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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
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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
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PJfB Wi from Russia is slm-
,m:L""' vsuc. The Gormans
C,tilNEWtRuSslanof.
Jichlrk T " ""row rivor
wch icems to shako them Kront
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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.
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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.
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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. " ' ' ' '
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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. : . ' '