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WW mm On S-tnlituI blast, on sirens and whistles li the ilgnal (or blackout In ftlamitb Fallt. Another long blait, during a black out, is a ilgnal for all-oltar. In praoau . tloaary ptrlodi, watoh your atraat lights, ' Octobar S High 83, Low 41 Praclpltatlon at ol Saptamber 30, 1141 Last yaar ....................17,80 Normal ;.. .......M Stream yaar to data ;...,.....;I9.J0 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES mho 'MKarniiM H FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1942 Number 9610 All Villi'! A.UKIIHAINll, v ' . '( ' PRICE . . ; : '. : . r 1 1 v . n i iNiuregon .1 ' IHH PENNSYLVANIA 1 r - 'WMm'mi ccpniiin- l By FRANK JENKINS A FTER all, thore Isn't at much difference between tho big cities and small cltlca ns we or dinarily think. In San Francisco, where these words are written, they talk first of tho war, then of tho labor shortaso and what It Is doing and Is going to do to the life we have boon familiar with and wind Up usually by talking about the Impending shortage of con' sumer goods and whut one Is go Ing to do about It. ., That is about the line tho con' )versatlon follows when two or more people get together In the smaller places. AS to the war, San Francisco, as mentioned Jn this column yesterday, Is slightly different. The convoys go .out from here and they come in here. .. Those going" out bear young men head ing for tno war zones, mose coming back bear wounded who srS returning , from-' the .war tones. " , " ; So. San Frnnclscb' Is closer to the war than the average of the country. , The fighting- Isn't something vague and romote ,fand made mora so by tho con sorshlp which keeps, U pm the brntoutllne of faots away from us J :' -. Nobody enn ba remote from the war -at-a spot whnroMho , wounded are coming back. That k makes war real. - WOMEN are- constantly re- '. placing men In an ever-wld enlng range of services. One big - of flea building down" town still has men elevator operators They 'are already beginning to look odd.'- Almost everywhere girls handle' the business of get ting people upstairs. i . - Women are edging steadily In' to the street car and bus services. On the street cars and the trans- bay trains, they still handle only the collection of fares. On the transbay busses they are already the whole works on. about a third. ot-the 'Vehicles, doing the driving-along with the rest of the job. The. number of women bus drivers is increasing . steadily. Xhe time is near when a man driver, will be a rarity. i A. I'EW months ago, when the " man ahortage first began to become acute,, the. concern that operates these busses started sending out recruiting parties In to the back country. '.- It. was a good Idea, but some thing slipped, They'd come back with a-bus load of. recruits, presumably, all . ready to start their training for the job of hauling people from place to place, but after they were unloaded from the bus the bulk of them were- never seen again. A little sleuthing developed the fact that by and large they Were just getting a free ride to town, end as soon as they got here they scattered to the ship yards. V ' '' . The' bus companies,' the' story goes, quit recruiting' men in tho back country and started train- ihg.women. , -.' f i ' TWO personable young sailors wore relaxing In a fairly, big way last night. It seemed pos sible that somebody might have permitted thorn to smell a cork somewhere along the line. 4 The consequences were .Inter esting without being depressing. You know how- It is. . When some people smell corks, or even So a little farther, they tend to become heavy on their feet, fall ing from one to the other In: a drab sort of way and looking as lather ..only, thing they really want to. do. is to lean up against a building that Is solid enough to keep tha world from .- going around.'.', ;'. ' . ; - Others go places and see things ind.comm'ent theroon In a cheery and enlivening manner. These ' boys .belonged distinctly to' the i latter-school, and somohow thoy earned to see things and be seon sll over town. - . When last seen by this writer, (Continued on Page Two) " IUIHL iJLUUIIU N PRESS PUSH Per Capita Figure Set At 45.5 Pounds; Michigan Third , . By The Associated Press Oregon today took the lead from Pennsylvania In reported scrap metal collections to lead all states In the national news paper drive to collect Iron and steel Junk, the newspapers' na tional committee reported. : Collections In Oregon since opening of the campaign Septem ber 28 It ends October 17-r were reported at 2(1,000 tons,' a per capita average of 45. & pounds for every man, woman and, Child In tho slate. - '"; -'i .-, t Psnn Total Best "'r.:' '.Vi Pennsylvania was placed 'sec ond In the day's tabulation com piled by tho committee which hourly Is receiving reports show ing the scrap .-collection .from coast to coast Is reaching great nronortlons, - The keystone, sYalei''Wlth i total lonuage of 141.8B5, -had. a per'' capita collection - of 28.6 pounds. Michigan was third with 18.2 pouhds per capita and an aggregate of 40,000,. tons. ' ; Tho other states' collection In the top ten reported by 'the committee, first on, a per capita basis in pounds and then by tonnage, 'were: Maryland: 13 11,843; Virginia: 10.814,000'; Wisconsin: B O 18,018: Missouri: 0 17;000; Idaho 7.82000; Oklahoma: 8.0 7708;. West Vir ginia: 6.86218.' ;' - .. : : Massachusetts reported ' 8.5 ' (Continued on Page Two) '. Crash Fatal to . Former Klamath t Falls Resident ALTURAS, Calif. Wayne Blakemore, a ' former Klamath Falls resident, died. In the Modoc GeneraJ hospital" Tues day as the 'result of an ..auto mobile accident .which-occurred about 1 p.-m. Sunday. The car was driven and own ed by Robert Dorris, . with Blakemore as the' only passeng er, 'when It ran into South ern Pacific freight train at - a crossing just south of the city limits.. Blakemore was, an 'em ployee of' Fluhrer's bakery; in Klamath' Falls. ". Louis Hoagland, 'local man ager of Fluhrer's ' bakery . was In Alturas Wednesday ' in. con nection with the -accident,. . it was learned. Blakemore'.-was said to have been employed in the plant here, prior, to:- driving truck for the bakery,' working out of Alturas. . He', had been with the firm -for six years.' f- ' Ho Is not known' to have had any. relatives here,, He Is sur vived by his wife,' resident- of Alturas and his' "parents ' who llvo In Oklahoma. ' ':. An Exblosivei Condition in RinnlinQ Circus Freak Tent , KANSAS CITY, Oct.' 7. (fl5) A feud in the freak tent -at Rlng llng Brothers-Barnum and Bail ey 'circus - boiled over' into;; city court .today,-: producing, these ; re-: actions:. ' , - - Miss Patricia," sword- swallow- er,- paid a $20 fine for bopping Baby Betty,, fat lady,' over the head with, a pop bottle, "It was worth $200, the big gest bargain I ever got' In my life," commonted Miss Patricia. r Baby Betty displayed a long. out . on her forehead ..as .the ground of her complalnt against Miss Patricia. ' ".. "Now I can sleep again,", chortled Miss Hanka Kftlter, the long-haired Venus. -She testified eaas W. W. Bushneir. salvage Inipsctor for tha war production board, is shown at the left in pic jure which was taKen Jut alter he presented an award ol. niarit to tha M.i and S, Bag company oi Klamath Falls for shipment of Scrap In" September exceeding- by 33!4 per.eent-th first-six months average oi 1942. Others in the; picture r are Chet Milt and Clarence Sessler,. operators of the company. (See story on paga JOSEPH L SHIRK Prominent Klamathite Succumbs to Long. . Illness Here ' ' Joseph Logan Shirk, 63, for the past 22 'years a resident of Klamath county, died late Tues day afternoon at Klamath Val ley hospital following a lengthy illness. Mr. Shirk, one of the best known residents of the com munity, leaves many friends to mourn his passing. Mr. Shirk was born in Plumas county, Calif., December 19, 1878, son of David Lawson and Frances M. ' Shirk who rvere among the first pioneers ot Har ney county, Oregon. As a young boy, "Joe," as he was familiarly known, lived on his father's ranch, "Home Creek," in Harney county and at 12 years of ago he was entrusted with the duties of buckaroo boss. ' ' Educated in both public' and private schools in Catlow valley, (Continued on Pago Two) ; 15 EXECUTED '. LONDON, Oct.' 7 (P) Fifteen more persons were executed by the -Germans at' Trondheim in Norway today,' bringing the two day total to 25, the Oslo radio reported, tonight.--'' Baby i Betty - repeatedly had threatened .to shear ' her 7-foot tresses some night. ' Municipal Judge . Jdmund B. Smith - hastily' stopped Dotty Velez, -Hawaiian dancer, r from peeling down-a shapely, stocking as she testified she had -been bruised. ',": ' '. . ' , '"I mean any -marks the 'Great Shackles (escape artist and Baby Betty's husband) loft on -your jaw In1 the , blows ha allegedly gave you yesterday in the dress ing room row," ; the court ex-' plained. . . r. ' -John Brlce, chief of the circus'' special police, said Baby Betty and the Great Shackles were dis charged as an aftermath of the melee. 4 Scrap Drive Award Given 2.) ; . ) t : , ; . i . Meat Ceilings Predicted by OP A Official WASHINGTON,. Oct. 7 Representatives of 600.' VP inde pendent packers were told to day the price administration was preparing to establish "flat dol lars . and cents ceilings", on all meat products. Assistant Price Administrator J.iK. Galbraith-told . the senate small business -committee the new ceiling regulations for pork and lamb had been -prepared and that, similar regulations for (Continued on Page Two) ; ULLIEDMSIVE Envoy Says Time Here For All-Out Armed Push Everywhere . CHUNGKING,'' Oct. 7 - (IP) Wendell- Wlllkie called upon the United Nations today for an "all out armed offensive everywhere" and said he expected to dedicate his life to -urging" ai post-war world "where all men can be free and with governments of their own choosing." , : -, . ."It Is my personal opinion that the time has come for an all-out armed offensive every where by all United Nations," Willkle said in a statement on his tour of 13 nations. "We are ready to deliver some knockout punches if I can believe what I have seen with my own eyes." Shortly after Issuing his state-', (Continued on-Page Two)., -' Hefp Harvest Basin's Crop If you hava time' that can be sparad for Klamath's potato or onion harvest, register at the U. S. employ ment service offices, ;7 Worker are asked to congregate at the courthouse' Saturday morning by 7 a- m., if they cannot provide their own transportation to 'the fields. ; Farmers may call the employment office, No. 3193, at any time to learn if workers are available. ! ' u ' (This appeal Is addressed particularly to city people,; fac tory and mill' workers and others who have a day or two off during the week.) ;:,'',,,':,,'!,-, - . ' ' , ' . - ' -1. ', ' '. ' " d sv rv a I Minn iminrn 7J . . : :- i ' . - : : ; SENATE REJECTS LA FDLLETTE TAX Votes for 40 Per Cent Levy on $80,000 Mncome! Firms ; WASHINGTON, Oct' 7. (IP) The senate voted today - for a- 40 per cent- combined normal and surtax-rate for corporations with $50,000 or more net income, af ter rejecting a proposal-by Sena tor LaFollette:(Prog.-WIs.) to tax at a 50 per cent combined, rate all 'corporations with $25,000 or more income. : . LaFollette-was turned down, 75 to 9, after Senator .Taft (R- Ohio) told his colleagues that too stiff taxation would destroy ini tiative and "might wreck the success of the war." - , Before turning to the contro- (Contlnued on Page Two) Mercury Hits 86 On ; Monday, Nears Klamath Record : Indian summer, the-kind;you read about, gave Klamath basin- ites a warm time of it Monday when the mercury jumped to 86 degrees, warmest October day in eight years. . . ' The last time an October sun heated the area to -such : a -degree was back in '34, 'when the thermometer chalked, up 88. News Index " City Briefs ..........;.'......Page S Comics and Story ..iPage 8 Editorial ... - Page 4 Market, Financial .'....... ..Page 5 Pattern ...... ....Page 5 Sports ...........:.Page 6 crao STANLEY PEAK IN HANDS QF Aussies,'Yanks Pursue .Japs Downslope in Guinea Campaign ; GENERAL MacARTHUH'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Oct. -7 WV-The mile-high gap in the Owen. Stanley - range appar ently-was firmly back in. allied hands today with -Australian ad vance forces, still' on the offen sive, pushing on toward the downslope to the Japanese base at Kokoda across the mountains from Port Moresby. , The chance of - a Japanese stand in the high ridges seemed hourly .'. more - remote as dis patches from the inland New Guinea battlefront reported the Australians continuing - their cautious, steady advance, on the trail' of the Japanese .who once pushed within 32 miles ar line of Port Moresby before, being outflanked and hurled, back. . 'V:M? Retttiaiee -ft ;' ''y. yesterday , the "Australians were moving up the last jmounr tain grade north, of Kagi, within four: niiles of i.the gap -through the highest ridges. ; report ;to the Melbourne. Herald estimated that .by- early , todays they had pushed through, within. two miles of the end of the pass headed for the -downslope, still without resistance. ; Australiah ,: advance forces moving into' the . Owen Stanley.-mountains-ofrNew Guin ea, in the wake of: steadily -withdrawing , Japanese were report ed today to. have found a num (Conttaued on Page,.Two) ; Johnson Says Pauley Pack Can . Service Klamath ) 1 C." Ed. Johnson,. owner-. of the Pauley Packing company plant, said Wednesday that . his plant has stepped- up its production to meet the additional - require ments resulting from Saturday night's fire, which destroyed the only' other meat .packing plant here. . '.- t : . The Pauley 'plant is working two shifts, and is now killing as much beef as the two plants were killing together previous to the fire. Owner Johnson said that his operations are now . in a position to handle the situa tion and there-need be no. fear of a serious meat shortage. . He ... warmly.-praised - his em ployes, for - the part . they: are playing, in meeting the new situation.. Some of the men have worked double shifts in cases - where it - was v impossible to hire labor for;the additional work to be . done. .. The Pauley plant employed a majority of the former ' employes of the Klamath- Packing ' plant - after the fire. : '' . : The Pauley Packing company plant was killing 40 per cent of the -local beef requirements prior to the fire,- Johnson said. ALL ED FORGE Agriculture Department Will Call for Increased Farm Production Goal in 1943 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (fl?) Faced with increasing war de mands for food, the agriculture department has drawn up tenta tive production ; goals ; for the 1043 crop season calling for even greater acreages and .output' it most, farm- products than was requested under the record 1042 production program. i' : j ' Officials who preferred not to be named said increases would be asked for despite prospects that; farmers - would have to get along with; less manpower,: ma chinery fertilizer and other fa-'- r.f11ttf MAttrls ' tf f Via nnnerl forces' and the sMlfes, particular-' iyu WIS New Jap Drive On Guadalcanal Seen Imminent ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 VP) The navy announced today that aerial reconaUianco had failed to show any - signs of enemy occupancy or ac tivity on Attu and Agattu islands in the Western Aleu tians for several weeks, indi cating the Japanese have withdrawn from those islands. The enemy is still holding Kiska island, however. The navy reported new attacks by bombers on the camp area there, which met, however, with only light anti-aircraft resistance. - WASHINGTON, Oct 7 .(Pi- Apparent Japanese desperation to regain seemingly at any cost the Guadalcanal airbase in the Solomons from which they were driven by U.' S. marines portended today a new struggle for control . of the . strategic island. ' Striving to halt mounting and costly losses inflicted on their air and navy strength by Amer ican planes operating from the base, the Japanese under cover of darkness have enlarged their Guadalcanal forces but at the further expense of 11 planes and a damaged heavy cruiser. The. landing of enemy rein forcements was reported by the .navy yestsrday to have been , ac- -CQmpusnec; on October and 4. In . doing . so they., raised their total ' losses In the two-months old . battle of the Solomons to , (Continued on Page Two) - U.S.: E BritisK Rod to. Gives French Warning on Work Areas i LONDON, Oct.' 7 (JP) .The BBC broadcast a United States warning today that French peo ple should evacuate places where work Is being done for the Ger mans because of increasing Am erican air attacks on France. The warning was described as coming from, "the American high command,", and the announcer closed by cautioning against any premature rising by the people. "Such an outbreak, not co ordinated with' allied action, would be senseless sacrifice," the announcer said. The warning followed another night raid on Osnabrueck, Ger man industrial and railway city, by heavy bombers of the RAF last night the second on the enemy homeland in a row and the fourth in six nights. . . ' . : LONDON, Oct. 7, W Head quarters' for combined opera tions .the commandos an nounced today that a commando group made a small, raid , on the channel, island of Sark the night of October 3 to obtain informa tion concerning suspected ill . (Continued on Page Two) i ly. Russia, were said to be much greater than had been expected a few weeks ago. , , Hedge Plans As a hedge against the pos sibility, that farmers might, be unable, to meet the 1943 goals, the department was working on plans to reduce civilian consump tion of a number . of essential foods. These plans would be designed to make existing sup plies last longer, should next year's production fait short. Preparatory to consumer ra tioning to be inaugurated the first of the year, the government acting upon the department's L E Germans Claim Bottle neck On Russians 1 Civilians Ht: - ' !" LONDON, Oct. 7 W) The Russian relief armies striking across the German- left flank above 'Stalingrad ' tonight were reported by the British agency R eutars-to have ; thrown pontoon bridges. over -the Don and sent troop ; to the west bank of that stream; The- dispatch, quoting-'an Italian report, said Italian air craft . were strafing - these bridges. .:;? By ROGER D. GREENB ., ' Associated Press War Editor Adolf Hitler t h r e w - fresh masses of troops into the welter of blood and flame that marked the 44-day-old siege of Stalin grad today, but the Russian! declared they . had virtually wiped out a German wedge in the northwest suburbs and crushed a series of 10 assault along the 40-mile' northern bar rier. ; "The enemy ' is drawing " up fresh forces and burling them into battle Immediately , after marching," : the Russian com mand announced, in its' noon, wmmnniqtier w ... -- " Reds Move Up ; -. Red army relnforcements-,also were reported to have moved up during the night to meet the swelling nazi siege forces. German field .headquarters devoted exactly 13 words to the gigantic struggle for: the. -city! "Northwest of Stalingrad, the bottleneck was . closed- tighter , . (Continued on Page Two) ; Army, Navy, . Draff Blamed for Delay-:-' In 18-19 Bill . WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 W3) The army and navy, and not the forthcoming elections, w'cr blamed by members of the house military committee today for any delay in holding hearings on-' leg islation to lower the . draft1 age from 20. to 18.; : .. Apparently irritated by 'widely circulated suggestions thdt the hearings -were being held up for -political reasons, members said they were ready and willing to' begin consideration of the 'bill, introduced last month by Repre sentative ' Wadsworth - (R-fI.Y. but were awaiting recommenda tions from the war. and navy de partments and selective, service. OUT HIT EIN Parisian Bomb- : - 7 ' Kills 2, Hurts 18 I) LONDON, Oct. 7 (ff) A'bbmb explosion killed two persons arid wounded 18 in a Paris motion picture- theater' last night, the British 'news agency Reuters said today. - ' - The-film was "Jew Suess," from the novel of Lion Feucht wanger, published in the United States -under the title of 'Pow er!'" -The picture was shown -,s- after a talk on "The Jewish Prob-. lem" by a propagandist of the pro-nazi French people's party. . The Vichy radio said the the ater .was in the Miallot palace. recommendations, has asked ci vilians to limit meat consump tion to two and half pounds a week.- Butter, cheese,' cooking; fat, vegetable oils, eggs, poultry, and canned fruits and vegetables may be placed in the same class with meat. Spud Boost Eyed , Only in, the case of three crops wheat, short staple cotton, and commercial vegetables are ' ten tative goals below those set for 1042. ; Supplies of wheat and short staple cotton are sufficient ly large, officials said, to. per mit lowered production, - As for (Continued on Paje Two) ,-;
