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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1943
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By FRANK JENKINS
.A NOTIIER dny when about all
, wo can do In to watch the
flotsam on tlio flood-stream of
tho news and try to iiiichh (mm It
what Is happening or likely to
happen.
TN our guessing, however, wc
. mtiat keep this always In mind:
When, in an ordinary flood,
wo see a hen flouting past, wo
are Justified in assuming that
Homebody's chicken houso ha
been floated out. In thin case
wo hnvo to remember that some
body may have thrown tho hen
Into tho stream to fool us.
: Fooling the other fellow It
Ono of war's prime strategics.
'"THREE hundred American
bombers blast the Italian Is
land of Sardinia, That's quite
striking- force. When 30U
bombers go out, you may bo
quite ture It ISN'T just to get the
view.
Sardinia la an advanced out
post that must be taken before
Europe can ba successfully in
vaded from across the Mediter
ranean, Also It Is a bombor and sub
marine base that must be re
moved before the Mediterranean
tea route can be safe (or our
ahlpplng.
ITALY la plenty seared. Swiss
dispatches today toll of bomb
rlnzed refugees from the far south
Gflooing northward.
f The British radio says Crown
Prince Umbcrto is warning the
Italians they're short of arms
and must throw a 1 1 their
"spiritual and physical strength
Into the struggle."
tMAGINE, for a moment, lhat
you're an Italian, having no
gun At all or maybe only an old
blunderbuss, but taking your
crown prince at his word and
going out to pit your "spiritual
and physical" strength against
n opponent who is hung with
modern weapons like a Christ
mas tree.
You wouldn't be too happy
ever the prospect.
CTOCKHOLM (another rumor
factory) says the Germans are
frantically building invasion
d-alls in Norway.
More significant, perhaps, tho
nazi press and radio have" been
bragging for months about the
vastness and the (alleged) Impreg
nability of tho German Invasion
wall which, tho boast goes, is
already "200 kilometers longer
than the Great Walls of China"
and of greater depth; "tho great
est building project since tho
Pyramids" Gocbbcls' propagand
ists shout.
.
T ET'S sec.
Wasn't it Sophocles who said:
"It's men, not walls, that make
a slato?"
.
ANYWAY, tho Great Wall of
China was breached and
China was overrun,'
' Tho fortified castles of tho
robber barons of tho Rhino were
Ultimately smashed and the rob
Tier barons thcmsolvcs dragged
forth to meet the fato thoy so
richly deserved,
JJISTORY tolls us there Is no
greater or moro dangerous
delusion than tho "safety behind
fortified walls" Idea that at re
curring Intervals down through
tho centuries has taken posses
sion of people's minds.
If you aro Inclined to doubt,
remember France, sitting In
fancied security behind her
Maginot line.
. Look at Franco now.
QUR navy tolls us today that
five of tho 18 Jap bombers
that flow against us at Attn Sun
day night were shot down and
deven moro were probably do
iroyed. Tho remaining four
streaked It westward at top
speed after the fight.
Six of our P-3fls did tho Job.
U7HATEVER mistakes havo
. boon mado In our conduct of
the Pacific war, none of -thorn
(Continued on Tago Two)
War Production
Halts as Akron
Rubber Men Idle
AKRON, O.. May 25 (P) The war labor board today urged
49,000 Idle employes of Akron's three major rubber companies
to and a production stoppage resulting from a WLB wage de
cision, and union leaders meanwhile called a special session of
the CIO United Rubber Workers' international executive board.
By The Associated Press
Strike-inflicted idleness halted war production by three
major rubber companies in Akron today, and Baltimore transit
workers who laid off to attend a union meeting threw a heavy
additional burden on that .city's transportation system, already
taxed by the eastern gasoline crisis.
In Alabama, however, an agreement was reached to end an
eight-mine walkout In protest against fines levied for work
'stoppages last month.
EIRE .
PLANKAT AnU
Seven Bombers Listed
As "Probably
Destroyed"
WASHINGTON, May 25 (P)
The navy reported today that
seven out of 10 Japanese twin
engine bombers which had ven
tured Into the Attu battle area
Sunday were "probably destroy
ed," in addition to five original
ly reported as "definitely de
stroyed." i )
Amplifying yesterday's report
on the air fight which occurred
over the western' Aleutian Island
when six. army Lightning fight
ers intercepted the bomber for
mation, a navy communique de
clared that the remaining four
enemy bombers which were ap
parently unharmed fled to . the
west without doing any damage
to American ships or positions.
Continue Advance
The communique, number 389,
said:
"North Pacific:
"1. On May 23rd:
"(A) United Stales army forces
continued to advance and exert
pressure on Japanese forces on
Attu, despite sleet, snow, and
rain which handicapped opera
tions. "(B) Further details received
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OPA Sticks to
Guns Through
Denunciations
WASHINGTON, May 25 (IP)
Tho high command of tho office
of price administration stuck to
Its guns today through a bom
bardment of denunciation from
businessmen, Internal disputes,
and proposals that it be stripped
of its food pricing and rationing
lo wer.
Back on the Job after a minor
operation, Administrator Pren
tiss M. Brown defended his
agency's $400,000,000 federal
subsidy program to cut the price
of meat, butter and coffco by
10 per cent at a closed hearing
of tho house appropriations com
mlltoo yesterday.
Brown, seeking funds for the
next fiscal year, supported OPA's
system of communlty-wido dol-lars-and-conts
price ceilings on
foodstuffs, r system which was
being roundly denounced In two
other sessions on capltol hill. ,
Churchill Hinis Invitation to Italy
To Expell Nazis; Make Separate Peace
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, May 25 (IP)
Primo Minister Churchill, view
ing the-tide of war as indisput
ably having turned to the United
Nations, In effect today invited
the Italian people to throw out
tho iiHzis and fascists and make
a separate peace.
Taking over a prcsldontlat
press conference at tho White
House at which ho also spoke, of
good conclusions having been
reached on prosecuting tho War
In tho Paolfic with tho greatest
vigor, ho had this to say of tho
war-weary Italians:
Rid of Leaders
They would bo very well ad
vised to get rid of their leaders
and throw themselves on the
Protest WLB
The rubber strike, protesting
a war labor board decision, left
40,000 workers idle in tho face
of a war department demand
for resumption of war produc
tion. Affected were plants of
the Goodyear Tiro and Rubber
company, B.' F. Goodrich com
pany and the Firestone Tiro and
Rubber company, all of which
are engugod in the manufacture
of war materials.
The CIO United Rubber Work
ers union blamed the strike In
newspaper advertisements on a
"lack of confidence in the fair
ness and impartiality of the
WLB" which pared to three
cents an hour panel recom
mendation of an elght-ccnt-an-hour
wago increase.
Demand Return
James P. Mitchell, Industrial
personnel director of the army
service forcos, voiced the demand
for a return to work in; a tele
gram to Sherman H. Palrymple.
union president, asserting that
the work stoppage, "in violation
of your non-strike agreement has
caused grave concern to the war
department" and' added that
"every moment lost Jeopardizes
the health and safety of our
armed forces." 1
Tightly-formed picket lines
again stopped workers reporting
at Goodyear's No. 1 plant, but
there was no recurrence of the
fist fights that halted a back-to-work
movement yesterday after
noon. Transit Strike
In Baltimore A. H. Keelor, In
ternational representative of the
AFL affiliated Amalgamated As
sociation of Street, Elecfrlc Rail
way and Motor Coach Employes,
said there was no strike Just a
union meeting. , ;
A spokesman for the Balti
more Transit company estimated
80 per cent of the concern's
street cars and buses still were
operating but added that the
lines most seriously affected
were those serving the Bcthle-hcm-Falrfield
and Bethlehem
Sparrows Point shipyards.
WLB Refuses
Wage Increase
To Coal Miners
WASHINGTON, May 25 (IP)
The war labor board refused to
day to grant a basic wage in
crease to the nation's 450,000
soft coal miners, but recom
mended some other concessions
and tossed the portal-to-portal
pay Issue back into collective
bargaining with the understand
ing it would approve any rea
sonable sum agreed upon. .
Portal-to-portal pay covers un
derground travel time as well as
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justice of thoso they have so
greatly offended.
' All wo can do, Churchill add
ed, Is apply tho physical stimuli
-and he Intimated that . he
meant continued bombings.
While he said It seemed to be
a good idea to give 24 hour serv
ice on bombing raids on the con
tinent, tho prime minister made
it clear that he has no thought
that other' methods of forcing
the foe Into submission should
be neglected meantime.
The United States and Great
Britain, are achieving superior
ity In plane production and in
tend to use it.. . He said he
thought It was a matter of poetic
justice that tills superiority was1
being attained with a weapon
USS Oklahoma, Pearl Harbor Victim,. Brought to Surface
The U. S. battleship Oklahoma's days are not' yet over. Blasted, with IB other Teasels, in the
Jap-attack on Pearl Harbor, the big battlewagon overturned with a large percentage of her crew
aboard. Now, after months of arduous salvage work, the vessel is shown as she was righted. She
la expected to sail again under her own power. Official U. 8. navy photo. . i
RIVERLEVELS OFF
Mississippi Continues
To Threaten
Missouri
By The Associated Press
' Leveling off of the flood
choked Illinois river at two dan
ger points today cheered ,hbu
sands .of weary-levee workers
and residents of river towns
who were compelled to surren
der their homes to the rising
crests in the last. week.
The Mississippi continued,
howovcr, to threaten further dis
aster to an already flood-stricken
section of Illinois and Mis
souri, The Red Cross at St. Louis
reported that in Missouri, Il
linois, Arkansas, Kansas and
Oklahoma 2,756,000 acres of
land have been flooded. The
homeless were estimated at
160,000. '
The critical area, in the six
state midwest flood zone was
along the 125-mile front of the
Mississippi from St. Louis to
Cape Girardeau, Mo., and along
Boppamllo stretch of the Illinois
from below Peoria, 111., to the
Junction with the Mississippi.
Level Falls
At. Peoria where the. Illinois
river forced closing of several
large industrial plants, the level
fell .22 of a foot from the crest
to a depth of 28.60 feet. . The
levee near the huge Caterpillar
tractor plant, where work on
war machinery was halted, was
holding and no serious trouble
was expected.
The situation remained seri
ous, however, at the south end
of Peoria where a sewage dis
posal plant was menaced. An
alarm was sent out last night
for 600 more men to bolster the
levee. The office of civilian de-
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Baseball
Hollywood 4 7'0
San Diego 2 7 , 0
Joiner, Younkors (10) and
Brenzel; Chapel, Johnson (10)
and Salkcld, Ballingcr (10).
which the enemy choso to- sub
jugate the world.
.. President- .Roosevelt, after
speaking to the press briefly of
flood-food and farm machinery
problems at home, turned his
press conference over to tho
prime . minister. Ho said he
thought exceedingly good pro
gress Is being made in taking up
the problems of global warfare
and, at the conclusion of the con
ference, he said the talks With
Churchill still were continuing.
! The prime minister, contrast
ing the status of the allied war
effort now with that when he
was last in Washington, recalled
that In Juno of 1042 tho presi
dent had given him the news of
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Sailor Asks
Fair Question
WASHINGTON, 'May' 25
(IP) A young sailor sudden
ly interrupted debate . in the
house on the anti-poll tax to
day when he stepped out on
a gallery ledge and in a tense
voice asked: - -
"Why should a man have
to pay a tax to vote?".
Representative Bulwlnkle
(D-N.C.) who, was, presiding,
rapped for order arid gallery
attendants moved down to
the sailor's perilous perch
close to.tiic-edge vqf the rail
and 20 feet above the house
floor, :. ':'-! . ; i ,
"I'll gp quietly,"' he said,
as he was grappled from- all
sides by gallery doorkeepers
and police and drawn back.
Later the sailor, said he
was Evan Owen Jones Jr., 21,
of Los Angeles, had been "in
and out of port most of the
time for the last two years,"
and was a veteran Of the bat
tle of Singapore.
"You don't have to pay to
fight, why should you have
to pay to vote?" the youth
shouted before capitol police
ejected him. .
War Prisoner
Labor May Be
Used in Klamath
Italian war prisoners maybe
brought to Klamath county this
season to. assist in meeting the
farm labor shortage. . ' - -'
County Agent C. A. Henderson
disclosed Tuesday that Inquiry
about the possibility of getting
the Italian prisoners has been
initiated through the county war
board and farm labor committee.
.War prisoners are being used
in various parts of the country
for work. The local groups in
dicated, they do not want Ger
man prisoners here, but are in-
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Klamath Business
Houses to Close
Memorial Day
"Klamath Falls business houses
will close Monday in observance
of Memorial Day, the retail
trade bureau decided in a meet
ing at the chamber of commerce
offices this morning.
Although- there will be gen
eral closure in the business dis
trict, the Red Cross surgical
dressing production room will
operate as usual, Red Cross of
ficials announced. Men's class
will be held Monday night.
. The war, they said, will not
stop for tho holiday.
Special Election
To Be Set for
Englebright Post
SACRAMENTO, May 25 (IP)
A date for a special election to
fill the second California house
of representatives seat made va
cant by the recent death of Rep
resentative Harry L. Engle
bright, republican whip, will bo
set within the next few days,
Governor Earl Warren , said to
day. ..... .. ..- ,. . , ..
FORGESHACK LINES
Ground Act i on Lull
' Significantly
Unbroken
.sSl- By EDDY GILMOfcEv-''
: MOSCOW, May 25 '(Ft AX
though 'sporadic artillery ' fire
and scouting was Reported along
some sectors of the Russian
front today, the significant ' lull
which hns prevailed generally
remained unbroken and the air
war continued to be the battle
of the moment.
Both the German and soviet
ground and air forces were
hacking away at transport and
communication facilities but it
was obvious that the opposing
armies were getting large quan
tities' of supplies through to
strategic sectors in preparation
for the summer campaign.
Holds Lines
The red. army held stubborn
ly to newly won lines west of
the Donets river near Lisichansk
and northeast of Novorossisk In
the Kuban, but there have been
no major changes along the
long front in days.
Renewed reconnaissance in
dicated that the commanders on
both sides had ordered constant
scouting against the possibility
of a surprise major assault, but
the chance of catching either
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Record Spud Crop ', ,
Two-Thirds Planted
Klamath's record potato plant
ing is two-thirds completed,
County Agent C. A. Henderson
reported today.' Potatoes plant
ed in the early planting period
are already coming up.
Henderson said that . recent
frosts had nipped some of the
early spuds, but they are mak
ing a good recovery. The same,
ho said, is true of grain which
at first appeared damaged by
the frost.
Council Reviews Budget;
Discusses Fourth of July
Starting half an hour early so
that council members could re
view a rough draft of the city
budget after the regular meet
ing before submitting it to the
budget committee later this
week, the city fathers met in
regular session Monday night
with Mayor John Houston, back
from the east, presiding.
Discussion of Fourth of July
plans came up first thing. O. D.
Matthews, chairman of the
rodeo committee, : said that a
rodeo was being planned for
the celebration and a dance or
possibly two would be held.
There will be no carnival this
year, however.
Proceeds to Commandos
Mayor Houston asked the
council what it thought of turn
ing over proceeds from the
dances to the Commandos in
view of their wounded soldier
plan which has brought favor
able publicity to the city, as
300 U.S. Airplanes
Storm at Italian
"Stepping Stone"
By DANIEL DE LUCE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 25 VP)
The allies bludgeoned the Italian island of Sardinia with their
big stick their air power yesterday, sending more than 300
American planes to attack nine important defense targets on that
stepping stone to Italy. .......
Bomb-pitted Pantelleria, the little fortified island 45 miles off
Cap Bon which was under almost continuous, attack much' of
Sunday and Sunday night was raided again Monday by American ,
fighter bombers in the steady-
air offensive against the axis'
southern front.
Twelve enemy aircraft were
destroyed in combat during
these operations of the past 24
hours, and it was officially stat
ed that an unestimated number
of others were wrecked on the
ground.
Big Total
(This brought the number of
destroyed axis aircraft in the
last six days to at least 329 as
a result of operations by the
northwest African, Cairo and
Malta air forces).
" Waves of Flying Fortresses,
Marauders, Mitchells,' Light
nings and War Hawks roared
over Sardinia where German
troops were 'announced yester
day by Berlin to have landed.
The "planes unleashed a merci
less stprm of bombs and dealt
their heaviest blows to this vital
axis base west of the Italian
mainland.
Airfields Suffer
Docks, shipping and airfields
buffered heavily. One supply
ship -exploded four small ves
sels were sunk' and seven others
damaged by the' c a icitfiof
bomb hits.
: . The Americans lost only three
planes - during the Sardinian
sweeps.
The present, allied air . offen
sive,' unlike the German air
force's attempts to -neutralize
the British fortress island of
Malta last year when Marshal
Erwin Rommel was pressing to
ward the Nile, maintained its
full, striking power with negli
gible .cost, . taking full advan
tage of the Fortresses' ability
to carry out high level precision
bombing while defending them
selves. Fires Seen
Fires visible for 50 miles
blazed from Terranova harbor
on the northeast coast of Sar
dinia when the f our-engined
bombers hit dock installations,
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Government Asks . ,;
Judgement Against
Associated Press
NEW YORK, May 25 W5) In
ahti - trust procedure without
precedent, the government today
asked federal court for summary
judgment against The Associated
Press without the taking of tes
timony by witnesses in open
court trial. .
The motion was made in a
civil suit pending before a spe
cial three-judge court. It seeks
an injunction which would re
quire The Associated Press to
furnish its news and picture
services to any newspaper will
ing to bear, its proportionate
share of the cost of gathering
news.
well as being a' worthy project
in general.
- A. H. Bussman said that since
the city . hospitality committee
pays 'the standing expenses of
the Commandos, perhaps they
should receive the' receipts and
the Commandos could get the
money from this committee as
they needcd.it.
Favor Plan
: After further discussion the
city fathers went. on. record as
favoring giving ' the money
either to the hospitality com
mittee or the Commandos,
whichever the rodeo association
decided. , .
Members of the . appraisal
committee were appointed by
Mayor Houston. They were W.
O. Smith,. Frank Weaver and
Police Judge Harold Franey. A.
H. Bussman said that he thought
a member of the council should
be on that committee inasmuch
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NIPPOSflJIUO
Fires Kindled Among
Parked Japanese
- - Aircraft "'''-'
"ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, May 25 .
Heavyweights of the allied aerial
force teamed up yesterday in a
major blow at the strong Japan
ese base at Rabaul, New Britain.
Towering fires were kindled
among parked aircraft by the IS
tons or more of explosives and
incendiaries dropped by succes
sive flights of Flying Fortressest
and Liberators. Returning pilots
said the' glare of the flames still
could be seen 30 minutes later
when they were 100 miles away..
' - Powerful Position
Rabaul.locatecT iort- -Blanchu
bay at the northern tip of New'
Britain, has been described as
the most, powerful Japanese1
stronghold, next to the key naval
base at Truk, in that sector of :
the southwest Pacific.
Reconnaissance ' planes ' had
spotted what was described by a
spokesman at General MacArth
ur's headquarters as a large, con-,
contra tion of enemy medium,
bombers and fighters at Rabaul. '
Flying Fortresses struck first,
shortly after midnight.. They re
mained over the target area 45.,
minutes. Twenty minutes after
the B-17's had departed, the Lib
erators reached the target, area
and bombed it for a half hour.;
Telegrams Ask '
Aid to Prevent ,
OP A Transfer ;
Telegrams went from here last
night to Senator Charles L. Mc-'
Nary and Congressman Lowell '
Stockman, asking them to do
what they could to prevent
transfer of Siskiyou and Modoc .
counties, California, from the ;
Klamath Fails to the Sacramento
district office of the OP A.
i Secretary- Earl C. Reynolds
of the chamber of commerce said '
that Siskiyou and Modoc- coun
ties are closely related to Klam
ath Falls geographically, eco
nomically and by transportation ,
lines, and are a logical part of '
an . administrative unit headed 1
here.
He added that there have been f
reports reaching here that Call- I
fornla senators and congressmen ;
had objected to having parts of j
California administered by tho '
OPA from headquarters putsido !
California. j
SACRAMENTO, .May 25 W) ;
James J. Boyle, regional director ;
of the OPA, announced here to-
day that six counties had been
added to his district and that !
parts-of four more are also under '
tho jurisdiction of the Sacramen-
to office now. . i
Navy Lists Local
Men as Prisoners
.; i - - ' j
Included In the Navy depart- !
ment's prisoner list No. 2, re- i
leased today; containing names j
of 952 Marine corps personnel i
held as prisoners of war by the
Japanese, was Platoon Sgt.
Ernest Chester McVlttle, whose ;
step-father, B. C. Johnson, is a ;
resident of Klamath Falls, and ,
Cpl. Albert Jacob, who is the 1
son of Mrs. Ruth Bcllus of Lake- I
view. , , i . , j
The list, according to The As- !
soclatcd Press dispatch brings
the total of Marine corps and
Navy prisoners of war to 3256, ,