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'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,
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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,
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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
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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; . '
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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-
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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.. '
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Realtors Welcomed to Klamath
1 r?v lf
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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
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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.
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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
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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-"
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