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Newspaper Page Textftfl Ml m a Nirnwi fo) in) yi UU vr. FORTS STRIKE July 29, 1944 r 1 nfk 0"""'" . it-uiTNH LVl URIA. flhl!l, 1 io. li vo been mov- iAfhriri it lh0. 1Ur" ' M ' "' 'rmiun wore thrcut- ,i Moicuw. ilrm ciiy " ,. wolir to r. loU5 H nw .EblFor.,ul,ohltCI;- LllCle J.. . ro pour H;tn n'ul .uipllM to re fTho. J " i ,. lC,hOl down" , Normandy our American. h,vc broken through Into Stank country. S"ro rpUl' wltl fixed RSswIUi HIS TANKS. In. Montgomery will swing o HE Germans say loduy the . i. ... naliit) 12 mo- Ltd division and 2-"" tonks. re've Identified 1" uermmi ui- . t 11..,. ni,ni,lil IIH.l Morn in m' " , Twenty-five hundred tanks Is tATAP TANKS If wo have lit manv in action, it look bnd r Rommel. wen oelier Keep our mucu outd while on the 2800-Umk nn. The nntiirnl nllbl of the How who In Inking n llcklnu Is: iewu loo blu lor me." HIS Is the bill strategic qucs h. iij.v. will Hitler order I. r..rm.n. In STAND AND IE In Normnndy? He gave turn orner in nussiu, MTOO MANY DIED.'- llei julforlng (or it in i'oiami kw, iUSSIAN ipcarheifda (cnvnlry. fGHT o( Warwiw lodny. Their lain forces, wuu Heavy mui- nnl.. OH hiHm. ...lat. Wit "ID vinj " inn..- .. vt n j . Upon the Baltic, they nro at ioit to Riga (nt Rica, they'll cut T by land whatever German ay be left to the north). ' N loulheastern Poland, the reds have taken everything car up to the Carpathian font til, anfi ihn rtl.r.nl..U. ..... In. fay that a Russian march Into zecnaiiovnHln t h r o u K n t n e BBei of the Carpathians looms s a possibility. Beyond Ciechoiilovakla licit unitary and tho vnllcy of the' anubc. A thrust down the Dnn be valley would cut off ALL ifGcrmnnj in ALL THE BAL ANS. 'HAT possibility puts all the Balkan satellites on tho spot, once tho obvious desire of Bui- UR SinDETUrky l GET N Jnwc'i a talo from Istanbul y that Bulgaria has ASKED entn to evacuate all Germans om Bulgaria and thai Berlin "X HEED THE REQUEST, f Hitler VOLUNTARILY gets W of Bulgaria, he's In a tight t and knows It. TJMj. It could be. It looks as jrno Is pulling clear back 10 Germany from tho cast, hop . iiS j sl.,or-r front that can defended by fewer men, 'HE weather has been a llttlo' uS...ru,n Nofmondy. and In J1 lh,rce dnys ollr PLANES !,wIThal must hurt. lls oil ln England In Ia,st night. There ore 7n 'llllcs t0 tho effect that EN.tA-J18"? oro readying a en & ro?-. Allied military Mont, entirely discredit this 'jl.bI.00dy work of killing noes lorward In tho Pa- iltSfeiS"! yow men counter- ini 2000 u, wfm on Tuesday, nd Zrinl that our infantry o lKinc" Vo pushing closer n,ula "the 2nnm,s Oroto Pon 0 do In LlJt" J.ups doomed "d'hc S,rm"S0 0,,an "Irfiold On PVmay navn baan." hasl"R hi ii?V, p mnflnoi nro evo? who ro racing ,land's hin2 1 .doalh ln -ho lnln ratin ?ouln Tho 5"' Jan, f' now UD t0 2" IfeW PS Iof each Amnrlrnn fit The Shanta-Cancadn Wonderland Max. (July 29) ... 88 Min. 82 Precipitation last 24 hours 01 Stream yaar to data ..........10.52 Normal .12.14. Last year.. 17.85 Forecast) Clear, crs' as ti" a baA state of. jit fnpt .yci what thn nnr t at. "newi winnt spectacular PRICK 5 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1944 Number 10223 ts Spring Trap On F I . . : '. '- inug Nazi T Ml AT I T SEVEN GERMAN F li II 11 Gil T Massive Air Assaults Pound Rommel's Troops By GLADWIN HILL SUI'lvKMb, HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY r'OHCK, July 2U UPi Slushing columns of U.S. armor spranK u trap iiino miles acnithcn.it of cap tured Cuutiiuccs today and the remnants of seven fleeing Ger man .divisions Including Tiger tanks pounded against it in a (utile iiltempl to break out. Cut off by a 30-mila line of tanks mid gunx from Ciinisy southwest to Slenno river below Longronc, on unknown number of Held Marshal Erwln Rom mel's forces were under one of the most merclluss ulr assaults of the war while their comrades from the south tried to break through to extricate them. Dive Bombers Dlvo bombers wheeled over the scene of burning towns and billowing clouds of dust and smoke, artillery and mortar crows poured In their fire, and tanks ran down Infantry trying to bronk nwny and join the rest 01 tno lieeing enemy forces. Associated Press Corrosnon dent Wes Gallagher from a front lino position said none could tell how muny enemy were In this inferno of bombs and shells, but among 2000 prisoners taken in the lust 24 hours were elements of seven divisions. Gorman dead lay in heaps. As enemy broadcasts conced cd a withdrawal of its "entire wostcrn wing," other U. S. ar mored forces slashed on down tho Normandy coast to within gunshot of the next German es cape hatch at Brchal, 11 miles souin of uoutanccs. Rommel wns drawing on fresh (.Continued on Page Three) Guderian Shows Confidence of Smashing Reds By The Associated Press Confidence that tho Russian thrusts will bo broken and the Russians thrown back was ex pressed by Col. Gen. Heinz Gu derian, new chief of the German army general staff in an inter view broadcast by DNB from Berlin today. "Thero is nothing more favor ablo for a belligerent than such sclf-dcccptlon on tho part of the enemy," he was quoted as saying, after admitting that "tho en emy's numerical superiority is making things somewhat diffi cult for us." Reds Penetrate Hail Hub, Threaten Nazis LONDON. July 29 (AP) Berlin announced today a soviet penetration to the Latvian rail hub of Jolgava which threateni to trap nazi garrisons in the northern Baltics as Col. Gon. Mikhail I. Koiokov's heavy artillery shelled Warsaw's distant suburbs in furtherance of the rod army Polish plains affansive. A Stockholm dispatch quoted a Wilhelmstraiie spokesman as saying there would be no furthor Gorman stand east of Warsaw, but great battles "will be fought between the Vistula and tho Odor or perhaps botween Warsaw and Berlin." Russian troops havo reached the Vistula, which passes Warsaw, on a wide front below the Polish capital. The Oder flow through eastern Germany from below Breslau to Stettin, winding at one point to within 35 miles of Berlin. Dispatchos from Moscow told of tho opening of artillery fire against the German forces In tho outlying settlements before Warsaw and British accounts said the city itself had been sighted. ' " uorrcspon' YANKS CHASE FLEEING JAPS' NAZI DEFENSES GIVE The Mload to Berlin By The Associated Press 1. Hussian front 337 miles (measured from Kolblol). 2. Normandy front 630 miles (measured from Troarn). 3. Itallnn front 605 miles (measured from Sonlgnllla). By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, July 29 (K'i Desert hardened New Zcalund veterans have cracked nazi defenses south of Florence and knifed their way Into tho last moun tain line only flvo miles from tho historic city, allied head quarters announced today. The break-through provoked strong Gcrmnn counterattacks, and bitter fighting was report ed in the hills , overlooking Florence. Tho momentum of the savage countor-thrufiUr by-uaxl- infantry nnrt Tlircr funks swcot tho lead ing company of New Zealand- crs back 600 yards, but official ronnrL. mid the enemy then was brought to a halt and posi tions In tho nilis were Doing firmly held. Tho New Zealand advance took off from a bridgehead over the small Rcsa river at Cerbal.. The threat to Florence also (Continued on Page Three) . Condition of Bus Passengers improving Today fniulltion of tho 22 passengers Injured In tho crash of the Grey hound bus Thursday night was imnrnvlne todov. according to word from Klamath Valley and Hillside hospitals. nnrnthv French of Cashmere, Wash., who received minor hnilKos. was released from Hill side hoiipltal yesterday but the others aro still receiving trcat- monl- , Pnanonser on the bus who were uninjured were put on the southbound bus rriciay evening and some transferred to trains. Thunder Storm Starts New Fires The electrical storm which struck the Klamath basin area Friday night started seven new fires, It was reported by the Klamath Forest Protective as sociation. None of tho fires were serious. There was heavy rainfall in some places. Tho storm also dlsruped elec trical power in town for a few minutes ln somo places. Wrest ling matches at tho armory were discontinued for about five min utes, when the light went off nt nun time. r Three fires were started above Snake buttc, one near Lamm's nlH mmn. one on Dairy ' creek, ono by Buck peak, and one near the Gerber reservoir. . Trailers Favored for Use Of Marine Families Here .Klamath chamber of com merce executive committee at a mooting today went on record In favor of a request to federal housing authorities to make avallablo an amplo number of trailer houses for uso of families of Klamath Marine Barracks service men. Tho action was tnken after the commtttco received reports that many wives of marines are com Inff iioro, and that tho available quarters within the community aro inadequate in view of this influx. Charles Stark, chambor executive secretary, reported that many men now stationed at the barracks already have their families hero with them and moro are arriving hourly. "Administrative . and medical officers do not encourage the men to bring their families here," said Stark. "However competent medical officers tell us definitely that the presence of a man's wife or family is an excellent aid toward his rehabil itation. From a health and morale standpoint, it is desirable for his family to do nere. Tim chamber executive com' mittce also considered reports of execssivo rents being charged service men in somo cases here, and various metnoas oi reniai control worn discussed. No for- mnl n ntlnn was taken, but tho chamber office was Instructed to inquire of tho OPA as to what It plans tp do in response to a re atiest by tho city counc.'l that OPA consider te rental Control situation nere. . Associated Press dent Eddy Gilmorc said Marshal Konstantin K. RokossovsKy s advance detachments possibly had "reached hill positions where the capital of Poland is in plain view Just beyond the Vistula." The German high command communique, broadcast from Berlin, disclosed tne soviet pen etration of Jelgava, which would practically bisect the Baltics. . li Reds Thrown Out Tho German bulletin said a nazi counterattack . had thrown the Russian vanguard out of Jel onva. 120 miles nothwest of DaueavDils (Dvinsk) and about 21 miles-southwest of Riga, on an arm of the Baltic sea. British dispatches from me eastern front said Warsaw could seen by advance soviet-forces in the Polish offensive, maae up of cavalry, scout cars ana units, ' Battle - Raaes Fighting apparently raged on In the vicinity of Jelgava as the Russians threatened to pinch off German Bait c divisions by gain ing mastery of the rail line from Siauliai to Kaunas. The Russians already held Siauliai, su mues cnllth.nf JeltfaVB.-- .'' The Germans declared they still held Sledlce, 50 miles east of Warsaw, but Russian dis patches said Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's right wing was moving on the city for the pur pose of joining forces which were battling Germans In the streets after capturing Brest Lit ovsk. Dispatches did not locate the Russian spearhead positions. Rokoiioviky Gains As Ukrainian army units to the south seized Jaroslaw and Przemysl, nazi strongholds on the route to Germany, Rokos- (Continued on Page Three) Negro Murdered In Pendieton PENDLETON, July 29 (P) An unidentified negro, about 45 years of age, was found dead this morning on a warehouse freight loading dock four blocks from tho center of Pendleton. A blood-stained club studded with nails and an empty money belt lying beside the body indi cated that he was murdered for whatever valuables he was car rying, District Attorney A. C. Mclntyre said, following an. in vestigation. Only clue to the man s iden tity was his hat, purchased in Chilllcothe, Mo. Chinese Fight In Tengchung CHUNGKING, July 29 () Chinese troops are fighting in the suburbs of Tengchung, main Japanese base on the Yunnan front, after capturing heights dominating tho entire city, the Chinese high command an nounced today. Loss of Pingslang, 95 miles northeast of encircled and batter ed Hencvane in Hunan province. was acknowledged by the Chi nese high command tonight, but a communique said 10 separate attacks upon nengyang oy Jap anese troops trying desperately to capture the Canton-Hankow rail Junction, were thrown back. Positions at Hengyang, a com munique said, remained un changed, Nazis Resume Communications STOCKHOLM. July 29 IIP) Stockholm communications with Berlin wore normal again today. after having been cut off since Friday, probably because of an allied, air attack on central uer many. Telephone communica' Hons between Sweden and Swlt zerland still are cut.: Troops Take Second ' Airstrip On . Tinian Kesterson Lumber corpora' tion was scheduled today to re sume operations with Sunday's night shut, ending a stoppage of work that began on July 19; IWA union headquarters to day issued the following state ment: "At a union meeting . of the Kesterson employees held last night, it was decided to return to work feeling that" the. West Coast Lumber commission will give a favorable' decision in the near future. ; J'Thls-action'"lias been taken not because of public sentiment or pressure from the govern mental agencies, but ' only on the advice of our' international vice president. Claude Ballard, who ' will be in . Klamath'. Falls on Monday to prepare the case to bo presented to the - .west Coast Lumber commission." Union and- management spokesmen have indicated that the principal issues involved in the Kesterson - dispute - have to do with the time for vacations; maintenance of union, and ter mination of contract. A union spokesman said the company has put these matters up to the government agencies for consid- (Continued on rage Three) IWA Certified As Agent for' Lamm Employes ' WASHINGTON. D. C, July 29 OP) The national labor re lations board today ' certified Local 6-12, International Wood workers of America (CIO) as the bargaining agent for pro duction and maintenance em ployes of the Lamm Lumber Co., Modoc Point, Ore. The election was held July 7, 1944. Bulgars Request Nazi Evacuation ISTANBUL. . July 27 (Delay ed) OP) The government of Premier Ivan Bagrianov has asked Germany to evacuate all German armed forces from Bul garia and there are indications that the request may be heed ed, according to information re ceived here today. The Bulgars were reported told that the gov ernment would defend the na tion against attack "from any quarter." . .,, The Germans at first refused to grant the Bulgarian request, the report said, on the ground that their other satellites might make the same demand arid that prestige was involved, but de velopments suggest t n a t mis stand ' was reconsidered. ; The Bulgars meanwhile are granting soviet demands for establishment of Russian . con sulates in most of the country's chief ports and towns. Mine Sweeper Loss Announced WASHINGTON, July 29 OP) Loss of the mine sweeper Swerve was announced by the navv today, bringing to 172 the number of American naval ves sels lost since the war started; Tho 890-ton mine sweeper, the Navy, was sunk ln the Med' lterranean recently as the result of enemy action. - No information was given oh the number of casualties abroad the mine sweeper which carried a normal complement of eu ot ficprs and . men U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS. Pearl Har bor, July 29 OP) Capturing a second airfield, American forces today chased fleeing , Japanese into - the south half of Tinian island while other Yanks tight ened a trap on 2000 at Guam, swelling the total of more than Z7.000 of . the - enemy : killed in the Marianas. : . Impressive ground gains on both islands were reported by Adm. Chester- W. Nlmlti.and front line correspondents. . Rout On Tinian . . '. The marine drive on. Tinian, the- island next to conquered Saipan:-was turning into a rout. Sweeping . across , eight square miles - in a -move on shell-shattered ! Tinian , town'..-the leather neck at times, lost all contact with" the - Japanese, who were racing "toward-; eventual ' death in -the';;hllly...south ector. . ' 'Oh 'Cfuam. marines and:' sol diers .punched 500 more yards out'.bniiOrote: peninsula, pushing-closer -to the seaward end the . 2000 Nips-doomed to die in defense of an airfield' and the Sumay naval base; The defend ers hold less 'than half- the pen insula :on Guam's; west coast. : . Gain Two Miles -jffarth. and south ofthe pen insula, the xanks crasnea in land for gains up to two miles They threw back . a fierce coun terattack, killing : zuuu japs, . Conservatively,' 4700 Japs have -been killed on Guam through Thursday;'- one week after it was invaded, Nimitz re ported. More- wan-zuuu -Diners have been slain on Tinian -and 21. 036. have .been buried on Saipan. - Sell Alntrie On Tinian, where the Jap- built: 4500-foot Ushi airfield al ready is serving a American planes,' the marines seized an- (Continued on rage xnreej . ' Killed - ; (: V Yi If fe Thailand Cabinet Resigns en Bloc NEW YORK, July 29 OP) The puppet cabinet of Thailand, neaaed oy premier j-.uang nipui Songgram, has resigned en bloc, the Tokyo radio said to day, following the. national as sembly's rejection of two meas ures apparently dealing., wun the - construction- of -the - new Thai capital at Pachabun, ; 190 miles north ot tsangKOK. , The broadcast, reported by the federal communications commission, said one of the measures had to do with the creation of a snecial adminis trative district at Pachabun and the other with "construction of a Buddha city." The latter measure was not explained. Lieut." Gen." Lesley ' J.' McNeil (above), 'former -commander ;U, S. around forces, has-, been killed m Normandyr'it -was- re sorted bv the army. In this pic ture he wears the Purple .Heart awarded for wounds . receiTed from, shrapnel : on - the Tunisia front last year. (AP wlrephoto), OF RAPE CHARGE A verdict 'of ' not' guilty was returned by a -jury of riine men and three women early Satur day afternoon following a three and' a half day trial for' Charles Weldon-Wright, who had been charged with tne statutory rape of a local 12-year-old girl. The 24-year-old seaman, who is married and nas two cnuaren, is stationed at the Klamath: ;n& .val. air station. . . ; . j. , Appearing on the stand for thi first time in the trial Fri day afternoon, the defendant thronehout Questioning stuck to his statement of innocence. His story of his activity on the night of the alleged crime, was. much the same as that of Mrs. Wright's Friday morning. The defendant's wife's story was to the effect that the interval in which her husband was alone with the com plaining witness at the. time of (Continued on Jt-age inreei.. Yugoslavs Seize Nazi Stronghold - LONDON, July 29 OP) Yugo slav troops have seized the town of Murino in southern Montene gro, cutting off the German stronghold of Pec, 20 miles to the east, and are slicing up the Germans', south Montenegro army, a communique-of Marshal Tito said -toaay. - Third Blow Struck At Major, Japanese Installations r JOHN GROVER A SUPERFORTRESS BASH IN WESTERN CHINA, July 29 OP) Giant, far-reaching Ameri can B-29 Superfortress bomb ers struck heavily today at the heart of Japan's "arsenal of Greater East Asia." raining ex. plosives on the heavy industry city of Anshan in- the Mukden area of eastern Manchuria, and on: Tangku, the port of Tientsin in occupied China. Huge columns of smoke soranff up from the bombed works and it was estimated it would take 12 months to rebuild the installa tions. High Altitude Smash Taking off in favorable weatfr er, the great - bombers of the world-ranging U. S. 20th air force ' loosed their explosives from high altitude over the tar gets in a powerful smash at in stallations important to Japanese munitions manufacture. It was the first American air attack on Manchuria, the first daylight - assault from high-altitude for the new, giant planes, and their third blow aeainst ma. jor Japanese installations. - t ine Japanese -c o n tr ol 1 ed Hsingking home radio, in a Jap. anese-language broadcast report ed by OWI, declared one B-29 was shot down over Anshan. The broadcast said raiders also had penetrated into the' "Dairen area" near Port Arthur and were In "two groups consisting of sev eral planes . each." The 20thi bomber -command reported that its losses were "extremely light.'!J . ,' The Superfortresses took off from this base In a blazing-red dawn One diversionary force headed for Chengsien,-bottleneck: .,-,L vi.i-:LtT - ., w fins - x-eipuig-nanKow railway in northern Honan province, where- it bombed " the '"'railyards ! which-the Japanese were at tempting feverishly to rebuild. The others headed northward, and hours later the radio silence was broken by -a flashed coda word - disclosing that the explo sives had Deen dropped on the target area and that the bombers were started on the lone iournev homeward. (The Tokyo radio, heard : hv U.:S. government monitors, said the -important industrial- city of Fenhsihu, site of important coal fields, also . had . been attacked. The Japanese, as - usual, mini. mized tne effectiveness of the raids,, saying that "no material damage ': was. suffered by indus trial installations, but residential quarters sustained some slight damage." line rlstnking broadcast said .(Continued on Page Three) : Seqreqee Situation Not 'Hunger Strike,1 Says WRA War relocation officials de clared today it is no longer rea sonable to consider the demon stration in the isolation area of the Tulelake segregation center as a "genuine hunger strike." WRA said the two main rea sons for its conclusions are: 1. One of the strikers, hospi talized July 25, has been eating for three days and today, after returning to the isolation area, continues to take nourishment. . 2. The amount of food in the isolation kitchen just prior to the demonstration was too great to have been entirely consumed by the men, and probably was hidden- for future consumption. Wrona Term "With: one of -the so-called strikers eating ln the midst of the other. 13,. it -would be ridiculous to call the demonstration a hun ger strike," said a WRA state ment, . - Although the men Isolated as troublemakers stated . they had nt. eaten since -July 19,. those examined at the hospital at their own request were not in a seri ous condition, wka stated., Seem Weak They seemed weak but still were able to get around in the isolated area unassisted and to visit with wives, children and relatives. .- There were never more than 19 men in the isolated area be tween June 29 and July 19; WRA pointed out. i. v "It hardly?: seems- possible,' said the aWRA, . "that the men could have coirmletelv consumed a large quantity of food left in the kitchen in that period. This food included 115 pounds of fish 300 pounds of rice, as well as reg ular quantities of meat, eggs, bread, vegetables and milk.", , On, July. 19, -when '.the-strlke began, the: food was gone and the strikers claimed they' had consumed it before beginning their campaign -of self-starvation to force release from the isolated area.. .. ... , . Vatican Paper Reports no Army - Use of Cassino VATICAN CITY. July 29 OP) The Vatican- city newspaper II Observatore Romano said today that it had never found that the Monte Cassino abbey was used for military purposes, "and the contrary never nas been demon strated to us up to now." This observation was made in comment upon a dispatch of the army newspaper stars ana Stripes --which - had said: "the krauts have no scruples in using historical monuments to save their ' skins first Cassino and now the leaning Tower of Pisa." The allies shelled and bomb, ed Monte Cassino abbey, stating that German troops were using it as a fortress. : Marine Barracks Worker Injured P.' W. Jacobson, employed by1 Brennan and Cahoon on con struction work near the Marine Barracks, fell from the roof of a nouse about noon Saturday, injuring his back. Jacobson was working on the houses being built for officers at the installation when he fell. He was taken to Hillside hos pital where . he . is receiving treatment for his injuries. He lives at 825 High. French Avenge Patriots!1 Deaths , BERN,; Switzerland, July 29 OP) French partisans have executed-' 10 German prisoners in retaliation for nazi slaylngs of wounded - and - captured French patriots, a t partisan unit .comV munique announced. - . The - partisans warned that a similar eye-for-an-ye. rule will be followed , In the future unless the : nazls accord the French forces of the interior treatment guaranteed belligerents by Gen eva "convention. - The communi que was -published-iby the Ga zette. Lausanne, :