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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
REDS DRIVE-
AGAINST NAZ
BALTIC FLANK
Pat on the Back From Gen. Eisenhower
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Traffic accidents took a toll
of 0400 lives in the first five
months of 1044. ud 11 per cent
over the 1043 period.
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