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TT looks like Sicily's days as an
axis dcfcnso bastion ore num
bered. . Wo'vo token Enna, which U
llio center of the Slclllun spider
web of railroads and highways'
Immediately after Emm's foil,
tho dispatches report toduy, oxis
forces beson a general with
drawal from western Sicily
toward the Messina ferry, hop
ing to escape thence to tho Hul
lo n molnlond. From Emm. our
forces are pushing on northwurd,
hoping to cut the enemy off til
tho scat-oast.
Axis resistance In tho western
part of the island Is reported
weakening hourly, almost to tho
point of collapse.
AT Catania, Ute Germans arc
fighting a desperate delaying
operation, sending wave ofter
wave of Infantry and tanks
snln.t Mnntsomerv'i Bth nrmv.
.which I piling the plniu wttn
Yinrman hnHlf. and tho wrecks
of Gorman armorccr Vehicles,
' Today's report hint strongly
that Montgomery has opened an
titer of his famous crusher as
laulta by massed artillery, tank
ind troops preliminary to a final
drive up tho coast to Messina,
SO miles away.
The German purpose Is to hold
him back until axis forces from
the rest of the island con escopa
across the twomllo Messina
strait.
QUR headquarters ' In Africa
continues to report mutinies
by Italian troops against their
German officers, adding that
Sicilian crowds have to bo re
strained from attacking German
prisoners as they aro morched
through the streets of captured
towns.
ft Captured Italiuns complain
bitterly both at the Germans and
their OWN GOVERNMENT
which, they soy, provided them
with Insufficient food and only
scanty and obsolete weapons.
They say tho Germans, fol
lowing tholr tactics In Africa,
are abandoning the Kalians every
time tho situation becomes hope
less and arc fleeing with all
available transport.
VJUSSOLINI Is believed to
have made an urgent appeal
to Hitler , (at their recent meet-
, lng) for moro help.
Mussolini Is on a hot spot
Ho has to have GERMANS to
protect him agHlnst HIS OWN
betrayed people. And he know
Hitler will cut his throat any
moment when It serves Hitler's
.purposes lo do so.
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"INFORMED sources" In Swltz-
erland doubt strongly It
Germany will squander her re
serves to protect a nation that
is on the vcrgo of cracking up
Internally, and military analysts
lit Washington think Hitler's
best bet is to abandon Italy and
prepare to. defend the Brenner
pass.
The fly In that ointment is that
abandonment of Italy would
open up tho German flank and
rear in the Balkans. .. (Look at
your, map at this point. It mukes
that situation crystal clear.)
From tho airfields of northern
Italy, our planes could hammer
the German REAR disastrously
in tho event of an Invasion by
our forces up tho Vardor and
Struma valleys. '-
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THE rumors are flying thicker
than usual today in tho Bal
kans. Istanbul (Constantinople) soys
Premier Antoncscu has flatly ro
fused German demands that Ru
mania Join in tho fighting this
summer and says that hereafter
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MILES FROM
Rail
Station Taken
n Three-Sided
Advance
LONDON, July 21 UP) Rus
sian troops captured a railway
stution within nlno miles of Orel
in a continued advance on three
sides of tho central German
base, a special Russian commun
hiuo sold tonight.
Sweeping In from tho north,
the Russians overran 40 populat
ed place. Another 80 were
captured In a drive from the east
Including tho railway station of
Zolntiircvo, only 11 miles from
Orel.
Yet another army driving up
from the south advanced "In the
face of heavy fire, enemy resist
ance and counter-attacks," the
communique, recorded by the so
viet monitor from tho Moscow
radio, sold.
Tight In South
"Fighting of local importance"
was reported south in the Donets
basin where tho Russians ware
said to have Improved their po
sitions south of Izyum and south
east of Voroshilovgrad.
Nothing further was report
ed on the engagements along the
sea of Azov where the red army
forced Jho Mlua river which pro
tect tho strong German base of
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Pioneer Rancher
Killed in Camp
White Accident
Horry James Tlcknor, 71, Lan
gelt Valley pioneer rancher, was
killed instantly about 0 o'clock
Monday morning in Mcdford, ac
cording to'word received here.
Mr. Ticknor was run over by
a heavy grovel truck, backing
up to unload gravel in the Camp
While area, according to the
camp provost marshal's office.
Mr. Tlcknor was employed by
Russell Olson, contractor, as a
checker and spotter of trucks at
tho gravel pile. Tho truck struck
Tlcknor with the right rear
wheel. Funeral services are be
ing arranged by Conger's in
Mcdford.
O- C. Johnson of Langcll Val
ley, long time friend of the Tlck
nor family, received word of
the accident. Tho Ticknors
moved to Mcdford several years
ago and purchased a home in the
valley. They had made their
home in the Langcll Valley sec
tion for a good many years
where Tlcknor operated one of
the large ranches In that area.
At one lime Mr. Tlcknor was
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BASTION
Truce Likely Between Administration,
Lawmakers on Farm-Food Policy Quarrel
By The Associatad Prass
WASHINGTON, July 21 The
executive branch and legislative
leaders appeared to be headed to
ward a truce on some of their
major farm and food policy dif
ferences today as:
1. Senator Russell (D-Ga.)
called on his farm state contem
poraries to meet the administra
tion halfway on any move it
might make toward reconcilia
tion of those differences, and,
2. The agricultural adjustment
agency (AAA) forbade Its 200,
000 field employes and commit
teemen to distribute information
about AAA farm programs
through news channels, '
Pleased at Plan , -Russell
told reporters he' was
pleased that War Food Adminis
trator Marvin Jones planned to
consult with congressmen before
making final decisions affecting
futuro farm problems.
"It would do well for the ad
ire
Worry Worry.1
WASHINGTON, July 21
UP) Of all tho things to have
to worry about, now the
treasury comes along with the
disheartening announcement
that $10,000 bills are getting
scarce.
Nearly 4000 of tho longest
of this country's long green
have found their way back in
to tho treasury In the past
two and one-half years. There
aro fewer than 2200 at large.
Letter to Cardinal
Read in Vatican
Broadcast
By The Assoclattd Press
Tho Rome rBdlo broadcast to
day what it described as a letter
written by Pope Pius XII to
Francesco Cardinal Marchctti
Salvaggian!, his vlcar-gcncral for
the district of Rome, deploring
Monday's bombing of Rome. ,
The broadcast, in French, was
recorded 'by The Associated
Press. It gave a Vatican City
dispatch of the Italian agency
Stefanl as authority for. a pur
ported partial test -OT-rhw letter.
Tho British ministry of in
formation in London recorded a
Vatican City radio broadcast giv
ing this text of a letter from the
pope to Cardinal Marchetti-Sal-vaggianl
which it said appeared
to be the same as that broadcast
by the Rome radio.
Roma Broadcast
The Rome rodio also broad
cast a Stcfani dispatch that the
pontiff's letter was given the
place of honor in l'Osservatore
Romano, Vatican CHy newspa
per. The Rome radio broadcast of
the letter quoted tho pope as re
calling is efforts as bishop of
Romo to ensure the safety of the
city and then saying:
"But alas our hope was vain.
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Lewis Makes .
Deal to Merge
UMW With AFL
WASHINGTON, July 21 UP)
Return of the United Mine Work
ers (UMW) to the American Fed
eration of Labor (AFL) hinged
today, it was reported, on a deal
whereby UMW President John
L. Lewis would be given a rath
er free hand in the -coal belt pro
vided he gives up organizing
workers in other fields. t
Labor spokesmen, emerging
from tho UMW-AFL conference
on the proposed merger yester-,
day, disclosed this plan was in
the wind:
1 Lewis and his UMW would
be given jurisdiction as virtually
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ministration and members of
congress to approach such con
ferences in a spirit of mutual
helpfulness, and without chips on
their shoulders," tho senator add
ed. Ho said congressional . senti
ment still favored better farm
prices rather than government
subsidies, but he believed a "spir
it of givo and take" would iron
out differences of opinion on the
subsidy question, as well as oth
er issues.
Prohibits AAA Salarlaa
His assertions followed an
agriculture department interpre
tation of a provision in its new
appropriation act which prohib
ited the use of federal funds -in
paying salaries and expenses of
any AAA information employe.
The announcement told the em
ployes, as well as the state, coun
ty and local farmer committee
men, that they must not carry
on any promotional activity for
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Savan-yaar-eld Barbara Lee Wonch, daughtar of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wonch of 325 Division
stratt. has spurntd lea craara eonaa and candy bars in ordar to save bar money lor Jeep xidas.
Tuesday she purchased $18 worth of stamps for which, shall gat
over, Barbara Lae-has enough
Lois Cada and June Bosworth,
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American Bombers' Sink
i Jap Cruiser,
Attempting
By C. YATES McDANIEL
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 21
() American oomoers were
credited today with sinking a
cruiser and two destroyers of a
Japanese : convoy attempting
vainly to run the allied sea and
air blockade around the big
Munda alrbase In the Solomons.
A force of three light cruisers,
six destroyers and two trans
ports, undoubtedly seeking to
aid the hard-pressed garrison at
Munda, was spotted by Catalina
flying boats shortly after, mid
night yesterday in Vella Gulf
just west of Kolombangara
island.
Follow Convoy
The Catalinas followed the
convoy until strong formations
of Liberators, Mitchells and
Avenger bombers arrived with
bombs which . blasted at least
three warships to the bottom and
sent the remainder fleeing or
limping-northward. ,'
A third destroyer was listed
Army Halts Issue
Of Burning Permits
The army has notified the for
est service and the Klamath For
est Protective association that no
burning permits are to be issued
until further notice. -
This order is to become effec
tive immediately and will be in
force until further notice is
given. This is the second year
that army authorities have de
clared a ban on burning permits.
the AAA as an institution or for
its policies, or attempt to build
public pressure for or against
congressional action on farm
measures. ' ."
The congressional refusal of
funds for informawonal work
followed complaints that AAA
employes and committeemen had
sought to influence legislative at
titude on a proposed crop incen
tive payment program.
New Developments .
These armistice moves coincid
ed with a variety' of develop
ments on. the ever-pressing food
question. . !
They included a war food ad
ministration (WFA) decision to
require . slaughterers to , trim
more fat for lard off pork cuts, a
senate committee's plans to in
vestigate charges that chain
stores have .bought small meat
packing plants and cut off sup
plies from, small retailers, and
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Nine Ridel for Me Please!
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for hr own bond. The Senior
talcing care of the J. C. Panney
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Destroyers
to Aid Munda
as probably sunk, and a trans
port and yet another destroyer
were damaged. '- . .
Four bombers were lost two
Mitchells and two Avengers.
Pressure Maintained
The action, described in to
day's communique from the head
quarters of General Douglas Mac
Arthur, served to maintain
steady pressure on Munda, big
airbase on New Georgia- island,
which has been hit by land, sea
and air attacks since the south
west Pacific offensive started on
July 1.
This fourth attempt to crack
the Munda blockade brought to
17 the number of Japanese war
ships listed officially as having
been sunk in the fast-spreading
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Los Angeles Bus, '
Streetcar Men
Protest WLB
LOS ANGELES, July 21 UP)
Buses and streetcars of the Los
Angeles Railway company will
suspend operations for 24 hours
beginning tomorrow at 3 a. m
union officials have announced,
in protest against the war labor
board's refusal to review a wage
increase case involving San Di
ego streetcar employes. --
Henry Mann, local secretary of
the AFL Amalgamated Associa
tion of Street, Electric Railway
and Motor Coach Employes, said
last night that the 3000 employes
of the Los Angeles Railway com
pany will be joined in their one
day holiday by approximately
150 employes of Lang Transpor
tation company, operating buses
in nearby Long Beach, Caltf.
Mayor Fletcher Bowron, in an
effort to prevent the tleup of
public transportation in this war
plant center, called a conference
of all parties concerned.
Coultes Awarded
$6000 Damages From
Conifer Company
Henry Coultes was awarded
$6064.50 plus costs and disburse
ments Tuesday by Circuit Judge
David . R- Vandenberg following
civil action on the damage suit
of Henry Coultes versus Conifer
Lumber company.
Vandenberg was asked to rule
on the case in motions by both
parties for a directed verdict
after a three-day civil trial.
In the suit Coultes asked $20,-
000 for hand injuries received
while he was employed by the
defendant, i - .
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nine xidts. With 75 cants left
Service Scouts, laft to right, are
booth. .
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SRI-LA SALE
Tickets Given With
Every Two-Dollar. -Purchase
The- "ride-a-jeep" - ticket sale
was going nicely Wednesday and
Klamath's chances of reaching
the $40,000 goal set in the Shangri-La
national war savings pro
gram nnnpnrpH hriffhtpr ait mer
chants reported shoppers buying
their $2 worth of stamps and ask
ing for the jeep ride cards.
The little jeeps 1 from Camp
White and Camp Newell were
scheduled to" arrive Thursday
morning. They will be stationed
along' Main street at points des
ignated by large placards.: To
each - holder of a $2 war stamp
purchase ticket, goes ' a . ride
through ' the business ' section.
This project is not just for chil
dren, but the entire population.
Any number of rides may' be
purchased; the' retail " merchants
committee pointed out. . Hours
are from 12 o'clock noon to 5
p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m., Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. ,
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
- . R. H. E.
Brooklyn 18 3
Cincinnati 11 .13 0
Higbe, Allen (3), Melton (7)
and Bragan; Riddle and Mueller.
New York .- 19 0
St.. Louis t 3 3 1
Fischer, Adams and Lombar
dl;. Munger and Cooper.
Boston : 19' 1
Chicago 4 8 0
Andrews and Kluttz; Bithorn
and McCullough. -
Philadelphia ....... 2 5 '2
Pittsburgh:,.. ...:....10 14 1
Conger, Dietz (7), and Living
ston; Klinger and Lopez.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Chicago 2 11 0
Boston 3 9 2
- Dietrich and Tresh; Hughson
and Conroy.
St. Louis 15 1
New York 0 9 1
Sundra and Hayes; Wensloff
and Dickey.
Cleveland .......7 11 0
Philadelphia 0 2.0
Smith and Rosar; Flores and
Swift.
. COAST LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Sacramento 1 8 2
Los Angeles 18 21 0
: MacvFaden, Plllette (3), Ma
lone (5), and Peterson; Gehrman
and Holm, Sarn(6). .
Axis Sicily Nears
Col la pse; British
Pound at Catania
By RELMAN MORIlf
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 21 OP)
American and Canadian troops have seized Enna defense prop'
of all central Sicily cutting off large numbers of axis forces
and forcing a general withdrawal as resistance on the island
weakened hourly almost to the point of collapse.
To the east, British eighth army units hammered at the
doors of Catania last bastion protecting the . entire east coast
shattering another nazi counter-assault with heavy casualties and
advancing on the seaport, it was '
officially announced.
Half of Sicily now is lh allied
hands, for all tactical purposes, -Cuts
Communication
Enna's fall cut off Catania
from western .Sicily except for
one long, rough northern coastal
road.
Allied observers reported a
general retreat along all roads
leading up from, the center of
Sicily and Italian prisoners de
clared bitterly that German
forces in the central sectors were
speeding eastward for a quick
getaway. ;
The withdrawal appeared in
tended for a last stand or pos
sible evacuation in the Messina
area of northeastern Sicily, or
between Catania and Messina.
, ' Italians Complain '
Italians ' complained against
their own government as well
as the Germans- The nazis, they
declared were repeating their
African tactics of abandoning
them every time? the situation
became hopeless, fleeing in all
available transport!
They asserted -their' own fas
cist government had given them
too few guns and iood. BBd- is
sued" obsolete transports, armor
and ammunition;
The U. S. and Canadian troops
were spreading deeper , into Sic
ily beyond Enna in a swift, pow
erful advance. They are only
some 40 miles from the north
coast of Sicily and they are rap
idly splitting the island in two.
Enna Evacuated -. '
(The Italian communique an
nounced earlier that Enna had
been evacuated, and the German
war bulletin said that "in the
western, sector, of the Sicilian
front, German and Italian forces
unmolested by the enemy ex
ecuted ordered movements ac
cording to plan." British attacks
at Catania were repulsed, it
said.)
The fall of Enna threw the
whole axis communication sys
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Rumanian Aid
To Nazis in
Russia Refused
ISTANBUL. July 19 (Delayed)
(PI Diplomatic sources said to
day that Premier Ion Antonescu
of Rumania has flatly refused
German demands that Rumania
participate in the fighting this
summer against Russia.
Antonescu was reported to
have told nazi representatives
two weeks ago that Rumania
already had made great sacri
fices and henceforth would only
defend her own borders.
The sources also said the Ger
mans, in reprisal for this refusal,
had threatened to turn pro-nazi
iron guardists loose in Rumania
to continue anti-semitlc activity
and terrorist, campaigns which
Antonescu suppressed, late in
1941.
Fire Rages Through Astoria
Finn Colony; 200 Homeless
ASTORIA, July 21 OP) This
war-crowded city at the mouth
of the Columbia river grappled
today with a housing problem
made more acute by a fire
which swept a congested Fin
nish colony district last night,
leaving more than 200 homeless.
The fire started in the attic
of one of the wooden structures
from an unknown cause and
spread so swiftly many residents
were unable ' to save personal
belongings.
No Injuries
There were no serious injur
ies although several were over
come by smoke. ' , .
Valiant volunteer work by
244 navy men and additional
coastguardsmen checked the
flames after they, had burned
Nancy Oakes ;
Visits Husband "
In Bahama Jail '
NASSAU, Bahamas, July 21
UP) Nancy Oakes de Marigny
called in reporters today to tell
them that her trip to Nassau '
makes it obvious whether the
believes her husband, who is
accused of killing her father
here, is innocent or guilty.
There was no . Immediate
elaboration of the statement.
She made it known in advance
of the late afternoon conference
that she probably would visit
Alfred de Marigny- at - the Ba-
hamas prison daily, and that she
will remain here until the charge
against him is settled.
De Marigny is charged with
murder in connection with the
bludgeon slaying of Sir Harry .
Oakes, one of the world's rich-.
est men.
.The pretty, 19-year-old eldest
daughter of the British baronet
was. lathe 'United Stater for
medical treatment of sinus trou
ble when her father's body was -found
on his charred bed.
She came to Nassau yesterday,
and soon after her arrival went
to the prison to see De Marigny.
greeting him with a kiss. .
England Drafts
Boys to Work
In Coal Mines
. LONDON, July 2 (IP) Brlt
ish boys from 16 to 18 yean of
age must be drafted for work in
English coal mines to boost the
lagging production of' coal for'
the nation's fuel-hungry war in
dustries, Ernest Bevin, minister
of labor, told the Blackpool
Mine Workers . Federation - yes
terday. .
Pleading with the federation
not to "raise a political storm"
over the issue, Bevin said it
was urgent that 30,000 to 60,000
youths be called up. He dis closed
that although 47,000 min
ers have returned to pits from ,
other higher-paid jobs, the num
ber of miners has fallen to 690,
000. He estimated the absolute
minimum needed to keep pro
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New Gas Coupons . .. .
Worth Four Gallon ;
PORTLAND, July 21 ' UP'
District OPA Director Richard
Montgomery said' today that,
"each coupon in the new series
of A mileage ration books, which
are valid tomorrow, will be
worth four gallons' unless unfore--seen
conditions compel
change."-
,The No. 6 coupons, which ex
pire today are good for four gal
lons each. .. . ,. ''.-
out a triangular section of about
a city 'block's area. The men,,
two big pumpers, nine trucks,
chemical eauinment from the '
naval station at the port dock
commanded by Capt. J. D. Bar-'
ner, were aided by two fire en
gines from the Tongue Point na
val air station and another'
pumper from the auxiliary navy
air station at Clatsop airport. - -,.
. FamillH. Homelata -
Thirty families made home
less were putting up with
friends and relatives elsewhere
in the city and about 100 single
men were making out as best
they could. No definite housing
plans for them have been made
yet. The area was so thorough
ly burned out that firemen said
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