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Newspaper Page Textll...H flllV L, IIIICOIKMIHIIIIII , "' I' T o Germans have nom H. and therefore huvo huvo noth loon IlK!""""', hint in " !?." ",. warn, they r0 oi ..intrnillt. mi i cli ns If he 111 yOUimB vvij in iwo UtouHiMxl ycors, off fend on, the worn. . filiiii (.ioriliinin. im ",""...i.i.,. .iwiiio Uiut muyljo I better ilck lliem for good f 1110 "J ' tip robot, OI courno, i n Soke In effect, It In a gun SHOOTS FARTHER and El. mnre exoloitlvci tliun any r mm ever built. The fact t It iin't very ticcurnto now ' dsn that It won't become re accurate luler. I is n tnir " nrc in wnrnirc iu fK found another rockol-bomb ncil a few (lays iwck i" ni The dispatches dliln t fee It wholly clear whether- It i only n hhhkkh uwu nj bonibn to he launched clso- Irre, Dill wo wem unvi n - lately. kriiuii honw bombers drop- P six-ton block-busters on tho I, and inier reconiwiHMMii-ii hnwed that 0110 of the irk-buslerit had penetrated ono l ie caves (roin mo ip nu fclodcd Inside. Tho Germans lira in worMnqn 10 ihmiu iv rj. and we hit It goln with tonners, . . The siwcd with which tho rmnns made repairs indicates itoro Ihey set by incir new loon, and the iiotorminouun Ith which we set about destroy- Hie newly discovered nest fcves our respect for It. LOCATION 30 miles north' (at Paris would bo only about miles- from London,, und tho hue of the rocKot uomos is posed to be at least aou nines. Ihcv could well bo Inunchcd Im tho now site or for that ittcr almost anywhere In irthorn Krunce. Belgium or fclland. EW weapons are showing up all tho time. The British launched one at Alamcln, in Amen, and It has fcrked out so well that they ivc been using II rather ex iislvoly In Normandy. Do plpllons of it hnvo Just become nrcsumably. frit by this time the Germans Bow all about it. it Is called tho "f al " tank. bd was Invented bv a South Brlcon. A boom Is built onto a nk. and nt tho end of tho boom revolving drum. Lcnaths heavy chain arc attached to drum, with one end fastened the other hnno mif free. hen the drum revolves, the Ins "flnil" tho tfrnnnrl. px. Ming mines ahead of It. TlHIS tho tnnlr nMa am Ita nurn (Inc-rcmover. HESE "(Inllcra" were first UHCd aenlniil Rnmmiil In lin Mtlc of Africa Snmn nt Ihn fltlsh tanks cqulnped with tho Pvico cleared AI.I. Ihn mini.! lit of tholr path as they wcnl. ui mum acsiroyea n mines ouiijie rurK i Americans think of our selves as having the bulk of world's inventive genius, 'o smart thnt nil .trtUf 't others are smart.' U Was lhn Rl-ltloh whn In. NW tho tank. ry.on?u'h' th"y had so faith In It iimi uh.n it '8S SOriinff In PtnMnn I. 41.. lit. u , .nnv in i.nu mnv m it was insufficiently backod ithP. 'f w?nt lnt0 B'on r?.u?h..lt' otunlly broko rough tho German lines tho oltcd 0U8h couldn,t ox- rnrTlnd5 us of orne o' our "-ontlnuod on Pago Seven) hp Resistance Polted in Ukhrul SOUTHEAST I'lU i -I l-CVlnn .Ti.l., In nt. :niicd nn' "XSr" .or" ( insert in Tti u," ""'"inncc nns Z Vl advance enemy asio;",u," 10 ooraer of North- i . i iunin. Arim Hni t i ou l.i lu.....V' j."".""1 "im nnnounced todny. n0aaqUar- m it ho i', P'"11, d miles lcared nH t0n,clty hflv0 beon ch rl nkcn IPP""1 also have aid. 0lBKcn 'he announcement VlndudoCriCad of thG Joa": Id Thawnft Ch0DU' Sagabung w umwod Jfi rom?, opposition Ion i and 'l.h lfl?,Iatlon, dlspor "ards loft rUotlon i0( ror fawal'of hi!QiCOvor h.e wlth Islons'i 31,1 and 15th dl- isiona" " 1 "w lu mm niniia f quarters "liltlvl'ly tlt under th. iFUl t c-A :'BBHBHHffl. .'. GERMAN FLANK : SIS tai0 ' Wmw' ' IMPERILED BY (TnKHK JENKIHS . ' 0 Normal 11.96 Lost year 17.78 lllll. UIII1.L.U U I, , BfttSSS , ; s:.wn,rin ) ; IU Hlir P II DTI I D IT C Bt-Titmn n w-i;;;:;, nrt,,,c PKICE 5 CENTS - . KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY. JULY 10. 1944 Number 10206 . II ll lltl I lllll il Reds Capture Two Towns On Polish Front PAGE 1 2 COL 3fl I1LACK LEAD REDS LONDON, July 10 (I'l Marshal Joioph Stalin in an order of tho day announced tonight the capture of Slonim on tho road to Blalvstok in Poland. The Important railway center of Lunlnlec (Lunlnoti) in the north of the Prlpyat marshes 30 miles east of Plnslc also were captured. Slonim is 28 miles west of Baranowlcie and 85 mllos east of Blalystok and was doscrlbed In Stalin's order of the day as a large communications Junction and powerful strongpolnt of Ger man defenses. Lunlnlec Is at the crossing of the Cornel-Brest Lllovsk and Wllnorowne railroads. Troops of the first WhlU Russian front which captured Slo nlm forced the 8hara river along a sector of 37 miles in the bulg- .-.. iwnHiu in uuinwtiwrn TAKE NAZI POINT IN ITALY By NOLAND NORGAARD HOME, July 10 ll'i Overcom ing dogged enemy rcslstonco, American infantrymen who yes terday captured the German vtronghold of Vollorra hnvo knif ed forward another four miles and driven a significant wedgo In tho German defenses fronting tho so-called "gothlc line," allied headquarters announced today. Tho action of tho doughboys in driving tho nazis from Volter ra was described officially as a setback to tho enemy's intention of imposing tho maximum delay on the fifth army's drivo toward the Arno river, In which are sit uated the cltlos (if Florence and Pisa. Progress Slow . Proiircss. however, remained slow along tho . eiitlro lUillim front as tne ucrmim continued to mass guns and troops and to fight desperately from every vantage point. On tho west coast, on allied spokesman said, American troops mucin an odvanco of unspecified distance toward Llvorno (Leg horn) despite heavy enemy fire of all kinds and widespread dc- (Continued on Page Three) $? 12,500 Sold In War Bond Country Store Tho 'country store sponsored by the Fifth War Loun drive committee closed Saturday night with o total of $112,500 worth of K bonds being sold through that project, according to Joe Hicks, chairman of the Fifth War Loan drive. All remaining articles were auctioned off Saturduy night with very successful results. Bonds were sold In this manner which would probably not have boon sold In other circumstances, Hicks said. Ted Reeves was chairman of the country store and the original idea belonged to Sid Elliot. Both men arc members of tho Klwanis retail committee. The store was carried on with tho cooperation of local merchants, who helped to mako tho enterprise a success, ho reported. Japanese-Yanks Fight in Italy ROME, July 10 (fl5) Tho 42nd regimental combat team, compos ed of American soldiers of Jap anese origin, is participating In tho fifth army's attacks along tho west coast sector of Italy to ward the Port of Llvorno (Leg horn), It wts announced official ly today. . "This force, with tank support, smashed Into enemy positions July 0 In tho fnce of determined resistance," said an allied spokes man. "Spearheading the assault was the 100th battalion, a unit which has performed brilliantly throughout tho entire Italian campaign." -.-.. Liner Grant Lost In Pacific ' SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 UP) The- former 'round-the-world liner President Grant hns been lost on a submerged reef in the Pacific with no loss of life. The war shipping administra tion (WSA) snld the 13,050-ton vessel grounded only 10 miles from its undisclosed destination. The merchant marine crew ar rived In San Franclscp Saturday after aiding salvage of the ship a supplies and equipment. For 100 days tho crew labored to work the Grant free and was on the verge of success when a great wave struck her broadside, cracking foer ln tw0, ironiiers oi c.ast Frussla JO uio norm. Uril s i nrrss reports said, Kusslnn vanguards had spurted to within 00 miles of the German frontier by sweeping northwest past Wllno (Vltnu), where the red army had driven the German garri son into the center of the city. Storm Past Flanks Russian columns racing west ward at startling speed stormed past the Wllno flanks to the nearest approach to East Prus slu. Northward, tho Soviets ripped through the German Wllno- Douitavpils Loje, penetrating to Utcna, more than 20 miles, into pre-war Lithuania. The soviet plungo mross the Lithuanian glalna toward Mcmcl - on the altic could cut off more than 60,000 square miles, nn area larger than Georgia, garrisoned by a force estimated in London at 4U ticrmun divisions. Narrow Corridor Red troops hud cut a 70-milc gap in German lines strung down from the Baltic sea and narrowed the land corridor be tween tlio brench and the to. less than 120 miles. - The Moscow radio assertod that German and Lithuanian troops mutinied In Wllno and Kaunas. The latter city, capital (Continued on Pago Three) The lliuul to Mlerlin By The Associated Press Mileages on tho routes which allied armies are travelling to- wnrn nernn now rcna: (1) Russian front 470 miles (measured ln a direct line) from a point just north of Kowcl). (2) Italian front 610 miles (from near Ancona on the Adri atic). (3) Normondy front 635 mncs tirom cacn). Horse Bothers Eugene Council EUGENE, July 10 (IP) Mrs. Lauranco Muslck and her horse hod tho Eugcno city council in a dither today. , Mrs. .Muslck, market-bound, parked her steed on a main street. Sho was ordered to re move It. "By what ordinance must I move it?" sho asked, A search of the city's laws failed to disclose any support for the order. . The council meets tonight, and likely will decide about horses being parked on a main street. . Second Lt Royce Smith Reported Prisoner of War Lt. Smith NEWSMASHES AGAINST JAPS NOWPOSSIBLE Yanks Wrest Saipan, Noemfoor From Nipponese U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 10 (I') Vast new possibilities of sea and air smashes toward Jap an and the 1'hlllpplncs surged Into view today with the con quest of Suipan and Noemfoor islands in the western Pacific. Onrushing American forces wrested Saipan Saturday from a terrified Japanese garrison trap ped on the island s northern tip. It full 24 hours after allied forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur completely took over Noemfoor near New Guinea's northwest end. First Details Associated Press War Corre spondent Rcmbert James repre senting - the combined allied press, came through with the first details of the savage bitter-end struggles of the trapped Japan' esc . offered on Saipan. "Organized Japanese resist ance ended just before dusk yes terday (Saturday)," ho wroct. "Civilians were surrendering by the hundreds. Baiter Hole "In 25 days of battle American forces had battered the first great hole in Japan's inner defense ormor and carried the war more than 1000 miles westward. ' "From Saipan American " (Continued on 'Page Three) Cor nett. Safe . In England After Being Missing Lt. Jack Cornett; fighter pilot who was reported missing ln ac tion over France in May, has made his way back to- his unit in England and is safe, accord ing to word received by his wife, tho former Marianne Carter, to day. The amission on which Lt. Cor nett was reported mLsslng took place on April 27. Mrs. Cornett had received word from a friend that Jack was unhurt but had no further details except from the war department, telling her he was missing in action. The details of Lt. Cornett's re turn to England can not be made known now. Cadden Injured In Collision Injured when his motorcycle and a car driven by R. Palone collided Sunday morning was Roy S. Cadden, 20, who suffer ed cuts and bruises. . Cadden was driving his motor cycle at Spring and Main streets next to the' Big Basin Lumber company when the accident oc curred. He was taken by Wards ambulance to the Klamath val ley hospital for treatment, and is reported in good condition to day. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Smith today learned in a tele cam from the war department that their son, Second Lt. Royce E. Smith, is a prisoner of war In Germany. Lt. Smith was reported missing In action over Germany In Jan uary of this year and this is the first word that the parents have heard since that time. He was a pilot on a bomber based in England. He was sent to Eng land in December, 1943. - Before entering the army air corps, ho was employed by tne Big Lakes Box company and the Klamath. Moulding company. 'Ike' Predicts Long Fight NEW "YORK, July 10 (() Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower pre dicted "lona and bitter fighting before final victory," a pooled! broadcast irom nis supreme headquarters said today. Merrill Mueller, NBC reporter at uisennowers neaaquariers, said Elsenhower warned against growing optimism over the pro gress qt Billed arjwes,)n fturopo. , , hi-tut t im n-l-M " " w 11 . WllhaW ' ' , ' ' 7 ' ' , ;,' '''Jr"'" '' ' ; Powerful ships of a U. S. navy task, force stand at anchor in a harbour somewhere in the Pacific ready lor turtner attacks on Japan s elusive fleei. Carrier, more than rune of which ap pear in the group, dominate this force. (AP Wirephoto from Nary) .. , Donald Angus McDonald, 73, of Fort Klamath, was killed early Sunday morning, the vic tim of a hit and run driver, in an accident occurring just this side of that city. Facing man slaughter charges Monday, was; Joseph Thomas Mclnturff, 39, who was varrestcd. by--state- po lice Sunday afternoon. The elderly -McDonald, who was an employe at the Weed ranch near- Ft. Klamath, was struck by an automobile near the city limits sometime between 2 and 2:30 a. m. Sunday. Driver of the death car did not stop at the siene of the accident, ac cording to officials. State police and the sheriffs office were called to the scene and shortly after noon on Sun day state police picked up Mc lnturff, who, according to offi cers, is woods superintendent for Big Lakes Lumber company, Mc lnturff was committed to the county jail and Monday the dis trict attorney's office filed man slaughter charge against the de fendant. Yanks Shell Guam, Says Tokyo By The Associated Press The Tokyo radio said today American cruisers and destroyers shelled Japanese positions on Guam island yesterday in con junction with a bombardment by more than 70 U. S. war planes. The islands of Rota and Tinian in the Marianas - also - were shelled by American warships, said the broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press; Wallace Silent . On Politics SEATTLE, July 10 () Vice President Henry A. Wallace re fused to discuss either the po litical implications of his Asiatic trip or the coming election with newsmen before his nationwide address here yesterday. To all questions pertaining to these subjects Wallace 'gave the same answer: "I am making no comments until I have talked to the presi dent." Wallace said he would "report certain definite facts which 1 am not at liberty to discuss here." Chinese Launch Hupeh Offensive CHUNGKING, July 10 (P) Chinese troops have launched a large-scale offensive in : south ern Hupeh province,5;; making considerable progress , against designated objectives, the Chi nese high command -announced tonight, without disclosing the area of the new drive. his push was nrobably di versionary, to prevent further reinforcement of the Japanese in Hunan province to the south, where bloody fighting still con tinued in the suburbs of Heng yang. -A communique declared sev eral hundred Japanese were killed south of Llling, 78 miles northeast of Hengyang, where the Chinese sought to penetrate the invaders' flank and strike hjs overland supply lines. Naval Might In The Pacific 4 4yvy y? One Killed in Emergency : Landing oti Klamath Marsh Emergency landings made by two navy torpedo bombers on Klamath marsh about 60 miles north of Klamath Falls Sunday took the life of Ensign . Richard A. Baker , of . DiUsburg, Pa., ac cording to naval authorities here. The : two planes 'were tiying i.'.'.v y w,1'. i' " Officers Search Park Area for ; Four Men : Local law enforcement officers Sunday- spent -most of - the day and early evening searching the area around -the -east entrance to Crater Lake nark." Officers had been '" notified - earlier that four men acting strangely and seemingly dressed in. what ap peared to be German prisoners' uniforms had been seen in that locality. ' - - - Sheriff Lloyd Low, who with members, of the state police and Special Officer John Arkell, carried out the search, said Mon day that no trace of such persons could be found, nor were there any tracks .that could . have been made by four men. . : Ration-Free Shoes Released WASHINGTON, July' 10 (P) Ration-free sales of odd-lot shoes, authorized, by the office of price administration, : began, today in many shoe stores. The clearance of broken sizes and other odds and ends will end July 29. Dealers "Who- take advantage" of the . clearance opportunity must reduce' their-prices in the sale items at least 25 per cent under their Tegular ' price as of June 1.- ' ' : ' Byrnes Off ers To Arbitrate WASHINGTON. July ; 10 : UP) James F.i Byrnes,, director of war mobilization, has - .offered. himself as arbiter to. bring a quick settlement in the contro versy between-Donald .. M. Nel son and the armed services over Nelson's proposed civilian production program. ' An OWM official, - making this known .today,, quoted Byrnes as saying that "if the matter.- is submitted- to him he will promptly decide . the is sues." - v Partitioning of India Proposed BOMBAY, July 10 (A5) A pro posal to partition India into-separate Hindu and Moslem states, thus overcoming the Moslem ob jections to' plans for independ ence irom ririusn ruie, nas oeen made by Mohandas K. Gandhi, India nationalist-leader, r Gandhi presented his proposal to Mahomed- All Jinnah,- presi dent of the - All-India Moslem league, through . Chakravarthi Ratago-Palacharl, former All India congress - president. Jin nah .informed Rapago-Palacharl the DroDOsal would be placed be fore .the Moslem league's work ing commute provided uanani makes the .offer directly Instead of through an intermediary. fir - yrs , M from their base in Pasco. Wash., to San Diego when one of them developed engine trouble . and was ' forced to make an emerg ency-landing. : Ensign . Baker, a passenger on the plane, wasi killed and one other officer and three- enlisted men escaped with injuries- . -; : Trie other, plane made, a land ing to assist the first and in" do ing so, became mired down in the swamp. Four crew members of this plane were uninjured. Both planes are considered lost because it will not be possible to get them out of the marsh. How ever - salvage operations have started from the local naval air station. ' - ! Soldier Vote Machinery Set ALGIERS, July 10 (Ma chinery whereby thousands of American troops in the North African theater will be able to vote in national and state elec tions was set in motion today. Lt. Col. Mark W. Cresap of Winnetka, 111., the area's soldier vote officer, arrived and said he would hold a two-day meet ing beginning July 12 with his assistants. . . Six Unidentified In Hartford Fire i HARTFORD. Conn., July 10 (P) Hartford today prepared to bury its six unidentified dead as the -death list of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bai ley circus fire of Jast. Thursday mounted to 158. The unidentified, three chil dren, ;two women and one man, will be buried in individual graves in Northwood cemetery, Mayor William M.. Mortensen has announced. The Hartford hospital morgue remained ODen. until . 10:30 a. m: in the hope that a last-minute : identification of . one , or: more of the victims might be made. Then the bodies were turned over to Dr. Alfred L. Burgdorf; city health - officer, and Deputy Police Chief Mich ael J.- Godfrey. Women, Children Evacuate London as Buzz Bombs Fall By JAMES F. KING- LONDON, July 10 (IP) The evacuation of women and chil dren from London and various cities in southern England con tinued in orderly fashion- today as! the German flying bomb of fensive went into its 26th day. More . than 50,000 children alone, already have been moved out of t h e immediate danger zone with only one minor hitch in arrangements, and that was quickly solved. The hitch de veloped when some residents in raid-free York appeared reluct ant to take evacuees' into their homes, but ,the mayor signed a compulsory . order and within a few ' hours ' 1600 bombed out women and children- who had detrained in that -city were safely billeted; - - ' . . Troops Cheer -A touching scene took' place at the Central station in Leices i . v Yanks Make Six-Mile Advance , Southwest", Of Carenton By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 10 UP) Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Brh ish second - army, starting to swing shut the door on German still., standing , across, the Orno river in the south suburbs of captured Caen, seized today a chain of Normany towns- arid, strongpoints guarding the ene my's imperiled flank. . . To the west, a field dispatch said, Americans advanced about six miles in 24 hours southwest of Carentan, . and moved the fighting to the neighborhood of Pont-Hebert, 34 miles northwest of St. Lo in a coordinated at tack toward ; the southeast of Carentan. ' ; '.' . - . '- Striking in. typical hard-smiting Montgomery style, the Brit ish plunged eastward from theie Odon bridgehead behind .the em battled Germans in the suburb of Fauborg de Vaucelles, and captured Bretteville-Sur Odon a mile southwest of Ca'en., ; . - ' Eterville, next , in the chairi and three miles southwest of tho city; Maltot, four miles south west, and Hill 112, a bit farther; southwest, all fell in quick sue cession in plunges which took the British within a mile of tha Orne river. - ' . .. . ." Squeeze Offensive - Montgomery's bludgeon, more than three - miles broad,' was matched by a British bridgehead across the Orne to the north and east of Caen which also- threat-' ened the last-ditch Germans with a squeeze offensive, r, . - The British fought forward two .miles in this .latest "attacfc with the objective of. freeing the" uuviys a, wacii xtviii -uic uucab' of German-artUlery-rre-so' thaT (Continued on Page Three) Court Extends v:y Petition Deadline I In Fplkes Case - SALEM,; July 10 UP)' The state supreme court today ex tended to July- 21 the-deadline for. filing a petition for -rehear- mg in the -first degree -murder case of Robert.' E. Lee- Folkea, 22, Los Angeles negro dining car cook convicted of the knife slaying a year and a half ago of Mrs, Martha Virginia: James as she lay in her berth on a Southern Pacific passenger train as. it -sped - through- Linn county. . -, i The petition was to hav$ been filed today,. 20 days aftej the court upheld Folkest'. convic tion in a 5-2 decision. . The supreme court - is' in re cess until September 5,. but. it is likely that some -of the . judges , would come back - to pass, on the petition.. . ' - . . Folkes'.-: attorney,: Leroy - L. Lomax . of , Portland,! has . said that if the court denies ;the pe- I ." v- in,. .foVianHncr Vid wnnlrl appeal to the United States su preme court. - ; v-., . , Mahoney Named i Head Delegate PORTLAND, July 10 ' (IP) State Senator Thomas R. Ma honey has been elected chairman of the Oregon democratic dele gation to the national party con vention which opens in Chicago July-19.-:- - - ; ' The delegation moved! to pre vent members- of the CIO poli tical action, committee from hold ing committee posts. - -Mahoney said a meeting will be held- in Chicago - July -18 to make final plans.;' ' ril- ..'' " ter as several hundred cheerful children all evacuees pulled in just -as a hospital : train ar rived -with a load of wounded from Normandy. J The youngsters' - and soldiers) cheered, each other and the troops- showered the children with chocolates and cookies. It Was a noisy night as the Germans took advantage of overcast: skies of Dover strait to .sneak . their i robot planes through .the defense wall. Ah official announcement acknow. ledged damage and casualties in both London, and; the southern counties, - ;. . . Bombs Shot Down ' " '; -.- Before darkness set in, how ever, fighter, pilots were credit ed with shooting down considerable- number of the buz bombs into the sea- -.-.. Despite the blind bombing at.