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(inhtlnn Unci fin- in i " ' , from bniwi In France) and tllng uermnn rcmiui in coming up irom ino rcr. rArmntt nm renorted pnl up reinforcement! from DOCK l-mim. ' . .IkxHIIv bltlna dceoer Into the bae of tho Chcr- j penlniiuia, ana loaay m lei reflect ilrong confldenco (the fate ol tineroourn n at and Its fall only a qucs . 1 1 It will glvo us a great pari whlcl) 10 opernie. ERE la an Intimation In tho tw today Ihnt tho Gormans, ....mi iiinii rtAinnu ni mo iU uinll underestimated LIU L It I M tl.vi. - " 1ANDING facilities, nicy Lki .... lumilH HAVE.In have It, 10 they concentrated tholr RIM 111 Chorboura and tt, leaving tho Intervening lici too thinly ncm. i .truck WrlERE THE EN ' was weak, ana our ment for landing on tho i was no compioto mai wu ihU (a An what thn Gur- ihm.Khi ui rriin.nN'T do. Sing what tho enemy think fcan't do ha nlway bocn live In wurinrc. Russian offcnslvo In Fin- nd nimrnm to be a big one, e Finnish Manncrhclm lino boon cracked on a 25-mile , and front line dispatches itho red troops nro moving lard everywhero In high t, The new big push com k designed to knock Finland fof the war, thus providing ton to tho neutral and tho flltcs that hiivo been sticking tlv to (hnlr Rcrmnn mnstors. c attack Is following tho I Leningrad-Helsinki rn li lt is nnnounccd bv Stalin elf with a flourish, Includ- tiho customary snlvo irom gow guns f-IAN dispatchbs today tell that Von Mackonsen'a orlg- f 14th German army, which sbecn fighting Its way back I Cnsslno, has now "been (fertod to tho four winds." 1hat rnmnina nf it thotta dis- pea say, "are a fow scattered pnts now mainly engaged kallne each other's transnort p effort to escape." jny captured stragglers nave r instructing them to pro nln.. l 11 . . uiuuu ur in biiiuii b1uuH P assembly Dlace near Flor- I- (Florence la on tho Arno F which is expected to bo fiwi uorman actenso line in PR air forces are bombing ferman OJL supplies all 'wiiiHinu, especially aiong Danube river. There are 1 that Russian planes are ahuttllno Wk- nnd forth ccn Russia and our bases In llSUal. thn Varl nauti unmH , rom Ch nn. P Japs are closing In on V. "saiiH irom an directions, a furious hnllln la rnalno ' Chansshn'a niilnpKn rie- r, nave been ordered to ie city to the bloody end, . PHIT.MWATTT.T Intir Sir mander In China) says g' mo threat to Changsha ' the China war to the most fc ad i 8 X yearSl f he Pacific war could bo pro r.?.'"' years if Japan is al- L iu 'i""" detonsive wan wie uanton railroad." r . . . 2u can spare a little time m the Invasion front In .jgv out yur mRv ot V, ,d,?,tl!dy 14 realistically. 'SnnW,m,bo kely to come to conclusion that the Japs are iJiPown through the, center VOntlnued St.n , m r MIILLI Ul IlllltU I 1 imm rnr 10 am B.au j - "- -v-r-. "V T "W mm I . F" 'N". . -STW . normal 11.38. Laat year 17.14. f . . . . . w 1 RfllMn PflRflPRIPIM ' ' In The Shasla-Caneade Wonderland DUIlU Unlllr nlull PRICE 5 CENTS ' KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1944 Number 10131 Copco, Wards, : Sears, Balsiger Make Sig Buys Klamath's camnulun, touched off with spirited hum-and-egg rally Mon- ay morning, had run ud to a total of $090,000 by noon today on It way to the $3,815,000 quota. joo hicks, general cnairman of the Klwanls-sponsorcd cam- laign, jubilantly announced the Irst returns but warned that the 'big money always come in first" mid an Intensive, county- wide effort alone will nut the county Into tho "ovcr-the-top" column In Oregon. . Copco Purchase Ho announced that California Oregon Power company today allocated $:BO,000 for a Klamath bond purchase,- the largest in dividual purchase ever credited to a local bond drive. Mont gomery Ward and company with $80,000, Scars, Roebuck and com pany with $25,000, and Balsiger Motor company' $10,000, wero among tho first big ones to be reported at bond headquarters. Individual buyers were (lock ing Into tho office, of laiuing agencies and bond headquarter, 735 Main streeL ' i: . -. ':. More than 200 worker : at tended the enthusiastic break fast rally at the Willard hotel. Military Installations figured nromlncntly in the affair, with Mayor John Houston guiding the program tnrougn a scries oi speeches, songs . and orchestra number. Military BUulnm ' Colonol B, Dubel. commanding officer of tlie Marin Barracks, and Commander R. R. Darron, contain at the naval air station. hcadocTlho 'military contingent present and gavo tneir Blessings to thn camnalin to "buy the Bar racks with bonds." Indicative of the snlrlt of close' military cooporation in support of the campaign, Lt. (Jg) W. K. Smith, speaking for tho air station, de clared that "we at the station are going to help you buy the Marine BarracK. ; Boldy Evan orchestra pro vided a background, of muslo for the program, which was Broad cast. . . . LONDON. Jun 12 P) Bus- slan tanks and plckad troop poured through breach in th Manntrhaim Una today and seised Ralvola in an tight-mil advance that carrlad tham to a point about 40 mil from the port of Viipurl, Finnish city ate- ona only to naisinm ustii. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Juna 12 (P) Prim Minister Churchill visited- the beachhead in Franca today, head quarter disclosed tonight. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 12 VP) Tha allied btachhaad I now complete and a coastal strip soma 60 mil long is flrmlv in our hands, and "its depth i baing increastd stead, lly," htadquartor midnight com. muniqu announced tonight. THE ALLIED BEACHHEAD IN FRANCE, Jun 12 (P) Gen. D wight B. Eisenhower landed her at 11)17 a. m. to day and toured tha American Sector lor iitv nuun w.... party ol high official. Fifth w. Loon -. I I 1 I 17 V; M 11 U. M I Wl 11 M U. A I -v m WAR BULLETINS Connolly, Vondenberg Ask Non-Political Peace Plan WASHINGTON, June 12 () Senntors Connolly (D-Tex.) and Vandenbcrg (R-Mlch.) joined in urging In the senate today the elimination of partisan politics in this country's consideration of plans for an international organ ization to preserve future peace. Connally, who la chairman of the foreign relations committee, told his colleagues that a liaison committee of eight which con .nitori with Secretary Hull on the framework for the peace or-l Ionization nan avoiueu u f" tics in Its work.-. , -L . , j. .. The Texan declared that.no peace plan could be offered that would not arouse some contro versy over details. v War a Challanga - . "This war Is a challenge , to the civilization of the earth, he said. "I pray to the nations of the eartlvto look upon this plan TOM fix s' w fM S OTA E? Breakfast (i With Maor John Houaton a impraasario, a snappy breakfait rally program atarted the Fifth War Loan campaign in Klamath county today. Four leading figure on the program are shown aboT, left to right: Jo Hicka, general chairman . of the , Kiwania-led drive; Colonel B. Dubel, commanding : officer of ' the Marine Barrackai Commander R. R. Darron, commanding officer of the naval air station, and Mayor Hduiton. , , ,t , . - . Moniefiascone By Advancing FiUh Army t ,Br EDWARD KENNEDY 'ROME, June 12 (ff) Fifth army troops have occupied Montcflascone, an Important road Junction near the shores of Lake Bolsena, and other col umns pushing along the Italian west 'coast are approaching Or betello, 71 miles northwest of Rome, . allied headquarters an nounced ,-today. '. ' Eighth army -columns advanc ing up both sides of the Tiber ncared Bagno Rcgglo west of the river and Rleti east of lt. In the mountainous central Senate Passes "Bill of Rights" By Th Associated Pra WASHINGTON, June 12 (fl The senate passed today and sent to the house a compromise version of the "G. I. bill of rights" embodying a compre hensive program of benefits for veterans-of the present war. The cost of tho program, in cluding hospitalization, educa-. tion, unemployment compensa tion and. loans for purchaso of homes, farms and businesses, has been, estimated at from $3, 000,000,000 . to $6,500,000,000. for peace, 46: embrace it and to mnitn It n rpnlltv. We shall try at i least to chain the god of wnr." .' . Vandenberg' said ho wished to second Connally's prayer to the nations that they Join in the pur suit of a Just peace, with ade quate international machinery to make it workable. "It Is inevitable that there .rill ho enmn differences of ocln ion with respect to details," he said, "but it wouia ne a unai tragedy If partisan politics wero to enter into any pnase oi pusv war planning." : , . ... Canfaranca Planned ' Secretary of State Hull told hi press conference meanwhile that arrangements for a confer ence here of the United States, Britain, China, and Russia on creation of a world security " (Continued on rage oevew Bond Rally Features 1 . . 1 u Occupied sector, Avczzano and Its neigh boring villages nave Been occu pied while in the Adriatic sec tor all Germans have been cleared from the area south of the Pescara river and allied troops have pushed ahead to maintain contact with the with drawing Germans. 15 Miles Gained ; A cain of 15 miles was an nounced for fifth army units along the west coast. Near Nun- ziatello-tno uermans counter attacked with two companies, but tho Americans beat them back and continued the drive, Among the areas to fall into allied hands was Lake Fucino near Avezzano, which some years ago was drained and now is a 45,000-acre tract of rich farmland. Headquarters disclosed that the sixth South African arm ored division was among the elshth armv units which ad vanccd through the Liri and Saccn vallevs. After distinguishing itself In engagements there, this divi sion made a "ghost move" by entering fifth army territory, passing swiftly through Rome desDite the congestion of the citv and then shooting north ward more than 60 miles up the west bank of the Tiber. Army Dispersed "It Is now auite clear, a headquarters announ cement said, "that the original 14th army of (Col. Gen. Eberhard) von Mackensen has been dis nnrseri tn the four winds. . "All that remains is a few scattered remnants who mainly (Continued on Pago seven' Texas Democrats Jolt FDR Forces PALLAS,-June 12 () The Texas state democratic executive committee by a vote of 37 to 6 today refused to certify the names of Texas democratic presi dential electors named at a pro Roosevelt convention for print ing on the July primary ballot. The vote was the second set back before the committee today for the group supporting the president for a fourth term. The committee previously had refused to plac - on the ballot the question of binding presidential electors to vote for the party nominee. Military it V' . flF T WASHINGTON. June 12 OP) AFL lumber union representa tives from the northwest fir and pine . industries insisted to day that the manpower would be found to meet wartime lum ber quotas if the war labor board would increase wage rates and narrow the differen tial between wages paid in lum ber and in shipbuilding.' They asked the board to re consider its refusal to treat 77 lumber wage ceases as "rare and unusual," contending that the lumber needs and manpow er shortage placed them in that category. The board is empow ered to raise wages above (Continued on Page Seven) Draft Procedure Revised Again WASHINGTON, June 12 (P) The nation's draft procedure has been revised again, this time to create a common Doll of avail able men upon which both the army and navy will draw. After July 1. men who pass their induction physicals no long er will be assigned to a specific service but will return home -to await orders to report for duty. Only then will they know wneth er they have drawn the army or navy. "The revised procedure will enable local boards to continue to fill each call by selecting avail able volunteers and non-fathers ahead of fathers, and induct men in accordance with their order number as provided by law," draft headquarters said. , Selective service also instruct ed local boards not to send up for induction men classified as fit for limited service only, unless ordered to do so by. state selective service director. Portugal Halts Wolfram Export LISBON, ' June 12 (IP) Pnrtneal's official bulletin to night published a law halting all nrnduction and exnorts of wolfram, a hardening constituent of steel important' in the manu' facture of armament. "" L MAJOR DRIVE Troops Advance Over 25-Mile Karelian; . Front, By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW. June 12- iff)- Launching a major offensive de signed to" knock Finland .out of the war and isolate approximately- 200,000 nazt troops in the northern part ot tnat . country; the red army rolled forward along the Karelian isthmus above Leningrad today after cracking Finnish defepse on a Zo-miie front. ., A communiaue last night an nouncing the new drive said so viet - troops already had ' ad vanced 12 to 25 miles.' and Indi cated they were moving torwara everywhere in high gear. This offensive -.evidently was coordinated closely with - allied operations in France, and repre sented a step in. the grand -allied strategy worked out at the Te heran conferences. -' .- ' - Launch Push Troops under Col. Cfen. Leo nid Govorov, wH6 llftea'the. siege of Leningrad, launched the push Friday, just one-month after the fall of Sevastopol month de void of major activity along tne lone front. " '. ' The 'soviet vcommuriique de clared Russian forces had cap tured. 82 towns and villages, in cluding the rail junction of Teri joki, 27 miles airline northwest of Leningrad and 160 miles east of the r unlsn capital .of nei sinki. . r. - - Also captured; ' the .'bulletin said, was Yappilya, described as an important strongpoinv seven miles northeast ' of Teri joki. Terijoki, situated oh the Leningrad-Helsinki border,- is about (Continued on Page Seven) Insurance Money To Go to FDIC PORTLAND, . June 12 () The federal court ruled here to day that the federal deposit in surance corporation should take proceeds of life insurance poli cies upon which a banker had paid premiums witn tunas em bezzled from the bank. . . Judge James A. 'Fee handed down the ruling in the unusual case, which involved policies upon the life of E d w a r d H. Brown, vice president of the Harney County National bank of Burns, who took his own life two years ago. Bank examiners said some $416,000 in shortages were discovered. ' Two $10,000 policies are In volved. The court held that all the premiums paid on the two policies involved embezzled money except one. Mrs. ivupy M. Brown, mother of the bank er, will receive pro rata pay ment based -on tne one premi um payment Brown made, with his own funds. Boy, 16, Marries Bride of 37 VANCOUVER,: Wash;, June 12 ) Ronald Smith, 16, and Mrs. Mary Ellen Br eon,' 37, were married here today. The groom, who came, to tne ceremnnv with briaht ' green- nalnted. fingernails "to match Mary's we wanted everything alike," said they had k n o w n each other for nine years. .- The .bride, a widow who has . .1,lilM,n mob . nn,9 K V a 0 IVVU UlllUICIIi VIII- BUM . years old, said "it was love at first sight." uotri are irom oi- "We were attracted to each other because of our mutual Hklntf for hunting; and fishing." added the tall, curly headed and hlue-eved bov Broom. He said he previously was her cnauueui. REDS N AGIST RIS Bomber Support Helps Invaders Gain in 3 Spots 8 Mile Plunge Nabs Censy Forest ' By JAMES LONG SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 12 IP) American troops have seized Carentan, stronghold at the narrowest neck of the Cherbourg peninsula, field dispatches said today, and other U. S. troops, plunged 18 miles inland at the center of the faltering nazi line in Normandy. The allies hammered out gains on all three main sectors, sup riorted bv 1400 American heavy bombers blasting . 10 airfields i i .-,i : ,t mu-ilarf ana ola. uiiugra iu uic gicaw. single aerial mission of the war. .". , Nam Charnoiirer V' , Besides occupying the : flood gate-control 7'city ot -A juarentan, doughboy troops were within 14 miles of Cherbourg itself from ihe southeast, and had punched halfway across the jutting' cape. cracking the center of the Cher bourg line, i - iThe nower drive inland to the east captured the whole Cerisy forest, advancing eight miles in a-day. v -; Caen Periled .On the least flank. German broadcasts pictured an encircle ment threat to the bastion of Caen. ' But between Caen : and Bayeux British, forces apparently- had been driven out Of the town of Tilly Sur Seulles, seven miles southeast- of nayeux, Heavv fiehtine raeed there. The smashing advance through the Cerisy forest punched the deepest dent yet in the nazi line. Dnuehbovs were converging on' St. Lo, communications hub in the center of Normandy, less than nine miles away, from the north and east. , Threat Acknowledged " r.erman broadcasts said Caen, eastern bastion of the 60-mile long front, was menaced by -encirclement with British troops slashing nine miles east ot tne city. :' ' ' ' " ' . A frontline dispatch today said Caen had not yet been captured, although "a considerable Ger man force has been' brought to battle and hit hard." -Another (Continued on Page Seven) Changsha Assaulted from A 1 1 Directions by Japs, By J. B. KRUEGER I Associated Press War Editor - Hard-Dressed Chanesha, key link in the Hankow-Canton rail way, was being assaulted ny tne Japanese "from all directions," the Chinese high command an nounced tonight. ' On the east, the invaders were within six miles of the city. At tempts to cross the Liuyang riv er, however, so iar naa oeen checked, the Chinese communi que .said. ;. City Surrounded Indications were that the city hurt hppn surrounded in the furi ous battle rapidly reaching a cli max. Chinese troops nad Been ordered to fight to the last man in resisting formidable enemy forces that had pushed 200 miles southward from tne riansow Another JaDanese force, Chungking reported, was driving northward out of Canton along the railroad, aiming at closing a vise on the oft-embauiea city.; New Fealt - The gravity of the battle tiromnted Mai. Gen. Claire L, Chennault to declare the Pacific war could be prolonged for years If; Japan were allowed to build a defensive wall- along the rail roads The two-sided threat to Changsha, he added, had brought the China war to its most furious nnnlr In at veara. The other four Pacific battle frontu were going well for the allies: 'From' new Dutch" New 1400 Fortresses Hit 16 Nazi Airfields SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 12 (IP) More; than 1400 Flying Fortresses and Liberators the greatest number' ever dispatched on a single mis sionstruck at 16 German air fields and six bridges in France: today. - ..- '' Only seven bombers and 14 fighters were reported missing from the mission on which 17 enemy aircraft were shot down by the fighters. - ; Heavy Blow The armada sailed out during a day in which allied air forces : were dealing the heaviest blows since. D-Day,.with....sorties- apr.. proaching. The Fortresses- and Liberators were escorted by thick swarms of Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mustangs which strafed and, bombed 11 locomotives, 63 rail way cars, 102 trucks and -11 other vehicles, three anti-aircraft towers and several freight yard and rail junctions. - -:: .' Run Many Sortie Flying in fine weather, the al lied air forces by noon had run up : more sorties ' than all day yesterday--when.." 7000 - planes slammed the Germans, from dawn on--Bfter a nightin which RAF bombers pounded four key rail' centers: in France and went to Berlin heavies, mediums, lights, fighter-bombers and fight ers raced over the battlelincs and far into ' France, bombing and strafing. - , ; A significant new point in the support campaign became ap parent. Squadrons of RAF fighters were attacking specific targets, in rapid-fire order on calls from ground units whiph meant that newly established air bases -on -French soil were clicking. - . Twn Main T.lnM . .- , - . Besides the speedy knockout of particular objectives immedi ately in front of the troops, the : campaign was proceeding along two main lines disruption of transport lines within 1C0 miles of the battleline over which (Continued on Page Seven); : Guinea bases: allied airmen flew heavy bombers against Palau for their, fust oayiignt. raia on mis. island group guarding the east ern Philippines. It was a portent of the new turn Gen. - Douglas MacArthur's Philippines-bound campaign has taken. uuam mt Adm. Chester Nimitz' forces al most simultaneously smashed, at Guam and other enemy bases, in the Mariana chain of islands, al so protecting the Philippines from the east. Palau in the Caro- . lines and the Marianas form a defense wall the American con)- (uontmuea on rase ocvcu v Jap Prisoners Taken in France WITH ALLIED TROOPS IN FRANCE, June 11 (Delayed) (P) Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom . ery -announced-tonight that ap proximately 7000 prisoners have been captured in the battle-of France, including some Japan ese. .: - s "A great many of the enemy have been killed," Gen. ; Mont gomery added in a statement at a press conference. The " Japanese regular ol- ; dlers, not merely observer--were fighting alongside : their axis partners, Montgomery said, and small numbers .of them have already been taken prisoner and others tilled. ; v