r
minim illinium i iiiijn
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Hl!ililllIfilllllllililllll"l!l'llllllllH
On 5-mlnute blatt on ilrent and whittles
ti (hi ilgnnl lor blackout In Klamath
Falli. Anothtr long blatt, during a black
out. It a signal for all-clear. In trecau-
tlonsry periodt, watch your
UVUUUI
imiflna I
, By FRANK JENKINS
n HADING between llio tinea
iv (which Is still nil wc can do)
there's apparently heavy fluhtlnil
on Attn, but wo seem to have tint
upper hnnd.
"THE
Jupt lire still our only
source of direct
news nnd
we mustn't BELIEVE much Unit
tunics from the Jiip, for wc know
It la Intended to mlslcod unci con
fuse ond NOT to Inform.
A upokeamiin for llio Jap nrmy
says we nrc landing a steady
-lrenm of reinforcements on Attu
Odder naval nnd nir bumburd
nient. The binding operation, ho
nays, wan a three-pronged affair,
with assaults on the south, ciist
and north tides of the island.
C Tho mult) force, he suys, camo
ashore on tho sou Hi on the first
day (last Wednesday) and moved
Inland all day, but was driven
buck to tho beach that nlfihl.
There'll a pitched bottle on, ho
toys, between tho Jups und our
forces landing on (he north side.
Our third force, attempting a
landing on the cast, he adds, was
annihilated.
V'EEP your fingers, your toes
nnd your feet crossed as you
rend these reports especially
the ono about annihilation of
our landing forco on the cast. '
This, In particular, Is Intended
q'p stir uneasiness in our minds
md sow suspicion of our gov
ernment which, for security rea
cons, is withholding details from
Us.
If the Japs can make us suspic
ious and resentful of our govern
ment, he will have gnlncd a
point.
Keep that fact ALWAYS In
your mind.
Y no attention to tho Jap
talo that wo are using poison
gas.
It Is obstard on Its face, for in
II
! i1 !! 1 i f
landing operation such as this
our troops arc bound to bo all
mixed up with the Jups nnd you
may bo quite sure we're not go
ing to run the risk of gassing
our own men.
The Jap is peddling that yarn
for somo wily purpose of his
jHkwn perhaps as a prcludo to
"sing gas himself In hit-and-run
attacks on our coast cities.
"Un own army officers In
Washington tell us our forces
will be ablo to sweep tho Japs
from Attu as soon ns tho weather
clears for combined sen-air-ground
operations.
Colonel Dupuy, speaking on an
nrmy radio program on Sunday,
says tho Attu landing was the
second step In a campaign de
signed to sweep tho Jap from the
western Aleutians and names
Kiska as tho next likely object
ive. Tho first step, ho says, was
establishment of our air boso at
Amchltkn.
; Present operations, ho adds,
are held up by a fog so dense
that it simply stops everything,
' VwiTH our men dying out there
In the fog and tho cold,
Washington's silenco Is hard to
take.
Tho Japs KNOW that. So
thcy'ro trying in every possible
way to sow suspicion of our lead
ers in our minds taking advant
age of a situation that is maclo to
order for their purpose
Don't let them get away with
It.
In war, wc MUST hnvo faith
In tho good intentions ot our
lenders. Otherwise, we'd bo
weakened, possibly fatally.
"THIS Aloutlons oporatlon Is no
mere skirmish. ANY hint of
its details could bo of immcijso
value to tho Jop in mooting and
1 DEFEATING It.
That is (ha reason for Wash-
ji Miigton's sllonco.
fei Any useful hint to tho Jop can
U rnnt nnnntlosA American lives.
'
TN Europe, nir war Is providing
A about tho only news available
today,
British bombers hit tho out
skirts of Berlin and Rome and
tho Ruhr and Rhlnclnnd valleys.
IVi Germany, British bombs do
i (Continued on rage Two)' . I
i p
ilratt lights.
Almost
Totally blind In one ay and
able to tea only two Inches with
tho other Abraham Schwarti.
above. It thown at hit 'New
York newt Hand aftor ha wat
clomlllod 1-A by hit d r a 1 1
board. The draft doctor put
Schwartt in 1-A becaute he had
a' well developed body. The
bllndneit retulted from Injury
In a wrottllng match.,
Committee Criticizes
WPB for Stopping
Irrigation Work
By C. D. WATKINS
WASHINGTON, May 17 OP)
A 00 per cent slash' in tho in
terior deportment's funds for
tho next fiscal year starting
July 1 was recommended to tho
houso today by its appropria
tions committee,
Tho committee asked that the
department headed by Secretary
Ickes, who had suggested econo
mics himself, be held to $72,
861,310, a reduction of $110,
000,473 from tho current year's
appropriation.
Tho total was $0,372,200 less
than recommended by tho bud
get bureau nnd tho committee
said it had reducod tho appro
priations for ovcry activity ex
cept that for tho grazing sorv-
Ico,
which was increased $50.-
000 to take over work formerly
handled by tho Civilian Con
servation corps.
Tho committee criticized the
war production board for hav
ing stopped work on irrigation
and power projects In tho west
and urged that orders halting
work on 23 reclamation projects
bo rescinded to permit them to
bo used to Increase food pro
duction. Money for the projects was
appropriated last yenr but tho
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Blind 1-A
r-vfl
Sgt. James Young Interned
By Japs in Shanghai Prison
Word that her son, Sgt. James
N, Young, 23, United States
army olr corps machine gunner,
Is now a prisoner of war in
terned at Shanghai by the Jap
anese, was received Vccenlly by
Mrs, Sophia Young 'of West
Klamath.
Tho Information was released
officially by the war department
un Sunday.
Young, a graduate of Coquillo
high school and well known
hero, also served as radio oper
ator on a bomber and was re
ported missing In notion "somo
whero In Asia," In a letter from
the war depnrtment received Inst
November, Information set forth
that the action occurred October
25.M042. Tho airman's family
has not been able to contnet him
since receiving word that he Is
a prisoner. ,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICK FIVIC CUNTS
I MHO 'MMMIIIIM
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ATTU SMASH
Kiskd' Named Likely
Next Objective
In Nip Sweep
WASHINGTON, May 17 (TP)
The week-old drive to force the
Japanese from Attu in the west
ern Alcutluns still is continuing.
The navy reported this today
In communique No. 380 which
said only: .
"North Puclfic:
."1. Operations against the
Japanese on Attu island arc con
tinuing." Ktika Named
Naming Kiska as the likely
next objective of American
forces in the Aleutians, army of
ficers predicted today that troops
who landed on Attu island would
be nble to sweep the Japanese
from that far outpost as soon as
the weolher cleared sufficiently
for combined sea air ground
operations.
Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, in a
review of the week's operation
on all wor fronts, described the
surprise landings on Attu, at the
tip of the Aleutian chain and
within 700 miles of the great
Japanese boss at Paramushiro,
as "the second step in the process
of sweeping into the sen the Nips
on both Attu. and Kiska." The
first step was the occupation in
Janunry of the islands of Am
chitka nnd Adak. ,
Detailt Lacking
Details arc lacking on the Attu
fighting, Dupuy snid, but at last
reports a heavy fog still was im
peding operations, not only pre
venting the use of air and sur
face bombardment, but bringing
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Hull Advocates
Renewal of FDR
Trade Powers
WASHINGTON, May 17 (P)
Secretary Hull advocated renew
al of the administration's power
to negotiate reciprocal trade
pacts today with the assertion
thot the time has arrived to
"start the general direction of
our post-war course and begin to
moko decisions on policies."
Appearing before the senate
finance committee in behalf of
house legislation for a two-year
extension of tho trade agree
ments act, Hull testified that a
"clear cut extension" of this au
thority would bo of "even greot
er historical significance" than
its original adoption.
The secretary of stato said
that the proposal to renew the
executive authority to make re
ciprocal trade agreements with
other countries presented con
gress "with the first significant
lest of the country's basic senti
ment toward the future." A vi
tal factor In the economic, po
litical and peace structure of
tho past-war years is involved.
he snid.
Krlmell-Ellis,
Sat,. Jamas, if. Young
AGAINST JAPS
CONTINUES
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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
ORKGON,
Named to OWI Post
Palmer Hoyt (above), pub
lisher of the Portland Oregoni
an, wat appointed domestic di
rector of the office of war in
formation. s
VEX P0FFEK
Soviets Spread'! Fires
Behind German .
""Lines- '
By WILLIAM McGARRIN
MOSCOW. May 17 (P) The
red army employed planes and
artillery toTtood effect in further
harassing German preparations
for any new offensive as another
week of the war opened today
with' still no definite sign of the
expected great summer cam
paign. During the past week the so
viet air force spread fires and
explosions In raids behind the
German lines along almost the
entire length of the long Rus
sian front.
Ferocious War
An indication of the ferocity
of the aeriol warfare was given
in tho midnight communique
wlilch said that red airmen had
destroyed 1300 German planes
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City Parade To
Note "African
Victory Day"
A downtown parade will be
held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday
as the major feature of the local
celebration of "African Victory
Day."
E. Mullis of the Lions club said
the club is arranging the parade,
which will Include high school
units, fraternal drum corps and
the sheriff's posse. Members of
the posse were asked to be at the
fairgrounds at 12:30 p. m. or at
the Herald nnd News corner nt
1 p. m.
The Lions said they are asking
business houses to closo from 1
p. m. to 8 p. m. to give workers
a chance to participate in the
parade.
Local whistles will blow at
2 p. m.
Governor Earl Sncll has pro
claimed Wednesday as "African
Victory day" nnd a local procla
mation has been prepared by
Council President J. J. Keller in
thjj absence of Mayor John Hous
ton. Titus Trial to '
Open June 1
Next major criminal trial
scheduled for circuit court is
that of William Titus accused
of shooting his wife, Erma, at
Bly some months ago.
Titus, who faces a first de
gree murder charge, and who
has been In tho hospital until
just a few weeks" ngo, seems to
bo recovered from the throe gun
shot wounds found in his body
nftcr the shooting,
Opening dnto for the trial has
been set for Juno 1. J. C. O'Neill
ji attorney for th defendant. I
MONDAY, MAY 17, 1943
L
Lewis Absence From
Hearings Seen.
As Defiance
NEW'YORK, May 17 W)
John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workert, an
nounced today he would com
ply with a government request
for the miners to continue
work after the Tuetday dead
line at midnight, pending
further negotiations.
By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS
WASHINGTON, May 17 JP)
The war. labor board risked its
existence today in an all-out,
headon conflict with UMW Pres
ident John L. Lewis.
Interpreting? the mine leader's
refusal at a -WLB meeting to ar
range a resumption of collective
bargaining in the coal wage dis
pute as a defiance of. "the law
fully established procedures of
tho government," the board in
structed the soft coal operators
not to proceed with negotiations
"until both parties are ready to
proceed under the instructions qf
the division of the board."
Truca Expires .
"No other agency of govern-
menu he statement added, "is
now authorized to direct other
wise." , ,
The possibility of another tie
up of the Industry thus became
more acute, with expiration of
the present 15-day truce under
which the mines have been oper
ating due at midnight Tuesday. -The
board made no official ref
erence to the truce, and Lewis
has declined to say whether he
would extend it. . He said yester
day he was ready to bargain with
the operators at New York but
refused to -make his arrange
ments through the board as it
directed,
WLB Tellt
The WLB made known its
views, first, In a formal state
ment declaring the issue is
whether Lewis "is above and be
yond the laws" applying to other
citizens and, secondly, in a tran
script of a closed meeting held
by a division of the board with
the operators.
In its formal statement the
WLB said:
"The issue," said the state
ment, "now confronting the na
tion in this dispute is whether
Mr. Lewis is above and beyond
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Basin Farmers
Groan Under
Frosty Nights
Klamath basin farmers were a
pretty discouraged lot with
Sunday's minimum temperature
of 27 degrees, the fifth below
freezing night experienced in
this area during tho past week,
Tuesday morning's tempera
ture was chalked up at 25 de
grees. Warmest morning of last
week was Thursday with a mini
mum of 33, one degree above
freezing. These ore temperature
figures given out by the U. S.
bureau of reclamation and at
various points in the basin, the
thermometer dropped even low
er. Fnrmers who put white rose
potatoes In the ground for early
crops, found many fields black
ened by tho cold snap. Favorable
weather will restore the vines
but continuation of the cold
spell will be damaging.
C. A. Henderson, Klamath
county agricultural agent, said
there would be some replanting
of grain with fields hit hero and
there by tho below normal tem
peratures. Somo small seeds in
fields were also damaged.
According to tho weather
man's records, mean minimum
for 'the first 18 days of May Is
32.7. But Inst yenr was even
colder for that period and the
mean minimum was 32.4. These
two years have been colder than
usual ns preceding two years
showed tho mean minimum was
41.2 and 42.1 degrees.
IB
LOCK HORNS IN
GOAL DISPUTE
NEA FEATURES
Number 9799
foMVlAM MIX M
General Yon Arnim Surrenders
iSl if i. w
Col. Gen. Jurgen Ton Arnim, who succeeded RommeU at
axis commander in North Africa, stepped from ear at Ges
Kenneth A. H. Anderton't lent headquarters, to turrender to the
British first army commander. A 100-mile auto trip brought Von
Arnim to Anderton. British photo radioed from Algiert by signal
corps.
A lies Roar Over Rome on
Way to Mash Seaplane Base
By WILLIAM B. KING
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 17
iP) : Allied bombers roared
over Rome in bright moonlight
last night and blasted the Lido
di Roma seaplane base at the
mouth of the Tiber 15 miles
southwest of the Italian capital.
it was announced today.
RAF Wellingtons which car-
Italy Tightens
Defense; King's
Quitting Rumored
BERN, May 17 (P) Italy's
grave position in an allied-controlled
Mediterranean was being
hammered home to her people
today as a part of Premier Mus
solini's redoubled efforts to
tighten his defenses, reports
reaching neutral Switzerland
said,
At the same time the situation
confronting Mussolini gave rise
to a flood of rumors concerning
the internal situation in Italy,
the most sensational of which
was a report by the Morocco
radio that King Vittrio Eman-
uele would abdicate in favor of
Crown Prince Umberto. These
reports were without any con
firmation, however, and tele
phone calls later in the night by
neutral journalists gave no in
dication of any unusual situation.
Rumor Discounted
(The Rome radio in a domestic
broadcast recorded by the fed
eral communications commission
discounted the rumor. It said
the king was present today . at
the opening of the fourth annual
art exhibition in Rome and was
"the object of manifestations of
devoted affection on the part of
the crowd which gathered in
front of the exhibition building."
(The rumor was received
skeptically in London, where it
was pointed out that King
Emanuele's prestige whs now
higher thnn at any time since
the fascist march on Rome!, in
1022. It was recalled that the
Rome radio's accounts of the
final fighting in Tunisia had
closed with "long live the king
long live Italy," conspicuously
omitting Mussolini s name.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE .
R. H. E.
Cincinnati 3 9 3
New York 1 8 0
Starr and Mueller; Feldman,
Adams (7), Coombs (9), and Lom
bards Mancuso (9).
R. H. E.
Chicago 4 8 0
Philadelphia .-..8 12 0
Hanzcwskl (1), Flcming (1),
Prim (7), Barrett (8), and Hern-
andey Podgajny and Livingston. 1
ried out the attack bombed and
machine-gunned the Lido di
Roma hangars, moorings and
planes at will, with no inter
ference from enemy fighters
and almost no anti-aircraft op
position. Bursts Seen
"Bursts were seen among
parked aircraft," the communi
que said.
Two hangars were set afire.
No bombs were dropped upon
the Eternal city, but the raid
marked the closest announced
approach of the allied aerial of
fensive to its outskirts.
(Prime Minister Churchill an
nounced September 30, 1040,
that he would not hesitate to
bomb Rome " if the course of
the war should render such an
action convenient and helpful"
and this attitude has been re-
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Democrats Plan
Final Battle on
Modified Ruml
WASHINGTON, May 17 (IP)
Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex.) said
today democratic leaders will
make a third and final battle
against the modified Ruml plan
when the house votes tomorrow
on whether to accept a senate
bill embracing the skip-a-year in
come tax proposal.
The party leaders made their
decision at a meeting with Ray
burn while house republicans si
multaneously claimed sufficient
strength to send the senate ver
sion to the president's desk.
Synthetic Rubber Outlook
Good But Still No Tires
WASHINGTON, May 17 (fl5)
Every plant In the synthetic rub
ber program will be completed
by the end of this year, Rubber
Director William M. Jcffers rer
ported today, but "the non
essential driver cannot expect
new tires for a long time."
Jcffers, In his third progress
report, said essential drivers
would get 12,000,000 new tires
this year 5,000,0,00 synthetics
and 7,000,000 pre'Pcarl Harbor
tires and 30,000,000 new tires
in 1944. : . . . . .
Follows Warning
Jeffers' report followed 1 a
warning by Petroleum Admin
istrator Ickes and Price Admin
istrator Prentiss ' Brown that
"drastic steps" will be taken un
less east coast motorists cut
down on their use of gasoline.
Ickes declared military opera
tions require "oceans of oil" and
he said tho east coast is using
considerably mora gajolina than
May 18 High 52, tow 27
Precipitation aa of May 10 1943
Straam ytar to data ., .,.16.17 -
T mat 11 ta in 11
RUHR VALLEY
INDUSTRY
Power Stations, .Ship
'.Yards, Bridges t
Inundated
: By The Associated Pren
, LONDON, . May. 17 (P) Brit,
ish bombers burst two of tho
largest dams in Germany with
mine& last night riurincr nttarlrc
which embraced . Berlin, tho
LONDON, May 17 (P) The
Berlin radio taid tonight that '
mixed' American and British '
bombing force had attacked
nasi bates on the Atlantic
front at noon today.
Ruhr and the Rhineland and
the air . ministry . s a i d tonight
Ruhr valley bridges had been
broken by one of the resultant
floods, hydroelectric power gta
tions . were destroyed or dam
aged: and eight yards were, ii
undated.' . - , . , '
The . dams, were the Mohne,
on the Mohne river which flows
into the Ruhr, and the Eder, on
the Eder river. ' i
"' Flat Spread .
' ' "Floods from the breached
Eder dam are already as great
aa the floods in the Ruhr,", said,
the alr. TOtaJWry,, "but the coun-'
try here is flatter and the wa
ter is"; likely to Spread over a
greater area."
The German- high: command!
said ', civilian ' casualties wera
heavyV'
The air ministry said its re
port -was based on a partial re
connaissance of the Ruhr val
ley, industrial heart of Ger
many, and the district -near the
Eder darn. .
' Ho Setaili
Details of the attack' were not
reported, - but an - unofficial
source said the air ministry in
sured destruction of the barriers
by using mines which would be
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Klamath Memorial
To Soldier Dead ". :
Nears Completion
Klamath's memorial to its sol
dier dead in this war is nearing
completion.
The white shaft on the court
house lawn has now taken form
and the scaffolding will prob
ably be removed late this week.
Principal construction work re
maining to be done is the erec
tion of a standard on which will
be hung a perpetually lighted
electrical installation.
Names of Klamath county men
lost in this war will be painted
on the sides of the shaft.
The memorial will be dedi
cated as part of the Memorial
day exercises here May 30. Cole
man O'Loughlln, head of the me- .
morial committee, said that spe
cial efforts will be made to ob
tain assistance from units at
Camp White in connection with
the memorial exercises.
the 358,000 barrels a day allotted
for civilian use.
"We Just cannot continue to
operate on any such basis,"
Ickes said.
No Extra Gas
Brown, who did not define the
drastic steps that might be tok
en, stressed meanwhile that
there is no extra gasoline for va
cation travel, for war workers
or anyone else,
Jcffers' Implication that mile
age rationing might bo prolong
ed through 1944 was seen in his
assertion that 30,000,000 tires it
"the probable minimum replace
ment program that tho country
can get by with" in 1044, even
by "keeping present conservation
measures." ; . i
"By 1944 the country will have
gone two years with less than
one quarter of the normal re
placement of tires and with no
new cars," he said. "This ac
cumulated deficit indicates thot
new tires must be provided to
keep tha country moving." ,