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Newspaper Page TextHERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACE TWO JAPS TRAPPED BEHIND PORT (Cpntlnued From Page One) aula like a' masterful piece of satanic art," wrote John R. Henry,- representing the combined allied press, from the shattered town of Agat on the south beach head. He hinted that a Yank drive out on the peninsula was impending. , - Dopking said all Japs have been wiped out at the beach heads; the enemy hasn t had a plane over the sea since July 8: and the Nips are abandoning much food and ammunition. Capital Endangered While one arm of the north beachhead force forked down behind Port Apra, another reach ed northeast to threaten Guam's capital city of Agana. Yanks slowly fought their way up dom inating hills where, Henry said, Japs in caves "had to be mined out like hard coal." More than 100 miles north of Guam at invaded Tinian, spot aerial bombings - and warship bombardments of rail and high way "junctions split the island's Nipponese garrison into north and south forces. Mow' 'em Down Marine conquerors of nearby Saipan, bidding for complete sei zure of partly occupied 4500-foot Ushi- airfield on the northwest tip of Tinian, mowed down the tank-led Japs. From a flagship off Tinian, Richard W. Johnston, represent ing.. the combined allied press, reported the airfield defenders came out on the first night of the invasion screaming and wav ing Samurai swords in the sui cidal manner usually reserved for the closing stages. No Reinforcements Re interpreted this as meaning those' Japanese know they can get ho reinforcements from the southern force and are cracking under a "war neurosis induced by more than six weeks of artillery,-naval and aerial bombard Vrients." In official communique reports otflhe twin Marianas operations, Adnr. Chester W. Nimitz said that . 2400 Japanese have been killed on Guam through July 24 fifth day of that invasion at a cost of 443 American dead, 2366 wounded and 209 missine. - Od Tinian through July 24 second day of that invasion 1324. Japanese dead have been counted against American casual ties of 15 dead and 225 wounded. r-t Vessel Destroyed ' '-In-' the Southwest Pnoif in rznn Douglas MacArthur reported to day that a Liberator has destroy- a Japanese coastal vessel in me ivioiucca sea, zuo miles from the. southern Philippines. It was the second such report in three days. He also reported that a trapped.-Japanese army, bloodily beaten back in more than a week of attempts to break out west of Wewak, British New Guinea, appeared to be "trying to reform his shattered units" five miles Inland on the Driniu- iuui river. . EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) army drives to liberate all Po land, cut tne Baltic front in two, carry the fighting to German soil 'in East Prussia anri nnan the mountain gateways to the uuiiuuk pasin unus UIiTilMi BEHIND the Germans in the ("N: Guam, our pincers have -,. joined oemna Fort Apra. General Geiger; commanding uui (iaim iurues mere, says to rinv ."The beaches are well secured ana tnere is nothing the Jap can do now to run us off." . .- . TTHE Jap forces on Tinian have Deen split. 1 The Pacific dispatches relate that' On thn firsf nitfhf r.4 Ua Tinian invasion "Japanese troops auiciaaiiy rusneo against U. S. troops, screaming and waving Samurai swords. They were cut down like wheat." -v: ...... THE Jap radio tells us today f-v that strong allied task forces s-re hitting Palau and SABANG -T-3000 miles apart. . I Palau is one of the strategic islands screening the Philippines, China and Japan. It is one of the islands we must taken . Sabang is at the far northwest f pp of the Dutch East Indies is land of Sumatra. We're keeping the Japs busy over a WIDE AREA, you see. If it's a "frozen" article vou rjeed, advertise tfor a used one ib the classified. Phone 4fifi7 aap BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:30 CIS APRA LIN GUAM AT BOTH THEATRES LAST TIMES TODAY Tropical Siorm Nears Jamaica WT11IT Fit, T,,lu UK I1P A tropical storm which may have Uoxotneina fnrft an. proachcd the island of Jamaica today, and tne uimeu om weather bureau advised that "every precaution" be taken. In a 10:30 a. m. advisory, the bureau said the blow was cent ered in the Caribbean sea about nnn enttth cnuthwpst of Port Au Prince, Haiti, and was moving west northwestward about 20 miles an hour. 112 PER CENT OF TAX ROLLS COLLECTED Tax collections are coming along exceedingly well in Klam ath county, according to latest fi crura nrenared by the tax of fice. Reports show that collec tions for tne period irom August 15, 1943 to June 30, 1944, amounts to $1,840,312.74. On the net current tax rolls for 1943-44 totaling $1,643,361.58, the money collected for all years amounts to 112.7 per cent of the current roll. The amount collected for the current roll, 1943-44 alone amounts to $1,500,828.83, and the unpaid balance as of June 30, 1944, amounts to $142,532.75 or 8.67 per cent yet to collect on the current roll. This will be further reduced by the end of the fourth quarter, August 15, 1944. as a number of taxpayers are paying on the quarterly basis. Monthly collections of taxes from August 15, 1943 to June 30, 1944 have averaged $175,000 per month. CAPTURE II (Continued From Page One) The drive also carried to within 142 miles of German Silesia. German Reports (German broadcasts said the Russians were threatening to en- guu -surrounded btamslawow and Kolomja in the Carpathian accroaches to Czecho-Slovak ter ritory annexed bv Hunearv: and that nazi lines near the Baltic had been pulled back around Narva. The Germans said, more over, mat neavy ttussian attacks were being made on the flanked .uitnuaman fortress of Kaunas. guarding the approaches to East rrussia.j Beyond the Wisla. a rnlHntr plain ideal for tanks and horse men sucn as tne heavily armed Cossacks, invites swift advance, Near CaDital Other Russians driving frontal ly on Warsaw along the main trunk railway from Kiev were reported between 40 and 50 miles from the Polish capital. . Hungary and Czechoslovakia were in the path of yet another Russian army group which vir tually surrounded Stanislaus,,, and reached within 28 miles of v, r- 8 Q latar Pass in wig xaipauuaiis. Welfare Commission To Okeh Budget Approval of the biennial nub lie welfare budget estimates Will he t.hfl main hivIap nt ness at the regular monthly uieeuiig or me mamatn county public welfare commission this Friday. Several routine matters are aiso to oe Drought up. Chairman of the commisslnn is Fred Peterson, who was re cently reannointpri hv. nnvornnr Earl Snell to serve another four- year term at this post. The rest of the membership is made up Of Martin Sunncnn V. R - TI.,11 and Mary Case, each appointed oy me governor, ana the three jnemoers oi tne county court County Judge U. E. Reeder John Reber and Fred Pope. Wa rra nts Available For Election Work The enlintv rlprlc'c nffiVa. r. quested Wednesday that persons who worked on election boards and Who havr not. an vpt niplroH up their warrants, to come to the courthouse and get- them. Warrants are also available to persons who have money coming ior rent on polling places. MnKmiitne Vioi,i Umnj XI. -I bills down for summer boarders. wuiurs nave trimmed them up g mucus mow 1 BOX OFFICE OPENS 6:45 HHPS iu;mii.m:m .WMJIIH WW ARMOR PUNCH CAPTURES TWO NORMAN TOWNS (Continued from Page One) suicidal fury trying to halt the British-Canadian advance below Caen. Supreme headquarters said tonight that heavy fighting con tinued in the area of May-Sur-Orne, Tilly-la-Campagne and Verrieres south of Caen with no new allied assaults. Progress was confined to consolidation of Tuesday's gains. Tanks Smash Ahead Heavily-armored Sherman tanks crunched forward after a furious aerial bombardment had dazed frontline German defend ers. Even though supported im mediately by heavy artillery fire, the Germans were unable to beat back' the tanks, spurt ing shells and bullets, and the American infantrymen aboard them who whooped in their pleasure at riding into battle for a change. . The infantrymen picked off German rocket gunners with rifles. The whole 25-mile American front from St. Lo west to the sea rocked to the thunder of a tremendous artillery barrage just before dawn. Then came wave alter wave or attacking Marauders and . fighter bomb ers. Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's doughboys made local advances despite heavy German resist ance in - some sectors. Supreme headquarters said the front still was expanding. Armor uaea Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was throwing in armor against the British and Canadians. Packs of upwards of 30 and 40 German tanks attacked at a time, but in the main the Brit ish and Canadians were holding their gains of yesterday. The major German armored thrust against Verrieres was crumpled by cool , British- gun ners who held firm and picked off. the enemy tanks or dis persed them. . -- Hitler Prepares Mobilization of. All Manpower (Continued From Page One) ler had been "ordered to move all home front reserves to the front, and proclaimed Ger many's cqnildence' that "it will not be too' difficult to master the war situation." Detailing'' the alleged bomb attempt on Hitler's life July zo. he railed at allied capitals, claimed Washington, London and Moscow had a hand in the plot and declared that "there can be no miracle if the fuehr er's salvation was not a mir acle. Reassures His broadcast sought to re assure the bomb-battered Ger mans, hemmed in on all sides by powerfully advancing arm ies, that "the situation, especial ly in the east, will soon change in favor of uermany as a re suit of new measures." "The fuehrer has announced already in his midnight speech that he has assigned to Party Comrade Himmler the leader ship of the homeland. It will be his task to reorganize tne entire apparatus' of the reserve armv Drimarilv to send the nu merous armv formations which are available at home and well trained to the front, ' and in their place to form numerous new divisions. We have not the least doubt that Party Comrade Himmler will be able to solve this question. He has all quali fications and a wealth ot expe rience for this task. "Our manpower effectives at the front will be rapidly filled up and the front will thus again gain the stability and effective ness which it needs urgently during the coming weeks and months. The problems which arise in this connection are now being tackled with national so. , cialist energy. Success cannot and will not fail, Total war now will become a reality. Home On Leave S 1c Adra Goeller and Nan Goeller, SK 2c, both with the WAVES, are home on leave with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goel- ler oi fine street. Adra is sta tioned at the naval air station in San Diego and Nan Is at .treasure island. BOX OFFICE OPENS 12:M CONTINUOUS SHOW DAILT TODAY and THURSDAY IdJMf- Jf"" Humphry Pjpjr BOCJIRT HWiele WfM VJ ALSO . LATEST NEWS Inflexible Line Of Conduct for Argentina Seen BUENOS AIRES. July 26 M The nationalist newspaper Cnbil do asserted today that Argentina "will maintain an inflexible line of conduct" in the face of what it called "the diplomatic conflict which Secretary Hull, with habi tual incomprehension and intem perance, is trying to provoke." The newspaper frequently re flects the attitude of the Farrcll government. MINOR FIRES STARTED BY Tl Lightning played across the southern sky again last night, but apparently did no serious damage in the nearby northern California country and set only a few minor fires. Nine fires were reported in the Goose Nest district of the Shasta national forest by forest head quarters at Mt. Shasta. AU were of a minor nature. Klamath Forest Protective as sociation reported two blazes in the vicinity of Weyerhaeuser camp No. 4 and two in the Shake Butte country. Rain threatened at Klamath Falls last night but failed to ma terialize into more than a few orops irom a sky studded with tnunocrneaas. The- forecast todav was for more thunderstorms and contin ued warm weather. MIGHT JIMS TO CHARGES OF RAPE CharW Wolrinn.- Wrrnhl '.all. or, was on trial .in circuit 'court neunesaay to answer charges of rape, involving a local 12-year-old girl. . Jurors for the case had been selected by 1 p. m. and opening statements were given by the attorneys in the afternoon. Ynnnff Wricfht ijhn tc Lried and has two children, is accused or. attacking the young ah ua nmu cauiu nome, while his wife was visiting in a neighboring cabin on Satur day night, June 3. The girl had been taking care of the Wright children, according to her state ment, while -the "seaman Wd his wife were out for the evening. The defendant has pleaded not guilty. His attorney is A. C. Yaden. L. Orth Sisemore, dis trict attorney, is handling the state's case. Members of the state highway commission, accompanied" by Congressman Harris Ellsworth of the fourth congressional dis trict, and Congressman James Mott of the first district, were due in Klamath county this afternoon. An engineering group will come with the party. They will look over highway projects in this area, including jammed South Sixth street, and will remain here overnight. The chamber of commerce roads and highways committee will be hosts at a dinner for the visit ors. Classified Ads Bring Results. : BOX OFFICE OPENS 6:15 STARTS THURSDAY TWO BIG FEATURES NDEST01 ALSO , III MEN IN ACTION! 9 ' --WOMEN IK LOVEJ STRIKE RULED LATI 0 N OF (Continued From Page One) page for several days, will con sider at a meeting tonight a tele gram from the WLB notifying them- to tcrminato the strike immediately. Vornon Chase, IWA represen tative who received the tele-Ki-nm, said he would turn it over to the meeting without recom mendation. ; Strike Issues Questions involved in the dis pute relate to maintenance of union, vacations and tenure of a working agreement. About 200 men and women are off work in tho plant, one of the larger pine mills here. Tonight's meeting will be held either at the IWA hall or the adjoining theatre room on Main near Third street. ' Chase said he has no author ity to order the strike termin ated, but that the telegram will be up to the employes for con sideration along with other mat ters relating to tho work stop page. It is said that the Tartars ate books so they could acquire the knowledge contained therein. WW BOX OtriCE OPENS 1:1I-:U ENDS TODAY IIWIS (TONI-MICMY lOONfT PAY HOUIN-SAA MAB1M SONITA OlANVllU mni HUIU1 MAKHAU, . 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