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PACE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON LEND-LEASE MADE 0 POSSIBLE LONDON, Juno 20 m American and British reciprocal lend lease programs were the key factors which made possible the invasion, Capt Oliver Lyt telton, British minister of war production, said today in an ad dress to the American chamber of commerce. Referring to charges that the British are selling lend-lease goods to' third countries, Lyttel ton declared that every possible precaution is being taken to pre vent anything of the kind hap pening. He said that American lend lease amounted to four billion dollars in 1943, and that British reverse lend-lease has amounted to two billion dollars to date. He said that America is supply ing 25 per cent of England's mu nitions and that the four billion dollars was exclusive of supplies to other parts of the world for use by British forces. British lend-lease to the United States is now running at more than twice the rate than at the beginning of 1943, he said. American forces in the United Kingdom have received use of barracks, airports and otfyor military facilities, and one-third of all their current requirements of military supplies, Lyttolton asserted. He said that British aid also consisted of the construc tion of 100 airdromes, the turn ing over of a large number of aircraft Including S0O gliders and many squadrons of Spitfires and supplying American forces with one-fifth of their food. THEIR HEALTH IS OUR WEALTH... Children ere a nation only en daring treasure. Their health it our wealth. It's natural for chil dren to bo healthy, energetic, alwaja ready to romp. If your child is little, irritable torn thing' wrong. Better get the counsel of a Specialist or your . Family Physician. No time to tak chance, you know! CURRIN'S FOR DRUGS (40 Main Phone 4514 (Continued From Page One) than nine miles north of Groset to, which is some 22 miles be yond Orbetello. Most of the prisoners taken on Elba were German and enemy losses in dead and wounded were estimated at 500. Capital Falls Portofcrroio, the island's cap ital, fell Sunday after an aerial bombardment. The villa Napoleona at Monte San Martino was captured un harmed after hasty evueuation by the Germans. (The German high command In its broadcast communique said the garrison of Elba was remov ed to the Italian mainland last night.) Perugia. 14th century city and a provincial capital with a popu lation of 85,500, has been more troublesome to allied forces in Italy than any other town north of Rome. Eighth army troops pushed up to the city from the south and east and advance elements cut road to the west. The Germans sprinkled the ground southwest of the city with mines and cover ed the minefields with harassing fire. Avoid Battles To the east of the city German forces in the mountains appear ed eager to avoid any serious fighting with strong armored re connaissance patrols of the eighth army. The villages of Ripa and Civl tella d'Arno northeast of Perugia were captured by troops of an Indian division and considerable casualties were inflicted on the Germans when they attempted a counterattack. Farther west Rritich 1 re tch&. the so"th;rn shore of . mrao ana approached the road along its western shore. Citta Delia Rieve, where the Germans had offered strong re sistance for two days, was by passes, oy einw army troops who headed for San Litardo to the northwest. Between Citta Delia Rieve and Perguia, the town of Panicle and the vil lages of Mungano, Catiglione and Panciano have been cleared of the enemy. Citta Delia Rieve has a population of 9400 and Pan' icle 5000. Classified Ads Bring Results. 'irk Ml r ARE YOU MY DADDY ? "XTS, sonny boy, I'm your daddy the daddy you . X don't remember because you were just a -few months old when I left for war." War is heartless, little man. It doesn't give much heed to family ties. But, along with millions of other men and women in uniform, your daddy is certainly doing everything he can to keep another war from starting when you're grown up and have children of your own. None of us in civilian life can match the sacrifices that fathers away from home and fireside and many others in the armed services are making for us on the fight ing fronts. But this much we all can do ... we can make sure that the America they're fighting for stays strong. It's more than good Americanism to invest to the limit in War Bonds . . . it's good business. Let's buy more Bonds than we planned, now during the 5th War Loan Drive ...and let's keep on doing sol PORT'S OUTER DEFENSES HIT BUPCE (Continued From Page One) ing and then by-passed In the push to Valognes, now has been completely occupied, supreme headquarters said. Toward the eastern flank of the long Normandy front, Brit ish forces battling against a wall of nazi armor struck two miles southwest of Tllly-Sur-Soulles and seized Hottot-Lcs-Bagues. Two nazi counterattacks aimed at retaking the town were beaten back. Yanks Progress U. S. forces on the west coast also made progress north of Barneville, where the first breakthrough was made sealing off the top of Cherbourg penin sula. Opposition in this sector was reported light. The Germans have three semi circular defense lines around Cherbourg, with the biggest stretching out six miles from the port. LU-Gen. Omar IN. Brad ley's offensive has pierced deep through this line and apparently has reached the second defense wall. Air reconnaissance disclosed the Germans have been de molishing the port of Cherbourg and that it is in bad shape, in dicating they had given up hope of holding it for very long. Nails weaker There were indications the Germans were weaker on the western side of the peninsula than in the east. Heavy fight ing has raged in the Montbourg Valognes sector. Drawing new strength from other sectors of the Normandy beachhead, Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley sent his troops surging northward In what supreme headquarters called "coordinated attacks along the entire north front" Shells Overhead Over the heads of the ad vancing doughobys American big guns hurled streams of shells into the great port, France's third largest, defended by pos sibly 80,000 German troops now caught in the closing Yankee trap. The deepest wedge was driven into the German ring of fortifica tions from the southwest A column sweeping forward from captured Bricquebec, . 11 miles below the port, hurled the Ger mans back to the outskirts of Rauville La Bigot, a village be tween six and seven miles south and slightly west of Cherbourg. Drive East Communique No. 20 from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's head quarters said other American columns to the east were driving forward in twin moves to flank Valognes, ten miles southeast of Cherbourg, after sweeping around Montebourg and cutting off isolated pockets of Germans there. The communique said the high way southwest to Bricquebec was cut two miles from Va lognes. Supreme headquarters said that undoubtedly, further ad vances have been made this morning, of which news has not yet arrived. British Drive While the Americans were steadily marking up new gains, the British on their sector toward the eastern end of the beachhead once again drove the Germans from Tilly-Sur-Seulles, which has changed hands several times. The American wedge across the Cherbourg peninsula now is 16 miles at its widest point and eight miles at its narrowest. Ex panding to the north, Lt, Gen. Omar Bradley's Yankees now are racing rapidly toward the main .German defense line six miles south of the port. Matter of fours ' It was expected that a matter of hours would show the strength of these defenses and whether the Germans can man age to swing the muzzles of the port's long-range guns from the sea to repell a land attack. The German-held channel Is lands have guns capable of shooting to the Cherbourg penin sula at extreme range, but head quarters said there is no reason to believe "they can seriously interfere with the American ad vance." This morning's communique gave a tip-off that a big Amer ican offensive had begun by re porting "coordinated attacks all along the north front." Disorganised German troops all along the north front were reported ap parently badly disorganized. Front dispatches declared many of the high nazi officers had been killed and in some sectors units had been cut to pieces. Classified Ads Bring Results. THE STUDEBAKER CORPORATION Attention REPUBLICANS Meeting of the Klamath County Republican Central Committee. Election of Officer and Other Important Business. Wednesday, June 21, 1944 Eight o'Clock P. M. FrankZ. Howard, Secretary, Pro Temp. EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) Ranuhl Irani hut sets the Demo cratic nomination. CIO Is generally accented as ALL-OUT New Deal, working on the principle that "FDR ts OUR MAN. and we've got to slick with mm. Anyway, the Maine Repub licans wanted no truck with Poltis. (Continued From Page One) cavalry unit and a crack Fin nish "yellow regiment." No Peace Moves There were no indications In Moscow that the Finns arc seek ing to reopen pence negotiations. The people are not talking about it and the general view of the man-on-the-strect is that the of fensive is going splendidly and that soon the red army will be at the 1840 Russo-Finnish treaty frontier, which is just IS miles beyond Vllpurl. A red fleet dispatch said Rus sian ships are pounding Finnish craft in the Gulf of Viipuri and the Gulf of Finland, sinking two transports totalling 14,000 tons. In Viipuri gulf two other Fin nish transports were sunk, Id addition to smaller craft. Heavy ships of the Baltic fleet are mov ing up the coastal road on the Gulf of Finland and adding their weight to tho assault on the city. It appeared that tho Gulf of Finland was blocked and escape by water from Viipuri was now impossible. New Compromise Tried On Price Control Bill WASHINGTON, June 20 (IP) Seeking to break a senate-house conference committee deadlock on the Bankhead cotton amend ment to the price control exten sion bill ,the administration to day put forward a new compro mise plan for adjustment of tex tile price ceilings. Its details were not divulged officially, but Senator Maloney (D-Conn.) said he thought lt would be accepted oy Senator Bankhead (D-Ala.) and other cot ton state senators. Maloney made the comment after a conference with Bankhead. . HANGS SELF SEATTLE, June 20 OP) De spondent over ill health, Isidore Flaton, 77, former clerk in the county treasurer s office, hanged himself in his apartment today. Coroner C. L. Harris said that for the past year and a half. f laton nad been maintaining a group of relatives, refugees here from Germany, flaton was a na turalized American citizen. The naval air transport serv ice's most famous cargo plane is the giant flying boat Mars which on one trip carried a record air load of 35,000 pounds. There were 889 major changes and thousands of minor adjustments in design of the Heiidiver during the first seven months of production. More than 20 per cent of nazi aircraft on the eastern front are now reported to be obsolete A woman in Burgos, Spain, says she has not taken food nor drink in 19 years. Wyoming's Devil's Tower Na tional Monument is more than 20,000,000 years old. Alexander the Great was born is Europe, died In Asia, and was buried in Africa.' (Continued from Page One) navy In the near future will win a great navul victory In the Central Pacific"). Battle Rages With the land battle still rag ing to their north and south west, Seabees began preparing the newly-captured Asllto air strip, on Salpan's southern coast the first American air base within Japan's Central Pacific middle defense arc. Its capture climaxed tho long drive toward air bases strategically dominat ing the oceanic approaches to Tokyo. Pushing through tangled rancflclds and swamps, Ameri can marines and army troops traversed the island on a wide front to reach Maglcienne bay on the cast coast, 3V miles from the western landing beach. In this mile and one-half ad vance since Friday, some Japa nese forces were cut off in the arrowhead of Natulan point, Salpan's southeastern extremi ty. Carrier Based The Japanese aerial thrust their largest since Midway Included some planes apparent ly based on distant carriers and using nearby shore bases for shuttle landings, the U. S. com munique said. It added that systematic American bombing and strafing of airfields on Guam and Rota "sharply limited" the effective ness of the Japanese shutllo land fields. Designation of these two islands, approximately 100 miles south of Satpan, indicated enemy carriers were some dis tance from the Marianas. American forces hold a five mile long coastal strip on tho western shoreline, where they have expanded from their orig inal beachhead at Aglngsn point. SPECIAL PLANE IN WASHINGTON. June 20 OF) Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said today a special plane equipped with a passenger ele vator Is In use In this country for tho transportation of various government missions. After Early's news conference announcement. Maj. Gen. Harold L. George, commanding the air transport command, said the ship was a specially outfitted Douglas CS4 Skymaster. It has been the subject of persistent rumors that the presi dent was getting a special plane for his own use, but the army announcement said it would be operated by the air transport command for the convenience "of too personnel of the govern ment, In connection with military and diplomatic conferences. The virtually full time need for a special mission piano prompted the ATC to have tho Interior of one of the large cargo aircraft modified for this pur pose, ueorge saia. SWITCHMAN KILLED SPOKANE, June 20 W) Thcrman C. Goring, railroad switchman, was killed today at the Northern Pacific yards when he slipped or was bumped un der the wheels while uncoup ling cars, the sheriff's office re ported. FUNERAL FRANCES WKrVT 1 rem Ins of the lete France Weit, who passed away in this city Wednes day, June 14, 1044, were forwarded, via Southern Pacific, to Oakland, Calif,, on Tuesday morn in. June 30. Final HUi will take place from I he chapel of the Truman company. 30.10 Telegraph Ave., on Wednesday. June at. Ward Klem aih Funeral Home In charge of forward ing arrangements. Germans Warned To Surrender NEW YORK. June 20 (IP) German troops cut off at Cher bourg by the American advance were warned over UUC fiu'lll lies today thut their position was huiK'lo.i.H uiid tlmt surren der would bo their wisest move. "Any attempt to evacuate you through tho coastal waters of Cherbourg prnlnsulu would bo pure suicide," tho Hermans were told. . The warning, miiuc-in norma,; by a British officer, reminded Ilia Germans that other Ger man troops under command of Col.Gen. Jucrgen von Ainlm had been trapped by the same American ninth division on tho Cape Hon peninsula In Tunisia and had not regretted their do clsion to surrender. Box Office Opens 6:45 P. M. ENDS TONIGHT itliH trnsn. fOMDh JP "" SssS " mni'UUI STARTS WEDNESDAY 1OT6V" STARRING Hedy Lamarr On The Same Hit Program f'r TJDiYSCXWII.NOHEEllY,Jlt.K)BSAWVT!lf' Ti AT : .ii,. "Z r. ssi-im seven wavy titers Survi Raft Trip Off Aleutian (Continued from Page One) Hi rnmnnnv! nnlnllmt out that this question was not raised in the complaints on which the hearing was called. tut.... -i.lrl llml Ilin "hllick snow" angle had been brought up in a Moriiui unci news cm- torial concerning mis ncaring, It ..... kMimtil nut Hint thn snttt control was mentioned In a pub licity release on mo nranns in sued by tho public utilities com missioner s oiiico. David Don. examiner for the PUC conducting the hearing, said he had been Informed that the heating company had been ..nl.lM In nhtulii services of a competent engineer to go into the soot prooiem. Attornoys for the defendant, tho Klamath tlcaung company, are Paul Farrons and Richard Maxwell. Appearing tor puunc school district number one Is Wilson Wiley, and for tho Wil lard hotel and Kluhrer s bak ery, L. Orth Slsemoro. John Eblnger Is representing North- cleaners. Now Method cleaners, Standard cleaners ana nycrs, Cascade lnundry, and Gene's Uptown cleaners. The hearing for the proposed advance in rales by tho heating company has been postponed until a later date. Auto Dealers Want Ceilings Revised CHICAGO, June 20 W) Tho National Automobile Dealers' as sociation has asked the office of prlco administration to revise un recent order fixing celling prices I on used cars. . . , ' Ray Chamberlain of Washing ton, D. C, executive vice prcsl-; dont of tho association, said to day the dealers had asked an In-1 crease of tho allowable dealer' markup from 25 to 33 13 per cent and that, to prevent a black market, dealers be defined as those regularly engaged In buy ing and selling automobiles. An American soldier con sumes approximately one anil, one-half times as much food as the average civilian. Br NORMAN BELL WITH NOItTIl I'ACiriC FOltCIC, UNITED S T A T K S KLKIST, June 20 ll'l Hkvcii young navy films, survivors uf II in first rubber raft rescue In the Aleutian area, tlimiked Ihelr lucky slurs toduv mid Herbert Rowe, of Clearfield, Utah, re marked: "We proved It could IP done." Me and his mates recalled thut only two months ago another navy plane crew perished off Attn after waving off rescue planus which might ulxo luivo foundered in thn rouuli sea, The bodies of six, Including Lieut, Newrll Wymaii, pilot, were re. covered from two rafts by a destroyer three days later, They had died ot exposure. The new raft experience, this time with a happy ending, was also off Allu and thusn saved were tho crew of a Ventura bomber piloted by Lieut. ()k) Jackson W, Clark, Klngsvllle. Tex. Lieutenant Clark and Howe, aviation ordnanceman 3-cl, both remembered that the water was "damned cold." Tho pilot oxplulned that thn plane, closed out from Allu by clouds, was unnblo to make an alternate base becauso of a gas shortage. There was nothing to do but come down on the sea after sanding a radio appeal for aid. The plane sank 35 miles east of Attn, but only about two miles off the shore of Agattu. It wont down about 60 seconds after hitting the water and the crew was able to release only one of two rubber rafts. Hub lo "bout five mhlu? It i2 m olhrrs to ,1,7 .' "7 rubber bol p'MnS "'"y "'cause U,.Ini2 Then Ihoy We wavni . Y'tut BlTT J1'"-." said R rlSt man aV,' Xr,i we w.vrd any J boat di.patchfd ,7o7i V r'ved ani took (, ,?. 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