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Number 9796
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By FRANK JENKINS
HrllEHE'S llttlo news today or
the kind that makes smash
ing headlines. But the air is
heavy with portents and posalbll
itles. VE lvorn that Admiral Halsoy
uml General MncArtliur
hovo been "conferring" in Aus.
trnlla, "mapping pinna for ullliz-
inn tlio totnl moana at their dls-
ponal,
It In their first conference
nlncc the war brmin.
TN Washington (where Churchill
and FDR are conferring) "in-
fnrmnrt aotirpon HftrlnrA" that th
strategic possibilities of India aa
a btino for mojor operation
against Japan aro "apparently"
one of the main topics under dis
cussion.
Washington "observers" point
out that Wavell, Somorvlllo and
Pelrsa (British commanders ac
companying Churchill) direct the
only co-ordinated land, sea and
air forces IN A POSITION to
open a route for heavy movo-
niont of supplies to China.:
iTlET out your mnp here. It
V, will tell you thnt Jap-held
Burma. Is the only feasible route
for large-tcalo movement of sup
plies to china,
India Is the obvious bose for
attacking the Burma Japs.
Wavell Is supposed to have
ly supplied with modern equip
ment. The soon-to-be-opened
Mediterranean sea route will
make It easier for us to supply
them.
REMEMBER t h a t "Informed
lv sources" and "observers" are
devices whereby tho insiders can
put out Information they WANT
put out without going out on a
limb by disclosing their Ident
ities.
ANOTHER rumor today puts
nommoll in Salonlkl. (The
Berlin radio has been saying-he's
ill in Germany.)
Salonlkl Is one of the historic
gates to tho European fortress.
Its use by us would be contingent
nn Tiirbnv'ti rnmlnff nvpi 4a aiii-
siclo.
(We'd like to have Hitler be
licve that's going to happen.)
It MIGHT, at that.
nEPORTS from tho continent
today say revolt Is raging In
Holland and has spread "like
wlldfiro" In Belgium. It Is sold
to bo taking tho form of attacks
on German troops, military es
tablishments and communica
tion's (railroad, highways, etc.)
So far our side has been
AFRAID the enslaved and em
bittered people of Holland, Bel
glum and France might revolt
TOO SOON and be butchered by
tho Germans.
But this "revolt" started when
the Gormans ordered Internment
of the Dutch army and tho Dutch
govcrnment-In-oxile in London
instructed (by radio) the mem
bers of its disbanded army to
RESIST.
Maybo (In Other words) tho
TIME FOR REVOLT is here.
A DDING to tho mystery today,
" tho British admiralty ordors
all private boats along tho North
Sen const of Scotland and Eng
land removed or "immobilized"
IMMEDIATELY. (Thnt is tho
area from which an invasion
would presumably start.)
COMEBODY Is starling theso
" talcs. Thoy SEEM to bo com
ing chiefly from our. side.
One wonders why.
There's tho hint of an answer
In the news from Africa. Gen
eral Elsenhower, telling of the
Irnfnnu ihot Hfl.i.llnJ 1 ,1. -
n.t .v hid, ..-nMtvi:u III
brenk-through to Tunis, explains
that he BLUFFED with the Brit
ish 8th army but ACTUALLY
HIT with tho British 1st army,
thus fooling, tho Germans and
catching them off balance. '
!
TPHESE widespread rumors, you
see, may bo doslgnod to fool
the enemv Attain In thn hnnn nt
(Continued on Tags Eight) .
Allies Sponge off
Ragged Remnants
Of Afrika Korps
By WILLIAM B. KINO
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 13 (P)
Allied mopping up parties hunted-tho last ragged remnants of
Hitler's African armies In Tunisia today to round out a victory
which Gon. Sir Harold Alexander said was "one of the most com
plete and decisive In history." i
A military spokesman estimated that the prisoners would
total "near 178,000" when the lust of the holdout detachments
Destroyer and Tanker
, Downed by Planes
April 17
WASHINGTON, May 13 (IP)
The navy today Identified the
three allied ships sunk by Japa
nese planes off Guadalcanal Is
land In the Solomons April, 17
as the American destroyer
Aaron Ward, .-'the"-." American
tanker Kanawha and the New
Zealand corvette Moa.
The identifications were made
In a communique which also re
ported a resumption of air at
tacks against enemy positions
of Kiska Island in the Alcu
tions, three 'new raids against
Japanese basoi In the Solomon
islands, and a bombardment by
American light. warships of,, the
enemy positions at Vila and
Munda In the Solomons, v '
; Aleutian Activity -.'
Resumption of air action In
the Aleutians ended a four-day
period of Inactivity described
here as resulting from bad
weather. The latest attack was
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First Case of
Spotted. Fever
Reported Here
Mike Pctroff, section foreman
for tho Southern Pacific, has
been ill for 12 days with Rocky
Mountain spotted fever.
Pctroff, who has been sta
tioned in a mobilo train camp
seven miles north of Chlloquln,
was bitten by a tick. A few
days later he was seized with
heavy chills and fever, eye pain.
mild delirium, muscular twitch
ing, and blucness of lips and
noils.
Potroff's physician said that
whllo he Is suffering from a
severe form of tho disease, he
is expected to recover and
should be up In about 10 days.
Oxygen and supportive treat
ment, along with sulfa drugs
and other medicine, have
brought the patient through the
12th day.
This is the first case of Rocky
Mountain fover reported In this
district, although there has been
a enso in Lakeview. In Montana,
mortality from this disease Is
about 20 per cent, but It is only
per cent In Oregon, according
to Pctroff 'a physician.
Byrnes Empowers WLB to Adjust Wages
By JOSEPH A, LOFTUS
WASHINGTON, May 13 (P)
Tho War Labor board is back on
Judicial basis today In tho
opinion of its public -members,
and an incipient labor revolt is
bcllovcd averted as a result of
wage control concessions grant
ed by Stabilization Director
James F. -Byrnes. . '
Byrnes policy directive auth
orizes tho WLB to make wage
adjustments "to aid in the effec
tive prosecution of the war or to
correct gross Inequities," provid
ed price ceilings or production
cost levels are not affected. This
is substantially tho authority the
board has sought since the pres
ident Issued his hold-thc-lino or
der on April 8, limiting the
bonrd's operntlons to the Little
Steel formula and the correc
tion of sub-standard wages. '
Tho order emphasized, how
ever, that any wage adjustments
wore rounded up in the offen
sive launched May S.
All organized resistance had
ended.
Air War Shift.
Tho allied air force, with no
more targets in North Africa
moved Its aerial offensive across
tho Mediterranean.
German and Italian armies
were crushed and their com-
mondcr-ln-chlcf, Col. Gen. Jur-
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA. May 13
(A) The Italian Gsneral Giov
anni Mssts surrendered today
to the British eighth army and
It was reported here, but not
.confirmed, that one of the
'sons-in-law. of King VIMorlo
Ameneule of Italy gave tip
with him; T
gen' yon 'Arnim, was among the
130,000 captives already counted,.
Messe Taken
At least 16 axis generals were
in tho bag.
Among theso was Gen.. Gio
vanni Messe whom the Rome
radio identified as a marshal and
commander of the Italian frst
JMcsso was one of the last to
hold out In tho southern pocket.
Called upon to yield, he refused
to surrender to any but his old
opponents in the British eighth
army, That . formality- was ar
ranged.
It was reported here, but not
confirmed, that one of the. sons-
in-law of King vittorio Emanu-
ele Of Italy was fighting under
Messe and surrendered with
him.
Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson
of the British first army received
Von Arnim yesterday in his
headquarters tent after the Ger
man, refusing to accept terms of
unconditional su r r e n d e r, was
driven nearly 100 miles by auto
mobile for an Interview.
Situation Told
Illustrating the allied domi
nance, the Briton told war cor
respondents: "The situation is
such thnt if Von Arnim won't
(Continued on Pago Eight)
Sgt. Fuller Hurt ,
In African Action
Word thnt their son, Set. Ray
mond G. Fuller of the United
States army tank corps, has been
seriously wounded in action in
the North African area, was re
ceived in Klamath Falls Thurs
day morning by Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Fuller, 22S2 Vine avenue.
The information stated that
Raymond's wounds were re
ceived April 23. Adjutant Gen
eral Ullo advised the family a
letter would follow. The youth
had been previously wounded In
action and received both the
Purple Heart and the Silver
Star for meritorious action under
flro. i . i . i .
To Correct Inequities, Further War
which "mny furnish the basis
cither to Increase price ceilings
or to resist otherwise justifiable
reduction in price ceilings . , .
or which mny Increase the pro
duction ' costs above the lovel
prevailing in comparable plants
or . establishments must ba ap
proved by Byrnes before becom
ing effective. - -
Chairman Wlllinm H.. Davis
said tho now directive, issued
Into yesterday, "gives the board
full judicial discretion within
clearly stated limitations and for
clearly defined purposes; and
that's good administration." .
Morse Approves
Dean Wayne L. Morse said he
approved "because Its judicial
procedures mnke it possible for
the board to perform its function
of assisting tho director of eco
nomic - stnbilizntion In holding
tho line ngninst Inflation."
The othortwg pitUllc memberij
INDIA VIEWED
AS BASE FOR
Roosevelt, ; Churchil
Discuss Further
War, Plans
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, May 13 (JP)
The strategic possibilities of . In
dia as a base for major oper
ations against Japan apparently
constitute one of the main ques
tions under discussion among
President. Roosevelt, Prime Min
ister Churchill ' and their top
flight military and naval com
manders gathered here for de
cisions on future war plans,
, Disclosure that British Gen
eral Sir Archibald P. Wavell,
supreme commander in the In
dia-Burma theatre, had arrived
led to speculation that a vastly
more active role for that sector
of the front against Japan 1 in
the making. - '
-. Commanders Here
With Wavell came Admiral
Sir James Somervllle, command
er-in-chief of Britain s eastern
fleet, based on Ceylon, and Air
Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse,
the theatre air commander.
These three direct the only
land, sea and air forces in posi
tion to open route for heavy
movement of supplies to China
-tb,; Burma Toa4. Ti(Mt:,thj
enemy controls this road has be
come of extreme importance for
two' reasons. ..-v. ;
First, the w-c-penlni of ' the
Mediterranean, as a result of the
allied .-clean-up in North . Africa
so ', shortens;; shipping, routes.- to
India ,' that; delivery, of greatly
Increased material there this
summer seems certain.
Second, until those supplies
can be trans-shipped to the Chi
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British Ship
Warning Starts
War Speculation
LONDON, May 13 (JP)
Amid mounting speculation
on when and where the allies
would strike next, the admir
alty repeated today an order
that all small craft except
those officially authorized
must be Immobilized or taken
out of the water from the
eastern Scottish coast just be
low, the Firth of Forth down
the east coast and around the
channel coast up. to Lyn
mouth on the Bristol channel,
(Tho stretch takes in all the
British coastline facing on the
European .continent from '
which an Invasion' of the
mainland logically would be
launched).
There was no- explanation
of the admiralty order, which
stipulated that all .pleasure
craft which could not be
taken ashore be immobilized
by locking devices and re
moval of sails, oars and rowlocks.-
Dr. George W.- Taylor- and Dr.
Frank P. Graham, wore known
to hold similar views.
- None of the board members
would' discuss specifically the
directive's possible effect on a
decision in4hQral mine wage
dispute, but one of them, who
cannot be identified, made this
comment in response to a qucs
tlon: "Tho board Is no longer
prohibited by any- rigid rule
from doing Justice.
No Comment
Labor members would not
comment' immediately for rea
sons of organization policy, but
there was unquotable evidence
that this partial restoration of
the,' board's discretionary power
went a long way toward turning
off the heat thnt was sure to be
engendered at CIO and AFL
meetings beginning today, i
The CIO vice presidents meet
. ... (Continued on Page Eight)
IP-SIING
.i . , - 'L't-
Winston Churchill in Washington Again UlQIPHM I flCC
Myyimnjn iiiniij..,in i.n wjwihih iiijiwwi'lffHa wivifW'"". mrjumi'na IU I . 1 1. Mil . b Ur 11 1 1 ill III I 1 1 T I
-v- w- .. i nullum. Luud .
iF;f fis"r? I BNBER HITLER
i'?$ :'' i S. ifZtfuXZ S'.iy I I Sabotage' Spreads Irj
Yfny ' V-rrX' P Pi Countries Held',
' "Try t .: ' P J By Nazis
fJ ri-mf . s" j3
British Prime Minister .Winston Churchill, sight, shown in ear with President Roosevelt, Is In
Washington for the third time since outbreak of war. He's shown arriving at the White House.
British Bombers Unload
r Over German Factories
LONDON, May 13 (P Brit-1
ish - bombers delivered 'their
heaviest attack of the war on
Germany last night, dropping
more than 1500 tons of bombs on
the" battered industrial center pt
Dulsburg, it war announced to-,
': Thlfty-fotfrtborflhers' were re-'
ported lost in the raid the first
great night attack on tne reicn
since the- smashing assault- on
Dortmund May 4. '':'-.
Davlioht Raid ,-
Allied raiders followed up this
assault by streaming across the
English Channel this morning in
bright sunlight to smash at the
coast of occupied France Th
rumble of heavy explosions
rolled back across the channel,
and later twin-motored, bombers
came winging home under a
swarming escort of fighters.
Southeast coast observers said
American four-engined bombers
were among those which crossed
the coast and headed in a south
westerly direction.
Duisburg, situated at thejune-
House Extends
Reciprocal Trade
Powers Two Years
WASHINGTON. May 13 (ff) .
Legislation extending the admin
istration s reciprocal trade pow
ers for two years was passed by
the house today and sent to the
senate after several remibllcan-
sponsored amendments designed
to give congress control over me
pact program were rejected.
The final action came aiier
bitter, four-day, partisan fight
during which the. republican
forces were able to write in only
one major amendment that
which limits the new- lease on
life for tho act to two years in
stead of three.
John Houston.
Named Head of
Oregon Cities
PORTLAND, May 13 m
John H. Houston, Klamath Falls
mayor, was elected president of
the League of Oregon Qitles to
day, succeeding Mayor Earl
Rllnv f Portland.
Will E. Gibson, Portland city
auditor, was elected president of
the Oregon Finance Officers' as
sociation, succeeding C. C. Ward,
clerk of the Salem public schools.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R H E
Cincinnati 14 1
Philadelphia 2 6 0
Starr and Mueller; Johnson
and Livingston, .
R H E
St. Louis 5 10 0
Boston 0 4 2
White and Odea; Barrett, Jeff
coat (9) and Kluttz.
R H E
Chicago 4 13 4
New York 7 10 1
Passeau, Wyso (9) and Hernan
dez; Hubbel,' Saylcs (7), Adams
(9)-aiid Lombard!. -
tlon of the Rhine and Ruhr, Is a
vital transport and communica
tions center in addition to being
the site of Important war in
dustries, . .
. was last Jborabed, tjie night
of April 28,jSwhen heavy RAF
bombers unloaded. 1350 tons of
high explosives on the city in
one of the mightiest assaults un
dertaken by the RAF up to that
time
Damage Told '
; .(The - German high command
Communique said explosives and
incendiaries wrought - extensive
damage In some places of western-
Germany, "particularly in
city areas of Duisburg." Broad
cast from Berlin and recorded by
' - (Continued on Page Eight)
ManSentenced
For Arson After
Mattress Fires
After admitting - In circuit
court that he set two fires Mon
day night at the Cozy hotel on
South Seventh street just for
the excitement, Harry L. North
ern. 39, was given not more
than 15 years in the state peni
tentiary on arson charges
Wednesday afternoon by Circuit
Judge David R. Vandenberg,-
The fire department was
called to the Cozy hotel at 7:50
Monday night to extinguish a
mattress fire in. one of the
rooms. The blaze had apparently
been purposely started as leaves
torn from' a magazine were
found to have been piled under
the mattress to start the flames
going. The fire was put out and
the truck returned to the sta
tion. At 9:40 a second call came
in from the same hotel, and a
similar fire In another - room
was extinguished.
' After an Investigation, Harry
L. Northern, a resident of the
hotel, was arrested when tho
magazine from which the pages
started the fire had apparently
been torn was found in his
room.
Northern waived preliminary
and grand jury hearings, asked
to appear directly before the
sentencing magistrate, and en
tered a plea of guilty. F. O.
Small represented him.
Northern has previously serv
ed terms in San Quentin and
Folsom prisons on forgery
charges.
Japanese Attack
China's Rice Bowl
CHUNGKING, May 13 VP)
The Japanese, taking full advan
tage of famines In Honan and
Kwangtung provinces, have again
attacked Chinese lines west of
Lake TUngting in an attempt to
ruin the rich rice crop of that
area before the allies start the
reconquest of Burma, a high
command communique disclosed
today.
Both sides suffered numerous
casualties. - - " ,
Soviet Planes " Batter
Nazi- Communication
-'-, - .Centers".
By EDDY GILMOHE ' '
MOSCOW, May 13 ()- The
Soviet's large-scale air war
against, n a z I communication
centers and troop and transport
columns has reached its highest
intensity, and the .Russians de
clared today it was interfering
seriously with ambitious Ger
man offensive plans.
Day and night blows continued
upon the enemy's traffic concen
trations on the southern end. of
the central front, the vital area
which includes the cities of
Briansk and Orel, southwest of
Moscow. '':
The Germans were trylngto
move tremendous quantities, of
tanks, guns, munitions and rein
forcements to these salients, and
the Russian airmen were seeing
that the material did not get
there.
Hill Taken
In the ground fighting;: the
soviet noon communique said
red army troops had captured a
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CIO Retroactive
Pay Hearing Set.
For Friday Here
CIO unionists and operators
will appear before Referee Rich
ard Steiner of the west coast
lumber commission in a hearing
to start at 10 a. m. Friday In
the city council chambers at the
city hall.
Evidence will be introduced
for use in determining - a date
for retroactive pay under the re
cent WCLC 71-cent increase
award. A similar hearing for
AFL unionists and operators was
held a week ago.
Ruined Levees, Land Left
In Wake of Arkansas Flood
FORT SMITH, Ark., May 13
(P) The worst Arkansas river
flood in history gushed down
the lower valley today, topping
or smashing levees and flooding
additional thousands of acres
after cresting here at 41.7 feet
3.7 feet higher than the rec
ord stage which had stood 110
years,
Receding here almost as rap
idly as it had . risen, the river
left in its wake six known dead,
22 missing, hundreds homeless
and untold property damage In
Oklahoma as it pushed its bur
den Into Arkansas. Seven of the
missing were Camp Gruber,
Okla., soldiers who were en
gaged in rescue work. '
Levees Abandoned -' -
Downstream, the U. S. engi
neers abandoned hope, with one
exception, -of saving any main
line levees between here and
LONDON, May IS (AWR
ports, from the continent today
said revolt was raging in oc
cupied Holland and had spread '
"like wildfire" across the bor '
der into Belgium, where there,
was a series of attacks on Gerv
man troops, military establish
ments and communications.
Reverberations of the allip
victory In Africa were said t
be shaking the whole of Hitler' J
Europe.
Accounts of sabotase. armA
clashes and general resistance,
poured In from Poland. Norwa-n.
Yugoslavia and Greece, but the
LONDON, May 11 (ff) A
Reuters dispatch from Stock ji
holm tonight said a riot broke ;
out yesterday in Berlin be. ; '
fore -the German army's in-j
formation office, when thou ;
sands of women and elderly J
men gathered to obtain lnor
mation about, their relatives
in. the Africa corps.; .
Dutch and Belgians appeared to)
be giving nazi occupation forces,
the greatest trouble. ,
- Troops Sent . .. j!
, There were" indications' in ret -porta
reaching here that Ith
German : were sending addition
al troops into the low countries,
but it was jjot clear ' . whether
this was rn anticipation of aa
allied invasion. 'or -to suppress
rebellion. . - v ;,-;. ,
Belgian patriots- were rerorfc.
ed to have stormed a military
garage - in Ghent. , killing 14
gc?rd . and -demolishing ' 11
trucks- with hand . grenades.
Others. 'derailed- and - wrecked
three trains on the . Malines.
Louvain and Namur-Huy; lines,
local' sources said. . One train
was said to have carried troopa-
(.t-oniinuea on .rage .Light)
Benes Promises V
Czech Democracy
Following War
"WASHINGTON, May 13 MV
President E d u a r d Benes ot
Czechoslovakia promised in- a
speech to congress today that his
nation, ;"a. child of the United,
States," would reconstruct ltsel
as a democracy after the war.. ..
Benes, in Washington for con
ferences with ; President Roose-.
velt, reminded his hearers that
the German Chancellor Bismarck
said in 1888; after his victory
oyer Austria; . . . - -,
"Whoever is master . of Bo
hernia is master of Europe. Eu
rope must therefore never allow
any nation except the Czechs to
rule it, since that nation docs
not lust for domination. The
boundaries of Bohemia are the
safeguard of European security
and he who moves them will
plunge Europe Into misery." '
Little Rook.. They turned theif
attention to saving dikes below
Little Rock on the Arkansas
and to battling the rampaging
White and St.. Francis rivers in
eastern Arkansas.
Relief agencies, whose rescue
operations were overshadowe4
by the spectacular work of
Camp Gruber and Camp Chat
fee soldiers,, expressed belief
that all valley dwellers now had
been brought to safety. ' )
. Water Cut Off
Fort Smith and Camp Chalk
fee were cut off from their
principal sources of water with
only six days' supply in emcrw
gency reservoirs. Across the
river, Van Buren was without
light and power and one-third
of the community was under
water. Some 600 blocks of Fort
Smith, a city of 40,000, was urw
, . (Continued on ragiElght)