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An 0 t' "EVERYTHING GOING 4CCOR TO PL4N" LONG-VlVMITED SECOND EUROPEAN FRONT OPENS LONDON, July 10 (AP) Allied landings on Sicily were assured of success only a few short hours after the dawn attack today which sent assault forces onto beaches stretching for more than 100 miles, according to an al lied headquarters communique broadcast to night by the Algiers radio. Enemy opposition was countered by 6 a. O m., the broadcast said, under "heavy fire of a covering force of cruisers, destroyers and gunboats and other naval units" and "the suc cess of our landing was already assured." By 7:30 a. m. the combined American-British-Canadian forces "were advancing and v our artillery was being put ashore," the com munique, recorded by the Associated Press, said. It was also disclosed for the first time that units from the Royal Indian and Dutch, Polish and Greek navies were participating in the naval operations. Fighting continues and more troops with equipment are being landed, the announce ment added. While the assault went forward, heavy, medium and fighter bombers attacked roads and communications throughout Sicily as well as bombarding "the few airdromes still being used by the enemy." The text of the communique: "In spite of unfavorable weather and a swell off the Sicilian channel, the allied land ing in Sicily started before dawn and is pro ceeding according to plan. "Many beaches and landing places used for these first assaults extended over about 100 miles. "By about 6 a. m. this morning, under heavy fire from a covering force of cruisers, destroyers, gunboats and other naval units, enemy opposition had been countered and the success of our landing was already assured. . By DANIEL DE LUCE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 10 (AP) Allied armies invaded Sicily today and, with warplanes and warships in support, battled through coastal . mine fields, barbed wire and gun emplacements in an effort to consolidate bridgeheads for the second European front. American, British and Canadian forces of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's command struck ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 10, 1943 Number 9846 mm m II em , July S High 79, Lew 47 Precipitation as of July 3, 1942 Stream year to date - 17.7S Last year 13.15. Normal ..........11.97 Bom lbs Gun s Rake Japs in Pacific warn mm BM: ill ;: U: i rvews By MANIC JENKINS AS it become more and mora apparent that in the course of time we shall probably win the war, talk of what we shall do after the war is growing. It ranges all the way from stub born isolationism to fantastic forms of internationalism. T1IIS writer has Just listened to a talk that leaves no doubt in his mind as to ONE thing we MUST do. We must STAY STRONG. "THE talker was an officer who O was stBtioned In the Philip pines when the fateful Decem ber 7 came. (In the Philippines, which are west of tho Inlornn tlonal dateline, it was December 8.) He was badly shot up almost at the beginning, and was in a crowded, inadequately staffed hospital when Manila was evac uated. He was fortunate, In a way. Instead of being left to the far from tender mercies of the Japs, ho was among those placed on one of the two ramshackle ships available for removing - some of the wounded. Tho ship ho got on normally carried 15 passengers, Mora than 250 badly wounded men wore crowded onto it. Onco It caught fire. This officer was in j a cast from his armpits down, O THEY tossed him two life pro sorvers. When he asked (pro fanely, he says) what they were for ho was told to attach them to his cast so he would float when he was thrown overboard. Tho situation was just that des perate. Fortunately, the fire was ex tinguished. After weeks of hide-and-scek dodging, they reached Australia. He is still badly shaken. A LL through his talk ran the thread of uiiprcparcdncsa and what happens to an unpre pared nation when war comes especially to its people who are in ADVANCED OUTPOSTS. , Ha closed with this dramatic plea: "Don't, for God's sake, EVER leave us that way again. What ever happens in the future, keep America STRONG AND READY." 'Second Front" Opens With Allied Invasion of Sicily ST i MLTMIRONCJ, ' YS lfcei-.i-ryjtite-I VV - rV . v. iTJa3 taea, cMM-aavae. has ' . lrsSSfcjV -J.??Ll0Xj&k ftoahaAeia. Sosfham lf 1 l-,r. rnuufcATivr AtiAt Vr JKGiia AZ&TJU aea has flat aaeehai. (JTPTmjjaa. fiiolr iTKt'J aae te eceilef leaaV A r "P V V SICILY viTTOIA5SritoSri"' ST laeerfes.Naseieeek SIC.IY I As MI6 . m., QTjTCL JZL vy,, J Pap., 4,ooo,o78 4St VSHvA V. 1 JT iOUIH CAROLINA 5tWVlV S Ia . ' I JT Aa,J,055.ml., ISCIFVatn-anX' 0laias I V r.p.,I.B9l04 'MBfflTOIife C 2 QNaalfcaias The map above shows tha location and approximate geographical characteristics of tha island of Sicily on which aarly yes terday morning British, Canadian and American forces landed preparatory to opening tha long-awaited "second front." White arrows on tha lower right hand corner show tha probable dirac lion and objectives of tha attack. o TF you had heard him, you'd have said (probably with clenched fists, stinging eyes and (Continued on Page Eight) Glider Troops Being Used on "Second Front" LONDON, July 10 (fl") A Reuters dispatch from Wash ington said today that "all in dications here support the be lief that Gen. Eisenhower 4s making the first extensive use of glider-borne troops to over come bitter resistance in Sic ily." It added that allied inva ders landed on at least three areas of the Slcllinn coast, as had been indicated by various axis broadcasts. Judgment Held On Quashing of Short Indictment Circuit Judge Earl C. Latour- ctte reserved Judgment Friday on a motion to quash indictment in the Stato versus Mae K. Short case after a hearing which last ed throughout the day. The In dictments charge Mrs. Short with receiving unauthorized overtime pay in connection with her duties as county clerk. Through testimony of several witnesses, Including members of the grand Jury and various coun ty officials, the defense sought to corroborate tho contentions In their motion that the indict ments should be dismissed on the grounds that Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg had Influ- (Continued on Page Eight) Russians Struggle Biiierly to Stem Nazi-Driven Wedge in Belgorod Area By WILLIAM McGAFFIN MOSCOW, July 10 (P) Ger man and Russian troops remain ed locked in a series of bitter battles last night on the Belgorod front as attacking nazl forces fought frantically to expand the slim wedge which they had driv en into the red army lines two days ago. Dispatches from the front said today that in the past 24 hours some positions in the sector at the foot of the 200-mile Belgor od Kursk Orel bulge had changed hands several times in the course of heavy fighting. In some sectors, the Russians said, separate red army detachments were forced to withdraw only to launch vigorous counter-attacks on the arrival of fresh reserves. Pay Dearly The attacking Germans were paying for their latest frenzied effort with the same reckless ex penditure of armored strength and manpower as in past major offensive, the Russians said. ' (The German high command communique, recorded by The Associated Press, claimed trie at tacking forces had won "consid erable territorial gain" north of Belgorod against the embittered resistance of Russian reserves newly thrown into the great bat tle. (It .raised the number of so viet tanks claimed to have been destroyed or captured since July German Fighter Bases in France Battered by Bombs LONDON, July- 10 (IP) Strong formations of U. S. heavy bombers and flights of RAF light bombers attacked German fighter bases in France today. Flying Fortresses bombed air fields at Caen and Abbeville and joint announcement, by the U. S. army's European theatre headquarters and the British air ministry said bomb bursts were observed on both targets. . Another formation of Fort resses, finding its target in France-obscured by heavy clouds, refrained, from bombing the objective but experienced persistent fighter opposition. Heavy Attack ' The daylight foray followed a "very heavy attack" on the cen tral Ruhr last night by four-en-gined bombers of the RAF. 1 The joint announcement said three bombers were missing from the daylight operations. i An air ministry communique said Gelscnkirchen, 27 miles west of Dortmund on the Dis continued on Page Eight) - 5 to 1227 and declared that 119 Russian planes were shot down yesterday. Heavy artillery duels were raging south of Orel, the nazi reported. "Fierce Battle" (Transocean, German News agency, said that fighting both on the ground and in the air was "continuing with extraordinary fierceness," and that the scope of the struggle was spreading both in the Orel and Belgorod sec tors.) Stationary tanks dug into the Russian plains and camouflaged into perfect ambush were report ed to have knocked out 40 Ger man tanks including IS of the new 60-ton Tigers in one sector as Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge pushed his all-out assault into its sixth day. . . s Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R H E Cincinnati ., 6 6 0 Philadelphia 2 8 3 Riddle and Mueller, Conger, Mathewson (6) and Livingston. Chicago 10 , 16 0 New York .. 4 7 1 Blthorn and McCullough, Her nandez (8); Hubbell, Mungo (4), Feldman (9) and Lombard!, Mancuso (5). . ' Pittsburgh 6 - 10 1 1 Brooklyn 23 20 2 Podgajny, Gee (1), Shuman (1), Brandt (4), and Lopez, Baker (8); Davis and Bragsn. MUNDA LINES PULVERIZED; KISKA SHELLED New Georgia Rocked By Big Three-Way Bombardment By MURLIN SPENCER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI FIC, July 10 (P) The reduc tion of Munda s defenses by pulverizing blows from war ships, bombers and artillery of American invasion forces is now underway. : Japan's air base on New Georgia island the key to con quest of the central Solomons was raked Friday by the thundering -guns of United States naval units; rocked by WASHINGTON. July 10 (P) Bombardment of Japan eta posi tions on KUka island in tha Aleutians by American navy guns was reported by tha navy department today. . - Shells from the big guns whistled into tha Gertrude Cova area on tha southeastern coast of tha Aleutians island during tha aarly morning hours Friday. Shore batteries of the enemy returned tha lira but caused no damage, tha navy said. 2000-pound bombs dropped from more than 100 Avenger toroedo and Dauntless divebombers; and blasted by. bursting shells of artillery on nearby Rendova island. Land Battle Tha powerful three-way bom bardment, reported in today's communique from Gen. Douglas (Continued on Page Eight) Weyerhaeuser Camp Strike "Called Off" A 48-hour strike at Weyer haeuser Camp 6, located north of Bly, was called off Friday night and 140 men employed at the camp returned to work Sat urday morning. Mill officials said that trou ble arose over the firing of a camp cookhouse waitress on grounds of insubordination. CIO union officials stepped in and advised )he company if the wait ress was not reinstated, they would call the men off the job which they did. The strike went into effect Thursday morning. On Friday night, CIO called a meeting at the camp and voted to return to work Saturday morning. This went Into effect (Continued on Page Eight) . from landing barges by night, opening the big push they had awaited since they cleared 'wi hi 1 1 i ui ii r ux s r wri mnnrne mm a American and British warships form4 part of the invasion spearhead. r Swarms of allied bombers, fighter-bomW ers and fighters engaged only yesterday in the final massive blows of an aerial offensive mar naa rocked Sicilian targets for weeks- roared across the Mediterranean narrows at : dawn and formed an aerinl nmhrili u. fighting men aground. The British navy carried the main burden of transporting the military forces to the is land and guarding supply lines to African bases, but some United" States warships sailed with the invasion fleet, it was disclosed. General Eisenhower was believed by ob servers to have drawn on veteran units of the Tunisian campaign for a share of the invasion force, but the presence of the Canadians, who were last officially reported in. Britain, may have surprised the axis. " ; The zero hour of invasion was 3 a. m. (6 p.' m. Pacific war time last night). (President Roosevelt was notified of the landings at a White House dinner for Gen: ' Henri Ciraud about 6 p. m. Pacific war time lost night (3 c. m. North African time), It was disclosed in Washington. (Axis broadcasts said the allies, spearheaded by parachute unifs and strongly supported by sea and air, landed on both the southern and eastern coasts of the bomb-battered island which is a segment of metropolitan Italy. The Italian high command said "axis armed forces are decisively counter - attacking." (A German dispatch Implied that the Invasion was mount ed from Malta and Pantelleria, saying the heaviest of the ' allied concentrations between Gibraltar and Cyprus had beers observed at those islands in the Sicilian straits). ; Battle lor Europe Under Woy -- -. t s t I IJ. J I .., r w- . , i ne long-neraiaea parrie or curope was unaer way. Naval bombardments covered the snub-nosed, shallow Amff nnAnn vpjI. ft thv JinnN4 fmm wuihaji mil, n t. . more offshore and headed: for the rocky, precipitous coast..: Through wire and hot machine-gun fire the allied forcei cut out their bridgeheads ond then, with hardly a moment's T pause, began battering their way toward the Interior of the, island. . i . . r:-: J.:T- &I : a ! z .L. i ... vsiiiiiui ueiuiia ui iiib iirsi uriaac or in invasion wars vx pected to be issued later. . - I Air Force Smashes Nerve Center ' Liberators of the U. S. ninth air force, striking from Mid dle East bases by daylight yesterday, smashed the general headquarters and "nerve center of. axis Sicilian defense forces" at Taormina, a Cairo communique announced. Toormina lies on the Messina strait, which narrows north ward to separate Italy and Sicily by only two miles. The target area was declared "reduced to rubble and left in smoke and flame." - . . , - Munrlrprlc nf trine nf evnIrtclvM WAr tAttrfirmA iinrtn nvla strongholds in this attack and other final pre-invosion mis sions. The raiders said they believed' many grounded aircraft ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 10 (AP) -The United States and British navies are pour ' ing troops and war equipment into Sicily after a success ful landing along 100 miles of the coast of that vital island off the toe of Italy, a communique said tonight. . were destroyed. Twenty axis planes were shot down by Middle East and North African airmen. Eleven of the raiders failed to return. -' Ten Air Bases At Stake ... Ten mojor air bases of Sicily are among the military prizes immediately at stake in the allied invasion. As many as 300 enemy aircraft once rose from these fields in a single day to dispute the allied challenge for air domination, but continued raids trimmed that number con siderably. . "! (London quarters said the Italian communique's report that the landing parties struck at southern and eastern coasts suggested two zones of operation might be the large Catania plain and the Anopo plain. ' .: ' Invasion Areas Suggested ' (The Anapo plain lies southwest of Syracuse. The Catania plain centers about the port of the same name 40 miles off the toe of the Italian boot. It is one of the most favorable areas on the island, which is ridged from east to west by. mountains. (The southern wing of the Invasion may have to depend on beaches as supply lines for a while, since the five best harbors Trapani, Palermo, Messina,. Catania and Syracuse are All on the other coasts. Licata is suitable only for small vessels nd Gela provides anchorage only). The axis in the past hos boasted of mobile reserves kept at central points to be hurled into any threatened breach in Hitler's "fortress of Europe." (A Reuters dispatch from North Africa said some axis reinforcements were moved across Messina strait last night). ., ' " . . Amphibious Attack Tough - Close friends say General Eisenhower has always consid ered an amphibious attack the toughest problem a general could face because the weather was added to all other un certainties. But the weather in the western Mediterranean proved favorable. . :. ', Competent military strategists said that In an amphibious invasion the first three days not the first three hours -is the critical period. The physical act of getting troops ashore is a lesser phase, they say, and the success or failure of the whole attempt really depends on deepening the bridgeheads so services of supply and air fields can be established behind the fighting men. . . .. . .. Every allied soldier who embarked for Sicily last night did so with the belief that the opening of the second front in Europe is the most important action in store for allied arms. 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