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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
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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. '