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B hit tH'e" enemy airfield on
Jag-i?iomba'tdmnt' Aids
If M TU DpnnH rnmtniiniaue. con
ne&Ho the .- Guam operation,
id warships, planes ana arui-
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drive out on Orote peninsula.
Supporting these invasions,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced today that his south
west Pacific bombers smashed
..- the enemy's Woleai island air
drome in the western Carolines
Tuesday with 27 tons of bombs.
On British New Guinea, Amer
ican lines held firm against Jap
attempts to break out of a We
wak trap in the vicinity of the
Driniumor river. Further west
in the Dutch New Guinea sec
tor, Japs were caught attempt
ing to flee from the invaded
Schouten islands to Manokwari
and a barge loaded with SO sol
diers was sunk by PT boats and
bombers.
Rehearing Petition ,
FiUd With Court
SAN FRANCISCO. July 27 iP)
A petition for rehearing.: of de-J
portauon proceedings agairisr
Harry Bridges, paciiic coast la
bor leader, has been filed in the
ninth U. S. circuit court of ap
peals. .' , - ;
. The court a month, ago; siis
tained the . action of Federal
Judge Martin I. Walsh in deny
ing Bridges a writ of habeas cor
pus to diock me deportation or
der of U. S. Attorney General
Francis A. Biddle.
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RAPE VICTIM
. RELUCTANT TO
TELL STORY
NAZIS FORCED
TO FALL BACK
AFTER SPLIT
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anese hill positions southwest of
i engenung.
Japanese forces driving up the
Canton-Hankow railway appar
ently, were, stalled at least tem
porarily" in the area above Tsing
yun, 40 miles northwest of Can
ton. . Penetrate Kiangii
Butia-'Japanese column hit
ting eastward from Changsha in
Hunan province penetrated into
the neighboring province of Kl
angsi, reaching within- 12 miles'
of Pingsiang,.-9 miles northeast
of Hengyang. This drive was
viewed as probably intended to
strengthen the Japanese left
flank, and possibly to seize sev
eral important airfields in Kiang
si provia.ee. -
. In western Yunnan province,
the Chinese also maintained
steady, pressure, on Kunglunpo,
astride the old - Bnrmn a
southwest of Sungshan, and won
another hill position, Chinese
uvauqudris sola;:
Lightning Fires
Under Control '
The KFPA reported Thurs
day that all the fires that were
started by lightning on Tuesday
night were out or- completely
Reluctant to tell her story "be
cause there s too many people"
and at times hysterical, the 12-
year-old complaining witness in
the trial for Charles WeldoifT
Wright, charged with statutory
rape, appeared on the stand Wed
nesday afternoon and Thursday
to testify against the defendant.
Under questioning Thursday
morning by District Attorney L.
Orth Sisemore, the young girl
hesitantly related that the 24-year-old
sailor attacked her after
turning the lights out at his auto
cabin home where the 12-year-old
girl earlier in the evening
had been taking care of the
Wright's two small children,
while they with another couple
had gone out. Mrs. Wright, ac
cording to the attorney's onen-
ing statement, was at the other
couple's cabin at the time of the
alleged attack on June 3.
Wednesday, as she wa fpctifv.
ing, the little girl" collapsed and
had to be taken from the court
room, necessitating early ad
journment of court that afternoon.
Circuit Judge DaviH n Vm.
denberg is presiding. Attorney
for the defendant Is A. C. Yaden.
To Altura Jack . Almeter,
manager of the U. S. employ
ment service office, George Mis
feldt and Charles. H...Mack of
Klamath Falls attended a meet
ing of the Modoc county de
fense council held Wednesday
evening at Canby.
If it's a "frozen"
need, advertise for
in the classified.
article you
a used one
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west of St. Lo, and then captured
Le Mesnil Herman,- six miles
south of $fc Lo and nine miles
from the jump-off point of Wed
nesday . morning. This thrust
severed the road to Avranches.
Blazing BattU
The whole 40-mile American
front was blazing in battle, and
east of fat. J-o in the sector near
Caumont, still other doughboys
gained two miles and won two
towns.
The powerful armored smash
was rapidFy crumbling enemy
defenses, and sweeping up hun
dreds of prisoners.
' " 1 "v-Towns Fall
Front. dispatcnes reported the
fair of Periers and Lessay, long
defended Jn desperate struggle
by the Germans, shortly after ad
vance patrols n a d reached
Periers.
The tank offensive had picked
up three miles in six hours at one
point.
Part of .the armored offensive
crashing- through the German
center picked up three miles in
six hours of. battle today.
Close Trap
Fanning out eastward from
St. Gilles and Canisy, thev be
gan closing a trap on Germans
in a Bend of the Vire river be
low St. Lo. capturing Le Mesnil
Herman,-six-miles south of St.
Lo and nine miles from their
jujup-oix poini.
Likes Uniforms
ft .. . fmd&&t.
(NKA Tclcnhato)
The 13 buttons, six service stripes,
four campaign ribbons, the Purple
Heart and uniform of U. S. Navy
Machinist's Mate 1c put Mrs. Pearl
Thompson, 31, In Son Francisco's
city jail when Navy Shore Patrol
spotted her wearing the outfit. Mrs.
Thompson, who is the estranged wife
of sailor in South Pacific, explained
that she just couldn t resist uni
forms.
Bureau to Fulfill
Food Promises
WASHINGTON. Julv 27 UPl
Despite a tight manpower situ
ation and other difficulties, the
reclamation bureau expects to
make its promised contribution
of new food supplies for 1945
and 1946
Construction is under wav on
26 projects under the war foods
program and it is probable that
four more projects can be start
ed in time to nroduce in 194B.
bureau officials said today.
; An increase from 1,729,205 in
1930 to 1,900,217 in 1940 was
shown by West Virginia's popu
lation in the recent census.
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small section of the colony bar
racks area, isolated from the re
mainder of the area by a man
tight fence. Within its confines
are- -housing - quarters, -utilities,
kitchen, and other facilities dup
licating those outside the stock
ade. When a bombing plane re
leases bombs in rapid succession
while making its run across the
target it releases a "stick" of
bombs. A large number of.
bombs dropped in one bunch is
known as a salvo.
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HIGHWAYS
SATSFAGTORY
Satisfaction with war-time
maintenance of highways of this
section of the state was express
ed informally here yesterday by
members of the state highway
commission and engineering
staff, here overnight on an in'
spection tour.
State roads are generally in
good condition despite industrial
and other heavy traffic, the offi
cials said.
The visiting officials went
over the new access road to the
Klamath naval air station, and
were taken on a trip through
the station by Commander R. R.
Darron, commanding officer,
and Lt. B. M. Turner, executive
officer.
The afternoon journey took
tno party through tho southern
part of the county, and a short
visit was pa d to the Tulelake
area. The party viewed the Tule
lake segregation center from the
peninsula hill. The officials were
greeted at the center gate by Lt
Colonel Verne Austin, command
ant of Uamp Tulelake.
The roads committee of tho
chamber of commerce was host
to tho visiting officials at dinner
last night. The narty went north
over the Willamette highway to'
&ugene today.
Included in the party, in ad
dition to state officials, were
Congressman Harris Ellsworth of
the fourth congressional district,
and W. H. Lynch, engineer for
the public roads administration.
Several of the officials early
Thursday paid a brief visit to
the Klamath Marine Barracks,
through the courtesy of Colonel
B. Dubel, commanding officer.
Machine tools, in aircraft
building, reached an all-time
record in the U. S. with tho pro
duction of 200,000 unitswhich
is luo per cent more than for
194U and eight times normal
yearly production over the past
10 years.
Durlns lflJd I9.nn i.
thp UnitpH Rtniem war. A
seriously injured by doing home
uijr ticHiiiug wim gasoline.
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henchmen aro still pinning a
lot of faith to tho xobots.
THERE Is a bit more detail tu
day on tho German generals
the Four Horsemen nro shoot
ing. Tho outgivings of Hie Ht
lln radio suggest a total of SIX
additional liquidations, and
Gocbbcls Is muttering In his
hinnHv him-d about nioio kill
ings still to come.
Speed tha fliiyi
THE British announce today
that an allied naval tusk,
fnron VtlD hit Sllhnhl!. Ill tllO
Dutch East Indies, as the Japs j
said yesterday.
Battleships, cruisers, destroy
ers and carrier planes utmost
completely destroyed Siilinng's
harbor installations In a 35
minute bombardment. Tho war
ships came in to tho point-blank
ranges mado possible by the
Japs' lack o( air power.
In this operation, we see the
old plncor beginning to work.
IN tho Important Islands llial
mm llin PIllllnnlllpK. Dlllin
and JAPAN, we are still killing
Japs. Wc'vo killed 2800 on
Guam In five days. There arc
a lot moro to be killed before
we can break through to our
objective.
'THE news from Argentina cer.
talnly doesn't sound good.
Wc'ro getting started clown
there a Western Hemisphere
version of tho Europenn strug-
gle-for-powcr mess Hint above
everything wo ought to Kthi
OUT of tho Americas.
Invader Eligible
To Enter Academy
GREAT FALLS, Mont., July
27 (y)I'vt. Curl Anderson, 19,
advised his father West Point of
ficials had written, saying ho Is
eligible to enter tho Military
academy.
Anderson Senior doesn't see
how the boy can muko It. Ho
has been in France since D-Diiy.
Turtle merit lias tho combined
good qualities of pork, chicken,
beef, mutton and venison.
Mobilization to
Relieve Front,
Says Hitler Paper
LONDON. July 27 (m In
stark comment on Paul Joseph
Gocbbels' assertion that total
mobilization would relieve the
receding German front. Hitler's
own newspaper said today "We
openly dcclaro that never since
the beginning of the war have
our nerves and hearts been ex
posed to heavier trials.
The comment in tho Voclkls-
cher Bcobachter, Berlin organ
of the nnzt party, appeared be
side a report of the snoech of the
weekly appointed "Reich Pleni
potentiary for Toftil Mobilization."
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