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PAGE TWO 1 (Continued From Paso .One) and other issues but made no recommendations. Meanwhile, some .1000 miners returned to work in Pennsyl vania yesterday, and another 3000 voted to return to their jobs today or Monday. James Mark, president of United Mine Workers district No. 2, predict ed all central Pennsylvania coal fields would be in operation by Monday. One Strike One new strike developed near Pittsburgh, with a walkout of 360 men over a grievance dispute Involving four mainten ance men shutting down the Montour No. 10 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal company. The company said the crewmen had been working Sundays and ob jected to their work week being cut to six days. UMW officials promised an early settlement. The mine employes 750. The biggest stoppage in coal production was in Ohio, where 2500 men were out at four mines. Study Report It appeared that decision time finally was at hand in the long and bitter coal wage contro versy. The full WLB started a study of the nel report today and hoped to write a verdict ea'v next week. r But the effect of that decision remains a Question mark. John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers boss, has challended WLB's jur isdiction in the dispute and was reported considering court ac tion to force a resumption of bargaining with the. operators independent of the board. Lewis' aides said that the UMWA chieftain believes the board has violated the national iaDor relations act by ordering proceed under WLB auspices. No Contract The mines, seized by the gov- iinieni aurcng me recent waiK- contract under a retroactive truce due to expire the end of this month. . . William Green, president of the American Federation- of iaoor, aeciarea last mgnt tnat the AFL Intends to stick to its no-strike pledge for the war's duration. Green implied that Lewis' mine workers would be bound by such a pledge If their application for readmlttance to the AFL la granted. It is perfectly obvious we can not preserve capitalism and American democracy without giving full employment with rea sonable wages and reasonable hopes for advancement. C. of C. President Eric Johnston. MOR PICTURE CLOUDED WITH DEVELOPMENTS Ml Young Chiang LKliJLaVi'i Fighting for China like his famed father is artillery Capt. Chiang Wel-kuo, youngest son of the generalissimo. Harold Hendrickson, county juvenile officer; returned Thurs day from Portland where he attended a conference on social work held May. 17 and 18. Hendrickson said that he re ceived several constructive ideas on the social and delinquent problems affecting the teen-age group. While in Portland he also visited the various state and pri vate institutions for the place ment of delinquent and depen dent children. Intensive Air War Dogs Jap Attempts To Supply Bases (Continued From Page One) destroying or damaging seven others, without loss to them selves. The latest in the almost daily series of allied attacks on the en emy airdrome of Gasmata, on South New Britain only a short flight from New Guinea, led to another big action. The small force of raiding Liberators was swarmed upon by 15 Zeros. Four enemy planes were shot down. One allied medium bomber in a group which preceded the Liber ators in the Gasmata raid failed .to get. home. , Fire Destroys Two Seattle Buildings SEATTLE, May 22 (P) Fire destroyed two buildings in the Greenwood business district, north of the city limits, this afternoon and damaged three others. The district's 50-man volunteer fire department . and city equipment and volunteers from other nearby areas con trolled the flames after an hour's fight. Two firemen were injured.. Andy's a doctor of love - And when he meets Ball 0' Fire Esther Williams, he gets his degree the hard way. He learns there's more to the ro mance business than he ever dreamed of in his "vnunper riavs"! - .. . j j LEWIS STONE MICKEY ROONEY CECILIA DADItTD.Uni ncM i rmm.li iiululii ANN RUTHERFORD SARA HADEN LAST SHOWING TONIGHT! 'At the Front in North Africa Alio "Street of Chance" With BURGESS MEREDITH OIT SEEN AS BAR T (Continued From Page One) tions of the various countries, any sort of international center would encounter insuperable obstacles in solving the prob lems facing the movement in each separate country," said the resolution as broadcast from Moscow and recorded by the soviet monitor in London. Differences Seen ("Deep differences of the his toric paths of development of the various countries, differ ences in their character and even contradictions in their so cial orders, differences In the level and the tempo of their economic and political develop ment, differences finally in the degree of consciousness and or ganization of workers condi tioned different problems affect ing the working class of the va rious countries. ("The whole development of events In the last quarter of cen tury and the experience accu mulated by the Communist In ternational convincingly showed that the organizational form of uniting the workers, chosen by the first congress of the Com munist International answered conditions of the first stages of the working class movement but it has been outgrown by the growth of this movement and by the complications of its prob lems in the separate countries and has even become a drag on further strengthening of the na tional working class parties"). War Duty Told The executive committee said the current duty of .the broad masses of peoples throughout the world was to give all possi ble support to the war efforts of their particular governments. It declared that the workers in the occupied countries should make it their main activity to develop the armed struggle against Hitler. - This general mobilization of the masses for early victory over the common enemy, it con tinued, would be more produc tive when carried out indepen dently, by the various move ments on nationalistic lines. , This is one lesson of the war .Which has brought broad masses of the people together regard less of party . and religion, it added. The resolution said that the seventh congress of the Com munistic International in 1935 took into consideration the changes that have taken place in international life when it re quested greater mobility and independence on behalf of the various movements throughout the world. It said the executive commit tee was led by the same ideas when It accepted and approved psychology!...... - G-M'S NEWEST "HARDY" - HIT! i ' II M , III: t l ' l Was. I , '- MICKEY'S . " ' MEW A' AY BALL r : "RE HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Germany's Mohne ' 'f iff , fiiJt 'j!i tm :nmTi..'.'lAk Du to skillful bombing by Brltlih filers, th Ruhr villty, Germany's moit important Industrial centar, had more supply than demand as iar at water, was conctrntd alter the RAF'i four-motortd bombart dropped mines on Mohne dam, earning the breach, shown abova, and crippling many of the retch's war industries. Eder dam was alio knocked out, flooding the vallay and causing heavy damage, which even the Germans admitted. Team Competition Starts at fteames Golf Club Course Team play on a regular basis for the summer will be started at the Reames Golf and Country club Sunday. Eight teams have been formed, and each member will -play 18 holes a week. Scores will be turned into the captains of the teams. The captains will total the scores of their teams and subtract the total from the mem bers' handicaps, giving a medal score for each team. . Members of a team can play with whomsoever they wish, Speedy RAF Bombers Zoom to Attack Reich Capital (Continued From Page One) against a lone raider apparently nothing happened in the metro politan area. Nazi fighter-bombers flitted across the southeast coast on two occasions during the night. It was announced one raider was brought down and that bombs caused some damage and casualties. Big Load Dropped The eighth U. S. air force said yesterday's mid-day assault on Emden and Wilheimshaven, Germany's North sea naval bases, "were pressed home and a large weight of bombs" drop ped "despite very strong enemy fighter opposition and intense flak." The four-englned heavy bomb ers flew unescorted and 12 failed to return. The communi que said many enemy fighters were destroyed. the decision of the communist party of the United States in November, 1940, to withdraw from the ranks of the international. Pv nmugc I IS -J VA-T X 1jTf'J"S Dam Ripped by RAF provided they turn In their scores. The first competition, set for the week beginning May 23, is to be as follows: Automotive versus Weyer haeuser. Bankers versus Lumbermen. Doctors versus merchants. Grocers versus insurance. A full list of members of the different teams will appear on the sports page Monday. OBITUARY- ELVA WHEELER CARLETON Elva Wheeler Carlton, for the last thirty seven years a resident of Klamath County, Ore., passed away at her late residence near Merrill, Ore., on Friday, May 21, 1943 at 1 p. m. following an ex tended illness. She was a native of Albany, Ore., and at the time of her death was aged 65 years, 11 months and 4 days. Surviving are: her husband; George Her bert Carleton of Merrill, Oregon, a son, Alfred C. Carleton; two brothers, Richmond Wheeler of Berkeley, California, and Burt Wheeler of Mitchell, Oregon; two sisters, Mrs. S. O. Newberry of Pendleton, Oregon; and Mrs. C. H. Olds of Lone Pine, California; and one grandson. The remains rest in the Earl Whitlock Funeral Home, Pine Street at Sixth. No tice of funeral to be announced later. The family with an Income of $40 a week which goes on spend ing $45 week after week will fall apart sooner or later cither In the divorce courts or by some other means. The same .thing holds true in war production: the allowable demands must not ex ceed the supply. WPB Vice Chairman William L. Batt. "JUy jstna more mak ".s:i ALLIES BAG 285 PLAIMESOVER 11! (Conl limed From Tuga One) rosiios in iitlnoks ycstiuiiiiy on Selnuai mid Ciislolvotiiiiu) air fields in Sicily, Hut voiiiiiuiiiiquv said. Heavy Force What was termed officially as a "heavy force" of 1117 Fly ing Fort reuse led ycsU'riiny's onslaught by blasting the Cu.i tolvetrimo alrdrumv In western Sicily, The bombers found ' the field fairly well covered Willi axis planes uml dropped a string of bombs across the dispersal areas mid on bulltiliiKS, Three .slx-oiiginecl Morseliuru 323 transport planes wero set afire and a gun battery received a direct hit. Aerial Bombs Uied The Fortresses a n (I P-3D Lightning fighters were attack ed Just when' they wore, leav ing the target by about 23 Focko-Wulf-lBOs and Mcsscr-schmltt-lOOs which flow out of the sun. Some of the attackers dropped aerial bombs among the formation of American planes. It was the first time the Germans were reported to have employed aerial bombs dropped from fighters to ex II xgtgjsjgjggg m annum STARTS SUNDAY Continuous Shows Starting at llOO P. M. A Raging Terror Out of the Past . . . In This Smashing Drama of The Southwest -RPE AGA,N! SLl g Spreston foster rrJ I, VpKtfar ELLEN DREW trTioni9ht Wm. HENRY D End" 9 -JpiUndy DEVINE J "HW.I-.f fflMyijS Paramount pklurt Ji and "Member" DISNEY COLOR CARTOON f5iiPvis7dNs plode ninnngl Hilled planes In the air In the North African theatre. Rising Waters Force Women to Flee Illinois Town (Continued From Puuo One) the Mississippi on both the Illi nois and Missouri sides, In St. Louis tha river stago last night wus 37.3 feel, with a crest of 38 font predicted for today or to morrow. That would equal tho second all-time crest, tho 1003 3U-foot level being exceeded only by the record 41.2 level in 1844. A "grave" situation was re ported early today In Beurds town, lit., as the Illinois river resumed its rampugo Into yester day after falling earlier. Sol diers, among tho 700 In tho area, aided townspeople in preparing lo cvacuato their homes as the flood-swollen stream Inched up to tho top of the 27.0 foot mile long seawall and threatened the town of 0500, An additional 2000 soldiers were being sent into the. area from Fort Sheridan, 111, Another aroa described as. "critical" by Co!. R. 15. M. Do slsleU'of the U. S. engineer corps at St, Louis was tho St. Charles (Mo.) district, whero dnmago al ready was extensive Ho said if tho three remaining levees In the area county fireworks, gumbo and monarch would hold, much Miniaim sijtastaay 'rttiHT'i'""' u LATEST NEWS EVENTS ENDS TODAY "MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY" News and March of Time May 22, 10.13 of the damage would bo ru. moved. Otherwise, no acmed, iiui city of St. Charles and addition al r ii mi lutids would be undeiaa water. Moro than lOO.tlUtl aereln of land were Inundated, damaiio was estimated at mure than ;),. 000,000 and between 300 and 4110 were homeless. 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