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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1944)
1 . ' - :". , -."'',' ' I ttJtfMW. r La.:,,! m. -,, BV FRANK JENKINS ' ' COBERINO new cornea from Salpai Ut the hardest battla of the Jnp war mid nas cost u mora ctminilKM limit ANY OTHER Pa ct(io Invasion more Hum Guad alcanal, nioro than Tarawa. Our dead there up to June 38 tolut 1474. our wounded 7400 aim our missing 8?a.- I TP to tho name date, we had v buried 49 J I Japs. What the total of the enemy' wounded 1 may be we donl know. As usual there are practically no Jup cap- lives. J' TpllE burrowlnit Japs' had bur-' i. x rowed huitely In the long 1 . . 1 1 . L.i.f -.. ! ... ,. ywau iiiujr ncriu cwipail. Ana liuuvrtone hills and bluffs are t honeycombed with caves and r i........t i. .... . .. i. aii imiitvin. no UHVt; lu ihkv nLiu the.e burrow and kill the de fenders to the Inst manthat k, uuuig lire wny urn jgp bomb harbors and dock at the southwest tip of f ormosa. Is land, just on (no (.mna coasi. That might be significant. If we land on China, we'll have to !' take Formosa first. Formosa Is ik vlthln fighting range of Luzon, brio, orthernmost of the Philippine, iftei The weak spot In our bomblnit r,i, om unnta is mat we re so snori of I I gasouno incrc. THE Chinese say today the .Inns have STARTED NORTH from Canton toward Hcngyang. to meet their forces a liuil linvv uvvii iiiuviiik. wum' Seaward. When they loin, as now ic teems inevitable, China will be ; til in hall ana isolated irom me In , acute. - - After that, one - Kuesscs. the unr P will turn westward to clean cot mi our (.mna. air oases. : .. THE urmsn, wno nave puinou on east beyond Caen to the Odon river, which they have r crossed, are standing firm nt against powerful German tank w ittnck. m- The scale of the fighting there n Indicated by mo fact wai since ei D-Day they have destroyed' 143 b German tank and disabled 180 at nore. (tn a hot battte. disabling d utank Is momeVitarllyaa good br smashing It.) . - . i" ,The Germans are reported to be throwing In inckbasinu re serves, some of which iw said to have been BROUGHT FROM THE RUSSIAN FRONT. If .that is true, they're SCARED of us on tho western front. ' ' They're now bringing up most of their reserves ai nigni, aay lmht movement In sight of our planes having been found' too cosuy. v ... ., - THE British are using massed B anti-tank gun (light, mobile wo-pounders, six-pounders and ' -4 4. m.aI IV.. f.mr- I -jvuiiui;i iw itwi .Hji vv- nnn nnAi,l Dtfnr-kR. -i l 4, . I! .. IV. a Im. 1U UIIUC1BUIIIU IHHJ Miw .- , portance of this fighting, remem- f The more ports we, get, the stronger we u oe. : THE Germans say today (via radio) that their robots are launched from UNDERGROUND emplacements. That, If true, helps to explain why our bomb er havo found it so difficult to wipo them out. . rHE Russians are making fan ,! 1 tastic statements as to lossc Inflicted on the cast front nazis. Moscow says today in a special A onnAnnAmnn Ihnl 1 9(9. ftftt flff. mans have been KILLED there in a week and 31,000 more cap tured a total (noi counting , wounded) of 183,0001 - - tjjE think ot such staggering " . slaughter as possible only ' in modern warfare. That Isn t true. Two thousand r years ago at Lake Trasimene, in Italy (where our men are now ' fighting the Germans), Hannibal i ambushed a Roman army in the ; 'fog and when the battle ended 19,000 Roman dead Jittered the I field slain ' with; spear and l sword. That isn't much compared with the Russian claim of 132, 000 Germans killed in a week, but Hannibal had : fewer than 20,000 men and, - although ac counts of the historians vary, it seems probable that the Roman army numbered not: greatly more than 30,000. War has ALWAYS; been bloody,- ' . ' ; ' ' V. RUSSIAN cavalry has. crossed tho Berezina and . OUT FLANKED Minsk to the north . west. The ' crossing, was made . quickly possible by .Russian guerrillas who held a bridge in a pitched battle against the' Ger mans until the Russian, horse nen arrived. i . ; ' Tales of na.l- confusion are :omlng from Minsk, Russian dls tatches speaking today of "Gcs Bpo efforts to create some' kind Of order out of. the battered, FRIGHTENED German legions? aefonding. the" city, Russian cor respondents report hundreds of n a 1 1 s surrendering BEFORE BEACHING Minsk and add that . the red army is having difficulty in moving up for a direct aisauft because of tho number of Ger- 'mon captives crowding the .''toads. " i . . . f '. You'd better keen yolir -Ingeri :. .(Continued-Oft. PHga.ThrL. PRICE 5 CENTS F E Hardest Battle Pacific Nears Climax of ABOARD' JOINT EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE IN ' FLAG SHIP OFF SAIPAN. July 1 m (Via navy radio) The hardest battlo of. the Pacific war moved toward It-climax, today as American Invader' of . Salpan drove ahead In tropical heat to new line on ridge abova the enemy city of Garapan. rom inu new position, ina American exoected to have a Jumping off place for' an at- iacR againsi we remaining major enemy position in the northern part of the island. . Heavtaet casuaJUM It wa an advance across hill pale from limestone dust chum' ed up by 17 day -or helling,, bombing and . fiere - close-in fighting that haa eoaf th Ameri cans the largest: . castuunea . ot any pacific invasion:-, .', " The figure through. June at were 1474 killed. 7400 wounded and 878 missing. ' During the same period' the losse among Japanese troop defending Salpan were obvloua- (Continued on Page Three) CHIiensMp Rlght$ Granted To Poles i MOSCOW: July Ytin Tha supreme soviet in a decree to day granted inhabitant of the western province of White Russia - and the Ukraine the right to adopt Polish citizenship if they are serving In the Polish army .In R u 1 a or "aotlvely helping the army fight against me uerman occupants. Sovietcitizen ot Polish na-, Mortality in . other Russian, prov inces also were given the privi lege of seeking . Polish citizen ship if they meet these 'require ments. Members of their fami ne would be included. . Nails Take Over - Finn Buildings STOCKHOLM, .July 1 (AT The Free, Danish' press service reported today that German troops took possession of the Co penhagen town hall, National bank, Central station and other official building as a general strike continued.. . . Yesterday travelers arriving in Sweden declared Danes and Ger mans were fighting in the streets of Copenhagen with rifle and machine gun. They said thou sands of Dane were leaving the city. - - i ... . The Danish radio left the air at 8:40 p.im. ''"-,''..';.' Copplin Jailed On Rape Charge 'nrhla Coimlln was arrested and placed In the county Jail Friday -night, charged with the rape of a '15-year-old -girl. Appearing in lustlce - court Saturday morning. Copplin,-a married man' with three chil dren, took time. to plead. -Ho is being held under f.8000 ball. INVADERSO SAIPHIV 0 NEW LINES Demoralized Germans Poiir Into Minsk , ; , , As Russians Prepare for Seizure . - m rnrY aiLMOFE MOBCOW. Julyl m Front dispatches' said, today that-remnant of a demoralized Gorman nnuf 441 .tfinnUH (mm thp north Bimv di-a rwiurina rinui'- iviiiimivi west, and that,the roar of battle. Is echoing- through the city i out- sklrt.. . i .., v ; , . - . Storm trooper ana tne ges- Inrui win rannrtud trvlllff to Cre ate some kind of .order out of the battered, frightened- nazl legions dofending the- capital of White Russia, no Hitler' . rrfolt Im porUnt bastion oh his , eastern front..' 'V Armies converge ' Thr.ivit prmles converged rapidly upon Minsk from the northeast, cast ' and "'Southeast, Gcti. r Ivan ChernWkhovsky t third Brmy streamed tHrc-uh the thick forest northeast of the city, ovor.punioroui brldgef ow- Im Thm Shmdim-Ctutrmdm WmndrlanA : , ' 4 - ' tfr ' j 1 V. 'tt t t I t( Hk "t I . . t L . , 1 . ' ,, -4'. - H : DEWEY WELCOMED lilAZI CQUNTERDF ITILOJfflf CAPITOL iwanaii 41. wuii i.yil, Governor .Thomas E. Dewey. ra DUbliean .candidate .forlnresU v5ent-cnilf home to Albany ntJ JVf ml welcomeitod, declared the November' election wiirpror n America is me most -united nation .In the world." , . , . , -'W will Drove. It because w are ina only nation mat oares risk - an election in in ; most critical phase of the war," he told a crowd, estimated by state oollce at 2S00. who gathered at th eanltot stecs to irtlt the - The election, Dewey added, "will mean to Our allies that (Continued on Pag fight) Bombers Smash : Takao Docks : CHUNGKING. July 1 (P) American ' ' Liberator from China, Joining in Admiral Chea ter. M.- Nlmltz Central Pacllle campaign, have smashed at the docks and harbor of Takao, . Im portant Japanese shipping center on the southwestern point of For moia, it was announced today. A-communique from Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquar ter said the Liberators made the attack during a sea sweep Thurs day night and damaged Installa tions, but gave no details. - (Formosa may be figuring prominently' In Japanese opera tions around Salpan under at tack by American force in the Marianas. Following the clash with U. S. task force 08 on June 10 In which the Japanese lost six ships sunk' and' nlno damaged, tho Japanese fleet fled to waters between Formosa and the Philip pines,) . ..i ' RAF Heavies Hit Nail Railways: LONDON; July . 1 (P) RAF heavy ' bqmbers, maintaining a steady campaign aimed, at strangling the nazis' channels of reinforcement for, the Norman dy front, bombed rail center at Vlerzon, 48 miles south of Orleans,-last night , In : the' allies' fifth heavy bomber operation In 24 hours. . i .. , .Atithe same time British' Mos qultos kept up the allied air pres sure! on' Germany itself by at-. tacklMB a .'synthetic oil - plant near Hombcrg on the Rhine. One Mosquito failed to return.. The five ' heavy, , bomber- operations cost 18 pianos. , . ; . stretched aorosi - the Berezina river. - ' ; '.Tho army paper Red Star re vealed that the main i crossing" wa made, over , a bridge which guerrilla held In a pitched battle until red army troops arrived ; ':'v Outflanked ' '": y. Tho 'Red Star .dispatch : said soviet' cavalry moved -through the forest north .of Mlnlc and outflanked ahe dty from;; the northwest, . '. . . ' Corrcspdndent reported hun dreds of demoralized Germans surrendering before they reach ed the filly. . : 'i' ' vRoads Crowded , r .Th'e red army was represented as having some difficulty in mov ing. Hur for direct blow upon Mfnsk becaune of tho largo num. bor of captlvoii crowding the "orilgltUhginihe cltyof 8of KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. Klamath Military Hiitory i. j The bld-tlm photograph of Old Fort Klamath In the W4 Rlrsr valley north el Klamath Fall are ot special Interest this weekend when altantien i directed to Klam ath's modem military Installations by a great public visitation to the new Klamath Marine Barracks. At left, above, a view of Fori Klamath troops In front of a barrack buildlnei at right, homss of married officers below, general view el the fort. Fort Klamath wa operated from 1163 to 11(9. For mart detail about its history, read the editorial column on page four. ' fM Traffic Mpvm Sunday-as Klamath People Celebration With Bar racks Rodeo Trips ' llflfttt outomoblle traffic movement her alnc Peerl Harbor Is expetted Sunday os thousandi. of Klamath beiln people trek to two moor Independence weekend, events the luckeroo Days rodeo and tho war-bond visitation at tho Merlne larrocks. , Tho two Sunday affair will open a gay three-day celebration oxpected to set records In public attendance and participation. Industrial lay-of boll new house : closures, and tha praienc of largo number! of military personnel In the) area, promls to iwell tho crawdi on tha itraeti, at tha county fairground and at tha tarrock, H oxceptionol proportions. " Movement of holiday partial to mountain and coast rotorta began on Saturday after noon, but tha vast majority of local people ara expected to remain In Klamath, using goso line only for tho ihort Jounti to tho fairgrounds and tha larracks. . Tha rodeo program itarti at 1:30 p. m. each day, lasting throughout tho afternoon and possibly into tha aarly avanlng. 0. D. Matthews, chairman of tho Klamath luckaroo Dayi committee, told that capacity crowd ara expected on all three days, and tha Fourth of July crowd an Tuoiday Is oxpected to go far over prevloul recordi. : 7000 Viiltorf-' WAR5 BULLETINS LONDON, July 1 (P) Lung ing forward all along the While Russian front, tha red army to- y captured more than 800 ad ditional towns,. Including the city of Borliov, 46 miles north east of Minsk, and has crossed the Bereslna river In strength en' a front 70 miles wide, a sov iet . communique announced to night. , ,i-,..'.. ,r Foremast of ! Oregon Given , ' PORTLAND, Juiy 1 W ' Battleship .Oregon's ' foremast will '"bo- presented'' 'to '; the .city Tuesday at : a dedication -cero-mony , at : Battleship Oregon park. The historic old . Spanish American' .warships has been acrappad; . i-i sov,mnlnrallwny center north eait'of Minsk and the nnzls'jblg gest" defense point' before tho cltyj-' Red '.Star Correspondent Yakof Mllctzky said "one street after another Is being captured." . May be Joined .' ' It' appeared that before tho end of the day. Marshal Rokos sovsky's - first army and Con. Georg Zakharov's second army would i Join Chernlakhovaky's third army before the gate of Minsk. It was difficult to say whethor the Russians will ' at tempt to storm the city with a frontal assault or try to. break Into Jt from the rear,, as the red army often does. In the1 deep south White Rus sian front the Germans, seeking to patch the shattered ap proaches to Bnranowlczo, (Bar anovichi) and Plnsk, introduced (Continued on Pag Sight) i SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1944 la Jm Goat Back to Old Fort "T Seven thousand tickets had been Issued today to Klamath war bond buyers for the trip through the Marina Barracks, which will1 continue all day Sunday. This wlll.be the first view ot this new military Installation for most Klamath people,, and the showing of Interest has been Hicks, county bond drive chairman. ; A special feature of the dayat tlie Barracks -will be a review and presentation of citations and decorations, to be held at 11 a. m. This publlo ceremony will be conducted In the center park betwocn the moss hall and the administration building. It was TRAFFIC CHANGE ' Traffic will be rerouted, on Sunday, Monday and, Tuesday, from town to' the fairground in order to take care of rodeo traffic. , , " " .-' r- ;'- ' , From ' 13 until 1:30, South Sixth street wilt be a one-way street with car going, toward the rodeo grounds.-Incoming traf fic will bo rerouted by way ot Shasta way and East Main street by state police. After the rodeo,' one-way traffic will be instituted from the fairgrounds to town on South Sixth with' outgoing traffic 'rerouted' by city police. . . . ; ' - 4 , 4 Buses to tho Marine Barracks .will leave 4th. and Main' streets, at IS minutes after the- hour,. every. hour,. from 6:18 mv ,to midnight. . i . .." -v ! originally slated at the outer gate of the Barracks. Eight men, roturncd from Pacific fighting, will receive decorations and cita tions, i '.- , h ... ''' '- ' ; .. ' V - - . Visitor at the Barrack will , go by automobile nd bus. A route, .through the Barrack area has been set up for the trips, which should start at 9:80 a. m(" ' , , v .". '' ' ; . f Rodeo Talent v. ' VV-. .' ''- ' A-heavy Influx of rodeo talent the last- two day promised. a scintillating western show at the fairgrounds .during the rodeo, which is sponsored by an American Legion committee, with pro coeds going to tho. benefit of the' American Legion and the local' military committee. V,-. ,i , ' ' t, , Largest purses in. tho 'history , of Buckarba, Day "are being of fered .this year. The program will' include brono riding, calf roping, sloer tonnv rpplng, bulldogging, Brahma bull riding, races, and tunny entertnlnmont sdoclaltiea; Presiding over the affair will bo pretty Qiieon Shirley' FlesChor of, Bonanza and her retinue of eight princesses,..' , ...!''i ' ..:-.- f: ..,:('. , j -.;;.( . ,Kri parade Tuesday .:'';.'.' .' ;-..''., i Thore will bo special ' on-Sunday or Monday, but; the big Fourth of July parado Tuesday will be a .highlight-of-the celebration. It will start: down .Klamath's main ' business - atom from Second and Klamath at 10. o'clock sharp Tuesday, morning. Military units will head the parade followed by marching 'Units, floats and a huge array, of mounted, entries. V ; V: ' i ' . ', iv .-';. '. . Dancai Slatad J Three dance are slated Saturday nleht. Monday and Tues day, at tho armory. The queen end events, A carnival will play here nore Will ' business .nouses generally wilt he c( of them will close on July'. 3, .Monday. . SHOOTS SELF; . .. SALEM, July 1 (H)-Shot by his own gun while demonstrat ing the weapon" to' a group 'of small boys, State Patrolman Del bert'Vi Price was in a hospital recovering from a leg wound today.- I . - , V :',, t . ' ' One of tho boy attempted to rolease tho cartridge clip and pulled the trigger initeadf '. "July 1,1 1944 ; Max. (Jum M), .15 - MIn 47 Precipitation last 14 hours to bream yaar te date .,. I IS Normal .11.11 Last ysar.. 17.71 '. FtreeMti Fair. Klamath, Pictured Horo Open 3-Day tremendous, according to Joe her princesses wlllibe at these. throughout the celebration. mrougnoui me ceieoration. be closed on July 4, and some . -NEW SERVICE BAR . WASHINGTON, July 1 (f) A . new ' service 'bar to Indicate 'each six-month period of service oversea nas oeer) auinorizea py una war aeparimeni.. f , " . . , Army men will wear the dec. .oration oiv the' left sleeve, Just above the cuff, It will be a four inch rectangln ot cloth, with -goldcolored eding- - - Number 10199 IIVE BEAT OFF IN ITALY ROME, July 1 - OP) Fifth army infantry beat off German tanks counterattacks in the out skirts of Ccclna yesterday and continued the drive along the Italian west coast In the direc tion of Livorno (Leghorn) and Pisa, while tho French gained another milo on the road to Siena, 31 miles below Florence, allied headquarters said today. In the Adriatic sector the enemy has withdrawn from the Chlentl river and the eighth army has crossed the stream in Mvrrol - places. The nrmin wcrc iuilliig.biick to the Muaoor Ii V. omy 10 ml,e outn of mi big port city of Ancona- Entmy Flees .. ; Around Coclna, where : the enemy, had broken contact prev iously and started to flee, close pursuit by tho fifth army caus ed tho Germans to attempt a counterattack last night. Thl was repulsed, and the dough boy moved Into tho southern outskirts of the town yesterday afternoon, while others pushed across tho Ccclna river, some three miles northeast . of the town, and drove on northward. By late afternoon the Ameri cans were In contact with enemy on the south bank of (Continued on Pago Three). Rocket Bombs . Continue to Fall LONDON,' July 1 (flV-Ger- man flying bombs crashed Inter mittently Into southern England today and it was believed likely that Prime Minister Wln.tnn Churchill might make a brief statement to commons next week on mis new form of German at tack. - Yesterday the prime minister toured anti-aircraft site watch ing the battle against the winged bombs. The number of robot plane coming over increased after dawn and the air ministry an no u n c c d additional casualties and damage. - Two more hospitals were hit. Seven of 30 patients were killed at one hospital struck at night, but there were no deaths or ser ious injuries at the second. - . Miners Trapped By Fire HARLAN. Ky... July l (P) Eighteen miners today were re ported trnpped by fire in a soft cow , mine operated, at Clover Fork, by the Ridgeway Darby Coal company. ''.. . First reports, reaching ; here by-tho one telephone line from the mine, gavo no details. V ' - Rescue squads left here for .wa scene, Council Predicts -' ' . . ' . . ; -4. - v.--" . 7000 Holiday Fatalities By The Associated Press 'As pleasure-seeking . holiday vacationers headed today for beach and mountain resorts the National Safety Council sound ed a somber note, estimating that 1000 persons would meet death in' accidents over-' the long Fourth of : July .weekend. Unless the public makes - a united effort to cut the toll, the counell - said, 300 persons- - will die in traffic mishaps and 700 from burnings, falls, drownings, over-exposure ana over-exertion. '. ".. . . , , But, the r four-day holiday weokend had only begun 'when two -traffic fatalities -and- two GERMAN DEATH : STAND CRACKS UNDER ATTACK ' 7 ;' Berlin Reports"'' Say: .Fight Ended On ; Peninsula SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 1 (P) American doughboys have captured most of Cap de la Hague, cracking through the last German death , stand on that land jutting north west ' of.-. Cherbourg, supreme headquarters announced today. (Berlin radio said flahtlne in the northern part of Cherbourg peninsula, presumably meaning . me cape, naa ended Jam night . with.Vmassed forces of tanks, flame-throwers and motorized' Infantry"; over-running tho.' "weak German barrier posi tion".' manned by some J000 nazis) . ., ,v Seise Grevlll . Americans mopping up on" the cape seized the strongpoint' town of Greville, and reached Omonvllle la Jtogue and Omon vllle la Petite, three miles from the very tip of the cape, and about 11 miles northwest of Cherbourg . itself. The eleanup came as British artillery battered back an arm ored spearhead attempting to crash' into the. Odon rivee bridgehead menacing Caen on" the eastern flank. The Germans have thrown elements of seven tank divisions into the stubborn -battle there.,- - ' -. Repel Attacks , The '- British repelled four, small-scale German attack thl, morning, .and knocked out 11 Unks, a front . dispatch said, 1 adding that the Germans ap- (Continued, on Page Three) . Chinese Stab Near Japs In .4.f4.f.: Burma Sector SOUTHEAST ASIA COM-. MAND..KANDY, Ceylon, July 1 (P) Chinese troops holding the northern lahdulg strip at Myltky Ina have -stabbed further east ward toward the encircled Jap anese within , the embattled stronghold of North Burma,, a, communique of Admiral Lord Louis . Mountbatten's headquar ter announced tonight i Another Chinese column drlv lng down the. Maingna Ferry, road, where American also are pressing against the city, have gained more ground. Mopping - up operation are continuing In the Mogaung val ley and at the Chinese-held base of Mogaung Itself. ,-. Japs Say Three ; Cruisers Repulsed i Br The Associated Press : ' - Tokyo radio broadcast a Do mel new agency dispatch today .1 declaring the Japanese garrison on Guam repulsed "three enemy cruisers or large-sized destroyers which attempted to sholl our air field from the sea" yesterday. - At the same time "80 enemy planes which attempted to raid: our positions on the same day also -were repulsed," said the broadcast recorded in New York . by The Associated Press. , . ; i Break Causes Finnish Sorrow STOCKHOLM, July 1 News of the American break with Finland was received with "deep disappointment and pain" -by most Finns, the . Helsingln Sanomat said in an editorial quoted in the Swedish press to Social Demokraattli wrotot j "What the great majority of tho Finnish people long have feared -now has happened. There Is no' , sentimentality In politics, but de-' spite this, the news makes a j great many ot our people sad. and j sorrowful. ; drownings were reported in In diana.i a drowning and mlscel. lnneous d e a t h in' New Yorlt state and a miscellaneous death ' ih-Montana. ' ' i ' The' council said fora normal Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday in July tho'automoblla accident ' toll is 28ff, wlth-80 on each of the first two days,' 80 on Monday and 40 on Tuesday, ' Over - the - three-day July 4 weekend last year, an Assocjat-j ed Press survey least 298 deaths occi these 127 .were traffli 84 were .drownings suited from Grilse", causes,
