PACE EICHT
HERALD, AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
Allies Come from Behind to Gain as War Enters Sixth Year
iKlii
llSf
red us
DESERT- RUSSIA
FOR AMERICA
SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (.P) Two
if seven Russians, "all facing
ieath penalties for escaping sov
iet shins: all fearful of being
shanghaied since their release
by Seattle immigration out
cials." were quoted by the Post
Intelligencer today as saying
even their ship "if it had legs,
would surrender to immigration
(immigration service).
"We did not desert our ship;
we deserted Russia.
"All of us would like to come
to America," the men were
- quoted.
The two men, whom the
naoer said Were located in a
laree house of refuge, were
identified as Alexander Niki
tin. 21. and George Sereda, 24
They consented to an interview
through an interpreter upon as
surance that their whereabouts
would oe Kepi a sinct Mjtiei.
Immigration officials, the
paper said, recently refused a
demand by Russian Consul Gen
eral Andrei E. Vassiliev that
Nikitin and Sereda and two
other Russian ship deserters ,be
turned over to him. Raphael
Bonham, Seattle immigration
director, denied the Russian of
ficial had made a demand for
their return and said "their
cases are still being processed."
Bonham added "we are try
ing hard to keep information
from those who might harm
them. We understand they have
been threatened, and, of course,
they are in danger of being
shanghaied."
(In San Francisco, Russian
Consul General Jakob Lomakin,
who has charge of the Pacific
northwest area, was said to be
out of the country and his staff
had no comment.)
The two men were quoted as
saying their political indoctrina
tion included the statement in
their instructions:
"America is helping Russia
now but only to save the skins
of ;her capitalists." .
giiirmi'pgiviiga ftaj ii.im-r.., y i ; v.;., wanna
1Q3Q 41 dolf Hitler touched o(t history's greatest war with his invasion of Poland on
1 J I sept. J.. 1939. After a winter lull in the west, while Russia fought Finland, tho
Nazis attacked Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France, and swiftly conquered all by
June, 1940. Italy jumped in on fallen France and began attacking the British In Africa. Tho
battle of Britain began in late 1940, an air blitz which ended in victory for- England because the
RAF beat off the Luftwaffe. Pompous Mussoiini invaded Greece in October, 1940, and promptly
got pushed back on his heels by the "army in skirts." The Balkans jumped on the Axis band
wagon. Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece in April of 1941, and began pushing the British
out of Libya, when the U. S. broke relations with the Axis. Germany surprised the world on
June 22 by invading Russia, to begin the ill-starred campaign which was to cost millions of Ger
man and Russian soldiers' lives. As the Nazis advanced on Leningrad and Moscow, U. S. bases
were established in Iceland and Greenland, and Roosevelt and Churchill held their first historic
war conference, to-sign the Atlantic Charter.
1941-43' JnBnn's at,nck on Peml Harbor on historic Dec. 7, 1041, turned the war' from
, " " n European struggle to n global conflict, ai the U. S. went to war asalnnt
Japan. Germany and Italy. Guam, Wake, Hong Kong. Singapore mid tho Philippine Ml to the
..., ,.,,,. Duii.iv, innw, new m 'mini, mo omomonn, umi, Kiinsoon mid Java. General
JMacAilhur took command of U. S. forces In tho South Pacific, mid General Elsenhower headed
the U. S. European Theater of Operations, as American fighting men weio xent lo all narta of tha
world to i Australia and New Gulneo, to the Jap-Invaded Aleutian., and Knglnml. By the mm.
mer of 1942 the U. S. was winning battle, like the naval-air cla.he. in the Coral Sen and nt
Midway, and in August. Yanks and Australian troops landed In the Solomon, and began pT.hli.if
the Jans bark. The war unnt cht vi..in hnolr In ...III. il i - 1. .. ". 1 , ""'
November. 1942. While huid-oiesieil Soviet tmnn. Him i. i rf-....i i.-.i j L..V. " ... .... "'.
iKn5vtlilr,,,, w"" Brl"""'' Mo",Bome,y M ,lo;mc, oui '
mm
II INSTATES
SAN. DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 1
(ff) Wounded while fighting on
Guam, a group oi navy ana ma
rine men, the first evacuated
from that island, have arrived in
San Diego for treatment at the
naval hospital. With them were
a foot nf thp first men back from
Tinian and a score of wounded
from SaiDan.
Most of the veterans were
members of the third marine
division who have been overseas
for -18 months and who fought
at Bougainville before being
wounded on Guam.
All were agreed that the battle
for Guam was the toughest and
best planned they participated in
during their tour oi amy.
"Bougainville was a picnic
compared- to Guam," Said PFC.
V. C. Dolan, 27, of Spokane.- He
said the Japanese had caves dug
as big as subways with all types
nf . side tunnels. "We had to
- eliminate -them with hand gre
nades, machine guns and dyna
mite." Dolan added.
The emotions of the men on
reaching the United States were
tvpified by Corp. Sidney D. Mc
Neill. 21. La Grande. Ore., who
said: "I've been so excited about
getting home that I haven't
hardly slept for several night."
Portland Youth .
Gets Silver Star
For Gallantry
WITH THE FIFTH AKMY,
Italy, Sept. 1 (fP) PFC Clifford
E. Fitzsimmons, Portland, Ore.,
youth who routed 12 Germans
singlehanded,. has received -the
Silver Star for gallantry in ac
tion in Italy.
A 12-man German patrol sight
ed Fitzsimmons when he was
separated from h i s company.
When an enemy rifleman was
only 10 yards away firing on
him, Fitzsimmons shot him.
The Portland youth then dem
onstrated incredible marksman
ship by picking off six more Ger
mans as they came over a ridge.
The rest fled, thinking they were
facing a strong position.
Fitzsimmons action enabled
his company to regroup and rout
ine enemy aitacK, me citation
sam.
- Combined Allied armies cleared the Axis from Tunisia bv Mav. IB43. nnrt tn.
a ' vaded Sicily two months later. Mussolini was ousted, and the RAF and USAAF
began an unprecedented aerial blitz over Germany apd Italy. Landing in Italy in September, the
combined British and U. S. armies started the muddy, bloody march up the peninsula, as new
offensives began to shape in the Pacific with Allied landings on the Treasury Islands, Choiseul.
and Bougainville. Stoic, stubborn Chinese fighters, re-fortified by Allied training and supplies,
wheeled and slowly began to regain the vast Jap-conquered territories in China and Burma. Ger
fn. efenses in southern Russia collapsed, as Soviet troops broke into the Crimea and began chas
ing the Nazi invaders back across the frozen Ukraine. Allied pace In the South Pacific quickened
as Yanks and Aussies landed on the Gilberts and New Britain.' '
Early 1044 saw record fleets of Allied plane, over Europe, o. Russian troop, drove Into Poland
and Romania In pursuit of disorderly fleeing Nazi.. Breaking the long Italian .Ultimate,. Alllod
troops took bitterly defended Casslno and rolled Into Rome on June 4. Two day. later the Ioiib
awaitcd Invasion came, as Allied troop, landed In Normandy, consolidated beachhead., and took
Lncrbourg. Desperately the Nozl. hurled robot plane bomb, against England, to be met with the
SamCim,'m dcrcns; whlch, to"" yr before defeated the air blitz of Britain. A. Japan'. Tojo fell
h.t V c cscPcd "MpMinatlon July 20. Amcrlcun troop, landed on Guam to retake the first Jap-
DarallY; t kJ1!'.'"' n,.CrA"ICd tank" brol! 0Ut on ,ho nl"'" of Frnnc In a .trlklng
Nnrmii th Nnz tank blitz of 1040. and tho gigantic Allied o(ten.lve begun It. march ecrow
fJormandy and Brittany, headed lor Paris and Berlin. '
Fifth Anniversary Finds
Allies Driving Toward
Junction in Fatherland
By JUDSON O'QUINN
LONDON, Sept. 1' UP) The
fifth anniversary of World War
Iwo today found British-Ameri
can and Russian armies driving
toward a junction in the heart
ot Germany only a little more
than 700 miles apart.
in less than three months of
concentrated blows from - the
east and west the allies have
inflicted an enormous casualty
toll on the nazi war machine
more than .1,500,000 killed, cap
tured or wounded, according to
the- best available figures.
The prospect of military dis
aster, plus, political catastrophe,
now mocks the ambitions of
Adolf Hitler, ' who five years
ago- sent his armored leeions
crashing into Poland and start
ed a globe-girdling world conflict.
-When 'Gen. Dwieht D. Eisen
hower's armies landed in Nor
mandy June 6 they -were 1400
miles from the Russian forces
before Mogilev. '
imow the Russians are at the
gates "of Warsaw, after ' cover
ing more than half the distance
to Berlin since' their offensive hand.'
began June 23. They are a
little more than 700 miles from
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
armor on the Meuse river near
the German border.
Signalizing the impending loss
of the Balkans to Hitler is the
red army's occupation of Bu
charest. -
Gen. Eisenhower's forces,
which have smashed German
resistance completely in north
eastern France, are estimated
officially to have inflicted 400,
000 casualties on the Germans
from June 6 to August 25.
Only the darkest gloom pre
vails inside Germany, in con
trast to the jubilation of Sep
tember ,1, 1939.,
On the eve of the fifth anni
versary of the war Col. Gen.
Heinz Gudcrian, chief of the
nazi general staff, .addressed a
group of boys digging defensive
irencnes: .
". '.'In these. hard times you. mv
boys, have been called upon to
work for your homeland, and
very -soon -.the call will go out to
you ..to. .light, for. it,, arms in
QUESTIONS SLATED
Banned by Army
AMG Man Finds
Difficulties in
Search for Mayor .
PORTLAND, Sept..l. P)
Capt. Jerrold Owen, former di
rector of. the state veterans bu
reau, wrote "friends here he
was haying trouble, lopating a
mayor for a Frericti town.
Owen, serving with AMG,
started to set up a city govern
ment, then discovered the may
or was a German, prisoner.
So -he chose another French
man-He was just ready to. take
the oath of office when a shell
crashed down, killing the poten
tial mayor and 20 pthers.
..' 800TH VESSEL
PORTLAND, Sept. 1 (VP)
The 800th vessel built in the
Portland area since the current
warship construction . started
will bo launched at Albina ship
yard tomorrow. There will be
five liunichings in this area
over the Labor.day weekend.
An elaborate "Official Guide to the Army Air Forces," pictured
,i,Vro . T iui iii, my lrom st exchanges every-
.fflfJT'?,8 P0litical Propaganda, calculated to affect,th8
pres dentlal election Army objects to portrait sketch of the Pres
ident, used as frontispiece, with caption, "Franklim-Delano Roose
velt, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy."
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 fP)
When you mail overseas Cnrist
raas packages during the next
month, the postofficc clerks ex
pect to ask you these questions:
1. Is there any written matter
or personal correspondence? If
so, the P. O. says you should
enclose an address slip duplicat
ing the "To and From" on the
outside of your package. You
are allowed to write simple dedi
catory .inscription on the fly-leaf
of a book, but no long note of
letter-like proportions.
2. Is there any fragile article
in the package? You must cush
ion any breakable object with
crushed newspapers or substi
tute. '3. Is there anything perish
able? Ydu cannot mail bonbons,
fresh fruit or crumbly cookies
4. Anything inflammable or
liquid? Matches cannnt ho mnlt.
ed,- nor anything else 1 infl.-im.
mame, me r. u. warns. Nut
over two ounces of linnlrl ran hr i
shipped and that must be in a
completely aDsorbent wrapping. 1
The P. O. begs you to tell the i
truth about what's in the narfc. :
age, if you expect your service !
man or woman In rern v vm...
gift.
Thomas Requests
Welcome to Coast
For Jap-Americans
SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (,V)Nor
man Thomas, socialist presiden
tial candidate, last night told
an estimated 1000 listeners that
Japanese-Americans should be
welcomed back to the Pacific
coast after the war.
"You cannot Indulge In racial
prejudice and hope very hon
estly for lusting peace," he said.
"And that applies to Japanese
Americans on the west coast. 1
hope you arc prepared to wel
come homo your fellow Ameri
cans who never should have
been banished from their
homes." He described tho re
moval 'ns "toMlitarlanlsm." Ho
also warned the allied peoples
must distinguish between- "war
rncmlc. and the people" In
treating wild Germans.
"Will I uo elected president?"
he echoed a question. "Well,
probably not. But there's no
low against It."
Designers of aircraft and flight
equipment for the Army Air
Forces are aided In their work by
plastic, life-size manikin mod-'
clcd to match the average speci
fication, of AAK men.
Bv JriRf t...
ly.'i) iji., ' .Au
riving In ti.i,.",,'"n It I
today fiHHuilff'nlina
" Hill 01 UlL CltV
. 1 "loud Willi V'
Plucky Y.i.,1.' L'.Ptf
"vli't iniHurin?.! "J1. Mid
"".""nil uT.liL i
"b"l 22 Urltoni 1 W M
Weill i cm... a..., ml-lh
month, Mll' M
Their trcnlinent hiiw
from novere. lh, .?."
""Hi prlwn. were
within a Mmi.?. 2 i1""" J
.The filer. Wfre mm J
eiateo over the aerm,7J
r or ihn .
I.OMlta whi
to Aug.,. 24
On that i,y they mo
nun German
moved In. Only i J
"mij
over, anarcnt v iinni .1
building and 'plastered ?1
LED SUICIDE f
MISSOULA. MonLSmi
Biillvl-licndcd Lt, Urmiil J
comiiiaiider ol Jopatitx
on oaipan luiuey MkedtoJ
to take "seven live to nl
country." then died kid
suicido charge, It wu iuci
nero louiiy.
Marino C'pl. Joseph A.t
Jr., In n letter lo hi! wilt. cJ
a marliio translation ol id
final message before tlx
nants of ni tcreamuii a
wero wijicu out oy
Americans,
"for moro than 20 dim
the American devils i!
the officers and men ol ai
dpi in I army and nin
fought well and bravtlj,
UHtiiiKC, taken fromadtil
liitelligvncc oil Ice r said.
-t
BO
dan J
"Everywhere they birth
on.itrutvd honor and glory.
ven has nut iilvcn us inn
tunltv. We hovo not bmi
lo utilize the terrain fully.Jf
We have no materials wilhtal
to fight. ... Our arlllltrj
been destroyed. Our bcsj
hnvo fallen one after anelhsl
the barbarous attack ol tbl
cmy I. conUnuing. I
"Wlmllier we attack ornl
or wo tilny here, Ihen b
death. Despite the bllM
defeat, wo pledge 'tcveoW
l ujiiiy uiii I.UIUIH, ,
. ! will nHvnnrn wlUl
wim ri.mnlii to deliver 10
blow to the American
and lenvn mv boilCI OH Stl
at a bulwark of the PKiM
I i I? ImI ffj
bt im m -JLm m m m
II I J I I I I II
1
Bricker to Speak
To Oregonians
October 12
PORTLAND, Sept. X'(IT)
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio
will speak in Oregon October
12 cither in Eugene or Portland,
Ralph H. Cake, republican na
tional committeeman, said to
day. -
Cake, who left today to at
tend a republican executive com
mittee mooting in Chicago, said
ho would prefer that the repub
lican vice presidential candidate
appear jn an upstate city, and
proposed Eugene.
.Portland, however remained
me mosv probable site. The re
publican state committee has re
served me auditorium here lor
me mgnt of Bricker's visit.
Densbn Commands'
Portland POE
A
PORTLAND. Orn Son) 1 tro
The Portland port of embarka
tion today became nart nf tho
command of Brig. Gen. Eley P.
Denson, commanding general of
the Seattle port of embarkation.
The port was nrnvlnualv un
der the San Francisco port of em
barkation. Cnl. Rnhnrt. T. All,
Jr., will remain in charge hero.
n n o
lfl 111! III! I
Come Out to the Picnic at
MOORE PARK
Sunday, September 3, 1 944 " 12 to 5 P. M. ;
Bring Your Lunch - Coffee, Ice Cream and Drinks Available.
' Hear Your Former Mayor
WILLIS E. MAHONEY
Candidate for U. S. Senator
, Give his views on what can be done for
KLAMATH COUNTY
Learn from your State and Local Candidates What they plan to do for you
. See the big Fall Style Show
first showing of this Fall's Clothes by
THE TOWN SHOP
See the Eagles' Women's Drum Corps Drill
Bring the Children - There will be games for all Ages
COME TO ENJOY YOURSELF AND LEND SUPPORT TO
OUR VICTORIOUS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
.' "" - . . Democratic Central Committee .
. ' '" ' of Klamath County .
t -,'': ' , E. P. IVOHY, Chairman