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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON February IB. 104 PAGE FOUK J , Jm6r of . Tut AociTiti Puu Ttit AMOd.Ud Tnn U oieln. j Wtl Mtlt!) W tilt IM Ot l- aubllutlon of ill dlip.ttfiM crt"Ud to It tf no othtrwlM cndlM to IWi piptr. d iIm tht locul ot publUhnl Ihmui. All rlfhu o rpuMlMtlon ol ptdl dipatrht an lw rt rrtd. i FRANK JENKINS fidfror Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY MANY people have the idea that in cities where there are military installations, tremendous building is under way, while it is -s vv -4 only nuu-nuiiMii jr Klamath Falls, that have seen f?l construction shrink sharply. I tell no sucn story. 1 l t Knnitable Savings and Loan association has compiled a comparative table on Oregon building permits for 1941 and 1942. Only Portland showed an Increase, and that was a mere 1 per cent. The table is worth re-print EPLEY lng. Here it U: OREGON 1942 236,464 13,174 . 112,031 . 191.757 152,830 21,380 274,483 209,707 ...14,210,210 46,725 ... 227.677 Astoria -Baker ... Corvalllj Eugene Klamath Falls La Grande Medford Pendleton Portland St. Helens Salem Tntil nroffnn 15.696.435 rnnmlli. Mmtfnrri. Pendleton. Salem are upstate Oregon cities with military installations nearby. All are in the minus col umn above. Big Contributions IT is true, of course, that Klamath's extensive lumbering and agricultural industries have kept it in the defense picture in this war pe riod. This community would feel the effects of vthe war-time economic adjustments more se . riously were these industries of less importance, and there would be-a depression in civic pride. How vital our agriculture is to the armed forces, for instance, is shown In the quarter master corps' current Interest in our stocks of potatoes. A corps of representatives of the quar termaster's department was here today, and it Is apparent the armed forces are going to take a large part of the No. 1 potatoes left in the Klamath basin from the 1942 crop. Most of the Klamath lumber production is likewise going to war uses, if not all of it. Another point that is sometimes overlooked is that .transportation facilities which are oper ated and maintained in Klamath are a vital link in the war effort on the Pacific coast. Lo cal citizens who volunteered to help on the Southern Pacific tracks last weekend were not only paid in cash but had the satisfaction of knowing that their work was helping to main tain a facility that is a heavy carrier of war material. Regardless of economic Implications, were it not for our lumbering, agricultural and trans . portation contributions to the war effort, peo ple here would feel that the community had been left by the wayside in the war program be cause of the lack of military installations. As things stand, there is no reason for such a feel tag. OPA Gets Going The Klamath district office of the CZce of Price Administration is operating now, although the full personnel complement has not been se lected. The OPA has attractive offices In the Balsiger building. Since the announcement of the formation of the OPA district, a change has been made in the counties covered. Malheur and Harney counties have been transferred to the Boise dis trict. Otherwise, the district covers the counties originally listed. There was some talk of moving Siskiyou and Modoc counties outside the district, because they are across the state line'. This move, we under stand, has been abandoned, and it should be. Siskiyou and Modoc counties are contiguous to KJamath Falls, and certainly the state line should not be permitted to interfere with the operation of a federal set-up such as OPA. The state line separating Klamath county from Its nearby California neighbors is annoyance enough, without letting it interfere unneces sarily In this program. News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 The British have maintained an empire covering one fourth of the land surface of the earth for sev eral years by power upon the; leas. I But this war has already i proved to Mr. Churchill andj parliament that the world of the future is to be an air! world. The ship has become secondary to the plane. The sea empire of the little Isle of Britain, therefore, must become an air empire. So DSrllament ha tnnMw rt voted its attention to vnrlm,. proposals of its air minister, designed obviously Dawson Creek acK After DAWSON CRF.P.K' ra r j 15 (CP) Dawson Creek fought t its way back toward normal to ! day after a stunning firo-explos- ion disaster and scenes of injury and suffering it will never for get. .. . A toll of five dead, at least A temporary eumhlnitlon of tb Evening Hrtld iM the Kltmtlh New. Publtihrd xtr? ttttmxM extvpt flundey at kpUnide and Ptnt ilmU, Kltmith FH. Oreion, bj the Herald Publuhtoc Co. and the Klamath Neva PublUhlng Company Entered eeeond elm tnetter at the potoffW nf kl.m.lh Falla, Ore., Auiit . 06 aader act ol congreu, March , 1879. - ... 1941 419,583 122,209 290,817 1,329,854 636,269 106,945 454,129 712,294 14,029,640 82,818 907,214 43 89 61 85 76 80 39 70 plus 1 43 74 "Are we going in for a peaceful world or aren't we?" Vice President Wallace, who occasionally has been in charge of the post war world for the administration, turned off the allegation in an affirmative manner by observing: "1 am sure that the republican party is not against either freedom of the seas or freedom of the air after the war." The administration, therefore, practically an nounces In this Indirect way that it is preparing something called "freedom of the air," but which appears to be freedom of the land as well. Freedom of the seas went only to the three mile limit off each shore. By immigration, cus toms and port restrictions, each country pro tected its sovereignty against alien Influence i and encroachment. But If commerce is to move in a future world of the air, freedom of the air policy would seem to allow each nation to move its com mercial approaches fully in upon .all other countries. We would not think of allowing the British, the French and others to build railroads across our country, from New York to St. Louis, but freedom of the air would allow them to main tain many through the skies. And, In a world of the future when St. Louis would be only 48 hours by air away from Aus tralia and Russia, that right assumes far more significance than a railroad would. We could control a railroad. . Slipshod Thinking WHAT of immigration, customs and tarifl protections when everyone flies around and lands at will? What of defense? With Brit ain now able to fly parachute troops to Algiers, would this not seem to involve the dangers of giving away a country by giving away its air? The scope of this threat to American sov ereignty has naturally terrified a portion of the American aviation Industry, in on the pro ceedings so far. The conflict' of opinion already has spawned a more moderate group of "free dom of the air" enthusiasts who propose only to carry that freedom up to the three-mile limit. They would have freedom of the air only where the sea is free. This sounds slightly reasonable until you con sider that air routes do not follow sea routes. For Instance, Chicago might be the future im portant world air terminal of the United States, being the shortest distance across the polar air routes from far-flung destinations. Unless the "freedom of the air" was carried right to Chi cago, it would not amount to anything. Apparently, the "freedom of the air" en thusiasts are working on the theory - that the United States has more planes, and, therefore, can get more out of such a policy than foreign nations can get out of us. This seems to be slipshod thinking, because each of the 20 Latin American nations, for instance, could maintain its own airlines into the United States and ig nore ours. Very Peculiar Way ONLY two of those nations are in a position to maintain such a line, but nothing could keep the British or even the nazis and Japs of the future from forming their own com panies among residents of each of these coun tries and flying over us at will. The advantage in any rivalry between the United States and Britain for control of post war air routes would seem to lie with the British. While their air minister is screaming about commercial planes, they have commercial bases throughout the world, whereas we have kept to our own shores largely in the past. The current propaganda sympathy for them may be premature, to say the least. A new subject has been opened in a very, very peculiar way. 19,091,772 17 Astoria and MALLON Fights Way Stunning Fire two missing and close to 150 In jured was counted and smoke still rose from the smouldering ruins of a complete city block, levelled but for a single slruc- lllfA In the Kfifi.rriov n!at catastrophe. Officials estimated Hoi nx . Bruiv Or Cicdxatio XepreaestH Kat.0aa.t7 by Wmt-Hollidat Co., Ijco, tn rranrlieo, Kf York, P a it It, Cbtcapo. PottUnd, Loa Aogelea. MALCOLM EPLEY Jkdnajruif Editor to fulfill this goal. The mistress of the seas must become mistress of the air. Soft-hearted patriots In the United States, whose brains are so pliable that they will not follow the excellent British example and look out for the future of their own country, have started sympathetic propaganda here. Statements have been broadcast that . the United States has been selfish in maintaining its commercial aviation supremacy, because the British are manufacturing mostly fighter planes. Now comes the new congresswoman, Clare Booth Luce, with the serious charge that this administration is now negotiating an air agree ment with Britain for what is called a "free dom of the air" policy In the post war world. The seriousness of the charge was shaded by the glamor of a widely known republican con gresswoman making her first speech, and every one seemed more interested In what she wore than In what she said. Are We or Aren't We? BUT an even graver Importance was given the matter by the response of the admin lstratiqn fo this charge that its secret negotia tions portend a world of the future In which all planes of all nations may fly over any country at will and land wherever they choose. Mrs. Roosevelt's answer seemed to confirm the charge, for she only asked In reply: the damage would reach $350, 000. A boy not yet in his teens was among the known dead. His body and that of an adult were found Sunday among the debris. Neither could be identified im mediately. Other known dead included a United States soldier whose name was not given out, a Mr. Smith of the R. M. Smith Construction company and an other man identified unofficially 'SIDE GLANCES I1' esoo iie Mtu-net, we. t. at aiaV a. eat ort. '"trf "It's wonderful having him is'so busy gadding about we when he s Oregon News Notes By The Associated Press The war manpower commis sion has named the University of Oregon to give basic training in the army specialized program and Eastern Oregon College of Education to give training to army aviation cadets. . . . The Deschutes county court appealed to the federal fish and wildlife service for aid in halting the slaughter by coyotes of deer caught in deep snow in the Cas cades. ... Dismantling of the old battle ship Oregon started at Portland. . . . The army reported the pro motion to Captain Herbert Glals yer, Jr., Salem, now at Chand ler, Ariz. . . . The Oregon Fed eration of Women's clubs nomi nated Mrs. George R. K. Moor- Ranks of Marine Corps Thrown Open to Women; Limited to U. S. Service The ranks of the marine corps have been thrown open to women. The corps announced the establishment of a women's reserve, as authorized by con gress in an act of 1942. Members of the reserve will be called Marines. Nationwide enrollment of women between the ages of 20 and. 50 as officer candidates and 20 and 36 as enlisted personnel will begin immediately under the direction of the newly appointed director, Mrs. Ruth Cheney Strecter, joint donor of the Cheney award to members of as John Kazenko of Spirit River, Alta. Names of the two or more missing could not be learned but search for them was still going on among the smouldering ruins. A minute before the explosion, a Saturday night crowd was watching firefighters and sold iers attempting to stem the blaze. Most of the spectators were un aware of the - danger as the flames neared the dynamite. Then there was a terrific ex plosion. Electric lights went out. People for blocks around were stunned by the blast. Those close by were hurled from their roof-top watching posts. Others were flattened to the ground. Store fronts caved like paper from the concussion. Windows all over town shattered and buildings at Pouce Coupe, B. C, six miles south, were shaken to their very foundations. The blast sent a fiery column 250 feet Into the air. Flaming debris struck the stunned crowd, Injuring and burning many. Mackinawed men mostly con struction workers from the north crawled stunned along the ground because they could not walk. Waitresses ran scream ing from cafes across the street, their clothing in tatters and blood streaming from their faces cut by flying glass. Nine persons two of them described as seriously hurt were flown to a hospital at Ed monton Sunday by a United States army plane quickly con verted to a flying ambulance for the purpose. Nothing would so alarm the world and make another war more certain than to try to cre ate a post-war exclusive British American plan. British Chan cellor of the Exchequer Kings lcy Wood. He (FDR) took us in over the citadel in Haiti without trouble, just from his memory of the in lets and trails. Capt. Howard M. Cone, FDR's Casablanca pilot. home on furlough, even if he only gel u good look at him I in bed! head, Salem, as the only candi date for president. . . . A Camp Adair soldier, An drew E. Pinco, was charged with rape and held in the Linn coun ty jail under $5000 bond after a 24-ycar-old Salem woman told police she had been attacked in Albany. . . . The 84th anniver sary of Oregon's admission to the union was observed Saturday in Portland in the annual banquet of Sons and Daughtors.of Oregon pioneers. ... William Walsh, father of State Senator William E. Walsh of Coos county, suffered a broken shoulder and fracture of five ribs when struck by a hit-run driver in Salem. . . . Near Portland an automobile-truck collision killed Clifford McGill, 38, Gresham, and seriously injured his mother and another passenger In his car. I the army air corps for acts of valor and former chairman for Ft. Dlx of the Citizens' Commit tee for Army and Navy, Inc., Mrs. Streeter will hold the rank of major In the marine corps. The Women Reserves are to be trained in schools already established for navy Waves at majoh women's colleges through out the country. Later, they will be assigned to marine corps training centers, posts, and sta tions, replacing men fitted for active service with fighting units. By law, women reserves will serve only within the contin ental United States. The women's reserve will In clude both commissioned officers and enlisted personnel. Ranks and pay will be the same as those for men of the corps. It will be possible for women to work their way up through the enlisted ranks and into the com missioned grades, Major Streeter said. Applicants for officer commis sions must be between 20 and 50 and have a college degree or two years of college and at least two years of business experience, or special qualifications in a particular field. Enlisted personnel must be be tween 20 and 36, have at least two years of high school or bus iness school education, or special qualifications in a particular field. Both married and unmarried women are eligible for service. But no married woman with children under 18 years of ago will be accepted, and no woman married to a member of the marine corps can serve. The duties of the trained women- reserves will bo varied and many. They will include administrative, clerical, steno graphic, photographic, labora tory, aerographic, aircraft me chanic, and parachute rigging as signments. But Major Streeter stressed that applicants need not have specialized training in order to volunteer. The corps, she said, "desires women of high caliber who can be trained for their duties after they are enlisted." Women wanting to enlist are directed to appli" to the nearest office of naval and marine of ficer procurement, or marine re cruiting station, stating their age, educational record, occupa tional and marital status. -P i L E S SUCCESSFULLY TREATED NO PAIN - NO HOSPITALIZATION No Lou of Tim. Pimurunt RMultil DR. E. M. MARSHA Chlropr.otlo Phy.llM tn No, Ui - iKjul,i THutr. Slds ptioiM tm ;40URi v i -r. v in h-:t Pennine MERRILL First Class Sea man Thomas Cole, Mrs, Cole and Colo's mother, Mrs. O. J, Harris, left Sunday for Los An geles, whore Colo Is reporting for duty on his submitrlnu. Ho spent several days hero with his wife, the former Muxino Harllerode. Cole, who litis soon actlvo du ty in enemy waters, stated while hore that the submarine on which he saw duty was ono of the fttstost of the American navy. It lny for several duys in a Janniiosa-held port wuitiug movement of ships and torpe doed an enemy craft, striking with three torpedoes. The sub, escaping, was rock ed by depth charges but got away unscathed. On board, Cole stated, was a man who had seen duty on Guadacanal, who calmly ate sardines and crack era while the sub crew man ned the battle stations. Undor- warfare, according to the ex-Solomons veteran, was a pic nic ground In comparison with ground fighting on the island. o FORT DES MOINES, la. Auxiliary Florence Mildred Lien of Evans apartments, Klatnuth Falls, Oregon, has begun train ing at the first women's army auxiliary corps training center here. She was immediately assigned to a receiving center compuny for a week of olomcntary train ing. Hero she was issued cloth ing and equipment, instructed in rudiments of drill, and given army classification tests. For the following four weeks, she will be assigned to a basic company for more detailed training preparing her to re place a man in a non-combat army job. . MERRILL Richard E. Bai ley Jr., - son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bailey of Adams Point, spent tho weekend hero with his parents on leave from Camp Roberts near San Francisco. Bailey, an acting corporal, is completing his training as a ground gunner and expects transfer to tho air corps in mo near future. 0 0. Private Howard O. Shafcr, son of William Shatter, 632 Roseway drive, Klamath Falls, is now serving with the AAF at Pecos army air field. Pecos, Tex., where he is being trained as an aircraft mechanic, 00 FARRAGUT. Ida. More men from Klamath Falls have report ed for duty at tne u. . novat training stittion here, for prep aration to fight our enemies on the seven seas. The Klamath men are Robert Mnnrnn Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Smith. 2135 Vine street, and Alfred Samuel Bar ker, son of Asa Barker, Klamath Falls. Courthouse Records MONDAY Marriages PETRIE-JONES. John George Pctrie, 24, soldier. Native of New Ynrlc. resident of New York. Evelyn Olive Jones, 21, waitress. Native of Iowa, resi dent of Klamath Falls. KIRKLAND - COLE. William Ira Kirkland, 45, truck driver. Native of Tennessee, resident of Klamath Falls. Amy May Colo, waitress. Native of Oregon, resi dent of Portland. Complaints Filed S. Alvarez versus Nellie M. Alvarez. Suit for divorce, charge cruel and inhuman treatment. Couple married In March, 1929. Plaintiff asks custody of five mi nor children. A. C. Yadon attor ney for plaintiff. William M. Skcen versus Da vid C. Skecn, Jane Doe Skeen, Anna Skecn Doe and John Doe, H. H. Howard and Jano Doo Howard, Molly Corbeli Skeen Doe, Jane Doe Anderson, and Klamath county. Suit to quiet title. W. Lamar Townscnd attor ney for plaintiff. Justice Court Harmon Blaln Cress and Cal vin C. Slmms. Larceny. Waived preliminary hearing, released on $500 cash boil each. Nod Cyril Jones. No motor ve hicle license sticker. Fined $7. Frank Vochatzer. Drunk on public highway. Thirty days. Committed. It would be a refreshing nov elty if some of tho officials, when they come . before us, would vary tho precedents a lit tle by telling us not so much of the appropriations which they think they can do without, Rop. Louis Ludlow of Indiana. TRUCKS FOR RENT You Drive Move Yourself - Save M Long and Short Trips STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 8304 1201 East Main Lost Mascot Is Starving From Grief for Masters ST. LOUIS, Feb. 15 (I') Tho lost mascot of a company of army engineers Is starving, ap parently from grief. Wearing a blanket Indicating his company and regiment, tho dog has bren wandering around Union slnllon for throe days without fond. Baggage Agent Clarence J. Wohmeyor said of. fieitils of Jofferson barracks and Fort Leonard Wood, Mo report ed they did not know the loca tion of tho animal's unit. Mcanwhllo, the forlorn pet miikcs up with all soldlors, spurns all civilians and refuses to out from tho hands of either. ISO DISCHARGED H QUINCY. Mass., Fob. 15 (IP) Declaring that "tltoro is no place In tho Foro River yards for any man who does not want to work," William II. Collins, gen eral mantigor of the Buthlohum Stacl Company's local shipbuild ing plant, announced yesterday the dlschtirgo of 150 welders on tho ground that they hud boon absent without excuse. Tho action drow from James E. Marino, a nullomil representa tive of the Industrial and Ship building Workers of America (CIO), tho assertion that "poor planning and scheduling of ship construction" was tho real causo of the layoff. Shortly after tho company's announcement, a delegation of workers mot witlt Gall Smith, war production board labor rep resentative, and William Foley, district manpower commission manugcr, to protest. Marino said that tho WPB and the WMC asked workers classed as "ab sentees" to present thoir cases this week. The management said that tho men discharged had been warn ed that they would lose their jobs if they did not report reg ularly. lilnnuiih's !!ii!illlhii,i!:,ii'ii;Hilii!!l;i!)i!5'''m,i:i!!l!:il.i;;:( i!Plil!il!!l:iil:l!!l!ll!!i!!!1!!:'!!!l!!itl!";';i!l!l: W3M IMilfllliiilHlliiMlii.Wlil'! From:,the!l!llle1::4J.'!!yea'i. bgoipndiijlfy.r From The Klamath Republican Feb. 20, 1903 Wo visited the town of Mer rill on Monday, and enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Merrill, whose large, neat residence and other well-kept buildings and surrounding ranch of 500 rich and highly improved acres show tho energy and per severing thrift of past years. The Title lake valley Is one of the most fertile stretches of country in Oregon and only needs a little more water to in crease its productiveness and widen its good reputation. The town of Merrill presents a more favorable appcaranco than we had anticipated. It is larger than we anticipated and Its site is ideal. 00 C. C. Low of Oiene was in town this week. From the Klamath News Feb. 15, 1933 The city council last night ruled taxi stands off the con gested areas on Main street. 0 Local utilities have filed re ports of their gross earnings, on which to base the city's first utilities gross earnings tax en acted through the efforts of Mahoncy. , Pharmacists Mate Performs Operation On Sub Fireman PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 15 (IP) An Everett, Wash., man, Ensign Donald Flnsch, was ono of sev eral who assisted at, on ap pendectomy aboard a U. S. sub marine cruising far below the ocean ' surfaco not far from Tokyo, officers of tho submarine Silver8ldcs related hero Satur day. The patient was Fireman George W. Platter, 21, of Buf falo, N. Y. And the flvo-hour-long operation was performed by a chief pharmacist's mate, Thomas A. Mooro of Chlno Val ley, Ariz. A few minutes after the opera tion the submarino surfaced to recharge its batteries but Instead sighted and fired a torpedo Into an enemy ship and then sub merged again, under a heavy depth charge attack, Platter re covered long ago. Scientists arc about evenly di vided on whether the moon's craters were formed by meteor ites or volcanoes. When In Medfoid Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Joe and Anne Earley Proprietors EXPANSION SEGURITY PLAN TO BE TALKED NEW YOnK, Feb. 15 (IP) An expandud social security plan providing for premiums amount ing to 10 per cent of tho national pay roll, to ho shared equally by employer and employe, will ha sent "very shortly" to President lioosovolt or congress, says 8oc. rotary of Labor Francos I'orklns, A fruiiu'work of "free business aiiterprlso, expanding production and free exchungn of goods" Is essuntlul to the full effucliveuons of tho plan sho told a meeting of tho new school for luclul ro- seurch lust night. Dual Role Explaining that the perman ently disabled, those suffering from extended Illnesses, mntorn Ity, hospitalization and industrial accidents would bo covered by provisions of the proposal, the labor socretury sulii: "Provldod expansion Is under taken now, social Insurance can play a dual rolo In the economic readjustment and reconstruction that will bo necessary when the war ends." Keen Feeling In answer to a question after her talk olio said she hud "care fully avoided tho subject of medical service" In outlining the plan, adding: "American physicians feel very keenly the sanctity of the relationship Unit grows between ' physiclun and patient and be tween physlciuns and whole families of patients. To make a system of medical service work, it would rrqulro tho full co-Q operation of the nation's medical men. I would llkn to see same system in which tlto physicians joined actively for perhaps some sort of a cooperative service, but It scents best not to recommend it at this time." By CHARLES MOLONY WASHINGTON, Fob. 13 m Extension of social security cov erage to members of tho armed forces as well as to millions of others now outside tho program will be recommended by tho so cial security board. Informed sources reported to day that adoption of this recom mendation, along witlt other board suggestions for expansion of tho program to .provide hos pitalization costs and cash bene fits to dlsubled workers, might obviate any noed for special vel erans' legislation Ilka that whiclQ followed tho last war. 8ITTING UP EXERCISE LOS ANGELES, (P) Lie on your back, clasp your hands be neath your head, and then sit up. Most people, says Lieut. Rob. crtH. Ersklne, Los Angeles area physical director, can do It less than 40 times. Sgt. David Davidson Is cham pion of the 14 army air force technical training command schools he can sit up 414 times. Good Intentions O By EARL WHITLOCK The old saying Is that hell Is paved with good Intentions. not actions. i just Intentions nover carried as far as action. Wo all of us gat so many good Ideas but some how it's too much trou ble to do nny- thlng about them or some thing interferes. Wo want to speak to a stranger and do not. We intend to go and visit a new neighbor but never get around to it. We mean to write a letter of thanks to someone and let it go. Psychologists say we pay a heavy penalty for this IncrtiaQ They clitlm that ono should nev er oxporlenco any emotion with out doing something about it. Action! That's what's needed. Unless action follows emotion, protly soon your emotions get atrophied your power to fool emotion dies within you. Then you become a cold, flshy-oycd individual, repelling the world and living out your lifo wlthoin) tho love and trust of your fel low men, Next time you foci an Impulse to speak a kindly word or to help someone out of a tough . spot, or even to pass the time of day pleasantly with U stran ger, DO 1TI Don't Just think about it, So shall you Insure the continuanco of your emo tional life ' Next week Mr. Wliltlock ot the Earl Whlllnrlr Vimnrnl m QZJ Home will comment on When the. WaMi Won. . O
