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18 Badoglio Skirts Talk Of Peace By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Prime Minister Marshal Pietro Badoglio's new Italian government held a four-and-a-half hour meeting yesterday but Rome radio, in long summaries of action taken. made no mention of any peace discussion. The tenor of many actions adopted. however, indicated that the government was concerned primarily with wiping out Fascist vestiges in Italy and bolstering tip machinery for continuing the In one action which might be significant, the council adopted rules governing the i press "in relation to the state of war." All journalists were I to an I tion from the ministry of Pop- I ular Culture to be revoked if the newspaper acted "contrarj i to national interest." This measure, said Rome radio, recorded by the Associated Press, "is of a transitory and exceptional character and will be in force until three months after the cessation of the state of war while competent organizations revise the press for its gradual return to the fundamental principles of constitutional liberties." The council also allocated "millions of lire" to reconstruct small houses for families left homeless by the recent bombing- of Rome, The council eliminated civil aad penal laws "not corresponding to and legal traditions of the nation" and took many steps to place all Fascist organizations activities under control of the new government.

Coyotes Gain; Mutton and THE TROY RECORD, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, IMS. Lose Portland, Ore. ta?) la some xe- tnote gulch of the west at this moment, a coyote has a by the throat. And that's four inora legs of mutton that won't reach your butcher's case The despised varmint is getting Jn some costly licks this year. Some Oregon sheep men accused ithe coyote of killing up to three per cent of their 1943 lamb crop.

The Federal Wild Idf Service says the slinking predator is increasing in numbers. But, like many another home front problem, it is easier to state the case than find the solution. Robert A. Rowe of the Federal Wild Life Service in Portland blames the increase mainly to loss of. trappers and professional hunters to the armed services or war industries.

Shipyard wages snake ehickenfeed out of the old bounty checks. Pelt prices although ai record levels can't be mentioned in the same breath with welder's Pay. Result: Coyotes run in droves attacking sheep bands guarded bj inexpert herders who, until a recent War "Production Board order short on ammunition. Mac Hoke of Pendleton, presi dent of the Oregon Wool Growers Association, estimates, for example coyote depredations at 2,000 lambs in Umatilla County's sheep ranges tFarther east, where Baker County links Oregon's broad sbeep lands to Idaho's they figure the loss at 3,000 Those a represent arounc forty pounds of food each anc wool enough for many a soldier's uniform or winter overcoat. The loss is far above normal.

Hok advises higher bounties to attrac sui-ie of tbe trappers and den hunters--men who ferret out coyote lairs and destroy or capture th. young--back to their old occupations. There's going to be little enough CHURCHIULS WITH SYMBOL --Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of Britain's Prime Minister, holds one of the four lion cubs of which Rota, a lion presented to him, is the father, on a visit to the London Zoological Gardens. Churchill tentatively touches the cub's neck with a forefinger.

Eyewitness Tells of FaU Of Munda (Continued from Page One.) Allies Smash Past Catania And Paterno in Sicily (Continued from Page One.) of Mt. Etna was militarily a lost cause to the Hermann Goering Di- ision and survivors of half a dozen parachute battalions compelled flee Catania. Their next determined stand, however, might be made at Taormina, already repeatedly plowed up by shells from Sritish warships and bombs from Allied air fleets. Taormina is midway from Ca- ania to Messina. Practically all of the circular road about Mt.

Etna was expected to be in Allied hands soon with possibly big batches of prisoners. Such towns as Biancavilla, Adrano, Bronte, and Randazzo astride this artery faced Allied occupation. Crushing back the Germans from former central sector of the British and Canadians were giving strong support to American forces held up three days in the Troina area northwest of Mt Etna by the maniacal resistance of the German 29th Motorized Division, whose namesake was annihilated at Stalingrad. On the shore of- the Tyrrhenian Sea, Americans supported by crack gunners of United States cruisers and destroyers engaged in a battle for San Fratello some 55 miles west of Strong American forces were fighting last night within two miles of the vital road punction of San Fratello. Its capture would cut off one of the last lateral roads still held by the enemy in their rapidly diminishing Sicilian bridge- bead.

A poor but vital mountainous road connects San Fratello with Cesaro, some six miles ahead of the fighting in the Troma area- Duplicating their superb gunnery when they helped smash the Goering division tank attack at Gela Bay on the second day of the invasion. American warships gave this coastal column of Gen. George S. Patton, Seventr Army tremendously effective cooperation from the flank. They were officially credited with speeding the troops' advance.

to spend red rations stamps on I This north coast road like the sharing it with the coyote. east coast road is virtually at the i mercy of Allied navies which have AKMT FEE! WEST SYMPATHY, i thrown a noose around northeast- Sacramento, Cal. (UE)-It appears! em Sicily strangling the enemy's Catania Great Prize For Allies the California legislature feels sorry for the boys in the Army with sore power of long continuing the fight. Nazis Use Planes. sealed by tbe capture of Centuripe which gave the Allies high ground from which to blast ahead.

Despite a desperate enemy rearguard action, the British broke to Catania from the South while the 78th Division attacked from the Northwest and Canadians smashed into the enemy western flank. Many prisoners were taken and many others appeared to be trapped as tbe Allied offensive neared the road and railroad bottleneck at Adrano, only eight miles north of Paterno. "To Mislead the 'Enemy." The British Eighth Army under Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery crashed into Sicily's second city at 8:30 a.m.

After the gun-browned Northumbrians of the Fiftieth Division who cracked the Maretb Line in Tunisia, the Fifty-first Highlanders and the veterans of the Seventy-eighth Division who fought at Dunkirk -had slugged their way through the strongest enemy defenses on the island. In London, observers suggested that all organized resistance in Sicily might be overwhelmed in three days. Tbe German radio said Catania had been evacuated in "tbe most successful maneuvers" yet carried out in Sicily "to mis- le.ad, the enemy." The Nazi broadcast said the Germans had retired to a much stronger line behind Catania.) While increasing Allied uerial assaults swept over Sicily's roads and rocked the mainland port of Naples for the fourth time in four days, the Americans and Canadians supported the drive into Catania by steady advances against tbe crumbling Axis line extending from Mt. Etna to the Caronia stctor on the North Coast. The Axis had committed a large part of its best forces to holding the Catania anchor at the southern end of tbe defense line and it was believed they may now be trapped by the Allied advance from the west and steady aerial bombardment of the narrow east coast mountain roads.

The vital importance of Catania -was illustrated by tbe large number of mobile guns, hedgehog defense positions mine fields and troops thrown into the battle by the enemy. Heavily Bombed. Tbe Eighth Army, which had met its stiffest resistance on the Catania plain, crossed the Dittaino River and closed in on Catania, an announcement at 12:02 p.m. said Four minutes later came the flash to headquarters: "Catania was captured at 8:30 a.m. today." returning from BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Capture of Catania, key to the eastern defense system of Sicily, gives the Allies possession of the island's second city, together with ona of the most important har- or's on Sicily's East Coast. With a population of more than quarter of a million, Catania is xceeded only by Palermo in size. addition, it dominates the Ca- plain, called by Cicero "the ichest part of Sicily," which has ieen a major source of food, espe- ially wheat and fruits, for Italy and Germany. Occupation of the plain gives the Allies a broad footing along fertile and strategic East-Cen- xal Coast of the island, within 50 miles of the Italian mainland. It also provides valuable links in.

the ail and highway system of East- rn Sicily. The valuable Catania airfield, at ha eastern end of the plain, is nly 15 miles from the important air base at Gerbini, located feet. A resolution passed by the i The Germans threw i nairplanes state assembly memorialized Sen. in their desperate attempts to gain Sheridan Downey from California time so forces withdrawn from to support national legislation pro- the southern sector could reach Catania said mjl itary targets there Tiding for tbe commissioning new positions. pitted with bombs, chiropodists in the Army.

It was On this fanatical resistance tne TSt varri nf th pointed out that the Navy has com- whole fate of Axis divisions in missioned chiropodists for some Sicily depended. dnectly hit. The Dacino Di Pon The Allied forces are compellea time and that "the proper care of i tha feet of the personnel oi the to attack uphill at almost every Army is essential to its success be- point agpmst hidden gun ente customs house was badly dam of cause teeth. is essential to its success oe- point agpmst maueu gun on destroyed The nor thern par it is known that like menta, often dug deeply into the, the town was gutted by fire al require specialized care! rocks. which only chiropodists can grve.

Tbe doom of Catania had been The newest "tricks" in KAMPUS KICKS- the Japs would hava to admit is "unserviceable." (This is the first mention of the Americans actually setting toot on the airstrip itself. Gen. era! MacArthur's communiques had referred only to fighting on the edges of the field.) A high officer made tour of our positions and expressed complete satisfaction with the progress made in the last two days. Not so conservative was a little, buck-toothed private with long beard. "We kicked the bejabbers out of them," be said.

Frankly, "we" did. I was with a unit on the left flank yesterday which approached to within 200 yards of the southern revetments of the field which for three months has been untenable for the Japanese and now is a symbol for the second successive land defeat of Hirohito's in as many tries in the South Pacific. Guadalcanal was the first The day's happening was a page from fiction. As dawn broke, there was no reason to believe that today would be like any of the other days since first we foot upon New Georgia in first week of July. Usual Thrusts, Our usual thrusts were made, and for the first time there was a lack of opposition.

We got bolder. We made advances which yesterday would have eeemed foolhardy to attempt Sorties of 1,000 yards were accomplished toward Bibolo HilL our units iound strong enemy fortifications bat these were unmanned. From other sections of the line, the same reports went to corps headquarters. After contemplation, the command decided to order units of various regiments to vie for the coveted airfield. Reports came in like Black Friday on the stock exchange.

Unit A advanced 1,000 yards without opposition. Unit scored a 1,200 yard advance -without opposition. Unit knocked out a few pillboxes hindering their advance but suffered no casualties. Unit approached the southern extremity of The within sight of it Unbelievable. Another unit passed Lambet plantation.

It was all unbelievable but true. Troops swung merrily on. They Divorces Rise In Canada Ottawa (UPJ--The federal reau of has announced the results of a population covering the decade 1931-1941. It showed that "541 per cent of Canada's population In had been unmarried and that during the decade the number of divorced persons in the Dominion had doubled, increasing from 7,441 to 14,032. Also over the period the number of married persons had increased by 19.3 per cent, the number of single persons had risen by only 4.7 per cent.

British Columbia was the province with the highest percentage of married couples, 47.8; Ontario was second with 45.4, and Quebeo last with 35.7. NOW! EXECUTION IN BELGRADE The Office of War Information released this photo material describing it as showing a hanging on King Milan Street, Belgrade, OWI said photo was smuggled out of Belgrade and brought to the United States through underground sources. did not need to tell them the tide had turned. They sensed it. Each unit vowed to be the first to set foot upon Munda.

airfield. At approximately 2 pjn, one outfit was within twenty yerds of southern areas of the field. Five hardy venturers, unmindful of -what might be arrayed against them on the opposite side of the field yelled in unisons "There's the field. go." they did, Ac a. man, they dashd like sprinters to a -wrecked Zero and ripped a plate from the fuse box, aeised a landing' light and a piece of metal, then dashed back to their lines.

-They were the envy of their comrades. IS COMMUNITY A1XE Long as Possible the Dittaino Valley, which has been heavily bombed in recent Al- ied raids. Palermo is 159 miles to the northwest, within easy bomb- ng range of Allied planes based on Catania. Volcanic Mt- Edna, the summit of which is 18 miles north of Catania, has contributed to the bright as well the dark eras of the city. In 1928 an eruption wiped out to the north but spared latania itself, which was last completely destroyed not by Mt.

Etna, 3Ut by earthquake, in 1693. Catania was founded in 729 B.C. and has less antiquity and more modernity to show than other ancient Sicilian settlements. Its architecture ia relatively new, although there are ian Apses preserved in the Cathedral of St. Agatha and there are also remains of Roman baths.

It was an important tourist attraction in prewar days, due to its proximity to Mt Ed'na, which is reached by an 87-mile railroad ellipse that makes a circuit of the volcano. Pre-Pearl Harbor Dad Draft Delay Promised Washington Service gave assurance to Senator Guraey yesterday that the drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers will be delayed as long as possible, and that when LAST TIMES TODAY Assignment In Brittany FLUS CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN STARTS TOMORROW art TOMMY DORSEYand his BOB CROSBY and his Orch. HIT NO ---FRANCHOT TONE MARSHA HUNT "PILOT No. 5" airdromes were hard hit and th Fascist Party headquarters dam aged but much of the residentia section escaped severe damage. The port of Catania was not as badly damaged as other ports i Sicily such as Paleimo and Trap- am, although several sunken ships were in the harbor.

Allied fighters and ftghter-bomb- ers destroyed sixty enemy trucks other vehicles in behind-the, lines attacks yesterday to facili- tate the ground advance. Eighty Bother vehicles were damaged "Steady progress continues to be made alon? the entire front in the of determined resistance," Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's were "well covered by bombs." One merchant ship was left afire. Eleven intercepting aircraft were shot down as the Fortresses ran into tbe heaviest aerial opposition in some time.

British Wellington bombers also attacked the Italian mainland Tuesday night, hitting Paolo and Catanzaro on the East Coast of the Toe of the Boot, and Marauder medium bombers followed through with daylight raids on the same targets yesterday. The two towns are situated on the railway running from Naples down to Reggio Calabria, opposite Sicily. American motor torpedo boats were revealed to have joined small British craft in sweeping Messina Strait of Axis shipping. The Northwest African. Air Forces, now largely operating from Sicilian bases, maintained heavy shuttle attacks on enemy supply dumps, road communications and motor transport throughout yesterday, leaving blazing supplies and trucks in their wake.

Attacks By Bombers. Other night bombers heavily attacked Messina and Eattipaglia, another important junction on the Naples-Reggio Calabria Railroad, last night. Three AJlied planes were lost in all in the 24 hours ended "Wednesday midnight and further these family heads are taken theyS will ba drawn from all states equally and simultaneously. Gurney, a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, said a conference with draft officials convinced him it will be necessary to draft some fathers after October 1, because local board lists of other available men wfll be exhausted In many areas then. Senator Wheeler OX-Mont.) has said he will ask leaders to call Congress back into session immediately if War Manpower Commissioner Paul V.

McNutt does not modify an order calling for induction of fathers after October 1, but there were few indications here that such a course would be taken. G-urney said he was informed that local boards have been ordered to start their reclassiflcation now, but that no induction of fathers will begin until October 1. "I have assurances that Selective Service policy is to refrain from calling fathers as long as that is possible," he said. "It is my understanding further that Selective Service will attempt to so distribute its calls among states and in towns among local boards that fathers will be inducted from all states and from all local boards as close to the same time as possible." Gurney said this would involve equalization of such inductions among the states, somewhat along line proposed in the Houee- approved Kilday Bill, which has not )een acted on by the Senate. However, the Kilday Bill would prevent induction of pre-Pearl Harbor 'athers in any state until the list of other available men in that state iaa been exhausted.

1 YOUTH HURT DIVING. Diving into the Brue 3101 Pond in Ballaton Spa yesterday, Manuel Curcio, 16, of 75 Washington Street, struck the bottom with such force that a piece of stone was imbedded in his skull. Dr. Miles J. Corntb- waite removed the stone.

The youth is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Curcio. Doors Open Daily at 11:15 A.

M. --PLUS-ADDED HITS SPIRIT OF WEST POINT BENJAMIN FRANKIJN, JB. WAR TOWN TONIGHT--TOMORRO JUDY GABJLAJCD JACK HALEY BERT LAHJR FRANK MORGAN "THE WIZARD OFOZ" (OT TECHNICOLOR) AJLSO Blr.ha.rd Arlcn Jpan Parker "WRECKING CREW" CARTOON AIR CONDITIONED COMFORTABLY COOLED FAMILY AFFAIR. Lewisburg, Pa. (INS)---Bucknell University has a father-son teaching combination for the first time in many years.

Charles F. Bond of Liewisburg has been appointed a physics teacher at the institution where his father is head of the religious department TROY GIRL PASSES. Catherine Fennelly, 2b26 Fifth Avenue, Troy, is one of eight persons who passed the promotion test for senior file clerk in the office of the Department of Agriculture and Markets at Albany. LANSING SATURDAY John Carroll Susan Hay ward Freddy Martin and Orchestra "HIT PARADE OF 1943" Irene Hervey Bela Lugoti "NIGHT MONSTER" 'SECRET CODE' TONIGHT CITY WITHOUT MEN Starring? MJchaef Duaae and Linda Darnell--Also FLYING FORTRESS Starring Richard Greene and Caria Lehmann--Aim selected short nabjectfl ODAY THRU SAT. THE HIT SHOW IN TOWN Mat.

ZZc, Tux. Kve. 33c, Tax Inc. LINCOLN 3 EAST SIDE KIDS BELA LUGOSI "GHOSTS Si LOOSE" ANNA MAY WONO 'Lady From Chungking 1 COI i reports showed that six additional munique me enemy is ing use of mines and demolitions to hamper our progress." Naples Bombed. favorite Loaf bouts.

They just as smart just as sturdy and just as easy on the foot! In tbe air, American Flyine: Fortresses rocked XapSes. Italy's biggest port, with its fourth buster raid in four days, remind' Italians that they will see only destruction and death until they capitulate. The submarine base and docks aere the mam targets at Naples and the communique said they Allied planes were lost Tuesday. Axis planes have put in a sudden reappearance, it was revealed, and have attacked Allied shipping in Palermo Harbor on the North Coast of Sicily several times in the last five days. Minor damage was caused, the communique said, and U.

S. warships drove off the raiders with anti-aircraft guns. At least seven out of a formation of 30 Junkers 88 dive bombers were shot down in a pre-dawn raid last Sunday. WATERFORD TODAY CASINO SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS Lana Turner and Robert Young THE DEAD END KIDS IN MUG TOWN AMILY WATERVI-TJET TODAY -CALABOOSE" with NOAH BEERY, JR. and ROGERS BIGGEST SHOW IN TOWN 3-- SMASH HITS-- 2 HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO PMJS-- DESERT VICTORY ATTENTION GRAND OPENING -CANTERBURY BAKEWARE OPENING 100 PIE A BAKER STATE I.AST TIMES TONIGHT Sir Ccdric Hardvrfcke.

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