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ifwalS mm mcKou WeatheriNews li'llllmill!i.ill'illKiill!ili'll!liliil' Ont A-mlnuto blast on slrena end whittles U the . elgnal lot bUckout In KUmalh , Falls. Another long blast, during a black 'outt li Iflnol lor all-clear. In precau tlonarr parloda, watch your atrtat lights. July 22 High i1. Low SS Precipitation at of July It, 1942 Last year .............1S.8I Normal ., 11.98. Straam yaar to data 13.1? ASSOCIATEDJJtESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES i.qnnjTri.ririn.nrir.'in.- n - - ri ri n n -j, AnnnnrrtiviviiVi'i-rJ PRICE , "'" 'JINUtKIU ?H FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 23. 1942 Number 9B47 i luion iU Vaui'.'. '. '!" .1 ET3 l yi Jl . in m ibis i -J 1 1 1 1 I v; 0 wsizss lb IM STALINGRAD, r By FRANK JENKINS EUROPEAN Ruiuiln, today's dls- " patches tell us, Is facing hr gruvest menace slnco tho MoiikoI Invasions of Genghis Khun ami his successors In tho 13th con tury.' Tlii'Sfl Mongol Invaders who humbled Russia, six centuries ago enmo from tho east, out o( tho vnst reaches or Inner Asm They nnd their kind harried nil 1 tho- earlier civilizations of the world. Time and ai(nln they broimht fir and sword to India. They so utterly destroyed tho ureal valley civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates (once the known world's most fertile areu) that after the lapse of hundreds of years It Is still a desert Iraq, Iran, otc. pUSSIA'S present menace " comes from the GERMANS, who have harried all the LATER civilizations of the world and ara still at It. pHE ancestors of these present day Germans were first en countered nnd described by Jul ius Caesar and Ills historian general Tacitus. They were forost-dwolling savages. Tacllus tolls UN they LIVED FOR WAR. When they could find no ono else to fight, thoy fought among themselves. Ex- cept as they CONTRIBUTED TO WAR (by providing, food, weap ons, etc.) th 'occupations . of pence were despised by these barbarians. . War, according to tholr Ideas (as described by Tacitus), was the only -occupation FIT FOR MEN. When thy went Into bai lie EVEN THEIR WOMEN fol lowed along behind, and urged thorn on, taunting and humiliat ing any who turned back. ; It was these savages and their savago descendants who over threw the civilization of Rome and ushered in the Dark Ages. IN one way and another, they SINCE. Whenever the world " begins really to settle down to the ways of peace, the descend ants of these forest-dwelling savages IRRUPT AGAIN. Whon they Irrupt, peaco and II the real human progress that goes with It and is built upon it flies out of tho window and Is GONE leaving In Its plnco the horrors of war. TJtSTORY sugRCst.1 tills qucs 1 1 tlon: Who are wo to have peace and'- permanent progress and evolution toward HIGHER HU MAN IDEALS as long as these savages continue to exist and WIELD POWER? . THE news slays bad, In Now Guinea tho Japs make another frog-hop of a hun dred miles or more and succeed in establishing themselves NEARER to Port Moresby, which la tho allied outpost guarding northorn Austrnlia. We mado them .'pay dearly In ships and men, but we COULDN'T STOP THEM. j VTE are making the Japs pay . .dearly in ships and men for their occupation of the western Aleutian islands, but as nearly as ono may judgo from tho rig Idly censored news wo haven't been ablo to throw them out. "WINA Is In dlro trouble and needs help, She has millions of men who are ready and will ing to fight If only they could get from us tho help they need. Tho Russians are In dire trou blo and gravely need help from us. Soon It tho Japs attack them In Siberia they may be In DIRER trouble Bnd will need MORE HELP. The British empire, rocked to Us very foundations, la In troublo k at almost every point throughout f tho world and SORELY NEEDS vast help from us. . 'THE disturbing truth Is that our help la needed In so many places and we are doing our (Continued on Pago Two) uun mm GAIN IN FURY Soviets Face Gravest Crisis Since Mon gol Invasion By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW. . July 23 UP) Throwing many airplanes and tanks Into the fight to hold the huge German army which has surged Into the lower Don basin, tho red army braced and re ported stronger resistance from Tslmlyansk to Novocherkassk today. Soviet Russia faced her grav est crisis In tho 13-month-old German-Russian war today as nazl armored columns closed In for the second battle of Rostov, speared anew toward Stalingrad and pressed upon the low Don between thoso cities in an effort to Isolatu tho Caucasus. Not since tho Mongols were driven from southern Russia 802 years ago had there been such a throat to tho military security of the nBtlon, observers said. . . ,. , , Red. army men fought bitterly to stein tho Invasion tides,-ware that the Germans" were' More than half-way along on drives which might split the Russians' southern and trans-Caucasian commands. Roitoy Menace Rostov was monaced from three sides at Novocherkassk, 20 miles northeast of the city; from tho north by a large force, including Italians, striking from (Continued on Page Two) New Contingents Of Americans Arrive in Ireland LONDON, July 23 (Pi Unit ed Stales army officials permit ted tile disclosure ioday that new contingents of American pilots, ground ' crews, negro troops and other forces whose presence In northern Ireland was announced two days ago, arrived on a largo convoy one of a scries which has been bringing forces for a potential Invasion of Europe The exact composition of tho nowly-ariivcd forces and the dato of tho convoy's arrival wcro a military secret, but the new force was one of the largest brought to Britain since the first arrival of United States forces in northern Ireland was disclosed Jan, 28.' ' I Military Burial Given 29 German Sub Victims By The Associated Press Burial with full mllltnrv linn. ora of 29 crewmen of a German submarine sunk by a destroyer on Atlantic patrol has been an nounced by tho navy as tho As sociated Press unofficial count of allied and noutral ship losses by submarines In tho western ' At lantic roso to 306. Twilight rcoulom services, a salute of three volleys by a navy firing sound and tho sounding of "laps" marked tho commitment at the National cemetery at Hampton, Va of the first enemy dead to bo landed on American shores In this war. One of the few naval prece dents for tho full military hon ors accorded tho Germans whose bodies and a few empty life Jackets wero all that remained afloat nfter their U-boat, was sunk, occurred during tho war of 1812 after a sea battlo within sight of Portland,. Me. , In that action, Captain Wll- Ham Burrows of tho American brig Boxer wero killed on Sept. Samuel Blyth of his majesty's brig, Boxer wero killed on Sept. 8, 1813, and a double funeral lose Germans It WfvORONEZH 11 I STATUTE MILIS KHAotrU ROSSOSH. ( r'MA'TT "BOGUCHAR SLAVI? "JgA!iNORAO VCmOSHILOVGRAOVl 1 zT C v T JLIKHAYA V r Jl VrVOCHERKASSK- TAGANROGlip-fy Jff MARIUPOLrp .;. 1 Behind e moving wall of tanka and matojlisd infantry the Germans massod their forcss for attempta to capture Rostov (1) from three directions and to capture Stalingrad (2) from two. At Voronesh (3), hand to hand fighting raged. Broken arrows Indicate unconfirmed Gormen claims. Black arrows mark German advances admitted by Russia. Light arrow Indicates Russian attack. '. U. S.REVEALED IN.. Meetings With Enemy Aircraft Is "Just Usual Thing" LONDON, July 23 (IF) Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen, com mander of a U. S. naval task force with the British fleet, dis closed today the force had been in action against enemy alrcralt. Admiral G if fan described the operations as "just the usual thing." Units of the American force had had flurries with planes but so far havo not brushed with en emy naval craft, ho said, adding that no severe damage has been suffered. "Everything Is all right so far," ho said. The American fleet units were operating "In the north against polar bears' or something," be fore the United States entered the war, Admiral Giffen dis closed. Official arrival of the task (Continued- on Page Two) . was given the victor Captain Burrows and the vanquished alike. Their bodies lie sido by sldo In ancient Eastern cemetery overlooking Portland harbor. Tho navy declined to give further details of the sinking of tho U-boat whose 29 dead were burled at Hampton, but in an nouncing tho recent destruction of three more merchantmen de clared the captain of one was machine-gunned because ho re fused to glvo tho submarine commander tho name of his ves sel. ; ' The skipper, Captain Finn Agor Madsen, 42, of Tonaburg, Norway, said at a gulf coast port that tho attacking submar ine fired on a dinghy carrying himself and thrco other crew men from his large Norwegian merchantman, and that he was hit In tho arm. The trio with . him was un hurt, and -33 other crewmen of the Norwegian victim escaped In two lifeboats.- The latter group landed on Devil's island, French Guiana, but rather than face in ternment there pushed on ,to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. , 3i for Mass for Triple Attack Spitfires Swdip OVer NdiUmid Territory v LONDON, July 23 (A)Spit fires of the RAF made daylight sweeps for the fifth consecutive day over German-occupied terri tory, attacking German supply lines and defense positions to day. The air ministry said that al though the operations were in tensive they were not on a large scale. ' ' Lock gates and machinery of a canal in Holland which the Germans use as a supply artery were taken under cannon and machlnegun fire from the Spit fires and several barges were badly damaged. LONDON. July 23 OP) A number of civilians were killed by a single German plane which came In low to drop a stick of bombs in the shopping center of an east coast town; in daylight today. i One direct hit wiped out a family of six. Another bomb split a house squarely In two but lis occupants escaped with (Continued on Page Two) - Federal Grand Jury Indicts 27 for Sedition WASHINGTON, July 23 (A0) A federal grand jury has Indict ed 27 men and one woman In 10 states for conspiring to break down morale in the armed forces and thus "obstruct and defeat tho war effort." i The indictment, returned se cretly Tuesday after nine months' Investigation, was an nounced today by Attorney Gen eral Blddle as It was opened In federal district court here. The lone woman defendant Is Mrs. Elizabeth Dllllng of Chi cago, who was mentioned In the" indictment as having. used as an alias the name Rev, Frank Woodruff Johnson. , Britain Extends Fighting Ages LONDON, July 23 (P)ro further bolster her armies and arms factories for whatever tests the coming weeks may hold fqr, them, Britain today called up all men born in the first halt of 1924 and In 1894. : The 18-year-olds will register for the fighting services on Au gust IS, while the 48-year-olds will register' for employment on war work this Saturday.- ; on Rostov RUSSIA Proposed : Plan Would . Lead to Inflation, He Contends f. ; - WASHINGTON, July 23 (&) Senator Taft (R-Ohio) contended today that treasury war financ ing plans would destroy "any hope of controlling inflation" because they, contemplate sell ing $30,000,000,000 in govern ment securities to commercial banks in the next year.- - ' Taft's declaration -was made while he questioned- Secretary Morgenthau about hie recom mendation to the senate finance committee for a $2,500,000,000 increase in the $6,271,000,000 house tax bill. Only bold war taxation, the treasury chief told the commit tee at the beginning of its ses sion, could bring America a sound economic future. . Taft called the treasury's war financing program, which in cludes taxation and borrowing, "completely inadequate to defeat the inflation Secretary Morgen thau properly denounces." Morgenthau noted that the taxes he now is asking aggregate about the same revenue ; pro posed to the house months ago. Since then, he added, the sched ule of war spending has been stepped up to $14,000,000,000 for the current " fiscal year while the house sliced about $2,400, 000,000 from the tax total. . Borrow $53 Million "If the house bill were to be (Continued on Page Two) Hatch Demands Japs Be Forced , From Aleutians ' SEATTLE, July 23 0P) The senatorial voice of Carl D. Hatch (D-N.M.) has been added to those demanding that the Japanese be forced from the Aleutian Islands. - "As long as they remain there they are a threat to your Pacific Northwest industries and power Installations," he told reporters. "We can not say yet how big a threat, but if they are given time to prepare a base from' which bombing planes can take off it will be a real one." ; Hatch Is In the Pacific North west with Senators Harold Bur ton (R-Ohlo) and Mon Wallgren (D-Wash). They are members of the Truman sub-committee in vestigating war Industries. Baffle US BOMBERS JOIN RAF IN IMS Army of Nile Drives Axis Center. Back; Battle Hot CAIRO. July 23 OP) General Sir Claude Auchinleck's army of the Nile, attacking simultane ously on all sectors of the El Alamein front for the first time, was reported today to have driv en back the axis center in vio lent fighting mounting steadily in intensity. United States four motored bombers joined the RAF in smashing anew at Tobruk, Aln el Gagala, Salum, Fuka, Matruh and many other axis air and sup ply bases Tuesday night, British air .sources said. : . A communique from Auchin leck's headquarters Indicated that the ' British assault had pushed stoutly resisting enemy forces from some of their posi tions on the El Ruweisat ridge and that Uje gains had been con solidated. ' : : ' Inconclusive To the north -and outh the battle apparently still lvas rac ing inconclusively; with British imperials striking . savagely' at the axis tanks in a see-saw me lee. .- . .;-TV.V ' Fighting in the coastal - sec tor, the British communique dis closed, centered mainly around Tel el Eisa, El Makh Khad ridge three miles to the southeast and Meteiriya, three miles further south. - ' Semi-official advices from the front indicated that the British had gained some ground both in this area, and on the southern flank, although Auchinleck's (Continued on Page Two) Klamath Bike Rationing to Start Saturday Rationing of bicycles in Klam ath county will start Saturday, with 13 new bicycles allotted as the county's July quota, it was announced Thursday by Effie Garcelon, county rationing clerk. Bicycles will be rationed to adults only, and on the follow ing basis: . To persons engaged in a gain ful occupation, or, to those en gaged in work that contributed to the war. effort or the public welfare. Also, those who receive bikes must show that they need them at least three days a week in or der to get to and from work. Applications should be made at the rationing headquarters near Fifth and Main streets. At present, all bicycles are frozen.- , MASH Tulelake Japanese Show i Great Loyalty to U. S. The .Tulelake war relocation settlement is a community of normal human beings, represen tative of the common people of the world, Elmer L. Shirrell, director of the big project, told the Kiwanls club at Its meeting Thursday noon. He declared that the colon ists are generally satisfied with the strange situation that con fronts them, and are determined to prove their loyalty to Amer ica. ' The problems that develop, the Incidents that occur, are such as one might expect in any nor mal American community,', the project director said, even to the active urchins who chase each other around the outskirts of - - outdoor ' adult - meetings, stumbling over dogs and their parents' feet. - ' Would Give Sight Vk l T't 1 iU'r? Barzen Hoyt, above, a mur derer in San Quentln's death row with less than a month to live, has offered his eyes to re store sight to two blinded per sons after his execution. Hoyt participated in a 1940 San Francisco blackjack murder during a grocery holdup. E Feasibility of Planes To Beat Out Subs Studied WASHINGTON. July 23 VP) Air-minded -congressmen . are asking, admirals - and merchant marine chiefs whether manufac ture of - cargo planes by. the thousands would be the. best way to beat the submarines. , They are studying a proposal by Henry J.. Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder and engineering au thority, that, several , existing shipyards be devoted, to con struction of 5000 giant flying boats", . capable of. carrying, big cargoes on transoceanic flights. Rep. Mott (R-Ore.), a. high ranking minority member of the house naval committee, said he thought Kaiser's - plan . was -"entirely feasible" and. that he in tended to learn the navy's stand on it. . Several admirals were to have (Continued on Page Two) Unions Urge FDR M To Continue Wage - Policy As Set Up WASHINGTON, July 23 VP) The six man CIO-AFL labor war board urged President Roosevelt today to continue the wage pol icy, agreed upon when the war labor board was set up and that no interference be allowed from any other federal agency, par ticularly the office, of price ad ministration. At almost the same time Dem ocratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) told the senate he believed con gress would have to pass addi tional legislation to give Presi dent Roosevelt authority needed for an expanded effort to pre vent inflation. - - H Mentioning the wealth of un founded rumors concerning the project,- Shirrell said there have been only two attempts by evac uees to leave the - settlement, and both were harmless inci dents! ' ' . ' One instance, he stated, In volved a person who proved to be a definite "mental case" and left ' with the Idea of visiting relatives. The other was a young man who attempted a "sneak" to Tulelake to buy himself a drink of liquor. Both were lo cated and returned immediately to the settlement. ' : No Foundation All other yarns about at tempted breaks, he said, were completely . without foundation. The settlers, he said, are hope ful .that they can "pay ' their . (Continued oa Page Two) 15D-MILE GAIN EFFECTED IN 1500-2500 Sea Borne Troops Landed; :. Loss Heavy ! Br The Associated Prase With an Aleutlan-stvle en. croachment In the southwest'; Pacific, . the Japanese have ad-' vanced their lodgments on the New Guinea , north coast by ISO miles further to the southeast ', to a point 100. miles across -nearly impassable jungle - from ' the allied foothold at: Port' Moresby. '.'; .. , ; Port. Moresby, lies 165. and 190 miles, respectively, south of Salamaua and Lae, hitherto, the closest Japanese footholds. It was the first asares&ive . thrust since the smashing Japa nese naval-air defeat in the Coral sea in early May. t- The sea-borne Japanese., be tween 1500 and 2500 strong. were set ashore on Wednesday at Gona Mission, near Buna, on the -northern coast of the south eastward-slanting Papua penin sula of New Guinea, 150 miles southeast of Japanese-held Sain maua- and about 175 miles from Lae. Jap Lots Heavy i The move cost the Japanese dearly in. casualties, plus a large transport and a landing barge sunk, and a seaplane shot down -as. allied . planes '.opposed - the -landing with, a terrific bombing and strafing, .Two allied fight ing planes were , lost. . : -At least, the." Japanese i had won another base for. aviation to be used against Port Mores by and it was not impossible that -the -enemy would attempt to force the trails across moms (Continued, on Page Two) i Policy Planned To Alleviate Meat Shortage ' WASHINGTON, July 23 (IP) Secretary Wickard announced today the agriculture depart ment was inaugurating a policy designed to alleviate the short age of meats in some areas, aris ing from curtailed operations of small packing plants faced with losses.' , . ,'-.''. .The program is a combination of price adjustment and subsi dization. "-: A ; Many small packers have, re duced their operations because the margin - between. :, uncon? trolled hog and cattle prices and OPA price ceilings on meat products had narrowed to' a point where, slaughtering in volved, losses.. , ""- Wickard said that beginning next ' week the department would lower its purchase prices for meats for the lend-lease' pro gram by an average of about $1 per. hundred pounds in the midwest and about 75 cents per hundred pounds in the east. , - A shortage of bacon and good cuts of dressed meats was re ported in Klamath Falls today (Continued on Page Two) , Baseball American League R. H. E. -Washington ................ 5 7 0 Detroit -.- 3 10 1 Carrasquel and Evans; NeW houser, Wilson (0) and Tebbotts. ; ' National League '"' i . R. H. E. Pittsburgh 4 6 , .1 New York ,. 6 10 0 Sewell and Lope; Koslo, Mo Gee (3) and Danning. " News Index ! City Briefs Page 8 Comics and Story Page 10 Courthouse Records -....Page .3 Editorials . Page 4 Information . -....Page ' 5 Farm News ..........Page 8 Market, Financial Page 7 Pattern .-..........Page 6 Sports ...-......................Page 9 GUINEA
