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o)Q(T)P(ai o) fj?i pn o) n n o) n pr rZrtrm ,rfBH: Car, Tamed Pee S CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1944 Number 10134 fcvH ASSAULT TROOPS Lflfffl p-SpM few'-' aim id noire? iim riii n ian n Kmi fer ; i By FRANK JENKINS HERE'S plenty of ncw to- dny. n ii r now SUPER-FORT- iESSKS bomb Jupun. The Ccrmnnii appear to be aunchlng tholr . long-oxnoctcd n)or counterattack In Irancc. Tokvo nullo says wo'ro LAND NG TROOPS In tho Marianas. en EAT Hocrcey surrounds the bombing ot Japan, but llio ardi'piirtment discloses that thu ale new Forts camo from the India China Burma t h o a t o r. There Is no Intimation as to WHERE tho bombs fell on tho laps. General Arnold, head of the U, S. air force, says today: "This employment of the B-20 Die new Super-Fortress) makes Luslblu the SOFTKN1NG-UP at ack on Japan VERY MUCH :MILIKI than would bo pos sible with aircraft hitherto known to combut." THE Sucr-FortrcM Is NEW A AIR WEAPON with lonifcr raw, moro carrylnii power, nigre armor and more armament Hum ANY OTHER PLANE IN THE WORLD. Its strategic Importance Is so rcul that It Is to bo used by a ipcciul bomber command, headed ly General Arnold, and it will be sent ANYWHERE IN THE WOULD where Ita special talent ' for destruction la most needed at tho moment. (It is sent FIRST to Japan.) It is disclosed today that It la being produced In huge volume. All details-permitted to bo known about It oro carried in this newspaper today. You will find the story fascinating read ing. ... THE battle of tho beaches In Normandy appears to bo rush ing toward its climax.. Nazi re inforcements, hurrying up to tho iigntinu front, aro reported Dy our airmen to bo clogging the iroads for 200 miles. back. Our planes aro tearing Into them. A front-linn - dispatch, says: "It appears that Marshal Von Rundstcdl is mounting his SU PREME cnunlor-thrusl with his STRATEGIC reserves. Ho seems to be making tho gamble that the Nnrmnndy operation is the real thing and that General Elsenhower will not Immediately attempt a new landing else where." Unofficial estimates say the Germans arc using 20 divisions, which Is supposed to bo about a 'third of their strength in Hol land, Belgium nnd France, i . THE only gains by our sldo today aro modo by our Amer icans, who nro fighting to cut across the baso of tho Cherbourg peninsula und aro reported to bo only six miles from tho only re maining rail and highway routo to Cherbourg, There are uncon firmed renorts that tho Germans arc beginning to destroy tho Cherbourg docks. ... THERE Is hard fighting in'FIn land, with the Russians .now only 25 miles from Viipuri and 175 miles from Helsinki. The Finns aro putting up a tough "glit, but appear to bo losing. THE Ankara radio tolls of a cabinet crisis In Turkey. Tho Turkish forolgn minister is said o hnvo resigned after fnlllng to gain support for his policies, '"no tho Turkish premier has taken ovor the foreign ministry, f Any sign of eruption In a neutral or a satellite country j those days is Interesting. iXHE, Tokyo radio today, says , trying 10 land irouus n Snlpnn and Tlnlan islonds in tl)Q Mnrlnnno 4.,f , i t h nf Guam. Tho Japs say wo're 'wng 20 transports. The Japs Jove boon tolling us first rather regularly of the beginning of "uuruiiir. nnur hintt ns If If l 4i... id urn cirr iiD' wo'n have a base within 1500 miles of Tokyo. You're familiar by this .tlmo with the jnoory of bases. , They are stop g stones where we assemblo iroons nrA an.iimAni . Mhcr jump off. Tho Marianas 1000 miles west of our pres et most westward-baso. in the From n Morlan'n.' Uaaa ' 1UA wujd striko either nt Japan or t tho Pliiii....t.,. - - "..IUU1MU0I HE hard-fighting' Chinese are Si ll - u1.n ,1 .IW.MIIIU lib ' lllttllfiSII wnero tho Japs are said to have "fown In 200,000 men. (about m dav. mjf u ivif ruftJiiL-SJi ii aw r-iiniiiiM-iiB iib-iia ui t i ii (Continued on Pago Six) -U U, S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June 18 l' Assault troops landed Wednesday morning on Salpan, Japanese air and naval base in tho Muriunas, and troop land ings "nro bolng continued against strong opposition," Adm. Chestor W. Nlmltz announced In a com munltiuo today. Initial landings assuults start ed after intensive preparatory bombing and bombardment of Solpnn, Tin Inn, Guam, Pagan and Rata islands by Pacific fleet aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers. Bombings Bogin The preparatory attack started with currier bombings Saturday and continued through four days before tho landings began. Tho fleet carriers and warships Allies Break Resistance To Make Advance in Italy By EDWARD KENNEDY ROME, June 15 (A') Allied troops, breaking tho stiffening German resistance of the last three days, have made a general advance all along their Mne In Italy taking Orvlcto, Aqmlo aiid Nam! and pushing onward, allied headquarters announced today. Orvlcto Is 57 miles northwest of Rome; Narnl, 41 miles north, and Aquila, 94 miles northeast. Along the west coast "tho" fifth army h.s advanced 70 milca be yond Rome. As one eighth army -column entered Orvicto, an Important road Junction northeast of Lake Bolscna, another reached the out skirts of Tcrni, but was delayed by a blown bridge and a German counterattack in the vicinity of the city. Fifth army troops along the west coast met determined en emy resistance at Magliano, 11 miles northeast of Orbctcllo, but swept resistance at Magliano, 11 miles northeast of Orbctcllo, but swept it aside and entered the town. Tho fall of Orbctcllo Itself, a west coast town 71 miles beyond Rome and the center of German resistance to the fifth army's of fensive, was reported last night. In the Lake Bolsena area Pacific Land Battle Rages The biggest current land bat tle of tho Pacific war centered at Changsha in central China, with Chungking reporting Chi nese defenders holding off ene my forces attacking the city from three sides. The Japanese have thrown 200.000 men Into tho battle Chungking, said. An Important bottle was join ed between British forces and Japanese defending Mogaung, 35 miles west of Myltkyino In north Burma, southeast Asia headquarters, announced. Cap ture of these two cities Is vital to Lt. Gen. Joseph Stllwell's plan to link the Ledo and Burma roads between India and China. Stllwell now Is at grips with tho enemy Inside Myltkylna. On Blak island U. S. troops fighting to seize two airfields still were meeting fierce resis tance. . IHH Elks Public (g ' TONIGHT ;' 7:15 Military parade, Main street. Army, navy, ma- : rines- Legion Drum corps. 7:30 Exercises, Elks temple steps. Music. - . Advance of the colors. ;. Display of Old Fort. Klamath flag. . .. . ,., ' Introductory exercises. Prayer..;. - ' ' , ' ' '" ", History of the Flag Pageant, with assistance of . Women's Ambulance corps. . ' . " Addresses by Colonel B. Dubel, Commander R. R. Darron, Lt. '.Col. -Verne. Austin, commanding : officers of Klamath military Installations. . . ; Altar service, :- " ,-, ";" '-,-.' ;..': ; . Closing music.'.';;.;-. v :, f x ,v ; . : . The public. Is Urgently Invited to attend. If weather Is unfavorable, exercises will- be held Inside. ' T.. . " "'""TTJ h J n H are supporting the landing forces with heavy air attacks and naval gun shelling. "The Initial reports," Nlmltz said, "indicate our casualties are moderate." The nusuult to seize Salpan makes a long leapfrogging vault from the Marshalls over Truk, the once potent enemy strong hold In the Carolines. Salpan is 679 statute miles west of Truk and 1130 miles west of Eniwetok, westernmost Marshall base taken from tho Japanese last February. It Is about 1500 miles from Tokyo. Tokyo Radio If tho American force over runs Salpan, Truk will be cut off from tho rear. Guam, former American naval outpost lost to tho Japs three days after the French troops continued to ad vance and the Americans reached Pitigliano, 11 miles west of the" northern end -of the lake, and sent reconnaissance elements farther Allied troops In the Adriatic sector are across the Saline river. ,' Despite the arrival o( fresh Gorman divisions in Italy, allied armies still , aro encountering only formntlons mnde up of rem nants of the 14th German army. Apparently these are being used for tho present delaying action and tho new. divisions are being saved for a stand on a line farth er north. Allied heavy bombers attacked oil refineries In , the Budapest area and northern Yugoslavia while medium bombers attacked rail targets .' on the Italian east coast and south of Florence.: . Fifteen German planes were destroyed in all operations and 18 allied aircraft were missing.! American Army Casualties Grow WASHINGTON, June 15 () American army casualties ' in Italy increased by 4472 during six days of heavy fighting In the Alban hills and In smashing the German lines south of Rome. In the period since allied land ings in Italy last September through Juno 5, casualties have accumulated . as follows: 11,103 killed, an Increase of 1139 tn the six-day period between May 30 and June 5; 42,489 wounded, an Increase of 3935; 8409 missing, a decrease of -602. Senate Receives Army Money Bill WASHINGTON, June 15 (A) Unanimous house passage sent to the senate today a $49,109, 002,795 army appropriation bill for the fiscal year starting July 1. Conveying the "hope" of military leaders that Germany will be knocked out of the war by next January 1, Representa tive Snyder (D-Pa.) urged, the house today to approve the bill unanimously. war's outbreak, also would be closely flanked. Guam lies 116 miles south of Saipan. .' Tokyo radio reported hours earlier that ' American amphib ious troops - were landing - on Saipan In the face of "accurate Japanese fire." Tokyo said the first attempt to land on Saipan was "thrown Into -wild con fusion." Later, It added, Amer icans reached shore - on both islands. ' Landings - Ef f ctd ' , Admiral Nlmltz' communique said: . i , ' .- "Operations for .the seizure of Saipan Island In the Marianas group have been- initiated , by strong Pacific ocean areas forces. , "Assault troops .have effected landings on Saipan- Island, fol (Continued on Page: Two)- Gains"' Made f5espite .- ''.!'?" i v By Germans g-.' ' Bt WEB GALLAGHER " ' ' , SUPREME HEADQUARTERS A L L IE D, EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 13 (P) American troops have surged powerfully ahead in, their stab Into ' the Cherbourg .neck,- allied .headquarters-announced today, and Berlin reported that .less than six miles separated ..-the spear head from the last west coast communications Unking -. Cher bourg with France. - -. . The gains; were hammered out in- spite of furious counterat tacks air along-the 100-mile in vasion front in which .the- Ger mans had thrown about 20 di visions and 600 tanks. Allied headquarters, confirm ing that American infantry' and parachute troops, supported by tanks had scored further gains west of Carehtan, said allied soldiers were holding' firm everywhere else despite .the massive nature- of the- German counterstroke and were inflict ing heavy losses on the enemy. This was after it was-acknowledged that the British ' at the eastern end of the line had been forced to.- give up Troarn, their anchor nine-miles east of (Continued on- Page Two) De Gaulle Claims French Support p By ALEX H. SINGLETON LONDON, June 15 (F)-Gen. Charles de .Gaulle, back K Brit ain after a triumphal reAption on French soil; today laid be fore British and-American po litical and -military 'councils, a claim of enthusiastic support from', newly-liberated' French men to back his demand - for recognition of the French com mittee of national liberation as the voice of - France. De Gaulle was said to be planning tentatively to return, briefly. to Algiers to report to the French consultative assem ble on- the- result of his discus sions with the -British and with Gen. Dwight ' D. Eisenhower, before proceeding to -America to see President Roosevelt. ; Nazi Submarine . Shells Trawler v ? BOSTON, J.une 15' m A German submarine Invaded, the North' Atlantic fishing grounds last week, shelled and machine gunned a Boston trawler and forced all but two ;of- her.' crew to abandon ship.-: V The submersible finally -.left, her skipper - apparently think ing the , trawler : w o u 1 d , sink. Then the crew put the vesse. tn -shape and' brought her ' into port early -today, her hull ' and superstructure looking - almost like a-sieve; ' ' 4 .n fir This head-on photograph shows, the 'smashed truck in which FrineUX W; West 47, :was killed In a train-truck crash near .the airport -yesterday- The truck had not yet been removed from the front of the Great Northern freight locomotive1 when the picture was taken. . - Truck-Train Crash Kills -. A truck-train crash '' at : the Summers lane crossing of the Great Northern late yesterday took the life of Francis William West, 47, driver and lone occu pant of the truck. West drove the . empty mate rials truck on the crossing in front of a 53-car inbound Great Northern, freight. The heavy train caught the truck amidships and dragged it for 430 yards, chewing it into smoking wreckage. West fell out of the truck and between the rails at about m WAR BULLETINS .NEW YORK, June 15 (ff) The ' Turkish radio said today that ; Foreign Minister Mene mem - Cioglu ' resigned after a cabinet meeting during which he failed to gain support of his policies. t. The broadcast in Arabic, re ported by U. S. government monitors, added that Premier Sukru . Saracoglu would take over the foreign ministry. ' STOCKHOLM, June 15 The Swedish Red Cross ship Fenja sank between Calino and the Turkish mainland "probably aa .-result of striking a mine," the Swedish office - was advised today. The ship was carrying relief supplies for the Greek population in the Aegean is lands. - LONDON, June 15 (fl) The Berlin radio said today that al lied troops had reached Pretot, nine 'miles west of Carentan. BERN. Switserland, June 15 (P) Gestapo Maj. Gen. Wer ner was-reported today to have been captured by. French par tisans, tried and executed after his refusal to sign an order re leasing imprisoned patriots. - The Gaaette de Lausanne said Werner was captured several weeks ago and that a group of his followers was killed in the tklitmish.. " STOCKHOLM, June 15 W) The German-controlled ' Scandi navian telegraph, bureau report ed from Zurich, Switserland, today that the Germans have blown up harbor facilities at Cherbourg. Air Station Worker 250 yards, and his body was badly mangled. He died instant ly. V The train came to a stop with the truck enmeshed in the cow- cat chert' of the locomotive.- The impact broke a steam . line on the engine, and it-was-necessary to Bring up another locomotive to yank the truck loose and move the train. West was employed by Baker and Graves, subcontractors on the navy air station- construc tion project. He was, returning to the Baker materials plant north-ot town, wnen tne acci dent occurred. . It was at first, feared West may have picked up a sailor from the air station just before the crash, but this- report, was later found to be-untrue. West was single and lived at 2417 Eberlein street. The truckr beloneed to Leslie Bennett. 920 Martin street, according to state ponce, who, witn tne sner. if f's office and Dr. George H, Adler coroner, investigated the accident. Engineer on the G. N. train was Edward William Swartz and fireman was John Emmett Hill. Nine Entrants In Queen Race The ever-lengthening list of candidates for queen ot tne rodeo celebration here on July 2, 3 and 4, now has nine - en trants. Latest contestant is Jean Parker of Hildebraiid who reg istered with the. rofleo associa tion Wednesday. " Jean Is 18 years old and has been riding ever since she can remember. She graduated from Bonanza high school this spring. Besides riding a horse, Miss Parker likes drawing.. She is the daughter of Mr. ana Mrs. Clarence Parker. Jean has brown hair and blue eyes and is 5 feet 7 inches tall. Baseball Scores AMERICAN R H E Philadelphia .'. 1 6 T Boston :. 5 6 "-0 , Harris and Hayes; - Hughson and Conroy. .NATIONAL ' R. H. E. Pittsburgh .................. 1 4.1 Cincinnati 0 8 0 - Butcher and Camelll; Dela cruz and Mufller. . WASHINGTON, June ,15 (AP) The army threw a new fighting giant into the war in the Pacific today, t u r n i n g loose the new B-2? Super-Fortress in. an air attack on the Japa nese homeland. '' ' - ;-. 1 ' . A terse war department communique said: " "B-29 'Super-Fortresses of the . United States army air forces 20th bomber command bombed Japan today." v f- ' It was the first fighting assignment for the sky mammoth, and. the announcement alsp served to disclose, for the first time the exist- ence of the 20th air force (of which the 20th bomber command is a part); a world-roaming unit under the personal direction of Gen. Hv H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces. i ' The war deoartment withheld-? r? details on the new bombing of Japan proper first such attack on the mainland since the Doo little raid of April 18, 1942. There was no immediate hint of .what part of Nippon had been- hit. nor from where the B-29's went into action. However, the war department subsequently disclosed that WASHINGTON. June 15 (It) Rep. S tames (D-Ala.), told the house late today that Tokyo proper was a target for the Super-Fortress raid on Japan. The Alabama member said he was advised from a good source that "great destruction" was being caused in Tokyo by a-large number of 'American 'planes....... ' .; He did not disclote" the source of 'his .Information,' but: : told newspapermen the . informs- -tion-was rellatlltt.T'Ty'.y- planes, taking part in today's raid : came from the India-China-Burma theater, v p-- ? ! - ' Heavily Armored ..',- - The-B-29, it was disclosed for the first time, is a heavily arm ored ,-ship; . whose . bomb- load, range and ceiling exceed ' that of . any other 'plane, vlt. is pow ered by . four engines of '.2200 horsepower each, each carrying two. superchargers. Its- wing span is 141.2 feet, as compared with . B-17's (Flying- Fortress) span of 104 feet. '. But Arnold said in connec tion .with the announcement: "This employment of the B-29 makes possible the soffet ing up attack on J a p a nr vci ; much earlier than would be possible with aircraft hitherto known to combat." -... Arnold asserted: "The Super-Fortress .is -not going to win th.e war by itself, nor has anyone thought it will do so. It will, however, like its predecessors, the B-17 and B-24, strike at the sources of enemy ; (Continued on Page Two) i ; Accident Kills Lumber Worker Frank John Grimm, 74, was k i lied Wednesday afternoon when he ' was run over by a lumber carrier in the yards of the Big Lakes Box company. According to company offi cials, Grimm, box factory yard foreman, stepped directly in front of the carrier and was killed when the carrier, ran over him. The man lived at 317 North Tenth street and is survived by his wife, three sons, three daughters, two ; brothers and two sisters. ; Reds Bear Down on Finns; t Inflict Heavy Casualties LONDON, June 15 VP) The red army .smashed another wedge today through Finland's heavily fortified second defense lines on the Karelian isthmus between Mustomaki and Kutose, the soviet . communique . an nounced -tonight. Seventeen enemy strong points were captured as the Rus sian troops widened their breach in the Finnish defenses to . 47 ' miles at the end of a week's offensive, Moscow, said.. LONDON, June 15 Rus sian troops, bearing down, with tanks, -artillery and air support, are inflicting heavy casualties on the Finns on the Karelian front and have advanced to within 25 miles' of the seaport of Viipuri, Moscow declared today. ' With their capital city of Hel sinki, 150 miles northwest of Vii puri, endangered by the soviet offensive, the Finns have thrown strong reinforcements into a El E SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED, EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 15 (A") A loree o f between 1000 and 2000 American Fortresses and Liber ators and escorting fighters swept over France this morn ing, bombing airplane plants, airfields and railroad facilities in a dozen places. -rBerlul radio reported an aft' tack on -the great industrial city ot Hannover in Germany while lighter allied .- warplanes from, bases in Normandy and Britain continued 4heir-widespTeSd' sup port campaign in a smashing follow-up to an 1100-bomber op eration overnight.. : .- -.-. As a part of the latter- opera tlbn several hundred .Lancaster blasted E-boat pens 'at Le Havre with six-ton . "factory busters" in "daylight. ; ' , :'Twenty-eight hundred tons of explosives were dropped on the; port in two separate attacks, the-first, just before dusk, be- , ing the RAF's heaviest daylight bombardment of the war and its first high altitude daylight precision- effort. ; Targets of the - -. American "heavies" today -ranged- fron Nantes, La Poisonniere and An gouleme to Beauvais,- La Frijj, . (Continued on Page Two) . -r Klamath Pilot Reported Missing ' Marion Green of .137 -'Mitt street Thursday received a telfe,' gram from the war department . advising him that his son, Flight Officer Earl Green, . has. beeit missing .in action . since . June jd over" France.' , v. . .-,' , " Flight Officer Green was tho pilot of a . Thunderbolt fighter plane based in England. . .It is) believed that this is the . first news of a Klamath boy missing in the. invasion theater.: . . He has been in England since the first of March and before that- -was-, stationed : at . Tala hassee, . Florida. Before enter ing the national guard unit in 1939, he. was a student: at KUHS and was also a Herald and News carrier boy. . - tHe -has two brothers in thar service. Sergeant Stephen Green is stationed -with the army at Camp Breckenridge. Ky and Corporal Charles Green is with the marines at " Cherry Point, North Carolina. - ; fierce - struggle with . the . reel army in the area of Kuterselka and Jarvi, a , broadcast communK que from Moscow said. ; "' Russian troops have penetrat ed the Finnish lines at KuterseN ka, the Finns acknowledged to day on a communique broadcast from Berlin. The bulletin also said- Viipuri was attacked last night by 150 soviet planes. lV -The new reserves occupied de fensive positions between 'the lalias and marshy ground. This made tank operations extremely difficult, but soviet troops man aged to capture several Finnish support points despite stout op position, the communique said', t Evidence 'of the ferocity of tho fighting- was contained. Jn , th Russian, announcement, which said one unit of the red army had in three days wiped out 30Q0 of the enemy, destroyed 80 guns? 25 mortars and 80 machineguns, and captured 70 Other guns. Tho . . (Continued on gage Six) - v
