aitu
On 8-mlnuU blast on ilrni and whiilUi
li the signal tor blackout In Klamath
Falls. Anothar long blast, during a black
out, li a ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau
tionary periods, watch your atraai Ughti.
By FRANK JENKINS
UP north wo'vo been hairing
rim lull i.1. ,.1,.., f,l
shortages lii Sun Pruncisco. They
are exiiggcrutcd.
On the basis of tha huh yean
of the punt, when our bis prob-
lorn wos to find a market for the
mountain! of food wo produced
every year, there li a mcusure
of icarclty In certain Horns In
thli city that la ringed around
with war Industries.
But no one la going hungry.
Considering tho fact Hint we are
up to our necks In a world war,
no one la being seriously incon
venienced. Certainly no ono i
being actually hurt.
VJEAT In the scarcest item.
A Mot of the hotels aro ob
serving meatless Mondays and
Fridays. Elsewhere, meatless
Tuesday seems to ba more or less
Hit rule. But by "meatless" is
meant no beef or pork. There is
plenty of chicken or other fowl.
Thoro Is mutton and Inmb. There
is brains and sweetbreads, and
usually liver.
More in this fish food center
of western America, thero Is
much complaint as to fish. Not
that it Isn't moderately plentiful,
it just doesn't come straight from
the boat to the table, as it once
did. ; The fishing fleets Imvo
been Interfered with by war. .
TN the foreign colonies, especlal-
ly the Italian, there la cap
rettl, which Is young goat. Nor
mal Americans, for some reason,
are prejudiced against goat meat,
but those who have been Induced
to ovcrcomo their psychological
allergies and try It say that cap
rettl is delicious.
EAT Isn't non-existent, by
any means. But to get it tho
family shopper needs to ba some
what on tha alort. Tho general
theory Is first come first served,
but human nature is human
nature, and tho avcrngo estab
lished meat market man has a
tendency to lake caro of his reg
ular customers at tho expenso of
the casual drop-ins. Especially
Mt in the suburbs.
Here In tho down-town city It-
ailf. thorn Is testimony to tho
O effect that It pays to keep a sharp
evo out for tha meat wagon and
make a dosh for the butcher's as
soon as it Is sighted in tho offing.
. If you get thero too long after
the day's supply hns been de
livered, you ro apt to be aisnp
pointed.
TT seems to bo definitely truo
thnt housewives don't plan
their meat menus days and days
ahead, as they onco did. They
servo more or less what they can
get, and if tho head of tho family
doesn't llko what is provided
they Invito lilm to go out and
do tho meat shopping for himself
and sco what ho can do.
JOIJTTER Isn't thrown around.
D In the public eating places,
you sot ono pat and If you get
edgy and demand moro tho wolt-
rcss smiles pleasantly but i irmiy
and reminds you that we aro at
war. , .
But If you ordor grlddlo cakes,
you get butter enough to make
them palatable, 'mo stores ra
tion their customers to a half
pound at a time, and sometimes
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Roosevelt Has No
Views on Fourth
Term at Press Meet
WASHINGTON. March 12 (IP)
President Roosevelt told Inquir
ing reporters today that ho did
, not think ho had any views to
express on two Whlto House con
ferences recently in which tho
question of a fourth term was
mentioned.
Let's got on with tho war, he
euggostcd, when asked whether
he had anything to say about
rocont meetings with officials of
I the democratic nntlonnl commit
tco and with Representative Sab
nth (D-Ill.).
It was the first tlmo that tho
fourth term question had risen,
won Indirectly, -at a press conference.
Three Saved After
1
On the deck of a U. S. patrol boat, three survivors of aa
astounding m saga try thtlr first solid food after spending 83
days on an open Ufa raft In tha South Atlantic. Thtlr ship was
torpadoad off tha Braalllan coast. Left to right ara Cornelius
Van dar Slot and Nick Hoogendam, both of Holland, and U. 8.
Navy Armed Guardsman Basil lisl. South . Barry. Mass. Patrol
Boat Crewman Raymond Buckley kneels betide them at. right
Kiska Jap Positions Hit:
By American Bombers
WASHINGTON, March 12 (IF)
American bombers and fighters
blasted Japanese gun positions
and buildings on Klska island
in tho Aleutians, the navy an
nounced today, In a violent, low
lovel attack agulnat tho Japanese
outpost last Wednesday,
' Communique, number 307,
said: -
"North Pacific:
1. On Morch 10th:
"(A) During the morning,
United States aircraft attacked
Japancso positions at Kiska and
scored bomb hits In the target
area.
"(B) Later in the morning, a
forco of Liberator heavy bomb
ers (Consolidated B-24), Mitchell
medium bombers (North Ameri
can B-2,1) and Lightning fighters
(Lockheed P-3H) again attacked
enemy Installations at Klska. An-
Michigan, Iowa
Ask Law Limiting
President's Term
DES MOINES, Ia March 12
Ml The overwhelmingly repub
lican -Iowa houso bf representa
tives adopted a resolution today
asking congress to Initiate a con
stitutional amendment limiting
tho tenure of offlco "of any pres
ident of the United States to
two terms of four years each,"
LANSING, Mich., March 12
(IP) Tho republican-dominated
state scnato today adopted a con
current resolution petitioning
congress to initiate a constitu
tional amendment to forbid any
president of the United States
moro than two terms of four
years each.
Congress Charged With
Post-War Responsibiliiy
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, March 12 (IF)
President Roosevelt said today
that it is squarely up to' con
gress whether tho nation would
havo a great post-war delay in
providing jobs for men leaving
tho armod serviced and war in
dustries. . Mr. Roosevolt made his state
ment at a press conference. A
little later the senate adopted
a resolution by Sonator George
(D-Ga.) to crcnto a 10-mnn scn
ato committee to investigate tho
wholo postwar economic field
and report from tlmo to tlmo.
In his meeting with roport-
era, the president did not go
into tho broad recommendations
of the national resources plan
ning Doara ior a postwar econ
omy.
But he did say, in response
to questions, that tho burden
and responsibility for continued
planning rests entirely - in con
gress nowhere else.
Tho house, Iihr refused to-vote
funds for continuing-the work
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
7 Ia'Snii.wkr A S7
83 Days on Raft
tl-alrcraft batteries were bombed
and strafed at low level and hits
were scored. Three buildings In
the camp area were damaged by
heavy bomb hlta. Anti-aircraft
flro was encountered, but - all
United Stnten DlnnoB returned. .
"South Pacific: (Airaates are
East Longitude.)
"2. On March II, during the
early morning, Liberator heavy
bombers (Consolidated PB4Y)
carried out minor bombing at
tacks on Japancso positions at
Kahili and Ballale in the Short
land island area and at Vila in
the central Solomons. Results
were not observed. All United
States planes returned. .
The Klska raid was one of tho
heaviest delivered by the Aleu
tians air command In several
weeks, although the Japanese
basa has been repeatedly pound
ed whenever weather permitted.
It has been the target of five
reported raids so far this month,
counting the two actions dis
closed in today's communique.
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Hitler Suffers '
Complete Breakdown;
Report Unconfirmed
WASHINGTON, March 12 (IF)
The state department has re
ceived unconfirmed reports that
Adolf Hitler Is suffering from a
complete breakdown, Acting Sec-
rotary of Stato Welles said to
day. .
Welles did not imply that the
department was attaching much
Importance to them. He merely
asserted, In answer to press con
ference questions, that tho de
partment had received uncon
firmed reports similar to those
published about Hitler In the
newspapers of various countries
recently.
of the planning board, but the
scnato has taken no final action
on the issue.
' Mr. Roosevelt said that the
board has listed about $7,000,
000 worth of public works to
make up unemployment which
would affect a great many pco
plo ' upon demobilization and
closing of war plants. -
' It is all vory well' for con
gress to pass legislation, he as
serted,, but you don't start hu
man beings to work on a pro
ject by passing an appropriation.
i You havo to havo engineering
and specifications completed be
forehand, he remarked.
Thus far, Mr. Roosevelt said.
only about $1,000,000,000 in
projects have been approved and
specifications for them drafted,
and these projocts would not
employ a great many people.
It is squarely up to congress,
tho prcsldont declared, whether
we are going to have a . great
hiatus, whether there will be
jobs only on paper or jobs ready
to start. i
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
Ch
Meat Rationing
Starts March 29
By IRVING PERLMETER
WASHINGTON, March 12 (IP) Beef, pprk, lamb and mutton
will bo rationed at an average of about two pounds a week for
home consumption starting Monday, March 29. Rationing of
butter, cheese, other edible fats and oils and canned fish will
start at the so mo time.
Through this long-expected action, the government hopes to
even up the civilian supplies, which have been curtailed by huge
diversions to the armed forces and lend-lease. Local 'shortages
are expected to disappear quickly. .
Harold B. Rowe, in chrfrge of food rationing, at the office of
price administration, said the al-
lotments will be proportionately
more generous than the limits
put earlier this month on canned
frozen and dry fruits and veg
etables.
'The meat ration," he said,
"probably will be more than
many low Income families will
be able to afford, although less
than the average purchases of
middle or high income families,
In the light of existing ra
tloning programs, the new plan
will bring restrictions to the
largest part of the typical Amer
ican diet. Still unrationed on
tho basis of today's announce
mentwill be milk, cereals, fresh
fruits and vegetables, baker'
goods, and numerous specialties
such as relishes.
From, the customer viewpoint,
the unrationed oasis of food will
be the restaurant or other public
eating place. These places will
be rationed on their supplies,
but will not collect coupons.
Details of the program were
announced partly last night by
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
K..WJokard and partly this morn
ing- by Price Administrator
Prentiss M. Brown!
: America's diet thus was tight
ened up within a few hours after
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T
12
Fighters Bagged
In Fight Over
Oro Bay
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN. AUSTRALIA. Morch 12 (IF)
Fourteen Japanese planes, two
bombers and 12 fighters, were
shot out of action yesterday in
8n attempt to raid Oro bay, on
the east coast of New Guinea
the allied command announced
today.
The Japanese, again muster
ing a show of air power in the
Southwest Pacific, sent over 12
bombers escorted by 16 fight
ers to attack Oro bay, where
three days ago they sank a
small merchant ship in a raid,
A headquarters communique
satd allied losses were light.
The Japanese also sent two
bombers over the allied base at
Wau, south of Salamaua, last
night , but there was neither
damage nor. casualties, it was
declared.
General Douglas MacArthur's
fliers, in turn, bombed Japanese
airdromes at Rabaul, New Brit
ain, and at Finschhnfen, New
Guinea, and attack planes bomb
ed and strafed enemy positions
In the Mubo sector of - New
Guinea, it was announced.
In the latter area Vickcrs
Ridge, a mile southeast of Mubo,
and Guadagasal Ridge, south of
Vlckers, were the objectives.
NEW DELHI, (IF) Continu
ing their destructive assaults
against Japanese installations In
Burma, heavy four motored
bombers of the 10th United
States airforce poured "many
tons" of explosives on an enemy
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Oregon High
School Hoop
Meet Results
By The Associated Press
-' Class A (First Round)
Astoria 32, Salem 28.
Baker 84, St. Helens 36.
Klamath Falls 30, Eugene
19. '
Pendleton 30, Ortgon City
29.
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1943
r a .
AFRICAN Alll
FORCES HIT
Allies Soften German
Lines in Mareth
Area ' ' '
By WES GALLAGHER'
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, March 12
(IF) The RAF announced today
that its western desert air force
had destroyed 21 of Field Mar
shal Rommel's armored, vehicles
a-ttack'nK'SLUied ground forces. at
Ksar Rhilarie, west of the south
ern end of the Mareth.. V ;
Original reports said the Ger
mans attacked with about 30
armored cars. The. RAF an
nouncement Indicated therefore
that the greater part of the at
tacking force had been wiped
out.
Allied bombers and fighters
began softening Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel's troop positions
and supply lines in the Mareth
area yesterday as British and
American ground, forces beat off
three attacks by Col. Gen. Jur-
gen von Arnim in North Tunisia,
it was announced today.
Axis infantry and artillery
(Continued on page two)
Washington Law
Men Quit After
60-Day Session
OLYMPIA, Wash.', March 12
(IP) The 28th regular Washing
ton state legislative session, first
war-time meeting since state
hood, adjourned sine die early
today with a record of. enacting
many far-reaching measures dur
ing a 60-day period marked by
the partial wrecking of the re
publican governor's program.
The session dragged out last
night until the clocks had to be
stopped at 11:50 p. m., while
capitol workers finished final
drafts of bills which had not
been enacted until the last min
ute. The senate quit work at 5:08
m., the houso at 5:13 a. m.
The legislature provided for
tho spending of more money in
tho next two years than in any
previous biennlum in the state's
history. Appropriations totaled
around $325,000,000, but allow
ing for reappropriations, the net
will total about $287,000,000.
The previous record, set in 1941,
was $261,206,000.
Nick Long Resigns
As Price Specialist
For District OPA
Nick Long, local business man,
announced Fridoy he had re
signed as price specialist of the
district OPA office to devote his
time to his private affairs.
Long previously was a field
coordinator for OPA, working on
rationing, but after formation of
the district office was switched
to the price work. He said he
will devote all the time' he can
spare to volunteer work for the
local war price and rationing
board.
Long Is head of Long's, Inc.,
a women's wear store, and Is
president "of the Oregon State
Retailers' council.. ,
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At the same tima Russian armies on tha central front smashed
into Vyasma in a continuation of lhelr driva, the Germans caused
the reds to abandon eight newly-won: bases in an 80-mile retreat
and recaptured Kharkov. The Soviets dug In' along their upper
Donets basin line.
UiStPlahes
Bomb Rouen
Rail Yards i ;
-LONDON, March 12 (IP),
Tha RAF paid its eighth night
risit of March to. Germany
last night, pounding the Im
portant industrial and- com
munications center of Stutt
gart in southwest Germany in
a strong attack from which.
11 bombers did not return, it
was announced officially to
day. AT A . UNITED STATES
BOMBER .STATION SOME
WHERE IN ENGLAND, March
12 (IF) r United States heavy
bombers with allied Spitfire es
cort scared off German fighters
for the second time in a week
today and bombed - railroad
yards and oil stores at Rouen,
45 miles inland from the coast
of France.,
Direct hits were seen by
Fortress fliers on a concentra
tion : of ' probably 1000 freight
cars,, and fires burst up from a
nearby, group of big oil tanks.
The Spitfires, some of which
probably jtvere flown by Ameri
cans, who are now operating
with the RAF, were even more
strikingly effective than during
Monday's raid on railroad yards
at Rennes. ,
This time Focke-Wulfs and
Messerschmitts not only kept at
a respectful distance but could
hardly be seen among the great
swarms of Spitfires flying
above, below and on all sides
of the bomber formations.
House Committee Approves
Reduce
WASHINGTON, March 12 (IP)
The house ways and means com
mittee today approved a plan to
reduce by as much as 4 per cent
the tax obligations of persons
paying income taxes before they
come due, thus encouraging in
dividuals to go on a pay-as-you-
go basis.
Word of this action came
shortly after President Roose
velt expressed opposition to the
Ruml" skip-a-year tax plan on
the ground that the net return
to the government under that
plan would be less..
Urider the ways and ; means
committee proposal a taxpayer
remitting any part of the taxes
on his current year's income
by March IS would be given a
discount of 4 per cent on that
part, by June 15 3 per cent,
September 15 2 per cent, and
December 15 1 per cent.
Thus If anyjtaxpayer desired
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KHARKOV.
Nazis Reoccupy " Russ
-City-by 'Tank -
Thrusts - - '. " ".
LONDON, March 12 (IF) The
Berlin radio broadcast today a
dispatch credited to, the "International-
information . bureau"
asserting that the Germans had
reoccupied Kharkov. .
"The international Informa
tion bureau" is a nazi propa
ganda agency which DNB, the
official agency, quotes in mat
ters for which it does not wish
to assume full responsibility.
The broadcast, recorded by
the Associated Press, -said-German
troops were again stand
ing on the Red square of the
steel city which- they had aban
doned during the soviet -offen
sive February 16.
Nazi . tank formations were
declared to have executed
thrusts to the center of. the
town.
"Three soviet crack armies
southeast, - south and southwest
of this area were destroyed,"
the dispatch said. ... '
. The declaration that the Ger
mans had regained Kharkov was
made a few hours after the Ger
man . high command announced
the evacuation of Vyazma, the
last point of the Germans'
strategic Rzhev-Velikie Lukl
Vyazma triangle west of Mos
cow. '
income Taxes
to estimate tha .tax obligation
on his 1943 income and pay up
before December 15, in addi
tion to paying his 1942 tax ob
ligation, he would get the dis
count depending on how early
the payment was made.
By this method, Committee
Chairman Doughton (D-NC)
said, it was hoped to : provide
an incentive for taxpayers to
achieve pay-as-you-go that is
the payment of taxes . in one
year on the basis of income the
same year, instead of on income
of the previous year, as at pres
ent. The chief executive Indicated
to a press conference his oppo
sition to the Ruml idea of abat
ing tax obligation to get on a
pay-as-you-go basis.
. The fact is, he said, and fig
ures prove it, that persons, es
pecially in the higher brackets,
would save a great deal of
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Pracipltatlon aa of March 5, 1143
Straam yaar to data 13.11
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KEY RAIL CM
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Tough German Strong-,
hold Evacuated
For Reds :
LONDON. March 12 UP)
The soviet monitor announced .
today the recording of a Mos- ,
cow broadcast which said th
Russians had captured :
. Vyaima. ..".'
More than 9000 of tha
nemy were declared by the
Russians to hava been slain.
"On March 12 troops of the
.western front commanded by
Commanding General (Vasslly)
SokoloTi ky stormed and cap.
tuxed the town and railway
'junction of Vyaima," tha com-.
munique said.
The zed army seised eight ,
aircraft, 83 tanks, 69 gum, ,
222 machina guns, 565 trucks
and tractors, . 57 locomotives
- and other war materiel, it was
announced. . . .
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, March 12 (JP) Ob
servers" in Moscow had reason-to
believe-today, that the hard-hit
ting red army of the central
front had captured Vyazma, a
railway hub 130 miles west of
Moscow and one of the toughest
German strongholds of the Smo
lnsk salient,-rthough there' was
o official confirmation of tha
report.-- - .
(A DNB broadcast from Be
lin:' recorded by The Associated
Press announced the German
army had j evacuated : Vyazma
after demolishing military install
lations.)
. Vyazma, last of the famous;
corners of the Vyazma-Velikia
Luki-Rzhev triangle, was tha
strongest outpost for the great
German base of Smolensk, 230
miles west of the capital, and its
fall -would mean that the fast
. (Continued on Page Two), j
OPA Considers
Price Ceiling
On Seed Spuds
WASHINGTON, March 12 (IPi
Temporary price restrictions on
seed potatoes, now exempt from
price ceilings, were reported un
der -consideration by OPA today
in order to discourage sales of
seed-potatoes for table consumrx
tion. ;
While no official decision hag
been, made, it was understood
that such action might be taken
after price administration of
ficials held a long conference
with producers and shippers of
seed potatoes.
Such an order, if issued, prob-
ably would freeze prices of seed
potatoes at some recent level. '
Ordinary table potatoes hava
been under price restrictions for
weeksr and some merchants
were reported to have adopted
the practice of selling seed po
tatoes for table use becausa
there was no price regulation oa
this type.
Plan to I
Four Per Cent
money In taxes through tha
Ruml system. That, he said,
seems to. be pretty well eatatx
lished. ,, .
Now, in England, Mr. Roose
velt remarked, the more money
people have, the more they hava
to contribute to the government.
He satd he thought he did not
need to bring out more than
that, simple fact. 1
Returning to the Ruml plan,
a. reporter asked how It would
work out In such a way as to
bring in less money, especially
from the wealthy.
It does work, the chief execu
tive replied, and he said he had
treasury figures to provo it.
- "But you have no objection
to -pay-as-you-go, you just object
to the : forgiveness?" he was
asked, ,
Mr. Roosevelt gave no direct
answer, remarking only that his
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