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M M n jM IrlMyj fat 1 , flit r ...uif JENKINS i','ffn new. from Franco nmiln today in- i J I J nmy bo 1,10 f l dcvX .ml r .other, heel, these J,'.: . r oowlbillly of Ge.rm"" 1 V n lha Sc no and the m" "rmly ,n our ?. .i that but Amcrlciin 'L force hnvo crowed the )tl Jorcc I" .. K Ml 00 miles to the 'Tho Brllwh uro over mo ir Seine and V1"8 p.Vhod jjmlici to tho north, i German soy they huvo ItflBouon. !C natural liicii li that a imk attnek on the rocket t in he making, with tho ti7ini iwlKl"B nd t0 Kr moving directly up tho Iffwavci of buzxbomb,ap- f oirtnt y coming irom mu IRm aea (co map) hit Eng. . . -i-i.i mm ii rum ns the Li to hope the German aro Sjnl off their robot reckles. Ft- .... L lhM liiunnhlnu wiore wo itui.ii mw foot launching platforms In Itulng number have been td and Inkcn by our force lincc they crossed tno ocino, HniDiA atirl Hununrv aro Uln on the hot lent todoy. k Hnnln '1 Ulfllinu I'll Inv nnnntrNT fiUi ted armies only 28 mile the Bulgarian border, Mo, appeals to tho Bulgara ior port in quick liberation of Balkans adding pointedly It pi.utvo neutrality i nui logon. kjtirly crumbling of Hungary t nyi: "The timo I noi lar fwben ALL. the Hungarian tin of Hitler will fall heud r heels." ; , JICARIA and Hungary 'nl lo ki.'tp tho swag given them iHiucr wncn nc uougni moir bort back at tho beginning of Iwar Niudii l unrnlntf thf.m p. won't be allowed To gat JIAVDA. (Russian newapaper and a such a mouthpiece of jovlct government) loose a hlhr blast nt TURKEY today, tilling her nt going on playing pit the Germans under cover the recent diplomatic . break lUi Berlin. i ; Ruiilan armies ore moving l7i tho Black Sen const. It's tmrcgone conclusion that Bui ill will bo bluffed. From tho ujirian border to tho Darda !" ii only a short hOD in fx day. inncy Turkey, wearing her Wnt neutrality clothe. sit- (i at the pence table. , As ngi stand now. she won't have to toss Into the pot. AHGE witlidrnwnl of German troop from GREECE aro re- too today. Thnt, If true, Is mi admission thnt tho Jig 1 m me nuixnns. , P in mountainous Slovakia, the Czech undoruround Jiei oul into tho open, taking vwn oy nssnuit and fighting c Germans fiercely In many 'aCC8. A PollaK ofmu In totte. u, . .rcm territory) la drilling "vely. Its number Is snid to 1'uwinn toward the hnlf m l. fi; mark. 'HE Polos, Incidentally, ' arc lufxi A""ve '"Ken over meir fcwr-run by the Russians, Em n Sl'nllar reports como liK it 00 "eeping nana fJ affairs. ru" l"clr w" wiar in n.t- j it- ...in. t ootu . l"e coumrics moir . .- -. wtn imp Bna occeni, Ctu 8!,wo judge by tho rwru of competont observers. '""I-word and In deeds., Wi.pt a sudden, reports that ryiV mny FLEE t0 8"ctu m out KMCulral country blos nd Si lhc news- Argentina aliv n ar?. mentioned specif- '"aC.8lBnltlcant1y, Moscow MnKiV 5J1. 5PECB' to the 3d wi,iJ?usT Franco and will .nJDin among the dem iona"? d fr;cdom-Tovlng na- lTtlPrnn?sc?w broadcast' adds lt6sr.A9JSTS who are try. '"STICE THE PE0PLE s ."'"wouldfollow o l9iBMiln set y the kalsor m hh?n5 as doom :closes In KlatlnS 811 sides , tho rCSantly!60 mUSt 8naw 'at rnfl d(iea? JH.ih'0' potato 'or 'any' PRICE 5 CENTS ffg The ShaHia-Canendp Wonderland Weathei twiiiii nunn u ru uu r news h v n r. u.uiniiniiiiiiMi - i m m m m bt T T August 30, 1944 Maximum (Aug. 28) ... 93 Minimum .... 81 Precipitation fast 24 hour '. .00 Stream year to data 10.62 Normal 12.40 Lait year 17.88 rorecait: Clear. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1944 Number 10250 Ploesti Oil Fields Won By Reds; Troops Push Near Bucharest LONDON, Aug. 30 (AP) Rod army troop In tho mor Important victory of their Ro manian campaign capturod tho groat oil contor of Ploeiti tonight, completing the teizure of Romania' oil region from tho Germans. Soviet force alto pretied within 17 mile of tho Romanian capital of Bucharctt. Gen, Rodio Y. Malinoviky' locond Ukranlan army drove almott 30 mile in 24 hour and captured tho town only 30 miloi north of Bucharoit. Ploeiti and it foroit of woll formorly luppliod the Gorman war machine with one-third of It oil. Permlcr-Marihol Stalin in a broadcast ordor of the day oisorted that "by occupation of Buiau and Ploeiti tho liboration of all tho Romanian oil rogion from the German invad er I complotod." Ho ordorod a aaluto of 20 lalvoe from 224 gun.. Evon a thi loviot plunge carriod cloie to tho southern border of Romania, tho Berlin radio reported a rcnewod Ruxian offoniive north of Warsaw, and (aid it had broached the German lino at a numbor of point. Thi Warsaw puih threaten not only to outflank the Polish capital, but monaccs the dofeniet of Eatt Prussia a well. - Tho advance on Ploesti began yesterday from Buznu, 42 miles to the northeast, where tho big pipeline from the Ploesti fields to Constanta was cut, , Allied supreme headquarters had estimated capture of Floes ti's oil refineries would mean an Immediate loss to the Germans of 2,000,000 tons of annual pro ducing capacity. By ASAHEL BUSH GENtHAI, HEADQUARTERS. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Aug. 30 (Pi A 188-ton bombing of Am bolna Island the heaviest yet on any target in tho Moluccas was reported today ns Gen. DoukIiis MacArthur's bombers pressed his methodical campniitn to carve a road back to tho Philippines with explosives. In addition, a fresh raid on Iwo Jlmn In the Volcano islnnds only 750 miles south of Tokyo was announced by Adin. Chester W. Nlmltz at Pcnrl Harbor. Town Blaiet Fighter-escorted Liberators In a Sunday smash left the town ship of Anlbon and the harbor on Ambolnn's southern shore n "mas of flames, with smoke rls Ingr 10,000 feet," MacArthur's communique relotcd. Lightning fighter raked the nenrby Hnlong scaplnno base and left a 3000-ton freighter ablaze. Nona Lost "No interception was encoun tered; not a plane was last. Elsowhcrc In the Moluccas chain, Just west of New Guinea, American bombers hit oil instal lations on Ccram islnnd nnd Kaoe village on sprawling Hnl mahera. The same dny. Liberators cas caded 48 tons of bombs on Palau. at the western end of the Caro lines. Davao in the southern Philippines wns visited again by night air patrols. U. S. Greatest Power, Forrestal Navy Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 Navy Secretary Forrestal report ed today that tho United States, "the grcntcst nnval power on earth, has built 65.000 vessels of all types In the last five years. Ho said the giant armada of new craft represents- 9,000,000 tons of naval shipping. Of the total tonnage, approximately 30 per cent Is mado up of warships, 22 per cent of landing craft and tho remainder of auxiliaries and naval vessels of other types. Yanks Blast at Robot Menace LONDON, Aug. 30 (fP) American heavy bombers, anti aircraft fire and fighter pilots all were directed today against Gorman robot bombs which kept hurtling the channel to ward , London and southern England. One pilot shot down three before dusk. Ground fire brought down many .more. The heavy bombers attacked launch ing platforms in northern Franco. ., , New waves of German flying bombs hurtled against London and southern England during the night,, most of them appar ently coming from tho region west of Bologno upon which allied armies now are rapidly advancing,. . , Island Gives Up . To Cruiser WASHTNOTON. AllC. '30 UP) Surrender of tho Island of Por quorolles to the United States cruiser Omaha In connection with tho Invasion of southern Franco was reported uy wavy Secretary Forrestal today. He said the Island off the coast of southern France was "stubbornly defended" but that the enemy gar, rison- ran up the white flag and surrendered 'fol lowing ' several days of bom bardment by naval forces. MOSCOW, Aug. 30 IP) The beaten Germans fled today from their last strongholds on the Black sea os Russia, with troops, within 29 miies ol Bulgaria, ap pealed to the Bulgar for ' sup port in fjulck liberation of the Balkans. The nazl rout In . Wallachla province was so disorderly that road and rail bridges escaped demolition. Little sabotage was reported in the Ploesti oil fields. (The German communique said Russian attacks were check ed In tho Buzua area of Ro mania and that soviet troops' )fit vadlng Transylvanlat part of Hungary since 1940, - w-e r thrown back in counterattacks.) Czecho-SfovaJr Underground1 Now Fighting London;: Aug. 30 m The' Czccho -Slovak underground army came into the open today as a fighting unit. In its first communique, dollvered to Lon don by underground radio, it re ported tho capture of one town nnd fierce fighting against the. Germans in t'iree areas. The communique issued by the Czccho-Slovak press bureau said: "The German high command has since August 29 !ecn occupy ing Slovakia. Czecho Slovak troops In Slovakia, together with guerrilla detachments, have of fered resistance to the Germans. "According to reports so far received, the town of Cadca, on the frontier between Slovakia and Moravia, has been taken by assault. . . : "Heavy fighting has been re ported from tie regions of Zillna. Povazska, Bystrica and Trencln." Negotiated Peace Desired by Nazis ; . WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (P) Secretary of State Hull said to day that Germany ndW'tt evi rlAntlv ripnirnus nf n negotiated peace, but thnt the allied posi tion for unconditional surrender is too well Known lo require re iteration. . .... ; Hull also declared that the American government has con: stnntiy in mmu uiwi. - lcr and some of his henchmen may try to escape from Germany ir. noniml countries. The gov ernment, he said, is working on that problem. - - , Hears News in Paris Bv DANIEL d LUCE MOSCOW. Aue. 30 iff) The semi-official newspaper Pravda today accused Turkey of harbor ing German spies and turning her diplomatic break with the nazis into a "friendly rupture." With Russian troops closer to the Dardanelles than on any oc casion since the first World war, Pravda asserted German diplo matic, military, aviation and commercial attaches still were In Ankara 20 days after their scheduled departure. The article carried the date line of Batum. nearest Russian Black- Sea port .to. Turkey pnd waa spread over two columns' on Prnvdn's foreign news page. Its SllglllllCHlllu - tuuiu.' naiui overemphasized.. ' ". (At the same time the FCC re- norted a Moscow, broadcast ap pealing to Spaniards to oust the Francisco franco regime, and break with Germany ."to, gain a place for Spam among the demo cratic . and freed om-loving na tions." It said Franco was a ','wllling host for all fascists who are trying to escape the people's Justice.") The article charged that nazl I .1 n.naniollv HKaiTOb m ttiii:a, . co,bvigiv against the soviet union, actual ly had Increased since Turkey broke relations with the reich; that German diplomats still held (Continued on Page Six) Bus Wrecked Near Grass Lake A northbound Greyhound bu left the Weed highway and partially overturned near Grass lake, south of here, about 12:30 p. m.. Injuring a number of the 40 passenger aboard, it was reported thi afternoon from Dorri. Thara were no fatalitie. - The driver apparently lost control of the bu on an in cline north of Grass lake. It went about 20 feet down an embankment and turned par tially on its side. . Some of the injured person were taken to Lumbermen' hospital at Dorris. Ambu lances including the women ambulance corps equipment, left here ior the scene of the wreck. 77 Jap Vessels Sunk by Subs WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 VP) Destruction of 17 JaDanese ves sels, including two warships, by American submarines operating in enemy waters, was reported by the navy today. "Ike" X AMI M n; ' Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower (right center), AEF supreme com mander, shows pleasure and surprise as he hears war news in Paris touring the liberated French capital. Others in the picture are not identified. .(AP wirephoto from signal corps radiophoto).. Stiff Allied Armistice Expected for Bulgarians Allies die NAZIS TOWARD GOTHIC LINE Poles, British Begin Offensive After Quiet, Period By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 30 VP) An arrnisjfice,. proposal .pouched, ip "talc lt: or leave it" terms prob ably .wilLbC-Jianded to Bulgar ian emissaries within the next few day, and - under, present plan probably will be signed Having Babies Strenuous for Papa Policeman Father is back at ' work i again today. Yesterday morning, Police Sergeant Leigh Ackerman answered an . early morning call from Policeman Leslie Liebman. "1 won't be able to come to work today," Leibman said excitedly, "I've Just had a baby!" Kind-hearted Ac; kerman obligingly told the proud father' that he could have the day off. Today Liebman had re turned to his job, fully- re covered. Mother and baby are doing well. Klamath Not Only Town Hit By Smoke Lack, Say Dealers It's not only local people who aro moaning about the cigarette shortage, ns the lack of tobacco seems to be nationwide; accord ing to distributors here. Local smi'ters have noticed especially during the Inst few weeks the acute . shortage, of smokes In tho stores, but ship ments have been arriving every week from most of the major cig arette companies. Reasons for the lack stem from several different elements. Much of the raw tobacco has been ship ped abroad In lond-lease , ship ments, dealers report. However, the major reason seems to be that everyone is smoking a lot more than they did before the war. Much of the to bncco su.ly is going to soldiers overseas-, who, because of the nervous . tension, smoke; more than ever before. Many of these men were in industries Deiore the war which prohibited smok ing because of the fire hazard in industrial plants, but the hazard doesn't pertain to life on the bat tlefields. Ration Numbers -: Cigarette manufacturers are bein forced to ration them selves now in tho number of cig arettes they mako because their warehouse supplies are growing fllarminelv low. Before the war, tobaccos were aged in the ware house about four and a half years before they were macte into cig arettes. However, there is al the rjresent time only about a two-year supply ahead, und man nfnctiirprs must ration the avail able tobacco so that stocks will nnt Vio .ntlrplv Henleted. Each community In the United States is given a certain percent- (Continued on Page Six) Dewey May Talk In Klamath Falls Republican Presidential Nom inee Thomas uewev may mane a speech in Klamath Falls Sept ember !.- Dewey will be in Portland on the previous day, and will talk at the municipal auditorium there, according to Raipn Cake, republican national com mitteeman for Oregon. . . If he remains in Portland ovet nlght, he will probably make speeches from the rear platform of his train at Eugene and Klam ath Falls the next day. Port- landers today were not conclus ively informed as to Dewey's itinerary, and could not be sure about the Klamnth nppearance. In 1B40. Wendell Wtllkie. re publican nominee, made a rear platform appearance here. In 1932. Franklin Roosevelt, then a candidate, asJ now, went through here on a train in the early morning, but failed to get up to greet admiring Klamath democrats gathered at the sta tion. Korcul a Raided By Allied Troops ' ROME, Aug. 30 (P) Allied ln fnntrv. nrtlllerv. air and naval iorces carried out a successful raid agninst enemy iorces on tne Dalmatian island of Korcula Sat urday night, it was announcea Innitfht. r Korcula Is off the central Yugoslav coast in an area. where Marshal Tito's peasant army has been active. ' Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE ' B. It. K. New York .- ... 1 Boston 4 ; 7 0 Pyle. AdainB (B) and Lombard!; Tobln and Mail. Loalni Ditcher Pyle. in Cairo, a dispatch from that capital said today. ' i The identities of jh,e Bulgar ian ' delegates, who : probably number four, have not been disclosed.- It max be. some,. days Tjefore the document is sighed, but the best available- informa tion in Cairo indicated, any sug gestion of "negotiations" has been avoided carefully. 1 - Government Installed 1 ! A new government was In stalled in Hungary in an appar ent German attempt to shore up the reich's last Balkan de fenses. ... I : I , Berlin broadcasts . last . night announced the fall of Premier Doeme Sztojay's regime less than 24 hours after Russian forces had speared deeply with in Hungarian-held Transylvania. ' The German propaganda agency, Transocean, said Ad miral Nicholas Horthy, Hungar ian regent, had appointed Col. Len. vitez Geza Lakatos to form . a new , government. La. kotos' cabinet, announced sim- (Coritinued on Page Six) Art. Gift Store : Sold by Hooks Sale of the Art and Gift Shop to Mr. and Mrs. T. Kierulff of Portland was. announced Wed nesday by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hooks;, who established the store eight years ago and have operated it ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Kierulff former ly were in business in Portland and it is expected they will ex pand the Art and Gift Shop, of which they assumed possession Tuesday nignt. Mr. and Mrs. Hooks have liv ed in Klamath Falls -for 20 years and intend to retain their home and residence here. Their plans are indefinite at present. By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, Aug. 30 (P) Smashing through veteran German- para chute troops in the first full blown attack on . the Italian front in recent weeks, ' British and Polish forces are driving the enemy off his last hill positions before the Adriatic end of the Gothic line and are within 18 miles of the Po Valley rim. Heavy fighting was reported as the eighth army disclosed the crack nazi first parachute- divi' sion reformed since its defeat at Cassino from a three-mile long ridge overlooking the Foglia river, after crossing the Arziila river.- Outflanking Menace - The Foglia flows into the Adri atic at the heavily fortified town of Pesaro, which would be threat ened with being out-flanked if the advance further inland were continued. On the coast, . British forces operating with the Poles ad vanced more than two miles be yond Fano. Capture of the ridge overlook ing the Foga river put eighth army, elements in Monte Cigcar- ao, eigni miles southwest of Pesaro. Further to the south west other units reached Colbor- dolo. 18. miles southeast of Rim- mi, ana were on neignis witnin 1000 yards of Foelia--.. ;.. ..--, . Urbino, 19 miles southwest of pesaro, leu to another column driving toward the Gothic 'line mrougn tne mountains., head- quarters announced. . 1 ne naval command, mean (Continued On Page Six) ; . WRA Exceeds Authority, Says Rep.Engle WASHINGTON. Aim. 30 (JP) The war relocation authority, Rep. Engle (D-Calif.) asserted to day, is exceeding its authority in what he said was "propagandiz ing Pacific coast newspapers to pave the way for the return of Japanese to that section. . fcngle told a reporter he is ask ing the classifications- division of the postoffice department to determine whether the agency is abusing its mailing privileges. He said WRA is collecting and mailing to newspapers all the fa vorable publicty it can find re garding Japanese in this country. "This, he declared, "is an illeeal use of authority and an improper use ot tne government trans. No Shotgun Shells Here Yet No shotgun shells have been received as yet by local dealers by the lifting of the WPB ban and some little time may elapse before a stock arrives. Hunters were ' advised that immediate calls at stores for shells would probably be un productive of results. SPEAR INTO HEIMSJ.AON Third Army Strikes . On 70-Mile . V; . Front By The Associated Press LONDON. Aug. 30 Two American armored columns were less than 40 miles from Belgium today. One clattered into Reims, siege fortress of World War one and pushed 10 miles beyond. ' A second unit to the northwest battled on the approaches to Laon. within 38 miles of tha frontier, carrying doughboys wen across tne escape path for German armies above the Seine and on the Pas de Calais rocket- bomb coast. . - - . 70-Mile Front . i The U. S. third army struck ahead all along a 70-mile front; ano tne aines on tne western wing knifed as deep as 25 miles north of the Seine between Paris and the sea. . . . . i The German hieh command said the Seine port-city of Rouen had been evacuated. Reims, noted for its cathedral end its champagne, is 50 miles from Belgium, and 107 from the German homeland border. Tank units crossing the Vesle river al ready had covered 10 of the re maining miles to Belgium. Americans besieging Laon were out 93 miles Irom Brussels, Bel gian capital. Lunge, southeast - . Lt.-Gen. George S. Patton'a third army was lunging on an al most straight line from Laon i southeast to Vitry-le-Francois on ' tne- upper Marne and was mop- ' ping up that town 96 miles from. , the reich and 45 from Verdun, i Chalons-sur-Marne to the north- ' west, and Les Grandes Lpges ', eight miles northwest of Chalons, . ieu. . . , . Loss of Rouen, whose converg- 1 ing highways lead to Dieppe, Le Havre, and the Somme valley, i was announced by Berlin as Can- :- Continued, On' Page-Six) y, Tqllis Deal OhJyJ With Peace, Says CordellHull . WASHINGTON, Aug. -30 - VP) Secretary of State Hull said ; today the Dumbarton Oaks se curity i talks are concerned exclusively- with, the problem of , designing a world organization to keep the peace. ,: . The extent to- which- that Or- ' ganization eventually may take jurisdiction over such questions as food and finances, Hull told a . news conference, is not a concern of the present meeting. Looking to the future, Presi dent Roosevelt told reporters) yesterday he envisioned a world security organization which could take up all kinds of problems like food and fi nances. .-, .- Correspondents ! Suspended SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 30 VP) Six cor respondents accredited to su preme headquarters have been suspended In Paris and ordered to return to London for investi gation of charges that they evad ed - censorship in filing dis patches, it was announced today. Names of the correspondents involved will not' be announced until the investigation ends. A high ranking officer at supreme headquarters said 'hone of the Associated Press staff which en tered Paris was involved. Germans Flee French Soil le HAVREtfll3S 'Vis P & tMAvloBM ivihmmiI nftltimni. malrlnn almiMi mm I advances beyond the black lines shown on the mac have moved through Reim and into Laon, while Canadian clo in on Rouen, pa tha Atlantic coast,. the port' of Le Havre ha been outflanktd. ' . '.. , i ' V- '. i). -
