Ont 5-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles
li tho signal lot blackout In KUmath
rails. Another long bint, during black
out, li ilgnal lor all-claar. In precau
tionary parlodi, watch your street llghti.
By FRANK JENKINS
CAN FRANCISCO. A beautl-
(ul, sparkling day that fol
lowi another beautiful, sparkling
day. Northern California l as
lovely as only Northern Call
fornln can bo in the curly Kprlntf.
AT the hotel, one's bags aro
taken in charge by a com
bination elevator operator and
ballhop. He leaves his car
standing nt the bottom of tho
chute while ho herd your bags
into It and then leaves it stand
Ins again at tho top while ho
wangles your belongings Into tho
precious room your reservation
priority entitles you to claim,
raise tho blinds, fiddles with tho
radiator and otherwise kills
time whilo you'ro reaching for
your chanite pocket.
Quito different from tho last
time, a few weeks ago when the
basRHRO was ceromoniously de
posited In ono of these baby
buggy trucks MANNED BY
TWO huskies, who BOTH fiddled
around and waitod for tne roacn
to tho change pocket, which
mMtini Hint nl lnnjit nno of them
was burning up time that might
have been used in building ships
nd alrploncs that are soroiy
needed on tho lighting ironis .
SLOWLYvcry, very slowly,
bne thinks at times the -war
la coming home to us, and we are
beginning to take the common,
ordinary, horse senso way of
meeting tho manpower problems
that follow In Us train.
A FTER all, why should the
average, reasonably well
muscled mole traveler In war
time havo to havo his baggage
carried for him by oven ono man,
let alone two?
Whv couldn't ho corry It him
self? The chances are It wouldn't
hurt him. ,
It nil the bellhops In all the
towns In all the states of tho
United States of America were
busy building ships Instead of
rassllng baggage for able-bodied
mnlo American citizens who
could carry It for themselves
without bowing a tendon, tho
resulting Increaso In shipping
output would bo pleasing to our
. sida and moro or less distressing
to the enemy.
TT'S a minor issue, but It makes
a point. Tho point Is this:
If we're to lick tho Jnps and the
Germans, we stay-at-homes have
got to do a lot of things wo
haven't been In tho habit of do
ing.
RREAKFAST, tho next monv
Ing. Breakfast now costs
about whnt dinner used to, and
if your dander begins to riso and
you fcol tho urge surging up to
kick llko hell, tho sobering
thought occurs to you that If you
don't oat it and pay for it somo-
body clsa will and the manage
ment doesn't give a darn whether
It s you or somebody olsa that
gets it.
Besides, if you don't llko tho
way things are done nt tho public
enterics, why don't you stay at
home and cat what tho ration
book says you can oat and no
moro?
So you eat It and pay the price
and cvon lcava a placating tip.
TN the old days that now aro
gone, one tipped because, of a
notion that the tippec's wan look
was tho resultpf creeping star
vation arising out of tho detest
ablo habit of tho capitalistic
classes of paying wages that bn re
ly kept soul and body together.
It wng probably a delusion, and
the wan look was doubtless tho
inevitable canscqucnco of having
been up loo Into the night before
and having taken on more than
could bo handled and atlll como
up bright and shining when tho
nasty old alarm clock did its
ituff.
But nt least tho Idea gave one
a virtuous glow, all same Lady
Bountiful, when parting with his
cash. You'd nt least dono your
good deed for the day, and in
tho course of tho conduct of your
business ' during the ensuing
hours you could put the screws
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Giant Air Battle
Destroys 37 of 95
Attacking Nippons
By The Associated Press
American fighters were officially credited today with de
stroying 37 out of OB Jupuncss planes In a buttlo over the south
curt Solomons Wednesday when the enemy struck at U. S. ship
ping off Guadalcanal Island. 1
Tho navy said that seven American planes were lost a ratio
of better than 5 to 1 In their favor and that one pilot was
rescued.
Tho Japanese aerial armada Included 80 bombers and 48
fighters. It was not disclosed whether they wero successful in
CLOSE SATURDAY
Dismantling S t a r t s
Monday; Lumber
To Be Sold
Algoma Lumber company!
mill, established on Upper Klam
ath luko in 1011, will close down
permanently on Salurduy at 9
p. m., it woi announced Thurs
day by Freeman Schultz, mana
ger. Dismantling of tho mill will
start Monday, and only tho dry
ing and shipping of 4,000,000
feet of lumber now In the yards
remains before Algoma will close
out Its operations entirely.
It Is believed about fix weeks
will be required to dispose at the
lumber on hand when tlie wheels
of the pioneer plant atop for tho
last time Saturday evening.
The box factory has already
been dismantled, and the mach
inery sold. Most of the machln-
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Nine Pine Mills
Idle as Workers
Discuss Wages
SPOKANE. April 8 VP)
Nino pine processing plants In
Spokano stood idle today as an
estimated 1200 workers held
what union representatives
termed a "continuing meeting"
to discuss failure of the OPA to
approve a wago increase for tho
western pino industry.
William Ransbottom, business
agent of the Spokane district
council of the Lumber and Saw
mill Workers union (AFL), said
the employes would contlnuo to
meet until they were ablo to
"get definite Information in re
gard to our wage dispute."
Earlier, the west coast lumber
commission had suspended wage
awaiUs averaging 71 cents an
hour after tho OPA had foiled
to take action approving, tho
awards, according to the com
mission. H. D, Weaver, labor relations
representative of the companies
Involved in the" work stoppage,
said tho plants were "working
ulmost 100 per cent on war pro
ducts, including the manufacture
of ammunition boxes, shell cases,
food boxes and airplane motor
crates.
Ransbottom said tho union
had asked for $1.05 per hour
minimum for comrnon labor. The
present minimum, he said, is 00
cents.
Draft Reclassification
Rumored to Start Monday
WASHINGTON, April 8 (IP)
Reclassification of draft reg
istrants under a now national
regulation, highlighted by elimi
nation of tho 3-B classification,
was reported today to bo sched
uled to start Monday,
Natlonnl selective service
headquarters continued the sil
ence it has maintained despite
circulation of unofficial reports
for more -than a week. An of
ficial statement is expected
Monday;
Tho 3-B classification, which
includes nil men having depend
ents and working In essentinl
activities, regardless of what Job
they hold, was established last
July 15.
Besides eliminating It, unoffi
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Vj
reaching tho American ships.
A navy communique said the
battle climaxed a two-day offen
sive by American planes which
mado six forays against Japan
ese ships and bases throughout
the Solomons.
Jap Threat
Coincident with news of the
American victory In the skies,
Japan"! army press chief. Ma.
Gen. Nakao Yahagl, voiced a
threat of Japanese invasion of
India. -
Yahagl declared that "the
enemy's ambition of recapturing
Burma has at last been crushed"
and that Japanese successes on
the Burma front had "Increased
the confidence of our forces, to
advance into India." I '
New Jap Head ..'
Japanese forces in Burma have
a new commander replacing
Lieut. Gen. ShoJIro Ilda, who led
the army which overran the
country last year, the Tokyo
radio Indicated. ' '
A broadcast recorded by The
Associated Press said that llda,
identified as "tha. former com
mander in chief of the Burma
forces, had. returned to Tokyo
and been received in audience
by Emperor Hirohlto. It did not
discloso the name of lids s suc
cessor,
Bomb Jitters
Japan had a fresh attack of
"bomb jitters" . today as the
Tokyo radio for the second time
in 24 hours warned the Japanese
people that a new American
bombing assault might come at
any time "either from tho China
continent, the Aleutians or from
aircraft carriers."
Elsewhere In the far Pacific
war theatre, the British com
mand announced that British ar
tillery had smashed Japanese at
tempts to- advance in the Indin
region in Burma, with the enemy
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Eden Discusses
American Talks
Before Commons
LONDON, April 8 fP
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, discussing his recent con
ferences In Washington before
the houso of commons, disclosed
today he had invited Secretary
of State Cordcll Hull to visit
London and said he was satis-
fled there is "complete agree
ment" between Britain and the
United States on the "future
policy toward France."
He also reported that he and
United States authorities "found
a very close similarity of out
look" on postwar problems.
I am satisfied," the foreign
secretary sold, "that as regards
the future policy toward France
there is complete agreement be
tween us."
cial reports said, the new reg
ulations will: i
Require reclassification to 1-A
all men outside of farming ex
cept thoso dofinetTtBrtathers un
der sclectlvo service rules, those
Individually essential to essential
activities, and those whose in
duction would mean extreme
hardship Jo dependents.
Reserve tho 3-A classification
exclusively for fathers those
living in a bona fide family re
lationship with children con
ceived before induction of the
fathers appeared imminent, and
in no case born later than Sep
tember 14, 1042,
Creato a now- classification,
3-D, for deferment of single or
childless married men whose in
duction wouldV cause extreme
hardship to dependents.
l rem
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
FALLS, OREGON,
President Sells
President Roosevelt gave the opening of the second war loan drive his personal attention
by selling war bonds to members of the White House staff. Mr. Roosevelt s first customer was
John H. Pye, left, his chauffeur when he was assistant secretary of the nary. Secretary of Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, right, and other staff members get ready, to "put it. on the line."
Folkes Trial Jury Chosen
Despite Racial Prejudices
ALBANY, Ore., April 8 (P)
A Jury of eight women and
four men, with a woman alter
nate, was selected early this
afternoon to try Robert E. Lee
Folkes a the Viewer 13" knife
murder of Mrs. Martha Vir
ginia,. James, 21-year-old navy
bride. .-,- s ,
-The , first: venireman ,of a
new batch of 10 called for
duty was accepted by Harlow
Welnrlck, Linn county prose
cutor, and LeRoy Lomax, de
fense attorney, a few minutes
after the court session was re
sumed at 2 p. m.
ALBANY, Ore., April 8 (ZD
Jury troubles again today halted
the "Lower 13" murder trial of
Robert E. Lee Folkes, accused of
the knife slaying of Mrs. Martha
James, a navy officer s bride.
A new panel of IS men and
Few Changes in
Russ-Naii Line
Seen Overnight .
MOSCOW, April 8 CP) While
no big changes took place over
night, on the Russian-German
front, still oozing with the spring
thaw, increased action was re
ported today in several sectors.
The red army stormed Ger
man positions south of Izyum
and captured advantageous lines
in the face of sharp nazl fire
after several days of numerous
German attacks.
In the Sevsk sector northwest
of Kursk the Germans again be
gan counterattacks but they
availed nothing. The Russians
previously halted large-scale
enemy operations there.
Tho Volkhov front saw bat
tling again, with the Germans
once more trying to take a so
viet position, and again falling.
Although there was sharp fight
ing in this sector, southeast of
Leningrad, the conflict was not
believed to be a major oper
ation. Artillery duels and scouting
operations took place on the
western front whero- the Rus
sians have been edging toward
Smolensk.
Nothing was mentioned in the
noon communique about the Ku
ban area or west of Rostov.
Nine Victims of
Plane Crash Found
After Safe Jumps
WALLA WALLA, April 8 (IP)
Nine men who parachuted from
a Walla Walla air base bomber.
March 30, apparently have been
all accounted for, Major Harry
E. Gilmore, commanding officer
at the field, announced last
night. ' ,' '
Tho pilot, Second Lt. Joseph
R. Brcnslnger, Fairfield, Ala.,
was spotted yesterday and flown
to the Pocatello air base.
Two .other flyers aro known
to be in a cabin upriver from the
Hood ranch, 60 miles northwest
of Challls, and a ground rescue
party is on the way to them.
THURSDAY, APRIL 8 1943
War Bonds Staff Members "Dig'
women was exhausted - by 11
a. m., and court was adjourned
while sheriffs deputies rounded
up an additional 10 persons.
State Challenges
, District .' Attorney Harlow
Weinrick and his assistant, L. O.
Slsemore, exercised four peremp
tory" challenges during the hour
of the morning session. , One
juror was released peremptorily,
yesterday. Leroy Lomax, Port-.
land, defense attorney, had ac
cepted the Jury yesterday. He
had not used one peremptory
challenge.
At the morning, recess, nine
women and four men sat in the
box. Most of the veniremen
questioned said they had formed
opinions.
Folkes Unperturbed
Meanwhile, Folkes, a dining
car cook, sat seemingly unper
turbed, end showed slight inter
est in the selection of men and
women who will decide whether
he was the person who cut Mrs.
James' throat as she lay in her
berth in a Southern Pacific
sleeping car as it roared through
the Willamette valley before
dawn, January 23. He wore a
blue serge suit with zoot lines,
but insisted that it wasn't a zoot
suit. "It's a formal," he ex
plained. The small, court room,, filled
by the time the session opened,
remained jammed ' throughout
the session, with women predom
inating. The first day was taken up by
. (Continued on Page Seven) !
Decree Starts
Bolivia on War
Against Axis
LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 8 (IP)
Bolivia was summoned to war
against the axis powers and their
satellites by an executive decree
today, and leaders of political
blocs of the chamber of deputies
arranged a meeting to consider
the action of President Enrique
Penaranda and his cabinet. .
Observers here believed an
immediate session of congress to
vote a formal declaration of war
would be demanded. Congress
is the only body authorized con
stitutionally to adopt' such a
measure.'
Foreign Minister Tomas Man
uel Ello said the decree, placing
Bolivia beside Brazil as the sec
ond country in South America to
manifest martial opposition to
Germany and Italy, also would
apply to Japan and all nations
associated with the three powers
in the war.
Brazil did not declare war
against Japan. All countries in
South America, however, have
broken axis relations, except
Argentina.
CEILING RAISED
WASHINGTON, April 8 (IP)
Processor price ceilings for quick
frozen asparagus will be raised
in an effort to attain the max
imum harvest of the crop this
year, the OPA and agriculture
department announced jointly
yesterday.
NEA FEATURES
Number 9766
Closing Dates
Announced Jar 'i-.
County Schools
Dates for the closing of county
schools were announced Thurs
day by Fred. Peterson, county
school" superintendent.
Thirteen schools will " shut
downlorthe summer ion May
14 and the other eight will be
out May 7. Differences in clos
ing time is due to the fact that
some schools had i Christmas va
cation and others) did not, and
also that some were closed last
fall for the potato harvest, and
not having made up all the time
lost they must go a week longer
than the rest.:
Peterson stated -that lt was
very likely that school in rural
communities-'-would: take- up
earlier than usual- this fall to
allow for a shutdown in harvest
season. Rural schools would
definitely be dosed this fall dur
ing crop harvesting emergencies,
Peterson explained.
This school year time lost last
fall was made up in some rural
districts by having an extra hour
added to the school day, while
others attempted having classes
on Saturdays.
- Bonanza, Henley, Merrill and
Maiin- were- closed for potato
picking the last, week in Septem
ber and first three . weeks . in
October.'- This necessitated a
whole month's make-up this fall
and spring.. '
Schools, closing May 14 are Al
goma, Henley. Shevlin. Kirk.
Altamont (both grade and junior
high), Crescent Lake, Cascade
Summit, Pelican Bay camp, Mer
rill, 'Bonanza, Lamm's camp at
Yamsay, Fairhaven, Shasta.
Those out for the summer on
May 7 are Gilchrist, Chiloquin,
Beatty, Sprague River, Fort
Klamath, Malin, Keno, Bly.
Americans Down 70
German Planes in
Raid on Renault
LONDON, April 8 (IP) Ameri
lean gunners destroyed 70 Ger
man aircraft In Sunday's day
light bombing of the Renault
Works near Paris and Monday's
raid on the Erla Aero Engine
Works at Antwerp, it was an
nounced officially today.
Forty-seven German planes
were shot down in the Renault
raid, most of them from Relchs
marshal .Hermann ' Goerlng's
crack squadrons of yellow-nosed
Focke-Wulf fighters, the eighth
U. S. army air force headquart
ers said.'
Cafe Ordered to
Not Serve Coffee '
SEATTLE, April 8 (IP) The
off ice. of price administration is
sued an order forbidding ;the
Central Building fountain here
to serve coffee for 18 days, April
12 to May 1. ;
Robert C. Finley, OPA chief
enforcement attorney here, said
the order was Issued after a
hearing on OPA charges that D.
H. Brennan, fountain manager,
failed to declare 180 pounds of
coffee on hand. - Finley said the
order was written by Harry F.
Camp, regional OPA administra
tor in San Francisco. . ,
British Join
Americans to
Encircle Axis
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 8 (IP)
The British first army gained four or five miles by a surprise
attack in the,Medjez-El-Bab bulge area yesterday as the second
U. S. army corps and the British eighth army united In a relent-
less pursuit of the enemy in the south, it was announced today.
The. first army's advance in the northern sector carried its
vanguards to within less than 27 airline miles of Tunis, nazi-held
capital of the French protectorate.--
It was announced officially to -
mght that the eighth army had
advanced . 15 miles beyond the
captured Wadl El Akarit line.
(This would place the army
50 miles from the Port of Sfax.)
Eighth Sweeps North ,
(An Algiers radio broadcast
recorded in London at 8:28 p. m.
(11:28 a. m. Pacific war time)
said the eighth army was report
ed continuing its sweep north
and "all enemy attempts to stop
the advance have failed com
pletely.") More prisoners were rounded
up in both northern and south
ern sectors and Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel's positions again
were blasted and shot up by al
lied aerial squadrons.
- Americans Rip Nails - - '
; The second U. S. corps of
Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,
and Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's eighth army collabor
ated like two woodsmen at the
ends of a crosscut saw to rip
Rommel's rearguards from their
positions. '
A communique disclosed that
the eighth army, after smashing
the: Wadi El Akarit position 201
miles north of Gabes at dawn
Tuesday repulsed determined
enemy counterattacks in heavy
fighting that afternoon.
Withdrawal Begins
Marshal Rommel apparently
then abandoned all hope of hold
ing out in that area and, realiz
ing, that, his big armored forma
tions in front of the Americans
along the Gasfa-Gabes road were
in an . untenable position, began
a withdrawal under the cover of
darkness Tuesday night.
General Patton's Americans
immediately pushed ahead, clear
ing up pockets of resistance
which Rommel had left behind
and clashing at times with the
withdrawing armor itself to at
tain a point 25 to 30 miles east
of El Guetar.
It was at this point that the
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American Hero
Remembered as
Klamath Youth
John W. DeMille, credited by
the American command with
bagging enemy planes in Tues
day's raid somewhere in North
Africa, was described as a "quiet
and retiring chap" by officials
of Ewauna Box company where
Johnny worked for eight years
prior to Joining up in the United
States army air corps.
Young DeMille is said to have
graduated from Klamath Union
high school and entered the em
ploy of Ewauna shortly after.
He worked in the box factory
and lived at 838 Walnut street
for a time and also made his
home with the Martin Tighe and
Francis Provost families of Mid
land district. The airman was
born January 1, 1913, and was
30 years old this year.
Coo Operators
Ask WLB to Act
In Wage Fight
NEW YORK, April 8 (P)
Former Senator Edward R.
Burke, spokesman for the south
ern bituminous coal operators,
announced today his group had
dispatched a telegram to the war
labor board asking it to take Im
mediate Jurisdiction in the wage
dispute between the southern
operators and miners.
Burke said the telegram was
sent to William R. Davis. WLB
chairman, before Dr. John R.
Steelman, head of the U. S. con
ciliation service, reached the
southern wage conference.' Dr.
Steelman had spent most of the
morning at. the conference of
northern operators and miners.
April 7 High 84. Low II
Praelpilatlon ai of April 1, 1943
Stream year to data ..14.0S
Lait year 10.14 Normal ... 9.3 S
f -
Says ; Incentive Plan
Better Than Price !;
Increases . ,';
By ERNEST B.VACCARO ;
WASHINGTON, April 8 VP)
Price . Administrator Prentiss
Brown aroused a storm of pro
test from members of the senate
agriculture committee today by
advocating increased appropria
tions for incentive payments to
farmers as preferable to- two
diiis designed to increase prices.;
"It would be better to approp--riate
money with which to pay'
uu4... c . iwjruicuis in cases
inlia.. J I ...
iiv.1 o W1W UKUQ1V IS 1U3UXI1-
cient to assure, production , than
to break "Through the barriers
against inflation," he declared. --
Farm Position
"I don't want to put the farmer
in the position of depending up
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Til St Mar fnliinAfl
w w an! IffJMI WW ;
When Log Rolls
From Flatcar V
Two men 'were' injured,' ono
critically, when a 36-foot log
rolled off a flatcar at the Ewauna
camp near Quartz Mountain
shortly after 9 o'clock Thursday
morning. -
Arthur "Ed" Smith is in Klam
am v aney nospitai, ms condi
tion said to be serious. He is
suffering from back and possible
internal injuries. Charles Mc
Cain suffered a hand Injury
which required surgery. Both
men are employed by the Bly
Logging company, subsidiary of
Ewauna Box company. The two
were brought by - speeder to
Quartz Mountain and Smith
rushed by Ward's ambulance to
the hospital. It is thought that
hooks hoisting the og on to the
flatcar slipped and tha timber
struck the two as they were
working near the railroad.
Palermo Harbot
Bombing Follows
Raid on Naples
CAIRO, April 8 (IP) Palermo
harbor was attacked by Libera
tor bombers of the ninth U. S. air
force in daylight yesterday, a
communique announced today.
Hits were observed along the
quay and in the vicinity of a sea
plane station, . a communique
said, and enemy fighters attack
ed the formation in vain, All of.
the planes returned, it was an
nounced. The American Liberators at
tacked the harbor in a followup
to raids by allied heavy bombers
the night before on Naples end
the Sicilian ferry terminus at
Messina,' which were announced
by the Middle East command in
a communique. " ',
Hitler Confers
With Mussolini on
European Defense
BERN, Switzerland, April 8
(IP) A conference between Adolt
Hitler and Benito Mussolini on
what steps to take for the de
fense of Europe against Invasion
was reported from informed cir
cles in Rome last night. It waf
said the meeting probably took
place in the Brennpr Pass.