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Newspaper Page Textwmm tVC ''Tfc J.J On t-mlnut blast on slrns and whlstUf It tha signal tor a blackout in Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during a black out it a signal lot all-clr. (n icacau- llitnaru na)n ,,,( trml llahtl. ' August UHigb M, tew t Pnefettattoa of Aufuet tt, IMS Stream w to data : .....IfgM It ysar ; li.SO Normal . .IJ.tt ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES w,,.aa, ,-"-" - - . PRICE FIVE CENT8 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1943 Number 8886 fo) in m uyL . "i --i ...... -. Fighter Guns Hew Path For ' Italy Raiders By HELM AN MOR1K ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 28 Pf Ron rln a swarms of Lightning fighters liedgchappcd all the way across Italy and liot up ground defenses at Foggla yesterday, preparing Hie way for the ull-AmcrScan wrecking of tho airdrome and 10 miUillltc field by three wave of Flying Fortress and Liberators. Ttto Lightning were specially equipped for the long-distance run to Fog-gill, southeast of Naples and on the Adriatic aide of 1 the peninsula. Twenty-six enc- FDRJALKS SEES Roosevelt Speeds On Way to White House By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL OTTAWA, Aim. 28 ift The acclaim of Canadn's cupilul upcd President Rooxovelt on his wuy back to the United Sliitcn toduy for a prospective renewal of con ference with Prime Minister Churchill and perhaps more an nouncements vitally affecting the conduct of the war. Before the president left here (ant niilhl hia council with Chur chill in Quebec already had borne their flr.it fruit with the announcement that Lord Louis Nfounthattcn, Kccond cousin of Ins Gcoraa VI, had beett named upreme allied commnnder In southeastern Asia. Churchill Morantt '' While Churchlll'i movements were obacured by a veil of ecn sorshlp. British officials did not discourage (peculation that the prime minister might move on to Washington later alter resting up from the Qucbco war confer ence and making a radio address on Sunday (10 a. m. TWT.) If he docs show up at the White House, probably his talks (Continued on Pago Two) Autopsy Shows Farnsworth Died Of Blow on Head HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 28 Ml jjhc Injuries that caused the Death of Arthur Farnsworth, hus- wind of Film Star Betto Davis, might have been received "two days to two weeks prior lo his fall on a sidewalk lust Monday night, Dr. Homer R, Kcyes, as sistant autopsy surgeon, said after a post mortem examination today. Dr. Keyes reported that tho 38-year-old Farnsworth died from a basal skull fracture "on tho right side of the head in the occipital temporal region." Tha surgeon said coagulation of blood Indicated the Injury could have been suffered "any time between two days and two weeks before tho attack," Dr. Keycs said Farnsworlh. did not suffer a stroko. Farnsworth, a former commer cial pilot and western represent ative of a Minneapolis aeronaut- Ocal equipment firm, died yes erday. He was found uncon scious on a Hollywood boulevard sldcwBlk Monday. Ho never re gained consciousness sufficiently to tell what had happened. Copenhagen Strikes Spread Despite Influx of Nazis By JOHN H. COLBUBN STOCKHOLM, Aug. 28 P) German soldiers, sped Into Den mark to stamp out the people's revolt ' against nazi occupation, fired a volley of shout during a disturbance In a crowded Copen hagen market plco last night, the Stockholm newspaper Aflon blfldct said today, i Despite the influx of troops And gestapo, the general strikes spread to the harbor cities of Helsingfors and Vcjle, crippling German shipping and boat-building, and the state ol emergency was extended to a seventh city, Rosklldc. , Shooting Stories Stories of tho shooting, said to have occurred in the Rsutihus- I my planes were shot down m combat and allied sweeps over southern Italy and scores of others were knocked to pieces on the ground, Italians Chr Going the whole distance at on altitude of less, than 100 feet, tho Lightning pilots said Italians along the route waved and cheered as they passed. The tree lop level flight threw the whole Foggla area into confusion, outwitting axis ground defenses and snarling the cnemy'a detection apparatus. Wellingtons Follow RAF and Canadian Welling tons followed tha Faggia raids by smashing at tho freight yards at Taranto before dawn this morning. Rear gunners saw bursts and tires across the tar gets at this Important naval base and railway control point despite a smoke screen which started drifting across the ob jectives. Other RAF Halifaxes and Lib erators from the Middle EaM the preceding night attacked the railway yards . at Crotone, on the Gulf of Taranto, starting many fires and damaging a chemical nlant - ft -wa-tt first :tlm'fnv ihh theatre that fighters lit such strength had flown to far and at such low level (tho distance Is about 4-40 miles, round trip, from the nearest airdromes in Sicily). The Lightnings, arriving over Foggla airdrome found it well stocked with parked aircraft, and some formations headed for tho planes with cannon and machine-guns blazing and riddled the close-packed groups before a shot could be fired at them. Ground crews and air crews scattered in all directions and the fighters' machine-guns cut them down before they could reach shelter. Somo threw rocks and fired pistols wildly at the low-flying machines which swept by un harmed in deadly automatic precision, spaced in successive waves five to 10 minutes apart. Army Stops Hawaii Judge From Forcing Fine on General HONOLULU, Aug. 29 (Fi ji federal judge was prohibited by army restrictions today from enforcing a $5000 fine he im posed for contempt of court oh Lt. Gen. Robert C, Richardson. Jr., commander of the army's Hawaiian department. Further, ho was confronted with tho prospect of a fine and prison term for himself. It he persists In what the military regards as his efforts Mo con travene martial law. Thus the army took direct ac tion In Hawaii's explosive test of the relative precedence of civil and military law .under tho circumstances of the ter ritory's semt-martlat rule. , plndscn in tho center of Copen hagen where nail machine guns were reported spotted at strategic points came f r o In travelers reaching Mnlmo. They were unable to learn if there wore any casualties. ",' Production materials for nazi submarines Bnd'othcr war ships wore disrupted when, according to tho Stockholm newspaper Dngens Nyhoter, 8000 workers struck Monday at the important Burmelster main works in Co penhagen. Casualties Estimated No official casualty figures were available, but unofficial and scattered reports Indicated that about 80 persons have been ' (Continued on Page Two) Roundup Queen I frf Y 71 J I ZH Rigg of PsUUy, who was Ictd qun of tha Lake rltw Roundup for this vaar, will b erewnti at coronation ball at Lakaviaw August it t p, m. Connia Wiillamt oi Wast Sid and Cdrlt Powatt of Laka rltw war lctd prlncst. s IS Attack Regarded As . Very Serious " , . Incident " ' ::X STOCKHOLM, Aug. 28 UP)- Three German destroyers sank two Swedish boat in the North sea off tha northwest tip of Den mark last'.- night, the Swedish News agency reported in a Goth onburg dispatch today. ' A -foreign office spokesman. sain mat n ine aiucic occurred, the Swedish government would regard it aa an "extremely seri ous affair and the worst In' a series of incidents involving Ger many since the sinking of the Swedish submarine Ulven, April 18. - LW Lost Accounts for Gothenburg said 12 Swedes might have lost their lives when tho boats went down under the attack,' wreathed- in flames. Returning fishermen said the destroyers struck from a range of about SO yards, a) though tho boats were hying tW Swedish flag and had blue and gold Swedish insignia painted in the sides. The fishing craft were operat Ing close together in internation al waters, it was said. Sweden ordered cessation of (Continued on Page Two) Manville Quits Marriage After Seven Hours NEW YOBK. Aug. 28 fl Tommy Manville said today that he had called it quits with his seventh wife, the former Made Marie (Sunny) Ainsworth whom ha married yesterday, and that tie would seek an annulment. He said the breakup occurred last night, seven hours- and 45 minutes after the wedding cere mony. Manville said that he and his wife, a lS-ycar-old Texas show gin, wore Having dinner tn a restaurant here when she left the table to make a telephone call. "I waited some time, but she didn't return," he said. "IVi an over, -Mrs. Manville.'reached at her hotel, said she had ieft the table but had returned shortly only to una her husband gone. Asked conciliation, she replied: "I don't think so. I'm waiting to hear from him," Woman Jailed For Wearing Uniform ' BENO. Nev Aug. 28 UF i ".k wr".rr 'z Mrs. Walter M. Zionc, . 23, was in the county Jail today under a three-months' penalty for a fond ness for wearing military uni forms. . . . , United States Commissioner Anna Warren sentenced Mrs. Zlone yesterday, on a charge of wearing an Australian royal air force uniform without authori zation.- - This was the third ' time she had been sentenced for appear ing In military garb, said J. C. Newman, federal bureau of In vestigation special agent.- - ' . LWFSKEETEBS RASP NERVES OFBERLH Axis Radios Sleep As Bombs Awaken Citizens LONDON, Au?. 2 (AV-British Mosquito squadrons kapt bomb-btacfcnd Berlin undr at tack for th third conMcutlr night last night and returning pilot ld robT still glow4 in th wreckage cauud by Mon dr night's hr BAF assault, which url scare reported ichd catastrophic piepes-! tions. LONDON, Aug. 28 (JP) RAF Mosqullos kept the nerves of Berlincrs on edge, last night with the third raid on the Ger man capital in as many nights. The air ministry communique said one of last night's raiders was missing. Simultaneously with the new stab at Berlin, eth er aircraft laid mines in enemy waters, It was announced. 1 , Dath Toll - Meanwmte, a dispatch re ceived through Stockholm, said the death toll In Berlin during Monday night s bombing, when an estimated 700 heavy bombers' made a smashing attack, would have been enormous if women and children had not been ve-! uated from tha city. The dispatch, from the Berlin correspondent of. Stockholm's Tldningen, said evei led' fiersof was hiob'ilfid for- tite gnung. ana .reacueA worfc rr Radio Si - While kseping Berlin, awake, uie Mosquitos put axis, radios to sleep. One after another the transmitters faded until there was complete blackout of en emy broadcasts tor most ol the night all the way across Europe. , BBC and two neutral stations had the air to themselves. , The pilots who flew the fast, two-ehgined Mosquito to the German capital for the second straight night reported that evem from a great height they could ee patches of glowing . embers from the fires started by the heavy bombers In Monday nights. saturation attack. Hary Barrage One flier said that, although the Germans might dismiss the Mosquito assaults as nuisance raids, "last night we were enough of a nuisance for them to put up as heavy barrage as it we were there in force." Hundreds of searchlights stab bed the sky and thousands of rounds were fired by the ground guns during the half hour the planes were over the city, he said. Three German airfields and a power station in western. France were raided yesterday by Ameri can and British medium bomb ers without loss. V. S. eighth air force Ma rauders concentrated on the power station at Bouen and the Tricqueviltc. airfield while BAF Mitchells were bombing the Bcr- nay St. Martin air base and RAF Bostons the one at Beaumont Le Roger. Jury to Consider Baby Kidnaping ALBANY, Aug. 26 OT Dis trict Attorney Harlow Welnclck said today the case ot Mrs. Cath- : ,,r: ..v. j ktd... a twe-day-ow Judith GWIy from a hospital nursery crib, wilt be considered by the Linn coun ty grand Jury next week. Ho said the jury would be gin its session. Tuesday morning but did not indicate how many cases, 'If any,, would be brought up before that of Mrs. Wright. ; ; Nazis Killed in ; Escape Attempt ALICEVILLE, .Ala., Aug. 28 (iPi Two German prisoners of war -were killed in escape at tempts at the camp here, Col. F. A. Prince, camp commandant, said today. " . . y The two men, whose names were withheld, vlere wounded fa tally In separate escape efforts, Col, Prince said, and both given military Juncrals.. . . :.' . ..... PirtuT ghM cnml tS ti on Bwiaman tw UBSHgowg jsconstrucUoa fey Ceice- a a aon pftorian ao. . auprrtrgc- ur of unit No. 2 U shown at tatt. et, vbA miSi ba eisronUd ba4n.tb t is oea. Pioneer Power Keno Under liCONO Russian Army Driving Through Heart . , Of Ukraine - T HEWBY C. CASS3E-Y MOSCOW, Aug. 26 The red army, driving straight through the heart of the Ukraine, has covered one-third ot the dis tance from Kharkov to Kiev, dis patches from the front disclosed today. : . - The Russian surge has farced the Germans to retreat from the region oi . Zenxov, which, was captured yesterday, the army newspaper Red Star said. This put the soviet advance guard about 85 miles west of Kharkov and 170 miles east of Kiev. ' ' B Lin ' Striking across the broad plains 40 miles north of Poltavi, a key railway junction, the Rus sians appeared to be making a bee-line toward Kiev, paralleling (Continued on Page Two) Translator Charged With Spy Conspiracy NEW YORK, Aug. 2 P) Roberto Lanas Vallecula, 35, a foreign language translator tor the Jederai coordinator of inter American affairs in Washington, was charged: in a federal grand jury Indictment today with con spiracy to commit espionage tor the German reicb. . Vallecula, a native of Colom bia, said at his arraignment be fore Judge John C. Knox that he wanted lo plead guilty to the charge, but the jurist refused to accept the plea. . Bruce Barton, advertising ex ecutive and former congressman, beaded the grand Jury which banded up the indictment.' The indictment stated the alleged (Continued on Page Two Doseboi! AMERtCAH LEAGUE ' " R T E Washington ........I....... 6 11 1 St Louis 7 9 2 Wynn, Leonard (S, and Early; Muncrief, Fuchs (j, Newsom m and Hayes. ' - NATIONAL LEAGUE R. K. E. Chicago 3 S 0 Pittsburgh. 2 8 0 "Derringer and Livingston; He beit, Brandt (&,. and Lopez. Rebuilding of Keno Power Plant ,5. .-,'si.,v-; ... th canal uni tb No. 2 bbk of Generating Plant ai: ; v :M0- Reconstruction by COPCO . The Keno, power plant on1 Klamath river, built by Kerne brothers' in 1913, as one of the i list vewer generating pit. it, this area, is - undergoing recon struction as m aoa-prlatlitea Job; - Acquired . by Copco About 2 years ago, tb pioneer plant 1 being revamped, and new ma chinery installed, while -Out short canal tram Klamath river is being lined with concrete, job Started Copco - started the-job early this year with a road construc tion program. Using such equip ment and labor as could .be got ten 'together, the job has pro ceeded to a point where com pletion is now scheduled by the end of November. - James and Ben Kerns, well known Klamath, men, estab lished the plant on the river (Continued on Page.Twelve War Prisoner Reports Sub Crew Rescued SEATTLE, Aug. 26 (dV- An American prisoner of . war ; in Japan was beard by several listeners- here-, yesterday on a Japanese shortwave radio broad cast to state, that the "crew of the American submarine Perch, wbicli was reported missing by the navy on April 11, 1942, "was rescued." . . . ' The prisoner, identified at the start of the broadcast as Ensign Boy X,. Clinton, USN, 8902 Wood ward avenue. Bell, Calif., and at its conclusion as Ensign Jack W. Clinton (same address), sent word of his safety to his family. The broadcast was repeated last night. - . ; - "Lieut, K. D. Scbacbt and Lieut. V. R. Van Buskirk, 380 West End avenue, Hew York City, are here with me" Clin ton . said. "Tney were on the submarine. Perch and state that the crew was rescued." Texos Ammunition ' Company Indicted For Fraud, Bribery. WASHINGTON, Aug! 26 Wy The justice department - an nounced today that, a ; federal grand jury here' has indicted, a Texas ammunition manufactur ing company,, its president and a court-martialed army-officer on charges of bribery and con spiracy, to defraud the govern ment. - One Indictment charges the American Manufacturing com pany of Texas, president William J. Gourley. of Fort Worth, and August J. Cayoaette, a former lieutenant colonel, with-"unlawfully, wilfully and knowingly" conspiring to defraud the- gov ernment in the purchase of ma chine tooto. . Starts 4 tli olanr Kaa oa vlaat Portal Pay ' Downed; r ' " Mines Returned To Owners : Br JOSEPH A. tOFTOS WASHINGTON, ; Aug. 2 Pi Aggressive John Lv Lewis la on the defensive. . i - On successive days' the. gov ernment turned bade batch of i 53 mines to their owners, in dis-! regard to. his uninn's terms, and then refused tor a second tune to approve portal-to-portal pay tor tne miners. ' .- But the United Mine Workers' president; with: a reputation tor roaxjns and esrploituir ODDortun- itievis keeping everybody guess ing aoout his next-move,,, . - Phllosophlcat ' A pbUosopbical acceptance ol developments was nevertbeless discernible today among his as sociates. The- possibility- of a iConunned on Page Two) Strikers at Plane. Plant Back on Job " JOHKSVtLLE,Pa., AugZ6(, Thousands of striking -worfcers at Henry Kaiser's Brewster Aero nautical corporation Jonnsvilla- plant, voted, unananttusly at -a nSass'ineeting today to return, to thetcv jobs ?at once" in complt- a nee with orders of the war labor board and WLB member H. J. Tboraas, international president ot :. their United, "- Automobile Workers (CIO) anion. ' Wit Juveniles Perfect Crime System, Bui It Backfired An almost perfect series-of criro.es by two juveniles' back fired as usual this week when two. young girls were- brought Into' iuvenile court after com-, mitting numerous thefts of money and cidth.es here. " The ttvo 13-yearioJd' girls -under unestionlng . in iwvenile court: Wednesday admitted a se rves of tbefts starting shortly before the Fourth' of July and brought' to an abrupt ending this -week by Juvenile authorities;- " ;' -'v- .Latest - haul included -four sweaters and three plaid skirts taken this weekend from vari ous local stores and two 'pairs of play shoes bought-witb stolen money. ... -. ; v Sfstom Told System of the two girls was to walk into a store daring rusb lofiisra w mm Commando Chief to . Leod AJfies In; ' ' - South Asia ,f WASHHfCTOlf. Aa. i Tf Vies- Adalrtl lri Louis Kavatbattan,. aawly appetetsd altted upra eosuosdas la SoHthwt AfU, rrid at gt7 p. as. jZWT' taiaf. wwie bnmadlataly to a rtsrnt witft, Admixat Enmt J. KVds, cvsxaxaadtr of ftt and cbtef ot saral oparaOass. , . ,, Sy AUX H. SIN OL27C-2 WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 Vn Snasply-ascelerated premcm on Japan, from, the east, together with c sea-air-land drive to te open Ibe Burma read, ?ere re garded bere toda? a likely out comes of the appointment o Lord Lewis iiountbatten as f-prexoa- allied esmmander . in southeast Asia, T b e doughty : ICtuntbaltcn. chief of Britain famed com maoiot ' and cousin of - King Geegrg V3, Is &oe in Washington today to begin plotting details of the - broad., operattonal plan. laid down- in Quebec by Presi-- dent- Recacvdl and Prima Minis ter Churchill tot crushing. Japan, andaneat Pacifte . 'RSd annotntBteni..' xst "eo?R - creoe cSilVot tfte moxnentaua ctutterencet between the allied 5efl(r, unrSearsreired- lbs- empb sis hich uiufoubtedCy. waa placed on the' Pacific part of the global war at Qaebee-and served! notice of an SropendSng spurt in allied efforte to' ftctag aid to China,- - . It broagbl to the command et the scAJtbeastern. Asian allied farces -c matt trained jr tt Dhtb'ious operations one who itae -lTtsro jnidbipron to skipper of the KInstrfoos, one, uno gain ed ftrst-hand knowledge of land (Continued on Page Tw&t Oakes Changed Will After Row WithDe Mariqny NASSAU, Bahamas, Aig. VS. (3J Her voice broken by. sobs, Lady Eunice Os'xss testified to day that her slain busband, tha muiti - millionaire Sir Kerry Oakes, changed his; wHl last Peb Tuary because ol anger against Alfred tie Marigny, the son-la lav? who is accused of murdering hint. . ' - While bath Be Marigay and bis wife, Lady Cakes eldest daughter Nanty, sat near be? in the tiny magistrate's court room, the witness sold that she discov ered that Nancy bad becem pregnant while- she was recover Ing front a near-fatal Illness in Mexico.' At the same time, Lady Cakes continued', Nancy was suU feiing tom a severe mouth ois lease which, caused a satious in fection. ' : "The pregnancy hid to be ter minated because of lbs danger '. (Continued on. Page Two) hours, pick up sweater, skirt, etc., roil it up into a oatl, ucit It under their arm and walk In .nocentiy away. Later they would ' go to the rest room of wo store and. try on the artSclet .H tfcey didnX fit or foe some aliiee tea son, were not .exactly what the girls . wanted, the two would 1 wrap; the garment up, take it back. . to the counter anu nave it ejachangjed. Or - they' would tell the salesgirl that the gar-, men ' didn't fit and ask ior their money bask, ! Story to Ptti Should either of the girl1 mothers ask where- tier daughter bad gotten the new sweater or skirt, the youngster simply toW, her that the was wearing; m at her girl frtendV things or that tha article bad been given . . Continued on Page Two ..