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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1942)
Herald any nlnute bUit on itrtni and whlsklss ilgnal lot a blackout in Klamath Another long blast, during black a ilgnal ior all-claar. In preoau periods, watch your itraat llghU. Oetobar 4 High 74, Low 44 " , Praclpltatlon ai of Saptambat 28, 194 ' Last year ...... J7.80 1 Normal . ., ,.lj.8i Straam yaar to data ............. 13.20 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS Til FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1942 Number 9608 A mn fllMl o) mm j i n n n r-1 SlL . , talit Praises Umz Power. Uir gss Aid IT or Allied Help ime" Cited in r to AP Man E A. FARNSWORTH id Prsis War Editor liquely warning Japan ly back-stab to fnolll jn victory, Joseph Sin clnlmcd Russia's pow it the efforts of Ger any other aggressive iccure for Itself world " isian ordenl at Stalin In the deep Caucasus, day by reports of do i rectified but unbrok 1 weeks been generally as a glowing tctnpla ! Japanese to strlko at ;ussla. ; that such a blow hns Is not so much a credit utrallty poet between t Japan as it Is to. the ly 'demonstrated "en tha red Brmy to curb in Invasion. Latter to AP proud appraisal of wcr was oxpresscd In ' phrased lettor to Hon Idy, chief of tho Asse ss, bureau at Moscow, dy, among other qucs asked, "What remains let capacity for resist- epllcd: that the soviet capac iting the German brig i strength not less, If r, than tho capacity of many or any other ag owor to secure for it- domination," lame tlmo tha Russian efenso commissar and r-ln-chicf said that tho rf an allied second tip Russia was "of first rtance" and that "as with tho aid with soviet union Is giving s by drawing upon it ioln forco of the Gcr t, the aid of the allies 'let union has so far effective. r to amplify and Im ald," tho Stalin letter "Only one thing is that the allies fulfill ued on Page Two) nt Addresses Tonight in broadcast JGTON, Oct. 6 VP)' Roosevelt will appeal i address tonight for the annual mobilize uman needs, speak at 7:50 p, m,, approximately three during a program the regular fall cam funds for community cities over tha conn- Pokegama Safes Would Make Scrap SX5V t'f4ue- T". t - At t-i , - t vu , Two satos at tn aosnaonaa rauroaa and sawmui Town oi roKegama wmcn woum Baa Hun dreds of pounds to the scrap drive if they could ba transported. Weyerhaeuser camp 4 PTA would Ilka to see those sales irv as well as the one used by W. G. Harding. Their history Is not known locally, but it Is probable they onca contained papers and articles of value connected with early Klamath county development. Standing by one of the safes in tha picture is Roy Edmunson, ilra warden at Dixie and grandfather of Bill Edmunson who played on Klamath football team last year and Is now in tha navy. Edmunson senior is a powerful man but ha and the photographer ware unable to move these safes an inch. - (Picture by H. H. Ogle.) . THER BIG TAX Treasury Serves No tice; Living Stan dards Hit WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 VP) Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthou announced today that the treosury will ask congress for another tax bill ,lbf at least $6,000,000,000 and possibly much more" as soon as congress passes the pending tax measure. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 VP) Bock-trolnlng taxation that will force a downward revision in the standard of living soon was fore cast by Senator George (D-Ga.) todoy os tho senate prepared to rccoivo a now revenue bill cal culated to extract more than $28,- (Contlnued on Page Two) ring's Pep-Talk Hints Nazi Second Front Fear MAS F. HAWKINS Switzerland, Oct. 5 points emphasized marshal Goorlng in i long and labored ) the German people preted by allied on lay as support for the a second front would nrd ending the war by next summer, vest festival address 2 nazl, on the other ontalned Germany's t defense In the com s and in that respect aken as ample warn llled action must be well under woy before the formula is completely opera tive. Interpretation - Conservative military obser vers, who enn not be identified by name, believe that should Germany be able to effect a portion ot her organization pro gram the war might be length ened by years. Here, point by point, is the Interpretation of the Goering speech available from necessar ily anonymous allied sources in this neutral capital: 1 Goering sold that the cl (Continued on Page Two) Nazi Claim of U. S. Navy Defeat Unsubstantiated WASHINGTON, Oct 8 VP) American fighter pilots de stroyed 10 Japanese planes, damaged two others and dam aged a destroyer In four days action In the Solomon island area last week, the navy re ported today,- but despite de termined air attacks, the en emy succeeded in landing small reinforcements in Gua dalcanal under cover of darkness. LONDON, Oct. 8 (AP) The German radio broadcast claims of great Japanese naval vic tory over the United States forces In the Solomon islands but all other sources Including the Tokyo radio failed today to substantiate tho nazl report. The Berlin account quoted Rear Admirol Hideo Hlraido as saying tho United States al ready had lost several aircraft carriers, 12 transports and 12 other naval craft in a Solomons battle pictured as still in prog ress,' , Tokyo, however, broadcast a different story. Admiral Hirnlde, the Tokyo (Continued on Page Two) Letter to Stalin Gets Quick Reply MOSCOW, Oct. 8 VP) It Is as easy to send a letter to Joseph Stalin as it is to mail one in an American country post office. , Henry C. Cassidy, the Associ ated Press chief of bureau here, just handed it in at the main re ceiving room of a guardhouse in the Kremlin wall. Stalin proved to be a prompt correspondent. He answered it the next day. i GREEN SAYS Fit ON L E Rebuke for Bard . and Moreel Described i ' By AFL Chief ' TORONTO, Oct. 8 (fP) Open ing the American Federation of Labor's 62nd annual convention, President William Green declar ed today that President Roose velt has rebuked those in the 'United States government who had said unions were unneces sary and that we were losing the war. . t . Green sounded the convention keynote that a united nations' victory must be the controlling force In every decision. Referring to ; Mr. Roosevelt's remarks upon his return last week from a western tour, Green asserted: I interpret his. state ment as a rebuke to those who kept advertising to Hitler and tho world that we were losing the war and that trade unions were unnecessary." Green referred, without using names, to Ralph A. Bard, assist ant U, S. secretary of the navy, and Rear Admiral Ben Moreel, chief of the navy's bureau of yards and docks, both of whom addressed departmental, conven tions of the AWL last week;. Bard's statement that we were' losing the war was made,-however, In a previous speech. - Moreel had said at a session of the AFL building trades-department that the people of. the axis nations were living without labor unions - and the people will damn well get along with out them here if we don't get in there and pitch. 3 Children Burn To Death in G. P. Residence Fre GRANTS PASS, Oct. 8 UP) Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Earl Moore were burn ed to death in an early 'morn ing fire Monday when'.' their home - on'. Sand' creek road near here was .totally destroyed. One son, Jack,' 13 . years old,; escaped from the burning structure. ; The derd are Douglas, 15; Virginia, 11, and Patricia, 9. ' Mr. and Mrs. Moore were sleeping down stairs when the mother awakened by the sound of the flames. . Thinking that the eldest son had risen early to start a fire and had left the cover off : the stove, she went to the kitchen to find the rear of the house in flames. Cause of the' fire is Undetermined: There had been no fire in the house since 2 p.. m. ' Sunday, Mrs.. Moore .said''J'-; j". '.v. Moore had" :' returned . from Portland at II "p. m. Sunday He had walked from Grants Pass to his home, about, four miles, and was so tired that his wife had difficulty arousing him. They called frantically to the children sleeping. in the up per room but only Jack awak ened and escaped do.wn the stairway , before . falmes. enve- s Rents .Roiled Back to March ,1 Level by ; Leon Henderson WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (AP) James F. Byrnes, the economic stabilization director, said today that "we at home must unite in waging all-out war against any further increase in the cost of living of the American peo ple." The director,- who resigned from the supreme court to take the new post at President Roosevelt's . request, asserted that ."today some people profit; many more suffer" as he warn ed "This war must be fought not only upon the battlefield, but upon the home front." Byrnes talked at the Supreme Court building ' for news reel photographers before moving his offices to : the White House to direct the economic stabili zation program, following quick government action designed to halt rises in food and rent costs. - - Rents Rolled Back Following up Saturday's or der extending price ceilings to 90 per cent of all food products, Price Administrator Leon Hen derson, who .will help adminis ter the . general policies formu lated by Byrnes and his eco nomic ; stabilization board, last night ordered all rents rolled back to their March 1 levels. ' The food price freeze, a 60 day emergency order to be fol lowed soon by permanent ceil (Continued on Page.Two) One Dead, Four Hurt As Doctor's Auto Crashes; Patient Dies VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct.. 8 VP) One. person is dead and four others are in a critical con dition as the result of an' auto mobile collision near here. The car of Dr. Herbert Llerser, who was hurrying to the home of a dying man, collided at a county road intersection yester day with one carrying Mr, arid Mrs." Shirley Russell, Ridgefield, Wash.; their six-month-old daughter and two-year-old son.', .The daughter was killed out right and hospital attendants said the others in the car were not exdected to recover. J3r. Lierser's injuries were described as serious. ' '' : The man to whom the doctor was hurrying, Adolf Ronko, died later of a heart ailment, , : FUMES LEVEL KLAMATH I T PACKINGPLANT Local Food Supply Hit . By Fire at Midland Road Operation Flames leveled the Klamath Packing : company plant three miles-south of Klamath Falls on the old Midland road shortly before-midnight Saturday. Loss was .estimated at between -$45,.-000 and-$50,000. . I . .- . - Wholesale meat o p e r'a tors were f ace4" with a prpblern. this. week." as -to where they., would find beef, p6rk and lamb, for the consuming- public, r "Klamath Pack" reportedly killed between 75 and 80 per cent of the meat used in the county, slaughtering for themselves as well as Swift and Company's local plant. Frank Lowell, sole owner of the business, was out of town and could not be reached Mon day. Carl Steinseifer, one time operator p( Jhe plant, owned the "'" Quick Spread -'- -' Lowell had been on the Klam ath marsh Saturday taking de livery of a load Of beef cattle and had driven up to the plant about 11:30 p. m. He attempted to en ter the rear door but smoke drive him back and after arous ing Robert Brazeale, watchman. the two broke down the door in to the hide cellar. At that .mo ment the ammonia tank blew up and flames spread rapidly, re ducing the plant to ashes within a short time. . - Cause of the fire was not de termined but it is thought a de fect in the refrigeration machine might have started the confla gration. ' No Animals Lost None of the animals was lost. Some $16,000 worth of cured meats and other meat stocks were destroyed as well as 64 head of whole beef. It is understood that Pauley Packing company, only other slaughtering house in Klamath Falls, early . Monday hired the major portion . of "Klamath Pack's employes and is now operating both a day and night shift in an effort to keep up with the consumption of meats here. - Swift and company officials -(Continued on Page Two) Submarine G run ion Believed Lost WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 () The navy announced today that the submarine Grunion had been overdue in the Pacific for some time and must be presumed lost. The Grunion, launched at Gro- ton, , Conn., last December 22 was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Mannert L. Abele, 39, of Quincy, Mass. The brief navy communique did not say how many men were aboard the submarine, but ves sels -of this-, class 1,526 tons-- carry a normal complement of approximately 65 men. ; Clincher I Mew f DECIDER GOES ; LDUIS George "Whltey" , Kurowski. Cardinal outfielder, rammed a homer into tha left field stands with a mats aboard in tha ninth inning today to break a 2-2 tie, give St Louis the game, 4-2, and the world series champion ship over tha New York .Yankees. M BOMBERS HIT . JAP K DAILY Five Enemy Seaplanes Destroyed in Raid Last Friday - WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 VP) The navy announced today that army bombers operating from their nev "Bases -in ' th? western Aleutian islands were making al most daily raids on the Japanese at. Kiska, and that last Friday they shot down five-enemy, sea planes.' ' -. ' A communique said that Thursday and Friday a large number of hits with demolition and incendiary bombs was scor ed on the enemy camp at Kiska and on the seaplane hangar there. Weather conditions have permitted' frequent attacks on Kiska, said the communique, and "the enemy has been under con tinual fire." A photographic survey, the navy communique added, dis closed that two cargo ships had been damaged by bombs in pre vious attacks, and had been beached by the Japanese. . Text Given The navy has now reported more than 38 Japanese ships sunk or damaged in the Aleutian theater. The text of the communique, number 140: . "North Pacific: 1. Army bombers, . operating , (Continued on Page Two) Aussies Advance Without Opponents GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S H E A DQUARTERS, Australia, Oct. 5 VP) In the seventh day of consistent, unopposed advance, Australian troops pushed up ward yesterday over a rugged trail north of Efogl ,in New. Guinea's Owen Stanley moun tains. '.' Fliers of the allied air forces at the same time swept far be yond the advanced ground forces to harass key points on the Jap anese line of retreat. In another sector Catalina (Consolidated) bombers made a night raid on the airdrome at Buka, on the extreme northern tip of the Solomons, starting fires near the runway ; and in dispersal areas and destroying at least one plane, Sportsmen, Farmers Ask No More Newell Hunt Closure Public' resentment to what one sports official called the ''internment of ; the Caucasian population" in the Tulelake- Camp Newell area came out in the open Sunday in a Tutelage hearing where farmers and hunters went on record as op posing any additional closure of shooting grounds adjacent to the Japanese relocation center. The hearing was conducted by the California Fish and game commission under the aus pices of the Tulelake-Butte Val ley sportsman's association and attended by cloSe to 200 farm ers, hunters and government of ficials. It dealt' with a War Re location board request to close a one-half mile zone around the camp to publio shooting. Hunters Oppose Closure The WRA maintains that "the influx of hunters would act dis astrously .for the Japanese in terned at the center." Hunters said at the meeting that they are opposed . to the closure on the ground that a great part of what is annually one of the greatest hunting areas in the United States Is already closed (Continued on Page Two) TO ST. t BY 4-2 SCORE Circuit Clout By Ku rowski in Ninth Puts . Final On Ice . (Play-by-Play on Pagis 2) j. YANKEE STADIUM, New York,. Oct. S VP) The scrapping St Louis Cardinals won. th world series, four games to one, when they closed out the Yank, ees, 4 to 2, in a thrilling final battle before nearly 70,000 fans today. Rookie George Kurowski hit a home-run in the ninth inn ing with Walker Cooper on base to score the winning run..' With the score tied at 2-2 and one out, Kurowski pounded one off Charley. Ruffing's change-of-pace pitches into the stands. just inside the left field foul line: to score Cooper and wrap up tha second victory of the series for Johnny Beazley, 23-year-old Car dinal rookie. . ; . - :: - j Yanks Fight The Yankees, stilt fighting, got their first two batters on basa in the ninth when' Joe Gordon singled to left and Bill Dickey'g roller; was muffed by Jimmy Brown. But the rally was choked off in a twinkling of a moment later . when , C a t c h e r "Cooper" whipped a beautiful peg ,to.Mar ion at rsecorid :base ; and-taught Gordon off. Beazley then attend ed to Gerry Priddy and George Selkirk, first on an; inffeld; pop ! and then on a roller to Brown. It was a-pitcher's duel all the ' way, , with both . Ruffing and Beazley trying to capture their second series victory. Ruffing defeated the Cards in the open ing game at St. Louis, i ': The Cardinals fell oh Ruffing for nine hits in the decider,-including Kurowski's. bell-ringing homer and another four-master by Enos Slaughter that had tied the score at 1 -1 in tha 4,tu ing. Beazley, a cool young cus .umci, neiu me xanKees to seven safeties, one of which also was a home run by. little Phil Rizzuto, first batter to face him in the game.- . : . - -.- : i The Yankees took a 2-1 lead In the fourth on hits by Red Rolfe, Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller, but the Red Birds tied it up again in the sixth when Terry Moore and Slaughter banged singles and Cooper cloated ' a long fly to right field! Thn were the onlv turn mn n scored by knocking the ball out . of the park. For a tint A tnnmril 4t. - Beazley's infield threatened to throw the game away on.hlin, Jimmy Brown making - two muffs at critical stages and Johnny Hopp throwing the ball away on what mieht hava hn a. double play, but each time me dox irom, Tennessee clamp ed down and came thrnueh tin. scathed. Weak Pop .. In the fifth f ramp tho VnnV. ees loaded the bases with , only one-out on a hit and two er rors, only to have Cullenblme dod weaklv out and Jnn Dl. Maggio roll into an - easy out several tunes Manager- Billy Southworth went out to see If (Continued on Page Two)- Dynamite-Laden Cars in Wreck ROCHEPORT, Mo., Oct. 8 (IP) Rocheport's 400 residents spent -an uneasy two hours today while two dynamite laden freight cars and eight tank cars blazed in a. creek bed after dropping from the middle of a train. The residents, fled from the threatened village in fear of an explosion which town Council man Earl Rapp said "could hava wiped out our whole town.") - News Index v ' City Briefs '.......Page' 3 Comics and Story ..Page. 8 Editorial Page 4 Market, Financial Page .7 Midland Empire News ....Page 9 Our Men ir Service Page 2 Pattern ; , Page 7 SporU JU,PM