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THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
December 27, 1041
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Weekend Roundup
ANNUALLY at this season the editorial staff of this news
paper prepares a review of the local news of the past
year. A feature is the selection of the ten best local stories
of the year. This haa always been an interesting assign
ment, and it produces a story that we believe ranks quite
well in reader interest.
In going over the news of the year, we find that world
events of transcendent importance have dominated the
news display, replacing in many cases local stories that in
other times would have rated more prominent "play" than
they received. The war has done it. In the coming year, it is
certain to take over the news even more completely, for it
is closer to home it becomes more nearly a local story.
Here's hoping war's destruction of life and property do
not become an actual local story, but there is no promise
that it will not
' People of the Pacific coast, after the first case of jit
ters following the Pearl Harbor incident, are settling down
to a realization that this coast is in the general area of war
activity. Submarine attacks on American shipping that
could actually be seen from the shore are evidence enough
for any erstwhile doubters.
1 When war develops in an area, the hardihood, morale
and good sense of the civilian population become matters
of definite military importance. VV e anticipate the people
of the Pacific coast will give a good account of themselves
in the critical times ahead. To do so, they must look at
the situation realistically, and condition themselves for
whatever testa may come. They are doing that now.
In this connection, we were amused at a statement in
Time magazine to the effect that the Far West, separated
from the World War I battlegrounds by the Atlantic ocean
and the North American continent, is now in many ways
getting its first real taste of war. Time talks as if the
people of the Far West were not really in World War I
and sat safely in their homes while the East suffered at
tacks from air, land and sea. We do not remember it that
way.-. . . t , I
World War I took just as many men, proportionately,
from the Far West as from the East Just as many, pro
portionately, failed to return, and just as many, pro
portionately, came back totally or partially disabled. In
every other way, the Far West participated in the effects
of World War I just as much as did the East The East
was not attacked, and the threat of air attack, which now
menaces both east and west coasts, had not developed to
the status it has today.
We were all in that one together, and we are all in
World War II together. Right now, however, it would
seem that the powers that be regard the west coast in more
serious danger than the east For proof, consider what
was done with the Rose Bowl game.
News
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By BmjlHallon
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A friend of ours listens to short-wave broadcasts from
Tokyo each evening. In Japanese, Chinese and English
the propaganda flows from the Jap station. Its purpose,
so far as English broadcasts are concerned, is to play on
American sentiment arouse American doubts, stir Amer
ican prejudices. The Japs apparently think that there
is a chance to prevent the national unity which this coun
try must have to win the war with Japan.
But if there is a chance, their bombers are destroying it
with great rapidity, and they might as well shut down the
radio so far as that objective is concerned. Consider your
( own reactions when you read and hear the news from
Manila, and you will know what we mean.
In far away Durham, Oregon State and Duke football
teams are warmine ud for their New Ypar" Haw rramo onri
the sports pages startle us with the news that both 'sides
are "confident" as the crucial test
Unfortunately for fans who really want the low-down
on upcoming games, this writer has left local football fore
casting to such experts as Bob Leonard and Lee Jacobs.
But after repeated urgings, we are willing to go out on a
limb on the Oregon State-Duke game.
,rw?his scribe Baw only tw college football games in the
1941 season. Oregon State played in both of them and
won both of them. It will win New Year's day. It's a
hunch, fellows, but Christmas left us with no money to
back it up M. E.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 The
common supposition that
this government will use its pres
sure for the closed shop even
though Mr. Roosevelt said it
would NOT seems to be shared
by both business and labor.
The supposition has spread un
challenged since FDR ducked
the question again in his labor
peace agreement It started
when his arbiter John R. Steel
man gave this arbitrary power
to John Lewis in the captive coal
strike settlement.
But no one seems to have read
Steelman's report very careful
ly. He frequently repeated in
it the fact that he was not mak
ing government policy for the
closed shop. Indeed, it now ap
pears his decision was based sole
ly on the fact that Lewis had 90
per cent of the captive workers
and a closed shop in the rest of
the mines.
Furthermore, it may now be
told that Public Works Admin
istrator Carmody was edged out
of his Job by the White House
a few weeks back because he is
the one who first made the gov
ernment policy favoring the
closed shop. He put the clause
into all government works con
tracts. Mr. Roosevelt apparently
thinks Carmody got him into this
mess.
Another government victim of
the issue is the mediation board.
It destroyed the confidence of
both business and labor by duck
ing and running hither and
thither on the issue. Chairman
William H. Davis has had his
grips packed to go home for
weeks.
o a a
STRONG BOARD NEEDED
Unless Mr. Roosevelt succeeds
in getting a strong new war
labor board to face the Issue
squarely and clarify the atmos-
pnere, it, too, is sure to eo the
way of its weakling predecessors.
ine president was lookine for
a tough guy to take charge (as
this was being written.! While
his actions the past few months
may suggest he has no nolirv
think he knows precisely what
he wants a tough war labor
board chairman to do.
apparently ne is willing to
grant closed shops where an
overwhelming number of work
ers oeiong to one union, say 90
per cent. He does not want his
board authorizing closed hnn
to unions which have failed in
acnieve it In effect by obtaining
numerical monopoly of work
ers in any given Dlant.
mis is likely to be the new
government closed shop policy,
SIDE GLANCES
Telling
The Editor
Letters printed bars must net bs mora
than too wards In Isnilh, must bs written
UHM, sn ONI (101 of the ospsr eru,
and must be signed. Contributions tallow.
mi three rules, ara warmly
coco- tesi ay wr sravtct. arc t. y. arc q a, eT. ore.
"When I get to be a famous movie slnr in Hollywood I'll
send for you, Nellie, and make I hem give you "an acting
part, too !'
Japanese Shot
In Stockton
STOCKTON, Calif., Dec. 27
(UP) Jungo Kino, 65-year-old
Japanese, was shot and killed
Friday ai war bitterness mount-
ea in Stockton's large Filipino
ana Japanese colonies.
An aged Japanese who said
ne witnessed the slaying told
police he saw a young Filipino
fire a shot at Kino as the vic
tim was working In the office
oi a garage.
Kino died of a single bullet
wound in the head. The witness
sam the Filipino opened the sa
rage office door to fire the shot.
Windows of four Japanese
stores were broken here during
the night. Police redoubled their
patrol of the Oriental district in
Stockton's west end.
Japanese vegetable growers In
.the San Joaquin delta areas
asked for guards because they
feared Filipino workers might
aiiacs mem. ..
Thousands of Filipino em
ployed on asparagus and other
vegetable ranches many of
them Japanese-owned live in
Stockton.
At the outbreak of the war.
13 SO business firms left Lon
don; 200 returned by November.
ine nana Goliath frog, of
west Africa, grows as large as a
xemer aog.
HOARDING
Business hoarding haa tux.,
aeieciea, although the govern-
ment is not saying much about
it yet. Manufacturers' stocks
now amount to the colossal total
of $14,000,000,000, the largest on
record. Since June inventor-is.
have jumped 11 per cent (pro-
uucuoa oniy o per cent.) Only
about a third of this rise is due
to increased prices. The rest
represents heavy stocking-up of
raw materials, started by In
dustry In anticipation of infla
tionary prices.
The government is trvlno tr
find out who has what. All it
knows so far is that some in
dustries have 9 months sunnlv
others only 3 months, and many
are non-essential industries. The
stocks of these mav be con fi first.
led.
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ITALY IN MISERY
Information seeping out of
Italy shows living conditions
there are worse than in Ger
many. Bread rationing started
Nov. 1 but allowances had to be
Increased a few weeks later be
cause laborers could not live on
what they were getting. Only
1 egg is allowed a week: half
cup of milk a day; U pounds of
potatoes every two weeks.
Clothes and shoes cannot be
bought because more than a
year's rationing units must be
obtained for them.
A fascist official was caught
with an excessive stock of olive
oil. He got three years and a
substantial fine.
a e e
The critical period of the war
is at hand, the period which will
determine how long it is to last.
If the Japs are successful at
Singapore and in the Philippines,
it may require 12 to 18 months
for us to fight our way back to
them. If Hitler survives the
winter in Russia, he may add a
year or two to his existence.
see
Today's suggestion of what
you can do to help win this war
(No. 5):
Don't constitute yourself as a
one-man FBI to detect all Jap
espionage. Filipinos and Chi
nese are physically indistinguish
able from Japs, so you are apt
to hurt our friends more than,
our foes. If you have any sus
picions, tell the police or write
the FBI. Detection is their Job.
You attend to yours.
Resents Comment on Murray
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. (To
the Editor) Tliose In organized
labor are being asked repeatedly
to forget all their disputed Is
sues with tho cmployors and to
cense agitation of a controversial
nature, in the namo of Nation
al unity.
Thooo men who write the
syndicated columns in the
papers, newspaper editors and
radio commentators, have all
been shouting that if organized
labor does not do this we are
traitors to the nution.
As a sample of what most of
these people are doing I quote
tlie opening paragraph of Pear
son and Allen's column, "Wash
ington Merry-Go-Huund": "CIO
Prmident Phil Murray wos chief
author of tho lubor-mnnugcmciit
conference now called by Roose
velt to formulate a voluntury
system for industrial peace dur
ing the war. Murray proposed
tho voluntary plan as a sub
stitute for the drastic Smith
anti-striko bill. Until tho house.
Inflamed by John L. Lewis'
c-iplive mine strike, passed the
measure, Murray hod not been
very active In promoting labor
peace. In fnct, he irately quit
tho National Defense Mediation
board because it vetoed Lewis'
demands for a closed shop in
captive coal mines."
Murrny did resign from the
mediation board and I think
I riKiuiy so, inougn splice does
! not permit going into detail
tjtv t.- I , , ' concerning that. But as to Mur-
.- ?rt Beginning with candle j ray's record of trying to work
lighting by the chorus dressed ! oul procedure and methods and
in long white robes, a pageant ! tn serum th ...ih
depicting the birth of the Christ : chlnery whereby labor disputes
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111 CHURCH AT BLYi
child was presented at the Bly
(.ommunity church on Sunday
evening.
A spotlight played on each
could bo settled by peaceful,
civilized methods, the record
will show that no other man In
the United States has done whut
group in turn as Jcssa Lee Keff-he has. Murray has consistent-
Courthouse Records
FRIDAY
Complaints Filed
Vivian Louise Bailey versus
Jacob Everett Bailey. Suit for
divorce. Couple married in Bil
lings, Mont., June 11, 1938.
Plaintiff charges cruel and in
human treatment. Maynard Wil
son, attorney for plaintiff.
Marriage Licenses
LENTZ-FRALEY. Donald Vin
cent Lentz, 24, Klamath Falls,
lumber worker, native of Min
nesota. Charlene Elizabeth Fra.
ley, 20, Klamath Falls, student.
naiive or UKlahoma.
Justice Court
David A. Burt, disorderly rnn-
auci. tinea 10 days. Committed
to county Jail.
ex a. carter. arunK on a
public highway. Bond of $10 for-
zeitea.
Ernest F. Novotny. void for.
eign license. Fined $5.50.
Plcze Ross Chamberlain, vln.
lation of basic rule. Fined S25.
$15 suspended.
Odell M. Fredericks, no on.
erators license. Fined $5.50.
Leon P. Smith, void fnrelan
license. Fined $5.50.
Delbert G. Pruitt. drunk on m
public highway. Fined $25 or
10 days. Committed to rnunrv
Jail.
ler and Bonita Gooch read the
story. Members of the Young
Peoples league played the parts
under the direction of Mrs. Jef
ferson Causble assisted by Mrs.
Carl Decring. Mrs. Frank Oben-
chain directed the chorus with
Mrs. Archie Strong at the piano.
The Reverend Bert Bradshnw
led the prayer. Following the
program, candy furnished by
wards Funeral Homo was dis
tributed to all the children pres
ent. On Saturday evening the Sun
day school children and the
Young People's league enjoyed
a Christmas party with an ex
change of gifts and a lunch of
cocoa, sandwiches and candy. All
tne children helped in decorat
ing a large Christmas tree.
CHRISTMAN CHEER
SPOKANE P) Lloyd G.
Christman says he's thinking of
changing the last letter of his
name to "s."
There are two good reasons.
Daughter Joan was born on
Christmas day 13 years ago.
The Christman Christmas gift
this year was a boy Dennis
Oliver.
ly condemned tho use of brass
knuckles by labor, tho use of
thugs by the employer, the use
of guns by the government. In
every CIO strike, where there
was opportunity of continuing
production and mediation, with
resulto rctronctive Murrov ha
urged the continuance of work
I cite the North American oir
pione strike and tho strike of
lumber workers in the IWA
CIO, In northern Washington
Due to Murray's correct posi
tion we in theso unions, have
been more successful In our at
tempts to remove those who
had urged the continuance of
theso strikes from official poel
tions in our unions. The ones
mainly responsible for continu
anco of the lumber strike
attcr plans for mediation had
Deen worked out, are now out
of office as you all know.
raurray is tne man, who, a
year ago, proposed the Industry
t-ouncu nan CCIO Defense
Plan) the only program ever
proposed that would provide a
peaceful settlement of disputes
between emnlover rmnlnu
and the government and make '
possible the planned stepping uo
of production to meet the com-
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blued domestic and defense
needs of this nation.
Ilrur.snn and Allen are de
liberate, nuillrluus liars. Every
American who has dono his
simple duly of keeping himself
reasonably Informed, knows
this, yet the general press and
tho eili tors nil over the nation,
do not condemn this kind of
action. I have fulled to ever
find one editorial In which you
ever pointed out a He, aimed
at labor and scored the per
petrntor of tho lie.
Does this freedom of speech
and press Include the right to
lie and slander, so long as the
lies and slander aro aimed at
those who work to better the
conditions of those who work
toward the Improvement of the
security and well being of those
who do the necessary productive
labor In this world? If not,
why do all you editors remain
so silent In these cases?
Personally. I am not trying
to tell you people what to do.
You have a brain. It Is your
duty to use your brain to deter
mine What von nhnnlH nnrl wish
! to do. I do want to sav that.
in my opinion, If you do not
change your policies on thwe
matters, you will aid in bring
ing consequonccs upon your
selves and most of the people
of this nation, that are dread
ful to contemplate.
O. O. WOMACK.
Member. Local fl-13,
IWA-CIO.
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Japanese Give ,
White House Play
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee 57
(UP) The Tokyo radio, heard
nere today, repented several
times a piny entitled "Christmas
at the White House." with "Win
ston Churchill" and "President
Roosevelt" in the leading roles.
Japanese actors portrayed
both chnratcers, but spoke with
a near-Hrnnx accent. The piny
belittled the United States nuvv
and featured the tunlng-ln by
Koosevelt of the Tokyo radio an
nouncing the fnll of Hongkong,
quickly followed by a rendition
of "Silent Night."
Read the Classified page.
Most logging operations In the
Klamath basin will continue
throughout the winter, a survey
revealed Friday.
A few eonrerns, dependent
upon truck logging have already
shut down or will halt opera
tions nhorlly hut rnllro.'id loiters
will continue work all winter.
One truck logxer, working on
pumice land, will continue work
and another will ntlempt to log
In tho early morning mid lain
evening when the miow Is frozen.
A current heavy demand for
lumber In defense ron.itnietlon
and a marked uliortiige In yard
storks was riled by nr-veral op.
erators as the reuvoii for con
tinuing lodging iietivlty.
The mill lineup shows tho fol
lowing:
Weyerhaeuser Tlmlier com.
pany (railroad) will log nil
winter.
Ivory Pine company (truck)
will depend on decked logs and
work during early morning and
Into evening freeze periods.
Ewaunit llox company (rail
road) will log all winter.
Lamm Lumber com pany
(lruek)on pumice soil) will log
all winter.
Kestemon Lumber company
(truck twill log as long u wea
ther permits.
Illg Lukes P. n x company
(truck) ("anliy logging opera
tions closed for winter
Algomii I. u m ! e r company
(truck wuter) will stop lugging
when Upper Klumulli lake
freezes.
Pelican liny Lumber compuny
(truek rall) no report available.
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