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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
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III
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"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. , .
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JAPS LEFT IN
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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..
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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
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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. ;
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Comics and Story .........Page 8
Courthouse Records Page S
Editorial Page '
Information ......Page S
Market, Financial ....Page
Our Men in Service Page 5
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