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 -
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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
PRICK F1VK CENTS KLAM ATM vALLR, ORKGON, MONDAY. AUGUST 17, 1942
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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
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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
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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.:
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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,- : .'
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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.),'
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"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
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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. ,
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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. .
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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