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lo) '0' 0) XT Uuv or Wis IWl -nW JENKINS fesr 11,0 I and the w. ' . , i.A f .1 I. c and are not Kto bo.Mllt'dur wounded.) ,,,E pacific wur 1 REAL Idler ip -.,..1111 i nit wo RTn'r on aur lu.ncl. on this HERE will ho more Sulpun. ' ... II, .. ,., IIIO III tllO tw? 1,1 towttrd iTVwegotlolhohMrt. harder ino i"u,"" THE Japs hnd from 20.000 to I 30,001) men on Saipan. 1 hot , routthly two division. They ,5osod to have holler than 00 division. , . Nearly nil tho Snlpon Jap kBulkihc?e are many MORE laps to bo killed. rllE Russian, racing toward 1 Germany so fust that thoy bovered 1U nines ' tporled. as litis 1 written, lo jt only 30 miles from tho bor cr of Easl Prussia ancestral homo of tho Junker, the Ger mn professional war chief. Either Russian strength ) overwhelmingly gr-'t "Imply loo much to bo resisted or the Germans nro pulling back to a new and shorter lino unci fight ing only rear ituard action. Probably a little of both. THE German are fighting bit- tcrly and stubbornly on the Normandy front. There are clear nd dofinilo slum that thoy are siting ihort of man power. Ono suspect that thoy arc pulling back on tho eastern front in order to shorten their lines ind be able to spar more man or tho fighting on tho western, front, ' ,-. rjON'T entirely overloOftr tho" u Italian front. Nothing very ipcctacular hiss been happoning ihcro lately, but it CAN get Im portant. Tho Ilnllnn front I CLOSER ro BERLIN than any other lighting front. CPEAKING of caualtle, we J read tho other day that the lolal for this war I already ap proaching tho World War I total, including tho final hard buttle Hint brought the Gorman to tho making oolnl. Our military men toll' us that n una war wcro Just now begin ning to got Into the hard fight ing that will bring tho wind-up. This is no llmo for nnyono to !cl Iho Idcn that tho wnr Is all Jvcr buto few final details. It Isn't true. Minesweeper Kills Three HOME, July 15 fP) The U. S. Unlw s. . M . todBy tnnt 8 S'1 S'ptes minesweeper' nc- 1. Cm1. "ro was responsible for 'no killing of one officer and one n and umi.n,ii,. ,i. Sablard. p-T btnt which In . , ond, !hor Brmy officer jo tho Anzlo beachhead January nAu0'flcln.1 ""nouncomont said th. 5qJf uy 1Hd established that t0rf tu uul nna " escort "on- wr L,'.Yr?B whll 0 "rod Blert n7i V-:j " ".lu """cipauon or a uipj --"""i-u as irionaiy. sweZ. C8',tn'" ?.. th0. "lino. denl . ! '"porting- tno inci- tackPfin.8 ci:ntt aPP"ached in at KmS?W 0" speed," wtmnvTi inquiry lie wag rroP'co Storm Sported 'ortod a ir" , iur.cau today re- 'ournc lJ?n,llc' d,uo enst ' Mel cs (0,nu' lnd ady'sed ""val "ft U5 blow. " ln 1,10 ld the hi, luwarnln8 orv co 'wne in lu0ance. not of hur- inrli;.. '"."""'ty. Was movlno M line ntri f1 VithaU-l our. alinLi j to 14 m ci an "tended by 40 to 45 mllo Wnkler to Htsnd Confab PORTr a, . . wry Wintir Ji"y 15 W 'pf.lhoB,ri"la,t?..comniand- ,c'at on win V, "owrana- as- Jx' weei? Lon n Chicago ' p- Ivorv i?. an ?,"ornnto for tie. ry Klamath Falls dole- r.uliy ' " Snlpon ou.rSS? o which 2380 wero n PRICE 5 CENTS Drive Opens in E T Prussian Lines Now Within 20 Miles Of Push LONDON, July 15 (IV) Tho ovlot coninmnUiuo tonlulit an nounced the ciimuro or upociiKu, 24 miles east of tho Lntvliin bor der, nnd also Alytux. Lltluiunlnn city 32 mile south of Kaunus, and uernn sum ino roa armies had begun a long-awaited offen sive In southern Poland. Tho Russian wore moving re lentlessly ahead. Moscow said, challenging tho last-ditch string of fort guarding' tho cradle of German militarism, East Prut sin, whoso border now ra less than 20 nillos from tho red. army. Opochk Tkn . . Tho town of Opochka was tak en by the Russian second Baltic army after it rail station had been seized Friday, said thu communlquo brdadcast by Mos cow and recorded by tho ovlot monitor. More than 40 other lo. calltics wcro swept up In this push toward, tho Latvian fron tier. . -!.,.. ... -. Puslilnn on Kauna. capital of Uio-iormrrLithuanum-Tcmibltcr tno Russians wore witnin lu mile of that city with the cap ture of tho railway Junction of KiiKoldorys, tho Moscow duuo tin said. Altogether tho Russians swept tuoniinueu on Page 'inrcoj Historic Oregon Takes Part in Third War PORTLAND, July 15 (TP) The battleship Oregon, famed veteran of tho Snanish-Amcrl. can war, has gono to sea again to tako part in its third war. Tho historic vessel, which was turned in to tho govern, mcnt for scrap and partially dis mantled before naval author!. ties decided to recondition it for aca duty, is being used as a bargo. Navy officials did not dis closo tho ship's cargo or desti nation. Services for ; Roosevelt Held U. S. FOURTH DIVISION CEMETERY IN FRANCE, July 15 (fP) Machine guns rattled ln the distance and antiaircraft fire burst In faraway clouds as mili tary funeral services wcro hold in Normandy twilight last night for Brig. Gon. Tliooaoro Kooso volt. Jr. The general's son, Qucntln, watched as his father's body was lowered in tho French soil on which he had fought in two wars against German aggression Ouentln Is a captain ln tho "Fighting First" division, which was his father's favorite. Besldo tho grave wcro six aencrals. Including Lt. Gon Omar N. Bradloy, in' command or all u. s. troops in t rance. VILLAGES BORDER Trials of Pearl Harbor Commanders Suggested By WILLIAM F YE WASHINGTON, July 15 (P) Tho possibility that courts mar tial may bo organized before December 7 for tho trials of Roar Admiral Husband E. Klm mel and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short was suggested today in Informed military quarters. Tho appointment yosterday ot special boards to inquire into the circumstances of tho Japa nese attack on Pearl Harbor was followed by reports that courts martial might be con vened to begin tho formal trials by taking the pleas of the two officers, then recessing until after the war. The special boards of inquiry wore ordered by a congression al Joint resolution which' ex tended the statute of limitation..-BR" It affected anyone JnTha ShaHla Air Facilities at Klamath Hub For Du to military nacttaitv Klamath Falls has quietly, almost lacratlrely, become the hub of airway facilities for the northwest, it was learned Saturday. -. Although at present a quasi-military installation, the actlTlty will qivo Klamath Falls a head start in the postwar arlatlon race. Tho information revealed Saturday, shows that Klamath Falls is now the main stopping point on Amber airway No. 8. . JOINT DEVELOPMENT This main north and south airway was developed Jointly by military, airline and civil aeronautic authorities in an effort to provide a north and south route through more favorable weather conditions. The airway also is terrain than can be tound on other coastal airways. Continuing the spokes from the Klamath Falls hub, airway facilities are now available via Alturas, Calif., to the well devel oped San Francisco-Ogdsn airways. Radiating lurther is a highway through the sky to Tonopah, Nov., where the aerial roadway branches to La Vega or Lo Angeles. This Includes extensive facilities and Installations at Fallon. Nov. DESIGNATED AS STOP-OVER " As a result of the extensive development, Klamath Fall' ha been officially designated an alternate stop-over by present commercial airline routes. The huge matnllners .of United Air Lines and other commer cial transport have been frequent visitors in Klamath Fall re- tvnur Now approved for Klamath Fall by the civil aeronautic au thorities is an instrument let-down procedure which enables both military and commercial aircraft to land at Klamath Fall under advene weather condition. INFORMATION RESTRICTED Although the exact let-down procedure 1 restricted informa tion, it was revealed that an approach to the Klamath Falla air port, now occupied by the naval air station, can be made in overcast or foggy weather in complete aafatr from the south. EYED BY TURKEY ANKARA, Turkey. July 14 (Delayed) Of) Rumors circu lated in Ankara today that dip lomatic and economic relations may bo broken shortly between Turkey and Germany, The allies were said to have demanded such a break. . Thcro was no confirmation of the reports, but also no denial cither from Turkish or allied quarters. The Istanbul newspaper Tan quoted tho Transkontinent Ger man news aRcncy as saying the German foreign office had warn ed that Germany was closoly watching southeast European de velopments, especially a "coun try which is considering going to war." . Tan said lt was obvious that tho country referred to was Turkey and that the threat probably would draw a reply by tho Turkish press.. LONDON, July 15 (P) Guardedly hinting that the Ger mans expect Turkey to enter (Continued on Page Three) Army Officers Killed in Crash Chattanooga! Tcnn., July 15 P)Maj. Gen. Paul W. New garden, commander of the 10th armored division, two colonels, and at least two other persons wero'-lnstantly killed near here last night when an army plane crashed during a heavy storm. Capt. Lester M. Nichols, pub lic relations officer for the 10th armored division at Camp Gor don, Ga., announced the fatali ties. chargod with dcrolectlon of duty at Pearl Harbor, until next December 7, third anni versary of tho Japanese attack. Navy Secretary Forrestal named a panel to convene here Monday to begin its studies. Its president is Admiral Orin G. Murfin, retired. War Secretary Stlmson named a board of inquiry head ed by Lt. Gen. George Grunert, commanding general of the east ern defense command. This board was Instructed to hold sessions "at such times and places as aro required." Tho work of these boards Is not in itself the beginning of court martial proceedings against those in command at Pearl Harbor when the Japa nese struck. However, their rec ommendation could lead to .a formal start tft the trials.- , - CaHeuda Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON, SATURDAY, JULY 15, T944 South and general aria lion expansion, carried over much less rugged t xne approacn is miae Dy meaiw--of -oxtenslver .-radio -and radio b e a m facilities located two miles south of the airport. It was pointed out by aviation officials that establishment' of aerial navigation aids- ln , and out of Klamath Falls, gives air men a wide choice of routes to take advantage of the best pos sible weather conditions. Four Routes to Seattle . For example,- it is now pos sible for an airman going north to follow four-routes into Se attle. He will have such facili ties as radio beams, cone mark continued on Page Three) 27 Arrested on Draft Violation Charges Twenty -seven Tulelake Japanese-Americans were . arrested la to yesterday on charges of vio lating the selective service act. They had been previously in dicted by a federal grand jury at Sacramento and bench war rants issued. . The evacuees are accused of failing to report for pre-induc-tion examinations on May 2 and 3 at the Tulelake center. ' Wesley Erich, deputy U. S. marshal, and three other U. S. officers, served the warrants and made the arrests. They moved 16 of the accused men to Eureka, Calif., and the others will be taken there later.,. The, Japanese-Americans will be tried in federal district court at Eureka. Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE R H E New York ..: .. .1 8 2 Philadelphia .........3 6 0 . Voiselle and Lombard!; Lee and PeacocK. , .. R H E Brooklyn 3 6 0 Boston 8 8 2 Melton, Webber (8) and Owen Andrews and Kluttz. AMERICAN LEAGUE R H E Chicauo : 8 10 2 Detroit.... 4 7 1 Ross, Maltzberger (5) and Tresh; Newhouser, Beck (9) and Richards. - ; R H E St. Louis ...2 8.3 Cleveland 13 15 0 Holllngsworth, Zoldak . (3) and Mancuso; Klleman and Schuletter, - ' Bond Safes Near SMiUi6nMark Klamath- county Fifth War Loan sales hit $4,931,935.25 to day with strong indications they will go well. over the $5,000,000 mark. The quota was $3,815,000. The vital E bond phase of the campaign showed . a., total of $1,097,091,75, against a total of $987,000. -i ' - - Large ' purchases and . alloca tion totalled $3,673,372 today. Herald and New carriers have Initiative. Most ol tnese Boys-ana girl are Duyieren &arne. street seuer; caaie raanan, route i; tion deals from The Herald , and New office. - , Front row. from left to rlaht. thev are: Everett Karnes, street seller: Eddie Mahon. route 14: Betty Nelson, route 12; Garry Bay, route 11; Robert Olson, route 32; Kenneth E. Karnes, street seller; Roger Dwyer, street aeller; Ralph Carroll Jr., street seller: Tommy Schubert,, route 16. Back row: Jack Fairchild, route 30; Bob Fisher, route 35; LaMont Wilson, Main street; LeRoy Lofdahl. route 18; Wesley Crane, street seller; Kathleen Pugh, route 10; Billio Lee Haney, route 12; Mack VanMeter, route" 5; Bob Stile, route 13. and Frank Dorsey, route 37. Not all of the carriers are shown here.. : t : - Tw0 .Jalieserc New Guinea ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, July 15 (&) Two starvation-threatened Japanese forces .: are at tempting to break allied encircle ment in New Guinea, one by bit ter fighting and the second by escape through hazardous jungles, headquarters announced today. The "fierce ' resistance",,, of American outposts halted an initial breakthrough attempt-of the 18th imperial army, after vanguards of its 45,000 men crossed the Drinlmor river, 21 miles east of Aitape, in British New Guinea. Fighting continued along a fluid front,, while--the main body was forced to reor ganize for another attack under continual fire. - Move Into Jungles Remnants of the now-impotent Fisher Improves In Hospital Ray Eubanks of Bend who was shot in the leg while fishing from the banks of Lake Tym banogas Friday morning- was improving Saturday in a Eugene hospital. Eubanks was - mistak enly shot for a coyote, accord ing to state police and sheriff's officers who investigated.' Investigations were turned over to Lane county officers be cause the shooting occurred -in Lane county. . . Questioned by officers Friday was Wilbert Van Arnam of Cor vallis who was said to have shot the gun, and not Harold Pratt of Corvallis as was reported . yes terday. Pratt was camping with Van Arman but was. in bed at the time of the accident. According to officials, Eu banks leg was badly splintered below the . knee when he was shot for a coyote while fishing with his ' wife and two - other companions. ' . ... Woman Killed in Auto Accident Nellie Thora Manly, 42, was killed Friday morning when the car which she wps driving from Tionesta.to Tulelake, Calif., overturned on' the state highway about six miles south of the Japanese relocation - cen ter. , Mrs. Manly was going toward Tulelake about 8 o'clock in the morning when it is - thought that, the a c c l d e n t occurred. There were no witnesses to the accident but a passing car no ticed the Manly car overturned off tho' side of the' road. The car had evidently turned over four' or five times. . . i The body was taken to the Kerr mortuary in Alturas and was removed Friday afternoon to Ward's funeral home, in Klamath Falls where burial will be conducted. July 15, 1944 Max. f July. 14) 88 Min. .........'...50 Precipitation lait 24 houri 00 Stream year to data 9.89 Normal 12.01 Lait year 17.78 Forecast: Partly cloudy., . . ,,, Patriotic Newsboys purchased a total of S3450 worth of war bonds on their own Break - Through Japanese in the- Sarmlmanfin bay area, about 300 miles' westward- in Dutch New Guinea, plunged toward inland jungles from positions made untenable by allied advances. American units occupied the strategic Se War airdrome; three miles west of the Meffin bay airstrip, with out resistance Wednesday. . ' -The , Japanese attack in- the Aitape' area, which began Wed nesday made some progress' be fore it was halted, .a headquar ters spokesman said. One allied outpost withdrew, and the Nipponese-crossed the wide, shal ' (Continued on Page Three) ; Forest Closures Published . j Forest closure notices for the Fremont national forest areas ap pear in the legal publications of this newspaper today, and for esters urged that Ideal people read tne notices carefully. - i Closures and other fire preven tion measures are now in full force In the' forests, and hazards are rising steadily.. . t Klamath Forest Protective as sociation reported that out. of 10 fires in its area so far five were man-Caused. : i A small fire in the Richard son ranch country' east, of -here was discovered and checked Friday.-. I I General Fegan to Inspect Marine Barracks Monday Maj.! Gen. Joseph -C. Fegan, commander of all marines on the Pacific coast,', is scheduled to make an inspection tour of the Marine Barracks here: Monday, This will, be the general's first visit to' - the newly-established Klamath Falls base. . i Prior to assuming command of the Department of the Pacific on May 24, General Fegan was in charge of Camp Pendleton at Oceanside, Calif., the largest mil itary establishment in the world. . The veteran marine served the corps 35 years in a dozen coun tries. He was -appointed to the corps by President Roosevelt in 1908 and elevated to his present rank by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in August, 1942. - During his long career in the service, he has been stationed in Cuba, the Philippines, Santa Do mingo, Haiti, and China. He com manded the famous Fourth Mar ines in Shanghai from August, 1938. to December. 1838. - , General Fegan Is a graduate of the naval war college as well as the field officers' course, Mar ine Corps school. He has seen duty at numerous posts and sta tions on both the qast and west coasts ana also aDoara snip. A son. First Lieutenant Joseph C, Fegan. JrV took -part in the Number 10211. I IILUIUinilUL. ... .fc , MELTS IW ITALY By NOLAND. NORGAARD ROME. July 15 UP) Ameri can troops have driven to with in three and a half miles of the seaport of Livorno (Leghorn), in the wake of suddenly melting German resistance, and have captured' the town of ' Chianni, 13 miles inland from tne west coast, -it was announced today. The most significant gains in the Dast two weeKs of neavy fighting. DUttine the fifth army within artillery range of Livor no and nine miles from tne-at- no- river. were made yesterday ; with the battered Germans fall ing back at most points. The French who ' celebrated Bastile -Day by seizing- Poggi bonsi in j- combined flanking move and direct .assault, pur sued the enemy northward. . An. allied spokesman said the (Continued on -Page xnree; Hot Day on Way In Klamath ' Saturday was well on the way to becoming a hot day. People on down, town- streets sweltered as temperatures had soared to an official 87 degrees Dy 2:ju &ai . Maximum for the day was ex Maximm'for the day was-ex pected to reach a .higher ; point by later in the afternoon. , invasion of the Marshall islands as an artillery officer. . . ; Ma, Gen. Fegan j BATTLE IK ANGHOH PDINTl 0FJA1NT 10 Americans ' Engage IT. ' . Of .25 German : Divisions By WES GALLAGHER ' - SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 15 (P) American troops, engaging 11 or 12 of the 20 to 25 nazi divisions com mitted in Normandy, struck for ward today to the outskirts of Lessay, and battled to withlit little more than a mile of St. Lo.: opposite anchor of the Germans' powerful road defense line on the invasion front. Supreme headquarters disclos ed the Germans have 60 to 63 divisions now in western France with 20 to 25 hurled against the liberating armies in Nor mandy. Allied invasion strength, was not disclosed, , but 15 allied divisions eight .of them Amerr lean have been identified -officially as in action ' Begin Battle . '". U. S. Infantrymen reached the outskirts of Lessay soon after noon today, and began battling in the suburbs. : ' , The- Germans fought' back savagely against steady - Ameri can pressure against both these end bastions of their road line, strung across- western - Nor-! mandy. Other doughboys fought two miles from Periers, central, v stronghold on the Lessay-St. Lw road, after striking, ahead four miles and straightening their lines in that sector. . : Guns Turned Loose ""; Street -fighting swirled - thiat- afternoon in Lessay 's suburbs:' turned loose big field guns in tl- Heaviest artillery duel of the five-day-old drive for that town.. A l'ront dispatch declared the Americans .were within 2000" yards of St. Lo' outskirts. - - v. urnisn troops at tne eastern end ot the" front ""recaptured' hill; ' 112 scene of bloody, see-saw fighting in the last week north of Esquay and again struck into Mai tot,, four miles south,, est of Caen, ' but there were no -large- scale engagements in- that -sec- (Continued on Page .xnreej - Webb Says Jap Defeat Sealed At Midway .. PORTLAND, July 15 (VP) Ja pan's defeat was. sealed at the battle of Midway, believes Wen dell Webb, new managing editor of. the Salem, Oregon,. States man, who reported the battle for the Associated Press. .'.',. A Japanese victory would have cleared the way to the Ha- waiian islands and possibly the Pacific; coast,. he told the city club. . Praising the pace of the armed forces since December 7,. 1942, Webb said that "if anybody two years ago had told me we would take Saipan inside of 10 years I would have thought he wag crazy."- .; .- -. ! German Generafs Suffer Epidemic : WASHINGTON, July 15 (VP)-' German generals, faced with de--feats, on every front and unable to meet the. demands' of nazi party: leaders, are suffering an "epidemic ot neart, lanure ana apoplexy, an overseas broadcast of the office Of war information -said. today. ' . To people of nazi-occupied Eu rope, the OWI beamed a mes sage -from Senator Hill (D-Ala.) relating that unsuccessiui Herman- military leaders are . using illness as an excuse for retire ment from their commands. V- Hill recalled that Field Marsh al Von Runstedt, commander of Germany s antl-mvasion. forces in France, was reported in ill health after his troops failed to prevent -allied, landings. . .-; Yank Planes Raid Guam U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, July 15 (VP The Tokyo radio reported, today that. 85 Ameri can planes had raided Guam ana that- two' American Liberator bombers attacked Two Jima in. the; ' Kazan group, 870 miles northwest of Guam, and added: V"A ' powerful ' unit, with carriers-, battleships, cruisers and destroyers' is. continuing activities-near, Guam. The war sltua- . tion-does not allow a moment of optimism." '5, '-' : .. :-.'.; - ' Since the Kazan or ' Volcano island group heretofore has been beyond the range of American land-based bombers, a raid by Liberators would mean that the heavy - bomber atrip on newly captured' Saipan island had been put into pperatig.v
