rare
Ml
M
JV
Bitter Street'
kit's Sens
Br FRANK JENKINS
0NTGOMKHV IiIIk the Cier-
.... u.'h! of Cnnit unci
,ve, TWBNTy.TllllElS MILKS
their iiiiun w Mivj
r' J . n ulrtn h in
football piirlmicc. ho "found
Jolc" ...
ne rrmun III t bnck HARD
Cherbouru. driving our
hcrlcnn putrolit bnck to Monte-
lure, wlioro iru " "'."
Wir. way mil". . ivu. .lift-
L..nin iiirrfH mill i.;v;iii-wui;i
1"V . ...ii.i.. in ...ll... ..f
BtCrdliy '0 WIWllll l liiiivn ui
Icrbotirg. They have., been
i,.., it iihmit lour null's.)
n.in.u r-urontiin. we'ro wild to
. -- -- -- -- .i.i-.i.
i tobc irom nun i" i""'""""
ih. wuv ocroM tho bttno of the
Icrboum peninsula
.
HE tcmperumontnl chnnnel
wcotlHT relents ngnm, oring-
fa, h ull KKIL'S HI1U tllllilUI OV-llO
'r planes swurm In tho bluo
id, and on tho beuches our
idlnK cnifl pour oiihoro nt an
.lurtiliul nncc.
(An "nuthoriuuivn ruiwri i-
places too remaining sircngin
iim f'.iTiiiiin uir force tit 20011
U and ours nt MORE THAN
000.)
HSENIIOWER forccosls NEW
invmloiiH. (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
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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
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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
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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-
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