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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1944)
PACE EICHT HERALD, AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Allies Come from Behind to Gain as War Enters Sixth Year iKlii llSf red us DESERT- RUSSIA FOR AMERICA SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (.P) Two if seven Russians, "all facing ieath penalties for escaping sov iet shins: all fearful of being shanghaied since their release by Seattle immigration out cials." were quoted by the Post Intelligencer today as saying even their ship "if it had legs, would surrender to immigration (immigration service). "We did not desert our ship; we deserted Russia. "All of us would like to come to America," the men were - quoted. The two men, whom the naoer said Were located in a laree house of refuge, were identified as Alexander Niki tin. 21. and George Sereda, 24 They consented to an interview through an interpreter upon as surance that their whereabouts would oe Kepi a sinct Mjtiei. Immigration officials, the paper said, recently refused a demand by Russian Consul Gen eral Andrei E. Vassiliev that Nikitin and Sereda and two other Russian ship deserters ,be turned over to him. Raphael Bonham, Seattle immigration director, denied the Russian of ficial had made a demand for their return and said "their cases are still being processed." Bonham added "we are try ing hard to keep information from those who might harm them. We understand they have been threatened, and, of course, they are in danger of being shanghaied." (In San Francisco, Russian Consul General Jakob Lomakin, who has charge of the Pacific northwest area, was said to be out of the country and his staff had no comment.) The two men were quoted as saying their political indoctrina tion included the statement in their instructions: "America is helping Russia now but only to save the skins of ;her capitalists." . giiirmi'pgiviiga ftaj ii.im-r.., y i ; v.;., wanna 1Q3Q 41 dolf Hitler touched o(t history's greatest war with his invasion of Poland on 1 J I sept. J.. 1939. After a winter lull in the west, while Russia fought Finland, tho Nazis attacked Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France, and swiftly conquered all by June, 1940. Italy jumped in on fallen France and began attacking the British In Africa. Tho battle of Britain began in late 1940, an air blitz which ended in victory for- England because the RAF beat off the Luftwaffe. Pompous Mussoiini invaded Greece in October, 1940, and promptly got pushed back on his heels by the "army in skirts." The Balkans jumped on the Axis band wagon. Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece in April of 1941, and began pushing the British out of Libya, when the U. S. broke relations with the Axis. Germany surprised the world on June 22 by invading Russia, to begin the ill-starred campaign which was to cost millions of Ger man and Russian soldiers' lives. As the Nazis advanced on Leningrad and Moscow, U. S. bases were established in Iceland and Greenland, and Roosevelt and Churchill held their first historic war conference, to-sign the Atlantic Charter. 1941-43' JnBnn's at,nck on Peml Harbor on historic Dec. 7, 1041, turned the war' from , " " n European struggle to n global conflict, ai the U. S. went to war asalnnt Japan. Germany and Italy. Guam, Wake, Hong Kong. Singapore mid tho Philippine Ml to the ..., ,.,,,. Duii.iv, innw, new m 'mini, mo omomonn, umi, Kiinsoon mid Java. General JMacAilhur took command of U. S. forces In tho South Pacific, mid General Elsenhower headed the U. S. European Theater of Operations, as American fighting men weio xent lo all narta of tha world to i Australia and New Gulneo, to the Jap-Invaded Aleutian., and Knglnml. By the mm. mer of 1942 the U. S. was winning battle, like the naval-air cla.he. in the Coral Sen and nt Midway, and in August. Yanks and Australian troops landed In the Solomon, and began pT.hli.if the Jans bark. The war unnt cht vi..in hnolr In ...III. il i - 1. .. ". 1 , ""' November. 1942. While huid-oiesieil Soviet tmnn. Him i. i rf-....i i.-.i j L..V. " ... .... "'. iKn5vtlilr,,,, w"" Brl"""'' Mo",Bome,y M ,lo;mc, oui ' mm II INSTATES SAN. DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 1 (ff) Wounded while fighting on Guam, a group oi navy ana ma rine men, the first evacuated from that island, have arrived in San Diego for treatment at the naval hospital. With them were a foot nf thp first men back from Tinian and a score of wounded from SaiDan. Most of the veterans were members of the third marine division who have been overseas for -18 months and who fought at Bougainville before being wounded on Guam. All were agreed that the battle for Guam was the toughest and best planned they participated in during their tour oi amy. "Bougainville was a picnic compared- to Guam," Said PFC. V. C. Dolan, 27, of Spokane.- He said the Japanese had caves dug as big as subways with all types nf . side tunnels. "We had to - eliminate -them with hand gre nades, machine guns and dyna mite." Dolan added. The emotions of the men on reaching the United States were tvpified by Corp. Sidney D. Mc Neill. 21. La Grande. Ore., who said: "I've been so excited about getting home that I haven't hardly slept for several night." Portland Youth . Gets Silver Star For Gallantry WITH THE FIFTH AKMY, Italy, Sept. 1 (fP) PFC Clifford E. Fitzsimmons, Portland, Ore., youth who routed 12 Germans singlehanded,. has received -the Silver Star for gallantry in ac tion in Italy. A 12-man German patrol sight ed Fitzsimmons when he was separated from h i s company. When an enemy rifleman was only 10 yards away firing on him, Fitzsimmons shot him. The Portland youth then dem onstrated incredible marksman ship by picking off six more Ger mans as they came over a ridge. The rest fled, thinking they were facing a strong position. Fitzsimmons action enabled his company to regroup and rout ine enemy aitacK, me citation sam. - Combined Allied armies cleared the Axis from Tunisia bv Mav. IB43. nnrt tn. a ' vaded Sicily two months later. Mussolini was ousted, and the RAF and USAAF began an unprecedented aerial blitz over Germany apd Italy. Landing in Italy in September, the combined British and U. S. armies started the muddy, bloody march up the peninsula, as new offensives began to shape in the Pacific with Allied landings on the Treasury Islands, Choiseul. and Bougainville. Stoic, stubborn Chinese fighters, re-fortified by Allied training and supplies, wheeled and slowly began to regain the vast Jap-conquered territories in China and Burma. Ger fn. efenses in southern Russia collapsed, as Soviet troops broke into the Crimea and began chas ing the Nazi invaders back across the frozen Ukraine. Allied pace In the South Pacific quickened as Yanks and Aussies landed on the Gilberts and New Britain.' ' Early 1044 saw record fleets of Allied plane, over Europe, o. Russian troop, drove Into Poland and Romania In pursuit of disorderly fleeing Nazi.. Breaking the long Italian .Ultimate,. Alllod troops took bitterly defended Casslno and rolled Into Rome on June 4. Two day. later the Ioiib awaitcd Invasion came, as Allied troop, landed In Normandy, consolidated beachhead., and took Lncrbourg. Desperately the Nozl. hurled robot plane bomb, against England, to be met with the SamCim,'m dcrcns; whlch, to"" yr before defeated the air blitz of Britain. A. Japan'. Tojo fell h.t V c cscPcd "MpMinatlon July 20. Amcrlcun troop, landed on Guam to retake the first Jap- DarallY; t kJ1!'.'"' n,.CrA"ICd tank" brol! 0Ut on ,ho nl"'" of Frnnc In a .trlklng Nnrmii th Nnz tank blitz of 1040. and tho gigantic Allied o(ten.lve begun It. march ecrow fJormandy and Brittany, headed lor Paris and Berlin. ' Fifth Anniversary Finds Allies Driving Toward Junction in Fatherland By JUDSON O'QUINN LONDON, Sept. 1' UP) The fifth anniversary of World War Iwo today found British-Ameri can and Russian armies driving toward a junction in the heart ot Germany only a little more than 700 miles apart. in less than three months of concentrated blows from - the east and west the allies have inflicted an enormous casualty toll on the nazi war machine more than .1,500,000 killed, cap tured or wounded, according to the- best available figures. The prospect of military dis aster, plus, political catastrophe, now mocks the ambitions of Adolf Hitler, ' who five years ago- sent his armored leeions crashing into Poland and start ed a globe-girdling world conflict. -When 'Gen. Dwieht D. Eisen hower's armies landed in Nor mandy June 6 they -were 1400 miles from the Russian forces before Mogilev. ' imow the Russians are at the gates "of Warsaw, after ' cover ing more than half the distance to Berlin since' their offensive hand.' began June 23. They are a little more than 700 miles from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's armor on the Meuse river near the German border. Signalizing the impending loss of the Balkans to Hitler is the red army's occupation of Bu charest. - Gen. Eisenhower's forces, which have smashed German resistance completely in north eastern France, are estimated officially to have inflicted 400, 000 casualties on the Germans from June 6 to August 25. Only the darkest gloom pre vails inside Germany, in con trast to the jubilation of Sep tember ,1, 1939., On the eve of the fifth anni versary of the war Col. Gen. Heinz Gudcrian, chief of the nazi general staff, .addressed a group of boys digging defensive irencnes: . ". '.'In these. hard times you. mv boys, have been called upon to work for your homeland, and very -soon -.the call will go out to you ..to. .light, for. it,, arms in QUESTIONS SLATED Banned by Army AMG Man Finds Difficulties in Search for Mayor . PORTLAND, Sept..l. P) Capt. Jerrold Owen, former di rector of. the state veterans bu reau, wrote "friends here he was haying trouble, lopating a mayor for a Frericti town. Owen, serving with AMG, started to set up a city govern ment, then discovered the may or was a German, prisoner. So -he chose another French man-He was just ready to. take the oath of office when a shell crashed down, killing the poten tial mayor and 20 pthers. ..' 800TH VESSEL PORTLAND, Sept. 1 (VP) The 800th vessel built in the Portland area since the current warship construction . started will bo launched at Albina ship yard tomorrow. There will be five liunichings in this area over the Labor.day weekend. An elaborate "Official Guide to the Army Air Forces," pictured ,i,Vro . T iui iii, my lrom st exchanges every- .fflfJT'?,8 P0litical Propaganda, calculated to affect,th8 pres dentlal election Army objects to portrait sketch of the Pres ident, used as frontispiece, with caption, "Franklim-Delano Roose velt, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy." WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 fP) When you mail overseas Cnrist raas packages during the next month, the postofficc clerks ex pect to ask you these questions: 1. Is there any written matter or personal correspondence? If so, the P. O. says you should enclose an address slip duplicat ing the "To and From" on the outside of your package. You are allowed to write simple dedi catory .inscription on the fly-leaf of a book, but no long note of letter-like proportions. 2. Is there any fragile article in the package? You must cush ion any breakable object with crushed newspapers or substi tute. '3. Is there anything perish able? Ydu cannot mail bonbons, fresh fruit or crumbly cookies 4. Anything inflammable or liquid? Matches cannnt ho mnlt. ed,- nor anything else 1 infl.-im. mame, me r. u. warns. Nut over two ounces of linnlrl ran hr i shipped and that must be in a completely aDsorbent wrapping. 1 The P. O. begs you to tell the i truth about what's in the narfc. : age, if you expect your service ! man or woman In rern v vm... gift. Thomas Requests Welcome to Coast For Jap-Americans SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (,V)Nor man Thomas, socialist presiden tial candidate, last night told an estimated 1000 listeners that Japanese-Americans should be welcomed back to the Pacific coast after the war. "You cannot Indulge In racial prejudice and hope very hon estly for lusting peace," he said. "And that applies to Japanese Americans on the west coast. 1 hope you arc prepared to wel come homo your fellow Ameri cans who never should have been banished from their homes." He described tho re moval 'ns "toMlitarlanlsm." Ho also warned the allied peoples must distinguish between- "war rncmlc. and the people" In treating wild Germans. "Will I uo elected president?" he echoed a question. "Well, probably not. But there's no low against It." Designers of aircraft and flight equipment for the Army Air Forces are aided In their work by plastic, life-size manikin mod-' clcd to match the average speci fication, of AAK men. Bv JriRf t... ly.'i) iji., ' .Au riving In ti.i,.",,'"n It I today fiHHuilff'nlina " Hill 01 UlL CltV . 1 "loud Willi V' Plucky Y.i.,1.' L'.Ptf "vli't iniHurin?.! "J1. Mid "".""nil uT.liL i "b"l 22 Urltoni 1 W M Weill i cm... a..., ml-lh month, Mll' M Their trcnlinent hiiw from novere. lh, .?." ""Hi prlwn. were within a Mmi.?. 2 i1""" J .The filer. Wfre mm J eiateo over the aerm,7J r or ihn . I.OMlta whi to Aug.,. 24 On that i,y they mo nun German moved In. Only i J "mij over, anarcnt v iinni .1 building and 'plastered ?1 LED SUICIDE f MISSOULA. MonLSmi Biillvl-licndcd Lt, Urmiil J comiiiaiider ol Jopatitx on oaipan luiuey MkedtoJ to take "seven live to nl country." then died kid suicido charge, It wu iuci nero louiiy. Marino C'pl. Joseph A.t Jr., In n letter lo hi! wilt. cJ a marliio translation ol id final message before tlx nants of ni tcreamuii a wero wijicu out oy Americans, "for moro than 20 dim the American devils i! the officers and men ol ai dpi in I army and nin fought well and bravtlj, UHtiiiKC, taken fromadtil liitelligvncc oil Ice r said. -t BO dan J "Everywhere they birth on.itrutvd honor and glory. ven has nut iilvcn us inn tunltv. We hovo not bmi lo utilize the terrain fully.Jf We have no materials wilhtal to fight. ... Our arlllltrj been destroyed. Our bcsj hnvo fallen one after anelhsl the barbarous attack ol tbl cmy I. conUnuing. I "Wlmllier we attack ornl or wo tilny here, Ihen b death. Despite the bllM defeat, wo pledge 'tcveoW l ujiiiy uiii I.UIUIH, , . ! will nHvnnrn wlUl wim ri.mnlii to deliver 10 blow to the American and lenvn mv boilCI OH Stl at a bulwark of the PKiM I i I? ImI ffj bt im m -JLm m m m II I J I I I I II 1 Bricker to Speak To Oregonians October 12 PORTLAND, Sept. X'(IT) Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio will speak in Oregon October 12 cither in Eugene or Portland, Ralph H. Cake, republican na tional committeeman, said to day. - Cake, who left today to at tend a republican executive com mittee mooting in Chicago, said ho would prefer that the repub lican vice presidential candidate appear jn an upstate city, and proposed Eugene. .Portland, however remained me mosv probable site. The re publican state committee has re served me auditorium here lor me mgnt of Bricker's visit. Densbn Commands' Portland POE A PORTLAND. Orn Son) 1 tro The Portland port of embarka tion today became nart nf tho command of Brig. Gen. Eley P. Denson, commanding general of the Seattle port of embarkation. The port was nrnvlnualv un der the San Francisco port of em barkation. Cnl. Rnhnrt. T. All, Jr., will remain in charge hero. n n o lfl 111! III! I Come Out to the Picnic at MOORE PARK Sunday, September 3, 1 944 " 12 to 5 P. M. ; Bring Your Lunch - Coffee, Ice Cream and Drinks Available. ' Hear Your Former Mayor WILLIS E. MAHONEY Candidate for U. S. Senator , Give his views on what can be done for KLAMATH COUNTY Learn from your State and Local Candidates What they plan to do for you . See the big Fall Style Show first showing of this Fall's Clothes by THE TOWN SHOP See the Eagles' Women's Drum Corps Drill Bring the Children - There will be games for all Ages COME TO ENJOY YOURSELF AND LEND SUPPORT TO OUR VICTORIOUS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT .' "" - . . Democratic Central Committee . . ' '" ' of Klamath County . t -,'': ' , E. P. IVOHY, Chairman
