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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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)