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IllPPfVII illinium IMI On S-mlnut blast on sirens and whistle I the ilgnil lor blackout in Klamath ' rail. Anothar long blait, during a black out, li a signal lor all-clear. In precau tionary partodi. watch your itraat light. October 12 High 87, Low 29 ' . . i ' 'Precipitation as ol October 6, 1942 Lat year, .-. ;-.i.........i....j .00 Normal ...... . .19 ' Stream' year to data ...............;...,.. '.00 . ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES ..- r--n-nnn 1JJLI PRICE FIVE LLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13,:1942 Number 9615 MM ' ... I BBIB 'T-"' p (g n hi ti GAS RATIONING SOLONS TAKE HI U 3IM6IT mM OTif Wg(01 registration k cue from fob Ml NAVY REVEALS ; r- SET FDRNDV. 9 Tiii I Ml II l ill iiliiMII . r. I I ',; In At,.Jkt- " 7 r ' ' U M Ill I I WW" U V 71 LV "- 'rr;f'7-;'-SJi Motorists Must Aoree V 1 V By FRANK JENKINS CAN DIEGO. And a roof, thank hckvon, to laop undor. - Uut It wm a narrow iiqiicak. Ten minutoa more and It would have been the street. WHEN llio wnr bc(n, the hotel " men of the Pacific Coast thouKht they were looking bank ruptcy In the eye. As It turned out, It was quite iomathlnR clso they were look biff fit. (Tho big city hotel men, that In.) O Portland, with relatively few hotels to start with and priori tie putting the kibosh on the building of any more, has n wild and woolly shipbuilding boom that makes a room In a hotel just something to dream about, as Marino In a foxholo down In the Solomons dreams about lus cious blondes. Seattle has a shipbuilding boom, an airplane building boom and a nnvy yard besides. So that's that. The cities around San Francis - co bay-have shipbuilding and other assorted wnr Industries, with a navy yard at Vallejo. In San Francisco, tha hotels are crowded with service men wait ing (or convoy out and with their relatives who have como to see thorn off. ' '(''"' ADUT San Diego Is tha payoff. It hos a nnvy base and a Mn- rlne baseb and nobody outsldo the statisticians of the war and navy departments hos ever been able to count thn camps of vari ous sorts .located around here nnd make the totnl como out the snme twice in succession. , On top of that, Snn Dlcgo is one of the leading airplane con struction centors of the country, with great plants that go on growing like mushrooms on a hot and steamy night. Add to thnl tho pnronts, wives . and other relatives who coma to see their boys in tha servlco and what you get adds up to a riot whose storm center is tho room desks of the hotels. The room clerks nro beginning to wear tho harried expression of follow who has moro credit ors than there nro blocks to go O around to avoid thorn. They duck every tlmo they henr a harsh voice. TN his worthy lltllo book "Ad ventures In Good Eating," Duncan Hlnes gives tho decided nod of approval to an eating place In down-town San Dlcgo. Go around to give It the look. , It's closed. Doesn't servo din ner any moro. Only breakfast and luncheon. Duo to a combina tion of the labor shorlngo and the 40-hour wook, presumably, i Como back to tho hotel dining room. There's a long lino wait ing at 'the door. Ask tho girl If it might bo better to como back later, She answers: "It won't make any difference, They'll bo ( (Continued on Page Two) Navy Takes Control of Explosive Firm; ' I Wee President, Four Others Arrested !' WASHINGTON, Oct. ,13 (P) The nnvy took possession today of tho plant . of Triumph Explo- . slves, Inc., at Elkton, Md., and two subsidiaries at Milford, Del., and the White House announced thnt the FBI hnd arrested a plant Vice president nnd nn army and a navy Inspector on bribery charges. , A White House statement said the inspectors were charged with accepting bribes in tho gulso of 'faorvlce ! foes'" and that the navy's "preliminary Investiga tion Indicates thnt more thnn $1, 000,000 in management 'Irregu larities' mny bo Involved." FDR Order The. navy took over tho plants I under terms of a presidential ex ecutive order which said It was desirous that they be operated '.'effectively and safely," Those arrested, tho - Whlto 'House -said, were Josef Ben HN nr.TflRFR A i W V AJB : O I uii uu I uuL.il 1 1 i v iuvi t vvjm --r - 1 iv- s-i i ' J'-'XliW W X'1 "g WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (P, NT j Announcement : Se c- SSSSSilS M? end In Three Days; 17-j) MjMAi Jfe3jS fSM admind v One Man Dies ; (V5T' M' JSCYffifleB A WEST COAST PORT, Oct 13 (P) Torpedoing of a heavily lnden American tanker off the Oregon coast October 4 with lots of one man was announced today by the navy, which report ed 48 survivors landed by a neu tral vessel. It was the second Pa cific coast sinking announced In three days. The tapker, sot afire by one of three torpedoes from a Japa nese submarine, finally sank six days later after a gallant effort wos made to tow her to port. Lies Helpless Ray Jones, 25, Los Angeles, a mcssboy, was the man lost. He Jumped overboard from the blaz ing ship and was never seen agnlii. i The tanker, '. survivors . dis closed,' was attacked a aha lay helpless -from ; engine trouble about 28 miles offshore1. Ond of three torpedoes fired struck the tanker . for forward. The others missed. ... , . Two Insured i; The 30 men In the ship's. crew and nine mombors of a navy gun crew left the, blazing ship in lifeboats after turning on the live-steam smothering system. to eliminate imminent . danger. . of an explosion. Three, hours later they were picked up by a' for eign vessel flying a neutral flag. (Continued. on Page. Two) Witlkie Back In U.S., Hits 'Flippancy' , MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 13 (P) Wendell Wlllkle, on the home ward leg of an aerial tour of the world's bnttlefronts, arrived hero at 2:22 p. m. CWT today, , Ho landed at Wold-Chamberlain field, naval base, In a four motored army plane,. which flew him here from Edmonton, . Al berta, 1100 miles to the north west. . . ' The big ship was Immediately surrounded by soldiers as it tax ied to a hangar, where Wlllkle left the ship for a brief stop in tho Twin Cities, ..... Wlllkle did not comment fur ther, on a remark at Edmonton thnt ho would have something to sny about "flippant statements mndo by certain public , offi cials" concerning his views 'up on a second front, uttered while ho was In Moscow.,, . Decker, executive vice president of Triumph; J. A; McCambrldge, until recently civilian army In spector at the Triumph plant, and Reginald .Gregory, chief .ci vilian nnmy Inspector at Tri umph.. ' . , ' The two subsidiaries taken. un der governmental control are the Milford Ordnance company and the Sussex . Ordnance com pany. All have been placed' In charge of the commander, A. B. McCrary, acting for tho army and navy. " . Mora Arrestg Eyed I Details of the bribery charges Wore not immedlntely available from tho White House. It said moro arrests were expected. . i Later in the day, U, S. District Attorney Bernnrd .J, Flynn Hn nounced In Baltimore thnt three More Triumph subsidiaries had pbcen seized and two other In spectors arrested by special agents of ;th FBI. i i if. . i i - v -'v, .m-.. y i 'i. periodic tire inspections as urnnnniirr Hiiirn This comely -crew set forth fo hand In the harvest of Klamath ath Union high school left school the Levi-Zentner truck. Some per day, good picking in any'maift langusgt.H' .ii .. ." r. tail; CONTJWUE ATTACK Autumn Chill Strikes Stalingrad Front; : '': Soviets Counter 1 By HENHY C. CASSIDY . MOSCOW, Oct. 13 (Weak ened but still attacking, - the Germans struggled to get a fresh offensive going against Stalin grad today whllo red army troops were reported cutting Into several sectors of the Moz- dok area by vigorous counter attacks. Renewal of the. assault upon Stalingrad, after a three-day lull devoted to artillery duels, found both German and : Russian sol (Contlnued on Page' Two) . Mercury . Slides to . 29 Monday Morning "Hey, Momma, where's my longlcs?" . . ; ,Moro than one Klamathlte dug down Monday morning search ing out, Inst winter's underwear as tho mercury slid to a new low for the season, a sharp, crisp 39 degrees. Maximum for tho day wns 87, tho US weather man said. , FloWer gardens were apparent ly unharmed by the cold which followed closely on the heels of Sunday's slight- hail storm. .Flynn said the companies tak en over were the Elk Loading Mills Corp., Klktonj the Kent De fense Co., Chestertown, Md.; and the Mnryland Display and Fire works Co., Elkton. He identified the additional inspectors arrested as A. P. Fnb rlzl and Frank Poughkeepsie, and snld FBI agents wouldtake nil those arrested to Baltimore late today. (At Elkton, acquaintances of Decker said he. had founded the Triumph company about seven years ago, previous to which time he had been founder and manager of the Victory Spark ler and Specialty company.) Tho arrest of Decker, McCam bridgo and Gregory, the White House said, resulted from - an audit by tho renegotiation sec tion of the navy procurement of fice which "uncovered numerous instances of bribery in the Tri umph company "management. , Tulalakt spud fields early Tuesday morning, ready to lend a basin' important tuber crop, for a day's potato picking. They were driven to Tulelake in of these girls wofke oyer tha anfrAc Pine- v f Containers for Key Kollection The . "Klamath kounty. Key Kollection Kampalgn,", design ed for the separate, collection of ,old keys apart from the gen eral metal scrap drive,' went forward today with the -an- J nouncement of theatre lobby , containers established for the -convenience of moviegoers. , . Earl Baughman. manager of Klamath theatres, said that ' boxes are being prominently , ' placed in all movie houses. He said that appeals for keys' i are also being flashed on all theatre screens. Meanwhile, ' Mrs.' Stephen", " Benson, key drive ' chairman, announced that moro ' than 3000 keys have already been . ' shipped to Fulton Lewis; Jr., . radio commentator sponsoring the campaign on a nation-wide . scale. AH keys collected, she said, will be sent to Lewis. Mrs. Benson, mother of Lt. Gordon Benson, believed. to, be a prisoner of the Japa nese in' the Philippines, - dis closed also (that collection boxes are placed In nearly every downtown retail store . and urged shoppers to bring their keys to town with them. "Keys - contain valuable nickel and copper," Mrs. Ben son said, . "and . should be' turned into the key drive rath er than general - scrap- metal piles where they're apt to bo lost." . Mrs. Benson said that ar rangements for - collection of keys from containers are; be ing made. V Welfare Load Now : Lowest In History Klamath county's welfare load Is the lowest since the office was established, it was announc ed, Tuesday by Mrs. Altha Urqu hart, welfare administrator. She . said the office started October with SO cases on gen eral assistance. This is fewer tmtri nt any time since the bu reau was established under the old county relief commission. : - Many of those on general as sistance, she stated, are almost of an age making them eligible for old age assistance. " News Index " City Briefs ....................j.Page Comics and Story ....'. Page Editorial ............;..... Page 4 Market, Financial . ......... Page 4 Midland Empire News Page 0 Pattern ..................Pnge 3 Sports Page' 1 some 48 unaer classmen oi Kianv weekend; and made from 4 to 19 . .' .' Japs S u f f e r . Heavy . Casualties In Two . ' Days -of Fighting ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (ff) The navy announced today that United States marines had-succeeded ' in .enlarging their, posi tions on Guadalcanal island in the Solomon islands during, two days-of offensive, fighting in Which the Japsnese had, "many casualties." .- . - s . ; ' Announcement also was made of ; destruction of -15 Japanese planes, dnmage to two enemy light cruisers and loss of two United States planes in oper stions on October 9 and 11. First Offensive ' The report of the marines' of fensive tied in directly with, a statement today by Rear . Ad miral John S. McCain, lately a naval air commander in . the southwest Pacific, that "We can hold the Solomons and expand them.". It was the first offensive ac tion reported for the marines in the Solomons , since the early days of their invasion which be gan August 7.. 7 ;.'; Announcement of the damag ing of two enemy cruisers raised to 40 the number of Japanese ships which have been reported sunk or damaged during the Solomons campaign and the de struction of 15 Japanese; planes raised - to 260 the ' number of enemy aircraft wrecked In the Solomons. The offensive -operations of the marines were carried out in the. face of considerable enemy (Continued on Page Two) i Enterprise Cuts Water Charges $1.03 Per Acre Enterprise Irrigation district has just fixed its budget for the new year and announced a re duction In charges to the extent of . $1.03 an acre, it was an nounced Tuesday by A. M. Tho mas, .superintendent of the dis trict.',.. .. : The new charge will be ap proximately $6.50 an acre. ; ' Thomas said good collections hnd helped make the reduction possible. The EID recently changed its collection systemi making collections through its own office rather than the coun: ty tnx office. The EID tax roll is no longer turned into the court- 1 house. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 VP) Registration for gasoline ration ing will begin November 9 in all parts of the country except the already-rationed east The office of price adminis tration, announcing this today, said that while car owners in the east need not . re-register, they must, like the rest of the coun try, provide-additional informa tion concerning the tires they own. --.. - Innovations - In gearing gasoline - rationing more closely to the. tire conser vation ."program, OPA -made these, innovations in, the xplan now operated in the east:" -. - '. ' 1. Periodic tire inspections as a. requirement for any. renewal of rations, as well as any ffpplfcS tion for fires or recaps. -"-""'' ' -i 2; Certification that the" appli cant, owns no more than five tires for any vehicle. - 3. Revocation or reduction of ration for drivers who . exceed the 35,mile-an-hour speed limit. Five-Tire Limit. . The registration beginnins Noverabeil.9 will he for "A" cou- ponr'booKs,- .with the " rationing plan to go. into effect November 22.- :v,i '. :.-!', .-"-i. .-Each: applicant i will 7be re quired to list the serial number of ill tlres he owns., If.he lists more - than :- five .tires for each Car, he will ;be . denied an: "A" book until he shows he has dis posed of the excess tires.- u c 2880 Mile Per Year ; OPA said it would announce Shortly -details of; the periodic tir inspection program. - . All car owners .registering tiavl . mraitk ...ill ru.ni..n . " A ' (Continued on Page .Two) : Potato Growers Meet Wednesday In Ceiling Talk WASHINGTON, Oct. 13- () Growers, shippers and wholesal ers of potatoes . from Idaho, Maine, Long Island and other principal producing regions will meet with office of price admin istration officials tomorrow to discuss preparation . of a perma nent price ceiling on potatoes. Potatoes were among the few vegetables Included in Price Ad ministrator Hendersons recent 80-day temporary price freeze, which set the ceiling for each dealer at the highest level charged by him "in the period September 28-October Z. ', After conferences with indus try, representative, in each com modity line, OPA expects to is sue. permanent price ceilings sometime prior to expiration of the 60-day freeze. V Exactfic Naval Air Com "We Can Hold Solomons, WASHINGTON,' Oct. 13 (IP) Rear-Admiral. John S. .McCain, lately a naval air - command in the southwest. Pacific, declared confidently today that "we can hold the Solomons and expand them." McCain," who was called back here to head the bureau of aero nautics, . said he based his belief on evidence that American units in the Solomon island campaign had shown ."sufficient superior ity in -material and men." '. Follows Los Story The admiral, who appeared at a press conference held by Secre tary Knox, reported that In one period, August 21 to September 17, the Japanese lost 133 planes over Guadalcanal-island to . 25 American planes a ratio of five to one. : , . -. McCain's confident appraisal of the situation followed by one day a navy announcement add lnc"thre: haaly. cruisers to the, . Kennell-Ellii. Stanley Woodruff. . member of Klamath Union high, school staff for the put 16 years, was named principal at a meeting of the school board Monday night. Woodruff, replaces Rolla Goold who has reported for duty with the V. S. navy. Dean of Boys Succeeds .Goold; . French,' - Scott Upped , Stanley Woodruff... dean . . of boys of Klamath Union high school . and . now - entering his seventeenth year of service at the- institution,. was elected prin cipal of KUHS at a meeting. of the board Monday night. Wood ruff takes the place of Rolla Goold, who has left for duty with the United States navy. ; Naming of Woodruff by- the school board brought about nu merous changes on the staff, Su perintendent Arnold L. Gralapp stated. Dwight French was named dean of boys and Harold A. Teale takes over the. assistant principalship, this post left va cant by Charles Tilton now at Newport News, R. I.,- with the U. S. navy as lieutenant Qg.) ' Scott Named Coach ! Members of the board grant ed French's request that he be re lieved of duties as head basket ball . coach, and named . Wayne Scott, last year's Wildcat basket ball coach, as head of this depart ment. Teale,' full time auto me chanics instructor, will teach this subject half-day, and the other Half-day will be taught by Lloyd Emery of the English depart ment., A teacher to fill in the English assignment has not yet been designated, according to Gralapp. Mrs. Sally . Louis has been named distributive educntion teacher, the board announced, Mrs. Louis' work will be in the business and clerking field where boys '. and girls attend school one-half day, the, other half employed on working as signments. . Half her salary - is , (Continued on Page: Two) .. reported American naval losses in the savage but successful bat tle two months ago to break Jap anese control of the Solomons. The admiral, whose headquar ters were at the island of Esp'ir itu Santo, 565 miles from Guad alcanal, made two trips to Guad alcanal and he said there were evidences that, the Japanese actu ally were declining in aerial strength in the Solomons 'area. Equipment Shortage -' The type of planes: they were using ;and the speed with which they were making replacements gave evidence of this, he said.". McCain declared. that some of the biplane seaplanes the enemy used "never would have been used there unless they were en tirely regardless of human life or were running short of equip ment." He said that during a raid on September 12 several Japanese bombers and fighters were shot down and that examination of RADIO SPEECH President Says Lower ing Age Limit.' to - 18 Is Necessary WASHINGTON. Oct. 13 W Congressional leaders took President Roosevelt's call for an army of strong . young- men . to carry , the war to the axis as their, cue today for speedy ac tion on legislation to lower the draft age. from 20 to IS. 7 7- The president, in telling tha nation last night , that he .be-, lieved it would be necessary , to ; WASHINGTON. Oct. 13 (M 7 President Roosevelt told press conference today that ' ' the voluntary manpower pre grant was not working satis- , factorily. .. t He gave no indication, how . ever, that any immediate re- ; quest might be made for leg-, illation : to put Job atslgu-. ment on a compulsory, basis. - He aid he had set no' .time limit in which voluntary ef- fort must produce the. de sired results in bringing . ad?- quate workers into Industrie and. onto farm.. .t loweriha .minimum age limit 5 ")w" for selective service to 18, said: i Expedition Pledged -' v "We have learned how Inevl table that is and how import ant to the speeding-up of victory."- . " - Chairman May (D-Ky) of the house military committee,' who previously had said he would have to. be convinced of the need of .drafting younger men, declared - that in the . light of the president's speech -his com ". (Continued on Page Two) r. Flying Forts Pound Tobruk; i Malta Raided CAJRO,. Oct. 13 (fl3) Flying Fortresses of the United States army battered the axis North African supply harbor of To bruk yesterday ; while British fighters held off a second' day of terrific , German-Italian air assault -- on - Malta, -: shooting -down at least 24 axis planes and damaging about 50. The fortresses were said to have scored,' a probable-hit and several . near misses on a: medium-sized ship in the Tobruk , harbor. They encountered anti aircraft ,. fire which, unofficial accounts described as heavy but inaccurate.' ' ' : 777 7. ' T :r. (The Italian; communique acknowledged the. Tobruk raid and claimed, without confirma tion, that three four-engined American bombers were down ed) -: Says Expand Them parts of . these. . planes showed they were "absolutely new" and had just come from the assem bly lines. He said that the lac quer covering looked as if it had been put on only a few hours before and that rubber gaskets which deteriorate quickly In tha tropics' were not at all worn or cracked. V. '"" ';!- "These things-might indicate that the: enemy is. getting short of planes there," McCain aid, "but -if I were down there I Wouldn't count on it." r- . -, McCain replaced Vice Admir al John H. Towers as chief oS the bureau of aeronautics. Tow ers went to the Pacific as com mander of the fleet air force. ; : McCain said that there wer two standards by which tha work of an air bureau chlei should be measured: (1) Efficien cy of equipment, and (2) training of pilots. Excellency, in the air, he commented, was combina tion of those two thing. . . ,
