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" 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
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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-
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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
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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
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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 , .. .
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