M1M
On 8-mlnute b!it on sirens and whlstlei
U the signal (or blackout In KUmath
rlli. Another long blast, during a black
out. Ii a signal lor all-clear. In precau-
llnnnrv narlndl. watch VOur Btraai illlhtf.
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By FRANK JENKINS
nrOO much talk before the war
Is won nbotit what we're go
ing to do uflcr tho war Is putting
the cart before the borne, but
there are some thlnits we ought
to be THINKING nbuul.
One of tlum Is finding Jobs
lor tho fighting mon after they
come buck.
Another is some Intelligent
approach to tho problem of mak
ing wors less likely to happen.
tF we don't find Jobs for tho
fighting men when they come
back, this won't bo the kind of
America wo want It to bo.
Coming homo from tho war
and finding tho Jobs oil filled by
those who stayed at home, and
walking tho streets In search of
work find finding none, MAKES
BOLSHEVIKS FAST.
VE can pass laws to the gen
" cral effect that cmployinont
preference must bo given to tho
men returning irom mo ngni-
lug services, hut Unit- won't be
enough. Laws can bo evaded.
When we've passed a law, we're
too much Inclined to dust off
our hands and any virtuously
"Well, that's taken caro of," and
let It go at that.
Wo mustn't do that to our
fighting men when they como
back from THIS war.
TT hBs been done In TOO MANY
X ...nH. ltUt..i-ir Inlta it. II lift
niiia ..ip.v.j ii.. .o ......
been tho rulo oftcner than tho
exception.
It hus been one of tho world's
bitterest, most burning In
justices. '
CINDING Jobs for the men who
como back from this war wllf
bo largely up to employers
big and little. If EVERY em
ployer will take It upon himself,
as n sacred obligation, to sco
that every man who left his or
ganization to go to war guts
when ho' returns at least os Rood
a Job as ho left nnd a BETTEll
ono If possible, tho problem of
nftor-the-war employment will
bo on IU way to an HONEST
solution,
Much will remain to bo done,
of courso. Wo must work end
work in order to mako good tho
terrible wastage of a global war.
Wo must work together Intel
ligently, Instead of splitting up
Into warring groups and working
against each other, as wo have
been too much inclined to do In
recent years, but It wo sco to it
that every man who has gone to
wnr gets back, whon he returns,
his old Job or a hotter ono wo
shall at least havo made nn hon
est start toward building tho
kind of country wo want this to
bo after this war Is over.
,
JJOW can wo approach, with
some hope of success, the
problem of making wars less
likely to happen?
Hero is a thought:
Wo might follow tho pattern
let for us by tho vigilantes of
our own West,
THE mining camps of tho early
A West wore much Jlko tho
wholo world has been through
out all tho centuries of which
wo havo a historical record,
That Is to say, they wero modo
up of INDIVIDUALS Who woro
(Continued on Pugo Four)
Londoner Gets
Her First Banana
LONDON, Feb. 4 (VP) Eliza
both Taylor, 4, rccolvcd her first
banana today n gift of Britain's
princesses and her only remark
ns sho eyed It dubiously was "do
I havo to cut H?"
Tho banana was ono of some
brought back from tho Casa
blanca conference 'by Lord
Mountbatlcn,
Nazi Dunkerque
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SEA-AIR BLOWS
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14-Perhaps 16-Axis
Supply Ships Sunk
In Medit
Bv Th Aunelntarl Prat
LONDON. KiOl 4 In Hon nnri
olr blows paving tho way for
Heavy Innu assault In North
Africa ,ino allies announced to
dllV thn rtentrilL.tlnn nf 14mr
haps 16 axis supply ships In tho
narrow mia-fticaiicrrancan ap
proaches to Tunisia, whom thn
German-Italian defenso lino was
tested anew for weak spots.
UNtun forces captured a
height known n Hill fl-lfl I n n r
newal of fighting six miles
southeast of Bou Arodu in tho
Jebcl Mansour area, midway be
tween Modzez el Bab and Itoban
an allied communique sold. It
described tho gain, however, as
a limned success."
Ports Attacked
Meanwhile, field dispatches re
norted that thn Amnrlr-,,,, .trltr
Ing forco 'which captured Sened
and dug in a nillo cast of the
town on the rail lino through
Mnknassy to tho coast had taken
prisoner on Italian general.
Allied bombers attacked the
Port of Gabcs and enemy posi
tions near Mnknajuv nnd far mm
of tho few times since the start
of the fight for Tunisia they lost
moro Diane thnn fhnv ,hni
down. Tho communique said
six axis planes wero destroyed
to eight allied plnncs missing.
8th Masses
Strong German forces appar
ently sill held Important Fald
pass on tho central Tunisian
front, Inland from Sfax, where
they had hold against an Ameri
can counter-attack.
Tho British cluhth
pcared to bo massing for its next
ouacK in a correlated squeeze on
tho oxis In Tunisia.
A Cairo mmmnnlmiA i-nnnl.uj
British patrol activity along the
wnoio xiiiyan-Tunlsinn border
front, and nltlinnoli It mnniii.n.j
no specific advances yesterday
uiu iiiiiin oooy oi ticn. sir Ber
nard L. Montgomery's force op
narcntlv wn nltin,, t.i.i....
Plslda, 12 miles from tho fron
tier.
Four smnll
wero sent to tho bottom by al
lien winners irom tho east
which ranged the Tunisian coust
and southern Italian waters.
Crew of Bomber
Parachutes to
Safety in Crash
SPOKANE, Feb. 4 (IP) All
tho members of thn
four-motored army bomber par
achutod to safoty last night be
fore their plane crashed near
Fairfield, 28 miles south of Spo
kane, Copt. Stephen Ogdcn, pub
lic relations officer nt r.ol
Field, disclosed today.
He said the Dlann wn nn a
routine flight from Grent Fulls
Mont.
Two of the crow nwmhpn re
ceived minor Injuries, tho cap
tain said, lull details of tho ac
cident woro not Immediately
avallnblo nnd tho nnmen nnri
number of men In tho crow
wero unreported.
. Tho Wellington Wator Power
company rcnortcd thn bomber
struck a 7620-volt power lino as
it went down, leaving tho towns
of Rockford, Sponglo and Fnlr
flold without electricity for sev
eral hours.
Lake Salary Boost
Goes to Governor
SALEM, Feb. 4 VP) Tho bill
to incrcaso tho salaries of Lnko
county officers and tho South
Lakovlcw Justlco of tho pcaco
was passed by tho sonata today
and sent to Uia governor.
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National Ban on
Pleasure-Driving
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (IP)
Petroleum Administrator Ickes
said today ho favored banning
pleasuro driving throughout tho
nation, with modifications for
places "right In the oil field
country" and places lacking nde-
quato alternative transportation.
Tho ban on pleasure driving in
tho eastern states, ho told a press
conference, should bo extended
to "tho whole country" wherever
It would result In accumulation
of oil supplies needed for essen
tial purposes.
Ickes disagreed with a report
by his oil industry advisory
body, the petroleum Industry
wor council, that the supply out
look offered somo hopo for rc
(Contlnucd on Pago Two)
Three Men Still Mis
sing; Woman Dies
After Crash
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Fob. 4
VP) At least one more of the
flvo men who survived the
crash of the Harold Glllam
plane a month ago and remain
ed In the winter wilderness
south of here-is still alive, a
searching plane radioed coast
guard headquarters today. Two
of them, Percy Cutting, Hay
ward, Calif., and Joseph Tipplts.
Anchorage, were found on tho
beach olivo yesterday.
The pilot messaged that he
saw tho man, whose identity he
could not determine, in a clear
ing four miles from tho Smea
ton Boy beach, Tho man waved
(Continued on Pago Two)
Giraud Frees 27
Political Prisoners
In North Africa
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 4 (IP)
General Henri Honore Giraud
today freed 27 communist depu
ties who had been under arrest
sinco 1940 and tho allied com
mission on political prisoners an
nounced that 003 political pris
oners had been liberated ance
the allied landings.
"There are still SSOO political
prisoners In custody most of
whom aro Spanish republicans
whose cases are under investiga
tion," an official spokesman said.
Definite Floor Prices
Established for Spuds
Government price support and
nn incentive payment, disclosed
Thursday, should hava a "con
siderable effect" in increasing
potato acreage this year in the
Klamath area, County Agent C.
A, Henderson said today.
A wlro received from A. E.
Mcrcker, food distribution ad
ministrator, Washington, D. C,
stated that definite floor or sup
port prices had boon established
for potatoes for 1943.
For the months of September,
Octobor and November, this
floor price for U. S. No. l's will
bo $2. For December and Janu
ary, $2.15. For February, March
nnd April, $2.30,
This wire, received at tho
county agent'a office last night
Is as follows: "Potato floor price
U. S. Is Klamath basin $2.00
September, October, November,
$2.15 December, January, $2,30
February. Mnrch. Anrll. Dime
loss 85 per cent U, S, Is, A. E.
Morckor, Food Distribution Ad
ministrator," " -
Information recolved yester
day from tho agricultural ad
justment administration indi
cated that thf itate of Oregon
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NAZI SHIPS IN
CAUCASUS AREA
Tightening Arc About
Rostov Cuts Rail
Escape Line
LONDON, Feb. 4 M) The
Berlin radio said tonight that
soviet "commandos" h a v
galnad a foothold on the
Taman peninsula leading to
tha Kerch strait after storm
ing ashore under cover of tha
guns of the Russian Black Soa
float.
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (P) The
last axis troops in the Caucasus
were reported today being driven
back toward a Sea of Azov "Dun
kerque" as the red army's tight
ening arc around Rostov cut the
only remaining rail line of es
cape at Kuschevka, where the
shallow Ycya river widens out
to the sea.
(Reports-wero heard In Lon
don that, Russian warships and
planes alreadywerepdunding' at
fleets of German ships hastily
massed in the Novorossisk area
from which the invaders' troops
might be ferried across the Strait
of Kerch to the Crimea).
Rostov itself was menaced
still more sharply by another
Russian column which thrust up
tho rail line from Salsk and cap
tured Kagalnltskaya, SO miles
southeast of Rostov.
To the north, red army forces
pressed their offensive fiercely
to tho west with, gains north of
Kursk, at the approach of Khar
kov, and between Kharkov and
Voroshilovgrad.
(A stepped up Russian offen
sive between the Don and upper
Donets was indicated today in
the German high command com
munique broadcast from Berlin
and recorded by the Associated
Press.
("In unceasing heavy defensive
and mobile fighting against
(Continued on Page Two)
Oregon 1942 Traffic
Death Toll 271
SALEM, Feb. 4 IP) There
were 271 persons killed in Ore
gon traffic accidents in 1942,
compared with 399 during 1941,
the state department said today.
Tho traffic death rate last year
was 8.9 persons killed per 100,
000,000 miles traveled, compared
with a rate of 11.7 in 1941.
is being asked for a 28 per cent
Increase in potatoes over that of
1942. An incentive payment has
been established for potatoes at
50 cents per bushel for all pota
toes In excess of 90 per cent and
not to exceed 110 per cent of
tho goal established for the
farm." This incentive payment,
plus a guaranteed government
price support, should have con
siderable effect in increasing po
tato acreage, in tho Klamath
area," Henderson said.
"Since potatoes are ono of tho
No. 1 war crops for which the
government is asking a tremend
ous increase this year, growers
in the potato districts should
havo their sign-irp completed this
week at the county office meet
ings, the agent remarked.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (IP)
Tho department of agriculture
will support farm prices of pota
toes grown this year at 92 per
cent of tho pnrlty price, instead
of 90 per cent, as previously an
nounced, a spokesman announc
ed yesterday. Farmers are urged
to plBnt 17 per cent moro land
this year to potatoes for war
purposes.
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This photo, published in a, Barlla magaslne, is described by Germans as showing Amarlcsa
troops captured In Africa marching to a concentration camp in Sicily after baing flown across
the Mediterranean. Tha German publication reaches London via a neutral source. .
Five Flying Fortresses Missing After
Daylight Bombing Trip Into Germany
LONDON, Feb. 4 (IPh-Flying
Fortresses raided northwest Ger
many today . and encountered a
strong formation of nazi fight
ers. Five of the big US bombers
are missing.
It was the second time the big
American bombers have carried
the war Into Germany by day
light. In their first raid the na
val base of- Wilhelmshaven and
Emdon shipping industries were
bombed on a heavy scale eight
days ago.
Although the target of today's
raid was not identified immedi
ately, the Americans may well
have made a repeat flight to
Wilhelmshaven, where they de
stroyed 22 nazi fighters in their
first attack.
Other likely targets In that
area are the Kiel canal and the
numerous large factories mak
ing U-boat parts. ,
The size of the raiding force
was not disclosed, but official
word that heavy bombers parti
cipated indicated that Flying
Fortresses or Liberators or
Registration for
Fuel Oil to Be
Feb. 75-17 Here
Registration dates for fuel oil
rationing have been set for Feb
ruary 15, 18 and 17 in Klam
ath Falls, the war price and ra
tioning board announced Thurs
day. The board said fuel oil users
will register "at the schools" but
could give no more specific in
formation on the registration
place Thursday.
Fuel oil users, it was stated.
should now go to their fuel oil
dealers and obtain the registra
tion forms.
Dealers, only, will register at
the war price and rationing
board office, February 12 and 13.
Fuel oil rationing went into
effect as of February 1. Dealers
havo been making heavy deliv
eries to their customers, in each
case asking the customer to fill
out a form showing the amount
of oil received.
Rationing, it is understood, is
to be on the basis of oil con
sumed between June 1, 1941 and
May 31, 1942. Users will be al
lowed 75 per cent of that con
sumption. Japs Claim Heavy
U. S. Losses in
South Pacific
LONDON, Feb. 4 IP) A Jap
anese communique reported by
DNB In a German radio broad
cast today asserted one cruiser
had been sunk, one had been
heavily damaged and 33 planes
shot down in a Japanese attack
on "enemy naval forces' south
of Santa Isabel island last Mon
day. (There was no allied confirma
tion of these claims. Santa Ist'iel
Island is ono of the Solomons
and lies north of Guadalcanal).
The broadcast was recorded in
London by the Associated Press,.
NEA FEATURES
1943
Number
Irk
Germans Say These Yanks Their
both were used. Both had a
part in the dual raid last week.
A Berlin broadcast here de
scribed the bombers as British.
It said they were intercepted by
strong German fighter squad
rons soon after crossing the
western German frontier and
were "compelled to turn back
after sustaining heavy losses."'
Subsequently the Berlin radio
said seven four-motored bomb
ers "of the North American
'Pool" of 6 Million
Persons to Be
Drawn On
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (IP)
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of
the war production board told
the senate military committee to
day the nation would draw upon
a "pool" of 6,400,000 ' persons
this year to meet growing de
mands of the armed forces and
war industry. .
This pool, Nelson told the
closed session, will be made up
of 2,700,000 workers drawn from
less essential industries, : 1,900,
000 women, 800,000 boys and
old men, 500,000 employables,
including physically defectives,
not now working, and 500,000
persons made available by 48
hour work weeks throughout es
sential industry.
Nelson s figures were dis
closed to reporters by Senator
Lodge (R-Mass.) when the com
mittee recessed.
Meanwhile, senate leaders
sought to coordinate several sep-
(Contlnued on Page Two)
Berlin Claims 15
US Paratroopers
Escorted to Madrid
LONDON, Feb. 4 (IP) The
Berlin radio asserted today that
fifteen United States parachute
troopers who landed by mistake
in Spanish Morocco have ar
rived in Madrid by air from
Melilla under guard.
It. broadcast the following,
datcllned Madrid: "It is stated
that they will be escorted to the
Portuguese frontier within the
next few days."-
This suggested that the soldiers
might be released, since trans
fer of military Internees from
one neutral to another would be
at least unusual.
Toledo Lumber
Reaches Solomons
TOLEDO. Feb. 4 (IP) Toledo
lumber has reached Guadalcanal,
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Hawkins
learned today in a letter from
their son, Harry, aviation me
chanic at Henderson field.
Hawkins once worked in the
mill and recognized the familiar
stamp on a 3x 4,
9712
Prisoners
iimv 'Jul .Mimmi.nm
a
type" were shot down In "north
Germany." . . ; -
Royal air force bombers' heav
ily attacked Hamburg last night
in a raid in which 16 planes are
missing, the British air ministry
announced today. . . -
The communique said "large
fires were left burning." . - .
The .north German seaport
previously had b e en bombed
only last Saturday night. -
The British losses indicated
a force of upwards of 300 bomb
ers on the presumption that they
were on the order of 5 per cent.
The raid, the 95th on Ham
burg since the start oi the war,
carried on the RAF's campaign
against' the U-boat by striking
at the sources of Germany's un
dersea power.
Further indications that the
British, and possibly the United
States air force were making
one of the biggest daylight air
offensives of the war came soon
after noon today when allied
bombers and fighters were
heard roaring across the Strait
of Dover. They appeared to be
heading in the direction oi Ab
beville. Holman Drafts
Bill to Relieve
Labor Shortage
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (IP)
Senator Holman (R-Ore.) said
today he was preparing legisla
tion designed to relieve the
manpower shortage in farm and
mine production by releasing
"surplus" federal employes for
combat duty or war industries.
The legislation would authorize
military forces to release per
sonnel trained for vital industry.
By shifting some federal em
ployes who, he said, are now
idling in government bureaus
to combat duty, the number of
men under arms would not be
reduced. . . v
' He said many cases had come
to his attention where "men in
vital production work had vol
unteered for combat service to
avoid the stigma of being draft
ed. 'These men are needed on the
home front," Holman declared.
Nazi Newspaper
Reveals Discovery
Of Arms Caches
; STOCKHOLM, Feb. 4 (IP) A
German newspaper dispatch dis
closed today that rifles, pistols
and other military equipment of
both German and foreign manu
facture had been found hidden
in attics of Essen, indicating an
underground anti-nazi movement
among workers in that arsenal
city.
British aerial, bombardments
were indirectly responsible for
uncovering oi the caches.
The Essen police chief, in a
statement printed by the Essen
er National Zeltung, January 27,
hinted that a widespread drive
to stamp out opposition elements
was imminent, p
rabruarr S High 38. Low 28
Precipitation as of January 20, 1948
Stream rar to data . H,$y
Last year 7.90 Normal 8.40
ENEMY FLEETS
Navy Silent on Contin-'
uing Action at
Sea
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 VP)'
Increased aerial activity in that,;
Solomon islands with two Jap-:
anse raids on American positions -on
Guadalcanal was reported by'
the navy today In a communique,
which told also of American'
planes hitting at the enemy both:
on Guadalcanal and at Munda,
180 miles away.
The communique" gave no re
port on damage in the ' night '
bombing raids nor was any new;!
information given on sea and air."
skirmishing reported previously"
as underway . throughout th
Guadalcanal area,
. The communique, number 271t;
. "South Pacific: (all dates aim
east longitude)
"1. During the night of Feb
ruary lst-2nd Japanese planes.,
in groups of from one to four-,
planes, bombed United States,
positions on Guadalcanal island.-
"2. On February 2nd: "
:'' Jap Attack
"(A) United States ground;
forces on Guadalcanal island con '
tinued the advance .to, the. west'',
and 'Occupied' elevated positions)
west of the Bonegi river. Con1'
siderable enemy equipment was
captured and 39 Japanese were
killed.
"(B) During the night of Feb-:
ruary 2nd-3rd, Japanese planes
again bombed United States posi
tions on Guadalcanal. -.
"3. Details concerning recur
rent engagements between Unit,
ed States air and surface forces
and those of the enemy will not.
be announced as long as such ln
formation might jeopardize tha
safety of our forces in the area
of operations." - ,
Maneuvers Continue
Like two heavyweight boxer
feeling each other out, flicking
tentative but punishing jabs hera
and there, United States and Jap,
anese naval units are maneuver
ing in the southwest Pacific for
a stance irom which to throw a
haymaker. v
From this corner there was
only word that air and surface
engagements "are continuing,"
but it appeared from the navy's
restraint that a titanic struggle ;
was shaping up for control of :
Guadalcanal island with its all
important airfield.
Both Sides Suffer
Naval spokesmen repeated
that both sides have suffered
losses, but one of them empha
sized that "the whole thing is a
sparring for position," with the :
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John Lewis' UMW
Calls for $2 a Day
Increase in Wages
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 VP)
Girding for a showdown on the
government's wage controls,
John L. Lewis' United Mine
Workers today called for a $2
a day wage increase for the na
tion's 450,000 soft coal miners.
The proposed raise, which
would boost the miners' basic
wage irom $7 to $9 a day, con
flicts directly with the war labor
board's "Little Steel" formula
the government's wage yard
stick. ' The formula adopted last sum
mer by the WLB limits Increases,
on the basis of cost of living ad
justments, to IS per cent of the
wage paid on January 1, 1941.'
The miners, in the spring of
1941, won a $1 a day wage in
crease which exceeded the 13
per cent.
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Comics and Story ...Page 10
Courthouse Records Page 4
Editorial Page 4
Farm News - Pago 8
Markets, Financial Page 11 .
Midland Empire News ..Page 8
Our Men in Service Pane 7
Pattern ... - Page 8
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