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Today's Roundup News Behind the News
By MALCOLM EPLEY
WITH the pressure bearing heavily on
Italy these days, wo imagine there are
many Italian-Americans in this area who are
hoping and praying that Italy
will break soon with Hitler.
People of Italian descent
here have been generally loyal
to America, and many of the
members of these families are
serving in the U. S. armed
forces. It has been unpleasant
for these people to have Italy
at war with the United States,
and no doubt even a faint
prospect for a change in that
.situation is warmly welcome
to them.
We have heard the opinion expressed, by
local Italian-Americans, that the people of Italy
do not have their heart in the war and would
be gladly out of it.
The Italians are paying the penalty for let
ting one party and one man get a corner on
the power. Once they yielded that power, the
Italian people were forced to follow every com
mitment, whether they favored it or not.
There is a warning in that for the people
of any nation.
What Will Happen?
WHAT may be the strategy of the two sides
in the European conflict, if Italy col
lapses or seeks a separate peace, is a subject for
Interesting conjecture at this time.
Mussolini played Hitler's game through the
early period of the war by keeping Italy neu
tral. There was strong opinion then that France,
had it been willing to invade Italy or could
bring the Italians in on its side, could go
through Italy to get at Germany, out-flanking
the west wall of Nazi defense. Italy's "neutral
ity" prevented any such move, and Mussolini
joined Hitler openly the moment France was
beaten.
If an Italian break now would mean the
probability of an attack through Italy-against
Hitler, and the Germans should then move in
quickly they are already partly in Italy
might well become a major battleground for de
termination of the war in Europe.
It seems impossible that any nation in Italy's
position could assume a status of neutrality at
this late date.
Victory Day
ALL Oregon will celebrate "African Victory
Day" on Wednesday, and Klamath Falls
will be in there pitching.
The Klamath' Lions club, which is running
the bond drive this month, has taken over the
celebration plans. There will be an afternoon
parade, probably a street program, and local
whistles are expected to join in a terrific tri
. umphant blast at 2 p. m.
The Lions, of course, hope that the celebra
tion will stimulate increased sales of "E" type
bonds, helping toward the 5350,000 May goal
and the purchase of a Flying Fortress called
the Klamath Pelican.
The club still has from $125,000 to $150,000
' to go toward the May objective. That is a long
way, and it will take continued and active
bond-buying to make it. ,
E bonds, incidentally, are the smaller, family-type
of bonds which most of us get.
Our Share
OUR lumber Industry had a share In the
African victory.
The weapons and materials of war are ship
ped to far-off places, such as the late African
front, in wood in boxes and crates that pre
vent damage in shipment and deliver this ma
terial ready for use.
General Lucius D. Clay, assistant chief of
state for materials of the army service forces,
recently told the OWI how important this shipping-in-wood
had proved to the fighting serv
ices. "Loggers and mill workers," said Clay,
"helped launch our offensive as surely as did
the soldiers who used their wood and the wea
pons so rigidly and securely packed in that
wood . , . The army is looking to the Pacific
Northwest for more and more lumber the raw
material of victory."
In this lumbering community, where box
making is so extensive, that message really
means something.
Oreaoii News Notes
By The Associated Press
Governor Snell issued a pro
clamation at Salem urging Ore
gon residents to cooperate in the
Keep Oregon Green campaign,
designed to prevent forest fires
... At Eugene, lumbermen an
nounced that Wayne L. Morse,
public member of the war labor
board and dean of the University
of Oregon law school, will speak
May 22 at the annual Oregon
logging conference.
Dr. Philip Drinker, maritime
commission health consultant,
said after an Inspection tour that
the health situation in the Port
land shipyards was as good as
any in the nation . . . The Amer.
lean Legion scheduled the an
nual Beaver Boys state meeting
at Oregon State college Juno
13-20.
Carolyn N. Brown, Salem, en
listed in the WAVES in Port
land , . . Dr. Karl J. Swenson,
04, veteran Portland physician,
died of a heart attack . . . Fu
neral services were held in Port
land today for James P. Yates,
A temporary comMnatloi of th k renin Herald an
Iha Klamath Ntw, publlihej Try afternoon exccnl
Kundijr aft Etplanada and Plot treat. Klamath Fall.
Oregon, by the Herald lnl Ithtag Co. and tha Klamath
Kavt rublUhlng Compuy
Filtered second dm matter at th poutoffle of
Klamath Falls. Ore., on Auguat 10, IMS under act of
eongrfta, at arch K, 179,
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of its food subsidy program.
With enthusiasm, Mr. Lipp-
mann has defended the policy I?
of paying vast
H it- - j
sums in 5UDMaiw, Miyii.g u k sp
unlikely to( follow Mr. Lipp- SV
mann s counsel as, iruin us
standpoint, it would appear
that Ihn lpss said on the sub-
EPLEY
Wasco, former state legislator
and Wasco mayor.
The Aaron M. Frank scholar
ship committee announced Don
ald Grosh, 18, Portland, as the
scholarship winner with Marilyn
Sage, Coquille, as second alter
nate . . . Detective Roy Shields
in Portland arrested George
Wells, who, he said, held up a
man, then accidentally shot him
self with his own pistol.
Fire Destroys
Kaiser Messhall
VANCOUVER, Wash., May 17
(IP) Fire destroyed a messhall
under construction at the Kaiser
company shipyard yesterday In
a brief, fierce blaze of undeter
mined origin.
Loss was not determined at
once. No one was injured.
The blaze was discovered In
a corner of the building by
painters. The flames made rapid
headway and within 30 minutes
the building was leveled.
Mmbtr of Audit
Buiiau Or Ciiculatiox
Represented Nationally by
AVtST-HoLLWAT CO.. llSft
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MALCOLM EPLEY
Managing Editor
PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, May 17 Walter Lippmann,
an elder statesman of columnists, has
whacked the administration for failing to come
rtut it rl rtf nnca nnrl ovnlonnf inn
government wf!,i jk.
The administration seems slfltvJKI
ject, the better. MALLON
The food subsidy, in reality, is a secret price
increase. You will pay for it, but you will not
know about it. The subsidy is to apply thus far
to certain kinds of meats, coffee and butter.
Mr. Jesse Jones, RFC, is to pay the proces
sors of these products the meat packers, the
coffee grinders, and dairy men a certain
amount of federal money for each pound or
ton they manufacture. The processor will get
his check free, without doing anything to earn
or deserve it, in somewhat the same manner as
the AAA sent checks around amongst the farm
ers for not growing anything.
No one knovs what it will cost. The gov
ernment, which is always conservative in such
estimates, if in no other way, says the bill
will run $300,000,000 to $500,000,000, presum
ably for a year, although no definite time was
stated in the announcements.
Ttie ex-price fixer, Leon Henderson, once
testified before a senate committee that a com
plete food subsidy program such as he had in
mind would cost $5,000,000,000, presumably for
a year.
Taxation Pays Cost
WHATEVER it costs, the federal treasury
pays it, which means you, the whole
people, will pay it in taxation eventually plus
interest on the debt until you do.
Mr. Lippmann and other advocates of the
policy no doubt- appreciate these undeniable
facts, but justify the policy nevertheless, on the
grounds that it is an anti-inflationary measure.
in truth, it seems to be the opposite.. It has a
direct inflationary character.
The money paid out by the RFC will be
raised by selling bonds to bankers. All the
banking journals and financial authorities, even
some in the treasury, already are loudly be
moaning the inflationary implications of the in
crease in the public debt held by banks. They
rightly say this exerts a pressure for financial
inflation.
But the subsidy is directly inflationary in
another way. The processors get this bounty
from the government without performing any
work for it, and thus their incomes are en
larged. The theory of the thing is that they
will pass some of this government gift on to
the farmers in increased prices they pay for
cows and hogs, milk, butter, and coffee (?)
(wherever the coffee farmers are).
Nothing in the deal requires the processors
to give the producers anything, but the pro
. ducers will no doubt get some of it. When and
if they do, their incomes will be increased.
Thus inflationary pressure is promoted by the
subsidy rather than being mitigated by it.
Subsidy vs. Inflation
BUT Mr. Lippmann, and other shier advocates,
say that the government was faced with
the demand by the farmers for increased prices
on the one hand and by a necessity of holding
or rolling back prices of foods on the other,
to avoid another general labor wage increase.
The price of the subsidy, bad as it is, they seem
to think, is less deplorable than the inflation
ary price evil.
That argument confesses the government has
not done well its job of holding prices down,
and seems to confess furthermore that it will
not be able to hold them down in the future,
but must fool us into thinking prices are being
held down by paying subsidies for the differ
ence. Certainly if Mr. Lippmann is right in this
respect, he is wrong in his notion that the
government should say more about the policy
than is absolutely necessary.
Former Klamath
Telephone Manager
Moves to Astoria
Floyd L. Crittenden, Rose
burg, former manager of the
Klamath Falls office of Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, this week took over the
management of the company in
the Astoria area, succeeding J.
A. Brunold, Astoria manager
since 1908. Brunold retires on
pension.
Crittenden's family, now resid
ing in Roseburg, will join him at
the end of the school term. Crit
tenden has had 18 years of serv
ice with the telephone company,
starting as a clerk in the division
commercial office at Portland.
He has been manager at Klam
ath Falls, Tillamook and Rose
burg, AXIS SHIPS SCUTTLED
LONDON, May 17 (IP) Two
axis vessels attempting to break
the allied blockade of the con
tinent have been scuttled after
interception by British warships,
an admiralty communique said
tonight.
SIDE GLANCES
COPH. tw BY HIA MRVtcr, 1HC t. M. mo. U. t-
"Well, there's one good tiling about this rationing
jiess it takes your mind off the war I"
KIWANIS TEAM
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Fred Southwell's Kiwanls club
team handily won the $100 War
Bond offered by the Lions to the
team making the best record in
the Scout-Camp Fire drive for
funds. John Ebinger, campaign
chairman, and Vern Moore, gen
eral drive chairman, released
this information after totals were
made up for the fourteen teams
which entered the drive. Bring
ing in a total of $512.50, the
Kiwanis team showed an out
standing production.
Southwell's team consisted of
the following men, Harold Fra
ney, Bob Robbins, Innis Roberts,
V. J. Josephson, Vance V. Vau
pel, E. P. Livingston, Greer
Drew, C. A. Lundy, W. W. Wood,
Ted H. Reeves, and I. J. John
son. Present totals stand as follows:
Lions' $262.00, Rotary $204.00,
Elks $30.87, Legion $5.00, IOOF
$217.00, Veterans of Foreign
Wars $63.00, Junior chamber of
commerce $165.00, Girl Scouts
$227, Dads' $181.00, Camp Fire
Girls $81.00, Business and Pro
fessional Women $178.50,
Knights of Columbus $133.50
and Eagles $191.15. Some teams
have made only partial reports
and Moore indicated that final
team totals would be published
when complete returns are lr.
The above figures mark the end
of the contest for the $100 War
Bond.
Ebinger announced that a
total of $8400 had been raised to
date and that all workers whu
had not finished their solicita
tions should do so in an effort
to reach the $10,000 campaign
goal. He also urged employees
of businesses that have not been
contacted to voluntarily make a
contribution to this fund for the
youth work of Klamath Falls.
OF
The Klamath Falls district of
fice of OPA today reminded all
restaurants and eating and drink
ing establishments that effective
May 5, they must have the fol
lowing statement attached to
each menu: "All prices listed
are at or below our ceiling
prices. By OPA regulation, our
ceiling are our highest prices
from April 4, 1943, to April 10,
1943, inclusive. Records of these
prices are available for your In
spection." Establishments not using
menus must have the statement
posted near the cashier's desk or
principle entrance, of adequate
size to be easily read by the cus
tomers. If menus were made
available to customers during
the base period they must con
tinue to be made available.
All restaurants and eating and
drinking establishments, which
have not already filed a report of
menus and prices in use during
the base period, April 4-April 10,
1943, inclusive, must do so Im
mediately with their local war
price and rationing board.
ROUNDUP THWARTED
WAUKEGAN, III., (IP) Oliver
L. Hove had a narrow escape
from boine trannod In a revolv
ing door of the Citizens' National
bank by would-be robbers.
As he entered the door with
$1200 to deposit in the bank,
two men attempted to rob him
but ho held his own and the
$1200 and as a crowd gathered,
the two men fled.
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Squadron Leader Lance Wade
(top), of Tucson, Arli., Ameri
can commander of an RAF
fighter squadron, shares honors
with Flight Lieut. Neville Fred
erick Duke (below), as top-scoring
pilots in North Africa. Biplh
had shot down 22 planes, allied
headquarters In North Africa
reported.
Court Upholds
Citizenship of
American-Born Japs
WASHINGTON, May 17 (IP)
The supreme court refused today
to review a decision holding that
Japanese born in ths country
arc American citizens and hence
entitled to vote.
This ruling, by the federal cir
cuit court at San Francisco, was
challenged by John T. Regan, a
resident of San Francisco, who
contended that "dishonesty, de
ceit and hypocrisy are racial
characteristics of the Japanese
and that this makes them unfit
for American citizenship.
Navy Denies Use
Of Poison Gas
In Attu Attack
WASHINGTON, May 17 (IP)
The navy denied emphatically
today claims on enemy radio
broadcasts that poison gas had
been used by United States
troops on Attu island In the
Aleutians.
"Enemy claims that the Unit
ed States forces in the Aleutians
have used gas arc absolutely un
true," a navy spokesman said.
Tho Tokyo and Berlin radios,
quoting a Japanese officer, had
broadcast reports that American
troops began use of gas in the
drive to force the enemy out of
their Attu island baso,
Tho 10 per cent cut In price Is
tho best cream we've had In our
coffee for a long time.
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Midland CmfuHt
Bly
BLY Mrs. Ross McMillan and
daughters Lcnora and Mabel,
and Mary Louise Boynton mo
tored to Klamnth Falls Wednes
day evening, Mny 12, to hear
Herb Millor s orchestra.
Mrs. Juy Hartlino was -guest
of honor at a bridal shower glvon
at the cookhouso by Mrs, Gcorgo
Butter and Mrs. Ross McMillan.
Mrs. Hartlino received many
beautiful gifts. Refreshments
were served to tho following
guests: Mrs. Paul Cary, Mrs.
Joo Meyers, Mrs. Fred Lurson,
Mrs. Merle Knacble, Mrs.
Charles McLoan, Mrs. Walt El
lingson, Mrs. Bob Caso, Mrs.
Robert Bolick, Mrs. Jim Michel
son, Mrs. Carl Unpack, Mrs.
Wright Lackey, Mrs. Dave Clem
ens, Mrs. Howard Thompson,
Mrs. Don Conn, Mrs. M. V. Mc
Millan, Mrs. P. S. Brldgewatcr,
Mrs. Robert West, Mrs. Leonard
Stuckey, Mrs. Robert Lowls,
Mrs. Ernest Sandbcrg and the
honored guest.
' MEN AND
WOMEN IN
- SERVICE
William P. Campbell, stntloned
at Camp Santa Anita, Ctlif., has
been promoted to private, first
class and has received an expert
rifleman's medal. PFC Campbell
was Inducted In tho army In Oc
tober, 1942, and is in tho quar
tcrmoler corps. Mrs. William
Cumpbcll (Anita Gwyn) will Join
her husband, Friday, May 21, for
an Indefinite stay,
George Flitcraft of the United
States army, was recently pro
moted to master sergeant and
has been mado non-commissioned
officer In charge of his station.
Sergeant Flitcraft is located at
Puerto Rico. His wife, tho for
mer Marljanc Daggett, and
small son, live in Klamath Falls.
EDGEWOOD ARSE N A L,
Md., May 18 Graduation exer
cises of the first basic course
were held here today.
Gas masks, protective cloth
ing, decontamination; chemical
warfare material, treatment of
gas casualties, and chemical
warfare tactics were sonio of
the subjects studied by the ar
my officers attending the
course.
Among the officers who were
graduated was 2nd Lt. Donald
F. Turner, 1026 Homcdnlo road,
Klamath Falls.
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WASHINGTON, May 17 (IP)
The current sugar ration will re
main unchanged in tho next ra
tioning period beginning. Juno 1,
the otfice of price administra
tion announced today.
Sugar stamp No. 13 in ration
book No. 1 will become valid
June 1, and will be good for
five pounds of sugar through
August 15. This maintains the
current ration of five pounds of
sugar for a period of two and
one-half months. Stamp No. 12
expires May 31.
OPA said it made the an
nouncement of the next ration to
enable the sugar trade to plan its
operations well in advance, and
thus make the best use of plant,
labor and transportation facil
itlcs.
Social Workers
Told Humans Are
Greatest Asset
PORTLAND, May 17 (IP) Hu
mans are our greatest national j
asset and our most precious con-!
cern, Harlelgh Trecker, associate
professor of the University of i
Southern California's Graduate
School of Social Work, told dele-'
gates to the 28th annual state
conference of social work today.
Social work, he said, must
meet wartime needs by arousing
the conscience of our nation to a ,
new sense of responsibility to
ward human beings and by de
veloping flexibility in meeting
swiftly changing circumstances.
Freak Accident
Fatal for Dairyman
VANCOUVER, Wash., May 17
(IP) Injuries suffered Saturday
in a freak accident proved fatal
yesterday to Fred Boss, 60, Van
couver dairyman.
Coroner R. E. Du Fresno said
Boss was leading a cow out of
his barn on a rope and halter
when the animal suddenly broke
and ran. One of the dalryman'B
feet become entangled in the
rope and the other foot caught
in tho door jam.
We hovo no Illusions any more
about stooping undisturbed.-
Berjin spokesman.
LANGELL VALLEY
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LANGELL VALLEY The
regular meotlng of tho LanRoll
Volley Soil Conservation dlntrlct
was held on May 8. In addition
to tho board supervisors, farm
ers present at the mooting were
R. E. Thomas, Garner Lundy,
Stanley Johnson, L. A. Conton
and R. M. Teare. The farmers
were present to discuss district
assistance on the conservation
work for their farms this spring
and summer.
Tho board of supervisors mado
plans for tho use of a RD-8 trac
tor and carryall In tho district.
This equipment hos been loaned
to tho district by tho soli coner-
vntlon servlco of the United
States department of ncrlctiltnro
for convrvotlnn work In tho
Lnngell Valley Soil Conservation
district.
Tho board went over the
schedulo of work for tho equip
ment and annroved a routing of
tho Marvin Inndnlana for spring
work on the following fnrms,
Gnrner Lundy. S. T. Roblson. F.
M. Meyers, R. E. Thomas, R M
Tenre. M. T. Prlnco and A. E.
Onle nlaces. Several farms have
already completed their spring
work with tho landplane.
The board of supervisors Is
making every offort to make full
use of the facilities which the
district has In technical assist
ance and equipment to serve as
many farmers as possible.
Telling
The Editor
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DRAFT QUESTIONS
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. (To
tho Editor) I hovo been In thu
servlco of our country and was
sent back hero to recuperate
from an Injury ond will be ell
glblo to go back In service this
fall. Recently I have met sev
eral young unmarried men In
tho draft ago bracket which the
army is asking for.
Our local draft bonrd here has
deferred them indefinitely or for
tho duration. Th, hnv, r.
on dalrys ond farms, but men
past dralt ago and women can
do the some work these boys
ore doing. They are not key
men. I asked for work on a dairy
hero when the vouna mm wnt
into service Tho Italian woman
told mo she was going to get
him deferred for tho duration,
for she knew how to do It, ond
I heard sha did, It begins to
look os though there Is some
sort of racket nnlnv nn In thl
deferment business when fa
thers hove to fight for our free
dom ond the young men with
no dependents are left at home
with an A card for gasoline on
their car, but always have gas
to go nearly every night for joy
riding. It looks llko wo will
have to kick hell out of these
young yellow backs and some
others when victory Is won and
we come marching homo.
Yours for liberty, Justlco and
freedom for all and no pels.
Gcorgo D. Kohlcr.
We should never again be
caught as wo woro this time
when wo woro dependent on for
olgn sources for our rubber sup
ply KUbbcr Director William
M. Jeffcrs.
AHHEflS TALK
CONSERVA
MOVED
Our New Home
419 Main St.
The Court Houit It Now
On Block Down the Street
From Our Office
The Landry Co,
New Address
418 Main
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Langell Valley
Amos Powers loft tho first of
the week for Idaho and Wash
ington to visit relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Paul Monroe. Mrs. Mike
Dearborn and Mrs. Mory Door
born vlsltod on Friday with Mrs.
Lester I.euvltt and family.
Mrs. Wllllnm Bechdoldt and
Mrs. Owen Popple of Bonanza,
were Langoll valley visitors on
Monduy evening.
Mrs. Frank Popple and Mrs.
Mary Dearborn spent Thursday
night In Klamath Falls with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Dearborn,
T. F. Hoggs spent several days
at Bonunza with his son and
daiiKhtcr-ln-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Uoifgg.
The LanKoll Volley Women's
club will meet on May 27, at tho
homo of Mrs. Reg Thomas. Mrs.
Hurry Frailer will bo co-hostoss.
Doj.mrt will bo served at 1:30
p. m., followed by tho meeting
and Red Cross sowing.
Tl
Names of three Klamath, coun
ty high school students wcro In
cluded In tho list of Oregon
seniors recommended by tho
state board of hlghar education
for scholarships In state colleges.
Oregon State college, Richard
Newman, son of Copt. V. E. New
man of Fort Lewis, and Mrs.
Newman of this city, Klamath
Union high school.
University of Oregon, Lewis
Voglcr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Low
Is Voider, 327 Lincoln street,
Klamath Union high school.
Margarot Murphy, daughter of f
Dun Murphy of Henley, snnlor"
In Henley high school.
Malin Girl Sings
In Oregon Quartet
UNIVERSITY of onrnov
Eugene Schubert's "Stondchen"
was sung by a quartet In a long
and varied musicul program held
late last week in the music audi
torium. In the nunrtiit wu Hur-
bora Buntlcy, duughter of Mr.
ana ftirs. E. l. ucntlcy, of Malln.
Miss Ucnllcy is u sophomoru In
music at the university.
Reduction of
Fire Along SP
Tracks Planned
Fires occurring along railroad
routes through tho Shasta na
tional forest aro to be materially
reduced this year through in
tensive right-of-way clcun-up.
This news is announced by
Gcorgo Kilborn, division super
intendent, Shasta division, South
ern Pacific Railroad company,
and M. 11. Davis, forest super
visor, Shasta national forest.
Execution of a cooperative
agreement between tho Southern
pacific and the forest super
visor, Shasta national forest, pro
vides for work to bo accomplish
ed by U. S. forest servlco per
sonnel ond equipment. Tho work
Is to bo performed between
Delta and Mount Hebron along
the main line routa of tho rail
road. Tennis Champion
Among Prisoners
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 17 t1')
Allied authorities announced
without elaboration today that
Baron Gottfried von Cromm,
German tennis champion, was
among tho prisoners captured in
tho Tunisian campaign.
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