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Mnnaping Editor ,
Today's Roundup News Behind the News
By MALCOLM EPLEY
CONSIDERABLE violation of OPA ceilings
and other rulings, particularly by smaller
operators, has been reported as a result of in
, , vestlgations conducted out of
I 'p.f the district office here.
IfjTk -1 OPA has adopted the policy
T: ;. 1 v. of i-nllins in onerators and ex-
1 1 plaining the regulations to
V " ? , them, seeking to bring every
kl . K body Into line. Most of the
V" L violations seem to have been
sMbs t,e result of Ignorance of the
rules, rather than wilful dis
obediance of them.
Freedom of action has been
j EPLEY an inherent American char
flcierisllc for so long that it Is difficult to bring
tvefybody into immediate conformation with
the "multitudinous rulings laid down under
Ihe OPA set-up. Still, If the rules are there,
fjnd some obey and some do not, an unfair
Condition results in any competitive situation.
" 6PA can help by making its regulations as
simple as possible and limiting them strictly to
those things absolutely necessary to the pur
poses of the program. A lot of horse sense is
needed In the promulgation of regulations and
their enforcement, with emphasis on flexi
bility. .
3.1 El
MALLON
District Set-Up
SLOWLY, the OPA district office organization
is shaping up. As yet, confirmation has not
been announced for some of the key men, in
cluding the director. Ed Ostendorf, Klamath
retired auto dealer, is handling the No. 1 job,
and presumably his confirmation Is coming
through the ponderous government machinery.
A number of the people working on the job
here have been "loaned" by other offices, and
presumably will be ltaving once the district
organization gets going full blast.
The physical set-up of the offices in the Bal
siger building is now fairly complete. The
general impression received by the casual ob
server is a forest of desks and telephones.
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Water and Gardens
ELSEWHERE on this page is an interesting
letter to the editor concerning water rates
as they apply to the victory gardening program
for people living within the city.
While growing vegetables in home gardens
is going to be worth while this year, regardless
of water rates, the utility here should give
careful consideration to the possibility of provid
ing a rate reduction as encouragement and help
in this period of difficult food problems.
Incidentally, the lower irrigation rates go
into effect with the April meter readings, and
will continue for six months. This is a regular
policy that has been in effect a number of
years. Any additional reduction which the
company can make this year would be a con
tribution to an important local effort.
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Dead at the Mike
WE happened last night to hear a Japanese
shortwave - broadcast in English, which
took the form of a statement by a member of
the Japanese diet, who previously had been in
the shortwave broadcasting business and claimed
acquaintanceship with a good many Americans
in the radio field.
The Jap broadcaster told story about a
young Japanese, who had been in America and
knew all about this country and who, in Japan,
became a fervent radio denouncer of President
Roosevelt and our government.
He went on to say that this poor young man
worked so hard at the denouncing business
that he became ill. Despite the urgings of his
friends, he stayed at the microphone, with his
condition steadily weakening. Finally, he suc
cumbed, a martyr of some sort.
The Jap broadcaster went on to say there
are numerous cases in Japan of a similar nature.
Apparently, people are dying right and left at
the microphones over there.
Perhaps that yarn was calculated to keep
Americans listening to the Jap broadcasts.
Maybe every fade-out means the announcer has
died, a possibility which does add some interest
to the broadcast.
A letter appeared on this page the other day
signed "A Voter" without the name of the
writer attached. The name was on the letter,
but not as a signature. That is not a violation
of our old ruling, but we are going to make a
new one now. Names must accompany letters
for publication; if the name is to be withheld,
a good, reason must be given. We are strong
believers in the signing of bona fide names to
letters to the editor. That proves the writer
has the courage of his convictions.
Br PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, March 3 It begins to look
like the administration cannot stand the
CIO and farm pressures for more wages and
price increases and feels a po
litical necessity to make com
promises, which would force
everything up into higher in
flationary grounds.
This new prospect of more
inflation is developing in the
face of rather shocking infor
mation that food prices are
actually much lower in hard
pressed Britain than here, and
that food costs in Britain have
declined constantly the past
two years, but have constantly risen here
since then and continue to rise.
This astonishing conclusion that Britain has
controlled inflation better than we with little
food of her own and while getting lend-lease
help from us has been offered by no less an
authority than Leonard P. Ayres, in the Cleve
land Trust company press bulletin of February
13. Ayres set up the statistical-economic bur-,
eaus of the war department and is a noted
authority.
The phenomena that a family in Britain can
eat for less than it costs Americans is partly
explained by the considerable use of British
government subsidies. Mr. Churchill receives
large lend-lease shipments of food from us and
then distributes these to private dealers at less
than the cost.
Trip Into Stratosphere
ALSO, some government authorities here con
test the comparable figures of price sta
tistics in Washington and London, saying the
British figures are handled a little differently.
The Ayres figures show the British food
prices at an index of 117 last December, only
17 per cent above the start of the war, while
ours increased 34 per cent. Government econ
omists think the disparity is not that much.
Whatever it is, the CIO wage campaign will
make it that much higher, and if a farm price
increase is granted at the same time, it will
cause the CIO to ask later for more wages,
to meet increasing food costs, and then we
will be off into the stratosphere of further de
clining dollar values in terms of bread.
The prospects of inflation were never more
clearly visible than now. What this means to
every man is evident when you consider that
about 40 per cent of the average family income
in this country is now going for food.
Only Onr Question
THE high sounding debate over the McKellar
bill makes it sound like grave questions
of civil service reform are involved; but there
is really only one impressive question behind
the measure. Senator McKellar and Co. are
after the Frankfurter boys in the key govern
ment positions, and the only question is whether
the tricky legal phrasing of the bill will allow
pursuit' of them all or only a few.
The original bill would provide senate con
firmation of all government employees over
$4900, retroactively back to 1936 meaning, for
instance, that Ben Cohen and the other Frank
furter advisers of Economic Stabilizer Jimmy
Byrnes, would have to be confirmed by the
senate.
Likewise, it would hit such a situation as
exists in the department of justice where At
torney General Biddle has little to say about
who gets the choice jobs. Selection of per
sonnel there is under a White House appointee,
one of Mr, Roosevelt's anonymous assistants, a
Frankfurter man, James H. Rowe.
The Frankfurter boys are reputed to be
centered mainly, however, in legal divisions of
various government departments. They would
thus be saved from the senate broom if the
O'Mahoney amendment is adopted, limiting the
application of the McKellar bill to government
employees in official "policy-making positions."
The administration has thrown up its arms
in horror at the measure, saying it would make
a shambles of the civil service system and it
would, although advocates of the bill say the
system already is a sham, and this is true too.
Employees are blanketed into civil service and
given special technical examinations enabling
them to qualify if they have the right political
pull. ,
But, primarily, the bill would break up the
New Deal patronage system, the heart center
from which all political power emanates. It
would let the senators name possibly 35,000
influential holders of government positions, or
at least require the president to get consent of
the democratic senators to name them.
In short, it would break up the New Deal
party and create a new democratic party con
trol. These subtleties behind the measure have
somehow not been laid bare to public view
in the discussions.
SIDE GLANCES
Censor Plays Hob With
Navy Appropriation Bill
WASHINGTON, March 3 (T)
Reading parts of the testimony
on tho supplemental navy ap
propriation bill, made public to
day, was like playing a guessing
game.
Never has the censor so ener
getically edited the transcript of
a house committee hearing be
fore publication. For example:
Representative Albert Thomas
(D-Tex.): You have actu
ally commissioned now; Is that
correct?
Rear Admiral Edward L. Coch
rane: About ; Yes, sir.
Thomas: About how many do
you have under contract to be
constructed, in addition?
Cochrane: The total by the
end of the year, which includes
contracts, will bring it up
to . There will probably be
about more.
Thomas: That will be .
and in addition to the
you are asking funds to build
And so on.
Always read the classified ads.
Services Held for
Mrs. White, 101,
Of Curry County
PORT ORFORD, March 3 (P)
Funeral services took place yes
terday for Mrs. Alice White, 101,
oldest resident of Curry county.
She died last Sunday after a
brief illness.
Two stepchildren, Mrs. Lloyd
Rigdon of Salem, and W. T.
White, city recorder of Port Or
ford, survive.
Any tire made in the last two
or three years is good for eight
or ten years, if not worn out.
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time. r'-
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"It'll help me ficure mv income tax if vou can exnlain
which of those checks to your relatives are bad debt
and which are gifts l"
Telling
The Editor
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than ta ararda In lanfth, muat ba anit
tan MaptUi on ONI SIOI ol tha papa,
only, and muat bo alad- Contribution
foJIowanf thaao rut), ara anmnly arafc
aoma.
FAVORS RATE CUT
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To
the Editor) Speaking of Victory
gardens. We are being urged to
plant vegetable gardens but my
experience has been that with
the water rates as they now are
even with the summer rates
for outside irrigation it does
not pay for us city dwellers to
raise gardens for home consump
tion and canning.
For two years I did plant a
vegetable garden for home use
but found it unprofitable. Un
less Copco can be induced to
come down on water rates for ir
rigation I do nof believe many
city dwellers will respond to
the urging for Victory gardens;
at least those who have tried it
before. And many will probably
try tne experiment this year
only to give it up for ensuing
years, and will have to depend
on whatever the stores can sup
ply in the way of vegetables.
Our summers are generally
hot and dry and gardens require
a great deal of water even when
mulched, watered by approved
modern methods of bi-weekly ir
rigation (rather than nightly
sprinkling), etc.
For the duration cannot water
rates for outside irrigation be re
duced to encourage home gar
dening? My Inquiries in other
places would seem to Indicate
that our rates here are higher
than most other western towns
and cities. "
MRS. EDITH McLEOD.
VICTORY DUCKS
HAPPY CAMP. Calif. (To the
Editor) One of our white he,n
ducks decided she wanted a fam
ily this winter. Snow, rain, frost
and wind didn't turn her from
her determination and we didn't
discourage her. She selected a
secluded spot under the wood
shed. Perhaps she knew the
snow would only be knee-deep
to a duck.
We live two miles and a half
from town, near the mouth of
Elk creek. One Sunday we re
turned home In the late after
noon from town, and found six
little yellow, fluffy baby ducks
begging their mother to hover
them. Immediately we placed
them in the house near the heat
er. The late season and weather
was disagreeable for them.
We tried our best to care for
them all, with all the skill we
knew so they would live until
springfrom there on we knew
they would thrive. We lost all
but two. One day we observed
the distinct V markings on their
foreheads. V for victory. It may
be plain coincidence and it could
be a good omen for our country's
future.
The two ducks grew rapidly,
they ate eggs and meat and play
ed a little game of tag every day
and ran around after me; they let
me know all about it if I left
them behind. They had a lan
guage all their own and tried
to make me understand them.
One day one of the ducks died,
it was Dewey. Mr. Stelngrandt
pronounced his death as poison
ing from eating cement, that was
freshly mixed. Perhaps a small
portion dropped on tho porch at
the time it was being used, it
was accidental or plain careless
ness on our part. Now Huey
lives to uphold Victory. He is
one of those IN-THE-FRONT
ducks. When it sunshines he
prefers the outdoors. He is like
most of us he wants his meat
and eggs. So when it's all said
and done, eggs are something to
look at twice before you use
them and the scarcity of meat
compels us to think the third
time before we grab the fry
pan, So Huey says, wheat and
wild bugs will do him for the
duration.
"If that mother duck can prog
nosticate coming events; that
will make history in the U. S. A.
then let's get some duck sense,"
said Mr. Steingrandt.
It could be possible that the
mother duck would be more war
minded than some Americans,
if she was using sugar, coffee
and shoes and had the intelli
gence of a human. She wouldn't
be crying around on somebody's
shoulder that "it's all graft" that
she's being cheated out of her
rights, because she could get only
three pairs of shoes, or so much
coffee and sugar which isn't es
sential at all. And I don't think
she would be So selfish as to hord
away pairs and pairs of shoes,
stockings, underwear, coffee and
sugar, as I am ashamed to say so
many people are doing and have
done. Primitive men didn't die
because they had no coffee,
sugar and shoes and manufac
tured clothing. Surrounding con
ditions caused them to develop
into sturdy manhood.
So says she to you, as for ma
and my duck we will serve
America and Huey will wear a
V.
And Huey is waiting for that
day to dawn VICTORY.
CLARA STEINGRANDT.
Youth Chooses
Prison Rather Than
Military Service
SEATTLE, March 3 (AP) Fed
eral Judge Lloyd L. Black ad
monished a 23-year-old Seattle
youth, who yesterday chose pris
on In preference to military
service, that he might readily be
a victim of murder were " not
for the many fellow Americans
who were willing to take up
arms for their country.
Judge-Black Imposed a three
year sentence on Charles A.
Whitson for failure to register
for the draft after Whitson had
f-told him:
"I have no intention of going
Into the army. I am of the opin
ion that anyone who takes up
arms or helps in the war effort is
a murderer or an accessory to
murder."
During the last war the mail
order price for a pair of over
alls rose from 82 cents to $2.95,
and at one time a 10-pound bag
of sugar cost $2.67.
Matketl and fyinatcki
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HITS
TOP RUNG FOR
1943 TODAY
Br VICTOR EUBANK
NEW YORK. Mnrch 3 (P)
The stock market experienced
its best upswing and biggo.it
trading of 1043 today.
Heavy buying In rails and mis
cellaneous industrials, brought
many advances of $1 to S3, and
the turnover of 3,017,880 shares
was the largest since December
30, 1041.
The average of 80 stocks rose
.7 to 46.3, a new high since No
vember 13, 1940. Trading In
bonds also broke recent records,
with a turnover of $33,172,000
face value, largest since Sep
tember 11, 1930.
Favorable war news from ma
jor fronts the Russian capture
of Rzhev, admitted by the Ger
mans, allied progress In North
Africa, and American bombings
In the South Pacific all con
tributed to Improved sentiment.
The carriers started slowly,
then gathered strength toward
the close and Increased their
gains In mnny cases to more than
a point, some touching now highs
for a year or longer.
Closing quotations:
American Can 78 J
Am Car & Fdy 331
Am Tel i Tel 1421
Anaconda 20
Calif Packing 24
Cat Tractor 481
Comm'nw'lth & Sou 1316
General Electric 331
General Motors 48
Gt Nor Ry pfd 261
Illinois Centrol 10
Int Harvester 631
Kennecott 311
Lockheed 201
Long-Bell "A" 81
Montgomery Ward 36 i
Nash-Kelv .. 81
N Y Central 14
Northern Pacific 11.
Pac Gas & El 28.
Packard Motor 4
Penna R R 291
Republic "Steel 17
Richfield Oil 9
Safeway Stores 33 i
Sears Roebuck 841
Southern Pacific 201
Standard Brands SI
Sunshine Mining 4i
Union Oil CalU 18,
Union Pacific 621
U S Steel 84 1
Warner Pictures 101
1 LIVESTOCK
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO,
March 3 (AP-KSMN) CATTLE:
Salable 23. Fully slonriy; desir
able steers, lielftti's and ranKc
cows absent; mm'iiluils lulouds
nenrby she-stock; fow common
cows $10.00-10.30, odd head cut
tors $9.00-0.30, cannera mostly
$8.00.8.30; bulls steady, largely
$12.00-13.00. Calves: None.
Nomlnul; good to choice venleis
quotod $14.00-13.00.
HOGS: Salable 400, Generally
steady; bulk 183.2.13 lb, barrows
and gilts $16,00; odd good sows
$14.23-73.
SHEEP: Suliiblo 200. Under
tone fully steady; good to choice
wooled lambs quoted $18.00
18.30; medium to choice wooled
ewes quoted $8.00-0.00.
WHEAT
CHICAGO. March 3 (IP)
Resting orders supported wheat
today and the market main
tained a firm undertone, al
though activity diminished
somewhat from recent sessions.
Prices were close to new season
al highs most of the day.
Wheat closed 1-Ic higher,
May $1,461-1.48, July $1,484,
corn was unchanged at ceilings.
May $1.00, oats advanced i-ic
and rye gained 1-1 cent.
BOSTON WOOL
BOSTON, March S (AP
USDA) Sales of light shrinking
clear lamb's wool from the mid
west were made today in Boston
at grease prices of 41 to 42
cents. Mixed grade lots of Ida
ho wool were sold at grease
prices of 43 to 43 cents, deliv
ered. Montevideo grease wools
were sold upon arrival In bond
price range of 38 to 30 cents.
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND. March 3 (AP
USDA) CATTLE: Salable 100,
total 130; cnlves salable 10, tqtal
180; market active, steady' to
strong; fow medium to good fed
steers hold around $13.00; good
104Q lb. fed holfers $14.73; com
mon heifers down to $10.00; can
ner and cutter cows $7.00-8.73;
fat dairy typo cows $0.33-1 0.00;
good beef cows salable around
$12.00-13.00; medium to goud
bulls salable $11.30-13.30; vent
ers strong, good to cholco grades
$13.00-18.00; odd head $18.30;
common down to $10.00.
HOGS: Salable and totul 400;
market steady to 13c hinder; top
unchungad at $13.30 pit Id (or
good and choice 180-230 lb.
drivelns and carloads, medium
grades down to $13.25; large lot
cholco 204 lbs. $13.23; bulk 240
300 lbs. $13.00; good sows strong
to 23c higher at $14.23-30; cholco
lot 440 lbs. $14.00; good to choice
80-117 lb. feeder pigs $16.80
17.00. SHEEP: Salable and totul 100;
market strndv. one Int nnml 77
lb. fed wooled lambs $13.00; com
mon grancs $12.00 down; deck
good to choice fed lambs Ttirs.
day $13.30; good ewes salable
$7.50-8.00 or above.
CHICAGO, March 3 (AP
USDA) Salable hogs 13,000;
total 20,000; a c 1 1 v 0, opened
10-lSc higher than Tuesday's
average; closed 13-23c up; top
$13.90; good and cholco 180-3UU
lb. $13.60.83; mostly $13.70-83;
good and choice 130 180 lb.
$13.23-80; bulk good 380-830 lb.
sows $13.13-30; few choice to
$13.63.
Salable cattle 9000; suluble
calves 800; all killing clutscs
very active, 13-2Sc higher; all
buying interests In market; me
dium to good grade steers pre
dominated; choice offerings very
scarce and strictly choice kind
absent; top $17.33 paid for seven
loads scaling 1160-1425 pounds;
some held higher; best yearlings
$17.20; bulk fed steers $14.50
18.73; best holfers $16.00; odd
head $16.75; bulk $13.50-15.00;
strictly good weighty cows to
$14.00; cutters $10.00 down;
wolghty sausuge bulls sold free
ly at $14.00 down; vealers firm
at $16.00-17.50.
Salable sheep 5000; total
7000; late Tuesday, fat lambs
active, strong to 15c higher;
merely good' to strictly choice
wooled offerings $15.60-16.30;
bulk choice offerings around 06
103 lb. above $16.35; double
good to choice fed clipped
lambs with No. 1 skins $13.85;
yearlings and sheep scarce; to
day's trade: fat lambs fairly ac
tive; fully steady with Tuesday;
good to choice wooled lambs
$15.73-10.30; early top $10.50;
one load lacking attractiveness
$13.60; small lots choice fall
shorn lambs $16.00; double with
No. 1 skins as yet unsold; sheep
about steady; good to choice
ewes eligible $0.00-23.
WASHINGTON, March 3 W)
Koi'imir Ciernwiii and llnlliin con
suls gout-ral at Alrjli'i's, lltoir
sliiffj and iiumiiIiim of thnli' fain
llli'H ciipltirtul by Ihu Uullvd
Stutos tinned loiccn In Noillt
Africa, liiiv- arrived In Ihe Unit
ed Slates where Ihey are under
guard In 1 1 ta. InijU'.-ildu hotel neur
Sliiuiiton, V11.
The titiilu tlopm'tiuciit, In milk
ing this iiiiiioiiiicviiienl today
1111 Id negotiations are underway
for the oxehuiiKo of thc.m axis
dfficiul.s. They would bo ex
changed for officers of II10 Unit
ed Sluteji uml oilier American re
public selicd by ; the Ucnimni
in Franco unci now held In Ger
many. Mftinwhilo the axis liili-rnees
in Virginia are not permitted
contact with the public.
OSC Students
Make Way for
Army Trainees.
CORVALLIS, March 3 (l'l
Oregon State college students
moved out of the men's dormi
tory today as college offlcluls
awulted the first group of army
trainees expected next week.
Many of the dormitory resi
dents were given temporary
rooms In frutornitles. Others
still sought housing.
To allcvia'o this situation, col
lege officials illmnlMcd 130 gtu-
ucnm iiuiu cuiMen tor 1110 rem ui
winter term, which ends March
11. These were members of Ihe
iiriny reserve corps mid all have
been ordered to active duly on
or before March 23.
The college expects by March
8 to receive up to 300 men, all
to receive special army training.
Man Arrested
Here Convicted
PORTLAND, March 3 (P
Albert Leroy Jones, 33, arrested
at Klamath Falls last December
10 on charges of furnishing wine
to an Indian, McKinley David,
was convicted In foderal court
yesterday.
Juciuo Claude McCollnch did
not set a date for sentencing.
We must stand by stublllta-
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null 111 II iff luimjr. t 41 wo mil
price control la gone; wage con
trol will be lost. OPA Direc
tor Prentiss M. Brown.
COMMON COLDS
SPREADING IN
GREAT WAVE
With tnifflct, coughing,
clogged naial breathing, and
muscle ache
Don'llot this pulilio menu-it rob you nf
rnljustion, rot, time oa the Job with
its iiKR of surli discomforts, r-'iril, wn
common senna prrrnutions nftsinat (his
common enrmy. Don't ovrrnM. ln't
ovrrilo. Dress wnrmly. Avoid cromls
M much ns tHNwihte.
Utamd, if a cold cloos strikn you, gt
rcnelro, because IVnntro is n. Rn-slQ
stand-by for colds' misoric nftVeting"
upper brent hing psssncM.
IVnctro is tho powerful modern medl
rstion wit h ft Imsn of Mm siimo old fash
ioned million suet Grandma used. It
works two witvs. Outsidn, counter irri
tation esses tightness of cohl-tnrtured
chest muscles. Inside, I'ene'ni's spe
cially medicated vapors help reduce)
nasal congestion, and relievo counhins.
HUtinlesa, clean, pleasant to use. (iet
a jar now. Generous sun, 2,'o. Double
supply 35c. Always douiuuU Ponelro.
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