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By FRANK JENKINS
nrllE Corniana In Russlu have
turned on inoir pursuers una
aro HITTING HARD on cvory
one who lino reud the news In
I (diligently hna expected them to
w do sooner or Inter.
. Slnco tho .Germans were stop-
lcd at the VoIkii they have
inntlo mistakes. They nung on
too long before Stalingrad, tlius
enabling tho Ruiwlnns to cnelrclo
and trap a largo part of their
forces. Tlicy evidently mmciil-
culatod Ruiuia'i power to strlko
back.
But In the German retirement
luco Stalingrad, thoro hnvo
been few signs of rout or panic,
AN army thai alia bnck with
ah mill A, nnnir IIRIinllv
wu w w . .........
baa another good fight left In
lta ayatem. The Gormuna aro
proving tnni now.
.
VEEP this In mind:
' - Aa the Russians huve moved
Jorwaid, they have lengthened
their supply lines, as tho iior
J mana hnvo fallen bnck, they
. have SHORTENED their aupply
lines.
fHE fighting In Russia differs
from tho fighting In Africa,
where ground gnlncd or lost
means little and losses Inflicted
on the enemy mean everything.
Ground In southern Russia Is
Important, for It contains min
eral wealth and food-producing
n 1 , 1 1 1
power. ion., iron, ou mm juuu
re war essentials,
- But relative strength (which
Involves rclntlvo losses In tho
fighting thnt hns already taken
on,j u iim thf rWIHinir fnptnr.
If the Germans have MORE
STRENGTH LEFT than the Kus
alans, we're due for some bad
niifi
If the contrary Is true, tho
Jnmvs over the long, pull win do
good,
TjpE outsiders can't know such
Important lnsldo facts. Wo
can only watch and wait nnd
draw conclusions from what
happens from day to clay,
; If you will keep this thought
in mind, you will be nolo to ioi
low more Intelligently tho news
of tho fighting In Russia in tho
next fow weeks,
ASIDE from the weather,
. which hns turned bad again,
the most Interesting news from
Africa todny is a Cnlro dispatch
tolling of a new British weapon
tank-buster PLANES, which
are described as a new typo of
Hurricano (Britlsh-bullt) fighter,
equipped with CANNON.
'They are aald to have secured
ircct hits on 74 Germnn tanks
in the African fighting of tho
past fow months and to hnvo
accounted for 20 Gorman ar
mored vehicles In the fighting
at the Maroth line during tho
past week.
TUfANY American nlr mon havo
, believed that tho plnno will
ultimately mastor tho tank.
They point out that an armor
piercing bomb launched from a
low-flying FAST plnno has al
most as much dostrucllvo power
as a shell from n gun,
Thoro Is no mention of uso of
bombs by theso new tank-busting
planes, only their cannon
being referred to In tho dlspntch.
Bill wo era told that squadrons
ot them aro being organized in
England for tho invasion of Eu
rope. ' Anyway, It Is an Interesting
development.
,
rtYE raid Klska again, this tlmo
" . dropping 27 tons of bombs
on Jap installations thcro and
evidently doing quite a lot of
damage, Eugene Burns, AP cor
respondent, quotes h high-rank-
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I ' .
Nazis Search
Buildings For
French Labor
BERN, Switzerland, March 15
(AP) German troops sturted a
houso-to-houso search In Lyon
today for French youths resist
ing labor conscription as tho In
ternal alluutlon of Franco grew
more serious hourly, tho Trlb-
uno do Geneve said,
An axis ultimatum to several
thousand heavily armed young
Frenchmen in mountain hide
outs along the southern shore
of Lnko Gcnova was reported by
tho newspaper to huvo expired
at noon, but no further definite
advices wore received.
Swiss frontier residents for
tho past three dnys have heard
the sounds of sporadic firing.
Lyon lies In tho Rhone river
valley southwest of tho parti
sans' rendezvous, the Haute
Savolo region.
(Tho Algiers radio broadcast
a report that French guerrillas
(Continued on Page Two)
KISKA JAPS HIT
BIHS.
Bombings May Herald
Mighty Spring
Offensive
By EUGENE BURNS
AN ADVANCED BASE IN
ALASKA, March 10 ((De
layed) Army light and heavy
bombers, accompanied by man
made Lightnings, today released
tho heaviest load of explosives
of tho year on Japanese installa
tions and barracks at Klska.
One high-ranking army offi
cer said this bombing heralded
tho opening of a mighty spring
offcnslvo against Klska, weather
conditions permitting.
Onco more planes, ammuni
tion and pilots are ready.
Today's pny load was 53,500
pounds of demolition and frag
mentation bombs and boosted
tho nlno months' total dropped
on tho Japanese occupied Island
to 1,437,000 pounds, quoting
army figures.
This weight docs not Include
thousands - upon thousands of
machlncgun shells, and 20 mil
limeter and 37 millimeter can
non' shells.
Many of the enemy's anti-aircraft
guns failed before today's
five mlnuto reception was over.
(Tho navy department, report
ing on this action in a commun
ique March 12, said tho attack
was mado by Liberator and
Mitchell bombers and that bomb
hits wcro scored on both anti
aircraft batteries and buildings
In tho camp area without loss
to tho raiders).
Many buildings took fire, but
this Is not tho worst of tho bomb
ing. If our 50,000 pounds of
dynamite shook the ground at
Kiska today as much as the
(Continued on Pogo Two)
Federal Income Taxpayers Rush to
File Returns Before Midnight Tonight
By The Associated Press
Incomo taxpayers by tho un
counted thousands many ot
them first-timers stood In ov-cr-longthcnlng
lines throughout
tho country today waiting to
file their returns bctoro tho mid
night deadline,
Even greater crowds woro
avoided by tho elimination for
tho first time ot tho require
ment for notarization of returns,
thus pormlttlng all who wished
simply to mall checks, money
orders or even cash,
But many cities reported re
cord numbers at internal rove-
nuo collection offices end post-
office money order windows
throughout the morning, Pollco
aided in handling some of the
crowds,
Dcsplto scattered reports of
WAGE BOOST;
AWAITS ONLY
OPA APPROVAL
Pine Scale Increased
To 87V2-Cent Mini
mum in Klamath
PORTLAND, Ore., March 15
(IP) A wago increase averaging
74 cents hourly was promised
tentatively todny to 27,000 pine
lumber workers in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, northern Cal
ifornia and western Montana.
The proposed increase Is up for
decision before the olllce ot
price administration, which will
decide whether it would necessi
tate price ceiling adjustments for
plno products.
The increose, calling for pay
ment in war bonds and stamps
of approximately $2,000,000 in
back wages, was ordered by the
West Coast Lumber commission
and approved by the war labor
board.
Uniform Plan Lotas
- Benjamin H. Klzer, commis
sion chairman, said a union de
mand, for a -uniform minimum
wage was denied, but that the
proposed increase would estab
lish these regional scales:
An 87i-cent minimum In cen
(Continucd on Page Two)
Chinese Claim
Jap Offensive
In Collapse
CHUNGKING, Morch 15 (IP)
The Chinese high command de
clared today that the big Japan
ese offensive which began
March 8 along a 100-mile
stretch- of tho Yangtze river
from the Japanese base at Yo
chow near tho border of Hunan
and Hupch provinces had col
lapsed and that most of 20,000
enemy troops were under har
assing retreat.
One body of Japanese troops
has been surrounded, a com
munique said, whllo another
column is being encircled. Chln
cso forces on tho northern bank
ot the Yangtze were reported to
havo launched an "extensive"
counter attack.
Tho Chinese said the collapse
ot tho Japanese offensive, which
had been designed to protect
tho enemy's communications
along tho Yangtze, had greatly
lessened the danger of another
Japanese drive on Changsha,
which has withstood three pre
vious attacks.
Observers said It was too
early to predict whether the
Japanese would try to hold
their key points on the south
bank of the Yangtze. These
points in Chinese possession
would cxposo enemy river traf
fic to tho danger of mines and
artillery fire. ,
an "I won't pay; let 'cm come
after me" attitude, treasury of
ficials in Washington expressed
confidence that nearly all would
pay.
At Cleveland, whence camo
first reports of a possible tax
strike, Collector Frank F.
Gentsch reported that week-end
returns woro mora than twlco
the number for tho first two
months of the year. Ho added
that those who had threatened
not to pay "evidently havo been
jolted out of the defiant atti
tude and are beginning to real
ize that all these plans of 'pay-as-you-go'
don't mean a thing
now."
Collection offices in some ci
ties opened branches to handle
tho overflow, and at Boston
specially assigned paternal revs
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- Pretty Klamath Union high
in 8alem end vice yersa. Back
Don Bigger. Front row. Dean Hamilton, Roberta. Tucker, Carol
the state title-holders with banquets, service club appearances, etc.
beat Baker, 52 to 28 Saturday
U. S. BOMBERS HIT
E
Aerial Assault Tends
To Soften Rommel
Positions
By DANIEL de LUCE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, March 15 (IP)
U. S. Mitchell bombere raided
Marshal Erwln Rommel s posl
tlons yesterday in a continuation
of the aerial assault intended to
soften the Mareth line for the
British eighth army's coming
push although bad weather al
most paralyzed the air war else
where in Tunisia.
Spitfires and Warhawks of the
western desert air force escorted
tho Mitchell formations on their
missions of destruction and made
numerous sweeps Independently
without interception, military
sources said.
Rommel holds ground in a
semi-circle before Gen. Sir. Ber
nard Montgomery's forward ele-
(Contlnued on Page Two)
Snell Approves
Ten House Bills
SALEM, March 15 (P) Gov
ernor Earl Snell today approved
and signed 10 house bills of the
recently-adjourned legislature.
Included were two appropria
tions measures, two providing
deductions in incomo tax compu
tations, an amendment to the ac
cident report law, a measure to
permit political subdivisions to
acquire and operate airports, one
providing veteran relief ond an
other setting asido rncinir com-
mission moneys for postwar uso.
nue bureau mon y,oro endeav
oring to divert tho traffic to a
nowly-opcncd branch in another
building.
Bccauso of new high rates and
lower exemptions, many persons
wcro forced to borrow money
to pay their taxes, and one
group men in tho 18 to 38 ago
bracket found difficulty in
most sections. Loan agencies felt
the draft made many of them a
poor risk.
In New York tho second col
lection district at custom house
reported tho office banked $40,
000,000 this morning from yes
terday's mail which swamped
workers. Copt. William J. Ped
rick, tho collector, said ho
thought another $35,000,000 to
$40,000,000 remained to be
counted from the one-day take,
They're Champ:
-And Do
T7
school girls are hare admiring
row, left to right. Al Bellotti,
night, will be found on today'a sports page.
Gen. Giraud Offers To
Meet De i&aulle Hatfway
By WES GALLAGHER '
ALGIERS, March 15 (IF)
Gen. Henri Giraud, after offer.
ing to meet Gen. Charles de
Gaulle half-way in a union that
must be effected among all
anti-axis Frenchmen fighting for
a rebirth of the French republic,
today drafted a series of decrees
repudiating the last vestiges of
Vichy influence In North and
West Africa.
In a Casablanca conference
aftermath, the civil and military
commander-in-chief also dis
closed that he was welding a
striking force of 300,000 men
equipped with American weap
ons and solemnly promised the
people of his conquered home
land that "their sacred rights to
Two Army Planes
Down in M' Cloud
River Country
REDDING, Calif., March 15
(IP) Searching parties went into
the rugged-McCloud river coun
try north of here today in an
attempt to locate two - large
planes one known to be an
army craft believed down In
the area.
Sgt. ' M. P. Howard of the
state highway patrol said an
army, lieutenant parachuted
from one of the planes Satur
day after the craft's controls
iced up on a flight from Sac
ramento to Portland. The lieu
tenant, who walked to Salt
Creek lodge 30 miles north of
here Saturday night, said he be
lieved the other five men
aboard also bailed out. The
fliers' names were not dis
closed.
Officers at McClellan field,
Sacramento, said tho plane took
off from the Sacramento air de
pot at 11:32 a. m. Saturday,
landed at Red Bluff at 12:45
and resumed its flight.
Another' plane was reported
missing in tho same area by
McClellan field but there were
no details as to tho flight nor
the number of men aboard since
it was not from the Sacramento
air depot. .
Share-the-Ride
Horn Tooters Get
Official Frown
PORTLAND, March 15 (IP)
Share-the-rido drivers who per
sist in tooting horns in the wee
hours and disturbing the sleep
of day workers will be arrested
for violating tho antl-nolse ordi
nance, tho Portland police de
partment announced today.
Police said complaints have
been numerous and lusty.
the Girls Like Champs!
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the state basketball champs freshly
Jim Cox, Rex Young, Wilbur Welch, Captain Jim Boccht and
Tiller, and Baldy Foster. Plans
Full details of the state title
choose a provisional government
themselves will be fully safe
guarded." Giraud did not mention De
Gaulle by name, but he implied
in a speech last night that he and
De Gaulle could work out a
form of mutual trusteeship pend
ing the day of victory when
their freed peoples could choose
their own leaders by lot "according-to
the rules of the French
republic."
Giraud embraced the princi
ples of the Atlantic charter, and
promised to abolish all Vichy
legislation particularly the
anti-Jewish decrees, to restore
democratic functions in North
Africa including the election of
municipal assemblies and con
suls general, and to eliminate all
axis influences whether "meas
ures or men."
The first formal decrees are
expected to be published within
the next few days.
"I wish with all my heart the
union of all of us," said the hero
of two world wars. "The union
must be effected. That union is
indispensable. I should like to
cooperate with all those who ac
cept the traditional principles
(of the French republic)." ,
Giraud's promise to eliminate
"measures or men" deemed in
jurious to the allied war effort
was interpreted by some to mean
that Gen,, Jean Marie Bergeret
and Gen. ' Auguste Nogues, two
members of Giraud's war com
mittee, would be jettisoned.
' These two men were not pres
ent at the opera house where Gi
raud addressed a rally protest
ing the German annexation of
Alsace and Lorraine. The fight
ing French hove pronounced
them pro-Vichy and demanded
that they be ousted.
' A fighting French delegation
headed by Gen. Georges Catroux
is expected in Algiers shortly,
and some, observers believe this
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Postal Employees
Voted Pay Raise
WASHINGTON, March 15 (IP)
The house voted today to in
crease tho ; pay of postal em
ployes to meet added living
costs. The 383 to 4 vote sent the
legislation to tho senate.
Tho increases are applicable
Jo all employes of the field ser
vice and will be in effect until
six months after the war.
For all officers and employes,
except fourth class-postmasters
and those working on an hourly
basis, the increase would be $300
annually. Fourth-class postmast
ers, third-class clerks, special de
livery messengers, and workers
paid by the day or hour would
receive a fifteen per cent in
crease, .not to exceed $300 an
nually. . . ...
U LTUUULULTU
fprnqMTTiE
back from the tournament held
were on foot Monday to fete
game, in which the Klamatha
Grow I n g Concentra
tion of Jap Vessels
- Noted
ALLIED ' HEADQUART E R S
IN AUSTRALIA, March 15 OP)
Growing concentrations of Jap
anese shipping at island bases in
the Banda sea area within 500
miles of ' Darwin, ' Australia,
were reported today as General
MacArthur s ' headquarters an
nounced that allied airmen had
blasted two more ships in an
enemy convoy off Wewak, Nsw
Guinea.
A communique said the Jap
anese are massing both- trans
ports and supply ships in the
Amboina (Ambon)-Dobo area
northwest of New Guinea and
declared that . enemy ground
forces there - are - being rein
forced. New- airfields also are
being constructed in that sector
by the Japanese, the , bulletin
said.
The Island of Amboina, for
mer Dutch possession and once
the site of one of the most im
portant naval ' bases ' In the
Netherlands East Indies, is about
600 miles northwest of Darwin.
Dobo, southeast of Amboina,
is about 100 miles nearer Dar
win.
Spokesmen at allied headquar
ters declined to comment on the
possible significance of this Jap
anese activity, but the - bare
statement . in the communique
added emphasis to recent offi
cial warnings that the ' enemy
must not be under-rated in this
theater.
The Japanese, meanwhile,
were paying a heavy price for
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AMERICANS BUST
lininirnf niiinninm
Mhmt onimiYb
Hull, Eden Warn Public
About Possible Long War
By WADE WERNER
WASHINGTON, March 15 (IP)
Secretary of State Hull, after
an hour conference today with
Anthony Eden, said he was en
tirely in accord with the Brit
ish foreign secretary's warning
of last Saturday that the Ameri
can and British public must not
reach hasty conclusions about
the duration of the war.
The conflict will be more
long-drawn-out according to
all reasonable calculations than
one might expect on the basis
of a hasty Judgment, Hull told
a press conference. Eden and
Lord Halifax, British ambassa
dor, stood , beside Hull as he
spoke.
Hull emphasized that the first
of his series of conferences with
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AGAINST ODDS
TO HOLD CITYi
Steel City Eyed
as
Spot for Great
Offensive
By CARL C. CRANMER
Associated Press War Editor
The possession of Kharkov,
possible Jumplng-off place for a
third great German summer of
fensive In a last desperate effort
to crush Russia, was in doubt to
day as the nazis announced iti
recapture and Russian dispatch
es indicated the red army was
waging a battle against great
odds to hold that bastion of the
Ukraine. .
Not conceding the loss of the
big steel city which they cap
tured February 16, or even ad
mitting fighting within the city
itself, the Russians nevertheless
admitted today that their lines
had been progressively forced
back in the "Kharkov area" ' in
the face of hundreds- of tanks
and overwhelmingly superior
German numbers. : . ; :
"It looks as though Kharkov
is gone," ' military sources ; in
London admitted, while the Ger
mans in today's-communique de-:
dared their, offensive, spreading
northward, had resulted in a '
J bloody collapse of Russian coun
terattacks west- of Belgorod. .
: "During file day and night red
army men of one unit repulsed
incessant Hitlerite attacks," the
mid-day communique from Mos
cow announced. It reported the
destruction of 14 enemy tanks
and 600 enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand
fighting in one small
sector.-" ; .X-
Claiming a sort of vindication
for Adolf Hitler's- Waffen SS ,
combat units of the nazl party's
elite guard the,. German high j
command in a special: commun
ique last night announced the .
recapture of the city held by the
Germans from October, 1941, un- -til
last February and gave -the
entire credit for the immediate
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Joe Gordon Wis
Power Line at
Local Airport
: Joe Gordon, famed second
baseman of the New York Yan- I
kees.i narrowly escaped Injury
Saturday afternoon when an
airplane he was riding struck a
power line when coming Into the
Klamath Falls airport.
John Shaeffer of Eugene was .;
flying the plane, with Gordon ,
as passenger.. The plane came
down on the east-west runway, ;
and skidded some distance, dam
aging the propeller and landing
gear. Neither Shaeffer nor Gor- '
don were hurt. . ,
It is understood Gordon, part
owner of the plane, had come .
here to take it to Bend for possi- '"
ble sale.
Copco officials said the line
is a 4000-volter, and that there
has been discussion for several
months- regarding its removal.
The line, was repaired Saturday
afternoon.
Eden had made a very satisfac
tory beginning of the task ahead
of them. He invited Eden to
say something too. . The . British
leader smilingly replied that 'he
had really come to the state de
partment for "a little instruc
tion" and already had learned
quite a bit. He and Hull had
begun their work today, he
said, and will have other talks
later.
As for himself, he added, he
already felt bettor as a result
of. today's exchange of views,
and looked forward hopefully
to further conversations.
Hull was asked if he cared to
emphasize andy particular points
which he thought , should be
borne in mind in connection
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