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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.
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thing' wrong. Better get the
counsel of a Specialist or your
. Family Physician. No time to tak
chance, you know!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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