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MHpil!lli!l!PIIIIIIlll!lSW On S-mlnute blast en sirens and whistles li the signal lor blickout In Klamath Falls. Anolhar long bint, during a black tut, U a signal for all-clear. In V "cau tionary parlodi. watch your ilraat llghti. August 10 High tl. Lew SB ' Pracipitatioa a of Aug. 4. 1943 Stream year to data '. i......l?.H Lai! yaar ....13.17 . Normal , 12.37 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENT8 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1943 Number 9873 El wm - 'j : I 1 .",r t ri m fin Jl mm KB i iiMiB nil J i 1 1!S 1,1. Ll'al U.lLVk II If I J J ill :h ih iiiiH'ilpiiiiiih'lHliii'illlllll iPi Ililljlilijijill'Wlli ! II 1 I By FRANK JENKINS "HUltCIULL, with a Iiii-kc stuff of his experts, arrives In 1 Canada, whero lie is conferring today with Prlmo Minister King. Later, ho expects to meet FDH. Thero's much (or them to tulk , over and plan (or, and you mny ' bo quito suro Hint whut to do about Ituly will bo Included among the subjects they'll dis cuss. You must have noted that we're proceeding very cautiously there, with tho censorship clonk lug all the moves, ft There's a lot In connection "with the Itallwu sltunllun thnt doesn't meet the outside cyo, but of course Is known to our leaders. "NLY harm could come of Up- ping off to the enemy what our diplomat are doing. Any Inkling of whaf Is In the wind would help the Germans In or ganizing diplomatic counter moves or bringing military! pressures to bear on the Italians. TilE nussians will not be x represented at the Churchill-J r uu conference, puiiuukii r in says today hod bo "awfully glad" to have them in on It. The (act that Stalin hasn't been represented at any of tho Ilrttlvh-Amertcan war confor fVnces doesn't mean necessarily lhat lie disagrees with ua as tq. present conduct of -tmr-war. li s mora likely to mean that he's playing a strictly lono hand In Europe, so as to hava no com mitments when the war ends. , IN Sicily, we're still fighting hard to circle Mount Etna, thus cutting the defending Ger mans south of the mountain and along the north coast of the Is land In two. Tho slrugglo cen ters on Ronduzzo, an important communications point due north of Etna. Tho British havo pushed up tho east coast to Guardia, only 40 miles south of Messina. Tho retiring Germans are sowing mines and dynumitlng roads. Harold V. Boylo, AP corres pondent In Sicily, says thcy'ro trying to move troops ana ncuvy o quipment OUT of Sicily across io strait of Messina, under cover of heavy guns on the Ital ian mainland. Today's dis patches report four more axis ships sunk in the strait, indicat ing that we're hitting their evacuation fleet with everything we have. QN the fourth anniversary of Gocrlng's boast that "not a slnglo enemy bomb" would over full on Germany, tho British drop 1300 tons of bombs on Nuern berg, an important railroad and Industrial center only 75 miles short of Berlin (Berlin Is 600 miles airline from Britain.) They lose 10 bombers, Indicating that - quite a forco was used. As to Gocrlng's boast, the Brit ish announco with a touch of biting satire that since tho war -.began . they've dropped 136,100 QoNS of bombs on Germany. It Isn't Improbable that Gucrlng really believed It when ho mado his boast four years ago. A lot has happened since then. CWISS reports indicate that German reinforcements go ing to northern Italy have been passing through Nuernberg, giv ing us a cluo as to why It was chosen for last night's pasting. Interfering with tho movement of enemy reinforcements is ono of war's prlmo objectives. The Swiss add today that movement of German troops Into Italy has boon heavy, and ap parently tho tlmo needed to strengthen the Gorman lines on tho Italian side of tho Brenner pass has been gained. . VRITISH warships bombed Italian shipyards In the bay of Naples, moving in close to their targets at night and show ering shells on them. At the same tlmo, other allied naval units shell railroad bridges at Cape Vatlcano, on the north sido of tho too of tho Italian boot, where ono of Italy's two main i (Continued on Page Two) U. S. NOOSE TIGHTENS ON BIOKO JAPS Last Enemy Outpost On New Georgia Encircled By WILLIAM HIPPLE U. 8. HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Aug. 11 (V) United States army and marine forces today completed the encirclement of the Jap anese In the Balroko area and uro now tightening their squeeze on that last outpost of enemy resistance on New Goorgia island. Encirclement was effected when tho American right flank reached Balroko river at a point two miles southeast of the Balr oko harbor, and Joined ad vanced patrols of marine and soldiers which have been op erating in the north In the Enogai inlet area. Small Chance A spokesman for Admiral William Halscy Jr., commander of South Pacific forces, in re porting tho plncer movement, said the enemy's only chance of escape was to attempt a night withdrawal In small boats to nearby Kolombangara island. (Today's communique from General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific- headquarters also reported that our right flank had reached the same point tin the Balroko river and had linked up with U. S. ad vanced patrols. The term, "en circlement," was not used, how ever, in the communique). Flanks Advance A navy spokesman said two army flanks advancing north from newly-captured Munda air field were meeting soma Jap anese resistance, but that It was being overcome. Although it is only eight miles as the crow flics from Munda to Balroko, he said the (Continued on Page Two) Middleweights Rake Burma Japs Near Mandaiay NEW DELHI, Aug. 11 P B-23 medium bombers of the U. S. 10th air force raked Jap anese targets in Burma from the Arkan coast to Mandalay yes terday, blasting installations at Akyab and Pyawbwo and de stroying enemy transport on the Irrawaddy river, a communique announced today. Eighteen tons of bombs were dropped on Akyab in one of the heaviest concentrations of the Burma campaign. North of the main jetty, military buildings were flattened whilo direct hits caused a scries of explosions in what was probably an ammuni tion dump, the announcement said. Troop barracks at Pyawbwe were reported smashed and a direct hit demolished other large buildings In tho target area. Using the newly-developed (Continued on Page Two) Long Kiska Silence May Be Prelude to Invasion By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 OP) Prolonged silence on American activity in tho North Pacific raised new speculation today over ' tho Imminence of an In vasion of Japanese-held Kiska island. No Information Usually well-niCormcd quart ers hero profess' to bo without Information on the fighting in the Aleutians since then, and clto ' the weather as a possible explanation for the, apparent In activity. In the past fog and storm have mado aerial opera tions Impossible for several days at a time but except in mid winter have not caused a halt of as much as 12 days. One explanation discussed un officially is that the American commanders in tho Aleutians havo been gathering their forces for a final campaign to reconquer Dalles-California Highway Boosters This picture shews Band and Klamath Falls highway boosters, who mat at Gilchrist Tuesday and discussed plans for promoting post-war construction, especially on The Dallas-California highway. Left ts righti Lea Jacobs and Tom Watters. Klamath Falls; Judge Ralph Hamilton, Band) Earl Reynolds, Klamath Falls Frank Gilchrist Gilchrist genial host to the two groupsi. Tom Brooks, Bendi Ed Bell, Klamath Fills) Don Peoples, Robert W. Sawyer and William Niskannen, Bendi J. V. Owens, Klamath Falls. The picture was taktn on the park-like grounds adjoining the artificial lake on the Little Deschutes river. . , , , BABY THEFT PROBED; Government Asked for . Background of Army Wife ' ALBANY, Ore., An.-1 WP) Authorities released Jesse Wright, Camp Adair sergeant, in the baby Judith Gurney kidnap ing case today while awaiting federal information on the back ground of his wife, Catherine, ac cused of abducting the Infant from a hospital nursery last week, Wright said he would stand by his 26-year-old wife, who was charged with child-stealing and held In the Linn county Jail in lieu of $5000 bail. In Tough Spot "She sure put mo in a tough spot but I'm not going to run out on her," Wright, who had been detained as a material wit ness, told reporters. He returned to his commanding officer at the nearby cantonment. Edward Sox, Albany, appoint ed by Justice of the Peace Victor Oliver as Mrs. Wright's attor ney, said her arraignment prob ably would be resumed tomor row afternoon. . He said prelimi nary hearing probably would be waived, thus directing the case immediately to the Linn county grand jury. Oliver ordered the arralgn (Continued on Page Two) . First Public Land Hearing Held EUGENE, Aug. 11 IP) A sub committee of the -congressional public lands committee held the first of a' series of hearings scheduled for western Oregon here today, regarding the dis posal of 400,000 acres of O. and C. vescstment lands. ' Another hearing is scheduled to be held at Salem tomorrow. Kiska. Another is that any op erations which might now be in progress preliminary to such, a campaign arc not being disclosed for strategical reasons. Japs Quiet, Too ' Whatever Tokyo finds out about its beleaguered garrison, therefore, must come from Kiska itself and the Jnpancso there might be having trouble furnish ing adequate reports. Their communications equipment, like all their other Installations, must havo taken a heavy beating in sea and air assaults. Reconquest of the island has been a subject of speculation ever since the Japanese occupied it early in June 1042. The pros pects of an amphibious attack were greatly heightened after American troops took Attu in May. That gave them a baso of operations west of Kiska bal- . (Continued on fyge Five) - TtujK Mir " 1 Bend, Klamath Promoters to For Dalles-California Route Bend and Klamath highway promoters will pool their efforts in behalf of extensive post-war construction on The Dalles-California highway from Weed, Calif., to the Columbia river, it was tentatively-.agreed at-. a meeting of representatives trf the two communities held at Gil christ Tuesday. The conferee, representing chambers of commerce of the two cities, held an all-afternoon discussion of all phases of com mon highway interests, with The Dalles-California getting the ma jor attention. : Warm Springs Route . Bend spokesmen also empha sized the importance of the Warm Springs cut-off from Madras to Bear Springs on the Bernard Perkins Home, Awarded Purple Heart Continuing to fight for 12 hours after he was wounded won for Private Bernard B. Perkins the award of the Purple Heart. Private Perkins Is now .visiting his mother, Mrs. Ruby Cole of 131 Pay no street Perkins was, wounded at Medzel-el-Bab In Tunisia - April 23 of this year. Previously, he had been reported missing in action, then word came through that he had been wounded. Ho is homo now for 21 days, visiting his mother, and will re port back to Winter General hospital In Topeka, Kan., Au gust 25. A reunion of the fam ily will be held Sunday. Berlin School System Moved Out of City j STOCKHOLM, Aug. 11 (Pi German dispatches said today that Berlin's entire school sys tem is being moved to undis closed points in Brandenburg, East Prussia and Warthegau be fore the capital becomes "an other Hamburg." The dispatches said the city's president announced that all .in struction has stopped, although the children still have not yet been removed. City-wide digging of silt trenches, construction of new air raid shelters, reinforcement of old ones and the building of water reservoirs, started two weeks ago, were reported con tinuing. '. i Gas Truck Crashes Near The Dalles THE DALLES, Aug. 11. W A loaded gasoline truck and trailer crashed at 2 o'clock this morning on a curve near Bear Springs, on the Waplnltia high way, bursting into flames. The driver, Robert A. Wilson of Co lumbia City, was killed. Ser geant Charles A. U'Ren of the state police investigated the ac cident from here,- at Gilchrist Falls Road Pool Efforts Wapinitia highway as a major feeder into The Dalles-Califor nia and a project of benefit to Klamath Falls as well as Bend, While it appeared unlikely Klamath would place the Warm So-incy- In its master nroaram which. JS more local in character, warm support was expected from this community in behalf of the Warm Springs Job. The Bend people claimed that Warm Springs should be even more important as a cross-mountain route than the Willamette highway. They said the dis tance from Klamath Falls to Portland will be approximately the same by both Warm Springs and the Willamette, but that the former, route will provide a savings of from a half hour to an hour because it will avoid the congested Willamette valley road system. The Bend spokesmen said that only $500,000 will be needed to finish the Warm Springs con struction. Important Jobs Klamath representatives indi cated their intention of making The Dalles-California highway development the No. l project on the Klamath master program. Important jobs on that road will include the relocation from Dia mond lake junction to Chiloquin Junction, avoiding Sun mountain grade, and re-alignment in the section along Upper Klamath lake north of the recent reloca tion to the foot of Algoma hill. Bend will press for develop ment on The Dalles-California road's northern stretches. Graat Possibilities Spokesmen for both towns foresaw great possibilities in building traffic over The Dalles California from Weed to the Co lumbia river, over a proposed (Continued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R H Pittsburgh l" 4 3 Philadelphia 2 8 0 Sewell and Baker; Rowe and Moore. (Second game) R. H. E. Pittsburgh 0 6 2 Philadelphia 2 6 0 Gornicki,' Butcher (8), and Lo pez; Barrett and Moore. R. H. E. Chicago 3 ' 6 1 Boston : 0 9 2 Bithorn and McCullough; To bin and Masi. R. H. E. St. Louis 2 i 10 1 New York 3 8 0 Lanier, Krist (8). and W. Coop er; Fischer, Adams (9), and Lom bard!. , R. H. E. Cincinnati 2,7 0 Brooklyn, 5 7 1 Starr, Beggs (7), and Mueller; Wyatt and Bragan. AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E. New York 1 10 St. Louis 9 16 1 Russo, Turner (5), and Dickey, Sears (6); Sundra and Hayes.- Prim e M in is te rs Talk Allied Stabi At Axis, Strategy By DOUGLAS CORNELL ' QUEBEC, Aug. 11 W) Within the ancient battlements of an obsolete fortress, the prime ministers of Britain and Canada sur veyed today the heartening successes of allied stabs at the axis and the strategy needed to expand them into assaults designed to attain a total victory.- The conferences between Winston Churchill of Britain and W. L. MacKenzie King of Canada and their chiefs of staff were a prelude to later discussions between Churchill and President Roosevelt and British-American military experts. Churchill went to the Chateau Frontenac this morning to at tend a meeting or the war com- mittee of the Canadian cabinet. presided over by the Canadian prime minister. - , Staffs Meet At the same time an official statement said: "The Canadian chiefs of staff are meeting the British chiefs of staff through out the day." The rotund, ever-spectacular Churchill again bad surmounted the dangers of a wartime cross- QUEBEC. Ana. 11 W-Presi dent Roosevelt Is coming te Que bec for -conferences with Prime Minister Winston Churchill at a time not yet disclosed. It was learned here today. ing of the Atlantic for war tejks which appeared certain to be translated into more bad 'news for enemy forces already reel ing back on worldwide battle fronts. He arrived in. Quebec late yesterday and drove to the cita del towering over this historic old walled city. There,, in the fortress which is a -relic of the days when the French ruled a goodly segment of North Ameri ca, he and MacKenzie King be gan their " deliberations last night . Discuss Situation Cautiously ; an official state ment from Churchill's office said that "during- the evening the two prime ministers dis cussed the international situa tion and plans for Mr. Church- ilrs stay", as the guest of . the dominion. Naturally, there could be no announcement which would dis close to the axis as well as the United Nations the trend of the (Continued on Page Two) Stewart Addition Fire Razes Home, Threatens Grain Fire yesterday afternoon completely- destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Miller in Stewart addition on the Round Lake road. Cause of the fire was not known. No other dam age was done, although the fire for a time threatened surround ing grain fields belonging to the Holliday dairy. A caterpillar belonging to the Klamath Forest Protective as sociation was sent out to the fire, but the house was destroyed before it arrived. No one was in the house when the fire started. Mrs. Miller and her five children were visiting a sister at the time. Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller are employed by Weyerhaeuser Timber company.- The house, a four-room frame, building, was insured . .' Roosevelt Sure Candidate for Fourth Term Race, Says Stockman Here on Tour Franklin D. Roosevelt Is an in evitable candidate for a fourth term race, it' was stated here Wednesday by Congressman Lowell Stockman, In town on a grass roots tour of his district before returning to Washington in September. . ; "The president's every action points to his political aspira tions," said Stockman. "If any body doubted it, they must have known when he took it upon himself to personally announce in a radio address the removal of the ration on coffee.. War or No War "I agree with just about every body ' in Washington . that Mr. Roosevelt will run again, war or no war, in 1944." Stockman said he believes the "right man" could defeat Roose velt, but he named no names of likely candidates H suggested E Nazi Radio Notes Third Russian ' Offensive . LONDON, Aug: 11 JP) A spe cial soviet communique an nounced tonight that red army forces sweeping west of the Ger man base at Kharkov had cap tured Kovyagi and the railway station at vodyananyl, respec tively 32 and 41 miles -west of Kharkov, cutting the railway ine to Poltava. . -. Other Russian forces who al ready have Kharkov almost en veloped,' advanced from nine. to 12 miles and captured 90 popu lated pieces, including the town of Akntirka, 67 miles northwest of Kharkov. ' . Farther, north Russian troops, already more, than half-way to Bryansk from Orel, smashed on front three to six miles today, occupied 70 populated places in cluding Taskova, Alexeyevka, 11 miles east of Karachev, and five other -large towns. By HENRY C. CASSIDY " ' MOSCOW. Aug. 11 (ff)The red army is rolling on uncheck ed in its twin drives toward the Ukranian city of Kharkov and Bryansk to the north, capturing village after village and. inflict ing heavy losses on the retreat ing Germans,, the Russians de clared -today. .. . (The . German radio persisted in its report that the Russians have launched a third major of fensive on the central ' front east of Smolensk and are driv ing on that important nazi (Continued on Page Two) Fire on Mt. Sexton Now Under Control GRANTS PASS, Aug. 11 (F) Fire jumped both the old and new highway Nos. 99 north of here Tuesday: night -and raced toward the top of Mt. - Sexton before being brought under con trol this morning by a state fire crew and loggers about a mile from the Mt. . Sexton weather station. ' . ; . The blaze,' of undetermined origin, destroyed the W. E. Nash home at the foot of Mt. Sexton and set fire to surrounding dry fields. ... the possibility that a' dark horse might come into the picture as a formidable candidate. ' The congressman, who is trav eling over .the entire district to make himself available to voters who -wish to talk to him,, said he finds widespread criticism of the administration's domestic policies. The OPA is particular ly under fire front the citizenry, he stated. On the other hand, Stockman said, there is general approval of the manner in which the war effort is being handled. Opposes Japs The Oregon congressman said he is personally opposed to the policies being carried out in con nection with- the Japanese in this country, permitting those who are theoretically "loyal" to leave relocation centers and mix with the population, i "I don't subscribe to the the ory-that anybody can tell a good WHIPS SOCK n ii i nwi nnn in I h HI Hi DM II h IN Ull I I I II II UU III BAY OF NAPLES Guardia Captured in Seven-Mile Push Up Coast By DANIEL De LUCE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 11 (ff) The British eighth army in Sic ily advanced to within sight of the Italian mainland while BriU ish warships bombarded Italian shipyards in the Bay of Naples, 130 miles south of Rome, and other mainland military targets, allied headquarters announced today. British forces advanced sevea miles along the east coast of Sic ily under the shadow of Mt, Etna to capture the town ot Guardia, 16 miles south of Taor mina and 40 miles from Messina. ' the bulletin announced. British Tommies on the east slopes of Mt. Etna thus gained their first view of the Italian mainland. " .' Battered Monday " :r" The Inshore bombardment of the construction and repair yards at Sastellammare at the southern -edge of the Bay of Naples took puce Monday night, with Brit ish destroyers and cruisers mov ing in close to the target to pour round after round into the varda -' which. TOle-jcapable of handling" ships tip- to 500 feet In length. : At the same time other unit -of the fleet attacked Cape Vati- ibuo ua ujb uisiep ox me iiauan boot about 25 . miles north ' of San Giovanni where the main ' Italian railroad lines operate ' . (Continued on Page Two) Tons of Bombs Splattered on Nazi Rail Center LONDON, Aug. 11 (JPi Brit ish bombers dropped more than 15Q0 tons of bombs (more than 1680 American tons) last night oh Neurnberg, important railway and industrial center in southern Germany and a nazi party rally ing point, the air ministry an nounced today. ' At the same time, the ministry of economic warfare explained the RAF bomber command was switching its offensive to at tacking industries turning out finished products, now that the Ruhr's heavy industry was crip pled seriously. Sixteen bombers were lost In the raid, the second successive , night attack on Germany, a com- . munique said. Three enemy fighters were reported shot down. ' Ironically it was just four years ago today that Reichj marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goe ring boasted to the German pub lic that not a single enemy bomb would be permitted to fall upon Germany. Nuernberg had been raided six times previously, the last time on March 8. It Is 523 miles from Britain by airline and Just 75 miles short of Berlin. Jao from a bad one." he said. "I am against permitting Jap anese to serve In the army. I am against permitting any of them to be loose anywhere in the United States so long as we are at war against Japan." Grass Roots Tour Stockman will be here until Friday. He is staying at the Hall hotel. "I am touring the entire dis trict," said the congressman. "I think it is just as important for me to come home and make my self available to the citizens of the district who may want to ex press their opinions to me, as it is for me to give service in Washington." Stockman added that it was great to be back in the "east of the mountains" Oregon country, and he had nothing favorable to say about Washington weather in- tho summer tlmo. f -
