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Newspaper Page Textj'llj'gOglJIIIglH naj ' Ilil.miiiiiliiiiiMiM.i "iii.iiWiuiMililtiliiilluP One e-mlnute blmt on sirens and whtstlea li the lgnol ior blackout In Klamath ' Falls. Anothtr long blmt. during black out; li signal tor all-clear. In precau tionary parlodt, watch your street llghti. August 3 High 90 Low 54 l r Pracipitatlon si ol July 30, 1840 Last yaar ...,,.,15.88 Normal ;...'..,... 12.08 Straam yaar to data ......... ;..;.13.)7 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES FIVi A TTr.TToT fo) Oil n .:..S4i,-,v,;.t' ' tin U H'-8 m mm mm 5 , , in ii liiDi'lii! iiii iililill Warn, Hi: 'II I'll! 'luiii' 1 law lllil lllpii By FRANK JENKINS 'O a wnltinSi puzzled and anxious civilian world, to day's news is tlio guarded mid undetailed statement that Rus slu's carefully liourdcd reserves nro going Into nctlon. It MIGHT menu Unit the crll- 3 lea I moment of the great bntllo or Ins Caucasus Is hero. TSJOTE, please, the statement A hero tliut it Is the CIVILIAN world Hint is waiting, puzzled and anxious. Our higher military lenders ... ore walling, oi course, incy would ho less than human If they were nut anxious. Hut thuy ara NOT puzzled. They know what is to bo clone If n nil when tho TIME comes. Military plans Involving tho use of millions of men and vast nd complicated masses of equip ment HAVE to bo made far in advance. "THE Fusslnn reserves referred J. t. ..., II.. I., nfint' A IU WtlMfj ill w,.j o wict- lolclies appeor to havo been Ahrowo In before StulliiKrad, which Is threatened by a double German drlvo, ono prong coming from tho northeast and another from the southeast. , , To the south of Rostov, th . Germans appear to bo pushing .....t,k .....11h.ImIbI.I v fnmul They have already reached a point halfway across the narrow Caucasus. Here they seem to bo turning back westward, tow ard tho Black sn, with, th evident purposo - of ' encircling and trapping the Russian forces there. .Vv t ' They are already toltliln close striking distance. 6f the Maikop oil field, which provides about seven per cent of Russia's oil. fNE guesses from today's dls- patches that the Russians aro using their roservos to defend Stalingrad and the Volga and south of Rostov are planning to Youre 10 wo line oi ma iuucusus "mountains. Brief dispatches todoy tell of much heavier fighting to tho NORTH, bclwcon Moscow and Leningrad. TW1TH the Russian situation . growing steadily worse as tho duys pass, attention naturally centers anxiously on the second front possibility. Keep this In mind: '' Tho decision as to n second front will have to bo mnda by tho MILITARY leaders not by tho thousands of amntour stra tegists. The vast co-ordination of forces necessary for such on effort Is a job that can bo un derstood and handled . only by trained military minds. We cracker-box strategists may think we know - what OUGHT to be done, but only jur military leaders know what .'AN bo dona with a fair pros pect of success with the forces and the facilities availablo for use. ! , '.' JIAEANWHILE: Tho Japanese navy occupies thrco more Islands between Tim or and Now Guinea, thus com pleting tho .Tup-hold Island ring north of Australia. Tho Japs ara getting them selves In a position to strlko at Siberia from Mnnchukuo and tho Japanese mainland, at Aus tralia from the ring of Islands to tho north or at Alaska from the Aleutians. ! It may bo assumed they will strlko when the Iron scorns to them to bo hottest and at tho point that seems to them to offer tho greatest chances for success. It Is quite) improbable that they will strike at . all three points" at once, ' ' I' jrSN the homo front, President A'rgato an Independent agency of tho government to stimulate pro duction of rubber from grain. He says It would block tho or ganized progress pf our war ef fort. 1 He then appoints a committee " (Continued on Page Two) Mew INDEPENDENT AGENCY BILL FAILSJTO PASS Baruch to Head Com mittee forStudy and Recommendation . WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 (AP) Asserting it would, block prog ress of the war effort, Presi dent Roosevelt vetoed today legislation to - create an Inde pendent agency to stimulate production of rubber from grain and simultaneously cre ated a committee to look Into tho whole rubber problem. Bernnrd M. Baruch, who was head of. the war Industries bourd In the last war, will be chairman of Die committee named to recommend the best program, to produce the syn thetic rubber necessary for the war effort and for' essential civilian Use. ;' ConI trance Serving; with Baruch aro Dr. James B,.'Conant, president pi Harvard university,; and ' Dr. Karl jr,Comptonv president of Massachusetts Institute 6t Tech nology, i ' t ! ,.. Shortly before the veto mes sage reached the capltol, Pres ident Roosevolt conferred with WPB Chairman Donald M. Nel son, Director Leon , Henderson of the office' of price adminis tration, Joseph B. Eastman the defense transportation director, and Under Secretary of War Robert P. Potterson. ;.. Leaving the White House, (Continued on Pago Two) , ,r.. . WLB Turns Down Wage Request, Advises Review WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (P) To accomplish wage stabiliza tion, the war labor board advises government review and approval of all getieral' wage Increases. Tho WLB expressed this opin ion yesterday In refusing a gen eral pay raise to 2.TS0 General Cnblo company employes In New Jersey after applying its wage stabilization formula. Dean Wayno L. Morse,- who wrote tho opinion, declared the board's formula could not bring wngo stabilization if limited' to wngn disputes coming before WLB for final determination." "If wngo stabilization Is to be accomplished," he said, "the ter minal limits set forth In the formula must be applied univer sally and uniformly to so-called voluntary wage increase. In or der to accomplish such an end, (Continued -on Page Two) Blonde Slays Ex-Pitcher As 'Two-Timer' in Hotel CHICAGO, Aug. 8 OT Gor don McNaughton, 32, a former big loague baseball pitcher, was slain today, Sergeant Eugene Mc- Nally said, by an attractive blonde girl who found him in a hotel room with another woman. The sergeant said the slayer was Mrs. Eleanor Williams, 29, formerly a cabaret entertainer nnd now a dice girl In a roadside tavern. Police questioned Mrs. Dorothy Moose, 27, - In whose hotel room tho shooting occurred. "Two-Tmer" ' Sergeant McNally ' said Mrs. Moose told him she had loft her husband, a wealthy racehorse owner, three or four week ago for McNaughton, ' Mrs. Williams told him she, too, had loft her husband and child four years ago nn MeNAHBhton's prornlf to marry her. Sergeant McNally said Mrs. Moose said Mrs. Williams came , P rr 1 1 I - 1 I 1 , I-, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaIsrl1ir-slsaaaaaaaatiV-aas1fTf'(iaYI . Whan ' Oregon .'realtors arrived Wednesday nighf ' for: their John Houston was at the dsoot lard Holbrookv state- president shown at lilt lastlvlrig the kr -At ?tM ;btwan Holbrook and .Mayor Houston,' are 0. B. Brockway, Portland, and WUIlsjnJtoflost (without, hat) of Green wlch, Conn -Who la chairman ot 4h Amarlcap'iute- of .-,RaI Estata"App'ralrs. Claud' MuK phyi state rsal'sta'te commissioner. Is shown at the aktrame right. . '.; . V; . ' " 11 v.-i... ' ' 'i . ' ' :.',.' 15 DOS I Mississippi Mishap Injures 30; Coach Hurled in Air CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss., Aug. 6 (AP) Two more, deaths today brought to 15 the toll of a bus-passenger train collision hero yesterday. '.....'. More than 30 of the 52.pfr- sons -in- tho bus. were injured In tho wreck at a ' downtown intersection ' of . this southern Mississippi city. . Efforts were, continuing today to Identify the bodies of two women taken' to Jackson, Miss,, funeral parlors after the crash. Witnesses said the Impact was so terrific that tho engine in the rear part of tho. bus was torn out, tho top ripped . off and . dead - and Injured strewn along the track. The train was not derailed and its passengers suffered no serious hurts. "Lifted In Air" Most of the dead and Injured were aboard the bus which wit nesses said "appeared to be lifted, up In the air and looked for an Instant as if It were rid- (Continued on Page Two) to her hotel room and accused McNaughton of "double-crossing" her and called him "a two timer, and no good." ' ... "I'm Glad" Mrs. Williams 'had a pistol in her hand, Mrs. Moose said, and they talked for nearly half an hour, before Mrs. Williams fired two shpls. Ono struck him, In the upper part of . tho chest. Mrs. Williams waited in the room and .hvthe corridor for police to arrive after the shoot ing and surrendered quietly to Sergeant James Fanning who1 said she told him, "I'm glad I shot him." ',.,;, ' Records at ' Comlskey park showed McNaughton had had a trial as pitcher with the Chicago White Rnx Pl18t fiftfr two years of minor league ball. In 1933 he was a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.. ' , - i ,., Realtors Welcomed to Klamath 1 r?v lf r U'vV to mat tham and handed . this Holbrook Sees Post-War Boom for Northwest in Talk to Realtors Here . A great post-war development for the Pacific northwest was envisioned- by Millard C. Holbrook, president of the 'Oregon Association of Real Estate Boards, In his keynote address at the opening session here Thursday of the eighth annual convention of the association.. ,' : , Holbrook - spoke ' In the- circuit court room where Mayor John Houston and R. C. Dale, president of the Klamath Realty Board, had welcomed the 123 registered delegates and many : Mother visitors here for the three- Aroff Brings Dignity to Court-Martial . x. ' SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6 (IP) Lieut. Commander Maurice N. Aroff brought traditional, naval dignity back to his court-martial today after a confusing day high lighted by Tony- Martin's, mid night change. In imemory and scorching -criticism' of" the pro' cecdings by the singer's mother. The heavy1 set, . '38-year-old Aroff, briefly told his own life history and introduced a flood of commendatory letters includ ing notes bearing the names of Lieut. Gov. Maurice J. Sullivan of Nevada and Dean'M. R. Klrk wood of the Stanford law school. Sullivan expressed "deep ap preciation . ...for courtesies ex tended to my son and me'.' when Ihey visited the naval procure ment office here regarding the son's enlistment. Dean Klrk wood thanked Aroff for the ,. (Continued on Page Two) v Bulletin ALBANY, Ore., Autf. 8 (IP) Dr. - August - Leroy - Strand, president of Montana State collage became president of : Oregon. State collage today, . , Willard L. Marks, president of the state board of higher education, announced appoint- ' mtnt of the 48-year-old edu cator and scientist as successor to Frank L. Ballard,, resigned, Marks said that Dr. Strand, Interviewed with 'ether' cart' dldataa for the Oregon State' presidency by the state, board at Portland' last ' week, Will . take. ever hla new duties Oct. 13. J .'; .-v.-'' . '' A recognised 'authority on entomology,- Dr. 8trand Wai head of that department on the Montana State faculty be fore hla elevation to th presi dency In 1937. . , . ;. ; a stat convention , hera. huge "key to the city" to Mil day convention. Farmer Influx ' . . The -state president pointed to the Oregon country's productive capacity and its small popula tion, in anticipating its post-war growth. In particular, he fore saw an influx of farmers from other states and said that indus try will be attracted by cheap hydro-electrio power and min eral deposits. Northwest real estate owners, he said, will, bo in a favorable position, for the post-war adjust ment. Ho pointed out that while Ore gon and Washington have .2 per cent of tho nation's farm popu lation, they produce 110 of the wheat, 114 of the wool, 1 of the apples and pears, 15 of the cher ries, and have a century s stand pi timber. ' "Don't sell the' land short," advised ' Holbrook; emphasizing the intrinsic value of real estate Investments. Outlines Problems Mayor Houston outlined prob lems and-projects confronting municipalities- and mentioned a current effort on the part of cit ies to. obtain a larger share of the profits from the administra tion of the state liquor law. He ; (Continued on Pago Two) Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE ' ; R. H. E. Philadelphia ..:....... 0. . 4 1 Boston 2 8 1 Christopher and Swift; But lahd and Peacock. ' Cleveland at S. Louis, double header, postponed, weather. , News, Index City Briefs Page 5 Comics and Story Page 8 Courthouse Records ......Page' 4 Editorial Page 4 Market, Financial Page 4 Information ................... Page 8 Sports Page 9 INDIA ISSUE APPROACHING CRISIS AGAIN Congress Meets To morrow to Insert Teeth in Demand ' By PRESTON GROVER . BOMBAY, Aug. 6 VP) ; The issue of Indian independence, ap proached a new crisis today as the all-India congress committee assembled for a meeting tomor row prepared to put teeth in its demands by asking Mohandas K. Gandhi to lead the masses in a passive struggle for freedom,; Actually, the proposal ready to be put before the committee boiled down to this choice for Britain make India free now and win her 350,000,000 people as fighting allies or withhold in dependence and face "a mass .struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale.-. v.' vi. Hopelessnesi -The. working commlftee sent Its proposal to the main .body' with an expression of hopeless ness In appealing again to. Brit ain and the United Nations and all sources here agreed that the program virtually was certain to be ratified. , - -.' (Britain's stand was reiterated last' night in London by Sir Staf ford Crlpps. who headed an un successful-wission to. India last spring. - Britain, '.he declared in (Continued on-Page -.Two) '.1 Official Asks Senate ,To Stand Up. and Tell Country' . : WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (Pi W. J. Schieffelin,' Jr., of New York City, testified today that, if the miasma of the approaching elections made it ' impossible to vote a retail sales tax now, the senate finance committee ought to "stand up and tell the country so. Appearing before the commit tee for the chamber of commerce of the state of New York, Schief felin said his organization be lieved that It might be to the country's benefit "to have no tax bill at all until after election, rather than a bill to go into ef fect ' in September or October dominated by election politics." Schieffelin said that a house ways and means committee mem ber, whom he did not name, had predicted that the house would accept a sales tax if it was in cluded In a rewritten', revenue bill by the senate committee, al though many representatives would prefer not to vote on the issue at this time. ' ' . - Schieffelin contended that the (Continued on Page Two) . Four Survivors Foundr Nine Lost in ; Lake Michigan Fishing Jaunt Tragedy STANDISH, Mich., Aug. 6 (IP) Two more persons who were aboard a . fishing tug which foundered Sunday In ' Saginaw bay of Lake Michigan today were found alive on Lone Tree island by coast guards of the Bay City station.' ; -! They were - identified as Eu gene - Sauve, '-27, and his .wife, Fern, 21, of Xawkawlln. ' ' Dramatic Chapter ! This brought the number of survivors to four. Nine persons lost their lives when the boat capsized, after striking a rocky reef during a. fishing trip. Another dramatic chapter In the Great Lakes' latest story of shipwreck and drownings un folded after. the rescue of a sec ond survivor from the tragic Sunday fishing cruise. - Coast , guardsmen . patrolling the bay for victims', bodies, pulled ,' " v .' ' '.". Concrete Subs Proposed by 'Mystery' Murray . WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (IPy A mysterious Mr. Murray told a senate military subcommittee today of a formula for making concrete ' submarines so ' secret that he didn't want the official stenographer to take down what he said. . .. -. After Chairman Lee (D-Okla.) waited for 45 minutes for the man to appear for a public hear ing, the inventor, chemist' or whatever he was, asked for ah executive session, ' declined,, to Identify. himself within-the hear ing of reporters and told Lee he would, prefer that the steno grapher not record, his. remarks. His request for the closed hear ing was granted. . - . - ' Before the man appeared, Lee said he understood he had, not so much plans for a submarine itself, but a formula for water proofing concrete for use in mak ing a submarine. He was the ', (Continued on Page Two) . 1 Ex-Silver Shirf Leader F.qces 220 Years on ; Sedition Count : ' INDIAN APOLtlSi Aug. 6 (JP) Wllliain - Dudley. Pelley, con victed; on 11 counts-of criminal sedition and conspiracy and fac ing a possible maximum sentence Of. 220 years in prison, today based his hopes for freedom from the conviction here on a new trial. Should he escape sentence on his conviction here, however, he ii under sentence in North Car olina" ' to serve ' two to three years ' for- violating that state's securities Maw. The sentence was passed and suspended in 1935 after Pelley's conviction in Buncombe: county (Asheville) but on last June 24 the North Carolina' "state supreme, court ordered-the suspended sentence put into effect, Pelley also was indicted recently at Washington on a sedition charge. A morion for a new trial will be filed within three days, De (Continued on Page Two) Sprague Attempts Settlement of Bean Picker Strike . SALEM, Aug. 6 (P) Govern or ' Charles A; Sprague . at tempted today to settle the strike of residents of the federal farm migratory - camp near Stayton, the workers demanding 2 cents a pound for picking beans.'."...-;. Results of the negotiations," attended by the governor, State Labor Commissioner Charles H. Gram, ' and representatives, of gTowers and pickers, were not disclosed. Growers are offering J J cents a pound, plus a bonus of 1 cents If the pickers stay throughout the picking season. ' The pickers also said they ob jected to the use of school chil dren as pickers. Abraham La Bean, 32-year-old Bay City welder, from' the water at 3:25 p. m. yesterday a res cue that bordered on the mirac ulous, the guardsmen said, since he had been in the water 731 hours. ... Jacket Water-Logged A life jacket so water-logged that It weighed approximately 50 pounds when La Bean was res cued had kept the husky, six footer afloat for three days and three nights from the time the fishing party's cruiser had struck a rocky reef and foundered. Weary and badly burned by the sun on his back and should ers, La Bean still was capable of an attempt at a joke when the guardsmen's work boat found him. "You almost caught me nap ping," he said, trying to grin. Later he said ha "hadn't slept NAZI OCTOPUS CLOSES IN ON 1ST CAUCASUS Tikhofetsk Fall Devel ops . Piricer. Threat u ,' . To Stalingrad v By ROGER D. GREENE -.; ; Associated Press Wax Editor. I. . Germany's mechanized armies,, fast 'closing : an octopus-like stranglehold, on the upper Cau casus, reported ' the. f all "of Tito horetsk on- the Caucasian" rait way 80 miles south of Rostov loday ' and .- developed a new pincers threat to the great Volga river steel center of Stalingrad. Tikhoretsk is on the StanHng-rad-Novorossick -railway terrrun ating at the Black sea, Just below Kerch strait. . - Reserves Go 'In - - .'. Soviet, advices said Russia's carefully saved reserves were go ing into action against the terrif fic nazi offensive, fighting bit terly to stem the. new threat to Stalingrad. ' -'"i-trs. .Dispatches from Moscow said the Red armies, taking up new positions along a strong line east of the Don river, were-driving back powerful German tank as saults 95 miles southeast of. Stat ingrad. .'-,'. r - A second- big-scale battle wa in progress In the Kletskaya. sec tor, 80 miles northwest of Stal. ingrad, where the -Russians: said the 'upper claw of a German pincer aimed at Stalingrad was stopped-dead.- - 1 -Caucasus In Danger. " ; , The danger in the- Caucasus increased,- however, as the Ger ' (Continued on Page Two)" Detroit German :: Given Noose ForTreoson ' ' DETROIT, Aug. - 6 (APK-Mas Stephan, first;, person, in - 148 years to be -convicted of. trea son in. the United -States,, was sentenced In. federal court..;to-: day to. be hanged. , v U. ," S. District Judge Arthur J.. Tuttle directed that Stephan, German-born American citizen, be hanged on Nov. 13, 1942, within the-walls of the.Fedex al " detention, prison . at Milan, Mich... .. ;.'-.-,,.......-,. ,i- Stephan ..was convicted iov federal, court here of aiding- the ; flight: of a nazi filer escaped from a -Canadian concentration h camp.-r. - 4 -' "The-Hfe -of. this, traitor, Max , Stephani is less valuable than the ' 'lives' of - our:.. loyal.. sorV " which are being-given In-ttfaa-i cause ; of- the United 5 States,1' said Judge : Tuttle in pronounc- . ing sentence; , , , , , . ','We have been too soft, to the extent of being mushy, There are . too many in the. sob squad and too few in the fight- ing squad. This is no ordinary : war. We talk of soldiers and we think of death not In. fig ures of thousands, but in fig-' L (Continued on Page Two) , a wink" during the ordeal. Wife's Body Recovered Not long before, the body of La Bean's wife, Dorothy, 26, had been recovered. It was the ninth body to - be found. The only other known survivor was 23-year-old Mrs. Dorothy Replke, who had swum seven miles to shore. Her husband, . Louis, -drowned in an attempt to make safety with her. On the way to a hospital here,. La ' Bean told of there having been 12 cork lifebelts and-one life jacket on the cruiser. - Of the two kinds, the belts were re garded as preferable and La Bean took the jacket, -. The muscular craftsman, who weights well over 200 pounds, said: - - '" . "I told them I was the biggest and the strongest, and I ton the Jack-" ' ''. ' T, "