of the quietest days ex perienced by the fifth army slnco tho offensive began May 11. , Tho enemy was reported In strong outpost positions on the north sido of tho Arno, especial ly where tho slrenm could bo forded, but at the eastern end of tho Italian front tho Ger mans continued to flee before tho avenging Poles. SUPPORT FROM Al MARINER Cpl. Dan Ellis Missing In Action Since June 9 Word was received from the war deportment on July 20 that Cpl. Dan R. Ellis of tho medical detachment of the paratroops Is missing In action in Franco slnco Juno 0. , Cpl. Ellis Is tho youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Ellis of 5608 Shosta way. Ho went to Mills school and attended KUHS until his senior year. Ho gradu ated from Marshfleld high school In 1042, enlisting tho same year In tho paratroops.. Juno 10 of this year the San Francisco Chronicle carried a radio photo of n group of happy American paratroopors display ing a captured nazi flag. Dan Ellis was easily recognized as ono of this group. This same picture was In a news reel at the. Pelican thea tre' and his mother was thrilled at s o e i n g her son's picture, which was taken on D-Day in France. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis havo two other sons now in the service ond a fourth son honorably discharged- from the Seabeos. May nard C, Ellis Is receiving train ing , In ' the navy at. Farragut, Ida, .Lt, James C. Ellis, In the fn Tim Shunia erican Weops iahd KUHS Coach L. Marbla Cook, above, will head the KUHS athletic dot tinlos. it was announced today. Cook, who roplacor Frank Ram sey os head basketball and foot ball coach, has had coaching expurlsnce in mnny Oregon high schools, the latost of which was Lincoln high In Potland. H coach n FOR HIGH SCHOOL Klnmnth Union high school to day hncl u new football and bas kctbnll coach. ' Ho If L. Marble Cook, who comes here from Lincoln high school at Portland. Cook was elected by the high school board in special session this week, and today gave final notification of his acccplancu and his release from ins rorunnd jou. mo is a 1034 University of Oregon grad uate. Tho tall, blond. 39-year-old conch was a drtrk horse In the race for the Klamath post, left vacant by the departure of Frank Itnmscy for the marine corps. He was not included in a list of pros pects published a short time ago, Having come recently into the sit uation as the Klamath board members senrchod for tho best man available for tho key sports jod liero, Former Lincoln Coach Cook was basketball, track and assistant football coach at Lin coln last year, and was slated for (Continued on Page iwo) a Military Head ' Changes Title HONOLULU, July 21 (P) Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson last night relinquished tho title ot military governor of Hawaii and said his office , would bo continued under lhc name of office of internal security. . The change docs not end Ha waii's martial law status, now under attack in U. S. courts. ! army signal corps, having en listed In 1037, is now at Camp Pickett, Va. Cpl. Dan Ellis r"' waJfcLr " ''1 r ( r . V ') T erf s4 1 wniiinrniii mii nrf" - Cancade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, 1 Rain Slows Offense; Canadians Advance One Mile Br WES GALLAGHER SUP'REME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 21 (P) Torrential rains and deep mud bogging the battlefields of Normandy slowed allied offensives today, but Can adian troops slogging forward a mile captured St. Martin de Fon tenay, fivo miles duo south of Jacn. Slight Gain . The British to the west gained 1000 yards, on two-mile front below tho Caumont-Tllly road and -AnSerlca'ril ' -pinched off a longer portion- of the road from bt. Lo to PcrlerSi supreme head quarter said, but virtually con tinuous rains for 36 hours "in terfered with . ground oper ations." .Canadian infantrymen routed Germans from underground shel ters in tho advance into St. Mar tin aftdr seizing St. Andre-Sur- urne on me .tuuwuux Orrie river., . ....-.-. CounUrputh Baatan . A German tank counterattack was beaton back near SL Mar tin. - British and Canadian, infantry had taken over the brunt of the fighting from Gon. Sir. Bernard L. Montgomery's armored units. The deepest penetration of the German defenses took place di rectly east of Caetf? where Brit ish Tommies by-pfssing Troarn to the north diwve - to within 1000 yards of ; the village of Bures on the Dives river slight ly more than eight miles from Caen. The enemy has flooded the river to block - the coastal route to the great port of Le Havre. - Main ObiectWa Fail It was apparent that Gon. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery s ad vance, while making gains, had (Continued on rage two; r Japanese Silent On Guam Assault :'; Sv Th Aitoelatarl Pnu ! Japanese radios were silent today concerning the American landings upon Guam, but a cryptic Domel broadcast sug gested Emperor Hirohito's war lords had reconsidered the idea of naming co-premiers to suc ceed Gen. HideKl Tojo. . "The Imnerial Rule Assist ance association (Japan's fascist party) at a special meeting of party directors this afternoon unanimously pledged to give whole-hearted support to the new cabinet which will be formed under Gen. Kuniakl Koiso or Admiral Mltsumasa Yonai," the Domei dispatch said. This indicated that only ono of them would get the No. 1 POSt. . ; ' Nazis Evacuate Black Sea Ports ISTANBUL. Turkey. July 20 (Delayed) (P) The Germans ap pear to oe evacuating me Bul garian Black sea ports of Varna U1IU DUIfiW. o - ern Bulgaria said today, adding that during the past week he had seen train loads of German troops moving westward lrom tne vicin ity of both norts. .German -evacuation of. these ports was believed to be one of the Russian demands for contin ued Soviet-Bulgarian diplomatic relations : Hardin Wounded In Action An announcement by the war department of men wounded in action included the name of PFC Desel O. Hardin of Klamath Falls.' : Hardin is the son of Mrs. Ethel L. Hardin .of 311 Division. He was. wounded In the Mediterran ean area. ALLIES M SILL GAINS 11 FRIDAY, JULY 2), 1944 Ballot Approached By Demos; Wallace, Truman Out Ahead ' ' ' 'VV'T- By JACK BELL - CHICAGO STADIUM. July 21 UP) With Hanrr A. Wallace and Senator Harry Truman far ahead and gaining on tha field, the big and bitter business ol tne conclave selection oz a vice presidential nominee. At 1:30 p. m. (PWT) Wallace had a total of 389 delegate vote pledged, and claimed in ad vance of th actual roll call. The senator from Missouri had 213 H, with S89 needed to nom inate. - : ::; ' ; ' V. . , Thirteen other candidates ware assured first-ballot support serious or complimentary and an early conclusion drew prospectively increasingly remote. Senator Alben W. Berkley of Ken tucky, claiming 75 to 100 first-ballot votes, declared! r "I won't iimrlfiAH if thprp LONDON, July 21 (P Red army troops today captured Os trov near the Latvian border and 150 other populated places, and cut the road from Brest Litovsk to Chelm in old Poland, the Rus sian communique announced to night. Russian troops crossed the Bug river on a front of 37 miles and advanced up to more than nine miles, seizing over 20 populated places in a sweep toward War saw. ' . Roads Cut '- Both the road and railroad between- Bsest Litovsk - and Chelm were snipped. ""More1 man TOO b o o 'u 1 a f.e d places were swept up. in the bat- tie veering toward Brest latovsk. Farther south more than 100 populated places were enveloped in the offensive toward Lwow, said the bulletin broadcast by Moscow and recorded by the sov iet monitor. Premier Marshal . Stalin had announced the capture of Ostrov a few hours earlier in an order of the day. Ostrov. 10 miles from the Lat (Continued on Page Two) , Stimson Returns To Washington ' WASHINGTON, July 21 P) Secretary of War Stimson re turned today from a trip to the battlcfronts in Italy and Nor mandy and a visit to England. Coming back with him were Mnj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles, chief of the army's bureau of public relations, and Harvey H. Dundy, special assistant to the secretary. Stimson had been out of the country about three weeks. . - - - -"- Turkey May End Neutrality Soon LONDON, July 21 (tP) Signs increased today that' Turkey soon may swing from her tenderly-balanced neutral . position to a possible declaration of war against the axis. One such indication was a broadcast by the German-controlled Vichy radio that all Turkish shins had been ordered into Turkish harbors without delay; and that all navigation in Turkish waters of the Black con hnri hppn suspended. There was a growing belief In London that Turkey may at tempt to improve her position at the allied peace table by handing axis diplomats their walking papers. Expulsion of nazi agents has been at the top of allied re quests to the Turks ever since they agreed to end shipping of chrome to Germany. - Earlier in the war, Turkey declined to become a belliger ent on the allied side despite delivery of millions of dollars wprth of allied supplies. Germans Order Hitler Edition ' NEW YORK, July 21 (P) The German radio today instructed this German armv newsnaDer to issue a special edition on Adolf Hitler, stressing the "unshake- able faithfulness of all the men to Hitler. ,.i.-.' U. S. government monitors heard the broadcast order a pic ture layout to include photo graphs of Hitler, Heinrich Alumina . ,tic iiomj-auiii.cu Chief-of-Staff Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian, and Col. Gen Hans Stemnf. new chief of Luftwaffe torccs inside the reicti, July Max. (July 20) 87 Mln. 52 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to data ....10.42 Normal 12.07 ' Last ytar 17.82 Forecasts Fair. Oh the. democratic national convention is a deadlock. Anytmng may happen after that." . It was a tense, irritable con vention . that booed at times, cheered often and repeatedly defied tne efforts of Senator Samuel - Jackson of Indiana , to maintain .order as nominating speakers and seconders ' droned on The galleries,' heavy -with Wallace banners, let go for. the vice - president at every oppor tunity, and, despite the. threats and pleas of Jackson, cat-calls and boos "for others.;'-,-; " r :.-Ohio Caucus ,": "" Wallace, starting the day with 316 pledged and claimed votes, made his first move when big Ohio caucused and reported 21 of its 52 delegates for Wallace, with 9 for Truman. New York, which had' been claimed heavily for Truman, followed with a re ported 20 for Wallace find 16 for Truman. ' " .. .. ! Truman, arriving; at" the; sta dium during a demonstration for wauace alter a seconding speecn, said: OK With Truman - ' "It's all rieht. 'The mort Mr. Wallace gets on the first ballot snort, oi course,' ol the needed number the better my chances thereafter. I hope ' he gets as many as 500." ' Jake Moore, Iowa state chair man, predicted Wallace would have "more than 400 on the first ballot." He said -the vice presi dent would -not come to-the1 con vention "until after he is nomi nated." With delegates elbowing their way into this stadium for the cli (Continued on Page Two) Unidentified Girl Found Dead PORTLAND, Ore:, July 21 VP) An unidentified Birl. whose Durse contained a match-folder adver tising a Seattle firm and some Washington tax tokens, ' was found dead today in the bath room of a hotel here. - The hotel manager said . the girl, apparently about 17 or 19 years old, had not -registered there. The coroner ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death. French Blow Up Munitions Dumps LONDON, July 21 (P) In the biggest stroke of sabotage since D-Day, French , patriots' at' Cru gey blew up munition dumps supplying all German air force bases in eastern. France between June 19 and 22,' authoritative French informants ' in London said last -night Approximately 10,000 tons of ammunition in more than 7000 rail cars were reported destroyed. Heart of Germany Bombed By 2500 American Planes LONDON. July 21 . (fP) Around 2500 American . planes bombed the heart of Germany to day, with 2000 flying above a howling channel storm for at tacks on Regensberg and Schweinfurt and another 500 from Italy penetrating within 125 miles of Berlin. It was the fourth consecutive day of massive, coordinated American attacks on Germany from the west and south. More than 1100 American hea vy bombers flew from Britain, convoyed by nearly 300 fighters from the U. S. eighth air force, the largest number of fighters from the force ever to take the air at one time. Scores of enemy aircraft were seen, but most kept a respectful distance. . En route home, some fighters dipped low to strafe in Sudeten land. . Targets of the Italy -based bombers were at Brux in Sudet enland, the mountainous border 21, 1944 Number 10216 approached a ballot today on ft AGES AT AITAPE ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS,. NEW- GUINEA, July. 21 (JP) Fighting on the-Ai-tape beachhead has reverted to savage hand-to-Hand combat with Americansand Japanese strug- ..1 i -U 1 . ... , . guiug m uie;aarit wua Dayonei ana Knue.. ai least au .Japanese were killed in such a battle Monday nieht. One enemv sereeant was pinned to the side of a slit trench with his own bayonet - - Hayden Lennard, - Australian corresnOndent.-. related the rnir. ticulars of one bitter episode-of the struazle in which, the Jana. nese, fought desperately to break the ring of American steel- sep Brauiig mem irom me last en emy bases on northwest New Guinea. . . .. . . . .- -. ... (Reports from Gen.: Douglas MacArthur's headquarters have , (Continued on Page Two) -- Radio Reports Hitler Prepares To Flee Country NEW YORK, July 21 OP) NBC said today that a clandes tine German radio' station had reported a: four-engine trans port plane capable of flying 10,000 miles was standing . by at a secret airbase in Germany at the disposal of Adolf Hitler. . The station "implied that HuV ler may be preparing to flee the country, or at least is get ting things in readiness for any eventual emergency," NBC said. 'The plane is the same craft that' last year flew non-stop to Japan." ". Indian Goes On ': Warpath in Jail PORTLAND July 21 (P) A three-year-old Indian boy was back on the Warm Springs res ervation today iter going on the war path in tl city jail. : The leather-l-nged youngster whooped and howled his protest at being held, in the jail while waiting for his parents who were jailed on drunk charges. Judge John Seabrook sentenced the par ents to six months each, suspend ed on condition they return to the reservation. - An infant s-ter of the boy SDent the day happily in her pa poose basket, unmoved- by her brother's protests or her parents' troubles. - province which Germany, stole from Czechoslovakia in the Mun ich conference which prefaced the war. Brux is northwest of Praha (Prague), the Czech capi tal, the flight entailed a.i4UU- mile roundtrip. The twin assaults carried the bombing offensive to new peaks. In a little more than 24 hours, it was estimated a total of about 7000 allied planes cast around is.uuo tons of bombs on the foe. During the squally night, a force of around 1000 RAF heavy bombers pummeled objectives in Germany, France and Belgium, losing 31 planes. The major rail yards of Courtrai bottlenecking three trunk lines leading to the Normandy battlefields were tar gets, along with German oil Dlants at Hombertf and Rnttrnn- Wilheim in the Ruhr, the port of riamourg,- rorjqt oomb piauorms in northern ranee and road con voys north and. south of . Paris, Italy-based planes struck around tne river fo and in Yugoslavia mm mm CLIQUE CHARGED WITH ADOLF ATTACK i . i Heinrich H i m m I e r' Begins Purge of . . Generals ' By Th Associated Pre LONDON, July 21 P) A purge of German generals by Heinrich Himmler apparently was proceeding in Germany toy day a an aftermath to what Adolf Hitler described as an army clique's attempt to assas sinate him and pave the way for surrender. ' Berlin announced that Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck, former chief of the general staff, was dead. Nazis tonight disclosed that "insurgents" had narrowly miss-,r ed seizing government quarters-' in - Berlin.. . - - . Goebbels Consulted . - The German military radio; declared reichs Minister Goeb bels had frustrated a conspira tors' coup to take over capital buildings through forced orders, to a crack army battalion. These orders said Hitler had been killed and that the Ger man high command was taking, over, the broadcast said, but the; battalion commander first con sulted Goebbels before moving', his troops, and the ruse wasi discovered. Hitler himself then gave the orders to the battalion major, the broadcast added. Communications Broken Broken communication mask ed actual conditions within Ger many, leaving only the Germanf accounts and a flood of rumors" in neutral countries. A traveler who reached Sweden said two German divisions had revolted ir East Prussia Wednesday, appar ently touching off the movement against Hitler. There was no' confirmation of this, nor of va rious reports of street fighting; in German tQwnj. ' . Field . Marshal Gen. GuentheY, von Kluge. whose forces are op posing the armies of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in Trance, found- it necessary to issue an order of the day to his troops, urging them . to "inflexible determin ation and unconditional loyalty to the fuehrer." . . "No 1918" 'There will be no repetition of the year 1918," Von Kluge dc dared, according to Berlin broadcasts. Switzerland clamped down a rigid censorship on the trans mission abroad of reports that reached there from Germany, A German Transocean News agency (propaganda) broadcast (continued on Jfage xwoj . Tulelake Man Missing After Ship Explosion Eugene ' W. Garrett of Tilled lake was among the names of 66 ' merchant . seamen missing and believed to have been killed on the : two merchant ships blown up by the Monday night explosion- at the Pprt Chicago, Calif., naval ammunition depot. it was announced today by the tweutn naval distnnt. Garrett is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Garrett of Tulelake and was a machinist on the victory ship Quinault Victory. .nis orotner, timer, was .also In the area of the explosion but he called his p a r e nt s and, friends after the explosion tell ing mem that he was all right. General Pleads For Nazi Loyalty LONDON. July 21 (Pi The German radio said tonight that Fieldmarshal .Gen. Guenther von Kluge in an order of the day to his French command un derlined what he called the ab solute necessity for loyalty to Hitler." The text of the order, as re ported by the Berlin radio:. . "Soldiers of the west:a small clique of retired officers made a mean attempt on the life of our fuehrer. The fuehrer is alive, he spoke to the German people and to German soldiers last night. "The perpetrators have been rendered harmless. Calm ; and, order prevail at home." ' 1 ,-' ';. i t Baseball Scores . NATIONAL LEAGUE . ' '- . : - R H Chicago v....-:...:....,;....- 4 7 Boston .' 2 9 Lynn and Williams; Cardonl and Hofferth. ' .,v.i, - H ' H Cincinnati ....... ........ 3 7 II Brooklyn 2 7 1 Heusser and Mueller; ' Davis and Owen. ; -,: AMERICAN LEAGUE P R H B Washington ......:.;.;. 5 9 - i Detroit 8 12 3 Niggeling, Carrasquel (6), Wynn (8) and Ferrell; Trout and Swift. . . . . t . . .