PAGE TWO
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
July 21, 10-1,1
SOVIETS NINE
MILES FROM
NAZI BAST
(Continued From Pace One)
Taganrog, 40 milei west of Rot
toy. Determined Resistance
' The Russian!, in their advance
on Orel, were meeting the most
determined German resistance
from tanks and infantry.
In the Orel region alone, the
Russians said they disabled or
destroyed 77 German tanks and
ahot down 131 planes.
Thus since the start of the
great summer battle on July 8,
the Russians by official state
ments have claimed the destruc
tion of 3593 tanks, 2342 planes
and upwards of 70,000 Germans
MOSCOW. July 21 W) Fight
Ing along the Russian front
spread to the southern Donets
and Mius river sectors yesterday
aa red army troops recaptured
town after town in their drive
to encircle the Germans at Orel
on the central front, the Russians
reported today.
Russian armies thus were on
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7-31
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7-21
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' Since 1909 '
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the move on a front extending
some 400 miles south from Orel
to a point southwest of Voroshil
ovgrad, where the soviet mid
night communlquesald Russian
forces had crossed the Mius riv
er, improving their positions.
Fight Rage
Heaviest fighting still raged.
however, in the vicinity of Orel,
where the soviet army was clos-
ing in around the German sup
ply base. Advances of from four
to six miles were reported dur
ing the day's fighting which saw
the Germans hurl 10 futile coun
terattacks in an effort to halt the
Russian advance.
Among the towns captured by
the Russians, said a special bul-
letin, was Mtsensk, 31 miles
northeast of Orel. The same
Russian column was reported
pushing on to the west.
20 Villages Taken
The red army force operating
directly east of Orel meanwhile.
the bulletin said, captured 20
villages in the day's fighting, in
cluding the railway station town
of Voroshllov. On the southern
flank a soviet force took the city
of Malo Arkhangelsk. 39 miles
from Orel, the communique said
Russian advances were met by
stubborn resistance all along the
line, the war bulletin declared.
Nasi counter-attacks were
launched constantly. Red army
men routed one only to have
the Germans reform their shat
tered tank units and infantry for
another, the communique said.
Russians reported the desper
ate nazi thrusts were accompan
ied by the same heavy loss of
life and armored equipment
which has marked the battle on
the central front since its be
ginning 18 days ago.
The Russians also reported ac
tion at the southern end of the
Kursk salient in the vicinity of
Belgorod. Here the red army
has been busily engaged erasing
the gains which the German
army made in the opening days
of the battle.
U. S. Minister to
Portugal Dies
LISBON, July 21 " (P Bert
Fish, United States minister to
Portugal, died, today after an
illness of two weeks.
He was 67 years old.
He presented his credentials
aa minister to Portugal to Presi
dent Cannons on March 26,
1941. He came to. Lisbon from
Cairo, where he bad served for
eight years. During part of his
service in Cairo he was minister
to Saudi Arabia as well as to
Egypt.
- He was born October 8, 1875,
in Bedford,. Ind., and was edu
cated at John . B- Stetson uni
versity, norma, ;
California to
Um Stickers
SACRAMENTO, July 21 UP)
Stickers will be used to indicate
registration of motor vehicles in
California next year. State Di
rector of Motor Vehicles Gordon
Garland announced today. Pre
sent license plate will be re
tained on machines.
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' 7-23
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POPE DEPLORES
(Continued From Page One)
And now what we feared has
happened. That which we fore
saw now la sad reality, for one
of the noted Roman basilicas,
that of San Orenzo outside the
walls, venerated by all Catholics
tor its antique memories, is now
In great part destroyed."
ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., July
21 OP) The Most Rev. Joseph
P. Hurley, bishop of St. Augus
tine and formerly attached to
the Vatican as aide to the papal
secretary of state, declared today
that "every - decent Christian
thought and sentiment within me
cries out that we have made
tragically mistaken decision" in
the bombing of Rome.
Bishop Hurley now at Sara
toga Springs, N. Y., issued his
statement through the chancery
here. -
Lewis Makes
Deal to Merge
UMW With AFL
(Continued From Page One)
the sole craft union for coal dig
gers. This would, in effect.
freeze the charter and in time
abolish the progressive miners,
the AFL's mine union which Is
strong in Illinois, Indiana and
parts of Kentucky-
2 In exchange, Lewis would
drop his so-called "District 80"
unit which was set up to organ
ize all kinds of workers, includ
ing farmers.
Lewis took back to his 200
man policy committee today a
report on the conversations with
three AFL vice presidents.
Daniel A. Tobln. AFL vice
president serving as chairman of
uie committee considering the
application before its presenta
tion to the AFL executive coun
cil next month in Chicago, in-
aicaxea some progress had been
maae at yesterdays conference,
but lust how much he would not
say.
The outlook for reaffillation,
he told reporters, "looks some
what better."
Lewis handed reporters a brief
prepared statement on which he
declined to elaborate. He refer
red to the UMW as "a going con
cern" which has proposed re
joining the AFL "in the interest
of, unifying, the. policies of or
ganized labor."
American Bombers
Sink Jap Cruiser
Trying to Aid Munda
(Continued From Page One)
allied offensive in the Solomons.
Land Forces Move
Allied ground forces mnvlni
slowly in on Munda were aided
yesterday by Dauntless dive
bombers which droDoed 18 tnn
of bombs on Japanese gun posi
tions along a perimeter about
two miles east of the airdrome.
. An enemy destroyer at anchor
in the harbor at Sarong, Dutch
New Guinea, and a medium
sized cargo shiD off the nt
there were bombed with unob
served results.
u. S. bombers aim hit h
Kahili airdrome on Bougainville
island, starting numerous fires
and explosions with 42 tons of
bombs, and started large fires
among supply dumps and in
stallations at Madang, New Gui
nea.
Truce Likely
On Farm-Food
Policy Quarrel
(Continued From Page One)
the settlntf nf now Mt1
o -- iwu puce
ceilings on fresh flh n.ihiv
to combat a reported "strike" of
iiaucrmen.
OPA ordered retail ti.h n..
to limit their prices starting to-
iiwuun ig a iormuia dumm on
the number of cents mark-up
customarily placed on fish be-
uiy a ana juiy IU. Ceil
inss rprentlv wr lmnA..j ....
wholesale transactions, which of-
iiciais saio. Drought complaints
from fishermen that ..t...
were awe to make extra profits.
From the offWof the mni-rfi.
nator of fisheries came' esti.
mates that the work-stoppage of
these fisherman al-aiv u
ing ine country more than 8,000,
uuu pounos 01 zisn a weeK.
Il Kinw lH
Pioneer Rancher
Killed in Camp
White Accident
(Continued From Page One)
a candidate for county commis
sioner. He took an active In
terest in affairs of his commun
ity.
In addition to his wife Cora.
Mr. Ticknor is survived by his
daughter, Theresa Stuart of
Lebanon, Ore., a granddaughter,
Hazel Loomis of Port Orchard,
Wash., two grandsons, Charles
Loomis of Seattle and Harry
Loomis of Santa Ana, Calif., and
one great-grandson, Harry
Loomis Jr , also of Santa Ana.
UKEVIEW MAN GETS
NATIONAL OPA POST
LAKE VIEW The office of
price administration has an
nounced the appointment of
James E. Harper of Lakevlew
to the position of associate chief
accountant in that agency's na
tional office, occupying a posi
tion directly beneath that of
Paul M. Green, national director.
accounting division.
Harper joined the agency early
in 1941, doing double duty as
the lumber branch and the
building material branch chief
of accounting services from that
tune until the present.
He Is a native Oregonlan. edu
cated at the University of Ore
gon, Is a CPA and has had wide
experience throughout the west
ern lumber and building ma
tertal trades, as well as having
spent some time with the W. P,
Fuller Paint company. San Fran
cisco, and the Bethlehem Steel
corporation, also of that city.
Shipping Reaches
Turkey Through
Mediterranean Now
IZMIR, Turkey, July 19 (De
layed) W) The first allied ship
ping to reach Turkey directly
through the Mediterranean from
the United States since the
North African campaign has ar
rived in this southern Turkish
port without incident
The vessels were three med
ium-sized freighters which sailed
from the Atlantic seaboard with
military and civilian surjDlies for
Turkey,, mostly lease-lend goods.
ine snips sailed together and
passed through the Sicilian chan
nel on the last day of the bom
bardment of Pantelleria. close
enough to see bombs bursting-
'Forced Savings'
Not in Offing, Savs
Treasury Chief
WASHINGTON. Julv 21 (JPi
Secretary Morgenthau said to
day "there is no indication that
it. will be necessary or wise to
adopt" a system of forced sav
ings and added that serious dis
cussion of such a plan should be
postponed "until we are faced
with some need to make a de
cision" In a letter to Colonel Franklin
D01ier, New Jersey war finance
committee chairman, . Morgen
thau wrote that the present vol
untary plan "has the great vir
tue of being flexible enough to
permit oond buyers to continue
meeting vital commitments for
life insurance, mortgage pay
ments and other non-inflationary
investments . . . One of the great
weaknesses of a compulsory
savings plan is its lack of such
flexibility.",
Increase Reported
In Oregon Diseases
PORTLAND, July 21 VP)
Communicable . diseases in
creased 50 per cent in Oregon
last week, the state board of
health reported today.
Measles, chickenpox and
whooping cough were more pre
valent than for any correspond
ing week in the past six years.
Syphillis and gonorrhea were the
highest for a single week this
year, the board said, adding that
venereal cases account for al
most 30 per cent of all diseases
reported.
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BMassMafJ MaWHslWMalNaW gsUgsiBafs
I LAST DAY
'JOURNEY FOR
MARGARET"
Robert Larain
Young Day
I
FIRE DESTROYS BIG
AREOFJiSTORIA
(Continued From Page One)
rebuilding would be relatively
easy if material could be ob
tained. The state fire marshal was In
vestigatlng the blnze, mindful
of the fact that this is tho 2tllh
fire this year Involving an As
toria apartment house. Of the
26, origin of 15 is unknown
while the other 11 were blamed
on housing congestion and care
lessness traccablo thereto.
Good Guarded
Navy men guarded piles of
household goods hurriedly
pitched into streets of surround
ing areas before the flames were
checked.
Two large structures destroy
ed, the Hannula hotel and the
Lopakka rooming house, were
not covered by Insurance, their
owners reported today.
Fire departments of Seaside,
20 miles south, and Uwaco,
Wash., across the Columbia river
to the north, were called, but the
flames threatened to engulf the
rest of the large Finnish district
until coast guard and navy men
from nearby bases Jumped Into
the fight.
Hundreds were evacuated
from nearby buildings, and the
streets piled high with house
hold goods emptied from the en
dangered dwellings.
After three hours of pumping
Water Into the mass of flames,
the blaze was brought under con
trol, -
' Damage Estimated
' City Manager Brewer Blllie
estimated damage at more than
$100,000.
Water pressure, because of the
heavy drain by fish canneries,
was too low for effective fire
ngnung at nrst, and seven
pumps were set up to bring
water directly from the Colum
bia river.
The coast guard blocked off
the whole western section of the
city, which was littered with IS,
000 feet of .hose. . ...
Homes In a four-block radius
were sprinkled by embers, and
residents fought numerous minor
roof fires, v
Flames Confined
Though fire-fighters kept the
flames to the single block, sur
rounding buildings were ' dam
aged by heat qnd smoke.
The buildings destroyed in
cluded the Hannula hotel, a land
mark of the Finnish district, and
the Dopakka rooming bouse. Al
so burned were three apartments
over the Keranen garage and
Werner's bakery, owned by Mrs.
Lydia Wuori.
Saves Cash
Saved was $10,000 In cash
which tenants of the rooming
house had entrusted to John Lo
pakka. He wrapped the monej
in a. sheet, and dashed from the
doomed building.
Because of the extreme hous
ng shortage, the homeless had
difficulty finding shelter. Many
were scattered in private home
throughout the city. The USO
accommodated many, but 25
were forced to spend the night
in the unfurnished cubicles of a
Finnish steam bathhouse.
Hans Norland Fire Insurance.
Th Picture That Mad
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Axis Sicily Nears
Collapse; British
Pound at Catania
(Continued From Page On)
tern of Sicily In Jeopardy, and
quick collapse of resistance In
the west and central areas was
threatened.
The town controls the main
highway and railroad lines run
ning east and west across the
mountainous Island, and it thus
cuts the. German defenders of
Catania off from contact with
Italian forces in tho west.
Troops Surrender
These Italian troops have been
yielding ground rapidly and
surrendering in hugo numbers
Most of the German troops ap
parently are couventrated in the
Catania area, battling desperate
ly to hold the olghth army from
sealing off tho entire cast coast
of Sicily by plunging through
Catania up toward Messina.
With Enna's fall, the only con
tact between Catania and west
ern Sicily Is by a single, round
about road from Palermo and
Termini on the north coast down
around Mount Ena through Pa-
tcrno. or by a still onser wav
along (he const to Messina and
down the coastal road through
Taormina.
Paterno Threatened
Paterno Itself is reported al
ready threatened by British
troops, and the entire Messina-
Catania coastal road is vulner
able to aerial and sea bombard
ment. The American and Canadian
troops had thrown a powerful
pincers upon the town by ad
vancing from Caltanlssetta. tak
en by tho U. S. seventh army
units, and from Piazza Armer-
ina. which fell to the Canadians.
Enna is 34 mites north of Gela.
and lies 30 miles below the north
coast of Sicily. It is some 45
miles west of Catania.
The Americans and Canadians
drove on deeper Into the Island
after Enna fell yesterday.
At Catania, Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery's troop made
new gains In battles that left
the fields carpeted with enemy
dead. Front line reports indicat
ed tho Germans sent wave after
wave of troops and armor In
strong founterdrlves against the
British columns.
Large numbers of both Ger
man and Italian troops cut off In
the Enna area were being round
ed up, indicating that the Amer
icans and Canadians had swept
in too fast to permit them to
escape. The total number of
prisoners was not stated.
Allied air forces were sweep
ing over Sicily In strength In
support of the furious assaults
aimed at collapsing all enemy
resistance in the shortest pos
sible time.
England Drafts
Boys to Work
In Coal Mines
(Continued From Page One)
duction at the necessary level
at 720,000 to 750,000.
Heretofore boys reaching the
draft age have been giveh their
choice of going into the armed
forces or Into the mines, but
Bevln said that so far only 3000
have taken mining Jobs In pref
erence to 50-cents-a-day service
with the army and navy.
Doors Opn
Il30 9i48
Our Troops Fighting Mad!
TO WAR"
NOV
Warships Blast
Kiska Again; Japs ,
Fail to Return Fire
WASHINGTON. July 21 (T)
The navy reported today that
two small American warships
bombarded tho Japanese de
fenses on Klska Island In thu
Aleutians Tuesday and tho en
emy failed to return tho fire.
In the Hnutli Piit'ifle. meaur
while, tho Jupauoso bombed tint
GREW
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GREW
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PLUS THIS
I Ends Tonight!
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American base nf Funafuti, r,.
licit Islands, In tho latest of a
series nf light attacks. Agnlnxt
advanced outposts guarding tho
supply lines to Australia. The
enemy caused no damage or In.
Juries at Funafuti an far as re.
ports hero showed.
The Indians of Tern kept the
medical properties of quinine a
secret from the Spaniards for a
century.
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2ND BIG HIT,
"Coney Island"
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