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Blackout Signal l..i!,t, II. ,i,!lllH:'!i,liiitl!H,lill eather News On A-mlnuta bloit on Irani and whlitlti li th ilgnal lor blackout In Klamath falli. Anuthif long blait, during a black out. ! a ilgnal lor all cloor. In precau tionary ptrlodi. watch your atraat light. ' August J High 85, Low 51 Praclpltatlon oi July 27. 1940 Last year 13.71 Normal .........12.04 Straam yaar to data ,. 13.17 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICK FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3. 1942 Number 9556 9 TO fo) Jti ..'i''0 Itaatli kilm fir! died 'l IHl'W!" If! ili'Hii'r-li'.i'ilS Ki'.Li7a.Y.fSii!!::i:!! 41::::; Jl' V:TTU..;s! iiil;!!ftnifi:j;:l!iiil!!i!rt By FRANK JENKINS 'TTllIS faintly encouraging nulu appear in toduy's Russian dl.spatchcs: Hitler's offensive seems lo bo lonlng strength against slowly tightening Russian defenses t tho Don bend and iilmiR the Baku rallroiid south of Rostov. jjistorv toils mi una nil grout offensives tend - lo slow down in Iho spempolnt of thrlr advance gels FARTHER from tho source of supply. Thnl Is undoubtedly what tho Russians huvo been waiting nnd SAVING TIIKIIl RESERVES for. Tho next week or no should tell ua something of tho com parative strength of tho reserve! Ihn Russians nnd tho Germnnii huvo left to throw Into tho final nnd decisive stages of the bnttlo. 'T'llE news as yet in none loo good, The German high command says one of Its tank columns In approaching tho upper course of the KOban Hwr.'WrWrap will tell you thnl thin, if true, represents another Important nnr.1 advnnco along' tho Rostov Bnktl railroad. (Tho (treat oil fields ere at Baku.) Another -Important (and none too encouraging) note: Tho Of rmnna", clulm their bombers souk tWo! tankers and six freighters on tho Volga. They are beginning to block tho Volga supply line already. '. AT this point, a word of cau lion ns to the sharply COn- liui i n wui ji,--v(i n in viui.il With tho bulk of all the news coming from our side, we are npt to get a distorted and UN DULY FAVORABLE picture if wo ore not extremely cautious nnd realistic In our rending nnd nppralsfll of tho dispatches. For example: ' A communique from MacAr thur's headquarters this .morn ing says allied (U, S. nnd Aus tralian) troops aro reported to linvo ROUTED Jap outposts nenr Kokodu (on the narrow peninsula north of Port Mores by) and Hint our bombers set fire to enemy supply dumps In that area. Your first reaction to this news Is almost certain to bo thnt wo nnd tho Aussles aro showing the Jap so-nnd-so'i what's what, but more careful reading and re flection will show you thnt tho report Is NOT FAVORABLE AT ALL, It Is tho first Intimation we havo received thnt the Japs have been able to establish SUPPLY DUMPS at Kokodn, which is hnlfwny across tho peninsula from Btinn to Port Moresby. Supply dumps aro piles of war material gotherod IN AD VANCE for a LATER attack. , In other words, tho Japs, In spite of all we havo been able to do, are PUSHING FORWARD their preparations for a land at tack on Port Moresby. TF you will go bnck In your mind ovor all tho communi ques Issued by our government (through lis war and navy de partments) since December 7 you will bo forced to tho conclu sion thai with tho exception of those announcing actual disas ters stich ns Pearl Hnrbnr, Ba tnnn and Corrcgldor they have all carried ON THE SURFACE Vila seeming note of nll's-golng-Well-wlth-our-ldo. To those capable of careful rending and CLOSE ANALY SIS, tho sterner realities have been apparent beneath the sur face, but few can deny that the impression created In tho minds of casual, not too analytical, readers and listeners (such as ' (Continued on Page Two) I I T Coincidental Deaths Recall Murder Case Of 14 Years Ago The long arm of coincidence touched tho Klamuth reserva tion Saturday with tho almost simultaneous but widely separ ated deaths of two Indians close ly associated with a sensational Chiloquin murder cose of 14 years ago, Dcud were . pretty Alleen Pearson, 18-ycnr-old part Indian Chiloquin maiden, found In an elevator shaft In a Lcwlston, Ida., office building whero she was attending business college, and William (Buffalo Bill) Tho mason, goatocd former deputy federal officer and colorful res ervation character who shot and killed Miss Pearson's father, Vc loy II. (Buck) Pearson ill tho street In front of a Chiloquin pool room on Nov, 20, 1020, In Elovator Shaft Tho girl was found with a fractured skull Saturday In the elevator shaft. Officers said she died tomo time that day." An Inquest Is scheduled for to night In tho death of young Al leen who was lost seen entering tho Brier building In Lcwlston early Friday. Police Commissioner J. B. Rhodes said the elevator was on tho fifth floor the night of the girl's dlsnppcnranco and that the (Continued on Pago Two) i i Baseball COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Aug. 3 (IV) A three run rally In' the ninth gave tho St. Louis Cardi nals a 5-2 decision over the Phil adelphia Athletics today In ma jor league baseball's annual trlb uto to this Otsego county villago whera Abner Doubleday origi nated the gamo 103 years ago. R. H. E. Cardinals 5 10 4 Athletics 2 4 2 L. Moore nnd W. Cooper, O'Dca: Fowler, L. Harris and Wagner. , ; 9 Ships Sunk in Last Week by Subs '; By Th Auoclated Press ' Nino ships announced last week to havo been sunk by sub marines In tho Western' Atlantic and another victim disclosed yestcrdny brought to 408 todny tho Assoclntcd Press unofficial tabulation of allied and neutral wartime merchant losses In the area. .' . Tho latest announced sinking was that of a medlum-slzcd Rus sian cargo carrier July 4 In the Gulf of Mexico. ... BODY FOUND A BSE 11 IDAHO 01 President Gets Findings In Trial oi 8 Saboteurs WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (AP) The military commission which tried eight alleged nazl sabo teurs reached a decision today on tho guilt or Innocence of the men and Major General Frank R. McCoy took tho findings to tho White House for President Roosevelt. Tho chief executive must re view the findings, and he Is ex pected to tnko his time and go Into tho caso thoroughly.' Tho commission's recommen dations probably will , not be made public until Mr. Roosevelt hps completed his review. Earlier Presidential Secretary Stephen , Early had said the findings would be placed before tho president "as soon as pos sible." . After a brief meeting, the commission Issued this - state Portland Hii By Lightning Storm Monday PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 3 (IP) Widespread . minor damage oc curred early today as a llghttiing storm of unusual severity struck the Portland area. Sixteen streetcars and busses were put out of scrvlco as light ning burned out motors; street car traffic over the Morrison and steel bridges was halted as current was shut off when the spans were hit; traffic signals burned out; both police and com mercial radio stations were off tho air briefly; nlno minor flros were occasioned in residences; tho tower of Rose City Presby terian church was shattered, bricks being strewn across the street.. Because of demoralized traffic conditions on tho cast side, whero the storm was most se vere, police stopped early-morn-Ing motorists and asked them to pick up passengers waiting for busses and streetcars. Major Industrial plants were affected only slightly. FOR SECOND FRONT Nazis tStaa e Exten-i , sive Maneuvers in : ;; Norway Waters By THOMAS F. HAWKINS BERN, Switzerland, Aug.. 3 (P) Extensive maneuvers by German troops and defense forc es designed, to .protect Norway from nn allied invasion were re ported today as signs multiplied that Germany Is becoming in creasingly "second front con scious." A Stockholm dlspntch to the None Zurchcr Zcltung said that tho maneuvers in recent weeks had extended from Krlstlansund on tho west coast to Trondhelm, and that ship traffic and fishing had been suspended in some of tho fjords during the exercises. New minefields have been laid near Ottcro, north of Ale sund, the report added, while numerous naval bases equipped with lopg-ranga guns have been eroded - along the ' Norwegian coast In tho past year. . Tho same paper's correspon dent at Vichy said the order of Pierre. Lavan banning demon strations endangering "public order" and fixing the death pen alty for unauthorized possession of. firearms and explosives was probably Inspired by discussions of .a second front rather than re (Continued on Pago Two) STRIKE ENDS PORTLAND, Ore,, Aug. 3 IP) AFL employes of the Oregon Motor Stages restored bus serv ice to northwestern Oregon to day, ending a three-day strike. ment which i indicated It had reached a Judgment: "The- commission reconvened at 11:05 a, m. Tho commission announced that tho findings and sentence will not be an nounced by it. Tho commission adjourned at 11:07 to meet at the call of the president." TlVe" president from .whom tho first public . disclosure of the Judgment is expected to come, alone lias power to alter the commission's decision, which could carry a death penalty for all or part of the defendants.-' Thero was speculation that the commission's announcement that ' it adjourned to meet at the call of the president meant It , would meet to sign death warrants, for at least seven of the defendants If the president approved. Ita findings. '-.' '-. ' "H 7.. "'-' YANKS, JAPS STRUGGLE IN GHINESLSKY Nips Attempt to Wipe Out U. S. Outpost At Hengyang CHUNGKING, Aug. 3 IIP) A second big air battle for control of tho skies over China was re ported fought today over Heng yang air base between United States planes and new Japanese fighters apparently massed for nn attempt to' wipe out the Americans' outpost in Hunan province. . I Although no details of the fight were available immediate ly, word rcachecV. hero that the outcome had been favorable to the Americans. . A spokesman at Lieut. Gen. Joseph W.' StllweU's headquart ers said no Information would be given out until the commun ique tomorrow. StllweU's headquarters had announced earlier that the scale of the first big Japanese attack on Hengyang last Thursday and Friday. Indicated that the Invad ers, had" . assembled a . special force of Improved fighter planes for the express purpose of 'try ing to wipe out the American air base. .. A -total of 119 Japanese planes participated in' a 30-hour attack on the airfield which began be fore daylight last .Thursday,, a communique said, . 17 Shot Down . The bulletin confirmed previ ous official reports thnt 17 of the attacking planes had been shot down and that at least four more probably were destroyed. A number of American pilots distinguished themselves in the action. General' StllweU's head quarters said. In land fighting, Central News, in a Chungking govern ment agency, reported recapture of Tsingtlen Imcheklang pro vince on July 29 after the town had been occupied for 24 hours by the Japanese.. This would be the fourth time that the town has changed hands. ' Youth of 20 Held . On Charges of Assaulting Four SEATTLE,' Aug.-3 VP) A 20-year-old .cx-hlgh . school athlete nnd Hl-Y member Is being held by .King county officers today after, his confession he had crim inally assaulted four women, at tempted assaults on two others and molested three small girls. . ' Underslierlff Louis J. Forbes said the youth was picked up yes terday after a 23-yoar-old girl he had purportedly assaulted Satur day furnished police with the first two numbers from his li cense plates, a description of his automobile and told of a lunch bucket bearing' the . Inscription "Daisy'.' which she 'saw In the automobile. Armed .with this information, officers traced the car and found the lunchbucket. Taken Into cus tody, the youth readily admitted eight other morals crimes dating bank to 1939. The youth was employed at a flour mill and at the high school from which he graduated In 1940-ho was a track star, a mem ber of the baseball team and of tho Hl-Y club. ' ' i Two Youths Die In Auto Plunge CONDON, Aug." Z (IP) Two 18-ycar-old youths were killed and three others Wero injured as their car backed over a 30-foot bank on the John Day highway south of here last night. The dead: Russell Gordon Pnrks, route 1, Hood River, and Charles Jackson Andrews, Condon, -: dT I A part of Saturday's big crowd at Victory House, 8th and Main streets. Is shown waring war bonds and stamp albums. At center are Mary Ellen Gleaion and Pat Hawkins, who sold stamps from the iteel and plastic mobile unit, which moved Sunday - to ; Ashland, (Story ga Page 10.) .-.'.....'.......:.,.. ",:.':.v. Inventor Urges Undersea ''J Freighters for U. S. as Sub Menace Answer WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (IP) i Simon Lake, Inventor of the sub marine, said today he believed German cargo-carrying submar ines were supplying the smaller U-bpats that are sinking ships off;' . the. ..American coast as he recommended Jo senators .that tho United. Bta'tes build, under-, sea I freighter's. ; He proposed building the car go submarines to elude the en emy's torpedoes instead of try ing .to build surface ships faster than the U-boats can. sink them. Lake told the military affairs sub-committee that from his "knowledge and . information" he was convinced "the enemy nations are using "Cargo carrying submarines to supply smaller combat : submarines along our Atlantic coast and elsewhere and are using this type of craft 7000 Walk Off Huge War Job in West Virginia POINT PLEASANT, W. Va., Aug, 3 (IP) Approximately 1000 men left their jobs today at the huge West Virginia ordinance works the government is build ing on an 8000 acre site in Ma son county, but there was indi cation the men would return to morrow. - The army's public relations officer, Lieut. James Raber, said that "the whole thing seems to be the result of misunderstand ing." He explained that "no one, not even the employes them selves, knows exactly what is taking place." He added, "there has been no official strike call and no union or, union leader is assuming re sponsibility for the walkout. Ap parently the workers, approxi mately 1000, walked out in an effort to get a higher wage scale, but no formal demands have been made, and : a v conference among union people, labor re lations . representatives and the area engineer did not straighten out the situation." 3 Injured in Auto Smashup On South Sixth Two automobiles crashed on South Sixth street In front of the Tower ' theatre about 8:15 Sunday night, sending three peo ple to the hospital for treat ment. .Norman Paup, . 6, may have sustained serious back in juries,, according to attendants ' Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Paup of Garden street were treated for minor Injuries and then re leased. : In the car with them were, young Norman', their two other children, Dorrls and Karen and Mrs. Paup's father,- Hans Norman. None of them were in jured, although Norman recelv ed bruises about the head. The other car was driven by G. K. Paulos. of Sacramento, ac cording to the accident report. It Was a Big Day at Victory for transporting supplies' ' and perhaps troops to certain fight ing fronts." "For Next War" He also disclosed that he had refused to aid the axis powers, before th? present war, in their submarine: eonstructjon:' ' ". Co!. -Hugh J. Knerr, .retired. told the committee he thought that ship yards would be able to build cargo airplanes "for. the next war," but it would take too long for them to produce air cralt for this one. .. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.(P) Col. Hugh J. Knerr, retired, told a senate military sub-committee today that shipyards would . be able to build cargo planes "for the next war," but he thought it would take too long for them to produce air craft for this one. : Knerr said he had investigat ed the possible conversion of shipyards into cargo plane fac tories in 1939 for a Newport News builder, and reported that he found "shipyard methods could not be used without re-education of the drafting room per sonnel and yard management." Experience,, he saidi showed that it took "three years from the time the designers put pen cil to paper until the planes fly." Consequently, he added, conver sion of the shipyards was "not practical for this war, but would be for the next war."- Bronx Cheer Left In Portland Will ' PORTLAND, Orei, Aug. 3 (IP) The will of A. C. Forrester, Portland sanitary engineer who died last month leaving an es tate of $3000, was admitted to probate today. . It included this bequest: . "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer." ' Heated Charges Hurled in Court Martial of Aroff SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 (IP) Judge Advocate Irving Klein was charged with "the rankest kind of misconduct" for alleged ly putting words into the mouth of witness Tony Martin, hand some radio and screen singer, at a naval court martial today. - The charge was hurled by Lieut C. Ray Robinson, attorney for Lieut. Commander Maurice N. -Aroff, former assistant naval procurement officer here who Is accused of accepting a $950 auto mobile from Martin for facilitat ing his enlistment In tho navy, A minute later Lieutenant Klein told Robinson, "I think you should offer an apology." Robinson jumped to. his feet and shouted, "I not only do not offer an apology I . ... ". He was cut short by the shout- : t-. House Comart GUINEA FiGHT iE RENEWAL Jap Advances Against Moresby Indicated . In Dispatches. :-JG E-NERAL. MacASTHUK'S HEADQUARTERS, '-.', Australia, Aug. 3 (IP) rihe possibility mat the .Japanese have reinforced their garrison at Buna was ac knowledged by an allied spokes man today as General MacArth ur's headquarters reported a re newal of savage fighting in-the New Guinea jungles midway be tween that enemy base and Port Moresby. . . -, ;.v-;' .' : The. communique , announcing the jungle fighting declared al lied troops had routed Japanese outposts near Kokoda, 60 miles east of Port Moresby, and said allied bombers had set fire to .en emy supply dumps in that area. It was the first reference to the existence of such supply dumps, and an allied spokesman said it. was not impossible the Japanese had been moving men and equipment In from Lae some 165 miles north of Buna. There have been no indica tions, however, that the original force which the Japanese landed July 22 in the Buna area esti (Continued on Page Two) Germany, France Went to War 28 Years Ago Today By The Associated Press Twenty-eight years ago today imperial Germany declared war on France. This was the third declaration of war in World war I. Austria Hungary was the first to act, de claring war against Serbia on July 28, 1914. Germany declared war on Russia on Aug. 1. Twenty-eight years ago tomor row Germany invaded Belgium and later that day Great Britain announced a state of war existed between herself and Germany. ed . words of Captain Powers Symington, -president of the court martial board, demanding: ''Stop thisl Take that out of tho record. The verbal fireworks came during questioning regarding Martin's story of a conversation with Aroff, in which the singer offered his automobile to the of ficer shortly after he was sworn in as a chief specialist January 2. During the conversation, Mar tin said, "I told Maury, you can have the car.' We were discuss ing the Studebaker. (The car Aroff is accused of asking and accepting.) "He said, 'You're not giving me anything. I spent a couple of hundred dollars on telephone calls and you would have smved (Continued on Page Two) HEAVY LOSSES iilr lIuilu On Oil Berlin Claims Tank Column Approach- . - ing Kuban River ' By The Auoclated Press ' Adolf Hitler's Russian offen sive appeared to be losing Im petus against slowly tightening Russian defenses at the. Don bend approach to Stalingrad and . along the last rail line to the oil fields of the Caucasus as the red army lashed back in a new show of strength, - Along the whole 300-mile aro from Kletskaya, 80 miles north west of Stalingrad, to Kushchev ka, SO miles south of Rostov, the, Russians still were on the de fensive; but the strengthening of their stand was indicated by counterattacks which they re ported hurled the Germans back with losses of 6000 dead In a single day. - ,, Don and Kuban Cossacks led the . counterattacks in the critical-salients of Kuschevka and Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov, in the first intimation that the big garrison of the north Caucasus may have been thrown into the fight. It was in this sector that the Germans made ' their deepest penetration- into the northern. Caucasus. ' . . The. German high command said 6ne of its tank columns was "hearing the upper course of th Kuban river." " How far the nazis were from the-northern curve of the river was not specified.- ' ,., The Kuban rises in the west- est glaciers of Elborus, the high est peak- in Europe, and curves to the north within .70 miles of Salsk before turning west to empty through a broad, marshy delta into the Black sea just south of the Strait of Kerch. ; ; .The Germans said the Russian rear, guard was being .forced south from the Yeya river which runs .' through . Kushchevka to Taganrog bay, the northeastern arm-of-the sea of Azov.' Th Berlin communique said other (Continued on Page Two) ,. German Plane Bombs If. S. Iceland Post REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. S (IP) A German plane bombed and' machine-gunned a "remote military installation of south eastern Iceland yesterday, Unit ed. States military authorities, announced ' today, saying there; were no casualties and only Neg ligible damage. : .- This was the fifth instance of German air,, activity over Ice land, garrisoned by U. S. troops, within two .weeks. The attack apparently was minor, but the army :decllned further details. The bleak, island northwest of England lies about 600 ' miles from the. nearest German-held territory inNorway. The attacking plane was a FockfeWulf.- . . . : . Germans Bomb British Towns, '. LONDON, Aug. 3 (P) Brit ons spending the August bank holiday at seaside resorts or cel ebrating at home were targets of ' German air raiders who swooped from tho clouds to bomb scattered towns in Eng land this afternoon. A trail of bomb damage was left across . a southeast seaside town, but casualties were be lieved slight and there were no Immediate reports of fatalities. Crowds watched a Spitflrs pursue one raider. . ; News Index . "j City Briefs .....;.-....;.Page ' 4 Comics and Story . ... Page 8 Courthouse Records Paga 10 Editorial -...Page 4 Information ,....,.Page . 4 Market, Financial .Page 9 Our Men in Service .,: Pagn 9 Sports ...'.... ; Page S ;-, .'-'W f '