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By FRANK JENKINS
nrllE drnmn In tho wur new
conllnuca to bo provided by
Tunisia, whero tho (Innl finish
fight draws nenror day by day.
pOU some time, nothing has
r been licnrd of Patton's Amer
icana, Today wo Iciirn why.
They .were being transferred
from tho fnr southern to tho for
northern end of tho battlefield.
With the transfer completed,
they tuko twi hills In tho neigh
borhood of Mntcur (sco map),
consolidate their new position!
and HOLD THEM against Ger
man counter attacks.
n Hitting tho enemy with tincx
f pected force where ho Isn't look
ing for It is one of tho elements
of good leadership.
yl-IE excellence of American
1 staff work, especially the
need and secrecy with which the
transfer was carried out, la
warmly praised today by British
General Alexander.
The British ro always full of
praise for us when wo do a good
job and remain courteoualy
silent on the inevitable occasions
when we don't do so well at
when Rommel drovo us back at
the Kasiorlnn pass, .
.('"'.
COME of our professional twist
" of the linn's tall might
well takn a leaf frrjmjhfl British
book In this respect".
As long as we're fighting
"J shoulder to the shouldor with tho
British, let's bo decently courte
ous to thorn as they invariably
are to us.
An exceedingly sound rulo Is
never to fight with tho guy who
is HELPING YOU FIGHT.
TN this column, much has been
said of late about ancient
Carthage, which occnpled rough
ly tho site of the present-day
Tunis.
Let's add one more thought
along that linn:
Carthago FELL and was de
stroyed because the hot-headed,
uncooperative Cartha g I n I a n s
were always FIGHTING
AMONG THEMSELVES.
THE British 1st army takes
Long Stop hill (DJcbol Ah
mora on your map) 27 miles west
of Tunis and threatens to sweep
0 down onto the flat plain. Long
Stop hill Is tho strongest known
German position between Mod
ioli cl Bab and Tunis.
The Modjez el Bob route, re
member, Is tho main gato to
Tunis, as Matcur is tho main gate
to Bliorto.
"TODAY'S dlnpiilehcs Indlcato
- lUnt ILn novtJ Vlllmn nttnn.
sivo Is SAGGING.
Tho Russians say tho Gormans
have lost 8000 men and 200
planes In tho past week and aro
"bled white." It docs begin to
look as If they orcn't hitting
there with their customary
punch.
That, If Irut, would bo IM
MENSELY Important. Inability
to hit hard when you need to is
the first sign of FATAL wook-
J ness.
TWO hundred Russian bomb-
era raid Instorburg, In East
Prussia. A 200-plano raid rotes
as a big one. Instorburg Is an Im
portant German commissary
base, a concentration point for
Gorman reserves destined for
tho Russian front and an Impor
tant roll junction.
It is beginning to look as if
British, American and Russian
air forces have divided up the
job of bombing Germany and
are following out a definite plan,
' V
rjEPARTURE of American dip
lomnls from Helsinki re
mains nn unsolved mystery, with
the Insldors still as mum as a
clam, .but It's a snfo bet that
olthor we'ro putting tho squcozo
't on tho Finns or tho Gormans aro.
4 .
"HURCHILL
threats of
Joins today In
reprisal against
tho Japs for their execution of
captured American pilots. ,
Let's keep this fact realistical
ly In mind! '
THREATS won't bother the
(Continued on Page Two) . ,
ALLIED IU
BATTER FIVE
Bull's Eye Bombing
Sinks Enemy
Ship
By Tho Associated Prasa
Con. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters announced today
that allied warpluncs pounded
flvo Japanese bases in the Is
lands above Australia, carried
out 18 strafing attacks on enemy
troops In New Guinea, and sank
an 8000-ton ship in the Bismarck
sea with a single bull's eye hit
with a 300-pound bomb.
The communique also dis
closed that allied vanguards
wiped out a patrol of 20 Japa
nese troops within six airline
miles of tho big enemy base at
Salomaua, New Guinea.
Hit-Run Raid
Apparently tho attack was a
hit-and-run raid, since the main
allied forces were last reported
somo 100 miles bclow SalamauB,
although patrol fighting . had
been noted In tho Mubo sector
12 miles below tho enemy base.
Allied filers poured cannon
and machine-gun fire on Japa
nese troops in the Mubo-Sala-maua
region yesterday and raid
ed the enemy strongholds at
Lae a n d Flnchhafon. New
Guinea; Ublll.' Now Britain;
Tool, -on-tho Kai ;jsJonUs; and
Dobo, In tho Aroo group. ' .
Meanwhile, Prime Minister
Churchill said in a message to
Gen. H. H. Arnold, U. S air
(Continued on Page Two)
Nazi Coup in
Finland Seen
By Washington
WASHINGTON, April 24 (IP)
Tho threat of a nazl coup In Fin
land, Inspired by Hitler's grow
ing feors for his "European
Fortress" and designed to set up
a 100 per cent pro-axis govern
ment, was seen In diplomatic
quarters hero today as one of the
factors behind Helsinki' new
est crisis.
And it was expected tq force
a final showdown in the little
nation's strange war triangle.
Latest movo in tho long-standing
three-cornered crisis came
yesterday when most of the
American legation staff suddenly
left tho Finnish capital and a
strict censorship was promptly
clamped on all political dis
patches out of Finland.
Tho state department 1 de
scribed tho movo as "administra
tive," and declined to throw fur
ther light on it; but tho capital
watched closoly to see what
bearing It might have on the
question whether Finland Is to
tlo up still moro closely to Ger
many or attempt to separate her
self from Hitler's war against
Russia.
NIPPON
BASES
Germans Slacken Furious
Butting Against Red Line
By EDDY OILMORE
MOSCOW, April 24 (P) The
furious German counterattacks
In tho Kuban regions of tho Cau
casus, which In the past few days
had approached tho intensity of
an offensive, slackened signifi
cantly today as tho Germans
counted several thousand of
their dead in addition to a heavy
loss In airplanes, tanks, guns and
munitions, Russian front dis
patches said.
Tho dispatches gave no Imme
diate explanation for tho cessa
tion of tho nazi attacks, which
hod been marked by numerous
futilo chargos against the Rus
sian lines from tho Black sea
coast' near Novorosstsk, through
tho Kuban delta to tho coast of
tho sea of Azov.
Heavy Loisoi
- Tho Germans lost almost B000
men and almost 200 planes in
loss than a week probably far
In excess of tho losses they had
counted on, it was roportcd.
. Dispatches yesterday had re
Wreckage of Doolittle's Plane
r ft vi V :T?r. -i
Th 'plan commandad.by Mal. 'Gan.. Jamaa EtooUtU in th
Tokyo raid waa wracktd "aomawhar In China'1 altar th raid.
Topi a portion of th twiitad wrackag. Bottomi Can. DoollttI
aaatad naar th wing amblam of
Press photo from th UBAA.
WLB jqnoied
Coal Case
WASHINGTON1, A prlT 24 W
The war labor board today or
dered the almost-expired .wage
agreement between Appalachian
soft coal operators and the Unit
ed ' Mine Workers extended
pending settlement of their dis
pute and decided to proceed with
the case with or without the par
ticipation of the union.
Ignored by President John L.
Lewis and other officers of the
UMW at a preliminary hearing
today, tho board announced it
would follow the normal pro
cedure of setting up a three-man,
tripartita panel which is to be-
English Claim
Subs Sink Ten
Axis Ships
LONDON,, April 24 (ff) The
admiralty announced today that
10 more axis ships had been de
stroyed or damaged by British
submarines operating against en
emy supply lines in the Mediter
ranean.
Among the damaged ships,
the admiralty said, were a cruis
er and a tankor. Counter mea
sures by tho convoy prevented
direct observation of the results
of tho torpedo hits on these two
.vessels, the communique said
but breaking-up noises were
heard from both.
Four other ships listed as dam
aged wcro also believed to' have
sunk later, the admiralty; de
clared. ported the use of fresh axis re
serves In thoir Caucasus bridge
heads. The fury of the air fights did
not slacken in the sector, how
ever. . , .
The red army air force raided
a German airdrome, causing a
number of explosions and largo
fires. , , . :
Big Air Blow
Russian fliers also struck one
of their biggest blows of the
war Thursday night and. Friday
morning when more than 200
bombers raided Insterburg suc
cessfully, the fourth raid on East
Prussian cities, this month. It
began to appear that the Rus
sians and tho British-American
aviation forces had divided .up
thoir military targets and now
were working on a definite plan.
Insterburg Is a 'largo Gorman
commissary base, a concentra
tion point for reserves and an Im
portant rail junction between
Koenigsberg and Riga... . . .
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aW1
th fhsttarad plan. Asiociatad
. .
By Lewis in
Bat Pushes On
(Irr closed sessions' nexVWednej-
day,
'' Only the operators wcre-.fcn-
resented at the. hearing called
by the board today to determine
procedure and - timing . for the
conduct of the case. -
- Chairman William H. Davis
said, no communication of any
kind had been received from the
mine workers in response to the
boards request for Lewis to ap
pear.
Davis said, however, that the
panel meeting would not - be
held if a stoppage of coal pro
duction developed. But, he said,
if the union merely continues to
ignore the board . "we'll go
through to a final determination
of the case,
The panel personnel, still un
named, will consist, of a repre
sentative of the public, of- the
employer and of labor,
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 24
Illinois offices of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America to
day notified the Illinois Coal
Operators association - that an
agreement under which mines
have been operated pending ne
gotiation of a new contract "will
be considered terminated as of
midnight April' 3a." : ;.
Ray Edmundson, UMWA .11
linois president, said the formal
notice' "clears the- way. for ac
tion" and that prospects of
avoiding a strike are "dismal,
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 24
(fl,)--Fivo of Alabama's largest
coal mines were idle today as
miners failed to report for the
Saturday shift at Shafts of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron' and -Rail
road company,; and the ' Wood
ward Iron company,.- . : ! ;
Three Southern
Men Acquitted In
Negro Lynching
HATTIESBURG, Miss., .April
24 (P) Three . Jones county
men, charged with violating civ
il liberty statutes in the lynching
of a negro at Laurel last Octo
ber, were acquitted by a federal
court jury here today shortly
after 9 a. m.. . . . i ,
The verdict brought a drama
tic climax to the frist trial of
white -men charged in a . negro
lynching case In-the south' in 40
years.
Court officials said the - all
white Jury took. two ballots. The
first Voto taken last night stood
11 for acquittal and. one against.
W.ATKINS BEATS RECORD !
DES MOINES, la.; April, 24
(P) Poto Watkihs, gangling ath
lete from T e x a s A; and M.
smashed tho ,1-year-old high
Jump ' record 1 In the 34th ' an
nual Drake relay carnival to
day with.-, a leap of 6 feet .8
Inches.,., ; . . -i ...,,,
Roosevelt Orders
Strikers Back to
Work at Celanese
WASHINGTON, April 24 WJ President Roosevelt today or
dered, strikers, at the Celanese Corporation of 'America, Newark,
N. J., to return, to work immediately and gave them until noon
Monday to comply. ' ' ' : ;
Non-compliance by then, he said,' will result In. government
steps to see to it that, full operations at the plant are resumed.
Acting on the recommendation of the war labor board whose
repeated appeals to the workers,' members of the United Mine
DEATHS OF 2 JAP
ADMIRALS RELATED
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Berlin 'Radio - Reveals
Nippon Losses in
Midway Strife
By Th Associated Prats
Two Japanese admirals went
to their deaths on the deck of a
flaming Nipponese aircraft car
rier sunk in the battle of Mid
way last June,-the Berlin radio
disclosed today ' lrT broadcasting
a Tokyo dispatch. " '. ' "' .' .
They were Vice Admiral Yam
aguchi, commander of the Japa
nese force of carriers, and Rear
Admiral Karai, commander of
the flagship on which Yamagau
chl Was killed. . .' .
' MamorlaJ Barrieaa
' The d if cloture cam in'ar ae
cottnt (.'rnemortf lvMrV)b&H6ri
orinc - Jarmneso fhrhtine' dead.
The iM-mt-.mmtt'ia
ine. Associarea iresa.. ,
The Tokyb. account saiS the
Japanese force encountered a su
perior 'American, -fleet and at
tacked, "sinking ari American
carrier, a heavy cruiser and dam
aging another carrier." .
"Notwithstanding the heaviest
defense; the - Japanese - aircraft
carrier With the admirals aboard
was hit," said a broadcast
speech -of Admiral Hideo Hi
(Continued on . Page -Two).
Escaped Cons
Retaken Near
Mather Field
FOLSOM PRISON, Calif., Ap
ril 24 (P) The two Folsom pris
oners who- escaped 1 Thursday
night were recaptured today by
'prison guards two miles east of
Mather field. Sacramento.
Guards George Banty, Charles
Dangler and A. D. Benton made
the capture at 10:15 o clock this
morning. Warden Clyde L Plum-
mer announced.
The refugee convicts who had
established a recent year's rec
ord of absence without leaving
from-the state's maximum secur
ity prison, were Frank Pedronl,
30, doing life for first degree
murder, in. a. tavern holdup in
Napa, county, and William A.
Smith,: 34, convicted in River
side county .for assault with a
deadly weapon and other crimes.
. The fugitives -were hiding in
tall weeds and were taken with
out firing a shot ' Both were
wearing prison clothes. --The
hideout was about 12 miles from
the. prison. ' : -
Baseball :
' AMERICAN LEAGUE ;
:''.' ' R. H."E.
Detroit '.: ....:.....;....2 6 2
Cleveland -.3 6 1
White and Richards; Kennedy
and Desautels. '
' , " R.' H. E.
Washington 0 , -1 0
New York-...;...!..: -..1 4 1
Pyle and Early; Chandler and
Hcmsley.
, NATIONAL LEAGUE
I ' v ,s ' R H E
Philadelphia ...U...'..'..... 4 . f;-.-1
Brooklyn ...... 11 16 1
Gerheauser and Fadden; New
som and Owen.
. . R. H. E.
St. Loula -,.....:. 2 7 .1
Cincinnati :..Jl . 4
' Gumbert and Odea; Riddle
and Mueller.- : v :
a .. : r. h. e.
New . York U..::.... 4. 8 1
Boston 3 r 11 , ,1
Wlttig . and - Boland; 1 Javery
and Klutta.. ; . ' - -. -
Workers district 50, to end their
strike- had' failed," the president
sent -telegrams to President John
L. Lewis of the UMW and four
other union officials, demanding
that picketing ' cease and the
workers go back to work imme
diately. .
' No Comment . '
Lewis could not . be "reached
for comment in New York but a
representative said, he would
have nothing to say."
The president made no men
tion of the army moving in but
such talk of possible "steps" by
the White House in the past has
been preliminary to the govern
ment taking over a struck war
plant where the president's in
structions were ignored.
,7 The strike has been- in effect
nearly' two weeks. It is juris
dictional dispute, witbl the UMW
protesting : certification'' by ' the
Labor Relations board of a rival
CIO textile workers' union as
bargaining- agent. ' ' 1
Unwarranted Threats
Replying to the latest WLB
appeal-last -night the UMW offi
cials said the government agency
wa4 vsina j "v h w mv r d
threats:":
i-J?xesidential Secretary Steph
en Early fold reporters that the
president's acOprt" tdday Was- in
hi-tapacity of commander -in
Chief of the army, and navy. - '
' He said the president told the
Onion officials that the strike is
a clear violation 6f labor's no
strike pledge!
Lewis and the other four offi
cials were requested to notify all
members of the UMW involved
of the contents of the president's
directive. ; ; -
NEWARK, N. J., April 24 (JP)
Strikers at the celanese. corpor
ation of America's big plastics
plant here continued picketing
today -after President Roosevelt
had ordered their immediate re
turn to work. ; i ,
The president gave -the strik
'(Continued on Page Two)
Allied Convoys. '
Reach Malta With
Vital .War. Supplies
VALLETTA, Malta, April 24
(F) Important convoys have
reached Malta and Tripoli bear
ing vital supplies and -war mate
rials for allied forces. ' . .
..The vessels, including deeply
laden American Liberty ships,
traversed the Mediterranean un
der a powerful royal navy es
cort and under constant air pro
tection from the coast of North
Africa.
. One convoy threaded its way
into Tripoli harbor past the
wreckage of axis shipping to
carry munitions for Gen. Sir Ber
nard L. Montgomery's British
8th army.
Gasoline-Rubber Battle Royal Gets
Two Sets of Senatorial Referees
WASHh,ufON, April 24 (IP)
Two separate sets of . referees
stepped into the fiery gasoline
rubber war production fight to
day amid assertions that when
It's settled, the loser should be
handed his hat.
'The issue: is the synthetic
rubber program hurting the al
lied air' offensive by slowing
production of aviation gasoline?
.The principals:
i Undersecretary , of War Rob
ert P.' Patterson to' whom that
charge was first attributed;
. Petroleum Administrator Har
old L. Ickes who promptly sec
onded him; and ...; ; ,
Rubber Director William M.
Jeffers termed "the maddest
Irishman in all the United
States"- who emphatically de
nies the' charge.,
Rafaraaa Named
Moving In to referee are
members of the senate war in
vestigating committee and Ber
nard Baruch, viose committee
, Wh'rt ,m,S,TAIIM:
KsnneU-EUls.
Vivian DUichl, sophomore,
winner of th "Swaathaait of
Klamath- High" danation in
a war stamp and bond contest
DIRSCHL
Sophomore Girl; Wins
.Union Labor's Trip
. t To Ship Event"
Pretty Vivian Dirschl is the
"Sweetheart of Klamath High'
who will go to. Portland next
week -on-: a trip provided by
Klamath .union labor to the win
ner of the war bond and stamp
conteVt just - concluded at '4he
local school. ? i , ' - -' ;
: In a whirlwind finish, the
sophomore daughter of Mr. and
' . War Finance Total J
$1,117,000
'Goal $1,269,000 by May 1
Mrs. J. H. Dirschl, 3404 Shasta
Way,-came in a short- distance
ahead '.of . Sally . Mueller, the
freshman candidate, while Bettie
Hopkins, senior, was third, and
Betty McKinney, . junior, was
fourth. ...
The high school contest devel
oped into a community-wide af
fair. It not only stimulated new
bond sales, but there was warm
. (Continued on Page Two)
U.S. Planes
Fire Jap Air
Base at Munda
WASHINGTON, April 24 UP)
American bombers and fighters
attacked the Japanese air base
at Munda In the central Solo
mon, islands again Thursday,. the
navy .reported ..today, silencing
anti-aircraft weapons and setting
fire to,-three-grounded enemy
planes..:. . . : ' -
Other raids were carried but
against Vila and Kahili, the lat
ter in the northwestern Solo
mons, while on Friday bombers
and fighters assaulted enemy po
sitions at Rekata ' bay, a sea
plane base on Santa Isabel is
land. ' . '.' t '..
authored the rubber program
which Jeffers runs.
Recommending that, whoever
is wrong should resign Is Jef
fers himself and Senator Gillette
(D-Iowa) who also is ready to
referee, if needed.
As the Truman -committee an
nounced its investigation is un
derway into the accusation that
allocation of vital materials to
the rubber program has slowed
production of vital 100-octane
gasoline, Gillette said; ' ' ' -
Job at Stake
"If the charges made against
Rubber , Director Jeffers . are
true. In substantial part he ought
to resign from his office or be
forced to do so. It they cannot
be substantiated In principal
part those responsible for mak
ing the allegations should be
ready to offer their resigna
tions." . ' -.
While Indicating that a rub
ber Investigating., agriculture
subcommittee which he heads
TO
NORTH FRONT
Americans . . Advance!
British Capture
- Long Stop Hill .
ALLIED .HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 24
(P)Geri. Sir Harold Alexan
der's headquarters announced to
day that a captured document
indicated- that Marshal - Erwirt
Rommel, the German command
er in Tunisia, had left Africa.
A statement t s s u e d by tha
headquarters of the 18th army
group said:
"A document dated March 19
recently captured by the first
army was signed by Col. Gen.
Jurgen von Arnlm as general
officer commander in chief, and
not by Rommel, whose present
whereabouts and new appoint
ment, if any, are unknown." -
Rommel last was known to
have been in Africa during tha
Kasserine pass fighting in Febru
ary, when captured letters mer.
tioned him. -
ALLIED ! HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 24
(P) 'American troops, trans
ferred from the southern TunU
sian. front to the north, , have ad
vanced six miles toward Mateur,
18 miles southwest of Blzerte,
and. -tbe; Brltish)ilrst: army ' ha$
takeriHonf 'Stop' Hill, 28 mile
west of Tunis, dispatches from
the front said today. ' '.
Another U. S.-unlt hacked lt
way for seven ' miles througlt
stiff enemy- fire, northeast' of
Beja and to the north' of the
Beja-Mateur l-oadi fighting its
way hill by hill.- ..
Difficult Terrain
While the Americans pounded
forward in the most difficult ter
rain of all Tunisia and parried
(Continued on Page Two) ;
Missing Indian
Youngster May
Be in River
Fear that Jesse Wright Jr.,
13-year-old : Indian ' boy, had(
drowned In; Williamson river at '
the old Pine Ridge dam, was ex.
pressed by searchers who began
Saturday to grapple in the tur
bulent river for the boy's body. .
'The youngster has been miss
ing a week. : ' -' ' ' '
: Saturday morning his bicycle,
was discovered 'beside the dam
near the site of the old Forest
Lumber, company mill. ' The
river .is fast and high at that
point, and in places the hank has
caved in. ,;
t was believed the boy may
have, gone out on a bank, which
collapsed and threw him into the
river.,' Indian Officer John Ar
kell was in charge of the grap
pling, according to . Dr. Georga
H. Adler, coroner, who was in
formed , of the situation. Satut
day morning.. - . .
would stand by while the war
Investigating committee delves
into, the dispute, Gillette de
clared the nation is "entitled t
know ' the ' answers to several
important questions." ' v .
-Truth Queitlonad '
' One, he said, is whether
there it , "any truth in - tha
charges , that the war depart
ment has built huge plants for
khe production, of essential mu
nitions and war materiali whlclj
are now in disuse . . ."
Chalrman Truman (D-Mo.J
said his committee will
testimony Tuesday of ' WPB
Chairman Donald Nelson and
Ickes, 'Jeffers, ' Patterson and
Undersecretary of the Navy
James V. Forrestal will be sum
moned the following day;
('- Eager , to Coopuat
, Ickes, Patterson and Deputy
Petroleum Administrator Davis
were called into a huddle lata
yesterday by- War Production
. (Continued on Page Two) .
slice