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W AIMltW mm fin mm IS Wslcws W -nuv IF.NKINS JV sttll oi'D1 s'ws m "r.. i winds from Europe, the nc " ls hlird alld ,w racuiv. --., ,. i.,i look at the worst ffS take ' first- , .... .1 r.ovniiit (uu on Iti'.V ":f; 7 surrounded P." 0ff, Menmvnuu me ui P"",. f inward Ttmgkwan, P",he Yellow river breaks trt'"r.. mn,minins t ike the and he NO. providing A" the great 'interior of tino to 700 miles to the Some nf this pass, reached fSng rivor-valley routes. L Chungking, the present seat P.wv!i - nvnrnment. lie uw v , lr L at least a fair guess that I' r r trt IrnnnW iM Japs are j 'completely out Www. ajet effective help to her. TO in Burma, we are try tn to blast through a land iV which wc can get of- r.7... 'u.in in Ch na trying Ewntily, DARINGLY and, as Lirlv as can be Judged from the U we get, intelligently. I He news irum u" fW-. . Meiu ""- 1dm (American Biiimi ititoina. Tliey nave uiw tj mMoeaune. the nearest Ebase. to keep the Japs from King to the rescue of My it fini. Airborne reinforcements are ...;. into Mvitkvina airfield. KaWE HOLD. Eighty miles L ,k. .t tn noo Chinese are DUG iwi ' . ... thing through rugged ana air l.-jlt mountain tuuiu.jr bcrt to effect a junctlc In an junction with iitMyHKyina. - c.h function, we are told. Lm make nossible the LINK ING of the Ledo and Burma lt enabling us to bring In L.irv uminment to the Chinese r.,j vn--. . . - . ,.. Itoresent we can uring in umj. .T I! U.. Un alp fnlltA :;oi supplies n WI tr the Himalayas. IT looks like a race, you see, between us in the soutn, trying i jet help to the Chinese before h too late, and th Jf.ps In it north, trying to knock out ,! Chinese Deiore wo can gui Itlp to them. IAC ARTHUR takes another 'tien in New Guinea. ffadke island, long bombed, is LANDED ON and we're reach- ii today for its airfield some 1)00 feet long and capable of being extended to 7000 feet to lecommodatc heavy, bombers, from this field we can reach laiiu island, 695 miles away, se Dutch East Indies Jap base it Halmahera, 750 miles away, .id even Davao, in the Philip pines, 1000 miles away. Ihe south Facillc war is hepping-stone war (so far), and ridke gives us another siep iaj-stone. , - jTHE Tokyo radio says today we it Dutch naval base in Java) on Wednesday and again on Thurs W. According to the Japs, Wednesday's attack was by naval pombers from a task force and fiiursday's by long range heavy lombers. Dresumablv from Aus- Bralfa. We're keeping the Japs as busy M we can EVERYWHERE, so Vtr w 11 be afraid to CONCEN PATE anywhere. GENERAL ARNOLD (U. S. air r force headl toll. ho Wash. fcgton reporters today that the rirwar over Germany has YET PO REACH ITS PEAK. He 'Peaks of an air COM RAT fnrci. ft 2,300,000, and adds that we fint know what air war can f',5 the way of knocking out lujminued on Page Three) GOP Hopefuls Eye Oregon For Grass Roots Support Millworkers Walk Off Jobs SEATTLE, May 19 UP) At Wjt 700 of Seattle's 3000 saw U workers walked off their m today protesting the nation- war labor board's denial of increases to the 130,000 mployes of the, Pacific north irif. 1ine and Douglas fir indus ej, It was announced by John LS rbtcnn, president of the northwest Council of Lumber Sawmill Workers (AFL). By - forenoon, four mills had en shut down. vaiii rli nsen sald he Pleaded in that mass mcctlng last night iS tVi . Tn remain or the job "iSfiisdustry whlch has been iuSd fS,,a crltical war pro o n lhcy J"st t0'd me to hate8' he addcd- "They said "v. H? Jus' th5 ld mullarkey wfeSivi1 thcm for the 'wmorelw ad been assured eral Y,han a year- by various :b to Si nnB lncreae from 90 wVgrantcnd.m'nlmUm Pay ecatb ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS One-Two Punch TO TREND STALLED BY NEfFIGHTS Bus Strike Strands Many Wa r Workers; 15,000 Idle . A bus system strike delayed or stranded wousanas oi war workers In Pennsylvania today while a back-to-work trend de veloped in several other labor disputes and approximately 15, 000 men and women remained away from their jobs. A walkout 01 00 arivcrs tiea up the buses o( tne acnuyiKiu Valley Lines, Inc., principal transportation company serving inn. noo nersons in Norrlstown and about 20 smaller communl- tim In southeastern - Pennsyl vania. The strikers, mombers ot the Amalgamated Association oi Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes (AtW, were enizaeed in a controversy over a bonus wage plan. Ask Raturn I.Mders of the CIO Textile Workers union advised the war labor board they would aek striking members at the three Duplan corporation. Plants in Hazelton, Kingston onu ourw;, Pa., to resume, work . APProxi- mately '2000 had Boon onoctea at IhncA rpritprs. The WLB directed union chiefs to call off a strike of 125 ad herents of the AFL International A.snrlntlnn nf Machinists which had made 1800 workcra Idle at the Granie City, Hi,, bteei com pany. DiiMlcitton Knumid Publication of the Wilkcs- Rarrp Pa.. Times-leader Evening Now) and the Wilkes-Barre nArri un rosumcd when print ers returned to their posts after an 11-day stoppage in u tract disagreement. Tho unrk.stooDagcs. none at- Xccting more than 2000 employes at any Individual plant, affected a variety of Industries and nnrhid four sections of the (Continued on Page Two) Unlucky Housing Job Going Again The unlucky Klamath fcderol hnnaina nn lect was getting Into full swine today after a struggle with waae problems, materials wu nnrl finally a flood, Monday's flood from the gov ernment canal spread over the project site near the southeast city limits and slowed down the start of work. ' Contractors' men said today, however, that the flood had sub sided, materials are on hand, and wnec auestion nas oeen ironeu nut nnri thn Inh wag looking UP, Forty units of war housing will be built by r.. r. nenaerson, Longvlew, the contractor, By JACK BELL Associated Press Staff Writer The rank and file's chance to designate Its choice for the re nnhlinnn presidential nomlna tion arrived in a strategic place Oreeon's nreferential nrlmarv where write-In ballot ing will pledge that state's 14 convention votes to the winner, Although the Oregon delega tlnn tn the GOP meeting is rela- tlvely small, the psychological stakes are high since the win nor will he credited with gross roots- support in a northwest ern area expected to be a bat tleground between the two ma jor parties in November. As elsewhere, the leading candidates apparently are Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who says he isn't- in the race. Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, tuhn a v he is. and Lieut. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, who unvff hp will run if he is nomin- ated. Some write-In strength also is expected to show for Wendell L. Willkle, who quit the race. -. A victory for Dewey, , who has demonstrated strength on BACK (Continued on Page Three) IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1944 TripSe Offensive Hits Japs TIBET 'VCh CHUNGKING- N . ,imopu'a .. y-) V vv illliiillfBcolllliiillilliii ' ' ' "''I '' ' '' RAN2H VA fH":'!l!l;r!d3ooI STATUTE Mllf5 Black arrows indicate allied Japanaa with a triple offanalva. British troops are prasalng tha Japi tn tha Imphal area. In north Burma General Stllwell's Chinese-American iorcas prll tho town of Myltkylna attar cap turing tha airport two days age. westward in an attempt to loin "ppir louta from mala to China.- Nazis Mow Down 47 RAF Officers in Prison Break LONDON. May 19 (IP) For- clgn Secretary Anthony Eden disclosed today 47 ka officers had been shot by Germans after a mass oscupo fronvtie-ppl!Mn-camp near Dresden on March 29, Sovonty-slx officers participat ed tn the break, Eden told the house of commons. Flfteon were reported captured alive, and 14 still at large. Shot for Resistance Some were shot resisting ar rest and some In the course of a new escape attempt after they were captured, Eden said. It was the first such episode of the war. "The government Is profoundly Pension Bill Passes House WASHINGTON, May 19 lP) House passage by a unanimous voice vote sent to the senate to day legislation to give monthly pension to widows and children of World War One veterans whose death cannot be attrib uted to service-connected dis ability. . Existing law requires a show ing that the veteran, at the time of his death, had a service-Incurred or service-aggravated dis ability, i Longer Threatens Tax Bill Delay WASHINGTON, May 19 (IP) Senator Longer (K-. u.) vnrouv ened todoy to delay senate action on the house-npprovea tax simpu iirmtinh hill because lcoders de clined to postpone consideration of the measure until Monday at his request. , , Aunrllne that he had hod no time to study the bill because pt the press of committee worn T.nnecr ealnod the floor and com menced reading the ' 86-pnge printed measure a device some times employed In senate flllbus- tnrtt. Senator McCarran (D-Ncv.), who joined with Langcr in offer ing an amendment to tho mea sure which would reduce the pre sent 30 per cent cabaret tax to 10 per cent, apparently ' attempted to persuade Langcr in whispered conference to abandon delaying tactics, but the North Dakota senator waved him aside. Rubber Chief Sees No Liquor WASHINGTON, May 19 (IP) Rubber Director Bradley uewey told senate liauor shortage inves tigators todoy he sow little pros pect of a substantial diversion of alcohol from the synthetic rub ber program to whiskey manu facture within less than a year and a quarter. While petroleum is contribut ing more and more butadiene for rubber -making to supplement butadiene produced from alcohol, he said tho need of alcohol for high octane gasoline raised an nther hiff auestion. . "The military demand for avia tion gasoIlne1'f1,he declared, "is insa table." T . ani Hits Soerabaja forcas which ar batattlno the rrom cnina troopi ara driving Stllwall and thus open land shocked by this news and I have urgently requeued ine protecting power, (SwIUcrland, through which notification of tho deaths -eanre-to the relatives" qnd tho nlf ministry) to demand i from the German government a full and immediate report of the circum stances in which these , men met their deaths, and art explanation ot Its alluro to report the facts at once to tne protecting power," Eden said. . RAF Member The men were members of the "RAF Dominion Allied" air forcoi, tho customary terminol ogy embracing the RCAF, RAAF, RNZAF and other nation al groups In the RAF like the Poles, tho Dutch and tho Norwe gians. , As far as Is known there were no Americans involved, although Eden did not say so specifically. The dead , Included several heroes of the bnttlo of Britain (Continued on Page Two) Trappers Spark Foresi Fires PRINCE GEORGE, B. C, May lO-r-(CP) Trappers' camp fires buried in the snows nf northeast ern British Columbia last winter which' smouldered throughout tne spring In the dense under growth of tho muskeg country were blamed today by fire-lighters for the giant forest fires now raging In uncontrollable, fury along tne lower stretches of the Alaska highway. At least 30 major fires and hundreds of soot fires ere rag ing northwest and, southwest of the Peace river block, an aerial survey has revealed. There are about 14 major fires along the Alaska nignway. New Low in Vote Volume Seen in Klamath Primary A handful of voters had gone to the -polls by mtd-atternoon and it appeared the 1944 prl- mary wou w lov Id mark up a new rec- ord low in balloting volume here. An examDlo was precinct 6. where the polling place is at the Presbyterian church. At 2:15 p. m., 24 republicans and 14 democrats had voted, out; of a registration of 124 republicans and 136 democrats, Mora Republicans ' It appeared that generally, more republicans are going to the polls than democrats, desplto the lead in democratic registra tion. Weather conditions were ex cellent, but a lack of interest, absence of many registered vot ers, and , pre-occupatlon ! with other matters, were ' factors keeping the voting volume down. County Clerk Mae K. Short said she did not believe voting would reach 38 per cent of all voters. Help Short ; Considerable difficulty was encountered as a result of a shortage of election workers, but the Job of receiving the few votes cast was proceeding smoothly this afternoon. Countr NEA FEATURES Number L OF WAKDLISLE Chinese Picture Not So Rosy; Loyang . . Men Trapped By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Praia War Editor Allied bombers smashed twice at the powerful former Dutch naval baso at Socrabuja In tho Netherlands East Indies, Tokyo radio reported today, simultan eously with land offunslvcs that brought tho Wukde area of Dutch Now Gulneu and a Jap anese air . base at Myltkylna, Burma, under allied control. Tokyo radio said the flrnt blow at Soeraboja Wednesday apparently was struck by SO carrier-based -planes making- a during sweep from .the Indian ocean. Heavy bombers, presum ably from Australia, made the second strlko Thursday morn ing. Htavy Raid ' If , true, this Is tho heaviest raid carried out on tho great naval baso slnco the Jnpnncso coptured jt two years ago. Soer- sduju, - on wio laiunu ui unvn, lies 1000 miles ' southwest ; of Wukde -and 25U0. ,mlle(i-outh-east ot Myltkylna. It has been periodically bombed by- small forces ot heavy bomberr from northorn Australia.- American sixth army troops hopped more than 100 miles up tho Dutch New Guinea coast from Hollandla for a speedy am' phlblous conquest of tho Wakdo island area, site ot an Important air base from which General MacArthur's forces might speed tho clean-up of New Guinea and bring tho Pnlnu and Philippine lslunds under nlr assault. . ' Wakde Nips Pinned Latest reports Indicated the Americans had pinned tho last Japanese defenders of Wakde against the edge of tho 4700-foot coral airstrip and were wiping out determined enemy mortar gun crews. On the whole, Jap anese defenses -were "neglig ible," MacArthur said. Allied headquarters said the strip can bo lengthened to 7000 (Continued on Page Two) 7.763.000 Leave Army Since 7947 WASHINGTON, Moy 19 (IP) The war department announced todoy that separations from the army from Pearl Harbor through March. 31 of this year totaled 1.163.000. Tho term "separation" Is used by the department to describe all personnel losses, including discharge, death or enemy-capture. Separations ran as high as 90,000 a month the latter part of 1043 but averaged only 50,000 a month during tho first quarter ot wis year. ing boards, coming on at 1 p. m., were having an easy time of It, and were well caught up on the count. That Indicates an early completion ot returns tonight, You're Invited Klamath eitiiens ara wel rome to visit The Herald and News office or to telephone for information tonight on election returns. Doors will ba open throughout tha eve ning, and tha blackboards will ba in operation. Radio station KFJI Is co operating with The Herald and News in gathering and tabulating returns, and will broadcast local Information obtained under the joint en terprise. Aasoeiatad Preas wires will bring statewide aleetlon In formation . Into . Tha Herald and News office. This will ba available to visitors at tha office and to those who In quire by telephone. First Information available at 8 p. m. and mora from than on Into tha waa hours. T GRABS GDNTHU tVtfJVWll. L JI " 10111 Admits Wife - ' ' i i. wM'-'i i Pvt. Joseph F. JHolllnmworth (left) ot Canton, 0 admittad to Colorado Sprinqs, Colo., police that his mniotionnl story of tha "trunk murder" of his wife was a hoax after Seattle. Waih., detectives found pretty Mrs. Hollingaworth (right) alive and well and vary much surprised to learn that aha was a murder "victim." Berlin, Brunswick Bombed As Allies Resume Air War By GLADWIN HILL " LONDON. May 10 ((') Amer ican Fortresses and Liberators and fighter escorts, described of ficially us a strong forco mid probuply numbering up to 1500 planes, resumed the allied aerial onansive otter n nvc-nny inpsc .today and -struck at targets in the Berlin and Brunswick areas. Tha attack, coming less than 24 ihours uftcr Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of U. S. army air forces,- had declared uormnny had not yet seen the full weight of allied oir power, precipitated a running air bnttlo right across Wiff Rogers "Going Home" CLAREMORE. Oklo.. May 19 (p) The body of Will Rogers is coming homo to a new resting placo in the soil of his native state. Tho last remains of the famous Oklahoma humorist will bo taken from tho Glcndale, Calif,, ceme tery tomorrow ana win be in tcrrcd.ln a native stone crypt bcsldo'.the Will Rogers Memor ial musdum here. A brief private ceremony will be conducted when tho body ar rives. Members of the family requested that the time of the burial ' bo kept secret to avoid curious crowds. Less than 100 persons will be invited, ' including - newspaper men and photographers. 4FL. CfO See Pay Denial Harm PORTLAND. Muy 19 (IP) Crinollne of the wor-vltnl lumber Industry In tho northwest be cause of tho war labor board's denial of wage Increases to log' HOrs and lumber workers, was predicted todoy by AFL and CIO leaders. . - Tho rank end file "may take things In their own honds, ' Ken neth Davis, executive secretary of the AFL. Northwest Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers, warned. Claude' Ballard, vice president of the CIO International Wood workers of America .predicted an exodus of loggers to other Indus tries unless Increases woro grant ed. He said no could not Commit himself on a strlko possibility until after a meeting of tho In ternational executive b o a rd meeting here Monday. High Wind Rips 12 Big Gliders MINNEAPOLIS, May 19 (VP) Winds which reached a velocity nf more than 65 miles an hour ripped 12 troop-carrying gilders from tneir moorings at me Northwestern Aeronautical cor poration base at Wold Chamber inln almort last nleht. destroy ing eight and .damaging four others with loss estimated, at $200,000. Some, of the gliders were to have been towed away today, ac cording to John E. Parker, presi dent of the corporation. It was the second time in less than two weeks that gliders parked' at the edge oi tne airport were uproot ed by strong wind and damaged. May 19, 1944 Mix. (May 18) 80 Mln 39 Precipitation lait 24 hour .00 Stream ytar to date 7.70 Normnl 10.69 Last year 18.25 Foracaati Rising tomparaturaa. i .............. Killing Hoax Germany to the sky over tho Ger man capltul, ticrmon broadcasts indicated. Cuts Broadcasts ' Tho ensuing bombardmont the U. S. strategic air force's 10th uttuck on the nuii hub and the third on the capltul this month wax so heavy that It. disrupted German news broadcasts. - From the RAF and the USAAF Berlin has taken ubout 46,000 tons of bombs up to today, Hit North France ' Channel observers sold tho parade of aircraft setting out for tho continent today was the big gest seen during the war. While the American "hoavlos" were smashing at Berlin and Brunswick, small formations of allied expeditionary air force und RAF Mosquitos, Typhoons and flphtcr-'bombcrs attacked un specified objectives In northern Franco this morning, taking ad vantage of clear skies to press iiuniu mi; aitacK. Ward Workers May Call In WLB CHICAGO. Moy 19 (IP) Henry B. Anderson, president of local . 20, United Moil. Order, Worehouse and Retail Employees union (CIO), said today that the U. S. conciliation service and eventually tho war labor board would be called upon again "be cause of tho unyielding stand" token by Montgomery Word and company on a new union con tract. All but three of 17 demands submitted by the union for In corporation In a new contract were rejected by the company lust . night, Anderson .said as negotiations for the now ogree ment got under way with com pany officials, The meeting broke up after a four hour ses sion and union officials and com' pnny representatives said further meetings wouia oe nein. Homan-Morse Vote Battle Spotlighted at Polls Today Bv PAUL MILLER Chief of The Associated Praia Washington Bureau PORTLAND, May 19 Ore gon nominated candidates for two U. S. senate scats and re corded presidential, preferences today In a primary command ing notional attention chiefly because of the fight involving Senator Rufus C. Holman. -The contest in which Holman faced Wayne L. Morse, former public member of tho war labor board and Oregon law school dean, wound up in new charges by Holman that Morse was an inexperienced professor backed by big money; by Morse that Holman was a dangerous Isolationist and incompetent. The presidential preference balloting offered: 1. Another test of strength between Gov. Thomas E., Dewey of New York and Lieut. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen. former gov ernor ' of Minnesota. Oregon's IB- renubllcan national conven tion delegates; will -be pledged to the one receiving the. most votes. 2. An opportunity for Oregon tcontmuea on rago. i woj GERMANS FLEE TO Allies Pound Toward Sant' Oliva; Nazis Lose Equipment By NOLAND NORGAARD '. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,. NAPLES, May 19 (IP) French troops and U. S. tanks broke In to tho Hitler lino at its very cen ter today in a smash toward Sunt' Ollvo, a front dispatch de clared, as the allies hammered all along the front at this new mountain wall manned by tho Germans after "a disorderly re treat." Sant Ollva only four miles from Pico on the lone road sup plying the nazl front is at tho tip of a pie-shaped wedge driven into the mountains between Pontccorvo and French-captured Espcria. Fall Back A headquarters officer de clared tho Germans had made "a disorderly retreat instead of a mcro withdrawal" between the Lirl valley and the sea wheri they fell back from their smash ed Gustav defenses to the Hit ler line under combined Amcr, lean and French blows. The nazis suffered high losseij In equipment, and their artillery, strength particularly has dimin ished, he asserted. Push Westward - '. Even as tho French support cd by American tanks threaten-', ed Sant' Ollva, U. S. troops struck close to the key Appian" way junction of Itri, menacing; tho German supply road from the coastal end. British and Poles troops were pushing west; (Continued on Page Two) i,',' Nazis Bomb Red ; Communications ' " LONDON,- May 19 (IP) -R ports of heavy nazl bombing of Russian communication lines in eastern Poland reflected mount Ing Gorman anxiety today that tho rod ormy Is massing strength to break a long lull In land fight ing with a now smash on the cen tral front along tho shortest Una to Berlin. - - . The Berlin radio reported "concentrated attacks" on rail yards , and trains at Sarny, Rowne and Zdolbunow, the lest about 10 miles south of Rowne. Earlier the Russians an nounced bursts of action on two sectors of the eastern front as re fiorts from both Moscow ana Bcr In continued to dwell on the theme that renewal of battle on a grand scale was close at hand. The Russians announced cap ture of a "height of considerable Importance" southeast of Stanis lawow, in Old Poland, and the slaying of 600 Germans who at tempted a counterattack in tha lower Dncstr region northwest of Tiraspol. Steffinius Mum On Swede Trade d WASHINGTON, May 19 (IP) Undersecretary of State. Stet tlnius suggested today that ne gotiations, with Sweden 'to stop ball bearing shipments to Ger many have reached the point where it would be well to let the matter rest In the hands of diplomats. . He made, the observation ot a press conference after declining to discuss reports that Stock holm had prepared a compro mise proposal. Landing Craft Get House Nod ; WASHINGTON, May 19 (IP) The houso voted to the navy to day authority to build another million tons of landing craft, with a vociferous demand of some members that General Douglas MacArthur- get most of them "so he can carry tne iignt Into the heart of Japan." There was no dissent on- tha bill but it provoked a sharp de bate between Rep. Fish (R-N. Y., and Majority Leader McCormack (D-Mass.), over who was to blame for tho Pearl Harbor disaster.? Fish called it "piecemeal leg islation" for the navy to seek tha $1,800,000,COO worth, of landing craft now, the third million tona to be asked, when, he said, all 3,000,000' tons might have been contracted for a year ago. "It will take at least a year to build them,'? " Fish sold. ; "but when they ore built I nope a large part of them will be sent to MacArthur so he can carry the fight into the. heart of Ja pan." T ;,' DISORDER
