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VHE highlight of today's
African news Is the recapture
by the British of ihe bloody crest
Of the OJebel Bou Aoukaz, the
2000-foot hill thnt guarda the Inst
approach by way of tho Mod
Jerda yalloy to the Tunis ploln.
An artillery barrage of unbe
lievable intensity, auch m tho
British have been using success
fully In' the pinches over slnco
Rommel was first dislodged from
his El Alnmoln stronghold, drove
the Germans from the top of the
hill.' and the tough British In
fantry followed up with their
.bayonets.
.
TF you want a mental picture
V of the DJobct Bou Aoukaz,
take a good look at fnmlllnr
Stukel mountain, south of town.
Tht two are essentially similar.)
CARTHER north, our Americans
r ara ' mopping up the hills
around Lake Achkel, which lies
Just-southeast of Blterte. They're
aiming, evidently,' at Terryvllle,
dgbt milea across Lake Blterte
from the town of tho same name.
iAt Forryvillc, we'd be within
asy artillery range o the naval
base stronghold,
'.'A long itha Mediterranean
coast, the French are still report
ed about 10 miles from Blzerto-
also easy1 arttlleryronge. -M 1
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N the far south, the" Germans
mtiit hu :hmn holdlntf un
Montgomery In the hills north of
Enfldavllle are reported todoy
to be mining the area heavily,
. (This la Interpreted as meaning
that they're getting ready for an
other retirement.)
.
tN; the Kuban delta, the Rus
' sians are more or less duplicat
ing what we're doing In Tunisia.
They're reported today to be
closing In steadily on Novoros
slsk (which, like Blzerte, is a
naval base.) .
Tho Russian' Black sea fleet Is
hanging In the offing, ready to
wade In if the Germans are
forced to try a Dunkerque across
the Kerch strait. ,
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THERE'S nothing new from
German sources as this Is
written regarding the expedition
5 we're supposed to be sending In
to t h e Mediterranean from
Gibraltar, but Elmer Davis, head
of the Office of War Information
' (In Washington), chips In today
With a statement to the effect
that there Is sure to be an allied
assault on the European contln
antVf.ils summer, and adds that
t CAN start before Tunis and
Blzerte fall.:
That Is to say, he's adding fuel
to the German reports (and
fears), Instead of denying them.
r , That's what's called "war of
nerves."
' . .
OTALIN provides today's most
Interesting story.
Ralph Parker, New York
Times correspondent, taking a
leaf- from AP: Henry. Cassldy'a
book, asks the head of all the
Q Russia a couple Of questions:
" l, What . does ; Russia . want
from Poland?
2. What should be the funda
mentals' of Russian-Polish rela
tions? ' .
.Stalin, scorning traditional
diplomatic double-talk, answers
straight from the shouldor, In
language anyone can understand.
!'. V
TJE says: '.
1. Russia wants a strong and
INDEPENDENT Poland after
Hitler Germany Is defeated.
2. .The fundamentals of Russian-Polish
relations should bs
good1,, neighborly understandings
and 'mutual respect, "or, should
the 'Polish pcoplo so desire, an
alliance providing for mutual
assistance against the GERMANS
as the CHIEF ENEMIES of the
0 Soviet Union and Poland."
pv ... , '
""THAT sounds like good sense,
plainly stated. It leads to the
conviction that, the basically
senslblo PEOPLE of America (as
differentiated from grabbing
politicians-and nutty sentiment
alists whose heads are. eternally
up Iff the rosy clouds) ought to bo
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REDS
AIROAD TO
Soviet Army Smashes
Through Kuban
Delta Bulge
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, May 8 (!) The
red army, hummerliig today at
tho northeast approaches to Nov
orosslsk, has taken a dozen more
vlllogcs In the area In addition
to Krymskaya and nine other
towns which tho Soviets an
nounced they captured yesterday
in smashing through the Kuban
delta bulge toward the Black sea
port.
One of the villages Is about
nine miles northeast of Novoros
slsk in the hilly march country
through which the soviet troops
are sweeping the Germans
toward the sea In a drive gain
ing dally momentum.
Way Paved
Massive artillery barges paved
the way for new thrusts rand
mowed down hundreds of Ger-:
man and Rumanian soldiers In
the front lines and In deeply
fortified positions.
Soviet bombing planes sprayed
tho axis troops with bombs and
cannon fire as they tried to cling
to their defense points against
the mounting pressure. ' Bomber
and fighter pluuas also continued
to pound the German-held rail
ways behind tho front' .lines.
Prisoners,, poured back , to tho
soviet rear. .'.;
. Axis Weakened . .
' The loss of 7000 dead and of
numerous men captured in the
last few days has' weakened the
axis forces but their strength
probably remains far from
crushed. For weeks Hitler has
been , bringing up tanks and
munitions, possibly In prepara
tion for a spring offensive In the
Kuban.
(The Berlin radio said that
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Tons of Bombs
Splatter Nippon
Burma Positions
NEW DELHI, Moy 6 (Pi
American heavy bombers drop
ped more than 30 tons of bombs
Tuesday on Japanese installa
tions in Toungoo, Burma, blast
ing the enemy headquarters
there and causing great dam
age to other buildings, a com
munlquo of the U. S. army air
forces announced today.
Announcement of the raid
carried out by the 10th air
force, followed by a day the
disclosure of a smashing attack
Tuesday by four-englned Liber
ator bombers on Hainan Island,
off southern China, and by
Mitchells of the 14th air force
on Haiphong, French Inda
China. ' The attack on Toungoo was
accompanied by a raid by B-25
medium bombers on railway, In
stallations at Nyngyan, west of
Mandalay, where hits wore reg
istered on tracks and storage
sheds and a turntable was de
molished, the communique said.
iVORO
Too Threatens Invasion; Nippons
Open Drive on China's "Rice Bow
By The Associated Press
Premier Hidcki Too of
Japan asserted today that the
mikado's invasion armies were
"now prepared to deal a deci
sive blow at tho enemy," and
simultaneously a Chinese army
spokesman said Japan was pre
paring to launch "an Important
move" in the Pacif io war
theatre.
Tho spokesman said China
was the most probabla target of
a new all-out Japanese offen
sive, although he conceded that
on attack on India, Australia or
oven soviet Siberia could not
be ruled out.
Rice Bowl Drive ,
Cotncldentatty, Chinese head
quarters announced that tho
Japanese . had ' opened ; a . new
R Street Mystery Man
If "W
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John Monroe (above), who at
a congressional committee hear
ing on war contracts, declined
to answer questions about him
self or social activities at bis
Washington, D. C. R street
home, was to be given another
chance to testify.
HE! DEVERS HEADS
EluPElIi
Named to Succeed
Andrews Killed In
Plane Crash 1 !!
-WASHINGTON, May S IFh-
Lieutenant General Jacob U,
Dovors, commander of the ar
morcd force, was named today
by Secretary of War Stlmson to
succeed Lieutenant ' General
Frank M. Andrews as command
er of American army troops in
the European theater.
. Andrews. was killed Monday
in a plane crash in Iceland, and
Stimson said his death deprived
the country of "one of its most
brilliant and gallant officers."
Devers, the secretary said, al
ready has shown "an immense
capacity for organization and ad
ministration as head of the ar
mored force," and in addition
has been especially prepared for
tho European command by a re
cent trip of study and Inspection
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John Hampshire,
American Ace,
Killed in China
GRANTS PASS, Ore., May 6
(P) Capt. John Hampshire, ace
of the American air force in
China, was killed in aerial com
bat May 2, John Hampshire Sr.,
of Grants Pass, tho flier s fnth
or, was notified by the war de
partment today.
A May 2 dispatch from an ad
vanced U. S. airdrome in Hunan
Province, China, credited Hamp
shire with shooting down a Jap
raider, running his total to 12
confirmed victories. ', It was port
of an action in which U. Si P-40
Warhawks intercepted a flight of
30 Jap raiders and shot down
seven to 14 of them. It was
possible that Hampshire lost his
life in tho same flight.
drive against China's, "rice
bowl" in north Hunan and
south Hupeh provinces, with
7000 to 8000 troops leadlKTBie
assault.
Heavy fighting was reported
In progress,
-An axis broadcast quoted
Premier Tojo as declaring In
Manila, in a speech marking the
first anniversary of the fall of
Corregidor, that Japan had
strengthened all , strategically
Important bases in greater East
Asia and .was prepared to
strike. ', .
Ready .''.'
"We are now In readiness to
deal a thorough and crushing
blow to the enemy's a r me d
power,"' he said.
, Other Pacific developments:
lit
WLB STARTS
HEARING
COMPUTE
Hope Expressed : That
Lewis, UMW. Men
Will Attend ' :
WASHINGTON, May 6 W)
A war labor board panel started
a public hearing on the soft coal
wage dispute today with the ex
pressed hope that President John
L. Lewis and other United Mine
Workers officials would change
their minds and decide to at
tend.' .
"The latchstring," said Panel
Chairman Morris L. Cooke, "is
on the outside of the door."
Operators Present
Only the coal' operators and
their, representatives and report
ers were present as the hearing
was opened to the public after
a brief closed session. Cooke ex
plained that normally panel
hearings are open only to the
ooiitestants, But, he added, find
ing only, otia. side represented,
"the Oenel decided, with the ap
proval of the board, to open the
hearings to the press so tnat we
public and the absent contestant
may be advised of our day to
day proceedings." In addition,
the chairman said, verbatim
transcript wlU be. supplied to
. tn. New; York, anthracite o
operators, .who-iiav ,beOt-on.
tnera with the UMW, announced
they would pjr hew .tomor
row before the panel.
"Freneh Leave
Acceptance of a similar, invi
tation last weefc by the bitum
inous operators brought a charge
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Eighteen Coal '
Miners Rescued
After Explosion-
LaFOLLETTE, Term., May 8
(IP) Eighteen coal miners,, hud
dling behind, a hastily erected
canvas barrier .nearly 2000- feet
underground, survived, an explo
sion that rocked the Etna. Coal
and Coke company mine and
suffocated .ton of their .compan
ions. . , - .-"
The miners, fighting against
the deadly, fumes of : "black
damp" for more- than eight
hours, stumbled and' crawled
from their barricaded cell -last
night as rescue parties freed
them. "
Two other miners, who had
joined the barricaded group, be
came panic-stricken and dashed
from their enclosure to death
from carbon monoxide fumes
400 feet away.
, The explosion ? thundered
through the east Tennessee soft
coal mine yesterday afternoon,
rocking It from tipple to the
deepest seam.
The dead miners were Identi
fied as Cecil Foust, John Pelez-
zari, Dan Garrett, George Dos
glas, . Lawrence Hale, Albert
Kltts,'Lezis White, Homer Mar
tin, Oscar Avers and . Ernest
Rlggs.'- .
American ' heavy bombers
were officially credited with
racing mfawatban 30 tons of
uuinbs on Japanese-occupied
Toungoo, Burma, while In the
southwest Pacific big U. S. Lib
erators left a 6000-ton Japanese
ship sinking in flames off the
coast of New Guinea.
U. S. army air force head
quarters said the raid on Toun
goo inflicted great damage on
Japanese headquarters and oth
er buildings there, i .' t ,
- The Americans also ; blasted
rail targets at Nyngyan, west
of Mandalay, and RAF Welling
ton bombers heavily attacked
rail Installation at Prome. .
On the Burma land front,
British ' headquarters said Fiei
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Associated Press Photographer Is Pulitzer Winner
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Frank Noel (left), 38, of the Associated Press, took the picture entitled "Water" (right),
which was announced as a winner of the Pulitser : Prize for -"an outstanding example of news
photography." The picture was made in January, 1842, when Noel drifted in a lifeboat toward
the northwest shore of Sumatra after surviving a ship torpedoing in the Indian ocean.
HEARINGS SLATED
- ' . . ; .-' ,t
Commission Referee
Due, to Discuss
Date, Question
! ' -. "
, : Efforts to fix. a date for retro
active wijge awards granted pine
vrowPwmade. at . two
meetings to be held here Friday
and Saturday by the west coast
lumber commission, ' it was an
nounced today. - '.
The comrAUslon's' referee wilt
meet . with operators and CIO
unionists at 10 a. m. Friday in
the courthouse. A similar meet-
ing with operators and AFL un
ionists will .take place at the
same hour' and location Satur
day. . ,
Pine workers were awarded
wage increases this spring retro
active to dates to be agreed on
by operators and unions. Where
agreement could not be reached
the commission agreed to hold
hearings. . ' .
Disagreement Immediately de
veloped here as to the retro
active dates. Some , unionists
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Stop Forest
Fire Parade
Schedule Told
. A .StoD Forest Fires . narade
will pass down Main street at
12 . o clock sharp Friday noon
as a prelude to the fire banquet
to be held at the Willard hotel
Friday evening with Regional
Forester Horace Andrews as
speaker.-
Walt Wiesendanger, chairman
of the -committee, gave the fol
lowing parade line-up: ,
City motorcycle police, Ore
gon state police, city fire de
partment, regional forester's
car,,- fire agencies car, Ameri
can . Legion color guard, high
school band and Pep Peppers.
Women's ambulance corps'
Elks ambulance, K.UHS fores
try students, Weyerhaeuser
Timber company fire equip
ment, Klamath Forest Protec
tive association equipment,
state forestry fire equipment,
Klamath Indian agency fire
equipment. Crater Lake nation
al park ilre equipment, sher
iff s posse.
Food Administrator
Says Farm Labor
Supply "Sufficient"
WASHINGTON. May 6 (IP)
Food Administrator Chester C.
Davis reported today the farm
labor supply should be "suik-
dent , to produce and harvest a
1943 crop up to the levels of the
announced goals.
In a repbrt to Economic Sta
bilization Director' James F.
Byrnes, Davis said that if the
potential labor supply is fully
used, farm production need not
suffer this year from lack of la
bor. - '
Little Room for Choice,"
Says Treasury of Tax Plans
-WASHINGTON, May 8.W)-v
The treasury told the senate fin
ance committee today that while
there is "little room for choice"
between three plans for current
collection of taxes, the - abate
ment of revenues proposed .un
der the Carlson-Ruml measure
advocated unsuccessfully by re-
nublicans in: the - house 'is
thoroughly'iheqliitatrle ; and' un
fair." . .JC--.r--- -
In an analysis of the house)
approved Forand-Kobertson bill,
the rejected "ways; and means
committee - measure- and " the
Tulelake WRA
Has Difficulty
With Coaf Work
Work difficulties at the Tule
lake WRA project as a result of
a heavy influx of coal are receiv
ing the attention of project auth
orities, but there is no strike or
work stoppage by the coal crew,
according to Harvey " Coverly,.
project director.
Coverly said the 80-man coal
crew ' had complained when
coal rolled in in large quantities,
but the 'crew was- still at work
and volunteer crews were help
ing ease the situation.- -He said
ihe - coal .piled up because of
shipment of fuel for next winter,
along. .-with'., that .for current
needs. .- ,
Ten carloads of coal-moved to
Newell was diverted to - Camp
Adair,;6re.,when it became ap
parent more coal was piling up
on the. sidings at. Newell . than
could be handled. The coal , at
the WRA project is unloaded by
hand into trucks.
Coverly said the project uses
between 40,000 and 50,000 tons
of coal, with virtually all cook
ing . and heating equipment ' in
the project using this, type-of
fuel.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE -
...... R. IC
Philadelphia 3 6
Brooklyn' :.. 2 5 .
Podgajny ana Livingston;
Newsom ana Moore.
AMERICAN; LEAGUE
. R. H. E.
Boston . . 1.9 0
New York 2 9 1
Judd and Peacock; Bonham
and Hemsley. ,
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Washington ... O 18 -2
Philadelphia 7 11 0
" Pyle, Scheete (3),' Grove (4).
Adklns (7), and Early; Wolff and
Swift. .- .
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Chicago 3 11 1
Cleveland 8 12 1
Wade, Swift (3), Haynes (8),
Hanski (8), and Tresh; A. Smith
and Sosar.
ATTU BOMBED
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Fl
The navy- reported today that
Liberator heavy bombers and
Lightning fighters attacked Jap-
anese installations on Attn is
land, westernmost of the Aleu
tians, n-Tuesdayy
Carlson -Ruml plan, Randolph
Paul, treasury general counsel,
said that any choice between
the three' measures must be
based primarily on the propos
als to abate 1842 tax liabilities.
"Insofar as the distribution of
forgiveness, is concerned, the
treasury department believes
that .both, the ways and; means
committee bill and the bouse bill
distribute the cancellation of the
1942 tax on a reasonably equit
able and fair basis, Paul said.
Cancellation Notice
He added that the smaller
amount of cancellation provided
under the ways and means bill
'results in a substantial increase
in the revenue collections in the
next few years at a time when
such an increase is vitally necessary."-
. '
"The treasury therefore -be
lieves that the ways and means
committee bill possesses a defin-
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Senator Charges
Pampering of
Disloyal Japs"
WASHINGTON, May 8 (IPl
Senator Robertson (R-Wyo.) told
the senate today: the American
people will not continue to per
mit "administration pampering
and petting" of disloyal Japan
ese m this countrx when Ameri
cans are "being murdered or mis-
treated" by Japanese militarists.
An investigation at the Heart
mountain relocation ' camp in
northwest -Wyoming disclosed,
he said, that 1200 of the 10,000
Japanese there profess loyalty to
Hirohito and are free to preach
Japanese doctrines and to intim
idate and threaten those-"who
profess -loyalty -to' the -United
States."
'Urging that control over Jap
anese in this country be trans
ferred from the war relocation
board to the war department,
Robertson declared the former's
personnel was "typical of the in
competent, wasteful, extrava
gant type of administration that
has grown up in the past 10
years.
"Second Front" Sure This
Summer, Says OWl Chief
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, May 8 "
Director Elmer Davis of the of
fice of war information said to
day there is "no question but that
there will be allied operations
on continental Europe this sum
mer." .. Davis, asked whether allied
forces could clean up North Af
rica soon enough' to permit in
vasion of the continent this year,
said he was confident they could.
Pocket Seen
However, he added, It might
be necessary to leave a pocket
of axis resistance at Blzerte to
be reduced by sustained pound
ing even while the continental
operations ere under way. The
big naval base of Bizerte already
T
CAPTURED BY
Americans, British
Wade- Up Last
Of Axis Hills i ..
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS'
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 8 (JP)
It was officially announced to'
day that an allied offensive had
begun on both the second U. S.
army corps and British first
army fronts of Tunisia and a
field dispatch said 'the payoff
battle . is . under way.' . . ,
Massicault, 1? miles southwest
of Tunis, was captured by armor
supported first army infantry,
men this afternoon and this wasi
but one of a series of victories
rolled up by British and Araer
ican troops on a broad front.. . ,
Seep Penetration l
A special - communique an
nounced that enemy positions in v
the Medjerda river valley had .
been ' penetrated -deeply and
field report from Daniel De Luce,
Associated. Press correspondent
with the British first army, said
the British had broken through
for four miles- along the main '
road from- Jedjez-el-Bar to Tunis ;
after capturing Djebel Sou .
Aoukaz." ..".:i:,,:.-;;i :.". :iV;-";..;
'The special headquarters son '
jnunique issued tonight said: .,
The first army wittt the mag- '
nificent support of our air forces
took the offensive south -of the
river Medjerda early- today.
""Infantry and armored unite '
have -'penetrated.: deeply-into
enemy positions. . ' - -. : ,; ;,Lcij'
. " - Tillage taken ' 1" ,
. "The village of Massicault wa'
captured this afternoon.
"Many prisoners front a iarg
number, of different units hav '
bees- taken, - v::" - 1
"The . second ; United - State ,
cores in cooperation with the
first army;, have also advanced .
on a wide front against strong -
Opposition, ."A ;r.tit-r - i
'"'"Fighting contihues.''
American and. British -troops .
advanced on a broad ' front
against the axis final mountain: .
defenses . before Tunis and Bi
zerte, repeatedly battered by at
lied aerial bombardments.
Moreover the French detach
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Stalin Wants
Independent,
Strong Poland
... ' : . .i ." ' " :-
MOSCOW, May 6 (IF) Estab
lishment of a strong -and inde
pendent Poland after the defeat
of Germany was advocated by -Premier:
Joseph Stalin, in a let- :
tor to Ralph Parker, New . York.
Times correspondent, made pub
lie here today by Tass, soviet of
ficial news agency, and broad- -
cast by the Moscow radio. . . ,
Stalin added that should the
Polish people so desire, post-war
relations between Poland and
the USSR should be based "upon
the fundament of - an , alliance
providing for mutual assistance'
against the Germans aa the chief
. (Continued on Page Two) .
is within heavy artillery range
of American and French, troops .
to the north,
"The allies may encounter dlf-.
ficulty when they get the axle
knocked down to Blzerte, where
the Germans evidently intend
to make their final stand," said
Davis, who is in close touch with
military strategists hers.
"In my opinion, it would be .
possible to go ahead with the in
vasion plans even though Blzerte
remains for a time in axil :
hands."
Brief Interview
Davis gave these opinions in
a brief interview. At his prew
conference yesterday he empha
sized that allied successes in
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