PAGE TWO WAGE BOOST AWAITS ONLY OPA APPROVAL (Continued from Page One) tral Oregon and the Klamath basin In souern Oregon and northern California; 821 cents in Idaho, eastern Oregon, western Montana and the Spokane dis trlct; 80 cents In central Wash ington. Slightly lower minlmums were established for stock and detail shops, sash and door plants, tie treating plants and box factory operations. Payment Varies Kizer said payment of retroac tive w-0es would vary with the dates on which separate unions demanded wage increases, but that in no case wo -'d the rate ex ceed 21 cents an hour prior to September 1, 1942. He added that payment will be made only to those now in the industry or to those who return to it in 60 days. in another decision the com mission approved an AFr, de mand for time-and-a-half pay ment on Saturdays for employes who are prevented, by shut downs or other actions by em ployers, from wo '-lng more than 40 hours. The commission also granted a night shift differential of 25 cents a shift in two cases involv ing operators and the CIO in the Klamath basin and the Spokane area. Equal iay for women also was granted in the cases. ; The decisions in pine wages announced Monday, if approved by the OPA, will mean distribu tion of several hundred thou sand dollars in stamps and bonds in this general territory, union and employer representatives here, said Monday. Twenty-nine operations were Involved in the two cases as they applied to the area generally covered by the Pine Industrial Relations committee here. The PHtC represented employers. and the local - CIO and AFL group were active in these cases. , Neither the opinions of the west coast lumber commission or the WLB will be available here before the end of the week, it was learned. A new radio-operated mech anism transmits instantly from an experimental airplane to lab oratory crews on the ground a complete picture of the strains and flutters, characteristics, per formance and reactions which occur too quickly in today's air craft lor the pilot to note and record. . , This Is Red Cross Month March must see something ever S125.000.000 nlarori at th disposal of the American Red urosj. Ana mat must is ;camtal lette ! word. How this i i J organization can , i j do, on that sum, J- U j is a - problem. "V 1"j solve ' lurt t't -U V they sol v ') e v e r y thi X"" I Problem they' I A- Jr I been up again r 1 r 'If the natii r ve against. natlnn could run this war with just part of Red Cross efficiency, -mx duu couia proDaoiy be cut in half. That goal, $125,000,000 means you've got to chip in consider ably more than the usual single dollar you have heretofore con tributed. Dig deep and come across with every cent you can spare and then give a bit you feel you can't spare, as well. Endless supplies of dressings for the surgical wards, sweaters for cold days and nights, blood plasma for the wounded, food for our boys, no matter where they are. Movies did you know that the Red Cross runs the third largest chain of movie shows on earth? movies bring ing the homeland they're fight ing for closer to millions of lonesome kids in the far places of the earth. Magazines. Ciga rettes. : The Red Cross doesn't ask where you live or what means of support you have or "why didn't you save some money from your last payday?" They just ask, "What do you need?" That's all they want to know. It is a privilege to as sist in such work as they are doing. .-' Next Monday Mr. Whltlock of the Earl Whltlock Funeral Home will comment on Mul tiple Duties. Poiatoes POTATOES rHirARO. March 15 (AP- TTSriAU-Pntatoes. arrivals 157: on track 164; total U. S. ship- menu Saturday line, aunaay 51; old stock, supplies light, trading light account of lack of carlot offerings; new stock, sup nliix lleht. suciDlies moderate: market slightly stronger; North Dakota Bliss Triumphs, seed stock $3.25-80; Wisconsin i;nip pewas, seed stock, $3.40; Wyo ming Bliss Triumphs, seed stock, $4.15; Chlppewas, U. S. No. 1, $3.62; Florida Bliss Triumphs, U. S. No. 1, $3.10 per bushel crate; $3.15-20 per bushel basket. SAN FRANCISCO. March 15 (P) (USDA) Potatoes: 1 Maine, 17 Idaho, 10 California, 7 Ore gon, 1 Florida arrived, 1 by truck; 6 broken, 16 unbroken cars on track; market firm; Idaho russets No. 1, $3.18, bakers $3.46, Idaho utility grade $2.85-90, Klamath russets com bination grade $3.00, U. S. No. 2s, $2.80. LOS ANGELES. March 15 VP) (USDA) Potatoes: 5 California, 3 Florida, 8 Idaho, 1 Maine, 3 Utah arrived, 5 by truck, 5 broken, 20 unbroken cars on track; Idaho russets No. 2, $2.59. 14 U. S. PAGE ONE WASHINGTON, March 15 (IP) A medium-sized United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy sub marine late in February in the Atlantic and survivors have ar rived at Boston and New York, the navy announced today. li. S. BOMBERS HIT (Continued from Page One) ments on the-Medenlne plains. Allied and enemy patrols probed opposing positions. RAF Spitfires defending al lied .shipping off the Algerian coast caught a formation of eight Heinkel HI torpedo bomb ers yesterday, shot down one and damaged several others with out loss, it was announced. Spitfires roving over the north ern Tunisian front, where rain bogged ground forces, shot up two German trucks, a staff car and a motorcycle. The limited activity suggested that both sides were concentrat ing on moving up supplies be fore chancing the opening of an other majjor engagement. With allied heavy bombers grounded by the weather, axis convoys presumably stepped up traffic from Sicily to Tunisian ports. (Perhaps referring to the Hein kel formation shot up by the Spitfires, the Italian high com mand communique broadcast from Rome and recorded by the Associated Press said axis tor pedo planes operating off Bone hit a large merchant ship in a convoy. (The communique, which also mentioned adverse weather In Tunisia, said anti-aircraft fire destroyed one allied plane and German fighters shot down an other over the Sicilian channel). Two enemy bombers were de stroyed Saturday night. All the allied air operations were car ried out without loss. NEWS EDITORIALS ON (Continued from Page One) ing U.S. army officer to the ef fect that this raid heralds the coming of a "mighty spring of fensive" in that area. pHE raid at least provides an interesting example of the realistic way in which the news must be read if we are to avoid jumping to conclusions that will be misleadingly optimistic. The chances are that If you read the headlines only you will get a decided lift out of the pasting the Japs took. But if you read a little deeper you will get a somewhat more sobering impression. For example: We learn from Burns' dis patch that the raid on Kiska was effective because it HAD MANY TARGETS TO WORK ON. The Japs, we are told, have now at Kiska a submarine base, an al most completed runway for land planes, a seaplane base with two hangars and stores of ammuni tion and fuel dumps. The fuel dumps, it is added, are burled deeply underground,' and all the various installations are well protected with elabor ate earthworks. TN other words, the Japs have x been pretty busy at Kiska during the long and foggy win ter months. ACAUTHUR tells us today of Jap transports and sup ply ships massing in the Banda sea, northwest of Darwin in Australia. His communique to day adds that their ground forces there are being rnlnfnrrerl and new airfields are being duiii. The Jap, you see, ISN'T ready to Riva up and call it quits. - - REDS BATTLE' AGAINST ODDS TO HOLD CITY (Continued From Page One) operation to the SS and the Ger man air force. The Russians claimed to be riding roughshod over German fortified systems on the central front, but they still vere at least 80 miles east of Smolensk, the key position in Hitler's positions west of Moscow, as they ad vanced along the railroad from captured Vyaima. The mld-dajH communique announced the cap ture of Semlevo, 14 miles west of Vyazma. To the northwest of Vyazma, however, they apparently were within about 65 or 75 miles of Smolensk. Field dispatches said they had ciossed the Vyazma river on a broad front and forced upper Dnieper crossings To the southwest of Vyazma they apparently were much closer, as they are believed to have held for many months the position of Dorogobuzh, less than 50 miles southeast of Smolensk. Dorogobuzh Is on the Dnieper, which here was a highly impor tant part of the defense system of Smolensk, and the breaching of the river line to the northeast might have far-reaching results in the developing Russian offen sive. As the Russians drove from the north toward Smolensk from Bely they also claimed to be top pling German-held towns and villages by the score and an' nounced the over-running of one huge concentration of 200 artil lery batteries. Nine hundred Germans were reported killed in one of these battles. The British first army was re ported in overnight dispatches from the Tunisian front to be ad vancing over hundreds of Ger man dead found in the moun tains of the Sedjenane area on the sea flank of the allied line. The British advance was of a limited nature, however, and succeeded in occupying only part of the height known as Djebel Ben Marche. Most of the German dead apparently were the result of previous actions when the British stopped an enemy offen sive by mowing down the attack ers with their machine guns and thinning their ranks by aerial bombings. The British wiped out several machinegun posts in their ad vance and found in one place alone the bodies of 100 Germans. Today's allied communique re ported no change in the general situation, ' with patrol activity continuing all along the- front and the weather restricting air operations to bombing of the Mareth line and an encounter with an enemy torpedo plane formation in which one of the torpedo bombers was shot down and "most of the others" dam aged. . A Cairo communique said American airmen attacked Na ples Saturday night. The allies apparently were far from the point of launching a general offensive, however, and dispatches from allied headquar ters in North Africa suggested that the Germans might have at least one more offensive up their sleeve. The dispatches said that crack new German units had appear ed in the northern sector, pos sibly for an attack on the key position of MedJez-El-Bab, and that fresh reserves of German planes had reached the theatre. Cairo dispatches disclosed a powerful factor in the success of the British eighth army in its 1500-mile march from Egypt was a new type Hurricane "tankbuster" fighter plane equipped with cannon which were said to have scored direct hits on at least 74 of Marshal Erwln Rommel's tanks in the last few months. London announcements said these tankbuster squadrons were being organized in England for the allied invasion of Europe, and also were being used in Tunisia where they accounted for 20 armored vehicles in fight ing west of the Mareth line last week. Timken Bearing Plant Closed by Walkout of 600 CANTON, O., March 15 UP) A walkout by 600 first shift employes tied up operations to day in the Timken Roller Bear ing company's Gambrinas plant, a company spokesman reported. Finas Reynolds, president of the CIO United Steel Workers union which has a contract with the plant, said the walkout was unauthorized and that any CIO members participating would be expelled from the union. Reyn olds and the company spokes man, who declined to be quoted by name, said they were In formed the men were protesting promotion of 27 negro workers. If your dealer Is out for the duration, advertise for a used on in the want-ad. HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Lend Lease Act Extension Gets Congress Okay WASHINGTON. March 15 (P) The extension of lend lease was approved last week in congress, almost unanimously by the house, and completely so by the senate. Only two other meas. ures were voted on March 4-11, one a house navy bill, the other an amendment offered In the senate to the proposed deferment of farm workers. Senators from the Pacific northwest states joined In the 82-0 vote on lend leaso after Johnson (D-Colo) and Wheeler (D-Mont) both preceded their "yeas" with declarations that lend-lease had been responsible for involving the United States in the war. Not voting were: Thomas (R-Idaho) and Wallgrcn (D-Wash.) In the house, all northwestern representatives supported the lend-lease extension of one year, approved 407-6, with White (D-Idaho) not voting. iT E (Continued From Page One) their latest attempt to reinforce their garrisons in northeastern New Guinea. The two ships re ported blasted off Wewak raised to four the number struck by allied airmen in a running at tack, on an eight-ship convoy which began Saturday in stormy weather. Of the vessels hit yesterday, one was described as a large de stroyer and the other as a 7000- ton cargo ship. A direct hit was scored with a 500-pound bomb on the bow of the destroyer and the ship was strafed from low level, the bulletin said. The communique also an nounced that an 800-ton trans port previously reported, bomb ed had later been seen to ex plode and when last sighted was blazing from stem to stem. KISKA JAPS HIT BY U. S. BOMBERS (Continued From Page- One) bombs shook the ground at Guad alcanal, then there will be fright ened Japanese awaiting our next raid and. . frightened Japanese can't shoot so straight the next time. And those Japanese that were alive tonight must thing: "To day's raid was the- heaviest and roar of. planes the greatest ever yet experienced. The roar of the planes was more audible to ward the end of the raid because our guns became silent." Perhaps Tokyo officialdom thought: "Today's planes are making the sixth raid in 10 days When good weather comes it will be worse."- (In January the weather permitted only two raids). The raid was timetabled: Ob jective 6. By 9:20 a. m. four fighters dropped. 300 -pounds of demolition bombs and 24 20 pounders from 7000 feet eleva tion. It was a difficult target and the cagey Japanese saved his anti-aircraft fire. Perhaps he has little ammunition to spare, as he lost an ammunition, ship not far from Kiska in February, thanks to our navy. Two hours later, to the dot, Klska's explosive five minutes began. The sky was filled by Lightnings at two levels, Mitch ells at two levels and Liberators. They swept In from all. direc tions, and low. Four Lightnings provided a top cover to eight others which skimmed in at the rooftops with chattering .45 caliber machine- guns and 20 millimeter cannons, punishing two essential installa tions and adjacent anti-aircraft batteries. That punishment must have killed some Japanese, be cause several guns failed. Behind the low flying and strafing Lightnings roared four twin-engined Mitchells. The sweep was full-powered. They dropped their 8000 pound cargo where it would do the most dam age. These planes bounced from NOW! 2 BIO FEATURES! lijJJIU'j'jJJi1 Action! Thrlllslk "Raiders 1 1250 MEMBERS SIGN UP FOR CONCERT GHOUP With a membership of 1250 assured, tho Klamath Commun ity Concert association conclud ed its membership campaign Sat urday and made plans for an outstanding concert scries here next winter. The membership is consider ably larger than lust year, but not quite so large as two years ago. Arranged for next year's pro gram are three evonts. They are the Columbia quar tet, composed of Igor Gorln, Jo sephine Tuminia, Helen Olhelm, and Nino Martini; Paul Draper and Larry Adler, tap dancer and harmonica player, and Patricia Travers, 15-year-old girl violin 1st who has made a sensation In movies and with symphony or chestras. Dr. F. C. Adams, president of the association, said that soldiers will be invited to fill extra seats at the concerts next year, fol lowing a plan adopted this year. WASHINGTON. March 15 VP) The interior department is ready to Increase allotments of live stock on the far-flung western lands administered under the Taylor Grazing act, but stock men are cautioned that their closest cooperation will be ne cessary to make the plan suc cessful. Secretary Ickes, acknowledg ing a repeated suggestion of Senator Robertson (R-Wyo), that a relaxation of grazing regula tions would contribute to a solu tion of the nation's meat prob lem, says such a program will have his approval. The Wyoming senator, a stock man for 30 years, wrote Ickes and Agriculture Secretary Wick ard several months ago urging an Increase of 10 to 20 per cent in livestock allotments. Grazing lands are administer ed under the Interior depart ment, forest grazing, privileges under the agriculture depart ment. The senator asked an in crease from both agencies. Secretary Ickes has replied that he believes the carrying ca pacity of the grazing lands "has been so restored that they will now permit an increase in sheep and cattle of about 10 per cent in order to provide additional supplies of meat and wool. "Of course, it is realized that, in placing this program into ef fect, the closest cooperation with the western stockmen will be necessary, as there will be many areas where increased stocking will not' be possible and some areas where stocking will be possible beyond 10 per cent." Ohio Schools Close As Employes Strike DAYTON, O., March 15 (JP) All of Dayton's 49 public schools close today as 140 non-teaching employes struck to enforce de mands for a pay increase. Supt. Emerson Landls ordered the closing an hour after classes opened "to protect the health of the children." He said temperatures in class rooms averaged 54 degrees, 18 below normal. Charles J. Bauer, business agent for the AFL municipal employes' union, said he had been ordered to "win the strike and I am going to win it." Opium comes from the white poppy. the concussion of their own bombs they were flying at near ground level, just missing tele phone poles which the Japanese had brought all the way from Japan. RIGHT NOW! It's Dramatic ' Dynamite! With 4 Groat Favorites At Their Best! Disney Cartoon Novelty News mEfflM Hoover Says War's Purpose Is Jo Make Lasting Peace DES MOINES, la., March 15 W) Former President Herbert Hoovor told a Joint session of the Iowa legislature today that "the purpose of this war, the most terrible of three centuries, Is to make a lasting peace." The native Iowan said In his prepared address that Ameri cans, regardless of past views or political groups, are united In a single purpose to win the war and build a "world where we can hope to live In peace." ' Declaring that military victory alone will not give peace, Hoovor said that "if we are to do a bol ter Job of peace making this tlmo It will bo because of a bet tor publlo understanding of the problems and a better prepared ness to meet them." Then he added, "and we must begin to think of these problems on a far larger frame than ever before." , Pointing out the failure to reach lasting peace throughout the centuries, the former presi dent suggostcd that "we need a new approncrt," and then offered WASHINGTON. March 15 UP) Vice President Wallace gave his support today to a resolution culling for closer welding of Uie United Nations for immediato and post-war collaboration, but considerable editing Is due on tho proposal before It reaches a vote in the senate. Wallace told a press confer ence the resolution seems "like a very constructive proposal." Asked if he thought it could be considered in congress "without bitter debate, tho vice presi dent responded: "I'd answer that by saying" then hesitated and resumed: "I hope it could be considered." President Roosevelt was re ported to have given tentative endorsement to the proposal's Broad objectives at a White House conference with six sena tors yesterday, but Chairman Connally (D-Tex.) of the foreign relations committee left no doubt there would hae to be some changes. Connally was reported to have Insisted at the meeting that the time is not ripe to at tempt to commit the United Na tions to any Joint economic, re lief or rehabilitation programs, as tho resolution would do in a general way. The committee chairman told reporters he was in favor of stating now that the United States wanted to agree with its allies that all would Join In maintaining world peace and se curity after the war, but Indi cated he was prepared to go no further at this time. Enlisted Men's Children To Get Government Care WASHINGTON, March 15 (P) A $1,200,000 appropriation for the care of babies born to wives of enlisted men in the armed forces was approved today by a senate-house conference commit tee on a $6,280,000,000 defi ciency bill. Tho measure, which first passed the house, was revised by the senate Friday to Include .pro vision for tho "war babies." Final action is due tomorrow. Gen. Giraud Offers To Meet De Gaulle (Continued from Page One) will speed negotiations to join the two French groups. (Fighting French reaction to Giraud s speech was reserved. A spokesman in London expressed disappointment that Giraud did not specifically state his Inten tion of ousting Bergeret, Nogues and Marcel Peyrouton, Algerian governor. At tho same time the spokesman suggested the Giraud declaration had brought the two groups closer together.) ' NOW! Doors Open 1:30 it 8:45 TTT:T,',Trci - Ill - MVM. fJ. -,7 1 km his conception of the new ap proaches. "I bcllovo the now approach lies In a icuoli into tho dynamic forces which havo built these crises, These destructive forces can be grouped Into six cate gories. , "These nre Ideologies, eco nomic pressures, excessive na tionalism, militarism, Imperial Ism and tho complexes of fear, hate and revenge. Tho destruc tion of peaeo from those sources must be stopped or allayed in the first part of treaty making. That is by tho sultlunient of po litical, territorial, economic and ideological questions." Hoovor said that If ''those dy namic forces are successfully met it menus peuce. If there Is failure to meat them it means renewed war," "No superstructure of leagues, councils, federations or whatnot can endure unless these founda tions are first built," he said. Declaring the treaty of Ver sailles stimulated excessive mili tarism, tho former president said the one answer to militarism is disarmament. Nazis Search Houses For French Labor (Continued from Page One) had shot down throe Gorman planes In the lluuto Suvole region. The broadcast was re corded by thu Associated Press In London.) The Tribune said French no- Ilea commanded by nazl offi cers already had been conduct ing massive night raids In tho Lyon area, blocking off areas and checking houses floor by floor. Any male declared physi cally able wus reported dis patched without further ado to Germany. The sume tactics wore declared employed In the fac tories of Vlllourbanne and other towns of tho region.. The Geneva newspaper Lb Suisse said axis occupation authorities had threatened to send German and Italian troops into the Hauto Savoie moun tains unless the Frenchmen In concealment there, already sought by Vichy s mobile guards, surrendered. Hull, Eden Warn Public About War (Continued From Page One) with Eden's visit. Ho replied he thought all would agree on the absolute necessity of main talning ccmplcto understanding among the Important govern ments connected with thu prose cution of the war, at every stage of the war. That also applied, he said to tho important problems of post war reconstruction. Hull asserted that tho main tenance of this cornpleto under standing between governments meant a full and elaborate ex change of Information, and men tioned in this rrnard exchonge of Information w.iii the soviet union and China. Hull, freshly relumed from a vacation In Florida, appeared to be in the best of health. Onlv about four and one-half seconds are required for the average baseball double play. HELD OVER Including Tuesday -PLUS- 2nd Big Hit ,if, aiwnui sumoo jrSHILL MAKE! THI fm uiinwiftT uiiiniBi mm WOODWORM MMrMM ttMHKsnr.x. Starrs Wednesday BIG DOUBLE HORROR SHOW ' Of March' IB. 1143 Stettinius Lend, Lease Report Eyed I O By Russian Paper MOSCOW, March 15 UP) Pravdn, communist party organ, dovotcd half Its foreign news section today to a report made by Loud-Lease Administrator Edward li. Slulllulus Jr., March 7 on weapons and materials .nut in Russia under the lend- lease agreement. Tho account wus contained in a Teas nows exchange dispatch from Wash. Ington and was dated March 11. A digest or me repon was first printed In Moscow on Mnrrh 12. Prominent display also was given to the press con ference ol uriusn rorewn ooc rotary Anthony Edon In Wash. Ington and to mo laicsi riyini Fortross raid on western France. Approximately one-nan 01 we pool of' new passenger automo- fag? biles existing wnon iui"i n,,.. vnhlees bi'Uun hovo been released to purchasers. ' TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY OIL TO BURN For Union heating oils phono 8404, Mam uth Oil Co., 015 Klomath Ave, r 3 -31m OIL BURNERS Chimneys Furnaces. 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