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Newspaper Page TextAAnrrirmArm'rfifnmrniiii"i'i -ri-ri-(--rri- -rri-r iiriiiiiiii'ii ' mu On S-mlnut blast on ilrtm and whlittti U tho signal lor blackout In Kltmtlh Fella, Anolhtr long blmt, during a black out. U a ilgnil ior all-clear. In .receu tlanarv oarlodi. witch vour (treat llohtl. July IS High 14, Low II : J ; Precipitation at ol July 7. IMS Stream year to date .......W...1T.TS Lait year i .....13.15 Normal . ....11.01 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1948 Number 9849 fo) R) n T? n M feH TT ; ' iNty .... fo) . i . . . . i : Mi ii da mam Mm I! Mil i ! i'ii i s iiii'imiili'iliiiiili! ! iiinl! . ' , i! I.. 'Ii ' HI :il ' ii!i!!Yl!i!i!lillii!li!pVi!i!li Br FRANK JENKINS ' TN the bolllo of Sicily, which has held our almost undivided attention linco lu.il Saturday, thn outllnri of carefully planned purpose aro nt-ulnnlng to cmergo from tho ihontlng. AS a first slop, wc are gunning for the airfields tlint dot tho flat coaslul plain where our at tack fell. Airfield are all Im portant in modern warfare, In which planed have more or less taken the place of heavy artil lery. There are Ion principal field, with an unknown (to us out siders) number of lesser ones. Quito a fow of them (exact num ber not staled In the dispatcher) are already In our possession, with our plane already operat ing from them, THE most Important of tlicje field are In tin compara tively wide plain of Catania, and we're going after them lodny. Montuomorv's tough and sea soned 8th army, which broke Rommel' back In Africa, Is moving on them by land. War ships aro bombarding them from the sea. Our planes are pound ing them from the air. As to tho air attack, a return ing pilot Is quoted by the cor respondent as saying: "Tho sky Is so full of our aircraft that we almost need a policeman to relieve the traffic Jinn."" pURTHER testimony as to our command of the air is to bo found. In the fact that our war ships daro to stand Just offshore and add thoir shells to the bombs dropped by tho fliers. Without complete command of the air, that wouldn't bo possible. They'd be smashed promptly enough by tho enemy's land-based bombers. "THE big question so far has been: "Whcro aro the GER MANS who aro supposed to bo defending the Island?" They're probably heading Into the Cutanian plain, which is wido enough for tank fighting. If they don't show up there, it will be a fuirly snfo guess that tho Germans have no LARGE forces In Sicily. TODAY'S most interesting rumor (wholly unconfirmed and highly undepcndablc) Is thot Rommel, Germany's great tank expert, has been shot down on his way to Sicily by allied fight er planes. TN our battlo plans, the Catan Ian plain, with Its airfields and its port ut tho town of Catania, Is probably a way point (Continued on Pago Two) mv Three Klamath Men Lisied As Prisoners of Japanese Tho names of threo Klamath Falls men were officially listed by tho war department as prison ers of war of the Japanese in cither Tho Philippine Islands or Japan, according to information which reached hero this week. They aro PFC Robert L, Mil ler, U. S. marlno corps, son of Robert O. Miller, formerly of 1320 Oak nlrcot and now of Vallejo, Calif. Sgt, Paul E. Davis, field music, U. S. marine corps, son of Mrs. Lola E. Bnnrmnn of South Sixth street. rrt Liioya . urumpacKcr, u, S, marine corps, son of Ivan Crumpackcr, 2109 Madison street. Young Crumpackcr's parents rocoived word several weeks ago of their son's status. Word to tho parents of Davis and Miller chitio within tho pnst 10 days. The policy of tho . war depart 1(0) (Q) New Pott Kannell-Elilt Wlllard Constans, for the past 13 years sales manager for Way arhaausar .Timber company, leaves htra August 1 to take over tha office of general man ager of the Angle-CalUoraU Lumber company, Lee Angelas, IDS JOB Weyerhaeuser Man to Manage Anglo- California Willard Constans, sales man ager of Weyerhaeuser Timber company, announced Wednesday that ho had accepted the general managership of the Anglo-Cali fornia Lumber company of Los Angeles and would leave Klam ath Falls August 1, to take over his new duties. Anglo-American Is a whole sale distributing firm. Constans came hero in 1930 from Conor d'Alcne, Ida., where (Continued on Page Two)' Wage Scale for Mexican Labor To Be Discussed Tulclnke Growers will meet tonight (Wednesday) at 8 o clock In tho Tulelake high school to de tcrmino tho prevailing wage to bo paid Mexicans who are brought hero to work In the fields. According to M. V. Maxwell, county agent, it Is necessary that this hearing bo held on all la bor in this district to set the wage scale beforo Mexican na tionals can be brought here. Gcorgo T. Scott of Gazelle, Cnlif., chairman of the labor wage board of this district, will preside at the hearing. Board members George' Yost, W, S. Ed wards and Howard Dayton will also be present. ment Is to first advise next of kin, and then Issue names for publication. Tho parents of PFC Robert L. Miller lived at tho Villa Marquis apartment house on Oak street until about one year ago when they moved to Vallejo. , Friends here sulci that shortly before go ing south, tho Millers had .been advised of their son's death dur ing Tho Philippine campaign. Robert O. Miller, the youth's father was a painter and active In the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Sgt. Davis' mother and step father, Mr, and Mrs. Orland Boorman, received official noti fication that he was held a pris oner about a week ago, ' Boor man Is employed as transport driver for C. A. Dunn, contrac tor. Paul Davis was 26 years old In March. He enlisted at the ago of 17, served for four years (Continued on Page Two) :. v i ?V r i U. S. TROOPS Tl BSE Enemy Abandons Try To Aid Trapped Forces By MURLIN SPENCER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PA CIFIC, July 14 (P) Green-clad United States troops, in - fre quent gunfire exchange with the enemy, moved stealthily for ward through New Georgia' Jungle today upon Munda It might well mark tho be ginning of the end of that Japa ntse air base. . The enemy's garrison there appeared doomed to fight It out With .what men and - weapons were on hand. ' Reinforcement Fall Reinforcement by sea had failed. Remnants of a Japanese task force fled the disastrous scene of the Kula gulf above Munda, leaving behind the sunk en hulks of cruiser and from three to five destroyers to add IteJllns PtW lost there weckipolnls'or, France JUdI-n4 ih'e Mjff . ... nrortrosse destroyed more than Support by the Japanese alt force also failed. Yesterday. 18 enemy dive bombers, protected by 10 Zeros, came over tent on pounding our positions. The raider never reached their ob jective. American Corsairs and Lightnings slashed into them at Langsdale point on New Geor gia. Four Zeros and a Corsair, Whose pilot parachuted to safe ty, were shot down. The bomb ers jettisoned their loads and fled. Rain of Death Death rained dally on the gar rison from swarms of American Avenger torpedo and Dauntless dive bombers. Yesterday 32 tons of bombs burst among encamped troops and upon anti-aircraft batteries. Reinforcement or supply of the imperiled garrison by land was rendered virtually Impos (Cqntlnued on Page Two) Quick Action v Saves fee Plant Shed From Fire Quick action on tho part of the city fire department, saved the entire storago shed of tho Klam ath Ice and Storage company from being destroyed at an early Wednesday morning fire.. The ice storage shed is located near the Southern Pacific tracks by the South Sixth street viaduct. The firo is thought to have started from a cigarette butt ig niting sawdust near the floor of the building. The fire quickly spread to the wall and root of the building, partially destroying the roof and the bunkhouse, lo cated on the west side of the shed. . " Men were In the bunkhouse at the time of the fire, but no one was hurt. . The shed was covered by in surance. Owners of the building are Andrew M. Collier, Earl Shepherd, Fred Fleet, George Myers and Logger Hongs Self In Locol City Jail - Frank Olson, about : 60, hung himself early Wednesday morn ing in the city Jail. He was found at about 2:30 a. m. by city .police. Olson was in jail on a charge of drunkenness and had served four days of his ten day sentence. . He was a logger and was be lieved to have been employed by the .Pelican Bay Lumber com pany in the woods. Authorities are . still trying to locate any relatives. His body was moved to Earl Whltlock's funeral home Wednesday morning. ' r Hit the f' i " n"",i -a .Trtrprgy m Mk a JL First action picture of tho Sicilian invasion shows United States troops deacradlog; a landing craft ramp and advancing on Sicilian soli. Signal corps isdiotolephoto. E Aachen pattered Heavy Night RAF Attack in LONDON, July 14 - ) Strong formations of U. S. Fly ing Fortresses and RAF . light and fighter-bombers attacked German Installations in three 48 enemy fighter, Jt wa an nounced tonight. ' V ' In addition, U. S. Thunder bolts shot down" three German pianos and other fighters ac counted for three more. Aachen Damaged ' Flying Fortress formations, striking at German aircraft in stallations in France after RAF night raiders had made-a heavy attack on the German railway city of Aachen, bombed aircraft repair and assembly plants at VlllBCOublay, an aircraft factory and park at Le Bourget and an airfield at Amlcns-Glisy. "Bombing results were good (Continued on Page Two) Woman Charges Henry Fonda Father of Child LOS ANGELES, July 14 W) A woman identified by. her lawyers only as Miss Barbara Thompson has brought suit against Henry Fonda, , 37-year-old screen actor now in the U. S. navy, charging Fonda is the father of her child and asking $2000 monthly for ' its support. - The complaint, filed in su perior court yesterday, also seeks $3000 for medical ex penses, $10,000 for attorneys' fees and $2500 for court costs. Her complaint asserts that the child, . Sharon, was born last June 21, and that' she . and Fonda never have been married. Fonda's wife declared last night that the charges are false. She is the former Mrs. Frances Brokaw, widow of George T: Brokaw, wealthy New York at torney and sportsman. U. S. Bombs Blast Jap Railroad in Burma NEW DELHI, July 14 () Heavy Liberator bombers of the 10th U. S. alrforce dropped nine tons of bombs on Japanese rail road installations at Myingyan In Burma yesterday, a commun ique announced today. Myingyan is . an important transportation center on the Ir rawaddy river, about 80 ( miles southwest of Mandalay. 4 , Beer Is Where You Find It PORTLAND, July 14 (P) In these- days beer, like gold,' is where you find it, and you'll be finding it less often, Oregon brewers said today. Since a federal order cutting use of malt in beer, suds quaf fers have been forced to depend on regional . breweries,. The Beach! U. S. Troops Landing c- c v;v e Rommel Death Reports Denied STOCKHOLM, July 14 (P) German authorities denied to day ' a report broadcast yes terday that Field Marshal Er win RornmeL had been shot down by allied fighter pilot while en route to Sicily in a transport plane, a Berlin dis patch to Aftonbladet report ed. The report, said to have originated from a broadcast by a , German underground radio station, wa carried by , the Svedlsh newspaper Sven- ska Dagbladet.. ; twV? Hearf-on Crash On Merrill Road Infures Six . One of the year's worst traf fic accident was reported here Tuesday afternoon when six persons were tent - to Klamath Falls hospitals following a head on collision between two cars on the Merrill highway about one and one-half miles south of Mac's store. The crash occurred about 2:45 o'clock. Three of the six were seriously injured. Auburn Shade Nelson, 16, 309 Commercial street, is in a criti cal, condition at Klamath Valley hospital. Late Wednesday Nel son had not regained conscious ness. .... Mrs. Beulah Adams, 32, Tule lake, and Mrs. Edith Curry, 34, Los Angeles, are in Hillside hos pital with serious hurts. Others Treated Three others, Cecil E. Adams, his daughter, Jodine, 5, . Tule lake' residents, and . Margaret Mary Curry, 16, , Los Angeles, were treated for injuries at Hill side and then dismissed. .' According to state police, called to the scene of the acci dent, Nelson was driving toward Merrill at the time of the crash. Something went wrong, with .(Continued on Page Tyro) Jap War Plants Hit "Unparalleled' Production Levels By The Associated Press Lieut. Gen. Teiicho Suzuki, president of the Japanese cabi net planning board, announced today that Japanese war pro duction had attained "unpar alleled levels" in the last nine months, the Tokyo radio report ed in a broadcast recorded by The Associated Press, Suzuki warned, however, that the nation must .throw its en tire weight into the war effort and declared that the govern ment's program called for fur ther sharp increases in all essen tial industries particularly the construction of ships and planes the broadcast said. ' . f large eastern and midwestern manufacturers are concentrating 6n their local markets, regional brewers said. In addition, demand Increased as the population grew and drinkers ..turned to beer when pint -a -week - liquor rationing started. ri1f" - r - T wrf3' GOVERNMENT ACTS TO HALT STRIKES Grand Jury Called in . First Moye Undef Connolly Bill . PITTSBURGH, July 14 UP) The government made its first move under the Connally-Smith anti-Strike act today by conven ing a-special sessionrof "the fjfj-, eTaVgrand jury, here to inquire iiito -the lingering coal strike that began- June 20. - i - Coincidental Iy, the number of idle miners in the rich south western Pennsylvania coal field, most of whose output goes di rectly to war-busy steel mills, dwindled from 10,000 to an esti mated 3000. Only three captive or company-owned pits remained down. ' . United States . Steel corpor ation reported "a definite' im provement" in the Fayette coun ty fields where the strike has centered, and announcd it would get 24,000 tons of coal from that sector today,' as against 16,000 yesterday. . WASHINGTON, July 14 VP) The war labor board (WLB) is preparing to enunciate a new policy under which John L. . (Continued on Page Two) Soviets Take Initiative After Repulsing Nazis By WILLIAM McGAFFIN MOSCOW, July. 14 (P) Red forces on the southern end of the Kursk salient launched a series of fresh local counterattacks to day to follow up their successful repulse of German attempts to enlarge the Belgorod bulge yes terday. That the Russians are able to take the initiative after absorb ing the toughest blows the Ger mans have been capable of de livering is taken as a healthy sign of the caliber of the red army by military observers. ' . Field Marshal Kluge's armies, freshly reinforced and reorgan ized, continued to batter violent ly against other sectors, but their efforts to crack through have al ready' cost the Germans 2722 tanks' and 1200 planes in nine days of fighting, according to so viet official figures. (The German communique as serted that strong Russian coun terattacks in the Belgorod sector yesterday were repulsed with "the heaviest losses," and that in a single sector two Russian regi ments were wiped out. More than 200 red army tanks were destroyed, the communique said.) ' Explosion Destroys Works at Idaho Mine KELLOGG, Ida., July 14 (IP) An explosion of the powder mag azine at the little Pittsburgh mine destroyed much of the sur face works there at 5:15 a. m. to day, Fireman Bill Linhart said, adding the blast was heard here. ; 14 miles from the site of the mine on Little vfine creek.. . Two Sicilian Air Bases Fall Before Advancing Allies On the Land" LONDON. July 14 CP) The Algiers radio said tonight that the allies have driven a wedge into the defenses of Catania. By DANIEL DE LUCE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 14 (P) Britain's veteran eighth army today plunged northwest beyond fallen Augusta toward Catania against weak resistance in a sizzling drive to seal off Sicily's east coast and set the stage for another Cap Bon. The British had thrust to within 13 mCes of Catania, big Sicilian port . which now was threatened by the same fate aj Augusta and Syracuse.; .At the same time the Amer ican seventh army, led by Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr, spreading westward and north ward from its beachheads on the south coast, captured two of the enemy's . 10 main Sicilian air fields, including Comiso, and swept to within 12 miles of Agri gen to, where the axis has been massing forces for - a counter attack. - Catania. Position - The position of Catania, astride the road to Messina and ' 55 mile from the strategic water neck which; .separate Sicily from Italy, was much, like that fot Hammsm Ltf at the entrance to Car)!Bon lb Tunisia, where the British army broke through, last May and completed Col. Gen; Jurgen von Arnim's catastrophe. Catania, its airport bombard ed by allied warships early yes terday and plastered by load of bombs from Flying Fortresses a few. hours later, appeared to be in a precarious position as Montgomery battered" back Ger man resistance. Dispute Missing Straits ; ' Already allied- naval forces were disputing domination of all sea approaches to Messina straits. An allied motor torpedo boat flotilla invaded the strategic waterway Monday night, rout ing three enemy motor torpedo (Continued on Page Two) - - American Fliers Bomb, Strafe Japs On Chinese Front ; CHUNGKING, July 14 (P Fliers of the U. S. 14th air force struck at the Japanese in the past seven days in bombing and strafing missions which ranged from the Yangtze river front to French Indo-China, a communi que from Lieut. Gen. Jos eph W. Stil well's headquarters announced today. . A motor vessel of between 6000 and 10,000 tons was among 15 river craft destroyed or dam aged near Canton, it was said. Five raids were made on the Haiphong, Hongway and Cam pha port area of French Indo- China. . Avenging Officer Kills Jap Who Slew Lake County Man in Fierce Attu Battlo LAKEVIEW The death of Sgt. Alonzo F. Atkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Atkinson of Lakeview, at the hands of a Japanese soldier has been avenged. The identification tag carried by the Lakeview boy in the bat tle of Attu, and a letter from a wounded American soldier in Barnes general hospital, Van couver, Wash., received by Sgt. Atkinson's parents this week tell the story. . - Lt, Russell Beagle was one of the American boys in the battle of Attu. Wounded in the -last day's fight on the Island, he was removed to Barnes general hos pital In Vancouver. While there he noticed in a dally paper the war department's list of recent soldiers killed in action. Among them was Sgt. Atkinson t of Lakeview. Lieut. Beagle imme diately associated the name with that on the identification tag he carried in his pocket. On In the Air- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 14 OP) Allied bombers and fighter spread a flaming path of de struction across Sicily and ltg surrounding water yesterday, sinking two more merchant ship and damaging two destroyers while shooting down 42 axis air craft for a loss of seven of thelv own, an allied air communiques announced today. " ' '; The attacks lasted from daws) until the but light of day and! then continued after sundown when the night bombers and fighters took over. . , .The day's bag Included 199 trucks, 43 freight cars and si locomotives destroyed in savage ly efficient blows at the enemy'a vital communications facilities, - Spread Flames Allied bombers spread flam ing carpet of destruction on twtj of the enemy's remaining 'aim fields In Sicily, at Milo and Ca tania, and successfully beat off enemy' aircraft which attempted! to interfere with the allied lnva sion operations, the communique) said. - Milo airfield, which the allied planes bombed heavily yester day, lies short distance south . M .1 I . . . cos ui uie imfMHUiUb lUMlHn ma val base at Trapahl on the westb era coast of Sicily. I ' Catania: Bombed ' The - Catania ' airfield, also) bombed heavily, was a possibly ' . (Continued on Page Two) Formal Transfer . Of Martinique's . Allegiance Made m Mr , urtni 11 WASHINGTON, July 14 (IP)- Martinique,' for many months thay only French I non-axls-occupied) territory to hold out against co operating in the fight to liberate) France, returned to the fold to day and placed its ships and re sources at the disposal of the) United- Nations. It was significant to many ob servers that the formal transfer of allegiance comes on the 154tl anniversary of the storming o the bastille a revolutionary act that marked the birth of French freedom. - v Henri Hoppenot, delegate c4 the French committee of nation al liberation, was due to arrival' at Fort ' de " France . today and, formally take over frees A6V miral Georges Robert the au thority he formerly exercised aa French high commissioner of the Antilles. The state department last night made clear that Admiral Robert long a hold-out against cooperation in the fight to free France had decided at last to relinquish his authority to a rep resentative of the French com mittee In Algiers. the tag was the name of the) Lnlcevlpw hnv nnri hi mnthr Mrs. Janet Atkinson. - - ' During the battle of Attu, Lieut. Beagle killed a Jap soU rilor and ramnvpit thn tnff. whtah' the Jap had taken after he killed Sgt. Atkinson. Beagle car ried the tag with him ever since) as a sort of good luck piece When the paper carried the) story of Sgt. Atkinson's death, the wounded soldier dug out the tag and mailed it with a let ter to the boy's parents. In hia letter Beagle said: "You can see) that the Jap that killed your son has paid with his life, and I am happy and proud to be tha one who made him pay." - Lieut. Beagle did not know the Lakeview boy and had never heard of him, but he says: "You can be proud of him. I wa in the whole battle and I can say that these boy did a wonderful job. I'll never. forget it I waa one of the fortunateyme."