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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
March 2, 1048
Pensioners
Senate to
Pinball Tax Issue
By PAUL W.
SALEM, March 2 VP) Advocates of bigger old age pensions
cored a major victory today when the senate voted 19 to 10 to
reconsider its 17-13 vote against the pinball tax bill, which its
sponsors estimate would raise
ment of pensions averaging at least $38 a month.
The senate will consider the bill at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow. The
measure would tax pinball games $50 a year and coin-operated
phonographs $10. The house had
passed it without opposition.
Passage of the bill would as
sure enough revenue to increase
' the average pension to $38 a
month, paying many pensioners
the $40 monthly maximum al
lowed by the federal govern
ment
Increase Voted
The average now is 25, but the
budget of former Gov. Charles
A. Sprague provided for an in
crease to $34 by June 1945.
- The Joint ways and means
committee voted last week to In
crease the old age pension ap
propriation for the next bien
nium from $16,880,000 to $20,
000,000, so that the $34 figure
could be increased to $38. But
this increase could only be made
possible if liquor revenues re
main close to their current high
levels, which is questionable.
Governor Earl Snell, while re
fusing to endorse the pinball
bill, did say the revenue must
be raised by some method.
Representatives of all major
labor and farm organizations In
Oregor protested to the house
taxation and revenue committee
against a bill. which would let
the people decide at the Novem
ber 1944 election whether they
want a 3 per cent sales tax.
Police Raise
The senate killed 26. to 3 a
bill by Sen. Marshall E. Cornett,
Klamath Falls, to repeal the
1941 law taxing motor vehicle
drivers 50 cents each two years
to set up a fund to pay hospitals
for caring for indigent traffic ac
cident victims. Cornett said the
tax is unnecessary because little
advantage is taken of the fund.
. The house passed and sent to
the senate a bill to increase sal
aries of state police officers be
tween $35 and $50 a month. Pri
vates would be boosted from
$160 to $200 a month.
. The house passed a senate bill
to refund antelope hunting li
cense fees collected last year,
when the season was cancelled.
97 More Dentists
To Be Recruited
PORTLAND, March 2 VP)
uregon s already overworked
dentists will-face even fatter
date books shortly. Dr. Neal L.
Zimmerman, Portland, state pro
curement off icer, disclosed today
that 97 more dentists from this
state will be rec-uited.
TOO LATE TO
CLASSIFY
OIL TO BURN For Union
' heating oils phone 8404, Klam
' th Oil Co, 615 Klamath Ave.
3 -31m
WANT TO BUY or rent Gas
. motor suitable for cordwood
: saw or similar. Phone 8441.
: - - 3-4
OIL BURNERS Chimneys
Furnaces. Complete service.
' ', Phone 7149. 3.17
WANTED TO RENT Two bed-
room furnished house by
' March 10th. Phone 8361. 3-4
LOST Gas ration book belong
ing to Vera Ross. Rt. 3, Box
'. 944., ., 3.4
MAN one day a week to do odd
jobs. See Dr. Soule. 3-2
4-ROOM unfurnished Apt. 1985
Auburn.
MODERN partly furnished
apartment. Phone 5385. 3-4
Ferocious In his paint, feathers and horns,
weird in his ceremonial dance, the medicine
man once played en the superstitions and
fears of his victims to nil his snake oil,
resurrection brew, and all-healing ointment.
He more often killed than cured. Such
pagan quackery has yielded to science. Re
search has come to the aid of medical prae
tice and today diagnosis and treatment of
disease are on a sound scientific baiii. To
benefit by the progress which the years
have wrought, see your physician when ill.
Place yourself in his care. We supplement
his service by filling our prescription ex
actly as ordered.
CUMIN'S
The Friendly Drug Store"
to and Main
Score;
Re-Open
HARVEY JR.
$1,000,000 a year to enable pay
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FOR BATTLE
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Arthur S. Drakeford said he be
lieved the Japanese preparations
in the southwest Pacific were
essentially for defensive pur
poses but said they would be
in readiness for attack if the
opportunity came.
In Burma, the United States
air force announced it had put
out of commission the strategic
Gokteik viaduct, between Man
dalay and Lashio, the terminus
of the Burma road. Loss of the
viaduct, a 2200-foot long engi
neering marvel which bridges a
river gorge, cut Japanese rail
communications with their for
ward forces which have been
attempting to renew a drive in
to Chinas southwestern prov
ince of Yunnan.
The Americans all returned
to their base, despite a running
air battle, while other American
planes bombed railroad targets
at Thazi, five miles south of
iViauaaiay, and at Paukkan.
Marine Staff
Sees Double as
Twins Register
PORTLAND, March 2 VP)
Some members of the marine
corps recruiting office staff
thought they were seeing double
until it was explained that Gene
and Dean Wells of Union, 17-
year-old identical twins, were
enlisting.
Other enlistments announced
today included Robert F. Whit-
aker, Enterprise; LeRoy J. Farn
ham, Eugene; Jesse F. Baird, In
dependence; Orland G. Branson,
Newberg; Vernon E. Rings, Jr,
Salem, and Robert J. O'Connor,
Stayton. .
Applicants for
Dog Licenses Now
Face Penalty
Penalties are now charged
applicants for dog licenses at
the county clerk's office.
The period for purchasing
1943 licenses without penalty
ended on March 1. An addi
tional $1 is now added to the
license fee.
Several tardy dog owners
have been into the clerk's office
to buy licenses and pay the
penalties.
Bodies Brought
From Coal Mine
BEARCREEK, Mont., March 2
VP) Bodies found in small
groups added steadily to the toll
of dead among 74 miners who
were entombed Saturday morn
ing by an explosion which
loosed carbon monoxide in the
Smith coal mine.
Fourteen bodies have been re
covered found singly or in
groups of two or three. Only
two were Identified and brought
to the surface.
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Potatoes
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2
(AP-USDA) Potatoes: 10 Cali
fornia, 10 Oregon, 21 Idaho, 1
Florida arrived, 11 unbroken, 5
broken cars on track; by truck 1
car arrived; no sales reported.
LOS ANGELES. March 2 (AP-
USDA) Potatoes: 2 California,
1 Florida, 12 Idaho, 1 Nevada, 7
Utah arrived, 25 unbroken, 9
broken cars on track; si:: cars di
verted, 3 arrived by truck; no
sales reported.
PORTLAND, (P) Potatoes
New Florida, $3.10-3.15; Texas,
$2.90 per 50-lb. box.
Potatoes, old Cash and carry
price: No. 2, $1.40-1.50 per 50
lb. bag; local, No. 1, $3.00 cen
tal CHICAGO, March 2 (AP
(USDA) Potatoes, arrivals 43,
on track 80; total US shipments
480; old stock; supplies very
light; no track. trading account
of lack of carlot offerings; mar
ket in confusion; no carlot track
sales reported; new stock; sup
plies light, demand moderate,
market firm: Colorado Red Mc
Clures, US No. 1, $3.90; Florida
bushel crate Bliss Triumphs, US
No. 1, $2.60-85 per crate.
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head (D-Ala.) offered it. in order.
he said, to assure adequate man
power for the farms and to
avoid a food shortage.
The vote was postponed for a
time by a decision to hear some
opposition testimony.
The committee voted to hear
testimony, from Col. Lewis B.
Sanders, selective service ex
pert, at an afternoon session
after Sanders presented a state
ment asserting that passage of
the bill would not solve farm
labor shortages.
Kep. Wadsworth (D-N.Y.) told
the committee "we cannot
achieve orderly distribution of
manpower by means of execu
tive orders, directives, exhorta
tions, or threats.
He referred particularly to
what he called the "work or
fight" order issued by Chairman
McNutt of the war manpower
commission and the 48-hour
week directive 'issued by Presi
dent Roosevelt. He said the
former "leaves immobilized hun
dreds of thousands of men and
does not even touch women"
and the latter "is still being ex
plained by the WMC."
Oregon Shipyard
Second in Race
For Production
WILMINGTON. Calif., March
2 (P) Officials of the California
Shipbuilding corporation today
claimed for their firm the title
of the nation's No. 1 ship-producing
yard during February.
Calship delivered 15 Liberty
ships of 10,500 tons each, launch
ed 14 similar vessels and laid
keels for 14 others during the
month.
Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon ship
yard came in second best for the
month, delivering 10 ships,
launching 13 and laying 13 keels,
Calship said.
Labor Reserve
Bill Introduced
SALEM, March 2 (Pj Sen.
Frederick S. Lamport, Salem, in
troduced, a resolution today to
create a manpower pool of state
employes to provide emergency
workers for farming, food can
ning and other essential industries.
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NEWS
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emy air attack. The British are
proving him a liar.
The purpose is to shake the
Germans' confidence in their
leaders.
QF the Berlin raid and the
others that have occurred
every night for a week. Captain
Harold Balfour, British under
secretary of state for air, says:
"These are but the opening
bars, which will rise to the cres
cendo of a march on Europe."
He adds:
"We look forward to the time
when there will be no hour of
the day when axis forces will
be free from the swoop of al
lied planes."
His purpose is to increase Ger
man jitters.
"THE Russians, slowing down In
A the south, HIT HARD IN
THE NORTH, in the neighbor
hood of Lake Ilmen, 200 miles
south of Leningrad. They claim
the practical rout of another
German army.
Tlmoschenko, unheard of for
some time, is the Russian com
mander. NJOTE that as the Russians slow
up in one spot (possibly for
reorganization and bringing up
of supplies) they hit hard in an
other) giving the Germans no
rest.
That indicates Russian
strength.
TN Tunisia, Von Arnlm tries to
outflank Medjez el Bab to the
north. The allied communique
today says he "paid a heavy
price in men and material and
has been HELD in all sectors.'
He lost 23 tanks. Including one
of his big Mark VI's.
ROMMEL, having failed to get
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lines in the rear, is RETIRING,
having already given up most of
the ground he took from us.
(But NOT any of the mountain
passes he seized in his drive into
the first valley. He still holds
them.)
TN this African warfare, ground
gained means little unless it is
STRATEGIC ground, such as
mountain passes, commanding
heights, rail and highway cen
ters, etc.
THERE'S still nothing of Im
portance today from Mont
gomery. But we've learned by observa
tion that Montgomery mkes his
preparations carefully and-when
he hits he HITS HARD.
Aircraft Union
Calls Second
Protest Meet
SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 2
(P Impatient at the lack of a
decision from the war labor
board on the long-standing air
plane wage dispute, an AFL air
craft union called a second 24-
hour demonstration meeting in
the industry today, this time at
the big Consolidated plant here.
Shortly after the AFL Aer
onautical Industrial lodgo ended
an all-day session the Boeing
plant at Seattle, a special meet
ine to last 24 hours was called
at 12:30 a. m.. Pacific war time,
by H. C. Brown, president of
the San Diego district lodge,
over what he termed "the long
delay in settling inequalities in
aircraft wage rates..
CARD OF THANKS
W wish tn thank our friends
fnr tholr manv acts of kindness
and for, the beautiful floral of
ferings tendered in our recent
bereavement. '
Mrs. Ida Belle Corbell
Mrs. Minnie Corbell
Mrs. Lena Lewis
John Vaughn
Edna Dillstrom
Jane Hatfield
SOVIETS DEAL
SMASHING
BLOW
NORTHWEST
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was interpreted here as an in
dication the marshal still had
Premier Stalin's full confidence.
Well Garrlioned
The strength of Germany's
16th army has not been stated
but Izvestia, the government
newspaper,' reported Uiat "num
erous German divisions wore de
feated east of Lake Ilmen."
The German 16th army was
known to have kept the area
well-garrisoned with seasoned
fighters who have had a year's
rest from action since the Rus
sians last winter attacked in the
region of Staraya Russa, which
they approached within rifle
range.
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of the year's collections exceeds
this total, then taxes would be
reduced.
F.or instance. Governor Sncll
estimates that by the end of the
year, the surplus will amount to
about $9,000,000. Collections
next year should exceed $14,
000,000 under existing rates, or a
total of $23,000,000. So a reduc
tion would be ordered.
Woman Welder
Sets Torch Aside
To Bury Army Son
VANCOUVER, Wash., March
2 OP) Mrs. Carl Ernest of Mc
Laughlin Heights put away her
welding torch at the Kaiser Van
couver shipyard for a few days
today to
'"Go back to Pendleton to bury
my boy. But I'll be back to help
build more ships."
Her son, 2nd Lt. William F.
Ernest, 19, 1940 graduate of Pen
dleton high school, was killed in
an air crash near Austin, Tex.,
February 28. Another son, Sgt.
Carl Ernest Jr., of a tank de
stroyer outfit also in Texas, was
10 accompany his brother s body
to Pendleton.
Lt Ernest transferred from
the RCAF to the army air corps
in 1942. He was a transport pi
lot for the RCAF.
FDR Conducts
Business by Phone
At White House
WASHINGTON. March 2 (VP)
President Roosevelt remained in
his White House living quarters
again, today, cancelling his usual
Tuesday afternoon press confer
ence, but receiving a limited
number of visitors and handling
a considerable volume of busi
ness by telephone.
Presidential Secretary Steph
en Early said the chief exe
cutive is continuing to mend
from an Intestinal upset which
he suffered last Thursday. Early
said Mr. Roosevelt is "getting
along all right" and continues
"free from temperature."
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From All Who Have
Seen and Cheered Itl
The Truth About the
Nazis From the Cradle
To the Battlofront!
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EDUCATION
DEATH
Extral
Donald Duck Cartoon
Pete Smith Brevity
Musical News
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fi Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H
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nwMiMjnwininiriH,
March Named
4-H Victory
Garden Month
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sugar beet greens, lettuce, cab
bage, kohlrubl, rutabagas, corn
squash, onions and radishes. Sev
eral varieties are offered in peas,
lettuce, cabbage and radishes.
Crop, variety, amount of seed,
value, planting space required,
and comments including sugges
tions as to time of planting, are
given on the sheet.
Contestants will be asked to
keep track of garden cost, main
tain a record book and all infor
mation In regard to planting and
growth.
Roy Alfred Drew, 23, woll
known young stockman of the
Hlldebrand country, died at a
local hospital Monday afternoon
following an Illness of the past
two mouths. Doath was attri
buted to pneumonia.
Mr. Drew wn inn nl Mr
and Mrs. Jesse N. Drew of llilcle-
brand. He had mndo his home
during his llfetlmo with his
srandDUrents. Mr. ind Mr
Emilo Egert, also of that com
munity. In addition he is sur
vived by a brother and sister,
Billy and Jean Drew of HHH.
brand. He was a nephew of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Peterson and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drew, well
known Klamath Fall rivsiHrmic
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bell of Title-
lako and Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Campbell of Bly.
Funeral nervier will hnlfl
from the chnncl nf Whttlrtrlr'a
Thursday at 1:30 p. m. with the
Rev. Arthur Charles Bates of
the First Christian church of
ficiating. Interment will take
place in the Bonanza cemetery.
New Measure
Calls for Single
Tax Commissioner
SALEM, March 2 (P) Heed
ing a request by Governor Earl
Snell, the house administration
and reorganization committee-introduced
today a bill calling for
a single tax commissioner to re
place the present three-man tax
commission.
The commissioner would be
appointed by the governor. The
present commission is named by
the board of control, of which
the governor is chairman.
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TODAY
FIRST KLAMATH
SHOWING!
A HANDFUL OF
VOLUNTEERS GIVE
THE JAPS A ONE
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centrated attack upon Berlin,"
the communique said.
"The weather wns clear and
reports indicate the results were
good."
The reference to a concen
trated attack made It apparent
that the swurms of hravy nlulit
bombers' had closed In on the
nerve center of the relch from
every quarter, and in a com
paratively brief time unloaded
their huge weight of bombs.
Nineteen planes were lost, the
air ministry snld, apparently a
comparatively small proportion
01 me bombers.
Even Berlliv acknowledged
that considerable damage had
been done and said 80 persons
were killed and 213 Injured.
An allied hendnuartora com
munique from North Africa snld
the Gorman attacks In northorn
Tunisia wcro slowing down after
heavy losses ond slight gains.
Dispatches from headmiartnrs
In North Africa snld the allies
launched a counterattack in the
northern sectors and killed 000
ENDS SOON!
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K WITH a salute fo oil the area! war plcfurttl
that have contributed so iniplrlngly to the
nation's morale, Columbia offers a diversion In ,
a great motion picture, .aimed at LAUGHTER
'..BEAUTY..MUSIC..SHEER ENTERTAINMENT.;
"YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER" I, a musical
motion picture produced In a manner
freshlnflly new to this form of entertainment (
NEVER before In her shining screen career
has the exotic beauty of RITA HAY WORTH'
thown to such advantage.. never before ri
his rise to greatness have the agility and'
magnetic personality of FRED ASTAIRE1
reached such heights.. never since SHOW'
- B0AT ho JEROME KERN composed such'
, eor-tlngllng, thrilling tunes . . already hummed
verywherei , . . .,
And in his grand manner,
XAVIER CUGAT and His Orchestra
ALL IN
You Were Never Avelier'
Next at the Esquire Theatre
Germans south of ModJni-ol-Bah,
Attack In South Q
Dlmiloslutf that the denim n
northern attacks got within
seven miles of Beja, an allied
bono northwest of ModJnz-el-Bab,
bofnre being turned back, field
reports lo allied headquarters
ulso confirmed the willed cap
ture of r'oiliiiiti, 2U miles south
west of Knsscrlno in central
Tunisia,
The communique said 25 axis
aircraft wore shot down yester
day. Allied aircraft also turned a
punishing assault upon the south
ern sectors of the Maretli Una
In southern Tunisia where Gen.
Sir llcrnurd L. Montgomery's
eliihlli army was preparing for
uttacks on that siring of do-
fl'llM'I.
To Report The 1118 Oregon
State ceil le i:e enlislod reserve
corpsmen who have been ordej
ed to report for active duU
March 29, Includes the name of
Harold R. Crane Jr., Klamath
Falls, son of H. R. Crone, well
known liuntiermnn of this sec
tion, and Robert B. Kerns, ton
of James W, Kerns, local busi
nessman, . - . , v
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