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Newspaper Page TextiaiaaaJa(ayaltawaaawa1a)a Weather News NIMH if IIIK'f !l!H!lllll'Hiiii!l t Signal ickou liiHiiiniiuJiiiiii.iiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiMi Ont 5-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles It the signal lor blackout In Klamath ' Falla. Another long blast, during a blick, out, ii ilgnal for all-clear. In praoau tlonary ptrlodi, watch your atraat lights. August 12 Hlah 8S. Low IS Precipitation aa of Augutt I, 1842 Last yaar ........i. , 14,1? Normal ........... 12.14 Btraam yaar to data ..... ,...,18,1 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 13, 1942 Numbnr 9565 IHLAHfl EE u u . ' . -. - s d3o) SSm EJ Ul J 0, II !!I!I!1ItSI I IM ! . ..,.,.11 I' 1 w mm i 1 1 1 i 'UilPl 'H.Liil Liil By FRANK JENKINS HE battlo of tho Solomon) en ters lis seventh dny with little news us yrt B vitlliiblo. ' What thcro Is appears to bo favorable. 'T'HE navy tells us today: "Murine, firmly entrenched after six days of violent hand-to-hand fighting, uro now CON SOLIDATING their positions."' - That ineuns they hnvo won tho first round, for In milking a land Inn on a well-defended hostile horn setting the first toe-hold Is the hardest job. They are now digging them selves In and fighting off Jap counter-attacks. "T'HE navy communique adds: "Our supporting naval forces are engaged In bitter fighting." That la to say, the Japs are fighting hard to prevent the landing of more reinforcements for the U. S. Murines already established on the Islands. Other dispatches mention that the original Marine landing parties, have already been "strongly'! re inforced. ; Whether the Jnps are using warships or land-bated planes isn't specified. A good guess It that they are using BOTH. ' Meanwhile U. S. bombers pound tho Jap baso at Rabaul, some BOO miles away, seeking to prevent the pending, of rein forcements to the Japanese de fenders of the Solomons, JT Is a sketchy picture. About the only conclusion we can draw with any confidence is that It Is a REAL battle, with both sides putting Into It everything they have within reach. JyjEANWHILE another naval battlo of considerable Im portance Is being waged In the western Mediterranean, where axil naval forces, Including sub marines and plnnos, aro attack ing a big allied convoy. ' ' This battlo has been going on for three days, and the British hnvo admitted tho loss of a 24,000-ton carrier, the Englo. The German high command as sorts todoy that tho AMERICAN aircraft corrier Wasp has been act afire by six direct bomb hits and la trying to reach Malta. - That brings us Into this Mcd Jterrancan battle picture (al though we must be careful about paying too much attention to German claims.) mm rplIE British,' presumably, are gj1 trying to force a passago of Qtha Meditc-fraiit-nn short cut to Egypt and Russia. Practical loss bf tho Mediterranean routo has been terrible handicap to our feldo In supplying tho Egyptian and Middle East fronts, as wc now hnvo to go elenr around the southern tip of Africa, JOTE tho disappearance of A Rommel from tho news re cently, Indicating that ho hasn't been able to got sufficient rein forcements to resume his drlvo on Alexandria, ' Also that our side hasn't been able to spare sufficient strength to turn In and mop him up whllo Hitler Is too busy In Russia to send him adequate help, rPIIE news from Russia gets no r better fast. . The Germans, having taken the relatively small Maikop oil field, are now driving on toward the somewhat lnrgor one at Grozny both north of tho Cau casus mountain range. They "eem to be In a fair way to put the Russian black sea fleet out of commission by taking ita Cau casus bases from the land sldo. r A big batlle for Stalingrad and , tho Vulga, perhaps bigger than i (Continued , on Pago Two) lass axis cms Unprecedented Num bers of Troops Put Into Battle By The Associated Praia Adolf Hitler's invasion armies wore reported massing huge numbers of troops for an as sault on the Volga steel city of Slullngrud today and at the sumo time tho German high command suld othor nazl col umns had captured Elista In a thrust more than holf way across tho Caucasus toward the Caspian sea. ... EH-ta. the capital . of the soviet Kalmuck ; republic, lies 230 miles southeast of Rostov and only 179 miles from tho vitally Important city of Astrak han at tho Volga delta. Tho loss of Astrakhan would be a serious blow to Russia's rlver-borno. line -of war aup plles. .':' . , Ship Craw lotarntd ' As the axis "struck to throttle tho United Nations' vital sun- ply rotiUw, the Germon-eotllroll' cd Paris radio broadcast a Jrs port under an Istanbul, Turkey, date-Una assorting that two Rus sian warships, fully manned, had entered a Turkish Black sea port and tha crew had been in torned, ; Tho report closely followed nazl propaganda assertion that tho Russian Black sea fleet, with many of its major bases knocked out or Imminently ' threatened, would either attempt a dash through the Dardanelles or Seek refuge In Turkey. Dispatches from Moscow sold a mighty new Gorman of fenslvo against Stalingrad ap peared to be taking shape as tho invaders concentrated vast (Continued on Page Two) House Okehs Prompt Pay to Dependents Of Service Men WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 OP) Legislation permitting the war and navy departments to make lmmcdlato payments to depend ents of servicemen under the recently-enacted allowance and. allotment acta was passed by the house and sent to the senate to doy. The original legislation pro vided that first payments be mado November 1, but benefits started to accrue June' 1. There , was no opposition to passago of the bill from among the approximately 30 members present, although previous at tempts to consider It had been blocked, and tho war department had expressed opposition. DEEPER THRUST INTO CAUCASUS India Returns to Normal After 4 Days of Rioting BOMBAY, Aug. 13 (P)-The Indian capital at New Delhi and Bombay, troublo centers earlier this week, apparently: were re turning to normal. today as the outbreaks of violence over Mo handas K. Gandhi's do-or-dle drive for . immediate indepen dence from British rulo slacked off after four days' of clashes be tween mobs and police. Although some shops in New Delhi still were closed, people wore moving frcoly through the streets which yestordoy were tha scenes of repeated disorders'; Tho situation In Bombay was quiet all morning with no in cidents of any kind. Workers were returning to the mills. A dispatch from, Madras said four persons were killed and 10 Injured at . Tenall yesterday when, pollen'- fired on a crowd for -. china .flglP e ,'i vr 'A" 'K.' -iAf NAuatraJrS - ill' flnann u i n i i u n i n H i m i i i: illlil iiiii Hjuii- topo MILtS AT lOUATO Dafaaslraly, tha Solomon Islands would give tha United Nations base for defending in dustrially valuable eait- Australia and tha supply line to Australia from tha United States (arcs). Offansivelr,. tha Solomons could vrovlda a springboard lor attacks . (arrows), on tha myriad. Jap- held Paelilo lilands which protlda tha Nipponese with hundrtds 31 Sorties in Last 48 Hours Revealed in ' Report LONDON, Aug. 13 (IP) Uni ted StgJcBrmy air fighting for ces have entered the European fray on a large scale for the first time, having engaged In 31 oper ational sorties during the past 48 hours, United States Euro pean headquarters announced today. . , U. S. Fighter Squadrons, fly ing In conjunction with RAF fighter units, made three such flights over the coast of France. Twenty of the missions were over the ea, and eight were Interception Sorties off the coast of England, the communique said. The following United States army air force operations occur red during .tho . 48-hour period (Continued on Page Two) WAR ZONE DEEPENED LONDON, Aug. 13 (P) The Germans have deepened 'their operational zone along the Bel gian North Sea coast and persons traveling from other parts of the country to . the coastal region must carry special permits, the Belgian News Agency said today. which attacked tho railway sta tion and set it on fire. Armed police and troops, nev ertheless, were on guard here and elsewhere against new flare ups. v Hagpur apparently was the scene of . the .worst rioting yes terday. Three police stations and the post office' were burned down there and attempts were made to set the Central . Cooperative bank and the powerhouse afire. One rioter was killed and 12 were Injured when police fired into-the crowds. Nineteen police Were hurt by stons-throwcrs.. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (VP) The United States-is-followlng a "hands off" policy In the In dian crisis, end American mill (Continued oii Fage . Two) v 1 , . .' : '. ' " Y Staliigrad Why Solomons Are Worth Fighting For '. ' , ' caUdonia' "J? J .iBiii.lisii!:iI'iirBiUitti::''a;!I!i':PilStii:BW iwaiiiraiMiiwvs 6IB !p i iS TASMANIA UarBjWtlgflffltSS-TraNBW if f l!W i p Ifli, 0,1 ,r'V,4r for'",!-, C'lJ, ilr,.-;lltt.mn.-i'il) iil.rl;tli;ii!lll..ili;Jlii..l.iMi.iilm-!iC;irui- ii--'-.!.u-rTa--.:-.:.-.:!:.::.,-.:ij ;;it.:,,..:tii..: TKU1MI11 I - "UUo.fi m. wis "iniw i ...,., Taken North For Hearings -The U. S. marshal's office re moved 10 aliens, arrested in FBI raids here, to Portland Thurs day for hearings before the state alien board. -' At the same time, names of the arrested men were an nounced. They are held , for violation of' curfew or contra band regulations. Here they are: Gulscppe G. Ortis, Bly; Guilo DeMolse, 703 South Sixth street; Nels Carl Jensen, 128 South Seventh street: Eric Jlrgen Las sen, 2050 Oregon avenue; Tony Gallcttl, route 1, box1 777, Klam ath Falls; Angelo A: Dover!, 707 Washington streot; Otto Hefner, Bonanza; Vlttorlo Fabbrinl, Pel ican City; DeNnrdo Geno DeMat to, Bly; Amabile Landini, Pel ican City.- ' Domcnlc B. Scala, route 1, box 922, Klamath Falls, was. re leased on the day of his arrest. Officers indicated . that- they had discovered - no - malicious plots or anything of the kind in the raids here, but made the arrests on the basis of technical violations of regulations set up after the United States went to war with Japan, Germany and Italy. They pointed out that (Continued on Page Two) Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit ?. 2 6 0 Cleveland ....... ..- 3 if 1 Trucks, Wilson (9) and Par sons; Bagby and Desautels. Cable Workers Vote To Continue Strike . BAYONNE, N. J., Aug. 13 (ff) Amid shouts of "let tho govern ment take over," strikers at the General Cable corporation voted today to continue their three day strike. . The shouts greeted announce ment that William H. Davis, chairman of the war labor board, had Indicated in Washington that troops might be sent to"" the strike-closed plant, which pro duces cable for the nation's arm ed forces. The strike was called without :, union authorization.' VISIT GERMANY . : BERLIN (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS), Aug.. 13 m The first of a group of 12 high Portugucsoarmy-off leers tHeft Lisbon by airplane Wednesday on an invitation of tho German high command to visit Germany. ' t, PP1 "T !Ks!rdn mm NEW j" of ."urulnkable alieraft carriers.'' BiillMliZ; L Nazi Low Countries Airdromes Also. . , . Raided '. ' ' LONDON,- Aug. 13 OT Pow erful British - air squadrons rained high explosives and in cendiaries on Mainz again dur ing the night as nazi raiders ended London's long freedom from attack by bombing the out skirts of the capital. The attack on Mainz the sec ond successive night assault on that German industrial center was accompanied by raids on nazl airdromes in the low coun tries, the air-ministry said. ' : Five RAF planes were lost In the' overnight operations. Although the air ministry did not go into particulars, it was understood unofficially that the strong force" ' raiding ' Mainz compared with that sent against the same city the night before when 250 to 400 bombers par ticipated. Helpless The city's disorganized fire- fighting services : and defenses, weary and seaitered by the first night attack, were virtually (Continued on Page Two) Cruisers Hunt Raider in Atlantic RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil, Aug. 13 (P) Several vessels, which informed sources said may include one or more cruis ers, were reported today to be engaged . in a search for a sur face axis raider in the south Atlantic, but. no word has been received here of contact with tho enemy ship. The search was said to be under way following radioed re ports last Monday that at least two and perhaps three allied merchantmen had been attacked by an enemy raider at a position about 1000 miles east of Rio de Janeiro. , t '. SHASTA GENERATORS SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 (IP) Five hydroelectric genera tors' with a combined power po tential of 275,000 kilowatts are scheduled for installation within ihe next two years at Shasta Tand Keswick dams on the Sacra mento river, the nfficn of war information said. today,. . LI N CLAIMS .S. CARRIER 'imiiCD' qTHIIRK Running Attack Made On Big Convoy in . Mediterranean LONDON, Aug. .12 W) The British admiralty tonight brand ed as "inaccurate", axis claims today which included the sink ing of two cruisers, one destroy er and six merchantmen from a Mediterranean convoy. At the same time the United States naval headquarters here declined, to comment on the axis boast that the U. S.' aircraft car rier Wasp was damaged. : .t i , The. official British report' on the convoy . battle is expected tomorrow-. r r -, ; .... BERLIN,- (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS) Aug. 13 (JP) Ihe German high command an nounced today that the United States aircraft carrier Waso had been set afire .by six direct hits and now. t'is. trying to reach Maltaf'-at''a result ot a running attach. -on-, ft-Mg -allied Mediter ranean convoy by German and ihuih air ana naval units. -; ,'. (There is no confirmation of this German .claim.; She deliv ered planes to Maltain.June. (The 14,700 ton carrier, com pleted April 25, .1940, carries a normal complement of 72 planes,' maximum 84, and - 1,800 men, including flying, personnel. (The British aircraft carrier Eagle, 22,600 . tons,- -which . the . (Continued on Page .Two) 420th Sinking Breaks Four-Day Lull in Atlantic By The Associated Press . A four-day lull In announced ship sinkings was broken by the navy yesterday in disclosing the Ibss of a small Dutch merchant man' with a death toll of 23 crewmen in late July when a submarine's torpedo sent her to the bottom off the east coast of South America. Only 14 seamen were rescued after the attack which- broke the vessel in two and made it the 420th announced wartime merchant-victim in the western Atlantic area! as tabulated by The Associated Press. ' "Both ends of our ship went straight up in the air and then went down quick," First Officer Arien Vlam related, adding that most of those killed were caught in half-lowered lifeboats when (Continued on Pago Two) Lumber Industry Faces Drastic Labor Shortage Authoritative source In Klamath Falls today said that 1942 production in the Klam ath araa will ba sharply if not seriously curtailed by short ages of labor both in mill and woods. No figures were available but one authority said that all mills in tha region were "fighting for logs" to hold pro duction at a level sufficient to maintain full present and fu ture shipping schedules. An other responsible source said ' that national estimates placed 1942 lumber production close to 30 per cent less than last : year because of critical labor shortages. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug.. 13 The western lumber industry faces f disaster--nd failue.ln its. war " effort within a few months, for lack of loggers In the wnnris, F. H. Brundage, western log and lumber administrator for Moose Leader 4t . . . . ...... I I W. E. Heinke, Eugene, presi dent of the Oregon State Moose association, leads - the order In its annual - convention opening here today at the Moot ball and tha Elk hotel. mmm Dinner, Initiation and .' Dance Slated, for i -.; Tonight ; The first of an estimated 300 I delegates to the annual conven tion of the: Oregon State Moose aswe9tlo;:begai'oickta zHaiaet-uitratteel-'nMfeei;' to the' city today as leaders' .laid plans for the; opening business session tomorrow in' the banquet room of the Elk hotel. " I Scheduled for tonight "are a dinner at. 6 o'clock followed by ritualistic contests and ceremon ial and initiation at 8. . A dance will be held at 10 o'clock in the Moose hall. .... -: - Principal address of the three- day conclave will be delivered by James M;- Ballard, Seattle attorney and supreme council man of the Moose order. . Clyde Thompson is general chairman of the 1942 conference and W. E. Heinke of Eugene president of the state association.' Friday s schedule . toiiows: . 10 a. m. Opening . session, Elk hotel. ,'. ... 1:30 p. m. Business session, - Elk hotel. '':- -. ' 3 p. , m. Ritualistic . contest, Moosa hall. ' ' 5:30 p. m. Barbecue Feed.. 8 p. m. Class Initiation, Moose hall. . ..-.';. , : Two Small Cuban Vessels Sunk , HAVANA, Aug. 13 OP) The Cuban navy general staff an nounced this afternoon that two small-sized Cuban merchantmen had been torpedoed and sunk somewhere in the Gulf of. Mex ico. ' ' ' ; Several survivors of both ves sels have been landed at a Cuban north port and others were re ported still missing. ; : the War Production board, fore cast today. Brundage has weighed the pro duction schedules of the western lumber Industry and found them wanting. The hairy-chested, roistering, cork-booted logger of song and story has deserted the green for ests and is wielding a welding torch in the shipyards or playing the staccato tune of a riveting gun in an airplane factory. "The situation is dally becom ing more critical" Brundage said. "There Is already a serious log shortage here on the Colum bia river and at other produc tion centers In this region. The log output this summer is . not enough to enable loggers and mlllmcn to build up the custom ary inventories needed to carry the m ills jthrough-; the Winter months when logging operations are hampered by bad weather. Instead of a normal supply of (Continued on Page Two) ' IRIS ON TO THREE Naval Forces Engaged - In Bitter Fighting,-' : Navy Reports ' '' ' WASHINGTON. ' Autf. 13 (JPi The navy announced today that operations are , continuing .in the Solomon islands area." , This was .'the' Only Informa tion given out here as the: bat tle ."between - American air, ea and -land forces and Japanese defenders of- the Solomons raged. through its seventh day. ' ; ;;.Navy ' communique No. 105' aid:" "-'". . ' "1. Operations are continuing in the Solomon islands' area.' ! :"2.;Th6re-is nothing to report frdm other areas." - - ? i The -term - "other areas"" pre sumably included ' the- Mediter ranean . where : axis 'sources . claimed the''' American aircraft carrier Wasp had been attacked - and set afire. There was no of ficial confirmation or comment onthis axis claim. ; . By ROGER D. GREENE .Associated Press- War Editor American "devil dog" marines appeared to have .won the first round -in- the-seven-day-old bat. tie, of the Solomon .islands to- aay, ' awim ' vu .! lurious jap. invasion beachheads In the 800- mile-long island chain. A correspondent of the Ausk tralian Broadcasting commission, said it was believed that, the ; marines; strongly reinf orcedrJiad ( broken the Japanese hold od ' the Tulagi area. .. 'The Japanese -.have; been driven from many of their :de -fensive .positions after, .fierce hand-to-hand fighting," the cow, respondent 'said. ' r ' 2. Tulagi harbor is one of-tha . (L-onunued on fage Two) U. S. Bombers Damage Axis Ships Off Greece . - CAIRO, Aug. 13 (JPy -America's huge, bombers, swooping out of a setting .sun.- Tuesday, scored great damage on three -axis' Warships" at Pylos 'Oft'.the west coast of Greece making two direct hits on one cruiser, set-: ting a second afire and causing an explosion aboard a third, ;lt was announced today. -A terrific explosion also waa caused aboard the cruiser, on which the two direct hits were made, and black smoke was een pouring from the second cruiser as a result of either a direct hit or a near miss.' " "" .". There also was a terrific ex plosion aboard a third cruiser after a bomb burst next to it, : Jimmy Dooiittie Learns About Wa u. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 13 MP) Brig. Gen. Jimmy Doohttle, the gentleman who bombed : Tokyo, learned about war when visiting here recently. Malin Ellis, drug Store manager, told this episodei .-A man walked into the store, asked for toothpaste but couldn't get it because he :had no Used tube. Then he wanted an Hem which the store was unable to get because of the war; finally, . he protested against the tax on another purchase. "Well, don' take it out on us," said Ellis. "You've heard about this war haven't you." Replied the man: "I just didn't know. You see, I've been away. Doollttlo is my name." ' L News Index : City Briefs .........i.Paga 5 Comics and Story -.Page 10 Courthouse Records u....Page 2 Editorial Page i Farm New .... , Page 9 Information .............Page 5 MarkctJ'inancial .......... 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