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.f v.-sterduy noxi
I . ' ..,i Minister Ciocl).
mr he, uiilliin Is well In
llld tlio .1... r.i.rmnns.
KSTbl. hotoW thcm.waj
H2 SS on tii .MBrn.. ,r:m
PT. Intimated unit ii wu
txHINO GOOD.
nnAY the Germans defr ;ndln
i 0r;.Y. ... ki seemingly
KCK c mo I for tl' CSor.
tec " Larln Ital
" .PulnUlon;
, ceicui"""
-.wr wen before.
Kk "d
l(ui" .. . uratn f tolas
'BlWnMMILEs'ol Warsaw.
io cclbel. remember
' ...,.! ho 1 u PROI'A-
f mere'," ".." a .,,, ln
EJlT THKM TO THINK.
I T lho mo time, our Amur
K leans in Wo Cherbmirg pen-
Ula BHEAK. liiiwuu i
Can Hum and f' "' "
mtwiyp cm unit ....
JET fi Li rcuort this moriiln
Ll lho defeated Germans aru
?, . h.rk In disorder greater
mtn - , .., i ....in n
., w inrun numbem of
I'm arc bound lo be pinned
ck against incjwniuiu nij..
VHAT we don't know yot It
lr ...i..nr. Um. Clerintuii-wtira
bO WEAK or lho Americans
tjitroni!. We do kOQW.'itluH
lilwri oci trnope i ivui
lllcking todny In Normandy, a
iroi.na. :, , A
Vir. must 'bo fcUiiiboiit
A wh.ii is ham-ening '.In- Pd-
nie Germans there ars trying
i null back to a new. line
obably on the borders, pfGcr-
liny. II lakes tnnfr.i men u
rlcnd the rim 01 a omnuu
IRCLE thni) to defend the rim
a big circle and Miner u
tllni uliort of men.
But they aren't nulling back
ktatiM they WANT to, They
badoini it bccati!ie-they--HAVlJ
. And tliey are inning ter-
bl Iomcj m me jiroccaa,
IP.MinrANT ilraiui mirur In
r the wind,.
Reliable Wuthlniilon - aourcea
hy the Turka mny bo on lho
irrgc of a diplomatic break
Hlh Ccrmony. IVon Panon l
authoritatively" reported lo be
Ii Berlin and Turkey In said to
avc recalled her ambnaaador
om Germany.)
Bulgaria Is reported (o be
cgotlatlng with the allien "In tin
Hon to got out of tho war.
tanbul (Turkey) says Russia
m renewed demands for author
ly to open four consulates In
uigana, with a diplomatic
reak named as tho nenaltv for
ir. i '
WHENEVER tho neutrals and
f" t.A nlll t
i lo make a brenk for OUR
IDE, and AWAY from tho Gcr-
tins, It will bo a certain sign
at German power is crumbling
to me cna is near.
These rumors aro Interesting
ecausc if true they Indicate thai
l!S?a'r."ld of 'ho Germans and
He Da Kan rmintrln nrn nnffinn
"una oiraid of us,
THERE aro fascinating sldo-
r llehtlt lnHn
I An A.ni -. .. .
..ii.uin.un ui on ino nor
FMdy front (quotod by AP'a
, -...uKi,v.-w miy,, oi ino uoi
pin prisoners: "They shoot till
: """"unillon is gone and
In an il 1 isxpuei us 10
nDmnl....J ...
hr ik.. . ulosc wno retreat,
win." sec lhclr nomcland
TH5 .ncw frm Europe Is so
brilVTi, 1 oimost, scares us.
Ci. R'P-Gorman. The Nor-
liv n . 'r ,nro "rljizling rain,
111?,?8 0.m ,he pM"'e
llkew so ALL good.
lD Ky. "d Tnursdoy. Ten
rfA? unk. (80 Jap
than lonn t con ,sllnk and "iro
'month,0 ,namt'o n-oro than
Kc teT'n' JaP islands
Npi. if u,.SMp.PL ED by Jap
Implies Jiii "J ,? 1110 8nP 'ho
irvt :
fj" unan, We'ro klllln0 10
lost; H Jl cah American life
Peninsula n s,"rroundott Orote
rc Jans ;Su?m sovoral hun-
n effort in i "st,bco klllod In
fiap, -"v:c.i out 01 trio
f'hHcwU0ri"dJlng ali over
i iorrlMiV,hk f'nal hurst
n.nng of thn" "Lw" b? the
, "om ih. X rB 'earn
- rBa TWO)
PRICE 5 CENTS
Armor Troops
Enter Suburbs
Of Coutdnces
By GLADWIN HILL
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS. ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, July 28 11') American armor fought Into the outskirts
of Coutancea today after a 15-mlle advance from weat of St. Lo,
field dlspatchea said, and slammed shut the boll on remnants of
the 84th German army corps caught to the north in a pocket
agalnai the aea.
Another spearhead, part of a flood tide of tanks and In
fantry 20 miles wide pouring through a gap blasted In German
lines in a three-day offensive, stabbed 13 miles south from the
starling point and captured Tessy-Sur-Vlre, halfway from St. Lo
to Vlre, old capital of Nor
YANKS W Pt
OUT JAPS N
GUAM ATTACK
WASHINGTON. July 28 (TP)
Beating back an enemy nttack
north of Orots peninsula on
Guam Island. American troops
.wiped out approximately 2000
Jnpnnoie soldiers Tuesday morn
ing. Admiral Chester W. Nimllz,
Pacific fleet commander in chief,
told today of severe fighting,
beginning before dawn Tuesday
morning in tho northern beach
arcii. Some enemy troops man
aged to make their way through
tho American lines, but Nimllz
said "by early morning tho at
tack was repulsed."
Dug Out
On Orote peninsula, more than
200 additional Japanese troops
aro being dug out of their posi
tions In pillboxes and under
ground shelters. The enemy
troops there, he said, are using
artillery, automntic weapons
and mortars In largo quantities
to halt tho advancing American
lines which have cut them off
on the peninsula.
Nimitz also reported that on
Wednesday, American carrier
based aircraft bombed air fields
near Agnna in tho northern sec
tor of tho Guam fighting fronts
mid struck also at nearby Rota
Island, Gunboats are being used
in close support of the opcr
(Continued on Page Two)
Captain Martin
Now at Center
Captain Antonio R.-Mortln,
Spanish vice consul at Snn
Francisco, arrived at tho Tule
lake center today to confer with
representatives of Japanese na
tionals In the center, tho war
relocation authorities an
nounced. Spain looks after the Japa
nese in this country just as
Switzerland represents the
United States in Japan, . .
A representative from the
Spanish consul's office at Son
Francisco visits tho Tulelake
center every few months to
make a routine inspection and
to meet with spokesmen for the
Japanese nationals, as provided
by tho Geneva convention.
He was accompanied by
Charles C." Eberhardt of tho
United States department of
state.
WPB Telegram Urges Kesterson Workers
To Resume Production of Needed Lumber
War production board today
added its voico to tho insistence
that work bo resumed immed
iately at the Kesterson Lumber
corporation plant hero, where a
stoppage has been underway
since July 19. , ,
A WPB telegram to that ef
fect, which follows a similar
declaration by tho war labor
imnrH will nrcsiimablv bo con
sidered at a mooting of union
employes of Kcstorson's to be
hold at the old Box thcatro
building. '
Telegram
SnlH V. H. Brundaee. western
log and lumber administrator
for WPB at Portland, In a tele
gram to company and union: (
"Am advisea operauuna
Kesterson mill were suspend
ed on July 10 due to unset
tld dispute and operations
in The Shaata
mandy,
More then 4000 prisoners had
been taken so far,
Lt, Gen. Omar N. Bradley's
spearheads, slashing more than
11 miles deep sinca tho start of
the armored push Wednesday
and spreading out behind the
enemy flanks, had cut the 84th
German army corps into little
knots, of resistance.
Many Escape
But many of the corps ap
parently had escaped already
from the Coutanccs pocket,
where British newspapers esti
mated 30.000 to 70,000 of the
enemy were being pressed
agninst thc sea.
With allied fliers reporting
scenes of chaotic retreat rival
ing Marshal Erwin Rommel's
retreat in Africa,' lx Wpcor
heads reached at least tc within
throe miles of Coutsaws, from
the northeast, suMremo"Jjoad
(Continued on Page Two)
Turkish-Naii
Relations May
Be Broken
ANKARA. July 27 (Delayed)
W) German diplomats were re
ported today as saying openly
that a break In Turkish-German
economic relations, to be fol
lowed Ly a diplomatic break, was
imminent.
Bulgaria also was reported ne
gotiating with the allies, includ
ing the United States, with the
object of getting out of the war.
These negotiations were sig
nificantly simultaneous with
Turkish developments, 1
(An Istanbul dispatch said a
traveler who left Sofia early this
week reported that Russia has
renewed demands upon Bulgaria
for authority to open four soviet
consulates thero, threatening a
break in diplomatic relations if
these conditions are not satis
fied.) Japs Quicken
India Withdrawal
SOUTHWEST ASIA ;. COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS,
KANDY, CEYLON, July SOP)
Japanese forces are quickening
their withdrawal along, the
Palcl-Tamu road In northeastern
India under strong air-supply
dumps, headquarters announced
today.
Enemy troops also were at
tempting to disengage pursuing
allies on tho Tiddim road.
In 48 hours, the Japanese
have lost three strongpolnts and
more than 200 dead 011 the road
to Tamu. '
In northern Burma, bitter
street fighting continued in the
beleaguered Japanese strong
hold of Myitkyina.
have not yet been resumed.
Maximum production this
year by mills cutting pine is
absolutely necessary to meet
war and essential civilian re
quirements ' for boxing and
crating lumber. Lumber Is
now the most critical raw ma
terial and carries manpower
priority rating equal to or
above all other employment
in state of Oregon.
"Very essential sawmill op
erations bo resumed immed
lately at this plant and con
tinue without further inter
ruption. In view of urgent
war needs urge that men re
turn to work Immediately and ,
company resume sawmill op
erations at once. Unsettled,
disputes whlclL cannot be re-,
solved local. yto bo referred
to authorized government
- CaHcadc Wonderland
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
SnsEii
v. , , t . , 4 I
Picture shows a large Greyhound bus, lying on lis side in
Oregon avenue and Biehn street, where it landed after going out
were shaken up and many of them sustained injuries ranging
this morning, when this daylight picture was taken.
E
By NOLAND NORGAARD
ROME, July 28 (?) The
eighth army plunged steadily on
toward Florence today against
stiff German resistance,' veteran
New Zealand troops capturing
the town of San Casciano only
seven airline miles from the city
as American and German artil
lery duelled across the Arno
river In the-opening stage of the
battle for Pisa.
New Zealand troops also were
reported fighting in the vicinity
of Cerbaia, eight miles southwest
of Florence and only six miles
from the Arno. .
Indians Gain
. On their left, Indian units
made one of yesterday's most sub
(Continued on yPage Two)
Power Lines Hit
By Thunderstorm
People in the Klamath basin
area witnessed another severe
electrical storm Thursday after
noon, when there were spotted
downpours of Tain and some
damage by lightning to power
lines in this district. Klamath
Forest Protective association re
ported five small fires started
by the lightning.
- A pole on the main transmis
sion line south of Tulelake was
struck by lightning and shatter
ed during the storm causing a
disruption of power to Tionesta,
Canby and Alturas for several
hours while the pole was being
replaced.
Service to the Marine Bar
racks was shut off for about
half an hour when lightning
made a direct hit on an oil switch
at the Southern Pacific sub-station.
Small fires were started dur
ing the storm at Jenny creek,
one near tho California border
south of Dixie, one at Doak's
mountain, near Eagle ridge, one
at Yalnax mountain, and one on
the south slope of Parker moun
tain. None of the fires is se
rious. agencies having . jurisdiction
in .such matters. This lum
ber is needed now."
Like to Resume
That there is sentiment among
Kesterson employes for resum
ing production was indicated
today by a number of employes
in an informal statement to The
Herald and News. These people
contend that an unquestioned
majority would like to get back
on the job. ' " .
They said that no vote was
taken on a return to work at an
open meeting held Wednesday
night after the receipt of . the
WLB telegram. Both union and
non-union employes were pres
ent, they said, and a motion to
return to work was made by a
non-union employe. It was ruled
out on that ground, they said,
(Continued on Page Two)
FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1944
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After Bus Tumbled Into Local Front Yard
Red Army Cracks Three
More German Strongholds
LONDON,
July 28 . fP)-
.Thfi
rea army cracked 1
"three more
German stronepoints .. Brest
Litovsk, Przemsyl and Jaroslaw
today in its rout of the Ger
mans across the plains of Poland
and the Baltics, bringing to 11
the total of great victories in
two days. . ...
Marshal Stalin announced cap-
Board of Appeal
Opened at Center
Chief Justice James H. Wolfe
of the Utah state supreme court
at Salt Lake City, and Bruce
Bartley, a Seattle attorney,
opened the first session of the
board of appeals at the Tule
lake center today, war reloca
tion authorities said.
. Evacuee residents of the seg
regation center whose appeals
for permission to leave the cen
ter have been denied by the
director of WRA, have appealed
to the board. They may be rep
resented by counsels.
Twenty cases are on the
docket for the first session.
The two members of the ap
peals board sitting today have
no connection with WRA. Their
decisions will be in the form of
recommendations to the nation
al director of . WRA. -
British Subs
Bag 27 Ships
LONDON, July 28 (P) Brit
ish submarines have destroyed
21 Japanese supply ships and
other craft in far eastern waters
recently, and have damaged sev
eral other vessels with torpedoes
and gunfire, the admiralty an
nounced today.
Entrant
Here is Doreen Williams, 23.
second entrant in the Miss
Klamath contest. Doreen. a
graduate of Klamath Union high
school, Is the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. L. W. Lowther of 435
Addiaon.
Photo by KenneU-EWs
jUg - s see-
if j
July 21, 1944
Max. (July 27) VI Mln. ..'..:.iJ9,
Praeipltatlon last 24 hours Tract
Stream year to data .........10.42
Normal ;. 12.13 Last yar........l7.8S
Forecast! Clear.
mm
the yard In front of -the residence
of control on Biehn street late
from' ''minor" to "serious." The
".
ture.of .the ..three cities In two-l-
special oraers 01 ine. aay.
Evacuated ; '
The German high command
several hours earlier . had an
nounced the 'evacuation of Brest
Litovsk, the nazis last major
stronghold before Warsaw.
Soviet troops charged within
30 miles of Warsaw. 1 Advancing
17 miles beyond, the San river,
they were. 128 miles from Ger
man Silesia. . . . " . . . ,
Kaunas Evacuated
A German transocean broad
cast as heard by. The Associated
Press of Reuters, British news
service,- said that Kaunas, old
camtal of Lithuania., also had
been evacuated. Other listening
posts here did not record the re
port, and .later uerman broad
casts told of savage fighting near
Kaunas without mentioning an
evacuation.
The fall of Brest Litovsk save
the Russians nine major tri
umphs .in 24 hours as they
whipped through, the Baltic
states,' Poland and the Carpath
ian footmlls toward East Prussia,
.. (Continued on Page Two) ;
Hearings Slated
For Klamath
Heating Company
Further hearings will be held
on the problems-of the Klamath
Heating; company's hogged fuel
aiuerenuai and 11s request tor a
change in rates in -Klamath Falls
on August .13, it has been an
nounced by. George H. F 1 a g g,
Oregon- public utilities commis
sioner. .(... . -. -
The action has been assigned
for hearing at the city hall. at 10
a. m. on August 15. - .
' Two. similar public ' hearings
were held here on the Klamath
Heating company's service com
plaints and' request for increase
in rates on June 20 and 21 but no
decisions have been made public
yet.. . ........ .....
Truck Destroyed;
Driver Held
A charge of being drunk on tfi
public Highway was fiiea tnis
morning against John Stewart of
St. Louis, driver of a United Van
truck which was -demolished
last night after striking the
Klamath River bridge on high
way 97 south of Klamath Falls,
The truck was entirely wreck
ed, according to state ' police.
Stewart suffered minor Injuries
and is being treated at Hillside
hospital.
Lavina Triber y
Enters Contest
Another contestant was added
to the entry list in the "Miss
Klamath race Friday .when .18-
year-old Lavina Triber, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Triber
registered her intention of com
peting for the title. ( .-,.;.: t
This brings the total ' number
of girls erfftred'ln' the Miss
, Klamath contest tp, ten y '
Number 1.0222
yonii
of Mr. and MnCherln Walters,
last night. The 37 passengers
bus remained on its side until
. . . v i.jv
A liduor raid conducted Sere
Thursday evening ; and' Friday
morning py state ponce . ano-u-auor
enforcement: officers ' from
Portland, resulted in. the arrest
of seven' local persons, charged
with- wilfully and unlawfully
selling alcoholic beverages with
out a license. , - ; ...... . . v
-.- Arraigned in justice court Fri
day .. were Marie Halverson . of
Mars hotel; Beth Wilsoni-negress,
of 504 Broad, Stella Jackson and
Ben Hamilton,: both colored,, of
605 . Broad, Sam. Sheffield, taxi,
driver, Andrew Velasquez, and
Keith Arnold Bates..' .,;:.:! ;.
Marie Halverson pleaded -guil-
(Continued on Page Two).
22 Killed in
Transport Crash
Over Scotland
LONDON. July 28 (Pi-Tweri-
ty:two persons, ; Including j. 17
wounded. American, soldiers,
were killed last night when si U.
s. troop 1 transport Diane hit a
cliff near Mull of , Galloway,, in
southwest Scotland. -
Six members of the crew, and
a nurse were nmone the victims.
'. The wounded were1 on. then-
way to. a Scottish, hospital from
southern' England. .
A fire followed the crash 'and
many'- bodies were burned -be
yond recognition.
Patton May Head
Tank Forces i
"LONDON, July 28" .(ff). . .
There has been considerable
public speculation here that' Lt.
uen. ueorge s. Patton Jr., for
mer commander, of the: U. S
seventh army, in Italy, may.be
leading American ' tank ' forces
which have cracked the German
lines in Normandy. . ... .
Nothing has been said offic
ially about the whereabouts of
Patton, who arrived in Britain
some time before the invasion.
but the Germans have reported
mm in rrance.
High Rents Discussed by -.
C of C Advertising Group
v Unfavorable - impressions on
ser.vice men and their families
occasioned by some instances of
exorbitant rents are a source
of -concern- to - the community
advertising committee of the
Klamath county 'chamber : of
commerce,- according- to Chair
man Ed Bell. ' I,. .' ,. 'vd
"While our 'committee ' was
originally ' - established- to- pro
mote tourist trade, we feel very,
strongly that our immediate
concern must be , the welfare
and comfort of the service-men
and their dependents who are
now . in Klamath Falls," Bell
stated. "We .realize that there
is an acute housing shortage,
but it.Js intolerable for anyone
WET STREETS
Crashes Inside North
- ; ' Entrance of
:' City V-'. : K
A southbound - Portland San
Francisco Greyhound bus skid.,
ded and turned on its side at thee
corner of - Oregon avenue and
Biehn. streets here last night,
sending 21 of its 37 passengers to
local hospitals for the night, and
inflicting minor injuries to a'
number of passengers not hospi
talized. r..
; Going out of control on raln-
wet pavement just inside the'
north entrance of the city, the'
big. bus careened for two blocks
on Biehn street, and overturned.'
in front of a house at the Oregon
avenue turn. Rear end of the bus
cracked the corner of the house:1
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Walters.- , '
Pavement Slippery
V. J-. Wrigglesworth, EugeneT'
the . driver, said he was caught?
by surprise by the slippery pave
ment. He shifted nto a lower
gear, but the bus seemed to gain'
momentum on the gentle decline,
and Wrigglesworth said he dared
not apply .the brakes in full force.
. : As the weaving vehicle
reached the curve and the driver
tried to turn it, the rear end
swung around. The bus turned
over as wheels on the right side
hit the curb. '
Passengers were hurled fronii .
their seats and the dark interior
of the bus became a tangle of
arms and legs. The driver gofe
the emergency door open at the.
UDDer side and J. V. Kindle and
Jack Fyles, Klamath men who
heard the . .crash and rushed to. .
the scene,- kicked in the wind-.
shield. ; 1.
. Removed to Hospitals -"
'. Passengers . were . removed K
ambulances and taxicabs to the
Klammp Valley and Hillside hos
pitals, nere all were examined
1 :ni...iH.i.j m : rL
auu. injures uctxtcu. tr.-jraiuiuus
said several persons are seriously
injured, out none was today be
lieved in a critical condition.
Immediately after the acci
dent, about 11 p. m., calls wera
made to the police- department,
?nd :the -local.-force,' assisted by
shorcpatrolmen and military po-'-
tVontmued on Fage Two) s
Cliie Received
On identity of
Mystery Girl
PORTLAND. Ore.. July 28
(A) A new. clue -to the possible
identity: of Portland's "mystery
girl in -red was received by
police - yesterday , when Lawrence-
I. Shaw, a city fireman,
said he believed her to be-Ger-trude
Moore of Tacoma, Wash.
The girl, clad in a red coat.
was found dying -in a locked ;
hotel bathroom July 21. Ah
autopsy -showed she had -taken
an overdose of-sleeping powder,"
A picture taken after death
and a detailed description was :
sent to Tacoma police for check
ing. '- ,
Communications ii
Cut Off by Naiis
TlONDON,' July 28 (P) Com
munications between Berlin and
neutral countries were cut off
last night -under circumstances
similar to those which preceded
the announcement of an . abor
tive attempt on-Hitler's life, and
today there still was no imme
diate' explanation of the cause.
Formerly . communications
were broken between Berlin and
the outside world during air at
tacks but: recently , during Mos
quito 'bomber attacks there has
been no such- isolation of tho
city. . . ' '.--' '. :
' - Reich'smlnlster Paul . Joseph
Goebbels, meanwhile, cracked
down on the German people with
two "total war" orders, forbid-'
dine all vacations for women
workers and directing that front
line troops do the manual work
of bridge building and road re
pairing .formerly- done by, tho
Todt labor organization.
to profiteer at the expense of
service personnel."
Complaints Discussed
'" The problem of rentals came
up -during a meeting of Bell's
committee , yesterday afternoon
at, the chamber of commerce of
fice. -Complaints w h ic hhave
reached various- Klamath clti. ;
zens' were .discussed..jat.'"Jength.
It Was agreed that a great many
examples of fair rentals could
be found for each Case of over- '
charging, yet' lt was believed
.that public attention should bs
canea to tne justmaDie com
plaints. ' -
"We know that) hundreds 01
individuals.' are . staring no ex
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