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: By' FRANK JENKINS
-HURCHILL ihowi up In
Washington today which l
always bitf new,
His abaonce from London hntl
been dulcctcd by tho alert Gor
man py nervier, and Berlin hud
been fishing (or ln(ormatinn o to
h I s whereabouts putting out
storlcf that ho was In Cairo, etc,
hoping to sot a rise (rom our
sldo that would pruvldo a tip
off. fHIS Is Interesting to us of the
x Pacific Coast:
Ha Is accompanied by General
Wavell, British commander In
India) Admiral Somervlllo, com
manding the British Eastern (loot
based In Ceylon; and Air Mar
shal Peirse, RAF commander In
India.
That loads to tho guess that he
and FDR will discuss Japan,
among our other enomlos,
, !. . i a '
nrWERB Is no Indlcution In the
news that high Amorleon of
flcors (rom tho -Paertte-are In
Washington for the conference,
but within tho past two or three
weeks General Stllwell from
India and General Chonnault
from China have been there.
Earlier still, members of Mac
Arthur's staff had been In Wash
ington. jEEP In m I n d, In this con
ncctlon, Tojo's recent state
ment In Manila that Japan Is
all sot now lr her newly con
quered East Asian empire and
rcody for "decisive" action.
It may have been puro bluff.
But you never can tell about
theso Japs, Tho fact remains
diet they DID tell us, months
beforo Pearl Harbor, exactly
what they wore planning to do
in tho South Pacific.
We laughed Indulgontly, but
they went ahead and did it.
"THE Japs know, as well as wo
do, that opening the Mediter
ranean sea route will shorten our
communication linos and thus
strengthen our position in India
which is . important in any
plans we may have for action
ngainst Japan.
JJITLER'S fortress of Europo is
having a good caso of In
vasion jitters.
The German radio says Hitler
has moved , his headquarters
from tho cast to tho west
meaning from Russia to Europo.
Mussolini's newspaper mutters
nervously that a "British and
American landing in Italy will
not prove as easy as bombing
Italian towns."
THaffnr.hrnsh HprinnnH In Hnl.
land are betraying their un
easiness by shooting Dutchmen.
THE Berlin radio propaganda
machine Is making sneering
cracks about Stalin's absence
from tho Washington conference,
hoping to drive a wedge of
suspicion between us and the
British on ono side and Russia,
on tho other.
-"ZECHO SLOVAKIAN Former
President Bones is also re
ported In Washington maybe, It
Is surmised, to figure out a
scheme for o post-war federation
of Central and Eastern European
small nations thnt will bo friend
ly to Russia.
That raises an Interesting ques
tion: .
wnHV win do mo pince ox
small, weak nations In tho Eu
ropo of tomorrow?
. .
WILSON championed tho sontl
w mentally admirable Ideal of
self-determination for small na
tions. Insofar as his Ideal was
worked out In practice (which
wasn't very far) It resulted In
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SOVIET BATTLE
LINE SURGES
Russian Guns Pound
German Scouting
Operations
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, May 12 (P More
than 1000 German troops have
bren killed on the Leningrad
front In the last 24 hours, Rus
sian dispatches said today, as the
entire battle lino surged with
new activity from that northern
lector to tho continuing struggle
around Novorosslsk, on the
Black sea.
The action before Leningrad,
whoso 919-day siege was broken
in mid-January, appeared to ba
only a scouting operation In
force, Intended to establish a
new German sector line and not
tho beginning of an out-and-out
offensive. The German attempts
failed after two attacks.
' Guns Optn
Russian guns opened up after
the assaults and have pounded
and damaged the German posi
tions since, It was said. ;' ' ,
The red army generally held
the Initiative everywhere along
the line, and the government
newspaper Izvestia said editor
ially "the war with Hitlerite
Germany has entered its decisive
phase."
The battle for Novorosslsk ap
parently had resolved Itself into
(Continued on Pago Two)
Arkansas River
Flood Breaks
Water Conduit
FORT SMITH, Ark,, May 12
(VP) The flooded Arkansas river
today broke the conduit supply
ing water to this city and to
Camp Chaffee. About 18,000,000
gallons or a six-day supply was
in storage,
Tho conduit is suspended un
der tho Fort Smith-Van Burcn
bridge, which has been patrolled
ceaselessly against the possibili
ty tho big pipo would break.
Tho bridge floor Itself was un
der from two to three feet of
water when the conduit gave
way.
Tho homeless numbered In
the thousands. Tho Red Cross
said 000 evacuees were being
cared for at Fort Smith and
about 100 at Van Burcn. In the
Morrilton area about 360 fami
lies left their homes, Although
bottom land families had to
move all nlong both rlvors, ap
parently this was accomplished
early for even livestock losses
were reported small. Thousands
of acres plantod to food were
flooded.
WITH ACT VITY
New Operations in China Rumored as
India Leaders Arrive for Conference
By The Associated Press
Indications that President
Roosevelt and Prima Minister
Churchill might bo charting new
moves to aid China wore seen
today as tho Whlto House dis
closed that three important
leaders from, tho India theater
of operations have arrived in
Washington,
Tho trio Included Field Mar
shal Sir Archibald P. Wavell,
commandor-ln-chlof In India;
Admiral Sir James Somervlllo,
commandor-ln-chlof of tho east
ern fleet based at Ceylon; and
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard
Polrso, nlr officer commanding
In India.
Speculation Rlfa
Speculation quickly arose in
Washington quarters that n joint
land, sea and air offensive
might, be opened against the
Japanese perhaps an attempt
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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This Man Finds
Government Has
Real Bargains
REEDSPORT. May 12 (P)
Jamea Ford, Wohlnk lake tlm
bcrman, says when the gov
ernment offers a bargain It's
really a bargain.
He sold part of his property
to Undo Sam for army usa
and when the army moved In
it Inadvertently encroached on
some property that Ford re
tained including a shed in
which he stored his tractor.
When Ford arrived a day or
so later he found the tractor
covered with government tags
and stamps, Including an ap
praisal card valuing the ma
chine at $80.
"And I had just installed
somo appliances on the mi
dline which cost $600!" ejacu
lated the tlmbarman.
Ford promptly made out an
affidavit claiming his own
property. ' , .
TAX SKIP SEEN AS
Cancellation May
; Endanger Price
;-7 V"- 'C6ntrol';'f;T
WASHINGTON, May 11 MV"
Opposing the finance commit
tee's bill for current collection
of revenues. Senator Connally
(D-Tcx.) told the senate today a
proposal to skip a year's taxes
"may prove to be the . crucial
move of a hop-sklp-and-jump in
to inflation."
Connally attacked the measure
after Senator Vandenberg (R
Mlch.), one of Its proponents, had
decried criticism by those who
say its proposed abatement of
the lesser of 1942 or 1043 taxes
for all persons would prove a
boon to tho rich.
Class Baiting ,
"These external critics of the
bill are not to be blamed for this
because of the treasury's prejudi
cial class-baiting arithmetic on
this s u b J e c t," Vandenberg
shouted.
He said that all . taxpayers
would be treated alike and that
naturally largo taxpayers would
have larger monetary abate
ments because they contribute
more to the revenues, adding
that they would continue to pay
more taxes than smaller earners.
Connally voiced the belief that
cancellation of any taxes, as pro
posed in both the house and sen
ate bills, would "endanger our
system of price control." ;
In a majority report on the
revised Ruml-Carlson "skip a
year" revenue bill, the senate
finance committee said today
that If a "pay as you go" meas
ure Is adopted by congress it will
become "unnecessary to pass
retroactive increased tax legisla
tion which has resulted in so
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to pry open China's vital Burma
road of supply.
President Roosevelt, it was re
called, lins promised that China
would be used as a base for at
tacks on Japan itself.'
Tho presence of the three
Far East leaders followed re
peated Chinese reports that
Japan was preparing for a
major movo and an assertion by
Japanese Premier Hidekl Tojo,
that the Mikado's .invasion
armlos were planning a decisive
blow.
Rice Bowl Threat
Other developments
A new threat to China's "rice
bowl," heightening clashes on
tho New Guinea front and pa
trol skirmishes in Burma mark
ed tho Far Pacific war today.
Chungking dispatches said tho
potential danger to Changsha,
capital of rlce-ylftlding Hunan
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, WAY 12, 1943
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA. May 12
OP) A special communique
tonight announced that "or
ganised resistance except by
Isolated pockets of the enemy
has ceased" in Tunisia,
Tba text!
' ; "Organised resistance ax
eept by isolated pockets of
the enemy baa ceased,
v "General Von, Arnlm, com
pander of the axis forces in
Tunisia, has bean captured.
' ''It , is estimated that th
total of prisoners captured
since May S is about 190.000.
"Vast quantities of guns
and war material of all kinds
have been captured. Includ
ing guns and aircraft in a
serviceable -condition."
A'-By EDWARD KENNEDY
.'atXIED JrftADQOARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA,; May li
(VP) A rough' circle hint miles
in diameter In the gaunt Tunis
Ian.' hills north of Enfidavllle
was all that was left to the axis
in North Africa tonight and it
was crumbling rapidly under
allied assault from all -sides, '
German resistance already
had dissolved on Cap Bon to
the north where British armor
made a complete tour of .the
peninsula and then cut inland
and began rounding up tens of
thousands of unnerved Germans
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Cut-Back in War
Plant Building
Ordered by WPB
WASHINGTON, May 12 (VP)-
Because the nation now has the
plants and tools needed "to build
production to beat the axis," the
war production board today or
dered a sweeping cut-back in
new war plant construction and
machine tool output.
An estimated $4,000,000,000
worth of approved government-
financed plant projects and ma
chine tool contracts will bo re
viewed by the WPB, and in
every case where existing plants
or machines can do the job, the
contracts are to be canceled and
plant construction stppped.
Signallng-'the final breaking
of the machine tool bottleneck,
WPB said a number of tool
makers would go out of that
business and Into direct produc
tion of munitions.
province, had become graver as
Japanese invasion columns gain
ed a foothold on the southern
shore of Lake Tungtlng only 90
miles away.
Landings Smashed
Previous Japanese landing at
tempts had been smashed, the
Chinese said, but the enemy fin
ally secured a beachhead.
In tho Southwest Pacific, dis'
patches from Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's headquarters said heav
ier fighting indicated a pos
sible renewal of the allied, of
fensive against Salamaua, New
Guinea, which subsided in Jan
uary after the allied conquest of
the Papuan peninsula.
Small Smashes
"Intensified clashes are occur
ring between " small advanced
ground elements In the green
hills area" of Mnbo, 12 milts
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PiCS
AXIS WARRIORS
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BRITISH ARMOR
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Students of Klamath Falls
morning to help- Unci Sam In
are Ann Newman and Lawrence-
school. .1.
Bpttle-for German'
Brought in Focus
By Conference'
LONDON, May 12 (JP) The
impending "battle for Ger
many," sharply focused by Prime
Minister Churchill's confer
ences in Washington with Presi
dent Roosevelt, found axis pro
paganda agencies attempting to
present an outward front of calm
confidence today..
After fishing yesterday for
news of the whereabouts of the
British prime minister in broad
casts asserting he was in Cairo,
the- Berlin radio said today that
"Churchill's arrival in Washing
ton caused no surprise in Ber
lin."
Political . Talk
It told Its listeners that Wash
Ington talks probably would
center less on military problems
than on the political situation
which is marked by Stalin again
being absent.
"In Washington, the problem
therefore will probably be now
to bring Stalin's de facto, already
recognized demands in unison
with the understandable wish of
the ' Anglo-Americans to main
tain an outward semblance of
the already rather pale Atlantic
charter."
Headquarters Moved
Earlier the German people
were told that Adolf Hitler,
whose headquarters had long
been described as on the eastern
front, now is at an unspecified
point In tho west; that Prof. AU
Lbert Speer, nazl minister of
munitions, reported to Hitler
yesterday on the construction of
"the Atlantic wall"; and that
"victory without compromise"
would remain tho goal for
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No, They Didn't
Explode After
Eating Dynamite
DALLAS, May 12 (P) No ill
effects were suffered by the 4
and 7-year-old daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Mocn and the
4-ycar-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. King who dined on
dynamite earlier in tho week.
Attending physicians said the
children mistook a stick of dy
namite for a candy bar and
munched part of It before dis
covering their mistake.
Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Philadelphia 2 10 0
Detroit 3 13 3
Wolff and Swift; Bridges,
Trucks (9), and Richards.
NEA FEATURES
Number 9796
MR?
Tying the Can On the 'Axis!
" & , fim HUM liases-
schools brought thousands of tin
his salvage drive. Shown here with boxes of the flattened cans
Lebow, third graders from Mrs. James Lear's class at Roosevelt
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House Limits Reciprocal
Trade Act to Two Years
WASHINGTON, May 12 VP)
The.- house Rejected 1 tqday a
move Ho give congress power to
review and to veto the adminis
tration's reciprocal trade pacts
within 90 days after their draft
ing: WASHINGTON, May 12 (JP
The house voted today against
extending the -reciprocal trade
act- beyond two- years, but
backed up the administration in
its fight against' import duty re
strictions asked by republicans.
Frenchmen . Held
For Plotting Against
Vichy Government
BERN, Switzerland,' May 12
(P) The Gazette de Lausanne
reported here today ' that 150
Frenchmen, many of them gov
ernment officials, have been ar
rested In Vichy on a charge of
plotting to overthrow Pierre
Laval, chief of the French gov
ernment at Vichy.
The action by French police
and the German gestapo was said
to have resulted from a letter
sent by Adolf Hitler to Marshal
Petain, chief of state, in which
Hitler warned him of the exist
ence of a plot aiming at "anoth
er Dec. 15" the date in 1940
when Laval was ousted from the
government by Petain.
Nazi Subs Downed
By Convoy Escorts
LONDON, May 12 (P) The
admiralty said today four U-boats
were destroyed and six others
probably destroyed In a fight
with escort ships of a recent
west-bound Atlantic convoy.
This was declared to have
been the greatest success yet
scored in the war against Ger
many's underseai fleet.
The admiralty said that "pow
erful" attacks and counterattacks
extended over an eight-day pe
riod during the latter part, of
April and early In May.
Planes Fire Jap
Airbase at Kahili
WASHINGTON, May 12 (P)
The navy reported today that
American planes of the South Pa
cific command had attacked Jap
anese positions in the central
and northwestern Solomons
Tuesday, starting fires at the Ka
hili, airbase and setting a sea
plane aflame at Rekata bay.
RADIO INSTRUCTIONS
LONDON, May 12 (IP) The
Netherlands station Orange here
repeated Instructions tonight to
Holland's 400,000 ex-service men
to defy German orders to regis
ter for re-Imprisonment and told
them to "defend" themselves
against , arrest, the Ancta news
agency said. T
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cans io. their zooms .Wednesday
Both actions were subject to roll
cau utter. si-vMi;t;i;.:v-y.'-'':
The amendment extondintrtrw
act two years instead of the three
year period which-the-adminis
tration sought. -came by tellers
count of 96 to 153. Rejection of
the duty restrictions, which
would ban. duty reductions1 on
foreign' products below the cost
of those made domestically, was
on a- tellers' count of 172- to
153. ; ' ; ; ,
The two-year amendment came
up first. 1 - . - . -
Rep. Doughton (D-N.C.) shout
ed in debate that adoption of the
amendment. would be If'the. first
step toward abandonment -.of.
the reciprocal trade . policy,"-, a
statement which was challenged
by Rep. Wadsworth (R-N. Y.)
The. New Yorker.-, toid the
house that the world and this na
tion's allies would realize , that
the- action ; did not mean -repudiation
-of the reciprocal trade
program, and that It would con
tinue the pact program for the
duration of the war. ': '
Counsel Supports -Policies
of NLRB .
In Kaiser Hearing ;
WASHINGTON, May -1 2 m
Supporting policies of the na
tional .labor relations board in
prosecuting a complaint against
the Kaiser shipyards in Oregon,
Robert - Watts, board general
counsel, expressed belief today
the board s actions would stimu
late the yard's already record
breaking production.
. Watts said that the 70,000
workers now employed by
Kaiser were "frozen" under the
terms, of a closed shop - agree
ment entered Into by the yard
when It had only 67 employes,
and Is. now. under attack oh. the
basis of a complaint brought by
the CIO.
Long-Missing
Prisoner
1st Lt. Gordon Benson .
May 11 High 52, Low 21
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British Chief Comes to
Washington for
; .Meeting ' .' "'
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER .
WASHINGTON, May. 12 (JP)
President Roosevelt and Prim
Minister Churchill are holding
another council of war today,
with the trumpets of the Tunis
ian victory still . sounding . and
the allies poised to pound the
axis in .both Europe and ' tho
Pacific. .'- . - .
The' commuting British chief
tain, arrived last night on. hla
" MOSCOW. May 12 (P) .
.Russians interviewed after tha -announcement
of British
Prima, Minister Churchill's
trip to Washington said today
-they Interpreted it In only one '
way i presaging- second
front.
third' wartime trip to Washing
ton, accompanied by a staff .of
military and naval experts. -, '
' As he- and Mr. Roosevelt -sat
down to bring the enemy still
closer. - to- their '. "unconditional"
surrender" 'demands, the Tunis-'
lan . success1 swept offensive
strategy to a point ' where, the
tlnitecj Nations high command,
could'sttft activating"plan for
the next blow plans undoubted
ly blocked out at previous meet
ings between the two leaders and -now
due to be perfected and ex--tended
. : . -, '. :...-'
'Hitter Slufts 'i;. '
:;Across the sea, 'Hitler suddenly
shifted- his : headquarters from
the east' to the west, according
to;the German radio, and doubtless-wondered
where the blow
or mows wouia iaiu ! ...
- With no White House comment
forthcoming .as -to- the specllia
nature, of the Washington dis
cussions, speculation ran free.:
Informed persons- here saw no
reason to- believe, however, that
previously-laid strategy would be.
shifted for instance, to provide-
, ; (Continued on Page Two) '.,
Way Cleared
For Action on .
On!, Hill
in v aw
WASHINGTON, May 12- (P)
The house rules committee to
day.cleared the way for prompt
house action, probably late this
week, -on - the Connally-Smlth '
bill to restrict strikes in war '
plants and require union finan
cial statements . from labor,
unions.
The committee's action , was
taken In executive session after
R e p r e s e ntative Marcantonio
lAmn.-ijaD.-iN.x.; ana a spoils
man for the- American Federa
tion of. Labor had opposed the
measure.
, Chairman Sabath (D-Ill.) said
no record vote was taken and
Representative Delaney (D-N.Y.)
member who opposed the pro
cedure, " .
Klamath Man
in Philippines
: .A telegram from the war de
partment, which reached them at
10 o'clock Tuesday night, ad
vised Mr. and Mrs. Steve Benson
of Alameda street that their son,
1st Lt. Gordon S. Benson, 22,
was a prisoner of war In Tht
Philippines. ' '
! This Is the first word tho Bon
sons have had from their pilot
son since a - message reached
them March 19, 1942, from Cebu.
Later they learned from a fellow
airman, who had reached Au
trails, that Gordon's plane was
the only one to get off Iba on
Zambales, a part of the Luzon
mainland, to join General Doug
las MacArthur at Bataan. Gor
don was shot down In the early
part of the war, was hospitalized,
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