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VI.4MATU puio OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1941
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In The
Day's
News
By FRANK JENKINS
CRANCE linen tip definitely
with Germany.
Russia's surprisingly solid de
fense line npprara to bo cracking
In tho south.
Today's (Wednesday's) nvwa
-4Mit no good.
J . .
THE other aldo of tho dory:
Only wiahful thlnkcra have
expected Franco to do other than
alio hna demo.
Tho (mill Hum lu has put up
haa been better than ANVHODY
expected, and tho toll exacted
from Ciermany line been heavy
A THOUGHT in to France:
She wasn't much help to
Britain. She won't bo much help
to Germany.
'TODAY'S dispatcher Indicate
- that Odeiia, on the Black
Sea, Nikolaev, a few miles up
the I3u river from the IMock
Sea, are likely to fall noon to tho
Germana. 1'hero are reporta that
liuaalan forces arc bi-lug evocu
ated by sen from these porta,
Indlcntlnit that they have been
practically iiirroundcd by the
Germana.
Soviet qunrlera In London
a;
ay: "If tho Germana enter the
Hack aca porta of Odcaaa and
Nikolaev. they, .will Jwd jmok
Inu' ruins of demolished fnctorlca
and empty atreeta."
The "acorched corth" policy
again.
nEMEMBER, this Ruuion flght-
ins ' war of annihilation
rather than a war for territory
If tha bulk of the Russian
armlea escape, annihilation and
retain their atrlklng power, Hit
ler'a Russian campaign will
bring him more liabilities than
assets.
TODAY'S (Wednosdoy's) dli
patches inform us that tho
British radio will mnko an Im
portant announcement" tomor
row. Sharp news men promptly re-
foll that for several (lays the
ioV hereabouts of Roosevelt,
Churchill and Hopkins have
been unknown.
It's a fair gucsa they haven't
been killing tlmo fishing, eating
and sleeping.
"N the homo front, the 18
months extension of military
service bill passes the house of
representatives by the narrow
margin of ONE vote.
It la woter under the bridge,
of course, and water under the
bridge can't be called back, but
It la fairly clear now that it
would havo been better to meet
this whole Issue frankly and
courageously when It came up
a year ago, .
CI
HOSE who hnvo been happily
certain that Russia's unex
pectedly spirited and effectivo
resistance would bo tho cigarette
coal that would pop Hitler's toy
balloon will now bo tho worst
scared as the nows begins to
turn the other woy.
As a builder of morulo, wish
ful thinking is n washout.
A sound recipe for successful
resistance is to expect the worst
and prepare to meet it.
THIS writer (possessing no in
sldo Information and merely
GUESSING from what has hap
pened so far) has n notion that
Russia Isn't licked yet. History
tolls us tho Russians havo been
pretty tough lot In the past,
and thcro arc Indications that
they haven't changed much.
ANOTHER thought about tho
Russians:
Bad as their government has
Qeon from OUR STANDPOINT,
ley appear to bo willing to die
for it.
You nover can tell about people.
PORTLAND, Aug. 13 (IP)
The Portland school board an
nounced today it would refuse
leaves of nbsrnco to molo teach
ers who want higher-pay Jobs In
industry.
How NOT to Climb a Guy Wire
Hurtling through the air.
logger, racea toward what mmi cartaln death. After a fall of 60
fact he landad on hla head atop an automobile. mtr.r-,,ln.l
escaped Injury. It happanad at Saaalda, Ore., during a loggar'a
carnival while Nixon was demonstrating how to climb a guy wire.
Mythical Enemy Destroys
Fort in Attack on. Coast
FORT LEWIS. Aug. 13 (Pi-
Mythical enemy forcea, landed
from a naval fleet at dawn to
day, invaded Oregon and Wash
ington, theoretically , captured
10 towns and were advunclnu
on all fronts by 1 n. m.. nn
army communique announced.
FORT LEWIS. Aiib 13 ijii
A nugo mythical enemy fleet
theoretically invaded the coast
Of Woshlniftntl At Hnwn tnrlni. of
ficially starting the biggest war
maneuvers in west coast history
rlrsl eneinV trnnni thnnrntlf-nl
ly landed bv narnchntn 'mm
transport planes at Aberdeen and
nuymona, wasn., in tho Grays
Harbor urea. Transports pulled
into the harbor and prepared to
unload under cover of thn 0im
of mythical warships standing off
snore.
Pnrarhtltft trnnn mn tnnrlnri
nt norm Head and Camp Clot
sop.
Fort Daitrovad
Ford Worden. one of the main
1'tiget bound defense outposts,
was destroyed after only 18 min
utes of bottlo with the make-believe
enemy fleet.
The new S12.000.000 MrChnrrt
Field air base, near Tacoma, was
bombed, half Its planes destroyed
before thuv enulri oM intn th
air and its runways blasted to
bits.
Abuse of Depot
Mail Box Hit
By Postoffice
Patrons of the United States
malls, who have been in the habit
of using the Southern Pacific
depot mail box, are advised that
a complaint has been filed by the
railway, moll service with the
Klamath Falls postoffice stating
the privilege is being abused and
if this continues the box will be
removod entirely.
In tho post several hundred
letters have been posted at the
box by firms and hotels in the
city, each of these letters to bo
cancelled by hand on the mall
train. The local postoffice has
had to remove contents of tho
box, return them to the postof
fice for cancellation and then
return them to tho depot for
transportation.
Postmaster Burt E. Hawkins
pointed out that patrons pass
tho postoffice en route to the
depot when they could deposit
the mall up to 8:30 p. m. for
north bound departure. This Is
the hour when the mall is closed,
Hawkins stated. The cancelling
machine can handle some 430
letters per minute whereas it
takes a clerk on the train much
longer, tho hand cancelling cap
able of 60 letters per minute.
tha bodv of Dan Nlnn. -,.....
All this was part of the paper
maneuvers of the war games
which will involve about 100,000
troops. Tho 50,000 men and offi
cers of the fort were expected to
go Into action any moment to re
pel tho mythical attack.
The actual theoretical aljack
followed two doys of a "war of
nerves," which kept officers on
the alert day and night awaiting
developments as army umpires
made them up.
Even the highest army officers
did not know when the mythical
enemy would strike; only the
umpires held the secrets. All
this was planned in order to hold
the war games under close to
actual war conditions.
For the past two days, there
had been reports from up and
down tho west coast of mythical
feints by the make-believe at
tacker. This kept officers in a
state of harassment and uncer
tainty. Only yesterday the enemy
fleet was reported to have bomb
ed points in the Los Angeles
area and retired into a dense fog
off the coast. Officers said this
feint was made by only a few
ships of the mythical fleet in
order to throw the concentration
of soldiers at Fort Lewis off
guard.
Tho fleet hod been reported
heading south, but instead the
main body of ships had been
steaming north in the fog to
moke the attack this morning.
First word of the make-believe
attack camo at 2:45 a. m., when
a coast guard station at Port An
geles, Wash., on the north tin
of the Olympic Peninsula at the
gateway to Puget Sound sighted
naval vessels and transports.
About an hour later the guns
or rori warden opened lire" on
the fleet.
Dive bombers took off from
enemy aircraft carriers and head
ed eastward.
In 16 minutes Fort Worden
was destroyed.
About dawn the McChord base
underwent a mythical terrific
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BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
(First gome) ' R. H. E.
Washington 5 13 2
New York 3 10 0
Hudson and Early; Bonham,
Branch and Dickey. (11 innings).
(Second Game) R. H. E.
Woshington 1 8 ' 1
Now York 8 7 2
Chase, Masterson (8), Ander
son (8) and Early; Breuer and
Rosar.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
(First game) R. H. E.
Now York 7 7 1
Boston 6 12 1
Lohrman, Brown (7) and Dan-
nlng; Javory, Salvo (3), Poscdel
(8), Erlckson (0) and Mast.
U. S.
HULL SILENT
ON PLANS OF
GOVERNMENT
Dorian Regime Seen
As Menacing to
Americas
By LLOYD LEHRBA8
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (P)
The United States and France
traditional friends since the Am
erican revolution reached a
critical pass in their relations to
day, as fears were freely ex-
pressed in official quarters that
Vichy's new program of collab
oration with Germany held
threats to American interests and
territories.
Secretary of State Hull still
withheld formal comment on the
new policy set forth by Marshal
Petain, chief of the French state,
in a radio address yesterday
pledging adherence to the nazi
new order.
The secretary Intimated, how
ever, that grave concern was in
spired here by the elevation of
Admiral Darlan, pro-axis vice
premier, to supreme command of
No Secret '
Hull has never made any se
cret of his opinion of Darlan.
Long ago he accused him of be
ing partner' to- -collaboration
"aeheme" ; whose "object was to
"deliver France' politically, eco
nomically, socially and militar
ily to Hitler" and make France
a co-belligerent in "Hitler's des
perate effort to conquer Great
Britain and secure control of the
high seas."
While state department offi
cials sought to appraise the full
implications of a closer Franco-
German working arrangement.
it was generally believed that
United States policy would be
guided by the way the new col
laboration manifested itself.
French Fleet
Vital questions of the moment
were whether the French fleet
would cooperate with German
alms, whether French help
would be sought against Britain,
and whether nazi penetration of
(Continued on Page Two)
Fourth Day Passes
Without Word From
President's Yacht
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 OP)
The capita! remained without
word of President Roosevelt to
day, the fourth day since the
last dispatch was received from
the chief executive's yacht Po
tomac.
The navy department, through
which communications from the
vacationing presidential yacht
have been made public, had no
comment on the Potomac's si
lence, unbroken since a dispatch
was received last Saturdoy
morning.
Mr. Roosevelt left on the
cruise off New England on Au
gust 3 and expected to be gone
a week or 10 days. Arrange
ments were made for the Po
tomac to send radio dispatches
to the navy department here
for release, but officials said at
the time there was no promise
on the part of the president or
his companions that dispatches
would be sent with any regu
larity. Looking Backward
By The Associated Press
Aug. 13, 1840 Germans, in
third day of unremitting air as
saults, send 800 planes to smash
at Britain; British claim 89 shot
down. Light German warships,
submarines clash with British
motor torpedo boats.
Aug. 13, 1916 British ad
vance 300 yards on front of
nearly a mile northwest of
Potieres. Russians capture Mar-
lamed, in Galicla, and Podgacy
along upper Sereth river.
- Vichy Relations Critical
Germans Declare
U. S. Planning
To Take Indies
BERLIN, Aug. 13 (IP) Au
thorized German sources charged
today that certain American
groups which "for a long time
have cast covetous eyes on Mar
tinique," may seize upon French
Chief of State Petain's speech as
an excuse to "satisfy their lust"
for that West Indian Island.
Marshal Petain's speech is con
sidered important by the Ger
man foreign office, it was said,
mainly for two reasons:
1. Because powers outside the
continent "which desire to es
tablish guardianships over
France were rebuffed."
2. Because Petain solidly al
(Continued on Page Two)
(I. S. SEEKS BASE
Possible Nazi Moves
At' Dakar Speed
Defense Plan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 VP)
Pursuing 'sy broad strategy, de
signed to safeguard the hemis
phere, the United States today
was reported negotiating for air
base rights in Brazil to offset any
German threat to Dakar, French
West Africa. "- -" - "
Informed congressional sourc
es declared the state department
has initiated discussions with
Brazil, urging her to resume con
trol of an Italian-operated air
port on an island off Natal, sea
port on the hump of the South
American continent.
From Natal, it is only 1,620
miles northeast across the nar
rowest part of the South Atlan
tic to Dakar, referred to fre
quently as a potential jump-off
point for operations against the
western hemisphere.
New French Stand
Members of congress concern
ed with military legislation ex
pressed misgivings over the an
nouncement from Vichy that Ad
miral Jean Darlan would be
given supreme control of French
military matters. This newest
evidence of Franco-German col
laboration, they declared, prob
ably meant that Hitler would be
accorded the right to use Dakar.
These legislators saw little
likelihood that the United States
would make any direct move to
block nazi occupation of the Af
rican base, but they foresaw
swift moves by this nation in the
western hemisphere to offset
such a threat, should it mater
ialize. They said the most prac
tical safeguard would be assured
American access to previously
prepared bases in Brazil.
8-Hour Day Rule
Suspended on All
Military Projects
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (IP)
President Roosevelt has suspend
ed the 8-hour day law as ap
plied to mechanics and laborers
employed by the war depart
ment on public works necessary
to national defense in the United
States.
The action, by means of an
executive order announced to
day, was said at the White House
to have been taken because of
the necessity of completing all
military projects at the earliest
practical date.
The suspension applies to
workers on air fields, troop hous
ing units, fortifications and other
works necessary to the military
establishment.
A war department official said
the executive order would affect
only mechanics and laborers di
rectly employed by the war de
partment. It will not cover the
vastly larger number of work
men employed by private con
tractors on army cantonment
construction, fortifications and
air fields.
OF
or
Bill Passes House by
One-Vote Margin,
Goes to Senate
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (JP)
Seeking to hurry army service
extension legislation to Presi
dent Roosevelt, Democratic
Leader Barkley said today he
hoped the senate would accept
tomorrow the house-approved
version of the measure, which
was passed last night by the
hair-line margin of a single
vote.
Barkley said he was canvass
ing the senate in an effort to
have a majority present tomor
row for action on the legisla
tion, which would provide an
additional 18 months of service
for selectees, national guards
men, reservists and enlisted
men.
Wheeler Speeks
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) de
scribed the close house- vote on
the draft exteision bill as a
clear indication that "the peo
ple will not tolerate the carry
ing on of an undeclared war.
"Despite all the pressure on
the congress from the presi
dent, the army general staff, a
last-minute appeal by the secre
tary of state, and all the British
propagandists," he said in a
statement, "the house . has
passed the bill by only one vote.
. "Some of the members of
congress were absent and not
voting. Some failed to record
(Continued on Page Two)
All Klamath
Schools Start
September 8
Klamath county parents, in
the habit of getting Susie and
Sammy ready for school the
first Tuesday after Labor day,
have another week to go after
the holiday, according to a check
with city and county school
heads.
Present plans call for the
opening of school on Monday,
September 8. This includes
Klamath Union high school, all
county and the ' seven city
schools.
Labor day, as a rule, falls late
in the first week of the Sep
tember calendar, but this year
September 1 falls on Monday.
A number of county parents
hoped to have the date set back
one week due to the heavy work
on farms and ranches.
Klamath Union high school's
superintendent, Arnold Gralapp,
stated Wednesday the opening of
high school would take place
Monday, September 8, with a
faculty session called for the
morning, meeting of the student
body at 1 p. m. The immediate
schedule will be discussed and
assignments made with classes
under way Tuesday morning. '
Dude Cowboys Get
Legal Come-Down
In New Mexico
SANTA FE, N. M.. Aug. 1,3
(IP) New Mexico's dude cow
waddies got an awful come
down today.
The attorney general's office
held they weren't ranch hands
at all, but something on the or
der of hotel chambermaids or
busboys.
State labor statutes exempt
farm and ranch hands from
most of .their provisions,
prompting State Labor Commis
sioner Vincent' Jaeger to seek
a definition of dude wranglers.
Assistant Attorney General
George Hunker Jr., held that a
dude ranch "beds, boards and
entertains tourists," and its cow
boys were "not generally en
gaged In stock raising."
EXTENSION
DRAFT RUSHED
CONGRESS
RAF Heavily
Bombs Berlin
In Wide Foray
LONDON, Aug. 13 (JP) Brit
ish fliers in a wide foray which
ranged all the way from Norway
to France attacked Berlin heav
ily last night and unloaded ex
plosive and incendiary bombs on
a dozen other German cities.
In the German capital, an air
ministry communique stated,
"large fires which were started
were increasing their hold when
our aircraft left."
The British bombers had as
their main targets in addition to
Berlin the industrial cities of
Magedeburg, Hannover and Es
sen, the Krupp armaments works
at the last city being the main
(Continued on Page Two)
E
County Court Decides
To Spend $6000
On Project
. Klamath county court on Wed
nesday . formally . assured U. S.
army engineers and the city of
Klamath Falls that it will have
an alternate road constructed as
soon as it Is necessary to close
a portion of the Spring Lake
road to make way for airport
development.
The action was taken at a con
ference of county court members,
city airport commissioners and
chamber of commerce airport
committeemen. Closure of a
short section of the Spring Lake
road is a part of a program
whereby the civil aeronautics au
thority will spend another $278,
000 on a third and final runway
for the Klamath airport.
Cost $6000
The section of new road will
parallel the Southern Pacific
tracks on Joe Wright lane, to the
present Spring Lake road. The
cost to the county will be about
$6000, according to an estimate
handed the court by County En
gineer Frank Z. Howard.
Court members stated it will
be necessary to transfer money
from the emergency fund and to
squeeze other sources for the
remainder, inasmuch as the air
port road problem developed
after the 1941 budget was adopt
ed.
In the course of the discus
(Continued on Page Two)
Manila Observes
Anniversary With
War Expected
MANILA, Aug. 13 (IP) A
Manila nearly as tense with war
worry as on that Aug. 13, 1898,
when 8,500 American soldiers
captured the city after an all
day battle against the Spaniards,
today quietly observed the 43rd
anniversary of its occupation by
the United States forces.
There was no public cere
mony, but many reunions were
held by oldtimers who served
as officers and soldiers of occu
pation. The 31st United States in
fantry regiment. "Manila s own,
simultaneously observed the 25th
anniversary of its founding here.
A greatly augmented Asiatic
fleet is now at anchor where 43
years ago Admiral Dewey's vic
torious squadron awaited the
outcome of the fighting ashore,
and talk of war is heard on all
sides.
United States warplanes roar
over Manila, while army trucks
rumble through the streets, as
Uncle Sam prepares to meet any
eventuality arising from the
taut situation in the Far East.
Heretofore the public had
asked "will we have war?" Now
the question is "when will the
fighting start?"
All are convinced war is com
ing. Civilian defense forcea are
preparing for another test
blackout, and have perfected
plans for evacuation of Manilans
to the provinces if necessary, j
SEEN
N DANGER
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Germans -Say Russian
Troops Trapped ;
In River Area
fly The Associated Preal
Russia's red armies appeared
to have all but lost their grasp
on the western half of the Uk
raine below the Dnieper river
today as German troops smashed
from three directions at the
great port of Odessa and suicide
rearguards fought bitterly to
cover the soviet retreat to tht
Black sea.
A British war office spoke
man acknowledged that the Rus
sian position in the Ukraine had
deteriorated rapidly, and the
soviet high command was omin
ously silent on the climactic
struggle.
Russian quarters in London,
however, declared that if the
Germans entered Odessa and
Nikolaev, 65 miles, east, they
would finer 5nly "the smoking
ruins of demolished factories
and empty streets" ghost cities
left in ruins under Premier
Joseph Stalin's order for a so
called scorched earth campaign.
Thousands of Russian tanks,
great masses of infantry and
tens of thousands of hard-riding
cossack horsemen, soviet sources)
also said, were hurling more
counter-attacks against Field
Marshal General Von Rundstedf s
advancing Germans.
While the situation was un
doubtedly grave for the Rus
sians, qualified observers said
that the loss of the lower Uk
raine, even the capture of Odes
sa and Nikolaev, would not ba
a decisive blow to the soviet.
It was pointed out that the rich
est prizes still lie beyond the
Dnieper river, to the east, where
the big industrial centers are
Ukraine, now being overrun by
the nazi invasion armies, in an
agriculture-producing country,
while the treasure vaults of
iron, manganese and other war
materials are in the east.
Nazi military dispatches as
serted that the port of Odessa,'
main base of the Russian Black
sea fleet, was caught in a gi
gantic "squeeze," with German
columns storming toward the
city from three sides.
German reports said a con
siderable red army force was
trapped along the Black sea
coast between Odessa and Ocha
kov, 40 miles east, cut off from
retreat by German and Ruman
ian troops knifing down the Bug
river valley to the sea.
The soviet high command,
silent for the first time on key
sectors in the 53-day old strug
gle, reported t n a t Russian
troops had routed a German
elite division of 15,000 men and
smashed another division, kill
ing and wounding 7500 men, in
an unspecified sector of tho
1200-mile front.
Two Big Projects.
Slated to Start
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (IP)
The economic defense board call
ed today for reports from sev
eral government agencies pre
paratory to initiating two Inter
national projects, the nature of
which Vice President Wallace,
board chairman, declined to dis
close. News Index
City Briefs Pages S ;5
Comics and Story Page G
Courthouse Records .....Page 4
Editorials ..Page 4
Tnfnrmntfnn Paffa 10
Market, Financial Page 10
Midland Empire Mews, Page 7
Pattern - Page 3
Sports Pages 8, 9
City Briefs Pages 3, a
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