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Newspaper Page Text1 alb !El!llipi!M On S-mlnute blast on sirens and whlillti U th signal for bliclcout In Klamath Falls. Anolhir long bint, during black out li ilgnil for ell-clr. In traeau tlonary periods, watch your slrt llghti. Auguat I High II, Low 81 Precipitation aa of July SI, 1143 ' Strains yaar to data 17.15 Lait yaar 13.17 . Normal ..... 12.26 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES rjxnfinAnnnni,niinr-Y'iri-i"-ii-i-r " ----------------"" PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1943 . Number 9872 (fa la rsnim A II Vlltll'l A.UHHPlAIUI mm nil IB By FRANK JENKINS (. TTHEHE'S another of those lull) In tho nowi today. Plenty of shooting, of course, but moat of It In tho SAME placoi nolhliiu NEW and thrill ingly significant. npllE Itomo rutllo suys: "The ounlliitf of Mussolini was a POLITICAL event and from the military standpoint ENHANCED tho Italian will to resist." Oil adds: "The expectation that Ilnly would desert Germany at this critical moment of the war and trade her national honor as an csrapo from fighting la an IN SULT." THAT pretty well tells the story. Italy would LIKE to quit, but Germany won't let her. Slnco Badngllo and little Victor Emanuel are a fro Id to fight the Germans, they're honeying up to them. yHE Russians are pounding steadily westward, and seem to have Kharkov within their grasp. They had Kharkov at the start, ..j ln.t ii in ihm first bis? Ger man push and won It back and mi Qoi nt 11 again. Th. fiohtln In Russia has been and still Is like tho fighting in Africa In the early years of the war. It's forward and back. One side stages a big push and sweeps everything before It. and then the other side does the some thing. So far, the net ground gain Is In Germany's favor. WATCH the fighting In Russia. " Tho Russians may be start ing this time what Montgomery started last fall at El Alamctn. That Is to say, they may bo slnrt Ing to push the Germans clear out of Russia as our sido has pushed them clear out of Africa. That would be BIG news. WE'RE well on the way toward " smicczlnff the Germans out of Sicily. At the samo time, tho OR ncrmans have dug wcmseivcs in In nnrlhMrn Ttnlv n fttrnndv that blasting them out will Be a real Job. Our rosy dream of few days ago that we'd sweep clear up to tho Brenner pass with hardly any fighting at nil Is fad ing. DUT tho Germans are gripped by fear. Thcro can bo no denying that. They know thov eon't WIN the war. .Their only real hope Is to win an easier peace. That's what they'll be fighting for from here on. Some of them are beginning to reflect that they'd have been bet ter off it they hadn't gono to war. Our remaining job Is to mnke them EVERLASTINGLY SURE of that. CP ON WHITEHEAD, AP cor respondent In Sicily, tolls a moving story of the plight of tho common, everyday PEOPLE in blasted Troina, which we've Just taken after a bombardment that left tho town In ruins. He says: "I walked through a passage way into the basement of a thick (Continued on Page Two) South Pacific Jap Strongholds Bombed by Allies ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.l 0 Allied bombers ranged the whole length of the south- west Pacific battle area yostcr- Qtla.y. dropping 224 tons of bombs on four Japanese strongholds . Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko and Am bolna. There was no attempt at Inter ception by enemy planes. The heavlcSt bombloads were released on Salamaua and Vila, presumably tho next major ob jective of a two-pronged thrust . (Continued on Page Two) Mm Churchill Arrives In Canada; Will Confer with FDR QUEBEC, Canada, Aug. 10 (P) Prime Minister Churchill haa urrlved In Canada and expects to hold shortly his sixth confer ence with President Roosevelt. Tho prime minister's arrival was announced here late today and shortly afterward Mr. Roosevelt told his press-radio confer ence In Washington he expected to confer with the prime minis ter and that conferences would be held between American and British military staffs. No Russians Mr. Roosevelt said there would bo no Russian participation Russians Recapture Khotinets, 30 Hamlets . LONDON. Aug. 10 (P) Rus sian forcca captured Khotinets, a district center and railway sta tion 43 miles east of Bryansk, and 30 other hamlots today, Mos cow announced tonight.. . In the Kharkovtlrtve the-Ted army advanced S to 7 miles, cap turing moro than 70 populated places Including Llptsl, 12 miles northeast of Kharkov. Storm Town Moving up on Sumy an ob jective In the general drive tow ard Kiev, tho Russians stormed into Bolshoi Doblik, 14 miles southeast of Sumy, a special communique said. By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Aug. 10 (P The fast rolling soviet offensive mounted speed today as Russian troops surpassed the western most point reached during last winter's campaign and ham mered forward along a wide front reaching to within 12 miles of Kharkov. Near KharkoT While one column was within 12 miles of Kharkov on the north another was 30 miles west of the city, a third was 20 miles away and a fourth was driving south after crossing the western bank of tho northern Donets and was within 23 miles of the big Ukrainian center. Among tho Important towns seized In the Kharkov sector (Continued on Page Two) Sailors Held After Riots in Seattle, Oakland OAKLAND, Calif., Aug.'lO (VP) More than 400 police city, mill tary and shore patrolmen broke up a riot at a negro dance in the municipal auditorium early to day, eventually quelling the dis turbance after backing up their orders with a showing of mach Ine guns and tear gas. There were about 7500 no groes at the dance. Every avail' ablo policeman in the city was ordered out on the second of two riot calls. 1 . SEATTLE, Aug. 10 (fl) Some 700 persons rioted in the uptown business district last night when a shore patrol chief petty offi cer attempted to arrest a sailor for appearing in Dubllc with his sleeves rolled up and carrying a liquor bottle. City police, responding to the riot call with naval shore pa trolmen, cornered the sailor after a two-block pursuit, which was Impeded by the crowd, and booked him after members of the crowd attempted to free him from a patrol wagon and pur sued It to the Jail with threats to storm the Jail if the sailor was not released. They leered the officers when the sailor, booked as Alfred De Angeles, 31, held up his man acled hands and yelled "This is what I get for joining the serv fmk in the new conferences, although he said this did not mean that he would not be awfully glad to have the Russians present. This was in response to a question whether Russia would bo repre sented. The chief executive told re porters he had Just received a telephone message from Prune Minister . MscKenzle King .of Canada, announcing Mr.- Churchill's-arrlvat-Jn Canada,' with members of his staff. . To See Churchill ' r The president then said the reporters could assume that he would probably see the prime minister and also there would be a staff meeting. The time and place and 'other details foi thU joint meeting will have to com later, the president said. - Asked about-continuing re ports that the United "Nations should open a second front In Europe and whether it was not a third front that remains to be opened, the president smiled and told his questioner that he talked like a columnist. He added that the reporter never had been a columnist and let it go at that. Coincide With Victoria Mr. Churchill's , arrival In Quebec coincided with United Nations' victories in the Mediter ranean, Russia and the South Pacific. He was accompanied by a top flight array of his military ad visers. Ho will consult with President Roosevelt after a scr (Continucd on Page Two) Ludwigshaven Splattered by RAF Heavies LONDON, Aug. 10 (P) Big formations of the RAF's heavy bombers blasted Mannheim and Ludwigshaven last night- while speedy Mosqultos attacked, tar gets In the industrial Ruhr val ley, the air ministry announced today, - Nine bombers were lost dur ing the night's operations, in the course of which RAF fight ers attacked enemy airfields and railways In France and the low countries, shooting down two enemy aircraft, a communi que said, . . Large fires were reported set (Continued on Page Two) General "Peace Strike" Agitation Continues in Italy; Weight of Arms Bends Badoglio Will to Aid Germans BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 10 (A) Agitation to bring about a nation-wide general strike In Italy and force the Badoglio government to make peace with the allies continued today as troops patrolled strike-ridden in dustrial areas in the north. Use of troops was reported by the Swiss telegraphic agency in dispatches from the Swiss bor der town of Chiasso, which said the strikes intensified In volume following heavy RAF raids, on Genoa, Turin and Milan Satur day night. Military Intervention Military intervention succeed ed in halting the walkouts in Genoa, the dispatches said, and work was resumed on "regular schedules," German troops sta tioned in the area helped ex tinguish fires which followed the raid, the Gazetta del Popolo was quoted as saying, . Tho renewed air raids, how ever, spurred strike activities as well as - underground politi m Captain Greets Sweetheart swii '"".. ' ' V LI ! Chlckia-naw-ne. ChUoquin's Jack's sweetheart contest was greeted by the beautiful plumagad captain upon bis return to Klamath Falls from another bond telling campaign in the northern part of tbe state. Little blond Chicki waa almost oTercomo by her sudden leap into lame and temptly tererted to shyness while Captain Jack, not tM least abashed, pranced and ruffled his feathers before the camera. The caatest m a feature of th SotoptlmM BJW w bona drt4 in July.- V"-. , - ir--'-(r ' :-v:.- - Premiere of "This Is The Army" to Come to Klamaih "This Is The Army," will come to Klamath Fall August 18 aa a "regular Hollywood premiere," according to Marshall Cornett, chairman of the committee work ing in '' cooperation with the ninth service command, the western defense command and officers of the army emergency relief fund. Search lights and loud speak er will enliven the street in front of the Pelican theatre on the opening night, and a Camp White band and color guard will add military flavoa, Cornett said. ' Committ Mamd Working on a committee un der Cornett are Mayor John H. Houston, Mrs. Frank Weaver, Malcolm Epley and Glen Hout. Cooperating with them are Ma jor Paul Walters, Lt. Kenneth A. Luckey and Lt. H. Leon Vil linger, representatives of Brig. General Amos Thomas, com manding general, Camp White; and Sgt. Angus Newton, former ly of Klamath Falls and now with the ninth service command at Portland. The number of tickets for the August 18 opening of Irving Ber lin' "This Is The Army," is lim ited and Cornett urged that all persons secure their tickets as soon as they go on sale at the cal opposition to the govern ment, whose failure to respond to peace demands has raised public resentment to .. new heights, reports stated. No Choice A Rome dispatch to the Trib une de Geneve, however, said that Italy has "no choice" but to stay in the war, and that if Italy succeeds with German aid in. hoisting allied troops, for a time, "events could take place which would offer unspecified possibilities for Italy to get out of the present situation." (The Berlin correspondent of the Madrid paper Informaclones said an announcement would be forthcoming that Italy will con tinue in- the war -with "still more active military help from Germany than ever before.") Struggle for Lif Meanwhile the sobering effect of axis reverses on the German population was reflected in an editorial in" the Frankfurter Zeltung, . copies of which have i oiifr Steady '- t- winner entry in tho Captain , 1 Pelican theatre box office Thurs day morning. - 1 For Relief Fund The "This Is The Army" open ing is part of a tremendous west ern campaign for the relief fund which administers aid to needy families of men in the service. It is opening simultaneously, in a score of cities, on the . Pacific coast. A technicolor film, "This Is The Army," includes the orig inal cast of soldier-actors who made show business history on (Continued on Page Two) Local Married Men Included in Next Draft List A number of local married men in category 3, that is, men without children born prior to September 15, 1942, are includ ed in the. selective service draft list for this month, it was an nounced this week from the local draft boards. A large percentage of Sep tember's lists will be made up of married men, who will be called rapidly from now on. Selective service officials here said that they had no idea when (Continued on Page Two) reached here. The editorial, spread over the front page, said Germany now is engaged in a "struggle of life, and death" in the east against a "merciless op ponent" and declared this situ at Ion has created a "heavy crisis" which always comes jn a great war and requires "every German to do his duty." In addition to problems raised by allied bombings and the wid ening of the Russian offensive, the Frankfurter Zeitung editor ial said. Germany also has to cope with the concern over an allied invasion and the . dimin ishing of Italy as a military fac tor, Drastic rearrangement of axis military strength in France and the Balkans has also be come necessary, it was intimat ed. V '. MADRID, Aug. 10 () Dis patches of Spanish correspon dents in Berlin to Madrid's morning newspapers today mir rored expressions of German of MILS BATTER PATH Land Forces Progress rAll Along Front (' . In Sicily By RELMAN MORIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 10 (JP) Allied ground forces made progress everywhere along the front in Sicily, allied headquar ters announced today, as heavy warship- unit rained torrents of shell on the enemy ex posed coastal positions. Announcing that American doughboys captured 1300 Ger man- prisoners in landing be hind: the line near Cape Or lando Sunday night feat which resulted in the fall of the enemy's northern coastal anchor positions at San Fratello ' and San Agata a naval communi que said heavy U. S. warships continued to batter a. way for U"seventh army. Shy, Read. Railway- 1 . ' British destroyer, shelled the coastal road and railway at Ri poste, north of Aclreale and nine miles south of Taormina on the east coast, after blasting at sim ilar targets at Taormina. ' The progress of the troops, spearing toward the Messina tip, was officially described as "slow and steady" with the enemy re sorting to "every device to hold up the relentless ' advance of our forces." Difficult Position However; the. Germans' post sition "daily becomes more dif ficult," the communique said, despite heavy demolitions, rug ged country and lack of roads which interfered with swift al lied movement. .The British eighth army was described as making consider able progress in "closing around Mt. Etna," advancing up the coastal shelf between that giant landmark and the sea, and push ing on beyond Bronte on the road west of the mountain to ward Randazzo. The British were reported less than seven miles from Randazzo, communi (Contlnued on Page Two) Food-Poison Victims In "Good Condition" EUGENE, Aug. 10 (P The 33 persons remaining hospital ized in Lane county's food poisoning case which has al ready caused two deaths, were in "good condition" in two local hospitals today, according to re ports from Various attending physicians. ficial confidence that Italy would continue in the war with the help of German reinforce ments and that Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio had abandoned hope of peace with the allies. "The weight of German arms, said the Arriba corre spondent in Berlin,; "has out weighed the mistaken will of home quarters inclined to cede to enemy pressure." Optimism Spreads Although there still was no communiquo concerning the re ported conference between Ger man Foreig'n Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Baron Raf- faele Guariglia, foreign minis ter in the Badoglio cabinet, Spanish correspondents reached the same conclusion, based on what nazis told them and "opti mism" which they reported luyl spread inrougn omciai aeriin. In the two weeks since Mus solini's fall, according to Italian reports, the Germans have , (Continued olft Page Two) SEVENTH To Run Sicily Former Yale Law, Professor Wesley SturgwUl take ovr as lb U. S. state department's economic program director in Sicily a soon as th island aur- renders. Resolution Drawn Up . Asking Fencing Of Canal A recommendation by the city planning commission for the post-war establishment of a city nark on tho - west end of town between- Main street- and Lake Ewauna, was approved by the city - council' Monday night. The proposed park . would start at Link river bridge and extend up Main street as far as possible, preferably to the court house. The project, according to City Engineer E. A. Thomas, would greatly beautify the west entrance to Klamath Falls, and the land is not good for much of anything else. It was thought that the city would not have a great deal of difficulty in securing ownership of the property, either by out right purchase or by trading lots with the present owners. E. A. Thomas was asked by the council to have a list of ownerships completed by next week and also the estimated cost of the property trade lots. It was agreed that the planning commission and park board con tinue their study of park plans and make a further report at a later date. - Canal Problem The canal problem was brought up at Monday night's (Continued on Page Two) Scant Beer Supply in City Despite Closure Although beer dispensaries are for the most part observing the Thursday closing rules, beer is getting scarcer and scarcer, ac cording to local distributors. In a beverage bulletin put out by distilling industries in Cali fornia, reasons for the shortage were explained. The beer drouth is in effect all over the country. Increased demand, WPB's 7 per cent - reduction of malt, and shortages of corn' and other brew ers' grains, were given as some of the reasons for the shortage. Also the War Food Admin istration is expected to issue an order, at the request of the army, requiring breweries to set aside from 13 to 20 per cent of their production of 3.2 per cent beer or beer of lighter alcoholic con tent for the armed forces. Price ceiling violations are also bothering the OPA, who are ex pected to close down places that have been selling beer over the ceiling prices of March, : 1942. The price, in most cases, is 13 cents a bottle for western beer and consumers are asked to re port any price violations to their offices. . , . . .. . Baseball - AMERICAN LEAGUE ; R. H. ; E New York ........... 2 11 : 0 St. Louis 10 13 ; 0 B o r o w y, Breuer (3) and Dickey, Sears (6); Galehous and Hayes, ' ' . STEALING CHARGE FILED QN ARMYWiFE Police Atte m pt to Unravel Weird ' Story ALBANY. Or . An 1ft im.' Baby Judith Gurney is back In ner moiners arms, and police be gan today an attempt to unravel the weird tory of the kidnap ing from a hospital nursery Aug ust 3. While Mrs. Catherlna WrlsM 26, jailed on a child stealing; cnarge, slept late in her cell. District Attorney Harlow Weln rick beffan autinnlntf hr h,u. band, Sgt. Jesse Wright, a sol dier stationed at nearby Cams Adair. - - i Sergeant Fooled . ' The sergeant told police soon after hi arrest last night that he was fooled by his wife' story that she had borne tho baby August 4, and accepted it as his own. He was unable to explain his wife's actions, the district ttor- ney said. Wright said she was) at Pearl Harbor when the Jap anese attacked on December 7, 1941, and suffered head injuries' He did not describe the injury. Baby In Oood Health An examination of the baby showed she . was . In excellent hetrrmrand obvfbftsly had been, given good care. . - Sergeant Wright professed to. Weinrick that he was bewilder- ed by his wife's actions. Spur of Moment . "But I don't believe she plan ned to steal the Gurney baby it was done on the spur of the me ment, I'm sure," he said. He said he was completely) taken in" by her deception. From the moment she told him she was expecting a baby mora than nine months ago, he said, she played the role of expectant mother perfectly. She Simula t ed all- the physical characteris tics of a pregnant woman. Hid duties at Camp Adair kept him away from home for long pe riods. Pearl Harbor Injury Asked about her Pearl Han bor injury, the soldier said ho (Continued on Page Two) . August 37 f o See Opening of City Scnoofs ; , Definite opening day for ele mentary schools and the high, school has been set at August. 31, according to Arnold Gralapp, superintendent of city schools. The decision was made at a joint meeting of the school boards) Monday night . . On August 30, teachers front all over the county will meet in the Klamath Union auditorium, where a representative from the state department of education will outline the' policy of thj state department. In the after noon, teachers will meet with' their respective principals at the) various schools. School buses will begin run nlng regularly on Tuesday, Gra lapp announced, and a detailed schedule for Tuesday will be re leased later. . LeRoy Erdmann was named supervisor of vocational educa tion, replacing AI Fitch, who was recently appointed super visor of vocational education for the state. Edmund Attebury, for the past two years an instructor in tha Salem public schools, was ap pointed principal of Pelican) school. He will have charge of boys' athletics in addition to bis) administrative duties. Attebury Is a graduate of Eastern Oregon (Continued on Page Two) TO RECOGNIZE FRENCH ALGIERS, Aug. 10 W) Th) United States and Britain wer reported tonight to have agreed to recognize the French com mittee of national liberation a the De Facto government and trustee of French Interests over seas until Gen. Henri Glraud't armies land Jn Francj.