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Number 9856
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By FRANK JENKINS
'THE lonor of toduy's dlsputchcs
from Sicily ii that It won't bo
long now.
f"UR westernmost American
column, In a pre-duwn
charge, tukes Cagtclvctrano and
Its biff airport and puhcs on
westward in the fnco of blown
bridges and mined roads. The
break-through was accomplished
by Infuntry, with tanks and half
tracks pouring through tho
breach.
They're now only about 50
miles from the western tip of the
island.
AS to tho fighting In western
rt Sicily, an AP dispatch todoy
says:
"Every spark of fighting spirit
appears to hava been stamped
out in the ranks of an apathetic
and disintegrating Italian army.
New batches of prisoners com
plain that their officers aro do
serting them, wearing clviliun
clothes In an effort to escape."
A BOVE Enna, where General
Patlon'i Americans ara try
ing to break through to the coast
of the Tyrrhenian sea and trap
all axis forces to the west of the
break-through point, the axis
forces (probably heavily Ger
man) appear to be putting up a
stubborn fight to prevent the
closing of the trap-
Patton was reported only
about 30 miles from the coast
(through rough, mountainous
country) yeslerdny, and Is re
ported only about tho same dis
tance away today. Indicating that
he is encountering strong re
sistance. "THE axis (German would be a
moro accurate word) purposo
appears to bo reasonably plain.
Hope of holding any part of
Klrllv lm nrnhnhlv heen aiven
up. and stubborn delaying oper
ations are being fought north of
Enna and at Catania to enable
all possible German (and a few
Incidental Italian) forces to got
to Messina, where they may bo
able to make a getaway across
the two-mile strait to the Italian
mainland.
Eisenhower says the Germans
arc still sending reinforcements
to Sicily, and the Berlin radio
amplifies his assertion with tho
statement that 38 fast motor
launches aro being used to ferry
German soldiers across tho
strait.
(They're probably being sent
merely to support tho dclnylnR
battles.)
KOTE (becauso It is Important)
that while Italian morale is
obviously crumbling the Ger
mans aro still fighting coolly,
stubbornly and effectively,
HTHE British navy (apparently
Including battleships) bom
bards Crotonc, In the gulf of
Taranto at the solo of the Ital
ian boot, Inflicting damago on
enemy Installations and suffer
ing NONE itself. This is furth
, (Continued on P-go Four)
Harold Hordisty
Prisoner of Nazis
PFC. Harold W. Hardlsty of
Lakovlew was today announced
as prisoner of war in a press
release from tho war department
He Is being hold by the Ger
mans. His father, Argus Mlnto Hard
Jsty, lives on Route 6 In Lake
view. PFC. Hardlsty Is one of tho
four Pacific northwest men and
mong the 160 United States
oldlers reported as prisoners Of
war. Of tho entire list, 151 arc
held by Germany and nine by
Italy.
SOVIETS WIPE
OUT LUST OP
NORTHFDBTS
Blast Launched Near
Leningrad; Orel
Periled
LONDON, July 22 (Pi The
Russians captured Bolkhov to
day, thus finishing tho "liquida
tion of strongly fortified dis
tricts of the north of Orel," and
have advanced from four to five
miles in a continuing offenstvo
a special Moscow communique
recorded by tho soviet monitor
said tonight.
Bolkhov Is 35 miles north of
Orel, but the red army is with
in nine miles of tho big Ger
man base on the north east.
50.000 Killtd
In ten days tit Germans have
lost more than 50.000 killed, the
bulletin said. More than 6000
prisoners wcro taken. In the
samo period tho Russians de
stroyed or disabled 776 tanks,
and more than 000 planes and
882 guns.
In addition, the red army hat
ruptured 372 tunks, 720 guns,
600 mortars, 1400 machlncgunt,
and other booty. ,',,. v
LONDON, July 22 (IP) The
Russians have launched a strong
attack near Leningrad and heavy
fighting has been raging since
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Illinois Coal
Contract Gets
UMW Approval
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, July 22 P)
A contract between Illinois bi
tuminous coal operators and ap
proximately 35,000 United Mine
Worker members In Illinois call
ing for an eight-hour day and
pnrtnl-to-portal pay of 11.25 un
til March 31, 1045, was approved
today by the UMW policy com
mittee as a basic agreement that
would be acceptable In all other
areas.
Concluding a three-day meet
ing, the committee authorized
all of Its districts to negotiate
similar agreements, and union
spokesmen said operators in
some of the districts already had
taken steps to enter Into such
agreements.
The Illinois contract, an
nounced yesterday, must be ap
proved by tho war labor board
(WLB) before It becomes effec
tive and Is also contingent upon
tho office of price administra
tion (OPA) raising coal prices to
offset higher production costs.
Just how much of an increase
In the prico of coal would be
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Labor Issues Ultimatum on
Brown, Wages, Food Prices
WASHINGTON, July 22 (P)
Organized labor served notice
today it will demand removal
of Price Administrator Prentiss
Brown and scrappln of the Lit
tle Steel wago formula If prices
aro not rolled back to the Sep
tember 15, 1042 level as stipu
lated by congress and the admin
istration. William Green, president of
tho American Federation of La
bor and Philip Murray, head of
the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations, joined In this state
ment today after a meeting be
tween President Roosevelt and
tho combined labor war board.
No Threat to FDR
Green said the threat to seek
Brown's removal was not made
to the president, but that the r
bor leaders did -emphasize to the
chief executive that unless prices
aro reduced they will demand
that the war labor board cast
overboard the Little Steel formu
J t.
Thtsa six Imps, known by the
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Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Manning tha peeps arc PFC Wallace, from Camp Newell, Pri
vate R. C. Root, Private Joseph Parinella, Corporal Nelson Bridge, PFC B. L. Hammond and Cor
poral Malcolm Allen. Dick Nowell. of the Retail Merchants association, and Lieutenant G. P.
Simpson are In front oi the peep line, and First Sergeant Aubrey E. Butler ia at the 'light.
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Jeeps Here to Give Klamath
War Stamp Buyers a Ride
Eight soldiers arrived in
Klamath Falls Thursday, com
plete with six jeeps in which to
take Klamath peoplo for .rides
after th Klamath residents
have purchased f8-wiih bl war
savings Stamps.
With Lieutenant G. P. Simp
son in charge, the men will be
stationed along Main street at
various places designated by
large placards. Rides will be
given from 1:30 until 5 p. m..
and from 7 to 9 In the evening
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Thursday and Frldoy eve
ning, the men will use the Com
mando center as their headquar
ters and will operate the jeeps
from there. Tho jeeps will be
driven through the business dis-
Alaska Highway
Now Official
Name for Alcan
WASHINGTON. July 22 P)
Agreement on "Alaska High
way" . as the official name for
the highway from Dawson creek,
British Columbia, to Fairbanks,
Alaska, was announced today in
an exchange of notes between
the United States and Canadian
governments.
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull proposed the name as "suit
able and in harmony with popu
lar usage," at the suggestion of
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaskan
delegate in the house of repre
sentatives. Lcighton McCarthy, Canadian
minister to Washington, replied
that his government "concurs in
the proposnl."
Heretofore, the project has
been known generally but unof
ficially as "The Alcan Highway."
la, under which wage increases
of 15 per cent are permitted to
compensate, for rises In the cost
of living since January 1, 1941.
Green said Brown and pther
price and wago stabilization
agencies had failed to check ris
ing prices with the result that
wages "are practically frozen
and prices are soaring."
Labor's - acceptance of the
stabilization program. Green
told reporters, was based on the
assumption that both prices and
wages would be stabilized.
No Deadline
Murray said no deadline had
been set in their conference with
the president, but he hoped some
thing satisfactory will be work
ed out by the time the group sees
the president again at an early
date.
"The president," said the CIO
head, "has got to bo given op
portunity, under tho grant of
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Peeps for the People Who
drivers as "peeps," will take
trict, and adults as well as chil
dren may take the rides. .
Saturday evening from 7 to
S, the Jeeps will be at Eighth
and. Main .atrsola, Ja) connection
with war bond sales by, women's
service clubs. A program . has
been arranged for Saturday
night, in addition to the auction
of merchandise and plane rides.
The Oregon Women's Ambu
lance corps will assist in the pro
gram.
Entertainment
The drivers of the jeeps will
be entertained at lunch Friday
noon by the Rotary club before
going on duty with the jeeps.
The Retail Merchants associa
tion has arranged hotel rooms
and meals for the soldiers. Some
restaurants are giving the meals
free to the men. The Comman
dos will entertain the men dur
ing the rest of their free time
here.
Man Snoots
Publisher, Self
In Cleveland
CLEVELAND, July 22 OP)
John S. McCarrens, 74, presi
dent of the Forest .City Publish
ing company and general man
ager of tbe Cleveland Plain
Dealer was shot three times and
critically wounded at his office
today by an assailant who then
killed himself by firing a bullet
into his head. . ,
W. G. Vorpe, Sunday and
feature editor of the Plain Deal
er, said the publisher was shot
twice in the left arm and once
in the abdomen by Herbert L.
Kobrak, associated with various
foreign language publishing ven
t u r e s in Cleveland, who had
made an appointment with Mc
Carrens. Attendants at Charity hospi
tal . said Kobrak died shortly
after he' was admitted.' McCar
rens, twice president of the
. , , n..ui iu
American newapapui ruuuou
ers' association, was taken to
the same hospital in an uncon
scious condition. . " , 1
Davis in London, :
Hints at Propaganda
LONDON, July 22 (IP) Elmer
Davis, director of the office of
war information who arrived to
day to visit the OWI's branch
office here, hinted that the pro
paganda line for the next stage
of the allied offensive already
was well in mind but declined
to give details.
He mentioned the Roosevelt-
Churchill declaration to the Ital
ians to surrender honorably or
suffer the consequences as "an
example of what is being done"
toward a joint British-American
propaganda program. , '
Buy
Klamath residents for 12 rides
Housing Space
Still Available
In Bend Jail
; BEND,; July 22 (JP '-i Be,
iehutes'County Sheriff Claude
McCauley--contradicted a recently-arrived
worker f ft Berld
who claimed ' yesterday that
every bit of living space here
is occupied, -.
The -county jail, said Mc
Cauley, hasn't had a tennant
since Sunday.
' The househunter said he
might call on the sheriff for
a place to roost but he thought
he'd look around a little more
first.
Jap Lead, Zinc
Mines Blasted
By U.S. Airmen
NEW DEHLI, July 22 (P)
Japanese-operated lead and zinc
mines, railroad- bridges, troop
concentrations and supply, con
centrations in Burma were blast
ed 'yesterday and Tuesday by
American heavy bombers and
fighters, a United States . com
munique said today. . . . . ;
Bombers of the 10th air force
dropped 13 tons of high explo
sive bombs on mines near Lash
lo. In an attempt to destroy pro
duction of lead, zinc and silver,
of which the Japanese are great
ly in need. Separation plants
were damaged and railroad and
housing installations were re
ported hit.
A large formation of B-25s
ripped a concentration of Japan
ese river boats near Katha, de
stroying one, and damaging two
others with direct hits. . Near
misses crippled others, pilots be
lieved. ' ' - -
Troop and supply, bases In
northern Burma were strafed
by P-40s on. both Tuesday and
Wednesday. Approaches of the
railroad bridge at Namtl were
wrecked. J .
Army Requisitions
Poultry in Black
Market Break Up
! WASHINGTON, July 22 (P)
The army, seeking poultry which
It : has been unable to buy at
price ceilings, and the office of
price administration (OPA),
striving to break up black mar
ket operations in the Deimarva
area, the east's largest producer,
watched the highways today,
ready to requisition any supplies
that showed up.
The first requisition was made
yesterday near Dover, Del.,
where state police, accompanied
by OPA inspectors, stopped
poultry trucks. The army,
which made the actual requisi
tion, received its authority from
the war food administration, act
ing under the second war pow
ers act; :
BIOKO JAPS
SHATTERED BY
B1GJUH II
Troops Within "Few
Thousand Yards"
Of Munda
By MURLIN SPENCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI
FIC, July 22 (P) United States
bombers shattered Japanese pos
itions at Bairoko' harbor, above
Munda on the north shore of
New Georgia island, yesterday
in the heaviest air attack ever
made in the southwest Pacific.
More than 150 Avenger tor
pedo bombers and Dauntless
divers, operating under a strong
fighter cover, pounded the area
in a day-long series of raids.
133 Tons of Bombs
"One hundred thirty-three
tons of bombs were dropped
and the area was extensively
strafed," the daily report from
General Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters said. "It was the
heaviest air attack that has
been executed by the allied
forces in the southwest Pacific
area."
A spokesman added that it
also surpassed anything the
Japanese ever had done.
The communique said the
raid was made "in support of
our ground forces." This might
indicate American troops were
advancing . from Enogal Inlet,
two miles northeast, where last
week they destroyed jthe entire
Japanese garrison.
Supply Base
Bairoko is the supply base
for Munda,' key Japanese de
fense point in the central Solo
mons, but allied forces blocked
traffic between the two points
last week-
Only one sentence was used
in reporting the ground action
nt Munda: .
"Enemy ground forces launch
ed a strong counter attack and
were repulsed with heavy
losses."
Close to Munda
(From Admiral William F.
Halsey's South Pacific head
quarters, however, came an of
ficial statement that U. S. troops
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Work Stoppage
Stalls Making
Of Army Tires
' AKRON, O., July 22 (P) Pro
duction of military, truck and
passenger tires was halted today
at the General Tire & Rubber
company as a work stoppage,
second within a week, spread
among 800 employes of the di
vision. Emmett B- Harper, president
of the CIO United Rubber Work
ers local at General, said all em
ployes of the tire division joined
an "unauthorized walkout" pro
testing the company s "refusal to
take back a worker with 11
years' service."
A company spokesman, who
declined use of his name, said
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Strike Halts Street C ars, Buses, But j
Million Angelihos Get to Work Anyway
LOS ANGELES, July 22 (Ph
A million Angelenos got to work
today somehow despite a
work stoppage that halted cars
and buses of the Los Angeles
Railway company at 3 a. m.
Thousands of motorists, forti
fied with new gasoline ration A
coupons that became good today,
backed their cars from garages
and filled them with job-bound
war plant workers.
Downtown thoroughfares soon
took on the semblance of Rose
Bowl New Year's Day traffic as
automobiles thronged the streets
that were strangely quiet In the
absence of clanging street car
gongs and the rumble of steel
wheels.
Plants Pick Up Men
War plants sent out trucks and
trailers equipped with make
shift seats, i Chartered buses
hauled workers to some airplane
Flies to Husband
Countess de Marigny (above),
19, the former Nancy Oakes,
paused at LaGuardia airport.
New York, en route lo Miami
and the side of her husband,
Alfred de Marigny, charged at
Nassau. Bahamas, with the slay
ing of her father, the wealthy
Sir Harry Oakes.
Straightening, Surfac-
. ing Set for Sum
TT " mers Lane
The county road department
this week started work that
will give the Klamath munici
pal airport a modern, hard-sur
faced approach before the sum
mer is over.
Improvements will consist of
relocation of a short section of
the road at the Peterson hill,
where it now makes a wide
turn, and surfacing for the en
tire distance from the county in
firmary to the airport entrance.
Plant Dynamite
County workers were plant
ing dynamite in the Peterson
hill Thursday, preparatory, to
shooting for a cut through the
rise. The road through this cut
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Layton Pleads
Innocence to Rape,
Murder Charge
DALLAS, Ore., July 22 (IPy
Richard Harry Layton, former
Monmouth, Ore., police officer
under indictment for the' rape
slaying of 17-year-old Ruth Hil
debrand of Dallas, pleaded inno
cent today.- . -
Circuit Judge E. M. Page set
August 9 as trial date. '
Layton, arrested two weeks
ago, admitted to State Police
Captain Vayne Gurdane at Port
land that he raped the girl and
that he later slapped her and
she fell into the Willamette
river. He said he could not at
tempt a rescue because he was
unable to swim. ,
plants as usual. Pacific Electric
railway interurban cars and bus
lines other than the Los Angeles
Motor Coach company, affiliated
with the strike-bound street car
system, operated as usual.
. D. D. McClurg, local president
of the AFL union of drivers and,
motormen, said the transporta
tion tieup would continue for
only'24 hours. The 3000 work
ers voted' the work stoppage in
protest of a war labor board's
refusal to approve a 10-cent an
hour increase over present wages
of 80 to 90 cents an hour.
No Army Call
Possibility of army interfer
ence in the work stoppage was
dispelled with a statement by
Brig. Geh. R. E. McQuillen, sec
ond in command of the southern
California sector of the western
defense command.
"Only the president can de
n SEVENTH ARMY!
HAS MARSALA
British Ships ' Blast
Crotone; Air Field ;
r. . Raided ' ': '
By DANIEL DE LUCE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, July 22 (fP
The American seventh army has)
captured Castelvetrano and Sci
acca on the Sicilian south coast
in a thunderbolt drive which ht
placed them but a little over 20
miles from the -western tip of
Sicily, allied headquarters fee
ported today.
(Acting Secretary of War Pate
terson said in Washington thri
late reports indicated the Amerb
can seventh army had reached
the outskirts of Marsala, virtual
ly completing a dash to the west
era extremity of Sicily.) . ,
Crotone Hit - I
A strong force of British wan
ships bombarded Crotone on th
Gulf of Taranto on the Italian)
mainland Tuesday night, coin
ciding with a heavy allied ait
raid on the airfield there, and ab
lied motor gunboats again swept
Messina strait where they sank
two Italian motor torpedo boats.
A navy -communique said aj
chemical works was hit in thai
Crotone bombardment and that
the fleet suffered neither casual
Wnippin;
Tha round-trip circuit of mo
tor gunboats through Messina) '
' (Continued on Page Two) .
American Sub
Presumed Lost
On War. Patrol
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WASHINGTON, July 22 (JPt-
The navy announced today th
American submarine Triton bold
raider of J apanese shipping.
"must be presumed to be losv"
on a war patrol. "
The Triton, which had destroy
ed more than a dozen enemy
warships and merchantmen, was
commanded by Lieutenant Com
mander George Kenneth- Mac
Kenzie Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The . vessel carried a normal
complement of about 60 men.
It was the tenth United State
undersea boat to be lost in Ma)
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WLB Refuses to Up
Shipbuilders' Wages
WASHINGTON, July 22
The request of the nation's ship
building workers for a general
wage, increase to offset the in
creased costs of living has been
turned down by the war labo. :
board, the Washington Post say
The CIO industrial union of;
Marine and Shipbuilding Work. .
ers had sought a 0 per cent pay
increase, while the American
AFL metal trades department
asked only an increase to com,
pensate ' for increased livintf
costs. '
clare martial law,", he said. "Il
is absolutely untrue that tha)
army will take rover transports .'
tion. That would require " a dl ;
rectlve from the president." -,i s .
; . Strike Reasons' "J 1 1
Sprawling Los! Angeles tw
transportation . systems . are tha)
Los. Angeles Railway company
operating the "yellow" trolley
and buses, and the Pacific Elect
trie Railway company, operating)
the "red" cars and buses. ' : j
Operators for Pacific Electric
which also serves the numerous
suburbans, presently are - voting .
on a similar work stoppage. Pa
ciiic Electric workers, getting"
from 77 to 87 cents top, had been,
granted a 13-cent raise by the;
railway labor panel emergency
board. Fred M. Vinson, director
of economic stabilization, order
ed this cut to three cents. :
CASTEM