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iPlIIIIPflflPlg (ThllltirtiflilllllliiBiWIIifciitliiiiiiliill ; On S-mtnute blast on sirens and whistles It the signal lor a blackout In Klamath ralli. Another lona blest, during a black out Is a ilgnal for all-cUar. In wtciu llonarv periods, witch your liraat lights. August 11 High 14. Low 11 Precipitation a of Aug. I, IMS Stream year to dat ,....1T.I Last rar 13.17 Normal .. H.lt ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 1943 Number 9874 fo) M A M1 Ml is Ul far? A ft Ms Pound wfm i 1 111 Pll Bf FRANK JENKINS A REUTERS (British news scrv " Ice) dispatch todny says tlio Germans are definitely GET , TING OUT of Sicily. They hav0 a fleet of BO vessels ply Ine across dho Messina strait day and nliihl jndcr an umbrella of anti-air- crsft fire that Is reported to bo growing steadily In Intensity. WE'VE heard quite a lot about "umbrellas" , of air power. This is the first time an um brella of anti-aircraft fire has en tered prominently Into the news. Its purpose, of course. Is to FIGHT OFF our planes which otherwise would hash up the German retirement across the two-mile strait. If the Germans HAD ENOUGH PLANES, they'd use planes Instead. The implication Is that they haven't enough. PRESUMABLY the fighting In Sicily has served Its purpose so far as the Germans are con- Crerned that Is, It has given them kme enough to occupy and fort ify the Po valley, which includes about two-thirds- of, .July' In-' dustrlal resources. 'THE Russians aro reported to day In the outskirts of Khar kov, which they seem to have practically encircled. One of their columns coming up from the south has cut the Kharkov Poltava railroad, which is the last important communications line serving the much-fought-over city. It's well to keep In mind that Kharkov, after having been de vastated repeatedly by both sides, Is relatively unimportant In itself. The big question Is how much strength tho Russians have and how far back they'll be able to drive tho Germans. The Germans mention again today heavy fighting in the ltinolensk area, which tho Rus sians hove kept quiet about. If there's heavy fighting at Smolensk, It seems that tho bat tle front has been vastly ex tended. If tho Russians arc do llberatcly EXTENDING tho bat tle line, It's a sign (hey hnvo con fidence In their reserve strength. TN Sicily, Incidentally, our Americans have mudo another water-flanking attack, landing BEHIND tho Germans agnln. This tlmo they lacked tho clo I ment of surprise but got ashore under the covering fire of war ships and tho bombing of pianos and established their beach head. They learned that trick from the Japs, who used It repeatedly in thoir campaign against Slnga "' pore. G'HERE'S a lot of censorship mumbo-jumbo today about WHERE Churchill and FDR are to meet for thoir sixth personal conference It's quite unimport ant. Barring treason and sabo tage oh an altogether unexpect ed scale, they'll got together. CTALIN won't be present. So far as anyone has even hinted, the soviet government, (which Is Stalin) will not bo personally represented In any way. But we are told that Stalin is conferring in Moscow todny with the American and British am bassadors, It Is added that he will be furnished with complete and detailed accounts of the Churchill-FDR conferences, and will SEND his comments. A' Is still significant that Stalin has NEVER been represented at ANY of these Churchill-Roosevelt confabs. It Isn't lack of transport that prevents it, for In these days of world-circling planes that would he easy. It isn't that he lacks the men. He could certainly spare a few (Continued on Page Nino) " ".' Resigns Army Post ... i(i i mm iiiaaik! ai t ni'i iwpi. t:: fT&n,,'; ' V. V I ;. '.. if.il k ' fea tit -,... V mJ mm Brig. Ctn. Robert Wood Johnson (above), chairman of smaller war plants corporation, announced in Washington ha had resigned from tha army and would become "champion of civilian economy." FORTS RIDE SUN TO HIT RHINE Synthetic Oil Plants Struck; 25 Ships Lost LONDON, Aug. 12 (P) Amer ican Flying Fortresses attacked Gclscnkirchen, Wcsscling and Bonn In Germany's Rhineland today and U. S. army air force headquarters said 25 of the big four-cngincd bombers were lost in tho three-way daylight as sault. The bombers shot down more than 20 enemy fighters, a com munique said, and escorting Thunderbolts and Spitfires knocked down three others. Oil Plants Hit "Largo formations" of Flying Fortresses attacked synthetic oil factories at Gclscnkirchen and Wcsscling and struck at other In dustrial targets at Bonn, said the bulletin, issued jointly by (Continued on Page Two) LSW Wins Election At Willow Ranch In an election held yesterday at Willow Ranch, Calif., Crane Creek Lumber company em ployes cast 134 ballots, giving 89 votes to tho Lumber and Sawmill Workers, AFL, and 43 no union. Two votes were chal lenged. A run-oft election will be scheduled somo tlmo this month at the Lovncss Logging com pany In Canby. In an election Tuesday, 12 men voted for LSW- AFL, 24 men International Woodworkers of America, CIO, and 29 votes no union. Two votes were challenged. Father Draft May Be Slowed WMC Announcement Slated for Sunday WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (P) Action which may retard and minimize tho drafting of fathers is expected to be announced Sunday by war manpower com-mlssion-sclcctivo service offic ials. Tho lino to bo lakon probably will bo aimed at adapting draft operations to tho manpower problem by giving draft-ellglblo men an Inducement to shift into vital war production work. It was described as about the ulti mate WMC move short of a gen eral labor-draft. Proposes Removal But even as this was develop ing, Senator Davis (R-Pa.) pro posed that congress remove se Gat s D YIN ASK HIGHER PRICE ON BUTTERFAT Disposal of Milk Cows Threatened Unless Raise Granted Unless buttcrfat prices here can bo raised from 83 cents to SI a pound by the time dairy men start feeding operations about 30 days hence, an orderly disposal of milk cows through out the Klamath milk shed can be expected, it was brought out at a meeting of dairymen and distributors held at tha chamber of commerce offices Wednesday night. - - Deciding on II a pound as a price on which they can "squeeze by," the dairymen voted to work with distributors in an attempt to get OPA to raise the price ceiling. The proposed butterfat increase would mean a boost of about 2 cents quart in the re tail price of milk, it is under stood. Business Difficulties Numerous dairymen reported at tha meeting they cannot stay in business at present prices, view of the cost of labor anc feeding. The situation, it was brought out. Is particularly bad In cases where dairymen must hire help. Those with, a-few cows, who do all the work with the help available in their own families, are "getting by" bet ter than larger producers. Cut Herds It was Indicated that unless relief is obtained, some of the larger operators will start cut ting 4helr herds to a size where the work can be done within their families. . Others definitely declared their Intention of get ting out of the milk producing business entirely. Dairymen pointed out that (Continued on Page Two) Local Lieutenant Escapes Injury In Plane Crash Crashes in the San Francisco Bay area cost the army two fighter planes yesterday, but the pilots escaped serious in jury. Second Lt. James E. Barlow, 25, of Klamath Falls, piled up in a field 200 yards from the Bayshore highway near San Mateo. Barlow is the son of Edward Barlow, 707 South Sixth street. He Is now station' cd at Hamilton -field, Calif., and just returned there Tuesday after visiting in Klamath Falls. Barlow attended Oregon State college for two years, where he majored in civil engineering. Ho worked for Weyerhaeuser Timber company before enter ing tho army. The other pilot. Second Lt. John R. Weldon, 21, crashed on Tubbs Island, five miles north' cast of his Hamilton field base He was from Lindsay, Calif. lective service from the "domi nation" of the WMC and specif ically bar induction of fathers until all other eligible men are taken by the armed forces. There Is, he said, no military need for drafting family heads. The forthcoming action was said to bo embraced In now draft regulations: Broaden List 1 Broadening tho "non-deferable" list so holders of certain jobs in specified activities would be subject to call first, regardless of how many children they have, unless their induction would mean "extreme hardship and privation" to dependents. 2 Granting supr-eliglbllity of tiimkm Turkish Bath, Rubdown, Too Cleanliness Is next to god liness, At least that was the opin ion of two Indian squaws who happened to be spending the night at the city jail. They decided to take ad vantage of the comforts and conveniences offered by the city and get clean at the same time. Fully clothed, they turned on the shower full blast and covered the water trap with an old cardboard box. The police discovered them standing in water which covered the floor six inches deep, sans clothing, trying to dry off. Trustee! were still mop ping water this morning while police were considering their complaint ' that the creeks are still too cold on the reservation. New Assistant Will Hold Regulations . itjQ Minimum -v nvm a atia-mr i 'WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 Food Administrator Marvin Jonea has called in a one-time associate . in congress, former Rep.-William L. Nelson (D-Mo.), to help rebuild the wartime food program along lines which would,' Nelson said,- give "the folks, back : home more to say about what's to be done." The Missourian, who was one of the democrats swept, out of office by the farm belt uprising at last fall's election, has been named special assistant to Jones. He will serve as the connecting link between the food admin istrator and the state and local agricultural war boards. Agriculture Committeeman Nelson, whose home is at Co lumbia, served nine terms in the house, and for many years was a member of the agriculture com mittees headed by Jones. The new assistant told an In terviewer that it was his and Jones' intention to "give the folks back home greater respon sibility in running future farm programs. "Regulations issued from Washington," he said, "will be held to the very minimum." Decentralisation Nelson said the decision tj de centralize the food program re- (Continued on Page Two) Rogers Named OPA Assistant Manager WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 0P) James G. Rogers was appoint ed assistant general manager of the office of price administra tion today and James F. King was named deputy administrator in charge of information. . The appointments were an nounced by Chester Bowles, OPA's general manager. by New for occupational deferment to certain jobs and to certain in dustries engaged in direct pro duction of jjar jods and ma chines'. ' Have Incentive ' ' Thus, draft-age men would have an incentive to get out of non-deferrable jobs to avoid speedy induction. Although this would not alter plans for drafting fathers, it might slow up the drafting of fathers in this way: Fathers now in .other jobs, especially those designated as non-deferrable, would be spurred to take 'jobs In war industries and thus replace non-fathers now (Continued on Fage Two) ' E THREE-SIDED T Chugeyev Captured; Rail Lifeline Slashed LONDON, Aug. 12 CP) Rus sian troops advanced to within five miles of Kharkov from the northeast today while other col umns driving up from the south east captured Chugeyev, 22 miles away from the Ukrainian manufacturing center, Moscow said tonight. The Russians, preparing to en velop Kharkov from three sides. captured more than 20 hamlets in their advance despite ' Ger man resistance and counterat tacks, according to a Russian communique . broadcast 'from Moscow and recorded by the soviet monitor. ' Slash Along Ralls Northward, in the drive' on Bryansk, -the red army slashed along the railway from Orel to within 3 miles ot Bryansk. They eeptured one village 4V4 mtlea-eass..pl. ItarJicheV an lm. pcrunt way station which Is 28 miles east of Bryansk.- ' . Br HEWRT C CASSIDT MOSCOW,. Aug. 12 UP) The Russian stranglehold on Khar kov tightened today as red army troops drove within seven and one-half miles of the big Ukrain ian city from the northeast and severed the Poltava - Kharkov railway, main lifeline of the de fending nazis, over a 10-mile stretch west of the nearly en circled bastion. (The British radio reported that Kharkov already was un der fire from Russian guns. The broadcast, recorded by CBS, quoted a late message from the front.) The big drive against Bryansk (Continued on . Page Two) Kurile Islands Target in Long Distance Raid WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (P) The navy announced today that ninth army Liberator bombers had attacked enemy installations in the 'Kurile islands which guard the northern approaches to the Japanese homeland. At least five enemy fighter planes were shot down while two American bombers are missing. Navy communique ' number 496 said: "North Pacific: "1. On August 12, at about 8:11 a. m., East Longitude time, a formation of nine army Liber ator (Consolidated B-24 heavy bombers attacked Japanese in stallations in the. Kurile islands Numerous hits were scored in the designated . target areas, About 40 enemy fighters inter cepted of which five were shot down and others probably' de stroyed or damaged. - Two of the United States bombers are missing." This raid, which was aecom pllshed at about 3:11 p. m. (PWT) yesterday, was the second air attack on the Kurile islands which lie almost 1000 land miles west i and slightly south of the American Aleutians air base on Amchitka island. The first at tack was carried out on the morning of July 20. Premiere Army Show Half Sold Out "This Is the Army," the Irving Berlin production to have its premiere showing at the Pelican theatre Ausust 18 as an army relief benefit, is about halt sold out, the theatre management an nounced this afternoon. Ticket sales started at the Pelican box office Thursday morning. TO ENVELOPMEN Held in Kidnap I 1 . I I lI "V"..' vl i. .- iN3 Mrs. Catherine Wright (right), 26. was held at Albany. Ore charged with child-stealing In the kidnaping of 2-dar-old Judith Gurney. Her husband, Sgt. Jesse Wright (left), was held as a material witness, but released to his commanding officer at Camp Adair Wednesday. Tha Wrights are shown shortly after their wedding in 1942. Accused Baby Kidnapper's lAariiql Status Puzzles; Ahnufment Believed False " ALBANY, Ore., Aug. 12 JP) Whether the accused kidnaper of Baby Judith Gurney is Mrs. Catherine Wright or Mrs. Harry Morgan (or Moran) became a puzzle of increasing complica tions for authorities today. District Attorney Harlow L. Weinrick said developments in the weird case of the 26-year-old woman, who admitted stealing the two-day-old infant from a hospital crib, caused the ques tion: Is she the wife of an army sergeant or of a Long Beach, Calif., cafe worker? False Document Weinrick said he had a docu ment purporting to substantiate her story that she obtained an annulment of her marriage to the Long Beach man, but he be lieved it was false. The document, Weinrick said, was a certificate of copy at tached to a paper authorizing the recording in Multnomah county. Ore., ' of an annulment decree granted Kathryn Moran from Harry Moran as of March 23, 1942, in Honolulu. Erasures Weinrick said, however, all the original names except "Har- Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE . St. Louis 4 9 0 New York 1 3 2 M. Cooper and W. Cooper; Chase and Lombard!. - Chicago 2 7 :1 Boston 3 11 ' 1 t Wyse and McCullough; Javery and Kluttz. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston .. 10 9 1 Chicago 6 12 1 Ryba, O'Neil (S), Brown (7) and Conroy; Dietrich, Wade (4), Swift (8) and Tresh. Philadelphia ... 3 10 0 Cleveland 4 10 3 Arntzen and Wagner; Bagby, Heving (9) and Rosar. Washington . . 3 5 0 Detroit 10 14 0 Wynn, Miller (4), Mertz (5) and Early; White, Orrell (9) and Richards. Norwegian Vessel . Torpedoed by Axis WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 VP) The navy announced today that a medium-sized Norwegian ves sel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the South'. Atlantic early in July. Survivors have landed at New York. Investigation . t I Mi''' i ry" appeared to have been writ ten in over erasures. : Weinrick said the woman had used Kathryn and Catherine as her first name and Morgan vari ously was known as Morgan and Moran with the first names- Har ry and Woodrow. - The document carried the number 144-200, Weinrick said. ' - Number Cheeked At Portland, Multnomah coun ty seat. County Clerk A. A. Bail ey said case No. 144,200 in his files carried the title Caroline Mayer vs. Harry Mayer. This, (Continued on Page Two) Bairoko Fight Demonstrates Jap Tenacity ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PA CIFIC,, Aug. 12 () The tenaci ous quality of the Japanese fighting ' man, resisting until blasted out . of his foxhole or shot down from his treetop sniper position, Is being demon strated anew -within the slowly diminishing area where the enemy is holding out on north ern New. Georgia. The battle for Munda ended a week ago today, On that day, United States infantry elements of the 25th, 37th and 43rd di visions and the marines over ran the 4500-foot airstrip, dot ted with wrecked Japanese planes. Until Munda's capture, Bairo- ko harbor to the north of it on the Kula gulf was technically (Continued on Page Two) Stalin Talks With British. American Ambassadors in Moscow; Churchill Travels LONDON, Aug. 12 (P) Pre mier Joseph Stalin - conferred with the American and British ambassadors in Moscow yester day in talks which appeared to be closely linked with the forth coming meetings between Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt. In making the announcement, the Moscow radio offered no comment, but the timing of the meeting, coinciding with pre parations In Canada for the sixth Roosevelt-Churchill war confer ence, left little doubt here as to its nature. Soviet Informed It ' had been previously an nounced that Moscow was being FLANKING SEA ATTACK CLIPS American Amphibians Land Beyond Lines At Cape Orlando By ALTON L. BLAKESLES Associated Press War Editor : German troops were reported today to be abandoning Sicily In a full-fledged evacuation under a tremendous anti-aircraft bar rage over the Messina Strait, and U. S. troops in another sea-lane vault behind nazi lines have landed east of Cape Orlando, forcing the enemy back along the north coast. The Germans were waging a powerful defense across the base of the Messina triangle as their troops withdrew in a flotilla of at least 80 boats crossing the strait night and day, Associated Press Correspondent Noland Nor- gaard reported. Troops Ram Ashore The second daring landing by U. S. seventh army troops ram med combat forces ashore before dawn near the cape under cover of American warships that help ed in repulsing fierce nazi coun terattacks. Allied planes assist NAZ DEFENSE ed the attack. . . . , . , . These troops and other Amer ican forces fighting westward made contact and closed a. seven- ' mile glffTJeTween them, forcing;' a German retreat. . ,-. . . n -. This amphibious flank attack followed one three days earlier when seventh army units cut in behind San Agate to collapse, enemy resistance there..-.:; - y . Counterattacks"' - The troops fought through the . : night, after rolling,. back three'; German counterattacks and tak ing prisoners, and other Amer ican units battling forward from ' the .west closed the seven-mile gap between -them, Associated Press Correspondent Harold V. Boyle, , with the seventh amy, reported. Reuters reported the German evacuation of Sicily was in full swing. . Cape Orlando is some 40' air miles from Messina on the coast al road in Sicily where the Amer ican land advance is slowed by wrecked bridges and strong -enemy hill positions. The cape is nine miles east of San Agata.' Warships Support ' Warships supporting the land' ing Wednesday - morning have! turned - back serious German J counterattacks, headquarters said. Tanks were landed with'' the doughboys in the pre-dawn murk. . . , The landing was made near the mouth of the Naso river and the bridgehead successfully es- ' tablished. The audacious stab ( threatened German forces with. (Continued on Page Two) ,- ; Italy Out in Ten Days, Says Diplomat,,; LONDON, Aug. 12 (ff)Radio , France in Algiers said In a. broadcast tonight that the sec retary of the Italian embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, .had declared . publicly that Italy in ten days would no longer be. in the war. informed closely of all' develop-; ments in the Italian situation.; The Yorkshire Post; Toraign.; Secretary Anthony Eden's news- paper, reiterated that the soviet premier was being informed 'al '. most hourly" of all develop. ? ments. ' ' ' . President Roosevelt told a press conference at Washington there would be no Russian par ticipation in the new conferences although he said this did not ' mean he would not be awfully, glad to have the Russians pres ent. 1 Produce Hope ' Prime Minister Churchill's trip to Canada to continue bis (Continued on PagsjTwo) r
