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fflgiiglIigIIBB IIIIIIJllp I On 8-mlnut blatt en sirens and whistles li the signal lor a blackout in Klamath Falls, Another long blast during a black out, is a signal for ell-clear. In w (cau tionary periods, watch your straat lights. Julr at High 87. Low SO Precipitation as of Julr 20. IMS Stream yaar to data ,..'.;....:....'....17.M Last yaar ... 13.15 Normal ......1J.13 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS ' KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1943 Number 9860 'Mill) 'MKMIHIM iliim;) All 5111 1'l A.Di-'flV Mfvf) II fPfir IT IUI Pllli iifllil Msivmwmt II life By FRANK JENKINS FROM Madrid today comes what looks like the Inside story of what happened in Italy over the weekend. It was picked Ofip from travelers on the first plane to leave Italy after the break. MUSSOLINI, according to this Madrid version, camo back from his merlins with Hltlor, bearing the bad news. With Sicily In allied hands, It was the German view that south ern and central Italy are undo fendable. and so Hitler's decision was to move ALL Italian troops, arms and munitions BEHIND THE PO, along with all rolling stocks, food stores and harvests, leaving the Italians to be fed by the allies or STARVE. MUSSOLINI called a meeting 1V1 Of his fascist leaders and urged acceptance of Hitler's Otcrml, but was outvoted 10 to 8, He then said It would be neces sary for him to resign. A long discussion followed of which the concensus was that Italy must coma first and fascism afterward. This happened on. Saturday. Early Sundny morning Mussolini went to the palace and tendered his resignation to the king, who had been kept Informed and had talked with Badogllo (one of Mussolini's Italian enemies.) Badogllo took over as premier, Insisting that "ALL Italy must be defended or Italy must leave the war." Faced with this virtual ultimatum, the story goes, the Germans agreed to help in the defense of the WHOLE Italian peninsula. .(Mussolini Is now supposed to be a prisoner in a villa near Rome.) 'T'HE story is taken up this Q . morning by Churchill, re porting to the house of com mons which, tho dispatches re port, he entered "Jauntily." With characteristic Churchill bluntness, he says: "Italy will bo scared and scarred and blackened from one end to the other unless the new government headed by Badogllo ABANDONS GERMANY'S WAR against the United Nations." He adds that orders to exert the utmost rigors of war agalpst Italy have already gone out to the allied commanders, , . ' . THAT'S telling 'cm and ; there's plenty of bite, back of tlie bark. The point is that wo CAN do exaotly what Churchill says we WILL . do "unless." And both the Italians and the Germans know It. E concludes: ; "I know little or'nothlng of the new Italian government. I express no opinion upon it." Then ho says: " "Tho allied course Is to lot tho Italians stew in their own Juice for a bit" and to "hot up the fire to the utmost" with the aim of Obtaining from the Italian gov ernment "FULL FACILITIES for carrying on' the WAR AGAINST GERMANY." VOU will note that there Is nothing in Churchill's speech that is inconsistent with the Madrid hearsay version of what happened: - V " . pHURCHILL says there have been no (official) peace over ftires so far. If Churchill says t, it's true. But no great stretch of the imagination is required to believe that peace overtures are in the offing. Stockholm says reports from Rome . Indicate popular belief that one of the first acts of tho new government .will be to ask for. an armistice, An uncon (Continucd on Page Five) , v mwm- fall Badoglio Cleans House in Italy; rasas ts Held Armistice May . Be Requested"' - By THOMAS r. HAWKINS ' BERN. Switzerland, July 27 (JPh Whllo Premier Pletro Ba doglio and his newly-formed cab inet set about tho task of main taining order and sweeping Italy of the outward symbols of fas cism, reports from Rome indi cated a popular belief there that one of the first acts of the new government would be a request for an armistice. (In London Reuters quotod a Bern dispatch to the Svenska Dagbladct In Stockholm, as say ing that preliminary negotiations for an armistice between Italy and tha allies began in Vatican City last night. There was no Immediate confirmation of tills report, however. Talks Held (The Svenska Dagbladct dis patch also said that German Am bassador Hans Georg Victor von Mackensen was holding a series of talks with Premier Badogllo, apparently to learn the-letter's attitude toward Germany. . While -Badogllo has not I yet officially proclaimed the fascist party dead, the new premier and his ministers are cleaning house throughout the nation. The fas cist party headquarters have been taken over, Benito Musso lini and other high fascists are reported under protective cus tody, Snd tho national police force has been reorganized under a military administration accord ing to political and diplomatic reports from tho Italian capital. Disorders have been surpris ingly few, according to these (Continued on Page Two) Third War Loan Drive Goat Set At 75 Billion WASHINGTON, July 27 () President Roosevelt today for mally proclaimed September 9 for the start of a third war loan campaign and asked every Amer ican to "back the attack ' with war bond purchases according to "his conscience." Treasury Secretary Morgcn- inmi Iihs set a goal of $15,000, 000,000 for tho drive and Mr, Roosevelt asserted that "In car rylng tho war into enemy tcrrl tory, we shall need greater amounts of money than any na tion has ever asked from Its citi zens In all history." - "As commander-in-chief," ' he said in his proclamation, "I here by invoke every citizen to give all possible aid and support to this third war loan drive, not only so that our financial bob! may be reached, but to encour age and Inspire those of our hus bands and fathers and sons who are under fire on a dozen fronts all over the world. "It Is my earnest hope that every American will realize that in buying war bonds in this third war loan he has an opportunity to express voluntarily and under tho guidance of his obedience, the extent to which he will 'back the attack.' " Richard Muskopf Considered Dead By War Department Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Muskopf have received word that the war department officially considers their son, Technical Sergeant Richard F. Muskopf, dead. Young Muskopf was previous ly reported missing after a plane in which he and six other men were on a routine flight was lost off the Pacific Coast on December 6, 1942. Muskopf's wife, who now lives in St. Louis, Mo., with her par ents, received tho official word from the war department this last week,' Mussolini Fell Because By CHARLES 8. FOL'i i MADRID, July 27 (P; Trav elers arriving by plane from Rome today' declared that Ben ito Mussolini fell because he supported a German plan to abandon central and southern Italy for a strong defense line In the north, and that he is now at a villa between Rome and Ostla. The new government of Mar shal Pletro Badogllo insists that all of Italy must be defended if Italy is to remain in tht war, and. the Germans haVe'been forced to agree, they declared Stand Proposed...' ' Hitler had first proposed .a strong stand behind the Po val ley, and Mussolini, seeking to do his bidding, was overruled by the grand fascist council by a vote of 19 to 8, it was as serted. . Carlo Scorza, fascist party secretary, - was reported under preventive, arrest, with- others of JtlvJuc"s icollaborators con- flned to their homes. Has Support On the Issue of defense of all Italy, Badogllo for the moment at least has the support of the army and the crown, both of which enjoy tremendous popular- prestige as successors to Mussolini, this late-hour account of the crisis In Rome said. The first clear report of.what happened after Mussolini re signed came with the first Ala Lltorla plane to leave Rome since tho event It Is significant of the swift changes that the plane . arrived, stripped of all fascist Insignia, marked only by the Italian national colors, and that an hour after its arrival the fascist name Ala Litoria had changed to Ala Roma in the line's offices, i . , Some of these travelers were (Continued on Page. Two) Oregon's. September Draft Quota Half Of August Amount SALEM, July 27 OP) Ore gon's draft quota in September will bo less than 50 per cent of the August quota, which Is the highest in history. Col,. Elm er V. Wooton, state selective service director, said, today. 'With, the September call, all available men without children In Oregon will havo been draft ed, excluding those deferred for. occupational or physical reasons. i About 600 men reach the ago of 18. each month, the colonel said, making them eligible for the draft. Shooting Area on Lower Klamath Lake Bird Refuge Proposed; 70 - Day Season Opens October 75. Closes December 23 A 7000-acre shooting area on the Lower Klamath lake refuge has been recommended to the secretary of the Interior, fish and wildlife agents disclosed here Tuesday along with the an nouncement of migratory fowl hunting dates and bag limits for the 1843 season. ' The 70-day hunting season will open in the nearby Califor nia and Oregon -areas on October 15 and will clos Dec ..'"? 23v Bag limits are virtually V" same as last year. -; Hunting Area Sharing interest with the regu lations was the disclosed plan for the Lower lake hunting area, which embraces the east portion of the refuge, mainly units 4, 7, 8 and 9. Archie-Hull, manager of the federal refuges in this dis trict, said' Tuesday that the rec ommendations . forg, the' -, Lower - on Lady Fishers Net Cougar REEDSPORT, Ore.', July 27 W Two women, told today how they started out for fish and came home with a cougar. Mrs. Paul Bernhardt, Reeds port, and Mrs. Charles Hend erson, , Klamath Falls, were armed with .nothing . but . a fishing net. when a young cougar crossed . their trail. They tossed the net over his head.. The animal, struggling, tangled himself up in the cords. While on woman watched the net, the other en listed aid of a nearby farmer to carry, the cougar alive and unhurt Into camp. . Troops Walk on Axis Dead in Stopping Counter Attacks . By RELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN .NORTH AFRICA,. Jujjr . St 0P American and-Canadian' troops, throwing .themselves, to ward In the north Jerri area of Sicily, have cut to piece savage German counterattacks In . the central sector and advanced over ground strewn with axis dead, allied .headquarters 'announced today. . At the sama time' a headquart er communique announced that allied air forces had smashed a new enemy, attempt tobrlhft re inforcements on a large scale in to Sicily by shooting down -21. huge German Junkers 32 trans ports in a battle over Messina strait. Two giant German 323-Merse-bergs were shot down by RAF Beaufighters. These planes are capable oft carrying more than (Continued on Page Two) SP: Man Injured In South Sixth Street Accident D. A. Austin, about 42, was seriously injured at about 10:55 Monday night when he was struck, by a car driven by E. R. Haselwood as he was crossing South Sixth street ' near the viaduct. Austin, suffered concussion of the brain, but - seemed - to be slightly improved late Tuesday afternoon, according to the at tending physician, E.-D, John' son. He is at the Hillside hospital.- Haselwood, who lives at 2725 Wiard street,-' was driving his car along Sixth ' street ' when Austin stepped from between " (Continued on Page Two) - lake shooting grounds had been sent In, and final action will be taken before the season opens. Approval is expected. Hull explained that the pro posed shooting ground does, not include the Sheepy lake area to the west, which will be closed to -hunters; ' He said, however, that the shooting ground em braces what he believes to be the finest hunting on Lower Klamath lake, on the basis of ob servations made- there last year. There were more birds in that section last year than anywhere else on the refuge, - . - The area is well-covered with shallow water,,, dotted with scores of small Islands of ' cattails.- ;, ,(, Easily Accessible The .shooting ground will be easily accessible, to hunters, Hull said, - with- cars permitted to go LDNG-AWAITED PUSH STARTS N SOLOMONS Japs Give Grudgingly After Week's Air Softening By C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 27 OP) Presaged by a 600- ton air and sea bombardment, the American ground offensive against the strategic Munda air base in the central Solomons was under way today. Softened up by a week's con tinual bombing, the Japanese gave . ground grudgingly all along the perimeter of Munda's defenses yesterday, 500 yards in one sector, and while details of the fighting were lacking it un doubtedly was the start of the long-heralded advance. - This first general offensive re ported, since the battle for New Georgia island began four weeks ago followed a destructive attack Monday morning by navy Daunt lew Snd Avenger bombers which braved inWns (round 'fire to dump 82. tons of bombs on pin pointed gun position And per sonnel targets around the big base. An unspecified number and (Continued On Page Two) Zeebrugge Hit During Daylight Bomb Plastering LONDON, July 27 (fl5) Hun dreda of allied fighters and light bombers attacked industrial tar gets at Zeebrugge and enemy air fields elsewhere in Belgium and in Holland by daylight today, the air ministry announced. The day operations in the re lentless air offensive against the continent followed upon the fifth attack in 48 hours on Hamburg. The RAF sent Mosquito bomb ers against the German port and industrial city last night for the third successive night. The British, dominion and al lied squadrons lost not a plane In the extensive daylight raids today. Hits were reported on Zeebrugge industrial buildings and' pilots said they encountered neither fighters nor flak. Even in the attacks on enemy airfields at Courtrai in Belgium and Woensdrecht In Holland, pi lots reported that nasi fighters showed no desire to challenge the. Spitfires escorting Typhoon bombers. The hangars, buildings and dispersal areas were strad dled with 500-pound bombs. Spitfires made diversionary sweeps from Ypres to Hulst in Holland. ' down the state line dike and park conveniently at the side of the dike. A place to turn around will be available. Main entrance will be by way of Merrill. The proposed shooting grounds will be thoroughly posted as soon as the final word is given by the secretary of the interior. There will also be some re-posting of the , Tulelake shooting area, which Hull said will be approxi mately the same as last year. The. state line, which is the boundary of the refuge, will be the boundary of the Lower lake shooting grounds. - - Sunrise to Sunset Hunting of birds this year will be from one-half hour before sun rise to sunset. Last season the hours ran from sunrise to sunset. Sportsmen will be permitted to', retain birds lawfully taken ' -(Continued .on . Page .Two).... We'll Sear, Scald fs CI) 1 1 Prime Minister Winston Churchill promised Italy would be blackened by the allied war machine unless they abandoned tbelr stand with Germany. The army has its orders to go ahead with the offensive, he said. irvir.'"i Rain Slows Down Red Advance; Battles : Continue ' LONDON, July 27 (IP) The Russians advanced from two and a half to four miles closer to beleaguered Orel today, cap turing more than - 50 log-cabin villages in a three-sided drive on the central German base, the soviet command announced in a special communique tonight. The Russians "improved their positions" in the Leningrad area north and east of Mga in local fighting, the communique said. For nearly a week, the Germans have insisted that a full Russian offensive has -been breaking against their Baltic defenses, but this was the first Russian rec ognition of fighting in that area. Improve Position ' Farther south, in the Belgorod area, the Russians said they "im proved their positions consider ably" in local fighting.' Belgo- (Continued on Page Two) ' Opening Date Set in Klamath School Systems August 31 has been set as the opening date for Klamath county schools, both high and elemen tary, according to word from the county school office. City schools are scheduled to start on or near that date, the exact time not yet having been determined. An . all-county school district teachers' meeting, to-be held August 30, is now being planned. Schools will, open the next day. Due to the probability that they will have to close down for a week or two during harvest season, schools are starting about week earlier than in pre-war years. The 1942 opening date was about the same as this year. Sparks Appointed ' Athletic Manager For Willamette SALEM, July 27 UP) Leslie J. Sparks, Willamette univer sity graduate manager, will be come the university's athletic di rector, succeeding Roy S. Keene, who left Sunday as a lieutenant commander in the naval reserve, a source close to the university s board of trustees said today. - The executive board of the board of trustees will meet late today to consider the appoint ment of Keene s successor. The board, however, was not expect ed to reach a final decision to day on appointment of a -foot- dbu coacn 10 succeed iteene. 1- -- -- Italy Warned fo Abandon Fight Against All ie By E. C. DANIEL LONDON, July 27 UP) Prime Minister Churchill told cheering house of commons today scarred and blackened from one end to the other" unless the new government headed by Marshall Pietro Badoglio abandons Get many's war against the United Nations. Speaking at a supreme moment in his career as Britain's war time prime minister when his arch foe Benito Mussolini has dis appeared from the scene, Churchill said orders to exert the utmost rigor of war" against allied commanders. No Overtures of Peace No overtures of peace have been received from the elder Ir successor to Mussolini, tne "urst of the dictators" to go, Church ill said,- and therefore no new decisions by the allies were called for except to bring "the maximum avalanche of fire and steel upon all targets of mili tary significance throughout the length and breadth of Italy." ' "I know little or nothing of the new government," he said. "I express no opinion upon it," The allied course, he said, would be to let the Italians "stew in their own juice for a bit" and to "hot up the fire to the utmost" with the aim of obtaining from the Italian gov ernment full facilities for carry ing on the war against Ger many. T h e s e facilities, it was as sumed, included air bases. Warns of Chaos But in the interest of the su preme object of destroying the neT war machine, he : warned nffamftt thmwiiui Italv Into sugh. rpolltcaf chao as 'to leave the allies not .government to deal with 'or entrust with policing Italy while the war is pursued against Germany. "The unconditional surrender of Italy should be brought about wholesale and not piecemeal,", he said. - Declaring that the British and United States government were in continuous consultation, he said they were "acting in the closest concert" in ' the ' Italian situation. r - Successful War ' The British government, he said,, was conducting an increas? ingly successful war and policy" and then he offered a "word of caution." ' ' ' "The whole outlook" of the nazl party and ' regiv, their whole idealogical-outlook as it is called, will be disturbed and darkened by events which have happened and are going to hap pen in Italy," he predicted, "and (Continued on Page Two) - - Bly Theatre, House Destroyed By Fire Monday Fire Monday evening . de stroyed the theatre building and one house at Bly, damaged three other houses and threat ened to spread further through the eastern Klamath, community- " -' Starting apparently in grass near the theatre, the blaze roared through the frame build ing so rapidly there was no chance of checking it there. . An adjoining house, occupied by the Wilbur Swearingen fam ily, then caught fire and burned. The Earl Adams house was badly damaged, and houses occupied by Frank Clogston and Gordon Robbins were scorched. A switch in the wind saved the Klamath Forest Protective association's station, which for a while appeared certain of de struction.' A Copco power pole fell, destroying a transformer, and a part of the Bly area was without electrical service for a short period Monday evening. . (Continued on Page Two) Allied Surrender Policy Reaffirmed WASHINGTON, July 27 (JPh- President Roosevelt reaffirmed in effect today the allied policy of exacting unconditional sur render from Italy, and at the same time said that Robert . Sherwood of the office of war Information (OWD is taking strong action because an OWI broadcast had referred to Vit torio , Emanuele as a "moronic little king."- -.. s that "Italy will be seared and Italy already had gone out to KUMATH PROJECT GETS GREEN LIGHT i WPB Releases Materl- al for Reclamation Construction ' v--; Construction of the - Modod unit of the Klamath reclamation project will be resumed as a re sult of action taken by the war production board Tuesday In re leasing materials for this and six other major reclamation pro jects, it was announced Tuesday. The WPB action releases $610,000 for work which will mainly be the development of theCoppeck bay area in the Tula Iak district. Construction-work on the Klamath project had been held up by. WPB since last 'October. . - Telegram Notifies -. News of the new development1 came in an Associated Press die, patch from Washington Tuesday., followed by telegram to B. Er Hayden, reclamation superintend, dent -here,-fronv Acting Reclama. tion Commissioner- - B ashore. (Continued on Page Two) DeGaulleAsks French Part 1n Italy Settlement ALGIERS, July 27 (P) Gen. Charles de Gaulle declared in radio broadcast' to France today that the French must have -a part in any United Nations set tlement with Italy. Voicing an opinion that Is ra pidly gaining strength in French circles here, the Free French leader stated it. .was clear that the change in power in Rome might raise the question of set tling accounts in the near fu ture. "In spite of the terrible plight of our country," he asserted, "such settlement could be neither valid nor lasting with out France." De Gaulle said the fall of? Mussolini proved "the failure of the political, social and moral system called totalitarianism." For France, he said, it was the) first part of the work of retribu tion. , '' "Out of hatred and greed to ward our country, Italy, led by. (Continued on Page Two) - Daseball V NATIONAL LEAGUE - ? (1st game) R. H. E i Philadelphia 2 ' 5 . . 1 ! St. Louis 6 10 . 1 , Gerheauser, Karl (8), and Fin ley; Dickson and W. Cooper. R. H. E. New York S 12 1 Pittsburgh 8 10 ' 3 " Chase, East (5), Sayles (7), and. Heccuso; Gee and Lopez. : ' R. H. E. Boston 8 ' 8 2 Cincinnati 2 7 Tobin and Mas); Walters, Shoun (8), and Mueller. - ,, AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E. St." Louis ...8 15 0 Philadelphia . 4 9 X Galehouse, Fuchs (7), Caster (8), . and .Schultz; Black, Fagan (8), Wolff (9), and Swift: . K. H. E. - Cleveland 8 10 1 New York 4 11 0 Smith, Center ; (8), . Reynold (7), and : Rosar; Borowy and' Hemsley. : . '
