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ami iiiiiiiiiffliiiiiiiiii On 6-mlnut blast on sirens and whlstl It th ilgnit lor a blackout in Klamath Fells. Another long blait. during a black out. I a algnal (or all-olaar. In preeau. tlonary parlodi, watch your trt UghU. October S High 88, Low 44 Precipitation a of September 29, 1943 Last year 17.90 Normal .......19.90 Stream year to data ................I3.20 I'lri'ini-innn.nri.n.n nimriru-irlninruiju. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE! MMMBI'IIUI) ' WWII HIM (ALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1942 Number 9609 ; uuio:) Auvmij't w.ikh:i.in;i JU ilia si mem MS . .'.":;)' . M r- IT ; 2! MM HEAVY OWE I Wiwyii . nn inn rnrinrn ., 3BBaiv-uiiiirrunuLa ill HN ' ' By FRANK JENKINS CAN FRANCISCO, where these 13 words aro written, Is, like Portland, a changed city. But the eloments Hint luivo wrought the ehnntfo arc shnrply different. . ) PORTLAND ho been made over by tho shipbuilding boom which, on tho SURFACE, Is Just another Industrial boom -such as has occurred In so many American cities. Tho chongo here arises out of the fact that Sun Francisco Is the chief port of embarkation for Amerlcnn forces fighting the war In the Pacific. ... . TN San Francisco, with lUhun- drods of hostolrle. a hotel room Isn't a treasure trove, to be possessed only by the fortu nate accident of stumbling onto it, as Is more or less tho cose In Portland and Seattle, but reser vations In advanco are wlso. In fact, you'ro a sup If you don't. , ' Still, you can usually bo taken ears of. v.; -' : I Tho point la the KIND of peo- pie In the hotel. Ovorwhelm- Ingly. they're men of tho services and their parents and their wives who hove come here to tee them. - Usually to see them before they leave. CAN FRANCISCO Isn't a sad city. On tho contrary, It Is GAY. The hotel lobbies, tho cocktail bars, the theolros all the public places where pcoplo gather are more crowded man they've been In years. There is laughter. There is animated conversation. There la move ment and variety. But the gaiety has a brittle note. The laughter has an un- dertone like that of n -violin string that has been stretched too tight. : In the background are the con voy that from time to time slip . in through the Golden Gate end f at tome later time slip out again. . TT is early evening. The lobbies are filling up. Downstairs the orchestras are going into action. There la life and animation everywhere.. - In tho elevator, going down, are a navy ensign and his bride. His wings proclaim his branch . J .U . nM..nA VI.. 1. l.nn. Bubbllngly happy. This Is an occasion, obviously. "Come- on, Sweetness," he aays. "We've got a lot to do and not much time to do it." TJ7HERE he may have been, you . don't know. Where ho may be going,, ho docsn t know. :; But this Is TONIGHT. ' THERE'S a lot of talk to the effect that the country doesn't I) know we're at war. Speaking ot the country as a wholo, that Is prbbably truo. '. It isn't quite true of San Francisco'.- - ; Here the convoys, which come and. go without announcement, are always In the background; COR so much of America,, tho war is being fought behind a screen of connorshlp that shuts Out the REALNESS. , - But not In Snn Francisco! , " , Here, where the convoys slip in and then slip out again, there ' id always somebody who has SEEN WITH HIS OWN EYES. ijOTEL rooms, while not non- . . ; ' exisieni, are upi 10 do b wine : scarce especially on Saturday night, when the lights, although dimmed down outside as per reg- i illations, are at their brightest ' for the week inside. ', .'The room clerk tolls you he's :.-orry, but the best he can do for you M a, parlor with a cot (; V (Continued on Page Two) Invaders Badly Hit, in Aleutians, Solomons and New Guinea By JOHN H. WIGGINS, WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (!) Fresh ovldonce that Japanese footholds In New Guinea, the Solomon islands and the Aleu tians wero becoming traps of destruction . for the invader s troops, planes and. ships emerg ed today out of new allied' suc cesses In the battle of the Pa cific. On the three strategic' fronts Allied and American - alrforces shot down a total of 22 Japan ese planes within the last week! damaged two more, blew up a supply ship, bombed a destroy er out of commission, hit two cargo ships, strafed barges and blusted enemy camps, ground force and installations.- The costly price of Japanese activity in the .Solomons was demonstrated in a navy depart ment report ' yesterday. ., Tho communique, . covering- four days of action up to Oct, .3, re ported destruction of. 10 enemy planes, boosting , the total .shot down In this war theatre to 229 to date., i . , ' Make Landing Amid - frequent ciashe- with enemy patrols, U. S.- marines prevented any major changes in their hard-won positions, on Guadalcanal .but the "Japanese succeeded In landing : small troop reinforcements at night. Four enemy destroyers, seeking to cover a small landlng at Vlru harbor, became a ' target for U. S. dive bombers and torpedo planes and one of the warships . (Continued on Page Two) Negro Porter Held In Brutal Murder Of Girl of 20 ' NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 8 (AP) A powerful negro theater porter was arraigned to day on a murder charge In the brutal killing of pretty Marian Oliver during a movie show at tho Old Opera House. . Tho nude, battered body . of tho 20-year-old factory worker was found yesterday behind the theater and Middlesex County Prosecutor John A. Lynch said today John Swan, 26, slx-foot-four-inch porter and bridegroom of a month, had confessed he killed the alrl in ' the women's lounge after she bitterly fought his attempt, to Tape her. Lewis Praises UMW Patriotism CINCINNATI, Oct. -' 8 (fl5)- John L. Lewis pledged the Unit: ed Mine Workers today to ut-. most cooperation In the war ef fort and challenged any labor organization to match its contri bution so ' far-r $39,000,000 In money and nearly 70,000 . in .the armed forces, , . Appeal for Spud Workers! '. A direct appeal for city people, to help case a critical labor shortage in Klamath county potato harvest fields was voiced to day by Jack Almoter, manager of the United States Employment service., . .;. ' .- , He'urged anyono-r-men'or women who can take a day or days off, or can spare a weekend, to register at the USES office at 242 Main street as soon as possible.' Transportation to spud fields will be furnished, he said. V . Almeter urged those that con work on Saturday arid Sunday to congregate-at the Klamath county courthouse Saturday morn ing at 7 o'clock or later. Buses and trucks will transport them to the fields, and return them that evening. , ' ,.. -. - ' He pointed out that wages for pickers are eight' cents per sack or four cents per half sack. Buckers, swampers, truck drivers, sorters and others earn $1 per hour, Almeter . said. He said that experienced pickers can earn up to $20 per day. ' "The situation is desperate,' Almeter said. "Potato farmers urgently request that anyone who-, can put, in any time at -all Iturn out and give them, a hand." .Ritlff Look Out Hirohitol U. S. Troops Move Moving to within only 135 U, S. troops occupying islands In th hills to t up gun positions. U. S. Army. 8ignal Corp photo. Solon Says Americans Will Pay One-Third of National IncomeinTaxesNextYear By RICHARD G. MASSOCK ; WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 m Chairman George (D-Gb.) of the flnanco committee told' the sen ate today the American people would poy taxes totaling $136, 937,000,000, or one-third of the national Income, during the com ing yeor under pending legis lation. George took the floor to ex plain the gigantic new revenue bill after a proposal by Secre tary of the Treasury, Morgen thau for $6,000,000,000 In new levies, over and above those In the pending measure, had aroused cloak-room demands for a sales tax. Previously the finance com mittee had laid before the sen ate its formal report on the bill, In which it criticized house-ap proved rates on corporation profits - and defended its action In reducing potential taxation on business as desirable In order to encourage efficient corpor ation management in wartime. Georges estimate on ' over-all taxation included $26,337,000, 000 in federal levies and $10,- 200,000,000 In state and- local Imposts. He estimated national Income at $110,000,000,000: Since March 3, the ; house ways and means committee';" the Oil Shortage in West Eyed for 1944 : WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 '(VP) Brig. Gen. Walter B. Pryon told a senate subcommittee today the army had plenty of oil -for its war needs in 1943, but there might be a petroleum shortage on the west coost if the war last ed "too. long." . ... As the first witness before a subcommittee on mineral re sources,' General Pryon, liaison officer between the army and the petroteum coordinator, said the army's use of oil products was considerably higher : this year than last. . ,.1 miles of Japan basn on th aastarn tip of th Aleutian islands, th Andraanof group establish Army. Air Fore ana Naval units participated in tne movement. . house, Itself and then the senate finance : committee have been working 'on the tax legislation. . Opening debate ;on- the latest version- of tho measure, Senator George attributed the length of time consumed in Its preparation "to a- sincere . effort to prevent the drastic increases from caus ing severe inequities and unduly interfering with our economy." . , "In -framing our tax bill," he said in a prepared statement, "we had-to exercise consider able care in not imposing such a severe rate on corporations as to disrupt the national economy of our country. Estimating that ' $22,054,600 000 will be collected from, cor porate and individual income and excess profits taxes, he said $10,790,300,000 would come from corporations and $11,264, 300,000. from individuals.: "In deciding that the total nor (Continued on Page Two) , , CIO Leader M akes Charges of Shipyard Racket SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 6 m Allan Hortung, -Oregon director of the CIO, today charged the American Federation of Labor with operating a "racket" among shipyard workers of Oregon which had taken $10,000,000 out of the workers'. . pockets this year. In an. address before the 300 delegates of the sixth annual convention . of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO), Harturig "asserted "that AFL unions, which he' did not name had signed "back, door" con tracts- with some government contract' holders, putting them In ' "sweet" positions to collect extra initiation fees. Charges Hurled "They " will get as many as 200 men released from their Jobs at a' time," he said, "and the next day as many more will bo hired to get the union '.initi ation fees. "The AFL has made $10,000, 000 in Oregon this year., from Initiation fees of shipyard. work ers at $42.80 a hoad. v . "We (northwest . CIO .unions) don't, get that kind of money. We don't have any racket and we won't .have, one." V T. R.1 Nelson, secretary of the Washington State ' Industrial council, urged the union mem bership to vote solidly this year for . legislators who would be favorable to: labor- and .who would support the 1WA program- for the, lumber Industry stabilization and forest conser vation, management and, refor estation. ,; - " i ' r ' n - cniiiniNiiuii-- u s rncr ri m k ell fr5llnP ULLUUL ULUHU 11 II uiro nrum t unr at m iucriin in Aleutians (Credit NEA Telephoto). their beach-head and make for U. S. BATTLESHIP Loss of Big Craft of Mississippi Class Not Confirmed LONDON, Oct. 6 (tP) The Rome radio broadcast a special communique today reporting that an Italian submarine put four torpedoes into the bow of a United States battleship of the 33,000-ton Mississippi class in the Atlantic 330 miles off Free town, West Africa, and that the battleship "was seen sinking." . . There was no confirmation from any other source for this claim nor any indication that United States warships were op erating in that area. (In Wash ington, the navy department said it had no comment to make on the claim.) - The communique, broadcast by the Rome radio, credited the sinking to the Italian submarine Barbarigo, an ocean-going type which previously had been re ported by the Italians to have sunk a United States battleship of the Maryland class near Bra zil last May 22. Not Confirmed This claim, more than four months later,; still has no con firmation. Strangely, the Italians claimed to have hit both battleships in the. bows. Such , blows, while possibly damaging, would be un likely to sink modern warships with special protection against torpedoes and a honeycomb of watertight compartments to con continued on Page Two) Lumber Company Offers Boxes for Overseas Mailing Wooden boxes of proper size and weight for mailing over seas are being made available to relatives of Klamath coun ty service men with the com pliments of Pelican Bay Lum- . ber company, it was announc ed 'today by H. D. Mortenson, . president of the firm. Mortenson said the boxes, about the size of a shoe box, weigh just over one pound and may. be had by calling at the chamber of commerce, the First National Bank or the United States National bank. He said they were made up after consultation with postal . authorities on size, weight and , ; .shape. " : - "We are making them up for overseas mailing," the lum-, .ber- official said, - "and we know they will be accepted for . that purpose." "The boxes bear no advertising or word ing of any kind," he said. . ' 4 -uui-ii un iiiuu " u iiliuli nut. ir -4 ni uinunuiinu crew nu nee German Grip on North Held Weakening; Emergency Called By Th Associated Pretl LONDON, Oct. 6 A rising tide of revolt by once-free men of Scandinavia against nazi over- lordship was reported today in news dispatches and broadcasts telling of a state of civil emer gency in the important Norwe gian coastal district of Trond heim and of Denmark's struggle to escape total engulfment in the reich. These reports and recent hints of peace feelers by Finland plus German dissatisfaction with the political course of Sweden pro jected a broad picture of a weak ening German grip in the north. At least part of the rising op position - stemmed apparently from a scheme under which Hit ler was reported planning to pro claim a "Greater Germany" that would - include Holland, Den mark and Norway. Demand Rejected ' The Free ' Danish council in London declared that Denmark already had received and reject ed a demand for 'Voluntary in corporation" into a bloc of mod el state as a showpiece f or HIV ler s -new order." '' ' " ' The council, representing - a Danish group functioning, inde pendently of the Copenhagen government, said the Germans had threatened that unless Den mark came into the bloc, the country would be taken over and run by the gestapo. , Stockholm dispatches to Bern said the report - that Holland, Denmark and Norway were .to be drawn into a greater Ger many were distinctly "in the cat egory of rumors, but attributed to them much of the recent un rest in Norway and Denmark, Swedish dispatches reaalled that Hitler declared in his latest speech that no bourgeois state would survive the war. . The latest outbreaks in Nor way centered apparently in the (Continued on Page Two) . Two Soldiers Die . In Camp White Truck Accident MEDFORD, Oct. 6 A truck overturned near Camp White yesterday, killing two sold ers and injuring two others. Camp authorities said names would be announced only after the. next of kin had been noti fied by the war department. A board of army officers un dertook an investigation of the accident. - - Packing Plant Fire Calls For Careful Meat Buying (TM h another in a Berles of articles on war-time, condition! of supply-of food, Roods and servicea In the Klamath .country. The article on meat was "stepped up" to meet the current conditions resulting from a slaughter house fire.).. - By LOIS STEWART . There will be no shortage of meat in Klamath county if the present supply, now stored in local butcher shops, is judicious ly handled. This was the statement made by Dr. J. C. Hunt, city meat and milk inspector, late - Tuesday when it was called to his atten tion that a danger of shortage ex isted following . the fire which destroyed the Klamath Packing company plant at Texum Satur day night.' Klamath Packing killed between ' 75 and 80 per cent of the meat consumed In the county, it is understood. Consumers were asked to buy a "reasonable supply of meat" as they have in the past. What will reduce present supply to the rationing point will be the hoard ing of meat and buying of larg er than usual quantities for stor age in freezing lockers and home refrigerators. The stock of fcured hams and Kennell-Eliis. Hugh B. Campbell. Jr.. 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Campbell of 1245 Pacific Ter race, was killed near Mather field Monday when he bailed out of a plane which crashed a mil away. B. Klamath Flier Killed In Jump From Spin- ning Airplane SACRAMENTO, Oct. 8" (PK Arrangements were made today to ....send the body of-, Aviajtion Cadet Hugh Brian Campbell, Jr., 26, who was killed yesterday in the crash of a Mather field plane, to Klamath ; Falls, Ore., for burial. . .. . A military escort from the army air force at Mather field will accompany the body. ' Army authorities said Camp bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Campbell ol Klamath Falls, was killed instantly when his single motored primary training plane went out of control and crashed south of Elk Grove, 19 miles south of here. Bailed Out " Campbell, a 1939 graduate of Pomona college, bailed out after the ship went into a spin, but witnesses said he was at too low an altitude to make a safe land ing. Although his parachute is believed to have opened, he was killed when he struck the ground in a farm pasture near Wilton. The plane crashed about a mile away. A farm worker, Joe'Laveria, said he saw Campbell bail out and that the youth was dead (Continued on Page Two) DROWNED PENDLETON, Oct. 6 OT") -Mrs. H. J. Hodgen, 77, was dis covered drowned this morning in a spring 50 feet from her home near Milton after members " of the family found she had been missing since some time in the night. bacons has been depleted from local wholesale firms, Dr. Hunt stated. Several large butcher shops Monday were unable to supply customers with even a half pound of bacon. A small supply may possibly be obtained this week from Medford or Port land, it was learned. Ceiling prices are not doing this situation "any good," Dr. Hunt was quoted as saying. He explained; that the ceiling price on all meats, fresh and cured, Is based ,on the average of the last three days' of March, 1942. On this basis, Dr. Hunt stated, the slaughter house man can't pay more to the grower than he paid for an animal, of equal quality in March this year and make a profit. , It is understood that Swift and company, for , whom ' Klamath Packing killed, is now operating a small slaughter house to take care of their demand until other arrangements can be made. "We are trying to do every thing we possibly can to keep the meat situation in hand," Dr. Hunt stated. "All meat users are asked to buy conservatively until the danger period is past." FAIL 10 GAIN Hitler Stresses Cau casus in: Reports; On War Progress By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor '' -. Russian troops were officially credited with beating off i an other sledgehammer -assault by 45,000 Germans in the 43-day-old siege of Stalingrad today, crush ing zz separate attacks,,-while north of the city the red armies . knifed deeper into the nazi pro tective barrier. -.. .;-.$ Soviet dispatches . said - the Germans had failed to gain on any front in the last 24 hours; - Once again, as though to ob- scure its lack of success in . the main Stalingrad battle theater, Adolf Hitler's field headquart ers stressed developments in th Caucasus, where a ."progressive ' German attack" was described as wresting height after -height from the Russians. : '' - "In Stalingrad,'.' a nazi com munique said, "the German at tack in embittered fighting ha made a further advance. , "Northwest of the city, a sec ond soviet group was encircled.' Cold Nights With cold nights beginning to set in, heralding "the early ap proach of winter, German prison ers were quoted as saying .that nazi . officers and troops were becoming disturbed about the progress of the campaign. ' : The Germans hurry," said the Russian government news paper Izvestia. "They see time passing. They fear delay.. Thejr are fiercely rushing forward'.;' ; - But instead of forcing the Rus sians to retreat,-, the Invader were pictured as sacrificing. ap palling numbers of men and mat chines. ' Headlong nazi assaults in a northwest suburb alone were declared to have cost the . besiegers 2000 men killed. .:. Soviet headquarters said , a. single Russian unit .. repulsed seven consecutive attacks by ,a German infantry regiment, sup ported by 15 tanks, wrecking three tanks and wiping out about a company of nazis. ., . Second Front , As the battle of Titans com tinued into its seventh week, (Continued on Page Two) - Senators Told 'Grave' Food Lack Confronts Country ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (fP)-i-Senators were told by a grocers' representative today that mea sures thus far taken to avert a "grave food shortage". In this country were "another, manifes tation of 'too little and too late.'" Rose Marie Kiefer of Chicago, secretary-manager of the Nation al Association of Retail Grocers, testified before the senate small business committee that "unless proper remedial steps are taken immediately, we are heading into something approaching ac tual hunger within the next 18 months." - 1 .-'.-,. . "We face not only shortages which can be managed after a fashion by rationing, but actual hunger, may come to millions of Americans before the spring' of 1944," she declared. : . ! TIN REDUCTION f ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (P)-1-A further reduction in. the tin content of toothpaste and shav ing cream tubes was ordered to day by the war production board, ; which simultaneously emphasized that plastic and other non-metal ' used tube would not be accepted from consumers in exchange for new metal tubes. , , j News Index City Briefs ............ ...Pag 5 Comic and Story ...v.Page 8 Editorial V.;.......:. Pg Market, Financial Pag 9 Midland Empire News ..Png 5 Our Men In Service ..Page 4 Pattern Pag 5 Sports ....mn,u....MJiT..Page, 7
