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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR . HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Ausrimt 215, ,194) TITAN JRNKINd . UaUXHM eplev A ttmporftry oorabtnitloo of the Evening fltr1d iDd the EUnuth Ki. Pobltihea' vrj ftriooa except Bundftj it BipUnadt tnd Tint Krtxtt, Kltftitih Fftll. Orefoo, by tke feraid ruwilflial -o. na uit niKoiaio InUftd j ifcond elan mattr at the pcwtofroe of KUratlh Fill. Ort., oe Aumit 90. i lOfM iimW Art rtf lYmtfrtta. Ufcrrb I. lift. MrmW of Tha Allocated sm Vha iuAutd Prcta la ciclutlvaW entitled to tha uae of MBQbllMtkm at all i dupatchta credited to It or not otharvtaa credited ta thl pepr, and alto tb local - puMUttrd thtrelo. All hhf of republication of pm1 dupetcoee ire alto Nwwi MRMRRR AUDIT BUItSAD OF CIRCULATION Raprearnteri Nationally bj H eat Uolllda; Co., Inc. San TraiKUeo. New York, Drtrolt. Saattla, Chlflago. Portland. ie Ancalaa, St. touta. Vancouver, B. 0. Coplra or Tha Rarald and Na. tosatftar lth eomplata laformatjca about tha KlainaUi FalU marlcrl. may be obulnad for tha aaltni ai aaj of tbcaa offtcaa. IHIIvarad bj Carrlac la Citj Ona Month t Thraa Mentha MS Ona Taar - , , MAIL RATBS PAYABLE IN ADVAKCB 11; Mall la Klamath, Lata, Uodoa and Sliktrou OounUas Thrw Moni . lit Mentha Oh Vaaj - Stay on Fundamentals SOME folks close at hand should take to heart what Paul Mallon said to the man who wrote he didn't like government policy or the British and isnt buying war bonds, even though he has a boy in the service. Mr. Mallon advised the complainant he had better buy bonds to help finance the purchase of equipment which would make his son safer. :. Hereabouts, we hear the excuse offered that people do not buy bonds because they don't like the Japanese reception center at Tulslake, Thy don't tha way the center is operated, they don't like the freedom re portedly granted the internees, and they don't like some other things down there, so they won't buy bonds. If this is the real reasoning, how shallow it is!. If they don't like the Japanese, and presumably that's why they don't like the Jap center, they had better buy bonds! If they think there are internees there who want to see Japan, win the war, they had better buy bonds to help make certain their disappointment. : " . Don't get us wrong. Any American citizen has a right to' object as loudly as he wishes to some government policy which he believes unsound. If people here do not like the way the Japanese center is criticism as they wish. But they should not permit their feelings on that matter to influence their support of their government and our men in the service. There is some thing definitely contradictory and inconsistent in that attitude. . Vicious Practice A TECHNICAL foreman in a New Jersey war produc tion plant, drawing a regular salary of $100 a week, with additional pay for overtime, recently was arrested by agents of the FBI and charged with sabotage. No, he had not been putting sand in any of the ma chinery, nor graphite in the gears. However, he adopted a more insidious but Just as effective a way to stab in the baclc the men whose blood today stains the sands of the Solomon Islands. - This was the instruction he gave to his subordinates: Take it easy, don't work too hard. We don't want this war over too soon. What of an American, who is profiting from the war, and puts the continuance of that profit above the victory - - I , 1 U ' l I T . . ... ui mo uuumry, jus ioyany to nis nag, nis sacrea amy to do everything possible to support the men at the fight ing ironif yi If he is hot a traitor, a Judas Iscariot what fa h? And if there is one individual so base and treacherous, are. there not others? : Here is a field for action which should engage the continuous attention of the FBI. This is an infamous fornv of betrayal which not only Biiuuiu oe exposed, out punisnea swutiy and surely. Sacramento Bee. '. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 25 (JP) State selective . service head quarters today instructed Call fornia's 284 local draft boards to "plan" the withdrawal ft-nm Industry of men of military age deferred for occupational rea sons, to meet the increasingly neavy demands of the armed rorces. Lt. Col. Kenneth H. Leitch state draft director, released the orders with the statement that too many young men have been employed in defense industries during the past year with little or no mechanical background. He urged local boards instead to encourage men with wives and children to seek employment In war production and in essen tial industries "necessary to the prosecution of the war." Leitch said the boards have been told to deny applications for occupational deferments in cases where only a short replace ment training period is required, and where the registrant does not have a background for the particular kind of work. Merrill Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bailey, Richard E. Bailey. Jr.. John Takacs, all of Merrill, and Bar bara. LaRue, Tulelake, have re turned from Nampa, Boise and Parma, Idaho, where they made survey of the crop and labor situation. Crops in the Idaho valleys are exceptionally heavy this year, according to reports, and some Japanese labor is be ing used for harvesting. Potato buyers have already Invaded the potato growing districts and prices promise to be good this season. ' While in Nampa the party vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Louis Svelak, daughter and son-in-law of the Bailey's, who at one time farm ed near Merrill and Malin. Mrs. Mintflai tutor mourning voapuj. in operated, they can voice their Svelak is recovering from recent major operation. En route home the party view ed a four-motored bomber that made a forced landing 18 miles north of Bums. There were no casualties in the accident, the pilot having dropped ,his cargo ana gasoune oeiore the crash, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Fergu son were recent visitors here trom Stockton, where they have purchased a home and where Ferguson's headquarters are lo cated. He is a former Merrill potato buyer. Anton Polivka and daughter uoromy, ban Francisco, have returned home after visiting Polivka's sister, Mrs. Richard E. eaiiey and family, his brother. Emil Polivka and family and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anton fouvKa, Malfn. Soviet Planes Attack Helsinki; Long Alarm Sounded LONDON. Aus. 2R 0Prortv Russian planes attacked Helsin ki and Its environs last night, a rmnisn communique broadcast by the Helsinki radio said today. Earlier a Vichy radio mnnri said the raid caused the longest alarm of the year In the Finnish capital. The broadcast said bombs fll outside the city and that the alert sirens sounded three times during the night. ine Russian air force smuhcH at Helsinki on numerous occa sions during the Russian-Finnish war but since the Germans In. vaded Russia and made an aiiv of the Finns the raids have been few aiid on a small scale. WHAT? NO FDR? ALBUQUERQUE. N. M. UPi An applicant for naturalization papers named the thr. branches' of government In the United States like this: John Miles, Clyde Tlnalev and John Dempsey." Miles is governor of New Mexico, Tingley mayor of Al buquerque and Dempsey a can didate for governor. : Rfhtmt) I WASHINGTON. Aug. 25 Lost point in most currant dis cussions or the surprise mando raid on Dieppe is that it wis not a sur- priss. That kind of an attack relies for full success, not on over whelming num bers of superior ferocity, but on catching the de fenses unaware. Paul Mallon Tha advantases of carefully placed defending guns, protected by concrete, steel and sandbags. generally can be offset only the defenders are off guard. In the light of the fact that the expedition was unfortunate ly disclosed offshore by four nati anti-aircraft gunships (flak' ships), and the nazis at Dieppe were fully forewarned and their places ready to receive storm, the feat of arms becomes doubly remarkable (or accom plishing as much as it did. But that same light casts spec ulative beams on how much more would have been accom plished with less loss, had our ships not stumbled upon the nazis unexpectedly in the dark ness. Also this was. almost entirely a ianaaian snow, uur participa tion was restricted to experi mental cooperation. Incidentally, the London re ports have conveyed an imores sion that our participants are re turning to the United States to act as Instructors, suggesting that their experience may not be used again immediately in com mando action. Only a portion are returning for teaching. The others will lead more raids in which U. S. forces will participate in greater num. bers and with greater secrecy assured. , No more stray flakships will do auowea to discover our pur poses ana spread an alarm. COMMANDO FARLEY It was truly a daring comman- dO-liKe teat of politics when Gen era! Jim Farley took control of the president's party in the lare- est state of the' uniona 1 thou eh it was not a surprise and may not nave the wide repercussions wnicn are commonly forecast. Overlooked and controlling point or f aney s raid was that everyone, expects the republican Dewey to win the state in No vember. Dewey has long seemed to be an odds-on favorite to most po litico here, no matter whether the democrats split, whether Mead or Bennett was nominated, no matter the American labor party. The popular Lehman only beat him by 64,398 votes in 1938 (out of nearly 4,700,000 votes cast). ine odds would even have been against Lehman if he had run again. Thus Mr. Farley is apt to wind up with a democratic party con trol in the state, weakened by lacic of any kind of pap to sus. tain it. He cannot get any fed. eral or New Vork City tatron. ge, and If Bennett loses he will be without state patronage. Faced with such difficulties. It would be difficult for him to build up any kind of a formid able machine, even though he is the most astute politico in the Business. Mr. Farley foueht for .what he thought was right and got nearly even xor wnat was done to him in Washington, but vou can e if you sift, the facts further, that his power for the 1944 presiden- uai contest is more uncertain man popular comment suesests. If Mr. Roosevelt wants a fourth term and the war is won or being successfully prosecuted in i44, any bookmaker would favor White House chances of getting the New York delega tion to the next convention. How ever, Farley could orobablv swing the delegation against any omer person Mr. Roosevelt would try to name as his suc cessor. No one can see so far ahead these days with any clarity but as democratic matters stand to day, anyone except Mr. Roose velt would have a very hard time getting that democratic nomination nationally. REPUBLICAN TROUBLES How broke are the republi cans can best be gauged by con sidering that they chose a demo crat (a capable anti-Roosevelt democrat, Sam Pettlnglll, of In diana) to head their money-raising finance committee. How pressed and unoreanlzeri Ihey ate can best be Judged by two other observations: The rich CIO bouaht the well placed building which republi cans rented for headquarters, less than half a block from the White House, and chased them out, farther up Connecticut avenue. Republican senators and rep resentatives are almost unani com- HKS...I iilianawljijial SIDE GLANCES ififT v U' f II s j CjKjrSr ! com. m iv mca arwvtcf. iwc t. m. acq u. a. "Wrmt if we can't buy new parts for the washing ma chine? Didn't 1 mnkc our old flivver run for years with, haywire and tape?" Experts Review America's No. 7 Problem: Rubber, How Much We Have, Need (Editor's Note: From the mo ment of Pearl Harbor, rubber became a No. 1 problem on the home front Passing months have piled up confusion with claims, denials and accusations. Wide World business writers James Marlow and William Pinkerton have waded through the evi dence and, beginning today, de vote some of their attention to concise explanation of what has happened and where we are.) By JAMES MARLOW and WILLIAM PINKERTON WASHINGTON. Aug. 24 (Wide World) America's stock of rubber is shrinking by the minute but how long it will con tinue to shrink is considered a military secret. The demands of America's mo torized army are great, in spite of the substitution of metal for rubber treads on tanks, the re duction 01 tne rubber in army raincoats and the thinning of rubber coating on machinery. How much rubber has Amer ica? Not more than 700,000 tons, probably less. This does not in clude scrap rubber, the junk heap material that can be re claimed and used again for some purposes. The rubber industry has esti mated that our reclaiming plants are capable of turning out 350,- 000 tons a year. That does not in clude synthetic rubber but the amount of synthetic coming from our plants now building is hard ly worth considering, perhaps 31,000 tons this year. In the year before Pearl Har bor the biggest rubber year in history we used 766,000 tons of basic, crude rubber for all pur poses, including girdles, suspen ders, overshoes, hot water bot tles and, particularly, automo biles. 800,000 Tons Nded June estimates said 800.000 tons of rubber were needed to carry the army and navy through tne rest or 1B4Z and 1943 but this Includes lend-lease rubber for the military needs of our al lies, almost entirely dependent upon our rubber stocks. The Japanese, who seized our East Indian rubber sources, did not catch us entirely off guard, for when they struck the 700,000 tons we had on hand was a lot more than the 90,000 tons of rub- ular head of the party, Mr. WI1I kie, could get the democratic party nomination for president today much easier than he could get the republican nomination. His republican organizational support around here has almost entirely fallen away. Only the Dewey chances are ascending on tne netner political horizon. RniriBoui Last Times Today f 1 BIner Creihv m . l "STAR MAKER" . "UNTAMED" Ij AORROWjV fff James Gleason ifl Zasu Pitta, jf IB "Crooked Circle" l "WhSnKilled r Aunt -fe .VVMagglo" r j mt. oft: e-zk ber reserves In this country at tne end of 1838 a two months' supply. Right after the fall of France in June, 1940, President Roose velt directed Jesse Jones' recon. struction finance corporation to buy .rubber for a government stockpile and the Rubber Re serve company was set up to do ine joo. . ine ouying, nowever, was done by a committee of six ex. perts from the rubber industry. The committee head was A. L. Viles, president of the Rubber Manufacturers association. The five other members were from xne industry's big coirmanles. firesionc, uoodrich, Goodyear, united States Rubber and General. Committee Report A senate investigating com. mittce, wJiose chairman is Sena. tor Truman (D.-Mo.), reported that the, purchasing committee was buying for the government anu tneir own employers at the same time and that: During 1940, while they built up industrial stockpiles to 176 000 tons, they were able to buy only ,40,000 of the 150,000 tons which the government had planned to acquire in 1940. When Pearl Harbor ended the purchasing altogether they had accumulated 277,514 tons of the government's proposed 430,000 for 1941. From other sources the total stockpile became around 700,000 tons. These were reasons given by the Truman committee for the failure of the stockpile program: i. yuota restrictions of the n- tcrnatlonal rubber rcBulatlon committee, a British-Dutch com bine which controlled the great rubber-producing lands of the southwest Pacific and hesitated to increase rubber production to meet American needs because they would have meant import ing labor. The Truman committee also charged the combine was afraid "if tho emergency failed to ma terialize, excess stocks of rubber In the United States would en able the United States to control market prices." Ship Failure 2. Failure to use shins to full advantage. Many ships brought their rubber cargoes to New York, which meant only three trips a year, Instead of leaving them on the west coast. Dutch rubber had to wdlt for Dutch boats. 3. American Industry was permitted to absorb most of the NOW AT THE JULY LANDINGS TOTAL 2597 AT Approximately 2507 landings were made on the Klamath mu nlclpnl airport in July, includ ing those of fliers In the CPT course at tho field, It was shown in a report filed with tha city council Monday night by Louis Soukup, city airport manager. Landings of ships not bused here totaled 53; local flights not related to tho CPT program totaled 98, and tho flights by the ships of Snukup's flying school aggregated 2448. Soukup reported that hangar rent, and gnu nnri oil aiil profits amounted to $205.02 for the month. Maintenance of min imum personnel and other ex penses, he said, totaled S509.08. Monthly Raport The report was handed the council by City Engineer E. A. Thomas, who said that a slml lar airport report will bo mado cacn mourn Hereafter, it was the first report of tho kind given the council. Moyor Houston announced ppointmcnt of Rny Kent to succeed Jack Campbell on the city safety committee. L. F. Hanson filed a request with tho council to take steps to remedy conditions at his property, 219 Jefferson street, where ho said the front yard is flooded when neighbors water their lawn. The matter was re ferred to a committee. WAR QUIZ 1. What Is the cord on this soldier's shoulder called? What docs It signify? z. It takes a good many pur chases of stamps and bonds t o buy even one of the following. Which is most e x p e n sive primary trainer plane, barrage balloon. Army Jeep" or Army 'J m gearcniigni; 3. A binnacle Is the stand on which a ship's compass rests. What Is a "binnacle list?" AN5WEK5 TO WAR QUIZ 1. It Is a fourragere, a decora tion awarded to organizations which have distinguished them selves in battle. Both the word and the decoration are French, adopted by our Army after the World War. . 2. The searchlight $30,000. The plane costs $15,000; the bal loon, $10,000; the "Jeep," $900. 3. It Is a list of persons under medical care, so called because In former days tha sick list was posted on the binnacle. Public School Has One Teacher Left MEDFORD. Aug. 25 (VP) Floyd Barrett is all that is left of the Phoenix public school fac ulty In the wake of marriages, enlistment and Illness. Barrett, superintendent of the 8S-pupil system, said thot unless replacements were obtained for the three full-time and one part time teachers lost, the school would not open Sept. 14 as scheduled. rubber brought Into the coun try." Although the office of produc tion management ordered non defense consumption of rubber curtailed In June, 1941, the Tru man committee says, Industry's orders of crude rubber were so heavy that it wos not until the end of October that deliveries of chases began to be made In tho rubber reserve company pur- quantity. A Paramount Wotum tirrlnn DOROTHY LAM0UR With "Match e "Stranger Than Fiction" , , "Donald's Gold Mine" Latest Naws of the World LOCAL AIRPORT i r i i i b 200- J&A' t Wl 1 July-Doc. 1940 Jonuary to Docombor 1 1941 200- - 1940 i6o -ja 1 u 3 Fall ol otean W i loo- o X. Paorl Harbor g 8Q- - 3 Ruiila Intodad aV Js''p, 40 S FollofGrtoca I $1 40 Foll o Franc 0- In the first two years of America's lntenlvo war edort upending has Jumped out of tho millions clan Into tho billions. Top chart shows how total appropriation!, contracts and expenditure! hnva Jumped from near icro when Franco fell to present high mark. While 214 billion dollars hove been appropriated ior war pndtng only 129 billions havo been contracted for and 39 blllluni tictualLy pent In the July. 1940-July, 1912 period. Bottom chart howa dolly rate ol expenditures, now at nearly 200 million dollori a day. Figures from War Production Board. IKKlMllljilj;!.!!;,,!; !l;.ii;.. . ; vi-liil'lilii 'I'll '"TT"" I from tha files y' 40 yoon ti? iMi ?av0 From tha Klamath Republican August 28. 1902 The Portland Telegram of this date carries on Interview with Judge 11. L. Benson of Klamath Falls, who suld that his portion of Oregon should bo mare close ly connected with Portland, but ut present San Francisco gets nil the trade. "We Havo to stage It 02 miles from Klumulh Falls .to Ashland In coming to Portland," said Judge Benson. "This road is In very bad condition. ... If Port land would only fix up tho Ash land road, a great deal of freight would be hauled this way... . . The Lakcvlcw people aro com pletely cut off from Portland, which gets none of their trade." S. E. Martin of Morrill was here today. From the Klamath News August 25, 1932 O. D. Matthews, business man and sportsman, hinted today he may run for mayor. But, Matt hews said, "I'm getting pretty old and should do nothing more than fish and hunt." Principals of Klamath schools LAST SHOWING TONIGHT PRESENT ARMS! Wednesday ' f 'r " I r V I (flM ALSO Snuffy Smith and Barney Google "HILLBILLY 'BLITZKRIEG" Jon. -July 1942 I Bolllt of Midway 1941 VITAL JSP BISf CHUNGKING, Aug. 25 (P) Llshui, Important base from which Jupun might bo bombed. Is under direct attack by Chi-ne.-o forces who havo driven the Japanese liuldo that city in southeastern Click lung province, the Clilnt-Ko high command re ported tonight. Tho Japanese already have suffered "great losses," said communique, which announced reenpturo on Saturday of Teng pu In tho westward Chinese drlvo In Klnngsl province. Chincso forces thot occupied Llnchwan on Sunday have since progressed northward, the com munique said. FONDA ENLISTS LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (PjO Sans fanfare and ballyhoo, Henry Fonda, 37-year-old film star, enlisted In tho navy Mon day In its lowest rank appren tice seaman. this year will bo: Ebb Reno, Fnlrview; Augustn B. Parker, Fremont; Florence Ollmnnn, Jo seph Conger; Agnes Lageson, Mills: Myrtlo Helm, Pelican; fctln A. Forr, Riverside; Carl W. Mucndcr, Hooscvolt. Read Cloulflod Ads for Results for Fun . . . Romance! and Thursday Fredric MARCH Martha SCOTT ONE FOOT U HEAVEN mous in the opinion that the tit I ?