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"1, PAGE FOUR aLAMATH FAIXS. OREGON Auguat 1. 1043 f7unk jenkins . Malcolm isplky A temporal ocimlilnailoii of the Evening II ft aid and tha Klamath Nw. Publtthrd very afternoon nrrpt Humlay at Kplnarl ami pine ilrefl. Klamath Falla, Oregon, by tht Herald fuMuhlng Co. and tlta Klamath Ncwi Publishing Company. Knurrd i arcond clan matter at tht pottoffW of Klatmth Fall. Or on Auguat to, 1W under act of congrcta, Uarch &. 1679. Mfimber of The Aaaoctated Prtia Tha Atocifltd Preii ti txchulvely entitled to tht ui of republication of all otwi tj I pat cliff credit d to tt or not otherwl.e credited in thla papr, and also tha local onwa iiublUbrtl therein. All right' of republication of special dUpatchea art alao rawrved. MKMBEK AUDIT Bl'KKAU OF CIKCI'LATION , Hepretcnted Nationally by We it-Holt I day Co.. Inc. (tan Ftaneuco, Nw Vork, Detroit, Seattle. lhlego, Portland. Lot An eel fa, St. Loula. Vaneourar, B. C. Copies of The Rwald and Nrt, together with complet Information bout the Klamath FtHa narkrt, mat- be obtained for the asking at any of thesa offices. Delivered by Carrier In City One Month . $ .TS Three Mnnthi , 2 One Year , . 7.M MAIL RATK8 PAVAHlB IN ADVANCE By Mail In Klamath, Lake, Modoo and Siskiyou Couatlel Thra Month , Ris Months . On Year Air Transport FOR an eastein view of Henry J. Kaiser's proposal for construction of huge cargo-carrying planes, we lift to day an editorial from the Evening Star of Washington, D. Ci Says the Star: Henry J. Kaiser, the man who introduced the assembly-line technique to the shipbuilding industry and proved that it would work, has proposed that we begin at once to construct a fleet of thousands of huge air freighters. There is nothing fantastic or visionary about that proposal. We can do it if we want to do it Mr. Kaiser has advanced his plan as being the only adequate answer to the submarine menace. .There has been a great deal of talk to the effect that we are overcoming the submarine threat. But the record speaks to the contrary. Ships with their cargoes of precious war materials still are being sunk faster than we can replace them, and the unofficial total of losses now stands at 385 vessels in about six months. Further underscoring the gravity of this picture is the fact that our shipping yards are be ginning to feel the pinch of a shortage of steel plate and other critical materials. We have reached the point where we can no longer expand shipyard facilities and, in fact, where we have been forced to abandon at least one major expansion project which had already been started. Yet the toll of sinkings continues to rise, unchecked and apparently uncheckable. To cope with the disastrous implications, both present and potential of this state of affairs, Mr. Kaiser would take to the air. As he correctly sees the picture, our production already is outstripping our transport capacity, and this gulf will grow wider in the future. What are we to do? Shall we continue to pour our resources into shipbuilding, hoping ultimately to have so many ships that we can absorb the staggering losses and still get our war supplies across the oceans, or shall we start now on a tre mendous program of cargo plane construction so that we may supply our troops and our allies, wherever they may be, without further fear of the enemy's submarines? The first course is a hazardous and wasteful gamble. The second is feasible, relatively safe and brings the great problem of military transport within tfce reach of a talent which is peculiarly ours and with which our enemies cannot hope to compete. Specifically, Mr. Kaiser wants to build 5000 of the huge Mars flying boats, with which, he says, we could transport half a million fully equipped soldiers or 350,000 tons of freight to the British Isles every other day. He would do this by diverting nine shipyards to the plane program, employing their skilled labor and facilities, but using a much smaller quantity of critical mate rials than would go into merchant ships built in the same yards. This is not some dream that might come true in the future; we can do it now if we will. Nor need we concentrate on flying boats alone. They have their limitations, since they cannot take cargo to the interior of continents, nor can they operate in those northern regions where so much of this war is being fought, but where ice would prevent the use of flying boats many months out of the year. If we can build 70-ton flying boats, as we can, we can also ' build land air freighters as large, or larger. And there is no slightest doubt that we can send them around the world in any season of the year. All of the pioneering work has been com pleted by our own Air Transport Command, formerly known as the Ferry Command. There is no guesswork about this. The routes have been laid out and are in service, the problems of weather have been overcome and the bases big enough to ac- commodate any plane have been built and are in use. All we have to do is provide the cargo planes and they will be put im mediately Into service. Let us remember that a plane can make 15 or more trips while a boat is making one. If a 10,000-ton ship is sunk the cargo loss is a most serious matter. But to lose the cargo aboard a plane or two and losses have been very small is a relatively minor matter. Certainly, there is strong reason to believe that the only answer to the problem of military transport and that is the problem of winning the war lies in the prompt construction of a great air freighter fleet to be used in conjunction with sea going vessels. But it will avail us nothing to have the solution of our greatest problem in our own hands if we fail to make full and timely use of It. '-. IMPATIENTT HUNTSVTLLE, Ala., (ff) Capt. Oliver W. Welch, post sur geon of the Redstone Ordnance plant, opened the doors of his new hospital a few days ago, ready for patient number one. ' Patient number one was the captain. Ha suffered a fractured arm when his horse slipped and threw him during an early morn ing canter.. PROBLEM SOLVED SAN DIEGO, Calif., UP)1ne critical housing situation didn't worry two men in nearby Palm City. The sheriffs office reported PEEILBEAia Ends Tonight HAVOC cmiMDi a-T"fr i If i on (ami KfAr M T jft ADOLPHI AW?PW.Pl IONIT AND ?rjJ4J AklAGUH j Managing Kdttot . 5.85 . e.oo they stole a small house, carting it off in a truck. Ends Tonight Charlie Chan's Toughest Case "Castle in the Desert" and "CALLING ALL MARINES" Coming Sunday THE, ft SAGA OF CUSTER'S LAST STANDI AND I ,jJ ERR0L FlYNN lgp OLIVIA -yf HAVIllAND "Under Age" NEWS2 By PaULMaLIJ? WASHINGTON, Aug. weekly magazine so 1 A magazine sold fost er than sugar here when it came out with a story predicting Rus sia will defeat Hitler in 1042. The idea of the article was that the Russians have secret armies of several hundred di visions, and one of four million men is supposed to be nbout ready. The author, Pierre Van Pans sen, an eminent analyst of for eign affairs, also claimed the Russians have secretly built most of their industry safely back of the Urals, and therefore are in good shape. There is no one here who does not hope Mr. Van Paassen is correct, but more competent au thorities are encountering diffi culty in accepting his suggestion that the Russian retreat this time is a come-on game. The Don river basin, which has fallen into tuizi hands con tains 80 per cent of the coal or dinarily used by the Russians in peacetime, 75 per cent of the pig iron, 60 per cent of the iron ore, 85 per cent of the sugar and 95 per cent of manganese. Mines and sugarfields cannot be moved. In peacetime, the reds also drew 85 per cent of their oil from the Caucasus, which is now just beyond Hitler's reaching fingers. They produced 593,000 barrels of oil a day of which 400,000 came from the Caucasus. They are now supposed to have safely in storage 1,000,000 barrels, which would be 200 days of a peacetime supply. This could be made to last somewhat longer now with supplies from newly-developed Ural wells. It is no doubt true they have 4,000,000 fresh troops or more in reserve, but the equipment of these is questionable. It is no secret that they are long on man power and short on material. Anyone who wants to think they are fooling, thus will have difficulty convincing the proper authorities here whq assume a much graver attitude toward the Russian situation. 400.000 BARRELS A DAY A late check on German oil, incidentally, places their war use in active operations at 400,000 barrels a day. . They are getting about 100,000 from -Rumania, 43,000 from Poland, Albania and Germany. But their synthetic production in addition to these supplies, still leaves them about 50 per cent short. They are drawing on their reserves, therefore, to the extent of about 200,000 barrels a day, which shows how badly they need the Caucasus fields. TURNED FDR DOWN The idea of Mr. Roosevelt ap pointing Chief Justice Stone to LAST TIMES Prisdllo LANE Betty FIELD Richard WH0RF COMING SUNDAY By Popular Request- We Are Bringing Back to Klamath Falls the Story of the Men Who Have Made America's Most Glorious History! - THF 'wi?". I 1 ,nt fU I and the situation t MARINES ffoftfJ is well in handl T HAVE Af I LANDEDi:: I m TKHMCOtOR ALSO Unusual Occupation "Nix on Hypnotriek" SIDE GLANCES ecu. iv w titnvt. me. t. u. mo. u. ht, "It's another of those letters from the Indies of our church they had their minimi ice cream festival and they missed our being there to steal the enke!" head a rubber survey slid out of the news fast, for a very good reason. Justice Stone flatly re jected the president's suggestion. He is personally opposed to mixing court and executive mat ters, even has some private feel ings about other justices making public speeches. His declination was smoothed over by both his office and the White House, sug gesting he had not been asked. FARLEY STARTED EARLY Most politicos think Jim Far ley will defeat Mr. Roosevelt in the choice of a democratic guber natorial candidate at the coming New York state convention. As Mayor LaGuardia has suggested, Farley is perhaps the best dele gate picker in the world today and he started early. In the New York delegation in congress, however, there is a belief that Mr. Roosevelt will throw in federal pressure (prom ises of jobs and federal appropri ations?) to make enough dele gates change their minds. If he goes to work actively on this basis, thev sav Farlev will find himself facing too much I power. Until such pressure be-1 gins to appear, however, the j odds favor Farley. 1 At any rate, everyone now . knows Messrs. Farley and Roose-. velt have irretrievably broken, ! and that Mr. Farley will oppose j a fourth term more actively and ; vociferously than he opposed the , third. SHAKE-UP j Calls rising from adminlstra' ! tion friends in congress seem to signify they are paving the way TONIGHT ALAN BAXTER In "PRISONER OF JAPAN" iOHN PAYNE MAUREEN O'HARA RANDOLPH SCOTT Latest New "Your Air-raid Warden" orr. for Mr. Roosevelt to shake up the army and navy. First, Lyndon Johnson of Texas came back from the Far East and started talking about "brass hats" for the first time in his life. Then Oklahoma's Josh Lee went after both the army and navy, and Representative Coffee, of Washington, joined what seemed to be a chorus. - "Want-ads" results! cost little bring STARTING SUNDAY! i'' f VTfl .0 HUE . JSh eiow Top HH "' Rodio Ricora !"'.; "JUST PIAIN IONSSOME" "I'VE GOT MOON IN WT, POCKET" m Tolling The Editor Lotion pHnlod horo mtat ml t mor Ihon Mo wordo In lonmh, mull b writ INt l.llbl, on ONI IIUI ol Iho palH only, miMt bo oiRtotl. Oontilbulloiw lollownf Ihoto rulM, oro wormly ok HOME ON THE HIU, I left n mother, dud, uiul little brother On tho homestead Unit helped my folk to tell When an enemy bombed over blue Pacific, And they called me from my homo upon tho hill I want no tours to full on those dear faces. As 1 walk with contraries in a winter's chill Clouds will clour when we huvo won the victory And 1 Journey to my home upon the hill. Trials may come, but there will be one memory, A fond home where loved ours kneel In prayor for me And where each dny they'll watch for my returning. Troubled worlds from buttle fronts have boon set free, I see my mother in the old rose garden, My father In tho fields, his grain to sow, The school muy bo tho futo of little brother, That dear lund where peaceful folk walk to and fro These thoughts aro often In my memory, And It brings to me a happy childish thrill, For soon I'll trod In old familiar places, When I Journey to my home upon tho hill. By MRS. ELSIE FAUCHT. 1221 East Main. JAPANESE CENTER "POINTERS" KLAMATH FALLS. Ore, (To the Editor) Have talked to many restaurants, taverns and PIlLlQlTMiO U pi i rtl MEW'WYMMI v KAY KYSER'S BAND THE I Latest Marvh of Time All IIT l in1 ii iiii ti: iii i m -uiikjiuii.uiuii- Ambulance Corps Members Study Communications I.eurniiiK various methods of cominuntentlon Is one of tho re quirement for members of tha Oregon Womon'a Ambulance corps, Hint lurut) number of women beloiminu to tho Klttm tith plutonn ure busy complet ing their hours on PHX switch bull id. Eight of tho ten members who have completed this work hovo done so on the switchboard at the Elk hotel through the co operation of Ruymotul Hutftuld, immniier. Others are practicing on swltehbouids o f f o r o d for their use by other firms throughout the city. Tho local unit of OWAC now lists 50 members, all of whom store kuepers In regard to the shortage pf soft drinks In Kluin Hlh Fulls. They nil tell the same story. Two locul bottler send tho Jiipuiiesu center ill Tula lake the pop and If and when there Is any left the Americans, who have been steudy customers for years mut years, get it. Days and days and tho pop distributors my "Wo have none, the Japanese colony tnke.i most of It." Why on God's green earth should the yellow men get first choice and the Amorlenn dealers and the public get second best. The war unci these Japs wilt not be with us forever and a duy of reckoning wilt come for these bottlers to answer to. Right now ii move Is on foot to establish a bottling houso for pop that will rofusu to (urnlnh the Japanese pop. If this condi tion keeps up It will wreck the people's morale that the Japs in this country get flr.il choice anil the rest of us sccund choice. A. PILLET, Martin Road, Rt. 3. muucu Ml are showing great lntrit In the course required, v. denced by the number of fhoin completing them. Forty.flve hnvo finished both standard and advanced first sld courses! 39 have taken all tha civilian de fense course offered; 3tt have completed 13 hour of motor mechanics; 28 have paused their chauffeurs' license teat and all of the older member have from three to five hour to their credit fur participation In civil ian defense alerts. i WAR QUIZ 1. Sailor who wear tht Imlg. n In of u spoked wheel holds what position In tha navy: Tor pedo mun, div er, quartermas ter? 2. What Amor- lean-made tank. which saw con siderable action In Libya and Egypt, Is named after a famous American president and general? 3. What Is tho muil bombed spot In tho world? ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ 1. Navy man who weirs thl Insignia Is a quartermaster. 2. General Grant tank, named after Gen. U. S. Grant, Civil war commander and 18th presi dent of the United Stale. 3. The Island of Malta, only 171 miles long by St miles brend, which lies 60 mile south of Italian Sicily, ha hd mora than 2000 nlr raid by the Luft waffe and Italian air force. STARTING SUNDAYl IKAGTION L I kg --. S. i f. J
