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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1943)
lliffSISI'HIIill llll." iMUHIilHUllI Ont S-mlnute bUit on sirens end whistles li the signal lor blackout In Klamath Falls. Anolhir long blast, during black out, li a signal ior all oltir. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your slreet llghtii ApU 27 High 41, Low SI Precipitation as of April 21, IMS Stream yaar to data ...14.41 , Lest yaar 10.81 Normal 9.94 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES TRICK FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1943 Number 9783 ro) lo) "l rutin 'MN'Mil.'IM I I Aiivsiiii'i a.;.isimais':i A ifnMT r? 1mm ist By FRANK JENKINS nrllK fighting lii Tunisia li still a battle for commanding hills, with the Germans stubbornly do fending every crest. irON'T got '.-npiitlent. The Gorn.in: nro fighting In positions that nro NATURALLY strong unci havo been MADE STRONGER by every dovlco known to tha milltnry eiiKlnccra, Much expenditure of time (and liven) in retmlrod to crack a nut like tlutt. "THE big axis airdrome at Dnrl on the Adrlntlc aide of the heel of the Itnllnn boot la henv- lly attacked again by our bomb- em. One smells a rut. Things like that don't Just Imp pen. They'ro PLANNED. And always for a reason. Tha probable reason If a con cantration ot Bnrl of German air planes designed for use In Africa We're hitting them (one rucmiu) BEFORE THEY CAN GET THERE. "THE Russians pulled the tame useful trick the other day. The Germans concentrated heavy air power In the Crimea to back up their land assault in the Kuban delta across tho Kerch strult In the Caucasus, back of NovoroMtaX." The red air force . smacked these aj sembled nazl planes before they could get Into action. As a result, tho dispatches of a fow days ago told us, tho Ger man offensive In the Kuban COLLAPSED. VtfZ read today (believing or " kaI as inn tlifuAi tin nr. lin and Rome aro tickled pink over the Russian-Polish ruckus which, they allegedly think, has driven a wedge of suspicion be tween tho United States on one sldo and Russia on tho other. A Swiss nowspapcr in Geneva snys tho Russian-Polish Incident, which was touched off by GER MAN charges thnt the Russians hnd aloln 10.000 Polish officers near Smolensk, has proved to be one of Germany's NEATEST diplomatic (propaganda) suc cesses. If it IS a success (assuming Q thnt It was a German trick) It is because WE aro complaining about something tho Russian have done. TF we aro wise, wo won't com plain too much about the way the Russians are running their end of the war against the Gor mnns (as long as they fight ns hard as they'ro doing) or bo too suspicious of Russian motives after tho war. Tho big Job now Is to LICK THE GERMANS, and tho Rus sians nro doing their full sharo of that essential job, Let's put no stumbling blocks In their way. WHAT of the Poles, you ask? w Well, history tells us they have been regularly murdered 4flfr and ravished nt recurring Intcr vnls for gonorntlons by first one side and then tho other being permitted to exist merely as a BUFFER stnto In ;vhot has been known as tho "Europoon sys tem." (A "buffer" stnto Is a LITTLE plnco In between for the BIG follows on either sldo to right on.) It's rather hard to say at this moment In history Just where the real Interest ot tho tragic Polish people that Is to sny, thoso who do the fighting and the dying lios. ToyE of America will do well If w we refrain from worrying too much about what Russia Is going to do AFTER Germany Is licked. We might even go so far as to j remember thnt Russia did noth ing whatever about It when wo took Texas, Now Mexico. Arl- zonn, California, etc., away from Mexico. Wo'd have FOUGHT RUSSIA then If sho hnd tried to do any thing about It, for we wcro alt set to realize what we rognrdod (Continued on Fags Two) WAGE DISPUTE y GDALSJRIKE 58,000 Miners Stay Away From Work Today WASHINGTON, April 28 (P) The war labor board an nounced today It Is relarring the soft coat wage controver sy, which already has 68,000 man Idle, to the president be cause Its own orders and ap peals have been Ignored by the United Mine Workers. WASHINGTON, April 28 W) More than S8,000 soft coal min ers stayed away from work to day In a waga dispute threaten ing to develop into a full scale striko In the Industry, which supplies fuel and power for war plants and motive power for trains. Talk of the possible use of troops as guards to protect those who might want to work was heard as mines began closing down one aftor another In Penn sylvania, Kentucky, Alabama, and West Virginia. . The war labor board took up the case In closed hearings; as yet the walkouts were not of ficially regarded as strikes. Lewis' Prom is - But John L, Lewis promised that his United .Mine Workers would not Work after midnight Friday , unless their demands were met and the full'WLB .de bated whether that constituted outright defiance calling for ac tionor whether it should be ignored, pending an actual shut down. The ponel had received In structions from the board to begin hearings and proceed until further orders before the UMW president announced In New York that the miners would not work without a con tract after Friday midnight when a 30day temporary con tinuance expires. Lewis raised tho strike threat after the UMW policy commit tee demanded withdrawal of tho dispute from the WLB, charging tho board with "mallg- (Continued on Page Two) Parent Arrest Cuts Child Delinquency Cases, Says Bridge Not one cose of curfew viola tion has been reported to the offlco of Dnve Bridge, city juve nllo officer, since charges were filed last week against three parents who entered pleas of guilty in police court to allow ing minor children to be out after hours. "I've had numerous phone calls this week from parents asking if their children could go to school functions," Bridge stotod. "Wo want them to attend school affairs, but they must go directly homo from tho place of entertainment." Ickes Charges During Gas WASHINGTON, April 28 UP) Petroleum Administrator Ickes told senators today lt would take "a catalogue of Washing ton" to list tho persons In high authority who have displayed "a rcnlly baffling lack of under standing" of tho Importance of the high-octane gasoline pro gram. "Some of them wore military. some ot them naval," Ickes said, but in the final analysis we couldn't go ahead without new materials, and there is only one source o f . n e w materials in Washington." i Conflict Investigated This obvious roference to the war production board came In Ickes' testimony before .the Tru mon committee which It investi gating conflicts between' the synthetic rubber and 100-octono gasoline programs. When the In quiry opened yesterday, WPB Chairman Donald M. - Nelson testified that over Ickes' opposi tion he had given a, green light to 65 per cent of 1 the rubber DEVELOP General McNeir -... 7..V Lt. Can. Lesley J. MeNair (right), commander of all United States army around forces, wounded on the Tunisian war front. Is shown talking with Lt. Gen. Ban Lear, commander of the sec ond army when the two generals visited the Ranger school at Camp Forrest, Tenn. Gen. Lear has been ordered to .take tem porary command of the U. 8. army ground forces pending Gen. McNalr's recovery. Mac Arthur's War planes Use Good Jap Raiding Weather ALLIED ; HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. April 28 W) A 4000-ton Japanese merchant ship was blasted by a 900-pound bomb and a wireless station was destroyed Tuesday as Gen eral Douglas MacArthur's heavy and medium bombers took ad vantage of improved Svouther'to range far over enemy bascs'' " A Llborator on armed recon naissance attacked two 4000-ton vessels in the Arafura sea ' 60 miles northwest of Dobo, on the Aroe Islands. The - American manned bomber scored a hit on the bow of one ship and two near perhaps damaging misses on the other. Follow Up ,A Flying Fortress, following up a raid Monday In which the towor of the Japanese wireless Navy Transport Plane Crashes Into Bay Hill OAKLAND, Calif., April 28 (P) A navy twin-engined trans port piano nosed into a hill 10 miles east of the Oakland airport and exploded Inst night, killing eight of tho 10 men aboard and seriously Injuring tho other two. Newsmen visiting the scene to day under nnval guard found the burned fuselage pancaked on the hillside with both wings sheared off. ' ' , Tho explosion scattered bodies over a 80-foot area. Clipped tree trunks and torn earth indicated the ship had skidded a liko dis tance from the point of Impact. Tho. piano was headed into Oakland airport and apparently on .the beam. A wlngtlp scraped near the top of the 1500-foot cliff, spinning the craft to earth. "Lack of Understanding" - Synthetic Rubber Squabble program to prevent a possibly catastrophic breakdown in trans portation. Like a proud mother, tho petroleum administrator report ed that despite all obstacles the army Is going to get the 100 octane gasollno It requested last summer "but we would be getting a lot more In tho near future If we had been able to do the building of refineries that was necessary in order to manufacture more." ; Rubber Coils The preferential directives for rubber, ho estimated, havo coBt the production of 4,413,600 barrels of 100-octane aviation fuel. But from 23 high-octane re fineries in operation in Decem ber, 19(, 1, the Industry has In creased Its major production units to 42 as of last Sunday, he said, adding: j "Hod it not been for tho con flict with other programs 't partly but not entirely the rub ber program - the number of Wounded in Africa 7 . " i 4 Station at Gasmata, New Brit ain, was toppled, wrecked the entire station. ' Along New Guinea's north coast, bombers hit at Japanese holdings from Wewak south and east as far as Mubo where A20s made n(ne strafing passes over enemy yusiuons Ul luv ; fbhiuu At Flnsehhafen, on the Huon peninsula, a. Catallna dropped bombs on a suspected dump area and the crew reported heavy explosions. Strafing Runs Australian Beauflghters made 15 strafing runs during which Cannon and - machinegun fire were . poured into the jungle fringing Labu lagoon, which is five miles southwest of Lae. The enemy has been attempting to conceal supply barges there. It is known from past experience that such strafing attacks In variably take a heavy toll in Japanese troops. A single Fortress fired at a coastal ship a few miles north west of Wewak.' Then the big bomber moved down the coast, strafing Maricnberg, Alexishaf en and Flnsehhafen. Fortresses attacked" fuel dumps on Willaumcz peninsula, North New Britain, as well as the Cape Gloucester airdrome. LONG WAR -"EOS ANGELES, ' Aprif" 28 iff) Father Bernard R. Hubbard, known as the "glacier priest" for his Alaskan explorations, pre dicts that the war with- Japan will last from six to 10 years.. ' '"That may sound too pessimis tic; I hope-1 am wrong," said the' priest ln; an Interview here after returning from the Aleutians,-where, he declared,' Amer ican troops are anxious to fight the Japanese. main . units in - operation .' today would be in the general neigh bodhood of 50." ' Saying that tanks and' planes are so much junk without the fuel to propel them, Ickes pro fessed astonishment at prefer ences given plane production. at the expense of the gasoline pro gram. Increase Totd He said there has been a month to month Increase In 100-octane gasoline productive copacily ever since Pearl Har bor "in the face of continuing anr discouraging obstacles." He predicted that by- July, "obstacles or no obstacles we will be producing more fuel every day than tho. best esti mators had believed, a year ago, that wo should need by now or even by next winter," with out "the help with construction materials we had to have 1 to carry out our program." Ickes described as the "last wallop" to the gasoline program (Continued on Page Two) POLAND PLEAS FOR RELEASE OF PR SQNERS No Hitler Contacts, Says Exiled Government . LONDON, April 28 The Polish government In exile ap pealed today "forthe release" of all fighting Polish, males now on soviet soil and in a statement de clared "the Polish government and nation have no need to de fend themselves from any sug gestion of contact or understand ing with Hitler." The 550-word statement was Issued immediately after a cab inet meeting presumably called to consider a formula aimed at closing the Russian-Polish diplo matic break. But in the opinion of diplomatic sources it was be lieved the statement might only pour oil on the flames despite its reaffirmation of a policy aimed at "friendly understanding" with Russia. , - - -t v. . It declared the Polish gov ernment never -claimed and do not claim any soviet territories." Appeals Release In addition to appealing for the release of fighting men need ed for reinforcement of the Polish army, the cabinet state ment asked "for the release from the USSR of thousands; ot fami- lles or thft .Fflilah ajmea lorces and ten of thousands of Foiiah orphans and children." ' The government said It had "scrupulously discharged" Its obligations under the agreements ot July 30, 1941, and December 4, 1941, with Russia, and on Ap (Contlnued on Page Two) British Ships Sink Two Nazi Supply Vessels LONDON, April 28 (IP) Two British destroyers, attacking "an unusually large number" of Ger man escort craft in convoy off the coast of Brittany before dawn today; torpedoed and prob ably sank two supply vessels, and almost certainly sank two of the escorts and caused a motor torpedo boat to blow up with their shell fire, the admiralty an nounced today.. The destroyers Goathland and Albrighton "pressed home the at tack at close range in the face of intense fire," the admiralty's communique said, and. scored shell hits on the two supply ships after they had been torpedoed. "The attack caused consider able confusion among the enemy forces and several of their ships were seen firing on each other. During the ensuing melee which lasted for more than an hour the Goathland and Albrighton scored hits with gunfire on two convoy escorts." Baseball NATIONAL R. H. E. Cincinnati 3 9 0 Pittsburgh .....1 8 0 Riddle, Beggs (9) and Mueller; Herbert, Brandt (6) Dietz (8) and Lopez.; R. H. E. Boston '. 3 ' 9 " 1 New York 2 7 1 Javery, Stout (7) and Kultz, Masl (7); Wittig and Mancuso.. AMERICAN R. H. E. Si. Louis 2 6 0 Detroit 4 9 0 Sundra and Hayes; Bridges, Gorsica (8) and Richards. R. H. E. New York 5 8 0 Boston. ...0 '6-3 Bonham and Dickey; Dobson, Karl: (9) and Partee.' R H E Philadelphia 0 6 4 Washington ;.........;.......3 5 0 Christopher . and Swift; Pyle and Early. R. H. E. Cleveland , 2 6 1 Chicago 0 9 0 A. Smith and Desautels; Diet rich and Tresh, Where Allies Threaten Axis Defenses 0 20 j "Turt MaIt AJvRI7FRTF STATUS MlliS Sidi NSirS: D,ede,d4 TUNIS ,. 1" -oubeii.trv kZaH beul ifVj? - Djobibina . AEnl.davilla Arrows Indicate projections of allied drives along western axis defenses in Tunisia that had forced a German withdrawal in the . American-manned northern sector (arrows pointing . to Bixerte and Mateur), after Germans yielded strong positions in the southern sectors (arrows pointing to Tunis and Pont du Fans). Distances shown In boxes to right of cities are approximate dis tance from the battle front, (solid line) before the withdrawal was announced by allied-headquarters. . Klamath CountyGoes Over Top of Second Loan Quota Klamath county had oversub scribed her $1,269,000 second was loan. juota by O per cen at noon Wednesday, and before' fhVdeadlme of May l',"lnis fi ure is. expected to exceed the amount set by the treasury de partment by another fiv per cent.. ' ,: This was the announcement made by Andrew M. Collier and Godfrey C. Blohm, .co-chairmen of the war finance committee.- . With word from Washington, that American . Doolittle flyers had been executed in Japan, Ore gon voluntarily raised her quota 10 per cent, and Klamath county automatically followed suit. On top of this - $1,395,900, which Klamath county individ uals-have bought, the First Na- Red Army Asked To Prepare for Decisive Battles By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, April 28 (P) Iz vestia, the official newspaper of the soviet union, called on the red army today to prepare for decisive: battles "which are in the offing." The plea came. as the red air force carried on intensive at tacks in: force against, German communications and maintained its sky superiority over the Ku ban region of the Caucasus. . All along the lengthy front, red air force fighters and bomb ers, pressed their attacks against the German lines and to the rear, indicating they were pro viding a heavy mauling to Ger man forces being brought up as reserves for future operations. The current land fight still was mostly artillery duelling. Heavy shelling was going on from the Kuban delta, in the Novorosslsk region, to the Volk hov front' southeast of Lenin grad. . Allied Fliers Raid Jap Positions in Western Aleutians WASHINGTON, April 28 (F) Allied fliers, including Cana dians as well as Americans, raid ed Japanese positions on Kiska Island in the western Aleutians 13 times today, and destroyed a number of buildings, the navy reported today. : This was the first time since last September that a communi que has reported Canadians in action In the - Aleutians cam paign, but a dispatch from an Andreanof base yesterday listed four Canadian air force pilots who took part in a fighter attack on Kiska April 18. TUNISIA tional bank and the United States National bank- both subscribed for $1,000,000 each, which brings KlamauV county's contribution in .tbisnecond war bohd cam paign to a total of $3,395,000 to day, the co-chairmen said.-- ; Tentative purchase promises have been lined up, and it looks '."quite , certain" that Klamath county will reach the treasury's supreme; goal of $100 for each man;, woman and child in' Klam ath county.- -:- . -Organized labor Is continuing its efforts to reach its $500,000 sub-chaser goal and every labor ing man is urged to buy an "E" bond which will entitle the hold er to a ticket for the Friday night smoker at the armory.' "It will be a swell climax- to Klamath county's campaign, if it could be announced Friday night that the sub-chaser was as sured and organized labor had exceeded its goal by 10 per cent," Collier stated. ' RAF Damages Two Mine-Sweepers in Aerial Attacks ; LONDON, April 28 (TP) Two enemy . mine-sweepers and a trawler were damaged, in an at tack by British Whirlwind bomb-' ers on a convoy of eight ships off the coast of. Brittany, the air ministry news service said to day. The bombers, which were, es corted by Spitfires, scored four hits on a minesweeper at the rear of the convoy and another minesweeper and trawler also re ceived bomb hits,, the news serv ice reported. Million Dollar Damage in Wake of Cleveland Tornado CLEVELAND, April 28 () Destruction was reckoned In ex cess of $1,000,000 today after death-dealing tornadoes slashed through northeastern Ohio, kill ing four children, Injuring more than 150 other persons, and damaging nearly 2000 homes and several war plants. Many homes and barns caved in, roofs were carried away like leaves and power lines were thrown out of operation in the Cleveland, Akron and Fremont areas. ' Orphans Killed Two Akron orphans Richard Paternoster, 12, and Anthony Fernbach, . 9 were crushed to death as raging winds demol ished a barn near Medina. 'Arthur Cawrse was killed near Norwalk when, the tornado de stroyed or damaged all buildings on his farm. The death toll climbed to four as the body ot an unidentified man was found under debris o F RENGH PUNCH THROUGH NAZI Patton's Men Cleani Out Von Arnim's ' - Germans AL LI E D HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 23 VP) French forces striking for ward in the Font du Fans sector have driven southeast . of the town, 34 miles from Tunis, crossed the main road from Pont du Fahs to Djebibina, and reached the western slopes of Djebel Zaghouan, a French com munique said tonight. (This presumably placed tha French between five and 10 miles southeast of Pont du Fahs, imperiling the axis hold on that town.) . . . "Among many prisoners taken in the sector during the day," the . French war bulletin said, "was the general chaplain of Italian forces in North Africa."; ' Along, the Mediterranean coast, the communique said, French attacks "have progressed favorably." -- Artillery Action ' The drive in the Pont du Fahi sector, it said, was 'made "iii spite of violent enemy artillery action." . . . This was the newest develop ment along the 140-mile battle front -where: earlier it was' an noonced that American troop Stormed and captured three) fiercely defended hills straddling the road to Mateur and Bizerta and' the British first army battled for a commanding height at Med jerda Village 21 miles northwest of Tunis.-.- . .--The British first and eighth armies, the : second U.- S. army corps,: and ..the French made "steady progress," an allied com. (Continued on Page Two) ' , Bari. Airport "Disappears" Under Bombing " CAIRO, Egypt, April 28 (JP)-t Bari- airport, 50 miles north of the Italian naval base of Taranto, "practically disappeared"' under a hail of 150 tons of bombs from 70 United States Liberators Mon day, the Niht air force bomber command said today, and an. RAF communique ' announced that the. raid was followed that night by a heavy British assault. The communique said that large fires' were started east of the -airdrome by. the British attack on Bari, which Is on the Adriatic coast. - : ..'. .-'.:,. . . Pictures taken of the Bari air drome yesterday showed a largo number of planes estimated at 50 received direct hits or near misses which either destroyed or severely damaged them. Hangar's; and repair assembly plants suf fered many direct hits. - a" garage, on Cleveland's west side. - C. G. . Andrus, government meteorologist at Cleveland, said four separate - tornadoes swept over the city . Their paths were short 'and narrow, and their power was concentrated on the east and west sides, hs added. The meteorologist declared tha area was fortunate to have cs' caped with no great loss of life, as the . "tornado was death-deal ing in its Intensity." . ' Nursing supervisors and dls aster workers are being sent lo both Cleveland and Akron, Wil liam Carl Hunt, manager of tha American Red Cross umUcm area, announced In Washington. Nearly .100 persons wera treated for injuries at two Akron hospitals and 82 Clevolanderf were injured,' one critically. Cleveland police said an early survey Indicated 100 homes were destroyed and about 900 othen damaged in varying degrees, Akron authorities reported sim ilar property damage, , ARTILLERY DUEL1 - 1 1
