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Newspaper Page Textr h m f li i ' ii.in '0,' i?fi( .iinii On 5-mlnute blast on sirens and whittles li th signal lor a blackout In Klamath rails. Anolhar long blast, during a black out, la a ilgrial lor all-olsar. In vracau tloaary parlods. watch your slrsat lights. . illillil'liil By FRANK JENKINS T ET'S give a hand today to Gen " eral Patton. affectionately known (at least to the corres pondent) as "Old Blood and Cuts." who has realized In Sicily Othe ambition ho tried hard but fulled to realize In Tunisia that Is. cutting through to tho seacoast and trapping large num bers of the enemy, 1E has taken Palermo. Sicily's 1 capital and largest city which has, among other assets, two harbors and more than a mile of wharves. He. has CUT the axis line of retreat for all of Sicily lying west of Palermo, thus closing a trap on whatever enemy forces may be left there. (Its likely that only Italians are left, the Germans having probobly seized all available transport and got out.) His achievement puts ALL of western Sicily In our hands- TT looked yesterday as If Pat- 0L ton might be stalled at Enna. Instead of bolng stalled, he was dashing toward Palermo. Ap parently he divided his forces, leaving one column at Enna, which may now be pushing northward toward San Stefano. (See map.) fUE Germans, are still fighting 1 stubbornly at Catania, but there's an Interesting hint in the news today. The Berlin radio says Mont gomery's 8th army has tempor arily succeeded In breaking through the main German de fenses at the WESTERN edge of the Catanlan plain, which sug gests that foxy Montgomery may he FLANKING the Catania de fenses as he flanked the Mareth line In southern Tunisia. Berlin Insists that tho break was closed by determined count- Orr-attacks. but you never can tell. It's a situation that's worth watching. TTHE Germans (Italians no long er count much) are now cooped up in northeastern Sicily In an area not much larger than the Cap Bon peninsula, where disaster overtook them In Tu nlslR, but they have much better communications In their rear, where only the two-milcs-wldc Messina strait separates them from the Italian mainland. CICILY la ncarlng the status of a closed Incident, which sug gests this question: Aflcr Sicily what? It's pure guesswork, of course, but it's probablo we'll proceed to supply and garrison Sicily as a hugs base, from which our O bombers will operate constantly, and will thon wait to sec if Italy will drop like an over-ripe and decaying plum from its stem. , "THE Bolkhov fortress, 3S miles , north of Orel, by-passed by the Russians In their first rush, falls today- It is Important, be cause It had remained as a posi tion In tho Russian rear. In war, any enemy position BEHIND YOU is dangerous. 'THE Germans call Orel the big Rest battle 'of attrition ever . fought, with nearly NINE MIL LION troops Involved. Grant's.. Richmond campaign Is our classic example of battles of attrition. Such battles arc provoked by the aide that thinks it can best afford hugo losses. It was the RUSSIANS who Q storied the fighting at Orel. Tho lossos claimed by both sides In Russia are fantastic. . - OTOCKHOLM today says tho Russians have- an' Invasion fleet of 60 warships oft the Nor 1 wcglan port of Vardo and are (Continued on Page Three) - . . ' -.- w . , .i .. . ..?.- , ;. a. r-"N q fl II 11 ' Americans Speed Up Sicilian Campaign CIPII V URI ML" ft ' JAP SDERHBAJA .-.-... M MED . M SPEEaTAHMaR lmmmmm.mmlm,. ...... A ,' rTlU It '.-.''-' BASE BLASTED IEI Longest Air Mission Surprises Nips On Java By C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 23 (T) American airmen sprang a surprise on the Jap anese yesterday with a destruc tive raid on the enemy's main Netherlands East Indies at Socr abaja. It was the first raid on the once great Dutch naval base on Java since the Japanese captured it In March, 1842, and the long est mission ever flown in the southwest Pacific. Lights wore burning 'brightly In tho city and the dock ares wus a scene of bustling activity as the first Liberator bombers raced in and began planting BOO pound bombs and Incendiaries in tho target area-. Japanese ground batteries quickly came to Ufa, however, and raised a heavy but Ineffective-, .barrage. All our bombers returned. i Gen. Douglas . MacArthur's communique today said the In cendiaries and high explosives hit an oil refinery, warehouses, railway installations and a dock Towering fires, some of them visible 140 miles away, were started. Lewi's Offers To Support Coal Contract at WLB WASHINGTON. July 23 W) John L- Lewis, who has con sistently Ignored the war labor board, offered today to go be fore the board and support the contract between the Illinois Coal association and district No. 12 of Lewis United Mine Work ers. In a letter to Board Chairman William H. Davis, Lewis said the UMW believes the agreement with tho Illinois operators "is In the public interests" and added that ho is "ready to appear be fore you In Us support In such hearings as you may elect."- Lewis had refused to go before the board during its recent hear ings In tho coal wage contro versy. Union spokesmen point ed out, however, that since than congress has enacted legislation giving tho board statutory auth ority and the powor to subpoena witnesses. Heavy Shells Pound Japs On Kiskafor Seventh Time WASHINGTON, July 23 M5) Heavy guns of the United States Pacific fleet bombarded Japanese- positions on Klska island Thurs day, tho navy announced today, In the seventh surface attack this month against the enemy's Aleu tians outpost, Tho shelling apparently was Intended to hasten the day when Kiska defenses will bo softened sufficiently for amphibious as sault and a final campaign to throw tho Japanese out of the western Aleutians. . . Mads By Warships The surface attack was made by warships which a navy com munique described only as "heavy and light surface units." Enemy shore guns feturned the fire but none of the Amer ican ships was damaged. A navy spokesman said that heavy fleet units could Include modern battleships with their 16 inch guns, older capital vessels with their 14 Inch guns, or heavy cruisers with tholr eight inch ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS vmm iinwnhs ' nllT. nrilTrnP I .-cam- .,.;. I'ifS u . REEDSPORT, July 23 (IT) In an action which they were unable themselves to explain, three farm children aged 8, 11 snd 14, yesterday almost com pletely wrecked the Smith River school house li miles north of here. Police .Officer Richard Miles estimated the damage at $3000. One of the boys said:- "We threw a rock through, a win dow and then lust kept going. don't know why. We had no kick sgsinst snybody snd we liked school." Miles said every window was smashed, doors were kicked in, desks wrecked, pic tures ripped from walls snd smsshed, lavatory fixtures torn loose snd smashed. The children were released to their parents who told the school board they would pay the damages to the best of their resources. WLB BACKS WAGE FORMULA TO HILT " as I Bill SOS , f Position Affirmed in ; . Opipion on L; A. Strike , v , - WASHINGTON, July-21 ( The wsr labor board ' served notice todsy that it does not Intend to scrap tho "little steel" wsge formula even though "other divisions of the anti-inflation army may weaken." Slated In Opinion The board's position, coming after AFL President William Green and CIO President Philip Murray had demanded lifting of the "little steel'! formula un less prices were rolled back to last September IS levels, was presented in an opinion deny ing wage Increases to Los An geles transit workers who went on strike yesterday for a 24 hour period. ' . ' Tho opinion written by Wayne L. Morse, public mem ber of the board, stated that (Continued on Pace Three) Editor Given Small Chance of Survival CLEVELAND, July 23. (P) John S. McCarrens, general man ager of the Cleveland Plain Deal er, today was given "one out of four chances to survive" bullet younds inflicted by an assailant who later killed himself. Dr. O. A. Weber, who removed a bullet from McCarren's ab domen, said the 74-year-old pub lisher was in critical condition but gave him "one out of four chances to survive " ' WMK syayconi i , Ml IT H FH tM' - ' ' - cannon. All those guns ' are classed in the navy -as "heavy guns. Light surface' units . in clude destroyers and light cruis ers. Follows Air Raid The bombardment followed by 24 hours a raid of army heavy bombers on the Japanese run way and main camp area on Kiska. Numerous hits were scored and fires started In the air-raid- The attack coincided with an Associated Press dispatch from Alaskan headquarters today re porting that the Japanese had finally completed a 3700-foot runway on Kiska.' The Liber ator bombers obviously intended to undo much of the work ac complished. Japs Hit Funafuti 'While these actions were go ing on in the North Pacific the Japanese threw a force of bomb ers, the nt)mber not reported, against the American base on (Continued on Page Three) ' " i IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, The war relocation-, authority has decided to segregsta all dis loyal Jspanese evacuees in the 10 WRA centers In the country, and to . concentrate them ex clusively In the Tulelake center. it was learned Friday from Har vey Coverley, director of the Tulelake WRA protect. . Process ' of . weeding out- the "sheep from the. goats" will start next month and, It is expected the movement- of evacuees be tween projects will start about mid-September. When it is com pleted, the Tulelake center will house only the disloyal Japanese, the loyal evacuees now in this project bein moved to other Tulelake. Center Chosen1 On July 7, Dillon Meyer, head of the WRA,, told a house' sub committee in Washinaton that4t wad the WRA decision to stirs gate loyal and disloytrjspsnese; but ft was net until today ft'was publicly' revealed that the, Tule lake center had, baa hosen as the concentration, point for the pro-Japanese group. . 1 -t n ' While no formal, 'artnwirjee ment ha been made relative to changes in 'the- policies . sit the Tulelake center, one the sVgre- gstlon is' complete, it is under stood that stricter discipline, will be Enforced. The military guard will probably be increased, and more rigid . regulation . estab lished as to leave and other ac tivities on the part of the evac uees. . ' ! Coverley said, however," that he expects the agricultural and industrial program at the Tule lake center to continue. Coverley ssid the presence of these activi ties, msy have -influenced the decision to select Tulelake. for the "disloyal" center. The evacuees to be brought to or kept st Tulelake will gener ally coma from three . classes. They are: 1. Those who have applied for repatriation, that being regarded as conclusive evidence- oj. their loyalty to the enemy country. 2.- Those denied leave clear ance by the Washington office of WRA. Such denial is an indica tion that the FBI, military au thoritics. or others, had reason to suspect their loyalty to Japan. 3. Those who, in last winter's! '. (Continued on Pege Two) - j Fire Destroys r Planing Mill, J Shed at.Mowfch Fir Thursdsy-destroyed-the planing mill and a shed at the Deschutes Lumber company op eration at Mowlch, causing dam age estimated at about 430,000. The planing mill-- and . shed re about a mile from the mill proper, which was not' endang ered by the fire. The fire, which broke' out In the early morning,, was -discovered by one of the. workmen. It was burning at the time in both planing mill and shed,- and had made so much headway it could not be stopped in time to pre vent destruction of those struc tures. ' .! K. - However,- 5,000,000 feet of lumber in- the yard was saved, according to R. G. Watt, man ager. ! He, said .that .no men. will be thrown out of work by the fire, as the company '.has already started construction .of docks, Installation of a trimmer, and other work which ' Will keep the men on the job, Watt said con struction of a new plarter de pends upon ' the availability of machinery, 1 -.- -.. . The plant was insured.. . . uu I utn I tiiD w -' f&iZm . 'pzbmSBSr ' ! . . ' . CeWu.- . 2rCirff foodie. C.labri. ' ' lILfi I. IIIIJII I II ' 'Maria --:XruW?&-,4!-2.:jr I U ' I ' " . -t - , - II . bp asBBias si w -aw as p 1 I ' " - . -f . 1 X. lJ'sl. jsf' '.sbbT . . . -r I - . , atl4l'l9,A i - .'eC-fe.W ( Ionian-- Evacuee Movement S - dSf ' To Start-in Mid; V 3T September :. I " k9"9'3i FRIDAY; JULY-23, 1943 -.... i if' aVaS ' Fasts trikiaf units af the American seventh army surpassed even the expectatlona of ' their gaaataL Cast go . 1. Patton, whan th sped over a deflated Italian resistance to Palermo today I rem Easw. At the do of, TMtsr day's fighting, the Americans had swept np the coast to th outskirts Marsala alias captsring Cartel vetra no (A) near th western tip of to island f idly. Flare flfhttof was reported' at Catania (B). British warships hlld Crotona (snip sym bol, poiatar), M the Italian mainland. Heavy black line shows the approximate battle lis as ef ' yesterday, moon. ' , . -t Soyiefs Pound v Closer to 'VQr&QX; Jly !a3 (iPK-Itus- slan ckWunl4u( at. : tonight Xn thsV Belgorod ; art. : 185 miles sotrjh, th Russians said they gained three . and a half -to five miles In the fourth successive sdvarice of-the week. South of 1 Ityurfl' and south- west of Voroshilovgrad, in the Donets basin 400 miles south of Orel, the Russians, said they improved' thelr-j positions in lo cal fighting which- the German radio insisted was a v full-blown soviet offensive. : - Mention Caucasus For the first time. In weeks, the Russians mentioned the western Caucasus and said their- troops southwest of -Krasnodar had Improved their posi- Baseball RATIONAL LEAGUE- - . R. H. E. New York -J 1-.0 5.1 St. Louis .....:...-l 6 1 Chase.. Adams (8) and Lom bards Gumbert, Krist (7) and W. Cooper. , Philadelphia -.2 . 3 Pittsburgh ..-:...3 8 1 - Gerhesuser- and' Livingston; Brandt, Gee (3) and Lopez. Brooklyn .....'......'...;.. 2- 5.1 Cincinnati :..r. O 4-0 . , Wyatt and Owen; Vandermeer and Mueller. . . AMERICAN LEAGUE . ." ' R. H. E. Chicago.... .....'....7 12 3 Boston 8 11 .3 Humphries, Haynesl (8)" and Tresh; Terry, Lucier (2),. Woods (5) and Partee.'. St. Louis ................0 5 1 New York .......1 3 0 Gatehouse, Hollingsworth . (8) snd. Hayes; Boroy and Dickey. . Cleveland "78 0 Philadelphia .0 - 4 2 Harder - and Rosar; Black - and Swift. , i -. : - ' Chicago ...........5 1 Boston 1 7 0 Ross 'and Castino; H. New- some, .Woods (9) and Partee. , Sicilian Successes SetOff Fresh Guerrilla Activity LONDON, July 23 W) The Berlin radio, acknowledging that allied successes in - Sicily -had touched off fresh disturbance .in the Balkans, reported today that axis troops had fought a violent battle with Yugoslav partisans in Montenegro in which 10,0d0 of the guerrillas were said to have been killed. ' The fiercest fighting, said the German news agency, DNB, was irtthY vicinity Of the Komarnlca valley, 80 or 60 miles .southeast o( Sarajevo. '7 two aTVaaJhslf to four 'miles on Oral t tatar?:. a aoacisX' Bas- NEA FEATURES Number 9867 Four Miles Naii Kev Fori tions. The Russians in that area r, close to Novorossisk, German-held - Russian' naval - base along -the Black, sea. The Germans were said to havo lost 02 tanks and 112 planes, in fighting around Orel alone. .-,'.-'..'-, MOSCOW, July 23 (TV-Russian forces crashed through the last strongly-fortified link in Orel's northern defenses yester day on the tenth day of an of fensive that has cost the Ger mans 50,000 killed and 6000 captured,- and closed their pin cers tighter about, that city de spite desperate nazi counterat tacks, a soviet announcement said today. Last ef Districts Bolkhov, 35 miles above the city, which a red army column racing down from the north had by-passed while driving to Within nine miles northeast of Orel, crumbled before the at tackers and its fall "completed the-liquidation -of strongly for tified districts" in that direc tion, the Russians said. Another Russian column pounding to within 11 miles of the: key German defense city from the east, and a 'southern column moving up to complete the three-headed drive, beat back nazi tanks and infantry to con tinue a steady advance, accord ing to the soviet announcement. Gains Told Altogether, the Russians said gains of four to five miles were registered in the Orel sector yesterday' while the Germans lost 2500' killed and. 39 tanks destroyed or captured. - Prison ers and supplies, also were tak en, the Russians declared. (Today's German communique said the Russians had extended their large scale attacks to new sectors of the front but insist ed that soviet attempts to effect a breakthrough ' had been in vain. ' " New Transportation Strike Threatens Weary Angelenos LOS ANGELES, July 23 VP) Normal service with full crews was resumed today over street car and bus lines of the Los An geles railway, company officials reported, after a 24-hour walk out by conductors and motor-men.- . With tho end of the work stoppage, called in protest over refusal of the war labor board to approve a wage increase of 10 cents an hour already , granted by the company, another walkout was, called for Sunday by em ployes, of the -Pacific Electric railway,-operating. rail and. bus interurban lines to .55 communi ties in southern California. . Aj civic leaders, headed by Mayor Fletcher Bowron, strove Good News Coffee Ration To Be Lifted ' WASHINGTON, Jul y "23 (jaVj-Rempval.ot coffee JinmJ, the ration list Is imminent, government food officials said today,- - ' ; No final date for lifting' of rationing has been -set,' but these officials said an an nouncement is expected to be made by the office of price administration within the next few days. , Recommendations for" re moval of rationing have been presented . to top OFA and war food administration offi cials and action was said to await only their formal ap proval. ; Coffee has been under ra tion since last November.' Due to an improvement in the Atlantic shipping situa tion in recent months, the coffee trade reported that stocks early this month to taled about 450,000,000 pounds. Normally supplies to tal about 300,000,000 pounds at this time of the year. Im ports have been running in excess of consumption. ; ; Moscow Appeal to : Germans Seen as "Trial Balloon" WASHINGTON, July 23 (?) Moscow's appeal to the Germans to overthrow Hitler and make an immediate peace, launched through a new "national com mittee of free Germany," was viewed here today as a trial bal loon of more than ordinary im portance. -The committee, with obvious soviet inspiration, appealed in a manifesto for the formation of a "genuine national German gov ernment," which would immedi ately cease military operations, recall the troops, to the reich's original frontiers and embark on peace negotiations. to find means of averting the new tie-up, officials of the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen said flatly that, unless their de mand for a dollar an hour maxi mum wage is granted, the Pacific Electric workers .will, walk out at 2 a. m. Sunday. . Street cars and busses of the Los Angeles Railway Co., mean time were ' operating normally after 24 hours in which none of the carriers moved, throwing perhaps a million persons, in cluding many thousand defense workers, on their own resources for transportation. Mayor Bowrow, seeking to avert the Pacific Electric strike, phoned Dr. William Leiserson, (Continued on Page Three) July 11 High . Lw 14 . Precipitation as el July Is, 1M Stream year to data ....IT.Tt Last 7' 11.17 Normal 1148 Cotdnia Stilt Holds ; Out . Against 7 Montgomery ' . ALDlED HEADQUARTERS Hi NORTH AFRICA, July 23 (FV An American armored division, overrunning a collapsed Italian), resistance, has captured Palermoy capital and largest city of Sicily thereby isolating the whole west era end of the island, allied headquarters announced today; The fast-striking units of thai -American seventh army sur : passed the expectation of even their veteran taskmasterr Lieut.--Gen. George S. Patton Jr., by racing from Enna in central Sle ily to the north coast port , lay " 58 hours.. "", :.-.. .' .V ,.",-.'' Thousands of Italian AsrcasV were trapped by tho emerganaw of the allied spearhead upon tho -north Sicilian-coast . . r - By -the. capture of -Palermo Italy' sixth largest. city, .y,aW7 lies gained dominance -of DM ' Tyrrhenian Sea, the water ap proach to the western coast . o itaiy. - ''..:..':.;.,-' Asda Compressed - The axis was now being com -pressed- into an area of north eastern Sicily little larger -than Cap Bon -where their Tunisian) . forces were destroyed last May. flie -maia'Amerlcan forces, deW -spite, the., sweep over, western) Sicily, were about 30 miles south. ' of San Stefano:di.-Samaktra o the ' north : shore, where they could be -brought to bear upon) this remaining battle line. - ' ; ' -San Stefano di Camatfra rjosst of Enna, is connected by a maje! highway with the Leonforte area) northeast of Enna. - ' : .- ,' Advanced element of th . army entered Palermo at 10 a. ra". yesterday, and the aluM 'heaaVt quarters communique aaid' tat?" capture of the city with it twat major harbors was completed bfi '' evening. - - - .. . - - . Catania Holds Out . .. -. Meanwhile, however, the bat I tie for Catania and control aj - the Mount Etna ' area sn tka " northeastern tip of the island en ' tered its second week of undk minished. fury, with Gen, Sit -:. (Continued on Page Three) DIG UP DOLLARS FOR DOOLITTLE! It will lake $1.00 in War Stamps from every man,, woman and child in th coua -try to build the "SHANGRI-LA" 1 -435,000 430,000 125.000 120.000 : 815,000 110.000 " 1.000 .- v. 140,000 1 Klamath county' goal In War Stamp Jet July. 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