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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1943)
Elks Lodge Mjiip MjiH On 8-mlnute blat on sirens and whistle It tho signal for blackout In Klamath rails. Anothtr long bint, during black out, li signal lor all-clear. In t "cau tionary plodi, witch your Ms fas 1 ill 0! ii-ii: ' I.. : I! H.l :.:,,' Ill,' , ll H IliMilliiillllljii'liniiilliiiliiiiiiiii'Mlii By FRANK JENKINS r 'HE war today l In ono of the lulls between storms that aro characteristic of warfare which, like a saddlchorse, can't run at top speed all tlio time, but hai to slow down at Inter val! for rocuperntlon of ita pow tn. ITALY Is (till a point of acute 1 Intercut. It It obvloua that atrong forcei of German, extending cleir to the toe of the boot, atlll occupy the country. Heavy con centrations of enemy anti-aircraft and artillery fire are re ported at Rrgglox Calabria, Just across the Messina strait from Sicily. It Is probable that the Ger mans are letting out of southern Italy as fast as the Italian trans- 0xr rtatlon aystnm . will permii. We're hamnering their retire ment by bombing and naval shelling of railroads and high way. I TNFOrtTUNATELY for the retiring German, - Italy's principal communication lines run close to the sen on both sides of the peninsula so close that at many points they are within reach of our naval guns. Foggla, on the eastern main rail line, and Salerno, on the western, are being subjected to "saturation raids" by our bomb ers. Your map will tell you that the principal purpose of these bombings is to smash tlio trans portation lines along which the German are moving northward. There I alwoy the possibility that we might make a landing -Jrom the co BEHIND them, Ohu cutting off their retreat. VWE'VE taken two small Isl " ends, Llparl and Stromboll, In tlio Tyrrhenian sea Just north of Sicily. They're not very Im portant. Wo probably figure It's better for us to hovo them than to leave them to the enemy. 7ICTOn EMANUEL today ap peals to the Sicilians by radio to slick by the Italian ship. Throughout all the centuries of which we have a record, Sicily has never been a very happy part of Italy, and the little sawed-off king doubtless sus pects tlio Sicilians of getting ready to Jump the reservation again., ' Ho says Sicily's present isola tion from Italy "won't last long" Mud adds that tlio future "will Miring rewards for suffering." (From which it is evident that he is still using double-talk.) S"UR planes of all kinds are ranging over German-occupied western Europe, smashing at cities, airfields and strategic points of various sorts. Perhaps most Important of all, they're SHOOTING DOWN ENEMY PLANES. Destroying tlio enemy's air forces is tho FIRST STEP to ward any big now military movement in these days. 'J'HE Russian situation remains more or less unchanged today, Tho red army 1 still closing its , grip on Kharkov, and the Ger rnans are fighting desperately to Qold it. MOUNTING German counter-attacks are reported. There have been hints that tho Germans may try another sudden blitz In the hope of crippling tho Russians, 'THE Churchlll-FDR confab at Quebec Is still shrouded in (Continued on Page, Two) , TV News m to Lead Third War Loan Drive; tract light, BERT HALL TO BOND EFFORT Elks Vote to Handle Third War Loan Campaign The Klamath Falls Elks lodge has accepted leadership of the Third War Loan drive in Klam ath county, biggest bond effort of the war period. Klamath's quota for the campaign, starting in Sep tember, i $2,318,000. ... Unanimou action wa taken by member of the lodge present at a meeting Thursday night, and Exalted Ruler Malcolm Ep Icy Immediately appointed Bert Hall, the lodge' tint exalted ruler and long a local civic lead er, as general chairman of the campaign. Jack . Unman and Vernon Moore art Vice-chairmen. Big Membership Andrew 'Collier, county 'war S'vlngj. chairman, told tho Elks that because 'of the die and char acter of the local lodge It Wa the only Individual organization which hi committee believed could handle the huge war loan program. The lodge ha mem bership of 890. All type of bond, including F and G bond, tax certificate, etc., will apply on the $2,818,000 Klamath county quotas. Bank purchases, however, will not count In the Third War Loan, with the quota to be raised from Individuals and private and pub lic corporations. ; National Totals Every 'earning individual In Klamath county will be asked to buy SI 30 In bonds, the same ro quest being mado throughout the United States. Lumber compan (Continued on Page Two) Five Coal Mines Given Back to Private Owners WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (P) Tlio government today restored flvo coal mines to private owner ship with the explanation that "government possession of theso mines is not necessary to Insure uninterrupted wartime coal pro duction." - None of the five mines had a contract with the United Mine workers. Consequently the ac tion by Secretary of the Interior Ickcs did not challenge the UMW policy, stated June 23, that' John L. Lewis' miners would work only as long as government op eration continued. The action was the first step toward returning the mines to their owners since passage of the Smith-Connally anti-strike act. HEAD BIGGEST Mistrial Motion Denied in Lay ton Trial for Slaying DALLAS, Ore., Aug. 20 UP) Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker denied a defense motion for a mistrial today as the state nearcd the closo of Its case in the first: degrco murder trial of Richard H. Layton, accused of the "lovers lane" rape-slaying of 17-year-old Ruth Hlldebrand. Roy Howltt, Layton's attor ney, asked for a mistrial as the state called Hattie Bratell, court stenographer, as a witness for testimony concerning the tran script of Layton's hearing be fore the Polk county grand jury. Walker denied the motion and permitted the stenographer1 to testify.' : ' Color Feared ' ' Hewitt argued that her 'ap pearance as a witness for the erato 'anil. X$tar$ ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS Takes Big Job Kennell-Ellla Xlamath Fall Elks hare ac cepted leaderihip of the third war loan campaign in Septem ber, and for general chairman for the big enterprise called up on the ledge' first exalted ruler. E, B. Hall, above..'. ,. . , v. Fighters Batter at Rail And Airfield Targets , LONDON. Aug. 20 (TV-Mitchell medium bombers escorted by Spitfires attacked enemy air craft and a factory at Flushing in the Netherlands while Boston mediums also escorted by Spit fire bombed freight yards at Ab beville in France, the air minis try announced tonight. LONDON, Aug. . 20 (P) Fast British Mosquito bombers again attacked targets in Berlin -last night while fighters struck at airfields and railway targets on the continent, It was announced today. ' The night raids followed blows by allied planes, includ ing American Flying Fortresses, at four of Germany's most im portant air bases in Holland and Franco, yesterday. A Joint com munique disclosed 90 enemy air craft were shot down yesterday. Railway Targets Intruders last night attacked railway and airfield targets in France and Belgium. ' Vllsslngcn (Flushing) and Gilze-Rijcn In Holland were bat tered by ' Fortresses lato yester day afternoon and ; 34 enemy fighters were shot down by the big bombers and their escorts of U. S. and allied Thunderbolts (Continued on Page Two) stato might color her reporting of the trial. A parado of state's witnesses marked tho trial today as the de fense recalled several for cross examination In challenging the legality of Layton's removal from tho Washington county Jail at Hlllsboro, where he was serv ing a year for assault, to Mil waukle state police headquarters and later to Dallas for the grand Jury hearing. Layton Called ' Layton was called after the jury was dismissed before the noon recess to testify about the Dallas trip. 1 Ho said State Policeman C. Emahiser advised him en route to tell the grand jury the same . (Continued on Page - Two) r?. r-cr u in i uuii un Vs IN J" SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND '..LLS, OREGON, NAZIS SLOWED BY TERRAIN Soviets Advance Six Miles Nearer Kharkov LONDON, Aug. 20 W Rus sian troops advanced from three to six miles la) the Kharkov d faction, capturing 20 uUtM pieces Including the town ef Lab- edin, approximately ' 100 mile northwest of Kharkov, the Sov iets announced tonight. '" By HENRY CCA8SIDY MOSCOW. Aug. 20 WV-Difficult going in terrain naturally lending itself to defense was re ported slowing down the red army today as it pressed twin drive on thems! bastions oi Bryansk and Kharkov.; ' .'. Front line dispatches to the soviet army1. organ Red Star re ported that Russian troops on trie central front were encountering "considerable . difficulties and enormous strain" as they battled their way through' forests and swamps ; and - across numerous small rivers toward Bryansk. -Nasi Advantages . The nature of the country, the dispatches said, offered many ad vantages to the nazl defenders. (The . German communique, broadcast from Berlin and re corded by the Associated Press, said violent fighting flared along the Mlus river front west of Ros tov.. The Russians were said to have launched heavy assaults, but the Germans declared they beat off the attacks, encircling and annihilating two soviet bat talions. ' (Fighting raged without let-up on the Belgorod front, the Ger i (Continued on Page Two) Red Hair Clue In Strangling Of Young Girl YUBA CITY. Calif., Aug. 20 VP) A dying little girl's terrified plea, "Don't let that old red-headed man get me, daddy!" left au thorities at least one clue today the - color of her strangler's hair. The frail 13-year-old child, Jackie Marie Hamilton, was found by her sister on a river bank here Wednesday night, her clothing ripped from her body, her mouth stuffed with sand, her throat bearing the deep finger marks of her strangler. Appar ently she had been raped.' She died several hours later in the county hospital, fearful to the end of "that old red-headed man." ' Sheriff "A. W. Klmcrer ques tioned three transients, one of them red-haired, yesterday and said "I've several other good leads that we're working on." Jackie Marie was the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Hamil ton, of Tracy. The family came west from McAlester, Okla., three months ago for farm work. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 3 6 1 Brooklyn 6-7 1 Derringer, Burrows (8) and Livingston; Wyatt and Bragan. . (1st game) Pittsburgh .... 2 8 2 New York , 3 10 1 , Sewell and Baker; Chase and Mancuso. .,'.!''' ' AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston .;. .'.... 0 : 5 1 Detroit IB' 1 ; Dobson and Fartce; Overmire and Unser. s - - , ITHIIM DIICU flM Klamath FRIDAY, AUGU8T 20, 1943 New Faces Seen at Allied Meet of 1 lliMalLnk Here's another group picture mad at the historic meeting la Quebec of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England. From left standing, the Earl of Athlon. Prim Minister MacKonsi King ef Canada, Sir Alexander Cadogaa, Brandon Bracken. Seated, Antbonf Eden,:. President Booaavelt, -Prince Alice, Prisae Miniater'WinstosI Churchill. Today Secretary of Stat Hull's preMooe in -Quebec' brought a political aspect to the strategy conference. Hull Arrival Underlines : Politics at Strategy Talks QUEBEC, Aug. 20-WO-iA for mal announcement that Presl dent Roosevelt would pnd Wed nesday. In OttavA Canada' cap ital, and laddreea members of the Dominion parliament disclosed today that the Quebec war con ference would end Tuesday. - QUEBEC, Aug. 20 UP) The arrival this afternoon of Secre tary of State Cordell Hull point ed up today the political angles of the Quebec war council and speculation that a conference emissary might go to Moscow. Anthony Eden, British forergn secretary, who has been here several days, has been mention ed frequently as a likely mes- Rubble Hides Fate of Eight In Explosion KEARNY, N. J., Aug.-20 (iP) A mass of rubble hid the fate today of at least eight persons believed buried in the ruins of a three-story brick and concrete bujiding at the Congolum-Nairn, Inc., plant after, an . explosion and fire which left three dead and 10 others Injured, eight critically. Fire Chief Charles Burnett of Newark said steamshovels would be used in the search of the blackened, smoking heaps of debris. The blast late yesterday after noon 'rocked a 10-mile area in the heart of war-busy northern New Jersey and broke windows in homes and stores within a mile radius of the sprawling lin oleum products plant ; on - the banks of the Passaic river. Fire which sprouted out from the blasted No. 12 building wrecked two other structures be fore the flames were brought under control, late last night. "The building just blew sky ward in a cloud of wreckage and then fell back to the earth in (Continued on Page Two) . Indian Decapitated While Asleep on Railway Tracks ' Lewis Amos Plcard, Chiloquin Indian, was found dead by the Southern Pacific railroad tracks near the Esplanade underpass late Thursday night. He had been killed by a train and it was thought that he had lain down on the tracks to go to sleep when the train ran over him, Jim Bishop, Southern Pacific redcap,' found the body of the man as he was returning to his home at 1114 Delores street from work at about 10 o'clock. 1 Plcard was said to have been a ' logger . in ' the Klamath dis trict. He was seen drunk a short time before the accident,- , , County Quota Set at NEA FEATURES Number 9881 senger. to' carry word of the re sult of the Quebec meeting to the soviet eapital. ' "-"Hun- and Eden, will dine tb- hight with President and Prime Minister Churchill, of Britain, but that the absence of Russian representation in Quebec Indicat ed - that decisions which would seal the political future of post war Europe were unlikely. - Accompanying . Hull was James C. Dunn, a political ad visor. . Delegation The delegation selected to wel come the secretary upon his ar rival at the Quebec railway sta tion will include Stephen Early, presidential secretary; Ray Ath- erton, American minister to Can ada, "and a presidential military aide... , . . -; . While the president and Churchill toiled, in the. Quebec citadel over their war maps and strategy plans, Early told report ers -that when the president leaves here early next week and goes to Ottawa, the Canadian capital, he will not return later to this conference city. Indications ! The war committee of the Ca nadian cabinet met this morning in Ottawa, and may return to Quebec for another session. There was a strong, official in dication that tremendous new op- (Continued on Page Two) - Murder Charge Spurs Search . For Ship Worker : PORTLAND, Aug. 20 (IP) A murder charge spurred a search throughout the western states today for shipyard worker Harry E. Lewis, wanted in the slaying of a red-haired, 24-year-old' di vorce who had a swingshift job in the same, yard. .. ' Sidney L. Hayes, Multnomah county deputy district attorney, issued ; a felony , information charging Lewis with the first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Virginia G i 1 1 e n of Cheyenne, Wyo. ' Her almost nude body was found on a bed in Lewis room late Wednesday night. She had been shot in the heart and cov ered with a blanket, said Detec tive B. H. Yoemans. A coroner's report gave the time of her death as about 4 a. m., the day before. On the floor police found a note, threatening suicide, writ ten by Lewis, 31, who came here from Phoenix, Ariz., and went to work at Willamette Iron & Steel corporation,, where Mrs. Gillen was employed. The note was dated 3 p. rn.. Monday. ; Officers at first believed their search would be for a dead man, But they changed their tack aft er Mrs. Glllen's former husband, Verne, v told Yoemans she pos sessed about $300 in cash, a dia mond ring and at least one war bond, only-a bond was found. i War Leaders J (NEA Raib TtUtluM , l ill Solomon Supply" Line ' Cut; New Guinea A Strained : By C. YATES M'DANIElr ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PA CIFIC, Aug. 20 VP) Japan's supply line has been cut in the Solomons and sorely strained in New Guinea the right and left flanks of the allies' Pacific drive - but the . resourceful enemy still has a precarious foothold on New .Georgia and clings to Salamaua.- Reports in today's communi que from both ends of the.350 rnile" battle arc emphasize clear ly the jungle character . of the Pacific war and .the determina tion of the Japanese to make (Continued on Page Two) . FoOd'Ppisoning Strikes Mexican Hop Pickers I GRANTS PASS, Aug.. 20 VP) Thirteen Mexican hop pickers are still in the hospital here to day and scores more ' are . sick in their, tents at the WFA labor camp from illness attributed to food poisoning. No deaths" are expected, . according to hospital attendants. . ... ,. ; Capt. H. B. Makover, regional medical officer 'for WFA for Washington, Idaho arid Oregon, flew .from Portland last, night. He said he is making an investi gation and had not determined that the illness was by. food poisoning. He said samples had been sent to laboratories for testing. Treatment was given to over 300 workers late yesterday. T V V Loyal Danes Sabotage Nazi ; Supply Lines to Norway : By JOHN H. COLBURN ! STOCKHOLM, Aug. 20 , (IP) A determined, country wide campaign of sabotage, apparent ly aimed at destroying land and sea transport facilities used by the nazls to supply their forces in Norway,' was reported ' by travelers arriving here from Denmark today. 1 Danish patriots, the travelers said, are systematically wreck ing Danish factories 'producing German war materials as well as railroads and harbor installa tions which have become in creasingly important to the Ger mans since they, can no longer $2,518,000 Auguit It High 71. Low 44 Precipitation m of Attgust 11. 1141 Stream ytir to data ..... 17. li Lait year . ....13.17 Normal ..... 12.3S BOMBS, SHELLS PLASTER AXIS; Americans and British Await Invasion , ' Signal By ROGER GREENE Associated Pre War Editor ' Allied headquarters announo. ed today that ah American naval expedition. . had captured two) stepping-ctone islands aimed di rectly at the Italian mainland north of Sicily with th6 sunen der of Lipari and Stromboll in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Stromboli island lies 00 miles north of the Sicilian port of Mes sina. Lipari is 35 miles above Messina. The tiny Isles form the main part of the Aeolian group. Wait Call Meanwhile, a 24-hour storm ol bombs and shellfire rocked axis) defender in southern Italy aa the American seventh and Brit. ish eighth armies awaited tha signal to leap from Sicily into Europe proper. . The call to action, it was be lleved, may soon be forthcom-. ing from the war. council ol, President. Roosevelt and Prima Miniit i ChiirhHl rt- Quebea). where final plans were said to be . developing to advance tha . zero hour for invasion. ' ,' Plaster Italy ' -:i "For 24 hours now, allied aro tillery, air forces and naval units) have -been, plastering southern Italy in one of th most formid able combined attacks . eve seen,1' declared radio France at Algiers, in a midday broadcast. " Simultaneously, King Vittorio Emanuele III .told Sicilians in proclamation broadcast by the Rome radio that the present iso lation of allied-conquered Sicily from the rest of Italy "will no last for long." - , The king made no mention off continued prosecution of the war. however, and may have been hinting at Italian overtures for peace. .' Shells Across Strait Dispatches from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters) -said big shells hurtled steadily across the two-mile-wide Strait of Messina between Sicily and the. toe of the. Italian boot as' American and Britisn field bat teries slammed away at enemy fortifications, while 15-inch axis coastal guns replied with 2400 pound projectiles. "Naval activity continues on both coasts of the Calabrlan peninsula (Italy's toe) and on the eastern shore of the Strait of Messina," Gen. Eisenhower' command said. Troops Bombed '. Besides torrents of steel and explosives unleashed by allied 1 land and sea batteries, waves of allied bombers concentrated their fire on enemy troops and guns hidden in the mountains along the Calabrlan shore. Thirty-four enemy aircraft were shot down, it was announced. Italian headquarters said fleets of allied four-englned bombers, heavily escorted, inflicted "very great damage" in raids on the mainland cities of Foggla and " (Continued on Page Two) ship1 men and supplies across Sweden' to Norway. . ' Sesiion Called '. At the same time representa tives of the five major Danish, political parties were called into, extraordinary session in Copen hagen, apparently to consider changes in the government's pol icy toward nazi occupation of Denmark. ' , Possibility of a switch in gov ernment leaders was seen as result of the conclave, but ny decisions reached are not ex pected to be announced until at ter King Christian meets with (Continued on Page Two; ., SLANDS TAKEN
