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Newspaper Page Text11 PACE TWO THIRD 0F1 uS; GROUND DRIVE DROilEN !;:jr4 IRSTSFORTH ON TINWN I f a IN NORMANDY (Continued From Page One) fire until the ninth landing wave, and then only with mortars and machineguns "lightly, com. pared to Saipan." The marines progressed at least 600 yards during the first two hours. Clviliani-Hid Green Said- Tinian's" civilian nnnulatirm of 15.000 apparently went underground as in the early days at Saipan, tnree miles norm of Tinian. Hiding in the bushes were . several children, -They were taken to Saipan. ' Americans invaded Saipan June 14 and, suffering the heav iest casualties of the Pacific war, completed its conquest July 8. . Rota Hit , V Only major-island in the south ern Marianas upon which Amer icans have not yet landed is Rota, midway between uuam and Tinian. It was attacked by carrier aircraft Sunday, Bombers from the Nimttz area and from the New Guinea the ater, commanded by Gen. Doug las MacArthur, continued joint assaults upon the Caroline is lands, striking Yap, Palau, Wol eai and Ponape. Two of eight intercepting enemy planes were destroyed at Yap. Ventura search planes also at tacked Shimushu in the north ern Kuriies, Saturday, starting a large fire near the airfield. . . v , Japs Trapped In- British New Guinea, the vanguard of 45,000 Japanese trapped near Wewak again three times ' attacked American lines east of Titape in a desperate new attempt to break' through to Japanese-held Dutch territory. They drove straight into Amer ican lines in a column of com panies, only to be mowed down by -75, mm. and 105 mm. artillery-fire.. Quickly-closing Yank jungle -fighters cleaned , out the few-who survived. . . ... Visiting. Hare Mrs. W. R. Pierce-of Corpus Christi, Tex., is '. visiting : here with her par ents, Mr. J and Mrs. Sol Has brouk. Mrs. Pierce's husband is a .lieutenant '.with the United States navy. . : -. -.- ' :15 P.M. LEE-MUTUAL. LOWELL THOMAS NEWS' TTME - Standard of California VjfrBBN you need quick relief front -p am, do you hesitate to take aspirin because .11-leaves you with an upjet stomach? If so, this new medical dis covery,' SUPER IN, is "just what th doctor ordered ' for you. Suparln Is aspirin plus contains the same -puro,'safe aspirin you have long known but developed by doctors in a, special way for those upset by aspirin in its ordinary form This new hind of aspirin tablet dissolves more quickly, lets the aspirin get right at the job of relieving pain, reduces the acidity af ordinary aspirin, and does Esther nankins and Thelma Evans - (Formerly of. . The Elk Beauty Shop) HAVE PURCHASED The Hollywood Beauty Shop 518V2 Main - Upstairs ?fairway ' B" Whitman Drug Stora and Moa't. ' NEWLY DECORATED Open for Business Aug. 1 h tiTjfV I (Continued From Page One) W a d a Nawbegin. abovt. It president of R. M. Wade and company, which, with its manu t ... jiwitinn. th Multno- lak.u. ...y ....... man Iron : Works, received the maritime "M" pennant, and the Victory fleet flag. Merit badges were awarded to all employes ,1.. kv C W. Elia. on. Pacific coast Industrial re lations adviser lor the maritime commission. The companies are nmn,rl in tiullrllna material for tankers, coastal vessels and Victory type ships. - OF (Continued from Page One) war. No forces may be lent from either tne armea lorces or armaments. ... Closing In -Thi nmiommpnt rpnrffnniza- 4lnn namo with SllSsian SriTlV groups less than 50 miles from Warsaw, less than 150 from German Silesia, find within ar tillery range of East Prussia. In France, American and Brit ish armies were on the offen sive. In. Italy, two shattered German armies were reeling back toward the Gothic line in the north. -A; leader -of the battered Ger- a-mai in tViP PPSt. FlplH M a . 0 U a 1 nan WalthPF Vfin Model, sent a message of con gratulations to inner tooay qh hie aeoana " frniYl ca ccjnation 111 J &ObBn. .w... . last week perhaps in tacit ad mission that the nazis at least temporarily control the armed forces ot tne reicn. Tighten Grip TUa mM00 wax broadcast by Transocean aiier me nazis v,at nintart thav were nreoarinK even more drastic measures to tighten their grip on tne war- wAqnr Knma Tt-nnr nnn niuer : ncuj aaww kanahvnan nnnnTprit.lv had earned comDlete mastery of the German army. . . At the same -tune Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told 4Ua Vinea rt f-nmmnnR thf reich government "had been at great pains to prevent lnionuaium on the upheaval in Germany laaVinrt . rt,,' arA that, .hp UUUI -.WAU - was unable to estimate the full extent of the trouble "or to draw any inferences as to its na i, Hai.amnmanr " He added cautiously, how- aap tnni "ura miam itieriv oraw encouragement irom me recent news. Classified Ads Bring Results. NEW kind of ASPIRIN tablet doesn't upset stomach not irritate or upset' stomach even, after repeated doses. Tmf this vt to remind you to get Superin today, so you can have it on hand when headaches, colds, etc, strike. See now quickly it relieves painhow sine you feel after tak fog. At your druggist's, 1U and 39. Phone 3572 fallen St. Lo to Lessay on the west coast . .. (Berlin said the Americans at tacked from the area nortnwest of St. Lo, and declared a small penetration had been sealed off.) Towns Taken The British second army, ham mering along on a four-mile front down tne roaa to t aiaise, captured St. Martin de Fonentay and verneres ana street ngni ine raced in May-Sur-Orne. These towns are some five miles below Caen. Headquarters announced that the U. 5. nam infantry, regi ment, formerly the Maryland na tional euard first infantry, and the 134th infantry regiment, which was the fourth Nebraska infantry in the First World war, were fighting around St. Lo with in the last week. Savage Fighting Fighting also swirled for the town of Tilly-la-Campagne. Front dispatches said there was savage, close-quarter fighting in indecisive battle after tne .British-Canadians cracked through the outer crust of German de fenses and ran into a bristling series of anti-tank positions and macmnegun nests, ine uermans threw in batches of tanks to hold their lines. The British lumped off before dawn, and the American attack opened shortly before noon. Huge artillery barrages support ed both drives. Spray Defenses Besides the big bombers, the American air fleets aiding Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's troops included medium and light craft spraying German defenses with bullets and fragmentation bombs. The double offensives broke a four-day stalemate in France. lien, bir Bernard L. Montgom ery, side-stepping a formidable German anti-tank screen south east of Caen, sent his forces pil ing southward on the road to Falaise along a four-mile front, heading toward firm, open ground excellent for tank bat tles. Highway to Falaise The ridge highway which the British and Canadians were fol lowing leads to Falaise, birth place of William the Conaueror. ana to r aris. in tne early nours of the push, while the advancing troops still were shielded by ground mists, the British and Canadians reached May-Sur-Orne for an advance of 700 yards and Varrieres for a gain of 1500 yards. They also reach ed Tilly-la-Campagne, nearly a mile east of the road. All these points are about five miles be low Caen. Bad weather checked Gen. Montgomery's offensive last weeK. Falaise is 20 miles southeast of Caen and 110 air line miles west of Pans. Allies Smash Toward Florence ROME, July 25 (IP) Steadily defensive position after another, pusnea wiinin 10 miloe nf IT nrann. 1 . .. lLed,?a,lns e.lsewhere today along kr.- w at, vi cxi uni, Of flPial ranftKB it.. . www a um me DaL- ;t , mo tempo oi me ow uwiuuica as tne Germans gradually gave ground SS? fe"fthank the Arno wccii norence and the '. , nuwever, a nrisk tJTn o,,. ""S?.n punched Unes eastward toward Florence. OBITUARY ur.rf B..V-. ":t,1' v"1"'" m. ie s?!?. I1 yi",r' 4 moni and 7 d.y.. Commodore Carrett of Tulelake," Call?! ihl. city the remain, wftl reit In thi Sixth. Notice of funeral to be an nounced at a later date. r s, run' HERALD AND NEWS, EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) HARD AND QUICK if thoy can ever catch us at a aisaavamugc, npHE 45,000 trapped Jups on " new uuincii are appnremiy reaching tho suicidal sUiue. Thev are described today as driving STRAIGHT into our lines in a cuL,Ufliw ur uivi PANIES. They were MOWED DOWN by our 75s and 105s. and "quick-closing Yank jungle fighters cleaned out the few who survived. IN a news conference toddy, the reporters tried to lead For- restal mto a statement as to when the JaD war might be ox- nected to end. He side-stcnoed wisely, ine Jap war win ena when the Jap areicKea. TN' New York today, the stock market revived a LITTLE but not much. The speculators (like the rest of us) arcn t sure yet what has happened in Ger many. A FTER - THE - WAR industry nnt? Kaiser is to mnku steel-framed prefabricated house sections. It has always been said that houses can't be satisfactorily pre fabricated. Until h.aiscr and others DID IT, it had always been said that SHIPS couldn t bo pre- laoricatea. . THE latest skirmish of the home front political war: The Western Union accepted for transmission a congratulatory message from FDR to Truman (no one ELSE can send em.) We Republicans are shocked by such discrimination. The New Dealers take it in stride. CENATOR TYDINGS, of Mary- " land, woman t be surprised, he says, if congressional leaders decide to defer all controversial legislation until after the elec tion. Hes spoofing us. Neither would anyone else. That s the way we do things on the home political front. Appeal to Nazis Printed by Reds MOSCOW. July 25 m Moscow newspapers printed to day over the names of 16 cap tured German generals an ap peal to all German officers and soldiers to renounce Adolf Hit ler and bring the war to a close by refusing to fight further. Reproductions of the signa tures of the generals were head ed by ,that of Gen. Velkers, for mer commander of the 27th army corps. The statement declared that the signers, through long serv ice in the German army in two wars, had come to the conclu sion that the present struggle is hopeless. Ivory to Speak On Convention Events E. P. Ivory, chairman of the local democratic central commit tee, will sneak on the- hicrhliohte of the democratic national con vention at umcago, which he at- tanHa,H lricf maaU of a w-aaThm tomorrow night (Wednesday) of the central committee at 8 p; m., in tne counnouse. Several other important mat ters are to come up at the meet in?. A nvntio lntarneaii4 in 1ma cratic politics, even thougH not a memoer oi tne committee, is in vited to attend. BOX OFFICE STARTS -fiMii 1 1 1 : liny-- ... in miam m Ma,-, zft I COMPANION FEATURE ms If & "wit WARNER BAXTER S I I 1YNN MttltKX IKHUID DBWY a I Jl t. t KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Ml DOME FIRE UNDER CONTROL (Continued From Page One) initial suppression crew to hold it, and the blazo raced wildly through thd dry grass and brusii lands. In addition to marines from Klamath Falls, soldiers from Camp Tulelake, and suw mill crews, Modoc forest officials called for heavy farm equipment from the Tulelake vnlloy in con structing the trails that finally checked tho blaze. According to the office ot Ranger George Fisher of Tule lake, the fire was proventca from burning into vaiuuoie tim ber or crain lands. Timber mountain lookouts first sighted the fire, just after the bolt of lightning. Mrsi crews to go to the fire were from Mt. Hebron and uouoie noaa district. CatastroDh PrevanUd Ranger Fisher.snid at Tulelake that the forest service is deeply crateful to the Marine Barracks, Kiamatli rails, ump luieiaKc, lumber camps and tho rule val ley ranchers who cooperated in Drevcnting a catastronhe. For est service "overhead from Al- turas. Shasta National forest and Klnmatn National torest, assist ed In the fire fight. Fire hazards continued high throuchout this region today. with more lightning threatened this afternoon. a Firea Started Shasta national forest offices at Mt. Shasta City reported nine fires started from lightning yes terday near the head of the bcott and Trinity rivers. A recon naissance plane was used in spotting these blazes. Klamath Forest Protective as sociation reported no new fires. Red Troops Fifty Miles From Warsaw (Continued From Page One) erouDs from the northeast Bug river and from captured Lublin were about to join in a coordinat ed assault on the capital, 319 miles from Berlin. (The German communioue re ported bitter fighting continuing inside Lwow. third city of Poland already bypassed and 60 miles benina red army vanguards. The nazis asserted that their Lublin garrison still was resisting "su perior enemy forces attacking from all sides.") Positions of other Russian army groups as shown by com muniques were: Within two hours forced march of East Prussia. Frontally attacking by-oassed Brest Litovsk, cut off and isolat ed far behind the front. Less than 70 miles southeast of the Baltic port of Riga. Frantally attacking Blalvstok on the Leningrad-Warsaw rail road. Forty miles west of invested Lwow with the capture of Mo scyshka. Virtually surrounding Daugav pils in the Latvian republic after capturing 80 towns to the north east. - - Outflanking Kaunas In the Lithuanian republic. Virtually at the border of southern Estonia after advancing nine miies nortnwest or fsKov. Thirteen miles southwest nf captured Lublin at Zelzhitse. Jjourteen miles north of Stanis lawow, gateway to the Carpath ian passes into izecno-&iovaKia. One hundred and eight miles east of Krakow. One hundred and twenty mili east of Lodz and 42 miles east of Radom. OPENS 6:45 TODAY "m fwj1 Hengyang Battle Nears Climax CHUNGKING, July 25 MP) The battle for besieged Hong yang on tho Canton-Hankow railway appeared nenr a climax tonight as tho Japanese com pressed their ring about tho city and were reported lo hnvo re pelled Attempts of Chinese re lief columns to pierce, tho en circlement. Fnll of llongynng probably would presage a full-scnlo of fensive southward lo elosu tho 170-milo gup in tho Clinton Hankow railway, permitting an unbroken Japaneso band of 1000 miles from the north to the south of China. STRIKE CONTINUES Production was still at a stand still today at the Kestcrson Lum ber corporation's big mill here, where a strike occurred lato last week. "No developments" was tho report from both tho IWA union ana tne management in a impute over contract tenure, vacations. and union maintenance questions. A government conciliator. who came here Sunday night, left fop Portland, apparently without accomplishing anything toward settlement. Stark Appointed Coordinator of Civilian Defense Charles R. Stark, executive secretary of the chamber ot com merce, Tuesday was appointed coordinator ot Klamath county civilian defense by County Judge U. E. Rceder, general civilian defense chairman for this coun ty. Stark succeeds Judith Brown of the chamber of commerce, who had been actins rnnrrflnntnr since Earl C. Reynolds, former chamber secretary and civilian defense coordinator, left Klam ath Falls this snrlni for Knn Francisco to take over his new duties as assistant manager of tne western aivision oi tne U. 5. chamber of commerce. Erdmann Explains Marine Training Program to Lions Th irnannal fanlnlaa J men of the Marine Barracks be ing given at the high school was explained at the regular Tucs- rlnv nnnn mnnllntf rt thA t lnn. club by Leroy Erdmann. Being stressed aro typing and different kinds of shopwork. This is the first school of its kind in the Unltprl Ktntoc acnaralnn 4 Erdmann, and if it is successful, omcrs mny do started. Burrows, Al Hatten, and w'. h. Kesslcr. Insure your house with Hani Norland, 118 North 7th St. New phone, 6080. BOX OrriCE OPENS 1:1-;U Now Playing DttCMS COMING THURSDAY "MAKE YOUR OWN BED" . With JACK CARSON ,. JANE WYMAN o, INDICTMENT OF 211 IE! (Continued From Pago One) for not yielding to such compul sion." Tho Judge said Hint wiiothur an internee's confinement uinlor the presidential order "la lawful or not is beside the question." "Tho Issuo raised by this iiellon Is without precedent," the deci sion pointed out. "it must be resolved in tho light of the tra ditional and historic Anglo-American approach lo tint time-honored doctrine of due process. It must not glvo way to over-zeal-otumcss in any attempt to reach via the criminal process those whom we may regard lis unde sirable citizens." Assistant U. S. District Attor ney Emott Seawall entered nil exception to tho decision, keep ing opon tho way for an appeal. Indian Action Shifts to Hills SOUTHEAST ASIA COM MAND HEADQUARTERS, KAN DY, Ceylon, July 25 (I'l Tho main action in t h e Miinlpur hills area Just inside tho north eastern frontier of India has shitt ed to tho Pnlcl-Tninu road whero allied troops now aro attacking strong Jnpane.se defenses barring their progress southward from Imphnl, an allied communique announced todny. "Seven hills all within" eight or nine miles of Pole! have been taken so far," tho announcement said. I rno.se IUI box orrits ortins i io.a u box ornrs ortxt m NOW PLAYING AT BOTH THEATRES 7smHCc and -irwmT AX VnO.MW.1,,l . i...i. lMlfP:VVm'eJf RAINS. MORGAI I,.) . Volcano Bee More Violent n,.S.P?A,IIV, July,, .niwiihgVoa;;:! tho Inst liu". i i,... ., ICU tll.io slneo It nm f S plain in Febiuai-v I i'if W iiiuulciitltins niliiidtrv '.""tdJ v sea totiiiy by tvi Representative, of th.v, . I ill Geological Inalllutlon ?,lM tenslfylng their work" N ic, ari-King in nhiniH HI to tho volca,,,,', l3 henltl. .nd 'ni.bl.r- wd f?J were reuoried l hnvo riS ritiiiftiilnliifii im .. r(tiJ west of Piir'lctill.i ... !f. H Workers dfe at Lock wood Parrf CINCINNATI, July a 1 new labor dlsput.. brok.Zl day at the Loekla.ul pl,M Wright Aeronat.llea S$ niobllo Worker, (CIO) 1$ plint!" -Ikcd outcTS An Independence nourt. J muted thill 7M) to 1000 a U)r Irl la. I II,.. ...V . coinpiiny stnteiiienl mild pwj Hon "continued ns usual." 1 ouui sines lltll lDutcti the farif ... ni.-,,.-.nl ni I hJ committeeman P.in,i -"'l Tho company ald he mtSA HlVti lltirl nlui-ana ln...... M supervisor in the prvitnn, woihnn pmnlnvi. " Classified Ads llrlm HrnA mmnwo wen mj Oftlli fi i lis w. m LATEST NEWS "MOVIES IN THE WAR" CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY OPEN 12:30 STARTS TODAY OOftN DAHTINE -LORRE-TOetw SECOND BIO HIT I, It's a Blitz-Buster of Laughs! HAL ROACH preitnts William TRACY Jo. SAWYER HAY-FOOT -' ... with ' "' " ,, James GLEASON Noah BEERY