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ami On S-mlnute bint en sirens and whlilln li the signal for a bUokoul in Klamath FalU. Another long blast, during black-., out, it a signal for all-clear. In irecau- Mar SI Migh IT, Low 91 Precipitation a of Mar J9 Straam rar to data ...................18.1? Last year ...12.02 Normal.,.;..., ,.10.i ASSOCIATED PRESS JN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES tloniry psrlodt, wttoh your street light. THREE SECTIONS , PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1943 Number 9804 M JVL M I c X. 1 V 1 ' . I I I I I ' M. M ' " v VT. By FRANK JENKINS ; pODAY'S dispatches leave no . doubt that tho world ii wait ing aiiuin for something big to huppen. Our ildo'i high com mand know what It will bo (for wo now have the Inltiutivo, which mean! ' ; tho power of choice) and whoro and when it will happen. ; We outsiders don't know. We ihouldn't know. ' ' We couldn't be told without telling the enemy and, If . the enemy knew where and when and how we are going to strike ho'd bo onubled to dlsposo of hli forced so n to MEKT tho blow In the most eflcctlvo monner doimlblo. . : .-....,. ;.- m( fooled the enemy In Tunl sla, leading him to expect the big push where It DIDN'T como .As a result he was weak where It DID come and we were able to brcok through ond bring the Tunisian battle to an unex pectedly successful) and . SUD DEN conclusion. i ; That'i what fooling the enemy can accomplish in war. When we next hit him hard whether in Europe or In tho Pa cific) we hope to catch him off balance as we did in Tunisia.' That Is th basic reason under lying all this , talk and rumor and speculation. ! ' u ..')':;-.' -- " '.f.y f --.:-- rrHE executive committee Of the Communist International QrvMoscow today asks Its centers n al t parts of .the world to DIS SOLVE. It says tho forms, meth ods and regulations of the corn intern (International communist organization) have become obso lete and In some cases have ac tually hindered tho workers of the world in their battle against Germany and her satellites. i That Is probably the most sig nificant story in the nows today - for (whatever else it may bo) it amounts to statement from Stalin that hereafter Russian communists will keep their fin gers out of tho Internal affairs of other countries. '.' That will go a long way to ward removing suspicion of Rus sia In Britain and tho United States. The wholo affair is un doubtedly intended as a gesture of friendship and conciliation by Otalln toward us and the British. . . ' THIS wrltor has no uso for communism in tho United . States, but feels that if Russia . wants a communist govcrnmont that Is HER affair and nolio of ... our business. Probably many people foci tho so mo way. But as long as Russia har bored a semi-official organiza tion designed to THRUST COM v MUNISM UPON other peoples it was hard for nations such as the U. S, and Britain to placo in Russia tho comploto trust that allies in a war such as this should place In each other. ; Hitler's propagandists have been trading on this feeling and realty-, getting somewhere with it. This development will muke d heir .Job harder.. ' i ..;- t.''v" i -THE; Japs on Attu have boon crowded out onto a point of land , somewhat' similar to Capo Bon In Tunisia. The still scanty reports we get from there indi cate that we have thorn surround ed' and cut 'off from reinforce ments and supply. : When tho Germans In Tunisia reached that point,' they SUR RENDERED. ; It looks now as If tho Japs on Attu may fight to tho last man ns they did. on Guadalcanal and the Buna beaches. : i -i nrHAT has a bearing on the now ' sharply debated question as to who is our principal enemy in this war. , Incidentally, there's a hint " in today's dispatches that tho ' Attu victory and the cleaning out of Klska that is officially rx pected to follow Attu may re sult In closing the fishing grounds of tho North Pacific to (Continued on Page Pour) - L PICT DEVELOPMENTS WLB Panel Discusses All Phases of t - Coal Fight ,' By The Associated Press ' The number of Idle miners in the nation's coal-fields dwindled today, with only about 3800 workers still out of the war vital fuel pits but olscwhero the all-over labor picture was cloudod by conflicting develop ments. ' ' The buck-to-work move came as a throe-man fact-finding panel of tho war labor board Issued a report in Washington on the WASHINGTON, May 22 VP) AFL President William Green today appointed a committee to negotiate a basis for re entry of the United Mine Workers into the American Federation of Leber and re peated that all affiliates would be bound by the federation's, "no strike" pledge. softcoul w a g o controversy in which It left open the way for granting substantial pay conces sions to the miners. -. ' Point Discussed The panel's lengthy report discussed, all disputed, points in the controversy wage increases, portal-to-portal pay;' overtime, (Continued, pn Page Two).. .. -' . jit-',',, I,,, .,t "Stern Silence" Describes Russ ' Front Action . MOSCOW. May 22 'w) An ominous silence prevailed along the Russian front today with evi dence pointing to the approach ing zero hour for the long-expected German offensive. On the German side of the front, tho Invaders continued to pile up stores of ammunition, tanks and men for the summet push that may come almost any time. . - .- Ono' front-line . dispatch used tho Russian phraso "groznaya tlshlna" stern silence to de scribe the present, tense atmos phere. (The midday- communique as broadcast by the Moscow radio and recorded by tho Soviet Mon itor in London, ignored German radio reports that the red army has launched drives of its own as preludes to offensives In tho Caucasus and Orol sectors. (Tho Berlin broadcast, record ed in London by The Associated Press, said the Russians had "concentrated strong offensive forces on the whole Kuban froni in order to capture the German Rumanian bridgehead." It added that it was believed In 'Berlin that the Kuban drive would start "at the same time as the ex pected soviet offensive south of Moscow.") . - 'i Iniense Air War Dogs Jap Attempts to Supply Bases ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 22 (P) Dogged efforts of the Japanese to supply their menaced New Guinea basbs by barge and de termination of tho allies to neu tralize oncmy air strongholds above New Guinea with a great wn'jht of bombs havo intensified tho southwest Pacific air war. Showing moro and more in clination to challenge the dally forays of Lieut, General Gcorgo C, Kcnnoy's bombers and fight ers, the Japanese used 47 planes yesterday In raid and combat, bringing to 300 tho number they have employed In a week's pe riod. ' Their losses yesterday of 22 destroyed or damaged ra)sod their total ' for the week to ap proximately 70 - m ; Today's communique, also list ed one allied bomber- as shot down and three missing.- , ., Prefer Bargas Tho Japanese, rather than risk more ships to General Kcnney's Army Bomber Rams ' A four-motored army Liberator, flying low and blind' through unfavorable weather, plunged into a ISO-foot illuminating; gas tank two miles from Chicago's municipal airport; turning plane and tank, above, Into a seething mass of flames. One charred body and flaming parachute fell outside the tank, but the remaining members of the 12-man crew burned to death at the bottom of the tank as l million cubic feet. of gas went up with a, roar.. t . : -I.; Speedy RAF Bombers Zoom LONDON, May 22 (P) Brit ain's new. artd speedy Mosquito botnbers returned again to Ber lin last night to blast targets in the rclch capital for the third successive night. . s -- Other British . planes - lafd mines-1 - enemy- waters over' night while Mosquito intruders attacked railway targets In France and . Whirlwinds sank two ships out of a five-ship con voy off lhe French coast. The after-dark attacks follow ed up yesterday's daylight raids by American Flying Fortresses on Important sources of German U-Boat strength at Wllhelms haven and Emdcn and carried into the tenth night the aerial offensive which many sources expect to , ftirn soon into a death-blow attack against . Hit ler's Europe. ..- . The Gorman high command's communique, as broadcast from Berlin, said "major damage was done to property in Wllhelms haven and Emden" by the American .'. bombing yesterday, but claimed 17 of the. four-en-giped bombers we re. brought down' by German fighters- and naval anti-aircraft. ... It - was announced officially Pelican Bomber ; Bond Drive Just $50,000 From Goal Klamath county has $50,000 to go before the May war bond goal of $300,000 is reached, it was reported Saturday by Gene Hooker, president of the Lions club. The Lions are running this month's campaign and if the goal is reached a Flying Fortress will be named tho "Klamath Pelican." Hooker urged all citizens to buy their limit In the remaining days of tho month. accurate bombers in directly sup plying northeast New Guinea holdings nearest allied lines, pre fer to move barges : down the coast from supply centers more removed from allied airdromes. Yesterday, Mitchell bombers spotted moro than a dozen - of these barges, carrying men, am munition and supplies, above tho enemy's hard-pressed Salamaua. put of ten observed near. Alex Ishafen, 'five, wore ' sunk and the - others had to be beached. Still other barges wero swooped upon near Flnschhatcn, throe be ing destroyed. - , ' The biggest air action yester day took place over Salamaua, tho Hon gulf, base of the enemy upon which allied troops are in filtrating from tho scene of their Papuan peninsula triumph - 180 miles down the coast. P-38s dis regarded the fact they wore out numbered to pile into 20 Zeros, shooting down six and probably (Continued on Page Two) Chicago Gas Tank; Dozen Burn to Death r nattrrat kta tTltf TT 1 1 that Whirlwind fighter-bombers sank the' two enemy ships and damaged . a . third, a medium sized motor vessel, In a convoy of five ships surprised off Cher bourg. Trains Bhoi Vp Wl v Mosquitoes',' Beduflghters and Boston bombers struck behind the ..French .coast in wide: in truder raids. Several , trains were shot up! One plane failed to return, the air ministry said. : An air alarm aroused London shortly; after, midnight as the enemy struck . weakly at the capital for the sixth successive night, but apart from the noise of 4. furious barrage directed (Continued on Page Two) Production in Chrysler Plants Only Partial DETROIT, May 22, W) Lim ited production was restored in some, of . the six strike-affected war plants of Chrysler corpora tion here .today, but a corpora tion spokesman' estimated the working force on day shifts was only a little more than 2,000 out. of a normal personnel of 14,000. Orders of the regional war labor board for an "immediate resumption of work" by striking members of tho United Automo bile Workers (CIO) brought moves toward compliance from two or three local unions involved- "'' - At the Dodge main factory, largest of the closed plants, the corporation spokesmen said that stewards of tho UAW-CIO local 3 stood In front of tho gates not ing .tho badge numbers - of all workers who went into tho plant, and that ' a -unionist in a car equipped with a sound amplifier constantly shouted instructions for tho men to attend a meeting Sunday afternoon to . decide whether or cot to return to their Jobs. The' spokesman said, the stewards made no physical move to prevent workers from enter ing the plant v . London Speaker Indicates Invasion Plans Solidified ; LONDON, May 22 (T) Capt. Oliver Lyttolton told an Alder shot audience ln an address to day "I know where the blow will fall" when tho allies invade the continent, indicating that plans for the campaign had solidified. Ho did not, howovcr, even hint at the site. Speaking at a Wings-for-Vic-tory rally, the minister of state in charge of production said the Mediterranean campaign provid ed "a secure base from which to attack the Dodecanese islands, Greece, Crete, Sicily, Italy, Sar dinia, Corsica or the French Ri viera, or any variations or com binations of. this plan. - t - i 9000" Fail to Report , At: Goodrich 'i:i', -w 4 AKRON, O.,' May' 22 VP) I More than'SOOO CIO United Rub ber Workers failed to report for work on- afternoon Shifts at the B. C. Goodrich company add the Firestone Tire and Rubber com' pany's busy Akron war plants today, and union leaders said the employes were protesting a war labor board decision. - " ' Some workers gathered out side the gates at each concern as more than 4000 unionists did not appear for the 2 p. m. shift at . Goodrich and, about 5000 were absent after starting - times at Firestone. . .-, . ";, Spontaneous , ' George. Bass, president of the Goodrich local,- said the work stoppage was a spontaneous pro test against a reported WLB, de cision.' limiting .proposed wage increases for more than 40,000 employes of four major rubber companies to three cents, an nour.- A Firestone company spokes man, said production there was virtually, stopped. ; . ;; - "Just a few employes are in the plant," asserted a Goodrich spokesman, who declined use of his name. A formal statement from Goodrich said "the .com pany ' has - no information on when work, will be . resumed,' and that "every man hour lost affects our production for the Baseball : NATIONAL , . R H St. Louis .............;......10 13 New York 7 10 ' Krlst, Murigcr (9) and Odea; Wittlg, Adams (8), Feldman (9) and Mancuso, .. Cincinnati 2 9 0 Brooklyn : 5 7. 0 Walters, Shoun (2), Stone (7), Huesser (8), and Mueller; New som and Owen.. ' AMERICAN . R H Boston Detroit H. Newsome ...... 0 2. ..... 4 8 2 and . Peacock; Trout and Parsons, Philadelphia 2 9 st. Louis '.' 1 6 a Christopher and Swift, -Hol-lingsworth, Muncrlef (9) : and Hayes. . ' ; Washington 2 7 2 Chicago ; 5 10 1 1 i Pyle,- Hacfner (7) and Early; Smith and Turner. , ; . FLEET WINS NEW YORK, May 22, VP) Count Fleet won the 68th run ning of the Withers mile at Bel-' mont today. ' Attu Japs Chopped In Three Sections By Final U. S. Push WASHINGTON, May 22 VP) American forces on Attu island have slashed remaining Japanese the navy reported today, and the final phase of the. campaign to restore the island to American control 'is now under way. The three enemy areas were listed- in a communlaue as Chichagof harbor at the northeastern tip of the island, Chtchagof valley which runs southwest from tho harbor, and the northern shores of Lake Nicholas which is southeast of the harbor. Attu Wiped Out Attu village,, presumably the center of the enemy's Chichagof harbor position, was wiped out by army planes yesterday, the navy reported, and a fuel depot and other installations were set afire. Navy ' communique No. 386 said: , North Pacific: "1. The battle for Attu has entered the final phase with the Japanese forces split into three groups occupying positions in the following areas: , "(A) Chichagof harbor. . "(B) Chichagof valley. " "(C) North side of Lake Nich olas. ' ; . ' Ridge Neutralized ' ' "2. On May 20 during the night a strong, enemy position on a ridge in the Sarana-Massa-cre bay area : was neutralized. An enemy unit, which succeeded in , penetrating our 'lines . was wiped out. "3. On May 2li ' "(A) United States forces at tacked- the enemy positions, to the eastward of Chichagof val ley. : '" ......... ; . ..'. , : "(BVLIghfning fighters sup- ported ground, - operations' by strafing and bombing enemy bo stons.-A fuel depot was set on (Continued on Page Four) , American Red Party Not Hit By Declaration NEW YORK, May 22 (IP) Earl Browder, secretary of the communist party in the United States, declared today the Mos cow . resolution dissolving the Communist International, had no effect on the American party as a body but only affected its policy. . . . Interviewed by telephone at his Yonkers, N. Y., home. Brow der said thVparty's view of the resolution' would be. outlined later in the day by a statement from . party headquarters in Manhattan. :. . .. . . "We have ' oeen disaffiliated. from any , international organ-. ization for three years since 1940," Browder said. 'That an nouncement from Moscow does not affect us. as 'a body, It only affects our policy." .. : The refercnceto disaffiliation with the international organiza tion was to a resolution adopt ed by a special national con vention of the communist party in New York in November, 1940, which directed the party to "cancel and dissolve organ ization affiliation to the Com munist Internationale and all other bodies of any kind out side the boundaries of the Unit ed States." Rising Waters Force Women, Children To Flee Illinois Town for High Ground By The Associated Press Rising .waters of tho Illinois river compelled the evacuation of all women and children from Beardstown, 111., today. ' - As the river level approached 29 feet and threatened to over flow the reinforced seawall, ap proximately 4000 persons, in cluding the aged and infirm, be gan an orderly march to safer communities. The situation at Beardstown, where Mayor -Fred I. Clinu said an inundation appeared to be in escapable, seemed to be worse than in any other city along the swollen Mississippi and its tri butaries. A 100-mile front was being patrolled by an army of soldiers, engineers and civilian defense workers. Troops Assist At Beardstown, 1000 troops of tho sixth service command were assisting in tha evacuation and troops, there into three groups, ALLIES BAG 285 : PLAnESJQVER ITALY American Fighters Blast 96 More in ; . , One Day By NOLAND NOHGAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 22 (PH-Blasting. American, bomb ers and- fighters- destroyed- 88 more .enemy- planes, yesterday on the invasion' approaches to Italy to run the three-day allied victory-string to .285 in the drive to smash axis air power In Italy, . Sicily and Sardinia, An allied, communique listed 19 enemy- planes knocked from the skies,-and said three-addi tional aircraft-' were destroyed Thursday night; Spokesmen fur ther disclosed' -that- raiding bombers had ; t destroyed '67 grounded" planes,-;-and -Cairo communique - said strong" "forma tions of U. S. Liberator bomb ers destroyed 10 more challeng ing fighters in daylight attacks yesterday oh "San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria, ; in Italy. Good Percentage " The additional victories were won at, a loss , of seven allied planes a better than 12 to -1 margin,' -whereas on the pre ceding day,, the Americans de stroyed. 113 enemy craft with a. single loss.! v.-.v., :-(... The total allied loss, for the three days was 12 planes. .- Large fires were Jeft burning by lighter-escorted Flying Fort (Continued on Page Two) Election Hoids Modoc Pine Mill : Without Union ; In a hotly contested election held, late Friday at Modoc Pine mill, the ballot stood at 13 for no-union, and 11 for CIO. ' The AFL was not represented on the ballot. The mill remains no union. There will be a second, elec tion within six months,, accord ing to Hugh' Haddock, business agent for the lumber and saw mill workers. - .- - An election was held Thurs day in Lakeview at the Lakeview Lumber company. Voters cast 18 ballots for AFL, and 18 for no union. CIO received 10 votes. This means. Haddock stated, that there Will be a run-off elec tion during the second week of June to determine the bargain- ling agency at that mill.. . the movement of merchandise to higher ground. Gov. Dwight H. Green of Illinois also dispatched 450 militiamen to help. From Alton, 111., southward to Cape Girardeau, Mo., some 42S0 troops patrolled the river, front, an area regarded by army en gineers at St. Louis as the im mediate concentration point in the six-state mid-west flood zone. Other Dangar Points There were other points of danger in the immediate area, however, -with the Illinois river on the rise along a 200-mile front and the Missouri river roaring out of its normal channel as it neared its junction with the Mis sissippi near Alton. While flood conditions ha rassed thousands of families In other oarta of the flood area -in Indiana,. Arkansas, Kansas and; Oklahoma the Immediate con-, cern was in- the southern sec RED METHODS SEEN AS BAR TDWARWORK , . ..... ; ' I : Members Asked to Get Down to Task of ' Beating Hitler ; By EDDY GILMORE V MOSCOW, May 22 (IP) In) the. midst- of the daily increase ing cooperation between soviet Russia and her allies, the xecu tive committee of the Commik nist International has asked ita sections in all parts of the world to dissolve. The resolution said the forms, methods and regulations of tha Comintern have become obsolete and in some cases have actually hindered workers of the - world in their battle against Germany; and her satellites. ' , Get On Job . ' The action was considered here an open admission that thet., Comintern which had stood foe solidification: of the workers of the world under the communis banner, should dissolve and that the workers - in each - country should get down' to the job of -beating Adolf Hitler. - e Many foreign . observers t ; Moscow saw in the decision cj of the most significant gestures' yet ' toward complete ' coopera- . tion among the nations -whos primary objective is the defeat of nazlism. - : ' Jttft,Qo'nUo, ' ' Explaining- the 1 action, the committee's resolution -declared there" was-no time ior. a -formal convention of -the ' branches throughout, time, v and they cease - the' .world ;in - war recommended that their duties under . prevailing conditions.- -- j("Even before- the . war it be came - clear -that together with the-: increasing -complications -in internal and international rela . r (Continued , on - Page 'Two): ;;. Bradley Asks Investigation Of Food Meet WASHINGTON, May 22, (fP)- Rep. Bradley (R-Mich) said to. day he would demand a congres sional investigation of the United Nations food conference, which, he charged had a "gimme" atmos phere. - Chairman Marvin , Jones, re plying to -criticism of Bradley and Rep. Smith (R-Ohio), wh have not been permitted entry to executive sessions of the confer ence, said "I regret exceedingly that any member of congress) should see fit to prejudge' : the; work of this conference." - Bradley : said "we ' haven't found out yet whose brain child this conference is" and declared, in his charge of "gimme" atti tudes, that "its activities now have developed into a question of immediately supplying relief and gifts to other countries"; Jones said "the work of thj conference will and should ba judged by the governments and the public on its merits." , tions of Illinois and Missouri. The homeless total in the entire area was well above the 100,000 mark and the damage to crop and properly by the floods reach ed staggering figures, losses run ning into the millions of dollars. The number of dead was 14 eight in Indiana; 3 in Missouri; 2 in Oklahoma, and 1 in Illinois, Thousands , of soldiers were in, the flood zone and were aided by 25,000 civilian defense volun teers. "-' ' -' . i - - Levees Reinforced Lt. Col. J. A. Adams, deputy army district engineer at St. Louis, said today that everything possible had been done to meet the dangers of the rising Missis sippi from Alton southward 100 miles. He said the Claryville seawall in Perry county, Mo had been reinforced and com pleted, as had other levees along (Continued on Page Two) t