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Utmbtr of THI Amocutm Pius Thi AiMKOfwl rrM U "do, (li i If tulltUd 10 tin u.t of wthllpatlon of All rmt dlipitehM fr-dltrd to f or ool otlitrwli ermflttd tn thu ptper. ind olw tba Incil nm ouhHihMl thnlo, All flghu of rpuMlcttloii 'f Dtdil dlptchi art alto rt er4. FRANK JENKINS Sditor Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY IN an article In Sunday's Oregonian on post war highway development, it is explained that the atate highway commission proposes to spend $12,000,000 on improv ing the Pacific highway be ., tween Eugene and Ashland. There then follows this significant comment: "Tills work will counter act largely the advantage now held by the mi pass highway, which is the fastest and shortest route from the Willametta valley to Cali fornia. Of the through traffic to or from California, 47 per EPLEY cent uses the Pacific highway and S3 per cent takes the Willamette, traffic checks showed recently." This article, written on the basis of inter views with highway officials, leaves no ques tion that a huge and expensive attempt is to be made to cancel the natural advantages en Joyed by the Klamath Falls north and south through traffic route. And it leaves no doubt in our mind that the time is at hand to launch the most vigorous and aggressive highway policy for the Klamath country. This policy need not necessarily op pose developments on other routes, such as that indicated in line for the Pacific highway, but it must be based on a determined demand for proper recognition and development of the naturally advantageous north and south traffic route through here. Who Is Worried? THE wording of the paragraph from the Ore gonian article indicates that someone is worried about the advantages now enjoyed by the Klamath route and wants to counteract them. Is this an official attitude? Is' there any more reason, from the standpoint of the gen eral public and the state as a whole, to counter act those advantages, than there is to extend them? In the list of projects "selected thus far" for the huge post-war highway .spending pro gram, the Oregonian article gave re-location of The Dalles-California highway from Chemult to Chiloquin Junction. This project involves elimination of Sun mountain grade and would play an important part in keeping the Klamath Falls route in step with highway development. It is, however, only one of several major projects of vital importance to Klamath which should have a place in the post-war program. So far as the Oregonian article was concerned, it is apparent that emphasis was laid on pro jects along the Pacific highway. The Oregonian artists did not go to the trouble to place the Chemult-Chilnquin project in a map that accom panied 'the article showing leading post-war enterprises in the state. Mot a word has been said about carrying on the important improvements on the Willamette highway, and nothing is said about The Dalles California highway north of Chemult or about the other trans-mountain highways feeding into it north of the Willamette. We call attention to these things because they indicate the necessity for constant vigi lance in behalf of the proper development of the roads of vital interest to us. There is a lot of political and journalistic power concentrated west of the mountains. The metropolitan press sometimes indicates plainly a lack of the vision to see across the Cascades. If we don't plug vigorously for our side, we'll be left behind. That Route Name IN this same connection, we again call atten tion to the need for an appropriate name for the highway route from Weed, Calif., to Goshen, Ore., admitted by the Oregonian writer to be the best and fastest route from Oregon to Cali fornia. We favor the name: "Shasta-Cascade route." The road crosses the base of Mt. Shasta, and it crosses the Cascades. It is a most appropriate name, and it has popular appeal. It's time to get busy to popularize and pub licize the routes through here. Does anyone have any other name sugges tion?? If they have, we'll be pleased to hear from them. We're going to start a publicity campaign in behalf of the chosen name pretty soon. II. s. (Continued From Page One) down 45 miles from the English coast. The impact threw two of the crew Into the blazing bomb bay, but they quickly clamb ercd out. Thirty seconds after the others had climbed out, the bomber sank, leaving flaming gasoline spread over a 100-foot area. The crew had thrown out two dinghies. One burned, and the other, cut by shellflre, was only partially inflated. "Some of us had to swim hard to outdistance the spread ing fire," Stevenson said. "We made for the damaged dinghey, dragging two crew members who couldn't swim. When we reached the dinghey we count ed noses and discovered that Erwln was not with us. "We called to him but he A Ifttiporary mmhtnttion of the hmln lU'rnld H lh Klamath New PuMiihtd every afternoon cAci.pt ftunrla at KUnmI end Pin itreet. Klameth Fall, Orrjnri. hy tli ll'-ruM uhlnit Ci ami tht Klamath Hewe rubtlitilng Company Rnttred at teenod cUti matter at the pcteMftcc of Klamath FalU. Or., am AuRUit (0. loo undfr act l OMtfrtta, March ft. l;e. iSikS V3 new Willamette ifH; must have been unconscious for he didn't answer," Stevenson continued. "We could see him floating amidst the flames with his arms extended like he was lifeless. The waves were running about eight feet high and we started drifting away. We never saw Erwin again." "Spitfires and Beaufighters had followed us down and they circled all the time we were in the water," one of the crew said. "They radioed our posi tion to air-sea rescue boats." Stevenson chimed in: "We. can't praise those planes enough. If it hadn't been for the Spits and Beaufighters we Couldn't be here to tell about it." ' CIRCUS HERE Arthur Brothers' circus has ar rived in. town and is now at the South Sixth circus grounds. Per formances will start tonight at 8 p. m. There will be a matinee at 2 o'clock and another evening performance at 8 o'clock tomorrow. RJTlS MALLON Mtmbtr of Audit Bihad Or Cuctn.rioa Hrpnimlrd Kallootllr b Wtw-HoLLiDir Co., Inc. San rrnnrlteo. 2tw Tort, do Mil. Chlc'V IVrt'Mxt, U MALCOLM EPLEY Managing Editor News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, June 14 War Mobiluer Byrnes' appointments and actions arc subtly working in the direction of taking over control of all war production and domestic economy from the businessman element, in government, In tho name of Mr. Roosevelt. The key to the recently announced appointments was the naming of Frederick Stnrlesi 8n ousted Ebcrstadt man (.ousiea oy uonaia nel son from the WPB) to the post of advisor on production to Byrnes. This appointment rather effectively forewarned Mr. Nelson and particularly Mr. Nelson's energetic and dom inating assistant, C. E. Wilson, that the new Byrnes' top layer on the cake here will bear down heavily on the businessman clement. Substantiating this interpretation was Mr. Byrnes' choice of a former secretary to Su preme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (Edward F. Fritchard) to keep an eye on Fred Vinson in the -office of economic stabilization, as an assistant. , Fitting in also with this new picture was the appointment of Bernard Baruch by Mr. Byrnes as an official advisor with a desk in the office. Baruch has always been Mr. Byrnes' primary advisor, and, in fact, his godfather in politics. They arc fellow South Carolinans, and have always worked together. But in this produc tion situation, Mr. Baruch has largely sided with the army and with the New Dealers against the Nelson-Wilson influence. The changes certainly mean that either the army or the New Dealers or both will take the directing controls hereafter to the diminish ing influence of those who have headed the war production effort heretofore. Production has been an astounding success even beyond the hopes of those who have directed it. We have more than enough bullets for every German and Jap already at hand, and the output of tanks and other machines of war has been so great as to actually consti tute a problem of distribution in many lines. The only items worth worrying about have been big bombers and shipping. Certainly the time has arrived when the politicians think they can successfully take over. o Bad Nerve Medicine FIRST results of the Roosevelt-Churchill strat egy conference are becoming apparent in the new campaign to din the obvious facts of the war situation into the axis mind in expecta tion of forcing an early collapse. f Every Churchill action since leaving Wash ington is in furtherance of this new propa ganda war of nerves. Reports from within Ger many, which he submitted at the White House meeting, obviously have stimulated the expecta tions that the German will to war can be con quered and crushed by confronting it daily with the inevitability of its ultimate military defeat. Few military authorities here share Church ill's hopes in this respect to th'e fullest, but all are cooperating to give the experiment a full trial. The rouble is that this plan can only bring results through a revolutionary movement within Germany and Italy to overthrow the clinging control. Ordinary governments, in the face of the military situation now confronting the axis, would have collapsed long ago, but the militant regimes in Berlin and Rome have such a stranglehold on their people as to enable thera to continue to exist even without popular sup port. WLB Prestige Sags THE question of the future of the War Labor Board is being discussed within the New Deal higher circle. Us prestige has suffered in its dealings with John L. Lewis. Some authorities expect it to be reorganized or revised. Others wish to implement it with new legal powers. It does not have legal author ity commensurate with its responsibility. It does not even have the power to subpoena. If it had, it would have been able to compel the attendance of Mr. Lewis. Certain it is that the WLB will 'either go up or out. FIERCE FIGHTS IN (Continued From Page One) knocked out and artillery and mortar batteries were silenced when the nazis counterattacked attempting to drive the soviet forces from the captured settle ments, the mid-day Commun ique said. Both the Germans and Rus sians have large concentrations in the important Orel sector. Enemy fortifications in that area, near Scvsk which is south west of Orel, were pounded by big Russian guns last night and active scouting was reported by the Russians. The Americans are still too impatient in battle. They still rush too much. German ser geant captured in Tunisia. HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SIDE GLANCES w. imr wc siavicr iwe. t m trc v w r "I'm Rlutl there two irls to see him oil', dear if he hasn't nuulc up his mind, we'll still lmvc hint for a while when he comes home!" EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Pice One) said: "Never was so much owed by so many to so few." IN the South Pacific, the Japs onm n ka Mmflmnnllnfl f k a new technique, sending out big fleets of fighters on "hunting ex-; peditions" hoping, apparently, ; to run into our bomber missions and shoot them down. 1 The dispatches indicate that the scheme isn't working for the same reason that the German attempt to destroy the British air force during the battle of ! Britain didn't work because our planes and pilots are BET TER. In an encounter reported to day, our fighter planes ran in to one of these hunting packs and in the ensuing dog fight shot down at least half of the 50 Jap planes involved. i Our bombers GOT THROUGH and dropped their deadly eggs. ! i CTEADY bombing of the Jap i islands ringing Australia to j the north is reported today. This process has been going on for ' weeks. It is intended to soften Jap defenses and break up Jap invasion plans. ' In China, General Chennault's planes today bomb the big Jap air base at Nanchang. Nanchang is 'also a main base for the Jap i army operationslong the Yang tze river. . CINCE Pantelleria fell by air action alone, the air phase of the war has so monopolized the dispatches as to crowd out the rumors, Turkey has been unheard from. Stockholm and Switzerland, fertile rumor fields, have been crowded out. There is, however, a sidelight in the news today. A flag day ceremony In Cairo is marked by a military parade that is viewed by a million spec tators. Long lines of U. S.-built General Sherman tanks, masses of mechanical units and swarms of war planes participate in the show. We seem to have plenty of strength at the end of the Med iterranean. Charged with burglary not in a dwelling, Robert Dean Johnson waived preliminary hearing in justice court Saturday. Accompanied by another boy, a juvenile, Johnson entered a concrete pipe and construction building on Market street, Tues day evening, June 8, according to the complaint, and stole 39 gal lons of gasoline, a bolt cutter, and a five-gallon galvanized gas can. Johnson was committed to the county jail under $1000 cash bail to await grand jury action. A hearing was held for the younger boy Saturday and his case was given a 30-day continuance. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E. New York 4 B 1 Washington 1 6 4 Chandler and Hemslcy; Pyle, Scarborough (4), Adklns (7), Haefncr (9), and Early, Giuliani (9). NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Cincinnati 3 8 1 St. Louis S 10 1 Starr, Malloy (7), Shoun (7), and Mueller, DePhillips (7); M. Cooper and W. Cooper. vr. err. TO (Continued From Page One) and killing reproduction, Charles Ogle, Klamath Forest Protective association said, but other fires were not so serious. More than usual difficulty has been encountered In getting to the fires, as streams which have not run for years are running now. Preparations for the fire sea son are nearly complete, with all telephone lines in the vicinity up. . A few lines are not up in the north end of the district, but these are being worked on. Three women have enlisted in the forest fire fighting and now have lookout posts in the area. Mrs. Thelma Duke is stationed on Chase mountain; Mrs. Rozella Thompson on Shako butte; and Twyla Ferguson will leave this week for her post on Yalnax butte. Two camps of approximately 30 high school boys who trained during the last school year are situated at Penny and Rodeo springs. Ogle said. Emergency fire wardens numbering 131 have volunteered for service this season, and more are needed. Volunteers are paid for their services and are called on dur ing emergencies. All the fighting men of France are grouped now on a single road. Gen. Henri Giraud. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR THE BETTER grades of fuel oils, accurate, metered de liveries, try Fred H. Heilbron ner, 821 Spring street, tele phone 4153. Distributor Shell Heating Oils. -13m FOR FATHER'S. DAY, June 20th, buy him a Van Heusen shirt. Each shirt wrapped with gift card at Rudy's Men's Shop, 600 Main St. 6-18 CLEAN 3 room modern house. Floor coverings, gas range and heater. Garage. Adults. $22.50. 2312 Orchard. Phone 4376. 6-10 FOR THE BETTER grades of fuel oils, accurate, metered do liveries, try Fred H. Heilbron ner, 821 Spring street, tele phone 4153. Distributor Shell Heating Oils. 7-13m ELDERLY couple to board and room aged gentleman. Phone 3429. 6-15 JANITRESS for local building. Hours from- 7 p. m. to 12, six days a week. Write News Herald, Box 690. 6-14 WANT. 2 or 3-hole Ice cream cab inet in good condition. Phone 0904, Tulelake, or Box 264. 6-19 WANTED Work. Two boys want work on farm or dairy. 5111 Summers lane. 6-16 LOST Gas ration books A and B. Calvin E. Hays, P. O. Box 201. 6-16 LOST Sugar ration book. Gall Mode Bowdoin, Rt. 3, - Box 260. 6-16 FURNISHED APARTMENT Walnut Apts. Phone 7193 LARGE ROOM with kitchenette and ' bath. Garage. Phone 6431. Mrs. Browne. 715tf LET" Stare Farm Int. Co. PratMt Your STlvlltit to OrIM J. I. Beard, Agent ' ION Mill) BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS BASH SLAND BUSES (Contlnuod From Pogo One) upper Yangtze, front where the Chinese ground armies contin ued gains. Russia Intense nlr action still was tho dominant note of the Russian front. South Pacific At least half of 40 to 50 Japanese fighters on a sweep over the Russell Islands In the Solomons ware shot down In an air battle, the navy an nounced yesterday. Southwest Pacific Flying Fortresses and Liberators in their third big raid on Rabavil In' four days flew from tho Aus tralian theater and smashed at the New Guinea base with 30 tons of bombs. American Losses Heavy . The British sold they lost one bomber tn Inst night's attacks on tho relch, Indicating that the raids were on a comparatively small scale. Two enemy supply ships were torpedoed off the Dutch coast in a side operation. The lot-up followed tho big gest raid of the war by four-en-glned bombers Friday night when Ducsscldorf and Muenstor were hit, and a second large scale assault against the coal. steel and chemical center of Bochum In the Ruhr on Saturday night when the British lost 24 bombers. During the peak of the Utter attack two-ton blockbust ers were falling at a rate of five a minute. Photographs yester day showed fires still burning at Duesseldorf ond Muenster from the Friday night blows. Although the Americans suf fered the greatest loss of the war In attacking Bremen and Kiel on Sunday, Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson, who commanded one wing of the operations, declared, "the price wns not too high for the results achieved." Flying Into the biggest opposi tion' they had yet encountered, the Americans of the European theater found themselves In volved In their greatest air bat tle of the war and they shot down large numbers of enemy fighters. But the total was not announced by the eighth U. S air force. In turn, the Germans dropped heavy showers of Incendiaries on one northeast coastal town in England last night and caused on early morning alert In London. More Isles Taken The allied headquarters com munique from North Africa, the briefest in weeks, said the air men of Lieut. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz "confined their activities to patrolling and reconnais sance" Sunday. After forcing the uncondition al surrender of Pantelleria Is land on Friday, and Lampedusa about 30 hours later, the allied forces made virtually a clean sweep of minor Italian stepping stones in the Mediterranean nar nows when a British destroyer appeared before the tiny island of Llnosa Sunday morning and the garrison of 140 surrendered without a bomb being dropped or a shell fired. A Cairo communique said that Gerblnl airfield was covered with bombs and that smoke poured from hangars hit at Ca tania. The allies lost one plane, but at least eight axis aircraft were destroyed. Indicating that allied force was by no means all concentrat ed In the middle Mediterranean area, a Flag Day observance at Cairo was marked by a military parade viewed by a million spec tators. Long lines of U. S.-bulIt General Sherman tanks, masses of mechanized units and swarms of warplanes particlpted in the show. Only a year ago Cairo stood In dread of Marshal Erwln Rom mel, whose axis army was ad vancing on El Alamcln In Egypt. Albert Lee, charged with cruelty to an animal, was fined $25 and 30 days with the 30 days suspended in justice court Monday. The complaint stated that Lee dragged a yearling colt be hind a motor vehicle. Senate Approves McKellar Bill WASHINGTON, June 14 (IP) Legislation to require senate con firmation of morn than 27,000 federal employes drawing $4500 a year or more was passed by the senate 42 to 29 today and sent to the house. TRUCKS FOR RENT You Drive Move Yourself Save W Long and Short Trips STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 8304 1201 East Main InSeECJ5E Dieter Believed Jap Prisoner (Continued From Page One) ported to havo boon executed. Captain Lawson was carried overland for many days by Chinese, losing a leg from an Injury received when his plane crashed Into the sea. Sergeant Dieter's picture with that of Gonoral Jlmmle Doollttlc was shown recently in a news reel at a Klamath Falls' thea tre, tho picture having been taken on board tho Hornot as It neared its destination. Members of the family at Bremerton, Wash,, and friends here saw the reel, REJECTED IN MAY STILL GET S E R VICE GALL (Continued From Page One) may bo cut about 60 per cent after next December. With tho armed services need ing only 300,000 men a month at moat for tho rest of this year, they said, there are still enough childless men and physical re clalmaulcs to meet quotas until August 2 at least, and the fathers needed to mako up the balance con be drawn from a pool of about 8,000,000 family head). This bore out mora recent draft estimates that less than 1.000,000 fathers at most wilt be Inducted this year, or leu than 17 out of each 100 from the pool of nearly 6.000,000 non-farming fathers. Farm fathers are d' fvrred on occupational grounds Regulations havo been chang ed on war ration book 3 appli cations, according to the local office of price ''administration. Applicants, instead of coming to the local board after August 1, as wos tho previous proce dure, should contlnuo to mall In their application blanks to the itato mailing center. Books applied for after June 10 will not be available until after August 1. The war price and rationing board here has a few application blanks avail able to lute registrants who ask for them Immediately. Man Held Here On Theft Charges Gaylord S. Bowers, who Is wanted In another county for breaking jail, was charged with petit larceny in justice court last week, after stealing a shirt worth $3.95 from Louis Polin's. Bowers was committed to the county jail for eight days and from here he will be sent back to the northern Oregon county from which ho broke Jail. LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, June 14 (AP (U. S. Dept. Agr.) Salable hogs 13,000; total 20,000; generally 10-20c higher than Friday's averages; top $14.35; bulk good and choice 180-360 lb, $14.15 14.30; most strictly good and cholco 150-180 lb. $13.25-14.20; bulk good 300-550 lb. . sows $13.65-14.00. Salable cattlo 16,000; salable calves 700; fed steers and year lings unusually slow; scattered sales weak to 50c lower; mostly 25c off, but bulk cattlo unsold; most bids fully 50c off; largely softer and heifer run; bidding 50c or more lower on heifers; some bids $1.00 down; most fed steers $14.00-16.00; early top $1Q 50; strictly cholco offerings held around $17.30 bids $17.00 down; beef cows 25c lower; canncrs and cutter cows and bulls steady; heavy sausage bulls up. to $14.30; cutters $10.25 down; vealers closing 50c-$1.00 lower; up to $16.50 pair early for vealers but late top $16.00 wlth sorting closer. ' Salable sheep 2000; total 2000; practically no early ac tion on fnt lambs; packers bid ding sharply lower account roll back In wholesale prices but sellers refusing downturn; few native spring lambs $15.00. 16.25; early sales 120 lb. choice slaughter native ewes at ex treme top of $8.25; talking low er on others. When In Medford ' Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Joe and Anna Earley Proprietors June 14, 108 PEACE OFFICER CONFAB SLATEf HERE JUNE 1 A quarterly police conference at which there will be ofriciuu representing the polic drpmt. mcnta and sheriff offices In the Klamath Falls urea will bo held on June 17 at 7:30 p. m. in the council chambers of tho city hall. R. P. Kramer, special sgent In chargo of the federal burcnu of Investigation, will direct tho conference which Is one of a sorles of conferences held undi-r tho direction of the FBI for tho purpose of providing an oppor tunity for police officials to meet and discuss current pnlka probloms In connection with Ilia war effort. Subject to he discussed at the conference Include security of war Information, cooperation of police In fire prevention, and enforcement of tho slrotl training and service act. In addition to Ihens Individ ual subjects, there will also be a general pnnrl forum dlncus slon of practical police prol loms. Several Instructive motion pictures will also be exhlbltrd to the police official on this occasion. U. S. SUBS SI 12 JAP VESSELS (Continued From Page One) enemy In the waters of thena areas: "(A) One destroyer sunk. "(B) Ona largo transport sunk "(C) Flvo medium sized carQ vessels sunk. "(D) One large trawler sunk. "(E) One patrol vosael sunk, "(F) One small supply vessel sunk. "(G) Two small cargo vessels sunk. "(H) One large tanker dam aged. "(I) One destroyer domaged. "(J) One medium sized trans port damaged and probably sunk. "(K) One medium-sized trans port badly damaged. "2. These actions have not been announced In any previous navy department communique." DORMITORY PORTLAND, June 14 MV The old city hall at Astoria will be converted Into dormitory apartments for single war worAv ars, the Portland office of the notional housing administration, said today. rn if -7 You Can't Hurt Electricity Br EARL WHITLOCK We were talking, the physi cist and L about various things and the talk came around to mental healing. Now this physi cist Is no reli gionist He is a rank, out and out materialist. everything re duces itself, In tils mind, to formulae and equation. If you cannot prove a thing, It isn't so. That kind of a man. But he made a statement you might let yourself munch on. some time when you are In a mood lor ruminating. "You were taught In school," he said, "that any atom Is. meroly a small group of electrical par ticles moving about each other. Molecules are merely largor groups of electrical charges, u That is true of all substanco.0 That chair, which you soy ' Is wood, I say Is electricity. Your hand, your blood, .the concroQ sidewalk or a tree makes nlr difference. Every substance is electricity and nothing else. Well, then, how can electricity hurt? How can it be sick?" "You mean," I asked, "you think all pain and sickness are mental?" "Heavens, I don't know," he replied. "All I know Is that everything is electricity. And you can't hurt electricity. And It can't be sick. You'll have to figure it out from there for yourself. And, do you know, I have been trying ever since to do just that thing. Next Monday Mr. Whitlock of the Earl Whitlock Funeral home will comment on Tho Four Freedoms. t
