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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943
Number 9844
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Nazis
By FRANK JENKINS
""TO this writer, these service
. men's reminiscence are
simply thrilling. So, If you
don't mind, we'll no from
Qwher we left off yesterday.
"THERE Is mora or less agree
ment among the men buck
from the South Seas Unit the
Jap 23-callbre rifles and mi-
chin guns aro pea-shooters in
comparison with our own 30-
. calibre weapons.
Let's quote a man wounded
by one of them:
"I got five bullrl from one
of thrse 25s Into nio in about 30
seconds and It wasn't fun, but
It It had been one of our 30s I
wouldn't be here now. I'vo got
one of the bullets that the doc
dug out of my leg Just below
1he skin where It had como out
on the other side, and I'm keep
ing It for a souvenir. I wish I
had It here to show you."
VW on point, however, there
wv I Mrcp.mc.nl; to- the Jap
25 enflbre s eHecUveWss. It has
very little muzzle-flare, and so
doesn t betray, its position at
night a do' our larger 30a. That
is Important in the Jungles
where a lot of fighting Is at
night. l'V; .
"On of tlli'Vorst things we
did at first," says a man back
on lick leave, "was to shoot at
every sound we heard at night.
We were Jumpy,- and our trig
ger finger were Itchy. So when
w heard something we'd cut
looso and th. Jap, getting our
position from the muzzlo-tlurc,
would land on us with every
thing he had. That cost a lot of
lives, especially at tho begin
ning. "Our officers got smart pret
ty quick, and wo were 'ordered
not to shoot at night unless all
Ohell was breaking loose."
QNE of the first things the of
fleers learned, this man
says, was to remove ALL, Insig
nia, leaving no marks whatever
to distinguish their rank, as the
Jap snipers aro coached to pick
oft the officers first.
"THERE Is gcncrnl praise among
these men back from the
fronts for tho new Gnrand rifle,
ot which conflicting stories
have been In circulation hero at
home. Their fire power is uni
versally agrocd to bo far super
ior to that of the Jup weapons,
and they stand up In tho mud
and muck and filth ot jungle
fighting unbelievably well.
Here and there, however, one
finds supporters for tho older
Springfield. Says one such:
Ob"
'The Garand is a good weapon,
ut I did havo one stick on me
back at the beginning and hav
ing your rifle jam on you when
things are hot is something you
don't want to havo happen to
you more than once. Me, I stick
to the old Springfield. Every
time you -yank tho bolt on one
of those old boys you know
there'll be something there
when you pull the trigger."
'THERE'S high pralso for the
Tommy-gun, familiar to all
readers of gangster stories and
habitues of the gangster movies.
Their range is short, tho boys
say, but much of the Jungle
fighting is at short range and
the Tottimy-gun sprays a lot ot
lead and has practically never
been known to Jam.
QjERE'S a sidelight on fighting
x; ability:
"Voir can't toll by looking at
him whether a guy will be good
under fire or not. I remember
one In particular I wont wrong
on. Mo looked like just about a
half-wit, and I'd havo guessed
him as under half rather than
, Continued on Page Three)
OaiiDD
HARD-FIGHTING
SOVIETS LIMIT
AXISipCE
German Reserves Aid
Kursk Plains
Push
By WILLIAM M'CAFFIN
MOSCOW, July 8 ') Fresh
nail reserves were reported
pushing through smoko and
dust along paths marked by
wrecked machines and the dead
today to bolster the Kursk
plains offensive which the red
army, fighting more brilliantly
than ever before, has limited
to small gains In the Belgorod
sector.
Russian forces slew some 30,
000 Germans, destroyed or dam
aged 1S3D tanks and shot down
bi9 planes during the first three
days of tho battlo, It was an
nounced officially.
Russian Losses -
(A DNB dispatch subsequent
ly broadcast from Berlin and
recorded by the Associated Press
declared that the Germans had
destroyed 802 soviet tanks and
847 aircraft in the--last three-
days. Fortifications of the Bel
gorod area were "overcome Jn
great depth" and the Russians
southeast of Orel were "thrown
back on their own mine fields,"
the propaganda agency said). ''
Nazi air force squadrons are
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Court Takes
Ration Book of
Speeding Driver
Fillmore Samuel Nida, 24-1
year-old Klamuth laborer, made,
history this .week when he was
chalked up as the first local mo
torist to have his gasoline ration
taken away for violation of traf
fie rules.
Nida, who lives at route 3, box
41, Klamath Falls, appeared In
justice court to answer a charge
of violating the basic rule. State
police arrested Nida on high
way 08, near Pine Flats in the
Dairy district, and an officer's
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BUI Increasing
Dependent's Pay
Sent to House
WASHINGTON, July 8 (P)
Legislation increasing tho gov
ernment's cash contributions to
dependents of servlco men was
passed by tho sonata today and
sent to tho house.
Approved without debate, the
measure would increase from
$02 to $08 tho total monthly al
lowance for a wife and one child
and would boost the allowance
for additional children from $10
to $11 a month.
In addition, it would provide
that the government pay all of
tho first month's dependency al
lowance, although after that
timo a service man would con
tribute $22 and the government
$28 toward tho basic amount of
$50 allowed for a wlto without a
child.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
H H E
Cincinnati 7 .17 1
Philadelphia 5 10 0
Vandormccr and Mueller;
Johnson, Olctz (4), Mathewson
(7), Fuchs (0), and Livingston.
. AMERICAN LEAGUE
. R. H. E.
Boston 2 7 1
St. Louis 5 12 0
Dobson, Lucicr (7), Woods (8)
and Conroy; Sundra and Hayes.
Washington 2 7 2
Cleveland 5 , 0 Q
Pylo, Hanfncr and Early) Rey.
nolds and Rosar,
Not
This business of being a working woman Is rigntup Joan Moor s allay, one responded to
pica for. volunteer help Issued by tb war price and rationing board and tola U-y ear-old seventh
gradar from Roosevelt school stamps envelop by tb hundreds. Joan la th youngest volunteer
help la th stat, we'll batch. 8h is th daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Moor of 204S LRoy
itrMt. Of course. It's an old story with Joan. Bh helped out
, '. ' 'I,
Giraud Talks
"CrowdsDcrhand Alliance
By RICHARD G. MABSOCK
WASHINGTON, July 8 ?)
Installation of a pro-allied ad
ministration in troubled Martin.
Ique was one of the prime sub
jects up for discussion today
between Washington officials
and Gen. Henri Honor Giraud,
co-chairman of the French com
mittee ot national liberation.
(Demonstrations at Fortde
France, Martinique, In which
crowd ot 15.000 persons de
manded a break with Vichy and
an alliance with the United
States, were reported In a dis
patch from Port of Spain, Trini
dad, today.
Favor D Gaul!
(Tho demonstrators, favoring
the fighting French leader Gen
eral Charles de Gaulle, were re
ported to have taken possession
of the streets of Fort-do-France
for two days. Gendarmerie sent
to disperse them, the dispatch
said, left tho -demonstrators un
molested as they shouted Wive
De Gaulle" and sang the French
anthem "Marseillaise.") ,
Giraud, the tall, brisk soldier
who escaped from a German
prison camp to command French
North Africa forces in the fight
against the axis, is In Washing
ton as the government's guest,
Elk Hotel to
Be Renovated;
New Management
Complete renovation of the
Elk hotel at 1111 Main street,
will take place around Septem
ber 1, when a change will be
made in the management, it was
announced Thursday.
The Elk hotel has been oper
ated by . a Portland concern
headed by Dean Vincent. The
lease expires September 1. Own
ers of the 100-room ' building
are C. A. Dunn, T. B. Watters,
Andrew Collier and M. S. West.
Larsen Manages
Eugene Larsen has been re
tained as manager of the hotel.
The present manager,. R. ,V.
Hatfield, will leave for Port
land when the change is made
and will ,takc over the Cor
nelius hotel, it was learned
from tho Portland office today.
Hatfield came here two years
ago from Beatrice, Neb. , . '
Owners of the Elk said 'all
rooms, including the. lobby, cof
fee shop and other spaces,
would undergo a complete face
lifting. This will include all new
furniture, carpets and coffee
shop equipment. The three-story
building was constructed In tho
early '30s, and tho present own
ers acquired the structure in
January, 1840,
Such a Bad Job After All!
"' ' ""UT"' j! '
Martinique as
.''
on military mission. . He ar
rived late yesterday.
En route from Algiers, Giraud
stopped at San Juan, Puerto
Rico, where he was able to learn
from Vice Admiral John H.
Hoover, U. S. commander ot
Caribbean defenses, of the offer
by Admiral George ' Robert,
Vichy French high commissioner
at Martinique, to negotiate a
change of authority. Hoover
surveyed the situation with Rob
ert last week and reported to
Washington.
"Grand Jump"
As he left the White House
after visiting President Roose
velt yesterday afternoon, Giraud
said he had "a magnificent jump
across the ocean."
Washington officials Insist
that negotiations w 1 1 H Robert
are a matter for the French com
mittee to carry out, but they
acknowledge an interest in see
ing that a friendly administra
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Pauline Suty
Bridesmaid at
Algiers Wedding
From Algiers comes a story
which mentions Pauline Suty,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton
Suty of Malin, one of the first
WACs to land on African soil
after the Invasion of that con
tinent. WAC Suty was the bridesmaid
at the wedding of a Flying Fort
ress onnnr nnrl a sictfii WAP in
Holy Trinity church in Algiers)
Thursday. The groom, veteran
of 80 bombing missions, is ex
pected to leave for the United
States soon after a three-day furlough-honeymoon.
It was the first overseas wed
ding of a WAC to an American
soldier. The bride, Auxiliary
First Class Marjorie A. Wilson
of Berkeley, and Staff Sergt. Vir
gil E. Major of Ridgeway, Mont.
Last Straw
'Possum jn Bed
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8
(P) The six dogs his wife
kept in their home were plen
ty to contend with, Henrlck
Grinderslav declared in a di
vorce complaint, but when she
brought four opossums home
the place Began to look like
a zoo. -
Grinderslav, a merchant
marine first mate', ' said his
wife kept him awake nights
prodding him with warnings
not. to roll over on his white
Pekingese bedmates. ' . -. -;
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during Christmas, too.
Veronica Lake K
tiaYBaby Boyi
Both Doing Well
HOLLYWOOD, July 8 VP)
Screen Actress Veronica Lake
gave birth today to a three
pound boy, two months pre
maturely. The child was
placed in an incubator and
her physician, Dr. Raymond
D. McBurney, said both ap
parently were doing welL - -
Miss Lake went to the hos
pital last Thursday after she
tripped and fell on a motion
picture set. Her husband,
Maj.- John Detlie, is in -the
army in Seattle.
Marvin Ad kins
Killed in Sinking
Of Oklahoma
Marvin Birch Adkiiis, whose
name appeared in Life magazine
recently . as a casualty from
Klamath Falls, was killed De
cember 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor
when the Oklahoma was sunk,
according to Information from
Mrs. B. W.. Zollman. Several
other calls were received follow
ing a plea from The News and
Herald for information.
A check into files of The News
and Herald revealed that the cas
ualty ' was officially - reported
Monday, May 4 of last year.
Adkins had lived at 914 Lin
coln with his parents for several
months. He enlisted in the navy
from San Diego, and his parents
later moved to Medford and then
to Portland. The elder Adkins
was the operator of the meat
market at Emil's food store on
Oregon avenue. ' ' I
Senate Abandons Subsidy Pay Fight;
Accepts House Approved CCC Measure
WASHINGTON, July 8 (fP)
In an administration victory,
both houses of congress today
abandoned efforts to outlaw sub
sidy payments for wartime good
price rollbacks. '
They sent to the White House
legislation continuing the com
modity credit corporation for
six months without the subsidy
ban that ran head-on into a
presidential veto a week ago.
Final action in both houses
was by voice vote. Not a single
"no" . was heard as the house
approved the bill. . The senate
earlier had bowed to veto threats
and abandoned, 34 to 33, its pro
hibition against payment of food
subsidies, 'yVM:: ";
With this action the path ap
parently was . cleared : for -con
Sicily, Sardinia
Pounde d Again by
Winged Explosives
By RELMAN MORIN
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 8 OP)
The relentless allied air assault against Sicily and Sardinia went
through its fifth consecutive day yesterday with heavy bombings
of airfields and other military targets, it was announced officially
today.
Enemy fighter opposition was
reduced scale," but nevertheless
axis planes for a loss of fjve of
Gerbini in eastern Sicily, scene of a titantic air battle between
American Flying Fortresses and more than 100 enemy planes on
Monday, was battered 19 more
times yesterday by Fortresses,
Mitchells and Marauders, and
they did not encounter a single
enemy aircraft.
. Fighter Escort
American Warhawk fighters
escorting RAF Baltimore bomb
ers in a raid on Borizzo in
western Sicily gained six of the
day's 10 victories. They hov
ered over Borizzo airfield for
almost an hour.
While all of western Sicily
felt some of the weight of the
bombardment Warhawks even
went - down to strafe . isolated
military targets in the country
side the great network of air-.
fields in and around Gerbini
was the main theatre of allied
operations.
Might Assault
Following the day raids, RAF
Wellington bombers carried the
assault into the night with at
tacks on. Palermo and Sciacca.
They dropped a great weight of
bombs piy,the-railway, yards at
Palermo .and left large ;. lues
..facing.. , . ij ; . 'g--:?
' Returning crew reported file
weakness -of ground ,fire over
Palermo indicated that, the de
fenders were being swamped by
the unceasing storm of explo
sives and Incendiaries. . , . .
Nineteen Raids -
Nineteen times within 24
hours formations of allied planes
were in the sky over Gerbini.
Bombs tell in layer. They, tore
up runways on all of Gerbini's
10 airdromes, smashed revet
ments and ploughed dispersal
areas with explosive and frag
mentation bombs.
The swarm of German and
Italian . defenders that rose - to
fight the Flying Fortresses three
days ago was nowhere in sight,
and .except for some anti-aircraft
fire yesterday's attackers
worked unhindered.
Manpower Shortage
Seen Big Problem
In Shipbuilding
TACOMA, July 8 (P) Short
age of manpower appears to be
the Pacific coast shipbuilding in
dustry's most serious bottleneck,
Representative James A.
O'Leary, (D) of New York,
chairman of the congressional
merchant marine subcommittee,
said today in comment upon in
formation gained by the commit
tee up to this point in its in
vestigation of shipbuilding on
this coast.
O'Leary and other committee
members passed through Tacoma
today for a holiday at Paradise
Inn, Rainier National park, at
the conclusion of which they
will return to the national cap
ital. gress to recess before midnight
for a summer vacation.
The CC measure enlarges the
corporation's borrowing power
by $350,000,000 from $2,650,
000.000 to $3,000,000,000, and
under it the administration can
continue the payment of sub
sidies to hold down the retail
prices of meat, butter and other
foods.
Certain Vto
Before the senate acted, Sen
ator Maloney (D-Conn.) told his
colleagues that if they persisted
in retaining the prohibition
against roll back subsidies the
bill would face "a certain veto"
by President . Roosevelt. The
president previously vetoed a
similar bill. i
Senator George (D-Ga.) com
mented he thought. the congress
J "traveliog -a Ion Way. from..
reported -to have been on a
allied fighters shot down 10
their own.
War Agency Employe
Confirmation
Debated
WASHINGTON, July 8 VP)
The senate passed and. sent to
the White House today a 1253.
236,000 "catch-all" second de
ficiency appropriations bill in
which it agreed to abandon its
amendment to revive the fed
eral crop insurance corporation.
It acted on a conference re
port adopted earlier by the
bouse.
- Passage left only the. $2,911,
697,224 war agencies, and the
$1,137,167,010 labor '- security
supply bills on the
tiori calendar. - -The IrWipal
issue remaining' was--iheflro-posal
giving the lawmakers vir
tual hiring and firing power
over war agency employes-in
higher salary brackets.
' '"- House Rfuss' '. :;?7
Taking up this proposal late
In the day, the house refused to
give the senate power to con
firm or reject such appointees.
This left it up to the senate to'
retreat in its stand' or delay!
recess of congress. : '
By a roll call vote of 260 3p,
o, uie nouse rejected a. conk
promise in the $2,911,697,224
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House Ag Group
Kills Lift of :
Com Ceiling
WASHINGTON, July 8
The house agriculture commit
tee by a 9 to 6 vote today killed
a senate-approved measure lift
ing the corn ceiling price from
$1.07 to $1.40 a bushel, Chicago
basis. - ... .
The committee, however, de
cided to meet again later today
to discuss alternative legislation
or other means' of dealing with
the emergency corn situation,
without congress going so far
as to set a- price for a single
commodity.. - .! -'
The senate bill was tabled,
after the house group heard tes
timony by Marvin Jones, 'the
new war food administrator, In
executive session.
Rep. . Hope (R-Kas.), ranking
minority member, said "We do
not want' to go away without
doing' something to solve this
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representative government," If a
majority allowed a presidential
veto to force it to acquiesce
in subsidies against its will.
Voice of People
' "The American people I will
certainly ask in- 1944 who dic
tates the policies of this: gov
ernment," he said. "Are -they
dictated by the people through
the votes of their representa
tives here or are they dictated
by outside agencies?"
Berkley (D-Ky.) told report
ers a proposal to insert in the
bill a policy declaration putting
congress on record as opposed
to subsidies to roll back food
prices had been rejected unani
mously by the conferees.- He
said house ' members had stead
fastly refused to accept any' part
of the senate - version, which
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NEW LArJDINbS
IDE Oil NEW
GEORGIA ISLE
Nine Jap Warships
Destroyed During
Night Battle
- By MURLIH SPENCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA. July 8 (Pi-
United States jungle fighters bat
tled today within- six miles- of.
the Japanese air base of Mund
from two new landing points on
New Georgia island, in the cen
tral Solomons area where the
enemy's hold has been weakened
by crushing naval defeat.
The new landings were dis
closed today by Gen. Douglas
WASHINGTON. July VP)
The nary announced today,
that American submarine bad
sunk ton nmy con-combatant
ships and damaged four
others in th Pacific. '
MacArthur In a communique,
which also contained the newt'
that in the warship engagement
during the darkness of July 5-6
above Munda in the Kula gulf.
Japanese cruisers and destroyer
were "sunk against the loss of
the Cruiser u. S. S.-Helena.- i
Little Damage .
(A dispatch quoting sources at
the South Pacific headquarters
a -!) j iutm t . xiaiaey
ni,oY othr American warship
even. ' sustained damage in the
engagement aftd that most of the
more than. 800 reported aboard
the Cruiser Helena were saved).-
The growing weight of the Pa
cific r offensive- began to tell
against Japan at the other end
of the. 700-mile arc as well. Gen
eral MacArthur announced that'
in the jungle fight on the ap
preaches to the Japanese air base
of Salamaua, New Guinea, Aus
tralian troops captured Observa
tion Hill between Salamaua and
Miibo after its Japanese defend
ers had been killed or demoral
ized by 106 tons of bombs drop-.
ped in less than 43 minutes by
Boston attack nlanes. Mitchell
and .Liberator bombers. .
nam lanintf. tK In-
made Monday, today's commun-
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f OR DOOLITTLE!
It- will lake. $1.00 la War
Stamps .from every man.
.woman and child in th coun
try to build the: ; - -
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$35,000
$30,000
$25,000
$20,000.
113,000
110,000
5,000
$40,000 is Klamath county ,
goal la War Stomp for July. 7
P take part el your'
chang la War Stomp. Let's
litis) "Doollttl Do It Again."