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llfllllilllft'l'fllllfi!!!! mm "Auguit 20 High 95, Low 91 ' ' Precipitation at ol Auguit 14, 1942 Lait yar 14.29 Normal : :..,.-,1:ii..!J.21 fltraam vlflr A rinta I ft 19' On 8-rnlnut blast on lrn and whistles li til ilgnal lor a blackout In Klamath Falls. Anothr long bint, during black? out, li a ilgnal for all-claar. In procau- tlonary parloda, watch your atraat llghti, - - - - - .T - ri i'ii . i. .1 ' miii 4 THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES ilbiKIAIS'U ' ivuMirlATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 21, 1942 Number 9572 M B UU 0) UU n LrviU Viy ' m mu i I PRIC til M 3 Zrd 1 V V u w Willi llllllllfflllllli1 1 Days ! !!! i illi! III':! I i' li lliili! fill illliilSi" Jews ' PI :i III 'II' foa jmb By FRANK JENKINS BACK to llio normul grind of " wur ntiwii nftcr the, thrilling SpliiuuG lit Dirppw. V.'S OuinUl- trt don't know why Uio great show, with ll unuccualomed accompaniment of almost fever ish publlcjly, wan staged, but .wo still Imvo tho fllng that for a few hour on Wednesday wo were spectators at a pro view of event to como. rRITISH obacrvers assert to dny that allied command of tho 'lr,' not only over Britain and tho chnnncl but fur Inland over enemy-held territory, la now complete and beyond chal lenge. Every military authority of any importance hoi been telling u for months that beforo the allies (we and tho British) can hope to Invade Europe we must have complete command of the air; first over BrIUIn Itself, then over the coasts on which a land ing must be mad and after that far enough Inland to head off -German reinforcement hasten " Ing to tho defense of the at tacked coasts. . That Is why these estimates of command of the air are import- . ; , ;. sJ; YOU noted, of course, that while Dieppe was under com , rriarido attack;- American Flying Fortresses were attacking ' the important German lighter plane base at Abbeville, a few miles to the north. Today 'Flying Fortresses - attacked railway yards at Amlons. Take a look at your map here. You will find Amiens obout 80 miles Inland from Diep pe nd Abbeville It ii an Im portant junction point of rail roads leading from the intorlor to the channel coast, 1 It. Is obvious that when (and .0 the channel coast Is attacked '.i EARNEST these railroads will be Jammed with Gorman reinforcements rushing up to " tho threatened point, T ET'S do a little guossing here. When (and if) an Invasion of western Europe is launched, railroads and highways will bo unbelievobly necessary to tho Germans. This much Is practically cer tain: BEFORE such an Invasion is launched, our side will under take to destroy or at least ser iously damage the communica tion lines by which German ro inforcements must be brought In. Watch all these attacks on railroad centers. They will be significant. u- . T AVAL, Hitler's French stooge, " says the Dieppe raid was fc renlly a full-scnle Invasion at f tempt that FAILED In spite of the fact that it hod ten months of careful preparation behind It, That Is tho German story and so, of course, it Is also La val's story, ' PROM Informed quarters In Now Zealand today we gat a little light on tho Solomons situation. The Japs, theso quarters say, (Continued on Page Two) Meutians Seen as Focal Point of Pacific Battle WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (P) A prediction that the crucial battle of the Pacific would be fought In the Aleutians Islands area was voiced by Delegate Dlmond of Alaska In an address beforo the Junior board of com mcrca here yesterday, "If tho old strategic principle that ; one follows tho shortest lino to advance against the enemy is valid," Dimond said, "the crucial bnttln of the Pa cific will be fought In the north Pacific." United States forces will have to fight In the fogs of the north land If this country Is to win the war, he said. 475 STOPWDRK JIT TANK PLANT IN DETROIT Government Works to Avert Strike Vote !.n Aluminum . BULLETIN LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (P) Union spokesmen said lat to day that 3000 man had walked off th job at th Vernon plant of th Aluminum Company of America, but addad thay ' would b Instructed at a mass masting tonight to return to work tomorrow. 'By Th Associated Praia Government officials worked today to try to avert a strike vote by the CIO Aluminum Workers of America In seven plants of the Aluminum. Com pany of America as 300 workers In an eighth, plant, at Vemoq, Calif., remained. Idle protesting wnat they snio. was a company lockout of 30 skilled winters.-' i In Detroit Chryslercorpow. tlon Spokesman, Vice President H. L. Weckler, said that 475 AFL construction workers stopped work at th Detroit tank arsenal this morning, on orders of Ed Thai, secretary .of the Detroit Building-Trades council.:. Weckler said Thai .threatened to call off the Job all AFL men on the lob unless eub-contrac- tor handling Installation of paint booths and ovens fired CIO em ployesvend ;h!rd 40 AFfl men. Weckler described the- stoppage as "sabotoge against the government.",- -J Cours BtudUd A conference of 20 local union representatives at - Pittsburgh continued a study of the cours to be followed In protesting the war labor board's rejection, of a demand for a general $la-day wage Increase for 32,000 work (Continued, on Page Two) , -. 1 . '. i . ' U. S. Plane Gets Third Undersea Raider Off Brazil By The Aaaoclated Press : Enemy submarines In South American waters hove picked off two more merchant victims but reports from Rio de Janeiro to day said a U. S. plane had sunk another undersea raider the third destroyed In recent-days In that area. . That tho pack Of axis submer- slblcs Is meeting stiff resistance off the Brazilian coast was Indi cated by dispatches from Forta leza crediting an American plane with destroying a sub. United States fliers also were reported to have sunk one other submar ine of the throe. The latest officially disclosed ship sinkings those of a Brazil ian coastal steamer and a British cargo carrier put at 438 the As sociated Press tabulation of an nounced allied and neutral war time merchant losses In the west ern Atlnntlo area. Vichy Says 3500 Raiders Die in Commando Drive . VICHY, Aug. 21 OP) Fern and de Brlnon,. Vichy represen tative In Paris, told a French cabinet meeting today that the allies lost 3,500 men killed and 1,800 captured at Dieppe Wed nesday, The majority were Canadians, with a few DeGaulle French, De Brlnon said. He came here to give the German report on the coastal raid. The German high command gave no figures on allied casual ties but said 2,095 prisoners were taken. (There was no con firmation from any allied source of either claim.) German dispatches Insisted the allied landing failed from tho beginning and that German troops never had to enter into action because of the defense put up by German coastal guards alone. Other sources, . however, indi cated that Important .destruc Drama of Real :'':- ''- :; V; ::4-6s 5':'::-iAa ' RMonitriicUd from -Hunting front dlapatcbas, this drawing shows In panorama what hap pnd wbB United .'.Ns'tiont Commandos -unUashcd their aarag drWe in th Dieppe .area. on' th eo'it of occuplad Frsrtea.'. Aintd menaos pus aanor zrom . inTsaion cron -wixn aruuvry, ivnM ana In paretroop unit tumble earthward to cut communications and . 1 : , -tt ... ' SAVINGS STAMPS Exchange 6f i Stamps ; For Government ' '.Bonds. Seen : ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 VP) A- proposal to Increase feder ai, revenue by requiring the. pur; chase of special savings stamp with each purchase of goods was considered by a senate flrtonce subcommittee today. : ; :.-! " Chairman Clark; (DrMo.) de scribed it as "enforced .savings using the machinery of the sales tax.".' ' ; " r ;: '' -: . The plan, put forward by. Sen ator' Danaher (R-Conn'.), i a , meftiv ber of tho subcommitteej: was d Iscusscd by i Meyer Jacobsteln and !Charles O. .Hordy of' the Brookings Institution.') , . . ' Prcntag .'.-' ' In' addition 'to the purchase price of- an article; -consumers would have to buy a stipulated percentage of the special stamps; which ' they would paste jrt books, eventually turning In the books for ' government -'bonds which would be. non-negotiable until after tho war. , Under a variation" of the pro (Continued on Page Two SHIPS HIT LONDON, Aug. 21 (AP) British bombers attacked a German convoy off the Dutch coast last night, scoring hits on three ships, tho air ministry an nounced today. . All the British planes returned safely, the com munique said; tions of coalal defenses Vere carried out, that the Germans suffered severe losses, and that the raid demonstrated a bridge head could be established with a single division and held for at least nine hours. DeBrlnon told French newspapermen the allies had "three or four divi sions" aboard ships in addition to the one which landed. On tho second day after the raid, Vichy still was pouring out accounts and explanations and holding press conferences on the subject, which continued to oc cupy the main place ill all French . newspapers. Tho conferences were to sup port the official' position, taken since yesterday afternoon,' that the landing really was an effor to start a second front which failed after "ten months of care ful preparation." There was a seeming contra (Continued pi Page Two) . Invasion in Allies' Thrust at Dieppe ,a ','.-' . , th daath and thundr of bunting Wild Scenes Crowd in on Witn e s s to Commando's Blczing Attack on Dieppe " t-,j ,i , Br ROSS MUNRO ,-' . -Canadian. Praia War Correspondent ' WITH THE CANADIAN FROM DIEPPE; Aug: 19 (DelayedWFor. eight .raging hours un der-'intense . .Qaal fire, from dawn watciett- Canadian .troops fight Dieppe;-'. 'i . '.'-.; u " I saw them go through this atlons in 'Wild-scenes that crowded helter-skelter one upon an other In crazy sequence. ;. There was the furious attack Canadians moved in on Dieppe s beaches,' landing by the dawn s half-light,. As the Canadian bat talions stormed -through--the flashing inferno of nazl de fenses, there was the belching of ' fire from 'huge tanks that rolled Into the- fight. I spent the grimmest 20 minutes- of my life with one unit when a Tain of German machine-gun fire; wounded half the men-in our 'boat. Only a miracle saved lis from annihi lation.' ; ' ,.'. ' A f ev hours later ' there was the spine-chilling .experience' of a dive-bombing attack by seven Stukas, the dread nazl aircraft that spotted our. landing, craft waiting offshore to reembarl the. fighting men. ' ? " Our boat was thrown about like . a cork by ; their seven screech'lng bombs that plunged (Continued on Page Two) Russell Bros.' Circus Rolls in To Klamath Falls ' . ' ' i ' Carrying all the traditional thrills of circus day, the Russell Bros. 3-Ring circus rolled Into Klamath Falls this afternoon and with no delays started the erec tion of an entertainment city of gleaming white canvas on South Sixth street for one performance tonight and two tomorrow at 2 and Bp, m. - . The scores of men, women and children who assembled on tho grounds this afternoon witnessed a free show which to many is as Interesting as the actual circus performance. One by one the big vans pulled onto the lot and dis charged their cargoes. - Ponderous elephants lumbered from their wagons, shaggy haired camels and South Ameri can llamas alighted and stretched after their 150-mlle move from Bend, While sleek horses and pert Shetland ponies pranced in the sunshine awaiting the erec tion of the menagerie tent. , , . Tents Spring Up Laborers set to work hoisting poles, spreading canvas, driving stakes, and performing a multi tude of other duties Incidental to erecting the various tents the sideshow of freaks and human (Continued on Page Two) ' , '. '" NEA teleohoto bombs and blg ahalU, Xorn aruu wnue-.iaur .maras harass the enemy's rar. : RAIDING FORCE RETURNING until a sweltering afternooppl the blazing bloody battle dl : i 11 :-.' : biggest, of the war's raiding ober- . ; .. ; .1 .k : . by. German. E-boats while the T Million Feet. Will Be ' Used for Bridge, ' Other Work Klamath county court on Fri day entered into a deal whereby the' court will obtain about .1,- 000,000, feet of lumber for county bridge- and other courity uses, logged from county-owned tim- berland in the Bear flat district The court contracted with J. C. Fraley to cut the timber, saw it and deliver it at Worden' for $18 .per. thousand board ,feet, Court members said the county will. save, about $27' per thous and In a comparison with prices the county would have to pay on. the open market. .. . According to Judge U. E. Reed- er and Commissioner John Re-. ber, the county has had difficulty getting lumber. for bridge work. In the case of a canal bridge at the Burke' place in Henley dis trict, three orders' of lumber were taken by the government and moved to the Medford can tonment. 1 Flying Fortresses Destroy Six New Nazi Fighter Planes. LONDON, Aug. 21 (P) Six of Germany's new Focke-Wulfe 190 fighters were destroyed or dam aged over the North sea today by a flight of eleven U. S. army fly ing fortresses, U, S. army head quarters In Britain announced 4 The 20-mlnuto battle in which one fortress was damaged heav ily, started when 20 to 25 of the speedy German fighters swarmed to attack the American planes,-a communique said. The damaged fortress returned to Its base. An enemy shell killed the co-pilot and injured the pilot, Two of the plane's engines were destroyed. . rn naziSi - AXIS TROOPS III 1 1 n n nniiiK Ml VMUHIVt British Claim Mastery Of Air Following Dieppe Raid By Th Aasoclattd Pra ' Bayonet - charging Russian troops -were reported today to have slaughtered all but a few Germans who stormed across the Don river before Stalingrad for the second time in 12 hours, and Soviet dispatches declared the invaders had suffered an other setback in bloody fighting south of the. great Volga steel Oty. .- ;' .. ; - v .- .lri.tha .western Caucasus.' Sc- yletdispatthes said hundredsbf riazi parachute troop's descend ed on the Steppes at th ap proaches to Novorossisk, Black Sea naval base, Only to be cut down by Kuban' Cossacks, 'War ships of the Soviet Black Sea fleet left the Novorossisk base mnrp than woolr a an - - I DiSDatches said several hun dred sky : troofts i wfer innlliP lated In a tworhouE .battle west of, , Krasnador.. . German .tanks and large infantry, forces also were- reported attempting to break, through., thfti northwest j tj4ucasus foothills to 'the 'Black sea coast: ' '. . :-t c ,' ; -. ; s- In the' Caucasus,' the Russians conceded new reverses "ar hard fighting Soviet troops executed a- further retreat south of 1 Kras nodar, 'only. '60 miles from the Black sea naval base of. Novo rossisk -which -appeared In Im minent danger of being cut off. But the Russians .declared they had taken a toll of more than; 2,500 nazis, 'destroyed 14 tanks, seven armored cars,' 103 trucKs ana .many guns - in - a three-day -battle-, below Krasno dar. ; ;'. V .,-..'.'-' -: '.' '', i Half way down' the Caucasus, (Continued: on 'Page. Two) ; Basebali AMERICAN LEAGUE , ' Washington,..',...........,... 7 12; 1 New. York 17. 21, . 0 . .Wyrin, Trotter. (2), Scarbor ough (7), and Evans; Russo,- Lin den (8), and : Dickey, Hemsley (7). : - , : 5 , ., , .. . . - . . r. e. St. Louis -.8 - : 0 Detroit : :. 4 8 . 0 Auker, Holllngsworth (5), and Hayes, Ferrell (8); White and Parsons. 1 ..." -. -' ' . . Four "Rangers",. Had Fun During Commando Raid . LONpqrj, Aug. 21 (P) Four American rangers who . fought on the ,beach with the . fourth British: Commandos said today before the bloody day was over "We found we were having fun," ' v They are Corporal ' William Brady, of Grand Forks, N. D., Staff Sergeant Kenneth Stemp son, of Russell, Minn., Corporal Franklin M, Koons of Sway City, la., and Sergeant Alex J. Szima of Dayton, O. , They said they believed they were the' first United States troops to fight on French soil in this war. ! News Index ' ! City Briefs ...........:... Page 8 Church News ......Page 12 Comics and Story i...;...-..Page 14 Courthouse Records ..i.v.Page - 7 Editorial i............Page 4 Information .........Page.' 5 Farm News Page 13 Market, Financial Page -10 Our Men in Service ;..."..Page 3 Pattern .'. ...Page 9 Radio Day by pay ....:...Page 6 Sports;- ..................Fage U SLAUGHTERED rvn fly Hear. - iiiEQZ 27 Killed in Yugoslavian Train Wrecking LONDON, Aug.' 21 (P)': A fresh wave of sabotage by Yugo- v pstr,ct WS5 -CimiaXeu Sat urday by wrecking the, Zagreb- Belgrade express train,. with 21 persons killed and 32 . injured, Yugoslav sources reported today, The German field command ant at Nis, named von BotHmer, offered rewards for arrests of persons who - recently cut ' the Belgrade-Salonika.- railroad at three points, -they said. The report added that Serbian villages near the scene had been severely punished" and two Bulgarian regiments were com ing to the area north of Nis In search of Chetnik forces. Yugoslav sources in the middle east said Croat guerrillas also had blocked 'rail traffic between Zagreb and the Italian border for two weeks. ' .'. A Reuters, dispatch, from Zu rich quoted a Swiss correspon dent in Berlin as saying 10 men had been, shot -in, the eastern '.', (Continued .on- Page -Two) '. ,. SLATED FOR 3-A'5 Single;: Men -Suppfy ; Is v'Rurihirig .Ouf Her'-; JsKeyVWo rns (T-? I t -'i-iit ' '..-.. ... - '- -'.v-- ' " -EVANSTON.'m., Aug; 21- VP) -f-MaJ.-Gen Lewis 'B. Hershey, national - selective -service -diree- tbrj ;said-today that -"reclassifi- cation- of all married -'rhen" would ; "probably begin -in - October,- and certainly -by Christ--mas." - . t y. : : '-. -.i ' ''We : will'- run otit" 'of 'slnele men In a few, months,' and then We" must "turn " to 'the' married men,"- thedirector" stated in an interview, adding: - - " ' " '. '"Men with' secondary depend ents' or a wife only will be taken, first. Jtf .I. .were a : man'.- with a .wife only, I would make ar rangements to ' entert thearmy. now." '. ', , : , ','We will, have ,ta. change our conception of what is considered support. , The wife, would ,cer tainly, pot Jive ;in luxury." ' Earlier, General Hershey said selective ' service- needs men"at a rate -.which--would have been considered super-human a year ago, -and that "the number of able-bodied " men .- Jh industry must .be drastically- reduced in the very near future." " "Industry must 'replace so called vital men otherwise eligi ble .for. the- draft -with women and older men," he. told the na tional institute, for commercial and : trade organization execu tives on .Northwestern, univer sity campus... - i -. -' Will kie Will Tell Allies Truth of U. S. War Effort WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (AP) President .Roosevelt said today that Wendell L. Willkie,- who opposed him for the. presidency on the republican ticket in 1940, was going to the Near East and Russia , to tell those countries the truth ,about the American war effort and the unity behind it. - - -- ? The president -told a press conference that In- addition to Russia, Wlllkle's itinerary would Include Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Turkey," Iraq, and Iran. ' , . - .- ' 1 i In each country, the president said, in. replying to a question as to Wlllkle's specific mission, his ' principal' task' will be to tell .them . the ..truth,.; reporting as the leader, of the minority party in: this country.' - As. this leader, he said, Wlllkle's words would carry very great weight. The president- and , 'Wlllkle conferred- about , the trip at length ' yesterday, and Mr. ALLIED AIRMEN SEARCH Tokyo Repo rts U . S. Attack on. Makin ir Gilbert Islands By ROGER D. GnEENE Associated Press War Editor !The Japanese enemy report - ed today a landing attack by United States forces on Makin i s 1 a n d in- the Gilberts, 2400 miles from Hawaii, and - the wording of the communique aroused speculation that the ac tion bad been a task, force raid in strength. Imperial Japanese headquar ters said the landing was made by about 200 troops four days ago - and- that they -were "com pletely repelled by the Japa nese garrison. This, however, was the usual Japanese, formu la for beating the opponent to announcement, of a Japanese re verse!. ;-?5-;-2:Mvj',." ...Eit-a.,; ' MeShvvTuTe" a" iff fTish radio re port said . American ' . Flying Fortresses ' had . made : a : large- scale attack on Japanese warships- off- the Solomon . islands. . However, this report had re ceived -.no -elaboratibH after. sev eral hours end it appeared like-' ly. it. was .merely a Testatement of : General iMacArthur's com munique, of. Thursday, announc ing - such '.an : attack . on enemy naval units off "Faisi,; at - the northern: tip .of .the: Solomons. - On Equator . . .r Seized- by the 'Japanese at the- outset 1 of- the- war," the former-British-'- dwned '-Gilbert islands lie on the equator,."jiist below-powerful enemy bases In the Marshall islands and -HUB miles nortlieas't of the Solomon islands.- ' -- - ' Such a raid presumably would be little more than a Common ' '(Continued on Page Two) ',' Fierce Battle . Reported Raging Off Portugal rLISBON, , Aug. " 21 (AP) A report -from Algarve Province tonight said a fierce naval arid air battle was raging off Cape Saint Vincent, the southwest tip of Portugal. , : The dispatch did not say who was. fighting, and gave no par-, ticulars of the reported engage ment. . : Cape St. Vincent is famous in naval history as the scene of many encounters, notably , a British victory over the Spanish February 14, 1797. Roosevelt said one thing had been emphasized. He named this as , the iact that a great many people over the world get from American news dispatches the Idea that our production is being hurt to a very large extent by strikes. ' There will be a threatened strike in one small plant that will last 24 hours or a 24-hour shutdown by. management In another small plant and these incidents are so handled by news agencies, Mr. Roosevelt said, as to make other countries think they are the rule Instead of the exception. He said Brit ish leaders had gained the same Impression but that he had told them the total production af fected was Infinitesimal and they were much surprised. -, ' (On Wednesday, the Associ ated Press reported the war labor board as saying that man days lost by strikes in war pro (Continued on Pige Two)
