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ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
PRICE FIVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1943
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By FRANK JENKINS
YOU have doubtless read in
the papcri Unit under the
pur of the conl strike congross
has paused a now law whose
purpose (whatever It prncllcul
results muy be) is to discourage
strike In essential war Indus
tries In timo of wur.
It has been approved by both
houses of congress, but an tills In
written has been neither Binned
nor vetoed by the President.
"THIS wr"cr' offhand opinion
I is that the law was put to
1 nether by politicians whose chief
purpone was to plcanc everybody
C and DISPLEASE NOBODY. If
" that opinion should turn out to
be somewhere near accurate, the
law won't be of much help In
solving our growingly trouble
some problem of labor relullons.
ALL thinking persons must
agree that the relations be
tween employers and employees
should be governed by fair and
Intelligent laws Just as the re
lations between buyers and
sellers, for example, are gov
erned. Otherwise, how are we to set
tle Intelligently and reasonably
fairly the disputes that must
inevitably arise In the employer
employee relationship?
It the laws aren't fair, the dis
putes can't be sett led .fairly and
when disputes - aren't settled
fairly trouble I bound to ensue.
"THE trouble with our laws
governing labor relationship
Is that they NEVER HAVE
BEEN FAIR. Wo haven't even
TRIED to make them fair.
Whichever side has been on top
has made the labor laws to SUIT
ITSELF and to hell with the
other fellow.
'TWERE was a long, long time
when the low wos nil on the
side of the employer. We then
had such monstrosities as anti
labor Injunctions, calling out the
troop; to put labor in Its place,
etc.
The result was an accumula
tion of hatred and suspicion that
Drought on ine present situation
in which labor has ALL- the
a rights and tho employer hns
Fair-minded ucoolc are com
ing to tho conclusion Hint the
present situation is little better
(from tho broad, national stand
point) than tho former situation
when employers had all the
rights and labor had none.
...
XYHAT we ought to do is reas
oiinbly obvious. For tho
governing of labor relationships,
wo should lay down a broad, fair
foundation of things that mustn't
be done NO MATTER BY
WHOM.
In other fields, we have been
intelligent enough to do this.
Wc insist, for example, that NO
BODY shall rob tho bnnk, which
contains money that belongs to
all of us. No matter which side
of the tracks the robber comes
from, we demand that he bo pun
ished. (Our thinking in regard to
murder Isn't quite so clear, and
in our dealings with it we aro
all too often swayed by mushy
sentiment. But cold-blooded,
calculating murder FOR GAIN
Is rather generally disapproved,
; no matter who docs tho murder
Ing.) : TN our handling of labor rcla
' j lionshlps, we have followed
fithe principle that whoever is in
power can swing tho whip and
v that what is a crime, when done
by one side Isn't a crime when
done by the other,
s It hasn't worked In the past,
3 It isn't working now.
It NEVER WILL WORK,
p ' TEACHER DIES
f. TACOMA, Juno 18 (P) Sen
ator Walter S. Davis, 76, who
retired only a few days ago
i jfrom the faculty of tho College
j.4f Pugct Sound, where ho hoad
fcd the history department, died
' last night In a Tucoma hospital.
GOP
SCORES
VICTORY IN
SUBSIDY RQ';.'
OPA Gets Double Blow
In Tentative Ac
tion Friday
WASHINGTON, June 18 UP)
Protesting Unit the livestock and
feed business is "in a state of
absoluto demoralization" be
cause of the rollback In retail
meat prices, 14 republican sen
ators called on senate leaders
today for prompt action on leg
islntinn to restrict subsidy pay
ments for price decreases.
In a letter to Republican
Lender McNary (Ore.), the
group asked an agreement with
acting Democratic Majority
Leader Hill (Ala.) to obtain a
vote at "the earliest date."
WASHINGTON. June 18 UP)
House republicans dealt the of
fice of price administration
(OPA) a double blow today,
tentatively writing into the
agency's 1944 appropriation bill
a ban against the use of subsidy
payments to hold down prices,
and cutting its funds from $165,
000.000 to $130,000,000. The
actions are subject to a later roll
call vote.
A teller volo of 160 to 106 ap
proved an amendment offered by
Representative Dlrksen (R ill.) to
prohibit use, of. any of the fund
for subsidies. .
At Odd.
Congress and OPA officials
have been at odds for some time
on the use of subsidy paymcnU
In the price roll-back program.
Not a single republican op
posed Dirksen's amendment, and
only a few of them voted against
his earlier move to cut OPA's
funds.
New anti-subsidy legislation
backed by farm organizations to
day Joined i parade of congress
ional proposals aimed at thwart
ing administration plans to push
prices down by paying the dif-
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U. S. Casualties
In Guadalcanal
Bout Only 76
WASHINGTON, June 18 (IP)
The record breaking 120-planc
air assault by the Japanese
against Guadalcanal island Wed
nesday cost American forces 76
casualties, the navy announced
today.
It had been previously dis
closed that the Japs lost 77 of
their fighters in tho massive air
attempt and that only six Amer
ican planes wore lost.
Today's communique said tho
pilot of one of those planes had
been rescued.
Other damage, first reported
In dispatches from the South Pa
cific and restated in the official
war bulletin here were one Unit
ed States merchant ship and one
landing barge hit.
The communique listed per
sonnel casualties as 25 killed, 28
injured and 22 missing, afloat
and ashore.
The total report of damago
caused in terms of men, planes
and ships, apparently was much
less than that claimed by Tokyo.
The Japanese had broadcast a
boast "that they had sunk eight
ships, including a destroyer,
which would havo meant a rela
tively heavy loss of life.
Japs Know All
About Zooters y
NEW YORK, Juno 18 (P)
Japanese propagandists have
their own explanation for recent
American "zoot suit" incidents.
In a Tokyo broadcast reported
today to tho office of war infor
mation, a Japanese commentator
declared:
"Tho American zoot-suiters
are isolationists and anti-war
fighters. They are strong, cour
ageous young men who have
banded together into a nation
wide army to express by physi
cal force their disapproval of the
war."
Screens
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Screens ware torn from the Beaumont Tex., city jail when these men attempted to take a
negro rape suspect from the city police. After .two days of rioting the city had returned to near
normalcy with Col. Sidney C. Mason In charge -at state troops enforcing martial law. Col. Mason
said the negro section of Beaumont was "literally stomped Into the ground."
FIREOAT ENEMY
Immense War Supply
-. Measure Senttrr "
Congress Floor-
WASHINGTON, June 18 UP)
The house appropriations com
mittee fired a financial broadside
at the axis today, sending to the
floor a $71,510,438,873 war de
partment supply bill to equip
and maintain an army of 7,500,
000 enlisted men and blacken
enemy skies with warplanes by
the end of the year.
Largest appropriation bill in
history, it boosted to almost
$200,000,000,000 the war depart
ment's funds since July 1, 1940,
and to an estimated $400,000,-
000,000 the outlay for defense
and war purposes since that
date. All the money carried in
the bill, army officials said, will
be spent or obligated during the
12 months starting July 1.
"Tho decisive budget" was the
label given the measure by Lieut.
Gen. Joseph T. McNarncy, dep
uty chief of staff, during hear
ings on the bill. "These decis
ive dollars will be translated in
to decisive strategic and tactical
plans."
Frightful Cost
Commenting that the bill car
ried more than three times the
total outlay of the war depart
ment during the entire first
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Coal, Milk, Clothing and
Electricity May Be Rationed
WASHINGTON, Juno' 28 UP)
Coal,"' milk, clothing and elec
tricity head the list of possible
new rationing programs al
though perhaps none may ever
come to life officials said to
day.
Speculation on new programs
was heightened by publication
of testimony on the office of
price administration (OPA) bud
get, in which funds were asked
against the contingency of six
more rationing programs that
might be necessary during the
coming fiscal year starting July
1.
Officials who declined to be
quoted asserted positively how
ever that neither these nor any
other new rationing programs
has been ordered or is expected
to be ordered. OPA's fund re
quest was described as a nor
mal budgetary precautjon. .
Besides milk, it was under
stood a few other foods or bev
erages were considered remote
possibilities. Another possibility
was a still embryonic plan of
controlling restaurant and other
institutional food users separate
ly from the general food ration
plan in which they are now
Included. .
Torn From Jail in Texas
War Nursery for Children
Of Working Mothers to Be
Set Up Here With U. S. Aid
' A war nursery1 for children
of working mothers In -Klamath
fall has- been'ipprove and a
grant of $5013 ha been made
under the Lanham act, it was
learned Friday. Two units, one
at Mills school, and another
wherever the most need is
shown, will be established ' to
take care of 80 pre school chil
dren during the time that their
mothers are working.
A flat fee, not yet established,
will be charged for each child
Man Faffs From
Hotel Window,
Goes to Jail
Falling out of a second story
window didn't seem to affect
Newton D. Ferguson, 45-year-
old Tennant lumberjack, very
much.
After falling 25 feet from a
window in the Mars hotel, Fer
guson was taken to a hospital
Ho walked out of there later yes
terday under his own power, and
still later was picked up by the
city police, and Jailed on a
charge of drinking.
Now Ferguson is under observ
ation, to determine if Anything
really is the matter with him
Polipe said they did not know
exactly why he fell out of the
window, but added he had en
dently been drinking at the
time.
The above list was described
as unofficial, and OPA declined
to give even the house appro
priations committee any speci
fic Information, claiming that
any official Statement on a ra
tioning possibility might merely
cause hoarding, buying sprees
or uneconomical use of a com
modity or service, and that the
repercussions might be particu
larly embarrassing if It devel
oped that . no rationing was
necessary.
Tho coal strike and transpor
tation difficulties lie behind the
remote possibility of coal and
electricity rationing, officials
said. If either occurs, it might
be on a - local rather than na
tional basis.
The milk problem is compli
cated by such things as lend
lease needs, shortage of feed
for dairy animals, lack of man
power and greatly increased
consumption both by civilians
and servicemen,' '
The' threat of clothes ration
ing was eased considerably re
cently by Improvement in wool
supplies, but labor .shortages
are still a factor to be con
sidered. ,
Rioting
entered In the school, andchil
drenmay' 'je'J left when the
mother leaves lor work and
picked up on the way home.
Notification of approval of
the school here was received
Friday, and plans will begin as
soon as possible to begin the
actual school. The project may
be approved by the school dis
trict board at its meeting Mon
day night. The project is co
sponsored by the school district
and the Soroptimist club.
Personnel of the two nursery
school units will consist of an
administrative supervisor, two
head teachers, four assistant
teachers, two cook-housekeepers
and one part-time janitor. Funds
for the salaries are available
under the Lanham act. Supplies
and play materials will be furn
ished by the Soroptimist club,
which has made the nursej-y
school a major project, and
rooms for the school units will
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Yamamoto Dead
But His Ideas
Spur Nips On .
By The Associated Press
The late Fleet Admiral Iso-
roku Yamamoto's idea of invad
ing the Unijed States and dic
tating peace terms at the White
House was emphasized again to
day as a Japanese war aim in a
Tokyo broadcast covering pro
ceedings of the imperial diet. V
! Dr. Ryutaro Nagai, director of
the Imperial Rule Assistance as
sociation, was quoted as telling
the diet- "The departed soul of
the late fleet admiral will not
rest until we have carried the
war over his body to American
shores and we have won our
terms of peace in the very cham
bers of the White House."
The broadcast was recorded
by The Associated Press.
Chinese Troops'
Encircle Jap
Stronghold
CHUNGKING, June 18 (ZD
Chinese troops, credited with
killing or wounding 40,000 Jap
anese in pushing the invaders
back from the Hunan rice bowl,
were reported today to have com
pleted the encirclement of Ow-
chlhkow, 90 miles southeast of
the Japanese base at Ichang.
Owchlhkow is one of the last
Important Japanese-held strong
holds west of Youchow and south
of the Yangtze.
American planes, which bomb
ed the city Tuesday in support
of ground forces, further paved
the way for the success of the
ground action, dispatches from
the front said. - ' ,
RULING OPENS
NEW CRISIS IN
COAL INDUSTRY
Demand on Portal Pay
Issue Rejected
By WLB
By JOSEPH A. LOFTOS
WASHINGTON, June 18 UP)
A War Labor board (WLB) rul
ing on the soft coal dispute to
day tossed the portal-to-portal
pay issue back to collective bar
gaining or court litigation, there
by presenting a new crisis to the
strike-threatened bituminous in
dustry. The WLB rejected 8 to 4 a de
mand by the United Mine Work
ers for portal-to-portal pay, rul
ing it constituted a law case the
board is powerless to settle. La
bor members of the board dis
sented. '
They took the position that the
case is a labor dispute which the
WLB could dispose of, but de
clared "the decision is the de
cision of the War Labor board
and the decision of the govern
ment of the United States of
Atnerica."
This statement was made by
Van A. Bittner, a former offi
cial of the United Mine Work
ers. He added that "the no-strike
agreement made to the president
of the. United States must be can
ried out today Just as it was the
day we made it" -. ,
Free to Press pemands
The board's., directive order
said "the mine workers remain
free to press their demand be
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Merrill Leading
Bond Campaign;
Malin Second
Merrill is still leading the com
munity bond campaign with a
total of $24,053.75, Bert Schultz,
co-chairman for the Kiwanis
bond drive for June, announced
Friday. Nearest competitor is
Malin, which has $17,978.75 to
its credit.
- Other communities and their
totals in the bond campaign are
Henley, $16,847.50; Keno. $6135;
Gilchrist, $5652.50; Sprague
River, $4877.50; Bonanza,
$4122.50; Beatty-Bly, $3402.50;
Chiloquin-Fort Klamath,
$2881.25.
Bonds sold during the June
campaign to date total $114,
536.25, of which $85,651.25 has
been designated for specific com
munities in the contest, four win
ners of which will be able to
name a fighter. Goal for the
month has been set at $300,000.
Blended Whiskey,
Gin Prices Go
Up June 24
WASHINGTON, June 18 (P)
The price of blended whiskey
will go up 30 cents a quart to
take care of the higher costs of
imported neutral spirits, the of
fice . of price administration
(OPA) announced today. The
increase is effective June 24.
Although stocks of straight
whiskies in warehouses are suf
ficient for several years, neu
tral spirits which represent as
high as 72 per cent of the cheap
er blends are not aged but made
as required .by the distilleries.
Gin also is included in the or
der, an OPA official said, add
ing that since it is not blended
with any other spirit it probably
will take the highest price in
crease. The increase, however, is per
mitted only in proportion to
the amount of imported neutral
spirits present in either whiskey
or gin. ,
OPA Restricts Use
Of B and C Cards
WASHINGTON, June 18 UP)
The office of price administra
tion (OPA) ruled today that in
the eastern shortage area B and
C gasoline rations should not be
issued to anyone living within
30 or 40 minutes walking time
from his work, C
Viceroy
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Field Marshal Archibald P.
Wavell, named Ticeroy of India.
Action Seen as Step
Toward Crushing
. Blow at Japan
' LONDON, Saturday, June 19
UP) Field Marshal Sir Archi
bald P. Wavell, commander-in-chief
of India, was named viceroy
of India today in a move to pre
pare the nation for a coming
knockout offensive against the
Japanese.
Appointed to a five-year term
succeeding Lord Lmuthgon, wav
ell will retire from the army
but will continue to use his mili
tary talents for strategical or
ganization of the nation of 400,
000,000 as a main forward base
for the drive against Japan sched
uled to follow the smashing of
Hitler in Europe.
With the selection of one of
Britain's premier soldiers ' as
viceroy. Gen. Sir Claude J. E.
Auchinleck will return to the
post of commander-in-chief in
India which he held in 1940-41.
It was disclosed simultaneous
ly that the commander-in-chief
in India is to be. relieved of re
sponsibility for operations against
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U. S. Cutter Blown
Up in Atlantic;
All But Two Lost
WASHINGTON, June 18 UP)
The coast guard cutter Escanaba
was blown up by an explosion of
undetermined cause and sank al
most Immediately while on con
voy duty in the North Atlantic,
the navy announced today.
All but two aboard were lost.
She normally carried 60 officers
and men.
The explosion tore the 718
ton ' vessel amidships. Office
here said that it could have
been caused . by a torpedo, a
mine or some internal blowup.
The two enlisted men . sur
vivors were quoted, by the
navy as saying they had no
idea of what caused the ex
plosion. The captain of the ves
sel, Lieutenant Commander Carl
Uno Peterson of Newtonville,
Mass.. went down with his ship.
The navy said it sank so quick
ly it had no time to send out
signals.
Lions Name Candidate as
Plans for Rodeo Shape Up
Dean Hamilton, first blonde
candidate to be announced for
the rodeo queen contest, will be
sponsored by the Lions club, it
was announced by Bernie Heide
mann, captain of the Com
mandos, who are in charge of
the queen's ball and the rodeo
dance.
Miss Hamilton, who graduated
from Klamath Union high school
this year, is 5 feet 4 inches in
height, and is employed by
LaPointe's. She is the daughter
of Mrs. Bert Hamilton, 1629
Portland street. Paul Skeen is
the Lions club member in charge
of selecting a candidate.
Plans for Klamath's Buckaroo
Days have been released and in
clude the rodeo to be. held on
July 4 and 5, consisting of
amateur events. Entries will be
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Axis Claims British
Massing Troops on
Turkey Border
By ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Italy's bomb-scarred nort o
Naples, two Sicilian airdromes
and enemy shipping off Greece
came under the flail of allied
warplanes in the latest assaults
in the Mediterranean, it was an
nounced today, as the axis
stressed new invasion prepara
tions against southern Europe.
Italian headquarters said al
lied raiders also blasted the area
of Mt. Vesuvius, the famous vol-
cano, including modern Pompei.-
"Large British forces are con
centrating alone: the southern
frontier of Turkey," the Rome
radio asserted, - amplifying its
previous assertion that many
allied landing craft were mass- .
ing at Pantelleria Island 60
miles from Sicily. .
Dispatches from Ankara said
the 350-mile border between
Turkey and Syria was reoponed
at 6 a. m. yesterday, after all
traffic except allied diplomatic
and military personnel had been
halted for 48 . hours to screen.
troop movements.
. "CfpruT Movement
Axis radios asserted that
British and . Indian reinforce
ments had been moved to Cy
prus, 69 miles off Syria; a po
tential base for invasion of the
Balkans, Crete or the Dodecan
ese islands. American troops
were said to be a m o n g the
Cyprus garrison. '
Another enemy report said a
62-mile stretch in northern
Syria along with the Lebanese
coast . had been declared mili
tary areas and closed to civil
ians. .
Cyprus is the third largest is
land in the Mediterranean, after
Sicily and Sardinia.
Meanwhile a Rome broadcast
disclosed that all except 6000
to 7000 inhabitants out of a nor
mal population of 100,000 had
been evacuated from Cagliarl,
the capital of Sardinia, to es
cape allied bombs.
"Civil service officials who
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Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
New York 6 6 2
Boston 8 13 8
Lohrman, Mungo (3), Adams
(7) , Wittig (9), and Mancuso;
Javey and Poland.
R. H. E.
Philadelphia U.:.......10 13 1
Brooklyn 8 11 2
Gerheauser, Eyrich (5), Diets
(6) and Livingston; Melton,
Davis (6), Head (6), Newsom
(8) and Owen.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston - 3 6 1
New York 1 4 3
Hughson and ' Conroy; Bor
owy, Mungo (3), Turner (9) and
Sears. v ' 1
made from Klamath, Lake, Mo
doc and Siskiyou counties. After
,the rodeo, horse racing will be
sponsored by the Sheriff's Posse.-Pari-mutuel
betting -will be a'
feature of the racing.
The annual parade will be held
Monday, July 5 at 10 a. m., ac
cording to O. D. Matthews, pres
ident of . Klamath Buckaroo
Days. The parade will be spon
sored by the junior chamber of
commerce, and entrants should
contact or phone John Maguire'
at 3212 or 7417. .
The Commandos will be the
beneficiaries of this year's cele
bration, and proceeds will be
used for the entertainment of
wounded soldiers in the war. .
Pictures of Miss Hamilton, and.
of Noweta- Havinear, Kiwanis,
choice for queen, will appear In
'later papers,
It