A Contribution To
On S-mlnut blast on ilrtm and whlstUs
li th signal for a blackout In Klamath
rails. Anothar long blast, during a black
out, la a signal ior all-clear. In preciu
tlonary periods, watch your atraai lights.
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By FRANK JENKINS
JMMK. CHIANG KAI S1IKK, In
ono of her recent speeches In
this country, calls for a post-war
world resting on "pillars of Jus
tice, co-cxlstonce, cooperation
and mutual respect."
T ET us add, respectfully and
sincerely:
"And buttressed by the GUNS
of an enlightened United States,
" Brltuln. Itusslu nnd China,"
Pence, after all. If It is to bo
permanent, must rest on a
foundation of cnllghloncd and
Intelligent FORCE.
t
T-HIS question la being widely
asked:
"After we ve won the war,
what will wa do with the Ger
mans and tho Japs?"
TVHAT to do with beaten en-
" emles Is one of tho world's
big problems.
History offers us two solu
lions: 1. Kill them off.
2. Treat them fairly decent
'and get along with thorn,
Both seem to work.
riENQHIS KHAN and' a fulrly
long line of huv.aucepssors
almply killed oil tiieir van
O aulshed enemies.
It was simple, elemental and
EFFECTIVE.
But that was long ccnturlei
aso. and populations were rein
tively small. Fancy killing oft
70 million Japs and 80 million
Germans.
The mere physical task would
be appallingly fatiguing.
XTAPOLEON, In his early cam-
naltfna.thftt Jl(tlhlllhl(l hlfl
famo. tried the other solution.
Ho first trounced tho decadent
kingdoms of Northern Italy
soundly, and thon mudo pcaco
with them on torms so fair and
so broad-minded that In tho end
they found themselves much
better off than they hod boon bo
fore. What was the result?
- Well, for generations slnco
Napoleon the war-making poli
ticians and the saber-rattling dic
tators hnvo been trying to make
tho Italians and the Fronch hato
each other, but they've never
had much luck at it.
PRIVATE business operates on
the rule of "live and let live."
Business men (who are, of
course, sneered at nnd spit upon
by tho politicians) possess tho
simple common sense to realize
that a customer who Is broke
and hungry and filled with pois
onous hntrod Is no good what-
ever to any business establish
ment, whereas a customer who
is making money and getting
ahead In tho world Is one to bo
VALUED.
It is unfortunate that nations
have never been able to master
Othls slmplo and reasonable phil
osophy. '
AYBE peace based on tho
business rule of live and lot
live wouldn't work. Still, the
kind of peace we'vo been getting
at the hands of the politicians
and 'the demagogues hasn't
worked well enough to arouse
any great enthusiasm.
The Germans whipped the
Fronch at Sedan and rubbed
their noses In tho dirt and load
ed them down with debt, in tho
ensuing pcaco. The French
whetted their knives until 1014
and then turned tho tables on
tho Germans.
. Tho Gormans thon turned
around and boat tho French in
1940.
Where will It end?
At any rate, we can't call tho
method a good ono on tho basis
of results.
TT Is much too early to bo tnlk
Q 1 Ing about tho kind of peace
we're going to mako (though not,
perhaps, too early to bo THINK
ING about It.)
Bofore ve can mako ANY
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NEW CONFEREE
GROUP SIFTS
TUMBLE!
Unanimous Agree
ment Demanded by
McAllister
SALEM. March 8 (VP) The
Oregon legislature's Income tax
reduction question became in
creasingly muddled today when
Speaker of the House Wllllom
M. McAllister appointed a new
committee- to work out a com
promise. Tile speaker refused to accept
tho majority and minority re
port of tho conference commit
tee, holding that such a commit
teo either has to make a unani
mous report or be'dlscharged.
Two Schema
The committee's mojorlty re
port, signed by Sens. Dean H.
Walker, Independence, and Coe
A. McKcnna, Portland; and Rep.
Burt K. Snyder, Lakevlew, called
for tho use of $2,000,000 In sur
plus income tax revenues to re
dtice county property taxes this
year, nnd for a 30 per cent In
come tax cut effective with pay
ments mode next year.
Rep. John Hall, Portland, sub
mitted tho minority report pro
viding 30 per cent Income tax
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Aircraiters
Consider
W LB Ruling
LOS ANGELES, March 8 (VP)
Pacific coast aircraft workers
don't llko the war labor board's
recent wage ruling, but they al
so don't like strike talk in the
face of the nation's war needs.
This was the tenor of union
mass meetings from Seattle to
San Diego yesterday, called to
protest as Insufficient the WLB's
starting pay boosts of 4i cents
an hour in Seattle and 71 cents
an hour in southern California.
San Diego's meeting produced
by volo the proposal that Presi
dent Roosevelt order tho army
and navy to take over tho Con
solidated Aircraft corporation's
plant there. President Harvey
C. Brown of tho AFL Aeronaut
ical Mechanic's lodge 1125,
which claims 38,000 members
there, charged "collusion exists
in tho aircraft Industry, not for
prosecution of the war but for
selfish intorests."
Ho charges tho Consolidated
management Is Inefficient, and
avers that only a federal Inquiry
will "lot the people know why
wo aren't turning out more
planes."
At the Los Angeles meeting,
Presldont Dale Reed of tho AFL
International Association of Ma
chinists, lodge 727, advocated in
vestigation of the Wage dispute
by a presidential committee and
announced a meeting of tho
machinists' national representa
tives at Kansas City, to be held
not later than March 12.
Ignorance No Excuse Says
CPA About Price Violations
SAN FRANCISCO. March 8
(VP) -Sovoral hundred wholesnlo
vegetable dealers from western
states were warned by an official
of tho office of price administra
tion today that prlco ceilings
would bo enforced and that
"ignorance Is no excuse."
"Local enforcement frcnuont-
ly is behind but I can toll you
they catch up," said Geoffroy
Baker of tho OPA food prlco di
vision In Washington.
Ho told of a Kansas City. Mo..
Jobber who ho quoted as saying
mat no wouldn't be "bothered"
by regulation, and added that
"he's shown an intent to violate
tho law and ho will' be prose
cuted accordingly."
Baker said enforcement would
bo rigid "no matter how inequit
The Red
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Japanese Liner Wrecked on Beach
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Part of th Jap Invasion fUt which was zoutad by American warships In the aple NoTm
br 13-18, last, battle, tha one proud liner Kinugawa Maru lies with Its bow in th air and
stern dp in th water between Kokubona and Tassafaronga on Guadalcanal. American troops
wr attacking Jap iorcas near th ship when this pictur was made.
TAX PLAN OKAYED
House Ways, Means
Gives Nod to income
Tax Plan
By FRANCIS M. LE MAY
WASHINGTON, March 8 OF)
Tho house ways and means com
mittee approved tentatively to
day the source collection feature
of a pay-as-you-go Income tax
system, including a 20 per cent
withholding levy agnlnst the
taxablo portion of pay envelopes
and salary checks.
Chairman Doughton (D-N.C.)
said tho committee probably
would vole later In tho day on
the Ruml plan which proposes
to skip a tax year as a means of
tronsltlon to a, current collection
system.
Tho approval of source collec
tion endorsed tho action of a
sub-committco which , worked
out a method for pay-as-you-go
collections against America's
44,000,000 individual income
taxes.
Tho sub-committee by-passed
tho issue, raised by Ruml, and
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Housing Authority
Approves Building
At Tongue Point
WASHINGTON, Mnrch 8 ffl
Tho public housing authority has
advised Senator McNary (R-
Ore.) that It has approved the
construction of 20 accommoda
tions for couples and 40 family
dwellings at the Tonguo Point
naval base near Astoria, Ore.,
and 40 accommodations for
couples and 200 family dwelling
units for the Clatsop airbase and
other war industries of that vici
nity. able tho law may"seo'm'," but
added that regional OPA offices
had authority to adjust prlco
ceilings on proper showing of
need.
Ho estimated permanent ceil
ings, to replace those now In
effect, would bo placed by April
23 or 24, nftor hearings have
boon completed here and In
Texas and Florida. Hearings
already have been held, to ob
tain data, In New York and
Kansas City.
The first permanent ceilings In
regard to vegetables will bo
placed on lettuce and carrots,
ho said. More will follow for
greon peas, snap beans, spinach,
cabbage and others.
William Hadclor, executive
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Cross Is A Contribution To Your Man
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATJI FALLS, OREGON,
XSMU'JMHn
Fortresses
Bomb Rennes
Rail Yards
AT A U. S. BOMBER. STA
TION 'm ENGLAND, "March 8
(P) U. S. Flying Fortresses es
corted by RAF Spitfires plowed
a path through Relchmarshal
Goering's best fighters today and
bombed a freight train In the
railroad yards at Rennes, France.
(It was announced In London
that the French city of Rouen,
ISO miles northeast of Rennes,
also was attacked by heavy
American bombers). ,
"We sura plastered that tar
get," said the Tail-Gunner Stir
ling May of Sisters, Ore., a mem
ber of the crew of a Fortress
piloted by Lieut. Lynn Moklcr
of Clearwater, Calif,
"You could see it miles away.
Right after our bombs hit I
could see a big billow of b.lue
smoke go up."
The RAF Spitfire escort' ap
parently took the Germans by
surpricc.
"One Focke-Wulf pulled up
right alongside some of those
Spits," said Co-Pllot Harry Holt
of Tallulah, La. "Ho apparently
thought they were Focke-Wulfs
The Spits blew him right out of
the sky.
. "The Fortresses battled Goer
ing's yellow noses for a full 45
minutes from about three min
utes before they reached the
target to halfway back across
the channel."
Too Early to Think
About Fourth : Term,
Says Mrs. F. D. R.
WASHINGTON, March 8 P)
Mrs. Roosevelt, asserting "it's
too soon to begin to think about
a fourth term," said today:
"We may all be dead two years
from' now.
"Nobody knows what will hap
pen in the next few years," she
told her press conference. "I
think it is foolish (to hurt tho
general effort by bringing In a
question nobody knows about
now.
"It stirs political feeling which
niBy hurt the war effort. I don't
bellcvo In thinking ahead about
things - which will hold back
one's efforts."
Gilman Elected
Oregon Secretary
Of CIO Woodworkers
PORTLAND, Ore., March 8 (VP)
The CIO International Wood
workers announced today the
election of Richard Gilman as
secretary of the Cqlumbla Dis
trict council by referendum vote.
Gilman, former hiring hall
mannger here, succeeds Frank
Gordon, who resigned to go with
the war production board at
Seattle.
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1943
at Guadalcanal
STRIKE AT DELAY
Protest 'Unreasonable
Delay" of WLB in -Wage
Appeal
MISHAWAKA, Ind., March 8
(VP) Employes of the. United
States Rubber company's ball
band plant here went on strike
today in protest against' "un
reasonable delay" by the War
Labor board in Acting on an ap
peal for higher wages.. -.
In Washington the War Labor
board called upon them to re
turn to work immediately and
told them the board would not
act on the issues in controversy
while the strike continues, "
WLB spokesmen also explain
ed informally that a decision in
the case has been delayed be
cause it has been grouped with
about nine other rubber com
panies. A panel is making a gen
eral survey for the purpose of
wage stabilization within the in
dustry. Called yesterday at a series
of meetings held by members of
Local No. 65, United Rubber
Workers of America (CIO), the
strike started as the midnight
shift was scheduled to go on
duty. Only a few workers
showed up and they were in
formed of the strike by union
representatives stationed at each
plant gate. There was no dis
order and no picket lines were
established.
Charles Glaes, manager of the
plant,-said there was nothing
the company could do about the
demand for higher wages with
out an order from the WLB. Ap
proximately three-fourths of the
plant's output is used , in war
work.
George S. Cummins, president
of the upion, said the strike was
called as a protest against "un
reasonable delay" by -the WLB
in acting on the union's appeal
for increased wages. The union,
he said, had asked for an in
crease of 12 hi cents an ''hour.
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Oregon Manganese
Ore Okayed for
Steel Making
PORTLAND, March 8 (VP)
Manganese ore of the Tyrrell de
posit in the Lake Creek district
of Southern Oregon is very low
In silica, making it one of the
few Oregon manganese deposits
that can be used in steel making,
the state department of geology
and mineral industries reported
today. .
High grade manganese oxide
concentrates were produced by
the Tyrrell manganese mine dur
ing the first World war, Wallace
D. Lowry, department geologist,
said in a nowly published survey
of the Tyrrell district.
NEA FEATURES
Number 9739
KIT
IS GET
ET
E
Each Case Must Show
Inability To Meet
Deadline
WASHINGTON, March 8 (VP)
Guy T. Helvering, commissioner
of internal revenue, said today
taxpayers may be granted ad
ditional time to file income tax
returns due March 15 "if they
can make a showing that they
are unable to meet the deadline."
Instructions have gone out to
internal revenue collectors
throughout the country, Helver
ing said, but he emphasized that
every case would be handled on
its individual merits.
Senator Gillette (D-Iowa) earl
ier had' told reporters of advices
from Helvering that district col
lectors had been instructed to
grant extensions up to 60. days
in justifiable, cases because of the
confusion existing over tax leg
islation and war conditions.
Helvering said, however, that
he. gave Gillette an opinion
merely on an individual case'
which Gillette called to bis at
tention and that , the internal
revenue bureau had no intention
of - granting blanket extensions
to taxpayers in filing their in
come tax returns.
District collectors, the commis
sion said, have authority to grant
extensions up to 60 days, but
must obtain the approval of the
internal revenue commissioner
at Washington to grant an ex
tension beyond that time. The
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U. S. Withholds
Shipping From
Martinque
WASHINGTON, March. 8 (VP)
A showdown over the status of
Martinique and some 170,000
ton of merchant shipping in 4he
Carribbean apparently is being
forced by the United States
through the powerful lever of
withholding food supplies from
the French colony.
. Undersecretary of State Sum
ner Welles told a press confer
ence today that food shipments
to Martinique were suspended in
November month, of . the North
African invasion and added
they have not been resumed.
What was the meaning of cut
ting off American, supplies from
the island ruled by Admiral
Georges Robert? In reply to
that, Welles told his hearers to
draw their own conclusions.
That the French . merchant
tonnage in the Caribbean was an
important factor appeared one
Inescapable conclusion. Shortly
before the African landings, an
agreement . in principle was
reached on all military questions
raised by nearness to the United
States of French possessions and
warships under at least nominal
Vichy rule.
1
Administration Eyes Army,
Farm Manpower Needs
WASHINGTON, March 8 (VP)
The critical manpower problem
was attacked on a broad front
today as reliable reports made
clear that administration leaders
still hope to meet farm labor
needs without cutting down on
the armed forces.
Over the weekend:
1. Selective service announced
a four-point program for draft
deferment of essential 'farm
workers and men over 38 were
ordered reclassified in a move to
get them into farm work or pos
sibly into trre armed services.
2. A special committee headed
by Economic Stabilization Direc
tor' James F. Byrnes was dis
closed to be preparing for Presi
dent Roosevelt recommendations
covering program alined at
mm
His Sub Got 13 Ships
Lieut. Comdr. Lucius H.
Chappell (abova). of Columbus,
Ga was th commanding of
ficer of a submarine that th
U. S. navy' said sent ton Jap
merchant ships and thre of
Nippon's, warships to Pacific
ocean grave. (U. S. navy pho
to). Fresh . Soviet Troops
Pour Into Gaps in'
German Lines
LONDON, March 8 (VP) .
Th Russians announced in a
special communiqu tonight,
th capture of Syehsvka, mid
way of the 70-mil re!l lin
between Rihev and Vyaima.
The Germans had - an
nounced th evacuation of th
town on th bulge opposite
Moscow earlier, saying they
left without opposition to
shorten-their line.
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, March 8 (VP) The
red army rolled on westward to
day with fresh soviet troops
pouring into gaps in the German
lines' far west of Gzhatsk and
south of Olenino where two Rus
sian - columns apparently are
planning the doom of the import
ant German base at Vyazma, 35
miles west of Gzhatsk. '
The capture of more than a
hundred more settlements was
reported in the last 24 hours,
while numerous others are fall
ing continuously and still 6thers
are blockaded by the red army
and on the verge of falling.
Winter weather is still hold
ing its strong grip on central
and northern Russia, but during
the day the fast climbing sun
melts the top layers of snow and
ice. They freeze again quickly
when the shadows hit them.
Two large red army forces are
slicing large chunks- out of the
German lines and converging in
the area northwest of Gzhatsk.
One of these forces, driving
west and northwest from
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meeting manpower problems
generally.
It was stated on high authori
ty that the White House commit
tee vhlch includes Bernard M,
Baruch, Harry Hopkins, Admiral
William D, Leahy and Justice
Samuel I. Rosenman of New
York has reached agreement
on the principle that whatever
is done, there should be no re
duction in 1943 military goals
calling for a total of 10,800,000
men.
Meanwhile, a congressional
group led by Senator Bankhead
(D-Ala) has demanded that this
figure be reduced to leave more
men on the. farms to cops with
a threatened food shortage.
Bankhead will attempt to
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In Service
IMMJinrr :rJfMMinrM( LI i-l-IM, Ih'i; iri; ! Wrif hJ:. -ft i,J; UMP! :NI,
March 7 High 10. Low 87
PraclplUtlon as ol March I. 1943 -
Btraam year to data ....1J.JI
Last year 9,92 Normal 8.20
Ml
RETREAT TO
E
Rommel Flees to Hills
To Avoid Withering .
British Fire
By HAROLD V. BOYLE
ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, March 8
(VP) Marshal Erwin Rommel's
initial smashes at the British
eighth army - have failed and
"round one - Is over" with his
tanks and - infantrymen in re
treat toward Mareth line posi
tions north and northwest of
Medenlne, a complete military
source said today. ,
"Round one has been won
by the eighth army," he added.
Gen. Sir Bernard Montgom
ery's men, after stopping two'
German attacks Saturday morn
ing, disrupted four more thrusts
in the course of the afternoon
and forced Rommel to withdraw
again into the hills, it wag an
nounced. .. -
Battered by ground fire and
harassed by aerial bombard,
ments, 33 of Rommel's tanks',
were destroyed while not a sin
gle British tank was knocked
put, a communique disclosed.
The heavy action at the south
ern end of the Tunisian front
was accompanied by aggressive
allied patrol activity and local,
gains in the north and destruc
tive aerial blows at an axis
convoy sighted in the Medlter-'
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Knox Promises
Five-Ocean Navy
By Fall of 1945 r
WASHINGTON, March 8 (VP)
All of the nation's projected
five-ocean navy four' times as
large as the naval force in 1939
will be ready for sea duty by
the end of 1945, Secretary of
the Navy Knox says. '
Attainment of that goal two
years ahead of original expecta
tions will be possible, he said in
his annual report to the presi
dent, because "speeded up con
struction has broken all previous
records" in naval shipbuilding.
Included in the super navy,
he said, will be all the author
ized tonnage except "some large
units upon which work has been
suspended due to material short
tages and the length of time re- .
quired to build." More than
5,675,000 tons of naval craft
have been authorized since the
outbreak of the European war.
17
NAZI TANKS
MARETH
Involved Evacuees
From Newell Held in
Tulelake CCC Camp
' A nearby CCC camp Is being
used for segregation of evacuees
opposed to registration for mili
tary service and job clearance
at the Tulelake WRA center, It
was disclosed today by Director
Harvey Coverley.
Coverley said 101 evacuee
are detained at the Tulelake CCC
camp, about eight miles from
the main evacuee settlement
south of Tulelake.
Persons at the CCC camp In
clude evacuees who wero recent
ly arrested In connection with
agitation and disturbances over
the registration program. It if
expected they will be moved
later on to another project.
Registration was reported as
proceeding on an orderly basis,
with 4585 evacuees registered a
of Friday night.
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