SMIM 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
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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.