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Job-Wage Control Ordered
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By FRANK JENKINS
THE newi today Is In another
; of thoso lulls Ihut nro inevit
able in wiirfnre,
; In Africa, our side is sotting
sot for the fliml big push to
crowd the Germans off tho tip
of tho Tunisian hump. Tho fight
lug In Russia is still bogged down
In tho mud,
: Whatever miiy bo brewing In
1 he Pacific hasn't yet como to a
boll.
'
TN the Mediterranean fighting,
tho highlight at tho moment Is
the shooting down of Gorman
cargo planes.
We got 98 of them Sunday and
ton moro this morning. Along
with tho 08 transports, 17 Gcr-
man fighters were shot down
making a total of 85 planes.
The dispatches, as Is so often
the case, are a littlo huzy as to
the cost to us, but we seem to
have lost somowhero around 7
to 9 planes an extremely high
ratio In our favor. ,
ORITISH military "quarters" In
Cairo say those Gorman trans-
D ports wore carrying axis per-
"sonnol OUT of Africa. What
kind of personne I whether
fighting men or technicians
isn t stated.
Cairo, however says It Is a
forctasto of what will happen If
Rommel tries a Dunkcrquo.
The smacking down of the
German cargo planes is described
as a massacre.
QUR American General Spnnlz
' says today the allied air
force has won CLEAR-CUT
SUPREMACY In the Mediter
ranean in spite of the transfer to
that area of nearly one-fourth
of the German nlr power.
QVER the wcokend, our air
! forces made several heavy
raids on Italy and her Mediter-
rnncan Islands. Returning pilots
Qrfescrthe the resistance encount
ered there as far less effective
than In Germany. ,
That suggests (though It
doesn't prove) that tho Germans
are keeping the bulk of their
defensive armament both
planes and anti-aircraft guns
AT HOME Instead of sending
them to Italy,
This, In turn, "suggests tho pos
sibility (no more than a pos
sibility) that their plan may be
to glvo up Italy If the going gots
hard and retire to tho defensive
line of the Alps.
. .
VOU mustn't Jump to wrong
conclusions hero.
' Giving up Holy would bo a
algn of weakness. Giving up
ANYTHING because you can't
hold onto It Is a sIrii of weak
Qiioss. But such a move would
shorten the German lines and
make fewer, troops MORE ef
fective. ; Long centuries of fighting
leovo no doubt whatever that tho
lino of tho Alps Is an extremely
strong dofcnslve lino,
i ...
'THERE'S a rumor today that
r Marshal Koltel, chief of
tho German general Rlnff, has ar
rived In Bulgaria to organize a
unified axis command In tho
Balkans,
- To got tho significance of that
rumor, you'll havo to got out
your map nnd brush up on your
"history.
A,Tho valleys of the Vnrdnr and
the Struma provide one of tho
nut-too-niimerous Rntoways by
whloh'the walls of tho European
Qo-rtroD. can, bo penetrated. Tho
;tllles, entering this gato through
Salnnlkl, did it In 1018.
-, .': '
: ' THIS gate 6fqrs both nn en-
tranco and a sally port, From
It, down through tho ages, con
querors havo issued forth lo Im
pose tholr will (op try to) on the
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JUDGE REFUSES
DIRECTIVE IN
MURDER TRIAL
State Rests After
Testimony From
Psychiatrist
ALBANY, Ore., April 19 (IP)
Circuit Judge L, G. Lcwclllng
toduy denied a defense request
for a dlroctcd verdict of acquittal
In tho trial of Robert E. Lee
Koikes, on trial on a charge of
first degrco murdor for the lower
13 slaying of Mrs. Martha Vir
ginia James.
Tho court denied the request
by Defense Attorney Leroy Lonv
ax at a conference of counsel In
the Judge's chambor before
state's attorneys could ask that
it bo denied.
Lomax Denied
Lomux asked a directed vcr-
diet on grounds that the state
hud fulled to show sufficient
cvlcionco to link Folkcs with the
slaying of Mrs. James. Ho con
tended also there was Insuf'
(icirnt proof of corpus delecti,
i' Tho -.conference took place
after' the state rested 1U ease
against Koikes this morning.
Lcwelllng granted Lomax until
1:30 p. m to prepare arguments
ond Introduction of testimony.
District Attorney Harlow
Wclnrlck announced that the
state's cqso was concluded at
10:18 a. m., after brief testimony
by Dr. Joseph Paul de River,
Los Angeles physician, surgeon
and psychiatrist.
Talks to Folk.s
Do River testified that he
talked with Folkcs about 0 p m.,
January 28 a short time after
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Poll Taken of
Senate Views
On Post-War
WASHINGTON, April 10 (IP)
Proponents of proposals to put
tho senate on record for post
war collaboration with other nn
lions today called the result of
an Associated Press poll on the
question "highly satisfactory,"
but others thought the issue re
malned up in the air.
Tho poll, which reached 88 of
tho 06 members, showed 32 op
posed, 24 favorable and 32 un
committed on this question:
"Do you favor committing the
sennto and country now to a
postwar courso of preserving
the peace through an Interna'
tional police force?"
Recognizing this as the prin
cipal- theme of several resolu
tions now before tho foreign re
lations commlttco, Senator Hill
of Alabama, tho democratic
whip, said he thought the re
sults wero highly satisfactory
and indicated "an ebb tide of
isolationism" In the senate.
Medford Soldier To
Plead "Insanity"
In Smother Case
MEDFORD, Ore., April 10 (P)
Defense Attorney Goorgo A.
Codding Bald today ' that Sgt.
Bernard J. Lolka, Indicted on a
charge of first degree murdor in
tho smothering of his 10-weoks-
old son, "will plead innocont by
reason of insanity."
Roosevelt Asks
Additional Money
WASHINGTON, April 10 (IP)
President Roosovolt submitted
to congress todny additional ap
propriation requests totnllng
$2,d14,G3B,ooo for the fiscal
year beginning July 1. A major
share was allocated to tho war
shipping administration for the
merchant marine. '
Rough on Nazis
A "flghtln general" U star
studded Lt. Can Georga S. Pat.
ton Jr., above, shown, in on of
the few pictures made of him
during the Tunisian campaign.
Official U. S. army signal corps
photo.
Russians Throw-Back
Counter Attacks
By Nazis
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, April 10 (IP) The
Germans are stiffening their
ground forces In the Kuban re
gion of tho Caucasus with large
air units in an effort to hold
their positions against a red
army drive to push them into
the Black Sea, a dispatch to
Pravda said today after the Rus
sians hod thrown bock repeated
Gorman counter-attacks.
Twenty-five enemy planes
were shot down and eight more
crippled yesterday alone in air
battles in this sector as crack
soviet pilots thwarted enemy at-
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Clarification
Expected on
Martinique
WASHINGTON, April 10 (IP)
Further clarification of the sit
uation on Martinique was ex
pected In diplomatic quarters to
day as a result of information
brought to Washington by Mar
cel Etlennc Malige, United States
consul general at Fort De France.
Secretary of State Hull last
week told a press conference the
situation on Martinique where
the French high commissioner,
Admiral Georges Robert, has
been holding out against full col
laboration with the allies despite
a halt in all food shipments from
this country to his Caribbean is
land domain slnco last November
still was fermenting, but that
he hoped to mako a more def
inite announcement soon.
Meanwhile Admiral Robert
made public, in a letter to As
sociated Press Correspondent
Joseph E. Dynan, the conditions
under which ho would be willing
to swing Martinique into the
United Nations camp.
House Votes Down
Crop Insurance
WASHINGTON, April 10 (IP)
The house voted 03 to 68 today
against continuing government
insurance of wheat and cotton.
The crop Insurance program
had been stricken from the 1044
agriculture appropriation bill by
tho appropriations committee.
An amendment by Representa
tive Pace (D-Gu.) to restore tho
program was lost on a standing
vote.
MODIFICATION
OKAYS CHANGE
FOfi IRE PA!
Essential Workers
Must Get WMC '
Permission
WASHINGTON, April. 10 CP)
War Manpower Commissioner
Paul V. McNutt disclosed today
that his job-wage control order
would be modified to permit es
sential workers to take higher
paying jobs with new employers
anywhere In the country provid
ed the WMC first approves.
The original order, made effec
tive yesterday, made no provi-
slon for such job-transfers out
side the 60 areas where the
WMC has put employment sta
bilization plans Into effect.
Modification
The modifications, McNutt
told a press conference, will au
thorize U. S. employment ser
vice offices outside these areas
to approve such transfers just
as offices in those areas may do
under the original ;rder.
Approval must be gfven when
a worker is fired, laid off indefi
nitely or for a specified period
of seven days or more, or where
the worker can show he is not
being used full time at his high
est skill.
McNutt said the modifying or
der was being . prepared and
would be made effective as soon
as the WMC had a chance to ac
quaint the 1500 fulltrme and
3400 part-time USES offices
with its terms.
Free to Switch
Any worker is free to switch
employers provided it will not
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RAF Flies Over
Alps to Blast
Italian Base
LONDON, April 10 (P) Brit
ish home-based bombers made
the long trip across the Alps
again last night to blast the Ital
ian naval base of Spezia for the
second time in six nights, it was
announced today.
The attack was described as
heavy and concentrated and
while it was in progress air
craft of the . fighter command
struck at enemy destroyers at
Lorlent, the German naval and
submarine base on the French
coast.
One bomber failed to return
from the attack on Spezia. The
Italian post was attacked at the
beginning of the present long
sustained aerial offensive against
continental targets last Tuesday
night
Bond Buyers Train
For Hitler's Party
Klamath bond buyers trained today for Tuesday's celebra
tion of Adolph' Hitler's birthday, when local people will swat
der fuehrer in one of the biggest local bond buying events of
the war. ; 1 .
Several sizeable bond deals were being held' in abeyance for
the special occasion, while the stimulus of the birthday celebra
tion is expected to bring about widespread buying on the part
of the general public.
Andrew Collier,' county war finance co-chairman,- said a
special feature of the day may be built around an effigy of the
Gorman leader, who, Klamath people hope, will observe his last
birthday Tuesday.
Klamath Indians will make a largo bond purchase Tuesday,
lt Is expected. Captain Jack, the bond-selling rooster, will be
auctioned by the junior chamber of commerce over the local
radio station Tuesday evening, and it is hoped that this occasion
will mark heavy buying of E bonds which count on the war
finance goal and also on the union labor sub-chaser goal.
The April war finance goal for this county Is $1,268,000,
and the sub-chaser goal E bonds for March and April is
$500,000. War savings leaders expect the county to pass both
marks.
The Hitler birthday celebration as a bond-buying feature is
strictly a local Idea, and war finance leaders hope it will "hjt
the jackpot."
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A Urge formation of American heavy bombers tklm low over the southern Tunisia country
lid on their way to raid axis-held cities to the northwest. Below mar be teen wbite-painled
mud houses of the African natives. Official U. S. air force photo.
1EU FLIERS
Enemy Cargo, Vessels
Battered; One May
Be Sunk
WASHINGTON, April 18 (IP)
American, fliers, battering .liie
Japanese m the Solomons, dam
aged two enemy cargo vessels,
probably' sinking one, and start
ed big fires at the enemy base at
Kahili, the navy said today.
At the same time, other bomb
ers striking at Kiska nine times
in one day scored hits in the
camp and hangar area, destroyed
one unidentified building, knock
ed out gun positions and strafed
three beached planes at the Jap
anese outpost in the Aleutians
Navy communique No. 348:
"South Pacific: (All dates east
longitude)
M. On April 17th:
Bomb Runway
"(A) In the afternoon. Daunt
less (Douglas) light bombers and
Wildcat (Grumman F4F) fight
ers bombed the Japanese disper
sal and runway areas at Munda,
in the central Solomons.
"(B) During the night, Aveng
er (Grumman TBF) torpedo
bombers attack two Japanese
cargo vessels in the Shortlarid
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Government Pay
Increase Bill
Passes Senate
WASHINGTON,. April 18 (IP)
A bill to increase salaries of
about 1,500,000 government em
ployes was passed today by the
senate and sent to the house. '
The raises would total about
$23,000,000 a year more than
present temporary increases. The
legislation grants a $300 wage
boost for workers in the lower
salary brackets whose present
temporary Increase of 21.6 per
cent for a 48-hour wek. does
not reach that figure.
U. S. Heavy Bombers Darken Tunisia Skies
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Order to Loggers Seen as
Pattern for Conscription
PORTLAND, Ore., April 10
(IP) Observers said today the
war manpower commission or
der to loggers, to get out of high
paying war industry jobs and
back into the woods probably
would set the pattern for any
future civilian conscription.
The. order was. issued . by the
war manpower commission to
solve what It called "the Nd. 1
manpower-problam. of the-Tvest
It was issued, observers noted,
for the same area where loggers
staged strikes over similar wage
and job issues in the last war;
No opposition has developed
this time. An AFL spokesman,
Judiciary to
"Listen in" on
Press Meetings
WASHINGTON, April 18 (IP)
The senate judiciary committee
disclosed plans today to 'listen
in" on press conferences of gov
ernment agencies preliminary to
acting on legislation calling for
an investigation of their "dis
semination and control of infor
mation."
At the same time Senator Taft
(R-Ohio) introduced resolutions
to require the office of war in
formation and the coordinator
of inter-American affairs to file
copies with the senate of all pro
paganda disseminated to foreign
relations and to American armed
forces.
Chairman Van Nuys (D-Ind.)
of the judiciary committee re
ported that OWI Director Elmer
Davis would be invited first to
display his press conference
methods before the committee,
Local Man Claims
Carnegie Medal
Found in House
PORTLAND, April 10 (IP)
Police Chief Harry M. Niles
said today he had received a
letter from Granville M. Smith.
Klamath Falls, claiming a Car
negie hero fund medal which
had been turned over to police
here.
The medal, awarded for a
life-saving feat at Eugene in
1022, was turned in by Luther
J. Neuter, Portland, who said
he found it in a house from
which he moved in Klamath
Falls.
German Merchant
Vessel Fires on
Swedish U-Boat
STOCKHOLM, April 18 (P)
A Swedish communique said to
day a German merchant ship
had fired on the Swedish sub
marine Draken April 16 in Swed
ish territorial waters near Mar
strand, where the submarine Ul
ven went to the bottom the same
day. '
Rescue workers battled rough
seas and drifting mines in an ef
fort to save 33 sailors trapped in
the Ulvcn, lying on the bottom
in 120 to 180 feet of water off
th west coat of Sweden. ;
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5 "T'-il"
D. F. Pearson, assistant secretary
of the northwest council of lum
ber and sawmill workers, said In
a public statement, "we're all
anxious to maintain fundamental
rights gained for labor over a
period of years, but wartime
conditions create emergency
manpower situations which all of
us, as Americans, are glad to deal
with cooperatively as they arise.
The- important thihg-fioW 'B thai'
logs are going to-war and must
be: produced in greater volume
than ever before.
Worth. Lowery,- president ,of
the district CIO International
Woodworkers of America, com
mented similarly. f , .
Easy Applied
Observers said the system "is
the one most easily applied to
correct any future : manpower
shortages in other industries,
since it requires only a WMC
order- and pressure' applied by
federal agencies holding con
tracts with war Industry em
ployers. This is the way the WMC said
it would work:
Plan Outlined '
Loggers who have quit the
woods since last September 7
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Japanese Claim
Knowledge of
Shangri-la
A Japanese government spokes
man was quoted, by the Berlin
radio today as saying military
quarters "knew well where the
American aircraft wnicn Domnea
Tokyo a year ago came from."
The broadcast, recorded ,by
The Associated Ff ess, added:
"Announcements made by the
United States in this matter
therefore could not come as a
surprise to the Japanese."
The Japanese asserted on Jan
uary 13 that the aircraft carrier
Hornet was , the "Shangri-La"
base used by Major Gen, James
H. Doolittle and his 78 fliers
who attacked Tokyo, Yokohama,
Kobe and Nagoya on April 18,
1842.
The war department has re
fused to announce the base which
President Roosevelt called Shangri-La,
a fictitipus Himalaya
mountain fastness. Nor has the
war department commented on
any published reports purport
ing to identify the base.
Private Advices
Say Roosevelt
Won't Run Again '
WASHINGTON, April 18 (IP)
Frank Comfort, democratic na
tional committeeman from Iowa,
said today ne understood Presi
dent Rooseve'lt" : "has advised
friends privately that he will
not under any circumstances con
sider a fourth term."
, "If that's the case," Comfort
told a reporter, "there 'might be
some fellows who are trying to
push him in against his wish.
As far as I am concerned I think
that if the war is still going on
the president is the logical man
to keep in office."
SICILIAN PLANE
IR TAKES 85
T.
Entire Battle Noted
As American
Show
By DANIEL DE LWCB
ALLIED . HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 18
(IP) Allied warplanes blasted
down 85 axis aircraft yesterday,
including 58 Junkers-52 ' trans
ports and 16 fighters caught
over the Sicilian straits In the
greatest single air victory of the
war in this sector, and followed
up by destroying 10 more trans-.
ports and a Messerschmitt fight
er today. - ,
The blazing air attacks on the
enemy's vital air. transport serv
ice across the Sicily straits still
were continuing. '
' Up to 10 a. m. the day's score
stood at ten Junkers-52 trans
ports and one Messerschmitt-100
NAZI AIHGRAF
shot down, making the two day
total of 68 transports and 28
other planes destroyed. In the
past two weeks 150 of the Junk-ers-52's
have been destroyed. .
' Support 1 8th Array - ,
The allied aerial squadron!
were striking lethally in support
of Gen.- Sir Harold Alexander's
18th arrny , group. In' raids -front'
the EiiiidirjHe lme i)t Palermo. --
American, British and South "
African squadrons of Spitfires",
and Warhawks in the Sicilian
straits' tattle, the high-flying .,
Spitfires engaging and shooting,
down 16 of "a strong enemy:
fighter umbrella while TJ. S. ;
Warhawks. dived and destroyed
the 58 transports from a Slcily-(Continued-on-Page
Two) '
Boilermakers
Ask Force to
Get Clearance
" PORTLAND, Ore., April 18 (IP) .
Charging United Nations' cargo-,
laden . ships are being delayed
in leaving for war fronts mem
bers of the AFL Portland Boiler
makers' union asked President
Roosevelt today ' to force the
union's business agent, Tom Bay,
to clear men for work at the
Alblna Engine & Machine Works.
."We are fighting dictators, yet
permit one man to endanger lives
of our soldiers because of an
internal dispute," read a tele
gram to the president signed by
George W. Smit as representative
for rank- and file members of
the union.
"Local government agencies,
claim they are aware of the situ
ation but are powerless to act
without a directive from Wash
ington. We beg of you, as com
mander-in-chief, to guarantee our
boys at the front getting their
much needed supplies. Unless
something Is done immediately,
the situation will grow more se
rious." A suit over the issue now is
underway in circuit court. Union
member Verl J. Hillyard asked
the court to enjoin Ray from re
fusing to clear him for work at
the company's drydock. Ray,
testifying Saturday, denied he
had been withholding assignment
of men to the dock. ' ,
Logger Injured in
Motorcycle Crash
Near Chiloquin
Ray Jonas, 27-year-old logger,
is in Klamath Valley hospital
suffering from a possible skull
fracture as the result of a motor
cycle- accident which occurred
early Sunday evening near Chfio
quin.' ... :';':''":..' ' 1
A second passenger on the mo
torcycle suffered facial cuts and
bruises. Jonas' condition was ,
said to be fair, according to the
attending physician, Ho was
thrown from the machine and
given first aid by Chiloquin
doctor' before being brought to'
Klamath Falls. The young man
is employed In the Pelican-Bay
woods camp north of Chiloquin.
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