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TMPORTANT wnr news li scarce
A OKoln today. Tho world li In
another of tlioio lulls between
storms.
TTERE on the Pacific Coast, we
note with atom pride thnl
MacArthur's drnclly bombers
linvo finished olf tin) Jup niiviil
concontrntlon lit Kavieng harbor,
In New Ireland.
Score: Seven Jap warships and
five cargo ships mink or dam
ed without the loin of a SIN
GLE ONE of our planes.
MacArthur's head quarters
communique says tersely: "The
Jupaneso naval concentration at
Knvlong linn now been destroyed
or dispersed."
nrHE job was done by three
waves of Flying Fortresses,
the first of ten planes and the
last two of eight each, operating
from a distance of 1100 miles, fnr
beyond tho usual bombing range.
JN Tunisia, Pat(on Is battering
A hard at the German lines, try
ing to establish a junction with
Montgomery's northward-mov
ing Bth army. Ills Infantrymen
take more German high ground,
and hold It successfully against
hard counter-attacks.
A Junction, howovor, hasn't yet
been effected. -
KJAPLES, chief axis supply port
' for Tunisia, is nit hard by
nearly 100 American heavy
bomber from North Africa.
Twenty-one larger axis ships and
many smaller ones ore reported
hit and much damage done to
docks and other shipping In
stallations. Among other craft,
three axis subs are smacked.
From Naples, as from tho
South Seas, wo get tho cheering
word that ALL our planes re
turned safely.
The raid, of course, Is primar
ily designed to break up axis
(German) communications with
Tunisia.
TTHE Russians still hold th line
of tho Donots unbrcached,
and today's dispatches say that
In addition they nro holding a
number of bridgeheads on the
ENEMY sldo of the river.
That Is Important. These
bridgeheads will bo Immensoly
useful If and when the Russians
launch n counter attack. Cross
ing a river In the faco of strong
enemy resistance Is much easier
If you havo a toohold on the
other sldo.
TODAY'S dispatches report
that tho American China air
task force (outgrowth of the
famed Flying Tigers) has def
initely destroyed slnco July 4
(when tho Flying Tigers were dis
banded) 182 Jnp planes and prob
ably destroyed 63 moro.
Our loss in planes In that time
has boon 18 downed In air com
bat or on tho ground and 16
more that failed to return bo
cause of mechanical or other dif
ficulties. Only ten fighter pilots
havo been lost In that time
nine In combat and ono through
bombing.
That is a ratio of nearly six
enemy planes destroyed for each
ono of our own lost,, counting
only definitely destroyed planes.
When the probables aro added,
tho ratio becomes much stronger.
That Is attrition on a scale
that hurts.
pHE air Is still full of rumors.
The Moscow radio says today
(unconfirmed elsewhere) that
Rommol has arrived In southern
Italy.
(Belter keep fingers crossed.)
CROM London today comes tho
statement that high-ranking
allied military leaders are moot
ing with Spanish officers in
Spanish Morocco. At least three
allied nations probably Britain,
tho United States and tho French
are represented nt tho meeting,
tho London dispatch says.
As this Is written, no further
details ere available.
OPANISH MOROCCO Is Just
across tho narrow strait, on
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Flying Fortresses At
tack Targets in
Belgium
LONDON, April 8 (IP) A
largo forco of U. S, Flying Fort
resses and Liberators attacked
Industrial targets ncur Antwerp,
Belgium, with good results In
daylight today, following up yes
terday's American attack on the
Renault Works near Paris and a
heavy night attack on Kiol,
Gennuny, It was announced to
night. Headquarters of the eighth U.
S. army air forco said tho target
was tho Erla Airplane Repair
Works 2) miles south of Ant
werp, A DNB dispatch broadcast by
the Berlin radio said the raiding
squadrons scored direct hits "on
blocks of house which caused
fires and destruction and severo
losses among the civil popula
tion" of Antwerp, a fortified
city which Is Belgium's commer
cial center.
Skies Cltar
The American fliers said the
skies wore. clear over the target
and they saw their hits register
squarely.
It was their first attack on Ant
werp nnd they had a strong Spit
firo escort which led them oil the
way ta the target and back to
the coast of England, beating
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UMW, Soft Coal
Workers Stall
On Some Points
NEW YORK, April 8 (P)
Dr. John R. Steelmnn, director
of tho U. S. conciliation service,
said today that the United Mine
Workers and northern operat
ors of tho Appalachian soft coal
region wcro "deadlocked on
some points and not deadlock
ed on others."
Ho made his statement In an
Interview after a three-hour
session between the union and
operators negotiating a new
wage contract.
"I don't expect any agree
ments today," Dr. Steelmnn
said. He added that thcro has
been no final disposition of any
of tho issues involved.
Lt. Gen. Clark
Visits Spanish
High Commissioner
LONDON, April 8 (IP) A
visit by Lieut. Gen. Mark W.
Clark and his aides on Friday to
the Spanish high commissioner
in Spanish Morocco was an
nounced here belatedly today.
Tho announcement as first
given out made lt appear that
high-ranking allied military lead
ers met with Spanish officers
this afternoon, but further de
tails showed that lt referred to
Friday's meeting, already report
ed in dispatches last week.
Worden Gravel Pit Claims
Life of Eleven 'Year 'Old
Tho old gravel pit at Worden
claimed tho flfo of Valentine
Sanchez, 11-ycar-old son of Jose
Sanchez, as he and two others
played on a raft in the deep
pool late Saturday afternoon.
Tho child's body was recovered
by officers at 6:38 p. m.
According to state police,
Valentine and his brother,
Thomas, 10, and a neighbor
boy, Gcorgo Speck, 10, had been
playing en tho raft and wading
at tho odgo of tho gravel pit
during tho afternoon. Thomas
stepped Into a deep hole near
the shoreline and Valentino at
tempted to steer tho raft to his
brother's aid.
Whether the makeshift raft
overturned, or Valontine step
ped Into a deep hole, officers
Meal Time for U. S. Pilots
Pilots and around craws at ihalr mass while standing in
silt tranchas on an advanced field station at an advance U. S.
airport In Tunisia. Entmy raiders appeared so frequently that
It was safer and mora comfortable to settle down in a trench
where a meal could b enjoyed, relatively in peace. .
Farm Bloc Leads Revolt
- Over Bankhead Bill Veto
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 8
Farm, food and labor legislation
vied for capital attention today
as the offlco of price administra
tion placed specific ccnts-pcr-pound
ceiling prices on retail
sales of beef, veal, lamb and
mutton, effective April 15.
Two phases of tho general
food problem brought develop
ments on Capitol Hill.
Farm bloc leaders seeking to
override tho president's veto of
tho Bankhcod bill felt sure of
their senate power, but some
what more fearful of the house
vote. Tho measure, which would
prohibit tho deduction of gov
ernment benefit payments from
parity in establishing agricultur
al price ceilings, was termed by
tho president os likely to touch
off an "Inflationary tornado"
presumably centering on food
prices. ,
Urge Overriding
However, in urging that tho
veto be overridden, four nation
al farm organizations declared
the president's stand made it
"apparent that once more agri
culture Is to be used as tho whip
ping boy to further appenso the
wago demands of organized
labor and to divert attention
from tho real source of Inflation.
. . . In view of the grave food
shortage now confronting the
country, we believe it is time to
stop kicking tho former around
and to fix the blamo for infla
tion where it properly belongs."
Meanwhile, tho senate war in
vestigating commlttco projected
an Inquiry into what Chairman
Truman (D-Mo.) described as
"army hoarding" of foodstuffs
and supplies that otherwise
would have been available to
civilians.
Action was expected on labor
wcro not sure, Tho pit, directly
across from the Worden store
and one-half mile from the high
way on the hillside, is approxi
mately IS feet in tho deepest
part and 100 feet across. Sheer
rock cliffs rise on' threo sides.
George Speck ran to the Wor
don store where ho contacted
tho owner, Ira L. "Ike" Davis,
and Mrs. Davis went to the
nearest telophone w h cr e she
called Dr. George H. Adlcr,
Klamath county coroner, and
the sheriff's office.
Dr. Adlcr pronounced tho boy
dead when he was removed
from tho water. Tho body is at
Ward's.
Residents of tho Worden dis
trict told officers they would
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legislation during the week, with
the congressional course deemed
likely to depend largely on de
velopments on the Industrial
labor front In the next few days.
The Hobbs anti-racketeering bill
was slated for house considera
tion not later than Thursday,
with the possibility voiced that
two other measures might be of
fered as amendments to it if
strikes threaten to impede the
war effort. .
One was a bill to ban the
unionization of managerial em
ployes and to curb strikes for
the duration, and the other was
a measure already approved by
tho house naval committee
which would curb absenteeism
among war workers by requiring
their employers to report the
names of habitual absentees to
local draft boards.
America's Air
Force in China
Has Good Record
WITH THE AMERICAN AIR
FORCE IN CHINA, April 5 (IP)
America's China air task force,
ono of the smallest U. S. air
forces now In active combat, has
definitely destroyed 182 Japan
ese planes and probably destroy
ed 63 more since lt went into
operation last July 4, while It
has lost nine fighter pilots In
actual air combat and another
through bombing.
The China task force, which
now has been merged with Maj.
Gen. Claire L. Chennault's ex
panding fourteenth American air
force, has blazed tho skies of
China, Burma and Indo-Chlna
with a record comparable to that
hung up by the American vol
unteer group which served China
under Chennault before tho U.
S. entered the war.
Tho China air task force has
struck down 136 Japanese craft,
many of them multl-engined
bombers, In the air and destroy
ed 46 on the ground.
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Lana Remarries
Stephen Crane in
Mexico Last Month
HOLLYWOOD, April 8 (IP)
Lana Turner said today that she
and Stephen Crane whoso first
marriago was annulled last
month had remarried in Tiju
ana, Mexico, March 14.
In obtaining the annulment,
Miss Turner told the court she
was expecting a child as a result
of her marriage to Crane.
BOMBS SMASH
AT AXIS SEA
SUPPLY PORT
Patton's Infantrymen
Put On Small
Attack
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 5 (JP)
U. S. Flying Fortresses smashed
Naples in the greatest raid of the
war against that Tyrrhenian sea
supply port yesterday as the
American second army corps re
pulsed a German counterattack
in the El Guetar sector and con
tinued the drive toward a junc
tion with the British eighth
army, it was announced today.
LONDON, April 8 (fP)
Moscow radio broadcast re
corded by The Associated
Press said today Field Mar
shal Erwln Rommel had baan
made commander in chief of
all German and Italian ar
mies in Italy and the Mediter
ranean coast of Franca and
had arrived in southern Italy.
Rommel will hava charge
of coordinating all arms ot
tha southern defense com
mand, the broadcast said.
T h Italian high com
mand was represented as at
tributing great importance to
a conference expected to be
called shortly lor discussion
pfcvturthai fortification of in
zone.
Nearly 100 of the four-en-glned
Fortresses from Maj. Gen.
James H. Doolittle's northwest
African strategic air force stole
the show yesterday afternoon
with the raid on Naples, the first
against the base from French
North African bases.
Fifth Raid
Naples had been raided five
times by Liberators from the
middle east, but sources here
said yesterday's attack was four
times as heavy as any of the pre
vious forays and all planes re
turned safely.
It was officially announced
that 21 ships were hit in the har
bor of that axis supply port, as
well as three submarines, a float
ing dock and a cluster of small
vessels. Explosives loosed by the
Fortresses hit 21 aircraft parked
on the Capodichino air field
nearby.
All the Fortresses returned
safely.
Small Scale Attack
Infantrymen of the U. S. sec
ond army corps, which Is headed
by Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton,
Jr., put on a small-scale attack
against a group of hills near the
Gafsa-Gabes road and won them
In hard fighting.
German elite troops Immedi
ately counter-attacked, but they
wero beaten off and the Ameri
cans held this new high ground,
taking some prisoners.
Barely 40 miles to the east,
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery's eighth army was inactive,
officials said, and the communi
que did not mention this sector
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Treasury Puts
Currency Plan
Before Senate
WASHINGTON, April 5 W
Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau disclosed to an extraor
dinary session of three senate
committees today that the ad
ministration's plans for post-war
currency stabilization include a
partial return to the gold stand
ard for most of the nations of the
world.
This would be accomplished,
he said In a statement read to a
closed session of the Foreign Re
lations, Banking and Post-War
Economic committees, by an
agreement among tho participat
ing nations fixing the value of
currencies in terms of gold.
The treasury proposal as out
lined by the secretary Involves
the creation of an international
stabilization fund and an agree
ment among the participating nn
tions not to engage In competi
tive depreciation of their currencies.
Where U. S. Hit Axis Evacuation Fleet
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Two large enemy ships and
harbor in southern Sardinia, tha target of tha recent 100-plana
raid by U- S. forces striking to break up a possible attempt to
evacuate Rommel's forces from North Africa. Official U. S. army
air force photo.
Government Consigns 7943
Klamath, Lake Wool Clip
" Klamath and Lake counties
1943 "wool clip will be consigned
to Boston or western mills and
no individual sales will be made
this year, according to local
sheepmen following information
received here from the Commod
ity Credit corporation, Washing
ton, D. C.
This is a repetition of the
1932-33 consignment when the
government took over all wool
clips in order to assure the grow
ers higher than the seven-cent
per pound price which was pre
vailing at that time. Since then,
growers have sold to individual
buyers and the new order, an
nounced this week, is the first
consignment act made by the
government.
The move is made to take the
war time speculation out of the
wool market and gives tHe big
and little growers an equal
chance to sell their wool at ceil
ing price.
Price to be paid for this year's
wool clip was not known, but
will be the price set by OPA fol
lowing the grading of the clips.
F. R. Marshall, secretary of
the National Wool Growers as
sociation, commenting on the
Supreme Court
Fails To Hear
Treason Case
WASHINGTON, April 8 (IP)
Max Stephan, Detroit restaurant
owner convicted of treason
against the United States and
sentenced to hang, failed today
to obtain a supreme court re
view He was-alleged to have har
bored Peter Krug, a German avi
ator who escaped from a Canad
ian prison camp. Stephan is a na
tive of Germany who became a
United States citizen.
This was the first treason case
acted on by the tribunal during
the present World war.
Denial of Stcphan's petition
means that the decision of the
lower court sustaining the con
viction remains in effect.
District Attorney
Leaves To Assist
In Murder Trial
District Attorney L. Orth Sise-
more left Sunday night for Al
bany, where he will assist In the
prosecution of Robert Folkes, on
trial for the alleged first degree
murder of Martha Brinson James.
Folkes, a negro, is accused of
killing Mrs. James in lower
berth 13 on a southbound South
ern Pacific train. Sisemore, who
participated in the investigation
when the train reached here, will
assist District Attorney Harlow
Welnrich of Linn county in the
sensational ca(C.
a warehouse burn in Cagliarl
program, noted - that tha Com
modity Cretiit corporation has in
dicated, in its formal announce
ment of the program; that it con
templates that a wool program
similar to that of this year may
be required for at least two years
after the war and probably un
til the stockpile is liquidated.
Marshall said he does not ex
pect that the new plan will in
volve any "unusual delays" in
moving the annual clip. 'Grow
ers, he says, will consign their
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Fpffces Trial
Witnesses Get
Travel Expenses
ALBANY, April 5 OP) Cir
cuit Judge L. G. Lewelling
has authorized expenditure of
$341.35 for transportation of
seven witnesses from Washing
ton and California . to Albany
for the trial of Robert E. Lee
Folkes, charged with first de
gree murder in the "lower 13
slaying of Mrs. Martha Virginia
James.
The authorization, requested
by District Attorney Harlow
Welnrick, covers the transpor
tation of passengers aboard the
Southern Pacific train aboard
which Mrs. James was knifed to
death Jan. 23. The trial will.
start Wednesday. .
The witnesses are R. M. Kel
so, El Canjon, Calif.; Ralph
Conner, Seattle; Sgt. William
W. Van Dyke, Santa Cruz,
Calif.; E. W. Norton, Daly City,
Calif.; .Margie . Wasserman, Los
Angeles; Mrs. Davis Chamber-
lin, Enumclaw, Wash., and
Lieut. Alice Reard, army nurse,
Camp K o h 1 e r, Sacramento,
Calif.
Wallan Free;
Centers
Kenneth Wallan, 44-year-old
garage foreman, was a free man
Monday, while interest In crimi
nal trials here turned from his
case to that of W. E. Titus, soon
to be tried on a charge of mur
der In connection with the death
of his wife. The Titus case has
not yet been dated.
It was learned it took three
ballots to conclude the Jury's de
liberations In the case of Wal
lan, who was acquitted of man
slaughter In the death of James
Bowman, another employe of
the Douglas Motor company.
It was reported that the jury
stood 11 to 1 for acquittal on the
final and determining ballot. A
10-2 decision was sufficient to
get a verdict in a trial of this
nature. -
Tha expression on Wallan's
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Eight Fortresses Hit
Enemy Without
One Loss
By Tha Associated Praia
ALLIED HEADQUAKTER3
IN AUSTRALIA, April 8 A
three-day bombing attack on a
big concentration of Japanese
war and merchant vessels in tha
Kavieng sector-of New Ireland
has resulted in 12 enemy ships
being sunk or damaged without
loss of a single allied plane, al
lied headquarters announced to
day.
Tha last blow of tha attack.
which began Thursday night, oc
curred in moonlight last night
when eight Flying Fortresses
swept in for the third time at
Kavieng, far beyond the usual
bombing range of allied planes,
to damage a Japanese light cruis
er or destroyer and possibly
damage three other vessels.
Score High -'
Tha final attack brought tha
score of tha allied raiders to
seven enemy warships of the
cruiser or destroyer type and
five merchant vessels totalling
36,000 tons sunk or heavily dam
aged, plus three other destroyers
and a merchant ship attacked
under cirsumstarices which pre
vented accurate observation.
A communique from General
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Germans Batter
At Soviet Line
Near Kharkov
MOSCOW, April 8 (AP)
Supported by tanks and large
air forces, the Germans battered
at soviet defenses northeast and
southeast of Kharkov despite a
lull on most other fronts, but
the Russians announced today
they had beaten back these at
tacks and added 200 more dead
Germans to the toll of 1000
which the midnight communi
que reported slain in the region
south of Izyum. , .
Apparently clinging to bridge
heads on the southern bank of
uw uuiumu uuiicu .11 una nv- -
tor where the river flows in an
easterly direction, red armyj
units have knocked out approxi
mately one-third of the attack
ing enemy ground forces in
every recent assault, recent
front dispatches said. i .
The Germans are trying to
capture bridgeheads at any cost,
but the soviet command attaches
equal importance to them and is
determined not to surrender
them. The Russians used simi
lar bridegheads in the district
of Seraflmovlch on the western
bank of the Don river as a
springboard in their spectacular .
winter offensive,
. The midday communique said
soviet artillerymen repulsed en
emy tank attacks against tha
Izyum bridgeheads overnight,
knocking out six German tanks
and killing about 200 Germans.
Izyum is a.bout 70 miles south
east of Kharkov.
Spotlight
on Titus Case
face remained unchanged when
the jury verdict was read Satur
day afternoon by Circuit Judge
David R. Vandenberg. He smiled
slightly as Defense Attorney
George Roberts of Medford
leaned over and shook his hands.
' A wave of happy excitement
swept over numerous Wallan
sympathizers in the audience as
the verdict was read. As soon as
court adjourned, several women
came forward ' and embraced
Mrs. Wallan, who smiled hap
pily. Mrs. Bowman, widow of Bow
man, was not present.
Wallan was Indicted on a sec
ond degree- murder charge after
the death ot Bowman on Decem
ber 24. Testimony In the trial
showed that Wallan had driven
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