July 20, 1948
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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Doughboys Blow Up German 88
Then Race to Seize Palermo;
Italian Officers All Packed
Br HAROLD
PALERMO, July 23 (Delayed) W) Historic Palermo, cap
Ital and largest city on Sicily, fell today without firing a shot in
It own dofoniio to American infantry and armored column con
verging from three directions.
Doughboys walking soldiers won the race tramping to
the outskirts of the city about noon from the southwest after a
60-mlle advance from Castelvatrano during which they had to
halt three times to knock out harassing artillery pieces.
Happy that his forces avoided shelling into submission this
city known throughout the world for it ancient churches, tem
ples and monuments which make it living tomb ot Phoenician,
ureeic, oyzamine, aaracen, worman, Spanish and early French
civilizations, ine American oep
uty commander under Lieut.
Cen. Oeorge S. Patton Jr. ac
cepted the surrender.
Bags All Packed .
Italian officers, bags picked,
'had been waiting all day to
hand over the town of from
400,000 to 800,000' population.
The Germans were out last
night.
The harbor area has been
heavily damaged by the allied
bombings. The city itself bore
the scars of bombs but the
damage Is not as extensive as
that visited upon a number of
other Sicilian towns.
Troops who rolled into Pa
lermo at dusk received a hearty
welcome. The populace cheered,
threw gifts of flowers and fruit
and poured free wine in Wis
greatest demonstration most of
them hnd ever seen. Italian sol
diers sUll in uniform lined the
streets by the hundred and
Joined in the cheers. Some of
them wers so glad to be out of
I the war they even ran out and
kissed the hands of the Ameri
can soldiers rolling past in half
tracks. Knocked Out
One of the famous German
88-mlllimeter artillery pieces
which attempted to bar the
American armored advance on
the city was blasted to pieces
by four perfect shot from an
American 75-milllmeter assault
gun at less thin 800 yards.
When tha nazt piece opened
fire on a reconnaissance column
led by Capt. Hugh R. O'FarrelJ
of Athens, Ga., the husky
young officer pulled his men
back beyond the brow of a hill
and called up one of the crack
self-propelled assault guns. It
charged around a bend and
wheeled Into position In full
J. view ot the machine gun.
Dead In Bighta
Before, It could let go Gunner
Corp. Benni Kulig ot Indepen
dence, Wis., had the German
weapon dead In his sights and
his first shot sent the enemy
gunners scrambling for cover.
Tha loader, Privets Andrew J.
Shewmake of Monroe, Term.,
slapped in another shell and
Kullg smsshed a great hole
through the 88 shield. Its-ammunition
burst Into flame.
Kulig then swung tha 78
over a couple of degrees and
pitched two shells into the Ger
man gun' main ammunition
dump. It blew up with an ex
plosion that shook the hills.)
Bright flame and black smoke
rolled skyward and chunks of
twisted metal casing showered
hundred of feet away.
Bring Back Prisoners
I, Our patrol went forward
' after that and brought back 11
German and four Italian who
had operated the gun, but tha
German lieutenant who com
manded them escaped.
'This helps some, but wa
ain't even with those birds yet,"
said Gunner Kullg.
Sergeant Eugena Hatfield of
Gilbert, W. Vs., explained that
a German shell had landed un
der the American assault gun a
tew day ago and knocked out
it radio. Other crewmen of the
American gun were Sergt.
Harold Carpenter, tha gun com
mander, ot Rensselaer Falls,
N. Y., and Corp. Robert Eding-
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Are now opened for th sum
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V. BOYLE
r, It drivar, ot Plankfnfton,
S. O.
Th aadr of a combat taaro,
brldir gnral from Colo
rado, ptraonally directed tha
brief angagamant while atand
ln only a few feet from the
blasting 78. , : t
Eighteen Killed in
Two Plant Crashes
Near Biggs Field
EL PASO, Tex., July 29 UP)
Eighteen officer and enlisted
men from Biggs field and Fort
Bits were killed and an enlliled
man wat Injured in two plane
crash, the- air field public re
lation office announced today.
Nine men were killed and one
Injured when a four-engined
bomber crashed ten mile east of
Bigg field last night.
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f Last Call
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Oreg on News
Notes
By Tit Associated Press
Jerry Barnes, 7, Vanport City,
tumbled from a raft on Triangle
lake near his home and drowned
, . , The collector ot internal
revenue at Portland opened a
drive on motorists without a $3
federal motor vehicle us tax
stamp . . .
The Deschutes County fair
will be held on a limited scale
September 33-26, the fair board
announced at Redmond , , . The
war production board's release
ot materials for reclamation
opens the way for expenditure
of more than $600,000 appropri
ated for the Klamath-Modoc pro
ject, Recfamation Superintend
ent B. E, Hayden said at Klam
ath Fall . . .
Nearly 80,000,000 board feet
of timber valued at $164,908 was
cut from Whitman national for
est the past year. Administra
tive Assistant Spencer Goodrich
reported at Baker . , , G. Y.
Hagglund, Deschutes county
agent for 13 year, resigned to
join a feed company at Red
mond , . , Burton Lee, Portland
A half-filled war stamp book
is like a half-equipped soldier!
Stamp books cashed in by Satur
day will bear interest from July 1
The Soroptimist-B.P.W. War Sav
ings Bond sale ends this week. The
women need YOUR purchase to
put the drive over Our airmen
need the bombs YOUR bonds
will buy. Buy now!
Every woman has a chance to do
her bit and get on the Honor Roll.
Phone 5 1 93. Judith Brown.
Write the name of your favorite at tha
top of your bond application, to cast
your vote for Captain Jack's sweetheart
Klamath
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Commercial Printing Phone 5373
Chinas, wa acquitted by a fed
eral court jury of perjury
charge stemming from a recant
narcotic trial . ,
Tha Tanker Fort Erie, named
for tha Niagara river fortifica
tion ot the Revolutionary war
and war of 1812, waa launched
at Henry Kaiser' Swan island
shipysrd, Portland . , . State Sal
vage Committee Chairman C, I,
Ssrcanous at Portland urged
Oregon resident to save tin cans
for collections which will b
resumed when schools reopen . .
Lack of a qualified director
to replace Dr. O. B, Haugen, lost
to the navy, wa blamed by the
stat health department for sus
pension ot it mental hygiene
division . . . Circuit Judge Wal
ter L. Tooze, chairman of tha
Oregon Stat Bar association's
war work committee, at Port
land announced completion of
a program in coastal counties to
furnish free legal advice to
members of tha armed services.
School Employes
In Portland to Get
Salary Adjustments
PORTLAND, July 28 VPs
The Portland school board voted
last night to spend money it
hasn't yet-received to give em
ploye $200 "cost of living" sal
ary adjustment. ,
The money is expected to come
from federal Lanham act funds,
board member said. If It is not
forthcoming, they foresaw a pos
sibility some Portland school
may nave to close,
rr was rmsT
First cavalry unit In tha
United State army was tha
Regiment of Dragoons, organ
ized at Jetferaon Barrack, Mo.,
in August, 1833.
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Klamath
BOND TOTALS
GHEEPTOWARD
QUOTA MARK
Figure are creeping toward
the quota mark of the July war
bond drive that ends Saturday
night, aided materially by spe
cial program and bond suctions
held during the past vyeek.
Total returns from sales at
bank and posioffices up to July
23, amounted to $140,784, ac
cording to a report from the
bond sate committee of the Bus
iness and Professional Women
and Boroptimist clubs. This
amount does not include the
nearly $75,000 in radio pledges,
and it wtlt be appreciated if
these pledges are turned into
bonds as soon as possible.
A total of $27,200 was takes
in pledge during the Comman
do radio sale and entertain
ment broadcast last Monday
evening from KFJ1, according
to the final tabulation ot the
committee in charge.
However, all other organiza
tion who had charge ot these
halt-hour programs did a splen
a gaa a a
eta. " . '-t ' , , -
FREEDOM to In Hit country fc our jratt Mfftsf N prasarratJeri b mt aravatr rsaseMftltty
THE CALIFORiilA OREGON POWER C0L1PAUY
did Job, and expressions of ap
preciation were extended front
the two women's service clubs
through the bond saie chair
men, Olive Cornett and Coral
Sabs,
Amounts pledged at the four
radio sales follow:
July 8, sponsored by League
of Women Voters, $m
pledged; July 12, American Le
gion auxiliary, $18,378; July 18,
Sojourners club and Catholic
Daughters, J u i y 28,
Commandos, $27,200, making
total of $74,725.
Two Killed of
Railway Crossings
Two Miles Apart
MA.RYSVILLZ, Wash., July
28 Railway crossing acci
dents occurring 30 minutes apart
at crossing about two miles apart
yesterday took the live of two
men near here.
Harry L. Gray, about 86, wa
the first victim. Hi car col
lided with a freight train on the
Great Northern line at Slater's
crossing. The automobile wa
dragged close to 1000 feet.
George Haekett wa burned to
death when the truck and trail
er he was driving for the Valley
Milk company oi Auburn caught
fire after colliding with a pas
senger train at Simpson' cross
ing, Haekett' home is in Bet
ling ham but he has been resid
ing recently is Seattle. .
Ralph Waldo Emersdn, the great essayist and philosoplwr, telle
about walking througb the country oo day, and coming on a boy
trying to get a calf through a gal . , " . . . ,,,, j
,The calf wat stubborn He stood there with hi Jegs stiffened
while the boy tugged and pushed and threatened, t
'About this time a young girl came along and watched the boy s
futile effort with a good deal of amusement. Fatally she said:
"Here, let me show you how, And she stuck a finger in the
calf mouth and led him gently through the gate. -
Well when you know HOW to do a Job, the job s half done
before you start. , . . , . ,
There was another good example of th after Pearl Harbor
when America's business-managed electric power companies
were suddenly called upon to supply power for expanding in
dustry in quantities unheard of before. But they did it, just like
that. They knew how. They had the experience the skill, end the
resources, , . . , ,
The production of electric power in America has always bees
mainly in the hands of business men, and under a system of free
business opportunity and reward for individual initiative, these
men have built up a national service, dedicated to the coaven
ence and necessity of millions of people, - - -...
Today, over 80 of all electric power in America is produced
by business-managed, self-supporting, tax-paying companies
whose first interest, like yours and mine, is wiamng the war.
Army, Navy Use !
Good Weather at
Kiska to Advantage
. By WILLIAM L. WORDS!
ADVANCED ALEUTIANS
BASE, July 2? (Deia yedi UP)
American army and navy forces
have espitaiized to the greatest
possible extent on unuiuaiiy.
clear weather ot recnt days to
giast at the Japanese on Klskas
from the atr and sea.
A recapitulation of navy de
partment communiques showed
Kiska was attacked 40 times in;
the four days ended Tuesday),
?tsi-Ctft GntM& Uf tsbti City,
FrascbiMd Bottler? Ppi-Cola SsttUay Co. ci Slaasaft Talte
43 Ssricg SU Klamath Fall, Or.
Tita weather mad pourbU
tart week th hssvisst naval
bombardment yet teen in the
Aleutian war ttwatra. Various
heavy fleet unite itecmtd f'il
Kick utt out ef rang si tha
isiand's comparatively -smalt
cottctal gun, but within easy
range ef the ships' artiiiery,
NOW SUM ,.; ,
Canton Colt
193 Mats St,
Americas, tbSmmm Sitka.
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