1
Blackout Signal
!M.miT!ji!MPIHJiri!n'"f!tMNniTift!MlliM;t:jnrMiirMifl!!!3Ml;il!II "'
Weather Newsl
On S-mlnute bint on sirens and whlilUi
U the signal lor blickout In Klamath
August 24 High SI, Low 52
Precipitation aa ol August 18, 1942 -
Last yaar ....16.73
Normal 12.2$
i Falls. Another long blast, during black
! out, ! ilgnal ior all-clear. In precau-
ASSOCIATED PRESS
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
; llonary ptrlodi, waloh your etreet llghlt,
. J " tv ubi ......., 4il.SU
PillCB FIVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1942
Number 9675
m milt, nN.iunii
f " P union ,i iivinil" '
vr u uuuuu
am nin
fT
r1
i
i jt m w w a am.
-
n M r5
IVI lliU-M
L
a
III I Ilill II I! 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