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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
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
PRICES FIVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1942
Number 9621
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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.
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'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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. , . . . .
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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
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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. . '-.''. ' '
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Comics and Story..., Page 10
Editorial ;..;............L......Page 4
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Market, Financial .....Page ' 9 ,
Midland Empire News... Page - 8
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