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mm mm uuu v :e five cents PWCE FIVE CENTS By FRANK JENKINS QFF for Liverpool, to tnko whip w fur home. About all Unit in known of the ship In Unit It In a now Ilrltlsh-biilll freighter, initk lni( its miildi'ii trip. You huvo visions of yourself sleeping In n lininmoek slung In I ho hold or between decks, Even ut thnl, you are thiinkful. With two million Americans elumorlng to got Ifomo, the do nuiml for shipping spueo In fub uIouh. nrllE bout trnln for Liverpool lpnvej Burton station In Lon don ut 11 p. in. The willing hour In set for 9 tho ncixt mornlnii. It appears Hint ull the Pullman npneo Is tukun which la n chronic condition hero, Tlmt mean not only Unit you will huvo to Hit up; experience It'll you Unit unless you tire plastered with luck you will STAND up or possibly alt on your luKKHKO In Ino pniwmijowoy. There will be no hotel room In Liverpool. Thnt (toe without aiiylng. So, n always In n Jam, you full buck on the Red Cross. "Yea," ii smiling girl tolls you, "there la an American billet In Liverpool, nnd your papcra will admit you," . The nun shines again, and you tnko the day train up carefully nrrlvlnu at the station an hour beforo starling time and by rea- "ii of this foresight getting a It. . ii' OUR compartment all pus cnger car ovor here are dl id Into comportments, open ; either on a passage or out o the platform is shared by RAF filer going HOME to ' . OR1DA and a couple of Brit ish majors who hove been In Washington on special duty after iOng go In Africa. They came P-n Southampton and their imes aro in Liverpool. They nro half Americanized dy smoko American eig hties, apeak a passable version of American slang and are pleas mtly Impressed by tho American ivy of life. You meet e surprising number t young Englishmen who have icon to America In one way and another, living there long enough to get acquainted with INDIVID UAL Americans. They like us, and like our ways. Several mil lion young Americans who have been In England long enough to get to know INDIVIDUAL Eng lish pooplo lllto and respect tho English. INTOLERANCE among peoples arises almost Invariably out of thinking of nations AS A WHOLE and endowing them with supposedly typical national characteristics that aro apt to bo unpleasant. You can't know nations as a ' whole, You can only KNOW Individuals. If wo aro over to get rid of thn lntn1rrmifn thnl tins nl Ihn VROOT OF WAR, peoplo nro go- .intf In Itnun In tpnunl u,l,lnlv nough and leisurely enough to cJbmo to know INDIVIDUALS of otlVr nations, If travel on such n sValo can bo mode posslblo for ALL kinds of people, there is a , , (Continued on 1'ugo Throe) Yankee Nurse Aids In Rescue of 500 Persons PORT SAID, Kfiypt, Oct. 1 (At A 27-ycar-old American nurso, one of tho last persons to Icuvo tho flaming refugee ship Emplro Patrol, today told of an eight-hour battlo to transfer nonrly 000 children nnd elderly persons to n British nlrcrnft car , rlcr in a rolling sou. Second Lt. Arleno M. Wald hnus, 314 Coleridge road, Clove land, O., of tho U. S. public health service, modestly under played her own rolo in tho res cuo work When the 3300-ton ship caught flro Saturday off Port Said while returning refugees to tho Dodecanese islands. But of ficers of tho British baby flattop Trounccr praised her efforts. Hoard Screams Lt. Wnldhnuso, tho only nurse aboard, said fire broke out about noon, Hearing screnms from tho cabin, one deck boiow the promenade deck, sho ran down nnd holped tnko out women nnd children. Sho took ono badly burned woman to tho dining room and smeared hor body with butter. Tho woman nnd her bnby lntor wore taken over tho sldo on a stretcher. ' The nurso said sho was "rea sonably stiro" nil children were rescued. Many pnsscngors jump, od ovorboard boforo nil tho llfo- KLAMATH COMMUNITY FUND - - $75,000 IS Telephone Hill . .4 klamath falls, Oregon, Monday, or ia BUS DRIVERS GO D N STRIKE, Entire Northwest Feels Effects Of Walkout Bus drivers for Paclflo Trail ways went on strike hero today In a walkout affecting tho en tiro northwest and travel to Tho Dulles. Portland, and Boise handled by Pacific Trallwnys stages was slopped. Bend is the headquarter for Pacific Trallwnys In tho sector of Ore gon. Howovor, Pacific Greyhound lines wcro still In operation to Portland, El Paso, Salt Luke City. Medford, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Red Ball stages to Lnkcvlcw and Burns wore still running und the Oregon, California, and Nevada line remained in opera Hon, according to Greyhound of ficials Here. TrlDi Cancelled Bus travelers wero forced to cancel planned Journeys in a Inrgo section of the northwest, as drivers of tho two stage compos Irs walked out in a wauo dlsnutc, Tho 102 drivers of Overlond Greyhound's northwest division (Union Pacific) and tho 48 drlv. crs of Pacific Trallwoys (Mount Hood Staves) refused to worn under reduced mllcago rates. The comnanlcs restored pre war pay rales today, pending (Uontmucii on rage -inrcoj SPUD FIELDS ACUTE An acute labor shortage In the potato fields was reported Mon day as Klamath basin growers raced a dearth of nanas lor me harvesting of this year's potato crop. A small number of prlsonors of war and Mexican nationals aro working In tho harvest but the number Is not sufficient to materially affect the labor de mand, C. A. Henderson, Kiamain county agricultural agent, re ported. The acreage Is the largest in tho history of tho basin and late frost nas delayed time or. starl ing tho harvest, making neces sary a greater amount of labor than ever tjotore lor tno momn of October. A number of Mexicans have been returned to Mexico, further reducing tho limited supply of labor. Recent lumber strikes pro- vlded somo relief but with the resumption of lumber operations this source of help is no longer available. All applicants lor work in tho form labor office arc Immediately token and this of fice is swamped with requests that cannot bo filled. The direct (Continued on Pago Three) boata were launched, she re counted, and four hysterical women screamed constantly. Flames Covered Ship Flames first engulfed the ves sel aft and Lt. Waldhaus said the chief engineer remained astern to help passengers to lifeboats sent to tno rescuing flattop, and nearly lost his own ltfo. She helped to herd other passengers forward. Tho flattop Trouncer arrived about three and one-half hours aftor the SOS was sent out, and was tho only rescue ship. Tho sea was so high, tho nurso said, that lifebouts wero unablo to got very closo to tho Empire Patrol, but picked tip persons In tho water. Used Rope Slings Efforts to tlo the Trouncer to the Emplro Patrol failed, she re lated, nnd hawsers thrown from tho fluttop "snapped like cot ton" when tied to the burning vessel. Finally, passengers wore put over tho sldo and Into life boats by menus of rope slings under their shoulders. Rovlscd royal riavv figures showed 622 rescued out of n total or 808 reported abonrd. Two of tho 49-mnn crew are unaccount ed for, Snlvago men rcportod Ihnl Ihn .1.1., .1111 J.. , tnu en,,, oviit niuu buutijr, . was in no danger of sinking, but practically boyond repair. 1 11IYS Violence O b - 0 o A policeman (center) clubs a rioter on St. Catherine street in enforcement officers and roving gangs protesting the nation's 16 - Note man's hat falling to sidewalk. I SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1 (IP) Bearimcd servicemen and civil ians gnincd headway today in their fight against widespread timber and brush fires which threatened half a dozen Marin county communities over the weekend. ' Rislnu humidity. 1 a ' "heavy ground fog and slackening winds combined to suDflue me names which has denuded more than 15,000 acres of rolling forest and range land since tho first serious outbreaks last Wednesday. For n time yesterday it ap peared thnt the four small settle ments of Lagunitas, Forest Knoll, Woodocrc and San Gero- nlmo would bo wiped out ana many of the 3000 inhabitants evacuated their homes. But the blaze was checked by the 1500 firefighters along the 15-mllc front after sweeping within a quarter-mile of tho towns' out skirts. More than 1000 civilians bat tling the flames, were aided by 300 fresh coast guardsmen and 150 soldiers from Hamilton field yesterday. . Tho navy's plan to use eight torpedo bombers from Alameda bases to spread a llre-qucncning mist of sulphuric acid compound over the area was abandoned temporarily when fog reduced visibility nnd made lt impossible for tho planes to fly within 100 feet of the ground, as they must for the ncld to be effective. Sgt Cegg Freed From Jap Prison Sgt. Clifford E. Clegg, held prisoner of tho Japanese since tho fall of Batuan, has been lib erated from a camp In Japan and Is en route home on the hospital ship, Rescue, due to ar rlvo in San Francisco October 5. A message to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clegg, for merly of 2459 Orchard and now living In Portland, advised of his liberation August 21. The message was sent from Guam, and Clegg said his physical con dition was good and that he had gained 35 pounds since ho was freed Homeward Bound Sgt. Clifford E. Clegg 0, y.a Flar a & Canadian Rationing .1 1 pmmmummwH f 1M A Day's Pay Is Way To Put Community Fund Over Top Klamath Community Fund workers will knuckle down to work tills week to raise $75,000. A kick-off dinner is slated for 6:15 p. m. Tuesday at the Wil lard and all workers are urged to attend. There will be a broad cast at 6:30 p. m. over KFJI and an address from President Tru man will be Oed in with the pro- erarrfc - One-day's pay Is being stressed for the 1945 campaign and all employed persons in the county will be contacted in the antic ipation that the Klamath fund win go over tne top in usual fashion for these narts. W. E. Lamm, chairman of the Klamath Community Fund, will preside at tomorrow n i g h t's dinner. Of the $75,000 to be raised here and, incidentally this is $10,000 more than the 1944 fund, approximately three-fourths of the amount will remain in Klam- Red Point Value On Waste Fats Gets Increase Oh, girls! More red points! The two red points per pound for waste fats have been upped to four red points, effective to day, Monday. All homemakers in the county are especially urged to save fats from venison and to continue in support of the fats salvage drive. Two Injured In Auto Accident ' Mr.1 and Mrs. Harry Taylor of Bly were slightly injured in an automobile accident early Sunday about a mile out of Bly. The two were taken to Klamath Valley hospital and Mrs. Taylor Was dismissed Sunday. Taylor is still receiving treat ment. According to reports from the hospital a second car was in volved In the accident and the two sldeswlped. State police had no report on the collision. Klamath May Get Federal Court The house Judiciary commit tee has approved an amended bill to fix a term of the U. S. district court at Klamath Falls. The bill, introduced by Rep. Lowell Stockman, (R.-Ore.) was amended to provide that district court shall be held at Klamath Falls If no additional courtroom facilities aro provided by the government. Tho measure, now ready for consideration of tho full house. provided that the court bo held in Klamath Falls tho first Tues day in June. Another amend ment specified thnt tho deputy court clerk from Medford would serve during tho now term. One deputy marshal will be annolnted to servo both Klamath Falls and Medford and will be stationed cither here or at Med ford, at the discretion of , the court. Monday, October 1, 1945 Mbx. (Sept. 30) ...82 Min 41 Precipitation lait 24 hours 00 Stream Year to data' 13.45 Normal 12.96 Lait year 10.98 Forecast: Clear Montreal In a clash between law day - old meat rationing program. (AP Wlrephoto). ath county when the money for UaO operations locally are in cluded. The four Klamath bene ficiaries are Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and the balvatlon Army. Oregon groups to benefit in clude Boys and Girls Aid so ciety. Catholic Charities, Chil dren's Farm Home, Oregon Pro- tective-trociety, SalVation Army's White Shield and Wemme Homes, Volunteers of America's Mothers' and Children's Home, Waverly Baby Home, Oregon Mental Hygiene and Oregon Cancer control. Member agencies of the na tional war funds are USO, Unit ed Seamen's Service, War Pris oners Aid, Inc., American Relief for Czechoslovakia, American Relief for France, American Re lief for Holland, American Relief for Italy. American Relief for Norway, Belgian War Relief so ciety. Friends of Luxembourg, Greek War Relief association, Philippine War Relief, Polish War relief, United China relief, United Lithuanian relief, United Yugoslav Relief fund, American Field Service, Refugee Relief Trustees, US Committee for the Care of European Children. Contributions will be received at any time, and those wishing to make direct donations may do so at the chamber of commerce where the staff is working for the fund project as a commun ity service. Report meetings will be held by the various service club s dur ing the drive. Bob Lamott is in charge of reports. Child Hurt When Struck By Car -Jimmie Finnigan, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Finni gan, 309 Washington, is in Klam- atn valley. Hospital receiving treatment for a broken left leg. He was struck by a car driven by a. l,. jfuiman, zaaa wanuand late Saturday afternoon below the Marion apartments near 6th and Pine. According to Putman, the lit tle boy had been playing on the sidewalk and suddenly ran into tne street from behind a parked cor. Putman immediately stopped and took Jimmie to the hospital., ' Jimmie is a first grader at Riverside school, but may be unable to. go back for about six weeks as his leg will be in e cast. Arriving In United States By The Associated Press Zeno H. Dent, Sgt., Klam ath Falls. Arrived on Queen Mary due in New York Sep tember 28. Richard C. Hancock, Cpl., Klamath Falls. Arrived on Queen Mnry due at New York September 28. Harry M. Llghtle, PFC, Lakeview. Arrived on Queen Mary due at New York Sep tember 28. Richard K. Webber, Sgt., 128 Grant, Klamath Falls. Ar rives on SS Eleanor Wheelock due at New York October 2. Number 10632 VINSON IMES FIVE BILLION TAXGUTJN '48 12,000,000 Would Be Erased From Tax Rolls WASHINGTON. Oct. 1 0F A $5,000,000,000 fax reduction for individuals and business in 1946 was proposed to congress today by Secretary of the Treas ury Vinson. In the first tax-cutting legisla tion to hit Capitol Hill in 16 years. Vinson laid before the house ways and means commit- tee the aaministration's plan for easing wartime burdens on per sonal ana corporate pocket- dooks. lie recommended: l. itepeai oi tne three per cent normal tax on individuals. effective January 1. thus eras ing 12,000,000 low-income per sons irom the tax rolls com pletely and reducing the tax liability for all individuals by Z,UiS3,UUU,UUU. 2. Elimination of the 95 per cent war-imposed excess profits tax on corporations, reducing 1946 corporate burdens by 2,- saa.uuu.uuu. 3. An end on July 1, 1946, luonunuea on rage inreej STALL FOR TIME1 By Associated' Press Bank officers pleaded last night that they had had. insuffi cient time to produce the re quested assets and records. They had received instructions from the finance ministry earlier, however, to have the requested material on Tiand by last night. American troops on guard around the bank assured deposi tors, many of them women sob bing in fear that they might lose their life savings, that their funds were safe. Two other banks closed by MacArthur the Yokohama Spe cies DanK and tne rtypotec bank reopened today with allied permission after a check of their records. Allied headquarters said no trace was found In the three in stitutions of "hard money" re moved from tne fnuiPDines and the Netherlands East Indies dur ing the Japanese occupation. Some gold and gold stocks ear- continued on rage xnree) Fiames Destroy Sen' ven Home Fire thought to have started from an oil stove destroyed a small house in the rear of the O. D. Weaver residence, 2100 Hope, at 7 p. m. Sunday while occupants of the place were at churcn. The county , fire department responded but tne names naa progressed too far to save the structure. Occupants are Mrs. Delbert Scriven and three chil dren, and Mrs. Bonnie Leahy and infant. The women, sisters-in-law, are wives of servicemen. They are being cared for at the Weaver home. Mrs. Scriven is Mrs. Weaver's daughter. The entire contents 'of the house were destroyed. 80,000 Jews Gassed At Belsen, Physician Says By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 1 (P) A Jewish physician testi fying at the Belsen war crimes trial today said 80,000 Jews, representing the entire ghetto of Lodz, Poland, were gassed or burned to death in one night at the concentration camp. Dx. Slgismund Charles Ben dell, the witness, said the Ger mans had designed a system of trenches with a capacity for the burning of 1000 human bodies an hour. He said he was order ed to work in crematorium No. 4 in August, 1944. Herded Into Rooms Testifying that prisoners were herded unknowingly into the gas chambers, Bendell said: "After the gas arrived, doors open leading to two rooms with low ceilings and for the first YOUR GOAL - - DIG DEEP! Shufdovn Hits 1 6 Texas Towns, 25,000 People 1 By The Associated Press A strike of AFL electrical workers shut off hydroelectric power to 16 large Texas towns and about 25,000 rural cus tomers today. , The dispute involved a comparatively small number of employes. Approximately 140, as the national total of per sons away from jobs because of labor controversies fell to about 352,000, lowest in more than a week. New Threats But there were threats of new stoppages within the near future. The power strike was at the four generating units of tha lower Colorado river authority in central Texas. Harry Bern hard, union business agent, said the dispute had been in progress for five years and the strike was called because the authority ''refused to recognize - the right of employes to organ ize and bargain collectively Max Starcke, authority gen eral manager, said the strike was called without notice and there had been no employe com plaints regarding wages and working conditions. Settlement Told In Washington, the CIO Oil Workers union announced settle ment of strikes at two small Detroit plants. The union called this a "first break" as concilia tion conferences were resumed vith management in an effort to settle the eight-state oil refin ery strike involving more than 36,000 workers. The Detroit plants are the Keystone and Aurora refineries. The workers will return at 17 54 cents an hour more pay and on November 1. when the refiner ies shift from a 48-hour to a 40 hour week, the employes will receive an additional increase of 35 cents an hour. O. A. Knight, union presi dent, said the 35-cent boost would provide the 30 per cent wage rate increase which the union seeks nationally. Mining Deadlock The Pennsylvania-West Vir ginia coal mining dispute, in which 35,000 are off the job, remained deadlocked. The ne gotiating committee of the na tional bituminous coal opera tors repeated its demand that the strikers resume work be fore' the committee . would dis cusx the dispute. Directly involved in the - con troversy are mine foremen and supervisory employes who organized into a branch of the unaffiliated United Mine Work ers of America and demanded collective bargaining rights. Another new strike kept 13, 000 workers from their posts in five General Motors corporation Frigidaire plants in Dayton, Ohio, where production of re frigerators, halted by the war, was resumed July 25. A CIO union spokesman said the strike was a protest against "unjustified indefinite suspen sion of four workers." The company declined to comment. Elsewhere the picture was: Ended 38,000 white collar workers of the Westinghouse Electric company, who struck September 9 in a demand for bonus of incentive pay plans and which spread to 14 plants in six states; 15,000 building (Continued on Page Three) No Deer Hunting Accidents Reported In Klamath County No hunting accidents or fatal ities were reported in southern Oregon today, although there are more hunters in the forests than ever before. The deer kill appeared te be heavy and was still rising. Brat ton Packing company reported 45 carcasses already in storage and more coming in on an aver age of about every 10 minutes. Approximately 15 were in lockers at the Klamath Falls creamery. Glenn Yaple of Klamath Falls bagged the first registered black tail deer of the current season in this area Saturday at 8:15 a. m. Yaple killed the animal at time victims rooms realize to death. In the waiting they are going "They were crowded into the rooms by guards with sticks. The doors close. There are shouts, screams, cries and knocking on the wall. This lasts for two minutes then complete silence. Five minutes later the doors open, but only after 20 minutes can special workers get near to remove the bodies. "The bodies fall out and are almost impossible to separate from each other. "They fought horribly against death. Bodies Cremated "The workers begin remov lifg bodies still warm covered with blood, human excrements. Then the bodies must go to the (Continued on Page Three) AFLUNI0N1STS WILL WORK IN SPUD HARVEST No new developments were re ported today on the strike front in the Klamath Falls area as far as settlement is concerned, but the Klamath basin district coun cil, AFL, has recommended to its members that they give all as sistance possible to the farmers in the Klamath basin in order that the potato harvest may bl successfully completed. This assistance is recommend ed so that there will be no loss of available foods in this area. Local AFL officials requested that the struck workers take no jobs in the lumber industry but urged the men to accept farming and other jobs, not associated with the lumber industry. They asked the workers out on strike in this area to clear through the local AFL and through the agency who has tha (Continued- .on Page Three) v. Spud Dehydration Report Expected Further reports on the strong demand- 'of, the congressional committee that surplus pota toes be dehydrated in accord ance with original contracts, are expected this week from Wash ington according to a wire re ceived Monday by C. A; Hend erson, county agent, from Sen ators Guy Cordon and Wayne Morse. Cordon advised that he wa present at a conference between the committee. Governor Leh man of UNRRA, the department of agriculture and the army. These three agencies are slated to meet again this week. In the wire from Senator Morse, Henderson was advised that Governor Lehman agreed t take $5,000,000 worth of pota toes for UNRRA. Eagle Ridge on Upper Klamath lake and the deer weighed 183 pounds with a wide three-point spread. ' Bob Clark of Bly had a dl turbing experience when he fell asleep Sunday while hunting near Silver lake and was awak ened by a large bear. Clark downed the animal and wai proudly displaying it today. The two-day-old deer huntin season had claimed three livei in other parts of the state Mon day, and authorities feared I ' steadily rising toll among th record army of nimrods. Two hunters near Magooil lake in eastern Oregon heard I shot yesterday, and found theii companion, Clint Looney , 55-year-old Estacada lumber con, tractor, with a rifle bullet through his heart. A coroner's in, quest was scheduled today al John Day. Harry James White, 66, Salem, was fatally wounded yesterda) by another hunter who mistook him for a deer in the deep brush State police said John J Schmitze on whose Willamette valley ranch the accident oo curred fired the shot. The first hunting fatality 00 curred Friday night, when Mrs Frank Lovely of La Grande wai shot as she sat with her husband and friends around a compfire li preparation for tho hunting sea son. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Dan Murchison of Ll Grande. Still a fourth hunter was it serious condition today. Everctl Fry, 50, was hospitalized at Can yon City with a broken back suffered when his horse rcarc and fell upon him. Ho was hunt ing in eastern Oregon. '
