VOm 6-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles U the ilonal lor a blackout in Klamath Fills. Another long blatt, during a black July 24 High 97, Low 64 Precipitation at ol July IB, 1942 Laat ytar 13.92 Normal ......11.9T Strom yaar to data 13.17 out, li a signal for all-claar. In proau tloniry periods, watch your street lights. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICK FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 25, 1942 Number 9549 M 0&o gi ..... !)' 1 ... v.'..K"'-''M' I I In a"!?.. "W111 ' n II IT?- AT Ml . . f'm .vwhpi 11,1111 i'n i.i ir Itiiii iThe; iii ; r yt tf r? B 'i mm is 1 1 illll 'K i' ' in, M hi ii i "' I'l' 1 I : : I 1 I ill 1 lllll'i I I l'li H , I 41. r. i w-'.i iij;jjl!jp By FRANK JENKINS JTODAY'S moat Important J news: Tho Russian oclmll the Gar puns huvo forced a crossing of jlio Don at Tuliiilyiinnk, 120 pnlle cost of Rostov. They soy t ho nur.l utiltK Ifiot fol across lira dun In on tho louin onnK una ara ocmg strong y attacked. IF you wcro fighting tooth nnd nail to keep a brutal gungiitcr put of your house and In spite of your bent efforts he got his too Into the door, you would know how tho Russians feci to day. : RRITISII "sources" In London oy tho German hove two tholces at this point: Ol. To cross the Don wherever icy can and push on into the Caucasus. 2. To pmh cniilward nnd cut the Moscow-Stnltngrud railroad and tho Volga river boat line. Tho first, they soy, would In dlcate the Geminni lire after the Caucasus- oil.." INMKDL - ATELY; tho second tliat' Uielr proent plan Is mcroly to cut Ktissia ou irom oil. TO grasp tho menace of tho sec- ond plan, you need only to took at your nmp. : Tho great bend of tne Don Is only 43 miles from Stalingrad at Its farthest east point. At that distance, even If tho Russian line held at the Don, nar.l bombers could hamper and SLOW DOWN tho Volga trofflc. The Volga Is tho chief remain ing routo by which Caucasus oil reaches interior Russia. CTIVITY In Egypt today Is confined to tha air. Ornish and Amorlcan planes strike not only at harbors ulong tho African coast but reach across to Suda bay, In CRETE, nnd even Into tha Ionian sea, where they sink an axis supply snip. They aro HITTING AT THE SOURCES to cut off reinforce, ments destined for Rommel. "ANKARA (Turkey) reports to day that five trains havo passed through Yugoslavia Into Grccco carrying 120 clghtccn ton tank for shipment to tho axis armies in Africa. Informed military opinion In London holds today that al though tho British still raluln tho Initiative In Egypt tho ar rival of a SINGLE AXIS CON VOY could swing tho bnlanco to the other slelo. ) That is n DELICATE balance. Keeping reinforcements from reaching Rommel Is a crlticully Important Job, CTEADY allied (Australian and American) dlvo bombing at tucks break up tha landing of further Jap supplies at Buna, In New Gulnun, ond a communique from MncArthur's headquarters todays says "a number of enemy cargo vessels were unable to tin I ond nnd wore compelled to withdraw northward under naval escort." But the Jups are believed to have put scvornl thousand men ashore In tho neighborhood, of Buna and Ilia Brisbane (Aus tralia) Courier-Mall expresses disappointment that tha allied forces aro not In a. position to toko tho offensive and that tho approaching Jap convoy was not Intercepted earlier and attneked harder, That Is to say, wo still lack tho POWER (not tho bravery) to stop tha Japs. www JJENRY KAISER'S boldly Imaginative proposal to build a fleet of cargo-carrying airplanes to get out of reach of (Continued on Page Two) j i 1 iii Wmm I fly wmm i mm Wis! rv Jap S f n tp ; ; llll I I I LLL.U OF ACTION IN 1ST PACIFIC Report Raises Total Of Japanese Ships Sunk to 55 WASHINGTON, July 25 (JP) Tho navy announced today that United States submarines operat ing In (ho western Pacific had reported sinking five Japanese ships, including one modern de stroyer, and damaging and pos sibly sinking a sixth vessel. Tho submarine activities were reported in navy department communique No. 11, which said: "For East: "1 U. S. submarines hove re ported the following results of operations In far western waters: "(A) One modern Japanese destroyer sunk. "(B) One medium sized tonk cr sunk. "(C) Three cargo ships sunk. "(D) One medium slzor cargo ship damaged and believed sunk. "2. Theso actions have not been announced In any previous navy department- communique," This was the first time in many weeks that the navy had issued a report on Amorlcan submarine operations In' tho western Pa cific where, early In the war, they extended all the way from waters north of Australia to waters surrounding the Jap anese homeland. Klska Activity Recently, however, subs have been very octlvo in the Aleutians area, combatting Japanese In vasion forces at Klska Island, and on July 21 undersea craft ' (Continued on Pago Two) Coffee Demands Forces Be Sent To Aleutians WASHINGTON, July 25 OP) Men.jind not air attacks alone, must bo used if the Japanese are to be ousted from the Aleutian Islands, Representative Coffeo (D-Wosh.) told the house. Ho said the fog, to 'which there has been much reference as a handicap to action against tha Invaders, "should impede the Japanese as well as our own armed men." "It seems to me," Coffeo de clared, "that the United Nations defer too much to adverse weather conditions. The enemy docs not allow us to wait for convenient or favorable climatic atmosphere." US Exchangees Describe Jap Treatment of Aliens LOURENCO MARQUES, Portuguese East Africa, July 23 (delayed) (fl1) The first diplo matic transfer of nationals be tween tho United States and Japan since tha start of tha Pa cific war was completed here today when more than 1100 North and' S o u t.h Americans boarded the Swedish liner Grlpsholm to toko tho places vacated by Jupancso diplomats and their families brought from America. Tho Americans arrived here on tho liners Contn Verde and Asama Maru. They walked down, tho gangplank of the two ships as tho Japancso loft tho Grlpsholm and tho two groups moved along tho quay 1n paral lel lines to their now state rooms. (Four Associated Press corre spondents arrived with tho group. Following are portions of a composite story on conditions in Japan and Japanese-occupied territory written by tho corre spondents. Some parts of tho story are omitted to conform with official request! from nips West Atlantic U-Boat Toff Nears 400 Mark By The Associated Prass Tho toll taken by U-boats In the western Atlantic ncared the 400 mark today with tho navy announcement of tho sinking of a medium-sized U, S. merchant vessel 800 miles off the coast July 10. All of 123 persons aboard were rescued in the torpedoing which raised to 308 the unof ficial Associated Press tabula tion of allied and neutral ships losses in the western, Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. . The American vessel was hit In . broad daylight by a sub marine which remained sub merged. There were 66 passeng ers and 57 crewmen on the ship. Yesterday the navy announced the sinking of another U. S. cargo vessel. Four men, Including the skip por, died when their medium-sited-merchantman burst .Into flame after a torpedo struck It June 8 in the Caribbean;. Thirty seven others escaped. .;..,'. Tho Cuban navy announced the arrival in Cuba of 11 sur vivors of a medium-sized Nor wegian ship, torpedoed in the Caribbean. E Navy Amphibian Fjips Into Pasture West Of City A navy amphibian plane flip ped into Dick Breilonstcln's pos ture five miles west of here about 6 p. m. Friday. Tho pilot. Ensign U. E. Coul son, and a seaman passenger, wcro virtually unhurt as they climbed from the overturned plane aftor it snapped off a power line in a forced landing. Coulson, his fuel supply ex hausted, had first aimed for a landing on Klamath river, half a mile away. When the craft rapidly lost altitude, he evident ly planned to come down in a largo Hold. The piano struck the power line, connecting Brcltenstein's farmhouse with tho Green springs highway, and then crashed a ditchbank. It landed upside down, but was not badly damaged. - Tho seaman with Coulson had a slight scratch on his face, but otherwise neither man was hurt. They caught a rldo into town and to the airport, where Coul (Continued on Page Two) Washington that nothing be done which could interfore in the slightest with the welfare or repatriation of Americans still in Japanese-occupied terri tory, Tho correspondents are Max Hill, chief of tho former Associated Press bureau in Tokyo; Rolman Morln, who was in Indo-Chlno;' Joseph Dyntm, who was in Tokyo, and Vaughn Mcisling, who was in Hongkong at its capitulation). Some of the returning Amer ican nationals reported that some prisoners wcro threatened with the guillotine by Japanese authorities seeking to obtain admissions, of guilt from men charged with espionage. There were no known cases In Japan of physical abuse of women or children among the prisoners, but some men were told their wives and children would be made to suffer if they did not confess to espionage charges. (Thcso reports are those of individuals and have not yet been brought to tho official at- - (Continued on Page Two) Sun K ALLIES BREAK Dive Bombers Loose Explosives on Supply Line GENERAL MacA RTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, July 25 (AP) Steady allied dive-bombing has broken off the landing of Japanese supplies in tho newly occupied Buna-Gona area of New Guinea and several fully loaded enemy vessels have withdrawn northward under naval escort, a communique an nounced today,-, Gen., D o u g 1 a s MacArthur's headquarters said 45,000 pounds of 'explosives' and incendiaries were dropped yesterday on troops, invasion barges, stores and Installations in that region low on the northeast coast of the Papuan peninsula. Large fires were started and an anti-aircraft battery was sil enced,, the communique report ed. "A number of the enemy's cargo vessels have been unable to unload, being forced to '.with draw to the north under cover of navy forces," ; it ' said. , Eighteen Japanese . bombers and a 16-plane fighter escort were reported, meanwhile, to nave struck Ineffectively at the airdrome of Port Moresby, ad vanced allied bin on New Guinea's south coast 110 miles below Buna. No Casualties ' . "There were no casualties and only slight damage," It was said. The dive-bomber which is playing a big part in allied op erations . over New Guinea is the single englned Douglas A24, first used by -the U. S. navy and then by the army, officers said. a.. U. S. army fliers first detect ed the sea movement of the Japanese down the Papuan pen insula from their older bases at Salamaua and Lae last Monday (Continued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE ' R. H. E. Pittsburgh .......... 4 7 1 Brooklyn 1 6 2 Gornickl and Lopez; Davis, Head (6), Rowe (8) and Owen, Sullivan (8). R K E Cincinnati ........8 13 1 New York 6 13 4 Thompson, Bcggs (8) and La manno; Lohrmon, McGee (7), Koslo (8), .Adams (9) and Den ning. R. H. E. St. Louis .....6 10 .' 2 Boston -.3 10 " 0 Krist, Gumbert (9) and Coop er; Tost, Donovan (6), Hutchtngs (8), and Lomhardl, Kluttz (8), AMERICAN LEAGUE R H E Philadelphia .........2 6 6 Chicago ..1 7 1 Marchildon and Swift; Lee and Turner. R. H. E. Washington .-.... 10 18 3 Cleveland 6 8 0 Newsom, Zubcr (9) and Evans, Early (12); Smith, Ferrlck (2), Eiscnstat (8), Embree (10) end Denning, Dcsautels, R. H. E. New York 7 14 2 Detroit 2 7 2 Borowy and Hemsley; Trucks, Hcnshaw (4), White (7), Wilson (9) and Tebbetts MUSSOLINI IN LIBYA LONDON, July 25 (AP) Reuters, . British news agency, quoting a Stefanl (Italian offic ial news agency) dispatch said today Premier Mussolini had been in , Libya since June 29. That was the date of the fall of Matruh, Egypt, railhead of tho Una to Alexandria, UP LANDINGS IN NEW GUINEA Recruits for the War Effort . & lb wWt':r ifp ill i 't'4 'r i't They're cutting down more before in the Klamath country out for the war effort. Klamath Lumber Production Tops 800 Million Feet and Most of It's for War Use By BOB LEONARD V;.: . Our guess is that Mr. Lyle F. Watts is considerably torn be tween conservationists' pride and necessary patriotism. . '.""'..' You will recall It was lanky Mr. Watts in his capacity as northwest regional forester for the U. S. national forest service who in effect asked Klamath lumbermen to take it easy on our timber, please, 14 months ago. Mr. Watts produced some disturbing figures to prove he wos mostly right. In essence he said some 17 billion board feet, was 485 million board' feet a year 1931-40.. And that's after lopping off average annual growth. Mr. Watts was, from his standpoint, justifiably alarmed and managed to upset several of the For the War Effort ' . Now this piece is not meant to argue any of Mr. Watts' con tentions: We have mentioned the foregoing figures only to im press upon you what it means when-we tell you that last year Klamath's forests were cut' away by an estimated 818 million board foot.f ' Which is the same as Inform- ine you briefly Just what Klam ath county's lumber Industry is doing toward tho war effort. Last year the county s lumber production .was 818,704,000 board feet, And you're learning something there for it's the first time that figure has been made public. A great portion ot mat cut Lumber Cut In Klamath County 1925 .......391,397 M 1926 438.602 M 1927 378,575 M 1928 485,117 M 1929 507,469 M 1930 452,061 M 1931 369,363 M 1932 199,527 M 1933 303,449 M 1934 323,646 M 1935 ...459,617 M 1936 626,396 M 1937 680.590 M 1938 547,714 M 1939 598,395 M 1940 .. 728.295 M 1941 818,704 M 1 v Ik ' i .-7 I '4 I of the old pine trees than erer as the lumber industry goes all that Klamath s timber, totalling cut away at the average rate of during the declining decade of local gentry in addition.. was devoted, even then, to war needs in the shape of canton ments, new factories end the like. ' ' ' ' ' Wet Spring During the first half of this year, due to our seasonable but unreasonably wet spring, pro duction dropped 3.2 per cent from the first six months of 1941. Precisely it was 332,853, 000 board feet against the 343, 856,000 board feet of 1941. But lumbermen expect the year's last half production to outstrip that of 1941 and more than make up the first half .difference.- . ' The 1941 production was the first time the county's cut had exceeded 800 million feet. This year It's likely to shoot over 850 million and approach 900 million. . . Let's say 850 million which tells you that Klamath's ' lum ber mills are working at a pace 75.3 per cent over tho last decade's average.. 6000 Employed Today, with practically no ex ception, the county's 14 larger mills and numerous smaller op- . (Continued on Page Two) Request for Cost Control Held Unlikely WASHINGTON, July 25 UP) As house members prepared to day to start Indefinite) informal vacation, President Roosevelt was reported to have reached the conclusion that he could take steps to curb inflation without additional legislation. Members who declined to be quoted by name said they had received word that there was little likelihood Mr. Roosevelt would send a message to con gress asking for additional au thority to control rising costs of living. ' - - - Therefore, they ; said, they could return to their homes or take a vacation for a few weeks since the calendars were cleared of all business and no important new proposals were In sight. It was assumed that the presi dent had found", after a careful survey, that he had adequate authority under his powers as commander-in-chief in time of war and under authority of the price control and war powers acts to deal with any such situa tion as it, might develop. There was a tacit understand ing in the house that no official business of consequence would be transacted for many days, or perhaps weeks.: When questions about the house "program"' for next .week' were asked in the chamber - yesterday,: Speaker Rayburn observed with a smile: "There is nothing in sight in the future on the program." ' STEEL SHORTAGE ,iQiyfI Higg ins Says He Will - Not Give Up Hope -5.-. For Contract - WASHINGTON, July 25 WV The reported steel shortage to day was declared a matter of "faulty ' inventory control" ; by members of a house merchant marine subcommittee investigating- circumstances surrounding government orders halting con struction of the gigantic Higgins shipbuilding project at New Or leans. ' The assertion was made in a joint -statement by Representa tives Boykin (D-Ala.), chairman of the subcommittee, and Culkin (R.-N. Y.), a f t e r a long closed session in which Dr. Mordecai Ezekial, government economist at present connected with the war production board, testified as to steel stocks in the country. Large Supply Boykin declared that while shortages of steel had occurred in some shipbuilding yards, there was an abnormally large supply in others. . He contended in the statement, issued orally (Continued on Page Two) , Premier Predicts Another Attack on Dutch Harbor TORONTO, July 23 (Canadian Press) Another attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, blazing the way for long-range bombers to strike at U. S. production centers on the Pacific coast and a considerable distance inland may be Japan's next major move, Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario believes. "Of course I'm a pessimist," he told reporters yesterday, "but I say that we are living in a fool's paradise. It is only ab solute fear that will awaken the people to a realization of what they must face in the mediate future. "The situation in Canada to day is a perfect parallel ot that in France in 1940 when the people didn't awaken to the danger until the Germans had crossed the Meuse." JAPS ADVANCE ' CHUNGKING, July 25 (P) A new Japanese advance in eastern Chekian province was admitted by the Chinese high command to day which said its troops were evacuating Sinchang after an enemy column 3000 strong ad vanced from Fenghwa, the birth place of Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-Shek, win ninn AHuIN ON SOUTH BANK nnfiTui Diuro ur VIIHLII1VLI1 RAF : Cuts Swath in Rommel Air Power; Land Front Static By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH Associated Press War Editor After four weeks of their ma jor offensive action for 1942, the Germans have gained a foothold on the southern, or deep Cau casus, side of the lower Don river a strategic line on which Russian forces have taken a stand to shield their southern contact with the allied world. . United States bombers had become a powerful bulwark of the red air force in the battle of the Caucasus. An American source at Mos cow said that Douglas Bostons, twin-engined medium bombers from America, were participat ing tn tne red air force's ham mering of German armored col umns on the Don steppes. Presumably the planes were flown by Russians although the Moscow dispatch did not specifi cally say so. There have been previous reports of U. S. planes being flown to the Don front, and going directly into action: The U. S. army has a strong air force in the middle east, and pre-. sumably this command, sent the olanea. . " - v V-iV. Battle of Egypt OfficWrources afc-Cairo said" that in seven daylight opera tions of the past week the Ameri can fliers had caused heavy dam age to port installations and ship ping at Tobruk and Bengasi,. In i-.iDya, ana at suda bay, Crete, -sn axis troop concentration point in the Mediterranean.'" At the Eirvotian end of thn middle east : lifeline, the RAF had cut drastically deeper into axis air power, having shot up more than 30 planes in yester-'. day's strafing and air combat. The El Alamein land front was static. , ' . ; The Italian high command said that its submarines had sunk a troop-laden transport and a 5060-ton merchantman in the eastern Mediterranean whil . (Continued on Page Two) Taft Forecasts no oie on Payroll Levy By JACK BELL WASHINGTON. July 25 (IP) Sen. Taft (R. O.) forecast today that the senate finance commit tee would strike from the house approxed tax bill a proposal to collect individual Income taxes by installment deductions from the pay envelopes of the nation's workers. ' The senator, who has opposed this section of the new $6,271, 000,000 tax bill, said that while he had made no canvass of com mittee sentiment, he believed a majority of members was in clined to vote against the pro posal because of the steep In crease it would bring in the col lection of taxes from individ uals in 1943. The projected collection levy, which would go into effect next January 1, would provide for the deduction by employers of 5 per cent less some exceptions of the periodic pay check of ap proximately 30,000,000 persons who work for wages. ' The deductions also would ap ply to dividends and interest payment, The Individual ultimately would pay out no more, since the amount collected in advance would be credited against his regular income tax liability, but during 1943 his tax bill would . (Continued on Pago Two) News Index City Briefs -...Page S ' Comics ond Story ....... Page 10 Editorials : -...Page 4 Information .......Page 3 Market, Financial ......... 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