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Nothing of unuiual importance took place, on any of the war fronts, over the week end. : lUWED purely at a STORY, the Germana' claim that they have "rescued" Mussolini it the weekend'! moit interesting de- alopmont. The way the Berlin propagsnd lata era telling It, It Wai a reg ular pulp-magazlna thriller. . Without dlfcloaing exactly where it happened (If It did) they intl , mate that German parachute troop, aided by commando-like volunteers, dropped down some where in Sicily, grabbed the per son of the fat and .balding Duce nd spirited him away to safety. rTHE Implication the Berlin broadcaster , are seeking to convey Is that the?,irreistlble might of narl- dictatorship hat .fittingly avenged the? alight put upon the fascist dictator whon the Italians kicked him out. They Intimate (although don't flatly aay) that they're going to aet him up In business again and flfiow tht whola world what hap fn to those who, kick dues ' and fuehrers la the pent. 'TO a cynical outsider, It looks as If the nail big shots may be TALKING TO- GERMANS who might possibly be flirting with the notion of KICKING ANOTHER DICTATOR OUT. From the nail point of view, that la an Idea that Juit mustn't ba allowed to spread. " "THERE'S hard fighting, with out much progress, all around our beach head at Naples specially In the neighborhood of Salerno. Imagine landing on a moun tainous shore, not dissimilar to that of Southern Oregon and Northern California, with your enemy already dug in on the dommandlng heights and his tins trained on you. That will give you an Idea of the difficulties faced by General Mark Clark and hia 8th army. , - QUR headquarters In Africa, however, says today that our beach at Salerno is FIRMLY held. CIGNIFICANTLY, today's dls Lj patches tell of MORE Ger man air strength in Italy, men ' tloning the "continued presence W over the battle area of LARGE numbers of enemy bombers and fighters, both day and night. That Is more proof of the Ger mans' Intention to make a hard fight for Italy. fN the good side Is the news that a VERY large part of the Italian fleet is already in our ands with mora expected to Wome In. Thirty-eight Italian warships have already Joined us. Six of Italy' known seven battleships are accounted for five of them now In our hands and one sunk by German bombs. One 35,000 tonner remains unreported. ' - We have seven of Italy's known ten cruisers. tJ7HAT happened to Italy's large merchant fleet Is still not clear, although It Is assumed that most of her big liners were berthed ' at Genoa and other northern ports and so are prob ably In German hands. More than half of Italy's BO to 60 submarines are still unac counted for. Submarines ara lone wolves, and many of them Oay come in to us yet. .We can use them especially in the Pacific, where our big job Is to whittle down Jap naval and merchant ship strength, ' SON'T discount our capture of the Italian naval base : at Taranto.' . , All nations seek to make their warships DIFFERENT from en 4,; Continued -on-Page-Two) j-: Jentes AIRDROMEAT SALAMI IN ALLIED HANDS Aussies Swim River To Take Jap Airstrip ' . By C. YATES MeDANIEL ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PA CIFIC,. Sept. 13 (Pi The Japa nese garrison at Salamaua to day made desperate attempts to keep open a trail to Lae, Its only channel of escape, so tight was the allied surface and air craft blockade along northeast ern New Gulnea'a coastal barge route. s . . , , ;.... ',. Australian p le ne r a. wh swam the flooded. Tranciaoo river Saturday had overrun prized Salamaua airdrome two miles from the city without en countering resistance. win Rlvef Anzae. troops who . foUpwed the pioneer acres the rivet were last reported puthlny Jap, anete remnant holding a ridge one mile: and ; ;helf northwest of Airstrip. v. 'J W. In a drive around' the out skirts of Salamaua, Australian saw no Japanese except the fallen, abandoned and : decom posing amid the ruins of a stronghold virtually obliterated by hundreds of tons .of bombs since the first allied air attack on April 1, 1942. . , ' . . Fate Sealed . r ' ; Even If the survivors of Sala maua' garrison - succeeded In reaching Lae,. their fata was sealed. For Japanese failure to offer .serious resistance to the (Continued on Pege Two) . British Navy J Preparing to Pay Off Nips Br ERNEST AONEW '. LONDON, Sept. 13 OP) Great Britain was reported today to be transferring many of her heavier naval units to the far eastern fleet under Admiral Sir James Somervltle for the opening of an allied payoff drive against the Japanese In Southeast Asia this fall. Lord Louis Mountbatten's new Southeast Asia command forces probably will be strengthened, too, with the transfer of some thousands of commandos ' from Britain perhaps for operations against such outlying points as the Andaman Islands, which the Japanese have been using ai a submarine and seaplane base, and against the Nlcobar group In the Bay of Bengal. .. It Is anticipated here that the coming offensive will be on-a far greater scale than anything attempted thus far In Southeast Asia and will get under way some time in October when (the monsoon season ends. -." More Italian Battleships. Carriers Arrive at Malta LONDON, Sept. 13 (ff1) An other Italian 1 naval ' force ar rived at Valletta, Malta, today, including the 23,000-ton battle ship Giullo Cesare; . the 8000 ton seaplane carrier Giuseppe Miraglia, four destroyers and a number of submarines. The Varrlvals brought to at least 38 the known number of Italian warships In allied hands, and naval authorities - waited for word of other arrival from a '(core, of Mediterranean bases. Six Accounted ; : Six of the seven ' battleships Italy was believed, to have had are now accounted 'for. Five ara In : allied hands -and the fi?Oanniffl &,nl pSi NftZIS RESIST ; VUISUUUUU UVUlWeVUllUUUU U U V&VSliU )J I L TP nPMV'C Victorious Allies f-m iimimis cut north ryTTTnuw owtm kicv: SzZT StJ. ITHYt ITsUIMI MY 2S lAKCMAWUML . Menpas here are latest developments la the areet war grippiaf many aecttone of Europe with deegeeUrllghtlng aasis seeking to stem allied advaatea la Ihdfoits Pbivef With $200,000; VE" Dohd Front Slow . A proposed $200,000 bond pur chase by the Klamath ' Indian put power Into the Third War Loan drive - Monday, but the new from the "E" bond front was not - ao encouraging. The county ha not yet reached one- tenth of its E bond quota for the month. Boyd Jackson, secretary of the Klamath Indian business com mittee and delegate to Washing ton for the Klamath, was in town with a copy of a $200,000 check,' aent to the Indian com missioner for approval. If this is granted, as is expected, that sum will be' credited to Klamath's quota out of funds on deposit to the Klamath Indian.. . . - . Praise for Support . E. B. Hall and Andrew Collier, war savings officials, - warmly praised: the Indian for their strong support of the drive. It Bad Weather Holds RAF, Flying Forts ' LONDON, Sept .13 MV-The RAF's heavy night bomber and American Flying. Fortresses are believed to be awaiting a break in a stretch of bad weather be fore resuming their long-range campaign against Berlin and out' er nazi war centers. American heavv bombers have not left base since the climax of the eight-day, round-the-clock as sault last Thursday, and the RAF's heavy bombers have made no major raid since the Munich assault of a week ago. ' Some Wellingtons and Stirling. hew- ever, were reported to nave par ticipated in an attack on French channel ports weanetoay nignv Roma wa sunk by G e. r m a n plane. . , The eventh waa believed to be either the Impero scheduled for completion in 1942 but be lieved by London authorities to be at Trieste or Pole, possibly not yet completed, or the Ca vour, torpedoed by the British at Taranto in 1940. The Cavour was later reported, to have been refloated, but was regarded by the British a a total loss for war purpose. ' 1 First Arrival The 88,000-ton battleships Italia and Vittorlo Veneto and the smaller 24,000-ton Andrea Dorla and Dulio, a well a six (Continued engage -Two) , Push Forward Over Wide ese .7 . iSKjr.'iBU'-r". X J I ' TCIry: V Loan, Drive Wis disclosed alto that $3800 in personal funds had been invested by Indian in bond purchases, . '-ih $100,000 from the Indiana wilt go. toward purchase of E and F bonds. A purchase of $100,000 oh a similar basis in the Second War- Loan .last April was ap proved. Jackson said that pos sibly another $180,000 may be allotted before the end of the month.; " " V " Insurance Purchase Oregon Mutual Life Insurance Klamath-Grant Game Seats Sell 14fi00 in Bonds . Almost $14,000 in bonds have been sold since Friday morning at the chamber of commerce, the bonds entitling purchasers to a seat at the Klamath Falls Grant football game to be held Saturday, , September 29. Three hundred and eleven seats - had been sold - by 2:30 p.' m. Monday, bringing in $13. 978 in bonds.' Although the office usually closes at noon on Saturday, the chamber of -commerce was open until 8 o'clock in the afternoon Saturday .to accommodate a con stant stream -of persons coming to buy bonds , entitling them to a ticket to the game.-: .. Earl. Reynolds, secretary of the chamber of -commerce an nounced Monday . that -many good seats to the Grant-game are still available. . .Also on sale at the chamber of , commerce are season tickets to this year's football, games. Of these 452 have been eold . ao far. Reynolds said that there were quite-" few good season reserved seats left. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE : Suspended game of July 18; resumed In last half .sixth (10 innings). , ' .; R. H. E. Brooklyn.:. ..6 13 .1 Boston 7 0 0 - Melton, Webber (8), Head (6) and Bragan;. Barrett, .Javery (6) and Klutts, Mas! (6). . (Second game) : R. H. 'E. Brooklyn, ......... 10 17 ". 1 Boston 3 -8 ' 1 Wyatt' and Owen; Salvo, Odom (4), Cardoni- (4), Macfay den .(9),.nd KlutU. v European Fronts SOVIET MOSCOW RUSSIA CYWUS luly and the Russian tide carry company' announced Monday that it had allotted $50,000 out of a $2,000,000 state bond pur chase to apply on the- Klamath quota. - -'Lt.sAi ': . Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan association has allotted $30,000 for a Klamath, purchase. ' "E" Bonds Slow V While these larger bond buys continued to roll In, campaign of ficials were a bit unhappy about the reports on E bond sales. The two local banks and the First Federal Savings and Loan association bond sale . figures, compiled as of September. 11, show only $71,917 in E . bond sales, since the first of the month. The county's quota is $987,000 on E bonds for the September drive. A report from postoffices end other issuing agencies Is expect ed within a day or two and may swell the E bond total, but cam paign officials agreed that there is immediate need for pick-up in E bond buying. Fire Destroys Rait Station; Sabotage Hinted PHILADELPHIA, Sept." 13 UP) A stubborn fire that roared un checked for four hours through train sheds at the Pennsylvania railroad's Broad street station left 18 tracks a Jumble of char red wreckage today with dam- age estimated by the railroad at $250,000. ' More than 350 persons, near ly all of them firemen and civil' ian protection workers, were in jured, several seriously, in bat tling the eight-alarm blaze. which broke out as church bells rang yesterday, six days after the Pennsylvania's Congressional Limited was wrecked at Phila delphia with a death toU of 80. ' The federal bureau of investi gation, city fire bureau, railroad police and army and navy intel ligence offices immediately be gan an investigation of the fire, which started in an engine room under the "Chinese Wall" on which trains approach the sta tion from the west- . Sgt. Harry Burke of the city detective squad said several charred boxes , were removed from the engine room for chem ical analysis. Firemen reported several loud explosions were heard and flames . shot up 50 feet , between the tracks soon after the first alarm sounded. . .e ; T " t r"" BERLIN RADIO CHORTLES OVER RELEASESTORY Farrii ly 'RescuedToo, But Allies Do Not Confirm Tale ' LONDON, Sept.. 18 (JPy The German radio, expanding bit by bit in Its gleeful reporting of the release of Benito Mussolini,-de clared today that the former Italian premier's family as well had been freed from internment by "SS (elite guard) com mandos." A German new agency broad cast, declaring it is difficult to express tn words the:' feelings which an ana ted Hitler, and il duoa-during: this historic conver sation," said one of the first acts of the former dictator upon bis liberation" had been to. talk by telephone with the German fueh rer.: , .. . 'I " Exploitation' 1 Twelve hour after hb release by CMssnaiMisjrachute tMoek aad elite, izuarcu was announced or tMrtin, broadeastr fy The Associated Press -began a full-blast exploitation of the to eldest Hailing it a master stroke and "an audacious ven ture." - . " : The German broadcast' at tempted to spread - intriguing mystery over the Incident, how ever, by declaring- official quar ter were tight-lipped over the whole occurrence. , n'"" Others Freed A DNB broadcast said "com petent circles in - Berlin . state that other fascist' leaders were freed with Mussolini." (The office of war information noted that while the nails were boasting about Mussolini's "cap ture,- they hadn't , seen fit to have him. broadcast, and weren't even quoting him today). . . --. . The Netherlands radio said that Vittorio Mussolini, eldest son of the deposed duce, had ar rived in Germany, but It did not indicate whether he was one of those whom the Germans claim to have freed.. ! The Germans, In- their broad cast, said that the news of the "liberation" was "sensationally featured in the Swedish press and quoted Dagens Nyheter as (Continued on Page Two) Richard DuPont, Three Others y Killed in Crash MARCH FIELD. Calif., Sept. IS (i Army air forces authori ties have announced the death of four men, including Richard Chi chester Du Pont, during a test flight of a glider one mile south east of this eirbasev The field's public relations of ficer said Du Pont, 31, nationally- known glider pilot and member of Delaware's noted Du Pont family, bailed out when the glid er went into a spirt at 3000 feet altitude, but a safety .device on his parachute. failed to operate.. Others killed, all of whom crashed to earth with the craft a few minute after it was' cut loose from the towing plane Sat urday, were Col. P. Ernest Gabel, Washington, D. C, deputy, di rector of the army, air forces' glider program; Howard L. Mor rison, of San Fernando, Calif. and C. C. Chandler, Tarzana, Calif., test pilots. . The public relations--officer, MaJ. L. J. Doyle, said the glider was being tested for possible use by the army. Du Pont, serving as special as sistant to Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces, in the air forces glider, program, was the son of A. Felix Du Pont, of Rehoboth Beach, Del,, a di rector of E.. If . Du Pont De emoura company, s . I 111 inniiiiii u : , 1 HILL THRUSTS l A t V : - ' 1 With SDDolntmant ot Lf. On. Jeha L. Da Witt . as command ant of tha Army aad Navy Staff college la Washlaetoa. LL Om. Deles C Eaunoas,. above, be come commanding general of the Fourth Army aad Western Defease rommand la Sea Fraa- OF RED ARTILLERY Trap ThreatensTough 30ir-BatioiiVprL; Central Front M .LONDON, Sept 13 UPt The red army in a-new plunge has readied the edge of the prize axis bastion of Bryansk, Moscow announced tonight, amid other Russian successes) all along the great front Stretching southward to the Sea of Azov. - ' A six to nine-mile gain car ried the red army through sev eral of Bryansk's rail stations and junctions on the left bank of the Desna, river. The city itself lies on a high bluff- on the tight, or western bank, opposite the advancing Russians. "Thus our troops have come right up to the town of Bryansk," said the communique recorded (Continued on Page Two) Price Reduction " Program to Lower Cost of Living , - WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (IP) General Manager Chester Bowles of the office of price administration today announced a sweeping price reduction pro gram designed to lower the cost of living to consumers by 2.3 per cent end effect substan tial savings in retail prices of potatoes, lard, apples, oranges. and other products. The roll back would be ac complished . through . a $100,- 000,000 government program of transportation, subsidies, gov ernment crop purchase and re sale,, and in the case ot peanut butter , and ' probably lard, roll back subsidies within the finan cial limits set -by congress. Fire-Fighters Still Datdc Lightning Set Diazes Hero Klamath's fire-fighting agen cies continued to battle' lightning- set forest and brush fires Mon day, with, the most dangerous blazes crackling on the hillsides on both sides of Plum valley, north of the city. : Five officials from the state forestry offices arrived tor super vision work, and. crews of high school boys and men recruited through the employment service were at work on the. fire lines. Twenty-nine KUHS .boys went out Monday morning,, and more may be celled before the day is over. ' '. 40 Fbee Set . ' More than 40 fires were set in this area by the severe electrical storms of last Thursday and Fri day. . One by- - one - the ' KFPA, county,- Indian . service, . forest British Speed ' North From Italian . Toe By K01AJTD ITOROAARD ALLIED - HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 13, OP) A bitter and bloody battle raged into It fifth consecutive day around the American fifth . army's Salerno bridgehead today with growing German forces re sisting desperately . the deter- mined penetration into their hill positions girding thep lain and protecting the broad port of Naples. - ' The . British eighth army. speeding steadily , northward from the Italian toe against little or no enemy opposition, captured the port of Crotone, 110 miles from the southern tip of the pen insula, and found that harbor - in good condition for allied use. a communique from Gen. Dwight - D. Eisenhower's headquarter an , nounced. ;-';--... Meld The- British force landed at Taranto the eastern leg of the allied invasion which had been thrown across the saddle of the Apaeninss swiftly extended it hold on the entrance -to -the.. Ad-" rattle "aHer IKe capture of BrlnO ' tt While reinforcements poured ashore to strengthen this right wing of -the allied assault, (mail German forces left in the vicinity were being pushed beck rapidly. (The British radio broadcast that British had captured Alta mura. 21 miles t west of Bari. Bar! is apparently BO miles north of Taranto and an important port on the Adriatic It to 89 miles nn the coast from Brlndist. The broadcast was heard by NBC). . Previously :ejement ot vne (Continued on Page Two) ' Vorld Peace to Be First Item Before Congress ' vnsnmr.TON Sent. 13 UPi Consideration of the Fulbrlght wnlntinn nn wnrlri neace defi nitely will be the No. 1 item of business when the house recon venes tomorrow, Representative e.kK m.Tll V phuirman of the rules committee, declared today. "I have made an investigation mwA ttmut 4hj at m1oritV Of the member favor the Fulbrlght res olution," Sabath asserted. The measure, by Representa tive Fulbrlght (D-Ark.), provides that "congress hereby expresses Itself as favoring the creation ot appropriate international mach inery with power adequate to es tiMlih anil in maintain a lust and' lasting peace, among the nations of the world, aa favoring par ticipatlon by the United States therein." . Regarding manpower, ' Sabath said the house expressed Itself last spring in opposition to draft ing, fathers, so "why not let the senate eet nowf" -. service: and private patrol have checked these blazes, but the Plum valley fires were still burn ing this afternoon. . A KFPA truck, returning from a fire at Bly, was damaged and two horses were killed when the driver was blinded by a head-, light and. hit the horses after passing a car. Dean Fitzgerald, who was riding in the truck, was slightly hurt. - - - Potentially Serious ' Potentially serious fires broke out on Esgle ridge, west of Upper Klamath lake, on Liskey range land in Swan lake valley, on Brvant mountain, . twd la Crater Lake .Lumber company slash. - - -w - The state men- her 'are Dwight Phlpps, W. F. McCullA John wood, Jsck uann ana i Port, u- ''..-...'
