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Newspaper Page Textfo) lit SIBf HI o)A 0 11 r-n&Nir JENKINS nm no startling do- volomonU In the European fly CRAw nlttO wu iiuwp. UR bid Super-Fortresses MAY 1 hive knocked, out as much one-fifth of Japan' iilool pro- bctlon. Their ir. was F.ujnUi. one 01 wo jhp kihoi Eel center. iNote Iho uso 01 mo worn Iftty In WW uinii;iivif. ill r. L..n lit what won aeon by , men In the big pljncs. If u'll try to put yourself In tholr ace, yo" will rcallzo that In jow seconds at your disposal JU wouldn't bo nblo to mnko a Uio aainnuu uuiiu.; nut wo know without being ia tiuit micli a raid on Pitts- lira or Gnry, Indiana, or ANY E Z,r Ma steel centers would do jr War ctiun n & ui iiuiiiii Whir raid was no mcro atunt 1 Wo began some two years ago fc design and build the big Canes that made It possible connmng mat ouny iron uai Iin -AT Jnnan would be a liiiih lob. We are told today Kit the B-2D flew "from a net work of bases carved, from the I'ESTERN CHINA plalna by Lio.000 Chlncso men,- women Fd children." That ' In Itself. Js an IM JtENSE Job, Involving long and tarcftil planning. f , IrHIS reference to WESTERN 1 China carries an Interesting loitlblllty. The mysterious Chi icse province of Slnklang Is in ir western China, and thcro uve been aecmlngly well-found-id reports of OIL In Slnklang. Maybe, ulong with our other cdlous and careful preparations, vc'vo been drilling oil wells in Slnklnng and possibly building Wineries. Lack of oil has been me of China's prime weakneaacs. ECAUSE of the misleading ' mmiu ftlvnn Alii lmmf.Hlnti.lv iMaf tlti Dnnlittlo rnld. we are Instinctively inclined to bu a little ausptcioua or tnia newest ,..i,llnn hut THIS TIME Lvnn American corresnondflnls went along. That gooa far to fl!iiariitco the accuracy of the DCWS. '':.. A DMIRAL, NIMITZ tells us to- day of our now landings at Salpan, In lho southern Marianas. Tho JAPS any we're landing also in the BONINS, only 600 miles Irom Tokyo. As to that, we'll have to wait and see. It might bo Just a diversion. It COULD be the real thing. Also it could be Just Jap moonshine. THE area of Salpan Island is 72 square miles. It Is rel llvely flat. Thcro are REPEAT ED references In tho dispatches iw mo rnct that it would mono handy SUPER-FORTRESS BASE. B-20.S hlttlnir Janan from TWO sides would pose an added prob lem lor tnc mile yellow men. IAS to Salpan, Nlmllz says: "The K fillMlrur I. UriVV hi,t nnnH progress is being made against WELL - ORGANIZED DE FENSES." Thn Jans urn uslntf tanks, and It appears also that they are pretty well atinnllerl with mobile artillery. The ground Is open enough for maneuver fighting. in our landings we're using rocket guns ON OUR LANDING BARGES a new departure in landing tactics In the Pacific. . (ANOTHER point as to the Marl- I anna Thnu'rn nn Ihn .Tnn Ijiop-sklp-and-jump route for' fly- line fiahtnt nlnnna nin fhn Smith Pacific. If we can block that fouto it will bo something. QN the Cherbourg peninsula, our Americans are now only en miles from its west coast ond there flrn Mnta.ihn mil hnttlp. "hips are covering this ton miles ;wllh tho fire of their big guns. Of fhn fliyhilnit In NnrmnnHu Elsenhower headquarters says "s morning: "All attempts by :'ne enemy to gain the initiative navo been frustrated and his i-o interattacks have been re- DC led. n,, orlIln nnumr GROWS STEADILY. The Ger mans are dancing to our tunc." I The weather has gone bad again the worst today since D-Day. with a 20-mllo wind plowing on tho beaches and mak ing landings more difficult. ' THE Russians have broken tho hfcCOND Mannerhelm line in rlnlnnrl n. OR Mll.. In ..u, nu vailvlHK u IIIUVB vo days. Tho two Mannerhelm mcs were defeated with all the ingenuity that German military engineers could summon cone wiped anti-tank blocks six feet Wsh with heavy minefields be- 'fl'O them nnrl hnhlnrf Ihim Inter. f.niooted trenches and dugouts w i i stool and concrete walls 7'th stool and concrete plat oons for antl-Unk rifles, mor- ana machine guns. ,,, yt 'the Russians broke H'fough In less than five days, tnat seems to raise a question as ' Whether ANY prepared line n. stand against well-planned m"d,ern assault. . This thought Is probably , ttontlnued on Page Two) - ifeiral& mfa Setoff PRICE 5 CENTS Allies Slash Nazi Resistance Happy f ' L'fx t i if "v. " 4 . i-M . F .... m "J 1 Jmi hom from tha Pacific celvins 30-day ovarsaas leaves. Hare'thay are getting leave papers at a desk set up in the mess hall. Man in nead of money receive loans irom the Red Cross, which had an official on duty to handle this detail for them. Red Army Smashes Through New i Mannerheim Defenses By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, June 16 (!') The rod army has smashed its way through Finland's "new Manner helm line," one of tho last bar riers on the way to tho import ant seaport of Vlipurl, it was re ported today. A Red Star dispatch said the new Mannerhelm lino was a tre mendous fortification, with four lines of walls made of cono-shnp-cd stone and anti-tank blocks almost two yards high, before, which lay an anti-tank mine field 20 yards wide and strewn with German mines. s A great gap has been cut In this line, and in some places so viet tanks ond artillery, as well lis Infnntry, are considerably be yond it, tho dispatch said. Elaborate Dofenses Major Konstantln Shavankov, tho Red Star correspondent and tho first newsman to go through tho new lino, said thnt behind tho tank blocks the Finns had built an elaborate system of trenches and dugouLs, with steel and concrete plutforms for anti tank rifles, machine guns and mortars. . . Tho trenches are connected with bullet and bombproof shel- Air Raids Kill 1200 Jap Troops CHUNGKING, June 16 (P) More than 1200 Japanese troops were killed in the area of be sieged Changsho in Hunan pro vince by three days of opera tions of tho 14th U. S. air force, Lt. Gon. Joseph ' W, Stllwell's headquarters announced today. B-25 Mitchell bombers with P-51 fighter escort, attacked Liuyong, oast of . Changsha, launched this widespread air at tack on tho advancing Japanese on Tuesday, a communique said, by killing 200 Japanese ond damaging installations there. Eerie Pilotless Descend on By LEWIS HAWKINS LONDON, Juno 16 (fl5) Ger man planes without pilots, ghostly and death-spitting, streaked across the southern English sky t o d a y, smashing targets at random and keeping ground guns crackling. The Germana proclaimed this fan tastic "secret" weopon as an instrument of vengeance for what Gorman cities suffered un dor the crushing weight of al lied aerial might, v . These bizarre, flame-scattering robot bombers began their eerie attacks last night, de scending on southern Britain by the dozens, for the first time since the 1940 blitz the ground dofenses could be heard exten sively in daylight, as the Ger mans continued their attacks .'in what seemed to bo an enemy attempt to divert the world s in The Shania-CuHvadp. Wonderland Marines Get Overseas h Si 3Y WL ilahtlna. theae marines at the Klamath Marine Barracks are'ra tors about SO yards, away. These had steel and concrete covering on the sides, wltrrYeom inside for 15 soldiers.' ' "The Finns considered the new Mannerheim line impassable for the rod army, ahavankov wrote. Additional Blocks The main breakthroush was in the region of Kuuterselkae with the new Mannerheim line running from the southwest to the northeast, deep in swamps and forests. A quarter mile away from the trenencs tno r inns naa tnree aa Continucd on Page Two) , Missouri Floods 500,000 Acres OMAHA, June 16 (Mis souri river flood waters, which are. still spilling over rich mid west farmland, h a v e already caused an estimated $13,000,000 damage and .inundated 500,000 acres between Sioux City, la., and St. Joseph, Mo.','ths month, the Missouri river , division army engineer's office reported today. The $13,000,000 damage fig ure brings tho 1944 total on the Missouri to $44,000,000, the en gineers ha,ving estimated dam age by the April flood at $31, 000,000. The three floods in tho basin In 1943 caused $65, 000,000 damage, they',said. King George Visits Normandy ; LONDON, June 16 IIP) King George visited the . Normandy beachhead today. ; A court circular said the king was accompanied by the Sir Alan Lascelles, his private sec retary, and Capt. sir naroia Camubell of the royal navy. No details of the visit were given. Planes South Britain and their home front's atten tlon from the multiplying crises facing uormon arms on tne bat' tlefronts of Europe. Damaae Beoorted An official announcement to night said that the robot planes continued tne attacK intermit tently throuKhout the day; al though on a smaller scale than last night, adding that "inci dents have occurred at several nlaces in southern Eneland and damage and casualties have been reported." There was no evidence, however, that any important military, damage had been wrought. The Gorman radio pictured the bombers as- "novel weap ons," which drop "super-heavy exDlosives." A special note hrnflrimat nftpr the communi quo which announced the raids i iUontmuea:jon rage iwo; KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Leaves IIII..1JM .lj I - nun 4 i v-4. By SID FEDER . i HOME, June 16 (P)--The allies smashed forward from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian sea today, some troops advancing as much as 25 miles in 24 hours, and capturing such important' high way towns as Acquapendente, Narni and Terni along the way. : Farthest advance came by the eighth army in the capture of Todi, approximately 60 airline miles northeast of Rome, and only 85 miles south of the Pisa Rimini lino, where the fleeing Germans may make a stand. There has been no sign of any organized enemy defense in front of a line running from Pisa on the west coast through the city of Florence to. Rimini on the Adriatic. The fiftharmy pushed above (Continued on Page Two) WAR' BULLETINS ' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS. ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 16 (P) The ad vance of allied forces westward from Pont L'Abbe in the Cher bourg peninsula has continued and troops scored local successes in the Tilly sector during the day although the town remains in enemy hands, supreme head quarters announced tonight in communique No. 22. LONDON. Juna 16 (IP) Three German airdromes In the vicin ity of Paris and Laon and a num ber of military installations in the Pas da . Calais region of France were attacked today by up to 500 B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators of the eighth air force, it was announced to night. . ' : ' ROME. June 16 (IP) Ameri can troops driving up the watt coast of Italy - today captured Grosseto. an - Important road Junction more' than 100 milts northwest of Rome. . With, the town's capture the allies obtained use of one - of Italy's major military airports. WASHINGTON, June IB (IP) American forces, reaching with in 600 miles of Tokyo, pounaea three Japanese bases in the Bonln and Volcano Island groups southeast of Japan Wednesday, shooting down 47 enemy plants, sinking two enemy ships, damag. ins tan others and blasting bar racks, air fields and fuel sup plies. ' '-. . : . ST. SAUVEUR LE VICONTE, June IB (IP) Hard-driving Amer ican troops today broke through tough-German resistance, cross ed the river Douvt and reached St. Sauveur le Vicomte, com manding the main road net on the central" Cherbourg peninsula. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1944 YAMS HOLD Americans .11 Miles From. West Coast : ' ' Beaches . ' ' By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 16 (ffH-Americari troops slashed through stiff Ger man resistance today and reach' ed St. Sauveur le Vicomte. They now command the main road net works in the central portion of tne i-nerDourg peninsula. A field disnatcH filed at 5:03 ,pt m. told of the fall of St. Sau veur le vicomte, a mues uue south of Cherbourg. It is a junc tion, which controls iyo. oi "the three roads leading to the prize port.". . . This drive, followed- a. sharp three-mile drive by Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's troops west of Carentan, after previously reach ing Reigneville, three miles to the northwest of St,Suveur. : . . Plus-sine awav on. a 10-mile front and. rapBiflgvput Wfte4 Balds desnite stubborn resistance. . tttelAmerican8 were-nowwithm 11 miles of the Cherbourg-peninsula's west-coast beaches. -Their spearhead was some' 17 miles be low the, bjg port.-, , . ,. , . - , Dina Dona Battle While' Bradley's Yanks " still fought a. ding aong -oarae' witn Germans in the streets of Monte- borg, 14 miles southeast 6f Cher bours on the allied right flank, the Britishrwere engaged in stiff tank battles witn German troops in force two miles south of Cau- inont. This is about 20 miles ih- (Continued on Page Two) Tokyo Minimizes B-29 Attacks NEW . YORK," June 16 (fl5) American B-29 Super. Fortresses which raided the Japanese main land yesterday are "presumed to have taken - off from Sian"'. in Shensl . province of northern China, the Tokyo radio said to day. -. Another broadcast acknowl edged that the raiders hit the Yawata plant or tne Japan, iron Manufacturing company, but de clared the hits were by "a few fragments", only , which caused "no damage whatever to plant facilities." All of a steady, succession of broadcast reports from tne Jap anese capital attempted to mini mize the effects of the attack. ROAD NETWORK ON PENINSULA Eyewitness Account of B-29 Raids Lists Major Hansen as Crew Member NEW. YORK, June 16 (IP) America's Superfortresses .left glowing masses of wreckage in the coke. ovens and open hearth furnaces of the great Yawata steel mills in the curtain raiser attack of these B-29's on 'Japan yesterday, Radio Correspondent Roy Porter reported today in a broadcast from China. - - The super -bombers, flying from bases in western China, ran into heavy anti-aircraft fire and encountered Japanese night fighters, but "nearly all the ships came back," said Porter, one of 11 war correspondents who wit nessed the attack. Porter, a form er Associated Press correspondent,-now on assignment for the National Broadcasting company, represented the combined Amer ican raido networks on the raid. .. Former Attack - The B-29s had been in action before in a preliminary attack on Bangkok, Thailand, last week. A communique from Admiral Louis Lord Mountbatten's South east . Asia headquarters last Thursday-said "strong forces Of heavy bombers dealt Bangkok, its heaviest blow of the war on June 8" (Monday) and that Japanese defenses were caught by surprise as the bombers attacked from all angles.) - - . Porter said one of the mem bers of his. crew .was MaJ, Charles ' Hansen of Klamath Falls. Ore, i' (Maior Charles E. Hansen,, son . Jun Max,' (Jun IB) SO Min. ......41 Precipitation last 24 hours .. .OS Stream year to date 8.87 Normal ...... ...11.47 Last year 17.14 Foreeasti .Showers. . . An International Affair ' ' y ' jf' i "'fit i ) i "t' "'') ;?t smmfM (1 l OPS: 4 iAl:Cii.ti-?riilii ,i milium nmirili ' i.mu .iiiiinni 1 M ini J Four Chinese children support Jaoan. bv buvina bonds in the Feelee. Bettv Jean and Feelat their bonds may buy at the local. bond headquarters. Lela Bravo, an American girl of Spanish descent, hands the four their bonds. The four Chinese are children of Mr. and Mrs.. Toon Wong of Klamath Falls, and have three American-born, cousins -serving in the armed forces. Miss Bravo is the only Jugn school . girl to -volunteer lor-work at the bond headquarten.- .. - a r;.', ..; Target Of Raid By LEIF ERICKSON . . . U.' S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor,; June 16 (AP) A carrier task force, making the Pacific fleet's closest-approach of the war to Japan's homeland, bombed Chichi Jima and. Haha Jima in the Bonin islands Wednesday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today.' v .Striking 588 miles from Yokohama, the carrier planes destroyed 47 Japanese planes, sank two ships, and damaged 10 more vessels. ' - ;' Iwo Jima, in the Kaxan or Volcano island group 150 miles to the south, also was hit. The attacks clearly were intended to knock out air. bases from which the Japanese might attack American amphibious forces that landed Wednesday, morn ing on Saipan island in the Marianas,: 728 miles southeast of the Bonins, and , were advancing against stiff enemy resist ance. .' .''..' '' : -S . i -i: -:. -V .VV"'' Closing in to strike the Bonin ": : bases for the first time, the Amer ican carrier force undoubtedly: steamed closer to Tokyo and Yo kahama than did the American flattop Hornet which carried the Doolittle raiders for. the 1942 raid on-.Toyko. ', . ' ; - Surprise Nips -A .fleet spokesman said, the c'arrier strike at the'Bonins apparently- caught the .Nipponese by surprise at all three island objectives. . A medium transport, 'discover-' . (Continued on Page Two) of Mrs. Charles E. Hansen, Sr.",' of this city, was a pilot of one of the big B-29 bombers which made the raid on Japan Thurs day, it has been learned here. He is the brother 'of Mrs. Neil Black.; who. is living with1 her J Majjr Hansen , ink. J r IS. 1944 Number 10135 the fight against-their enemy, Fifth :War Loan drive. Fttgat Wong admire the lifeboat-which Run-Off Ball of Set at Canby. ' Elections held Thursday night at the. Loveness woods operations near Canby resulted in 25votes for the AFL, six for the CIO, and 29 for no union'.I ' "' -Run-off elections will be held Thursday, June 22, between the AFL.and.no union..:. -- . mother, Mrs. Hansen,-on Port land street. Major Hansen was the pilot of the plane in which Roy Porter rode and is known to have Rot- -'ten -safely back to his base.-He has naa years ot iiying experi ence, entering the air forces five years ago. Since then he has flown almost every type of plane In all parts of the world. He was recently a ferry pilot over "the hump" in the China theater. His ship. was the first B-29 to be at tacked by the Japanese after he crossed "the hump" and was re ported by the Japs to have been shot down. He had let his fam ily here know, . however, that the enemy report was a false one. He was also a member of the famous 19th Bomber group in the South Pacific. His wife and young son, Charles 3rd, are living- with her parents at the- present time in Casper, Wyoming. Little Charles was born in Klamath Falls two years aeo. Major Hansen attended high school' in Eugene and is a grad uate . of Oregon State college in Corvallis. Although he has never lived here he. has visited often with relatives here-and his ad dress was given as Klamath Falls in dispatches because his -mother makes her home here.) . ; The target at . Yawata was .the Imperial Steel and Iron works at the northern tip of Kysushu, Jap- (Continued on v age igni ATTACK HITS STEEL MILLS ; IN YAWATft Wreck of One Bombr : May Be In Enemy Hands ' (See Map en Page- W - By The Associated Press -Z' WASHINGTON. June 16- Four of America's mighty sky. hat.tlpshina were lost in vester day's surprise attack that lefts "glowing masses of wreckage" , in Japan's "Pittsburgh," and the wreckage ox- one oi me Super-Fortresses now may be inj enemy hands. - The 20th bomber commands adding in midaftemoon today, new details of the raid, said one of the giant planes "was lost due to anti-aircraft action ovet, the target" Yawata. ' One plane is missing and two failed to return because -of icf cidents, but the crew of one of those is safe. - , .- .'. -The text of 20th alrforce com munique No. 2: - - ."The Imperial Iron and Steer Works; Japan's largest steel mills, located at Yawata on Kyusho. isiiina ui iim uapciiicsi: iiuiiiciaiiu. was the target of yo3terday'f B-28 -mission oi tne zutn rjomoer command. " Bombing Effective "The bombing was accurate and effective. Enemy fighter craft offered some resistance -to a few -units.- - Anti-aircraft fira was moderate to intense over -the- target area. No enemyT planes were reported shot dowiv ."There Were no casualties; aboard returning aircraft. Four?' planes failed to return from the mission: - Of these, one waa lost due to anti-aircraft action oveff the target. Two failed to retur. due to accidents, and of these the crew of one is known to bar safe. - A- fourth airplane is missing."' --------- ' -The number of particlDatinZ aircraft was not made known as first.details.merged. on -the -his, -toric attack which marked the1 beginning of an' entirely new1 chapter of aerial - warfare with, the. greatest bombers ever built v-. . . Siseable Force - Headauarters of the 20th air force, however,-- said "a sizeable task force" -made the raid on irN dustrial- targets at Yawata on Kyushu island; -"'.v . -Clyde .A. Farnsworth, Associ ated .' Press war . correspondent writing from a Super-Fortress base in western China, said the attack may have knocked out a fifth of Japan's steel production. The-mow against Yawata, tne "Pittsburgh. . . of . Japan," , was struck in the darkness of early morning. . j. A communique issued by head quarters of the . new 20th air force, controlling the operations of the , Super-Fortresses around the world, was based on - pre--Iiminary and incomplete reports from the combat zone. : " ' The formation .was, said - to. be operating from recently-completed bases in China. : ... . An earlier , enemy, broadcast had '. acknowledged that the plant of the ' Japan Iron Manu f acturing company, had been hit ; . CContinued on Page Two) .- - Announce Bonin Attack HEW YORK. June 16 WW The Japanese announced today tnat- an- allied' naval tasK lores yesterday: afternoon , attacked the Bonin island group, between 600 and 700 miles southeast ot Japan proper. ' : A' An imperial headquarters com munique broadcast ' by Domel said planes from the force struck: at two of the islands Chichi Jima, in the northern section of the group, and Iwo Jima, about 100 miles to the southeast. .'Although allied sources have made no mention of such a raid so close. to Japan, the enemy re port came while American land Ing forces were battling the Jap anese garrisons after going ashore in the Marianas, another 700 -miles or so to the. southeast; - The Japanese broadcasts de clared that damage in the Bonin islands raids : was "extremely slight" and claimed that 17 of the raiding planes were shot down. ,- .-. ;, (. S. Heavies Hi'tv Oil Refineries i ROME, June 16 (IP) Heavy bombers of the U. S. 15th air force attacked five oil refiner ies in . the Vienna area today, and for the first time smashed at an objective in Czechoslo vakia. . The bombers struck at the Acollo refinery at Bratislava, 100 miles east of Vienna, Bra tislava is the capital of the pup pet Slovak government. ', . (The German radio said anti aircraft defenses brought down 23 bombers in the raid, nil claimed the' maior portion of -the bombing fleet was damaged la - At II- I -.'Hi-At. Mi. ' , ' '