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On 5-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles
Is the signal lor a blackout In Klamath
Falli. Another long blest, during black
out. Ii a ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau
tionary periods, watch your street lights.'
By FRANK JENKINS
THE conl ilrlko U off, and the
mlncrf nro trickling back to
work.
It war a foregono conclusion,
Public opinion ugnlnst stoppajto
of work in the vital coal industry
won timply too strong to bo
' bucked.
John L. Lewis showed ex
trtmely poor judgment In trying
to buck It.
ITVON'T be too hard on the In
dividual conl minors. They've
been poorly led.
Don't even hold their 35-hour
war-time work week against
them. Working In a holo in the
ground, away from tlio light and
the sunshine and the air, warps
men s minds.
Under such circumstances,
men don't think as straight as
they should. It Is their LEAD'
ER.S' Job to think straight for
them.
John L. didn't do It.
TVE mustn't forget, of course,
that working down in a coal
mine seven hours a day for five
days a week Is no harder on
men than fighting 24 hours a
day In fox-hole for weeks on
tad.'.
But our boys -'who do that
cheerfully on the battlefields
know what they're fighting for
and are WELL LED.
Leadership makes a lot of dif
ference.
TN Tunisia, General Giraud says
" the end will come In May, It
Is beginning to look llko It,
Our Americans entor Mateur
this morning after an unusually
rapid advance of 12 miles. Tho
French are reported to be only
13 miles from Blzcrte and push'
Ing CLOSER.
It seems likely that from
Mateur our forces will try to
push In between Blzcrto and
Tunis, thus making It Impossible
for tho Germans to shuttle their
defonse forces back and forth
between the two cities.
"THE Germans are still holding
their, lines In the Mcdjcrda
valley below Mcdjcz el Bab,
They have to hold there. An al
lied break-through with tanks In
this comparatively open obuntry
would spell the beginning of the
end.-
TN Russia, the red air force is
A still harrying the German com
munications all along the vast
eastern front. Our nutural con
clusion Is that tho Germans ore
bringing up now forces and tho
Russians aro trying to forestall
' an offensive.
Moscow reports that the Ger
mans have definitely abandoned
their Kuban offensive after suf
fering terrific losses. There are
scouting operations all along tho
Russian front. The mud Is be
ginning to dry a little, especially
at the soutnorn ena. as ma mua
drlos end the ground gets firmer,
... akm Innlr fnf nm m nt inn nt
WD WUII luur. tui ivouiiiniuii v
Slighting thcro in all its former
torrif to fury.
DHAVDA (official communist
party newspaper In Russia)
echoes Stalin s recent laudatory
words about us and tho British
Facing tho U. S, ombassy in
' front of the Kremlin In Moscow,
this sign now hangs: "Long live
the gallant Anglo-Americans
now 1 defeating tho German
Italian fascists in North Africa."
For some reason or other, the
surface - tone of our relations
with Russia has taken a turn for
the better.
.!.. '.
'T'HE tono of reports from our
A headquarters in Australia ro
mains pessimistic.
A spokesman thore tells us to
day that the Jap submarine com
Apalgn in tho southwest Pacific
has been about as efficient as the
German campaign in tho At
lantic, i ,
Our losses there, he says, have
boon running about two per cent
as compared with two and a half
por cent In the Atlantic.
J "' '
T HE Japs delivered a heavy air
i ffltack on Darwin over the
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0
Reds Tell of Raids
Over East Prussia
In Night
MOSCOW, May 3 (IP) Red
army artlllory raked German po
sitions In the Kuban sector of the
western Caucasus throughout
tho night although tho soviet
midnight communlo.uo announc
ed that German efforts to ex
pand their bridgehead In that re
gion had been abandoned after a
six day drive In which the nazis
lost 7000 men.
The mid -day communique
said the Russian shcllflre killed
200 more of the enemy, and that
16 mortar and artillery batteries
were silenced and ten German
blockhouses were destroyed.
(The German high command
communlquo, broadcast from
Berlin and recorded by Tho As
sociated Press, said the Rus
sians failed yesterday In' fresh
attacks on the Kubun bridge-
hoad.
(Several planes raided east
Prussia last night and one was
shot down, the bulletin said. It
did not report the nationality of
tho raiders, but red army bomb'
crs have ranged across east
Prussia on sovcral forays this
year.)
Air Struggle
A violent spring air struggle
continued along the entire RuS'
slnn front as soviet bombers and
fighters sought to disrupt any
German plans for an offensive.
While announcing that there
were no significant changes
on the front, tho Russian noon
communique did report that a
battalion of German infantry at-
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Roosevelt Asks
Appropriation
For Shasta Dam
WASHINGTON, Moy J(fl-
Prcsldcnt Roosevelt asked con
gress today to provldo $16,400,
000 to cxpcdlto completion of
the Shasta dam and power plant
of tho Control Valley project In
California.
The work yet to bo done In
cludes installation of two kilo-volt-ampere
generating units
transmission and switching facil
ities for which authority has
boon granted by the war produc
tion board.
The request for funds was sub
mitted to tho house.
Tho budget bureau, transmit
ting the Interior department's
request to the president, said tho
work was considered "vital ad
ditions to the hydro-electric
power supply of that area, for
the production of war matorlal
and the conservation of fuel oil."
I GUNS
RAKE NAZIS
KUBAN SECTOR
Patterson, Jeffers View Field Trip
To Settle Rubber vs.
WASHINGTON. May 3 M5)
Undersecretary of War Rdbort
P. Patterson disclosed today that
ho and Rubber Director William
Joffcrs will attempt to settle a
priorities squabble by a personal
inspection designed to "break
bottlenecks whero wo find them"
In rubber and gnsolino plants.
After telling tho senate s Tru
man committee that tho allied of
fensive in the nlr is threatened
with "a seflous shortage In 100
octane gasoline," Patterson said
that Jeff mid I" had discussed
the problem and decided to
mako "a field trip together to
viow the situation in a practical
way."
Tho undcrsec rotary s pro
nounced affability toward Jot-
ten contrasted with his recent
ASSOCIATED
PRICR FIVE Clutil",'"" .
Forester Coming
F'r ....
Horace J. Andrews, regional
forester, will make his first vis-
It to Klamath Falls in that ca
pacity next Friday, when he
will address the Stop Forest
Fires banquet Friday evening.
The public is Invited to this
dinner, which is set for 7 p. m.
at the Wlllard.
FLIERS BLAST JAF ,
Hits Also Scored on
Field, Revetment
Area on Munda
WASHINGTON, May 3 (IP)
American fliers bombed Japan's
Aleutians base at Kiska 13 times
on Saturday, tho navy reported
today, causing a heavy explosion
at North Head, the mouth of
Kiska harbor, .setting several
fires and damuging the airplane
runway.
The same day other bombers
attacked Attu, a Japanese out
post 200 miles from Kiska, but
results of the raid were not re
ported.
The text of navy communique
No. 363, which told also of a
new raid on much-bombed Mun
da in the central Solomons:
'South Pacific (all dates are
East Longitude).
"I. On May 2nd, during tho
day, a force of Avenger (Grum-
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Mussolini Asks
Aid From Hitler
LONDON, May 3 (P) The
Morocco radio in a report credit
ed to "Berlin correspondents of
neutral papers asserted tonight
that Premier Mussolini in a note
to Adolf Hitler had asked for Im
mediate military and economic
assistance.
It said that tho note also asked
that Italian troops be removed
from Tunisia simultaneously
with and under the same condi
tions as German troops.
The broadcast was recorded
by The Associated Press. 1
protest that the rubber direct
or's program for construction of
Buna S rubber plants was given
preference over aviation gasoline
nt tho expense of retarding the
nlr offensive. Patterson testified
In Jcffcrs' stead, today because,
said Chairman Truman (D-Mo.),
ho "did not want to crowd Jef
fers out of last place."
"Lock In Room"
Referring to a recent sugges
tion of Senator Ferguson (R
Mich.) that Jeffers and Patterson
"lock themselves up in a room
and scttlo their differences," the
undersecretary said he thought
tho field trip a better method.
"Mr, Jcffcrs is a practical man
and I hopo I am," ho said. "We
have high hopes that we will
achieve something."
Crisis
ifls nun ijj
'HASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
kLLs, OREGON,
Mopped
IN TRICKLE
TO DIGGINGS
AFTEHJRDER
Flags Wave, at Shafts
As Government
Takes Over
NEW YORK, May 3 (IP)
John L. Lewis declared today
that the United Mine Work
ers' demands on the federal
government In the miners'
wage dispute would be the
same as the original one made
upon the operators and added
that he was "awaiting the in
itiative from Mr. Ickes."
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 3 The
coal crista averted, miners start
ed back to work today In a trick'
le that promised to grow into
a stream by nightfall and to have
the mines running fully by to
morrow morning.
Their new employer was the
United States government, whose
commander in -chief,- president
Roosevelt, called on the men to
get back to digging the coal so
necessary for. war production
The stars and stripes waved over
the shafts, symbolic of the gov
ernment which stepped in when
John L. Lewis United Mine
Workers stopped work last
week.
Flag of True
A symbolic flog of truce, too,
accompanied the return. For
Lewis and other UMW officials
asked the miners to resume work
tomorrow morning on a 15-day
temporary basis.
Mn,l nf thncA whn havA been
on strike appeared delaying their
return until Lewis date of to
morrow, and in some instances
today where men showed up
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Chautemps Tells
Of Attempts to
Move Capita
NEW YORK, Moy 3 (fl5) -
Camile Chautemps, French vice
premier at the time of the Ger
man armistice, said in a letter
to tho New York Times publish'
ed today that Marshal Pctaln
arranged for him to transfer Uie
French government to North Af
rica in June, 1940, and that vio
lent Intervention by Pierre
val, now chief of government,
prevented fruition of the plan.
Admiral Jean Darlan "worked
loyally" for the plan though he
had no part, in the decision
Chautemps wrote.
Chautemps, who now lives in
Chevy Chase, Md., said Marshal
Pctaln had designated him to be
chief of the- new government
abroad because the marshal pre
ferred to stay in France to ful
fill a promise to the people.
Gas Question
Taking Issue with WPB Chair
man Donald M. Nelson, Patter
son said the nhtlon's armed forc
es are faced with "a' serious
shortage of 100 octane gasoline."
Nelson,, Patterson . testified,
"was mistaken" when he told the
committee last week that the
grounding of planes for opera
tional training in this country
was the "results of faulty distri
bution" rather than "over-all
shortage" and that the gasoline
might be "at the wrong points."
, Inasmuch as we have been un
able to maintain any reserves in
this country, Mr, Nelson's re
marks on maldistribution were
undoubtedly directed at our
working supplies or operation
reservos at overseas bases," Pat
terson asserted, -
MONDAY, MAY 8, 1943
nn
Jl
Boys
Jerry Merrill (left), IS, and his brother, Giles, 12, operate this tiny ."war plant" In the base
ment of their home at Fort Wayne, Ind., where they produce delicately-tooled airplane parts for
the army air forces. Army officials said that the boys' product, composed of eight finely tooled
parts, was u good at that turned out by large firms.
alljoprai
Regional Agreements
Replace Previous -Order
WASHINGTON, May 3 (IP)
Manpower Commissioner Paul
V. McNutt said today that plans
for a nationwide . employment
stabilization order : have been
dropped. Twelve regional agree
ments are to take its place.
Most of the regional manage
ment-labor pacts, of which nine
have been completed, will re
quire essential workers to get a
certificate of availability be
fore transferring to a new job,
regardless of whether it calls
for more, less or the same
wages.
The wage-job freeze of April
17 covered only transfers at
higher pay but in other respects
the regional agreements are
more liberal.
They permit workers to
change jobs for more money if
laid off or discharged, if they
are working only part time or
if they would make a greater
contribution to the war effort
by taking the new position.
McNutt said the regional
agreements also would permit
transfers In hardship cases," or
in situations where- the. shift
was necessitated by compelling
personal circumstances.
The regional control- agree
ments are temporary, to be re
placed as rapidly as possible.
McNutt said, by permanent
ones.
Four-Motored Army
Bomber Crashes
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho,
May 3 UP) A four-engined ar
my bomber, believed to be from
Gowen field, at Boise, crashed
about a mile and a quarter east
of here early today, barely miss
ing several farm houses.
Wreckage was strewn over a
farm for a quarter of a mile.
Residents said they saw the
plane, flying low, pass over
Mountain Home at 2:55 a. m.,
Mountain War time, and a min
ute later heard an explosion and
watched the plane glide for a
short distance and crash. The
bodies of three airmen were
found near, the wreckage.
DE GAULLE MEETING
ALGIERS, May 3 (Gen
eral Henri Giraud has asked
General Charles de Gaulle to
meet him in North Africa : "as
soon after May 0 as possible"
to conclude an agreement be
tween the Giraud and Fighting
French forces, it was announced
tonight.
NEA FEATURES
Number
Operate Basement 'War
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Savage Air Battle Over
Australia Batters Allies
J ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, May 3 (IP) A
powerful fleet of Japanese air
planes 21 bombers and 30 fight
ers struck 'savagely at the al
lied airdrome near Darwin, Aus
tralia, Sunday and inflicted
heavy losses on allied fighters
in a fierce air battle.
Spitfires, manned by Austral
ian and British pilots, rose in
force to intercept. The ensuing
battle raged over the Darwin
area and the ArafOra sea to the
north. Thirteen enemy planes
House Debates
Pay-as-you-go
Tax Measures
WASHINGTON, May 3 (IP)
Opening the climactic house de
bate on pay-as-you-go tax legis
lation, Chairman Doughton (D
N.C.) of the ways ' and means
committee termed the republi
can-supported Ruml skip-a-tax-year
plan "an iniquitous tax
policy.
He shouted to the house that
he hopes "it will be overwhelm
ingly rejected and killed so dead
that it will never again be resur
rected." . ,
Republicans, in addresses pre
pared for delivery, countered
with charges that the democrat
ic-supported bill to apply 1941
rates and exemptions to 1942 in
come, calling for a partial doub
ling up on income taxes, is a
seventh heaven for loan sharks."
Irwin Wissenback
Arrives Home After
French Air Action
- Tech. Sgt. Irwin Wissenback,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wis
senback of Shady Pine, arrived
home Monday morning after fly
ing from Washington, D. C, to
Sacramento, and from there by
train to Klamath Falls. He is
wearing the Purple Heart and
the Air Medal, received in Eng
land.
Young Wissenback, who made
his way back to England after
being shot down in France, was
ordered to return to this country
for a rest. He was sent to Wash
ington by the war department.
Titus Trial Date
Set by Vandenberg
Trial of William E. Titus, Bly
justice- of the peace, on charges
of first degree murder, will be
held on June 1.
Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg set the date when Ti
tus was brought Into court Mon
day morning. The Bly man is
accused of murdering his wife,
fcrma, wan a snotgun. l
9787
mm
Plant'
were destroyed or damaged; the
noon communique said. '- "
"Our own losses were heavy,"
it added.
. First Heavy Loss
There was no elaboration.. It
was the first time, however, in
a year of aerial warfare in the
southwest Pacific : that a com
munique had referred to allied
air losses as heavy. ... .
Three enemy fighters were de
stroyed; one bomber and nine
fighters were damaged. - -
Even as the Japanese appeared
above . Darwin airdrome, allied
airmen ranged over enemy tar
gets from New Britain to Timor.
The Mubo area, 15 miles south of
the Japanese base of Salamaua,
New Guinea, came in for a par
ticularly concentrated attack. A
medium force of Boston attack
bombers made 42 bombing and
strafing runs over the Green's
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Fair Results
Told as Fish
Season Opens
Water was high but fair re
sults were reported from the
opening of the fishing season lost
weekend. Gas rationing mater
ially reduced the size of the fish
ing crowd from the army that
has rushed to streams and lakes
on the opening weekends of
other years.
One lucky angler was Mrs.
Clarence Snodgrass, who took a
61 -pound Dolly Varden and three
Silversides from Odell lake.
Good catches were general at
that lake.
Successful catches were re
ported on Rock creek, Sprague
river and Butte creek.
Omaha World
Newspaper
NEW YORK, May 3 (IP) The
Omaha, Neb., World-Herald was
awarded the Pulitzer prize today
for "the most disinterested and
meritorious public service rend
ered by an American newspaper"
during 1942.
Hanson W. Baldwin, of the
New York Times, received the
annual prize for "distinguished
correspondence" for his report of
his tour of the southwest Pacific.
The award for distinguished
editorial writing went to For
rest W. Seymour of the Des
Moines, Iowa, Register and Tri
bune. Gold Medal
The gold medal award to the
Omaha World-Herald for disin
terested and meritorious public
service was made, the trustees
announced, "for its initiative and
j
May High 73, Low 40
Frsclpltation aa of April 26, 194
Straam year to data , 14.74
Last yaar 10.82 Normal ....10.00
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UP STAND IN
12-Mile Push Tops
Weeks of Bitter
' Fighting
By EDWARD KENNEDY '
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN-NORTH AFRICA, May 3
(IP) United States troops cap
tured Mateur today in a 12 mile
push climaxing almost two
weeks of bitter fighting as the
Germans pulled out of that com
munications base . and other
northern positions to take up s
stand in their last mountain
lines.
French and American forces
operating along the coast swept
to within 15 miles of the Bizerta
naval base. ,
. Mateur Taken
A special communique an
nounced that Mateur, a key of
rail and road lines between Bi
zerte and Tunis, was occupied
by United States forces this
morning..
- The text of the special com
munique: "After ' heavy fighting : and
maintaining pressure during the
past few days, American troops
have forced the enemy to make,
a ; considerable withdrawal in
coastal areas and occupied Ma-: .
teurthlTntoTTalSgr'Several hun
dred German prisoners have:
been captured." - .
'Entry Told' .
Advices from the front this
afternoon told of the American
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Rain Run-off
Floods Sections
Of Poe Valley
i Run-off from an unusually
heavy spring rain, which pelted
the Klamath basin last week, is
flooding some sections of Poe
valley, according to the US bur
eau of reclamation. Outside of a
delay in crop planting and dam
age, to some pasture land, little
harm is expected from the two
inch precipitation.
A similar situation occurred
in 1938, according to E. L. Steph
ens, associate engineer. Officials
reported the Lost river diversion
channel carrying 1000 second
feet of water but no water Is
spilling over below Wilson dam.
- Reclamation men said the
peak was reached some time
early Monday morning at the
Lost river diversion channel, and
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Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H.. E.
Philadelphia ..... 3 7 0
Brooklyn 5 12 0
Gerheauser, Howe and Living
ston; Higbe and Moore.
R. H. E.
Pittsburgh .. 5 H 3
Cincinnati 7 17 1
Butcher, Dietz (6), Brandt (6),
Shuman (8), and Baker; Vander
meer, Rldde (7), and Mueller, .
-Herald Given
Pulitzer Prize
originality in planning a stale
wide campaign for the collection
of scrap metal for the war ef
fort." , ;
- "The Nebraska plan was
adopted on a national scale by
the dally newspapers," the trus
tees said, "resulting tn a united,
effort which succeeded in sup-,
plying our war Industries with
necessary scrap material."
Sinclair Gets Award
Prizes were awarded to Upton
Sinclair for his novel "Dragon's ,
Teeth" and to Thornton Wilder
for his play "The Skin of Our,
Teem."
Frank Noel, of The Associated
Press, received the award for
"an outstanding example of news
photography for his photograph
entitled "Water," distributed b
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GERMANS TAK
TUN
S AN HILLS