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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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THHDUGH DBEL feffs?,
BELCOID MPS tefe5iSi
NEA FEATURES
Number 9869
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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
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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.
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- - 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
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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
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