aiiffliillliilBilsiiiiil! On 6-mlnute blast on sirens and whittles li the signal tor blickoul in Klamath ralli. Another long blail, during black out, li signal lor all-elear. In precau tionary parlodi, wotoh your itraat lights. August 31 High 81, Low 30 '. Precipitation as of Augutt 28.' 1942 Last year ............ U.7J Normal : .;.......... 12.31 Btraam yaar to date .,.... 13,20 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES J-I'LI'L-U-U'- ' - -- ----------"--------- IT. PRICK FIVE CENTS AMATH FALLS, ORKGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1942 Number 9581 iw ! C... uMiaAIKf fo) MMf? UWULL, 'i A 1 YPll " n rvTT IWtl III! I I 1 I in rl. 11 ! rt: iiii iiiiiiiiiiiilrf1iiiiiwiiLt l,T Fill i i i 'i i i.i " i .t- ih ti ' : . : i i . 1 1 17 ' 1 I: '. 1':. i' '11 IT, I!!,. Mi l ' ' :'' ill li I'llllffl!! By FRANK JENKINS THE war enters Ita fourth yonr todsv with s!l eyes fixed on two o( tho world's great rlvcra tho Nils and tho Volga. TN the vii I ley of the Nllo Rom mel goes Into action ogiiln uresumalily with an army of Qout 140,000 men and some- Tiling ovor thousnnd tunks, (Thin force I probably half Rain aa big as the army ho had In hi last drive, which carried him within U0 ml leu of Alex nndrla.) - Ho Is raid to Iwivo parachute Iroops this time. Ho had none, 01 at leant used nono, before pOMMEL started the fight this time. Well informed military sources In London say ha started earlier than he really wanted to because thu British rate of reinforcement hus been greater Uiim his and he had to get going before it was too late. ... Theso London "sources" think da prospect of checking him is od. but the British are dis tinctly, guarded .ln"thvlr. slate ments.' They permitted them' selves to become optimistic the last time, and tho results -were mimillutlng. , It's a fairly safe bet that Brit Jsh reports of the progress of the present Dam will be conserva THE British have American help in Egypt Chiefly air forces.' - American 'tighter planes aro roported this mprnlng to havo BROKEN UP. heavy formations of German dive bombers, forcing them to drop .tjielr bomb-, loads ana nee. Their dive bombers' aro .the Germans' most potent air yjoapon. '.' - 'A NOTHER point Is mentioned In today s rather scanty dls- patches about the Egyptian fight- Tiig: . Rommel Is a master of MA NEUVER, fighting his bottles In the past In distinctly tho Napo leonic manner. This tlmo ho Is confined In the narrow space Between the Mediterranean and the Qualtaro salt sink. .Time will tell how ho handles himself in theso different circum stances. :l . rN the lower Volga, tho Oor- .,. mans aro renortcd to bo mnv Jtng up tremendous now forces of men and machines for tho final assault on Stulinarad.- Tim riant. Jug is said to havo reached the city s outer defenses, Tho Rus sians aro resisting stubbornly. and glvo no Indication of n crit ical change in tho situation. Hitler Is obviously throwing everything ho has. Into a last Jnal effort to take tho city and iit tno Volga transport 1 no. Some Idea qf the grcot length of tho Volga may ba gleaned from tho fact that tho fighting it Rzhcv Is on Its upper reaches. .'. Curiously enough, Stalingrad Is on the west bonk of tho Volga And the Russians aro defending It with their bncks to tho river. Rzhcv is on tho cast bank of tho uopor Volga and 'the Germans Aro defending with THEIR backs to tho river. - History tells us that fighting with a river In tho rear Is al ways dangorous, A MERICAN planes and Aus . trollan Iroops ore hunting down the remnants of tho Japs who landed at Mllrio bay and lied to get out again. ' Sharp fighting is reported at Kokoda, whero the Japs arc seek ing to reach Port Moresby by crossing tho, mountains with a lend force, a Allied (US and Australian) f lanes aro pounding the . Jap Nuw Guinea bases at Lao and Sfilnmnu. ' JAPAN springs another mys tery, 1 Foreign Minister Tojo, who negotiated the ' non-nggrcsslon treaty wltlv; Russia, RESIGNS '; (Continued on rage Two) . . III ih'lll i I; iiti!l!'i "Exphrai ory" Fuel Sign-Up Scheduled PORTLAND, Sept. 1 (AP) Exteiit of Gfeguii fuel iliuflagc and the advlsublllty of ration ing will ba determined by .reg istration, similar to that for sugar, In 20 Oregon cities Sept. 012. Announcing that tho registra tion will bo done by volunteer help at local price rationing boards,, state OPA Director G. Montgomery said yesterday, "This . registration will be only an effort - to learn the facta. Up to now no one knows thut we will have a fuel short ago or how bad it Is. Tho reg istration will bo only explora tory, of course, and OPA enn not guaranteo wood for fuel." Cities where the fuel signup will bo held Include: Portland, Baker. Roseburg, Hood River, Klamath Falls, Eugene, Salem, Woodburn, Pendleton, flermls ton, The Dalles, Grants Pass, Albany and Corvallls. AMERICANS LASH Chinese Di;jvef: Closer ... Mr, Base , CHUNGKING, Sept. 1 AP) United States planes attacked the Japaneso airdrome at Mylt kylna in northern Burma yes terday for the second day In succession, a communique from Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stllwcll's headquarters onnounccd todoy. .Objectives of the bombers, which had a fighter escort,' In cluded Japaneso barracks, a warchouso urea along a railway and the railway terminal. "Two largo fires and at least three small ones were left burn ing along the railway In the main storago area," tho com mtinlquo said. All tho planes returned salely. CHUNG KING, Wednesday, Sept. 2 (P) Chinese forces aim ing a nut-cracker offensive at Japanese-hold Klnhwa have driven ono column to within nlno miles of that big Chcklang air bn.io from tho west and an other column thrusting up from tho south Is 12 miles away, front lino dispatches said today. While tho column on the west was tho closer, tho moro rapid advanco was credited to the force In tho south which was said to have rcnccuplcd six towns in a 30-mllo sweep abovo liberated Sungyang and Llshul, , - OILER KILLED ALTURAS, Cnllf., Sept. 1 (P) C. W. Fischer, an oiler at a lumber mill In Canby, was killed Into yesterday when a log hook wnvked loose and hit him on Iho head. Ho is survived by his widow hero, and ' his mother, Mrs.. Ron Smith of Marshfleld, Oregon.' ; Draft Boards Poo Single WASHINGTON, Sept.: 1 (AP) MaJ, Gen. Lewis B; Hershoy to day, instructed state selective service directors to arrango In duction calls so that married men would not be drafted In somo localities while single mon wore still uncalled In oth ;rs.: ' Tho selective service director said stato officials should 'ar range tholr calls on local boards "so as to place the heaviest load right now on boards having the fnnat altintn' mnn 'ma- mom ...III. .. iiw, w. uim, vvitu. pnllnlnrni HnnnitHnnfa nnlu " - Bpaad-Up Naeassary Hershey's memorandum to state directors also Instructed local boards to comploto by Oc tober 18 the initial classification of ell registrants. , . E JAPS LEFT IN LI Allied Fighter Planes Attack, Jap Air Base at Lae B? MURLIN SPENCEr. GEN. M'ARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Sept. 1 (AP) Allied fighter planes roared abovo the Milne bay- Jungles of eastern New Guinea today heavily strafing any Japanese remnants left by the veteran Australian land troops who were mopping up the enemy. ' A severe night attack was made on the Japanese air base at Lae, 400 miles to the north west, and skirmishes on land de veloped at nearby Salamaua. Other sharp fighting was report ed at Kokoda at tho base of the towering Owen Stanley range half way to the most advanced allied base at Fort Moresby. Japs Disappear, . The known, Japanese surviv ing the allied ambush 'at Milne bay- were-'paahed' JckHntovi narVow peninsula, Borth of th bay. Day long reconnaissance flights tailed to uncover, any evidence of Japanese troops, in stallations or . stores beyond In tho thick Jungle. Tho pilots, however, saw three damaged barges and three tanks bogged In the muck and mud, all mute (Continued on Page Two) Manufacture of Liquor Halted; No Shortage Seen CHICAGO, Sept. 1 () Man ufacture of whiskey, gin and other beverage spirits was or dered halted by November 1, but tho nation was advised . to day there was no threat of a hard drink drought. Matthew J. MacNamara of the war production board's whiskey conversion branch, In formed the National Alcohol Beverage- Control association that by November 1 all of the nation's 128 distilleries would bo converted to the production of war alcohol to meet a re quirement of-476,000,000 gal lons next year, . Ho explained that more than half of that amount would be needed to make synthetic -rubber buladlnc and the balance would ., be used,, to produce smokeless powder and for other essential military and civilian uses. ' . - - j MacNamara said ' there was enough distilled spirits stored In warehouse's to tide over the tipplers for five years, stocks amounting to BB0,000,000 . gal lons mainly bourbon end rye whiskey. -, , ; Ordered to Men in State This speed-up must bo, made, ha said, because "the serious military situation" requires that the selective .service system be prepared to fill 'calls In 1943 which "will bo equal to or In excess of the monthly calls made In August,. September: and Oc tober of this year." Dependency : Deferments This procedure, Horshey add-' i ...in !, 4 i.ij.. i PLANES STRAF 'JE BAY AREA ed, ,wlll tend to level off induc tions with "the ultimate objec tive of calling men from the small town and from the city on an approximately uniform basis." j Horshey reiterated a selective service policy to "follow the order , ot ; dependency defer . . (Continued on Page Two) . '...' New Salvation Army Leader Here Major W.'CnCurrr (left) has arrived to take over, leadership of th Salvation Army hr, succeeding Major Norman Bowyar (right)-' who 9oV ".10 Phoenix' for divisional work. Major', Curry hs bad.28..TTSontfnuu service in the Army and has re. ceritly sed as .territorial revivalist in 11 mldweatera states. Mrs.; Curry and thaTr. two daughters, Madeline and L'ouU, are moving-hre. w(h .him. - . -' County Schools Open; Attendance SlighttfomJM ' County-school classes bpened Tuesday, with scattered figures indicating some decrease, in en rollment in the nearby suburban schools but returns Insufficient to indicate i a general trend. Altamont elementary school reported 322 students; Altamont Junior high; 367; Shasta, .'306. All of these figures are some what under the count rnade. last year after two weeks ot-school, but no comparative figures -for the first day last year were available. . ' . Gilchrist schools in the north ern part of the county reported 240 students, a slight increase oyer lost year. . -.- , The school system . began functioning, with still a few va cancies In the teaching staff, it was learned at . the office of County School . Superintendent Fred Peterson. . - Sacred Heart academy, Cath olic parochial school here, op-1 cned Monday with a . slight de crease in enrollment. . . ; Klamath Union high school and . city elementary . schools opened with ' half-day sessions Monday - and . students went through the first full day of school for this year on Tuesday." At Klamath Union-high school, student enrollment stood Tues day at 1006,- a sharp Increase over the 1043 registered Mon day. .: High school students are di vided as follows: freshmen, 362; sophomores, 271; Juniors, 239; seniors, 224. , ; ' ( Slight increases over the first day occurred in some of the elementary schools and the Jun ior high school gained 10. , Baseball PITTSBURGH, ,Sept 1 MP) The Brooklyn- Dodgers rapped out a 4 to 2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates today as Klrby Higbe, who hadn't de feated the Buccaneers all season, pitched five hit ball for his 14th success. ". - '.-. . , NATIONAL- LEAGUE. . . R H E Philadelphia .'.......'..i...3' 8 0 Cincinnati 4 9 0 Johnson- and Warren; Thomp son, Shoun (5), B"eggs (9) and Lamanno, . " ' .' ... R. H. E. ? ttsburgh"""'' """"2 5 1 niisDurgn o.i Brooklyn' 4 10 0 Higbo and Owen; Klinger. Wilkle (6) and Phelps. .. AMERICAN .LEAGUE i - R. H. E. Cleveland .......i ...:..3 9 0 Washlhgton ......:..........4 ,10 3 Bagby, Dean (10) and ' Dc Sautels; Carrasquel and- Early. 10 innings. - - - ' -.' '. ' :. .'. RASH OF STRIKES i -HITS'P!TTSBUBP Steel ; ' Production . Threatened; Lewis Action Seen Is By MARBEN GRAHAM . PITTSBURGH, Sept. 1 (fl) A rash of strikes involving truck drivers, timbermen, crahemen and various shopworkers threat ened today to interfere with the production of steel', in this in dustrial workshop of the United Nations. One of the most serious dis turbances occurred in the great Connelhwille coke region stretch ing over a oo-square mile area to the south, the heart of Amer ica s metallurgical soft coal de posits. ' ". ''.'-. Join Timbermen There,, in Uniontown, several hundred drivers of trucks who deliver the coal to more than half of the district's 9500 bee hive coke ovens, - today joined several thousand timbermen in a .walkout. The timbermen struck - last Friday, demanding 10 cents an hour more than their 60-cents an hour pay. Both groups have, received awards by the war labor board granting most ot their demands but each case involved price ad justments not yet made. . t Key to Situation "' "You men hold the key to the whole situation,". Thomas' P. Mc Tigue,. regional director of the construction workers,, division .'(Continued on Page Two) ' Deer Season Sta it To Depend on Weather Conditions .' t. i : .,-1 If -weather conditions reduce the fire hazard, Oregon's deer season will open as scheduled. It was stated here Tuesday by T.:R. Conn, Lakevlew attorney and- member of the state game commission..- . Conn was here In connection with meetings of the Pine In dustrial Relations committee. Ho represents Lakevlew lumber concerns in this organization. British Vessel Sunk in Atlantic WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 . (P) The navy announced today that medium sized British merchant Vessel had been torpedoed and sunk - by an - enemy submarine early in August in the Atlantic several hundred miles off the northern-coast of South Amer ica. Survivors have landed at a United States east coast port.. : mm mm 3 iaS T Reds Say Heavy. Cas ualties Inflicted V On Invaders By EDDIE GILMORE . MOSCOW, Sept. 1 (P The Russians said today the Germans had deepened a wedge . toward Stalingrad from the southwest and infiltrated that city's north western . defenses, but empha sized, the casualties suffered by tho invaders all along the front Scattered". details reported ih the' mid-day communique indi cated Germany's loss of at least 48 tanks and about 2000 XlUecU ' After fighjting In whTch about 40G-Germans were killed, "one soviet unit withdrew; to new positions", "before, the. Kotelni-kovski-Stalingrad pincep- claw, the soviet information bureau said. Tank crews were declared to-have repulsed, numerous at tacks .on other sectors of . that; Si army- iW-MIft xrTe&.Sn'ifl the axis-flank within the Don bend waged both offensive and defensive warfare and reports from' the. Caucasian battlefields were highlighted by a declara tion that- soviet cavalry recap tured . a : nazi-occupied village south of Krasnodar. . . ' "German naval parties are at tempting to raid the Caucasian coast in conjunction with the overland drive from Krasnodar, (Continued bn;Page Two) IRA AUack on Yank, British Troops Rumored BELFAST, Sept. 1 (P) Unit ed States - troops have been or dered to - stay off the streets of Belfast tomorrow, it was an nounced officially today as ten sion mounted with a report that the outlawed Irish republican army was planning attacks on American and British troops in northern Ireland. . There was no explanation of the announcement of the order but presumably it was issued to lessen any chance of incidents among American forces and pro I. R. A. elements in Belfast. Neither was there any indication how long the order would re main in effect. Earlier in the day police re ported that a - great cache of arms and explosives captured near here Sunday night was to have been used by the I. R. A. In attacks on the American and British forces. A police statement . said the special, manifesto issued by the IRA calling the' presence of : (Continued on Page Two) A X I S IVES NEW FORGES I N Nation-Wide Meat Ration Set to Begin in 4 Months WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (P) Americans will be asked by the government soon to forego the extra steaks and chops they are able to buy With their record breaking pay envelopes, and in about four months all meat will be rationed. S ec r e t a r y of. Agriculture Wlckard announced last night that the food requirements corn--mittee had decided on rationing as the best method of assuring an equitable distribution of what he termed the largest live stock production in' history. Meatiest Days Meanwhile, . a conservation campaign, possibly including "meatless days," will be Insti tuted to limit civilian consump tion, ot red meats to about the - V . .- -;, 1 ; - : '''';;'''' r- M RESUME is -. 1 - s -st-a i --. Engagement of the Hon. Ger ald Lasetlles. 18-year-old neph ew of King Gorg VI, to June Morris.' 17-year-old -canteen worker, was announced in Lon don. Lascelles (above), is at work' in " a -munitions factory. He is the son' of the Earl of Harewood and :th Princess Royal, only aister of the king. T J9R,FQreig4;rAinister; . Gives Up Fol io; "To-t TOKYO "(From Japanese Broadcasts),' Sept. -1 (For eign Minister Shigenori Togo has resigned "for personal. reasons".- and his office- has been taken over by Premier. General Hideki . Tojo, the- government Information - department - "an nounced today. '. . a v'i, The foreign minister's resigna tion was presented to Emperor Hirohito by Premier Tojo -tonight at the imperial palace. - : WASHINGTON; Sept. 1 (JPh Resignation of Japan's foreign minister Shigenori Togo - and concentration of more power in the hands of. the war premier Hideki Tojo aroused keenest in terest in official and diplomatic quarters in- Washington today. ... Possibilities '' There -were various Interpre tations as to what might .he (Continued on Page Two) ' Pendleton Base Placed Under Fourth Command SPOKANE, Sept. 1 (AP) Col. Nathan B. Forrest, chief of staff of the second air force, an nounced' today the Pendleton, Ore., base . of the second air force had been placed under the command of the fourth air serv ice command with headquarters at Sacramento, Calif.. - All second air force personnel is being withdrawn from the Pendleton base, Forrest said, and added that Col. Frank W. Wright, former Pendleton com mander has been assigned to the Salt Lake City air ; base, , but did not specify in what capacity. same, average amount as has been eaten per capita during the last 10 years. "it will give our civilians ap proximately 2 ',4 pounds of meat per person per week," Wickard said, . "as contrasted with the one pound to the British civil ian, .12 ounces to the German, five ounces to the Belgian. It is an adequate meafc supply When you add in the Increased supply of poultry, and cheese, and dry beans we have, it pro vides a top-notch protein diet for us." ; Big Demand : . , Minimum requirements of the fighting forces and their allies for the present marketing year (Continued , on Page Two) . OFFENSIVE IN DESERTJATTLE Axis Drive Nicks Eight ; Miles Into El Ald-j"; . .mein Flank ' . By The Associated Press , j LONDON, Sept. 1 An eight mile German drive into the minefields on the southern -flank ot the El Alameln line in Egypt,, rimming the Qattara depression,, was reported today in a Reuters dispatch from. Cairo as, new United States air forces went in to action in what appeared to b -a developing major battle.- Against another: German ' thrust, evidently seeking a soft spot in the center, the British, were said to have held firmly. A Yank Craws .The newest American medium bombers on the North African front B-25's like those which bombed Tokyo went into their first action with complete Amer ican air crews in a bombardment of axis transport columns while supporting American fighter pilots dispersed unusually large German dive-bomber formations, . Armored vanguards of- per haps 141,000 axis troops between El Alamein and Bengasi were said to be locked with Jight British forces, in what may be the opening phase of a struggle for:inastery'of the. Nile vaijeyt Suez and the whole Middle and iN'ear East. . .. "Ai.i.yi.-i'j f '..' Parachutists . Although" there was no official word in .London that the -new assault was the opening of a new German offensive, there was n6 doubt- in unofficial but' wellr ihfromed . circles that German Field Marshal Erwin Eommel. had begun , a large-scale of fensive, synchronized with th ' great battles in southern Russia. ; Parachute troops which ' ar rived in North Africa at th same time as the 164th division also are believed to be attached to this force. .. v Italians In Batch Two. Italian armored divisions, the Ariete and the Littorio Of 8000 men and approximately 150. tanks .each, also supply some -of the enemy armor.' There are six Italian infantry divisions of 10, 000 men each in North Africa. " Early . Start '. ' .-I It - was the view of well- informed British military sour ces that Rommel began his of fensive earlier than expected be cause . the British rate of rein forcement had been greater than ' hi3 own despite the long sea Journey from the United King-, dom. " - ' ' Rommel's supply line however has7 been constantly harried "by air attack. - He is believed ' to have resolved to attack before further allied . reinforcements' made an assault impossible and his position untenable. McNary Urges Soldier Help In Pear Harvest WASHINGTON, Sept. I (IP) Senator McNary (R-Ore.) urged Lieutenant General John L, De Witt, head of the western dev tense command, In a telegram today, to permit soldiers on fur-: lough from a cantonment neaf Medford, Ore., to aid in- handl ing pears for. cold storage- at Medford. . -0. . ' The senator said pear grow ers, at Salem, Ore., wore, un able to find storage space but could obtain the space at Med ford. The Medford - growers, however, could - not get the labor required to . handle the pears. The senator asked that the soldiers be permitted to aid In the work as was being dona at Fort Lewis, Wash. ; News Index i City Briefs .......Paga S Comics and Story .........Page 8 Courthouse Records Page S Editorial Page ' Information ......Page S Market, Financial ....Page Our Men in Service Page 5 Pattern ... .Page t Sports ' , Page 7