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On 5 minute blait on sirens and whistles It tha algnal (or blackout In Klamath Fall. Another long blait, during a black out, U a ilgnal lor all-clear. In pracau- Mnnarw nArlnritl. wntrh VOI1F trt HnhtS. Auguit 11 High 82. Low 51 ' Precipitation ai of August 8, 1841 ; Lait yaar ....U.lf - Normal 12.13 Btraam yaar to data -...........13.l?' ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICR FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12. 1942 Number 9564 10) I I W I am ? IF ft tnt K LlV. WMBm mi iiijipii'ilf'ifi : f I 1 11 U,!; By FRANK JENKINS lJEWS from the now six duyi old bnttlo In tho Solomons la canty but Indicates that tho Marines ore holding tha beach head they seized and pcrhupi VrUJH y u ynn extending tlinlr grip, No amplifying detail la avail- ablo. a yHIS lonu wolt without news 4A Is wearing, but has to be en dured. Admlrnl Ghormley In busy fighting a bnltlo n VEHY Im portant bnttlo. His communl cutloni are limited, because use of her radio can ruveal a ship's position to the enemy and just one slip of tlint sort might glvo tho enemy on Important advant age. Swell iiso of his radio as ho can make he needs for giving his orders. We'll Just have to wait THE Importance of the battle of the Solomons can hardly be overestimated. By two swift strokes, the Jap anese wrecked th dofenses we -Tyiad prepared at Pearl Harbor and at Munllo. At Pcnrl Hnrbor they destroyed our aircraft on tha ground and crippled our fleet. At Mnnllo, by a sudden blow with carefully calculated superiority of forces, they wrecked our aircraft and at tha soma tlma o seriously damaged tho airfields as to mako It impos alblo to malt In long-range bomb er reinforcements. From thon on, the battle' of tho Philippines was a hopeless, losing fight. Without aircraft In these days, you con't fight on enemy that has plenty of aircraft. AFTER Pearl, Hnrbor and Manila, we were left In much the same position as the British after Dunkerquo that is to say, wo LACKED WEAPONS WITH WHICH TO FIGHT. These long, weary, In so many ' way' humiliating months since December 7 have been employed T).n building up fighting forces to replucc those that were destroyed In 'Our first disastrous clashes with, the enemy. These lorces are now going Into OFFENSIVE action In tho Solomons. If they WIN In tho stubborn bnttlo that Is raging there, wo can begin to havo some confidence thnt. at last wo aro on our way. . TTHAT Is why tha battlo now going on Is of such Import ance. If Its objectives aro won, it will bo dependable cvldcnco thnt we have found ourselves and pre hitting our stride. If H is lost, wo shall havo to go back and slurt over again us we did nftnr Pcnrl Hnrbor and Manila. , . . . IT Is often said (usually by those ni tl.n lni.1 M.nf 11,a Amrtflxan ncoplo aro complacent. Ncnrly nlwnys It makes us non-insiders, who ARE tho people, violently angry, But, to soma exlent, IT IS TRUE. Wo DO hove a tendency, In this stern emergency of wor as wo had in tho economic emer gency of tho depression, to BE LIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS to cherish tha delusion that SOME (Continued on Pago Two) July War Cost $107 Thousand Per Minute ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (IP) Tho United Slntos spent $4,794,- 000,000 for war purposes last month $107,302 n minute, Tho July total, nnnouncod yesterdny by tho office of war information, brought wnr spend ing from June 1040 through Inst xrJuly to $30, 550,000,000 In dls joursemcnts by the treasury, and expenditures by tha reconstruc tion flnanca corporation and Its aubsldlnrles. Total appropriations approved or pending amounted to approx imately $223,000,000,000 at the end of July. a RAF BATTERS II; FES STILL RAGING Coblenz, Netherlands Air Fields, Le Havre Hit LONDON, Aug. 13 JP Mainz, German chemical In dustry and roll center on the Rhine, was heavily attacked last night by the RAF in a raid which was "particularly successful" and left fires still raging this morning, the air ministry an nounced today, Sixteen bombers were missing, Indicating a strong force par ticipated. (If previous losses of 4 to S per cent of the attackers is used as a basis, the number involved would be up to 400.) Coblenz, docks at Le Havre and air fields In the low coun tries also were attacked. Pas da Calais Raid Ls!s this afternoon s large RAF formation raided the Pas dt Calais area. . The Mainz raid followed a onc-nlght, weather-enforced gap In the RAF offensive against Germany. ';'".' This was the fourth time that the RAF picked Mainz as Its target but the city had not been raided since Nov, 28, 1040. Other RAF squadrons htt -the French const In an assault which began at Calais and spread south ward. British residents along the' southeast coast watched , the fireworks Irom thl side of the channel. t v. , -. -German nulsa nee raiders meanwhile bombed points on the south coast of England and in the midlands. One German bomber was destroyed.. London had an air alert which lasted 30 minutes but no gunfire whs heard and no bombs were reported dropped. War Plants May Be -Slowed to Ease Drain on Materials WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 lP) War plnnta which are running for ahead of schedule may be closed deliberately or slowed down for a time to ease the drain on' scarce materials, under plans now being considered by the War Production Board. . Tho production cuts would be brought about by. curtailments in tho allocation of materials to such firms for tho last three months of the year. It was dis closed by an official who re quested that his name be with held. In any cases new or converted wnr plants aro discovering that their output exceeds earlier ex pcctnllons, with the result that parts they produce lie idle for weeks or months before they can bo incorporated In the finished product. BARNES IN ENGLAND ' LONDON, Aug. 12 (P) Brig. Gen. G. M, Barnes, chief of the United Slates war deportment design section, has arrived at tha head of a technical mission to work with the British In cor relating American and British fighting material. Japs Caught by Surprise In Saturday Raid on Kiska WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 OP) Tho price Jaftnn has had to pay for occupation of three western Aleutian islands stood today at 21 ships sunk or damaged, an uiulcterrnMnod number of air planes lait and Important shoro Insinuations blnstcd Into useless hess. This record of destruction hns been run up by American army and navy bombers, surface wnrships and submarines, whose latest exploits ware detailed by tho navy Inst night in a com munique bringing the Aleutians campaign up to date from July 22. . Tha official account brought naval surface craft fully Into the story of Aleutians fighting' for FBI Seizes Alien Contraband in Klamath ,7 - f t.- . '.V -' ItW.L JZm l -uf-vnL . s ;y wis--?? itir1 .fell W - . Pictured above are contraband firaarms, radios, cameras and a box of dynamite sailed, by federal bureau of Investigation agents In raids in Klamath Falls and vicinity Monday and Tues day Three Carman end six Italian aliens wen arrastad for UlagaL pQwaaiiun of contraband and for violation of military eurfaw regulations. Shown holding rifle la Acting 'Police Chief Earl Heuvel whose department, along with county and state officers, aided the FBI in the roundup. . MARTIAL LAW SEEN " FDHfilOTING IWOIA Situation "Ugly" At ' New-' Delhi; Bom bay Calmer By PRESTON GROVER BOMBAY, Aug. 12 &) The British called Increasing num bers of troops and police into action today to cope with spreading violence and It be came a question how long mar tial law could be forestalled in turbulent India. The worst new trouble spot was New- Delhi where an offi cial statement! described the sit uation as "ugly" and said an Indian mob had burned and vir tually destroyed the town hall ond troops had fired on clvillah crowds yesterday. Tho four-doy-old tension per sisted also In Bombay but the situation at noon seemed to have calmed down somcwhnt with (Continued on Pago Two) Marines Progress In Solomons, London Asserts LONDON, Aug. 12 (P) The London Star said today that "re ports suggest" United States ma rine landing parties in the Solo mon islands "hnvo. been strengthened nnd are making some progress." . The paper snld the marines, "who aro believed to have tanks and landing barges and special types of artillery, still hold bridgeheads they estab lished Friday and Saturday." , tho first time with the disclos ure that last Saturday a task force raid by cruisers and de stroyers on Jnpnnese-held Klska hnrbor had so surprised tho Jnp aneso thnt they replied to the first shells with antl-nlrcrnft fire. . In the course of tha raid, the nnvy snld, shore bnlterles were silenced, fires were started in the enemy camp area, a cargo ship apparently wns sunk and "the only resistance encountered was from aircraft." Following up the raid the next day navnl pntrol planes damaged two cargo ships and observed the sunken hulk of another lying in the hnrbor wnters. This vessel, (Continued on Page Two) ,f Eleven Aliens Held in County JaU for Action t t',',r-'. 'K.-'.V'yrfitj.'.; '.. ' -Eleven Klamath ' aliens had been, arrested by the time FBI and local officers had cbrripleted raids In search of contraband articles Tuesday evening. Eight Italians and three Ger mans were arrested, and many contraband' articles, including dynamite, radios, guns and cam eras, were seized. Names of the persons arrested wero not given out. They are being held in the county jail for action by the federal authori ties. No women were arrested. Carrier Sunk; Convoy Battles In Mediterranean LONDON, Aug. 12 (flV-The British aircraft carrier Eagle has heen sunk as result of U-boat ac tion In tho Mediterranean but a large part of the 22,600-ton warship's crew has been' saved, the admiralty announced today. A German broadcast heard hero indicated the Eagle went down at tho start of a battle which may bo continuing be tween a British convoy and axis submarines and warplanes. The broadcast, quoting DNB, said a British "capital convoy," escorted by the, bulk of .the Mediterranean fleet, . had been engaged in the western Med iterranean since last evening. .Adding to the scope of the re ported action, tho Italian high command said that one of its submarines scored two torpedo hits at dawn yesterdoy on "a large warship of unascertained type, strongly escorted." The admiralty said at least one enemy submarine operating In the same area as tho old car rier already had been sunk, in dicating thnt the Eagle went down fighting. Allied Warplanes Bomb Formosa CHUNGKING, Aug. 12 (Fl it was rumored here tonight, without confirmation, thnt al lied warplanes bombed Formosa today. Tills Japanese Island off the east China coast is one of Japan's principal troop staging arens for offensive operations. United States fliers yesterday bombed the Japanese airdrome at Nanchang, shot down one enemy 'plane In combat, prob ably destroyed another and re turned to their bnse without loss, a communique from Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stllwell's head quarters announced today.' County Roundup I ' ' 4UH tit r mm Small' Mills Choked . Out by Big Com panies , By RICHARD G. MASSOCK WASHINGTON, ,Aug. 12 (P) Chairman Truman (D-Mo.) of the senate defense committee to day attributed the steel shortage which he said was hampering America's war production to a lack of "real expansion" in the steel industry. Senator Truman, after more than six months of Inquiry, told reporters he had concluded that there was no real expansion in the industry, but merely an "in tegration" of the plants of the big - - companies, while they "choked" the smaller - rolling mills out of existence. He said Donald Nelson, di rector of the war production board, "should exercise his au thority and reorganize the Iron and steel division of WPB" to get action. ' Vo New Mines The blunt-mannered Missour ian said that so far as his com mittee had learned not a single new iron mine or blast furnace had been built in any new place, although' lower California, the state of Washington and British Columbia contained an abund- (Continued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE - - - R. H. E. Philadelphia 0 4 1 Brooklyn 1 4 1 Melton and Livingston; French and Owen. R. H. E. St. Louis 9 11 1 Chicago 4 11 4 ' Beazley, Dickson (7) and W. Cooper; . Lee, Bithorn (8) and McCullough. R. H. E New York . 0 7 1 Boston 1 7 0 Schumacher, Adams (8) and Mancuso, Denning (7); Javery and Bluttz. - AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E Detroit 4 11 0 Clevelnnd : 2 8 1 Benton, Henshn (3) and Par sons; Smith (9), Embree (7) and Denning. R. ,H. E. Detroit 4 11 0 Cleveland 2 8 1 : Benton, Hensha (3) and Par sons; Smith, Kennedy (8), Em bree (7) and Denning, 15) NAZIS NEAR RICH GROZNY OILFIELDS Reds Halt Axis Break through Below Stalingrad By The Associated Press Adolf Hitler's field headquar ters claimed sweeping new suc cesses in the battles of the Don river and the' Caucasus today while the Russians acknowl edged a new - German advance toward Stalingrad on the Volga and declared whole cities were aflame on. the trail of- the nazi invaders. - Soviet dispatches said 'huge masses .of German tanks .'sup ported by planes ripped Into the Russian lines northeast of Kotel- nlkoyckl, 95 miles below Stalin grad, and broke through the red army defenses. ' The assault was finally stop- pea, Keel btar said. .- Reds , Rallying ' ' , Despite:. Me' nazf. boaits of spectacular'' : success!. -.. British military 'sources' declared that soviet resistance was stiffening on 811 fronts. .' -.',' lvThese quarters said red army counter-attacks in the Voronezh and. Rzhey sectors,:; south- and northwest .of . Moscow, respec tively, were beginning to worry the Germans. . NazJ claims were discounted as greatly exagger ated. .j vi ;. . ;. t- ; ' The German ..high, command declared 1,044,741 Russians had been captured since .January 1 along the whole battlefront. A nazi communique conceded that Marshal Semeon Timoshen ko's armies had launched new counter-blows northwest of Vor (Contlnued on Page Two) Oregon Service Men to. Vote by Absentee Ballot1 SALEM, Aug. 12 CP) Ore gon members of the armed forces who will be away from home oh November 3, general election day, will be permitted to vote by absentee ballot, Sec retary -of State Earl Snell said today.. . . To- vote, a soldier must be registered in his home precinct. Here is the procedure for vot ing by absentee ballot: 1. Write to- the county clerk of your home county at least 30 days before the election, ask ing for an absentee ballot. 2. Upon receipt of the ballot, mark it and return it, having the enclosed affidavit notarized. 3. Members of the armed forces . who . are not registered may register by writing to their county clerks. They, will receive a. blank, which must be filled out and notarized. Lumber Industry Shown as Critical That the lumber industry is a critical war activity and mills here wilt be taxed for all of this year and probably all of next year to produce the lumber de manded for the war effort was brought out in a discussion of the lumber labor situation at Wednesday's meeting of the Klamath county chamber of com merce directors. It was emphasized In the dis cussion that maintenance of an adequate labor supply for the lumber Industry Is of vital Im portance not only to the com munity but to the war effort. Public policy in connection with this problem was discussed, and the industrial development com- Advance in Food Prices Slated For September , WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (P) Advances in food prices, possibly totalling one and a half per cent, were scheduled today to take ef fect in mid-September to relieve a price "squeeze" on hundreds of food items. ---'--- Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced yesterday tha,t alterations are necessary in the general maximum price reg ulation to avert any disturbance in the nation's food, distribution system. Until the new. formula is devised, Henderson cautioned, the highest price of each seller must be the maximum charged in March. . , . . 1 The food industry previously petitioned the OPA for relief on prices of. about 400 or 500 of (Continued on Page Two) , . in r linnuu EYED FOR NAZIS Biddle Plans Action Against 14 Aides . - ,-To Saboteurs WASHTJfGTON, Aug. 12- (JP) Attorney- General : Biddle said today, that treason charges .may be brought against more than six, of the 14 persons . charged with aiding the eight nazi sabo teurs, six of whom were electro cuted Saturday. , , . , ..." '- Those against .whom the evi dence does not- justify . treason charges may be indicted under some lesser statute, the attorney general said .at a press confer ence. . ' '""" Two of the 14, he-said, have been interned as dangerous alien enemies. These are Mrs. Maria Kerling, widow of the leader of one group of nazi invaders, and Ernst Herman Kerkhof, a native of Germany whose American citizenship acquired by natural continued on Page Two) Portland Housing Situation Gets Desperate PORTLAND, Aug. 12 (IP) An appeal to Portlanders to rent sleeping space to war industry workers in their basements, at tics and garages was issued to day by the Willamette Iron and Steel corporation in newspaper advertisements. . "War workers are desperate for places to live," the message from the corporation', holder of important war contracts, said. "Right here in Portland a little boy and his sister sleep every night in ihe family automobile because their father can't find a house ... A man and his wife and two babies are sleeping on blankets on a bare cement floor ... A family with seven chil dren is living in a shack of ber ry boxes." War Activity mittee of the chamber was asked to consider it and take necessary action. Policies of the U. S. employ ment service and the vocational education program at the high school were discussed In this con nection, as well as articles ap pearing in the press. The condition of tho Industry and the prospects it faces were brought to the directors' atten tion by R. R. Macartney, man ager of the Weyerhaeuser Tim ber company operations here.. It was disclosed at the cham ber meeting that a movement Is on foot to bring about greater coordination between the tax - (Continued on Page Two) HMHrlU-H BATTLE RAGES iN'QnmnK 111 UULUIIiUIIU Leatherneck : Progress Hidden in Official ' ,' J-Silence l.'a By' MURLIW SPENCER ' GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S. . HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 12 JP) Junglerhardened marines battled on today in bit ter hand-to-hand : clashes to broaden hard-won toeholds in the' Solomon islands while- sup porting allied airmen, struck ef fective new blows upon Japanese oases ana shipping along a 3000 odd mile front. V, k , The leathernecks' progress was hidden in official silence but the latest information, issued jn Washington, was that operations ' were continuing in the area of Tulagi, palm-dotted, two-mile-long island in the southeastern Solomons. "; More definite word was not expected: until a let-up lr the operaUonsj3grltJOce.dm'irai Robert- Lee - Ghormley; 'allied fnmmnmAt! In ... I. T1 11 ; ......u.iu.i .11 tii Duuui.'ruuuu; who is in charge of the offensive, . to send a detailed account over his now limited and overtaxed communications. : ; . .- : Open Offensive "i;- --: :;' But - whatever the 1 situation' the U, S. navy, in a statement 1n Washington, hailed the landing of the marines on the shores -of Tulagi' as- having - "opened -the Hnnr in an nllioH 'rtffnnslxa .tt thesouth Pacific' - i. r ; , ' - From' this it was. taken that the land, sea - and ' air assault which began six days ago was making" headway. ' ; ,; ;- t General MacArthur's head quarters, still silent on the main operation,' told of the fourth air attack within as many days up-, on Rabaul, big Japanese Zero fighters over New Guinea; an other raid on Japanese ships; south of Timor, Dutch East-ln- (Continued on Page Two) . Nacker Released From State Penitentiary . SALEM, Aug. 12 (IP) Donald Nacker, Klamath Falls,- received, at the state penitentiary Dec-19, 1930. to serve a life sentence for first degree murder, was ordered released Immediately yesterday by Governor Charles A. Sprague. ctiouii' vuiviaio oaiu now, was released because of his per fect record during the 11 years he's been in prison. ' "He's been a model prisoner if there ever was one," Deputy Warden Gene Halley said. ;. - Nacker was sent to ' prison from Klamath county for the murder of Fred Dunbar, local business man, at Summit lake, in 1930. His conviction followed one Of the most sensational murder trials in the history of the county and the case has been given nationwide attention in detective story magazine articles. : ; ; ' Nacker shot Dunbar as he was wading at the edge of the lake, and held prisoner a young woman who was at the lake at the time. Nacker's home is in northern Klamath county, near crescent Lake. '. '. ' News Index City Briefs i..Page'5 Comics and Story ...Page 8 Courthouse Records Page' 7 Editorial - Page 4 Information ...........Page S Market, Financial ...Page 7 Pattern ;":::z.::;..:.,..Page 3 Radio Day by Day .....Page 4 Sports .... Page S ' ' i " ' .''