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PAGE FOtm' HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON July 27, FRANK JENKINS -MALCOLM BfLEV A teronorary eomblDttton of the Kvenine ilereld tnd the Kit truth Ktw. PuhHittad mvtr ftemoon etrrpt 8indy t faplinarie fend iieraia runnming vo. ng mis aiDiui Enured 4t trcottd clue matter ftt tht Mttefftee of Klftmath Or., nq August u, i wo unuer aci 01 con Member of The TT11 AMociatcd Preie U 'icluilrely entitled to tht ui of republication of atl atwi dUpatchet credited to It or not otlierwlee credited in thii paper, and alw the local new puDiHnra merein. aii ngni 01 repuoiicaiion or special aiapatcnaa art ano reterrea. II KM HER AUDIT BU11BAU OP CinCUI.ATlON '- i v . . Represented Nattonallt by ' Waat-Holtldav Co.. Inc. Sab Trsjicttco. New York. Detroit, Seattle. Vancouver, B. C. Conies of Tht Herald and ixiiii ui kiauiatii taiu market, may ot Delivered b One Month i Three Month i One Fw ,, MAIL RATES FAYAR1.1 IN ADVAKCS By Mall Is Klunath. Lake, Modoo and SUkiyoo Countlea Three MonWte Sli Month! One Year , A Preventive Measure FIRE hazards are now extremely serious in the Klamath country, ana mey win grow progressively wurse uiiui the ireneral fall rains. There has been much talk of sabo teurs, but the greatest danger of ordinary citizens. To combat one phase of this carelessness, the Keep Oregon Green organization has distributed widely little red "fag bags" made by the Girl Scouts. These bags are for cigarette packages. They are intended to serve as a reminder to all smokers to refrain from smoking in unsafe places and to dispose properly of cigarette butts. It is a clever idea. The bags are being distributed by forest protective services throughout the state. This writer got hfs from the Klamath Forest Protective association offices, where Charley Ogle handed it to us with admonishment to smoke safely this summer. Ample tests have been made to prove that cigarette butts, thrown carelessly into grass, leaves, or other out door debris, will start fires. When the wind is blowing and humidity is low, a carelessly thrown cigarette butt can easily inaugurate a holocaust. ' ; Attached to each fag bag is a tag containing the smoker's pledge, which every smoker should take to heart. It ends with the promise : "I will remember yes terday . . . think of tomorrow . . . and act today!" Phony Ring RADIO Tokyo has been producing some amazingly dis : ingenious propaganda purportedly quoting British prisoners captured at Singapore and elsewhere in the far east. ' The letters and statements quoted by the Japanese propaganda station read like long-winded editorials writ ten by 'Tokyo's most rabid military journalists, and that is -probably exactly what they are. They are so care fully comprehensive in presenting every suggestion that Tokyo would like, to see in them that they defeat their own purpose. .;' f Their .ring, js definitely phony. ,' It is conceivable that a disgruntled British seaman might take a crack at his government and its war effort, but he wouldn t be likely to such beautiful school girl English, all on his own. Nor would he be likely to develop angled case for Japan. If he had anything to do with it at all, it probably was to comply when somebody gave mm a piece of paper and told I II l t rltM i l'i I I'll lliili! II !i !ii mi l III 'h!l llli rlli Mill ' "i' i' iip 1 111 ill '"' "in From the Klamath Republican July 31, 1902 Organization of the Olene Livestock company with capital stock of $30,000 was completed last week. Members of the com pany are I. D. Applegate, C. N. Armstrong, Robert W. Pross , er, Rex E. Bord and C. W. Jack son. Owing to this being the busy season with most people, a smaller crowd than usual went on the steamboat excursion to Odessa last week. State Treasurer C. S. Moore has been on vacation at his sum mer place on Spring creek. 1 From the Klamath News July 2S, 1932 Superintendent Percy Wells is moving his city school offices irom the Underwood building to me uremont school building, ' Sheriff Lloyd Low said today mai ne Deiieves white federal Indian officers should be em ployed in law enforcement work on tne reservation. Water Lake National forest was re-named the Rogue River national forest by presidential proclamation today. Hitler, Yomamato And Mussolini . Put on a Program NEW YORK. July 27 fPU Hltler, Mussolini and Yamamoto came in for some scathing denun ciation on the National Broad. casting company's "Army Hour" radio program yesterday, the un complimentary remarks being made by Hitler, Mussolini and zamamoto. Sergeant Louis S. Hitler of F6rt Knox, Ky directed his tirade at Adolf; Private Fred M. Mussolini of Buckley field, Colo., aimed his at Benito, and Private Shlrosl Yamamoto of Fort Riley, Ka., got in few choice cracks at Isoroku, commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet. t tin i II! MtBt(tf Sdltor Pine it reel, Klnmath Fftllt, Oregon, by tht orxi ruuiiamng VAmnf. g mi. Hires e, irv. A (tool tod Preu Chlcan. Portland, toe Ad relet. St, Louie, Net. totcther with complete. Inform at too ottiainea tor in miq$ ai any 01 uieu oinc, Carrier ! Cltr I .? J-tt -, - T.Sfl still lies in the carelessness do it so thoroughly and in such a complete and many him to "sign here. ICE PORTLAND, July 27 VP) Universal service, with men in the industrial army on the home front receiving pay comparable to that paid men in the armed forces, was advocated by Ore gon American Legion conven tion delegates who closed the annual session Saturday with election of Hugh A. Bowman, Pendleton, as department com. mander. The Universal service resolu tion proposed that the industrial force be recruited through draft and enlistment; that uniforms or insignia be provided and that the army system of rank and pay be instituted. Another resolution advocated lowering of draft ages to reach 18 and 19-year-olds. Deporta tion of aliens who do not become naturalized citizens within five years also was urged. Bowman, a 43-year-old hotel man and past district command er of the Legion, was elected unanimously after Blazier C. Small, Salem, the only other candidate, withdrew. Other officers: Dr. E. J. Corcoran, Mount An gel, vice commander; the Rev. John Magoon, Gresham. chaD. lain; Thomas D. Stoughton, Port land, finance officer. District commanders, elected for two-year terms: Otto Heider, sneriaan, district Z; Loyd Wil liamson, Medford, district 4; Henry Duggan, Milton, district 6; Larry Wells, Oceanlake, fill ing the unexpired term of Hers chel Taylor, now In the army, district 3. Radio Tokyo Names Wesley Carter As Wake Prisoner The name of Wesley Carter, Bonanza, headed a list of civil Ian war prisoners from Wake Island read Sunday night over radio Tokyo. Carter, formerly located at Oregon hot springs at Bonanza. went with Lloyd Pepple last year to Wake Island to work on the government construction program there. He was listed some time ago as a probable prisoner. News Behi ByRttJLMMlON WASHINGTON, July 27 Cheapest political trick of a rather sordid wartime season Is the strange delay In paying sub sistence allowances to depend ents of our fighting men for more than four months, until the day before the coming con gressional elections in Novem ber. Further investigation makes it worse than suggested In this column published June IS. The official publicity makes no men tion of who was responsible for this calloused political chican. ery, saying only that printing, investigations and bookkeeping will prevent mailing out the checks before Sunday, Novem ber 1. But if you will prowl back through the several thousand words of the law, you will find, by careful reading, a single sen tence, which places the respon. sibility for the decision. It says: "Any allowances which accrue under this title before Novem ber 1. 1942 shall not be actually paid until after November 1, 1942." So congress itself, the very legislators who are to face the voters on Tuesday, November 3, and not the war department, or Mr. Roosevelt, or the demo cratic national committee, seems to have been the guiding force in denying monthly payments owed to women and children for June, July, August. Septem ber and October. First it was pensions, then X-cards, and now delaying al lowances to women and chil dren. There was some excuse for congress voting itself pensions, although when the secrecy of its action was exposed, it shame facedly repealed the law. There was also some excuses for X-cards to give congressmen extra (although they are not justly entitled to unlimited) gas to do public business, if they will do public business. Now that their X-cards have expired and stronger gas rationing is in force, they and all politicians are granted in the east all the gas they want to conduct their political business as usual, while all other business men must stand in line at rationing sta tions and appeal for meager al lowances. The business of poli- Mics has been officially placed on the same basis as ambulances, police and doctors. Only excuse for delaying food and livelihood to the dependents of our fighters was brought up in a few sentences of the house debate on the bill. ONE QUESTION The record of that debate con tains page' after page of bleed- Let Your Handiwork Grace Your Home by Alice Brooks To obtain this pattern send 11 cents in coin to The Herald and News, Household Arts Dept., Klamath Falls. Do not send this picture, but keep It and tne number for reference. Be sure to wrap coin securely, as a loose coin often slips out of the envelope. Requests for patterns should read, "Send pattern No. , to followed by your name and address. Here are pretty flowers and birds all In the easiest, most fascinating stltchery imaginable -Just the thing to give a plain towel, scarf or pillow-case a bit of sparklet Pattern 7365 con tains a transfer pattern of 6 motifs averaging 4tt x 10'4 inches; illustrations of stitches; i e l mm - if A materials needed. j SIDE GLANCES i! cowt mi nt ma mulct, iwc. t. m. lit u. . nr. ofr. 7-a? "We'll pay for the window, but you won't charge much, will you, considering that's my mother over there?" ing rhetorical sympathy for the soldier and his family, but at only one point did a congress man arise to question the four months' delay in administering this justice. Representative Rob- ison, republican of Kentucky, i arose in protest and offered an amendment cutting the time to two months. The leaders In charge of the bill accepted the proposal, but somehow later on in the various congressional machinations be fore the bill reached Mr. Roose velt's hand, election eve became payment time. Representative Thomason, democrat, of Texas, handling the bill, told Robison (the Congres sional Record shows) that he thought the payments could be made in two months, but the war and navy departments "said they must have a reasonable time in which to set up the ma chinery and the accounting sys tem to carry this act into ef fect." At the war department later, a further excuse has been of fered that investigations of the validity of claimants must be made. -V , How thin these excuses are Is evident from close inspection of the act itself. No investiga tion is required for the wives and children of soldiers, sailors and marines. The law flatly says' these class A claimants must be paid if they produce a marriage license or other proof. Only the claims of class B de pendents (fathers, mother brothers, sisters) are subject to investigation, or must prove de pendency. Anyway, the excuse falls flat when you consider that pay ments are not to be made as cases are verified, but are to be delayed for one big bulk lump distribution after five months accumulation on election eve. No one has even tried yet to offer an excuse for this. If congress does not repeal this clumsy effort to influence voters and the facts begin to get around, congress had better not pass the pending legislation allowing soldiers to vote, and might do well to exclude their wives from voting also. I have always thought the recent generalized attacks on congress were dangerous and unjustified during a period of centralized executive controls. Congress is supposed to be the direct representative of the peo ple, closer to their wishes than the executive branch, which is largely appointive. The house is elected each two yeras. the president only every four. Also there are good, bad and indifferent congressmen, and it Is unwise not to distinguish be tween their various consciences. acuities and acts. But this latest example of mass legislative stupidity is just a utile too much for me. In this case perhaps half the congressmen, or more, may not have known the single delaying sentence was in the act. No one, however, can escape the respon sibility or the reaction. Enlistments To Be Taken Here Tuesday PORTLAND, July 27 (P) Officer applicants for an Oregon maintenance company for com bat weapons and vehicles were interviewed here today. Applications as enlisted men will be taken at Klamath Falls Tuesday, Medford Wednesday, Eugene Thursday and Salem Fri day. Buy It through the want-ads, eOET THE MHMftw OST HEAT 1 of Your Oil! I nlM Your Bunw Howl I all for KM at moth Oil Co. J hone 8404 ,1 Trade News Interesting Notes of Horold and News Advertisers, Their Products and Activities "It does little good to send our sons to war, or buy bonds and pay taxes to finance the war effort, if we waste rubber, America's most critical war ma terial," says W. L. Beucc, mana ger of the local Montgomery Ward store, in commenting on the ways motorists can cooperate in the conservation of rubber. "All of us must cut out high speeds. Tires will last twice as long at 40 miles per hour as at 60. High speeds at high tem peratures is even more disas trous. Don't drivo over 40 miles per hour, and reduce speed un der 40 when the thermometer reaches the high 80's. "Don't speed around curves. That literally grinds the tread away. The tread wear on curves at high speeds is 10 times great er than on a straight stretch of road. "Inflate tires weekly to rec ommended or rated air pres sures. Be sure the gauge Is ac curate. Never let pressure fall more than 3 pounds below the recommended minimum. Even five pounds under inflation can rob a tire of 5000 miles of tread wear. "Don't make "jack rabbit" starts. Quick stops should never be made except to avoid acci dents and accidents, or the pos sibility of them, have already become less frequent due to saner, slower driving-speeds. "Brakes should be checked frequently and necessary adjust ments made before flat spots on the tread surface of the tire In dicate the need for brake adjust ment. , "Avoid strikihg curbs, road holes and rocks. The beating a tire takes in normal service can be greatly reduced by the exer cise of a little driving judgment. The impact on a tire from even an ordinary size chuck hole is tremendous avoid them, or re duce speed to a point where their effect is nullified. "Check wheel alignment twice a year, or after any accident that could effect alignment, or Imme diately when excessive irregular tread wear appears. A tire one half Inch out of line will be lit erally dragged sideways 87 feet out of every mile. Alignment checks should be complete, not confined to front ends and steer ing linkage. Wobbly wheels, bowed axles, loose spring clips, broken springs, and bent frames are all capable of causing rapid tread wear and premature fail ures. "Fix cuts, leaks and breaks promptly; delay may cause dam age that can't be repaired. Fre quent Inspection and proper per manent repairs are essential to real rubber conservation. Re move Imbedded gravel, glass, etc., before It has a chance to harm the tread. Neglected tread cuts cause loose treads and car cass deterioration. Cuts that penetrate the carcass or carcass RflinBDUJ JtodayJ ft JL "The Ph"- I if ff torn tlMMJ . Transportation Hews RECORDS INCREASE United Airlines, currently currying approximately o n o third of the nation's air caritocs. recorded a 147 per cent Increuse in air express pound-mllcs and a 58 per cent Increase In mall pound-miles for the first half of U42. District Truffle Manager W. R, Thigpon said today. The lurge gain reflected exten sive use of air cargo shipments in the war program, particularly up and down the Pacific const and between Pacific northwest cities and the industrial cast and midwest. During the first six months of the year Urrrfed flew 3,218.900, 139 express pound-miles, com pared with the 1941 first-half to tal of 1,308,441,538, Mnll pound miles totaled 5,328,701.541, com pared with 3,:i(8,800.713 (or the corresponding period of 1941. Figures for Juno, 1042, showed a 193 per cent Jump In express pound-miles from 248,966,773 a year ago, to 724.306,937 for June, 1942. Air mnll pound miles increased 70 per cont, from 607,277,288 In June, 1941, to 1,. 088,095,469 last month. Negro Held in Connection With Heriston Slaying HERMISTON, Ore., July 27 W1) Still unable to Identify the victim, pollco were holding Ea ton Campbell, negro transient. for investigation in connection with the death of a man who was stabbed to death during an argu ment at a negro recreation hall hero yesterday. Pollco Chief Bert Nation re ported early today that Camp bell confessed tho fatal stabbing after he was captured lute last night In tho brush northwest of town. Campbell was to be transfer red to the county Jail at Pendlo ton later today. Kaiser Shipyards Seek 14,000 Welders PORTLAND, July 27 (!') The Kaiser shipyards of Portlund and Vancouver, Wash., began training welders today and paying the trainees 95 cents an hour. After 60 hours the trainees, drawn from state and federal vo cational schools, wilt go on pro duction work. The compnny seeks 14,000 welders. ruptures must never be "re paired" by the insertion of an In ner boot. Inner boots should never be used except In a tern porary emergency. A boot can cause severe chaffing In the tire carcass and result in second blowout which usually renders the tire unfit for a permanent .repair and further service. All cuts and breaks should be promptly vulcanized by a com petent repair man. "Change wheel positions every 5000 miles. Periodic switching of tires, right front to left rear, etc., equalizes tire wear and gives better mileage. "Let's all get serious about rubber conservation and prac tice it as welt as preach it. It is the vital duty of every car owner to get maximum mileage from his tires. It is the vlUil duty of every tiro merchant to provide every possible service towards tire conservation. Re member, every ounce of wasted rubber is a gift to the axis." PinETQEE NOW! k. A. 1 M ft . .-rlln.l iMK mm ADDED ATTRACTIONS At tht Stroke of 12 "Hedda Hopper in Hollywood" "Nifty Nineties" Latest World Events Americans Live Brutally Hard, Cheerless Life in Aleutians,Wheeler Finds (Editor's Note: This is the fifth In a series of stories by Staff Correspondent Keith Wheeler of tho Chicago Times on action In the Altmtlnn Islands,) By KEITH WHEELER (Copyright, 1042, by Chicago Times, Inc.) SOMEWHERE! IN ALASKA (Delayed) Tills Is the record of a 10-dny 3000 mile trip out along the Almitlun bnttlefront to Kinkn Island and return. Americans are living and fighting In tho Aleutians and tho Aleutians aro Amerli-un soli. They are fighting and dying there to stop an invader who, they firmly believe, la bent on conquest of tho United States It self. They lend as brutally hard, cheerless and dangerous a life as mnn can. They have pared living down to Its essentials and these do not Include baths, clean cluthrs or beds to sleep In. They sleep and eat when such necessary luxuries are available in tents and burrows In (he soggy Tundra. They fight in airplanes, flying In weather that at its mildest would keep any peacetime plane nailed to the ground. The trip began from a name less base 011 the southern shore of the great peninsula, Only one reference point will be named here and that is Dutch Harbor dreary enough by itself, but an oasis of luxury compared to oth ers. Wo started In a Catalina fly ing bout that roared across a narrow bay, rose Into the air, banked steeply to avoid a jut ling cliff and leveled off to slide ueros.1 a 1 000-foot pass so low the scrubby fir trees almost scraped the big boat's hull. Last Trees Puny as they were, those would be the Inst trees except three for 1000 miles . Dutch Hnrbor boosts three sickly plnos but they are not native. Some lonely American carried them there and now fondly nurses them through a discouraged life. The inhospitable Aleutians en courage trees no more thnn they welcome men. Wo turned westward and set a courso down the peninsula In wenther that, for once, wns good. Two hours later It began to close In and I saw the sun only once agnln in nine days. Tho wet cold of the Islands soon bit Into me, an emergency solved by shoving a pile of mis cellaneous genr off a bunk and going to ground In an eiderdown sleeping bag. I wakened and scrambled through the piano to the gun blisters and looked out Into a gray wet world In which the only distinguishable features were the darker gray waves di rectly beneath. We were out side Dutch Harbor, the gunner said. There wns no land, no sky, nothing but fog. "Who knows it's Dutch Har bor?" I yelled. But wo didn't land. Wo cruis ed In circles for an hour but the rocky harbor entrance, guarded on one side by the black buttress of Cape Cheerful and on the other by tho sharp fang of Priest Rock, was so choked with fog that we couldn't get In. Two hours later under a low ering sky we sllpcd into a des olate buy and landed. The big bout hit the water with a ripping sound as though she had come down in wet concrete. Dispersal Point This was a dispersal point. Tho radioman scrambled Into the gun-bay with a signal lamp and soon a motor whalcboat came buckling through the seas STILL STARTLING lo pick us up. We lied Ilia pluuu to a buoy ami left her. That night we slept aboard 1111 old destroyer converted I duly un n seaplane lender, Ami we stayed two days, for next morning the wind had risen to guli) force and tho ship pitched Mid (drained at anchor oven in the harbor. This tender hud serviced the big flying bouts through the worst of thvlr two-week ordeal early In Juno when the Japs were In these waters with air craft curriers, cruisers, Irnns ports and subs. Some were still there, llor men were a friendly. hu pltahlc lot, Tho officers were young, Juniors in years hut vet erans In point of war service. They hud fought in Dutch Hnr bor and in the open sen and they were ready lo fight ngnln. They had burned an evacuated town, rescued civilian, sunk sub, hot down three planes and the war had little more to tench them. Vivid Memory On tho econd duy I went ashore to ucquiro as vivid a memory as 1 shall ever have. The boat put me within reaching distance of a SO-foot ladder up the cliff mid I scrambled up while a fiendish wind lore at my borrowed raincoat and threatened lo Jerk me buck to the wuter. At the top 1 saw the Tundra for the first time, 11 luiniuiueky moras thut looks like land God plowed experimentally and then wisely decided to throw away. If that were true probably he would be surprised at tho una his children have made of it, For that bleak, treeless plain un der a sky us heavy us heart break wn filled with American airplanes, trucks, shucks, tents and American fighting men, ' Four-englncd U-I7 and B-24 heavy bombers, fast P-40 and I'-oB flgliter-plaurii and c half dozen huge Amphibian Cutalinas crouched along a runway carved through that useless land. In a lantern lit shuck I found a field telephone and soon In a truck driven by a cheerful kid from Texas came Jouncing over tho Tundra to get me. "This is a hell of a place," I told him. "Well, it ain't Texas," h ad mitted. "But you get used to It." WARQU.Z 1. This flag, consisting of blue cross on a red background, files over 0110 of tho northern Eu- opeun countries which has fallen under the nnzt iI23i yoke. 1U citi zens are among the staunchest fighters of the Invaders through the underground. 2. If you wero a buck privet In the army and MnJ. Ovetla Culp Hobby gave you an order, would you respond, "yes, sir"? 3. Here's 0110 that may fool you. Whnt does AWOL mean? ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ 1. Flng is that of Norwny. 2. No, you would reply "yes, ma'am." Major Hobby, who odd ly enough wears a colonel's eagle, is director of the Women's Army Auxiliary corps. 3. Absence Without Official Leave. If your dealer is out for the duration, advertise for a used ono in the want-ads, KLAMATH FALLS