liggjgjji!giigjigj On B-mlnute blast on sirens and whlitlsi It the signal toe . blackout In Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during a black out, li a algnal lor all-clear. In precau tionary parloda, watch your atraat lights. Octobar 19 High 73i Low 35 Precipitation aa of Octobar 13, 1842 Last yaar .'. ISi Normal ...... At Stream yaar to data ........ .18 Oct. 21, Sunrise 7ilS Sunaat ......,.6iS7 L ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICES FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1942 Number 9621 Id) i N t . . : . By FRANK JENKINS JJEADING norlhwnrd from Sun Diego, along tho beautiful Southern Callfornlu coastline, with its peaceful whlto itucco houses burled In flowers unci greenery nnd tho bluo Pacific beyond. So far os wo know, no hostile shot lins over bcon fired ulong theso shores. Tho pndrcs con quered with the book, rather than tho musket nnd tho cannon. The transfor of California to tho United Stales was effected prac tically without bloodshed. It Is certain there lins never Oboen any fighting hero on a scalo that could be called war. MOW preparation for war dom A limtos this centuries-old peaceful scene. On tho bluffs overlooking tho whlto beaches sentries walk their beats. In tho pleasant residence districts of San Diego, anti aircraft batteries lurk under their camouflage. Overhead great patrol planes soar, their comings and goings so arranged that every mllo of these beaches and tho wntors ex tending out from them Is under constant scrutiny. WTHETHER tha ages-old peace , of California It to bo broken depends wholly upon the enemy. If he COMES, thoro will be Horn . ing war.. - . O CALIFORNIA, from Salinas and Monterey south, Is an armed camp. Practically every town, littlo and big, is a war center. - There are vast sprawling can tonments, Ilka Roborts and Ord. There are bases for tho navy and for the Marines. There are air fields. Thcro are combat areas for all the services. Tho Marines have taken over the old Santa Margherlta ranch, and the training facilities being provided stretch for miles and miles along the beach, tha rail road and tho highway. Military vehicles ore every where, singly, In twos and threes and In convoys. Civilian traffic till moves more or less normally In these areas In daylight, but after dusk the dim-out regula tions limit It sharply. Only pork ' Ing lights enn be used, and as a result night traffic moves ot a O crawling pace. :,- War 1b now the chief business of this whole nrca. TN tho fields beside the rood, harvest gongs are busy. Many of the workers are women. NONE of them aro nttlrcd In bathing suits. Where do tho cameramen got all their pictures of these natty and eyo-filllng farmerettes? A CCORDINO to tho pictures .. ' , In tho newspapers and the magazines and tho ads, tha gals who flock to tho fields to save tho nation's crops have all come straight from the hairdresser and the smart sport clothes shop. These out here In the fields are wenring dirty overalls. As for hair-dos well, they Just simply ;'aln't." There must bo a catch In It O somewhere. . DEANS, boons, BEANS. Field u after field of them. Mile oftor milo of tho fields. Bean harvesters traveling slowly down tho rows fade flnnlly Into the misty distance. If nil the benns grown In Cali fornia this year wore laid end to end, It would take a lot of pork to mako them palatable. It Is seldom Indeed In theso lettuce and milk, vllamlns-for-pop days that the lowly bean can got the nod of complelo ap proval from the dieticians. But they must bo going to do SOMETHING with all these beans. They can't be meaning to Just take 'em out nnd throw ' 'em in the creek. .-.. 'TWERE has been much talk of O rotting crops due to labor shortages. The shortage of farm labor is unquestionably acute. Yet SOMEHOW the crops down , (Continued on Page Two) Fled SPEEDY ACTION DN RECORD TAX FDR To Sign By To morrow Midnight; . Stiff Increases Told WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (IP) President Roosevelt disclosed .to day that he Intended to sign the record tax bill, raising billions in now revenuo, before midnight to morrow. He told a press conference that he hnd to do so In ordor to make excise tax provisions effective November 1. The bill has not reached him, he said, adding that he had treasury and budget bureau of ficials studying It ahd that they wcro trying to put a report on it in English, rather - than In parliamentary language, which anyone could understand. : Stiff Increases The senate wound up work on the measure by adopting a con ference report which, previously naa occn approveq ny a iau to 3 vote by tho house. Senate action was on voice vole..' with .no opposition expressed." : v j ij As It went to the president,. the bill contained stiff increases In the rates of the regular income taxes on both Individuals . arid corporations, plus a new 5 per (Continued on Page Two) Incendiary Fires May Have Been Signal Beacons ' SANTA MONICA, Collf., Oct. 20 (I1) Residents of the exclu sive Mallbu Lacosta area, peo pled by film luminaries, played garden hoses on their homes to day while an army of firefight ers battled a brush and scrub timber flro sweeping coastal slopes between Las Flores and Carbon canyons. Shorift Eugene Blscailuz or dered his arson squad to inves tigate tho blaze, In which five men have been treated for burns and shock. Tho fire, licking at ocean skirting Roosevelt highway at a dozen points, has swept an orca estimated by tho county flro warden's offlco at 1000 acres since It started ' about 3:10 a. m. near the county pris on camp In Las Flores canyon, eight miles north of hero. No buildings have burned, the war den's offlco said. Tho sheriff's Investigation al so extended to three . earlier blazes atop Pnlos Vcrdcs hills, which Deputies W. J. Atto and Sidney Vance said - may have (Continued on Page Two) BILL PROMISED Pierce, Stockman, Others Battle Public Indifference By MALCOLM EPLEY ' Tt was two weeks Tuesday un til tho general election, and can didates wore beginning to pa rade into Klamath county In an effort to break through the bar rier of Indifference that thus far has marked the public attitude toward everything political this fall. That grizzled veteran, Walter M. Pierce, spent Monday and part of Tuesday luring votes in Klamath county. His, towering opponent, Lowell Stockman, will bo hero in a day or two to spend several days campaigning. Bob Farrell, Portland attorney and legislator who aspires to suc ceed Earl Sncll as secretary of state, spent Tuesday In tho coun ty. Hero also was Clarence Hyde, Eugene, who wants to be labor commissioner, s. Yet there ! were- few visible ine HtMUnbro Banner Bond . '.AVi. 4 rrf rv.' . 't.i,U,,6 - ' I Thua lodtf lod Harnld and Naws newsbofaln a. .wAi.boad. ancf stamp stllintf eonteit that brought In. I total oJ I1429.3S in salts for all participants. Glann Lambart, jr., lafb tooJe. Jlrrt honors, with sales totaling S284, and Willis -Griffith, right, was a strong second with $263.50. Herald' and' News newsboys ' won warm praise from Andrew M. Collier and vice chairman, respectively, of tha county war sarlngt com mlttee. for their war saying efforts. V .' . - v- TEENJiGE DRAFT Protective R e s t r i c tions for Youths Foreseen By JACK BELL . WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (IP) An influx of protest mail spur red movement among senators today to surround the proposed military draft of 18 and 10-year-old men with protective restric tions for their schooling, train ing and off-duty activities. Letters from mothers protest ing against the Induction of their youthful sons and complaining about interruptions In their stud ies were reported piling up on legislators' desks, as well as pet itions from organizations urging that , army camps, be Insulated against liquor and vice. Adoption Seen . , ; The 'senate has scheduled con sideration Thursday of tho draft legislation, already passed over whelmingly by the house, and (Continued on Poge Two) stirrings of political Interest.' Po litical meetings are generally poorly attended, and candidates Join in tho pleas to people to vote' on Tuesday, November 3. One of the lightest general elec tion votes In history is predicted for that day. Congressman Pierce loud-pedaled his seniority rating In ap pealing for votes in this county in a talk given at , a meeting held In Fremont school, attend ed by about 150. . ... .. He said that if reelected he will retain his "high place" on the agricultural committee, whore ho Is chairman of the sub-commltteo which handled wheat and forestry. "I alone can hold the strong position which now belongs to this district." warned the congressman. He said he wants to continue the (Continued on Page Two) . i - Salesmen and'-' J. t yarn" Owanl, chairman Caialina Flying Boat Bags Sub Hear Iceland LONDON, Oct. 20 (AP) The United States navy's air force operating, from- Iceland' has made its first definite claim of a U-boat kill, reporting the accurate bombing of a submar ine by a Catalina flying boat. the British air ministry said to day. A few hours after the bomb ing, ' the report said, the U- boat s crew, of 52 abandoned their ' sinking submarine and went aboard an Icelandic fish ing boat. 'It said an allied de stroyer later captured them.. The report by the air min istry's new- service said the Catalina . caught the U-boat on the surface and its fliers saw the Germans . in' the conning tower gesticulating wildly. Accurately placed, bombs threw up columns of .water on . (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Troops on ' Way to Persia, Russia, Report LONDON, Oct. 20 0P) Reu ters reported today in a Stock holm dispatch that "Ankara re ports received by the . German- controlled Swedish news agency said United States troops which arrived in Syria were being sent to Persia (Iran) and Russia." . The dispatch added that the Americans mainly were ' troops trained for mountain warfare in special Arizona training camps. (There has been no confirma tion from any' allied source of reports of arrival of American troops-In Syria which have been circulated the last few days by axis sources, along with advices, also without ' confirmation, of American ' troop arrivals In Li beria, on the west coast of Afri ca.),..; .-.' 530 Axis Subs Sunk, British Say. "LONDON, Oct. 20 (JP) Brit ain has "an actual record of at tacks which have resulted in the sinking or damaging of over 630 axis submarines" since the war began, A.' W . Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, asserted to day. , . . . . I - 'A V v" I ten ,. LARGE SCALE ASSAULT ON Weather - Caused Lull Broken," Siege 'in . 57th Day . . '. By The Associated Press .' . Swarms of: German dive bombers and fighters: resumed a full-scale assault on - btaun grad today after cold rains-had driven them from the skies in a short foretaste of winter, but red army headquarters declared the Russians still held - their lines unbroken, for, the past 36 bout& ' ;. As the storm subsided, the German Transoceen news agency asserted that - only a few square kilometers" of Stal ingrad was left in soviet hands. Reds Reinforced ' German . military quarters, however, emphasized that "the tenacity of soviet resistance was evidenced rather by the number of "(street) barricades and other positions-' obstinately defended b,y tb' enemy tian by. .th area of,,th eHy not-yet'irt German 'handiv: .:;t ,': , , - '.. y,.v; Sovlet'reports-sald- that'-tupi plies and troop reinforcements continued to reach defenders of the ruined Volga metropolis and that- German long-range guns were heavily shelling "the river' in an attempt to interrupt the crossings. ' ' '. .): It was the 57th day of siege. German field ;' headquarters asserted that nazl troops had occupied another" block of houses in the northern suburbs and said mopplng-up operations "In the grounds of the gun fac tory 'Red Barricade' " were continuing. . In the South , T. . The soviet command made no mention of fighting ' along (Continued on Page Two) i , Lynchings in Mississippi to ; Be Investigated ; WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (iP) Attorney General Biddle ordered the federal bureau of investiga tion today to 'investigate the three recent lynchings in Mis sissippi, and declared that "re lentless prosecution will follow,", if a case is developed. . - ; Two 14-year-old negro., boys were hanged from, a - railroad bridge near Meridian on October 12 after confessing an attempted attack upon a 13-year-old, white girl. They were taken from the Quitman, Miss., jail. - ' The third lynching occurred Saturday in Laurel, Miss., when a mob stormed the Jones coun ty, Miss., jail and removed How ard Wash, 43, after his conviction on a charge of . murdering his dairyman employer. The jury had disagreed on whether Wash should have death or a life pris on term, which made a . life sentence mandatory. Ramspeck Proposes Time-And-Half Pay Waiver Amendment WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 () Voluntary agreements between labor unions and management, for work as high as 56 hours at "straight time," would be per mitted under a proposed amend ment to the fair labor standards act prepared for introduction to day by Rep. Ramspeck (D-Ga.);-The. amendment, effective only during wartime, , would al low voluntary waiver of time-and-a-half pay, with the regular rates applying to hours worked over 40 hours, up to 56 hours. V Ramspeck, t h e ' democratic whip, said he was convinced .the amendment would alleviate local manpower emergencies and pre vent many -non-war industries from elosinc down. ,r GTYRESUMED Silver Stars to n m ) i - Norman, 24 (left), and Carl Morton,' 22, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Letter Biehn of. Oakland, and two of 250 American airman 4o ly. Both Klamath men -received action. . '-.''. ' ' : ' Three Klamath Youths Now Wear Silver Stars ; ; The silver star for gallantry in' action' has been awarded two Klamath youths, Norman and Carl Morton Biehn, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Biehn of Oak land and formerly 'of this city. Wqrdof ; the awards' capie to frierds arid relatives ot the two bovi this past weekend. ' Norman, 24, anaCaxJ. 22. born in Klamath Falls as were -their parents, have served in the Unlt ed'States army for the past'three years. . For several months they have been in the South Pacific war zone and were two. of 250 American" airmen awarded "the decoration - by Major i General George C. Kehney; acting for General Douglas MacArthur. Although details of .their ac tions are not known, it is under stood, that the two, members of bomber crews,, were in,c6mbaL Carl is understood to have taken over .when the gunner was shot and carrying on until the bomb er reached home base. , Norman is said to have brought - the bomber back to base after the pilot in his ship was wounded. in combat. . Both young men hold the rank of staff sergeant, radio operators, : United States - air corps.-. -'-' - ' - i - - Awards were given by- Major General ' Kenney, Southwestern pacific air forces commander, in a ceremony held on a runway of (Continued on Page Two)- , Copelarid ..Lumber Fire Loss Held -Near $33,000 ST. HELENS, Ore , Oct. 20 (JP) Loss in-a -fire at -the Copeland Lumber company here last night was estimated at $33,000 'today. Manager R.- B.: Holbrook. said $18,000 worth' of lumber and 90 per cent of the building was de stroyed.. .. He said the blaze started about 7 'p. m., apparently in an oil room, and suggested a dropped cigaret might have been to blame. - . v ' Laval Hints Use of Force To Send Workers to Nazis LONDON, Oct. 20 (IP) Pierre Laval defended his . policy of sending French . labor to Ger many today in. a radio speech in which he declared he would tol erate no resistance and gave workers the choice of going vol untarily or being sent by force. -Little more than an hour after Laval's broadcast Gen. Charles DeGaulle, head of. the fighting French, said in a radio speech from London that they are "en gaged in a revolt against the treasonable leaders of Vichy." DeGaulle called for still greater resistance to Laval and . his course of collaboration. .. Laval urgently renewed the appeal which he made last June 23 for French workers to help fill the gaps in Germany's labor ranks. The chief of government told his countrymen . that Germany 1 i These Boys Kennell-Ellis. formerly of Klamath Falls, ware be decorated In Australia recent the silver star for gallantry in -FOR Furloughs for Factory Work May Help La bor Shortage V,WASHJNGTONvi:6ct26 (ff) President Roosevelt, said, toddy he ' imagined that some older men now in ' the : army who would be useful in war pro duction would be furloiighed rather than, kept in' combat, di visions in uniforms. . ,' . ' ' ' , The; chief executive remark1 ed at his press conference that on , his . recent inspection ' trip around the country he had seen men ' 35 -or' 40 . years ; old : at camps who . would ' have been much' better off in a munitions factory than marching 25 miles a -day with full equipment; ! ' Yet, he replied to a question, there still are some men who are physically fit at -40 who might have to be, drafted for the armed forces. -.The president, discussing var-(Continued-on Page Two) . Italian Regiment o Mutinies When Ordered to Russia - LONDON, Oct.: 20. ; (PH-Reu-ters reported today under . an "Italian frontier" dateline that an . Italian Alpinl regiment had mutinied at Gorizia, in northern Italy, when- it was ordered to the. Russian front. The British news agency's re port said the ringleaders of the reported uprising were shot by the .fascist military and that the troops were embarked, forcibly without arms. TOBRUK RAIDED CAIRO, Oct. ; 20 (IP) United States heavy bombers again at tacked axis shipping at Tobruk yesterday and scored direct hits on at least two large merchant ships, a United States army com munique said today.- had issued decrees which "en able her to mobilize labor in all countries she has occupied." ': : . And, he added, ominously, "the Germans , have - sustained heavy losses." -It would be better,- he told the workers,- to leave France : Vof their free will instead of being forced to do it." Emphasizing that France was in a ''desperate situation, "Laval asked all Frenchmen to "share the burden of the German de mands." He asserted that Germany had released 600,000 prisoners. ' (This figure, approximately one-third of the original total of French prisoners captured by the Germans, Is larger than any previously made public.) : Laval then disclosed that he had made an agreement with (Continued on Page Two) YANK ALIEN BOMB GUADALCANAL Japs Concede Victory Still E I us iy e ln Pacific WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (JP) , The navy announced today (.hat American air forces have renew ed bombing raids on enemy troops and installations on Guad alcanal island in the Solomons and on Klska Island in the Aleu tian islands. - - It added that no report' had been received of any offensive) action- by enemy troops againrt American positions on Guadal canal since the Japanese made their October 15 landing. Enemy warships and auxiliar ies in large numbers were still reported in the Solomons areas but there have been no further : enemy landings on Guadalcanal, the navy said. .' -, Rakata Bay Bombed In the Aleutians, the navy re ported, army bombers dropped 12 tons of bombs on enemy in stallations and a beached ship in the ; harbor. On October 18, Washington date, fires were re ported in the camp area. -. The navy's communique also reported additional bombing at tacks by army Flying Fortresses which started fires around Reka t hay jpjJhjyBMUtePacrflc. " By. ROBERT. D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor .- Japan -conceded that - victory was still far out of sight in the battle of the Pacific . today as American warships were official ,V; , (Continued; oh Page Two) -. Pelican Bay Moves Scrap Out To War Milk A' huge' shipment ot serap .metal has just been completed , by the Pelican Bay Lumber . company, and . more tonnage : from this source will soon be. moving , to the .war mills, it was- learned Tuesday. -. . 1 Pelican Bay loaded out 23S tons of valuable scrap in a series of shipments concluded lost weekend. . : Harold Morteruon, presi dent of Pelican Bay, said the . company may be able to ship another ; 100 tons . within a -week. ..'. - .- Robert McCambridge, coun ty salvage chairman, said that Klamath county has until Saturday night to get In . weight certificates in the state scrap contest. ' .; , - : PORTLAND, Oct. 20 (AP) . Oregon claimed first place In the scrap collection drive this afternoon after Frank N. (Continued on Page Two) Daylight RAF Raids Strike at German Cities LONDON, Oct. 20 VP) The RAF attacked targets in Hannover, Wilhelmshaven and Bremen in daylight today, it was announced tonight. . . . The air ministry: communique said: ; v.: "This afternoon Mosqultos of ' the bomber command, flying singly, attacked objectives near Hannover and Wilhelmshaven and also at Bremen where bombs dropped from low level were seen to burst in the center of the city. . ,. . , -1-' ;'" "One of our aircraft is miss ing." - ' - - Mosquito bombers are the RAF's new swift attack planes which already have been used effectively in daylight sweeps against occupied France and Norway. News Index City Briefs ....; ...........Page B Comics and Story..., Page 10 Editorial ;..;............L......Page 4 Information ..Page . 9 Market, Financial .....Page ' 9 , Midland Empire News... Page - 8 Sports .... .......... . Page 6, 7