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tJOU ua here on the Poelflc
1 Coast, tho curious, Impersonal
and In many ways puzzling de
la to between our headquarters
In Australia and our li lull-up of
ficials In Washington Is still tho
highlight of the news.
It continues today.
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By
O A SPOKESMAN lor MiieArthur
t Billed headquarters In tho
South Pacific says the Japs uro
maintaining a GREAT COMBAT
FLEET at their base at Tnik
within three days sailing time to
Now Guinea, and lor several
months have maintained at their
Itabaul basa alona (not to men
tlon other bases) a concentration
of approximately 250,000 tons of
merchant shipping.
He adds:
"Constant (Jap) convoys, op
rratlng BEYOND THE RANGE
of our air forces arc being
' pushed forward to rcinforca tho
enemy.'
I THE litunlioti he outlines Is
clear enough ,ln Its ImpllcB'
j The Japs, with many terrible
O experiences behind them (Coral
sea, Blsmurck sea, etc.), are
afrold of our aircraft. They
daro not face It again without
at leost equality in tho air.
So they are building up their
i OWN air power, and mcanwhllo
are concentrating smashlngly
heavy naval and transport
strength to bo rushed In for tho
kill if ond when they can get nlr
I power enough to knock our
planes from tho skies.
WAR SECRETARY STIMSON,
t after listening for three days
to tho pleas for more planes in
tho South Pacific, tells his press
conference In Washington todoy
"Wo will keep our American
and Australian filers supplied
with SUFFICIENT planes not
only lo replaco our losses but to
BUILD UP our aircraft to count
4. er tho INCREASING enemy air
U strength."
;? Ho odds that the ALLIED
COMBINED chiefs of staff (nolo
that ho takes it out of tho realm
of purely American decision)
have before them the "very dif
ficult task" of allotting a limited
supply (of planes) to meet largo
demands.
WASHINGTON o"'clls who
aro quoted anonymously In
the dispatches today seem gen'
orally to hold the opinion that
tho Japs aro more Interested In
holding and building up what
they vo seized already than In
BITING OFF MORE by attack'
lng Australia.
They Intimate alsb that we're
1 not in any position to launch a
, big offcnslvo soon In tho South
! Pacific.
n
VOU'D bettor keep your fingers
crossed, rcmemborlng that
FOOLING THE ENEMY Is ono
of war's No. 1 strategics.
AND don't got loo badly fright
cned about tho Pacific, If
' tho situation thero wero as bad
j as some of tho dispatches of tho
i past two or three days havo
i seemed ON THE SURFACE to
Indicate, wo wouldn't bo broad
. casting it to tho Japs.
i TN Africa, tho slego of Tunis and
) Blzerto Is proceeding more or
less according to tho Wiles. Wo'ro
picking off high points In tho
; surrounding barrier of hills and
' smashing at tho Gorman air
j fields.
; Wo'vo just tokon two strategic
Q) high points, ono to the west of
Enfldavillo (consult your map)
I and another to tho north of
j Mcdjez el Bab. Tho purposo is
j to get above tho Germans and
shoot down at thorn Instead of
permitting them to- stay abovo
; and shoot down at us. That 1b
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CLUB POWERS
SECOND
WR
LOAINDRIVE
Insurance Company,
Lumber Firm
Add Money
A $20-a-plate luncheon and
$25,0110 purchases by a lumber
firm I an insurance company
put :ii power Into Klamath
coun. a war finance drlvo as it
went over the $400,000 mork
Thursday.
Tho Soroptlmlst club, worn'
en's service organization, dem
onstrated the $20 luncheon Idea
nt Its Thursday noon meeting,
and reported bond sales of 16,-
000 as a result of this effort.
Each person at the Pelican
cafe luncheon was asked to buy
at least one $23 bond In Bddltion
to tho regular luncheon charge,
under a plan led by Olive Cor
nell, tho club's defenso chair
man, and Rose Poole, president.
Purchases ran far over the $28
average, with the result that the
total sales of the day passed the
$16,000 mork. ; , ' .:..-,.i .
The war finance committee
suggested that the Soroptlmlst
luncheon idea be tried by other
groups. 1 ,
Kcstcrson Lumber corpora
tion invested $23,000 in govern
ment bonds, it was announced
(Continued on Page Two)
Progress Made
In Solution of
"Block Snow"
City officials expressed the
belief Thursday that definite
progress had been made toward
solution of "black snow" and
steam problems as a result of an
informal discussion of these
questions Wednesday In which
representatives of tho city,
Klamnfh Heating company and
tho stato utilities commissioner
participated.
City Attorney J. H. Carnahan
said that at tho meeting the
PUC representative, David Don,
suggested that tho heating com
pany employ an expert com
bustion engineer and that the
city ond company undertake to
work the problem out together.
Ho said this was agreed to and
It appears a friendly and cooper
atlvo effort will bo mode. D. O.
Hood, president of tho heating
company, attended the meeting.
Several local citizens appear
ed to discuss tho "black snow"
and steam problems.
Two Klamath Men Collect Additional
Citations for Bravery Fighting Japs
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Sat.
Charles Norrls Doty
items Odd .Anican Mm
Porter Testifies
Wilson Said Knife
Killer Not Negro
ALBANY, Ore., April 15 IIP)
Tho knifa killer of Mrs. Martha
Virginia James was described
by the state's principal witness
soon after tho slaying as a white
man, a negro Pullman porter
testified In tho trial of Robert
E. Lee Folkes, negro dining car
cook, today.
Under cross examination by
Defense Counsel Leroy Lomax,
H. M. Hughes, the porter, said
Murine Private Harold Wilson,
the first man to reach the fatally
slashed Mrs. James after she
tumbled from her berth, insisted
that the man he saw running
down the aisle of car D was a
white man,
Hughes aald a group gathered
In the dining car a few minutes
after Mrs- James' death to have
coffee. Wilson was present, he
sold.
Wilson Describes
"Did Wilson describe the man
he saw running down the aisle?"
Lomax asked.
"Yes, ho did," Hughes replied.
"But later he said he was a
White man.'
"Fine," Lomax shouted.
"What did he aoy?" :'--
"He Bold he Was a white man.
He said, hat -could wTmr-was a
white man when - he turned
around to look back as he was
under the light In the elbow
of the car.".
To emphaslza - the point, Lo
max shouted:
"He said he was a white
man."
"Yes," the porter replied.
Wilson, occupant of upper 13,
Just , above Mrs. James' berth,
had testified he saw a man flee
ing toward the rear of car D just
before Mrs. James fell to the
floor. He described him as "ci
ther a dark white man or a
light colored negro."
Baking Muffins
In later cross examination of
Hughes, Lomax directed his
questioning to, bring out that
IWA Certified as
Bargaining Agent
For Ewauna Workers
WASHINGTON. D. C, April
15 (P) Certification of the In
ternational Woodworkers of
America, CIO, as the bargaining
agent for employes of the
Ewauna Box company, Klamath
Falls, was announced by the na
tional labor relations board to
day. This union obtained only a
two-vote margin in an election
held recently. The NLRB re
ported that 204 of the 406 elig
ible votes favored IWA. One
vote was voided.
Klamath folks were thrilled to
hear of the awards given Uncle
Sam's airmen as the names of
several local boys appeared in
the list of citations announced
by the war department today.
' Keeping pace with other Ore
gon flyers in gathering medals
were Tech, Sgt, Dan Erheart and
Tech. Sgt Charles Norrls Doty,
both of this city. In an Associat
ed Press dispatch Thursday their
acts of valor were described In
this manner:
"And there's Technical Ser
geant Dan Erheart of Klamath
Falls who; with five medals,
tied with Sergeant Stanley C.
Jackola of Portland for the title
of the most frequently decorated
Orcgonlan. Like Jackola, he
won the Air Medal, Distinguished
Flying Cross and Oak Leaf
Cluster, in lieu of a second DFC
for taking . part . repeatedly in
bombing attacks, reconnaissance
flights and searches over ter
ritory infested , by Japanese
planes.
"In addition, Erheart picked
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Folkes, charged with first de
grco murder, was in the dining
car galley, baking muffins, at
the time of the slaying.
Hughes said he went to the
rear of the train, seeking Mrs.
James' assailant six or seven
minutes after the tragedy was
discovered. He saw Folkes in
the galley, stoking the stove.
Between 15 and 20 minutes
after the tragedy, he said, he
saw another porter eating a muf
fin that Folkes had just knock
ed out of a pan. He added that
he formerly was a cook, and
knew that it took 10 or 15 min
utes to bake the muffins. .
- Bit of Comedy
' A bit of comedy was injected
during the cross examination.
; Hughes had told Lomax that
be had seen Folkes "stoking" his
stove.
"What do you mean stok
ing?" the attorney asked.
Exasperated, Hughes replied:
"Stoking the fire, like you stoke
any lire!"
"To get it straight, describe
what Folkes was doing," Lomax
insisted,' .
Turning to the court reporter,
Kathleen Miller, Hughes order
ed loudly: . . ... ,
"Please strike that, Madam,
and make it shovollng."
' The courtroom crowd laughed.
D. A. Asks Time
' In redirect examination, Prosecutor-
Harlow - Welnrick asked
Hughes to place the - time he
(Continued on Page Two)
GOP Leaders
Light Fuse for
Ruml Explosion
WASHINGTON, April 15
(AP) A statement by senate
republicans endorsing the Ruml
plan became the fuse today for
a new explosion of the pay-as-you-go
Income tax issue in the
houso ways and means com
mittee. Seven GOP members of the
senate finance committee, act
ing with the approval of Mi
nority Leader McNary of Ore
gon, yesterday pledged -support
for the Ruml sklp-a-year pro
posal and called for early en
actment of current taxation leg
islation, including a 20 per cent
withholding levy.
Rep. K n u t s o n (R-Minn.),
mainspring of house republican
support behind the plan, said
this action gives us grounds
for asking tho ways and means
committee to reopen the pay-as-you-go-
question.
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Dan Erheart
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ALL ES STORM
HILLS: 3010
German Plane Losses
Since March 20
Total 459
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 15
W) French and British infantry
successfully stormed two import
ant hills on the south and west?
ern fronts of the constricted axis
Tunisian line yesterday and, cap
turing 600 prisoners, increased
the total allied bag since the op
ening of the Maretb offensive to
more than 30,000.
Axis air losses in combat dur
ing the same period from March
20 total 459 planes, against 152
allied aircraft missing. In ad
dition, officers estimated 150 or
more German and Italian planes
have been destroyed aground
during airdrome raids. -Dockyard
Hit
The U. S. army air force re
ported that -the entire dockyard
area of Erryville, arsenal and
supply center on Lake Bijerte
JO, miles' south of- Bizerte,- had
been devastated by aerial,' bom
bardments and all trafflo in the
once-busy port had ceased. Aer
ial photographs were said to
show every building in the-dockyard
area destroyed or rendered
useless. ' i "
Attacking the DJebel Sefsoui,
the French rounded up 400 Ger
mans and took possession of that
mountain position which has
been the western anchorage of
Marshal Rommel's new Enfida
villo line. '
Tho Djebel Sefsoui lies 30
miles due west of Enfidavllle, 50
miles southwest of Tunis and
seven miles northeast of the vil
lage of Bir Karahoun. -Advance
Halted
Field dispatches said a furth
er advance by the British eighth
army in the Enfidaville sector
was halted by heavy artillery
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Air Battles on
Increase Over
Russian Front
MOSCOW, April 15 (AP)
Air battles Increased over the
Russian front today, with the
red army's fliers concentrating
again on nazl supply columns
and their Yak, Mig and Lagge
fighter planes successfully bat
tling off the Germans' Focke-
Wulf 190 raiders.
The land armies jabbed at
one another in various sectors
with new fighting reported
north of Chuguev and south of
Izyum, on tho long Donets
river battle line.
(Several red army divisions
supported by tanks struck again
at nazi defenses in the Kuban
river sector of the Caucasus,
but were repulsed with very
heavy losses, the German high
command declared in a Berlin
broadcast communique record
ed by The Associated Press.
This was described by the Ger
mans as the only Important
ground operation yesterday on
the Russian front.)
The German air force is said
to be having little success in its
stabs at cities, railway junc
tions and front line positions.
It is safe to say that some of
the war's sharpest as well as
heaviest fights in the air are
taking place on the battle front.
The best-liked American
plane Is the Airacobra and it is
believed truck columns and
communications the Russians
generally favor the II, or Stor
movlk, of which the Russians
have three types.
Today's soviet noon commun
ique again noted there were no
important changes on the land
front, . ..... , , , -', i
TROOPS TAKEN
Tops In Scholarship
NdN"-''-'
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June O'Brien and John Fletcher, shown abore, will be Tal
edictorian and salutatorian. respectively, at Klamatu high school
commencement exercises next month. It was announced by Prin
cipal Stanley Woodruff. Miss O'Brien had a straight 1 average,
and Mr. Fletcher's average was 1.09. Both students major in
mathematics and science.
Britain's Bombers Batter
Stuttgart War Industries
LONDON', April 15 VP) Brit
ain's powerful four-engined
bombers raced 400 miles across
nazi-held Europe last night to
strike at the German industrial
city of Stuttgart in a highly con
centrated raid from which 23
bombers failed to return, the
Bir ministry announced today.
-Simultaneously othei allied
planea-Hpresuracd here to..'' be
Russian were reported by Ber
lin to have hit at East Prussia.
French Sweep '
RAF fighter squadrons were
over -northern France anew this
evening, after morning and
afternoon sweeps. Southeast
coast observers said formations
of Spitfires streaked toward
Calais and Dunkerque at alti
tudes between 20,000 and 30,000
feet. -
The air ministry announce
ment described the attack upon
Stuttgart, a city of 410,000 and
one of Germany s most Import
ant engineering centers, aa
Collaboration
Pictured as
"Cornerstone"
WASHINGTON, A p r 11 15
(AP) Chairman Donnally (D-
Tex.) said today a foreign rela
tions sub-committee probably
would draft its, own version of
a proposal to put the senate on
record for postwar ' . collabora
tlon with other nations. '
NEW YORK, April 15 (AP)
Western hemisphere collabora
tion was pictured by Undersec
retary of State Sumner Welles
today as the "solid corner
stone" for a free postwar world.
. In an address for delivery
before the Rotary club, Welles
referred indirectly' to the Prime
Minister' Churchill's recent
speech outlining the concept of
regional councils in Europe and
Asia after the war, and added:
"We of the Americas have
already created a regional un
derstanding . . . there is al
ready a solid cornerstone laid
for a future world order in this
hemisphere association of 21
sovereign and Independent
countries.
Declaring that the corner
stone was not laid without dif
ficulty, Welles said that grave
obstacles had to be overcome
to win the voluntary and effec
tive collaboration of the west
ern hemisphere nations con
cerned, '
Plans Set for
Basketball Dinner
Plans were set for the 6:30
p. m. dinner Thursday to be held
at the Willard in honor .of the
state champion Pelican basket
ball team.
Baskcteers from . numerous
grade and high schools wlll.be
present as special guests. The
dinner has been arranged by the
Kiwants club and replaced the
regular weekly meeting of that
organization, :
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"very heavy." The - target was
"clearly identified," the minis
try declared. Indicating the raid
was favored by good weather.
At least three German night
fighters were reported shot
down by the big British bomb
ers. .
Railways Hit.. " "
:.,Th.e air ministry news service
reported that . railway com
munications in northern" Trance
also -were attacked during the
night by RAF fighters and that
Whirlwind bombers on- night pa
trol had damaged two enemy
vessels in a . low-level attack
near, Le Trepqrt, on the French
coast. ... . . i ,
. The German air force, mean
while, struck back, at Britain
with, night attacks on East
Anglia and towns. in the Thames
Estuary, causing a brief alert in
London its first night . alert
since March 8. Some damage
and casualties -were caused by
the raiders, though no bombs
fell in the capital.
Germans Destroyed
Three of the German planes
were reported destroyed over
Britain - and another over its
base in France. -
Last night's raid the first on
Stuttgart since the night of
March 11 followed by 24 hours
a powerful attack on the Italian
naval base of Spezia. Stuttgart
is the home of important war
plants, including, factories for
the manufacture of plane, tank
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Today Last Day to
File State Income
Tax Returns
SALEM, April 15 (IP) Today
was the last day for filing state
income tax returns and making
the first quarter payment.
The state tax commission s
Fdrtland and Salem offices were
swamped, with total collections
this year expected to be by far
the largest in history. I
One'Third of
Loan Already Subscribed
WASHINGTON, April 15 (IP)
Secretary Morgenthau reported
today the treasury already has
raised more than one-third of
the $13,000,000,000 sought iri
the second war loan campaign
which opened Monday.
The secretary told his press
conference that subscriptions up
to last night from both banking
and non-banking sources totaled
$5,253,000,000.
While expressing pleasure at
the progress of the campaign so
far, Morgenthau cautioned that
"we still have a hard road
ahead."
The treasury already has call
ed on the public to raise the
sights on its help for Uncle Sam.
Insurance Subscriptions
The figures made publlo to
day, .the secretary said, do not
Include several large subscrip
tions from Insurance companies
which were reported to have
totaled nearly $1,000,000,000.
. . Of the total funds raised to
IPPONS MASS
COMBAT FLEET
I
Americans Break All
Records Hitting
Kiska Japs
:' By The Associated Press
Secretary of War Stimson to
day promised a constantly in
creasing flow of planes and other
war supplies to Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's forces in the south
west Pacific, even as a spokes
man at allied headquarters de
clared that a great Japanese com
bat fleet was massed in the Truk
area "within three days' sailing
distance of New Guinea."
Simultaneously, a navy bul
letin revealed that American
fliers of the Aleutian command
broke all records for attacks on
the Japanese outpost at Kiska,
blasting the enemy stronghold
10 times on Tuesday.
The navy said heavy and me
dium U. S. bombers, escorted by
fighters, set fires in the main
Japanese encampment, strafed
enemy float planes and inflicted
other havoc in the unprecedent
ed series of assaults. ,
Altogether, Kiska has now
been attacked 73 times since
March. 1, an. average of nearly
two raids a day.
; Stimson's pledge followed a
-rrirg nf aatiarlff fnrrrgrrntrr al
lied air strength . in the South
Sea battle theatre and repeated
official, warnings from. Australia
that the Japanese were prepar
ing to unleash a new offensive.
Sufficient Planes .
"We will keep our American
and Australian fliers supplied
with sufficient planes not only
to replace our losses but to build
up our1 aircraft to counter the
. (Continued on Page Two)
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OWf Because
Of Principles
WASHINGTON, April 15 (JP)
Fifteen recently resigned mem
bers of the office of war Informa
tion staff said in a statement to
day they were leaving "because
of .our conviction that It is im
possible for us .... to tell the
full truth." .
Among those signing the state
ment immediately denied by
OWI Director Elmer Davis
were Harold K. Gulnsburg, New
York book publisher, and Henry
F. Pringle, Pulitzer prize win
ning author.
There is only one issue the.
deep and fundamental one of the
honest presentation of . war in-
fnrmntinn " fhlr datpmpnt uld.
Davis told a press conference-
yesterday that he believed the
resignations were due to a clash
of personalities and that he
hoped most of those who resigned
would reconsider.
Second War
far, in the drive, $2,753,000,000
came from non-banking sources
and $2,500,000,000 from bank
ing sources, Morgenthau re
ported. The banks, which were
allotted a quota of about $2,000,
000,000 ' in one-year seven
eighths per cent certificates, had
oversubscribed this ' allotment
three times up to last night,
i "And subscriptions are stilt
pouring in through the mall,"
he said.
: Morgenthau stated that the
over subscription by tho banks
of the seven-eighths certificates
was one of the biggest responses
to treasury offerings on record.
, Previously the treasury re
ported that 50 million people
have bought bonds since they
first went on sale before the war
and that 26 million of them are
steadily buying more through
payroll deduction plans biuV .
Those deductions are averag
ing 9 per cent of the money be
ing earned by worker.
no