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isiiiiiii! mm mm 1 -wl m " On S-mlnute blast on ilrtni and whistles It the signal lor blackout In Klamath falls. Another long blast, during a black July 28 High 87. Low 84 , Precipitation a of July 22. 1842 ' : Last year .......... ......... ia.8 ; Normal 12.02 Stream year to date ....13,17 out. Is a signal ior all-clear. In precau tionary perloda, watch your etreet lights. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES TWO SECTIONS PRICK FIVE CFNT8 KLAMATH FALLS. ORROON; WF.DNF.snAY, JTII.Y 29, 1942 Number 9562 Nl A MM IK ffl mmm m Emm mm i Him.. !: ':nliLi iiiM l!;i iJi " MSs PIT lli'lilii'iii' .n'.ni li Piliii'ifl i Si uiimi mi i. (i w"-ir' 1,1. ! H ,Tk. ..II! I1M 1 if! uav s INews m ii By FRANK JENKINS OS I'ECIAL thought (or thin week nd In the Klnmnth ccmntry, where tho new mobllo Victory Houm I gotllnK Ha first showing BUY BONDSI gUT don't itnp with this week- Buy war bonda at every po ilbla opportunity. Buy them with every loose dollar you have. ' Buy till It hurls. Only by contitunt and heavy buying of war bonds' by ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE can the war' be financed In such a way as to avoid a terrible headache when peace finally comes. ANOTHER thought: By buying wnr bonds with ftevsry loose dollar you can lay your hands on you are helping your country to flnnnce the war the HARD BUT RIGHT way. But that Isn't all. You aro doing tho best pos. alble thing you con do FOR YOURSELF. Whatever happens after the war,' a bond of the United Stales government will be the most valuable property In the world. AXMINOUS nows from Russia: V Soviet . supply traffic and rallrond communications EAST Or THE VOLGA nro reported to have been hit by nnzl air at tackers. Several transport ves sels are reported to hnvo been destroyed on tho Volga. Tho Volga Is more than an. other nnd wider river defense, It Is Russia's greatest artery of commerce. STAND (German news agency) A says today nail troops are being shifted from Russia BACK to Die channel coast, nnd ore parading In Paris on tho way, Berlin dispatches via Switzer land report that von Runstcdl (German commander In the west) Is revising his whole plan ot de fense to meet an allied second front. Tho German press (which says what It Is ordered to say) proclaims that such an attack Is to be expected. DAY little attention to these re. ports, which Bro bolng ped dled NOT TO INFORM but to THROW DUST IN SOME BODY'S EYE. As to a second front, wo out aiders can only wait and see. MEANWHILE tho second front may actually bo under way. Tho British bombed Hamburg 0 AGAIN , Inst night apparently using around 600 planes, as on Sunday night. RAF Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris promises grimly: "Wo are going to scourge Germany from end to end." . RETURNING RAF pilots say tho Sunday night attack on Hamburg EXCEEDED In de structive force tho 1000-plane at tack on Bremen last month. That is Interesting. Tho British aro reported to bo using TWO-TON bombs in theso latest raid)!. Thero hnvo been German references to theso huge missiles as "block-busters." They, aro said to smash an en lire block when they drop. Bigger bombs have been mado possible by BIGGER BOMBERS. JN both tho Sunday and the Tuesday night attacks on Ham burg, the dispatches hnvo specl llcd that losses run about five per cent. All available Informs Oil on recently has Indicated that ''Iho loss ratio has boon stabilized it around thnt figure. That is important. , A loss ratio of five per cent rienn that If attacks were car led out EVERY NIGHT tho orlg Inal force of planes would be (Continued on Page Two) J nn MM S RAID 'VERY 600 Planes Thought to Have Attacked; 32 Bombers Lost By The Associated Press LONDON, July 20In a raid officially described as "very suc cessful oven moro to thon we anticipated," four-motored bomb ers of tho RAF spread a ruinous rain of explosives and Incondlor ls on Hamburg last night for Ilia second time In three night. Loss of 32 ,. bombors was "somewhat higher than .In pre vious raids." due to the light of a nearly full moon and strong concentration of fighters over Germany's greatest port and best defended city, an RAF com mentator dcclarod. 28 Lost Loss of 29 planes was an nounced In tho Sunday night raid, so that last night's may also havo been on the 600-pltne scale of (hat attack. " 'i The raid upon . Uin already liard-Klt submarine building cen ter drove home Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris' grim promise: "Wo are going to: scourge the third relch from end to end.'1 (Tho attack came only few hours after the Berlin radio said 1)0 were known dead In Ham burg after tho Sunday night raid and others still were missing .In the wreckage.) , Nasls Concerned . An RAF commentator said thnt 1200 tons of bombs were dropped on Dulsburg and Ham burg on tho night of July 25 and 26 and that the continuing attacks were causing "increas ing concern" to tho nazt govern ment. Meanwhile, Hurrleano fighter bombers patrolling tho German held coast wcro said to have damaged a 300 to 400-ton steam er and a motor torpedo boat, and probably damaged three other vessels. Tho air ministry announced that other pilots flying Hurrl (Contlnued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. F. Pittsburgh , 3 10 2 Boston 0 8 2 Scwcl 1. Lnnez f f1 nnd Philn! Jovory, Donovan (0) and Kluttz. R. H. E. ChlcuRo 4 7 1 New York 2 10 1 B thorn and McCullniinlv Munuo. Fcldman ffl) and Man- cuso, Dahning (8). Pack of Dogs SUCCESSFUL' Klamath Sheep, Wild Life By FLORENCE OGLE A pack ot stray dogs is rov ing the country west of Klam ath Falls, preying on sheep and wildlife. Last winter, a number of dogs wcro deserted along the Ash land highway. Theso have ap parently banded together and become seml-wlld, and It Is re ported they are doing a great deal of damage. They have been r.ported on the Klamath river bluff, on Parker mountain, at Johnson prairia and In other localities, A doe and two fawns being chased by three dogs caught the attention ot Dan Fitzgerald at his sheep camp on Long prahrle Sunday morning about 10 o'clock. Ha ran After-them and fright ened tho dogs away after one of tho fawns had been Injured. It lay sprawled out and did not try to get up. Ho picked It up, carried it to- his camp and ap Air Command Unified in Aleutians WASHINGTON, July 2fl W) Creation of a unified command of all aircraft operations Jn the Aleutian islands was announced by the navy today. It said that details as to com' mand relationships and the exact location of headquarters could not be disclosed as they would be of valuo to the enemy. Tho navy reported, however, that a naval officer now In the Aleutians area had been placed In command ot the Joint oper ations by naval and army air craft. The same system of oper ational control under one head which has unified commands In Joint operations in Hawaii, A us trallo, the Canal zone, the east (Continued on Pago Two) No Evidence' Seen of Reinforcements ' For Nips GENERAL MucARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, -. A. .Austral!. July 2S (i Allied patrols have driven . strong, and aggressive Japanese units., back, from ad vanced outposts they ' occupied In .the vlclnllyiof Kokoda, New Guinea, only 60. miles from the most advanced allied base at Port Moresby,' General MacAr thur's headquarters ' announced today. ' From their newly occupied base at Gona mission on , the northeastern coast of the Papuan peninsula, tho Japanese patrols have advanced 55 miles Inland In less than a week and have clash ed with allied patrols near the small government station of Ko koda. Troops of General MacArth ur's command pushed back the Invaders yesterday While allied bombers In three different at tacks smashed at the enemy In stallations and supply stores at Gona mission. . Kokoda is a small town- with an airdrome, a rubber plantation and a few buildings. . It is situ ated In hilly country and behind It the Owen Stanley range rises to a height of 8000 feet and more. . Port Moresby lies to the south west on the other side of the range. , Uncertain A headquarters : spokesman said It still was uncertain Wheth er the probing action of the Jap anese was a mere patrol maneu ver or tho preliminary advance to an attack on Port Moresby. A single Japanese piano dropped several bombs on Port Moresby (Continued on Page Two) Preys oh plied a mild sheep dip to the gash on Its neck' to discourage tiles, and 'then sprinkled a lit tle dust on it to cut down smell,. : Follows Mother When he let it go it scamp ered off In the direction the mothor, and other fawn had gone. Fitzgerald has hot seen the dogs since and is worried about the damage they might do to his sheep. Leo Ulam, government trap per of Ashland, has observed several times where dogs have killed deer in the vicinity of Pokcgama during the past year. Stray cats have also been dumped along the Ashland high way as generously' as tin cans! The highway department picks up the cans and the cats have kittens which seem to survive, as they are frequently seen any where from Keno to the top of the Greensprings, stain FIGHT OPENS TO TRY SABOTEURS CIVIL COURT Enemy Aliens Not En titled, to. Courts, Biddle Asserts WASHINGTON. July 29 (IP)- Argument before tho supreme court In behalf of the right of seven of the eight alleged nazi saboteurs to bo tried In the civil courts was finished shortly after 4 p. m. (EWT) today and Attor ney General Blddlo Immediately began presentation of the gov ernment's opposition to abandon ing their military trial, ' --"Colphel" jCanneth. Roysll of counsel for the accused was on his feet before seven members of the highest tribunalfor Si hsjurs, during which he insisted that the presidential proclamation denying the civil courts to the prisoners was invalid. Biddle opened his argument with the statement that the petl ttoners were enemies of the gov ernment askjng protection, p( the courts. ' ... L ..,A -.r -,-'-- ; "Enemy aliens have jio.rlght'to sue or enter courts oi tne united States under, these circum stances," -Biddle ; declared ern- phatically, waving his hand. He said that their citizenship was not a factor,' and that "the essential element is that - all seven, aro enemies of the Unit ed States' Challenge - " .The challenge of the. wartime powers of the president and commander-in-chief camo In a re quest for a writ of habeas corpus, through which army . officers sworn to defend the accused seek to get their case taken away from tho presidentially-appointed military commission and into tho civil courts. To the defense contention that the president's proclamation denying the prisoners access to civil courts was "totally Invalid (Continued on Page Two) Lack of Big Engines Holds Up Plane Plan WASHINGTON, July 29 '(If) A WPB official testified today that a shortage of engines of sufficient horsepower prevents a quick shift to production of giant air cargo and troop-carry ing ships. Harold E. Talbot, director of air transportation for the war production board, told the sen ate defense Investigating com mittee that engines in produc tion ere allocated through next year, but he added that the army and- navy had "not neg lected" construction of cargo planes and troop transports. Any greater shift to such carriers, he said, Would, have to bo made at the expense of bombers and some- fighters ' re quiring engines of great horse power, - A secret report by a commit tee appointed by WPB Chair man Donald M.. Nelson, dealing (Continued on Page Two) . "Yonks in Conflict Everywhere," Lord Swinton Says LONDON, July 29 ' (fP) Reuters,. British news agency, to day, quoted Lord Swinton, Brit ish resident minister for West Africa, as declaring In a broad cast from Accra, Gold Coast colony, ' "Americans are: here with us. " "They are everywhere in this worldwide conflict. i "I have already experienced cooperation and frank partner ship with United , States . Fitz gerald." . . , . j i y. V, ,'t it'- A, t if i ' H 141 J h United States Senator Rufus Holman paid Klamath Falls a brief vuit on official business Wed nesday and was a guest at the directors' meeting of the Klamath county chamber of commerce at noon. Left to right, in the Mitchell Tillotson, Senator Holman.' and City Engineer E. A. the local airport at soma length, ., BASE ON CBETE U.S, Bombers, RAF; At tack.Tobruk Again . MdndaNigtit . : :t CAIRol' 'jMy. '.ii (-Allied heavy 'bombers attacked the vi tal axis 'supply harbor of Suda bay, Crete, at. dusk yesterday while lend operations on the El Alamein- front were Confined to patrol activities in the. northern sector,' general headquarters an nounced today. The communi que reported that heavy bombers of the allies took part In the at tack on Suda. bay which almost certainly, .meant that' United States bombers participated. United States bombers and the RAF together attacked Tobruk again Monday night. The port of Matruh also was raided, as were axis repair shops at Gala), between El Daba and Fuka. The repeated attacks on Suda bay may be explained by the re ports from Turkey and. ' else where that the axis constantly is ferrying troops and supplies into Crete for. transfer to the Egyp tian front. Torpedo-carrying aircraft hit and damaged a large axis mer--' --t. sh'n in the Ionian sea. Other allied planes attacked ...s. near Sidl Barranl off the Egyptian coast and set one on fire, the communique said. Existing Shipyards Can Handle All Business, Report SEATTLE, July 29 (JP) A 13th naval district statement de clared today that existing ship yards and those now under con struction or expansion "have more than adequate capacity to construct all vessels :'f or "which the ' country's basic ' Industries can'supply materials and equip ment." Steel hulls which can be built from the steel available can be constructed, the statement add ed, "at a rate more rapid than industry can supply engines, re duction gears and .other Impor tant equipment. ; Referring ' to small wooden vessels, the naval district de clared present .qualified yards can .build wood hulls more ra pidly than engines and other Important- equipment 'can be supplied. The statement express ed hope "that this situation will not obtain Indefinitely." . ' MUSSOLINI'S BIRTHDAY 1 BERLIN, (FROM ; GERMAN BROADCASTS), July 29 (IP) On the occasion of the 59th birthday today of Premier Mus solini of Italy, Adolf Hitler dis patched a ' telegram 1 expressing congratulations on behalf of the German people and himself. The Italian radio made no mention of the anniversary. With each encroaching year Mussolini has grown more, sensitive about his age. Hitler annually telegraphs congratulations. . Senator Holman Visitor in t .-V .XU I picture: Secretary E. C. Reynolds of the chamber. President Selfish Interests Defeat It Is the selfish interests the profiteers of labor and capital who want to get theirs while the getting is good who- have de feated America so far in this war. it was declared here Wed nesday by United States Senator Rufus Holman. '- V - i JtjWew-mUst be one single-purv Dpse on the part of every, man jacfe' of us from the president down and that is the prepara tion of-our country for the win ning of this war," said the sen ator, who stopped here briefly on a mission in connection with his military affairs committee affiliation. - Senator Holman ' visited the municipal airport and was a guest at noon at the chamber of commerce " 'directors luncheon, where he - asked about various CIO Seeks Further Pay Boost in Mills The CIO International Wood workers of America, which re cently gained a 7i-cent per hour wage increase for. 4500 of - its members in the southern .Ore gon and northern California area,, today announced that it was seeking further general pay boosts plus an . adjustment of minimum differentials, between pine' and fir, a night shift dif ferential, and other points. Tim Sullivan, president of the Klamath District council of the CIO-IWA,v who released the an nouncement, said no specific pay increase was being asked. He said in addition to the foregoing demands the union was asking for posted wage scales and ne gotiations on the feasibility of a district wage scale. . - . Sullivan said the union had notified the Pine Industrial Re lations committee, lumber em ployers association, of its de mands. . He said the union was basing its- requests upon Section' A, Paragraph 2 of thtf directive or der of the - national war labor board in Case No. 90,. covering (Continued on Page Two) Progress Made in Settlement of Union Shop Issue Further prograss toward set tlement of the union shop issue, only point left hanging in the May negotiations between the pine industrial relations com mittee and the CIO Internation al Woodworkers of America, was announced today by M. T. Owre, secretary-manager of the PIRC. Owre said that he and George Brown, chief representative of the CIO-IWA in this area, would meet with Warren Woods, war labor board agent, In Eugene Thursday to outline the two posi tions on the 'matter. Woods was riairred the WLB representative In a letter from Lewis W. Gill of the NLRB to Owre. ' The union shop Issue has been certified to the WLB by Secre tary of Labor Frances Perkins. City Thomas, with wbom he discussed EffqrtrHplman Says matters of local significance and discussed general trends and war problems. '.-' Cargo Planes - The senator paid warm tribute to Henry J. Kaiser's proposal for the building of immense cargo airplanes, and described Kaiser as "the most practical . man ., I have ever known." . - ; J ,' ., '. ''I was struck with the stimu lating originality of his thought," said Senator Holman. "Wt will never succeed in this war if we do not Use new ideas." r ' . . . Senator Holman asserted he is "very much concerned", about the protection afforded the. peo ple of the Oregon country, in cluding Alaska. He said he was designated by the chairman of the committee on military affairs to make his present tour, and that : he probably will visit Alaska within a few days. The Oregon senator answered critics who had questioned his patriotism because of his stand on international issues before Pearl Harbor. - -He declared that from the first his - theory . had been that the United States should make itself so powerful no one would dare attack it and then stay out of war, rather than to become in volved in war without having the: sinews -to fight it. He de clared he had stood firmly for the military ; strengthening of this country,' and related . his activities in this program. ' Appropriation . "? He told of a hearing in 194Q when the president sent over a defense appropriation bill asking for $800,000,000 plus. ..As a re suit of questions raised at -the hearing in which Senator Hol man participated, the appropria tions were increased by $700, (Continued on Page Two) FDR Asks Scrap Drive Help; Warns, Of Public Lethargy WASHINGTON, July 29 (ff) Progressive shortages in essen tial supplies appeared likely to day to bi-ing more forcibly to every home what President Roosevelt termed the need of a greater realization of the seri ousness of war. i - Asking full civilian participa tion in a scrap salvage drive and warning of forthcoming shortages in many . foods, the president said at a press confer ence yesterday that . the situa tion had yet to be realized by many people in the. country. , He declared that while there would be no general food short age, many specific Items ifva li able now would, be lacking later. A current shortage of meats in some areas, he added, was symptomatic of conditions which will produce deficiencies of certain foods in the future. VICTORY HOUSE PROGRAMS Complete programs and other information on the Victory Quota Days and Victory House visit Friday and Saturday will be found today on pag 13, the first page of the second section. NAZIS REVISE DEFENSE ON T Slight . Stiffening of Sov let Res i stance ",. : .. Reported 7 . By ROGER D. GREENE i : Associated Press War Editor ( German dlsDatche.i sairi tnHnv that . Nazi, Field Marshal ; Gen. uera 'Aron itundstedt was revising- his whole -plan of defense against art allied second front in western Europe, while in Paris German SS (Elite guard) troops from the. Russian front naraAA through the streets en route to poszs aiong tne English channel Invasion coast. . ' ' , Advices from Bprlln salii t'h. nazi press was assuring the Ger man people that any second front attempt could.be defeated, bUt for the first timp arlrnnurf. edged that such an effort could oe expected.. -- -. . , .. Soviet Front J" On the soviet frnnt fv,r were signs of a slight stiffening Dy cieia Marsnai oemeon Timo shenko's red armies against KM nazi tide sweeping into the Cau casus, but the crisis remained acute. ,, ; ; i-. ... DNB, the German News agen cy, announced that Adolf Hitler'a own SS troops were parading through- - Paris- ostensibly to show that Germany, gas ready to perhaps,- to' cow; rebellious xrenenmen wno ..mignt rise to aid the allies. : f,-Vv ' On the Russian front, Adolf Hitler's armored columns, knifed deeper into the Cancani In drive from Rostov, racing over a countryside described ; by" the Russians, as "flat as a billiard ta ble , ; ; Ideal for tank opera-; Soviet dlsnatr-ht oU ' th Germans were "Striking toward Kushchevka 45 miles due south of Rostov, on a mute narallnllnir the Rostov-Baku railway and oil pipeline, but declared the inva ders were suffering bloodv losses. , , 2: ' "Our men am rii.mlnvfnff tuTw born resistance to the attacking enemy,"" the soviet command said. "Duririff vesterdav .In nn sector, they disabled 10 German tames ana Killed nuu enemy of ficers and men." , , . ' i, ;j 7 A sinele Russian InfnntW force was credited with wlnins out io.boo Germans in 10 days or iignung ai voronezn on :trte UDner Don. the scpnn nf tho nrlo. inal push in Hitler's grand of-T (Continued on Page Two) -(' uucifuica IT CILUniBl , Invasion, But It's LA L J LI. C .'.".' ! BERLIN, (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS) July 29 (JP) Propaganda Minister Paul Jos eph Goebbcls today extended hearty welcome" to the British and Americans in case theyc should try an Invasion of the continent, but told them It would' be "an act of madness." ' Writing in the periodical Das Reich, he expressed hope that, Americans would participate in such an attempt, saying, "these MacArthur's then for the first time would make the acquain tance of German soldiers who, al- though not carrying tennis rack ets or golf clubs, would carry iirst-ciass weapons ana wouia bring with them a vast store of war experience collected on all curopean DHiueueins. :. i "They would gladly, tajte the; opportunity ot making it plain to the Yankees that for the lat-. ter also entrance to Europe Is forbidden." Goebbels said that no German troops would be withdrawn from the west to save the east, but that some of the best and most, efficient troops had been trans-, ferred to the west. . .- - . ' News Inder - City Briefs Page Comics and Story ........Page 16 Courthouse Records..'......Page 8 Editorials ......Page - 4 Information ....Page 2 Market, Financial ,....Page '.. 9 Pattern Page 9 Sports ..j....Page 10. NVAIN COAS .;. .. "... J
