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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1943)
IliiTBinrtlillt'iffiM, On J-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles li the signal lor, a blackout In Klamath ralli. Anolhtr long blast, during a black out, Is a signal lor all-clear. In iracau- July II High M. Low It Presentation aa of July II. 1141 " Stream yoar to data ...lT.Tt Last year 13.11 Normal ..... 11.01 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES nonary penoas, wetcn your si-mi ugnu, i -. 'i-mni'L .L-L-.-.-iji.n.ni-inn.iui'-ni"innnrinnrn-fi"iii-i' tr- " - -- PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1943 Number 9853 fo) Ma Mm vGain in SisiDy - : SliPvl By THANK JENKINS TN SICILY, we'ro slowly but A surely getting set for what Is to come. f 1 11 flpll 111; ' 111 i Ono of these days, what will urcm to the Island's axis drfend Qf to be all the furies of hell will be let loose. When it Is over, tlio Cntaninn plain, with Its great airfields (there are NINE around Gcrulnl alone) will bo In our possession. .TT7HEN you remember that " what we've done from tho air so far to Sicily and southern Italy has been accomplished by our bombers operating from bases IN AFRICA, you'll get an Idea of what CAN BE DONE when we begin to operate from the ample air bases of Sicily. TODAY'S most Interesting story describes a new-type bomb ing attack carried out by us against ROME this morning. It Is referred to as precision bomb ing with. PIN POINT accuracy. O Its purposo was Jo hit Rome's numerous and Important mili tary Installation while missing me city s an, nisinnc mm CHURCH shrines. The bombing was done in day light by picked (chiefly American) crews who had been long and carefully trained for this specific job. The ticklishly careful nature of their task may be guessed from the fact that the Vatican (tho pope's residence) Is less than five miles from Rome's great railroad freight yards through which pour reinforcements and supplies for the Sicilian campaign.- Transportation, as you must know by this time, Is a war weapon that Is almost as import ant as guns and planes. IP a stray bomb had hit the I,-, I , I .. : 1 1. vaiii.Mii, uu van (ii.ikiiiu mv ropaganda howl that would tave been raised by the axis for effect on Catholic countries Many of Rome's historic and art shrines ara much nearer than this to the city's military facil ities. Hence the need for pin-point accuracy. KJUSSOL1NI (like Hitler, shrewd and unscrupulous) had taken advantage of Rome's scml-socrcd character to build up a great war machlno practic ally in tho shadow of Vatican City. Thousands of fascists, the dis patches say (ten of thousands would probably be nearer tho truth) had flocked to Rome, thinking they would bo safo there -deliberately taking ad vantage of our hesitation to at- dnck historic, art and religious hrlncs. Wo used the astonishing ac (Continued on Page Three) Jeep Rides Free to War Stamp Buyers Thursday Want to buy an interest In tho aircraft carrier, Shangri-la? Want to rldo In a Jeep? Both are possible in one fell swoop because the retail mer chants committee of Klamath county chamber of commerce Is bringing in 17 Jeeps from Camp Newell and Camp White, and rides for the public will be granted at $2 a throw. Buy Stamps OAU you have to do Is to go to ly store in town, buy $2 worth of war stamps which will go toward the $40,000 goal set for this county as our part of tho Shangri-la construction, and you will receive a ticket good tor one ride 1n a jeep, If you want a dozen rides, you just buy that many tickets, Heads New Bureou fill TIR PPrTTl W j Lto T. Crowley (above), was namad by President Roosevelt to head the new office of "Eco nomic Warfare." The new bur eau relieved Vice President Wallace and Commerce Secre tary Jones of all responsibility In foreign economic warfare matters. One Scale Now For Entire Basin Set Sun united waff scale In the Tulclake area, set at a previous meeting on JUiy it, nas Deen approved, it was learned Mon day from Chester Main, presi dent of the Tulelake Growers association. . A similar scale was set some time ago by tho Klamath Grow ers association. Thus one scale will cover tho entire basin area for tho coming harvest. Wages Listed The prevailing scale, - which will involvo all agricultural work done In the basin area, Is as follows: Potatoes, 8 cents per sack; $1 per hour, bucking and trucking. Onions, 18 cents per sack; SI per hour. Grain, $1 per hour. Mexican Help Fifty-five additional Mexican laborers arrived in Klamath Falls at 11:45 a. m. Monday and were transported to Tulclake where they will begin work inv (Continued on Page Three) Mercury Climbs to 1 New High Sunday Klamath citizens sweltered Sunday in tho hottest day of the year so far when tho morcury climbed to 92 degrees. Minimum for tho same day was 58 degrees, It was the hottest day since August 23, 1042, when the ther mometer registered 08 degrees. Jeeps will arrive here, five from Newell, 12 from White, on Thursday morning. Rides will be available from 12 o'clock noon to 5 p. m. Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, and during the evening of those throe days from 7 to 9 o'clock There will bo a Jeep In each block. Sidewalk signs will des ignate the Jeep's parking zone. Safe for Children Officers will be In charge of the Jeeps and parents are as sured that the rides will be safe for children. However, oldsters are urged to take part in the program as the nation hopes to get $1 from each man, woman and child, tho "dollars for Doo little" which will build tho car . (Continued on Page Three) n UHL m aat R" TAKEN BY U.S. Montgomery Within Three Miles of Catania By RELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 19 W) The American seventh army has captured CalUnissctta, almost half way across the mid section of Sicily, in an eight- mile smash to split the enemy's front, battle reports to allied headquarters said today as al lied forces gained all along the front While the fury of the power ful allied air force turned for the first time upon Rome, the scat of fascist power, and bomb ed war and Industrial targets in and around the Italian capi tal, Canadian. British and Amer ican troops drove forward in all sections of the Sicilian front. Burrow Defenses - Edging up toward the Italian toe, the Invasion host of Gtn Sir Bernard --L. Montgomery's eighth army burrowed- .relent lessly Into local defenses pro tecting Catania on the Sicilian east coast, and pressed closer to that keystone of the enemy's position in all central and north eastern Sicily. Montgomery's men wrested some of the most Important strong points of Catania's de fenses from picked shock divis ions of the German army and reached a point within three miles of the city. Canadians Jab While these veterans were fighting the hardest battle of the Sicilian campaign against the hard core of axis resistance, (Continued on Page Three) Judge Postpones Nassau Bludgeon Death Hearing NASSAU, Bahamas, July 19 (PI A preliminary hearing was adjourned today before the pros ecution produced witnesses by whom they seek to link Alfred De Marigny with the bludgeon slaying of his multi-millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakcs. Magistrate F. E. Fields grant ed a postponement until next Monday at the request of prose cutors, who indicated that they had not yet completed their In vestigation of Sir Harry's death. First witnesses described the finding of Oakcs' body In a char red bed at Wcstbourne, his big country estate. The tall, bearded Dc Marlgny, who was arrested the day after the slaying and- charged with murder, left his scat once dur ing the proceedings In the pack ed courtroom to peer at photo graphs of the death scene. The former count sat in the de fendant's chair at a preliminary hearing, silently stroking his Van Dyke beard and his mous tache, until the pictures made by Michael Mulr, air force camera man, wore introduced, RAF Bombers Take Big Shipping Toll -From Burma Japs NEW DELHI, July 19 (P) Royal air force bombers took a heavy toll of Japanese . river shipping and railway rolling stock In sweeps over enemy pos itions In Burma yesterday, - a British communique said today. . While the general situation on the ground was reported un changed, regular patrolling con tinues in the Arakan, Chin hills and Sumprabum areas, the com munique said. ..." SEVENTH ARMY Weeps for Missing ;.'-!iH.rii:NU i Mrs. Stella Tucker. 18-year-old wife of a soldier, tat weep ing in a Los Angeles bus station, hoping her three-months-old baby would be returned to her. She told police a woman had ffaril la care for the babv while she took a nap. but both wom an and baby were gone. Today the child was safe In a S Ber nardino. Calif., hospital while the woman. Mrs. Laura Merle Thornton, was booked en suspicion of kidnaping. The child ap peared to be in good health. Lower Prices or Higher Wages, Demand s4FL:Chief DETROIT. July 19 0D As serting that "America has failed to hold the line against Infla tion," William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, served notice today that "unless prices of food are brought down to a reasonable level," organized labor "will have no other recourse but to demand wago increases." Green's ultimatum. In an ad dress prepared for delivery be- Republicans Predict Triumph At 7944 Polls WASHINGTON, July 19 W) Ten years a bridesmaid in presi dential politics, the republican party camo out flatly today with tho forecast that it would be tho bride in the 1944 elec tions. In a seven-page statement re ferring to President Roosevelt as "Cand idate Roose v elt," Chairman Harrison Spangler of tho GOP national committee made the prediction of republi can victory on what he called the strength of "polls of public opinion." Spangler said the election would be decided in the north ern states. Yet, he declared, the "solid south" was not so solid for the democrats as they usu ally reckon. These "private polls," said Spangler, have showed that the GOP has gained three per cent among the ranks of labor and five per cent in the rural areas of the north. Gasoline Outlook Smiles On East-Frowns on West WASHINGTON, July 19 VP) The starved cast had a promise of more gasoline today but the outlook in the west was for less than it has been getting, and the news on tires was not so good. . Completion of the huge pipe-' line - from Texas to the east, coast, scheduled for today, co incided with these develop ments: ; 1 Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who also serves as petro leum administrator, announced that gasoline rationing for the driving public would be equal ized over most of the nation, meaning more fuel for the east, and a reduction for the midwest and the southwest. No change was indicated for the west coast. ' Baby - Now Found y " ' 1 fc - to fore the convention of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, followed by less than a month a warning Dy CIO President Philip Murray to a congressional committee that labor will demand scrapping of the "Little Steel" formula un less prices are rolled back. . ' Under the "Little Steel" for mula, the government has per mitted wage Increases of 15 per cent over January 1; 1941,- lev els to offset rising living costs. Lack of Appreciation After reviewing progress on the war fronts and labor's con tribution to the war production effort, Green said "There has been an almost complete lack of appreciation in our country of the corresponding need of keeping America's soldiers of production in top-notch condi tion." i . "Our domestic war econ omy." he said, "has not been (Continued on Pace Three) Meat Company Files Answer To OPA Charge C. E. Johnson, doing business as the Pauley Packing company, filed an answer in. federal dis trict court to charges of violat ing ceiling prices made June 10 by the OPA,- George Lewis,- en forcement attorney for the OPA field office, reported .today. A pre-trial will be held July 26 in the Portland district court. Damage asked in the (Continued on Page Three) 2. The office of price admin istration (OPA), acting at the request of Rubber Director Wil liam ' Jeffers, banned sale of new tires for spares for the next few months no specific date given. Excepting firemen, doc tors and others dealing with emergencies, OPA said that new, used or recapped tires will be denied motorists who have four sound tires, plus one that can be made to serve as an emergency spare. ' Jeffers said ho was striving to make ' the present stocks last until syn thetic casings can be turned out In sufficient quantity. . 3. OPA also notified drivers that their B, O, T and R gas coupons hereafter will be' good (Continued on.PBrThree).. - : p to! SOUS MOVE TO PINCH OFF Germans Reeling Back Under Russian Hammer By WILLIAM McGAFFIN MOSCOW, July 19 W) Ad vancing red armies have batter ed their way from the heavily- wooded terrain northeast of Orel and are moving swiftly across rolling fields In their in tensified drive to pinch off that German bastion and cut ' the Orel-Bryansk railway, front dis patches reported today. Separate detachments of soviet tanks rolled deep into the en emy's rear to the very ap proaches of the main enemy base, believed to be Orel itself, while massed Russian forces were paused on a springboard in the Otputukha river valley enly eight ' miles northeast of Orel. Nasis Reel Back """ As the campaign reached the close of the second week of furl ous fighting along the 165-mile stretch of the central Russian front, the nazl armies were re ported reeling back under the sledge-hammer blows of the Rus sian counter-offensive. (The German communique said today that the red armies at tacked in vain along the central and southern sectors of the east ern front yesterday . suffering serious losses in manpower as well as 337 tanks. Severe Losses ("On the Kuban bridgehead," the communique said, "the en emy discontinued-his attacks in the course of the afternoon ow ing to his severe losses." Simi lar attempts to pierce the. Ger- (Contlnued on Page Three) Three Miff ion Men Needed for Army Next Year CINCINNATI. July 19 (JP) - Charles M. Hay, general coun sel of the war manpower com mission, said today the armed services and industries would need 3,600,000 more men and women the next 12 months. Hay told the opening session of the American mining congress that armed services would need t total of 11,300,000 toy July 1944 munitions industries 11,600,000, other, non-agricultural industries 30.000,000, and agriculture 12, 000.000, for an over-all total of 64,900,000. At present, he said, the service total is 9,300,000 and munitions 10,000,000. In Industry, he add ed, replacements of drafted men must come from older workers, women, and minority groups. "Last Ditch" Figh' Asked of Italians By THOMAS HAWKINS BERN, July 19 (AP Declar- ine that Italy would be dismem bered, her people enslaved and her . treasures looted if she yielded, Carlo Scorza, new sec retary of the fascist party, broadcast from Rome last night a frantic appeal for last-ditch resistance to the allies. The speech, obviously a reply to the Roosevelt-Churchill un conditional surrender demand which last week was. conveyed to the Italian people by radio and leaflets dropped from planes, acknowledged, however, that the plight of Italy is des perate. , Persistent Prowler Heats Ice Cream On Second Visit PORTLAND, July 19 Mrs. Walter A. Schenzen told police a prowler she fright ened away one night, appar ently returned the next, stole a camera, whiskey and food, fed the . goldfish and put a quart of ice cream In the oven. BASTION Higher Wages Or - William Green, president of the AFL, issued an ultimatum today in a speech before a union : convention demanding lower : food prices or higher wage.. U. S. TROOPS PILE PRE! Jap Shipping Socked By Air Attacks In Solomons ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July . 19 JP) Allied airplanes and surface ships battered Jap anese shipping in -the Solomon islands over' the. weekend as American troops Increased their pressure on Munda with attacks jv enemy- positkwnf fBear; -ihaUPPOsedlrwCTe protected -y kev airbase. " ' . United States warships beat back two more attempts to run supplies to the besieged Munda garrison on New Georgia. Two destroyer flotillas, the first Of three ships, the second -of six. were intercepted west of Kolom- bangara island and forced to re treat northward. One destroyer was believed to have been sunk and hits were scored on three others. ;' Zeros Destroyed " A powerful aerial force, de scribed by a spokesman as al most as strong as the 200-plane armada that sank seven Japan ese ships and. shot down 49 planes in the Buin-Faisi area Saturday, struck again at the remnants of enemy shipping In that harbor and ' pounded the nearby Kahili airdrome. Thir teen Zeros were shot down. A cargo ship was sunk and two (Continued on Page.Three). It Finally Happened DALLAS, July 19 (Pi Mrs. John Mericle, Dover, N. J., and her two children got off the bus Saturday night and looked around for her husband. No husband. She told sympathetic lis teners Mr. Mericle had come west some days before to work in a mine near a place Called Horse Heaven. "Oh, Oh," said the listeners, "that's in Jefferson county. Your husband wanted you to meet him in The Dalles, not Dallas." The station agent put her on the right bus. . Guard Knifed, One Convict Dies as Freedom try Fails ' SALEM, Ore., July 19 ffl An attempted prison escape by two state penitentiary convicts, who knifed a prison guard captain in their break for freedom, end ed yesterday in death for one, capture for the other. Kenneth L. Hougham, 22, con vict serving five years for auto theft in Tillamook county, was felled with a single shot inside the prison walls by Bert Dun ham, wall guard. ' The other convict, Albert Doo lin, 32, serving 25 years for at tempted robbery in Clackamas county, threw himself to the ground and awaited capture. - The pair had obtained knives, possibly from the prison kitchen or the prison workshop, entered the prison yard and seized Sol Worden, a guard captain.' ' ETERNAL CITVv E! Precision Attack Hits Only Military : Targets ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ' IN NORTH AFRICA, July 19 m An ail-American force of Flying Fortresses, Liberators, Mitchells and Marauders carried out the war's first bombing of Rome,' it was disclosed tonight .i : The fliers concentrated ' en military targets in the eternal city. The San Lorenzo marshalling yard, one of the targetslies four miles from Vatican City. The Flying Fortresses led the way and while they were . at tacking the San Loreiuo yards . Liberators bombed the Llttorio railway freight yards. . , , Attack -Airdrome . ' Simultaneously hundreds f Marauders and Mitchells, escort ed - by Lightnings, began a lengthy attack oa the Camplno airorome. .. The fliers struck at the) very heart of fascist Italy in an em-' phatle follow-up to the Church ill-Roosevelt surrender demand.' The crews were specially train ee xo cany Dome a precision at- , lace, pinpointing targets Which their proximity" to some of the . most sacred symbols and inonu-' ments of Christianity. Close to Vatican . The San Lorenzo marshalling (Continued on Page Three) - Allied Airmen Follow Up Blow : At Nazi France v LONDON. July. 19 UP A strong force of allied planes t?a reported heading across the Eng-' lish channel this afternoon in the - direction of Calais and Bn . logne. ; Observers on the . southeast . coast said the planes flew almost at sea level. Other planes were heard along the coast. Earlier, the air ministry an nounced that RAF bombers and -fighters destroyed eight enemy aircraft and damaged two enemy vessels in attacks last night on nazl airport facilities in France and shipping off the Dutch coast. Swift Mosquito planes on In truder patrols over northwest ' Germany and enemy-occupied territory attacked and damaged 10 locomotives and bombed rail' way targets near Dieppe. Two enemy . fighters were knocked down as Typhoon bomb ers with fighter escort , blasted the Abbeville airfield in France and two others were destroyed by Mustangs on. patrol off the Dutch coast,' the announcement said. . . V . An additional four fighter planes were reported shot down in an attack on an enemy convoy by coastal command Beauflght ers supported by Spitfires and Typhoons. Hits were registered on two units of the convoy. r- Oil FIRST BOMBING They forced him to the peni tentiary gates, and demanded that he give them his keys. ; Guard Dunham came running down the wall, shouting, "Go back, Kenny." - "Go to hell," Hougham shout ed back and stabbed ' Worden. Doolin also knifed the guard cap tain in an attempt to get the keys before Dunham fired. Worden was hospitalized. At tendants described his condition today as "quite good." For Hougham, who had spent moat of the past four years in prison, It was the second escape attempt. Last year he was suc cessful but was recaptured after' two days' freedom. Hougham entered prison In 1939,' Doolin last year. - t
