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n IIA1 JV lis ires TRNKINS Br T".A.n .Jrfromilnu the liURCHi. ;,.,,, mt)rnlnB: XilY tho r.Wn '.' uo.i but I no long- JjBHAPS .u;nin umtor Eden... (nl(1 ,)0 commons I"'"1": earlier tht there (''"JihiHtv of German col- rest days. "jJJ u'iOHtY EVENTS .-mi our American nro rtC'l tTio base of tho Brit ,crK?., .land are ""Id thl r h WEU"0N THEIR BOMS FORCE toward . ..ni,,o elbow room Liter iMlmrnenic forces wo've fct 'r '. i nH Imve to pour area ircv -" ton tw j"-;--;- ih Caen end of the Nor- 1 9i. AP Corrondoli ".ri.l? -...i mini stand ferHu1r'U.cno.d E tho Germons will have 'S .-TV" i owird Pwto 2 will Incur terrible losses Vh.nd. o( allied. Plane. amerlng them irom .no j they wiiow wni raid, and try. to cros Another Dunkcrtuo memi in Mklng.,, , , Wirnw, quaking to tho roar i n...'alkn own. ns on that leful dy century and a qunr- inble o! the cannon at Wator. th Polish underground has CL, in fnri-A nnrt ii fighting frmini In tho streets. The reds have cut tnrougn to ; Bililc. trannins the German JiolM to the north. ISoutft ol Warsaw incy nvo innod across tho Vistula and ind in force at the edga of th n plains that LEAD TO ERMANY. s ' ml neutrals and the satellites, treading ARIGHT the nana rlllnif An 111 umiII. START A Il'SH (or our bandwagon. mrv.v envoi, riininmimn riu nm with nnrmnnv. The Oer bin mutter In their boards that lie Turkish ncllon is tho "nre- Lde to war,'' The Turks retort bit whether or not It menus nr nrpENns on the oer. fANS. . . , .," ' - . "1! you attack us, we'll fight" elr premier tolls Berlin, N the far north, the Finns toss pro-German Ryti out and pUt fim in his place as president, inncrhelm Is believed to have ti ADVANCE AGREEMENT ih the Russians (or an armist tt. - Helsinki reports via Stock klra say the German garrisons rt n.ii.ouy mvjvinu UUI 01 rilhcin Finland (with the bulk pwcuuii oi rininna ana prnc- n v it, ...i i- i in ru in mission nanns, or r .L iiuiiiiiik uiau r the Gcrrnans todo.) (SHUN pretends to believe, the 'Finnlih mn.,A I. .11 J-- At I.. V """u in Mil UI mw "to Klory of dcr blessed Mcr, and tho nazl foreign of ,'i!?i'si,"The chnnK Indicates at the Finnish Deonlc aro ALL. I m . "n,n"h PcPlc are ALL PUT to pull their wholo weight "Germany) in the war effort." :Ci .?ro!mcnstcr Pfoclalms; In L '? ff1l . with future ' ctoser in tno L i UELL, tuhnt ..... t Lin0"r very life depended on M Hu ?a"8erol"ly frlghton., I oWm ,nJ ."heddfng il8 iBsl r?PO( blood (nr vnn? R has (Tone Is all to oVMia.nud "won't be long icked 1 the wicked enemy w ' ' rH'?innlng of the stam ateC ?f .tho neutrals and heyar' 'mportant because "oV tfe ? Hi? lighting and ! waning, German power r s rest n a . "awmont Is RVE 2 L ws'.b!!Jcauso we BE t.MheVfPd"''ut,h.truih 'C UifA Ul B UIULK, ,nn vvhenesays Is'lf l?,lornai German what- heQrman ,Si ,Personalitles fn me anoth " roicl.1 nro murderliig xmSilS trylPg t0' while n circle 1?,0d(1?n,(1 over-narrow-,; of -tticlr power". fe!:'t our the West erval u.n.Hrchill says: "The In. ?nd the , rt.h, de,cat of Hlfc U St dofeat of Japan UH S1ortn0rttSr Pe'haps! PRICE 5 CENTS I F SEEKPEACE Berlin Calls Turkish Action "Prelude To War" By The Associated Press. LONDON, Aug. 2 Turkey aligned herself with the United Nuttons today to the extent of breaking off diplomatic and eco nomic relations with Germany and there were broud indications Hint powerful Soviet Russia soon would consider a new Finnish re quest (or an armistice sunranteo. Infl Finland's independence, It was reported reliably In Stockholm that Marshal Baron Mannerhelm had received Rus sian assurances before he as sumed tho presidency of Finland yesterday. Prelude Sounded Berlin broadcasts promptly heralded Turkey's action as a "prelude to war. Prime Minister Churchill told commons that If Germany now attacks Turkoy "we shall mako common cause with her and take the.Germnn menace as well as we can In our stride." . ' Helsinki rcnorui received In Stockholm said Gorman garri sons already were moving out of southern Finland although . Ber lin broadcasts quoted a foreign office as saying tho- change of Flnlnnd a Kovcmmcni "inaicaics the Finnish people are all out to pull their whole weight In the ware((ort." "Abandons Policy" .A broadcast German communi que said: xurKoy nas iniut. cry circuiting; (Continued on Page Two) ; Mrs. Geary Dies Ih Portland PORTLAND. Aug. 2 OP) Mrs. Agnes McCornacK ucary, (or 86 years a resident of Port land, died In her ' home today. Sho was the widow of the late Dr. Edward P. Geary and she wan a member of the (irst grad uating class of the University of Oregon. Her fumlly Included two sons, Edward A. Gonry of Klam ath Fnlls; Roland W, , Geary of Portland; a sister Mrs. Aletha McCornack of Eugene. She also wm the mother of the late ap thur Geary and the late Everett Geary. Mrs. Gearv had been a mem bcr o( the First Presbyterian church for 80 years. M.. nearf warn wnll IcnOWH in Klamath Falls, having visited Um artn Viafa mntiv times and having many relatives In the community. Those include the following nephews and nieces: Andrew M. Collier, Alfred D. Collier, George Stevenson, Mrs. C. F. W AJUllHllllll, '.- "-'.-." , and Frank McCornack Jr., a sis- tcr-in-lnw living nere is irs. Rosa McCornack. Tho widow and children of it., t.i. AftlMii. M Clnnrv Arn iliu miu . ' ' ni. .... - f . now making their . home in Klamath rails. Mr. and Mrs, E. A. Geary were in Portland today. Mits W SOT 11 1 mmmu,. Klamath are, from left to right, Lavlna Trlber. daughter In th. contest J 'f C'h Dako a Vlrejlnla Benolst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Trlber ot 2, ,tlna Dametrakos. daughter oi Mr. and Mrs. P.' G. Da tWw1 M.l.B.:.n "I A old, Photo. b K.n.U-EUU r a':; (i'-;mM:⁢: In The Shata ggons rah Conquest Of Ti n ia n Ended; Guam Half Won U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 2 ()') The nine-day conquest of Tinlan, a campaign shortened by use of a death-doaling secret weapon on the 4500 Japanese defenders, gave the Unltod States a second "unsinkable aircraft carrier" today next to Saipan, won in 25 days. On Guam, marines and soldiers who already have won Its best harbor and alrlleld pushed north on the 14th day of inra sion against 10.000 doomed Japanese being whittled down by bombs and rockets of carrier planes. To Speak Here Senator Guy Cordon Cordon to Talk On Legislative Matters Here Pending legislative matters of national and International im portance will be discussed here Friday evening by U. S. Senator Guy Cordon, who will speak at a .community dinner scheduled for 6:30 p. m. at the Willard hotel. This will be Senator Cor don's first visit to Klamath Falls since his appointment to succeed the lato Charles L. McNary. All Interested persons are wel come to attend the no-host din- .1 -UmiM innlrn rnsnrVA- IIU1, UIIM . . tlons before Thursday evening at the chamber ot commerce or the Willard, it was stated by the chamber forum committee which Is making arrangements for the af(air. Senator Cordon's talk will be of a non-partisan nature. One aubjoct he is expected to discuss is We U. l. trni or. mgnis. Miss Russell Enters Contest nn4l., T.mt Rimcnll. .10. Iff thp latest entrant this week in tho Miss . Klamath contest wnicn closes at noon this Saturday. Cn tar IS firls have entered the race, The girl chosen Miss Kiamntn win go io roniHira wis fall-'to compete with other en trants from all over the state in tho selection ol a miss uregon.: Klamath Contestants 1 i " " - Caead Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1944 The Marianas operation was moving so fast that Adm. Ches ter W. Nimitz issued three com muniques Tuesday. Ended Monday All organized resistance end cd Monday night .on Tinian, where the marines seized two Jaonnose airfields in their dash down its 12-milc length and won flatlands ideal for other air bases within B29 bombing ranee of Japan. The leather necks - were - mopping up tne Nipponese- remnants in caves and alone a -narrow beach at Marpo point on the south tip. On Guam: whose more valu able southern half is in Ameri can hands, the preparatory stages for a northern cleanup were dealt Japanese troop con centrations. Yank ground forces straightened their line across the Island north of the capital (Continued on Page Two) New Air Force Chief Appointed By Goering ' BviThe-Associated Press . Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer ing has appointed Lt. Gen. Wer ner Krelpe as chief of the gen eral staff - of the German air force to -succeed Col. Gen. Guenther', Korlen, who - was killed in the - explosion - of a bomb Intended for Hitler, . a DNB broadcast said today. - Kreipe formerly was in charge of air training. The British radio said in ' a German-language broadcast that according to Stockholm reports the attack July 20 upon Hitler and -his military associates was made In Insterburg, a city . in East Prussia 57 miles east of Konigsberg. ' Hitler was declared in the BBC transmission, recorded by the office of war information, to have had to move his head quarters from Insterburg be cause of the red army advance. Himmler Demands Work From All LONDON, Aug. 2 (ffi) Hein rlch Himmler as commander-in--chief of the German home army has demanded that every officer and man renounce "all egotism and that damned spirit . of fa tigue," Berlin broadcasts said to day: - . The command was given in an order of the day in which Himm ler openly acknowledged Ger many s manpower shortage by dH.n,.fllnd thnf "nnrh nfftpar uciiinitui.td and man who can be spared at , . . 41 ') nome uc seui iu mc num.. ."Those left at home because they are over age or unfit must "take up work in arms factor ies," said the order which- was dated yesterday. ADVANCE TO BALTIC SEA TRAPSJJAZIS Drive Reopened on East Prussian Front Br EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Aug. 2 (P) Thou sands of Germans trapped in Latvia and Estonia by a swift Russian plunge to the Baltic sea 30 miles west of Riga thrashed at the Russian noose today while other nazis fought violently on a 20-mile suburban arc in ae- fense of besieged Warsaw. Northeast of the invested Pol lsh capital, youthful Gen... Ivan Cherniakhovskv reopened a huge drive toward East Prussia on a 200-mile front, striking within ten miles of the pre-war frontier of the land of the junker gen erals. Cross RWer Que - German communique suggested that Russian troops were pouring across the broad and swift Vistula river south of Warsaw, asserting . that nazi planes "sank on the Vistula 28 soviet ferries crammed with troops." ' The communique "said "heavy, -fluctuating fighting" was' continuing on the : ap proaches of East Prussia Between AUgustbw, eight miles from 'the frontier, .ana tne. memer river. The r.prmnns acknowledged loss of Kalvaria, Jelgava and . Wil kowischken in Latvia and said thev recaptured Birsen. Fight ing still was reported against a Russian bridgehead over the Vis tula below. Warsaw; continued Russian advances toward tne Beskld ' Pass through the Car pathians to Czechoslovakia were reported. Armies Split The German 16th and 18th armies have been operating in the Baltic states and these were split by the drive to the sea west of Riga. ' Once estimated at 30 divisions of perhaps 300,000 men, there was no official estimate of the number trapped in an area (tjontmued on fage two) Too Elevated In Jap Court NEW YORK. Aug. 2 (VP) A Tokyo broadcast said today that Emperor Hirohito had elevated the court rank of ex-Premier General Hideki Toio from senior third grade to junior - second grade. The . emperor "bestowed the honor in recognition ot the tor- mer premier's past distinguished services, . said the broadcast, which was recorded by the fed eral . communications- commis sion. Robert Gustin Hurt on Saipan Pvt. Robert T. Gustin, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Gustin .of Klamath Falls, has been seri ously wounded in . action, ac cording to word received here last week. . ;. Pvt. Gustin was wounded on June 21 on Saipan island. McNair Killed By Allied Bomb WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (P) The army announced today that Lit. Gen. Lesley J. McNair. whose death was announced Thursday, was killed by the ex plosion of an allied bomb which fell short in the intensive bom bardment of enemy lines in preparation for the latest break through in, Normandy. This report was sent to the war department by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the brief announcement said. . The fact that some bombs were released over their own troops by allied airmen was an nounced in the theater ov lit. Gen. Lewis' H. Brereton, tacti cal air force commander,- who said that a number of casualties were. Inflicted by this prema ture release ot DomDs among forward elements of the Ameri can lines.- -. August Max. (August 1) 74 MIn... Precipitation last '24 hours Stream year to date Normal 12.18 Last year ... Forecast! Partly Cloudy Americans Drive Onward FRANCE u.I.T."!io. beau.. s'"TjrT iJXIt fl j&i. I A . J0fL Btnv ft Thwy. sskissl JK- T 4f-JJfAntfir- - Yl V 55Kc 0mn , SSkUSl (UU. f J ' M Arrows show allied drives along the French front (black line). Americans, pushing beyond captured Avranches, enveloped Pont aubault and Ducey. British driving south from Caumont reached the area of Le Beny Bocage. (AP wirephoto). Churchill Says End Sooner By The Associated Press LONDON. Aug. 2 Prime Minister Churchill said today he felt that -the final -end -of the war against the axis would come YANK SIXTH ARMY " ' ADVANCED ALLIED - HEAD QUARTERS, JJew Guinea, - Aug. 2 .(VrAmerlcans of the sixth army expanded their ' landings on Vogelkop peninsula, Dutch New Guinea, and attacked 45, 000 by-passed Japanese 700 miles to the east, .headquarters . an nounced today. The Yanks landed - at dawn Monday oh both sides of a Jap anese barge base, 10 miles be yond the Sansapor beachhead es tablished 24 hours earlier: No Opposition Expected opposition failed to develop. Abandoned Japanese guns and mess 'hall tables set with rice bowls and chopsticks testified to the haste of the en emy's departure. ay noon .the Americans had (Continued on Page Two) Lt Barlow Held Prisoner of War In a war department release today. It was learned that Sec ond Lt. James E. Barlow, 26, of ruamam . alls . is being held a prisoner of the Germans. Lt. Barlow is the son of Ed ward A. Barlow of 707 South Sixth,-In Klamath Falls. . He was a student at Oregon State 'college for two years, ma joring in civil engineering. Be fore entering the army air forces he was employed by the Weyerhaeuser Timber company here. . . Signposts Te Story of Endo AN ADVANCED SOUTH WEST PACIFIC BASE, Aug. 2 (T) Once Adm. Kiichi Endo commanded a Japanese fleet base at Wewak, New Guinea. Allied bombings reduced the fleet to a couple of submarine chasers and some barges. Then the admiral was trapped by uen. uougias MacArtnur s leap frog landings at Hollandia. jsndo fled into tne uyclops jun gle where it is believed he per ished. An American army staff of ficer with a flair for signposts put up, one at a .plantation, reading: "Admiral Endo slept here." Near an old ration dump is another: "Admiral Endo fed here." : On Pirn beach near Hollandia is a third one: .."Admiral Endo fled here." Finally, out in the jungle, a sicmriost records: r - - ; "Admiral Endo dead here end o Endo." -, ' The Road to Berlin: Bv The Associated Press 1 Russian front: 322 miles (measured from eastern suburbs of .Warsaw).. -- ; 2 Italian front: 605 miles (measured from Senigallia). 3 French riront: 630 miles (measured frosi Troarn). 2, 1944 44 , 05 ....10.82 ....17.85 Number 10226 War May Than Expected sooner, perhaps much sooner, than he once expected. . ' On every battle front all over the world," he told the house of commons, "the armies of Ger many and Japan are recoiling. I am increasingly led to feel that the interval between the defeat of Hitler and the defeat of Japan will be shorter perhaps much shorter than I had at one time supposed." No Dates He mentioned no dates. But, confident and cheerful, ' : he sketched bright pictures of a swiftly approaching victory. He. spoke one hour and 45 minutes before the house, which had just (Continued on Page Two) Rommel Injured, j Not Dead, Says German Report LONDON. Aug. 2 (Pi A DNB dispatch broadcast from Berlin today confirmed that Marshal Erwin Rommel was injured in an allied air attack m i ranee July 17, but said he escaped with a brain concussion and his condi tion was satisfactory. "His life is not endangered." the German broadcast declared. Rommel was injured while driving in his car, the broadcast added. This was the first German con firmation of reports received through front line dispatches in Normandy that Rommel had been injured. . Some of the r- pprts said he died later in a hos pital. . Navy Unable to Use Camp Abbot WASHINGTON. Aug. 2 UP) The navy will be unable to use Damp Abbot, Ore., hospital, it advised Sen. Cordon (R-Ore.) today. The war department declared Camp Abbot surplus two days ago and Cordon urged the navy to use it as a hospital, but the navy said the camp is too far from large cities to be used for tnat purpose. rne navy told (jordon, now ever, that when the army fin ished with Camp Adair, de clared surplus some time ago, it would consider taking over the hospital there. ' . - - Race Disturbances Flare As Result of Transport i Tieups in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA,' Aug. 2. (P) Gangs of armed negroes roamed a negro residential section in northwest Philadelphia today, smashed 500 windows and at tacked and seriously injured eight white persons,- police said, as race trouble flared in a tleup of Philadelphia's public, trans portation system. '' - The police .arrested more than 300 on charges varying from ma licious mischief to aggravated as sault and battery and carrying concealed deadly weapons.' - Three : thousand city police men and 7000 auxiliary police men were on duty. . - ; , , 1 . Boys in Gang ' - Police said most of the gangs were made up of teen-age boys armed with bricks, bottles, stones, clubs, knives or guns. ; Race disorders broke out last night after a work stoppage stranded many of - the- city's 1,500,000 daily riders of buses, OF CAPITAL CITY LOOMS "..'.'. -- . -. Exact P o s i t i o n of Bradley's Men I Secret By GLADWIN HILL ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY TD ' C A . n y rr n . nun. a ynr) novmg al most free from opposition, Ameri ican armored forces were bei heved approaching Rennes to night in a lightning stab across the base of the Brittany penhv sula. ' Fall . of the communication center, formpr rnnitai n-u tany, appeared imminent. : It tapiure wouia advance the Americans 45 miles from Av fanches and a third or more of the distance across the peninsula. ;. Exact Position Unknown .-,; But supreme headquarters was reticent concerning the exact po sition of the Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's rampaging forces. ; . Other American forces - wera striking hard toward Brest,- one Of the twn vital nnri n.f.,MU would be isolated by a complete) mrust across me peninsula to tna Loire river. Splinter Lines ' 5 The American spearheads, tcv gether. with British smashes through the center, were splin tering the German line into three huge pockets and some smaller ones. .. - . - ' Marshal Erwin Rommel Ger man broadcasts confirmed he is in the hospital with a brain con mission from allied air attarir appeared faced with fresh disas ter as uen. Sir Miles Ci Dempsey's British second army cracked through the center of the line and reached a position 13 miles south of Caumont. The many armored fingers probing the : confused and dia traught German defenses threatened- not-' Onlv the. German In Brittany with encirclement. , ' .- ,4 -. Trap Threatens .! .-. i . . A powerful American thnicf up "-the- See river - to" Cu'ves, 13 miles ast of Avranches,-also threatened to pocket . Germans between ' there . and the British forces four miles north of vw Sixteen-, miles . separated tha American . and British-' spear heads, which, if joined, would trap all the enemy in the Tessy, vvAiiujiiueu on fage nvoj PFC Cox Wounded in Action, July 3 ;. PFC Robert "Bud" Cox. son of Mrs. James Cox of 1233 Front: was wounded in action in the Marianas islands on July 3, ac cording to a telegram received by Mrs. Cox. . xne telegram advised the fam ily that more information would be furnished at a later, date. It is not known where he is being treated at present. : , "Bud" enlisted in the marine corps in November, 1942 and has been in islands in the Pacific since March, -1943. He was among the. marines who made the landing on Tarawa and at that time a Jap sniper's bullet hit his gun. - -; Bud's father,' James Cox, is a Seabee and is stationed in the Admiralty islands, and a brother, Carl, is in the army infantry in Hawaii. - ; Leaves Home; Home Leaves PORTLAND, Aug. 2 (Pi Mark Zets came home and home wasn't there. A thief coupled Zets' trail er house to an auto and drove away. . ... . trolleys and isubway trains and cut heavily into war production! .... Loot Stores In some cases the gangs loot ed grocery stores, taprooms and drug stores after smashing in the windows. ; ' William Marquard, a news paper reporter, and Charles Hig gins, a photographer, covering the trouble, reported they were chased , by a band of negroes, given refuge by a -negro family in its home, and , later escorted to safety by police. ' ., ; Higgins' shirt was torn from his back. . " - Attack Passertby ' - Police said the whites attack ed were "passersby" in the area except for John Rappaport, 33; a taxi driver,- who they said was attacked as he discharged a fare Many -stores in the section are owned by whites. In Washington, the war labor (Continued on Pge Two) . YANK GAPTUR if;"' -! ; it;-- I $' ih ;j-7.'! mi
