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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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. ' , ' '