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Newspaper Page Textr i IPi I" iii, 1,1,1, lli,Tl,!i:iilhl:i(i:iil,llMillllHiiilHIIHM On 8-mlnut blast on sirens nd whistles li tht signal lor blackout in Klamath Falls. Another long bint, during a black out. U ilgnal lor all-elaar. In irecau tlonary parlodi, watch your street llghti. Julr 11 High 78, Low 43 ' Precipitation a or July I, IMt Siraam yaar to data ..17.7l Last year ...13.15 Normal 11.11 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1943 Number 9847 IV ran km n jiiii 'm.s:m!Vim i I'm, i ,ui si'.ii'i axihihain:i ii hi Push .Stalled II1 IBii 111 I By FRANK JENKINS A MONO tho lesser horrors of the war on tho homo front li the new penny, which can be, and with ureal frequency la, mistaken for a dime especially pvhen It is fresh front tho mint and deceptively shiny. It would take Ita place anions the major destroyers of morale but for tho fortumito fuel Hint line get dime Instead of a penny about aa often aa he gels a pen ny Instead of a dime. Whenever that hnppcnt, It llghteni the gloom. nplE morale-destroying qtinl Itiea of tho new penny are peculiarly apparent in California (where these words arc written), because here one's change al most Invariably includes pen nies. You board a street car. You are promptly subjected to the same process that is applied to a sardine when It enters a can. That is to any, you are squeezed Qfn until your sluipa la clonguted by about two Inches and reach ing your pocket becomes a maneuver. When you get your chango you are in no position at all to get out your spectacles and your magnifying glass and muko the careful and exacting tests that are necessary to determine which aro pennies and which are dimes. So you dump it into your pocket and rely on the working out of the averages to keep your books in balance VPHAT really matters is the fact that we havo govern ment that is so utterly un familiar with the fundamental problems of bualncas that it coins pennies that can't bo told from dimes without the aid of experts. QYOU'LL recall, of course, recent zoot-suit episode tho episode in Los Angeles which tho press as sociations insisted on handling in tho light, frivolous manner known professionally as "feat ure" writing, which effectively concealed whatever facts may have been involved. For sev eral days this nowspapcr con sidered sending a staff corres pondent to Los Angeles to find out Just what was happening. This seems to bo tho story, at least In rough outline.: ,, COR some time there havo ex- isled In tho Southern Cali fornia metropolis organizations of Mexican youngsters that ap pear to be a sort of mixture of the Italian Mafia, the Apaches of the old Paris .Latin Quarter and American high school fro- Otcrnltics. Among tho require ments for admission Into these organizations Is having been con victed of or at least charged with some minor crime. Their male members adopted the zoot suit as a sort of uniform,- and their "g u n molls" affected among other things the wearing of a knife at the belt. Tho story goes that the zoot suitcrs molested a sailor's girl, and the ensuing ruckuscs de veloped out of the reprisals of the sailor's buddies who wcro promptly joined by solders and marines. Tho favorite form of reprisal (as you havo read in the papers) was to stand zoot suiters on their heads and strip them of their absurd pants. Fortunately these near riots didn't reach the point of blood-letting. Q They died down when the army and navy put Los Angeles "out of bounds." ' "THIS Js the interesting point: Tho zoot suit story was hush , hushed in a fluff of fancy writing because of a foolish idea that disclosure of the full facts would (Continued on rage Two) Booked In Ookei Death : h i V ; -.. ... ft Allred d Marigny (above) was booktd ai Nassau.' Baham as, on a charge of killing bis father-in-law. Sir Harry Oakea, Brlliah multi-millionaire. JAP PACIFIC BASES Mynda Struck Hard In Attack, Nine Zeros Downed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI FIC, July 12 W) American bombers pounded four widely separated Japanese bases In the southwest Pacific Sunday, strik ing most heavily at Mundo, the enemy's key defense point in the central Solomons. More than 176 tons of bombs wcro loosed on the Japanese strongholds and at least nine Zeros which attempted to inter fere were shot down. One Lib erator and two allied fighters were lost. Munda Area Hit Torpedo and dive-bombers (Continued on Page Two) "Palace Guard" Flayed; War Cabinet Asked By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, July 12 W) With tho assertion that '.'the palace guard has got to be de mobilized soon," Senator Van denberg (R-Mich.) called today for tho establishment of a war cabinet to help President Roose velt direct activities on the home front. Forecasting further roorganl (Contlnued on Page Two) Robert Greear, Roy Karrer, Melvin Myers Die in Jap Prison Camp in Philippines MeWin Myers SOVIETS HOLD M I TO" 2500 Tanks Lost First Seven Days Of Battle n By WILLIAM McGAFFIN MOSCOW, July 12 (AP) Field Marshal Guenther von Klugo's armored columns began tho second week of tho Kursk offensive today on much the same ground where it opened July S. After seven disastrous davs of battle the Germans have suc ceeded in only minor gains with the loss of 2S00 tanks and 1088 planes chalked down on the debit side of the ledger, accord ing to soviet operational com muniques. (The German ' radio in a broadcast recorded by the Asso ciated Press claimed that in tho Belgorod area they had cap tured 28,000 Russian prisoners since July S and had captured or destroyed 1640 tanks and 1400 guns). -:;'' ". p Few Details.-- There are few1 details avail able on the present situation in the Belgorod breach at the southern end of the 200-mile central front but the Russians have reported that they repelled nazi attack by more than 100 tanks Including the new 60-ton Tlgors. Red army artillery and aviation protecting the red in fantry destroyed 34 tanks and dispersed the remainder, the Russians said. Altogether the Russians say they have repelled ten German (Continued on Page Two) Kiska Supply Ships Battered By U. S. Bombs WASHINGTON. July 12 (AP) American bombers, battering four Japanese cargo vessels ap parently attempting to supply the enemy base at Kiska, sank one Japanese ship, left a second in a sinking condition and bad ly damaged the other two. The navy, reporting this to day, said that army heavy and medium bombers and navy pa trol bombers Intercepted the cargo fleet 280 miles southwest of Holtz bay, Attu island. That would put the ships on a rlrect line from Japan to Kiska. New Bombardment The navy also reported new bombardment of Japanese positions at Gertrude cove on (Continued on Page Two) i To the tragic list ot Klamath county's war dead were added the names of three young army men this week- end. All have L perished in pris on camps in The P h 1 1 1 p p 1 n es where they have been held by the Japancso since the fall of Bataan. The dead arc: Private Roy Norman Karrer, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Greear Karrer, 345 Nevada street, ' Private Melvin J. Myers, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley O. Myers of 500 North Ninth street. Private Robert Greear, 25," son of Mr .and Mrs. P. Earl Greear, Chiloquin, Ore. NO GAIN 1 ,JT! ""i 'W J Aaaault troops carrying the attack to the Italian island of Sicily marched aboard LCI (Land ing Craft Infantry) barges for the take-off. In this photograph, one of the first of the Sidly inva sion drive. U. S. Army Signal Corps radiophoio from Algiers. Fire Hazards Force Closure of Oregon Forests Today; Some Entry Permitted Closure of Oregon's 13 nation al forests, including Rogue River, Deschutes and Fremont, adjacent to the Klamath area, was an nounced by the United Slates for- est service today, MepdayvrTn' closure goes inlA effect ai this time, officially on July 12. There will be three types of entry again. Areas of extreme fire hazard are closed to any en try. Only two forests, however. have any area thus restricted and are Mount Hood and Willamette. Areas of relatively high haz ard are closed to entry except with permits which are issued only to persons having business there home owners, loggers. stockmen and ranchers. Recrea tional use of these areas is not permitted. Registration Areas Other areas are open to entry only after registration. These are the principal recreation spots, which can be used with out undue hazard to the forests. Other areas of low hazard are open to entry without special re striction except as to campfire permits, no smoking while trav eling and carrying fire tools. Persons desiring to visit the national forests have been asked to call at the nearest supervisor or ranger headquarters to ascer tain the degree of closure or other wartime restriction. Forest -Supervisor Ed Cliff of Fremont National forest, was a visitor in Klamath Falls Mon day. Cliff said the closure would apply to practically all lands within the exterior boundaries of Fremont as well as the tim bered areas lying northwest of the Gerber reservoir, the Bear valley strip which joins the southwestern boundary of the forest, and the strip of timbered lands lying between Bly and Hil- debrand, and bordered on the north by the Indian reservation The basin area has paid heav ily since December 7, 1941, and officially known dead rose to 32 with the names of Karrer, Myers and Greear added this weekend. Birthday Thursday ' ""Pvt. Karrer, who would have been 19 years of age this coming Thursday, July 19, was listed as a prisoner of war following tho fa.ll of Bataan. So was Pvt. Greear, whose parents but a short time ago were happy to hear he was alive after many months of silence. The parents of Karrer were advised Saturday of their son's death through the International Red Cross. Pvt. Greear's parents have known since June 28, of the fate of their son. Pvt. Melvin Myera, 24, was taken prisoner at Ba taan and officially listed by the (Continued on Page Two) Assault Troops Board Craft For Sicilian Attack and on the south by the national forest boundary. Unrestricted Travel i Travel will be permitted with out restriction on the Klamath 'Falls-Lakevicw, Warner and kFrerhont -hint) way where they cross the notional forest protec tive area. Unrestricted travel will also be permitted on the roads between Cottonwood res ervoir and Dairy creek, and be tween the national forest boun dary near Paisley and Marsters Spring, the Bear Flat road from the national forest boundary near Silver Lake to the north boundary of the Klamath Indian -reservation, the Drew's Creek road to Dog lake, and a strip one-eighth of a mile around Dog lake, the Barnes Valley road from the national forest bound ary near Lorella to the Gerber ranch, the Bonanza cut-off road, the road between the Ivory Pine Truman Committee Reports Minimized by Patterson WASHINGTON. July 12 (IP) Undersecretary of War Patter son said today that the situa tion at the Lockland, Ohio, plant of the Wright Aeronauti cal corporation, charged by the Truman committee with supply ing defective aircraft engines to the army, "have been much less sensational than some of the inferences drawn in recently published statements." '. Patterson, said, however, that the army's own investigation, headed by Lieut. Gen. William S. Knudsen, found "a falling off in inspection procedures' at the plant, and "confirmed the great er part of the information fur nished by tBe Truman com mottec." ' "Vigorous remedial action," 11 Roy Norman Karrer m i iu wsfiwr v fun 1mJ$i aa XAA-'j L mill and Weyerhaeuser Camp 6 and the area included in the Wey erhaeuser logging camp, the road between the Klamath Falls Lakeview highway and the Ewauna . Box company . Quartz mountain, logging camp area, the road to Fish lake and the road to the Underwood Lumber com pany logging camp and the camp area, and the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber company camp area at Summit Stage station, and the cultivated areas in the Crooked creek and Drew's valleys. Fire Prevention " These closures are made for the purpose of preventing man caused fires and are essentially the same as the ones which were in effect last year, according to Cliff. This year, more than ever before, it is necessary to keep fire from our forests. Protection agencies are working with pro- (Continued on Page Two). was taken Immediately, Patter son's statement said, including changes in the company s per sonnel and methods, lengthen ing the engine test runs at the plant, and removal of the army's . resident representative at the plant as well as the offi cer in charge of the inspection section at Wright field, Ohio, and a "substantial increase" of army inspection personnel. Meanwhile the committee turned today from its sweeping review of military aviation to two particular problems: the re duction of military plane crashes and the - guaranteeing that American planes have post war landing rights on fields built abroad with United States funds. ' ' . ' Plane Crashes Chairman Truman (D-Mo.) and other members of the sen ate group investigating the war program said a report would be forthcoming on plane crashes because the committee is con cerned about the large number of such casualties, particularly in n o n - combat operational flights in this country." Back-tp-Work Move Under Way In Mines PITTSBURGH, July 12 (P) A back-to-work movement appar ently was underway today in the southwestern Pennsylvania soft coal fields where Insurgent strikes last week prevented more than 17,000 diggers from going to their jobs. , Four major steel company- owned "captive" pits employing about 3000 men resumed opera tions, and a half dozen smaller mines in the area were reported partially operating. About 14,- 000 men still were absent from the -mines. Aflloes Up Steely 's Host? Cocastt By DANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 12 (AP) General Bernard L raced toward Catania from captured Syracuse In a tremen dous push up Sicily's east coast today after American and allied forces had captured nine other important ports and towns, turned back seven counter-attacks by enemy tanks and captured 2000 prisoners, Leading the western crescent of the allied attack, Amer icans under Lieut. Gen. George heaviest of the enemy armored counter-attacks in the Licatov Gela area some 80 miles west of Syracuse and advanced; northward of Gela. Heading units of his famous British eighth army, which fought in epic battles from El Africa, Gen. Montgomery plunged toward Messina and tht' strategic straits some BO miles northward after securing' tirmly the advantageous port and potential springboard for land. Americans Hold Bridgehead .. ' j The Americans were holding a bridgehead 25 mites lona and ten miles deep after taking coast, said a dispatch from the ward Giiling, representing the equipment already is being unloaded at these ports. (Florida, eight miles inland from Syracuse, already It hv British hands, said another dispatch.), a -Allied warplanes already were sweeping the skies frons airfields captured in Sicily. ';;" v . I ' Catania Laft Aflam k ' I , They had left Catania, the next objective of the. British , mcrch, -aflame,--and they; had divebombed columns of axis troops being brought up for counter-attacks, destroying 400 or more of the enemy's vehicles. . Allied naval forces, unhampered by the Italian fleet,' continued to pour men and supplies into the bridgeheads stretching for 1 00 miles along Sicily's southeastern coast for the rapid push up Sicily's eastern shore, and hurled shells into the enemy's communications and defenses. . An official announcement from Malta said Lieut. Gen, George S. Patton Jr., was commanding the United States forces in Sicily, while Gen. Sir Bernard L Montgomery wos leading the British troops in the invasion.) Captured Places Listed Licata, 80 miles to the west on the south coast; Gela Pachino, on Cape Passe ro at the extreme southeastern tip of the island; Avola and Noto, midway between Syracuse and Pachino; Pobballo, site of an important air base on the south coast; Scoglitti; Ispica, and Rosolini were among the captured places listed in today's allied headquarters communique. American troops in the Gela area beat off counter-attacks by the Italians' fourth Livomo division and 45 tanks in the heaviest of all the seven enemy counter-blows. The 54th Napoli division was driven out of Syracuse by the British a lightning blow at the end of the second day, of the allied Invasion which p- i pearea xo De a serious nanaicap i to the enemy in bringing up re inforcements to meet a rapidly swelling penetration Into the in terior of the island. Civilian Population "Pleased' The civilian population "seemed more pleased to see us than they had been to- see the Huns," said one observer. The swift occupation of the string of ports and towns along a 100-mile stretch of Sicily's southeastern coast was accom panied by a furious air action yesterday in which fleets of fast new American A-38 fighter bombers smashed at least 400 enemy vehicles endeavoring to rush up troops and supplies for counter-attacks, and heavy blows by four-engined and med ium bombers at Catania, on the east coast, the Sicilian air drome of Milo, Sciacca and Ger (Continued on Page Two) Estimate of Axis Forces Defending Sicily By EDWARD GILLING (Distributed by the Associated Press) AN ALLIED COMMAND POST IN THE MEDITER RANEAN AREA, July 10 (Delayed) Allied sources said today that enemy forces defending Sicily may consist of 12 divisions. (The total thus would range up to perhaps 144,000 men. London sources on Saturday placed the total axis forces on Sicily as ranging upwards to 400,000 men.) Two of these probably are German, the remaining ten being five Italian coastal di visions and five Italian infan try divisions. , Coee DE LUCE IN NORTH AMERICA, July' Montgomery's British armies mostly Italians.. S. Patton, Jr., crushed the Alamein, Egypt, across North ot Syracuse, a city of 53,000 invasion of the Italian main .1 Licata and Gela on the south allied command post by Ed combined British press. Their DIG UP DOLLARS FOR DOOLITTLE! It wUl take 11.00 In War Stamps from every man, woman and child la the coun try to build the "SHANGRI-LA" $39,000 130.000 f ) $25,000 $20,009 $15,000 $10,000 8,000 140,000 is Klamath county's goal in War Stamp lor July. Pleas take put of year change in. Ww Stamps. Let's help "Doolittl Do It Afsis."