IWl'l'lt't'li On Smlnutt bint on sirens and whistles U the signal lor a blackout In Klamath: Falls. Another long bint, during black out, li a signal ior all-claar. In praeau tlonary parlodi, watch your atraet lights, August IB High 95, Low 87 Praelpitatloa as of August 10, 184a - Last yaar '..... .... ............ 14.23 ' Normal 12.11 , Straam yaar to data ...............,.13.17 ,. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICK F1VK CENTS KLAM ATM vALLR, ORKGON, MONDAY. AUGUST 17, 1942 Number 9568 Illl'l.l -'' s : IM1 p. lfl M TO L E Ail w , to LUJ MM IUJ h Isiisliisi By FRANK JENKINS CO Churchill really was in " Moscow as everyone has believed slnco tlio rumors first began to clrcululo. U. S. piiois new him and his party to Moscow In tliroo big Amor lean bombers, nrrlvlna Wednesday and leaving Sunday mornliui. Tlio British parly In i'ludcd diplomut and liluii-up military men, among them tlio British chief of stuff and Gen eral Wavell. '. They talked with hlKh-iip Rus sian diplomuts and military men. 'T'lIE United States was rcpro- - . sented by W. Averoll Horrl- man, personul representative of President Roosevelt, and a minor U. S. general. This, presumably, is Intonded to suggest that tlio ' Moscow conferenca was prlmor- ily a British-Russian affair. . The dispatches add that Gen ftral Chiang Kal Slick and Presl dent Roosevelt were Riven dally Information as to tlio progress of the talks. DAY (following, prosunv ably, Churchill's snfo arrival in London) this formal statement Is given out simultaneously in Moscow and London: "BOTH governments or de termlncd to carry on. this lust War bf liberation with all their power arid energy until complete destruction of Hitler Ism and any similar tyranny , has been achieved. , ; ' : : : . The' formal communique adds that an atmosphere of cordiality and complete sincerity prevailed t the momentous meeting. COR our own purposes here, let's drop the stilted lan guoge of diplomacy and' got down to brass tacks. The 'real 'purpose of Church Ill's trip to Moscow was to SAT ISFY STALIN, who has been doing the bulk of tlio fighting so far, and keep him from getting Quad and going off tho rcscrva ilon. Churchill and Stalin met face to face, and It may be taken safely for. granted that they tnlked turkey. ' If they reached a basis of mutual respect and CONFI DENCE IN EACH OTHER, tho trip was worth whatever don' gors were Involved. ' T ET'S hazard a guess at this point: If such a basis was reached, Stalin was told DEFINITELY what Britain and tho United States can and will do and WHEN.. 1 (You will note from tho dis patches today that wo had a iplnor part in the talking. Our part in tho doing, when the time comes, won t bo a minor one.) ... JJOLLOWING the Moacow W meeting there is much, spec ulation as to what will bo done to make good the pledges that were quite certainly given to Still In. The guesses include: ". A full-scale Invasion of Nor way and maybe Finland. Smaller diversions elsewhere from Norway to Spain. '! Stcpped-up attacks designed to knock out Germany's wor In dustries. ; VOU don't need to wasto much A tlmo on this speculation. YOUR OWN GUESSES are as good as any other outsider's. -. The high commands in Lon don and Moscow and Washing ton aren't going to tip oft to Hitler In ADVANCE what Is go ing to be dono to relieve the pressure on the Russians. A Tho purpose of tho speculation Is to keep Hitler guessing. ' ' , JDEHIND Its curtain of practl cally complete secrecy, tho jP.ftttlo of the Solomons enters Its Mlth day. That in itself Indicates that the battle Is a big one and av tough, one, with neither side making rapid progress.1 . ' iThe Sydney correspondent 'of the London Star says today It Is belieVed U. S. " Marines have i ' (Continued on pegs Two) REDS RETREAT FR Ql RUINED MIAKOP FIELDS Nazis Launch Power ful New Drive On Stalingrad .V By EDDIE QILMORE MOSCOW, Aug. 17 (AP) The German offcnslvo. In the Don bend flared to full, force today In a powerful. new drive toward Stalingrad while In tho Caucasus the Russians foil back from the ruins of tlio Maikop oil fields to ward their next petroleum pro ducing area at Grozny. A Russian communique re ported a terrific toll of new nazl manpower and material thrown into the assault southeast of Klctskuya tond northeast of KotclnlkovskJ against the flanks of the fortified line guarding Stalingrad. - Tremendous-Cost . Batllcfront dispatches said the Germans rolled forward at tre mendous cost in' 'the Letskaya salient, 79 miles northwest of Stalingrad, but were held firm ly at the KotclnlKovskt flank, 93 miles southwest of Stalingrad. In the Caucasus, extending axis lines appeared checked on the Krasnodar flank where the Germans are thrusting toward the port of Novorosslsk, but they stretched ever farther to t h southwest along tho rail and oil pipe line toward;, Grozny, and ihft Pnanlnn.'. '..'- ' - -: In acknowledging tho ioM, of Maikop, they said that the valu' able oil Installation; of i that area which produced' seven per cent of Russia s petroleum hid been blasted to worthlessnets. "The German fascists, - who expected with tho capture of Maikop to enrich themselves at the expense of soviet, oil, have miscalculated," the communique said. . "They did not get soviet .oil and will not get it." ' Unusable The Russians had plenty of tlmo to destroy tho oil Installa tions' at Maikop and an official onnoiinccmont' that oil supplies (Continued on Page Two) Lightning Sets Grass Fire In Poe Valley Lightning Saturday night started a gross and brush fire In Poo valley which burned over a large area before it was con' trolled by tho county fire ward' en's crows. Tho blazo threatened buildings on tho Shook ranch, and burned fiercely In grass and brush between Yonna and Poe valleys. - Ono building on the. Shook ranch, now owned by Lawrence Horton, caught fire- but was saved. On Sunday afternoon, fire 'de stroyed the houso of R. V. Mor gan, 1005 Benson street, beyond tho end of Pacific Terrace, and started a grass blaze which was checked. The Morgan house was outside tho city limits and the city fire department did not make a run to that fire. Furni ture was saved' but tho houso burned to the ground. Klamath Forest Protective as sociation reported three man caused fires of the weekend at Bear flat, on Chase mountain. and In Weyerhaeuser area near Bly. All fires were checked be fore serious damago was done.: ' ' '. ' i Grain Destroyed In Mid-Columbia . Pasture Fires THE DALLES, Aug. 17' (VP) Whcatflold and pasture' fires' In- tho mid-Columbia area destroyed sacked grain, sheep camps and pasturage over tho weekend. On tho Frank Emerson nlace south of here 4000 bushels of sacked grain were destroyed but standing wheat was saved by volunteer fire-fighters.- Two sheep camps operated by A. J. Sharp, The Dalles, were de stroyed west of Moro as fire cov ered some BOO acres .of pasture land,- : .' The 'i i 1 mmm Ifi i-",f, CAMP WHITE, Ort. Tha Slat Infantry, fnm.d Wild West divuilon of the first World war. Is back In active erlc. In actuation tertmonies hara Saturday F. K. Dover, Grants Pass, left, who won tha French Croix da Guarre and tha distinguished service cross as a sergeant for tha old Slst, presented tha outfit's battle flag to Major General Charles Gerhardt, commander of tha new 91st. Dover is a former state commander of tha DA V. (Associated Press 'photo.),' T! LOSTJiSlII "Grave Events" Fore seen as Result of : U-boat Attack, ' BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 17 (AP )The Brazilian ambassa dor to Argentina, Jose da Paula Rodriguez Alvcs, denied today that tho Brazilian embassy in Montevideo had announced the sinking of a Brazilian transport. The envoy made the statement after telephoning the Monte video embassy. (It was not immediately clear whether tho ambassador was de nying the sinking or the an nouncempnt.) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug. 17 (AP) The Brazilian em bassy here ' announced today that a Brazilian transport had been sunk with a loss of 700 or BOO troops. Tho embassy said the trans port Baependey wns sunk by a (Continued on Pago Two) Jealousy Prompts Shooting of 4 in Ice Cream Parlor PORTLAND, Aug. 17 OT Jealousy prompted the shooting of four persons hero Saturday night, Detective Collie Stoops said today, and tho gun wlelder la expected lo die. Ennls E. Gabriel, about 45, yas said by Stoops to have opened fire with a .22 caliber rifle In his North Portland Ice cream parlor, wounding Mrs. Gn brlel and R. W. Ellis, a custo mer. Policeman Ralph Gray was shot as he entered the door. Gray returned the fire, wounded. Stoops said Gabriel had indi cated Jealousy over attentions he believed his wife had paid other rrien. , 91st Infantry Lives Again "TP fa J I i ft jm)f ..iiir i .mi ... - n j...' -Ih-iMI. f f ' f iiiiiii aaiHSujgist fi .. "' -rtl-' ' " 'mLmmtn'SZl Dependents' Allowance Bill Ready for FDR WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (F) Tho senate today approved on a voice vote a bill permitting living allowances due the de pendents of service- men to be paid as soon, as the necessary bookkeeping can be completed. It wipes out a provision In the original allotment bill which barred any payments until after November 1. The measure now goes to the White House. Whether the bill actually will speed ' the payment of sums ac cumulated since the law went into effect June 1 was a matter of conjecture. War department officials told the senate military committee' . that - it - would he. I physical impossibility to make all. the,, necessary j computations and 'write the checks before November 1. Chairman Rey . ; ... (Continued on Page Two) , Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE New York ....IS 10 0 Philadelphia 0 8 3 Ruffing and Dickey, Hemsley (6); Harris, Knott (4), Savage (6) and Wagner, Yankowskl (6). ; NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 2 8 0 New York 3 6 6 Tasto, Sain (8) and Kluttz; Schmacher, Adams (9) and Man cuso, Dannlng (8). Navy Announces t Another Sinking . WASHINGTON, Aug.-17 (IP) The navy announced today that a medium-sized -United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy subma rine late In July. The attack occurred In the Atlantic several hundred miles off the northern coast of South America, , and survivors have been landed at a United States east coast port. . i i, TV'Ji ' it v '? V Vi ' :i. .-i.'i'. tail niw - .;. , iT HUGE ME CRASH 17- Killed, 3 Survive : Accident in Peru, Massachusetts PERU, Mass., Aug. 17 OF) Three soldiers, one of them a heroic sergeant who dragged two companions to safety from a flaming army transport plane, today were given a better than even chance to recover the only survivors of a crash that took the lives of 17 others. All three Sergeant Robert Lee, 23, of Columbus,'0.,"Corp. Alonzo - Pearson of Somerset county, Pa., and Private' James Fern of Abingdon, Va. suffer ed serious burns when the big ship plunged into Peru moun tain in this Berkshire hills town Saturday night while on a rou tine mission out of. Pope field, Fort Bragg, N. C. : , In laconic language, the army - (Continued on Page Two) Greek Patriots Pay With Lives for "Invasion Help" . LONDON, Aiig. 17 (P) -i :A number of Greek patriots on the Island of Crete who mistook German parachute practice for a' British Invasion and tried to help by seizing Candia airdrome have paid with their lives, ac cording to reports reaching the Greek government in exile here today. . Three hundred were said to have been arrested, and an un disclosed number shot. These reports said that fisher men's stories of large ship move ments off Crete prompted rum ors that a British invasion flotil la was approaching the Island and when the patriots saw Ger man parachutists making prac tice jumps they assumed that tha Hour of liberation had come. JAPS BEATEN OFF IN NAVAL BATTLOEPORT Timor Attacked to Aid - Allied Guerilla Forces WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (AP) The navy announced today that shore positions taken by. Ameri can marines In the' Japanese held Solomon islands "are now well established"' following a naval engagement between American -warships and s force of cruisers - and destroyers in which jhe "enemy was' forced (a retreat, . . ..'',;". ';-': The" tiavsl engagement-" was fought the night of August 8-9 when the'enemy force attempted" to attack United States' trans ports and cargo ships supplying the marine landing parties. . . This enemy force was inter cepted ' and . engaged by U. S. cruisers . and . destroyers- end close-range fighting resulted. A result of this ictioq, the. navy reported,':, the?'ermy -was "forced to retreat before reach'1 Ihg ,'lbe vessels' engagecf lb., the landing operation.", svr' ;'. ..,"' i "Both Japanese and American ships were hit but.the navy said that it was impossible to deter mine . accurately the damage . in flicted on the Japanese. ., The navy, had reported previ ously, that American fleet units had suffered damage in unidenti fied action in the Solomons, one cruiser being sunk - and two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport damaged. . The na vy 's ; communique, which gave .the most complete account yet of the invasion of the Solomons in this country's first offensive action in the "Pa cific, reported that the Japanese lost at least 36 planes, 18 being destroyed in the initial naval attack on August 7 and 18 others being destroyed .when, enemy air forces -attempted to attack ' ' (Continued on Page Two) Soldier Killed, 4 Injured at Railroad Crossing McCHORD FIELD, Aug. 17 (VP) Public relations officers report ed today Corporal George O. Ga voille, of Milford, Pa., was killed and four other McChord field soldiers narrowly escaped" death yesterday as they Were crossing a railroad trestle near -Yakima, Wash., when a fast train sudden ly appeared around a curve. -- Two of the group managed to run ahead of the train to the end of the bridge, a third hung from the timbers beneath the struc ture, and a fourth attempted to do the same but fell' into an Irrigation-flume beneath -and was rescued. ; -':h . . . - War Workers Live in Chicken Coops, i Packing Boxes as Housing Gets Scarcer SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 (AP) Housing facilities in Pa cific coast industrial cities are so jam-packed full that in some cases .war workers and their families have resorted to living In remodeled chicken coops, and shacks built of packing boxes An,. Associated Press survey today showed, that with more war workers expected In almost every industrial center, there was no indication that the hous ing needs would be met. Here Is what housing authori ties In major war . industry cen ters say: San Diego , Nearly 2000 house-hunting families turned away In a single week by a home finding bureau, i . San : Pedro-Long Beach Every available' housing facility Meat Ration For America Predicted CHICAGO, Aug. 11 (IP) America may have to ration meat,' Roy F. Hendrickson, ad ministrator of the agricultural marketing administration, turn retail meat dealers today. "We need some system," Hen derson said.' "Perhans ration. ing, meatless days, a combina tion of the two or something else to assure equitable distri bution of what will be a short supply of meat." Estimating there would be a 19423 shortage of three bil lion, pounds of meat in relation to the quantity of meat civilian consumers would buy at ceil ing prices', Hendrickson said that "the current shortage of meat is only a forerunner nf things, to come-and the soon er that is realized the better." .. Hendrlcksoni.: -.in discussing possible rationing of meat. pointed out - that certain per- (Contmueftjm Page Two) - -l' - - ' La rge-- Formations: 'of Plahfesf Shuttle'1 . , Over Channel LONDON, Aug. 17 (AP) -United . States army . airforce bombers were over German-occupied- France late this after noon, it was announced tonight. ' United States," British and dominion fighter squadrons ac companied the American bomb ers to their target.- ' All the bombers returned safely. . It .was the first announced V. bombing raid on France. U. S. bombers, flying with the RAF,-.however,. had made a raid on a nazi airdrome in Holland July 4. U. S. fighters have made numerous sorties against France. Southeast coast observers said large formations of planes shut tled across the channel. This in dicated the raid was on major calibre far exceeding anything the U. S. had done before in the European theater. The daylight ' attack was of relatively short duration, but it apparently was extended over hundreds of miles of occupied France.- ''".' . , , The U. S. air force was . ex pected to issue a communique (Continued on Page Two) News Index City Briefs :..........j.......Page 3 Comics and Story ..j:..Page 6 Courthouse Records Page 2 Editorial .....Page 4 Information Page 3 Market, Financial l..Page 8 Our Men in Service .....i..Page 3 Pattern .............:............Page 4 Radio Day by Day Page 4 Sports ...............Page 5 occupied with many shipyard workers driving 20 to 30 miles to work. ; Los Angcles Places to live can be found with difficulty In the airplane factory area. San Jose-Sunnyvale Housing situation is serious but not criti cal. San Francisco Apartment houses are hard to get, especially if prospective tenants have chil dren. Oakland Occupancy 100 per cent. Stores and lofts to be con verted into dwelling units. Richmond A trailer is a good home in this overflowing area that has more than twice as many shipyard workers today as Inhabitants two years ago. . Vallejo Families doubled up and moved into 2000 trailer , CfflCHILll STALIN PLOT WAR QTRMTCV unii uiiiniLur 'Definite Decisions" - Reached at Meet-: - ing in Moscow . By ROBERT E. BUNNELL LONDON, Aug. 17 :(P) Th announcement that definite de cisions had b e e n reached at Prime Minister Churchill's con ference with Premier Stalin in Moscow was regarded in Lon don today as evidence that the soviet union, Britain and - tha United .States had' reached definite formula on how to beat the axis and when to open" second front. - President Roosevelt and Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek were informed daily on the de cisions, it was disclosed.: v The Moscow conference; which W. Averill Harriman at tended as, President RooteyelVl representative, followed a series of meetings in London of Unit ed States, British, and Russian military and government lead ers. s - , 1 Attack Oa-Sibexia . . i I The belief was expressed that I .1 , L ' 1 i . .... . .. . . uib pujjsiuiuijf oi. an aiiacK, on Siberia by Japan -also was dis cussed. -. . :: - v. : -. However,, it was noted : that the joint announcement specify ically- referred to -"HiUerlte. Germany and her associates : In Europe," lending emphasis again to Russia's, position, as signer of a non-belligerent pact With Japan. , .. .-z Meanwhile, speculation oo what the United States and ' : .(Continued, on . Page. Two) Daughter of v i Officer Charged With Murder DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug.- 17 (AP) Margaret Herlihy, 21- ' year-old : red-haired daughter of Lt. Col. E. G. Herlihy,' w a s J charged today with the murder ' of Capt David Carr, killed ? early Saturday during a lover's v quarrel. ;. -';' ,r. ','.";,:' . The complaint was signed by ? County Attorney John F.' Ross.' Miss Herlihy -was to appear; this afternoon before Justice of ; the Peace E. L. Stewart for hearing. Carr was Miss Herlihy's fi ance. . ''."''' . 1 - MASS LAUNCHING . SOUTH PORTLAND, Me Aug. - 17 (fP) American ship yards sent eleven new ships Into the water yesterday eight In Maine in the greatest mass) launching in the nation's history-, but workmen were urged to even greater efforts by Admiral . Emory E. Land. . ' ', units as the population tripled In three years, but 48 per. cent of the Mare Island navy yard workers still commute, some as far as 60 miles.. . . i Portland Public appeal made , for sleeping space for war work ers' families In basements, attics, or anywhere under a roof. Tacoma Two hundred war workers reported quitting their jobs every pay day because they can't find a place for their fam ilies to sleep- ' . Seattle Shipyards and air plane factories brought in 100, 000 newcomers,, with room for only a fraction of them. Bremerton Tents, trailer and even converted chicken houses are used for homes. In virtually every one of the (Continued on Page Three) , 4