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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1943)
mm , ill!.: Ob 8-mtnul blast on sirens and whittle Juna '30Hlgh 10, Low 4S Precipitation aa ol Juna U. 14$ Stream year to data 17.71 Last year 13.13 Normal 11.71 J It tha ilgnal lor a blackout In Klamath rails. Anolhar long blait, during a black' at, It ilgnal lor all-claar. In (iiciu tleaary periods, watch your ilraat llghti, ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 1. 1943 Number 9838 1 1 ! ' 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS raw iii 1 : : : MM ( o f 0 ft r r1- ilmiirn nnnnnr H IHLULU DUIVIDG I r olilSiB BRING HAVOC Mm rm I I By FRANK JENKINS AS gucasod ycslerdoy, the fight In tho Solomons It a big one. Washington dlspulchcs (nil the newt comn to Washington first) refer to It bi a "vaat ollled of fensive" aimed at tho heart of Jupun's southwest Pacific de fense!, and "Informed observer'1 (a war term coined to Include men who KNOW but cun't let their namei be used) think it Is likely to be the spark thnt may touch off another momentous and possibly decisive naval fight. These men express the belief that the Tokyo warlords can't much longer avoid nn open test of sea-power if they hope to stem our new attack. "THEY think the Japs may now be compelled to throw bottle ship, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines tho whole range of sea power Into a MAJOR countcr-of fensivo against us. The new offensive is a co ordinated operation, in which all our army and navy forces aro participating, under the supremo command of MocArthur. AS to accomplishments so fur, War Secretary Stimson (usually dependable) suys tills morning: "Reports are incom j plate, but satisfactory progress apparently . has- already .. been made." . AS nearly as can be pieced to gother from tho dispatches this morning. It Is a three prongod atlack, with landings made on Rendova Island and nearby New Georgia, on the un occupied Trobriand and Wood lark groups of Islands, and at Nassau bay, car Salamaua, in New Guinea. Your map will indicate to you that tho landings were mode on a practically straight front run ning almost due cast ond west from New Gcorglu to Sulamauu a distance of soma 700 to 80U miles. THE only fight of which we have anything like a clear ac count was at Rendova and Vim I Irorbor. Wo TOOK Vlru village, ' which Is a shallow harbor some 40 miles northwest of tho Jap airfield at Munda and used by tho Japs to land supplies. What happened at Rendova only five miles and therefore within easy artillery range of tho Jap airfield isn't wholly clear from scattered reports as this Is written. QUR men started ashoro at dawn from naval transports. Tho Japs counter-attacked Im mediately with 110 planes of all types, of which 65, or more than half, wore shot down by our planes and the antl-iiircraft bat teries of our supporting naval vessels. Seventeen of our planes failed to return from Iho fight, and wo lost ONE transport tho Me k Cawlcy, which was hit and dia abled by Jap torpedo planes AFTER she had put her troops ashore and was later finished off by a Jop submarine. Tho dispatches report that all tho transport's porsonncl were re moved before she sank and NO LIVES were lost In tho sinking. That's about all tho definite news from Rendova, yT tho sumo time at Nassau Bay, near SnlnmniiH, 730 miles to the west of Rendova we started putting men ashore from transports in landing barges guarded by motor trans ports. They got ashore and started Into the jungle toward Mubo, 12 miles Inland, where our troops that had come up from Port Moresby largely by air transport, have been fighting tho Jops for months. ; -. Tho Japs In between aro ap parently caught . between two fires Meanwhile landings had been made on ' the unoccupied Tro briand .. and ..Woodlark island (Continued on Page Seven) Four Axis Air Fields Hit Without Opposition By NOLAND NORCAARO ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 1 W) United States bombers and fighter-bomber of the northwest African air forco blasted Paler mo and four axis air fields on Sicily yesterday, virtually with out opposition from enemy fight ers, It was announced today. (Tlio Italian high command communique, broadcast from Rome 'and recorded by The As sociated Press, reported "great damage and muny casualties" at Palermo, a port of northwest Sicily. Sardinian targets also were attacked, the communique said. Fires were reported start ed and several " buildinga de stroyed In Cagliari. Bubs Continue Pressure (Submarine pressure upon axis supply lines continued. Tho London admiralty announced that British submarines had de stroyed a fast transport and three supply vessels and prob ably had sunk a fifth ship in Italian waters, boosting to mora than 20 tho number of enemy craft sunk or damaged In the Mediterranean during the last week.) ... , : ' The -attacks "by 'Flying Fort resses, Mitchells, Marauders, Warhawks and Lightnings came after RAF Wellingtons, in a pre dawn attack, smashed again at tho ferry terminus and freight yards of Messina and also at the road south of San Giovanni and San Marco, on the noarby Italian mainland. HiU Yards One two-ton bomb was among tho explosives seen to burst in tho Messina yards and many fires were observed. . A large fire also developed south of San Giovanni.- Plans Shape for Buckaroo Days Celebration Plans for tho annual Klamath Buckaroo Days celebration were shaping up Thursday with only three more days to go. Entries have been mado in two events of the rodeo on July 4 and 5. Bronc riders entered for the $150 purse are Bill Ramsey, Jerry Carter, Georgo Chrlstcnscn, Jack Com Ion ond Roy Glvens. Barcbark riders are Johnny Jackson, Moon Jackson, Jerry Carter, Jack Conlon and Jerry Chap man. Bareback riding purse is $180 also, Hat Pris. An additional prize for the best bronc rider has been of fered by, Louie Polin. Tho prize is a gleaming silver cow boy hat of about nine Inches In diameter. The hat is worth about $40. Members of tho sheriff's posse have been at work preparing grounds for use. Four horses have been shipped down from (Continued on Page Two) : t "Dollar for Doolittle" V Slogan for Stamp Sale "Dig up a Dollar for Doolittle." This is the . new slogan for Klamath county to live up to with a quota of $40,000 in war stamps set for tills particular area. Tho campaign is nation wldo and the month of July has been set aside for enthusiastic Americans to buy the aircraft carrier, "Shangri-La.", from which Doollttle's fliers , will again bomb Tokyo. Dollar Needed It will take' a dollar from every man, woman and child In the nation, to buy the "Shangri La." The namo of the proposed carrier is, of course, that ficti tious namo given by President Roosevelt as' the point from where Doollttle's fliers took off tJ . !v. , r'.".. Twelve woundad service men, earning from all parte of the week as the guests ol the local Commando unit. Hare the are lour are sailors and the other lour are soldiers. ,-'" ' ' IDLE OVER DISPUTE ShiftvDetailsrWomen Labor Cause Mill Shut-Down F. W. Gilchrist, head of the Gilchrist Lumber mill in the northern section of Klamath county, refused to comment on the shut-down of the mill when contacted from Klamath Falls lato Thursday. Officials of the International Woodworkers of America here said that the local office of IWA, governing operations at Gilchrist, were located at Bend and little information had been received In this city. BEND, July 1 (P) The Gilchrist lumber mill at the northern Klamath county lum ber town of Gilchrist was idle today as the result of a dispute over length and number of shifts and employment of wom en, spokesmen for employes an nounced. Details of tho disagreement (Continued on Page Two) More Miners Return to Pits In Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH, July 1 (VP) An estimated 30,000 miners trooped back to work todoy in the hard' and soft coal regions and tho number of approximate idle In tho producing fields dropped to around 100.000 less than one-fifth of the coun try's miners. The upsurge in the "go to work" drive was felt mainly in Pennsylvania, the biggest pro- (Continued on Page Two) to lay their- bombs over the Jap anese capital a year . ago this May. Klamath retail merchants, un der the leadership of the retail merchants committee of the Klamath county chamber of com merce, hove taken over the re sponsibility of raising $40,000 in stamps. The slogan; "Will you please take part of your change in war stamps," will be seen In all stores and printed on small tags worn by clerks. . The' "Shangri-La" drive Is a part of tho Business and Profes sional Women's and Soroptlmlst clubs' campaign to buy bombs for the "Klamath Pelican." Quota for the month of July is $300,000. , Klamath Falls Has Service Men Polish Off : JBigBrakfast on First ; Day as Commando Guests .', Welli this " Is ' how twelve ip!aie from the. Mare Island natal wounded service men, four mar-J ines, four sailors and four sold' lers, found Klamath Falls hos pitality handed to them on a silver platter, just the way things were planned.. When we walked into the Pel ican cafe to jot down the names of these fightln' youngsters, they had just polished off a meal of fruit, bacon and eggs, coffee and the fixings, and were on the last chorus of "Home on the Range." Arrive By Plane Eight of the men arrived at 4:34 o'clock this morning by Arden Fugate Dies From Auto Crash Injuries Klamath county's second fa tality in three days was record ed here early Thursday morning with the death Klamath's 1943 of Arden Fu- auto Toll gate, 48, well known Merrill potato , grower, who died at Klamath Valley hospital from 2 injuries received Wednesday afternoon in an automobile ac cident near Malin. Mr. Fugate was a passenger in a car' driven by Tim T. Sul livan, Merrill stockman. The two were en route to Klamath Falls when the car suddenly left the highway, overturned and threw Mr. Fugate clear of the machine. Sullivan was injured. Tho. accident occurred at 1:30 p. m. A World War I veteran, Mr. Fugate was one of the first homesteaders in , tho Tulelake area, taking up land on ' the west side of Tulelake in 1932. He later sold this property and purchased land on lower Klam ath lake, five miles south of Merlll. The family has lived at this place for the past three years. Mr. Fugate is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. John Moore, (Jean Fugate), Mer rill, and one son who is in the Vnitcdtates navy. Funeral ar rangements will be announced by Whitlock's. . ' Baseball , national League Chicago 6 12 '3 Boston 8 ' 8 1 Derringer, Hanyzewski (8), Burrows (8), Wyse (0), and Me Cullough; Barrett, Farrell (6) and Poland, Kluttz (9). Pittsburgh 1 - 8 8 Philadelphia 9 12 2 Podgajny, - Brandt (8) - and Baker; Rowe and Livingston. Guests This Week - ; . Keaneil-ElUs country, arrived by train" and plane to spend the remainder of the at breakfast Thursday morning at the Pelican. Four axe marines, ' hospital, Comandos and' Lois Serruys, commando mother,. met the eight at the Medford airfield and they saw the sunrise just as they reached our town. A. few hours later, four soldiers arrived by train and joined their eight buddies who will be guests here over the Fourth of July holidays. Here's a brief personal history about each boy. Maybe he lived in your home town, or comes from a few miles from where your grandpa grew up. Wounded at Pearl Harbor August Steck, you'll call him "Bud," seaman second class, United States navy, 23 years old, son of Mrs. Lena Steck of 2400 Third street North, Minneapolis, Minn. "Bud" joined up January 6, 1942, and took his training, at San Diego. He was wounded in an accident at Pearl Harbor last September while aboard ship. James Louis Wise; seaman first class. United States navy. Familiarly known to buddies as "Jim." He's 22 years old, hails from Greenville, Ohio, enlisted September 3, 1940, and was wounded during thetreacherous attack on Pearl Harbor on De cember 7, 1941. "Jim" was a member of the crew of the Ari zona. . He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James H, Wise of Green vilje and hasn't been home since the day of his enlistment. Southerner John Thomas Etheridge, radio man third class, United States navy, 21 years old and son of Mrs. Sophie Etheridge of Crystal Springs, Mississippi. This young ster with the soft, southern drawl was wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal while on ship. He joined up in August of 1940, and had the good fortune to visit his home town three months ago. Sailor No. 4, is Phillip Edward Wentz, seaman first class, and men on his ship "just call me 'Sailor'". Young Wentz is 22 years old and son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wentz of 790 N. Salvay, Detroit, Michigan. He has had a 30-day leave to visit - (Continued on Page Two) Churchill Asks Unchanged French Command in Africa . LONDON, .July 1 (P) Prime Minister Churchill disclosed to the house of commons today that both the American and British governments had asked Generals De Gaulle and Giraud June 19 for assurances that there would be no important change in tho French command in North Africa at present. The prime minister also de clared that the two French lead ers had been asked to satisfy WALLACE-JONES ROW PROJECTS INQUIRY BEW'' to Ask Congress . . For Money, Says Vice President' ' By JACK BELL - WASHINGTON, July 1 (JP A sweeping investigation into the policies and worldwide oper ations of the board of economic warfare (BEW) was projected by members of the Byrd committee today as Vice President Wallace gave notice the agency soon will ask congress for direct financing, The inquiry resulted from a hot exchange In wnich Wallace, head of BEW, accused Com merce Secretary Jesse Jones of obstructing the board's acquisi tion of vital war materials. - Peace Fails , James F. Byrnes, war mobili zation director, summoned both to the White House yesterday for peace-making Conference, which apparently failed of its objective. Both principals promptly issued more critical statements. Chairman- Byrd (D-Va.) and Senator George (D-Ga.)t a mem ber, meanwhile told reporters (Continued on Page Two) Roosevelt Strapped for Emergency Funds as Money Bills Jam Congress ' At the Start of New Fiscal Year By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST 1 WASHINGTON, July 1 P) A log jam of money bills in con gress left President Roosevelt without a nickel of emergency funds today for the first time in three years and forced many war agencies to operate temporarily on the cuff. .- Although both senate ' and house were agreed that the exec utive should start off the new fiscal year with at least $89,000, 000 for emergency purposes, a deadlock over withholding sal aries of three federal workers Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, allied commander-in-chief in North Africa, that the present French military commander in that area. Gen. Giraud, had ef fective control of the French forces there. The assurance was requested, Churchill added, "in view of the prolonged discussions between the French leaders in Algiers on questions involving the character (Continued on Page Two) " Viru Grabbed; Troops Plunge Toward Rabual By JOHN HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, July 1 OP) American Invaders of the cen tral Solomons have captured Viru harbor, near Japan's Munda airbase, the navy announced today, after a fierce sea- and air battle off Rendova island in which at least 68 enemy aircraft, 17 United States planes and a 7712-ton United States transport were lost. Viru, a port village, had been used by the Japanese as an outpost for Munda, which lies about 30 nautical miles to the northwest on New Georgia island, and had also been employed as a place for landing supplies. Its loss by the enemy marks the first specific American territorial triumph in the currently de veloping offensive of which the drive in the central Solomons is only one part v. . New Guinea Battle Area The other part is being conducted by General Douglas Mae Arthur's forces striking northward in the New Guinea area to ward the great Japanese base of Rabaul, toward which the offen sive in the Solomons also is pointed. Secretary of War Stimson said at press conference' today that the operations were progressing satisfactorily according to plan under the general direction of MacArthur but added that strong enemy reaction was expected. - -i The first such reaction, the navy communique disclosed, came Wednesday morning a few hours after American forces landed from naval transports on Rendova island, five miles south of Munda. Japs Counter-Attack ' The Japanese, at that time, counter-attacked with a force esti mated at 110 planes of many types fighters. Mitsubishi medium, bombers, Aicbi dive bombers and various others, including tor pedo planes. The attacks continued from the morning until late afternoon against United States naval forces putting troop and supplies) Under the fierce hail of enemy fire, anti-aircraft fragments and shell, bursts the landing wnne American snips ana pumes oatuea tne Japanese sky lorceav Sixty-five of the enemy planes were shot down, "according to an incomplete report," and- 17 United States planes were reported missing. '! r: McCawlav ' Torpedo planes of the Japanese squadrons caught the 7712 ton transport McCawley, formerly the Grace Line's Santa Bar bara, and disabled her after she had put her troops ashore. Sub sequently the crippled vessel was assaulted and sunk by a Japa nese submarine. "Reports Indicate that all personnel were removed before the vessel sank and that there was no loss of life," the communique said. ' - . i American air forces, the communique brought out, also played a major role in the starting of the offensive in the Solomons area. On Tuesday night (Solomons time) Avenger torpedo bomber and Dauntless dive bombers heavily attacked the Japanese air-' field, stores and camp areas of Vila, Kolombangara island, in the Munda area. - embers Batter Munda On Wednesday morning Mitchell medium bombers. Dauntless and Avenger bombers attacked Japanese defensive positions and the camp area at Munda itself and the communique said "a large fire was started." There was no mention of attacks on Japanese ships or shipping. . , The navy said the captain of the American ship lost was Com mander Robert Henry Rodgers, 41, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., who makes his home at State Island,' N. Y. - CMHINURiaUA Navy communique No. 429 said: . "South Pacific: (all dates are east longitude): "1. On the night of June 29-30, Avenger (Grumman RBF) torpedo bombers and Dauntless (Douglas) dive bombers attacked the air field, the stores and camp areas at Vila, Kolombangara island. - . "2. On June 30: ' "(A) A formation of Mitchell (North .American) medium bombers. Dauntless dive bombers and Avenger torpedo bombers attacked Japanese defensive positions and. camp area at Munda, (Continued on Page Two) blocked passage of a bill making the sum available. The measure was one of half a dozen major bills left stranded when congress adjourned overnight after a fu tile attempt to shove them through before the 1942-43 fiscal year ended at midnight The only big bill cleared was a $71, 500,000,000 win-the-war army supply measure. " , Funds Includtd Tied up in the other legisla tion were 1944 funds for the de partments of agriculture and in terior, the federal security agen cy and a group of other depart ments including the office of price administration (OPAX the office of war information (OWI) and the war production board (WPB). ' Except for the urgent deficien cy bill carrying the president's money, all the other measures have provisons validating any obligation incurred after June 30 provided the obligation was in accordance With limitations in each bill. Not Valid Chairman Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.) of the house appropria tions committee contended, how ever, that, legally, none of the agencies depending on presiden units continued their operation Disabled. Sunk" tial funds' could incur an obliga tion or meet a payroll .because the validating provisions- have not yet been enacted. The pro visions, he explained, were writt ten into the bills on the assump tion payrolls of agencies whose funds were held up could be paid with loans from the presi dent's emergency fund. But, he pointed out, there are no presidential funds available, and employes of the agencies in volved technically began work ing for nothing today and trust ing in Uncle Sam to pay- them later:, . ..... . v. .-. . -' j , . Coal Finances , Cannon said he understood government operation of the coal mines was being financed from the emergency fund, as well as such agencies as the war food administration, the office of war mobilization and the office of economic stabilization. He predicted, however, final congressional approval of the $143,000,000 deficiency bill by nightfall. The only thing hold ing it up is disagreement be tween the senate and the house over a trio of federal employe declared by the house appropria tions rnmmlitjMi tr Ka itnflt tA (Continued on Psg Seven)
