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On Smlnute blest on sirens and whistles
li tha signal for a blackout In Klamath
Falli. Anothtr long blast, during black
out U a ilgnal ior all-cloar. In precau
tionary periods, watch your itraat lights.
By FRANK JENKINS
nrllERE wn thrilling news this
A marniiiK. The Murclh line In
louthorn Tunisia Is crumbling.
Everyone of Its strong points,
early dispatches report, li now
In our possession.
Rommel, mttybe too Into, la
beulnnlnfi to retreat.
OHIclnl reports from Cairo
tell ua that axis air fields at
Cabes are being plowed up.
That means that Rommel knows
he'll retreat farther than Cabes,
and wants to prevent us from
using his own air fields against
him when he abandons them.
TTHE break comes, as ot El Ala-
moln, on tho ninth day. Nine
seems to bo Montgomery's lucky
number.
But Rommel now faces a dif
ferent and more menacing situ
ation. At Ei Alameln, he -had
alt of Africa behind him, with
all his enemies in his renr. In
his retreat from tho Mnrcth posi
tions, he will have powerful ene
mies hovering on his flank.
His escape corridor at Gnbes
has been narrowed to only 19
miles by Montgomery's flanking
column which reached El llnm
ma. If ho fights his way through
the' Gabes bottleneck, I'atton's
Americans, holding tho high
ground along 100 miles or more
of tha coastal highway, will
swoop down on him.
All the way, our air forces
will be pounding him from
above.
Anderson's first army Is driv
ing hard ot Von Arnlm, seeking
to keep him too busy to send
help to his battered colleague In
the south.
ROMMEL Is an oble general
probably the ablest the war
has produced.
His 1500-mllo retreat across
Africa without demoralization Is
one of the great military feats
of history. But he's finally get
ting Into a tight spot and in
smart Montgomery he has an
able foe.
Vf& hear today of the first sur
" face naval fight for Kiska.
Two Jap heavy cruisers, two
light cruisers ond four destroy
ers, convoying two Jap cargo
vessels, are encoumerca Dy an
AmarWn nnvnl tnsk force forob-
ably there for just that purposo)
ana a iong range gun hkiu sup
posed to havo been at fiva. to
seven mues ensues.
The Japs are turned bock.
Their need at Klska must be
0tHnir rnthpr riincrnio to tusti-
fy such heavy convoying of only
two cargo snips.
Only two are mentioned. Oth
ers may have been hidden In the
fog.
IN Russia, the fierce Gorman
rnunlar-atiack at Kharkov
teems to have been stopped at
tha oonots.
The Russians, wading through
the deep mud of the spring thaw,
Inch nearer to Smolensk,
'T'HE Interesting point of the
1 Russian fighting is that the
Red army seems to havo enough
strength to stop tho Germans.
Everything hinges on Russian
reserve strength.
Floods Sweep Away
Logs at Pendleton
PENDLETON, March 20 (ZD
Flood waters in Cnmns crook
near Uklah swept away 183,000
board feet of logs from tho
Brown-Hoxle Lumber company's
mill pond and washed out the
supporting structure of tho 70'
foot county bridge near tlicro be
tween 2 o'clock Snturdny ufler
noon and midnight.
Japanese Declare
Thailand Emergency
LONDON, March 20 P) The
Paris radio reported today a dis
patch from Bangkok that n state
of emergency had been declared
throughout Jnpnneso occupied
Thailand.
Tho broadcast, recorded by
ThoAssoclntcd Press, gavo no explanation!
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Block Leader Chief
Mrs, Jean Puckett above hat
been named chief of "block lead
er" In the newly organised
"block" unit under the local Ci
vilian Defense plan, it was an
nounced Monday by the Klam
ath County Defense Council.
Defense Group
Appoints Women
"Block Leaders"
A Block Leader Council to
assLst In civilian defense work
hero was orgunized last week,
when Lynn Roycroft, newly ap
pointed director of U, S. Cltlzci
Service corps, and Earl Reynolds,
coordinator of the local Defense
Council, called together a group
of local women to become block
leaders.
The block leader's job is to
explain to tho persons In his lo
cality tho principles of ration
ing, salvage and other wartime
programs, and to see that these
wartime services ore XuIIy un
derstood by Mr. and Mrs. Public.
Mrs. Jean Puckett was select
ed chairman of the group, and
tho following block leaders will
assist her:
Mrs. Olive Cornett, precincts
24. 25, 2B, 27 and 28; Mrs. Isa
bcllo Brixner. precincts 1, 2, 10,
11 and 12; Mrs, Harvey Park,
precincts 13. 21, 22 and 23; Mrs.
Flo Ann Eaton, precincts 30. SI.
32 and Pelican City; Mrs. Martha
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Block Snow" Talk
Set for Council
Meeting Tonight
Discussion of the heating
plant ordinance, to be brought
up for third and final reading
tonight at 7:30 o'clock at a
meeting of the city council, is
tho only major problem which
the dads will attempt to Iron
out. Tho session is called as
on adjourned meeting, mainly
to bring up the proposed ordi
nance. Mayor John H, Houston said
that ho expected lengthy discus
sion on tho ordinance. The city
attorney lost Monday filed a
complnlnt against the heating
compuny, naming traffic haz
ards as well as tho "black
snow" question, with the pub
lic utilities commissioner. In
turn, tho heating company filed
an answer with tho commission
er In Salem,
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Major Fensler, Tulelake
Flyer, Reported Missing
TULELAKE Major Robert
W. Fensler, U. S,. army air
corps, is reported missing ac
cording to word received here
by tho young flyer's wifo, and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Clark
Fensler, prominent ranching
family.
Word reached the family
through Ralph A, Ganger of the
local American Legion post,
who received tho mcssago from
tho war department. Only the
official notification with tho
word that Information would
follow, has been received..
Maj. Fensler advised his wifo
of his safo arrival in India just
ono week ago. Tho young flyer
was graduated from Tulehiko
high school in 1030, attended
Oregon Stato college the year
of 11)30-37, nnd tho University
of Cnllfomla tho following
year, Ho then took his early
training at Mother field, Sacra
mento, and later was Btationed
in Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles
and Florida whero ho served as
an instructor. When no last
wrota his family ho was pilot
ing r B-24. Mnj, Fensler was
married a year and one-half
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U. S. Pairol Ships Turn
Jap Force in Aleutians
WASHINGTON, March 29 m
American patrol ships hove turn
ed back a Japanese naval force
headed for tho Aleutians in the
first surface battle off the mist-
shrouded islands since the enemy
set up a base on Kiska last sum
mer. When the long-ronge engage
ment Friday was broken off, the
navy said in a communique yes
terday, tho Japaneso detachment
of two heavy cruisers, two light
cruisers, four destroyers and two
cargo vessels was seen heading
westward.
Distant Battle
Tho battle fought at a dis
lanco of five to seven miles
began ofter a light force of U. S.
patrol craft located the enemy
west of Attu, 200 miles west of
Kiska. There was a possibility
that the Japanese turned about
to avoid close-rango shelling in
which tho cargo vesels, apparent
ly carrying desperately-needed
supplies for the Kiska base,
might havo been damaged or
sunk.
Details of the action were not
announced. Tho navy told in an
earlier communique of a scries
ot far-flung air raids in the Paci
fic from March 25 to 27.
Kiska Bombed
Amerlcon planes attocked Kis
ka, scoring hits on a hangar,
while other TJ. S. planes strafed
and bombed tho Japanese In two
RAF Resumes
Battering of
U-BoatBase
LNODON, March 29 (Jft
RAF bombers resumed their as
saults on German submarine
bases last night, after the great
est raid of the war on Berlm Sat
urday night, by blasting the base
at St. Nnzalre with a "concen
trated attack," the air ministry
announced today.
Two bombers did not return
from the St. Nazaire raid, which
was carried out In considerable
strength and added new damage
to a U-boat haven which has been
attacked often and heavily In
the past.
Squadrons of bombs, escorted
by fighters, crossed and recross
ed the southeast coast this morn
ing, hinting at a continuation of
tho intensive blows directed at
Germany and her satellites on
the continent during the week
end. Tho German radio meanwhile
announced that 'German bomb
ers, retaliating for tho Saturday
night RAF raid on Berlin and a
doyllght raid yesterday by Amer
ican Fortresses and Liberators
on tho railroad yards at Rouen,
France, smashed at Norwich,
England, during tho night.
ago and Is tho father ofa 6-month-old
daughter, Barbara,
According to tho family, Maj,
Fensler left tho United States
on February IB, flying to South
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raids at Munda on New Georgia
island tn the Solomons; raided
Japanese positions at Vila in the
Solomons and bombed and shot
up Japanese positions in Ugaii
on Rendova island in the New
Georgia group.
Two Japanese planes struck
at Canton island in the Phoenix
island group and seven enemy
raiders bombed Guadalcanal,
killing one man and injuring 13.
LONDON, March 29 (P) A
Japanese communique broadcast
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1EPUBL1GANS GET
BEHIND HL PL
Committee Syre Skip
Year Tax Will
Pass
WASHINGTON, March 29 m
The house republican stearing
committee met today to tighten
party lines behind tho Ruml tax
plan, and Hep. Martin of Massa
chusetts, 'the minority leader,-reported
"I now feel certain" the
proposal to skip an income tax
year will pass the house.
The committee meeting was
held In Martin's .off ice with a
view to planning strategy when
voting begins, probably tomor
row, on various pay-as-you-go in
come tax proposals.
Confident
"We can't discuss our strat
egy," Martin told newspaper
men, "but we ere confident."
Meanwhile' the democratic
leaders continued their running
battle against the plan originally
advanced by Bcardsley Ruml of
the New York Federal Reserve
bank and embraced in modified
form a bill by Rep. Carlson R
Kas.; and various plans for a
compromise that would abate a
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Hits Scored on
Jap Air Fields
At Bum, Kahili
WASHINGTON, March 28 m
American bombers attacking
Japanese air fields at Buin and
Kahili scored hits on a runway
and protected dispersal areas,
the navy said today, then re
turned safely to their base.
The text of the navy's com
munique. No. 328, telling of raids
against the two enemy positions
on Bougainville island, 300 miles
northwest of Guadalcanal, fol
lows:
"South Pacific: (AH dates are
east longitude)
"1. On March 28th:
"(A) During the morning,
army Flying Fortresses (Boeing
B-17) attacked Japanese posi
tions at Buin and Kauhli In the
Shortland island area. Hits were
scored on revetments and a run
way. (B) All United States planes
returned."
HOLC Abolishment
Held Treasury Raid
WASHINGTON, March 29 0P)
John H. Fahey, commissioner of
the Federal Home Loan Bank ad
ministration, described pending
legislation to abolish tho Home
Owners Loan corporation today
bs "nothing but a raid on the
treasury in the midst of war."
"The forced liquidation of the
HOLC within one year, as pro
posed by an amendment to the
pending independent offices ap
propriations bill," he declared,
"would cost tho government at
least $440,000,000 some $373,-
000,000 more than the corpora
tion's present net deficit and
put a wholly unnecessary burden
on the U, S, treasury and tax
payers," , i
MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1843
'LINE ATTACK L -tL h
Two Nazi Cracks at
Upper Donets
Blasted
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, March 23 m The
red army fought on in the mud
during the night, breaking up
two German efforts to crack its
line along the upper Donets river
and capturing four more villages
in the alow drive toward Smo
lensk, the Russians said "today,
but the once flaming battle line
apparently had subsided tempo
rarily to a series ot local and in
conclusive engagements.
The mid-day communique re
ported that there were no ma
terial changes ort the fronts" and
was devoted almost exclusively
to isolated engagements involv
ing relatively small forces.
' Local -Engagement -J
. ' (The German wmmunique, re
corded by The Associated Press,
said that only local engagements
were fought in the central and
southern sectors of the- Russian
front yesterday, but that the
Russians renewed their attacks
south of Lake Ilmen and near
Lake Ladoga. The fighting lasted
all day, the communique said,
and the Russians were repulsed
with heavy losses.)
In the push toward Smolensk,
which had carried to within 32
miles of the great German base,
the Russians reported one village
was taken by the column which
has been driving westward from
Vyazma and three more by the
column which for weeks has
been moving southward from
Beiy, about 85 miles to the
northeast of Smolensk.
Village Captured
The single village captured
was taken during a night attack
and success came after the Rus
sians had mixed it with the Ger
mans, using bayonets and hand
grenades, the communique said.
More than 100 Germans were re
ported killed and a small quan
tity of equipment was seized.
In a neighboring sector a Rus
sian scouting party slipped be
hind the German lines and at
tacked a German infantry col
umn moving up to the front, kill
ing 70 Germans with machine
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Trash Fire Calls
Sign of Spring
Surest sign of spring is the
number of calls received by the
city fire department from prop
erty owners who feel the urge to
clean up after winter's on
slaught.
A great many trash fires were
burning in Klamath Falls over
the weekend as yards were given
good raklngs. The Great North
ern railway was given a burning
permit Monday as they cleared
up at their South Sixth street
docks,
Sunday's temperature rose to
84 degrees during the afternoon.
Oregon Collects
Over Five Million
in Income Taxes
SALEM, March 29 (iFs The
state tax commission said today
it has collected $5,500,000 in in
come faxes so far this year,
about $850,000 more than was
collected in the corresponding
period last year.
The returns indicate that an
other record will be set, and that
the reduction applying to pay
ments made next year, under the
formula approved by the recent
legislature, will be at least SO
per cent and possibly much
more. ,
Stats'" income taxes are due
April 15 this year.
NEA FEATURES
Number 875?
A paa of hamburger in a local butcher shop Monday gave
tha shopper her choice of hamburger or hamburger! Meat eating
families fairly cleaned Klamath ahsps of steaks, roasts, stews and
chops, and by Monday morning there was little variety to be found
in town.' "St" Baker, butcher, handle tha tituatioa as best he
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Local Meat Rationing Sees
Shortage of Favored Cuts
Additional meat - rationing
story on page eight, chart of
processed food values en page
four.
Elk meat augmented many a
Sunday dinner as Klamath
housewives entered the nation
wide experience of meat ration
ing and found their favorite
cuts of lamb, beef and pork
practically non-existent.
Some beef, a little lunch
meat and a few chickens, along
with rationed cheese, were left
in Mondays cases, several shops
were closed for at least two
days, waiting for the small
amount of beef on hand to age
Miners Agree to
Continue Talks
On New Contract
NEW YORK, March 29 m
Southern Appalachian soft coal
mine operators and the United
Mine Workers of America agreed
today to continue negotiations
for a new contract for 30 days
after March 31 when the present
one expires, thus assuring con-
tination of work; in the mines.
The northern operators had
previously agreed to such a plan.
Under the agreement, similar
to one signed by the northern
operators and the union, any pay
increases granted would be re
troactive to April 1.
The agreement, announced by
Dr. John R. Steelman, director
of the U. S. conciliation service,
who entered the negotiations to
day, said:
"It is agreed that the mines
represented in this conference
shall continue in operation under
all existing agreements for 30
days after April t, 1843. in ac
cordance with the request of the
president of the United" States
as affecting a continuation of
work on a retroactive basis.
U. S. Supreme Court
Asked for Decision
On Jap Exclusion
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29
(If) The U. S. circuit court of
appeals, seeking to determine
whether the order excluding
Japanese from the west coast
was constitutional, has asked the
United States supreme court for
certain definitions upon which
to base a final decision.
Involved in the ease are two
American citizens of Japanese
ancestry, Gordon Kiyoshi Hira
bayashi of Seattle and Minoru
Yashui of Hood River, Ore., who
appealed from district court
convictions of violating sections
of the military order providing
for exclusion and control of both
Ilea and American Japanese,
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where It would be ready for
cutting. ," -. - . . .r.
Most refrigerators were fairly
weii stocked for the coming
week as shoppers bought when
meat was fairly plentiful the
middle of last week. By Satur
day night the butcher shop
cases were as clean as Mother
Hubbard's cupboard.
Use of the red ration stamps
in War Book 2, confused both
the purchaser and the butcher,
it was reported from one shop.
Some customers were "pretty
annoyed" but oa the whole,
shoppers were in good humor
and took what they could get.
Elk Meat Sold
Carter's, which dispensed 3S2
pounds of elk meat, bought the
carcasses from Chet Barton's
ranch to Poe Valley. The ani
mals have been part of c
"menagerie" on the Barton
place.
Barton has two more elk and
a buffalo which may be slaugh
tered. OPA rationing officials
said elk and buffalo are not in
cluded in rationed meat, but the
local market has given OPA a
problem in determining a ceil
ing price, inasmuch as no meat
of this nature was sold in the
base period. -
Jury List Drown
For Wallan Trial
A jury list has been drawn
tor the trial of Kenneth Wallan,
charged with second degree mur
der in the Christmas eve killing
of James Bowman during a fight.
Trial has been set for Wed
nesday, March 31, beginning at
10 a. m. in circuit court. J. C.
O'Keill Is attorney for the defendant.
Okies Head West 4gGin
TWs Time on Plush Seats
POTEAU, Okla., March 28 ff)
The Okies are heading west
again.
But this time they have been
invited and they are traveling on
the plush cushions of railroad
day coaches instead of in the bat
tered patched and weary jallop
ies of the depression days.
One hundred and thirteen
families, totaling 442 persons,
left by special train yesterday
for Washington and Oregon,
traveling as the guests of the
government. They will work on
the dairy and truck farms of
Washington and Oregon.
Owners of the farms, facing
a labor shortage, asked for Ok
lahomans. The farm security ad
ministration, sponsor o the
move, is guaranteeing each fam
ily head $80 a month wages for
10 months of the year.
This, the FSA says, is twice
the cash income ot each of the
families in their native hilts. In
addition each family will have
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Ef
NORTH AFRICA, March 28 Wl
The Gabes area, toward which
Field Marshal Brwia Rommel it
retreating, has been subjected to
a heavy naval bombardment, il
was announced today.
Allied naval forces were a TV
nounced to have subjected the)
Gabes area, through which thej
axis columns must pus to es
cape encirclement, to a heavy
bombardment.
Supplementary Force
(This dispatch did sot bring
out immediately the makeup of
the naval task force or the tim
it struck. Such a foray night
nave bees executed from Al
gerian, Libyan or Egyptian bases
to supplement the air and ground
attacks upon Homme" j troops
fleeing from fee Maretb. line). .
Fieid Marshal Erwia Rom
mel's Mareth line defenses hav
collapsed under the pounding of
the British eighth army and his
forces are retreating northward
with heavy losses, it was ar
Bounced today.
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Scattered pockets of resistant
were left behind, but Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery's infan
trymen were reported mopping
them up, one by ons as allied,
aerial iquadrons Joined ground
forces In powerful attacks along
fee axis escape corridor.
The Mareth line broke on a
25-miie front at three points,
ranging from 20 to 30 miles
from the axis supply port of
Gabes.
Beset by powerful forces for
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Harry French
Gets Future
Date Parole
SAN QUEKTET, Calif., March
28 $FJ Eighteen convicted mur
derers have been denied paroles
by the state board of prison
terms and paroles. .
The board heard 258 eases at
its meeting at San Qiientin pris
on, denying 160 and granting fu
tore date paroles to 85.
Harry A. French of Aittsras,
convicted of killing Claude Mo
Cracken, newspaper editor la
that Modoc county community,
was granted a future date parole
to become effective after serv
ing half of his 25-year sentence,
French shot McCracken os
March 25, 1937, and was sen.
fenced to death. This was corn
muted to life imprisonment in
WW, and was further commuted
to the 25-year term to 1942 fey
Governor Culbert Olson.
a cow, chickens, a house and a
garden pio things that Okies
of the west coast yearned for in
the depression days.
Horace Gibson, Si, head of the
largest single contingent, mad
comments typical of most as he
watched down fee track for tha
first sign of the special.
"You can find work all right
at home," Gibson said, "but they
don't pay fetst $1, $1.23 and 1.S3
a day and food, and the land is
Just too poor to make a living" .
Most are day laborers, work?
tog on farms and cutting rail
road ties in fee Umbered hills.
The FSA jays their average an,
nuat cash Income is about $200,
Gibson, his wife, their three)
sons and their families, 18 per,
sons in all, are making fee trip.
Tor most of them the journey
is fee "trip of their lives," Soms
said they had never been outsida
of Oklahoma, although Arkan
sas Is only 35 Btites away, and
one man said he had never been
beyond hla native county.