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Era it nothing as thli Ii writ- n to Innlcnte now uic nniuo E5f'i... 1...,. WAIT. Ule inch u this Is too big to reported accurately wunui rhouri. ... iriNWHU.R wntch the oris I tn.nl. n nrl whnn r Ollvr luwifl . ...... ........ ley ire reported. If thoy begin 1 go up limrpiy, 11 win 00 u ui mdable ilgn thnt tho Germans IAW IT ,Tfif.fn mT-m tin ntur lUiios mis is wriucn.j HE Gcrmnrn, who woro Tight ibout our Anz o reorvcs Ink nervously todny of big Con Intrallonj of nlllud trooo on It Island of Coralcn. Wntcli le reports. From Corsica, wc fculd itrlko cither at far norllv kn Idly or at jouthcrn Franco, ROM London we hear tht fmliers rniiKcd over miles of KFfflV lArr Inrv ,M.lilnrt inn Al inuc wuii 10 niraiu uirgcui ui Dmrtunllv. ' iMf.nnini!. nnnar- fctljr. shooting at ANYTHING hat MOVE D.) nolurning uou tell of trains STOPPING won ns our panics appeared MtO SKY. ONDON now Issues a dally ' "Invnslnn" wnnlhAH pnnftrt. liyt&V'l lll- nt n 11.(1, .iiIm1 Alinl uovcr sir.iit mat muca 10 Enio mo ualm SEA. ino fy, remained steady through f nigni. It sounds llko PERFECT In pon wcotner. if thot Is true, I minn- xmni n c a rv IU SiriKC. innL IB. U1U wicnt hasn't arrived to strike '"ii r UuLtioT ADVANTAGE A lET'S do a little guessing here f M to "D" dny. It Is probably 1 'ncuKcrujAL, day, ratner N in actual day. It Is likely r "'ran 1110 dny on which wo now could a qunrterback, at t BEGINNING of the football wra, necmo tho exact momont k " "vii nu wuuin uncorK inu P Play that would lay tho other H6 rnnMn'i 1.. nuvu 10 won until mo Her tinm a.nn J! 1 1 t.nl fjNtohlm like just the right - .v iiiuKo me Dig play a suo I nemember that war and foot- r - siartiingly alike, 'HE battle of Italy takes the in nnrmn .u ........... Ii 0 1 c "lyi'Kyina iignv- lain ciVi neavy monsoon l:." JS"'W a communique tiu- '" Blow worK ot cumi T'vagoly resisting pockets IrJv1 v," eviaenuy are pre lZ,ilc I" their dugbuts and pium" " c,ui'cnchments, con I Otlr li.,... . - . . - It ''""""-escortea bombera eld wnvr l n,K,Irom. tn0 air km u J""1 "'Ken irom P On iWnnbo ah the fow ef .'S wlthln their range, as Wv iiSl? so'thern Philippines, )lnv V . "cs "way. .: We're 5. li'fORE Jap airfields esLmP Ncw Guinea coast. undhlc 'ho J"P on -the 'Ine ln aJe.8htlng utterly 3 In their tracks, as Is their hnl I I o( cu lu"ay mai 1 1 ,Sl dead at Woriir. 1. ai our iaawwpn ps two) to ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS 13,000 lillworkers "Vacation" Rains Slow Burma Push; Radio Mum On Marcus Raid By J. B. GRUEGER Attoclatad Pron War Editor Monsoon rains forced a slow down In tho allied drlvo to seize tho koy minim city of Myltkylnu today and another big opcrutton In the Pacific war tlio 'pre sumed attack on Japanese-held ftinrcus island lay hidden in radio silence. U. Gen. Joseph W. StlllwcU's Chlnt'so and Americans fought on throuKh the heavy rnins to wipe out the enemy still holding SIMPLE TUX BILL Bv FRANCIS M. LE MAY WASHINGTON, May 23 (P). In an emphatic answer to the annual March tax howl over deci mals and digits, congress today sent to the White House legisla tion simplifying tho return process for 60,000,000 income luxpayers. Leudcra said tho president cer tainly will sign the ''streamliner" Into law. Passed unanimously by the houso, and by a voice vote In the senate thus setting a popular ity record for a major tax mea surethe tax bill would relieve some 30,000,000 persons of tho necessity of ever computing an other federal Income tax return. In addition, it simplifies tax pay ing procedures for the other 20, 000,000. Amendments Okay Final action came as the house, on a motion by Chairman Dough- ton (D-N.i C.) of tho ways and (Continued on Page Two) Blaeklisiers Eye Swedish Firms WASHINGTON, May 23 (IP) Tho government's blacklist con trol committee studied the rec ords of dozens of Swedish firms and business men today with a prospect of adding ncw names to the list, as American negoti ators in tho Scandinavian coun try pressed for a halt on all ballbearing shipments from Sweden to-Germany. Tho state doDBrtmcnt an nounced last night tho addition of -38 Swedish firms or indi viduals to the proclaimed list to bo Issued on June 2. Tho an nouncement added significantly, "Tho names of other firms are currontly under consideration lor inclusion. Thn 30 listed in the latest ad dition were for tho most part shipping firms, Jewelers and a variety 01 otnor Dusnie.tst.-a. D-Doy Tenseness Grips England; Civilian Trains Cut; Nazis Scout By JAMES F. KING LONDON, May 23 (P) New invasion tenseness gripped troop packed Britain today as further drastic cuts In main lino pas senger train schedules left thou sands of civilians stranded in stations. Train timetables throughout tho country were put pn a vir tual day-to-day basis. Troops woro given priority on trains still running. Farewells between soldiers and their wives and sweethearts wore more poignant than over before. Many Cancelled At some stolons as many as 50 trains wore cancelled with out forewarningsome on busy suburban routes. "We are in the hands of the authorities," wlis tho only explanation offi cials at one London station would give. ; The appearance of Germon air scouts over Britain early to day, apparently seeking to spot military preparations, added to the sense of invasion imminency. Six of the enemy planes, wore brought down.- "Mass Murder" Throughout the country Brit ish hatred of the nazis was tea aid IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1944 a linru of Myllkylna n north ern Burma. A glimpse of the difficulties Involved was given In a btuwcll headquarters an nouncement: Slow Work Goes On "The slow work of eliminat ing savagely resisting pockets of Japanese, who evidently ore pre purcd to die In their dugouts and behind log entrenchments, continues." Continuation of fighting, how ever, suggested that General Stllwcll planned to keep right on going in his drive to link tho Burma and Lcdo roads into China, dcsplto the monsoon. Chinas Capture Chinese aiming at a Junction with Stilwcll's forces captured Chcfang on the old Burma road, Isolating the main enemy, base at Lunling, about 60 miles from the Burma border. The Chinese were within 100 airline miles of CHUNGKING. May 23 (Pi Field dispatches said tonight the Chines army had started big counter offensive In Honan province, regaining a numbar of important strategic points. No details wore available im mediately. a Junction with Stilwcll's; forces. The capture of Chefang cut off mining from lis jvianuaiay sup ply base. Navy Quiet Pacific fleet headquarters - at pearl Harbor remained as silent as the grave In the face of a Japanese announcement an al lied task forco had aerially at tacked Marcus Island, 1100 miles from Tokyo, throughout Satur day and Sunday. Tokyo said car rier planes struck at Marcus seven times. In India British forces have finally ended Japanese attempts to break communication lines in the Brahmaputra valley and (Continued on Page Two) Jury Acquits Carnegie Steel PITTSBURGH, May 23 (IP) A federal court jury today ac quitted the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation of a govern ment charge of canceling and falsifying records of tests on steel plates. The verdict was reached last night by the jury of six women and six men, and opened in court this morning. Yesterday, Federal Judge R. M. Gibson threw out. another charne. alleging destruction of records at the corporation's Ir- vin works. The charges grew out of an Investigation bv the Truman senate investigating committee in 1943. . by a Stockholm dispatch In the Daily Express asserting that the shooting of 47 British and allied prisoners of war, all kaj om ccrs, in the German prison camp Stalag Luff III in March during an alleged escape attempt, was "mas murder." The Incident was reported to the house of com mons last week by Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden, who prom ised a full investigation. The Daily Express dispatch said iurther details had been ob tained from RAF officers who had escaped and made their way Good Weather For Invasion LONDON, May 23 '(IP) A light northwesterly wind over Dover Strait failed to ruffle tho calm sea today as the sun broke through the haze, providing fair visibility. . A moderate rise in temper ature brought the thermome ter to 60 degrees before 0 a, m. (3 AEW). The barom eter, which rose yesterday, romained steady through the night. 1 Citizen At Three Thre-yar-old Samuel Silver man (above)r a native of MTe ronto, Canada, was the young. estol 2ZH- aliens -who took-tn oath of allegiance before Fed eral 'Judge Frank A. Picard at Detroit, Mich. He was admitted as a' citlien under a special act of congress in 1940, following a petition of his parents, who were naturalised 23 years ago, (AP wiraphoto). Bv AUSTIN BEALMEAR LONDON, May 23 m Ap proximately 3500 allied planes battered Hitler's Europe today in a day-long - assault in which more than suuu tons, ot explo sives were loosed on. German airdromes, freight . yards and other military objectives in. the fifth . day . of the renewed . rre- invasion aerial offensive.. An armada of up to 750 American Liberators and Flying Fortresses began the- daylight smashes in a dawn attack on French and German targets after more than 1000 British night bombers had hit Dortmund ana Brunswick in Germany and oth er continental objectives. Low Losses' Of the more tjian 1700 planes including fighters making (Continued on Page Two) Preparations to Sweden and that an official report based on their statements could De expected soon. Nothing to Report ' In Stockholm, a British lega tlon spokesman said that so far as he knew there was nothing to report of the shooting of the al lied prisoners. He saia mat an Information received in Stock holm regarding the executions had come from London. Declaring the British prison ers had been shot "haphazardly In barracks, courtyards- and workshops," the Express said the details, when revealed, would be "one of the most shocking stor ies- of the war" and added edi torially: . "It has remained for Germany to add the' final Inspiration for the ruthless assault that is pre pared. , v ... .- Troops Poised Nazi radio warnings ' and re assurances about the impending Invasion included an estimate thqt 3,500,000 troops are poised In the south of England for a thrust against' the cbntinertt, the biggest nazi estimate thus far. Berlin' radio broadcast an ar ticle by Col. Ritter von Schramm (Continued on Page 'Two) 1 SF 2 - -wmimm- iisPOUNDEO; KW ; : , ;sE: FROM 2 SIDES W,A ..,. - Normal .: 10.81 Last year 16.25 " W ' W U. . NEA rcAIUKtS - - Forcmti Warmer. NUMBER 10114 f. ... : (N NEW DIE 0 OREGON WASH ID PLANTS D 01 Draft Threat Hangs Over Protest Strikers SEATTLE.; May 23 (IP) The threat of the draft hung over vacationing ' lumber and saw- m ill workers today as uol. wai ter J. DcLong. Washington state! selective service director, warn ed that the walkout of 13,000 to 15.000- men. which han closed more than 40 Washington and Oregon plants, automatically changes the draft status of some men. Colonel DeLong said that men deferred because of their occupa tions are not .entitled to defer ments when they leave their jobs. He said he was not interested in the strike" Issues. The walk outs began last Friday after war labor board denial of a basic 15 cent pay increase for the indus try." race i-A.ciast . . "If a man is not working, he naturally will be classified 1-A, If he is otherwise quaimeq, (joi oneL DeLong . said; 1 - ' 5 Oregon, however, will take no action-ttr change the status of lumber -workers who have left. their jobs until tne situation nas "Droeressed further." Col. Elmer V. Wooton, state selective service director, said. ..';': The walkouts spread 'today to Bellingham with the Larson plant of the Bloedel , Donovan mills at Lake V?hatcom, employ- ine 180. shut down. Six hundred men in the big cargo mill .on the waterfront, the box factory and sash and door mill remained on the Job. Seattle's last operating saw mill; the Tyee Lumber and Man ufacturing . company, - a small operation, closed today. . Workers to Meet . The Northwest council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers, . (Continued on Page Two) , Klamath Youth Killed in Action Glen Fields, former Klamath youth and son of Mrs. Zeda Fields of Corning, Calif., was killed in action somewhere in the South Fa- bv cuic while serv- pf, Inff with the?..(ri United States navy, according to word received here Tuesday. Glen lived in Langell valley for 10 years dur ing which time his parents oper ated a farm, in 1942 he -enlisted In the navy and received training at San Diego. During early . service, Glen suffered . a broken arm and was given several months' furlough when he returned to Langell valley to a s s 1 s t his neighbors, in the harvest.- ' He then returned to his base and was sent back into action in the Pacific theater., The navy man is survived by his mother, Mrs. Zeda Fields of Corning, two sisters, - Stella Fields of Sacramento and Lu cille Keller of Stanwood, Wash., and one brother, Warren, Sa(S ramento, who has just been dis charged from the U; S. army for physical disability following two years in the service.. Chrysler Strike . Called Oft DETROIT. May' 23. (IP) The Chrysler corporation strike caus ing idleness tor neany .iz,uuu war workers was called off sud denly, today by the executive board of local 480, united Auto mobile Workers (CIO). ' . ' , Ordering , strikers back to work, the local's executive board took its action a day before its mnmhpKhln Was to anrjear -be fore the parent UAW-CIO's high est councils ywim tacts ana wit nesses" to explain the strike. J Boy Trapped In Pipe r h ? l - f ' Twenty-month-old Kenntth Holman of Dei Moines, la., looks hopefully at George Stitiall, ona of the men who freed him after he stuck his leg into a four-inch "drain pip up to the knee. Ken neth's sho became wedged and he spent an uncomfortable hour while rescuers chopped hole in the concrete floor, removed the pipe, and dislodged his leg. (AP wiraphoto). Kiwanians Head Fifth War Loan Drive; Starts June 12 Klamath-; 'cqunty'a over . all qu,ptat;. f or the Fifth 5V,i Loan has -been officially set- at $3, 815,000,. it watt announced Tues day by Joe Hicks,- chairman of the drive which starts June. 12. ?The local campaign: is under, he direction Of the- Klamath: Falls Kiwanis club., i s : Hicks had '- estimated ' 'the quota at .three. -and one. half million, and on this basis chair- Hummer Plant : Work at Normal SPRINGFIELD" mZ May '23 (IP) Normal operations were attained "almost 100' per cent" today at Montgomery Ward's Springfield affiliate, the Hum mer Manufacturing, .company plant, .the army said as - it en tered its' second full ' day 6t con trol. . . ... ' . , : . .... , V -. Lt.-Col. Nelson S. Talbott, war department representative in charge of operations, under a presidential - order issued bun day, said 438 . of -479 war pro duction workers who had been idle 17 days in a contract dis pute were on the job for two shifts yesterday.. More were ex pected today,, ana. .tne. iirst snut force was 23 larger than: on Monday., ',. .,.' , .'. : : Vice President Stops in Alaska " FAIRBANKS. Alaska. May 23 (CP) Vice President. Henry A. Wallace; eti route to Chung king on an information-gathering mission'for President Roose velt, made ' overnight stops at Edmonton,. Alta., and tnis Al aska town, it was permitted to disclose today., ' . . . ' , . The vice president arid - his party' of three left Washington by plane last Saturday,- and the ship landed at -Edmonton the same evening after a brief stop at Minneapolis. He was greeted bv Briff.-Gen. Dale .V. Gaffney. commanding general of the Al askan wing, air transport com mand, and spent : the night at Gen. Gaffney s quarters. Six-Ship Naii Convoy Blasted WASHINGTON,' May 23 (fP) A German convoy of six ships loaded with' ammunition and gasoline- was destroyed in. the Mediterranean by a British- American force after two Amer ican PT boats' took on a pair of German destroyers and lured them' away from their protec tive ; positions, the .navy disT closed today.', ; .' . .' ' Describing' the faction .'last March, the navy: said the two small American boats raced full throttle at the 'destroyers and at 350 yards released torpedoes. men 'were working -toward 'a successful campaign. The fourth War Loan .figure was- $2,765,- uuu. , '.;-...' .'. 'TK-'.':!; ''E.',Bond Quota !;'";". The' "E" bond quota 'for- the county, Is $989,000, an edge over the last drive when "E" bonds were set at $987,900. Individual purchase' quota, other than "E" bonds, is $300,000, and the cor poration quota, $2,526,000, Hicks reported. . . " We' -will. need more. support than t ever from corporations, both in and out of the city," Hicks: stated.., "The 'E' bond quota will be harder to'-' raise in . this drive due to the time of year and the fact that -the last war. loan came immediately after tne farmers had harvested theft crops. It is now up to the small purchasers to - put, over this big 4'E- bond quota'."-- 1 Stress was - put on - payroll savings by the Fifth-War Loan chairman. Quotas for employes have 'been-issued to the larger firms1 through the treasury rep resentatives. Quotas given the smaller firms will be issued by the , contact man on : the war bond committee. , . Foundry Workers Walk Off Jobs SEATTLE, :May 23 (P) The Pacific-Car & Foundry company plant at nearby Renton began eating into reserve supplies of metal today after about 75 jour neymen 'moulders 1 and core makers walked off the job yes terday, aftermath of the January strike which spread over Wash ington and Oregon. Neil V. Pardo, business agent of the. AFIMoulders and Foun dry Workers union, said the men acted on their own Initiative and .the walkout was not union-spon sored. -," - ' tot Lee Smith Wounded , As Nazis Bomb Hospital German planes bombed an American hospital on the Anzio beachhead and Pvt. Lee K. Smith, son of Mr. " and Mrs. Hilbert B. Largent of Langell valley,- soldier -natteitf .in - the hospital, suffered the Soss of a part of his foot, according to word received by the youth's parents.' ' - Young Smith - received . the Purple Heart for wounds? re ceived in action, the medal reaching the Largents Saturday. Official word also came, frqm the war department that their sop- was making : normal pro gress Pvt.- Smith is with the First Special Service Force.'par atroopers, serving in Italy. Fol lowing, is. a portion of. his letter home: . . . -Bunged Up "I was up on the Anzio beach head on patrol when I got in a . V. Tanks of Two Allied Armies Only 20 ; jt- Miles Apart : By NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 23 (IP) The allies on the Anzio beachhead smash ed forward today in a mighty offensive and simultaneously the eighth army drove against the Hitler line from the east, opening a new phase of the bate tie in Italy to crush the Gei man armies. ' At the same time other, fifth) army forces .' hammered ..upon nazi defenses on the coastal sec tor only 22 miles below the beachhead. . :.--:.'. Clark Commands-: , - . Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark per, sonally directed the. assault: as the beachhead force, swollen by reinforcements, ...str uck -as though, in an explosion, of tha tightly-hemmed mass . . of mill tary strength. - - The tank-led assault at thai beachhead jumped off an hour after , dawn, striking savagely toward Cisterna astride the An . pian way, a mile and a naif away, and the Alban hills be low Rome, a front dispatch saidi Doughboys charged across the flat no man's land against mine protected enemy positions.- - - -:- Full-Scale Blow f The eighth army hit in full scale assault against . nazi strongholds in the Liri valley; British, Canadian -and. Polish units already had penetrated the line there, and had . the) strongholds of Pontecorvo, Ac quino and Pledimonte in a pin cer grip before today's offen sive started. . On the coastal sector, fifth armv men had seized mora mountain taeignts guarding , tne Appian - way approach to . tho bridgehead across the Pontine) marshes, r r -. , . (Berlin declared Pico pivot stronghold in the center of the) . (Continued on Page Two) . , ' Mercury Drops i To 23 Tuesday . 'Th mereurv drODned to 23 de grees early Tuesday morning and considerable damage was report ed to - fruit trees and - Victory gardens.- -- - . . -". . In. the 'Tulelake area growers reported a quarter of an inch of ice on- standing . water and b low. freezing, temperatures have been recorded the last threw mornings. Grain has suffered considerably from the cold; weather and some small orchard ists were smudging in an .eiicrj; to. save fruit. - r -. - : . B Texas FDR Demoi Bolt Convention AUSTIN, Tex., May 23 " (IP) I A group of pro-Roosevelt demo crats today walked, out on the), state democratic convention fol1 lowing the second, adverse vote on issues backed by a faction, urging re-nomination of ; Presi dent Roosevelt. ' .' ' ' Singing "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You," the bolting delegates streamed across tha second tloor' of the capital to the hall of the house: of repre sentatives. , 1 , . ; They w a Iked- out on the sharply-split convention under the leadership of Mrs. Alfred Taylor -of the; Travis county delegation. This delegation had sparked "the campaign to: name a Texas delegation instructed to vote for renoroination of Presi' dent Roosevelt at Chicago. - ; heavy German artillery concen tration and got my Knee ouiib1 up a bit. Enough to go. to the. hospital on the beach.- It was while 1 was tnere mat tne uer mans bombed the hospital and I got part of my left foot blown off. . . . ' . : "However,.! am getting aiong swell now and- don't have much pain. The doctors here are of, the very, best and have certain ly proved it to me as well as, the rest of the hoopital person; nel. There doesn't seem to bef anything too. good for a person, that is sick or hurt. , , Gets "Heart" "I have already received my Purple Heart medal and am got ing to try to have it sent home. I have been getting the Klam ath paper right : along and it sure looks good over here. How is everyone at home?" . QUOTA SET ATlSpSOQ KLAMATH COUNTY'S .FIFTH WAR LOAN