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m, ilMMWaiillM tEji2 m :;riciiiiiiiii i troops halt I "TTaM JENKINS i t Tho U-2'"' t buck. L,0f lcU.1 tl.U It written. JSSwm tn c,,ln.tt iTt ,,d,ntict "iii ""' 1";,,d 'S'l? addition hit two Ji.p "? "i in China ul or '""!"" olB -f ili. Jop I"'1" bombed n,.S. s..cbo navel bo (very ,HE Chlnw P1,lU, bombBd "Iro Hankow, a rlvor port ih YomU'-a, "u Liioyuo, Just h ol S . im "'I n the ShiuiK- nrobauly using both heavily rWhil b"" 'cl11110 " . l o B-20 would probubly 12BiiS. on "here lo fill up , be t'LOVH over tho Hlnial- y"."' . . .... Kuan f.lI'lllllPK Mid eome there. We're ob. lounly not win" bout thciu things. rllE Chinese couiiler-offunlvo .. T. '..ril In have driven he jP bck 80 mile at ono bolnt. ... L- c . 1 n n n. "cotwldorublo" P numbers o( Jnn cIv'IIdiw oro Uorled to be "snuff lng nto m ffta JP clvlllnn. don't nil lave-the suicide complex.) The JP trooi 1,1111 ,'?ft allvo md tho remaining civilians ore ompresml within an area 01 our square mlh-s on tho Inland, iome Jnp soldiers are trying to lee n bnriics lo Tlnlint laluiul, ut north of Saipan, but tho iirnn arc smashed by our or. Illery. The ' correspondents report ome ilgiu of suicide attacks, at MUu. ... IN Normandy, Montiiomery and hit British and Canadians liunch an attack on Caen at day lllht this morning, under ono of hit famous rolling barrage. Ujt night Brltiiih planer hit it ihe massed Gorman, with un disclosed results. 1 .. . A British stuff officer eaya as Dili li written that tho push has broken through tho cruet t of Caen's major outer defenses. Keep clearly In mind .that Caen Is another port of consld treble Importance ',. ; A CORRESPONDENT of Prnv da (Russlnn newspaper) re ports today that Hitler himself nil taken over command on thu western front. Tho lesson of tho past Is that the Germans usually LOSE when Hitler takes over personal command. AN Interesting sidelight: n 8HAEF (our supremo Euro pean headquarters) says today: ''French forces of tho Interior are operating within 20 miles of our Normandy beach head and 11 through France ore material ly helping tho allies. Their ac tivities have become a major oc cupation (and probably a major headacho us well) lor 'the Ger mans." Remember , how the Russians have been helped by- guerrillas operating behind the Gorman lines. THERE'S a tale today (bollovcd Worth noting, but not guar anteed) of a conference some where botwocn Hitler and his laterals. The correspondents ro jail tho Kulser's grand council August, 1018, when it was de tided that tho wor. couldn't bo won but hard fighting might win n acceptable peace. j The conferees ore said to have discussed getting out of tho Bulk niand Norwny to shorten lines na make more Germans avail w e. on tho hot fronts and to ?.'v expressed tho hope that a nd. might be made In tho oast ii. ,,e .en,d ' July mnybo on VUtuta) lWars8w 18 n tne ' . . THE tcport of t)l0 confcrcnco ik. "upposcd to havo coma via wtltrgroiiiid, and tho dls- Mrt respectful attention. Natu lource nrcn'1 mcntionln8 th Tit, '"' ' ' fHH; Russians today aro flght 10 fm! Ln 'I1,?, outer's of Wil li tk.ybo Vllna 011 y"r- map; 'hen.. 0 centrnl Erbpcan places flBS?ni.namos too fait for tho fltekf s to koon Up), C'p?,ls.only 1io mllos from ro wnJif'j1'. Gorman civilians ey Lz nst PrufslB B "it as "amn, i2 8'n8 to refugee vlMhcLRVss!n"8 tako"Barano. 0 Bri2yla'from Minsk "ds hlg' Tno Normans say tho 0 h i,.j"lns Konorally seem 'ug rlVeard,"5lbl?c1k b"hlnd tho, e th.ir . -w1hl.ch. ls assumed to' aetonsn line, . If Th ShuniU'CnHfad' Wonderland July 8, 1944 . Max. f July 7) ..80 Mln. 46 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Straam' year to date 9.89 Normal .11.95 Last year 17.78 Forecasti Fair. PRICE 5 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 8 1944 Number 10205 Klamath dockets Over Quota E BOND 1S TOP MILLION MARK IN DRIVE 1 rsi'jumwip 8: Panic Spurs Race From Flaming Death ity7iiP'.Muamge,.i 9 r , Total of $4,500,000 Reached Here In Campaign WE THANK YOU To The Herald and News: May wo use your columns to express at this tlmo our earnest appreciation to alt the pcoplo of Klnmnlh county for their magnificent re sponse to the Fifth War Loan drive. Tho tlmo and onergy given by all campaign workers, and the patriotic Interest of tho entiro public, aro emphatical ly demonstrated loduy In the exceeded quotas in all phases of tho campaign. JOE HICKS. Drive Chairman. E. A. THOMAS. President, Kiwanls Club. Klamath's Fifth War Loan campaign , today rocketed over all quotas to an amazing total (Continued on Pago Eight) Klamath Service People to Get Theatre Passes Through the co-operation of Lloyd Lamb of the Klamath Theatres Incorporated, any mon or woman In the armed services who Is homo and whose name appears in the column telling of scrvlco people homo on leave can have two free passes to any movlo in town. These passes can bo had by ending at tho Esquire box of fico. Names can bo left for the service mon and women's reg istry by colling Scott Reed at 3124 before 3 p. m. Second Lidice Reported IZMIR, Turkey, July 7 (De layed) (P) Copies of a Greek puppet government communi que which reached hero today said the nozls on Juno 10 slaunhtcrcd moro than 1000 residents of tho Greek .vlllugo of Distomo in a cold-blooded re prisal comparable to that car ried out at the Czechoslovak town of Lidice. The communique said that not even babies In arms woro spared and tho massacro was crowned by tho burning of the village, familiar 10 many nmtp lenn tourists. . Tho killing was carried out by the nazls as revenge for the death 01 au uermnn soiaiura hniiin with tho Earn and An- darts resistance groups near the village. i 1 kM. W'. i FY V - .x s " 'tyt.-. "... .'' ' '" :' -' ,.,: I fl, ) ' ' t -iewilit-i - ' lk 1i i iiisMiWTiHi -ok. . until- .: . J .1 1 J.. o.rumini, crowdi uunid bv Dsnic make mad doih from flaming tent of Hingling Broth re-Barnum and Bailey circus at Hartford, Conn., as fire, with unbelievable speed, raced up the walls of canvas. Noarly 150 persons, mostly children, were killed, hundreds Injured in greatest circus catastrophe In nation s history. , ' flEDSTAKETOWWS; LONDON, July 8 ( Ger man military commentators said today - that tho Russians had launched a new offensivo "on a wide front at the opproaches to tho Carpathians east of Lwow and west of Kowel," and Pre mier Marshal Stalin announced that red army troops have cap tured Baranowicze to tho north. In an order of tho day broad cost by the Moscow radio and addressed to Marshal K. K. Ro kossovsky, Stalin said that Bar anowicze nearly midway be tween Berlin and Moscow was token by on "outflanking ma neuver by cavalry and tank for mations together. Important Junction Ho described the city, 81 miles (Continued on Pago Eight) Burglars Leave Garbo Alone BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 8 UP) Greta Gurbo rout ed burglars from her home eorly today with shouts for help. Tho screen star told police she was awakened in her up stairs by voices and, opening the door, saw a figure in the hall. She slammed the door and called for aid. A neighbor summoned police. Tho prowlers had entered through a lower bedroom win dow. They carried off $40 and ration books from the actress' purse, she reported, but left two of her coats, one of mink, ono of cloth, in a hedge. Bomber Fleets Strike at Rocket Launching Sites By AUSTIN BEALMEAR LONDON, July 8 (!) U. S. heavy bombor fleets smashed ut nazl flying-bomb launching sites and other planes hit out in slashing support of Normnndy offensives today on tho heels of-,nn RAF strlko with six-ton blockbusters . at a hugo cave protected robot-bomb , , supply depot ln France. ;. .. Night-flying British Lancost ers searched out the depot, lo cated ln great limestone caves of St. Leu-d'Esscront 30 miles north of Paris, and up to 800 Flying Fortresses and Libera tors hammered at launching platforms by daylight this morn Ing In heightening air blows, against this grim Gorman wea pon. Seven Sites Tho. U. S. big bombers, pro tected : by some 780 fighters, visually bombod at least seven launching sites, and hit other targets in France. American Marauders led tho tactical blows at nazl positions on tho Nor mandy battlefront. Tho air ministry termed the robot supply depot ono of tho Germans' largest, and disclosed it first wns hit July 4 by Lan caslers lugging 12,000-pound bombs'. Photographs showed ut leust ono of theso hugo missiles went straight through a hill above the caves and exploded In a caveln below. Communications Hit 'The, bomb hall also caused heavy damage to ronds and rail lines leading lo tho caves, but German workers were rushed in to repair, damage. So Lan caster struck again last night. Tho depot, attacked in face of- heavy ground ..and air de fenses, waB ono of several RAF (Continued on Pago Seven). B29s Intact After Raids on Japanese NerVe Centers WASHINGTON, July 8 (P) V. S. B-29 Super-Fortresses which struck five Japanese naval. Industrial and military nerve centers In , Japan and China last night have returned to their bases without lose of any planes, a 20th air force communique reported today. ' In addition to hitting vital targets in Nippon's homeland in their second strategic mission, the big bombers attacked the Japanese supply bases of Leoyao and Hankow in China. The Japanese targets are on the highly industrialised northern end of Kyushu, southernmost of the principal home islands. . The targets in China are regarded as important to the enemy's extended supply lines for his ground troops' push against the Chinese. The communique, summarlz- lng the results of the new at-, tack by tne n u g e Domoers, which returned to their bases without loss, said that the tar gets were Sasebo, a big naval base; war plants at Yawata and Omura, both on Kyushu, and Laoyao, a shipping port on the China coast north of Hangchow, and Hankow, 450 miles Inland on the Yangtze river. . Weak Opposition Tho Super-Fortresses encoun tered only very weak fighter (Continued on Pago Seven) Naii Militarists Hold Conference AT THE GERMAN ' FRON TIER, July 8 (P) Germany's military leaders have, been hold ing the most serious discussions with Adolf Hitler on tho reich's critical military situation and a complete revision of defense plans may be made before the end of the month. The conferences with Hitler, reported through trustworthy in formation, began early this week, were said . to bo compar able with the kaiser's famous grand council in August, 1918, when it was decided tho war could not be won, but that all was not yet lost and that bitter fighting may yet bring an accept able peace. (Reports originating from the German frontier, often are Insoired by German sources. Re ports suggesting that the Ger mans are at tne point ol maKing ncace feelers may have been de liberately planted with the pur pose of creating a feeling of over confidence in allied countries. A similar technique has been used by Berlin before.) Medford Hen Goes All Out MEDFORD, July 8 (fl) A hen at the. home of Mrs. Laura Jones went all. out for a pro duction record, and produced an egg nine inches around the end, and seven Inches around the center. Inside Mrs. Jones found another egg shell and all of grade A. size.. . . British Sveep Into Out-skirts Or River City - ' By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME ' HEADQUARTERS ALLIED ' EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 8 (fP) British second army troops fought their way into the northeast outskirts of Caen tonight after sweeping for ward on a seven-mile front ana capturing at least tune towns. A front dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent . Rogar D. Greene said that some German vehicles already have been spotted pulling out of the doomed Orne river city. Authie, on the west flank of the ever-narrowing German de fense arc, fell to Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's troops and on the east they have' moved beyond Herouville and are well established atop hill 64 at the road fork between Caen and Epron. r The British - thrust at Caen. the German hinge in eastern YANKS CAPTURE 5 1 FREE FOR ALL A free-for-all fight between Indian women late Friday night sent one of them to the Klamath Valley hospital and the , other two to lodgings m tne city au. Gertrude Herrlngton,' Klam ath Indian living in Jacksonville, received cuts and abrasions and was recovering Sa turday in Klamath .Valley hospital.'. Pearl Jackson and Rose Marie Jack son, sisters, are being held in the city jail. ' Police Called ' ; According to city police re ports,' police were called about ,11:30 Friday night to the home of Louie Comnato, 4271 Broad, where the three wpmen were fighting. The house had no elec tricity and the two women had hit Mrs. Herrington with an- old fashioned lamp, according to city police who are ' investigating. . By JOHN F. CHESTER ROME. July 8 P) The vic iously-defended town of Rosig- nano and Uastelllna on west coast highways to Livorno (Leg horn) . and Pisa have been cap tured by American Infantrymen after three days of bitter street fighting,' allied headquarters an nounced today. . (The-Italian resistance com munique was quoted by the Lon don radio; as saying that street fighting was raging in Livorno (Leghorn), and that ."all the fas cist chiefs" have left the town." The bulletin was recorded by CBS.) The doughboys drove the en emy from both Risognano, 13 miles - below .Livorno, apd ,Cas tellina, six miles to the east, late veRterdav: f- ' . i "The enemy f ought to the Vast house," 'a headquarters., , jpfficec, I So rugged was the German de- ' .(continued, onf age cigni; i:. ! ! ' Forest Fires Destroy Towns VAL D'ORE, Quebec, July 8 Ijp) Fifteen hundred residents of 'three Quebec mining com- munities found refuge today .in Senneterre and Rouyn after rag inir forest fires, worst in , the province since May, 1943,. de stroyed one town and roarea periously close to the other two. The. fires, whipped by a high wind, wiped' out the town of Pas calis, with a population of 300, after citizens were evacuated. Cadillac, 28 miles north of Val d'Ore, was seriously threat ened for a time yesterday and women and children were moved bv bus and train to Rouyn. 32 miles wesiwara. nc suuuuuu there this morning was less tense. -. .: -v ,; i- Transports Sunk By British Subs LONDON, July; 8 (P) ' The sinking of two large transports, one large tanker and a medium supply ship and' seven smaller vessels by British submarines was announced by the admiralty today. ' J ; - All 'the . sinkings' were in the Mediterranean -. theater. -. ' The two transports were torpedoed- in a harbor in south France that was not identified by the admiralty communique. . The admiralty said the tank er was intercepted near Toulon while under a strong, naval and aircraft escort. Normandy, ,w a s the , heaviest blow of the invasion. " .' :" - Crack . Through Defenses - Jumping off before . dawn with blinding artillery and air support, tanks and British-Ca nadian troops aided by flame throwers cracked through the upper crust of Caen's formid able defenses, and by noon to day had advanced an average oeptn of a mile, headquarters said, although the nazi lines are the most heavily-held . of any attacked in this war. . Americans, on the center of the : front surged ahead simul taneously, seizing St. Jean de Dave,: and, then widened and deepened their Vire river bridgehead '.'well - beyond"- thfr fallen town. Other doughboys hitting' south across the Taute ,. (Continued on Page Eight) Fish, Not Bears, Merest Jwo :i , Klamath Men , Two Klamath . Falls ' men apparently t prefer the more gentle art of fishing to that of shooting bears. John Pearce and Harry Hargraves, employes of the Ewauna . Box company, ' de cided to spend the full week of their, vacation fishing at Diamond lake, but their fam ilies were surprised to see them return after three days. After giving excuses that the mosquitoes were bad, the fishing no good, and the camping facilities inadequate, the truth was finally made known. Four bears intruded upon the peaceful scene and the men, not used to arguing with anything more than a fishing pole,, promptly re-' turned home. AT EDGE OF! I TN 01 Yanks Throw: BacK Nipponese; Kill - ; 1500 By CHARLES McMARTRY ' U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD. QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor; July a ) Japanese, . spearheaded by several thousand troops try. lng desperately to escape death! or capture by steadily advanc ing Americans, fiercely attacked American positions on Saipari with ground troops, planes and artillery before dawn July 8.' ' They launched their-counter, attack ; from the - northwestern tip of Saipan. '. : Reach Tahapag 1 They penetrated a-maximum of 2000 yards reaching the out skirts of .Tanapag town, befora they were ' halted. - Then -they were thrown back. . '-. .v. Admiral -Chester W.t Nimrti, reporting the action- in :a com? munique today ,-" said, "Numer ous casualties, were incurred"? with an estimated 1800 '.Jap. anese troops killed.: . . Shell Airfield Enemy shore batteries on Tin. ian island, only, three milea south of Saipan, shelled Iseley (Aslito). airfield but .destroyed and artillery fire quickly sll enced all batteries." .' '. - Nirhitz did not say whethee the air strip from which Ameri can planes have been operating two weeks, was damaged. ; ; , ... Aircraft . The third phase of the attack saw J apanese . . sending.,, small, groups of aircraft against Amer ican ground positions and ship ping before dawn July 6 and again - that - night. ; ' ,v . -- -Nimitz said none of the.Ampi ican ships was damaged but diet not report whether installations or. troops .ashore were bit. 5'!: , 1 Qne 1 enemy . raider- was -shot dOWIl.' ' : '- ' li '-'rV,.:.V..' -: Strongest Counterattack -' "--lt-was the-strongest counter attack in the Central and West ern Pacific campaign and one of the ' strongest in the- entire Pacific. -.'.- .-tv-v I The battle raged -far into tha day. . Nimitz said the - counter attack was halted before noon (Continued on Page Eight) v - Investigation Continues In Tragic Circus Fire HARTFORD, Conn., July 8 (P)The death toll in the na tion's greatest circus disaster counted 154 men, women and children today as authorities pressed swiftly w i t h ; an ' an nounced determination to fix responsibility, If any, for "the tragic loss of life.'! Although scores of perform ers, workers and spectators al ready have been questioned and five persons charged with man slaughter, .various Investigating agencies sought out still others to tell their versions 'of Thurs day's blazing inferno in the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey big top. ' : - -. More Arrests ..The .intention, of .investigators to attempt to fix responsibility as well as determine the cause, was announced by State's Attor ney' Hugh M. Alcorn 'Jr.', in a formal statement in which he said additional arrests probably would be made after an ad journed -fire' marshals' hearing and' a coroner's inquest Tues day. ' ' Alcorn declared it . appeared from the preliminary inquiries that -there was "inadequate fire fighting equipment" on ; the circus grounds, manned by "in adequate personnel." " ' "Highly Inflammable" ' "There is also in our posses sion." . he added in the state ment, issued late yesterday, "in formation that the tent itself had been, in, use only since the road show started this season and : that .it . had been treated with paraffin, which was diluted with gasoline, making the entire .tent. highly inflammable.", As the investigations proceed ed, the ordeal of trying, to iden tify burned and charred bodies (Continued on Page seven) Lamm Employes Vote for CIO The employes of the Lamm mill at Modoc Point voted to retain their affiliation with the IWA-CIO in a national labor relations board election held July 7. ' The vote was 53 for the 1WA, 17 for the AFL and eight for neither union. This is the sec ond time the Lamm employes have chosen the IWA as . their bargaining agent, a previous NLRB election having . been held in January of 1842.- The latest election was or dered by the board as a result of a petition tiled by tne Aix. late' in March of this- year, at which time they claimed to rep resent a majority of the em ployes at the mill; There has been some confusion as to the status of the IWA contract at the Lamm Lumber, company. the company contending at' the time of the NLRB hearing, which . preceded the .order of election, that the contract had been- - terminated because - no agreement was reached on the 1844 demands of the IWA by April 1, the . expiration date of the contract, under certain con ditions. ' Imphal Defenders Kill 11, 000 - SOUTHEAST - ASIA- COMT- MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy... Ceylon. July .8 . UP) Defen ders ' of Imphal ; in ' Manlpur state killed more 'than' 11,000 Japanese since the enemy in curslon into India began in March, a southeast - Asia- com mand communique said tonight, Bitter fighting continues in the. .area, around jUkhrul, 24 miles northeast of imphal, where the enemy still Is strong ly entrenched in the nortnern outskirts, the bulletin said. . Scout Returns K Woman's Purse - '' -Billy . Kitchens is a good ex ample of the ideal Boy :Scout. The other day Lula Dougherty; an employe of Long's, Inc., lost a purse containing $114 in cash while she was climbing into the bus. : i Billy picked up the purse ana looked . inside where he saw the big roll of bills.. Without thji least hesitation . he ran down to the radio station and ffave them the money to be returned to the owner. j - i - - The next morning the money was returned to Miss Dougher ty, but Billy, like a true Boy Scout, didn't want to take tha reward. Billy belongs to Troop 8 of Klamath Falls. - . - i: 1 Rusan Faces , Murder Charge VANCOUVER.-B. C. July (Canadian Press). Alexandee Rusan, 55, Vancouver "logger faced a double charge of mur der today over the fatal shoot- tag of two Vancouver, women and wounding of two men yes .terday. -,'.-.. , - Slain were Mrs., liucy- Rusan, his " estranged " wife, - md Mrs. Jack Preston, a friend of Mrs. Rusan.-' t ' Jack .Preston was shot In the head and Fred Remizoff in the stomach and arm. - - . - . The double killing occurred in the home the two women shared while the men were shot later while working on a house construction jot(. ' - :'i Practical Joke Takes Life PORTLAND, July 8 (P) -5 What may have been an Intend1 cd .practical joke turned out tragically lor -Aiirea a,, uvef ton,. 42, who died of a gunshot wound yesterday after sticking his gun muzzle in his mouth and pulling the' trigger. . Known as: a -practical joker; Overton, newly hired guard at the city Isolation hospital,1 ban teringly pointed the pistol lntd his mouth after alighting from the auto driven by. a friend, Pnrrv A ftflllirtnn. ' Gauman told officers this waj one of Overton's favorite jokes, and expressed a belief Overton thought the gun 'empty aper Salvage Pick-Up Througho ut City an'd Suburbs Surd ay Have Paper Rejady
