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By FRANK JENKINS
fTHE California stroot coble
cars wero tied up agnln tho
first of tho week by a strike
which la nothing unusual In
their history. One normally
looks up and down the street,
walls a few minutes and then, If
rio car comes along, flags a tux!
or walks.
This time a kindly passerby
xplalned that the enrs wero off
again, nnd so no time was lost,
.THE present strike has fol
lowed tho piittern of tho dif
ficulties In tho airplane in
dustry. That It to say, tho employees
of the California street cable car
company were getting 83 cents
n hour. The employees of tho
municipal ttreet rallwoy wero
getting 871 cents an hour. For a
variety of reusons, the differ
ence griped the cable car men,
, If you evor watched the grip
man loan buck on his lever whon
h starts up steep hill, you'll
understand one of the reasons.
H...H.ri m ..UT. MHM M 1. lilt
town it a man-sized Job.
"THERE was no trouble with
the employers, who were
willing to pay the Increase. But
the war labor board, charged
with the job of controlling in
flation, balked and refused to
permit It.
So the men quit. It was care
fully explained that they didn't
strike. Thoy Just took a vacation
to go fishing, they said. May
be, whllo they wero fishing, a
better Job would turn up.
Anywoy, the cors quit run-
t1"8- ' . . .
tT wasn't, you see, a strike
against the employer, who
was willing to stand tho raise.
5 It was, In effect, a STRIKE
a n a t m e t the- nrwrvntj.
MENT. That's what makes It In
teresting.
. It's what makes tho somowhat
similar situation In the airplane
Industry of the west so Interest
lug. It all shows how far along
tho road toward a new world
we're getting,
YOU can hardly blame the
r. men. You'd bo hot under
tho collar if you were in' their
place..
You can't really blame the
War labor board, which Is in a
tight spot. If the rising spiral of
wages and costs Isn't slopped
somcwhero tho dreaded ogro ot
inflation will have us by the
coat tails. The only way to slop
tho spiral is to STOP It.
' And you certainly can't blame
tho employer, who was willing
to Brant the Increase.
TVHAT most of us do is to sus
pect that there's a screw
loose in tho system. Things llko
that just don't mako sonse in a
nation that's at war,
,
THE mon stayed away a cou
' pie of days, and apparently
they didn't go fishing. More
likely, they stayed at home and
talked and in tho end their nat
ural common senso and good cit
izenship got tho upper hand, for
they went ' back to work this
morning ponding a reconsider
ation of their case by the war-labor
board.
' And people started riding tho
cablo , cars again and wero
happy,,
,i .
QVER In Berkeley, a friend
toll this writer, thorn's a
big bulgo in tho chicken busi
ness, v-
" People nro building chicken
houses in their back yards. Tho
houses they're building havo
been specially designed by tho
Unlvorslty of California, with
Screen wire floors and recepta
cles below to catch tho drop
pings,' which are then carefully
- (Contlnuod on Page Four)
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Financial Wizard Dies
At Vacation Home
Today
By E. V. W. JONES
BOCA GRANDE, Flo., March
13 (P) John Plerpont Morgan,
of Now York, wizard of finance
and the ruler of a tremendous
bunking empire, died at 3:15
a. m. today at this isolated Gulf
of Mexico Island to which he
hud come for a vacation at fish
ing. , .
The 75-year-old financier suc
cumbed to a recurring . heart ail
ment which twice before in re?
cent years had stricken him. He
lapsed Into a coma three days
ago and never regained con
sciousness. The mulll-milllonaire head of
the House of Morgan became 111
February. 25 on a train en route
to Baca Grande. Upon his ar
rival, he walked the two block
from the railroad station to a re
sort cottage at the exclusive Gos
parilla Inn.- He went to bed im
mediately and, although twice
he rallied and made progress,
never fully recovered.
With Morgan at the end were
a son, Lieut. Comdr. Henry Stur-
gls Morgan of tho naval reserve
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Nazis Battle
Guerrillas in
French Hills
GENEVA, March 13 (TP)
Gunfire was plainly heard In
this Swiss border city today
from the French Alpine re
gion of Haute Savole, where
the Vichy government hat
sent 800 mobile guards, arm-,
ored ears and machine-guns In
an effort to dislodge guerril
las opposing the German oc
cupation. By ROBERT BUNNELLE
LONDON, March 13 (P) Jit
tery over tho prospects of a 1043
Invasion and tho unrullncss of
tho civil populations of occupied
countries, the Germans were re
ported today by a foreign diplo
matic source to havo conferred
with police authorities In Paris
during the last fortnight on
measures to prevent outbreaks
In tho Hinterlands when the al
lies march on tho continent.
Tho meeting said this source
who requested anonymity, was
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MORGAN
GUIS TO
AILS
Setbacks Certain in War,
Says Eden in Washington
WASHINGTON, March 13 (P)
Anthony Edon, British foreign
secretary, said today that "set
backs and disappointments aro
absolutely certain" before the
United Nations can hope to win
the war and tho pcaco after
wards, Eden, In Washington for talks
with President Roosevelt ' and
other leaders, told a press con
ference of tho hard job which ho
said lies ahead In explaining
that ho would discuss "all as
pects of tho war" with Mr.
Roosevelt, Secretary of Sluto
Hull and others In extensive
conversations,
Tho -diplomat, who last year
negotiated a 20-yoar alliance be
tween Britain and Sovlot Russia,
flow to Washington yesterday,
His arrival camo at a timo when
recent speeches stressing tho
need of a satisfactory under
standing between tho democra
cies and Russia wero still
echoing, ,
To somo 100 reporters gath
ered In the ball room of the Brit
omisse
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Tycoon Dies
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J. P. Morgan, financial wis
ard. died in Florida Saturday of
a heart aliment.
FRENCHBQULQ6NE
RAF in Record Smash
At Essen Friday
" Night
LONDON, March 13 ()"
Heaping new destruction on Ger
man targets on, top of a record
smash at Essen by the RAF last
night, a great fleet of U. S. army
air force heavy bombers thun
dered across the English chan
nel to the Boulogne area early
this afternoon. .
Their target was the import
ant French rail junction of Am
iens, 60 miles northwest of Rou
en, which was itself bombed in
daylight yesterday.
It is through these two key
junctions that the Germans must
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NLRB Orders
Union Election
At Ewauna Box
PORTLAND, March 13 W)
A national labor relations board
order for a collective bargain
ing election at the Ewauna Box
company mill at Klamath Falls
was received here today. '
Tho order, signed by Chair
man Harry A. Millls of the
NLRB, was dated March 10 and
ordered tho election not later
than 30 days from that date.
Tho CIO International Wood
workers of America, local 6-12,
and the Klamath Basin district
council, Lumber & Sawmill
Workers union, AFL, each claim
substantial membership at the
plant.
ish embassy, Eden explained
that ho could not go Into detail
of the subjects ho is to discuss,
but he Indicated that military as
well as diplomatic problems
wero among them.
Asked about cooperation - of
the United States and Great
Britain with Soviet Russia, he
reiterated his statement to the
house of commons in December
that such cooperation among the
United Nations, lncludingChina,
is indispensable if tho world is
to have a stable pcaco after the
war. i ,
: As for tho post war control
to be exercised over axis coun
tries, Eden said "we must take
precautions this time to make
sure that Germany and Japan
are never able to start this busi
ness again." .
Tho allies, he said, should
avpld such an attitude as they
showed after the first World
war, which ho described as
merely seeing now governments
set up in tho defeated countries
and "trusting to luck.", .
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IJMS I . xj FIERCE FIGHT
EIGHTH A1Y
THRUSTS OFF
Nazis Lose Heavily in
Probing of Mareth
Offenses
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA. March 13
W) Allied bombers blasted
military objectives of Sousse
and Tunia with fire-setting raids
yesterday and attacked both
land and sea transport of the
axis as ground fighting on the
Tunisian front dwindled again
to patrolling.
r The eighth army's lines In the
Mareth : line sector, having
thrown off probing thrusts by
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
with a violence that cost him
heavy casualties, remained un
changed, a communique said.
"Our bombers made heavy at
tacks on the docks and railway
yards at Sousse yesterday," the
bulletin reported. "Many hits
were seen on both targets and
large fires were left burn-sirti,. ,
', :..'0 bjeotfv'ea , at Ehfldaville
were' bombed by a formation of
medium bombers. Other medi
um -bombers attacked a convoy
of-motor barges making for
Tunis and sank at least three of
. (Continued on Page Four)
Meat Ration
To Be Eased,
Says Brown
WASHINGTON, March 13 (VP)
Price Administrator Prentiss M,
Brown promised today that al
lowances under meat rationing,
which begins March 29, "will
be liberalized whenever it be
comes possible to do to."
Brown pointed out that the
flow of meat to market fluctu
ates from day to day and the
perishable nature of meat, but
ter and the other items to be
rationed will make changes nec
essary from time to time.
His statement gave no indica
tion of the size of the proposed
ration, except to say:
"The size of the individual
ration will largely depend on
Individual preferences. The
heavy cheese eater -can . spend
as many points (coupon values)
aa he has for that product, and
the heavy meat .eater can do
likewise. Those who use butter
and lard in substantial quanti
ties will be able to satisfy their
needs in the same manner al
though, of course, all who, do so
will thus be reducing the
amounts of other products they
can buy,".
Two pounds may bo tho aver
ago, but tentative plans for meat
rationing would provide d.l
pounds of hamburger . or only
1 ' 13 pounds of sirloin steak
per. person a1 week, it was
learned today from persons par
ticipating in the drafting of the
program.
John L Lewis
Reelected Prexy
Of Miner's Union
NEW YORK. March 13 (A1)
Re-election of John L. Lewis to
his 12th term as international
president of the United Mine
Workers was announced py inn
union today.
'Lewis, who has been presi
dent of the union since iuzu,
was unopposed in the election,
which was held December 8, as
were John O'Leary, vice-president,
and Thomas Kennedy, sec
retary-treasurer, both of whom
were re-elected.
The union is holding wage
conferences hero with northern
and southern- bituminous oper
ators. ..
NAZI ATTACKS
fo&B y;-y:::':;J FOR KHARKOV
Smoke at left and right from axis planes shot down by American anti-aircraft fixe mttm as
a backdrop for fighting at Sened railway-station In Tunisia,; In the foreground is strewn U. S.
equipment as the men ducked into foxholes to avoid strafing enemy aircraft. The intensity of
the axis dive bombing attacks temporarily baited American advances, but the Yanks later re
took Sened. . -.'..- .
Pelicans Meet
In Hoop
By FRANK CALISE
Herald and News Sportswrlter
SALEM, March 13 It's the
Klamath Falls Pelicans against
the Baker Bulldogs in the finals
of the state championship bas
ketball tournament here tonight.
Coach Wayne.- Scott's .eager-
conquered Pendleton, 36 to 27,
PHONE SERVICE ON GAME
Tonight's state title basket
ball . game at Salem liaris
about 9 p. m. and will be
concluded about 10 p. m.
Herald and News will pro
vide special telephone ' seryr
Ice' to answer .inquiries from
9:30 Until T 10(45. ,wth. half .
time and final scores. :
last night to go into the final
bracket, while the -Baker team
smashed the over-rated Astoria
Fishermen, 29 to 24, to become
the other finalists. ' :
The tall Pelicans looked to me
to be in fine shape today, despite
the effects of two tournament
games in as many days. They
had a bad session with their
shooting eyes last night; if that
jinx is over, they should beat the
Bulldogs and take the title to
night.
Baker's cagers are big and
rugged-looking. They have a
deadly ace in Paul Sowers, and
the Pelicans will have to solve
that problem in winning tonight.
The, Pelicans took a million
Navy Bombers
Raid Jap Bases
In South Pacific
WASHINGTON, March 13 UP)
American bombers raided Mun-
da and other Japanese bases in
the central Solomon islands Fri
day, the navy reported today,
after two enemy planes had
dropped bombs on American po
sitions on Guadalcanal island.
Navy communique ' No. 308
said:
On March 12:
"(A) During the early morn
ing, Liberator heavy bombers
(Consolidated B-24) carried out
minor bombing attacks on Jap
anese positions at Ballale, in the
Shortland island area, and at
Vila and Munda In the New
Georgia group.
"(B) During the night of
March 12-13, a force of avenger
torpedo bombers (Grumann
TBF) attacked Japanese posi
tions at Munda on New Georgia
Island. Fires were started in the
enemy area.
"(C) One U. S. plane failed to
return from these missions."
Russians Express
Appreciation for
Lend-Lease Aid
MOSCOW, March 13 W
The Russian people" heard offi
cial Russian appreciation of
American lend-lease aid for the
first time today when Moscow's
newspapers gave prominence to
a statement made by Ambassa
dor Maxim Litvlnoff in Wash
ington on the second anniver
sary of lend-lease two days ago.
The ambassador was quoted
as having said that lend-lease
material received by Russia had
"brought tremendous aid, which
is deeply appreciated by the
people of the soviet union, who
are fully aware of its extent.
Bulldogs
Finals Tonight
shots to win last night's game
with Pendleton well, not a mil
lion, but a lot. In fact, they
fired 40 times to make five bas
kets in the first half, and in the
second they weren't much .better.'
But-They. were vastly superior
off tJlheVjfcaekboards, - and that's7
one-' angle that can be counted
upon to make them strong
against Baker .tonight..
Coach Scott was a little disap
pointed after last night's game,
but he expects the boys to do bet
ter, tonight. He had nothing to
syin the way of prediction be
isn't the predicting kindi' 1
, - Pendleton,' licked last night by
juamath, turned around today
ana gave the Astoria Fishermen
their second beating of the tour
nament." The score was 34 to 33
and it put Pendleton In, third
placer in the final standings.
Klamath and Baker will jockey
for - first ' and second spots to
night.
Klamath got Into the final
bracket by defeating Eugene, 30
to , 19, and-then measuring Pen
dleton, 36 t 27. It's the second
Pelican team in history to get
into the tourney finals. The last
time, was in 1934.
New Company to
Operate Canby
Lumber Mill
Lumbering activity at Canby.
irom which the Big Lakes Box
company of Klamath Falls with
drew-last fall after five years
of operations, is to be continued
under, a new firm being formed
in Modoc county, it was learned
here Saturday.
The company will operate the
old walker-Hovey mill at Can-
by, -which the Big Lakes oper
ated under a lease. The new log
ging operations will center at
the old Big. Lakes camp, and
considerable equipment was pur
chased from the Klamath Falls
firm by the new outfit.
R. F. Pray, formerly with the
Red River Lumber company,
will be in charge of manufactur
ing and sales for the new oper
ation, and Hi Brown will be
the' logging boss.
Big Lakes Box company has
not logged at Canby since, last
fall. Big Lakes logging opera
tions now are centered at Dia
mond lake siding, in northern
Klamath county.
U. S. Sub Sinks
Jap Warship in
South Pacific
' WASHINGTON, March 13 ()
A United. States submarine at
tacked and sank a small Japa
nese warship in the mid-Pacific,
the navy reported today, after a
violent 37-minute fight in which
one member of the sub's crew
was killed.
The date of the action was not
reported.- '
The crewman killed was Her
bert Andrew Calcaterra, 22, mo
tor machinist's mate, first class,
of Stoneyford, Calif. .
The submarine discovered the
Japanese ship, an anti-submar
ine patrol vessel about the size
of a corvette with a tonnage of
under 1000 tons, as it was run
ning on the surface early- one
morning,- ... .
German Radio Denies
Vichy Head III
For Week
ALGIERS, March 13 (ff) Un
derground reports which reach
ed French North Africa today
said Marshal Petain suffered a
stroke several days ago and is in
a critical condition and probably
dying in a hospital near vicny.
-Petain's- illness' was- reported
being kept secret . from the
French public.;
Marshal Petain, 88-year-old
hero of Verdun who emerged
from . semi-retirement to head
post-armistice: France, has been
less and less active .since the
nazi invasion of Vichy territory
November 11, 1942.
He named Pierre Laval as dic
tator last November 18 and des
ignated him heir presumptive to
the office of chief of state to
succeed Admiral Jean Darlan,
who swung to the allied side in
French North. Africa only to die
from an assassin's bullets. ,
Within 10 days German
broadcasting stations were deny
ing reports that Petain was ill.
The marshal held out against
transfer of the government from
Vichy back to Paris.
' He denounced what he term
ed the "treason" of French com
manders in North Africa who
joined forces with British and
American troops and, with some
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Webb Kennet, OPA
Price Specialist,
Resigns Saturday '
Webb Kennett, price specialist
in the OPA district office, re
signed on Saturday.- Kennett
did not announce his plans.
For many years, Kennett oper
ated a retail. men's clothing bus
iness, here.
His ..resignation was the sec
ond - in two days. Nick Long,
local women's wear retailer,- re
signed from the same division of
the OPA Friday.
Americans Dig Deep to
Pay Record fncome Tax
By The Associated Press .
Record-breaking receipts In
most districts contrasted sharply
with an "I won't pay" attitude
among thousands ot workers to
day as Americans dug down to
give their government its great
est income tax in history.
Tax filings were far ahead ot
past years in New'York, .Chica
go, Los Angeles, Seattle and
many other areas as the March
IS deadline approached, a sur
vey disclosed, . - .
But in Cleveland, the internal
revenue office reported, war
workers were adopting a "come-and-get-me",
pose, and in Fort
land, Ore., where more : than
100,000 shipyard workers have
settled in the past year, collec
tions were below the 1942 level.
In New York's second district
the richest income tax district
in the nation tax payers
poured $70,000,000 into internal
revenue offices yesterday alone.
-One out of every, 20 letters
Guns Shake Steel City
With Russians on ;
Defensive
By The Associated Press
LONDON, March 13 (P) The
German comeback offensive in
southern Russia spread to broad
er areas and gained new ground
despite mud and thaw, the Ger
man high command claimed to
day, as Kharkov shook from the
crash of guns in a fierce battle
raging for the third time in this -war
for the steel city of the
Ukraine. -'
The German communique ad
mitted that a violent fight still
raged in parts of Kharkov, al
though it claimed combat units
of the SS Elite guard "shattered
enemy resistance" and advanced
to the main railway station.
Russians Admit .
Putting up a desperate fight
in an effort again to turn the
tide as they did; at Stalingrad
last November, the Russians ad
mitted they : again had been
forced to fall back west of the
city despite 'tremendous losses"
inflicted on Hitler's manpower
and material. ,
On the central front, however,
the Russians were . advancing in
overwhelming strength upon
Smolensk, 230 -miles west of
Moscow, in an offensive which
might do much to nullify a re
capture of Kharkov by the Ger
mans. ;
, "Overwhelming the" German
resistance, our troops advanced
(Continued on Page Four)
Stephen Vincent
Benet, Author,
Dies in New York
, NEW. YORK, March 13 (F)
Author Stephen Vincent Benet,
44, died at bis home at 5 a. m.,
today after an illness of several
days. .- '-
Farrar . and Reinehart, his
publishers, reported , that Benet
suffered a heart attack last
night. .
American poet and story
writer, Benet was born July 22,
1898, in Bethlehem, Fa.
He won the Pulitzer prize for
poetry in 1929 with his "John
Brown's Body." ;
rin nf f h lat ist tila urlK
ings was a sketch to accompany
Norman Rockwell's illustration,
"Freedom From Fear," in this
week's issue of the Saturday
Evening Post.
Among his best known works
was the prose story, "The Devil
and Daniel Webster," which was
turned into an opera. He also
wrote an operetta based on
Washington Irving's legend of
Sleepy Hollow, which was per
formed over the radio in a na
tional broadcast in 1937.
handled by the Chicago post of
fice yesterday was addressed to
the internal revenue office, mak
ing the collector the biggest
postal customer in tho city's his
tory. In the Chicago loop, a two
block line four abreast waited
to file returns, one man turning
in a check for 47,800,000 as
quarterly payment of a corpora
tion's tax bill.
"We have found the people lit
the war plants,- as woll as In
other industries, and the public
generally, most cooperativef
reported Clarence, S, Haggin, di
visional chief of internal rave
nun in Seattle. .
From Los Angeles tho report
was that returns in 10 southern
California counties totaled
$319,000, an Increase of more
than 80 per cent over the same
date a year ago.
But In other localities the out
look promised many a headache
for both tha Intornal revenue
bureau and recalcitrant tax
payer. ... 1 .