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Match a High 47, Low 37
Precipitation aa oi February 24, 1143
Btraam year to data 13.31
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By FRANK JENKINS
T-HRlLLING ncw:
The Jap convoy Ihnt yester
day was aneaklng up on Lao tin
der covor of a storm was
pounced upon by our air men,
-blunted and SCATTERKU.
J Its known losses include one
transport mink, another and
hirgor one hit five timet mid left
awash and afire and two cargo
ship bndly damaged.
Dotall of tha battle arc
meager, but that much la def'
Jnlte.
.
COR months the Japs, who hove
, huge, lorccs si their com
mand, have been steaming up to
our ponitloni In the South Sean
with force that are TOO
SMALL and getting themselves
hot to pieces.
It soundi screwy.
It Invites the snap Judgment
on our part that JAP LEADER
TVE outsiders, who know only
. " what wq'ro TOLD, will do
well if we Jump to no such con
elusions. . We'll be far wiser (and
T(er) If we accept the statement
of ex-Ambassador Grew that
Japan is a powerful and danger
ous enemy and govern our think
ing accordingly.
TN Russia, the Germans ovac-
uate Rzhe v "according to
plan, to shorten our lines ' the
Berlin radio explains.
If you've followed your map
you know that for months Rzhcv
has stood at the enstcrn tip of
long, thin wedge, protected
by heavy fortifications and sur
rounded by bogs and swamps.
' What has happened is that
with the Russians getting far in
Its rear Rzhev has become too
hot' for the Germans to handle
ny longer and they've had to
evacuate It to avoid another.cn
trapment.
'AGAIN don't Jump to con
4 ,lnalAn
" The Germans ARB shortening
their Unci. As they shorten
their lines FEWER MEN con
hold tho shorter front.
That will spare men for other
fronts.
r,
THE Gormans aren't shorten-
Ing tholr lines bocnuso thoy
wont to. Thoy'ro shortonlng
them bocnuso thoy HAVE TO.
Nobody falls back to a now
' lino becauso he wants to. But
falling back to a now line often
: Hit hard by Rommel, WE fell
back to a new line In Tunisia,
and from this now lino wo
counter-attacked and DROVE
ROMMEL BACK.
WTHIS Is the point:
Tho Gormans aren't licked
yet. Thoy won't bo licked until
thoy'ro drlvon to tho point whore
thoy no longer havo oithor the
Will to fight or tho men and the
weapons to fight with,
In a war to tho death, wo
simply MUST bo realistic In our
thinking.
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THERE isn't much news from
A Africa, but what there is re
mains good.
' For four days the Gormans
havo been trying to outflank
Mcdjcz cl Bab to tho north.
They've run Into stubborn Brit
ish resistance, and today's dis
patches tell us Hint some of tho
best German Infantry mid tank
units In the whole Tunisian area
BROKE AND FLED In tho fnco
of murderous British artillery
flro,
'Things llko that mean mora
than ground galnod or lost UN-
6 .ESS It is strategic ground.
PURSUING furthor this slra-
tcglo ground idea, today's dis
patches toll us that Rommel has
already given up mora Hum a
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MEATS, CHEESE,
BUTTER, EllIS
TO
Red Coupons of Book
2 to Be Used After
April 1
WASHINGTON, March 3 (VP)
Meats, checao, butter, cooking
fats and oils will be rctloncd
beginning April 1, it was re
ported loduy, under current
plans of food ond rationing
agencies.
Tho sources for this informa
tion, who withheld uso of tholr
names, said the red coupons of
the No. 2 ration book would
be used and that meat rations
probably would run about IK
pounds por person a week.
Price Administrator Prentiss
Brown told roporters that plans
to start rationing of meats,
cheese and other commodities
would be discussed at a press
conference later In tho day
(sturting at 11 a. m. PWT.) .
No Confirmation
At this press conference
Brown was questioned at length
on the food ration situation and
said: . .
1. Meat rationing Is near and
would provldo "less than 2V4
pounds a week per person." But
ho would not confirm reliable
reports that It was scheduled
for April 1 with an average
ration of about 1 K pounds.
2. He could neither confirm
nor deny that butter, margcrlnc,
cooking fats and oils would bo
rationed along with meats on
April 1, as widely reported. He
said OPA would havo to await
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Cattle Thieves
Return to the
Klamath Country
Increasing activity of cattle
thieves In this territory since
the development of tho' meat
shorUigcs was noted Wednesday
by local authorities, and one cat
tle outfit, Liskcy Brothers, to
day offered $1000 for informa
tion leading to tho arrest of
rustlers who stole six purebred
heifers.
Deputy Sheriff Dale Muttoon
sold that cattlo thievery has be
come moro common In recent
weeks and may bo attributable
to current beef market condi
tions. Tho Liskcy heifers 1 bolonged
to Maxino, young daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dove Liskcy. They
wero stolen from a field at tho
Llskcy's Poo valley ranch in
January.
RATIONED
Moore Pork Meat Eaters
Have Park Board Stumped
Tha glamour boys and girls of
Mooro park, meat enters every
ono of them, mny suffer from
tho present moat shortage and
mombcrs of tho park board In
session Monday afternoon wore
trying to figure a way out of tho
dilemma.
Meat colors Include tho bad
gers, foxes, coons and bobcats.
First idea was to keep a pair of
each until it turned out that tho
bobcat is an old bachelor and
both badgers nro young men
about town.
E. E. Spencer, caretaker, sat In
on 'ha meeting and he and O. D.
Matthews, park board mombor,
wero named to look Into tho sit
uation, It was offered that scrap
meat might be purchased and
kept in a largo refrigerator at
tha park, but obtaining tho meat
Is tho problem.
It was brought out by the care
taker that tho pnrk has ono pair
of fino Eastern coons, and thrco
non-descript coons, and from tho
Abandon
12 From WRA
Center Sentenced
On Riot Charge
ALTURAS, Calif., March 3
M') Twelve Japanese from the
Tulcluko relocation camp were
sentenced by Superior Judgo A.
K. Wyllo yesterday on charges
of rioting, as a result of a recent
disturbance.
Four were sentenced to six
months In Jail, with three
months of It suspended. The
others were sentenced to four
months, half of which was
suspended.
Tho Alturus cases followed
recent arrests of evacuees of Jep
nncso descent at the Tulclake
WRA project In connection with
agltution against registration for
military service and job clear
ance. After removal of the evacuees
to Alturas for hearings. Director
Harvey Coverley of the project
revealed that In the group were
men believed responsible, for
two beatings of loyal avacuees.-.
Eleven evacuees are- held in
the county jail here. A total of
60 have been arrested recently.
MEAT DEALERS HERE
Survey Indicates Vio
lations of Price
Code
The first formal meeting with
officials of the Klamath Falls
district office of price adminis
tration was held last evening
when 38 meat dealers attended
a conference In the Balslger
building.
Jerome S. Blschoff, acting dis
trict chief attorney, and Edward
R. Combes, prlco specialist, food
products division, of the San
Francisco district office of OPA,
explained in detail the provi
sions of the general maximum
price regulation as It affects con
sumers of meat products and re
tail butchers.
A preliminary survey of the
retail meat industry in Klamath
Falls Indicated that two-thirds of
tho dealers here have been In
violation of tho general maxi
mum price regulations as It re
lates to tho filing of base period
prices and posting of a celling
price list, both Combes and Bls
choff pointed out.
Suit Possible
Under the general maximum
price regulations, it Is compul
sory that all retailors file a base
period prlco list. Also such
dealers are required to post their
colling prices in their stores, and
tho prices on these lists arc based
on the level at which commodi'
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looks of things, one or two of the
mammas are expecting. The
board will not act on this until
they see what spring brings.
Sponccr was authorized to put
on nn extra man March 15, and
a second helper April 1, to work
through tho season Which ends
around October 1. That the
park will experience its biggest
year this summer was the opin
ion of members In view of gas
rationing. No new Improve
ments will bo mndo by tho board
but tho pnrk will bb manUairt'lU
as won as possible considering
war conditions.
Tho board Is offering the soft
drink concession for Sundays
only at $50 for the season, Any
one Interested is asked to con
tact tho enrctnkcr.
A hedgo of Russian olive trees
will bo planted along the Ala
meda street canal bank as a pro
tection as woll as a beautifying
project. Tho trees have arrived
and Spencer will put them out
as soon as possible.
Rzhev
BRITISH ARMY
ROUTS AXIS IN
N0RTHTUN1SIA
RAF Strikes at West
Germany for 7th
Night
By CARL C. CRANMER
Associated Press War Editor
Marshal Semcon Timoshenko's
new offensive finally has forced
tho Germans to withdraw from
the tenaciously held hedgehog
fortress of Rzhev, 130 miles
northwest of Moscow, the nazis
acknowledged today.
In Berlin, where fires still
rsged from the RAF' greatest
raid of the war on the. German
capital, nazl warlords had other
worries, too.
, Nasls Break
The British air force struck it
western Germany for the siv-
enth consecutive night, though
on a comparatively modest scale.
In northern Tunisia crack Ger
man armored and Infantry units
of Gen. Jurgen von Arnlm yes
terday broke and ran under the
stout resistance and -terrific, ar
tillery, barrage of tha British
first army. '
In central Tunisia, too, Brit
ish, American and French forces
were slowly winning back all
they had lost to Marshal Erwin
Rommel in his recent offensive.
Lin Shortened
The fall of Rzhev ' was not
claimed by the Russians, who In
fact did not so much as mention
that front in either today's mid.
day communique or the war bul
letins of yesterday.
The German high command,
however, said the fortress had
been cleared of German forces
"according to plan,"
This phraseology suggested
that the Germans might be en.
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Coona Realty
Holdings Change
Hands This Week
TULELAKE Colonial Realty
holdings, including 1000 acres of
some of the finest lend in this
area, were purchased this week
by Lee Dixon, Steve Takacs and
Lawls Kandra, all of Tulelake,
and Lloyd C. Prock of Klamath
Falls, It was learned hero today,
No consideration was given.
The land is located on the
west side of Tule lake near the
biological headquarters. New
owners were in Yreka Monday to
complete the transaction follow
ing the purchase from Mary K.
Reynolds and all interested par
ties. They were accompanied by
Tom Chatburn, Merrill, and Wil
liam Kuykendall, Klamath Falls
attorney, and Joe Steele, Merrill
operator.
Plans are being made to drain
the land which has been under
water for three years, two feet
In some places, five feet In oth
ers. Pumps are now being in
stalled and it is hoped to dike the
section within 30 days and have
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Voye, Ohlsch,
White Named to
Pine Committee
WASHINGTON. March 3 (F)
Creation of an industry advisory
committee on western pine lum
ber to assist the office of price
administration on lumber price
problems, was announced by
OPA last night.
: Membership of the committee
Included: .
Don Lawrence, Spokane; Cy
Roedel, Baker, Ore.; George
Holden, Spokane; W. E. Moore,
Elgin, Ore.; A. J. Voye, Klamath
Falls, Ore.; Allen White, Klam
ath Falls; Cy Sawyer, Pchastin,
Wash.; and L. D. Ohlsch. Lake
view,. Ore.
Rescuer
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His wife, Alice, and his daughter, Cherle, embraced Charles Fletcher, a rescue worker who
was overcome by gas in the BesrerMlc, Mont., mine explosion disaster, while attempting to bring
to safety tha 69 men known trapped in the underground workings.
200 Union Members
vv Stay Away Prom
y Plant' '
OAKLAND, Calif., March 8
(P) A union spokesman said to
day work would be resumed im
mediately by machinists of CIO
local 1304 at the General Engi
neering and Drydock company
at nearby Alameda.
Ho said the action followed the
resignation of Charles Young,
veteran machinist, whose suspen
sion by the union led to work
stoppages at the shipyard the
last two days.
The. spokesman declined to
permit use of his name. James
Smith, union business agent, was
not available for comment. .
A navy spokesman had said
continuance of what he termed
a strike "probably will delay
trials of one minesweeper built
at the yard."
Young himself said: "They
need these minesweepers. I
don't want to stand In the way
of anyone working."
The incident, conflicting vers
ions of which have been told,
began Monday and at that time
involved 30 men, It followed
union notification of the suspen
sion of one member and the fin
ing of three others $75.
By noon yesterday, 250 ma
chinists were off the job, and 50
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Suzy-Q Pilot
Finds More Grousing
On Home Shores
SPOKANE, March 3 (IP)
Lieut. Col. Felix Hardison, famed
pilot of the famed Suzy-Q, his
prized bombing plane which took
everything the Japs had to offer
in the eorly months of the South
Pacific war, said here yesterday
ho didn't "think the American
people aro back of the war over
there."
Speaking at a meeting of the
chamber of commerce he said:
"Since I've been home I've
heard more griping than I did
over, there at any time."
No U. S. Planes
Lost On February
Kiska Bombings
WASHINGTON, March 3 W)
Carrying out nine raids through
fog and storms in tho Aleutians,
U. S. aircraft during February
dropped a half a million pounds
of bombs on Japanese positions
at Kiska without tho loss of any
planes, tho navy reported today.
It also reported that the 81st
raid on the Japanese base at
Munda on New Georgia island
in tho South Paclfib had been
carried nut by a patrol bomber.
No details) were given
Rescued in Montana Mine Disaster
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Dog Owners'
Protests Put
Council on Spot
Klamath Falls dog owners
re,p,'fc exactly pleased with the
recently -' introduced - 'ordinance
which will keep Fido on leash
or penned from April 1 to Octo
ber 1, and numerous protests
have been filed with Mayor
John H. Houston.
Said the mayor Wednesday, "I
think it would be an excellent
idea for those . protesting the
ordinance to contact the council
man of their ward, and if .they
wish, to appear at next Monday
night's meeting of the city coun
cil." The mayor further stated that
the council- was definitely : "on
the spot."
"We are under the gun from
people who don't own dogs and
want to protect their lawns and
flowers and now their Victory
gardens, and those who are fond
of their dogs and are protesting
what they call too severe an ordi
nance. The best idea is to have
them come before the council
and hear the thing discussed."
Both sides of the question will
come up next Monday night and
as usual, where pets are in
volved, councilmen expect . a
warm session.
Store Puts Up
$5000 Against
Clothes Ration
NEW YORK, March 3 (IP)
A New York department store1
wagered $5000 today that
clothes would not be rationed
this year.
"Our best information from
Washington as weir as our own
sources of information brings
us definitely to this conclusion,"
read an advertisement of Lord
and Taylor. "If we lose (and
mind you we don't think we
will), we will divide the above
sum between Rod Cross, USO,
Greater New York Fund."
Mme. Chiang Calls for
Charity When War Ends
By EDITH GAYLORD
NEW YORK, March 3 (P)
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek the
voice of an ill-armed people tor
tured for six years by the flames
of war has called for a peace
of charity and forgiveness for
the enemy when the day of
United Nations' victory arrives.
Speaking last night to 17,000
people attending a meeting in
her honor in Madison Square
Garden and to a nation-wide
radio audience, the wife of the
Chinese generalissimo declared:
"The goal of our common
struggle at the conclusion of this
war should be to shape the fu
ture so that this whole world
must be thought of as one great
state common to gods and men."
Triumphant in her own fight
against exhaustion and recent
f
Air
DILLSHAPESUP
Knox Urges Applica
, tion to Draft Age
' i'. Only .
WASHINGTON, March 3 (&
Secretary of the Navy Knox and
Under Secretary of War Patter
son urged the house naval com
mittee today to narrow to men
of draft age only provisions of a
pending "work or fight" bill to
curb absenteeism among, war
workers. The measure as writ
ten would apply to all workers.
Knox and Patterson made the
suggestion- after the navy, sec
retary protested that any move
to accumulate records , on ab
senteeism of all war workers
would prove needlessly compli
cated and interfere with the
bill's primary purpose to get
men of draft age, able but will
ing to work regularly, into uni
forms of the fighting services.
Problem Growing
Knox .and Patterson agreed
the program could best be
handled by requiring employers
to' turn over to local selective
service boards each month the
names of all employes absent
without prior authorization.
Knox presented a table giving
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War Bulletin
BULLETIN
LONDON, March 3 (JP).
German planes raided London
tonight with incendiaries and
explosive bombs in retaliation
for the RAF's heavy smash at
Berlin two nights ' ago.
Raiders swooped' over the
city for more than an hour,
and then returned, again
drawing off violent anti-aircraft
fire, . but observers ex
pressed belief that only a
small number of planes Bp
- proached the capital, '
fainting spells, Mme . Chiang
voiced a plea for a post war
world "resting on the pillars of
justice, co-existence, cooperation
and mutual respect."
She explained that in. such
a world great and small nations
alike would have equal oppor
tunity of development, and the
stronger, more advanced nations
would use their power as a trust
to help weaker states fit them
selves for self government.
Calling for an end to exploita
tion among nations, the Chinese
first lady said:
"Exploitation Is spiritually as
degrading to the exploiter as to
the exploited."
Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold,
chief of the United States army
air force, told the meeting that
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FOUR VESSELS
SMASHED IN
BLOW TUESDAY;
Punishing; Allied At
tack Loosed bn' -
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, March 3 VP)
The crippled and widely-scattered
remnants of a 14-shlp Jap
anese convoy, smashed by allied
bombers and fighters yesterday,
staggered through the fog
shrouded Bismarck sea today
toward the enemy base at Lae,
New .Guinea,, with General
Douglas MacArthur's planes re
lentlessly on its trail.
At last four transports and
cargo vessels of the original
armada of seven Japanese war-1
ships and seven merchant ships
have been sunk or damaged, and
13 Japanese fighter planes out
of the umbrella of 30 or 40 that
tried to provide ' protection to
the convoy have been shot out of
action, allied headquarters an-'
nounced.
Our Losses Light
"Our losses are light. The bat
tle continues," a headquarter
communique said. . .
The bulletin said a 10,000-ton
transport had been hit five times
and. left awash and in flames;
an 8000-ton transport had been
sunk after breaking in two; a
6000-ton vessel was directly hit"
on the bow, and a smaller vessel
was damaged and set on fire.
Allied Flying Fortresses and .
Liberator bombers, with a fleet
escort of P-38 fighters, stabbed
through murky haze, .thick
clouds and rain. to deliver their
blows in the face of heavy anti
aircraft fire and Japanese fighter
planes. ; - .';;. .
-La Pounded -"Other'
hits or near hits were
scored against . warships and '
cargo .' ships, results of. which
have so far been. impossible to
the communique said.
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WLB Reported
Near Vote On
Boeing Wages
WASHINGTON, March 3 UP)
The war labor board, meeting
almost continuously for several
days in- an effort to reach a de
cision on w a g e increase de-'
mands of the west coast aircraft
industry, was reported today to
be nearihg a vote on a plan, on
the terms : ' of . which board
sources gave conflicting' ver
sions... ' ' . , .. ,'
; A tentative proposal to grant
30,000 workers in the Boeing
Seattle plants, manufacturing
Flying Fortresses, an increase of
4.5 cents an hour while lifting
the pay of about half the south
ern California aircraft workers
by 7 cents an hour, was reported
to have the support of a majori
ty of the 12-man war labor
board.
The board was said to be
ready to vote on such a proposal
today.. . , ;
This Rationing
Hits Shoplifters
Below the Belt
PORTLAND, March 3 (ff)
This rationing is no joke for
those nimble-fingered character
who pick up merchandise with
out service of clerk or cash reg
ister the shoplifters.
OPA offices here said today
that anyone found guilty of
stealing any rationed commodi
ty without surrendering ration
coupons is subject to a year In
the brig and fine up to $10,000.
It the shoplifter leaves the
ration stamps, the OPA won't
complain, although the shop
keeper or police may.
News Index
City Briefs L........Page B
Comics and Story.:. Pago 8
Courthouse Record ......Pago 10
Editorial Page 4
Market Peg
Midland Empire New..Pag 7
Our Men In Service. Page 7
Pattern .................Page B
Sport , Page
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