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HONOR Moux Signal! One 0-mlnuto bint en sirens and whistles la the signal lor bUekout In Klamath ralli. Anolhtr long blast, during a black out li ilgnal for all-clear. In trecau tlonery periods, watch your itraat lights. VMS Collaose Threateiis . 'Nazi ALLIES SHOVE NAZIS NORTH; TAKE GAGLIAND Flying Forts Hammer O Messina Escape Hatch By HELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 6 ) U. S. troopi hive plunged for ward two to three miles on the north coastal road to Mcmilnj, and In tho ventral sector of Sic ily havo Mixed Gagllano In a steady rollback of Germans west of Mt. Etna, an allied com munlquo announced today. Tho allied aerial tornado meanwhile reached a new cli max at Flying Fortresses blud- geoned Mesalna, the last big axis escape hatch to tho main land, and air and naval forces continued to blast open the Apath on the north coast. ,,. Steady Progress British ami-Canadtw-trofips In the center smaslied ahead to ward Adrano in "steady pro (Continued on Pago Two) Hershey Talks "Father Draft" In California SACRAMENTO. Aug. 0 (D Deferment of army-oliglble men for work In the airplnno industry Is purely on an emergency and tempornry basis. Major Ccncrnl Lewis B. Hershey, notional di rector of selcctlvo service, said today upon his arrival to discuss California's draft problems with state authorities. Selective service, he said, Is Q"Jutt as jnuch interested in keep ing up airplane production as anybody" but obviously exemp tion from military service can only be regarded as giving the Industry a little moro tlmo to got replacements. BELTON, Mont., Aug. 6 (IP) Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) was Informed today by War Man power Commissioner Puul V. n McNutt thnt selective service would not delay drafting of pro Pearl Harbor fathers beyond Oc tober 1. The senator said McNutt tele graphed him that drafting of pre Pearl Harbor fathers had been under discussion by the WMC, the army, navy and President Roosevelt for many months and that "to fill quotas asked by the army and navy" tho drafting of O these fathers cannot be delayed icyon4 October 1. Tear Gas Crabs Riot of Vancouver 'Pay-Day Drunks' VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 8 (P) Chief of Police John Blakcr said today that "hood lums" and "pay-day drunks" started last night's riot which police finally dispersed with tear gas after three men wore hospitalized and eight Jailed. Ho said the man police be lieved to bo tho ringleader of the violcnco was In custody but no charges had been filed. The man tried to prevent Patrolman Pat Morrow from arresting a Oxoldlcr, he said, and the officer whad . to hit the man over the wrist with a nightstick. ' Fight Police Tho man then agitated action against the police, tho chief aid, and soon cries of "Let's get tho cops" were heard.' Hundreds of persons drinking In beer taverns In the water front district where the trouble MOLLY PITCHER BY BUYING When the Governor Set the Tree Farm Marker. I ) Y 4 i . iA This picture shows Governor pine at caremonias on Creeniprings highway near Ellington's mill Thursday afternoon. Many markers like this one will be placad at points on the Weyerhaausar-Klamath SM.OOO-acre . tree farm, ' ;. '' '--i --""iT. "i"-' Permanent Lumbering Industry Here Predicted at "Tree Farm" Banquet; Snell, Weyerhaeuser, Macartney Speak A picture of n permanent lum ber industry In tho Klamath ba sin, backed by a steady produc tion of raw materials through careful forest practices, was pre sented at Thursday night's ban quet marking the dedication of tho 500,000-acre Weyerhaeuser timber holdings as the nation's biggest certified tree farm. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., ex ecutive Vice president of the big furm, told how research prom ises important new develop ments in greater use of forest products from this and other timber a reus, while R. R. Macart ney, manager of the Weyerhaeu ser operations here, said that started piled into the street. They were joined by soldiers and pedestrians. A mob of ap proximately 1000 persons quick ly gathered. Taunts were shout ed at police and fighting broke out. MP's Called , Military polico called to the scenn had all soldiers back in their barracks within an hour. City police, aided by auxiliary civilian defense police,, deputy sheriffs, state patrolmen and firemen who laid hoses as a threat finally scattered the crowd. - The demonstration broke out again later when a mob of some 600 persons many of them 'teen-age youngsters, some of them shipyard workers, a few drunks and a few women laid sicgo to the police station, - (Continued on Page Two)" ' ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FlVI'ifiio ' IKM'IftM AHVllill'l AilSHKAINfi fo) Earl Snell, left, setting the first "we have planned as carefully as we know how to make ours a permanent wood-using Industry In Klamath Falls." Snell Address ' Their talks preceded an ad dress by Governor Earl Snell de scribing the tree farm dedica tion as a landmark in the stabil ization of the economic life of Oregon and the west. Previous ly, Governor Snell had set a marker besido Grecnsprings highway 15 miles west of town, designating the tree farm where conscrvattion practices have been established to produce tim ber Indefinitely as a crop. . One of the largest local ban quet audiences of recent y.ears filled tho Willard hotel dining room for the significant occa sion, marking the recognition of the first tree form in tho area covered by the Western Pine as sociation. A. J. Voye, president of the association, was the first speaker of the evening, and he told how this and other' tree farms will serve to give perma nence to the western pine in dustry. . . N. S. Rogers, slate forester, outlined tho history of conserva tion practices and legislation in Oregon. Discussing fire "'pre v e n 1 1 o n, he : said ' Klamath county has taken a lead in this activity through its American Legion "stop forest fires" pro gram. Pres-to-log Plant . Vice President Weyerhaeuser of the timber company then gave his address outlining research ac tivities, and revealed publicly for the first time that a Pres-to-log plant is ncarlng completion at the Klamath Falls plant of the Weyerhaeuser firm. Ho do scribed this as a demonstration of the translation ft research ac aw ikj tuc SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND PALLS, OREGON, w .fc tree farm marker in western tivity Into practical methods of giving new kinds. of jobs to citi zens of this community.. . . : Weyerhaeuser- told of the company's establishment ot an elaborate laboratory . at Long view, and said this is "actually an Integral part of our manufac turing operations - at Klamath Falls." Findings of the. depart ment, he said, will no doubt be applied in practical form to the program here. Challenges Criticism The speaker said that there had been some criticism of lum bering as a "backward Industry annihilating the forests with pro digious waste." He challenged this picture, declaring that both private and public agencies are working steadily in creating per manence through tree farms and new products and processes to utilize with "ever-increasing ef ficiency" the wood, grown on those tree farms. "It is not a backward industry that will delay, desired. progress," said Weyerhaeuser. "Rather, the (Continued on Page Two) j m 33 Pie Poisoning Victims Hospitalized in Eugene EUGENE, Aug. 6 ffl Two Eugene hospitals marshalled all facilities today in an attempt to save the lives of 33 persons stricken with food poisoning, which caused the death . of 2-year-old Dale Mitchell, Lor ane, yesterday. Scattered reports from the southern Willamette valley in dicated at least 48 persons were 111 from eating cream-based pies and Dr. C. L. Lindgren, Lane county. health officer,. said WAR SAVINGS STAMPS SATURDAY FRIDAY, AUGUST , 1943 . Bryansk, Kharkov Are New Objectives of Russians LONDON, Aug. 6 VP) Rus sian armies sweeping into the Ukraine reached a point only 25 mile northwest of Kharkov to day , after the fall of Belgorod and Orel in a month' fighting which cost the Germans 100,000 killed, a special Moscow com munique said tonight. By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Aug. 6 W) Ger many"! entire eastern front was threatened with collapse today as the red-army rolled through gaps' made by the capture of Orel and; Belgorod in the first .frsbt, jtaaaian. summer offensive or th war, . . ; The red army' new objec tive appeared to be Bryansk and, Kharkov. Russian ; troops pressing south, from Belgorod were less than 4S miles from Kharkov while in the north the Russian armies pushing through Orel were about 75 miles from Bryansk. . . Salient, Bulges .' The Kharkov salient now bulges out in the German line and the nazi garrison there is in the same position as their cohorts at Orel before they gave up the city. - , Moscow was in a holiday mood for the first time in the war over the twin, victories.' Salute Given . Front line dispatches gave details- of the Russian triumph, which was greeted in Moscow with the first gun salute of the war and an announcement by Premier Joseph Stalin that the victories dispelled "the legend of the Germans that the soviet troops are allegedly unable to , (Continued on Page Two) Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE . Washington 4 8 1 Boston 2 10 1 - Leonard and Giuliani; H. New some, Ryba'(4), Brown (8) and Partee Chicago 0 6 3 Detroit - 6 10 2 - Grove and Tresh; Trout and Richards. . NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia " 3 9 3 New York 4 8 0 Kraus, Kimball (6) and Pad- den, Livingston (8), Flnley (10X Feldman, Sayles (8), Adams (9), Fischer (10) and Mancuso, Lombardl (10). (2nd game) . R. H. E. Philadelphia 7 13 2 New York, 4 9 3 Barrett, Lee (8), and Moore; Chasp, Mungo (6), Allen (7), and Lombardl. . ho expected the number , to in crease, , Dangerously 111 Attendants at the hospitals said they were "too busy to talk" and late reports on the condition of patients were lack ing.- Lindgren said, however, that several were dangerously ill. " " . -Lindgren said the poisoning had .been traced to cultures de veloped in pics made by a Cot . : (Continued on Page Two) n SQVIETSROLL Nl THHDUGH DBEL feffs?, BELCOID MPS tefe5iSi NEA FEATURES Number 9869 o)fn)M Police Seek Albany - Pt. Curt E. Chambers, loft, aad Sot. Earl B. Houston, of. tho Oregon state police, ars shown Inspecting a ladder to a fir es cape of tho Albany. Ore., General hospital, from which the 2-day-old baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Gurney was kidnapped. The child may have bean kidnapped by way of this ladder , lead ing to a sun room adjoining the sleeping at tho time of its disappearance. ; .. Hal Staff In Albany Baby Kidnapping ALBANY, Ore, Aug. 8 (IP) Authorities concentrated their investigation of Judith Gurney's mysterious disappearance ' on members of the Albany General hospital staff today. , ; ... As other leads in the case of the baby, who was missed from her crib in the hospital nursery early Tuesday when she was two days old, faded into . unimport ance, state and local police ques tioned staff members. . Father's Plea W. B. Gurney, the tot's father. added a radio appeal last night to an earlier newspaper appeal issued, by Mrs. Gurney for the child's safe return. "To whomever has the child I want to say this: The. lives of two people depend upon you Women to Sell Molly Pitcher Tags Saturday "Honoring the memory of Molly , Pitcher, heroine of the Revolutionary war,, members of the American Legion auxiliary will sell Molly Pitcher tags Sat urday to buyers of war sayings stamps. ' . Six thousand stamps have been obtained for tag sales and will be sold in Main street booths and in stores as well as along the streets by sunbonnet- ed members of the auxiliary. Merchants will display flags along the street in commemora tion of the heroine of the Bat tle of Monmouth, who took her husband's place firing a cannon after he fell in the battle. Mrs. Pitcher was praised for her bravery by General Wash ington, who appointed her a sergeant in the Continental army. The American Legion and auxiliary are; in charge of this month's bond' quota of $285,000. Mrs. Carl Schubert and Mrs. Fred LaForge are taking charge of the Molly . Pitcher tag day sales. - Mrs. Annabelle Newton and Paul Landry are general co-chairmen of the bond sales. Roosevelt May Meet Churchill LONDON, Aug. 6 (P) Lon don newspapers gave promin ence today to reports from Wash ington ' that Prime Minister Churchill and President Roose velt might meet again soon., . ., The reports were without au thoritative confirmation , or denial.- A person close to Chur chill declined comment. . M uvu Baby Kidnap Clues nursery in which the child was Questioned the life of my baby and that" of my wife, said Gurney, fore man of a plywood mill and head of a local union. ' "Won't you please leave the baby in a safe place so that it may be returned to us?" . Instruction Told " Dr. "Lew Hurd, Albany "physi cian . who delivered . the . baby Sunday, broadcast detailed in structions to the kidnaper On the care of the child. Condition of grief -stricken Mrs. Gurney still was not favorable, he said. She was near complete collapse im mediately after being told Judith had disappeared. Detectives at - Portland, 75 miles north - of here, said they placed little importance in the report of a druggist that he sold infant feeding formula Tuesday night to a woman who carried a little baby in her arms. He said she asked his- advice - about a formula, usually recommended by a doctor. ' " '- " - Officers here have long since discarded the theory that Judith (Continued on Page Two) - - Laval to Discuss Guerrilla Activity LONDON, Aug. 6 (JP) The Algiers radio said today Pierre Laval, chief of the Vichy gov ernment, would go . to Berlin next week to discuss measures for the control of French guer rilla activity against the .Ger mans.' The broadcast: was rec orded by Thtf-Associated Press.:. .. -Oft- 'sL Tslephoto Italian Unrest Renewed as : Badoglio Stalls on Peace By FRANK BRUTTO BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 8 (IP) Failure of the new Italian gov ernment' to give any outward signs that it is seeking peace re newed the unrest of the Italian people today an unrest accen tuated by news of the fall of Ca tania, Orel and Belgorod. The Milan correspondent of the Zurich Die Tat reported that yesterday's cabinet session had aroused tremendous interest among the Italian people, "all of whom expected Premier Badog lio to report on the dramatic sit uation in Italy and its wish for peace." i ' Talking Peace ; "Everyone is talking of peace these decisive hours and the pos sibility of reestablishing Italy's honor," the correspondent wrote. He added that the allied con quests of ' Orel and Catania '.'caused an enormous sensation. llil,liiM,Mlffli!i1i,ii ilifflailiMil - - Aagnst I HJfh 00, Law tl - -- Precipitation aa of July 30, 114 " Stream yaw to data . -um , t t Last rr .... .... U.17 Normal 13.13' CAPITULATION PERILS NIPS AT Encircled Garrison Quits; 1671 , of Enemy Kijled By wlLLIAM T. BCS1 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 8 VP) American ground troops completed the occupation of Munda today, Just 32 days aft er a beachhead was secured on New Georgia island and five) weeks after U. S. invasion force landed on the neighboring isU and of Rendova, June 30. A special communique lssueol tonight from General Dougla MacArthur's headquarters gave) few details of the final assaults) which crushed the enemy's stub born but hopeless stand. . ; : ; . Jap. Doad But preliminary , announce ment that 1871 Japanese dead al ready had been counted testU fied to the bitterness of the strug gle for the 4000-foot long aii drome and protecting fortifica tiorts built by the Japanese since) they occupied New Georgia one) year ago. Since that time Mundsv ' -had become .the-oore of Japanese) defenses in the central Solomons; The bulletin proclaiming that "Munda" is now in our hands' and that ; "enemy resistance hag ceased" was foreshadowed thig morning by the official assertion that the Japanese garrison at Munda had been completely en circled. .- - . - v":' - , ;' Ring Objective Yankee forces ringed the. be leaguered objective after break : (Continued on Page Two) ' Rescuers' Search ; Flood Debris For Victims : SUTTON. W. Va., Aug. 6 W) Rescuers searched today in the debris of a flood known to haver claimed at least 15 lives for tho bodies of six other persons be-' lieved to have perished, as sur vivors told of harrowing escape from the lapping: waters ot death., : -'- The property toll, in battered . houses, broken bridges and other devastation rose above) $2,000,000 as the Little - Kan awha river, swollen yesterday in central West Virginia to the greatest height in its history by raging mountain streams, left a thick layer of muck over the; scene. ' r . -i : -. Eleven bodies were recovered, within a 20-mile radius of Sut ton, seat of agricultural Brax-' ton county, while five members of a family were swept away by the angry-current of Island' creek and a mother and child lost their lives in Tenners creek -near Gilmer on the Calhoun county line.. . . . . : The people asked , each othef "How can, Badoglio still hesi.' tate?" : ' , . . The cabinet, however, gave no)' sigh. that Badoglio was seeking, peace. The announced result of the long session was the enact , ment of a series of measures con- tinuing the destruction of the fas cist party structure, heads of ad ministering the country's penal code, abolishing racial laws and instituting severe controls of the press for the duration of the war. '''.'' - "Royal Decree ' - A royal decree was published proclaiming the formal dissolu tioh of the fascist party grand council, the chamber of corpora tions, and other branches of the party. The decree ordered the re moval of all fascist signs and in signia. The decree also ruled that all property of the fascist (Continued on Pajr Two) BAIRQKQ
