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By FRANK JENKINS
JJITLERS fluid headquarters
claims today Hint Germon
"X-oopa are within 51) miles of
Stalingrad and tho Volitn and
have reached or crowed the Don
at all point below Kultich
Kuluii la on tho coat bnnk of
the Don, whero It comes nearest
the VoIko.)
Soviet dispatches say frunkly
this Is tho gravest moment of
the war.
t
,TN Egypt, both sides ore racing
lo get In more men and ma
terial. Rommel Is handicapped by the
difficulty of getting supplies and
reinforcements across the Med
iterranean In tho face of allied
planes and wnrshlps.
Auchlnleck Is hampered by
tha enormous dlslnnces of his
sources of supply from (lie bat
tlefield. TT Is obvious to the most casual
reader that for the moment,
while the bloody battle for tho
Caucasus Is being fought lo a
decision, Egypl is n mero side
Issue, to be disposed of after the
principal business Is concluded.1
The principal business "right
now Is Russia.
THE Japs are gunning for Port
" Moresby, In New Guinea,
tha allied outpost that guards
northern Australia.
In spite of nil that could be
done to stop them, they landed
the other day nt Buna, across tho
100-mlles-wlde Papunn peninsula
from Port Moresby. They are
reported today to be BO miles
Inland from there halfway
across.
Their advancp Is being op
posed by allied land forces, who
apparently are being driven
,ck. Their proboblo purpose
W to storm Port Moresby from
the land side,
CONGRESSMAN WALGREN
of Woshlngton says today in
San Francisco that tho "higher
lips In Washington who deter
mine tho strategy are respon
sible for our failuro to drive the
Japs out of tho Aleutians.
He thinks those hlghcr-ups
should take steps Immediately
ts tho Japs are digging in dally
and every day of deluy means a
harder and bloodier job when
It Is tackled.
He can't see why something
isn't done, but adds that ho has
no criticism to moke of the army
and navy on tho Poclfic Const.
'''THE announced total of ship
sinkings on our side of the
Atlantic sinco Pearl Harbor
Dosses the 400 mark today. For
4-ckt averogo losses ran about
one and a holt ships per day
Average losses ore now running
about two a day. 1
In other words, the submarines
are INCREASING THEIR KILL,
TN the race with the submarines,
60 U. S. shipyards with about
800 launching ways are ni
employing 750,000 men.
Their avcrngo number ' of
launchlngs per day is a military
secret. By whatever It EX'
CEEDS avorago dally sinkings,
It Is a gain on the subs,
i
WASHINGTON dispatches to.
day toll us that by the end
Bf 1943 wo sholl have TWO
MILLION MEN working In the
thlpyards, turning out 2300
merchantmen and 700 smaller
Ihlps.
That is a lot of tonnage. -If,
by the end of 1043, the nazls
kaven't INCREASED THEIR
IUBMARINES correspondingly,
"ought to get us In a position to
' ? something.
F you have been champing the
' bit and wondering why our
eadcrs haven't launched a sec
(Contlhued on Page Two)
Positiomis
ENEMY
AHEAD
TOWARD
PORT MORESBY
Ground Patrols Main
tain Contact
Buna-Gona
in
GENERAL MucARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS. Australia
July 28 UP) Allied bombers and
fighters blasted Japan's expand
ed positions In New Guinea last
night as ground patrols of Gen
eral MacArthur's command
maintained contact with tho en,
emy In the newly occupied Buna-
uona area, a communique said
tofiny.
The ground patrol activity was
in progress in the vicinity of.Olvl
between Kododa and Buna,
across me nnrrow but mounta n
ous Papua peninsula from Port
Moresby, vital allied base.
Tho Japanese, following fuviir-
able terrain on a eniirs lending
loworti I'ort Moresby, have ad'
vanccd Inland B0 miles since
their landing at Gona mission
lost week, The next few days
may disclose whether tha, Japa
nese Intend to aftampt in Assault
nn tho boso. ... - , : , , , ,
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over
. (Continued on Page Two) ,
Emergency Overland
Route to Panama
Canal Planned
WASHINGTON. July iff fPL
To avoid I ho submarine menace
in Iho Gulf of Mexico and the
Caribbean, six Central Amerl
can republics will cooperate with
the united Stoics In building an
emergency overland route from.
mis country to the Panama
canal.
Tho slate department an
nounced last night that Gunte
molo, El Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Coslo Rica and Pan
ama have agreed to aid In con
structing about 25 miles of pio
neer roads connecting segments
of the Inler-Amcrlcan highway
between the Mexican-Guatemalan
border and Panama City.
Completion of the project will
permit traffic between the
Standard Guage railway In Mex
ico and tho Canal Zone. Supplies
then con be shipped 'to the Canal
Zono and Contral American cit
ies by lond. The Central Amer
ican republics now depend large
ly on water transportation for all
supplies.
The United Slates will pay for
the emergency construction.
School Boards Adopts
Junior High School Plan
The Junior high school plan
which will shift all eighth grades
of the city schools Into the Fre.
mont building this fall, was
adopted by tho school board
Monday night In h Joint session
which also sow tho appointment
of Mrs. Grace M. Johnston as
new high school director.
Mrs. Johnston will represent
tho Plevna district, She lives
near Weyerhoouscr mill and fills
the vacancy caused by tho resig
nation of Lewis Botens. Her ap
pointment was made by remain
ing members of the high school
board. .
Superintendent Arnold Gra-
lapp proposed the Junior high
school program at tha last board
meeting. It Is the first stop In
that direction after years of dis
cussion of a Junior high school
for Klnmnlh Falls.. Ail eighth
graders will go to school at Fre
mont, and tho regular Fremont
grades, first to seventh, will also
use that building.
Transportation
Gralapp will mako further
study of the. transportation of
'fringe" students to the school,,
Test of FDR's
War-Time Power
Held Possible'
WASHINGTON, July 28 (P)
A possibility .that President
Roosevelt's wartime -powers
might bo tested by the United
States supreme court arose to.
day as tha nation's highest trib
unal Interrupted Its Summer re
cess to determine whether any
of tho alleged nazl saboteurs on
trial, before a secret military
commission are entitled . to the
processes prescribed by. the bill
of rights.
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone
announced through the court
clerk that a special term would
be held tomorrow so that conn
sel for "certain of" the prison'
ers may apply for habeas cor
pus writs. If the court should
decide to entertain the petitions,
and then grant them, the case
(Continued on Page Two)
48
Recommendation Does
Not Affect Wage
; ,;,hlotir Rules, vv?
'','"!. " .(,.'
, WASHlNGTQN.'July 28
A calling of 48 hours weekly ln"l
$ eight-hour days--on the work'
Ing time for millions of men and
women employed In war IndiiS:
trits wai proposed today by
eight government agencies.
Tha office of war information
announced hat such hours had
been recommended to war con
tractors and other war produc
ing agencies. - ' .
'Tho molor effect of the new
policy statement on. hours," the
announcement said, "should be
to reduce excessive working
hours per, week per person,
which cannqt be sustained with-
out Impairing the health and ef
ficiency of workers and reducing
the flow of production."
Policy
The statement of policy,
signed by representatives, of the
war Bnd navy departments, mar.
Itlme commission, public health
service, war manpower commls.
sion, war production board, com
merce department and labor de
partment, set forth four major
standords, as follows: .
1. For wartime production the
8-hour day and 48-hour week
approximate the best working
schedule for sustained efficiency
In most Industrial operations:
2. One scheduled day of-rest
for the Individual, out of ap
proximately every seven, should
(Continued on Page Two)
Those who live farthest away
will be given transportation pri
ority. ' Several personnel changes de
veloped at the meeting. ! '
i Superintendent Gralapp said
he planned to recommend Joe
Peak as physical education su
pervisor for the entire school
system, grade and high school.
He said action will be deferred
for two weeks. Peak may attend
a physical education Instructors'
course at St, Mary's of Moraga,
Calif.,: designed to help coordi
nate high school physical educa
tion with the armed service pro
gram. '
Wllhelm Bodlno, resigned as
art instructor at the high school.
Ha has taken a Job in the Doug
las aircraft plant at Los Angeles.
His successor - has not been
named.
Laava of Abisnca
Al Sinclair, science - teacher,
was given a leave of absence be
cause he Is going Into the ser
vice. Marie Dixon, who taught
last year at Henley and had been
elected to the p.e. staff of the
(Continued on Page Two)
Mm
ROMMEL DRIVE
TOWARD SUEZ
HELD BROKEN
New British Counter
Thrusts Force Axis
... To, Dig in
By EDWARD KENNEDY
CAIRO, July 28 m Harass
ed by new British land and aer
ial counter-thrusts, Field Mar
shal Rommel's African army ap
peared today, after the latest
flareup of fighting, to be dig
ging In for an attempt to hold
Its forward positions 75 or 80
miles from Alexandria rather
than try to drive on toward the
Nile delta and Suez.
Fighting went on through last
night in the newest British blow
at - the northern flank of the
front where the" battle has see
sawed ior four weeks since Gen.
Sir Claude :Auohinleck's troops
brought Rommel's -Jong push to
a standstill. -. "
' Some prisoners were taken in
the fight, and losses were In
flicted upon the axis forces, but
MM lomoinps) that any
largo, permanent weage pea
bean driven In- the axis line.. In
some - places Imperial ' trqops
cV6v'rtnem"tiacB; td hlr Orig
inal volitions.'" ' ' '(' '
V The axis forces met the' foray
definitely on the defensive and
made no Immediate move to
hit back. '
'4 ' ' -' Race ! - 'f.'f.j'u J
Both sides are racing to.' get
more men and material. Rom
mel is handicapped' in this by
the. difficulties In drawing
strength from the continent and
by Britain and Uhlted Stfites, ar-
ial blows at his lines of rein
forcement. Auchlnleck is han
dicapped by the enormous dis
continued on Page Two)
Martin May
Testify Soon
In Aroff Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28
W5) Tony Martin, handsome ac
tor and singer, may be called
tomorrow to testify to his.
sociation with Lieut. Commander
Maurice N. Aroff, now on trial
at a naval court martial.
Aroff was accused of asking
for and accepting a $950 auto
mobile from Martin as a fee
for facilitating the singer's en
listment In the naval reserve as
a chief specialist. '
A letter signed by Aroff, then
naval procurement officer here,
asking Martin's Beverly Hills
draft board to. defer the actor
was introduced as government
evidence.
Written from 12th naval dls.
trlct headquarters here, to
which Aroff was attached, it
suggested to draft board 248 in
Beverly Hills, Calif., that Mar-
(Continued on Page Two)
New Department
Will Feature
Service Men
The Herald and News today
inaugurates on Page 3 a de
partment entitled "Our Men
In Service."
Here will appear, news
and pictures of the men of the
Klamath country who are
serving their country in the
armed, forces'.
' It is suggested that Klamath
people with relatives In the
service clip this feature and
send it In letters to their boys.
"Our Men in Service" will
appear as often as the accum
ulation of material justifies.
People sending In pictures or
news items concerning service
men should address their let
tors to Our Men in Service,
Herald and News, Klamath
Falls, Ore. . '
Alaska
Ona-thlrd of tha Buraau of Indian Affairs hospital at Unalaska
Harbor. Alaska, was destroyed by Jap bombs on June 4, but no
FIRE BOMBS FALL
Birmingham Air Raid
Costs Nazis 50 to -
- 70 Planes
, LONDOIL , Jujy - 2(J GfPWBirr
mingham, Mg British -'induswlal
center in '. the , midlands, was
bombed last, night in an attack
which cost .the Germans eight
out oi dm ro iv raiaexs, ana in
cendiaries fell in the Greater
London district which had its
first night alarm since June 3.
" A ninth German bomber was
reported shot down this morning
off the southwest coast.
"Enemy action last night was
on a somewhat-larger scale than
for some time past, a commun
ique said.. "Fires and damage
were caused in the Birmingham
area where there also were a
number of casualties."
- Scattered bombings caused
some damage elsewhere through
the midlands and eastern
counties. , . ,
Many fires were started in Bir
mingham and casualties were
reported "fairly numerous." The
greatest damage was sustained
by homes and shops and a large
hospital was emptied when a de.
layed action, bomb fell nearby.
. Residences Hit
In an adjacent locality the
post office was demolished and
residential areas hit Rescue
squads worked until past dawn
bringing out those trapped In
the debris.
Other German craft were over
(Continued on Page Two)
Nazis. Execute
23 Frenchmen
In New Purge
VICHY, July 28 (JP) The
Germans announced today the
execution of 28 persons at Lille
on conviction of a series of of
fenses,' Including sabotage, pos
session of weapons and com
munistic activity.
At tha same time French
courts at Douai, a suburb of
Lille, sentenced two persons to
life in prison for stealing ration
cards, and 28 others to a total
of 40 years in prison. Most of
them also were miners.
' Delayed advices from- Cour
tral, also in the Lille region,
said an unspecified but consid
erable -number of persons had
been arrested as hostages after
five fires were started In - one
night .
Japs Routed in
Chekiang Province
CHUNGKING, July 28 UP)
The Chinese, high command an
nounced today the Japanese had
been routed in heavy fighting
near the Japanese-occupied town
of Kiangshan, in Chekiang pro
vince near the Klangsl border.
Fighting is continuing around
Kwangfong in eastern Klangsl,
the Chinese having repulsed a
Japanese attempt to dislodge
them from a hilltop, a commun
ique said, . ,
Hospital Hit by Jap Bombs
Ship Toll Tops
400; Casualties
Listed at 2000 :
By' The Associated Press ' -
The till of merchant shipping1
sunk by enemy submarines on
the very doorstep of the Ameri
cas has topped the 400-m'ark and
the western Atlantic has becorhe
a grave of more than 2000 seamen-and
passengers since Pearl
Harbor.
vJTigurts tabulated by ,1
ciatea tress yesterday as the an
nounced or t-eported wartime
sinkings-In those waters reached
401 showed that at least '1620
mora crewmen or . passengers
were missing after attacks by
the undersea raiders, while 11,
788 persons have been rescued.
For the 400th acknowledged
victim a U-boat chose the'small
est fry in the 233 days of their
preying on allied or neutral
shipping off American shores
a 16-ton onion boat just out of
Havana. The sub's crew, appar
ently running out of rations,
ftelped itself to 40,000 pounds of
onions, canned goods and a quan
tity of Diesel oil from the vessel.
Later yesterday the Mexican
government announced the sink
ing Sunday morning in the Gulf
of Mexico freighter Oaxaca, for
the fifth Mexican victim of the
war and the 401st on the grand
total of allied or neutral ships
destroyed. .
With the deadly axis submer-
slbles destroying ships at a rate
of nearly two a day, more than
60 American shipyards with up
ward of 300 launching ways are
employing 750,000 men and ex
pect to have 2,000,000 on the
payrolls turning out 2300 mer
chantmen and 700 smaller craft
by the end of next year.
The navy, meanwhile, has. tak
en many direct steps to stop the
submarine menace, including ex
tending the convoy system to the
Caribbean, opening a submarine
combat school where 1200 men
are being trained to operate es
cort and patrol boats, obtaining
hundreds of privately-owned -small
patrol craft, increasing
blimp. and plane patrols over
shipping lanes.
Higher-Ups"
Jap Aleutian
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 j
UP) Senator Monrad C. Wall
gren (D-Wash.) says that "high-
er-ups In Washington are re
sponsible for the failure of .Am
erican forces to drive the. Jap
anese invaders out of the Aleu
tian islands.
I can't especially find any
criticism of the army and navy
on the coast," Wallgren told
newsmen. V
'But I think the higher-ups In
Washington, who determine
strategy, should take steps to
drive them out immediately.
They re digging in and entrench
ing themselves dally,
"Every day the Japs are al
lowed to stay there means that
it will take that much longer or
more to drive them out. And
every day they are allowed to
stay there means that many,
many mora American lives are
going to be lost before they are
driven out
ws rn mau u aula
7J A . - IIHIIIIM.III.I Hill H
nk I r"uu"uuu
just a few miles from Dutch
lives were lost. .
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Aluminum Wo r ke rs
Ask U n ion -Sec urity,
' - $1' Increase
WASHrNGTQN, iW? 28 '()
CIQ leaders and spokesmen' for
the Aluminum -Company ' of
America urged, the- -war;.;lbor
board today to act quick jy oa?
.dispute over wages and organ
ization but they disagreed sharp
ly on what the decision ought
to be.
Unions want union security
and check-off of dues, a $1
day . general wage increase,:
10-cehts-an-hour premium., for
afternoon and night shifts, and
revision of the- company bonus
system.
H. W. Anderson, personnel di
rector of the company employ
ing thousands of workers on war
jobs at plants in Tennessee,
(Continued on Page Two)
Fire Controlled ,
On East Hills
Fire blackened a section of
the hills east of town Tuesday
afternoon, but was placed under
control before it reached serious
proportions. :
Klamath Forest Protective as
sociation sent a water-wagon to
assist the control crew, which
backfired from roads and trails.
Numerous roads bitten into the
earth by sightseers' automobiles
have provided a series of fire
breaks on the hills east, which
provide a commanding view of
the town.
SUEZ RAIDED
CAIRO, July 28 (P) Enemy
planes raided the Suez Canal
area last night, killing one per
son and injuring seven, the
Egyptian Interior ministry an
nounced. Alarms also sounded
in the Nile Delta region.
Blamed for
Entrenchment
"I can't . see why something
isn't done at once, , without de
lay."
Wallgren Is a member of a
senate military affairs sub-committee
that Is awaiting approval
of the army for a trip to Alaska
to Investigate the nation's de
fenses there.
'The army may find it awkard
to" afford "special"- protection to a
group of congressmen," said
Wallgren. "It's up to them
whether we will go or not. ' We
were supposed to start August
."
The ' Washington senator is
here now In another capacity,
as a member of a senate sub
committee of light metals and
aviation of the senate Truman
investigating committee. The
group yesterday inspected bay
area defense plants and Installations.
i NAZIS HAMMER
IIUTd lUnDTUCDM
in u ilUliiilLilil
Germans Hurl Superi
or Forces Into
. Mighty Battle '
MOSCOW, July 28 UP)
Germany's mechanized might
drove into the north Caucasus
today over widened bridgeheads'
across the Don south of Tslm
lyansk and the broken defenses
of Novocherkassk and Rostov. in
the gravest moment of the entire
war for the soviet union. ,
Into their bid for conquest of
the Caucasus Russia's oil bar
rel and supply bridge to the
south the CI p p m n r m
forces which Red Star, organ of
me nussian army, said were
"man v time minAriAf-'1 tk
number of the defenders. .
Another tremendous , battle
raged toward a climax deep in
the Don bend at the approaches
to Stalingrad and the Volga. A
dispatch to Pravda, the commun
ist Dflrtv newmnivr alH nnnn
Germans were killed in a single
sector. '
Hammering tnwnrA vo lb.f
rail line linking Stalingrad W
me Caucasus, the Qermans.were
Sald'to have martn a nam nrnatlnW
of the Don in the Tsihilyansk
sector, wnere tne Don flows
within 50 miles of the railway, .
StaUnr4lds W:
The defenders of Stalingrad,'
nowever, were reported to nave
repulsad.capeated-tank and mo
torized infantry attacks deep in
th Don's big bend close to- the
mighty Volga. . - ,-;.'.-''-(The
German1 hish
said its forces-had widened and.
deebehed t h el r ' manati-offnna'
south of the Don and had reach
ed or -crossed the river ' along
virtually the - entire eastward
bend.) . "
A Russian chmmnniniio atA
last night that "our troops have
evacuated Novocherkassk nJ
Rostov." There was no confir
mation, however, of German
claims of the capture of Bataisk,
15 miles south of Rostov on the
main rail line to the Caucasus
oilfields and oil ports. ' .
Disrjatchpft Irnvn tha . t,Bt41&
front said fierce fighting was
spreaaing in tne trans-Don area '
as the ' Germans stmnfffhan .
their offensive with clouds of
stuKa1 dive bombers and many
tanks. ''-. ' - - '',- "'
The heaw onslaught a'f4tr,tA4.
ly was forcina the red arm v in
fall back to the south.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H.
E.
3
3
St. Louis ... 6 9
Brooklyn ..i...... 7 . 8
White, Pollet (1) and
W.
Cooper; French, Davis (6) and
Owen. :.,
- ' R. H. E.
Chicago ; 8 12 0
New York 9 17 : 0
Olsen, Errlckson (1) and Mc-
Cullough; Hubbell and Dannlng.
I"''---":'7 : R. H. E.
Cincinnati ..... 8 12 1
Philadelphia 1 2 - 1
Vander Meer and Lamanno;
Johnson," Nahem (3), '.Beck - (9)
and Livingston.- -
' " R. ' H. E.
Pittsburgh ..- 3 5.2
Boston. 4 10 0
Butcher. Wllkle (8). Dietz (9)
and Lopei; Sain, Tost (9) and
Kluttz. .
AMERICAN LEAGUi
. R. H. E.
New York 8 ll 0
Chicago : 3 10 1
Bonham and Hemsley, &mitn,
Haynes (4) Bnd Turner.
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Comics and Story Page 6
Courthouse Records .......Page 3
Editorials Page 4
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Market, Financial -...Page 7
Our Men In Service Page 3
Pattern ...Page 8
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