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ierata mm IhllllHI.IHlilli On 8-rnlnute blast on alrens and whistles li tha signal for blackout In Klamath Falls. Another long blait, during black out, li signal lor all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your atrttt lights. September 2S- High 75, Low 41 Precipitation as of Saptambar 23, 1441 Last year 17.80 Normal ............................. 12.78 Btraara yaar to data ... ....13.20 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FJ 'ALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1942 Number 9604 -l tut ; A Jl Villi I'l ,V.:,H)IM,M.Si,'l rvn fo) 0) mm WE (SfnnfW M rm Ma U LW mlis By FRANK JENKINS VOU wouldn't know Portland, Once on of the West's Icint turbulent cities, with u strong flavor of Now England, it In now ronrintf wild West boom town, The shipyards have mndo It so, ' t 'THE streets are crowded, day . and night, But especially ot tllsrlit, when the swing shift is going off and the graveyard shift .is com ln on. j The shipyards run three shifts day, seven days a week. From morning to mid-afternoon is the day shift. From mid-afternoon to midnight Is the swing shift, From midnight to morning Is the gravoynrd shift. a '' (These hours aro approximate yhot exact.- The swing and the graveyard shifts are somewhat shorter than the day shift, and lunch hours enter In.) THE work week Is 48 hours 40 , hours at regular psy and 8 hourst tlmo and half. The average pay-check is around 570 week, which produces qulto . little cash to jingle In pockets. ,'" Spending it is becoming In crenslngly difficult. High ship yard wages plus bottomless ship yard needs for manpower, ore rapidly sifting nuie-Doctica poo plo out of the down-town estab iishments,. which are already tinder-staffed. And, the general impression Is that wo "ain't seen nothin yet. '.. So you have to do a lot of waiting along with your spend Ing. AN example: . W A small parly of which this writer was a member felt gnawing need for food In tho mnll hours after tho swing shift had come off. Tho lobor short age has closed most of the all night eating places down-town, and only two seemed to bo open anywhere within reach. Both were Jammed. - The one finally chosen was Imply crawling with people. There wcro two cooks, and only Ivo waitresses could be counted It took a shade under two hours to got served. -? VS7HY, you ask, would anyone bo sap enough to wait two r. hours for food at that tlmo of the night or, rather, tho morn ing? 1 Well, In tho course of a half hour or so, It became a gamo ho would-bo caters got bull- caded and wore going to out- wait the waiters If It took a leg. One of theso bottle-necks you toad about. , One waitress, , heckled by a customer who insisted it had boon two hours since ho placed his order, answered nonchalant ly: "I should worry; I'm going to tho shipyards tomorrow, any way." a a As already stated hero, the shipyard need for manpower Is simply bottomless. After all tho scraping that has been dono, they toll you that 40,000 more workers aro acutely necessary. Now. 'Mooting this need (or trying to) Is resulting In Interesting situa tions., ' Ed Koon, who publishes the Oregon City Bannor-Courlor, told this writer that a vice-president of an Oregon City bank jilts In a full day at his desk (Jnd then goes In Pnrtlnnrt and works the swing shift at a ship yard. 1 ; The shipyards hnvo been sift ing workers out of tho paper mills, Which Hro Oregon City's big Industry, leaving them short handed. Two Clackamas county officials, Ed says, put in tho day ihlft at their offices and then l (Continued on Page Five) jifl f llliliillilillll: Inii (Oarirals,, M NAZIS READY FOR 2ND FRONT, SAYSJJLER Germany Not to Give Up Chief Pledges In Rally Talk BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), Sept. 30 (P) Rolchsfuchrcr Hitler pledged to day that Stalingrad would be captured and told his people that Germany was preparing for a second front wherever his foes might strike. "We aro determined to hold this (the coming) year what we have." ho said In a widely broadcast address to a nail party audience, "and to attack where wo believe It to bo necessary." (A version of this statement as heard by radio In London said "our program for next year Is first to hold on to whot we have, and secondly to wait and seo who will be exhausted first.") Savor Trial . "Wo shall! novor - capitulate, never," he declared at the con elusion' of his 70-mlnute speech; "and all the young nations will emerge victorious from this war, for our enemies will never sue ceed In defeating us." He sold the rigorous winter of 1041-42 "has been the severest mean that we want only good citizens." Union officials declared the (Continued on Paga Two) Portland Objects To Importation Of Undesirables PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept.' SO (IP) Five hundred New Yorkers arrived today to work In the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards as Portland residents protested the Importation of "undesirables." Tho New Yorkers are the first of three special tralnloads of workers recruited in tha cast. Tho second trainload will arrive tomorrow and the third next week. Kaiser company officials hoped to have them at work within 24 hours, after clearing them through company and union of fices. Whether they will got speedy union cooperation remains to be seen. AFL officials In a protest meet ing yestorday told Mayor Earl Riley they didn't want undesir ables in tho union. 'That docs not mean that union cards will bo denied skill ed workmen," D, E. Nlckerson, pprplnry of the Oregon Fcdcra tion of Lobor said, "but it docs (Continued on Pago Two) Six Klamath Women Will Don Uniform of WAAC's Six more young womon from this area, making a total of eight In all, have made the grade and will soon be donning the uniform of tho WAACs. They have set a record for Klam ath women to shoot at, with not a single applicant rojoclcd. Returning from Portland after having been sworn in Monday wcro Grace K. Rhoadcs, Phyllis Galloway and Flora Miller, all of Klamath Falls, Avcra B. Hud son of Fort Klamath, Olga R. Redman and Mary A. Brown of Alluras. They arc now awaiting orders to report to Fort Des Moines, la., for training. Pvt. Rhoadcs has made her home in Klamath Falls for the past eight years, during which time she has taught first grade at Rlvcrsldo school. This sum mer, instead of going to summer school or working at Diamond lako as she had done in the past, Victor '( . ' i! I - 1 S'iHtx fl Charley "Red" Buffing, 38- year-old Yankee Hurler, pitched 7 23 Innings of scoreleu ball today In downing tha Cardinals, 7-4, in ths first gam of the world series at St. Louis, H narrowly missad a no-hitter but sat a record nevertheless. It was his savanth world series victory. JAPS RETREAT IfJES FRONT First Objective . Wew ' Allied Push Captured Of GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 30 (IP) Allied mountain troops, sifting through the dif ficult jungle and mountain coun try ot the Owon Stanley range, have captured the first objective of their New Guinea offensive, sent the Japanese into a hurried northward retreat and seized quantities of abandoned Japanese equipment, a communique said today. Consolidating their positions on Ioribatwa ridge, which was retaken from the enemy, the allied troops are pursuing .the Japanese toward Nauro, ten miles north of tho ridge, whero tho Japanese have established new defenso positions. Advance Continues With the conquest of Iorlbaiwa ridge, which ,tlio Japanese had prepared for defense with bar ricades and Hold trenches, the (Continued on Page Two) Jab at Willkie Hinted From China CHUNGKING. Sept. 30 (fl5) A Japanese - scout plane flew close to tho capital yesterday and today, prompting Chinese speculation ' that tho Japanese wanted to get, a jab at Wondell Willkie when he arrives. Wlllkle Is en route here from Moscow but his movements have not been disclosed as a precaution against any Japanese Intrusion. 1 she decided to do her part in tho war effort by working at the Wcyerhaouser Timber com pany box factory. She received her B. S. degree from tho Uni versity of Oregon In 1940, hav ing previously graduated from Oregon College of Educations Monmouth, Miss Rhoadcs has been aetlva in many local or ganizations, Including tho Ore gon Women's Ambulance corps, AAUW and the Rebckahs. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Rhoades of Salem and has boon making her homo at 1BU7 Crescent street. With experience in tha Kestor son Lumber company office, Pvt. Miller . has joined . tho WAAC's with the hope of quali fying for publio relations work. She received her education at tha University of Oregon, SOCE at Ashland and the Cornish , (Continued oniiPaga Two) RUFFING HURLS NO-HITTER FOR in INKS Bombers Take 1-Game Edge in Classic; Cooper Beaten (Play-by-Play on Page 9) By GAYLE TALBOT SPORTMAN'S PARK. St. Louis, Sept. 30 P) The New York Yankees slugged out a 7 to 4 victory over the "fighting St. Louis Cardinais in the open ing game of tho world series to day, but only after the National leaguers had put on one of the most thrilling finishes in the his tory, of . the . classic to score all their runs after, two were out in the ninth. V .' ; Red Ruffing, 38-year-old Yan kee righthander, was on , the verge of pitching one of tho great games of baseball history when the Red Birds tell on him after two were out in the final frame, drove him from the mound un der terrific barrage 04 hits and pushed across Jour- Tuns- before .. . Continued pn, Page Two) ' Box Score ST. LOUIS, Sept., 30 WV- uiilcial box score of the first world series 'game between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals, Naw York ABRH 6 A E Klzzuto, s ....4 Rolfe, 3b ....:,5 Cul'blne, . rf 3 DiMaggio, cf 8 Keller, rf 4 Gordon, 2b ....8 Dickey, c ...4 Hassett, lb 4 Ruffing, p ....4 Chandler, p 0 TOTALS . 38 2 2 0 0 1 0 10 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 A E 11 27 .H..O. St. Louis AB Brown, 2b ....4 T.Moore, cf 4 Slaughter, rf 3 Musial, if 4 W. Cooper, c 4 1 2 1 2 1 0 10 10 8 1 11 1 1 0 0 0 3 2 1 Hopp, lb ........4 0 Kurowskl, 3b 3 0 Sanders, zz.,,.0 .1 Marion, as ....4 1 M. Cooper, p 2 0 Gumbert, p....0 0 Walker, i .1 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lanier, p 0 O'Dee, zzz ....1 Crespi, zzzz....O TOTALS ' 34 z Batted for 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 7 27 S 4 Gumbert in 8th. zz Batted for Kurowskl In 8th. zzz Batted for Lanier in 9th. zzzz Batted .for O'Dea in 8th. . New York (A.L.) 000 110 0327 St, Louis (N.L.) 000 000 004 4 Runs batted in: Hassett 2, DiMaggio, Marion 2, O'Dea, T. Moore; Two baso hits: Has sett, Cullenblnc; three base hit: Marlon; sacrifice: Cullen blnc; left on bases: N. Y., (A.L.), 8; St. .Louis, (N.L.), 9; earned runs: New York (A. L.) 3; St. Louis (N.L.) 4; bases on balls, off: M. Cooper 3 (Cullenblnc, Rizzuto, Dick ey); Lanier 1 (Keller); Ruff ing 8 (T. Moore, Slaughter 2, Brown, Musial, Sanders): strikeouts, by M. Cooper 7 (Rolfo 2, Keller 2, Gordon 2, Hassett); Lanier 1 (Gordon); Ruffing 8 (W, Cooper, Kur owskl 3, Marlon, Slaughter, Hopp, Walker); pitching sum mary: off M. Cooper 10 hits B runs in 7 23 innings; off Gumbert 0 hits 0 runs in 13 inning; oft Lanier 1 hit 2 runs in 1 inning; oft Huffing 8 hits 4 runs in 8 23 in nings; off Chandler 2 hits 0 runs in .13 inning. Winning pitcher, Ruffing. Losing pitcher, M. Cooper. Umpire, Magerkurth (N. L.) plate; Summers (A.L.) lb; Barr (N, L.) 2b; Hubbard (A.L.) 3b. Tlmo 2:35. Attendance 34,385 paid. . ..,ii ,1... nil,!,.. .irfn.fr. " ' ' '-" - rj-Ygliyl''y-yy ,.,mi ,mhii 'i"" - ' , i i vAMl Jra;- ' H . "i" Jw""llf-' - ' ' ' ' ' iofe vr!r,''Rfr -A ' ' " , " ' ' i" uTOt JJ? ' ' ' ' " ' , ' Marines on Guadalcanal island, in the Solomon island battlefront against tha Japs, not only make news, but try to keep up with the news from the home Via this bulletin board newspaper. The leathernecks at the left seam, interested In a map, but tha marina at tha Tight must be from Brooklyn, at least he's mora interested in what tha Dodgers 'did to Boston. (U. S. marine corps photo). . -'.v,. i . ' . '.. ' ;-. .-, j SENATE REJECTS GroapJMpves JRapidly Toward Passage Of Price Bill WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 VP) Moving rapidly toward passage of the anti-inflation bill, the sen ate rejected, 88 to 12, today a proposal to write into the meas ure a definite formula for lim iting wage and salary increases. The chamber defeated an ef fort by Senator Ball (R-Minn.) to Incorporate the war labor boards little steel formula, thereby to place a celling on wage increases at a point 15 per cent above the January 1, 1941, level. .. 88 to 4 The senate voted today to strip from the administration's anti-inflation legislation a pro: vision changing .farm parity standards, inserting Instead a compromise amendment direct ing the lifting of farm price ceilings where they did not re flect' labor and other cost in creases since January 1, 1941. The amendment was offered by Democratic Leader Barkley, (Continued on Page Two) Allied Bombers Lash Tobruk In Monday Attack CAIRO, Sept. 30' (IP) Allied medium bombers started fires in an attack on shipping and port facilities at . Tobruk Mondav night, and on the same night successfully attacked axis land ing fields in north Africa, Brit ish headquarters announced to day. Other medium bombers, oper ating in the Ionian sea, attacked an Italian merchant vessel and forced it onto a beach, while torpedo-carrying planes scored a direct hit amidships on . an Italian destroyer off the Cape of Spartlvento, a communique said. Air activity over the El Ala moin desert front was reported as "moderate." Concentrations of axis armored vehicles were attacked and one Junkers-52 was shot down in flames. Chicago Cubs Downed, 3 to 0 CHICAGO, Sept. 30 (IP) Ted Lyons and the Chicago White Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs, 3 to 0, in the one hour IS min ute opening game of the Chi cago city1 scries today at Wrlg ley field. Lyons, soon to be come a. private in the marine corps, allowed the National lea guers only three hits, The Sox made six off the Cubs' Bill Lee. Newspaper In Guadalcanal Marine Style Navy Reveals Transport Loss In Solomons WASHINGTON, Sept.'80- W The navy, announced-tbday the loss of two transport Vessels; In cluding the former liner, City of Los Angeles, in fighting in the Solomon islands. " . Loss of life . was reported small. The vessels-were the George F. Elliott the former liner whose skipper, Capt. Watson Os good Bailey, Lynn, Mass., is safe and the U. S. S. Gregory, whose skipper, Lieut. Commdr. Harry Frederick Bauer, Chattanooga, Tenn., is missing. Navy communique No. 135 said: "South Pacific (all dates given are east longitude.) '.'., "1. At about noon on August 8, a Japanese torpedo-plane crashed into and set afire the U. S. S. George F. Elliott (naval transport, formerly the S. S. City of Los Anegeles). during the tor pedo attack announced in para graph 9 of navy communique No. 115. Burning gasoline start ed fires which could not be ex tinguished and the Elliott was abandoned and destroyed.:There were few casualties and the next of . kin of those lost have been notified. "2. The U. ; S. S. Gregory (small auxiliary transport) was recently sunk by enemy gunfire off Guadalcanal. Most of her personnel were saved and the next of kin of those lost have been notified." CALIFORNIA TESTS SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.. 30 (IP) Civilian defense organiza tions in 40 northern California cities and towns will be tpsteri in a series of incidents staged during October, the state coun cil of defense announced today. Japanese Name Found Painted on Petroglyphs A Japanese name, inscribed in orange yellow paint over ancient carved writings on the Tulelake peninsula, was reported to cham ber of commerce directors Wed nesday noon by Frank Payne, local historian, and drew an im mediate protest from the cham ber to federal authorities. Payne said the name had been painted on one of the rock panels on the east wall of the peninsula, where some of the finest of the ancient petroglyphs are located. It is a Japanese name, he said; written in English letters. The letters are a foot or more high,' and extend for eight feet or more along the wall. The paint has been slapped on the wall over Some of the carved writings, which are of mysteri ous ancient origin and are one of the major historical assets of the Klamath country, Payne said na had - observed HELD DIEPPE LOSS ' :1 Churchill Sdys "Unex pected Strength:-! Met Raiders LONDON, . Sept. 30 tfPF-The allied invasion test at Dieppe met tank barriers of unforeseen strength and the attackers' losses were very nearly half of the total" of the troops involved, Prime ' Minister Churchill said in the house of commons today. For the third time since the war began, the house received a government bill for a one-year extension of its own life. Thus the government rejected repeat ed demands from critics of the present commons for a general election. - , : " Churchill said that ' British tanks-were held, up by the "al together -unexpected strength',' of defense blocks placed at, the ends, of Dieppe's streets by the Germans. , . ; . , It. had not . been anticipated, he added, that the barriers could not be destroyed by British guns. : Making a - statement-in -response to questions, - Churchill (Continued on Page Two) Grant Made for , ; Airport Facilities " WASHINGTON, .Sept. 30 ' (IP) Senator. McNary . (R-OreJ said today the civil aeronautics ad ministration had advised him that $4,500,000 had been allo cated for airports and airport improvements in Oregon. .; , . The scnutcrrsid the C AA pi'O1 hiblted publication of the num ber of projects, cost of each and their locations. . ; ; . the desecration but did not know who was responsible. The Tule lake Japanese, reception settle ment is located within a short distance of the petroglyphs. s , Payne pointed out that these petroglyphs are not now within the Lava Beds national monu ment, as are those on the other side of the peninsula, but he said they are even more noteworthy and it is planned to Include them within the monument in the near future. . - At present,' the area on which the painting occurred. is under jurisdiction of the reclamation service, it was reported at the chamber meeting. The civic af fairs committee was directed to send protests to the reclamation service, the national park serv ice which administers the monu ments, and the war relocation authority, which operates the Tulelake Japanese center, CRISIS AGUTE INSIDE CITY of STALifiCHiiu Soviets Crack German , "Fuehrer Line" At Rzhev By ROGER D. GREENS ' Associated Press War Editor Soviet headquarters reported today that the. red armies, surg ing . down upon, the German left flank, had, defeated two nazl "divisions along the flam, ing 40-mile corridor between the Don and Volga rivers, while, inside Stalingrad the crisis re mained acute. - Despite staggering losses, the Germans continued to throw great masses of -troops into tha 37-dayold assault, and tl;s army newspaper Red Star ' declared gravely: : No Sign of Collapse "Conditions in the city re main serious. The Germans have big losses, but the attacks do not lessen and violence grows..' : ' Nevertheless, the: Russian still displayed , no sign of col lapse after withstanding mora than five weeks of violent as sault. And as September ended, confidence rose , in both soviet and British quarters in London , that the red armies had blight ed Hitler's two most cherished aims- 1. A new onslaught against Moscow. ! '. ; , ' 2. Conquest of Russia's rich Tiflis-Baku oil region. ' , 1500 Slaughtered .'v : Soviet war news, published by the Russian embassy in Lon don, declared that after "having . lost several uoien picked divi sions,, squandered several thou sand i tanks rand planes and strewn' every captured mile with their own dead, the Ger mans', have failed to achieve victory."1 ' ' Soviet gunners were report' (Continued on Page Two) .' Lloyd Pepple Is Alive, in . Hands of Japs ' Lloyd ' Pepple of Bonanza ia alive and in the hands of : tha Japanese. . " 'First word from the Klamath county man was received this week by Mrs.' Pepple, in a tele phone message from Mrs. Bernlce Carter at Portland. ' Mrs. Carter had a letter fronv her husband, Wesley Carter, alsoi a prisoner of the Japanese. ' He stated in his letter that he-had been with Pepple in a Jap pris on camp, but' they had recently been separated. He did not know where Pepple had been taken in the recent transfer. ' Pepple and Carter, both Bo nanza men, were on Wake island when it was attacked and taken by the Japanese. They were r.icniWs of the civilian C3-.:traC' tion crew there. . After the attack, several re ports were received concerning Carter, but none about Pepple.; Carter's name was given on a, prisoner list recently In a Jap anese "prisoner's hour" broad cast. . ' ., ' J PORTLAND, Sept. 30 (4) "One sure thing I sure have learned to like rice!" ; So wrote Wesley Carter, form erly of Klamath Falls, from Shanghai internment camp to his wife here. She received the letter today, first word from her husband, a civilian worker on , Wake island, since he fell Into , the hands ot the Japs. ' Carter left Klamath Falls for Wake in July, 1941. ' . News Index City Briefs ; Page - 8 Comics and Story Page 10 Courthouse Records ......Page 2 Editorial ...VW, 9 Information ;,.Pago 9 Market, Financial :...i...Paga - 8 Midland Empire News ... 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