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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1943)
II PPIIfl ilWfllUlWIIftniflltfllllH wiiuiim On mlnuta blast on sirens and whistles It th signal lot bUckout In Klamath Valla. Another long bint, during a black out if ilgnal lor all-clear. In iracau- July It High II. Low B7 Precipitation as of July 23. IMS Sttoaa thi to date ..: .17.H Last yoar 13.17 Normal .....12.11 ' Nonary periods, watch rout alraat llghu. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE aN,lo ttii,l!IH ALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943 Number 9863 mm mm i lillii iiiHi . Br PRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT HOOSEVKLT. in lilt broadcast lo the nation (he other night, Indicated be lief that the war won't end this year and won't go on until 1040. Ho added: "Tho length of the war will depend on uninterrupted con tlmiance of all-out offort on the fighting ironti and here at home." kwE'VE all icon football teams w win tho first half and go In to the socond half thinking It was about all over but the cheer- lug at tho end and GET LICKED. That could happen to us In tills war if we let ourselves fall Into the belief that since Italy It's about all over but tho mop ping up. U7HAT has happened Is this: (We've, turned the corner on the deadly fear that WE'LL BE LICKED. Our chief - concern now Is when we'll get the other fellow licked. , Wo won't speed that time any by pulling our punches. Js. ' 'Tift hardest fighting of our war between the states came I after the turning point at Gettys burg. It's UeilitUwa-tUialy .that th hardest fighting of this war till Ilea ahead of us. At any rate. It's sound policy to hop for the best and prepare for the worst. TT la safe, though, to begin to 1 do a little thinking about after ihe war, and the President Indi cate he's doing It himself when he sayt It's tlmo to lay plana for the return to civilian life ot the men AND WOMEN in the armod services. Such a policy, he thinks, should Includo mustering out pay to help In tiding over until a job la found, unemployment in surance when no Job Is located alter diligent search, further edu cation or trade training at gov ernment cost, better provisions for hospitalization and medical I cre and sufficient pensions for 1 W thnut HIahl.H ' TO these reasonable provisions to bo mado by tho govern ment, this writer would like to add another one, to be made by private Individuals: EVERY EMPLOYER should tako back EVERY MAN (who wants to bo taken bock) who , went out of his organization to the armed services, giving him as good a Job as ho left and a better one if possible. If that is done, the shock of demobilization will be cushioned and the men who return will be made to feci that their services have been genuinely appreciated by those who stayed at home. 'FHAT is probably about enough aftcr-the-war talk for one )dy. , It's a dangerous habit to got Into like taking opiates to make you sleep. 'THE Italian news has domlnat ed our Interest for the past week pushing everything else almost out of our minds. But the war has been going on elsewhere. Among other things, the bat tering of Germany from the air has been pushed With unremit ting determination. There has been another 1000-plane raid. (Continued on Pago Two) . Lakeview Man Listed As Prisoner of Japs Maxwell Albert Marlcttc, pharmacist's mato 1c of Lake . view, was among the 303 par sonnol of the U. S. naval serv ices announced by the navy de partment today, as Japanese pris oners of war in the Philippine islands and Manchukuo. Marietta Is the son of Layton A. Marietta of Lakeview. Tho list brought to 4235 tho number of navy confirmed prisoners of war whoso names have been re leased for publication, less those who have died In prison camps. ETNA LINE BREACHED BY ALLjEOPfllR Advance Threatens' to Trap Nazis at Catania By DANIEL DE LUCE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. July 30 (P) American and Canadian troops have driven deeper into the central and right flanks of the Germans' wavering Mt. Etna line, allied headquarters an nounced today, as the nazls strove desperately to repair the breach. A communique declared that tho Canadians had "advanced farther against strong opposi tion," and that the U. S. army front from tho north coast inland to captured Nicosia was "ad vanced in sevoral places." Trap Threatened The whirlwind American as sault had' driven the: Germans back about 20 miles In two days and threatened to trap toenails around Catania or force a gener al retreat toward Messina. - Lieut. Gen. Georgo S. Patton (Continued on Page Two) Powder Magazine Explosion Rocks Redding Mho REDDING. Calif., July 20 P) The Hornet mine, rocked by the explosion of between 10 and IB tons of dynamite yesterday, wilt not resume full operations for several days, Supt. J. O. Huseby said today. The explosion earn Just be fore noon when fire of undeter mined origin broko out in a brick powder magazlno about 850 yards from tho main entrance. Two hundred miners who had been eating their lunch in the surface area near the powder magazine went back Into the mine Just before tho blast. Only two men were injured. Charles Elrod and R. K. McCal I um were slightly cut by flying glass. The mill building was almost entirely destroyed, but tho ma chinery was largely undamaged as was the mino itself, Huseby said. Burning dynamite showered In the wooded country for a quarter-milo around the mine, located on Iron mountain about eight miles west of Redding. A number of brush fires were set and ono turned into a forest fire. Hurtling Truck A metallic bang and a flash the fleeting thought last night that th bombars had eom at last. But it turned out to b a hurtling truck which rolled backwards on th steep Lincoln street hill and splintered a power pole as it cam to a stop against th pol on th parking.. Albert Ous Baart, 528 North Seventh street, was driving the truck. Th truck stalled when he shifted gears, and' rolled back out ot control when the brakes failed. As It struck th pel, an electric wire from th pol to th resi dence of Walter Hannon was given a violent yank. There was flash of, light caused by a mo mentary short, A board on the sld of Hannon'sjhous. to which the wlr was attached, was ..... . f I 1 I.IM ,U. 1- tR.M - ' . ' - v . IU1 n p f MM. KASSEL PLANE IRKS SOCKED WITH HEAVIES Hamburg Showered by RAF in Night Raid LONDON, July 30 (P) Strong formations of U. S. eighth air force heavy bombers attacked the Flcseler Aircraft works at Kassel, Germany, today, a Joint Amorican and British commun ique announced tonight. Tho weather was clear and crews reported good bombing re sults, but the Fortresses ran Into strong flghtar opposition,., the announcement added. Plans Destroyed - At least fifty-two enemy fight ers were destroyed. Twenty-seven fighters were shot down by the Fortresses, a preliminary count showed, and 28 mor U.a S. , Thunderbolts which met the returning Fort resses near the German border. protecting them eothehome ward flight. The Germans kept up their attacks and) "many com bats" occurred. Kassel also was, hit by the Americans on Wednesday.. The Thunderbolts damaged others In the fleets of attacking German -planes. Airfields Bombarded - Several enemy airfields also . (Continued on Page Two) s i Uncontrolled Forest Fire Rages Over 200 Acres Near Eugene EUGENE, July 30 WV-A for est fire, one ot the most serious to strike this area in the past two years, Is out of control and sweeping over more than 200 acres of privately-owned land four miles north of Horton, and about 20 miles northwest of Eu gene. The blaze, which started Thursday at ' 1 1 a. m. from a spark of a donkey engine, is be ing fought by more than 200 tiro fighters, including many 'teen aged boys trained during the past school term in wartime methods of lighting fires and firo protection. . I Provides "Incident" .at f ill 111 of light gave residents of Mf Eighth pnd Lincoln streets district Flood Spreads Over M-rill This map shows the location . N V ' . V "';"')' -'J : . j-- Law , t v.; . ,-' K t Tul lk sump waters oa a 5400-aer leased land tract. Th brtak is marked, with an X la th. lower center of th picture, at th southwest corner of th tract. Oa Friday, a secondary dike was being erected ia aa effort to (top th water inside an 1100-acr area Immediately adjacent to th break. - Yards Nearer By C. YATES McDANIEL - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 30 (P) American troops, Inching relentlessly forward through the- Jungles of New Georgia,, have moved 200 yards nearer the Munda air base and General Douglas MacArthur to day described their progress as satisfactory and according to plan. The ceaseless pounding of the Munda area by sea and by air, General MacArthur said, has cut the enemy's supplies to the very bone. Bombers have dropped at least 700 tons of explosives on the Munda defenses in the past tour weeks and U. S. warships have poured more than 400 tons ot shells upon that central Solo mons stronghold, which for three weeks has been Isolated from any important reinforcement by land. ., Pillboxes Taken Fourteen Japanese pillboxes were destroyed yesterday by the advancing ' American soldiers and marines, who now are with- 8th and Lincoln tin to Tula Farm Land of th dike break which released f rs too:: a Japs In 1900 yards ot the airdrome. The ground forces carried the entire brunt of the attack. They were in too close contact with the enemy to risk bombing. (A navy spokesman at Admir al William Halsey's headquart ers in the South Pacific said that so far there had been no in dication the enemy was evacu ating Munda as in the final days of the Guadalcanal campaign. The American drive was pushing into more level terrain, he said, but this was not regarded as ne cessarily an advantage.) . : Japs Hemmed Ia . Japanese forces at Bairoko, 10 miles north of Munda, have been hemmed in by Americans -who landed a few miles away at Bice Anchorage July S. The enemy still holds coastal strips west and north of Munda, but their beach- continued on Page Two) Navy Blimp Lost , After Fighi With Submarine By JOHN M. HIQHTOWER ' WASHINGTON, July 30 (VP) A navy blimp was lost at sea recently, the navy reported to day, after, being damaged in an extraordinary fight with a sur faced enemy submarine. It was the first airship ever reported so destroyed. Only one man of the crew. which ordinarily numbers seven enlisted men and four officer- pilots, was lost. What' eventually happened to the submarine the navy did not say,, although if American craft were close enough to rescue the men from the airship they nrob- ably were close enough to at tack the submarine. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE New York .....13 17 0 Pittsburgh 7 12 4 Melton, Feldman (6), Adams (6). and Lombardl: Klinour Gornicki (2), Butcher (9), and i,opez, Baker (4). First game: Boston '.; 0-3 3 Cincinnati ................ 2 . 8 - 0 ' Andrews and Kluttz; ' Riddle and Mueller. Second game: Boston ' ; ; . 3 7. 2 Cincinnati 0 3 0 Barrett and Masl; Starr, Beggs (9) and Lakeman. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit ..................... 2 7 8 Boston '4 8 1 0 Trout and ' Richards; Hugh son, Terry (2), and Conroy. - Pi SUMP WATERS SPREAD OVER 11D0AGRES Attempt to Repair Original Break, Salvage Crop A fleet of bulldozers was working at high speed Friday afternoon to throw up a second ary dike designed to stop the spread of the Tule lake sump waters over rich farm land in the southern part of the Tule lake basin. Temporarily surr endering 1100 acres of the cropped land to the spreading waters, - th flood-fighters were pinning their hopes on the secondary defense line, a 21-mile dike thrown up across the southwest corner of the 5400-acre tract endangered by the flood May Save 4300 Acres ' ' If this dike holds, 4300 acres of land will be definitely saved from the flood. Reclamation oft ficials here -said there it it good chance that this wtH"be aceom plfehed, but the fate of the crops oa the entire tract -was still in the balance. - - -' - "r ' Meanwhile, equipment also wis used in. an attempt to repair tho -original - break, -which oc curred Thursday morning. If this can be also done, it Is planned to pump the water off the 1100 acres and salvage., the grain crop there for feed. .. ' Lower Water. Release of the water over the 1100 acres will lower the water . (Continued on Page Two) Keno Accident : Injuries Fatai To Army Inductee John Douglas Dexter, IB, died early Friday morning ' in' the Klamath Valley hospital from In juries received near Keno Mon day when he was struck by an Klamath's 1 943 automobile driv Auto Toll en by Lee Fields - ' : .. of this city.. 4: Dexter, -who ' had been induct ed into the army on July IS and home on a ten-day furlough, was crossing the road from a stalled car when he saw the Fields car approaching. He tried to run across the highway to beat .the car, according to state police, and at the same time the Fields car swerved to avoid him. He ran into the side ot the automobile and was thrown to the pavement. The young man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dexter of 1410 Martin street. He attend ed Mills grade school and Klam ath Union high school. Before Ihls induction into the army he ftvas employed by Bill Raymond; Gilchrist logger. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Earl Whitlock Fu neral home here. Jap Burma Targets ' Blasted by Allies ; NEW DELHI, July 30 (P American and British bombers and fighter, planes staked suc cessful attacks on Japanese tar gets . in central and western Burma yesterday, ' blasting bridges, railways, factory instal lations and shipping without the loss of a single plane, U. S. and British communiques said today. Bombers of the 10th United States air force wrecked the im portant - bridge over the My river, 23 miles west ot Mandalay, blasting the east and west plans to- the bottom of the river, and severely damaging the center span. . Destruction of this bridge will delay rail traffic between Monywk and towns to the north between- the CWndwin and Ir rawaddy rivers. ' Italian Troops RebelWarning Issued by FDR - ' J - - " uebnecu VI CI, man and Italian trnnnu in nnrtham Toltr ot Aa4kK.U .w... . vu.j Ul, V. VDbOUIJBII". ment by the Germans of guard over five Italian ub marines they found at Flume were reported in messages to Madrid today. A methodical nazi military occupation of the Iatrlaa neninituln nnt tha whnlo TTinA Mmn -t ..... 4-v . - ....w.w. WM.MV tiuu uvm MIO UUU Ui Trieste to the Austrian border wu outlined in advices direct from Rome. The lack of reaction by the Rome radio to the nazi movement into Fiume, Trieste and other Italian points so lone; as Italy remains in the luupciaituu uetween allies. By ROGER GREENE . Associated Press War Editor Italian troops were reported to have mutinied at Milan today for the first time in Italy's bitter crisis over war and . peace, and as the internal struggle -took a graver turn. President Roosevelt again voiced willingness toi treat for an end to hostilities. - . .... ' Simultaneously, Mr. Roosevelt Issued a , virtual ulti matum to neutral nations not to offer asylum to leaders of the axis powers. .- ULTIMATUM ISSUED Commentinaf on rumors that "Mussolini and memhm of his fascist gang may attempt to take refuee in neutral territory," the chief executive The government of the United States would regard the action by a neutral government in affording asylum to axis leaders as inconsistent with the principles for j which the United Nations are fighting. . . . . The United States government .hopes that no neutral government will jiennis us wjmwry xo dc usea as a, piace .or reiuge or otherwise assist such, persons in any effort to escape their -just-deserts,"- ,v..i v .'Ti-: - 1 ;.. -i 'Mr.Hodsevelt said that when the time comes he was willing to treat for peace with-a. king, prime minister or even a mayor of a city--sor long as he is not a member ' of the fascist iarty. ' ; ' BRITISH CABINET MEETS 'i ' ffAs the Italian crisis mounted. Prime Minister Churchill held a sudden post-midnight meeting of the British cab inet st.N6.U0. Downing Street, starting at 1:30 a. ml, amid signs of a major turn in developments. The cabinet met again later in the day, and London speculated on the possibility of Italy's asking peace terms. A. Rome broadcast said the Italian people were "con sidering with great understanding those conditions which' the enemy proposes and is aware of the seriousness of the dilemma." - - UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER The broadcast went on to say that the allied terms of capitulation unconditional surrender "implied for Italy not only the overthrow of the fascist party, already a complished, but also the use of Italian metropolitan ter ritory by the armies of the United Nations in continuation of the war against Germany." Reports of new fighting between German and Itaiian troops in northern Italy came from Madrid, and the riazis were said to have seized five Italian submarines at Fiume. ... : .'-.- TROOPS REFUSE TO FIRE Dispatches from Switzerland, said : Italian troops at Milan had openly refused to obey orders to fire on civil ians who swept through tRe streets by the thousands shouting demands for peace. . ' - . - - - Crowds defied warnings that they would be shot for parading. -.''.. v., yv-... .'.!. ' " Marshal Badoglio was reported to have ousted the Milan military ommanderGeneral Canale, and ordered Gen. Vittorio Ruggero, chief take over the riotous industrial area: '. ' ' . ; FASCISTS ARRESTED y y. At the same time, Transocean, the German propa ganda agency, reported that all members of the outlawed fascist grand council except one had been arrested. -The exception . was not named..- Council members included ex-Premier ' Mussolini and his son-in-law, Count Gale azzp Ciano. ''' ',.''.' .'.?- " . ; ':y.-- .- No immediate announcement was forthcoming on the) British . cabinet meetings. . : . '.-. "NO" ANSWER INDICATED y ; Straws in the wind, however, indicated that the Italian answer'to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's five-point terms for an end to hostilities may have been "No." This was suggested, by the fact that after a virtual lull of several days, allied warplanes renewed the bombing of south, ern Italy. ' ! .-. . ' . : . - A bulletin from Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters said' allied air' forces, led by U.! S.' Flying Fortresses, werel again blasting southern Italian airfields in day and night attacks synchronized with a climatic land drive against the axis bridgehead in Sicily. ' '..'' ' . ' . ' CASABLANCA FORMULA ... At the same times, the Swiss telegraph agency quoted Italian government circles, as declaring that the Roosevelt Churchill speeches this week had not modified the Casa blanca formula of unconditional surrender which Italy could never accept without renouncing the most elemental sense of dignity.". , , , ' The Rome radio also asserted the allied peace terms were, too drastic, and complained that Great Britain was asking for a "Carthaginian peace" a peace that would completely wipe out the defeated. 1 -y - BALKS OCCUPATION . y Marshal Pietro Badoglio, the new premier, was said ..t to be balking particularly against allied occupation of Italy. . . . - : '. ; . '''"", , In London, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told th , house of commons that the British government approved Gen. Eisenhower's offer, but emphasized that the allies still demanded uncemdltianal surrender. - war it was merely peaceful declared formally: ,: . of an Alpinist division, to
