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li the signal lor a blackout In Klamath
Falls. Another long blast, during black
out, li a ilgnal lor all-altar. In (.recau
tlonary ptrlodi, watch your street lights.
Mar 1 High 71, Low iS
Precipitation ol Mar 13, 1943
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U. S. Flying Fortresses
Strike at Kiel
Sub Yards
LONDON, Miiy 10 (!) Flying
Fortresses of tho eighth U, S, iilr
forco struck today at tho Gcr
mnn submarine yards nt Kiel
and-tho power station at Flcns
Aniru. -10 miles nwny, li-nvinK
Ihclr targets In flames.
Six bombers wero lost, It was
announced.
Tho new, multiple blow In the
bulllo of tho Atlantic came while
drepenlnu and widening floods
added new deviuitntlon to the
Eder and Moehno vnlleyn In the
wnko of .Sundays RAF dum at
tacks. Katiel Flooded
Tho Eder floods have reached
a point itnmo 80 miles below the
breached dam across that river,
tho air ministry said, and flood
ed many parts of Knssel, muni
tions manufacturing town of
2110,000 Inhabitant 35 miles be
low. ,,. ,."BoU,-tbo., Eder and Moehno
areas present a most mournful
spectacle with fields under wa
er," the air ministry said,
"'Roads and railways havo dis
appeared; bridges havo been
washed away, and buildings ran
be seen sticklnii above tho flood."
Big Breach
Among tho towns which have
been flooded by waters pouring
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Grade School
Pupils Happy
Vacation Near
Classes wero over for hun
dreds of Klamath Falls grade
school children this Wednesday
afternoon and while small pco
plo looked forward to three
monlhs of play, older boys and
' 'girls hoped to find somo sort of
Employment to help out In tho
war effort.
There will bo no school Thurs
day, but a general trek to class
rooms is scheduled for Friday at
1 p. m. when report cards will
bo Issued. This pertains to tho
seven city Institutions.
At tho Junior high school,
eighth graders will devote Thurs
day to practicing for their first
commencement exercises to be
held that night.
A special bus schedule- has
been set up for grade school as
well as high school people to
take care of Friday's program,
Superintendent A. L. Gralapp
stated. High school students were
dismissed Wednesday afternoon
to lako pnrt In tho "African Vic
tory" day parade. -County
schools ended sched
ules last week,
Hope for Freedom From Want Blends
With Realism as Food Parley Opens
HOT SPRINGS, Va May 19
01') A broad, seven-point tenta
tive schedule of objectives aimed
al creating a world free from
want has been drafted by the
United States delegation to the
United Nations food conference,
It was learned authoritatively to
day, HOT SPRINGS, Va May 19
(!') Tho United Nations food
conference, called to cxploro
pathways to a world frco from
A'lint, settled down to lis task to
"ay In an atmosphere of mingled
far-reaching hope and cautious
realism,
Tho keynote of faith In ulti
mate achievement of world free
dom from want was sounded In
A message from President Roose
velt read to tho conference's
Drive'finches-Nibs
Winner
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Kcnncll-Ellls
Elian O'Keefe, Sacrod Heart
academy eighth-grader, walked
off with state honors in the
American Legion and auxiliary
Amerlcanltm contest, according
to Portland Judgei.
Will Rogers,
Gene Cox Nurse
Injured Feelings
WASHINGTON! May J0 Wfrl
Rop. Gone Cox, fiery Georgian,
and Rep. Will Rogers, Jr., son
of the late humorist, nursed In
jured feelings but no bruises
today In calm contrast to their
quarrel on tho house floor yes
terday. Colleagues Intervened yester
day lo avert threatened fisticuffs
when Cox, walking over to
where Rogers was sitting, quoted
him as saying in a radio address
that ho had accepted a bribe,
and demanded an apology.
Obviously angry, tho Georgian
threw his arms around the Call
fornlau's head whllo both were
still scaled. Other nearby repre
sentatives at this point stepped
In to hold both men by tho arms.
Cox, a fuw minutes later, left
tho chamber.
"Tho young fellow," said Cox
to newsmen, "said over tho radio
that I took a bribe. Nobody
can take anything Ilka that. I
didn't lake a poke at him, but
I mussed him up. It didn't
amount to anything."
Chinese Wounded
Machine-Gunned
CHUNGKING, May 19 OP)
Many wounded and defcasoloss
Chinese soldiers aboard boats
flying tho Red Cross havo been
"brutally slaughtered" by the
Japanese on Lake Tungting In
northern Hunan province, the
Chinese. Central News agency
said today,
Tho attacks occurred on May
8 and 0, tho news agency said,
when Japancso aboard launches
machlno-gunncd the boats, sink
ing several of them,
formal opening session last night
vigorously affirming that tho
world owes overy man his dally
bread.
Adequate Nutrition
"Society must meet in full,"
tho president said, "its obligation
to make available to all its mem
bers at least tho minimum ade
quate nutrition."
Tills confident nolo was echoed
In tho opening address of Judge
Marvin Jones, head of tho United
Slates delegation who was olool-
ed permanent chairman by tho 45
assembled delegations. Jones
appealed for global economic
and political collaboration to
make tho next 100 years "tho
people's century."
Chance to Work
"What humanity wants," ho
said, "Is not charity, but a free
Enemy Falls
Sack in Least
Dftch Stand
WASHINGTON, May 19 (AP) Amcricun pincers
have closed their trap around Japanese positions on Attu
island, the navy reported today, and at least a part of
tho enemy troops are in retreat toward a last ditch stand.
The main enemy position on Attu island, Secretary
Knox reported to a press conference yesterday, is at the
southern end of Holt', bay. A subordinate position is held
by tho Japanese at Chichagof harbor which lies to the
northeast of the H'ollz bay position and between five and
Inn mitnn iiivnv
Junction Noted
The Junction of American
forces in the heights southeast
of Holtz bay place tho Japanese
in a position where they are
fighting with their backs to sea
and havo no choice except to
make a stand either at Holtz bay
or Chichagof harbor.
Tho fact that American troops
now hold these heights suggests,
although battle reports so far
have not indicated it, that the
Japanese arc in an untenable
position there and may bo com
pelled to withdraw.
Chichagof Retreat
The only place to which they
could then fall back, so far as
is known -here,' would, .b& .CJii.
chagof harbor. To prevent their
becoming too strongly on
tronched there It seemed likely
that at least a part of the Mas
sacre bay force would strike out
In that direction in pursuit of the
fleeing troops from the pass.
, American forces throughout
the Pacific area braced for a
possible Japanese countcrstroke
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American Use of
Russian Bases
Brings Warning
NEW YORK, May 19 OP)
CBS quoted the British radio as
reporting today that tho Tokyo
radio had warned soviet Russia
against placing Siberian bases
at tho disposal of the .United
States.
CBS gave tho following as the
text of a London Polish-language
broadcast directed to Europe:
"As the result of American
advances on Attu Island the Jap
anese are showing anxiety over
the fate of their towns which are
liable to be bombed, they have
warned the Soviets against giving
their Siberian bases for the use
of the Americans,
"In a program directed to In
dia and Burma, radio Tokyo ex
pressed the following threats
toward Russia: At present the
relations between Japan and
Russia aro on tho basis of neu
trality. But if in tho future Rus
sia ever puts her Siberian bases
at the disposal of the United
States the Japancso army will
resort to a blltzkrclg and will
deal the heaviest blows Russia
has over known."
opportunity the chance to work
and help to build."
Jones climaxed his address
with a plcturo of the world frco
from want toward which tho na
tions must strive, a better day
when "rotting surpluses are
translated into food for hungry
mouths," when the farmer "can
plough his fields without fear"
and "the hand of tho good neigh
bor rather than the mailed fist
has been extended across the
world."
Chinese Note
Tho note of caution's 'realism
was sounded In the address of
Chairman P. W. Kuo of tho Chi
nese delegation, speaking for tho
foreign delegates.
Kuo stressed tho magnitude of
tho problems confronting tho
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T
OF
930 German Planes
Destroyed in ''
One Week
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW,. May 19 P) The
telline blows dealt German air
and , supply bases J 'duringjihOfl'
past threo weeks by soviet, air
men were reflected today In a
front-line dispatch to Red Star,
army newspaper, which said:
"The Germans have begun to
shift their air forces from Cri
mean airdromes to reinforce
their exhausted air forces."
There was no elaboration in
Red Star, but the Russians an
nounced officially that they had
destroyed or damaged 930
enemy planes in the week May
2-8, and had destroyed 370
planes from May 9 to May 15.
Ineffective
Russian pilots havo downed
25 German planes over the
front lines in the past three
days, and German planes have
attempted to raid Russian com
munications behind the Svesk
front but their bombing has
been ineffective, a dispatch said.
Land fighting has failed to
keep step with the bitter aerial
warfare although renewed ac
tivity was reported from the
Kuoan and Lisichansk areas.
Northeast of Novorossisk in
the Kuban, where the Germans
have been counter-attacking for
days in attempts to drive red
troops from the city's inner de
fenses, the nazis lost a hundred
dead in a futile attack last
night. Fighting continued in the
lower reaches of the Kuban
river also, where Germans in
rowboats attempted a crossing
but lost four boats. References
to the lower reaches of the Ku
ban meant the Russians were
close to the Kerch strait.
Near Lislchansk on the Don
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State Closes
Case in Baby
Smothering Trial
MEDFORD, Ore., May 19 (iP)
Tho state closed Us case today in
tho first degree murder trial of
Sgt. Bernard J. Lotka, 23, Cleve
land, O., charged with smother
ing his 10-weeks-old son in a
Medford auto camp cabin the
night of April 1.
Duke Expects Long
War Before Victory
WASHINGTON, May 19 ffl
Tho Duke of Windsor expressed
belief today that the United
Nations still havo a long road
to travel before ultimate defeat
of the axis.
Ho was asked his Impression
of the progress of the war as
he left a half hour conference
with Secretary of State Cor-
doll Hull.
"Wo can take heart from our
success in tho African cam
paign," tho duke told reporters,
'but I am afraid we still have
a long road to travel and that
we must not be too optimistic."
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Here are the winners of Klamath's tin can drive: left to right, Nancy Edwards, Fairriew; Vin
cent Carter, Fairriew; Carmel Finnigan. Sacred Heart academy.' Nancy won She right to enter
the state contest as the girl winner from the school having the most cans per student. Vincent i
the boy winner from his school and also the city winner in the boys' class. Carmel holds the
distinction of being the girl to bring in the greatest number of cans in the city in her division.
Worried Nippos Send Big
Air Force Over Little Wau
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, May 19 (P)
Indicating alarm over the allied
ground menace to New Guinea's
Huon gulf, the Japanese have
sent 102 planes since Saturday
against the little mountain, town
of Wau, nearest allied supply
and air-base to the scene of the
junpilb.iightinfr.--
Wau is only 35 miles south
west of Salamaua, important
Japanese air and shipping base
on the gulf toward which the al
lies have been infiltrating from
the south since the conquest of
the Papuan peninsula. From it
over a jungle track move men
and supplies to the Mubo area,
12 miles from Salamaua. The
Election Will
Pick Successor
For Englebrighi
Selection of a successor to
Congressman Harry Englebright
of the nearby second California
district, who died a few days
ago, will come through a spec
ial election which Governor
Earl Warren is expected to call
after the Englebright funeral at
Grass Valley, Calif., on Friday.
Tho election cannot be held
until at least 65 days after the
call by Governor Warren.
Candidates will run as inde
pendents, not by parties, - and
to qualify a candidate needs
3349 signatures on his petition.
There are no announced can
didates as yet but among those
mentioned in political circles as
possibilities are Mrs. Grace
Englebright, widow of the late
congressman; State Senator Her-
rold L. Scawell, Rosevillc; Su
perior Judge Andrew Pierovich,
Amador county; Frank Finne
gan, Grass Valley, who is in
officers' training; Mrs. Gertrude
Clark, Sutter Creek; R. R. Hen
derson of Lone Pine, Inyo coun
ty. Mentioned from nearby coun
ties are Senators Ranolph Col
lier, Siskiyou county, and Har
old Powers of Modoc county.
Baseball
NATIONAL
R. H. E.
Cincinnati 2 12 0
New York 3 5 0
Vandermecr, H e u s s e r (5),
Shoun (6), and Mueller; Lohr
man, Mungo (9) and Lombardi.
R. H. E.
St. Louis 3 9 0
Brooklyn 2 6 . 0
Lanier, Brcchocn (7) and W.
Cooper; Macon, Webber (8) and i
Owen. ,
v R. H. E.
Pittsburgh 1 9 0
Boston 2 8 0
Rcsigno and Baker; Andrews
and Kluttz.
COAST
! . . R. H. E.
Hollywood 4 9 2
Los Angeles 10 15 4
Thomas, McLaughlin (7) and
Younkers; Gehrman and Land.
Tin Can Kids
mwiirin mi i-
Japanese hold Mubo and its air
field but allied troops look down
on it from nearby ridge tops.
Bombs Dropped
Yesterday, 25-bomb carrying
Zeros came over Wau' at . 15,000
to 18,000 feet, dropped 18 bombs,
then swept down through bursts
ot'hti-aircraft fixe td-machine-g8n'lnstallaUons:,V
Today's com
munique admitted some damage,
but there were no casualties.
Other damage..: was caused
Monday by 43 raiders. Last Sat
urday, 34 planes struck at Wau
at the same time that 64 others
attacked the allies most ad
vanced position at Bobdubi. only
five miles from Salamaua. At
that time, Japanese ground
troops opened an attempt to
drive the allies out of Bobdubi.
There has been no further news
of that action but Japanese air
action against Wau indicates the
allied ground pressure still is
felt and the bombings of Wau
are intended to ease it But dam
age for the three raids is summed
up at headquarters as slight.
There was no allied air intercep
tion.
"African Victory
Day" Observed
In Klamaih
Klamath Falls observed "Afri
can Victory" day . Wednesday
when a parade was made up
of - patriotic organizations, serv
ice men and mobile units.
The line of march, from The
Herald and News corner the
length of Main street, was wit
nessed by hundreds who stood
on curbings and with hats off as
the colors went by. In the
parade were four visiting
marines, guests of the Com
mandos and marching with that
unit, "the US navy recruiting
cruiser, several visiting WAVES
here- on recruiting . duty, Pep
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Soldier Gets Award
For Removing Fuses
From Burning Plane
MOSES LAKE, Wash.,' May
19 (P) For "voluntarily and
alone" removing , fuses from
bombs in a burning and loaded-for-actlon
plane, Staff Sgt. Rob
ert Schnurr of Pittsburgh was
awarded the Soldiers medal for
valor yesterday by Col. Charles
B. Westover.
Fighter Planes
Blast Jap Ship
AN ADVANCED SOUTH
PACIFIC BASE, OP) Six Amer
ican fighter planes, in a recent
attack on a Japanese destroyer,
shot the vessel's bridge into ruin,
touched off fires along the full
length of the ship and left It
dead in the water.
The report by South Pacific
forco headquarters on the action
supplies new evidence of tho
effectiveness of American fighter
,plancs against small warships.
COJL FIGHT RESTS
UMW Acceptance of
Report Next -',
Question
WASHINGTON, May 19 OP)
The nation s. soft coal wage dis
pute today rested in the hands of
a three-man fact-finding panel of
the. war labor board..- . -
The panel's report is due some
time this week. It. will be. fol
lowed by a full labor board deci
sion in the case before May 31,
expiration date of the extended
truce under which, the Industry
has been operating without a
contract since a nationwide
weekend work stoppage the first
of this month.
Question Fops Again .
Then, once again, the question
will be whether John L. Lewis
and his United ; Mine . Workers
will accept the board's ruling.
There was no sign early today
that the UMW president had
altered his stand against the
board which he termed- preju
diced despite the -administration's
reiteration last night that
the dispute was strictly under
WLB jurisdiction. The miners
seek $2-a-day basic wage in
crease, underground, travel pay
and other concessions in a new
contract. .
The UMW has consistently de
clined to be represented on the
panel, or to attempt pleading its
case before it. i
Interior Secretary Ickes, act
ing in his capacity as fuels ad
ministrator and boss of the government-operated
coal mines,
last night told Lewis in a letter
that any contract settling the dis
pute "must have the approval of
the war labor board.
When word of the letter
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Thousands Abandon Homes
As Floods Wash Midwest
INDIANAPOLIS, May 19 (P)
Additional troops were ordered
into flood-washed areas of In
diana today as a third of the
state struggled against the high
est waters in, three decades. An
other drowning Was ' reported,
bringing the death list to five.
At least 10,000 persons were
homeless in 20 counties. Lodge
halls, schools, churches and
other buildings were converted
into dormitories for them. Dam
age to crops and property
mounted.
M. P.'s Out
Three hundred military police
were sent from Fort Harrison,
near Indianapolis, to the flood
isolated city of Peru, in north
central Indiana; 400 to Terre
Haute, where 4000 persons were
evacuated last night after the
breaking of' a levee, and 200
to Washington, Ind., where oth
er levees were threatened.
: Levees of quivering earth
which had restrained swollen
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Prime Minister Says
.'Hitler Will Not
Succeed",'
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 19
Prime 'Minister Churchill pledg
ed Britain today to fight "side
by side" with America until
Japan is finished.
And, without disclosing when
the joint drive might come, ha
said that "the cities and other
munitions centers of Japan"
should rock "at the earliest
moment" to the blasts of "our
joint air power."
Before a cheering joint ses
sion , of congress, he disclosed
also that he and President
Roosevelt hope to meet soon
with Premier Stalin of Russia
and Generalissimo Chiang o(
China.
Mo Tim Limit
When the finish fight again;.
Japan will begin rolling or
when the leaders of the great
allied nations will get together
to plot for the destruction also
of Germany and Italy he did
not disclose. , .y -
With many , of the United
l Nations , men of war and of
diplomacy looking on and join
ing the cheers that rang through,
the .-crowded j house 0chamberj
ChUTirrnFffedlcted a" third 'and
supreme gamble by "Corporal
Hitler" to try to knock Russia
out.i (. ,r '. i ! . : i --. .....
Thereupon he iutted his heavr
jaw-and said: - - -
"He will not succeed."
The master minds in Berlin
and Rome, Churchill recounted.
onunuea on .rage Two)
Axis Tunisian
Loss Estimated;
Pantelleria Hit
By NOLAND NORGAARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 19 (P)
Total German and Italian li sses
in the Tunisian campaign from
the smashing of the Mareth line
to the overcoming of the last axis
resistance in North Africa were
324,000 men, including an esti
mated 30,000 killed, 27,000 se
riously wounded and 267,000
captured, it was announced of-,
f icially today. -
Simultaneously with the dis
closure that nearly a third of a,
million enemy troops were put
out of action in the final stages
of the North African campaign
t-arne the announcement of the
heaviest raid yet on the Italian
island of Pantelleria, only 45
miles from Cap Bon in Tunisia,
carried out by U. S. air forces.
Flying Fortresses smashed at
the same time at the important
Sicilian base of Trapani, blow
ing up a ship in the harbor and
covering docks and the railway,
yard with bomb bursts.
riv?rs under reinforcement of
sandbags burst in four places
last night. At a breach near
Terre Haute civilians recruited
to lay sandbags left automobiles
stranded before the sudden de
luge of the Wabash, river water
and fled on foot.
Families Evacuated
The coast guard and army
have evacuated hundreds of
families in St. Charles, Mo.,
where observers estimate tho;
Missouri river stage will reach
36.3 feet before Saturday, the
highest since 1903 and sufficient
to inundate 90,000 acres. Some
army engineers expected the
crest to exceed. the 1844 record
of 40.1 feet.
Special highway trailers worn
to bring lifeboats from Lake
Michigan and army engineers
Increased river patrols BO per
cent to 250 men. Col. Malcolm
Elliott of the army engineers
predicted "a major flood in the
lower Missouri basin."
FIGHT TO
AXIS PLEDGED