llllllTilli;jllllm:illilliliLl;hiilmhi..ill:i:.1'IHr!i'
Om l-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles
U the signal for bltokout in Klamath
Telle. Another long blast, during black-
eat, la signal for all-clear.
jJgiyJit'g I ASSOCIATED PRESS
3
Br FRANK JENKINS
"TlIIS thrilling bulletin comes
. today from ucnoral Elsen
hower'i African headquarters:
"Victorious allied armlei have
entered the outskirts of both Bi
zerte and Tunis, and It nppcnm
that tho FALL OF BOTH CITIES
IS NEAR."
THE enomy ii even mora re-
veellng.
Captain Ludwlg Sertorlus, the
Gorman military commentator
who ha been much In tho news
lately, says French native Iroopi
havo pcnolrutcd Uio INNbli
FORTIFICATIONS of Blxerto.
Ho addi (via the Berlin radio):
The decision la approaching In
Tunlila, with our forces out
numbered ten to one."
T ITTLE Imagination Is required
H to picture the great battlos of
the world moving over on thoir
bench In history to make room
for another one.
i
TOT new today Is paoked with
: drama. It deals, In the main,
with' the events of yesterday,-
Before dawnv British General
Alexander, deputy commander
Irt-chlef of allied' ground force
in Tun Ma, laeuedhfs order of
'The last, phaaa of this cam'
Italgn." he said, "Is at hand
We've regrouped our victorious
armies, and we're going to drive
the enemy Into the sea. You
will win this last great (African)
battle. The eyes of the world
are on you.
"Forward, then, to victory!"
THE battle began at dawn The
main attack, as anticipated,
came In the Medjcrda valley,
which leads Into tho Tunis plain.
To meet It, the Germans hnd
thrown In all the strength they
could spare, thus weakening
their Bizerte defenses which
explains the comparative ease
with which our men and the
French entered the naval base
citadel.
A SURPRISE was sprung.
Massed allied planes, acting
as aerial artillery, blasted a path
a thousand yards wide and four
miles long with a terrific bomb
barrage, covering practically
EVERY SQUARE YARD.
Ground artillery , added Its
weight of hot metal.
Through the gap thus torn
the British Infantry went In
first, wiping out the German
anti-tank guns. Then the-British
armor, rolling up on the
flanks, took over the lead, head
ing1 toward tho village of Massl
catllt, lying In the contcr of the
Medjcrda valloy where It enters
the Tunis plain.
The British tanks BROKE
THROUGH!
THE Germans rushed up 60
A tanks, 38 to the south of
MasslcBult and 28 to tho north.
Both of these enemy tank forma
tions were SMASHED In the on
suing battle, and the British
promptly set up anti-tank guns
to stop any further thrust by
enemy armor.
Their tanks then shot around
Masslcault and raced on toward
the 'outskirts of Tunis. Alto
gether, they had battered a hole
eight miles deep In eight hours,
AT . last accounts, the bcaton
Germans were frantically
throwing up defenses In the
suburbs of Tunis, hoping . (tho
dispatches suggest) to hold back
the victorious allied onrush long
enough to enable them to retlra
into the rugged Cape Bon penin'
aula for a last stand.
.
CO ended the day.
,;So ended (one hopes and has
considerable reason to bollove)
the axis', last effective grip on
Africa.
THERE aro sidelights. '
Our planes, filling the --skips
above tho Sicilian strait, smashed
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In precau-
rn
Stabbed After Party
Socially prominent Margherl.
ta Clamant labors), 21, former
model, was recovering in a
Philadelphia hospital from stab
wounds received after she and
a group of friends attended a
farewell party for an army -officer.
Accused of (he stabbing.
Private Stdner Bullen Dunn Jr.
was under 121.000 ball on as
sault and batterr charges.
.. ippSSES
Death of Business
Man Occurs in
- Portland ,
Oscar Peyton, prominent
Klamath Falls business man
slnco 1911, passed away In Port
land Friday after an illness of a
few months.
Although active in the affairs
of the Peyton Fuel company un
til recently, Mr. Peyton had suf
fered from 111 health and some
tlmo ago went to Portland for
treatment and convalescence.
Death came shortly before noon
Friday.
Born In Pinckncyville, 111., on
May 0, 1871, Mr. Peyton learned
tho baker's trade in Chester, 111.
He later entered the candy busi
ness in Tennessee with his broth
er, Willord. In 1909, he sold this
business and took up a home-
continued on Pago Two)
Body of Drowned
Indian Boy Found
The body of Jesse Wright Jr.,
18-year-old Indian boy, was
found in Williamson river late
Thursday. ;
Indian Officers John Arkell
and Jack Hope brought the
body to the surface by Jarring
logs in the river.
Tho youth had been missing
since April 18, whon he went
for a ride on his bicycle and
failed to return. The . bicycle
was found a few days ago near
the site of the old mill at Pine
Ridge on the Williamson, and a
search in the river began. The
remains are at Ward's.
Benson, Marsha Named in
War Department Dispatch
Names of (wo Klamath Falls
airmen appeared in dispatches
from tho war department re
ceived here Friday.
Captain Noel S. Benson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bonson
Of 807 Alameda street, received
the Air Medal for meritorious
achievement while partlclpotlng
In aerial flights in the South Pa
cific. Captain Trevis D. Marsha, son
of Dr. and, Mrs. E. M. Marsha
of thl city, took part In air ac
tivity in the North African sec
tor. '
Benson, 28-year-old pilot of a
Liberator bomber, Is somewhere
In the Pacific theatre of war. He
received his captaincy beforo
leaving the United States, is a
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
:nlil 'MXMfiMM
il'im.') Al Villi I'l
U.S.AIRBASE
Island but 63 Miles
From Jap-Held
Kiska
WASHINGTON. May 7 UP)
United States forces have estab
lished an air base only 63 naut
ical miles from Japanese-held
Kiska Island In tho western
Aleutians, the navy announced
today, on Amchltka island,
Tills island Is 149 nautical
miles nearer Klska than the
previously westernmost point of
advance in the Andreanof is
lands. Establishment of the Amchlt
ka base, accomplished in late
January, cut the flying time to
Kiska, for a bombing plane aver
aging 300 miles an hour, to 12
minutes. This has made pos
sible the heavy dally raids car
ried out when weather permitted
since March 1.
Plane Raid
Announcement of the new
base was made in a communi
que which reported that on Wed
nesday army planes fralded Kiska
six times and attacked AUu, Jap
anese' base farther -to- the west,
four times. Kiska has now been
reported raided 215 times in, the
last two months.
Navy communique No. 870
said: (about 280)
"North Pacific:
"1. United States forces have
established military positions, in
cluding an air field, on Amchltka
and have been In occupation of
this Island since January. Amen-
itka Is an island In the Rat island
group. In which is also located
the Japanese-held island of Kis-
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v
Parade Points
To Stop Forest
Fire Observance
Fire-fighting equipment and
other entries paraded down
Main street at noon Friday , to
direct the public s attention to
Stop Forest Fires week, being
currently observed here. . Fea
tures of the parade included
the high school band, Pep Pep
pers and the sheriff's posse.
The week's observance will
be climaxed by a dinner to be
held at the Willard hotel to
night at 7 o'clock, which will
be addressed by Regional For
ester Horace Andrews. Andrews
and Nelson Rogers, stato forest
er, spent the dny In Klamath
Falls, and rode with Stato Sen
ator Marshall Cornett in the
parade.
Andrews paid a visit Friday
afternoon to the forest service's
rubber dandelion plantings at
the experiment station south
east of town. He emphasized
that the Russian dandelion
plantings are definitely experi
mental. Capt. 8-ensen
E
ESTABLISHED
Oil
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
'. : I'TiM.MN'1
Scene of Great
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STATUTE MILES
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iiiii l ife
irrPorto ' ' , CapeBonS
iRgpr-: DiebibinWEnf.daville
- Thia map shows the scene and direction of the great allied
drWee crowned with success today in the capture of Tunis and
Biserte and the capitulation oi the axis forces defending these
last main axis bases in Africa. The broken line shows the ap
proximate front where the allies beat off German counter-attacks
and then moved in for the kill.
Polish Commissar Regrets
Espionage
By EDDY GILMORE:
MOSCOW, May 7 (P) Andrei
3, Vishlruik, icermnljsar .or
foreign affair,'; .told American
and British newspapermen today
that representatives of. the Pol
ish government-ln-exile in Lon
don had engaged 1n espionage
activities In Russia and declared
some of those involved already
had admitted their guilt and
been sentenced;
Former Ambassador Stanislaw
Kot himself, Vishlnskl asserted,
had admitted being involved in
these activities and had ex
pressed his-regret.
(Kot is now serving as minis
ter of information with the Pol-
isn government in London, a
post to which he was appointed
last March 19.)
Brought to Trial
Some of the accused Poles,
Vishlnskl said, had been brought
to trial, "exposed and deported
from the soviet union" while
others were "sentenced to vari
ous terms of deprivation of lib
erty."
Among those deported he
named General Volikovski, chief
of the Polish military mission,
Senate Group
Asks Jap WRA
Abolishment
WASHINGTON. May 7 (JP)
A senate committee's investiga
tion of Japanese relocation
camps brought recommendations
today for prompt abolishment
of all ten relocation centers as
"trouble breeders."
The recommendations, ap
proved by the senate military
committee, were submitted by
Chairman Chandler (D-Ky.) of
a sub-committee which had in
spected the camps over a six
months period. In substance,
they call for: application of the
draft law to all Japanese resi
dents, immediate internment of
all disloyal Japanese and place
ment of all loyal, able-bodied
Japanese in supervised working
areas "where they will be ac
cepted" and where military au
thorities "consider it safe for
them to go."
Brown Orders
Price Reduction .
Of Meat, Coffee
WASHINGTON, May 7 (JP)
Price Administrator Prentiss
Brown announced today he is
ordering a 10 per cent reduc
tion, effective June 1, in retail
prices of beef, veal, pork, lamb,
mutton, coffee and butter.
The cut, Brown said, will be
in - comparison with present
prices, and meant downward re
vision of meat prices becoming
effective May 17.
FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948
Allied Victory
TUNISIA
gainst Russia
two- first secretaries of the Pol
ish, embassy and - other Junior
members of the embassy staff. In
cluding Polish representatives at
Vladivostok: and Archangel. Em
bassy staff members were among
those sentenced to -be deprived
of liberty, he said. -
Asked why the Poles should
be engaged in espionage in Rus-
(Continued on Page Two)
President Expects No
Strike Against .
Government
WASHINGTON, May 7 (IP)
President Roosevelt gave a clear
indication to a press confer
ence today that he expects no
strike of coal miners against
the government.
"Are coal miners employes of
the government," a reporter
asked him, "and, if so, can they
strike against the government?"
He said he would reply in
the affirmative to the first part
of the question, and on the
second, he remarked that he
had been in the government a
great many years and could not
recollect any strike by govern
ment employes against the gov
ernment. He was asked, too, whether
he planned for the government
(Continued on Page Two).
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. T.
Brooklyn , , I 10 2
Boston , 7 II 1
Head, Webber (8), Allen (7),
and Owen; Javery, Donovan (7).
Jeffcoat (7), Tobln (0), and
Kluttz.
R. H. X.
New York . 8 8 2
Philadelphia 13 13 0
Trinkle, Mungo (7), Coombs
(7), and Bcrrcs, Mancuso (7);
Johnson and Livingston.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Philadelphia 2 6 0
New York 8 10 1
Black, Fagan (4), Burrows (8),
and Swift, Wager (8); Wensloff
and Dickey.
SKIP YEAR OKEHED
WASHINGTON, May 7 (JP)
The senate finance committee
voted 13 to 6 today to adopt the
principle of the Ruml "skip a
year" method of collective in
come taxes, with the understand
ing that it would insist on ade
quate provision to offset wind
fall benefit.
NEA FEATURES
Number
Allied
Axis
Mca in
Wedge Driven
Be-
tween German, Ru
manian Forces
LONDON, Mar 1 W Rus
sian troops driving on Novo
r on iik In the Caucasus re
pulsed nine furious German
counterattacks today and cap
tured additional Important
heights, '. Moscow announced
tonight In a broadcast record
ed by the soviet monitor.
LONDON, May 7 (JP) Soviet
artillery, supporting red army
infantry which has smashed west
of :Rjymskaya and extended its
operation! northeast of Novoros-
'jrfsk, destroyed two German
tanks and silenced tS0J; enemy
artillery batteries in the night's
lighting in the Kuban, the Mos
cow n o o n communique an
nounced today. -'
More than 36 machine-gun
nests' and many" enemy block
houses also were wiped out y
soviet guns, th- war . bulletin
said. It was recorded her by
the soviet radio monitor.
MOSCOW, May T-WThe
red army," smashing forward in
increasingly violent battles
which- have cost the Germans
nearly 10,000 dead, has driven a
wedge between the German and
Rumanian forces operating north
and south of the Kuban river in
the Caucasus and is tightening
is net - about Novorossisk, front
line dispatches reported today.
Aided by strong air forces, the
soviet troops cut one road after
another in the Kuban valley,
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Germans Fear
Invasion From
Norwegian Coast
STOCKHOLM, May 8 (De
layed) (JP) The Germans are In
tensifying the work on Nor
wegian fortifications following
a conference in Narvik at which
the possibilities of invasion were
discussed by Norwegian leaders
and heads of the German army,
navy and police, reliable reports
fromi inside Norway said today.
These reports from sources
which cannot be further identi
fied said that orders have been
given by the Norwegian' under
ground organization to prepare
for open revolt and that more
snarls had developed in the total
labor mobilization campaign.
Stam Registers Objection
To Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON. May 7 (JP)
Colin F. Stam, chief of the con
gressional tax staff, testified to
day that the house-approved
revenue bill failed to put all
taxpayers on a pay-as-you-go ba
sis and would cause resentment
among those who contribute 60
per cent of the taxes.
Stam appeared before the sen
ate finance committee in a brief
public , meeting preceding a
closed session at which advo
cates hoped to force a showdown
on the question of substituting a
version of the Ruml-Carlson
'skip a year" plan for current
taxation for the house-approved
bill.
The congressional tax expert
told the committee that the house
bill, which would excuse the
first 6 per cent normal tax and
s the IS per cent flirst bracket sur-1
i
9791
(Drive Forces
fro Give
Africa
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
May 7 (AP) The capture of both Tunis and Bizerte
was announced officially tonight. -
The capitulation of the axis armies in their last two
main African base occurred late in the second day of
the overwhelming, air-supported drives by the Amer
icans on the naval base in the north and the British:
first army advancing on the capital.
Special communiques earlier in the day had given
the electrifying announcements that the allies had en
tered the outskirts of both Tunis and Bizerte and had
"
Japs Torpedo
Five Freighters
Near Australia
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN, AUSTRALIA, May 7 (JP)
Japanese submarines torpedoed
and sank five -allied freighters,
one an American,' recently in
the "Life Line" waters ast of
Australia but the huge flow of
meri and supplies for future al
lied offensives continues "virtu
ally undiminished,"- headquart
ers annouTinri lodav--:
- Sver : 'mernber cf lhr ' 81
aboard the American ship com
manded -by Captain C. C. -So.
strom Alameda,- Calif., was res
cued by Australian naval craft
after one of two torpedoes found
its mark in a night attack. The
brave captain, last to leave the'
ship, stayed aboard until the
main deck was awash.
The biggest ship lost was an
Australian freighter. Only two
of, her crew perished. The
, (Continued on . Page Two) ;
Referee Misses
Train; Hearing
On Pay Delayed
A hearing to establish a date
for retroactive pay in pine lum
ber operations in the Klamath
Falls region was postponed to
day when a west coast lumber
commission referee missed his
train for Klamath Falls.
The hearing was to have been
58,116,000; 60,693,000 and 64,
CIO unions. The referee, Dr.
Richard Stelner of Portland,
left Portland later Friday and
will be here to conduct a simi
lar hearing Saturday for oper
ators and AFL unionists.
The CIO hearing was post
poned for one week. .
Meanwhile, early settlement
was predicted in labor circles
for a difficulty that developed
in the Ewauna logging opera
tions, where loggers were re
ported off work Friday as a re
sult of dissatisfaction with a su
pervisory employe. The local
IWA offices said that there was
no strike and no picket line-was
established. .
tax in putting into effect a 20
per. cent withholding levy on
wages and salaries, would "cost
almost as much as complete for
giveness" of 1842 taxes, as pro
posed In the Ruml-Carlson plan.
Stam said that abatement un
der the house bill would elim
inate 1942 tax liability for a sin
gle person with no dependents
whose income did not exceed
$2500 and a married person, with
no dependents, whose net earn
ings did not exceed $3200. Those
with dependency allowances
could make more and still have
all of their 1942 tax excused.
Above these levels, however,
he said are 24 per cent of the
taxpayers who paid about 60 per
cent of the total of Income taxes.
He added that they would not
be placed on a current basis and
would have to make1 two compli
cated tax returns yearly.
Mar High II. Low 31 -Precipitation
aa oi AprU 10, 1141
Straam ysx to data ..M.........1I.DI
taat raar 11.14 Normal .... 10.11
- J
Hoses
captured Ferrynlle.
: By EDWARD KENNEDY '
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN 'NORTH AFRICA, May 7 (ffj
Main - axis - defense ' positions
around Tunis have been over
run by British first army troops,
already in its suburbs,- and the
second U. S. army" corps has
captured ' Ferryville ' and pene
trated the outskirts of Bizerte, it
was announced today;.-. ', ;..
Heavy fighting , raged about
the capital as the Germans and,
Italians sought to: check the ofr
fenslve, but th city offers few
facuipesrior -prolonged de.
fense.-,: ,;.v--V .-';'--j -i -r. !.-':' . .
1 - - Suburb Occupied -
The' Tunis suburb of lie ' Base
do, where the treaty which made
Tunisia a French protectorate
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May T,
(yP) General Henri Giraud an
nounced tonight the appoint
ment of General Charles Mast
as resident general of France
in Tunisia.. General : Alphose
juin, commander of French '
troops in the field, will serve
as resident general until the
arrival of General Mast.
was signed In the 1880's, was oc
cupied by British forces. .
The bey of Tunis has his main
palace in Le Bardo. It was not
learned here whether the bey
remained there, moved into Tu
nis or was taken to Europe by
the axis. , . . ,
Total Debacle I
A Morocco radio broadcast re
corded by The Associatedd Press
said: - " :
"Every minute reports pour in
which indicate the magnitude of
the allied victories and the de
feat of the axis forces, which
now constitutes a total debacle."
Americans - captured Ferry
ville, supply and repair depot
on Lake ' Bizerte eight ' miles
south of the naval base, at 1
p. m. (6 a. m., PWT) today, said
a dispatch from the field. , , .
U. S. Stabs . ,'
Reconnaissance units of the
second U. S. army corps stabbed
into the suburbs of Bizerte, Tu
nisla's main port and naval base.
British first army detachments
made the plunge at Tunis, the
capital. . .
Allied air forces unloaded ton
after ton of explosives on roads
choked by the retreating enemy.
Among those in the rout were
some of Hitler's proudest Gor
man troops. - - . -. j
Heavy Fighting I
Heavy .fighting was reported
in progress in both sectors as the
U. S. second corps and the Brit
ish first army capitalized on
deep penetrations through col
lapsing enemy positions all along
the northern Tunisian front.
"Our troops have continued
their victorious advance," a spe
cial communique said.
Reconnaissance elements were
said to have made the penetra
tion ' of the Bizerte suburbs.
Many more prisoners were tak
en, it was announced. "
Le Bardo Taken '
Armored units of the British
first army captured Le Bardo,
on the highway at the western
edge of Tunis, the communique
stated. .
Allied planes, completely dom
inating the sky, maintained
heavy attacks upon axis trans.
(Continued on Pag Two)
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