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Newspaper Page TextIllffl m mM w dew a D dD Cn MSI w i flVnlUV .lKNICINR tM bench head lighting si jmorTcrn"C?orcc re pushing Itwsrd across, tho narrowest i f the Cherbourg peninsula, iUi. hottest fighting center ,. round Carentan (sea map), ,5, Is an Important rail June- They are reported closo to hird of Hie way across. Their nrouress Is hampered by 3J released by the Germans. ?Sve captured the floodgates, that In tlmo wo will bo able control this situation. rt'RE evldontly using para ' troops extensively in an erf. i'io leup-frog across to the htrsldo of tho peninsula. The nnan sent in parutroopors of Town today In an effort to J U. but tliolr luck wasn't Si Their sky troops drifted Tn practically on Jp t a IEVIOUSLY LANDED Amcri- Jormatlon and half of thorn .re cPi"'d and, tho rest "dls- ( his counter attack at Cuon, Rommel Is reported to have rown In three, armored dlvi ni in an effort to push spear ids through to the beach and t ud our forces Into segments t could bo destroyed. Ho lied. British and Cnnadlan nr l.rymcn STOOD FIRM, flrlnu open sights at his tanks ij 300 yards away and stop nithem. ... 'HE REAL Gorman counter sllack on our beach head, iwevcr, hasn't yet developed e either to German Inability lot In rcsorves In sufficient imber or to Gorman fears of King caught off base some- When'tand If) It DOES come, will probably bo In much tiler forco.-Our Job is to got lough men, weapons and sup ie, ashoro IN TIME to meet i itop It., , i, HE weather hat turned slight ly bettor, enabling our tnes to get back Into action Imt tho Germans rear linos, niily northwosf wind, how; cr. lsslIU keeping the channel ugh and choppy and making :ach landings slower Bnd more Mailt. ' - , . :' A considerable nurribor of our ihllng planes aro now oporat I .from hastily constructed rips within our beachhead, iui eliminating the time-con-iralng trip back and forth :rou tho channel to refuel and urm. fw're also evacuating our bunded by air.- m these early days of the lnva- Inn tir.miit himp rnnntantlv I mln'd tho fact that our lob is fcly. BARELY BEGUN. We've fctilned a toehold on the French baches. We must HOLD It. To Inlri H tun mutt ' But rfllnforCC- lents ashore - faster than the Jtrmans can BRING- UP rein trcements to drive us back into li tea, . f HERE Is nothing new from ' tho Russians in nomania.. in ct, there Is no word from them ;a!l as this Is written. ' The Finns say today that the uulsns have launched a "gen l offensive" in tho Karelian t some 300 miles north of cnjngrnd supporting It with uvy artillery barrages and ink attacks: The Finns claim to have done jood'job of stopping, the reds. N Romania, swift American P '. acting as , FIGHTER OMBERS, sweep down on the AST major oil refinery in loetl, damaging, it heavily, trman fighters come up In lrgo . numbers, Indicating the nporlanco they attach to.Ro-'nlan- oirinstallations, but fall itop our planes.-' . ' ' Today's dispatches assert that ' total output of the Romanian " fields la. estimated to have w cut 00 per cent; ,'V. ' That, if true, isn't an easy pill T Hitler to swallow at this mo lenV when he needs all the gaso n he can lay hands on. r . ., .. " Italy, Clark's pursuing' 5th rmy is advancing at the rapid "of. 13 miles per day, but ill catch up with the fleeing mans. (,, An official spokesman for our "Mys today that von Macken ja 14th German army is with S &f ln this aroa in a COM S?LY DISORG A N I ZED P.""'0" retreating so fast, in 'CV that it is uncovering the i.-7,0,'1,th slower-rpovlng Ger W lOth army ' just to the eajt Qernian ; 14-ycar-olds aro re tly arnP8 -the.captlvcs in J .. ' V;.'' V, ' -; " 'HE JHps tried ' to"' reinforce , troops 'on Biak ;Island i.WPi'Pomlera, attacking ' . at "'ihclght ,sa,nk' four of .their joying destroyers and .'dam i,,Lan?ther and chased, off a ;'r: and, a destroyer. In : other ' separate actions laS4 week, our bombers !;? unk a Jap destroyer, dam Sjynother ;. and damaged- a fc are thq?flrst Jap war. ioiitlnued on Page Threo) PRICE 5 CENTS ' Th"handiomt';Kiamath Falls. picture,, provides the them for Monday, Kiamatn tpunty s. r inn,. i c t : r1 ..LA'?!; Marine Barracks Cost Goal Of Klamaih War Loan Drive Klamath county's Fifth War Loan drive opens Monday with the Klamath Mnrino BarracKs cost nearly $4,000,000 as its goal. , , Joe Hicks, general chairman of tho War Loan drive, ' an nounced today that the commit tee had selected tho barracks as tho theme around which the cam paign will be built. . ; $3,815,000 Quota The Klamath quota is $3,815, 000, or approximately tho an- 2 More Queens ; Enter Race J Two new candidates Friday entered tho race for queen of the Fourth of July Buckaroo Days celebration. They are Phyllis Staples and Helen Smith, both of Malin. ; Slxtccn-ycar-old Phyllis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Staples. She has dark hair and blue eyes and is 5 feet I'M inches tall. Riding and danc ing are her favorite hobbles., She was a student nt Bonanza high school last year and will be a senior at Malin high this fall., Besides horseback riding, she also knows something about haying and raising potatoes. ' Helen Smith Is 18 years old and she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Smith of Malin. Helen was raised in Malin and received her schooling there. She has light brown hair, blue avC nnri Is S feet 11 inches tall. Rlrline and dancing are her xhninn hobbles and 'she also en. Joys helping her father. on the: rancn. Dewey Supporters Back Taft for GOP Chairman By The Associated Press Supporters of Gov. Thomas E Dewey of New York were re ported today (Saturday), to have thrown t he 1 r weight behind Senator Robert Taft (R-Ohlo) for the chairmanship' o 'tho im portant platform committee of the. republican national- conyen-, -Toft heads air Ohio dolegatlon pledRed to support Gov. John W. .Brlckor, of: that state, for tho presidential nomination, and the reputed i action of some-ot Dewey's friends. was regarded generally as, a : pre-convention "harmony" move by those who expect.the Now-York governor to be named on-the first ballot. -M Moots Juna 21 v - The resolutions . committee, consisting of two members from u -ir,f w 11- meet in Chii KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1944 . v. Number 10130 ' '.- - : 7 I "mmmi sac mgBgaa g 's : - ' .' ... ...... . ' BUYTHE BARRACKS WITH BONDS i t x Marina Barracks, showr, abOTt tha FHth War. Loan -eampaian .vtar; yon.,augi, jnt H.uiK - nounced cost of the Marine Bar racks, newest navy installation on me Pacific coasi which is just beginning to receive men home from the Pacific fighting. ' "Buy the Barracks with Bonds Back the Boys Back From the Pacific," are the slogans adopted for the Klamath drive. Barrack Tour Planned ' Special feature of the cam palgn will be tours of the Ma rine Barracks, thus far closed to public inspection, by all purchas ers of $25 or more ln bonds dur ing the campaign, whether the bond be purchased by payroll de duction or any other source. ' The date for these tours has been tentatively set for Sunday, July 2, through arrangements with Colonel B. Dufeel, com mandlng officer of the barracks, who is-cooperating closely With the Xlwanis-led' bond organiza tion. . . ( i : Many Expected - ' . It Is expected that many hun dreds of bond buyers will take . (Continued on Page Three)-, Benes Sees End OtNaiiRule " LONDON June 10 (IP) ' President Eduard Benes of the exiled Czechoslovak govern ment said in a broadcast to his people -today that a "'new, pow. erful - and final" soviet offen sive was imminent and we shall; not . have to wait long," for an allied attack from north- ern Italy upon the Balkans and "We can now really say that the-end of nazj . Germany's dom ination, has begun," ho declared, and' begin hearings on the plat- form to be recommennea to ine convention opening June 26. . Taft would bring with him a senate record of sharp criticism nt the new deal's domestic poli cies, softened by attempts to compromise -with administration leaders on such major issues as price- control. He headed the republican postwar advisory committee on domestic problems which called for relaxation of government controls over private enterprise as soon as tnc war is over. Nevada Picks Today with the . convention only a little more- than two weeks away.-seleotlon of delegates was to be concluded today with Ne vada republicans picking- six at a state meeting. . Without takirtfe those six into. I Tito Shata.Caeade Wonderland I fa VV22CI 11 IT M f m T - in thU new ntlrj cost of 'woicn opans tnuM inp rftwitv. . . ' wn.rMini 1 WASHINGTON. June 10 m The office of price administra tion today slapped price ceil ings on all used passenger cars, whether sold by dealers or pri vate owners, at the levels which prevailed in January, imm. The order is effective July 10, the month's delay being allowed for the trade to make its adjust ments. OPA set forth specific dol- lars-and-cents prices for 23 makes and about 6000 models manufactured from 18J7 through 1942. Older cars may not be sold for. more than the comparable 1937 model. ? ' surprise Action The action came as a surprise, although OPA has been work ing actively toward price con trol of used cars for more than a year, in which time the price level has soared' zu per ceni. Ceilings were opposed by spokesmen for dealers, who had lost their . revenue from , new cars. 'In some sections of the coun try, used cars three years old brine today two or three times more than similar cars brought before the war," OPA Adminis trator. Chester Bowles said in announcine the action. - "I think that indicates wnat nressures there are today to push prices up and what might . luonunueo on rage inree; Reds Crumpfe German Blow .LONDON, June- 10 (fP) Mos cow announced today that sov iet troons had crumpled a local ized German attack northwest of Tarnopol In old Poland as red army preparations for a new eastern front offensive broueht more indications of un easiness in Germany and among the nxls' Balkan satellites. In a broadcast communique the Russians announced that a tank-sunnorted n a z 1 infantry 'regiment broke into one inhab ited locality In tne xarnopoi re gion but had been ejected from tho position by a night counter attack. Ten German tanks and two - self-propelled guns were declared to have been crippled nr. hurnnrl. . The war bulletin said soviet units also have taken another height north of Iasi in Romania, Wiping out more uiau a turn pany of the enemy, WEATHER Juna 10, 1844 : Max. (Juna 8) ......62. Min. :.....44 Precipitation lait 24 hour 02, Stream year to date .8.72 Normal ,11.31. Last year ..17.14, -', thH JJHami(tl tea UUattoa, ad Bombers Fire Last Ploesti Oil Refinery FIFTEENTH AIR 'FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Italy, June 10 (P) Swarms of American P-38 Lightnings streaked across the Balkans at tree-top levels today bombing and strafing the Romana-Americana oil refinery at Ploesti, last major refinery left operating in Romania. The target was left enveloped In black smoke. '. Nearly 100 - Messerschmitts and . Focke-Wulf s . pounced on the darine raiders when they finished the attack and started on the last lee of the journey. A number of enemy planes were shot down. The - lone ranee assault was tried after. Fortresses and Lib erators , in three '- earlier raids attempted unsuccessfully to bring the Romanian refining in dustry to a standstill. All other, major refineries on the Ploetsl area have been ren dered inactive ' by . the - heavy bombers, and the total output of the Romanian producers Has been; cut an ;estimated. 90 per cent. . Machine Shop Blast Kills Two VALLEJO. Calif., June 10 (fl) Two civilian's were killed and 34 injured, four of them seriously, in an explosion in the Mare Is land navy yard macnine snop earlv today. The dead were listed Dy tne 12th naval district as P. L. May of Oakland, and A. M. Armado of Vallejo. . The machine shop is tne larg est west of the Mississippi river, The four persons most serious ly injured were E. F. Daly and R. H. Warener, Dotn vaneo; A M. Frazier of Concord, and E. A Rueee of Albany. . ' ' The blast came from under the floor of the machine shop, the announcement said, and the cause has not been determined. A board of investigation will be named, v Nazis Ordered To Hold Caen NEW YORK, June' 10 (ff) Radio Atlantic, purported secret anti-nazi German station, said today that Maj. Gen. Feuchtln- ger, '. German commander.' at Caen, had ordered his troops to hold the town "under , all cir cumstances' in an order- of tne day. The broadcast was record ed bv NBC. - - ' - A Brazzaville . broadcast, pick ed ub bv the Blue network, said. a state of siege had been declared In Strasbourg, in France, near the German bor der. . ,'.'BACS THE BOYS .BACK ;..'- , 5 B7 RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Frets war' Editor Japan has lost at least five warships and nad. tnree otners, includine a heavy cruiser, dam aged since June 3 in vain at tempts to bolster her weaken ing position in the Southwest Pacitic. . .. : Allied headquarters - today trumpeted the : latest Nipponese naval loss . . four destroyers sunk, one , damaged, in mast heieht attacks by 10 -Mitchell medium bombers , Thursday: sis the warships, together with a cruiser and , another destroyer. sneaked - through Geelvink bay toward beleaguered Biak island in the Schouten group, , Dutch New Guinea. - The cruiser ' and ; undamaged (Continued on Page-Three) . Missing Pilot Now Prisoner Lt. Ralph Bockmier Jr..: is a prisoner . of the Romanian - gov ernment, according to word re ceived by his wife, the former Uawn Everitt, who Is now -In Spokane with her young son. Mrs. Bockmier sent word to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl wmuock of tnis city, that she received a telegram from the government but has no. details as yet. Lt. Bockmier was earlier re ported missing over Romania a short time after being sent to his European - base. He is a bomber pilot and entered the army air corps in February, 1943, receiving his -Wings at Maria, Texas. -..'.'' Prince Umberio Snubbed By Bonomi's ROME, June 10 (P) The Ital ian cabinet of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi assumed office today without taking the customary oath to the crown, as represented by Crown Prince Umberto. Instead the , 17 ministers pledged themselves to the pre mier to fulfill their duties, ac cording to the constitution. Some of the cabinet opposed taking the oath to the crown on the grounds the question of whether Italy will continue as -, a mon archy will be decided at ! the close of nosiuiuesi - - , . Umharto Snubbed - Crown Prince Umberto, while smihbed bv the Bovernment, nevertheless received an' acclam ation from supporters among the people as he .prepared to: leave Unmfi fnr Natfa. " The government also prepared r. I-! L U. S. Airfields Established In France By WES GALLAGHER - SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED- EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 10 '(P) Ameri can troops supported by allied planes.7 operating ' from French soil - for the first time since 1940 fought through German- flooded battlegrounds today to ward strategic Cherbourg, cut ting the railway below the port in several.- places, and seizing two' important towns. ine powenui u. a. attack, hampered ."-by ' ; flood "waters, inches' to seven feet deep, ham mered' north toward Cherbourg; west in a push to ship, off the peninsula tip, and developed a two-way squeeze on Carentan guarding the narrowest neck of the; jutting cape. '' . ' .. - ; - - Wear ; Cherbourg -' Berlin ' broadcasts .- put the Americans within 15 miles of Cherbourg, - and said German forces, in the face of fresh para chute landings, were withdraw ing south of Monteoourg to shorten their lines.. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery, commanding ground invasion forces,- has established his .; advance - headquarters in France. -it-was. announced. He already. has visited his troops in. frontline.-action and was re ported well, satisfied with their progress.-'--t ,- U.'- S. .-Thunderbolts and RAF Spitfires - landed and took off from airfields '.established in France just four days after .the Invasion, roaring' out in. closest support oi me ground assault, ' SeUe Islonr ' ' -.Americans battline between Bayeux .-an d Carentan;, seized Islgny control point for flood Bates t h ere of .the German wrought inundation and Tre- vieres,.nine mues west- wrJpay eux. : - ' i The nazls flooded large areas around . Carenton, Ste. Mere Eelise and northeast of Caen and -headquarters -reported heavy fighting in-the Carentan area.-, .:;- Americans, have taken more than -3000-prisoners. Dlrliloni Identified Headquarters identified four nazi divisions engaged in heavy fighting against British ana (Continued on Page Three) ; Four Nazi Trawlers Sunk I lii Clash Witfr Royaf Navy i Br ROBERT C. WILSON - ' : SUPREME- HEADQUARTERS jtL L' I E D EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June ,10 (JP Light coastal snips oi tne noyai j sank four heavily-armed Ger man : trawlers today off the Dutch- coast at a cost of one mo tor torpedo boat in another of a series of naval clashes, the ad miralty announced; . - Four - trawlers were engaged southwest of Ijmuiden, and three sent -down by torpedo mis, wiwi the fourth damaged by. gunfire and sent heading back for the coast.-, -'.- '.?! . More Appear- Later three more armed trawl ers, apparently searching for survivors, appeared and one, of these: was torpedoed and sunk, niw British . torpedo boat was sunk, but there were only two casualties, tne aamirauy saia.. -. The first attempts by German naval- craft to enter the invasion coast.: have been frustrated,. It was-disclosed earlier in a com Auinimie riescribine three sur face actions, one a . point-blank engagement between eight allied and four nazi destroyers. OHbsvan Found : Eight- British, Canadian and Polish destroyers intercepted the four.German destroyers off the tip of Brittany, near lie u uues sant before dawn yesterday. The New Cabinet to leave Rome as Salerno, will re main Italy's, provisional capital as long as Rome Is considered in the zone of military, operations Feeling High ' - Excitement continued high in Rome and among many rumors was one that an attempt nad been made on the Crown Prince's life. But highly placed officials, both allied and Italian, said they knew -nothing of such- an inci dent In the' two days Umberto Was here and his supporters said the rumors Were spread -by- his enemies who wished to make it appear he is unpopular.- v.. ",:'', --Another. cause, of excitement was an explosion in the German embassy as allied soldiers searched the building and Un covered a laree amount of ex plosives In the cellar. - One case : ' iwontinuea on jrago mree; Allies Speed 15 Miles Daily ; In Italy By NOLAND NORGAARD " ' ROME, June 10 UP) The GeN man 14th army fled northward, Kioay wun increasing aisoraer, and the allied command for the first time declared officially that a 1 "catastrophe" has -befallen Field , . Marshal Albert Kessel ring's forces in Italy. - ' Slashing steadily northward after the retreating foe, the fifth army captured the town of Tuw cania. 13 miles northeast of Tar. quinia. .' , Can t Catch Up . . '-'.Despite the ereat speed of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's pursuing troops, wmcn nave averages, roughly IS miles daily since the fall of. Rome, an official spokes man declared they are -"unable to catch up with, any important elements of Col. Gen. Eberhard) von Mackensen's 14th- army which is-withdrawing In this area in a completely disorganized fashion," The eighth army also -picked up - speed in its northward - ad. vance near the Adriatic. : v Considered Peril - Mackensen's flight was consid ered a peril of the nazi -10th army, whose withdrawal -north ward on the east side of the Ti ber has been slower and more or derly, due largely to demolitions; mine fields and the mountanoua terrain - which made close -pur suit by the British eighth arm difficult, - - ''East : of the Tiber river tho German 10th army is robbed of the support of its sister army anoV how : has to provide, .out of its own -means, flank protection against the - threat represented by the allied advance to the Vi. terbo area," the spokesman said. "Here, too, there is consider, able disorganization noted and prisoners .recently taken, includg : cooks,-butchers, bakers, some-na more than 14 years old. .--.rfft-ji -. ..''Losses in the 10th army- con tinue heavy," ... ' Fifth Fans Out ' 1 -Withthe taking of Tuscaniav Tarquinia and Vetralla, the fifth army now has fanned out- on. a broad front more than 50 miles to -the - northwest ' from Rome. and at the same time has stab bed 'at least 40 miles north of the capital -city' in a -drive - beyond ; .(Continued on Page Three) .. allies blew up more of the t en emy' destroyers, chased another1 aground in flames and scored hits on the other two, which est caped, the communique said. " The' grounded vessel was at tacked later by Royal Canadian Beaufighters which shot at least 70 rocket projectiles -into it: and scored numerous hits with heavy and light bombs. Today -it . lay ar smouldering wreck surrounded, by. a pool of burning oil. . ! i, Grounded Ship's ; Chief Suspended SAN FRANCISCO. June 18 (Pfe-Master's license . of -CaprT Joseph C. Chambers, skipper of tne - b. s. ienry uergn wmca erounded on the Farallon is lands May 31, was ordered susf. pended yesterday for two years; A- coast guard court . of . in quiry acquitted the veteran of ficer. - of charges of incompe tency but -found him-guilty on four points - of- negligence: fail ure to plot tne togpouno snip s course; to use available naviga tion aids; to. slow the ship's speed sufficiently, and to ex ercise authority to quiet noisy passengers wnose voices maa it difficult for the crew to heat fog-horns. - - The court recommended a first mate's ticket for Chambers, -'- All of the 1000 navy person nel aboard and the crew wert rescued. C Civilian Law , Gets Sailor Case 'The navv Friday, following an investigation of the r case-, turned Charles Weldon Wright, sailor stationed at the Klamath naval air base, over to -civilian authorities to: answer a chargs of statutory rape. " Young Wright, who la mar. rled and has two children,'.; is accused of attacking a 13-year old local girl late Saturday night at his home in a Klamath Falls auto camp. J 'The navy serviceman was arw raigned in Justice court Satur day morning. He took time to plead and was committed to the cptmty Jail underjf 5000 ..cast; cago Juno 21 to elect its officers I i (Continued on page xnreej. - Forecast) Clouay.