PACE TWO
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SECT! IN
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first army wa fighting Into the
face of artillery fire from the
Siegfried line and the mine
fields defending approaches to
tho forts. Still farther north the
British second army broke into
Holland at a point 14 miles north
of the broken Albert canal de
fenses. . Shtll Aachtn
The Americans were less than
10 miles from the German fron
tier at two points 70 miles apart.
They captured Luxembourg, tho
capital of the Pocket Duchy bor,
dering the Rhineland and Saar
land, in one thrust and report
edly threw shells into Aachen,
. German border city, in the other
forward movement.
The biggest air fight since the
invasion swirled over the Rhine
land and interior Germany
American air forces smashed at
gun emplacements blocking the
ground assault and at oil re
fineries feeding power into Ger
man resistance.
Reich Shelled
From Nancy and Met Pat
ton's sector north through Lux
embourg to Limburg, just be
low The Netherlands appendix
where Lt. Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges' first army gunners shell
ed German soil for the first
time, the Americans were run
ning Into the outer defenses of
the Siegfried line.
They were under the fire of
German heavy guns along the
Moselle. Around Limburg, be
yond the captured fortress city
of Liege, they were encounter
ing the heaviest minefields seen
since they cracked through Nor
mandy. Near Border
Here the Americans were only
85 miles from the border and
were reported using their Long
Tom rifles against Aache, big
troop concentration point just
two miles over the line.
Aachen stands in the middle
of the Siegfried line, with lines
of forts running on both its east
and west sides.
Supreme headquarters did not
"I say where the British crossing
-into Holland had taken place,
but front line dispatches indi
cated it was on the road to Eind
hove, 50 miles northeast of Ant
werp and at a point about 35
miles from the German border.
(Con&ued from Page One) '
skirts of Pistols and occupied
high - ground dominating the
town from the northeast while
elements- of the 92nd infantry
division -reached the Gothic line
defenses' at Zezzera, 6Vi miles
northeast; of Lucca.
Presumably content to wait
until they get back into the
northern ' Appennines, where
the terrain is ideal for defense.
the nazis offered scant opposi
tion to me mm army aitnougn
some enemy shells fell on pa
trols which took Monte Mig-
nano.- 13 miles due north of
Florence. -
Meet Resistance
Stiffer resistance was met
near' Italy's west coast where
the Americana made more
crossings of the Serchio river
and Vecchiano, five miles north
of Pisa, was occupied. The river
crossings brought the dough
boys into extensive minefields
and mortar fire. The enemy air-force-
also was active' in that
area, dropping a n u m b e r of
combs Saturday night.
Fierce German resistance
held the eighth enemv offen
slve against Reimini and the
avenue into the tfo valley to a
standstill.
On the five miles front be-
tween Coriano and Gemmano, a
short distance inland from the
coast; the fighting is still
heavy and bitter, with casual'
ties on both sides heavy,
headquarters statement said.
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ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
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ngnung on uerman son tonignt
Klamath Consumes
More Water, Report
Of Manager Shows
Thirty-five million "more' sal-
Ions of water were consumed
here during August than dur
ing the same month last- year,
representing a 24 per cent in-
. ;crease, according to S. I. Rltch-
ey, district manager of the California-Oregon
Power company.
! - Pumpage during the month
. 'from the Conger avenue station
; reached 179,030,250 gallons
wun o,oo,yau put out during
tne peaK day,' August 28. uur
; ing August, 1943, 144,204,750
gauons wore . used, and 5,445,
000 gallons was the highest
. daily record for that vear.
Highest day's pumpage of
, tnis August was within a few
hundred gallons of the record
set on July 13 of this year and
'.. about. 1,000,000 gallons -above
, the highest clay's out-put of Au
gust last year. .
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Chief Radioman Oeonte R. Tweed (right) is congratulated by Secretary
as awarded Legion of Merit for his heroic exploits in evading Japs on
American forces liberated island
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FDR and gosh how it dreads it.
Thinks Texas will do likewise.
He says Eleanor is ruining the
South by giving the niggers up
pity notions and the Lord only
knows where it will all end.
THESE colored ooys and girls
who are swarming northward
are letting themselves in for a
peck of trouble, he thinks, tor
down home they're understood
and appreciated for what they
are while up No'th they're kissed
by the politicians around election
and kicked in the pants all the
rest of the time.
ttWE know 'em and take care
" of 'em," he says.
"Take my house," he adds.
"We've got three left Old
r.ahe. who's nast 70 but still
spry. Aunt Sally, who's well gone
m her ro ties ana a young wtutu.
Among 'em, they take care of the
house and the ya'd.
"We don't pay 'em much, but
they never want fo' a thing and
when they need five dollars we
give .it to Jem." ,
UE isn't so far off at that.
Everybody's talking about
"security" in these days, and his
colored employees come about as
near security, under tne system
he describes, as anyone can get
nearer, probably, than their
cousins up in the Yankee war
plants.
Nazis Evacuate
Polish Fortress
LONDON, Sept. 11 m The
south Poland- fortress town of
Korsno, 17 miles from Czecho
slovakia, has been evacuated by
the Germans,' the Berlin radio
annminceri late todav. -
Krosno lies in the Carpathian
foothills, 83 miles southeast -of
the great Polish city of Krakow,
key to the war industries of Ger
man Silesia. Other troops across
the Vistula were reported with,
in' 35 miles of Krakow last
month and 75 from -Silesia, . ,
Churchill, FDR
Meet in Quebec
(Continued from Page One) ;
the president shook hands', grin'
ned and beaan chatting.
. The prime minister had just
arrivea ay special uam uuui
Halifax, -where he disembarked
yesterday.
Mr. Roosevelt had come: in
from south of the border an hour
earlier.
From the trains, they motored
separately uo a steep roadway
and along the ancient bastions
where out-or-date guns ovenooK
the broad St. Lawrence river.
The cars wound through narrow
gateways of the ramparts of the
citadel.
Open Car
The president was in an open
car with his official host, the
Earl of Athlone, governor gener
al of Canada. Churchill follow
ed in another car with Prime
Minister W. L. MacKenzie King
of Canada.
The president and prime min-
ister had talked animatedly for a
few moments at the train. Mr.
Roosevelt sat in a big. open car.
a Panama hat shading his eyes
from a bright morning sun. Chur
chill stood beside him, attired
in a -blue Trinity House naval
uniform, a cap perched at a jaun
ty angle on his head and a cigar
jutting irom nis moutn.
They talked of war and vic
tory and of small things.
While officials of neither gov
ernment would comment on the
questions which bring the two
leaders, together for the first
time since December, it was re
ported that:
Military Heasons
1. Churchill suggested the con
ference for reasons which he de
scribed as strictly military.
2. The most immediate mili
tary problem after Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower completed his job
of smashing nazidom, is the oc
cupation of Germany and the
prevention of chaos in Euronc.
3. Britain, the United States
and Russia must decide whether
and how far to extend the -powers
of the . European advisory
commission now trying to fix
tne ground rules for the new Eu
rope.
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along the eastern side had cap
tured nearly 60 towns and vil
lages yesterday, and forced an
other Carpathian pass info
Transylvania.
Meanwhile, Russian news-
Saper dispatches indicated tiiat
le protracted lull on the Polish
and Baltic sectors of the eastern
front is likely to explode at any
moment. Tne timing ano direc
tion -of the next major thrusts
of the red army remained a
guarded secret.
Ambassador to
London Named
PARIS. Sent. 11 UP) Gen.
Charles do Gaulle's new cabinet
at its first meeting today ap
proved the nomination of Rene
Massiell. former foreign commis
sioner, as amDassaoor to London.
Gen. Emmanuel D'Astier do la
Vlgerie, former interior commis
sioner, announced nowever, mat
he had declined the appointment
as ambassador to Washington. It
is believed Do Gaullo will pick
someone from the resistance
forces for the post to balance the
giving of the London ambassa
dorship to- a former member ol
tne Algiers t rencn national com
mittee of liberation. .
conn
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Mme. Chiang Now
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NEW YORK- Sept. 11 WPi
Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, first
lady of China, is a patient in the
Harkncss pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian
medical center,
John McCormack, hospital super
intendent, said today.
She entered the hospital early
this morning, but McCormack
said he was not at liberty to dis
close the nature of her illness.
The wife of Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek has been in
Brazil recently, undergoing med
ical treatment. During her visit
to the United States last year,
Mme. Ch'ang was a patient at
Columbia-Presbyterian hospital
for treatment of what was de
scribed then of the after-effects
of injuries received in China sev
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City and chumbor of com
merce aviation groups met Joint-
what further may bo dono to pro.
nioic iMiny aifli, ui .-,uin ,-
line service through Klamuth
Vnll b iMnlfni. In hi, hi,fnrn tho
civil aeronautics board at a heai'
Ing In Sun rrancisco in novum
ber. A complete brief on the city a
need for this service has bean
filed with the CAB. It was de
cided to mako inquiry as to
whether tho city's representa
tives may be heard at tho hoar
ing, and at least to have official
representation there.
It was acrecd that the rocent
establishment of an airway
through Klamath ans, accom
panying the extenstvo develop
ment on tho Klamath airport and
establishment of navigation aids
through this region, is proper
basis (or an optimistic outlook
for airline service.
Phil Hitchcock, chairman of
the chamber aviation committee,
pointed out that Klamath Falls
is potentially a producer of a
heavy volume of passongor, air
express and airmail business,
Gus Krause, of tho city avla.
tlon commission, suggested that
thought should bo glvon now to
plans for developing a second air
port in the Klamath Falls area,
in view of tho probability that
the big municipal airport will
bo heavily used by commercial
transports and lurger pi.
Some place where small, private
im lMrri will nrob.
ably be needed in the big up
swing In private aviation activ
ity aftor tho war, ho said.
The city, he said, has Its hands
full with the municipal airport,
and the second field should bo
sponsored by some other group.
It was agreed that the field
should be located somewhere
close to town. The civil air
patrol field at worcicn, u was
stated, Is probably too far out
to answer the purpose.
Rep. Ellsworth
Leaves for England
WASHINGTON. Scot. 11 (PI
Representatives Ellsworth (R-
Ore.) and pnunps ih-hihj im
parted Saturday nlaht for Eng
land to confer unofficially and
Informally with British pari la
mentarv leaders on joint Ameri
can and British problems in the
coming pence. i
The British ministry of Infor
mation made the arrangements
for the trip arid for the represen
tatives to visit American army
camos in England.
Ellsworth said he and Phillips
hoped to go to France,
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Nine Enemy Ships
WASHINGTON. Sept. 11 (.?)
United States submarines have
trimmed nine moro ships, three
nf thmi fluhlltm craft, from
Japan's dwindling liiuniigc, the
navy announcoo lonay.
Tint new lull v brings tho total
of ail types of Jaimncso ships
SUHK Dy u. a. nuuninriiies iu
7S2. nf which 61 nro luhtlnii
ships and 671 cargo carrion and
miscellaneous cruii.
- (Continued from Tngo One)
nortunt port of Wcnchow, In
Cheklang provlnco i'ift miles
south of Shanghai. Tho Japan
ese already had claimed the Ull
of Wenchow,
Tho high command alio re
ported fresh drive northward
from Holhong ponlnsulu In
Kwangtung,
Japanese troops also were
pushing In soven columns west
ward toward Paochlng, 63 miles
west of Hengyang.
Batter Bat
Vigorous fighting was report
ed continuing In tho suburbs of
fallen Llngling alrbase, 78 miles
southwest of Hengyang,
In Kwangtung province tho
Chinose recaptured tho town of
Tolshan, 60 miles south of Can
ton. Liberatot of tho 14th atrforce
also bombed Kurangsu Island In
Amoy harbor and Mitchells at
tacked Tien Ho and Whitccloud
airdromes at Canton.
Jap Oarrlson Diet
Stllwcll estimated that vir
tually the entire garrison of 21)00
Japanese died in tho thrco
months sicgo of Sungshan, the
fall of which cleaned the Burma
road trucks as far as bctoaguarcd
Lungltng.
Only nine prisoners were
taken at SuugKitau U'uic mouiv'
tain), a central hulghl on a group
of peaks towering over tho mud
dy Salwcon river urea In the
Burma frontier section,
The white rhlnucuiu? ...
rica is pinkish gray.
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ways to His Germans, but pu.ih
the .enemy to within 55 miles
of where, tho American forces
In northern France woro hint
reported,
After wiping out thn last
snlpors ut Dole, the Americans
nisi, sliigud a drive northwest
toward Auxonno, thus exerting
even greater pressure on Dijon.
Enlmy Bombarded
Meanwhile tho enemy In the
rear southeastern comer of tho
Kronch Hlvlora was under bom
bardment from allied warship.
The nuvy reported thut tho
American destroyer Hilary P.
Jones and tho French cruiser
Duguuy Trouln hud a "satisfac
tory" time Sulurdny against
German shore Installations ' in
the Mentono region, naar tho
Italian border,
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