On 5-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles
' iti the signal for blackout In Klamath
I'Talli. Another long blast, during black
April S Hloh 85, Low 41
Precipitation aa of March 30. IMS
Stream year to data ..,.....14.0S
Last yeer .......10.08 Normal .....I.S0
out, li a ilgnal for all-clear. In precau
tionary periods, watch your street lights.
ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
PRICE FIVE CENTO
FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1943
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By FRANK JENKINS
rrlE sunato wnr Investigating
commlttoo rend n rather crit
ical locturo tho other day to John
L. Lowls, who waa appearing bo
fore It by request.
Hero oro aotno extracts:
; "Labor Ivodori must now dem
onstrate thot they nro statesmen
nd patriots aa well us pnld ad
vocates for worthy causes . . .
Labor hns como of ace, and tho
country expects these leaders to
recognize that labor has duties
s well as rights."
;,.
'T'HAT liberty involves responsl
bllltics as well as privileges
his something wo ALL need to
"recognize.
In the "gimme" years that pre
ceded tho wor, we were too
much Inclined to think of what
tho government owed lis rather
than of what WE owe tho gov
ernment. After all, we can't expect to
tako out of government more
than a fair return on tho Invest
ment we are wilting to put Into
It.
VVNOTHER extruct from tho
" sonato committee's locturo to
Lewis:
"No citizen has tho right , to
jeopardize the notion's exlstonce
In war Umo ... . The obligation
that rests on Lewis l.t'nri obllga
tion to tho United States, arising
nut of the wnr emorgency. It Is
k based on his duty to a country
Fwhlch enabled him to exchnngo
the sweat and toll of a miner for
the comforts and privileges of a
labor executive."
That, of course, goes for every-
one who has mado a great suc
cess In this freo country busi
ness men and labor executives
like.
JEWIS Is demanding a $2 a
day wogo Increase for his
local miners, which would be all
right if It didn't upset tho price
situation and so Impose burdens
on EVERYBODY. What tho
committee means Is that Lewis,
having risen to his present post
tion of power, owes to his coun
try the duty of thinking of these
things In terms of tho country as
whole.)
ET us turn now from critical
lectures on some of our short
comings to praise of some of the
things wo hove accomplished.
" Donald Nolson, chairman of
tho wor production board, sneak
ing in Chicago tho other night,
asserted that tho nation's In
dustry has performed a miracle
of production In Its wnr effort,
and tho crentivo skills of man
agement and labor hove elevated
America "to n holght of potential
military power such as the world
has never before seen." '
Ho added:
"Wo oro turning out MORE
GOODS for wnr than wo EVER
produced for our pence time
needs, and yet wc hove enough
Industrial power left ovcT to
keep civilian standards of living
t a high level,"
R this rcmarkablo record
(and It is A remarkable one)
he gnvo tho credit to manage
ment and labor, WORKING IN
CO-OPERATION with tho gov
ernment. ' He said:
"Leaving out a few regret-
(Continued on Pago Two)
British Report
Ship Movement
, LONDON. April 8 (F) De
parting from tho usual practice
of screening tho movements of
British wurshlps, the British
Broadcasting corporation told
Gorman listeners in a Gorman
language broadcost today that
"according to tho news reaching
London" tho British bnltloshlps
0 Nelson, Rodney and Mnlnya and
Iho aircraft carrier Formidable
had loft Gibraltar for "an un
known destination."
The BBC said tho story was
not based on an offlcinl an
nouncement. , Its broadcast was Interpreted
as a part of tho war of nerves,
but the BBC declined to uso that
Fni
Pine Wage Award
Delayed As OP A
Fails to Approve
PORTLAND, April 0 (P) Tho western plno Industry wage
awards, scheduled to become effective tomorrow, wero suspended
indefinitely today by tho west coast lumber commission because
of failure by tho office of prlco administration to approve the
schedules.
Tho commission sold It hod been informed that the decision,
affecting plno Industry woges in Oregon, Washington, California,
Idaho unci Montana, was referred by the OPA without rccom-
Amcndation to Economic Slabll-
Bombs Hit Jap. Lines
Of Supply at
Rangoon
NEW DELHI, April 0 UP)
British and American air forces,
exhibiting aerial superiority over
uurma, continued yesterday to
rain bombs on Japanese supply
lines, particularly along the
great railway from .Rangoon on
the southern scocoast to Manda
loy. The RAF raided the railroad
station at Rangoon last night, a
British communique said today,
and dropped 1000-pound bombs
and lighter explosives that left
fires visible 60 miles away.
Tho raid came 24 hours after
United States Liberators blasted
tho Thilawa oil refining works
Just south of Rangoon.
Hound Trip Flights
(Neither tho British nor the
United States headquarters In
New Delhi announced the bases
from which theso operations be
gan, but they probably Involved
(Continued on Pago Two)
Enemy Shipping
Bombed by RAF
In Night Raid
LONDON, April 8 (P) RAF
fighters und royal navy planes
attneked enemv uhlnnlntf ntt h
French coast last night, damag
ing three merchant ships and
two small escortinir craft. h
nir minlfltrv newii spi-vIpa nn.
nounccd today, but Germany
ana occupied Europe apparently
wero given a rcspito after 72
hours of terrific nnundlnir hv
allied airmen.
, One navy plane, tho news
service sold, bombed one mc-
(Contlnucd on Poge Two)
Orville Hamilton Named
Assistant Police Chief
Appolntmont of Orville Ham
ilton as assistant chief of police
was okayed by the city council
Monday night at tho request of
unior or Police Earl Houvcl.
Hamilton, patrolman and for
the past three or four years plain
clothes investigator, has been on
tho city police force for tho past
six years, coming hero from the
Klamath Indian agency where he
was a fcdoral officer.
An lmmcdiato appointment to
this position was necessary, Hou
vcl said, because of the consid
erable amount of new and Inex
perienced men on tho force at
prcsont, The post has boon
vacant since Hcuvol became po
llco chief,
A, 11. Bussman, chairman of
tho streot committee, told tho
council that an effort should be
made to remind Klamath citizens
that there is an one-hour park
ing limit on Pine and Klamath
streets and also on the sldo
streets from Fourth to Eleventh.
Mayor Houston reminded tho
city fathers that they should bo
thinking of tho selection of the
budget committee for this year.
(Continued on Pass Two)
oc Ms Senate Mi
izatlon Director James F.
Byrnes for approval.
The wage boosts which were
to have gone into effect tomor
row averaged approximately
7 V4 cents an hour.
To compensate for the delay,
the commission said It has pro
vided that retroactive wages,
originally set for payment in
war bonds, would be paid In
cash.
In addition, the commission
authorized all parties affected
to proceed Immedlotcly with ne
gotiations for retroactive pay
dates that were not set at the
time the award was announced.
By doing this, tho commission
said, agreements will have been
reached on retroactive dates so
that payment can be made Im
mediately upon... action , by
Byrnes. ; - -t . --"' ;
' The pine case has been mark
ed by other delays. The com
mission made Its award in Jan
uary. It was March IS before
the war labor board approved
it, after which it was sent to
OPA for its approval because
of "the possible effects it would
have on pine, lumber ceiling
prices.
Merrill High
Principal to
Operate Farm
MERRILL Eber E. Kilpat
rlck, principal of the Merrill
high school for five years and
affiliated with Klamath county
schools for nino years, has re
signed. His resignation will be
come effective at the close of the
school year. .
Mr. and Mrs. Kllpatrick expect
to farm In the future, and live
on the former Arthur Frazicr
ranch near Merrill. Fred Hills,
Springfield, . Ore., lumberman
will also have a financial interest
in tho property, Kllpatrick stated
Monday.
Kllpatrick began his teaching
career in 1019 and, after coming
to Klamath county, taught three
years at Keno and one year at
Bly before coming to Merrill.
His successor has as yet not
been announced.
OrvlUe Hamilton
Weds Steinbeck
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- Miss Cwyn Concer (above) of
Los Angeles, who formerly sang
for the radio under the name of
Gwen Louise, became the bride
of John Steinbeck, California
novelist. In a .ceremony per
formed In New Orleans.
All
Planes Return
After Hitting
Airfield
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA. April 7 UP)
Allied medium bombers pound
ed lor three hours yesterday at
the air field and surrounding
area on Buka Island at the
northern Up of the Solomons in
the heaviest of a series of raids
on a half-score of Japanese
bases In the southwest Pacific.
A communique from Gen.
MacArthur's headquarters also
reported that allied airmen had
scored near misses with 500
pound bombs on a 4000-ton
Japanese cargo ship at Sekar
bay in Dutch New Guinea, but
said the damage could not be
assessed. ' '
Harassing Raid
The Buka attack described as
"an extended night harassing
raid," brought a shower of frag
mentation and demolition bombs
down on the heads of the Japa
nese at Chinatown and Kakll,
near Buka, and struck dispersal
bays and runways at the air
field, leaving apparently burn
ing" aircraft, the announcement
said.
All tho allied planes returned
from the Buka foray, where ex
tensive- anti-aircraft fire and
searchlights were encountered,
and tho communique mentioned
no losses from the other wide-
sweeping sorties.
Meanwhile, Japanese war
ships and merchant vessels
. (Continued on Page Two)
Titus Condition
Improving, Says
Defense Lawyer
William E. Titus, Bly Justice
of tho peace who Is In the Klam
ath Valley hospital, is not yet out
of danger and It will be 10 days
or two weeks beforo ho can be
moved, according to J. C. O'Neill,
his attorney in the murder case
pending against him.
, Titus is accused of the murder
of his wife, Erma, who was the
victim of a shotgun blast at the
Titus quarters at Bly. Titus was
wounded in the shooting affair,
and observers said it is miracu
lous he escaped death.
The Bly Justice is under con
stant guard by the sheriff's of
fice. Monday, he was notably
low in spirits.
DEI LEADERS
OF
Bankhead Appeals to
Override Price
Measure
WASHINGTON. April 6 VP)
With the administration ap
parently having sufficient
votes to sustain President
Roosevelt's veto, the senate to
day postponed action until to
morrow on a farm bloc motion
to send the controversial Bank
head farm price bill to the
agriculture committee..
: Senator Bankhead (D-AIa.)
despairing of overriding the
veto, made the proposal to re
turn the bill to committee, to
avoid a showdown now, but
ran into opposition from Sen
ator Bailey (D-N.C).
", WASHINGTON, April 8
In an atmosphere charged , with
tension. Senator , Bankhead (D
Ala,), appealed to the senate to
day to" override President Roose
velt's veto of a measure affect
ing agricultural price ceilings.
Bankhead, author of the bill
which the president rejected
with the declaration that it
might set off an inflationary tor
nado, took the floor after Demo
cratic Leader Barkley of Ken
tucky told reporters he is con
fident the senate would vote to
sustain the veto.
Such action would . kill the
bill, designed to force price con
trol officials to ignore farm bene
fit payments in fixing farm price
ceilings.
Misrepresented
Charging that the measure
had been misrepresented by
"anonymous compilers of tables
in the departments, Bankhead
said the bill would alter price
ceilings only on a few commodi
ties such as corn and wheat He
said its overall effect would be
negligible, a view concurred in
by Minority Leader McNary of
Oregon.
Previously Bankhead had
(Continued on Page Two)
Folkes, Sans His
loot Suit, Waits
i -Opening
of Trial
ALBANY, Ore., April 8 (IP)
Trial of Robert E. Lee Folkes,
Los Angeles negro dining car
cook, on an Indictment charging
the "lower 13" knifo murder of
Mrs. Richard F. James will open
tomorrow before Circuit Judge
L. G. Lewelling of Linn county.
His mother, Mrs. Clara Folkes,
and his wife, Mrs. Jessie Folkes,
arrived today from Los Angeles
for the trial. Follies, still dap
per but no longer dressed in the
zoot-suit he wore previously, ap
peared worried.
Weinrick is being aided in the
prosecution by L. Orth Sisemore
of Klamath county, Ore. Folkes
attorney is LeRoy Lomax of
Portland. Lomax unsuccessfully
sought a postponement recently,
contending in an affidavit filed
with his petition that the rail
road and county officers were
obstructing Justice in falling to
give him access to witnesses,
documents and railroad equip
ment pertinent to the case. His
petition was denied by Judge
Lewelling who held that court
channels were open to him to
obtain the Information.
CASELESS COURT
PENDLETON April 6 VP)
It had to happen sometime.
Umatilla county, once a virile
outpost territory of the west with
its normal complement of crime,
is. faced (shades of the desper
adoes) with an April term of cir
cuit court that's cascless.
No crime A no cases. ' No
cases no court.
CONFIDENT
VETO SUPPORT
Germany Has
'
Ocean' ' i SPi-JJ?
' ' p'3jmXSni ' TURKtv
Roundabout reports told of allied parachute troops establish
ing; a Norwegian base from which to raid naxi-held factories (1),
adding to German Invasion fears. Britain established a forbidden
tone along portions of her shores (black outlines) from which an
invasion might spring (2). Italians announced Sicily had become
a fortified outpost (3), and frankly feared attack. A nsxi-formed
"army of the Balkans" for defense against invasion (4) was re
ported. And to the east lies the Russian foe (5). Turkish military
men, meanwhile, are conversing with the allies in North Africa.
Red's Kuban Delta March
Batters Stubborn Nazis
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, April 6 (IP) The
red army's growing offensive in
the Kuban delta continued today
witli, rjw; successes against the
Germans who are- fighting .back
stubbornly in an attempt to hold
their bridgehead along the Black
sea coast in the north Caucasus.
. The -midday communique said
the. Russians shelled-large Ger
man. defense positions with big
soviet - guns, destroying more
than 60 enemy firing-points.
. An. earlier dispatch . said, the
red army had fought its way- "in-
Russian Seamen
Rescued From
Ship on Rocks
SEATTLE, - April . 'a (P)
Forty-five. taciturn Russian sea
men and nine women from their
small- merchant ship relaxed
here today after their rescue
over rocky Pacific coastal crags
In a 24-hour operation which
coast, guard officers described as
one of the most difficult feats
in the service's Pacific coast an
nals. .
The ship was one of two small
Russian vessels which the navy
department reported yesterday
to have run aground off the
North Pacific coast of the United
States. ,
. They were in addition to the
rescue several weeks ago. of 64
persons from a storm-pounded
vessel of unannounced national
ity at an isolated North Pacific
spot, which was disclosed here
for the first time yesterday by
participants in the salvage oper
ations. Two lives were lost in
the wintry seas.
The rescue from the Russian
vessel occurred last Friday. One
woman of the ship's crew was
lost In an attempted lifeboat
launching. Another was injured
severely.
Kaiser Schemes of Gigantic
Plane to Fly Nearly
PORTLAND, 6re April 8 (P)
A gigantic cargo plane capable
of flying almost three-quarters of
the distance around the world
without stopping rthat's the lat
est Henry J. Kaiser scheme.
The shipbuilder, recently
turned plane producer, said to
day his engineers were drawing
up plans for such a plane, and
he could be in production before
the war ends. He added that
government and military agen
cies have not yet seen the plans.
Kaiser hinted that the plane
might be built in the Pacific
northwest "We have been
studying facilities here In the
Pacific northwest where it can
be built most efficiently."
As projected by his engineers,
the ship would dwarf the army's
huge transports and four-motored
bombers. t
It would ba 282-fc-Ot Hying
Invasion Jitters
to a strip of territory strongly
fortified by the enemy," another
reference to the major objective.
Germans Lot , '
' The Germans now . hold no
more than . 7500 square miles in
the Kuban and daily they are los
ing more. The soviet map of the
entire front published last week
showed the Russian line begin
ning at Novorossisk. ...
This and current dispatches
show it possible for the red army
already to be giving the nazis
at the Black sea port added wor
ries. (The German high command
communique, broadcast by the
Berlin radio and recorded by-The
Associated Press, claimed that
the Russians had discounted at
tacks on the Kuban bridgehead
(Continued on Page Two)
Eisenhower's
Move Stirs
Free French
LONDON, April 6(P) The
possibility that the fighting
French would ask through of
ficial .channel's for further de
tails on Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower's reasons for asking Gen.
Charles DeGaulle to delay a
trip to North Africa to confer
with Gen. Henry Giraud was
forecast in political circles here
today, as DeGaulle's national
committee convened for a spec
ial meeting.
Observers believed the com
mittee was debating such a
course of action.
Sources close to DeGaulle de
clared Eisenhower's request
came as a complete surprise to
the fighting French leader who
was said to have been literally
"living out of ' a suitcase" for
the past week in expectation of
his departure for North Africa
at almost any moment.
wing, without body, without tall.
Four engines developing a total
8000 horsepower would power
the craft. Fully loaded, it would
weigh 175,000 pounds.
"Loaded with only fuel, It will
be able to fly 17,000 miles with
out stopping," Kaiser told the
Columbia Empire Industries,
Inc., last night in a speech.
"Loaded with fuel and bombs,
it can bring to Tokyo the havoc
and destruction that were visited
on Pearl Harbor.
Plane of Future
"It will be an airplane of the
future. I want to build it for
the future, but I want to start
building it now for war. It can
be built now . . I intend to build
now, while the war is still rag
ing," Kaiser declared.
E. O. Koppen, formerly of the
Massachusetts Institute ot Tech
EIGHTH ARMY
SET FOB
T
Enemy Loses Planes
In Great Sea
Attack
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 6 (IP)
The allied air forces have struck
the most effective blows yet de
livered to the axis lifeline into
Tunisia in an offensive similar
to, but far more intense than,
those which Immediately preced
ed the ground assaults on the
Alamein and Mareth lines. .
Although reports from abroad
said the British eighth army
which has the American second
corps of Lieut.-Gen.: George S.
Fatton Jr., some 40 miles to its
left and in good position to sup
port it had already loosed a
fresh attack on new axis posi
tions north of Gabes, official in
formation here told only of pa
trol actions. These were said to
b operating along the whole
Tunisian front. :
' S2 Downed '
Yesterday's bag of enemy atr
craft shot down was placed to
night at 52, the greatest number
ever downed in- one -day in the
African campaign. - . i
To the previously announced '
tolhtrf 48-plarressftdt down dur
ing the day were added four'
blasted out. of the skyshortly -after
'dusk' last night by RAP-
- (Continued on Page Two) ;
International
Bank Proposed
To Open Trade
' WASHINGTON. April 8 UP)
A plan: designed to break down.
international ' cartels . and thus
open up world trade was pro
posed, today by Rep. Dewey.
(R-IU.) at a meeting of Treasury .
Secretary Morgenthau with the
house . foreign affairs, banking
and coinage committees. - '
. .The Illinois member said the
cartels' control of production -could
be .broken by America
pledging gold to an international
bank and other countries con
tributlng equivalents of critical .
materials.
"Such . a bank, could control
the prices of critical materials,
such as quinine, chromium and
bauxite," Dewey told newspaper-
men after the, closed joint meet-
ing. ."This would prevent pro-
ductlon controls by cartels and
open up international trade."
Coast Guard Plant
Crashes in North
SEATTLE, April 8 UP) A
coast guard plane from the Port
Angeles station with four men
aboard crashed this forenoon
near Maynard, Wash.; in the vi
cinity of Discovery Bay on the
northern Olympja peninsula. .
Coast guard headquarters here
said in . mid-afternoon that no
details were- available.
Cargo
'Round World
nology faculty, retained by Kai
ser as his chief aeronautical en
gineer, said if a plane's wing
surface is doubled, the carrying
capacity is cubed. This is the
principle in the Kaiser plane, he
said. .
) ' Built Light .
He added that the ship would
be built of light metals, chiefly
magnesium. : Of the total weight,
58 per cent would be useful load.
This would approximate 45 tons.
It could, Koppen said, carry
68,000 pounds of cargo 4000
miles. A plane of conventional
design, he added, could carry
42,000 pounds.
Kaiser commented that "radi
cally new principles, giving new
economies of production and
operation" would .be incorporat
ed in the plane. Details were
not disclosed. '
NEW
CUBES BIAS