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p'Xge tw6- LAST SEAPORT F E (Continued From Page One) nazl ships seeking to remove neaping naris from the evacua tion port of Bastia. ' "'J-. . In Bight of Naplti Allied soldiers were within sight and sound of the syste matic wrecking of Naples by German demolition squads. ... As the sound of frequent ex plosions from the smoking city rolled over the hills toward the Americans and . British, allied headquarters announced that the Germans1 had scuttled at least "30 ships at Naples and blocked practically every, berth along the docks. .'Tires have been burning along the docks for several days, apparently as the result of demolitions," said the an npuncement, which was based on aerial reconnaissance. "Charges were seen to burst long the docks' Industry Hit - Aerial photographs also showed- a large industrial area north of the docks had been wrecked by bombings and the , railroad yards demolished. "The extent to which this is going on indicates the enemy is determined to make the big port, one of the . largest and best peace-time harbors in Eu rope, completely useless to al lied troops when they occupy it," the announcement stated. Salerno Hinge In the inland sweep British and Americans swung the right of their line forward toward the Adriatic, with Salerno serv ing somewhat as a hinge, and straightened out several deep mountain bulges. They advanced 10 miles northwest of Potenza, IS miles north of Sala Consilina and 10 miles west of Mottola which is north, of Taranto, capturing the towns of Acerno, Avigliano and Ginosa. Acerno is 18 miles east and slightly north of Salerno and six miles north of Campagna, reported captured yesterday. Avigliano ,is 50 miles east of Salerno and about eight miles northwest of Potenza, also re ported captured yesterday. Ginosa is 25 miles northwest of Taranto and If .miles inland from the Gulf .of Taranto. ? (The German communique to day admitted "a dent' made by the enemy in our positions near Contursi,'' but claimed the break was "cleaned up in counter-attacks. The enemy, has brought up fresh forces in the eastern s e c t or of the front without, however, so far com mencing an attack." (Contursi is .between Acerno and Avigliano. and apparently somewhat to -the rear of the new allied line. (The BBC in a broadcast re corded, by, .NBC, said the Amer ican, fifth army, had captured Contursi, 26 miles southeast of Salerno ' ': Identity of Plane Wreckage Studied REDDING, Calif., Sept." 23 P) The' identity of plane wreckage found by hunters about 80 miles .northwest of Redding was being studied here today while an in vestigation got underway. Sheriff Harvey L. Bigelow of Weaverville, Trinity county, said there was one body in the wreck age. Previous reports placed the number at three. On Vacation Mrs. Olive Van Kirk left Thursday morning on a two. weeks' vacation which she will spend visiting friends and relatives in San Francisco and other southern points. Mrs. Van Kirk is employed at Moe's. Move North Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cross have left Klamath Falls for Albany where Cross was transferred by the Great Northern railway. - " - - UNDER RENCH YANK PHESSUR HELD OVER r,nv,1 Mod Nova1 Scran mYqungastf rrorossion . WITH I uibaiuii rnwMB WEIDLER ARNOLDi iauu I LEAN - I Ac AR ROLL PORTER" GUEST STA IN OIMI Or I"ll ArMMANCI L A N A T U R N WALTER PIDGE0N GREER GARSON ROBERT TAYLOR WILLIAM POWELL Bit) Upon the Book by I LjlLLIAN DAY EDITORIALS ON NEWS . (Continued From Page One) Lae. His obvious purpose is to pinch off the whole peninsula. Your map will make the sit uation plain. YJfE'RE reported to be crowding 11113 Ull IIIUII" WM -' ..... .w land of Corsica today. They're leaving in ships, la Dunkerque, and our planes are blasting the escape boats. The Germans there are report ed to have NO air cover. , DERNARD BARUCH today D tells the senate military af fairs committee (In regard to the drafting of fathers): "Put your faith in tne army nn th hasis nf what it has thus far accomplished in the war let the high command have what it needs to complete the task." That's pretty souna aavire. Lt.-Col. Boyd Yaden, son of Mrs. Guy Hancock of 701 Pacific Ternrw. hax returned to his base following the air conference held at Ottawa, Canada, shortly before the famous Quebec con ference of late August. Yaden had many interesting experiences during the confer ence and at a dinner sat next to the Canadian air marshal. Yaden holds the post of commanding engineer of the Alaskan wing, nemv air fnrces. He is at an un disclosed base. Shortly after his return he suffered a severe strep infection of the ears. Prior to the Ottawa conference, Yaden had been on a lengthy air trip which took him to points in the far north. Youth Enters Plea Of Guilty to Petit Larceny Charge Melbourn Bates, 18, who with two juvenile boys, allegedly had been pilfering aerials, etc., off automobiles, pleaded guilty in justice court this week to a charge of petit larceny. Bates was charged with tak ing a radio aerial and steering knobs from parked cars in the South Sixth street Used Car Lot. The youth is being held under $100 cash bail. Judgment on the case was held up. (' County Court Closes Petersteiner Road County court Wednesday is sued a final order for the dos ing of a portion of the old Peter steiner road running through Squaw' flat just north of Hilde- brand. . , . ' Preceding the order, a final hearing on the closure was held giving interested persons an op portunity to make objections, if any. .--.' :' Slovene Troops -Battle Jerries . .. (Continued From Page One) era Yugoslavia said other Slo vene formations occupied Idria, 30 miles northeast of Trieste and 50 miles north of Fiume, exert ing pressure on both v Italian ports. Elsewhere troops were said to be fighting heavy engagements, on a 50-mile front from Bistrica to Ljubljana. FUNERAL NETTIE PHELPS Funeral services for the late Nettle Phelps, who-passed away at her home, 524 Fulton street, September 17, will be held from the chapel of the Earl Whitlock Funeral home, Pine street at Sixth, Saturday, September 25, at 2 p. m., with the elders of the Church of Latter Day Saints in charge. Friends are invited. Concluding services will follow at the graveside in Linkville cemetery. StfW. . STS Mm bYMnl . E R Worn to Tfte TOWER TODAY NEWS AFFECTS MORALE J Major J. Martin Adams, flight surgeon with the parachute corps, told members of the Ki wants club Thursday noon the effect of news from horn on the morale of the fighting men over seas. Some of the news from the production front about strikes and walkouts, and news of over confidence of the people back home do no good, Major Adams said, but he emphasized that the boys were not feeling bitter about the comforts people; were living in back home. Instead of comparing, condi tions on the home front to the conditions the soldiers are living in, they compare American com forts to the lives led by the French' and Italian people, and realize' that the American way of life is what they are fighting for, he reported. Major Adams Is on leave for 20 days from the army and is awaiting re-assignment. He has been in European and African theaters of war. Adams is a for mer Klamath Falls' physician. 'Labor relations here are some what unsatisfactory, according to H. K. Johnson, senior labor adviser of the war production board in Portland. Johnson ar rived in Klamath Falls Wednes day to conduct a survey of labor relations, in the pine area and will leave at the end of the week. Johnson said he would seek additional information to deter mine the basic causes of the un satisfactory condition, and . that reasons w$uld be submitted In a report to Washington, D. C, offices on request ' . These conditions, he said, were not prevalent in the area, but affected some of the major oper ations. American Airmen Throw One-Two Punch at Nazis (Continued from Page One) rubber factory at Huls. A week ago the RAF fliers laid' their de structive' bombs across the big Dunlop works at Montlucon, trance. - . ' , (Today's German communique said "Hannover and Oldenburg report casualties among the civil ian population as well as consid erable damage to public build ings. Anti-aircraft forces shot down 21 enemy bombers.") Amaranth Court There will be a meeting qf Amaranth court Saturday,- September 23, at 8 p. m., in the Masonic temple. All officers and membprs are nrffwl to attend as the grand royal ma- iron ana patron and others will be present. Visits Here Frances Peterson of Salem, state supervisor of dis tributive education, visited the cooperative fetail selling classes at Klamath .Union high school Tuesday and Wednesday. Luctle Tweed is the coordinator of dis tributive education at the school. The English sun thrush selects a special stone in the neighbor hood, and uses it as an anvil on which to crush snails. There are four extant copies of the Magna Charts. Poppies have been planted In Germany for the oil yielded by the seeds. Pennsylvania is the Keystone state. .- , Ends Tonight "SCATTER BRAIN" and "THEY DARE NOT LOVE" Starts Tomorrow 0 1 COMPANION FEATURE . KENtAYNARD HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON ildest'and Youngest Buyers I VV"v Elmer Baltlaer. left, and young Jimmy Schuls. tea el Re. and Mrs. V. A. Schuli. who were the. oldest and youngest buyers of bonds at the junior livestock show, display couple of bonds. The buyers won merchandise orders at Montgomery Ward and Sears and Roebuck stores. Committee Charges Federal Workers Not Being Drafted WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 W counsel tor a congressional com mittee investigating draft-deferments for government workers charged today that approximate ly 300,000 draft-age non-fathers were in government service, and had not been called up for In duction although less than half actually had been given deferred status. Ralph Burton, counsel for the house military sub-committee, dl- rected to study the government's own deferment policies, made the charge and suggested immediate inquiry into the situation he de scribed. Full Investigation Sub-Committee Chairman Cos- tello (D-Calif.), asserting he was surprised by Burton's allege- tlons, said a full investigation would be made. Burton submitted his figures during committee questioning of Minnesotan Brings Suit Against Weyerhaeuser Firm ST. PAUL, Wnn., Sept. .3 (TP) Frederick K. Wright of Chippe wa Falls, Wis., pioneer lumber man, brought suit for more than $250,000 against the Weyer haeuser lumber interests in United States district court here today, charging a juggling of three lumber firms into a mer ger which : left him $237,449 poorer. It all goes back to the turn of the century when approach' ing decline of the white pine stands in Minnesota and Wiscon sin forced the lumber industry westward, Wright relates in a 38-page complaint buttressed by sucks of exhibits. French traders and missionar ies first settled Wisconsin in 1870. Lizards are able to grow new tails if the original becomes de tached. A transparent eyelid enables the alligator to keep its eyes open under water. STARTS Bargain Maiine 1:30 Hffiptt n mm vrniMfltfi m r--; m. 0 rr am av . 1 tsrWt-nC-a- .miLr m CARL ESMOND ISOBEL ELS0M ERIK R0L , members of the three-man re view committee set up by the president to pass on deferments of federal workers. "They are available for call,' said Robert M. Barnett, chairman of the review group, when Rep resentative Harness (R Ind J asked: "How in the name of common sense can that many single men qe working down there when they are talking about drafting men with children? ' Barnett said his committee had no responsibility in that matter. its jurisdiction being limited to pass on key positions and to de termine which agencies should use replacement schedules. Legion Advocates Postwar Union, Elects Atherton (Continued From Pag One) of its foreign relations committee declaring that America s nation al Interests can best be protected by "participation in the establish ment and maintenance of an as sociation of free and - sovereign nations, implemented with what ever force may be necessary to maintain world peace and pre vent a recurrence of war." The report added that "it would be premature now to state with particularity how the peace shall be Implemented and en forced but it must be obvious now to all the world that no peace can be. lasting and secure for nations that are not fully pre pared to maintain peace." The convention reaffirmed its faith in the foreign policy of the government. The report reiterated a Legion demand that "aggressor nations which seek now to enslave the world shall be forever disarmed and made impotent to provoke another world conflict." OMAHA, Sept. 23 () The American Legion national con vention adopted a resolution to day asking deportation at the end of the war of all aliens and all American - borrr Japanese who have been found disloyal to the United States. TODAY! Eve, at 7:00 -t:00 ' JllltUIlt SOVIETS ST INTO UKRAINE WHITE RUSSIA (Continued From Page One) the Dnieper and within 180 miles of the old Polish border. In Wheatland A Russian communique said that Unecha, a rail junction mid way between Bryansk and Gomel, had fallen also bvforo tho rod army onslaught. Unecha's capture represents 73-mile gain by a Russian column racing southwest along tho rail road from Bryansk toward Gomel. Poltava, a city of 98.000, lies on the Vorskla river in the fer tile whcatlands of tho Ukraine, and is a control center of a net work of railways radiating to Kharkov, Kiev, Kreinenchug and Dnepropetrovsk. It is 80 miles west of Kharkov, 187 miles southeast of Kiev, 81 miles northeast of Kremenchug on the Dnieper and 77 miles northwest of Dnepropetrovsk at the Dniep er bend. Captured by the nails on Sep tember 20, 1941, in their first powerful drive across Russia, Poltava was the scene of the rout of Geo. Denlken's Russian white guards in the Russian civil war and the famous battle ground where the Swedish army of Charles XII was defeated by the Russians under Poter the Great, Isolated The city was Isolated yester day when red army forces stormed the town of Dikana, IS miles to the north, and Golovach, six miles to the south. The Ger man broadcast said that nazl troops destroyed all military in stallations In Poltava before they continued their retreat westward toward the Dnieper. With the red army charging forward unchecked along the whole 750-mile front, the Berlin radio said in a noon-day news bulletin that the center of grav ity had shifted to southeast of Smolensk, the German central front bastion. Bloody Fighting There, the Germans reported, the red army was storming at nazl positions with strong In fantry and tank forces. Bloody-lighting was said to be raging west of Yolnya, some 40 miles southeast of Smolensk and in the Demidov region, 42 miles northwest of the key center. Kiev, Russia's fourth largest city and keystone of the German defense wall, on the Dnieper river, was menaced from three directions as red army forces continued to roll up victory after victory along the flaming 730 mile front from Demidov in the north to the Kuban bridgehead on the Black sea. Demidov, 42 miles northwest of Smolensk and 21 miles from the borders . of White Russia, was stormed' by the Russians yesterday after one of the most sanguinary battles of the soviet summer drive. Its capture, after two days of bitter fighting, elicited a special order of the day from Premier Joseph Stalin, who called the northern bastion "one of the strongest German de fense centers." Congress has revised the tariff 22 times. Continuous From 1:00 P. M. Last Day "Keener of the Flame' "Murder In Times Square' TOMORROW FORWARD MARCH Aim JONES 1mm FRAZEE Bttrii JEAN DomM O'CONNOR PHI tdiuiin'i ll Bid frchtitn ALSO- U Baaaaa U II fr ramose. ..rhythm... k CHARLIS s?r few i Potatoes SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 (AP-USDA) Potatoes: Arrivals, ft California, 2 Oregon, 1 by truck, 1 dlvertod; 11 brokon, 0 unbroken cars on track; mnrkot dull, ' Klamath Russets, No, 1 size, 3.00-08, late sales yoslerday as high as 3.10. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (AP USDA) Potatoes: Arrivals, 10 California, 7 by truck, 4 Idaho; 10 broken, 14 unbroken curs on track; no sales reported. ROAD MEN FRIDAY (Continued From Page One) blue room at the Willurd hotol. Tho conference will continue through the day, concluding with a dinner at the Pelican cafe and attendance at tho Grant-Klamath football game. Schaupp said he expects the conference to tiiko tho form of a round-table discussion as various matters of mutual interest to the three states aro brought up. Junction roads, the Alaska-South American highway project, the oil situation on the Puclflc const, and many other matters are like ly to receive attention. Jerry Battering Of Britain Was Invasion Prelude LONDON. Sept. 23 M1) The gigantic air attack that Ger many hurled at London three years ago this month definitely was the preliminary step to ward Invasion of Britain, a was disclosed today. Twenty-flve hundred barges massed In porta across the Eng lish channel and the North sea were to have carried Hitler's Invasion hordes to' tho shores of England as the climax of a Jive-week program culminating In mid-September. The planned preliminary steps were to have been the knocking out of the. RAF and then! the bombing of London to shatter the will and ability of the British people to resist. This information, obtained from sources which may not be specified, presented a broad er picture of events that oc curred during those dark days than It was possible' to give then or since. NLRB Schedules Runoff Elections The national labor relations board has scheduled a run-off election for the Beatty Logging company for October 1, it was announced today. ' A previous election at the company on September 13 result ed in a draw, with neither the CIO nor the AFL netting a ma jority of the votes. (MM a m mtmm "Women first-for our brave Naii soldiers , . . let the men dig their own graves . . . teach the children uerman hMttir. , . tjv- II PATRICIA MORISON john CARRADINE ALAN CURTIS I fro" with BALDU unneAu LUDWIG STOSSEL September 23, 1943 AUSSIES LAND ABOVE NIPS AT FINSG AF N (Continued From Page One) duys after MncArthur's man cap tured Lao, there aro no swumps such as bogged tho troops at Burnt, 1700 miles to tho south. east. The countllna Is compara tively freo of roufit, facilitating auborno reinforcement and sup ply. There are fow bcuches but on of these was choson for the land, ing. From the beachhead, the troops have fairly open country through which to fight, with tho terrain rising gently in a serlcy of almost ladder-like grass tut races. A coconut plantation Is about two miles south of tho landing slto. Airstrip There is an airstrip about two miles above Finschhafcn but, at last report, It was not service able. Sixty miles northwest of Lua at Kaiaplt, which airborne Aus tralians captured September 18, headquarters disclosed that a Japanese piilrol of 200 was en countered the night of the trans port landing. The Ausslos killed 120 of the enemy and routed the others. Classified Ads Bring Results. Whm D'YOU A MILITARY MOTORCVCLI a be bouqht with twtnlyne l&75 Wtr BondtY&ot (hulUek with WifBondt.') LINDA 0ARNCU, star of the 20th Century-Fes film. BUFFALO Bia;htf been called 'the ?irl with the perfect ace." 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