ui.njinrinnririnnn'inrri'i!'' ......................
On B-mlnute bUtt on sirens and whittle
li th ilgniil lor a blackout in Klamath
Falli, Anothtr long blast, during a black
out, la ilgnal for all-olaar. In precau
tionary ptrlodi, watch your street llghti.
M
Defense Counsel
Denies Murder in
Tower 13 " Berth
ALBANY, April 0 (IP) All doors of tho Soulhorn Puclflc't
West Count Limited were found to bo closed a few mlnutoi after
tho "lower 13" slaying, tho suite's first wltne. a trainman, tes
tified In tlio trlul of Robert K. Leo Koikes, negro cook today.
W. II, Banks, Pullman- conductor, tho witness, said ho was
summoned by n porter.
"I saw a body covered by a sheet," ho testified. "I lifted tho
sheet and saw tho body of a woman In a nightgown. Thcro was
a tcrrlblo wound In her neck. I presumed she was dead."
Banks said ho was told a per-
.Aim imrn nilinn son wos seen running toward tho
hUUH ALLItU uHlfb
SUNK entf WEE
Destroyer Included
In Results of
Air Attack
WASHINGTON, April I) (IP)
Four allied vessels, including a
destroyer, wero sunk ns a re
sult of the heavy Japanese air
ettack on shipping off Guadal
canal Island Wednesday, tho
navy reported toduy,
Tho vessels wero not Identi
fied either as to namo or na
tionality, but since most of the
hips opornting In tho south
eastern Solomons are American
It was presumed that most of
thoso lost wero American.
Navy communique No. 330,
said: -
"South Pacific: (all dates are
East Longltudo):
"1. Further roports of the
Jnpancso air attack on allied
shipping In tho vicinity of Gua
dalcanal Island on April 7 (as
reported In navy department
communique number 337) revonl
(Continued on Pago Two)
Postal Workers
Given Increases
In Wage Scales
WASHINGTON, April S (IP)
President Roosovelt today signed
a bill providing for pay Increases
for postal employes, effective un
til Juno 30, 1045.
An avorngo Increase of $25 per
month of $300 per year is pro
vided for postal employes in the
field service with a provision
that those paid on an hourly, fee,
part time, or per diem basis, to
gether with fourth-class postmas
ters and special-delivery messen
gers, shall got on Incrcnso of 15
por cont, or not ovor $300 a yoor
extra.
Tho pcrccntaga Incrcnso for
tho fourth-class postmasters and
special delivery messengers also
npplics to clerks as third-class
postofflces, chnrmcn and char
women, substitute, and tempor
ary employes, clerical-mechanical
employes, skilled tradesman
in tho mail-equipment shops and
rural delivery carriers serving
one trl-weekly route
Rural delivery carriers serv
ing two trl-weekly routes nro on
n full-tlmo basis and como under
tho provisions of tho bill provid
ing for nn average Increase of
$25 per month.
Provision Is also modo for a 15
per cent incrcaso In tho allow
unco to third-class postmasters
for clork hire, this amount not
to exceed $500,
Logger Dies From
Accident' Injuries
Arthur Edwin Smith, 27-year-old
logger who suffered injuries
when struck by a log at tho
Ewauna Box company camp at
Quartz Mountain Thursday
morning, died Into Inst night at
Klamath Valley hospital,
Mr. Smith, a natlvo of Bigo
low, Mo., hod mado his homo In
and around Klnmnth Falls for
tho past 14 yenrs, His wlfo, the
formor Phyllis Smith, two
daughtors, Marilyn Jo nnd Mary
Ellon, his father, Thomas M.
Smith of Lakcvicw nnd his moth
er who lives In Mcdford, sur
vive as do ono brother and five
sisters. Tho remains era at the
Enr) Whltlock Funeral homo.'
Kervlcos will be announced later,
rr Tn nnn
mm
rear of tho train. Ho went back
through tho train, found no one
but Folkcs, wiio was in the diner
galloy, apparently at work, and
found all doors closed.
A trap door over the steps of
one car was sprung, ho said, on
cross examination, but not far
enough to permit opening of the
door. No one could have left
the train, ha added.
Jam Ttttifiu
Her widower, Ensign Richard
Floyd James, called as a state
witness, said ho last saw Ms wife
olivo Just beforo they left Seat
tle on the aftornoon of January
22.
They wero married In Norfolk
nn September 19, 1043, Just be
fore ha was assigned to 6ent
tlo station. Ho was transferred
to Anacortes, Wash., and soon
was ordered to report to San
Diego, he testified.
Because he was ordered to
travel on a troop train, bo and
his bride were separated at the
Seattla station, ho said,. ,
, "I next saw her iu an "under
taking psrlor In .EuBcpc.'.Ore.t'
when I was asKoa . to laeuuiy
her body," he said.
He testified in a low voice,
glancing occasionally at hi in
terrogator, L. O. Slsemore, asso
ciate prosecutor, and at tho Jury.
Ha was not scon to look at
Folkcs, who sat with his counsel
a few fcot distant When not
testifying, he stared at his hands,
cupped tightly In his lap.
At tho conclusion of his direct
testimony, Lcroy Lomax, attor
ney for the negro, said;
"You have my deepest sym
pathy, ensign. There will be no
cross examination."
Lomax Objects
A few minutes later, Lomax
objected to Slscmore's request
(Continued on Page Two)
Anti-Inflation
Drive Siaris
Stock Selling
NEW YORK, April 9(P) The
president's now anti-inflation
drive today touched off the heav
iest soiling In securities markets
since the nnzl smash at France.
Stocks tumbled $1 to $6 a
share In dealings that approach
ed the 3,000,000-share level and
tho ticker tope, near the close,
fell thrco minutes behind actual
transactions on the floor of the
stock exchange
Bonds were equally weak.
Commodities, however, cut early
losses at the finish.
At Chicago wheat was down
about 2 cents a bushel at the
opening but ended with net re
cessions of 1 to 11 cents. Hogs
lost 10 to 20 cents. Cotton gavo
up 55 cents to $1.05 a bale.
Price Ceiling Squeeze on
Meat Serious, Says Davis
By FRANCIS M. LE MAY
WASHINGTON, April 9 (IP)
Price Administrator Prontlss M.
Brown and Food Administrator
Chcstor Davis agreed today in
testimony before the house
small business committee that
tho price coiling squeeze on meat
packers has becomo "serious and
untenable." Committee mora
bors havo demanded lmmedlato
action to correct the situation
and stamp out tho black market
In meat.
In response to questions from
Chairman Pntman (D-Tcx.),
Brown acknowledged that "to be
frank" present ceilings on meat
products may bo In violation of a
price control net provision which
calls for a "generally fair and
equitable margin" for process
ing. But while conceding that
"small packer are . in tough
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
I I AllVIIUrl A.t.DOI.MAIN
H0U5EDDWNS
TO
E
Hobbs Bill to Curb
Racketeering in
Unions
WASHINGTON, April 9 UP).
Over tho vigorous opposition of
organized labor representatives
who said It would restrict legal
rights, the house passed and sent
to tho senate today tho Hobbs
bill to make robbery and ex
tortion In interstate commerce
punishable under the 1934 anti
racketeering act.
It was tho first legislative
fight on a lubor issue of th 78th
congress.
Before passing the bill of a
roll-call vote, tho house turned
down an amendment which the
American Federation of Labor
had announced would make the
legislation-acceptable to It. -
The vote on final passage was
announced as 270 to 107. The
AFL-snonsorcd amendment lost
on a teller .count of .187 la 138. v
WASHINGTON, April 9 (P)
The house voted down today, 167
to 126 on a teller count, an
amendment which organized la
bor representatives hove said
would make the Hobbs anti
racketeering bill acceptable to
union.
Th ' amendment, offered by
Rep. Ccllcr (D-N. Y.), would
have declared that union activi
ties mado legal under four exist
ing statutes arc recognized as le
gal under the Hobbs measure,
Without It, Ccller argued, the
bill would destroy many of la
bor's legal rights.
Opponents of tho amendment
fought It on the ground It would
nullify the entire bill, which un
dertakes to make robbery and
extortion In Interstate commerce
punishable under the 1934 anti
racketeering act.
An amendment proposed by
the Judiciary committee was
adopted on a voice vote. It pro
vides that nothing in the Hobbs'
bill shall be Interpreted as re
pealing or modifying any of the
four acts named In the Ccller
amendment. The four acts are
tho Clayton anti-trust law, the
Norrls-LaGuardla an'tl-lrijunction
act, the railway labor act, and
tho national, labor relations act.
Evacuees Go to
Walla Walla Jobs
Fifty evacuees from the WRA
center at Tulelake are being
moved this weekend to Walla
Walla, Wash., to work in seed
and truck gardens.
This Is a part of a general ef
fort being made by the farm
security administration to get
workers for vital farm work in
various areas, It was announced.
shape," the price administrator
said there are "some- casualties
as a result of price control that
cannot bo avoided."
Both Brown and Davis hinted
that price ceilings might have to
bo placed on livestock to allevi
ate tho situation, although Davis
declared "God knows, I don't
want that because of tho admin
istrative headaches Involved." -
He termed tho packers' plight
Just one part of the whole meat-feed-grain
situation but de
scribed it as the "hottest No, 1
problem I've yet bumped into."
Davis oxprcsscd hope the sit
uation would bo allovlnted by
rationing and by prosecution of
black market violators.
Brown, assorting that prices of
food directly affect those of
meat, said at pno point that ac
tion on the packers' problems
(Continued on Page Two) ,
Food (Gelmgs Seen
,
AMENDMENT
LABOR
MEASUR
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
man
Back Home
-f'Fl" SMIHU
Back from 11 M months of
campaigning on cruUeri and de
stroyers in th Pacific, Lieut.
Comm. Robert Montgomery
(above), formr ' movie - star,.
praised '".the - American blue
jackets- for - thl totrtagt,. tena-4
City and devotion to duty under
fire. Twenty pounds lighter as
a rsult of a bout with dengue
fever, he told press confer
ence in Los Angelas of surfac
and raiding actions in which he
ngaged.
STRIKES HALT WAR
Unauthorized Letup
Affects Nearly
5000 Men
DETROIT, April 9 (IP)
Spontaneous or unauthorized
work stoppages Interrupted pro
duction of war vehicles in two
plants of the Ford Motor com
pany here today, affecting near
ly 5000 workers.
A dispute that started when
a dice game In a lavatory was
broken up by plant protection
men in the Highland Park plant,
a company spokesman said,
caused more than 500 men in a
tank production unit to stop
work at 2:45 a. m later spread
ing to 2700 day shift employes
and 1000. workers in another
unit.
Work Resumed
Nearly all of these employes
resumed production before noon,
but somo of the workers had
gono home. The company
spokesman said the work stop
page began after tho.plant pro
tection men took the badges of
eight men engaged in the dice
game and told them to report
to the labor relations office.
Meanwhile, a wage' dispute
that caused 431 men in the trans
portation division of Ford's
Rouge plant to stop work hamp
ered production of Amphibian
jeeps. The company sent 300
workers home because of failure
to receive deliveries of needed
parts.
W. G. Grant, financial sec
retary of tho United Automobile
Workers (CIO) Ford local 800,
and Frank Newman, president of
the transportation unit of tho
local, went to the plant in an
attempt to persuade tho strik
ers to resume work.
DECLINES DISPUTE
WASHINGTON, April 9 (IP)
The war labor board declined to
day to take lmmedlato jurisdic
tion of the southern soft coal
wage dispute by referring to Sec
retary Perkins a telegram from
the southern operators request
ing Intervention, i
fZJ- i -IB - J j
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1943
AS
Byrnes Says OPA Can
Give Plans
Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, April 9 (IP)
President Roosevelt said today
that dollar-a n d-cents ceiling
prices probably would be placed
on all food commodities which
affect living costs, while James
F. Byrnes, economic stabiliza
tion director, said the office of
price administration might , be
able to present specific ceiling
price plans tomorrow,, following
those now laid down for meats.
' Byrnes was sitting In on a
presidential- press conference,
which dealt largely with the
chief executive's new order de
signed to help combat inflation
through more rigid restrictions
on prices and wages. . ;
UJ Four-Lenaed Stool 1 " !
fHieilorecident raid the whole'
problem resembles a four-legged
stool. . .
Food prices are one leg, wages
another, rationing a third, and
taxation and - saving are - the
fourth, he said,
An effort is being made,- he
said, to prevent ups and downs
and to get on a more even level,
using all four-legs to prevent
the stool from falling over, -
His executive order was a step
In that direction, he said, - but
congress still has to provide the
fourth leg, taxes and savings.
Revenue Goal
Asked whether $16,000,000,
000 is still the administration's
goal on new revenue, as men
tioned in his budget message to
congress, Mr. Roosevelt said it
is the administration's hope.
He was asked, also, how ma
terially he has increased the
powers given Byrnes, and Mr.
Roosevelt turned that question
over to Byrnes.
The stabilization director re
plied that he knew of no material
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Miner's Problem
Same Despite
Inflation Order
NEW YORK, April 9 (IP)
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mino Workers, declared
today that President Roosevelt's
"hold the line order against In
flation left the problem of the
mine industry unchanged and
left "the mine workers still hun
gry and resentful in having their
demands for bread made a politi
cal pawn."
As negotiations were resumed
here for a new contract in the
Appalachian bituminous coal
fields, which would cover 450,
000 union members, Lewis issued
a formal statement in which he
said miners wages were "sub
standard." The president's order would
hold wages to tho "Little Steel"
formula, and authorize no in
creases except where "clearly
necessary to correct substan
dards of living."
Norwegian King
Says Army Acts
Against Germany
LONDON. April 9 (IP) King
Haakon VII, broadcasting on the
third anniversary of the Ger
man Invasion of Norway, said
today elements of the Norwegian
army already had been in action
against the enemy several times
and all looked forward Impa
tiently to the liberation of their
homeland.
"May the liberation not be
far off," ho said. "May freedom
and justice soon bo restored to
all the occupied nations."
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Russian Ship Wrecked
S' '
I
Flfty-thr mmbr of tbe crew. Including' eight women,
were rescued by tbe United States coast guard with difficulty
after this small Russian freighter piled ashore off the North Pa
cific coast in a bad storm April 1. ....
Germans, Russians Battle
Sporadically, Quiet Day
MOSCOW, April 9 (IP) The
Russian-German front, was gen
erally!, quiet today but along
some sectors .there, were sharp
inrusu Dy Douu uaes, . i' ?
South of Balakleya, which- Is
midway between- Chuguev and
Izyum- on the Donets river, the
Germans again during the night
attempted to assault red army
positions but lost 200 killed
and gained no ground. .
This sector .includes an area
where the soviet -troops have a
bridgehead on the. Donets, and
the attacks by the nazis likely
Senate Groups
Fight Over Trip
To Battlefields
WASHINGTON. April 9 (PP)
The rivalry between two senate
committees over a trip to North
Africa figured in a presidential
press conference today, with
President Roosevelt remaining
strictly neutral.
Mr. Roosevelt said only the
Truman committee ever had ap
proached him on the matter and
that was two months ago. - He
took it up with Gen. George C.
Marshall, army chief of staff,
who wrote a letter on the sub
ject which the president for
warded to the committee.
The chief executive added that
Marshall said he would like to
take as many committees as he
could to North Africa but that
every' civilian who went over
meant that the armed forces
would be robbed of so much es
sential tonnage, so he hoped trips
would be limited as far as pos
sible.
Crack Chinese
Troops Recapture
Strategic Mountain
CHUNGKING, April 9 (IP)
Crack Chinese troops recaptured
a strategically-important hill
which had been lost in hand-to-hand
fighting with several thou
sand Japanese troops supported
by planes and tanks, Chinese
dispatches said today in report
ing furious engagements which
had been raging for more than
ten days west ' of the Tungpu
railway in southwest Shansi pro
vince. Klamath County
Gets Slice of
Liquor Revenue
Klamath county was appor
tioned $930 Friday aa its share
of a state tax on manufacturers
and ' important distributors of
malt and alcoholic beverages for
the first quarter of 1943. Lake
county received $148.
Cities, also, received a slice
of the liquor melon, the amount
allotted to Klamath Falls being
$702. MedfArd received $480
and Bend $426.
n nn n
A"
vi ft
"were designed, at trying to
smash through and clear up the
western bank, but all their ef
forts) have, failed: '.
Within the last 24 hours the
Germans have lost more than
500 men killed in the sector.
At one spot the Germans
drove into the Russian positions
yesterday but the soviet troops
regrouped quickly and hurled
them back to their original po
sitions. South of Izyum a. few weak
attacks were launched against
the strong soviet lines and the
enemy was repulsed, losing a
large number of their infantry
men, the Russians said. .
(The German communique
broadcast by the Berlin radio
and recorded by The Associated
Press asserted that two Russian
battalions were "annihilated" in
mopping-up operations on the
Middle Donets river front and
that numerous prisoners were
taken.
(German heavy army artillery
'shelled strategically important
objectives i n Leningrad with
telling effect," it said.
' (Otherwise, the Germans said,
only fighting of local import
ance was reported.)
English Airmen
Resume Offense
On West Europe
LONDON, April 9 (IP)' The
RAF, resuming the. allied aerial
offensive against western Eu
rope after a lapse of three
nights, attacked targets in the
industrial Ruhr valley last night
in a raid from which 21 bomb
ers failed to return, the air
ministry announced today.
The attack, in which some of
Britain's biggest bombers parti
cipated, was described officially
as ."heavy," but the weather
over Germany was bad and. it
was difficult to observe full re
sults, a communique said.. '
Specific targets in the Ruhr
were not disclosed. Objectives
in previous raids on this oft
bombed area -have included the
great manufacturing centers, of
Essen and Dulsburg. t .
Rotary Totals
Wild Bond
Klamath Rotarlans went on a
wild bond buying spree at Fri
day noon's luncheon, running up
the bids to a total of $60,000
at an auction of the rooster,
Captain Jack.
It was the biggest bond-buying
demonstration of any meet
ing in this county in this war,
and gavo a powerful push to
the big April war finance drive.
Touching off the fireworks
were generous bond purchases
by Senator Marshall Cornett
and Representative Henry Se-
..BE
April High 55, tow 34
Precipitation aa o AprU 1. 194 J
8tram yar to data ........14.03
Lat year 10.14 Normal 9.33
tt
United States Troops
Capture Mountain
; v Height
By DANIEL DE LUCE
ALLIED . HEAnOTTAunrna
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 9
UPy Axis forces are abandon,
ine Mabarcn. nnlv . mil.
south of the vital harbor ot
Max, and the railway town of
Mezzouna In a continuing with
drawal under alllvrf Mn,.
Ul,
a broad front between the cen
rnu Tunisian mountains and th
sea, , it was disclosed today. .
- Armored
British eighth army pursued
neia Marshal Erwin Rommel's
beaten men, who were fleeing
north from Mahares and north
east irom Mezzouna, 52 miles
from Sfax, under the hammer
inSI of the WMtprn at.
force.. .r
United States tronna
the Djebel Mazaila. a heisht In
the mountain range north of
aaaxnassy. ,
- Prisoners Taken 1
A communique announced
that the eiehth armv tiarl talrm
9300 prisoners since that Initial
a.jcKoaJ ..Rommel's Wadi Et
Akafit positions Tuesday morn
inft- and military tinurier raM
1300 more were captured by the
U. S. second armv cnmi In th
mop-up of the El Guetar sector.
The French also rounded mi
some prisoners' and . .announced
tomgnt that 24 cannon of 47 and
77 millimeters wer amnni? stin.
plies taken' from the enemy in
the southern sector. ,
In three days the allies hava
captured ' nearly -12,000 axis
troops. . '.
Highly Praised
The ' achievements of tho
American corps, headed by
Lieut. Gen. Georee S. Pattnn
Jr., in engaging the bulk of the
axis armor earlier this week on
the eighth army's left flank
were hiehlv nraised at a tires
conference by Gen. Sir Harold
(Continued on Page Two)
Fortresses Hit
Jap Bases in
Shortland Area
WASHINGTON, April 9 (IP)
The navy reported today that
army Flying Fortresses and its
own Avenger light bombers had
attacked Japanese positions at
Kahili in the Shortland island
area of the northwestern Solo
mons but that due to bad
weather "observation of results
was not reported." -.
A communique also scaled
down yesterday's navy state
ment of destruction inflicted on
a force of 98 Japanese planes
which attacked shipping off
Guadalcanal.
Instead . of 37 planes being
destroyed, the navy said, later
reports now show that only 34
planes were destroyed.
- There was no explanation as
to why later reports had shown
three fewer planes - destroyed
than were reported yesterday.
. The navy also gave no Infor
mation as to the fate of the
ships against which the enemy
attack was directed.
$60,000 in
Buying Spree
mon, who were the speakers of
the day, Cornett and . Semon,
who have bought capons at
high prices at Junior livestock
auctions, demonstrated anew
their interest in roosters when
they made heavy bids for Cap.
tain Jack. '
From then on the Rotarlans
went to town, An outstanding
purchase was that of Glen Hout,
who acquired a $20,000 treas
ury certificate. Concluding the
bidding were two bids of $5000
each by W. E. Demm and O,
C. Lorenz, - '
ARMOR FORGE
PUSHES NAZIS ;
TOWARD SFAX