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: .- : ' V-"-:-'.;-I ' i landing Made Under Cover Of ShelJing jViinOn'. Aug. 23 (T) A third French Invasion landing. Zuh Into iouinwM ..... w.u.u, w reporiea lm the Spanish frontier. French military authorities at "J... Franco, said lha Undlng waa btgun last night undar .Is naval and aarlal bombardmtnt. ! rorl w cabled from tha Spanish bordar by Charles -ui.i nl tha Aatoclatad Praia buraau In Madrid. h Lutd th border Into aouthorn Franc after tha Germans had P..J Irnntler oosls. f ".',, hours altor Foils' report was received, Berlin radio ii"imsll lorce" was put ashore near 8t. Jean de Lui, which i, mllM Irom the Spanish irontler, lying between Hendaye m . and Blarrlli. ay's Jews jaajftftlVi'i ' ' t1 FRANK JENKINS LutIS FALLS! ltr Hnvs (ever since wc Lj ih Koine nbovo nml be- Ll II ka hllllll on Iho limb, nil .r,r. mum. iL-uuy iu w I,..,, ihf KItENCIt who seized ItlUlbsna OKi ino niuiiwiiH. (OR (our lonR, bitter years tho French underground nun noun Hint up lis strength, biding time ond WAITING FOR KrcnAV. the any came opparcnuy jost ifordiv or Sundny. Tho Purls populace firoso fe au.uuu urmca r renen km of tho Interior, supported r hundreds of thousands 01 un tied aniridia, mul wont Into Ition. The hnrrl core of the up. :n was provided by tho Puns !lce. who were nlrcody on Mm sealnst tho German con' fctrorj. Thoy seized tho police bite Tho rlsliiR forces of the rjtrground swnrmed Into the be center (lie tic la Cite). Here fry ilood and bent off attacks'. it was mi over soon (tno uor- uu were already getting out as uiu incy couki.) FT muit have been a dramatic ilruMle but wc have no time ft It here, even If Its details tre available. The fnll of Paris only a detail of a mluhly pic ture that Is developing before BJtovci Willi sinrt nirawiitnoss uncDotiic of Normandy, wliero h (lower of German military rmjln In the west Is wilting it! a roln of hot steel from funs and our n ano. Is only wilier detail. The picture Is tho RETAKING mncc, KLU over France (ho probing 111,,, -f I I 1 I . -1 ui iiihuu mniuruti ftlUmns nre t-mrhlncr tnr Ihn roal of nnzl Germany. Unclsthrilslinir fnatwnrrl from 16 Paris nrpn Inwnrrl nnrmnnv'l ai.i. t' ........ f:"t-nr8onno gate, north of the orges hills. Another in nn.lilno IP from the Mediterranean ward the Belfort gntc, south ' no Voskcs. (Patch's men "mini tin Irnm II, .,.ll. I.., ';"?,v closed tho escape route l o Italy and thence back Into "many oy the Brenner poss.) Our purpose is to closo those Pics and trap ti,0 Gcrmons left r" fiance. trv .. Ihw tno Germans 11 Is bill?. ttn.C ' ." rcvcrso nnrt tno tSnLlcl1? monster that was Iff nta I. moving Bar f..i .." "uu UIiKWlAWX SL r than 11 movci awny K'm Ucrmnnv !!,... ,i. T7 In nin """ I ,: I . ; OITfo .. : r l write on France lol.l ,,nl.rcmnlns 'or Mm Is to low i.iY'T ,mu?" 01 I"" Pree Z'rJ n?of his mSK "in oo lost wait H. feCnfjV5u"-a b.ut tho "ch O yir-wnicn win cost h!?lfelntwh0,,0.l,n,,1 oul- PopDlnc lin i..U.i, ...in l 'S. With tho ro. Kof lini'.'., K.enorai avor. hour, w , m i 8,1 houses every uiii KYr ln niu ruunut h'Hi overv M w" t'S'it for It kier,yoff.l'lln8 ll" hos left in pfMn VnK,.a, Kenoral avor. '"w It with ? b0 c,xPoclot to go ntm..cy!r? h'"8 wohavo. light wi. .V l8J '"cant that last BrlWua?thc WORST NIGHT !'lod rCcn slnco the robots ''"nchiiw i? nazls may no M h i1'01" with all the etetetrtennsCs0)mmanabC'0re M drlJin. R,uaalt"i forces ' are Trs f,L toward Germany's aWesh ifrc.,rom tho west. . "1 Jl(lmn.,l. , W"IiaiVU IS " knffini11?1 nlm npparently TW 8 erfi n th0 ?rigRoUnSl1n1n nXmlc are con 'eeii thVho Ga'tl gap bo Whfan',116 feiubo and thenar- (Contlnu?HCk ' tho Galatl mwed on Pago Six) , in the Berlin correspondent of Af- lonuiadcl hud rnbled that re ports of a new allied Inndlng In tho Bordeaux area were de scribed In Berlin us "probably correct.") Coordinated Attacks Tho Mendayo officials said the operation was coordinated with a ground attack by Amcrlcun una French forces, which effect ed a Junction at noon yesterday at tha outskirts of Bordeaux, closing In on that hurbor city by inland routes, Thero was no confirmation of uny of the reports from supreme allied headquarters. Driven Bade Tho German account claimed that attempts to reinforce the landing party under the protec tion of naval guns wcra driven back by nnd coastal batteries. St. Jean da Lui Is 110 miles south of Bordeaux. It Is. 30 miles west of Marseille, the Mediterranean port besieged in tho rapidly-developing Invasion of southern France. Spanish advices said Ameri can motorized columns hod driven down from a crossing of tho Loire river at Nantes in a 170-mllo advance to Bordeaux, with French resistance forces striking up to tho great port from tho border of Spain, form-, intr a Junction of Bordeaux's out skirts. ; --. , By DANIEL De LUCE MOSCOW, Aug. 23 A new red urmy offensive, prob ably designed to knock Romania out of tho war and break Hit ler's grip on tho Balkans, smash ed forward today on a 130-mile front beyond Iusi to within 180 miles of jittery Bucharest and 185 of tho great Flocstl oil center. NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (P) Premier Staln announced today tho red army hud captured Vns lul. ' Important stroiiRpoInt 30 miles south of Iasi between the Sircst and Prut rivers. Stalin's order of tho day was broadcast (Continued On Page Six) Deal in Serious Condition as Result of Blow Clyde Deal, employed at Wey erhaeuser Camp i on the Green springs, Is still in serious condi tion at Hillside hospital today as the result of injuries received Mondoy afternoon when a small tree fell on him, striking the back of his neck. Deal wos falling trees In the woods when a large tree fell, breaking off a small sapling which struck his neck. PRICE 5 CENTS In The ShantU'Cnseadc Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1944 Number 10244 Allies Make New Landing In France GERMANY evv. v". hK'- v.. -. vi fe Noyo Bete -XZ ylJf' jjjjjjjjjv t Miles SPAIK Allies poured ashore today near Bordeaux la coordination with a ground attack bj American and French troops which closed In on the city by inland routes. On the southern coast ol France, French troops have liberated the naval base of Marseille.' Romania Accepts Allied Peace Offer; New Government Headed by Sanatescu NEW YORK, Aug., 23 CP) Rpmonla has accepted an allied peace- offer and -will -become an "ally" of the United Nations, the Bucharest radio announced tonight in a broadcast recorded by the federal communications commission. ; s ; J . The broadcast, In the 'form of a proclamation from young King Mihal said the government of Premier Marshal Ion Anto ncscu had fallen , end that a new national government had been formed, headed by Gen. Konstuntin Sanatescu. The fam ous old peasant leader Juliu Mnnlu, most outstanding oppon ent of Romania's unhappy posi tion as a battered satellite of Germany, was listed among the new ministers. Will Fight Nails Romania is taking 'her fate into her own hands and will fight tho "enemy," the procla mation said, presumably mean ing nazi Germany. The report came as two power- Resignation of Aranha Accepted RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 23 (PjPresldent Getullo Vargas has accepted the resignation of Brazilian Foreign Minister Os wnldo Aranha, it was announced officially todoy. Tho off iclnl announcement said tho retirement of Aranha was accepted - with - regret by President Vargas, and . extolled tho minister as having given to his country "numerous and sig nal services." Recognizing . these services, tho communique said, "the gov ernment of tho republic judges it opportune to reaffirm the dlrec fives of his foreign policy of con tincntol solidarity and strict co operation witn . me ainea na tions." I ful Russian, armies werer-drTvIng forward In a four-day-old offen sive aimed at-jtmockinsr'Rrou'f Jtrst TVMatRoTTIanIa "wbulot be la. mil.n-ith wnr.i i Allied peace terms nave been accepted and the government of Premier Marshal Ion Antonescu has resigned, the Bucharest broadcast said. . New Successes . Only- tonight the Russians an nounced new successes In over whelming northeastern Roman ia, and in the first three days of their offensive they had reported slaughter of 25,000 German and T . By NOLAND NORGAARD , ROME, Aug. 23 ()' Mar seille, second city of France, fell to French troops today. Only small pockets of Germans re mained tonight in the big south ern seaport. The prize port, a natural fun nel to pour liberation armies Into France, was occupied with out . much resistance even as Americans thrust 140 miles inland-in a spectacular sweep, and entered, the large industrial city of Grenoble. i Toulon Holds . ' The German garrison' still' is holding out at Toulon - east of Marseille, but land escape has been cut off. v ' An American steel ' first car ried 140 miles north, of Toulon In the deep plunge into Gren oble. - . ..- A swift American armored and motorized column plunged into the city, long a hotbed of the French patriot movement, ' (Continued on Page Six) Romanian' troops and "capture Of nearly i3,uuu. - able to do- in -the way of accept-, ing a peace as Jong as trie uer man army remains on Romanian sou was not clear, but In an case military-develoDments Ind cated that she -would not long icmain as a oemgerent. Sanatescu New Premier The new premier is Gen. Kon stantin Sanatescu and the eahl. net includes Juliu Haniu, veter an opposition leader and Chief oi ine peasant party, the broad cast said. - A summary of King Michael's proclamation, as reported by the FCC. included these noints: ' 1. A new national government will be formed. 2. Russian peace terms are ac cepted. 3; Romania Is to be an ally "of IW. T T : , i : VtIC VIlllCU IIUUUIIS. 4. Romania is taking her. fate (continued un Page Six) Youth Returns After Being Lost Jimmy Boyd, 17,- reached civ ilization shortly before dark Tuesday night after being lost in the Seven Lakes area since Monday. On a fishing trip at Grass lake with his uncle, Jimmy was about four miles from camp when his legs cramped. He lay in a canyon all night and crawled back to camp , in the morning. Finding that his uncle had gone for help, he hiked 11 miles to the Seven Mile guard station. Rangers from Butte Falls wore out . looking . for Jimmy until word reached, them this morning that he was safe. - Jimmy lives with Ills grand mother, Mrs. 5. , n. . t rancis, 4iu w. Htn. . . Anti-Trust Suit Filed Charging Railroad Groups With Collusion to Prevent Western Development WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (P) The justico department an nounced todoy it has filed an onti-trust suit in Lincoln, Neb., against the Association of Ameri can Railroads, the Western As sociation of Railway Executives, J. . P. Morgan and company, Kuhn, Locb and company,, and 47 lndlvlduol railroads. Also named as defendants are tho officers and directors of the Association of .American Rail roads, top executives of the 47 railroads "homed and . 31 other individuals.' .: . Acted Collusively -' ' Attorney General Francis Bid die announced through his Wash ington office that the complaint "charges that a combination of private, financial, industrial and railroad interests have actod col lusively to maintain non-compot-itlvo - rates for transportation and to prevent and retard im provements in tho services and facilities of railroads for the westorn-i part of the United States. to, "dissolve' the Association of American Railroads represent ing 85 per cent of the nation's principal steam rail lines and of the Western Association of Railway Executives, an organiza tion of western systems. , Asks Injunction 1i also asks on injunction against all the defendants to pre vont a revival or continuanco of any of tho offenses charged and to prevent a revival of the west ern ngrcemont, the western com missioner or tho committee or Harper Wounded In Action Corporal Dale W. . Harper of Klamath Falls has been wound ed in action, according to a list of casualties among Oregon na val personnel released today. Harper Is with the marine corps and Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lew. Harper. 438 Washing- The" complaint asks th-court! ton, Klamath (falls. - I directors from setting up a plan which would restrain . trade in violation of the Sherman anti trust act. ' : ' Assistant Attorney General Wendell . L. Borge . in charge of the anti-trust division said the war and nr.vy departments Hid not object to the filing of the suit, but he added he did not know what action ' might be taken by . them later. . Request Postponement The service departments have requested postponement of ap proximately 30 similar suits un til after the war. ; Berge said that under any cir cumstances from 9 to 12 months, would be required to prepare the case. He told newsmen that the jus tice department is conducting an investigation of southern rail roads to determine whether there has been collusive action in that ' region in the fixing . of freight rates. ' He said ' the in quiry has developed no evidence of a commission plan - similar -to TRAP CLOSES TROOPS Germans Fall - Back . In Rout On Seine' JBy WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 23 (TP) Allied columns hammered in a tighten ing trap today on Germans fall ing back in a "rout" on the steel-swept lower Seine, and speared deep below Paris in menacing new drives only 160 miles from the German' border. One U. S. armored column olunged' beyond Sens. 58 miles southwest of Paris. It stood but i art ' :, i ' , i. xuu aiuce --Hum ine f ciurj f frontier. - Bridgehead Effected ' . Between Sens and Paris. Lt.- Gen. Georges S. Patton's third army was operating in woods hear Fontainebleau. In this sec tor' the Americans fiad . thrown a oriUBCpctta, vver i,ne- uppvi Spines- ; uanaaian ana Bnusn troops scored advances of 10 to. 15 miles in the chase of the battered, Ger man seventh army toward, the Lower Seine from the disastrous Falaise - trap. . On the coast Canadians battled some- seven miles across the Seine estuary from Le Havre. . Germans in that, port . lobbed shells across the water. - Hit' Toward Sea U. S. units hit down the river toward the sea, bringing in the (Continued, On Page Six) : . Cotfy Foils Atffeir IFouir Day HattfDe . By JAMES M. LONG . . . ; -1 LONDON, Aug. 23 (AP) Paris and Maneill thr two first cities of France were wrested from German bondage today. - The capital fell to French partisans after four davt of street fighting, Gen. Charles de Gaulle' headquarters an nounced. Armed and unarmed thousand swept tha nuis from the streets where they had strutted more than four years. In the south of France, French troops entered tha great port of Marseille and occupied most of the city in the face: or mild opposition from its berman defenders. (A public relations officer at Gen. Eisenhower's' Invasion' headquarters said early tonight he had received no , confirmation. ' of the liberation of Paris. This presumably was only because, the capital was freed from within, rather than, by the entry of Elsen-: hower's armed forces; No doubt of the accuracy of the-French, announcement was implied). , This time, the communique said, the fight was led by 50,000 organized' French forces of the ' interior, bolstered by hundreds of thousands more who joined in with whatever weapons they. could find. ." ' .'T..'.". V. '' . '. La Marseillaise Sounds '.' : " The dramatic announcement touched off broadcasts to French men everywhere: as the triumphant strains of "La Marseillaise!' sounded again to the news of a French victory. There was no word immediately that American-troops: had.. -entered the city. . But the French said they-had seized all public buildings, wort-. complete, control of . the situation, and captured all the . Vichy representatives wno had not ea.---- ... ..-.' . . Paris, the city of light, was back . in. French hands just four ... LONDON, Aug. 23 () Lt.. Gen.: Joseph Pierre. Koenig,' corn.-! mander of the French forces of the interior and military governor ... of Paris,' gave this official, version, of the. deliverance of the cap-1 itah ' y ....... . :.. ,: .. . I "On the morning of Saturday, 'August 19, the national' coun cil of resistance and. the Paris committee of liberation, in agree-i ment with the national delegate, representing the provisional'' government .of the. French republic, ordered a general; insurrec.v tion in Paris and in the -Parisian, district. - . . . , "French, forces of the interior to the number of 50,000-armed71 men, supported, by: several- hundred, thousand, unarmed. -patriots, J . went ihto action immediately "The Paris police, who had previously gone on strike, seized the police prefecture and the He de la- Cite; They turned thevjlej. de la Cite into a bastion, against which German attacks; broke; down.,"' : -i . i ' .." ..j- . - ; -'''::--y,"y,":i-!'.:: 'Toward 8 p. m. yesterday, August 22, after a four-day strug-;. gle, the enemy had been beaten everywhere and the - patriots occupied-all public buildings. . ,; - r.; "Representatives of Vichy were arrested orare-in-; flight.' "Thus the people of Paris have taken a prominent part-IB the liberation of the capital. . '"--;:H'".'S;iVi :::;.i..J "Long live France!" . . ;-.r;r.i7 .! , . that mentioned in the Lincoln suit.. Charges Made ' Berge reported that the 39- page Lincoln complaint makes these charges: "It is alleged that by collusive and illegal action, the defendants have maintained freight rates for the western part of the Unit- . (Continued on Page Six) FDR, Churchill Plan Paris Meet . LONDON, Aug. 23 (iP) The London Dally Herald said today dans were being made for Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis ter unurcntu to be present in Paris, "if that is practical," when allied troops parade under the Arc de Trlompne, French troops, will head the allied i parade, . with General Charles de Gaulle probably hav ing the place of, honor, the news- 'favn - auucu," - . P BY HEAVY BOMBERS GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 23 (P) Unchallenged Libera tors and Mitchells have begun to pour it on Halmahera, last Island barrier 'between Gen. Douglas- MacArthur and the Philippines. i A record 135-ton nommng, which destroyed - eight parked planes, supply dumps and' de fense positions and sank a freighter, was reported today against that octopus-shaped Jap anese base. A 110-ton strike had been announced yesterday. Considering Halmahera's top ography much , of its 6700 square miles are unexplored jungle wilds and only a few coastal sectors are of military use these are gigantic blows. They are being stepped up (Continued On Page Six) Bids Opened for , Two High Schools Bids 4iad been-opened today on two . Midland Empire school construction projects the Butte Valley high school, at Dorris and the Bonanza high school. Lawrence Construction com pany of Sacramento was given the-contract on the Dorris school on a bid of $52,784 by the Siskiyou Union high school district after a meeting at Yreka :iast night. - - -Lawrence built the Junior high' school at Placerville. Bids were opened this after noon by the Klamath county school board on the Bonanza building, and Brosterhous Con struction company, Klamath Falls, was low at $94,260. The only other bid was from Halver-son- Construction company, Salem, at $123,100. Both bids were well' - over the - estimate and the board had -taken no action at press time.-- Both buildings were designed by Howard R. Perrln, architect, and will replace school plants that burned last year. WEATHER : August' 23. 1944 . Max. (Aug. 22U.83 Min 42 Precipitation last 24 hours .....00 Stream year to date 10.62 Normal ..12.35 tast year ..l i.w ForecjMt.- Clear years' and 74 days from the' time . Adolf . Hitler', troops .Hiarched , in. German troops, then at the flood tide, of .conquest,- entered , June 14, 1940. - ' - .:. ..:.''.-'.:: a.-' ';','."' The city became the first continental capital" 6t 'a full-fledged ' ally to be freed from German domination. Rome "has been taken, but Italy started the war as an enemy and now is a co-belligerent. .) De Gaulle, Elsenhower Confer , De Gaulle conferred with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in France two-days ago presumably on details of civil affairs con trol of the capital which once more is the pride of all France; h (The British radio reported today the head of the French com mittee of national liberation had arrived in Rennes, on-the Brit tany peninsula, after visiting Coutances, Avranches and a number of other liberated French cities. , - . ;:' i 1 Number of Casualties Unknown ' ' ' ' There was no announcement after the De- Gaulle-Eisenhower conference. It seemed likely: the French, who freed their, capita, would be allowed to administer it. ' - 1 . J -':- There was no Indication in the' French - communique ,what casualties had been inflicted on the German forces -or how mainy had been captured. Allied airmen for two' days have been re porting the nazls pulling out of the city to the east over , every road. . .. . " " '':'. ''-" .- .'':v.;::.:'.:";'".;Vx (The Germans did not immediately acknowledge-any-change In the status of Paris. A' DNB broadcast recorded by the federal communications commission at 3:17 a. m., PWT, said "The situa tion in Pans has calmed down as the result of strict1 measures; but It cannot be .said whether terrorist and irresponsible, elements will not provoke unrest shortly"). . . : ' ' .! .'''. :-' v ;The. thousands ot irenenmen and. womenwnp, sirucK .aown the invaders who had brought misery and despair to their homes rose from the underground of the Montamartre' and MOntpar nasse. They.struck from the east and from the west.. . ; .. . ; .ji,' : French Colonies Celebrate . ' ' ; ' French colonies were quick to begin -celebrating -libertit Wn of their homeland capital. An Algiers broadcast announced Gen. Georges Catroux had ordered the display of the tri-color through out Algeria and the. ringing of all church bells. The -liberation will be celebrated in Algiers at 6 p. m. by' salvoes of all the city's batteries and the blowing of sirens on all the city's build ings, y.... .- - ,- Paris had" been declared' an. Topen city several days before the Germans had reached it in the black , days of 1940; -German armor clanked . into the. .stunned jiapltaL. jplled. past the Arc de Triomphe and down the famed Champs Elysees to the Place 'de la Concorde, and saw silent, deserted streets. Those citizens who remained in the city stayed indoors rather than, look upon- the degradation. - . ., ' i . Confuseddisorganized France, its vaunted - military machine broken by the lightning German attack along the Maginot line, and its faith in its generals and leaders broken, had no chance to fight for the capital. Even if the-will had been. there,, there was none to organize it. A few days, after Paris fell; the remain der of heart-broken, bewildered France capitulated.' ' England Hit by Heavy Bomb Raid LONDON, Aug. 23 P) South England today suffered its heavi est dawn, barrage of flying bombs yet, as allied armies beat toward the launching platforms in Pas-de-Calais beyond the Seine. ; " The robots came so fast that gunners had no respite in throw ing up a terrific curtain of ground fire. Clouds of smoke over the sea indicated the num ber of bombs brought down in the channel. Others were heard exploding-aloft. The anti-aircraft fire was the heaviest yet heard a continu ous roar of a thunderstorm along the coast.. . Bomber Crashes In Village; 50 Lives Lost LONDON, Aug. 23 (IP) An American bomber . crashed flam ing into the Lancashire village at Freckletonv today, killing at least 50 persons, 34 of them small- children at a church school. The toll may be much ; higher. ... ' .... '- :. 1 The Press association (British) said the plane was a-Liberator and . at least three of its crew were killed.'' 1 - -' :. -American troops - Joined in rescue work in the flaming wreckage- of one of England'l worst sky-ground tragedies. .
