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,'i , 'i 1 1 PACITWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON REDS DRIVE- AGAINST NAZ BALTIC FLANK Pat on the Back From Gen. Eisenhower (Continued from Page One) nrf rxntnred more than 50 popu lated places In their continuing offensive aimed at East Prussia, tha aovlet communique an- fintinrH toniffht. Thii Nnrew was crossed about 30 miles east of Lomza, strong hold linking the German lines between Warsaw ana me soum ern border oi German East Prus- '"to the north, other red troops look JekabpUs, a district center oi xne ijavviHii icjjuuu w tut- southeast of Riga and Immediate ly west of Krustpils, and swept into 60 other populated places, the communique said. . -In the drive toward Liepaia, the Russians seized communica tions lines around Auce, u miies east of the Baltic port. Riga, an even greater prize, was the goal of another Russian column battling farther north. 3800 Naiis Die . . The red army seized more than 700 settlements yesterday, a Russian war bulletin said, killing more than 3600 nazis and knocking out or destroying more than 120 enemy tanks. It was the ninth straight day the Rus sians had recorded loss of more than 100 tanks by the Germans. The Germans were reported counterattacking savagely as the prospect of red army invasion of East Prussia mounted hourly. The most frequent German thrusts were made at the ad vancing soviet forces coming east of the border town of Schirwindt and northwest of Marlampole, and along the flank of the widening Latvian corri dor. ... Draft Diggers (German broadcasts said every able-bodied man and woman from IS to 65 was drafted to dig trenches against the immi nent entry of the red army onto the "holy" soil of East Prussia). Of all the sectors on the east ern front, however, the bulge beyond the Vistula apparently bald the greatest terror for the nazi. It has been eating like add into the German defenses, and it extends painfully against German lateral roads and rail lines connecting Krakow and Warsaw. Tank Action Hundreds of tanks Blunged in to action with the supremacy of southern Poland, at stake. The battle rolled along on a semi circular front of more than 50 miles, under the shadow of cores of Russian and German air squadrons. Some red army advance troops were reported a little more than 20 miles from Kielce and Jedrez jow, rail communication points whose capture-would open a gateway mtoxferman Silesia, outflank Krakow and shake the enemy's positions at Warsaw. - In the fighting at the south ern end of the front, the town of Skole was captured. The town is in the narrowing Carpathian h 7 ski J " TROOPS PUSH ! INTO 50-MILE DEFENSE ZONE (NBA UhpUota) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has a friendly slap on the shoulder for MsJ. Gen. Joseph L. Collins, American Seventh Corps commander in Normandy, alter "Ike" had added an Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal already held by Gen. Collins. Looking on are Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley Uelt) and MaJ. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, American Filth Corps commander, who received same awards. Photo by Bert Brandt, NEA-Acme photographer for War Picture Pool. IVES KILLED AMBUSH IN HAND By A. I. GOLDBERG LONDON, Aug. 10 UP) Capt. Norman S. Ives, U. S. director of the port of Cherbourg, and other officers .and enlisted men were killed recently in a Ger man ambush near Granville while they were en route to St. Malo. - The navy disclosed today the details of Ives' death, which was announced in Washington yes terday. The 47-year-old port com mandant was on his way over land in a convoy of 14 motor vehicles to study damage to the waterfront installations at St. Malo, across the Bay of Mont St. Michel from positions of hid ing. American combat troons previously had speared through tne area. Survivors reported that the convoy was naitea oy a ruse. Two nazi infantrymen entered the road with raised hands. Capt. Ives was suspicious. He stopped the cars, but deployed his men along a frontal area ex tending 200 yards on each side of the road. Almost immediately a hail of valley, where the road and rail road wind up to the Geskid pass and the Czechoslovakian border 20 miles away. From Star to Wallflower in One Easy Move A truck driver- from the Chiloquln Ice company re ceived the surprise of his life today when he backed up to the icing platform at Klam ath Ice and Storage company. Loud ejaculations coming from the back of his truck warned him that he had pin ned a man to the platform. Badly frightened, he look ed back to see Eugene Pal lette, famous movie actor, tightly wedged but well cushioned enough to be unin jured. Pallette and his party were driving through Klam ath Falls in a station-wagon on their way to his ranch home in the Wallowa country. machinegun and rifle fire came from Germans concealed in the surrounding woods and fields. A three-hour fight ensued. Capt. Ives' men held off the Ger mans with small arms fire while a member of the party escaped to seek aid from a U. S. armor ed division a few" miles to the rear. Ives and others were shot to' death. The total casualties were not announced. The survivors were relieved by four tanks and two personnel carriers which blasted enemy po sitions and covered the with drawal. From March, 1941, to April, 1944, 26,000 tariks and 840,000 other military motor vehicles were sent from the U. S. to al lied forces of other United Nations. Be Office NEW It's THE SCORCHING LOWDOWN! Opens 1:30-6:45 Why blame teen-agers for the crime and pleasure jag that's packing our jails? See the real guilt of excitement-crav ing grownups! I Wo iDDID SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS LATEST WORLD NEWS Air Personnel Consolidated SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 10 VP) Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters an nounced today the consolidation of its airborne personnel into a new unit, approximating the size of a full army, under com m a n d of Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton. Both fliers, and ground com bat personnel are included. The innovation gives Eisen hower a large force with unpre cedented coordination and mo bility, which may soon strike some of the most decisive blows of the war. Vatican Allies Cooperate In Florence Relief (Continued from Page One) eighth and fifth army fronts as the main . body of German forces, which has been resisting strongly in the bend of the Arno river east of Florence, with drew to the northern banks. In fantry moved up to that' area, occupying all the high ground on the southern side. A part of thd population of Florence, including some of the many thousands of refugees who have overcrowded, the city, have moved into the nearby country side, where they were subsist ing upon fruits and the first food distributed by allied au (Continued from Page One) arc, however, the Germans were rushing troops southward across the Seine, ana had succeeded m erecting a new, but makeshift anti-umk screen around the Canadian wedgo driven IB miles south of Oren to within five miles of Fnlaiso. Going Hard Lt. Gen. H. D. G. Crcrar's Canadian first army was finding the going harder, but it lunged out to the east toward Vlmont and the road to Paris where Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's original push stalled three weeks ago. on the right of the Canadians, Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C, Dempsey's second British army gained a new bridgehead across the Orne due east of Amaye and began to crack down on German forces pocketed in a sharp fork between the Orne and Laize rivers seven miles southwest of Caen, PercouvilU Taken The British cantured Percou- ville here, and farther south ham mered forward mora than a mile and took Crolsilles, 1800 yards north of the Thury-Harcourt stronghold, 14 miles below Caen on the Orne. To the southwest of Thury-Harcourt they began an encircling maneuver, pressing through the Motte wood near the outskirts of SU Martln-De-Sallcn. Supreme headquarters' silence on the situation along the Loire, key to German resistance in all southern France, and beyond Le Mans toward Paris, was one of the clearest indications that the highspeed onslaught was still in the open and rolling fast. Once in contact with any main defense lino or major force of resistance there would be no fur ther security reason for with holding word on tne advanced positions. ' There had been no official an nouncement on the advance from Le Mans for nearly 60 hours, but it was known that American armor was well be yond that auto manufacturing city in the direction of Chartres, which lies 37 miles from the Paris suburb of Versailles whero the first World war peace treaties were signed. (CBS said there were uncon firmed reports that American troops had driven SO miles be yond captured Le Mans to a point 60 miles from Paris and another unofficial and uncon firmed report that the Ameri cans were only 40 miles from the French capital.) Behind the moving battlellne, American infantry and armor, speeding the one-by-ono reduc tion of Brittany's strategic ports, broke Into Nantes, according to unofficial reports. Today's offi cial announcements only men tioned the reaching of that city 30 miles up the Loire .river. American tank spearheads which passed through La Mans have been "slopped at Monfort," 10 miles east of Le Mans and about 100 miles from Paris, the Carman radio commentator, Alex Schmalfuss, reported to day. Previous German broad casts put American forces 87 miles from Purls. 10 Divisions (About 10 divisions of the fullv mechanized "Anirrlcnn third army" are imorntinK In the coastal aroa of Bi'lttimy, Sell mnlfuss said.) Both Angers, a city 80 miles up the Loire and Just north of that river, and Lorlont. German U-boat buse on the south const of Brittany were surrounded by American forces. St. Malo, (unions resort and fishing village, was raptured, al though today's communique snld a few Germans remained to be dealt with. Attack Brest Brest, Frencn naval base at the western tip of Brittany, and most Important prize in the pen insula, was under heavy attack by Americans fighting the rem nanls of three nazi divisions who had rofused to surrender. The Germans apparently were making desperate, and seeming ly foolhardy attempts to evacu ate both Brest and Lorlent, as unofficial reports said Gorman ships had risked allied air force to enter the harbors. Yank Subs Sink 16 Jap Vessels WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 OP) American submarines, operating In Japanese waters have de stroyed another 16 enemy ves sels including one warship, the navy announced today. The latest bag of the far-ranging submersibles, which may have operated In coastal waters of the Japanese homeland, brings to 830 the number of Japanese ships of all types sunk, probably sunk or dam aged by submarines alone. Included in that total are 54 warships definitely sent to the bottom, 11 probably sunk and 14 damaged. Tho damage to the enemy merchant fleet Includes 633 ships sunk, 26 probably sunk and 101 damaged. Baseball Scores AMtalCAN Chiracs notion .(Anus II. 1 luyntt and Caallnoj O'Neill and Par- ,"- . a. it. i HI. LouU - -.......J i; 0 Now York 0 0 Galeliniut and Tuniari Uonham, J. Tilrnar ipi anil Hamlay. We hnvo given the enemy forces a tremendous pounding and wo' know from prisoners what great losses they nave suf fored. We hnvo onlnrgnd and extended our lodgement nron and In that area wo to very firm and socuro. General Mont gomery, Invasion commander. . . 1 1 A )"- vt vr 7-T There Is unfortunately an un conscious decline In Interest on ' the part of a surprising number of citizens not only In this war and the awfulness of the issues, but in planning for the future as well. Secretary of State Cor dell Hull. 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