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Nazis Making
Bloody Stand
To Hold City
Karachev Seizure Traps
Big Force of Germans,
Nets War Equipment
MOSCOW, Aug. 10 (AP)
Four rod army divisions pushed
ahead from the captured German
bastion of 'Karachev on the 20
mile road to Bryansk today alt
er severing the last main line of
escape for nazl troops trapped
in the Orel salient.
O The Russian newspaper Prav
da said that the soviet forces
were cutting through defense
foresis, seeking to prevent the
Germans from organizing ade
quate defense lines on the Desna
river.
Karachev fell, Pravda said,
when four Russian divisions
stormed strong nazi fortifica
tions on the hills commanding
the approaches to the city and
1hen pursued the fleeing nazis in
to the streets of the burning
town.
The occupation of Karachev
closed the main line of escape
for Germans remaining in the
Orel salient following the Rus
sians' lightning drive westward.
The size of the enemy force
encircled could not be estimated
Immediately but earlier dispatch
es "initialled that the Germans
0 failed to retire a large number
at men and war machines from
I ho Orel front before t he base
at Karachev was cut off.
Kharkov Battle . Terrific
Tass reported the battle for
Kharkov had reached a climax.
The Germans were said to be
throwing troops into the battle
as soon as they could reach the
fiont and resistance was increas
ing. Soviet troops attacking Khar
' hov have advanced to within four
miles of the great industrial city
while other forces on the north
were about one mile away from
the city's ouskirts.
Tass said the battle was devel
oping with great violence'and the
red airforce was throwing great
formations of planes into the
fight.
Other troops cutting ever deep
behind Kharkov to the west seek-
Oing to isolate all German forces
in the Kharkov area have reach
ed a nobil 28 miles northwest of
the city.
Japanese Effort
To Hold Cemetery
Memorial Upset
PORTLAND, Aug. 16 (AP)
A scheduled observance to honor
Japanese dead in a Portland cem
etery was cancelled here yester
day after intervention by police.
The Portland chapter of the
Fellowship of Reconciliation,
which held religious and anti
war meetings before Pearl Har
bor, scheduled the observance of
"Hon Matsuri," a Japanese holi
day honoring the dead, as a good
will gesture to former Portland
Japanese-Americans now in re
location centers.
Their attempt to enter the
Portland Japanese cemetery was
blocked, however, by members
of the American Legion.
Deputy sheriffs were called
out, and Sheriff Pratt ordered
the crowd to disperse.
Pratt said he feared a riot and
warned Fellowship members they
would be arrested If they at
tempted to enter the cemetery,
where nearly half of the 500
gravestones were tipped over re
cently. Pratt said his order held good
"now and forever, and invited
Fellowship members to seek court
action if they wanted to dispute
a his authority Members indicated
' thev would.
Howard Willits, Y. M. C. A.
secretary and a Fellowship mem
ber, protested, "these are not the
same Japanese as we are fight
ing . . . many of them were
American citizens."
Battle at Kharkov Follows
of Karachev in Reds Smash
Accused in Gas
Stamp Thievery
The arrest of 23-year-old
Barbara Ross, above, of Oakland,
Calif., charged with illegal pos
session of 2896 gasoline ration
stamps, brought to light exis
tence of a ring with at least
96,000 stolen "A" gasoline cou
pons in Its possession. The girl
pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Job, Not Family
Status, to Govern
New 18-33 Draft
"" WXSWnGTON, " A u g. 'in
occupation, not family status,
becomes the principal yardstick
tor determining whether men of
from 18 to 38 will be inducted in
to the army under a series of
new regulations issued over the
weekend by the War Manpower
commission.
Although draft boards are ex
pected to continue giving dtte
consideration to hardships that
would be caused by the induction
of men with dependents, after
October 1 the main question will
be whether the physically fit can
serve their country better in the
armed forces or in war produc
tion and in support of the war
effort.
WMC Chairman McNutt said
the program had three objectiv
es: To hold essential workers on
war-useful jobs, to assure trans
fer of workers to jobs aiding the
war effort, and to supply men
needed for the armed forces with
out cutting war production.
To that end, these steps were
ordered:
A list of 149 "critical occupa
tions" was announced. Persons
employed in them gain super,
eligibility for deferment from in
duction. '
Draft boards were instructed to
give greater consideration than
ever to occupational deferements.
Twenty-three additional activ
ities, 27 specific job-occupations,
were added to the non-deferrable
list. Registrants, even fathers,
who remain in such occupations
become subject to reclassifica
tion unless it can be shown their
induction would cause extreme
hardship to their dependents.
(Fathers as a class become sub-
iect to induction after October
I. it previously had been an
nounced.) New standards were establish
ed governing the transfer of civil
ian workers from Job to job,
with the aim of facilitating trans
fers from less essential to more
essential war Jobs.
Joe Louis to Spar in
Tour of Army Camps
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1G (AP)
Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow will
begin a 100-day boxing exhibi
tion tour at army camps Wed
nesday, the War department an
nounced today, and after Its com
pletion will go overseas for a
similar series of exhibitions at
camps in combat zones.
The heavyweight champion will
be accompanied by his old sparr
ing partner, First Sergeant
George Nicholson, now a boxing
instructor at Mitchel Field, New
York, and by Corporal Walker
Smith, welterweight known In
the ring as "Sugar Ray Robin
son," who is Nicholson's assistant
at Mitchel Field.
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ROSEBURS, OREGON,
48 Japanese
Planes Shot
Down in Day
Allied Air Supremacy
In Pacific Reflected in
Sweep of Foe's Bases
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Aug. 16 (AP) Allied warplan-
displaying in the protection
of their ground forces a vigilance
equal to the zeal with which they
carried the attack to the enemy,
shot down 48 Japanese aircraft
23 of them bombers over the
Southwest Pacific battlefront
yesterday.
This success, reported in to
day's communique from Gen.
MacArthur's headquarters, was
achieved at a cost of only five
allied planes and not more than
three pilots. The ratio of nearly
10 to 1 bettered by far the all
over score of approximately 4 to
1 established in the six weeks
since the start of the allies' new
Pacific offensive.
' The day's victory in skies over
the Solomon islands and North
eastern New Guinea supplies
fresh evidence of increasing al
lied aerial might in a field of
war where MacArthur, cognizant
that advances by ground troops
olten must be measured in yards,
has predicted that air power will
bo decisive.
Costly Blows Listed
In a weekend of almost cease
less activity, the air forces un
der MacArthur's command also:
- Attacked without loss the great
Japanese-held port of Ballkpa
pan, on the east coast of Bor
nea, flying a record roundtrip of
more than 2,500 miles to set huge
fires among refineries, reser
voirs and tank ships;
Dumped 99 tons of explosives
yesterday on enemy positions
around Komiatum, south of Lae,
New Guinea, to extend the de
struction wrought by 350 tons of
bombs unloaded on Salamaua in
the two preceding days;
Heavily machine-gunned the
enemy's centra! airdrome of Ka
hili on Bougainville in the north
ern Solomons, damaging many
grounded aircraft;
Bombed Vila, Japan's last re
maining airfield in the central
Solomons;
Raided enemy-held villages and
possible supply centers on New
Britain and New Guinea;
Sank or damage 18 more Jap
anese supply barges off the
Coasts of tlwse islands.
Oregon Liquor Users
Allowed Bonus of Rum
PORTLAND, Aug. 1G (API
Rationed Oregon liquor consum
ers today entered a comparative
ly lush period when they could
have one bonus bottle of rum.
Relenting briefly from the
strict rationing that limited cus
tomers to a pint weekly, the state
liquor commission put the ration-free
rum on sale until Wed
nesday. The limit, however, will
be one bottle, and rationing reg
ulations will continue on whisky,
gin and brandy.
Oregon Prison Fugitive
Of 2 Weeks Captured
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 16 (API
Louis Llllie, state prison convict
who escaiwd two weeks ago, was
recaptured late Saturday by pri
son guards near Mill City. His
wite was with him.
Lillle has five years left to
serve of an 8-year sentence for
horse threft In Deschutes county-
3 Persons Die After
Poisoned Mussels Feed
EUREKA, Calif., Aug. 16
(AP) Two men and a five-year
old hoy died In a hospital here
last night from eating off season
mussels, coroner Lloyd Wallace
reported. Three other persons
were believed recovering from
the poisoning.
MONDAY. AUGUST 16, 1943.
Gasoline Ration
Coupon Value Cut
In Two Regions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16
(AP) Gasoline ration coupon
values were cut to three gallons
each In the middlewcst and south
west today, scaling down toward
the sharply restricted eastern
motoring allotments, and a gov
ernment spokesman let it be
known that the west coast ana
Roclc mountain areas are not
being overlooked. :
Chester Bowles, general man
ager of the OPA told the nation
in a broacast last night that the
question of extending reduced
rations throughout the country is
being studied by Interior Secre
tary Ickes.
'However, as matters stand to
day," Bowles added, "It looks as
though our reserve stocks on the
west coast, and in the Rockies
are sufficient to carry us along
at the present rate, at least for
the time being." .
Bowles, who held out the hope
of a slight increase for eastern
motorists early in September, ir
they cooperate with the no-pleasure
driving rule, said he was
satisfied "that folks living in the
remainder of the country would
not want to see people living on
the other side of the Rockies put
to any inconvenience which is not
absolutely necessary.
4-Point Program
For Roosevelt and
Churchill Listed
QUEBEC, Aug. 16 (AP)
Prime Minister Churchill was
back in Quebec today after a
three day visit with President
Roosevelt at Hyde Park and the
American chief executive was
expected here shortly for the
opening of their war strategy
conference.
Military chiefs of staff of both
nations already are on hand.
Developments during the early
phases of the war talks last week,
after the Prime Minister's arriv
al from England Tuesday, sug
gested a four-point agenda for the
final stages.
Allied military strategy for
Europe presumably occupies the
top spot among all matters the
allied leaders must examine.
The other three points appar
ently slated for consideration are
linked with the first. They are:
1. The conduct of the war In
the Pacific.
2. The immediate political pro
blems which will spring from ex
panded combat action in Europe
and there is little room left for
such action except on the con
tinent proper.
3. The long-range political is
sues which will arise upon the
attainment of total victory and
the means of achieving effective
collaboration on them among all
the United Nations, Including
Russia.
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Rescue Crooner
Pasadena police officers tiad a work
lut as they were forced to restrain
hordes of young admirers of Crooner
Prank Sinatra, center, who arrived
In Southern California to star In an
RKO-Radio movie and appear in
Hollywood Bowl. "Gosh," Bald Slna
ira dazedly, after running the gaunt
let of youi'-'"' vho met him at
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Ex-Convict at Coos Bay
Admits Iowa Slaying
MARSIIFIELD, Ore., Aug. l(i
(AP) District Attorney Flaxel
said Saturday an 11-year-old
Iowa slaying had been solved by
the confession of an ex-lowa
convict who surrendered to po
lice here. . ,
Flaxel said the man, Identify
ing , himself as Russell B. 'Gar
Ithr'. walked into tho police -station
with tho announcement he
had waylaid a man named "Jes
sen" in Murray, la., robbed him
of $250 and loft his body lying,
where it fell, across railroad
tracks. A train passed before the
body was discovered.
Garrls said he had served a
term in Iowa for automobile
theft, then went to Medford,
where he lived until June, when
he came to Marshfleld as a bak
er, Flaxel added.
Iowa authorities reported the
playing was that of Chris Jcssen
in 1932, Flaxel said.
Auto Upset Fatal to
Camp Adair Soldier
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 16 (API
Private John Bonner, Camp
Adair, whoso home is Alvard,
Texas, was killed Saturday night
when an automobile in which he
was riding overturned on the Sa-(
lem-Silverton road nine miles
east of Salem.
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Routed Nazis
Attempting
To Quit Sicily
Debacle's Finale Taking
Place in Vicinity of
Messina Ferry Route
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 16.
(AP) United States troops were
overrunning the axis rear guard
today In the vicinity of Mllazzo,
14 miles west of Messina, and It
was officially stated that the end
of the Sicilian campaign "Is now
at hand."
The Germans were in flight.
All Indications are that, the
nazis have pulled out even their
delaying parties and left Italian
units to face the climactic British
and American push.
The U. S. Seventh army and
the British Eighth army raced
forward as rapidly as blown-up
roads and diminishing resistance
permitted.
(Admitting that axis forces are
quitting Sicily, the Berlin radio
declared nevertheless that the
Messina strait was heavily guard
ed and firmly in German hands.
"Anglo-American attempts to stop
the ferrying service (to tho Ital
ian mainland) will be futile," It
said.)
Escape Ruse Detected.
In the usual sense, the Sicilian
"front" no longer exists. How
ever a ring of strongpolnts has
been formed about the outskirts
of Messina, aerial reconnaissance
showed.
Official dispatches said num
bers of Germans donned civilian
clothing and attempted to Infil
trate. American lines to. reach, the
rear area. Many were captured.
Military booty now In American
hands includes 293 75-millimeter
guns as well as some larger artil
lery pieces and 18 tanks. The
number of prisoners was not an
nounced, mainly because they are
being rounded up too fast for
counting. More than 130,000 were
held last week. . -' .'
In addition to the ring of strong
points about Messina, allied units
are coming within range of 15
inch batteries on the Italian shore
which can throw shells weighing
more than a tone about 20 miles.
Ferry Route Blasted.
German troops are expected to
man the miniature hedgehog for
tincations about Messina, on a
radius some five miles from the
heart of the city, If the allied pur
suit endangers them before the
main nazl force have had time to
escape.
The Germans crossing to the
mainland generally use power
launches anci the gun-bearing fer
ries, which make the two-mile
(Continued on page 4)
Nazis Execute Defiant
Norway Police Chief
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 1G (AP)
-i-A German announcement from
Oslo declared today that Gunnar
Ellfsen, chief of Norway's civil
police, had been executed and tho
execution of other Norwegian
ol fleers in a purge to compel the
police to enforce nazl occupation
orders was threatened.
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Stricken Italian Populace
Demands Peace; Berlin Hit;
Nazis Blast at Portsmouth
LONDON, Aug. 16. ( AP ) Milan, Italy's greatest in'
dustrial city, was hit for the third time in four nights by RAP,
bombers last night and accounts from neutral sources indicated
it was an area of desolation and panic, r
As the bombers took the long trail over the Alps, RAIT,
Mosquito bombers again raided Berlin. ,
Dispatches from Switzerland said thousands of Milan's
citizens paraded this morning, five hours after the RAF bomb
ers left, in a demonstration for peace. With debris IS to 30
feet high in the streets, Milan has virtually ceased to exist as at
city, the dispatches said.
' . Carrying forward the attack, a strong force of bombers
today, flew over the coast of Britain in two-hour long formation!
accompanied by a procession of fighters. They returned short
ly before noon and smaller bombers took up the attack. .
Ninety U-Boats
Of Axis Sunk in
Last 3 Months
Official Report Also Says
Six American War Craft
Lost in Sixty-Day Period
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16
(AP) Axis U-boats have been
destroyed at the rate of about
one a day for the past three
months in allied sea offensives
which, nn official announcement
says, have resulted In the loss of
six American warships during
tho past GO days.
More than 90 enemy subma
rines were sent to the bottom
during May, June and July while
United. States undersea boats
continued to exact a heavy toll
of Japanese shipping.
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill, in a joint
statement issued over the week
end called for an intensified of
fensive against the U-boats, warn
ing that the enmy still has great
reserves, of submarines. The bat
tle must be continued relentless
ly - bol h vt - -sou - and -in- the shl p
yards, they said.
Shortly after the Roosevelt
Churchill statement was Issued,
the navy reported the sinking of
seven more Japanese vessels and
the damaging of five others by
American submarines. Tho re
port raised to 217 the number of
Japanese vessels sunk since the
start of the war In the Pacific.
Twenty nine ships have been list
ed as probably sunk and 63 as
damaged.
A navy communique yesterday
reported the loss of six Ameri
can warships. The submarines
Pickerel and the destroyer Mad
dox topped the list, which also
Included tho gunboat Plymouth,
the submarine chaser POIDG, the
mine sweeper Sentinel and the
submarine rescue vessel Red
wing. The sinkings raised to 110 the
number of American warships
reported sunk, overdue and pre
sumed lost, or destroyed to pre
vent capture by the enemy, since
the war started.
Ryckman, Oregon Fish
Hatcheries Head, Dies
OREGON CITY, Ore., Aug. 10.
(AP) Matt L. Ryckman, 74, su
perintendent of state fish hatch'
erles, died at his home in Clacka
mas county today after an Illness
of several days.
An employee of the commission
since 1902, he had been hatchery
superintendent since 1920. The
present syslom of hatcheries was
established under his guidance.
Ills widow, a son und a daugh
ter survive.
Ellsworth Invited to
Speak at San Francisco
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
has been invited to address a
meeting of the Republican Post
war Policy association In San
Francisco, Aug. 30. Due to pre
vious commitments, however, he
will not be able to attend. The
association is preparing Its pro
gram for the San Francisco meet
ing and Invited Ellsworth to be
one of the principal speakers.
Salem Residents Urged
To Help in Canneries
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 16 (AP)
The U. S. employment service
pleaded today for hundreds of
Salem residents to work In can
neries to help In the bean pack.
Housewives wore asked to work
full shifts, and business men
were asked to work half shifts
at night.
Many bean pickers are needed.
Last night's attack on Milan
was made In the bright light of a
full moon. Targets In the cltv
and the suburbs were plastered
with bombs which set fires visi
ble at the Swiss frontier hours
after the attack was ended. ;
Swiss dispatches said thou
sands of refugees were fleelne;
the stricken cltv in confusion
while armed guards futilely at
tempted to restrain them.
Travellers reaching the Swls
frontier from Milan asserted that
two towers of the cathedral had
collapsed, the Sorresco palaco
was destroyed and the royal pal
ace damaged. In the battered .
Scale Farina freight yards, they
kidded, rails stuck up like up
rooted trees.
The attacking planes drovn
through heavy anti-aircraft -lira
to reach their targets.
The Mosquito attack on tho
German capital, details of which
were .not Immediately announc
ed, gave Berliners a taste oC
things to come.
An air ministry communique,
said today that a number of ene
my fighters were eneountred by
the Milan-bound bombers and at
least two were shot down. "V
"Other aircraft were engaged
In extensive mlnelaylng In ene
my waters," the communique add
ed. , .
The air-ministry snld 10 bomb-'
ers failed to return and two fight- ;
ers were missing.
Nazis Blast Portsmouth '
The German air force, mean
while lashed Portsmouth with
the heaviest assault In two years
last night and lost five of some.
25 raiders sent over in this and
other scattered raids on coastal
towns. , -
The raiders, scattering their
bombs over widely separated
parts of the city, caused fairly
heavy casualties including a
number killed.
The heaviest damage was In
flicted in the working class sec
tion of the port, which was hard
hit In previous raids.
The new RAF blow sustained
a steady British-American air of
fensive that included raids Sat
urday night on Milan and Ber
lin, on the axis airfields at S.
Omer, France, In daylight yester
day, and on six enemy airdrom
es In France and Holland at dusk.
Strong forces of Flying Fort
resses, roaring across the chan.
nel at the latest hour they ever
have raided Europe, blasted th
six airfields, officially desnbed
by the U. S. Eighth air force an
"Germany's most Important op
erational fighter aidromes In
western Europe." American Muu
rauders hit St. Omer.
"OPEN CITY" DECLARATION
SEEN AS BADOGLIO TRICK
LONDON, Aug. 16 (AP) Be
lief that the Italian declaration ot
Rome as an "open city" was
merely a trick hy Prlemler Bad
ogllo to spare it from further
bombardment appeared to be
growing In Great Britain today
and Lord Beaverbrook's London
Daily Express bluntly demanded
that Allied war attacks be con
linued until Italy quits the war. "
There has been no official com
ment In London on the Italian
declaration and none was antic
ipated In the absence of Prime.
The Rome radio Itself warned
Italians that they could export
Minister Churchill in Canada,
security from bombs only after
tho Italian declaration is offici
ally accepted by the Allies.
British suspicion that Badog
llo's declaration was nothing but
a ruse was founded upon the fact
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ceeded Wrier as No. 1 hatchet
man of the Reich, there should
bo groat change In naxi policy
as great as the difference be
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