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PAGE TWELVE THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Jun 1941 WOODEN SHIPS E TO SAVE STEEL WASHINGTON, June 3 (AP) Construction of wooden mer chant ships in idle yards of the Pacific northwest was urged Monday by Rep. Smith (D-Wash) In an address to the house in which he reiterated his predic tions of a steel shortage. "There is no reason why mer chant ships should be construct ed exclusively of steel," he said, adding: , "We should immediately util ise the idle wooden shipyards of the Pacific northwest, where the raw materials are plentiful and the idle ship carpenters and me chanics are ready to go to work and assist in turning out the ships which are so sorely needed. Merchant shipping is becoming even a more important factor in the present war than in the World war and "it may prove the decisive factor, he said. A year ago, he said, he told of' ficials of the national defense council, the office of production management and the maritime commission that the supply of steel was not adequate for ship construction. He said his statements "were clearly discounted and I was given to understand that there was no possibility of a steel shortage and no serious thought was being given to any exten sive wooden shipbuilding pro gram. "The United States maritime committee and the bureau of ships. United States navy, have restricted their shipbuilding ac tivity almost entirely to steel construction, and there has been little or no wooden construc tion," he continued. "In the meantime, the de mands for steel for munitions nave been enormous and we are hardly started until it is now becoming a recognized fact that we will soon be facing a serious shortage of steel, the very condition which I pointed out last summer and last autumn and this spring was likely to oc cur." There is "no method of undo ing what has already been done, said Smith, "but we can turn around and get headed in the right direction on this shipbuild ing program. There is no reason why merchant ships should be constructed exclusively of steel. "The logical and most effective method of successfully meeting the U-boat challenge and prepar ing ourselves for the future, is an all-out ship-building program. CCC in Fight for Life As Defense Drains Man-power KLAMATH PASSES Edward Bagby, 75, for the past 35 years a resident of Klamath county, died here Sat urday morning following a lengthy illness. Mr. Bagby lived in Klamath Falls for a greater portion of that time. He has two brothers and four sisters, one brother, Henry Bagby, living in Bly. The remains are at the Earl Whit lock funeral home. Youth Returned Here for Theft Deputy Sheriff Dale Mattoon went to Grants Pass Monday to bring back a 16-year old boy who stole a light truck here and drove it to the Josephine county seat. The youth is alleged to have obtained keys to a local body works, where he started the truck and drove it out of the county. The case will be handled in juvenile court. Br FRANK I. WELLER WASHINGTON, June S, (The Special News Service) A dras tic and quick method of tying the CCC into the national de fense program is being sought in order that the camps may be re filled before they are entirely deserted. Twenty eastern camps already have been closed for lack of re placement enrol Ices. Re-employment in private enterprise, the war industries and national de fense training, is draining the CCC reservoir of once-idle youth. Congressmen are asking each other, off the record, wheUier to let the corps fade out of the na tional life or take some bold step for permanency. The so-called western bloc senators and rep resentatives from the mountains, plains and prairies are taking the poll under leadership of Rep resentative Robinson, uMJtah.J He says the west will not per mit strangulation of CCC en rollment to continue. Senator Murdock (D-Utah) says he will introduce remedial legislation as soon as sufficient sentiment crys tallizes. Talk currently centers around a proposal to route into the CCC all boys 17 to 18 years old who apply for federal-aid training in national defense jobs. To the easterners, the CCC was important only when it siphoned unemployed youth out of the great cities. Western congress men, however, believe they can command support from the east by pointing Out to their col leagues that their states are pros pering from western support of the national defense program. In return, they ask that the non-industrial west continue to receive the benefits of the last eight years from CCC develop ment and conservation of nat ural resources. This would mean that eastern boys again must come into the corps to staff western camps. Normally they numbered 50,000 year. There are 445 western camps, but only 115 of them are manned by western boys. Offi cials are alarmed at the decline applications for these jobs. Quarterly replacement quotas have been cut from 100,000 to 40,000 and still cannot be filled. If the current proposal flops. other attempts are planned to: 1. Set up 300 CCC camps to tram volunteers for non-com batant military service in radio. heavy equipment operation, met al trades, machine shops, auto motive mechanics and a host of other activities essential to main tenance of a mechanized and mo torized army. 2. Rewrite the selective serv ice act to require that selectees physically unfit for combat train- Flame from a weed burner painfully burned J. G. Houck, Midland farmer, who was re leased Monday from Klamath Valley hospital after treatment. The burner became discon nected at the nozzle and the gas oline caught on fire. Flame squirted over the farmer, set ting his clothes on fire. He man aged to tear the burning clothes off of him, but was seriously burned. His physician said he had third degree bums on both hands and one thigh, and second degree burns on bis face. He will recover. Federal automotive taxes, now being collected at the rate of more than $450,000,000 annual ly, are providing revenue equi valent to 60 per cent of the an nual budget of the federal gov ernment during the years before entrance in the last World war, CURB SERVICE KANSAS CITY, VP) Taxicab Priver Leslie Roberts pulled up fceslde Patrolman Don Defoe and said: 'This passenger is giving me trouble. Seeing a pistol in the man's hand, Defoe drew his own gun and ordered the man to drop his weapon. The officer picked up tne gun, discovered it was toy. The passenger signed a state ment admitting he robbed Rob erts of $1.95. In six days, the United States could eat up all our beef sur plus. Senora Ana Rosa Mar tinas Guerrero, Argentine femin ist leader. MM. m I IfoiiT OXFORD ntn tOOM WITH TM ft IHOWM ...?J... 9 a O o kksons 2'50 Sk 3 l.'mr.MI'JlHI Make Your Stay in Seatth You'll be delighted with the quiet J luxury, excel, lent cuisine, iplendid enter tainment at Seattle's finest hotel , . , Room! from J3.50. Ing go to CCC camps until their health permits induction. The selectee would not be required to serve if he had other accepted claims for deferment, or if med ical officers agreed that the 6-month CCC tour of duty would not restore him to physical con dition. 3. Amend the law to give the CCC enrollee all or a greater part of his pay to offset advan tages offered by the national youth administration and state vocational training schools. 4. Deny, by government regu lation, federal-aid jobs to any boy 17 to 21 years old who has not had previous CCC training. 5. Give CCC an extra $20.- 000,000 to obtain camp instruc- J.E. The resignation of Stonehouse as manager E. the Algonia Lumber company and the appointment of Freeman Schultz, yard foreman, to the post, was announced Monday. Stonehouse, Algoma manager since 1931, is leaving because of continued ill health, he said in a statement to The News-Herald. His future plans are indef inite. The new manager has been with the firm for approximate ly 15 years. W. R. Henry, for mer assistant yard foreman, will succeed Schultz. Young and Old Lead Mouse-like Lives Amid Ruins of Dunkerque Idealism Is never lost except when faith and morals are per mitted to wither and decay. tors and equipment for training j James A. Farley, former Post in national defense industries. master-General. VICHY (Correspondence of the Special News Service) When the Paris municipal coun cil recently "adopted" Dunker que for relief purposes, it took over a city where a deserted rem nant of children and old people lead mouse-like lives in cellars and roofless homes among ruins that still hold the bodies of some of their neighbors. The 12.000 inhabitants left out of 100.000 in tho town and its suburbs, living in the one build ing out of five still standing, ex ist in shattered homes with caved in roofs, doorless doorways and windows without panes, accord ing to a description in the Week ly Candiate. From May 18. 1940. when the trlclty, yet 2000 more came drift ing back. Until February, when the R. A. F. bombings of Dun kerque ceased, they slept in cel lars. Most of them are old peo ple or children, the magazine said, adding: Eighty per cent of the houses In Dunkerque, including all pub lic buildtnits, were destroyed or gulled ut the time of the battle, leaving 26,000 people homeless. Fifty-one streets disappeared as all their buildings were ruled to the ground; 40 others were bad ly ruined. From 1200 to 1500 civilians were killed by the German bom bardments of tho town in May and June, 1940; in the ruins of population was reduced to 10.- one building alone there Is an 000. until mid-August, they went estimated minimum of a nun wlthout city water, gas or elec- dred bodies still unrecovered. Another 191 were killed by R. A. F. bombings since then. The town's supplies come al most exclusively from Lille now, and are becoming Increasingly source despite organized relief ef forts. Easterner Wants Real Ranch Sojourn The chamber of commerce re ceived an unusual request Tues day from a man in the east who wants to learn the nnmn of some rancher here that will accept paying guests. "Not Interested In a dude ranch," said the letter. Anxious to aceoiumndiile, the chamber asked Hint the request be published and that any ranch owner willing to accept paying guests to notify the chumbcr office here. Indiana man sued for divorce because his wife turned the tables on him. Also some chairs and tho garden hose. It will take more than 4000 yards of cement to line the Tule lake sump tunnel, and to con struct the pump house and pipe line, according to 1). .. llnyden, superintendent of the US bureau of reclamation. Workmen are setting up equip ment and getting ready to use the cement which will put the tunnel several steps ahead In the Job of completion. It is hop ed the contractors will be through In mid-September which is fur ahcud of schedule. We both spoke the language of the new Europe. Plcrro La val, French politlrlun, on his interview with Hitler. 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