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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
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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
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