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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1943)
:'iiliiiii'ip j One 8-mlnuto blast on sirens and whlillti Is the signal lor blackout In Klamath rails. Anothtt long blast, during black out, U signal for all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watoh your itrtti Hflhti. Ftbruary as High 81, Low 31 Precipitation a of February 22, 1141 8traam year to data .....13.12 Lait yaar ..1.71 Normal .....7.83 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1943 M M1 mho 'ujoiihim ilnio;j A 11 V II U I' I A.MIiHaAINfl mm -r MAIN STRENGTH DiiMPumMnnTU Pommel Osais 3 By FRANK JENKINS pHE Gormani oro still on the prod In Tunlslo. They attacked oil day Sunday shunt a 68-inllo front, and at ona point they gained three miles. Todays dispatches tell us wot alonit this front an allied air as sault left "bloody chaos" in tho Gorman ranks. The Germans no longer have everything their own way In the Ir. T OCATE Medjcz el Bob on your " map. (You will find It Just west and a little south of Tunis.) Note its relation to railroads and highways. " It lies at the head of a valley that is the historic main gate to Tunis and BUerte, which oro lo cated roughly on tho site of tho ancient clty-stato of Carthage. There has been fighting in this general area for mora than 23 centuries that we know of, and always tho general' area of Med jet el Bab has been a stra tegic point. .-.,., Watch ANY fighting in this area. It will bo Important. The Germans will tako Medjcz el r. l I J .I.-.. ...... 11,.. nl.i. 3 at j m iiipy mil. iru wvii ivu Jt up unless we havo to, MONTGOMERY is reported to 11 day at Mareth. In the Mareth line defenses. Mareth is only 43 mites from Gabcs, where tho coastal route ("passable terrain" Is tho military term you will see in tho dispatches) narrows to a 20-mllo bottleneck botween tho Mediterranean and the Chott Pjerid salt lake. . MONTGOMERY'S objoctlvo Is to break through these de fenses and squcczo Rommel from the south. Rommel's purpose Is to HOLD MONTGOMERY BACK as long as possible. Montgomery (from whom wo havn honrH little lntelv) mnv bo undertaking to' FLANK tho Marctn acienscs, going tnrougn the difficult country to tho west and north instead of storming the narrow Marcth-Gabcs gate. Anyway, the tiling to watch Is .whether or not Montgomery can break through to put the squcczo on Rommel. www DEC ALL the story of tho Amor- " lean patrol piano wnoso pilot reported seeing large Gorman convoys crossing the Sicilian strait and another largo Gorman convoy UNLOADING at Blzcrto. You may be sure tho Germans are rushing in nil tho reinforce ments they can lay hands on and can GET THERE. ' "THERE'S an exciting noto to-" day In the news from tho Pnrlfle. MncArtluir's headquarters in Australia reports tnut mo daps are massing "great forces of troops and poworful armadas of ships and planes" In their Island bases to the north of Australia, all the way around from tho Solomons to tho Dutch East Indies. Ho soys tho Japs may bo oither planning to attack us or expect ing us to attack them, AT tho same time Admiral Nimitz, who commands our naval forces In tho Pacific, says In connection with a statement on tho coming Rod Cross drivo that our navy Is now ready to start a ditvo TOWARD JAPAN ITSELF. Ho adds: "Our Job Is to destroy tho enemy's ships and planes and neutralize his Island strong points as wo drivo toward tho positions from which wo can roach with our shells and bombs i.ia iwhitotdiAt. tors." . p JSJOTE tho timing of Ma1 7 Arthur's and Nimltz's state! (Continued on Page Two) ! I MORE ARRESTS OF EVACUEES E SUNDAY Two Beatings Reveal ed in Connection With Registration Additional arrests of evacuees at Tuleiaka war relocation pro ject were mado Sunday, and to day It was disclosed that two beatings had occurred on the project In connection with trou ble over registration of evacuees for Job clearance and military service. Twolve men, described as suspected ring-leaders of tho ogltation against registration, wero brought to the county Jail hero at S a. m, Sunday. Both Men Harvey Covcrly, director of tho project, disclosed that 13 men wore arrested Friday and Saturday and removed to Al turas, In connection with two beatings administered upon loyal evncticos who wero outspoken In urging other evacuees to register. Assault charges were filed In Alturas in connection with the alleged bcat-ups. Ho said that the beaten per sons were both men, and that one of them received hospital treatment. . No Troubl .The men arrested Sunday morning are Klbcl, evacuees who wero born in this country but returned to Japan for their edu cation and Issel, people born in Japan. Covcrly said the arrests were made without trouble by internal (Continued on Pago Two) Count on Point Rationing Here Expected Soon An exact count of point ration ing registration In Klamath coun ty will bo mado In a few days, according to Eugene Larscn, sec retary of the county rationing board. Ho said reports oro now coming in from outsldo districts, but that until all arc in no specific figuro can be given. Larscn last week estimated tho registration at 41,000. A count on city registration is expected Tuesday. Larscn said that there aro still many pcoplo living in woods camps, etc., who havo not reg istered. They may register at tho war prlco and ration board offices on March 10. Klamath pcoplo began buying on a point rationing basis Mon day, and at tho same timo there was a notable Increaso in pur chasing of fruit Jars for fruit and vogetablo canning this summer. MAD House Completes Action On Tax Reduction Plan By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. ' SALEM, March 1 (P) Tho Oregon house of representatives, completed action today on its tax-reduction program, passing without opposition and sending to tho scnalo a bill to reduco cor poration income tax revenues about 10 par cent. Tho houso also passed 34 to 25 and sent to tho scnato the measure to give cities S per cent of tho state's motor vehicle reve nues when tho total revenues ex ceed $11,000,000 a year. Tho money, sought for many years by tho League of Oregon Cities, would bo used to maintain city streets. Ji Tho legislature will begin work fcintofrow without pay, today be Inf the 80th and last day on McNutt Opposes Compulsory Labor Draft WASHINGTON, March 1 (JP) Diiuigrcclng with Secretary of War Stlmson, War Manpower Commissioner McNutt today voiced opposition to compulsory labor-draft legislation at this timo. "There is too much talk about forcing people to do many things," McNutt told a press con ference. Ho declined to discuss Sllm son's endorsement of the Austin Wadsworlh bill, which would permit drafting civilians for war work, beyond soying: "We're both Individuals and should bo expected to say what wo both thlnk.X McNutt asserted the "volun tary system" of attacking the manpower problem through In direct penalties against those who refuse to comply with his program Is "being trled-wlth a measure of success." Five Bombers Missing . .From Raid ton West Germany LONDON, March 1 (IP) Roy al air forco bombers smashed "very heavily" at tho submarine base at St. Nazalrc, France, and targets In western Germany last night, it was announced official ly today. More than 1,000 tons of explo sives wero declared to have been loosed on St. Nazalre, in a 30 minute attack, swamping de fenses of tho much-bombed sub marine base and shipbuilding yard. Fivo bombers wore missing from tho raid, which carried through tho fourth night the non-stop allied aerial offensive Against Germany and the axis-occupied continental countries. With last night's attack the allied bombers closed out Febru ary as a month of assaults un equalled since the start of the war. St. Nazalro was left aflame and shrouded in smoke. T.ho (Continued on Page Two) Second Major Fund Drive Announced By Morgenthau WASHINGTON, March 1 (IP) Secretary Morgenthau announc ed today that tho treasury's sec ond mojor fund drive of this war would be opened on April 12, with a minimum of $13,000,000, 000 as the goal. Tho secretary told his press conference that presidents of all federal reserve banks had been summoned to Washington today to discuss final plans for the greatest financing campaign in tho nation's history, which legislators aro paid their' $8 a day. They hopo to adjourn by next Saturday, tho 85tb day of the seralon. Tho corporation Income tax re duction bill provides that cor porations paying tho lax.sjiall have tlioir personal properly tax offset increased from SO to 75 per" cent. Tho bill would give tho greatest reduction to lumber companies and other firms which carry largo amounts of personal property in their inventories. Firms such as financial institu tions, which havo littlo taxable personal property, would got lit tle or no reduction. 1 Tho other tax-reduction bills would reduco tho persona! in come tax 10 per cent this year (Continued on Page Two) Miles MIGHTY ELFFORT E L . Bad Weather Restricts Action in Southern Tunisia By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 1 (IP) Axis attacks toward Beja, In northern Tunisia, were dis closed today to have progressed three miles beyond Sidl Nsir, which Is 18 miles northeast of Beja and 40 miles west of Tunis, despite great losses inflicted by allied ground and air forces. This disclosure, came shortly after an allied headquarters' com munique announced that -enemy attacks in the north generally were on a reduced scale but that northeast of Beja the axis threw in tanks and infantry all day In an effort to pierce allied posi tions... J..-: - j v-V- " ' i- FuU"Nail Weigh! ': T Bad weather restricted opera tions in the south, but Flying Fortresses carried out one of the heaviest raids of the campaign on rnollnrl nxl sunnlv nort. where four ships were reported hit. The Germans hurled their full weight into tho Beja thrust after hnlno thrown hack initially, it was stated, and allied forward units fought to the last man, tak ing a heavy toll, before ground was given. Franch Stubborn Air support by RAF Spitfires and Hurricane fighter-bombers was described as "magnificent" and pilots reported scores of hits on six-wheeled armored cars, tanks and trucks on crowded roads In the Medjez-el-Bab, Bou Arada and Pont Du Fans areas. French resistance at Medjez-el-Bab, southeast of Beja, and along the Mediterranean was de scribed as particularly stubborn. Nasi Danger The exact position of the allied lino remained in doubt but it was apparent from tho three days of steady attack that the Germans had not been able to make a definite break in the al lied battlcfront. Fuel Dealers to Register Supplies With OPA Soon SEATTLE, March 1 (IP) Fuel dcalors in Washington, Oregon and ten counties in Idaho will have to register supplies with the OPA soon under ration or der "No. 14 which covers all fire wood from kindling to sawdust, James C. Scully, regional ration ing . representative, announced Saturday, Under the new regulation, first of its kind in the country, nearly 4000 fuel dealers will furnish monthly data to the OPA. Date for the registration has not been set, Scully said the orders would not mean rationing of the Wood, but gives Pacific coast OPA administrators tho power to ration if necessary. Five Killed in Transport Crash Near Texas Field AUSTIN, Tex., March 1 (AP) Four officers and one technical sergeant wero killed last night when a transport from the Del Vallo air base near hers crashed and exploded on a routine flight three or four miles northeast of Municipal airport, the Del Valle public relations office an nounced. Tho dead Included Second Lieut. William F. Ernest. Van couver, Wash. ID TO CRACK NORTHERN & ts is L; 1 w r Klamath Union high school V If lotments and chtcking computations of applicants for fuel oil. Tbs group was mad up of se lected students from commercial and mathematics classes. Some 3000 forms were checked and computed. Mrs. John Fowler, Mrs. Shannon and Ted Russell were faculty members in charge. Reds Launch New Drive in North; Hit Snag in Donets As Nazi Defense Stiffens LONDON, March I VP) The Russians announced a new offensive tonight on the northwest front between Mos cow and Leningrad In which they said they had captured 32 inhabited places, including Zemllanskaya. and killed or captured 11,000 Germans. r It was the first special Hus-ltn-ytoo$munlqn -in-iinor than a week and was broad cast by the Moscow radio and recorded here by - the soviet 'monitor. ... LONDON, March 1 OT Des perate German effort to stave off further disasters in Russia apparently has checked the family of Five Found Dead on Lonely Ranch AUBURN, Calif., March 1 (IP) Dead for fourteen days, a family of five was found on a small ranch five miles from Loom is yesterday. The bodies of Amos Latshaw, 38, and his wife were found in a well. His parents and small son, all three of them shot, lay in a ranchhouse bedroom. Dead besides Latshaw, were his wife Ollie, 39; his mother, Bertha, 55, his father, Charles, 57; and his son Charles, six. Puzzled, Sheriff Charles H. Silva scheduled a series of autop sies and inquests here and at Roseville at the southern end of Placer county, nearer Loomis. He sought to determine "wheth er it was murder and suicide, or an outside job with the suspects still to be determined." "All I know now," he com mented, "is that the Latshaws didn't have many visitors." The plight of unattended farm stock led to the discovery of the tragedy one of the largest In Placer county since most of the Donner party starved to death In gold rush days. A neighborhood noticed the emaciated bodies of dying calves, saw a dead cow In the barn, rabbits dead In their hutch, and called the sheriff's office. Depu ty Sheriff Charles E. Dolce found the bodies. Amos Latshaw, former opera tor of a roadhouse near Aburu, last December bought the old Kirk ranch near Loomis. That was where tho tragedy occurred. Deadline Extended For "Coupon Credit" Fuel Oil Buying WASHINGTON. March 1 (IP) Tho office of price administra tion today extended the deadline for "coupon credit" buying of fuel oil. in Washington and Ore gon from today to March 15 In making tho extension, OPA said some fuel oil rations had not yet , been distributed in the two states. Householders obtaining oil on coupon credit must agree to de liver their dealers ration cou pons equal in value to the amount of oil they receive. . How Big Is a Room? TJ Si 6J if students worked Monday through Thursday computing oil al forces of Gen. N. F. Vatutln In the Donets basin, but the Rus sians reported today the red ar my was continuing to grind for ward west of Kharkov toward the rail junction of Poltava and the Dnieper river. The Russian midnight com munique did not concede the German claim that Kxamatorsk and Lozdvaya; south., of ..Khar kov, had been recaptured by the Germans, but it did say the Ger mans were counter-attacking fu riously and "hastily bringing up fresh troops and throwing them into action." The German communique, as broadcast by the Berlin radio, said Kramatorsk and Lozovaya were taken by storm and "par ticularly high losses in men and material were inflicted on the enemy." Some units of Russian army have been enveloped and are "gradually being destroyed," the German communique said. The Russian communique, is sued hours later and recorded by the soviet monitor in Lon don, said that in the Krama torsk area, about 60 miles east of Lozovaya, Russian forces "were engaged in repelling se rious counterattacks by enemy tanks and mobile infantry."' Germans Get Small French Squadron By Massacre Threat LONDON, March 1 (IP) Fight ing French headquarters said to day it had received a document disclosing "that the Germans ob tained control of a small squad' ron of French warships stationed at Tunis through a threat to mas sacre all personnel down "to the last officer and rating." : French Admiral Jean Esteva was given but a half hour to surrender his flotilla of a dozen submarines, an unstated number of small . auxiliary ships and some merchant vessels when the Germans landed at the capital to counter allied landings to the west, the fighting French said. WMC Orders Work Week in Lumbering i : WASHINGTON, March 1 (IP) Regional directors of tho war manpower commission have been directed to do an "on the spot" job of hiking the work week up to 48 hours in the nation's 32 labor shortago areas. Regulations issued by Paul V. McNutt, WMC chairman, author ize area and regional directors qf the commission to handle local situations in the field without awaiting detailed instructions from Washington. McNutt's regulations provide that no compony which must re lease workers because of the 48 hour week shall Institute the longer hours until the federal employment service finds "suit able" work for the discharged employes. The- regulations specify ex- 'emptions from -(the longer work ' , l QUI.UIILUIMIiri TJ 2D PER GEDU TAX ON SALARIES EYED Pay-as-You-Go Com mittee Makes Ten tative Vote WASHINGTON, March 1 (IP) The house ways and means sub committee on pay-as-you-go tax ation voted tentatively today to impose 920. per cent withhold ing tax on 'taxable income or wage' and salary earners, effec tive July I, 1943. : The withholding levy, cover ing Income and victory taxes, would not be a new tax but would establish a means of sal ary and wage reductions for ac cumulations against actual , tax es computed at the year end. Tentative Under the action, taxpayers would be required to remit the first and second installments of their 1942 taxes. The first in stallment Is due March 15. Chairman Cooper (D-Tenn.) of the subcommittee said: "It has been tentatively agreed by the subcommittee to provide, beginning July 1, 19M, a witn- holding tax of 20 per cent three per cent on wages and salaries above exemptions of $24 like the Victory tax, plus 17 per cent on wages and salaries above regular income rax ex emntlons of S400 for single and $1200 for married persons plus $350 for each dependent. No Decision "This would be increased by 10 nr cent to allow for deduc tions. This withholding would apply to wages and salaries, The subcommittee made no decision on whether all or any part of one year's income tax es would be abated to lacmiate conversion to a pay-as-you-go foundation, but merely provid ed the basis for machinery to h p e 1 n tax collections at the source. BERLIN OFF - LONDON, March 1 (IP) The Berlin radio went off the air early tonight, Indicating that al lied air units may be attacking targets in Germany. 48-Hour week. These Include businesses employing fewer than eight per sons, state and political sub divisions, persons under 16 and those unavailable for full-time work because of other employ ment, household duties or phys ical disabilities. Tho WMC Saturday night or dered a 48-hour week for the lumber industry and for metal mining other than iron through out the nation. It was the first industry-wido application of the longer-hour program. Labor department estimates Indicated it covered about 370,000 workers in lumber and 70,000 in mining. Jack Almeter, manager of the U. S. employment service, said Monday that the 48-hour week would be of benefit to Klamath (Continued on Page Two) OF AUSTRALIA U. S. Bombers Rain Destruction on Base At Kiska ; By The Associated Press The United Nations were put on notice by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur today that the Japanese, who for months have not at tempted any -large-scale offen slve enterprise, are concentrat ing their main strength in the ring of .islands stretching for 2000 miles or more to the north of Australia. Meanwhile, the navy said in Washington that heavy and me dium bombers, with fighter es cort, blasted at the Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutians Saturday and Sunday and hits were observed In the camp area in Sunday's raid. The navy also announced the sinking of a Jap anese cargo ship when 'struck by bombs in the course of a heavy attack on the enemy-held Shortland island area of the northern Solomons. Position In Readiness ' : "Our. air reconnaissance over the. past weeks reports a con stant and growing reinforcement in all categories of enemy strength in the island perimeter enveloping the- upper half ot Australia.'i-said-the- allied head- quarters .communique issued in Australia.. '.'-., ' ."The enemy seems to be con centrating his main effort in preparation on this front. Such an assemblage of major force indicates he is talcing up a posi tion in. readiness." , ? . . Crossroads ';-: . This announcement was sup plemented by 'a headquarters spokesman who said the Japan ese preparations might be either for defense or offense, and was matched by a "statement by Ad miral Chester W. Nimitz, com mander in chief of the United States Pacific fleet, indicating that the U, S. navy might have some cards up its sleeve. ' "We are now at the cross roads ot the Pacific campaign," Admiral Nimitz said in a broad cast sponsored by the American Red Cross. ; "From now on the going will be tougher as we undertake the task of driving the enemy from prepared positions he has been building in the conquered areas. Ready for Action "It is our job to destroy his ships and planes and. to neutral ize his island strongholds, aa we drive toward the positions from, where we can reach, wit h- our: shells and bombs his lrt'duatila! nerve centers." - - .' . This statement was taken in some quarters as a hint that the navy was about ready for some offensive action aimed event ually at bringing , not only American air power, but Ameri can artillery, within . range of the Japanese homeland. . ' Japa Driven Back Meanwhile American and Aus (Continued on Page Two) . Scotty Is Hero; Found Near Body Of Master in Fire ' PORTLAND, March 1 (IP) The heroic part played by a Scotty dog in the fire that claimed the life of Ernest Peters, 63, Indian shipyard worker, Sat urday, came to light yesterday when the animal's , body was found in the charred ruins near the body of his master. The dog apparently followed Peters when he went back Into tho flaming structure to see if any one was left Inside after ho had carried several children to Members of the family said the dog awakened the 12 sleepers by leaping through a window and barking. ' News Index City Briefs ................... Page 5 Comics and Story ...Page 8 Editorials Pago 4 Markets ... Page 0 Pattern Page 8 Sports (..,..,..-...,.,..JPag H
