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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON MareK IS, IMS PAGE FOUR . . Utmbtr cf 1km Amocutu Pim Ib AModtt4 tnu I" llr nlltltd the M o' publleatloa 01 ll M dUpstffl asrcdltw) to I or oot otlijrw CMCIU4 hi thlt h kxstl publlihl All rllbu et publication ol Held diipildm r tin MTVtd. FRANK JENKINS JfdWor A ttmporinr otmblotton of th Bvenlni Herald tb KUnuth Kiwi. publube vry tJtreooo tictrt BuntUy at EpUoada and Plot street. Klamath FalU. Ortfoa, by Ui Ura.d tuil uhloa Co. and the Kluaatb New FubtUhing Company KnUred aecond clan tnitttr at tha poitefflft of KUmalli fail. Ora., on Aurutt 10, 90t uadar act of eoDgrcaa, Uarcb t, U. Buhav Or Obctutiox Btpr4oUd yalkmally by VuT-Hoixnur Co., Ixc ftaa Traodtco, K York, M atUa, Chicago, Portland, Lot MALCOLM EPLEY Managing Editor Li& ii EPLEY Today's Roundup Bv MALCOLM EPLEV nurr.RN srows here over the effect of t tA mtlonlna regulations on restaurants. Some restaurant operators in the district have . closed or suspended their bus!- Ll- 1 nesses, and others have Indi ra -';frJ cated their intention of doing ' iyl ' S After talking the matter , t I ' over with an OPA represents- tive, we offer the suggestion ' I that any restaurant operator W tJ who wants to stay in business should take his problem to the OPA offices before making anv final decision. While the OPA cannot pledge relief with out full knowledge of the situation, it does promise to go Into the problem with the restaur ant owner. There have already been cases where opera tors have miscalculated their points. In other ease, operators have not been fully informed i to adjustments which are provided, in OPA regulations, for increases In business over the December bate. Further, there exists the possibility that re lief may corae in new regulations, although as to this there can be no definite assurance from the local office, of course. But in the cases of logging camps and sheepherders, for instance, later provisions were made to handle situations not taken care of in the original regulations. OPA should and apparently does recognize the probability that the writers of the original regulatloni did not provide for every deserving situation. The December base, on which allotments are permitted under the rule, was not a satisfactory base for this part of the country. Because of weather and other conditions, December is a quiet month here. OPA officials tell us the rules are flexible enough to permit additional allotments for Increased business over the December base. They should be. In this connection, Lee Jacobs, food rationing specialist for the OPA district office, has called a conference of restaurant owners for Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. at the OPA office. This will afford an opportunity to talk over the manner in. which food rationing is working out after three weeks of operation. Undeniably, soma of the food place operators have been hurt badly, but that does not preclude at least talk ing over the problem. . As for the public, it is well for all of us to recognize that restaurant operators are now handicapped by restrictions not of their own making and it will not ba possible to provide verything for customers in the same old way. ' - . ; . Flood of Rumors f HERE has been a flood of 1 1 rumors the past few days con cerning "a possible base develop ment by. the. government in the viefciity of Upper Klamath lake Such reports have been circulated off and- on-for the past year or two, but they seem to have hit a new; high in. volume in the cur rent week. ; Not a word has come from any official,' authoritative source, and the whole thing must still be classed as a rumor. That doesn't mean';; there is absolutely nothing to it, but so far as we can learn, there is : nothing tangible enough' to put one's finger on or to get xcited about. 'v , : .: Highway Post TIME is approaching for a development in the matter of appointment of a state highway commissioner, mentioned in this column a week or two ago. It has been widely reported that Governor Earl Snell plans to give this appoint ment to a man from Klamath county, and the news is awaited with mounting interest here. There has been a definite effort made to pre vent the development of any local pushing and pulling over the question as to what local man should be given the post. About a dozen have been mentioned in connection with it, we un derstand.,, So far as we know, the general in clination of all Interested is to trust the judg ment of the governor in this matter. ' The place to be filled is now held by Herman Oliver of John Day. There is understood to be soma pressure for his reappointment from up In his part of the country. But Klamath county, has never had a man on the highway commis sion, it- deserves such an appointment, and Governor Snell is fully justified in giving It to well qualified man from this community. . Coach Scott, in discussing the tournament, team deserves a great deal of credit for the work he has done in bringing the team to state championship status in his first year in charge. Coach Scott is a quiet, unassuming guy who makes no fancy predictions but apparently knows what he is doing and where his team is going. He hailed originally from Silverton, and attended Southern Oregon normal school and the University of Oregon, playing at both Places under the present Oregon coach, Howard Hobson. Coach Scott,' in duscusslng the tournament, warmly praises tha clean sportsmanship of the Klamath players, and also gives, credit to Joe Peak and . Dutch French for foundation work done in connection with the basketball program this year, 'Mr. Scott himself offers an example of clean sportsmanship for his team. ' ; ;-.- A traveler reports the Willamette highway Is rough, a fact which, strangely enough, doesn't ?tclt u any more. MALLON News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, March 18 The Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution is a try-out of the senate, American public opinion and Russia (particularly the Silent Joe Stalin) on the Roosevelt plan for an international army to control the post-war world. It also carries deep domestic po litical detonating possibilities coming as it did just after the try-out of the fourth term idea. None of the four senate sponsors has been a foreign affairs leader in the senate or in the democratic or republi can parties. Ostensibly the resolution has been presented as their original idea, and certainly they did Jot down the words, but the basic proposals are those of Mr. Roosevelt as ex pressed through his assistant State Secretary Welles, and otherwise from the start. As the story is being generally told, these same ideas occurred to Ball, a new republican senator from Minnesota, and he Interested the other newcomers. But behind Ball is Gov. Stassen of Minnesota, who first appointed him and then got him re-elected, and behind Stassen is Wendell Willkie who has expressed somewhat the same views. How Ohio's republican Sena tor Burton got into it is not quite clear, except that he says Ball approached him and their minds coalesced. It just so happens, this public coalescing occurred at about the time that the fourth term tryout brought Ohio's Gov. Bricker into the presidential picture, with Senator Taft's old followers who do not like international world's, internationally policed or otherwise. Indispensable Roosevelt GENERALLY everyone can understand Ideas better when they know the real origin of them. The origin of this one shows Mr. Roose velt has succeeded in getting two republican senators to lead a test for the proposal upon which his fourth term candidacy would be based. One senate republican leader, not par ticularly isolationists says, the kind of world envisioned by the resolution would make Mr. Roosevelt's re-election "indispensible." (That is why he will b against it J On the other democratic hand, you would expect such a semi-official proposal to come from Foreign Relations Chairman Connally, not from two comparatively unskilled in interna tional affairs like Senators Hatch ' and Hill. Everyone on the inside knows, Connally does not have a real heart-hankering for the ideas expressed in the' resolution. But this does not explain why Floor Leader Barkley happened to be uninformed. Apparently everyone just forgot him. These facts will not help the resolution 3 but, of course, the main adminis tration purposes are served by the Ball-Burton republican leadership. More important than these pc alltical origins are the International implications. Stalin has been pain fully vague about his ideas of the f post-war world. His vagueness cannot but have worried Eden, the British foreign minister and Mr. Roosevelt. They would like to know where he stands, as would everyone. All he has talked about is acquiring the Baltic states, a piece of Finland, Bessa- JOSEPH STALIN rabia, etc. This resolution would Red Question Mark call Stalin into an International conference to make himself plain. It also con tains a final phrase which will be of special in terest to Moscow, advising that "member nations should commit themselves to seek no territorial aggrandizement." That last one is a big word and there is bound to be a question whether It covers Stalin's modest claims. SIDE GLANCES wwnm mnarwK. T. m. t& u. . t. NT. 3-16 1, . I r rir-.i..to'iVs-v-Tn-iir'iriiiiB.rM International Clouds TECHNICALLY also, the resolution would clear the international horizon of one of the clouds which hinders Roosevelt and Church ill in dealing with Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek and others namely the world knowledge that the - U. S. senate will have a final say. If Mr. Roosevelt can wring a prior commitment from the senate, his dealing hand will be greatly strengthened. But whether the senate will want to make any such broad commitments as the resolution contemplates is extremely doubtful. It is safe to say at once the resolution will not come out of the senate foreign relations committee as it stands or soon. While some complaint has been made that it contains too many particulars, the ultimata complaint is likely to be that it is not sufficiently specific. For instance what kind of a "United Nations military force" is going to apply force on the world? Who will have the upper hand in it? Will we keep a bigger air force? Or any at all? Some senators are already saying the resolution is a concealed British plan to maintain the empire as it was, by keeping a balance of power in Europe. Will small nations consider this a truly democratic way of "live and let live" or an imposition of force upon their necks by the U.S.-Brltaln-Ruseia and China jointly? Vice President Wallace will no doubt find some answers to the last question in his South American tour, although his friends say there is no connection between the resolution and his trip which was planned long ago. There is certainly one connection it will get Mr. Wal lace and his embarrassing (to some democrats) speeches out of the country for the beginning of a world debate which the senate foreign relations committee is now to start by Roose velt direction through the Ball-Burton (Willkie) republican auspices. "Roses? Well, there might be room for some, but we're going all out this spring for mass production of beans, tomatoes, onions, radi&hes, lettuce, cabbage and corn I" Intelligence Error Losi Americans First Tunisian Battle With Germans S i URGES DRAFTING OF CIVILIANS WASHINGTON. March 18 VF Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, urging adoption of a civilian draft law, said today that despite the need for work ers in war industries, thousands still are busy turning out such things as artificial flowers, jew elry, toys and cosmetics, "Wise and ordered" use of manpower is now imperative, he told the senate military commit tee considering the Austin-Wads-worth bill to draft men and women into war production. Patterson argued that the na tion actually already has resort ed to compulsion by attempting to "freeze men in their jobs by black-listing them from securing other jobs" and to "control, hir ing by depriving employers of the right to hire freely." For that reason, he added, "it is not realistic to say that the alternative is between voluntary action and national selective service." FUNERAL BETTY JEAN HAGELSTEIN Funeral services for Betty Jean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hagelstein of Algoma, Oregon who passed away in this city on Tuesday, March 16, 1943. will be held in the chapel of the Earl Whitlock Funeral Home, Pine street at Sixth, on Friday, March 19, 1943 at 3:00 p. m. with the Rev. Victor Schulze, pastor of the Zion Luth eran church of this city officiat ing. Commitment services and interment Linkville cemetery. Friends are invited. CHRISTINA SHUR Funeral services for the late Christina Shur who passed away in this city on Tuesday, March 16, 1943 following an illness of three months will be held In the chapel of the Earl Whitlock Fu neral Home, Pine street at Sixth, on Friday, March 19, 1943 at 1 p. m. with the Rev.- Arthur Charles Bates or the First Christ ian church of this city officiat ing. Commitment services and Interment at the family plot in Keno cemetery. Friends are in vited. It seems strange, but in a bat tle of tongues no woman can hold her own. tiOW under-arm Cream Deodorant safely Stops Perspiration X Does not rot dreises or men's ihiiu. Doc, not irriuu skin, 2. Nowiitingtoeirr. CtnbeuMd right slur thtviog. t. Iruundritopiptripltieionfor 1 to 3 cij'. Prevent, odor. 4. A pure, white, gretieleiti tuinlesi Tinilhing creiis. 5. Awtrded Apjirevil Sett of Amerianlntutateof ltuner. ng lot being lurmieu to llblli 39 .j nnniD 'II IMIIi.ll.l IIIMI'lHlljl'IIJIH , ogq ond.iaoart'ooo,, , From the Klamath Republican March 20, 1903 A republican convention for Klamath county has been called for April 16 to elect delegates to the congressional convention at Eugene. Klamath Falls has a few more cats than are necessary to keep down the rats and mice. Louis Gerber has bought Rob ert Casey's 900-acre ranch in Horsefly valley. From the Klamath News March 18, 1903 Jackson county's civil war brought bloodshed at last yes terday when Llewellyn A. Banks, dispossessed editor and center of political controversy, shot and killed an officer seeking to serve him with a warrant. C. R. Williams and Archie Rice have resigned from the county, relief committee. Surgory Dolores Thompson, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Thompson of 939 Alameda street, underwent ma jor surgery at Klamath Valley hospital this week. Treatment Curtis Paxil Bal dock, Keno, 10-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Baldock of that city, Is receiving medical treatment at Klamath Valley hospital. By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Murch IB (AP) Tlio AnuM'irans lost Ihclr first major butllo with thu tier- man army In Central Tunlsiu fighting February 14-16 due to an error in Intelligence com blnud with a fuulty disposition of troops, tlio official version of the event indiciitod today. An official spokesman in out lining the (lay-by-iliiy develop ment of the buttle during which tha Geniiuns rcuchucl tlio outskirts of Thulu, key to tlio Northern Tunisian plateau, con ceded that American losses In material had been "very heavy." "Our intelligence at the start ot the buttle wits fuulty in that wo were convinced tlio Ger mans would niiiko their main effect at i'lchon, Instead of farther south of Falri, ns they did," the spokesman said. "For this reason a strong American combat team was kept In tlio mountains north west ot Pinchon ready to coun ter this thrust." Fald Pais Thrutt At the time tha butllo start ed with Marshal Erwln Rom mel's thrust out of Fald pass on Sunday morning, the Amer icans had two mixed combat teams stationed at Hndjcb El Aloun, north of Fuld puss, and at Sldl Bouzld to the south of the pass. Thore also was a mixed team of infantry and ar tillery and a small armored force at Fafsa, still further south In the Chott DJerld area. There also were some bat talions of infuntry at Fcrianu, to the rear of Fald pass. Using about ISO tanks, the Germans attacked through three passes in the vicinity of Fald on the morning of - tlio 14th. One group of 20 tanks came directly out of Fald pass. Another group of 90 came out of a pass to the north of Fuld, in tho rear, a third group of 30 came out of a pass south of Fald, below Sidi .Bouzld. The rest of the tanks, about 60, were in reserve. Americans Not Mailed By counting the armored command in the north, above Pichon, the Americans had un equal number of tanks, but they were notyconcentrnted to meet tha German attack, tho spokesman said. By 7:13 a. m., tho Gorman tanks had overrun our artillery position at' Djcbcl Lcssouda. The rest of our combat team attacked, but lost heavily," he added. The next day, the IStli, tho Americans on both sides of Fald pass tried to launch a counterattack from Hnjcb El Aouln to the north and Sldl Bouzld to tho south. But the tanks in tho combat team attacking from tho' north suffered crippling losses when they ran Into German 88-millimeter guns which had been towed right into tho battle by tho nazl armored vehicles. The combat team attacking from Sidi Bouzld to the south also was smashed back. The Americana then decided Rationing, Calendar ' RATION BOOK NO 1 March 1-15 Boards will mall books to persons who registered February 29, hut did not receive books, New applications accepted Murch 19. March 1 Rationing of canned, frozen nnd dried fruits, canned and frozen veg etables, dried soups,, beans, lentils and peas, began. RATION BOOK NO 1 March 1-19 Boards will not accept applications for honk No. 1 during this period. SUGAR March 19 Stump No. 11, war ration book No. 1, good for three pounds, expires at midnight, Stamp No. 12 good for five pounds, March 16 May 31 Inclusive COFFEE March 21 Stump No. 29, war ration book No. 1 of book holders 14 years ot age or over, good for 1 pound of cof fee, expires at midnight. GASOLINE March 21 No, 4 stamps, each good for four gallons, ex pire nt midnight. TIRES March 31 Cars with "A" books must hava tires Inspect ed before this date. Snme basic rules as for paisengor curs npply to motorcycle "D" books. SHOES June 13 Stump No. 17. war ration book 1, valid for purchase of one pair of shoes, expires at midnight. Family stamps are interchangeable. CANNED MEATS, FISH Retail, wholesale sales sus pended until further notlco. COMMERCIAL REGISTRATION March 1 to 10 Restaurants and boarding houses must sign up for point stumps. All institutional users are requested to phone the ration bonrd for an appointment to register, to save time. Institutional users must provide tho rationing board with food Inventories as of February 28. to withdraw and started from Sbeltln to the northeast of Sldl Bouzld. Most of the troops In tho Djcbcl Lessouda got away, but they lost virtually all their heavy-equipment, while a batr tallon of motorized lnfontry was lost virtually In Its entirety at Djcbcl Ksaira when it was cut off. Meanwhile the troops at Gaf so, which it never was Intended to defend, were ovacunted. They withdrew toward Feriana. On the night of February 19 16 the strong American arm ored combat team which hsd been north of Pichon reached Sbcltla ipiiiliiiiiiiiiii mm liiii! Blili To Portland Mr. and Mrs. Burt E. Hawkins, accompanied bv Gnoln Hawkins, city librarian iiik! Ilnvcrly Mack of Spring Luke, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Eurl Mack, left this week for Portland where Hawkins will at tend a mooting of Oregon post masters. Officials from Wash ington will bo at tho session, Be fore returning this weekend the four plan a brief vacation In the north. Punt LostMrs. Dean Ste phens, 900 Jefferson streat, re ported to city police the loss of her purse on Main or Ninth streets this week. The purse contained threo sugar books, throe No. 2 ration books, a so cial security card, one 810, one $9 bill, and 4 In silver. Visitor Corp. Paul R. Gard ner with the U. S. army signal corps, stationed at Pasadena, Calif., spent two duys In Klam ath Fulls visiting with his broth er and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gardner. The visitor has left for Seattle to visit other mem bers of his family. Blkoi Found Two bicycles, one carrying city llcenso No. 46 and the othor No. 490, were found by city police parked on the sidewalk on South Sixth street In front of Frank's Shine parlor. The blkoi were brought to the pollco station. In Africa - Mrs, Lula B. Hiitchens of the Klamath Fulls postofflec, has received word from her son, Lt. Ronald Hutch ens, now stationed somewhere in Nor'ri Africa. Hutchcns Is with tha tank destroyers. He trained at Camp Hood, Tex. From North Fred Glover Is expected here Sunday from Til lamook en route to Santa Ana, Calif., where he will enter tha army air corps as on aviation ca det.. Voting Glover will visit with his father, A. F. Glover, lo cal business man. On Vacation Mrs. Melvln Ir win, stenographer at the Klam ath Fulls postofflec, is on a two weeks' vocation from her duties, Malvln Irwin, carrier, has re turned from a fortnight's holiday spent here. Surgery Dolores Conklln, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. 3. Worllno of this city, is recover ing nicely from major surgery at Klamath Vul)oy hospital, From the North Mr. and Mrs. William Howlnnd and young son, Robert Dean, were visitors In Klamath Falls Wednesday from their home at the state fish hatchery on Wood river. Square Dance There will be a square dance at the K. C. hall Friday night after the regular Townsend business meeting. The business meeting will be at eight o'clock. s J 1 h f LOWER in to flatter Lush big roses T : : pink, white or blue, show off your curls. Win compliments from the women as well as the men! 298 to 25 1