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
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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
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11
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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
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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
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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
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