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Newspaper Page Text' in1 - i PACE TWO HEAVY FORCE MASSED FOR NEW ASSAULT . inauguration of United Air Lines' proposed Pacific inland route between Portland and San Francisco will -give much needed transport service and be a large contribution toward post war employment," Harvey. Han cock, assistant to the president of United Air Lines told dele gation of Klamath Falls business men here today. ( Hancock and a group of. Unit ed officials and civil aeronautic administration representatives arrived at the airport at 1:15 o'clock on a preliminary survey to inspect the airfields along the proposed new route, of which Klamath Falls would be an im portant part. t The Mainllner transport which ilew the party here from Seattle had just been returned to United by the army and was being flown o San Francisco for training Purposes and reconditioning prior to being placed on regular tcheduled service. In addition io Hancock, the party included p. C. Richerson, regional man nger of operations; Capt. W. D. Williams, western superintend ent of flight operations; Ray Cohr, western flight supervisor; (Ernest Weiss, superintendent of Eiechanical operations; Glen iVance, supervisor of cargo; Capt. Hal Taylor; Capt. William proehn; Pascal Cowan, manager fiews bureau and Ray Hess and O. G. Johnson, civil aeronautics board airport engineers from JSan Francisco. J United Air Lines has filed an Application with the CAB to in augurate regular service from Portland to Bend to Klamath - jFalls to Chico to San Francisco. Hearings before the CAB will tie held at Washington, D. C. on October 16. t "The effort that your commun ity has put forth in submitting briefs to the civil aeronautics Jboard will be invaluable in ob itaining air transportation for Jyour city," Hancock said. I He pointed out that should the (application be granted, actual Service would have to await the receipt by United of additional (equipment from the army. ! "Shortly after the outbreak of (hostilities, the airlines of the (country turned over to the gov ternment a ereat nortion of their Jplanes. Although a number of these have since been returned, we are still far short of the fleets we- had in 1911," said Hancock. i Hancock disclosed that his company is even now planning jahead for post-war development 8nd expects to be employing ap proximately 20,000 persons with Sn four years after cessation of ihostilities, Present plans call jfor the use of the present Main Jllner as well as f our-engined ,'iransporis similar to those now tin use oy me air transport com- unana. - I L " . J , - . Naval, Air Blows Continue Softening Of Guam t (Continued From Page One) , first magnitude" by pointing jout 'Japan expended more than jpaign and also'sustalned a naval tdefeat in efforts to hold it. .. Bases Smothered ! Adm. Chester W Nimih in areporting carrier plane raids Jajsclosed the enemy air bases jthere have been so effectively sition was encountered although Ja bomber was shot down over saRota. The raiders fired rockets in- gu , military installations alons the west shore of Guam, first U. S. territory to fall into Japa Jnese hands at the outset of the ways. Nimitr alert annniinMul ra ton bombing of Truk Monday a n, j uiucitiwiB irom me JMarshalls, concentrating on a m ' . " ai. mat upllMea If 0..w.v .ciim.cu E On the nature of liberal edu w cation in tho nnvf vn... j M , , - " ram w Cpends, in a measure, the future iof American civilization and, so imuch are we Involved in the swona, pernaps of the world it iself. Prof. Irwin Edman of Cc- wiumDia u. Coming Attractions HENRY rONG Aug. 2 JAN GARBER Aug. 16 4 1 DANCE Sat. Night ::y 9 till i Baldy's Band FEATURING 2 - Mory: SWIGAtfr MAHONEY Armory Where Allies Attack AuSjrtnllt tOURO Pont, Tourtlvillt j tLCA fit' v"" CrtnviD Arrows inaicai onoti - - Americans edged ahead to capture Graiqnti south of Carenua and tooK ran nDn norm oi si. no. """ ........ --- threw the British out of Maltot on the beachhead across the Odon river southwest of Caen. (AP wirephotol. ICH BLAST (Continued From Page One) ed that opposition from the German air force was encount ered for the first time in the series of attacks on Munich and Saarbrucken, and that 10 bomb ers and five fighters of the eighth air force were lost while eight enemy aircraft were shot down. Munich Is a transportation center for railways and roads between Germany, Italy and France and the attack fitted Into the rapidly snowballing cam paign threatening t o cripple German transport over all west ern Europe, the same as it now is disrupted in the northwest corner. - 9000 Tons of Bombs The Munich area now has re ceived about 8000 tons of Amer ican bombs in three days, mak ing It probably the most intense ly bombed region on earth. Berlin said also a fleet was striking from Italy, as on the last two days. Strike Hails A large fleet of 1300 ..RAF bombers without loss before dawn struck two of the most important rail centers in central France. Other British bombers from Italy -battered the Brescia railyards in, northern Italy by nigm. Tne ruins -said Russian air forces Joined "the general melee by bombing their port of Kotka east of Helsinki. . Saarbrucken is a major steel and coal center nearly athwart me western uerman border on a main 'trunk line to Paris inn miles due west. Mosquitos dur ing the night had stung targets in me nearoy riunr. : Fighters Convoy Up to S00 fighters convoyed the thousand American bombers to Munich and Saarbrucken, making the total forces slightly less than the 2000 or ttn nlonna which struck Tuesday and Wed nesday, as on tne last two days, the planes flew through murky weather and bombed through clouds. Air force officers said that German communications in nonnwest Europe are so snarled that traffic to the Normandy front must be worked laborious ly by routes south of Paris. The allied "cavalry of the sky" has been systematically wrecking traffic-lines in south ern Europe, from the Balkans to the Atlantic. The bombard ment on Munich is a logical part ' of this campaign which has struck heavily and repeated ly, at ..rail yards in Budapest, Vienna. Bucharest. Knfia ;n Yugoslavia.. More Flying Bombs Fall On England -' T.nwnnw t.,iw iq ... Au im-j me German firoA a u .. . i . ; , , " "can udii;n 01 winged bombs against England utv aa we uumDarament of uunuuii auncu a nurry ol par llamenta'rv mtocHnn, in J 1 1 I.UHI1UUI12, and some members renewed de- uianos ior a secret session on the prooiem. Tlpntltv Prima 11nii fii j . .7 w """wiw Elem ent R. Atlee curtly rejected a ouggcauuu mi.; me government had been caught unprepared and nnnnintf At in a nmmt : Atlee said, "at present the prime minister does not see that he can usefully add anything to what he has said." f?ram 1innlloe anarr,,, In fha hnHv Mi lb- ic lf.. ! ..i ories and is not a fattening food. une quart oi miiK iurnisnes as much energy as nine eggs, or as throp-fniirtha nt steak. EARLY NEWS by LOWELL THOMAS 7:15 p.m. DON LEE-MUTUAL Standard of California FRANCl Stint Itt Japanese Forces Gain In Drive On Canton Railway (Continued From Page One) Yengyang, in an attempt to cut enemy communications on tne Siana river, which supply- the enemy around Hengyang. Chinese troops battling for ward in the Salween river sec tor have taken the last import ant position outside the city walls of Tenchung, Japanese strong point, the Chinese high command announced toaay. Heavy Casualties Chinese units In the same sec tor Inflicted heavy casualties on Japanese attacking Chinese posi tions east of the . Burma road town of Mangshlh and forced the enemy to withdraw, it said. The U. S. 14th air force gave aerial support to the Chinese on widespread fighting fronts. Some American planes entered the bat tie in Kwanttung, where they in flicted considerable damage on Japanese river snipping. in nunan province other Am erican planes further disrupted enemy supply lines and the 14th air force was given a lae share of credit for arresting the Jap anese advance. Twenty B-23 bombers staged a night raid on airdromes at Han kow and Wuchang, starting large fires, while P-40s bombed the main Japanese bases of Tenchung and Lungling on the-Salween river front. American troop carrier planes dropped good and other supplies to -the Chinese in the. forward areas of the Sal ween front. ' Prussia Danger Grave As Reds Smash Forward (Continued From Page One) miles of Russian guns to the nortneast. . LONDON, July 13 (Ph-The Mormon rarlln enU it. i nazi troops were withdrawing aiuug me uoraer or me generaJ- BOVemmPnt nf Pnlnnri enrl v. nie mm uerman security line Baranowicze is on the main rnilfp f mm Mlnalc in 13m. t la. vosk, 122 miles northeast of Brest XjIIVOSK. Daugavpils, gateway to the Haiti P cae anri H inn ..1t . increasing -pressure of two huge ready its garrison was like the - - -, wm.m. ii ft iitiu in f.unuania, praclng for the com- ., . u3H!t w Detail the Germans was Gen. Andrei I Yeremenko's offensive against uie uawian repuDiic, which in its ""st two days gobbled up more man .muir villages in a break through which front dispatches said was now 100 miles wide and 25 milpe Hnon nwtk n Ivan Bagramian's first Baltic "Vnrm Dnlri fnaal. 1. 1 -. , .....nv, uill ills viC- TnriPC In tho Hrimn. m , 11 --"- '-.., uiuvcu IU within 18 miles of the border of ine Latvian soviet republic on me mam veiiKie LUKt-Riga rail way. 1000 Nasis Killed ...UUHVT vviimiuiiiijue Bala more than 7000 Germans were kilipri anri ghnur 1 cnn 4.1 - vwv mncil prisoner m a single day'a fight- ma nn 41.A ha... -1 "'6 " new BWlur, . .iiv.a piwiuicu Li 113 Infest nffAnaiifA rm 1 w--w.,o.Tb u nwi unaer way and said the Germans were inning DacK peii-meil. (The Berlin radio, apparently nrpnnrinir iha r.nrmn 1 i ' 1 'n 1 iwr news of a large-scale withdrawal along the entire eastern front, said: "It is obvious that the front cannot remain as It is. There are two alternatives. One is a large scale counter-offensive and the other the adaption of the entire front to new lines. Since we are on the defensive in the east, the second alternative is the one to be applied.") has a five-inch body and an 18 inch tail and can run across water on its hind legs without sinking. Hen, Women! Old at 40, 50, 60! Get Pep FMiYiarsYounger.FulltfVlffl VTcriirprin Ml am Falls, tt Whitman an ff1jres Dree. PfPPlpfup wltb Orutx wuiaeroMuTM stotrS tonft. cKun BSMod ur CitEMlS ISSubS HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON I (Continued from Pago One) head across the Vire river by pushing forward a half mile west of Pont Herbert and a mile south. They were approaching Meenil Durandi three miles northwest of St. Lo. They also retook the village of Le Desert, which had been in No-Man's-Land, and turned back sharp German counter attacks. Squeese Mounted A similar squeeze was being mounted against Lessay, 21 miles northwest of St. Lo, where the Americans were pushing for ward on two sides of their ob jective. Southwest of La Haye du Pults and northwest of Lessay, they cleaned out a coastal area, ad vancing a mile to Bretteville- Sur-ay, whlcn was now m Amer ican hands, and occupying Bes terie. Through Vesly To the northeast of Lessay the doughboys pushed through Ves ly to a point only two miles from the town. Farther to the northeast, a four-square-mile salient was wiped out as the Americans pushed forward south of swamp lands from captured Gorges and St. Germain, 4i-miles north and three miles northeast, respec tively, of the road junction of Periers. - Pinch Salient Eastward across the Perlers- Carentan road, Bradley's teams further pinched another salient between St. Lo and Periers by capturing St. Andre d'Bohon and Gournay. Meanwhile, t'h e situation around Caen at the eastern end of Normandy battlefront re mained a - stand-off. with the British capturing Maltot, four miles southwest of Caen in the bitterly contested Orne-Odon tri angle, but losing Colombellcs 31 miles northeast of Caen, in another of the bloody battles mat nave marked this sector. Panzer Concentration : Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery's 21st army group head quarters announced that the "bulk of German panzer strength, amounting to more man live divisions, still is con centrated in the Caen area." (The Paris radio said 32 di visions had been concentrated in the 14-mile stretch from St. Lo to Caumont to the east, and a nazi front-line correspondent re ported that the allied artillery barrage was the Heaviest yet en countered;. 170,670 Reported In Coast Guard WASHINGTON. Julv 13 IIPi. The coast guard reported today a total personnel of 170.670 as of March 31, with New York hav ing tne largest representation of all states 19,046. Statistics showing the number of coast guard personnel, includ ing SPARS from ' all states, placed Pennsylvania in second position with 12,274 and Massa chusetts third with 11,783. BRAD Elf IN STRIKE BLOWS ATRDADTOWN mmvm BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:30 - 6:45 NEW TODAY 3 nOGER'TOUHYi . Added Enjoyment MARCH of TIME , (Irish Question) Turk Cooperation Foreseen WASHINGTON. July 13 (Pi Laurence Steinhardt, American ambassador to Turkey, said to day that we could expect "much closer cooperation" from Turkey soon, Steinhardt, who left Ankara a week ago, saw President Roose velt this morning and said he discussed tho general situation with him. Reports from Ankara In the past two days indicated intense diplomatic activity there fore shadowing some- spectacular de velopment. Steinhardt said he hnd re turned to report on Anglo-American-Russian conversations with the Turks which began a few weeks ago and are still going on. NEAR ISm MILS (Continued From Page One) killed; 77,499' wounded; 38,142 missing and 38,197 prisoners, The navy list is composed of 20,362 killed; 14,127 wounded; 9433 missing and 4461 prison ers. In Italy, army casualties since the landing last Septem ber amount to 70,399 through July 3, an increase of 8407 since the report covering the period througn June IS. Of the total, 12,655 were killed, 47, 457 wounded and 10,287 miss ing. Bonomi Government To Find Rome In . Chaotic .Condition (Continued from Page One) allied entry, but there still Is plenty of It. At many restaurants one can get a good meal for $3 to $10, and many allied soldiers pay the prices. Prices of goods sold to allied soldiers have trebled In many cases since the fifth army came into the city. - Contrasts Noted Rome today is a city of con trasts an extremely dreary place in some regards; in other respects gayer than in many years. Dancing, which the fas cists banned for the duration of the war, has started again in some hotels and clubs. It is more of a playground for off-duty of ficers and soldiers than any place in the Mediterranean theater since Cairo. The oncra and theatres are running, and movie houses are doing a big business. And the Italians are seeing . their- first new American films since before the war. Garrison Troops .. Called For Duty NEW YORK, July 13 (JP) The German high command was declared by the Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in a Bern dispatch reported to the OWI today to be levying upon nazi garrisons in occupied lands for front line troops. Units from the German Bal kan army as well as German soldiers from Holland and Nor way, the newspaper said, have been sent to reinforce the Ger man lines in Russia, Normandy and Italy. ml 7j m mi ; A r i r "S I j J in Russian Freighter To Be Removed PORTLAND, Ore., July 13 (IP) The army engineers wore mtllior Ized bv the secretary "f war to day to remove the Russian freighter which capsized lit dry dock hero June 24 unci now lies half submerged against the wharf. Tho one-time private yacht of tfittlllNh-, STL BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:30 - 8:45 I ttt f 101 Mil ' NEW TOW AY : Ujgj j -lucky d& l-.;7 COWBOY" g . , ' ALSO fL, LATEST NEWS Tfea l.aP&J ' LATEST I ll'l Mai J Continuous Show Daily ' LLrL:... , LAST TIMES B0X OFFICE OPENS 0:45 T0PAY Start Tlmrsilaiy I . i" i :ttm 1 Ann Sheridan , I ""d" '! TED LEWIS V Contender" vVljiL JX H Arline Judge JfWiffi 4 WljSwjl IjSf j Buster Crabbt 1 tffi Starts Friday & I iPllRWt COMPANION U 1 Wheart. 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