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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
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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.
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TARGET OF RAID
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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
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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
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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
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Amanita Phalloides, is one of
the ( deadliest of all poisons.
There is no known antidote for
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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
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