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KlHlBBiil
On S-mlnuta blast on sirens and whlitlti
li tha signal (or a blackout In Klamath
rails. Anolhtr long blast during a black
out. Ii a ilgnal lor all-cUer. In reu
tlonery parlodi, watch your ilrsat lights.
By FRANK JENKINS
THE fighting In Tunliila U all
over but tha ihoutlng and
tli Germans ieem to be doing
moit of that.
Thoy are shouting "Kamorad!"
fANIEL DE LUCE, AP cor
respondent with tha British.
ays Hitler'i famous shock troops
have become a desperate rabble,
running for their lives Into tho
Cape Bon hills or surrendering.
The completeness of the col
lapse of theso German divisions,
he adds, rivals thnt of the Hal
ln,
J"E LUCE tells of meeting four
Clormiin soldiers who said
they had been sent to Africa
from Russia last winter. They
asked him to accept tholr sur
render (which, as a non-combot-
ant, ha couldn't do.) They went
on until they found someone who
could take them in.
A British soldier, h relates,
was captured last night. This
morning his German captors
gave him back his rifle and 200
of them surrendered to him.
TODAY'S dispatches Indicate
that there will be no Bunker
que. Our naval and air forces
ar too powerful. ..They're pa
trolling Cape BnnJnucsantly,
amashlng every boat that gets off
gaV, the beach.
Surrender seems to be all
that's left for the doomed forces
- of the axis.
-
TrHE German air force pulled
out of Africa two days ago.
They knew tha battle was lost,
and they're badly needed else
where. There are well-founded re
ports today of huge fires along
Cape Bon axis equipment going
up In smoke, The Germans left
' In Africa know they'ro licked
and don't want tholr supplies to
fall' Into our hands.
Tha prisoner total In Tunisia
Is estimated today at 100,000
mostly Germans. The Italians
apparently got out early. The
ships were THEIRS.
CO much for the great and
A thrilling victory we've won
In Africa.
Meanwhile
The Jnps report today they'ro
within 12 miles of tho Burma
India border. This claim is un
confirmed by our side, but tho
news from down thero has been
none too reassuring latoly,
, i ... '
- 'TliE point is that this Is a
world wor.'wlth many fronts,
and a victory on ONE front
doesn't mean that the WAR has
been won,
'
rYJN'T draw wrong conclusions
from the way the Germans
are' surrendering In Tunisia. To
day's dispatches tell us they're
fighting coolly, stubbornly and
effectively at Novorossisk.
0 It's all over In Tunisia, and
I' reason tells them they might as
well give up. It Isn't all ovor
yet In the Kuban. Although the
Russians are pressing thorn hard,
they're getting In reinforcements
and still have a chnnco. So they
fight on.
It would ba nice to be able to
believe that the mornlo of the
German army Is breaking, but as
yet the OVER-ALL signs don't
point, that way. The Germans
were decisively licked In Tu
nisia, but their mornlo didn't
break until AFTER the licking.
...v ...
CWISS dispatches (reported via
tho Moscow radio) sny today
that Gocrtng and Hlmmlcr have
been' sent to Italy Goorlng to
reorganize the Italian army and
Himmler to "roorganlzo" the
0.. Italian people,
t Himmler la the brutal head of
the hazl secret police, Ono can
imagine the kind of reorganizing
the .Italian poople will got from
him,';;
.
CONTINUING with rumors,
Reuters (British news agency)
quotes Budapest radio today as
saying that telephone communi
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REDS
T
Axis Stiffens Fight
With Motorized
Reserves
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW. May 11 (!) Red
army troops crawling forward
yard by yard In some of the
bloodiest fighting of tho Russian.
German war slnco tho days of
Stalingrad, battled furiously to
day within tho German defense
lines at Novorossisk, but It was
reported they were meeting stif
fening axis resistance.
Tho red air force meanwhile
kept up a major scale series of
attacks against the Gorman sup
ply lines all along tho front but
apparently was not successful in
halting the flow of supplies and
reinforcements the Germans
pushed into sectors of tho Kuban
to feed their numerous counter
attacks.
Nasls Rinforcd
Tanks, armored cars, motor
ized artillery and heavy field
pieces wero reported to have
been brought In by the Germans.
A dispatch from the Black
Sea fleet said that Its alrforce
was continuing attacks upon
enemy supply ships and land po
sitions. .
(Tha German communique
said Russian attacks wero made
at only aome points of the Kuban
with light forces and theso wer
"repulsed partly." Tha commun
ique, broadcast by Berlin and
recorded by Tho Associated
Press, said planes had destroyed
(Continued on Page Two)
Tunisian Axis
Commander III,
Says Nazi Radio
LONDON, May 11 (VP)
Marshal Erwln Rommel, axis
Africa Corps commander, has
been In Germany since March
11 and will receive "a new task
after complete recovery" of his
health, tho German high com
mand said tonight In a state
ment broadcast from Berlin.
The statement, heard by Reut
ers, claimed also that Rommel
was In Germany when tho Brit
ish army cracked the axis lines
of his Africa corps In Egypt at
El Alnmcln, to begin Its unpre
cedented 2000-mile advance
across North Africa.
"His long slay In Africa had
such a serious offect on his
health that medical treatment
could no longer be avoided," tho
high command statement said.
"When the first news of the
British attack at El Alnmcln ar
rived, tho field marshal, against
tho urgent advico of his doctors,
Interrupted his treatment which
had hardly begun and returned
at once.
Afrika Korps
Bniish
Bv DANIEL DE LUCE
GROMBALIA, ON CAP BON,
May 10 (Doloycd) (P) Adolf
Hitler's famous Bhock troops be
came a dosporato rabble, run
ning for their lives Into tho hills
of Cap Bon peninsula or sur
rendering In thousands to tho
British first army today.
Tho collapso of tho once proud
German divisions rivals that of
their scorned Italian satellites.
AH morning I have raced for
ward with the armored scout
cars and seen tho amazing spec
tacle of tho German army hum
bled in the dust of a panicky re
treat. .
"' Only a few artillerymen arc
making any sort of resistance to
tho British. Five thousand Gor
man infantryman surrendered in
tho last four hours to one ar
mored brigade,
. Worse Than Dunkerqu
A fate worso than Dunkcrque
has overwhelmed Hitler's Afri
can corps.
I have just entered Grombal
ia and six miles away on tha left,
CRAWL
OH
NOVOROSSISK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PKICB FIVE CENTS'
in
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'id 'MXMfjiiM
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New U. S. Chief
t :
Lt. Gn. Jacob L. Drrs,
above, chief of armored forces,
has been appointed commander
of U. S. forces In th European
war thcatr to succeed Lt. Gn.
Frank M. Andrews who was
killed In a plan crash In Ice
land. Hitler Faces Task of
Speeding Defense
, Of Europe,
INDON, MOjyHW?-
nuior lacea me uoumo jjij; (continued ' on page '.Two)
oay oz ppecaing wo uhcivb. ui
axis-dominated Europe against
the next allied blow while cush
lonlng the Impact of the Tunisian
defeat on German morel at
home.
Indicating that Hitler' consid
ers Italy the weak link, in his
chain of -, fortifications across
southern . Europe, the Moscow
radio quoted dispatches from
Switzerland saying he had en
trusted Italy's defense to two of
his most trusted lloutenaets
Rcichsmarshal Hermann Goerlng
and Hclnrlch Himmler, head of
tho nnzl secret police. Goerlng
will tako over tho reorganiza
tion of tho Italian army, the
broadcast said, while Himmler,
through purges among various
groups, will attempt a "istaou
zatlon of the Internal front." .
Hit on Head .
A Berlin dispatch to the Swiss
newspaper Tribune de Geneve
last night described the. bulk of
Germans at home aa "walking
around as though hit on the
(Continued on (Page Two)'.
Churchill Sends
Congratulations
LONDON, May 11 (IP) Prime
Minister Churchill, In a congrat
ulatory message to Gen, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, said today "the
simultaneous advance . of the
British and United States armies
sldo by aida into Tunis and Bi-
zorte Is an augury full of hope
for the future of the, world. "
Crumbles Undet Lash of
Armor; Thousands; Surrender
the little town of Soliman also
has been captured.
A German vehicle containing
three dead officers was still
burning across the road from-my
car.
Four German armored force
grenadiers who said they had
como from the Russian front, to
Africa last December came .un.
and askod me to accept their
surrender.
"We aro knputt (ruined),"- de
clared a grimy-faced blond ser
geant who towered above my
own height of six foot -three
inches. "We havo no food, no
munitions, no benzine,"
Tho four stood in the whirl'
lug white dust of the mail) high
way, their guns abandoned and
little blanket bundles slung over
their backs whllo pnsslng British
armor ignored them.
, "You must march to the pris
oner of war stockade - at the
Junction," I advised them. '
The llttlo group shuffled1 off
obediently. ' i
Further -on a lliuUnarit colon
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
I '.i.lsilMAj.VI
British Communique
Gives No Hint .of
. Setback . v
By Tha Associated Prase
A Tokyo broadcast asserted
today that Japanese troops, roll
ing back Field Marshal Sir Archi
bald P. Wa veil's British forces,
had advanced, within 12 miles
of the India-Burma frontier in
one of the gravest threats of in
vasion yet' to .confront India's
390,000,000. ,-:..,-..
The locale of the thrust was
not disclosed, and. confirmation
was lacking from any allied
source.
British headquarters acknowl
edged three days ago, however,
that -Marshal Wavell's legions
had been. withdrawn from Buthe
daung, 00 miles north of tha big
Japanese base et.Akyab, under
pressure by enemy infiltration
forces ' "
Tha Tokyo radio said Japanese
troops were "mopping up enemy
remnants" near tha border. . .
No Setback Hint
Today's British communique.
giving no hint of a major set
back, said British artillery bom
barded Japanese troops on the
Waupgdaw Butnedauninaed
whar th Japanese had, gained
As Chairman of
Rationing Board
i Don; Drury, chairman of the
Klamath Falls rationing board
since its inception, has sent , his
resignation to Ed Ostendorf, dis
trict . OPA . manager,', it was
learned Tuesday, . . . ' :
Press-of other affairs, caused
Drury to resign, :it was under
stood. He is manager of the Kal-pine-Plywood
company. and par
ticipates in many, civic activities,
Drury haa. given a large part .of
his time to the ration board since
it was established.
. Members of the board. ar ex
pected to meet soon to name
new chairman.- According to the
district OPA- office, remaining
members of the board are Percy
Murray, Earl Edsall, Mrs. Hazel
Landry, John Eblnger, K. - A,
Moore,, G. C. Tatman, Mrs. Effie
oerceion, v. E, O'Neill and J. I,
Beard.
It .is. reported also that a ques
tion of rental of; the present
board offices In the Odd Fellows
building is' plaguing the, ration
officials. The IOOF haa asked
for rental fees, after giving the
quarters without charge for sev
eral months. District OPA-of-
ciais claim , there Is no money
available , for rental of ration
board quarters. .. ,., ;, -. .
el, formally accepted, the surren
der of a- German major and all
his surviving junior off leers and
men. Military police clambered
Into a . captured German half
track troop carrier and escorted
a column of ' 200 toward- the
rear. ,
!"Would you like to ride?"
asked the-eoloiiel politely.--
"Thank- you," -the major re
plied in good English.. "But I
should profer to march with my
men." . . .
The German ' command ' obvi
ously had hoped to stall off the
British nt'Hnmman Lit, a pic
turesque moslem village on the
plain , a half mile wide between
the hills and the sparking Medi
terranean. : .
Sherman tanks swept' through
this gap' nine miles southeast of
Tunis in a 10-hour battle yester
day,, outflanking' a line of Ger
man 88s ': by sending one squadron-
along' the sandy beach.
:It '-was - strictly-.- an . armored
"-Continued on Page Two) (
TOKYO CLAIMS
TROOPS NEAR
INDIA BORDER
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1943
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Yvonne Prepares
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Backad by Papa DIenn, Yvonn tosses a final glance ovr shoulder before erashln? hr rib
boned bottle of br on th bow of th Elsa Eldrldg. Hr slstr satd at left holding their rd,
whit and biu nosegayi, appears more interested in th cameraman than th crmonis. Tb
woman behind Mr. Dionn is unidentified ... ' .' . .
Holland in State of Siege
As Army Rebels Internment
LONDON, May 11 W) The
Netherlands news, agency Aneta
quoted -reports today that a state
ol.isitge.., hs.i. ..been . decreed
throughout- nazl-oecupied Hol
land and that 26 Dutch patriots
had been executed and 10 oth
ers sentenced to death as a re
sult of disorders apparently con
nected with an attempt to stage
a general strike.
Aneta said the -state of siege
was ordered by Arthur Seysz-
Inquart, reich commissioner for
occupied Holland, and quoted
the Stockholm newspaper Sven
ska Dagbladet as saying it re
sulted from "serious disturb
ances" following a nazl order
for relnternment of all former
Netherlands army members as
prisoners of war.
Aneta added that serious In-
Logger Killed
As Cable Snaps
Him From Car
Murtie Edmenson, about 49
logger for Crater Lake Box and
Lumber company, was killed in
stantly at noon today at the com
pany's Hildebrand camp ' 25
miles east of Klamath Falls near
Dairy.
Edmenson was -standing on a
flat logging car wheti a steel
cable, used in pulling the cars,
tightened and threw him 10 feet.
The man struck on his back. Ed-
menson's brother, Baxter, also
working on the car, was injured
and rushed to Klamath' Valley
hospital. His condition was
thought to be serious.
Ward's ambulance was called
to Hildebrand hut Edmenson was
pronounced dead on arrival. Ed
menson had been employed at
the camp, since Monday morning.
He Is thought to have a wife
and three children living in
Klamath Falls. v
Lions Club Nets
Huge War Bond Sale
A Lions club war bond auc
tion netted $92,500 for the May
campaign at the Tuesday noon
luncheon of the club.
.The big sum was made up of
many bids, the largest being
$10,000. Vern Owens was auc
tioneer. ,
The response at the luncheon
put the campaign well over one
third of the $350,000 quota set
for May,
Captain Ehle Reber ;
Listed as "Missing" j
The war department today of
ficially listed Captain Ehle Reber
of Malin,- son of Mr. and Mrs.
John R. Reber, as "missing In
action." " i
Captain Reber, pilot of a Fly
ing Fortress, has been missing
since an early spring raid over
German occupied Europe. . -.
NEA FEATURES
Number 9794
to Send the Asa Eldridge Down the Ways
terruptions of .the supply of
food in the, country , resulting
from, strikes were reported.. The
Germ an-con trolled, press in. .the
country : said editorially . that
"Expected and accountable agi
tation has changed -into unrea
sonable unrest,-which has -as;
turned serious proportions."- -;'
Despite stringent censorship
on Holland,, there were indica
tions -during the past week: of
serious disorders,. Aneta said,
adding that the. German-controlled
Netherlands radio, men
tioned a "short,, fierce; action
and told the people It was fu
tile to "fight yourselves to death
in the fire -of German machine
guns." :
The news agency said that a
state of "police martial law" was
proclaimed - in four . provinces
April 30 and was - extended to
the remainder of the. nation the
next day the state of siege ap
parently being an intensifica
tion of the measures.
Aneta said . death " sentences
for those executed were an
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Hearing to Be
Reopened on
Lumber Vages
PORTLAND, Ore., May 11 (PP)
The west coast lumber commis
sion of the war labor board an
nounced today hearing on the
pine wage dispute would be re
opened May 25 not for. the. pur
pose, of altering the general
wage agreement. ,
The pine agreement' lifted
minimum wages.7 . cents an.
hour and. fixed-scales by geo
graphical areas.; In some areas
tha increases : brought the min
imum to 82 i cents an hour,: In
others to 871.-- -
The commission said that both
the CIO and AFL mill unions
had objected to some - parts of
the agreement and that these
disagreements would be taken
up at the May 25 conference
which will be held here.
The CIO, for example, objects
to the classification of certain
companies as box manufacturers
calling for a lower wage scale
contending that they should be
classified as sawmills. The same
claim Is made for certain tie
mills. ' Both unions object to the
variation In wase differential in
box factories of various regions.
Some box factories pay an aver
age of 21 cents an hour below
sawmill wages,- others pay at
much as five cents less. The
unions want a standard differ
ential. PLANE OUTPUT UPPED
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Fh-
Estimating American slane out
put by a new method, President
Roosevelt said ' today the 1944
total is expected to be 1,417,000,
000 pounds of airplanes of all
type.
I
Spang I e r Supports
Z"- - Status Quo in : .
Letter
WASHINGTON, May 11-JP)
A letter, by Harrison Spangler,
chairman of the republican na
tional committee, was read to
the house today saying that in
his opinion "with the situation
as it is we should not attempt
to disturb" the reciprocal trade
pacts., . v '
. The letter, dated February S3,
was read by Rep. Baldwin
(R-N.Y.). i :
. Only this morning republican
members of the house held con
ference on the trade agreements
and their leader, Rep.. Martin
of Massachusetts, said the meet
ing developed "a great deal of
sentiment" to give congress veto
powers over the president's au
thority, to negotiate the pacts.
I Democrats contend this would
amount to a "kiss of death" for
the whole reciprocity program.
When Baldwin completed
reading Spangler's letter, Rep.
Knutson (R-Minn.) took the floor
to emphasize that the . GOP
chairman "took pains to say he
was speaking in a personal ca
pacity." ' .
Shortly after the party con
ference adjourned, Rep. , Reed
(R-N.Y.) told the house that
"congress has an . opportunity
here and now. to recapture - its
power over the tariff and stop
this trend of aodication in favor
of the executive branch."
PRICE LIST PAGE 10
Th OPA top pric list for
th Klamath . Falls community
will b found on Pag 10.
Pioneer Logging Boss Dies
Following Lengthy Illness
James Charles Johnston, 74,
one of Klamath county's out
standing timbermen, died late
Monday afternoon - in Oakland,
Calif., following a lengthy ill
ness. Mr. Johnston, served: as
logging superintendent ' of the
Pelican Bay Lumber company
from 1911 until his retirement.
Word of his passing at the home
of a daughter, Mrs. Herbert
Scott, was received here with
deep regret by his many close
friends and the scores of men
who worked with him In .the
woods.
: Mr. Johnston was btirnJ Sep
tember 18, 1868,. In New Lon
don, Ontario, Canada. His wife
died here on April 9, 1929. Fu
neral services will be held Thurs
day. at 8 p.- m., under the direc
tion of Whltlocks, with burial in
the family plot at LInkvllIe cem
etery, v .
Surviving Mr. Johnston are
two ions,. Charles and John of
Mar 10 Mlgh II. Low 14 ' , . ' :
PraclpllaUon aa of May 4, 1141
Straam yaar to data ; , H.1
Lait yaar 11.84 Hormal. 10.1
BRITISH SUB
ARMOR ACROSS
OF
Thousands , Pour - Into
" Allied Prison '
I. '..' Camps : ' ;
By WILLIAM B. KINO
ALLIED . HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 11 (VP)
German forces trapped on- Cap
Bon appeared to be preparing for
wholesale surrender, tonight
after a .lightning thrust of Brit
ish armor across the neck of the
peninsula 'which also pocketed
the enemy's front line facing th
British and French oh the south
and west. J
(A French communique broaoV
east from Algiers said the Gen
mans in the Zaghouan mountain!
on the southwest front, also had
asked for armistice terms and
had been told that only an un
conditional surrender would be
accepted....
: Lone Resistance . :
(Germans . facing: the British
eighth anny. north of Enfidaville
in the southern part of tha inland
pocket alone appeared to-be of
fering determined resistance.) : ' ,
British armored columns ad
vancing rapidly for many mile
up the peninsula to Hammamet
on the - south .side,- reported scsm
ing many fire believed set bf
the Germans to- destroy.: theur
"siippnEr 'beidftf offering to sur.
render; . Not waiting ior a gem
eral, . surrender, thousands - - al
ready were,' pourinl Into-allied y
prison, camps.- i
(An Algiers broadcast reeoroV
ed In London said that a, head,
quarters spokesman . estimated!,
100,000. prisoners already ha
fallen Into allied hands, but thai
all had not: yet been counted.
. . Last Tank Battl - ;
i (The broadcast' said that what
probably was the last tank, battle)
to be fought In Tunisia was rag
ing on. Cap -Bon between- rem
nants of the German 10th arm
ored division and -the. British,'
. (Continued on Page Two) '
Twenty Killed
In Coal Mine
Explosion ;
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May lt
men were killed, two
missing and five others: serious
ly burned today. In an explosion
at Praco coal mine No.. 10 of the
Alabama : By-Products Corp., 20
miles -west of. here. . .
.-.P. H.i Neal, manager of. the
coke and by-products department
of -the company,, said, the . 10
bodies .were found by., rescue
crews. . : , Vv'' i
Previously,-12 of the 22 men
underground when-the explosion
occurred had been brought out,
five of them severely .burned..
Neal had expressed the hope that
the 10 men still. In the mine,
would be brought out safely.
The dead men were trapped
approximately a mile and a half
below the surface. -
Oakland, Mrs. Herbert Scott
(Anna May Johnston), also oi
Oakland, Mrs.- C. Frank Mllla
and Mrs. Jacques J. Stelger, both;
of Klamath Falls. A third son,
James, died In 1942. Mrs. SteW
ger left by train Monday night
to return here Wednesday morn
Ing with her brothers and sister,
- Tribute Paid '
The following is a tribute pal4
to the memory of Mr. Johnston
by H.i D.; Mortenson, president
of the Pelican Bay Lumber conv
pany, with whom Mr. Johnston)
worked from 1911 until his pas,
ing: ' ; ''." ".
"In the' middle eighties tha
men in the woods of Wisconsin
and .Michigan recognized W. P.
Jallley as a great woodsman and
a great logger, his methods wert
the talk .of these famous fron
tiers.- .: .
' "John and his brother,, Jamel
C. Johnston, worked under and
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CAPE