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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1943)
On 6-mlnute blast on sirens and whittles I the signal for bltckout in Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during bltck out, Is t signal for all-clear. In (iin tlonary ptrlodi. witch your street llghti. Juno J J High (3, Low 3t ' Prodpitatlon u of Juno 1, 1S43 Stream ytu to dato . ., 17.14 Last year 13.12 Normal ... ll.eS ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVB CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1943 Number 9834 "l 'MNMrilll ""' AM VJIill I .t.!.H,f3AlMf i Q7D Dd mm wM mm i ji! Mi2Si!!i jfiji ! If If : jljii mm 'ii ii, it ill lii i.lnli;:' ii By FRANK JENKINS nrllB bl( (thouiil) for from good) war news continue to como from I he home front. CDR vetoes tlio Smith-Connally r Hiitl-ntrlko bill. IMMEDIATE LY the house and the cnotc over-ride hl veto. The cnulo begins to act five minute after the veto l an nounced. The Iiouko acta as quickly ax tho roll can be called. In tho enolc, more Democrat than Republicans voto to over ride. In tho house, nearly ns many (114 to 130). "THE cynically political Wash A Inifton opinion ia that a drill had been made Lewis to order the miners back to work If FDR would veto rhc anti-strike bill that Is the first (rather faltering) step toward requiring labor to accept responsibilities along with its privileges. John L. kept his purl of the bargain, but with a characteris tic string lied to It he set an October deadline and specified thai the mlncra would work for the government but not for the operators. FDR produced the veto. But congress stepped in. KJEANWHILE, large numbeis 11 of coal miners (nearly half, the dispatches say) fail to show up for work today. It one accepts the Washington theory thai a deal had been made, this Is presumably de signed to prove that the Smith Connally bill will aggravate rather than help the strike sit uation. ; (We have to remember that In these days political campaigns such as this are as minutely planned as military movements.) TN arriving at an opinion of these maneuvers, we have to remember that we hero on the home front are inclined to Judge them harshly or mildly, accord ing to our pre conceived person al prejudices. - Let's see if we can find a LESS-PREJUDICED viewpoint. CUPPOSE you were a soldier "in foxhole In the South Seas or In a plane over Germany or Italy, LAYING YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE every minute, fight ing to SAVE AMERICA. Watching this battle of tho politicians in Washington, would you feci that the stay-at-homes on. the home front are backing you up in every way in their power, sharing your risks and your privations to the extent of their ability, fighting shouldcr-to-shouldcr with you to WIN THE WAR? Or would you feel that they are THROWING YOU DOWN? . THAT is the big question that has to be answered, (")NE more significant develop ment on tho homo front: The senate votes today 30 to 37 to PROHIBIT payment of subsidies from the treasury to roll back retail food prices. The house yesterday passed a similar bill outlawing subsidies other than those to which tho govern ment is already committed. (Existing commitments in clude subsidies for transporta tion, to encourago agricultural and mineral production and to finance importation of strategic materials.) QN the shooting fronts, war In the air still holds the spot light. ' Our bombers smash at two more Ruhr towns, Bochum and Gelscnklrchcn (coal towns, ac counting between them for about a third of the Ruhr pro duction. You can see from this how Important coal is in war.) ' Returning pilots say the Ger man opposition in the air was terrific, hundreds of Focke-Wulfs and Mcsscrschmits pressing home their attacks with suicidal fury; The largest force of Flying Fortresses yet sent out In the (Continued on Page Two) Sinks Jap Sub Major Everett Hoist rem (above), said in an Interview at Taeoma. Wash., that his plane sank a Japanese submarine off the Columbia river mouth De cember 24, 1941. He was sta tioned at McChord Field. Later he flew over Tokyo as a mem ber of the Doollttle raiders. Director to Be Named By Ballot k Monday A heavy vote Is hoped for on Monday,'. Juno 28, whertia -director will be ' named on the Klamath Union high school dis trict No. 2 board, and the tax payers will be asked to okay tho budget and the purchase of the Butler swimming pool. Hours are from 2 to 7 p. m. in the high school building. . Three Ballots Three ballots will be present ed to the voters. On one will be tho names of two candidates (Continued on P' go Four) Six Indicted For Overcharge Conspiracy WASHINGTON. June 2 (VP) Attorney General Biddlc an nounced today that a federal grand jury at Indianapolis, had indicted six persons- including a lieutenant colonel in the en gineering corps, on charges of conspiring to overcharge the government $190,000 on rental of equipment used in building the Hooslcr Rodnanco plant near Charlcstown, Ind. The attorney general said that the charge involved collection by the defendants of $1133,000 in rentals and recapture charges compared with approximately $145,000 which the equipment would have cost the government had other contractors been dealt with, but that information ob tained by the FBI indicated total overcharges of around $600,000 as a result of the alleged conspiracy. Missing Keno Boy Reported Jap Prisoner in Philippines !" lsW.v m smsS Pvt. Carl Hollingworth RAF Ravages Ruhr Anti-strike Bill "Major Disaster", Say Union Leaders By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 26 Congress, in a stunning reversal of President Roosevelt, put American war production today under tho whiplash of an anti-strike law so stringent union leaders pro claimed it a "major disaster." Republicans saw in it a blow to the administration and resentful coal miners exploded in a new revolt. . Whilrwind action on the Connally-Smith-Harncss bill forced the long-awaited issue yesterday. Anti-climax set in today and with it came doubt and confu sion on the full effects of the law, r-Ti. walkouts and a certain amount or tear as to me ultimate reaction at the workbenches of the "Ar senal of Democracy." Attention on Coal Attention focused on the coal fields where 250.000 miners aboul half the total had failed to return to work despite ord ers from John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers. (UMW) ending the recent walkout, the third In seven weeks. On top of that, passage of the law was fol lowed Immediately by fresh strikes by 20,000 more miners. Mr. Roosevelt touched off a momentous day when ho vetoed the anti-strike law as more like ly to foment labor troubles than to settle them. Except for the coal strike, he enlisted labor had kept its no-sirlke pledge- since Pearl Harbor. '" Unequalled Speed With speed unequalled in re cent years, the senate and the house promptly overrode his veto to make law the measure pro viding fines and Imprisonment for persons instigating or aiding wartime strikes in government operated Industries, and outlaw ing stoppages In other war plants without a ballot of the workers. The law also broadens the pow ers of the War Labor board (WLB). So rapid and unexpected was the congressional action that the justice department was unpre pared to see how it would pro ceed to enforce the new law. WLB Quist Nor was there any pronounce ment from the War Labor board (Continued on Page Four) Anchor Hotel Purchased by Portland Buyer Sale of the Anchor hotel, 328 South Sixth street, by the Pa cific Savings and Loan company to an unnamed Portland buyer, was announced this week. The deal was handled by the T. B. Walters company. The hotel caters to railroad men and has recently been reno vated. . Although the considera tion was not given, it is under stood to be in excess of $50,000. Mrs. M. G. Mordoff will con tinue as manager. "Missing in action" since May , 1942, Private Carl E. Holling worth, formerly of Keno, has been reported a prisoner of war of the Japanese government, ac cording to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hollingworth, 1126 Grant street, Klamath Falls. Private Hollingworth enlist ed for the 30th quartermaster regiment in May, 1940, and re ceived his training at Hamilton Field, California. On September 28, 1941, he sailed for the Phillippine Is lands. Since May 7, 1942, he has been listed as missing in action. His last letter was sent April 20, 1942, and no word of him has been received since. Tho telegram sent by tho gov ernment In Washington, D. C, stated "Report has Just been re continued on Page Three) f vihg FRRTRFRRFc; IIIU I Ull I IILUuLU Messina Target Area Obscured by Smoke After Attack By NOLAND NORGEARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 26 (P) More than 100 Flying Fort resses, striking in their greatest raid of the Mediterranean war, hit the vital straits city of Mes sina in eastern' Sicily , yesterday and kickod up such a hugh cloud of fire and smoke that the en tire target area was obscured at the end of the 18-minute attack. Rivaling the Fortresses' at tack on Messina, essential in the rail and ferry links with the Italian mainland, the RAF's Wellingtons roared over Olbia in northern Sardinia the preced ing night and started at least seven fires and a big explosion in the port area, near the rail way station and among military (Continued on Page Four) "Buckaroo Days" Queen Will Be Crowned Tonight Klamath's Buckaroo Days will have an official queen to reign during the celebration after . tonight, when the queen is selected from the six candi dates sponsored by civic clubs. The selection will be made by a committee of three judges tonight at the queen's ball. The ball is under the auspices of the Commandos, and proceeds will be used to bring wounded servicemen here from hospitals. The project has been given the approval of the Red Cross, which feels that this is vital to the rehabilitation of wounded men. Tho project will be car ried on during the war and aft erward. Proceeds from the entire Buckaroo Days celebration will Continued on Pago Four) Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E. Chicago , 3 7 0 Cleveland 2 7 1 Lee and Tresli; Dean and Ro- sar. R. H. E New York - 17 2 Boston 4 9 0 Donald. Turner and Scars Hugson and Conroy. R. H. E. Detroit 3 10 1 St. Louis 6 12 0 Hcnshaw, Overmire (7), and Richards; Potter, Ostermucller (8), Caster (9) and Hayes. NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Pittsburgh 9 11 0 Cincinnati 0 3 2 Butcher and Lopez; Vander- meer, Heusser (3), Stone (9) and Mueller, Lakeman (6). R. H. E. Boston .'. 3 12 0 New York 16 0 Tobin and Masi; llubbell, Lohrman (7), Mungo (9) and Mancuso. RAF BOMBINGS SMASH BOCHUM GELSENKIRCHEN Coal Mining and Steel Plants Are Among Objectives By LYNN HEINZERLING LONDON, June 26 (VP) A force of British, bombers spread new destruction last night in the German Ruhr, hitting tar-' gets in Bochum and Golsenkir chen, and one military observer declared that neutralizing of this great industrial valley was nearing completion. This observer, who cannot be identified by name, estimated that nearly 30,000 tons of bombs, many of them block busters, had been cast upon this compact nazi industrial region since the massive bombing ex periment started three and a half months ago. . Has Thins The normal industrial haze over the Ruhr low is reported thinned out and is said, in fact, to havo actually disappeared in somo places. - - ' During the Uiree and-onhalf month period, more wan, ouu bombers have been lost, this source said, and some 3000 men have been killed or captured. In last night's attack coal mining and steel plants were amone the objectives. Thirty of the RAF's big air craft were listed as missing in the night's activities. Follow U. S. Raid The British bombers, follow ing by only a few hours the United States heavy bombers which attacked undisclosed tar gets yesterday in Germany, en countered the same cloud form ations as the Americans and it was reported that results could not be observed accurately. However, the air ministry communique reported that large fires were started in Bochum and Gclsenkirchen. Strong new defensive squad rons which the Germans have thrown into the battle of the Ruhr were out in . fprce, the British announced, and there were many air battles. Two enemy planes were reported de stroyed. Yesterday's fighting over northwest Germany on the American foray was described by an American air force spokesman as "a prolonged bat tle of the clouds" and it was said that weather conditions were so unfavorable that some (Continued on Page Four) Quick Action Saves Palmerton Mill From Fire Quick action on the part of various fire agencies saved the Palmerton Lumber company mill and sheds and adjoining yards of the Swan Lumber . company, following an outbreak of flames in the mill office at about 8 o'clock Saturday morning. Bert Schultz of the Klamath Moulding puant, turned in the city alarm and the trucks re sponded immediately. Also on hand was the Klamath county shops fire equipment, with mem bers of the Swan Lake and Klam ath Moulding crews and the re saw crew of the Palmerton mill. Records of the Palmerton mill were saved although office equip" ment was lost. Damage was es timated around $1000. George Fife, Palmerton employee, suf fered minor hurts. , For a time, a strong north wind threatened ajacent prop erty, but co-operation of crews and equipment brought the fire under control within a short time. Loren Palmerton leased the Swan Lake planing mill about a year RAF Use 'Shuttle Bombing' W J) ENGLAND NrryamW9 jf VvXv- J .'Dortmund LTHiw.SGERMANyA :;;L. St. ' S"S Munich Y" Naxair. HUNGARY S. FRANCE TTrledricr.sh.fenjT' A ' ' V,chy MnSCjAvUGOSlAVU Bordeaux ?Gon.i, V . pzX fLlTA'Lw Toulon s Tv !' V SPAIN 3 corsicaUI? O SARDINIA Jf 7?. ' ?f r-Mediteiranean Seo m - f II fJ Crr,t l f BizertVJT s. ISICILY , .. .w v-frf-, fy1 ConHse"- ' ALGERIA Tunisia RAF planes from Britain, which, bombed FrUdrichshafen. Germany, flew on to Africa, paused and returned home, striking at La Spesia. Italian naval base, on the return trip, the British air ministry disclosed. Chain of arrows indicate their probable route. Other air raids (black' arrows),; .included allied blows at Comiso, Sicily, and Olbia; Sardinia; and a German attack on the English port of Hull. Senate Moves Food Czar WASHINGTON, June 26 VP) Drastic legislation to bait the admistration's -price--reducing food subsidy probram and trans ferring all. other agricultural sidy authority to the war food subsidy authority to the war food senate today and sent back to the house. , In a series of swift defeats for ' administration forces, which followed their setback yesterday on the strike bill, the senate life of the commodity credit corpor ation for two years with restrict- Nips Shipping More Planes to Rabaul Airfields ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 26 (fl5) More and more Japanese planes are appearing on the airfields ringing Rabaul, New - Britain, and there is considerable ship ping, including a converted air craft carrier, in its huge, horseshoe-shaped harbor, allied recon naissance fliers report. Rabaul lies roughly 700 miles northwest of the allied base on Guadalcanal ' in the Solomons and about 500 miles northeast of the ground front below Sala maua, New Guincr. In six raids recently. General Douglas Mac Arthur's bombers have dropped 176 tons of bombs on Rabaul's airdromes of Lakunai, Rapopo and Vunakanau. Some of the re sultant fires were reported to be burning planes. Today it was disclosed at headquarters that allied fliers on reconnaissance over Rabaul had counted 170 enemy bombers and fighters on its fields, a slight increase over previous reported totals. America Only Place, Says Harry Grace After Thrills, Horrors of Convoy Duty By LOIS STEWART Reading like a thrillcr-diller of the swashbuckling days of old, was the letter which reach ed our desk this week and signed by Harry Grace, former Klamath youth, who is now serving from the United States naval armed guard center on the east coast. "Truth, " stranger than fic tion," can easily be believed in this letter of facts as set forth by Grace who has been around the world and seen virtually all aspects of war, the horrible. the sad, the humorous and the ridiculous as the various actions of men are welded into the every day mechanics of battle, living and dying. United States Best From Grace's letter we quote: "How to begin. Perhaps I Wkmw PCM.ANO to Establish Haft Subsidies five amendments' against subsi dies.'. t-t;,:j '-.".. i v.V - Amendment AdoptedK, ;'; ' in its final action before pas sage of the bill, the senate adopt ed on a voice vote an amend ment by Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) which -would lodge all of the food subsidy functions of the office of price administration (OPA) in the War Food Adminis trator, Chester C. Davis. , The chamber thus took a step toward establishing Davis as a food czar, a move which Presi dent Roosevelt has opposed. Previously the senate had vot ed 46 to 29 to write into the bill an amendment by Senator Aiken (Rep-Vt.) which would stop the administration's food price roll back program. This amendment provided for continuation, for the remainder of this crop growing season, of incentive payments to encourage the production of certain vitally needed crops. Goebbels Flays Americans in Hate, Horror Campaign LONDON, June 26 0P .In his horror and hate campaign de signed to stir German morale dented by continued heavy allied aerial attacks, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Germany s propagan da minister, lashed out today to call Americans cultural vandals and military barbarians. Speaking at Munich, at the opening of the seventh German art exhibition, he said "British and American terror planes "were destroying" in a short hour, cultural possessions which the centuries have built" and to which the United States and Britain "made very slight con tribution." should say that I'm more than lucky to be back and after all the places I've seen I still am convinced that the United States is The place on this earth. "I have found out in heavy battles too much is going on for one man to see and record. I have even found that in small actions the human failure to accurately observe is quite amazing. I can now understand and admire the men who are leading the navy and army of all countries they've got to be good. This thing is so big it is almost impossible to compre hend how all important factors, large and small, are' hinged to gether at the right moment. Been Places - "I've been to Algeria and seen so many men and supplies that I wondered if "John Smith" REAL TEST Of TD-MINES iVE EXPECTED 8000 More Men Leave Pennsylvania Pits This Morning -. PITTSBURGH, June 28 W) The coal strike spread to a few more big mines today, despite the . newly " enacted anti-strike law, and ah atmosphere of un certainty hung over the coal fields while the real test on the back-to-the mines movement was expected Monday. In the great producing state of Pennsylvania, whose mines are estimated to be operating ap proximately 25 per cent of nor mal, about 8000 more men left the pits this morning. Most of these were in the anthracite field in the eastern part of the state. Further picketing occurred to aid in closing of three mines in the soft coal fields of western Pennsylvania, Bright Prospects In neighboring West Virginia. the second-largest mining state, prospects for normal operations by Monday were much brighter with more bituminous mines re opening during the day. - Mass meetings were to be held Sunday in many mining com munities of West Virginia and Pennsylvania' at which district (Continued -on "Page Four) Red Bayonets, Grenades Slash Into Finn Lines . LONDON, June 26 W) At tacking Russian troops broke in to Finnish trenches on the north ern Karelian front last night and wiped out about a company of the enemy in savage bayonet and grenade fighting, the soviet noon communique said today. Ten dugouts and two block houses were blown up and mor tar batteries and an ammunition . dump were destroyed, the Rus sians said in the communique which was broadcast from Mos cow and recorded by the soviet monitor here. Two German stabs, a recon noitering attempt in the Sevsk area southwest of Orel, and south of Balakleya where they attempted to cross the DoneU river, were beaten 00 with en emy losses, the war bulletin said. Fighter Plane Bond Contest Standings Malin ... Keno ... Henley .$36,978.00 . 36,560.00 . 35,478.75 . 32,485.00 Merrill Sprague River ...... Bly-Beatty Gilchrist ..: Chiloquin-Ft. Kla. Bonanza .- 21,377.50 12,865.00 12,162.50 7,908.75 6,153.75 really would ever have the shoes, rifle, food, etc.,' at the right time. And he did I've seen that too. ! "We sailors have our fun along with out troubles. Or should. I say in between our troubles. I've been to Nova Scotia, Iceland, England, Scot land, Gibraltar, Algeria and Russia. ' It . wasn't just hitting port and then leaving after our cargo was unloaded. We'd stay and have a chance to see things and know people. And for some reason the sailor has fun and gets unheard of breaks. One afternoon in Algeria, I wa helping a very fine looking eld erly Frenchman run his three barmaids and his bar. After exchanging my cigarettes for his old hay butts, I seemed to (Continued on Page Two),'
