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and D arl e MTlilllllJIiiiilllllaillillJIIIIhiiliilliliiilliiliililli'l1 fi On B-mlnute blast on sirens li tha signal for blackout w Falls. Anolhar long blast, during a black' tiout. ii a atonal lor all-elaar. In irecau :;jUonary periods, watch your THREE SECTIONS I i By THANK JENKINS nrllERE'S still no news from Attn olllioiiKli the fight has been on at leant fuur days. That miikcn It unto bet thnl It's quite li bnttlo, ii tvJIlLE there's no news, there t" nro HINTS. Nnuv Kinrolnrv Knnv fuivs U is '"going very satisfactorily." ; Knox knows what is happen ing. He couldn't very well say : tliut If wo were losing. I t i i V Jap Kormor War Minister f'jArakl is quoted tocluy by the 'Berlin radio us saying: j "A sctbuck there (at Attu) will only Increase our strength. Wlutt .,, ever hus huppencd In the Alou r. turns battle can In no wlso affect 'l tho will to victory and tho cor fa talnty of victory of tho Japanese "! people." .... ,1 That sounds like nn alibi. OINCE we have to confino our- selves to guessing, it's fairly safe to guess that our high com mand wouldn't liavo sent a boy to tho mill out thtre In the far Aleutians. If we didn't go In with strength enough to finish it, we'd better not ha,yo started It. . So let's assume On" our guess ing) that the force sent against ft in was big enough. u w m m m m -m 71 B- .. . ;j t"NE more guess: " ", When (or If) the Japs found v'j themselves outweighed they probably sent in reinforcements as they did In the Solomons. We can hardly expect them to '' give up Attu any more willingly : ; than they gave up Guadalcanal. I If a big battle Is developing In I the Aleutians, It will affect all i other Pacific fronts. It might even affect Burma. ' . "TODAY'S war dispatches con '! A toln this sentence: "An at ; mosphcre of VIBRANT EX , PECTANCY dominates tho .' wholo war scene." 1 Churchill, speaking In Wash i Ington, suys tho hour is approach ' ing when allied troops mussed In 1 ikitain will assault the nozl Vongholds. t fi Red Star (Russian army news A paper) says: "Tho hour is ncarlng 'l when great battles, with big I masses of trqops participating, will break out again." , . . 8T)ID you ever watch nn old ; , fashioned powder fuse spul- tcring slowly toward a big blast? That's tho feeling ono has In watching tho news today. i nOMBING of Hitler's Europe i goes on dny and night tho ! British currying on by night and itlio Amcrlcuns by day. , . Hero oro soma Interesting flg t tires: Hitler dropped 7600 tons of 5 bombs on London In 04 raids In 1 IiIh great effort to knock England At of tho war. In 411 HOURS, on v iTiursduy and Friday, tho British air forco dumped S000 tons of : bombs on Qormnny. i Amcrlcnn bombing Isn't count- i cd In this total. j . l COME moro statistics: i & Since April 11, the Japs have 1....I 19R nr Mm !inn r.laMna II, nv ' hnvo used against us in their ! tniiKsnrl rnidn in tlin Smith Pnnl- i fie. That is bettor than 35 PER I CENT, European experience In- ;' dleates that bomb raids nro n ' costly failure if lossos run over i .10 per cent. ' Our air losses, wo arc told by our Australian headquarters to- J day, hnvo boon well under tho ( 10 per cent formuln. 8URKEY Is getting edgier. Rauf Orbay, Turk ambassa dor to London, returns to Ankara to "rest up and ronew his con iacts," tho dispatches cxplnln (hchl hchl). . Orbay fought In tho Inst wnr bcsldo tho Germans. Throughout this war ho hns been a passionate, partisan of Britain and tho U.S. Turkish Foreign Minister Mcnomcnoioglu says today: (Contlnuod on Pg Two) and whistles In Klamath alraat llghti FLYING PORTS Softening Raids Hit Stepping-Stone Island By WILLIAM B. KING ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 18 (!) Allied air forces, swinging Into tho stride of their softcnlng-up campaign reached farther north in a series of smashing blows at Italian bases and Island stepping stones and blasted both ends of the sea supply route botween Sar dinia and the mainland, It was disclosed today. Flying Fortresses hit closer to Rome than ever before, making a heavy attack on the port of Civitavecchia, 37 miles north west of Rome, tho terminal of tho ferry to Sardinia. They scored direct hits on several ships In the harbor and fuel storages, exploding an ammunition dump and leaving fires which were vis ible 00 miles away, the allied communique announced. A simultaneous attack by me dium bombers on tho Sardinian port of Olblii, in northeast Surf dlnln, left tho docks and indus trial area smoking, a large tank er and a number of. other. ships damaged and nt least three ships sunk. Italian Heal Hit The air field and port of Alg hero, the harbor of Porto Tor res, and factories at Cnlaselta, Porto Ponte Romano and Abba sanla In northern Sardinia, the naval base of Cnglihri In south ern Sardinia, Comiso and Mes sina In Sicily and Gallipoll on : (Continued on Page Two) Allied Bombing Forays Baiter Japs in Burma NEW DELHI. May IS fP) United States and British bomb ing forays wero reported today to have buttered Japanese disposi tions from central Burma to Ramrco island and the Gulf of Martuban as ground action again entered a lull. , Heavy bombers of the 10th U. S. AAF-attacked enemy targets nt Mnrtabnn point, north of Moul meln nnd within Moulmoin, dnm nging docks, warehouse, railway installations, a power stntlon nnd other buildings, a United States communique, said. Medium bombers damaged buildings, tracks and rolling stock at Thazl junction and loosed explosives In the disper sal area of a Japanese airdrome at Shwobo, shooting down two enemy fighters and damaging threo others that attempted to Intercept. B ATTAIN SUPPLY ROUTE Deadlock Over Income Tax Looms; Leaders Siand Pat By JACK BELL and FRANCIS M. LEMAY WASHINGTON, May 15 (P) A predicted deadlock over abatement of 25 per cent of a year's Income tnxes loomed to day In tho pnthwny of pny-as-you-go legislation ns house nnd sonuto spokesmen stood pat on their Ropnrato plans, That was tho chief difference between tho bill pnsscd by the house loat week and the one approved by tho scnato last night nnd Informed cnpitol sources called it a difference difficult to compromise. Start July 1 Withholding taxes seemed sure to start July 1 both sides okayed them giving the treasury a tentative green light to set up Its collection system. With tho abatement issuo ap parently hinging on which side gives ground, first stop townrd the showdown Is duo to start enrly next week when tho house formnlly considers tho Senate action. By a 40 to 30 vole the sonata gave its approval to a moajura which would mk al ASSOCIATED PRESS TRICE FIVE CENTS ,:il!ii "A'mAWH ilmo;) A 11 VIMII'I A Dull Saying Livens Life PORTLAND, May 15 W) When tilings arc dull In the ar my, the buys shout, "Hell, Hit ler," at each other. That al ways gets a laugh, says Claude Keenc, 26, Eugene. So Keenc, recently dis charged from the Brmy be cuuso of an Injury, tried it on a civilian here. Ho was treated at a hospital for minor knife wounds suf fered in tlie ensuing fight. SOFT COAL FIGHT S UMW Has Next Move As Operators Accept WLB Order . By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS WASHINGTON, May 15 P The next move In the soft coal wage dispute appeared to be up to John L. Lewis today as the operators accepted a war labor board order to resume bargain ing and continue production of tho war-vital fuel. In New York, the president of the United Mine Workers withheld immediate comment on tho WLB's Interim directive order, thus leaving some doubt as to whother the 15-doy truce in the wage dispute would be extended . uftot... Its expiration next - Tuesday midnight" - or whether another work stoppage would follow. Lewis Confara - Behind closed doors Lewis conferred with aides during the morning at New York's Hotel Roosevelt but there was no In dication whother ho would issue a stotemcnt. Told by President Roosevelt "a renewal of collective bar gaining is the logical means of providing justice and equity to all parties," which indicated the board order might suit him, the operators had urged certifica tion of the case to tho board, whllo Lewis denounced the board as "prejudiced" and de fied its authority. . The order, issued last night, suggested several methods to help the miners meet higher living costs other than by an outright wage rate Increase. Main proposal wus an "assured" six-day week, with time and a half after 35 hours and a gov 1 (Continued on Page Two) 3000 Japs Killed In China Battle CHUNGKING, May 15 (P) A Chinese high command com munique today snid more than 3000 Japanese had been killed and 12 towns recaptured by the Chincso in fighting west and south of the Tolheng mountain rnngo in the Shansl-Hopoh bor der area west of the Peiping-Pu-kow railwny. most everyone current by can celling the lesser of 1942 or 1043 income tax liabilities for all except persons with "wind fall" incomes. Differences This compared with the house approved measure cancelling only the 6 per cent normal and 13 per cent first bracket surtax and leaving 14,000,000 tax pay ors with payments to be made under tho present year-lag sys tem. ' ' The ono plan would abate the full yenr's tnx liabilities the other, npproxlmntcly , 75 per cent, . ' The scnato measure Is a first cousin to tho original "skip a year" plan advanced by Boards Icy Ruml, chnlrman of tho New York Federal Reservo bank, nnd a close relntlvo of the Carlson bill which tho houso rejected recently by a four-voto mnrgln. Its chances of being tho final congressional choice depend largely - on whether tho house ncccpts It or sends ill to a con ference committee , for a compromise. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, ;.t':l('lAINII p. sjpfls Emden Harbor Hit by Largest Force Of Heavies LONDON, May 15 (P) The largest force of American heavy bombers ever dispatched over Germany attacked the sprawling harbor installations of Emden and other targets in northwest Germany today. Probably upwards of 150 big bombers participated In the raid, in which incendiaries were show ered on tho objectives. The previ ous record number of planes used was 130, and headquarters described today's assault as the strongest attack yet. The bomb ers were unescorted and were known to have shot down an un determined number of nazl fight ers. It was a 600-mile round-trip foray. .... ' 8lx Missing ' Six bombers were missing from bitter aerial encounters with a sharply reinforced Ger man fighter concentration, which numbered well over 100 Focke Wulfs and Messcrschmitts. The results were reported good, despite adverse weather. It was tho thrd successive day of raUs by the American heavy' bombers (n which they, pounded1 eight targets. -Diversionary sweeps were carried out by Unit ed States fighters. '. i The raid on Emden was the first large scale fire raid by American planes and one of the first big daylight Incendiary at tacks of the war.. . ' It was the first time, the Amer icans had attacked whole, city as a target, rather than pinpoint objectives. i Clouds and smudgepoti pre vented an Immediate assessment of the damage, but fliers made this comment: . "We vsre right over the city we couldn't have missed." Sgt. Carl Biehn In Klamath on Brief Furlough Tech. Sgt. Carl Morton Biehn, ono of the first three Klamath county men to be decorated in World War 2, arrived here this weekend from Dyersburg, Tenn., for a brief furlough. He was accompanied by Mrs. Biehn, Young Biehn saw action In the early months of the war while serving wilh the US army air force in the South Pacific. He has received several decora tions, the first being the Silver Star for gallantry. Ho served as radio operator on a bomber but in ono Instance took over when the gunner was wounded and acquitted himself creditably. Biehn is tho son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Biehn of Oakland, former Klamath residents.. After mnny hours of action, Biehn was returned to this country. Food Ceilings Effective Monday , WASHINGTON, May 15 OP) The office of price administra tion emphasized today that the community wide , ceilings on canned and frozen fruits and vcgotablcs scheduled to become effective In about 130 cities Monday will be issued as planned, despite yesterday's an nouncement that the dealer's mark-up formula oh which the ceilings are based had been low ered. , Tho dollars and cents, cltyi wide ceilings to be announced are based on the reduced mark ups. Frisco Area Hit By 48-Hour Week SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 (TP) Around 1,000,000 workors In tho Snn Francisco bny area beenme subject to the 48-hour week to day ns tho wnr manpower com mission launched a program for the "orderly transition" of labor to a wartime basis. . m SHOWERS GERMANY FROM SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1943 em Attu Islond, MMMMJMM-lllllllimit,lllllrll'-lll'l'lMllr'-ft--tV II IfWInill HaMJM Mfa Cap Wrangell (abort), on AUu Island, is th a westernmost point of land on tho North Ameri can continent and It is hare that American troops have landed and are locked in battle with the Japs. Attu was occupied by the Japanese nearly a year ago., '. ' , Post-War World Planned at Churchill, FDR Conference By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, May 15 UP) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill," in their fifth day of plotting total destruction of Hitlerism, lifted their sights today. to plans for the post-war world...'.. . .. . , v. -1,.- ;f'- They were busy, too; with conv bining, their talents on strategy for fresh military drives along the roads that lead to Rome, Ber lin and Tokyo. Speech Noted The British visitor's first speech on his current visit to the United States made the point that the time is approaching when Europe will be invaded. But even more interest was aroused by another assertion In his radio address from the White House yesterday that he and Mr. Roosevelt are planning "well ahead" of army advances. The post-war planning phase was strengthened by his state ment that battlefield victories are not conclusive, that even the final. victory "will only. open. a new and happier field of valiant endeavor." ; The British leader's 15-mlnute address commemorated the third anniversary of the formation of the British home guard and was directed largely to the nearly 2,000,000 Englishmen who com bine civilian tasks with protect ing their nation against invasion. . .Praises Work . . He praised their work- and told them not to diminish their vigi lance against a nazi invasion- ih force, warning that "until Hitler and Hitlerism are beaten into un conditional surrender, the dan- Wheeler Pine , To Operate Mill Through Summer Wheeler Pine company, which operates the "Boy Scout" mill on Upper Klamath lake, will start the mill again : Monday with expectation of steady oper ation through the summer months, it was lenrned Satur day. The plant ran through most of the last week. Logs arc coming from a camp established at Harrlman lodge, on the west side of the upper lake. Paul Robin is the com pany's logging boss, and logs arc also being provided by an operation headed by Everett Puckett. O. K. Puckett is rafting the logs across the lake to the Wheeler mill. Archbishop Killed In Air Attack , By The Associated Press A Berlin broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said to day .that Monslgnor Montabettl, archbishop of Rcgglo Calnbrin, whs killed in a recent air attack against southern Italy and that Pope Plus XII nnd nmncd Mon slgnor Antonib Lanza as his successor. NEA FEATURES Number 9798 mm Where American Troops Landed ger of invasion will' never pass away." : - ; . Soon after he spoke, the prime minister and the president met with their full military and na val staffs for .the second major conference since the British lead er arrived last Tuesday.:.'. ;. ',,. ,- Additional .details; ow- t h e prime minister's third visit to wartime Washington came" to light last night through the-British, information service.. It said his voyage here by boat and train was largely uneventful, and that Harry L. Hopkins, presidential special assistant, and other high officials welcomed him- at the dock on behalf of the president Retroactive Pay Referee Ends Hearings Here Dr.. Richard Steiner,. referee for the. west coast lumber-commission in the pine cases, - left Friday night after concluding a hearing on the question of retro active pay in operations where the -CIO International Wood workers of America is the bar gaining agency. ------ v i It was understood both the CIO unionists and operators will submit briefs further upholding their contentions offered at the bearing. . The union favors Sep tember 1, 1942, as the date for start of the 7,V4-cent, raise grant ed by the commission, and op erators for the most part con tend the date should be Sep tember -26.- Steiner while here also heard two other cases. One Involved a question between, the Weyer haeuser Timber company and the AFL machinists' union, and the other a wage dispute be tween employes of the Under wood Logging company of Lake view and that company. ;No results from these hear ings are expected for. two or .three months. . . . . . Germany Watches Turkish Collaboration With Britain By E. C. DANIEL LONDON, May 15 (JP) As Germany watched Turkey for a turn of events that might bring her newly equipped army into the war, the Turkish ambassador to London, Rauf Orbay, was dis closed today to havo gone to An kara for consultations. The departure of the ambassa dor came amid frantic efforts of the Germans and Italians to rally their resources against an Inva sion In Balkan territory adjoin ing Turkey's sphere of Influence. Collaboration It followed a notable Increaso In British-Turkish military col laboration. Foreign Minister Nu man Menemencioglu said yester day that Turkey was willing to fight on behalf of her obliga tions, which Include an alliance with Britain. V The Turkish"' ambassador fought Qn Germany's side n the OF ATTACKLEWIWGRAD Nazis Stab - Anew at Oft-Hit Russian By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW,' May 15 (P) A sharp new German attack on Leningrad,, in an assault preced ed by a heavy artillery barrage, was reported today by Red Star, official "army newspaper," in dis patches from the front. Following the heavy barrage, German infantry advanced to ward the city in what the dis patch described as "chains" of men. . . Russian . troops met the at tack with heavy fire that result ed in heavy losses, but the Ger mans continued to attack, . the newspaper said. ' , . . The .Germans made several additional attacks in' a 'single . (Continued on .Page Two), - Bey of Tunis Ordered Deposed S Gen. Giraud ALGIERS, May 15 -. (fl5) The bey of Tunis, Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf was ordered deposed to day by Gen. Henri Giraud. The action was disclosed in a communique issued by Gen. Al phonse Juin, acting resident gen eral of Tunisia. The bey, civil and- religious leader of Tunisia, remained in his land for six months during the axis occupation. ' He stayed in Tunis after allied forces drove out the Germans and Italians. When the Americans first land ed in North Africa, ' President Roosevelt addressed a personal letter to him.signifying American ' intention, of entering his land. last war. He received early naval training at Newport, R. I. He Is known today as a passionate par tisan of Britain and the United States. He was stated nuthoritntively to have gone home for "rest and to renew contacts." Across Turkey's western bor der in Bulgaria, seven more "communists" were reported by the Paris rndio to have been ar rested in the long police cam paign to quell political opposi tion to the axis war. A German report printed In Stockholm said allied parachutists had been dropped in Bulgaria In an at tempt to encourage revolt. (Ger man propaganda frequently plants such stories In Stockholm, and this one was seen as an effort to explain away the . unrest In Bulgaria, which placed the Bal kan kingdom under a virtual state of siege last week.) Mar 14 High 81. Low 18 Precipitation aa of May 8, 1943 Btraam yaar to data 18.17 Lait yaar 11.58 Normal 10.48 KNDX REPORTS AS Fresh News Lacking From; Aleutian Fight WASHINGTON, May 15 (JP) American soldiers and sailors, fighting since Tuesday for pos session of the Aleutian island of Attu,-stood .out today as the pos sible vanguard of a mighty force the country expects even tually to sweep on to Tokyo. The. lack of -fresh news from Attu, which lies at the western end of the long string of islands pointing across the North Pacif ie to the. Japanese homeland, caused too apparent worry in the capital where hopes for success were buoyed by these factors. i Sure of Win 1. A belief that the high com mand . would nnt tiavp nrrforpri the operation without making ar rangements fairly; sure of win ning through.. , ; --. - 2. The statement by Secretary of the Navy Knox late yesterday that "it is going very satisfactor ily." ; 3. Japanese dispatches speak ing of "crack"" American forces landing in numbers superior to II.. J.luJi . m..(U1. 1-uciuiuci a uuoaiuiH law- rss-v li'ig'uWrdvance-itfca. The - 'American command knows how many Japanese are on Attu, Knox said, while declin ing to give the figure. - . . . Offensive Asked,, whether. the operation is part of a general plan , of a (Continued on Page Two) Pilot Bails From Plane in Bad Weather . Sgt. Bob Yancey, 23, stationed at the Marana army basic flying school at Tucson, Ariz., arrived here' at 5 o'clock Friday after noon and just one and one-half hours later the pilot of the plane, Capt. Edward Mansfield of Port land, parachuted to safety when he ran into bad flying weather. . . Capt, Mansfield was ferrying an-army trainer, a BT, from Tuc son to Salem. He bailed out of his plane and landed four miles south of Eugene. En route north from .Tucson, flying conditions were said to be fair but the weather was pretty cold. The BT landed at the Klamath airport to permit Yancey to visit his par ents, Mr.' and Mrs; J. S. Matts, 1702 Crescent avenue. 1 Yancey, former K 1 a m a t h Union high school track star, is stationed at Tucson where he handles training group supplies. Capt. Mansfield hopes to pick up a plane in Portland, stop here for his passenger and continue south some time tomorrow. It not, Sgt. Yancey will return to Tucson by train. Baseball !. ' , AMERICAN .'; ,R H E Wasnington ...... ......... 1 5 1 Detroit 8 13 1 v Mertz, Haefper (2), Adkins (7) and Early; Trout and Parsons. R H E Philadelphia 7....:..;..... 0 4. .1 Cleveland 2 ; 5 0 Arntzcn and Swift; Salveson and DeSautels, Rosar (8). ' NATIONAL St. Louis v 6 11 2 Philadelphia 3 10 1 M. Cooper and Odea; Fuclis, Webb (9) and Livingston. R H E Pittsburgh 1 8 1 New York 2; 7 1 Resclgno and Lopez; Melton, Adams (10) and Lombard). ' ;,R H E Chicago .... 8 10 1 Brooklyn .13 14 0 Derringer, Prim (4), Barrett (4), Fleming (8) and Hernandez; Macon, Weber (6) and Owen. ..'.. . R H E Cincinnati 0 3 2 Boston t 21 Vandcrmeer and Muiller. D Phillips (8); Andrews and Masi. PROGRESS SATSFACTQRY