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.
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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.
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JJENRY KAISER'S boldly
Imaginative proposal to
build a fleet of cargo-carrying
airplanes to get out of reach of
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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 .
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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
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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.-
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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-
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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
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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
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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 ......... Page 11
Pattern ....Page s
Society ..Pages 5, 6, 7, 8
Sports ... ......Page , 9