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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1944)
PA,6f two TWO DEFENSE BASTIONS BY DOUGHBOYS (Continued from Page One) warriors had reached the outer rim of Luneville, IS miles south east of Nancy and 16 miles northeast of Charmes. Opposite Luxembourg the Americans ran into nothing but rifle and machinesuns thinly manned but these few nazis, de fending their homeland for the first time, fought like fanatics and the Americans had to rip open their bunkers and pillboxes one by one witn fierce artillery and bazooka fire. Zero Hour The attack lumped off at noon from Luxembourg while mists still shrouded me mils and while the forests still were dripping from en all-night rain. The doughboys slogged through the mud and tanks slid crazily along the slippery trails. The' first thin crust of the enemy line was blown to pieces by a terrific barrage the day be fore and by point-blank lire front tlie charging tanks. Contact Barriers Hodges' combat teams below Aachen collided with belts of dragons' teeth tank barriers Huge concrete triangular snapea obstacles set deep into the eround-nd rows of forts with six-feet thick walls with steel doors and green shrubbery lor camouiiage. some torts naa sev eral inner chambers, which had to be cleaned out, and interlock' ins zones of fire. Tanks blasted them open. The defenses, built five and six years ago, proved worthless in front oi modern nrepower. " Several villages near Aachen, one of them said in a Paris broadcast to be Lammersdorf, fell in the advance. Enter Bract Some 500 miles behind the front line inside Germany, American troops smashed their way inside tile long-besieged port of Brest. U. S. medium and dive bombers bombed the Gen man garrison defense for SO min utes, despite poor weather which limited the air activity else where, and pilots reported seeing the Americans fighting the nazis n the submarine pen area west of the city. ' A security silence blacked out most, specific news from the front. It shrouded news of an earlier incursion five miles deep inside Germany northwest of Trier, perhaps (the oldest town in all the reich, Nor was any announcement from Headquar ters on allied progress at two otner points wnere' tne German pounaary naa -oeen reacnea within shelling ranee of tiie Siegfried defenses, ' ft was emphasized, however, that, the blackout certainly did not imply any reverses. CHURCH GIVES BREAD ' For years. the parish church ti St, Andrews, Ashburton, Eng land, has given a four-pound (oaf of bread to all who attend ed Friday morning prayers. Classified Ads Bring Results. rat wrauunw BOJC OFFICE STARTS You Have learned My Secret .'. . I Must Kill You! TWr't ira I story of torWwl nttiti, ticitin tints, imoas sioou! lore ... a sinister seutt Ikat eotritj aat be iinN $ 0?UXHtAot TONE i-ltitanic LAKE Another Big Hit! SORDON OLIVER S LENORE AUBERT V The Flight WSJ; ; niw'ii i yiii ani t mm v t- - V NAZI ON THE BUN Seconds after the photo above was snapped, the German officer, fleeing down a Paris street, was sprawled on the ground, downed by bullets from guns of French patriots firing through window bars seen in foreground. Remarkable action photo was taken during embattled hours before Paris was liberated. I B EVES STEP-UP WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 P) Acting Chairman J. A. Krug in dicated today mat uie war pro duction board might permit some substantial reconversion oi in dustry tills fall without waiting for me linai capitulation oi uer many. Krug was asked at a news con ference wnetner nru planned 10 eo ahead with partial reconver sion this fall whether or not Ger many had collapsed. He replied that no date hbd been chosen for such a move but added: It is true, however, that the collapse c-f C"ijfi!-': 55ife be come a fact even though some part of the German army was continuing resistance in some parts of .the country." Pleas of Dorsey, 0 if Wife, Scheduled LOS ANGELES. Sept. 14 W- Pleas of Orchestra Leader Tom my Dorsey, his wife, Actress Pat Dane, and Allen bmuey. noiiy- wo6dV;ifgure,--to an indictment charging", felonious assault Have been , sot for SeDtember ze. Theyfll'be soared (he county iail Booking routine ot pnotograpu.- Wg and fingerprinting,- Tne. exemption was granted when trie-trio surrendered in su perior, court yesterday to the county grand jury's charge of as sault last August 5 upon Actors Jon Hall and Eddie Norris. Dor sey is "a nationally known figure-," his attorney argued. Bad of $1000 each was posted. The Sierras of South Amer ica are the only place where the -llama is used for 'transpor tation. ' km mm ot tut OPENS 6:45 TODAY A That Failed &4 'SWTwflHiff PJ i Vi " -n""ir-i---)mltuJ (Continued from Page One) commandant of the Marine Bar racks, Commander R. R. Darron, captain of the Klamath naval air station, and Lt. Holmes, representing Colonel Verne Austin, commandant of Camp Tulelake. The military men spoke high ly of the work of the Com mandos and also expressed con fidence in the ability of the community to continue the work on a local basis. 1 It was pointed out, however, that USO is officially recog nized by the rmed services as recreational agency for the troops, and- there was a favor able appraisal of USO work in the camps, including tne uat set-up at Tulelake in connection with the Tulelake Cadettes. Active Program It was further pointed out that a USO program would be an active local program, and that local people would be call ed upon for the work that would make it a success. Var, ious advantages of USO through its national and international set-up" were discussed. The final action of the eve, ning was taken after a thorough understanding was reached that it would not in any way reflect upon the remarkably successful work of the Klamath Com mandos here, and that every body connected with the hos pitality program would "pitch to make any service center program succeed, under USO or otherwise. CONTINUOUS SHOW -- And - CONTINUOUS SHOW Starts t.IJK ' FfllX BR EISA IT TONV ami tAUY D. MAKCO vir.tn. y WIir IAHS SUNDAY HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FEDERAL BOAO AID SLASHED WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (T) The senate roads committee to day rewrote the postwar high way bill to slash proposed federal contributions by more than a half billion dollars and require states to match government pay ments on a 50-50 basis. Seeking to win over economy minded senators the committee revised the bill to: 1. Reduce federal contribu tions to the road system from $650,000,000 to $450,000,000 an nually for three postwar years. 2. Require the states to put up matching funds on a dollar.for dollar basis rather than 40 per cent provided in tne original bill. The federal contributions would be fixed at $'400,000,000 for the old federal-aid highway system uo,uuu,uuu lor tarm-to-market roads and $123,000,000 for urban highways. As revised the bill contem, plates a three-year road program, including state payments, cost ing $2,825,250,000 as com pur rd with the original $3,378,1150,000 and increases state payments sub stantially. A proposal by Senator Rus sell (D-Ga.) to prohibit a gov ernment contribution in excess of $200,000,000 annually unless widespread employment follows me peace was rejecieo. Split Bill Passed At Portland Show PENDLETON, Ore., Sept, 14 W) A 25-year-old man was de tained here today after a thea tre cashier said he paid her a split bill $20 denomination on the side he showed her and $1 on the other. Police Chief Charles E. Lem ons identified the man as Robert Gordon, Browne, 25, a Connecti cut native who said he worked a day in Walla Walla before com ing nere. pevcra spin 0111s were passed in Walla Walla and Pasco earlier. Treasury ofticiais were en route here today, a BOX OFFICE NEW A NEW msm A wodiy tttry f kflitbiill pltcliar wit thinks h cob pitta woo, tool ic Another BY COMMITTEE g5rF; m mwwm m nu mini .r-r;-i-.-f 7tM r ' f "-i v 1 ft 4 NO FOOlINf Ginger posing as a minor to beat full fare.xomes steaming home with the Male..zMajor operation! GIKCEH HAT ROGERS MIIXAN In mT MOJl anon Rita JOHNSON Robert BENCHLEY Progo Captured By Soviet Forces (Continued from Pago One) Plata, suburb of Warsaw on tho eastern blink of the Vistula." It was at Pruga In 1704 where the Poles inndc their last stand uguinst the great Russian General Suvarov, lately glorified by Stalin as one of the greatest of all Russian heroes. At midnight, the Kremlin an- -- Starts -- Saturday Midnight TW OUC 6ENREMAN IN HER Lift MS. "MM Hit of Hits! rsfa CLAUDE RAINS OPENS 6t45 i EDDIE ALBERT MM BARCLAY ADRIAN Big Hit ) "iMiwi few 1 1 i mm s TODAY Df ( nounccd the cupluro of SO set tlements northeast of Warsaw, raining the flanking threat to tho capital. Rokostovsky was sup ported In his frontal attack by the first Polish army of Gun, Zymunt Beiilng, while Insldo Warsaw, piirtituns of G011. Dnr were reported still hurrying the German occupants. Of the fight nrur Czecho slovakia, Berlin said: "Fierce fighting continues In tho dents at Snnok and Krosno," both captured by the Russluns. itlilliHi Continuous Show Pally Box Office. Opens 12:30 Ends Today Janet Caynor Frtdrlt March In "A Star h Born" Second Kit "Mad. 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