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iXAJVAAr"wVVVVVVii,i"i I rafilll!il'fllIMIin fttcala m& 1 1:535? Stream year to data ..14.3t ASSOCIATED PRESS IN , THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES t..t . ..10..1 No,m.i ...i macKOUi laianni illllilllilMillililllllllllllllllll.WUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII On 9-mlnute blast on sirens tnd whistles li the signal for a blackout In Klamath Fells. Anothtr long blast, during a black out, ii a signal lor all-claar. In prtcau tlonary ptrlodi, watch your street lights. I PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1943 Number 9782 I ahlei an tms, mm ; : : . .' 1 I' ; ;i ;; II ,. 1 1. i. h I II :! k il i-1-,: II A LI I J Klamath Scout! Wont Tree! HRHIHH Americans nolo yB&7ryr:K.mim I Dav's By FRANK JENKINS C1GNS of Gcrmnn exhaustion 43 arc reported In the Tunisian dispatches toduy, Two hundred worn-out mortar and machlno iiuuncra surrender In their concrelu unci rock dug out nt the eastern end of bloody LonK Stop hill. German mills abandon vital, DEPENDABLE high ground without a fight. Enemy rear guards on tho front where the Americana oro fighting are sutd to be retreating so rapidly (ulthouKh taking timo to now minefield behind Ihvin) that they Icavo their own dead unburlcd. ntilKPII II. .. .. . t . I, (,. they Indicate that tho enemy Is badly outnumbered and isn't getting sufficient reinforcements so that his troops hove to fight ON AND ON without relief or rest periods. Human flesh can stand inch punishment only so long. . TF our side has men enough to keep pouring In FRESH troops against the exhausted Germans, tho end will bo only a question of time. THE hot spot 'ot the Tunisian front today appears to be In the relatively wldo valloy (roughly 10 or 13 miles between tho flanking hills) between Mod ' jet cl Bub and the plain sur rounding the city of Tunis. In this flat, open volley British tanks are attacking and aro said to have destroyed 80 Gorman tanks in the past few days. A break-through hero would seriously threaten Tunis, only 23 miles away. . pATTON'S Americans are - crowding Bizcrte irom me west. They seem to have coma down. from the hills and reached level ground along tho shores of the shallow lake that lies to the west of Lako Blzcrtc, but tho Germans still hold the hills com mandlng this route. Bizcrto Is 20-odd miles away from Patton Another allied column pushing northeast from Mcdjcz cl Bab toward Tcbourba obviously hopes to get between Tunis and Blzcrtc, thus splitting the Ucr mans Into two pockets. (If you want to understand this situation, you'll have to con suit your map. Without the map before you, it Is hurd to grasp.) DRITISH bombers hit Duls " burg, 12 miles west of Essen, in tho Ruhr valley of Germany American Flying Fortresses from Cairo smack Burl, on tho Adrl atic coast ot Italy. The Dulsbcrg raid Is aimed at munitions works. At Bari, we're pounding axis communications with Africa. THE Germans didn't do so well In their Kuban offonslve In the Caucasus. They had concentrated heavy air strength In the Crimea, at tho Kcrcli strait and on tho Ta man peninsula lust across tho .1.1 .lib 1 1 1. U 11111,1 , U Mt.vn Mf 1 1 V' 1 1 Infantry and armor In tho Kuban, Tho rod air force hit theso Gor man air concentrations so hard and so quickly that hundreds of nazi planes (tho Russians claim) wero destroyed on tho ground and In tho air. With Its air sup port smashed, tho Kuban offen sive collapsed. A WAR map just published In " Hitler's newspaper substan tially confirms tho map recently printed by tho Russians, Indicat ing that Russian gains In their winter offensive wore oven greater than we had known. TONDON, Incidentally, Is said to bo "shocked" by tho Rus sians' ruckus with tho Poles. This writer, personally, Isn't too deeply Bhocked. If Russia, nt immense cost In blood, goes ahead and destroys German mil itary might, sho'll bo fairly en titled to try hor hand at fixing things up In Europe. She couldn't possibly do a (Continued on Page Two) Hills Overlooking Jap Mubo Airfield ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 27 (!') Austrullun and American troops now hold hill tops overlooking tho vlllugo and airfield of Mubo, New Guinea, which is less than 15 miles south of the Importunt Japanese base of Salomaua. This wtis disclosed today In an elaboration at General Douglas MucArlhur's headquarters of a one-sentence account in the noon communique: "Mubo: our attack planes bombed and strafed enemy positions RAF RAINS BOMBS Inland Port Blasted By 1350 Tons of Explosives LONDON. April 27 (P) Brit ain's biggest bombers rained an estimated 1330 tons of bombs last night on the Gorman Inland port of Dulsburg in one of the heaviest raids ever carried out against the rclch.- , . -:.. : , The air ministry news service announced that the RAF dumped an avcrago of 30 tons of bombs a minute for 45 minutes. Seventeen bombers were re ported missing from the attack, which an air ministry communi que described as highly 'Concen trated. i . ..' . .. Mosquito Bombers - Tho night mid followed blows by swift Mosquito bombers late yeKlordoy" at railway center In northwest Germany, In t h t Rhinoland, and In France near (Continued on Page Two) Army Bombers Break Lull in Kiska Blasts WASHINGTON, April 27 (P Army bombers broko a four-day lull in raids on Japanese-held Kiska island, tho navy reported today, by blasting the enemy baso 13 times Sunday. Results wore not observed ex actly duo to poor visibility, a communique said. The same day a flight of heavy bombers struck at Attu Island, subordinate base to Kiska, and scored hits on the runway there. The Japanese have been working for months to build air bases on Attu, and Kiska. Secretary of tho Navy Knox said at a press conference earlier today thut they might conceiv ably use those Aleutian positions for attempts to raid the west coast although he declared that the possibility of such an opera tion Is remote." Liberators Strike Jap Oil Refinery . NEW DELHI. April 27 MV- Liberator heavy bombers of the tenth U. S. alrforce struck the Thllawa oil refinery south of Rangoon yesterday and scored many direct hits on Installations around the distlllatlon-plant-and among storage tanks, today's U. S. communique said. Basin Farms Bun as Spud Planting Gets Under Way Fcrtilo acres of tho great Klamath basin will be turned next week as planting of early potatoes gets under way. First to go in the ground will bo the WJiUcJiojia variety, with tho Russets to follow. Closo to 23,000 acres ot pota toes will bo planted this spring, an Incrcaso ot soma 40 per cent over last year, according to C. A. Henderson, Klamath county agont. Somo early planting of Klam ath's $5,000,000 .crop started last week In tho south end of tho basin. The land has been "pretty wet," according to Hen derson, but by tho first week of May conditions should be excel lent. Reviewing wheat plantings, Henderson said that - virtually in support of our ground tioopi." Plane Raids It was pointed out that these planes, Bostons, twice raided the enemy Monday ahead of ridge positions held by the al lies, mostly Australians, and that their fire was directed par ticularly at a group of Japa nese entrenched on a hill only a mile and a quarter northeast of Mubo, Since organized Japanese re sistance ceased last January 23 on tho Papuan peninsula at a point roughly ISO miles below Salamaua, Information has been meager concerning exact posi tions of. the allies on the north coastal approaches to the HoVm gulf. Patrols have moved near to Salamaua, one annihilating1 an enemy outpost of 20 men on April IS within six airline. miles of that base. But. the last skir mishing of note occurred early in February near Wau, roughly 30 miles southwest of Salamaua, during which the Japanese lost 1000 men. At that time, . the enemy 'troops were reported fleeing In the direction of Mubo. J' I , Alljet Hold Trait ' Today it was pointed out tb allies now liold the trail be tween that village and wau, which has an airfield. Allied planes almost daily make from 10 to 20 low strafing 'sweeps over Japanese ' positions below Salamaua. Theso raids report edly have left the enemy poorly fed and badly In need of sup plies. , Menaced Salamaua is so high ly regarded by tho enemy that they have tried frantically to run the MacArthur aerial block ade and reinforce It. Reciprocal Trade Program Gets Committee Okay ' By TOM REEDY WASHINGTON, April 27 UP) The house ways and means com mittee voted 14 to 11 today -ap proval ot the administration's reciprocal trade agreement pro gram essentially as it was re quested by the state department after rejecting a series of repub lican amendments The committee accepted one change, offered by Representa tive Dewey (R-lll.), that would include as a reason for suspend ing trade with another nation ovidence that the country dealt with International cartels. Chairman Doughton (D-N.C.) said the measure, renewing .for three years the state depart ment's authority to negotiate reciprocal pacts with other na tions, would be presented on the floor of the house after the tax problem has been settled. all wheat acreages have been planted. Some 12,000 acres, a trifle more than in 1042, has been put into wheat. - Henderson said the lubor pic ture was not. very good and that at several meetings of the farm labor committee, cffortswere being made to outline a pro gram which will be beneficial all the way around. The "help ourselves" policy will probably bo the one to be followed by Klamath county residents as Imported labor Is not to bo depended upon In this community and In the opinion of many la publicized far above Its value. Utilization of older school children will mean the closing of rural schools in the agricul- - (Continued - on Page Two)-. 1 . ...... ifccr & ' Scouts Bob Loper and Solon Stone of troop No. 4 plant their share of the "Tre for Erary Sarrlca Man" program bring carried out by the Boy Scouts of America. Klamath Falls scouts have already axceaded theli quota and ara still planting trees. (Picture by H. H. Ogle. Story on page .2). . El Amazement Expressed Over Diplomatic Break .. LONDON, April 27 (P) Brit ain Initiated an intensive effort today to restore diplomatic rela tions between Soviet Russia and Poland In a conference attended by, Prime' Minister Churchill, Foreign. Secretary Kanthons Eden and the Polish premier, Wladyslaw SikorskL Ambassador John G. Wlnant was summoned unexpectedly to No., 10 Downing street, Church Ill's official residence, earlier this afternoon, indicating that the good offices of the United States also were enlisted. Special Session .The cabinet of the Polish government-in-exile convened in special session to debate its pro cedure following Soviet Russia's action In severing diplomatic relations-yesterday., Informed political quarters ex pressed belief that some concrete action designed to repair the breach would be forthcoming, but were not prepared to say what direction it would take. Unofficial Polish sources, in London said they were greatly shocked at the Russian govern ment's move, and voiced a hope for quick reconciliation. . The breach, they said, represents a major victory for the German propaganda machine. It was intimated by these sources that the Polish govern (Continued on Page Two) Strike Spreads In Coal Mines; Results Noted ; . ' i WASHINGTON, April- 27 More than . BO mines were shut down today in. the spread of a strike which held the possibility of halting production of soft coal by Saturday. More than 26,000 of an esti mated total of 450,000 soft coal miners wero reported to have left their work by midday. The war labor board appealed to tho miners' patriotism not to walk out, saying in messages to President John L. Lewis of -the United Mine Workers and other UMW leaders that "a nation at Wot" needs uninterrupted pro duction. - However, in Pennsylvania 26 mines were shut down with 14,700 men idle. The production loss there thus increased to more than 88,000 tons a day, on the basis of six tons a man. About 4000 men were Idle In Kentucky and 7500 in Alabama. In Ohio, a UMW district presi dent said "If there is1 not a con tract between operators and the union by Friday there won't be any coal miners, go .Into .coal mines Saturday." City to Acquire New Site For Cemetery West of Town ' The city of Klamath Falls will soon acquire a new cemetery site comprised of approximately 90 acres of rolling land over looking the Klamath river two miles west of town. , .Members of the city-council In session, Monday" night accepted Ihofeconimendajion of the oeme-' K:rj, .r cvnunuiee v juiiowing 7 a year's work by the jtroup who made their final selection after Inspecting numerous possible lo cations for a much needed ceme tery close to the city. .... . The property will, cost the city $7053.63. Seventy acres of the. proposed section will be purchased from the Northwest Utilities company, the Klamath county court, and Gomer W. Caseman for $5653.63. A further recommendation was Missing Local Boy Now Said Jap Prisoner- Pyt .Melvin Junior Myers,- 23, who was reported missing. after the battle of Bataan, is a prison er of war of the Japanese ui the Philippine- islands, it was learned by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Myers of 500 North Ninth street.- . - No word had been heard from Myers ' for "18 months until a telegram ar rived from the war department April 15 inform ing, his parents that he was a prisoner. Melvin enlisted- In the na tional guards in 1940 and was stationed at Fort Stevens. In 1941 he. transferred to' Fort Mc Dowell, Calif., and from there went overseas to the Philippine islands.,. , , , . A former Herald-News carrier, Myers attended- KUHS and had lived in Klamath Falls over-10 years, prior to his enlistment, '' Chamber Told More Men Needed for War Production NEW VORK, April 27 m Paul . V. McNutt, chairman of the war manpower commission, said today that about 5,000,000 additional workers must be found and trained to meet the nation's production goals in mu nitions and other essential war industries by the end of 1943. In an address prepared for delivery at the 31st annual meeting of the U. S. chamber of commerce, McNutt said that re placements for the thousands of men drafted Into the services would come from "the ranks ot housewives, students, older workers, handicapped workers, minority groups, and from workers who transfer from less essential . activities Into war work." made that 18 acres, costing $1400, be purchased from the Klamath county court, bringing the total purchase price up to $7053.83. Troops Camped Thera The land- is adjacent to the Resterson mill property and is the point on thS Keiio highway where troops have been bivou acked the past two years. None or tne property faces- the high way. "After careful consideration and viewing a great many pro posed sites, your committee is of the opinion that this site is well suited for the purpose of a cem etery, that the price is reason able, and in recommending that the city buy this property, it be dedicated and filed as a ceme tery," was the statement of com mittee members. Ed Ostendorf headed the group, assisted by Horace E. Getz,. Oscar Shive, Myrle C. Adams, and Council man Rollin Cantrall. The property was originally known as the Whiteline . land, was sold' around 1927 to Great Northern .and, in . turn,., sold to Northwest Utilities company of Portland and others. One lot "was owned by Caseman, 28 acres by the county court, and the: re maining 60 .by Northwest Utili ties. - Water Available Cantrall pointed out the fine advantages, of having water ad (Continued' on Page Two)' Baseball National League Boston 3 New York 11 10 10 Tobin and Mas!; Lohrman and Poland. Cincinnati 1,5,0 Pittsburgh 4 10,0 Starr, Shoun (8) and Mueller, Klinger and Lopez. Klamath War Dead to Be Honored With Memorial ' Erection of a pole on the courthouse lawn this week con stituted the first step in the con struction of a memorial to honor Klamath's dead in this war. . The memorial is designed to last for tho duration.. It is being erected by a committee appoint ed by the mayor, acting on a sug gestion from the American Le gic. . It will be in the form of an obelisk, resembling the Wash ington monument, 46 feet in height. It will be built of water proof plywood, painted white, with the names of those official ly reported deadpainted . in black on the sides. Perpetual Light On the front of the shaft will be a standard bearing a perpet ual light. All labor and materials for the construction have been contrib uted by union labor, individuals and business men. Coleman . OXoughlin of . the French Troops Slash Way to Pont du Fahs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. April 27 OP) French troops hT reached the outskirts oi Pont du Fahs. strategic crossroads town and Gfriman base 34 miles southwest of Tunis,, a French communique announced tonight. Along the Mediterranean, the pig-tailed Moroccan Goums ad vanced another three milts east of the Herk river, capturing? prisoners and considerable material. ' . " '' Over Mountains -The French around Pont du Fahs were declared pushing their attacks in particularly dif ficult mountain terrain, liberally strewn with land mines laid by the retreating enemy. '. . .- ' "A great number of prisoners had been gathered," the com munique said. The French advances were the latest announced successes uni formally scored around the 140 mile Tunisian - front behind which the axis forces are being steadily compressed. . Armored Advanca : Allied armored ' forces have driven to within tour miles of the Tunis-Pont . du Fahs road and have destroyed 80 German tanks in the . big-scale battle which has raged since Sunday, allied quarters announced today. t Farther . north, the British first army infantry cleared 11 miles of the road from Medjez-el-Bab to Tebourba and reached Toun railroad station, only 23 miles west of Tunis, front line dispatches reported, and for the first time since . last .November the allies were again on the threshold: of the TuiuV plain. t 'r-.'J' "Skirt Sea. .rtW,:. ..,:? "The -same"; reports- said - 4he Frencrr'skirtlng the Mediterran ean had penetrated to within six miles of Lake: Achkel, which-almost adjoins Lake Bizerte. (Ap parently this, placed the British and Frenchi within 23 miles of both the-twin" cities of Bizerte and Tunis.).' ' In the sector between Medjez-el-Bab and the Mediterranean, the Americans of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr; continued (Continued on Page. Two) - Air War Hits Furious High On Russ Front By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, April 27 (P) Avia tion activity had reached a new fury on the soviet-German front today .as Russians, with -, in creased 'air strength,- continued to blast nazi forward, and rear positions and communications. The most intensive action still was in the Kuban region of the Caucasus. . Red Star, the army newspaper, said that following great air losses, the German air activity in the Kuban slackened after Ap ril 22, but Russian activity in creased. The dispatch related that the Germans concentrated masses of bombers and fighters, mostly Focke-Wulf 190's and Messer schmltt 109-G's in " the Taman peninsula, the Crimea and Kerch Strait area airdromes. mayor's committee said that the only difficulty encountered so far is-in obtaining a complete list of names of Klamath's war dead. The government has made public no complete list, and the only source from which the list can be compiled Is the files of the newspaper, which carries the casualties as they are released to the press associations. Cooperation Asked ' The committee asked for the cooperation of the public and particularly the families of men who have received official noti fication from any armed serv ices, Such names, together with dates, organizations and any oth er information, may be left with this newspaper. Such informa tion should be plainly written, and marked: Care of war mem orial committee." Members of the committee In addition to Chairman O'Lough- lin are Rev. T. P. Casey, W. A. Constans, Jack Linman ahd Rose M, Poole. . , : . ITALY BATTERED Fortresses Make Long ." Night l-rorrv Africa- LONDON, April 27 (P) Italy was brought under unprecedent ed aerial bombardment yester day as Flying Fortresses mada their longest flight from North Africa to bomb the tinscarred Grosseto airfield 80 miles north west of Rome and U. S. Libera tors from the Middle East devas tated the Bari airdrome on the southern Adriatic with '250,000 pounds of explosives. Other planes from Malta and Tunisia were reported to have re kindled fires on much bombed Sicily and Sardinia, the larga Italian : islands southwest and! west of the Italian peninsula. , -. Sussiasular-thouih the raid on Grosseto was, it was viewed as but a hint to Premier Mussolini of the aerial, blows that are- lnv rninent. .. - ' '." - ;-, .' ; . . . . Roundtrlp Flight 3 , : Raids on Grosseto entailed a round trip flight of at least 950 miles for the Fortresses capable of far greater distances. It laid bare a new set of Italian targets between Rome and the charred industrial cities of the north such as Milan, Genoa, Savona, Turin and Spezia. -- These - northern cities have been - frequent, targets of tha black - winged RAF' bombers which flew across the Alps from Britain to cripple Italy's chief arsenals, and snarl communica tions to Germany by way of Switzerland. Capital Spared Rome, the Italian capital, has been, spared- attack thus far although intruder planes from Malta have flown over tho suburbs. Direct hits were scored on air drome buildings at Grosseto, an allied communique from North Africa said.- The Italian radio (Continued on Page Two) French-Swiss Frontier Closed '. By Italians BERN, Switzerland, April 27 (P) Dispatches reaching here today said that the French-Swiss frontier had been closed tightly by Italian occupation authorities who declared the situation might change but for. the time being nobody may cross due to army orders. : - i : There was no explanation for the action. I A frontier report said that th border was closed at 4 a. m. yes terday morning and that railroad service between Annemasso and, Geneva was stopped early thl morning -when barriers werir placed across the tracks near Chene-Bourg, where it is report ed there are now numerous Al pine patrols. " , , ' Training Planes . Cresh Over Range In New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, N. M Apr 27 (A?) Two training planM from Kirtland field collided while on routine bombing mis sions over - the practice rang west of here last night resulting: In the death of the four crew men in one of the ships, the basa public relations office announced today. The second plane was able ta reach Kirtland field safely, the publio- relations office said. . V
