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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1944)
Ml o) IS A WU iruUllll RW r-V -r- " T" - ' " " : : : : f.mltUt VL'. .tronu nolo of tBba. in lha now yitry.'n .-rim (iinuntciioi pRirp s TPWTt; I JENKINS 1TUI1M w w.- - In I"? . "i-.. 'I II pen1"" In conscinm- Dili ilUiJi 1-HlnS Hi""1 1 1 .Ifnrl la is. HAPPENING, if ... I IIU 1(1 LUU II ;,piDiiiw.'"f' . ....I. In morning" to t" : IT'1"".,.. American nrmorpa W "'nVLlEVEU to bo drlv- that wa "y bo sure 'S'jii t cnmpliiK out" a V,nl lh l" """""J 'i0'"1 mrJ.ricni ar within 40 !' ft Tr'ncl. capital. The ,ttlilorPJ- , Ar li to my. censorship hoi t Clmpe'd on lightly. 3JoHcncc(t students of ho iwff clln tholf bones thai HIS feeling of suppressed ex KrtliliclMeneil by lie Sm announcement Ihul Swtr has consolidated lil Srwnncl (paruchull.t. 3?r iroops, etc., with their ground forces) Into a Cff unit "approximating ho i of Ml rm " under ho iSnd of Ocncrnl Broretoll. toirmy normally consists o "or more (seldom above four) n, and an nrmy corps llrwnilitsof (wo or more En tbovo four) divisions. American division In thaw tt runs somewhere around MO. Hli thu apparent that Eln mr'iNEW airborne unit MAY dud somewhere nround aittr of I million men nil pble of being moved VERY tW' ... TOUY moving unit ore Wmillv uied to strike Ibervtran enemy WEAKNESS Wr. (Cavalry In tho old days, jrind truck borno troopi now,) Bienhowcr hiis- moved hi M of command from England Normandy. BUE Germans that we stopped from cult na our Avrnnchej snWor are STICKING In the kWiborhood. instead of gutting ki They aro holdlnK up tho pudlsn jaw of tho attcmptud hat tt Falalie.. German troons are nld to Mttbeen rushed In FROM THE fORTH across tho Seine to sup lut these nazl outfits that aro fitting it out. Bole the obvious Gorman wcose to hold in tho Cncn area. fo milter WHAT it cost.) - 'HE Germans aro said to bo fnnklnif riosnnrntiv r,unn tOOLHARDY, otlcmpls to evac pl their garrisons by SEA from pit and Lorlcnt. Daring our pnhlps and plnncs. Gorman ppi have dnslicd Into both Hicrc have hern u,n rlnhf,a In 't English channel with fior. pn convoysono from tho l R HAVREsy' n0 COmlng OUT ny should tho Germans try tn uui ui riavrc uy sear !'VE taken thn Rrnlnn nnrt . ?!st;,Ml110' but " wld to '.."'I fighting thcro. Wo'ro 'WL w be f'KhtlnR WITHIN IDPinilBn VY "luuH"l lO I1UVO K&NnnU!!,'i,tthomou,h . . . PJfB Wi from Russia is slm- ,m:L""' vsuc. The Gormans C,tilNEWtRuSslanof. Jichlrk T " ""row rivor wch icems to shako them Kront . Ullfi HtlOclnHB - Alt Continued on Pil((Q Four) REDS DRIVE AGIST M RAMI Vistula Bridgehead Extended Despite Stiff Fight Br DANIEL Do LUCE MOSCOW, Aim. 10 (II So viet lank, (upported Hy bomb erii, rumbled forward toward tho Latvian port of Llepujn to day In a new drlva thut curved additional chunks out of the nnzln' Baltic flunk. At tho siiiiio time Marshal Konstnntln K. Rokossuvsky's forces, dcaplto the bitterest Ger man resistance of tho entire sum mer cnmpaliin. oxtended slowly but Inexorably their Vistulu river bridgehead below Warsaw, and exploded a troublesome nazl salient northeast of tho Polish capital. Pfiparot Offenilv ' Rokosovky, held at bay with in artillery snot of Warsaw, shoved tho Germans back north wrut of- Sledlcc, scemlniily In Krepuratlnn for an offcnslvo to y-pass Warsaw and head for East 1'riuslu. LONDON, Aug. 10 (So viet troops phuiKcd across the river Narew, whore tho Russian lines wero broken In tho First World War hist- 20. years ago, '. (Continued on Page Two) Two Injured n Head-on Crash Near. Henley A head-on collision on highway 39 near Henley lolo Wednesday ovening injured two pcopla and wrecked two cars, according to state police who Investigated the accident. A car driven by C. E. KilliU of Pollcon City was said to be coming toward Klamath Foils when It was forced to swing into tho other traffic lane by a car parked at tho sido of the road without lights. In swerving to tho other lone, tho . car struck ono driven by Robert Baty of Klnmath Falls. Tho fronts and sides of both cars were demol ished. Mrs. Killltz and daughter Veurlo wero injured In tho ac cident. After tho collision, the car which hod been parked left tho scono, but not until Klllltz had had timo to take the license number. Whllo state pollco were Investigating tho accident, a car driven by Leo Connor Bymo al most struck a pollco officer and when it was stopped, Byrne and two women companions were taken to the county Jnil on a chorgo of being intoxicated. Upon check of the license plates of tho parked car and tho car driven by Byrne, it was dis covered that they wero similar. State police are now investigat ing tho possibility that Byrne had "roturned to the scene of tho crime" and was tho driver of the car that had been parked without lights on tho road. E f n Thn fihanta-Cancade Wonderland KLAMATH FALLS, 0REG0N,7,PAY, AUCUSTP, 1944 Look, Fellas, It's a Duck Hunter's Dream! August 10, 1944 Max. (Aug. 8) 81 Mill. 45 Precipitation last 24 hours .00 Stream year to data 10.62 Normal 12.24 Last yaar 17.85 Forecast: Little change. s il'. f v i I ' I , , ' I.' .tWW i nnir'H'i iiswiiiiifiilnfii-inriigiriiiwiiifsiiwiiwianiiii iiiiiMiiiiMsiiiwiwt'M.iiiaiiiiiMiiiiitfl Two amphibious' traders, shown' above, have Just arrived at the Klamath naval air station. Called "weasels" by navy men, the amaslng machines will be uied to set and adjust targets in Goose lake, Clear lake and Drew's reservoir for navy aerial marksmen. Endless tracks carry the tractors over land cater pillar fashion, and do the paddling when' they go into the water. The pictures above were made at a barrow pit near the south edge of the local air station this weok, when the weasels were tried out. Men in the weasel are Lt. G. G. Gilmore, Lt. S. A. Congdon and Lt. J. D. Mitchell. Klamath men who have seen the weasel run over land and water are already talking about their post-war use for duck hunting. Vatican. Allies Cooperate In Florence Relief Plans By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, Aug. 10 m r. The Vatican took steps today to help the allies relievo the desperate plight of tho population of Florence, while Canadion troops, aided by 250 Italian patriots, mopped up hostile fas cist elements in the allied-held southern portion of the city. Transportation facilities to send flour and other necessities to the archbishop of Florence, Ella Delia Costn, for distribu tion to a population suffering from food and water shortages was asked by the Vatican. Launch Drive ' At the same time Italian and Polish troops in the Adriatic boseveff Concludes Strategy Talks With Mac Arthur, Nimiti, in Honolulu Bv Uah, HOMnrm ,.no FLIEGER "UNOLULU. Julv 9.0 mw ncTT,?r.?sl?en' noosovolt 'thaie, liilL" 'lral war-time con Cr tod'iv D"KlasMac thrJVMay, brinolnff to n eln.e Wnc'contllcr1 qU'CK" Mlcr'wh.wcst Pncl com ritarfif. XV greeted with n togbviV1 gf?cl. 10 800 yu. Mr Bon.?,e.hlctoxo'l'vo. t . thu i&" a"lveti July so lslnnd- where bomb, w y,ea.ri' Jl,Pnn Into thislod tho United trMrom tlh wnr,- Ho enmo Sbk i!r'u Ule ma, i 1 " Gift) ,u. "M!IB Bl f""letl a pP,H " , wllcro ho "nation Kc,h acPtlng re- . ToD.nv.1 ,uurln icrm. A ' gtonS, table" were n the fuir ,nnShlcis represent 'n frnPB ,o the Pacific to rt pole-t( polo. , Zw tho "uusvett told re new -ii '"9 meet n n i V o re'tcrB ted. Amer ica's Pacific war goals: to retake and free the Philippines and. to drive Japan to unconditional surrender. The chief executive coupled with his conferences detailed visits to Pearl Harbor and other military Installations, converted from the Japanese-wrought ha voc of December 7, 1041, Into an island bristling with land, sea and air fighting power He termed the conversion the "most amazing change" ho had ever seen. ' Board Ship Admiral Nimiti and General MacArthur the latter wearing a leather field Jacket went aboard the president's ship to Goebbels Bans Public Meetings LONDON, Aug. 10 JP) Propaganda . Minister Goebbels banned all public meetings and entertainments In Germany not directly connected with tho war today in a scries of sweeping decrees seeking troops for the relch's-depleted armies.- , greet tho chief executive as soon as ho arrived at Pearl Harbor. With them and Nlmitz In later conferences wero Admiral Wil liam F. Hnlsey, commander of tho third fleet, Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson Jr., central Pa cific army communder, and war chiefs representing the north, south and southwest Pacific theaters. . Mr. Roosevelt termed his visit to the birthplace of tho .war a highly successful threo days. Sea-tanned and smiling, he swap ped almost an hour of questions and answers with Pacific war correspondents and Whito House reporters for tho Associated Press, the United Press, tho In ternational News Service and a representative of tho four major radio networks who traveled with his party from Washington. .. Island Independence - , ', Wo ' are going back to the Philippines, Mr. Roosevelt said, and MacArthur Is going to be a part of the operation. You can't say, ho smiled, whether the general Is going back direct ly or by way of North Africa but ho is goinij back and we are ' (Continued on Pago Four) sector launched a new drive across the Misa river line. The Poles attained the first objec tives of the thrust and captured Franca villa, only a mile south of the Cesano river, which is less than 40 miles below Rim ini. . The allied command said ISO men and women found In dos- session of small arms and gren ades were arrested in the round up of hostile elements, who occupied the area between the Via Del SerragU and the Via Romana,' ' the working men's quarter. . Snipers have Deen giving the eighth army trouble from the moment the first patrols entered the city. This was the first dis closure 'that Canadian troops wero back' in the line. Earlier South Africans had -entered and held southern Florence. ' Only minor operations -were reported along most of the (Continued on Pago Two) Quake Recorded In Northwest PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 10 (fl5) The California Institute of Technology today reported a moderately strong earthquake was recorded at 6:57:18 and 7:01:02 p, m. Pacific War Time yesterday at an estimated dis tance of 1400 miles and In a northwesterly direction, prob ably In the Queen Charlotte islands off British Columbia. After receiving assurances that the navy will turn the municipal airport back to the city after the war, and that the navy will not impose undue restrictions on commercial use of the field, city officials decided- today to sign a navy-Bxasoced lease of the field. City airport., commissimnirs and MAyOr Johri Houston wete'in conference with- a group of navy and department of commerce of ficials Wednesday ' evening and Thursday morning. and said later they had' satisfied themselves that the lease Is "safe'! from-the city's standpoint.. ' ,: . - The city - expects to get) the field back; six -months alter .the end of the war, but 'at the con ference therewas a' discussion of the possibility of the - navy continuing . operations here in conjunction with other uses of the field. City officials held out for- a while for an added clause on the lease defining more definitely the city's rights. Navy officials said they were agreeable, but indicated that any changes would necessitate ' sending the lease back to Washington where sev eral bureaus of a dozen or more men each would have to go over it. Finally, city officials decided to sign the lease, "as is" and to trust the interpretations placed upon its provisions by the navy and department oi commerce oi ficials here today. Robots Carry Incendiaries LONDON, Aug. 10 OP) Ger man robot bombs now are car rying incendiaries, the ministry of home security announced to day. Examination of the new. wea pons showed that each of the flying bombs which fell recent ly in south England carried about 20: incendiaries. The. fire missiles are scattered by the force of the flying bomb explo sion after' the robot i touches earth. : ; . - . Naval Vessels . Reported Lost WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 IP) Loss of two American naval veS' scls the mine sweeper , Osprey and the submarine cnaser 1261 in European waters, was announced by the navy today. No details were given as to how or where the two craft were sunk by enemy action. The losses bring : to . 133 the number of American naval craft lost since the war started. In addition 32 are listed as overdue and presumed lost and nine naval craft were-destroyed to prevent their capture. . Number 10233 Mop-Up Starts On Guam After Japs End Fight WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 P) All organized resistance has been eliminated on Guam and American forces now are wiping out isolated groups of enemy troops. . Admiral Chatter W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander-in-chief announced this today, 21 days after he disclosed that marines and army troops had swarmed ashore on the western Pacific island. . . Conquest of Guam, seised by the Japanese in December; 1941, during their initial surge southward through the Pacific, was completed Wednesday, Nimitz said. The loss of the island to the Japanese was announced by tne navy uecemner u, laii, in a communique which reported that all communications with Guam had been severed. Resistance Ends Nimitz. in his . communique today, made only the matter of fact statement that "organized Japanese resistance on Guam is land ceased during the after noon of August 9." He added that marines and army troops "are engaged in mopping up operations." -- On last July 26, Nimitz re ported that American forces, then still meeting heavy resist ance from the' Japanese garri son, had formally raised the United States flag on uuam tor the first time since the little island fell. - On the Aitape battlef ront of British New Guinea, Gen DoHg- las McArthur announced, the enemy toll reached 7007 known killed, with reports ot.an addi tional 1072 slain during the de veloping American push east of the Driniumor river. Jungle trained Yanks, driving from the seacoast and inland, had started a "Drocess of . systematic ! dey struction'.' of the trapped. Nip ponese, a headquarters spokes man said;" " ' : . i McArthur announced a straf ing raid, against installations on Morotai, adjacent to recently blasted Halmahera, stepladder to the Philippines; and another attack on Yap, recently report ed i '.'neutralized where no aerial, or ; anti-aircraft intercep tion was encountered. Bombing of a 2000-ton freighter off Da vao, Mindanao, brought the Phil ippines into his communique for the second time in 27 months. Nimitz reported attacks on Wake, Nauru island and by passed islets in the Marshalls. Polish Factions To Meet Again ; MOSCOW. Aue. 10 UP) Prem ier Stanslaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish govemment-in-exile rad iated optimism today after a sec ond conference with Premier Stalin. He said the two rival Polish regimes probably would meet in Warsaw again alter it is nanturpri tn seek the reconcil iation' agreement they failed to reach here. : . . "T think Warsaw, which is fighting now a terrible fight. would be the best place," the premier told a press conference. "It would.be the easiest place to find an agreement." British Disperse Nazi Formations LONDON, Aug. 10 &) Light British naval . torces dispersed two German i formations just north nf Le Havre yesterday in a shifting battle in which ene my shiDS soon were5 firing at each other, the admiralty an nounced tonight. Three German vessels were torpedoed and one was left burning. The admiralty said British suffered no loss or dam age. ' A head-on plane collision in mid-air took the lives yesterday of Ensigns George Holinka and Douglas W. Andrews, pilots from the Klamath naval air station, it was disclosed by station officials today. The accident occurred while the single-motored fighter planes were on tactical maneuvers, and the planes dropped in flames at a. point about half-way' between Merrill.' and Lower: 'Klamath lake :--"';:- - -v The two pilots, each alone in his plane, were killed instantly. Ensign Holinka was the son of Mrs. Mary H. Plashinski, 207 Van Loon street, Plymouth, Pa., and Ensign Andrews was the son of Mrs. Millicent A. Chase, 1252 Hanchett avenue, San . Jose, Calif. . ' Time of the -. accident" was about 11:45 a. m: Three army planes bad been observed flying in . the Me,rrill-Tulelake - area Wednesday morriine. and fnr a time it was not certain whether: the planes nj- the crash were from the field, here. -' Safecrackers . fake$- : From Bates Store BAKER, Aug. il4 (P) Safe crackers got around - $6000 in payroll money and war bonds from the Bates . Mercantile com pany during the night. J. Ordel manager of the Oregon Lumber company at that town told state police today. Bates is 60 miles south of Baker. Ordel said much' of the money had been sent in by stage , to cash lumber company and other workers' checks. State police from the John Day station and sheriff's, officers are investigat ing. Treason Case Sent to Jury . DENVER," Aug. 10 (iP) The government's treason case against three Japanese-American sisters accused of helping . two German prisoners escape last October from internment camp went to a jury at iz:zs p. m. (Mountain War Time) today. . ? 'This is a very important case," .U. S. District Judge J. Foster Symes declared in his jury instructions. ! Before the jury, preponder antly Denver businessmen, is the question of the women's guilt or innocence of two charges. One is treason, and the maximum penalty on conviction is death The other is conspiracy to com mit treason, and the maximum penalty on conviction is $10,000 fine ana two years imprisonment TROOPS PUSH INTO 50-MILE DEFENSE ZONE Censors Tighten News: On Whereabouts : Of Armies By GLADWIN HILL ' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS' ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY? FORCE, Aug. 10 (iP) American armor was believed to be driving; into the last 50-mile zone of de- fense for Paris today as supreme headquarters announced forma--tion of a revolutionary new air borne army an announcement presaging new blows . for, vie-? tory. ., The Germans themselves, con- : fronted by a powerful 175-mIlo- iiritisn-canadlan-American ; arc. called the fight a "battle for. Paris."'. - . They: had abandoned without' a serious fight the key city of Le Mans, 110 miles from , the -French capital, apparently giving up ail idea oi a stand along the.' Aiencon-Le Mans-Tours line and' their next comparable system of lateral communications ran from Orleans northward through Chartres . approximately .50 miles from Paris. . Consolidation The new air-borne dreaniza-. tion, consolidating . all Geo. Dwight D. Eisenhower's para chutists, glider troops and neces- -sary flying personnel into one outfit approximately the size of a full army, is headed by Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, a vet eran of i the Pacific, Mediteri ranean and . European theaters . who formerly commanded tho American ninth air force. I h tc fnrco with i tc unnraxoH. . ented mobile striking power,. was . eueveo capaDie oi delivering , some of the most decisive strokes . of the war. , . . ,- . .. .' Whereabouts Unknown :f Supreme . headquarters wrap ped in official -mystery the' actual whereabouts " of the American. spearheads which' last were re ported by " the Germans, to .'ba ; probing points 87 . miles from Paris,-but one qualified observer" declared, ' ''you can be , pretty . sure - they yarg hot just camping' outside Le Mans." . . At the northern end of thu. : (Continued or' Page;Two) ; ; Britishfapers -; Feaiute' Yanks in War Headlines r ' LONDON, ' Aug. ; 10 ' (JP) the majority of British newspapers are going, the whole way to give American troops full credit for their breakthrough in France. ; The British newspapers which formerly headlined that the- "al lies" captured this or the "al lies" smashed through that, now are featuring the Yanks and doughboys in . their biggest type." ': - ' -." Allies Capture Town in Burma ... SOUTHEAST ASIA COMV MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy, Ceylon, Aug. 10 (JP) Allied troops on the road to Mahdalay in northern Burma' have, cap-, tured . Taungni, -10 miles south west of Mogaung, after oyer-' running Sahmaw, allied head-: quarters announced today, t Sahmaw, about midway be tween Taungni and Mogaung on the railroad, . fell to troops of the third Indian division, Who found many Japanese dead and much abandoned equipment in the village, headquarters de clared. J In northern India,' meanwhile," Indian Infantry, supported by. tanks and artillery, was report ed attacking the rearguard of , retreating Japanese forces 12 miles north of the Burma bor der on the Imphal-Tiddim road,. Three Contest Entrants B-29's Strike Third Blow i WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 () B-28 Superfortresses of the 20th bomber command struck a double blow at Japan today, hitting in medium strength at the industrial city of Nagasaki on the Japanese mainland and smashing at an oil refinery at Palembang on the Netherlands Indies' island of Sumatra. y Nagasaki, one of Japan's most important ship building and repair centers and a major military port, is on. the island; of Kyushu, in the highly Industrialised area already twice hit by Superfortresses based in the Orient and' the principal source of aviation gasoline or the,' enemy. " ' ' ' ' i s s s f ' I,, j i ; , " . a r s s s v V I ' 1 1 t 1 1 1 - J' s j! xtv-v Li iiiirtiiiiiltfitfi(MiaiWMli lwwr m'tesxtihv SUwJ , Three mora Miss Klamath candidates are rldht to left, Mary Louisa Soxlon. 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Sexton, 235 Riverside) Doris Phillips, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Phillips, 1843 Gary; and Carol Newman, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Newman, 801 Martin. Carsjl and Mary Louise were guests with four other contestants at the Klwanls luncheon this noon. Photos by Kennell-Ellii. : . ' '
