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By FRANK JENKINS
A BOUT oil thitt can bo suld of
tho crKlcnl lower Volga bat
tle todoy Is tliut the Gcrmnni
haven't YET tokon Stollngrod.'
Tho R u aa I a n i nro fighting
tlicro aa they fought when tho
Germans woro only 38 miles
from Moscow.
Moscow wosn'l tnkon.
IJENRY P. CASSIDY, Aho
doled Press correspondent
at Moscow, ' todny after
personal tour of tho Rr.hev front:
. Dcjplto terrlbla fighting all
iiinmer, tho rd army atlll has
strength enough toil to TAKE
THE OFFENSIVE on a limited
front (ot Rzhev). ,
This offennivo demonstrates
Ql'tt tho German lino west of
vIohcow, althoiigh long and eare-
fully built. CAN BE BROKEN
,. . U. S, material, such as tanks,
Is arriving steadily, Is being used
extensively by the Russians, and
Is being FOUND EFFICIENT.
The full rains are storting. v
,'. '- .... '
T OOKED at from" the. sUind-
' . point of our sido, It has
seemed for days that on the vl
tally Important Caucasus front
(which GUARDS THE OIL) the
Russians have been getting
weaker while the Germans oro
' still going strong.
nut overy athlete, and espe
cially evory football player,
knows it Is truo that when one
sldo begins to get pretty tired
it's a practical certainty that the
OTHER side is GETTING
1IRED ALSO.
The Germans can't keep up
forovor tho paco they've been
Getting In the Caucasus,
THE Japs have apparently
A FAILED at Mllno bay (at
the southeastern tip of Now
Guinea) and oro TAKING OFF
such of their troops as they can.
Those they can't take oft oro be
ing hunted down by tho Aus
tralians. ' ' ., '
' The-tanks and heavy supplies
the Japs Inndcd at Mllno bay are
reported to hava been ALL
LOST.
Japan's carefully trained Jim
' gle shock troops, you . sco,
AREN'T Invincible.
'
HTHE unpredictable Chinese ore
A still going strong In Chck
inng and Klnngsi provinces
(routhwest of Shanghai).
They aro consolidating their
grip on Chuhsicn and Its impor
tant olr field by taking tho sur-
doundlng strong points, and nro
aid to be in tho edges of Nan
chnng, westward along tho rail
loud from Chuhsicn, which the
Japs have1 held for nearly two
years nnd have fitted out as an
Important base, ,
, Tho Chlnoso oro being backed
tip in these operations by U. S.
vorplancs. It Is tho first time
they have had air support
against tho Japs.
BEFORE getting cocky ot this
, point and thinking we have
(he Japs on the run and will
keep them running, rend today's
Interview with Joseph C. Grew,
- for 10 years before December 7
U S. ambassador to Tokyo
a career diplomat and a thor
oughly compotcnt observer.
He warns that we ore at war
vlth a . "powerful fighting ma
chine, a people whose morale
can not and WILL NOT bo brok-
; (Continued on Page Two)
Qlazis Execute
100 Yugoslavs
LONDON, Aug. 31 (A)A
Reuters dispatch from Stock
holm said today German troops
hod captured 083 guerrillas In
Yugoslavia north of the Save
river and more than 100 wore
.i , executed . Immediately.
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SOHOQLQPENING
SHOWS DECLINE'
IN ENROLLMENT
Early Opening, Work
ing Students Held
r Responsible -i 'j
SCHOOL FIOURES
May
Today Enroll
ment Fslrvlcw 101 189
Pcllcon ......147 198
Fremont (1 to 7) 188 210
. Joseph Conger .119 133
Mills 467. ' 484
Riverside .....15t .- -157
Roosevelt ...'...;...238-:""lvI39
1499 -1608
Fremont Jr. High, 202. ' r
Decreased enrollment marked
tho opening of Klamath Falls
public schools Monday, a devel
opment that was expected by
school authorities because of tho
many youngsters still working,
the early opening this year, and
the fact that some students hava
moved with their families to war
Induslry'-wntors'v 'v ,,
' A first-day report 0' City
School Superintendent Arnold
Orfllapp showed 1409 . children
enrolled in the seven elemen
tary schools first to seventh
grades onlyagainst a May en
rollment of 1006.
; ' 1043 at KUHS .
,"Th Fremont junior high
school,' composed of eighth
grade students only, registered
202 boys and girls.
Tho actual net loss of enroll
ment between the first- day this
year and tho first day last year,
all eight grades of the city ele
mentary system, is 88 students.
Last year's first day figure was
1780, while that of all grades for
this year's opening was 1701.
(Continued on Pago Two) ..
Soldier, Bound
And Helpless, V
Escapes Death . ' :
; RED DEER,' Alto., Aug. 31 (VP)'.
A soldier whoso Identity was in
disclosed was In a hospital today
recovering from tho nerve-shat-toring
effects of having, a freight
train hurtle townrd him as he
Iny bound and helpless on the
Canadian Pacific railway tracks
near here.
Tho engineer managed to halt
tho train within 20 Inches of tho
man's body when he noticed
something on the tracks.
The soldier was from tho Roy
al Canadian army service corps
training center here. Police said
ho was assaulted Saturday night
by several men, bound and left
on the tracks just south of Red
Deer. Ho was Incoherent from
shook and exposure and could
glvo only meagre details ot the
Incident.
Eye-Wiiness Tells Flaming
Details of Bombardment
By LARRY ALLEN
ABOARD A DESTROYER
OF THE BRITISH MEDITER
RANEAN FLEET, Aug. 30 (De
layed) (P) British warships
smashed Field Marshal Erwln
Rommel's big axis supply base
In the Egyptian desert south
of El Doba with a pro-down
bombardment today and fought
their way homo tinder ceaseless
dive-bombing concentrated on
this flotilla lcador.
Nnval gunners fired 1000
high oxploslvo . shells Into the
sleeping Gorman-Italian base in
42 minutes. They left a wide
area . ot destruction and huge
fires omld barracks, tank parks,
repair shops, ammunition and
fuel depots.
Nasi Casualties
Casualties ' among Rommel's
armored corps technicians,, vital ,
i
laHa0
Yank Airmen
Return Safely
From Forays
By The Associated Press
"All American aircraft re
turned safely."
Xight times now this has been
tho tog lino capping the success
of the United States army air
forco Flying Fortresses on the
eight bombing raids they have
made so far on occupied Eu
rope.
Today the. soma line comes
from American bombing forces
on.nwo other continents.
... In north Africa, medium and
heavy American bombers blast
cd the axis supply port of To
bruk and enemy airfields cast
of Matruh.
All American aircraft re
turned safely, '
Twice on - successive days
American 'medium bombers and
fighters blasted the : Japanese
air base supply depot town of
..- (ConHoued on Page-Two) . ,
AHACK INDESERT
Matrulv Tobruk' Hit;
J British ..Bombers
CAIRO, Aug.:Sr(P) AmerU
can planes attacked enemy land
ing fields east ' of Matruh and
harbor and dock facilities at To
bruk' Saturday night, causing
mile-square fires and heaving
explosions, it was announced to
day "
'3oth medium and heavy
bombers participated in the
operation, . It was stated by
American headquarters, and all
American. aircraft returned
sefely. -.':
" - RAF Cooperates
British four-engined bombers
flew beside the United States
croft in the battering raid
against Field Marshal E r w I n
Rommel's communications.
. Brilliant desert moonlight hid
ed i' them, and" bombs caused
large, rapidly spreading fires in
supply dumps, along jetties, and
left on enemy ship blazing .In
the harbor at Tobi-uk.
Flight Lieut. Lee C. Holloway
of Montgomery, Ala., participat
ed in the attock with his four
motored plane, his assignment
being to concentrate on unload
ing points and jetties.
His bombardier, Second Lieut.
Juhn B. Burger of San Francis
co, sold he observed explosions
"which seemed .to lift whole
buildings into the air,"
Large Fire .
Another large fire was started
by bombs released by Second
Lieut. Harry J. Weiss of Broad
hcadsvllle, Pa who was flying
with John H. Gcrmercad of Bill
ings, Mont. Weiss got his sights
on an inland supply dump and
(Continued on Pago Two)
for maintenance ot his tanks
and armored cars in any con
templated offensive, were re
garded by British observers as
heavy.
Throughout the British at
tack, thcro was little answering
tiro from tho shore.. The action
wss broken off in the moonlight
ot 4:57 o. m. and this destroy
er pulled away, followed by the
other warships.
1 Ordet to Fire" '
I Was standing on the star
board sldo of the bridge with
the chief of the expedition, ' a
young, black-haired lieutenant
commandbr, when a strange
craft suddenly emerged from a
dark patch of water. The of
ficer ordered the guns to flro.
Tracer shells split tho dark
ness as the ship's batteries pour
' Continued on Page Six) ,
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RED FORGES
HOLD FIRM AT
STALINGRAD
Russian Airrnen Carve
. Path of Fire Over
... East Germany
. By The Associated Press
All the weight of manpower
and machines that the Germans
could throw against the defenses
of Stalingrad bounced back to
day off the unyielding lines- of
its defenders while the red
army, on Its own offensive to the
north, gave renewed evidence of
Russia's still unbroken power.
.. Hundreds of nazi tank: arid
bombers screened large assault
forces, on the approaches of the
Volgi river arsenal city but for
the sixth - day Russia's fighters
kept intact a mil wane meuer
mans eoiild'not break.
At mid-day, the soviet Infor
mation bureau said there had
been no change and field dis
patches ' from : the - Stalingrad
front Indicated that the Germans
wars leaving men snd machines
on Ihe-battlefleld in the" still ur
availing Ifort totsmasW through
tne Soviets armorea lines; -,
-? The German hlrfh ; command
said forces had bilshed from
the south' tb a' pdfht dnly ,15
miles from Stalingrad and that
night raiding' planet again-had
sown vast fires in the city;- blast
ing particularly railroad and air
port targets. ' . . i . ,
To -the - north,: where the: red
(Continued on Page. Jtwp).' ;
Hunting .Closed
Along Mother
Lode Country
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 31 (fP)
The governor's office announced
today that, a new request relat
ing to the closing1 of hunting sea
sons hr California has been re
ceived from1 Lt. General J.'' L.
DeWitt, western defense com-monder,-
As the new order affects the
deer season, - Secretary Dane
Foutz said, all of the area which
would normally, open Sept. 16
will be open except a long nar
row strip through . the Mother
Lode country which will be
closed on account ot the fire
hazard.
This closed district will,
roughly, consist of the southwest
one fourth of Shasta county, the
west third ot Tehama county, a
central' section of Butte county,
the eastern section of Placer and
Eldorado counties, the east half
of Amador, the east half of Cala
veras, the east l5th of Tuo
lumne, cast half of Mariposa,
the central 13 of Madera, cen
tral l5th of Fresno, central i
ot Tulare and all of Kern' county
except the western l5th. '
. The' area now closed to dove
hunting Includes that territory
previously closed ' to deer
hunting. - - ,
The dove season in the areas
not closed will open tomorrow
at sunrise. -
The governor's office said
General DeWltt's requests did
not mention pheasant or ducks
ond that apparently these will
not be affected. '
Accused Saboteur
Aide Held in N. Y.
. NEW YORK, Aug.-31 (A)
Anthony Cramer, accused of aid
ing some of the eight nazi sabo
teurs who' landed on the United
States east coast, was arraigned
In federal ,courfc today on a
charge ot treason and held in de
fault of $5000 ball, r;
, Cramer, 43-year-old resident
of New York, was one ot 14 per
sons arrested on charges of aid
ing the sabotage experts, all of
whom were subsequently con
victed by a military commission.
Six were' executed. ..- ,
17
A ? a-'
r t t I, im it i,
Alert United States marines, their rifles ready, search for
grove on Guadalcanal island during mapping up operations in
' -, .' .
CHINESE KEEP UP:.
STEADY MICE
, ' , t. - . '' .. .. .
Retreating "Jap Force
'Divento ;N)anchang
fQUtsWrts.'f;;15
CHUNGKING. Aug.; 81 ' (AP)
Driving forward with the mo
mentum : ot. new victories over
the Japanese in Kiangsl and
Chekiang provinces, Chinese
forces were reported fighting
bitterly . today only nine miles
from Nanchang, which the in
vaders have held for more than
two years and outfitted as their
principal Kiangsi base.
. The Chinese also were press
ing their southward drive
against Canton in Kwanrtung
province,- South China..
Make Headway
Field dispatches said the new
Chinese offensive there ; was
making good headway, now
menacing Kuhtien, only 25
mies north of Canton. The Jap
anese around Tsungfa. 30 miles
north of Canton, were reported
(Continued on Page Two)
Baseball
AMERICAN
H. E.
6 2
5 1
Chicago .............1....
Philadelphia :..
Humphries a n d Tresh;
Christopher,. R, . Harris (7) and
Wagner. '
Detroit .. . 3 6 2
New York ..,. 8 12 :1
Trucks, Henshaw (4), Manders
(6), and Parsons; Donald, Mur
phy (9), and Dickey.
St. Louis 6 .10 .1
Boston 8 14 3
Muncrief, Holllngsworth (6),
Ostermueller (7), and Ferrell;
Hughson,. Brown (9), and Pea
cock. '.''"''',''
,' - (First game)
' R H E
Chicago 8 6 2
Philadelphia 16 - 1
Humphries and Tresh; Chrls-
t o p h e r, ; R.' ' Harris (7) and
Wagner.
. (Second game)
'., R H E
Chicago 5'. 6. 0
Philadelphia ............ 0 9 2
Smith and Dickey; L. Harris,
Savage (4) and Swift. '
Tank Cars Loaded
With Fuel Oil
Go Up in Flames .
;HAVREDEGRACE. Md.. Aug.
81 (F) Twenty-eight railroad
tank cart loaded with fuel oil
burned today In a sea of flames
after 33 cars of an estimated 80-
cor Baltimore and. Ohio railroad
train was, derailed.
Burning oil poured down the
rightof-way, passed through a
culvert- under the Philadelphia
road, burning trees and under
brush,' Wrecking crew workers said
a coupling apparently broke,
Jacknlflng the cars that derailed
Into ij heap. ...
Marines Search for Enemy
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Marines in t ;
Solomons Rough,
Tough and Nasty
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (AP)
The navy today released a re
port of the Guadalcanal action,
dated August 14, trom Sgt.
James ' W. Burlbut.. ot Arling
ton; Va;, a marine, caps combat
correspondent, . whlcn rfaicj.vln.
This is. no parade ground
bunch of marines on Guadal
canal, The. pretty bins uniforms
are all back home. and the
green . dungaree field . uniforms
are torn and dirty. The boys are
rough, tough and nasty, and
they are plenty mad. They
don't need any entertainment to
keep their morale up. A little
chow, a lot of ammunition and
an enemy to use it on, and the
boys will take the situation In
stride.
"Only meager -details of the
naval engagement which took
place during ;, the night of
August 8-9 have been received
at Guadalcanal. We know, how
ever, that no enemy ship slip
ped through to aid the be
leaguered Japanese land' forces.
"Contrary to precedent in
amphibious operations, the- of
fensive action in the Solomons
was accomplished with com
paratively small losses for at
tacking marines forces and dis
astrous . casualties; for the de
fending Japanese.
"Enemy losses in" the South
Pacific are also measured in
millions of dollars worth of
equipment and ' thousands of
(Continued on Page Two)
Klamath OPA Office
Opening Abandoned '
PORTLAND, Aug. 31 en
closure of OPA offices at Eu
gene and La Grande and aban
donment of plans to open offices
at Klamath Falls, Salem : and
The Dalles wss announced today
by Richard G. Montgomery, Ore
gon OPA director.
He said the restrictions were
necessitated by the congression
al cut of $100,000,000 trom OPA
Price Director Leon Henderson's
proposed budget.
Only Offensive War Will
Crush Japan,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (AP)
A -"swashbuckling" Japan can
be crushed only by an offensive
war leading to "complete defeat
in battle," Joseph C. Grew, for
10 years United States ambassa
dor to Tokyo, told tho nation
last night. '
Grew, In his first public re
port since returning on- the
Gripsholm, warned that Amer
ica was fighting a. "powerful
fighting machine, a people
whose morale cannot' and will
not be broken even by succes
sive defeats, who will certainly
not . be broken by economic
hardships." ' '-
Atrocities Confirmed
He said the Japs were a peo
ple who "individually and col
lectively " will gladly sacrifice
their lives idr their emperor,
Snipers
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snipers and stragglers in a palm
the battle of the Solomon Islands.
' :
Figures Show Loss of
.3000 Live5450 i;
N '-v't. .:
!"i ' ' By-JERRY YALE ;
NEW. YOHKv, Aug. I31'i UPhr-
The- battle of ' the Atlantic,
grown ; to- major front propor
tions in nearly eight months, of
war, has claimed 450 allied and
neutral merchant ships, and .the
lives of more than .3000 seamen,
an Associated Press tabulation
of announced western Atlantic
sinkings -disclosed - today, but
the number of victims of enemy
submarines - dropped - astonish
ingly "in July 'and August.':'. ;
Still missing today were, at
least. 1760 crew members and
passengers, most of whom now
may be considered- lost; but -13,-810
others- were-rescued and
landed safely at western Atlan
tic "p b r t s . and -up . until this
morning only! 23 -merchantmen
had been announced as. sunlt
during. August.. . - . .
.j . Disastrous June- .
. Figures showed that June,
with 110 ' announced sinkings,
was the most, disastrous period
in t he United. Nation's . fight
against the axis undersea raid
ers. Forty-five reported ship
losses for July . gave, the first
indication of - h o w the allies
were - progressing. ,
Even sharper, than the recent
monthly figure as evidence of
the reduced number of- sinkings
was an announced . total of only
nine victims for , last week,
whereas many past weeks, had
seen three times that, number
reported sent to - the -bottom. ;
Rates Cut .
Two incidents last week pro
vided a further hint as to how
merchantmen were taring late
ly: ;
1. A Berlin report, admitted
that nazi. U-boats were encoun-
(Continued on. Page Two) '
Grew Asserts
and their nation' and who can
be brought to earth only by
complete defeat in battle." .
Confirming atrocity stories of
other Americans back from' Ja
pan, Grew told of the bayonet
ing ot captured soldiers and the
"water' .cure" ' given elderly
American missionaries.-" .
Patriots Will Fight ;
The former ambassador, . who
said these atrocities represented
the ."ugly" -side of. Japanese. na
ture, . assailed . the "Japanese
military machine which brought
on. this war," charging ltiwith
"cruelty, brutality and ' utter
bestiality." ; v .
-' Grew said Japanese, friends
had endeavored to help him and
other Americans imprisoned af
ter the Pearl harbor attack) but
I , (Continued on; Page . Six). ;
ines Sit Tight On
Six Islands in Tu-,
lag i Area
Zr BARNETT BILDERSEE
Associated Press War- Editor
Disaster at the hands of allied
forces striking with lrresistable
might stalled the Japanese to
day on every front of the Pa
cific war. . . :
With a cunning expensively
learned ; from the Japanese
themselves in the lost battle of -
Malaya, Australian ground
forces baited, a trap on Milne
bay into which an enemy land
ing rorce apparently has stum
bled to its destruction.
Japs "Reduced"
A special communique issued
at General MacArthur's Aus
tralian headquarters said today
that , the unwary Japanese .on
Milne bay, at the southeastern
tip of Papua, ' were being
"rapidly reduced." ,
ine Japanese, it said, waded
ashore into the waiting muzzles
or Australian troops lying in
wait tor just such an enemy at
tempt to outflank the allied out-,
post some 225 miles around the
island coast at Port Moresby.:
High Cost
Previous communiques, hava
announced .;the igh cost,, in.
ships, 'men; 'planes and supplies'
at which the Japanese were able
even to land on the marshy,
crocodile-infested shore.
Now, it unfolds, all that they
are likely to save are the shock
troops which they - have man
aged to get .back off the island
to their ships.- - - ' : -
,; i '- .. Marines Sit Tight . :
: The other-men, the communi
que said, are swiftly being cut
down on ' a . narrow peninsula
north, of the bay by Australian
troops under Maj. Gen. Cyril
Albert Clowes, and they have
lost all of the heavy supplies
inciuaing lanns wmch they
landed so confidently on th
' (Continued on Page Two) .
Service Men's
Voting Bill Sent .
To Committee
WASHINGTON,' Aug. 31 IM
The : house sent to a joint con
gressional conference commit
tee -1 o d a y- the controversial
servicemens absentee voting
bill. ,
Republican Leader Martin of
Massachusetts pleaded . for
prompt, action by the conferees
in order to make the legislation
effective for the Nvember elec
tions. Besides writing in the anti-
poll tax amendment, the sen
ate broadend the bill to make
it applicable to primary as well
as general elections and to ex
tend the vote-by-mail privilege
to service men stationed any
where in the world. The house
had limited application to those
in the continental United States.
Four Killed in
Crash 30 Miles
From Alturas
ALTURAS, Calif., Aug. 31 UP)
Four persons were killed today
as their automobile left the high
way and crashed into a tree. ,
They were Mr. and Mrs. Fran
cis Holbrook, Mrs. Ray Jordan,
and an unidentified man, . be
lieved to have been her husband.
The Holbrooks were married
July 31 in Omaha, Neb.
Tho car, registered to Mrs.
Jordan, bore Iowa license plates.
The accident occurred on tha
Klamath Falls-Canby highway,
30 miles from Alturas. . - "
News' Index
City Briefs USU Pages 8,-. .5
Comics and Story Page 8
Courthouse Records ..... Page 2
Editorial : ......;..........Page 4
Information ...Page 8
Market, Financial ...Page 8
Midland Empire News .Pago 3
Our Men in Service Page 9
Pattern . ..... ...Paga 8
Sports' .......w.. fr PS, 7