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Newspaper Page TextPACE SIX BITTER STREET BUTTLES H AGE TWO TOWNS (Continued From Page One) defense of Cherbourg peninsula. American armored forces there smashed the Germans back, and the Berlin radio ac knowledged a withdrawal of several miles west and north of Carentan, with doughboys thus apparently cutting half to two thirds of the way across the narrowest neck of the peninsu la. Give Ground Headquarters "said Americans fighting in the Montebourg area had to give some ground along the road to the sea. "In some areas we continued our advance and in others the Germans had some local suc cesses," the supreme command said in describing the whole batticfront. The four nazi armored divi sions plunged into battle around Caen, Tilly-Sur-Seulles, and Caumont included the 21st and 12th S. S. divisions. It was not known whether all the armor of these units was committed in battle, but all their infantry was. Caen In Flamt The Germans said Caen it self was in flames and was be ing attacked from all sides. Berlin also reported allied arm ored thrusts south of Caumont. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery launched a squeeze on Caen with his thrusts reaching 25 miles inland into the area southwest of the big anchor city Striking as he often did against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the African desert. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery, allied ground commander, sent tanks rumbling south of Bayeux along the central sec tor of the front. They smashed through Caumont and Villers Bocage, then turned east and north to drive savagely into the German flank protecting Caen on the west. Bombarded . Caen itself was under heavy naval bombardment from allied warships. A flier who flew over the city said it seemed "scarce ly possible ior life to exist there." , Villers-Bocage stands athwart a main highway to Caen, 16 miijM! tn the southwest. Cau mont, seven miles west and slightly norm oi v uiere-nutoBc, commands a secondary route, olen loartino tn Caen. The British tanks struck with "great effect," the allied supreme . command announced. - . A fierce German counter attack was made on British forces in newly-captured Troarn in an attempt to blunt or cut off - a Montgomery pincers coming to flank Caen on tne easi. Front Enlarged Tt was the ' old Montgomery tactic of attacking on the flanks to cut off a large force of Ger mans and take them prisoner or destroy them rather than push them back. , , , n the western end of the al lied beachhead, now enlarged to a 100-mile fighting front, Amer icans used armored torces 10 break a deadlock at Carentan, , six miles from the sea. The . German radio acknowledged a nazi withdrawal west and north of Carentan "to spare German lives." This several-mile withdrawal would put Americans between half and two-thirds of the way across the Cherbourg peninsula at its narrowest point. Villages Taken Berlin conceded that Amer icans advancing on strips of non flooded land had infiltrated nazi lines northwest of Carentan, and taken "a number of villages." A transocean broadcast said the nazis had lost Tilly-Sur- seulles, which several times has changed hands. The German high command claimed recapture of a number of unidentified localities, and declared nazi tanks breaking into the beachhead east of the Orne river had inflicted heavy casualties. The Germans said allied tank thrusts south of Caumont and near Tilly-Sur- beulles were broken up and de : stroyed. The allies, aided today by fair weatner, already have seized a foothold In France of 600 to 700 ' square miles, and captured more than 10,000 prisoners. Allied ou leers estimate 230,000 Ger mans are engaged in Normandy, Berlin, apparently trvine to nic ture allied successes as due to overwhelming numbers, has placed the figure of allied sold iers as high as 500,000. Cut Roads The allied advance to Caumont and Villers-Bocage cut two roads leading northeastward to HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Tl,a fnllnvulnff hnvA mnpu'pH their membership in the $1000 E Bond Pelican club: William uanong. Mildred Ganong. George S. Blanas. Tom Kosmos. Maurice Schwartz. James Luis. Evagclctsa Luis. Gus Vlahos. Annie H. Rickbill. William C. Milkey. Sidney C. Elliot. Floyd McMillan. Louise Humphrey. Elmer Mcrritt. Maurice Johnson. Albert Morrison. Charles A. Clark. Nick Blanas. Arthur W. Schaupp. Mrs. Laura A. Fry. Mrs. Hazel T. Woodford. Ncls G. Fornander. George Koines. Mrs. George Koines. Lloyd L. Low. Cecil R. Cheyne. James Michaclson. Merrill McMillan. Joseph M. Johns. Mrs. Agne Drazil. $1000 Pelican Club E BONDS Caen, the strongest point still in German possession. This drive swerved southeastward from the Cerisy forest area. American troops who plunged through the Cerisy forest pushed southwest several miles toward the important German communi cations hub of St. Lo. German broadcasts acknowledged two advances in that area as allied forces attempted to throw a pincers around the town. The German radio said St. Lo was a mass of flaming rubble from allied air bombardment. Tanks Attack Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery, allied ground com mander, threw British tanks into the attack on the German flank south of Tilly-Sur-Seulles and to day's communique. No. 17. said the blow had a "great effect," although the exact extent of the drive was not revealed. SuDreme headquarters said Germans were expending a large number of soldiers in a furious assault on Troarn. east of Caen Troarn is the left arm of a Montgomery pincers movement closing in on Caen. The- right arm is tne douDie mow trom below Tilly-Sur-Suelles and the Caumont and Villers-Bocage roads. Ships Support In a Berlin broadcast, the Ger- man transocean agency declared that nazi forces broke through American lines and into Caren tan late Tuesday but "Mont gomery hastily ordered heavy British warships to the support, wmcn, . with all their guns, shelled the Carentan area, whereupon the Germans with' drew again to hill positions more advantageous for defense." Transocean said the situation changes hourly" in the Carentan area as attacking American forces try to "widen their bridge head toward the south and west." The allied drive has placed the ground forces out of range of warships in many places on the bridgehead for the first time. American and British battleships still are supporting the flanks of the battle area, but the center is rolling on with the aid of air support only. Weather Good Excellent flying weather favored the allied air forces this morning and great fleets of heavy and lighter bombers as well as fighters swept into the attack. The weather first cleared late yesterday and about 2000 Dlanes including American Flying Fort resses and Liberators, attacked before dusk, hitting airfields and a string of railroad bridges across the foot of the Brest pen insula irom vannes to si. Maio a likely route for German rein forcements up the west side of the Cherbourg peninsula to the sector where the American fourth division is battling below Cherbourg. The German air lorce offered little resistance. At 20 miles per hour there are 12 fatalities in each 1000 auto mobile accidents but at 51 miles per hour and over there are 82 more than a seven-fold increase. BOMBER HMD BLASTS NAZI OIL LIFELINE (Continued from Page One) dun in France; Russels-Mels-brocck and Eindhoven in Bel gium. Meanwhile, another American heavy bomber force, the Ger- ....... ..nrlir. nirl tttirOfVt UU frOItt Italy for an attack on Hitler's Europe which underwent m-v attacks from the south in the Munich area both yesterday and last night. Tho air armanas iook iuu -i-vantnge of ideal weather in stepping up tho assaults on Ger man fighting forces and strate ; ri,.is fur inland. It was described here as "a marvelous air support campaign getting more saiistaeiory every auj. Support Troops In direct suDDort of troops battling in Normandy, large f,r.e nf American Marauders and Havocs and fighter-bombers swarmed across me sun-suMeu-ing channel all day. The fight ,K owondxd nttnc-kK to German shipping while a separate force of American ijigninings p trolled defensively over the allies' sea lifelines. Supreme headquarters said air chiefs planned to press the two-ptay air campaign au.-iu ti.n phnnnni with tnrtlcnl and long-range, strategic bombing to split the Germans' dwindling air force into even greater feeb leness than li nas snowea ovn the battlefield so far. It was estimated that more than 30 nazi air fields had been blasted in the past three days. Tt ic nnw nnthnritfitlvelv re ported that the Luftwaffe has been reduced to arouno auuu planes against the allies' front Una fnret nf more thnn 11.000. The Germans are said to have 500 single - engined lighters massed at fields in the battle recinn which is under this cur rent intensive attack. French Officers' Invasion Orders Reported Cancelled (Continued From Page One) ing in the name of the British and American governments, di rected ' General Eisenhower to make use of the French officers. Subseouently the committee as signed several nunorea oiuccn to Eisenhower's command in Britain and they were given spe cial training with invasion forces. When General De Gaulle arrived in London two days be fore D-Day he brought up for review this whole question of the use of French officers and the' extent of cooperation be tween the committee and Gen eral Eisenhower s forces. As a result and officials here say be cause he was trying to force recognition of the committee as a government De Gaulle sud denly reversed the long estab lished French position and re fused to let tne officers go along on their assigned missions. R-lani-d The insistence of allied com mands on having some represen tation for dealing with the French people finally forced him to relent to the extent of allow ing 20 officers to make the trip. Officials here say Eisenhower's reports show that the officers who were forbidden to go were extremely disappointed. These actions of De Gaulle were understood to nave strength, ened the White House and state department decision against rec ognizing the liberation commit tee as France's provisional government EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) DON'T expect us to win in the next few weeks. - - VE smacked the Japs hard in " the Mnrianas, sinking and rinmaclnii ill) of their ship and downing 141 of their planes with a loss to us of only 15 planes and 15 pilots. watch iiu.i Marianas ana Carolines fighting. It's pretty sure to lead up to something Im portant. "VER tn Idaho (on the homo political front) a follow who is known as the "singing cowboy of Pocatello" is running neck and neck for the Democratic nomination for U. b. senator. This writer thinks we' have enough singing cowboys and hillbilly blind lenders and sim ilar ciittlo in congress already and hopes this Pocatello crock pot is finally beaten. Our great need in congress is MORE STATESMEN. Russian Tanks Roll Along Viipuri Road As Army Hits Finns (Continued From Pugo One) seizuro of numerous cannon In tact with ammunition. It was apparent that the Finns still were surprised and unable to mHko a stand along the Vii puri highway although soviet tanks now are pushing through tne very neart or their long es tablished fortifications. Seven Points The bulletin, broadcast from Moscow and recorded by the soviet monitor, named seven newly captured points and pre vious advices had placed the Rus sian vanguard within 30 miles of Viipuri. Finland s second citv. fortified centers of Finnish defense that were captured In cluded Kutcrkscika G a r v 1, Mushtalava, Rivarimyakl, Mulm jaki, Masclka. Vaselia and Flrit- Jula '' the Russians announced. Long-range Russian bombers were officially reported to have conducted heavy raids Tuesday night against enemy airfields at Brestutovsk, major Polish base: Biclostok, Pinsk, Minsk, Bo bruisk and UrsMI, starting fires and exploding ammunition dumps. "Many enemy planes were de stroyed on the ground," it was announced. Eight of the raiders failed to return. Fifth Army Takes Highway Junction Beyond Orbetello (Continued from Page One) the advance north of Rome broadened its activities, RAF night bombers attacking the Munich area early today, a few hours after between 500 and 750 American heavies blasted the same region yesterday. American Marauder mediums hit two 400-foot cargo ships in the harbor at Livorno (Leg horn). It was believed the Ger mans were preparing to fill them with concrete and sink them at the entrance of the har bor. RAF coastal Beaufightcrs roamed southern France, straf ing enemy vehicles in the Istres Montpelicr area. Headquarters permitted cor respondents to say that the fifth army forces which captur ed Rome included the first arm ored, 85th and 88th divisions. BIG GUNS SHELL By J. B. KRUEQER Associated Press War Editor Biu nuns as wall as a swarm of carrier planes poured explo sives o- U. S.-owuod Guam and other Muriamia islands during tho heavy three-day strike against thuso enemy defenses flanking tho Philippines, Tokyo radio acknowledged tooHy,. . -,!..... Ml. ..I. AUI11, .livamr .-.mi., v,.- mander in the Central Pacific, re ported tho carrier task lorco sanit 13 Japanese ships, dumaged 16 and destroyed 141 pianos, but did tint claim that surfneo ship bombarded tho islands. NlroiU did not say, either, that tho bold foray into Japan's innor defenses had been continued. Ho mid Tokvo oiirced thut Guam, Snlpan and Tlnlim Islands of the group lying npproxuniuc lv isno miles south of Jupun were the principal targets. Guam, southernmost mul largest of tho group, was seized by tho Japan ese In tho first six days of tho Pacific war, Chsngiha Held This sea action and tho mount ing battle for Chungshn In south central China overshadowed de velopments on tho other fronts. Chungking rovoulod that the Chi nese desperately defending Changsha, key point on mo rum-kow-Ciiiiton railway, were hold Ing their own. Tho defenders turned back an enemy attempt to cross a river east of the city and killed 300 Japanese in one sector. , , ChnnBsha Is besieged from three sides and the invaders ut one point were within six miles of tho city. The Japanese need it to cut off western China from the allies. Mnkmer airdrome on Amort pan. invaded Biak Island off Dutch New Guinea Is now in usff by fifth army atrforce pianrs, Gen. Douelax MacArthur dis closed. This meant the allies have a new base within 880 miles and heavy-bomber range of the southern Philippines. The field came into allied -use five days after the Japanese were pried loose from tne drome. Continue Drive MacArthur's troops . continued driving westward on Blak to ward two other airfields, Sorldo and Borokoo. Ono infantry col umn was within half mile of the latter. In Geelvlnk bay, wherein Biak lies, cannon-firing Mitchell bombers sank four 100-ton cargo ships and three coastal vessels. The Japanese invasion of In dia, launched with fanfares months ago. was fast receding. A ridge 18 miles from once-threatened Imphal was cleared of en emy troops, southeast Asia head quarters announced. Hint, Norland Fire Insurance. LONDON, June 14 (F) Gen. Charles de Gaulle's press at tache denied today a Washing ton report that the French gen eral suddenly cancelled orders for several hundred French of ficers to land with the allied first waves in the invasion of Normandy. If It's a "frozen" article you need, advertise for a used one in the classified. 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American Ambassador tan ton Hayes, it was learned today, Im. hittm liintructed to ask the Mnmil.h if nvemniniit to bun all war vital exports to Germany, not only oi spaiusn imiihbigm, but of every other commodity important to the nail such as olive oil, hides, skins and wool, Germans Expect New Invasion LONDON, June 14 (P) The Germans are expecting a new allied Invasion In France, their propagiiiHlit Indicated today, Vichy radio, quoting a Her iln military spokesman, said Im portant allied shipping hud been sighted In tha Bay of Biscay off southweatern France, near tho Spanish coast. The Berlin correspondent of l.u bins jo in ucncvu asm ucr man observer expected "Im uortnnt new evonts' on the At lantic coast within 46 hours, with tho expectations bused on alleged reports of allied fleet movements in tne Engl inn chan nel and activity In British in vasion ports. Gable Inactive; Works For Army HOLLYWOOD. June 14 ) Although Mai. Clark Gable was buck In civilian clothes today after 22 months In the uniform of the army air forces, ho is still working for the army. An official of Uie 43-year-old actor's studio said that an air training film would keep Gable busy until mld-iummor. Ho added that Gable had no Immediate plana for a return to the screen. Leaving a $250,000 a year salary to enlist, Gablo spent more than a year in England. Ho saw service on five raids. as combat photographer and gunner, and is now on the In active list. LONDON, June 14 P The Berlin radio said tonight that "heavy and super heavy allied naval gun shelled Le Havre to day." There was no allied confirma tion of the report, German broad casts frequently heve asserted that the allies were planning land drive to take the strategic port at the mouth oi the Seine river. Car Plunges Into Canal After Wild Trip Down Hill (Continued From Page One) roll down hill. The handle was off the driver's door of tho cur, and lie reuchud Inside In oporuto tho inside handle. His hand slipped off. and on u second try, ha knocked off lite Inside handle, Car Rolling 1 By that time, the cur was roll ing rapidly down hill. Gudorlun guided it by reaching through tho open window us It gained speed and momentum, docldlng to stick with tho machine rath er than to turn it loose. Fortunately, no cure were met at the busy Ninth and Lincoln In tersection, 'and the speeding uiu rhlno went on toward the canal There were cars parked on both sides of Lincoln, between Ninth and Tenth str"t, and Giidnrlnn was hard put tn guide the ear between them. HI) body struck two of the parked cars, but tho speeding car went through un touched. Gains Speed By that time, tha car was fining morn thnn 80 miles an lour. As It paused Tenth street, Guderlan decided to Jump "fur It" and leaped onto a parking, skidding and rolling a consider able distance. Tho car struck the steel fence barricading the canal at the dead end of Lincoln street there. Tho fence gave, and tho car went un der It. plunging completely across the big ditch, striking the opposite bank and then sinking back Into the water. Walks Home Guderlan walked back to his home to treat his wounds and call for aid. About that time. Malcolm En ley, managing editor of the pa per, received a telephone call from an acquaintance telling him there was a car In the canal and suggesting a nownplcture. Epley callet Guderlan at hU home lo ask that he take tha picture. "Say, Wes," he said, "there's a car In the canal. Can you get a picture?" "Yeh, I know," said Guderlan. "I rode It right to the bank." 'n South t.. m!V."l,' and n.' '"ln?; mm Wlllheosl of L?ritatti? 1,0,1 Yes! DREW'S MANSTORE t Main Has lots of things that are HARD TO GET For O MEN'S PAJAMAS Just Received! All Sizes. Including Longs AFL Tfck Drivtr, C"Mrul State. t&Hfi AH, union truck IP'! 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But proud ag we are of our norvice flag;, we are more proud of the men ita 15,000 stars represent It's only natural for any company to feel that its men in service are just about the best Uncle Sam has. We feel S. P. men are. We know every single one of these S. P. mon is doing a fine job for this very simple reason: Railroaders are accustomed to emergencies -accustomed to battling snow and rain and mourn' tains and desorts and all the other obstacles that must be overcome every day to get the trains through safely and on time. S. P. misses those 15,000 people-misses them badly now that we are facing the greatest transportation problems in railroad history. However, by way of sup. porting them, and of paying homage tojthe 56 among them who have made the supreme sacrifice, we have dedicated June 14, 1944, as Southern Pacific War Ser. vice Day-a day on which every S. P. mem and womB here at home personally makes the following pW . .(1) We will provide the best sorvice wo possibly et -J. under wartime conditions. (2) We will promote good teamwork in train ops. tions and maintenance. j 3) We will help recruit workers to meet our short- age of employees. . (4) We will subscribe even more than before to tM 6th War Loan Drive. (6). We will support the Rod Cross and every otb War Agency. iOI The friendly Southern Pacific r