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By FRANK JENKINS
ZONE'S first comment thin
morning, oftor gutting a look
at the now, la opt to bo: "Well,
It han t hupponod YET.
'T'HE goncrnl tenseness of tho
dispatches, tho absence of big'
scale ground or nuviil action, tlio
acarclty of direct report from
well-known correspondents (sun
seating that they muy bo Inelud-
ed In secret, big movements), tho
nervous Inactivity in Russia, etc.,
coupled with tho obvious fact
that NOW IS THE TIME, lend
us outsiders obviously to tho con'
elusion that something of tho ut
most importanco Is in tho wind,
r .
must rcmomber, of course,
that our top leaders know
what's coming and when Bar
ring some well-timed blow by
tho enemy that may upset our
nlons and that keeping know
ledge of Just what's coming and
when from tho enemy Is essential
to the complots success of what
ever operations are planned.
nr"HE battle of Attu, wo are told
' x this morning, Is OVER.
The Japs apparently perished
' to tho last man (except for a few
snipers who still hold out.)
' The Jap radio is telling today
of their Inst "Banzals ' to the env
rarer and their, final ceremonial
bows toward Tokyo and their
(alleged) concluding message;
"We're going into our last fight,
J and only death can take our
weapons from our hands.
;
srvRAMATIC, In the extreme
and maybe good morale stuff
for the pocullor-mlndcd Jap, who
seems to be a sucker for whnl
ever weird and bloody fato his
emperor may have In store for
h m.
OUR , national . psychology Is
different.
Instead of dying uselessly
(after It Is too lato to do anything
else) for our country, our Idea
Is to mako tho OTHER FELLOW
die for his country. ,
Without discounting the
amply-proved fighting ability of
tho Jap, this writer will place
his long-pull bets on the Amer
ican way of doing It,
fXN Saturday night Wupportal,
In the narrow valley of the
' Wuppcr river, leading Into the
Rhino just to the south of tho
Industrial Ruhr valley. Is
smacked by a forco of RAF
bombora that may have num
bcrcd as many as 600 or 700.
Thirty-three woro lost,
Wupportal (not hitherto bomb
ed) is a chemical and roller bear
ing factory center.
. ...
NOTE the evcry-othct-nlght
Sunday night, Tuesday night,
Thursday night, Saturday night.
Each tlmo at a different target,
leaving tho Germans to wondor
whoro next, .
Goorlng's boost that enemy
bombs NEVER WOULD FALL
on German soil must be rather a
ghastly Joke by this tlmo,
...
' nrHIS wrltor, who Isn't for-ocloiis-mlnded,
and gets little
personal satisfaction out of tho
mangling of ANY KIND of hu
man beings, can't escape tho con
viction that constant bombing of
Gormany is a good object lesson
for Germans who, since Na
poleon, haven't scon their coun
try invaded and so liavo come to
think that tho horrors of war are
something that GERMANS In
flict on OTHER PEOPLE.
....
SIRAUD and Do Gaulle got to-
gothor In Algiers and appoint
a seven-man executive commis
sion for tho handling of French
governmental affairs. Alglors,
In effect, becomes the provisional
capital of the Franco that re
mains as a spiritual rather than
I a practical entity,
(Lot's never forgot that the
France that fell In 1940 had been
undermined and eaten out by
the politicians. That's what hap
pens when countries sink to tho
point whoro thoy are governed
by solf-socking. political domn-
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GEN
I
DE GAULLE TD
LEADTRENCH
Navy at Alexandria
Comes Over to
Allies '
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALGIERS, May 31 P) A
seven-man executive committee
was set up today under the Joint
presidency of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle and Gen. Honrl Glraud to
govern liborutcd Frenchmen and
French territory and to direct
tho French war effort until their
homeland Is freed.
The members, In addition to
De Gaulle and Glraud, are Rone
Musslgll and Andre Phlllpe,
who were designated by De
Gaulle; Gen. Alphonse Georges
and Jean Monnet who were
named by Glraud; and Gen.
Goorgos Cotroux, who was ac
cepted by both.
Two Vacancies
Two places wore left vacant
and perhaps they will be filled
by leaders who may arrivo in
tho future.
All those on the committee as
sembled in a secret place In Al
glors. In effect the committee
created itself and, while, the
meeting started only as a session
of a group of men, it ended as the
assembly of France's new gov
erning body., ' ,"' ,i .
, ' Members Told
Catroux, high commissioner
for Syria, la a five-star general
who served as liaison officer be
tween De Gaulle and Glraud In
preliminary negotiations for un
ity. , ,
Georges, tlio western front
commander of French armies be
fore the fall of France, arrived
In . Algiers only recently from
France.
Mosslgll was fighting French
foreign commissioner.
Phlllpe was fighting French
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Survivors Tell
How Sub Sank i
Swedish Ship
MIAMI, Fla., May 31 (AP)
A nazl submarine torpedoed the
Swedish motor ship Industrie
In tho South Atlantic March 23
and took aboard as prisoners
tho three ranking officers of
the neutral vessel, survivors re
ported hero today.
Crew members who described
tho attack said Sweden had pro
tested to Berlin against the vio
lation of her neutrality.
They said the ship was run
ning with navigation lights only
and did not have the Swedish
flag illuminated at the time a
single torpedo' struck, without
warning, In the darkness of
early morning.
But Second Mote Eric Olan
dcr of Brooklyn, N. Y., declared
tho Germans knew full well tho
nationality of tho ship by tho
time they ordered the officers
to board tho submarine. .
7000 Tons of RAF Bombs Blast Nazi
War Industries in Last Week's Raids
LONDON. May 31 UD Sta
tisticians chalked up a new rec
ord today for the RAF as a
rcsumo of operational reports
showed that British fliers had
dumped moro than 7000 tons of
bombs on Germany during' the
past week in tho most furious
aerial offensive In history,
Tho precedent-smashing total
of high explosives was concen
trated on five German Industrial
centers Dortmund, Duessoldorf,
Jena, Essen and Wuppertal, all
of which ore engaged In the pro
duction of materials vital to
Adolf Hitler's war machine.
Wuppertal Latest
Wuppertal, a Ruhr valley city
of 411,000 situated between Es
sen and Duessoldorf, was the
latest to fool tho might of tho
RAF, which unloaded 1500 tons
of bombs on this target Saturday
Successor
r""jkJ"fm "'''firm
X
I J3 x
Judge Fred M. Vinson (above)
of Kentucky was namad eco
nomic stabilisation dlr.ctor. suc
ceeding James F. Byrnes, as
President Roosevelt set up a
new, wer mobilisation board
headed by Byrnas. Vinson also
will be a member of the new
board.
Underground Travel
Issue Baffles
Conferees
PHILADELPHIA, May 31
(AP) Ralph E. Taggart,
spokesman for anthracite op
erators in negotiations with
the United Mine 'workers,
said today he expects that
"developments in Washing
ton" late today will eliminate
the danger oi a strike In the
nation's coal fields tomorrow.
By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS
WASHINGTON, May 31 W
Working against, a midnight
deadline and no certainty that
it will be extended again, soft
coal operators and the United
Mine Workers returned tor the
bargaining table today to seek
a solution of the portnl-to-porlnl
(underground travel) pay Issue.
The conferees, after two hours
of Joint conferences this morn
ing, announced a recess until 3
p. m., but would make no other
statement.
Although directed by tho war
labor board to maintain produc
tion while negotiating and to re
port back on or before June 9,
ihe UMW leadership shows no
more 'Inclination to heed the
board now than it did prior to
the decision which sent the por-Utl-to-portal
problem back to col
lective bargaining.
Work Under Truce
The coal Industry, bituminous
and anthracite, has been work
ing under a truce agreed to by
tho union leaders. It 'was ex
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night In one of the heaviest raids
on record.
Returning pilots reported they
left fires from which columns of
smoke billowed up neatly three
miles into the sky.
Tho Germans struck back In
reprisal yesterday by making
their strongest daylight raids on
Britain In somo time, allocking
coastal districts In a scries of
quick thrusts which cost them at
least half a dozen planes,
, RAF Active
RAF bombers wore active over
the continent yesterday, attack
ing a steel works at Mondevllle,
near Caen In northern France.
In supporting sweeps British
fighters were reported to have
shot down four enemy planes.
One RAF fighter failed to re
turn.; ,. .:'-,. ;
1 An enemy coastal vessel was
o
Street Cor for
OP A Chief, too
WASHINGTON, May 31 W)
OPA Administrator Prentiss
M. Brown, who has been mak
ing sharp cuts In eastern gas
oline rations, arrived at work
this morning by street car.
AIR BAHLES LEAD
FIGHT
Germans Said to Have
Lost 456 Planes
Last Week
LONDON, May 31 (P) A
DNB dispatch broadcast by the
Berlin radio tonight said Ger
man troops had stabbed suc
cessfully into red army lines
today east of Velixh, midway
between Russian-held Velikie
Lukl and nasi-held Smolensk,
"with the aim of straighten
ing the line on a fairly large
front"
By WILLIAM McGAFFIN
MOSCOW, May 31 (P) Fierce
aerial battles continued to pre
dominate in fighting in the Ku
ban sector of the Russian front
today following a week of bitter
struggles in which 458 German
planes were downed at a loss of
118 to the Russians, front line
dispatches said. l
(A German propaganda agency
war correspondent, inuan account
broadcast by the Berlin i radio
and recorded by..Te-AssociiAed
Press, asserted that the German
air force yesterday "frustrated
repeated Soviet attempts to get
in the ' rear of the German de
fense front", in the Kuban area
with landing boats from the Sea
of Azov. He claimed that IS
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Pelican Bomber
War Bond Sale
Nets $372,500
Final figure for May sale of
E war bonds was $372,500 the
biggest sale of E bonds here
since the war began, County War
Savings Chairman A. M. Collier
announced Monday.
Collier said the record Is a
tribute to the "splendid ; bond
selling program" put on by the
Lions club, - head of the May
drive. He said that the Lions
"concentrated energy and talent"
to put over the campaign to buy
the Klamath Pelican bomber,
going far over the quota.
Sales have been certified to
the treasury department and the
Pelican bomber should be desig
nated early In June.
The Klwanis club has taken
over the June drive and will un
dertake to buy four fighter
planes to go along with the May
bomber.
Early impetus to the Klwanis
campaign will be provided by
the . Polack Brothers circus,
which will ' stage downtown
shows late this week to help sell
bonds. Elephants, tigers and
seals will perform on the street.
Further details of the circus
feature will be announced tomor-
shot up and set afire by British
bombers earlier yesterday off the
Netherlands coast. .
The Saturday night assault on
Wuppertal cost the RAF . 33
planes, an air ministry commun
ique said. It was the first at
tack of tho war on the city,
which is the site of the great I. G.
Fabrenindustrle Chemical Works
and the C. J. Jaeger Ball and
Roller Bearing factories.
French Raids
The raid followed close on the
heels of simultaneous daylight
attacks on Rennes, St. Nazaire
and La Palllco In France by the
greatest force of American Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators
ever sent out from bases In Britain,-
Thirteen of tho American
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U.S.
BOMBERS
L
Naples, Foggia Hit
By Twin Attack
In Daylight
By DANIEL DE LUCE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 31 W)
More than 150 U. S. four-en-glned
bombers, cooperating in
twin attacks against Axis bases
in southern Italy, blasted Naples
and Foggia by daylight Sunday
and left smoke-shrouded ruins in
their wake, it was announced to
day.
Explosions and fires raged at
Naples, hit by a force of more
than 100 B-17 flying fortresses
of the North African command.
More ' than 50 B-24 Liberator
bombers of the Ninth U. S. air
force' struck from middle east
bases at the airdrome of Foggia,
80 miles northeast of Naples.
Major Forays
These were the major forays
of a day which Included renewed
attacks upon Sardinia, potential
stepping stone of Invasion, and
Pantelleria, the battered Italian
bastion in the Sicilian Straits. -'
Communiques told the story
ot the powerful American thrust
in an air offensive maintained
for more than a fortnight against
Mussolini's homeland and island
ut posts. It was the second raid
on Foggia in three days and, by
Italian -broadcast accounts, the
70th against Naples, - which was
said to have suffered casualties
and "great damage." - - .
Attack Naples
"A large force of B-17 Flying
Fortresses yesterday - attacked
Naples," said the war bulletin
issued at allied North African
headquarters. . "Bombs . were
dropped on an aircraft factory
and a storage depot and many
fires were reported." .
A Cairo communique said the
Liberators thoroughly covered
the Foggia airdrome and. scored
direct hits on hangars and bar
racks. .
"Numerous aircraft in the dis
persal areas were destroyed, in
cluding some six-engined craft,"
it said. "Black smoke was ob
served rising from oil fires and
buildings were left burning
throughout the target area." .
Planes Destroyed
For all operations of the day
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Wewak Airdrome
Hit by Thirteen
Tons of Bombs
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, May 31 ()
Thirteen tons of bombs dropped
on Japanese airdromes in the
Wewak, New Guinea, region
Sunday, set off explosions that
continued for ten minutes and
started numerous fires in fuel
dumps and airplane dispersal
areas.
The raid, against the Boram
and Wewak airdromes, was
made by flying fortresses Just
before dawn.
It was the second heavy at
tack In that area in three days.
Last Friday 19 tons of explosives
were loosed on these same air
dromes and on nearby Dagua.
Both fragmentation and in
cendiary bombs were used in the
Memorial day blow.
Titus Murder Trial
To Open Tuesday x
The . trial of William Titus,
charged with first degree mur
der after the alleged shooting of
his wife, Erma, at Bly some
months ago, will open Tuesday,
June 1, in circuit court at 10
a, m.
Motions filed by both the de
fense and prosecution attorneys
last week for a 'postponement
were denied by Circuit' Court
Judge David R. Vandenberg, and
the trial will start as scheduled.
J. C. O'Neill will handle tho
defense and L, Orth Siscmorc
and Clarence Humble will pre
sent the state's case.
EAVE SMOKING
RUINS IN ITALY
Davies, Stalin Shake Hands
Joseph E. Davies (left). President Roosevelt's envoy, shakes
hands with Premier Joseph Stalin, of Russian, at the Kremlin in
Moscow. This picture was radioed from Moscow to New York.
imp r e ssiv e Ceremonies
Dedicate Klamath Memorial
Undeterred by unfavorable
weather, a large crowd of Klam
ath people gathered Sunday
around the memorial on the
courthouse lawn for simple and
impressive : ceremonies dedicat
ing the white obelisk to the
memory of the dead of World
War II.
- A gentle drizzle which fell on
the scene failed to cool the
warmth of the sentiment ex
pressed in memory of the fallen
fighting men and the sympathy
for. their relatives and friends
here.- '"
' Link River Ritual
The day's exercises began
with the ceremony at Link Riv
er bridge, conducted by t h e
American Legion, honoring na
val dead. The various partici
pating groups then marched to
the courthouse lawn for the me
morial services, conducted by
the veterans' organizations and
Germans Probe
For-Information
About Churchill
: By. The Associated PressV
- Germany displayed intense
preoccupation with the move
ments of British Prime Minis
ter Churchill over the weekend,
the Berlin radie perhaps fish
ing for Information reporting
that he had been at Gibraltar
Thursday and Friday conferring
with allied military leaders.
If the Germans were hoping to
provoke a statement concerning
Churchill's whereabouts they
were disappointed, however, -for
the broadcast, recorded by The
Associated Press, brought no al
lied reaction. ,
, Th,e Berlin radio also reported
yesterday that additional United
States forces had landed at Cy
prus, possible jumping-off place
for an invasion of the Balkans,
and, that, the 23,000-ton British
aircraft carrier Formidable' and
four destroyers had returned to
Gibraltar from a one-day cruise
in the Mediterranean. ........
Baseball
' AMERICAN LEAGUE '
- R. H., E.
Cleveland 7 12 0
Washington 8 13 1
' Bagby, Naymtck (7), Center
(8) and Rosar; Leonard, Mertz
(6) Carrasquel (8) and Early,
' , R. H. E.
Detroit 7 10, 2
Philadelphia 0 2 3
Newhouser and Richards;Arnt
zen, Clyde (9) and Wagner. ;
; NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
New York 4 11 1
Cincinnati ;.8 11 1
Lohrman, Coombs (3), Trinkle
(7) , Starr (9) and Lombard!; Rid
dle and Mueller, Phillips (7).
IMPROVES
CHUNGKING, May 31 ()
The condition ot Lin Sen, 81-year-old
president ot China who
has been critically ill since he
suffered a stroke May 12, has
shown "further ; improvement,
his physicians announced in a
bulletin at 9 p. m. tonight (6 a.
m. PWT today).
" ' . .- ''
the citizens' memorial commit
tee.":' -. . - K r
Rev. L-. K. ; Johnson of the
Klamath Lutheran church .gave
the principal address, building
THESE NAMES APPEAR
ON MEMORIAL SHAFT
Paxton Turner Carter.
1 Warren Clayton Gillette.
Charles E. Prltchard. .
Raymond G. Andrews.
,s Walter W. WUkins, Jr.
' Robert Cameroiu.
-, Hugh tf. Campbell, Jr.-"1
' Norman Kenneth Rustt
Walter Salsberry.
Richard Muskopf. , '
' -Thomas A. Johnston.
. Dale V. Brown.
John T. Ray.
Wallace W. Hopkins.
Charles A. Hition.
John KrumL
Leo J. Beck. '
Don F. Taber.
- Charles Hamilton. -
- James William Rogers. - '
- Richard Thew.
William Vance Btdord.
Harold T. Jerrue.
his talk around significance of
the shape of. the shaft with its
four sides Joined in a pointed
top. He urged an aggressive
loyalty to t h e principles for
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Delegates Ask
Food Conference .
To Consider Fish - '
- HOT SPRINGS, Va., May. 31
(P) Delegates of four coun
tries interested in fisheries joint
ly proposed to the United Na
tions food conference, today that
any recommendations concerning
food and other .agricultural pro
ducts be declared applicable to
fish and marine products.
Canada, Great Britain, Iceland
and .Norway submitted for con
ference action a resolution stres
sing, that fish and marine.' pro
ducts are essential to the diet of
many countries and vital to the
economy of certain countries. :
Jap Lines Cut by Chinese
"All Front" Counter Move
CHUNGKING, May 31
Chinese troops, supported by the
United States 14th air force
which heavily damaged Japanese
installations near Ichang and at
Yoehow, occupied a number, of
points in the Hupeh-Hunan bord
er region in an "all front" count
eroffensive in central China and
cut heavy communications at
many points east of Lake Tung
ting, a Chinese communique said
today. -
Only yesterday, the Chinese
announced the recapture of Yu
yangkwan, 35 . miles south of
Ichang where 2000 Japanese
casualties were inflicted in the
greatest Chinese success since' the
invaders started thrusting along
the. Yangtze valley toward
Chungking.
Collaborate .
A communique from , Lieut.
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's U. S.
headquarters said Warhawk
fighters and Liberator bombers
"operating in collaboration with
Chinese air and ground forces"
had attacked the two important
FIERCE FIGHT
ANNIHILATES
LAST OF N
Few Snipers Remain;
Kiska Virtually
Cut Off
By HAMILTON W. FARON '
WASHINGTON, May 31 W
The battle of Attu is over, and
the Stars and Stripes once again,
fly over the barren but strateg
ically Important little island at
the western end of the Aleutians,
Scattered snipers and possibly
a few isolated machine gun nests
are all that remain . to oppose)
United States troops who freed
from invaders the first Ameri
can soil to be recaptured In this)
war and started the northern
route march toward Tokyo.
The latest report on the mop.
ping-up operations, which mar
require days, was told by the)
navy today in a one-sentence
communique No. 398: t
"North Pacific:
l.,On May 30, United State-
forces on Attu island continued
in the mopping-up ot the remain
ing Japanese pockets of resi
tance." - "
The loss of Attu, which has)
been conceded by the Japanese,
leaves the enemy garrison on
Kiska virtually cut off. '
' A battle in which American
troops struck with guns, bayorv
Hsj" rifle-buttsfists, and knives)
marked the end of the 20-day
campaign.' 1 - ' -
Big Battle ' '
"It was the biggest battle on
Attu," said a navy spokesman in
reporting annihilation of the last
large enemy force on the Island.
"The Attu battle is won," de
clared Col. R. Ernest Dupuy,
chief of the war department's
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India Commander
Confers With
European Chief
LONDON, May 31 m Lieut.
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, United
States commanding general in
China, India and Burma, has
arrived in London and immedi
ately "discussed integration of
military plans In the global war"
with Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Dev
ers, commander in the European
theater of operations.
An announcement today from
headquarters described Stilwell's
visit as a stopover on a trip to
the Orient. . - , .
Accompanying Stilwell were
Major Gen. R. D. Olds, chief of
staff of the tenth air force, and
Col. Frank Merrill, Stilwell's as
sistant chief of staff ' in charge
of operations. They were met
by Major Gen. Idwal Edwards,
chief of staff of the European
theater of operations and repre
sentatives of the British, army
and the RAF. ,
supply and troop concentration
points in the last three days,
i Yoehow on the Yangtze was
dive-bombed by the Warhawks in
two attacks Friday and again on
Sunday. Warehouses, rail yards,
rolling stock, dock and shipping
facilities were hit.
- Extensive Damage .
; "Preliminary reports indicat
ing extensive damage" to Yo-,
chow objectives, the U. S. com
munique said. The Liberator
"heavily bombed island artillery
and supply concentrations off
Ichang In the Yangtze" on Sat
urday. No American plane was
lost in any of the missions.
; The ; Chinese bulletin said
Chiang Kai-shek's troops broke
Into the east gate of Sinyang, a
Japanese base in south Honnn
province, ,Frlday night and In
flicted serious damage.
The Chinese declared the Jap
anese were being pursued toward
Niehchico after being ousted
from Yuyangkwuri. The capture
of Changyang,' 12 miles below.
Ichang was declared Imminent,,