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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
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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