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.... - ana lf!il!MsMMi On 5-mlnule blast on sirens and whlitlii is the signal lot blackout In Klamath falli. Anolhar lona blast, durlno a black July High II. Low SI Precipitation aa of Juno 30, 1143 Stream roar to data 17.71 Laat yaar .13.15 ' Normal ......1I.I3 out W ,or "" '"' n.riorii. watch your street llahli. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES I iwhiij r- - n r . PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1943 Number 9843 in .) A il VMii r i a-""''"""" la i i n n i nnn a - il he i I : 1 'ii ii HI Br TRANK JENKINS 'T'llEIlK havo been inuny ref crencos to the taking of FEW Jap prisoners by the American force In Hie South Seal. Ono r canon Is the Snimimi rode which requires the Jap sol dler to dio rather than aur render. Here 1 another reason told to thla writer by a wounded aer vlce m.in: it A LULL hud come after hard " fighting. 1 was Hitting tight In my foxhole, feeling pretty Jumpy, and walling for it to atari auulii. "Suddenly a Jup officer cumc out of Ilia jungle, wavlnu u white flag. Ha culled out In good Engllnli that he and ten men wanted to aurrenrirr nnd to fend an officer and ten men for them to give up to. "We'd been off the trunoport only three daya, and wcro juM a bunch of green American kldi, not yet onto the ropea. So a aargeanl and ten men aturted over. "The Jup, atill waving hla white flag, waited for them. Then, when they were obout 30 feet away, he faded Into the Junglo and enfilading Jap ma rhlnt guni opened up on our boya. ' "Only one of them i I v t d through badly wounded.'' - ... . . YOU can aea how it la. Juat about one experience of Ihul aort and YOU wouldn't take any prlaonera, either. TTHIS writer loacs no opportun- ity to talk to acrvice men back from the war fronta uaually of wounds or sickness finding their experiences fascl natlngly intcreatlng. Some of them like to tell what they've acen. Other don't. Those who tnlk don't bouat. They apeok In a matter-of-fact nay, almoat casually. fN one point thcro la general agreement the Jap la a toll fh, hnrd, atubbom fighter, but lacks Imagination. Another eye-witness atory: "The night battle had been a hard one, and wc held on until daylight barely by the akin of our teeth. During the day, wc got reinforcements. "That night the Japs pulled what looked like a rather smart one, hitting us hard uguln in the same spot and in the anmc way. It looked llko they'd fig ured wo wouldn't bo expecting it two nights In a row in the . sumo place and the same way. Wc weren't, for that matter, nnd we hud another tough night. "Bolicve It or not, they came back at ua NINE MORE NIGHTS, hitting us every time In the aamo spot nnd the same way. By the third night we woro ready . for them, with fixed machine guns trained to cover every fool of the field of fire, and wo stacked them up like hay shocks night after night. "You'd think they'd have had more sense. But they didn't." nECALL tlio way the Jnp high V command sent relief expedi tion after relief expedition back to Guadalcanal and New Guinea to bo blasted time after time IN THE SAME WAY by our ships and planes. It agrees exactly with this service man's story. . , . ' "THESE talos aren't nil gruc , some. For example: "We'd just landed on the beach, without opposition. There was plenty of wrecked equipment and other signs of battle around nnd wo were new on the Job and as curious ns a bunch of Jnyblrds. Wo were trotting around getting an eye ful. "Wo had set up a big Iron triangle, and all of a sudden the air raid warning was sound ed on it. A moment later the Jap pluncs tame roaring over, I made a dive for n piece of slit (Continued on Tage Two) in Nazis BOMBERS RAIN EXPLOSIVES ON SOUJpiLT Gcrbini Airdrome Hit By Fortresses and Liberators ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. July 7 VP) Flying Fortresacs from North Africa nnd Liberators from the Middle East command poured hundreds of tons of high cx ploalve and fragmentation bombs on Gerblnl airdrome In southern Sicily yesterday as the air siege of that vital enemy base roared through Its 36th hour. The all-out effort to knock Gerblnl and its four Satellite fiolda from the map appeared Hearing completion, photographs revealing terrific damage to ad ministration buildings, hangars, parked aircraft and landing strlpa from the relentless pound ings of the last two days and a night. It was -tit Gcrbini that Flying Fortress gunners of tho north west African command destroyed 41 enemy fighters on Monday, and at leant ono more axis plane was shot down during yester dny'a doublo daylight blow. Liberators Return A Middle East communique said approximately SO Liberators participated in yesterday's smash, dropping more than (Continued on Page Two) Samuel Oliver Wounded While In Navy Action Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Oliver, 24-14 . Wlord street, Wednesday were advised by tho navy de partment that their son, Samuel Paul Oliver, water tender sec ond class, U. S. naval reserve, had been wounded in action In tho performance of duty. Oliver, 29, Is a graduate of Klamath Union high school with tho class of 1038, worked for five years as fireman for the Southern Pacific and enlisted in October, 1942. He took his training at Farragut, Ida. Oliver's wife is tho former Lor raine Robitaillc of this city and Is now working in the trans- (Continued on Page Two) House Stands Firm for No Crop Insurance WASHINGTON, July 7 (VP) Tho houso refused to budge to day In its stand for abolition of the government crop Insurance program, and put' squarely up to the senate the proposition of backing down from its insist ence on the program or tlclng up a deficiency appropriation bill. By a standing vote of 123 to 52, tho house rejected a senate amendment to the $366,000,000 catch-all second deficiency bill to allow $7,818,748 for contin ued operation of crop insurance On several previous occas ions, tho house had overwhelm ingly voted to abolish the pro (Continucd on Pago Two) High Reward Offered for House to Rent LOS ANGELES, July 7 (P) To rent a house, one man Is willing to go without meat for a month. "Twelve pound ham reward for modern two-bedroom un furnished houso," he adver tised in today's newspapers. Punch.' task line Leaving Don R. Drury, manager of Kalplne Plywood company, la Itaring aoon to manage a com bined hardwood and pin plant located ntar Maxlco City, Kalpine Plywood Head ; To Leave Last ; -. .i Qf July x . Don B." Drurjr.. mDBgcrJ'Of Kalplne Plywood company, will leave the last of July for Mexico where he Is taking over the man agement of a combined hardwood and pine plant which Is located at Ayolta, south of Mexico City. Drury came here five years ago from Seattle where he was affiliated with the United States Plywood company. He has been active in civic affairs, is now a member of the board of directors of the Klamath county chamber of commerce, is a member of Kiwanis club, and two years ago was named Klamath county's outstanding young man. Tho Drury homo at 1401 Pa cific Terrace has been purchased by Alfred Collier of Swan Lake Moulding company. Drury flew to Mexico City Sunday, and is expected back here Monday. Mrs. Drury and two children will accompany Drury to Mexico City. Dance Ruling Discussed at Council Meet Discussion over tho proposed changes in the dance ordnance by the city council resulted Tues day night in a striking out of the clause providing that anyone leaving public dances after 11 p. m. must pay full admission to be rc-admlttcd. The action was taken after J. A. Souther of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Baldy Evans, band leader, said that in their opinion the provision would be detrimental to the purpose for which it was intended, that of preventing people from leaving dances to drink and then coming back and creating a nuisance. Councilman Rollin Cantrall later suggested that a unified closing time on public dances throughout tho county be sug gested to other county towns, but (Continuod on Page Two) Nazi Troops Sent to Dodecanese Islands LONDON, July 7 (P) The Germans wcro reported by the Algiers radio today to have sent fresh troops to the Dodecanese Islands potential allied step ping stones to any invasion of tho Balkans and Berlin declar ed that Yugoslav and Greek guerrillas were being wiped out in another step to strengthen axis defenses. Another German broadcast, recorded by The Associated Press, said Gen. Dwlght Eisen hower had concentrated 1,000, 000 tons of shipping of all kinds in North African ports prepar ing for a leap across, the Mediterranean., Germans Claim Break-Through In Soviet Front LONDON, July 7 (P) The Russians announced tonight that for tho second day in succession the Germans attacking on the central Russian front made progress in the Belgorod area "at the cost of heavy losses. By The Associated Press The Berlin radio quoted a. German military spokesman as an nouncing today that the Germans had broken through the main soviet fighting line at several points in the Kursk area, center of the Russian bulge below Moscow. No details were given as to the distance of the claimed pene trations, but it was stated that the break-through came during a German counterattack. The claim was made In a dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio and recorded by the As sociated Press. Earlier Berlin accounts of the conflict was raging between Belgorod and Orel with the initia tive "firmly held by the Germans. Kursk la midway between those two points. Violence Increases "The salient of the soviet front northwest of Belgorod-Kursk south of Orel now is the scene of fighting continually Increasing In violence," a DNB military correspondent was quoted as writ ing. Tanks were playing an important role, it was said, while in the air the strongest air formations were being engaged in fights in the Kursk area. Br WILLIAM M'CAFFIN MOSCOW, July 7 VP) The German army has paid a terrific toll in' tanks and manpower as the price for the "insignificant gains" achieved in two day of bitter fighting In .the, ISO curo merv offensive ' oitr tfie Ore liRcirskBeJgotod-front, the -Russians aMh.4taytt- , i ; .'.'? ' r...j (.- ;' Acknowledge Lots"' While acknowledging the loss of two unidentified towns near Belgorod at the southernmost end of the revitalized 165-mile front, the red army announced last night that in two days its artillery had smashed 1271. enemy tanks and shot down 314 planes while the German loss in dead exceeded 10,000. . The Russians counted the German loss in tanks at S86 for the first day's fighting. The midday communique yesterday boosted the figure by 1S2 and last night the soviet information bureau added another 423 in a special communique. The regular midnight communique later listed 110 German tanks destroyed in the Orel-Kursk sector. Battlefront dispatches said that German armor battering for ward in great weight on a narrow sector forced the Russians to evacuate two populated places, but that two hours later the Soviets counterattacked, halting any further enemy advance and somewhat restoring the soviet positions. Gilchrist Mill Back to Work; Walkout Settled PORTLAND, July 7 WV-The pine sawmill operation at Gil christ in northern Klamath coun ty will resume operation Mon day, John C. Tutt, commissioner of conciliation for the depart ment of labor, announced here today. A conference of management and labor from the mill was held under conciliation service spon sorship yesterday, at Eugene and Tutt said disagreements were speedily ironed out. Most of them, he said, were results of misunderstandings. At the same time both manage ment and labor agreed to con sider the present week the va cation week so that actually no time will be lost from produc (Continued on Page Two) One - Time Police Chief Confesses to Knocking Young Dallas Girl in River PORTLAND, July 7 (P) State Police Captain Vayne M. Gurdane announced this morn ing that Richard Harry Layton, 36, of Independence, one-time chief of: police at Monmouth, had signed a confession that he raped Ruth Hildobrand, - 17, Dallas, and knocked her into the Willamette river. Layton, a husky six-footer, is at present serving a six-month sentence in. the Washington county jail at Hlllsboro. He pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge R. Frank Peters recently to simple assault which Gur dane said involved an unsuccess ful attack on another girl. .. Nude Body The Hlldebrand girl's nude body was recovered from the Willamette river on June 20, 13 days after she purchased a Transocean, propaganda agency, eastern front fighting said the Bumper Crop of Babies Short on Diapers, Pins WASHINGTON, July 7 VP) A shortage of diapers and safety pins was pictured for the house today by Rep. Francis P. Bolton, mother of three adult sons. "What do the new dealers expect us to do with our ba bies without diapers and pins with which to fasten same?" asked Mrs. Bolton (R-Ohio.) "We can do without a lot of things but how can a baby do without diapers?" Mrs. Bolton said the army anticipates a bumper crop of at least 300,000 babies with service-connected fathers or mothers, "and this creates a major problem in strange fields still not solved by OPA.1' bus ticket at Dallas for Camp Adair and disappeared. Gurdane said the confession was obtained by himself, Lt. R. G. Howard and Sgt. T. C. Ema hiser of the Salem state police office. Gurdane s a 1 d a bus ticket found near the river's edge at Wfcll's landing near where the body was found was the clue which led to establishment of Roving Pickets Close Coal Mines PITTSBURGH, July 7 W) Roving pickets closed four mines and prevented four others from reopening today in the Browns ville region along the Mononga hela river. Nearly 8000 miners who planned to work were kept idle. . . . Pantelleria Boss tJlX' Brig. Gen. A. C. Strickland (above), veteran U. S. army air man, has been named garrison commander and military gorer nor of Pantelleria. the Italian island which surrendered to the aUies. Traffic Death Total Up to Three in Two Weeks . . -Victim of . Klamath's third traffic fatality within two weeks was John MacCoy, 35, who was killed - TuesdayKlamath's 1943 night some-, Auto Toll time between 1 1 and ' 12 o'clock when the car he was driving overturned in a drain ditch on a 3 side road near Merrill. Sheriff Lloyd Low was called to the scene early Wednesday morning by a rancher named Mc Pherson from the Zuckerman ranch who found the partially submerged automobile contain- - (Continued on Page Two) Arden Fugate Death Found Unavoidable Death of -Arden Fugate, well- known Merrill potato grower, who died July 1 after an acci dent, was found by a coroner's jury Wednesday to be the result of an unavoidable accident. Oh June 30, Mr. Fugate was the passenger in a car driven by Tim Sullivan,- Merrill stockman, The two were on the way to Klamath Falls when the car left the highway suddenly and over turned. Sullivan was also injured slightly. The inquest was called to de termine whether or not Sullivan had been intoxicated at the time of the accident. Witnesses testi fied that although they could smell alcohqj. on his - breath a (Continued on Page Two) the girl's identity and which started the investigation lead ing to Layton's confession. Goes On Visit He said the girl on June 7 left her home near Dallas, where she lived with her mother, to visit a soldier friend at Camp Adair. She saw the soldier, took the bus back to Monmouth, ar riving about 11 p. m. She was not seen again until three fish ermen on June 20 found her body in the river. Layton, who has lived in In dependence since 1938 except for short periods when he had jobs in nearby towns, had not been in serious trouble Gur dane said until the assault charge was filed in Hillsboro Released to State Police Layton was released to state police for questioning. Gurdane i (Continued on Page Two) Navy Shells Pound ECiska; Cruiser lost WASHINGTON, July 7 VP) An American naval task force bombarded the Japanese base on Kiska island last night, the navy announced today, in an attack apparently coordinated with the United States offensive against Japanese defenses in the South Pacific. A navy communique reporting the action in the North Paclfio also disclosed that the American nese forces in Kula gulf on the ton light cruiser Helena. The Helena was under command of Captain Charles FurceU Cecil of Louisville, Ky. Neither the fate of the skipper nor the safety of individual crew members was reported. Jap Casualties Using the MacArthur figure, Japanese naval ship casualties of all types, including sunk or dam aged, now total 319 and the enemy has suffered an addition al loss of 338 non-combatant ships. The comparable Amer ican figure for combatant ships, including the Helena, is 103 ves sels overdue and presumed lost. destroyed to prevent capture or sunk. Figures on American ships damaged are not available in their entirety. The report of the attack on Kiska was very, brief. It said only that the enemy was bom barded there and that his srlore batteries . "did not return the fire." . ...... Br C. YATES McDANIEIa ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 7 VP) A United States naval victory in the Solomons probable sinking of six Japanese warships and damaging of four others out of a cruiser-destroyer force at- cejrt,,pt.or.Ccniise-was an? nouriced today, one week .after thr oritBreaK of the current Pa cific offensive. '. The triumph, recorded by. guns of American ships which flashed in darkness of July 5-6 in the Kula Gulf .above New Georgia island, was sketched in a com munique from headquarters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Definite Victory Although bearing out in clear er outline an earlier announce ment from the navy in Washing ton that the Kula Gulf battle definitely was an American vic tory, today s communique left many details to be filled in, in cluding how many of the enemy ships hit were cruisers and how many destroyers. One definitely was a destroyer, blasted by 500 pound bombs of American planes after it had been beached by damage suffered in the naval en gagement. (Admiral William F. Halsey's (Continued on Page Two) Jack Dempsey Awarded Divorce In New York WHITE PLAINS, N, Y., July 7 VP) Lieutenant Commander William Harrison Dempsey, U. S. coast guard reserve, the former world's heavyweight . boxing champion, was awarded an in terlocutory decree of divorce to day from Hannah William Demp sey, former musical comedy ac tress. Official Referee J. Addison Young of the supreme court, Who heard the case last month, ruled that Dempsey's charge of his (Continued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Cincinnati 5 10 1 Boston 13 3 Riddle and Mueller; Andrews and Poland. (Second game) R. H. E Cincinnati 2 5 1 Boston. .....i 4 11 0 Walters and Mueller;. DePhil lips (8); Salvo and Klutz. COAST LEAGUE Oakland , 2 7 0 Los Angeles 5 8 1 Buxton and Raimondi; Mal lory, Osborn (8), and Holm. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 1 5 2 Detroit. 9 11 0 Carrasquel, Mertz (5), and Giul iani; Newhouser and Richards. New York 2 8 . 1 St. Louis .. 0 6 2 Chandler and Dickey, Sears (2); Potter, Hollingsworth (9), and Hayes. . cruiser lost in battle with Japa morning of July 8 was the 9700. SENATE BATTLES Recess Chances Fade As Lawmen Turn On Rollback Br JOHN H. WIGGINS WASHINGTON, July 7 VP) In a sudden and dramatic turn about, the senate rose up to dot; battle with the administration.; again today over the govern! ment's plan to roll back retail food prices by paying subsidies to processors. . Chances of ' starting a mid summer recess by nightfall fad ed hourly as weary lawmakers of both houses went into hud dle over ' a bill- continuing ' th life of the-corrurtedity credit cor poration (CCC) but blocking tha subsidy program. . Task Outlined .'The formidable task of the conferees was this: To reconcile) diametrically opposite proposals in the senate version and. the house-approved bill which lifted all subsidy-rollback restrictions objected to by the administra tion. Climaxing a seldom-seen dem onstration of about-facing, senate opponents of the rollback voted (Continued on Page Two) Speedy Drivers Brought Before Ration Board More than a dozen motorists were brought before . the war price and rationing board Thurs day of last week, and an equal number are expected this Thurs day in violation of the 35-mila per hour limit. A warning has been issued motorists who are frankly ad vised that state police are check ing cars along the highway in order ' to lessen the excessive pace which summer time drivers are setting. "We do not want to set our selves up as an inquisitorial body, but we do want people to watch their driving for a num ber of reasons," Percy Murray, chairman of the board stated Wednesday. "The state police have embarked on a checking program which is efficient and accurate. Police cars work in pairs. . The first car radios tho passing of the vehicle to the sec ond car and No. 2 man checks the elapsed time between the mile posts. When motorists are advised by form and appear be fore the board because they have exceeded the limit at such and such a time and place, they ad vise us that they 'hadn't seen a car in miles'. We want to warn them to cut down their speed and take care of their tiro and gasoline allotments." Just what punishment will b meted out to the offenders has not yet been decided as the pro gram was Instituted less than 10 days ago following a preliminary warning by officials. Names of offenders will be published. Giraud Arrives In Washington WASHINGTON, July 7 VP) General Henri Honore Giraud, commander of French forces in North Africa and co-chairman of the French committee for nation al liberation, arrived by plans at Boiling field, army air baas in Washington, at 11:30 a. m., (Pacific war time) today. . I
