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The ?MDomU'iiH my prloiutr arc reipon"" ,. uroium of lr'y surronVlcV ,nd some of them com ft.Ml.elr officer. dcnorlcd The plr".1!;0 0110 ot ic'RE still fighting I" 'tunce lor ELBOW KOOM. inxi wnnt to unuVr.tiind the 1 ' I.,,.., tin vniir&ulf E in corner or a narrow Hit wm "1 1 ' " ' sting i hard one. - . . llmtgomcry s proem mm nn.room ciik" iy ..:T,:,,;.S!J no oouuv iv ' i"-" itrengin. t HE correspondents lull us to- div that our Americans are Iffglng irom ins uuw.w. blMOW OH" Bf"vu vuuiiuf limandy'a Cotontln peninsula JrhfM hedgerows, spoken of oltrn in ino news, are rcwiy KB heavily grown with m. Tncy auorn ino nesi kiiui mltclon for n acieiuiing k. They ore fences, between till farmi. Every ono In u or form cation. pi groven provide f Ino cover Use dcicnmiiK itcrmans. LlCE wc get into opener coun try, tno uornmna win noi oo acavlly. iavored .by nnlurul ucIm and we cmi um our ki to better odvuiilniic. th( Cerninns oro (iillmu now itop iu Irom vclliiiK olbow Kin to ujo our siionuui. ino Question will be whetlivr ly an itop us utter wo ot io go. IThil qucilion will bo answer in tno lulncm ol timo. Hit or many i late lump on tho im r 'HE weather h a lllllu better tori chance, with tho clouclx ken cnoim Ii to onnblo our nn io ao VISUAL bombing HERE aro Intere.illiiK reports oi ircncn Kucrrlllim opcrnt- In ImDortmiL KtriMitrtli hn. ii tho Gcrmnn lines, breaking wuununicnuon.1, CIC, p the easlbrn front, Wnrmiw 4 reported In flnmos ns tho lOianS Brivnnr-e nn ll iilt,iiki, ribs. The N heavy guns over open I lor Is reported In Moscow ""lies io nnvc ordered a aul- 'Mi-mnii stand nt VVorsnw. ig excellent facilities for ' suicide. W aro jtcntlllv clnnnlntf nr. K !lntr!i nMtl Kttin8 sot Invasion of East Prussia. In The Shanta-Cam-ndy Wonderland PRICE 5 CENTS iWopnoiiest if August 1. 1944 Max. fJuly 31) 78 Mia.' 46 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to data ; 10.59 Normal 12.17 Last yaar 17.85 Forecast! Clear. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1944 Number 10225 New MMRIIOWI iii sonic hWOfP.I. Sansapor Captured by Sixth Army Troops ivon Papon (Gorman ambnssa. !c 1X ' W o have ihnu; nuns wim win- I Bnn. I f SU" Shivers 1 flDDrphnnoln.. mi Ffeoro nou ti. i t,i Ku;o;ro: mivcrnmoiu. EED im. . . "S no 111 rl,.nrl I., II i, n,,," '? t-'crmnns woro be l"v'"clbl.q n thoy claim and sa.nn? ,ntormcd nu iiltery. Ilitlcs wouldn't bo P!i'Tgelafals.nlr.i,rf i. ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUAHTEHS. New Oulncii, Aug 1 At An unoppoM-d Ictipfrog i ii n uing which placed ucu o o u g 1 n s MucArthur's forces within easy bomber range of tho i'lillipplnes and completed tho strategic roconqucst of New Guinea was announced today Sixth army units Sunday cap tured the tiny village of Sanaa. por at tho northwestern tip of New Guinea In a 200-mllc nni- phlDiiniH lunii) westward from American-occupied Ncomfoor ls- lanci. iney cstuiillslicd a firm hold on tho benches and tho vogclKop peninsula and occu- pled two adjacent coral islets Amsterdam and Mlddulburu wiiiio scarcely tiring a shot. Location San.inpor Is llttlo over 000 miles Hoiithenst of Mindanao in n I n island in the southern Phiiluulmm, . and-. Uws- than -300 miles from the Japanese strong point at llalmalirra. It Is an- proximately 00 miles east by north from Sorolig, Hie heavily buttered Nlppone.su base at the extreme end of New Guinea. Tho surprise landing trapped an additional 13,000 Japanese troops, concentrated around Mauokwarl, some 150 miles eastward. Nocmfoor island Is (Continued on Page Two) Stuelpnagel, Rommel Reported Dead by French ALGIERS, Aug. 1 (!') The French underground has report ed that Marshal Erwin Rommel and Gen. Otto von Stuelpnagel ooin uion in t ranee, mo commit tco of national liberation said to day. Rommel, German around com mander in Normandy, was said to have been fatally wounded In tho head during an air-attack on tho Normandy front. (Tho Gor man radio denied yesterday that Mommoi was c t ncr dead or ser iously wounded). Stuclnnaccl. military adminis trator of occupied Franco, was reported to have committed sui cide followlnu fiiiluro of tho uen- orals' plot on Hitler's life. Tho underground ronort said Stuclo- migcl on July 21 ordered tho ar rest of Gen, Oberg. chief of tho gestapo In tho Paris area, but ordered his release and return to Berlin tho following day. The underground said Stuelpnagel then drove to Verdun and shot himself. felib noreP''o-.The fight ' Is ihi. 1 1 . terrilJlo. :4 h i riL0'..bloody and MAC ib.' ji - iun R-c , Eon Snnrf luices innci ,t "S' P"1 New Guinea. l!felumPd .200 outcn a o ,8lnna, in ony about Lnnsi,,Por' tl,ov ,outhernm0tst1p?llTl'i8 from 1 lh las " J ? .l!r sltl0 cal's ? Guinea LmPor,nllon ' the !,ihflw&lBn;.,'w "w fit" wast" i "u',l,norn Now today i?!sng taetln ncso 'eapfrog, kllledac"cs.w have is& " aunM..r. '"'luoroa hn n. h South ?,r..n..m!lon JotVs "ons to w""1'0 .from tho " guineas for ber 1. Transoccan sold '"mi Busch Commits Suicide, Report . STOCKHOLM, ' Aug. 1 (")- The newspnpor Aflonbladet re ported today that Marshal Ernst Busch, commander of German armies retreating from White Russia, committed suicida follow ing tho generals' plot against Adolf I-Iltlor. Tho report, carried under a Baslo, Switzerland, dateline, said tho marshal killed himself after undergoing third degree treat ment nt Hitler's headquarters. Ho previously had boon reported missing from tho Russian front whore his army group has taken a severe mauling from tho Russians. Japs Squeezed Back On Guam; Trapped By Yanks On Tinian . U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Auo. I fT) American soldlort and marines, sweeping swiftly across uuwiorn uuem ana-inrougn tne capital town ot Agana, today queeied the Japanese tighter in the island's northern half, there to be pounded mercilessly from the air, ground and sea. On Tinian, 130 miles north of Guam, the battered remnants of the enemy force huddled In a small pocket near the island's southern end with no hope of escape. Marines on Tinian opened an assault Sunday on what Adm. Chester W. Mimits termed the last enemy defenses." With Tlnian's conquest near, a Nlmlti spokesman said also that 'the worst is over on Guam most of the difficult fighting Is behind the Americans." - The American lino on Guam Sunday night extended from a y . By FLORA LEWIS WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 () First reports reaching ' official Washington from Inside Ger many disclosed today that the nuzls appear to havo crushed def initely the factions Involved In tho bomb plot against Hitler. The reports, which are official as distinguished from the Ger man radio and neutral capital gossip, Indicate that for tho mo- mem in least, littler has f rm control.-" ' Apathetic Condition The best description of the popular German reaction to the oomuing attempt wos npathy,- the Information suvs. So far m u Known nere, tnero was no riot ing in Germany following an nouncement of the attack on Hit ler, nor wcro there any demon strations of rejoicing at the escape. It is confirmed that tho nnls took speedy and far-reachinn control measures immediately after tho bomb attempt, especial ly in ueriin. A tight cordon was thrown (Continued on Page Two) Allies Strike At Fleeing Japs SOUTHEAST ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, KAN- UY. Ceylon. Aug. 1 OT The al lies have struck far in tho rear of the Japanese retreating down the . Tiddim road from their fruitless . invasion of northeast India and tho enemy's main es cape routo now is threatened, a communique announced today. nils assault was made ny al lied forces operating against the Japanese supply line and "in the first clashes tno Japanese lost a transport and moro than 120 dead, sold tho bulletin from Ad miral Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters. P"1' SOMETHING. Nazis Prohibit Motor Traffic NEW YORK, Aug. 1 fP) All motor car traffic In Belgium and northern Franco has been pro hibited bv nazl occupation auth orities effective August 19, the Gorman Transocean agency said today In a Berlin broadcast. A similar prohibition on motor cycles will be effectlvo Septom- ir i, Transocean said, United States government monitors reported the broadcast. Mannerheim New Finn President STOCKHOLM. Aug. 1 (Pi- Marshal Baron Mannerheim. commnndcr-in-chlef of Finland's war with Russia, became presi dent df Finland tonight with his first task apparently that of get ting his country out of the war. Helsinki announced mat pres ident Rlsto Ryti had resigned and that Mannerheim had been appointed by parliament to suc ceed him. Premier Edwin J. Linkoinlcs , of tho pro-Gorman government, moved tho resolu tion miming Mannerheim, it was reported. point on Agana bay. a mile north of the central west coast town of Agana, across the is land s nve.miic waist to ' Pago Day on the cast shore. Bombardment From both ends of this land Hue. allied warshlns formed seml-circln of steal and flashing fire around northern Guam and poured into the Nipponese usurpers ot tne lormcr , U. 5 naval base the punishment of their heavy guns. More than two and a half years after Japan seized Guam, the southwestern part of the is land : was functioning again as an American naval .center. Al lied ships steamed In and out of Port Anra. best harbor in .tha.Matianan, and a procession. ot warplanes operated from Japanese-built Orotc peninsula almoin. . Harbor In Good Shape - Rear Adm. Richard L. Conol- ly, amphibious commander, said the Japanese left Apra .harbor in line snapc, even improv ing it by installing marking buoys and torpedo .nets. Mine sweepers dragged the anchor (Continued on Page Two) Jap Drive on . Hengyang Halted CHUNGKING. Aug. 1 (VP) The Chinese high command an nounced tonight that "our inner ring of defense " halted a Japan cso drive on embattled Heng yang. Chinese units on tho outer ring were reported to have scored gains east and west of the Canton-Hankow railway junc tion. , Tokyo broadcast today with out allied confirmation a re port that-U. S. ground units moved from India had gone in to action in tho Yengyang sector. "In some sections of Yemzvane United States troops are not only serving as' commanding officers of the Chungking army, but are actually participating in battles urltW nil. fnfnnt " onM lliii ww iui.m, Daiu v-.f. M1VC1U- cast, recorded by FCC). Entrants In Contest Here are three more entrants in the Mist Klamath contest. Shown from-left to riant are Edrie Smith, 19. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer A. Smith; Jean Bolin. 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bolin, and Peggy Keating, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Keating. Miss Smith and Mist Bolin both ting and Peggy tpecialixet in monologues and readings. Warsaw in Flames as Reds Advance; East Prussia Defenders Forced Back TO Work began today on paving of the Old Fort road from the city limits to the Marine Bar racks,' following award of the contract to Clifford A. Dunn, Klamath Falls contractor: Dunn will surface the access road as well as three miles of roads within the Barracks area. Lt. John M. Babcock, navy officer in charge of construc tion here, disclosed that the Old Fort -road project -will include reconstruction ot tne . road at the dangerous turn one mile this side of the - Barracks. - The work will be done within the present right-of-way, but will eliminate the- hazard,- he said. Several cars, including one ambulance, . have been wrecked at this curve since the Barracks (Continued on Page Two) Four Enter Miss Klamath, Contest Four new "contestants in the Miss Klamath race .registered this weekend, bringing the to tal numocr to ii, . Latest entries are Genevieve Heup, Isabel Corr, Betty Lar vick and .Janet Protsman.. . The contest ends next Satur day noon and all girls contem plating entering the contest are urged to register as soon as pos sible. To bo eligible to run for the title of Miss Klamath, girls should be unmarried and be tween the ages of 18 and 28. Entrants, will be judged fpr per sonality,' poise, and photogenic features. A special talent is not essential. - .- Slow Progress Continues ! In Advance on Florence By ' EDWARD KENNEDY ROME, Aug. 1 (P) Eighth armyitroops are making slow, methodical progress In their ad vance on Florence against five German divisions fighting a des perate! last stand battle before tho Tilscan capital, allied head quarters announced today. Sbu.h of tho city the Germans lunged out with fierce , counter attack along a side semicircular front Which now forms their de lino, S Determined Enemy s clear tho enemy Is de ed to mtihe a real stand S as he is able, but the. eighth army's advance Is relent lessly forcing him from succes sive strongpoints," headquarters said. ' ' - - - -The Germans are using three of the best divisions at their dis posal in Italy for guarding the approaches to Florence. These units are the fourth parachute division, the 20th panzer, grena diers and the third panzer grena diers. They have the support of Tiger tanks and are' using a new type of booby trap grenades set off by wires stretched across roads at a height to catch' the aerials of radio-equipped ve hicles. The' grenades themselves (Continued on Page Two) Gale Swirls Off Atlantic Coast MIAMI. Fla., Aug. 1 mA tropical storm of gale force swirled off the Atlantic- coast to day, offering its greatest threat to parts ot norm and soutn Car olina. In a 1 p. m. bulletin, the weath er bureau placed the center of the disturbance about 200 miles southeast of Charleston, S. C. A' slackening in the forward motion might Indicate a" change in course, observers said, but they advised caution along the coastline where storm warnings were "flying from Cape Hat- teras, North Carolina, to Bruns wick, Ga. - i U. S. to Open Peace Talks WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (VP) The United States will open post war peace planning talks -here with representatives of ' Britain and the soviet union, Monday, August 14,' and following these talks, Britain and the United States will hold similar discus sions with China. Acting Secretary of State Stet tinius announced this procedure today. Stettinius said he had heard that Maxim Litvinoff, soviet vice commissar for foreign affairs, would represent Russia, although neither Russia nor China have disclosed the makeup .of their delegations. Congress Back In Session WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 A sparsely-attended congress re convened at noon today amid new republican demands for irompt completion of a legisla te program to chart the wav tn post-war economic stability. Sixteen remiblican senators. meeting in informal conference, pledged unanimous support of Senator Vandenberg of Michigan in his efforts to force demnhlll. zatlon and reconversion- mea sures out of the senate military committee. By The Attoclated Prett . LONDON, Aug. 1 Warsaw was reported in flames tonight as Russian masses pressed upon its northeast suburb behind a deluge of shell's and bombs Farther north, other red army forces, forced, ,tbe .nazl- defenders, of East Prussia back along a 143- mlle front. ,- . , - .y .-. Billows of black smoke were reported rolling from the ancient' Polish , capital, indicating tne Germans were putting it to the torch'in preparation' for evacua tion. Moscow said Warsaw was under siege; that three, columns were assaulting Praga, the east ern industrial suburb across the broad and swift Vistula river. . Kaunas Captured ' Marshal. Stalin announced the capture-of Kaunas, old capital of Lithuania. 'Marshal Konstaritin Rokossov- sky's first, white. Russian army group was reported tiring neavy (Continued on Page Two) War Bulletins LONDON, Aug. . 1 - (VP) All communications connecting the Baltic tea; and East Pruttia have been "cut by the wettward ad vance of soviet troops, Moscow announced tonignt. . , E OF LONDON. Aug. 1 (JP) Ameri can troops have captured Mont- gouuer. eight miles toutheatt of Avranchet, a Reutert . ditnatch irom r ranee tarn tonignt. .... Osmena to Take Over, Presidency WASHINGTON. Aue." 1 UP) Sergio. Osmena, vice president of me pmuppines, arranged to take the oath as president -this after noon to succeed Manuel Quezon, who died this-morning. Associate Justice . Robert H. Jackson of the supreme court will administer the oath in the office of Interior Secretary Ickes, . who' now is performing the duties of high commissioner of the Philippines. Tokyo Reports Attatks on Rota By The Associated Prett The Tokyo radio quoted an im perial headquarters communique today as saying that Japanese troops on Rota island, situated between Tinian and Guam in the Marianas,- "for successive days have prevented .enemy, landings by -valiantly fighting under fierce artillery firing." . .The wording of the communi que, as recorded by the federal communications commission and The Associated Press in London, did not make clear whether land ing operations against the island actually had been launched. Nazis Report Shipping Sunk LONDON,-Aug. 1 MP) A Ber lin broadcast asserted today that German. "human toVpedoes" and submarines had- sunk 124,000 tons of allied shipping off -, the Normandy coast and on other al lied supply routes in July. The claim was entirely unsup ported by allla4 reports on ship ping losses. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., Aug. 1 (P)r Manuel .Quezon, 65, aapper exiled president of tne Philippine . government, . which he had headed since 1935, died today at a summer home here from tuberculosis. The magnetic . Quezon, who fled from his native Luzon in a submarine in the early part of the war, died at 10:05 a. m. (EWT). He came here late, in .the spring' from' Asheville, N. C, and lived with his chief of staff and his official family. .. . At Bedside His widow, and two daugh ters, Maria Aurora and Maria Zenaida. and one son. Manuel Jr., were at the bedside. . . Long a disciDle -of Philinnine independence, Quezon-, cast his lot . with the Americans when the Japanese invaded his home land. Previously. he had or (Continued on Page Two) - FDR Nominates Stilwell for Full General "WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 '(P) President Roosevelt today nomi nated "Lt. Gen. Joseph Warren Stilwell, American commander of Chinese forces in Burma, to be a full general in the army of the United States. " The proposed promotion, rais ing Stilwell to a rank -held by Gen. George C. Marshall, -Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, . suggest ed, the probability, of new and more important work for' Stil well in the Burma-China area. . In the American military or ganization, he holds the assign ment of commanding general of U. S. army forces in the Burma China theater. He also holds a top-flight position under General issimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China and has certain staff duties under the allied commander-in-chief in southeast- Asia,- Lord Louis Mountbatten. CIS CARRY TROOPS INTO BRITUA Yanks Seize 2 Dams 10 Miles From Avranches By GLADWIN HILL - SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 1 OP) American doughboys and tanks ramming into Brittany seized two key dams 10 miles southeast of fallen Avranches today while a -swift British-American force advanced to within five miles of Vire, im portant communications center. : Capture, of the dams carried the Yanks across the - Selune river. East of Avranches,. on tho See river, the Americans seized Brecey. . - 18.587 Prisoners . The total of German prisoners) for the eight-day. campaign rose to 18,587. . . .. . , , Foot soldiers -took: over the burden of the attack on the cen tral front, and - they registered gains of as much as 12 miles be yond yesterday's positions. - --Tonight the Americans were driving back the -Germans with out pause in the coastal corridor of the western offensive- - . . ; Canadians Attack - Canadians., burst fnrlh. with new fighting on the Paris-point- cu wsv name oi me advance line. The biggest .offensive of. the invasion hurtled its second tvtwir with - augmented ;- power- The Germans' trans-Normandy line was smashed in a dozen Dlaces. Disorganized nazis yielded them selves as prisoners in droves. ruin southward - - ' Fighter-escorted American rnt. umns pushed south of Avranches across the Selune river, the Nnr- mandy-Brittany boundary line. tour and a half miles to the Pon taubault and through Ducey on the river six miles below Av ranches. - . The - -iuesernaut- - heariVri- Inr Vire was. only five miles away from that key - communication center, xin. tne-way-the column -captured Le Beny Bocaee. Ger man hill. .stronghold eight miles north of -Vire.- . - ---- - . '. Puth Enemy in Percy Behind -the - drive ; from Av . (Continued on Page Two) Zoot Suit Riots Continuejn,: Vancouver, B.- C. VANCOUVER.'. Bl C.i Aug. 1 (CP) A gang of from 80 to 100 men and youths led by a group ot - mercnant seamen paraded through downtown streets here last night shouting as a battle cry "we ; want zoot-suiters" and attacking a number of civilian youths they met along the way. - Sporadic fights 'were reported by - police on - street- corners- throughout the downtown sec tion. - some ' of them ' stemming from the - organized parade and others from small groups of per sons baiting-the civilian youths -dubbed "zoot-suiters" because of their exaggerated attire. The fights continued through out the evening and : into the early morning hours: with- the merchant seaman's gang- last re ported heading toward the city's east-end section in . search - of more zoot-suiters. . Monthly Whisky Bonus Slated PORTLAND. Aug. 1 m Continuation of the : monthly bonus, of a fifth of unbonded bourbon or rye whiskey through' August and price, reductions of 50 to 60 cents a bottle, on im ported' brandies and wines were announced today by the Oregon liquor control commission. The bonus is in addition io permit holders' regular ration of a quart or fifth of any type of whisky. The price reduction results from improved transpor tation and quantity purchasing,; said Hugh R. Kirkpatrick, com mission chairman.- - - Germans Send New Secret Weapon Against Fighters By JUDSON O'QUINN LONDON, Aug.' 1 () The Germans have: now: taken the wraps off another new weapon- a rocket-propelled fighter and all allied fliers who have -encountered the planes agreed to day they are capable of terrific speed. - - ' - ' Little is knovm so far of the effectiveness of the craft. Only seven have been met and they did not stwd- to -fight,-but the speed at which they ran away underscores the importance they might assume if the -Germans manage ; to produce them on a mass scale. : ' Fighter! Tangle '- Berlin has been hinting at rocket-propelled planes for months- The U. S. air force an nounced last night that allied heavy bombers and their con voy of fighters ran into a group of the new planes over Ger many Friday. - Tim allies have recognized for some time that -nazi jet and rocket-propelled planes, if al lowed to appear in big num bers, could challenge allied air superiority, : and. it- is : under stood here that is one- of the reasons the U. S. eighth and 15th air forces sent 27,000 heavy bomber sorties . against German industry, and oil. sup plies in July.- - .. May Hay -Answer ' ' But the allies, might have the answer to : this new German weapon in a new fighter of equal- or - superior capabilities, A joint Britlsh-Aftnerican an (Continued on Page Two)