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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON July 0. 1042 mXK JVNKIN8 MALCOLM LFLEV Jl taraporary com bint (Ion ol tha Krcmlng Bersld ud tha Klamath Na. PubUahad atary afternoon averpt Bundaj at Eplanada and Plna itrU, Klamath Falla, Orrfoo. by tha Herald PuMiihlrtf Co. and tha Klamath Newa ruMUhlnc Company. Xnurad u aaoond dui mattar at tha poitoftiea of Klamath FaJla, Or., oa Auguii to, lorn undtr act of eongrtia, March ft, lS?ft. Mamber ol The AaaocUtad Praia Tha Aaaociatod ?rai In aiclu lively entitled to tha Qaa ol repaMloattoa ot all nawa dUpalchea credited to It or not orhenrtM credited la thti paper, and alio tha local ttrva publUbf thereto. All right? of republication of apeclal dlipatchea ara alio waanrad. MSMKER AUDIT BUIiEAC OF CIkCDLaIIuh Bctiraarnted Nationally by WMl Holllday Co., lot. Fan FraneUeo, New York, Detroit, 8?Hltl, Chlrajo, Portland, lot Anel, St. loula, Vanonuvar, B. 0. Coplei of Tha Barald and Newi, together with complpta Information fcbout tha Klamath Palla market, mar b obtained for the asking at any ot Uteaa olflcta. Delivered by Carrier In City One' Month I M Three Montba , , , i ts Ona Tear 1JA BAH RATES F.lYAM.E IN AUVAKCB Br Mall 1b Klamath, Laka, Modoe and StaUyoa OounUea Yhrae MonUta , Kit Month! One Tear Labor From WRA Project CURRENT efforts to solve the farm labor shortage Droblem in the Klamath basin logically embrace an attempt to develop a plan from the war relocation project at Tuleiake. bucti an ei fort is included in the programs of both the Tuleiake Growers and the Klamath county farm labor committee. For crops to go unharvested in this basin in this war year, while thousands of men are residing at tne wka project within the basm, would be an absurdity of the first magnitude. It can only happen through inefficiency, ineffective planning, short-sighted community attitudes or plain darn foolishness. We do not believe it possible that this can occur. AH of us should be well aware that the WRA has a delicate problem on its hands, but certainly there is nothing in this situation that is an insurmountable obstacle to providing harvest help from the project. The govern ment authorities logically must be certain that no un pleasant incident can occur in connection with outside use of labor from the project It is noteworthy, in this connection, that from the time the project was located in the basin, general public attitude toward it has been cooperative and sympathetic. Klamath fanners, who undertake now an orderly ap proach to the matter of assuring this help from the pro ject, are not acting prematurely. When an emergency in the farm labor situation develops, as it well may here thia-year, quick action is needed. Technical delays could bring tremendous losses. Technical delays are highly pos sible' in this situation; they should be eliminated before hand, and the whole machinery should be set up so that it may be brought quickly into action if needed. Now is the time to do it It is to be hoped the WRA and the army give the Klamath basin farmers the cooperation they deserve in this matter. A Good Parade lLAMATH'S Fourth of July "victory" celebration may lx be marked down as generally successful, but the really outstanding feature of the entire event was Saturday's parade. This parade-hardened town has not had so worth while a parade nVat least 11 servance of dozens of public streets here. Parades require painstaking preparation if they are to be successful. They must not only be run off in pre- I i i xi Li j j i . i i . , , ciaiun, inn. uiey must, nave enines mat are coionui, vanea nd inspiring. Saturday's parade had all of these at tributes. Commendation should go to the organizations, com munities, and business houses which offered floats espe cially designed for this occasion. A good word is in order, too, for the various marching organizations which ap- . pearea m tne procession and the horsemen and women who participated. Sunday's rodeo crowd, In response to an inquiry from the announcer as to whether it favored an amateur or professional show, gave what appeared to us to be a clear edge to the amateur affair. At any rate, Sunday's ama teur show displayed definite improvement over that of Saturday, and experience with this type of rodeo should provide an even smoother performance if it is attempted again in another year. The attendance at Sunday night's Modoc field service was disappointing. We have come to the conclusion that Klamath people do not turn out in large numbers to events that are strictly of an inspirational nature. 'S By The Associated Press Violent death took its lowest holiday toll In years over the two-day Fourth of July week end, with only 337 live reoorted lost as against a 628 total for the three-day celebration of the Fourth last year. Gasoline rationing on the pop ulous eastern seaboard, war plants operating everywhere over the holiday and fireworks restrictions combined to lessen accidental deaths. Of the total deaths reported in a nation-wide Associated Press survey, 189 resulted from traffic accidents, 93 from drownlne and 78 from miscellaneous causes. wot a single fireworks casualty was reported. The toll by states Included: California 31, Idaho 3, Oregon 6, Washington 21. Six violent deaths marred Oregon's fourth of July week end celebration. Four persons paid by drowning and two in a traffic collision. The traffic victims were Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Robertson, Eugene, whose automobile col lided with a train near Eu gene Saturday night. Robert HoIIlngsworth, 29, Rosehnrtf. drowned In the south Umpqua river Saturday after stepping into a deep hole while wading. Mrs. Viola V. Hayes, 28, Bandon, attempting to step from one boat to another, fell Into Floras "Jake near Bandon, Mulling Editor sa 6.00 for using, if necessary, labor years, the span of our ob processions on the business Sunday. The body was not re covered. Ernest Richmond, over 30, Grants Pass oil station oper ator, and his son Bobby, 7, drowned Sunday in Bolan lake in southwest Josephine county. Radio Day by Day (Pacific War Time) NEW YORK, July 6 CWlde World) Even if on foreign soil, Uncle Sam's fighting men are to get a chance at details of the baseball game at Cleveland Tues day night between the big league -All Star champions and a team of stars now in the armed forces. This will come through a two day schedule of short wave re lays. Simultaneously with the MBS transmission, WGEA and WGEO of Schenectady will di rect the story of balls and strikes to South America, Africa and southern Europe. Then on Wed nesday, from recordings, there will be a repeat for Australia and other parts of the world both by WEGO and WJQ, New York. Broadcast by MBS today of the annual all-star game be tween National and American league teams at New York, to which the Tuesday game is a sequel, is not planned for the short waves. Billing Grade Fields, English commedienne, Baritone Paul Robeson and Comedian "waiter O'Keefe as the high spots, a spe cial half-hour of variety on be half of China relief has been placed on the BLU schedule for 7 p. m. (PWT) Tuesday. Read Th Classified Page YJASHINGTON, July S He- ivic uuieuse 01 oevastopoi against hopeless odds. Is the best current example of why the United Nations are going to win the war. The Russians held Sevastopol for over a month against one of the most vicious attacks ever launched by the nazis. The way they did it was, in general, the same way they have held Hit ler back In Russia for over year, uneir method Is a com bination of two things: 1 Ability to adapt their wea pons and tactics to natural de fenses, and 2 The tenacity to die rath er than to give up. By using a lot of military in genuity in adapting their de fenses to the terrain, the Rus sians had made Sevastopol one of the strongest fortresses in the world, perhaps second only to uipraitar. Sevastopol is built among rocKy cutis and is protected from the land side by a semi circle of hills. The nazis had to fight their way over these hills and through the narrow passes, The hills were honeycombed with heavy Russian artillery, put ooxes ana machine gun nests; the valleys were cut up wun deep ditch tank traps. n iook tne Hermans, even with their unlimited manpower, gunpower and airpowcr, over a month to hammer their way In They finally did it by absolute ly pulverizing Russian defense with some of the biggest mo bile siege guns ever built. Ru mors say these guns were over 20 inch, far bigger than the biggest guns on battleships. Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein had 20 to 25 divi sions available for the attack on Sevastopol, over 300,000 men. but he could only use three di visions at a time in the narrow approaches to the fortress. He fought three divisions un til they were exhausted or too depleted to fight. Then he with drew those divisions and put in three more, and so on. All the time the Germans were pulverizing the Russian fixed defenses with their over sized siege guns, firing at al most point blank range. The concussion from the shells of these guns alone is said to be almost enough to put the ordi nary soldier out of action. The Russians used naval ves sels, moored in the forked har bor of Sevastopol, as artillery. These naval guns fired over the heads of the defenders into the German lines. Every Russian defender In his pillbox or behind his rock, stayed there until the end. The city itself, honeycomb ed with underground shelters and munitions factories carved out of the soft rock was finally pulverized after the nazis fought close enough to shell It with their heavy artillery. The Rus sians still fought as the rock crumbled over them. The defenders of Sevastopol knew they would eventually be overwhelmed, but they never showed it in their last-ditch re sistance. CHINESE HOLD OUT While the Russian land ar mies are the only ones which have been able to stand up against Hitler's toughies so far, the Chinese alone have shown the ability to hold out against the Japs. The main difference between Russian and Chinese resistance to the axis is that the Russians are fairly well equipped with all modern weapons of war, while the Chinese have nothing but small arms which they make themselves. The Chinese have practically no artillery, few planes. We were just beginning to get the Chinese equipped with the tools of war they needed when the Burma road was closed. Now there Is no prac- Japs Couldn't Keep This Old Sea Remember the Shaw? She's the old JJlZ'i, Wllh P"" woooen fore section, limped to m West Ck,a,t port, where she underwent extensive overhaul operations and now here she Is at San Francisco going through her trial runs before going back to war on the Axis again. SIDE GLANCES CO, ihi by Kt aaavict. wc. T. at "Hey, stupid the floor U. S. S. Shaw At Sea to Fight Japanese By ASAHEL BUSH A WEST COAST PORT, July 8 (JPi A sleek and powerful United States warship, shattered by Jap bombs at Pearl Harbor and once officially counted by the navy as lost, is back at sea in fighting trim on this Fourth of- July. She is the USS Shaw, one of 16 destroyers of a 1500-ton series completed in 1936-37 and one of three which Secretary Knox, in his first report on the December 7 attack, said had been damaged probably beyond salvation. But in the less than seven months since enemy planes caught her resting helplessly in drydock and blasted away her entire forward section, the Shaw has been retrieved, rebuilt and refitted. Now, under Lieut. Comman tical way of getting help In to them, although they . are fight ing on. The Chinese, like - the Rus sians, have two things in their favor against the axis armies. They have unlimited manpow er, and a vast territory well suited to a fluid defense. The Russians defend in depth. They let the concentrated Ger man drives go through and close in behind and chew up the armored thrusts. This has forced Hitler to adopt a short er, inching attack. The Chinese have not the heavy weapons to stop the well equipped Jap troops, but they close in behind the same way, using guerilla tactics by which they are taking heavy toll of the Japs. When a Chinese army is lick ed it dissolves into thin air. The soldiers become peasants and fanners. Then they become guerillas and the fighting be hind the lines goes on. The Chinese, in using this defense, have of necessity had to give up mucn territory, as have the Russians. The Japs have now captured every air base in the so-called Invasion area in eastern China Che kiang province. They have al so occupied the railways in this area. They have made them selves secure from air attack from this area, but they have not licked the Chinese. The Japs probably will not try to continue their drive west nto China. Their spearheads of attack could go through, but the Chinese would flow in be hind them, continue guerilla warfare and hamper their com munications. The Chinese have probably lost 5,000,000 casualties In the last five or six years, but they are fighting on until the time when we can get weapons in to them. When they get the aircraft and artillery, they will ru " sea doa that hurl h.r hm hi i no. u. a. ear, or varnish is still well" Repaired, Back der W. G. Jones of Boone, Iowa, her skipper since January, 1941 she again Is ready for action In any quarter of the globe, "bet tor than ever" In the words of James Grady of Jefforsonvlllo, Ind., her chief electrician's mate. To sea with the Shaw goes a segment of her crew before Pearl Harbor, Loyal and intense ly proud, complemented by transfers from other ships and by newly-trained recruits. Among those who have stood by with their ship during her long months of being nursed back to fighting strength are some who were aboard at the moment three heavy Japa nese bombs slashed through thb morning sky to pulverize the deck armor and set fuel oil and gunpowder aflame. WAR QUIZ 1 1. The 41st Division of the U. S. Army in the last war made up of men from Colorado, Mon tana, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Oregon, Wash ington, Wyom ing and the Dis trict of Colum bia has as Its insignia a setting sun in gold on a red background, a wavy blue stripe at the bottom representing the waters of the Pacific. What's the divisions nickname, Indi cated by the insignia? 2. President Roosevelt inti mated our Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. Army, was ready for reprisals if the Japs use gas. June 7, 1924, congress made a special grant of $25,000 to this service. Was it to study new poi son gases, to destroy grasshopper plagues or to handle the south ern cotton boll weevil menace? 3. What does an American soldier mean by "Giving the oil?" ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ 1. The Sunset Division, be cause in tho last war It' was orig inally trained in California. 2. To fight the boll weevil. 3. Slick talk. CURIOSITY DIVIDEND NEW YORK, W The paper bag looked mysterious and Mrs. Raymond Ebner picked It up. It contained $450 in large gold certificates, the kind that went out of circulation years ago. Mrs. Ebner turned the pack age over to police. be able to start an effective at tack on the occupying Japs, but not before. Dog Down 6i &'6'-'-iiijtltftjftjtffttfi'At 'ty'iff , ..... 7-6 Telling The Editor lattaf print ad hara mifal not ba mora than aM wrortla in linfih, mual ba writ tan laxiblir an ONI IIL) of lha papar only, and muat ba aliwL Oontrlbulloita rouowinj inaaa ruiaa, art warmly at Third Ferrying Squadron, Now York City (To tii Editors-lin ing' road articles addressed "to tho editor, I thought perhaps this might find a place In thut column. For Instead of rending about this outcast word "war, I'm definitely seeing It. Of course, there Isn't much I can sny, militarily speaking It so happens that I am sin tloncd in India, known as one of tne most mysterious countries In the world. The exchange of money I rather odd, onu anna being equnl to two cents in our money ami one rupee to 33 cents. The rupee is the basis of all business drill lng. tne native ways seem very queer to us, ns we no doubt do to them. People sleeping on the siaewaiKs at night, for Instance, Is a very common thing. Camels and burros, yes even oxen are used as motive power for the two-wheeled carts and wniionj. The streets of the towns aro paved, for the most part. Tho houses look like common fluts with colored glass In the win dows. Thcro are walls around practically every home, for what reason I don't know. Of course traffic flows along the opposite side of the street to what It does Jn our country. Accordingly, tho steering wheels of carsfcn all ex cept G. M. trucks and ionic American military cars, are on the right hand side. In order to do business with tho native merchants, a person must definitely havo a mind of his own. Ho must know exuetly what he wants and how much ho wants to pay for it. Even though we start at a high price and work down, which scorns to be the best way for us, we still are sure that the merchant got the best of the deal. Probably of greatest interest to those at home, Is word of the American soldiers here. Please believe me, It isn't because I am one of them, that I say tho Amer ican soldiers here can be upure ciatcd and admired by you folks at home. They act like you would want them to act. They are all onu swell bunch of follus. I can promise anyono who has son, husband, sweetheart or other relative over hero that you can bo proud of him. Those of us over hero feel that wo are doing as much, if not more, thnn anyono anywhere else, except others that have gone before us. Wo offer our lives, what moro can ono offer? Thon when It comes time to re turn home (tho way we flguro It h woni ne long) what are wc going to bo met with? A lot of patriotic ballyhoo? "Jt was nice having you over there You did a swell Job?" I sincerely hope not, but I guess that Is one thing we'll Just have to wait to find out. How about the ones who won't be back, with all the plans they must nave hod coming to a? sud den end? It is so very, very easy to for get. Placqties and monuments may be . good to symbolizo who helped, who did this and wno aid inai, but a persons mind can be like words written in the sand on the beach. When the waves rush over them, the words ore gone. Never, never forget to stop once In a whllo and think about those boys who are offering all they have. Letters. Have you had that special one say In ono of his letters, "Write often?" Honestly, he really isn't kidding. mou can" rates amomt the main three. In case some do not know what I mean, they are enow can, mall call and nav can. yno i vo often seen men put mail call before chow call. Always write a Rood, old- fashioned, cheerful letter. Give the guy the home town data. As for telling about the fellow next door who fell Into a big "de fense" Job and is practically drooling with money, you can definitely leave that out. If they ask questions, make a point to answer them. Encour agement Is wonderful, and faith In us, too but try to mean what you say. We are all looking for that ticket home. Thon It will be our turn to look to you for help and encouragement and faith in us as wo try to mako good back home. We hope you won't let us RAINBOW Never To Ba Forgotten ' Thrills In "SUICIDE SQUADRON" Joe E. Brown in "Shur My Big Mouth" I Late ( World STRICTLY BUSINESS "I wouldn't mind w had Wounded Men Harbor Arrive in Seattle SEATTLE, July 8 UV) Brought hero fur coiivnleseenun in an army hospital, another group of men who fouuht the Japs ol Dutch harbor has ar rived in Seattle, army author ities revealed yesterday. The Intent group consists mostly of "walking wounded" and included three armv men who lost a row of front teeth when a bomb from attacking Japanese planes exploded near them. 'It hit about five foot be hind us," Corporal Bruce Rich ardson of Hot Springs. Arkan sas, sold. "Wo Just flew thruiiKh tho air, that's all. Lucky we didn't lose more than our teeth." Richardson ond Pfc. Robort Milam of Chicago were hurled 30 feet through the elr when the bomb exploded. The third man to lose his teeth in the tilm.itiih'x !ti!l;lil!j!ijlui;;li'(,:lj!l!!i,iit!ll!!,:i!li:,- , . From tha file 40 yoari From the Klamath Republican July 10, ISO Perhaps onu of the moat Inter esting Fourth of July celebra tions in tho United Slates this yoar wax celebrated at Fort Klamath. Indians and whites participated. Captutn O. C. An. plcgatc, tho agent, gave tho ora tion of the day. An Indian bov rno.l ll.n n..l.H.iln. i r , ....... .,u ...i,,, uiiwn murprn. i rtnrtnn In tTnullKl. ,... .1 I.I It ,, ' - ... "-is.'.-u Him uiu 11 with. The Indians also staged a danco. There were various sports con tests. . Location of sevcrol lame saw mills In Klnmath county is now being talked. From the Klamath News July 8, 1832 Van Sanders of Pelican Cltv road was using left-over Fourth I ot July firecrackers to rriohtnn nis who this morning, according ! to rire unior Art Bardnll. Dur ing the private celebration, the Sanders house caught on flro and burned to tho ground. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hnllbron- ner were nniong Klamath poo. plo who camped at Diamond lake over tho weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Price left this morning for a visit at La- Grande. down, because we aren't letting you down, are we? Sincerely yours, Cpl. Howard D. Abbey. i: 'tis Jbuf Added Entertainment! "Parachute AthUU" "The Outpost" Lattit News ft Gtorje MONTGOMERY WSi. tm7 Mournr. O'HARA-Jolm WHOM f Lrmmt&.ifftK-'-r br McFeatUn so much, dear. If only coal furnacal" From Dutch blast, Corp. LouIk R. Prentice nf n..kf.-!i!!o, Oltla., told of narrow escape from death. "I had dropped some ammu nition and hntl' Just bent over to pick It up when u bomb hit close by," he said. "There was a big steel wire drum right where I was and when It was over there were bomb splinter holes right nliovc w here my back hud been as I renched down for the ammunition. If It hadn't been fur thut. well, I wouldn't ho telling you this." World War I Ended Too Soon, Says Veterans Commander PORTLAND. July 8 (iP Tha first world war onded too soon for tho good of the allies, Law rence R. Melton, Dallus, Tex.. commander of the Disabled American Veterans said yester day. "If wo had llMcncd to Black Jack Pershing In 1DIII and gone right on to Berlin, we wouldn't havo this bloodletting today," Melton told a reporter. "In this now order nf Ger mans, there Is no such thing as a good German they aro kill ers, they aro beasts, and wc vo got to exterminate them If this world Is going to live In safely," ho declared. Tho national commander will go to Eugene Wednesday to dis cuss arrangements for Iho na tional convention there in Au gust. IIIEIiSiE NOW! Added Joyn California, Jr. Symphony Popular Science "Ent Mo Kitty" Latest World Events. PiELBDiH o 9
