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Bl'lSMoBl'SlB'BS'll .UiiiJiiih.ililli.l.M iiililiilMliillliiiU'AwilMiilXllil taw atifl mw Weather News Ont 5-mtnutt blast on ilrtnt and whlitlti la tht signal lor bliekout In Klamath ' Falls. Another long blast, during black out, It signal ior all-cltar. In prtcau ticnatf iiarloUi, watch your Btrtet tights. August 9 High 95, Low 53 Precipitation as of August 3, 1942 Last year . H.17 Normal 12.12 Stream vtar" to data " ""la.n ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICK FIVE CKNTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 10. 1942 Number 9562 (ftr? . p jy in n UU Vi2 LbZrvAUXJ Km ri I II rvM ! Dl) VJ 4 . ism B Bv FRANK JENKINS AMKItlCAN lntorost shifts " hnrilv todnv from nuns In to the southwest Pacific, where our men nloim with our utile tho Australians nro fighting tho Jnps In a big battlo WE STARTED. A DMIRAL KING tells tis todny Unit U. S. forces Ihivo LANDED In tha southeastern Solomons with the purpose of driving out tha Jnps and PER MANENTLY occupying t h I tratcilc area In tho south Pn CHIC. The Japs, he adds, have been prvpurlng to use theso Ishinds as a bane for offensive operations AGAINST US, including: both our positions in Australia nnd our Australian communication line. '. .Wt BEAT THEM TO IT. . . . 'ADMIRAL KINO says all available communications re bclnii used In tho battlo it elf, and so Information la In complete. But ho announces Hint our losses so far are ono cruiser funk and two cruisers, two de stroyer and one transport dnm w SKed. i A "large numbt r" of Jnp plnnea as woll as Jnp surfaco craft, ho adds, have been put out of action. He concludes with a warning that tho operation In which we lire engaged Is a " complicated and difficult ono and so consul oruble losses must be expected - m. UE says: "An initial surprise was of ioctcd and PLANNED LAND JNGS ACCOMPLISHED Tho enemy has eountor-oltnckcd with rapidity and vigor, ; "Heavy fighting is still - in progress." ' . THAT Is to say, wo have NOW ' DONE what tho Jnps so far hnvo BEEN DOING exclusively landing men from ships and TAKING OVER. If we can finish what we have A started that Is, taking over the Solomons and USING THEM OURSELVES lnstcnd of permit' ting them to bo used by the Jnps wo shall bo able to say that finally we hnvo got started. In oil our wnrs so far, wo hnvo been slow storters but tough finishers. VOU will be wise If you do not lump to tho conclusion that we are starting Immediately on IMand-to-lslnnd offensive against Japnn. Thnt would bo a big con tract. It l more likely thnt we nro tackling the Solomons with tho idea of preventing tho Jnps from using them as a bnso for rnlding our communication lino to Aus' trnlln. At tho same time, In much tho same mnnnar as tho Jnps' slmul tnnoous attack on Midway nnd Dutch Hnrbor, we sent a smaller Qlfavnl force against tho western Aleutian Islands. This seems to have been moro or less of a hit-and-run nffnlr, primarily designed to confuso tho enemy ns to whore tho mnln blow was to full. THE 'situation In .Russia Is no better todny. Thoro aro reports of "lienvy explosions" in tho direction of Maikop, Indicating thnt tho Rus sians mny already bo destroying tho Mnlltop oil field. ...-'- The Russian lino before Stal ingrad appears to be holding lending to the guess thnt ns be tween' defending tho Cnucnsus north of the mounlnins nnd hold ing Stalingrad nnd the Volga tho Russians nro choosing tho latter. . TN India Gandhi went ahead x with his bluff and the British called It promptly, arresting the wizened little lender and his wlfo j nnd proceeding to put Adown tho rioting which seems "to bo on a considerable scnle, There are reports of bands of Hindus stoning Moslem shops In Bombay, which aro significant. No love Is lost between the Hin dus end the Moslems. Thnt is ono : (Corlllnued on Pugo Two) BEDS DYNAMITE FIELDS IN MAIKOP AREA Yanks Poised for Ac tion in Britain, Sav Generals By Th Associated Press Dispatches telling of tremen dous explosions heard on the Caucasus front Indicated todny thnt tho Russians are carrying out their scorched earth policy, were dynamiting tho menaced Maikop oilfields, toward which powerful German tank forces wcro smashing through sagging red army defenses. In Britain two United States generals declared that American forces thoro were keyed for the offensive. MnJ, Gen. Corl Spnatz, com mander of tho United States army nlr forces In Britain, said the American fliers were ready to negin attacks "within the Iny mediate future." Moi. ', QciK ,M VV. Clark, commander '6f ui -8. ground forces in Britain, said "The sooner a ' second front could be opened, the. better." A Russian communique said the lines guarding the Volga hold firm under assault north' west and southwest of Stalin grad, but acknowledged with drawols close - to the Malkon fields and the Jutting spur of ino uuuensus foothills, Rods Fall Baokj-. ' i' Tha Russians foil back In the Armavir region, 60 miles horth- east of Maikop after a fierce en gagement. The Germans were reported "striving hard to ad vance." Another withdrawal wos mndo tinder heavy. German pressure In the Kropotklo area. 00 miles north of Maikop, the Moscow communiquo said. I no G e r m a u s. who have claimed the .capture of Maikop, Kropotkln, Armavir, and Kras nodar, 5S miles northwest of Maikop, sold their forces thrust 170 miles southeast of the oil field center and seized: Pyati gorsk. They claimed to ' have reached tho north slopes of the Caucasus, range along a 250-milo front. Tho Russians said tho axis' on (Continued on Pago Two) Kaiser Speeds Up Liberty Ship Building Record ' PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 10 (VP) The Oregon. Shipbuilding cor poration promised today to build and deliver Liberty ships In 35 dnya or loss. Edgnr Kniscr, general man- ngcr, announced completion of a sub-assembly plant nt St Johns by which ho hopes to bo able to cut nt least 11 days off tho na tional record of 48 days now held by his compnny. About 2000 men and women were nt work In the plant today. It cost $2,500,000. . Group Raps For War Production Lag WASHINGTON, Aug.. 10 (IP) Asserting that tha war produc tion effort "continues to lag," a special congressional committco declhred today thnt '"thera' has nowhero been evidenced any In tention on the part of responsible officials, civilian or military,, to rcgnrd It ns their Job to demand maximum output or to move heaven and enrth to get It." In a 8poc.nl report, the.-com' mlttco Investigating national de fense migration told, the house thb crucial summer of, 1842 found In existence "no coordin ated plan for all-out use of our productive capacity." "Tho authorities charged vlth tho responsibility for . develop ing such a program have been transferring tholr responsibility, and henco any opportunity for direct supervision of these oper ations, to tho already overbur dened armed forces," the com mittee said. Tho report ndded that the re cent alignment of the war pro- At a pier at tht new U. 8. part; of -the dfanis of ihv. Pacific approachva of thv Panama off tht Pacific end of tha canal.'. Fif th Column Enemy Destroyed in East MITCHELL TIELD,' N. V., Aug. 10 W) . Ground markers emblazoned by rurnl fifth col umnists with plows and other farrn fmplamonts to giid enemy bombers to vital objectives hnvo boon discovered by army , air ob servers ond de3troyedvM, , f Dangervto largo "enstS'rri air ports and plane ! factories to which the markers pointed thus' has been averted, Col. Dache M Reeves, commanding tho first ground air. support unit of tho first air force, said In making the disclosure yesterday. . . "Proper action" was taken by army . Intelligence, officers and Sky Dragons Score Hit on Jap Steamer CHUNGKING, Aug. 10 (JP) American Sky Dragons caught tho Japanese base at Haiphong in puppetized French Indo-Chi-na by complete surprise Sunday and in a concentrated bombing scored a direct hit on a 4000 ton steamer nnd started a largo oil firo on the docks, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. StilweU said In a communiquo today. ... "All bombs landed In tho tar get area," communique No. 33 said. "After the bombers releas ed their bombs, escorting pursuit planes bombed and machine- gunned the dock area. The com plete lack of hostile opposition indicates tha enemy was taken at completo surprise." No U. S. losses wero suffered. It wns tho first raid on Hai phong by raiders based In China. Haiphong has been used by . (Continued on Page Two) Officials ductlon board "does nothing to correct this situation." Opposing compulsion In man power mobilization "except as a Inst resort," the co.nmlttoe said the Increasing demand for com pulsory powers "seems to reflect a basic failure to understand the Job."- "Tho Job abend' It anld, "cnlls for a detailed knowledge of the total demnnd for labor In war production, the prepnrnllon of schedules for tho flow of such labor to tho expanding' Jobs as contracts are undortnken, and the training and upgrndln- of thnt labor to keep pace with ex pansion. "The lob calls'for the location of available untapped ln'r sup- ? isnd over-all' ' for their training and placement. Without question wo are. todny poorly" prepared to faco these problems. These nrc, however, the problems with which a re organized United uilates employ ment service and a strengthened (Continued on Page Two) ; ... ;p-'-7'i '"' ':';' Stingers Protect Panama wlpl VJW , J'' zr rjr- - .lJ: naral base on Taboga Island Guides to tho Federal Bureau of Investiga tion, Colonel Reeves said, with out announcing tho fate of those who fashioned the Ingenious markers visible only from the nlr. , : . Aerial - nhotoirranhs r of "ms tortrhe'rav Mie tfofcatllm 'of "which was ' described only as. in ' the eastern part of tho United States, showed several cleqr Instances of now enemy agents or sympothlZ' era plowed into peaceful farm lands potential devices to aid de struction. "... i .,J One of tho cleverest markers, according to the air force an nouncement, was an arrow point ing directly at an eastern air base and made by clearing section of earth In the shape of a "V" at the head of a natural footpath. In another photograph,' a mammoth arrow created by plow was aimed directly at a nearby airplane factory. A huge field had been furrowed except for an arrow-shaped portion of untouched land remaining dark and clearly visible against the lighter plowed part. - Still another air view showed dozens of empty grain sacks ostensibly left carelessly in an open field but actually arranged carefully in a pattern forming an enormous figure "9," with the toll of the "9" a perfect guide pointing at a plane factor'. . Japs Say U. S, Forces Beaten Off in Aleutians ' TOKYO (From Japanese Broadcasts), Aug. 10 W") An Imperial headquarters commun ique asserted, today that Japa nese naval units "beat off a strong enemy naval force which appeared ' Aug. 8 in Aleutian waters." : (There was no confirmation from any source of this claim. The United States navy depart ment announced Saturday that a naval force was attacking Kls- ka, one of the Aleutians where the Japanese had established a foothold). - - Army Show Day" Bond Sales Top $6000 Saturday . While hundreds of . Klamath people went r 1 d 1 n g in army peeps,. bond sales mounted stead ily on "army show day" Satur day and at the close of business totaled more than $6000, ; Largest sales were' $1000 to tho First Baptist church and $1000 to - Max- Sladtn, The church purchase was the first of tho kind made here, according to War Savings Chairman A, M.' Collier. - , ' ' ..-..There were T17 L- peep - rldesi during the afternoon and eve ning, Collier reported. Of these, 318 wcro tnkon In the afternoon. A large crowd gathered In front of the courthouse for army shoW day. . .', Canal ; are the sptedy PT boats, now canal Tha oiw. but la. 10 mil as ; ',: SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Acute Shortage in Per sonnel Reported in funty-System Curtailment ' of athletic, do mestic science, industrial arts and music activities in the coun ty schools will be forced upon the district this year by an acuta shortage in personnel, County Superintendent. Fred Peterson said Monday. . , .-, ... ,. "You simply .cannot .hire, a coach," said Peterson., in .refer enco to one phase .of: the prob lem. He said that . the curtail ment, however unwelcome, is In evitable as long as qualified in structors keep going to the armed services , and war- indus tries at the present rate. ..... Shortage of Men - There is a definite shortage of men in the school system, Peter son said. Selective, service offi cials look with little sympathy upon requests for deferment for men instructors, and have told Peterson that the district would , (Continued on Page'Two) Additional U. S. Troops Strengthen Forces in Britain LONDON. Aug. 10 P Addi- uonat contingents of United States troops have been arriving in Britain for some time past to strengthen the forces expected nere to swing one day into action in Europe, The. dates of arrivals always are Kept secret for some time in the interest of security, but it Is permitted to state without dis closing when they got here that the forces gathering in Britain constantly are growing. Troops which are arriving In clude all kinds of. combat units and airforce contingents. The organization of the United States forces in Britain now Is so systematized that these sol diers are scattered . to stations and absorbed without creating even a ripple in tho routine. Arrivals are expected to In crease still further as transpor tation facilities Improve., , - j . Preference Rating Denied City on , Big Fire Pumper Fire Chief Keith Ambrose was Informed Monday that tho city cannot get preference rating for a triple combination 1000-gallon fire pumper, which it sought to purchase with money authorized last spring by the people. The war production board no tified -Chief Ambrose", that "it could not get the equipment be cause the brass, steel, rubber and , other materials which go Into such equipment Is needed for the protection of heavy In dustries in wartime, , ; Mia roots Spread - POLICE FIRE 10 TIMES ON 5 Sunday Casualties Total 8 Dead, 159 Wounded BOMBAY,. Aug. 10 (AP) Soldiers and police, fighting to control widespread- rioting on the second day of Mohandas K. Gandhi's campaign to end the British rule in India, fired-upon crowds in . Bombay ten times yesterday and today as strikes and disturbances spread thru out the country. Bloodshed ushered in. Gand hi's n Vnon-Violent" ;.clvll ' -disobedience campaign .- yesterday when the 'Ipolice were forced to fire' six. times.. ; . .. - A .Bombay government com munique' tonight said casualties on' Sunday totaled eight killed and- 159 wounded, but said it had no tally of today's casual ties In clashes In which demon strators stoned trains and auto mobiles,' arid i burned govern ment grsin-shops. Strikes-closed some factories and schools., f ' Twenty-three were sent to the hospital' ; with - bullet -. wounds suffered when police fired twice into, groups, in the Dadar dis trict of Bombay; in Poona po lWe' fired on a crowd, mostly of students, near Parsurambhau college, and 14 were removed to 'if, hospital; Schools and col leges there were closed.' Goon- iumiv, threw bottles - through windows. . ' A ''..-Student Strike .. ... At Lucknow. oolice fired also on a croWd of striking; univer sity students who were trying to form a parade. Thirteen were arrested.. . ;:m .;. The work stODDaees in some Bombay mills were in response to Mohandas K. Gandhi's "rin or die" call for a "complete deadlock'' by strikes and all other non-violent means. As the campaign -entered its second day amid shootings, showers of bottles and shouts of demonstrators, there were portents of even greater trouble ahead. - Bands of Hindus' stoned some Moslem shops in the "trouble area" of south central Bombay.' Police have the greatest fear of repetition of the communal Moslem-Hindu riots which have followed . previous civil diso bedience campaigns. These riots often Were the bloodiest and the most difficult to suppress. Troops Stationed . Throughout the city troops were, stationed . in groups rang- (Continued on Page Two) ' fiombis Rained 111 In N ew Guinea, N ew Britain By C. YATES McDANIEL GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 10 (fl3). Powerful bomber foriria Hons of the allied southwest Paclfio command rained sledge hammer blows on enemy bases in the New Guinea-New Britain area, It was reported today,, as air and sea forces locked In bat tle, with the Japanese . for the mountainous , Solomon islands and their strategic waters. There were also unelaborated reports thnt allied land forces were In action. Official reports from allied headquarters were meager and extremely..cnutloiis.-nt.-the end of the fourth., day of the first , United Nations attempt to wrest the Initiative. from the Japanese In the southwest Pacific. Tokyo Claims But observers minimized the accuracy , of . Tokyo , broadcast Dimond Calls For First Front In Aleutians WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (AP) Delegate Dimond of Alaska, In a speech In the. house. today, called for a "first front" in the Aleutian islands and the im mediate eviction of Japanese from Alaskan territory. "I suggest," Dimond said, "that it is part of .wisdom to bring to that front ample forces to: win victory there, on our first fighting front, before we undertake the prodigious effort necessary to set up and estab lish and carry forward a second battle front some thousands of miles away from our shores, in another continent. The first front in the territory of Alaska demands immediate attention." -. Dimond said that possession by the Japanese of Alaskan ter ritory gives them access to. the North ' American continent and that "it Is just as important to drive the foe from our territory as it is to keep "the. same enemy, from occupying any part of . a continent some seven thousand miles away'- The United States had not yet provided enough power to drive the enemy out, -Dimond said, adding . that "whatever forces are necessary should be used to drive the : Japanese from the Aleutians and to send them reeling . . .back '; a t least as ;-'(Cj5ritinui;d. on Page.ltw)'.',.. Cottage Grove Has Fourth J ' Suspicious Fire - ; COTTAGE GROVE, Aug! 10 (AP) Cottage Grove's epidemic of suspicious fires reached.seri- ous - proportions ' today when Stewart William King,, 23,. Cot tage Grove, died . at a Eugene hospital as the result of burns; suffered early, this morning -In a motor cabin blaze, which the caretaker, J. D. Smith, said he was convinced was deliberate ly set." - The blaze was the fourth suspicious fire in the Cottage Grove area in the last three weeks. The epidemic of fires left Cottage Grove residents and mill owners in' a jittery mood. W. A. Woodard, who has suf fered the . loss of his $75,000 home and a $40,000 dry .kiln at his mill in .two fires ' which have been termed by State Po lice Superintendent Charles Pray as probably the work of a dangerous pyromaniac, . redoub led the guards of his remaining mill property. He said they had been issued rifles and sawed off shot guns. ..'"v. - J.' -H. -.'Chambers, who last week saw. his $300,000 mill burn to the ground in a fire which police have ' definitely linked with the Woodard blazes, was at a loss to name any, for mer employe of his who might ' (Continued on Page Two) on Jap Bases claims to have sunk or damaged a large number of United States and Australian warships . and transports, - ; They also emphatically ques tioned Tokyo radio assertions that their Solomon island de fenders had incurred the loss of only seven planes and dam age to two cruisers in the first day and night. " ' While' eagerly awaiting news of the outcome of the struggle for Jungle-covered Islands under the equatorial sky 600. miles dis tant from this continent, , Aus tralian h eadquartes were heartened . by reports from ad vanced bases describing the vig-' or with which day and night air attacks were being pressed home against the bases upon which the Japanese depend for rein forcements. Rabaul in New Britain, a (Continued on Page Two) . YANKS TAKE OFFENSIVE !N SOUTH PACIFIC Heavy Fighting Still In Progress; U. S. '. Losses Told WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 VP) United States marines have forced a landing in the Japanese held Solomon islands against fierce enemy resistance and at the cost of one cruiser sunk arid two cruisers, two destroyers and a transport damaged. . . This was announced today by Admiral Ernest J. King, com ma nder in chief of the United States fleet, in a special state ment which declared that these offensive operations America's first in the Pacific, were de signed to wrest control of the strategic islands from the Japa nese. .-- ' ..." Stressing the offensive nature of the action arid asserting that "heavy fighting is still in -progress," King warned that "consid erable losses, such as are inner ent .in any offensive operation, rrraat-be "evipectedtf ' " -- Marines in Landing : ' The admiral himself did not identify the forces which he said had landed' in the Solomons in the southern Pacific, but a naval srjokesman-conuneriting-ron his statement ' fmweiatejy:: ifter it was issued"; sald that "Marines are in the landings." This left the possibility that other forces. presumably either United State or A u s t r a 1 i a n army troops, might also be assisting.,, . - .Information as to damage in flicted on the enemy is incom-' plete, King reported, but in-, eludes "a large number of planes" as well as surface units "put out of action." . .-r King's statement: "(1) Offensive operations by United States naval and other forces, looking to the occupation (Continued on Page Two) 12-Yeor-Old Held For Homicidal Blow at Sister YREKA, Calif., Aug. 10 UP) A 12-year-old boy, Vincent' Mo--. Neal, was held in the juvenile , detention home today after ' coroner's jury ruled that1 he struck his 3-year-old half-sister ' "with homicidal intent". . and then looked on while, she drowned in the Salmon river. The victim was Madeline An nabelle Orcutt. Coroner Jess Tread way said Vincent and his four half-sisters,-all under 7 years of age, were wading in the river near their home at Somes bar, in .the moun tain wilderness 60 miles west of Yreka, when , the drowning oc-: curred. .. . , ' All of the children lived With Vincent's mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Elman Orcutt. . - Gripsholm. Docks . j At Rio de Janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 10 (AP) The,..",'. -liner. Gripsholm; bearing a . large party of North and;. South American, national home from internment in Ja pan, entered the harbor of Rio de Janeiro at 7 a. m. (3 a, mi PWT) today. ,.,'-, - . - . ;.. The liner docked three hour and SO minutes later as score of diplomats and other official waited on the quay, 1 , .. . ' News Index City Briefs .J.......;.....'..'..Page 5 . Comics and" Story Page ' 6 Courthouse Records ..... Page- 2 Edltoriol Page 4 Information ....Page . S Market, Financial ....... PBge 2 Our Men In Service ..Page 8 Pattern ; Page - 4 Sport ..,..........Page