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PRIOR FIVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1943
Number 9815
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By FRANK JENKINS
COMETIIING new is added to
tho news picture today.
There's a revolution of somo
sort In Argentina which seems
to be led by tho nrmy mid to be
directed at Dictator-President
Castillo, who has been, both pro
axis and hiird-boilvd social re
actionary, TT'S Impossible to sny as this Is
wrltton whether tho revolution
hos grown out of tho pro-axis
war issue or tho hurdbollcd ro
actloniiry Issue,
The two, however, nrc so close
ly related thut tho result on the
Owur slluiition will probably bo
tho sumo in either event, us the
bis landowners and Argentine
aristocrats who have been buck
ing Custlllo lean toward tho axis
while tho generally antl-Castlllo
middle classes (if thcra can ba
(aid to be a mlddlo class in Ar
gentina) and the workers have
been mora sympathetic with our
Ids. :
ARGENTINA Is tho ONLY
Western Hemisphere nation
retaining diplomatic relations
With tho axis, and as a natural
result has become a hotbed of
German, Italian and Japuncso
spies and propagandists,
(Argentina hasn't bcon deflu
" ftely and flatly pro-axis. Under
. Castillo, hor neutrality, he been
friendly toward Germany as our
0 neutrality before Prnrl Harbor
was friendly to Britain.)
.
AS this Is wrltton, Castillo Is
said to havo fled Buenos
Aires on a gunboat and tho rev
olution (or revolt, or flare-up
whatever It may turn out to be)
is believed to bo succeeding.
THE battle of the Yangtze
river Is said today to have
turned into a ROUT of tho Jap
forces, which nro being battered
ceaselessly by American and
Chinese AIRMEN.
' Tho Chinese are reported to
day to be taking towns EAST of
tho Important north-and south
Canton-Hankow railroad, which
Is moro than 100 miles DOWN
the Yangtzo from tho Jap bnso at
Ichang.
This, if true, Is highly Import
Quit, as It means that by cutting
tho river transport lino (rail
roads and highways arp few and
far between In this part of
China) tho Japs at Ichang may
be cut off.
Thcra aro Indications that tho
Chlncso may bo headed toward
the big air baso at Changsha,
which tho Chinese built for US
to use against Japan but which
the Japs took.
THERE'S nothing much but
rumors from Europo today.
Tho rumors, however, havo
taken a now turn.
Yugoslav General Mllmllovic's
guerrillas aro said to have surged
up In such forco as to havo com
pelled tho Germans to abandon
,1200 square miles of territory.
Greek guerrillas havo captured
Qui Italian-hold vlllago in the
Pindus mountains whcro tho
Greeks made their epic stand
. something over a year ago), kill
ing 300 Italians and taking 80
prisoners.
London today reports the Jews
rising In Poland, with TER
( RIBLE consequences to them
(Continued on Pago Two)
Anti-Strike Measure Back
In Senate After House O.K.
WASHINGTON, Juno 4 (fl)
Legislation providing for prison
sentences and fines for porsons
instigating or leading strikes in
overnmont-operatod plants was
Qmsscd today by tho house and
sent back to the senato for ac
tion on amendments.
, Tho legislation continues ma
jor provisions of the senate-approved
Connolly bill and a sub
stitute mcasuro drafted by the
houso military committee
' It provides that anyone liisll
4 fating a strike ' or directing -
Oram
BRITISH
DARE
UNHEEDED
ITALTSFLEET
Pantelleria Shelling
Continues Without
Opposition
By ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
For tho fifth time in five day
a British challenge to tho Ital
ian fleet to come out and fight
was underlined today with the
dlsclosuro that allied warships
twice again had bombarded the
"Italian Gibraltar" at Pantel
leria, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
hcadquortcrs announced that al
lied naval forces shelled. the key
bastion Wednesday night - and
renewed the assault at dawn yes
terday. Allied naval salvos had pre
viously battered tho Island's de
fenses Sunday night and Tues
day aftornoon, and on Wednes
day a forco of British and Greek
destroyers boldly sallied Into
Italy's own coastal' waters to
blast an axis convoy off Capo
Spartlvento, on the toe of the
boot-shaped Italian peninsula,"1
Forgotten- Boasts .
Despite these five attacks,
there was still no sign of Italian
mon-o'-wor venturing forth from
their harbors, although axis
broadcasts for the past several
weeks have boasted that the fas
cist fleet was ready to steam in
to battle at any moment. .
Gen. Elsenhower's command
said allied warships bombarded
Pantelleria harbor and shore bat
terics in tho latest assaults, en
countering "slight retaliation"
which caused neither damage nor
casualties.
Synchronized with the naval
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Germans Foresee
"Largest Scale"
Battles Ahead
LONDON, June 4 (IP) While
Italy tensely awaited an Invasion
by allied forces, a Berlin broad
cast told its overseas listeners
todoy tho German army wos
"proporlng for battles on the
largest possible scale."
Referring to tho "assumption'!
that tho Germans would remain
on tho defensive in Russia dur
ing tho summer an assumption
which arose from a recent
broadcast to German listeners
by Lieut. Gen. Kurt Dictmar,
nazi military spokesman a Ger
man radio overseas commentator
said: .
"The base of Europe is so
strong and wide that it permits
not only defensive but offonsivo
actions."
The Gorman general staff is
keeping its plans secret, the com
mentator added, but he asserted
that several now. divisions had
been created and that tho pro
duction of arms In Germany
was exceeding expectations.
"So wo con conclude," he said,
"that Germany Is preparing for
the coming battles on the largest
possible scale"
strike or lockout shall face a
maximum penalty of $8000 fine
and ono-ycar imprisonment, In
addition, it bars the use of union
funds for benefit payments to
workers on strike but docs not
Interforo with tho right of an In
dividual to refrain from work, "
Tho measure represents tho
consolidation of a bill drafted by
Representative Harness (R-Ind.)
and Representative Smith (D-Va.)
following the general lines of
the Connolly and the houso mili
tary measures.
Ousts Casta
Father?
2
1
1st
Charles Chaolln. movie com
edian, wu e-iaraed In a civil
suit with being the father of the
unborn child of 22-year-old Joan
Berry. (Story on page 2), .
E
State Evidently Seeks
To Show BlyMan :
" Wounded Self
Testimony evidently Intended
to show that William Titus shot
himself on tho morning of Feb
ruary 15 and was not wounded
by his wife, was brought out In
court Friday morning by the
prosecution.
Titus had stated to Sheriff
Lloyd Low at tho hospital on the
afternoon of tho alleged homi
cide that Mrs. Titus had shot
him first, that he had then grab
bed the gun and shot her. Ho Is
being tried for first degree mur
der. Dr. Joseph Becman, of tho
crime detection laboratory in
Portland, testified that he had
conducted a minute examination
of the gun used in the alleged
shootings and of a portion of
door casing sent to him by the
district attorney. He said he
found an Indentation In the
shapo of a half moon in the door
casing and also discovered that
eight fragments of wood wore
missing from the plaque. On the
bottom on the butt of the shot
gun eight wood fragments of the
same size were found to be im
pressed. The testimony apparently was
intended to siiow tho gun had
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Blast at Portland
Injures One Man
PORTLAND, Juno 4 (VP) An
explosion early today in a core
oven at tho Columbia Steel
Casting company plant here se
riously injured one man, de
stroyed tho oven and damaged
tho building and other equip
ment. Plant officials estimated
damage at $10,000.
Worth Blackburn, worker,
suffered severe face and head
injuries.
Investigators said a defective
burner probably allowed an ac
cumulation of gas which ex
ploded when tho oven was light
ed. Ouster of Seattle
Police Chief Asked
SEATTLE, June 4 (P) Scat
tic's controversy over vice con
ditions was in the laps of the
city councllmon today after
Mayor William F. Dovln yester
day issued an order for the dis
missal of Pollco Chief Herbert
D. Kimscy and asked tho coun
cil to concur.
Council approval Is necessary
before tho chief can bo ousted.
In this report to tho council
the mayor charged Chief Klmsoy
with being "either unablo or un
willing to manage tho police de
portment in an .effective man
ner." J
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Isolationist Regime
Cracked in Near
Bloodless Move
By CHARLES H. GUPTILL
BUENOS AIRES, June 4 (IP)
A military government headed
by Gen. Pedro Ramirez, former
minister of war, appeared today
to havo supplanted the reaction
ary and isolationist regime of
President Ramon S. Castillo, as
the result of a swift and rela
tively bloodless coup,
Castillo and most members of
his cabinet iled aboard the gun
boat Drummond at dawn as some
7000 troops under a Ramirez as
sociate, Gen. Arturo Rawton,
marched on the capital.
Before the flight, Castillo sign
ed a decree appointing Gen. Ro
dolfo Marquez chief of "the
forces of repression" charged
with suppressing the move and
then headed up the Rio de-la,
Plata to tho naval base at Rio
Santiago. - ---w .-1-
i ! Crowds Cheer"
There was no immediate state
ment of the new council's policy.
but crowds cheered the troop
movement with cries of "Long
live democracy" and "Long live
ireedom."
Castillo had based his whole
foreign policy on continued main
tenance of relations with all bel
ligerents, making Argentina, the
only nation in the western hemi
sphere to keep open channels to
Rome, Berlin and Tokyo.
The council is made up of
tnreo men, Ramirez, Gen, Juan
Giovanclll and a naval officer
who was not immediately identi
fied. It appointed General Raw
son minister of war.
From Rio Santiago, Castillo
issued a message to the nation
broadcast by official and com
mercial radios, declaring his in
tention to resist the establish
ment of a military regime.
Loyalty Asked
He asked the armed forces of
the country to show loyalty to
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Airlines Plan
100-Passenger
Plans After War
PORTLAND, June 4 (IP)
United Airlines contemplates
coast to coast service after the
war with 63-ton transports' of
100-passengcr capacity, District
Traffic Manager W. R. Thlgpen
said today.
The four-cngincd craft, he
said, would make coast to coast
flights with only one stop.
Mail Piles Up at
Portland Terminal
PORTLAND, June 4 (IP)
Stacks of mall sacks continued
to pile up in Union station to
day as the Northern Pacific
Terminal company reported a
critical shortage of mall hand
lers. Tho staff of 70 handlers,
members of the railroad broth
erhood, went on a 48-hour work
week Tuesday, their spokesman
said, to safeguard health after
working as high as 90 hours
weekly to keep up' with in
creased movement of mail.
Born ? Foe
A cattalo was born today on
Hie unique Poo valley ranch
of Chct Barton.
Barton explained the strange
newcomer is tho offspring of
an Angus bull and a buffalo
cow.
Ho said there have been cases
of crosrins Herctords with
buf'r' , . . he does not know
ARGENTINE
CO I N
N NEW HANDS
First
Lynn Boyeroft, director of
Lolcama. tin can salvage committee, are shown on the first carload
ath Falls. This tin was collected
Klamath's Per Capita Income Mounts to 7
( $7568 M'4ir Far Over National Figure
On- the average everyone In
Klamath Falls had $1568 to
spend in 1942, according to a
nationwide, survey of effective
buying income made ' by Sales
Management, and pleased, local
ly by Ihe' research department
oJ -the-Oreftm Mutual Life In
surance " company; ; This- figure
is unusually high when. . com
pared to the national per capita
income' which ' averaged only
$871.. Per capita income for 17
major cities in Oregon was
$1563, and for ' the state as a
whole $1186.
Oregon ranks fourth among
states where greatest gains in
effective buying income have oc
curred since 1939. The highest
states are Washington, Maryland,
California, Oregon, Alabama,
and the District of Columbia,
Improvements
On Klamath Air
Field Slated
SEATTLE, June 4 UP). The
civil aeronautics authority said
today ' that bids will be' opened
tomorrow at the army engineers'
office in Portland for a 2000-
foot extension to a. runway at
the Klamath Falls,' Ore., airport.
' Lane Wilcox, CAA airport su
pervisor for this region, has been
in Klamath Falls several days in
connection with the forthcoming
work. - - --
The extension, it is understood,
is to be added to the main run
way at the airport
Wilcox and his associates con
ferred with the city airport com
mission Wednesday morning, and
later discussed with the county
court the matter of closing the
short length of road at the north
end of the field. . .
Removal of obstructions in the
vicinity of the airport was plan
ned at the conferences. 1
Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E.
St. Louis 4 7 0
New York 6 10 1
Ostermueller, Caster (7), and
Hayes, Ferrell (9); Chandler,
Russo (9), Murphy (9), and Hems
ley. (10 innings).
R. H. E.
Chicago 4 4 2
Boston 3 8 0
Ross,' Maltzbergcr (7), and
Trcsh: Lucicr, Terry (8), and
Partce.
Valley Cattalo
of ny other in which an An
gus and a buffalo have mated.
The rancher said he had
avoided disturbing the dark
youngster and has not yet
learned its sex,
Barton's ranch menagcrlo
has Included various unusual
animals, including ostriches,
kangaroos and Japanese deer.
Can Load to Leave Klamath
elviliarl services for Klamath Falls, Norma Earnest and Scoity
In the recent salvage campaign
I Oregon also ranks fourth In the
country in the highest retail
sales on a per' capita basis for
1942. The state's total retail
sales in 1942 were 58 per cent
of the effective buying income.
: 'Total dollars wortbiof. effect'
Uve; buying, income in- Klamath
Falls last year amounted to Sior
879,000, or 2.05 per cent of the
total for the state. Retail sales
transacted equalled $28,643,000,
or 3.92 per cent of the total re
tail sales volume for. Oregon.
Effective buying income in
T
CHUNGKING, June 4 (P)
Chinese forces have smashed in
to the Yangtze port of Itu after
annihilating 2000 Japanese
troops in the area and have cap
tured Nahsien on the northern
shore of Tungting lake, a ' Chi
nese high command communi
que announced, today.
- The-report-said the battle on
the upper Yangtze had turned
into a rout of enemy forces.
which were battered ceaselessly
by American and Chinese air
men. Fierce street fighting was
reported in progress in Itu, 22
airline miles below the main
Japanese base of Ichang..
In addition to capturing Nah
sien, - 95 miles soutneast oi itu,
the Chinese were reported to
have retaken 10 other towns in
the Hupeh-Hunan border region
east of the Canton-Hankow rail
way. All O. K. Between
Him and Stalin,
Roosevelt Says
WASHINGTON, June 4 . &)
President Roosevelt said today
that the understanding and ac
cord between him and Premier
Joseph Stalin of Russia is ex
cellent, in commenting at a press
conference on the return of his
special emissary to Moscow, Jo
seph E. Davies.
. Mr. Roosevelt, referring to the
soviet head as Marshal
Stalin,' said Davies had brought
back a letter and that the un
derstanding and accord between
the president and Stalin . is .ex
cellent. That was all he said about it.
and reporters did not press him
for details.
OPA Desk Number
Plan Given Up
WASHINGTON, June 4 (W)
A six-page memorandum which
said: The drawers of all stenog
raphers are to be numbered as
follows: 1-2-3," has been re
called, OPA officials said yes
terday, because "it was folt that
the public would not under
stand- desk proccduro and the
OPA would be held up to ridi
of salvage tin to leave Klam
carried on in the city schools.
Klamath county, which contains
3.54 per cent of the state's popu
lation, totalled $50,709,000 at the
end of the year.- This figure
represents 4.01 per-cent of the
total for. Oregon, and .044 per
cent of u. S. buying income.
County retail sales reached $37,
306,000,' or 5.1 per cent of the
volume of retail sales transacted
in the state. "
Klamath county population' is
highly . urbanized (40.7 per . cent
living :- in :, urban', sections as
against 17.1 per cent on farms.)
The remainder live in towns and
villages under 2500.
As is true of almost the entire
Pacific coast region, the median
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U. S. Casualties
In Attu Conquest
Now Set at 1535
WASHINGTON, June 4 (P)
Conquest of Attu in Aleutians
cost the United States. 1535 army
casualties ' including 342 men
dead, 1135 wounded and 58
missing up to midnight Tues
day, the navy reported today.
The deaths represent a ratio
of about five Japanese killed
for each American lost in the
battling over the snow covered
crags and tundra. -
Known Japanese deaths, the
navy has said,' total 1791 exclu
sive of enemy soldiers killed
by air bombing and naval bom
bardments and cremated or bur
ied before American troops took
the island.
Small groups of Japanese still
were roaming auu, narrassing
American troops on Tuesday,
the navy said. .
Dempsey Fists Flew After
Bedroom Scene, Court Tale
By CYNTHIA LOWRY '
WHITE PLAINS, N., Y June
4 (ff)The famous fists of Jack
Dempsey, the old Manassa maul
er of the square ring, struck
twice on Benny Woodall, named
by Dempsey as co-respondent in
his divorce suit against Mrs.
Hannah Williams Dempsey, a
witness testified today.
Lawrence Simeon Hutchens,
who gave his address as 1742
West 37th place, Los. Angeles,
said he was one of the group of
detectives who were with Demp
sey in a raid on Mrs. Dempsey's
Los Angeles apartment in No
vember, 1942, and told a su
preme court referee that he saw
Dempsey strike Woodall.
Hutchens, a gray-haired,
slight, elderly man, testified that
Woodall sat on the edge of a
bed in Mrs. Dempsey's bedroom
and did not say a word when
Dempsey told his wife:
, "This is a nice way to treat
me. I'm out trying to defend
my country and you're running
around with a rat like that."
1 Before Hutchens took the
stand, Miss Hazel McNecl, . an
LS
WLB TACT GS
Miners to Be on Job
Monday, Deadline
' Set by FR . ' .
WASHINGTON, 'June 4 VP)
John L.' Lewis called upon the
half million miners in his union
today to return to work on Mon
day President Roosevelt's strike
deadline and at the same tfrrie '
accused the war labor board of
"abusive tactics." i . c
Thus apparently ended a strike
throttling the vast soft coal in- .
dustry, Lewis telling the mine
workers' policy committee:'- :
' "The miners and their leaders,
as patriotic Americans, placed
the law and the national interest
above' their own ungranted and
long deferred claims for justice
and equity. They have made .
and will continue to make their
sacrifice to the winning of the
war." - - .- : '
He-addressed the policy com,
mittee within a half hour after ,
he disclosed a letter to Secretary ;
icites saying ne wouict recom
mend "resumption of work. on
Monday. . ' .
- In a suddenly announced re
treat from his adamant stand.'
the UMW chief disclosed. he.haa. ,
writteriyHis reply "to 'a . letter ;
from Secretary Ickes, the fed
eral rnine bassi" '; " -.' ' , .
"I have your-letter of June
4."-'
"I have no. power- to direct.
I shall,- however,: recommend
to the policy committee oi tha
United . Mine Workers of
America that it direct the mine ;
workers to return to work on '
Monday, June. 7. V ;
"Sincerely yours,. '
-.. John L. Lewis." - ;
; Ickes- letter -had said: "As '
operator of ; the- coal mines on
behalf of the. United- States gov .
ernment, I expect that you will i
direct the members of the United ,
Mine Workers of America to re
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Tacoma Lumber
Workers Back
After Dispute ...
TACOMA,' June 4 . (IP) The.
St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber
company mill here opened to
day - after a four-day stoppage
by an estimated 1200 worker
in a dispute over vacation pay...
The company's camps were;
scheduled to open Monday. -
Announcement of the appar
ent end of the strike came at
the conclusion of a meeting of
members of the CIp-Sawmlll
and Timber " Workers .union.'
The union and company said
they had: agreed to make no
public statements concerning ,
the walkout settlement, i
associate' of Private - Detective
Ned H. Peterson of Los Angeles,
whose testimony' was yesterday's
sensation in. the case, testified ;
in corroboration of Peterson'
story of a raid on Mrs, Demp
sey's apartment.
' Peterson,' who yesterday told
the court that he, Dempsey and
two other detectives found Mrs. ;
Dempsey in bed in a Los An
geles apartment and saw Ben- (
ny -Woodall, named by Dempsey
as a co-respondent, running from
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