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j . : i : , 1 1 i i . i . : i . ; : . , : i , , i . i . . i . On 5-mtnut blast on sirens and whiitUi U Iho signal lor blackout In Klamath Fnlls. Anothar long blmt, during a block, out, la a ilgnal for all-cltar. In jr.cau tlonary psrloda, watch your ilraat llghti. Mar IS High S3. Lew SJ Precipitation as o( May T, 1943 ' fltraam year to date ...:...L....H.1T Lait y.ai .....11.98 Normal ........10.63 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943 Number 9797 "': .MlVlllin A.I.IKlIM AlNfl r n n n n i i rN mm m-wt mi m , Will By FRANK JENKINS THKRE'S oiio hcudlino with a punch In the mwi todny Wu'ro nttueking tho Jnpa on Attn. All thnt la known as tills ii written (about noon) is Hint we HAVE landed and ARE light- TR. , , , THE fiKht hint been going on about threo dnya. (Tho Jnpj any it beifnn on Wednesday; wo any Tuesday.) That Indicate Ihnt Atlu la no pushover, THESE rocky Aleutian islands, with few benchea and ahorca rising atecply out of deep and Icy wntcr, nro quite different oa mil- Itnry problema from the anndy juni!lo lalnnda of the South Pnclflc, A TTU la 703 mllca ent of the Jnp nnvnl and air bnae nt the northern end of the Kurlle la Inndir, nrnr tho Siberian Knm chnlka peninsula. rsw"". The Jnpa took Attu and Klaka i June 8, 1042. They've atead' Tiy Increased their hold on both lalnnda, building baaes end gar risoning them. Experience has shown ua that bombing can't rllslodRo them, ao now we're at tacking with landing forces, aup ported by warships and planes. The Jnpa ore auppoacd to hnvo about 10,000 troops on Kiskn nnd somewhat leas on Attu. TODAY'S dispotchea Inform ua x thnt tho Brltlah hnve fnllen buck ngnln In Burma, taking up 'itiew defensive poaltlona nearer tho Indln border. Crnckcr-box atrntcgy auggosts thnt thoro mny bo a connection (this being n WORLD war) be tween Iho Burma fighting, which acems to be growing in impor tnnce, nnd out thrust In the Aleutians, jt H tho Jnpa atnrt something in 'Eurma or tho South Sens, our natural movo on tho world checkerboard would bo to threaten Japan from Alnakn, hoping to compel tho Japs to keep their forces spread out In atead of being abla to conccntrnto them at ono point, as they did to successfully at the beginning. "WANG KAI SHEK congrutu Intca Churchill on tho great African victory, Churchill, re plying, tells Chiang: "Tho day will come whon we shnll rejoice nt fonts of tho Unit ed Nntlons which will drive tho Jnp Invnder from tho soil of China," Chiang, of course, would rath er havo guns nnd planes, but ac cepts tho promlso Implied In Churchill's words. w HURCH1LL nnd FDR, still conferring In Wnshlngton, lot It bo known today thnt they hnvo nothing yot to give out. Wo must remember thnt when they do begin to glvo out, what they will hnvo to say will bo for tho enemy's benefit rather than for ours. Which Is as it should bo. Wo certnlnly don't wnnt them to tip off their real deliberations. We must be realistic. These necessnry conferences of tho top leaders nro hold to lay out carefully co-ordinated plans to win tho war. What is given out publicly Is mere dust Intend ed for tho other fellow's eye. t THE enemy Isn't relying much gm on tho nowspnpors and tho "t'dlo for hot, Inaldo Information on what Churchill nnd FDR nro talking nbout. He's looking to his SPIES for thnt. EXCEPT for tho attack on Attu, there's nothing much but slrnw In the news winds today. .Tho British launch nnother big bombing attack on Berlin, tho ' (Continued on Pago Nine) . Explosives Rain s From Allied Planes Over Italy, Sicily By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 14 OF) Allied nlr squndrons mined powerful blows upon Sardinia, Sicily nnd Itnly herself yesterday In en offonsivc no longer divided by the necessity for support of ground troops In Tunisia. U. S. Flying Fortrcsaea and medium bombers delivered a smashing aasnult upon Cogllnrl, port and air baso which long helped support axia forcea In North Africa. Tho raid was tho biggeat yet undertaken against Sardinian TIXMiMT Sentiment Shown on Cancellation of Obligations WASHINGTON, Muy 14 (Pi With bipartisan advocates of tho "skip a year" plan of tax abate ment holding their llnca firmly, the senate beat down, B0 to 32, today an administration attempt to amend Iho now revenue bill to provide for cancellation of only 78 per cent of a year's lovlcs. Tho vote, on an amendment of fered by Chairman Georgo (D Gu ) of tho senate finance com mittee, cleared tho wny for an expected early vote on a modi fied version of the Ruml plan under which the leaser of either 1942 or 104:1 taxes would be ex cused for nil persons to put them on a current payment basis. WASHINGTON, May 14 OP) Tho acnato rejected, 57 to 21, to day an amendment to the pay. ua-you-go revenue bill to credit current payments against this (Continued on Pago Nine) Church Talk Shows Planning For Offensive WASHINGTON, Mny 14 (VP) Primo Minister Churchill, do- clnrod todny ho nnd his military exports hnd met with President Roosevelt to "plan well abend of the armies who are moving swiftly forwnrd, nnd Indlcntcd general offensive plnns wcro in tho mnklng. "It is no good only having one march ahend laid out," ha said In a brondenst to the British homo guard on the third nnnl vcrsnry of Us lifo, speaking by radio from the White House. "Mnrch nftor march must bo planned ns far as the human eyo can sec. Design and forethought must bo o u r guides end her alds. "Wo owe It to tho fighting troops. Wo owe it to the vast communities we are leading out of the dark plnccs; wo owe it to heroic Russia, to long tormented China; wo owe it to tho captive and enslaved nntlons who beck on us on through their prison bars." House Views 29 Million Dollar Navy Appropriation By ALEX H. SINGLETON WASHINGTON, May 14 (P) A $20,463,087,108 nnvnl approp riations monsuro largest in his tory wns sent to tho house floor todny with n mossngo thnt "tho country mny hnvo every confidence In tho achievement of an unconditional victory across both oceans If the home front continues to do its part," Tho assurance camo from the house appropriations committee as it made public a bulky trans cript of testimony taken from tho chiefs of tho nation's sen- fighting forces, n report brim ming with broad dotall of targets, far surpassing that on Mnddalcna two weeks ago, Veas.la Sunk About 20 enemy vessels were sunk or damaged and largo oil fires were started at the Sicil ian hnrbor of Augusta by about 50 U. S. Liberators. Attacking from Middle Enst bases, they dumped almost 250,000 pounds of cxploalvca there under RAF fighter escort from Malta; Naples, Rcggio Calabria and Messina were other cities which felt tho fury of air power un leashed by the unconditional surrender of the Inst of Col, Gen Jurgen von Arnlm's fighting men, a surrender thnt yielded enormous quantities of wer sup plies and nearly 175,000 German and Italian prisoners. , Prisoners Tak.n . The last of the captives went to prison camps. . ; "No axis forces remain 'in North Africa who are not prla- oners In our hands, the allied communique sold. "The last re maining elements surrendered at 1145 hours (7:43 a. m. Eastern War Time) Mny 13." A British navnl force slammed 20 broadsides Into the harbor area of Pnntcllcrln at dawn yes tcrdny. Shore batteries of the Italian Island replied, but their fire was ineffective, allied head quarters announced. Pontellorin lies 45 miles east of the tip of Cap Bon. Night Attack British Wellingtons made night attack against Naples, dropping blockbusters on select ed targets of that axis, supply center.. . Maltn-bascd Intruders prowled tho skies over Sicily and the toe of the Italian boot, and commu oleations were bombed and shot up. Tons of bombs were dropped on tho harbor, industrial and warehouse areas of Cagliari by (Continued on Page Nine) . Office Burns at 'Boy Scout' Mill Friday Morning The small office structure of tho Wheeler Pine company, at the "Boy Scout" mill on Upper Klamath lake, burned down be tween 4 and 5 a. m. Friday, after whistles of nearby mills sounded the alarm. , Fire Chief Keith Ambrose said tho fire department answered a call at 4:27 a. m and tho equip ment remained on the scene for 47 minutes. The fire sirens sounded after the plant whistles tooted nt Pelican Bay Lumbor company and the Dl Giorgio Fruit compony. Cause of the fire-was not given by tho fire department report. smash-the-cnomy,. invasion prep arations. Huge Sisa There was grim acknowledge ment In it from tho navy itself of the precedent-shattering size of tho allocations for sen war for the fiscal year beginning July 1, From Admiral Ernest J, King, commandor In chief of the United States fleet, came this assertion: "War inevitably results in waste waste of men nnd mate rials and money; thnt is one renson for our hntrcd of war. But . . , wo. cannot afford to (Continued oa P&e Nine) HEAVY DAMAGE RESULTS FRDM RECORD PUNCH ...:. v 1 '" Air Offensive Lasts 48 Hours; War Plants Hit Sr The Asaoclated Praas LONDON, May 14 0P) Ber lin, Czechoslovakia and the Ruhr valley of Germany were pound ed in great strength by British bombers last night and the Ber lin radio reported that four-en-gined American bombers had at tacked the north German coastal area at noon today, extending the augmented allied air offen sive to nearly 48 hours of in ceasant assault. The British loat 84 bombers last night in a swift, punishing sequel of the record punch at Germany's leading river port of Dulsburg the night beforo. In daylight yesterday, American heavyweight bombed Mault and St.' Omer. 1 ; : Bulla Varalom , BcrllnVverslOn of the north German' bomblngt, recorded from radio accounts by The As sociated Press, was not confirm ed from eighth. U. 8. air force headquarters.. The Germans claimed at least three bombers were destroyed in fierce air bat tle in which German fighters rose to challonge the raiders, which were beset also by me dium and heavy flak. Wllhelmshaven,. Kiel and Em den have been frequent allied air targets on the German north coast, but the Germans did not specify the fog-shrouded target. Heavy Damage British authoritative sources said preliminary reconnaissance reports indicated "heavy indus trial damage in RAF raids on Dortmund May 4 and on Duls burg two night ago. The non-stop offensive was continued at dawn today by (Continued on Page Nine) - Russian Guns Batter Nazis at Novorossisk LONDON, May 14 (P) Rus sian big guns continued to bat tor German secondary defenses at Novorossisk during the night after the red army had smashed it way into enemy positions northeast of the city yesterday, the mid-day soviet communique said. ; The communique, broadcast from Moscow and recorded here by the soviet Monitor, said that Russian ships and planes sank two transports and two trawlers in the Barents Sea, - and that nothing of significance took place on other sectors of the front. Soviet gunners in the Kuban northeast of Novorossisk destroy ed several dozen blockhouses and dugoifts, 13 trucks loaded with supplies and blew up an ammuni tion dump, it said. Spirit Perfect, iSjays Mac Arthur After Meeting ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 14 (W)- Command of the vast operations intended ultimately to roll the Japancso back to Tokyo remains divided, but in a spirit of per fect coordination, between Ad miral William F. Halsey Jr., and General Douglas Mac Arthur, a spokesman for the general said today. His comment was in response to questions concerning a dis patch from an advanced South Pacific base, which . disclosed that the-two high ranking, of ficers had . conferred here - re cently. Americans Slash ' - j&!i Bering Sea ' , N4 r. ou.$.i.. IfTxl.tMiCHi 1$. U rSk'"'"" N ' II ; IsOVMEm RUSSIA JX American air and tea force today opened. the long-expected attack on the island of Attu In the Aleutians, shown, in the upper left hand section of the map aboTa. Cloaeat American baa to Attu la the recently captured island of Amchilka. Diatance from this nw baa to rariou other strategic spots are shown.' ' T ', 1 l"i.n m HHIe? Poses Problem at Churchill, FDR Conference By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, May 14 (P) Adolf Hitler probably will make a desperate attempt to win some spectacular victory over Russia in : the next few weeks, quali fied authorities predicted today, in order to offset the loss of prestige and morale which Ger many suffered as a result of the rout of her armies in North Af rica. This likelihood was regarded as posing a current and to some extent urgent problem tor Presi dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and their military ad visers, carrying . their i strategy conferences here Into the third day. It could have an Immediate and direct bearing on any de cisions yet to be made about combined American-British op erations against western Europe this year. v Conferees Siltnt The conferees themselves re mained silent about the nature and progress of their discussions on global strategy, but several occasions on which some Inkling of the talks may be given out have now been scheduled. The first of these Mr. Roose velt's Friday press conference slipped by, however, with no rev elation. The president told the conference that there is nothing helpful he can say now about their talks since they are still in the conferring stage. He said he thought there would be no de velopments until Churchill's vis it is practically over but he did Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Chicago 2 11 1 New York 3 . 7 0 Bithorn and Hernandez; Lohr- man, Prim (9), Hanyzewskl (9), and Lombardl. R. H.- E. Pittsburgh 5 5 4 Brooklyn 2 7 0 Gornicki and Lopez; Fitzsim- mons, Welton (4), Head (8), and Owens. R. H. E. St. Louis .3 12 0 Boston 4 8 0 Lanier and W. Cooper; Javery and Masi. AMERICAN LEAGUE - R. H. E. New York 0 11 Chicago '.! 3 8 0 Wensloff and Dickey; Ross and Turner. R. H. E. Washington 3 8 1 Cleveland 1 0 2 Leonard and Early, Giuliani (o); Bagby, Naymick (9), and Soaav at Nip-Held Island 5atut Milti AmchKfca to: Dutch Harbor 50 Kediak 1200 S.ord 1400 ScoHl 2500 Hawaii 2400 Japan 2200 ". J'.l -j. .. . x not disclose -when that would be...-. " Press Conference He did say that he thought he would ask the prime minister to join him at a press conference, perhaps next week.1 The president said he was sug gesting to reporters that the "lid" be put on between now and Monday morning, since noth ing important would occur in the interim, and the Joint confer ence would continue in the meanwhile. ' Generality Untrue Asked about reports from Lon don that a definite agreement has been reached among' the al lies that victorious commanders (Continued on Page Nine) Louis Soukup to Manage Klamath Bus Company , Louis Soukup has acquired the interest of William A. Thompson of Vancouver, Wash., in the Klamath Bus company, and be ginning Saturday will take over as active manager of the bus operations here, it was disclosed Friday. Soukup, who is manager of the Klamath airport and govern ment contractor on the war training service program there, will be associated in the bus company with R. C. Sugg, who (Continued on Page Nine) Probable Jap Smash Seen in Churchill Note to Chiang WASHINGTON, May 14 (F) Prime Minister Winston Churchill has informed Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek that "The day will come when we shall rejoice . . . at feats of arms of the United Nations which will surely drive the Japanese invaders from the soil of China." The British leader was reply ing to a message of congratula tion from the Chinese general issimo on the allied victory in Africa. Plot Jap Smash - ! His words served to under score indications that he and President -Roosevelt, in their war strategy conferences here, might be plotting new, massive blows at Japan. At the same time, Churchill released a message from Gen eral Dwight D. Eisenhower, al lied, command or v in chief in U.S. Launches Drive Against1 Aleutian Japs By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, May 14 W) The United States has launched the long-expected attack to drive Japan out of the Aleutian islands. . American troops landed on the Island of Attu on Tuesday, the navy announced today, and were met by Japanese of un known strength. - They are locked in battle now. ' . ' " The situation still is not clear, but United. State air and aea ; forces presumably are partioV, ARGUEPAY DATE Union Urges Sept. 1 For Retroactive Wage Start CIO unionists contended Fri day that September ' 1, 1942, should be the date for the start of retroactive pay to pine work ers in CIO operations, while a majority of operators have set September 26 r aa the proper starting date. Contentions of both sides were presented, at a hearing, before Referee Richard Steiner. of Port land,, held Friday at the city council rooms. The bearing grew out of the . recent west coast lumber commission award of 7H -cents .an hour to 'pine workers, which failed to name a specific; date -for retroactive pay." ";' ; While. September 29 1 the date. on "which a majority of op erators a r e ' agreed, i t was brought out at the hearing that workers for a. number of com-' panies have -received pay retro active to various other dates. J. E. Fadling, vice president of the . CIO International Wood workers of America,-contended that this lack- of -uniformity is ; (Continued on Page Nine) ; British Make Withdrawal on Mayu Peninsula NEW DELHI, May 14 () British forces have made anoth er withdrawal northward on the Mayu peninsula of Burma and have taken up new positions "more suitable for defense," a communique said today. : The .withdrawal was from Maungdaw, on the west coast of of the peninsula; ' Maungdaw is about 33 miles southwest of Buthedaung, which the British abandoned last week in the face of threatened encir clement by the Japanese. - ' The new withdrawal was made on the night of May 11, the com munique said it was made "with out interference from the ene my." , RAF fighters continued their attacks yesterday against Japa nese with transport and four launches and other small craft were machine-gunned between Akyab and Ramree island. ' North Africa, giving "my assur ance that this army will con tinue to pound until Hitlerlsm has been exterminated from the earth." ' : '-! Soong Conftr.nc. Further pointing up' the pos sibility that the prime minister and president are charting ac tion in the Western Pacific area was the disclosure at the White House that Churchill had held conferences of 30 minutes to an hour with T., V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister, who is now in the United States, and Herbert V. Evatt, Australian minister of external affairs. In addition to parleys with British and American military and naval staff members, the prime minister also has consult ed with Secretary of State Hull and President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia during his cur rent visit to Washington. - pating in an all-out bid for early decision. Attu Target " Attu so far appears. to be the only direct target of American landings. A general conclusion that no similar attack has been made .yet on Kiska, the other Japanese. Aleutian- base, wa based in part on the fact that a communique today told of fresh air attacks on that island. . American planes hardly would bomb an island after American troops have landed there, it wa pointed out, and the . new raid on Kiska came' on Thursday, two days after the Attu land lng. .- - r:v.-:. .,.: ... ..; , Landing Told .The. landing was announced in : navy . communique number 376, which said: "North Pacific! VI. On May 11 United State forces landed at the Island of Attu in the Aleutians, and are now engaged ' with Japanese forces on the island. Detail .of the -operation will be released when the. situation clarifies. i Little Comment . Naval spokesmen declined to go beyond the line of this bare announcement or offer any comment on the course of the fighting. ,. (First word of the landing op eration came from- the Tokyo radio which , broadcast a Japa nese, imperial headquarter com munique today saying the land ing began Wednesday and that a fierce battle was in progress. (That communique; as record ed by . the federal communica tions commission, said - "Craclt American forces began landing on Atsuta Island of the Aleu tians on May 12. Our forces on the same island have intercept ed them and are now engaging; them in fierce battle.' The Japanese-had renamed Attu Atsuta, after the Atsuta shrine at Na goya, Japan). , The size of the enemy's gar- . rison on Attu is not known but '. it is believed to be smaller than the approximately 10,000 troop ' reported on Kiska island, east of Attu, .... There was no Indication to- , day that any attack had been ; made on Kiska and this led to speculation . that the United (Continued on Page Nine) Tm Can Drive Collects Over Thirteen Tons A total of 122,476 tin can weighing approximately 13 tons were turned in by city grade school students this week to push quotas over the top in the salvage drive, it was an nounced by Jack Watson, chair man of the tin can salvage com mittee, Friday. The: two youngster bringing in the highest amount of cans in the city were Vincent Carter of Fair view school with 6433 cans- and - Carmel Flnnlgan of the Sacred Heart academy with ' (Continued on Page Nine) Funeral Pends for Rep. Englebright . WASHINGTON, May 14 (TP) Funeral arrangements were pending today for Representa tive Harry Lane Englebright (R-Callf.) who died yesterday of heart disease, in the naval hospital at. Bethesda, Md. - The 89-year-old republican whip from , the second Califor nia district, who had. been a member of congress since 1928, entered the hospital only few hour before he died. Dr. George W. Calver, capitol physician, said Englebright had been suffering from "some heart difficulties for the past several day." "