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Newspaper Page TextPI1!!P1 ... iiiBiB(!iii1SilfuJiTi(iiIl ' On 5-mlnut blast on siren and whistle li th algnal for a blackout la Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during a black out li a ilgnal for all-alar. In i .cau tionary periods, watch your street lights. July 14 Mffc M, Lw 4 j . cirfta.tos a f July t, IU Stream tni to date : . 1T.TS Laat yaar .. 1.1$ Normal rll.0l mr rrn - r i.r unnnL.rLfu-ri.rai ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943 ', Number 9860 MHO 'HW-iXJt li,io; A l V 1 1 XI I' I A.I.lHIKJAISfl tt'lpplplpplllllpp .... .. i in i i i i w i i. i i r t iiiii j i i . ' By MANX JENKINS ""THE long-expected German op 1 position In Sicily la beginning to appear. Just north of Augusta, the British Bth nnny was lilt by powerful nizl armored forces and driven buck Into tho town. A wholn British brigade win sur rounded and Isoliitcd, but the battle-toughened Bill promptly taxed a counter-attack of it own, drove the Germans back and then advanced four miles more In the direction of Catania which la now tho big Immed iate goal. I . . . "THAT seema to prove rather clearly that the forcea we've ALREADY landed are numer ous enough and well enough equipped to havo great striking power. "THERE la every Indication that '''the coming big battle wilt take placo In the Calanlan plain, which ia wide enough to permit tank maneuvering. Tha Hermann Goerlrlg arm ored division (one of Germany's best) which counter-attacked our Americana early in the battlo and waa driven off, la now re ported to be dug In before Catania. Our air acouta have been reporting for ome tlmo heavy movement of axis rein forcement toward tho plain of 'Catania. . .' The Germans are reported to be pushing in a large number of their 80 ton Tiger tanks, as well aa tank destroyers. . AT the moment It looks like the battle of Tunla over again. Catania, like Tunla, Is sur rounded by a relatively wide plain, and In the. surrounding plain occurred the battle that settled the fute of Tunis. There Is this difference: Before reaching the Tunisian plain, wo had to battle our way at great cost through the encircling ring of mountains. In Sicily the prob lem was to land enough men FROM THE SEA. There are dependable indica tions that we've done that. "TODAY'S dispatches t V that in the developing tell us n g battle of tho Catanlon plain we re dropping parachute and glider troops behind the enemy lines. These troops, after hurdling tho enemy's front lines, attack him from tho rear while the main body of our army smashes at him from the front, thus catch ing him between two fires. It Is an old and well-tested battle plan which before tho air plane was carried out with cavalry. This was Lee's plan at Gettysburg. Pickett's world famous charge was primarily a diversion. Lee had sent his cavalry around to hit the Union lines from the rear Just as their attention was fully monopolized by Pickett's charging Infantry. Lee's cavalry was STOPPED be fore reaching tho Union rear and the plan failed, k Tills covalry-from-thc-roar, In ' lanlry-from-thc-front plan Kof which the use of parachute and glider troops Is a variation) was one of Hannibal's favorites. TF and when wo tako the Calan Ian plain and Us airports, we'll face rough, mountainous, dangerous country between there and Messina, which is obviously our main objective With command of the air and the sea, wo may be able to re duce Messina without having to (Continued on Pago Two) Veronica Lake's Premature Baby Dies HOLLYWOOD, July 15 (P)- Fllm Actress Veronica Liiko's .prematurely-born baby, Anllv "ony. died today. The seven-day old child had been In precarious condition since its birth July 8, a few days after Miss Lake suffered a full at her studio. The actress waa Informed of Anthony's death, and studio officials said 'she look It very hard. Allied Wounded William r. Bonl (above). As sociated Press correspondent In New Guinea, received nine ahell splinter wounds In . an attack by Japanese planes on tha Sale maua front, tha AP'e Australian bureau waa Informed. Bonl aald hla wounds were auparllctal. i AS JURY INQUIRES asisi iiieaaiaass Investigation . Results On UMW Forwarded. To Biddle PITTSBURGH, July IS (P) The insurgent coal strike In aouthwestern Pennsylvania col lapsed today as a federal (rand Jury continued an Investigation to determine who wai respon sible for continuing the walkout which began June 20, .., Two mass meetings,- ' with United Mine Workera (UMW) locals from the dozen mines which had remained Idle repre sented, voted unanimously yes terday and last night to resume work today. All but about 3300 of the 10.000 holdouts went back yesterday." "I have been called down to Pittsburgh by the FBI,"' "An thony Congello, president of the (Continued on Pago Two) "" Violent Air Fighting Reported Over France, English Channel LONDON, July 15 (IP) The German radio, in a broadcast recorncn oy xne Associaiea Press, said violent aerial fighting had been taking place tonight over northern France and the English channel, ' FOLKESTONE. Eng., July 18 (P) Great formations of allied planes, believed to Include bomb ers, streamed across the English channel late today In the direc tion of northern France. ' Beef for Meai-Siarved Gasoline for Pleasure, Predicted by Price Chief as Red-Haired Maxon Bounces From OP A WASHINGTON, July 15; (P) Price Administrator Prentiss Brown predicted today that beef-hungry civilians will ' re ceive increased supplies as the result of a heavy movement of livestock to market and .said the pleasure driving ban. in the cast will be lifted for "A" card holders "as soon as possible." Brown also told a press, con ference: . -,'.'. 1. The price of corn will re main at present levels. He said cprn Is now moving' to market uhder the present price regula tion now that "uncertainty" has been eliminated by the house agriculture committee's refusal to require higher prices, as pro posed by the senate. No Beef Calling 2. There Is no "present move", to placo ceiling at the live ani mal level on , beef, because OPA km japs in Aussie, U. S. Troops Close in for ,: "Action ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST. PA CIFIC, July IS (P) American and Australian troops in the New Guinea theater, keying their attack to the continuing all-American drive against Mun da, 700 miles to the east, are closing In on Japanese positions in th Mubo area "lor decisive action." This new offensive, announced In special statement tonight from' General Douglas MacAr thur's headquarters, was said by an official spokesman to be de signed to clear the long-con tested Mubo zone of all enemy troops and pin the Japanese back to their lines around Salamaua, on th eastern New Guinea shoreline 12 mile to th north. . Or Hill Taken . As a preliminary success, th allied forces ; captured Green Hill, on oi tna Kex strnncpoinii (A ilfeCMubo defene system, folf lowing continued pressure against Japanese positions from both ground and alf, the an nouncement aald.. In addition, an enemy fore of "medium six", ha been cut off at Mubo. Allied patrols were reported engaged In Intermittent clashes with the Japanese north of Salus (Continued on Page Two) Fonda Denies Parenthood of Divorcee's Child LOS ANGELES. July 15 WP) Screen Actor Henry Fonda has denied, categorically, through his wife and naval authorities where ha Is stationed, that he is the father of a daughter born' three weeks ago to Mrs. Barbara Thompson, 25-year-old brunet divorcee. ', ' The denials were in answer to Mrs. Thompson's suit asserting Fonda is the father of the girl she has ' named Sharon Fonda and demanding that he pay $5000 medical expenses, $10,000 attor ney fees, $2500 court costs and $2000 monthly support. ' ' Fonda, now a navy quarter master third class attached to a destroyer, phoned his wife yes terday from Seattle. Mrs. Fonda, the former Frances Brokaw, re ported this conversation: "Henry -. told me he didn't know the girl, and had never ;. (Continued on Page Two) . wants to ' give the industry "every chance to work out the problem" and a beef celling would be "most difficult to work out." . . 3. He now is discussing with Food Administrator Mavvln Jones a proposed maximum price on live hogs, but declined to predict whether It would be put into effect. , Oil Situation Batter - 4. ; The oil situation is. better, the ; war remaining the uncer tain, f a c t o r in the situation. Brown said he had always op posed the pleasure driving ban, "except and unless absolutely necessary," feeling that "A" card - holder- should be permit ted to Use their small rations as they see fit. The pleasure driv ing b a n in the northeastern states will be lifted as soon as possible, . but holders of "B," AREA PER LED Br NEW DRIVE Q) it Inn Hp : . :-. Man of Poland President Wladyslar Racskl wies of th Polish govrnmnt-ln-exile emerges as that nation's strong man following th death of Premier Sikoraki. TO START FRIDAY Dunn Gets Order From t U. $. Engineers To Proceed Machinery will be ia motion Friday morning .on the $200,000 flrport construction job," It. Was nnou-fSee. today by M.'fi. uunn Who received orders, from ithe United States engineers' office in Portland to proceed immediate ly with the work. , Contract calls for extension of one runway and an additional taxlway. grading, paving,- elimi nation of all hazzards, leveling the canal bank, installation of drains and rearranging of lights nd other incidental items. To Start Friday " Dunn said that work would start . early Friday morning. Grading will be done first, and as it will be impossible to use very many men outside the reg ular Dunn crew for the next sev eral days, those wishing employ ment are asked to go to the AFL union headquarters and they must bresent a certificate of availability. ' Dunn said truckers would not be needed until the surface oper ations are underway, which will be some time In early August Sufficient notice will be given those interested in the job, Dunn "said. All old employes, wishing Jobs on the new airport construction project, are asked to get in touch with the C. A. Dunn office, the contractor statea. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE , R. H. E. Cleveland ..... 1 4.0 St. Louis . 2 6 0 Bagby, Milnar (8) and Rosal; Sundra and Hayes. ' "C" and "T" books must con tlnue to us their rations for specific purposes. Msxon Charge 'Brown declined to discuss "background and reasons," be hind a statement by his one-time close friend, Lou R. Maxon, who quit last night as deputy ad ministrator with the assertion that Houdlnl himself .could not untangle OPA's red tape. Brown said it -would "add nothing to the war effort abroad nor. the peace effort on the home front to discuss the personalities involved," but he answered spe cific charges made by the De troit advertising executive, . OPA Poller . To the question "Has OPA a policy?" Brown replied: "It has. It Is clear and unmis takable. Its policy Is to bend (Continued on Page Two) XL Combined Forces Make Big Advance In Ragausa Sector ' - By ItELMAN MOllIK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS The Jaws of an allied clamp have taken a deeper bite on eastern Sicily after a. furious battle in which the British eighth army hurled back a powerful counterattack by nazl armored forces, headquarters reports said today. ' i The greatest advance, was . Canadian and British force In the center-where a gain of six or seven miles was made -In the Ragausa-Vizziiil sector on a line parallel with the British east coast force. ' ' : Ied by Lieut. Gen. George the west flank dug Into the difficult mountains, marking up a gain of about four miles, capturing another important airfield and taking Important heights.. Itallas General Surrenders Another Italian general, commanding the 54th-Napoli divi sion, surrendered with his staff 25 miles west and slightly south the same distance northeast of Gla. . - -.- Hurling itself forward against sterner resistance, the -British eighth army of Gen. Sir Bernard: L. Montgomery drove to the town of Brucoli,-four -miles -north of the port of Augusta -after weathering a crisis yesterday in which the German armored forces mounted a powerful. counterattack and -actually 'reached the harbor at on time. Counterattack A British brigade in the strategic harbor city,-under' allied domination since Monday, was enemy thrust, but the British Brucoli.'- - Today's communique from headquarters said the British, gained '"some- miles" yesterday and that Augusta was-now firmly ip aliied hands. - . Military., source 'said - thr'baW lit urusta besran at (lawn wrt 'h German, tunka hit the .British, line and "broke through temporarily. But Montgemftyi immediately refofi4 his -line and by boon not Ahly had knocked the German 4ek but had . . i .- - '(Continued Wage Scaf e for Farm Help In Basin Outlined at Meet TULELAKE A suggested wage scale, which will cover all agricultural work in the bisln area, was outlined by the Tule lake Growers association at' meeting held Wednesday night in the Tulelake high school. The following scale will be sent to the farm extension - service in Berkeley for approval: Potatoes: 11 per hour, truck ing and bucking; cent per' sack for picking.. - . Onions: SI per hour; 18 cents per sack. - " Grain: $1 per hour.." . Earlier Advisement - Operators were advised earl ier in the season it would be necessary to set a scale before Mexican nationals could be brought Into the basin to re lieve the labor, shortage. The government also demands' that some organization sponsor the bringing of the Mexican labor here and D. M.-Crawford,, sec- Heavy Casualties To Be Expected Patterson Warns WASHINGTON, Jyly 15 OP) The Sicilian campaign is prog ressing far ahead of schedule, but sharp fighting and heavy casualties must be expected when the imminent battle comes with strong axis forces on the island, Undersecretary of War Patterson reported today. - He said the current phase of the campaign calls for' "consoli dation and enlargement of our beachheads, reinforcing and sup plying our troops advancing in land in preparation to meet the inevitable counterattack by mo bile forces of the axis. - Patterson told his press confer ence that the "good fortune" by which heavy casualties were es caped lit the first few days of the campaign "may not be re peated in subsequent operations." Patterson warned against con sidering the campaign on Sicily as the opening of a "second front," saying "I would rither think of it as the first step in liberating Europe." .-.. ' The invasion and ultimate con quest of Sicily, he said,. w6uld be a great step toward victory "but it' won't be quick or easy, Sicily, after all, is a long way from Berlin and Tokyo." - IN NORTH AFRICA, July 15 CP) scored by. combined American, S. Fatten Jr, the. Americans on ' couth of Vizzini. -Vizzini is about of captured Augusta, and about . - ; lava Brigade- isolated - temporarily by th furious counterattacked and drove on to - ..-..-.iv. i -'-. - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's on Mf Two) - - -' r retary of the Tulelake; Growers association,' pointed "orit that in order to get forelgrt labor, the farmer -must . be affiliated, with the association.. ' . . Growers . hope to hold the general farm, labor wage to 70 cents; per hour until August, 25, peak of the hay and grain harv est. . - . Mere Mexican Help ..... -. Fifty-five more Mexicans are slated, to- arrive, here- Saturday night to work in the hay fields. irrigating; . weeding . and doing incidental farm. work. Another lot of 160 has been .ordered for . August 25, second lot of 28f September 5, opening .ef the -potato season, - and 460 . on September 25, peak of the po tat -harvest. This will make a: total .of 960 ney laborers to asallt Tulelake growers, it was learned. , ! Growers observed at Wednes day, night's - meeting . that - no opposition, to. Mexican labor, had been encountered and .- that everything was working out "100 per, cent." The, meeting was one, of the most enthusias tic held in this area with more than 75 growers attending. The wage scale,-it was observed, is pgreeable both, the Klamath u rowers - association and the Tulelake group.- Pa will start when the laborer, is .picked up by. the farmer,-and. end at the -.. (Continued, on. Page Two) , Lassen Farmer Held On Murder Charge SUSANVILLE, Calif., July 15 .(.P) John Tanner, 57, Lassen county farmer,' was held on a murder . charge - today for the fatal shooting of his farm hand, B. D. Driver, 32, Sheriff Olin S. Johnson reported. Wendell Willkie Chooses to Run NEW YORK, July 15 (JP Wendell Willkie chooses to run in 1944. : The 1940 repub lican presidential nominee in. an Interview made that plain today Ip challenging Col. Robert R. McCorrhick, pub lisher of the Chicago Tribune, to a ' hammer-and-tongs cam paign for the Illinois preferential-primary vote, :; -!, : By-Passed by Reds Up i Carman Can,- Cunthar . Ton Kluse, veteran ef Polish and Flanders campaigns and s who almost took Moscow ia 1941, .coaunandad the nasi of fensive en 4 the Orel-Kursk- Kharkov front which today was by-pasd by th aaw aummar off ensiv - begun by th sortots north ef Orel and 200 milts south of Moscow. . , POSITIONS ON KISKA Navy ' Reports . Fourth Surface Attack in -' Eight Days By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER ! WASHINGTON, July.15 m The navy reported today, that an AmM-foai. 'v. liarh't': -wJLrshm' bony trded-Jar-aj33e --defense posi Uons .on Kiska Island1 Weosw- day; makutur the fourth surfao attack on the enemy base tn an eight-day jSeriod. ;r. Kiska was shelled previously on July , July 9, and July 11. The attacks were the first by surface craft since August 1942, and might presage an amplljb lous - assault designed 'to crush the strong Japanese-garrison on Kiska and restore the. iiland.to American control." - ; ; - v ' Time' Short : " ; Meanwhile, the time for an American offensive against the Japanese base on Kiska island in the North Pacific is growing short.' Responsible opinion hen is that if the strategic base is to be recaptured from the' enemy this year weather conditions make it essential that operations begin a soon as possible. An amphibious attack - on Kiska, where the Japanese have elaborate aeiense lnsiaiiauo-u. unfinished . airfield, and . a force estimated as high as 10, 000. men, would be a logical fol low up to-the conquest of AUu island, completed a month and a half ago. But whether and when it will be made is a high com mand secret which the bomb battered outflanked' Kiska gar rison may try. to figure out as best it can. . ', Father Draft May Be Held '. Until October. WASHINGTON, July 15 (P) A selective service official said today -enough men already are classified in 1-A or 1-A-O to fill draft calls through September. ' This assertion by 'Major Em- .. . '. 1L . ,! . ..l mett soiomon.was me ure- m cial assurance that the general draft of fathers . will be post poned until' October at the earl iest. Solomon's, remarks mean that, generally speaking, - men with children born before last September 15, would not be in (Continued on Page Two) ;-; Dutch Radio Warns of Fake Invasion Plot LONDON, July 15 (fl3) The free: Netherlands station, radio Orange warned the Dutch people tonight that the Germans were planning to staae a fake invasion of The Netherlands coast in or der to trick patriots into expos ing themselves.;- .' '-.' "The intention seems to be,' said the- broadcast- as reported by The Netherlands news agency Aneta, "that the Germans will undertake faked landings on The . Netherlands coast " . . , . i SOVIETS MAKE :r) BREAKNQRm j EAST OF OREL Russians Advance .1 2 Miles; Towns Topple ! LONDON,. July 15 (ff) Th Russians announced tonight In a special communique the start at their first summer offensive an offensive, timed when the Sicil ian invasion was three dura old end said they had broken through heavily ' fortified Go man lines on two wide fronts nortn and east of Orel in a see tor 200. miles south of Moscow, More than 110 . populated" ' places toppled to the red army's hot weather drive, said the apo. rial . announcement- . broadcast from Moscow and recorded by the soviet monitor,, and 12,009 German officers and men wet killed and 2000 captured. i . LONDON, July 1 A special Russian communique an -nounced tonight that th red " army , bad gone over to the ei, tensive against. Orel, 200 miles south of Moscow, and advanced 12 to 15 miles on a 25-mile frottt (Continued on Page Two) , i . - -'- 1 1 '- Condition of ; Injured Youth ' Remains Same Three versons. aerloualT hurt in a two-car collision on the Mer rill highway Tuesday afternoon. remained in Klamath Falls hospi tals, according to a check mad Thursday.', .';.- i Auburn Shade Nelson, IV, t at Klamath Valley, where his condition - remained unchanged. The youth was conscious only at intervals, it was learned. He hast, a 'sister,' Wanda " Nelson, em ployed - at ' Weyerhaeuser. Hie mother is Mrs. Gertrude Nelson of HoUlster, Mo. . - ' Two women-occupants of ffia - second car, Mrs. Cecil E. Adam of Tulelake and Mrs. Edith Cur: ry of Los Angeles, were report".! ed improving at HlllsWe. They ; are suffering from severe cut and other injuries. , -. 1 DIG UP DOLLARS FOR DOOHTTLE! It wiU. takj $1.00 la ' War ' Stamps from - every 'man. woman and child la the coun try to build th : .,. 'SHANGRI-LA (35.000 $ao,ooo $25,009 1-420.009 $18,000 110,009 S.00B $40,000 U Klamath eouarrs goal ia Wat Stamp for July Plaas tak part of your ehang ia War Stamp. Lf s hlp "Dooliltl Da It Again.' SBBBBass-B-S-ssaaaBaBBBBBBBBBBBaaBaBaaaBBBSsaaa )