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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1944)
0 0e' '. : .,'!;.:,"'.""T s news - .mW JENKINS r .uurcmo headquarters In Knaloncl (SIIAEF) announces . .la "llm flrnt phase of tho ;j$aAS BEEN ACCOM- lSjSluo tho first phnno .us ' Sri K of foothold and dffcntlnK uf locul Gorman trvo." , , , , . , v. n SHAEF uclds that allied .mods nro now entering the J 'c, which to one of "JiinL the German "tactical JrW?' " concludes! "Tho ? l dIic, which muni bn won '"r l.- nnHltlcin to com- Eft secure, to that of defeat. the licrmuii tinwuiu -f'" L !'. -ii...,,,,t In nwikn thill Element a Uttlo clearer, lot LSiro tho troops tho Ocr l7hd on hand AT THE IDL "u". ii i,uln .turted. ll.t..l 1rnuf ' uhnrn Elblow would fall nd had to Home sort of protection to LlrSWJIUL.t' iiivoiuiii "., twlocnl force on hnnd at tho Ciwcrc doubtless rather weak. f-ftcUcal reserves" are the Cenynnn7EACKfr-mtho iii t point from which thoy a be HUSHED QUICKLY wherever Ihcy mlffhl b "ccd I In hurry. . , "StrntcKlc reserves nro ALL IB REST of tho Germun mil iry force not nctlvely engaged the moment on nny particular onl. These reserves nro hold r buck (perhaps Insldo Ger jny) to bo sent wherovor a lllcul threat by us develop! Kclally to wherever It appears Sour MAIN ATTACK may bo Whcn"we defeat Gcrmnny'a nttslc reserves, we'll havo the lr pretty well won. 'HE dispatches today-mako-lt pin In (as this Is written) that ie big German counterattack ain't yet begun. You may onder why. Keep this In mind: The Ger unj havo to bo suro It IS the nl thing before they throw In irge bodies of tholr not-loo-Untlful rcsorves nt - any par cular point. If they do that x ioon. nt the WRONG nlnce, re may hit SOMEWHERE ELSE tnd cntch them dangerously k. . That Is why Rommel Is holding K until ho knows WHERE to -''" ' nN this point, there's an oddly r Interesting note In- tho dis tiches today. j John Moro.io, an AP corros- tondent, cables : from London ihit in splto of nil the talk of lugcness the invasion attack In li Initial phases Is NO LARGER than the attack on Sicily. I If that is- truo. we're' still JIOIDING BACK . tho bulk of fur forces, to bo usod whorovor pt need (or want) them most, fhero's another interesting hint inmo dispatches of strong allied javal nctlvllv In thn np ulihor- Tood of the Ulfinrt ' nf Corsica. From Corsica, we, could strike Pi tho MEDITERRANEAN coast i franco.) The big Invasion battle hasn't w really begun. JN this invnslon, our first Job n to GET ASHORE, on the emv'fl rnnet fliii. nnvft Irtl-i la hong onto our toehold and Snd sufficient reinforcements fend supplies ON THE BEACH. Ipur third 1nb I tn ennturn n portbecause port facilities are r io gci in reinforcements P"d supplies In sufficient volume Kulckly enough. I It looks today as If wo mny bo glmlng first at tho port of Cher Ijourg. Wo'vo cut tho Cher-pjrg-Paris railroad at Bayeux PM seem to bo thrusting soutli- irom mere. It s a fair guess nil "XT PurPso i to PINCH ; f the Cherbourg peninsula laclliu h'gh,y deslrable. Prt (Vou'li find a map on this me today that will mako the i-.uon ininy plaln.) jVHY didn't wo attack Cher L bourg and Le Havre first? A 0 ai"wor to that there Is where " enemy was strongest. ( ' . Gormnns roport today , .no i me missions nave 'auiirnnri . UROAD FRONT In RoinBnla. I,,; uormnn broadcast says i heavy fighting" s ln progress S; Tho Russluns mnko no K?"0" It, but thoy usually (3' thelr nnnouncementB until w offensives are well undor Watdl II Wlii,l... J.,nlnr,D m.i "ilas'nn iront now is lit densely Importnnt. , . JHE Germans are retreating l pif1!y north ot Romp. There ' COns rlni.oUln .1-1 r e A ffi Alon ai"on8 thdlr troops many as foihty tin- ""it formations are Ireported 'nri.. H """"ira in tnefuorman S""S lnkon' Breaking up of SS. lln"s In a repeat is a sure sign of badUroublo. V .'T'S not ffiroot Ihn 4nnflp MnoArthur's men taike Mok ItiTL aJreld on BfoW islbnd PRICE 5 CENTS COUNT! BUYS BUILDING FOR Former Soule Hospital Bought For $25,000; New Job Cancelled Klnmath county court this week negotiated the purchase of the old Soule Minitnrium bulld- lnu (Community llosnltnl) on Main street, to be used as head quarters for county hcalin unit and detention homo for vcncral cases. Tho deal, papers for which were being drawn today, cancels tho plan for construction ot a new building for tho same pur pose nt Third and Klamath. Tho Community hospital was recently uurchnscd and renovat ed by Mrs. Kathryn Wilson, who to now selling tho building to the county for $23,000, this amount covering all equipment and furniture now In tho hospital. Houiei 20 Tho hospital has three floors with a total of 28 rooms. The second and third floors houso 20 beds. Tho first floor has been (Continued on Pago Thirteen) Avery Hit In Ward Case WASHINGTON, Juno 8 (At James a. McArcy, secretary- treasurer -of the CIO, i testified today that Montgomery Wnrd and ' company's resistance to government seizure of Its Chi cago plant demonstrated Hint Sowell Avery- Is a petty ty rant" holding his own Interests '-jove the w e 1 f a r e of his country." ' i Appearing - before the house committed Investigating the seizure, Carey said that Avery, Ward board chairman, persist ently has denied employes the right to organize and that the collective bargaining in which he did engage was a "sham and pretense." Recalling the NLRB' Is con sidering a rule to give employ ers the right to petition for a new election, If they doubt the status of tho union, within five davs nfter a contract expires, he said this would be n "deadly wenpon"- which would disrupt labor relations. County Yanks HEALTH CENTER : - y V 'M "' "'J'" " r i tm. well-built "brlcit hospital building on Main street near the canal' to to;be purchased by v'l.IJ.h unJ as a headquarter, for the health unit and detention home for social disease Klamath county a. a .ltructllr, lor,Tklrd and Klamath. The price -wai $25,000. The Boul. ..rXtarium. and later the LlghUoot ho.piUl and In The SliiiHla-Catnuide Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944 Take Biak Field Terrific Gale Hits Woodland WOODLAND, Calif., Juno 8 (A) A gale of moro than 50 miles an hour struck Woodland and Yolo county early today and In more than three hours' duration destroyed crops valued by brokers In tho hundreds of thousands of dollars, uprooted fruit trees, damaged business es tablishments and some resi dences and Interrupted power communication services. Grain brokers said the dam age to tho barley crop was pos sibly the greatest loss. Dnmagc to 20,000 acres of tomatoes, the largest planting In the history of tho county, also was report ed great. Street trees by tho score were blown down, George Hazeman, street superintendent, reported. TO ALLIES IN ITALY Bv NOLAND NOHGAAnD . ROME. . June 8 , (A-)--Allied SKST ay "troops ' west of tho Tiber today cap tured Clvita Cactellana strategic highway and rail Junction 32 miles north of Rome, after other fifth army units had seized Civitavecchia, Rome's principal seaport 38 miles northwest of the eternal city. Clvita Cnstollana Is a Junction of three Highways, and also of electric railways to Rome and Yiterbo . Vi" Tho Germans still appeared to b6 withdrawing, in a bad state of demoralization, without any Indication yet available a to when they might turn and -attempt a determined stand. Disorganised An officinl spokesman de clared "the battered remnants of tho. Gorman 14th army are In a considerable state of dlsorgan , (Continued on Pago Thirteen) Woodsmen May Be Accused In Death From Falling Tree LEBANON, Ore., June 8 (ff) Three woodsmen faced charges of involuntary, manslaughter to day In tho death of three Ore goninns, passengers on a bus crushed by a falling tree near Cascadia, Ore., Tuesday. Charles H. Brown and William G. Llghtle, woodsmen who felled the tree, and their employer, Glen Ohllng, were named on a coroner's jury charge on the ground they should have posted flagmen on the highway. Gets Hospital Building MITH GET5 TO PHILIPPINES Japs Score Gains In Drive on Changsha; Bangkok Rocked By WILLIAM PHIPPS Asoc.nieu reis War r-ditor uen. uouglas toacArthur own ed an airbast today within bomb er range of the Pnllippines the nines' urst since Japan's steam roller crusned tnem pack against Australia, early ln tne racuic war. Toushencd American invaders of BiaK, largest island of the Schouten group off Dutch New Guinea, outsmarted tho Japan- nU MnL-mAF . . la rfo f ,.. - "krner is" oky 880 mUes Southeast of- the. Philip- mnna. Jd Gain in China Announcement of the Yanks' Mokmcr triumph highlighted Jnnnnese setbacks in every Paci fic theater except Central China where fierce Chinese resistance was being overcome around Changsha. ' . ; Thi lcev HankowCanton rail way center ln Hunan province BASE BUI wSbeSg.atran Japanese speajheaBsTn a"nvepP" . to .split China from north to souin. But the Chinese pressed ahead (Continued on rage inineen; Mcintire.Says.:. FDR Health Good WASHINGTON, June'- (IP) Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire reported today President. Roose velt s neaun is "exseuem iu Detailing to reporters the re sult of a-recent- physical- check up the president underwent at the naval medical center, the president's personal physician said Mr.. Roosevelt's present weight Is about 180 pounds. "HriMs In better physical con dltlon than the average man his age," said Mclntire. As a result of the president's spring vacation in the south, he added, Mr. Roosevelt is now in better health than he has been at any time for a year "and you know that is very gooa shape." Here Chief Calls Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in chief, gives hU order of the to paratroopers somewhere in England Just before they, took off in planes for the D-Day invasion of France.' (AP Wirephoto from signal corps radio.) ; War Bulletin LONDON, June 8 (IP) A commentator on the naii-con; trolled Paris radio said to night that 20 allied division now have landed in Normandy and added that the battle was "growing in depth." . - ' . Simultaneously the German radio reported an allied tank puin naa anven asmuva.aa six miles south of captured Bayeux, itself five miles from the coast. LONDON. June 8 WP) The German radio reported - at 10 p. m. tonight (I p. m. PWT) that two more allied airborne divisions "in many hundreds" of gliders had landed north of on such a large scale. - L6NDON, June 8 (P) The,' German . high command said today- that the allies hfd launched ..an attack- to the southwest in a direction that would cut off Cherbourg from their bridgehead between Bayeux and Caen and that heavy fighting was in progress' with the Germans throwing reserves into counterattacks. The communique declared the German counterattacks on the flanks of the beachhead were making progress, however. ' Reds Open Up With Broad Front Drive LONDON. June 8 (IP) -DNB in a Berlin broadcast today an nounced that the Kussians naa launched an offensive on a broad front in the sector north of Iasi, Romania. A broadcast Romanian com munique said-"heavy fighting is in progress." , ' " " ; i There was no connrmaiion- im mediately from Moscow, but a new offensive .on the Russian front has been, expected to- put new pressure on uermany s easi while American and Bntisn forces are attacking, in France and Italy. ' Last night's Moscow com munique' said German attacks nortn ot iasi .nave aiminisneu considerably." indicating the Germans may have been stop ped in- a- push wmcn iney an nounced earlier.- -.t . Wright Resumes Limited Output CINCINNATI. June 8 (IP) Production of finished airplane engines resumed on a very small scale" at) the Wright Aero nautical corporation plant' to day on the heels of company or der to strikers and absentees to return to work by Friday or stand discharged. The assembly line reported shortly before noon that a "few" engines were being turned out first since a racial dispute on Monday caused a strike and walkout that brought idleness to 15,000 workers. ' Company officials declared, however,- that the full effect of the "work or be fired" order might not to ascertainable until Saturday. WEATHER June 8, 1944 Max. (June 8) 70. Min. .........35. Precipitation last 24 hours, trace. Stream yea. to date 8.89 Normal 11.28. Last year 17.14 ' - Forecast! Unsettled. Invasion Pictures On Page 12 Number 10128 For Victory (left), allies invasion commander day "full victory nothing else" Associated Press Staff Writer - ; 'i'ne soutn hoisted new' demo cratic storm signals today-with Mississippi. Joining the ranks of states determined to commit the party to a. stand for .'white su premacy" ; and Georgia demo crats barring negroes from their July 4- primary. ;. - : ; -I Following almost:. exactly a pattern-set-previously -by -Texas democrats the anUtaaministra tioa controlled Mississippi con vention : voted; yesterday to ih sfcruct.the party's 12-iectors in ine siate 10 reject uie demo cratic presidential nominee unless.- .-the; national - convention: neSts certain .demands.y -:) . :Poll Tax Issue -J,:U' . 'These demands, as outlined In resolutions adopted by the con vention, were- outlined -in reso lutions adopted by . the conven tion, were strongly reminiscent of those previously approved by Texas; and South Carolina con ventions. They included opposi tion to anti-poll tax and racial equality, planks in the platform. The resolutions also urged a return to state's right ' and the restoration of the two - thirds nominating rule for national conventions.: - . . .:Thei regular Texas democratic convention i previously had in structed that state's electors not to support; the party nominee unless similar demands were fulfilled by : the - convention South Carolina democrats took the same course, except that they delayed choosing electors (Continued on rage xnirteenj Stalin Assures Freedom, SafsXange , "CHICAGO, June 8 (P) Prof. Oscar Lange, University of, Chi cago (economist who recently -interviewed Premier Stalin; de clared today .the. soviet marshal "made it very clear that the in dependence and sovereignty of Poland will De iuiiy recognized" by Russia after the war. J "There will be no interference in internal affairs," of Poland, Lange quoted Stalin as saying. Lange. Polish-born: - arrived yesterday in Chicago from Mos cow where he conferred as a pri vate citizen with' Stalin on May 21. He made his first statement of his trip at a press conference today.- ...... i Lange offered as support of what .he said Stalin told him these two observations: 1. The soviet: government is arming the Polish army which one Polish general said was ex- pected to grow to 1,000,000 men before the end of the war. :- 2. The Russians are permitting In schools for Polish refugee chii. dren new textbooks- written by the union of Polish patriots, a Po lish; organization in Russia, and tne committee tor foiisn . chil dren. These are replacing old textbooks because they contain ed communist teachings, ... ; ! Baseball Scores: f - NATIONAL LEAGUE ' - ' Chicago 10 13 ', 2 Pittsburgh .... ....... i ... 6 12 3 : W y s e, . Vandenberg- (5), and Holm. vRn.e. Cuccurullo (2), Butcher (6), Strncevich..(9),,and. Davis, Uamem (B), Lopez w PhUadelphia- : t ;; 6 , 1 UlUUAljril w w w I GerheauserjhHussill (2), Mat lhewon.(5),ylngton (7), and t'.r i mil Si Finley; Head and uragan. Allied Thrust Aimed To Take All Peninsula By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 8 (AP) Allied invasion troops, over the first? hurdle of winning footholds in France and buttressed by re inforcements, threw back repeated nazi armored counter-, thrusts today, fought inland beyond Bayeux and menaced! bomb-blasted Caen. , , A Berlin broadcast declared the. allies had thrust Into Caen, 16 miles southwest of Bayeux, "with tanks, mounted' infantry and mobile troops," and said violent fighting raged' in the city. It also acknowledged .the fall of Bayeux, which' it described as "reduced to a heap of rubble." :,' German broadcasts indicated a developing allied pincers drive I to the west to chop off the tip of the Normandy peninsula and its prize port of Cherbourg, and placed the allied wings below Cherbourg only 20 miles apart. ' r- . American, Canadian and British troops repelled all the Ger-- man counterblows forerunners of heavier smashes yet to come and were "getting along" all along the battlefront, a dispatch from 21st army group headquarters said. . - - : j FIRST PHASE FINISHED ; Supreme headquarters said the first phase of winning Inva sion footholds was accomplished, with the second step of defeat ing nazi tactical reserves already underway. Gen. Dwight J3.i Eisenhower asserted the ground troops were "performing. mag- nificently." . , ., . , From 750 to 1000 U. S. heavy bombers' and other . planes smashed 10 major rail targets in a wide arc below the Cherbourg peninsula to hamper the flow of nazi reinforcements. Improving weather sped the rush of allied strength by sea and air. - ta ui me pincers inreaiening i-nerDourg itsell, Berlin reports ed fierce house-to-house fighting in. Ste.- Mere-Eglise, 20 miles southeast of the port, and said parachutists had landed on the' west coast of the peninsula, south of Cherbourg and only 20 miies irom tne nattieline at Ste. Mere-Eglise. There was so allied confirmation of these actions. ; CAEN STRUCK : Specific directions and progress in today's fighting were not disclosed, but headquarters announced that medium bombers had struck heavily at the town of Caen, IB miles southeast of Bayeux, starting fires. The allies' have plunged near Caen, nine miles inland on the peninsula's base. Prime Minister Churchill said Tuesday that there was fight-: ing in Caen, perhaps referring to parachutists who had reached there. Nazi counterblows near Caen were repulsed . yesterday headquarters said. American heavy bombers blasted railway Installations at Rennes, Laval, Tours, Le Mans, Nantes and Angers, in support of the beachhead forces, flying out 750 to 1000 strong. - -.. . The Fortresses - and Liberators met enemy opposition and destroyed seven out of one attacking iorce . of 12. ' . . - Marauders arid Havocs also bombed railroad installations at Valognes, Vieres, Lessay, Portaubault, Rennes and Laval, while, fighters peeled off and raked thin-skinned and armored vehicles of the enemy close behind the front.- ...... - , , A.German broadcast, totally without confirmation, said 1300.; gliders used .to rush in. a-huge air-borne - army,.-had been-de-stroyed or captured. ; t- - - " . ' Capture of Bayeux shipped the railway- between " Parla '-and. Cherbourg, 45 miles to the northwest, and opened the way. tor ". a thnist- deeperinlaha,''---" ""5 - ----- -i - - ' NEAR JUNCTION - But farther west the -Germans pictured allied forces- already ; within- 20 miles of a junction that would choke oif Cherbourg itself; .Berlin declared house-to-house -fighting raged in Ste. Mere- vlt . on . . , l. . . r . , i i - 1 . ... . . i?s" iuca auubucdai -ui.uiH yvi t,- ana saiu paracnuusis -naa landed on the west coast only a. score of miles, southwest-of Ste.-'Mere-Eglise.,..- ; ;. ."' :' .". ' . ,.- '. .'.:.. - There-was. no allied confirmation of wesf coast; landings or fighting at Ste.. Mere-Eglise,: on one of the two main -roads' to ' Cherbourg.-. .' .--:-'-.';'-' ,".;--':'?' -,' ;' '.':.."" : Heavy .battles, with tanks and reserves sped "up by both sides, flared over the peninsula. Allied' beachhead 'troops, are linking up with airborne forces dropped, deeper inland, headquarters said, and improvement in adverse weather aided reinforcements irom guoer SKy trains. ; . . , . ... - .Field reports declared British-Canadian troops had captured', a number of French towns and villages,, advancing on open roads . to points, some miles from the coast.-Infantrymen rode up to battle on bicycles and tanks to speed the advance.- - British Advance . ; A Berlin broadcast said Brit-I ish troops pushed through Bay eux early today and are ad vancing southwest toward the Vire river, which, cuts across the peninsula. On the third day of the in vasion. Supreme Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower de clared: . "My complete confidence', in the ability of the allied armies, navies and air forces to do all they are asked to do has been completely justified." ' liven a s h e spoke, isernn radio reported the Russians had. launched an offensive north of Iasi in . Romania perhaps . the beginning of a coordinated nut cracker blow from the east. Eisenhower praised the naval landing operations as surpassing any. other amphibious operation, he has seen, and lauded the Allies Aim To Cut Off Peninsula luthomstin . . . Portsmouth , ( mr. sr. miensi v;-;-."i.: foogtttl -Oi 'GOT, Tfe?AbDllie ' ; j-rrrif3K. 'Doalle. I'vaSMff --V Bopflume JSSSl -g. ...3Fmtrr "' & J"" jf NiuWiotilW Contlgnye ', - J33323v''6 ABen8uit I I Coutanct, NORMANDY 'M1 , I Wrenvllle Vire ' ; ' ' Vmeillw SfeOsu. ' .Fl.r- Af9""' D'w" ' ' "-this map shows the major Invasion theater and points of special interest in today's news. Allied forces, having landed on the coast between Le Havre and Cherbourg, are driving lawtrd arid today have taken Bayeux, cutting the vital .Cherbonr-PrU railroad shown on the map. There are reports that Caen, Pertf ward on the rail line, has been taken. Apparent allied purpose is to swing southwest to cut off the Cherbourg peninsula, giv ing them the great port of Cherbourg, and an ldeel bate ici. 'drive toward Paris. "long and brilliant" aerial cam paign that proved such effective preparations for landings. Defenses Attacked ' Powerful air armadas scourg ed German defenses today, with 750 to 1000 Flying . Fortresses and Liberators mauling bridges, railroad targets and airfields in an arc 100 to 150 miles south of the beachheads, and U. S. Ma rauders starting fires in Caen, southeast of Bayeux, toward which a beachhead force is driving. ... ' Canadian and British troops have captured several hundred prisoners and shot up numerous nazi 88-millimeter guns, field re ports said. Canadian Press Cor respondent Ross Munro, with Canadians in an unidentified sector, said the Germans were , f (Continued on Page Thirteen)', ! c0',,tne JiPS had held up our CommvtnJty ho'p1"1" - -
