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lif .v irNKINB v rnA . 1 jii llm most roscmnuna " tlic , , , wor(. t',r 7m don'l know JUST MAT It ! . , . 4 . it m "tsal till JJLTCVloon purge" to .Sdtl lillter'i o.iemic. Inslclo P'.L.ut. It In a SUCCESS- ner in in"- . i M..ni. S , by . few wicked traitor. 'r ...... fiii'iirrr i mu. I'KS frankly culls It fvobUTION., 1 i. ..rKi,iilv tho bent nlc- ,Sl..:. hi London dl Ion tho German front er. the Ld.el Pi "'I., earned In r' liable but secret channels nT. in,..mlir nurun hut IL.V'5 wnit'llKD tho RKAL Kders AND OHGANUEHS '...i.4m'n to Hitler. ll iddi: r!irmnnv lft Lt today, with SS mid null- iiccrcd units i" . " S Wlcd control, but tho leader In o( the internal opposition iiho nwl. except for a very L mm treated by the blood i,J hM REMAINED IN- ICT." . , . lit "committee" and resist- inco organization, tne ir itlmits, hm existed in ucr my for more than nix month. mrmoors iiil-iwuu nuv w.i.j Mi..... U,,l .,nl-lt(ntlttlVt.Ji f toe Cermon Evangelical and r m imij .. .. .- J:hollc churches, fll then answers tho hitherto iulinj question an to why Sen in .unheaval (If it l an up l uvil) ilioulrl huve ntnrted with i f nitre tossing of a not very fieltnt bomb at Hitler. Tho i ipalch my; The iltcmpt at Hitler's life I it designed NOT to overthrow ! c natii .... but to show tho oole of Germany that It l D&IBLE TO ACT AGAINST 1TLER despite the SS and tho M-" . . . -:f. HAT mtkes sense, lor it la understandable that dread of t bloody gastapo has boen a I iwcrlul restraining Influence I I Germany. Before there could It revolution, somebody had to rove that revolution wot feat ilc. 1 'HIS story isn't official. It may be more depcndublo for lit very reason. Officials don't liko to RO out i i limbs that may bo sawed off I riilnd them and aro apt to fall 1 .10 the habit of thinking that io less said tho better. They l Mom tell all they know. Much more la known Inside crmany about thin uffulr than si been permitted to net out, nd it is quite probable that rcss association men on tho Icrmon' borders know people ho can SECRETLY (live them i pretty straight Insldo story. So don't disregard this AP 1 crslon, 'HURCHILL, who hag bcon in ' Normandy for tho past throe y, Is almost jovial today, peaking to allied soldiers, he iys: "Opposite you is an on- jtto,-"" powor u "The Germans weren't happy wore) on their flfthtWig fronts, low, suddenly boiling up In wir stomachs, has como a dead I quarrel at homo. It's not P wing for a man to hear of EVOLUTION going on In his acSed"ntry Who" hc's bcln8 Bl" Sy then adds: Thcro aro grave signs of '"fness In Germany. Tno war mi come to un end earlier nsn wo have alright to say." fHE Russians today, by Gor man account, aro only 80 r """Warsaw and 388 "lies from Berlin, i inoy ro far across tho Bug, Sv"i lnst nlllul defense ft Bfb.0,,,rc Gmany. They've thoS!l.'Lltov8k nd Lwow far ttiolr rear, to be mopped up ;'thmluvuf,cd20mllcs 8lnco 5HaArILSayf totlny: "Tho allies orZ?ri' 0 .t0 breBlt out oI tho .hi : ?L 1. unofficial accounts. fighty, Boln8 massed aro ..'icy aro nln F Might')0'" "veatK i lGHT lw against Hitler.) Guam .... i . . and , , ,,,uvo Apro m ..... 's'Rnd's best nlr- fnln j ca' ,nnd ro clos snn .... so far nrn ain rfno nd 110 missing' Snlpan f" Mlnd!n.0,a.P V.CuSSel 70 mlI lanrf ..u".nao, snii)hnr.,m.i i. nd nf??.80-. southernmost is ,1 )ol.. " fnillnnlnn. mui. Oobardment. 1 patro1 PRICE 5 CENTS US i HW 1 Lublin Rail Center Taken in Russian Advance Br DANIEL OE LUCE MOSCOW. July 24 At The Germnn army fled in disorder through central Poland today n.i tho Hussluns advunced within 70 miles of Warsaw and fought through tho streets of Lublin only 25 miles: from tho Wisln (Vistula) river line Hitler must hold to stavo off u direct assault on the retch. In Stalin's Juggernaut offen sive entering Hji second month with Increasing momentum, the red army has captured 23 Ger man genernls mid knocked nut possibly SO of tho Germans' 250 divisions In tho cast (perhaps 800,000 or moro men.) LONDON. July 24 A') Pre mier Slalln announced tonight the capture oi the rail center ot Lublin in southeastern Poland. The announcement came sev eral hours alter Berlin had ac knowledged a Russian ponetra. tlon within SO miles 01 Warsaw, with German troops abandoning Siedlce and Jaraslaw. Tho battle of Poland, already assuming catastrophic conse quences for Hitler's eastern front, was shaping into a strugglo In tho nour future for Prussia Itself. Strike Defenses Tho red unity moved deeply Into the Baltic republics and In the south struck close to tho Car pathian defenses of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, but It was over tho wide, rolling Polish plains that Stalin's war of move ment hourly gained new deci sions. Brest Litovsk was by-passed In a pocket 40 miles deep. Soviet troops mounted a frontal attack which battered Into that Bug river city's suburbs. Red army columns spearing from rail lines northcn.st and (Continued on Pogo Two) Americas Reach Agreement About Argentine WASHINGTON, July 24 (!) Socrotury of Stnto Hull indicat ed today that tho American re publics novo reached general agreement on their attitude to wnrd tho government of Argen tina, but ho declined to discuss its details. At a press conference, Hull re called that conferences had been flolng on for some tlmo concern-' ng tho A r genii no situation. Re cently, somo of tho conferring ministers hod sought to clarify tho situation because of confu sion created, Hull said, by sinis ter and subversive elements, Ha did not define those ele ments nor in what they had boon sinister and subversive. German War Targets of LONDON, July 24 (P) A maximum of BOO U. S. heavy bombers attacked German air dromes, hnrbors and other objec tives today In southern Franco, northern Italy and Yugoslavia. A great fleet of British bomb ers cast 2800 'tons of explosives on tho great naval base of Kiel before dawn and .allied planes from Italy bombed the Romanian capitul. of Bucharest. British heavy bombers at tacked flying bomb Insinuations In northern France for the third tlmo In about a day's span. This was tho only daylight operation reported from .England "P to lute afternoon. Weather wors ened over Nor.nandy with only a few small breaks in tho virtually complcto overcast. Airdromes Hit . Airdromes were hit In the south of Franco. Tho leading Italian port of Genoa, 85 miles up tho west coast from tho battlofront of Pisa, was struck. Four German troop concentrations In southern Yugoslavia wero targets across the Adriatic from Italy. Other objectives Included tank In The Shaata M From Allies Heady Forces For New Smashes By GLADWIN HILL SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. July 24 W) The allies wore massing their forces today for new drives to break out of the Normandy beachhead and only two engagements were reported all along the 100-mile front. Eight mllos east of Caen British Tommies pushed into the western edge of Troarn. ran Into stiff resistance and fell back to the railway station Just west of this gateway to the great port of La Havre. The salient which Lt. Gen. Omar H. Bradley's forces drove across the little Saves river toward the German stronghold oi Parlors last Saturday was shoved back to the north bank by a German counterattack yesterday, and the village of Seves was lost. Supreme headquarters announced, however, that American defensive positions were intact. E! Tho Ml. Domo fire had been stopped today on the Lava Beds monument front, but the situa tion on other sides of tho 16,000 ncrc conflagration was not cer tain. Modoc forest offices at Tululako said thcro were no re ports from the firo lino today. No new. calls wcro mods here for firefighters. Indicating that the situation is lesmerlous today. The lire camp at the Lava Beds monument was discontinued to day, and tho regular Lava Beds' crew was patrolling the fire line. Threo new fires were reported by tho Klamath Forest Protec tive association office. One blnr.o covered six ncrcs on the California sido of the state line near Dorrls. A hunter's firo was found in the Parker-Grizzly mountains area. The third blaze was on Hugar mountain near Sli ver Lake. Tho Modoc Point fire on the Klamath Indian reservation was held in check today. State GOP Meet Set in August PORTLAND, July 24 (P) J Tlie rcpuuiicon stuio ccnirai committee will hold Its organiza tion meeting hero August 10, and a public rally will follow a day of party conferences. Stale Chairman Nicl R. Allen of Grants Pass set the date after U. S. Rcpresentativo Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois accepted a bid to bo keynote speaker at tho meeting which will take on the nature of a republican state convention. Lumber Worker Injured in Fall Nolls Nellson, an employe of tho American Box company, was quito seriously injured this morning when ho fell from a lumber pilo between the Kerns Implement company and the Great Northern freight office. His address is 304B Delaware. Ho was taken to Hillside hospi tal where ho was In a serious condition Monday afternoon. Installations Allied Bombs repair shops and a ball bearing factory. A few enemy Intercep tors -were encountered. Attacks Develop The German radio said heavy attacks against the relch wero developing again today. The Germans reported enemy fighter formations over south west Germany and Bavaria, sug gesting that allied planes from Italy must bo joining In the at tack. ... Oil Depots Hit Flvo separate bomber forces wero sent out from Britain last night by tho RAF, tho larRest raining destruction on Kiel at the rate of 150 tons of bombs per minute. Other heavyweights bombed two large oil storage de pots at Donges, near St. Nazalre, in an effort to reduce further en emy's dwindling fuel supplies, and another force hit German flying bomb sites in northern France. At tho same time squadrons of RAF Mosquitos attacked Berlin with 4000-pound blockbusters for the 13th timejslnce D-Day and formations of IhesG speedy, all (Contlnued on Pago Two) , - CaHcado Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MBWBOWW IMW M Before tho German counter- attack the Americans had pushed to within two miles of Pcriers. Take New Ground - South and slightly west of Caen, British troops in sharp local engagements tooK Impor tant ground west of the newly retrieved town of Maltot and captured a woods 800 yards soutn oi itavaux. Tho Germans resisted stiffly and launched a counterattack with tanks. At last report fight ing was continuing in ine area, Tiohten Hold With the mop-up of Maltot and Etavaux, British and. Canadian troops tightened their hold on both aides of the Orne river south oi cucn. . v . , . . .j) . tmieville, five miles east of Caen, was wrested ' from this town against allied tanks thrust ing aown tne road toward Paris. 158.000 Lai) . . '- Allied staff officers estimated wai me iNormandy fighting had toniinueo on page two) Shortage of Houses Shown In Survey' Only 30 habitable family ac commodations, or six-tenths of one per cent of local family nousing, was vacant in Klamath rails wnen a survey was con ducted here last month, it was disclosed today by the national housing agency. The survey was made In the second week of June bv the bu reau of census, at the request of NHA. Tho gross vacancy rate set In the survey was 1.4 per cent. . "The gross vacancy rate Indi cates a considerable decrease in the number of unoccuDied dwell lug units in this city since Au gust, 1943, when a similar sur vey was made," said the NHA. "The gross vacancy rate at that time was 8.7 per cent. To relieve tho local shortage, NHA has started construction of 40 housing units here and has set up 55 "stop-gap" trailers. Only four of the trailers had been occupied today. These trail ers are for in-migrant war work, ers, and those who move into the trailers will establish eligl- ouuy lor rental of tne row-nous. tng now under construction, Negroes , Vote in Texas ; Primaries DALLAS. Tex., July 24 (fP) Negroes voted for the first time Saturday in a Texas democratic nrimarv and today there were no reports of any unusual incident nor of a negro having been de nied a ballot. Armarlllo reported' eight ne grocs voted in 27 precincts in Potter county. At Sllsbec. in deep east Texas, where the lightest vote in years was cast, the negro vote was re ported heavier in proportion to the population than the white vote. Identity of Dead Girl Unknown PORTLAND, Ore.. July 24 (P) The identity of a girl about 17 years of age and dressed In a red coat, believed to do irom wasn inaton. who was discovered dy ing in a hotel bathroom last week, remained a mystery today. , Police described her as about 5 feet 7 Inches tall, 160 pounds, black hair and pudgy nose with a one-inch scar below the left ear. An autopsy is expected to aeicrmine cause ox ueui.ii. MONDAY, JULY 24, 1944 MBMWB III Mil lllllllfa iDast E B1TGESTAP0 Nazis Take Steps to Assure Loyalty Of Army Br The Associated Press LONDON. July 24 Two Ger man generals, one chief of the air force general stall, nave died of iniuries from the Thursday bomb-blast aimed at Hitler s life, Berlin radio announced today::, Gestapo sciuads. meanwhile, were renorted carrying forward a vast blood purge to quell what prime Minister Winston unur chlll termed a revolution . in Germany. Three Killed Berlin listed the dead officers as Co). Gen Guenther Korten, chief oi the uerman air force general staff, and Mai.-Gen Heinz Brandt, first officer in the army general staff s oper ative section. This brought to three the announced death toll of the explosion. The nazis al ready had announced the death of "the fuehrer's collaborator!' and--ttouble.- whbSe 1 namfe first was given as "Berger" buiTwas reported . today , as . Helnrico Bergner. Another Berlin broadcast de clared the "Hitler salute" had been introduced in place of the army salute in tne uerman armed forces apparently as an. other step to assure loyalty -of the troops to Hitler and nazidom. Leaders Barely Touched - ' On -the German frontier the Associated Press learned from reliable but secret channels that the Himmler purge has barely touched the real leaders and or ganizers of resistance to Hitler, even though the nazis apparently had won their first major battle (Continued on Page Two) Moss Killings Reported in Rebellion Purge BERN, Switzerland, July 24 (fP) Journal de Geneve in a dis patch from Germany said today "there have been mass execu tions of officers of all grades" to queu tne reDeinon against Hitler, Firing' squads worked over time in interior Germany and al with hundreds of officers put to death on three days ended July 21. "At Langerlcht and Grause Haus," (two notorious' Vienna prisons), the article asserted, "executions of military persons for the past four weeks occurred regularly, twice a week. At Grause Haus two cells were de voted to this bloody and regular worK. Polish Council Given Power MOSCOW, July 24 .() The polisn council of liberation an nounced today a "people's na tional council" has been given temporary executive power for "safeguarding the independence and reestablishing the Polish state." . (Organization of the Polish council, announced over the weekend by Moscow, drew fire from tne ponsn government-in-exile in London, which is recog nized by the United States and Great Britain. Moscow more than a year ago broke diplomatic relations witn tne polisn govern ment in London.) The Polish council's decree. dated Warsaw, July 21, was re leased to foreign correspondents nere. . Terrorists Harm German General uvii uwij v i4i,y uti n a lie German radio hi Paris said to night that "terrorists had seri ously injured uen. Otto von Stuelonagel. military adminis trator for occupied France. The attack was said to have occurred July 21 (luring a tour of eastern f ruuue. BLOOD PURb CARRIED July 24. 1944 Max. (July 23) 87 Mln 83 Precipitation last 24 hours .00 Stream year to data 10.42 Normal 12.10 Last year 17.85 Forecast: Cooler Hitler Purge Victims if " - - ', IV ss - i y-v if : J . - J Y Col Gen. Ludwia Beck (riaht). described by German news sources as one of the German generals leading revolt against Hit ler, is reported executed. At left is Field Marshal Wilhelm Kei tel, former chief of German general staff, whose retirement Jot health reasons" has raited speculation about possibility ot nis Involvement with generals who Fifth Army Yanks Hold Southern Bv EDWARD KENNEDY ROME. July 24 (ft Ameri cans of the fifth army held the southern district of historic Pisa today while other forces wiped out virtually all enemy posi tions on the southern banks of the Arno river from the sea to near mpoll, and additional columnv.pushe6 a o ti h from Poggibonsi to' . within 12 miles of Florence. " Weekend operations e s t a c ltshed the- fifth ' army firmly along the nazf gothic line wat er barrier to a poim less man 20 airline' miles' from Florence. Cross Canal : Advance elements crossed the Arno- canal and occupied Cas cina, 10 miles east of Pisa. .-Latest- official, reports said the Americans had not crossed the Arno at Piso, but held that CHINESE ATTACK JAP STRONGHOLD CHUNGKING, July 24 (St Chinese troops are attacking the Japanese stronghold of Si angsiang in northern Hunan province and have thrown back other-Japanese forces which aoaln penetrated Chinese posi tions in Hengyang, the Canton Hankow railway city 60 miles to i the south, the Chinese, nign command said last night. A communique said tignting continued -with -unabated fury at Hengyang, and indicated the Chinese were trying tp- smash the enemy, encirclement ring to the southwest, niumg ai oapa- . (Continued on page rwot Supreme Court To Decide on Folkes' Rehearing SALEM. Julv 24 (At The state supreme court will end its summer vacation tomorrow by considering a petition lor a re hearing, of the case of Rob- prt E. Lee Folkes, negro sentenced to die for the knife- slaying oi Mrs. manna Virginia James of Norfolk, Va., in lower berth No. 13 of a train near Albany in January of last year. Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. I St. Louis 7 11 Boston 1 5 2 Wilks and W. Cooper: Tobin Kloon (8). Hickey (9), and Masi, The Road to Berlin Bv The Associated Press Mileages on the routes which the allied armies are travelling to Berlin: (1) Russian frortt 365 miles (measured in a direct line from Siedlce). This is 70 miles closer than a week ago. (2) Italian front 610 miles (from Ancona). 620 miles from I (3) Normanay front 630 miles (from Troarn, .near uacn;. Number 10218 sought to oust Hitler. Pisa District part of the city on the southern side. ' ' ' Clear Area ' -.'. They occupied also the towns of San Miniato, Ponte a Evala, San ' Romano and. Angelica nd cleared the entire ..wooded area of Teriuta Del Tombolo on, the west coast.' ' ' ' -.' . . Reconnaissance units entered Marina Di Pisa at the mouth of the Arno, but found the -town unoccupied and .withdrew. Counterattack - ' East of Pisa, where the -river forms an inverted U, some en emy strongpoints remained. The Germans launched a deter mined counterattack about two miles south of San Miniato. " ; In the Upper Arno valley the eighth army made new gains north of the river,- clearing Ter ranuova of the enemy and reaching a point almost as far as Mount Marciano. Advances were slight in the Arezzo sec tor. Bomb Bucharest RAF Halifaxes and Liberat ors bombed military- objectives at Bucharest last night . after American Liberators left a small oil refinery near Berat, Albania, in flames yesterday. Marauders, Mitchells and Thunderbolts continued - their methodical destruction of bridg es and railroad tracks in north ern Italy. . . Commandos Raid Turkish Island CAIRO. July 24 (At British and Greek commandos have raid ed Sum, a tiny island off the Turkish coast north of Rhodes. and have accounted for the entire garrison of German and Italian trooos. The strike was made by night on July 13.14. Fifteen German and Italian soldiers were killed and more than 150 captured. An official announcement issued yes terday said ail military installa tions and equipment on the is land were destroyed before the raiders escaped "with very slight losses. " Aimed at cutting communica tions and frazzling the nerves of the enemy s garrisons on eastern Mediterranean islands,' the raid exacted revenge for -the , loss of Simi last October. Hunger Strike Starts in Segregee Stockade Area ,,;AJ! arl fined, it was disclosed by the WRA today. . , , The 14 men have refused to accept suppl es of f "Y? days, and a spokesman for the group told WRA officials today . J ' , , 1 , . i waAntBAv ninVit and will not the men nad not eaieu since ia,, hcuumwv ...0 eat until released from the isolation area. ",,,' u h. j R. R. Best, project director, said that until today he had been unable to get a definite statement from the group about their intentions. It was not certain, he said,-the men were with out food, since the kitchen contained rice and other supplies which wers flonc( , . , A day's supply of food Is left In the kitchen at all times so the men can resume eating, Best said, - 'The special isolation area was set up at the time of the dis orders last November, and at one time held 350 segregees. After hearings, some were released into the colony area, and other moved to internment camps, until only 14 remained. Thirteen of these have been In the stockade since last December and the others were placed there in January. Last spring, another hunger .strike was attempted by stockade occupants, butvlt broke up when some of the strikers discovered that others had secret caches of food and vitamin pills. TIN AN Opposition Light ori . Second Day of Invasion U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 24 (At The day-old invasion of Tinian island, moving smoothly from firm beachheads, rushed American conquest of the stra tegic Marianas today while other Yank forces isolated key ob jectives on Guam, 130 miles southward. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz' corns munique last night said landings, begun at dawn Sunday by as sault units of the second and: fourth marines, were being "corn tinued against light opposition" on Tinian, three miles south of conquered Saipan. The invasion was made under protection of carrier and land-based planes, warship guns and , land-based: artillery. 1958 Casualties '"') American forces on Guam suf fered 1958 casualties in three days' fighting. They have iso lated the island's best airdrome and finest harbor in closing their grip on Port Apra. The casual ties included 348 killed, 1500 wounded and 110 missing. The swiftly moving .pacifia war spread to Philippine waters with Gen. Douglas MacArtbur's announcement that his bombers sank a 100-foot Japanese vessel Saturday 70 miles off Mindanaoi He disclosed that this area had been under patrol for some time, and made the first mention of the Philippines in a communis que since Corregidor's fall May 6, 1942. , . ... - Planes Support - The Tinian assault, the third invasion in the Marianas, was launched four days after the. Guam landings. The Tinian in (Continued on Page Two) Tokyo Radio Says Landings Fail NEW YORK.- July 24 JP) Several hours after Admiral Chester W. . ' Nimitz had - an nounced the landing of Ameri can forces on Tinian island in the Marianas, the Tokyo radio today told the Japanese people that the "enemy" had attempted a landing- but asserted that it had been repulsed. - The Tokyo broadcast recorded by the federal communications commission, said the Americans had become "fearful of our fierce certain-death attacks" and had "at last abandoned their plans. ' The Japanese people were warned however,ttiat vthe prog ress of tne war situation is suca that it does not permit any op timism." . Death Toff in r Fire Increases HARTFORD, Conn., July 24 (P)The death toll in the Ring, ling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey circus fire disaster here July S rose to 164 today when Grace Clark, 48, , whose 81-year-old parents also perished in the "big top" blaze, succumbed of burns, Six persons remain missing since the catastrophe. War Bulletin LONDON, July 24 (At Rus. sian troops have reached the river San in southern Poland on a front of 50 miles in another big westward advance, the Rus sian communique announced to night. . ; : BERN. July 24 (At The French section of the village of St. Glngoloh straddling the bor der with Switserland was burn ed io the ground yesterday by nai"u In swift retaliation for a raid by French patroits, and 350 elderly men. women and chil dren, fled across the border to Swiss soil. fir
