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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1944)
PACE TWO NAZIS POUNDED FROM 2 SIDES IN NEWJRIVE (Continued from Page One) main front hod been evacuat ed). ' . Between 500 and 700 heavy bombers and many other planes hammered at . German . troops nnd tanks and targets within a . SO mile radius of Borne in a thunderous spearhead for the beachhead offensive. Valley Erupts . . A battlefront dispatch de clared "the whole Liri valley seemed to erupt today" as the eighth army crunched against Hitler line bastions some ,40 miles east of the beachhead. "The battle in Italy has start ed upon a new phase," allied headquarters declared. "An attack by the fifth army beachhead force started early in the morning May 23 in con junction with an attack by the eighth army against the Hitler line and continued action by the fifth army on the coastal sector. No Details No details of today's fighting are available yet, headquarters added. (A Berlin broadcast declared "It appears that the ' Anglo United States command in south Italy intends to force success at all costs in the course of today." The German high command said the beachhead offensive opened after intensive artillery arumtire, . witn troops, - tames and planes thrown intotthe a saults hitting southwest and west of Aprilia, and in the Cis- terna-Littona sector). Headcruazters Moved General Clark moved his "headquarters to the beachhead to direct this new phase of the Italian ' campaign. His beach head force is composed of both GEES? Vi Fridays, In Oroville, in the Sate of Washington, the)' get ouf the Gazette. They arc the Orbville home folks. larljf in the war, Editor I. J. Doerr' decided every Oroville lad in (uniform should receive the. Gazette free. Soon mis meant 300 copies a week . . . roughly one-third the circula tion. : . . . Orovlllo folks said it was too' much. They offered to chip in ton the cost. Editor Doerr said "No" that was his contri bution: He could use some help, though. So, one night a week,, members of the Lions Club help fold, wrap and mail papers. Thoir reward is hundreds of letters from Oroville boys thewoildover.letters like this! "Before we moved up we had to burn all papers; I never hated to destroy anything so much in my life as the last issue of the Oroville Gazette!" This It a grand thing, all around. Furthermore, it snows how much their home town pa-. . pers mean to Americans , . . ' whether at home or away. And no wonder! Every item they print is about those intimate, personal things where freedom counts the most. ' - John Brown is serving on the jury . . . Miss Smith has signed up to teach at the Cor ners again next year . . . Henry Farmer is ploughing his South Forty . , . Molly Jones, whose twin brother Jim is in Italy, has returned to State University Pastor Good announces a cake sale to help pay for the church furnace. It's to prosorvo these things, reflected by items in the home town paper, that we're fighting today. Our fathers fought for them, too. Only, they called "them trial-by-jury, free-education, freedom-of-worship. And what could be more worth fight ing for than a country where, taken together, these things maati home. aioiJ to of Kmni IMWf American and British divisions, part of the fifth army. , The beachhead's military strength had been built almost to . the bursting point for the attacks, with the aid .of the British and u. s. navies wnose warships also have supported land operations with heavy shelllngs. (The Swiss radio said the two fifth army forces now were only 20 miles apart).. . . , Bombers Active Pacing the beachhead, allied light bombers - and ' fighters bombed nazi concentrations on an eight-mile stretch of dry river bed near the .- rail line north of Clsterna, German fort ress city in the center astride the Appian way, and swooped low to strafe the Germans. (The Swiss radio said the al lies, hitting on the eastern edge of the beachhead, had reached Lake Fogliano, and that an at tack was "developing success fully in the direction of Lit toria" due north of the lake). E SIMPLE TAX BILL (Continued from Page One) means committee, accepted tech nical senate amendments. The measure rearranges the whole individual income tax structure, discarding the two-year-old wartime "victory" tax and setting new normal and sur tax rates and exemptions while keeping actual tax burdens at substantially present levels .for most persons. Withholding System Effective next January 1, the withholding system would be ad Justed to take the fuU tax liabil ity for wage and salary persons earning up to $5000. Thus the withholding levy would become fee actual tax, beginning next year, for 30,000,000 taxpayers. They would owe no more at the end of the tax year. No change would be made in amounts withheld from pay en velopes tms year, cut the govern ment itself would compute, the taxes on 1944 income for those with wages and salaries of $5000 ana less. . -. . Adds Taxpayers The measure would add some 150,000 new taxpayers earning between $535 and $624, while re shifting to the status of income taxpayers approximately 9.000, 000 persons now subject to the victory tax but with incomes not large enough to come under pre- Taxpayers who wish may file regular-returns both for this year ana in future years. Generally, in the reshufflin to Attain a two-tax system to sup plant he present three-way victory, normal and surtax- taken from the taxpayers pock ets,- tne legislation eases ine Bur den for persons with large fami lies,' while increasing- somewhat the load lor cnudiess married couples. This results from a flat S5CW personal exemption for each taxpayer and dependent to re place the present scale of $1200 for a. married couple plus $350 tor each dependent. , Military Exemption It does not disturb the Dresent $1500- exemption allowed men and iwomen in the armed serv ices above their regular family status .credits. To,- provide:.. 'ifreedgm. irom computation!' rellef-'at UWclote- MF-'f W?1 ol this year,,pencung. .January, ef fective date of the new-Withhold ing system, all those with' wages and salaries up to $5000 and re ceiving no more than $100 from, sources not subject to withhold-, ing will be permitted simply to xue a withholding receipt in place of a regular return. These taxpayers will -list their dependents on the reverse side of this receipt, to be furnished by their employers, and enter tne amounts ol other income, if any. They then will mail the receipt to their local tax col lector, who in turn will compute tne tax ana sena a Dill. . Probe of Naval Transfer Asked WASHINGTON. Mav 23 IPi. Senator Bridges fR-N. H.) told the senate today he was inform ed that an American cruiser had been transferred to Russia, and demanded to know the truth of such, reports. Asserting that some actions of the government have been "dis turbing the minds of the rjeonle." Bridges said he thought the peo ple were entitled to Know it na val transfers had been made as "a part of our patchwork policy oi appeasing nussia. Leonard Kidwell, SP Employs, Dis In Portland Leonard Kidwell, 59, long time employe of the Southern Pacific company, died In a Portland hos pital Saturday, May 20, accord ing to word received-here. At tne time of his passing, Mr. Kid well was employed as brakeman on the passenger run between Portland and Eugene. He had lived in Klamath Falls for many years. Mr. Kidwell Is survived by his wife, the former Emma Cole of mis city, and nine children. A step-daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Derby, la in Portland to attend final rites. AHm Adding Machines rruten Calculators Doeka Chain - FIImT ' PIONIIR PRINTING AND STATIONERY CO. 124 So. 9th Klamath Falls 40 OREGON, WASHINGTON PLANTS D01 (Continued from Page One) AFL-af filiate, will meet Saturday in Portland in an attempt to end the walkout. The Seattle local meets Friday night. Thousands were idle: estimates of the number off duty ranged from 13.000 to 15,000; the walk outs in protest against a wage increase denial were spreading rapidly and more mills may close tomorrow in eastern Washington around Spokane where a mass meeting was scheduled tonight. Tacoma Mills Down All mills in Tacoma, where around 4500 are employed, were closed, including tne St. Paul-la- coma Lumber company, one of the worlds largest Douglas fir operators. About 800 workers suddenly picked up and left their work to close that mill. In Seattle and Portland the sit uation was almost the same. Only the U. S. Plywood corporation was running in Seattle; 1000 AFL , members and 1300 CIO workers emit in Portland, closing all but one plant and leaving an other running part time. Reports from Everett, Roy. Ea- tonville, Hoquiam and Aberdeen, Wash., told the same story. "Unrest is rife among lumber workers in Oregon and other mills are likely to follow, de clared John Christenson. presi dent of the Northwest AFL- Lumber and Sawmill Workers union. Portland Man Quit In Portland a union spokes man said "men are walking out faster than we can keep up with them." The CIO rank and file In Port land voted to "go fishing." union officials termed the walkouts "wildcat" and spokes man issued public statements in an attempt to keep the men on the job. ." The walkouts began after the war labor board denied last week requested wage Increases. The AFL union asked a 15-cent hourly wage increase to $1.05; the CIO Lumber union also asked an increase. Thus far the walkout has af fected only mills; loggers are still on the job. PORTLAND, Ore., May 23 (JP) John D. Galey, vice president of the west coast lumber commis sion, said today he expected the war labor board to take a stand on the northwest's lumber walk outs within a few hours. Galey telegraphed a complete report on the spreading work stoppage to tne wijB last night. A proposed Jl daily bonus, one of several issues not decided by tne wlb at tne time the wage in creases w.ere rejected, is still be- zore tne rtuu. Bodies Recovered From Laird Plane COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. May 23 VP) The bodies of 2nd L.I. jack T. Laird. Klamath Falls. Ore., and his nine fellow crew- aeaKShertf ten miles west , of jjarKSpuf last night, v 1 HP man. nminanti nr. m Witt. irisf Fof tress, had been missins from the Clovis, N. Mex., air base since February 28. The search and rescue section of the second air force located the -crashed, plane yesterday after nearly three months' search. - Laird, bombardier on the Plane, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Laird, 530 Main street, Klamath Falls. Word's Labor Record Exposed WASHINGTON. Mav S3 IIP Gerald Reilly,- member of the national labor relations board, asserted today that ths Mnnt. gomery Ward company had a long record of violating labor laws. Appearing before a special house committee investigating government seizure of the mm. pany's plant at Chicago, Reilly said the asserted violations were in the Kansas City, Portland, Ore., and St. Paul plants, and "undoubtedly this background of unfair practice slaved a larsa part" as a precipitant to the cele brated Chicago strike which led to seizure. Fisherman Lands Trout of Dreams LACONIA. N. H.. Mav 93 WPI Fisherman Archie White re ports success he's landed the trout he's been trvine to t zor inree years. It weighed JO pounds 8 ounces. The "monster" square tail, described by witnesses as "the grand-daddy of them all," wag taken in Hubbard bronk. West Thornton. How does White know it' the same trout? Well: this la a fish story. The late Lieut.-Gen. John I. jeune was the only U. S. marine corps officer to command an army division. PILES SUCCESSFULLY TREATED NO rAIN . NO HOSPITALIZATION . No Lom ef Tim Permanent Btnllal . DR. E. Mi MARSHA Chf revf aetfe M..i.t ... t No, lib Riqnlro Tbtfttrt Bllf. rnaoi ivwy HERALD AND NEWS, EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Page One) the Japs' 833. Our boys down there are selling thoir lives at a high price. . ""THIS is a good time to re- V " member that our boys on all the fighting fronts are GIVING THEIR LIVES. What we of the easy, in many ways softer and pleasanter than ever before home front are giving to match their sacrifices is some times hard to figure out.) (Continued, from Page One) along the Assam-Bengal railway, southeast Asia headquarters said. British Mop Up Around Kohima In eastern In dia the British were mopping up, and the tone of a headquarters announcement was confident: "Progress has been made in all sectors of the Assam front . . ." Another southeast Asia report said 213 Japanese planes were destroyed against a loss of three allied fighters in the dost 10 weeks of the Burma campaign. In the southwest Pacific Wakde'a airstrip seized only a few days ago started receiving planes bearing troops called to reinforce Americans on the flanking New Guinea mainland. The Japanese were bitterly re sisting this latest allied leap up the island's northwest coast. Ponap Hit Again For the 15th time this month allied planes . Friday bombed Ponape in the Carolines, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz' headquarters said. Chungking acknowledged the fall of Lushih in the north Honan battle and said the Japanese were driving toward Tungkwan. WASHINGTON, May 23 VP) Army, navy and marine fliers joined in one of the heaviest bat terings ever given Wotje atoll in the eastern Marshalls Sunday night, hitting that enemy base with 230 tons of bombs, the navy announced tooay. Hard pounding almost equaled the attack delivered Mav 14 ud- on damn, anotner ot tne enemy held atolls in the eastern Mar shalls, where 240 tons of bombs were used to blast enemy in sanations ot all types. Eleven Killed In Iowa Storms DES MOINES, May 23 ) A Red Cross representative esti mated today that storms -.of the past five davs. whlK-i claimed at least eleven livesj reused dam age amounting to $2,345,000 to Duuaings in is lowff counties. Still to be surveyed went 1! other counties hit' by floods or tornadoes. M. A. L. Gardner of Washlns. ton, Red Cross national, hulldlns advisor, pointed out, .that the estimate, made after a survey of part of the stricken , area, did not include livestock losses or damage to property other than Kimball Funeral" Sot For Wednesday At Whitlock's Final rites for Jackson F. Kim hall, pioneer tlmberman who died Sunday at his home, will be held from the chapel of the Earl Whitlock Funeral home Wednesday at 11 a. m. with Rev. victor f nuiips or the First Meth odist church officiating Commitment services and In terment win taxe place in the family plot in Ashland ceme tery at Ashland at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Honorary pallbearers will be . a. nan, w. o. Smith, C. H Underwood, T. B. Watters, M. S, West and Marshall E. Cornett. Commercial News Broadcast Ban Eyed by Committee WASHINGTON. Mav S3 IBA a oan against tne commercial sponsorship of news broadcasts was included in a series of sweeping amendment, tn the fed. eral communications act present ed ror consideration today to the senaie interstate commerce mm. mittee. . Chairman Wheeler fD.MnntV who said the proposal evoked "plenty of controversy" in a closed committee session, de clared the tentative bllldraft as tne nanaiwork of himself and Senator White (R-Me.) who have held conferences looking toward a compromise of their views on an overall domestic radio policy. Knowing you have the pro tection is worth the premium, even if you may never have a fire. ' Hans Norland Insurance, 11 Worth 7th St. Cicar S. Nissan, P. T. voaaotior AMtriM rkrl-Tkmr laaiiiait Maisofl Madical Gymnastics Mllk Vl Vloltt Kari iMOlallilat la MiMnUr, Joint, Clroalar, ani Norro CoaSltloao lor . ..M Toart. (lines ml), . ; OHfea ajnrii to i . : or bf olatmoii! . ' ' US North Slk St. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON D- (Continued from Page One) in the Berlin Bursen Zottung conceding the allies would excol In power and weight of equip ment in the opening phases of the assault but said "fast armor ed forces are standing by (or counterattacks against any threatened points and to Isolate penetrations. The alllos hardly will be able to out-tank us Im mediately after the landing." News RoDorti - U. S. army field commanders were in possession of a 24-pHgo booklet from headquarters uiK" ins their full cooperation with war correspondents in sending an accurate report of the fight ing speedily back home to coun teract nazi propaganda. The booklet stressed that war correspondents were sharing the dangers ol tne war along wnn the troops to get news of their activities .to the folks at home, Code Road Signs In the wake of a broadcast appeal yesterday by Gen. Dwlght u. fiisennower s invasion neact quarters for European patriots to be ready to act as guides for allied troops, the German radio today said that the only road signs left In France are in code. "France is like a steel hedge hog now, with fortified villages, barricaded roads and soldiers everywhere, the radio asserted In the past few days British papers have printed pictures from Stockholm showing nar row streets In French coastal villages blocked by barbed wire Stops Bridge Traffic The Danish radio said the Ger man military commander in Den mark had barred all traffic across main bridges during the blackout period even to mili tary traffic except in extraor dinary cases. On the heels of yesterday's assertion by President Roosevelt that the allies would strike blows at Europe from the east, south and west, the German-controlled Vichy radio said: "German re- connalssance has revealed large concentrations of trooos on Cor sica. It is possible these portend an attack on the Italian coast opposite the Island. ' 3500 PLIES BASH (Continued from Page One) the American davllsht raid, one bomber and three fighters failed to return. The British night at tacks cost 35 RAF planes. Targets of the American, at tacks included rail yards at Epl nal and Chaumont and airdromes at Avord, Orlcans-Brlcy, Bour ges, &iampes-Monaesire, "Uten and Chateaudun. all in France. Targets within Germany were not loeniuied immediately. - Opposition Down The great force of American fighters more than 1000 escort. ed the big bombers on the morn ing mission kept German op position at a respectable dis tance and the headquarters an nouncement said that only one bomber formation encountered German fighter opposition and this was scattered by the P-38 Lightnings, P-47 Thunderbolts and f-si Mustangs. In all the night and daylight attacks, some 1700 heavy bomb ers, 1300 fighters and 500. mis cellaneous types were estimated to nave Dome the equivalent of an American division of 15,000 men deep inside Hitler's inva sion fortress. Radio Off Again ' The Vichy radio network left the air again early tonight, sig nalling DerhaDS a last-minute pick-up of the day's assaults which may make them among the war's heaviest. Late this evenlne the German radio also was still broadcasting warnings of allied Dlanes .over western Germany. RED FRONT QUIET LONDON. May 23 (At Small. scale German reconnaissance at- tacKs in tne area of Tiraspol in the lower Dnestr river vallev were reported today by Moscow a- luii continued along the rest of the lone eastern frnnt a lull which military commenta tors on both sides again predict ed would end soon. If It's a "frozen" artlnle need, advertise for a used one in the classified. ftIT WILLi AND KEEP WILL! Yes, that's a slogan tuned to our times. It's more than a catch-, phrase, too It's a mighty good rule to live by, especially now when the nation needs svary ounce of our energy. If yeu'ie 111, see a good Doctor. CURRIN'S For Drugs - . Phona 4514 I mo Main Quads Born In England LONDON, May 23 W) Mrs. Daisy Moxhnm of Southond, wlfo of an RAF flying officer, hns glvon bh'lh to quiidruplols throe boys untl a girl It whs iui uouueed todiiy. Mother nnd children were reported well. The babies, born lust night, and thoir welghtc arc: Brlnn, 3 pounds, 101 ounces; George, 1 pound. I'M ounces; Dnlsy, 2 pounds, 14 ounces, nml Willliim, 3 puundu, 0 ounces. Quadruplets were born ln.it February 28 to Norah Roue Car- fSS' ' 3 pouter of Hoanor, Derbyshire, and Stuff Sat. William Thomp son Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa. Onu of the children died three days Infer. This nfternoon the condition of lh 38-year-old Mrs. Mux hum wii.i described as "not so satis. factory." 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