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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
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A MATH FALLS, OREGON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1942
Number 9555
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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.)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Comics and. Story Page 10
Editorials Page . 4
Market, Financial Page U
Our Men in Service ... Pago . 3
Society Pages 5, 6, 7 8
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