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iiinriHiw LI On S-mlnut bint on sirens and whistles la the signal lor blackout in Xlimilh rails. Anolhtr long blul. during black out. It a tlgnal lor all-clear. In ireoeu tlonary periods, watch your alraat light. August IT High 14. Law II Precipitation as of August II. IMS Stream year to data ..........1T.II Last yaar :...13.K Normal .....1I.4I ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES i TWO SECTIONS PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1943 Number 9888 . , HEW BBM-aiMl)B . I : ifflF flraada Snoops on Nazis Ml 'J El' 1 ! i mi;1 II I i Br FRANK JENKINS ANOTHER doy of plcntUul news none of It big In the ansa of bigness Involved In a landing on. Europe'! embattled Aliunde adorer, but ALL of it O'Unl'icunt. ((IMMENSE formation" of RAF bombers, anld by ob servers along Britain'! channel coast to be the GREATEST FORCE EVER SENT AGAINST GERMANY and unofficially es timated at more than 1000 p I a n a i, hits Nuernberg laat night. The expedition la described by the British air ministry ai a "very heavy attack," a term nor mally used only for big ituff. All the referencei to it Indi cate that It was big enough to be Intended to SMASH THE TARGET. Only 33 bombers were lost ' 'J'HAT helps to allay tha fears O (unavoidably entertained by uninformed outsiders) that Monday night' raid on Berlin might have ' lnwlw4 loasei greater than we could afford. "THE Berlin raid cost 68 planes out of an estimated TOO. The Nuernberg foray cost 33 out of an estimated more than a thou sand. That la a startling reduction of losses, the reasons for which we can only guess at. Maybo the Germans had concentrated their fighters for the defense of Ber lin. Maybe we learned lessons in the Berlin attack that enabled us to cut our losses at Nuernberg. Maybe tho shorter distance had something to do with it. Anyway, we're still able to strike from the air with IN CREASING power. Thai's the big point. 0 rANOTHER Interesting slant: Nuernberg has obviously been added to the Hamburg-Berlin total destruction list. That gives us a choice of targots, so that the Germans can't know where to look for the next shat- 01 terlng blow. TJERE'S something we can get our teeth into: The Russians, since late last fall, have advanced (at Sovsk, which they have Just taken) to a point MORE THAN HALFWAY FROM STALINGRAD TO THE POLISH BORDER. Tho fighting In Russia has been give and take, forward and back, first one side then the other on the offensive. This halfway to tho Polish border statement In today's dls- Qatchcs proves that tho Russians re gaining in the exchange of blows. .. CROM our headquarters In Af rica today comes the an- nouncemcnt that southern Italy's ENTIRE railroad system has been disorganized by relentless allied bombing, with train serv ice brought almost to a stand still.. Italy's railroad system con sists of two main lines, one on the east and one on the west side of the peninsula. Because of the mountainous backbone, there are relatively fow connecting lines, Because of nearness to tho sea at all points, Italy has relied heavily on water transport which, is now CUT OFF by our command of sea and air, P The point Is that the Germans n southern Italy can't fight without adoquate communica tions. , .-' VINO BORIS of Bulgaria Is 111 rnaybe... Speculation as to the cause of his Illness ranges all the way from a stomach ache to an 1- (Continued on Page Eight)' ALLIED BOMBS 1 E Kingpin in Defense Brought to Near Standstill By NOLAND NOROAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 28 VP) Southern Italy's entire railway system has been dlaor g a n I z e d by relentless allied bombings, with train traffic brought almost to a standstill, it was disclosed at headquarters today. The railroads are a kingpin in Italy's defenses. Sulmona Hit . - ' '.' . The announcement followed heavy blast by U. S. Flying Fortresses yesterday at railroad yards at Sulmona nearly 100 mites east of Rome for the first time, and Mitchell bomber at tacks on congested freight yards and locomotive works at Bene vento near Naples. At the same time, American B-28 Marauders bombed tha rail yards at Caserta also In Na ples vicinity, and light medium bombers including A-36 Fighter bombers attacked targets at Catanzaro, Sibarl, Cetraro and Paola. Fighters Increase Enemy fighter resistance In creased over the vital rail cen ters, and 20 enemy planes were (Continued on Page Eight) GOP Chief Ends Conferences With Party Leaders RUSHVILLE, Ind., Aug. 28 (A1) A month's sojourn here, during which Wendell L. Wlllkte conferred with scores of repub lican leaders from all parts of the nation, ended today as the titular head of the GOP started back to New York. At his departure he was as reticent about discussing poll tics as when he arrived. He camo to the house which was his re publican presidential campaign headquarters In 1940 ostensibly to relax, write and visit his Rush county farms. French Resistance Ordered Wiped Out BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 28 (IP) Five thousand nazl troops have arrived In the Haute Savole department of France with or ders to wipe out resistance of French patriots who have been holding out in the mountains for months, the Tribune de Geneve said today. . . L SE I Mysterious Five-Day Illness Fatal to King Doris; Child Heir Takes Throne LONDON, Aug. 28 (IP) The German radio announced today that King Boris of Bulgaria had died, after a five-day mysterious illness, and that the -premier, Bogdan Philov, had read a proc lamation that, the six-year-old heir had ascended the throne as King Simeon II. The Italian News agency, Stcfanl, in a broadcast from Rome, said King Boris died at 6:30 p. m. Heart Disease The German broadcast, record ed by The Associated Press, said it was officially announced that the cause of death was heart dis ease combined with trouble in functioning of , the lungs. It quoted the official ' an nouncement of the death of Pre mier. Philov as follows: "King Boris III, our beloved king, died after a brief lllnoss to day, August 28, ' 1B43, at 4:42 Successor Norman Armour (above), aea career diplomat and ambassador to Buenos Aires, appeared to have the Inside track as succes sor to Sumner Welles as under secretary of state. REDS PUSH HALFWAY TO Germans Retreat 1 5 AHes;LC rtoss - 1 ' River Psel -j ' ' LONDON,' Aug. 21 VP) Soviet forces which yesterday opened a fourth front by storm ing into tha German stronghold of Bvesk, 75 miles south of Bry ansk, plunged another three to five miles westward in that sec tor today and overran mora than SO additional villages, Moscow announced tonight. On two other active fronts, near Kharkov and In tha Donets basin, the driving Russian arm ies also overcame stiff German resistance to further their wide advances toward tha Dnieper river. By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Aug. 28 . (P) The Russian army's westward drive across the Ukraine has pushed the Germans back another 19 miles and reached the Psel river, a tributary of the Dnieper,. 100 miles west of Kharkov, the army newspaper Red Star disclosed to day. This new advance placed sov iet troops IS miles west of Zen kov, tho farthest point previous ly announced as gained by the Russians in their ' westward push. Bvensk Offensive Only a few hours earlier a soviet communique announced that Russian forces had struck toward the west in a new sector, overwhelming the German de fenses at Svensk, midway be tween and west of Orel and Bel gorod. Tho new advances place the (Continued on Page Eight) o'clock this afternoon." The German announcement, recorded by The Associated Press, was made at 11:02 a. m., Pacific war time, only a few hours after a doctor's bulletin had announced that the 49-year-old - monarch's condition again had deteriorated. Tho death followed a mysteri ous five-day illness, described In Gorman reports as due to angina pectoris. In unsubstantiated re ports elsewhere it was said that he might have suffered a gun shot wound in an assassination attempt. ; Crisis Threatened The demise of the king who had steered his country in a deli cate course between German de mands for its wholehearted par ticipation in . the war and the wishes of his people, pro-Russian' In their sympathies, threatened a violent new crisis, for tha. little. IMMENSE RAID BATTERS JERRY mm city Nuernberg Placed on List for Hamburg Treatment By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE LONDON, Aug. 28 VP Im mense formations of British bombers said by coastal observ ers to be the greatest force ever sent over Germany bashed Nuernberg last night, throwing down hundreds of tons of ex plosives on that southern Ger man Industrial city and center of nazidom. . Tho air ministry called It a "very heavy attack" which meant that the British threw in an assault intended virtually to obliterate the targets. Wide Operations It was a night of wide opera tion from this great air base with Mosquito i attacks of the Ruhr, Fighter and Intruder sweeps against railways and axis air fields in Franca and the low countries.. Thirty .thrrt. BrJUso bombers war lotv - Tha t nasi controlled Vichy radio reported the RAF was over northern Franca again this morning, but there was no con firmation of this. The Nuernberg attack was the RAF's second major assault of tha week, Berlin having been blasted on a colossal scale Mon day night, and with fire and bursting steel last night's raid answered, the declaration by Nazi Labor Chief Robert Ley: "Owing to its formidable po sition, Nuernberg la well-protected against air attacks." Round Trip It was a round-trip flight of about 1100 miles an operation of such tremendous forces as to stir the whole of England and (Continued on Page Eight) Mrs. FDR Tells Zealanders of Post-War Plans WELLINGTON, N. Z., Aug. 28 VP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told a press conference today that some type of post-war or ganization would obviously de velop out of the present cooper ation between the United Na tions, but what form it would take she was not prepared to say. 'The world is going to think in terms of a better world for all its people," she said, "and unless a great many people are going to have a better standard of living there will be no mar kets to absorb the increased pro duction which will have taken place." - Balkan country. The German radio denied that the king's illness had been induced by a violent quarrel with Adolf Hitler during a recent visit to the fuehrer's headquarters or that the king even had been out side Bulgaria recently. . Deny Shooting - 5 Meanwhile a German broad cast of Sofia dispatches quoted "authoritative quarters" as deny ing that the king's illness ' had originated from "anything com ing from the .outside an appar ent reference to rumors that he had been shot in an assassination attempt. .Istanbul heard wholly uncon firmed reports that the king .suf fered a heart attack after an un pleasant two-day conference at tha headquarters of Adolf Hitler during which the nazl leader be came enraged and attempted to strike the monarch. Lord Mountbatten, New Asia Commander In Washington i v YV f'X f' I- - 1 L I txL '"A"' Jt ' ' nil,,, ia) n vr" 1 j Vies Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, left, newly named allied supreme commander of south east Asia, is shown signing a short snorter bill for Capt. G. W. Knight commander of 'the V. 8. army transport service, shortly after Mountbatten arrived in Washington, D. C where ha imme diately went Into war conferences with V. S. military leaders. .. Klamath Bids for Extensive Post-War Highway Work as Commissioners Visit 1 Here oh Tour of Eastern Oregon Area Klamath made a strong bid for important post-war state highway development on Friday night when the state highway commissioners and their party stopped here for dinner and the concluding meeting of. an- exten sive tour .of ' eastern. .Oregon counties.. ; , ;,. .; .vl , Emphasized in the presenta tion of tha Klamath program were major Improvements on The Dalles-California . highway and the Willamette highway, es tablishment of through-routes through Klamath Falls, and Mother Weds Seven Soldiers Without Divorce ' CINCINNATI, Aug. 28 VP) A blonde - haired, - 34 - year - old mother awaited extradition to Arizona today after admitting to FBI agents she was married to seven soldiers "without both ering to divorce any of them," Alan H. Belmont, district FBI chief, disclosed. The woman, Vivian Eggers, was being held in the city prison at Columbus, O., follow ing her guilty plea before U. S. Commissioner Robert Newlon on a charge of feloniously ob taining a soldier's $50 allow ance check. Belmont said the woman told FBI agents she married five privates, a sergeant, and a lieutenant from May,' 1933 to June, 1943. . "You Just get to drinking and having a good time, you meet some one that's kinda nice and that's the way it happens," she was quoted by the FBI. , Danes Cut Off; , Speculation Rife . STOCKHOLM, Aug. 28 (IP) Telephone communications ' be tween Sweden and Denmark were broken without ' explana tion at 5 p. m. (8 a., m., Pacific War Time), , tonight, leading to speculation that extraordinary events were occurring in - the tiny nation torn by revolt against German occupation forces for the past 12 days.' ; The severing of 'telephone communications is a . typical hazi tactic when major events are occurring. Danes in Stock holm said this was the first time telephone connections have been broken since the Germans Invaded Denmark and Norway on April 8, 1940, t . . . Monville Pays as. Sunny Goes to Reno . ! NEW YORK, Aug! 28 (JP) Tommy Manville said today his 17-year-old bride of a few hours, Made Marie (Sunny) Alnsworth, whom he married last . Wednes day, would board the 8:30 train for Reno. i: ;:'. - Manville said that all money arrangements had 'been settled. widening of the long-neglected South Sixth street bottleneck. While not on the formal. Klam ath program, the Warm Springs cutoff, which will cut the dis tance to Portland via Wapr4ta, came In for a local boost ., .i,. f , ' . No Promisea- y -' -.- : No promises were made by the state highway commission ers, who said it appears $20,000,- 000 a year for three years will be spent on Oregon highways immediately after the war. They said they would study the Klam ath program, and fit it into a schedule of statewide highway development that will favor the general public welfare. Commissioners Harry "Ban- field : of Portland and ' Merle Chessman of Astoria were in Klamath Falls for the first time (since their appointment to the road board by Governor Earl Snell. Commissioner Arthur Schaupp of Klamath Falls was with the party throughout the dusty eastern Oregon trip, and remained at his home here Sat urday after other members of the party went north via the Willamette route to Eugene. : Lakeview Road Work One announcement of actual work to be done came out of the meeting. W. H. Lynch, district engineer for the public Toads ad ministration, said that the unfin ished improvement of the Klam ath Falls-Lakevlew highway, on yuartz mountain, is to be put in- Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 12 14 0 Boston 0 2 1 Mungo and Lombardi; Bar rett,, MacFayden (8), Odora (9) and Poland. SC Louis ....... ...... '3 11. 1 Cincinnati ' 4 , 14 0 M. Cooper and W. - Cooper; starr, snoun (o), and Mueller. Brooklyn ..........i4 20 4 Philadelnhia 1 10 a ' Barney. Webber (5). Savlex (5), Davis (7) and Owen; Ger- heauser, Kimball (3), Conger (6), ie (8) and Moore. Chicago :: 4 8 1 Pittsburgh ' 5 10 ' 2 Wyse, Erickton (1),-. Warneke (3), Burrows (8), and Living ston; Podgajny, . Gee (3) and Baker. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 6 , 10 . 1 Chicago 7 12 : 0 Salveson, Dean (6), Heving (8), and Rosar; Lee, Haynes (5) and Turner. ' Detroit ...... 5 10 3 St. Louis .........10 14 0 White, Orrell (5), Overmire (7), .Trout (8), and- Unser; Sun dra and Hayes. i r ; ') ' ' " Boston .............. . 2 ilO 3 New York :.. 1 5 0 H. Newsome and Partee; Zu ber and Dickey. (NEA TUpkou) to immediate shape to carry traf fic until the- permanent project there can be completed. A good surfacing was assured. - T. B. Waiters, chairman of the reads and- highways committee' of the Klamath county chamber of ""commerce, : presented the Klamath proposals for state pri mary and secondary highway work, while City Engineer E. A. Thomas outlined tha program for improvements in and near Klamath. Falls proper. County Judge U. E. Reeder presided at the dinner meeting, held In the party room of the Pelican cafe. Walters listed the proposed primary' highway projects as follows: ' i 1.' Construct relocation from (Continued on Page Eight) - Sympathy Strike Held at Detroit Plane Factory : DETROIT, Aug. 28 VP) Day shift workers of the Murray Corporation of America's main plant here, estimated by a union spokesman to number more than 9000, stopped work today because, the union said, of the disciplining of 200 other workers.- The union spokesman, repre senting Local 2, United Automo bile Workers.. (CIO), said the men had been penalized for be ing tardy following their lunch hour. Lloyd T. Jones, president .of Local No. 2, said he had author ized the strike. . -A statement by the company, engaged in aircraft production for the army, said that Jones and chief shop stewards of the local instructed workers not to comply with working hours agreed upon, by the company and union and approved by the national war labor board. - Mountbatten, May Wield Pincers on Japs Br PRESTON GROVER NEW DELHI, Aug. 28 (JP) A vast plncer movement to cut off Japan from all her new-acquired southern islands was re garded as a possibility here to day as a result of the Quebec conference decision to lay new emphasis on this theater. . . At one end would be Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat ten, supreme allied commander for Southeast Asia, and at the other Gen. Douglas MacArthur, . Map . Shows Plan ' A glance at the map shows the possibility. ' Part of the pln cer operation already is under way from MacArthur's side. As it looks from this end, it would be .the war's most .widespread battle for air bases. '! . Lay one end of a- ruler on Burma and the other end on the Truk . islands, big Japanese naval and air base north of New HIPPOS FLEE ASM Vila Also Imperiled:, Salamaua May Fall Soon 1 By OLEN CLEMENTS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. ' Aug: 28 VP) Gen.. Douglas. MacArthur announced today that all Japanese resistance has ceased on New Georgia in the' Central Solomons. ' ' The bitterly-contested ' cam-" paign. there ended Thursday when American troops pushing ' up from the captured M u n d a ' airfield 12 -miles to the south occupied Bairoko harbor. Appar- ently the remnants of the Japa nese -garrison, which had held -out there since Munda fell Au gust S succeeded in fleeing by night In barges across the Kula gulf to -the enemy's base of Vila on Kolombangara. - ' - : Vila Imperiled ' : 'Vila's garrison also' is imper iled, not only by New Georgia's ' complete conquest but also by the recent surprise occupation by American troops of Vella La-' veils, island above Kolomban-; garm'.. ; . '." ' In tha final occupation of Bai ME AKE HARBOR roko, !.- atoiesvY including .-. much IBoa "arid some vehicles, were seized. There were no re ports of Japanese prisoner. The Bairoko defenses had been crumbling the past few' days after the Americana succeeded in bringing up artillery. , . . . . . Second Month The fall, of New- Georgia oc-. curred near the end of the sec ond month, of the Pacific offen sive which opened June 30 with seizure of Rendova island from which the Americans immedi ately started shelling Munda. Today s communique also dis closed that elements of the Unit, ed- States forces have occupied small islands off Munda in the vicinity of-Baanga. -Until a few days ago, the Japanese were shelling the airfield from Baanga island.--- ' ' . V. 8. Inflltratioa '. : In northeastern New Guinea, where the fall of the Salamaua airdrome appears imminent,. - (Continued on Page Eight) ' Former French Head Held by Gestapo BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 28 (JP) Albert Lebrun, former president of the French republic who will' be 72-years-old tomor row, has been arrested by mem bers'of the German gestapo, one. of whom carried a machine-gun,, a frontier dispatch to the Swiss Gazette De Lausanne said today.: - The dispatch also reported that Andre Francois-Poncet, former'. Fjrench ambassador to Berlin and . later to Rome before the warrt also was arrested in a ' similar ' manner at La Tronche near; Grenoble where: he had lived with his family since 1941. Both arrests , occurred yesterday. : Mac Arthur Guinea. It will give a picture of the obvious line of attack open to the allies without un dertaking the long Job of cap turing 10,000 islands, one, by one, by a slow advance from the outer ring formed by Su-, matra, on westward through' Java and; the balance of the Archipelago paralleling - the' northwest coast of Australia .' Canton ea Line : Directly on the line mad by, the ruler is : Canton, 1 on the Chinese coast, with a hinterland highly suitable for airports. From such airports land-based airplanes could attack Japanese supply lines ' leading to - her forces In all her southern isl ands, and make the holding of them extremely costly. Japanese bases along the. coasts of Burma and China and in the Truk Islands all are ob ; (Continued on Pag Eight) .
