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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
Dncambnr 1, 1943
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MEUBEB AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION
WRA and Land Use
IN a review of projects being prosecuted by the bureau
I of reclamation, the war production board makes the
following comment:
Klamath Project, Oregon-California. (Construction it
In progress on irrigation facilities for 22,000 acres for a re
location center for 16,000 Japanese evacuees. The work is
being financed by the War Relocation Authority.)
Reading this note in a WPB release, we were prompted
to make further inquiry to determine to what extent the
war relocation authority is entering the farming business
here on a permanent or semi-permanent basis.
We learn that the reclamation bureau and the WRA
entered into an agreement some time ago with regard to
development of facilities for farming land within the WRA
project area, but the local and regional reclamation of
fices are now seeking an amendment to that agreement
The purpose of the amendment is to open the way for
the reclamation bureau to proceed with the construction
of irrigation facilities on land which comes under the
Modoc unit, to be developed for permanent cultivation
as a result of the tunnel and pumping project.
The reclamation bureau has found the WRA has no
. priorities and is not prepared to proceed with this work.
, The WRA has constructed only a few drains in the "inter
national settlement" tract which it has farmed this year.
The reclamation bureau will develop this and other areas
with laterals, drains and ditches, for leasing as a part
of the Modoc unit program once the WRA is out. of the
picture and the WPB permits the bureau to go ahead.
The WRA has farmed only about 2700 acres this year,
and does not intend to farm more than 3700 acres, ac-
cording to current reports. There is nothing permanent
about the WRA program, and once the war is over, it
. is expected the evacuees will be moved out. and the land
will then be taken over by the reclamation bureau for
use according to the original plan.
Apparently, the early plan of the WRA to use some
20,000 or 25,000 acres of Klamath basin land is not to
go through a condition that will be generally pleasing
to the population of this basin. From the start, the public
here has taken the attitude that the Japanese evacuees
should tie moved out of here as soon as the war is over,
and that the WRA program should not be permitted to
interfere to any extent with the orderly development of
uie reclamation project.
SIDE GLANCES
com, mt n t tirvy t. nc t. w. te! li a, mt. art.
"Now you'll jusl have to clean up that cellar! With a .
man meter inspector it was different, but I'm not going .
.to have a woman seeing any part of my house thatturtyl j
News
B
By PaulMallon
.... Tax Statements
"SNCE again the auditors suggest that complete state'
ments of taxes due on current and delinquent rolls
oe sent out to taxpayers. Such a plan has obvious ments,
and putting it into effect should not be delayed further,
It would not only be a real service to taxpayers, but it
would pay for itself by stimulating the prompt payment
oi taxes: .
Sending out statements of the amount owed is almost
universally practiced. The federal government does it on
income taxes after the first returns are made. Business
does it. Why not the county of Klamath? Judge Reeder
nas said ne hopes the plan can be worked out this year.
do ao we.
Unexploded Bombs
' By HAROLD T. FRANEY
Hud of Police) Division. Civilian Dsfanu
During the day of June 6, 1942, in the Elephant and Castle
nwirici in j-.onaon, an explosion look place for no apparent rea
' ton at all, and 19 persons were killed and SB iniurpd. Artr a
tareful investigation it was shown that a bomb had dropped at
mis spot, a year Deiore ana Dunea itself, and, having been unable
to locate the bomb at that time, the evacuation of the area was
finally called off and the bomb abandoned. A year later it sud
denly exploded. This was an exceptional case as the delay is
uBuaujr nut uver no nours; dui au uau s are unpredictable.
It is not only the killed and injured, it is the effect that this
tort of thing has upon the morale of the people, in not knowing
when a bomb that has buried itself will explode a sudden and
viuiem explosion inai you cannot anticipate and it will have a
very bad effect on the nerves of people and will cause panic and
(ij'oi.eixtii
About 10 Der cent of all hnmha that full v.,,-., 4i..-i
m he eartn some are duds and some are delayed action, and
w I "1"cu no one can le"i so tney must all be treated alike.
It is the duty of every civilian to report all suspicious holes
in the ground and objects on the ground, to his air raid warden
and to then keep away from the place, and also to be sure not
iu F;ii up any oojecta lying around any object that he or she
may pick up may be the one thing that makes it possible to de-
'"r"" U,H ot oonzD we are up against. Bomb reconnaissance
officers are trained to tell from the evidence at the scene what
mti . a ' hW deep 8nd wnat t0 do about U- The armv
n.w w wjc filial .removal,
.,iTi?!? ti civilian war- a w directed against the civilians,
. mak,e. " necessary for everyone to be a soldier or a
iu trcu-uuense. During tnis war, including the Chinese
....... ... uu ule nporiance oi civilian defense.
Two Escaped
Soldiers Arrested
In Roseburg
CAMP WHITE, Dec. 1 (IP)
Army officers here announced
today that two soldiers who es
caped from the post hospital
early Friday morning were ar
rested yesterday by Roseburg
police.
The two are WiUUm I. Bry
son and Joseph Demoia. Of
ficers said their escape was with
out incident.
Lieut. Kennnfh A T ..!,...
public relations officer. M
Women of Moose
Plan Benefit
Pinochle Party
Women of the Moose are mak
ing plans for a benefit pinochle
party to be given Thursday eve
ing at 8 o'clock in the Moose
hall. Proceeds will go toward
a fund for a needy family includ
ing a mother and two young
children who are destitute.
All members of the
tlon, their husbands, friends and
neighbors are asked to attend v,
the committee in charge.
orjson hadj. been under guard vlously,
in connection with a knlflns at.
fray in Ashland 10 days pre-
TS7ASHINGTON, Dec. 1 Prac
tically every important gov
ernment agency having anything
ao wnn tne viui shipbuilding
end of the war has privately
protested to Mr. Roosevelt
against the action of his own na
tional labor relations board, (not
war labor board) in the Kaiser
shipbuilding case.
Complaining government au-
uionties include none less than
7 WPB's Donald
Nelson, Presi'
dential Advisor
Isadora Lubin,
the navy de
partment. Ad
miral Land and
his assist-
ants at the mari
time commis
sion. They did
not see how an-
other govern-
to
Paul Mallon
ment bureau could do this
the war effort.
If there was one employer
and one group of unionists in
this war of production who have
stood out above all others, it is
Kaiser and his workers in three
west coast shipyards.
If there are any 40,000 work
ers in the country whose contin
uous and undistracted attention
to their jobs is needed above all
the others in a war where the
front lines In Africa, Guadalcan
al and New Guinea must be sup
plied daily across vast seas, it is
Jvaiser s 40,000 men.
But here comes the national
labor relations board actually
promoting a labor dispute in
those yards. It accepted and or
dered hearings on a complaint
maae by the CIO,
The yards are 100 per cent un
ion, au organized under AFL.
with a closed shop. Not only
that, but they are producing ef
ficiently, with such record
breaking performances as the
building and complete equipping
of a ship in eight days.
LAND WAS
OVER-ENTHUSJASTIC
The only question involved is
whether the CIO should be al
lowed to muscle in on the AFL's
war business there.
The CIO side of the storv Is
that Kaise"r had to droo about
7U0 welders, who were CIO men
because they would not join the
AFL, and that the remnants of
an old independent union of
welders, who went on strike out
mere a year or so azo. is anti
AFL but must work under AFL,
an 01 wnicn is no doubt true.
The AFL says the weldine and
CIO group amounts to no more
than 2 per cent of the total num.
ber of workers.
But if the percentaee was 20.
40 or 80 per cent, there could be
more unpatriotic vicious-
ness than in starting a labor dis
pute that would agitate these
successful workers at this time
in violation ot tpe labor stabili
zation agreement for shipyards.
no aoubt this is the tvpe of
union organizer Admiral Land
nad in mind in New York when
he over-enthusiastically said he
would like to shoot some. Shoot
ing It the usual penalty for trea
sonous acta. But )n this cage Ad
miral Land would be reauired
by the facts to shoot the nation
al labor relations board als o,
with water pistol at least.
v
NO BETTER RECORD
Of the great new independent
thlpbuilders in this war, first to
disappear by government action
was Higgins in Nw Orleans. He
was 100 per cent AFL and the
country sang hit praises.
B y government direction.
.(shortage of metal, they said) he
was put out of the shipbuilding
business, and now he hat an air
plane contract.
Mr. Kaiser's troubles with the
government seem to be following
u similarly peculiar line.
Some people scoff at Kaiser's
records of ships launched in rec
ord-breaking lime. It it true the
parts are all pre-fabricated and
only assembled, but the assem
bly system he has devised could
be continuous if pre-fabrication
work could keep pace with him.
At least, no one has a better rec
ord. If anything was needed to fi
nally extinguish the national la
bor relations board, which hat
been dead anyway since the war
started, thit should do it,
IN THE BACK DOOR
Messrs. Bill Green and Phil
Murray were called into the
White House like a couple of
walking military secrets to get
the news Interior Secretary Har-
01a lcKes was to be the new la.
bor secretary. They went in the
oacK aoor. .
Mr. Roosevelt did
them about hit choice. He told
them. The idea, therefore, was
the president's- own. which u nil
right in a technical way at the
cabinet is hit personal business,
although his selections must be
confirmed by the senate.
If Mr. Green had his fingers
lightly crossed when he went
?,V he. did not eVbit "em.
While Ickes has xeemeH n l...
ClO-ward in fiis political activi
ties, the AFL had no trouble
with him when he hanrilni h,
public works administration,
dealing largely with AFL unions.
And, after all, the appointment
m any male adult would mean
that the labor department of this
Buvemment .Would cease to ba 1
women's and children's bureau,
and assume the imnnrtanf. .
Jabor ministry, even f it did not
nanaie manpower and qraft.
Nevertheless,, you will have
to give any polftical .observer
here large odds if you want to
u mat jch-es, within six months,
has not called everyone in both
jne Ati, ana cio every word In
the dictionary and a few more he
uiaae up.
Either that, or he win oi. 1.
bor such a thoroughly political
administration as to deprive the
government of any pretense of
aimuae on tne sunieef
or DUin.
BOSTON
FIBE HAZARD
HELD NHiL
BOSTONi Dec. 1 (iP) Only
eight days before a flash tira
cost the lives of 440 men and
women in the Cocoa mi t Grove
night club Saturday night, a
Boston fire department Inspector
examined the premises and pro
nounced conditions "good."
The Boston committee on pub
lic saiety announced the new
death toll figure, decreasing its
previous total of 484, after check-
ing and rechecking the list of
dead it has built up since the
tragedy. The committee said all
but five of the victims had been
identified four women and one
man and at the tame time
placed the number of injured at
173.
Condition! Good
Inspector Lieutenant Frank J.
Llnney told an inquest yester
day of visiting the club Novem
ber 20.
He testified that he had re
moved parts of artificial palm
trees decorating the club and
'struck a match to them."
"You were of the opinion they
were not inflammable?" Fire
Commissioner William Arthur
Rellly asked tho stocky inspector.
"They were trcutcd, I'll say.
treated to my satisfaction," Lin-
ney replied. He added that there
were a suuicieni numoer 01
exits."
Other witnesses testified to
the speed with which the flames
raced from one end of tho club
to the other, and some testified
that four of the six exits were
locked.
Balloon Barrage
Malpractice Suit
Dismissal Upheld
By High Court
SALEM, Dec. 1 () The slate
supreme court affirmed today
Circuit Judge James W. Craw
ford of Multnomah county in his
dismissal of a $10,000 malprac
tice tuit brought by Mrs. De
borah Horn, Portland, against
tne National Hospital association
Mrs. 'Horn charged she was
subjected to great suffering be
cause doctors affiliated with the
association failed to discover
she had gallstones.
The court's decision, by Jus
tice Brand, held that failure to
diagnose the condition was not
necessarily responsible for her
rr physical condition, and that
was doubtful whether she
could have submitted to an oper
ation even if the trouble had
been diagnosed.
Courthouse Records
Services Held for
Tokyo Bomber
PORTLAND, Dec. 1 UP)
runerai services were held here
yesieraay for Lieut. Robert S.
Clever, one of the Tokyo bombers.
itie Z7ryear-old Portlander
was killed jn a recent army
uuinoer crasn in Ohio.
Mayor Earl Riley safd the city
would erect a memorial in his
memory.
FUNERAL
AUGUSTA 8CHUPEHT
Friends are respectfully invlt.
ea to Biiena tne funeral serv
for 'the late Augusta Schubert
who passed away in this e(ty on
Saturday, November 28, 1942, to
be held Wednesday mortjing at
Sacred Heart church. High street
at Eighth, where a requiem mats
will be celebrated for the repose
of her soul commencing at 9:3Q
o'clock with the Rev. T. P.
Casey officiating. Interment
will follow in the family plot
in Mt. Laki cemetery. Raelta
tion of the mott hejly rosary will
be conducted Tuesday evening at
8:00 o'clock in the chapel of the
Earl Whitlock Funeral home.
Pine street at (Sixth, with the
Rev. T. P. Casey officiating.
Friend are invited.
CIRCUIT COURT
- Complaints Filed
E)la Thompson versus Oliver
Thompson. Suit for divorce.
Charge, desertion. Couple mar
ried in Kansas September, 1912.
Fred O. Small, attorney for
plaintiff.
Luey Shadduck versus Harry
Monroe. Suit for damages sus
tained while working for defen
dant. E. B. Ashurst, attorney for
plaintiff.
Fred S. Jones versus Ethel
Jopes. Suit for divorce. Charge
cruel and inhuman treatment.
Couple married in December,
1923. Plaintiff asks custody of
two minor children. Henry Per
klps, attorney for plaintiff.
State Industrial Accident com
mission, versus Fritz R. Vance.
Suit to collect S112.86. Jay H.
Stockman, attorney for plaintiff.
State Industrial Accident com
mission versus Southern Oregon
Well Drilling company. Suit to
collect $165.18. Jay H. Stock
man, attorney for plaintiff.
State Industrial Accident com
mission versus Martin Stoehlcr.
Suit to collect $649.61. Jay H.
Stockman, attorney for plaintiff.
Decreet
Mary E. Simonson versus
George Simonson. D 1 v o r c 0
granted.
Violet Ashby versus Chester
Ashby. Divorce granted.
Justice Court
Ray Floyd Denny. Overload
ing truck and trailer. Fined $30.
ired J. Thomas. Failure to
stop at stop sign. Fined $5.50.
Archlleut A I vie Williams.
Failure to stop at stop sign.
Fined $5.50.
Vincent Joseph Chojnackv.
Failure to procure operator's li
cense. Fined $5.50.
Harmon Blair Cress. Drunk
on public highway. Fined $10 or
five days. Committed.
Alfred Ray Dltton. Driving an
automobile while under the in
fluence of Intoxicating liquor.
Fined $100 or 80 days. Com
mitted. -
John B. Cashin. Failure to
stop at railroad 'crossing. Fined
$5.50.
Robert Esley. Drunk on pub
lic highway. Fined $10 or five
days. $10 paid.
Ruth Butler. Failure to pro
cure operator's) license. Fined
$5.50.
Be Tough, Forget Favors
And Stick to the Rules,
Says East of Gas Ration
By THOMAS A. BOYNTON
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 W) Gnt
ollne or mileage rationing
Decomes nationwide today and
from Pennsylvania to the oil
well regions deep In the heart
or Texas, motorists and the gas
dealers who serve them will
learn lessont and trlckt already
mastered In the east and south
Eastern drivers would recom
mend that rapid adoption of
wartime habit a dead halt to
Joy-riding, formation of active
share-your-ear clubs and the
purchase of but tokens it much
better than attempting to buck
the tide.
Bootleg Dabbler!
If retail gasoline operators of
the Atlantic atatet have any ad
vice for their colleagues in the
west, it might be summed up In
these words: "Be tough, forget
lavors' and stick to the rules.
We wish we had."
Some gas dealers in the At
lantic states have dabbled In
bootleg gasoline and tires, assist
ing friends and customers who
begged for and received "under
standing, sympathetic service'
by accepting their post-dated.
homemade or stolen ration cou
pons. One way or another, their
fingers have been burned.
Seems that everything ran
along fairly well for a while aft
er gasoline rationing began In
the Atlantic states. Then cou
pons No. 1 started to disappear.
Motorists seemed unwilling or
unable to hold themselves to the
curbed mileage.
Prsfiet Roll
It was then that thugs entered
several ration board offices and
made off with hundreds of ra-
tion books. Printing presses be
gan to roll out thousands of
reasonable facsimiles" of the
same. A new business was start
ed, a racket that prospered for
a time. Vast were the numbers
of motorists who purchased sup
plemental ration books from
"Joe" -rfor tlx centt per coupon
ana up.
Even more frequently, the
eastern gasoline dealer fell vic
tim to tales of woe from hit
friends and customers- Why,
they asked, shouldn't he tell
them gasoline, accepting cou
pons Nos. 3, 4 and 5?
Good Btoret .
Surely he could restock his
storage tanks as these coupons
became valid.
Those drivers declared that
"come cold weather" their cars
would go up on jacks (they did
not know that when and U the
automobiles were 'stored they
would be required to surrender
their ration books), but Just now
"my poor old mother in Vir
ginia is sick and needs me," or
1 stand a chance of making or
wrecking my business In this
trip," and ''man, you've got to j From Tho Klamath Republican
Hlamatlt?M
From tha lilet 7- 0- yer
g 090 ond.lO.ca.aj,,!,!,,;
FOR (OLDS' Re'lev enlfflw miucM
'"I..,,,,,,, aehu. The alve with a
COUuHINu, mutton auet bt-e. Gel
nrhlrTP n nl rs?, white Penetro.
rCriBTKU2, double supply ZH.
Thousands Praise Simple
PILE RELIEF
This Quick Easy W.yl
Blmpl, plWa ned Mt nrt td tortvr
you vlth ipj4nliw lth. bum nd IrrlU.
tion. ttort' pyramid flvppopftorl hvlnv
quick. wtoom, rtll,. TmIf T-wgy medita
tion mtana ml enmfort. rHuc atraln.
halpa tlghun rtlMtd mtmbranw. FtnUr
lubrloataa and tofunt. ProUetlv, and antl
rninn. to w to una. tt'a wandaHol to b,
frta of ella tortur, aKaln. Oct ranuln
Staart'a Prramld Sttppoaltorlta at rour Anne
for, without 6!av, aOe and fl.2oea
maker, moomhhmek aniaranley,
help me out!
Hundreds of thounatuls of gal
Ions of gasoline were thus dl
pensed. Today Ihere't double
trouble.
Uncle 8am It Watching
Under the rationing aystem
gasoline retailer must turn in to
his distributor the coupons
gathers at he makes his sales,
lhes entitle him to receive a
equal amount of gns In his tank
as the trucks make deliveries,
But here aro mon who sold four
gallons by accepting coupon:
which now or In tho futuro will
entitle them to receive only
three In return. One quarter of
tneir business volume has bean
"sold down the river" for empty
lavors.
Then there aro these bogus
and stolen coupons. The more
Illegal coupons accepted, the
greater the dealers' chances thnt
icstocklng of gasoline will bo
curtailed. The government is not
taking undue advantage of tho
dealer who has been duped, but
with each four-motored bomber
burning 400 gallons of gasoline
every flying hour, Uncle Sam is
not allowing himsolf to walk In
the dark cither.
Atlantic states' dealers know
now that admission of having
accepted post-dated or bogus
coupons certainly would not
work In their favor. There ore
few "offenders" who are willing
to risk explanation and, if they
don't, scores of them have but
one alternative, major distribute
ors declare, "the padlock on
the front door." This is no lima
to replace "hundreds of thous
ands of gallons of gasollno, sold
py error or sympathy."
But the business has had Its
lighter moments. For instance:
The contract agreed that tho
government could buy gasoline
irpm a certain distributor nt the
rate of 144 cents per gallon, and
Secretary Ickes asked that two
ceptt per gallon be nipped off
me contract price. The distri
butor's telephone rang.
"Have you seen the new Ickes'
order?" came the honeyed voice.
"Yes, and wo will meet It."
taut tne qisiriDuior.
"But, then, how much will tho
gas cost us?" tho young lady
asKea.
"You know, the contract fig.
ure, minus two cents."
"I know, but how much will
that be?" the girl insisted.
"Miss, do you really want mo
to subtract two from 14 s for
you?"
"Oh, yea, please."
"The answer, and please be
lieve me, is 12J."
Friendly
Helpfulness
To Every
Creed and Puna
Ward's Klamath
Funeral Home
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Ward,
Ownert
Wlllard Ward, Mgr.
925 High Phone 3334
Docombi. 4. 1S02
N. S. Merrill was up from
Merrill Tuesday with a fine qual
ity of taimage which he told to
resident! here. Last weak Mr.
Merrill killed 23 hogs and In tha
near future ill have another
lot of sausaga ready for market.
a
Fred Melhase of Fort Klam
ath hot been In town thlt week.
a a
The poslofflce at Pokegama
has been discontinued.
From The Evening Herald
December 1, )S33
Ven. J. Henry Thon.-s, for
seven yenrt missionary and arch
deacon :irier the Episcopal de
nomination in this district, hut
resigned to accept a call to St.
Cloment't church at Berkeley.
Calif.
. e
Sheriff Lloyd Low today de
clared Theodore Jordan, murder
case defendant, was faking when
ho 'claimed he could not walk In
to court yrsterday for arraign
mei t.
Delay In Oregon
Scrapping Denied '
PORTLAND, Dec. 1 (IP) An
appeal denied for delay In the
scrapping of the old Battleship
Oregon. Portland today laid
plans for a farewell salute on
Pcorl Harbor day, December 7.
Senator McNary replied to the
Battleship Oregon committee't
appeal yesterday stating that the
navy refused to delav nlans for
dismantling the Spanish-Amer
ican war drcadnaught for icrap
metal.
ARMY CONSTRUCTION
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 I7P1
Construction of an army alrforce
Installation at Mountain Home.
Idaho, at a cost In excess of
$5,000,000 has been authorized
by the war department. Repre
sentative Dworshnk (R-Idaho)
said today. The work wl ba
supervised by the Portland, Ore.,
office of the army engineers.
There are at manv at 4242
wires In some telephone cablet.
Here's How I Licked '
Wartime Constipation!
It wat eaty after I wat teldH'i
often dug to lack of "bulk"
"Seems k;e t vtf al
ways 'dc-alng' up on
account of constipa
tion. Thst sort of 6tufr
gout a fellow down.
"Then a friend
pointed out that thene
war days were upset
ting our whole wy of
llvlnir. Pai-Hoitlai-ltf In
how we nt. Said I ought to take ear"
my meals were properly belneed--nd
make miro I got plenty of 'bulk.'
Boceuiui lack of 'bulk' li one of tha
common caiues of wartime conitlpe
Uon. Those medicinal laxative, give
me only temporary rellof; tfey didn't
got at the mum).
"But. KELLOHA'a Iit.miw Malitf
fixed 1 me up. It, correct this kind of
cowttpntlon by supplying 'bulk.' And
l tnnten swell, too. Just est It regularly
end drink plenty of water, hi-ma
Is made by Kellogg, in Battle Creek.",
lis
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