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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
July 0. 1042
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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
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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.
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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
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