FA'GE TWO T FOOTHOLD ON (Continued From Page One) carried out by combined units from both the northern and outhern forces In the island and authorities here believe that once the high command is taken the Japanese position would en tirely collapse. Overlooks Attu The ground overlooks the area In which the village of Attu formerly was located. The vil lage consisted of a few buildings and a church. A few days ago, the navy re ported that all the structures ex cept one building and the church have been destroyed. Apparent ly the destruction which resulted in today's official report that all have now been wiped out was centered on the church and the lone unidentified building, both of which were used by the enemy. Stimson said in his discussion that the army troops on Attu are making steady progress, with heavy enemy losses. . Clear weather would greatly accelerate the operations, Stim son said. For the past week the troops have pushed their way forward gradually through sleet and snow, while fog has impeded air support operations. Much of the fighting has been by small patrols using bayonets and hand grenades to seize the passes in the hills. ; Lady Lookouts Watch for Fires In West's Forests (Continued From Page One) . take the Chase mountain assign ment six' miles .southwest' of Keno. The three are prepared to go at any time. Roads lead to the top of each of the three isolated areas. There is plenty of snow In the mountain country but the last few days of warm weather have probably cleared much of it away. , - , . Radio exams were given the three by 'William Sanders of Salens radio technician with the state board of forestry. ' Primary Duty v Primary duty of women in the Klamath forests is to serve as lookout-firemen." They will not be called upon to fight fires, but they will detect smoke and fire and call in this information. Accompanying Mrs. Thompson, second and third grade teacher at Riverside, will be her hus band who is to be the warden. Over in Fremont national for est, Mrs. Earl Small of Silver Lake has been assigned to the Rodman Rock lookout, located north of Yamsay mountain on the Silver Lake ranger district .. High School Help Most of the lookout points and guard .stations will be occupied by high school boys. However, if some of the young men fail to show up, you can bet your bottom dollar that one of the girls will step into slacks and turn out a neat piece of work when it comes to detection. Chas ing of- smoke and. fighting fire is considered too strenuous for women, and that is probably the only reason that the forest ser- FOR RENT OFFICE SPACE Front Rooms Facing Main St., Between 71h and 8th DREW'S MANSTORE 733 Main DANCE EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT ARMORY Muile by . Baldy's Band Dancing 9 Till 1 Admission: Woman, 11c Tax 8s Total 20c Men, 90c Tax 9c, Total 99c Service Men, SOc, Tax Se Total B5e Doori Opan at 8:45 HOOPS GRAB SOUTH Hit vice is still calling on the men. Supplies are replenished fre quently, in some areas every two or three days, In others every week or two, depending on the area. The rangers will even see that the girls get plenty of fresh water, their mail, and green vegetables. With all the worries and re sponsibilities accompanying this job, there's one thing the Lady Firemen won t have to worry about And that's nylon stock ings! ST. PAUL, May 27 W WAACs, WAVES, SPARS, WOWS, may be joined by the FLAMES, if the suggestion made by H. G. Weber, director of the division of forestry pre vails. I women ot norinern Minnesota have responded so well to the call for volunteer forest fire fighters that a special branch was suggested by Weber to be called the forest ladies auxiliary to men's emergency services. "FLAMES will assume the re sponsibilities of fire fighters called to war," said Weber. "As members of the FLAMES, they will be trained for emergency duty on the fire line should the need arise." Echer Paroled After Telling Shooting Story (Continued From Page One) bard in the leg at a house on Worden street in an argument in which the participants alleg edly were intoxicated. After the Worden street shooting, Echer fled in an auto mobile with police following, it was recounted in court by Dis trict Attorney L. O. Sisemore. Echer, himself, was shot by Assistant Police Chief Orville Hamilton at the time of his ar rest after the automobile chase. It was stated by authorities then that Hamilton shot when Echer lowered his hands after getting out of the car. Echtr't Story Echer, however, told the court that he came out with his hands up and kept them up until one of the officers called him a name and hit him in the face with the butt of a gun. If he dropped his hands, he said, it was then. He said he was shot in the back at that moment. Sisemore said four officers were on hand at the time and Hamilton was behind Echer when the latter allegedly drop ped his hands. Echer has been in the hospital until recently. Fighter Planes ' ' June Objective For Bond Drive (Continued From Page One) of the Lions club drive in June for tha purchase of a Flying Fortress. It was announced that Polack Brothers circus, here June 3 to 6, will cive street shows to help put over the bond campaign. Ronald Hayes of tne faprecKeis company was the main speaker nf the meeting, and eave Kiwan- ians a comprehensive picture of tne sugar situation aner a year of rationing. He told of sugar's jrftal nlnrp In the war effort both at home and on the battle fronts, and said that present fac tors point to a tightening of the PELICAN W ..laiana 1 . V- " .r-. HELD OVER!- MVH BATTLE RAGES FOR NAZI-HELD KUBAN REG (Continued From Page One) area northeast of Novorosslsk, with a loss of 20 soviet planes. Planes Lost A DNB dispatch broadcast frnm Rorlin later declared, how ever, that 63 Russian planes were shot down yesterday against tne ln nf rivD German aircraft. The high command communique, recorded by The Associatea Press, said violent Russian at tacks against the eastern sector of the Kuban bridgehead were repelled by a counterattack. Tho Rprman radio asserted 400 niiuinni hnH hern killed and flOO captured in fighting near Tem- ryuk, but acknowleagea tnat the Russians had regrouped their forces and that heavier fighting was in prospect. The Germans, too. issued with heavy Russian attacks that dent ed scouting activity south of Staraya Russa. Nails Withdraw The Germans said their troops were forced to withdraw temp orarily from the main defense line below Velikie Lukl but that a counterattack reestablished the position. Velikie Lukl is 270 miles west of Moscow and 90 miles from the Latvian border. The Germans also declared a soviet scouting party had invad ed their lines south of Staraya Russa before being repulsed. Staraya Russa is 285 miles north west of Moscow and 140 miles south and slightly east of Lenin grad. The noon communique, record ed by the soviet radio monitor here, made no mention of the Caucasus fighting and gave no confirmation of the German claims of the fighting in the north. It detailed a series of German thrusts, in one of which a party of. 50 German scouts managed to cross the northern Donets river south of Balakleya, only to be surrounded and cut down. sugar supply situation domesti cally this fall. Ralph Foster, KUHS senior who won the Kiwanis . trophy, was a special guest. ENDS TODAY 'It Comes Up Love Dr. Renault's Sacraf !evaf1 tV2 SATURDAY MIDNIGHT TOMORROWS C ROY ROGERS ll v at-PTr Admlialen I II 1 . m . .a II kl--1 fi. M. Children.. U, -fM I II I II . I I 1 Vf HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON British, U. S. Agree on Next War Operation (Continued From Page One) ended In complete agreement on future operations In all theatres of the war." Originally Churchill and the president had planned a Joint statement but the White House said they had agreed today to change that arrangement and let Mr. Roosevelt speak alone. His brief declaration naturally gave no tip on what decisions were reached or where or when the next heavy blows might bo delivered against the enemy. RUBBER STRIKES (Continued From page One) 50 per cent of the force was on the job. A company spokesman who de clined use of his name said about 2000 reported at the beginning of the first shift at Goodyear, and others straggled Into the plants for several hours. General Tire & Rubber company reported a full working force on the job. MMting Starts Return Only a few employes entered the Goodrich gates until after a 10 a. m. meeting of the com pany's day shift workers. George H. Bass, president of the Good rich local, announced the men decided to resume production at once. The meeting also approved a June 16 deadline for reconsid eration by the war labor board of a wage decision that touched off the stoppage. Union leaders said they ex pected full shifts to report at 2 p. m. at all four plants. A Goodyear spokesman indicated that normal operations could not be resumed immediately, how ever, asserting it would take "all day and a good part of tomorrow to balance up production." After urging Goodrich work ers to return to their jobs, Bass declared: "I think the strike has achieved the results we wanted the opening of the war labor board wage case. Now we'll wait and see what they'll do with it" There are 62 collegiate, 59 pro fessional and 18 honor fraterni ties in the United States. Martinique has an a r e a of 389 square miles. wnwm wcuiiw TOMORROW Doore Opn 1 :N and 1 141 A LOVE STORY THAT'S MERRY WITH MUSIC! Sevan gorgeow girls . . . running after romanca . . , bring you leva and laughter in a big, big wayl Youll love every Kiss, avery song, vary laugh I tONOHITtl UttUriitgUTtmala Tom' "Tow Ami Til Wotrt Am I Tulip Tim IT'S A SWHTHf ART Of A PICTURE I Vaa H.SIn, vofad ami w Kittm Vh Mirthi GRAYSON HEFLIN HUNT KCIUAMMU'KSSr KORAN um uwis 1. 1. imit FRANK BORUGE PnXicUoa w! i 1 -mr ) 2f 'WE ARE THE MARINES' ii 1 sasa a aw m jr ww nra i .atsrr ar -.v CAPTAIN HARDING TELLSDF PLANES (Continued From Page One) their ability to coma through on top. After the Yanks got "battle" wise," he said, they can hold up their end with the best of them. Only twice out of all his flights did Harding's Fortresses fail to return to base. Crash Landing The sensational story has al ready been told In this paper about the crasli landing ha made in friendly territory, after his plane was crippled over Blzorte. On that landing, one man was in jured. Several were hurt when an other B-17 flown by the Klam ath man was shot up over Sicily, but was brought back to Africa and set down with the wheels up. When It was remarked that Captain Harding wouldn't be here if both landings had not been in friendly territory, he said: "Probably not, but you can't bo sure. Some of our fellows have walked through to our side after , landing behind enemy lines. One man hiked 30 miles, 13 ot them through a mine field he didn't know about When he was told about those mines. after he got through to us, he was really scared. Flew to Iceland Captain Harding flew part of last summer in Iceland and Greenland, and then moved on to England with the first squad ron of heavy bombers with all American crews to reach that country. He saw his first action over western Europe. Switching to Africa, he was there at the start of the African campaign last fall. Ho raided Italian cities and axis-held points in Africa. Hit One In all of this time, Captain Harding was hit only once. That was in a rest camp far back of the lines. Enemy planes bombed the camp and Harding and about 30 others lay in an irrigation ditch, wishing they were an Inch high. A bomb fragment grazed Harding's hand. "I guess I've had a lot of horseshoes," said the captain. Seat Plate When he Is flying, however, Harding doesn't depend entirely on horseshoes. He always does a little extra armouring him self, clamping a plate under his INOS TONIGHT "KITTY F0YI.I" "COMIN' AROUND THK MOUNTAIN" MEET THE SEVEN SWEETHEARTS It's Rial!.. It'i Trutl THIS II ''ff"x "BILLY" XJv? 4s THII II lil" REGINA ffS Maraha Hunt W THIS II VICTOR WtT THII II Y 11 CORNELIUS ift THII II fttfJS! GEORGE Vfp,W PraneM Rafftrly & WW thii ii . Fnit ALBERT Vst.afy any Moran( & kf THII II , f.A aJXA PETER ItjlTU Oarothy Morris iJl W 2ND BIG HIT . Pock Up Your Troubles! . . est. Ha has known at too many cusps whero something canm through from beneath to bltu mi airmail. Tho Klimmth uliman doesn't smoke, so ho wasn't worried about those vile North African cigarettes Hint wcro sampled horo recently from a supply stmt homo by Lieutenant Jack Llnrih, another Klamnth airman In North Africa. Llncili and Harding, who are close friends, nover got together In North Africa, although they were at ono time only ,10 miles apart. Captain Harding yester day sat down with Gus Llndh, Jack's father, and told hi in nil about North African flying ex periences. Rides Transport When he finally got his leave, Captain Harding enme lo the U. S. on a transport. Ho moved out only two days before Blzorto foil to tho allies, Ho caught plane rides he calls It glorified hitch-hiking across the U. S. to Portland. No braggart, Captain Harding didn't mention In the Interview here that he hud won the Dis tinguished 'Flying Cross and tho Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. He only said ho dl.i played somo decorations ot the right moment to help him catch the necessary rides across tho country to Oregon. With Wile In Klamath Falls, the airman is staying at the home of his wlfes parents, Mr. and Mrs, R. G. Horton, 635 North Eleventh street. His wlfo, the former Margaret Horton, met him In Portland and accomnnn led him to Klamath Falls. His mother, Mrs. C. B. Harding, now lives In Portland. Ho is tho son of the Into C. B. Harding, long time resident engineer of the Great Northern hero. Captain Harding's leave will soon bo up, and he will report for duty the first of the month He doesn't know for certain where ho will bo going, but if it's back Into combat, 'he wants a Flying Fortress along with him. STEEL INDICTMENTS PITTSBURGH. May 27 P- A federal grand Jury late today recommended the United States attorney prepare Indictments against the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation and four env ploycs In connection with Its ln vcstigatlon into charges of sub standard steel having 'been sold the government. Now Doer Optfl Sizzling Adventure! , . Flaming Romance! . . Roaring Comedy! . . ,1 V5 1 R71 11111 ttclal AllllT 'IVHNI DIKKER OVIRMAN "YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL" (Special) COLOR CARTOON NOVELTY NEWS In POLICY WITH COAST LOS ANGELES, Muy 27 (IP) The war relocation authority's policies In hnndllng relocated Pa cific coast Japanese have drawn criticism from a new organiza tion formed here under tho title of Pacific con.it Japanese prob lem conference. A resolution adopted by the confcrcnco ,vcstcrday asserted that the authority has shown toward tho Japancso "great lax ity, and is now in tho process ot nun In scattering them through out the nation under an imprac tical plan of securing employ ment for them under private sponsorship." STOCKTON, Calif., May 27 (A) Roan T. Waring, national commander of tho American Legion, expressed strong critic ism last night of tho war reloca tion authority's hnndllng of the Japanese. "I Ihlnk (he firlnrnl relocation authority is dishonest," he laid at a Legion gathering here. LOS ANGELES, Muy 27 (II Assistant U. S. Attorney Norman Noukom says tho government has complotcd a longthy Investi gation Into ownership of Pacific coast Japanese fishing bouts and Is preparing libel action In un attempt to seize a number of the vessels. Japanese Point Concentrations At Chungking (Continued From Page One) til a few days ago It was sup plied only by lund routes north of tho river exposed to attack by mobile Chinese units. Tho spokesman said, however, that recently Japanese gunboats and launches wormed their way along tho swift, mine-infested waters of the river to Ichang and brought up rafts, Junks and other small craft, some of them carry ing artillery for the land forces. JAPANESE HIT mmm -f " A i : .'I W il F-l ;i J ADDED IUOINI HJT8 PALUTTI . JtjM.il. A May 2T. IMS Captain Harding Will Speak to O Elks Tonight Cantata John Harding, USAf, who ii hore on leavo after a long bundling campaign In Ku ril pe and Africa, win annrraa the Rika lodge tonight at tha lodge session following tha May Juno birthday dinner. Captain Harding talked to tha Klwanli club Thursday noon, Continuance Asked In Titus Trial A motion for continuance o the Titus trial, duo to tho health of tho defendant, has been filed In circuit court by the dnfoms counsel. J. C, O'Neill, defense attorney, asks that the trial, slated to be gin Tuesday, June I, no post poned for a time as Titus' wounds are giving him a good cionl of pain and his health in genorai is not good. A hearing on the continuance motion has been sot for Satur day, May 20, at 10 a. m. In clr cult court V ) Results' show thut, with the war, America got set to go nhniid Instead of going ahead and getting upset. The "D" ration for soldiers consists of three 4-ounca ban of concentrated chocolate. ,-1 awath aa H't u ' tsWaaBaaaaaaalaa Join This Army of Oroo Entorialnon in a l!ar Sparkling Muileol Hill mm Nawi Cartoon Brevity Novelty 1943'i NEW LAUGH HIT! 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