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August 7 High 93, Lew 49
Precipitation as oi August 1. 1940
Last year ., , 14.17
Normal ..-... ...........12.10
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Palis. Another long blast, during black
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tloniry periods, watch your street lights.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
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PRICE FIVB CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 8, 1942
Number 9561
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Bv FRANK JENKINS
) jblX of tho eight nazi saboteurs
p are executed. Two turn
', Hate's evldeneo (using tho civil
' iiin torm) unit get life Imprison
f Oicnt,
:4 It la a Rood sign, Indicating
)int us a nation we're not weak
' Or sontlmonliil.
f You cim't ho weak und sentl-
iontol and WIN A WAU.
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i; THE only good news from Rus
; sla today (us for weeks punt)
(n LACK of news" Indicating da-
jpioralizatlon of tlia Russian
' armies.
5 Until that happens, there la
hope.
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fTHE Offlco of Wnr Informn
; r- tlon, In n review of the U. 8.
: inilluiry and production slluntlon
: just issued In Washington, anys:
j "To win a total war we must
. fight it totally, ond wo uro NOT
S'' fighting It tlinl hnrd."
i
. T"HIS question cornea Instantly
. j Into tho minds of all of us
F 'Vitslders:
,J "WHO Isn't flKhting hard
nougl and WHY?"
i In unking that question, we
' aren't arguing or passing tho
'buck.
H Wo WANT TO KNOW.
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fcflIrtyAmfrtican pwpic want Jo.
;iA be led to victory.
; $ They are willing to FOLLOW,
no matter where tho road may
i- ylend or how hard it may bo to
y Irovcl. They tiro NOT hanging
!; back.
; I But there Is no CLEAR voice
;;of leadership.
i One person In authority says
one thing one day and another
person in authority says some
thing else tho next dtiy.
j There Is llttlo agreement,
i Thero Is MUCH confusion.
' ( ATi lcnsl tl,nl ls way 11
M seems to this outsider, who
-nows nothing but what ho rcuds
', Jlnd hours from day to day.)
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; VlANDHI gels from his All
!. India congress a practically
; unanimous authorization to lead
I a wartime civil disobedience
' campaign against tho British In
i India. Amendments designed to
I soften tho tone of tho outhoriza
i tlon ond remove from it tho ap
' pcarancc of deliberate aid to tho
axis aro voted down.
' I Tho show-down In lndln seems
r i to bo obout horo.
CTOCKHOLM (Sweden) dls
!,j patches report today thut a
'slato of alert has been ordered
by tho Germans all along the
; 3 Norwegian coast. At the sumo
tlmo, tho Norwegians arb warned
that DEATH will bo tho penalty
jfor aiding tho allies.
f The Dutch and the French
. isycro similarly warned several
J Jnys ago.
(Straws in tho air maybe
something; maybe not.)
nEPHESENTATIVE Mngnuson,
of Washington, a member of
the houso naval affairs commit
tee and until recently In active
service In tho navy, Bays In
Seattle: .
. "Japan and Russia have been
at wnr for somo time and the
Jnps hnvo sunk several Rus
sian ships, Justifying tho sink
ings on tho ground that tho ves
sels carried U, S. materials.
1 "Wnr between Japan and Rus
sin started when tho Jnps begnn
strengthening their forces In
Manchuria and when they seized
Klskn nntl Atttt Islands."
'T'HE Jnps occupied the western
Aleutian Islnnds, Mngnuson
says, to:
1. Bent us to it.
' 2. Get valunblo weather In-
.Airmntlon.
M 3. Sccuro a flunking position
i on tho U. S.-Russiun supply lino.
I; Ho doesn't think they'll use
Klskn and Attn as bnses for on
I attack on tho U. S. coast, They
might as well stnrt from home,
ho says, as from these relatively
1 close-by Island?
OWI Paints
Gloomy Picture
Of War Effort
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (AP)
A gloomy picture of America's
war efforts to date wus laid be
foro the nation today In a warn
ing by tho office of war Infor
mation that material are fall
ing to reach tho fighting front
In the time and the volume
needed to win,
Reviewing the military and
production situation, OWI as
sorted last night thut output of
fighting phmcs, Uiiiks, most
types of artillery and naval ves
sels fell behind schedula In June
and expressed doubt that "all
of tis realize how hard wo arc
going to liuvo to work to win."
"To win n total war wo must
fight It totally," OWI suld, "and
we tiro not fighting it that
hnrd."
A similar tone was expressed
In Australia whero War Corres
pondent Norman Stockton of
tho Melhourno Herald asserted
"our allies have got to realize
the grim fact that wo are still
fighting a losing war and. that
thero is no possibility of an of
fensive from this country until
real material aid is forthcom
ing." Stockton described General
Douglas MucArthur as an "offensive-minded"
leader who ap
parently could not toko the of
fensive because of tho lack of
material aid.
Simultaneously, Premier Mit
chell Hepburn of Ontario pre
dicted In a speech at Forquo,
Out., that "We are going to
have un attack on tho Atlantic
coast very soon, and a two
ocean attack In tho near fu
ture." OWI cautioned that "We could
loso this war," and declared
that while some Individual
-Americans- hud mode groat sac
rifices, "us a nation we are not
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Klamath Basin Heads for
Record Agricultural Year
(Editor's Note: This Is another
of a scries of weekly articles
dealing with war-time effects on
productive activity in tho Klam
ath country.)
Br BOB LEONARD
It seems to us thero has been
a redundancy of conversation
ancnt the Industrial aspects of
tho wln-the-war effort.
There Is much talk about 50
doy delivery of Liberty ships,
125.000 planes per year, and
cargo carriers of tho air; mucin
argument over pipe lines and
gasoline; and much, much fret
ting and practically nothing
else over rubber und can wo
hnvo tires.
Thero has been also practical
ly no concern as to whether our
armies and we aro going to cat.
Which pcrforco leads to the as
'City Guys'
BUslarad hands and sore
Iff
ness men who help their farmer irlends in the hay crop during the farm labor shortage In the
basin. The picture here shows group at work on the hay crop of Beverly Thomas, Left to
rlghti Charles Thomas, Walter Lassett, Scott. Smith, Cirl Stelnselfer and Dick Reeder.
NAZIS SMASH
AT
Norwegian Coast on
Alert;, Mediterran- r
ean Convoy Hit
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Adolf Hitler's drive fur the
black gold of tho Caucasus
ncared its first major goal to
day as the Gormans smashed
at the approaches of tho Maikop
fields, 170 . miles south of Ros
tov, while In the north tho in
vaders edged closer to the great
steel city of Stalingrad.
For the first time, the Rus
sians acknowledged that the
Germans had lunged far down
tho west side of the Caucasus
land bridge to the middle cast
after a major break through
red army defenses.,
Dispatches to Red Star, the
Russian army newspaper, said
Marshal Scmcon Tlmoshcnko's
armies had made a heroic but
unsuccessful attempt to stem
the nazi onslaught in the loop
of the Kuban river above Mai
kop, In the Armavir sector, 160
miles south of Rostov, and east
of Krasnodar,
Damolltlon
With the Invaders so near,
soviet demolition engineers
presumably woro rcody to blow
. .Mil ltiiI'T
"There- Is
APPROACH
TO MAIKOP 0 L
lHtlo diWrrntttVJlTritf;''' Aronc! MhW
the bulk of tho German
man arm -
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sumption that there Is plenty
for all and that the old estab
lished custom will not die out.
Apparently this is so, least
wise in Klamath county, where
we're, going to have a crop somo
15 per cent and maybe tnore
over and above that of our
normal Intentions for tho year
1042. That's what County
Agent Charley Henderson and
virtually every farmer In the
countryside tell us, anyway,
Biggest Year
They soy that despite a crip
pling labor shortage and a grow
ing material scarcity we're head
ed for tho biggest agricultural
yenr the Klamath basin has ever
had. . .. .
Now Messrs. Charley Hender
son and Virtually Every Former
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Help Farmer In Labor Shortage
muscles are ialrly common nowadays among Kianriitn Fans Busi
lyq
If - I -S is lip- -
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These Klamath kids, like msny others and quite a few oldsters, rode in army peeps as a
feature of Army Show Day here Saturday. Technical Sergeant Clemens drove the peep. War
bond buyers got peep rides.
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ALEUTS, SOLOMONS
Battle .Continuing in
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Discloses
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (AP)
Hcovy attacks by United States
naval forces on Japanese instal
lations in the Solomon Islands
In the southwest Pacific and in
the Aleutian Islands off Alaska
were announced today by the
navy.
Air and surface forces joined
In the assault on the enemy in
the southeastern part of the
Solomon islands. Tho navy em
phasized that the attack was in
"force" and thot the battle was
continuing.
Referring to the Aleutians
whero the Jnpnnese have land
ed on three Islnnds the navy
said its forces bombarded en
emy ships and shore establish
ments at Kiskn.
' In this engagement also sur
fuce units ployed a major part.
Besides Kiskn. tho Japanese
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Heaping Peepful of People
tpmwnum mrm'
Bond Buyers
Are Doing Lots
Of Peep Riding
l This U "army show day" in
Klamath Falls, and lucky war
'- savings bond -buyers as doing
a let of peep riding.
The army brought eight of
the little reconnaissance cars
her from Medford, along with'
some guns and other fighting
equipment. - All persons who
have purchased bonds since
July 29. or buy bonds before
the evening program is over
Saturday, ire entitled to rides
in the peeps.
Headquarters for tho show
are in front of the chamber
of commerce and courthouse.
A big crowd had gathered
there at noon. The chamber
offices will be kept open until
9 p. m. for purchase of bonds,
entitling each purchaser to a
peep ride.
Riot Quelled at
Santa Anita
Japanese Center
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 8 (P)
Two hundred military . police
were called inside the Japanese
Assembly Center at Santa Anita
last Tuesday to quell a disturb
ance, the Wartime Civilian Con
trol Administration disclosed to
day. ''
One of the evacuees, suspected
of being an informer, was set
upon and badly beaten by a huge
crowd of Japanese. He was res
cued by the soldiers and taken to
a hospital.
The'WCCA statement follows:
"After being- stationed ' within
the Japanese Assembly Center
at Santa Anita for three days,
the result of a disturbance, ac
cented by an assault upon' an
evacue of Japanese and Korean
ancestry, Tuesday afternoon,. the
military police were withdrawn
Friday evening.
"Tho assault upon the evacue
occurred during the routine In
spection by the interior police
Suspected of being an informer,
the evacue was set upon by sev
eral hundred other evneues.
"A milling crowd of about
2,000 Japanese gathered almost
at once. The military police sta
tioned outside the center were
summoned. Some 200 were or
dered In. The beaten evacue,
badly but not seriously hurt, was
rescued by the soldiers and re
moved to a hospital.
News Index
City Briefs v.... Page 3
Comics and Story Page 10
Courthouse Records ......Page 11
Editorial .....Page 4
Inf brrnatlori Page 3
Market, Financial Pago 11
Radio Day by Day Page 8
Society Page 6-6-7-8
Sport Page 8
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Machinery Set Up. for
Overnight bwitch
If Necessary
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (AP)
Uncle Sam was paving the way
today for possible inauguration
of a universal rationing system
under which the government
could determine the war-time
allotments of all citizens for
scarce commodities and articles.
The office of price adminis
tration disclosed it was prepar
ing a general ration, book, ap
plicable to any article, which
would enable the start of ra
tioning "almost overnight."
Paul M. O'Leary, deputy OPA
administrator in charge of ra
tioning, explained the plan was
designed to put rationing into
operation immediately after the
need arose. He said machinery
was being set up for rationing
many commodities "in which
there is no present need for ra
tioning." "We're like the fire depart
ment," O'Leary said. "It gets its
fire fighting equipment ahead of
time so that when the alarm
sounds they don't have to go
shopping for a fire engine in
order to go to a fire."
OPA said the general ration
books were being designed "ex
perimentally" a t the govern
ment printing office.
"If it can be made workable,
we would have in our hands an
instrument that would enable us
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Indifferent War
Workers Subject
To Draft Report
SEATTLE, Aug. 8 (AP) War
industry employes whose hearts
are not in their work face inv
mediate induction Into ' the
army, Col. Walter J. DeLong
state director of selective ser
vice, warned yesterday.
Henceforth, he told the chair
men of Seattle draft boards,
requests for deferment or for
renewal of deferment upon oc
cupational grounds must be ae
companied by a report show
ing the employe's attitude to'
wards his work.
Employers will be expected
to report promptly to local
boards any unjustified absenc
es from work, any tendency to
move from Job to Job and plant
to plant or any other evidence
that suggests indifference.
Married men who do not
show a conscientious effort In
war lndustr!cswiUbe trans
ferred Immediately from class
3-B to 3-A, DeLong warned,
and will be subjeel to Immedi
ate induction as soon as boards
begin calling married men.
Two Get Prison
Sentence for
Sabotage Plan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (AP) The White House an-
nounced today that six of eight nazi saboteurs had been
executed today, the first eoine to death bv the electric
chair at noon.
The two saboteurs spared were Ernest P. Burger,
who was eiven a life prison sentence st hard labui and
George John Dasch, sentenced to 30 years at hard labor.
STOTTS NAMED
TO HEAD REAL
ESTATE BOARDS
Adjustment Factor
in
Low Scale Rentals
Asked
. Members of the Oregon As
sociation of Beat Estate Boards
elected Claude G. Stotts of
Marshfield president and asked
the government for an adjust
ment - factor in assertedly low
scale rentals in some state dis
tricts today in winding up their
"David B.. Simpson" eighth an
nual convention in the Willard
hotel .1 K,.,. -v i
The association, ' also named
. Killwm-V.'Barendrick Df Port
land first vice president,' F. E.
Arnold of Portland, treasurer
and renamed Larry WV Borne of
Portland secretary. 1
" Morning and noon sessions to
day wound up the three-day con
clave highlighted by addresses
by Dr. Donald Erb, president of
the University of Oregon, and
prominent state realtors.
The rental' resolution topped
several other commendatory ac-
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Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Philadelphia 4 13 0
New York 8 10 3
Marchildon and Swift; Chand
ler and Dickey.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Brooklyn .... ...0 , 3 0
Boston 2 5 1
Wyatt and Owen; Salvo and
Lombardi.
(First game) R. H. E.
Chicago 1 7 0
Cincinnati ........1. 2 10 0
Warneke and McCullough;
Derringer, Beggs (9) and Lake-
man. (12 innings).
Japan, Russia Already
At War, Magnuson Says
SEATTLE, Aug. 8 (P) Japan
and Russia have been at war for
some time and the Japanese have
already sunk several Russian
ships in the Pacific, according
to "commdn knowledge" in
Washington, D. C, Rep. Warren
G. Magnuson, (D-Wash.), said
yesterday.
Magnuson, a member of the
house naval affairs committee,
who until recently was on aotive
duty as a lieutenant-commander
in the U. S. navy, arrived from
tho national capital en route to
Alaska to inspect territorial de
fenses. The Japanese justify their
sinking of Russian ships on the
ground the soviet vessels were
carrying American materials,
Magnuson said.
"War between Japan and Rus
sia started," Magnuson told in
terviewers, "when the Japs be
gan strengthening their forces
In Manchuria and when they
seized Attu and Kiska islands in
the Aleutians."
The congressman said it was
generally believed iirWashing
ton the Japs occupied the west
ernmost Aleutian islands for
three reasons:
"First, they beat us to it. They
knew we'd be there sooner or
These, a White House state
ment , said, had prison terms
granted them rather than death'
sentences "because of thetr as
sistance to the government of the
United States in the apprehen
sion and conviction of the
others.
Electrocuted
The six who paid the death
penalty for coming to the United
States in nazi U-boats to burn
and blast vital war installations
were electrocuted in the District
of Columbia jail.
The executions were carried
out a month to the day after a
military commission began try-'
ing them on espionage and sabc- '
tage charges. The eight men
came equipped with explosives
and materials for incendiarism,-.
four landing in Florida and four
on Long Island.
The text of the White House,
announcement:
"The president completed his
review on the findings and sen
tences of the military commis
sion appointed by him on July
2, 1942 which tried the eight
nazi saboteurs.
"The president approved the
judgment of . the military com
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Allied Airmen
Unload Bombs on
Rabaul, Lae ?-
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
Aug. 8 UP) Striking their
mightiest blow yet at Japanese
held Rabaul, Allied airmen un
loaded IS tons of bombs on that
New Britain ivansion base yes
terday and churned up destruc
tion at Lae, New Guinea, with
2,000-pound demolition bombs.
Seven of 20 challenging Jap
anese Zero fighters were report
ed shot down over-Rabaul at a
cost of only one Allied plane, '
although other raiders were dam-,
aged and there were some cas- '
ualties.
This daring and destructive as
sault, by heavy bombers in day
light, was aimed at Vunakanau
airdrome, the main enemy air
base in New Britain. An Allied
communique said every one of
the bombs hit the target area.
Medium bombers carried out
the attack on Lae, also by day;
light, and the communique's ref
erence to the use of 2,000-pound
bombs was the first disclosure
that such potent explosives were
being dropped on the Japanese.
later in offensive action against
the Japs home islands. ,
"Secondly, they wanted weath
er information from that area.
Because the weather moves from'
northwest to southwest across
the continent from the north
Pacific, they are now in a posi
tion to know what kind of weath
er we're having along the west
coast and in the northern in
terior. i "But the last and perhaps the
most important reason was to
be able to straddle the Russian
supply line from the American'
west coast. 1
"The value of Klska and Attu
to them is simply this they can
harass the lend-lease supply to
Russia and their flank is pro
tected when they make an. at
tack on Siberia." ...'..
Magnuson said he did not be
lieve the outer-most Aleutians
would serve as a base for an in
vasion of the Pacific coast.
"The Japs could Just as easily
assemble an invasion force In
their home islands and sail by
Klska on their way east. If they
were going to invade Alaska
they would go right on by " the
Aleutians. In fact I don't know
of a better place for 20,000 Japs
to be occupied than in Klska or
Attu. They're no good until
they're taken off again."
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