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mil leto IIWSSlI'SBf 15!f 11 ' ' September 30 High 77, Low 37 '". Praeiptlailon aa ot Baptember 34, 1941 Last year .. , ... 17.90 Normal . .i 12.80 Stream year lo data .....;.......;.13.20 On 8-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles li the tlgnil lor blackout In Klamath rolls. Anothtr long blast, during a black' . out. la a ilgnak ior all-cltai. In praoau. ' tlonary pt-rlods, witch your street llghtn. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS ; , KLAMATH yALlS, OREGOK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942 Number 9605 iltui.rj, AHVIIUl'l A.UKJIll.VINII I'- i It.''-, - 1 1 flNflo) A M feB IS ft D. I 0 0 0 iussiies Para Hsjpaiece mm i m i i ia I! ; l!llllllll:I.H!lll II MM; siiiiiiiiiiiwiiii1! By FRANK JENKINS li IIHS BR 1 v TN tills series on the building o( hlpi and tho human factors J Involved theruln there has been (much mention of skills of hand, The port played by skilled brains Ahta been hardly touched upon. WWo mustn't overlook the (actor of the skilled brain. ' . Without It, modern mass pro duction of ships all modern mass production, for that matter would bo Impossible. '-..V .... YT was said here the other day that mas production of ships consist in making thousands ot piece,, all exactly olika so that the will lit together accurately, then putting those ptecea togeth er Into sections and then putting the sections together into fin ished ships. V That la over-slmpllf Icatlon. V Remember that each piece had . to be DESIGNED. It nad to be ; designed ACCURATBMT. 1 that It uinillri WORK. . . : AfterthaVthe production and 'isscmniy. lines mm to oa ue ?.ained o Mint tho bleccjLwould Time together In the right places Without wastage ot time. Then a tn great macnines tne iming X cranes, etc. that do the work of )'' thousands of human arms and back and DO IT FAST had to be designed, along with tho buildings, dock and dozens of other fticllltles required for the build tngW ships.- Finally the divisions of labor, the disciplines, the directions and lha surjarvlslona necessary ' for i A, accurate and speedy utilization of skills ot hand had to be Worked out. . , ,. 1 .'V ' ALp these are the functions ot fr ,kllled management, and wjdiout skilled management modern American mass produc tion, with nil lis rewards, would V.- Imnnnlhla 7 Let's not forget the function 'if management in the produc tion picture. Oil's Immensely Important; '"' Without It, the whole thing I would bo a mess. 4-ANtnon't forget the fellow wllffjot the tirsi imaginative picture aWl then called In his riotail mca and hammered It In- 'to workable shope ond after that wont out en tho limb and took the financing and other risks Who finally said; "We'll go ahead and DO 1TI" - In the case of Portlond's great shipyards, that man Is Henry J. Kaiser, - j j ' ... J AISER has the faculty of guth- - " ering BDout him smart young men. ,' This writer talked with two of these smart young men the other , night. Both are managers, each with thousands of mon working Qudcr him. Through the fingers Til both flow millions ot dollars ; . which, after all, are merely I . ) tho COUNTERS ; representing ; '. material and labor, which com I ', ' bine to produce ships. Hoavy I: - responsibility rests upon thorn, irv for their xhinkinu ls wrong snarled and tangled and comes to nothing. I - Both are vouna somewhere ground 35. Both have carefully trained minds., ' ,AND both are rcody to fight . for Henry J. Kaiser at the drop of a list, They believe in him. They have respect for his judgment iney Know mat wnen na gets 'an Idea, It's pretty sure to work lout.' . .' an Idea man. ' In his shrewd, practical mind, an Ideatt takes shape. Ho ham mers It into a form that Is cap ' abln of being grasped, and then i (Continued on page Three)' GUIS LEVEL1 SERIES WITH 4T0RI Musiol's Single in 8th Scores Slaughter from Third (Play-by-play, box acora and pictures on paga 4), By QAYLE TALBOT SPORTSMAN'S PARK. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1 AP SUn Mm lul, Cardinal rookie left. fielder, clipped a line single to center field In the eighth inning to score Enos Slaughter from third and give the National leaguerl a 4 to 3 victory over the Yankees In the sooond' game- of the world aerlesr ioday. Charley Keller had squared It lor the Yankees with a two-run Tiomer In the Yankees' , halt of the same ' Inning.' ' - 'The big crowd just had beeiv plunged i Into- despondency by Keller's wallop onto the right field roof when Slaughter and Muslal combined to pu) the game out of the frt. With two away, .Slaughter b a n ge d a doubl Inlo the right field cor-' ner and raced; 'on to third a Phil Rlzzuto, VanK ahortatop, let the throw-in trickle through him. Muslal, who had failed to hit in the ninth Inning yester day with the bases loaded, came through this time to send the throng, home happy. - v. - The victory' for Johnny Beaz loy,. 23-year-old freshman, pitch er of tho Cards, tied the classic at one win apiece and. sent he two clubs, on their way to New York tonight In a ' dead -heat. Tho third gome will be ployed at . Yankee stadium on -Saturday; (Continued on Pago Two) Goebbels Warns , Neutrals to V Shoulder Burdens. " BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), Oct. 1 (AP In a warning addressed to the neu tral states of Europe, Propa ganda Minister Paul .Joseph Gocbbola, declared" today, that "who ever wants to have a share In the , advantage of tho new Europ" must houMpr also a part ot the sacrifices and bur dens." i, . : He asserted that the axis pow ers wore paying "a heavy toll ot blood for the consolidation and final liberation ot the Eur opean continent," "Therefore,"' he said,, "it would be unjust If we, paving tho , way through the thickest ot prejudices, with. our tanks, wore to allow others to. follow us on a ready-made road who, during our hard struggle, had shown nothing but signs of dis approval, disgust and doubt." Committees Named to Study Tax Cooperation 'Klamath's tax unit coopera tion program had advanced an other stop Thursday after com mittees were appointed to ex plore several possible fields of cooperation, Including city-county Jnll consolidation. . Representatives .of various taxing units met at .the court house Wednesday afternoon and held a frank two-hour discussion of - the proposed cooperation projects. Ralph C. Dale, real .estate man, was chosen chairman 'of a committee to study tho question of consolidating .the jails.': Serv ing with him will be Council man A. II. Bussnian, and a rep resentative of the League of Women Voters. , i The committee will bo asked to make a survey of present jail costs, expansion of the county jail' building, the Indian prison er problem, and other factors.. E. B. Hall, : hotel man' .and - Winning Bingle I ,;f Stan Muslal, rookla Cardinal left iltldar, slapped Una sin gle to center today In tha eighth Inning to score Enos Slaughter from third and whip tha Naw York Yankees, 4-3, in tha; sec ond game.ot tha world aeries at St. Louis.- " . , WHITE HOUSE TELLS 8,000-Mile Trip-Cov-; ered Length of ' i" '" West "Coast- -u. WASHINGTON.' Oct.. 1 (AP) The White House lifted a'two week censorship on the move ments of . President Roosevelt today and ; disclosed his return President Roosevelt's train, passed through Klamath Fall on Wednesday night, Septem ber 23, at about 11:45 o'clock. All railroad, facilities In this district were strongly guarded by the army at the timo tha train traversed the main line, of the Southern' Pacific, ' stopping briefly In tho station i hero, s Traffic on Esplanade street was stopped ior a brief period that night at the point where the street goes under the tracks. ; from an Inspection tour of war factories throughout the . coun try. , . A formal statement said: i "The White House announces tho return of the president to Washington after a most suc cessful two weeks !n?pectiori tour of the country. "The president left Washing ton Thursday evening, Septcm- , (Continued on Page Two) j WHITE SOX WIN ' CHICAGO, Oct. 1 (VP) The White Sox made It two straight over the Cubs todoy by winning tho second game of the Chicago city series, 0 to S. The Sox got 11 hits off Lon Warneke and Bill Fleming, Including four by Don Kollowny and three by Wally Moses. . long-time chairman bf the city health board, will head the com mittee on combining public health services, such as milk and meat inspection. Other mem bers of this committee are Dr. Peter Rozcndal, county health officer, and County Agent C. A. Henderson. v ,. i Establishment ot a public aud iting office, through which all public books would be audited, was discussed at some length, and Max .Saunders, county tax collector, was named chairman of the committee on this project. Other members are Harold Ash ley, county school district? clerk, and a representative 6f the Busi ness and Professional Women's ClUb.', '- . : W. O. Smith," local business man and chairman of tho taxa tion committee o the Klamath county chamber ot . commerce, was asked by tlia group to pre- . .(umtinuea on jr-age inree) :-" 101ILEGI. REPORTED IN NEW 6UINEA Nips Abandon. Sup plies in Hurried ; ' Withdrawal GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Oct: 1 UP) Australian troops were reported driving steadily up the southern slopes of New Guinea's Owen. Stanley moun tains today, in pursuit of re treating Japanese forces after re capturing Nauro yesterday 'in a swift 10-mlle advance from lori batwa ridge. - '.An aljled ' communique an nouncing. -the advance said the Japanese were abandoning ad ditional supplies and equipment as they fell back and an allied spokesman, declared thera w a g no doubt thalr withdrawal was hurried, i Strong formations of allied at tack, bombers, escorted by fight-1 exs. were reported harrying h neny supply llnas-ln tha-vlftln. Ity of Menart about -four mile; north of Nauro; where U -wai believed .the Japanese .might at tempt to make a stand, along ridge .offering- defensive t085i billtles. " U. 'i Ridge Recaptured 'The latest allied advance ap parently 1 was x negotiated with comparatively little ' opposition, for the communique said .there had bcen. no 'coptact. .with, the retreating main body of the - en emy . forces. ,4 It- wastbe; ; first time allied headquarters: had used the phrase "main body", re ferring, to the Japanese retreat. An allied spokesman said the Japanese had made no attempt to fortify, their positions at Nauro as' they .did at Iorlbalwa- ridge. (Continued on iPage.TWo) , i Saturday Is: Deadline for Registration '. Voter registration for the No vember1 general elections - will close Saturday ' at 1 o'clock, the couBty - clerk's, office- an nounced today. - xhe office will remain, open until 9 o'clock Friday .night for -the- conven ience ot those who have not yet registered. ' j The' office said the registra tion to date has ; been . "very light." . . . . Ballots, on which; there. will be eight measures, will be sent to the printers next week, the office Indicated. ; Clerk's office officials were unsure today as to- the avail ability of election board offic ials.. (Deadline for .return of notices of Intent by past - elec tion officials October S. New officials will be named If print ed cards sent out earlier to past officials are not .returned by then. . . The office' said that an , of ficial list ot candidates will be released next week, The follow ing measures will appear on the ballot: An amendment raising .legis lators' compensation,. An amendment repealing the (Continued on Page Two) ; 16 Perish in Transport Plane ; ' 1 1 In Puerto Rito , PONCE! Puerto Rico,-Oct. 1 W) More than 16 persons were reported 1 killed today In the crash of 'a United' States army transport plane, near Orocovls. Ti)e plane w reported off jtji j-outs. Twenty, persons were said to have been on board,' . It left Ponce at 8:30 a. jn. and was seen from the air about 11 a. m... .- I, An ambulance was 'sent - out immediately, . a1aU&&f r z- rdi i The ssa rises rclentlassly and a IT, S. seaman marooned atop of a torpedoed merchant ship measures hla chances of getting to and cutting it from Its davits before it Is dragged down with sinking craft bubbles to tha surface and make the whits spot at WAY CLEARED FOR pmcyiiip Farm, Leaders Ready ' ,, . To Accept Sen- : 'X ate-Version- wa1h:ngton, Oct. i cap) Cliairhran"'FUImfcr (D-SXJ.) ''at the house 'agriculture committee said today farm leaders In the house 1 would accept the senate version of . farm price control, thereby apparently clearing .the way for. completion tomorrow of congressional action - on anti Inflation legislation. : "We.wlll do this in the Inter est, of' speedy action,"' Fulmer said. "We--want' to stop' Infla tion, and at the same time .help the. farmer produce the - neces sary food, for wartimes." He added: - v Floor Asked "In: making this statement, we assume that the bill will be properly administered. The sen ate bill Is practically in line with the house, but not nearly as, strong." . At -the same time he said house farm leaders would insist that the final draft of the legis lation include a provision, now - (Continued' on Page Two). ( Evacuation of ,. . Women, Children From Dakar Eyed , VICHY, Oct. 1 (AP) An of ficial source said . today '.that Pierre Boisson, governor : of Kakar, had decided to evacuate European women and children from the French West African port. : ,. ....... The announcement said that Boisson issued an order Sept. 29 for a census to be taken among women and children of civilian and military families which have two or more chil dren living In the Dakar region. "(Axis and Vichy French pro paganda recently have pumped rumors about Dakar, apparent ly" to plant 'the Idea that an allied offensive against the tac tically -Important African port Is impending. The evacuation plan- may be part of the build up.) ' - Klamath County Clears September War Bond Quota " Klamath county, by the skin of Its teeth, went over Its Sep tember war bond quota, Verne Owens of the war bond commit tee announced todoy. ( Owens said that a few heavy sales in the last three days put tho county over the top ot the $242,400. goal. . He said the com mittee offered Its public thanks to everyone for their September cooperation. 1 October quota Is the same as that . of September, Owens- said lnurgtng citisens to buy bonds early, late and .often. He said that large reserves have already been put into bonds, making it necessary, now for most pur chases to come out ot regular Income. Seaman Measures a Chance lt.JJ)l'lJW,JllWW,uijlWi.J,jw t Vi ' Herald and News Photographer Turned Down 'Wesley Guderlan, Herald and News camera-man, was refused permission- Thursday to take .a picture of a painted1 Japanese name on-the-petroglyphs on-the east side of the Tula lake pen insula. . . , (Guderlan1; was setting up; hU earners when two soldier giiardi .came -up. and toULbim -hecould not take a picture. .-. They took film to Captain William: Patter son commander of the military police, at the Japanese reloca tion project,, who told Guder iaa he could not photograph' the yellow paint. , Observers - pointed -out 'that military police who had prompt ly stopped Gude'rlan- from pho tographing the painted name on the petroglyphs . had: apparently been unable to prevent the de secration of the! ancient carved writings by the person: with the orange yellow paint.: .i Klamath chamber 'of com merce has sent directed pro tests to federal authorities after being informed- of . the orange yellow.; paint job, by. Frank Payne, local historian. Now It's Pins That Have the . . Shoppers Worried First It was a -'run on silk stockings, then on', nylon, next on "goldles," but now the girls are crowding the counters har assing clerks and depleting the stocks of. hairpins, safety pins, common pins and needles. It's stock up oi'i let 'er blow! Ever since the . government cracked down on -the -production of pins the nation's femi nine population has been down right worried. A "dutch' bob" isn't becoming to a lot of peo ple and the girl that wears the o). Yanks Bomb "Every Hour i On the Hour" Down Under By DEAN SCHBDLER ! SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 30 (Delayed)' (JT) American pilots led by Capt. J. R. Smith of -Fort ayne,. Ind., cruised up and down the, Jap anese supply track through the Owen Stanley mountains today, blasting and machlnegunnlng everything that looked useful to the enemy. The regularity of these ex peditions . has given rise to a slogan among the men: "Bomb every hour on the hour." Flying with . Smith in the first wave of medium bombers were Lieutenants Francis Pruitt ot Baton Rouge, La., and Fin lay MacGUUvray of Santa Fe, N. M. Although belittUiig I h e 1 r slashing exploits, . these pilots conceded that flying over the two-mile-high mountains, end then dipping down ' through cloud-filled valleys, over tha Japanese supply trail, was "not really so easy 4! ' To reach one target In , to day's run, Capt.. Smith said he to Live 1 is?? , ' 1.' - 'V a ventilator alongside the stack the lifeboat in the foreground tha ship. Air from Inside tha left. - PRODUCTION OFF Consumers' .Goods . to 'Be Reduced to ' Essentials . WASHINGTON, Octl VPhr- ChalrmatL Donald M. Nelson of the war production board report ed today that .munitions: output In September still was- spotty," Indicating, tlat the month's out put of planes, tanks, snips and ordnance would not be closer to the goal than the August production-record,- which -he has described as not a record -"we can brag about." - r- " ; - !'It . was spotty again .last month,'.'. Nelson said in response to a press conference question whither. September had brought Improvement in the manufacture of war implements. . , -. Beginning with the first quar ter -of ,1943, TJelson added, ma' terials for wtr production will be. divided among war plants on an ' allocation and schedule basis, instead of the present re finement of 'the priority system. -. Nelson said .that- the produc- (Continued on Page Two) State Trucks' To Collect Scrap Along Highways PORTUVND, Oct. 1 (iF T state highway commission. today authorized drivers of state trucks to pick up" scrap metal at any point along state highways in the present drive. , Use of the trucks will be sup ervised by R. H. Baldock, en gineer, and his staff. .: - - Baldock said the service would be for scrap that has been do nated. Sellers will have to find I tiicii Own Uanspui UiiiOu.- : . had. to dive 3500 feet and level off. 50 feet above, the treetops to get bead on what looked like a Japanese supply dump; then bank sharply to make a hairbreadth clearance of a mountain just ahead. - - Veterans of weeks ot . this hide-and-seek aerial Indian war fare, these pilots now are able to follow the mountain trails easily, but they rarely see the enemy . because it is just one step from the trail to the con. cealment Of the jungle. Following tip an earlier at tack, another flight of . hard, hitting bombers piloted by Lieu. tenants Donald Good of Eugene, Ore.j William Beck of Pecos, Tex., and. Ernest Neumann nf Hamburg,' Iowa, unloaded their bombs in the middle of a Jap. anese camp near the trail. After - circling tho camp and giving It a good bomb blasting, the planes made a second low. level strafing run and,, as one of the fliers said, "There wasn't much. left of the camp , when we, got tnrougn. 'sees gi N ATTACK TO i NORTiUQUTH Crisis - Mounts in ; Ti tanic Battle for ' ' gj& Steel City - ' , By ROCER D. GREENS 4 Associated Press War Editor i " Defenders of siege-torn. Stal lngrad are' facing the "mosl-de cislve - moment".-, In' 38' days of assault; - It -was announced" off l dally today, as fresh -German tanks 'lunged" deeper Into-th") Volga metropolis at a terrible cost in men and machines;. '-- North and. south of the city. soviet troops were credited: with. gains In attacks to relieve the mam nazl pressure. ' - :;-' ' .. Acute Situation - A Reuters (British- n e w agency) ' dispatch from: Stock' holm said Marshal Semeon Tirno shenko's red armies had broken through .German defenses at some points along the Don rivers northwest - of ,the" Volga steel . center. Such a break-through might jeopardize the flank and, rear of , the main German;, siege armies.- - .- . - ; ; . But the situation inside. Stal ingrad was admittedly acute. : Red Star, the. Bussian army newspaper, said It was .the hour .. of supreme, jierll- and : decl,s;5d ; thre"waS'UO"'Pisce to rctreat,'.v J;..sSfcJttlHit- - .. Premier Stalin -. personally telephoned: an order to: the q' vtet - garrison-.' commander, to stand, firm, and-put: down, psnic, dispatches said -'-- . ; Red Star -did not- explain..; its statement: of. placSJ .to re treat," but it was TjellevecT "thaii Russian ships :on the: Volga vhad been so hard hit by nazl bomb ers that- they would be- unable to move any big. force eastward across the river. ' '. ' '1 Hitler's .high . command de clared German shock troops' had driven several more wedge. 1 - (Continued dn Pag Two) v,'" British Take Axis Positions On Desert Line ' CAIRO, Egypt,' Oct 1 :(JPh- The British announced , today that the eighth, army attacked and occupied ' axis1 positions in the central sector of the- Egyp:. tian - battlefield yesterday- -and repulsed enemy" counter-attacks.. . . The British captured severat strong' points in .the -Munasslbj depression and latest reports In dicate' the operations ' still ,: are In. 5: progress. '"Apparently the British moved to straighten the Alamein line and close the dis tance between the two forces."' . , It was the first aggressive ae Hon of any importance by either side, for several weeks.. .The at, tack started early in the morn ing after artillery preparation. -.v.; ." . i ' ' i-. 'i.:t Importation of Eastern Shipyard: . Workers Assailed '- ,; i PORTLAND, Oct; 1 (fl3) ,1m-" ' portatlon of easterners to work . in shipyards hereabouts was. as sailed by Earl Ingram, secretary ot the AFL' Portland . Metal Trades Council, today, r . . . ; , He asserted, there was -sufficient labor in the west and that not all western unskilled labor 1 had been used. - Ingram, who also is president of the Boilermakers' union, said the boltermakers still had taken no negroes Into membership al though before the current mv portation of workers It had al lowed a few negroes to work in the yards as welders and other In other crafts. v. . V. - 11 1 .: 1 1 ." 1 . . 1 :. 'r-.;. v . Newts Index City Briefs . Peg, t Comias and Story ......Page 14 Courthouse Records ...Page 4 Editorial - v-.Page 6 Farm: News Page 13 Information Page 7 Market, Financial ...... Page 13 Our Men in Service ......Page A pattern 4. Page A Sports ...Pag U 1 ,t
