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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1944)
PACE TWO VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZED TO FIGHT FIRES Sixteen volunteer fire-fighting croups have been organized in the rural districts of Klamath county and are now ready to meet any summer fire emerg encies. . M. J. Barnes of Olene, county fire warden, is in general charge of the farm fire program. . Head men In the various com munities are: . - Langell valley Oscar Camp bell Cecil Haley Bonanza. Swan Lake Jack Marshall. Dairv Martin Stoehsler. North Poe Valley Dan LisK6y - South Poe Valley Rex High. Olene M. J. Barnes. Old Fort Road Clarence Hard. Lower Klamath Clive Mc Pherson. Henley Percy Dixon. Merrill Lewis Kandra. Malin Frank Paygr. ' North Malin Harvey Clug ston. Stukel Glen Dehlinger. Spring Lake Ward Dolin. Hildebrand Sam K. Harts ler. These men and their neigh bors compose the volunteer fire groups and are ready to give service and equipment in an emergency. County equipment is also available. The request by the Klamath Falls planning commission will be considered at the meeting of the state highway commission when it meets in Portland on July 11 and 12, the commission said today. The request is that the follow ing be included in We highway commission's plans for widenins South Sixth: install adequate lighting system, removal of util ity poles, and construction of concrete curbs along North Ninth between . Pine and Prospect sirccis. . EUGENE WOMAN ARRESTED EUGENE. July 6 (JP Mrs. Betty Shearer, 57, who was in dicted two and a naif years ago on a charge of using the mails to defraud, has been arrested in Areata, vain., anerm u. js, Crowe said today. She is accused of obtaining ap proximately $i3,duu irom Eu gene women in the sale of value less securities. .... FUNERALS JOE LKNSEY Funeral service for the 1m f a Jw Tm. sey who passed away In this city on Friday, June 30, 1944 following a brief iiiness, win oc neia in tne cnapei Of the Earl Whltlock Funeral Home. Pine street at Sixth, on Friday, July 7, 1944 at 3 p. m. with Mrs. C. M. Timms In charge. Commitment services and inter ment unKvuie cemetery. Friends are invuea. WILLIAM HARLOW Funeral. services for the lata William Marlow who passed away in this city on Saturday, July 1, 1944 following an extended illness were held in the chapel of the Earl Whltlock Funeral Home, Pine street at Sixth, on Thursday, July 6, 1944 at 11 a. m. Commitment ser vices and interment followed in Keno cemetery. RUTH FAVE LAVGHK Funeral services for the- late Ruth Faye Laveck who passed away near oacramemo, uam., on sunaay, JUiy 2, 1944 will be held in the chapel of the Earl Whltlock Funeral Home, Pine street at Sixth, on Friday, July 7, 1944 at 1:30 p. m. with the Rev. Victor Phillips of the First Methodist church of this city officiating. Commitment services ana interment unkvuia cemetery. (liCUUi OlD UiYlkCU. . OBITUARY icoiucm vi viam ath Falls, Ore., since birth, passed away 2, 1944. She was a native of this city 17 years, 2 months and 27 days. Sur viving are ner nusoand, William H. La- u. usoio aiu.i cr parcnu, Mr. nnrl Mw Tl,, a t-v i- 11.1. city and one sister, Mrs. Ellen Marie UUw,iU y. tc in uiaia, ana ner of OJal, Calif. The remains rest in the Earl Whltlock Funeral Home, Pine street at Sixth, where friends may call. No- nuncio w De announcea at urn Real Grads . caps,, gowns and sheepskins , ., """biw air to tne re cent "graduation" of kindergart eners at New York Children' Aid Society Above are typical flve-year-old grads Louis Stow j and Patricia McGarry. mJ Dies ! a 5 ANCHOR POINT ; jf- OF NAZI ARMY c , . -l ... ia.vw vlmnath rail road man. died at his home Wednesday morning. Kanntll-EUit Tl ROAD TO FLORENCE (Continued From Page One) 170 millimeter rifles with a range up to 20 miles. Nazis Counterattack The Germans launched four fierce counterattacks yesterday against Americans holding half the town of Rosignano, but all were beaten off. Further inland heavy fight ing also was reported in the outskirts of Castellina, but Unit ed States tank forces succeeded in driving a mile and one-half northeast of Monte Catini un der sharp fire from enemy troops lodged on high ground outside the town. "Nervous" An official spokesman de clared "the enemy is - particu larly nervous about fifth army movements and is keeping all highways under constant arm lerv fire." Northwest of Siena the fifth armv was reported encounter ing remnants of the 162nd Tur coman and 2u panzer divi sions. H.ich Umbeitlde Tim bertide. an important highway junction, was reached by eighth army troops yester day after they had crushed de termined enemy resistance just south of the town, which is 42 miles east of Siena and 65 miles southeast of Florence. One eighth army column was onlv three miles from the im portant road center of Arezzo after struggling through mud and elaborate German demoli tions. At one point the Ger mans blew out 120 feet of road way to impede pursuit. 200 Believed Dead In Circus Fire (Continued From Page One) borhood was mobbed with per- 1 1 . 1 . :j ,.i SUI1S culling xur iuaL-aiu vk accn.- ing to use telephone lines, Police Help State Police Commissioner Edward J. Hickey, who was in the audience called for all mem bers of the deoartment to re port at once. . One report was that a busload of injured had been taken to a hospital. Animals Rescued The circus animals appeared were gathered on the grounds some distance from the hurninc? tent. As people recovered from the first shock of the 'fire, the pan demonium Increased. They clustered against police lines, and as each body was brought out of the ruins, the mob surged forward vainly try ing to learn tha iripntifv nf iho victim. 12 Carried At Taoet 19 nAVMn - h--i who wcic mi rier! mil. thrflf.l1lattat.a nf nn hour after the fire began. ton said her shoulder and top ui ner nair naa Deen burned, and her three-year-old boy was hlirnpH nn tho lade anA u..u .&3 miu auuuiu ers. She was sitting in the re- ocivcu section. "I saw a flash and then I heard vplHntf " hc u hvl.. .7 nib oaiui JLJ1C11 there was a rush down the seats." Bed Cross The Rorl rVne lt- " "-j naa uii me scene to administer first aid. we are too busy to talk about it we have nothing to SaV now " onirl a f St. TTrannie VinUn1 ...i . ; - t.uH(bix wiieu quer ied for information on casualties resulting from the fire. If It's n "frnTan" o.t;l ..... 7 ... ulic yuu need, arlrartfca j . , , - ... uaeu une in the classified. Starts Saturday Midnite 30A CmtwyM prwwMi 'PTTT71 TTTf T171 !F ST. MAR Anna BAXTER'William EYTHE Michael O'SHEA ITHOOPS FLANK (Continued from Page One) communique said these forces were engaged in fighting on a large scale against regular Ger man army units. Areas liberated oy me t rencn were named as the district of Vercors, southwest of the Swiss border; part of the department of Gers, between Bordeaux and Toulouse in southern France; the department of Doubs, just west of the Swiss frontier; the depart ment of Ain, northwest of the Swiss f-ontier; the department of Ardeche on the west side of the Rhone valley in southern France. Derail Trains 'This fighting is not a ques tion of oickine off stragglers or small units but of bearing the brunt of heavy German attacks and engaging regular German army units," supreme headquar ters explained. , It added that in 10 days the French underground had caused 24 train derailments, destroyed two tunnels and caused whole sale delays in German troop movements, including a whole tralnload of tanks. Several armored vehicles have been captured and 190 Germans killed and la prisoners taken in one engagement alone. In the general fighting, head quarters announced the destruc tion of 61 enemy planes for the loss of 29 allied aircraft in ac tion yesterday and up to early today. Densely Packed Headquarters announced that nazi troops were more densely packed in defense positions in tne (jaen region tnan on any bat tle ground in this or the last war. The supreme command said that the German troops there had reached a concentration of one division to slightly less than three miles of the front a situa tion that leaves little room for maneuvering. The allied troops also are closely packed, with little free dom of movement. The German high command was reported throwing tanks and infantry lavishly into the battle, and hand-to-hand fighting was going on for the airfields south ot newiy-captured Uarpiquet. Army Reservists Arrive At School PULLMAN. July 6 (JP) Armv activity quickened today at Washington State college, which recently closed out its air cadet training, as the first large con tingent of an eventual 223 army c e&ervisis arrived lor- specialized training which will start July 10. All are 17-year-olds and come nere irom points in California, Arizona,' Oregon and Washing ton. Eugene Secretary To Recruit Labor ElTOF.NS! .Tnlv A im VJ , m " 7 l- 1 CM Brenne, chamber of commerce secretary, was en route to Texas tnHav in roi-miit 1 KJ1 -it 1.... J- j ' ... . Awu nuiAcia lui short-handed Lane county lum- Der muis. Brenne, appointed by the lum- locate workers through the U. S. ciupiuyment service, guarantee- .s a umuiuuui ui vu cents an hour and housing facilities. BOX OFFICE STARTS ii . -" 1 1 CARNIVAL OF COMEPY. , . I CANOVA WA1! ) -AND- AT 215 3 : HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) brought Appamatox. It was Waterloo that ended Napoleon. ... IT Is FIGHTING, not wishful thinkine. that ends wars. it urn nn tlm home front will do MORE of our share of the war job and LESS wishful think ing, the end will como sooner. Our boys on the fighting fronts are doing ALL of their share. (Continued from Page One) miles southwest of Minsk on the trunk line to Warsaw, the Ger mans asserted they "repulsed nu merous soviet attacks in fierce encounters). Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk are closer to Kowel than to the fluid pursuit lines on the shattered German front in White Russia. Pinsk lies 85 miles northeast of Kowel; Brest-Litovsk on the Bug river is 70 miles northwest. Advance Chernaikhovsky's advance on Wilno from the southeast car ried through Smorgonie, where his cavalry units were only 140 miles from the borders of East Prussia, front dispatches said. Other soviet troops mopping ud the Minsk region proceeded with the liquidation of the bat tered remnants of the German 12th and 27th corps and the 39th tank corps. Molodeczno. the latest major point to fall to the sweeping Russian offensive, was one of the mainstays ot tne Germans 90-mile Vileika-Nesvizh line, and a junction of the Minsk-Vilno and Folotsk-Lida railroads. The way now appeared open for a simultaneous advance by Chernaikhovsky's third White Russian army and Gen. Ivan Bagramian s first Baltic army in to Lithuania and Latvia. There was no confirmation in Moscow of a German report that the vital communications center of Kowel, 215 miles southwest of Minsk, had been evacuated by nazi troops. Rev. Bender to Speak At Church Mrs. June Horning Miller has announced that the Rev. George Bender will speak Thursday evening at 7:45 o clock at the Free Methodist church, "the Little White Church at the cor ner of Ninth and Plum." Rev. Bender is the pastor of the "Forgotten Men" and has spoken in 6000 churches. His subject tonight is "How I Found cnrist, and everyone is invit ed to attend. - Building Permit Value Increases The value of building ner- mlts for the first six months of this year has increased 50 per cent over the same period of i4d, according to figures fur nished by the city. From January 1 to June 30, 1943, building permits amount ing to $30,630 were given. For the same length of time in 1944, $45,470 worth of permits were issued. This figure does not include tne permit for the government housing project and trailer camps valued at $151, 000. OPENS 6:45 TODAY WATCH our HITLiRUl is en rchl 1 , t III 0 "Shorty" Harper, stationed at Anzio, works on a "producer to consumer" basis to provide him self with fresh milk. His vicious looking Tommy-gun detracts from the pastoral charm of the picture. A. R. Cooper, fire control as sistant for the Shasta national forest at Mt. Hebron, was in Klamath Falls today looking for additional men for the fire sup pression crews in that area, where critical fire hazards exist. He said there is a need for additional firemen on the forest, with pay at about $165 a month. There is one station in the area where a couple could work, the wife being employed as a look out and the man as fireman. Cooper added that all posi tions could be filled by married men and it is possible wives can work into additional employ ment above the husband's wages. Interested persons can call on-the forest office person ally at Mt. Hebron or call col lect through Mt. Hebron, 36F21. City Slates Budget Meeting on Monday A public hearing where citi zens can express their view points on the new city budget will be held in the city council chambers next Monday night. July 10. Major changes in the budget this year include added expendi tures ror tne dog pound, $10,000 for the cost of jail construction, added money for hiring three more men on the police force and one more desk sergeant, and $1500 for the Klamath Military Service committee. Classified Ads Bring Results. BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:30 - 6:45 P. M. NEW TODAY A TENDER Tale of TERROR! THE STARS OF "THE CAT PEOPLE" RETURN! SIMONE SIMON KENT Wlsr f -:A WW II SMI aZP-JI Companion "ATTACK" Filmed by U. S. Army Signal Corps Photographers Dl WAUSAU, Wis., July 6 (fl'i Bon AU-xniKk-r, -ID, lumberman, industrialist iiiul president ot the Musonito corporation of Chicago, died at a Rochester, Minn., hos pital today, his family was ad vised. Alexander, 8 resident ot Klrr lnnd, Ariz., underwent nn oper ation Monday mul failed to nilly, J, S. Alexander, his brother, said. . Ho was the son of the late Walter Alexander, prominent Wisconsin lumberman. He was a director of utilities and lum ber companies. Survivors include tho widow, three sons, one daughter Surah, the brother, and a sister. The body will be brought here tor burial. You are not compelled to buy War Bonds. That's why It's the world's best lnvettmont. Hans Norland Insurance, 118 N. 7th. Contlnuoui Show DaMy Box OHIO! Opcm 11:91 -Ends Today- "Four Feathers" Ralph Richardion SECOND HIT "Elephant Boy" Friday - Saturday OXIITINOl, CHIUUNI ... HI Y'AUT It' Kay i KYSER.fi to t. AS' e ' 1 ALSO Dave O'Brion and Jim N.wlll in "Gun Smoke Mesa" Feature I 3ST" I Halibut Fishing Halted on Coast PORTLAND, July 6 (If) The International fisheries cpnimln slon said today that all halibut fishing In areas 1 and 2. off I he Oregon, Washington, Uiillsh Co lumbia and Alaskan coasts, will bo hailed at midnight. July 0. Area 1 Includes all convention waters southeast of a Hue run- BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:30 - 6:45 P. M. 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