r
Serais
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On 8-mlnute blast en siren and whlitlt
Is the signal for blackout In Klimith
. Fall.. Another long blit, during a black
out, la ilgnal for all-clear. In prteau
nonary periou, waicn your auaai iignu. i
ailnfxj'iarin.n lt iixivirnnri.nnnnrinririirii"iiii""" "
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By FRANK JENKINS
CAN FnANClSCO n d rain-
. Ing a llltlo.
That lined to bo Important, In
. a way,; for In thoso used-to-be
day thnt now are dead, ono
cams to Sun Francisco, prlmurlly
, on business but always looked
forward to mixing In a littlo
.' pleaiuro aa a sideline. Pleasure la
, greatly abetted by a eparkllng
, aun shining from a aky that baa
been washed clean by the morn
lug fog that la a familiar part
of the climatic aldo of life in
thla pleasant and livable city.
, In these present days, one
thinks lens and less of mixing in
a little pleaiuro with his bus
iness.; v, , .:...'
THAT statement (about mixing
A pleasure with business); when
set: down In cold type, may
sound a little smug and affected
like, trying for a pose.
' It Isn't down here.
- . ' -...it.. :'
NE drops Into cocktail bar
j "long toward evening, hav-
Ing In mind th relaxation that
supposedly come with the cock
tail hour.
" The bar will be thickly sprin
kled with service men; clean
looking soldier and sailors and
marine. That will be-nothing
gawi for? It hai been that way
ere'fnr a year arid a half...
The thing that IS new Is an In
tangible thing. You can't put
your finger on It. But It is there.
You can't touch 'it or taste it or
imeH it,-". '' .
But you cap SENSE It. '
V YOUNa'sauor walks In. Ha
'walk wltri a cane.. Around
his neck la metal harness that
keeps hi head In the air and hi
face straight to the front. . .
Beside him walks young
woman. Solicitude I In her face
and pride in her eye as she
guides him to a table and helps
bim Into a seat.
- Happiness invests hor like a
garment,
.,-.,
COMETHINO n a p s in your
7 brain. ' The haunting differ
ence In the atmosphere that has
seemed to make-this familiar
. place UNFAMILIAR to you be
comes suddenly Clear and tang
ible 'and understandable.
The thing that la NEW la the
physical experience of war. This
' boy has been there, and he bears
the marks of It,
The happiness that Invests his
young wife like a garment is
built upon the knowledge that
- he Is there, with her, and Is born
of the long hours when she didn't
. know where he was or whother
he would ever be with her again.
...
npHE scales fall from your eyes,
. With your cleared and sharp
ened vision, you look about you.
The-difference that formerly
puwlod you ;Js now as clear. as
day. ''.':; ' . . - "
As for the past year and a half,
the bulk of the boys around you
1 are In uniform. But many ' of
the' Uniforms bear foreign serv
ice stripes.
The faces above the collars
re graver. The eyes in the faces
have been places end-have seen
thing.
Because of the things they
have teen, -they are no longer
' boys.' ' ' 1
'A YEAR and a half ago, or even
, . as late as a year ago, tha
hotel lobbies and the bars- of
San Francisco woro gay,
- It was a brlttlo gaiety, and the
, (Continued on page two) ,
Mountains Yield
Wrack of Bomber
TUCSON, Arlr., March 11 ()
The, rugged Galluro mountains
today reluctantly yielded tho
- wreckage of a B-24 army bomber
missing f r o m DavlB-Monthan
field with 11 men aboard since
January 18, ;
When first sighted from the
air by a civil air patrol pilot,
base, officers believed It' to be
the .wreckage of a B-17 from
. Lockbourne field, Columbus,
Ohio, which disappeared on a
t light from Portland, Ore., on
Vweh .
m
ILLS. $Mm M Jap
This picture shows evacuees of Japanese dtscent reglstartng for military service or Job clear
ance at the Tulelake war relocation project. Registration has bean proceeding for Mveral week,
end ha been the source of agitation which resulted in arrest end segregation of numerous evacuees.-
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FERTILIZER LACK
Shortage Arouses Serf-
ous -Concern for...;:
1943 Increase t
Klamath basin; potato grow
ers' plans to Increase production
this year in answer to wartime
demands are In Jeopardy as a re
sult' of1 serious mortage In
fertilizer,, it was learned from
several agricultural sources here
Thursday. , . . s .
Widespread efforts are being
made to assure the potato In
dustry here of an ample supply
of annonlum - phosphate, com
monly known as. 16-20, the fert
ilizer generally used by basin
potato, growers. : Appeals have
gone' to numerous government
egencles end the - congressional
delegations of Oregon and Cali
fornia, with no tangible results
as yet. Opinion prevails' hero
that the shortage is somehow
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Waterfront Workers
Said on "Slowdown"
SACRAMENTO. Cailf ., 'March
11 P) An employer spokes
man s Insistence that labor
slowdowns" are hampering ship
loadings on the west. coast and
a union leader's equally unquali
fied statement to the contrary
cast confusion today over the
effectiveness of efforts to ac
celerate longshore operations.
"There is an organized slow
down" among waterfront work
ers in the Pacific ports,' F. B.
Folsle of San Francisco declared
last night, and "I stand ready
to prove that." .
Missing Keith
Reported Italian Prisoner
"I em all right, I have not
been wounded, I am a prisoner
of the Italians," is' the message
received this woek from Kolth
Argraves by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack W. Argraves, at their
home In Portland. ,
The Argraves were overjoyed
when word reached, them from
their son, sent through tho gov
ernment and signed in his own
handwriting, as he had been re
ported missing In action in
North Africa on December 28,
and this was the first news of his
safety.
The rest of tho message said,
"I'm being treated well, Shortly
X shall be trnnferred to a prison
ers' camp and I will let you have
my new address. Only then will
I be able to receive letters from
you and . to. reply. .With love,
Kolth."
Keith, taken prisoner ef war
while Bcrvlng with tho para
troopers In'' North Africa, is a
former Klamath Falls', boy and
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE. CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11,. 1943
'li'i.if) AllVlluTi A.I.li'HHAIfJf)
Evacuees Register at Tulelake
' j.
RAF Bombs
Destroy 2000
Nazi Plants
-. LONDON, March-W MPI-rThe
RAF's ceaseless bombing offens
ive, now showering German
Europe with fire and explosives
at the rate of more than 10,000
tons- -a month, . ha - already
wrecked more then 2000 Ger
man factories and left more than
1,000,000 Germans homeless, Air
Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair
told the house of commons today.
' Declaring that photographic
reconnaissance showed that the
raid on Essen, home of the Krupp
arsenals, on the night of March
8-8 "probably was the heaviest
blow struck at German' war in
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Oklahoma Farm
Families Asked-.
To Go to Oregon
' OKLAHOMA CITY, March .11
(W) One hundred-Oklahoma
farm families .within the next
two or three weeks will be of
fered free trips to Oregon .and
Washington for resettlement 'in
labor , shortage areas, . farm se
curity ' administration officials
disclosed yesterday: ' --
' Ted Watson, regional FSA of
ficial, confirmed . by ' telephone
from Dallas reports the. federal
agency planned to recruit ."un
dor employed"' Oklahoma farm
labor for transfer to the . west
coast.' , !(''"
Watson, adding he had au
thority to recruit 300 Texas
families also, said the FSA be
lieves : Oklahoma has -enough
farm labor if It Issued in maxi
mum production rather than in
so-called subsistence or seasonal
farm work. ' ' '
Argraves
Keith Argravet
spent a brief furlough' here be
fore sailing for England where
his outfit was stationed for a
time, He Is a nephew of Mr,
and Mrs. . Virgil. Veltch. of this
city
ii
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
Project
j "i fry "
.Ail 1 tKt-.li V .
'.i .v 'i
T'-'yi"
Way CJeq red; to Pass
. Broad Fjprm. Lflfeor'
. ' Deferment V i
WASHINGTON, March 11 f);
The senate turned down today,
49 to 32,. a proposal by Senator
O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) to broaden
the present system of droit deferment-
for farm workers but
in so doing apparently cleared
the .way . foe -early passage of
even' broader legislation, which
would direct deferment of work
ers employed ''substantially full
time" on forms. ; .
The O'Mahoney bill, support
ed ' largely .: by administration
forces, would . have broadened
provisions of the present law un
der .which local draft boards are
directed' to excuse essential agri
cultural workers from service if
no replacement con be found.
-. It would have preservedihow
ever, the so-called "unit system"
by which the amount df farm
work actually done Is taken into
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L-r . .. ''y
Limitation of
Salaries BUI
Heard in House
WASHINGTON, March 11 (IP)
The bill to repeal President
Roosevelt's limitation on salaries
to $25,000 after taxes was up
held in house debate today as
necessary tq Vgovernment by
law" and opposed as likely to
lead to "a flood of demands for
wage increases."
Replying to the argument of
Rep. Cox (D-Ga.) that the re
pealer Is necessary to keep pub
lic confidence in a law-making
system of government, Rep.
Gors (D-Tenn.) contended that
it "would break the back' of
the government's anti-Inflation
efforts In wage stabilization and
"gamble with economic chaos."
Gore warmly maintained that
the president had authority to
promulgate the salary limita
tion, recalled that congress earl
ier .had declined to deal with
the problem and said that In his
opinion "our intent here was to
get rid of a hot potato, so we
turned it over to the president."
J. P. Morgan Heart
Condition Worse
NEW YORK, March 11 (Pi
The office o( J. P. Morgan here
announced late today that the
condition of the financier, 111 in
Boca Grande, Fla., "haa deterior
ated during the day end is re
garded as grave,"
Yesterday the 75-ycar-old
banker, -who suffered a heart
ailment while vacationing in
Florida, was reported to be Im
proving. .
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ALLIED PLANES
1
Americans Break Up
22-Plane Japanese ;
Attack
By The Associated Press
American warp lanes ranging
the skies in trie South Seas bat
tle theater blasted three Jap
anese bases in the central. Sol
omons and broke up a 22-plane
Japanese attack : northwest of
Guadalcanal island, shooting
down four enemy raiders, and
the navy today added this tag
line of victory: . r - . :
"No United States planes were
lost during these actions."
Ten Japanese dive ' bombers,
escorted by 12 Zero fighters,
made up the attacking force
which' was presumably - headed
for American-held Guadalcanal.
One of the bombers and three
Zeros were shot down,
;. Nor were any U. S. planes lest,
the navy said, in sizable attack
Jin-he-Jopanr outpost'Bt Klska
fin the AleutiAs, where hife Were
scored in- the enemy encampment-
-; 7- .. ,. .
: Allied warplsnes, . striking at
japan's vital supply lines, were
officially credited with destruc
tive attacks on five more Jap
anese merchant ships in .' the
southwest Pacific, while on the
Burma front theRAF continued
to punish Japanese invasion
forces.- . .- '" " ;'
American airmen also hit the
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Coaf Miners'
Pay Increase
Turned Down
NEW YORK, March It W
Northern bituminous coal oper
ators refused today - to accept
virtually all the demands made
by John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of
America, for a new contract.
. Charles O'Neill, . spokesman
for the northern operators, de
clared at the Appalachian joint
wage conference that the de
mands, which include a basic per
day Increase of $2 for 450,000
miners, would cost about $750,
000,000. . !
Union officials had estimated
the demands, if granted, would
cost 40 cents a ton for the nation
as a whole or $240,000,000 for
1943 on 600,000,00 tons request
ed by tho government, ' 'v; ;
When O'Neill said the wage
Increase demand -would cost
about $750,000,000, Lewis rose
and declared: ' '; , "
"Why don't you move it up-to
a billion? You might as Well.
It would be Just as true."
O'Neill then asserted: .
"The operators say to these
demands as made and offered:
No."
Discussing the war labor
board, whose Little Steel form
ula has been denounced by
Lewis, O'Neill declared: :
"Wo do not propose here, to
argue the propriety of the Little
Steel formula. Under the facts
as wo know them the Little Steel
formula would deny any general
Increase In wages to the United
Mine Workers of America.
See Garden v
Table on
Page Nine
- Victory gardening is promi
nently featured , on today's
agricultural page (Paget 9) and
included in an ' Important
planting table which will be ef
.interest, particularly to new
gardeners. An article by Bob
McCambrldge, assistant coun
ty agent, give gardening in
formation applicable to - the
Klamath area. .
ENEMY
N SOLOMONS
NEA FEATURES
; ' Number 9742 (
IMJUWL
Klamath's Mail Carrierette
r
If' y
V v i '
Klamath Falls . pott office, like other business 'In war tlztue.
substitutes women for male employes.. First .'woman, foot;, letter
carrier, is Bessl v.. Snook, who
stitute on. March 8. Sh.U shown
tha pott of flea for her. daily stint.
MailCarriereit$L
Latest Wrinkle
At Post Office
Klamath west end citizens no
longer wonder where the mail
man is. Now it's "I wonder
what's keeping that girl today.','
Yes, everyone on .carrier route
No. 3 is how having his mall box
filled by mall carrierette. " '
Bessie v.. Snook was sworn in
as - temporary substitute ', letter
carrier on March 8 and has start
ed her work of delivering1 mail.
She is the first woman foot let
ter carrier in Klamath Falls; her
delivery district being west of
Third street from Klamath ave
nue' to California avenue and the
west -side of Link river. '
After pounding the pavement
for three days with a load of 50
pounds on her back, Bessie says
that she still hasn't got sore feet!
New York; Faces
Potato Famine .
NEW YORK, March 11 W)
F. H. Vahlsing,. one of the
country's: large: growers and
shippers of potatoes, soys New
York City, faces a potato, fam
ine - and that, potato black mar
kets ase "prevailing all over
the United States.".
"The ..potato, situation is get
ting out of hand," he said yes
terday in announcing he : had
sent identical telegrams express
ing this view to OPA Adminis
trator Prentiss M. .Brown and
Economic Stabilization,'' Director
James F. Byrnes.
Legislature Adjourns Session Marked by
Numerous Schemes to Relieve Taxpayers
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM, March 11 (P) De
layed by , a five-hour sales tax
battle in. the .house, .Oregon's
42nd legislative assembly ended
its session at 11:42 p. m. last
night. , V
: After both houses had com
pleted legislative action on the
3 per cent sales tax bill, which is
referred to the people, sales tax
proponents waged an unsuccess
ful battle to have a special elec
tion next November 2, so the
voters could decide then If they
want the sales tax. Now they
will have to wait until Novem
ber, 1944 to vote on It. '
The senate voted 22 to 8 yes
terday afternoon to hold the
special election. Tho bill ar
rived In the house at 6:30 p. m.,
and the battle started. After a
dozen ballots, the house voted 31
to 29 against holding the special
election.
The 89-day session was the
shortest sinceihe 67-day session
in 1937. The yj39 66-day session
a
J .
was sworn in as temporarr sub
above as he;tart out from
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LEND LEASE GOES :
ID
Senate Passes Program
Jo: Continue Actv
Oma Vnr
-WASHINGTON. March 'It
(ff1) President Bootevelt ' sign- -ed
into law today a bill x-'
" tending', the- lend-lease pro
; gram another ytar, acting lit
tle 'more than an hour 'after
tha' senate' had passed , it : t2
to o.- !--' --..rj
WASHINGTON', March ll(ff)
The- seriate passed and sent to
the White House, today legisla
tion to . continue operations of
the lend lease program for one
year beyond June 30. The vote
was 82-0. , - ... .. -'
, Acting less . then 24 hours
after the house had' approved
the measure by a 407 to 6 vote,
the senate completed legisla
tive consideration of the .bill
after . only two hours of debate
on the second - anniversary ;of
the signing of the original leg
islative authorization. '
" It had before it at that time
a report showing that the dollar
value of materials and services
supplied to other nations in the
world's greatest mutual-aid pro
gram had mounted to $9,632,
000,000 in its first two years.
. Stettinlus said that- 'While
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was the longest in history, while
the 1941 session of 63 days, was
the second longest., v.'.,
- The-42nd Oregon-legislature
was -unique in that It adopted
eight different kinds of tax re
lief, whereas most of its prede
cessors had increased taxes.
, The high point of the session
was the' reduction of .nersonal
and corporation Income taxes be
ginning with next year's pay
ments and continuing as long as
the big income tax surplus holds
out.- Next year's reduction will
be about 35 per cent. ;
Other forms of tax relief In
clude giving school districts $8,
000,000 a year to reduce proper
ty taxes, virtually exempting
members of the armed forces
from income taxes, reduction of
gift taxes, repeal of the surtax on
unearned income, adoption of a
community property 'law that
will save Oregonians $9,000,000
a year In federal income taxes,
quarterly payment of Income
taxes, and increasing from 30 to
March 10 High SS, Low 94
Precipitation aa of March 4, 184
' Stream year to data 13,!J
Last, year .......-.... Normal ...., (.31
if o) 7 R
MARETH FLANK
MOVE CLOSES
TI
Reds Almost Completo
Encirclement of '
Vyazma
By ROGER GREENE
. . Secretary of War Stlmson said
today that Fighting French
troops had made contact with,
other French legions in a flonlt.
ing movement around the south
em end of the Mareth line In
Tunisia. Such a movement
meant the sealing of the trap '
on 250,000 axis troops under
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. .
, Stimson said Gen. Le Clerc'g
Fighting French columns, who
had driven more than 1200
miles across the- desert from
Lake Chad in the heart of equa
torial Africa, - closed the rin
around the axis by contacting
Gen. Henri' - Honore Giraud'a
French forces.-- .
"In ' northern Tunisia, allied)
military ' quarters announced,
CoL-Gen. Jurgin von Arnim'a
axis, forces attacked. British first
army lines in the Sedjenane seo.
tor . with dive-bomber support
yesterday but were driven, of!
with heavy losses.. ....-.
Frontline dispatches aald ah
lied troop continued to squeeze
closerHto;, the German: base1 at
Gafsa, on the" central , Tunisian
front,., and French troops were
reported .-closing around. - the
strong point. ''-- "'
On the Russian front. Hitler's
high command asserted that
nazl shock troops were battling
"on the edges of Knarkov, iq
.'.v(Contlnued on Page Two)
Truman Blames
Conflict as Vcr
Shortcoming
WASHINGTON, March 11 VPf '
Inadequate planning, conflicting'
authority and hesitancy to adopt -unpopular
but necessary policies ...
are 'blamed by the senate's Tru-.
man committee for the nation'!
shortcomings in its war effort upv
to date. ;
However the special commit
tee investigating the war . pro
gram reported late yesterday
that these "three basic weak
nesses" in the government are
fast being . corrected, and ex
pressed supreme confidence In
victory. -. : .-
No agency or group in the na
tion, was held solely responsible,
and the committee which is
headed by Senator Truman (D
Mo.) declared "various sectors of
the public have been guilty
along with the - government."
Much of the "confusion and bick
ering" it termed inevitable, add
ing that perhaps it was a condi
tion due to the "democratic form
of government where men do
freely express their opinions and
are -not -' subject to dictatorial
orders."'
75 per cent the personal proper
ty offset against the corporation
Income tax, which will save In
dustrial concerns about 10 per
cent of their taxes.
' Sales Tax Vote
If the people vote in Novomv
ber, 1944 to pass the legislature's
3 per cent sales tax, they auto
matically would cut property
and income taxes even more.
Highway legislation will give
cities S per cent of highway rev
enues for maintenance of city
streets, legalize, big trucks for
the duration, permit the high
way commission to make agree
ments with cities to close city
streets entering state highways,
and compel automobile owners
to prove financial responsibility
after having traffic accidents.
The legislature refused to allow
any permanent Increase in the
truck weight and length limits.
: Liquor bills took up much of
the time of the lawmakers. They
voted to give liquor store ,
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