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'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.'' -
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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.
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"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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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;' 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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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