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I N TH E SHASTA-CASCADE WON DERLAN D
NEA FEATURES
Straam yaar
rmcE hvb.cen:. , '""-" it a., orbgon, Monday, September 28, 1942
Number 9602
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By FRANK JENKINS
PORTLAND. Thli writer haa
r Just put In a day at the throe
great Kaiser shipyards In this
area two of them on the Oregon
lido and one over In Washing
ton, at Vancouver. '
Cu It has been a fascinatingly In
ttareallng day. lint that li a
minor and unimportant part of
It. It haa been a REVEALING
day. A dny of aeclng REAL
AMERICANS In action, working
hard and Intelligently, doing
things and OETl'INO SOME
WHERE. TN then mighty, smooth-running
shipyards the. clang and the
clatter of men AND WOMEN at
work drown out'th ylpplng of
tho pollticlani and the yowling
of tho special privilege boyi and
one la enabled to get a glimpse
of the kind of Americana who
COUNT those who are working
and accomplishing thingi.
. ( ...
T?UT, enough of philosophizing.
Let'a get down to bualneas.
VJ Hero In theae great Kalaer
yardi. they're building ahlpt and
building them -fast. You've Juat
read of the veasel that wna
launched TEN DAYS after the
laying of the keel nd turned
over all ready to go to work only
It day after th keel waa laid.
That's a riew all-timo world
record that will probably stand
for quite a while, but they're
building ah I pa here faater than
ships -were ever built fine the
world began 'and they're sieaa
lly reducing tho AVERAGE con
atructlon time.
,-......".
BEFORE thla man Kaiser came
" along ahlpa were tailor-made
affair whoa building took a lot
of time. Kalaer put them Into
tnaai production.
1 Howl '
That's long and tedloua
atory.
It la aufilclent here to aay that
Kalaer and hla amart right-hand
men learned how to build ahlpa
by first making thouaanda of
pieces ao accurately dealgned
that they go ' together like the
pieces 'of a Jig-saw puzzle in a
MINIMUM of time. -i
Than they build the pieces in
to aectloni. Aftor that they put
the sections together into ehlps,
uaing all the short cuta made
possible by modern mass-produc-
tlon technique. That's all there
is to It.
It WORKS.
THEY -launched a ship today.:
' Ship: launchlngs were once
important affairs, painstakingly
prepared for and carried out
with traditionally elaborate cere
mony. This one was simple and
impreistve, but KILLED NO
TIMS.
' It started at 12 o'clock, Just
aa tha lunch whistle blew. There
)V03 a fisg-raieiiig ceremonial.
wAs tho flag reached the top of
the mast, a male quartet sang
the national anthem over a loud
speaker system. The uniformed
guards and such military and
naval personnel as woro present
stood at attonllon. Civilians
bared their heads. . ,.
. A brief a n d ' Informative
launching speech, was marie by
Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the
H Portland Orcgonlan. A minister
bie7x s,,P'
lene torcht lartd, ?ltln the
strip of steel tfBt hcId vessel
In her place. ,
At exactly the ti!M -moment
, , (Continued on Page
'" : .' "
Deer Hunting ' ?
Open in Northern
Part of California
' Thara ' have been , no forest
closures or cancellation or, post-
Oponcment of the deer season In
northern California ' since it
opened, Fred Starr, chief game
warden of the Siskiyou districts
said today. , ... ''
His assertion was made to
quoll a recent flood of rumors
that a closure similar to that in
Oregon had beonmado.-'
; Starr said that hunting Is
i continuing. In northern Calif or-
. Di. . . . ':
I
FREEZE EKED
House C o m m i t t e e
Members Study",
Farm Labor .
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 OP)
A freozlng of essential work
ers to tho furm, by giving them
the choint between agricultural
production or military service,
was suggested today by .MnJ.
Gen, Lewis B.'Horshey, selec
tive servlco chief, as ono posat
ble means of allevlutlng a grow
ing farm labor shortage.
. Ho told the house agrlculturo
committee "I am willing' to do
this," If tha proper pollcy-mnk-ing
agoncy of the government de
cided It was advisable.
Claaslf Ucatlon Eyed
Eurlier ha had told tha com
mittee his was an operating of
fice, that tha war ' manpower
commission took- care of the
policy making. -- ' '
Hershey disclosed that he was
considering . the possibility of
claaalfying. agriculture produc
tion Into Its essential and non
essential components, olither by
crops or production areas. He
said he had discussed this with
Agriculture Secretary Wickard.
Before his ..testimony , to' tht
house group, : General Hershey
had dUcussed manpower neoda
with a apeclal' senate' defense
Investigating committee . prepar
ing to Investigate the Situation.
' ,' Dairy CrUlS t
The Suggestion of "freezing"
farm workers to their' Jobs, If
what they produce is essential,
came after house . committee
members, studying the general
farm labor emergency, Com
plained' that labor was leaving
farms for lndisstrial areas where
wages are higher. ' " . ;
One member said conditions
(Continued on Page Two)
3S MPH Speed
Limit Ordered
For Oregon
SALEM, Sept. 281 (P) Gov
ernor Charles A. Sprague today
issued a proclamation fixing 38
miles an hour as Oregon's speed
limit for all types of motor ve
hicles. The proclamation amended his
proclamation of March 24, which
had set a limit of 40 miles per
hour.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (P)
Motorists throughout tho na
tion were urged today to restrict
their driving to about 60 per
cent of normal pending .institu
tion of gasoline rationing about
Nov. 22- as a tire conservation
measure. ' -. , ....
Prlca Administrator Leon
Hondersnn ' announced over the
weekend that the national pro
gram would follow closely the
system already In effect in the
east with a basic ration of slight
ly loss than four gallons a week.
, Supplemental rations will be
. (Continued, on Page Two) !
M
SQLUTIDN
$500,000 Crop Grown on
Land Near Tule Lake Sump
Crops valued at over a 'half
million dollars have been grown
on land adjacent ; to the Tule
lake sump this season land
which reclamation service : au
thorities say -would have been
looded won It not for the
primping operation diverting
wat'iVy""11 tnal Brea mt0 Low
er KloVath lBko- '
" Tho ettrSfHtlon of Tule lake
sump waterl'" been lowered
about one andv feet by
Withdrawing 43,001? acre feet Of
water and directing "JV through
the tunnel completed wt No.
vember, Into the dry ba&ln on
tho other sldo of tho hllls.Thls
has meant that about 8t?00
acres was seeded, chiefly fo.
Hannchen barloy, , that would
otherwise be under wntor,
- Pionasring Work '
Reports . from those who
leased these fertile lands from,
''1
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li , -
A d.llnlt. ''cooln.ii'' of Busaiana toward allied handling of tha war ta what Wendell Will
kie r.porta from Moacow. In photo radioed from Moacow to New York, tha prealdant'a mea
aaga, at right, la shown with Joaeph Stalin as they conferred at tha Kremlin on progr.aa and
proapecU of World War II. Willkla left by plana Sunday for China.
(NEA' Radio-Taltphoto) ... . ''-" -
JAP AIRCRAFT
Flying ;,.Fortsr:;t3prTb.
Buna-Gona in New ,
, 1 .r. , .
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 VP)
The navy announced today-that
army, navy and marine corps
fliers In the Solomons had de
stroyed 42 enemy aircraft and
damaged three others ' -without
losing any of their own planes,
and had damaged four enemy
ships, i one of - which probably
sank, In operations from Sep
tember 23 to date. ,
GENERAL' MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, AustraVa,
Sept. 28 .VP) American Flying
Fortresses twice bombed the
Zuna-Gona area on tha eastern
coost of New Gulnear, whence
the Japanese are trying to push
overland toward Port Moresby,
and also damaged a .15,000-ton
merchant ship In a hevy attack
on the enemy base at Rabul,
New Britain yesterday,' General
MacArthur's headquarters' an
nounced today.
Supply dopots, ' barges and
airdrome defenses were bombed
and swept with machinegun
fire in the twin assaults on the
Buna-Gona bases, a commu
nique said. Returning pilots re
ported thoy had left fierce llrcs
blazing in the target area.
. Direct .Hit .
. The supply Una between Bu
na and tho ' Japanese advance
positions - near Ioribaiwa, 32
miles from Port Moresby, also
was strafed by allied attack
planes. '
At least one direct hit was
reported scored on the big mer
chant ship which was dam
aged at Rnbnul. When last seen
(Continued on Pego .Two)
the government, indicate;, that
the yield averages between 25
30 sacks per acre.-Market
prices for grain already ., sold,
most of . which goes to brewers,
has been . $2.50 per sack. ; On
this basis, an estimated half mil
lion dollars plus has been add
ed to tlio agricultural Income of
the Klamath basin.. ... :-:
Insufficient time has elapsed
for the effects of the. pumping
operation on ;Lower. Klamath
lake to' make mucl) of a show
ing, according to B. E. Hayden,
reclamation service superin
tendent for the Klamath proj
ect.. Ho attributes this to the
ploneoring nature ofw6rk.be-
Nng done in that area, pointing
out that seeding was delayed
by t h e necessity of grubbing
sagebrush and weeds from land
agebri
f
(Continued 6n'Pg Tw6)
Willkie, Stalin in Moscow Meeting
1
Nazis Seize Americans
In France as Hostages
BERN, SwlUerlsnd, Sept. 28
(Ph-The Germans have seized
some 300 Americans in occupied
France as potential hostages, dip
lomatic, quarters here learned to-
max, rfl ja-'myvfi wfuvi 'uwbu w
tn tension in rierrejuevai o gov
ernrflertt lb .Vly.wr, '( ';"fi
New - it the seizures Cam
froffl ' private sources - In- Paris.
American- .diplomatic.'-, sources
Were without official: word but
it caused no surprise, since Amer
icans, in the occupied, tone' are
liable to Internment by 'the nails
As enemy-aliens. ,
(Secretary of' Stat Hull In
Washington -told' his 'pr'esd; con
ference that the United States
government was trying t6 get the
FDR- Reported Ready
To Delay. Executive
Move
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 IIP)
Farm state senators offered a
compromise today of their de
mands for higher farm prices in
the onti-lnflation .bill but' ad
ministration leaders flatly re
jected It. . t 5 '
Senator Brown (D-Mich.) said
ha and other , administration
leaders ' had turned down a pro
posal offered by a senate agri
culture ' sub-commtttce which
BrAwn. contended . would . have
Introduced "cost of oroductlon"
factors , Into the fixing of agri
cultural prices.
',,)'' Debate '
Brown announced that the ad
ministration planned to- permit
an original proposal by Senators
Thomas (D-Okls.) and Hatch
(D-N.M.to come to a vote to
(Continued on Paga Two)
Meeting of Bond
Quota Expected
By Wednesday
Klamath county was back
only $21,000 Monday on Its Sep
tember war savings - quota and
Verne Owens, leader of tho war
savings staff, expressed confi
dence that the quota will be met
by the close of business Wednes
day.;.',
Forrest Cooper, former Lake-
view attorney who is ndw work
ing with the state war savings
staff,. was in Klamath Falls Mon
day and said:
"I. am -not worrying about
Klamath county. It has, proved
what It can do in the past, and
It will do It again." '
Cooper said that among east
ern Oregon counties, Lake, Mor
row, Sherman, . Harney, Grant
and Deschutes . have' reached
their September. war bond quo
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full facts and that he was await
ing a report from the American
charge d'affaires at Vichy),,;- -.
Those held were Americans
who' f qr 1 one. reasori "or another
remained- ': in ' occupied France
pending' negotiations for, their
repatriation. ' It f was assumed
that if repatriation were permit
ted the Germans would ask for
the return of ah equal number
of Germans in the United States.
The roundup and other in
cidents, especially ' tha United
States' -endorsement of the Brit
ish occupation of Madagascar,
have served to create the most
critical situation thus far In
American -French relations,
French observers of the Vichy
scene said. ' -
Laval is faced with the great
est difficulties in the negotiations
with Germany for 120,000
French workers, which private
sources said had been demanded
within three "weeks. " Mindful
of the sentiment of the French,
Laval declared that this would
Involve strong compulsion which
he dared not exert, information
from Paris said. -
. According to these advices,
(Continued on Page Two) ,
. ' i
Two Training .
Planes Coilide
Here Monday ;
Two training planes' collided
on the main runway at the mu
nicipal airport Monday morning, -resulting
in a slight . injury to
one man and . damage to the
planes. .
Don Rude, an instructor , who
recently came here from -Ashland,
suffered a minor 1 scalp
wound. In the plane with him
was Bill Jones, local man , and
CPT student. Occupants of the
other plane were A. L. Mourtort,
instructor, and Lloyd F.. Whi
teaker, student. Both students
are army enlisted reserves.
' The accident occurred as both
planes were rolling after landing
on the main runway. Wind had
switched around, it was report
ed, and they landed in opposite
directions. Wings of the planes
struck In the collision.
An investigator for tha air
safety board was making an in
vestigation of the mishap.
Job Freeze Results .
Held "Very Good"
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 VP)
Results of the government's
closest approach to "job freez
ing" a recent manpower com
mission order affecting loggers
and certain miners iri -12 west
ern states wera described by
commission officials yesterday
as "very good better- than; ex
pected."
The order placed restrictions
on transfers to other work, and
commission spokesmen said it
had reduced the labor loss, in
the industries affected by- 80
per cent or more in the three
weeks it has been in effect.
Stalingrad mmm
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PLANES RUSH
IN TO FRONT
Reds Unloose Offen
sive . Northwest . ;
Of City ; L
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, Sept. 28 (J?)
Fresh German shock , troops
rushed to the front by transport
plane poured into the debris
choked streets of Stalingrad in
an effort to clinch victory, dis
patches said today,' but the--red
army, fighting from window and
rpoftoji and ta the streets; 'fie,ld
the: city-,ln the psthvday.of
bloodyassault.'' - -
' Northwest " of the" city, the
Russians were blunting the Ger
man drive and unloosing an' of
fensive of their own in 'an ef
fort to slow the more direct nazi
attack on the city, it was report
ed..., In on', sector, a larg soviet
unit .JtMeU 2000 German In 4wo
days, lha irridday eornmunlque
said.?- --Ussf
.iff ' " City In ConvuIsiQa
y, Dispatches front tha front es
timated . that 38,000 - Germans
were battling : from positions in
side the city and said they were
being reinforced steadily -in - an
attempt to overwhelm-4he de
fenders, who were ' relying on
bomb-harassed ' communications
of the Volga. - - v
The fighting- for the city is
"growing ever fiercer and blood
ier," a correspondent for Pravda
reported. ' . - -
. "The whoje city Is in ' convul
sion . from the incessant explo
sions of bombs and shells," he
said. - :
Streets Taken
The fierce fighting of-the past
24 hours, with . the Germans
lunging into the city .from several-different
points, has result
ed in a zig-zag' front with the
Germans slightly advanced in
some sectors and the' Russians
established in new positions to
the west in others, one dispatch
said.'
The Russians were reported
to have taken two more streets
from the Germans at ona point
The mid-day communique said
two enemy companies had been
wiped out In one smoking and
shell-marked neighborhood.'
Writing from the agony-filled
' (Continued on Page. 2) .
Oregon Pay Roll
Soars to New High
SALEM, Sept. 28 WPV Ore
gon's industrial payroll in August
soared to a new high mark of
$37,788,810, more , than double
the $18,218,816 figure in August,
1841, the state industrial acci
dent commission said today. ;
Multnomah county's " August
payroll totaled $24445,563, com
pared with $7,288,566 in August,
1841. ; v . ; ' i
NAZI
TROOPS
Nation's Newspapers Lead
Concentrated Scrap Hunt
'NEW. YORK, Sept.' 28 (P)
Men, women and children by the
millions began today the great-'
est concentrated'hunt in Amer
ican history a . nationwide
search for metal scrap in homes,
factories and farms by states,
cities, towns and counties. . '
For- the next three weeks
mora than 1,800 newspapers in
most states will lead the inten
sive drive, to find Junked metal
to' feed the hungry steel mills
turning out weapons against the
axis.' -'. !'
'Everything that - is made of
worn-Put,' obsolete or' unessen
tial metal is needed:
Old carbage cans, hammer
heads, flatlrons, skid chains, re
frigerators, rartlntors, , tractors,
washing maojhlnes, kitchen
stoves.rbsthtubs, ' electric Irons,
Good, Gilchrist
Caiied to Duty
With U. S. Navy
I The navy today took two more
prominent , Klamathltes away
from civilian life. '
- Rolla -S.' Goold,- principal -of
Klamath Union high school, re
vealed' today that he has been
commissioned an ensign in the
navy and ordered to report to
the . naval . training . school at
Tucson, Ariz.) on October 15. . ,
- Dwight Gilchrist,-for the past
six years Boy Scout executive of
the Modoc Area council, said
that he will leave tonight for
Portland and then Great Lakes
Naval station at Great Lakes,
111., as a lieutenant (J., g.) - -
. - The departure of Goold cuts
short his first year as KUHS
principal. He came here from
La Grande, Ore:, aa assistant to
Arnold L. Gralapp, last year
principal at. the hilltop institu
tion; "'.When Gralapp was ele
vated to the Superintendency this
fall, Goold was made principal.
He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Oregon and at 29 one
of the youngest high school prin
cipals in the state.
Superintendent Gralapp said,
"The school system is very sorry
.,v.:(ContWued,on"Page Two)
British ' Labor . Leaders
.Demand Answer on
. Willkie Call ,
LONDON, Sept. 28 (AP) An
acertion by General Sir Archi
bald P. Wavell that British and
American troops - would fight
their way onto - the European
continent : as - soon as possible-'
shared attention -today - with
labor, leaders'- demands, for an
immediate government ansver
to WendeU Willkie's call for a
second front to aid Russia.
Wavell, commander in chief
of India, spoke , in New .Deihi
in a review , of the global as
pects of the war and voiced his
firm conviction that the United
States, ' Britain, Russia and
China would fight on together
to ultimate victory. -'
"It is - quite certain that ' as
soon as ever possible : both
American troops and ourselves
will start a second front, but I
can't tell you when' or where,"
Wavell- declared.
'"It's a biggish problem start
ing on the continent. We'll have
some casv "'- very consider
able both American and ours
before we get back into the
continent. But we'll get back."
While Wa.ell was giving this
assurance. Lord Strabolgl, labor
peer, was demanding - in a
speech at Wimbledon that the
C). rchill ' war cabinet reply
"without delay" to Willkie's as
sertion In Moscow that the best
way to aid Russia was to open
(Continued on Page Two)
plows, hayrakes, rails, iron gird
ers, boilers, pipes. ,. .--' .
- This Is the appeal recently is
sued by Donald Nelson:
- "As chairman of the war pro
duction board, I call upon every
citizen of the United States to
make this campaign a success by
gathering and turning in all the
scrap metal that can possibly be
spared." . , - ,
i . In some states, the drive has
already been under way, but In
most the 21 days beginning
today will be the intensive per
iod. In a few, the drive starts a
week later.
States, will. compete against
states, towns against towns and
the .newspapers . are. offering
thousands of dollars in - prizes
' (Continued on Paga Two) . i
RCAF PLANES
AID; ENEMY
Willi
Friday Action ' Downs
6 Jap Airplanes;'
-' Subs Strafed
WASHINGTON, SepC 28 (ff)
The navy announced today that
a strong force of army bombers
and pursuit planes, accompanied
by Royal Canadian air-force
planes, attacked Japanese shore
installations and ships at Kiska
in the Aleutian Islands last Fri
day, damaging , an enemy trans
port, shooting down a seaplAna (' '
fighter and destroying six. othetv
planes on the water and strafing
two submarines.
The dav'nrevlouslv 'ai mTt .
force of army heavy bombers
nad attacked Kiska, a navy com
munique reported,, but result
were not ' observed. Indicating
that the attack was carried out
from a high altitude. . ,.
,. Ship Beached :
In the Friday assault, the navy
estimatedmi. Japanese ' were
killed or wounded.
Bomb hits started fires on on
of the two ships in the harbor,
the communique said, and when
last seen the vessel wai llstin
and beached. , .
.This was the first report from
the navy that Canadian air frtrr.
planes were cooperating . With
United States forces in the Alas
kan theater. There was no in
dication whether the Canadian
planes were fighters or bombers:
-The text of the commiinlnim.
number 113;., .... ;
"North Pacific. ":'
"1. On Sentemher 94 n11
force of heaw armv hnmhm
attacked enemy Installations .on
me uiana oi Kiska. Kseulta were
not observed.
Ship Tw Now 33 .
22. On SeDtember 25 a tmn
force of army bombers and pur
suit planes, accompanied ... by
1 C .1 n , .
iiiaucs ua uie AoyaLi ianaaian
air force, attacked shore instal
lations and ships at Kiska. Two
submarines were strafed.- slx
seaplane fighters were destroyed
on the later and a seventh, was
shot down. Bomb hits started '
fires on one of the two trans-'
(Continued on Page 2)
CAA. Opens Bids f or T
Beacon Facilities :";
At Klamath Falls L
SEATTLE, Sept.- 28 - UP) -
The civil aeronautics authority
regional office today opened six
sets of bids for beacon facili
ties at Klamath Falls and Mad
ras, Ore;
The tenders were offered on
four schedules, the contract
award has not been made but
will be submitted to Washing
ton, D. C., authorities for' ap
proval or rejection, . - ; -;
The bids were: ' , . 1
Tower Sales & Erecting - Co
Portland, schedules 1 and J,
$15,451; schedules 3 and 4,
$14,123.
M. E. Souther, St. Paul, $lv
818.30 and $16,440.62.
West Engineering & Construc
tion Co., Des Moines, Iowa, $14,-
304 and $15,151.35.
Colonial Construction ' Co.,
Spokane, $19,931.43 and 19r
073.33. ' " '
City Electric Co., Boise, $17,-
207.75 and $16,674.40. .. '
Dunlap Electric Co., ChehaHa,
$11,555 and $11,491.62. ' .
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News Index V
CMv Briefs .......Pae S
Comics and Story .......Page
Courthouse Records ...:..Page 10
Editorial ...Page 8
Information -....-..Page ; 5
KfaUnt . Finnnplnl .... Pflff A
Mtrilnnd Emnlrfl New . Paea- - 3
Our Men in Servlce......Pag 3
Pattern .... ...faga 7
Sports LPaga -, 7