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Thlf fortified Italian rock Ilea midway of the nRrrow Sicilian atrait, and ai long aa axis forcea .hold It passage of the Mediter ranean by our ships will not be Oiafc. We need the Mediterranean tea route NOW. DY the name proceu of reason- Ing, the storming of Sicily and Sardinia la not unlikely possibly at any moment. A glance at your map will tell you why. In axla hands, they too threaten the Mediter ranean tea route. A CONCERTED attack by our " land and aea forcea- on Hit ler's fortreai of Europe Is by no means so Immediately certain. Its launching (although Inevit able sooner, or later) will depend Upon facta which are known only to our higher leaders. Such, for oxemple. as the Status of Gorman morale under Aiustained and GROWING attack wfrom the air by day and by night. .. . .- ' A.ND 018 success or failure of the German submarine cam paign. We mustn't forget that failure of their submarino cam paign, followed by revolt of U-boat crews, was the real start of the German crack-up In 1D18. 'TWERE are straws In the wind again today maybe faked and meaningless, mnybo signif icant. Stockholm dispatches quote Germans as saying that the pres ent "war of nerves" Is affecting the British more than the Ger mans. When you insist that the other fellow is being hurt worse than you arc, it's usually a sign of nervousness on your part. Q, Stockholm says the Germans aro beginning to admit that round-the-clock bombing is "awful" on the nerves of people, whether the bombs fall In tho Immediate vicinity or not. ALSO from Stockholm conic stories of INCREASED Gestapo 'crct police) activities to bobber sagging German moral These activities aro dcsorW as "efficient," which is protabiy true. History tells us that fear of tho secret police is one of the most numbing of human tears. Czccho-Slovaklan and Yugo IhvIhii rcnorts tell of Increasing ' activities by guerrilla bands re cruited from tho desperate and hate-driven peoples of con quered European and Balkan fltoimtries. Another of history's lessons Is , that fear of slave rebellions is a deadly fear and these guerrilla 1 activities in the conquered coun tries are akin to slave rebellions, Because they are inspired by hatred that borders on insanity, they are bloody and terrible be yond belief. GERMANY itself is filled with what amounts to SLAVE labor u nfortunate people forcibly Imported from the con quered countries to work under duress for the Germans. This fear of the horrors of a slave rebellion can never be absent from the minds of Germans. - It is an ever-present, TER RIFYING anxiety, which can't 0 c good for sustained morale. . EXPERIENCE tells us we can't be sure of the accuracy of reports of air losses. Still, the dispatches have been consistent ly reporting German plane losses that are far in excess of ours. -i If this is true, and if it can (Continued on Page Five) t atei ITALIANS FLEE! SET TO Panteljeria Is Blasted Again: Commandos Test Lampedusa LONDON. June 10 ") The Italian fleet "Is at action stations ready to stand up to and to op pose the enemy's attacks and to repulse them," Admiral Arturc Riccardi, the fleet commander, was quoted in a Rome Navy Day broadcast today. The broadcast was recorded by The Associated Press. "Any moment now may be the eve of the battle. . . ," the Rome radio quoted Riccardi as saying. "Our large naval units, in spite of their apparent Inertia, aro preparing for the enemy's of fensive." ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 10 VP) Allied air forces steadily whittling away at axis resistance on the Mediterranean outposts, havo executed new air assaults on bomb-scorred Pantrllerla and Sicily in connection with scout ing raid by British commandos against Lampedusa, It was an nounced today. Tit Defenses Striking in darkness from the sea Monday night, the com mandos tested the defenses of Lampedusa, tiny Italian prison Isle 80 miles south of the in vasion stepping stone of Pan tclleria. and retired with light casualties after completing their (Continued on Page Two) Applications on Ration Book 3 Due at Midnight Applications for war ration book 3 must be filed by mid night tonight, the district OPA warned todBy. If the applications are post marked later than midnight to night, they will be processed after August 1. If for any rea son applications were not mailed, they should bo made lifter August 1. No new appli cations will be accepted until after that date. Books should be mailed out by July 21, and if they are not received by that time, this should be reported to the local OPA office. The stub taken from the application card should be brought to the office when the report is made. Books will not bo In use for about two or three months, according to local of ficials. If application blanks have not been received, they may be ob tained at tho general delivery window at local postoffices. FEND THRUST State Moves In to Halt Zoot-Suiter, Service Men Disorders' at Los Anqeles LOS ANGELES, June 10 (P) State Attorney General Robert W. Kenncy arrived today with more than a dozen special in vestigators under orders from Gov. Earl W. Warren to find tho cause of and aid local and military authorities In stamping out tho tide of zoot-sulter-scrv-ice man conflict which has swept almost unbridled through the city for nearly a week. As he stepped from a train ho was confronted by reports of new outbreaks in Los An geles and environs; the slashing of a young woman by .three girls suspected of gang affilia tions, a pitched battle at near by industrial Watts between some 90 sailors and marines and more than 100 Juvenile gang sters, and the invasion of pri Fuji" Miners Musicians Beaten When Mistaken For ZooUSuiters PHILADELPHIA, Juno 10 VP) A pianist and a saxophonist in Gene Krupa's dance band were mistaken for zoot-sulters and se verely beaten by two unidenti fied sailors early today in a Broad street subway station. The pianist, Michael Marmar osa, 17, of Pittsburgh, was taken unconscious to Hahnemann hos pital and attendants said ho pos sibly suffered a skull fracture. The saxophonist, Boniface de Franco, 20, of Philadelphia, was treated for a cut lip. The musicians playing with the band at a dance hall here, were wearing their band uni forms light blue gabardine Jackets, darker trousers, starch ed white shirts and bow ties. Be fore the attack, De Francl said, "both sailors mumbled some thing about root suits." Police believed the sailors (both wearing campaign ribbons, De Franco said) were activated by fights In Los Angeles between servicemen and young men wearing zoot-suits.' De Franco said they appeared intoxicated. They fled after the scuffle. OPA SUITS WEE Local Meat Packers Named in Federal Action PORTLAND, June 10 VP) Triple damage suits were filed against two Klamath Falls meat packers in Oregon federal dis trict court today charging sale of beef and pork over ceiling prices. Jerome S. Bischoff, chief attor ney of tho OPA's Klamath Falls district office, said one charge was against C. Ed Johnson, doing business as the Pauley Packing company of Klamath Falls. Dam age asked comes to about $2100. Bischoff said all sales were to Klamath Falls butchers over a two-month period. Bischoff said several months ago the OPA filed an injunction action against this company charging upgrading of meat. ' Bischoff said the other suit was against M. T. Bratton and George Bratton, doing business as the Klamath Packing com pany with $850 asked. The charge also was sale above ceil ing prices. George Bratton, head of the Klamath Packing company, said today that the action brought by the OPA resulted from a misunderstanding and that he believes It con bo settled with out difficulty. He. said the firm is laboring against many problems to pro vide meat for local consump- (Continued on Page Two) vate homes it) Watts by uniden tified men, some of them In U. S. uniforms, seeking to ferret out members of the fancifully garbed young mobvn. , "This Is a statewf e pr6ljm and we intend to get to the bot tom of It," Kenny said as he went into a conference with a citizens' committee of five ap pointed by the governor to aid the investigation. Kenncy's en tire staff is in Los Angeles, he announced. ' Kenny's statement that the problem is a statewide one was given point , by . reports from San Diego that bands of service men had roamed last night and early today through that con gested city's downtown district in search -of zoot-sulters. Some 180 sailors and marines were NT WALKOUT WILL Ickes Warns Workers Against Another ' Stoppage WASHINGTON, June 10 (IP) John L. Lewis denounced to day as "another step to politi cal tyranny In America" the announcement by Secretary Ickes that coal miners would be fined $1 a day for their June 1-8 walkout WASHINGTON, June 10 VP) Secretary Ickes said today that miners who participated in the June 1-7 walkout from government-operated pits would be fined In accordance with their FAIRMONT, W. Vs., June 10 An official of United Mine Workers district 31, who de clined use of his name, said to day that union miners "would not stand for" the order of Fuel Administrates Ickes that they be fined for th Jun -t walkout" , .," . - .- ' The spokesman said that ''this means another walkout" If the government attempts to assess the penalty, which usu ally amounts to 11 a day. contracts, which usually pro vide penalties of SI per day if a miner fails to work without good reason. Ickes acted as federal boss of the mines. Most of John L. Lewis' 530, 000-odd United . Mine Workers were out from June 1 through June 5, making them liable for fines of $5 each for the five- day absence from the mines. (Continued on Page Two) Bombing Bothers Nazis More Than Invasion Chatter STOCKHOLM, June 10 VP) The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm's Tldningen said in a dispatch today that nazi official circles reported the allied bom bardment of German cities was having worse effects on the peo ple of the reich than "the inva sion nerve war." "It's a damned serious thing," Adolf Hitler's newspaper Voelk ischer Beobachter was quoted. Informed military circles were said to have declared that "the European Fortress" was pre pared lor invasion and that the war of nerves was affecting the British more than the Germans. They added, however, that they could no longer hide the fact that daily round-the-clock aerial- sorties over Germany were "awful on the health and nerves of the people," whether bombs fell in their immediate vi cinity or not. arrested, turned over to , the shore patrol and taken back to their stations. Betty Morgan, a waitress, was the woman attacked by the three young girls as she was taK.ng p -morning walk near the Third street tunnel early today. "Let's get her," . she quoted the girls as saying. "One Jumped on my. back," said Miss Morgan. "A second tackled me around the legs, and a third struck me. Then the one slashed me with a knife or razor." , '. "' ' ' Miss Morgan, 22,- said her as sailants wore black skirts, the attire affected by the "Black Widow" gang of girls who in the past often.- have accompan (Continued on Page Two). CHARITIES Allied-Axis Air Bottle t 'I .. jLVf:---M:iiiilii'i'1'-- Hare's fast action for you. This picture was taken when a formation of V. S. army air force B-2S Mitchell bombers and an escort of P-38 fighters engaged aa axi air conToy of 35 planes ever the Sicilian straits and shot down 25 of ih enemy ships. The enemy planes. In circles and on pointed out by arrow, are literally being riddled by. machine gun and cannon fire. Not how splashes of water from shell axis plan whil at top another ports are under attack in this birds? viw of tb fight Official German Raiders Shot ' Down in Action in Leningrad Area y,...,f, ;n-r -fry By WILLIAM MeOAFnifv MOSCOW, June 10 In creasingly vigorous air battles were reported today from widely separated points of the front as the German force and the soviet plane fleet continued to fight it out in a prelude to a 1943 land offensive. . Dispatches from Bataisk, 10 miles south of Rostom, disclosed that air fighting had flared up again in the Don river valley. The news of the Don basin aerial war came on the heels of German raids on the Volkhov front 60 miles southeast of Len ingrad, where 24 German planes were reported shot down. From 150 to 160 German planes were declared destroyed in Russian bombing raids on German air dromes Tuesday night. The Rus sians said they lost 26 planes. Red Plant Attacked (The German high command communique said heavy German bombers made a "concentrated" attack last night on an important soviet armament plant at. Yaros lavl, 160 miles northeast of Mos cow on the Volga river, leaving fires burning over an extensive area. . .. (The communique, broadcast by the German radio and re corded by the Associated Press, also said that the nazi air force destroyed 16 Russian landing boats on the east coast of the Sea of Azov yesterday, and that light German naval forces sank two Russian supply vessels off the Caucasus coast. It said the land front was quiet.) The intensity of the Russian defense was testified to by Ger man pilots captured during a raid on Kursk June 2 when, the Russians said, 162 nazi craft were shot down. Pravda, the communist party newspaper, quoted a German (Continued on- Page Two) Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE - . R. H. E. Washington 0 .3 .0 Boston 2 8 0 Wynn, Scarborough (8), and Early; Judd and Partee. - , R H E New York 8 10 2 Philadelphia 2 .71 Chandler a: id Sears;. Flores, Burrows (6) and Swift. ; ' R. H. . E. Chicago ......:11 17 1 Detroit , 5 11 1 . Grove and Tresh; Trout, Gor slca (l);'Henshaw (8),'Overmire (9), and Richards.' , . , NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Boston L, 3 4 0 Brooklyn 4 14 0 Javery, Donovan (9) and Po land; Newsom, ' Macon (9) and Win.' - - - Over Sicilian Waters; 25 , , ' , , it,', is,' ' '' y I i 1 fire of American plane at xtrm left almost engulf tb led U. S. craft . circles to mak anothar attack. Twelve enemy trans Grange Confab Stumped by Jap Problem EUGENE, June 10 VP) The Oregon State grange, unable to agree on proposed resolutions concerning the future status of Japanese-Americans on the Pa cific coast, today awaited revised recommendations frqrnts foreign' affairs committee.1 After more than three hours debate in closed session, the 70th annual convention last night re ferred the entire Japanese prob lem .to the committee with in structions to report to- the as sembly again today. - . , Officials declined to disclose either the scope of the commit tee's original resolutions or the issues on which the assembly deadlocked, but they said they were impressed by the fair at titude of the discussions. It was understood that a dozen or more resolutions on various, phases of the Japanese problem had been drafted in committee. Stim-son Defends WMACs' Morals WASHINGTON, June 10 CD- Secretary of War btlmson sam today that "sinister rumors aim ed at destroying the reputation" of the WAACs through charges of immorality "are absolutely and completely false." "I refer," Stimson said at a press conference, "to charges of immorality and particularly to the allegation that the war de partment has agreed to the issu ance of contraceptives and pro phylactic equipment to the mem bers of this corps." He added that "anything which would interfere with their recruiting or destroy the reputa tion of the corps and, by so do ing, interfere with increase in the combat strength of our army, would be of value to the enemy. The repetition of any unfounded rumor concerning this corps les sens confidence in it and is ac tually an aid to the enemy." Wind-Blown Balloons Used By Japs to Fire Forests EUGENE, June 10 (P) In cendiary bombs carried by wind blown free balloons have been dropped on - Oregon forests by the enemy in attempts to' start forest fires, Lt. Col. James W. Fraser, member of an army party now touring logging and lumber operations in this area, revealed today. The army man said the method of attack was not "the oretical," but has been used with success in World War II. , He did not specify the area on the coast where the attacks were made. He said the device was used J'ln 1942." 'The balloons, probably re leased by enemy submarines, carry a cluster of incendiary bombs, timed to drop and ex plode when they are blown' in from the sea over the Oregon forests. - - i Col. : Fraser is - warning -log- . . . ", ' i Enemy Craft Downed if , Telepnoto U. 8. army air forces photo. THRUST AT JAPS OFFING, SAYS CURTIN Allies' Ready to. Take '.Offensive in. Pa- 'ctfic7 Belief" ?"y wiLLIAM BONI .' CANBERRA, ' Australia, June .10( Prime : Minister John Curtin Indicated today that the time is approaching when the al lies' strategy of defensive war fare in the southwest Pacific may give way to a policy of limited and perhaps full-scale attack up on the Japanese. 'The holding' war imposed on us under circumstances of great difficulty has been an obligation under global strategy 'Which has been discharged," Curtin - de clared. "I feel-the pressure on this country is to be thrown back on the enemy." . .. Talks to MacArthur - . ' ' The prime minister's declara tion was part of a formal state ment issued on the basis of his meetings at Sydney June 7 with General Douglas MacArthur, al lied commander-in-chief in this theatre of war. The two conferred twice dur ling -the-day which Curtin de scribed as a "good day" from the viewpoint of Australia. An an- j nouncement of the meeting made toqay.m parliament saia raacAr thur and. Curtin surveyed the outlook for the Southwestern Pa cific campaign in the light of general strategy agreed upon at Washington recently by Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,. June 10 P) A lone Liberator braving stormy weather which grounded most allied fliers, churned up an atmospheric disturbance of its own while on armed reconnais- (Continued on- Page Two) gers and millmen to be on tho alert for repetitions of this method of attack and others which have been tested by the enemy. The army man -is . now appear ing at mills connected with the Willamette valley tree farms or ganization, aiding in setting up a forest protection staff made up of the trained , woodsmen working for these companies.' . He predicted that at a "zero hour" chosen by the enemy, a pnncentrated attack on Oregon forests can be expected, utiliz ing not only tne Daiioon-carry-ing incendiaries, but airplane bombing, shelling from sub marines and trained saboteurs. He also warned against the possibility that lookout stations might be ' strafed . from the air and that delayed action bombs be used.. to injure . forest fire fighters. Ml JDLTED ANEW BY u. S! Builds Force For Summer At- ' - tack on Axis By ROGER GREENE , H Associated Press War Editor Germany'! bomb- frazzled nerves received a new Jolt today with, the official disclosure that great fleet of American heavy bombers, . doubled In strength since March, will carry their full share of the aerial offeiudv against the reich this summer, i In London, Ma J .-Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U. S 8th air force, said the Americana would strike with multiple day light raids synchronized with the British mass raids by night, and would approximate the RAF's huge bomber strength by the end of summer.' ' Gen. Eaker said 17. S. fighter and medium bomber forces also were growing rapidly and would be ready to play a full part in supporting an allied invasion of Europe. .. . i I Enemy Loss Heavier I In May alone,' be said, more than 1600 American heavy bombers raided the continent and dropped 5,600,000 pounds of explosives on 19 targets. Sixty two of the big planes were lost, , but they shot down 359 enemy aircraft and probably destroyed 93 more.. The losses -were -under four per cent . To Equal RAT .. Soon the American force will be strong enough to hit the axis in Europe at three, four, five or more places in a single day, Eak er declared, with each fleet capa ble of obliterating any normal industrial . target. .-.'! . . He disclosed that nearly 300 four-engined bombers participat ed in the American daylight raid on targets at St. Nazaire, Ren nes and La Pallice In France on May 29. -. . --, :--. " Eaker . told a press conference that the American heavy bomb er force would approximate the RAF's bomber strength by the end of the summer. " He said the American Flying Fortresses and Liberators would continue their precision raiding in daylight ith. relatively small individual . forces rather than adopting the fritish mass raiding technique by night or day. - Eaker's disclosure followed a statement from a reliable source here that a unit of Flying Fort resses had been assigned to un dertake night bombing experi ments from Britain with the RAF. - - , NEWS Pay-As-You-Go , Battle Ends as FR Signs Bill WASHINGTON, June 10 (&) America's 44,000,000 individual income taxpayers were put on a pay-as-you-go basis today, as President Roosevelt signed Into law legislation abating 75 to 100 per cent of one year's taxes and imposing a 20 per cent withholding levy against wages and salaries, effective July 1. ) The president's action formal ly wrote an end to the bitterest party legislative battle of recent times, during which house dem ocrats thrice succeeded, by nar row margins, in battering down the republican-propelled Ruml; plan which would have can celled out an entire tax year. After a four months' stale; mate on varied modifications of the plan originated by Beards ley Ruml, chairman of the fed eral reserve bank of New York,, the compromise legislation mad law today was brought out by a house-senate conference com mittee. ''- - " ': ' i -R ep. - Knutson (R-Minn.),.' house republican tax spokes man, described the approved act as "75 per cent of . tha i Ruml P,'B" - i ' m i .i K7M 1
