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tJROM the South Pacific today
comoi a clear, doflnlto
ACHIEVEMENT itory. Else
where the picture li blurred,
AT Wewak, on the northern
coast of New Guinea, tho
Jap assembled 229 plnnei, (Just
what for, we don't know. But
obviously they wero planning to
do u dirt somewhere)
i Our reconnatiuanco planes
spotted them and 200 of our
bomber caught them flntfooted
tf'N THE GROUND, smashed
20 of them, damaged 80 more
and killed an estimated 1500
air force Japs.
Only seven of tho Japs' planes
got Into tho air, and three of
these wero shot down. We lost
three planes altogether.
ILIAC ARTHUR says Jubllant
ly: "Numerically, the oppos
ing forces were about oqtinl In
strength, but one was In the air
and tho other was not. Nothing
Is so helpless as a plane on the
ground." .....
(Duck huntera will understand
that statement. A plane on the
ground Is like a sitting bird.)
. The point Is we OUT
THOUGHT the Japs. .
TN Europe, our planes have uk-
nr en to the elf In what li ob
Piously a BIG wwu '
We re smashing at German po
sitions In Greece. In Italy, we're
chasing the Germans retreating
from Sicily, dropping strings of
bomb along highways, shooting
up troop trains and truck with
machine gun and cannon fire
generally annoying and damag
ing the retiring foe.
- The hottest of those attacks
seem to be In tho neighborhood
of Naples, which la about half
way from Sicily to Rome sug
gesting that the Germans are
fleeing fast up the leg of the
Italian boot.
AT Marseilles, on the French
'Mediterranean coast, wo hit
German airfields. "Groat fleets"
of American four-cnglncd bomb
ers hit German airfields on the
Atinntlc side of France. (Air
fields behind the enemy's lines
are always tho first objective
of a big modern offensive.)
British heavy bombers attack
a German research establishment
on the Baltic const. British Mos
quitos smack Berlin again. Our
Intruder planes range all over
France, northwest Germany and
the low countries.
TTHE very blurrlness of this
picture Is suggestive, We'ro
shadow boxing from the air over
such a wide range that tho Ger
mans can't be sure whero the
Sunday punch Is to come,
(If It comes.)
"THE Russians are needling us
again for a second (or
third) front.
Red Star (Russian army news--jpapcr)
says tho allies (meaning
Qhe British and Americans) have
failed; to take advantage of the
opportunities provided by tho
Russian summer offensive. . It
praises Sicily as a workmanlike
job, but says It fnllcd to DIVERT
a single German plane or a
single German division from the
. Russian front,
It says thero are 211 German
divisions In Russia and only 01
In ALL THE REST of Europe.
This disposition of forces, It
adds, proves tho Germans don't
foar any large, serious allied op
erations on tho continent,
.
THE Russians, with tho wolght
of tho German army on their
neck,-are naturally anxious for
a move by us (British and Amer
icans) that will TAKE OFF somo
fCt the German weight
9 (Our hard-fighting, relatively
small forces In tho South Pa
cific would liko JUST AS WELL
to see the Russians tear into the
Japs from the rear.)
TWE (again meaning British and
Americans) have boon spend-
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Soviets Roll Again
After Momentary ;
Checks .
LONDON, Aug. 18 OP)
Soviot troops have advanced
four to six miles on the Bryansk
front, capturing 40 villages In
cluding the railway station of
Beryezovka, 21 miles northeast
of the German base, a special
Moscow communiquo recorded
by the soviet monitor said to
night. The railway station of Malin
ka, 20 mile east of Bryansk,
also was overran in the new
Russian gain, the bulletin sold.
On the Kharkov front ad
vances of four to six mile were
registered and mora than 80
village captured, the Russians
said.
Rolling once more after mo
mentary checks In .the semi-en-circlement
of Kharkov, the com
munique said the Russians cap
tured Zmyev, 20 mile south
oast of that Ukraine city.
Thl red army salient was
only 10 mile from the Khar-kov-Loxovaya
railway, one of
the last escape corridors for the
German Kharkov garrison.
' By HENRY C. CA8SIDY "
:' MOSCOW. Aug. 18 lP) Tha
f German' command ha mounted
powerful counter-attack wltn
troop, tank and plane at two
point on the Kharkov front, but
Russian line held firm, battlo-
front dispatches reported today
Seeking an opening for
counter-offensive, the Germans,!
struck at settlement west of
Kharkov held by the red army,
and along tho water line where
tho Russian maintained a
bridgehead on the west bank, tho
dlspatcho said.
i Tug-of-War
Tho fourth battlo for Khar
kovwhich has been taken once
by the red army and twice by
the German became a tug-of-war
for tho Initiative.
Two other Russian drives in
the Bryansk and Spas Demensk
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Germans Fear
Allied Invasion
Of France Next
By JOHN COLBURN
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 18 ()
German view the heavy as
saults on French air fields by
great fleets of American four
cngined bombers as a prelude
to the invasion of France, Ber
lin dispatches reported today.
While the RAF continued its
mighty aerial offensive against
Germany, the nazis were re
ported watching with mounting
concern not only the Fortress
raids on air field but the
tightening circle of heavy Amer
ican attacks against the heart
of Germany itself. .
The Berlin correspondent of
Svenska Dagbladet said that the
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NAZIS
BACK AS REDS
PUSH FORWARD
Axis Research Laboratory
Battered; Berlin Bombed
LONDON, Aug. 18 (JP) RAF
heavy bombers made a strong
attack on the German research
and development establishment
of Pccncmuondc, 60 miles north
west of Stettin, last night while
Mosquito raiders attacked objec
tives in Berlin, the air minis
try announced today..
' The attack on the largest and
most important establishment of
its kind in Germany was carried
out In moonlight almost as bright
as day. '
Plane Mining
Forty-one bombers and one
fighter were reported missing
from the night' operations,
which, in addition to raids on
Peenemucndo 1 and Berlin, ' in
cluded intruder attacks on north
west Germany, France and the
Allies Warm Hp inn Skilly
SniSfe rS GUNS BOOM aT
gtfu-V VV,i'' '''VViPyAVi Battle for Sicily Is
fV'y a Syisf Finished "Ahead
fi V'" " Of Schedule"!
W 1 1 w&f I
A Cam Whit band, which
connection with the premiere' showing of ' Thl Is the Army ' arrived in town tnia morning. Banda
men are ihown at rehearsal. Senator Marshall Carnett," chairman of the premier committee, b
ahown In the picture with the
Jerries Lse- ?
167,000 Men in
Sicilian Fight
: A t t irn Tin a twt t a tifroe
iN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 18
Ph--Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhow
er announced today that axis
losses In the Sicilian campaign
up to August 10 totaled 187,000
killed, wounded and prisoners.
The commander in chief said
German losses while crossing
tho strait of Messina, across
which allied guns boomed today
in a duel with heavy axis bat
teries, probably would never be
known. V .
He estimated that the nazl
commanders had between 70,000.
and 78,000 troops on the island;
of which at least 30,000 were
lost, not counting the number
drowned In the evacuation.
The cnomy'a losses for the en
tire Sicilian campaign were es
timated at 2S.000 . men. Gen.
Eisenhower said.
Vandenberg Predicts
'Interim Agreements'
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Aug!
18 (P) Senator Arthur H. Van
denberg (R-Mich.) said today he
looks for a - series of "interim
agreements" to speed establish
ment of a just peace after the
war. ' .
He suggested that these
agreements be subjected to ma
jority ratification by congress,
but emphasized that in no way
should they substitute for a
final general treaty approved
under the constitution by a two
thirds vote of the senate. .
low countries by fighter squad
rons. '
The night raids ' followed
widespread daylight assaults by
American Flying ' Fortresses
which battered two important
aircraft factories deep in Ger
many yesterday, inaugurating
daylight Brltaln-to-Africa shuttle
bombing. , , ..
First Attack
It was the first attack on
Peenemuende, which is on Ger
many's Baltic coast opposite Rue
gen island about 25 miles north
west of Swinemucnde. '
The Peenemuende plant 1 the
center of the highest type work
in developing aircraft, radio-location
nd armament,
. The attack was in the closely
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will present a' concert tonight in
band.
DATE SET FOR AFL
July 13, 1942, Named
For Start of
y Wage Jumps ;
July 13, 1942, was set as the
date for retroactive pay increases
to AFL employe of Klamath
pine lumber operations by the
west Coast Lumber commission,
it was learned here today. ;
The decision closely followed
a recommendation made July of
this year by Referee Richard
Steiner of the West Coast Lum
ber commission. In two instances
the date set conflicted with that
of the recommendation. '. Instead
of setting the retroactive date for
the Conifer Lumber company
and the Southern Oregon Sugar
Pine company at November 29,
the date for these companies will
be the same as that for other
operations. . - s
Order Date
The effective date of the order
was declared August 28, and
companies were ordered by the
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Occupied Europe , - -Warned
to Prepare
For Allied Invasion
LONDON, Aug. 18 (P) The
people of occupied Europe were
told in an Algiers broadcast to
night to begin preparations for
an allied Invasion at a time
and place to be announced later
bykthe allied command.
The Algiers radio is under
allied control. ;
The broadcast, recorded by
The Associated Press, said that
following the Sicilian campaign,
the next phase, the liberation of
occupied countries,' had begun.
"We are obviously not going
to reveal where tho next blow
will fall," the broadcast con
tinued, adding that It was ob
vious the people of occupied
countries would be the first to
welcome armies of liberation,
;' . ' " 1 1 ".
Extensive Damage
Done Burma Japs
' - NEW DELHI, Aug. 18 VP)
Striking at Japanese installa
tions at Melktlla and enemy ship
ping, in. the Gull of Martapan,
United States medium and
heavy bombers have done "ex
tensive damage" to enemy trans
portation in the Burma area, the
tenth air force announced today.
front of the Pelican theatre In
v, -
lickeis for "
Army Premiere
"Sold Out" :
"Sold Out" was the announce
ment today for tonight' pre
miere showing of "This 1 the
Army" at the Pelican theatre.
Stale Senator Marshall Cor
nett, chairman of the committee,
elatedly announced the complete
sale of more than 1600 seats for
the picture. Entire proceed will
go to the army emergency re
lief fund. - ."
The big doings at the Pelican
Will start with a band" concert
by a Camp White band In front
of the Pelican at. 7:15 o'clock.
The prologue on the stage of the
Pelican . will. .get., underway at
8 P. m- . . .i-. .J t... ,it'
Three Children
Killed as Plane
Crashes Houses
;' SAN DIEGO,: Calif., Aug. 18
W) Three children and an
army pilot were reported killed
today when two P-38 Intercept
or crashed into the thickly
populated Linda Vista housing
project, Aubrey Davis, housing
manager, announced. .......
i Eyewitnesses said a group of
P-38's were "dogfighting" when
two apparently collided, separ
ated and plunged to earth about
a mile apart. ,
. One of the planes struck'
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i . "
Mussolini Moved to
Fort Breschia
BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 18
(P)-The Swiss telegraphic agency,-in
a dispatch from Chiasso
on the Swiss-Italian border, said
today that it had been assured
hat former Premier Benito
Mussolini, of Italy had been re
moved from Fort Breschia, near
Borne, to. Bonza, an island to
which the fascists once sent po
litical prisoners. 1
La Scala Opera
House Destroyed
By The Associated Press
The Rome radio reported to
day in a broadcast recorded by
The Associated Press an official
Italian announcement that the
celebrated La Scala opera house
in Milan was destroyed during
the British air raid Sunday.
Built in 1778 on the site of a
church, the Teatro Delia Scalla
seated 3600 spectators and had
an Interesting museum.
Br DANIEL' DE LUCE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 18 W)
Allied guns boomed in a duel
with heavy axis batteries across
the Messina strait today ' in a
warm-up against the European
fortress. .
The battle for Sicily had been
finished "ahead of schedule al
lied neadqoarters said.-Wltn. the
occupation of Messina yesterday.
Massed formations of allied
warplanes already were carrying
the war to the Italian mainland
in pursuit of the discomfited foe.
stringing a trail of bombs along
highways and roads and chewing
up troop-carrying trains and
trucks with ' machine-gun .and
cannon xirev
".' v. .Attack tanl'.y;.,',u a,
; : The heaviest of he attack
were spearea . oampagiis
freight yards south of Naples,
network of highways" at Castro-
illare near Salerno south of Na
pies and" bridge at Angitola.
(The Italian high ' command.
after -a. 24-hour lapse behind
German announcements, admit
ted in its communique today that
the "heavy battle for Sicily . .
against overwhelming . Anglo-
American forces, on the sea,
ground and ' air ended .yester
day " .:
("The last rearguard units
.(Continued on Page Two)
Flying Forts
Lay Eggs on
Parked Planes
By RELMAN MORIN '
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 18
VP) Flying Fortresses strung
necklaces of heavy bombs across
a park of ISO German warplanes
on. French airfields near Mar
seille in. their ' first attack on
southern. France yesterday, it
was announced today , at '.allied
headquarters. '''.
Two Flying Fortresses were
lost out of the big American-
based force which hit the enemy
airdromes at Istres le Tube and
Salon.
The crews of the Flying Fort
resses said they saw only six
German fighters over Marseille,
DUt encountered heavy flak..
The' loads of big fragment
tlon bombs aimed by precision
bombardiers' exploded among
the parked aircraft,,: sending a
storm of ateel through the close-
packed mas and causing what
even 'cautiously-phrased official
report said was "heavy dam
age." cv:
Strategists Stream to War Talks as
Reds Criticize Lock of Second Front
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
QUEBEC, Aug. 18 () Pres
ident Roosevelt and Prime Min
ister Churchill conferred on
strategy today in the citadel in
their sixth war conference, and
members of the allied high com
mand and war plans staff
streamed into the meeting place.
An announcement that the
president would go to Canada's
capital, Ottawa, early next
week was the first official in
timation that they might com-
Slete near the end of this week
le task of preparing a formula
for the doom of the axis. '
, , FDR Talks
' Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill
talked until 1 a. m. today and
were up, again to resume their
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Drive Head
Mitchell Tillotson, local bank
er, will head the Salvation
Army . drive for ttOOO to atari
In September. Of the total
mount of the budget,. 12000 la
for the Boys' club in the Salva
tion Army building $900 is to
pay off the building mortgage,
and the remainder is for run
ning expense of the Army or
ganlsation. S
UPOTS TEETH
Union R i g h t Boss'
Contracts Forfeit'
jAfcii For Drsofaeying " 1
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By D. HAROLD' OLIVER:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 UP)
A new and. drastic policy .to
force compliance with war labor
board (WLB) decisions by unions
and employers alike was placed
in effect today by President
Roosevelt' ' :.:--:
.Withdrawal of a union's con
tractual rights and privileges Is
authorized or withholding of
priorities and. war ' Contracts
from employers. ' 'i,.;
. First Mot
It is the administration's first
move to penalize unions for ig
noring ' or disobeying WLB de
cisipns, although employers have
been acted against in some cases.
The new policy ."puts teeth
In. both upper and lower jaws,"
lud a WLB spokesman.
Included In punishment . pro
vided for unions is a- prospec-
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State Seeks to
Enter Confession
Of Rape-Slaying
DALLAS, Ore., Aug. 18 VP)
Jurors at the first-degree mur
der trial of Richard H. Layton
were - ordered- from the court
room today as the state appar
ently prepared to seek introduc
tion of the former Monmouth
police chief's asserted admission
that he raped and killed 17-year-
old Ruth Hildebrand of Dallas.
Capt. Vayne GUrdane of the
Oregon State Police, was testify
ing when Circuit Judge Arlie G.
Walker removed. the jury short
ly before the. noon recess. Ques
tioning of Gurdane by District
Attorney Bruce Spaulding indi-
. . (Continued on Page Two)
deliberations at 9 a. m., calling
up numerous key advisers from
the Chateau Frontenac
; They were , busy over their
war plans on the fifth anniver
sary of an address at Kingston,
Ontario, in which the American
chief executive laid down a fun
damental foreign policy cover
ing . Canadian-American . rela
tions. . .. .
'. . - Auurane .'
: "''I give you the assurance,"
he said then, "that the people
of the' United States will not
stand idly by if domination of
Canadian soil.; is threatened by
ny other empire." ' .'
I At noon today the president,
Churchill and Canadian Prim
Minister W. L. TUscKenzi King
l.'f-i..'i-
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II
BY U. S. BOMBS
Wewak Raid Staggers
Enemy Air Force '..
Tuesday 4 '
By a YATES MeDAinrX 1
ALLIED HEADOUARTCR.4 TW
THE SOITTHWEST .PACIFIC.
Aug., 18 (P) The .Japanese air
force was dealt it mott humlli-
aung defeat of the war Tuesday
at Wewak. New Guinea, vrhar'
22S of its plane were caught on
ine ground by allied bombers,' ,
120 destroyed, 50 severely darn
aced and an.attnMtt isnn
personnel killed.
OnlT seven " tit 'tha- inamr .
planes even cot Into the air aiwt'
three .were shot down. Out of
some 200 planes in the raiding
party, only three were lost
1 Bombs DrepD4 '
This stanerina blaar. vMiiatW,
Hinwii KiiruilJ ox WS 1T
strensth In central Waw. rtnltua .
was dealt by 10,000 bombs drop-'
pea zrom . x-ioeraior. FITln
Fortresses. Mitchells . and Hnm.
tons. . -.. . ,
(A- dlsnatch from l nrla
Press War Correspondent Vern, :
GROUND SOGKER
naogiano, zrom omewbar In -
New Guinea said heavyweight
bombers of tha U, S. fifth air-" -
fore dropped more than X09
tons ti boanbs m their predawn :
ttxfra4hmmnX ara gncr'
aneountemd Vm ILlrmA
fire. Seven or eight hour later -MKeheU
aaadium bomber e.
carted - fair Uahtnbiv . flhr S
struck KPmul lOMl mm
met feeble anti-aircraft fir and
scut fighter opposition).
Foroa Eoual
IfumerieallT. tha 'miahil
forces were about eaual in '
strength but one was in the air 1
and the other was mot," Geiu.
Douslas IfaeArthuF-emnniMiai
JubUantly. - ' ;.: :;.. .
"Nothin la 'a tialtilata aa
plan on tha ground."
"It was the 008010 hattla n '
air supremacy over central New ,'
uuinea," said Maj. Gen.: Enni
C. Whitehead, commander of the.
advance aehelnn allt4 lain.,
forces in the southwest Pacific
Surpris Complete
devastating..:.';.'
. Allied reconnaissance plsne
had detected the Japanese mass-'
lng the greatest force of plane.'
they ever had assembled in the '
Wewak area. Obviously, the'
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German Air Loss '
"Staggering," Say. ,
General Spaarx '
A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 18 VP)
The German air force "is stag-,
gering," Lieut. Gen., Carl i A.
Spaatz declared in ah address to
American Flying Fortress crews
returning from their , bombings
of French air fields yesterday
north of Marseille. '
; The commander of the north
west African -air forces credited
American -daylight precision
bombing with part of the decline
of the German air force. This,
he said, "has revolutionized war
fare." - t
were invited to lunch with the
governor general, the Earl of
Athtone. ' '
. Anthony Eden, British for
eign secretary, was due her '
this afternoon to join the dis
cussions. He is crossing the At-
lantic by plan' with Sir Alex- ,
ander Carogan, Britain's under '
secretary for foreign affairs,
and Brendan Bracken, British ,
minister of information. '
; MOSCOW, : Aug J 1 WO Tb
Russian army newspaper lUA -Star,'
commenting on the Botes- ;
velti. Churchill eonferenc t
Quebee, aid today, that tha it
Ilea had failed to take advA
tag of tho opportmt' af-s- ,
, (Continued on I fl Twv)
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