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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. .
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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 ..')':;-.'
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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
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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
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DEVELOPMENTS
WLB Panel Discusses
All Phases of
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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,
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"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
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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
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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.
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9000" Fail to Report
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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
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New York 7 10
' Krlst, Murigcr (9) and Odea;
Wittlg, Adams (8), Feldman (9)
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Cincinnati 2 9 0
Brooklyn : 5 7. 0
Walters, Shoun (2), Stone (7),
Huesser (8), and Mueller; New
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Muncrlef (9) : and
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 .
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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
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