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It th signal lor blackout In Klamath
Falls. Anothar long blest, during a black
out, li a ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau
tionary ptrlodi, watch your atratt lights.
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By FRANK JENKINS
COR nown from tho Solomons,
wu must turn toclny to an un
named KiiK iImii war correspond'
cut who cubk'S his London paper
iiuiii Sydney tlint the Americans
linvo or soon will have complete
control of Tulngl Island. Ho
ays tlio U. S, Murlnt-s uro so
strongly entrenched there that
k only tho heaviest rolnforcainonta
could dlxloclgo them.
WHAT ho reports Is borno out
" bv our own ultrn-conserva
tlvo nuvy coinmunUues unci is
Important because It Indicates
that wo huvo put sufficient forco
back of tho Solomons thrust to
reach at least tho first objectives
TJE then adds:
"The Jups era prepared to
risk a bin naval action to hold
tho Solomons and fighting will
contlnuo for weeks."
That, of course, Is pure con'
Jecturo. It may be true and It
muy not be.
Ha can't know the INSIDE
PLANS of both sides.
IVfE must remember that In all
warfare, and In naval war
(aro in particular, fnko plays uro
ull-lmnortant.
i' we muy uo running a uiuii
In tho Solomons, hoping to fool
the Jnps Into rushing tho bulk
.of their naval strength there aim
(hen hitting them hard WHERE
THEY ARE WEAK.
Hure at home we can only
wait. ' Tho novy con't tell us
what Its plans are, for that
would tip off tho Japs and spoil
tho game.
T ISTEN to the Jap radio. It
bints and blats and brags and
brags,
But It DOESN'T tell us any'
thing about tho DISPOSITION
OK THE JAP FLEET UNITS.
:. By talking loud and long when
our own navy Is saying nothing
H hopes to plant In our minds
tho suspicion thnt our own gov'
eminent Is concealing tlio truth
Ofrom us.
Listen to tho cneijiy radio.
That Is your right os an Amer
ican. But never let yourself for
get that In whatever ha says the
enemy's purpose Is to MISLEAD
AND CONFUSE us nevor to In
form us.
If you will keep that fact
clearly In mind, it will maka no
dlffarenco how much you listen
to tho Jap radio.
THERE Is little news from Rus-
sin and what there Is Is bod.
Watch tho fighting to tho north
and west of Moscow. It might
turn out to bo Important.
The long expected but as yet
non-ox Istcnt Russian counter-
offensive might bo starting thoro.
(Uo sure to remember that
Wishful thinking lies back of
this thought. Whatever you do,
DON'T kid yourself.)
Oi
pilERE'S an odd note In the
news today.
. A British naval squadron sails
to the Italian island of Rhodes,
Off tho Turkish coast, In tho
grand manner of navies beforo
modern land-based aircraft and
for 12 minutes bombards tho
harbor and tho town of Rhodes.
Then It sails away unhurt,
ymtY nil this show?
Wo don't know.
' But wo may bo very sure tho
British aren't risking precious
naval strength Just for the fun
of sailing around tho edges of
the Mediterranean and shooting
tip enemy Islands and towns at
random.
Their Intelligence services had
fold them there was a hen on at
Rhodes,
WHAT kind of hen wo don't
, know, but Europeans return
ing from Turkey tell of OER--MAN
and Italian reinforcements
Roving from Italy and Greece to
northern Africa. They say that
In the past few days two GER
MAN divisions hove left Greece
nd one Italian division has left
Blclly, Thoy soy two more
Qermon divisions are wnltlng In
(Continued on Fago Till ee)
FARM LABOR
FOR KLAMATH
AVAILABLE
FSA to Set Up Camps
At Tulelake, Mer
rill. Malin
There Is every Indication
ample labor can be brought Into
the Klamath basin for tho ogrl
culturo hurvest, providing the
wugu rato is adequate. It was
declared hero Saturday by L,
C. Stoll, head of tho U. 8. em
ployment scrvlco for Oregon.
Stall's statement was accom
panied by an announcement by
W. T. Gcurls, chief of tho labor
camps for tho FSA, that the
FSA will establish camps at
Tulelake, Merrill and Malin for
housing of workers during tho
forthcoming harvest period.
A third development in the
farm labor situation was a call
for reorganization of tho Klam
ath Potato Growers association,
which will work with the Tule
lake growers In cooperative ac
tion on various - projects - held
necessary to satisfactory solution
of tho whole farm labor prob
lem. -.. " -'..'.
Sufficient Response
. Stoll stated thnt the employ
ment service Is now recruiting
by name persons In tho north'
west who can come hero for the
potato harvest, and added that
advance Indications point to sur
ficicnt response to assure a labor
supply.... .;.'. -,---
.: Ho suld that experience with
Uie pea harvest in the Pendleton
area had shown that workers
could be obtained under ade
quate wago conditions. He said
thcro should be no pirating of
labor between growers, and that
such activities should be treated
tho same as pirating between In
dustrlcs.
Ho emphasized that it Is "in
portant for all to know that
ogrlculturo Is on essential war
industry" and entitled to all the
privileges that go with such In'
dustrlcs In this period. A list
of essential activities, prepared
in accordance with directive No,
1 of tho manpower commission'
cr, lists dairy, livestock, poultry,
truck gardening, sugar beet
growing, hay, seed and general
(Continued on Pago Two)
Fire Causes
$3800 Damage at
Newell Store
NEWELL. Calif. All three
fire departments responded to
a call at 4:45 a. m. Friday mora
lug at 4118, one of Ncwell's four
community stores. Fire Chief
Ernest Rhoads had tho flro un'
dcr control within half an hour.
The flro was completely cxtin
gulshcd within an hour.
Most of tho stock was de
stroyed or damaged, represent
ing an approximate loss of $3,'
BOO which is covered by insur
ance, The building, the front
half of which Is completely
charred, is not insured.
Tho chill early hours of the
morning did not deter hundreds
of spectators from gathering to
wiilch the spectacular blaze.
Tho flro was started by tho
defective wiring in a soft drink
cooling machino. Tho shoo re
pair section in the rear of the
building was undamaged. Hun
dreds of poirs of shoes waiting
for repairs remained stacked on
tho shelves.
Jews Deported
From France
VICHY, Aug. 15 MP) Tho
Purls press reported today that
4000 Jews previously arrested
in the. unoccupied zone of
Franco wore deported Friday
to regions where under good
supervisors they will bo. able
to do labor of uso to tho Euro-
peon collectivity."
Tho papers said police In un
occupied Franco wero "watching
pitilessly" for Jews attempting
to escape across tho demarca
tion lino from German-occupied
territory because of tho new
strict nntl-Jowlsh regulations in
tho occupied zone i
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Here's the result of Klamath county'! newest Industrial offshoot of the lumber business. The
above picture, taken in Ford county, Kansas, near storied Dodge City, shows the erection of
wooden grain bins manufactured in the Klamath area. Left foreground, a bin half erected. Right
foreground, two others nearlng completion. Left background, five completed bins. As fast as
bins are put up they're filled with grain, as shown by the pipe leading into the bin fifth from
left. . .
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Wood Was the Answer to
: ; Bfg Grain Crop Problem
Editor's Note: This is another
of a scries of articles which
show how Klamath' industrial
program has been tuned to the
war situation.
! . By BOB LEONARD , i
-. It i unceasingly -surprising
what people can pop up with
if pressed.
Ve'ra thinking particularly
about tho lumber Industry and
the commodity credit corpora
tion at tho moment.
Several years ago, by way of
explanation, if you had told a
man in the grain bin business,
where metal was fast replacing
DEATH PENALTIES
Trouble Flares Again
In India; Further
Riots Seen
BOMBAY, Aug. 15 OT Ap
plication of severe penalties, in
cluding death and collective
fines, was reported under con
sideration by the British today
to put down tho wave of de
struction by riotous Indian fol
lowers of Mohandas H. Gandhi
after he hod sponsored a non
violent independence driva.
At Dacca police fired on an
unruly crowd killing five end
Injuring four, It was reported
today, ,
Wilful damage to railroad
property and telegtaph wires
which has occurred in several
parts of India In post days, even
while most violcnco was subsid
ing, was said to have prompted
tho British to study more dras
tic measures of repression.
Under ono existing ordinance,
sabotage of railroads and tele-
(Continued on Pogo Two)
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H, E.
Boston 4 8 0
Brooklyn 5 8 0
Tobin and Masl; Allen. Casey
(7), Head (7), French (9), and
Owen.
Pittsburgh 8 13 1
Chicago 5 9 0
Dletz, Klingcr (8), Lannlng (8)
ond Phelps; Blthorn, Errlckson
(7), Pressnoll (6) and Hcrnondcz.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E.
New York 1 8 1
Philadelphia 3 7 2
Chandler, Llndell (7) and
Dickey; Fowler and Wogncr.
Chicago 4 0 1
Detroit 2 4 0
Humphries, Hayncs (8) and
Dickey; Benton, Honshaw (3) and
Grain Bins Are Going Up
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wood, that wood would soon
entirely replace metal, he prob
ably would have looked for the
nearest loony coop and popped
you therein. ' ...
. On account, mostly, , -..that
metal was theoretically, cheaper,
more durable Jind easicr or con
struction than lumber which re
quired cutting, nailing and fine
fitting.
Which is probably still IruV
if only there were enough
metal. Which there's not and
which furthor, posed a problem
with the commodity credit cor
poration, among others, as to
what to do with the country's
anticipated second largest grain
crop in history.
Required, they found, was a
bin which could be manufac
tured quickly, in quantity, and
with a minimum of metal which
meant nails.
Could They Turn 'Em Out?
The commodity credit cor
poration was pressed. So it took
a step backward ond forward,
all at once. And Instead of leav
ing them In the same position,
the double decision found the
corporate gentlemen possessed
of plans for a wooden grain bin
which they hoped, could be man
ufactured quickly, in quantity,
eic.
Then the lumbering Industry
was pressed. Could they turn
em out?
Well, children, they could
(Continued on Page Three)
AFL-PIRC Dispute
Certifiedto
War Labor Board
A "disputed dispute" between
the Klamath Basin District coun
cil of the AFL Lumber and
Sawmill workers union and the
Pine Industrial Relations com
mittee has been certified to the
wor labor board by Secretory
of Labor Frances Perkins, local
union leaders announced today.
Hugh Haddock, council presi
dent, sold the dispute Is over an
AFL demond for 90 cents per
hour in the Klamath area and
for a flve-doy week of eight
hours per day.
But Morton T. Owre of the
PIRC said that no dispute ex
ists between the union and the
group of which he is secretory
manager. Ho said that no de
mands have been mode on the
PIRC and that the union lost
May refused to bargain on the
grounds that not all members
of the PIRC bargaining group
wore AFL union employers,
Haddock said the demands
were mode at June 10, 11, 12
(Continued on Pago Two)
HOSTAGES SHOT
LONDON, Aug. 15 (ff)
Netherlands government sources
reported today that five Dutch
hostages had been shot by the
Germans in 'reprisal for wreck
ing of n nazl troop train a week
ago. 1
Mm - St
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RANEY ELECTED
MOOSEPRESIDETJT
Eugene Named Site of
Annual Mid-Winter
Conference
A. A. Raney of Tillamook was
elected president of the Oregon
state Moose association as mem'
bers met in fliefinal business
session of the tenth annual con
vention in the Moose hall this
afternoon. ;.
Ho succeeds W. E. Heinke of
Eugene. , .
The association named Eugene
as the site of its annual mid
winter conference some time in
February and announced that the
1942 convention city will be
named at that time.
Ends Today
Phil P. White, governor of
the local Moose lodge, announced
that with today s business ses
sion, the convention, originally
scheduled to continue, through
Sunday, will end. with the ex
ception of social events tomor
row. Slated for this afternoon's
final meeting was the voting on
a number of resolutions which
have been in committee since
Friday morning. Nature of the
resolutions was not disclosed.
In addition to Raney, conven
ing Moose delegates elected as
first vice president W. H. Fitz
gerald of Portland; second vice
president, Roy Van Meter of
Merrill; third vice president, G.
E. Montgomery, Hillsboro; fourth
vice president, R. Jones, of Klam
. (Continued on Page Two) '
Total of 190 Jap
Planes Shot Down,
Arnold Reports .
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 m
Lieut. General Henry H. Ar
nold reported today that 1010
American planes hod engaged
1459 Japanese planes in seven
months of warfare and had def
initely shot down 190. In these
battles 104 American planes
were lost.
'This doesn't include enemy
planes damaged, probably de
stroyed, or lost on the ground,"
the air forces' commander told
a press conference.
The American volunteer
group, fighting for China, shot
down 218 planes while losing 84
before disbanding recently
when the army air forces took
up the air warfare burden In
that area.
News Index
City Briefs Poge 3
Comics and Story Page 10
Editorial Page 4
Information Page 3
Market,' Financial Page 8
Our Men in Servico...;..Page 3
Pattern Page 7
Radio Day by Day...'.... Page 7
Society ,,, ..........Pages 5, 6, 7
Sports Page 9
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REDS BATTLE
H THREAT
Hitler Rushes Men to
Meet Russ Attack
In North
MOSCOW, Aug. 15 (iP
The Germans have regroup
ed their forces and, with com
plete disregard for casualties,
have launched a new attack
east of Kotelnikovskl In the
drive on StalingTad, it was re
ported tonight , . ':.'.
Kotelnikovskl is on the dis
rupted railroad from Stalin
grad to the north Caucasus
city oi Krasnodar. .
' By The. Associated Press -
; Russia V armies battled, dps
peratelji. today to stem: grave
new threats to' Stalingrad and
to the vital port of Astrakhan
on the Caspian sea, while in the
Caucasus nazi columns were re
ported to have captured the rail
city of' Georgievsk, 120 miles
northwest of the rlcfci Grozny ail
items after a. 20-mile advance.''
j v.Soviet". dispatches said - Ger-
marr troops Were- fanning -out
from the Kotelnikovskl sector;
85 miles south of Stalingrad, in
a menacing drive toward Astrak
han. The Caspian sea port is a
major point of entry for allied
supplies to Russia. .
" ' Brighter Side
On the brighter side, Stock
holm dispatches reported that
Adolf Hitler had been obliged
to rush reinforcements to meet
Russian attacks In three key
sectors on the long looping front
before Moscow and before Vor
onezh, the northern anchor; of
the Don-Caucasus front.
The Russians were said to be
striking furiously at Rzhev, 130
miles northwest of Moscow; at
Byasma, 125 miles west of the
soviet capital; at Bryansk, 210
(Continued on Page Two)
Speedy Sentence
Meted Out to
Three Soldiers
OLYMP1A, Aug. 15 (Pt
Seven days from the time they
attacked Mrs. Geneva Schwarz,
31-year-old Chehalis widow on
the prairies south of Olympla,
three Fort Lewis soldiers were
en route to the state penitentiary
at Walla Walla where they will
serve maximum sentences of 35
years.
The youths James Liggett,
Brookhaven, Mississippi; Roy
Trombley, Detroit, Michigan,
and Glen Staley, Waterloo, Iowa
T-were sentenced Thursday and
were picked up today by prison
guards, .. John : S. Lynch, Jr.,
Thurston county . prosecutor,
said.
TO STALINGRAD
Army, Navy Miffed Chance to Wipe Out
Jap Surface Force, Magnuson Reveals
SEATTLE, Aug. 15 (P)
United States ' bombers lost a
chance to annihilate a Japanese
surface force, Including, an air
craft carrier, off Alaska last
June because of the "unfortu
nate failure of army and navy
coordination," Rep. Warren G.
Magnuson (D-Wash.) said today.
Magnuson, a member of the
house naval affairs committee,
told interviewers on his return
from an Inspection tour of Alas
ka, military bases that "failure
on the part of one army com
mand to interpret liberolly
standing naval orders regard
ing enemy contact resulted in a
delay which gave the enemy an
opportunity to remove itself."
The army command responsi
ble, he added, has since been
relieved of duty, "and I am glad
to say that thcro Is no possi
bility of thi happening again."
mu m
Nazis Renege
On "Wasp"
Sinking Story
BERLIN (From German
Broadcasts) Aug. 15 (IP) The
German high command correct
ed its report of Aug. 13 that the
14,700-ton United States aircraft
carrier Wasp had been hit by six
bombs and set afire in the Med
iterranean and said the damaged
warship instead was a British
aircraft carrier of the Illustrious
type-
- The correction was made in a
special bulletin describing the
results of - the Mediterranean
convoy battle in which tho high
command listed 13 merchant
ships totalling about 180,000,
tons,, the British aircraft carrier'
Eagle, two cruisers and three
destroyers as sunk. ; The convoy
was made up of 21 merchant
ships, the announcement said. .
(There was no explanation for
the previous report that the
Wasp had been damaged by six
bomb hits and was trying to
reach Malta.)
The high command said that
15-. merchant - ships totalling
about 180,000 tons, the aircraft
carrier Eagle, two cruisers and
three destroyers were sunk in
the attack this week on a Brit
ish convoy in the Mediterranean.
Plane on Routine Op
.. eration Over Michi
. gan, Army Says .
HASTINGS, Mich., Aug.. 15
(P) Nine . officers and crew
members ! w e r e killed in the
flaming,- crash last night of a
multi-motored army air force
bomber in a cornfield seven
miles south of here.
Public . relations officers at
Fort Custer, said the nine dead
were:
Second " ' Lieut. . Eugene G.
King, pilot; Brawley, Calif.; Sec
ond Lieut. L. H. Talley, co-pilot,
AledO, Tex.; Second Lieut. James
J. , Daley, bombardier, Upper
Darby, Pa.; Second Lieut. Morris
E. McCaU, navigator, Estherville,
Iowa; Staff Sgt. John D. Hozen,
radio operator, Lewiston, Mont.;
Corp. George E. Strenge, engin
eer, Mountain Lake, Minn.;
Corp. Ernest L. Prather, assist
ant engineer, Schoolfleld, Va.;
Pvt. C. Spatara, assistant radio
operator, Wellsburg, W. Va., and
Pvt. Raymond W. Carillion, gun
ner, Millersburg, Ohio. i
Routine Operation
Army officials said the plane
was stationed at Willow Run air
port near Ypsilanti, Mich., and
was "thought to have been on
routine operation" when it
crashed. ;
No details of the cause of the
(Continued on Page Two) I
The army high command in Al
aska now, he predicted, would
"welcome a Japanese task force
at this stage of the gome."
"The army command was lo
cated within operating distance
of . the Japanese task, force,"
Magnuson said. "I have infor
mation that It was notified soon
ofter the Dutch Horbor attack
that navy PBY's (flying boots)
had a Japanese carrier under
continual observation, and that
they were waiting for the ar
rival of land-based aircraft to
make the kill.
"The army command, how
ever, believed its orders were
not sufficiently broad to war
rant sending out a bombing
force At this phase of the battle
without definite instructions.
"As a result army planes re
mained .on the. ground, and be
fore naval authorities could
o
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Jap Convoy Is Target
Of Heavy Bombers
Off New Britain ' ,'
WASHINGTON, Aug, 15 ;Fj
United States marines, support
ed by strong air and naval
forces, had smashed back suf
ficient Japanese defenders - to
day, to clamp a firm hold upon
the strategic Solomon islands. -:
As allied bombers of General
MacArthur's Australian head
quarters pounded at attempted
enemy reinforcements, Ameri
can fighting men were "progress
ing satisfactorily," the navy an
nounced last night, in consolidat
ing hard-won beach heads.; .
. The terse navy communique
on the first big offensive of the
United States and the: United
Nations gave only the barest de
tails. But it left little doubt
that they were winning the early
rounds of a conflict that, if suc
cessful, may' lead eventually to
nn Aecnnlt imnn .Tannn. lislf .
With marines still in the thick
of combat, . Flying Fortresses
and swift attack bombers were
reported to be persistently strik
ing at Japanese . air- bases ; and
ship concentrations to ;-protect
allied communication lines and
stave 00 enemy reinforcements.
A Japanese convoy which an
allied spokesman at MacArthur's
headquarters said was attacked
three times previously, again be
came the target of heavy bomb
ers off New Britain to the north-.-west:
The convoy included trans-
direction toward the Solomons.
Bad weather veiled results of
the latest assault but two more
(Continued on Page T") ,
Eisenhower Hints
Seriousness of
2nd Front Talk
LONDON, Aug. 15 VP)
Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower;
commander of United States
army forces in the European
theater, dropped a significant
hint of the urgency with which,
diversionary actions on a new
European front are being con
sidered today, . declaring , in a
press conference that "the time
is short." .
Discussing the United States
forces in Britain, he said: . ,
"Training in all Its phases
must be intensive. This is true
first because time is short, sec
ond because the problems we
have demand the ultimate, in
trained personnel and third be
cause our men must be tough'
ened and hardened physically to
stand the most rigorous opera
tions.' - ' .'.
straighten the matter out, the
Japs slipped away from obser
vation. ; j
"Later the army did succeed
in making contact, but not un
der as favorable circumstances
as they might have found if the
response had been earlier." ,
Army and navy officers in
Alaska , are now : working in
closest cooperation, he said, i
By WALTER B. CLAUSEN
PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 15
(P) The high price paid by the
Japanese for their toehold on
the Rat islands of the Aleutian
chain will turn out to be a bad
bargain, if and when the Amer-
icanj deem it necessary to oust
them. ...
A naval officer and eyewhv
ness to recent fighting in the
fog-shrouded Aleutians today
(Continued on Page Three) ,
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ENEMY
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