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By FRANK JENKINS
QN Saturday In Tunisia, the
' rains atoppod, the sklos
cleared and tho dust storms set
tled. As thcio words ara written
today, It looks very much as 11
tho bis buttle to throw tho Ger-
mnni (tho Italians no longur
count) out of Africa la beginning,
X MONTGOMERY, as announced
V1 drnmatlcolly by Churchill
In his Sunday speech, Is on tho
move.
' :,. Ma iffftmn to hn hitfitlff Horn'
mel t tho STRONGEST point of
the Mnretn line, wnore its nxca
fMrtlflrnlinriK pmnmiinrl the llll
row coastal roiul ulmig tho Medi
terranean, lie may Do awing
toward Gabe by the shortest
route.
OR he may be fooling Rom
mot hlttlnff hard at tho xtrona
Mat Mnlnt if a rtlvftminn. with tho
idea of shifting his malt) attack
iuddenly to some other point
or oumanKing ma tnoii ujcim
tall maran.
)VAR Is liko that.
- Fooling the other follow and
bitting him hard where he isn't
looking for It li one of Its most
effective techniques.
!.-
yOU never can tell about this
i " fellow Montgomery. At El
Alameln, whore the present bat-
tla of Africa started, he hit Rom
mel at his strongest point and
kept on hitting until ho had tho
desert fox broken and running.
'A T tho aame time our General
"Patton (Old Blood and Guts)
strikes hard from El Guotar to
ward the coast, rotaking Scncd
and setting within sight of Mak'
nassy, which was reached onco
before by our Americans.
. Noto tho references today to
tho hills around Maknassy that
are still hold by tho Germons.
We'll have to blast them off
these high points before wo can
move on toward the coast and
our objective of getting BEHIND
Rommel and surrounding him.
When your enemy Is SHOOT-
f 1NG DOWN at you from a hilt
your style Is pretty sure to bo
cramped.
t
TT'S too early to guess how tho
buttlo is going. About oil we
know Is tltal It has started
Rommel Is a shrewd enemy. Tho
news of tho next few days (or
weeks) Is certain to be Interest
ing.
TJITLER breaks his 133-day
silence and makes another
speech. Its tone is markedly dlf
ferent from his usual style. Ha
rants little. Ho brags hardly at
11.
'-' Ho says the worst Is post In
Russia. By means of total mobil
ization, he asserts, the German
army Is being rapidly strength
ened. -
k Ho elves tho Impression of n
J changed Hitler (possibly a nioro
dangerous one.)
T-JIS speech Is followed (rather
1 start! Ingly) by a statement
from "authoritative British cir
cles" whose names can't - bo
quoted.
Thoso anonymous British au
thorities (often such statements
aro nearer tho truth BECAUSE
they arc anonymous) assert that
Germany Is In no prosent danger
of cracking. They point out that
while five million Germans have
bcon killed, captured or wholly
disabled since tho war begat)
(as opposed to Hitler's admission
of only 642,000 German war
dead since tho Russian campaign
began) some 800,000 Germans
come of military ago every year.
:, They soy thot oven If tho
Srcat Krupp works were totally
inltcred it would bo ton months
before the German army would
kfeel a shortage of munitions.
I .
TN his Sunday speech, Church
111, whllo discussing post-war
problems, gavo no Indication of
any belief that tho war Is near
its end. Instead, ho carefully in
, (Continued on Pago Two)
Claim Belgorod
RUSSiAl 17
Q 5,0 1 rvoronozb
MILES j t
4 V
Belgorod
Chuguev
fjDnioperopotrovifc
Stino
' Azov pfo a
Tha Gorman high command
claimed capture of Balgorod,
northeast of Kharkov, and nasi
forcai continued thalr pressure
in tha Chuguav tactor, to tha
south. Brokan Una indicates
front along which Russians and
Germans have been battling in
the Kharkov araa.
REDS BATTLE
FEROCIOUSLY
FIH DONETS
Soviets Capture Rail
Town on Main Line
To Moscow. ' ,
By EDDY GILMORE
"MOSCOW, March 22 ) The
red army has captured the rail
way town of Durovo, 67 miles
east of Smolensk on the main
line from Moscow, and the Rus
sian column driving southward
toward the rail line from Bely
has made new progress, tha Rus
sians announced today as the
battle for the Donets river lino
southeast of Kharkov grew in
ferocity.
Durovo was occupied by tho
same Russian force which broke
through the German defenses at
Vyozma to crack the nazi salient
so long pointed threateningly at
Moscow. Tho advance was made
In tho face of repeated German
counterattacks that cost the Ger
mans heavily In men and mater
ial, the mid-day communiaue
said.
Stae! Ring Brokan
(Tho Berlin radio, in a broad
cast recorded by tho Associated
Press, admitted today for the
first time that its steel ring
(Continued on Page Two)
Nazis Threaten To
Execute Norwegians
If Allies Invade
PORTLAND. March 22 Oft
Haakon Lee, secretary of the
Norwegian Federation of Labor,
said today the nazis threaten to
execute 10,000 of his country's
Imprisoned leaders If tho United
Nations invado Norway, i
Government Butter Freeze Jofs Local
Housewives Into Frenzied Buying Rush
Klamath housewives ware
Jolted out of their Sunday com
placency when the OPA an
nounced at 3 p. m. that butter,
lard, fats and oils were to be
frozen at midnight.
Before pop could be awak
ened from under a mound of
Sunday papers, tho family car
was buzzing and hundreds
ftlormcd neighborhood stores,
creameries, and later tho larger
chain stores which opened their
doors to customers. In some
stores there was a half-pound
allotment, in others the sky
was the limit and housewives
got what they wanted. Shelves
wero quickly cleaned.
Surprise Mov
The surprise move came aft
er Saturday shoppers were ex
pected to put in their usual
week's supply. Some did and
somo didn't. Hotnll sales, halt
ed by the government last mid
AUSTRALIANS
SAYNIPPONS
SUMMIT
Allied Victories Seen
As Evidence of Big
Enemy Power
By Tha Associated Pratt
Australian Army Minister
Francis Fordo declared today
that Japan was more deter
mined to attack Australia than
ever before as the range of
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
bombing attacks emphasized
the growing concentration of
enemy power' In tins islands on
the fringe of the continent.
"Tho allied victories in the
Solomons, New Guinea and Bis
marck sea merely intensified
Japan's determination to invade
Australia," Fordo said.
Fierce Attack Expected
"It can only bo assumed that
when they ara ready, the Jap
anese will launch an attack on
Australia mora ferocious than
any yet experienced in tho Pa
cific." MacArthur's bombing attacks,
growing more numerous north
west of Australia, centered on
Cope Vandenbosch off Dutch
New Guinea where bombs were
dropped around two cargo ves
sels and a destroyer-in convoy,
off Cap Nsmarlpl, Dutch New
Guinea, . where three small
merchant ships and soma barge
were bombed and strafed. At
Langgoer . In the Kai islands
machinegun posts were silenced
and two luggers damaged.-
Jap Storm rait
In the area northeast of Aus
tralia a Japanese destroyer was
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COALCONTRAGTHUNG
Oil RETROACTIVITY
Conference Deadlock
ed as Agreement
Nears End '
NEW YORK. March 22 m
Charles O'Neill, spokesman for
the Northern Appalachian soft
coal mine operators, declared to
day that the wage conference
with tho United Mine workers
was deadlocked because neither
party could reach a decision on
tho matter of retroactivity in a
new contract.
Telegraphs were sent by the
operators Saturday to President
Roosevelt . and various govern
ment officials which were under
stood to carry an implied re
quest for federal intervention,
but Dr. John R. Stcelman, head
of the federal conciliation ser
vice, said in Washington today
that he had "no immediate plans
for entering the situation."
Offer to Continue
The present contract for 450,
000 miners expires March 31
, (Continued on Page Two)
night, will not be resumed un
til rationing starts next Mon
day. This was the date origin
ally set for the butter freeze.
Restaurants are not affected
by the order. Mayonnaise and
other salad dressings ara not
Included in the soles freeze.
Washington OPA said tha re
tall sales freeze of one week will
allow storekeepers to obtain
supplies so as to be in a posi
tion to make ration sales against
red stamps from war ration
book two on Monday, March 29,
Points To Ba Announced
On Wednesday, OPA will an
nounce the point values for the
articles in the new ration list
meat, cheese, canned fish,
fats and oils.
Sales wero upped consider
ably in the fats and lards sec
tions Sunday, grocers said.
Housewives who like to do their
own baking wjtrt especially ,
Nazis Say
f ' '' ' " ' ' r " ' . fi . M
Berlin ntwipaptri on March 17 published this pictuz purporting to show Adoif Hitler near
the Rutilan front lines. DNB taid that Hitler flew to the front and had discussions with hi of
Heart. Tha German caption identified tha man at (left to right)) Field Marshal Frits Erich
ron Mannttaia. Col. Gen. Ruoff. Hitler, Gen. Kurt iron ZtlUIer end Field Marshal Ewald tod
KleisU Picture radioed from Stockholm to New York. -
'
ADOLF HITLER
EMERGES FROM
LONG SILENCE
Illness, Death Rumor
Stilled by War
Speech
LONDON, March 22 m
AJolf Hitler emerged yesterday
from 133-day silence which
had given rise to rumors of his
illness or death to tell the Ger
man peoplo in a radio broad
cast the crisis on the Russian
front had been surmounted, as
sure them their losses in war
dead were relatively small, and
yet admit that many parts of
Germany had become "War
zones" as a result of incessant
allied bombing.
Veteran broadcast listeners,
who have heard many of Hit
ler's speeches before, listened
particularly intently to be sure
it was the fuehrer speaking and
said they were convinced it was
his voice they heard.
Subdued Speech
In one of the shortest and
most subdued speeches he has
over delivered the fuehrer told
(Continued on PBge Two)
Wallan Trial Case
Postponed Two Days
The trial of Kenneth Wallan,
charged with second degree mur
der, has been postponed from
March 29 to March 31.
Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg changed the dates of the
case Monday. Wallan is accused
of the death of James Bowman
in a fight on a suburban street
December 24.
eager to get their hands on
shortenings of various types.
Points Not Used
Generally speaking, and this
is information from the man
behind the grocery counter,
Klamath housewives are not
using up their stamps. They
may be saving them for Inst
minute purchases, or they may
decide they don't need tho can
ned and other-rationed stuffs,
and are going to let them go
by the board. Guess on the
part of the man who sells the
groceries is that there will be
a last day rush to get rid of
the stamps.
Along with slow sales of can
ned foods is the noticeable in
crease in demand of fresh veg
etables and fruits. The quality
is poor right now,' but grocers
anticipate better stuff as the
season advances. This year will
(Continued on Fags Two)
This Is Hitler on the
Churchill Sketches Dream
Of Post-War Order, Peace
LONDON, March 22 m
Prime Minister Churchill sketch
ed for the world in a radio
broadcast last night his vision
of a post-war order where peace
might eventually be kept by a
European and an Asiatic council
of free nations, but warned the
British people of the necessity of
"keeping their eye on tha bail'
to win struggle which might go
on two years or more before
Adolph Hitler is crushed- into
"death, dust and ashes."
The speech, which was devot
ed chiefly to the problems of ere-
DEMOCRATS BEfil
CANVASS ON TAXES
Leaders Attempt
Halt Passage of
Rumi Plan
to
By FRANCIS M. L MAY
WASHINGTON, March 22 (P)
Democratic leaders began today
a formal canvass of the party's
house membership designed to
head off a potential coalition' of
a segment of democrats with re
publicans that might spell house
passage of the Ruml plan to skip
an entire tax year in putting in
come taxpayers on a pay-as-you-go
basis.
Rep. Ramspeck of Georgia, the
democratic whip, said many
democrats stilt nave "an open
mind" on the tax issue and some
are confused by the controversy
over the Ruml plan and the ad
ministration tax collection bill,
drawn by a majority of the house
ways and means committee.
The tax debate begins. Thurs
day. .
Predicts Paksaga
Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.) pre
dicted 30 democrats would join
the republicans to pass the skip
(Continued on Pago Two) -
Kay Kyser Draft
Appeal Declined
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C
March 22 (m The Rocky
Mount Evening Telegram said
today Kay Kyser, the band
leader, told it by telephone from
Los Angeles that his appeal for
deferred draft status had been
declined and that he would re
port for examination when or
dered by his local board here
to do so.
Dr. Noble Appoints
Commission to Hear
Boeing Grievances
SEATTLE, March 22 (fPj Dr
Bernard Noble, regional war la
bor, board chairman, said today
appomtmen' of a three-man com
mission to administer the Boeing
wage award wilt bo one of the
first orders of business tomorrow.
Russian Front
ating a peaceful world of tomor
row and a comprehensive "four-
year plan" for improved social
conditions, in Britain, drew quick
but mixed reactions today from
the British press, some sections
of which felt the prime minister
had not Bone far enough in his
post-war thinking, while other
stressed the necessity of winning
the war as the primary consid
eration at -present.
Social Inturaoc -
Churchill placed his ' govern
ment squarely on record as fa
voring a post-war system of com
prehensive social insurance "for
all-purposes from the cradle to
the srave," including health and
unemployment benefits.
He promised ft social system
free -of snobbery, with equal op
portunities for all classes of citi
zens, and added:
"We cannot, have a band of
drones in our midst, whether
they come from ancient aristoc
racy, or modern plutocracy or
the ordinary typo of pub
crawler." BTridg Noted
He mentioned by name "my
friend, Sir William Beveridge,"
author of the most comprehen
sive plan for post-war insurance
yet proposed in Britain, whose
report has become a best-seller
in the British Isles.
The post-war organization for
peace which Churchill envisaged
was based on an agreement be
tween the British commonwealth
. (Continued on page two)
Spring Comes to
Klamath Basin
Spring really came to town on
schedule Sunday, March 21, as
the thermometer rose to a maxi
mum of 55 degrees.
Tennis courts at Moore park
were filled with tennis players,
and the animals basked in sunny
pens. Snow still held fast under
tho trees, however, .and there
was a lack of picnicking families.
; Plenty of moisture is assured
the Klamath basin. The weather
man announced a total of 13.61
inches for the stream year to
date, as compared to a normal of
8.73 inches, and 10.08 of last
year. These figures are one week
old in keeping with war time
regulations.
Tot Hit by Cor
On Prospect;
Leg Fractured
Edward Geary, son of Mr.
and Mrs. S. Deibert Geary, 752
North 10th street, was struck
by a car driven by Mrs. Grace
Cleek, 37 West Lowell street, at
noon today.
Police said that the youth
was playing with some children
in front of 821 Prospect Blreet
and dashed out In front of Mrs.
Cleek's car. Young Geary was
rushed to tha Klamath Valley
hospital with a broken left leg
and skinned face. Tomorrow
wilt be Edward's fourth birth
day, and he wUI spend it in a
cast,
American Tanks
Drive Wedge Into
German Defenses
Br BAinZL SE LUCE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March it
(3s) The British eighth army was reported tonight to have cap
tared its initial objective in an attack on a six-mite front be
tween the sea and the Mareth road; despite strong axis opposition
and deep mine fields.
This thrust at tha upper end of tha Mareth line daveloped as
American armor drove a wedge into Field Marshal Erwla Rom
mel's last defense barring the way to the Gulf of Gabes with tha
; capture of about 1400 prison-
HEBSHEY HITS
OCCUPATIONAL
DEFERMENTS
Director Blames Some
Governmental
Agencies
By WILLIAM T, ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, March 22 JP)
Major Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
selective service director,' told
house members today ha . does
not think tome . government
agencies are setting the proper
example In the ' matter of occu
pational draft deferment for
their employes. - . ? ; .
Testifying on tha general sub
ject of deferments which mili
tary subcommittee is invesigat
ing, Hershey flatly replied "no"
when Rep. Haraerr (R.-Ind asked
with respect to furnishing all
available men to the armed
services: ;
Bad Exampla
"Do you think some of these
agencies are setting the exam
ple?" ...
On tho ground that he did
not desire to enter into a pub
lie discussion of individual de
ferment cases he handled, Her-
(Continued on Page Two)
Additional Names
Drawn for Jury
In Folkes' Trial
ALBANY, March 22 (?) The
names of 31 prospective jurors
for the trial of Robert E. Lee
Folkes, charged with first de
gree murder in the 'lower 13"
staying of Mrs. Martha Virginia
James, were added to . the cir
cuit court list today.
Fearing the present list might
be exhausted in the selection of
the Jury, Sheriff Herbert Shel
ton and County Clerk B. M.
Russell drew the additional
names in the presence of Cir
cuit Judge L. G. Leweiling.
Folkes' trial is scheduled to
open here April 7. The negro
dining car cook Is accused of
knifing to death the attractive
wife of a navy officer as she
lay in her berth aboard a south
bound train in Linn county last
January 23.
Floods Force Hundreds to
Leave Homes in River Area
By The Associated Prat
Rain - gorged rivers slowly
crept toward dangerous crests
today in several southeastern
states, forced hundreds to evac
uate their homes in. low-lying
areas, and threatened heavy
property damage.
The wide-spread flood threats
in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana
and Mississippi canta as a down
ward revision of expected crests
eased fears along the Ohio
river.
Hundreds o residents of low
lands north of Hattiesburg,
Miss., were evacuated from
their homes under Red Cross
supervision last night as the
Bouie swept from its banks.
Bad Cross Qrganitat
Miss Pearl English, Red Crow
official at Hattiesburg, said the
organization was- planning to
house many hundred oi evacu
erg,
- Sight Msknajjy
Field reports said an Amer
ican column was within tight of
Maknassy, a strong German po
sition on the Gafsa-Maharss rail
way some 50 miles west of the
port of Maahares.
CA French headquarter com
munique broadcast tonight by
the Algiers radio reported an
advance of several miles by
French forces in the region south
of Gafsa "in spite -of serious
resistance by the enemy.1 Tha
day wa calm in tha central Mo
tor, ft said).
British Attack
: Tha British eighth army wa
reported to have attacked axis
forces on a six-mile Una at tha '
north end of tha Mareth front,
between tha sea and the Meda-nise-Mareth
road, against strong
opposition.
(This would indicate that Gen
eral Montgomery was seeking
the most direct route for a push
from his Medenina has to tha
Port ef Gab. 43 biIIm m th ;
northwest,' although there ia a
possibility that this assault is
but a screen for a blow at tha
center, or an outflanking man
euver. The village of Mareth
lies midway between Medenina
and Gabes and about fiv mile
from the coast).
Tha battle of Tunisia, which
Prima Minister Churchill an
nounced last sight was under
way and going well, found Rom
mel's southern forces squeezed
into a coastal strip of barely 70
miles separating tha correlated
drives of Montgomery and U. S.
Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr..
from the south and west respec
tively, Dominate Height
la the north, Col. Gen. Jurgea
von Arzim's troops drove Brit-.
iah first army detachment from
Nef sa . station, which lies 47
miles southwest of Bizerte and.
about two miles northwest of
the Bjebel Abiad, but the dom-
isating heights of the Djebe!
Abiad were covered by a new
British line.-. ; :
.This was a mere sideshow to
o (Continued on Page Two) .
Oregon Liquor
Ration Halved
PORTLAND, Ore, March 21
A drastically reduced li
quor ration went into effect
In Oregon today.
The state liquor commission;
cut in half a two-week-old ra
tion order, thus limiting con
sumers to a quart of whiskey
a . week and a fifth of girt a
month. ,
The previous ratten order
did not cut consumption
enough, Administrator L. F
Altsn said,
ees ht public building there.
Seven hundred negroes and
about 59 white residents evacu- ,
ated from tha low north section
of Hattiesburg where the Leaf
and Bouia rivers Join were
housed in schools and other
buildings over night. , ;.
The Leaf river which rose to
12 feet above flood stage at
Hattiesburg was reported to
have dropped ten inches at
Cranford bridge, 15 mile north .
of Hattiesburg, at 7 a, tn. (CWT)
and tha crest was expected to
be reached at Hattiesburg dur
ing tha day.
But Upsets
A bus upset on Highway No,
49 north of Hattiesburg and it
passengers were soaked in
flood waters. -
Soldiers and Mississippi high
way department workers tost a
. (Continued on Pa( Two)