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PICTURES! Associated Press Telemats, KEA Tele photo and 1 II v locil newsplcturs ind aogravlng atnf f provide The News ind Herald readers with comprehensive photographic service. WEATHER High 81 Low 88 PRECIPITATION 24 hours to 8 . m 00 Staion to data ............18.73 Normal precipitation ..........12.22 Lat year to data . 17.02 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS "WARMER PRICE FIVE! CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941 Number 9368 fo) M '...iiu.) mm n rv n x- .A l (Q r-l II III V II l In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE world waits today on Russia. Especially Japan, which for nearly a week has been quiet ai mouse. Above everything elan, Japan doesn t wont to ro peat MuMollnl'a mlntoko. THE Gcrmuna, having fulled to break the Russian center, aro hammering the wlnga with ter rific force. They aro reported today to be within 13 mllca of Leningrad (report unofficial and uncon firmed.) Marshal Vorlshllov, commanding the Ruaslan right (northern) wing, dramatically calla on Lenlngrad'i Inhabitant! to fight to tho death. "Stand firm to the end," he aayt to them. "Death to the bloody fascist German robbers!" fN the left (southern) wing, Marshal Dudyenny ha hl hands full getting his forces back over the Dnieper. i no air is iuii oi rumort in- eluding one to tho effect that he has blown up the Dnieper river dam, built by American cngln eers at a cost of 100 million dot lnr, up to tho time of Boulder dam the world s largest. Blowing up ths dam Is said to have turned the Dnieper Into rushing torrent, hard to cross. Also to h a v o destroyed the source of power for most of the Ukraine a Industries. More scorched earth if the rumor pans out. THE situation In Odessa Is ob- scure. Whether It Is to be another Dunkerqua or another Tobruk can t be guessed at yet CROM foreign diplomatic r source In Ankara comes this rumor: Advance units of two nazl di visions have arrived In Bulgaria Italian patrols are scouting tho Greek-Turkish border. Italian garrisons on tho Greek Islands near the Dardanelles have been strengthened. This (If true) indicates grow ing German suspicion of Turkey. Also of Bulgaria, which is much mora Slav than German In Its sympathies. TRAN Is stalling on the British Russian demand that she throw out tho Germans. Her ORAL answer (apparently pre ceding the written one) Is said to be unsatisfactory in London. THERE aro growing demands In London (still passed ' by the British censor) for tho open ing up of a new front by the British somewhere on the con tinent while Hitler is busy with Stalin. Norway and Italy are suggested as tho likeliest points. Maybe tho British aro In a position to open up a new front. This writer doubts it. It looks like a tale put out to worry Hitler. A NOTHER specimen from to' day s rumor crop: Vichy says police in German occupied Paris are reported to have arrested 6,000 persons. The arrested persons aro described as Jews. The move, Vichy says, is apparently aimed at dealing with sources of PUBLIC UN REST. Don't think Hitler Isn't wor ried by signs of public unrest In the countries hn has conquered. AND here's one on the lighter slde: THo National Women's Under (Continucd on Page Two) Looking Backward By The Associated Press Aug. 21, 1040 Gibraltar bombed twice by night. Germans use destructive norlnl torpedoes In attacks on Britain. Aug. 21, 1916 French turn back Germans fighting to recap ture Flcury, In Verdun sector. Allies press against Bulgarian line near Salonika. Russians cap ture Fcrcitkul, on Cheremosh river. . F. R. Says Sea Pact TS GAINS MADE IN LEASE President Asserts Prin ciples 'Hard to Op pose' in Talk WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (IP) President Roosevelt, reporting to congress on his epochal meet ing at sea with Prime Minister Churchill, sold today the declar ation of principles agreed upon mere were so clear cut thot they wouia oe aimcuit to oppose without automatically admit ting a willtngnct. to accept com. promise" with nazllsm. These principles, the president added in a brief special mes sage, also would be hard to op pose wunout admitting a will Ingness to "agree to a world pcaco which would give to nazl lsm domination over large num bers of conquered nations." "Gift to Naslism" "Inevitably," Mr. Roosevelt assorted, "such a peace would be a gift to nazllsm to take breath armed breath" for a second war to extend tho con trol over Europa and Asia to the American hemisphere itself." Mr. Roosevelt said it was rjer haps unnecessary to "call atten tion once more to the utter lack oi vauouy ot the spoken or written word of the nazl govern ment.", He added that it also was un necessary to point out that the declaration included of necessity "the world need for freedom of religion and freedom of infor mation." Reports "Clear Gains" "No society of the world or ganized under tho announced principles could survive without (Continued on Page Two) Giant Forest Fire Shrouds Canada Area PRINCE GEORGE. B. C. Aug. 21 A new forest fire , on the Salmon river, 80 miles north of Prince George, today was added to scores of fires that form a 130-mile scml-circlo of flame and smoke burning through tho north central Inter ior of British Columbia. Forestry officials said no ef fort Is being mado to control the new blaze as all available men are battling other fires and even If they were there it would be almost Impossible to transport them through the wild bush country. Tractors and bulldozers are being rushed from Burns Lake, B. C, 130 miles west of here on the Canadian National Railways line, to Great Beaver lake where firefighters are concentrating on a fire burning over a 100-square mile area. Civilian Radio REPOR PROGRAM Defense Maneuvers in Northwest By BTUART WELCH WITH THE ARMY IN SOUTH WEST WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (P) Tho army is trying for the first time, apparently with suc cess, the voluntary mobilization ot amateur radio operators for defensive aid in tho current west coast war maneuvers of 100,000 men. Two hundred operators are cooperating in a secret radio espionage network by which the defending forces learn of troop, mechanized and motorized move ments long before they could be ascertained by normal channels. The radio plan was doveloped by MoJ. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce, commander of the 9th corps army, and has proved particu A trench which won't be used the 8600,000 Klamath municipal as a drainage system for new Turk Aggression Eyed As Italians Scout Border Regions ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 20 (Delayed) (IP) Foreign diplo matic sources reported today that advance units of two Ger man army divisions had arrived in Bulgaria and that Italian pa trols have been scouting the Greek-Turkish border. At the tamo time fresh groups of German aviators were report ed to hRve arrived in the Bul garian capital of Sofia during the post few days. The portent of these reported developments opposite tho Turkish frontier was uncertain, but ono com petent source said theyi could have only two purposes: 1 To take over from the Bul garians certain policing duties in occupied areas in southeastern Europe. 2 To undertake aggressive action against Turkey with the object of opening the Dardan- (Continucd on Page Two) Operators Help larly valuablo In the wild Olym pic peninsula forest area. Message Effective Under the rules of warfare, the civilian operators would be subject to execution as spies. They included farmers, forest rangers, state patrolmen, water patrolmen, fishermen, coast guardsmen and others. One message camo through to army headquarters at midnight: "Five Jeeps painted yellow passed south on road here few minutes ago." In tho current maneuvers, with the lack of mechanized equipment, five yellow jeeps represent 20 medium tanks In the umpires' calculations of fir ing power. They were headed r Trench for Defense for shelter but nevertheless Is airport prelect. Pipes at left will be laid in the furrow to serve runways currently betnf constructed. " Passenger Car Reduction Set For Autumn 'X WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 VP) The office of production man agement announced today that passenger car production will be curtailed 26 per cent during September and October and No vember. The curtailment will be pro gressively greater in subsequent months, officials said, with the expectancy of a 50 per cent cur tailment for the model year end ing July 31, 1942. The production quotas were formulated by the OPM and the office of price administration and civilian supply. A substantial increase must be made in motor truck produc tion, officials said, in order to meet vital transportation and military needs. . , , OCCUPATION COST CUT BERLIN, Aug. 21 (P) Ger many has granted France a re duction on her occupation costs from 400,000,000 francs a day to 300,000,000, it was announced to night. 4 The commentary Dienst Aus Deutschland observed that the step would "noticeably ease France's financial burden." (The franc currently is worth about two cents.) . . for the 9th corps command post. By the time they were a mile from the post, every conceivable anti-tank weapon had been as sembled in the road. The "tank" forces retired in confusion. A young amateur was report ing troop movements in his area when he suddenly broke in on the conversation with the ex clamation: 1 "Oh-Ohl Here come three reds (the invading army is red-hatted) across the yard." He has not been heard on the air since. . By ARTHUR E. BURGESS WITH THE ARMY IN SOUTH WEST WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (IP) More than 03,000 soldiers : (Continued on Page Two) . . Clear 4rfX. a part of dsftnie Is this one at . LEAVES FOR NORTH The 19th engineers of the U. S. Army's 7th division trucked in Klamath Falls at precisely 2:45 Wednesday afternoon, on the dot to a minute, to complete the second day of their mechan ized march from Fort Ord, Calif., to southern Washington man uevers. The regiment comprised the last of four serials, counting some 5000 men, to bivouac over . (Continued on Page Two) Klamath Vm 44""' "ft '''"'V N fe -J) O " v 'til. - ' tsi A quartet of pretty young Klamath misses helped entertain members of the 7th division's 19th engineers last night in the fourth regular itrtet entertainment for visiting army men. - SHIPBUILDING IE SET F. R. Talks With Firm Leader in Effort To End Strike BULLETIN By The Associated Press A union representative said after a White House confer ence lata today that President Roosevelt had requested the CIO union to conduct further negotiations with the manage ment to bring an end to the protracted shipbuilding strike at Kearny, N. J. . By The Associated Press A second conference with Fed eral Shipbuilding and Drydock company officials was scheduled by President Roosevelt for 4 p. m. (EST) today in an effort to end the two-weeks old strike at the company's Kearny, N. J., plant. The chief executive conferred this morning with L..H. Korn dorff, president of the company, and Myron C. Taylor, former board chairman of the US Steel corporation, parent firm, and these two later went to the navy department to meet Navy Secre tary Knox, Sidney Hillman, OPM associate director, and Wil liam H: Davis, chairman-of" the defense mediation board.--. ' ' Knox, HiUmaa and -Davis were to go to the White House with Korndorff and Taylor for the 4 p. m. conference. -- - . . Detroit Tieup On '. " There were indications, mean while, that a development might be expected soon in the city-wide transportation strike tie-up in De troit. Shortly before resumption of conferences aimed at settle ment of the union jurisdictional dispute there, Thomas J. Dona hue, Michigan labor mediation board chairman, declared: "There are signs of a break." Mayor Edward J. Jeffries of Detroit called for further confer ences today with leaders of the two transit unions in an effort to restore service on municipally operated street car and bus lines used by hundreds of thousands of defense workers and office em ployes. Negotiations which ended shortly after midnight apparent ly were unproductive and the situation seemed deadlocked then. Spokesmen' for the Amalga mated Association of Street Rail way and Motor Coach Operators (AFL) which called the strike (Continued on Page Two) Mademoiselles Sing to GDNCLA BY PRESIDENT Fir Ceiling May Be Under Present Level PORTLAND, Aug. 21 VP) Oregon and Washington lumber men were told here yesterday that the tentative ceiling price for Douglas fir lumber was un der the prevailing retail level. . A number of speaker pro tested to Peter A. Stone, repre senting Leon Henderson, chief of the federal office of produc tion and civilian supply, that production costs were too high to permit the reduction.. One speaker said many mills would face bankruptcy under the proposed prices. Henderson asserted that a ceil ing was needed to prevent in flation and that f price ad ministrator was seeking to de termine the proper level. - These prices were listed ten tatively: Boards and sheeting, 1x6 and (Continued on Page Two) Arrests Made in Single Drive; German Op-. position Seen VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 21 UP) French and Ger man police arrested 6000 jews in Paris yesterday in a roundup of persons juspected of opposing Girmaa lioops, it . was .disclosed today. - :- , The arrests were made in a single arrondisement of Paris, but- the : movement started ; to spread, to" other sections of the city. : Even In unoccupied: France police were stopping travelers on roads and examin ing their papers but there were no arrests. The arrests yesterday were made in the 11th arrondise ment. Arrests were being made in the 20th- arrondisement to day, reports from Paris said, but there were no details on the number of persons rounded up. The new operations were tne first mass arrests since May 15, when 5000 jews were rounded up and sent to labor camps. Jan Barthelot, secretary for communications, tonight warn ed against sabotage of German freight trains in the occupied zone and told railway workers: I resolve, whatever it costs me, to strike at certain ones among you." He pointed - out that under the armistice terms the right of way in the occupied zone is granted to German trains. Soldiers SEVEN MILLION CLAIMED TOTAL1 Soviet Admits Danger To Key City, Asserts ; No Red Pessimism By The Associated Press Combined German and Rus sian claims late today listed & staggering total of 7,000,000 men killed, wounded or captured in the two-months-old conflict on the eastern front, while afield, nazi troops driving from the souths were reported within 13 miles of Leningrad, the old czar ist capital. The Russians declared official ly that German losses approxi mated 2,000,000 killed and wounded: the Germans said 5,- 000,000 red army troops had been killed, wounded or cap tured. . , "Dread Danger". : - A soviet spokesman said more than half of the German loose were slain. The Russians acknowledged that Leningrad was in "dread danger" under a three-headed onslaught by nazi and allied Fin nish forces. A Swedish broadcast quoting the. Berlin correspondent of a Stockholm newspaper, said the nazis were advancing via Gats china, about 22 miles south of Leningrad. v.. ',,.. Adolf 'Hitler's "high-command reported that German columns had smashed three main bul warks of Leningrad's outer de fense system. ; No Red Alarm Despite severe reverses at both ends of the 1500-mile battlefront from Karelia to the Black sea, Soviet Official Spokesman S. S. Lozovsky declared in Moscow: - "There is no alarm or pessi mism in our ranks. Even Hitler and his advisers understand that the war in the east has only be gun." . . Lozovsky conceded that the Germans had won considerable success, but he said, on the basi of Russia's vastness only a com paratively small area has been,' taken and that has been left "without provisions, containing: (Continued on Page Two) , BASEBALL ; NATIONAL LEAGUE ' -BROOKLYN, Aug. 21 (JP) ' The Chicago Cubs snapped the Dodgers winning streak at six straight today by whipping the Brooklyns 6 to 2 behind the seven-hit pitching of Jake Mootyj Stan Hack hit a homer for the Cubs. ... R. H.. E; Chicago .. 6 13 0 Brooklyn 2 7 1 Mooty and McCullough; Ham lin, Brown (2), Wyatt (3), Casey (8) and Owen, Franks (5). R. H. E, Philadelphia 3 . 8 2 St. Louis 11 12 1 Knott, Tobin (8) and Hayes, Wagner (8); R. Harris and Swift. R. H. E. Cincinnati 8 11 ' t Boston 8 10 2 Walters and Lombardl: Pose- del, Hutchings (2), Javery (3)." Salvo (7) and Berres, Montgonv.. ery (4). V AMERICAN LEAGUE. R. H. E. 1 1 Washington . ; 8 16 Detroit 3 6 Leonard and Early; Newsom, Thomas (6) and Sullivan. R. H. E. New York ., .. 0 7 5 Cleveland 2 8 1 Donald and Dickey; Feller and Desautels. R. H. E. Boston . 8 10 Chicago 8 14 2 H. Newsome, Ryba (9), and Pytlak; Smith, Dietrich (3), and Tresh. ,' ' News Index City Briefs Page B Comics and Story ...Page 8 Courthouse Record ....Page 4 Editorials Page 4 Information Page 5 Market, Financial .... Page 12 Midland Empire News, Page 7 Pattern Page 6 Sports . ............Page 10 11 11 MS T
