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(They'll como, oi- Ul certainly; but Elsenhower Hiking for tho nnzis' benefit. kkina to bluff tnem into now le buck their strategic re- irvml.) iThc Germnnii today report EW allied shlppInK movement!! II the French const, und tell of IKAVY bombardment oi rinvro ht nnr wnr.ihlns. Jllliivro would be a likely spot r a new landing.) ROM Spnin today come reports nf n "methodic, persistent USING bv tho GREATER PART the French nation" that Is id lo be "undermining the rmmis best-laid plans to hold Iia nllU.I l..iiulr.rt I French guerrillas and tho or Smlzcd French underground nrc id to be nctively "leuding tho rench in makinit trouble and c! more trouble" for the oc upylnit nozls. There are talcs I whole French cities held by to Irregulars and of a "powerful ucrrlllu army" that is reported i bo organizing with arms nnd iwnuions supplied by pianos, Rumors from tho French- banish border nnsnrt. thnt our fdo is landing commnndos nnd sniffers. Mill nivrl with Ipons. lint tnnkn nnd nntl-tnnk Buns (n airfields prepared by French janisans DEEP WITHIN t rance, IpHE Russians nro booming on 1 Into Finland, nnd Stalin, ticrlbed In tho dlspntches as UBILANT, says of tho allied ivaslon of Franco': "Tlio history I war does not know of any such ndertnklng so broud in con option, so grandiose in scale and r masterly In execution." ... HE bluff tho Swedes Into cut f ling SHARPLY their bnll paring exports to Germany !wo buy the ball bearings that oiil(l have gone to tho Gcr rans.) We'ro going after Spain idling nor to cut her tier- fan exports or else. I ... IfHE lone of tho news, you see, J curries tho snme old note of t'nc marines havo landed and lne Rltlintlnn la ...nil In haA " fvorything Is lovely and the looso hnngs high, Nothing to f"'iy noout. Mnvhn In ll.n Unl,ni,A,inJ I'tle'sugRcstlbn of "it's all over Vn "10 FIGHTING. I IS I It any wonder thnt tho New r 'ork stock oxohnnL'o 7imm in. two-dny PEACE BOOM, that workers quit their jobs In the r Inclustrics and head back "M) to get their old jobs back f-uiu uic wnr ends. olc.Y . . . yTHE fnult is partly with the' t , V 1 ' 1 e i a i communiquesi 1 Which are unhroWonlv cheer fu'i stressing our successes and fmpolning over our setbacks, fna portly witli tho newspaper ruiino writers, who have rrnea thnt nn nnt m st c head f8 makes pcnplo fool good 'nerens a realistic one gives i the blues, nnd with tho mho commonlntors who havo yarned the samo thing about luncs oi the human voice.) I ... RY every LONG-RANGE stand. r rd, wo ARE winning the far. m..i ...i..i., f" war at Gottysburg, and yot 1 tOOk furn. nnJ n l.nlf i,ni-o nf t',7" nntl bloodv f aht na there iu rencn Appamntox.) ! fill feel nntlmlotln nwr thli ONa-HANGE prospects but ivMUHnuoa .on fago !3ix; in Tin: ShuHla-1'uHiunlt' XVoiutvvUnnd (knzh Fifth Army Takes Highway Junction Beyond Orbetello An ull-tlmo high of 10.377 car loads of potatoes left the Klum nth busln for murkcts In the lU4:i-4't shipping season, it was announced today by State-Federal Inspector Hoss Aubrey. Reflecting tho Intensive effort of Klamath agriculturists to pro- fluco food lor fig.. ling, the 1U4I). 44 crop. Including shipments and potatoes kopt hero for seed, feed and local consumption, had a record vnlue of approximately $0,328,800, II was csllmutcd to day. The hishest orevlous venr for potato shipments from this basin wns 1U1U-11, wncn tne toiai was UB33. i'roducllon for mot year wns probably actually higher than in 1843-44, because 608 car loads of the 1040-41 crop were diverted for livestock feed when tho markets went bad. A review of tho 1943-44 year shows that December was the b ugest ahln.jing . month. Here arb Iho -carload shipments per month: August 28 September 880 October 1254 November 1758 December .......1916 January 1318 Fobruary ;..1141 March 1127 April 855 May 77 June 3 Values wero estimated as fol lows by County Agent C. A. Hen derson: Potatoes shipped $8,583,500 Seed potatoes 600,000 Potatoes consumed hero 120,000 Livestock feed 25,000 $0,328,500 (For further discussion of po tato season, see editorial page.) Car Goes Into Wild Lincoln A wild car, its driver hanging desperately onto the steering wheel from a position on the running board, raced down the steep Lincoln street hill this morning, crashed through a steel fence and plunged Into the main reclamation canal. Wesley Gudcrian, Herald and News news editor, was the driver who rodo the mnchine on its wild plunge, abandoning It just be fore it went into tho canal near Tenth and Lincoln streets.. Gu derlan was badly cut and bruised when he left tho running board after steering the otherwise un controlled car for four blocks and through the state highway intersection at Ninth and Lin coin streets. It all started when Gudcrian started to work this morning in . . j ih. nm. Here are four of the nine Here are four of tne KcantV.."' wSlcWclSSt ! s ? sl? If KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 14, 1944 Kills By LYNN HEINZERLING ROME. June 14 (Pi Fifth army elements hnvo swung uround the heavily-defended strong point of Orbetello, 71 miles northwest oi Home, ana captured the Important junction of Highways No. 1 and 74, some four and a holf miles beyond the town, allied headquarters announced today, Reconnaissance elements push ed still further north. "In the coastal sector our troops, having encountered in creased resistance south of Or betello. developed their strength in the mountains and late Juno 12 cut tho road junction of high- day No. 1 and 74. Reconnais sance elements aro moving far ther north," said a headquarters communique. (This movement presumably blocked tho retreat route of the Germans defending Orbetello.) To the cast the eighth army advanced 60 miles north of Rome.- Gains Made Gains also wero made both cast nnd west of Lake Bolsena and allied troODS wero closing in on Narni, seven and a hall miles below Torn! and 43 miles due north of. Rome. . The town of Latera, four miles northeast of Valentano, wns trathercd in bv fifth army units and the advance moved oh toward Gradloli, less than two miles farther northeast. Other fifth army forces were closing in on Bolsena, on tne eastern shoro of the lane. Eiqhlh Continues Meanwhile the eighth army continued to march up the Tibor valley on a broad front and armored units penetrated several miles north of Magliano Two thousand shells scream ed down on the forward troops two days ago, tho Germans ap parently having determined to fire every possible shell from tho r dumps as they fail bacK Tho Mediterranean air force, besides providing support for (Continued On Page Six) Canal After Street Plunge tho car, which had been loaned to him by the Boisiger motor com rjanv while his own car was un der repairs. Gudcrian lives at 617 Lincoln street, and the car was in a garage opening on that steep street. Gudcrian found the battery down in the car, and decided to mish it out of tho garago and then got in, with the benefit of a run down the hill, get the motor stnrted. The driver's win dow was rolled down and he eulded the car as it rolled back wards out of the garage onto Lincoln street. To prevent it from going over the curb on tho opposite side of the street, Guderian turned tne rear end up hill. The car immediately began to (Continued on Page six) Candidates For Rodeo Queen eandldatei for quin of tho Klamath Buckaroo Days. Shown from left to right are Fannte Adams, candidates ior . h ., wilI b- pictured later this week. The queen's " The other five enl-ant will be pictured later this week. The queen's 65BUlt t'tU to be held this Sunday, June 18, at the fairground.. Three LttVY-BOMBER CRACKS UP IN CALIFORNIA Air Station Men Die In Disaster Near Montague Thren airmen from the Klam ath naval air station were killed when their, torpedo bomber crashed a mile southeast of Mon tague, Calif., at dusk Tuesday evening. The dead: Ensign James E. Klemgard, son of Lieut. E. N. Klemgard, petroleum inspector on duty in the office of inspector of naval material of the 13th naval district, Seattle, home 6516 2nd Ave., N.- W. Seattle. James F. Bagwell Jr., avia tion ordnanceman 3c, mother Mrs. Lena B. Bagwell, Rt. 1, Axtoll, Tex. Clyde Worley Jr., aviation radioman 3c, mother Mrs. Lu verne Worley, Morehouse. Mo. . Ensign-Klemgard was pilot of the, plane, Bagwell was gunner and woney radio operator,., . The' "plane; on a tactical train ing mission .f ronithe. Klamath, station, was 'flying in formation with another 'plane. Pilot of the other Diane saw. tne plane sud denly .go down, and residents of the district also reported the crash. - The single-motored . bomber burst into flames upon: striking tho ground. ' It was believed that a me chanical failure of some nature was resDansiblo for the accident which brought to. six tho total of training fatalities m oper ations from the local station. Bodies of the airmen were brought to Wards funeral home here.. Ella Mae Smith Queen Candidate Ella Mae .Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer K. Smith of Chiloauin is the newest en trant in tho race for queen of the Fourth of July Buckaroo Days here. Her entry brings the number of contestants to eight. Ella Mae is a senior at Chilo auin hich school and is a mem ber of the Klamath Falls police reserve. Miss Smith, who is a blonde, owns two horses.. She has been riding since she was two or three years old. Idaho Precinct Forgets Election CASCADE. Idaho. June 14 (P) It was tprimary election day in Idaho yesterday but one valley precinct amn t vote. When newsmen called for a report from one of the county's 11 precincts, tney were lniorm ed, "We forgot to hold the elec tion." Max. (Juno 13) ... 66 Min. :.4S Precipitation last 24 houri 02 Stroam. year to date 8.80 Normal ...11.42 Last year 17.14 Forecast: Fair. Invasion "I 1. ii. v - i IV Assault troops help NEA-Acme if 44 CM if n it Brandt, (left) aboard a troopship bound for the invasion of France. Brandt was the first war pool photographer to get action pictures of tho allied landings on the Normandy coast back to London for radio-telephoto transmission. He wouldn't trust his nreeioux neaatives to anvone else, land on invasion craft of all types. Once his photos were deliv ered, he returned to the invasion of the historic battles. Russian Tanks Strikes at By EDDY GILMORE ' ' MOSCOW, June 14 (P) Rus sian tanks loaded outside with tommy gunners rolled up the Vii puri highway today within 30 miles of that important port, and front dispatches said the red army was striking at the main body of Finnish reserves. Pravda reported a large bat tle near Mustamiaki on the main Viipuri railroad northwest of Leningrad. The battle terrain of the Karelian isthmus is strewn liberally with swamps, rocks, cliffs, ravines and forests which made swift movements of Rus sian tanks and heavy artillery difficult. Darting Russian groups train ed in forest warfare were re ported in Red Star to.be deal- Missouri Floods Iowa Farms, Town OMAHA, June 14 ' (P) The flood-bent Missouri river, which has broken through eight levees to flood southwestern lowa larm lands and threaten southeastern Nebraska, today inundated the south end of Hamburg, la., flood ing scores of homes. . . The Missouri river district engineers office here said approx imately. 100 prisoners of war from tho Clarinda, Ia camp arc aiding in. the fight to hold up stream levees. The situation at Hamburg can become much worse if the up stream levees and the secondary line of defense prepared during last April's flood in the same area cannot be held, engineers said. Further breaks, they fear, would flood more agricultural land upstream and let more water into Hamburg.- June 14, 1944 Number 10133 Bound War Pool Photographer Bert and hitch-hiked back to Eng beachhead to continue coverage Roll Along Finn Defenses ing with Finnish' ambushes- in sweeping flanking movements. The capture of Siranmiaki at a critical crossroads , gave the Russians a eood graSD on com munications lines in- the wooded area where the. advance is most difficult. ; , , , Encounter Guns Pravda's correspondents' tele phoned that the Russians were encountering congestions of heavy guns as they moved against the main Finnish re serves and that the enemy, was using 40 different types of wea pons on one narrow sector. (The Finnish communique re ported continued Russian attacks rebulsed in the western and cen tral parts of the Karelian isth mus despite heavy artillery- pre paration. German broadcasts re ported attacks above tne Arctic Circle between Petsamo and Murmansk and around Narva in Estonia). ... The latest Russian communi que reported the capture of Steklyannaya, Kelrola, itonnuK jula, Vehmalnen and Tijranm- jaki and said there were no changes on other parts of the 2000 mile eastern front from the cold Barents Sea to Romania. Headquarters Captured Red Star reported the capture of headquarters of the tentn Fin nish - infantry division and the (Continued on Page Six) m WAR BULLETINS WASHINGTON, June 14 (fP) American warships have turned their heavy guns on enemy po sitions from the North Pacific Kuriles to the mid-Pacific Ma rianas, Admiral Chester W Nimiti reported today. LONDON, June 14 (VP) The British Press association said that Gen. Charles de Gaulle landed in Normandy today. LONDON,. June 14 '(") The Polish telegraph agency said to day the Polish destroyers Bly skawica and Piorun sank two German destroyers in the Eng lish channel and damaged third. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 14 .(IP) SHAEF said today that : so. far ai known not a single American merchant seaman has been' lost In the French invasion despite a - large number , of merchant ships used in a cross-channel shuttle. Some ships have been lost, however. ..- - LONDON, June 14 (IP) Red army troops continued to ad vance - today in the , Karelian Isthmus offensive "and occupied several enenw strongpolnts," the soviet - Communique an nounced tonight.- ' i." 7 ty-f) Battles Rage In Two Towns By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 14 (IP) The Germans have hurled four armored divisions into fierce defense of their eastern Normandy bastion of Caen threatened with encirclement and bitter street fight ing is raging for Montcbourg and Troarn at opposite ends of the 100-mile front,, headquarters announced today. The allies both won and lost ground in different sectors hut still held the initiative. Berlin declared "heavy and super heavy allied naval guns shelled Le Havre" 20 miles northeast of the eastern edce of thn. Normandy beachhead, today. There was no allied confirmation. BOMBER BAD BLASTS NAZI OIUJFELINE Greatest Armada In History Hits At Refineries By GLADWIN HILL SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 14 (JP) Fifteen hundred U. S. heavy bombers the greatest single striking force in air history attacked France and Germany today in concert with up to 750 American heavies which struck Hungary and Yugoslavia from Italy. The oil lifelines for Hitler's thirsty war machine were hit hard, part of the big task force from Britain hitting the oil re- nnery at .Emmerich, uermany, while the Mediterranean force attacked half a dozen - oil re fineries in Hungary and Yugo slavia including the Shell Koo- laz, five miles south of Buda pest, the largest in Hungary. ui.-..v..Bn Hii ', . . . .Other Britain-based Fortresses and . Liberators aimed their bombs at six enemy air bases beyond tne beachhead- in the unrelenting campaign to wipe out. nests. of German air force opposition. ' Others hit bridges in France and Belgium. Supreme headquarters an nounced, that in the first seven days of invasion 56,000 individ ual flights - were made by the allied air forces with the loss of 554 planes less than one per cent of the attacking force. In that time 42,000 tons of bombs . were dropped. The eighth air force led with about 16,000 sorties and the ninth had 15,500. Targets Hit The American force aggregat ing upwards of 1500 bombers and fighters, attacked among other targets the Le Bourge and Creil air fields at Paris, Etampes-Mondesir and Chateau- (Continued on rage bix; Commission Asks For Canal Fence The Klamath Falls planning commission has gone on record as applying for a special approp riation to get the main canal through town lined and fenced. The commission met Tuesday with B. E. Hayden and E. L. Stephens of the reclamation bu reau tb discuss the project. . At the meeting, the group also approved the building code, ap proving a class 1-A residential district along tne new nignway. The city engineer was author ized to hire someone to make a survey of residents along S. 6th, to find how many would be will ing to be included in the city limits. French Officers' Invasion Orders Cancelled, Report By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, June 14 (fP) In the final hours before, the start of the invasion of France, General Charles de Gaulle is re ported here to have suddenly cancelled the orders of several hundred French officers sched uled to land with the first waves of allied troops. Reports from General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters to the highest military .officials here disclosed today that as a result, cooperation between the French . population : and ; allied armies has been impaired, in the; occupied Normandy areas. This is true, according to offi cials who are investigating the situation now, even though De Gaulle finally relented to the ex tent of allowing 20 French offi cers to so alone with the forces assigned to liberate their home land, v - - De Gaulle's action with re spect to the officers is said to be probably the most important new factor entering into the background of a proposed meet . The savage German blows, powered by four armored dlvl- sions developed in a 27-mlla sector around Caen after a Brit ish drive had pierced 23 miles inland, outflanking Caen from; the west, and reaching -. Cau mont and Villers Bocage. but then the Germans drove advance patrols back some three miles, and the situation in that, area was described as obscure. The deepest allied penetration inland tonight appeared to be zu miles. The U. S. fourth division bat tling at and near; Montebourg on the backdoor approach to Cherbourg was forced back tin; the coastal road leading north, but advanced slightly southwest of Montebourg in grim fight-, ing. Smash Forward Other Americans smashed' forward in a push beyond Car- entan aimed at choking off the. top of Cherbourg peninsula. , isoth the Germans and allies have fought into and been., thrown out of Montebourg and. Troarn in the last 24 hours, -supreme headquarters said. Bigl guns of the British battleships Rodney and Ramillies aided the British struggle to hold Troarn,. first taken in a push outflank-? ing Caen from the east. Although the Germans flung ' in heavy armored attacks be tween Troarn and Caumont, 20. miles southwest of Caen, 21st army group headquarters said J the nazls still had not mounted., a general counterattack. Going Satisfactory "The enemy is fighting our . battle instead of his own,", it. was said, and -"the. fighting a whole seems, to bt going. satis..j.' factorily." . The greatest single striking; force of planes in war's history 1500 American Liberators' and Flying Fortresses battered targets in France and Germany today in auvsupport of the in-, vasion. : " ' . . ,, ' , -Defenses Gashed -Meanwhile in the Carentan area south of the bitter Monte-, bourg battle,1 other Americans of the largest- U. S. force ever , thrown into fighting in this war, chopped deep gashes in the nazi (Continued on Page Six) AP Story Names Klamath Men in Solomon Action Three former ; Klamath men. are named in a story by Fred Hampson of the Associated Press which tells of Oregonians who performed conspicuously in the long air battle over the northern Solomons. The fight lasted almost a year and has been described as one of the great air victories of the Pacific. . Among the men who partici pated was Roy H. Skeens of Klamath Falls, pilot of a troop carrier squadron plane, who was promoted to first., lieuten- ant. He had almost 400 flight hours to his credit in the com bat zone. , Corporal Delbert G. . Pruett of Klamath Falls was awarded a bronze battle star. Lieut. D a n i e 1' C. Mahoney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Ma honey of Astoria and former residents of Klamath Falls, par ticipated in more than 25 mis sions as a B-25 pilot. ing between President - Roose velt and the leader of the French national committee here either late this month or early in July. The attitude of the French chief and, as a result, of the officers . at his command, also Is given as the reason why President Roose velt dealt at length in his press conference yesterday on ar rangements which had been made for French Invasion cur. rency. ' v .- Liaison Suggested ' , - According to the reports reach ing here on De Gaulle's handling: ... of the French liaison officers, . the situation developed as fol lows: .: r ' ". , - , ' ; Many months ago when plan were forming for the opening of a second front, officials of the French national committee sug gested that military officers rep resenting the committee should serve as liaison between the 'n .vadlng forces and the French population.: Allied authorities; agreed and the combined chiefgof staff, act- (Continued on Page Six) '
