and
raiimiraiiiiiiii
One B-mlnute bint on sirens and whistles
l the signal for blackout In Klamath
Falls. Anolhtr long blast during a black
out, la ilgnal (or all-ritar. In precau
tionary ptrlodi, watch your street HghU.
May High TO, Low
Praclpltatlon aa ol April 17, 1IU
Straam yaar to data i aa
Lait yaar 11.08 Normal 10.12
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1943
Number 9788
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ft By FRANK JENKINS
("UR Americana hnvo (topped
,v Into the apotllght In Tunisia.
."THEY took Mateur yesterday,
pushed on through, split Into
two columns and funned out to
tho north and to the south,
, Their north-driving column Is
. reported today to be within long
: range- artillery shot of Ferry-
villa, which lies just across Lake
', Bixerte from the town of tho
. same name, whore the former
French navnl base Is located.
Their column that Is headed
. south Is reported within 10 miles
of Tebourba.
OjF you want to understand the
threat that Is faced by tho Gor
' mans as a result of this new
thrust by, the Americans, you'll
. have to consult your map. The
, situation can't ba made clear
with words alone.
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. yOUR map will tell you that if
Patton's men. can continue
on down the road from Mateur
to Tebourba they can threaten
, the flank of the Gorman who
ara holding-tip the British in the
Medjerda valley,
, tit Is here that the dangerous
; British tank (bruit toward tho
Tunis' plain -Itoppad Jjy the
' Germans in desperate fighting
, the .othor day.- They - simply
, MUSTN'T let thr-Brltlsh brenk
. through with tanks Into tho open
country before Tunis, aa that
Qwould probably be fatal.)'
If our men coming In from the
north can threaten the German
flank with sufficient force, they
may force a retirement at this
strategic point.
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THERE Is another possibility.
If they can push on southeast
from Mateur, they may bo able
to cut the ONLY road that con
nects Bizcrte and Tunis, thus
splitting the Germans Into two
pockets something we've been
trying to do ever since the Tu
nisian fighting started.
This road runs through
swampy ground, and of course
will be bitterly defended by the
Germans. There must be hard
fighting before it can be taken.
'THE Gormnns are all twittered
up ovor alleged allied naval
activity at Gibraltar. (You'll re
nember they were tolling sev
eral days ago about a powerful
British naval force which, they
said, had ' passed through the
strait headed cost.)
Captain Ludwig Scrtorlus, a
German military commentator
who . has been much on tho air
lately, thinks we may be plan
ning a large-scale invasion of
Sicily and Sardinia without wait
ing for the conclusion of the
fighting in Tunisia.' Ho says tho
'' army under General Clark we've
been holding for months across
the strait from Gibraltar has
been trained as a nucleus for
SEVERAL allied armies.
Mussolini la reported , by the
Morocco radio today to have
sent a new appeal to Hitler for
help to rcpol possible Invasion
f f Italy from the south.
Q
THE Germans say today (by
A radio) that in April they sank
only 400,000 tons of our shipping
as compared with 600,000 tons
in March,
- Maybe, they admit, this was
due to weathor unfavorable for
submarines, Maybe It was be
cause we didn't have SO MANY
SHIPS at sea.
The point is that If We didn't
have so many ships at sea for
the subs to sink It would be a
sign that we're collecting ves
sels for another Invasion armada.
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DEAD these enemy specula
tlons, but bo careful to keep
your fingers crossed. They may
pe Just propaganda designed to
mislead us and certainly aren't
Intended to tip us off to anything
rtorth while. But we can't for
got that similar German stories
did glvo us our first hint of tho
Impending invasion of Africa.
EDDY GILMORE, AP corrcs--'
pondent In Moscow, says tho
battle, of the Kuban delta Is In
full swing and may be the- be
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TULELAKE WRA
I
Stockman Gets Total;
9 Months Operation
Hits $4,947,398
It cost nearly $7,000,000 to
build tho Tulolako war roloca
tlon project and operations for
nlno months Involved an outlay
of nearly $9,000,000, Tho Herald
and News learned today through
Congressman Lowell Stockman,
At tho request of the news
paper, Congressman Stockman
several weeks ago made inquir
ies on costs of tho Tulclake pro
ject, and reported the results to
day. The figures had not been
previously disclosed here.
Secretary of war Henry L.
Stimson Informed Congressman
Stockman that the corps of engi
neers built tho Tulclake center
at a cost of $8,975,418.
E. M. Rowalt, acting director
of the war relocation authority,
Informed the congressman that
"actual obligations' for oper
ation of tho Tulclake center from
July 1, 1942, through March 31,
1943, were $4,947,308.76.
Breakdown
The operations coats were
broken down as follows:
Indefinite Personal
Services I 294,108,86
Evncuoo Personal
Services ", 894.084.08
Travel " " 10,li8fl.3
Transportation of
Things 210,864.49
Communications .... 6,533.66
Rents and Utilities.. 6fl.889.49
Othor Contractual
Services 33,879.40
Supplies and Ma
terials 2,754,680.65
Equipment 202,169.49
Grants 471,302.51
Total $4,047,398.76
Rowalt added in his letter to
the congressman that the Tulc-
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German Troops
Faff Back Near
Novorossisk
LONDON, May 4 .(Ft The
German radio announced tonight
that nazl troops had fallen back
to new defensive positions In the
western Caucasus Just west of
Krymskaya, 17 miles northeast
of Novorossisk,
Tho DNB report, recorded by
Tho Associated Press, said the
Germans withdrew "after with
standing heavy soviet attacks in
tho Kuban delta for four days."
Krymskaya Is 50 miles west of
Krasnodar and about 30 miles
from the nearest reaches of the
Black sea.
German and Russian accounts
for two weeks or more have told
of heavy fighting. The Russians
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PROJECT COS
SEVEN fvlILLiriN
Sgt Lyle Kidd Gets Air
Medal at Andrea no f Base
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Staff Sgt. Kidd
Uncle Sam Takes
t K
Unci Bam takes over ih
and Old Glory Is raised over the.
10 of tha Pittsburgh Coal Co.;
flags to be hoisted to signify that the mines war balng operated
under government control. Fuel Administrator Harold Icke was
empowered to operate Ih struck
troops.
Navy Force Grabs Russell
Islands Near Guadalcanal
By The Associated Brest,.,
- ' : ' . . : ' , i--
American occupation of the
Russell Islands 18 miles oft the
northwestern tip of Guadalcanal
was announced today by the
navy.
The occupation, which took
ploco in February after the con
quest of Guadalcanal, strength
ened the position there and
marked the second extension of
Pacific bases announced In the
last fortnight. On April 23 the
navy reported that marine forces
had moved Into the Ellico is
lands, In the south central Paci
fic.
No Resistance
The Russell group was occu
pied without resistance. .
The navy also announced at
tacks on Japanese installations
at Munda; in the central Solo-
Eleven Killed
In Fire, Blast
At Powder Plant
ELKTON, Md., May 4 m-
At least 11 persons were report
ed dead and 74 more were re-'
ported Injured today In a blast
at tho Triumph explosive works.
The explosion occurred in a
building used for' storage and
another building nearby was
damaged.
Fire broke out immediately
and firo companies from Elkton,
Northeast, Chesapeake City, Md
and Newark, Del., were rushed
to tho scene. .
From an advanced base in the
Andreanof J s 1 a n d s, Alaska,
comes word of the Air Mev.al
award given to Staff Sgt. E. Lyle
Kidd of Bly, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Kidd of that community.
Major General William O. But
ler, commanding general of the
eleventh air force, bestowed the
medals aa the men stood within
a Liberator rovetment while
bomber, transport, fighter and
patrol planes were roaring off
tho runways.
Some of the medals were for
brave action as far back as June,
1942, but General Butler and his
filers have not been able to get
together for the decorations, it
was learned.
Staff Sgt. Kidd joined the
army air corps September 15,
1941, at Klamath Falls. He was
employed for several' years at
crane mills In Bly. Following
his enlistment he was sent to
Fort Douglas, U., then to Jeffer
son Barracks, Mo., where he took
a six weeks' course in radio.
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Over Coal Mine
country's strike bound coal mints
Library, Pa., Montour Mine No.
altar president Roosevelt ordered
mines under protection of army
monK at ReJtB bay-oi'SBntB
1 i I l-T j. 1 . .iu,' IJ.
Isabel island; and eight raids
Sunday on Kiska, in tne -Aleutian
island chain. ' ' .:,
A Japanese official called at
tention today to American and
British war production and as
serted that the Mikado's armies
now had reserve material left
for only "a short period of-the
war."
A Tokyo broadcast . quoted
Kisanosuke Yamada, high war
production official, as saying:
"The productive strength of
America and Britain Is pitted
against the productive strength
of our nation. Strength of pro
duction is strongest . in Amer
ica ... . ships, planes and other
things are being produced at
tremendous rate. ,
Other Developments
- Other - Pacific war develop
ments:
- Australia Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's headquarters disclosed
that admittedly "heavy" allied
losses suffered in a battle Sun
day over the Arafura sea off
Darwin, Australia, were caused
.by violent winds not by Japan
ese ngnting skin.
A spokesman said allied fight
ers pursued the Japanese raiders
far out over the sea, and when
they headed for home they ran
Into buffeting headwinds. Some
were unable to land, others
crash-landed on the Australia
shore.
No Loss Report
The extent of allied losses
was not given, but a spokesman
said three pilots were missing
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" . . -,i
House Returns
Pay-aS'You-Go
To Ways, Means
WASHINGTON, May 4 (P)
Climaxing a long-deadlocked,
hlitorie struggle to find a
method for placing the In
come tax system on a pay-as-you-go
basis, the house
passed and sent to the senate
today a compromise bill da
signed to abate the 1942 tax
debts of approximately 90
: per cent of the nation's tax
payers. WASHINGTON, May 4 W
Ready to compromise but unwill
ing to cancel a complete year's
tax debts for everyone, the
houso returned the pay-as-you-go
tax bill to its ways arid means
committee today with orders to
bring back legislation abating
1942 tax obligations of approxi
mately 90 per cent of the na
tion's taxpayers.
The action came after the
democratic majority, with his
tory repeating itself, refused by
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15-Day Truce
Declared in
Coal Deadlock
, WASHINGTON May 4 W) Fuels Administrator Ickes said
today the deadlock between coal mine operators and miners re
mains the same a it has been except that the miners have gone
back to work now for another 15 days.
Ickes, who a little earlier in the day had ordered a six-day
work 'week throughout the coal mining Industry, said that ne
gotiations for a settlement of the miner-operator wage dispute
would have to be conducted directly by representatives -of the
owners . and union, "subject to approval by the war labor board."
1 . . a
Dawn Battle, Finished
By Torpedo
. Attack
WASHINGTON, May 4 (ff)
: The navy reported today that
United States submarines had
sunk six Japanese ships, in
cluding two destroyers, - and
probably sunk si seventh' dur
ing operations in tha Pacific '
; WASHINGTON, May 4 VP)
An American light naval force,
outnumbered two to one, re
pelled a Japanese supply expedi
tion west of the Aleutian islands
March 26, the navy -reported to
day, and dame ged s t. least too
enemy -heavy cruisers and' one
ugru cruiser. j, v,,,, ... vi
. United' States ships suffered
Only minor damage and casual
ties to personnel were extremely
light, a navy communique said.
. Starts at Dawn . .
The battle started shortly after
dawn and lasted three and a half
hours. It ended- when daring
destroyers made-a torpedo at
tack" on the Japanese and the
enemy withdrew. -Navy
1 communique- number
365-said:
"North Pacific: . "
"I. Announcement may now
be made of additional details of
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Lumber Product
Companies Told
No Price Raise
- WASHINGTON, May , 4
Producers of lumber and wood
products, seeking higher price
ceilings on articles manufactured
from, logs and bolts, were warn
ed yesterday by the office- of
price administration that no con
sideration would bo given to in
creased production, costs based
on above-celling prices paid for
raw materials.
; An order effective Saturday
makes the already, established
maximum prices for logs and
bolts the highest costs that can
be considered, and . will act-as
"Indirect control" on values for
standing trees, the OPA said.
; Competition for the wood sup
ply has encouraged some mills,
the OPA explained, to buy and
bid up stumpage to speculative
levels, consequently making it
unprofitable for persons to sell
logs and bolts at present ceiling
prices and shutting out regular
log and bolt buying plants which
were observing the ceilings.
Baseball
i AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Chicago 1 5 0
Cleveland 2 ; 10 0
; Dietrich and Tresh; Bagby
and Rostr.
Washington 1 3 1
Philadelphia 3 10 1
: Leonard and Early; Flores and
Swift.
Boston - 3 - 61
New York .. .;....;..........4 9 1
Dobson, Brown (7) and Par
tee; Chandler and Sears.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
. ' R. H. E.
New York .3 6 . 1
Boston 5 7 0
Lohrman, Mungo (7) and
Mancuso: Tobln and Masl.
Pittsburgh :....8 9 2
Cincinnati ', 3 13 1
Resclgno and Lopez; Starr,
Malloy (3), Heusser (5) and
Mueller, DePhllllps (7V
No Authority
He said that he has no au
thority by law or by executive
order to settle the dispute, and
he told reporters flatly:
"There is no way out if it
means by-passing the war labor
board.
.Negotiations must be. car
ried out by representatives-of
the operators and miners sub
ject to approval by the ' war
labor board. .,
Ickes, at a special conference,
said he knew of no arrange
ments for the resumption of ne
gotlations and that he had had
no communication with either
side . since his conversations
with United Mine Workers'
president, John It. Lewis, Sun
day.- ' .
Asked whether the. 15-day
truce called by Lewis Sunday
night to start today was in re
turn for anything Ickes would
do, or try to do, the fuels ad
ministrator said, , ".no conditions
were, asked .and none was
given.". i'.
.He'saldhe suggested a two-
weh true but that whsji Lew
is len iner lueurottice hexe sun-
day morning he (Ickes) did not
know what the miners' presi
dent was going to do. .
. Asked why he had proposed
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Lomax to Ask
New Trial in :
"Lower 13" Case
PORTLAND, May 4 (At
torney Leroy L. Lomax said to
day he . had sent to Albany, a
motion for a new trial in; the
lower 13. murder case.
Robert E. Lee Folkes, 20, ne
gro dining car cook, was. con
victed of murdering Mrs. Martha
Virginia James, 21, Norfolk,
Va.,, as- she- layi in .her- berth,
lower 13, on a speeding train
January 23, . He- is under - sen
tence, to die in the gas chamber
at the state penitentiary May 22.
Lomax, ' who defended Folkes
in the trial, said he .also had
prepared another motion asking
dismissal of the first degree mur
der charge against Folkes.- He
contended, the trial judge erred
in permitting prosecutors to in
troduce what they , said was a
transcription of a confession, by
Folkes. . . ... . ; . , i
Erwin vVissehback H ome After Jump Off
Burning Plane, Escape From Nazi Europe
: Klamath-county was proud to
day to welcome home Tech. Sgt.
Et'.wln Wissenback, Shady Pine
youth who holds the distinction
of being the first non-commissioned
officer in the United
States army air force to escape
from Occupied Europe following
a bombing raid over the contin
ent. Packed into every hour of al
most five months was a lifetime
of thrills that Erwin Wissenback
can look back upon.
' His story cannot be told. But
what can be told is the thrill of
leaping from a burning Flying
Fortress, the feel of earth leap
ing up toward your feet, the snap
of a parachute as it opens to the
air, a circling Focke-Wulf 190
hovering near your body as it
dangles a thousand feet above
the ground!
Erwin Is back home. Sitting
with his feet under the table
while his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Wissenback, piled his
plate high with pork chops and
mashed potatoes topped off with
cake and ice creaml i : ' :
: "This is the first Ice cream
I've had since I left America in
September last year," mumbled
Erwin with his mouth pleasantly
full.;
; Young - Wissenbsjk, awarded
Center of Row
: v
(Credit Telephoto)
With a smile that belied the
seriousness of the mine crisis.
John L. Lewis, above, is shown
emerging from a meeting of the
United Mine Workers' Interna.
iional Policy committee in New
York, where . Lewis' reply to
President Roosavelrs ultima
turn was approved. Today Fuels
Administrator Ickes , said the
mine deadlock remains the
same " except . that the miners
have gone back to work for an
other 15 days.
CITY FREEZES LOTS
Alameda Relocation
. ; Plan ; Indicated By -State
Request;
City-owned property along
Alameda street, paralleling . the
Southern Pacific railroad to the
city limits, was "frozen" Mon
day night by the city council
at - the request of the Oregon
state .highway department.
Simultaneously, tentative
plans, for . relocating the state
highway through . the city of
Klamath Falls, were outlined
on a map showing the proposed
relocation of the route.
Whether this will be an im
mediate project, or a post-war
job, was not indicated by state
highway officials here' or ' in
Salem, but it is presumed that
no such construction project
will be undertaken until after
the war.
A- previous request made of
the Klamath county court to
freeze county owned lots, was
also granted, it is understood.
Map Presented .
For several 'years there have
been reports of the possibility
of the re-routing of the state
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Erwin Wissenback
the Purple Heart and the Air
Medal, by General Eaker, com
manding general of the eighth
air force, following his return to
England from Occupied Europe,
was on his first bombing mis
sion over the continent, when
out of the early morning . sky
came a flock of Focke-Wulf 180s
looking like a nest of hornets.
Flying -In formation with -the
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nmuiiuniiu
PUSH TOWARD
FLHHYVILLL
French Make Progress
North of Lake
Achkel
WITH THE AMERICAN
ARMY IN NORTHERN TUNI
SIA, May 4 (P) An American-French
column, pushing
along the northern shores of
Lake Achkel advanced two
miles overnight and now
standi within artillery range
of Bisarte.
The allied column swung
toward the great naval base
after an advance bringing
more than half the northern
shore of the lake under allied
controL It encountered some
resistance la the rough terrain.
By WILLIAM B. KINO
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 4 W
Swift-driving American troops,
quick to capitalize on their mid
dle position after the seizure of
Mateur, pounded forward hard
today on the heels of retreating
Germans toward Ferryville,
which is 10 miles to the north
east and: the dock area of the
naval base of Bizerte.
.At the same time other forces
fanned out toward , the south
east . juJ, sroshed to a point
eight' miles south of Mateur to-
nranl ha lliut if h Tirw rim,. '
only, six miles northwest of Ten ,
bourbe, the gateway to Tunis. -:
Close to Tebourba
After advancing;, about 10
miles the Americans, were only
10 miles from Tebourba.. , -
- (The French, in a communique
recorded by The Associated
Press from the Algiers radio,
said "considerable progress" was
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J offers Fights I
Curtailment of
... :
Kiiooer rrogram
, WASHINGTON, May 4 OP)
Rubber Director Jeffers contend
ed today that prosecution of the
synthetic rubber program had
"dragged forward" aviation gaso
line production and. said any
curtailment of his program
would be "a tragic error."
Accepting in "the same spirit
in which it was made" Under
secretary of -War. Patterson's
statement yesterday that the two
would work together to break
bottlenecks, Jeffers told the sen
ate Truman committee: :
"We are both struggling to
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Clay Pigeon Squadron, was Er
win's . brother, Darwin, . waist
gunner in a companion "Fort."
This Is Erwln's story:
"We had Just gotten over the
channel when we saw this bunch
of Focke-Wulfs coming at us and
those Germans can fly those
planes. They're Goering's own
personnel picked fighters and
they were laying for the Forts
as they came over.
"They came In fast. I shot at
several ships, hit one and saw it
burst into.flames, the engine dis
integrating from a burst of 80
calibres and then I turned to get
another. . I wasn't scared. There
I sat in the top .turret of the
Snoozy, that was the name of
our Fort, and I felt that I could
shoot at them but they couldn't
get me.- I'll tell you one thing,
you're scared all the time until
you get into the actual shooting.
Then you aren't scared any more.
You remember everything auto
matically and yov' Just start
shooting. . - ,
"We had been hit by flak
and that sent us out of form"
tlon and that was the same time
that these Jerrys jumped us.
We were losing altitude in the
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