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irirrriririnimrij-iri 'BlipilllllijWIIIIllltiiiiwi lliBflilfillllBfffliflllljiffliiTtllilftllltliltiSlli. On B-mlnuta blast on sirens and whistles It tha signal for a blackout In Klamath " ' August 20 High 71. Law 41 f A Precipitation ai of Auguat 14. IMS Straam year to data ' .....:...;.1T.I Lait yaar 13.17 Normal .......ia.t Talli, Anothar long blast, during a. black out, li a signal lor all-clear. In (.racau tlonary parlodi, watch your atrtat llghti. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES TWO SECTIONS PRICE. FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1943 Number 9882 ana I- ' m M.IS mm in ops U ll :ii H ! Hi LSi ! i . h in i i ' ii I ll! ifci il'i lilllii lil'iSi t lilii iii i !!! ! ! . '"I'll: r i : il a. u 'mi !l! li: ititiiiin: ,'l itH' iiilillpl ii!iiiiiii;!iiij;i!iiiaiaiiS8 By FRANK JENKINS fllE Jups ABANDON K I k a WITHOUT A FIGHT. Thut li bin news In H.vlf. It muy bo even bigger becuuse of lis implications. HEN the Jap occupied Kls- ka some 14 months ago, they had grandiose Illusions. At Hie sumo moment, their buttlo (lect wus ah-aming In tlio direction of Hawaii. There seems little reason now to doubt that they expected to defeat what was left of our fleet after Pearl Harbor, take tho Hawaiian isl ands, move on from KUka through the Aleutian to Alaska and storm the American main land. Thera followed then within a few hours the great battle of Midway, and when it ended Japan's hopes of taking Ilia Pa cific Const or tho United States were lying at the bottom of the sea. N presenting this bald outline of Jan expectations," one hm to guess a little. But not too much. The little yellow men were then supremely contemptu ous of "soft America.". They've learned a lot In these 14 months. 'J'HE Japs, knowing we were preparing to land an armada on Kiska, steal away In the fog without a battle. It is the FIRST time they have dona so. Elsewhere ' at Guadalcanal, at Attu, on the Buna-Cona beaches, at Mundu they have died to tho last man, NEVER ad mitting defeat. They ACCEPT defeat at Kiska. "pilEKE was a faint break at Vcllu Lavclla tho other day, W hcro wo took 330 Jap captives. (Tho circumstances havo never been explained to us, but at least the flat statement was per mitted to pass tho ccpsor that , 390 Japs had surrendered.) There's another faint break in New Guinea today, whero tho Japs RETREAT from their out er defenses at Salamaua and take refugo within the inner for tifications of the town Itself. Taken in connection with Kis ka this may bo Important. . WfE mustn't Jump to the con clusion that tho backbono of Japan has been broken and that victory In tho Pacific Is In f, tho bug, Nothing could bo far ther from tho truth. Tho Japs are shortening their lines, and as they shorten their rtnC5 their capacity to RESIST Mvill grow. But we're at least certain by this time that Japan is far less cocky now than a year ago. ALL this has , been accom pllshed while wo were . fighting in tho Pacific with only (Continued on Pago Two) Constitutionality Of Smith-Connolly Act Questioned WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (P) The possibility of a court test on the constitutionality of the Smith-Connally act was seen to day In an attack on tho Inbor disputes law by Montgomery jftard and company, Inc., Ofctcd by the war labor board (WLB). The board, rejecting n com' puny contention that tho act went beyond what the constitu tion permits, ordered union se curity, voluntary dues chock-off and arbitration of grievances at Montgomery Ward s New York, Detroit and Denver retail stores. MILLION CASUALTIES ON RUSSIAN FRONT Reds Stab Heart Ukraine; Aim At Knotop of LONDON. Aug. 21 (P) Soviet troops killed and wounded at least 1,000,000 Germans since tho Russian front flamed into summer action July 5, a special Russiun communique said to night. The abortive Gorman offen sive and the poworful soviet an swer in its own successful sum mer drives up to Friday cost the Germans 4800 planes, 6400 tanks, 3800 guns and mora than 20,000 trucks, said the communi que broadcast from Moscow and recorded hero by the soviet mon itor. Prisoners numbered 23,600, and the bulletin also said the vic torious soviot armies captured 8S7 tanks, 1274 guns, 3429 ma chine guns and 4230 trucks. Regular Communique Tho regular communique said the Ruasiana drova in the Khar kov area to capture several pop ulated place, and fought to im prove their positions In the Bry ansk and Spas Demensk fight ing. Successful engagements al so were waged in the Donets ba sin south of Voroshilovgrad, 160 miles southeast of Kharkov. LONDON. Aug. 21 (P) Point ing apparently for Knotop, key junction on the Kiev-Bryansk railway, 170 miles northwest of Kharkov, Russian troops today (Continued on Page Two) William Lyon Phelps, Yale 4 Professor, Dies NEW HAVEN. Conn., Aug. 21 W") Dr. William Lyon Phelps, 78, professor-emeritus of English at Yalo university, author, lee turcr and man of letters, died early today at his home after a long illness. In 111 health since June . 21, when he suffered a stroke, Phelps had appeared to bo on the road to recovery but early in tho week suffered a relapse which yesterday caused physi cians to despair of hope for his recovery. Known as Yale's unofficial "ambassador-at-largo" and ree ognlzed as perennial "most popu lar" member of the faculty, Phelps retired In 1833 at the age of 68, but to him It was a new beginning. "I look at it the way a senior ought to look at commencement,' ho said, "with regret at leaving a pleasant post, but eager and in h ah spirits for tho future. "I go out to becomo a private scholar and a public orator." Eight Mexicans Still in Hospital GRANTS PASS, Aug. 21 (AP) Local physicians said today that fight Mexican hop pickers out of tho 10 hospitalized from a total of three hundred who were ill after eating prepared lunches in the hop fields re malncd in 1 Josephine general hospital today. According to Dr. W. A. Moser, the eight men will probably bo dismissed from tho hospital tomorrow. Russian Envoy to Contact French ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 20 (Delayed) (JP) Allied spokes men said today that a represen tative of the Russian govern ment Is now en route to Algiers from Moscow via London to con tact the French committee of na tional liberation. at Salaraaiioa Allied Pressure Cracks Defenses Before Air Base By WILLIAM F. BONI ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug-.. 21 (AP) The Japanese are in headlong retreat before bomb-battered Salamaua. Their mountain front line cracked wide open, they have abandoned heavy guns in precipitous flight toward the last defenses barring the allies from that highly-prized Mild . a o2oo NANUS Qh 1 ' . Vt -cSfofSfSV .T re 7 sa ALAMAtJA Jag. base. Word Received From D. J. Rees, Jap Prisoner Mrs. : J. D. Rees of Oregon City, and formerly of Klamath Falls, has received a card from her husband, Captain D. J. Rees, who is now a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines. On the card, which was signed in his handwriting, Captain Rees stated that he was well and un Injured. Before his entrance into the army, he was a dentist in Klamath Falls. Also receiving a card from her son who is a prisoner of the Jap anese, was Mrs. Lenora Lloyd of 3329 Miller avenue, Klamath Falls. Her son. Private Ralph A. Lloyd, stated thajt he was un injured and in good health. He sent greetings to his friends and relatives. This is the first word heard from Lloyd . since November, 1941. Ho has been a prisoner since the fall of Corrcgidor. Tacoma Lumberman Deprived of U. S. Citizenship TACOMA, Aug. 21 (AP) In a decree filed in federal court here yesterday Henry Gustave Rcinsch, formerly prominent Ta coma lumberman, was formally deprived of American citizen ship. ' Although several weeks ago Judge Lloyd L. Black of the federal court, who heard a de naturalization case against the lumberman, ruled against Rcinsch, the official decree re moving Rcinsch'a citizenship was not filed until yesterday. Rcinsch is now living in Idaho, Pattern for Victory Cut at Quebec War Conference; Hot News Expected QUEBEC, Aug. 21 (P Henry L. Stimson, American secretary of war, will arrive at the Quebec military conference tomorrow and it was expected that T. V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister, who is In Washington, also will coma to Quebec. By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL QUEBEC, Aug. 21 (P) The pattern for victory appeared to day to have been cut by the Quebec war conference. Meanwhile, as the conference neared the stage of public pro nouncement by its principals, an air of expectancy pervaded this temporary allied war capi tal and word spread that news of a new blow against Japan might be forthcoming soon, Contemporary Developments This expectation was based on an idea that President Roose velt and Prime Minister Church- air base on New Guineas northeast coast. Bombed almost daily for months by allied planes, shelled by accurate mountain artillery and under relentless pressure of American and Australian junglo groups, the enemy at last' has been routed from long-held ridge positions as near as two miles from the coveted airfield. Surge Forward Heretofore, the allies .have Inched forward, now on the right at Tambu bay, now on the left around Bobdubl in jungle country crossed only by trails. Yesterday they surged forward in a general advance. ', The enemy, poorly supplied and in dire need of reinforce ment, is "in full retreat to his inner citadel of defenses at Sala maua itself," said today's, com munique from General, Douglas MacArtluir" ' : ' .'. y , ; r "Burled Dead" - : : "Machine guns and ' artillery were abandoned along with more than 350 burled dead. Our troops are mopping up." - . (There was no elaboration on the reference to "buried dead." Japanese practice has been'' to cremate the dead, when possible. and return the ashes to the na tional shrine in Japan. In many cases, however, they have been forced to abandon their dead. unburied, on the field of battle.) The town of Salamaua, in Jap anese hands since January, 1942, is built out on an isthmus. Its airdrome is two miles south near the point where the Fracisco river empties into Bayern bay, Layfon Tells Of Nude "Tag"; Trial Adjourns DALLAS, Ore., Aug. 21 (ff) The first-degree murder trial of Richard H. Layton, former Mon mouth police chief charged with slaying Ruth Hildebrand, 17, was in adjournment today. Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walk' er, after an eventful day that saw the state close its case against Layton and the former policeman take the stand in his own defense, ordered the court room closed until Monday. Layton testified the drowning of the girl was accidental. It oc curred while he and the girl, both nude, were playing tag on the Willamette river bank near (Continued on Page Two) 111, having finished their most pressing chores in the field of long-range strategy, were ready to focus attention on more con temporary developments. Odds and ends ' of military logistics and strategy which al lied experts have been fitting together for 11 days now have been cemented into a single mosaic, tho best available evi dent:" indicated, leaving the conferees virtually free to con centrate on related problems of international import. Haw Evidence This is the evidence: 1. The end of the conference by next Tuesday definitely is in sight. It was announced that President Roosevelt would spend Wednesday in Ottawa, Canada, address an Informal meeting of the dominion parlia ment, then head southward to ward Washington. His schedule Japs Swept Out of J Qu.s. .."" mi.. ALASKA f JipltH 0 400 1 d . ' fSLAHPS I Ubcratera Mitclwllt.War. I :, iiSvf : howkt , Lightnings stest KUka -. 7 with 200 raids In wn-to-aufk , 1 1 .jgvWj I ' , j chaaul daring past 2 months; 1 u 1 - S.y KmA Japanese troops, with the V. August IS. have now been cleaned out ef Aleutian terrltorr where they bad been on the two islands shown in the top map, Kiska and Attu. Lower map shews the island of Kiska which the Japs had left previous to the allied landing. What Happened to 70.000 Japanese Troops on Kiska? SEATTLE, " Aug.", 21 VP) "There are several schools of thought about that," 'Lieut. (J. g.) James Miller, of Los Angeles, a DavwlJMr-tpertions officer back from Adak, told interviewers to day when asked "What happened to the Japanese on Kiska?" "Frankly, I think - no one knows, when and where they went," be added, but he's quite certain they didn't just evacuate to some other and uninhabited island. -One Theory One theory is that the Japan ese force on Kiska which has Australian Election Trend Toward Curtin MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 21 (JP) A pronounced trend to ward the labor party of Prime Minister John Curtin was indi cated late today in a partial count of votes cast by nearly 4,500,000 Australians in their first general election in three years. ' - The voting was for all 75 seats in the house of representatives and 19 of the 36 senate posts. The other 17 senators are hold overs. Preliminary returns from all parts of the commonwealth re ceived at midnight tonight four hours after the polls closed in dicated a strong possibility the labor party would gain from 8 to 14 seats in the bouse of rep resentatives. The party previous ly had 36 of them. In Australia, as in Britain, the leader of the largest party group in the lower house customarily is asked to form the govern ment. could not have been worked out so specifically if the major military discussions of the Que bec war sessions still lay ahead. The address will be broadcast by NBC, CBS and Mutual. 2. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early disclosed yester day that the president and Prime Minister Churchill, by toiling into the early morning hours, had disposed of all im mediate matters requiring their attention and had , taken time off to go picnicking and fishing at a lake 50 miles north of here. Hull Arrival 3. Cordell Hull, U. S. secre tary of state, arrived yesterday to go over political phases of the war effort with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Britain. They dined and con ferrcd with the chief executive ' (Continued on Page Two) North America S.-Canadian occupation of Kiska been officially . estimated at times as 8900 to 10,000 were evacuated piecemeal and under SOver. otthe recant -"rery fonl' weather in the Aleutians.- f Another is . that much of the, Kiska force went.. to reinforce Attu and were -wiped out -with its garrison and did not return to- Kiska after that action. The lieutenant added: Wonderful Show "Frankly, I can't say much about the activity up there, ex cept that it would have been a wonderful show if Kiska had been, defended," Miller said. "There was a big combined operations amphibious force, of which a large force were Cana dian soldiers, and it included United States soldiers, marines and navy. ,4i ' "For weeks there had been a lot of activity, some at Adak (whence Lieutenant Miller came here for duty two days ago) and some at Amchitka. There was a large naval task force and the amphibious 'forces made prac tice landings and rehearsed as saults for six or seven weeks. We were all set."; Good Faking lieutenant Miller told ques tioners he did not . know how much of the Japanese installa tions which showed on recon naissance photographs were real and how much simulated to indi- . (Continued on Page Two) Seabee Howard Grossen Dies From Wounds Mrs. Howard Grossen re ceived word from the war de partment Saturday morning that her husband, Howard Ernest Grossen. shin's cook third clam. died on August 17 as the result or gunshot wounds. Grossen was with the Seabees. No other de tails are known. Grossen. lived at 618 Martin street in Klamath Falls and worked for Louis Eschle at the Quality Meat market for nine years.- He went into the service just before Christmas last year. Mrs. Grossen is employed at uraig s store.- . Bombing Halts Jap Movement in Burma : NEW DELHI, Aug! 21 (JP)K recent Japanese seizure of )he initiative aground in northern Burma was implied today in a U. S. tenth air force communi que which said two days of in tense operations by bomb-carrying Warhawks in support of al lied troops were believed to have halted all Japanese advances in that area. ; i "Advanced bases of the enemy were repeatedly bombed and strafed," the bulletin said, add ing that as a result "it is be lieved that all forward move ment was halted,', No Japs As U. S. Up Aleutian WASHINGTON, Aujr. 21 (AP) Sweeping" the Jap anese from their last known foothold in the Aleutian islands, American and Canadian troops have occupied without opposition the important base of Kiska after, terrific bombardment of invader positions. . . ..--' ' The victorious advance came 14 months after Tokya first reported landings in the. Aleutian chain stretching from Alaska westward toward No Japs 1 Making the announcement today, the navy said land- ings on the narrow beaches of the rocky island were SKY BATTLE FOR SOUTHERN ITALY Allies Focus Bomber Power to Blast -Railways By RELMAIf MORI If ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 21 (JP) The sky battle for southern Italy bat fully begun, with the allies shifting the focus of their over whelming bomber power to the objective of" knocking "but the strategic railway connections with the north. While American - warships. moving at will along the Italian toey. poured - CTucgutratett. f i r e into the left side of the "hells triangle" -' of the lower penin sula, awed headquarters -an nounced today that heavy new blows were: struck by day and night bombers at already bat tered railway lifelines of the de fenders in the Naples area. ..- nary Hails Points The . American naval units again nailed fortified points and railway targets at Gioia Tauro on the Gulf Gioia, 20 miles northeast of Messina, in a blast ing of the mainland, while .Brit ish sea. forces sank seven land ing craft off Scales in a night action. - Aversa, Benevento and Villa Literno all in the Naples area i were swept by waves of medi um bombers and fighters in day (Continued on Page Two) Props Prepared For Soft Coal Price Structure By CHARLES MOLONY WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 VP) Props are being prepared to bol ster the price ceilings over bitu minous, coal against the with drawal Monday midnight of the price floor provided for the past two years by Interior Secretary Ickes bituminous coal division. The office of price administra tion (OPA), an official disclosed today, soon will amend its regu lations to make sure that the soft coal price structure will not be upset by expiration of the Guffey act, under which the division has functioned. The changes are deemed -necessary because: : - 1. Some OPA ceiling prices are set on the basis of a certain . .. (Continued on Page Two) . . Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE H. H. . E. Cincinnati '. 2 8 1 Boston ...3 8 1 Walters and Mueller; Andrews and Masi. i, . ' St. Louis ......2 8 0 Philadelphia 3 6 ' 0 Brecheen and W. Cooper; Rowe and Moore. Pittsburgh -...4 10 2 New York .3 8 1 - Rescigno, Butcher (2), Brandt (8), and Lopez; Feldman, Allen (9), and Mancuso. . AMERICAN LEAGUE : i R. H. E. New York L....:...8 13 , 1 Cleveland 3 9 2 Borowy and Dickey; Bagby, Heving (6), Poat (7) and Rosar, Desautels (8), ' Philadelphia ...3 9 0 St. Louis 3 10 2 : Harris and Swift; Sundra and Hayes. i . . . '..i Found Cleans s Japan's home islands. . made August 15 and "not Japanese were found." Indications were, the navy said, that the Japanese only re cently bad fled from their posi tions laboriously built in . the rocky terrain and along 'the beaches. Bombardment Results . "Presumably," the n a v y ' r communique said, "the heavy bombardment by our ships and planet that have been carried on for some time and the dan ger to their supply lines by our capture of Attu made the ene my positions on Kiska unten able." - Those bombardments,' unre ported in the last three weeks. were among the heaviest ever made on enemy positions in the Pacific ' ' ; ' ' Bombing ' Army ', and ' navy bombing planes during the period from August 1 to August 14, the navy said, struck 10 times, dropping .ton after -ton -of bomba on the ' Japanese at Klita'r,:'-'-'. ' Surface-units joined in the pounding of the enemy garrison. standing off snore and nurung shells from their big guns onto the island in 15 separate bom bardments. How the Japanese escaped from " Kiska under ' the heavy bombings -and- bombardments was not explained." The -navy said however,, that it was pos sible that enemy surface ships,' taking advantage of the heavy fogs of the North Pacific, slip ped in to evacuate- remnants ot the garrison estimated at one time to have included 10,000 Japanese troops. -' ' Explaining the three weeks ot silence on the Aleutians cam paign, the navy said that air and surface bombardments in the latter part of July had de stroyed Japanese radio equip ment, cutting Kiska off from communication - with the ene my's homeland.1 - Progress Secret Any mention of the progress of the campaign, the navy con tinued, "would have conveyed. information to the enemy which he otherwise would not have had;" Silence, " the ' navy said, par ticularly was desirable -during the period immediately prior to ' the landings when transports (Continued on Page Two) "- i Danes Face Loss Of Food, Coal For Sabotage . STOCKHOLM, Aug. 21 (IP) The Danish government and King Christian X appealed Joint ly to the. Danes today to cease sabotaging German war produc tion and transport lines, warning that the nation would face a lost of nazl-aupplied food and coal if disorders continued. . - f. The appeal said continuation of demonstrations and sabotage, resulting in the slaying of both German soldiers and.. Danes, would have "a devastating re sult on Danish life." 'The . government , will -, do everything to create more stable conditions in Denmark," it was said.. :f : ..'''Compromise .-') The appeal, similar to a proc lamation issued by the king last spring, was viewed here at a , triumphant compromise for Dan ish officials, who apparently re sisted successfully a nazl demand that prosecution of saboteurs be turned over, to the Germans. ' (The Swiss radio broadcast a Copenhagen dispatch today re porting a general strike of trans port workers in the Danish cap ital. ' It said the men were be ing threatened with stern re prisals unless they returned to work.) tf f
