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Newspaper Page TextHERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON PACE TWO REVE NGE PUNCH HITS AIRFIELD, pips (Continued from Pace One) ships, a medium cargo ship and Iwo small cargo ships. Twenty - six probably were sunk a destroyer, two large whale tankers, a large trans port, 10 largo cargo ships, and 12 medium cargo ships. A floating drydock also prob ably was sunk. Ahead of Invasion The Mitschcr-Halsey armada, which since August 30 has ac counted for 258 Japanese ships and 908 planes, the bulk of them in the jfnuippines area, struck ahead of invasion forces gathering in advanced bases south and east of Mindanao. Tokyo radio said 150 carrier planes attacked in three waves in the Manila sector in the morning and 290 in the after noon. It claimed 24 were down. Tokyo announced that the pup pet president, Jose P. Laurel, declared martial law throughout the Philippines, effective the day of the raid. Confidence The dispatch of such a huge fleet toward the Philippines re flected confidence in the out c o m e of the invasion of the Palaus, 515 miles cast of Min danao, where marines are lock ed with ridge-entrenched Japa nese in one of the mos1- savage engagements of the Pacific war. Nimitz, in a communique pre ceding the special one on the Manila raid, said the leather necks on Peleliu in the south ern Palaus have won all the east shore and two small is lands nearby, and have killed more than 6000 Nipponese. But 3000 more Japanese, taking ad vantage of the most difficult terrain encountered by the Americans anywhere in the Pa cific, are putting up a bitter, bloody stand on the west coast. Ridge Key (The key to the situation is a ridge called "Bloody Nose" by the marines. Today in a broad cast from Peleliu, William Ewing, Blue network correspon dent, said the conquest of that ridge in the Umurbrogol moun tains was but a matter of hours). Demonstrating that the Unit ed States has the strength for a diversity of actions, the day of the Manila attack cruisers and destroyers off Peleliu sup ported the marines in their bit ter struggle by pouring shells into the enemy network of de fenses. Air Umbrella A constant umbrella of Amer ican planes at the invasion scene added their bombs to the at tack, after which the marines captured six more trench mor tars and 31 machineguns. Other planes swung north to prevent Japanese air bases elsewhere in the Palaus from interfering at Peleliu. - South of Peleliu, Angaur is land has been completely con quared by the 81st army divi sion against much lighter oppo sition than that massed against the marines. There 800 Nippon ese have been slain. In the Southwest Pacific, Marines Head for Invasion of Patau Islands . Ml, W&ca it Its 1S 1 it - ' - AJsA n ' i J (iVM leleuliulol Leathernecks of the First Marine Division, veterans ol Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester, board Palnu bound assault vessels at a South Pacific base. Establishing a beachhead of nearly 14 miles on Peleliu Island Bsainst stiff enemy resistance, they are closing In un principal Jap airdrome, ol the Fuiuu group. Marine Corps photo. where Gen. Douglas MacArthur has gained a base at Morotai, within 300 miles of the Philip pines, he announced today the dropping of 215 tons of explo sives on adjacent Halmahera is land and on Ceram and Celebes. m si L MPSETTANR DE HELjEFFDRGES (Continued from Page One) ing some relief to the parachut ists, picking off surrounding Ger man targets. The pesperation-born stiffen ing of the German stand was re flected along the whole 500 mile allied front as well. Lt Gen. George S. Patton's third army power drive 19 miles beyond Nancy plowed into fresh enemy armored forces in the Arrancourt area. Americans and Germans fought through the fourth day of the greatest tank battles since Normandy. Tank Battle American tankmen in that area ran into 45 more German tanks as the morning mists lift ed, after destroying 105 in three days there. " The German communique said the allied push from Nij megen had been halted, and that an all-out attack had been launched with the aim of anni hilating the isolated remnants at Arnhem, identified by Berlin as the British first airborne di vision. The Germans said yes terday the division had largely been wiped out. Reports Vary Another German broadcast said the push from the south al ready had linked up with the Arnhem force. A third said the Arnhem force already had been liquidated. Again it was de- io nrauunoa tui mm ot tut BOX OFFICE OPENS 6:45 P. M. LAST TIMES TODAY "Cowboy And The Senorita" !; - , and !; "TAMPICO" -SATURDAY ONLY- -2nd Hit- ii ACES WILD' clared that the fierce fight was continuing' and that German forces everywhere in Holland had gone over to the counter attack. Allied dispatches saying the air-borne force still held the Arnhem bridge was inconclusive, as they were dated two days ago. (Against this the BBC quoted a front reporter today as saying the Germans still held the bridge, but British troops had established a bridgehead on the north side end had the span it self under fire. The Germans were attempting to flee north over the bridge, said this broad cast recorded by CBS.) Broaden Corridor Meanwhile, the British shoved out on both sides of Eindhoven, to their rear, and broadened to 25 miles the base of their 45 mile deep corridor across Hol land through which a ten-way flow of men and armor was streaming toward the river cross ing nearest Berlin. Somercn, 10 miles cast of Eindhoven, and Wintelre, six miles westward, were reached, and the Waal crossing was made secure by wiping out in Nij megen itself a pocket of Ger mans which advance elements had not bothered with. Indian Summer Weather Here Indian summer weather pre vailed throughout the Klamath basin and Friday at 2:20 this afternoon the mercury rose to 69 degrees and was still climb ing. Autumn will make its official debut at 9:02 tonight, arriving, according to weather bureau fnrpr-asts. with fat cb-lnt. prediction of slightly warmer temperatures Saturday. Prospects for a warm week end loomed bright. Classified Ads Bring Results. (Continued from Pago One) needed German communication center for evacuation of the Bal kans. ' Kasscl, n Prussian rail center of 217,000, lies 160 miles south east of Arnhem in Holland where a definite battle to out flank the Siegfried line pro gressed. Mustang Convoy Several hundred Mustangs convoyed the Flying Fortresses and Liberators. First reports made no mention of air fights. Bombing was through overcast preventing observation. At least 30 war factories have been reported blown out in pre vious attacks on Kasscl. It is the home of the largo Gerhard Fiescler aircraft plant and a locomotive works. Major rail lines lead into the industrial Ruhr basin from Kasscl, as well as to the western front. German reports said other planes,- probably from Italy, were attacking Bavaria. Holdouts Hit The Germans also said that 600 or more British bombers had at tacked their holdout garrisons on the French channel coast at Cap Griz Nez. German fighters ventured out in greater strength yesterday in defense of the Reich itself, and 30 were shot from the cloudy ski cs ay alert American filers. Four American planes were listed as lost. An airplane pilot who has been flying in the dark for more than an hour can sec the flare of a match 12 miles away. An average tire contains as much rubber as is required for 55 pairs of army air corps goggles. SOVIET PLUNGE NABS ESTONIA CAPITAL CITY (Continued from Pago One) merits along the Gulf of Fin land and said the 30-mile isthmus between the gulf and Luke Pol pus had been ruptured. Rus sians then were reported on the outskirts of Tapa on railroads tanning nut to .Leningrad, rul linn and Riga. (A Helsinki dispatch said fires set in Tallinn by the retiring Germans -were visible from the north shore of the Finnish gulf, and violent explosions were heard Incessantly.) Enveloping Maneuver Far to the south on the east ern edge of the Hungarian plain other Russian forces begun u vast enveloping maneuver 138 miles from bomb-shattered Buda pest designed as trapping from the rear all German and Hun garian forces pinned down in northern Transylvania. Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's Estonian blitz was bolloved equalled and perhaps surpassed in strategic importance by Mar shal Roclion Y. Mulinovsky's move in western Romania im perilling Hungary, last big satel lite nation still in Hitler's dimin ishing camp. . Browder's Wife Returns to U. S. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (.V) The justice department said to day that Mrs. Ralssa Bcrkman Browder, wife of Earl Browdcr, former leader of the communist party of the United States, has returned to this country from Canada on a visa. Her trip to Canada and her return was a technical device to establish her legal right to resi dence in the United States. WEATHER OF nr PORTLAND, Sept. 22 (.1') Addle Weeks llorlon, Indian wo man of Kliiiuiilh county churned with assault with n (langi-roti weapon, was cleared today. A federal grand Jury hero relum ed u not truo bill, Mrs. Morton was arrested by Indian Officer John Ai'kell in connection with (he knifing of ijelbert I loi tun, hrr husband, which occurred at Modoc Point March 31. She was arraigned by Bert C. Thomas. U, S. coininls sioiior, on a charge of assault with a dunivcrmis weapon, and sent to Portlund for her hrurlng. Hnrlon wus brought to the hos pital here after n resident of Modoc Point hud found him bleeding severely on the floor of his cabin, which wus strewn with broken liquor bottles. He had been stabbed twice with u paring knife, but lilj wounds were not fatal. Morse to Visit Klamath Soon Wayne Morse, republican enn dldale for the office of United States senator, will spend Kit day, October 6. In Kluiuuth coun ty and fiat night will .speak at a meeting to be arranged by members of his committee. De tails will bo announced Inter. . Phil Hitchcock Is Klamnlh county chairman of the Morse (or senator committee. EIGHTH ARMY STAB SWEEPS IN PO VALLEY (Continued from Pago One) steadily northward niul keeping ouco with U. S. forces further Inliiml. The Important town of I'letrii.-uititn was ruptured, 111 miles northwest of I'lna. Tht Ui'uzlliuiis were lilno reported well up on 40(10 foot Ml, I'ruiio, six mii(s eust of I'letrusunta. The I Irii.l linn gains made pos slblt) fifth uriny unci of the vital Liiccu-Cutnulorc-rlt'lrasumu high way us a feeder for a further drive along the I.iuurlan const nod Into tliu hills overlooking lluil const, Cot Heavy The vtiln effort to hold the sagging eastern end of the Goth ic lino cost the nuzl h;avlly In manpower. An official frontline report said the 71st and limit Germnii Infantry divisions "have lout the. greuler purl of their effective fighting strength. "Losses heavier than Ciisslnir were inflicted on tho first para chute division and four other til vlitons, Including the crack 2(lth panzer division, which wns re duced to hull of Its original strength." . ' Classified Am Brirw Results Willi Slll.tlf.O 1..1H . .! I lu" ''"y ' tho rij ""im-ll, " wt, . "ours win i.. . . 1 to II p. u iron, t I " who will K im LegluTi it Eugene . 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