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Br frank Jenkins
VT7E (outsldori) ro still check
lug uj today on what hap
pened ai a' result of the Italian
furrender. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 .
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: , 1 HILL THRUSTS
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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
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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
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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- ''..-...'