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t THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FAMS. OREGON MaMi 28, 1941 PAGE FOUR THE KLAMATH NEWS KLAMATH NEWS PUBLISHING CO, Publisher! rRANK JENKINS MALCOLM EPLSY Published every morning except Monday by The Klamath News Publishing Company at Esplanade and Ptna streets. Klam ith rails, Oregon Represented nationally by WEST-HOLLIDAV CO, Ine, San Francisco, New York. Detroit Seattle, Lot Angeles, St Lou it. Portland. Chicago. Vancouver, B C Coplaa of The Newa and Herald together with complete Information about the Klamath ralla market may be obtained tor the asking at any of theea offices i -i B.U icivu mm muiiu i falls. Oregon, November 13. 1838. Member Audit Bureau Ctrcnlatioa KiasuurTtox omrM tn w nvr ai UMik !m!ic3 5 eS"rrrle KUaMia, US. IMIaaaaS 7 Hi t aaoatlM Mtnn4 kj SMI1. I SukarrtaUOM Pajrabla to) A4aJM Plight of Sprague River SOMETHING more than sympathy is deserved by the people of Sprague River who have been sending dele gations regularly to the "outer world" pleading for im provement of the notorious Sprague River road. It is a little difficult for folks located on good, hard surfaced thoroughfares to realixe what it means to a com munity to be virtually isolated during certain periods of the year, as is the case with Sprague River. At Wednesday's chamber of commerce meeting, spokesmen for the community pointed out that the absence of a physician in a town of more than 1000 persons, and the necessity of going 40 or 50 miles for medical service over a route including a stretch "of sometimes nearly im- vassable road, create serious expectant mothers, mill workers and others who may be come ill there. The immediate relief of this situation requires perma nent improvement of only nine miles of road the stretch between Sprague River and the paved Lakeview highway. Sprague River is the last of the larger Klamath county communities not on some type of state highway. It is growing and active. The time is at hand for something definite to he done to end Its Klamath's Busy Court IT IS noted in a news story today that Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg has been called to Bend on general as signment to the circuit bench there. A few days ago there was an item that Judge Vandenberg had been notified of his appointment to sit on a case at Lakeview. We hope it does not become too regular a thing for the supreme court to call Klamath's circuit judge to other districts. Court work here is such that it requires the full time of a judge. Klamath is the only county in the state, outside of Multnomah, where the circuit judge handles probate, juvenile and insanity cases, along with the regular cir cuit court work. In other counties, this type of work is done in the county court. We agree heartily with the law which shifted this jurisdiction to the circuit court in Klamath county, but it is nevertheless exacting upon the circuit judge and gives him little time for service in other judicial districts. Klamath furthermore is productive of considerable litigation and the pending cases in the court here are nu merous. Judge Vandenberg is young, vigorous and a hard worker. But we shouldn't ride a willing horse too hard. Postscript THE story has often been told of how the nazi invader has been looting occupied France in a genteel way, by buying up with "funny money" at arbitrary exchange re lation with the French franc (and thus at their own prices), all the goods in sight But the ultimate finesse of this technique now comes to light If the silk stockings and fine shirts came to rest on the legs and backs of German frauleins and workmen back home, it would be bad enough. But there is now evi dence that they are being offered instead to presumably sympathetic Americans, in an effort to get some more of those detested American dollars into Germany for foreign exchange purposes. Thus the circuit from the German printing press money around to actual U. S. dollars would be completed, at French expense. Teeth Put in "Clean-up" Week By Excerpts of Law How "clean-up" is required by public ordinance was ex plained Thursday by City Sani tary Inspector Harold Franey. who cited excerpti from city regulations covering violation! that might be eliminated in clean-up week in the city. Here are the excerpts: Ordinance No. 296 It shall be unlawful to maintain any drain, vault, cellar, eta pool, closet, privy, toilet, sewer, etc., in such a negligent condition as to endanger public health, or for it to be offensive to the sense . . . Section 7 It shall be un lawful to haul or dump upon any ground In the city limits any water, tin cans, ashes, rub bish, t manure except as di rected by the police authori ties. . . . Section 8 Manure, etc. Section 10 Unlawful to maintain cesspool within 300 feet of a city sewer. Ordinance No. 801 ... Or to burn anywhere In the open anywhere In the city limits of fal, refuse, garbage, or any other matter causing noxious odors. ... Or to burn on un paved or any streets or alleys or private property without first obtaining permission from chief of police and under such precautions as be may direct, any, paper, straw, vegetable matter, leaves, wood. Editor Managing Editor th iut rttlrm mt Klamath f - under act of March 8. 1879 Telephone 8184 satis rUa im auwn Oamtr. i .n stj Sa.o -! Stoatea. t4 Siatjo. Coa.U concern for the welfare of unfavorable road situation where the sparks are dangerous to adjacent property. Section 24 ... To haul on the city streets in such a manner as the wind may blow irom the truck any thing. Ordinance No. SOI It ahall be unlawful to deposit any stiit- tle. cigar, cigarette. Declines from oranges, bananas, etc upon any sidewalk. ... Ordinance No. 844. Section 26 No waste water, household slops or other liquids shall be allowed to accumulate upon the surface of the ground. Ordinance No. 002 It shall be unlawful and a public nuis ance to deposit any garbage, manure, carrion, offal, sawdust. rubbish, filth, brick, lumber. dead animals, or any putrid, un wholesome, or offensive matter, upon the premises of any per son, any street or alley, vacant lot, open excavation within the limits of said city ... or ar.y person being the owner, occu pant or agent of the owner, to permit or suffer to accumulate. Ordinance No. 902 The keeping of animals and the making of noises. Time, right now. is more than money it is security. Under secretary of war Patterson. When you give to the Boy Scout-Girl Scout-Camp Fire Girl drive, porting a program that typifies the whole some things done for their free people. This is a voluntary youth Matsuoka Calls On Hitler for Axis Conference BERLIN. March 27 bP) Jap anese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka called on Adolf Hit ler today and they were report ed to have engaged in "thorough going conversations" covering questions confronting the Rome- Berlin-Tokyo axis. The Japanese statesman saw Hitler after conferring for sev eral hours with Foreign Minister Joaihim von Ribbentrop, which an official announcement said produced full understanding on all problems of the three-power pact. Von Ribbentrop spoke in Eng lish, in contrast to his use of German in his talk with Sum ner Welles, United States under secretary of state, on the hit ter's visit here in March. 1940. The explanation was that, in the case of an intimate friend, one can use English even in wartime. When It was pointed out that Von Ribbentrop declined to ad dress Welles in English, an au thorized source rejoined: "One can hardly claim Mr. Welles a a special friend." The whole question of the position of the axis powers in world affairs was carefully con sidered by Matsuoka and von Ribbentrop, authorized sources intimated. When these quarters were asked if military questions were included in the discussions, an answer at first was declined on the grounds of military secrecy. Then it was pointed out that, in ties like the present, diplomacy and military strategy can not be separated. If all the smokers In the world were gathered together some morning, they'd be out of matches by noon. FUNNY I Lt sTBut, lady, the more I Children of a Free People vastly different from the regimented youth schemes in certain other countries. It is constructive and deserving of your gener ous interest. The goal is $6000. Let's make quick wdrk of it. you are sup children by a movement Worth Millions, Gets $18 a Week Willie Taylor. 24-jear-old Semi nole Indian, is in the bucks to the extent of about SB million, but works as an attendant in a Tulsa, Okla, filling nation be cause, savs he, he wants to "set an example for my tribe.' NO RULING SALEM. March 27 CP) State Attorney - General I. H. Van Winkle said yesterday he had turned down a request by Rep. John Steelhammer (R-Marion) for a ruling on the constitution ality of the cigaret tax bill. BUSINESS work the hungrier I gctl" IS iff Officers Investigate Kidnaping Charge Made by Woman POPLARVILLE. Miss., March 27 (J) A Mississippi sharecrop per and his wife were held in communicado in Jail here today as state and federal officers In vestigated the strange story of a 33-year-old mother that she and her four children were kept in virtual servitude for more than a year on an island. The case came to light last night with the filing of kidnap charges against Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Walker, middle-aged sharecroppers of Pearl River county, Mississippi, after offi cers had rescued Mrs. Cora Lee Davis and three of her children from Cow island on the Missis sippi river in Tennessee near the Mississippi state line. Mrs. Davis, officers said, was in Columbia, Miss., about 23 miles northwest of here, recov ering from the birth of her fifth child in a Memphis hospital about two weeks ago British Ship Reported Sunk BERLIN, March 28 P) Nazi long range bombers were de clared by Informed sources to have sunk a 10.000-ton British merchant ship today out of a convoy protected by five de stroyers, two cruisers and six patrol boats in the North At lantic. They said a British freighter, also attacked from the air, was left sinking 230 miles west of the Hebrides, Scotland. German warplanes destroyed 3000 tons of merchant shipping and damaged an additional 13, 000 tons in attacks on vessels In the vicinity of Great Britain yesterday, the German high com mand said today. 'Sheepshead' to Be Played at Veterans' Benefit Card Party As a special feature for Wis consin and Minnesota residents in this area, the Veterans of For eign Wars auxiliary has added the game, "sheepshead" to its program for Friday night. The event is the annual veter ans hospital benefit, the proceeds of which go into a fund to sup ply hospital inmates at Portland and Roseburg with candy, cigar ettes, writing paper and the like Pinochle will be the main fea ture of the evening but there will be prizes for all events. The party will begin at 8 p. m. in the city library basement club room. FIRST CHANCE WASHINGTON, March 27 OP) Secretary Perkins gave the new national defense mediation board Its first chance to settle labor disputes today by formal ly handing over to It the cases of four protracted strikes in de fense industries, including the International Harvester strike at Chicago. BehindM By PAULlAllAPNy WASHINGTON. March 87 The clamp which the gov ernment will slip on business In the new war order has been de vised. The master system was eased upon the aluminum Indus try in two easy lessons, March 22 and 24. The Stettlnlus con trolled priorities board laid down on March 22 the vise with in which the alumlum industry can operate. The Henderson price stabilisation division fol lowed up two days later with a statement fixing prices. Both involved obscure indus try techniques and, therefore, attracted little attention. Natur ally the announcements did not officially pledge that the rigid skeleton formula was to bo the tost of the structure for the gov ernment controls over all vital industries in case of direr emer gency or war. But those with in the OPM who devised the system know it. WAGES. PROFITS FIXED The complicated aluminum lugs and bolts point up to this simple edict: Every business In the alumi num industry is told how much It can produce, when, for whom, and what can be charged for It. Indirectly tills fixes the wage which workers in the industry can receive, the profits which can be made by the business, and the dividends which may be aid by the companies, because ill these eventualities hinge up n the few original factors that ore fixed by the government. COMPLETE PLAN To show you how complete ly It works out: Every business In the alumi num Industry Is now required to let the priorities division of OPM pass on every production order and sale In bulk, once a month An arbitrary list of who shall be served first is established. AH defense orders, including Britain's are assigned the rating of A-10, which is prime. One per cent of produced raw metal must be set aside each month as reserve. This reserve must be held to meet emergencies classl fid as B-l the next classification. Use of aluminum for repair or replacement of manufacturing apparatus is rated B-2 Health and safety takes B-3. A partial defense need of the product is classified B-4. Small orders (re quiring less than 1000 pounds of raw aluminum a month) are set at B-3. Small quality products (less than 2 pounds per a 100 of final sales value) get B 8. Con sumers who have no satisfactory substitutes arc allowed B-7. Low est is B 8. applying to aluminum product for which substitutes are available (glass jars for trays In refrigerators, for instance.) The producers are required to give this precedence to all their work and no kidding Each producer is required to submit his orders to the priori ties division once a month. Com plaints will be heard by Dr. E. M Hopkins, room 4327. Social Se curity building. Washington. Dr. Hopkins devised the clamp. LESS FORCE The price vise was applied a little less forcefully by Leon Henderson, possibly because he was not as sure of his legal ground. He announced fixed prices for all aluminum raw products, except the virgin material which presumably can be controlled because the gov ernment directs the only pro ducer, Mr. Mellon s Aluminum Company of America (may his shades lay easily In his grave.) Henderson is acting under threat of government seizure of plants. He may need some fur ther legal authority. The prob lem, however, is purely technl Cs . i Suf"v I I taw L " Zfgetiwi jp. r SUfflYBROOK . ujut-vrv IO . ,, BRAND CopTTitht National SIDE GLANCES a Llir wtiwrMilwici,iftTiiiiniuy1 r , ' "Now we'll do that dunce over oucc more and this lime without the punclungl" 1 Cdito Lallan mnMwm Mr nmm hi w mmn lhaa) Ma MM a taMf.tri hmmi k wttjaal MBtMa a OHS SIOS al Iha MP Mas mmi Ka aimaa. 0alraf1MJ taMvar ajas law rasa. Irs ajsnaxa Willi m PUM1CITE PORTLAND, Ore., (To, the Editor) It may be news to you that the situation as regards pumlrlte In the United States lias changed radically In recent montlis. Formerly practically all of the pumice and pumlcite used by companies on the At lantic seaboard was imported from Italy. These companies preferred Italian pumice because of it high grade and because of easy transportation. Now im ports of the Italian product have ceased altogether. We have rea son to believe that the stocks on the Atlantic seaboard are very low at this time. So the time is ripe for Ore gon producers, property owners, and prospectors to look Into the possibility of selling Oregon pumice and pumlcite. The grades In pumlcite usually determine the value of the pro duct. Most Oregon pumlcite is of ordinary grade but some is of very high grade. Recently Judge Bowman of Prlnevllle brought In a samplo of a very high product. The highest grade of Oregon pumlcite should have enough value to cover its trans portation for a considerable dis tance, possibly to the east. The average value of Imported pumice has been around $23.00 per long ton., but select grades brought S100 to 8123 per ton. California is now getting into the pumice market! Oregon Is producing a little and should produce much more under pres ent conditions. Attached is a list of buyers of abrasive materials. I would sug gest that the following leading importers especially might be In terested in the Oregon product. James II. Rhodes 8c Co, 153 cal as anything he requires from congress will no doubt be grant ed. MORE CONTROL Half the strait jacket has al ready been applied to machine tools, nickel, and manganese. Their production for defense use has been ordered, but not for private consumer activities. All In all, this directs every conceivable decision in the in dustry which was formerly left to the judgment of tho Individ ual business man, except how he shall part his hair. C'cst La Guerre! 0 To fully vmlVrtianfl why i rale Old Sonny Brook being "fheerful at iu ninw," yoa yonwlf matt Miopia th-e (rand eld Ken tacky boarbori. i OLD Diitillera Products Corporation, New W. Austin Ave., Chicago. III. Charles B. Chryital (Inc.) It Cliff St., New York, N. Y. K. R. Griffiths tt Co, (Inc.), 110 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y. llammlll & Gllleaple (Inc.), 223 Broadway. New York. N. Y. Whiltaker Clark A Daniels (Inc.) 243 Front St.. New York, N. Y. This department will pass an opinion on the quality of pumice if samples say a pound are I mailed to us at 702 Woodlark ! building. Portland. The loca tion from which the sample was taken should be stated. Very truly yours, EARL K. NIXON, Director. The three stales retxirtlna the I largest consumption of sugar In food manufactures, census rec-. ords show, are New York. 737, 427.202 pounds; Illinois. 007, 901.373 pounds: and Pennsyl vania. 409.170.804 pounds. Traffic authorities recom mend that when driving on slip pery roads, always keep the car in gear while keeping the speed down. Nothing takes a man right off his fret like seeing a comfort table chair. U.S. GRANT San Diego's Leading Hotel 1ATES 1" m ii a.lh 2a.W 3"n t'it Proof York, N. Y. 1V1 Met1 U