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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
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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. . . ,