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Newspaper Page TextOTM rui op PORT S OUTER W,1......... I n FRANK JENKINS LIEE Is plenty of ncwi again 1 lotlny. n.n- Americans ere closing in , Cherbourg, und B this In .. n iilu fMim mlli'ti tiwnv Lira trniipcd thora Hint they will "u wl"u """"""'I ccupe l hopeless. At Siilpnn, tho Jnps throw In .heir lr forco nnd gut TililKE , Ir bi U of ho PB: "lllc slucu Midway. CliiinBshn UAia iu me. JAl'S. ... 'rOME or WIO Ulil i""'n 111 uiu a S11I nil 11 battle COME FROM IjAI CARRIERS. 1 hut mean . . .. fln..Hl.lrtriihlf .Inn tinvlll I'.""' 1. i,,..',l,, off In llu- din. mnco soniowucru. mm iuu -ji.. 1, ii hi'on nromlslnil u big L...,.l lililllO SOOII.) iH" Apparently Jap plnnos aro ..... ..-1.1 iwn fi-nm thnlr mr- SMUl I iiw ....... ....... - ,.. 1.. inn IfinH hinu.ii nnd hack. IhUS CnnUllllK llinii lu no vuu long Illgnis irom in uiiin curriers. ... OUR attack on saipan appenrs in ln.vf ft-lilhli'ticd tho little 'yellow men horribly. Berlin NKIIO . Miggems uuiiiy ihc reason (or tholr fright. When Uf.litlin Illir SlMMT- forlriW can SHUTTLB from ihen to our huso In China, hlt ,l,m Japan BOTH WAYS und o nnrvlnu our SCARCE goso- Ine In China. That's something for tho Japs to put In their mpes ana smunu WATCH this Marianas battle. It's bin. There is every ILllItu Ihnf II mnv uet big- nURSIM""J ..I I A ' jcr. rnis mmm even cti Ihc plnco ior mp mpa vu In their navy. pHANGSHA 'hi apparently v fallen. At any rato, Its radio has Bono sneni. iiw are Irving to knock out China while there Is still time. Our job is to SAVE China while tlioro Is still time. Ono has tho feeling that big events aro looming In the Pacific. ON nlnk, 1200 miles to the south of Saipan, wo storm nolher ridge that has been hold ing us back from two more Jap airfields. - ' In the Kurlles, 2000 miles to the north, navy bombers from Aleutians bases hit Jan Instal lations BY DAYLIGHT (tho first time we've hit thero except at nlnhl.) PLENTY of Jap fighter planes aro encountered. AN ominous (to the Japs) nolo comes from Russia, where War and tho Working Classes, a Russian magazine, makes sharply critical and slighting re marks about Japan's ambition to rule Asia. (Tho volco of the press in Russia Is practically tho volco of tho government.) Berlin radio says Honry Wal lace has gone to Moscow to cook up a deal with tho Russians to use Slborlan bases, to bomb Japan. CROM what Is described as a r rcliablo source, Stockholm km.i... (lint 1lln.ll.l tin. fnlfnO. The Russians have been moving up inward It along tno uuu 01 Finland, with tho heavy ships of Ihnli. nnlil lnnl follnutlntr thpm along the shore, sinking Finnish snips, TN recent exciting days, we've practically forgotten Italy, whnrn ihn nnrmnns aro still flshtlng rear guard actions in an effort to got bnck behind their Arno lino. We're following swiftly. There'll be another battle there soon. - THE German rocket bombs (or pilotloss flying torpedoes wnnicvor they arc) sun ian m smiuicrn England, Dili in uiraur ISH1NG numbers. British gun ners and fighter pilots seem to be getting the range on them and many aro being destroyed in mo air. A foreo nf nrnund 1500 U. S. heavy bombers hits the Calais coast whero tho rocket bombs are being launched and then goes on to bomb Interior uermany. There's a hint that what the Germans aro really trying to accomplish with their new weapon is to scare us Into using a largo part of our1 air force In (icstrovlno thn hnmhs before they toll, thus taking some of our "r weignt off tho uerman.necR dsewhero. There is also a suggestion that the German propagandists fear hey may have OVERPLAYED the new secret weapon, thus risking a bad reaction whon the Germans at homo find It ISN'T sioppmg the invasion. t QN the homo front there Is a tale to tho effect that a now transport piano, equipped with elevators Inside, is being readied for FDR's personal use (presum jioiy to fly to Europe.) Stephen "any, .presidential secretary, av nies it. (Keep your fingers crossed fhls js a campalgnycar.) TN Maine, ClOer Pettis, trying for both' tho Republican and 'he Democratic nominations for "ingress in tho first Maine dis trict, is turned down hard by the I PRICE 5 CENTS rH!a """ m li " W n n 1 0 " 0 M Shown above are the five marines from the local Marine Barracks who offered their campaign ribbons and citations to bond buyers of the Malin area Saturday night. Two hundred iorty-nine thousand four hundred eighty-five dollars in war bonds ware sold at the auction. Shown from left to right in the picture are Privates First Class Eben Lenoir. H. T. Coggini. Jim Jarrell, George Shrambro and Thomas Tomeselli. Lenoir here is taking a campaign ribbon off the uni form of George Shrambro. City School Vote Approves J Proposed Money Reserves Voters of tho Klamath Falls elementary school district and of the Klamath county unit dis trict yesterday overwhelmingly approved measures to create fi nancial reserves for post-war construction and rehabilitation. Tho city district board was authorized to levy 20,000 a year for five yenrs, and the county board, to. levy $60;000. annually for five years. Mrs. Ralph W. Stearns won by a narrow margin over Dr. Boy Dies After Fall Into Cogs of Irrigation Pump A fall into tho cogs of an ir rigation pump proved fatal to day to Jerry Holzliouscr, 7, soij of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Holi houscr of Poo volley. The accident occurred early Monday evening. Tho small boy was rushed to Hillside hospital where ho lived through the night but died nbout 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. v According to the family's story, tho little boy and his father wore working near a centrifugal pump when Jerrys clothing caught in the machine belt nnd ho was pulled into the irrigation pump. His body is at Ward's funeral home. Soldier Killed By Freight Train A young soldier was nccldent oii willed bv a freight, train early Tuesday morning near Chiloquln after he had apparent ly lumped from a coach of the passenger train ho was riding. Sheriff Lloyd Low was called to the scene and the soldier s body brought to Klamath Falls snoruy auerwmua. . Arnnrrilnt' to rCDOrtS. tllC SOl' dlcr, a mental pntient, was being tnifnn nuth from Vancouver, Wash., hospital. At a point near Chiloquln ho evidcntally broke a coach winnow ana jumptu thrmioh onto the tracks. The en gineer of a freight train which had followed close behind the passenger, on coming near, saw the soldier lying on the track but it was too late to stop. Tho young man's body was taken to Ward's funeral home. His name had not boon learned late Tuesday afternoon. ' I W m " Cirmlchiel in The. Shanta - Auction Campaign Ribbons J, ffp'v srs L. L. Truax, Incumbent, . for member of tho board of elemen tary district No. 1. Tho vote was: Mrs. Stearns, 111; Dr. Truax, 100. Percy Dixon was reelected to the county board. . . . - Returns were complete from tho cltv vote, but only, scatter-: ifig figures were available irom the county district. The former snowed: . . . . . . i v ; On tho $20,000 levy: Yes 131 No 39. On increasing the budget over 8 percent : Yes ill, ISO 4. On adoption of the published budget: Yes 120, No 30. . ; Figures from Altamont, Shasta and Bly showed the county unit district s 5u,uuu levy . running far ahead of the negative vote. In these three, 31 voted for it and only 2 against. Percy Dixon was unopposed for the county school board post. There is a bare possibility that later returns could upset the county unit report, but that ap peared highly unllKely. m WAR BULLETINS LONDON, June 20 (P) A Stockholm dispatch said today that Viipurl, key Finnish seaport, had fallen to the Russian army after the city had been shelled by mass artillery from positions less than nine miles away. 1 The Swedish reports, reaching a reliable source in Stockholm, were not Immediately confirmed by Moscow or Russian sources In London. LONDON. June 20 P) Ber lin radio said tonight allied forces have reached the forti fied area of ihe town of Cher bourg. "Their spearheads already are In contact with the German de fenders," the enemy broadcast added. Sgf. Carmichael Killed in Action It has been learned here that Staff Sergeant urvllle uar- michael. 27, of Malin was killed somewhere over England in March of this year. Me is the son nf Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Carmichael who are now making their home In San Diego. The family made their home In Malin for about two years, af ter coming from Indianola, Ne braska, and young Carmichael was well-known In Klamath county. He left for the army from Klnmnth Falls in March, and was first stationed at Shep ard field, Texas. He was then moved to Las Vegas, Nev., where he received mbst of his training and was moved to Idaho before he was sent overseas. At the time nf Mo Inriurtlnn he was employ ed at the Huffman ranch at Wil low Creek, uant. Besides his parents, he has a sister, Carol Carmichael, who Is also living in San Diego, and a brother, Dale, who is with the Scabecs. He was unmarriea. Ctmcadv Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1944 - rfrrp. AT Representatives of two clean ing companies testified . at a PUC hearing this morning they were forced temporarily, to Close down their plarlta or work, overtime,, oecause of insufficient steam or- lack of steanji.-They appeared -as witnesseirhe3Tdistance,. jin-'BllIe'3' communique inon complalnls.x against the Klamath :Heating iebmpany. ' J. B. Henry and Fred Miller were the, complainants at the morning - session. Other wit nesses were- to be heard in the afternoon, along with the de fense of the heating company, on this question.. A later hearing is to take up the matter of pro posed increases in rates lor-tne neatlng utility. The "black snow" . issue did not develop at the hearing, with raui t arrens, attorney repre- (Continued on Page Two) Navy Strikes At Kuriles WITH THE NORTH PACIFIC FORCE, U. S. FLEET, June 14 (Delayed) (F) Navy Ventura bombers today made the first daylight raid in force against Japan's Kurile islands since army planes struck at Paramu shlro and Shimushu last . Sep tember. The navy's fast planes, oper ating from fleet air wing four's Aleutian base, completed the bombing and reconnaissance mission . despite intense anti-aircraft fire and fighter plane re sistance. Three planes were damaged by enemy lire. The raid was on Shimushu, most northern of the Kurlles where the Japanese have navy and air bases. It came one day after a fleet task force bom- barded Matsuwa island, about 150 miles further down the Kurlles toward Japan proper, Changsha Falls To Japanese CHUN GKING. Wednesday, June 21 P) Changsha, capital of Hunan province, has fallen to the Japanese. -The high command announced today that the enemy- occupied Changsha Sunday after Chinese forces had withdrawn. An earlier communique said more than 50,000 troops at tacking under, war plane cover had destroyed tne cny s suDur- ban defense works. Japs Fear B-29 ; Base on Saipan ' Bv The Asiociated Press Japanese fears that Saipan island. - where American Inva sion forces are now engaging enemy forces, will be used as a base for shuttle bombing over Tokyo by B-29 Super-Fortresses flying from the island to China were expressed in a Berlin broadcast of a Tokyo dispatch today, v ' , -; Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E Washington 1 Now Vnrlc ' -3 10 i Nlffsfilinff and Ferrell.-- Bor pwy and Hensley. 300 Nippon Planes lost In Mcaricancas ALLIES PUSH NORTH ROME, June" 20 (P) Allied forces pressing . northward on the Italian mainland have cap tured Perugia, major -communi cations center 72 miles air linel southeast of Florence and 85 miles north of Rome, after the German position in the north had been weakened by the con quest of Elba by French colonial troops. The French crushed the last stubborn resistance-on Elba yes terday. The swift campaign net ted 1800 prisoners, all but a small portion of the enemy gar rison. , White Flag . ; , Organized resistance 'on Elba collapsed with the capture of Porto Longone, on the eastern shore of the historic island. The garrison of about 300 there hoist ed a white flag and surrendered. Large quantities of material were abandoned by the enemy, Perugia was entered by eighth army troops which were encoun terihg spotty resistance today within the town. On. -both tides , .1 M.. 1 1 1 1 . ux : -tua cib.v. uuwcvei. . tuuea troops-, advanced:' a considerable! sntrl. . Armies Advance Eighth army -troops were win-' ing out nests of fierce resistance inside1 the old town. Despite rain which interfered with- the move ment of.troops and transport the eigntn army advanced all along its front in'the face of resistance at key points.'i - v ine fifth army advanced more (.uonunuea on-Page Two) Army Pounds Jap Airfields WASHINGTON. Jmu an im Army bombers pounded Japa nese air iieios on jvioen island in Truk atoll Sundav night, with oniy meager opposition f r o m that once-strong enemy base, tne navy reported today. - There was no fighter oddosI- tion and only light anti-aircraft fire was encountered. . South ; of the West Pacific Caroline islands other bombers, uying . through intense but in accurate anti - aircraft fire, shelled and bombed anti-air-craft gun positions and build ings on Nauru. : Troops Advance South in India SOUTHEAST OF ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy, Ceylon, June 20 (IP) Par allel columns of imperial troops striking south from noliiraa to ward Imphal have advanced 17 miles, the greatest singie-oay of progress in the counteroffen sive to knock the Japanese from the northeastern India border regions, it was announced to day, Queen Candidate Here is Jean Parker, last of the nine girls to register for queen of the Klamath Buckarbo Days Fourth of July celebration here. IP ifi Juna Max. (Jun 19) 64 Min. 39 Precipitation last 24 hours .01 Stream year to date 9.22 Normal 11.55 Last year 17.14 Forecast: Cloudy. V. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS. Pearl Har bor, June 20 (P) American carrier pilots and warships guns have destroyed an estimated 300 Japanese planes off Saipan to win the biggest Pacific air battle since Midway, while a land surge captured a vital air strip and sealed on tne soutnern end of the island. In a vicious battle lasting sev eral hours, the. offshore task force smashed a sustained Japa nese aerial assault bunday. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said first information reported only one American vessel damaged. 300 Yank Planes (Imberial Japanese headquar ters declared, without confirma tion.- that 300 American, planes were destroyed and . a battle ship, two cruisers, a destroyer and one submarine were sunk during .the battle. A. broadcast memv ' communique; also said Japanese airmen were -still at- tackine the American ships. rrhlit claim may have been a follow-up to a Tokyo broadcast promising -mat tne , oapancat (uontinuea on rage im Bond Events 6yt((ned for Purchasers f :War bond headquarters today issued, specif ip information for bond-buyersi on special events coming , up in -the Fifth War Loan,- in . answer to many in quiries.. .1 . . :-- . hptp it is., conaensea: '1 TJTwnipri-. , nieture.- "Eve of St. Mark,',' .at- Pelican theatre, June 28, with; local prologue, one, general admission ticket with each E bond, purchased from June 17 to 28.. Tickets now available at Pelican bond booth or-bond headquarters, 735 Main. 2. Wrestlina matches. Friday, June 23. Tickets given with each S25 bond or larger on Friday. 3. Marine tsarracKS tour, juiy 2. Tickets at bond headquarters to all buyers of E bonds since June 1. Same bonds.' cannot be used for more than one event. Coastguardsmen Search for Body M'AWSHFIELD. Ore.. June 20 (IP)' Coastguardsmen searched today lor tne oooy oi iu-year-nlH Rnhert McCov of Charleston, Ore., who his tearful playmate said, fell into the ocean from a finn-foot cliff. Robert's companion, Richard Jones, 9, of North Bend, was found wandering dazed at the base of the cliff near Coos Head early yesterday by a coast guard patrol boat . atter an an nigni search by, coastguardsmen and civilians. , Richard said the accident oc curred on a Sunday hike and that he tried vainly to swim out and bring. Robert ashore. French Report Gas Transport NEW YORK. June 20- (IP) Radio France at Algiers said to day 'in a broadcast to-French areas that : the Germans had transported , "large quantities' of poison gas from Germany into Hungary "with a view to uslne.it aeainst the soviet army, from whom they dread a new and powerful offensive." - . : The broadcast, reported ' by TTnlteri States government mon itors;; said the information had been received from the Balkans via nkara.. . . Russia Wants American. Goods ' MOSCOW,. June 20 (P) Rus sia wants to buy "many billions of dollars worth of American goods on purchase terms mu tually advantageous to me iwu countries involved," Eric John ston, president of the Unjted States chamber ot commerce, dis closed yesterday. i Johnston, who. is touring Rus sia, told a press conference he had been authorized to make the statement .by Foreign Trade Commissar jiAnastas Mikoyan with whom Tie had conferred earlier. , . - 20, 1944 Number 10189 New President Sveinn Biornsion (above) was chosen first . president ' of - the new republic of Iceland. He has been regent for three ' years. (AP. wirephoto). .' " 1 By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW. June 20 WP) Big guns of the red army, only nine miles away and within sight of the Finnish seaport of Viipuri, poured salvo atter salvo into its outskirts today. . : Izvestia's correspondent Ivan Ossipov "said Viipuri "is just ahead-of the red army" and that the speed of the remarkable offensive was increasing. . Defenses Collapse ' Major Nikolai Shvankow the Red Star correspondent, de clared coastal defenses of the Finns along the Gulf of Viipuri have collapsed and that soviet sailors are' threatening to cut off large numbers of the enemy in little peninsulas south of the city. Outside Viipuri the Russians defeated the 18th and 10th Fin nish infantry brigades, a fresh (Continued on Page Two;. Refitting of Liner Cancelled NEW- YORK, June 20 (IP) The navy says that plans to re fit the former French luxury liner Normandie have been cancelled because of a shortage of manpower and critical ma terials. The ocean Slant... which burned and rolled on her side here in February, 1942, was raised at a cost of $3,750,000 last fall and was towed to the Todd shibvard in Brooklyn. The cancellation announcement was made yesterday by the navy de partment. Segregee Gets Year in Jail Harrv Hiroshi Kawai, a Tule- lake segregee, was sentenced to a year in tne moooc county jau after pleading guilty to a charge of striking a soldier with a meat cleaver at tne wka center. -Judee A. K. Wylie. Alturas, in meting sentence, stated from the bench he would recommend to the parole board that Kawai ha released after serving 90 days. Kawai was arrested after the attack, but no serious injury was caused. The hearing was held at Alturas Monday. Bomber Force Platforms, SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 20 (P) More' than 1500 American heavy: bombers, possibly the greatest force'in his tory, today simultaneously at tacked rocket bomb platforms in the Pas-de-Calais and an array of objectives in central Germany ranging from oil refineries to air- rilnno nnH tnnk nlants. The giant armada equalled If it did not surpass that sent out last Wednesday to attack French air fields, bridges . and the .m merich oil refinery in Germany. With its big fighter escort, the entire sky fleet totalled upward of 2000 planes. , , nliut Oil Plant! - - The heavy bombers blasted synthetic oil plants and oil re fineries around Hannover, Ham burg, Magdeburg, and Politi, a tank depot near Magdeburg, and DEFENSES HIP BY ADVANG 6 Nearby Towns Taken In Mounting Fury k ; "Of Offensive Br WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED- EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 20 (IP) Head quarters announced tonight that allied troops were attacking; "the outer defenses of Cher bourg." The veteran U. S. ninth di vision spearheaded the deepest drive directly south of - Cher-bourg-T-a death pocket for per haps up. to 50,000 nazis cam turing St. Martin Le Grand only fqjir miles away. -- Oh the southeast approach W the transatlantic port, other doughboys seized Valognes and pushed a mile beyond, ana cleaned the Germans out of by passed Montebourg, four mile from Valognes. ran sack The Germans were falllnrf back upon the inner perimeter of Cherbourg's defenses, Associ ated Press Correspondent Roger Greene said in. a dispatch irom U. S. field headquarters. He added the Germans foil back: from Valognes "without attempt ing a major stand. - . The power drive directly souttt of Cherbourg carried the ninth division. . battering - ram nearly six miles north of captured Bricquebec. e Trap Tightens -a On the eastern coast of the) trap tightening steadily on Cher bourg, an American column drove two miles north of uuine- ville. - .-. - . i". -.v. Montebourg, won and lost b the Yanks in bitter street fight (Continued on page Two) i; Court Upholds Death Penalty For Negro Cook ' SALEM, June 20 (IP) Tha Oregon state supreme court to- . day upheld the conviction and death penalty imposed on kod ert E. Lee Folkes, young negro dining car cook for the "lower 13" slaying of Mrs. Martha Vir ginia James in January, 1943. The decision was maoe Dy 5-2 vote,: with Judges George Rossman and Percy . Kelly dis senting, y:- J:;..i'i- V,:-Y The L,os Angeles negro was convicted in Albany on May 28, ioia nf first deeree murder. and sentenced to death in the) states gas chamber. Mrs. James, the bride of a navy ensign, was slashed m the throat as she lay in berth low& er 13 of a Southern Pacific pas senger train passing through Linn county January 23., Sh was from Norfolk, Va. vk Sub Grayback Reported Lost WASHINGTON, June 20 (F) Loss of the submarine Grayback, presumably in operation against the Japanese in the far Pacific, was announced by the navy to- daThe 1457-ton submersible carj ried an estimated personnel 9 65 officers and men. - She was commanded by Com mander John Anderson Moore, who is listed as missing in action. Moore's wife, Mrs. Virginia S. Moore, lives at Memphis, Tenn. The loss of the. Gray back, of ficially listed as overdue and presumed lost, brings to 24 the number of American submannei missing since December 7, 1941 Of that total, two were sunk in the Atlantic ocean during training and other maneuvers and one was destroyed to pre vent capture. The others all ar4 listed as overdue and presumed lOSt. t i - 'f' Hts Rocket J Oil Refineries airplane wing repair and. party plant near-Brunswick. ' The Germans reported the American fleet was attacked by large' formations of fighters and that ; heavy air battles were fought. .;: : -.Stockholm reported 21. of the heavy' bombers made forced -landings -in Sweden. . ' ,. yc;::; . - Clear Weather ; VT Returning crewmen said they ;, found clear weather over Ger many but were forced to bomb through a cloud cover over the Pas-de-Calais. Today's giant op eration took a part of the fleet more than 550' mllcg .almost to the Polish border to hit Polite, about 10 miles north of the Bal tic seaport of , Stettin in far eat ern Germany. - y ' While the American bombef and fighter fleet Vas coursing (Continued on Page Three) -. continued op Pago Two) Sat.