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By FRANK JENKINS
A FEW minutes nflcr the dead-
lino ho had sot expires, FDR
lakes over the coal mines and
calls on tho striking miners to
'eturn Immediately and work
for their government" undor
the protection of the army, It
necessary,
h
't ET'S trace the-steps taken so
for.
First tho President appealed
to the miners not to strike.
THEY STRUCK more than a
quarter of million of them, to
day's dlirfwtches tell us. That Is
better- than HALF the member
ship 'of tho United Mine
Workors.
It meant that John L, Lewis
had won the first round.
THE President (hereupon takes
II,. nnvl tnii rWVinilS .Inn
He tokos over tho mines and
lnvitetthe miners to RETURN
to work, under the protection of
the! troops If such protection Is
deemed necessary to prevtnl v)o
lenco (or Jntiminnuonj, ,,,
If they REFUSE his Invitation
wind remain away from work, it
f will mean' that Lewis hat won
the second round.
If they return In decisive num.
bers. It will mean that John L,
has LOST THE BATTLE.
.
AS these -words -art written
" (about rioon)' there I no In
duration of. what the miners will
do.
THERE'S interesting newt
Tho British fall (as you have
read) to punch through to Tunis
by way of the Mcdjez el Bab
gate. Tho Gormans concentrated
too much strength in front of
them.
Whereupon our Americans
strike at tho Matcur gate, to the
north, taking tho Djcbcl Tahent
(hill) and turning their long
-range artillery on Motour itself,
lonly 18 miles away.
Tho Germans were apparently
token by surprise, but recovered
and came bock at the Americans
with, heavy artillery fire and
sent out IB of their Focke-Wulfe
lOO'.planos In nn effort to seek
out ' and destroy the American
guns.
Tho planes FAILED in their
mission, tho dispntchos say.
T ET'S do a little guessing here.
" In order to stop the British
hammering at tho Mcdjez el Bab
gate, the Gormans probably
WEAKENED their forces at the
Matcur gate. Tho Americans,
toking advantngo of the shift In
German strength, struck without
delay and MADE PROGRESS.
TF this guosswork Is anywhere
fL near accurate, It means that
our sldo has the upper hand to
such an extent that we can strike
at ANY POINT where tho Ger-
mans are compelled to weaken
their forces In order to defend
SOME OTHER point.
.
CIGNIFICANTLY, Montgom
cry's guns In the south are re
ported today to bo beginning a
thunderous barrage, which Is his
usual preliminary to an Infantry
advance In forco.
This suggests that, his veteran
flth army Is getting into tho gamo
at still another point.
,
JERMAN communications are
raided disastrously, soma
dozen and a half supply ships be
ing roportod sunk or badly dam
aged by allied submarines and
lanes. Stopping reinforcements
destined for the beleaguered
Gormans Is a major part of our
job '. . .
Thore's ' another Interesting
straw In .the wind. .
Tho .German air forco Is re
ported to have been kept so busy
fighting off our planes striking
(Continued on Page , Two)
SOVIETS BEGIN
NEW SLUGGING
IN KUBAN AREA
Russians Reported to
Have Launched on
Novorossisk
LONDON. May 1 M') Break
ing silenco on the military situa
tion In tho Kuban valley, the
Russian midnight communique
announced early today that the
red army had captured "several
key enemy positions", with the
support of soviet filers, possibly
heralding the beginning of a new
Russian offensive in the western
Caucasus agBlntt the narrow
coastal bridgehead, still held by
the Germans. .'- -.
Tho war bulletin,, recorded
hore by the soviet radio monitor,
pointed up German . assertions
that 1 50.000 Russians have
launched a new drive against
Novorossisk and the German
held arc northward in the Ta
iDun ' peninsula;- -although ,ithe
German statements said the at
tacks were unsuccessful, , .,
,. .'. Moscow Silent' 1 ' ;
" Moscowflfficlatly had been
silent on land action In the Ku
ban valley- during the last few
days but reports from the front
had told of terrific air battle! in
the region and this was taken
generally as a prelude to a new
push. ,
The Russian press' yesterday
appeared with hints that decisive
events were In the making and
the Russian people had expected
developments In the ' campaign
such as were announced this
May Day,
MOSCOW, May 1 (P) Major
air battles continued ' up and
down the long Russian front to
day with' tht sharpest f ights
abovo the harrow Kuban. bridge
head the Germans hold In the
western Caucasus, while on the
, (Continued on. Page . Two)
Nippons View
Coal Strike as
Power Challenge
By The Associated Press
The Nippon Times, Japanese
foreign office organ, declared
editorially today that tho United
States coal strike was "a direct
challenge to governmental pow
er In wartime and something
that Is Inconceivable ln Japan,
whore everyone Is putting his
shoulder to tho wheel."
Excerpts of the editorial were
broadcast by tho Tokyo radio
and recorded by The Associated
Press.,
'"Roosevelt was vacillating In
his negotiations with the labor
loader," the Nippon Times edi
torial added, according to radio
TnWvn Thl urn nttiltititut in
"fourth term" aspirations. I
Three Negroes
Service Siation Robbery
Three negroes, said to have
robbed the Diamond Lake junc
tion sorvico station of moro than
$40 lato Friday afternoon, were
to answor a charge of larceny In
a shop after Bird Loosloy, sta
tion operator, had filed a com
plaint against tho trio In Chilo-
quln Justlco court.
Tho three aro LoRoy Weath
ers, Oscnr Hicks and Shirley
Leon Simmers, all of California.
Justice of the Peace Blaine
Stinson said Loosley appeared at
his office Saturday to file the
charge, Co-owner of the station
Is John Zblndon. Both aro well
known hero.
Loosley said the three stopped
at his station, 69 miles north of
Klamath Falls, asked for oil and
two of the negroes stopped Into
an adjoining-room with him and I
mm
Klamath Sweetheart and Captain Jack in Portland
Klamath hlgh'l .'pretty 'sweetheart. Vivian DirtchL kadUamath's bond-selling rooster; Cmpula
Jaek.'wer In Portland at 'the "sarn time this week, and 1hty made a splaih In war bond rlrclts
up there. The above picture of the' Klamath contingent was - taken in Portland. Miss Dirschl,; at
Ult. Is shown with her mother, Mrs. J. H. Dlrtchl. Captain , Jack, perches'. on bis tank .coop. 'At
right is Eugene Allen, editor of tht Oregon Labor Press. Union labor provided the trip; for-Miss
Dlrsehl as a result of tht war bond contest at tht local- high school. 1 ; .-
English Subs
Blast Ships in
Mediterranean
LONDON, May 1. OP) Ten
moro enemy, ships have; been
sunk In the Mediterranean v' by
British submarines, the admiral
ty announced today.
Among the ships sunk,, said
the communique, was a large
tanker torpedoed near . Mariv
timo island "while west-bound
on a conrso for Tunis. She was
escorted by an unusually large
number of surface craft and -aircraft."
',. , ,-
Another tanker -was- sunk- by
gunfire oft Italy's west coast and
a largo ammunition ; ship was
blown up off the island of Monte
Crlsto, between. Italy and Cor-
slco. . , -
Other, sinkings were off the
east coast of Corsica, northwest
of Sicily and off the northern tip
or Tunisia. '
FAST JOB
WASHINGTON. May 1 (P)
Described as one of the fastest
color printing Jobs in the history
of the government printing of
fice, 10,000 red, white and blue
posters to be displayed on mine
properties seized by the govern
ment rolled off the' presses to
day. Held Afier
argued at length, concerning the
type of oil to buy. Tho third re
mained in tho office. Loosley
dlscovcrod tho theft wh.cn Jie
went to the cash register to ring
up a 35-ccnt sale.
Klamath stato officers were
notified and started toward
Bond but were advised that De
schutes police had arrested the
three without trouble at LaPlne.
They were returned to Bend and
lodged in the Jail, :
Sergeant E. W. Tlchenor ; of
local state police said Weathers
had obtained gas to got to Seat
tle, through the local rationing
board after he had reported his
gas: book stolon here. He. was
en route to Alaska, he said, to
work , for tho government and
was to ' leave his car with a
brother In Seattle,. - I
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vAfV) - p - QH"
RAF Baiters Rttir Voeyr( v
Americans Make Day Raid
LONDON, May 1 (P The
RAF made a "heavy attack'
last night on Essen and. other
Ruhr valley targets in western
Germany and . today several
squadrons of heavy bombers, be
lieved to be American Libera
tors or Fortresses or both, flew
across the channel to continue
the. assault on the , nazi- war
potential. '
The daylight bombers-, flew
at great height and - appeared
headed for tho Cherbourg penin
sula, perhaps to pound anew
Hitler's submarine bases,.
The air ministry . announced
that 13 bombers' were lost last
night during the fourth, attack
of- April- on the Ruhr valley,
Lions Opening
Drive to Buy
Flying Fortress
A Flying Fortress to be named
the Klamath Pelican .will be pur
chased by Klamath county war
bond buyers If the Lions, club
May campaign is a success, It was
announced Saturday by - Gene
Hooker, Lion president. '
Hooker made tho . following
statement: ' .
"The Lions club of Klamath
Falls has accepted the responsi
bility of sponsoring tho war sav
ings bond drive for May. The
people of Klamath county have
responded to the call in the past,
and we appeal to each and every
one to make the same response
Uiifcmonth. ... . Mt
"We have as our objective the
purchase of a Flying Fortress
which costs $350,000. This For
tress would be purchased by war
bonds sold, right here In Klam
ath county, and would bear the
namo, 'Klamath Pelican. .
"Wouldn't It be 'significant for
a bomber named the Klamath
Pelican made possible by Klam
ath war bonds, to fly over and
bomb Tokyo?
"To tho farmers, the , mill
workers, the business men,; the
housewives of Klamath, we are
making an urgent appeal for you
to purchase as many E bonds as
possible in May." (Picture on
page four),
n
concentration ' point of heavy
German steel and coal industry.
Damagt'Tbld ' "
'. . The .German communique,- re
corded from. Berlin broadcasts,,
said considerable damage . was
caused at Essen arid other, places
in western uermany..?. 1 - .,
i Continental ; weather-- .condi
tions probably, caused 'the. rald-
ers to scatter over several v tar
gets instead of loosing one sat
uration raid, observers said. The
other , objectives were -not im
mediately identified..
t , The" most recent Visit Ho- the
-much-bombed Ruhr area -was
Monday night when the RAF
battered Dulsburg, , 12 miles
west , ot . Essen, - in . the second
roid-on tha,t, river port-in- a
month.
Photographs Takan V -
Essen itself has been bombed
55, times since the beginning of
me war and boo-tons of block
busters were dropped on It in
the last previous raid Anril 3.
Photographs taken during the
following days showed -that -the
viral Krupp works there was
idle for 10 days because of the
damage.; :. ,
William Roberts
Reported Held
In Philippines ;
Pvt. William R. Roberts, 22,
previously reported as -missing
in action in the Philippines,.-is
now: a prisoner of . war. accord
ing to word received . by the
youth's father, Colin Floyd-Roberts
of Bonanza. Official noti
fication came from the war de
partment .this week. r
Roberta enlisted In the regu
lar army In. July, 1941-, and left
immediately. for the Philippines
for '. training. He-'- Was wounded
in action in March,, 1942, and
had just reported for duty when
Bataan fell. A sister, Mrs. Olen
Lebow of Bonanza, last heard
from her brother In. November,
1941, when he wrote from Manila.;--
A- , ' -.-! . " ,'.;
At the time 'of Roberts' en
listment he "was employed as
Untber taller f 6r- Lamm's - camp.
iatsior
ALLIES WREST
10 HILLS IN
! . KNIFE CHARGE
Axis Warships Socked
In Air Attack :
On Sea Lane
. By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 1 VP)
American troops, continuing
their stubborn advance toward
Mateur, stormed -and captured
Djebel - Tahent yesterday and
wrested a neighboring high point
from the Germans- in. a fierce
bayonet charge, allied . head
quarters announced today, as aT--liedsir"
forces blastedan ' axit
concentration of warships and
vessels of all sizes in their most
successful attack yet on the 'en
emy's sea lanes; ,
' Direct hits were scored by the
airmen on at least eight ships, in
cluding a light cruiser and two
destroyers .rhich' were sunk or
leftflame and. apparently sink-
'y Tittici' On J4eVt; Kt'":"
The- second TT.. Srarmytcorp?
of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton
J took DJebel Tabent, Kndwfl
alHill-609..'16:mil4s' -southwest
0 Mateur in the Sidi N'slr area,
and abtured..Hill 523 iiist to the
south,. Their new positions per
mitted them to begin long-range
shelling , of Mateur,. .18 - miles
southwest of Bizerte. - . .
, But. -while they were. scoring
these successes, the British first
army lost ground east and north
east of Medjez-el-Bab in-exceptionally
hard fighting. ,
' British Back Up
'This slight withdrawal by the
British, in the Djebel Bou Aou
kaz area, 20 miles- west of Tunis,
came, after . the Germans had
made three heavy, counter-at-.
(Continued, on Page Two)
Navy Negotiates :
With Kaiser for
Big .Cargo Planes
' WASHIN(GTON, " May. 1" jiPi
The navy reported last night .it
was negotiating with Henry J.
Kaiser, . shipyard' and ' airplane
builder, . for development . of
"long range" cargo airplane.
Plans, the navy said, still are
in "a very'elementary' stage."
Kaiser has been asked to build a
wind tunnel model of the plane,
details of. which were not. dis
closed here. No funds' have been
allocated for construction of a
full-sized flying model, the navy
added. . . .'
Should Kaiser build the plane,
it probably would be constructed
at the Brewster plant, Hatboro,
Pa.. .'
Stalin Hails Allied Blows
As Shadow of Second Front
By The Associated Press -
MOSCOW, May 1 Premier
Joseph Stalin hailed the British
American 'aerial, blows at Eu
rope today as foreshadowing a
second front when all the al
lied armies "will break the
backbone, of - the fascist beast"
with -. joint smashes from east
and west, and called for the
"utter- routing" and "uncondi
tional, surrender" of Hitler's
Germany. .
In a May Day order of the
day to his nation and its army,
Stalin echoed the "unconditional
surrender" keynote struck by
Prime Minister Churchill and
President Roosevelt at t h e i r
Casablanca conference.
. The Russian leader signed the
order both as supreme comman
der, and sis marshal, the latter
title 'recently conferred on - him
for his direction ot the Russian
winter offensive.
He praised' the allies' cam
paign on the North Africa' front
which, together wlth the air
Roosevelt Orders
Return to Work;
Army May, be Used
. - WASHINGTON, May 1 OPi President Roosevelt ordered gov.
ernment operation of the nation's coal' mines today with milk
tary protection if necessary and in a statement called on strik
ing miners to "return immediately to the mines and work fof:
their government." . .- i;:, ' .
The summons was directed primarily at the some 250,000 men
who are already dut. -; : ;
The president ordered Secretary, of the Interior Ickes to takt
possession and operate the mines with such workers as he caq '
provide, and told Ickes he could call on the army for protection
for the mlnes.if necessary; ".' : : ... i 1 1 .
Telegraphs Mints
. Ickes immediately dispatched
telegrams to the nation's 3400
bituminous coal companies directing-
them to fly ' the. Ameri
can flag over their properties to
indicate that the mines are "be
ing operated exclusively for the
United States." Similar tele
grams! are to go to about 450
Pennsylvania anthracite opera
tors. '
' Shortly-after the order went
out from the White House, the
president in a statement re
viewed the situation leading. up
to the 10 a: m. deadline which
he had set for the miners to re-
wme a. deadline ' they ignored.
"Except- u few mines the
production of coal has virtually
ceased," the president said. "The
national ' interest is in grave
peril."
Coal" Must Go '
, Asserting that .the production
of coal must and shall continue,
'the chief executive said he
would talk over the radio "to
tb,e miner o theatton' at 7
p;-m.iPWT tomorrow night.
Thia was taken .ta jneaWrn
n wuii taw nis case to them
and id -the. country without stop
ping for. -more . talk with John
L.' Lewis head of the .United
Mine Workers.' '
,. ' Ignores WLB ''
Lewis thus ar ; has Ignored
war labor board and president
ial appeals to: take up the min
ers 'wage. - demands ' with the
board in - routine fashion. ' in
New York,' Lewis declined com
ment on the presidential action.
- Ickes promptly sent telegrams
(Continued on Page .Two)
Demos Caff on
Congressmen to
Support Plans
, 1 WASHINGTON, May 1: )
In formal reports, the house
ways, and, means committee's
democratic majority : called up
on congress today to support its
compromise . pay-as-you-go. . tax
plan- while --the republican "mi
nority 'pressed, anew for pass
age of the Ruml skip-a-year al
ternative."1 ' .
- The democrats called the
Ruml plan "unfair, a gross violation-
of the' principle of abili
ty to- pay," while the 'minority
countered with an assertion that
the opposition: compromise was
"a stepchild of political pres
sure" and "a conglomeration of
stubborn -differences." '
' The Ruml. plan, said the re
publicans, "is the outgrowth of
' (Continued on Page Two)
war; the Russian successes and
the failure of the German coun
teroffenslve.in the Kharkov re
gion, . Stalin said, had caused .a
great axis crisis which resulted
in a German "babble about
peace.".
Decrying German propaganda
attempts to split .the Russian-British-American
coalition, he
threw off German peace talk
w i t h the statement:; "But of
what kind of peace ' can one
talk with, the imperialist ban
dits from the German fascist
camp who have ' drowned Eu'
rope in blood and studded it
with, gallows?
" .. . . It is now clear that only
the utter routing of the Hitler
ite armies and the unconditional
surrender of Hitlerite Germany
can bring peace to Europe ...
'.The- German-Italian fascist
camp is experiencing a. great
crisis and facing catastrophe.
This does not mean, of course,
that the catastrophe of Hitlerite
Germany has already come."
ALLIES PATTER JAP
IS
Enemy Subs Attack
" Force East of . .
: ) . .Australia . !
A tfX I ED HEADQUARTERS :
IN AUSTRALIA, May 1 (P)
With allied air action limited for
the -moment to relatively , light-
blows at the familiar island tar
gets-northeast of Australia, Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur's south
west Pacific command centered
attention -today on an undersea
threat developing" suddenly in
the waters below these Japanese -
bases:'- ' '' - .-.. . .
'"The :,eneraS' has launched
submarine attack in some force
in the. waters, east' of .Australia, '
Wh'Wmmuhique disclosed.
Details of the nature, effect '
(Continued' on Page Two)--
Ocean Wove
Scratched From
Kentucky Derby
By 8ID FEDER
- CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louis
vllle, Ky., May 1 VP) Warren
Wright, the Chicago and Lexing
ton, Ky, sportsman,, announced
today that he had decided "not
to start""his Ocean-Wave In the
69th Kentucky derby late this.
afternoon, a decision that left the '
$75,000 run for the roses virtual
ly at the mercy, of the mighty ;
Count Fleet '
Wright made. the statement v
four hours before' the scheduled
derby post tirne (3:30 p. m. PWT
and before the colt who has been
suffering 'with an injured left
lore t leg,, had been , officially
withdrawn through . the. secre-'
tary's. office.
The 'Wave, stablemate . of,
Whirlaway in . Wright's string,
won the blue grass stakes and ,
the . derby trial mile in the last
12 days and came out of each.
with a cracked left fore heel. As ;
a result of the two victories, he J
has been regarded as the only .
horse in the field capable of chal- '
lenglng Mrs. John D. Hertz' ,
Count Fleet for the big end of '
the pot today,. . . ..
Baseball
. NATIONAL LEAGUE
R H E
Cincinnati 7 13 8'
St. Loiils 3 . 9,3
; Walters and' MuellerJ Gum-,
bert; Munger (8) and Odea.
I . .. ..'... R. H. . k. :
Chicago 3 8 1
Pittsburgh ..... 6 10 3
Passeau, Fleming (6) Erickson
(7) and Hernandez; Sewell and
Lopez.
R. H. E.
Brooklyn 9 11 2
New York 2 4 f 2
Macon, Webber and Owen; C.
Melton, Series (6), Coombs (0),
and Lombard!.
' AMERICAN LEAGUE '
! . R. H. K.
St. Louis '4 - 7 ,1
Chicago 8 13 1
; L. Gatehouse, Caster (6) and
Ferrell; Smith and Trcsh. .
R, H .El.
Philadelphia ilLi l' S'; 3
Boston ......v...... 3 13
Harris and Swift; Judd and
Peacock. , . , ,
Cleveland , 8 1
Detroit 3 13 0
Kennedy, Naymlck (3), Hevlng
(5), and Desautcls, Rosar (6);
White, Smith (3),"Trout (11) and
Richards, Parson (18), '' -.
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