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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
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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
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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." "