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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
'August 8, 1042
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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
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''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,
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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
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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.
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Madolaine Carroll
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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
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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.
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