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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON 'August 8, 1042 FRANK JENKINS MAlCOLIl EPMEY UuMini Kdltor A tntwrat combination of Ui Evening Bert id and th KUmath Newt, tunllttied txerj Afternoon ttcrpt Sunday it tUplnnad and Pin iict, Kltmith F&llt, Origan, by tht II trait (uMlthlD Co. and tha Klamath Kwa I'ublinlilng Ovwtpn?, Snwred at irooDd daii matUr at lha notoffica )t Klamath Kalla, Or, oa Aufuit W, I KM under act of eoncrrta, Uauli a, MeCrW ul in Aocttd If TTi AMoaatad hnt la aid u lively etttltltd to thi uu of rtpubllcattoa of tl) om ftlppatchcl credlUd to It or not otherwise cmlltrd la thU paper, and alto tha loo I nw publlthH thfrala. All right of republication of special dU patches ara alto raaarrad. BehindM them MKMBBR AUDIT BUREAU OF C1KCUUTION Repreaented Nationally by ' Wett-Uolltday Co., Inc. (tan Frandwo, Hw Tork. Detroit. 8eattl, Chicago, Portland, lot Angtlea, 8t, Lout. Vanoouvar, B. C. Coplea of Th Herald and Neva, together with eotnpleU triform Hon about tha KUmath Fall market, may b obtained (or tht taking at anj of thaaa olftc. Delivered by Carrier m City One Month .T8 Three Mentha t-tt One Vear - -, 1-M Three Monthi , Six Months On -Year MAIL BATES PAVABI.R IN ADVANCE By Mall In Klamath, Lake, Modoc and SUkljroa CoanUea Weekend Roundup LITTLE by little, we come to the realization that life "as usual" in this free and easy country is out for the duration. It doesn't always come painlessly either, as witness the situation in California where there is a full grown, yowl over the cancellation of the deer hunting season; - When General DeWitt asked that California hunting be closed, and Governor Olson complied, a flood of pro tests swept in on the governor's office. But the suspen sion went into effect, with the possibility that some areas may be opened to hunting when it is found such action will not interfere with military or defense needs. Thus far, there is no indication of intention to suspend the Oregon deer season. But something of the kind may happen. When the military commanders make up their mind, civilians find it difficult to shake them. It is certain that duck hunting in this district will be on a somewhat different basis this year, if for no other reason than the restrictions that will be enforced in the area near the Japanese settlement on Tule lake. Eugene Love's appointment to West Point reflects most creditably upon this community and upon Klamath Union high school, where young Love was an outstanding scholar and athlete. Congressman Walter M. Pierce writes us that Love's appointment was made under a new law, which provides as follows: "When, on the date of admission of a new class the total number of cadets is below the number authorized, the secretary of war may bring the corps of cadets to full strength by appointing qualified alternates and candidates recommended by the academic board . . . That any appointment made under this section shall be 1 additional appointment and shall not constitute an SJpointment otherwise authorized by law." "This means," writes Mr. Pierce, "that our second district gains an additional appointment through the pro ficiency and fine record of this young man." Congressman Pierce went on to say that Love was one of 79 chosen from a list of 600 candidates, and from a field covering the whole United States. This recognition of Love's ability is highly gratifying here. This young Klamath man will measure up to everything expected of him at West Point. Congratu lations are in order to him, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd E. Love, and to this community. Henry J. Kaiser has won a moral victory, at least, m Donald Nelson's announcement that 500 Mars-type fly ing cargo freighters will be built by Kaiser at his Portland shipyards. Kaiser wants to build 5000 of the big airplanes. The 600 planes represent a start, and if the Pacific coast genius is right, he can prove it on the smaller order. Men on the street, who admittedly don't know a lot about the technical end of this business, have a feeling that Kaiser has something tremendous in his cargo plane program. That is because they believe in his genius. They do not know, themselves, but if Kaiser says it is so, they take his word for it. Cargo nlane development, incidentally, directs atten tion to the importance of a good airport at Klamath Falls. Recently an official visitor, looking over the Klamath field, commented upon the fact that it would be an ex cellent stop for cargo planes when they begin to ply in large numbers up and down the Pacific coast. It stands to reason that once the war is over, air freight will be vastly more important in regular com merce than ever before. It is satisfying to know we will have a field that can- handle air freight equipment. Don Drury tells us his'little boy, sitting on the porch while the family was discussing present-day industrial problems, remarked he would like to be an earwig so he 'wouldn't have to worry about priorities. jBut earwigs ought to be given something to worry about, and perhaps this will do it: Bran, 12 pounds; sodium fluosilicate, one pound; fish oil, 1 quart. Mix the bran and sodium fluosilicate; then add the fish oil and mix again. Use no water. Baiti along fences, piles of boards, wood piles, trees and other places where earwigs might hide. The bait is poisonous and should be kept away from children. If an earwig gets a gulp of this poisonous bran mash, it will be worse than priorities for him. M.E. 'Sky Dragons' New Name of Famed Volunteer 'Tigers' WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 People In this country do not get the picture ot the battle in Russia, and consequently may be inclined to over-interpret or underestimate what is happening there. There is no battle line such as you see daily drawn on sketched maps. The German advance is not that of a solid mass moving forward against b retreating mass a few miles ahead, doggedly dying for every inch of territory Timoshenko's army has not even fought a major battle in its Ukraine-Caucasus retreat thus far. There have been no such scenes as waves of troops, miles in length, surging and charging against a defensive line. It has strictly been a fight of fluid maneuvering without a major engagement. The German army is broken up into numerous fists, each an individual unit of tanks and in fantry, each pounding forward individually from town to town or place to place. Frequently one advancing fist runs into a Russian unit and there is a scrap for a position. On the whole, the German campaign can best be visualized as a thousand disconnected fists pounding forward unevenly. NO DEFENSIVE LINE The Russians have not tried to maintain a defense line any where, except on the east bank of the Don, from Voronezh southwest to the big bend near Stalingrad. There they have established a fairly good de fensive position (not as good as they can and may have to take later on the east bank of the Volga, a much wider and less shallow stream.) South of Stalingrad, however, where the clashes between the fists have been more numerous. there has been no semblage of a line. There, Timoshenko has been involved in the desperate and amazingly successful maneu ver of withdrawing an army of 200,000 men from the tight pocket in which Hitler caught them around Rostov. If anyone had said ten days ago that Timoshenko would get 100,000 of these troops safely out of the trap, he would have been considered an optimist. Yet ap parently this adroit red general has succeeded in safely with drawing most or all of them. RED ARMY INTACT You have heard no claim by the Berlin radio to the capture any large number of troops in that area, and it certainly would have been made if Hitler had succeeded in his attempt to cut ou these forces. Conse quently, Timoshenko's army is most certainly so far still intact as this is written. The German encirclement maneuver has forced him to move constantly back and back, because it has pushed him into an area of level plains, barren of good geographical defenses. The next good line at Timoshenko's back is the mountains of the Caucasus. There and on the east bank of the Volga, to the north, the Russians certainly have better military positions than they have occupied so far in this war. Of course, if they have to go back to these, they lose the Caucasus oil, nil tha industry and farm supplies of the Don and Donets basin, but until their armies are beaten, the red cause is not lost. Their problem now therefore is one of generalship and morale. Some suggestions have been of fered that their fighting spirit h33 not measured up to the super ior quality of last winter in some spots, but these reflect iso lated cases of one or two trapped divisions. v Morale as a whole seems better than you would expect from a retreating, pocketed army which has not yet been fully engaged. And as long as they have Timo shenko they need not worry about generalship. To keep a proper perspective on the fluctuations of this war, therefore, you must forget ull the old pictures of the Civil war or the trench combat of the World war. No trenches have been dug on the Russian front from the Black sea to the Arctic, even in tight defensive positions such as around Leningrad. There, defenses in depth havo been established (concrete pill boxes, camouflaged machine gun and mortar nests) so that the ter rain constitutes vast invisible forts covering hundreds of square miles, but without walls. MORESBY THREAT Japanese advances in New Guinea and nearby islands are purely defensive and in no woy a threat to Australia. Our ad' vance base at Port Moresby has been a constant source of annoy ance to the bogged down ag gressors. They have shifted their main battle force to Manchukuo, but as a back door diversion to break the Port Moresby thorn, they have sent small forces for ward in New Guinea preparatory to a larger scale assault on the base. Port Moresby will do them no good towards Invasion of Aus tralia, but will make their New Guinea holdings safe and en able them to cut the Torres Straits, through which Dnrwin is being supplied by sea from Brisbane and Sydnej. For the invasion of Australia, they will need four or five times as many troops as they have in that area now. Those single German planes , which have been pestering Ice- , land the last few days were look ing for our convoys bound for , Murmansk. Their reconnais sance was directed upon ships rather than toward our troops j stationed there. No nazi air attack on that is-; land is probable. It is too far i away from German bases. SIDE GLANCES sflHBt ' WH. IWi BY NIA MBVIOr. INC. T, y. KC& U. i. WT, Oft. ''Have you nny gloss top dining room tables? I'm lived of my wife kicking me under the tabic nt company dinners 1" REFORM ADMINISTRATION EL DORADO, Kas., (P) Miss Louise Lee, trim brunette offi cer, is on the job as polico desk sergeant. You can tell, because an In cense burner is going full-tilt all day, combatting all aromas, t ZOOLOGICAL CRISIS DENVER, (.?) Velox. tho blind Polar bear, was moved In to tho sea lion's spacious, moat girdled quarters becouse the bear's former homo was too small The sea lion hasn't had a good swim since. It's still hitting n top a rock. If your dealer is out for the duration, advertise for a used one In the want-ads. WAR QUIZ 15 1. This Is tho Insignia of a Navy specialist, Would you iny he was a cook, A fireman, a bomber, n "illver or u munu'i'V f i. most ioine ami one of the m o s t famous s t a t o nienls of t It o w a r Is, "Sighted k u b sank same." Who said it and un der what circumstances? II. Name a make of Japanese fighter and bomber planer ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ 1. Tim Insignia Is that of a sen ium! gunner. 2. Ensign Donald Mason sent buck this message when, us an enlisted pilot on patrol duly off the eiMifirn coast, he sank an enemy submarine. He was pro moted to ensign for tho feat. ;. Must famous Japanese fight er planes are Zeros. Th Mltsu-1 hlshi Is the most widely used hoinher. SIX-FOOTERS The proportion of American men whoso height U six feet or over i only about one In 200. ENDS TONIGHT "LANCER SPY" "PANTHER'S CLAW" Coming Sunday THE SPIRIT OP FREEDOM - . . .. f W tk l.fc.UM . I llkirlfl a, King Crosby, Givon Dofcot Seattle Pros In Exhibition Golf SEATTLE. Aug. 8 (! Ring Crosby, tho screen and radio star, teamed with Harry Glvan, Seattle to defeat Yeoman Albert (Scotly) Campbell, U. S. Navy, Sent lie, and Gordon Richards. Seatthi pro. 3 and 2, yenterday In a benefit golf match for the War Athletic. Council. More than 2.000 persons paid a SI gallery fen each to truclc over tho exclusive Broadmoor cotirso and see Ding shoot n 71 Glvan went around In fit) four .under par. Mi CtlVI BROOK Vw-lJ D,.H W J WYMVAUP ALSO Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Madolaine Carroll in "Safari if Positively Ends UNBELIEVERS MADERA, Calif., (VP) "This safe is not locked and does not contain the fund." Burglars wno read tne sign ; atop a lumber-company safe S probably chuckled knowingly as i they proceeded laboriously to j chisel off tho combination and ; ransask the interior. They found the safe hadn't been locked and really didn't contain any cash. Bed! UuUM I II hi II: QUICK FILL-IN CHICAGO, (IPl Charles Kar love of Crystal Lake, III., didn't let a thing like seven dental cav ities keep him out of the naval air corps. Rejected by an examining dentist, Karlove returned two hours later and showed the offi cer six shiny new fillings and the space where a seventh bad tooth had been. He passed. CHUNGKING, Aug. 8 (IP) li s the "Sky Dragons" now in' stead of the "Flying Tigers." That is the nickname the ad miring Chinese Have pinned on the United States army air forces which on July 4 absorbed the famous American volunteer group, whose exploits set a high standard of daring. The aggressive tactics Of the "Sky Dragons," a Chinese army spokesman said, have made Japanese authorities at Hankow "rather jittery" and have forced them to abandon their once easy way of life. "Most Japanese and puppet de partments," the spokesman said, "have been moved into a zone established for refugees, because they feel it is safer." At the same time axis and puppet flags whjch nravlously. ivere flaunted from buildings nave been discreetly removed to nlnlmize the temptation lliey offered to American bombers. The American Information ser- j vice disclosed that Hengyank, I American air base In Hunan pro vince, was attacked Wednesday I morning oy Japanese planes. A communique yesterday an nouncing ine ram said it was ! directed against Kweilln. This I was explained as an error in ! I telegraphic transmission. The Chinese Central News said three of 17 Japanese planes which attempted to smash the American base were shot down In a fierce dogfight. Central News reported that only three of the raiders penetrated to the city, and said one of these was I brought down In flames at the I eastern outskirts ot Hcngyang I by anti-aircraft fire. To-conserve tea packcrs-arej cutting package sizes down to 50 individual-size tea balls, or a quarter-pound. Tonight! COMING SUNDAY-FOUR BIG DAYS! 'Si fey rrnro cno THE FIRST TIME . . 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