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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Juno 1. 1fM!i
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Ttit Aliodated Praia re id
elraly enllUad lo the o" ol re
publication ol ill ei dlipitthre
credltad to H or sot othenrlie
trrdlt-J lo ttilt paper, and alM
the local newa publuhed therein.
II rlhta of republication of
special dlipatehai arc lio re-
etrred.
FRANK JENKINS
Editor
A ttraportry conblaittoa f tbt Sruhf Wtrtld tnt.
tht KUmath Kw4. Fubliihtd 7 ftrnMo mod.
Sunday at Xplanad and Flo iUmU, Klamath Fail a.
Oregon, by tbe Herald Publiihlng Co. and th Klamath
Xewi Fubllahlti Company
PntrrH a cond dan matter at th poatofttn f
Klamath FaJla, Or., em Augvti 10, 1M uodar act ol
coagrcaa, Uarch , 11.
ymbr of Audit
Bouin Or Ciicuutidv
1taprat4 yaUoaaltr by
WUT-HOLUDAY CO 10.
tai Trtnriara, Xtw Yortt, Aa
at Us Chicago, Portland, U
Aogtla.
MALCOLM EPLEY
Managing Editor
EPLEY
Today's Roundup
Br MALCOLM EPLEY
! A GROUP of metropolitan and press assocla
K tlon newsmen was recently let Into the
Tulolake war relocation center. Apparently,
the writers were given free
dom to see anything they
could find, talk to anyone,
and write what they wished
on their findings and impres
sion without censorship.
A rash of stories and pic
tures has since appeared in
various papers. Not a great
deal that was not generally
known previously has been in
cluded in the stories we have
seen, but the truth has been
told with more freedom and frankness than
was possible Jn the past.
It is not new news that there have been
strikes, beat-ups and factional vendettas at the
Tulelake center, and that trouble mounted to
a climax at the time of the work clearance
registration. It Is also known that there is a
division among the evacuees on the issue of
loyalty to the United States or Japan, and that
evacuees who are American citizens constitute
a psychological and political problem. .
But It is good news that the WRA officials
have seen the advisability of permitting news
men to come on the project and get this news
first hand, and particularly to tell it without a
censor looking over their shoulders. This
writer, from close by the camp, has noticed a
definite trend (on the part of the project ad
ministration toward a more open and realistic
news policy. It is to be hoped this continues.
Sterner Policy
ONE thing that was Indicated Quite defin
itely In one story we read was that a stern
er policy in administering the affairs' of the
project has been adopted, especially as it re
lates to recalcitrant and disloyal evacuees. Pro
ject Director Harvey Coverley was quoted In
such a way as to convey this impression unmis
takably, particularly "in connection with the
handling of the situation growing out of the
registration blow-up.
Such, a policy is definitely in order, and It is
good If Mr. Coverley Is disposed in that direc
tion and is given the authority to follow it,
We are frank to state that we still feel serious
concern over the potentialities that exist in the
Tulelake situation, where a general disturbance
among thousands of evacuees, at a time of
attempted invasion or other crisis, could be of
the utmost seriousness.
That is something of vital Importance to the
people living in the general area where the
project is located. They have a right to de
mand that every precaution be taken.
In that connection, we note that one story,
at least, relates that the army moved in at the
time of the registration trouble. If that is
true, it Is a fact that was not revealed to the
press at that time, and it is resented by this
newspaper which, because of its proximity, had
. the major responsibility of obtaining informs-
tion from the WRA officials then.'
Original Mistake
A S TIME goes on, we become more con-
" vinced than ever that the first objection
of the people in this urea to the location of
the WRA project here was valid and should
have been heeded. It is clear that the Tule
lake center contains many disloyal evacuees
and troublemakers. Strangely enough, despite
the fact that farming is the major job to be
done at this center, the proportion of rural
Japanese there is much smaller than in various
other centers. Rural Japanese, we are told,
are more likely to be loyal to the U. S.; yet in
this center, which is located in the coastal area
and close to coast defenses, other types of
evacuees predominate.
The Tulelake location did have some ad
vantages, such as government ownership of the
site, etc., but they are overshadowed by the
fact that it has concentrated thousands of per
sons of questionable loyalty within a short
distance of the coast facing the Pacific and
Japan.
That mistake having been made, it would
seem that nothing would be left undone to
assure complete control in any situation that
could possibly develop. Probably government
officials will say that has been done,' but peo
ple here do well to keep hammering on that
point, just the same. To us, it means a strong
military force.
S&3
MALLON
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
MEADV-LLE; Pa., June 1 When you come
out' here and rummage .around. the cities
and towns for a few days, you.sodn find out
what is wrong with rationing.
You "will ; find , the answer,
not in the complaints of peo
ple who; in- general, are val
iantly trying to conform to as
complicated a system of na
tional regulations as was ever
imposed upon a democratic
people. The authorities who
know, are the officials of the
local boards.
Most small cities have had
from three to five rationing
chairmen already. Longest possible tenure seems
to be two to three months. Few can stand
it longer. Of all types of war work, this has
proved to be the hardest. Their typical daily
problems Include:
A grocer bought a carload of special kind
of black cherries before point rationing started.
These are considered a special delicacy in his
area for some reason, but soon grow rancid.
When the point system was slapped on, the
grocer could not ' get rid of the cherries.
He had them, the people needed them to
eat, yet no matter how much the local rationing
official protested to his superiors in far-away
large cities, the higher-ups insisted on letting
the cherries spoil. Seventeen per cent of them
had decomposed in this time of national food
shortage, the last I heard of the matter.
In one locality, there was the case of a
town recluse with a peculiar eating habit Ha
lived solely by the consumption of a well
known brand of canned ham and pork, would
eat nothing else. Neighbors discovered him in
his house when he had been without food three
days because his points ran out. It took days
of arguing and long distance calls before an ex
ception was authorized to prevent his death
from starvation.
Lack of Judgment
A RATIONING chairman who Is a college
faculty member of superior intellectual
attainments, describes the situation this way:
"I am not, and my board is not, competent to
handle efficiently the problem of this commun
ity, under existing circumstances. I do not
know any step by which we could be made
competent or by which competent persons could
be obtained unless we are allowed to use our
own judgment.
"Fairness, justice, efficiency cannot possibly
be attained In any satisfactory degree by trying
to follow national regulations to the letter. The
regulations on my desk are two inches thick,
and; after I read them, I cannot understand
most of them, and two lawyers no doubt would
differ about most of them,"- , .
One shrewd grocer insisted upon selling suc
cotash free of points. The regulations prescribed
points for both corn and lima beans, but not
canned products of both combined. At least.
he said so, and received approval of an in
spector. The rationing chairman worked a week to
counteract the opinion of the inspector at head
quarters. He is on the long distance telephone
most of the time.
This is but the top froth of evidence which
runs deep and true to the conclusion that
rationing does not work effectively or effic
' iently. .
Decentralization of authority away from
Washington would help conditions, but prob
ably nothing can make them perfect. The
local people know their own human problems
and their local people best.
Not only are the boards unable to handle
the situation to their own satisfaction, the
national headquarters has clearly been proved
it is not competent to draw regulations to pro
vide an efficient administration over 130,000,
000 people of such varying habits of life in
varying localities.
Injustices and waste cannot be avoided. No
strict over-all national regulation can ever be
made which will be fair to each individual upon
whom life places varying demands for gasoline,
food and fuel. The system should be hu
manized.' Humanize Point System
LASTLY, the people themselves are not com
petent to deal with the point system
efficiently. The evidence shows few of them
can devote the time and thought from making
a living, to study out ways of getting their
full share. The housewife of average intelli
gence has been called on to do more than she
can.
Rationing Is here to stay for the duration.
Its necessary hardships will be borne by the
people patriotically along with its unnecessary
hardships. .
But the point system should be simplified for
the housewife, the regulations revised into
general simple over-all instructions, and the
whole system humanized by allowing greater
leeway to competent men in charge of the local
boards.
EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
(Continued From Page One)
a team If it Is not going to de
mand of government officials
that THEY work as a team."
J-JE adds:
"There have been contro
versies in government, but Amer
ica's great armament production
has demonstrated that these con
troversies and their effect on
the war effort have been ex
aggerated." He tells his home towners that
our HUNDRED-THOUSANDTH
plane since bur war effort began
lias just come off the assembly
line, that 100 fighting ships have
been finished in the first five
months of 1943 and that our fleet
will be DOUBLED in size this
year; that we are building' mer
chant ships FOUR TIMES as fast
as they are being sunk.
TT'S a great record, and we're
-a- t.-,.. i.
We must add, to be truthful,
that it has been accomplished by
the cmnH n!H Am,,liBn -..-.-
of private enterprise IN SPITE
rw .1 i t - . .... .
-- uie oquaupnng politicians. "
gVEN as Byrnes Is speaking to
his home town people, an
other ruckus flares up n OPA
at Washington and Former
Princeton Economics Professor
Galbraith resigns In a huff after
a battle with Former Advertis
ing Man Maxon.
' The flare-up seems to be
wholly typical of the Washington
front.
JT looks at the moment this is
A written as if the coal miners
are going to follow John L. in
stead of FDR. One has the un
easy feeling that this coal mine
business is a clash of person
alities rather than a serious, pa
triotic attempt to solve a trouble
some war-time problem.
A home catches fire on the
average of every minute and a
half in the United States.
Classified Ads Bring Results.
SIDE GLANCES
cow, 'Hi i ttroct we. t, m. ta u. . nr. art.
"I don't see whv niv husband conies to these lull oimp-
he just works himself up into a rage every, time over
something or other I"
Telling
The Editor
Latin printed hart muat not oe mora
than 00 vrarda rn length, muat fee mil.
tan larblr on ONI IIDI ol tha paper
only, and inuat ba alpujd. Contrlbutlona
rolloannf thaaa rules, are ararmly arce
(The War Summary)
One morning at Pearl Harbor,
They had a sneak attack.
The little yellow Japanese
Had stabbed us in the back.
First Guam was taken from us.
And then Wake, as you know,
But the Japs will pay a price
wnen tney iose Tokyo.
The Philippines held longer
With MacArthur in command.
And though our boys did lose
the fight,
They made a gallant stand.
And from the Carrier "Hornet"
One April, day you know.
-loonttles planes went to
Japan,
And blasted Tokyo. "
But now the war is chanslne
In the air, on land, and sea,
America is winning
The land of Liberty.
But we have not forgotten.
What the Japanese have done,
And we will not stop fiehtine
Till we set their rising sun.
So we should all buy bonds
and stamps
And help to win this war
And capture Hirohito
So he'll never start no more.
LOCAL PUPILS
GET DEGREES
T sin
Signed: Jack L. Moffatt. R. R.
3, (12 years old).
Liquid Asset
mm
(NEA Tl-tenhnlnl
Here-s a golden opportunity tor some
one with enterprise. Farmland for
sale near Chesterfield, Mo., with
plenty of water for livestock five
feet of it. Midwest floods old It.
Among degrees awarded over
the weekend to graduating sen
iors and others at the Univer
sity of Oregon were the fol
lowing: Master of Arts. Walter Esche
beck, Klamath Falls, Education.
Master of Science: Carroll
Howe, Klamath Falls, Educa
tion. Bachelor of Arts and Sciences:
Phyllis Foster, Klamath Falls;
Betty Allen, Lakeview; Barbara
Johnson, Klamath Falls; Vivian
Martin, Merrill; Leland Gra
lapp, Klamath Falls; Helen
Moore, Klamath Falls; Arllne
Lewis, Klamath Falls; Frances
Markwardt, C h 1 1 o q u 1 n; Eva
Marie Griffin, Lakeview; Lois
Hunt, Bonanza; Mary Lucy,
Klamath Falls; Wyatt Padgett,
Klamath Falls; Ann Fife, Modoc
Point; William Chllcote, Klam
ath Falls; Lois Soule, Klamath
Falls.
World's smallest independent
state, Vatican City, is about the
size of an 18-hole golf course.
ESCAPEE FROM
GESTAPO TO
SPEAK HERE
The public Is invited to licnr
Ivnn Jncobson, 24 - yenr old
Amerlcnn consular employe, who
will speak hero toniKlit nt KU1IS
starting at 8 o'clock, under the
auspices of the Klnmnth civilian
defense council, telling how It
feels to bo beaten and starved
by the German gestnpo.
Jncobson, attached ' to the
American legation In Oslo and
a native of Tacoma, Wash, was
arrested by tho Germans in Nor
way in December, 1010, on
charges of "aiding tho enemy,
Ho was jnlled In Hollersaton
No. 19, i an over-crowded, dirty
prison that tho gestapo has made
famous throughout tho world
because of its brutalities.
Seven months In the jail,
mostly In solitary1 confinement,
caused Jacobsen to lose lid
pounds. Broken in health, ho
was 111 with scurvy from a diet
of black bread, salt fish and po
tatocs. Rubber clubs used by tho
Germans left many marks on his
body.
United Nations
Dominate Seas
Despite Submarines
MADRID. June 1 UV) Gen
eral Franco's chief executive of
ficer in the Spanish government
declared yesterday that the
United Nations dominated the
seas despito losses -and that the
axis had been nimble to achieve
with its submarines "negative
domination of tho sea."
Tho statement from Naval
Capt. Louis Carrero Blanco,
sub-secretary to the presidency
of tho Spanish government, was
made in one of his rare
speeches. He has been Franco's
right-hand man for years as
sub-secretary to the presidency,
an office Franco holds. His re
marks were considered of great
importance here, considering his
position and influence.
Eleven Men Die
In Fort Crash
PYOTE, Tex., June 1 (P)
Eleven men perished in tho
crash of a Flying fortress
against a mountain peak In
west Texas Sunday, tho public
relations office of Rattlesnake
army base disclosed today.
It was the first fatal crash
In five months of operation at
the Pyote base, home of many
of tho famed nineteenth bom
barjj-nent group heroes.
V-HOME VESTIGES
The V-Home conurvotion slogan it the old New Eng.
land adage: "Eat it up, wear it out) fix It up, or do
without." If it's rubber!, Junior would rather do with
out but the family's health muit be conietvcd, too,
at our molt valuable reiource in thil total war, waini
OCD. l.youraY.Home?,
Jap Installations on Kiska Harbor '
Smack In the middle of Jap installations on Kiska Harbor lands ;
an American bomb. U. S. planes from nearby Aleutian bate
blasted these buildings and an uncompleted airfield with Increase i
trig regularity that Indicated Invasion of Kiska was coming.
Three-Way Pincers on Kiska
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
ATTU BennaSeo , 1 r' " ,IItia i n ihsim 1
SCMICHI
AGATTU
NEAR IS.
ANDRE ANOF IS.
U. S. kee
) JopBaae-
frik AMCHITKA
Wild
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SOVIET RUSSIA ;
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SOVIET RUSSIA - - -Jf "C ?) .
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ToHawaii :
2400 Ml. I
Pacific Ocean . , '
Japs at Kiska are vulnerable to American attack from three dl-'
rectlons now that U. S. troops have taken over on Attu. Maps
show position of Kiska m relation to other nearby Aleutian Isles
and distances to Japan, Hawaii and U. S.
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,.. ..... ""-i " ....., iioBb program, 111 wnirn 10 out 01 iu vessels sunn or damaged during the Jan
attack on Pearl Harbor, the U. 8. 8. California is shown ss she was brought to the surface of tbe harbor. Ac
cording to the Navy, the battleship 1 has left the Paclfio outpost under bar own power. Official U. S. Navy
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FUNERALS
GRACE ISABEL CUSTER
Tho funernl servlca for the
Into Grace Isabel Custer who
passed away nt Sacramento, Call
fornla, on May 29, will take
placo from tho chapel of Wards
Klamath Funeral Home, 025
High street on Thursday after
noon nt 3:30 o'clock. The Ilcv,
C. C. Brown of tho First Bap
tist church officiating, Commit
ment service and Intormont wilt
follow In the Linkvllle cemetery.
Friends are Invited.
JOHN O'NEILL
Friends are respectfully In
vited to attend the funeral serv
ices for the lato John O'Nolll to
bo held Wednesday morning at
Sacred Heart church where a
requiem mass will be celebrated
for the reposo of his soul com
mencing at 8:30 a. m., with the
Rev. Peter Tlghe officiating. In
terment will follow in Mt. Cal
vary Memorial park. Arrange
ments aro under the direction of
tho Earl Whltlock Funeral Home
of this city.
LORETTA ELIZABETH BARR
Funeral services for the late
Lorcttn Elizabeth Barr, who
passed away In this city on Sat
urday, May 30, 1043, following
an Illness of ono week will be
held In the chapel of tho Karl
Whltlock Funeral Home, Pino
Street at Sixth, on Wednesday
Juno 2. 1043 at 3:00 p. in., with
tho Rov. Victor Phillips of tha
First Methodist church of this
city officiating. Commitment
servlcos and Interment family
plot In l.lnkville cemetery un
der tho auspices of Aloha chap
ter No. 01, O. E. S. Friends ara
invited. . .
8V.V0P.1IS OF ANMIUl STATEMKNT
or TIIK
Columbia fir Insurance Co.
nt liivl.ui. in ihA ttats nf Ohio, on tha
.11,1 ilny nf Vrrrmh-r. m,. lo lhc
ItiMlrnnra OnmnlMlnnfr ol Uia atau of
Orrgon, pursuant In law!
Oapltat
Amount of capital .lock iM
up Ji.eM.oofj.ee
Inooma
rtcflvnl iturlnf
K"t prf-mlilml
Mia .Vfiir a ?ia aaa it
liitTMl, ilh'Mrnilii and rrnta
r.-c.lvrl lurlnji lha jrar IW.MMO
Inrotna from ollir aniircea ra
wlvwl during tha jaar S0.lTI.ee
Total Ineoma , a slo.UMS
Dlaburaamanta
Xt loai'ft pnltl during tha
yrar Including alutment
einrniiM 1 grji.Mfl.fli
CoimnlMlona anrl aalarloa paid
during tha year Ha.oof.in
Tnxr-a, llrftnaea and faaa paid
during tha vaar II.IM.M
Dlvlrt'mli paid on capital (lock
during tli Jtfar 100,0)0.1)0
Amount of all othar aiptndl
turca 101,191.00
; Total axpendlturr-a a 7u.ST0.0O
Admltlad Aaaala
Vnlua of rfnl aalata ownad
(tnnrkft valnio S 4t.0M.ll
T.nna. on mortgagra and ool
Intrral. lie
Vnlun of honda nwnrd (mar
kfl or amortlrtil) l.Sti.tMT .IS
Vnlun of alocka ownad (mar
k'l vnlua) 1. III. MS. If)
rn,h In hanki and on liand w 420,401.12
Pr'mmma In anuria of colko-
linn wrltttn alnca Saptamliar,
o. mis , , so.ott.n
intarni and renla ntia and ao
rriifil
Othrr aaiata nat)
Total admitted amrta
lH.1T4.tt
SJ.IMJII
JS.l09.tTI.it)
Llabllltlaa
Oroia clalmi for lonaa unpaid $ 76,104,9t
Amount or iinaarnad pramluma
on all outilandlng rtika eaO.SM.TO
Dun for commliilon and brok.
araaa . 4.000.00
All othar llnl.lllllfl T1,TS0.4S
llalillltlel, eicapt cap-
Total
Itnl t S8S.U7.47
Capital paid up II, 000,000,00
Hiirpltia over all
llnMIHIra 1,1140,618.711
Surplua aa ragarda policy.
Iioldrra S.9eO,SB3.7S
..S,IO3,t7I.S0
Total
Duilnaia In Oragon tor tha Yaar
Net pramluma rccaivad during
vaar SS.aoi.it
Net Inniri paid during tha yrar Sfta.84
THB COLUMBIA FIR! INBURAN0I
OOMPANr
PAIII, n. SOMKRR. Trr-i.
J.W) E. KIHTZMAN, Rrp.
Slalulor- r-.Mrnf. .Iltn., Ir..
The Mississippi Is the 13th
longest river In the world, with
a lenKth of 24110 miles.
Steel-framed windows first
were introduced Into tho United
States In 1007.
Infant baboons, Just like Infnnt
children, suck their thumbs and
toes.
eTNorsm or annpat. btatb. t
MUST OK TIIK
WESTERN LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY
of TMana, In lha mat of Mon
Una. Ton tha thirty-first day nf l)s
cmj?ar. 104S, mada to tha inauranr
Commltaloiar of tho Htat of Ora
tor), pursuant to law:
Capital
Amount nf csnllAl stock
paid, up t sin.ono.oe
Xnooms
Total premium litcoms
. for ths yaar 1,S4I,4SS.4S
Interaat, dlvldanda nnd
rants racelvail durlne
tho yaar Hl.SOf.SI
Incoms from othar aonr
cas raretved during;
ths yasr .. S7S.SS0 IT
Total Infoma , I 3, Its, SOI. 74
Olaburaamants
Tnld for loanaa, -n-
dowmanla, nnnulllaa
and aurrandr vnluaa S SSR.Stl.ll
TMllita nal . ..n.
Icyhnldars during ttia
yanr TI.SH.14
Dlvldands pntd on enpt
tal slook during lha
ymr s ljn.ono.oe
Commtaalona nnd nnlnrlrs
paid during tha yrnr.. 470,871. 94
Tnxes, llcannos nnd from
pain during Iho jo-ir., 17.IS1.S1
Amount of nil othar ex-
pandlturas S40.S00.0O
Total xpandlturrn ..S 11,057,541.01 '
. . Aaaats
Vnlua of rani rxintn
owned (mnrknt vnlua) t SSt.StS.t?
Loans on mortgaios nnd
collateral, ato 4,SO,I04.1I
Vnlus of bonds owned
(amorlliad) ... , 7,101. SOS, 10
Vnlua of stonkn owned
(marlcat vnlua) l,S91,lt0.4l .
Premium notes and pol-
loy loans I,40S,!0.1T
Csah In banks and on
hand SST.TSS.Bl
Inleroat and renla due
and accrued 78.SB1.01
Not uncollected nnd da.
ferred premiums .... S71,80.0t
Other aaaeta (net) -78,280.14
Total admitted aaaeta 117,690,470.00 .
., . LlablUtlea
Not reserves M4,(14,ltT.tT
Oroaa claims for losses i
unpaid .... M.JJJ.OO
All other liabilities . 41o!si7:1J
Tola), except oapttal S14.080,470,0t'
Capital paid up S 800,000.00 i
Surplus, over all
liabilities S.100,000.00
Burpiusss regards pol- 1
Icyholders . 1,800,000,00
Total . tl7,Bo,470.oe
Buluas In Oregon for the Tsar
st pramluma nnd an.
niiltlna received dur-
Dividends paid during
the year lt.S08.8l
Net losses and claims,
endowments, surrenrl-
ra, and nnmilllcrt
pa n nurlntr Iho vonr runom
wasTSHit im iHsunAMoa
OOMPAKT
I K I). Iikhnrdann, l'rcs.
. A. J, C'lniuo, Hen.
ntatutory resident nttorney fo
.u -e, '"fnoe Commlasloner,
Balem, Oregon.
i,0oOanarat Aront
eVH-t Spalding hnlldlrur, rortland,
Oragoa
Local Agent
MYRLE C. ADAMS
luiuranca Comoiliajonar.
, izo 8. 8th Phont 7178