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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. !
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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
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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-''?"
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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.
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