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MUJ Leo u ryraft LrUUmi U I allf ?w ks-k: steelgenter i A . Normal 11.94 , Last year ... 17.78 U 1 UUI' Foracasti Fair. s' ...Mir JENKINS L JX lull "ltle todl,y' tePp'rric FLAMES With lews . . .. Mifiiln. ni tha r T" Vuuiaiu. wnom " t'V "Lforo Our torso com iruck bc'ii nf "hlllh degree" iun quo tell, of n. n KCcame from China nln. LrHhc day b,?ln 1 PEqHT.Lv.nroni.orwr the of tho ii,.. Imi. back 25 miles t ih. nor hrl. Tho blow was LVJi Sblo by Chinese rein- fAl0Chlneo army spokesman CSpMloToftho cnllro Pclplnu- !-s:,S5,rnKqu'ni kutlins 01 urn"- trllE Chinese spoKosmmi 1 1 mcnt, on Its face, sounds Jtu, .;ntlmlllc. But Gon l" .... ...I... 1.-- .M.r era Cnennouu, wuu .. ju,l.itf Into Llllon to strike STRAIGHT AT THE. i -vi ..' i.. ti, i Imo will come Lon. perhaps before another 12 months nave iwnwu, w.v,. ..... i.n. will bo driven forover from He mny Know noninuimu hlnt ycl oecn oiiicwiijr l fOUNTB ATTfcN i o 1 1 1 m loHnv Ihnt Jan Gen ral MulnKiiehl has confessed (Hum in tils India Invniilon pnd Ijdmltled that his Invading army lii in desperate, sinu. mow lhtii idd that the Indla-lnvad Ilm Japs are all in retreat or tWPP . , . ... Tlie Burma miiicno ro umy 1 1 mllo from Tengcnung, tie scribed In the dispatches an -on I Important city ntcciMty 'to re- i opening ine uurms roan. ...t.c ,-:, ii.j.:. lAN Salptn. our commanders, I offer the Japs a. chnnco to.' lummdor, designating jroute I for them to come Into our line mil promising thorn food, water ana soimy u iney come. I j. u. Kmeiicr. a l' correspona I ent on the spot, cobles that tho trapped japs evidently bfukin SURRENDER and await death. I They are surrounded by our infantry and 'marines, who await uie signal to bring on the end, ITN estimating the Jap suicide 1 complex, we must keep , this nara, realistic fact in mind: The mvstlc Jnn navaan who In slits on dying for hla emperor insteaa ot surrendering when all hope Is gone doesn't have to be tea and caret! for by ua. VfftS GALLAGHER, AP cor rrwnrlnf In MAFmanlv CSbfog torinv ihnt th Inumlnn mm i aved up to Iho expocla Hons of many, ot its planner." i ' inn ,nrm nnm n aun a nt hive fniltfht fnnntlnnll.a n4 tU. I " lHkHllJ HIIU WC&thftr hn hAn Unrf u beginning, hampering our air vpviauuiis ana our lanaings. J " rfwu lllltvia V. k UODtUi Germans. If the Normandy hioj ua in u lii iuui uic anding isn't up to expectations, rLSlild, bc loslcal to expect landings. - LAST night wag a relatively Muict ingni on me nusstan En j finlv 50n Germans wore iucu, moscow says. yun nussian armies are ariylng westward toward tho """ip'ond. One Is 10 miles i.rom. w "0.- In Poland: .Wllno IX HI ml M vn. n troni cast Prussia "mo of tho German war lorda. iWi V Pushing west Xrpm bandoned Kowol. In nnlv as miiM '.r'-. " ? an ,: Minima hi orcsi-LiUOVSK, Bn. i Bug fBI,'hor north. (Tho r..Lis ""Ppo'ed to bo tho next -"limn acicnso Una S In ftln VahI.i.1 i 1 1. . dw .S.ini T0'08raph sayg to. hi f f.'mH oorncs will not to 'Mf" when tho time comos SETTLE AcnoTiMTa nith deV, i ""'' i o a n w h 1 1 e th Is acsuitory and Indiscriminate fire linrivion.. . t u.ivo nooody from his post WHISTLING to keep British . oj sa . ah "ooui mat, . oupposn thn .Inn. u,i, coast " g,vcJ7 C,V on the Pacific Wmil'A '"c,lLd'nB Klamath, Falls. rubhu w,eb0 co.mn out of tho wlth m.-u uur pesiroyod homes inw ,sJn th air scream IL.LEASE quit; we sur. grmf WOULD NOT. We'd '"ting our oiu o-j ......i woman n1il,u1,tJ00k evory man m6n a"d child of us to do It! rElRR-B0MBINa -gets no- t'on to ifj 1 n?rdon resolu KiJ: .'O.shed the nt Hnn i MIL'itW136' T bomb is it fa w ? ClV"lan m0r- J. 11 IS WOrfin than Xl m "hit. exPerlnce has taught PRICE 5 CENTS s Bradley's Men Launch Assault On Bot flenecks By WEB GALLAGHEH SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 7 iA'i Lt. Can, Omar H. Bradley's American army. sprlnaina at dawn today in a now attack on the nail-defended bottlenecks through the marshy lowlands of Normandy, stabbed forward more than a mile across the Vira river and captured the villaa ol Aeriel. This attack toward the west above St. Lo surged forward under a concentrated hall from big guns which dated enemy ma chine gunners and sent German Liocal American attacks around La Haye Du Flits at the west ern end oi the biasing 26-mlle front almost surrounded that pivotal point. The German grip slowly molted under the pressure around La naye at the western end. Aerlel, eight miles northeast ol the Important road Junction of St. Lo., was taken In the first hour oi the new attack across Mho Vlro. nnii mn m in By NOLANO NOROAARD ROME, July 7 Wl Lushing out from outposts of the hcnvlly lortnicd uotiuc lino in their first aRgroHSivo notion In two months, the German defenders of north ern Italy have brought the fifth army's drive toward Llvorno (Leghorn), Pisa and Floronce al most to a halt, allied heodnunrt- .et wild, toduy. . mo eighth army also meas ured Its gains In yards instead of miles. . Stiff Battle . A stiff house-to-house battle continued to rago day and night In tho vlllngo of Roslgnano, where Amerlcnn Infantry who have penetrated to within ten air line miles of Llvorno were at tempting to smash through heav ily manned atrongpolnts. The severity of the fighting was shown in official reports. The Americans, who on the pro ceding day held half of tho town, wcro nblo to clolm only two thirds of Its battered ruins last (Continued on Page Seven) Invasion Slower Than Expected. Report Officers SUPREME . HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 7 (F) The allied Invasion of Franco has not lived up to tho expectation of many of ' Its planners, who had esti mated tho assault would pro gress more rapidly than it has. Officers mado no secret of this todny, but nt the same time hastened to say that tho west ern front, nftor one month of fighting, could not bo described as "Unsatisfactory." "After all, we have landed and established a front and a month ago., we were none too sure whether we could do that," one officer said. Ambassador to Leave Spain MADRID, July 7 (P) U. S. Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes uni fiv tn Washington tomor row. He conferred for 80 min utes yesterday Willi ucnerai Franco., Death To in Circus Fire Nears lSO Mark Today; 250 Others Injured HARTFORD, Conn., July 7 (P) Tho death toll in the greatest fire In circus history noared the 150 mark today, with the majority of victims women end children, as tho full, grim unfolding of the catastropho' which destroyed the main tent of the Ringllng Broth ers and Bnrnum and Bailey cir cus turned this stunned city into a center of grieving. . Dr. Alfred J. Burgdorf, city health officer, fixed the death toll at 148 while 250 other per sons, burned or injured when the big top first burst into flames and then collapsed yesterday, were pattered' In three hospitals. i Identification Slow t : t j.inii.ntlnn nf fhn Henri wild lUBIlI'Mivai.iu., .V.,,,. i alow, and Mayor William Mor tensen saia won ij v.. tho charred no no ay musei . Ua Irttnum-- nrw nounced that the city probably!! In The Shanta artillery observers scampering. The barrage which initiated lt was one of tho heaviest yet seen in Normandy and tho Amer. lean advance was so rapid the Germans did not have time to blow up one of the bridges across tno river. i After taking the bridge, the Mfoptry pushed on for over; mile' toward the road Junction of St Joan Do Dayo, two miles distant. Around La Have, one Amer ican column took La Surcllerle, less than a mllo south and only slightly west of tho town, while the column working around from the east closed in to a similar position thrco miles southeast of Ltt Haye. ' Naur Anarf ' At Lo Stirellcrlo the AtheH leans wcro within a few hundred yards of the road running south irom La nnye to L&ssoy, ine main road out of the town and the Germans' only escape route. (A BBC broadcast as reported by NBC in New York said La Haye had fallen, but later BBC broadcasts did not bear out the report and lt was not confirmed Dy supremo Headquarters). . Danger of Trap While tho Germans here were in grave danger of being trap ped, headquarters announced no major action on the British front around cacn at tho eastern end of the battlefront. Earlier reports to headquart ers, however, said one of tho patrols - of the British second army had reached the dock area of Caen. , Tho report said no Germans were encountered in the penetra tlon. However, front line dispatches ((.oniinuca on rage seven) Yanks Close In For Saipah Kill U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, July 7 (P) -United States forces closing in for the kill on Japa nese troops pocketed on north crn Saipan today offered the ten to IS thousand civilians trapped with them an avenue to life-sov' Ina surrender. AP Correspondent Rembert James reports from tho Western Pacific island that American commanders decreed that a sin gle highway could be used by the civilians to come into me u. B lines. Already some 7000 Japanese civilians have been interned by the marine and army forces wno have cornered the Nipponese on Snlpnn's northern tip. The enemy soldiers seemed determined on a desperate last stand, doomed though they were. would be 'called upon to bury them. Meanwhile, a variety of Inves tigators pressed an inquiry into tho origin of tho Inferno which quickly changed a gay throng of eooOilnto a panic-stricken, shriek ing mass of humanity with only one object in mind to escape the horror of a fast settling, flaming shroud of fiercely burning can vas from the big top. ; Officials Held As a steady stream of weary relatives sought to give names to the victims, who lay beneath sheets in grim aisles of dead in the huge, sprawling armory, five nfflniaia nf 41io nlrpns rnmnnnv were held in high ball, charged with manslaughter, . . They were: J. A. Haley, vice president; George W. Smith, general man ager; Leonard Aylesworth, boss - Cancade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1944 - Number 10204 fllj Ml 11 fl I U PVT.B.W. GDE ACQUITTED OF L Acquittal of mansl a u g h t e r charges was won In a general court martial at Camp Tulelake last night by Private Bernard W. Goc, Son Francisco, the sentry who shot and killed Evacuee Shl- ochl James Okomoto at the seg regation center gate May 24. Court martial proceedings con tinued throughout the afternoon and evening, with five colonels, one lieutenant colonel and two captains present from San Fran cisco to participate. Several Jap anese evacuees and two attorneys and other officials of the WRA were on hand as observers, ac cording to Lt. Colonel Verne Austin. TuieiaKe - commandant, who announced the verdict to day. ',. Threatening Gesture j cnyS(S;UDS,WU Ull uic aMlu In' the evening, and It is under stood he indicated that a threat ening gesture from Okomoto caused him to believe he was in personal danger and Justified in shooting. This opporently wos the basis of the acquittal of the San Francisco soldier. The shooting o Okonjote on May 24 caused coaai-wlde'sen' satfbff. artd an "extra", edlllon-of the eolonj paper at Tulelake told evacuee or tno incident.?- :, . i .1; v ' Truck DrWer ' OkOmoto, 40, was driver of a truck Dermuted to pass tnrougn the center'maln gate, where Pri vate Goe; was a sentry. ; Some words passed between the soldier and the evacuee, and the latter had, gotten out of the truck Just tafor the gunfire. . Shortly after the shooting, a Moddc. coroner's Jury found that th sentry shot In the "line of duty." . Name Withheld Private Goe's name was not given to the press until today, (Continued on Page Seven) Women Killed, Men Injured In Gunfight ' VANCOUVER, July 7 (CP) Two women were killed and two men badly wounded in a gun fight which started In. a Van couver residence today and end ed on n street 11 blocKs away, Police said Alex Rusan was being held for investigation in connection witn tne snooungs. Mrs. Jack Preston and Mrs. Laura Rusan were shot dead, Fred Ransoff and Jack Preston were wounded. Police said the shooting be- Ban in the Rusan home. Police said Ransoff is not ex pected to live. . Condition of Preston was reported as "lair. FDR's Political Flans Uncertain WASHINGTON. July 7 (fl3) A reporter asked President Roose velt today , if ne regarded Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York as a strong, opponent, and brought laughter and. a lecture, but no direct reply as to Mr, Roosevelt's political plans. .- canvas man; Edward Versteig, chief electrician, and David Blanchfleld, chief wagon man, . Held on Boil After having been detained throughout the night at p o 1 i c e headquarters Haley and Smith were held on $15,000 ball and the others on $10,000 lor a hearing July i. Meanwhile investigators seek. lng to "establish a reason for the startlingly rapid spread of the blaze which all eye-witnesses agreed mushroomed with Increcl lble speed from a tiny finger of flame near the main entrance to a gigantic Inferno of smoke and lire. - Gas, Paraffin ' Police Court Prosecutor James F. Kennedy 'announced that his preliminary investigation had es tablished that the huge canvas (Continued on -page six) Appearing at tho country store sponsored by the Fifth War, Loan committee tonight will be these four WAVES who are stationed at the Klamath navol air station. The four axe Storekeep ers Irene RoossI, Nancy . Roberts, and Helen Porter, and Yeoman Mazda Follensbee. Hundreds AHond Openi Of Klamaih Country Store; $53,825 in "E" Bonds Sold The country store, sponsored bv the Fifth War Loan drive committee, opened Thursday! . n ...... . ' waiting outside for .the doors to open at 7 o'clock, according to Joe Hicks, Fifth War Loan chairman. A total of $53,825 worth of E bonds were sold with the large crowd seemingly pleased over the opportunity of obtain- CODPE KEW RETAIL SITE Klamath Basin Cooperative has acquired a large site at South 6th and Midland road where it will develop a major retail outlet, it was learned to day. The cooperative, which Is af filiated with the Pacific Supply cooperative in the former Mar tin Brothers mill plant, will de velop an outlet here instead of expanding its plant at Tuleloke, where it now operates. This step, it was stated, was taken in response to urgings of members at various locations in the basin who wanted central rlictrihntinn at Klamath Falls. While major development at the" South 6th site will proDamy wait until after the war, a feed ano sped store is to be established immediately, and thereafter members will deal in those pro ducts at the new location in stead of the former Martin plant. The South 6th site, consisting of 61 acres, is now an auto camp and service station, and long has been owned by former County Judge R. H. Bunnell. The cooperative will continue (Continued on Page Seven) WAR BULLETINS - Bulletin TJ. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, July 7 OT An attempt by 200 Japanese to escape seaward from a trap on embattled Saipan was broken uo by American artillery fire, Adm. Chester W. Nimlts reported today in announcing steady advances on that strategic island. LONDON, July 7 (fl1) Mor than 1100 U. S. heavy bombers with strong fighter escort shot down 114 German planes in great aerial battles over Germany to day with the loss of 38 bombers and six fighters, a U. S. strategic air force communique announced tomgnt. LONDON, July 7 (fl3) Russian armlet continued their westward advance along their long battle front today, capturing nearly 400 populated places, including Mir, a district center in th region of Baranowici. and Oshkyana and Ostrovets, district centers in th Wilejk region, thi soviet com munique announced tonight. if if n i ttavu den Donas ing the rare items which were given with, the purchase of the 4 Many items- were .auctioned, eiut 90 per cent of the pur chases were made from shelf stocks at the' prices in bonds marked. Although much of the stock was sold, Chairman Ted Reeves of the' retail committee stated that the . stock will be completely replenished Friday evening. The band from the Marine Barracks played during the eve ning. . Special features tonight will be furnished by WAVES from the naval air station, who will not only man the store, but will carry on a special events pro gram" throughout the proceed ings. . Birthday Today is the WAVES' birth day and the day has been set aside for their war bond drive. (Continued on Page Seven) . Four-Year-0d Worden Girl Killed by Cow Little Margie Mae McDanlel, four-vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emery McDaniel of Worden, was .killed Thursday evening when she was butted against the side of the barn by a cow at her home at Garden ranch near Worden. The little girl was in the barn with her brother looking at a new-born calf when the cow at tacked her. The boy carried her out of the barn and then called his parents, who rushed her to a Dorris. -Calif., hospital. She was Dronounced dead on arrival. The child, was a native of Jonesboro, Ark., and besides her parents is survived by one broth er ana tnree sisters. Wards Funeral home in Klam ath Falls has charge of funeral arrangements and notices will appear later. 77 Die in Train Other Deaths Expected ' JELLICO, Tenn., July 7 m At least 17 persons, all but two of them soldiers, were killed last night when a - troop train plunged into a 50-foot gorge of the Clear river 11 miles south of here. Dr. E. P. Muncy, resident physician- of Knoxvllle's gener al hospital, said the death toll probably would exceed 40. 1 In Ravin , The locomotive and four cars were piled at the ravine's bot tom, and a fifth hung over the precipltlous edge, where it left the Louisville and Nashville railroad tracks. One soldier, identified by -army public relations as Pvt. Leonard Battag of Evanston, 111., was still ' pinned' in "the bot tom of a wrecked car 12 hours after the crash, with four dead men piled on him. He regained consciousnessiand talked with rescuers as acetylene torches By The Associated Press LONDON. July 7 (-TV Ger man reports said the Russians were advancing today within ten miles of Wilno, where ; Moscow reported the nazls iiaatleeiai martial law. Smashing beyond the old Pol ish, bastion of Kowel, the Rus sians were approaching the Bug river at a point about 135 miles southeast of Warsaw along the main trunk line. Virtually all the pre-war Polish frontier was crossed save for a section Detore Lumniec in the Pripyat marshes, Martial Law Wilno, city of 207,750 which has changed nationality six times since the last war, lies but 97 miles from the border of East Prussia and is a rail and high way center. A Moscow dispatch quoted Yustas Faletskis, chair man of the presidium of the su Dreme soviet of Lituania. as say ing the German martial law edict barred persons from the streets between 8 p. m. and o a. m. and forbade walking in groups greater than two. Palets kis said there had been upris ings in Kaunas, Mariampole and Vilnius. While at least four Russian army groups pushed westward, (Continued on-Page Seven). , Chinese Break i Hengyang Seige CHUNGKING, July 7 (IP) Chinese troops have made.' a smashing comeback in Hunang province, breaking his siege of Hengyang and driving back a distance of 25 miles the main body of Japanese troops which had by-passed that vital rail junc tion in their drive south along the Hankow-Canton railway, a Chinese army spokesman de clared today. - - The victory, scored with the aid of reinforcements moving up from the southwest, has "re moved for some time to come! the Japanese threat to occupy the whole of that vital rail line and cut China in two, the spokes man said. Wreck; cut through twisted steel near by. The youth, in the army only 13 days, asKed a doctor a ne was in a Diane. ' : "It sure looks like it," he said. "This is a lot better, hole than on that train." He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bat- tag of Evanston. Work Slow Work of extricating the vic tims from the locomotive and five cars which tumbled down the steep 50-foot bank to the shallow stream was slow. The train was a soecial carry ing only soldiers and the train crew. An emergency train was made up from the 12 cars which did not leave the track this morn ing taking 50 of the injured to Lake City, Tenn., en route to the government hospital at van Rldee. Tenn.. and at least 30 other injured service men were sent to uaic Kiage nospuais in ambulances. I UIT IM DAin Second Attack- on Jap Mainland Made On Kyushu . ? WASHINGTON. July 7 W Super-Fortresses of the U. S. 20th airforce bombed the Japanese, naval base at Sasebo and th steel center of Yawata on the is land of Kyushu Friday night, in; the second attack by. the hug? B-29's on the Japanese mainland. - Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief ot the airforces, announced the as sault in a communique at Wash' ington. - It - was the third ttm since Pearl Harbor that Ameri can olanes have rained bombs or Japan proper. ' ' i - west of Yawata -. Sasebo. comparable to the U.S. naval establishments at Norfolk,. Va., or .Bremerton, Wash.,. wa hit for the first time since they start, of the war. It lies to the west of Yawata', which was thV target of' the first B-29 Super Fortress attack, on the Japanese). nome islands on June 15. The target of today's attack, which occurred on the seventh anniversary of Japan's initiatlon of the war with China, lies Just north, of the great Japanese port of Nagasaki.- - ' , . Bofor Dawn -': The attack- on- Yawata. also bv. Super-Fortresses of .--the-; 20th bomber command based in . China,, occurred in the pre-dawn hours of June 15. . . . The great weight of explosives) was poured on the factories of that city at the northern-end. of Kyushu . island, and air forces)' officers reported a high degree' of successful hits 'on the Indus trial targets. .- "'-.' -i- Four of the B-29's failed to re? turn to their base in China after." the- Yawata mission; One was' shot down, by anti-aircraft fir'." over, the-target, and operational;' accidents, prevented two others from getting. back. The fourth Is listed as missing. . v ; r ; s --Yawata's steel plants are esti mated to produce about one-fifth of the steel; critically needed by Japan in its armament and ship construction program, . -' Follows Pattara ' '; -'"-''"i' - The return of the B-29's to Ya wata after- a : .three-week - inter val follows the-pattern of strat egic bombing set in the European operations an initial attack, with an . interval during which the enemy attempts repairs, then a new. attack to smash the repairs (Continued ;on.,Page . Seven) , t : Recognition Not ) Discussed With I De Gaulle . WASHINGTON. ' July 7 Wl-l President ' Roosevelt- said . today , his talks with Gen. -Charles de Gaulle: will -cover a ereat manv things, but will not include any discussion of possible recognition for the. French, national -. com mittee. The president saidi- today's talks probably will-deal with the underground movement within France particularly southern France. This government has a. good deal of information, of its own on the subject, he said. - . 'Will the question of recogni tion come in? ' a reporter asked. No. the president replied, and said it did not come in during the London talks, either an obvious-reference' to De Gaulle's r e c e n t conversation . with the British government.: i ; Commander's Son Hit on Soipoh ; 4 ' WASHINGTON,1. July 7 -'" (JPh grift, -commandant . of . the ma rines,' was notified today that his son, Lt Col. A. A, Vandegrift Jr., marines, has been wounded in action on Saipan. , - '- Young Vandegrift, 33. was shot in the leg while leading an infantry battalion- fighting June 28 around Mount Tapotchau. '' r He ' previously had partici pated with- the 4th marine di vision in the assaults on Rot and Namur in the. Marshall islands last February. He is unmarried, and makes his home ' with his parents, in. Washington..- ; : '.:.;; FDR Concerned J Over Cninese War " ' WASHINGTON,' July 7 (P) 4 Presldent Roosevelt said today the war In China is not going well and that we are a good deal concerned over, the outlook, " Mr. Roosevelt tempered, his news conference remark, how ever, by saying the Japanese are in a poor, strategic position -because their supply lines. are so-extended- and are being menaced by the allies, ' . . - .1 - The fighting in China does not seem to be stopping' the Japanese advances, the prMep said. s
