PACE SIX
TRAP CLOSES
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eastern jaw of tlie pincers. They
menaced tvreux ana muui ,
about 50 miles from the Seine s
mouth. , , . ..
Allied airmen declared the
German retreat had appearances
of a rout. By ferry and rubber
t t tun .iinmu nltpmntpri to
escape across the Seine at about
30 points, unaer a ran ui
ancf cannon shells from low
swooping allied planes.
(Continued from Page One)
with 'Trench forces of the In
terior playing an effective sup
port role," allied headquarters
said.
Junction Looms
This quick advance put Maj.
Gen. Alexander M; Pate h's
spearhead within less than 240
miles airline from the most
southerly points officially an
nounced as reached by Amer
ican troops below Paris, and it
appeared that the two allied
French fronts would be joined
much sooner than originally
thought possible.
Grenoble, 58 miles southeast
of Lyon and situated on a river
leading directly to the Rhone
valley 30 miles to the west, is
80 miles or more beyond the
last reported allied positions in
southern France.
Lying in the French Alps, the
city has a population of approxi
mately 100,000 and is a rail cen
ter on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille
route. It also commands access
to important mountain passes in
eastern France.
Anti-Trust Suit
Filed Against
Railroad Groups
(Continued from Page One)
ed States which are higher than
those fixed by the defendants for
shippers in the east and this ine-
S utility has deprived the west of
le advantage of low competi
tive rates and has operated as a
detriment to its development.
"Stifle Technoloery"
"It is alleged that the conspir
acy by the defendants has stifled
the utilization of improved rail-
ants have retarded the introduc
tion of radio equipment on
trains, delayed the installation
of air conditioning equipment
ana prevented tne construction
of essential spur tracks and load
ing sheds.
"It is alleged that the defend
ants have deliberately delayed
the delivery of perishable prod
ucts, that they have collusively
refused to permit the reduction
of rates by certain railroads for
the relief of droueht-stricken
areas, despite the fact that such
reductions were reauested bv of
ficials of the United States gov
ernment.
"It is alUged that the de
fendants, by conspiring with the
major oil companies owning and
operating common carrier pipe
lines, have fixed arbitrary and
non-competitive rates for the
transportation by rail and pipe
line of petroleum and petroleum
products and that thus the ad
vantage of low-cost shipment by
pipeline was denied to tne west,
"It is alleged that the defend.
ants have conspired with motor
carriers,, had water carriers to
bring motor and water carrier
rates up to the higher rail level.
"It is alleged that the defend.
ants have established an organi-
' caned tne nignway de
partment within the Western As
sociation of Railway Executives,
that the declared purpose of the
Hisuwajr ucparimeut is 10 retard
the development and growth of
the trucking industry, particular
ly in the long-haul field, in the
western part of the United
States, and that this has been
and is being accomplished by
various methods, including con
certed action by the railroads to
cause the enactment of state
laws restricting the development
of the trucking industry." .
Jerry Chocktoot
Reported Better
The condition of Jerry Chock
toot, who received a broken leg
in an automobile accident Mon
day evening is reported as good
at the Klamath Valley hospital.
The little boy was injured when
the car in which he was riding
ran into the back of another car
. at the irrigation canal bridge on
Shasta Way.
Mrs. Dorothy George, the al-
;ge3.drivf of the car, is in
the city jail on a drunk and dis
orderly charge.
VITAL STATISTICS
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5t"V!h K1"n"j rail.. Ore., on August
22. 1944. to Mr. janrl Mr rti. a
VHSS.1"'.!80 HI"SW. boy. Weight;
pounds 13 ounces, ' . .
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lLBg;! Mr- " Mrs. Hsrvey Wanner,
ifeunws!' y' Welh,: 8 Pound.
k,?Sl1?LAsB.t"!, K'math Valley
Sjt'A1, .K,fr,,,h " r- on August
W. 1944. to Mr. and Mrs. Melvln Douglas.
Js"unM ' Weight: 6 pounds
."SS"-?0-"' Wmath Valley hos
E.'iv.KI?m".tn F""s' .. on August
. Mli. ,nd Mr- P- Harper.
Sl-,Ji' I- Weight: 8 pounds
in ounces.
EENb
NAZI TROOPS
EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
(Continued From Psga One)
gap lie Bucharest and the
Ploesti oil fields.
Another Russian army is
poised and ready to strike
through the passes of the Car
pathians down into the Hungar
ian valley of the Danube.
HITLER'S purpose, of course,
is to get his forces back into
the borders of Germany there
to stand and tignt.
But suppose he does.
For every mile that he short
ens his lines we will shorten our
lines an equivalent mile. Our
planes, now busy over VAST
AREAS, will mass in invincible
armadas in the skies over Ger
many. Our ground forces will be
ready to pounce at every sign
of weakness.
HITLER'S goose is cooked. It
will be served up whenever
his German dupes realize to the
full the utter hopelessness of
their situation.
'
"THE Pacific is still quiet ex-
cept for the warfare that goes
on unceasingly in the air. It
is the calm before another storm
which may break ANY DAY
now.
Nazis Increase
Severity on
Italian Patriots
ROME. Aug. 23 (Increas
ing severity of enemy treatment
of Italian patriots harassing the
nazi rear areas in northern Italy
was disclosed by the eighth
army's capture of an order from
Colonel Von Hofman, which
decreed immediate shooting of
anyone assisting the criminal
and treacherous partisans by
giving them food or lodging."
Only minor activity was re
ported on the entire Italian
front, with the Poles continuing
to clear the enemy from their
few remaining positions on the
south side of the Metauro river
on the Adriatic sector.
FDR Greets
Security Confab
WASHINGTON. Aug. 23 WO
President Roosevelt told the
delegates to the Dumbarton
Oaks security conference today
that he hopes "in planning for
the peace that is to come we
will' arrive at the same good
cooperation and unity of action
as we have in the carrying on
of the war."
While the neace-talk deleea-
tions were received at the
White House b y President
Roosevelt, news from the con
ference was limited to an an
nouncement of the formation
of four subcommittees to deal
with drafting of documents.
legal questions, "general ques
tions of international organiza
tion" and security.
Spy Ring Found
In Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 23 OT)
The press sub-secretariat has
announced that Argentine feder
al ponce nave uncovered a new
active organization" operated by
uerman spies, captured a large
numDer ot agents and confiscat
ed a great quantity of material
no details were mpiiinen in
the 57-word communique issued
lllgijl.
An unofficial but usually rell
able informant said the espion-
8c niH"" uemg cunauciea Dy
police had resulted in the arrest
of 126 persons and the seizure of
26 high power radio transmitters
in recent montns.
Jap Generals
Meet Death
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 OT)
The Japanese ministry of war
announced today in a Tokyo
broadcast that two more Japan
ese generals had met death "in
line of duty abroad," the office
oi war information said.
Maj. Gen. Genkichi Shima
died August 6 and Maj. Gen.
Genzo Minakami died August 8,
the ministry said in announcing
their posthumous promotions to
uie ranit oi lieutenant general.
The ministry did not disclose
wnere the generals had met
meir oeatn nor under what cir
cumstances. A New York insurance spent
has lived 78 years without talk
ing either one of his arms off.
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Enthusiastic fighting Free Frenchmen and women In Normandy town
German guns, set out to round up remaining Nazis In vicinity following
Corps radio-telephoto from London. '
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more than a week after its air
fields were rendered useless to
the enemy and its garrison has
been weakened by continuous
sinkings of small ships trying
to sneak down with supplies
from the Philippines.
Fit Into Pattern
These blows fit into the pat
tern of knockout punches.
The Halmahera action fea
t u r e d strikes of MacArthur's
air arm, aimed largely at deny
ing enemy garrisons replenish
ments, sweeping for 1000 miles
from Davao, southern Philip
pines, down to the Flores sea.
Other Blows Made
Other air blows by planes
based in the Marshalls.and Ma
rianas and extending over 90,
000 square miles of ocean were
reported from Pearl Harbor yes
t e r d a y by Adm. Chester W.
Nimitz.
Near Marcus island, a little
over 1000 miles southeast of
Tokyo, two supply ships were
left burning by navy Libera
tors. Other planes combed the Car
olines chain, hitting Ponapc on ;
the eastern extremity, blasting ,
Truk, despite interception, and
touching off fires and explosions i
at Yap on the "western end.
Nimitz also reported strikes;
at Wake, by-passed former
American island north of the
Marshalls, and the repeatedly
bombed phosphate center of
Nauru to the south.
Polish Women
Appeal to Pope
LONDON, Aug. 23 OP) De
claring that the world is ignor
ing their plight, Polish women of
Warsaw have appealed to Pope
Pius XII to bless patriot forces
battling in the city "for church
and liberty," according to the
Polish telegraphic agency.
The appeal, broadcast by ra
dio, deplored the fact that "Rus
sian armies which have been
standing at the gates of Warsaw
for three weeks do not move a
step forward," the agency said.
Help sent by Britain in the form
of supplies dropped by plane was
described as insufficient.
Worker Benefit
Clause Ousted
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 JP)
The house ways and means
committee today struck from
the senate - approved postwar
demobilization and reconversion
bill a provision extending un
employment compensation to
3,500.000 federal workers.
This action followed a com
mittee vote yesterday eliminat
ing from the legislation all pro
visions for retraining and ' re
employment of war workers
and throwing out a program tb
pay for' the transportation of
these workers back to their
homes or to places of new em
ployment. -a
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Fighting Free French Seek
Tank Division
Knocked Out
WITH THE CANADIAN
FIRST ARMY, Aug. 23 .P) The
German 12th SS tank division,
accused by an allied board of
murdering 19 captured Canadian
soldiers early in the French cam
paign, has been destroyed in the
battle of the Normandy pocket.
A Canadian staff officer said
today: "If the 12lh SS ever
shows up again on a buttlefront,
you can be quite sure it is an en
tirely reformed division bearing
the same number as the one
which has been eliminated."
The army air forces flew more
than a quarter million bombing
sorties and dropped more than
200,000 tons of bombs on Ger
man industrial targets between
January 1 and May 15. 1944.
A railway 400 miles long ex
pands 338 yards in hot weather.
sIii nt,7' iff
w -Jill Wf':hA
i ill if ' lf tftfr Ki
Revenge
(NKA Kuiho-ialephuiu
of Roatrenon, armed with captured
American entry into village. Signal
50,000 Prisoners
Taken in Trap
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE. Aug. 23 VP) Between
40,000 and 50,000 prisoners huvc
been taken from the Argcntan
trap in Normandy, and the Ger
man dead have not yet been
counted.
One of Lt. Gen. George S
Patton Jr.'s American third
army columns is operating in
Fontainebleau, 35 miles below
Paris on the Seine, it was an
nounced. Earlier In the week,
a field dispatch announced
bridgehead across the Seine in
the rontaincbleau area.
The Sultan of Solo, at Sum
karta, Java, has a household of
15,000, including wives, sweet
hearts, dancing girls, relatives,
priests, soldiers, servants and lo
cal officials.
r,;in'":rrrr,"Tr!'nr
IN HEW OFFENSIVE
'(Continued from Pago One)
from Moscow and recorded by
the FCC.
(An official German broad
cast stikl thu Itussliins had reach
ed the bi'iu-hos ul llluii, Lulvlun
capital and largest Baltic states
citv, Indicating a new trap for
I ho Gcrmuii ltitli and lBlh arm
ies). Advancing over thu bodies of
25,000 Goi'iiums sluln in linen
violent days while 12,0(13 other
trudged wearily back to prison
rages, red urmy groups under
Generals Modioli Y. Malinnov
sky und Fcdor 1. Tolbukliln
riiovo within Bl miles of the
mouth nt the UaiHiba.
Tolbukhln's drive through
Bessarabia headed cross country
(or a junction with Mullnovsky
in thu Galall gup, thu capture
of which would iiuiko much ot
the Balkan arvu unlcniiblo for
the enemy, Advances rjuiiicd to
44 miles. The Bcssaralnaii capi
tal of Chlsinau was left trapped
in a deep pocket on the Uncstr.
In northern Poland, the Rus
sians gradually were oiitduuk
ing Warsaw mid splitting Gor
man forces between that be
sieged Polish capital and East
Prussia. Thu Russians moved 14
miles southeast of Lomza, com
munications hub.
Dc.spora to German attempts to
salvage her Baltic positions
brought new tank attacks in the
directum of Jelgava, who con
trols road and rail routes in Lat
via. As the red army drlvo Into
Romania went through Us fourth
day, Bucharest was reported In
panic with many of Prcmlor
Antonescu's formerly fanatical
supporters openly discussing the
chances of suing for peace. Each
mile the red army advanced
strengthened pciice tremors In
Bulgaria, too, and gave new
hope to Yugoslavia and Greece.:
Ronuinlu, besides being Ger
many's greatest oil reservoir, Is ,
one of her largest breadbaskets.
NEWPORT. Aug. 23 (!)
James H. Curry, 30, Agute
Beach, who was scalded with
boiling asphalt which poured
from his truck when It ovcr-i
turned near here, probably will :
recover, hospital attendants said j
here today. I
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Walla Walla
House Hits Car
WALLA WALLA. Wash.,
Aua. 23 tfl'l And now Walla
Walla has houia that ran
Into a car.
Tha house, balng totad
down tha strati on an Im
provised platform with
wagon wheals, vaerad toward
tha curb and crashad Into a
parked ear. Tha house aicap.
d Injury, but ear repairs
cost (75.
Bad Foundation
Causes Damage
At Swift Plant
A faulty foundation was the
causa of considerable damuga
and the loss of quite a hit of
ammonia gas at the Swift and
company plant, 834 Market,
Tuesday afternoon,
The entire building slipped off
the foundation, causing a break
in tho gas plpo that kept Investi
gators off iho premises for somo
time.
The blggeat part of tha damage
done was the breaking of glass
packed merchandise and the
general throwing around of tlio
products.
Swift will attempt to operate
out of tho same plant until con
struction men decide whether to
build a new building or repair
the old one, company officials
said today. Priorities will have
to be obtained from the WPB be.
(ore any construction at all ran
be started, officials indicated.
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need, advartlso for a used one
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