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Show A. Weather Forecast Temperatures Scattered showers and thundershowers this and early this evening. Little change in temperature this afternoon and tonight. Yesterdays max., 91; pin., 71; mean, 81; normal, 75. Snnrise, 6:28 a.m, 1 after-boo- b M7PT; sunset, 8:40 High Low 63 Albuquerque, X, M. 90 75 Atlanta, Ga. ......101 56 Bismarck, X. D. .. 78 p.m., MWT. vr Salt Lake City, Utah,, Thursday, August 5, 1943 Priue Five Cents. to-d- o - - time.) Where the Russians would strike next after the elimination of the Orel salient remained their purposes. admittedly for own military secret, but there The two extremes of thought on the subwas.no doubt here that the Red voice to their opinions. army soon would strike again. ject immediately gave "Russian forces have edged . The symphony lovers said frankly they forward on both sides of the were shocked;proponents of jive rushed forenemy's Kharkov salient and' are improving their positions ward with Jotters and phone calls proclaiming Her .It Sinatra before the mike. Hit tinging "pear Belgorod and southwest kept quiet. their approval. voice it the mod famavt on' the air thet dayt. of Voroshilovgrad. The GerSinatra himself had fairly definite ideas mans have begun to show signs ington are any indication, much of the audience on the subject. of uncertainty where they girls. At Lewisohn Stashould cling to their .defenses It's no gag that I. have a passion for classi- will consist of around Smolrnsk in the cencal music I on n albums and I attend concerts dium in New York Tuesday night they punctral or Moscow sector. whenever I can, he said in New York yester- tuated his Ringing with ecstatic cries and kept The Germans were reported field glasses trained on him throughout his offering .stubborn resistance as day after an appearance with the New York a feet sat few some only That's performance, although they were- driven through the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. wrecked streets of Orel and were why I'm willing to help out when Philharmonic from the stage. ipported resisting in other points, Several weeks ago in Washington his per- hut societies approach me. it was regarded merely as a screams was formance shrieks, rear guard defense for the main interrupted by It's pretty disheartening and disappointmy and whistles, and nearly all of the audience body of retreating forces. ing to me that people like The Russian announcement filed out of the stadium when he had finished, chanappearance in Hollywood think in those that the citys inner defenses had a to finale oblivious field a being played finance symphonic to it cracked after 24 davs of savage nels. I'm only doing help fighting, during which Soviet arby the orchestra. Before Sinatra sings in Holof music that 1 really ldVc." mored units, infantry and cavalIf Frankies past concerts with symphony lywood Bowl, however, his audience will' listen ry stormed them from three music. of light classical listed vast stores of amorchestras in New Yorli, Cleveland and Wash- to 43 minutes money-makin- die-har- those-opposin- e g - - Stolen Babe Flood Leaves Nine Dead Public Aid Sought Waters Sweep Central West Virginia ALBANY, Ore. (AP) Oregon state police invited the public into the Judith Gurney kidnaping . case today with- the request for any scrap of information that ln-- . might lead to the fants return. Admitting that investigation has failed to bring them any closer to a solution than when the tot was taken from her crib at AlTuesday bany general hospital when she was onlv two days old, state officers asked that any tips to he telephoned immediately headquarters here. Even though information may out to appear trivial, it may turn Officer he a valuable lead,- - said Curtis Chambers. Police still sought a young woman who entered a Portland, Ore . in her drug store with a babv arms Tuesday night and bought an infant's 'feeding formula of which she apparently had little four-day-o- knowledge. indicated Sgt. Earl Houston this was the enarest thing to a in the case .thus.-fai- : tangible-leabut reported no progress despite the combined efforts o4 state and d SUTTON, W. Va. (AP) Nine persons were drowned 'and at were missing least. seven-othetoday In a raging flash flood that swept through central West Virginia, trapping many persons in their homes as they slept. State Police Sgt. L. L. Waugh reported that the bodies of Mis. Ljdia Queen, 58, and three of her children, Martin. 12, Robert, 10, and Alma, one year old. had rs Colo. Governor Faces Charges (AP) The ColoService Commission announced its intention today of DENVER rado Civil criminal charges preferring against Gov. John C. Vivian and State Treasurer Leon Lav ington for 'paying the July salary of a service state veterans officer whom it had declined .to approve.. The" 'difficulty arose in a dispute over the position, created by the legislature last spring. Governor Vivian appointed Goddard Shackleford of Denver to the post and the commission certified Jlscar Wood, who heads its pieferred eligibility list. The commission said the gov ernor and treasurer would charged with provisions of the state constitution relating to civil service appointments. The maximum penalty for ron- viction on the charge is 81,000 Portland officers. store Employes of the drug said the woman, accompanied by a soldier, bought a nursing botasking tle and nipple before advice on what formula to buy. a Doctors ordinarily specify soldier, reported one stood bv the door while , clerk, Tithe woman made her purchase. Y The baby she carried . was one wrapped in two blankets, ' said. or them blue, was employes A blue blanket missing from fine. Vivian. - Lavington and Two of Judtth's'crtb'aftef the kidnaping. W. B. Gurney.' the child's fa- the three commission members ther said he would make a radio are Republicans. appeal tonight (6:15 p.m. PWT over a Mutual Broadcasting1 System Pacific Northwest network) for the tots return. near Mrs. Gurnev. who was collapse for more than 24 hours WASHINGTON '(AP) Sec- after the kidnaping, was reported . - improved-todaJVar..StimsQn.dcfimtc-:retacvi.Qf y, slightlyly doesnt look like Hedy Lamarr and, as a result, he. said today, provided a major disappointment to at least some troops on his EUGENE, Ore. (AP) A child recent tour of battle 'fronts. He told a press conference died today and 17 persons were brought to hospitals suffering that when I dismounted from from what Dr. C. L. Lindgren, my airplane in -- Newfoundland I "Lane County health officer; term- saw-- a number of young second field whose lieutenants on the ed poisoning from eating cream-basefaces fell. On ' inquiry I found pies. son there had been a rumor . that Dale Mitchell, of Mr. and Mrs. Janies Mitchell. .Hedy Lamarr was coming on that Is dead. Several members of his plane. .The secretary told, of. the in family were in hospitals. been recovered from Turgid rifT Fork Creek at Heaters. .10 miles from Sutton. Two other Queen children. Phyllis 8, and Peggy 2, had not been accounted for. and authorities figured they also had been carried away in the swirling torrents that "followed the sudden , d k d War Waste Probe Ordered ma-an- n cident in relating experiences on a tour how troops fare overseas, and for conferences with military leaders in Europe and Africa. Turning to personal report to the mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts of soldiers overseas, Stimson said: "I now can report that no one need "fear for- the fjglrting"abd-ity- . or high morale of the men. He added that every aid known to science is being used to care for the health and well being of the troops who are embarked on dangerous missions. Fingerprints Are Identified NASSAU. Bahamas (AP) New York identification expert swore today that a fingerwooden print on a A paper-covere- screen in the room, where Sir Harrv Oakes was bludgeoned and burned tff 'rtpattvwas made 'by baronet's the Alfred De Marignv. Never before in an important case in this British colony have fingerprints been, used as evie son-in-la- dence. Su.ArjnyJJoctorsTreat Sick Sicilian Civilians if there was anything you could do' for her, Mole told Capt, men Don J. Wilson, Tribune, Kan. Wilson examined the girl, who ire winning, new friends for the the came to him willingly, and then Allied cause by treaUng to Mole and said: Tell iches and pains of the Sicilian turned her mother that Josephine Is unpopulace. dernourished and needs milk and vitamins. I know they will ni Carrying a pale, .little girl in his arms. Pvt.' Jo- be able to get her what she Y needs, so tell her to bring the seph Mole, Jamestown; N. walked Into a first aid station. baby back again, tomorrow and Trailing, shyly and anxiously be- by then I will be able to kcrape hind him was a young careworn up some food of the right kind mother dressed in shabby clothes. for her." The mother left after smiling "This woman stopped me and said her child is. sick and asked her thanks to the captain. By Harold V. Boyle SAN STEFANO, Sicily American army medical . g storm. Waugh said he was informed by telephone lhat five bodies had been recovered at Copen. 20 miles from Sutton, but they were not officially identified. , Waugh reported that Burnsville, a Braxton County town of 851 inhabitants, was entirely under water and that hardly a . had single house escaped inundaNo deaths were reported tion. there. Solon Gives Figures The enure 10 miles of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track TOPEKA. Ka. (AP) Senator from Heaters lo Burnsville had ) said tobeen washed out. highway travel Harrv S. Truman was halted in the affected area day ''mor than thirty million and scores of persons were liome- - dollars w was simply construction during squandered Waugh declined to estimate the of the Sunflower ordnance works property damage but indicated at De Soto, Kansas. thatrit would be tremendous. Truman's senatorial Investigating committee conducted a hearing on the project after a former engineer filed a federal court suit alleging waste and fraud in ALGIERS (AP) The French the De Soto construction. Bui what could von expect? Committee of National Libera-.- t aked during an iona ut hori zrd.j6clayari inq uiry. (he senator "The architects and' the designed to disclose Uye names of contractors were working as Ironch civil and military authori- paitners on the job. Labor rackfore-cs ties who assisted Axis armed eteers got into it. The more mom to enter Tunisia last .Ntnein- - ev thrv shoved out, the more d bcr. tiicv made Jobs were sold, e the squand- It appointed a freight-materials wasted headed by Henry Queuille, ering of money was an' orgy Truman said his committee former senator, and hearings are scheduled to begin shortly. might recover as much as eleven hillion dollars through renegotiation of rontraets. Currently airplane modification centers are f being investigated. They Expected To See Hedy But Only War Secretary Appears Child Poisoned munition and guns as captured. Orel, which had a normal population of 91,000, had been fortified extensively with the hedge-hosystem of defense since it was occupied by the German Army on Oct. 8, 1941. It is the hinge and key defense position of the long south-centrGerman line extending to Sea of Aov. andjts rerap . ture would reopen vital railway lines linking the Ukraine with Moscow.- sector was The used hv the Germans as the for their 1943 spring-boargenerally considered to be Hitler's final, desperate effort to crash through south of Moscow- and either take the Russian capital or force Russia's reserve armies into the great, decisive engagement of the western front. (AP) ' She is just one- -, of our civilian .customers, said Wilson, who interned at General Hospital in Kansas City. "Yesterday we had one with a shrapnel wound and an old lady with cancer came in. We put on a dressing. We never turn them away aqd do everything vve can for them, but we are set ,up to treat battle wounds and don't have the type of medicines needed for most of their ailments. They have been very grateful to us for whatever vve have been able to do. We get a lot of different cases. Any day now wa te By HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA (AP) British Eighth seized Catania early 'today and swept around the base of Ml. northwest capturing Paterno, 10 milqs away, to crumble the Gerthe east coast of Sicily, headquarters announced. The whole- - German left flank based on the heights of Mt. Etna was In grave danger from the British success achieved after terrific and incessant com bat since the giant Allied offen-- - -sire on the entire Sicilian front began on Sunday. Pressed back from the western edge of the Catania - plain and smothered under a furious, mass ed artillery barrage that continu ed day andnight, the German line around bomb and Catania broke early today. Advance General The Allied advance continued all along the front, headquarters said, as American, Canadian and British troops drove the Germans oack toward their last escape port of Messina, 55 miles rorth of Catania, and tremendous aerial and sea blows were hammered home in support of the great drive. British warships rained shells upon the Taormina road and railway midway between Catania and Messina yesterday, giving' Dnproi that exposed communication center what was believed to be its bombardment yet. WHERE ALLIES SCORE TWO MAJOR VICTORIES The Axis suffered two major setbacks heaviest American cruisers and detoday when Russians marched into Orel, giant German base, shown on the map at left, and the stroyer ranging the northeast ' coast continued their day and famed British Eighth Army occupied Catani a, ending an epic siege. night shelling of German positions ahead of the American Seventh army troops swinging rapidly along the coast beyond San Stefa no. From the air. Allied bombers Yanks Block Escape and fighters swept over enemy Calls Meet. communication centers and sup' By The Associated Press ply lines to disrupt the GermaiT (AP) The Swiss - American troops broke through z LONDON personal fortune through real a long, covered Japanese trench radio reported that all members smashed at docks and submarine estate manipulations and other on the southern fringe of Mun- of the old Fascist grand council bases at Naples, in the fourth GiuGen. deals while he was in. office. except Angelo Rossi, da Air Base .today qnd threatenraid in four dajs and the target ed to rut off the enemys last seppe Astianini and two others There was little pews of diswas well covered by bombs, an a route of escape, whilp on the attended meeting of Premier turbances in Italy early today, air Badoglio's Italian cabinet today. but teports from frontier towns New communique reported. New Guinea front Allied vanBattle Begins The radio did not say w hat r said that guards were reported battling strikes were The battle of Catania ended if any, were reached at within fiveuniles of the big Japfacand in Jinan in continuing the battle for Messina began, the meeting. anese bastion at Salamaua. tories in other industrial cities and in northern Italy as a protest for all along the enemys mounDispatches from Gen. Douglas tainous British and BERN. Sw itzerland MacArthur's headquarters said (API the government's insist- Americanbridgehead forces plunged forward said U. S. infantrymen were Announcement that the Italian against ence that the war must be connew gams. fighting at close quarters with government would meet today to tinued. Leaders of this "fold-arm- s forThe British by their continued the Japanese in the climactic as- examine important measures said it would bombardments of Taormina actsault on Munda. The battle was again stirred the' hopes of the continueinactivity steps are taken to ed to paralyze if not cut the Gerdescribed as and Italian people that steps would remove untilfrom the war, these mans east coast supply and reItaly he taken to remove them from violent, with the Japanese powtreat route. repoits stated. the war. erfully entrenched in jungle The enemy's line of retreat The military commander in Mi-brush Press dispatches (Associated and chalk caves. A spokesman at Admiral Wilfrom London said the British lan was reported to have ruled from Catania is a liam F. Halsey's headquarters looked for the meeting to bring that officers not on active serv- corridor between the mountains the capture of Bibolo and an answer to the Italian people's ice would not be permitted lo and the sea and in that harsh, strip there are a number the cries for peace and Germanys wear uniforms without special rugged Kokengolo, hills, guarding he might northwest approach to Munda. demands that Italy stay jn the permission The... r.uJ.e w as of points where a' stand-.- ' was" expected momentarily and war. promulgated, it was sa,id, because Catanias capture in effect Fascists who were officers in the that a drive bevond these posi- People Desperate ( National Broadcasting Com- Italian army had donned uni- turned the German flank on the tions would crush the enemy's last hope of retreat to another pany correspondent in Bern re- forms In their efforts to evade east coast and the British surged ahead on the slopes of Mt. Etna ported the Italian foreign minis- surveillance by the government. part of the island. . facing the sea.. , The Japanese air force, .which ter Raffaele Guariglia had draftThe enemy frantically planted lost 545 planes trving to stem ed peace proposals containing mines and blew up bridges in atthe Solomons offensive in July, among other conditions that no tempting to stem the inexorable lost 15 more aircraft yesterdav Allied troops rome irtto the counAllied advance. when 18 Zeros were sent against try except for control purposes Catania represented the American-helRendova Island, and that the peninsula be neuGtiartfilia'-ftve- - m lies from M umla. tralized proposal campaign. MADRID On the New Guinea front, Al was said to be tip for consider(AP) King "Vittorio Emanuele of Italy lied headquarters announced that ation at todav's cabinet meeting.) t A Swiss correspondent in Milan forward ground elements" were po ely but firmly turned down a request by Adolf locked in sharp fighting with thei"sa1rt an trof'flesperatiori had Hitler that Benito Mussolini settled on the Italian people and enemy five miles south of Salahe handed over to the Ger-- maua. signs were scribbled on walls at mans for safekeeping' folnightreading: Death to Badnglio and the lowing his fall from power, DETROIT (AP) The Bohn ituas reported here today. king. Aluminum and Brass Corp. and We want peace and work. " The king's refusal was three of its employes were inThe. Germans must get put dicted by a federal grand jury given to Reichsmarshal Herof Italy. mann Goering, who- - was today on, charges they conspired sent to Rome b.v Hitler last to defraud the United State development reportSTOCKHOLM. (AP) Trans- ed AnotherRome from week to find out why Mustoday was ihe esgovernment by . manufacture-- - of of across German troops portation a commission to solini was deposed, Travel- -' -castings for airplane engines Sweden to and from Norway will tablishment the riches that Fas' ers from the Italian capital a manner contrary to War Deinvestigate he halted Aug. 20 and the movewere reported said. partment specifications. ment of Nazi war majenals will cist officeholders --to have acquired between Octr John C. Lehr, United States atbe discontinued Aug. 15. a SwedGoering'w as reported to" 14. 1943, dur22. and 1922, July have told torney, said the indictment inthe Hitish communique announced tothat king Forcluded two conspiracy counts ler feared Mussolinis life ing the reign of Fascism. day. w as in and three counts under the saboas long as he The action had been expected tunes irregularly obtained, it was danger remained in. Italy. here for weeks while Swedeq said, will be confiscated by the tage statute He said there was -no evidence of subversive intent. carefully brought her military state. The possibility was seen that preparedness ter its highest state one of the hardest hit may Be of efficiency since the war began. It w as .estimated that Sweden, Galeazzo Ciano, Benito Mussolini's and former now has dose to 400,000 men under arms. foreign minister. Ciano reputThe importance of the military edly is one of the richest men traffic across Norway was. revealed recently by the Swedish press, which sjid 250,000 German soldiers had moved annually between Germany and Norway via BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. (AP) Seven firemen and an emSweden. Former film star Harold Llovd . at the Lloyd estate were ploye escaped death today in DES MOINES, It. (AP) Vice. narrowly and -n explosion and- - fire- at his' Bene overcome by chlorine President Wallace deelared in a dict Canyon drive estate. were taken to the Beverly Hills radio interview . today he was orig emergency hospital. Lloyds ' WASHINGTON The greatly disturbed by the present (AP) former films of inal his secretary, Roy Brooks, farm land price boom, and that House military committee was innow coma era silent navy yeoman, was blown formed today that the War De he hoped legislation would be edies, which he from his bed by the force of the explosion. valued partment has ordered the ground-I- r passed to prevent the difficulties at of all wooden gliders of a a similar boom 'caused following Brooks .was sleeping next to were type similar' to that which crash- the last war. the engine room, which is condestroyed. Farm land prices have aded Sunday at St. Louis. film Lloyd was res- nected with the vault, vanced about $30 an acre In the Ralph Burton, committee councued by his swimming pool, gymnasium and he understood the last two years, he said, and sel, said Mildred other service buildings on the wife. Davis grounding order should stand un- lhat is more than the advance beLloyd, estate. These buildings are lonce til completion of an investigation tween 916 and 1918. w h o eaught cated from the to determine whether defects The worst thing that could him as he col- Lloyd mansion, which was unsuch as that which caused the happen to the farmer would be lapsed In the touched by the flames. St. Louis accident existed In to get sucked in on the farm price doorway of .his Lloyd, hearing the explosion, boom. It will be bad too if the other wooden gliders. f 1 1 m - y a u 1 1, rushed to the film vault and A committee Investigator is In farmers let the city people who where the ex- reeled backward from the St. Louis inquiring ipto the crash ere piling up savings come out flames and acrid smoke. Hia plosion U.OYD red. She that killed the mayor of St. Louis and take their farms away from wife was at his side as he . and nine others. ' g& him to safety outdoors. drag , them., . ALLIED army troops Etna to the man line on . - Munda War Peace Hope Revives In Italy Government 'Important' ' Yl half-hoa- slow-movin- g under- three-mile-wid- e Hitler Denied d s Duce's Custody e-entire Firm Indictedr i ForConspiracy Sweden Bans German Troops in' v Wallace Decries Land Price Boom Harold Lloyd Escapes DealH In Explosion At Estate - Wooden Gliders will probably be called on to deliver a baby. During the Tunisian campaign, as a matter of fact, several American army hospital doctors delivered babies for Arab women in emergency cases. Helping Wilson treat soldier patients were Pvt. Lester L. Gvvyn, La Junta, Colo., and Pvt. Harvey K. Burke, Bumpus Mills, Tenn.. Capt. Walter K. Mills Jr Butte, Mont., was having an ingrown toe nail cut out It takes all kinds of casualties to make a war, he grinned, waving a sockless foot. 94th Year d Middle-of-the-roade- teen-ag- 78 79 Battle Against Mt. Etna Defense Daniel De Luca (AP) The battle for the stronghold of Orel reached its blazing climax today, with the Red army' fighting its way through the streets of the city to complete the reconquest of its first major objective of 1943, and signs of danger to other exposed sections of the German lines in Russia appeared immediately. (The German high .command announced that Orel was evacuated. last night, after all stores had been removed and all military factories methodically destroyed. It claimed the withdrawal had been planned quite some - g 67 7 British Smash Left Flank Of Axis In By Henry C. Cassidy MOgCOW 84 88 89 97 92 Toward Messina Entire German Line In Soviet Var Gives Evidence Of Collapse As Reds Advance B.v Richard Strobel ' HOLLYWOOD (AP) Sonata vs. Sinatra controversy has .reached the name-callinstage. Frank Sinatra, called a swooner-croone-r by critics of his forthcoming Hollywood Bowl appearance, has retorted that these classic lovers of great field long hairs, these about it, but they music, make' a great dont support it." It all came about when the Southeril California Symphony Association announced it "had, booked Sinatra for an Aug. 14 engagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Omaha . YY. Xew York San Antonio, Tex.. Washington, B. C.. Vol. 371. No. 50. riven Frank Sinatra LuresThe Ladies, So Let The Long Hairs Howl - Hollywoods U. 66 79 Chicago Beaver Irre-placab- - some-dista- occur-marol- ' o. s; |