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By FRANK JENKINS
TTHE mystery debuto botweon
' our headquarters In Auntrnlla
and our big shots In Washington
dies down toclny, but wo got dls-
turbluK newt from Hie western
Aleutians,
Pilots returning from aids on
. Kiska and Attu (Jiip-licUl) report
I encountering the heaviest nntl
aircraft flro of the yenr. One
says: "Tho Jnps out there are
Vetting stronger all tho time."
Another pilot reports: "We
can keep on bombing them until
1000, and they'll still ba there
as strong as ever."
THE reason, for tho most part.
Is tho weather.
There was only ONE good
bombing day In March. In fact
tho pilots out there sny, March
18 was tho only really good
bombing day this year. , . . -
rUR raids on tho Jap-hold is-
lands In tho Aleutians hove
ranged from grass-top level to
0000 fact (only ono was that
high.) .- i
Tho moat dangerous missions,
' tho pilots say, aro those that aro
carried out just under tho cell
ing at about 2300 feet. Tho Jap
gunners ann then calculate tho
altltudo by tho ceiling and bring
their guns to bear accurately al
most immediately, , ,
The Jap, tlie.io pilots report, Is
wasting llttlo ammunition and is
showing a tendoncy to wait until
he can sec tho whites of our eyes.
rON'T Jump to the conclusion
thot theso Jap-built stopping'
stono airfields In tho Aleutians
aro necessarily designed for ;
Jap air attack on our mainland.
If you woro going over and
over your maps, trying to pick
a way to bomb Japan, you'd
probably scttlo on tho Aleutians
as tho most feasible route
geographically.
Air fields in the Aleutians
would bo tho natural Jap answer
to such an attack.
Tho llttlo yellow men can uso
theso fields DEFENSIVELY, ns
wolt as offensively.
TN tho South Seas, Flying Fori
rcsscs sweep In at MAST
HEIGHT on a Jap convoy o(
three warships and six merchant
vessels at Wcwak, Now Guinea,
and damago throo of the mer
chant ships badly.
Four-motored heavy bombers
were never Intended for close
range fighting. Their use in
such a manner demonstrates tho
BOLDNESS and the resourceful
ness of our Indomitable flying
men down there.
JTVSPATCHES from Tunisia to
f day say tho final phnso pf
tho struggle Is unmistakably at
hand as tho British, French and
Americans closo in on tho Ger
mans at Blzcrlo and Tunis.
Violent fighting for high
ground still goes on. Anderson's
artillery-supported British in
fantry takos a rango of hills over
looking tho Tunis plain. The
Germans launch a counter at
tack, recapturing tho hills. Tho
British then stogo a countor-countor-attack,
regaining it and
pushing on slightly.
Our air forco still pounds tho
German air fields. Taking tho
commanding high ground and
destroying tho enemy's air fields
aro NECESSARY preliminaries
to the taking of Blzorto and
Tunis.
ONTGOMERY la reported to
day to be bringing his so-far-
irroslstiblo big guns to blast
Rommel out of his main defonscg
at Enfldavlllo (seo map), but tho
bulk of tho heavy fighting Is
around Tobnurba, which tho
Germans hold, and Medjez el
Bab, which wo hold. Both aro
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BRITISH SII
TI ITALIAN
SHIPS DFWAR
Small
Gains. Fierce
Fighting Seen
In Tunisia
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 16
!) Two British destroyers
sank two Italian destroyers off
Sicily last night, Admiral of the
Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunning
ham announced tonight.
The admiral smilingly indicat
ed that the British destroysra
suffered virtually no loss of per
sonnel or damago. Ha said the
British navy was ready to smash
any axis attempt to withdraw by
sea from Tunisia and that it,
meanwhile, was hitting hard at
supply lines from Europe,
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 10
IIP) First army Infantrymen
drove to within 18 miles of the
key road, junction of Tebourba
yesterday in some at tho fiercest
fighting of the Tunisian ? cam
paign, it was announced today. ,
In a series of local attacks
east of Medjez-al-Bab; the allied
mountain line advanced to points
between ZS and 30 miles from
Tunis. Tebourba, once held by
the allies In the eastward push
last foil, lies 18 miles airline
west of the axls-eld capital,
' Allied bombers and fighters
continued their assaults upon
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Hiich'Hiking
Youth Thumbs
Interruption
A 14-ycar-old boy who was
hitch-hiking from Los Angeles
to Scuttle to visit his father who
is working in tho defense . in
dustry there, met with an In
terruption In his journey when
he thumbed down juvenile of
ficer, Harold Hcndrlckson, here
Wednesday.
However, the boy will still
seo his father who has been
notified and Is coming to Klam
ath Falls Saturday morning to
pick tho youngster up.
Hcndrlckson said that he no
ticed a dirty dishevelled boy
thumbing a ride down Main
street heading south. Thinking
that tho youngster looked like
a runaway, ho got in his car,
drove around the block and
picked tho boy up, taking him
into custody. .
Upon questioning, the boy,
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Administration
Strike
WASHINGTON, April 16 VP)
Chairman William H. Davis of
the war labor board told strikers
at tho Universal Atlas Cement
company plant, at Universal, Pa
todoy that they were violating
"labor's pledgo" and were strik
ing against President Eoosevolt's
hold-tho-llno order against infla
tion.
The board made publio a tele
gram, signed by Davis and sent
to union leaders, asking the
workors to return to their jobs
'so that full and continuous
production may be resumed im
mediately,"
By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS
WASHINGTON, April 18 VP)
Tho administration was confront
ed today with tho first strike
growing out of President Roose
velt's hold-the-llne order against
inflation.
As labor protests against the
order mounted, employes of the
Universal Atlas Cement com
pany, Universal, Pa., who were
ate him flffssioira
Big Girl Now
From now on 20-yaar-old Bo
qlta , Granville will play : only
adult,. parts liy.th roovles.' . A
new contract, . approved by ','
Los Angelas court, brings to an
nd har "brat" roltt and stipu
lates the . will ba east only In
grown-up parts. . The contract,
with RKO studios, is for seven
yaars and calls for f 15,000. :
TO UTILIZATION
President's Authority
Over Dollar Value .
Eliminated . .
WASHINGTON, April 16 (tP)
Legislation to extend for : two
moro years tho $2,000,000,000
currency stabilization fund was
passed by tho senate today and'
sent to tho houso after a pro
vision to continue tho president's
authority over devaluation of the
dollar was eliminated.
A voice vote was unanimous.
The revised bill was reported
by the banking committee a few
hours after Secretary of the
Treasury Morgcnthau urged re
tention of tho devaluation clause
as a "defensive weapon" case of
a foreign devaluation operation.
Chief objection to continua
tion of the president's 10-year-old
authority to dovaluato the dollar
after Juno 30 came from Senator
Taft (R-Ohlo) who oserved that
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Confronted
y,, ,( , , XT
From "Hold the Line" Order
tho first to feel Its effects, went
on strike.
, AFL members of tho war labor
board denounced the order as a
"flagrant violation" of the no-strlke-no-lockout
agreement and
said the administration will loso
the workors' confidence. '
Nothing Added
CIO lcadors added nothing
publicly to President Philip Mur
ray's letter of two days ago but
privately conveyed their views
to Stabilization Director James
F. Byrnes and the WLB. Moro
than 190 protesting telegrams
wera delivered to the board,
more than half of them from
CIO United Automobile Workers
local unions. The Universal
Atlas employes are represented
by the CIO Mine, Mill and Smel
tor workers.
Hub of the controversy is the
WLB's loss of power to approve
pay increases for tho correction
of "inequalities," Murray's let
ter to affiliates called this a
serious omission andturged that
Officer Tells
Preliminaries
"Lower 13" Killing
ALBANY, Ore., April 16 VP) Robert E. Lee Folkes' admis
sion that ho couldn't get the woman in lower 13 out of my
mind," carefully planned his entranpe to her berth and killed
her with a knife when she resisted his advances, was related to
day by Lieut. E. A. Tetrick of the Los Angeles police homicide
squad.
It was the first time the content ot statements made by
Folkes, charged with the murder of pretty Mrs. Martha Virginia
James on a Southern Pacific limited train before dawn January
JAPGEWERATOR
Heavy Raids Continue
On Kiska Nippon
' Positions
WASHINGTON, April 16 VP)
American bombers battering
Japoncse positions in the central
Solomon islands Thursday de
stroyed a .building believed to
ba a power . generating station
and sonk an 80-foot vessel, the
navy 'announced today. - '"
; In the North ; Pacific, . mean
while, heavy raids on Kiska Is
land continued. - A communique
said that .the enemy base there
was attacked eight times Wed
nesday and -hits were scored in
the camp area, damaging an air
plane , runway . and revetments
built to protect, aircraft, on the
ground. .
Navy communique No. . 34S
said:
"South Pacific (all dates are
East Longitude). .
"l; On April 15th:
"(A). During the morning.
Avenger torpedo bombers
(Gruman TBF) escorted by Wild-
continued on Page Two)
Italy Declares
Sicily, Sardinia .
Military Area
LONDON, April 16 (P) Pre
mier Mussolini was reported by
tho Berlin radio today to have
declared Sicily, Sardinia and
smaller Islands at Italy's south
ern flank as an area of military
operations in a move interpreted
hero as throwing up defenses
hastily against expected allied
attack.
The action was preceded by a
shakcup of the Italian police,
which some London observers
said was an attempt to deal with
potential slackers and saboteurs
who might impair the defense of
Italy. The Italian premier acted
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by First
cases of Injustices be called to
Byrnes' attention. ',
In the Universal Atlas cement
case, the WLB unanimously cut
a referee's recommendation, of a
91 cent hourly raise to 2 cents
and said it was powerless, to al
low the other 3 cents to adjust
"inequalities."
Vote Dictated
. AFL members of the board, In
a special concurring opinion in
that case, emphasized that their
vote was dictated by the terms
of the order but said any inter
pretation that they agreed with
the principles of the order was
erroneous.
"The fact Is," they said, "that
we believe the order is neither
sound In construction nor work
able In practice."
, The board still may grant in
creases consistent with the Little
Steel formula and to eliminate
substandard wages.. The Little
Steel formula permits only a
total average increase of 18 per
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in
23, were disclosed at his trial.
Verbal Story
Tetrlck said the 20-year-old
negro cook aboard the train made
the verbal confession in the pres
ence of himself (Tetrick), Los
Angeles Detective Captain "Ver
non Rassmussen and Jessie Tay
lor, sometimes referred to as
Folkes' girl friend, sometimes as
his -wife. The confession, Tet
rick; testified, was made the eve
ning of January 26 after Folkes
was arrested at Los Angeles at
the end of the tralnls run through
Oregon and .California.
Folkes' . confession covered
these points, Tetrick testified: .
Drinking in Portland
Folkes had been drinking in
Portland, Ore., where the train
was made up during -the, day
January 22, He fell asieeb ' in
tha. Jjcpot and "someone woke
Dim up before the train left. He
boarded the train and walked
through sleeping car, D, the car
in which Mrs. James occupied
lower ;13,. on his way . to. the
tuner.
ioiKes said the woman ap
parently mistook him for a por
ter and asked him to help her
search for her husband (Navy
Ensign Richard F. James), whom
she thought might be on the
same train.
(Traveling from Seattle to San
Diego under navy transfer, or
ders, they were separated at
Portland by congested travel con
ditions and took different trains
south).
Made No Effort
Folkes told her he would look
for her husband and agreed to
meet her in 10 or 19 minutes
in the vestibule. -
Folkes made no effort to find
the husband but went to the
diner and joined a party which
was in progress and had some
more drinks. At the appointed
time he returned to the vestibule
and told Mrs. James her husband
was in the dining car attending
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Runaway Girls
Returned After
Wide Travels
Two runaway girls whose
travels had taken them from
here to Weed, back again and
thence to Fort Klamath junc
tion were taken into custody at
the latter place about 4 a. m.
Friday.
County Juvenile Officer Har.
old Hendrickson and the moth
er of one of the girls caught uo
with the youngsters at the junc
tion, where they were shivering
around a stove in a stop on a
hatless and coatless hitch-hiking
jaunt. They had been de
tained at the station by the
woman who operates the place.
iiencincKson said the girls
assertedly rode to Weed in an
automobile with a 25-year-old
army sergeant and a 19-year-old
youth, remaining there all
night arid returning with
the men Thursday. The slrls.
he said, decided they did not
want to go home, and were
hitch-hiking to Portland.
With the aid of city police.
the two men were picked up
for investigation but no defi
nite charge had been filed
against them. Hendrickson said
the case is a demonstration of
the dangers ot young girls run
ning about without supervision
and going for rides with men.
What started out to be just a
Joy ride" around ' town, he
said, turned into a serious os
capadoi .
Allies Tighten Noose
CAPE
BIZERTE
.SERRAT
0 25
STATUTE MILES
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IT XI VOiebibfna
PichonKaif)9uan
General Eisenhower's allied I oreea tightened the noose on
Axis armies in Tunisia, closing in Inexorably to what tha Ger
man radio said would be the Rommel-Von Arnim final defense
line (sawtooth line) from Cape Serrat to Enfidaville. Eighth army
armor rolled toward Enfidaville. First army patrols went south
to unite with the eighth array units near Djeblbana. French pa
trols were actire near Bou Arada, the British captured hill po
sitions near Medjes el Bab and the first army and French were
poised In the north.
EfgM
Welders.
Sabotage by Faulty Work
BALTIMORE, April 16 UP)
The arrests of eight men for
merly employed as welders at
two Baltimore- shipyards, on
charges of sabotaging ships by
doing faulty welding, were an
nounced today by the federal
bureau of investigation,, , v.
Seven of tntjnen, whose ar
rests were announced by TBI
Director J. Edgar 'Hoover in
Washington,' were .'-accused, .of
doing ; bad" welding'- on Liberty
ships at the . Betalehem-Fair-
field Shipyard, Inc. ;
: The arrest of . the eighth, on: a
Mayor . Rodiseh of
Chiloquin Dies in'
Hospital Herej
Henry N. Rodiseh, 78, for the
past six. years mayor of Chilo
quin, died early Friday morning
at Klamath .Valley hospital, fol
lowing a brief illness.- .' Mr.
Rodiseh had come to Klamath
Falls for treatment and became
ill in his hotel 24 hours before
his passing. -- i
Mr.. Rodiseh was born Novem
ber 15, 1864, in Port Washing
ton, Wis., son of Henry N. and
Susie Rodiseh, both natives of
the Grand ' Duchy of Luxem
bourg. They -pioneered in Wis
consin and reared a family of
three children. Following his
public school education, young
Henry Rodiseh began logging at
the age of 15, working in the
Wisconsin and Michigan woods.
He had been with the . S. Hart
well Lumber company which
sent him to Chicago and during
the - Columbia . exposition - he
served as inspector of the lum
ber that went into the construc
tion of exposition buildings. In
the fall of 1802, Mr. Rodiseh was
sent to Louisiana by his . com
pany as a timber, cruiser . and
from there to California as buy
er and inspector-early in 1898.
He made his headquarters in
Redding for five years. His next
assignment was in the-shipping
department at McCloud, Calif.,
where he remained until 1912.
He spent a short time at Angel's
Camp and in 1914 : came to
Klamath county as sawyer for
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House GOP Heads
Start Compromise;
On Income Taxes.
WASHINGTON, April-16 (P)
House republican leaders sup
porting the skip-a-tax-year plan
and democrats opposing it
launched a joint effort today, un
der the leadership of Speaker
Rayburn (D-Tex.), to reach a
compromise on pay-as-you-go In
come tax legislation.
The bi-partisan effort to, set
tle the embattled Issue develop
ed at a morning conference in
Ray burn's office- attended by
House Republican Leader Mar
tin of Massachusetts, Democrat
ic Leader McCormack of Massa
chusetts, Chairman . Doughton
(D-N. C.) and members of the
house ways and means commit-
1TUNHSIA
Meuzel.-:
Temine '
Held for -
similar charge of performing
faulty work, on tanker under
construction at the Bethlehem
Steel company's Sparrows
Point yard; was disclosed when
six men were brought, before, a
U.S.- commissioner for arraign
ment, i-if, .-'j'-T'r.; t ;
- V y Plaad.-lnnoent;-,fA-r"
-He wia identified as James
B Dixon,-25, of Baltimore,-a
native-of Portsmouth, Va, -
- All six -entered pleas of in
nocent. ' - -
- Two of the eight were arrest
ed outside Baltimore.- -
' Hoover said that the men
"have admitted performing
faulty, welding in order to fin
ish their work in a hurry and
earn more money." He added
that there was no evidence of
"any axis direction or sympa
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British Battle S
Nazis in Hills
Near Bizerie
CHAOUACH VILLAGE,
Northern Tunisia, April 16 (fP)
Artillery-supported British in
fantrymen battled the Germans
today in a range of hills from
which the promised land of Tu
nis and Bizerte is visible on a
clear day..
The Djebel Tanngoucha, a
conical peak jutting above the
rugged highlands stretching
northeast from Oued Zargua to
ward Tunis. and the high smooth
hills of the neighboring Djebel
and were gained by powerful al
lied attacks this week, and then
yielded temporarily yesterday
before German, counterattacks.
(The' Friday communique
from allied headquarters said
the enemy fought fiercely
throughout the day for the high
ground in that area, north of
Medjez-el-Bab, "but all his coun
terattacks were eventually beat
en off and the high ground re
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Tokyo Bombers Celebrate
With Anniversary Dinner
By J. REILLY O'SULLIVAN
WITH U.. S. AIR FORCES IN
CHINA, April 15 (Delayed) (P)
With their bombers pointed for
the Japanese capital "to blow
Japan open to the outside world
again," one flier said a little
group of Maj. Gen. James H.
Doolittle's volunteers of last year
is 'preparing to celebrate Sun
day's first anniversary of their
bombing of Tokyo and other
points in Japan,
"We are eager to get going and
hope to be the first again over
Tokyo; when our orders come,
better hide, Hlrohlto, hide," one
of these veterans said today.
They feel sure that their bomb
ers, such as "Tokyo Joe," are
destined to carry them over
Tokyo again but they leave the
Japanese militarists to guess as
to. just when these and many
THREE ENEi,
j SHIPS HIT IN
I HHh I AhhAUL I
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Pledge to Give Mora
Aerial Support
. Buoys Men
By The Associated Press
With a pledge of greater aer
ial reinforcements, Gen. Douglas
MacArthurs warplanes pressed
home the attack on a nine-ship
Japanese convoy off Northern -
New Guinea today, after crip ,
pling three vessels in the open
ing assault and pounding other
enemy targets across a wide ex
panse of the 2500-mile . South
Sea battle arc. . .
Spotted at dusk yesterday oft
the base at Wewak, the enemy
convoy consisted of six mer
chant - vessels, a light cruiser
and two other warships.
Fortresses Pounce
In swift waves, U. S. Flying
Fortresses pounced on the
enemy with these results: an ,
8000-ton cargo ship left sinking:
another 8000-tonner floating :
lopsidedly, and a 5000-tonner
beached.
"We are continuing the at- ,
tack,", allied headquarters said.
At the far north end of the ,
Pacific war zone, a navy bulle
tin said, American bombers ran
up their two-day total of attacks ,
on,jaika.-tft 1A with eight more
heavy bombings assaults on tha
Japanese outpost in the Aleu
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Red Bombings
Batter Nazi
Airdromes
By EDDY GILMORB
MOSCOW, April 16 m Tha
red army is throwing a mount
ing force into the bombing of
German military objectives and
cities, the latest feat of Russian
fliers being announced as a raid
on a German airdrome on tha
Leningrad front where 13 Ger
man planes were destroyed oa
the ground.
The noon communique told
of the exploits of a band ot
Russian fliers who bombed and
strafed- the German airfield, set
ting fires to buildings in tha
area as well.
The raid came on the heels
of a Russian long-range attack,
on Koenigsberg, the third
bombing of that East Prussia
city, and an assault on Danzig,
the first one this year.
Stories of the raids were giv
en wide display in the soviet
press along with accounts of
the allied bombings from tha
west
In land fighting, soviet troops
struggled ahead in the Kuban
area of the Caucasus, captur
ing another German strong
hold and dominating the posi
tion in the face of fierce court-ter-attacks
by large numbers ot
German reserves.
Another sharp nazl attack on
the Donets river line north of
Chuguev also was turned back,
the Russians said.
others are taking off for a much
hlcrtfnr surnrise thnn that of last
Anril 18.
"I think I'll christen my bomb.
er 'Commodore Perry' because;
we're going to blow Japan open
to the outside world again," said
brick-topped Major j&vereu hoi
strom of Tacoma, Wash., who ,
..... T-v.l:tu'. .,
now is a squadron leader. .
Veterans of the raid who win
attend an anniversary dinner
will Include Capt. Caltyon, Oro
lino, luB., navigator; v-api. nur
ace Crouch, Columbia, S, G,
navigator-bombardier; Lleuts.
William Fitzhugh, Galveston,
Tex.; Lucian Youngblood, Waco,
Tex.; Jacob Manch, Staunton,
Va., all pilots; Technical Sergt.
Douglas Radney, Mlneola, Tex.,
and Master Sergt. Edwin Horton
Jr, Cape Cod, Mass. .