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Blackout Si
K.ililihliiiliii'.ilii!i HNIii'iiliii.milnliMllli ill
weatner,
On 8-mlnute blast on sirens and whlillH
it the signal for blackout In Klamath
Falli. Anolhtr long blast, during black
oul, It signal lor all-claar. In yracau
tlonary periods, watch your itreat lights.
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By FRANK JENKINS
TN this period of tense waiting,
which Is certnln to bo broken
sooner or Inter by heavy fight
Ins, llicro uro three hoi upots to
wntch:
I. liiily.
Q 2. Turkry.
3. Ilomlmitf of Europe.
"THESE reports of scanty plnnc
unci untl-iilrcriift dciimtic In
Itnly Hint nro bclnu brought buck
by our bomber crew are Inter
esting and might bo significant.
They COULD Indlcnto thnt
Germany doesn't plnn a coiitly
and stubborn defenso of Itnly.
TP you're In a speculative mood
and like to guess, get out your
map. Tnko a good long took at
the Mediterranean. You'll bo
struck by the relatively (jrent ex
tent of Italy's coastline.
Then try out, for a moment,
the well known recipe for find
ing a nmlo (Imagining you oro a
mule and trying to flgura-whore
you would be.) Imagino your
self In Hitler's place.
If you had too few men and
too many places to put them
(with every spot a hot one) you
might not liko the Job of defend
ing Italy's vast coastline.
You might prefer to withdraw
to tho historically strong and ex
tremely short defense lino of the
Alps, where few men (and
planes) could put up a tougher
defense.
It's Just possible that Hitler
may feel the same way about it.
I)ON'T Jump to any wrong con
elusions. If the Germans give tip Italy,
11 will be because they HAVE
to and not because they WANT
to. They'd RATHER keep It.
; We'd much rather havo Italy
than NOT to have It for reasons
that aro obvious. Possession of
itnly would cinch our control
rt the Mediterranean. It would
give us closer bases tor bombing
Germany and also for operations
against Greece and tho Unlknns.
. The point Is that If Hitler
should giva up Italy 11 would
be an admission that he's gottlng
In a tight spot. For that reason,
whut ho docs there will be worth
wntching.
THE mop will tell you clearly
why Turkey is a hot spot.
The Salonlkl goto to tho fort
ress of Europe lies at the head
of the Aegean sea, which Is
sprinkled with Islands almost as
liberally as tho South Pacific.
It Is generally assumed that the
Germans have air bases on most
of those islands at least on all
the strategic ones,
Expcrlcnco In tho South Pa
wiflc (ns well as elsewhere) in
' clicnlcs that sending a sea-borne
'invasion forco through Islands
heavily supplied with lnnd-bosod
aircraft Is a highly difficult and
dangerous operation,
nrURKEY is the key to this
problem. It she should como
over on our side (and she has
been talking that way increasing
ly of late) the way Into tho Bal
kans would bo made much easier
for us.
WATCH very closely indeed
the growlngly Intense bomb
ing of Gerinnny and her adjacent
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Deficiency Fund
ill to Senate
The house passed and sent to
the senate today a $134,000,001)
deficiency appropriation bill
with amendments denying funds
for the salary of throe govern
ment employes and prohibiting
tho use of nny of tho president's
emergency funds for tho fnrm
security administration or tho
national resources planning
board,
HOUSE HEEOS
RUMORED FDR
TAX BILLVETO
Senate Skip - a - Year
Measure Downed
Third Time
WASHINGTON, May 18 W)
Heeding the threat of a possible
presidential veto, tho house re-
jectcd for the third time today
the senate-approved skip-a-ycar
Incomo tax bill,
The action, by roll call vote
of 202 to 104, came on a motion
to Instruct Its delegates to a Joint
home-senate conference commit
tee to accept the senate measure.
Stalamate Saan
By its decision which opens
up the possibility of a new stale
mate tho house stood pat on
Its own measure, the Robertson
Fornnd1 bill which would abate
a year's tax obligation for ap
proximately 00 per cent of the
nation's taxpayers,
The Vole, tolled off In a tense
climax:-to '-the seesaw' struggle
which ha gripped congress for
months, came after Speaker Ray
burn (D-Tex.) predicted flatly
that thei modified Ruml sklp-a-year
pla,n, If passed, would be
vetoed. '
Immediately after the vote was
announced, Chairman Doughton,
(D-N.C.) of the tax-writing ways
and means committee, said to
newspapermen:
lluml Plan Daad
"The 1,'uml plan Is dead. We
have kllleil It . As long as Frank
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t -
Two Fitted for
Pulling Feathers
From Peacocks
i
The case of tht peacock feath
ers reached city police court late
Monday afternoon and two
young men wora- clvcn fines of
$10 or five doyv In the. town
Jail for taking parf. In molesting
the Moore pork birdi on Sunday,
May 0. V
William B. Galloway. 18. and
Clint Hamblin, 20-ysar-old mill
worker, appeared bei'oro Polico
Judge Harold Franey; after city
police had worked or, Ihe case
following complaints1 filed by
E. E. Spencer, Moore J irk care
taker. ,
Galloway and Hamb'In were
charged with violation 1 1 Ordin
ance 8003 which specifically
seta forth that it Is unlawful to
"Injure, molest, harrass, or de
stroy animals, birds or fowl
cither within or belonging to
said park."
The 18-year-old pleaded guilty
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Marked Hospital Ship Sinks
As Jap Sub
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, May 18 Wl
Tho Australian hospital ship Cen
taur, brilliantly lighted and un
mistakably marked, was tor
pedoed and sunk In flames by
a Japanese submarlno off the
coast of Australia last Friday
with a loss of 298 lives.
No warning whatever was
given,
The ship capsized and sank
within three minutes.
Slxly-four of tho 383 aboard.
including only one of 12 women
nurses, were saved. Forty-three
of the crew of 13 and 248 Aus
tralian and British medical staff
men went down, most of them
trapped on a lower deck of the
blazing ship.
No Americans
There were no Americans
aboard. The ship, en route from
Sydney to New Guinea, carried
no pntlCnls,
Survivors, crowded on mk:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE CENT
.V),ti 'MM4uri:f
Tank Men's Choice
Miss Mary Oliver (abova), 33,
of Camp Campbell, Ky., won
the title of Miss Armoratta In
natton-wids voting contast
among armored force soldiers
In the U. S.
Parade to Mark
Celebration of
"Victory Day"
A ' parade and a blast of
whistles will mark Wednesday's
celebration In Klnmath Falls of
"African Victory Day." The ob
servance will bo statewide, and
will mark tho state's first war
festivities since the armistice of
1918.
The parade is scheduled to
start at 1:30 p. m., from Tho Her
ald and News corner, and will
pass down Main street. Whistles
will bo blown at 2 p. m.- The
event will be In charge of the
Lions club, which is running this
month's war bond drive.
Most elaborate celebration In
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.
Allies Rain Fire
On Sardinian
Port, Airfield
By WILLIAM B. KING
ALLIED , HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 18
(P) Carrying on an unrelent
ing attack on Italy's Mediter
ranean islands, allied air force
Wellingtons ot tho RAF bomb
cd the airfield and port of Al-
ghero on tho west coast of Sar
dinia last night.
Bomb bursts were seen in the
town and Port areas and one
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8 fig
ntuiMiMtt iii iii i! f lm KrJSi mm
Torpedoes WHhoui Warning
shift rafts In water swarming
with sharks,, were picked up 38
hours after the Centaur went
down.
General Douglas MacArthur
expressed deep revulsion at jue
"limitless savagery" of tho sink
ing. No Escort
"Tho vessel was traveling un
escorted and was fully Illumi
nated and marked with the Red
Cross and complying with ail
provisions of International law
governing hospital ships In time
of war," tho announcement from
his headquarters said. "Tho
weather was clear and visibility
was excellent."
The torpedo hit at 4:10 a, m,
while the ship was 40 miles off
Brisbane and most of those
aboard were asleep below decks.
The huge Red Croases on Its sido
had been newly Repainted In
Sydney two days before and sur
vivors (aid the vessel "w lit
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
!, OREGON,
Ml
ndusuy
RIOTS RUMORED
AFTER BRITISH
KIR BATTERING
Americans Alternate
Night, Day Raids
With English
LONDON, May 18 W) New
reconnaissance pictures taken to
day showed that floods started
when the RAF ripped open the
Mohne and Eder dams still were
spreading In two directions, in
the neighborhood of Industrial
Kassel and toward the center of
the Ruhr Industrial valley.
Official German figures, broad
cast by Berlin, said water levels
were unusually high in the Rhine
at Duismirg, where the Ruhr en
ters the Rhine, and In the Wosor
river below Kassel.
RloU Told
wholly unconfirmed reports
broadcast by the Morocco radio
said riots had occurred at Duis-
burg- and Jn other Ruhr valley
towns. Dortmund was said to
be threatened with complete in-
unaatton , with the toll of dead
and homeless growing hourly.
Air raid shelters were declared
flooded, in Duisburg, one of the
hardest hit cities in th RAF of
fensive. , . -
.The drive against Hitler's Eu
ropean fortress continued today
wnrt the heavily-gunned Ameri
can Thunderbolts patrolling Bel
gium In strength. One of the P
47s was shot down and the flight
bagged pne Messerschmltt. A
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Mexican Farm
Labor Arranged
For Tulelake
Final arrangements were an
nounced ' Tuesday for bringing
80 Mexican laborers to the
Tulelake district for work on
farms in that area. The. Mexi
cans will arrive from Old Mexi
co about May 24.
Chester Main, president of
the Tulelake Growers, said that
the growers' group has contract
ed with the FSA to bring the
laborers to Tulelake. They will
be housed at the Tulelake CCC
camp, which was inspected and
opproved Monday by W. L.
Gertz, FSA official from Port
land. The Mexicans, who will not
be accompanied by families, will
work on. 14 farms. Farmers who
have arranged for this labor
met Monday with the growers'
group and federal officials.
The arrangement for Mexi
can labor was made In view of
a serious shortage of white help
In the basin district.
in Flames
up to glory," It offered a perfect
target for the murderous attack.
Sister Eleanor Savage of
Sydney was the one woman sur
vivor. Despite a blow in the
face which gave her a black eye,
she never complained and sur
vivors said her fervent prayers
did much to help keep up mor
ale. It was only after the res
cue that she mentioned a side
Injury. Doctors found three ribs
broken.
Slstar't Story
Sister Savage said she and her
cabtnmate were awakened by a
terrific explosion. They ran to
tho , door and looked into the
passageway. The ship already
was afire. Donning Ufejackets
over their pajamas, they leaped
from the ship together. The
other woman struck floating
wreckage and was kilted.
"Tho sea was covered with oil
which fortunately did not catch
(Cofttiimsd en J?gi Two)
TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1943
Still surrounded br scaffolding; Klamath's World War II memorial shaft is shown in th ahora
picture. Namas of Klamath count; soldier dead will ba painted on the white sides of tha obe
lisk, which will soon ba completed and will be dedicated on Memorial Day- - .
BMHiES
15
Expected Summer
Offensive Stiil
Not Begun
By WILLIAM ' "cGAFFlH
MOSCOW, May 18 (iP The
Kuban front ftared into action
again today when German
troops stole through the forested
hills and sprang upon the Rus
sians in a violent effort to re
gain important positions lost
weeks ago.
Latest Russian reports said
that German infantry which at
tacked several times supported
by tanks, planes and artillery,
was thrown ' back each time
with heavy losses. The German
counterattacks are aimed at
driving the Russians back from
the Inner positions of the Black
Sea port of Novorossisk,
No Summer Offensa
From the figures mentioned
in dispatches it is obvious that
the Kuban activity is hardly
the prelude: to- the expected
German summer offensive, but
it is the most vivid action on
the long Russian front in sev
eral days. - - 1
The exact extent of German
losses in the new Kuban drive
was not stated, but at- least 200
were known to have been killed
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Central Indiana
Torn by Worst
Flood Since 1913
INDIANAPOLIS, May 18 OTi
One of the worst floods since
1913 tore through .central and
northern Indiana today.
At least four lives have been
lost In the raging torrents.' Moro
than 500 families have been
moved from flooded homes in
Marion, Frankfort, Wabash, In
dianapolis and other places.
Flood waters surged over
thousands of acres of lowlands,
damaging early-planted farm
crops. Numerous victory gardens
havo been washed away.
Nine blocks of sandbagged
levee and the Charles Mills dam
at Marion held back the swollen
Mlsslssenewa river. Three hun
dred families in the area were
evacuated.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May 18
(IP) The "big inch" pipeline
running from Texas to Illinois to
relieve tho eastern seaboard oil
shortage was broken today by
the Arkansas river flood, War
Emergency Pipelines, Inc., disclosed,
NEA FEATURES
Number 9800
Shaft Rises in Memory of Soldier
I i, ' .' f Wt f
'ii- life 1 r.a
Pelican Bomber
Receives Boost
Klamath's d r i v e. f o r a
Klamath' Pelican bomber re
ceived a boost ' today from
6ut of town, , , .
Mrs. J.L. Itfchey, "Port-,
land, former resident of
Klamath Falls, wrote the war
savings committee ', that she
had read in the paper about
the Lions club campaign to
buy a plane to bomb Tokyo.
"We'd like to help do
that,"-she wrote. "It would
be a special pleasure to have
a Klamath Falls boy fly that
Klamath Pelican.- . Enclosed
is application blank -and a
check. There will be an
other for each week of May.'
We have been buying bonds
here, but we want to have a
part In that Klamath Peli
can'." Mother Demands
City Pay After
Daughter Hurt
Injuries suffered by her 17-month-old
daughter when she
fell on a circular iron cap from
which steam was emanating,
caused Mrs. Kessner Funk to de
mand - compensation , from the
city of Klamath Falls, according
to a letter read by City Attorney
J. H, Carnahan before the city
council last night. Representing
Mrs. Funk is Attorney F. O.
Small.
In the meantime, the city has
been advised that the matter is
being adjusted by the Columbia
Utilities company,
Mrs. Funk's attorney stated
that the child, toddling by the
side of her mother at the rear
of Montgomery Ward's oh North
Ninth street, fell upon the iron
cap and suffered burns to the
right leg and buttocks. Injuries
were attributed to the hot Iron
and. steam. The child has been
under the care of physicians.
"This is definitely a personal
Injury and laid at the door of
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Baseball
NATIONAL
R. H. E.
Pittsburgh 0 5 1
Boston 4 5 0
Sew ell, Herbert and Lopez;
Javery and Poland. .
R. H. E.
Cincinnati 3 9 0
New York 1 5 a
Riddle, Beggs (8) and Mueller;
Sayles, Adams (8) and Lombard;.
R H E
St. touts '. 7 11 0
Brooklyn 1 3 0
White, Brechesn (7) and W.
Cooper; Wyatt, Allen (5), Web
ber (W and Owen
N
Dead
'BEAT JAPS FIRST
MEUOIIGED
Speech Seen as White
" House "Sounding;
- Board"
By JOHN H WIGGINS
WASHINGTON, May 1ft. W
An idea that a senatorial appeal
to "beat Japan first" may. have
served as a sounding board for
White .House strategy sifted
through the capital today in. the
wake oi a three-hour senate row
over., diverting. American, mili-i
tary might to the Pacific. . .
Senator Chandler (D-Ky.), who
started the wrangle with, warn
ings that if Germany is beaten
first the United States way count
on little or no help from Britain
or Russia to whip the Nipponese,
acknowledged himself, that he
was "encouraged to make the
speech. . . :
. .. Decline . :
The Ken tuck is n declined r to
say from what source the en
couragement came but he . eX-
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British Subs Sink
Italian War Ships .
LONDON, May 18 (PJ Brit
ish submarines torpedoed , and
sank an Italian destroyer and at
least five supply ships during a
recent. series of . Mediterranean
encounters, the admiralty an
nounced today. . : ' . V -.
The destroyer was sunk. - off
north Sicily.
Several other ships wee de
clared damaged.
J A a
City Council Moves to
Acquire Cemetery Land
The city council, In session
Monday night, took steps toward
acquiring the proposed new city
cemetery site overlooking Klam
ath river when an ordinance
passed the first and second read
ing authorlfclng the purchase of
the property. . ..
The city will pay to Northwest
Utilities of Portland, the sum of i
$5000, to Klamath county,
$1308.20, and to Gomel and Hel
en Caseman, $1C0 plus $3.36 In
taxes. It was brought out by
the. city attorney, J. H. Carna
han, that Northwest.Utilities is
furnishing title Insurance at their
expense, but that the city would
provide insurance on the other
pieces of land. - r - -
r Ordinance Rmd -
i The newly introduced .ordi
nance reads;- "Linkville ceme
tery is almost Ulted and the rate
of burial hM not diminished an4
May 1? High 1. Low 3$
Praeipltatlon at of Mar 10. 1
Stream yaar to data ... H.IT
Last year u ...11,58 Normal IQ,84
ARMYTRDQPS
SEIZE RIDGE
ATJiflLTZ BAY
Cosuo'f ties Lighter;
Than Expected; ;
Navy Support
By JOHlf M. HIGHTOWEH
WASHINGTON, May 18 W
Army troops which began th
reconquest of Japanese-held AV
tu. island a week ago have cap
tared ground which apparently
was the enemy's main defensa
position.
The ridge, lying between, th
two arms ol Holts bay on th.
northern side of the eastern ex
tremiry of Attn, was taken after
bitter fighting, a navy commi
nique disclosed today. Earlier
Secretary Knox had disclosed
the capture of the strategic, po
sition. . - i . ,
. : Strong Attacks
Saying tha victory wa won
Isit night, the communique re
ported that American troop
were successful "in spite of
strong counter attacks by tha
enemy." ; '
' Th same communique di
closed new air ' blows against
Japanese, outpost ' in both tha
Central ' and - South Pacific at
weil as the anchor at the north
ern? ead-f -their long ocean bat- '
UUa.-.---;:'-- .:; .
- Soetbara Blew 1 ' "
On Saturday, it related, army
Liberator' heavy . bombers as :
saultod ' Wake island" and that
down two "out of 22 enemy Zero,
lighten which sought to Inter
cept. Another fighter probably
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Retail Grocers
Appeal to FDR
Over CPA Prices
- CHICAGO, May 18 m Tha
national . association of retail
grocers, stating it spoke for 380,.
000 storekeepers, appealed to
President Roosevelt today for re
lief from new price ceilings or
dered by the office of price ad
ministration. -
"Retail grocers of the nation,
shocked and- stunned by the ad
vertised maximum prices on a
number of canned foods listed in
yesterday' newspapers, face a
grave crisis," the association said
ir a telegram' to the 'White
House. : - .
- "Items in . some areas are ac
tually below replacement cost,
and any mean actual loss to re
tailers considering operating,
costs, decreased , volume and
other expenses. Isn't it violation;
of price control act for OPA to
force changes in business prac
tice and to issue all regulation
without consultation with, In
dustry which they aifeeW"
- WASHINGTON, May 18 m
Representatives of small business
men appealed today for relief,
from controls of the office o
price administration and branded
the policies of that agency "eco
nomic murder." ' f
soon there will be no room uv
Unkville cemetery for further
burials,- therefore, It has been
found necessary to expend pub
lic funds and to purchase a new
Cemetery : site for the city ot
Klamath FbIIs." ;
. J,, J, Keller, president of th
council, presided In the absent
of Mayor John-Houston, Also
missing from the table wbs Coun
cilman Rollln Cantralt who U la
tha north. '
Circus Aikad !
Troy Cook and Paul Lee of th
Junior chamber of commerce,'
appeared before the council and
sought permission - to sponsor
Pollock Brothers indoor cirrus,
to be held in the trmory, June
3, 4, S and 8. The Junior cham
ber -'hopes-.' to replenish fta
treasury through thojoircusy In
this way eliminating any detnnd
CeaMnat4 m Pa Tw