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Newspaper Page TextMWMMMMMt n!!!!!!lffll''f1l!l!lll!!il'l'!ll It " - On 5-mlnute blait on lrn and whistle li the signal (or a blackout In Klamath ralli. Anofhsr long blast, during a black out, it a signal lot all-elear. In ,rcau. tloaarr periods, watoh your liiaat llghti. July is High ft. Low 81 Precipitation as oi Jul 23. IMS Stream year to data ..--......IT.M Lait year....,...13.17 Normal ........... lt.l ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943 ", Number' 986? MIDI nnniw. ruj "c is) a a UMUU mm isiiiiBSBOsoBaaasesiOBsssssssas mi mm Br frank jenkins pills U the CORE of the nowi today: , General Elsenhower (who. London say, hai been entrusted with full authority to deal with any peaco offer) lolls the Ital ian via radio: "Continued pres ence ol Gentian troops on Italian soil Is tho ONLY remaining ob stacle to immodlalo and honor able peace." He adds: "Your part Is to CEASE IM- MfnlATCt.V ant, aulriatir. In German military forces In your country. If you do this, we will RID YOU OP THE GERMANS and deliver you from the horrors of war." "THAT about tells the tale. The x Italians ara AFRAID of the Germans, who are planted In key spots all over Italy, and Badog llo's new government Is prob ably trying to engineer some sort of Ihree-cornored deal that will get them out without further shedding of Italian blood. - Thai Importance of Elscnhow er's statement is Indicated by London reports that the Gor mans did their best to "Jam" the air waves so the Italians couldn't hoar It . I unvun o i p"i inn report strong IndlcatlftTThat Badog Ho l trying to get the Germans out of SOUTHERN Italy and Italian troops back from the Balkans before appealing to the allies lor an armistice. A NOTHER Interesting sidelight iAma fmm MiHrlH uihifh hears that Italian regular troops, aided by civilians and Italian railroad workers turned sab oteurs, are FIGHTING with German forces north of Milan and Turin' following Hltler'a rushing of some 160,000 German troops from France to guard the new defenso line the Germans are supposed to be building along the Po river. THE valley of the Po lies just milk aI tka t.a v-iim II.. ' T, mum v I' iv ubiiiui rt),0. I Is Italy's most Important Indus trial area. It contains the air fields we'd WANT MOST. Since the beginning of history, the Po has been an Important defense line. THIS . the situation In Italy and it's a ticklish one: Fascism la definitely out, -and Badoglio and little Victor Emanuel aro trying to restore the Italian constitutional mon archy. It'a no easy Job. . Opposing them are the rack eteers, the self-seekers, the long hairs, tho opportunists all tho ME-FIRST tribe that Italy has irt common with all other coun tries. .These gentry are seeking to forco Italy into a stale of anarchy, out of which they may be able to grab something for themselves. Badoglio knows he MAR In hrlrlflji (h rah U. .... fascism and his proposed con stitutional monarchy WITHOUT an Intervening period of anarchy, which would play Into the hands of all the worst elements. ,.. ALL this Churchill foresaw when ho warned us tho other day that we mustn't forco Italy Into a situation whero thore will be NO GOVERNMENT FOR US TO DEAL WITH. ADDED to Badoglio' other troubles, the Croats and Slovenes are reported today to be "demonstrating", for separa tion of the Istrlan peninsula from Italy. (The Istrlan peninsula Is the long, curving finger of present-day Italy that reaches around the upper end of the i...ihiiv 'i' iu uuv-0iqvm, i I was taken from Austria after the last war.) ' GERMAN and Italian troops are said to have been rushed to Flume and Trieste to combat this movement. 'THE air Is still clabbered today 'Wlth rumors of urfrest in the ; ,' (C'optnued on Page Two) ' President Calls On America for "Knockout Punch r-, . . . By The Associated Press ' - WASHINGTON, July 29 UP) Reporting Italy on the ropes, Germany blackened by bombs, and Japan losing the Initiative In the Pacific, President Roosevelt called on the American people and their allies today to follow through with the knockout punch that spells "total victory." The chief executive, reporting to the nation on the war effort abroad and at home for the first time In aix months, told a radio audience last night that;.-.' " ' ." .' No Time to Oloat ' ; ' . 1 The United Nations may not take time out to gloat over tho downfall of Dictator Benito Mussolini and the obvious plight of Italy, but must go on to demand unconditional surrender. Then FORTS BLAST AXIS Unescorted , Bombers Stab 80 Miles From Berlin LONDON, July 29 (IP) Unit ed States heavy bombers raided Kiel today and 10 planes failed to return, U. S, headquarters an nounced. - - i A Warnemuende airplane plant also came under the bomb sights of the raiders and results were officially riolard good.' "American heavy bombers at tacked U-boats and shipyards at Kiel and the Heinkel aircraft fac tory at 'Wkrnemuorfde In north- went Germany today with good results." headquarter said. "A considerable number of enemy fighters were destroyed by the heavy bombers, 10 of which are missing." Hit at Oschorsleben The twin assault followed of fensive thrusts yesterday in which U. S. Flying Fortresses stabbed unescorted to within SO miles of Berlin to smash the nasi aircraft factory at Oschers leben and other German targets. Kasscl, site of. big Focke Wult assembly plant about 200 miles southwest of Berlin, also was battered by the big Ameri can bombers, which were re ported to have shot down up (Continued on Page Two) Band Chief of Police Resigns; New Man Named BEND, July 28 (IP) Resigna tion of J. E. Rambo as Bend chief of police and appointment of K. C. Gullck as the new chief are announced by C. G. Relter, Bend city manager. . ; Tho change will be effective August 1, Relter said. Gullck is an ox-Oregon State college stu dent and football player. . Rambo said that outside Inter ests made it Impossible for him to continue as chief of police. Twenty Killed, Two Injured When Dig Airliner Crashes, Burns in Kentucky BOWLING GREEN, Ky.. July 29 VP) Twenty of the 22 per sons aboard an American Air lines passenger plane were killed last night when the big trans port ran Into unfavorable weath er, crashed and burned near Trammel', Ky., about 20 miles southeast of here. The two survivors First Lieut. Glenn W. Fellows of Love Field, Dallas, Texas, and, 3. K, Hoffman, 41, of Wllliamsport, Pa. aro In a Bowling Green hospital suffering from injuries. Accidental A coroner's Jury - at . nearby Scottsville, after an Investiga tion at tho scene of the crash, returned a verdict of "accidental death," The bodies of the vic tims were taken to a funeral home . In Scottsville 'for identi fication. ' , Witnesses at the inquest testi fied parts of , the plane were found over a half mile radius and one of the plane's engines wa found 125 yards from the. trans-Prt- ' .' ' st Eseap Through Window - - Lieut. Fellows and Hoffman, witnesses said, apparently es caped, from the plane through a window or. were thrown clear. Japan and Germany must -be whipped en ' their - home grounds. 2 The axis leadership must eventually be bunted out and prosecuted for war guilt. No mere resignation, such as Mus solini's may Interfere with this. All this will command In creased effort at home, the pres ident emphasized. Return of Armed Force . While current problems are mighty, he asserted, it's not too early to think of the future. Hence, he thought it was time to lay down a specific policy for taking care of the men and women of the armed forces when they return so there Is no wholesale idleness or lack of at tention. In this respect, Mr. Roosevelt recommended ' mus tering out pay, unemployment Insurance, vocational education nd training, medical care and pensions. Hq included the mer chant marine a part - of? the armed. Jorces .' , For Americans, Mr. Roose velt suggested harder on the dally lob. the fullest boss ble attention to.- food produc tion, and purchase of wr bonds to the limit. Optimistic View ODtlmistic throughout. IK president singled out the ship ping situation for his . most glowing . description of the U. S. war output. It was so good, he said, that coffee rationing was ending now, as of last night Despite the demands , of the battlefronts, enough ves sels had been found to haul great quantities of the national beverage from South America. More sugar is in store, too. Mr. Roosevelt combined these home front phases with talk of battles, explaining that "no one can draw a blue pencil.' down the middle of a page and call one side 'the fighting front and the other side the 'home, front.' The two are inexorably. tied to gether." : . Praises Russians He paid high tribute to the Russians. Their succes , has shown,-he Mid, that "it it' dan gerous to make prophecy about, them a fact forcibly brought home to that mystic master - of strategic - intuition, Hcrr Hitler." Then he said that the Unit ed States ' should always be ' (Continued on Page Two) - Several : charred bodies were found at the door inside tho plane. . Lieut. Fellows, although in jured, walked three-quarter of a mile to the home of Press Howell, on whose farm the plane crashed, and summoned aid. Bad Weather Hoffman told hospital attend ants that the plane was flying through unfavorable weather and there was no - Indication of any trouble until the huge ship struck the ground. Hoffman and Lieut. Fellows were thrown clear of the plane and apparently were the only survivors. City Patrolman William A. Lylc, who was on duty. near the hospital where the two, Injured men wore brought,-talked with J. H. Claypool of Trammel, one of the farmers who helped bring the two men to Bowling Green, and . quoted Claypool as saying that when he first heard the plane It appeared to be flying quite high and then "it suddenly started coming' down with .a mighty roar." , Hits Field Allen County Sheriff L. A. William said the plane hit in a. field and ploughed along on RETROACTIVE PAYDATE SET AT JULY 13 ' " compromise in uaresi Shown by Referee's , : . Report July 13, 1942, Is the date rec ommended by Referee' Richard Stelner for retroactive pay to AFL employe of Klamath pine lumber operation, it was shown today when copier of Stelner report to the West Coast Lum ber commission were received here. There were exceptions in two cases. The union had contended that retroactive pay in the pine cases should start in February, where as most of tho operators had ar.l gued' that the pay should start in November. Union represen tatives said thejr were well satis- fled with the referee's recom mendation, which are subject to final action by the West Coast Lumber commission. Amounts Increase . The increase will amount to between 135 and $45 per man. depending upon the amount of overtime worked. When the lumber commission announced an award of 7 s cents an hour, crgfstlrft Pn cases, it left the retroactive date Question ODeaior agreement be tween operator and the unrests, Inability of - the'- two aides, to agree, orougnt wo manor nerore Referee Stelner, who held hear lugs hero in the late spring. 1 .Under tho commission's order, the referee wa to determine what the contractual limitation were with reference to' the ex piration of the notice period- as provided in the . contract and wntn such notice wa given. .Union Contention ' . ' The, union contended that pro per notice was given a early as February, 1942, when a letter wa ent to Klamath employers requesting a meeting with them. Subsequently a meeting was held at the Willard hotel here. Steln er said he has. a. fairly active imagination, but 'he could not stretch it to the point of believ ing that either the January or February letter or the Willard meeting constituted' the proper opening of wage negotiations. However, he said that on June 13 letters were aent.out to all companies accepting certain wage adjustments and stating that the (continued, on Page Two) Two German Subs r Downed by British ; ' LONDON, July 29 (P) Two submarines were destroyed . in the. North Atlantic within nine hours by. an escort of British na val sloops, it was announced to- oay. .-. i the ground for a quarter of a mile. The sheriff said ten bod ies were visible in the wreckage but no, effort would be made to remove them until after an in quest this morning by the cor oner, Dr, H. O. Miller. The sheriff said fire swept the entire plane and described the wreckage as "one of the worst things I have ever seen." Among the passengers was Mrs. Lucy Frickel Beasley, form er American Airlines stewardess and wife of MaJ. Lynn Beasley, (Continued on Page Seven) " Hooray! Have WASHINGTON, July 29 (F) Shipbuilding and anti-sub - suc cesses poured unrationed coffee into America's cup for breakfast this morning and left hint of more sugar soon. The end of coffee rationing approximately seven month after' it startedwas announced last night by President Roosevelt in hla address to the nation. He added that "We also expect that within a short time we shall get greatly Increased allowances of Triple Medals l: ; ) A triple medal winner Is Ser geant Eldon Bat of Tulolako, who is hero for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Cus Lind say, with whom -be has made his homo for several years. Ho has wen tho Distinguished Fly lug Cross, tho Air Medal with Clusters, and the Purple Heart for bravery. Sergeant Bate is a flying engineer, and won tho honor in service with the eighth air fore from base in England. NEW STRONG POINT. in himiir tiipi U. S. Grabs Nicosia, Canadians in ; ; Agira By RELMAN MORIW ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 29 (fP) American forces have tak en the Sicilian strong point of Nicosia while Canadian cap tured Agira in important ad vances against the north cen tral section of the Etna line. Nicosia Is seven and one-half miles north of Leonforte, vital central road junction city whose fall was announced this morn ing, while Agira is the same distance east and slightly north of Leonforte. Six Taken Today . The new successes brought to six the number of towns an nounced today to have been oc cupied by the Americans and Canadians. Driving attacks by the Maple Leaf first division which top pled Agira sent' forces of the German 15th armored division reeling back toward Regalbuto, northwest of Catania, while the American drive gained 12 miles overnight. '. . ' , ' In the previous successes, Canadians smashed into Leon forte, fight miles northeast of Enna, while the American sev enth army captured towrts of Pollinai Castelbuono and Gangi. ,'75,000 Prisoners ! Axis prisoners in the 20-day-old campaign have now risen to 75,000,- with approximately three-fourths of them captured by the Americans, it was an nounced. - (In Washington, Acting Sec retary of War Patterson predict ed that the conquest of Sicily would probably be complete w,thin a few days, despite strong German resistance in the northwest corner and evidence of nail reinforcements. Threatens Flank (Patterson declared that the American seventh army moving (Continued on Page Two) a Second Cup! sugar." He termed the develop ments a tangible result of vast increases in available , shipping space and greater success in the war against U-boats, Shortly after his speech, the war food administration (WFA) and office of price administra tion (OPA) issued a Joint state ment saying the termination of coffee rationing would take ef fect today and that "the nation's stocks of green couee are at a satisfactory level." WATER POURS ON TULELAKE LEASEO LAND Desperate Efforts Made to Close . Dike Break Water poured today through a 100-foot break in the lessees' dike protecting 5400 acres of leased land on the south side of Tulelake. - . All available equipment and manpower wa mustered in an attempt to close the breach, which occurred Thursday morn ing when the bank caved in at the scene of a drain-ditch deep ening operation along the dike about - six - mites south of the town of Tulelake. A. . Repairs Possible '.' . Reclamation officials said they believed it may be possible to repair the dike, but that it will require speedy work.. Reclama tion, fish and wildlife, WRA and private machinery was rushed to the scene. ;' . . ' The land Immediately adjacent to the break: in the dike is on the John and Lewis Kandra lease .- t.- . In danger of Hooding, so lonf as the break, is unrepaired,- 1s a 5400-ecre body of land which' was teased. Ust fail. - W .th xwv ume .uus wunn nceu famed for a number of The tract is largely in grain, al though there is a, sugar beet stand at tho place farther remote from the break. ' -' Losses Named. Among lessees on the tract are Lee Dixon, Steve Takact, Shuck' Brothers,-John Kandra, -Jr., Art Macken, O. W. and Floyd Boyd, and M. L. Sutton . ' - ' , It was estimated that a com plete failure to stop the flood. resulting in loss of all the planted crops, would mean a monetary loss of $150,000. Less Than Section . Less than a section of land had been flooded at noon Thursday The Bessonette dragline 'was working on the drain ditch be side the dike when the bank gave away and the flood started. - Mussolini Spends Birthday Under Guard Near Elba By CHARLES S. FOLTZ MADRID, July 29 (P) Benito Mussolini spent his 60th birth day today under guard in an Italian seacoast town . -not . far from the isle of Elba, Italians in Spain said. ' It was not a happy birthday anyway the former duce looked at it His favorite daughter Edda and son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano were not' with him: The count was one of those fascist leaders who brought about his downfall' and was reported to have sought safety in the Vatican with his wife. The only similarity . between Mussolini's position and that of the man who lived on. Elba seem ed to be geographical.' Napoleon made a comeback later but if Mussolini- listened in to world events' as broadcast . by Rome radio he must have felt every thing he stood for in Italy was dead and gone. . Over 1100 Tons Of Bombs Hit Rome ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. July 29 UP) More than 1100 tons of bombs were dropped on military tar gets in and hear Rome in the historic raid of July 19, in which more than 500 American bomb ers and 200 fighters participat ed, it was disclosed today. Nearly half the weight was concentrated on the Littorio and San Lorenzo railroad yards. 10 JAP SHIPS SUNK ' WASHINGTON, July 29 (fl) The navy announced today that American submarines have sunk 10 Japanese merchant ' vessels and damaged four in operations In tho Pacific. - . Guess What R.R.D.HJ. Bull Stands for EPHRATA, Wash., July 29 W Ration books and other papers of a man booked here for drunkenness confirmed for startled sheriffs officers that the gentleman's name was as stated Reptile Red Dehorn Jersey Bull. - He told Deputy Herb Jen kins he was the fourth gener ation of his family to bear the name,' but that he 'usually signed it R. R. D. H. J. Bull to save writing. - Heavy Going Slows Down Russian Advance LONDON, July 29 W) Red army troop ' have scored ad vances of up to six miles and captured 40 additional localities to tighten the pincer upon Ger man defenders of Orel, a Mos cow communique -recorded by the soviet monitor said tonight :. Strong artillery" fire and in tensive reconnaissance maneuv ers were. reported on the Len- 3 i. . eonmuinioue said 3 Ger man tanks were disabled or de stroyed on- 11 fronts yesterday and that 83 German aircraft fwsM shoT flown by soviet fight- er and anti-aircraft fire. f By WILLIAM McGAJTTX -. MOSCOW. July 29 OPi-i The Russian column advancing upon Orel iron, the south drove over the bodies of 1500 Germans yes terday to force .that claw of tho giant pincers tighter about the vital city and . keep pace with the northern and eastern on slaughts, the Russians said to day. . .. Front line dispatches indicat ed that the masses of red army troops and tanks, in general ad vances of from 2s to 4 miles, now had battered down the Germans' outer hedgehog defense systems and were storming the enemy bastions strongest defense. . Station Falla .. Stanovoy KolodeU, railway station 11 miles southeast of Orel, fell to the Russians yester day, a communique said. . Russian advices said the col umn advancing on Orel from the north rwas fighting its way through swamps and across streams raised to flood stage by recent rains. ' The going was said, to be heavy and the Russians acknow ledged that the offensive in this area had inevitably been slowed down, but declared that even so the advance was continuing. Nearest at North . The. Russian half -circle thrown about the bitterly resisting Ger man army , last was reported nearest the. city on the north, where it encompassed Optukha. The column attacking frontally from the east had overrun Zola tarevo at last reports, 13. miles away. - .' ; . The German! also threw fresh, newly-arrived reserves into the (Continued on Page- Two). Allied Planes Tear Into Jap Ships in South Pacific ' B MURLIN SPENCER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 29 (fP) Allied aircraft and surface unit ripped into Jap anese shipping in the southwest Pacific, yesterday, setting fire to a destroyer and a transport, scoring near misses on a small freighter and destroying 13 barges.'-, -;- - - - . Heavy bombers, summoned by a reconnaissance plane, dropped explosives squarely on the de stroyer and transport oft Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Both ships were left burning fiercely. The two vessel hsd s cover of fighter planes, but there was no report that they attempted in terception. .".' Hoar Misses ;'. Liberators,' striking Manok- warl at th northwestern tip of NAZI TROOPS OBSTACLE TO . EfJDf FIGHT Riotlngs Continue; Germans Battle In North , By ROGER GREENE Associated Press Was Editor Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower - offered riot-torn Italy an im mediate and honorable peaco to-. day and in five-point program declared that the only obstacle barring an end to hostilities was the presence oi German troops on Italian soiL - Frontier reports (aid Italian : and German troop were rushed I today to Flume and Trieste In northeast Italy, adjoining nail occupled Yugoslavia, whero Croats and Slovenes were dam- onstrating for separation of tho j Istrlan peninsula from Italy. , Tonso Situation - . . The situation In other eastern ' sections of the kingdom was de scribed as tense. , Swiss-Italian frontier reports BERN, Bwttsorland. July 2 VPi The Swiss Telegraphic agency laid today it had received dispatch from Chlasso statist it had boon "learned item Homo that tho Badoglio government Is examining : tho conditions of psoWOSm by Oem. Dwight D. Elsenhower.', Tho agency appended an edW tartal not that It "published the' dispatch with reserve.' - t said that despite all denials to! tho' contrary, discussions were continuing in Vatican City look ing toward an armistice. Marshal Fietro Badoglio, tho new Italian premier, was said to be. hoping to arrive at terms which would not Involve occupa tion of the Italian mainland. - Got Nasis Out f .v London reported there were indications that Marshal Badog- (Continued on Page Two) Six Trapped As Flash Flood Fills Coal Mine BRIDGEVILLE, Pa., July 29 VP) Six miners trapped in tho Ollett Coal company mine by a flash flood were found safe and well today after 43 hours under ground. - ! After hearing their shouts, E. E.. Quenon,' U. ,: S. ' Bureau ot Mines engineer, swam 800 feet to reach the men, and found them sitting calmly on an up ward slope above water level. Safe with them waa a veteran mine mule, "Queenie." "Because there is only six In ches of clearance between the water and the mine roof, tho men won't come out yet," Quen on said. ."One man said he didn't want to get wet. Another said joking ly "we'll get. time and half for overtime." . .. All night long pumping crews, worked doggedly to lower tho (Continued on Page Five) Dutch .New Guinea by daylight scored damaging near misses on a 2500-ton freighter. Aerial battering of the Munda, New Georgia, airbase area con. tinued. Forty-seven tons of bombs were dropped on enemy entrenchments and gun positions. The communique from General Douglas MacArthur's headquar ten said nothing of ground ac tivity at Munda but a spokesman, when questioned, replied there were no new reports. American jungle fighters Tuesday were within 2100 yards of the air drome, Munda Advance , (A delayed dispatch from J. Norman Lodge, Associated Press war correspondent with U. S. tn vasion force outside Munda mI4 that although tho airdrome wr (Continued on Pa To)