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V I fl ililillllBKil 111 1 1 j l i 1 1 1 u J 1 1 1 ill l it 1 1 1 r : 1 1 1; i i j i ; mm I rm.vin By FRANK JENKINS TTIIE battle of tho Cnm-nsui nml the Volga is racing to a climax, with tho fate nf Hlnlln. grnd hanging In tho bnlunco, liut TODAY our eyes nnd our hearts turn from tho Cmicuaus end tho Volga to tho Solomons, where 0 jj rent sca-iilr buttlo Is Vu'lng fought. In this buttlo of tho Solomons, OUR BOYS are fighting and dying. THIS newest notion In tho South Sens Is revealed to us today in tho inatter-of-Inct, Ice-ln-tho-vclns Innuuniio of a nnvy communique which effec tively removes all drnmn, nil color nnd practically ull con tinuity. So let's tea If wo can recon struct it so ns to provldo a moro or loss connected nnrrntlve. nrHE Jnps, out-fought In tho prollmlnnry bnttlo of tho Solomons, retired to tholr Islnnd havens to lick their wounds and GATHER STRENGTH for a lrountpr-altuck designed to RE COVER their lost bnses. Tho preliminary bnttlo of tho Solomons begun on Friday, Au Ktist 7, nnd tho Jap counter attack described In today's com munique wns first Intercepted by us on Sunday, August 33 (dny before yesterdny.) It took them, you sea,' about two weeks to (ct going again ntlcr tholr licking In the first round. ISJATURALLY, wo" had ex- pectcd a countcr-nllnck which came along ns nntlclpntcd, Apparently wo hnd good rocon- nnlssnnce nnd tho Jap 'nnvnl force was detoctcd somowhero to tho northeast of tho Solomons. Our Innd-bnscd army bomb ers promptly took oft from Am trollo and at tho sumo time our carriers, protected by other war ships, raced out to meet tho at )tnck. They found the Japs some timo Sunday afternoon and the nrmy Flying Fortresses smacked a big Jnp carrier with four direct bomb hits whllo our cor ricr planes tackled nnd damaged a smaller Jnp carrier. . Severnl Jnp cruisers nnd a Jnp bnttlcshlp wcro nlso hit nnd ditmngcd by our carrier planes. MOTE that It wns tho Jnp L CARRIERS that wcro first sought out and bombed by our attacking plnncs. They carry tho hornets of the sea that do tho bulk of tho stinging in mod em navnl warfare, nnd they linvd to bo tnkon enro of FIRST. Tho battleship nnd tho crul dors wcro morcly SECONDARY nicnt, lUEANWHILE tho Jnps hnd sent off tholr own planes from tholr carriers to ruco ahead for an nttnek on our Insinuations ,tn pnnhtntH rZiinrinlnnnnl k nnri. Theso Jnp planes wore IN TERCEPTED by our fighter plnncs nnd 21 of thorn shot down with whnt tho nnvy describes ns minor loss to ourselves. ' This happened on Sunday afternoon. On Sundny night, Jnp destroyers rnccd In In tho darkness nnd shelled our Ma- rlno-occupled shora positions on Guadalcanal island. Whut happened to theso Jnp destroy (Continued on Pago Two) Earthquake Kills 11, Damages Village in Peru LIMA, Tern, Aug. 23 (F) A dories of earth tromors killed at lenst 11 persons In southern Peru Inst night, cnuscd great damage In the town of Nazcn nnd sent thousands of Limn residents pouring into tho streets, foarful of n repetition of tho disastrous 1040 earthquake, Incomplete ad Vices from tho stricken area said today. . , . Pollco nt Nozcn, n town of 10, 000 persons, sold that at least ono-third of tho buildings there, Including tho. police station nnd tho principal church, collapsed. V I ZA if II fcLT OL AUTO KILLS SAILOR Kir in inriinv HtMl AbtMil Charles McKinney, 30, On Way to Father's Funeral, Dies An automobile thot begnn roll ing when tho driver went to sleep crushed out the life of Chnrles Wllllnm McKinney, 30. a sailor on his way to the funeral of his father, on The Dalles-Cali fornia highway near Klamath Agency today. Driver of the enr wns Daniel Edward Dorcey, a sporlswrlter of tho San Francisco News, who had picked up McKinney and two other sailors -on a trip to Klnmath Falls for. a vacation. When tho pnrty reached Klum ath Falls, after an nll-nlght drive, Dorcoy agreed to go on to The Dulles in order to tnko McKin ney to his homo for his father's funeral. , Fell Asltop . , Just north pf the Williamson fiver bridge, at 6 i, m,,, Dorcoy ftl!- asleep. The coi- Mfuck.Hhe shoulder, of tho highway. The driver awoke, but s he sought to pull tho car back into the road It began rolling, according to SiMs Policeman t-Jirry Berg mann, who Investigated. McKinney fell out Dorcey and tho other sailors, Gus Godchnux, New Orlcnns, nnd Russell Brad ford, West Union, Ohio, re mained In the car nnd were Only bruised nnd scratched, Jumped Pit Tho sedan automobile Jumped a burrow pit and came to rest up side down, a total wreck. Mrs. James Young, 2118 Want- land avenue, nnd Mrs. Geary Henry, Algomn, came along in a cor. They took McKinney to Klnmnth Agency hospltnl, where lie died nt 9:42 a. m. The body wns Inter brought to Word s. Hltch-Hlking McKinney wns stationed at the U. S. navy nlr station, San Diego, Hn had received word of his fath er's death, nnd wns hitch-hiking to The Dalles when he wns (Continued on Pngo Two) Fog Helps Japs Stay in Aleuts, Homan Asserts PORTLAND, Aug. 25 (AP) Tho Japs hnvo "bettor maps and sounding than wo hovn" of tho Aleutian islands, Sen; Rufus Holmnn (R-Oro.), tloclnr cd in nn -Interview today on his roturn from Alaska and "It's tho fog that is allowing them to remain there." Ho pnrrlcd nil questions of a military nature Including the number of Japanese thoro. "1 don't think they've been count ed," ho sold. "1 didn't see nny Jnps. ' Forty now grnves, , ho snld, wore tho most impressive sight nt Dutch Harbor. "I don't see how ony.Amcr. Icnn can participate In a strike In a war Industry or mnnlpulnto . (Continued cn Pngo TWO) Cigarette Set-Up Burns Up the Yanks On Egyptian Front AT . A UNITED STATES ARMY CAMP IN THE EGYPT IAN DESERT, Aug. 25 (AP) Sand flics, desert sores, tho high prlco of beer these are only routine complaints ot tno unit nri Ktntna irnnns hero. '' Whut . hns ' thorn burned up moro than tho desert sun Is the clanrotto situation, Their reason: They have to dhv 22 cents a pack for cia nrotlcs marked "compliments of 'Smokes for Yanks.'" n n ft,U II U VI .-ill II West Atlantic Sinkings Reach Total of 440 By The Associated Press The sinking of a United States tnnkcr cn rnuto to Rio do Ja neiro with oil, HiiiiOUuccd by the Brazilian government yesterday, brought to 440 tho Associated Press totul of announced sink ings In tho western Atlantic slnca this country entered the war. Tho nnvy nlso disclosed the sinking of a U. S. merchantman In the Indian ocean late in Juno, but this ship was not Included in tho Associated Press tabula tion. Details of the torpedoing of (Continued on Page Two) E Flights of oratory such as hrfvc seldom been heard, at the city council chambers preceded council action Monday night in adoption of pn ordinance licens ing Itinerant vendors of tracts, pamphlets and other literature. Described at the outset by Mayor John Houston as an ordi- nonce, dealing: with . Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious sect, tho proposed mcasurq was attcrna ly attacked as an abrogation of constitutional rights and ex tolled as a protection of the home front for tho sake ot the boys In the armed forces. - Tho ordinance is similar In principle to an ordinance upheld by the United States supreme court by a 5 to 4 decision, in (Continued on Page Two) , h, nil 'Ml , 111 '"S - "-r - , i 1 I mj r ii'VivtH si r f?L ' iz in V t ' Picture No. 1 Beef champs and buyers. Left to right! Ed Young, Junior ltvestockman, and R. R. Macartney of Weyerhaeuser, buyeri Roy Carter, buyer, and Charles Cheynet Louis Serruyt, buyer, and Jean Masten, with the ateer that took highest pricai W. E, Lamm, buyer, and Bob Hortont Norman Jacob and Charles Wright, Sears, buyer. Picture No. 2 ahows lamb winners and buyers. Kneeling, at left, Don Abraham and Batty Chlnn, with C. S. Elliot, J. C Pen ney company manager, buyer of the lambs at highest prlcet Louisa Keller, is kneeling in front of Charley Wright, Sears, buyeri at right. Bill Noonan, kneeling, with W. E. Lamm, standing, buyer. Pictures 3 and 4 from livestock show on page 2, . ; II II I VI DISB RAF SMASHES RHINE CITIES; 16 PLANES LOST Frankfurt, Wiesbaden Hit; Force of 300 Sent Over . - LONDON, Aug. 25 W) A "strong force" of RAF bombers smashed at Frankfurt and Wies baden and other objectives In the upper Rhlneland Inst night in the first RAF night attack on Germany in a week, the air min istry said today. ' The exact strength of the force sent over Germany was not dis closed, but the announced loss of 16 planes Indicated that some 300 planes took part, on the basis of a' 5 per cent loss. However, bad weather over the continent Inst night may have contributed to the losses. Industrial Center Frankfurt is on the Main river, 22 miles from its confluence with the Rhine at Mainz, and Is an important German .eonjmefr pial and InvuitrlaVwntprp'Vrf' Hint whlch-Jiad i-been changed- .phlneryveletricai supplies ana, cnemicais are in most im portant products, .v.;: --; Wiesbaden Is best known aa a fashionable "spa," but It is also a manufacturing city of some im portance and a communications center.. - , It was the first time Wiesbad en had been : mentioned as an RAF. objective. Junior Livestock Winners and Buyers fv It 5 f V 1 It 5i Japs Get Another Beating Over New Guinea GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia. Aug. 25 lP) Tho second air bat tle In as many days in which the Japanese lost more than one fourth of their planes and the Allies none at all was reported in a communique from General MacArthur's headquarters today. Of 13 enemy fighter planes encountered over eastern New Guinea, it said, four were shot down, others were damaged and the only allied casualty was one plane which returned to its base damaged. This followed the announce (Continued on Page Two) The streamlined,' one-day Vic tory junior livestock show held Monday at the county fair grounds came to a close with every animal sold, netting a total of $5938. Sponsors and participants alike expressed themselves . ag highly pleased with' the, venture, manv phases from traditional ' fbf m" by the lack of transportation and labor brought about by the war. ; Although entries and specta tors were fewer, largely because of elimination of the auction feature, individual growers av eraged more In financial re turns for. their efforts than in previous years, according to (Continued on Page Two) I n nirarfosri F nnriT nniTrn biiui utimtn Nazis Strike Close to Grozny; Hasty AI-' lied Help Seen.' . . By ROGER D. GREENS Associated Press War Editor - Masses of German tanks ad vanced per i lo u s l y closer to Stalingrad today, forcing : the Russians into a new retreat less than 40 miles from the -great Volga steel city, while ' other nazi columns struck within 85 miles of the Grozny oil fields in the central Caucasus, . 'i. The - Vichy (French) : radio quoted-a Berlin spokesman as boasting that "the fate of Stalin grad will, be settled before the end of the week. .; -' - - t, Front-line dispatches said the Germans had crossed the Don with . large., numbers of . tanks while dive - bombers ; swarmed the skies and nazi parachutists dropped behind Soviet defense lines with anti-tapir guns, trertch aiortars and motorcyales. r fit ft , Stalingrad Aflame . : - A German communique said thd Luftwaffe 'Was striking .in "violent day and night raids," setting parts of Stalingrad aflame and inflicting havoo on the city's armament works. - Soviet troops beat off the first attack, it was reported, and re , (Continued on Page Two) RETREAT ROM x I 0 k'ri k ' r - 1. . I Principal Paul Anostead. ohrsical edu cation director in the local ele mentary schools, today was an nounced as the principal of the new Junior high school, to open 'Monday in the Fremont school building. KUHS " Freshmen Re- port; Thursday for- - - f'Pre-View" School Opening. Schedule .- KUHS Freshman Day 1:30 p. m- Thursday Aug. 27., . All KUHS students .report Lli :'i.;-m. Mnndav. Aua-3l. All(tcity;relementav-stiir J dent report 1 p. m. Mon .day. -. ;. .- . i-i ..--! : - All county school students report . 9 a. m. Tuesday, Sept. 1.; . ,.: Local school, boards : made Paul Angstead" principal of the. new .Junior high school Tuesday and '' rushed " final preparations fof the opening of school next week.-.---- ; .: . : But "several days before city ahd-county-- schools" get going Moaday ' anoiLgruesday, Klamathd tinienjiifih-EChool freshmen wiu report on Thursday at 1:30 p. m. for a one-day school "pre-view." Buses on. r e g u 1 a r routes will pick Up the first year youngsters between 12:30 and 1 p. m. - Report Monday KUHS and elementary - stu dents of the city schools will re port for first classes at 1 p. m. Monday while county school (Continued on Page Two) Soldiers Save Klamath Girl From Drowning MEDFORD, Ore., Aug. 25 (AP) Soldiers from Camp" White yesterday saved Mary Ann - Grafton, 17, of Klamath Falls, from drowning in Lake o' the Woods, camp headquart ers revealed today. The girl was knocked uncon scious and thrown into the water by . a collision of two boats. Pvt. Edgar Krohnke, in a nearby boat, dived in and held the unconscious girL's head above water until his .compan ions jockeyed their boat in posi tion to take her aboard. She was given artificial res piration and first aid for a pain ful head injury by camp, med ical personnel, ,taken to her Klamath Falls home after be ing revived. . Krohnke's home ." town was not disclosed. Fire Razes Dufur Business District ' THE DALLES. Aiiu. 25 (IPi. One-third of Dufur's : business district was destroyed bv fire early, this morning, starting at 1:20-in a vacant pool hall, be lieved to nave been from flames left by children who had hpn playing with matches In the building. . Firemen estimated damage between $60,000 and $100,000. Ten buildings in all went up in smoke, and firemen today sim were guarding the hot em bers to prevent revival of the lire. . rt-i MM HUGE SEA-AIR BATTLE RAGES; NIP LOSS HEAVY Jap Ships Bombed; Large Scale Battle ., Jill! viiutinuy By The Associated Press Counter attacking Japanese forces ' have already suffered heavy losses in a great and de veloping air-sea battle for . the Solomon islands, the navy an nounced in Washington today. A navy bulletin said the Japa nese, striking back at the U. S. marines who have captured at least three islands in the 900- mile-long archipelago, had suf fered more than half a dozen ships damaged. .The new phase of the battle began on the afternoon of Aug. 23, the communique said, and American "flying fortresses" and. navy- carrier-based planes have already, bombed two Japanese carriers, a battleship, a trans port, a cruiser and "several" other warships. ' . . Still. In Progress The communique indicated that the '.'large scale battle" was still in progress between Ameri can sea . and air forces and a strong Japanese force which ao- roached -marine-held Tulagi area jrom the northeast. . At. least 21 Japanese planes were reported shot down. -. -: The navy said it had been ex pected that American seizure of the important enemy base at Tulagi-would, bo ."countered by: a violent attempt on the - part 'of the: enemy ;-to recapture their shore bases in this area. . " : 'This j counter-attack has de veloped and is now being met." V - Attacked Aug. 23 . - . Strong enemy air formations attacked the marines on Guad alcanal island on Aug. 23. the oaiu, tiiiu uie same nignt Japanese destroyers shelled American shore positions ott the island. . ' ---; Gigantic U. S. Fortress planes then swung into action and be gan blasting the enemy armada. The action continues, the navy said. , Plans Changed . meantime mnese ctispatcnes said that Japan's invasion armies were withdrawing from China east coast provinces to prepare "another thrust" elsewhere - possibly an attack on Russian Si beria, India or Australia. In Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's war capital Informed quarters agreed that some big-scale revision of Japa nese plans had prompted the en emy to yield hard-won territory in . Chekiang and Kiangsl pro vinces. Giant Cargo Planes May Be Built of Wood, Hughes Says SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 (AP) Giant cargo planes which Henry J. Kaiser plans to build in his west coast shipyards may. po built 01 wood, Airplane De signer Howard Hughes said to day. "Up to this time all large planes have been built of metal," said Hughes, partner of Kaiser in the contemplated pro duction. "Therefore most aero nautical engineers probably would throw their hands in the air at the thought of building the largest plane of all from wood. However, I am convinced it is practical. Kaiser, who was told by the WPB to find his own sources of materials, has a staff out hunting for new sources , for metals. ' . News Index City Briefs .....Page S Comics and Story Page B Courthouse Records Page ,5 Editorial , ..Page v Information Page o Market, Financial Page 7 Midland Empire News ..Page 1 7 Pattern , ..Page 10 Sports ...Page , 6