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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1943
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By FRANK JENKINS
nrlllS la today's mot interest-
lug nowa from Tunisia:
' Potion's Americana, pushing
on BEYOND Maknossy, win con
trol of the last MOUNTAIN
HAM PARTS overlooking Rom
mel's escape corridor along tha
cn.
In other words, It's DOWN
MILL from there on.
CROM their newly-won high
T ground, American guns, fir
ing at a ratigo of 11 miles, knock
fl out five axis planes grounded on
Mho Meuouno airfield (between
the Americana and the sea) and
practically destroy the field it
aclf. , This gives you an Idea of what
possession of dominating hclghti
means.
,
AN ! Interesting story comes
from the Maknossy area to
day. Forty Italians, coming forward
to surrender to tha Americans,
re FIRED ON Immediately by
a German unit on their right.
That tells us quite a lot about
tho feeling between the Ger
mans and the lUillans.
In this area, a front-line U. S.
officer says, more than a thous
and Italians have been taken
prlsonor in three days, but prac
tically no Germans.
TVE still speak of Italy at
V" member of the axis, but It It
becoming Increasingly apparent
that the Italians no longer hove
ny stomach for this war,
1YE mustn't become too opt I
mlstlc about the prospects In
Tunisia. Rommel Is an exper
ienced and able gonernl, com
manding a battlo-hardcnod army
that Is amply supplied with nil
the weapons necessary for mod
ern war.
- But neither must we become
unduly pessimistic because of tho
Setback suffored by Montgomery
at the point whero ho undertook
to breach the Marcth line. This
Mareth line assault was only
ONE PART of his plan.
' At the tamo time, ho sent a
flanking column around tho end
of tho Mareth fortifications and
Pulton's Americans struck from
' pofsa (see map) toward tho tea
'coast In Rommel's rear with the
idea of cutting off his retreat.
The direct frontal attack on
'tho Mareth lino apparently failed
(at least of lmmcdiato success)
but the other two phaset of his
battlo plan appear to bo working
out so far.
- That Isn't a bad batting aver
ago. 'A MILITARY commentator In
" London, today's dispatches
toll us, thinks we have no oc
casion for gloom.
" It look nino days, he soys, to
break through Rommel's lino nt
El Alamoin, whoro tho present
battlo of Africa started. But
Montgomery b r o k o through.
Rommol has been working for
' months to strengthen his Marcth
) positions. It stands to reason
that It will take some tlmo to
crack them.
IIo says wo don't need to weep
over tho Mareth sotback,
'AT El Alnmeln, Rommol hod
oil of Africa to retreat
through. If Pntton con hold his
position on the heights domlnot-
(Continued on Pogo Sovcn)
Mme. Chiang Visits
San Francisco's
Chinatown Today
SAN FRANCISCO. March 2B
(!') Modamo Chiang Kai-shek
arrived here tired but smiling to
day on her transcontincntnl tour
and proceeded Immediately to
San Francisco's gally-docoratcd
Chinatown whoro thousands
stood quiet In respect as slio
passed,
Tho Amorlcan-oducotod wlfo
6f tho . Chinese generalissimo
stepped ashoro from n nnvy
launch after crossing tho boy
from Oakland, and hundreds
pressed forward eagerly on tho
flower-bedecked wharf as sho
slopped Into an official cor for
I tour of Chinatown.
Yanks Dig in During Fight for Gafsa
Thtt photo taken during the allied victory at Gafsa on the
North African front hat Just been received over the newly estab
lished tlgnal corps radlo-telephoto circuit, directly linking the
war department In Washington with headquarters of Gen. Dwlght
Elsenhower at Algiers for two-way radio transmission of pictures.
Shown here, a gun crew hat dug Itself in and it on the alert dur
ing the battle for Gafsa, which fell to Patton't American force
on March 18. Official tlgnal corpt radlo-telephoto.
Ways, Means Opens Debate
On Pav-as-You-Go Tax Plan
By FRANCIS M. Le MAY
WASHINGTON, Morch 25 UP)
Lanky, 70-ycar-old Chairman
Doughton (D-N.C.) of the ways
and means committee opened de
bata on pay-as-you-go tax legis
lation today with a denunciation
of the Ruml sklp-a-ycar plan as
a "tax heresy" a proposition
"Immoral and unsound."
"It it to sound tax policy that
Infidelity - l1o - true - Bible re
ligion," he shouted. ''It would
bankrupt any business concern.
No nation, state or other taxing
Jurisdiction has ever adopted
such a system Our soldiers
aro not requesting forgiveness
of a ycor's duty. In fact many
of them ore called upon to givo
an entire lifetime In one mo
ment of duty. Is tliis any time
to forgive a year's tax liability?"
Rep. Knutson (R-Mlnn.), a lead-
Army Will Open
New Replacement
Center at Bend
WASHINGTON, M arch 25 (TP)
Secretary of Wor Stimson told
a new engineer replacement
centers-Camp Abbot will be
opened at Bond, Ore., May 1.
Tho training unit for tho new
center will consist of 1300 of
ficers end men who will move
to Camp Abbot from Fort Leon
ard Wood, Mo., ond the camp's
first commanding officer will be
Col. Frank S. Bcsson, now at
Fort Leonard Wood.
Stimson sold the first group of
trainees ot Camp Abbot will bo
tho Slst training battalion, who
will start a 12-wcck basic train
ing courso May 31. Thereafter,
ho sold, now training battalions
will report ot two-week inter
vals. Tho now camp was named for
Brig. Gon. Henry Lcrcom Ab
bot, a topographical engineer
who helped survey tho routo of
tho Pacific railroad in tho vicin
ity of Bend. Ho was tho father
of Brig. Gen. Frederick V. Ab
bot, former acting chief of tho
engineer corps who retired in
1020.
Investigation Ordered as Klamath
Heating Company Makes Reply to City
SALEM, March 25 (!) Pub
lio Utilities Commissioner Or
mond R. Bean ordered today an
Immediate Investigation to de
termine If the Klamath Heating
company's rates aro sufficient to
enable It to pay for Its connec
tions with tho Klamath Falls
sewer system.
Boon sold he would decide
whether to hold a hearing after
his investigation is completed.
Tho Klamath Heating com
pany's answer to tho city's com
plnint against tho plant's alleged
maintcnanco ot hazards and
"black snow," was filed Thurs
day with tho public utilities com
mission, Just two days after City
Attorney Joo Carnation's letter
reached Commissioner Ormond
R. Boon.
The heating plant's side of the
slory was told the commissioner
er of republican support behind
the Ruml plan, prepared to an
swer Doughton, by declaring a
modification of that plan, em
braced in a bill by Rep. Carlson
(R-Kas.), was "progressive and
forward looking"; that it pro
vided tho only "fair and prac
tical" means of putting the
nation's 44,000,000 income tax
payers on a pay-as-you-go bails,
and that "there is only one Jhlng.
wrong with the Ruml plan the
treasury didn't think of It first."
Opposes Plan .
Leading the democratic oppo
sition to the Ruml plan, Dough
ton declared:
"I feel that this Is no time to
experiment with wlll-o'-the wisp
or chimerical methods, which
are conceived and brought forth
for selfish or political reasons
rather than patriotic motives. In
my opinion, if the selfish and
political considerations were
eliminated from the Ruml plan,
It would never get to bat, much
loss' to first base. ..."
Doughton declared .the Ruml
plan would: 1. Bestow the great
est benefit to those most able to
(Continued on Page Seven).
Allied Shipping
Increases Over
Sub Sinkings
LONDON, March 25 (P)
Prime Minister Churchill de
clared today that the United Na
tions "have afloat substantially
larger fleets than they hod at the
worst moment in the U-boat war
and this improvement is contin
uing." The statement was mode in re
ply to a question in tho house of
commons on shipping losses.
Rear Admiral Tufton Percy
Beamish, conservative, had
asked tho prime minister if he
were awaro of tho recent Ger
man claim that U-boats sank
more than 30 ships out ot a 200,-000-ton
Atlantic convoy.
Churchill said he declined to
"clarify enemy knowledge on
this matter."
who hos ordered on Investlga
tlon. Following are excerpts
from tho answer as signed by
John W. Kirby, president of
company:
"First, we wish fto say that
tho statement mado in the city's
letter. Hint tho present manage
ment has nover cooperated with
tho city, in endeavoring to over
come some of our difficulties Is
utterly false.
"This letter further states that
we refused to reconstruct or
maintain the piping in our sys
tem. It is a matter of record
which can bo checked, that dur
ing 1030, 1040 Riid 1041, the com
pany spent a total of $14,253.76
on replacing both steam and re
turn lines, on repairs to our
boilers to get better combustion
for yoars 1041 and 1842, a total
of $13,681.87 waspent. We had
Roosevelt Creates
Office to Oversee
Fo od Production
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON, March 25 (P) President Roosevelt announced
today the creation In the agriculture department of an adminis
tration of food production and distribution to be headed by
Chester C. Davis, president of the federal reserve bank at St.
Louis and former director of the agricultural adjustment adminis
tration. A White House statement said that "the administrator will
have charge of what may be called the food production and dis
tribution activities of the department, including the agricultural
adjustment administration, the
food distribution activities that
were transferred to the depart
ment of agriculture by the war
production board lest December,
and the recruitment of farm la
bor recently transferred to the
department by the war manpow
er commission."
Obtains Leave
Davis will obtain leave of ab
sence from his bank, the presi
dent's statement said, and report
for duty next Monday,
Last December S, the secretary
of agriculture was directed in a
presidential executive order to
assume "full responsibility for
and control over : the nation's
food problem."'
. Mr. Roosevelt's statement did
not say whether Wickard would
retain or give up this responsi
bility, with Davis as a subordi
nate or as a full-fledged food
boss.
Wickard Continues
The presidential announce
ment tald Wickard' would con
tinue as member ot WPB, the
' (Continued on Page Seven)
Klamath' Meat
Outlook Views
Pig Ear Dinners
' Sunday dinner tables may fea
ture those one-point pig ears by
the looks of butcher shop cases
as Klamath's meat supply was
rapidly dwindling.
One of the large shops in the
city reported average meat sales
of $1 hod jumped from $3 to
$3.50 and the housewife was
buying from one to one and one
half week's supply before the
weekend rush.
Varied pictures were painted
by local butcher shops but all
agreed on one thing, that any
past meat shortages would look
like child's play compared to the
one slated for this Saturday if
buying continued at its present
pace,
One large concern reported 80
per cent of normal requirements
would be met. Plenty of lamb
(Continued on Page Seven)
White House Gets
Senato Bill to
Lift Debt Ceiling
WASHINGTON, March 25 (IP)
The senate passed and sent to
the White House today legisla
tion lifting the ceiling on tho na
tional debt to $210,000,000,000
and repealing President Roose
velt's executive order limiting
salaries to $25,000 after taxes.'
Final legislative action came
on adoption of a conference re--port
accepting the senate's own
version of the repealer, approved
overwhelmingly yesterday . by
the house.
a further program of removing
and rcplocing other ports of our
older system but due to the war
therand necessary shortage of mate
rials, together with the help
problem, we could do nothing
further.
The letter govo a brief history
of tho heating plant,
i "When tho plant was first con
structed it served only a small
area of the business district of
Klamath Falls and at that time
it was assumed to be economical
to return condensation to the
plant in order that the water
might be roused. In spite of
this, our company never assumed
responsibility beyond delivery ot
steam to the patrons' property
lino. Some years ago when a re
newal of return mains began to
become necessary. It was dctcr
. (Continued on Page Seven)
FLYING ARTILLERY
MacArthur's Men On
. Strafing Runs
Over Lines
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, March 25 JP
General MacArthur's "flying ar
tillery" made 44 bombing and
strafing runs over Japanese lines
at Mubo yesterday, firing 30,000
rounds from cannons and machine-gunsinto
enemy positions
guardingthe approaches to the
Japanese' New Guinea base- at
Salamaua, allied headquarters
announced today.
Otherllied planes carried out
day ndu iight--attackt oh; far
flunKjenemy bases in tHe islands
above Australia, scoring hits on
shipping and airdrome areas, and
one bomber on a reconnaissance
mission shot two Japanese fight
er planes, out of .the air in a duel
over Wewak, New Guinea, a
communique declared. ; -
The enemy's planes also were
in the sky before daylight yes
terday, raising allied bases at
Oro bay and Milne bay in New
Guinea with, little effect, it Was
said. .
In the air duel over Wewak
three Japanese fighter planes
challenged a Flying Fortress
which within five minutes shot
the tail off one, causing it to
crash into the side of a moun
tain; sent the second into a
smoking dive, and forced the
third to quit the combat, dis
patches from the allies base said.
Labor Puts Bond
Thermometer to
$130,000 Mark
The column of red paint on or
ganized labor's war bond ther
mometer at Ninth and Main
streets climbed up to the $130,
000 mark Thursday, with the
city fire department sending a
hook and ladder truck to elevate
the painter during the job.
It took only a minute or two
to add the paint that extended
the column from the $100,000
mark, with G. C. Tatman of the
culinary alliance doing the su
pervising. ,
"Tat" was happy to see the
thermometer change. When he
ordered it painted, he gave the
painter a sketch and, just for il
lustration, showed the red col
umn on his sketch at $100,000
The painter took him at his word
and turned out the job with the
"mercury" at $100,000.
Hence, the thermometer could
n't change until bond soles
possed $100,000. It is expected to
climb rapidly now. The quota for
March and April, with organized
labor in the driver's seat of the
campaign, is set at $500,000,
Stimson Notes
Favorable Progress
In Tunisian Fight
WASHINGTON, March 25 (P)
Secretary of War Stimson today
predicted favorable progress in
the Tunisian campaign, but said
it would be paid for with heavy
casualties.
He attributed successes In the
Tunisian campaign in part to the
series of heavy day and night
bombing attacks on Germany
and German occupied territory.
These attacks, he told a press
conference, make it necessary
for Germany to keep largo num
bers of fighting planes home.
British Stalled in Tunisia
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British General Montgomery's eighth army warded off fierce
German counter atiacka in the upper end of the Mareth line
region today, tbown on the map above by the small box "British
Flank Mareth Line." At the same time the American guns shelled
the Meztouna airfield near the top of the map only 22 miles
from the tea.
Reds Slog Through Slush
At Smolensk; Nazis Slacken
Br EDDY GILMORE -MOSCOW,
March 25 UPi:
The red army's dogged drive
through slush, ice and mud to
ward Smolensk has made fresh
headway in three directions and
German attacks in an effort to
control the northern. Donets
river valley are slackening after
their setbacks at the hands of
the I soviet, defenders,- the' Rus
sians said- today. . .
1 tTho'snldday communique an-
Wounded Service
Men Think City
"Like Heaven"
"Heaven must be like that" Is
the way wounded service men at
the Mare Island naval hospital
talk of Klamath Falls, according
to Floyd Colglazier, one of the
four wounded sailors In Klamath
as guests .of the Commandos.
Colglazier asked The Herald
and News to publish, with first
page emphasis, an expression of
the gratitude from him and his
buddies for what the Commaiidos
and the supporting community
are doing for Mare island hospi
tal men.
"The six marines who were
here a while back came back
with stories that ran like wild
fire through-the hospital," said
Colglazier, who was on the air
craft carrier Hornet when it
went down. "And now we're
here and find that everything
they said Is true, and then some.
We can't tell these Commandos
how we feel about it because
they're so busy giving us a good
time. But you tell them, and
everybody in Klamath Falls, for
us, please." .
Several Thousand . .
Walk Off Jobs at u
Ship Repair Yards
BALTIMORE, March 25 ()
Officials of the industrial union
of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers of America (CIO) re
ported today that several thous
and workers walked off their
jobs at the Big Key highway ship
repair , yard of the Bethlehern
Steel corporation.
The union officials said the
strike occurred after the com
pany refused to discharge three
men whom the CIO organization
charged, were "proselyting" for
an independent union.
Japs Select Pearl
Harbor Attack Movie
As Best of Year
NEW YORK, March 25 (P)
The Japanese have selected a
motion picture of their sneak at
tack on Pearl Harbor as the best
film, of 1942, the Tokyo radio
said today in a broadcast report
ed by the OWI.
"This piece of work," the
broadcast was quoted as saying,
"has been chosen for its merits
In revealing to the people the de
fined reason which lies behind
the successes of the warriors
who have gone through an un
ending and constant training
which has brought them to be
one ' and lncomftf able."
'4!i"0'ljSMlwes
Mkny !jcrl;,t
4L
nounced that additional villages
were taken, on- the Smolensk
front as soviet troops broke
through the outlying defenses
of the city.
Sharp Thrust
. The Soviets' sharpest thrust
appeared to be north of Du
khovschino, which is 32 miles
northeast of the big German
garrison city. The war bulletin
said that in this sector the red
army -. troops battled hand-to-
hand with- the Germans in an
unidentified " settlement which
had been heavily fortified,, after
hurling grenades to clear- their
path. .
South of this sector a Russian
column was reported moving to
ward the district center of Do
rogobuzh, 13 miles below . the
Moscow-Vyazma-Smolensk rail
way and 50 miles east of Smo
lensk. The battle to take the
city, which lies in a swampy
area cut by the Dnieper river
and many small streams, was
considered now only a part of
a . large-scale offensive to con
trol the upper Dnieper.
Fierce counterattacks, with
heavy concentrations of heavy
artillery to back up their in
fantry,, were being mounted by
the: Germans, a dispatch to Red
Star, the army newspaper, said.
(The German high command
(Continued on Page Seven) '
Folkes' Lawyer
Charges State
With Conspiracy
ALBANY, Ore., March 25 (IP)
Leroy Lomax, Portland, attorney
for Robert E. Lee Folkes, today
charged the state and the South
ern Pacific railroad with "con
spiring to deprive Folkes .of a
fair and Impartial trial."
Folkes, Los Angeles negro
cook, on a dining car, is under
indictment charged with the
"lower 13" slaying of Mrs. Rich
ard F. James, bride of 0 navy en
sign, on January 23. She .was
slashed to death as she lay in
berth lower 13 aboard a California-bound
train.
Postponement Asked
Lomax asked Circuit Judge L.
G. Lewelling for an Indefinite
(Continued on Page Seven)
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CIO Charges Ship Workers
Not in Union of Own Choice
WASHINGTON, March 25 (IP)
The president of a CIO ship
builders union chorged before
the senate war investigating com
mittee today that 70,000 to 80,
000 workers in Henry J. Kaiser's
Oregon yards have been forced
to join an AFL bargaining unit
"which they had no hand in
choosing."
Testifying on CIO-AFL juris
dictional disputes, John Green,
president of the industrial union
of marine and shipbuilding
workers (CIO), told committee
that the Kaiser company entered
into a closed shop agreement
with the AFL when only 68 men
had been hired.
Force Joining
"This step forced every one of
the 70,000 to 80,000 workers
since hired in Kaiser's three Ore
TS
British Stymied But
.. Holding Against
- Germans
By EDWARD KENNEDY :
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, March 25
lP) United States troops re
pulsed heavy nazl armored at-'
tacks in the Gafsa sector and
made local gains in the Mak
nassy area of the central Tunis
ian front while the battle of the
Mareth line dwindled to artil
lery duelling after four days of
bitter fighting, it was announced
today. -
Military quarters said strong
resistance and vigorous counter
attacks by Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel' forces prevented fur
ther major allied gains for tha
time being and, in some eases,
wiped out advances achieved a
few days earlier.
French Bomb Airport
A French high command com
munique announced that French
aircraft bombed the Sfax air
port despite vigorous anti-aircraft
fire while ground, forces
continued operations against
axis operations adjoining the
Chort Djerid salt sink. ;
lery activity in the central sec
tor," the communique said. "
' Advices- from- the southern
Tunisian front late last night
were that German counter-as
saults had ' largely wiped out
the advances made by the Brit
ish eighth -army in driving a
(Continued on Page Seven)
BasicTrquble
In Steel Fake
Laid to Banks
WASHINGTON, March 25 ()
James W. Gerard said ir. a tele
gram filed with the senate war
investigating committee today
that "the basic trouble" at the
Irvin Works (Dravosburg, Pa.)
of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel
Corp., was control of the United
States Steel Corp., "by Bankers
J. P,Morgan & Co."
' Recalling testimony this week
by . Carnegie-Illinois employes
that "fake tests" were made on
some steel plates ordered by the
government, the former ambas
sador to Germany said:
"As a stockholder of U. S.
Steel, which controls the Carnegie-Illinois
Co., am shocked at
disclosures of dirty work which
endangers lives of American sol
diers, sailors and crews of mer
chant ships." .
The telegram, read Into the
formal record of a public hear
ing by Chairman Truman (D
Mo.) continued:
"The basic trouble Is the con
trol of U. S. Steel by bankers
J. P. Morgan & Co., probably
not by stock ownership, but by
possession of stockholders'
names and addresses and by
usual apathy ot American stock
holders." gon yards to Join a bargaining
unit which they had no hand in
choosing," Green declared.
His own union, he said, has
filed charges with the national
labor relations board in a num
ber of cases where, he asserted,
employers had entered Into "col
lusive closed shop contracts"
with tho AFL whon only a frac
tion of the full shipyard force
had been hired.
Kaiser Praised
"I am the last person to deny
the achievements of Mr. Kaiser."
Green said. "He certainly has
been responsible for organizing
the supply of merchant vessels
so badly needed for the war ef
fort. But gentlemen, you and
I know, and every practical ship
builder will concur In the state-
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