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XJONTGOMERY crashes Rom
A 1 mel's lino In tho Tunislnn
hills BRuIn and In km the village
of EnfldnvlII and tho HEIGHTS
went of It.
Enfidaville Is of comparatively
Utile Importance. The heights ore
Owhat count.
MONTGOMERY'S troops InM
1 trate (seep through enemy
positions) up the hillsides, blast
ing out one by one tho German
machine gun nests and crawling
from wadl to wadl (dry gulches)
In a slow, costly and during
advance.
The attack Is launched In
Montgomery's favorite manner,
In bright moonlight under a tre
mendous artillery barrage.
AT the same time, our side
" launches a heavy air offen
sive designed to knock Gorman
fighter planes out of tho sky.
The enemy's fighters are now
operaiing xrorn iicicin aruuuu
sert and Tunis. His bombers
Osecm to be coming from Sicily,
100 miles awny across the strait.
Sicily Is too far off for the fight
ers. If tho Tunisian fields from
which they rlo can be knocked
out, German air defense can be
badly crippled.
Tank-busting Hurrlcnnes (Brit
ish fighters), armed with 40-mll-limetcr
cannon firing a 21 pound
shell, are reported to bo ploying
havoc with Rommel's armored
equipment.
.
AN authoritative allied spokes-
man says Montgomery's as
sault is meeting with "extremely
vigorous" enemy opposition, the
Germans counter-attacking four
times In quick succession.
Allied "quarters" today warn
against expectation of. a quick,
easy conquest of the Tunisian
tip. Rommel, they say, has a lot
Oof high ridges still BEHIND him.
It is probable that each rldgo
will be bitterly defended.
A YEAR aflor It happened, we
" got the final, official story
of the Doollttle raid on Tokyo.
There were 80 men on the
flight. One was killed, two are
missing, eight are prisoners or
presumed to be, and 64, Includ
ing soven wounded mon, got
home through China.
The raid was lounched from
- tho carrier Hornet. It was Intend
ed to start 400 miles off Japan,
but because of rising danger of
discovery by Jap scouts had to
start 800 miles from tho Jap
shores. The extra 'four hundred
miles and an unexpected storm
exhausted the filers' gas and
they had to crash-land whore
fA they could when their tanks ran
dry.
TXOOLITTLE and his men flew
Into probable death unhesi
tatingly. Remember that the
next time you're tempted to
grouch about the trifling Incon
veniences of the home front.
A SPOKESMAN Bt our hcad
quarters In Australia warns
again today that Jap air and
ground power in tho South Pa
cific aro growing rapidly, Gen
eral Chcnnault (commanding our
air force In China) thinks the
Japs aro concentrating troops in
Indo-Chlna, Malaya and Thail
and for a new attack In Burma
or the South Pacific.
p THE mounting battle of tho Ku
" A ban delta In tho Caucasus
suggests that the Germans may
be starting a new spring offen
sive lliero. The Russians say that
In spite of heavy and determined
fighting tho Germans have gain
ed no new ground.
Keep your eyo on this Cauca-
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British Pass
Enfidaville in
Severe Fight
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 21
(VP) The British eighth army
has pushed ' about two miles
north In the DJobel Garcl area
10 miles west of Enfidaville In
"very severs fighting," It was
announced today.
Fighting raged on a 10-mlle
front as the dashing veterans of
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery pressed the battle to a
bloody pitch after capturing En
flclnvlllo, anchor point of Mar
shal Erwln Rommol's southern
line of the Tunls-Blzert de
fenses. They had already re
pulsed four determined counter
attacks. Blast Cava
While the British blasted at
tho caves and dug-in positions
of the nazis and fascists with
artillery and Infantry, sleet and
snow storms swirled over the
mountainous area today and re
stricted the great allied air of
fensive which had been sum
moned to paralyze axis airfields.
Accompanying Gen. Sir Ber
nard L. Montgomery's drive
from tha south; which was
opened at .11 o'clock Monday
night with mighty barrage
from hundreds of guns, the Brit-.
Ish first army has moved for
ward slightly In tha MedJei-EI-Bab
sector west of Tunis, said
a communique from Gen.
Dwlght D. Elsenhower's head
quarters. The newest assaults,, aimed at
Germans Throw
More Troops in
Kuban Struggle
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW. April 24 OP) A
violent struggle for an impor
tant height marked the mount
ing battle In the Kuban delta
above Novorossisk today as the
Germans threw In more troops
In an attempt to regain lost po
sitions, but nowhere did they
succeed In gaining any ground,
the Russians reported today.
A dispatch to Red Star,, the
army newspaper, said that ar
tillery action has Increased and
there are more and more bomb
ings by the Gorman air force
operating in strength from the
waters of the Black sea north
ward to tho Sea of Azov. :
Pravda, communist party
newspaper, printed a front line
dispatch which said Rumanian
troops were in the fight but that
war prisoners complained the
Germans had abandoned them.
The Germans, using' more
tanks to flank their increased
infantry forces, smashed at the
Russian lines in one sector in a
sorlos of 10 attacks moving in
groups of from 28 to 30 which
wore turned back almost Imme
diately, it was said.
Secrecy Lifted From Tokyo Raiders'
Shangri-la As Carrier Named Base
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, April 81 (P)
Tokyo could tremble again today
In memory of the bombs which
struck terror Into Japan's vul
nerable heart a year ago,
For the war department prom
ised that those were just a gen
tlo prelude to the pounding to
como, and disclosed that the
"Shangri-La" from which the
bombers struck was a ship at sea
a floating baso that could be
multiplied to maul the isle of
Nippon from almost any direc
tion. x
Ripping away at last the mys
tery that had cloaked the Paci
fic war's most thrilling aerial ex
ploit, the official story of the
raid disclosed:
That the base from which
Maj. Gen, James H, DoollUle'a,
collapsing the mountain rim
held by Marshol Erwln Rommel
und Col. Gen. Jurgcn von Ar-
nlm, wcro meshed with the
northwest African air force's
heaviest bombardments of axis
airfields the campaign has seen
and by violent air battles in
which 27 enemy aircraft were
shot down yesterday.
Along with other planes shot
down on previous days but not
previously reported here, this
score brought to li me total
of enemy planes destroyed in
tho last three duys.
"Enfidaville has been occu
pied and all initial objectives
csDtured after fierce fighting,"
the communique said. "Four
enemy counterattacks have been
repulsed. Fighting continues."
While hundreds of allied
planes ranged the skies, air rcc
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RODSDELT VISIT
Two Presidents Tour
. Texas Training
Center
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Ap
ril 21 (Pj President Avila
Camacho of Mexico today
promptly repaid President
Roosevolt'a precedent breaking
visit yesterday to the land south
of the border.
Aboard a long special train
the two president arrived here
from the northern Mexican In
dustrial city shortly after noon to
lunch with flying cadets in the
mess hall of the mammoth naval
air training station.
Tour Center
Their program colled for a
half-hour tour of the huge train
ing center situated on the Texas
coastal flats and to watch a dem
onstration. After that they were
to go their separate ways.
The chief executives, who met
for the first time yesterday In a
festive Monterrey setting, were
welcomed to one of the world's
biggest pilot-training centers by
tho commandant, Rear. Admiral
A. E. Montgomery.
Demonstrating wartime coop
eration of the two allied nations
was the schooling here of Mexi
can student filers.
Originally Mr. Roosevelt and
General Avila Camacho had
planned to travel across the
border in separate trains. But
they decided to cut two cars for
the Mexican president and his
party into Mr. Roosevelt's train.
Continue Conference
That gave them a chance to
continue their conference of
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16 twin-engined bombers took
off to blast war plants in Tokyo
and four other Japanese cities
was the aircraft carrier Hornet,
later lost in the Pacific battle of
Santa Cruz, October 26.
Doolittla's Idea
That the idea of the spectacu
lar attack a first Installment
on Pearl Harbor dobt was con
ceived in January 1042, presum
ably by Doollttle, and intense
training in utmost secrecy pre
ceded Its execution on April 18.
: That the bombers took off
from the Hornot In rough weath
er 800 miles from the coast of
Japan and attacked at noon,
whereas the original plan had
called for them to take off only
400 miles off-shpre and to go in
at night, ,
. . That not one of the . planes
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General 7V2-Cent Per
Hour Increase
Retroactive
WASHINGTON, April 21 W)
The war labor board announced
today that Stabilization Director
James F. Byrnes has approved
a wage Increase for 26,880 em
ployes of 86 pine industry con.
cerns in the northwestern Unit
ed States. In general, the in
crease Is 7V4 cents an hour..
1 The WLB's west coast lumber
commission originally approved
the increase, with the labor
members dissenting and arguing
for a larger amount. The war
labor board approved, the com.
mission's decision early in
March by a 5 to 4 vote. Wayne
L. Morse, a public member, and
three labor members were in
the minority.
. Morse held in a dissenting
nainlan. fn&dft ntihltc lnr-t Sun
day, that a further ' increase o(
at least. 2 Vi cents should nave
been allowed. One of the rea
sons he gave was that the ma.
jorlty' of the lumber commission
had informally offered to ap
prove the additional sum in the
interest of obtaining a unam
mous decision, but the labor
members of tha commission de
murred.
No Celling Jump
. The WLB acted prior to the
president s hold the line execu.
tive order of April 8, but the
decision was referred to Direc
tor Byrnes because of its pos
sible affect on price ceilings.
Byrnes' approval, it was under
stood, does not necessarily au
thorize an Increase in price
ceilings.
The wage increases are retro
active to dates established in
contracts between the companies
and unions except that retroac
tive payments prior to Septenv
ber 1, 1042, are to be figured at
2V4 cents an hour.
Eastern Games
Postponed in
Major Leagues
By Th Associated Press
All eastern games in the ma
jor leagues' opening program
today were postponed, but the
four scheduled contests in the
midwest were expected to be
played.
The games that had to be
called off today were Washing
ton at New York, and Boston at
Philadelphia in the American
league and New York at Brook
lyn and Philadelphia at Boston
in the National league.
Opening ceremonies planned
for these parks will be held to
morrow. reached tho Chinese landing
fields to which all had been sup
posed to go; the additional 400
mile flight to the island and a
storm encountered after leaving
it. drained away their gasoline
reserves, forcing them to crash
all except the one that reached
Russia.
Men Return
That of the 80 officers and
men on the flight, one was
killed, two are missing, eight are
prisoners or presumed to be pris
oners of Japan, five are interned
in Russia and 64, including seven
who were injured, got home
through China.
Some ot the story of the raid
had been told before by Doollt
tle and his men; the great dis
closure in tho army's ' release
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niinrnHnrii1
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BYRNES
Made Japs Pay
fit &
Marina Lloyd D. Gunnels, 24,
Kirbyvill. Tex., mildly ex
plained his part In Guadalcanal
fighting during which h picked
off from 75 to 100 of th enemy
single-handed from his position
In a foxhol witht As ach Jap
showad his head, I lt fir.'
Sniper Gunnels was finally
caught by a shot that . tor
through his right y. Ha is con.
Talescing at th Oak Knoll
naval hospital at Oakland, Calif.
Associated Prss photo from u,
8. navy.
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Birthday Events, Auc
ti6n Stimulate
Buying .
Klamath county's war finance
campaign had passed the $900,-
000 mark in sales and pledges
Wednesday, after a local cele
bration of Adolf Hitler s birth
day Tuesday had added $333,
000 to the total.
War finance leaders were
happy over the unprecedented
success of 'Tuesday's effort, but
agreed that it would take a pow
erful squeeze to get the remain
der necessary to make the
$1,269,000 goal set for this coun
ty for the April drive. They
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Pay-as-you-go
Tax Compromise
fails in House
WASHINGTON, April 21 ()
The bi-partisan effort to agree
on a pay-as-you-go ' compromise
in the house collapsed today and
republicans immediately launch
ed a drive to bring about anoth
er house vote on the modified
Ruml plan to skip an income tax
year. - .
The breakdown came sudden
ly after republicans and demo,
crats a few hours earlier had in
dicated they would announce a
compromise this afternoon,
probably providing for abate
ment of approximately BO per
cent of 1942 Income tax liabili
ties. .
The conferees, ranking mem
bers of the ways and means com
mittee, emerged from a closed
meeting to announce their ef
forts had failed, and democrats
and republicans went into sep
arate conferences to prepare
statements explaining their posi
tions. REDS BEAT ST. LOUIS
CINCINNATI, April 21 (fl)
A single by Max Marshall drove
Lonnie Frey home in the 11th
inning today to give tho Cincin
nati Rads and Johnny Vander
Meer a 1-0 victory over the
world champion St. Louis Car
dinals In the 1943 season s open
ing game before 27,709 overrat
ed fans.
BROWNS WIN
ST.' LOUIS, April 21 (&)
Lefty Al Holllngsworth blanked
the Chicago White Sox on 4 hits
as the St. Louis Browns won the
opening game of the season, 3 to
0, before 4421 fans today.
BONO SALES SHOOT
PAST 900,000 HER
FDLKES'TRIAL
JURY BEGINS
DELIBERATIONS
Judge I nstru'ets or
Four Possible
Verdicts
ALBANY, Ore., April 21 VP)
Eight women and lour men
jurors began life-or-death delib
eration at 10:15 a. m., PWT to
day in the first-degree murder
trial of Robert E. Lee Folkes,
accused of the fantastic 'lower
13" knife slaying of Mrs. Mar
tha Virginia James.
The jurors mostly farm folk
took the case with Circuit
Judge L. G. Lewelling's detailed
instructions after hearing testi
mony and arguments for 13 days
in the trial of the 20-year-old
negro second cook of a South
ern Pacific limited. . . . ,
Asks Death '
. Th state asks his .death for
the throat slashing of the attrac
tive Norfolk, Va., bridge
navy ensign who lay in berth
lower 13 last January. 23 as the
train roared rast a village sta
tion near her in tha pre-dawn
blackness.
The defense maintains Folkes
was in the dining car galley
preparing breakfast at the time
she. was knifed; in. the throat.
She died a few moments later In
a pool of her own- blood in toe
huus oc uic simplag car. . -Four
Choices Possible ' '
Judge Lewdling told the Jury
it could- return any one of four
verdicts: guilty of murder in the
first-degree which automatically
calls for the death penalty if un
accompanied by a recommenda
tion -for leniency; first degree
with a recommends tion. for life
imprisonment; second degree
which carries mandatory life im
prisonment; or acquittal. . ,
..The court dwelt upon the is
sue of intoxication at length dur
ing his 43-minute instruction. -Intoxication
Considered
If th jurors- found the evi
dence showed Folkes was intoxi
cated at the time he made his
alleged confession of the crime,
Lewelling said, this fact should
be considered although intoxica
tion does not make a confession
inadmissible as evidence unless
the person making the confes
sion has lost possession of his
faculties.
As to intoxication at the time
of the crime, Lewelling said that
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New Damage Seen
From Boise River
BOISE, Ida., April 21 (IP)
New' damage along the lower
Boise river was reported. today
as the crest of the flooding
stream reached Canyon county
communities on its way to the
Snake river.
Boise and other Ada county
communities breathed easier,
however, in- the belief their
greatest battle was over, at least
temporarily, as the river flow
subsided. . .
Easter Picture Shows Gay Bonnets,
Lots of Clothes, Stores Well-Stocked
By LOIS STEWART
Klamath Falls women looked
through their wardrobes this
second war-Easter and admitted
to themselves that they were
probably the best dressed, and
the- most comfortably clothed
flock of females in the world
today. - - ,
That panic of buying In mid-
February, when a clothes ration
scare sent, thousands scurrying
to dress shops and department
stores, must make a lot of them
feel like well stocked-up ninnies
as shops continue to pour forth
colorful frocks, 100 per cent
wool suits and coats, hats as
gay as a whipped-up dessert.
Merchants along Klamath s
Main street were doing a whale
of a business in the . apparel
line. The first quarter, ending
April 1, proved this:
Women are buying heavily.
Women are not asking the
price, but they want good mer
chandise, - good fabrics, - and a
'Barbarous Action '
Disclosed By F.R.
In Revenge Pledge
' WASHINGTON, April 21 (P) The Japanese have executed
some of the American army fliers who bombed Tokyo a year
ago. President Roosevelt disclosed today in pledging punishment
to those responsible "for these diabolical crimes." -
"This recourse by our enemies to frlghtfulness Is barbarous,"
the president said in a statement received here from, his stop at
Corpus ChristI, Tex., on his current tour;
The United States, he promised, "Will hold personally and
officially responsible for these diabolical crimes all of those offi
cers of the Japanese government who have participated therein
and will in due course bring those officers to Justice."
. ; A note of protest from the
STETTIN, ISTOCK
S
Mines Laid in Enemy
Waters, Berlin
; Pounded
LONDON, April 21 MV-Heavy
British bombers attacked the
German Baltic: porta of Stettin
and. Rostock- last night while
speedy Mosquito bombers pound
ed- Berlin in widespread ' raids
from which 31 planes-are miss
ing, the air ministry announced
today. ' .......
The night's operations also in
cluded mine-laying in enemy
waters and' sharp attacks by
fighters and fighter-bombers on
enamy railways, barges - and
coastal ' shipping, - communique
said.- .-
- ! Good Weather
- The- operations were favored
by- good weather and the bomb
ing' attacks-on Stettin and Ros
tock which -were carried out
by some of the RAF's mightiest
planes were well concentrated,
the air ministry said.
Southeast coast observers said
the cross-channel offensive con
tinued late into the afternoon
with' explosions in the direction
of Calais and Boulogne which
were so Intense they shook build
ings miles inland from England's
coast-
Rostock is the site of the Hein-
kel and Neptuna works and the
communique said the- port and
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Harmon's Wrecked
Plane Found, No
Sign of Crewmen
PARAMARIBO. Dutch Guiana.
April 21 (fP) The wrecked army
plane from which Lieut. Thomas
Harmon, - former University of
Michigan All-American football
star, parachuted to . safety, on
April 8, has been located in the
jungles of French Guiana, Unit
ed states army headquarters an
nounced here today.
The announcement indicated
that no other survivor of the
crash had been located as yet.
There were six in the crew.
Col. Paul L. Singer, army
spokesman, said the plane had
crashed 16 miles southwest of
the village of Caux near the bor
der between French Guiana and
Brazil.
conservative cut to their clothes,
especially- wools.
Shoe rationing . has b e e n a
boon to the merchant carrying
better stock, but it hasn't help
ed the fellow in the $1.98 class.
Most unrationed shoes are out
of the picture.
Colors . . .
Although there is a demand
for color, such as gold, acqua,
crimson, yellows and greens,
the old stand-bys, beige, brown,
navy and black, are leading the
field by a good long nose.
' The war has brought on a
great many changes in the lady's
manner of buying. Once upon
a time she yawned, decided that
a new dress would take care of
her particular type of boredom,
and she up and bought a hat
or a dress, as the case may be.
Returning home, the dress
didn't go with her coat and
looked fearful with the hat she
thought she'd wear again, Now
the lady shopper is doing some
state department to Tokyo also
was released here.
How many of th eight fliers
listed by the wsr department as
prisoners of war after the raid,
or presumed to be prisoners,
were executed was not stated.
Eight Listed .
The eightywith the home ad.
dresses of their nearest of kin,
were Second Lt. , George Barr,
Madison,' Wis.; First Lt. William
Glover Farrow, Washington, D.
C; First LU. Robert L. Hite,
Earthi Texas; First Lt. Robert J.
Meder4 Lakewoodi Ohio; First Lt.
Corp. Jacob DeShazer, list-,
ed as one of the prisoners held
after the . Tokyo raid, is the
brother of Mrs. J. G. Griffith ;
of Henley, and -visited her
one year prior to the attack.
Also "missing in action" on
word from Washington, is
Sgt. William J. Dieter, bom
bardier on the flight, son -of
Mr. and Mrs. Jess-Dieter of
Tulelake. . : '
Chase Jv Nielson. Hyrum, Utah:
-FirstjteeWKTHlmark, Dal.
las; Corp. Jacob D. Desha zer,
Madras, Ore;; , and Sergeant Har
old A. Spatz, Lebo, Kas. .-
The press, Mr. Roosevelt said,
"has just carried the details of
the American bombing of Japan
a year ago,'' giving information
that crews of two of the Ameri
can bombers were captured by
the Japanese.
On October: 19, 1943, he said,
this government learned from
Japanese radio broadcasts of the
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Fifteen Raids
Batter Kiska
Japs Monday
WASHINGTON, April 21-VP)
War planes of the Aleutians
command bombed and strafed
Japanese positions on Kiska is-'
land in 15 record-breaking raids
Monday, the navy , reported to
day, scoring numerous hits on
important installations and start
ing fires.
In the South Pacific, a com
munique said, heavy army bomb
ers struck at the big enemy base
at Kieta on Bougainville island
in the northwestern Solomons.
Another wave of lighter bombers
attacked shipping at Tonolel
harbor, also -on' Bougainville,
damaging - one freighter and
making seyeral near hits on an-other.-
; ,
The 15-r'aid attack on Kiska
was the heaviest of tho war to
date. Previously the island had
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thing that better magazines have
long begged her. to. do. She is
buying ''outfits" or ensembles,
depending on th clerk's vocab
ulary. Any number of Klamath mer
chants have remarked on this
complete costume type of buy
ing. It starts with a basic suit,
coat or dress, and builds up or
down. That's why a hat shop
in the dress shop, goes over big.
This story is supposed to b
about an Easter hatl But mer
chants haven't said much about
dressing up- for. Easter becaus
it seems the girls set their teeth
'way back in January to got
some new duds and they've been
on their way to. building up a
good wardrobe ever since th
first day of 1943. -Suits
Get Call
Suits seem to be the first call.
Good wool they 'want, too.
Twills and gabardines lead, and
dark colors are the primary
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