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A X I S
PLANES
1 13 Enemy Ships Out
After Raids on
Italy
By NOLAND NORCAAHD
ALLIKIJ HKADQUAHTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Miiy 21 (I'l
American fighters and bombers
destroyed 113 enemy planes In
widespread and devastating rnlds
yoslerduy against Italy and Sor
dlnlu during what was officially
called "one of llio iircutcst vic
tory clays In tho history of tho
strategic air force."
Tha slrolcglcal air force, un
der command of U. S. Ma). Gen.
Jumcs II. Doollltlc, is mndo up
Kit U. S. heavy and medium and
ItAP medium bombers. Its for
mation was announced April 15.
On Lost
Aircraft of a half down typeji
participated In tho whirlwind
acriul action In which 01 axis
planes were shattered on tha
ground and 22 axis pilots en
gaged In air combot were sent
crashing In flames. One Amor
lean plane was lost,
Twelve of 25 Snvoln-Murchottl-70s,
thrce-englnecl ltullort bomb
ers, wcro set afire on tho Milns
airdrome of Sardinia in attacks
without a pause to glvo the reci
ting axil air forco any rest.
B U. S. Flying Fortresses again
Blldcd Crosselo airdrome, 00
Lille north of .Home, and a
flokosman said "somo of tho tin-
l.lnn hnmhlnir of tllO War
bok place" over its hangars,
ministration buildings and run-
woys.
Klfty-elght of 50 nlrcroft
parked on the ground there wore
destroyed during tho high alti
tude a 1 1 o e k, reconnaissance
photographs showed.
Tho fortified Island of Pan
tclloria, 45 miles east of Cap Bon
was raided again.
P-38 Lightning fighters out-
(Contlnued on Pago Two)
Sixth Chrysler
Plant Down as
Workers Strike
DETROIT, May 21 (P) - A
threo-hour conferenco nt region
al war, labor board offlcos hero
.ended this afternoon with pledg
ees of United Automobilo Work
ers (CIO) lenders that they would
do all they could to Induce a re
sumption of work by Chrysler
Corporation employes whose
striken havo caused tho closing
of six war plants.
DETROIT, May 21 (P) Em
ployes of a sixth war plant of
Chrysler corporation Joined In a
United Automobile Workor
(CIO) strike movo today as re
gional War Labor board officials
entered a conferenco with man
agement and union executives.
Tho walkout of day shift
workers In tho bomber plant of
tho Chrysler DeSoto division
brought tho number of strikers
nnd other idlo employes in the
corporation's war factories to
nearly 27,500. It was Detroit's
y-nont serious stoppage since Pearl
Harbor.
Edwin E. Wltto, rcglonnl WLB
director, summoned Chrysler top
executives and officers of tho
striking UAW-CIO unions to at
tend tho closed conference and
explain why work cannot bo ro
mimcd Immediately pending set
tlement of current disputes,
Kerns, Peterson
Named to Local
Rationing Board
James Kerns and Fred Peter
son havo been named as mem
bers of tho war prlco and ration
ing board, replacing Don Drury
nd Mrs. Paul Landry, resigned.
Percy Murray, a veteran mem
ber of the board, hag succeeded
Drury as chairman,
Drury resigned because of the
''press of othor matters" and
Mrs. Landry resigned when she
ncceptcd a position on tho
board's office staff.
FDR's Eulogy
Over Dead Jap
WASHINGTON, May 21 (IP)
Hero Is President Roosevelt's
comment, which he authorized
for direct quotation, on the re
ported death of Japanese Ad
miral Yamamoto:
"Goshl"
American Naval Men
Express Surprise
At News
WASHINGTON, May 21 OP)
News of tho death of Admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese
fleet chief, came as a surprise
today to American naval men
who said they wcro unaware of
any sea-air combat In April suf
ficiently important to have
claimed tho attention of Japan's
ranking officer. '
No American sources con
firmed the death and reaction
ranged from calm expressions
of Interest to frankly skeptical
comment on Tokyo' account
of how the admiral met his fate.
Suggest Hoax
Some authorities suggested
that he may not have been pres
ent at all. They said ho had
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Congress. Asked ,
Six Billions
For Lend Lease
By ALEX H. SINGLETON .
WASHINGTON, May 21 (P)
A $6,273,620,000 lend-lease sup
plemental appropriations meas
ure, representing in part the
coming sweat-and -solf -donlal-contribution
of the home front,
was sent to the house floor to
day with the assurance that It
would shorten materially the
march of tho United Nations "to
complete victory."
With that message to congress,
the houso appropriations com
mittco laid on tho line a mass of
testimony edited carofully to
prevent military secrets from
reaching tho enemy to demon
strate how lend-lease and lend
lease in reverse is operating to
whip the, enemy through food,
machinery and weapon produc
tion. "Our boys are freely "giving
their lives in the battle for free
dom in the mud, In tho heat of
tho tropics and in numbing
cold," Lcnd-Lease Administrator
Edward Stcttinlus told the com
mittee. "I know that wo behind
tho lines arc prepared to supply
all of our resources every ef
fort, every material thing, and
every dollar ncefled for victory."
And tho committee concluded,
after hearing Stcttinlus, that
lend-lease "Is a potent weapon of
warfaro without which other
United Nations could not effec
tively fight and with the assist
ance of which the war will be
shortened and the loss of life and
human suffering will be diminished."
Huge American Force in Pacific Area,
Says Roosevelt; War Strategy Viewed
WASHINGTON, May 21 (IP)
President Roosevelt disclosed to
day that the British-American
chiefs of staff would submit somo
preliminary recommendations to
night to him and Prime Minister
Churchill and ho said probably
final decisions on them would bo
made next week.
At the samo time, tho chief ex
ecutive told a press conference
it is absolutely truo that a large
majority of American forces out
side tho United States aro In tho
Pacific,
True of Many
Tho British prime minister
had mentioned that in a speech
to congress Wednesday, and the
president said It is particularly
true of tho army and navy.
About halt of our air force Is In
tho Pacific, he asserted.
Mr. Roosevelt also issued a
statement hailing national mari
time day tomorrow. Paying tri
bute to tho men who sail and
build the : merchant vessels, .he
100,000 Homeless
In Flood Areas of Six
Midwestern States
By Tha Associated Preta
Spreading waters from- the rampaging Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers brought added concern' to southern Illinois and Mis
souri today as other smaller streams In six midwest states rose
relentlessly, causing widespread destruction In the flood-stricken
zone.
. As the two big rivers joined together early today some 10
miles northwest of the normal confluence near Alton, ill, the
numbor of persons driven from their homes by the disastrous
floods was close to 100,000
as estimated by Red Cross of
ficials and other observers.
' Crews Fight
Hundreds of civilian recruits
including high school boys
and girls in somo towns la
bored throughout the night in
towns regarded as In Imminent
danger, aiding engineers and
soldiers in the struggle to hold
back the surging waters.
Red Cross officials rushed re
lief to the stricken families and
government engineers and sol
diers aided civilians In evacuat
ing home In hundreds of towns
and cities and farms.
The Red Cross office at St.
Louis said that In Illinois, Mis
souri, Arkansas and Oklahoma,
more than 80,000 were home
less, while in Indiana official
and unofficial observers esti
mated 12,000 were forced to flee
their homes by tho floods. The
number left homeless In Kan
sas, the sixth state affected by
the flood, was not calculated.
Land Flooded
While thousands of farm lands
wore Inundated In the six state!
and damage to crops was esti
mated at millions of . dollars,
there was a degree of optimism
concerning tho crop .situation
expressed by crop experts 16
Chicago.
Thoy said the 'most' serious
aspect of tho. flood situation as
it applied to tho nation's food
supply concerned corn, planting
of which has been delayed by
the floods. But, they said, it
was considered possible that this
loss of time would be made up
by warm, sunny weather during
the summer. t .. '
A loss of between 5 and 15
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Republicans
Pick Man for
Englebright Job
WASHINGTON, May 21 IP)
House republicans were reported '
today In agreement on Rep.
Leslie C. Arcnds of Illinois for
tho post of minority whip, va
cated by tho death of Rep. Engle
bright of California.
The appointment Is Imminent,
It was said by republican mem
bers of the house who asked that
they not be Identified.
Choice of a whip narrowed,
they said, to the Illinois delega
tion which with 10 republicans
swings a lot of Influence in the
party's congressional affairs.
Arcnds, a native of Mclvln,
III., navy veteran of the first
World war ond farmer and bank
er, has been In tho house since
1034. He is a member of the
house military affairs and pat
ents committees.
told reporters that thoy were
helping to maintain a ring that
Is slowly and surely being closed
around the axis powers.
Chiefs Work
Asked If ho could glvo a pro
gress report on his conferences
with tho prime minister, tho
president replied that so far most
of tho work has been done by
tho combined chlpfs of staffs
tho top military, naval and air
advisers who flank tho two con
sultants. '
Tentative recommonda Hons
aro expected to be made at a
meeting tonight, ho said, and
these will be considered by tho
president and prime minister
over tho weekend. They will
take them up next week, he said,
and the kinks will be Ironed out
and a final decision made on
them.
' Construction Up
Speaking of the maritime pro
gram, Mr. Roosevelt said that
ship construction Is going ahead
E
OF FOflCEl WLB
UMW Considers Legal
Action to Renew
Bargaining
WASHINGTON, May 21 (IP)
John L. Lewis and his United
Mine Workers were reported to
night to be considering legal ac
tion to force a renewal of collec
tive bargaining in the soft coal
dispute. .'-:: -;.-r-v.-;;
. Informed -persons, who would
not be quoted by name, said no
decision has been made, but that
Lewis' aides began studying such
strategy the day after the War
Labor, board directed the coal
operators not to resume bargain
ing wjth the' minerr until both
sides agreed , to proceed under
board auspices. ,, ;. f
.' v,. Violation Questioned -?
" Some. UMA representatives be
lieve a violation of the National
Lab6r Relations act can be
shown.One of .them consulted
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Cancellation
Of Eastern Gas
Books Rejected
WASHINGTON, May 21 (VP)
The office of price administra
tion has rejected a proposal from
the agriculture department to
cancel temporarily all A, B and
C ration coupons along part of
the Atlantic seaboard, to meet
the gasoline shortage emergency.
"As far as OPA is concerned,
no curtailment or elimination of
A..B of C rations now is con
templated," an OPA spokesman
said today when asked about the
agriculture department's plan.
He indicated that OPA would
depend on curtailment of T ra
tions, used by taxis, trucks and
other commercial vehicles, and
on the eastern pleasure driving
ban to ride out the period of
emergency.
The agriculture department
proposal prompted by a food
production crisis caused by the
stoppage of t-actors in the north
eastern states envisaged no cur
tailment of allotments to farm
ers or non-highway users of gas
oline, OPA's counter-argument was
that' some B and C rations are
fully as essential as commercial
and industrial rations,
exceedingly well, with the build
ing exceeding sinkings and total
output well ahead of what any
one expected a year ago.
- He spoke of a process now un
derway of graduating slowly
from liberty ships to faster and
better victory ships, which he
said could be used for commerce
after the war.
Honors Seaman
1 Recalling that on Maritime
day last year the principal hon
ors were reserved for workers in
the shipyards, Mr. Roosevelt said
special tribute should ' be given
tills year to ' seamen "who by
their courage and fortitude have
won the everlasting gratitude of
the people of the United Nations,
tho men on the battlefront and
their follow Americans on the
home front."
In his press conference, Mr.
Roosevelt reiterated the allies'
unconditional surrender stand
when asked whether any consld-
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War Losses
"Buddy" Beck
Service Deaths of Beck, Taber, Hamilton
Make It Darkest Day of War in Klamath
Tragedy struck three Klam
ath homes Thursday with word
of the death of three young men
in the armed forces, two killed
in the crash of their basic train
ing planes in widely separated
sections of the country, the third
killed in actran in Africa.
Thus Friday ranked as Klam
ath's blackest day of the war
the first time three Klamath
war deaths were reported in a
single - day. These, casualties
brought to 19 the total number
of Klamath county men defin
itely known to have been killed
in the war.
The three whose lives were
given in the service of their
country are: ,
Leo L. "Buddy". Bock, 24,
son of Mr. and. .Mrs, Leo L.
Beck of 60 Uerlings street, kill
ed when his; plane 'crashed rat
War" Fagle. jfield, - Lancaster,
Calif., at 3:30. p. m. Thursday.
Don- F. Taber, 22, son of Mr.
and Mrs.-Roy Taber of Yreka,
Calif., and former residents of
this city, killed when his basic
training plane crashed at 10
o'clock Thursday morning near
Garden City, Kansas.
PFC Charles "Bob" Hamilton,
21, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Lamb of Spring Lake district,
killed with the United States
forces somewhere in the African
theatre of war.
Plana in Spin
Word of Aviation Cadet
Beck's death reached his. par
ents last night. The . youth's
plane went into a spin at 5000
feet, according to word from
Robert W. Bear, commanding
OSC Man to
Study "Black
Snow" Problem
SALEM, May 21 (fl3) Services
of Professor George Gleeson,
Oregon State college, have been
secured for a study of the pro
posal to bar the Klamath FalU
Heating company from discharg
ing liquids from its industrial
plant into the Klamath Falls
sewer system, Public Utilities
Commissioner Ormond R. Bean
announced this afternoon.
Gleeson's study, made at PUC
costs and scheduled to commence
Juno 3, may take several days,
Bean said.
The PUC entered the case to
determine whether an ordinance
proposed in the city council with
the avowed purpose of making
more efficient the Klamath Falls
sewage disposal plant is well
founded. The heating company's
charges to consumers would
probably reflect the costs of the
change if demands of the ordi
nance should be met, Bean has
pointed out. ' 1
Flying Forts
Make Day Raid
On (-Boat Yards
LONDON, May 21 OP) Separ
ate forces of U. S. Flying Fort
resses struck new daylight blows
today at tho U-boat yards of Wil
hclmshaven and Emden, smash
ing through heavy fighter oppo
sition which brought down 10 of
the bombers, the eighth U. S.
AAF announced.
' Simultaneously eighth air
force P-47 Thunderbolts swept
anew over the nazi-guarded Eu
ropean coast In separate opera
tions and received their stlffcst
punch to date from German
fighters. Three Thunderbolts
' (Continued on Page Two) . .
Make It 'Black Friday'
Don Taber
officer at the field, and the
young flyer apparently . made
every attempt to right his ship
while it carried him to his
death. "
"Buddy," as 'he was intimate
ly known, was- born June 20,
1918, in Santford, Colo.,- but
had lived virtually all his life
in Klamath Falls. He was a
graduate . of Riverside grade
school, i Klamath Union high
school, class of 1938,wen,t with
the 249th:-Coast Artillery in
1940,.' with- the first outfit to
move- out l of Klamath - Falls.
Beck was transferred to the air
corps in October,, 1942, took his
pre-f light training at Santa Ana,
Calif.,, was sent to Ontario,
Calif., and .later . to .. Lancaster
where he .was in the' midst of
his basic training at the time
Of Jiis. death; . ;:V v,-, ... t .i-W y -i ?
. . Cadet Beck is survived by 'his
parents and the following' broth
ers, and sisters, - Richard Mar
tin, who was graduated Wednes
day night from Klamath. Union
high school, Roger Holman, and
Norman' Douglas, Mrs. Melvin
Pyles who lives in Portland
and Mary Louise and 'Donna
Lee Beck, Klamath Falls. Serv
ices will be announced later, by
Whitlock's. ' ....
'. Don Taber Passes
Word of the " death of her
nephew, Aviation Cadet Don
Taber, was received here at '3
p. m. Thursday by Mrs. W. D.
Miller of 432 North Ninth
street. Information was relayed
to. the young man's parents, now
residing in Yreka. Roy Taber,
father of the youth, is a former
Klamath county commissioner.
Don was born in Dorris,
Calif., February. 18, 1921. He
attended both Henley and Alfa
mont elementary schools, grad
uated, from Klamath Union high
school in 1941, enlisted on his
21st birthday and was called
up for service in the air corps
in October, 1942: Prior to his
enlistment he attended Univer
sity of California, Los Angeles
branch, ' and was employed at
Soviets Smash
German Barges
On Black Sea
By WILLIAM McGAFFIN
MOSCOW, May 21 (P) The
movement of German self-propelled
barges across the Black
sea and attempts of a -nazi in
fantry force to fight its way
through the Russian attack arc
northeast of Novorpssisk have
been smashed by soviet artillery
and planes, reports from 1 the
front said today.
The soviet midnight commun
ique said- that ships of the red
fleet and planes patrolling the
Black sea sank six of the enemy
barges, filled with troops, near
the port of Anapa and near
Kerch. Anapa lies below the
Taman peninsula, northwest of
Novorossisk, and Kerch is at
the tip of the peninsula that juts
out of the Crimea.
' Twelve more German defense
posts before Novorossisk ' were
smashed by Russian artillery
fire last night and nazt artillery
and mortar batteries were sil
enced, the soviet midday com
munique announced. It was re
corded by the soviet radio Mon
itor in London.
Baseball ;
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston .' 1 9 1
Detroit 2 7 0
Hughson . and -Partcc; New
houscr. and Richards. .
in Klamath
I 1 dHN UMULLU
AT NORTH END
& DF PENINSULA
:f -
"Bob"' Hamilton
Weed Lumber company. While
there he lived with a sister,
Mrs. Joseph DeA villa of Mt.
Shasta.
Young Taber took his pre
fllght . training at Kelly field,
Texas, later tratasd at Cimar
ron, Okla., and at Easter was
transferred to Garden City, Kan.
Mr. and Mrs.- Taber have a
second son in service, Roy Nor
man Taber who: is with the
quartermaster corps at Harvard
university. The father was hold
ing a telegram from his son,
Roy Norman, advising him that
he would arrive on furlough
Friday, when : the call came
from Klamath Falls, telling of
the death .of Don while on a
routine solo training flight. .
' Don is. survived . by his par
entstwo sisters. ' Mrs..' "William
Llstoe' of 2747 Bisbee street,
Mrs. DeAvilla "of MC Shasta,
pna; brother,' Roy Norman Taber,
and three aunts In Klamath
Falls,' Mrs.' W. D. Miller, Mrs.
M. G. Leslie of 811 Rose street.
and " Mrs. M. G. Sherman of
Eleventh and Oak.
Final rites for the' young
flyer will be held in' Yreka
with burial in the family plot.
African Casually
; First official word from .the
African front, to advise a Klahir
ath family that a local youth had
been killed "in action, came, to
Mr. and Mrs. George Lamb of
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Davies Delivers
Note to Stalin
From Roosevelt
MOSCOW, May 21 (P) Spec
ial Envoy Joseph E. Davies con
ferred with Premier Stalin at
the Kremlin last night and de
livered President ' Roosevelt's
secret message a letter that
some quarters thought might
contain an invitation to a per-
sonal meeting with other allied
leaders.. . ( .
Davies was presented to the
Russian political and military
chief by Admiral William H.
Standley, the U. S. ambassador,
and was accompanied to the
meeting by Vyacheslav Molotov,
soviet commissar for foreign af
fairs, with whom he previous
ly had conferred at length.
Allies Trade Unbalancing
Punches With Pacific Nips
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, May 21 OP) Air
forces of Japan and .the allies
are trading punches freely in
the southwest Pacific after the
manner of, two wary boxers de
termined, to keep the other off
balance.
The Japanese stab consistently
at allied supply bases on New
Guinea. Allied planes strike
daily at the air nerve centers
from which the enemy's , New
Guinea raiders probably come.
Aerial Parry . j
This aerial parry pnd thrust
have as a background this situ
ation: The allies, in complete
possession of New Guinea's Pa
puan peninsula, have moved up
more than 100 miles to menace
Japanese-held Salamaua.
Today's communique listed
strikes at four New Guinea
points by 21 Japanese planes as
the enemy continued to show
more inclination to mix It than
he has in many weeks. '
The communique also report
ed the third allied raid within
less than a week on the enemy's
iJino pidpi rn
Knox Report Declines
To Talk About
'. -V . Kiska . "'- '
WASHINGTON, May 21 (&)
Secretary of the Navy Knox said
today that the battle for Attn
island is "a successful oper
ation" and is now in the "mop
ping up" stage. .. . -
Asked at a press conference
whether he would say that to all
intents and purposes the cam
paign to smash the Japanese gar
rison on the westernmost of tha
Aleutian islands is now over,
Knox replied:
"It's a successful operation-
no question about that. Jt is a
mopping up operation now. The) '
situation is a good deal like 'the
Tunisian operation when tha
enemy was driven back on Cap
Bon." .
, Troops Encircled
- Japanese troops on Attu era
now encircled on little penin
sula on the northeastern end of
the island, Knox noted, and "it
is only a question of time until
they will either be liquidated or
surrender." f'
The secretary was asked about
axis reports that the Japanese
were, evacuating their troop
from Attu and he said, "I don't
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Possibility of
Tax Bill Veto
Plagues Meeting
! " WASHINGTON, May 21 UP)
The possibility of a presidential
veto of any current tax collection
legislation which abates a full
year's; liability plagued senate
and house conferees today, and
they broke , up into, separate
groups after a stormy, hour long
session.. : ..
The president's letter to Chair-,
man George (D-Ga.) of the sen
ate finance committee and
Doughton (D-N.C.) of the housct
ways and means committee, in
which Mr. Roosevelt inveighed
against what he termed the sen
ate bill's "unjust, and discrim
inatory enrichment of thousands
of taxpayers in the upper income
groups," was read to the group
as they disputed the amount of
tax cancellation that should be
authorized in. instituting a pay-as-you-go
system. ' '
The president's attitude was
reported to have prompted an
assertion, by Senator Clark CD
Mo.), champion of the modified
Ruml "skip a year" plan, that
the conferees apparently have
the alternative of agreeing on
something Mr. Roosevelt would
sign or permit to become law
without a veto or of abandoning
their efforts to obtain a bill this
year. V- . ;
air stronghold of Rabaul,' north
ern New Britain, as well as a
continuation of daily attacks on
Gasmata and Cape Gloucester,
southern New Britain airdromes
which are within a short over
water hop of New Guinea.
. Sinking of a 12-ton boat and
damaging of a 52-tonner at Doug
las Harbor, northwest of Buna,
and the firing of a fuel dump at
Milne Bay were all the enemy
had to show for the bombs hi
21 planes dropped there. .At
Dobodura, near Buna, and at
Port Moresby, nearest allied New
Guinea base to Australia.
On the other hand, the crew
of the Liberators and Fortresses
raiding Rabaul came back with,
reports their 18 tons of bomb
had started many fires, some of
which were believed to be for
burning planes.
The Rabaul attack, for tha
third time since Sunday, wa
concentrated on Vunakanua air
drome, one of three in that area.
The raiders weathered Intcnj
anti-aircraft fire, silenced on
battery and all got home safely.