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Newspaper Page TextPACE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON YANKS HOLD ROAD NETWORK ON PENINSULA (CqMtlnued From Page One) land,' the deepest allied pene tration; ' ' . Tank battles itlll raged also around. Caen and Tilly-Sur-Suelles on the allied left flank, v: Weather Bad Meanwhile headquarters re ported the worst weather over the battlefields since D-Day with a 2CMnile an hour northwest wind:vWowing onto the beaches the only place the allies now hold'jfor the reinforcement and suppj.of their invasion armies. Despite the weather, however, the XT, S. battleships Texas and Nevada and cruiser August were reported arching their shells deep inland to support the troops driving across the peninsula. . i 300,000 Troops A: few miles south of the American spearhead pointed at St Sauvcur was another column pushing toward La Have Du Puits, a road junction controlling all the remaining roads leading into'lCherbourg. The Americans were,, last . reported about six miles from this objective. Ardate dispatch from Gen. Dwiyht D. Eisenhower's ad vanced command post said it was estimated 300,000 German troops had been thrown against the rjormandy beachhead. Una dispatch said four German-divisions had been badly maufed in battle, including the 709th; 711th and 352nd. Thie Germans acknowledge continued reverses on the Amer ican ; right flank and reported theifciengineers had wrecked the canal; locks at Caen an impli cation that they feared Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery may soorf crack the stiff left hinge of the ine. ;V Rasarves Rushed Alive to the vital necessity of holding St Sauveur and Le Haye Du .Puits, the Germans rushed reserves into the battle and vig orous, fluid fighting, was in . progress. The German communique said the naiis drove the allies back southeast and southwest of Car entaji, but admitted allied gains weqt and north of Ste. Mere Eghse. It claimed, also, that a wedge had been driven into the allied bridgehead east of the Orjto river. A Advance .' West of newly captured .Quaieville, on the eitreme right wing of the 100-mile beachhead front, American-forces advanced ioile or more to reach the Seoope fiver.-. TJiese were-Jhe-only advances registered along the front Com munique No. 21 said there were no; major -changes. . Eurious armored fighting raged in the Tilly Sur Seulles sector, while further east the bat tle";pf Caen settled into trench warfare with the British and Canadians holding on tenacious ly.?The nearest approach to a "lint" was held around Troarn, at'the extreme left flank of the bridgehead. Rfd Army Smashes Through New Mfnnerheim Line .Continued from Page One) ditipnal ranks of tank blocks DUirr arouna steel shelters. Bed Star said the Soviets smashed the line at the Gulf of Finland coast and also captured an-, important highway crossing. -Lin Broken The new line was broken hv artillery and concentrated pound ing: Dy DomDers ana shelling by Stormoviks, the Russian attack bomber. Dispatches said the Finns de. fended the second line much more fiercely than the original line, With the new line broken In many places, Red Star Corre spondent Konstantin Simonov said the red army is rolling down both highways towards Viipuri one running straight through the- forest and lake country and the other a roundabout road that skirts the Finnish eulf. ' 25 Mile Advance -Col. Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's break through, which took the red army 25 miles in five days on a 50-mile front, has elven the Russians a grip on two-thirds of the ;JS.arelian isthmus. ;:. - The Finns will be battling shortly to hold the Russians back froth Viipuri itself. The red army is jfeot under-estimating the 'bat- ueswntcn u faces. The struggle fof the second Mannerheim line is 4r harder than the fight for the first line, in which the sur prise element aided the Soviets. Simonov reported "it is an in teresting note that according to the ' testimony of captives" who to(d the Russians about the new Mtlnnerheim line" that construc ioii began on the day when Fin nieji representatives in Sweden raised the question of peace ne gotiations with us. On the very day, that (Dr. Juhok) Paaskivi tobk off for Moscow (Field Mar shal) Mannerheim went to Ki vejwiapa to inspect the line." This information caused new. aiid' immediate indignation in Moscow. Klamath War Drive Over Million Mark Klamath's Fifth War Loan drive was well past the first $1,000,000 today, with campaign workers hard at their tasks and reporting success on all fronts. Klamath Falls fire department had subscribed $4640.50 in E bonds as against a quota $1308.50, as well as buying an F bond of $500 out of the firemen's fund. J. W. Kerns Implement comp any employes were over the top with $5100 in E bonds, or 232 percent of quota. Dick B. Miller company had made its quota of $100 per em ploye, with $50 over, A. H. Bussman of Murphey's Feed company stimulated bond buying by his employes by giving each a $50 war bond bonus with the understanding each would purchase a $50 bond. To date, there are 64 members in the $1000 E bond club, it was reported by Joe Hicks, general bond chairman. Following are additional mimes for the 51UU0 club: William E. Palmer. Fred H. Hell bronner, Oscar A. Jepson, Lloyd E. Morris, Lcla L. Morris, Frank J. Adams, Ruth Adams, Mnxinc A. Ray, Keith Amoroso, John C Gay, Marjorio Hodges, Millard Casscl, Earl B. Redman, Corinnc Redman, Myrlo Adnms, Mary Adams. R. C. Dale, S. Mason Ehr- mnn, M. s. west, Emma West, Jessie Schwartz. Joe L. Hicks, Edwin A. Thomas, John B. Eb- inger, Phil Motschenbnchcr, Knutc C. Johnson, John R. Wood, Mrs. Ethel M. Wood, Martin Highland, Byron K. Teed. Gust Lampropulos. William D. Camp bell. Damci a. niurpny, warren C. Bennet. B TARGET OF RAID (Continued from Page One) ed under way near the Bonins, was heavily damaged by carrier bombers. A task force destroyer later sent the vessel to the bot tom. A hundred and twelve en emy survivors were rescued and made prisoners of war. At Chichi Jima; whose small harbor is the largest port in the Bonin group, 33 Jap fighter planes attempting to intercept the raid were shot down. Cargo Ship Hit A medium cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Chichi Ji ma. Four small cargo vessels and six small craft were damaged there. Four mulu-engined seaplanes also were damaged at Chichi Jima. At Iwo Jima 14 enemy planes were destroyed on the ground. Two more probably were shot down in combat Planes of the task force blast ed fuel tanks, barracks, airfields and ground installations on all three islands. Third Strike Nimitz said American losses in the new carrier strike, the third at enemy island groups this week, were four planes and five flying personnel. Other island chains hit by U. S. task forces earlier m the week are the Kur iles. far to the north,, and the Marianas, the latter in -pre-in-vasion attacks. . -- The Bonin island bases are those nearest Japan In the. step ping stone chain of enemy stag ing bases by which fighting planes are ferried to conquered New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies. The thrust onto Saipan, near the southern end of the Marianas and within 1500 miles of Tokyo and the Philippines, seeks to sever that chain of bases. The communique gave no new word of the ground fighting on Saipan. The Americans fighting there composed one of the most experienced invasion forces in the world. Covered by battleshiD Buns and rocket-firing carrier planes, the Yanks secured beachheads Wednesday, moving in from be hind Saipan, a 72 square mile island 3800 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, starting point of the war. Capture Point They captured Agingan Point, a headland on the southwest coast. They battled two miles north across cancficlds to the sugar mill community of Charan Kanoa. They were placed in reports covering action through Thursday within five miles of Garapan, Saipan's major town of 10.000 population. Supported by shells of off shore warships and bombs of planes from aircraft carriers, they beat off a series of stiff counterattacks b y Japanese tanks. "In general, fighting is heavy but good progress is being made against well organized defenses," Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced last night in his second communique on the operation. The first announced the invasion but supplied ho confirmation of a Tokyo radio report that an at tempt also had been made to invade nearby Tlnian. Tokyo Version - (Tinlan was not mentioned, however, in a Friday morning Imperial headquarters announce ment transmitted to Japanese areas by Tokyo radio and mon itored in .New York by NBC. Its version was that two landing attempts were "repulsed into the sea" but the Americans "attacked for the third time and are now being engaged in battle.") Battleships and cruisers, open ing up with their guns after car rier planes knocked out Japan's southern Marianas airforce Sat urday and Sunday, silenced most of the Saipan coastal batteries and anti-aircraft positions. Shells of the warships and rockets fired by planes and In fantry landing craft effectively Lcurtailed - the troops : moving ashore. - .- ..i Moderate Losses "Initial reports indicate our casualties are moderate," Ad miral Nimitz said. Tokyo radio claimed, without confirmation, the invaders sustained 1800 cas ualties and lost 40 landing barges. The Yanks moved from the beaches against enemy mortar, machine-gun and artillery fire. Saipan is relatively flat, adaptable for the Super-Fortresses which loosed their de struction Thursday on Japan's in dustrial areas. But the same flatness prompted the invasion commander. Vice Adm. Rich mond Kelly Turner, to expect opposition for the first timo in the Pacific amphibious cam paigns by mobile artillery. He warned that lightning victories in the Marshalls may not be dup licated at Saipan. Eerie Pilotless Planes Descend On South Britain (Continued From Page One) said "There Is hardly one Ger man who will not receive this news with the greatest satisfac tion. The feelings of hatred and a burning wish for retaliation which dominate the German people have been kindled by our enemies in their terror crimes." Reprisals Another German commenta tor said: 'The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceed ingly small. Perhaps our enemy did not believe that reprisals would ever come to them. They laughed off the fuehrer's words." Transocean, German propa ganda agency, claimed that "damage of the greatest extent was caused by the new German KiK vnln(vft in London." and that "warehouses on the Thames arc in flames and rail communications pnruy disrupt ed." r-v .! n, . nt lh wpnnon varied considerably but all agreed that mese scu-acsiroyv ing aircraft flew at terrific mrnA in n vtraltfht line. WCl'C marked by bright lights, and shot flames from their exhausts suggesting they might be Jet or rocket-propelled. ttaaio iowroi The lights presumably were i nlA In raAn nnntrnl. nrnbnbtv from piloted planes at a grca't msiance. EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From- Page One) worrying the Germans as they watch the west-wall fighting. THE Germans spring a new "secret" weapon a pilotless plane, radio-directed, loaded heavllv with explosives and de tonated either by a time mech anism., or by radio contact. Sprung first last night, It is re ported to have descended on southern England "by the doz ens," and is admitted to have caused considerable damage and some casualties but no great MILITARY harm to us. It is a dramatic story, as all secret weapon stories are, but its military value remains to be seen. The extravagant bragging being done by German radio commentators leads to the sus picion that the nazls may be relying on it more for MORALE VALUE at home than for mil itary damage done to us. ANYWAY, we'd better wait anri " If the Germans could manu facture these heavy explosive- carrying robots in overwhelm ingly vast numbers, they might be able to get somewhere with them, but their growing scarcity of planes leads us to doubt'their capacity to build ENOUGH of them to be disastrously effective. Remember that each robot can make ONLY ONE TRIP. That involves a lot of waste. At Both Theatres Ohe species of mushroom, Amanita Phalloides, is one of the ( deadliest of all poisons. There is no known antidote for it rAdav ther nr nhnnf Snnfl ciydian airports in the United States,. ,-.,, , . SUNDAY C)i WHAT HAS " '' jf'Jfk THIS jV"'" Jj Vis3 'PICTURE lVr$ . ' 'feM)1 Y 'fMk m THAT r: ' i fPfi ' rf all other J mofnoi) Qi lirpM PICTURES fl WfaW THEY HADl J CW1, r..,.or a few with ' JANET BLAIR, KSUMl'lEUMtSJI ATTACK HITS STE MILLS mm (Continued from Tngo One) with "a few bomb fragments" but assorted there was "no dam age whatever to plant facilities." As the fury of the Pacific of fensive mounted hour by hour first with the disclosure of the B-29 raid and Inter the announce ment of American landings of Saipan island In the Mnrlnniis tho Japuncsc reported un attack by an nil led naval tusk force on the Bonin island group, less than 700 miles southeast of Japan proper. The Imperial heiidounrters communlmic broodenst by Dome! snld plnni'.H (rum tho tusk force hit Chichi Jima, an island In the northorn section of the Bonin group, and Iwo Jima, about 100 miles to the southeast. There was no allied confirmation of the Bonin reports. There are 300.000 reslnurnnts In the U. S., normally giving employment to 1,500,000 per sons. Argentina has 230,000 mites of roads and 30,000 miles of railways. . A London oystor opener opens 10 a minute and has been doing so for the Inst 28 years. ALLIES MAKE GAINS (Continued From Pnge One) Luko Diilsenii mul captured Ac quiipomli'iilo, about seven miles noilli of highway two. Tho eighth army captured the Impoi'tuul industrial unci com munications center of Ternl, 45 miles northwrat of Homo, and the highway Junction town of Nnrnl, about seven miles south west of Ternl. Other eighth nrmy troop ad vnnccd ten miles north of Or vleto, and In the Adriatic sector the nnzls have withdrawn so rapidly that Ihn ullled troops havo been iblo to maintain only a slender contact with tho enemy. Yanks AdVanca Americans advancing up the Tyrrhenian const iikiiIiikI lucreas ing artlllory fire and demolitions pushed eight miles beyond Orbe tallo, nea red Scunsano and np. K reached Urowxnli) on highway o, 1 almost 100 mllos north west of Homo. Inland tho drive pant Lake DoUenn wits carrying forward toward I'roceno, beyond Ac qunpendtfl. East of the luko besides taking Nnrnl, whoso capture first was announced yesterday, Ternl and Todl, the eighth army sped on nnd reached Minna Mariana, 10 miles north of Ternl, Just to tho west or this area the eighth nrmy i pushed up highway 71 to Flcullo, 10 miles beyond Orvleto. With the break In their lines asms Telephone 4367 Box Offlco Opens 1:30-6:43 Ends Saturday Wt km h .j&dntSx Another Laff Hit SH-H-H-H! IWISB ft.. 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