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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1944)
liri 1 i PACE TWO liCI'S CAPTURE il D ! NAN, MOVE ! '! TOWARD BREST (Continued From Page One) opposition in their part of the enemy had hurried reinforce ments across the backroads of Normandy in a wua euori m it- pair the gap in nis ceniei. American armor struck at run- RK Nnzaire. covering as much as 40 miles in one- 24-nour penoa. T.Utla ftnnasition . Three, spearheads, fanning out from -Avrancnes, roucu "6 Brittany's roads almost wunoui One captured Rennes, a city of mora tnan ao.uuu popuiauuu, in a dash to the south. Another ua tha mifclrirtc nf Dinan lunuicu m.c u ;., tiimct tn lhn west toward the great port of Brest. The third moved inio v-omouuis, uc tweeri Rennes and Dinan. Nazis Collapse Enemy resistance collapsed al together below Avranches and for many miles American tanks l. n nn Annncitinn until theV unu .in wvu-m- reached the outskirts of Rennes and Dinan, an Associated Press dispatch from the front saia. n-i.nw mnn r.rmnn soldiers tossed, down their arms at Rennes. At Dinan the Amer icans- swept across uie nance river,, which runs on the east side of the town. Punch Holes in Line While Bradley's columns were sweeping to a victory which mlahf ha 4Vio CTT-Mlpct stmke nf the invasion, other American ana uritisn iorces were puuui ing the German line full of holes all.-the way to their Bocage country stronghold below Caen. There .Canadian troops cut loose this morning with a new attack which threatened to curl behind that hill- and hedge bastion. . -The: main communications of the peninsula were severed with the- capture , of Rennes. The chief: railroad to Brest runs through there, and most of the roads of the- peninsula radiate from 'the cityj old capital of rniuany. The possibility existed, however,-that the Germans would make a fierce fight in a "Little Cherbourg" at the huge French naval, base of Brest, at the tip of .Brittany, which the Amer icans were approaching at a distance- of about 100 miles. ; Fort Klamath Mr.: and Mrs. Murl" O'Keefe and children of, Uvalde, Texas, and Mrs. O'Keefe's sister, Mrs. Mildred Massey of Muskogee, Okla.j left this week after visit ing" for several days with rela tives' while pijl, a' business trip. During their. , stay ' they were house guests of .'Mr. and Mrs. James Legget and family, Mrs. Legget being a sister of the two women.' Their mother and broth ers, : Mrs. A., J. Parker, sons Ralph and Donald, also live here. Last week-Mrs. O'Keefe, Mrs. Massey and' Mrs. Legget and Donald Parker went to Medford to visit another sister, Mrs. Jack Martin. . .. O'Keefe is engaged extensive ly -in trucK gardening in Uvalde, where he has a '2900-acre truck farm.- He has contracted 200 acres - of spinach seed in Wash ington, and the trip north was TTTTn Box Office Opens 6:45 Starts TODAY j:. .Aititniiiui, ALSO . TH U. GOVERNMENT . PRESENTS '" In Technicolor . "ATTACK" (Thi Baltle of New Britain) 4 ' Russ Menace -tTukum O.C., l2&lW LATVIA fU f L Bialystokf 'tJ?VBat,inowic je 1?7 "N"w ' russia IclVeK wi ' ' ' iy "- btovsk I J r ..:My POLAND Uck Rownol lo it Arrows indicate Russian drives on the eastern front (heavy line). Red army forces have reached the Latvian coast near Riga, sealing off German forces to the northeast, are nearing East Prussia in a drive through Lithuania, and have Warsaw under siege. (AP wirephoto). made also to obtain box shook for crates from the Ewauna Box company in Klamath Falls. O'Keefe is also a breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in Texas. Jerry Sisemore received a se vere foot injury at the Sisemore ranch last week when he was thrown from a horse he was breaking for his daughter, Jo- AAnn. Mary Jo and Helen Stump, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Char les Stump of Portland, are spend ing part of their summer vaca tion visiting here at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Don nelly and daughter, Gwendolyn, returned Wednesday from Prine ville, where they spent a week visiting relatives. A. M. Denio, manager of the West Coast Telephone, company from Lakeview, was a business visitor here Friday. Demo is a member of the board of directors of the Lakeview Roundup, which will be held there this year on September 2-3-4. Mr. and Mrs. Purl Fox and family returned Friday from a short visit with relatives at New berg, Prineville and Redmond. Pvt. Robert Shaw and wife visited here briefly. Friday with Mrs. Shaw's aunt, Mrs. ' Alfred B. Castel Sr., while en route to Portland to visit Shaw's grand mother. They were accompan ies Dy nis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Malehorn of Portland. Pvt. Shaw, formerly of Tionesta, Calif., is enjoying a two-weeks' furlough, having been stationed at r ort Benning, Ua. He will re port back shortly after the first oi tne montn for further train ing with the U. S. army at Fort Meade, Md. Mrs. Elmer Zumbrun and son Bex Of fie. ill- tA. 1 PeB 1:30 " 6Ar " : ' ; - Phone 4567" East Prussia StAIUttMHIS Billie, accompanied by Mrs. Henry Orth, left Wednesday for a few days' stay in Prineville with Mrs. Zumbrun's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wimer. Mrs. Zumbrun was called to Prine ville by the illness of her father. Mrs. James Van Wormer and son Douglas, and sister, Phyllis Branham, all of Klamath Falls, spent Sunday visiting her,e at the Harold Wimer home. Haying is under way in Wood River valley now, when weather permits. Charles Noah has cut his hay, and a crew of six men is busy haying on the Jerry Sisemore ranch. Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kendall and family are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hopper of Grants Pass, and Earl Rightmeier, also of Grants Pass. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Briscoe were Klamath Falls business visitors Tuesday, accompanied by their granddaughter, Joan Briscoe, who is visiting at the Briscoe ranch from her home in Klamath Falls. Alvin Copeland is'a patient in a Klamath Falls hospital, where he underwent ah operation Tues day for sinus trouble. .:. Mr. and Mrs. William Page of Stockton, Calif., arrived here Wednesday for a week's vaca tion. Page is employed as head mechanic at the army ordnance depot in Stockton, and Mrs. Page is employed in the Southern Pa cific railway office there. Production of 190 proof al cohol, essential for wartime needs, ' at the record rate of 192,200,000 gallons in the first four months of 1944, compares with production of .137,400,000 gallons during the samp nprinri of 1943. : . HERALD AND NEWS. FIFTH ARMY BREAKS CQUIUTERATTAOK TRY (Continued From Pago One) nazis were clearing civilians from stretches of the north bank of the Amo, both east and west of Florence. This was viewed as possibly signifying an enemy plan to establish a strong defen sive zone fringing Florence on the north side of the river to which a retreat could be made when the present line no longer is tenable. Patriots Raise Trouble The Germans meanwhile wore having their troubles with Ital ian patriots. A proclamation by the nnzl command found posted in the San Ubaldo monastery at Gubbio said mat "in tne past days crim inal elements of the civil popula tion nave repeatedly ambushed and shot at German soldiers" nnd that "by way of punishment for such acts certain villages have Been burned down and a number of male Inhabitants summarily shot according to law." Japs Blasted From Guam Airfield (Continued from Page One) yet dominated by the Amer icans. Americans captured Tiyan air field, a fighter strip in the cen ter of Guam Tuesday. In the same sweep they took the toWns of Saucio, Toto and Timoncng. With Tiyan, the Americans now have seven airfields in the Mar ianas, well within Superfortress range of Japan. Three Miles From Capital The newly-advanced Ameri can line extends cast across the island from Tumon bay on the west coast. It is three miles north of the captured capital, Agana, and more than 10 miles north of American-occupied Port Apra. It was dlclosed that the Amer icans have killed about 33,000 Japanese in the southern Mar ianas, at a cost of 5139 Yank dead or missing. Not a single Japanese ship or plane has ap peared in the area since the early days of the Saipan inva sion. Enemy Losses Heavy On the British New Guinea coast, 1300 miles south of the Marianas, units of a Jaoane.ie force of perhaps 45,000 trapped in me wewaK-Aitape sector since April, made two new banzai shouting charges against Amer ican, lines Tuesday. Both at tacks were beaten back with heavy Japanese losses. Six hundred more Japanese bodies were counted in mopping up operations on Biak and JJoemfoor islands off Dutch.New Guinea, and 300 more prisoners, were taken. Freighter Sunk Allied planes sank a 500-ton Japanese freighter west of New Guinea and hit Japanese posi tions from the Netherlands East Indies to the b.vnassed Marshall.-;. At Truk, three intercepting en- my planes were snot down. At Guam, Maj. Gen. A. D. Bruce, commander of the armv's 77th infantry division, received from Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith. commander of the fleet marine , "Drug Store" thespians . . . who dream and hope for Broadway success . . . accomplish the impossible and... put over a hitl I I JIMMY LYD ON -J I KLAMATH FALLS. ORECON Morale Slip (NBA Tthphoio) Actrna Rita Haywortli autographs one of her slips for U. 8. Army Air Force fighter squadron in EngUnd. who promised her they'd destroy m Qcrmnn troop train if she would send them the silken souvenir. forces in Pacific, congratula tions on the division s tactical ability" and "complete cooper ation with other fighting ele ments. The division's capture of Mt. Tenjo July 27 opened the way for a drive to uuam s east coast which split the Japanese forces. One army general at Saipan was replaced recently after sharp disagreement with Smith on tac tics. Bonanza Cecil Haley is confined to a hospital in Klamath Falls by an operation for appendicitis. Ho is reported as making a satisfac tory recovery. Airs. Jerry Mcuartle is staying in Klamath Falls while recover ing from the removal of her ton sils. Ernest Ay res and L. M. Han- kins left Wednesday for Portland for medical attention. Mrs. Cecil Satterfield and three small daughters of Mc- Minnville, Ore., are spending this week visiting Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Satterfield. Work is progressing in clear ing away the debris of the fire which destroyed the local high school last spring. It is hoped that construction work may get underway soon on the new struc ture. Ruth Etta Pankey. small daughter of Mrs. Lola Pankey. Is visuMig in jviamain rails at tne nome of her uncle. Stanton Pool Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vieira and family of Hildebrand were visit ing relatives and friends in Bo nanza last week. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Effort nf Klamath Falls are spending a two home of Mrs. Egcrt's nephew, Henry Schmor Jr. t riends of William Irwin mrf his sister, Mrs. Jennie Fink, will (Continued from Pago One) In tho German sclup for doff ase In tho west. Rail traffic was rioclarcd sus pended In the Loii-et-Ohm' dis trict, 40-car train was attacked In tho Rhona valley and Irnln moving up gasoline badly needed by the Germans was u Miiquls target in the iscro region. Tho communique said dmnago to locks and barge hanipriod canal and river truffle and who lines woro cut, be grieved to learn of Hie death nf iholr hrntltor. Dr. HniTV Irwin in Phoenix, Arizona. All local facilities are at work, assisted by county road equip ment to clear rouds and reopen irrigation canals so that the crops may not suffer anymore than necessary for lack of Irri gation. Twenty-four hours after V,m ttnpm nllou nf Ir rnmiiincH several Inches deep between po tato rows. 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Tickets are going rapidly for Ihe community dinner to bo held lit tlio Wllliird hotel Friday ow ning, at which Urn sunutrir will ulvo a iitm-ptirtlsnn talk on pend ing legislation. All Interested persons are welcome, mid tlekels should bo obtained lininerlliitoly at Iho chnmbor of coinmorco or tho hotel. If W TO nr THE TMLLIDS ROMANTIC STORY ol MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE... who great lovt lor Bach other wn (quailed onlj tj their faith ii a itrange drtin) (fad G ARSON1 Wttic PIDGEON rtrtriiminrtrtrrnur irrrrTrrrrn tj ilijuik UWMmfflWWW OM FOR TURK ACTtd (Continued r,om pM planning to answer aerial attack on Ttirkl.t. , Fear ot such tJ$l was ono of l, ihlh "Wliili vented Turkey Ho,,, (l " stop earlier In tl.o wnr ,,o" "!!.':r':','f.i.m.ik".,Tu,kk clopi.i'tiire was reported M ui,iu vui n was reported i Turkish home blonde,,,! ed by United Stale, K0VC2 monitors. 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