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Newspaper Page TextPAfiE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SPEED! FULL i f FRENCH CITHEEN (Continued From Page One) order to concentrate on defense of Cherbourg. A Canadian Press correspond ent reported that the Germans may have evacuated Caen, at the eastern end of the allied line in Normandy and dispersed their forces outside the city because of the terrific bombing to which the long-contested town had been subjected. . Unconfirmed There was no confirmation at supreme headquarters of a Ger man radio report that new allied air-borne landings had been made at Gavray east of Gran ville on the peninsula's west coast 60 miles below Cherbourg. The Germans were making a desperate bid to hold the stra tegic port as long as possible. Everywhere fierce resistance was encountered, and a par ticularly vicious battle was being fought for control of the big airfield at Maupertus. live miles east of the city. Inside the besieged port, the German garrison stood up stub bornly under yesterday's 1000 plane assault on the forts and pillboxes comprising 'the city's defenses. The U. S. ground troops had to fight for every inch of their advance. Small Gains Small gains were registered around the port itself, but prog ress was made on both the east ern and western ' sides of the peninsula. , Only slight German resistance was reported by American troops which cut off the eastern Up of the peninsula by capturing the road junction of St. Pierre Eg lise and then driving two miles westward and taking Carvevilie within sight of the sea. A report from the 21st army group headquarters said this ad vance provided "strong indica tions" the Germans had aban doned that tip of the peninsula despite strong fortifications in the St. Vaast la Hougue area on the eastern coast. Advance On the western tip of the peninsula, the Americans went forward in the area of Beaumont Hague against scattered resis tance, cutting ott wnatever Ger mans are in that area. Allied bombers and fighters at tacked German gunposts and bar racks on Alderney, one of the channel isles only seven miles Vest of the tip- of Cap de la Hague. This indicated some of the trapped Germans might be attempting to flee there. The allied prisoner bag, mean while, was described at supreme headquarters as "well over" the 15,000 announced a few days ago for the period since the June 6 , landings. - Tank Attacks In the British-Canadian sector to the east the Germans struck with a tank attack two miles southwest of Tilly-Sur-Seulles, but were beaten off. British re connaissance parties three miles east ot Caen encountered deter mined resistance. The wind dropped and the weather improved off the allied beachhead, permitting the allies to resume, alter lour oaa days, tne unloading of supplies. Seven Industrial Deaths Reported SALEM, June 23 UP) Seven fatalities. 1103 accidents and 15 claims for occupational disease were reported to the state indus trial accident commission during the week ending June 22. The dead are Clark K. Swit zer, Vale 1' .eman, injured June 9 at Boise, Idaho; Marvin Lee Wallace, McMinnville flagman, injured June 12; Frank Grimm, Klamath Falls yard foreman, in lured June 16: Lauritz T Aamodt, Portland shipwright, in jured June i; unaries a. crow ther, Portland material expedit er, injured June is; Jacob Tarr, i-ortiand rigger, injured June 13, and Nikola Miljak, Cochran rig ger auuger, injurea june id, Canines Parade For Vets fr su "y; Sr-" ' I'll .-v I Marine Devil Dogs in training at Camp Lejeuna, N. J stage a review in honor of canine veterans of fierce fighting at Bougainville. PLOESTI OIL FIELDS (Continued from Page One) ministry of economic warfare es timate that Germany's yearly output of oil has been reduced about 65 per cent by aerial bom bardments of the last three months. Fuel Cut A ministry spokesman said the German army is getting less than half the gasoline it needs. The spokesman said German liquid fuel output has been cut from IS or 16 million tons yearly to about five million. The Italy-based bombers, es corted by Lightnings and Mus tangs, met a "considerable num ber" of fighters over Romania, an announcement said, and sev eral were shot down. The rail yards at Nis, Yugoslavia, also were bombed. , . Rocket Bombs Occasional rocket-bombs con tinued to zoom toward England. but British Home Secretary Her bert S. Morrison assured parlia ment tnat iney nad done little damage of national importance." lodays attack came after a night in which RAF heavies struck at the nazi reinforctment crammed rail yards at Reims and Laon, bringing to a climax one ot tne greatest days of aerial op erations since the launching of tne normanoy invasion. Eyewitness Reports Intricate Strategy (Continued From Page One) pilots were later picked up. Car riers worked until after dark easing stragglers onto decks. This phase ended the immedi ate threat to the Marianas land ings but Spruance was still try ing desperately for a surface bat tle with the Japanese which he has been seeking for more than a year. Because of the distance between the fleets this was an outside chance from the first. Locate Enemy However, the Japanese were definitely located the next after noon by scout planes and a big American bombing and torpedo fleet was launched late in the afternoon to try to reach and slow down the Japanese so that fast battleships could catch them. Bombers took off into the set ting sun with only a couple of hours of light left and a trin ahead of them which was almost at the maximum range of car rier planes. For hours there were no re ports from the bombing fleet. Finally, long after dark, planes DroKe radio silence just once: "Two carriers smoking." Silence Then there were more hours of silence. . Then the first planes returned to the blacked-out fleet. More and more planes appeared, and lights covered the sea. (Remem ber this is halfway between Mar ianas and the PhiliDDines and well west longitudinally of Tokyo.) Planes circled and the Inter ship radio was frantic. All planes were perilously low on gasoline, some virtually out. Within a few minutes the first ot tnoso witn dry tanks were forced to land on the sea, unable to get aboard the carriers quickly enough. Crewmen of the downed planes clambered on rubber rafts and added blinking flashlights to the confusing battery of lights illum inating the sea irom every di rection. Planes Land Starshclls fired to aid strag glers hung on the edges of the clouds. From the flagship it was possible to watch the hazardous landings on the carriers. Plane lights circled, dropped lower, approached the sterns of flight decks guided by illuminated pad dles held -by perspiring deck of ficers. Sometimes they made that perilous last 10 feet safely. Sometimes they were too high as the pilots strained to see in the dark. Then they bounced landing gears or smashed into sickeningly, sometimes wrecked barriers where plane handlers dared whirling propellers to haul wrecks forward so others, could land. In a couple of hours it was all over., bhip lights went out and me iieet resumed its almost hopeless chase after the Japs. Not until this morning was anything very clear. Then a check-up showed many planes were on the wrong carriers, correcting earlier fears they had been lost. Rescued Most of those downed because of lack of fuel were picked up during the night or next morn ing, when rescue planes joined in hunting for them on a blue sea stained here and there with dye thrown out by pilots to at tract attention. We never did catch the Jap fleet and today nothing remains anywhere in the waters east of the Philippines except a few pieces of floating wreckage and some huge oil slicks. The admiral took his custo mary two-hour walk on deck this afternoon. But his step was a little more springy than it was yesterday. Saturday Features Big Hat Wearing Tomorrow is Big Hat Day and those not wishing to be fintd in kangaroo court should get their 10-gallon toppers out of the moth balls. Anyone caught without his big hat Saturday will be fined the price of a ticket to the Queen's ball. Judge at kangaroo court will be J. C. Hunt. The civil air patrol league, organized to promote both civil and military aviation, covered 25,000,000 miles in coastal pa trol in 19 months. YANKS HIT 'JAPS LEFT ISLAND COUNTY ALLOCATED One of the latest substantial Investments in war bonds re ported here this week, adding impetus to the Fifth War Loan drive, was an allocation to Klamath . county for $10,000 from General Petroleum cor poration, presented by E. W, Stiles, representative in this area for that company. The $10,000 purchase, stated Stiles, is in addition to heavy investments by General Pe troleum in the Pacific coast marketing area during this and firevious loan drives. It is also n addition to the regular monthly investments made by the, company's employes. WLB Denies General Wage Boost For Lumber Workers (Continued from Page One) 55.000 workers from Belling ham. Wash., to Fresno, Calif. The nrevious walkout ended only when the WLB agreed to reconsider its earner decision. Majority Opinion Labor members of the WLB, dissenting from the majority opinion, said tne decision lanea to take into account the effect of a general wage increase to ward restraining present em ployes in the industry. Last night's decision abo up held previous directives of the West Coast Lumber commission, with minor exceptions. Tho di rectives extended the payment of night shUt differential of 25 cents a shift to the pine In dustry, established a safety pro gram for some operations and also provided for differentials ot Z3 cents a snui ior tne scconu shift and 40 cents a shift for the third shift in the plywood operations of the Douglas fir regions. The board also added a clause to the vacation provisions of the previous directive denying va cation pay to a worker who voluntarily quits or is discharg ed before the end of the vaca tion base year unless he Is re hired or has worked enough hours to qualify. (Continued From Pago Ono) land, 1500 miles from Tokyo but HUUU miles from Penrl Harbor, was KoiiiK well. Supported by planes operat ing off captured Aslilo airdrome and outiiinmliig tho Nipponese on tho ground, tho Yunks drove ahead more than a mile on the cat side of tho bland at Magic! enne bay. Scale Mount In the center, they wore scal ing 13-tU foot mount 'lauotchim In tho southwest dp. they had wiped out half of an unspecified total of trapped Japanese and Today Tokyo conceded In seized 500-foot Mount Natulan. dispatch heard over the Gorman radio that tho Yunks are pour ing ashore, along with heavy guns, on batpnn. Nimltz' comm. unique said "Heavy pressuro is being main tained night and day against en emy troop concentrations and defense works by our aircraft army and marine artillery and naval guuiirc. ' Tho only mention of enemy air action was an attempt to bomh American transports but It "did no damaiio. Assessing Monday's attack fur! to the west of Sulpun on the j Japanese fleet, Navy Secretary I Forrcstal said In Washington I "our fleet did a magnificent Job but the navy is not going to bo satisfied until the Japanese fleet is wiped out." i Holding the English record : for being the longest kept a se cret, the British reconnaissance bomber Albemarle was not re vcaled to the public until three ycors oftcr production. Almost 30 per cent of ell pe-. destrian fatalities are suffered i by those past 65 years of age, j who represent only 7 per cent i of tho population. I Tornado Strikes In M id d law est rr AiiTnl T.lf Win .Iiiiijs 1 Ufl A H """I i ........ 23 Wi A tornado struck two border counties In Wisconsin and Illinois laxt night, killed nt least eight persons, injured an ti,..il,ii.wt iitimhttr. nncl do. stroyed more than a dozen homo In uolmont, " is. r....,n.,M I., ipnnMi-lv tin mil. mated at thmisuml) of dollars, Willi esumaies oi mora men lira homes and (arm buildings lev eled. Sheriff Homer I,, curry or Lafuyotto county, Wis., said at least six persons were killed In n..l...t ,1.1.11m r,tl, nullum,,, mi,.,- . - wero killed In tho county. Two owicr persons were nniru wurii the tornado struck Stephenson county, III. Sewing Club Holds Picnic Sunday The Thursday Sewing club of Mt. Lukl Is planning to tnko 12 marines from the marine' Ilurracks on a picnic Sunday, I They plan to go to tho atatn fish hatchery on highway 1)7, said Mrs. Lois Thompson, pre!- i dent of tho club. This Is one of , tho first gestures of this kind thut has been made In this com-: munlty. Any group or persons who want to plan similar pro), eels may do so by calling the Commandos. ! REDS OPEN NEW FRONT: HIT NAZIS (Continued from Pago One) kilometers (about 19 miles) and advanced eight to 10 kilome ters," tho communique mild, adding that more than AO popu lated places. Including a rail On the riin,,h fronl ' I Lake. One.... , . nf b,liJ "I'm troop, (,lrcf( u, Svlr In th. v.Jl 1,9 M ".during a r " H four populate ,,Z ''" on ,J Ullll null! ,.,,., '" l!0 Rn. time other f,p. " Mm, successful oi toi".iJ,,",nue ' northern bank of tl BV sv? Ing moro tlmn 2u 'r,Ui places. 1PUUM In broadcasts earlier t., tho German lii.i, ,.o,'Lc' U c r I I lowland!" M said the sovle moved Kcl" yesterday on a h l (,orwrd north ot Inn l-rip"1, on the most d.roct rn',' Moscow to Wnruu. .J?9-''?" i """ '""- If It's a "frozen" article you need, advertise for used one In the classified. The first United States bomb was dropped on German soil in this war on January 27, 1943, when 53 of our planes attacked Wilhelmshaven. EUGENE, Ore., June 23 (IP) A strike in the northwest lum ber industry in protest of tho war labor board's decision Thursday denying wage in creases was predicted here to day by Kenneth Davis, execu tive secretary of the Northwest Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers speaking at the 46th annual convention of the Ore gon State Federation of Labor. FUNNY BUSINESS ."This one is ; special for carrying the colonel's long-j . winded messaaes!" i Wednesday, June 28th, 8:00 P. M. WAR BOND PREMIERE ii EVE OF ST. MARK" Starring MICHAEL O'SHEA ANNE BAXTER Admission By War Bond Tickets Only Loge One $1000 War Bond General Admission One Series E Bond llJinMI.il Box Office Opens 1:30-6:43 Ends Saturday (ACTION! Pfv THRILLS I TJ. CHILLS! .llc.PFNC.Ft ROMANCE! -Jy TiiriPico EDWARD G. ROBINSON . I ii ITNN SASI , VV VICIOl MflAOHN Second Thrill Hit KAY FRANCIS CAROLE LANDIS f MARTHA RAYE -Starts-SUNDAY A lovs hounlsd byamsleiiA vll In a heute of terror ... a ft lev that fought to fm HmK of 1 vnMtn hotel 1 "The u I Uninvited JXRay Milland - Ruth Hussey J Donald CrisP'Gomtlli Oils Sklnniil i GallfkUMll 'if1 A tmtwmimt Pltvr 1 mm Box Office Opens 8:45 2 Big Hits! Today Tex Ritter -in ks mg Gringo" with Monte Blue - Funy Knight -Second Hit "Famed for Murder" Wallace Ford June Clyde mmm Tclcphono 4307 Box Office Opens l:30-6:i5 -Ends-Saturday FOR LOVE... and COUNTRY But Not (V,' ,i 7 1 r- cm Michael O'SHEA Anne SHIRLEY Gent LOCKHART Ray WALKER Tower & Esquire -SUNDAY- t -.OlAMAWfVrV 4 111V 111V Angels Sing" VIHI C3ANDLF.I A Paramount rlctvr. ! muiaiAiiiji . NOW PLAYING SCOOP! ACTUAL Invasion News hi mwinn nu IM4 m ttw Box Office Open (MS p. m. Last Times Tonight--On Th Screen GIRLS I2SS I UP -ON THE STAGE- Isa Dorah Moldovan's hi, iiui i: (Complete New Colt) -1 m mw ! Continuous Show Dally Box Office Opom 12:30 NEW TODAY JAP TREACHERYI W AH ml 'I 1 a Hi J TOM NU1 l Id, Saturday - Sunday ON OUR STAGE! In Person! mm (Champion Rldor, Roper and Bulldoag", Featured Star of Hop-A-Long Caiiidy SmW' AND HIS SADDLE PALS