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General Potions Americans ire driving toward Messina along the northern coast of the island, and MAY GET TIIERE FIRST. Allied warships are reported in complete command of the Mes swine strait, which they seem to Ohm cleared of mines. ' Thit end of Gormas-tesistance In Sicily Is near.. TN the German high command's ' plans, Sicily has probably been only a delaying operation from the first. They're preparing to . make their Italian stand in the Po valleywhere, Stockholm re ports today, they now have at ' least 270,000 troops. pon us, Sicily will be a step- ' ping stone. We'll convert it into a base, from which to GO ELSEWHERE. The plain of Catania, with its existing air fields and its possibilities for more, will be the heart of the base.' WHEREWHERE we'll go from Sicily depend on what hap. 3pens in Italy. Remember that we're moving toward COMPLETE control of the Mediterranean. Crete still stands In our way. Watch Crete. nREL lies at the point of a deep wedge driven by the Germans in 1041 to within 200 miles of Moscow. Orel fell to them in October of that year. t They've hung onto it over since. It is well supplied with rail . roads and highways andis a na tural jumping-off point for an attack on Moscowwhich has been the German objective in Russia from the beginning. With Orel gone, the German dream of, taking Moscow is gone also. , QPECULATION centers now on ' where the RUSSIANS will eirstrike next. Always in the past, we've speculated instinctively on where the GERMANS would strike next. The change is a significant one. MADRID, which has been a f a ir ly dependable news source since the Italian trouble started, offers a now sidelight today. Bitter, according to Italians ar riving in Spain, sent Goering to Rome last week, lo find out why Mussolini had been tossed out and to demand that he be sent to Germany for safe keeping. This request is said to have been politely but firmly refused by Victor Emanuel. 1.1VOTE that Italians getting out 111"' of the trouble zone seem to be' going in large numbers to Spainat least those who 'can got air transportation, Why? One explanation is that Its farthest from Germany. WHAT will happen in Italy is vy still anybody's guess. But what everybody WANTS in Italy .(Continued on Pogo Two) STATE POLICE STYMIED IN KIDNAP CASE Public Aid Asked; Portland Lead Seems Best ALBANY, Aug. 5 (P)Ore gon state police invited the public into the Judith Gurney kidnaping case toduy with a request for any scrap of infer million that might lead to the tiny girl's return. , Admitting that investigation has failed to bring them any closer to a solution than when the tot was abducted from her crib at Albany general hospital early Tuesday at the age of two days. state officers asked that any tips be telephoned im mediately to headquarters here. Maybe Valuable "Even though information may appear trivial, it may turn out to be a valuable lead," said Officer Curtis Chambers. Police still sought a young woman who entered a Portland drug store with a baby in her arms 7uesdity night and bought an infant's feeding formula of which she apparently had lit tle knowledge. Nearest Lead Sgt. Earl Houston Indicated this was the nearest thing to a tangible lead in the case thus far but reported no progress despite the combined efforts of state and Portland officers. Employes of the drug store said the woman, accompanied by a soldier, bought a nursing bottle and nipple before asking advice on what formula to buy. Doctors ordinarily specify a formula for mothers. The sol dier, reported one clerk, stood (Continued on Page Two) German Troop Trains in Sweden To Be Halted STOCKHOLM, Aug. 5 UP) Transportation of German troops across Sweden to and from Nor way will be halted August 20 find the movement of nazi war materials will be discontinued August 15, a Swedish communi que announced today. The action had been expected here lor weeks while Sweden carefully brought her military preparedness to its highest state of efficiency since the war be gan.. It was estimated that Sweden has close to 400,000 men under arms. The importance of the mili tary traffic was revealed recent ly by the Swedish press, which said 250,000 German soldiers had moved annually between Germany and Norway via Sweden. Flash Flood Drowns Nine In Central West Virginia SUTTON, W. Va., Aug. 5 -VP) Nine persons were drowned and at least seven others were miss. ing today in a raging flash flood that swept through cen tral West Virginia, trapping many persons in their homes as they slept. State Police Sgt. L. L. Waugh reported that the bodies of Mrs. Lydia Queen, 38, and three of her children, Martin 12, Rob. art 10, and Alma, one year old, had been recovered from turgid O'Brien Fork creek at Heaters, 10 miles from Sutton. Carried Away Two other Queen children, Phyllis 8 and Peggy 2, had not been accounted for, and author. Ore, Bellgorrod Prom Governor Earl Snell. in Klameth Tails Thursday to officiate at the western pine tree farm dedication. is shown at Commando headquarters which he inspected. Captain Bende Widmann of the Commandos is pouring a cup of coffee for the distinguished guest. while Lt. Madill Ards. rey and Lt. Mabel Soderatrom of th,SerninalfdrInek en. 1 CAPTURE OF las SneII LlarksWeyerhaeuser,' . AT MUNDA EXPECTED Holdings in lamath as Nation's. 1 us Top Tree Farm , Jap, American Troops Battle at Fringe ' Of Airstrip By C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 5 (iP)United States in fantrymen fought at close grips today with Japanese on the south fringe of the Munda airfield op posite its center after breaking through a long, covered trench. The battle for possession of the New Georgia island air strip, which long since has ceased to serve Japanese planes but which (Continued on Page Two) RAF Mosquitos Sting Rhineland In Night Raid LONDON, Aug. 5 (IP) Swift RA!' Mosquito bombers attacked objectives in the Ruhr and Rhineland last night in a re . newal of assaults on German in dustry, it was announced today. The British planes made the night attacks without loss, it was announced. British naval aircraft also at tacked a flotilla of eight Ger. man "Eboats" off Calais during the night and sank three and seriously damaged a fourth, the air ministry news service an nounced today. Although the British planes encountered sharp anti-aircraft fire all returned safely, the an nouncement said. ities figured they also had been carried away. in the swirling torrents that followed the sud den storm. Waugh said he was informed by telephone that five bodies had been recovered at Copen, 20 miles from Sutton, but they were not officially identified. Town Inundated Waugh reported that Burns ville, a Braxton county town of 851 inhabitants, was "entire ly under water" and that hard ly a single house had escaped Inundation.. No deaths were re ported' there. The entire 10 miles of Balti more and -Ohio railroad. track (Continued on Ono Two) Governor Visits Commando Service 4, .r 1' ''' With appropriate ceremonies, the first marker.designating the Weyerhaeuser -Timber holdings here as the nation's No. 1 tree farm, was placed beside Green. springs highway today by Gov ernor Earl Snell... , -, - Commenting on his principal mission here, Governor Snell-remarked that "Oregon leads the nation" in a complete forestry program including fire preven lion, orderly cutting, sustained yield, tree planting, and the utilization of the waste for by products of lumber. Public and civic officials were present at the brief roadside ceremonies, symbolic of conser vation practices established throughout the 506,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser holdings here. The marker stands in the midst of vigorous young pine growth, with a mature ponderosa pine In the background. It was the first of many to be placed at strategic spots on the tree farm. Governor Snell was confront Retroactive Pay Increases Get Recommendation A recommendation made by Referee R. M. Steiner of the war labor board that Weyerhaeuser Timber company employes get a retroactive pay increase of 76 cents dated back to September, 1942, reached the local offices, of the International Woodwork era of America, CIO, today. Details affecting all the opera tions affiliated with the IWA CH) were not given, but in some cases t was learned that the re troactilie date extends back far ther than September. Pelican Bay employes working a split shift were recommended a 3 cent per hour increase above the night shift differential. Fur ther details were expected when copies of the recommendation were received by the local office. Earlier in the week, a direc tive was issued by the West Coast Lumber commission grant ing women employes of box fac tories the same wage scale as that for men. Formerly there was a 26 cent per hour differen Mills affected by the directive w ere Weyerhaeuser, Pelican Bay, Lamm Lumber, Kesterson, Ewauna, the McCloud Lumber company, Chiloquin Lumber company, Shevlin-Hixon Lumber company, Brooks-Scanlon, Ocho co Lumber company,.and Tight.' not Pine mills. , , Ir Room ed with a busy program this morning when he came in on the overnight train from Salem. In addition to the marker ceremon ies in , the afternoon,. he was scheduled as principal speaker at the tree farm banquet to be held at the Willard hotel this evening at 6:30 o'clock. Others on the banqueV.pro gram are A. J. Voye, president of the Western Pine association, N. S. Rogers, state forester; J. r. Weyerhaeuser, executive vice president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company; R. R. Macart ney, general manager of the WtCo operations here. Mayor John Houston will. introduce Governor Snell, whose topic will be 'What Tree Farming Means to Oregon." President Vern Owens of the chamber 'of , com merce will preside. First Certified The Weyerhaeuser farm Is the first to be certified in the West ern Pine association area, and the largest in the country-. A tree farm is an area -devoted to forest products production, pro tected against fire, insects,-disease and over-grazing, with the , (Continued on Page Two) Wesley D. Mc Nee Succeeds Don Drury . At Kalpine Plant , , Wesley D. McNee, present manager of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber company, Inc., will as sume managership of the Kat pine Plywood company on Au gust 15, it was announced Thurs day. " At Kalpine, McNee succeeds Dow Drury, who has gone to Mexico City to take over an in dustrial post. McNee came here in Fberuary, 1942, from Spo kane, where he was sales man ager for the White Pine Sash company. R. C. Hastings, office manager of the Smith Lumber company. will take temporary charge when McNee leaves. , Hastings previously was with the Algoma Lumber company. What No WASHINGTON,'Aug. 5 (R)--- Secretary of War Stimson deft nitely doesn't look like Hedy Lamers and as a result, he said today, provided a major disap pointment to at least some troops on his recent tour of bat tle fronts. He told a praaa coop , 1Plarkavv- 26.1.7 base ardy - - rest. , it st It this bs on the re ns. In do vanon nn .13 I; ; et it k A DI rib yr' Nazis KEY BASTIONS TOPPLE UNDER HUSS HAMMER Kharkov Endangered By Loss of Two Towns LONDON, Aug. 5 (R) Red armies crumpling the German lines in south-central Russia have captured Orel and Be Igo rod, 165 miles to the south, Moscow announced tonight in I special communique. Seizure of Orel ended Ger man possession of a prize de fense base the nazis had held for nearly two years, and the capture of Belgorod -found the Russians again holding another key railway city from - which they. had been ousted by the Germans last March. , - Endangers Kharkov Belgorod's fall- also endan gered the German garrison at Xtiaritov,,.., the bit 'z Wanda base only Ali milup to ike'rutb . , - 'Me seeps Of - thg- Russian drive suggested a geberal offen sive throughout south-central Hi HENRY C. -CASSIDY. MOSCOW.- Aug., .5 - (iP);The battle for the stronghold of Orel reached - its blazingcilinal day with the red .armyfighting Its way through the streets of the city to complete the recon quest of its firsts- major -objective of 1943, and signs Of clan - (Continued on Page Two) . Plane -Crash , "' Kills Eleven-- At NuBleber , BIEBER,. Calif., Aug. 5 Killing at " least- IL. and pet hapa 12 men,.. a four-motored army plane crashed into. an open field onemili west of Nu litebee shortly before midnight Wednesday.' : ' - The wreckage burned fierceb . and bodies were found scattered over an acre. Eye witnesses said the plane flew -low -over Kul:tim ber from the northeast before it struck in a fielc; close to Big Val- ley Mountain. - , Deputy. Coroner James Ryan of Lassen county notified the Sacramento army air depot of the accident.. Lassen County Sheriff Olin Johnson guarded the wreck pending the expected arrival of army authorities.' Parts of the plane were strewn along a mile of Big Valley soil. , r Oa L:19 Els Sweeps rivri pI rm A I maga, mit. round (EyBAsTioNs Iv" myna Base Italian Situatian Still Unsettled as Government Meet Stirs , By The Associated Press The Rome radio broadcast a royal decree yesterday (Thurs day) formalising the dissolution of the faiclit party. the grand fascist council and other fascist organisations. , The decree also ordered the suppression of the use of the word fascist in connection with government institutions and -offices. s LONDON, Aug. 5 (4) The Swiss.radio -reported that all Hedy Lamarr? , ference that "when ,I dismount ed, from my airplane in New foinidland, I saw a number -of young second lieutenants on the field, whose faces fell. On inquiry I found there had been arumor that Hcdy,Lamarr was coming on thatiVituo.". ' tiiitne." ' 1 company. correspondent in Bern i (Continued on Pagit Two) . i 0 h.1.?.1.;:..A:.01.itili,-:',,::!-. .$.60.0.).P1.4'..6.0iiO.,:.. ..... Mia:.::Et..0q..."P..apa.' ; By DANIEL De LUCE , ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, 'Aug 5 (AP)British eighth army troops seized Catania early today and swept around the base of Mt. Etna to the north. we capturing Paterno, 10 miles away, to crumble the German line on the east coast of Sicily, headquarters , Catania fell to the eighth army at 8:80 a., m. (2:30 a. m.; EWT) today, after a bitter defense since July 15, and the British pounded ahead in a lightning advance clockwise around the base of Mt. Etna. ' , ' ' -' HEART BROKEN The heart of -the German army corps appears be be broken. - aterno is 10 miles northwest of Catania, and it was assumed that Misterbianco, three miles northwest of Ca. tania, also had been engulfed. German withdrawal of non-essential personnel from Sicily has been in progress for the last five or six days, it was learned authoritatively. - MT. ETNA LINE BLAST The German defense road around Mt. Etna was blast. ed apart by the British successes today and the next Ger. man line was expected to run from Taormina across the bortheaatern tip of the island to the seacoast on the mirth. , east behind San rratello, which already is menaced by: S. seventh army troops. ; - - This would mean abandonment of the- whole Mt. Etnai area by the axis. ' I , - CLEANUP -EXPECTED ' - The east coast stretch of road between Catania anct Taormina was expected-to be cleaned up by the eighth, army with great speed. ---'- , , The .dait'nf -thek enemy's resistaies In Veil), wera greatly shortened, but there is a, pomibility that a faig hare- of the Geyrnan, and Italian forces might be -with. - drawn",,InT email boats afrois-ther tweofirdhpwide Meashlit Strait. - ." n : - - - n'n ESCAPE POSSIBLE - Regardless of allied naval patrols and the continua hammering by allied war planea, small vessels can slip , across pas narrow chime' with !II , a some - success by avoiding Dead 17 reit-'- ular harbors and using beaches. I : Oho - , The whole German left flank p based on the heights of Mt. Etna I honed From was In grave danger from the goo ' British succesi achieved after oream-gasea Pio i terrific and incessant combat - , , e since: the giant allied offensive .2 EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 5 (iP).A. on the entire Sicilian front- be- child died today-and 17 persons gan on Sunday. - were brought to hospitals here - Lino Break s ' sufferhte from ., what Dr C. L. Pressed back from the wiet- - em edge of the Catania plain Lindgren. Lane MIMI health olh and smothered under a furious, flee; , told was poisoning trete ' massed artillery barrage that eating cream-based pies. i continued day and night, the Lindgren said the pies were Gertnan line around bomb and distributed by a bakery at Cot. fire-scarred Catania broke early tage Grove, some 20 miles south today. Catania was taken despite of here, but he had not deter. strong enemy resistance, a ape mined whether the poisoning- re. cut communique mid. - suited from the handling of the ' The allied advance continued P!ea bk- the bakery or by PF. all along the front, headquarters chasers. - lie id it lik tht th said, as American, Canadian and sa was ely a ee cases of poisordng wotdd be T. British troops drove - the Ger. ported later from many sectieee mancback toward their last es- of southern Lane county, paid.. cape port of Messina, 55 Miles north of Catania, and tremendous aerial and sea blows were ham- mered some in support of - the great drive- ' ' ' '. .2, , ' Shell Taormina Road . -. t British warships rained shells upon the Taormina road , and railway midway between Cabin- ia and Messina yesterday, giving that exposed communication cen- ter what was believed to be its heaviest bombardment yet 1 American cruisers and destroy- , (Continued on Page ,Two l- t members of the old fascist grand council ,except Gene Angelo Ros si, Giuseppe Astianini and two others attended a meeting of Pre mier Badoglio's Italian cabinet 1 The radio did not say 'what 'des cisions, if any, were reached at the meeting. , , ' - , ; By FRANK BRIITTO - -BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 8 (IP) Announcement that the , Italian government would meet today to examine "important measures" again stirred the hopes of the Italian people that steps would be taken to remove them from , the war.. . (Associated Press dispatches from London said the British looked for the meeting to bring an answer to the ItaliarfpeoPle's cries- for peace end Germany's demands that Italy stay in the war.) - , Ii (A 'National Broadcasting company correspondent in Born Lug. arly, the -tars !:30 15. ince I; to - , was Ca. 'rom lays, last! Ger. the -,rth I by Etna anti ghth, were fail( with, mine ) ularly in inclustaial conmturdties - . William Bartle, Lane county - -- district attorney, said he would :.. . open an imrestimition ' immedi. - - ately and Lindgren. , warned against carelessness in, using on. refrigerated or exposed foods during warm weather. , ' -!- Dale Mitchell, two-year . old son of Alr. and Mrs. James Mitch. - ell, Lorane, is dead. Several , members of his family were. hospitals ,, . - .... ... . .- ,. --, - , Family - groups dominated -- those, being treated. at boanitals - Peace Hopa reported the Italian Foreign - Minister Raffaele Guariglia had drafted peace proposals contain. .ing among other conditions that no, allied troops come into thd country, except for control nue. poses and that the peninsula be "enutralized." Guariglia's pros Posal was said to be up for coot sideration at today's cabinet meeting.) Signs Scribbled ' I A Swiss correspondent In Ian said an air of desperation had settled on the Italian people and signs Were scribbled on walls( - at night reading: ,, ' t "Death to Badoglio and the King." , - - "We want Peace and Work." 1 "The Germans Must Get Out of Italy." . Cardinal Maglione, papal moo retary of state, meanwhile con, yoked an extracedinary session of the 16 cardinals now in Rome for the apparent purpose. said , (Continued on Polito Two) . , , , , , , , . , ,
