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Newspaper Page Texti.ni my rinrrrrri'rr ............ weather Ne llii.i,,., July 31 High SI, Low 48 ' . Prtclpltatlon n of July J 5, 140 - Laat year ...................... 13.(1 Normal 12.04 Straam yaar to data '.....................13.17 On B-mlnute blest on alrena and whlatlea li the algnal lor blackout in Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during black out! Ii a signal (or all-cltar. In pricau tlonarr periods, watch your atraat iighta. NEA FEATURES ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-GASCADE WONDERLAND - - i 1 - - - -i r n A MATH FALLS, OREGON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1942 Number 9555 .in.i JtKUtJlt: .,, . , muu.'l .iivinii - . Nl mt D1 ui m m MM t P. isiiiijiiiaiifilli ifciiiiilii '. By FRANK JENKINS TODAY In Ruasla: Tlio German deem to be checked went of Stalingrad (aw! tho Volga) but are driving on outhward from Hoslov with un diminished upeed and power. yHE all-Important Issue of RE 1 INFOHCEMENT Is coming to tho surface with Increasing fre quency In tho ncwa today. Tho German high command ro porta ceaseless, violent battle raging In tho Don bend (west of Stalingrad) and Indicates the Russians are acndlng up HUGE SCALE REINFORCEMENTS. German air units, tho hltlh command soya, are attocklnK dny and night Russian troops arriving by rail, by road and by water woy. From Moscow comes the state ment that German thrusts south and southeast of Rostov are con tinuing with CONSTANTLY RE INFORCED strength. . YOU will nolo that each aide la telling about the other fel i low's use of reserves but keep ing ailont about its own. In war, you don't tell your enemy how or Where you are using your re serve strength. You leave that for him to find out. AT the Mcunirua river, where Hasdrubal -fljrottwr'e nlbnl) was defeated and the) real fata o( Carthago sealed, the Romnn army of Llvlua was heav ily reinforced, the night before tho battle by tha arrival of the army of Claudius Nero. The arrival of Noro's army was carefully, concealed by the Romans, and was not discovered by Hasdrubal until he .was mov ing into battle the next day. The discovery compelled him to change his battlo plan at tha last moment, and the lust-minute change was instrumental In bringing about his overwhelm ing defeat. (Shrewd Hasdrubal surmised tho arrival of Nero's army when he heard tho trumpet sound TWICE In the Roman camp.) POSSESSION of tho necessary reserves and using them at the right time and the right pluca has determined tho outcome of battles AND WARS ever since history begun, i This same question of reserves will probably determine tho out como of tho battlo of Russia. - THE British pound Dusseldorf, groat Rhino port and indus trial city, with another 000-plnno air forco. Heavy damage Is re ported. Thcy dropped 180 two- tnn "MtM-k.amnchnrtt" ntirl hmv s dreds of thousands of incendiary bombs. Nolo tho continuing uso of about 600 planes. Experience g seems to have Indicated that wfriuimbor as about right tor suf ficient handling. : Note also tho REGULARITY -W the ann-plnn attacks. -.5 . . EGYPT slays quiet sovo for air raids. , , U. S. bombers range from To bnik to SOUTHERN GREECE, attacking Rommel's communica tions. At one point they attack an axis transport convoyed by even axis destroyers and a cruiser nnd SCORE A HIT ON IT. (Showing tlio destructive pow er of WARPLANES against SURFACE ships. One trnnsport guarded by eight warshjps Is heavy protection yet tho planes penetrated It.) - '. JLJAC ARTHUR'S headtuarlors , In Australia report that the Jps hove EXTENDED their hpld on the Solomons by ESTAB LISHING themselves on Guadal canal island, a suitable site for AIR buses. They wero attacked by Billed (U. S. and Australian) plnncs, but couldn't be stopped. They, are edging farther around toward our communica tion line to Australia, aiming (Continued on Pago Two) MO 0 ID ISLANDS TAKEN FORI BASE Allies Score Probable Hit on Cruiser in Dutch Indies - GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. I UP) The Japanese have extended their hold on the Solo mon Islands east of New Guinea by. establishing themselves on Guadalcanal island, a suitable site for air bases, General Mac Arthur's headquarters reported today. The disclosure waa made In a communlquo relating that Japa nese Installations St Kukum on the north shore of the island wero attacked yesterday by al lied planes which also damaged a largo enemy cargo ship off shore. "' ' Other bombers operating far to the northwest attacked and "probably hit" a Japanese cruis er In the Bands soa south of Ambolna In tha Dutch East In dies, tho bulletin, sale), ,, ,. Basan t Waaka Aoo I'-TljaJnp'ahcW ; began j moving mo uuaaaicanai aoout six weeks ago, apparently with tho intention ot - establishing air bnsrs thore, a spokesman said. The island Is ono of the south ernmost of the group, which ex tends In a chain for about 900 miles to the southeast ot New Britain. Bougainville, northern most of the group, was occupied by the enemy some time ago. '; On tha Papuan' peninsula of New' Guinea, where allied and . . (Continued on Pago Two) East Faces Drastic Fuel Oil lack, Roosevelt Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (AP) President Roosevelt sold today that, every user of fuel oil in tho east "should 'face realistical ly the fact that thore can be no guarantee .that, ho will get enough' oil to ' 'meet" even his minimum needs" next. winter. ' Mcanwhllo, Petroleum Coord inator Ickcs doclorod that "It Is qulto possible that fuel , and heating oil may be so short next winter that deliveries may have to be refused to any con sumer who is able to convert his furnace from oil to coal, but who has not done so. Ickcs said that "It is possible that there may bo some days when many of the ' 1,250,000 homes In the cast using oil for heating "will be completely without fuel and heating oil." 10,000 Too Many Japs in Aleutians, Johnson Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (IP) Navy reports that possibly 10, 000 Japaneso wero in or near the western Aleutian Islands brought the comment from Senator John son (D-Colo.) today "that's 10, 000 too many." '."Howover," he added, "the oc cupation, of theso rocky Islands Is more of o nuisance to us than It Is of any! military value to the Japanese, since air bases arc not posslblo on those Islands." ; Senator Thomas (D-Utah) said ha regarded with grave misgiv ings tha; fact that the Japanese had been' permitted to establish themselves anywhere in . the Aleutians, Ho remarked, how ever, that global strategy might bo such that no move would be made to oust the Invaders until more favorable conditions pre-, vailed elsewhere. ( Delegate Dlmond of Alaska said that he "assumed that the navy knows what it Is talking about", lit estimating tho size ot, the Japanese force at 10,000, but Extend Holdfin Pacific -iC viLACH Hp; NOVOROSSISK X'Jl ? S zMKC L CASSPIAN s je AB!lllliil!iil iflilllllllllllliip Jx '" ' - TURKEY !w,vb5i- STAtUTf MtlfS Reservea of tha red army were being thrown Into the' area o ,dtfp.Mi for th Caucasus and BUllagiad.and wara Jiohtlng bitterly i tha Comi ric TH (bAcV -!lnVarmana claimed penetration to Proletarakaya (I), hower,' cutting tha Kramodar-Stallngrad railway.' Southwest ot Kletakaya (2), a rast tank battle has been raging for ; several-jdaya .to.. bait, the drlre toward Stalingrad. 1 '''''' ' ''-) '. ' '' ':v?;-' ' Transport' Struck Off Southern Greece; Tobruk Raided CAIRO, Aug. 1 (AP) Num erous axis harbor facilities In several areas of the middle east war zone as well as axis Medi terranean convoys were targets of United States army air forco bombers during the week end ing today, according' to an of ficial announcement. Included In the American op erations was R daylight attack on a largo transport under the (Continued on Page Two) FLIERS KILLED SALINAS, Calif., Aug. 1 VP) Second Lt. Myers L. McCrory of Santa Ana, . and Technical Sgt.'John L. Coan, Des Moines, In., were killed yesterday as their observation plane struck a power line and plunged into Bass lake, 60 miles northwest of Fresno. added that his own Information Indicated there was larger number thoro late In June, "per haps 25,000." WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (ZD Harassed Japanese forces on three western Islands of tho Aleutians and In noorby waters have been estimated at. 10,000 men by an American naval of ficial who Indicated reports of enemy landings on tho Prlbllof Islands wero unfounded. About 8000 Japs have landed on tha islands of Attn, Kiska and Agattu of the Aleutian group, North Pacific tip of Am erican territory and gateway to Alaska, tha navy spokesman de clared, An equal enemy forco probably is aboard warships and transports In the area, he said. . Tho navy spokesman, who de clined 'to, be quoted by name, said last night that aerial recon naissance so far. had failed to disclose any enemy landings on . (Continued on Page Two) . Russ Reserves in Battle Candidates in 16 States Vie For Election By D. HAROLD OLIVER .WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 VP) The biggest primary election month of the year opened today with candidates in 16 states vying for 12 senate and 164 house seats and several gover norships. Democratic Senator A. . B. (Happy) Chandler's race for re nomination in Kentucky today started the round of balloting in the August primary and con vention calendars which already have drawn nation-wide atten tion. ' There Is, for example, later In tho month, New York's Import ant democratic" gubernatorial contest, and selection ot nom inees for senate seats now held by the three veterans Glass (D-Va.); Norrls (Ind-Neb.) and Capper (R-Kans). Their com (Contlnued on Page Two) Country-Wide Increase in Coal Price Eyed WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 OP) Interior Secretary Ickes an nounced totfny thnt feenrnmor!. dations had been filed with the bituminous coal division in the interior department for the first over-oil revisions . of minimum prices for soft coal, proposing a weighted, country-wide aver age Increaso ot 15 cents a ton.' The increases, if finally ap proved, would range from 5 . to 30 cents for various production areas. Ickes sold the recommen dations were "designed to In creaso .the general level of min imum prices at. the mine with tha least disturbance ot tho ex isting competitive pattern." An office of price administra tion ' spokesman said the mini mum price revisions would have virtually no effect on the max imum prico ceilings for soft coal set by OPA. On the basis ot a regional grouping,, the specific price .in creases listed b Ickes Included: Wyoming, . Utah, Idaho, Ore gon, Nevada, California and Black Hills region ot South Da' kota 5 cents. ' ' ' Washington, Alaska and west ern Canada 35 cents. . RUSSIA Huge Crowd Turns Out For Victory House ' Entertainment Klamath county, war savings investments zoomed over tne $307,500 July quota Friday night, and on Saturday a good start on August purchases was made at fvictory House, Eighth and Main streets. Against a backdrop of enter tainment, tho war savings effort went forward steadily Saturday, A huge- crowd milled around Victory House Friday night and Saturday afternoon, but the big gest attendance of the two-day event li expected Saturday night. . J. V. Owens, assistant to Andy Collier, county . war sav ings chairman, announced to the crowd shortly after 9 p. m. Fri day that the July quota had been raised. All though the eve ning bond purchasers had been culling uown me aeiicu. Top $30,000 As a result ot the intensive effort, centering around the Victory House program, bond sales for Saturday topped $30 000. Purchases were heavy at banks as well as at the desK . (Continued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. Cincinnati 1 9 1 Boston ;,.......2 7 0 Starr and R. West; Solvo and Masl. . R. H. E. St. Louis 3 8 1 New York 1 8 0 Lanier and W., Cooper; Sun kel, Adams (9) and Danning. ,i R. H. E Pittsburgh 17 1 Philadelphia 2 7 1 Gornicki, Sewell (10) and Lo pez; Hughes and Bragan. AMERICAN : LEAGUE : ' . i ' .. 1 R. H. E. Boston 9 14 3 Detroit 8 13 2 '. Wagner,' Brown (4), Ryba (7) and Conroy, Peacock (7); New- houser, Wilson (3), White (4), Menders (9) and Tebbetts. KLAMATH FALLS TAX RATES UP 1 Chiloquin Rates Rise; County Tax Levels ' Generally Down COMBINED TAX LEVIES . . 1942-43 1940-41 Klamath Falls ....74.1 72.3 Chiloquin 59.0 52.6 Bonanza 51.2. 52.5 Malin 67.7 69.6 Merrill ...58.9 68.6 Gen. Outside 31.0 . 35.1 Suburban 40.8 .. 43.4 Klamath Falls and Chiloquin tax rates are up for the- new fiscal year, but otherwise tax levels are generally" down Jh Klamath county, It is shown- in a tax- levy summary- announced Saturday by County Assessor Charles H. Mack. The compari sons were made with the year 1940-41. the last full year of taxation, because the half-year levies, January through June of 1942, do not give comparable figures. Assessor Mack said 'the in crease Iri tho combined levy for hKlamath :Falls is -chiefly due to special levies which have been voted by. the people in recent years. An Increase in Klamath Union . high school taxes also contributed to the boost in -the Klamath . Falls rate. ; '-.''; ' Assessor Mack's summary shows the following compari sons for the special tax rates of municipalities ' and school dis tricts: 1942-43 1940-41 jta.te and County.. 19.5 . 23.3 27.9 17.5 17.4 34.5 33.5 5.8 15.3 4.8 7.0 show Klamath Falls .30.4 . .28.0 .20.2 .36.7 .27.9 Chiloquin Bonanza Malin Merrill Elementary No. l..'.. 6.2 Union High No. 2....18.0 County U. Elem 3.5 County U. High..... 8.2 The assessor's figures the following statistics on as- scssed values for 19'42: ' ' Real, estate and improve ments, $17,105,180. I Personal property, $5,881,990. ; Public utilities, $10,017,411. i This makes a total assess ment for the county of $33,004, 581.29, compared with $32,146, 605.36 for, 1941. The increase is $857,975.93. Taxes on the 1942-43 roll will be due November 15. .-. I NEW YEAR Training School Is Viial Hub hi Klamath War Effort (Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of weekly arti cles on Klamath's part in the In dustrial drive to win the' war.) By BOB LEONARD There are several gentlemen of our acquaintance who term it piratical and several more who look upon it as a profitable and convenient method of escaping the draft. And both mayhap are with, reason. . 'But it Is albeit and neverthe less also an excellent way of winning the war given direc tion. That last was an aside in' no way aimed at either Mr. Hen ry Kaiser, the War Production board or Sen. Josh Lee. i Now that you're well con fused, we'll tell you we're talk ing about the War Production Training school, one of the more direct ways in which Klamath Falls Is aiding the war effort. . ;' The title Is brand-new, aged precisely a week, but the school Is a year and three months old which, as these things go, puts it strictly out of the swaddling class. .It started In May of 1941 as a radio and sheet metal class and since has grown into a full fledged vocational education ceni ter comprised of aircraft sheet metal, general sheet metal, radio, ', Escaped 1 T- IP) k( Frank Filan, veteran Associ ated Press photographer from Los Angeles, parachuted to safety- near Victonrille, Calif, when an army training bomb ing plane wa involved in an accident, Filan waa on an ; signment at the time.. The pilot and another photographer were killed,::.-: .-.-.. - U. S. DOWNS 9 JflP PLANES IN CHINA Jap -Troops:-D.rive In- land -on Chekiang . Province Coast 'r'- CHUNGICING; Aug.' i , :(P) United Staies army pilots tore in to a formation of 29 Japanese Zero planes" over Hengyang: air drome yesterday and shot down nine in a-f ierce air battle with out losing, a single pilot, Lieut! Gen.' Joseph W. Stilwell's head quarters announced today. . A tenth Japanese plane was reported damaged and was be lieved to have crashed, although its destruction was not officially confirmed. , , . The engagement was described as the biggest aerial battle in this theatre" since the "Flying Tigers" of the American volun teer group were absorbed by the U. S. army air' force on July 4. It brought to 17 the number of planes lost by the Japanese in at-, tempts to raid tho Hunan prov ince airdrome in the past two days..; -. :;: . ; . 'Four. of nine Japanese bomb ers which approached' the air field before daylight Thursday were shot down by American (Continued on Page Two) carpentry, welding, and mach ine Shop departments. 500 Graduated The whole, has enrolled over 1000 trainees - and graduated more than 500 of 'cm It. the 15 months. And most of the 500 have gone where Director A. H. Fitch and lots of gentlemen in Washington have intended they should go Into shipyard and aircraft Indus tries building the Implements of conflict. , .,.' ! .,' Which thereby depletes Klam ath county Industry ot 500 good men and generates resentment culminating in the changes of piracy. . - , -,- But 'which can best be refuted by remembering that most of the trainees at the outset , are. un skilled laborers who at the fin ish line have developed Into tech nical workers worth more to themselves and their employers In the present case the U. S. A That should answer that. . Now . it once was much less than a year ago that all of Mr. Fitch's charges who work 'round the clock In Klamath Union high school quarters, were men. Time and Mr. Tojo have changed that. As some of our local employ ing gentry can testify, it has been found that the deadlier of (Continued on Page Two) 1. 1 j AXIS GAINS IN GAUChSUSiIDS HOLD A1BEND f500 Bombers' Pound Duesseldorf, -. Fires Rage By ROGER D. GREENE :' Associated Presa War Editor". - Britain's campaign -to scourge) Germany city by city hit the big war foundries center of Duessel dorf in the heart of the Rhine-., land before dawn today, while in Russia the Germans - surged ever' deeper into the Caucasus:' A bulletin from -nazl - field headquarters reported that Ger- . man troops had captured the) Caucasian rail junction of Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov. completing a second cut in tha line from the great southern Caucasus oil fields to Stalingrad. Battle of the Bend . . In the Don river bend, north west of Stalingrad, the German command reported a "ceaseless, violent battle" was raging and indicated that the Russians were sending up huge-scale reinforce ments.' -' ' - .' :. -"Air units attacked day and night unloading . troops - f r o m, trains as well-as transports . by train, roads and waterways," the German communique said. -; A British communique said a "very strong 7 force" ot ' RAP bombers presumably at -least' 600 strong pounded Duessel dorf ufor .juj Jbpur -Jth-- highly successful results. The magni tude of the raid was indicated by the fait that 31 planes failed to return. - ' .-.' -;' -' ''The British air ministry sub-. sequently announced that the raiders - dropped - 150 -two-ton block-smasher" bombs and hur- dreds of thousands of incendiar ies in' the big armaments city.' ;' ut- was- probably the- most concentrated attack-. the "bomber command has yet made,'.'-the air ministry news service; said, add ing that daylight reconnaissance showed many fires were still burning in Duesseldorf at 11 a. m. -today. ' Coast Attacked '' ' V OtherRAF planes attacked the naii-occupied invasion- coast, blasting airdromes in the low countries, railway yards at Caena (Continued on Page Two) i 1 Speedy Action Asked in Portland ' .Transport Strike PORTLAND, Aug. 1' (AP) Union and management officials today called for emergency .ac tion from . federal conciliators to end an unauthorized strike, o f. - employes ol the Oregon Motor Stages company.. . .. -: The strike, participated in by 100 drivers - and 30 shop em-' ployes yesterday, tied up serv-. ice to most of northwestern Oregon and left hundreds of war workers from nearby towns stranded in Portland. . The employes sought wage in creases of undisclosed amounts. . The demands had been submit ted to mediation and an earlier sciieduini aifikc.raiieii oil., -xtie last mediation meeting was Wednesday night. U. S. Tank Crews Train in Egypt LONDON, Aug. 1 (AP) American army tank crews are. training only a few miles be hind the fighting front In Egypt preparing for action alongside the British Imperials, Reuters, British news agency, reported today from "somewhere In. Egypt." The Americans from all sec tions of the United States will use American tanks which the British have found to be more than a match for German armor, Reuters said. News Index City Briefs ..::.:.:...;........Page S Comics and. Story Page 10 Editorials Page . 4 Market, Financial Page U Our Men in Service ... Pago . 3 Society Pages 5, 6, 7 8 8port Pg :