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iiw'mi!l!iIIBH7iiiit(i!ii'ffli!!iij lac , tm M BL BLa. Tl - ' BBV .1 M. jiiiiiiiiitiiiMi On S-mlnutt blast on sirens and whiitUi li the signal lor blackout In Klamath rails. Anolhtr long blast, during blick out, ! signal lor all-clear. In precau tlonsry ptrlodi, watch your itraat llghu. August 19 High 94, Low BO Precipitation ai of August 13. 1942 ' Last year , ...... 14.11 Normal : : ,,,,,.,,.ia,2Q ' Stream year to data ............,......13.17', ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES Vivul-j-.' r-.---ii ' ' ...... ,m PRICK FIVE CENTS vr r ""T. FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1942 ' Number 9571 it,,,,.,) AHVMHI'l JUIMo''"' Ml M fo) M N mm V . Mi mm I 111 I III HI lll'l llUf lit I"':': 1,1 mm By FRANK JENKINS 'THE thrilling allied cross Channel raid, dress rchcnrsul fur Invasion, testing ground for equipment, methods, slate of enemy preparedness, etc, whut evor ll really was holds the excited attention of the world on this day uftor it happened. CVEN tho vustly Importunt RuMlnn fiithtlng gels only a comporntlve glance. The battlo of tho Solomons, for the moment at least, (purtly bueause it Is still shrouded In secrecy) is practically forgotten. This spectacular exploit cap tures our imaginations for tha time being probably becauso It leaves llttlo doubt In our minds that It is the prelude to world shaking event to como. SN one point, there can be no w uncertainty. The allies (Brit ish and American) wero putting on a show for all tho world to see, The press, Instead of luting censored, was given reserved seals, Correspondents, : chosen by lot, were placed at advantag eous' points nil around (be fight ing, where they could see all that was going on. After that, they were given tho facilities by coble and ra dioto tell their story.. The British und American high commands must have been SUPREMELY CONFIDENT must have wonted all tho world to know what happened ut Dieppe. nrHROUGH tho eyes of those correspondents yon will, get In this newspaper today an un usually clear picture of tha - show that was put on. It would be A waste of npneo to repeat their stories here, but it Is worth while to draw attention to some of their conclusions. - . rREW MIDDLETON, experl enccd London reporter for the Associated Press, soys: "Tho result was a DECISIVE ALLIED VICTORY, "British fighters BROKE the ' Gorman force of at least BOO planes that was seeking to smash the commandos Into submission and to SINK tho armada of landing craft." t fJE adds: 1 "This Is what mattered: Al lied assault forces stormed, that formidable coast and achieved EVERY GOAL In a nine-hour battlo engineered with such pre cision that It wound up within six minutes of schedule, , "Tho Germans wore denlt a Jelling blow whoro they had boasted they wero Invulnarablo. Tho allies massed fighting men and tanks and ferried them ashore at tho strong point of the nozl defenses under cover of perhaps tho GREATEST AER IAL UMBRELLA In history." A word hero as to Mlddlcton's reference, to tha strong point of the nazl defense is in order. The northern coast of France Is just across tho Channel from England. It is obvious that nt this point tho Gormans would conccnlrato and strengthen their defenses to tho extreme of which they wera capnblo. Yet these dofenses wero crack ed In Wednesday's groat raid, . . fZAVLT MiicQownn of tho New York Sun says: "The official 30-50 estimate of air casualties doesn't reflect the picture of Dloppo, whore, al though bombs splashed In tho sea around us, NEVER FOR A MOMENT was there doubt of tho SAFETY of tho vost scatter ed fleet of all types that lay at anchor or d r I f t o d hour after hour UNCHALLENGED except by the dofondors on shore whose (Continued on Pago Two) MM BACKS CEILING PRICE LI Ceiling orr Processed Farm Products Gets Endorsement WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 I.P) Sonutor Republican Leader Mc Nury of Oregon today endorsed Secretory of Agriculture Wick ard's proposal of a "practical plan" for imposing price ceilings on livestock and removal of leg islative restrictions prohibiting ceilings on processed farm pro ducts . unless the farm price is above 110 per cent of parity, "I believe the formers want no more than parity they ore not selfish," Senator McNary told reporters. He reminded In terviewers that he had opposed the 110 per , cent provision In committee in favor of a parity celling. ' ( No Chance In the house Chairman Fulmer (D-S.C.) of the agriculture com mittee sold farmers have no chance "for a fair and square deal under the present adminis tration of price ;control." v. . 1 .cVftlclzIng OPA Director-Lflon Hcndorson and Secretary Wick ftrd.'the Carolinian told the rep resentatives that "every other group was being taken caro of at the expense of farmers." , Wlekord, reversing, his previ ous position, urged farmers in a radio address last night to forego a provision in tho price law pro hibiting ceilings of less than 1 10 per cent of parity. (Parity prices ore designed to gjve farm pre? ducts purchasing power equiva lent to that of a base period, usually 1009-14.) Fair 8har . In urging its repeal, Wlckard sold tho 110 per cent limitation was being used by mony other groups "to prove that farmers are asking for more than their fair share." Ho- asserted tho struggle against Inflation was en dangered because of "unwilling ness of each great economic (Continued on Pogc, Two) Bennett Nominated For N. Y. Governor NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (P) State Attorney General. John J. Bennett, Jr., was nominated unanimously for governor over United Siutcs Senator James M. Mead at New York's democratic state convention in Brooklyn to day, ' . Tho nomination was accom plished In tho face of a White House endorsement for Mead and credit for the victory wont largely to former democratic Notlonol Chairman James A. Farley, who managed Bennett's campaign. VESTOCK Nelson Starts Drastic House-Cleaning in WPB WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (P) Chairman Donald M. Nelson has . ordered a goncrnl house cleaning within tho war pro duction board to weed out of ficials and trim the organiza tion down to "fighting weight," 11 was learned today. High ranking officials who declined to bo quoted by name disclosed that Nelson, as a first move in his newly-enunciated "get .tough" policy, had direct ed an immediate personnel re view which Is expected to re sult in dismissal of at least ono branch chief and possibly a number of others. These sources said the axe would fall, in "moderately high places,", presumably among the branches charged with-dealing directly with Industry, No changes are expected In WPB's iA H n T - H i siothesIv m . n FDR NEW BLOWS KSkCL . & lmtt&l; i A 10,000 Raiders Esti- X M Kfj X M H ' r mated as Striking t fV & Jl, Sii NW---H Force Used ' ' S&iS . v ft' J ? Vl RlV V7 ',VJ By ROGER Di GREENE U,W1 . ,,wi.jZyJ Gtn. Sir Harold R. L. G. Al exander, above. Is the newest British Mlddl East comman der, who'll oppose Nail Field Marshal Erwln Rommel in the field of desert warfare on the Egyptian front. Alexander, called "the last man out of Dunkirk," replaces Gen. Sir Claude J. E. Auchlnleck. E 1-B's Made Eligible For Servicej 1 -A Pool Runs Low WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (P) Solcctlvo service registrants rat ed as having minor physical de fects officially became eligible for military service today with elimination of the 1-B classifica tion. ' Tho selective service system announced abolishment of the "limited service" class yesterday although the army, ncorlng ex haustion of the. pool .of 1-A reg istrants, recently colled for in duction of men in the l'-B group. Consequently, selective ser vice said, reclassification of men in' this group will begin Sept. 1 and will bo completed Jan. 1 They will be rated as 1-A, tho group free of any known physi cal defect, or placed In class 4-F comprising those totally .unfit for service. Limit Set During reclassification, how ever, sclcctlvo scrvico added, no more than one-fourth of the 1-B registrants In any local board will be placed In class 1-A In any single month. After their Induc tion, tho army will determine whether to assign them to full or limited duties. Local boards were cautioned that Whllo physical deficiencies constituted the only basis for the original 1-B classification, the " (Continued on Poge Two) top-ranking executives. "Wo aro going over the whole situation with a fine-toothed comb," one executive explained. "Nelson has said that anyone who Is not doing his Job must bo thrown out of the organiza tion, If they arc not good, they are going out." Nelson also was reported ready to take positive and prompt action to forestall any war production shut downs due to lock of materials. ' Tho production chief was ex pected to give his regional di rectors throughout tho country power to Issue "quickie" pri ority ratings to provide needed small quantities of materials or parts. . . t . , Thus holders of war contracts (Continued -on Page-Two) By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Secrets of Germany's afttl lnvosion coastal defenses were studied by the allied command today amid prediction that ti tanic new blows would fall soon upon .the Jittery nazis in the wake of yesterday's history-making attack on Dieppe, France, As first fruits of the raid, in formed London quarters declar ed probably one third of Adolf Hitler's fighter plane strength in western Europe had been de stroyed during the nine-hour as sault. ' . .. . ' ' 10,000 Haiders - Civilian estimates said about 10,000 allied raiders, striking in a huge wave along 12 miles of the Dieppe coastline, landed in 300 to 400 small boats and self propelled tank scows, pn tha Jo .titled benches. while 13, British yarsTjIps 'haricd shells into the naz defenses.; v! . ,The German high command, listing only 400 nazl casualties, asserted that the allies lost IS ships by shell-fire and bombing and 10 others were damaged. On the same grandiose scale, the nazl command declared 112 , (Continued on Page. Two) r . Baruch Probes Legal Side of Rubber Situation ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 OP) The three-man Investigation of the nation's rubber situation was reported today to have been inquiring into legal as pects covering, possible drastic steps to conserve tires. ; Bernard Baruch, chairman of the committee appointed by President Roosevelt two weeks ago, conferred recently with At torney General Biddle and the lattcr's top legal aide, Assistant Solicitor General Oscar Cox. Cox is not onlv an, outstanding expert on presidential wartime authority, but probably knows a good deal about United Na tions' rubber requirements through his work with the lend lease administration. Among tho basic questions which some observers believe wero discussed by the special committee and the justice de partment officials were: 1. How far the president could go using his war. powers as chief executive, and how far he might go using his authority as commander-in-chief. 2. The possible need for new legislation, or executive orders. These questions were be lieved to have arisen in connec tion with theoretical proposals such as national speed limits for all rubber-tired vehicles, requi sitioning of automobiles or of tires, limitations on use of auto mobiles, and . redistribution of available rubber-tired equip ment so as most efficiently to serve war needs. Troop Entertainment Will Sponsor Dance Tonight There will be a' dance to night sponsored by the Troop Entertainment committee and, the Commandos in the USO headquarters at 817 Main street beginning at 9 o'clock. The committee urged young women of -Klamath Fails to turn out and assls in the entertainment - In ''All-American" To 21-yaar-old Sgt. Kent L. West,, second from right,'. of West Brockton, Ala "belly gunner" in a "Flying Fortress," went the honor of shooting down the first nail plane scored for Ameri can forces, in Europe. He was riding, his. "Birmingham Blitzkrieg" when a German . Fock Wuli 190 swooped down on the Fortress. Ken's biasing ..SO caliber guns ' quickly ended i. the , nasi's flight. With West in this photo cabled' from England are his mates after their safe' return to British soil after. their raid on Nazis "Wiped Out" in New Drive Against ' , ''Stalingrad ; , By The-AnociaUd Press' ; Red. army headquarters an nounced today that Marshal Se meon ' Timoshenko's defenders had'"completely wiped out" Ger man troops who crossed the Don river in a drive against the big steel city of Stalingrad, 1 while other soviet forces pressed at tacks along a 400-mile front in the north'. ; ' Dispatches to Red Star, the Russian army. newspaper, said the Germans were suffering great losses as soviet troops launched a series of attacks ex tending from Bryansk, 200 miles southeast of Moscow, to Lake Ilmen. ' , More than 2000 naz'is were re ported killed in action yesterday. - . Reds Strike German field headquarters conceded that the red armies were lashing out in violent as sault"! around Vyazma, 130 miles due west 'of Moscow, and near Rzhev, 130 miles northeast of the soviet capital, but declared that the Germans were-resisting bit terly. - The nazi command also cited Russian attacks on the northern front, apparently referring to the Lake Ilmen sector 150 miles south of Leningrad. In broad terms, the German communique asserted that the Russian defense system between the Volga and Don rivers south of Stalingrad had been "taken by storm." , In the Caucasus, the Russians acknowledged they had been forced to abandon the important (Continued on Page Two) New Plastic Will Replace Rubber But Not in Tires . WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 20 CP) The Hercules Powder com pany announced today that It was producing a new plastic which could, replace rubber In hundreds of everyday articles. Base for the new plastic is ethyl celluloise, manufactured from cotton lintcrs or- wood pulp, common salt and alcohol from natural gas or from fer mented farm products.' ;L, N. Bent, vice president, said the new plastics were not now suitable for tires or inner tubes because they were in ferior to natural rubber In bounce or resiliency. 'Among articles which the pew soft material could be used as a rubber substitute were hospital sheeting, garden hose, rubber gloves, washers, foot wear, raincoats, golf balls and baby pants. Resistant to war gases,' it could be used for gas masks, 'the announcement said. Raid on France; One , Rouen, France. " ." Germans Held ; i As Hostages in I Rio de Janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO, 'Aug. 20 (fP) All Germans except 'diplomats who. had embarked .on. the. ex change ships Bage and Cuyaba were ordered, held. as. hostages today by President Getuho .Varr gas shortly after the sinking of the '"alxttv BrazUianVehlp- m re1 cent days was .announced., ' The ships already' werer filled with German nationals-ready to sail for -Lisbon in exchange for Brazilian nationals. The voyages had"beenpostponed earlier" in the' week when a "crisis arose over the sinking of five Brazil Ian ships by, ' axis submarines, claiming the lives "of perhaps 600 persons' i n c 1 u d in g Brazilian troops. The sixth U-boat Victim,' an nounced, today, . was' the coastal steamer Jacy.' '. .' It was sent to the bottom a few miles off the northeast coast aft er all aboard were ordered off In lifeboats. . . ! One high official of the gov e r n m e n t navigation :line de clared today that the sinkings, which brought Brazil Into unde clared conflict with the a x i s, were the result of "brazen oper ation of nazl spies who informed on planned troop movements." ' j '. . Game Commission Bans -Elk Season In Coos, Douglas ' - PORTLAND, Aug. 20 () The state game commission sus pended the Coos-Douglas elk season at a .special meeting to day. The season was to. have been from August 23 to 31. The action was taken to les sen fire danger and was in re sponse, to a request by LL Gen. John L.. DeWitt of .the western defense command who asHed the hunting be postponed ."un til weather conditions removed danger of fire." ' .; The order does not affect the elk season in eastern .Oregon and in Clatsop county. , ' Hand-to-H and Combats Fought in Flaming Dieppe VICHY, Aug. 20 (P) Stories of hand-to-hand combats in the streets of floming Dieppe un der a rain of shells from British artillery were told today In ex cited .telephonic information which got through to Vichy from-the scene of yesterday's battle. , Rough civilian estimates plac ed the number of allied raiders at about 10,000, mostly Canad ians, landed in 300 to 400 small boats and tank scows on the for tified beaches while 13 British warships hurled shells Into the German coastal defenses. French nurses and firemen dealt with casualties and dam age while the battle raged, said the reports reaching here. The landing boats came in a huge wave along some 124 miles of the coast. Beaching parties of Bagged First Nazi , NEA cable-telephoto ( PETERSON -JOHNSON Forest Fire Under Con trol; 'Lumber -in Yard Saved r- ' Loss at the Peterson-Johnson lumber company mill,- destroyed by fire yesterday, was estimated today at 870,000.. 'A forest-fire, -touched ; off by the mill blaze, was under, con trot Thursday afternoon, with a large crew on the line; It had burned over about 300 acres of cut-over land in .the vicinity -of the mill. C- L ----- -J- tLumbor-lri the Peterson-Johnson- yard was saved. - - - - Mysterious Origin .:. . The fire, of mysterious origin. started under the greenchain. It spread so quickly that mill em ployes had difficulty escaping from the burning building. It is understood an Investiga tion will be made of the origin of the fire. . ; The flames did not spread to the store or other major build ings at the Peterson-Johnson plant, 70 miles east of here on the Klamath Falls-Lakeview highway. One small shack was burned. KFPA Fighters The Klamath Forest Protective association took charge oS fight (Continued on Page Two) : Five Yank Pilots - -Lost at Dieppe : ... LONDON, Aug. 20 (P) Eight Spitfires flown by United States pilots were lost in the Dieppe air actions, but the . pilots of three are safe, United States army headquarters announced tonight. It listed three probable victor ies over . German Focke-Wulf 190's by American fighters dur ing 10 squadron sweeps. 1 : Canadians, American Rangers, De Gaulle French and British fought through barbed wire en tanglements and exploded land mines on shore and drove the Germans back Into the low part of. Dieppe some distance away, the reports continued. ' The raiders forced an entry Into the city and occupied part of the lower quarter while the tanks, held back by anti-tank barriers which there was not time to destroy, aided by pour ing cannon fire into the German ranks. : . ' . - ' ' The city's population was re-1 ported calm and orderly wmie the raiders and the Germans fought in the streets. First offhand estimates said about 30 civilians were killed at Dieppe, while French reports (Continued on Page Two) NAVY REPORTS DIP IAD quip uio urn uiiif. SET ON FiRE Loss; of 10,000 -Ton . Australian Cruis er Revealed WASHINGTON. Aug. 20 (flV The navy reported ' today .that .United States-marines were en gaged' m "mopping up ' rem nants of Japanese forces on inl ands . recently captured , in 'the Solomon archipelago la the South Pacific. -, . ', " At the same time, the navy re ported that an enemy destroyer or cruiser had been bombed and set afire by aerial forces, Opposition by the.enemv: re. ported in the first communique on the Solomons In three days consisted of "casual bombard ments" of marine shore positions by. Japanese planes, destroyers and submarines. Only mtnot-., damage was inflicted, tho' Tlavy said.- '::' ., '." , . GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 20 Iffy Allied bombers sirucK a new diow in support ot United States marines fighting to dislodge the Japanese from the Solomon islands by blasting at enemy warships almost 400 miles north of the battle area yesterday, General MacArJhur's, headquarters announced today. he communique 'disclosing ther .attack' also" announced' the loss of the 10,000-ton Australian cruiser Canberra in the- first', stages, of the Solomon islands battle" while serving with the United States naval forces under the command of Vice Admiral ; Robert Lee Ghormley. : . 84 Dead , -. -'. Australian authorities ; listed which carried 816 men- as 84 casualties aboard the Canberra-" dead and 109 wounded. Among the fatalities were the command- er, Capt. Frank Getting of Syd- ney, and Ensign J. W. Vance ofj the United States navy. : The announcement concerning the aerial assault on Japanese' naval units yesterday said mere-; ly that allied heavy bombersv had attacked enemy- warships; near Faisi a smallf island near?' Bougainville at the northern tip" of the Solomons with unknown results, and that all the raiders had returned safely despite heavy anti-aircraft fire. ; r ? The announcement was of par-: ticular interest here, however, . . for it constituted the first off!-; dal mention of operations, against Japanese naval units . in : the Solomon island area since, the battle In which the Canberra', was lost almost two weeks ago. : Canton Appointed County Engineer r On Temporary Basis William Canton, local civil en gineer, was appointed county engineer on a temporary basis, it was announced Thursday by County Judge U. E.'Reeder. Canton will work on a part time basis.. He will receive $100 a month, plus . additional . pay when he is called on for engi neering work in the field for the county. The county engineer's post has been vacant since Frank Z. How ard,, county surveyor, resigned as engineer a few weeks ago. Willkie to Visit Near East, Russia WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (ff) Wendell L. Willkio announced today that: he would leave In about three weeks for the near east and Russia on a trip to "per- form certain services for - the government" News Index City Briefs C...... .. Page 8 Comics and Story Page 10 Courthouse Records 1 ....Page 8 Editorial Pago 4 Information .....Pago 8 Market, Financial -..Page 9 Pattern Page 7 Radio Day by Day Page 8 Sports . -..Page 8
