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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 13, 1942
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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.)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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