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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1944)
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACE TWO 6009 PLANES CRACK GH BATTLE LINES . . (Continued from Page One) four airdromes In occupied franco and Belgium during the day. ( Four bombers and 13 fighters were lost in bombing the freight yards at Mulhouse, Belfort, Sar- regucmines, mcq, mionviiie, Charlerio and Blainville in France, and Brussels and Liege in Belgium, and airfields near Nancy and Britigny in France, and' Antwerp and Brussels in Belgium, a U. S. communique announced. These forces shot down nine enemy planes. Naral Ban Hit Simultaneously, heavy bomb ers from Italy struck in south France at the naval base of Tou lon, graveyard of the scuttled French fleet, and at Lyon on the Rhone river a historic invasion path. Rail installations at both cities were targets. Processions miles long of up to 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators shepherded by at least 500 fighters, encountered suddenly increased resistance from the invasion-threatened ground, as they smote ruthless ly at enemy military targets close to this great invasion base. No Opposition The enemy did not care to risk his dwindling air force, but augmented the regular flak bar rage with curtains of rocket fire, destroying several of the great four-engined craft in green and black explosions. British night bombers attack ed the choked rail yards of Aachen in western Germany last night in two waves, spaced two hours apart They spotted an other sign of nazi invasion pre parations blazing strings of searchlights all along the coast. The strike of the Mediterran ean allied forces from the south was the second time in two days that Hitler's roofless fortress had been under attack from two di rections. . , , Coyer Yards Liberators covered the Car noules yards, 15 miles northeast of Toulon, with bombs. Fort resses joined other Liberators in attacks on the Lyon area, re sults of which were not imme diately : reported. More Liber ators poured fragmentation bombs on a north , Italian air drome at Fiacemza, 40 miles southeast of .Milan. - Still anoth er formation of Liberators blast ed Monfalcone harbor, 15 miles northeast of - Trieste on the Ital ian Adriatic coast, with high ex plosives, V -. Oil installations on the main land at Porto Margherita near Venice also were attacked. . Mustangs and Liehtnines cov ered the' heavy bombers in their farflung operations from the south. Mediterranean allied air force headquarters- announced that 330J) .sorties were flown yes terday rather than the 2950 rec ord previously-announced. - T INTO LOO STRIKES (Continued from Page One) 30 cities and towns in Oregon ana wasningion. 15 Plants Down The largest addition to the walkouts was in Spokane where 15- plants went down when roughly 1500 workers left their jobs cutting off production of ammunition, powder and ration boxes. More than 100 employed at the Port Gamble mill joined the list late last night closing that operation. Previously the Western Cooperage company Darrei ana tuo plant in Seattle was closed, ending all wood milling operations here. Grays Harbor closed uptight when the last of the mills there, the West Star Lumber company, snui aown. Oreqon Idleness In Oregon the idleness spread through the Columbia and Wil lamette River valleys as mills at -Lebanon, St. Helens, Astoria, Warrenton, Wauna. WestDort and Tillamook closed and log ging operations were curtailed around sweet Home and Cal apooia. At Eugene, W. L. Kelsey, president or tne Art, local, pre dieted workers in that area would join the exodus. The workers were urged to return to their jobs by the In ternational executive board and the international negotiating committee of the CIO-IWA, al though in a formal statement the groups protested the WJLB decision against granting an in crease in wages which precipi tated the walkouts. Within Folmula J. B. Fitzgerald, secretary- manager of the Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee, Inc., disputed ... assertions that , wages in the industry have been out of line with other war in dustries and that ' the increases asked were within the little steel formula. . -'Testimony before the west coast lumber commission and the national war labor board demonstrated that the average wage paid in the logging and lumber industry of western Washington and western Ore gon sawmill and logging camps combinediwr-eased .from 82 cents January 1, 1941, to 119.9 cents in May, 1943, or 48 per Lukemia Victim - j ''''' " ' j - TW "J Hi - itihA Tclcphoto After a rush trip oy plane irom Lon don to New York to Los Angeles, Navy Sea bee Chief Electrician's Mate Jake Oalllou tleio, lymphatic luke mia suflerer, whom Navy physicians give little hope .ol llvUg more than a lew weeks, has reunion wiut Mrs. OaUion, who comforts him beiore be was placed In ambulance and driven home. low ENDS IN DEATH: (Continued from Page One) Interpret the development as a general strike but rather as a protest against assignments that require Japanese truck drivers to pass through the gates wnere sentries are stationed. , It was noted that all truck drivers who bad refused to take ou their trucks would have been required to go through the gates. The incident in which'1 Oko moto, a truck driver, was shot, occurred at a gate. . There was no demonstration of any kind up to mid-morning. Evacuees gathered in small knots about the evacuee area to discuss the death of Okomoto. Best's Statement Ray Best, project director, made a statement to evacuees at noon today as follows: "I regret very much that one of the evacuees was shot by mili tary' police yesterday . afternoon and died at the center hospital this morning. Everything was done by the medical staff at the hospital to save his life and a great many were ready to give blood. An investigation has been ordered by the military. "The WRA is in no way re sponsible for this incident and we want all to know that we regret it very much. No furth er statement can be made at this time." Jap Unarmed In Washington, Interior Sec retary Ickes said today that so far as he has been able to learn, Okomoto was unarmed and made no threatening gesture before being shot. Ickes told his press confer ence he understood the army has ordered a court martial and "we are leaving it to the court martial in full confidence that the army will get the facts and take whatever action is neces sary. No Riot The war relocation authority which operates Tulelake, recent ly was made a part of the In terior department. Ickes said there was no riot, no threatening after the inci dent, and the affair was "one of those things to be highly regret- lea." Okomoto, a native of Garden Grove, Calif., received four blood transfusions before - his death, with blood donated by jacK UKomoto. An operation was performed by Dr. Hashiba, well-known Japanese surgeon. formerly of Fresno. Present as observers were Dr. Jack Sleath, project physician, and CaDtain Edwards, military medical offi cer. Nearly 50 men stood reaay during the night to give blood transfusions to Okomoto, WRA officials said. At the request of Lt.-Col. Verne Austin, the project direc tor has appointed Harry L. Black, one of his assistant di rectors, to serve as a member of the board of investigation in to the fatal shooting of a resi dent of the center by a military sentry. :- Other members of the board are all army officers. The board will go into session at 3 o'clock today to review evi dence and hear testimony in the case. .-- i jury cent,"' his statement said. '"The little steel formula allowed 15 per cent in the same period." -If -It's a -"frozen" -article you need, advertise for a used one In the classified. GATEARGUMENT PRDBE ORDERED ALLIES UNITE BIG PUSH TOWARD ROME (Continued from Page One) the coastal highway between Terracina and Anzio. Break DaUnt "Troops of the bridgehead have broken through the pow erful defenses built by the ene my to prevent tne orldgeneaa force participating in our ad vance from the main front," headauarters said. "The battle proceeds and It should not be long before the two fronts are firmly establish ed as one when tne llttn army will then develop even greater strength," an omciai spokes man said. Cisterna Flanked Already the beachhead 20 miles below Rome was break ing out to the east with Cis terna flanked deeply on both sides and attacked at the out skirts in a frontal assault. (The German communique hinted at a new threat above the beachhead, declaring allied troops had landed behind the German lines on the western wing of the beachhead but had been annihilated. There was no allied confirmation. Withdrawal Told (Earlier, the Germans had. an nounced withdrawal from the entire coastal strip between the beachhead and Terraolna. The communique said the allies were emolovlna "enormous" tank formations in a seriea of crushing attacks). German troops who fought to hold Terracina, 2Z miles be the beachhead, were report ed fleeing northward through Priverno in the direction of Valmontome. They sought to escape encirclement and annihi lation as the main front rolled forward, threatening to pin them against the eastern edges of the Pontine marshes. 'Troops of the main front, overwhelming powerful enemy resistance, have fought their way forward relentlessly since the night of May 11 over some of the most difficult terrain of the whole Italian campaign," said the special communique. An official spokesman added that the beachhead, established bv surDrise landings January 22, had played an important role in the current offensive. as its threat to the German rear had tjrevented the Germans from massing full strength against the drive forward .through Cassino and Formia. -Mum On Appian While the first land contact with the beachhead was estab lished since last January, the communique made no mention of the condition of the Appian way across the Pontine marshes, The speedy contact estab lished oy patrols' across tne area, however, indicated the p r o b a b i lity communications were in reasonably good condi tion to provide an immediate supply route for the beachhead forces. - The contact was not made on the Appian way but on a sec ondary road hugging tne snore. EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) from 82 cents on January 1 1941 to 119.9 cents in May 1943." That is a 46 increase, where as the "little steel" formula per mits only 15 which doesn't sound like discrimination, ' THERE'S a lot of discrimination " between ALL, OF US ON THE HOME FRONT and our boys on the fighting fronts. But we don t near or our ooya walk ing off the job because of it. JOHNSTON AWARD NEW YORK, May 25 (P) The national and foreign trade coun cil announced today that Eric A.- Johnston, president of the chamber of commerce of the United States, will receive this year's Captain Robert Dollar me morial award for his "distin guished contribution to the ad vancement of American foreign trade." TREBLE SUIT PORTLAND, May 25 (If) The government today brought a treble damage suit against the Morrill & Sturgeon Lumber com pany, . Portland, asking $13, 976.76. The firm was charged with selling Douglas fir lumber to government agencies at above ceiling prices. PILOT KILLED MOSES LAKE, Wash., May 25 (If) Second Lt. Morton Hecker, fourth air force pilot on a combat training mission, was instantly killed when his P-39 fighter plane crashed eight miles southwest of Moses Lake at 8:25 last night, the air base public relations office reported this morning, PORTLAND. May 25 UP) Saul Friedman, who ran unsuc cessfully in the primary election for mayor, and Jack Weinberg, were bound over to the grand today on charges of grand larceny. They were accused of removing an automobile from Friedman's gasoline station to a storage place. Rotary Speaker Llse Lind- baek, Norwegian war corres pondent and free lance writer who is in Klamath Falls this week, will be the' guest speaker at Rotary club Friday at noon at the Willard. Paul O. Landry will be the chairman. 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