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.)
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and , , ,,,uvo Apro
m ..... 's'Rnd's best nlr-
fnln j ca' ,nnd ro clos
snn .... so far nrn ain rfno
nd 110 missing'
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lanrf ..u".nao, snii)hnr.,m.i i.
nd nf??.80-. southernmost is
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Oobardment. 1 patro1
PRICE 5 CENTS
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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