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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. . : -. -.- '
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Esther nankins
and
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- (Formerly of. .
The Elk Beauty Shop)
HAVE PURCHASED
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518V2 Main
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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INDICTMENT OF 211
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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
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new labor dlsput.. brok.Zl
day at the Loekla.ul pl,M
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