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AUGUST 7, 1842 Number 9560 Tlffi 4 - e3 l"" ft UJ L in .V: ) 3 I flood if-i lll!llli!ilflllll!!l!l!llll!!!!!ljli!llll!li m I! 1i!li!l!i:l1ii!i:!Wil':!!i!iii!iii;iii!;:il!iir,!,!i!iiii ;jliti;!fliii!'"iliii:iii!iii!iliiiPiiift I By FRANK JENKINS "-THERE oro hints in tho new . toduy Hint tho cruclnl moment of tho bottlo of Russia may bo near. , TJENRY CASSIDY, AP corros- pondent lit Moscow, Buys: "Hurling HUGE tanks nuulnst tho nozl mechanised onrush, tho rl army CHECKED tho Gor mans toduy along the whole Stalingrad front in one of the great tank battles of tho war. German infantry were crushed by tho hundreds under tho steel war wagons." ' From Rzhov, (or to the north, between Moscow and Leningrad, come reports, confirmed by the Germans, of increasing Russian pressure. TO the south of Rostov, the l 1 German Juggernaut rolls on. J It Is spearheaded by dlvo bomb- $ ers, followed by 'light tanks, 3 which, aro followed by heovlcr isS tanks and behind! these are the f mechanized Infantry the typical bilUKri.v' ;wir The Germans are reported to be within 30 miles of Maikop, the first of tho Caacasus oil fields. ; AT this point, toko a look at your map. It will tell you that tho Stalingrad front, where tho Russians aro counter-attacking, Is less than 200 mllos from Rostov. IF tho Russians have tho heavy reserves they havo keen com monly supposed to hovo they MIGHT cut across at this point and trap tho German forces in tho Caucasus. - TlvjOTE tho "If" Involved. It is a nrgo "If." The situation hero suggested Is too Iffy to offer much consolation at tho present moment. rUT It, or something like It, " MIGHT materialize. Something of that nature COULD mntcrializo IF tho Rus sians have in rcscrvo tho large forces It has been HOPED they huvo. 1 If they LACK these reserves and the Germans thunder on In to tho Caucasus with Its wealth of nll-lmportnnt oil, our sido will bo In a bad way. AT any rate, it seems probnble " that the peak of tho bnttlo of Russia Is near and that wo shall know soon whether or not tho Russians have tho rescrvo strength wo havo been HOPING they hnvc and which our side has evidently been relying upon them to havo. TN Moscow, representatives of tho major allied nations are reported assembling for a "save Russln and win tho war" con ference. Secrecy shrouds tho conference. There Is no dis closure of personalities. Tito Germans announced sev eral days ago that CHURCHILL Is In Moscow. TP Russia Is to bo saved and tho war won, something must be dono quickly, WHAT TO DO and WHEN TO DO IT aro pre sumably tho topics of tho Mos cow conference. AT 'MacArthur's headquarters In .Australia, an "authorita tive source whoso identity must not be specifically disclosed" aays today: U. S. equipment sent to Aus 0tralla is a mcro "trlcklo" that could bo replaced by three days of America's war production: . Tho greatest part of the de fense forces now in Australia are AUSTRALIAN troops so farjent to'AWstfalia Ttardly corn-" pensatlng for the Australian (Continued on Page Two) sa ub u u w Hendrickson Named Count Juvenile Officer Harold J. Hendrickson, for the past two years employed as circuit court clork, was named county Juvenile officer by Cir cuit Judga David R. Vanden burg, it w Innrned Friday Hendrickson takes over duties held previously by Forrest Losce. Hendrickson will report Au gust 10 and until that time David Bridge, city Juvenllo of ficer, will servo as temporary county officer. Tho newly ap pointed Juvenile director has been a resident of Klamath county for tho post 15 years ond prior to Joining tho county clerk's staff taught In tho coun ty school system In. Merrill and elsewhere In making the ap pointment Circuit Judgo Van denberg stated he felt Hen drickson was exceptionally well qualified to deal with prob lems of boys and girls. . . ' MDECISI Run-off Poll 'Needed To Dete'rmfnfi Rep4l 'V'resentotlon The heralded and Important Weyerhaeuser Timber company mill labor representation elec tion Thursday ended Indecisively and with the prospect of a run off poll within tho next month, union leaders announced today. In -neither tho production or machinists', classifications did olthor tho CIO, AFL or neither attain a majority. Closest was In tho machinists' division where tho AFL International Associa tion 'of Machinists drew 38 bal lots. The totoal of AFL lumber union, CIO and no-union, votes wos 35 also, however. ' ; How It Went In the production employes' voting, tflo CIO International Woodworkers of America drew 214 votes. Tho total was not enough for a majority, however. Complete results were: Production AFL-LSW ...... 102 CIO-IWA . 214 No-union 143 Challenged 1 Machinists , AFL-IAM 35 AFL-LSW 19 CIO-IWA ...... 12 No-unlon 4 Both Harold McKcnzle, chief district representative of - the AFL-Lumbcr and Sawmill work ers union, and George Brown, top district agent for the CIO IWA, agreed that a runoff bal lot would probably be scheduled by tho National Labor Relations board within the next month. (Continued on Pago Two) Klamath Woman Claims She Was Held Prisoner, Bilked of Her Properties SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 (P) Pearl Blsbee, 67, of Klamath Falls, Ore.,, has asked federal district court to require the re turn of real ond personal pro perty she contended was obtain ed from her through false pre tenses by Georglo E. Austin, nlrca of her deceased husband. Mrs, Bisbco's suit, filed yester day, set forth that while sho was visiting tho niece, at the let ter's request, In the Austin homo here last spring, sho became ill and went to a hospital. Sho ald the niece brought papers there for her to sign, representing that they would mako money available for hos pital expenses. Mrs. Blsbee signed without paying much at tention . to the nature of tho papers, she said, only to learn Inter they were documents giving Mrs. Austin title to everything she owned.' . Eight AUTO PARTY TRAPPED Br Water Washes Cali fornia Car Into Can yon at Wenatchee WENATCHEE, Wash., Aug. 7 UP) A cloudburst ond wall of water hurtling down a mountain canyon nine miles north of here lost night trapped nine people in an automobile, killing eight of thorn as the machine rolled and was carried several hundred yards down the hillside. Russell Kirk, 27, a logger, of San . Francisco, the drive?, escaped.'- Thrown free, "ha. crept through the mud and. debris to the highway and was. found by a passing motorist, ." ,-, , Early today six of the bodies were' found in the burled ma chine, which was Jammed in the mud against the Great Northern railway tracks along the Colum bia river. .. Dead Listed The dead: c . J Mrs. Russell Kirk, H. ol San Francisco: Mrs. ..-Lena - McCann; 1028. .' Golden Cats v4 ..San Francisco;. Miss' Lena Firpo, IB, San Francisco, (street address un available): Wilbur Hale, 27, arid hla 42-year-ofd wife, Ardenvolr; Frank McCann, 27, and his wife, 21, Ardonvoir; and Ray McCann, 32, Leavenworth, a soldier. Mrs. Hale was an expectant mother .. The bodies of Wilbur Hale and Frank McCann were believed burled deep In 'the debris, or carried Into the Columbia river, Deputy Sheriff Floyd Williams said. . Kirk, the driver, brought to a hospital, said tho party left Ar denvolr to bring Frank McCann, a soldier, hero to a train. Arden volr is a small town 20 miles up tho valley. , . It was raining, hard, he said, and a stream of water across the ' highway pinned the car against a guardrail. Ho was un ablo to pull it out. Great Noise ."Suddenly we heard a tre mendous noiso and . a wall of water hit us," he said. "We were rolled over, four or five times (Continued on Page Two) O. Effenberger Killed in Mishap TILLAMOOK, Aug. 7 (ZD Funeral services will bo held Saturday morning for Oscar A. Effenberger, 51, Industrial, poli tical and civic leader, who was killed In a box factory accident Wednesday. Effenberger was well known to many Klamath Falls people, principally through his activities as a leader in the Elks lodgo. ', The younger woman went to Klamath Falls April 8, the peti tion stated, and removed from Mrs. Bisbco's bank account and safo deposit box $5150 in cash, $5000 worth of war bonds, the contract for a lot In Altamont Acres, automobile ownership papers and Jewelry valued at about $2000. Later sho returned to San Francisco and apparently In duced Mrs. Blsbee to sign over to her the deed to the property, the bonds and the car, the peti tion sold, ..although the widow still was very ill and had no recollection of her act. Mrs. Blsbee said she was held a "virtual prisoner" by Mrs. Austin until July 26, but then managed to "smuggle out" a l("Her.to.nnothcriilnco.Maric.. Coulter of Portland. The second niece arrived here July 29 and confronted Mrs. Austin with a f CLOUDBURST ABEEG Yes. sir, right out of Williamson river came this i2H pound rainbow. It was caught by R. B. Aihworth, shown with the fish, just above the old bridge. . Ashworth was fishing with Gene Haren. He used an FST wobbler, and it took 25 minutes to land the monster after it took the hook. Freedom -Musi Be Bought Oh Installment Plah;Dr. Erh 'Tells Convention Banquet "We must . buy ' freedom on the Installment plan with a never-ending Miles of payments." Dr. Donald Erb, president of the University of Oregon, told the "David B. Simpson" eighth annual convention of the Oregon Association of Real Estate . . .. . , ... . i . i i . OOoruS at Its .vvinara naiai maqui api nigm,y u. s. tieip for r Australia Called Mere "Trickle" GEN.. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Aug.. 7 (f) United State equipment sent to Australia is a , "trickle". which could be replaced by three days of America's war produc tion, according to n authorita tive source who cannot be spe cifically identified. He was un able, he said, to disclose the exact figures because of mili tary secrecy but he declared Aus tralia was , carrying-her own load ond any view that great sacrifices were being made in war areas elsewhere for Aus tralia's defense were unwarrant ed. Other areas are not being stripped of war goods for her benefit, he said. The Australian and American public has been somewhat con fused concerning , the situation because of necessary secrecy, he continued, but he said he could discloso that the greatest part of the defense forces of Australia are Australian. Tho incident to this defense from abroad would scarcely compensate for Austral Ion troops that aro In other war theotres, he added. Although In tho air a much greater relative percentage of strength In the southwest Pa cific Is American, It is "Insig nificant" when compared With American potentialities, he added. . demand for an explanation. The latter asscrtedly replied that she now owned all tho property and didn't Intend to give It up. Mrs. Blsbee's suit asked the court to adjudge the property hers ond to issue an order pre venting Mrs. Austin from dis posing of any portion of It, a part of which she said she b(. llcved already had been reduced to cosh. Mrs. Blsbee Is the widow of the late Ed Blsbee, for many years operator of the Blsbee hotel on South Sixth street,' Sho Is now living In Klamath Falls, and makes her home temporarily with Mr. and Mrs. Byron Teed, old friends. Mrs. Blsbee Is represented by JVrlhur.WR'rhaupnt-Jocal attor ney, who is ' home from San Francisco .where the federal court complaint was filed. ONE ..1t-.-i.i7V'' ' -. f . ' ';-eW-: rv I'Let u wt "earn at' any cost jvevoncounterjri' this .war," he saia.'-'i aon i care now many dollars we - spend to help our allies If t h e y axe fighting shoulder to shoulder with our armies. I hope we have sense enough to avoid the attitude of one of bur . late presidents to ward the war debts, 'Well, they hired the money, didn't they'?!' Teems With Wars Our history is teeming with wars, Dr. Erb ' declared, "Our history shows that we are a vio lent people.' Our nation was born of revolution. We have had our bloody Civil war; we have, had lynchings, vigilante governments, the Klu Klux Klan, violent In d bloody strikes; our Haymarket riots. In not one of our wars have we been prepared for war ... We have never been willing to keep up on our Installment pay ments for freedom," Dr. Erb asserted. ' ' ' '' The educator's address topped the convention's banquet held at the end of the first day of a three-day conclave in the Wit lord. He was Introduced by Tom Stoddard, Portland. This morning's business ses sions were devoted to real estate problems, beginning with a sound movie, "What's it Worth," an appraisal film, and a talk by William MacRossle, president of the American Insti tute of Real Estate Appraisers on the appraiser's position in government activities. ; Floor Discussion ' An ' cx-Kloraath man, N. Thomas Stoddard of Portland, outlined "Residential Sales," in a 10 a. m. session in the circuit . (Continued on Page Two) Big Guns, Ambulance Appear Here Saturday For 'Army Show' Day Addition of four big guns, a field ambulance, and a scout car to a fleet of peeps scheduled to appear here Saturday for the "Army Show Day" war bond drive, was announced today by Verne Owens of the War Bond Savings staff. Owens revealed that Second Lieutenant J. L. Hogan of the 91st division stationed at Camp White in Medford, visited the city ' and announced he would bring the following pieces of equipment here Saturday: A ,155 mm. howitzer pulled by a 4-ton truck. ' A 105 mm, howitzer pulled by a 21-ton truck. ; A 37 mm. anti-tank Jeep. A. 50 calibre ground mount machlno gun.. . A' field ambulance. A scout car. -'-OWens ald that a flcctbf peeps will be on hand to furnish free rides to anyone buying a bond. E PLEAS GO TO ii.yra Gandhi Says He Will Not Flinch at Geri ' era I Strike By The Associated Press Amid threats of a .general strike by India's 390,000,000, Indian leaders voted today to appeal to President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Russia to support their de mand for immediate independ ence from Great Britain. Mohandas K. Gandhi, powerful- little nationalist leader, told newsmen in discussing .strategy for a; projected mass civil dis obedience campaign: ; . .''Xou. are right when you say that fori a swift ending a general strike is. necessary. It is not outside by contemplation." Gandhi said he would moVe "with the utmost caution . ... . but if a general strike becomes a dire necessity: I shall not flinch." ;.;. ..,.- "f'Aa Ht matter; of fac-J-airt ., greater friend of the British now than-1 ever was," Gandhi snid "My: friendship- demandi .that 1 make them aware of their mis takes. : "Never believe,, as . I . have never believed, . that the British are going to. fall," he told the assemblage. "I do not consider them a nation of cowards. : I know that before they accept de feat every , soul In Britain will be sacrificed.". t : , . Britain has announced she would take every step needed to prevent a recurrence of the orgy of riot, murder, arson; train wrecking, strikes and terrorism which marked Gandhi's civil dis obedience campaign in 1930-31. Gandhi told correspondents that "before he began a. mass disobedience movement he would write to the British viceroy. Lord Linlithgow, - pleading for1 avoid ing conflict"- and that a favorable (Continued on Page Two) Kaiser Gets Go-Ahead on : 500 Mars Planes WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (P) Chairman Donald M. Nelson said today the WPB had approved construction by Henry J. Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder, of 500 huge '."Mars"-Type flying boats, with an Initial order for 100 to be placed by the navy shortly. ( The other 400-seventy-ton car go carrying planes will be built Nelson, said, if the initial pro gram Is accomplished success fully In Kaiser's' Pacific coast shipbuilding plants.' "This is all contingent upon the construction not lnterferring with our coast plane program," Nelson added. - Asked whether WPB believed it could be. done without ham pering war plane production he replied: "I have hopes at least we can try." ; SHIP SUNK WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (PI The navy announced today that. n medium sized , Norwegian merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine In the Atlantic, off the northern cpast of South America in late June. Survivors have been landed at a United States east coast port. News Index City Briefs . Page 3 Comics and Story Page 10 Courthouse Records ....Page 2 Editorial Page 4 Market,-Flnanclal-r.-r.Pos8 - Our Men in Service Page Information .....-.....Page Sports -Page 3 9 Q i . I New OSC Prexy The Oregon board of higher education has announced selec tion of . Dr.. - August - Leroy Strand, president . of . Montana State college, as new president of Oregon State college at Cor- vallis. Dr. Strand Is a native of Texas, was born February - 12, 1894. He took his bachelor of science degree in 1917 at Mon tana State and his ph. d. degree at the University of Minnesota in 1925. He has been president .64 j .Montana? State at .Boieroan since -1937. Associated.;; Pr.air' Photo. ' '- ;?.' I BIB MILL BLAZE Chambers P I a n r. at Cottage Grove Hit by $300,000 Blaze ' ' COTTAGE GROVE, Ore., Aug. 7 (flV-State police and - FBI agents searched today for an in cendiary, believed to have set a fire which last night virtually destroyed the big J.. H. Cham bers & Son sawmill here and two. other blazes in this area within the past two weeks. . Chief of State Police Charles Pray said he thought a pyro maniac was on the loose. . He classed the three fires as a single case on which every man of the state police investigation department was working. FBI agents went into action immedi ately. ' . . - Chambers estimated the fire damage at his mill at $300,000. It was one of the three largest mills In Lane county with a daily capacity of 150,000 board feet, The fire swept the mill, dry kiln, planing mill . and 5,000,000 feet of lumber, he said ; Previously the $75,000 home (Continued on Page Two) Draft Waits Married Men ; Not in Essential Posts SALEM, Aug. 7 OP) Married men with children had their notice today from Colonel Elme V. Wooton, state selective serv ice director, to get Jobs in one of 34 essential occupations, or to bo drafted Into the army, possibly early next year. Colonel . Wooton, ' declaring there are not enough men. be tween the ages of 20 and 45 to fill both the needi of the army and of essential war industries said many non-essential Jobs either will have to bo eliminated, or filled by older men or men who are physically handicapped Attempting to correct the mis taken Idea that essential occupa tions are limited to the shipyards and aircraft factories, the colonel announced that the list of 34 in dustries and activities ranges all 4 the Way from production of war 8 materials to the processing of food, repair of essential motor vehicles, communications serv u u NAZISSLOWED DOWN IN 10 KFY IFPJnijQ Berlin Claims Further Gains in Blood-for-'. Oil Drive ' B? ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor : Adolf Hitler's', blood-for-oil drive' - into the Caucasus was slowed in two key sectors today, Russian accounts said, as the Red armies beat off repeated mass tank assaults and mopped up ' fresh swarms of nazl parachutists and plane-transported troops be hind the Soviet lines. A . An entirely different version came from German field. head quarters, which declared : that Gen. Fedor Von Bock's armies had - captured - three strategic towns and advanced to a depth of 160 miles on the road to the Caucasus oil treasures. - . Near Oil Fields i ' A bulletin' from Hitler's head quarters' as s e r e d that -nam troops swarming-across, the Ku ban river hacTaWahSeil to with in 30 miles of the- Maikop oil fields.- The Mikop wells are ira" portant but far less vital than the huge Baku fields which lie across the -towering Caucasus mountains hundreds of miles to the southeaster'- ' . : The nazi communique also as serted that, axis columns were approaching Krasnodar, 150 miles, southwest of Rostov, on the rail line to the Black sea. . . Arrival of Soviet .reinforce ments in the critical struggle be low ihe Don river was acknowl edged by the German command, which said the Russians were counter-attacking - north of the Sal river apparently in . . the (Continued on Page Two) . . Solon Declares - , Japs Must Be Pushed From Isles SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 m Japanese occupation of the outer Aleutians is a "direct threat to this country," says Senator A. B. -Chandler of Kentucky, "and whatever it takes, we must get those fellows off of those is lands." . - . Chandler is chairman of a military affairs subcommittee which will leave for Alaska shortly to examine the situation there. His colleagues for . the trip are Sen. Harold H. Burton of Ohio; Sen. M. C. Wallgren of Washington and George W. Malone, former Nevada state en gineer who is a special consul tant for the subcommittee, , ' . ices, newspapers, and police and fire protection. ' "I urge every' man between the ages of 20 and 45 to search the list of essential activities and Industries to determine whether he Is now employed in one of these essential activities or in dustries," Colonel Wooton said.' "If: he finds that ho Is em ployed in one of the essential Industries or activities, he should next ask himself if his Job could be filled by an older man, a phy sically handicapped man, or by a woman. If he is not employed. In an essential activity or Industry, or if he can be replaced In hlf job In an essential activity or Industry, he should be able to resolve for himself the course to follow in the Interest of the na tional welfare and this country'! freedom," L. The list of essential Industrie and activities follows: - Aircraft production, ship pro- (Continued on Page Two) -j
