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Newspaper Page TextSMIM fo) IIS ML ANK JENKINS .,h Hoiiiiiiila are twin .u.irlcl Interest to oth lire ntlll shrouded .Fraiicu somowhut urn Homnnlo. As to opening, wo enn only ,i, busuri on n few led liiTojind llioro, fn Frnncn, wo noom to Hie lower Selno In Idcrablo forco In ot plncm. To tjio caul of lire across tho Morno two plUCCB. h stuff officer says to IX Gi'riniin reinforce n lo havo been o southeast of furls to n American drive Hint m outflank tho 10CKET COAST, up will muko thll pod Irly pliiln. From tho (wo havo POWER 10 cn push northward lum. thus getting bo-ocket-laiinchlng Inslul- . INTALLY, there has n 72 hour lull In tho nib nltuck on KiiKlimd, Iml.nn lit mild to bo rls- optimism, prcMininniy, the hope that the i imvp shot the bulk of It and are now gottlnit l we got in ocninu ui.a i.) . . fconniilssanco planes re IEAVY transport move 5 worn Germany and belglum. Whether tho on trio Belgian cousv INGOUT or are getting ICEMENTS can't be N itilcldn squad! are rft In Toulon and Mar- the bulk of tho nnzli King northward up the illcy. One of our arm itnns sped 200 miles In to fall on their flnnk nns nn a pioneer wngon Alontellinur. Our planes fern constantly, strafing rl blowiim the bridge under their very feet. Ive a mystery column re to the north of Gre- ilch In well to tho north Rlnmr. Uji whereabout let military secret. The lleelnn up the Rhone obviously trying to set b Germany by the Bel- just north of swltzer- iju.it as obviously trying cm off and prevent their by that routo. Every prevented from Retting the homeland will be much less left to fight he reach Germany s presents both a sad and py picture ronch staged a victory ) their capital yesterday, our miles long, Somo ong the lino Da Gaulle to mnko a victory ad Sudden ly FRENCH RS on rooftops along the rneel up with rifles, and lers (who apparently had ir guns handy) had to it of lino, toko cover and ollng. title's address had to be d while tho snakes in tho ro mopned(Up. IOWKR and his staff are rls, where a new French cut is being set up. It fully to bo headed by he, and lenders In the resistance movement are the prominent places. 10UL of Franco Is be to shine forth again. -. . inntu, tho Russians have cd the Galati gap do nd oro halfway from ! Bucharest and Ploestl. army group Is advancing d along the foothills of puthlans and another Is up Iho Dnnubo to tho Homnnig's oil seems al t to Hitler. Russians nnnenr to be fup tho passes of tho ans into Transylvania. Muiercsiing. (e western riian nt Tin. ftho historic Iron Gate "lo Danube' breaks the Trnnsvlvnnln Aim . the Klamath breaks the Sierra. The gorge Is pucd on Pago Three) ' In Thm Shanta-Cancade Wonderland August 28,. 1944 . , Max. (Aug. 27) 94 Min. 51 Precipitation last 24 hours ......... ........ .00 Stream year to date ...10.B2 Normal ...12.39 Last year ....17.85 Forecasts Partly cloudy. . PRICE 5 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1944 Number 10248 German Troops Halved Under Allied Assault By GEORGE TUCKER ROME, Aug. 28 (!') More than half of all Carman soldiers riarrlioning southern Franca prior to tha allied landings ar be lovod to have been killed, wounded or capturad In lass than two waaks, and today the tattered remnants ware fighting a frantie battle In tha Rhone valloy to escape a trap. American troops have reached the Rhone valley north of Montalimar, 100 airline mllos north of Marseille, after a march of 200 miles In two days, and have cut off tha Una of retreat of the German 11th armored division and other troops to tha south, field dispatches announced today. At least 80.000 enemy front Una troops were estimated to have been knocked out of tha war In tha invasion of southern ; France to date. . The German 11th division was Tl GEN En AT, HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Poclflc, Aug. 28 (!') Hitching lis bases ever clnsor to Tokyo, allied air power in tho Pacific Is heightening tho. tempo of Its assault. Reported over tho weekend were some of tho heaviest sus tained bombing raids yet con ducted simultaneously on a wide range of targets In tha Nimiu McArthur theaters 89 tons of bombs on Iwo Jlma In the Vol cano Islands 7S0 miles south of Tokyo; 142 tons on Palou, more than ISO tons on the Moluccas.. Eight Ships Hit In these attacks, eight small Japanese walercruft wero sunk or damaged ana i i enemy piouo destroyed or damaged. Supplementing recently-won airdromes on Solpan, Tlnian an( r.unm In the Marianas. Is a now- ly-obmplotod field on Middloburg Island oil simsopor ai me norm (Continued on Pogo Three) Fire Desiroys R C. Short Home South of Town HENLEY Fire eorly today destroyed the farm home of R. C. Short, on tho Merrill high way six miles south of Klamoth Falls. Starting In cither the pump houso or tho store house, the blaze spread quickly through tho old house, one of tho land marks of this district. The houso, store room and milk house wore burned as the flames roared to the top of huge poplar trees surrounding tno place. The county fire truck and flro equipment from tho Klam ath naval Bir station sped lo the fire, and through the aid of those crews, the machine shed was saved ond'tho flames were b-nnl frnm llin HOW tlOUSC Of John Short, just across the rood from the R. U. snort piuce. Tho destroyed house had honn re-shinaicd and otherwise renovated only lost week. Only a few of tho, family's personal belongings were recovered from tho houso, Nazis Withdraw Toward Alps ON THE ITALIAN FRON TIER, ."-tig. 28 (PI Frontier re ports tonl.MH saici uermun iruuiis wore withdrawing from Pied mont, Llguria and Emilia prov inces and falling back townrds the Alps and tho Brenner Pass, leaving behind Mussolini's fas cist forces to cope with resur irnnt Partisan onslaughts and ad- vonclng allied forces. m Abandonment oi r,mum wumu inriixnin n withdrawal from the Gothic lino fortifications, since this province embraces pari pi ihn Anonnino mountains : in which they are anchored. rid Police Force Plans blueprinted by Delegates fllNGTON, Aug. 28 (P) 6 American .and British E" to tho Dumbarton Pccurity conference I leday toward agrec- possibly a three-way rmscon tho most offec y 10 organize foren for '"8 future aggressor na- C hlqtnrln nunllmlnnm, fit into their second l was learned that two f' ideas have been de ntins far. One is a Rus fposal for nn Interna P r corps. Tho Russian L," ls, understood not to (vocably committed, to creation of such a corps but Is backing it strongly with the ar gument that it would pr ,'V:uo a ready means o striklnR m any part of the world where trou ble threatened. : . : American Plan . The American delegation has suggested a plan by which each nation would commit at least a part of its national forces, -including air and naval, to be used In accordance with the or ders of tho international secur ity organization but at tho di rection of the national govern ments. ' ' , . . This American plan Is under stood to be tied In with a gen . (Continued on Page Three). being pressed. from the south by other American -units, dispatches said, and was being harassed by Maquis in the hills to the west and cut up by allied artillery fire from the cast. . Savage Attempt ' ' The Germans were making a fierce effort to cut a way through to Valence, 25 miles north of Montellmar, It was said, but the Americans were con fident of their ability to crush the breakout attempts.' . The Germans were confronted by the additional menace ot "But ler s task lorce the mobile column commanded by Brig. Gen, Frederick Butler, which several days ago reached Gre (Continued on Page Three) , Tl - WASHINGTON Aug.' 28 Sidney Hlllman told Jious' In vestigators today hhfXI po litical action committee Isn obey ing the laws in' tne campaign doesn t wish to , capture" .any party but proposes to -"'get out the vote" because it has faith in the judgment of 'most Ameri cans. : 'I'v-; The head of the CIO-PAC, tes tifying before the Anderson com mittee set up to investigate 1944 campaign . expenses and, prac tices, asserted: i ' "We are not an appendage of cither major political party . . . nor hove we any desire to .cap continued on Page Three) i . . " 1 Boys Narrowly Miss Woman With Rifle Shots y Two 14-year-old boyl; were picked up by city police Satur day afternoon after narrowly missing a woman while shooting a .22 rifle across the irrigation canal near Division. The woman, Mrs.' K. W. Pi card, was redecorating the inside of her home at 442 Division when the bullet crashed through the wall two inches above her head and . lodged in the opposite wall. " ; The two boys had been shoot ing at targets across the canal and also at a telephone post when the shot missed the tele phone pole -and entered the side of the house. ' The two boys were turned over to juvenile authorities who questioned them. , . , Bulgars Contact Allies for Peace WASHINGTON, Aug.' 28 'V Secretary of State Hull reported today that Bulgarian officials have been In touch with allied governments on the question of making an armistice. He . said he did not know whether Ameri can officials- had been ' among those contacted. - In. the case of Romania, which has already turned on German troops and declared it Intention to fight on the allied, side, Hull said that this, government - had honn kent advised.- mainly by Russian officials, of the progress toward making ' . armistice ar rangements. '" w j . , Questioned, about London re ports that a Romanian armistice would be signed soon in Moscow, Hull said that the United States would probably be represented by both diplomatic and military officials . :: . .- ' . . '' .j French Suspend Carrel's Works) NEW YORK. AUB. 28 (&) The Paris radio said today the biologist, Dr. Alexis carrel has been "suspended from all his functions." - - . - . ' The broadcast, . recorded py CBS, said Carrel's anti-national activity has baen notorious." , Garden King, Canning Queen Crowned Ik I HOFFMAN CROWD (m V-6U RULER J -. :-?- ' Garden King Daniel Hoffman and Professor A. G.-B. Bou quet, vegetable-crop specialist, admira blue-ribbon specimens from Daniel's large victory garden, which was judged the out standing 4H garden of 1944. King Daniel wai crowned at tha 4H garden show last Saturday. In tha lower picture Canning Queen Mildred Patrick proudly holds' her prise-winning jars of fruit and looks happy over receiving a $25 war bond. Twelve-year-old Queen Mildred canned 39 quarts of fruit this summer. Bombs, Bullets, Cheers Sound in French Capital By The Associated Press PARIS, Aug. 28 A -new French government was being set up In liberated Paris today after a - irenzieci weeneno in which Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower was given a tumultous welcome,- the Germans bombed the city, and Ueli. Charles de Gaulle escaped death or injury from snipers' bullets. . (The Paris radio in a broad cast heard in London said the city was quiet, today and that two additional nests of enemy resistance had been mopped up.) . - Directors in City ! Nearly all of the directors of tjie' French resistance move ments, who will have promi nent parts in the new govern ment, were In the city. The Al giers government was en route. uuartus uerat, neaa ot an French resistance, was appoint ed minister-at-large . under De Gaulle. Cerat's name, like some others in the resistance move ment, Is an assumed one. Crowds Cheer Crowds, jammed the Champs Elysees yesterday and shouted themselves hoarse as Gen. Eisenhower and his- British, French, and American staffs made a ceremonial tour of the city tthat -ended in- the .shadow of the Arc de Triomphe. There ' the four-star general, with the smile as broad as the Kansas prairie, ; told cheering Parisians: "I have come here to nay the tribute of . the allied forces to the indomitable spirit of fans." . . ; Accompany Eisenhower ' With him were Lt. Gen, Omar N. Bradley, commander of the U. S. 12th army group; Lt. Gen. Joseph Pierre Koenig, commander of the French (Continued on Page Three) ytt: . M Al 1:,T Ze IMTT Garden King - of 944" and a fSO prize was Daniel to gar Hoffman, Xi, who was crowned by Mac Epley,. managing editor of the Herald. and News,. at the 4H garden show, held in .the.Al- tamont school, gym faaturday. ; Daniel was' one of 89 boys and girls to enter garden . pro ducts in the show. His 5000 sauare-foot garden-was chosen as the outstanding victory gar den of the year by A. H: Buss- man of Murph'ey's Seed store, who donated seeds tor contest ants to start their gardens at the - beginning of the season, and .went throughout the coun ty inspecting the completed, gar dens, .judging . them on a point basis.. The $50 crize donated by the Herald and News formerly was given to the boy or girl who raised the best crop of potatoes, but it has been awarded to the garden king for the . last two (Continued. on rage rnree) Last Garrison At Marseille Lays Down Arms MARSEILLE. France. Aug. 28 (P Six days after the army of ficially announced occupation of this- second largest . city in France, the last German garri son laid down its arms today and surrendered. 1 The pocket of Germans had been holding out in fortifications along the sea front and kept much of the port a no mail's land for nearly a week even though me antes claimed it. -- in By es IN SMASHES Soviet , Forces Push ; Into Heart of ' Romania LONDON, Aug., 28 V-Rus- sian troops have captured Tul- cea on-tne soutn DanK oi tne Danube . river. 40 miles south east of- Galati,-Sulina on the central mouth of the Bug river and-. Braila 12 miles south of Galati, Marshal - Stalin - an nounced tonight in two orders of the day. - Tulcea and Sulina were tak en by forces landed by the. Rus sian Black sea fleet. - . Danube Port Braila, a town - and port on the Danube with about 62,000 population, was taken by Gen. Feodor I. Tulbukhin's third Ukraine-army. which yesterday took Galati;.' r.v . -' : .The second "order of the day was addressed to Admiral - E.- S. Okty Bbrsky,- ,-yho 'organized. . the Russian., defense' of Sevastopol. ' Hart of Romania Other forces under Gen. Ro dion-Y. Malinovsky were driv ing into the-.heart of. Romahia along the Focansl-Ploesti-Buch-arest railway farther .west, and the Berlin radio said that Rus sian troops attacking in the northwest had. reached the Hun earian border. ;'. - ' -; The . Russians - were - said tp have.Teached the border, at ",crft of; $he; Carpathian passtts.'ji wr . Counterattack Successful .- '. "In Hungarian .territory to the southwest,, a German count erattack " was successful," : the broadcast -added. . . Though vague, the broadcast seemed to, indicate that: the: ad vance was. through. Romania to the edge of Transylvania, the Carpathian', mountain province which Hitler . gave :in part - to Hungary . ln.- .1940. .However, other Russian army groups-in southern P o l a n d-have been within-13 to. 21. miles- of 'five mountain passes leading- i n t o provinces which -Hungary- an nexed from . Czecho-Slovakia when that republic, .was-.parti-tioried.. : . - -'- - - : ' Price Controls, Rationing Not To End With War SEATTLE, Aug. 28 (IPS Ra tioning and price restrictions will. not give way all at once, nor will they cease with the end of the war against Ger many, Chester Bowles, national head of tha Office of Price Ad ministration, declared yesterday as he arrived' to participate in two days -of conferences with the public, and OPA representa tives. ' ' . ' Pointedly recalling1 the infla tionary period which followed the first World war, Bowles said "we -are not going to -let that happen this time.-- We must maintain present- price levels until supply catches up with the demand. . : . ;-i TROOPS GROSS MARN E.TAKE eon Nazis Yield Bottler : Scene of First L World War ' . I' By JAMES M. LONO - ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 28 (ff) Americaa troops, sweeping In a wide arcc threatening German lines of re treat into the reich, have crossx ed the Marne and captureoV Meaux in the loop of the hisv torlc river 23 miles east of Paris.- - -.:,..,.,, The -Germans were yleldlng the battleground of the first World war without a fight aa the Americans swept on throueh. Meaux unchecked. Sedan, a' famous battlefield in 1870 andn 1940, was 105 miles to the northeast. ; , ' - - - r-i - -Establish Bridgehead - - tij .'Toward the sea the Britislit. established a fifth ' bridgehead' across the Seine, swineine thpir- forces across the river near Louviers, between Vernon' and" Point-de-L'Arche where' the.' Canadians have crossed. . . , 1 For the first- time in this warn American troops were fighting" on a battlefield of the firstj World war. The quaint town of j (Continued on Page Three) ' Big Lakes Box , Company Bids On Timber , - ' : " , . . ' PORTLAND; Ore., Aug. 28 (JPi The Big Lakes Box company of Klamath Falls, Ore., -was -the" only bidder on 30,000,000 feet of timber in the Rogue River foresfi of northern Klamath county, tho regional "forest office here said today. " - i . '-..- T ,. The company bid $6.89 a-thou-,, sand on poriderosa and -western-white pine and $2.85 a thousand on Shasta fir and other- species, the regional office said.- The company must post 10 vents -a- mousana ior improve- -ment work if the bid is accepted. : This amount would be used for reforestation and removal oi snags, An -additional assessment of 35 cents a -thousand would ba levied for disposal of slash, th forest service said.- -sv -; The bid is under consideration, officials added. - - :-" The 'newly acquired timber of Big Lakes, which will keep the local mill running on into . 1945, adjoins- that in- which- -its loggers are now working, near Sand Creek. . This : timber lies between Sand and Scott creeks. About 22,500,000 feet of Pon derosa pine and 7,500,000 feet of. Shasta fir are included in the deal. ' .- -. - . Roycroft Files For Council Post ) Lynn Roycroft, local insurance) man, took out petitions today for councilman for the fourth ward. . This is the Hot Springs' ward, now represented by Walter Wie sendanger, who is running for mayor. - Thus far, Roycroft is the only candidate in the field: War Bulletin LONDON, Aug. 28 (IP) A Reuters -field dispatch from France tonight said strong Unit ed States '.army patrols had driven into Chateau-Thltrry, on the Marne river, 25 miles east of the last official reported po sitions at Meaux. American Troops Cross Marne River iivat BELGIUM?, I . .. .. S.-'uU-.'.Vn. A.' . L. ' .. . JH - .- V SP'iu'htn&l Thierry ChsUX v '''"ST.-MIHIIIJ -' - ''fXt. ChaumontTV 1 if ?U -FRANCE', """Zi SelunMs tUTVTt WH Speeding ahead so. rapidly that war .map-makers cannot keep up with their progress, Yanks hava crossed the Marne river and have captured Meaux. Other troops have reached Nangia, Provins and Nogent south of Paris. Northwest of Paris, allied lines remain close to the black front, Una shown on the map, with fighting progressing around Vernon, Rouen and.Lt Havre.