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Strata UPllll!1 lLiiilirii?mniii!iininiimiiiilliiiiliiw!li!ffliiy iiiii(raimiiiiiiiiiiiriii Ont 8-mlnuts blast on slrsns and whlstUs U ths signal for blackout In Klamath Falls. Anoihtr long blast, during a black- August Mlfh II, Low Precipitin aa si August SO, IMS Sirsaaa yeas to date ..1T.I$ Last yew 11.10 Normal ...11.41 Oout, ii a tignai lot aii-citsr. in wcau tlonsry periods, watch your alraat light. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1943 Number 9887 V mm JV miiiiimiiiiiiiwiuiiiiiiiiiiiiw r 0) I? i n OS Ow' lllgllll By THANK JENKINS AS thcso words ars written, Berlin has been under allied air attack three nights running first a major blow by heavy Brit ish bombers In strong force and on the two succeeding nights by swift British Mosquttos. Reports of the damago dona ars beginning to leak out, and it Is generally described as catas trophic. WEDISII nowspapers estimate that 12,000 people have been killed, SO.000 wounded and a half million mado homeless. Trains are Jammed with people trying to get out of the city, and It Is said that many get out at night and come bark the next morning. 'TWERE ars Indications that the Carman government has moved out of Berlin. Reports before the heavy bombing began asserted that the governmental" machinery had been moved to Vienna, In Austria. There are other reports to the effect that the machinery of nazi government has been "dispersed" throughout Germany. One guesses cynically that the azt, big shots would get out hen the danger or oomDS De- came acuto. Nazllsm is es sentially a racketeer .form., of, government, and Ttls natural that the racketeers who run It should save their own skins and leave the general run of the peo ple to take the punishment AS this la written, there has been no repetition of the heavy bombing, such as was done Monday night. The de struction of Hamburg was not accomplished In consecutive, nightly blows. There were Inter vala In botween the attacks. . Our losses on Monday night were heavy. Naturally wo are wondering If they were heavier than can be afforded. If they were, there will be fewer at tacks on an all-out scale. PIf they were NOT, there will bo OTHER attacks continued on the Hamburg pattern until the German capital Is destroyed. THE air la full of talk of the second front that Is so per sistently sought by the Russians. . The big question In the minds of us outsiders (who, lacking exact Information, can only guess) Is: Will there BE a second LAND front this fall? Obviously, wo can only ask the question. We can't answer ' It. ' But we can speculate as to tho probability that our purpose is to knock Germany out from the air Instead of paying the heavy price of a land attack. T ET'S not underestimate these mighty bombings that de- Ostroy whole cities. Suppose tho Japs destroyed (in spite of all we could do to pre vent It) first Loa Angeles and then San Francisco and then Seattlo and Portland. We'd be getting pretty panicky If that happened. ' It's quite rcasonablo to assume that Germany Is getting panicky. .I- .. DECAUSE of the question of cost, we're watching with the keenest interest for tho next big raid on Berlin. If It comes with in a rcasonablo length of time, we'll bo safe In assuming thai these staggorlng, whole-city-dostroying air blows arc no more costly than can bo afforded. We can bo reasonably sure by this time that If they can be con tinued, Germany can be defeated Ofrom the air. ', T ORD MOUNTBATTEN'S Bp polntmcnt as supremo allied commander In Southeast Asia Is unexpected enough to arouse considerable speculation, The general drift of the speculation la that It forecasts' action In Burma, ' ' ' Tho end of the monsoon rains 1 (Continued on Page Five) Old Mill !-. jfVv'vt-?. . " , . ""4 ' ',,"' j , , . ' , ' K j, , . - n i. - t , ,7 This picture shows tbs ' spectacular ilrs that leveled the old Shaw-Bertram mill buildings ea Klamath rlvar Thursday night. The dark building, at left was saved, but the power tower In the right of ths picture finally fell. The buildings belonged to John D. O'Connor. Klamath stock man. The Shaw-Bertrsm plsnt wss finished in 1 923, and -operated by Bhaw-Bertrara and J. Royal Shaw until 1931. la ths middle 'thirties it was takaa ovsr by Long-Bell, snd operated until about s year ago, when It was bought by Wsysrbasussr Timber company. This company dismantled ths mill snd sold ths sits to O'Connor for a stock-feeding operation. . . Night Flames Level Old Shaw-Bertram Buildings The old Shaw-Bertram mill buildings on Klamath river were a mass of smouldering embers today, following a spectacular night fire that leveled all that was left of the partially-dismantled 20-year-old plant Because most of the mill equip ment had been removed from the buildings, the loss was confined to sheds, the boiler house, power company equipment, and some salvage materials. It was rough ly estimated at not more than $10,000, largely covered by In surance. Present Owner Present owner of tho property Is John D. O'Connor, well-known Klamath stockman, who bought the site recently from Weyer haeuser Timber company and established there an extensive stock-feeding operation. A favorable wind direction and the efforts of fire-fighters prevented the flames from spreading to O'Connor'a newly built feeding sheds and 3000 tons of hay. Tho fire was first noticed shortly after 8 p. m. Thursday Siskiyou Milk Delivered After Six-Day Lay Off DUNSMUIR, Calif., Aug. 27 VP) Milk deliveries were re sumed In southern Siskiyou county today after a six-day stop pago of service by dairymen supplying Dunsmulr, Mount Shasta and Weed. The dairymen gave notice Au gust 10 of cessation of deliveries until they were granted an in . (Continued on Page Three) People's Revolt" Sweeps Denmark; Nazis Stalemated ' By JOHN H. COLBURN STOCKHOLM, Aug. 27 (fl') Denmark's "peoples ' revolt" against German occupation soar ed to new heights today as the Danish government .and nazi authorities reached a stalemate In their discussions on how to halt the riots and sabotage. . One hundred and twenty per sons were reported arrested by Danish police yesterday as they broke up, with, the aid of Gor man soldiers, a riot in tho Raad huspladscn In the center of Cop enhagen. . , i , ,- An undetermined number, of persons woro reported to. have been Injured. , ' , Demonstrations . It was the second successive day that largo crowds had dem onstrated in tho Raadhusplad sen, ' .while . . sabotage, 1 general Make. Spectacular Night Fir i by one of O'Connor's mon, -who gave the alarm. It was burning In an area between the boiler house and the old mill building, and spread quickly to the frame structure. ' ,' Mass of Flames Soon the whole mill area was a mass of flames, which lighted up the night sky and attracted hundreds of spectators from ths suburbs snd the city. Fire-fighters gave up hope 1m (Continued on Page Three) Train Killer Gets Extension Of Appeal Time ALBANY, Aug. 27 (P) Rob ert E. Lee Folkcs, negro sen tenced to die in the state's lethal gas chamber for the "lower 13" knifo slaying of Mrs. Martha Virginia James, today was grant ed until September 30 to me a bill of exceptions in his ap peal to the state supreme court. Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelllng extended the filing time at the request of Leroy Lomax, Folkes' attorney, who said Mrs. Justing A. Miller, court reporter, has not complotcd the transcript of tes timony. Lomax said he was un able to find out when It would bo finished. Lomax supported his motion with a stipulation of District Attorney Harlow Wcln rick. Folkcs was convicted May 28 of first degree murder. Mrs. James, 21-year-old navy wife from Norfolk, Va., was slain as she lay In berth lower 13 of a passenger train as , it rolled through Linn county last Janu ary 23. Folkes was second cook on the train. strikes and - clashes . between Danes and German soldiers con tinued throughout Denmark. ' . Saboteurs were said to have caused damage estimated at 1, 600,000 . Danish . crowns when they exploded bombs in . the Lauritz Knudsen electrical ap pliance works in Copenhagen. (Bcioro mo uerman occupation the Danish crown was equival ent to about 20 cents in Ameri can money.) ' . -i .- .. rvnln.lnn Uii.J Meanwhile residents of Hel singborg In Sweden ' reported they had heard terrific explos ions across the narrow three- mile stretch of water at Hel singgor in Denmark.' Swedish advices said strikes by workers extended to -the cities of Vordingborg and VI (Continued on age Three) WGRK STARTS ON Two,- Story Barracks, Theatre to Be Built TULELAKE. Calif., Aug. 27 Work started today on the con struction of barracks and other buildings for the enlargement of tho army quarters at the Jap anese evacuee center at Newell. Several modern two-story bar racks buildings are to be built, along with a theatre, and a rec reation hall for each of five mili tary companies. Roads, Towers Construction started several days ago on roads, towers, fences and bridges in connection with the enlargement of the center to house all "disloyal" evacuees as well as much larger military per sonnel. It was learned today that five companies of military police and escort guards will be moved to the center at the start, making a total of about 1000 men and 40 officers. After the shift of disloyal Japanese to Tulelake is . (Continued on Page Three) Hull Charges Writers With Aiding Enemy WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (IP) Secretary of State Hull said to day that "a few among the writers and commentators" had been "lending aid and comfort tp the enemy" by making un true statements relating to inter national relations of tae United States. Hull made his remarks at a press conference and then for emphasis issued them to the press for direct quotation. He volunteered his views and did not specifically connect them with any of such recent develop ments as the . reported- resigna tion of Undersecretary Sumner Welles or the replacement of Maxim Litvinoff as soviet am bassador. ' - ; . . ' No Trace Found -Of Missing Bomber PENDLETON, Aug. 27 (IP) No trace has been found of a four-engined army bomber, miss ing since it left Pendleton field on a routine flight June 28, lo cal air base authorities an nounced today, . Nothing was heard from the plane and its 10 crewmen after it took off from this field, A search has been conducted since that time without results. ' m tabs OiraoiigiDiiiia. . .... . . -' Germans LONDON, Aug. 27 MP) Amer ican medium bombers escorted by fighter squadrons attacked ths enemy sir field at Poix in northern Francs today in a con tinuation of daylight blows at nazi concentrations across the channel, it was announced au thoritatively. The formations roared across the coast of Kent at 8 a. m. (3 m. EWT), flying at a great height in cloudless skies. Mines Laid An sir ministry communique said RAF bombers laid mines in enemy waters last night and naval aircraft damaged four en emy minesweepers in attacks on shipping in the English channel. All ths planes returned. - Last night was the third anni versary of the first big German air attack on London, but the night passsd without a sign of sny nazi raiders.' Maris Worry Ths Germans now presumably had enough worries of their own. particularly In bombed and burned Berlin from which the population was reported rapidly scattering to escape future raids. The British Broadcasting cor poration said ths nazi. govern ment branches wer preparing to -insv to' cmied territory. Geatapo -Chief Helnrlch. Himmj nyr ministry., ax .ine interior presumsbly was " h s aid s'd for Prague, BBC said. ' 1 v Vlshaa Bouad . The broadcast said the foreign ministry might go to Vienna, the ministry of education to Posen (Continued on Page Three) Russians Welcome French Committee to Allied Fold WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 m The seal of soviet Russia's ap proval was stamped today on one of the first announced diplo matic results of the Quebec con ference formal recognition of the De Gaulle-Glraud committee of national liberation as "trus tees" of French interests. . The Russians apparently went even a step further than did President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill In welcoming the French committee into the allied fold as the representative of millions of Frenchmen fight ing for freedom. . Moscow Announcsmsnt For, the announcement from Moscow declared that the group headed by Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Glraud would be recognized as the "representative of the state in terests of the French republic and as the leader of interests of the French republic and of all Irish Luck Deserts Pet Dog, Family OMAHA, Aug. 27 (IP) The luck of the Irish desert ed the F. A. Berigan family the day Bozo, the pet dog, got caught in the neighbor's hay mower. . Bozo suffered a mangled' lower leg, which had to be amputated above the paw. The mower also cut off his tall. ," Mrs. Berigan, who was canning at the time, suffered a sprained finger. She start ed - suddenly when her son, Al, 9, ran into the house to tell her about Bozo. - Pat, 18, rah out of the house. She slipped and tore the ligaments in her -right wrist . Frank, 16, jumped over the fence to aid Bozo. He gashed one knee, and the other hit his eye. And Champ, the Berlgan's other pet dog, excited by all the commotion, jumped over the barn door. He caught his right front foot in the latch and broke a bone. - Kwmm Senndl Toons Italians By NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 27 UP) United States heavy and medium bombers in strong force re newed their assault on the Ital ian peninsula yesterday with a set of scorching attacks on key airdromes. Flying Fortresses smashed the Capua airfields and Marauders raided ths aerial In stallations at Grabbanise. Large numbers of dispersed planes on the target fields were hit and IS enemy fighters were destroyed in stiff, running bat tles. Enemy planes shot down in the 24-hour cycle up to this morning totaled 19, allied head quarters announced. . - - Forts Hit Capua - While the Fortresses bit Cap ua, 17 miles north of Naples, on a rail line, and the Marauders vis ited Grazzanise, in the vicinity of Naples, RF Wellingtons also carried out night operations in the suburbs of Naples, roaring over Bagnoli again with block busters. In other widespread opera tions over Sardinia Warhawks strafed power lines, motor trans port and buildings and destroyed three planes on the ground near Gusplni, and bombed ths harbor at Carlotortd. . . - ' Mitchell. nedlun-j Were shot up the railroad junction, at Loc- li and A-38 invader dive bombed gun positions near Reg no -Calabria. Seven allied planes were miss ing from all operations. The continued air onslaught (Continued on Page Three) . French patriots fighting against the Hitlerite tyranny." .; The soviet report, broadcast by the Moscow radio, said that the Russian decision of recogni tion had been handed to the French committee on August 26, the day the action of the British and United States government was made public. FDR Reports Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Chur chill, however, in their joint (Continued on Page Three) ' Armour May Be Successor to Welled Post WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 UP) Latin American chiefs of mission and other personal friends among the diplomatic corps said today that Undersecretary . of State Sumner Welles had written them that his resignation had been ac cepted five days ago. Norman Armour, ambassador to Buenos Aires and a career diplomat, appears to have the in side track in the field of pos sible successors to Undersecre tary of State Sumner Welles, when and If Welles' resignation is announced. Breckenridge Long, assistant secretary of state, has strong con gressional . backing, associates said today, but a man with more diplomatic experience Is expect ed to be the ultimate choice. There had been widespread speculation- in Washington that Welles, despite his rift with Hull, might go on missions to South America or Moscow as Presi dent Roosevelt's personal repre .(Continued on Page Three) . . Road Commissioners , To Be Dinner Guests Members of the state high way commission, expected here late Friday, will be guests this evening at a special dinner at the Pelican cafe party room. Klamath's road program will be presented at that time. ' The commissioners were at Lakeview at noon Friday. State Senator Marshall Comett is ac companying them on the trip here. . " ! nose By WILLIAM T. BONI ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 21 UP) Allied heavy and medium bombers, flying In great er force than ever before in the Southwest Pacifia sent 180 tons Of bombs crashing on Salamsua's supply base at Hansas bay New Guinea Thursday, allied head quarters announced today. 1 Lt Gen. George C. Kenney's fifth airforce tent nearly 100 Lib erators, Flying Fortresses and Mitchells,, escorted Dy ngnters into the attack from low alti tude and succeeded in sinking a freighter, wrecking 49 barges, exploding ammunition dumps and destroying ground installa tions. . -.-W .. . Attend to Haass ' t While American and Austral- ten ground forces, within one mile of Salamau's airdrome at one point, tightened their pres sure on the .Japanese, the same bristling bomber formations which devastated Wewak- in con secutive raids last week turned their attention to the Hansa bay area.. " ;' . - (A delayed dispatch from As sociated - Press.- Correspondent Yarn Haueland. ' somewhere in New Guinea, -said allied ground) troops had advanced almost to the. edge of Salsmaua's prized airdrome. 'The Japanese were continuing their slow retreat be fore Australian and Canadian ground troops while allied artil lery pounded at the isthmus town of Salamaua itself J ' ;Vs;; Kb Interceptors The raiders were over the tar gets for more than an hour es corted by Lightning fighters looking for Japanese intercept ors which never appeared. Some of the allied raiders were dam aged by anti-aircraft fire bat there was no mention of losses in today's communique which re ported the attack. Hansa bay, approximately 200 miles up- the New Guinea coast from Salamaua, is an important supply and shipping base. Low-Dying Liberators sank the ship, one of 6000 tons de scribed as a freighter-transport and destroyed or seriously dam aged 43 barges and luggers. Am munition dumps were exploded. some sending flames skyward for 200 feet Lt. Douglas Charles Killed in Crash Word has been received here of the death of a former Klam ath Falls boy, - Lt. Douglas Charles. He was killed at Day tona Beach, Fla., on July 31, while- practicing dive-bombing, He. had made four successful runs, but crashed on the fifth. Lt. Charles is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Charles, - who lived here for 10 years, moving to Spokane four years-ago. He was 20 years old at the time of his death. - Funeral - services were held .in Spokane August 16. Dadoglio's Hair Grays as Italians Descend on Rome . By CHARLES S. FOLTZ . MADRID, Aug. 27 VP) A new worry has been added to Italian Premier Pletro Badogllo's cares in recent days, for despite-all ef forts of .police and military au thorities thousands upon thous ands of provincial Italians are moving into Rome.-. Air travelers from Italy arriv ing in Madrid today estimated that Rome now contains at least 800,000 more Italians than it did before the allies landed in Sicily, and said the number is daily in creasing.' ' , . -. - ; No Lodging . -..v Parks, public squares and pla zas are filled nightly with peo ple unable to obtain lodgings snd sleeping in the open, the travel ers reported. :....' So far this civilian "march on Rome" from-the provinces has SOVIETS OPEN NEW DRIVE IN Russians Throw Back Stiff Counters by , : Jerries LONDON, Aug. 27 WFV-Red army troops have captured Svensk, 88 miles south of Bry ansk, . trie soviet information bureau announced tonight In a Moscow broadcast recorded hero by the soviet monitor. More than a score of other settlements in the area south of Bryansk were also declared taken.-. ' This plunge by the soviet forces into a new sector be tween Kharkov and Bryansk was -coupled with advances and mopping up in the area west of Kharkov which the com munique said led to gains of from three to five miles and the recapture, of . the district center of Eotelvo. which had charged bands several times, and other populated places. Kotelvo is 20 miles southeast of Zenkoz, previously recaptur ed by the Russians. The offensive at Sevsk left the Russians only 20 miles short of th vital Bryansk-Konotop-Klev railway.; ... In the Donets basin south west of Voroshilovgrad the Rus- wans, sa-our-troops continued their successful offensive." During Thursday's fighting on all fronts the communique said the- red army disabled 63 Ger man tanks and shot down: 61 planes, - . - " MOSCOW,. Aug. 27 VP) German troops have struck at (Continued on Page Three) 1 Clifford Phillips Awarded Purple In Africa Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Phillips, 1943 Gary street, have received , word from their son, Corporal Clifford Phillips, that he has been awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded in action. He Is- now -at an American Red Cross, hospital somewhere in Africa, being treated for shrap nel wounds in the left leg. In-his last letter, he wrote that he had participated in th landing at Fadella, Africa, tha initial attack on Casablanca, the drive on Tunis, and later, th attack on Sicily, r His letter states, "We were landed on the south coast of th island, where we started a push, inland. We went through sev eral heavy '- artillery barrages and the going, in general, was pretty rough for the' first 10 days." Corporal Phillips also states that they are taking good care of him in the hospital and he expects to' be back on duty ia a month or two. . Mr. and Mrs. Phillips re ceived a telegram from the war department advising them that Corporal Phillips was wounded on August 1. . been peaceful. It probably was inspired in part by the hope of many Italians that the capital may escape being bombed In th future if the allies recognize it ss an open city; Travelors reported, how ever that many of those who came to Rome from the provinces had other ideas than merely seeking shelter from allied bombs. Some, they asserted, came for political purposes snd they comprise the element that Badoglio most fears. - , Jail Anti-rssclsts -'Vlt -was recalled that when demonstrations for peace and anti-German riots got under way in northern Italian cities, th pe nce and military authorities, at Badogllo's orders, crackfcu down and tossed into jail number of ' (Continued on Pag Three) SVEN5K AREA
