PAGE TWO
ARMOR UNITS
SQUEEZE AXIS
Kl KQRPS
'(Continued From Page One)
Sousse and Kairouan and that
the surprise assault, resulting In
heavy - log sea for the , British,
forced them to withdraw.)
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's -seasoned eighth army
patrols engaged rearguards of
the African corps on the coastal
road between Lake Kelbla and
the sea as Rommel maintained
his withdrawal through the Enfl
daville line under a constant
pressure. (This would Indicate
that the Montgomery advance
was from five to IS miles north
of Kairouan and pressing on rap
idly .r , - -'
First Captures More
While French troops mopped
up the Djebel Ousselat on the
west-flank and continued to ad
vance northward along the
Grand Dorsal range, the British
first army in the Medjez-el-Bab
area; 35 miles southwest of Tu
nis, captured additional hill van
; tage points. ......
Meanwhile Maj. Gen. James
H. Doblittle's Flying Fortresses
continued to deal devastating
punches, bombing a convoy of 21
tank 'carriers and other vessels
In the Sicilian straits and scoring
several damaging near misses.
They blasted Bizerte where a medium-sized
cargo vessel was hit
directly, many more bombs
were planted on both the north
and south sides of the channel,
and a fire was started In the sea
plane base. They battered Tra-pani-harbor
In Sicily where a
number of powered barges and
a large tanker were smashed up.
i -Crippling Assaults
The axis air forces' suffered
further crippling assaults from
Wellingtons, Baltimores and Hal
if axes which attacked the air
. field at Ste. Marie du Zit, 27
miles. south of Tunis. .At least
18 fires sprang up in the wake of
heavy, loads, of high explosive
and Incendiary bombs dropped in
Sunday night attacks and other
fires were started when Mitch-
. ells blasted the place twice yes-
' terday.
Charged with petty larceny,
Richard . Babcock, 19-year-old
Klamath resident, appeared in
justice court Tuesday morning
in connection' With the alleged
theft of five bracelets from Louie
Polin's Main street store.
Young Babcock was picked up
by City Juvenile ' Off icer Dave
Bridge early Monday night. He
ia said to have taken the brace
lets from a case in the store,
two !at one time, three at an
other.' The bracelets, police
said, .were given to girl friends
of the youth and one was sent
to a relative in the east.
Babcock entered a plea. of not
guilty,, was released on his own
recognizance to appear April 16.
He is a box factory employe.
City police said considerable pil
fering had. gone on , in local
stores.
:, KEEP WELL
There Is no substitute
for health
DOCTOR'S TIME
' Is precious '
Go To His Office
After all, there are only 24
hours In a doctor's day, too
and . mbst of them are
spent serving hli . patients
and those whose former doc
tor. '. has joined the armed
forces. More than 30,000 of
our doctors are now in the
armed forces, so that places
an added burden on your
dootpr, Save .his precious
time and go to his office
whenever you can.
Your doctor's pre
scription is a com
mand to us to .furn
ish the highest type
prescription service.
CURRIN'S
FOR DRUGS
The Friendly Drug Store"
9th and Main Phone 4814
.i .
Battle Stations!
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(V. S. Navy Photo from USA)
Call to battle real or practice
comes to U. S. seamen as
coxswain aboard a battleship
pipes the crew to attention over
loudspeaker system.
Potatoes
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13
(AP-USDA) Potatoes: 1 Cali
fornia, S Idaho arrived, 200
sacks by truck; 2 broken, 1 un
broken cars on track; no sales
reported.
LOS ANGELES, April , 13
(AP-USDA) Potatoes: 1 Cali
fornia, 1 Florida, 3 Idaho, 1
Nevada, 1 Washington arrived,
9 by truck; market steady; no
sales reported.
CHICAGO, April 13 (AP
USDA) Potatoes, arrivals 61;
on track 81; total U. S. ship
ments 317; old stock; supplies
very light, track trading very
light account of lack of table
stock; market unsettled; new
stock, supplies very light, de
mand moderate; market firm at
ceiling level; Minnesota and
North Dakota Bliss Triumphs
commercials seed stock $3.50,
table stock $3.40; cobblers, com
mercial seed stock $3.32i-35;
Idaho Russet Burbanks, U. S.
No.. 1, $4.10; Texas Bliss Tri
umphs, Victory grade, $3.10 per
SO lb. sacks.
Jesse Jones Urges
Ways, Means Body
To Renew Trade
WASHINGTON, April 13 UP)
Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones
urged the house ways and means
committee today to approve re
newal of reciprocal trade agree
ments with 27 nations as a dem
onstration that this government
intends to restore private inter
ests to a major role in foreign
trade when the war ends.
Mill Man Booked
On Drunk Driving
John'.D. Hamilton, 2129 Or
chard avenue,. . mill- employe,
was arrested by city police at
Seventh and Main streets Mon
day night after officers said his
car sideswiped a second ma
chine. Hamilton was booked on
a drunk driving charge and
posted $100 ball.
In police court four drunks,
three drunk and vags and one
vag appeared before the judge.
Twelve traffic tickets were
paid.
TOO LATE TO
CLASSIFY
BETTER OIL gives you more
heat per coupon. Buy Stand
ard Burner Oils. Peyton &
Co. 4-30
FOR THE BETTER grades of
fuel oils, accurate, metered de
liveries, try Fred H. Heilbron
ner, 821 Spring street, tele
phone 4153. Distributor Shell
Heating Oils. 4-30
PAINTERS WANTED Steady
work. Call 4637 after 7:30
p. m. 4-15
FOR SALE Two heifers, Just
fresh with calves at their side.
Sell the 4 head for $160. Sell
all or none. Phone 4943. 4-14
WANTED ' Experienced maid.
Apply housekeeper, Willard
Hotel. 4-14
FOR SALE Good trailer house,
8x12. Reasonable. 919 East
Main or inquire Whltaker's
Grocery, 4-13
LARGE 3-ROOM partly furnish
, ed apt. 2219 So. 6th. 5686.
4-19
FOR SALE OR RENT Unfur
nished 3-room cottage. Large
back lot and garage.- Call 3236.
4-19
46 Business Opportunities
FOR SALE The Diamond Lake
Junction Service Station, See
Bert Loosley at station. Write
care Chemult. 4-14
When in Medford
Stay at .;',
HOTEL HOLLAND
Thoroughly Modern '
Joe and Anne Earley
Proprietors
ALLIES BLAST
N PPQNS FHOM
PACIFIC
(Continued from Page One)
be expected to launch a new of
fensive at any moment.
Knox Comments
Commenting on Gen. Blarney's
statement. Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox told newsmen in
Washington that it was impos
sible for him to determine wheth
er the Japanese were building
tip bases north of 'Australia "for
attack or defense."
"You must remember," Knox
said, "that an attack on Australia
must be accompanied by a tre
mendous sea force and there is
no indication of a concentration
pointing to that."
Mais Ships
Dispatches from Australia,
however, have declared for sev
eral weeks that the Japanese
were massing ships in the arc of
islands immediately above Aus
tralia, and Gen MacArthur's
bombers have been concentrating
their attacks on enemy shipping.
2. At a U. S. base off Alaska,
it was revealed that despite
violent American bombing and
naval assaults, the Japanese are
building a string of stepping-
stone air bases from Tokyo
toward Alaska which even fieht-
er planes could span.
Klska Runway
American 11th bomber com
mand headquarters said the Jap
anese were making steady pro
gress in constructing a half-mile
runway at Kiska which might be
ready for fighter planes before
Easter.
In addition, it was revealed.
the Japanese are building a long
bomber field at Attu, western
most of the Aleutians, 195 miles
from Kiska and only 735 miles
from the northernmost Japanese
island base at Paramushiro.
Fog Blankets
Dispatches from the far north
said the-perennlal fog shrouding
the Aleutians was playing a
major role in helping enemy
ships run the gantlet to their
island bases, despite vigilant
scouting by U. S. fliers and war
ships. In the southwest Pacific, the
allied air victory at Port Mores
by boosted the two-day total of
enemy planes destroyed to 76,
and Gen. MacArthur's head
quarters said the losses had ap
parently "blunted" a large-scale
Japanese air offensive and "dis
located the immediate plans" of
the enemy.
Warn of Danger
Nevertheless, Gen. Blarney
warned that a new Japanese bid
to regain the initiative in the
South Seas battle theater might
erupt suddenly and declared the
enemy was making a tremendous
effort to offset the allied victor
ies in the Coral sea. the Sol
omons, New Guinea and the Bis
marck sea.
"The result of this struggle In
the next few weeks will have
the greatest Importance for us,"
Gen. Blarney said.
The enemy's growing air
strength was underlined by three
massive raids in less than a
week: Yesterday's 100-plane raid
on Port Moresby; Sunday's 45
plane attack on Oro Bay, New
Guinea, where allied fighters
knocked down 24 planes; and a
98-plane thrust against Guadal
canal island in the Solomons,
April 7, when 39 Japanese planes
were sent crashing into the sea.
Stolen Cigarettes,
Candy Recovered
Theft of 13 cartons of cig
arettes and candy along with a
quantity of rationed roasts and
steaks, was reported to city
police by Cal Ghormley, owner
of Ruth's Cafe at 609 South
Sixth street.
Officers said better than
"half the meat" was recovered
in a flop house and returned to
the owner. No arrests were
made.
CARD OF THANKS '
We wish to thank our many
friends for their kindness and
beautiful floral offerings during
our recent bereavement,
Edna Hessenauer
Evelyn Patterson
Bill and Arthur Mayfleld
miijiipimj)
Latest ' ''jfiy Doors Open
War , News JMEy j li30 Bi45
HERALI? AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, ORE66N
Storm Wrecks
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(NKA Trlenholo)
In a Meree storm that reduced risibility to nro, this Rwulnn ship was destroyed when It wu rin.ilied on rock
ptles along the North Paclllc Coast. Three crewmen (arrow) man ropes over the ship's side to help comrades
escape to land otst the boiling surf. One hundred seventeen persons were rescued (ram this ship and another
grounded Soviet vessel. Official U. 8. Coast Guard photo.
Wheat Yield Estimated by
Agriculture Department
WASHINGTON, April 12 W)
The agriculture department esti
mated today that the 1943 winter
wheat crop will yield 658,851,
000 bushels, compared with 703,
253,000 bushels produced last
year, and a ten-year average
production of 650,181,000 bush
els. The estimate was based on
April 1 conditions.
The area planted to winter
wheat last fall was 37,482,000
acres, compared with 38,339,000
acres the previous year and a
ten-year average planting of 48,
039,000 acres.
The crop reporting board last
December forecast a production
of 624,504,000 bushels, based on
conditions 88 per cent of a nor
mal on December 1, indicating
an acre yield of 16.7 bushels.
Winter damage, the board
said, has resulted in a loss of
acreage indicated at 10.4 per
cent. This compares with aban
donment of 6.7 per cent in 1942.
Conditions on April 1, the crop
reporting board said, indicate a
yield of 14.9 bushels of winter
wheat to the seeded, acre, comT
pared with 18.3 bushels a year
ago, and 11.4 bushels, the ten
year average acre yield.
The condition of rye April 1
was 82 per cent of a normal,
compared with 87 a year ago, and
75 the ten-year average.
Pastures were 80 per cent of
EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
(Continued From Page One)
pounding the German communi
cation lines from the air. (The
German air force is of course
pounding back.)
'
pHURCHILL tells parliament
today: "We are MORE than
holding our own in the war
against the U-boats." ,
That is Interesting because
Churchill seldom misleads us.
TJVITH the biggest financing
w transaction in the history of
the world staring us squarely in
the eye (an enterprise so huge
that if it is to succeed we must
all of us put all of our loose
cash into it), this thought Is
worth your attention:
Suppose you buried $1000 in
U. S. currency in a tin can In
your back yard and on the same
day you bought $1000 (matured
value) in U. S. war bonds. At
the period of maturity, your
buried cash and your bonds will
have EXACTLY THE SAME
VALUE (and exactly the same
buying power), with this START
LING difference:
Your buried cash will havo
cost you $1000, whereas your
bonds will have cost you only
$760.
"THIS Is the moral: 1
DON'T hold back your cash
with the Idea that you may need
it. . Holding back your cash will
hamper the war financing and
at the same time will be a LOS
ING TRANSACTION for you.
"Lone Rider in
Chavanna"
LAST
DAY! -(jrtst Impersonation'
Russian Ship on Pacific Coast
V
- ' - ',. T ; Pt1 sl?
a normal, compared with 82 a
year ago, and 73, the ten-yenr
average.
Early potatoes in southern
slates were 78 per cent of a nor
mal, compared with 76 a year
ago, and 75, then ten-year aver
age. Peaches were 48 per cent of a
normal, compared with 77 a year
ago, and 65, the ten-year average.
Grain stocks on farms April 1
were reported as follows:
Corn (for grain), 1,335,112,000
bushels, or 48.4 per cent of last
year's crop, compared with 1,
289,588,000 bushels, or 53.0 per
cent, a year ago, and 835,080,000
bushels, or 44.5 per cent, the ten
year average.
Wheat, 327,667,000 bushels, or
33.4 per cent; compared with
269,145,000 and 28.5, a year ago;
and 138,521,000 and 18.7, the
ten-year average.
Oats, 508,208,000 bushels, or
37.4 per cent; compared with
432,020,000 and 36.6, a year ago;
and 377,417,000 and 37.2, the
ten-year average,
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TO PLAY FOR ELKS
Klamath Union high school's
70-picco band, directed by An
drew Loney, will present a con
cert as an entertainment feature
of Thursday night's meeting of
the Elks lodge, it was announced
Tuesday by Roy Rakestraw,
lodge entertainment chairman.
Rakestraw said the band con
cert will be about a half hour
long and promises to be an out
standing musical event of the
lodge year Just opened. He urged
a full attendance of Elks.
Light refreshments will bo
served the boys and girls of the
band after the concert, and lodge
members will participate in re
freshments after the lodge ses
sion. Heroine of Indian
War of 1878 Dies
PENDLETON, April 13 (AP)
Mrs. Mary E. Benson Johnson,
85, heroine of the Indian war of
1876 and one of the few sur
viving members of a wagon
train which arrived here in
1864, died last night in a local
hospital after a long illness.
HURRY!
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said,- that Floyd Hamilton, tho
third man, was shot and
drowned.
The fourth man, Fred Hunt
er, 43, Cleveland, was unac
counted for.
Warden Johnston said Hunt
er and Boarmun carried prison-made
knives. They and tho
other two first encountered a
custodial officer, overpowered
him, then attacked Henry
W e in h o I d, captain of the
guards, and bound, tied and
gagged both men.
Then the four leaped from a
window and headed for the
beach around the rocky Island.
Slips Bonds
Meanwhile Welnhold slipped
his bonds and reached a police
whistle to sound tho alarm. Al
most simultaneously guards in
tho surrounding towers poured
out a rifle fire.
Boarmun, Indianapolis bunk
robber, was shot, either as ho
fled into tho bay, or as he tried
to swim to freedom. When the
prison boat drew alongside of
Brest, Pennsylvania bank rob
ber and kidnaper, Brest was
holding Boarman up in the
water. As he loosed his hold,
Boarman slipped under. His
body was not found.
The San Francisco police hud
been told that the four men
were wearing U. S. army uni
forms, but when Brest was re
turned to Alcatraz he was
naked.
Warden Johnston said 11 was
possible that the men had had
the uniforms socrotcd o m e
where, inasmuch as tho prison
does re-claiming work on army
clothing.
Steel capacity of the United
States has increased more than
40 per cent since 1918.
If you want to see your ship
come In, go down to the bank
and buy war bonds.
Only about one-fifth of tho to
tal number of flowers possess
fragrance.
Houiehold Inventory book
free. Hans Norland Insurance
Agency. 119 North 7th.
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Council Talks
Fourth of July
Entertainment Plans
(Continued From Page One)
learned. Councllmon rovlewed
the sltiiutinn, remembering Hint
dogs were put on good behavior
until April II). At that timo It
will bo cluvlded whether or not
they will bo penned or put on
leash during the garden-growing
season,
Mayor Houston announced
that budget appointees by tho in
dividual coiiiu'llmen, should be
announced by next Monday night.
Members of the council were
asked to bo on hand Wednesday
night ut the city property nieol
ing in the. city hall.
A no-parkiiig spuco will be
established for Uio Pacific Grey
hound lines on Klnmuth avenue
In order to give busses addition
al room to get into their load
ing lot. Recommendation of City
Engineer Frank Z, Howard was
accepted.
(Continued From Page One)
had shot down 25 German plane
attempting to raid Krasnodar, a
rail Junction In tho western Cau
casus. Five Russian planes wero
lost, it wns said).
Attacks Stopped
On the Volkhov front, south
east of Leningrad, the series of
attacks by Ihe Germans has been
fully stopped by soviet troops
who mauled these sharp thrusts
with strength,
The increased activity of tho
German air force ; Included a
raid on Russian-held Kursk, 120
miles north of Kharkov, whore
tho Germans Inst nlno planes, to
the Russians' two.
Long Range Guns
Long range artillery spoke out
along the front in some of tho
heaviest duelling of the war to
date.
Especially heavy was the
shelling south of Lake llmen in
the Starnye Ru sector, south
of Bely and on the, Volkhov
front.
Roosevelt Sees
Dawn of Liberty"
In Temple Talk
(Continued From Page One)
which Intervening generations
could not see as well as we.
"Ho faced the fact that mon
who will not fight for liberty
can Iobo it. We, too, have faced
that fact.
"He lived In a world In which
freedom of conscience and free
dom of mind were battles still
to be fought through not prin
ciples already accoptod of all
men. We, too, have lived in such
a world.
Loved Peace
"He loved peace and loved lib
erty yet on more than one oc
casion he was forced to ohoose
betwotn them. We, too, havo
been compelled to make that
choice. , . .
"He proved that the seeming
eclipse of liberty can well bo
como tho dawn of more liberty.
Those- who fight the tyrnnny of
our own time will come to learn
that old lesson. Among all the
peoples of tho earth, the criiclllos
and oppressions of its would-be
masters have taught this genera
tion what its liberties can moan,
This lesson, so bitterly learned,
will never be forgotten while
this generation lives.
"The words which we have
chosen for this memorial apeak
Jefferson's noblest and most ur
gent meaning; and we are proud
indeed to understand and share
" 'I have sworn upon the altar
of God, otcrnal hostility against
every form of tyranny over the
mind of man.' "
April II. 1041
ABOLITION
OP
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SUPPLY Bill
SA ASKED
(Continued From Tage One)
at Iho farm security admluliilin
tlou over n period of years" and
recalled lis own criticism of the
agency last year for "lending ex
ccmsIvo Amounts to Individual
borrowers, for indulging In a
land purchase program, for tho
caieleiiNiieds unci Inefficiency of
certain of lis employes mid for
lis experiments In collective
funning, which seoinod lo re
semble the collective practices
followed 111 Russia."
"A thorough and piilnMaklng"
Investigation this year, the com
inllleo mlded, led it lo Iho con
clusion that "slnco tho farm
security aditilnliilrutloii In -'-fl)
sentlnlly a farm credit agency, J'
lis functions should, In the In
terest of heller credit integra
tion, economy and efficiency, he
transferred lo tho farm credit
administration, which has op
erated for many years In the
farm credit field anil has exist
ing facilities lo discharge these
functions."
Loans Rocommandad
Tho committee recommended
that tho FCA be given S12.00U,
0(10 for rural rehabilitation and
other functions and $40,0011,1)00
from reconstruction finance cor
poration funds for lotins.
In overriding A budget huruuu
recommendation that the bill
contain iiiitlioili'.alloii for the In
currence of obligations to pro
vide full parity for the crop
ycurs 11143 and 1U44, Ihe commit
tee said It believed "obMirvance
of existing price control legls-.-
lallon or any other legislalion'y
affecting this mutter, will afford
producers, either from loans or
from the market, the full parity
price."
lis recommendation for aboli
tion of the federal crop Insur
ance program, the committee
aid. was based on the showing
made on Insurance of cotton and
wheat and the conviction that
"further operations will event
uate even greater losses."
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