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I'!! hi ' i : i mm By FRANK JENKINS 'yHEHE'S mi encouraging note today In the Ruimlan news tl-.e first In a Ions l!m, Tlintwhenko'i armies, with their bneki to thn Volga, roily, and HOLD tho German uttnck rra at AI-L points befora Sliilln (jnid. -i Tj In tho Cuiinimin, tho Itimalims Appear to bo chucking tho Ger man progress. At iUhov, northwest of Mos cow, thry aro still counter attacking and making hradwoy. nKD STAR, tho Russian army newspaper, says: "Tho en emy la assembling LAST FORCES to break through to tho Volga." . (Report have been current (or dnyi that Hitler la scraping Europe from ono and to tho other for men.) CO much for Ruselnn testimony, ' Tho German radio says In a ' broadcast toduy that the reds are "fighting bitterly to mako Stal ingrad a RED VERDUN." lQ 11 adds that Stalingrad has " irecii tiiiVwiiwxi Uliii w Tii; ;--Ts- ress which will bo "hard to take," and relate that the Rus sian! are using so many tanks and so much artillery that even after German troops have en tared the city they must fight 'from houit to houso, OEWARE of anytmnrtb Cer- man radio says. Its purpose Is ALWAYS to mislead and con- - lure and NEVER to Inform, But its rofcrence to Verdun . la Interesting. It was at Verdun In the last war that Germony was bled white. Tho manpower lost there could never bo replaced. . STALINGRAD may fall. In deed, It will be llttlo short of ' a miracle If It doesn't, for Hitler 'Is concentrating against It all the great strength of men and wei.pons ho spent the winter and f Spring assembling. But, if it docs, the price paid lor It MAY BE TOO GREAT. That is the point to remember. nOMMEL Isn't doing so well In R Egyptso far. ! Ho got Into troublo In the Brit ; Ish minefields in his first at . lack.' Then, on Thursday night, ! ho LOST somo Important posl i (Ions, countcr-nttneked on Frl ' day In nn effort to regain thorn ; and FAILED In his counter attacks. He seems to be sitting tight toddy. . KJJLITARY observers In- Cairo - , . Jhlnk tho damago dono to ; Gorman and Italian armor (tanks chiefly) has been heavy. They speak of tho bulk of tho damage having bran inflicted by British 25-poundcrs and a NEW )4.ft-lnch howitzer. In tho lost bnttla of Egypt, German artil lery was distinctly superior to ' th.o British who seem to have . benefited by tho bitter lesson. ' Some of Rommel's troubles (so far) seem to track to supply difficulties especially gnsollnc. THE British are said to be pro cceding cautiously, afraid of a trap.' They fell into a trap set by Rommel tho last tlmo and , wer severely nearly fatally weakened. IJRITISII and RUSSIAN bomb era pound Germany from the west and from tho cast nt the ftnmo tlmo. Russian planes (presumably) bomb BUDAPEST, In Hungary, American bombers, escorted by fighters, hit Rouen and Lo Havro In Franco with precision' bombing from high lovols In day light, 1 nfnlv HIv flirlitnrai atn nat . fN Monday, the. President of w the United Stales, In what Is described frankly in tho dis patches today as a DECREE, will ABROGATE a law passed by ' congress tho agricultural K 110 per cent of parity Inw. " ' At tho soma time, he will an ' . (Continued on Pogo Three) NAZIS STOPPED IN DRIVE ON Rommel Makes New , Retreat on Egyptian Battlefront By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Marshal Semnnn Tlmoshcn ko's armies, rollying In the hour of deepest crisis, stopped the Germans on tho bloody plains before Stalingrad today and even stormed Into noil lines northwest of ths Volga steel city to capture booty and pris oners. A German broadcast, quoting niul military.. quarters, said the Russians wore fighting bitterly to mako Stalingrad "red Var. dun" and declared tht scrawl. in, inMuiri.! : eMv - h4 Hun converted Into vast fortress which would b difficult to take. German siege guns were re ported pounding tha city while hundreds ... of',1. noil warplanes spread flro and destruction, but till tho red armies, bolstered by factory workera and civil ians, fought to tha death rather than surrender. : . Egyptian Front Further good news for. the United Nations came from tho Egyptian battlefront, where British G. H. Q. reported a new axis retreat on the southern end of tho 35-mlle line and declared that British troops beat off three heavy . counterattacks against newly-won positions on, the cen ter. A communique said the axis forces "again moved slightly woslward" the third straight retreat In the El Hlmolmat sector on the rim of tha great Quattara salt basin. , - Cairo dispatches said the British, mpported by U.. S. (Continued on Page Two) Czech Executions Total 1568 as Heydrich Reprisal LONDON, Sept, 5 (IP) The Gormons have executed 1SBB Czechs, including 84 whole fami lies "regardless of sex or age," In reprisal for tho assassination of gostapo hangman, Relnhard Heydrich, a Crech government spokesman said today. Tho total, figures, he said, In cluded those killed when Lldlco and Lcr.aky were wiped out by tho nazis. "The most horrible chapter Is tho mass murder of whole fami lies without regard to guilt of members. or -of their sex and age," the spokesman said. "Fifty four whole families numbering 131 persons fell victims of this nazl bestiality." , . ! STALINGRAD Maority of Lumber Mills To Shut Down on Labor Day Labor Day weekend' for Klamath county will bo a holi day with virtually every major lumber mill and woods camp shut down and many residents cranking up tho family cor for a lost fling at highways and places far away before winter and thin tires set In. . That Isi It'll bo a holiday for ovcryono but school kids. All city schools and tho Klamath Union high school will conduct classes as usual, So papa and mama will havo to moke their holiday trip without brother Junior and sister Sally. Many mills, however, planned to mako up tho lost day by working ovortlmo or stepping up production later In the week. Mn Inltnl l-nlllriB nl- mihllf ceremonies were planned by . . . ., i, local union groups omer uina weps This Sflc J$ i f f This Tabby nam unknown was born with faca marking which looks Ilka a Hitler mus tache, Bomaona noticad Wi muitacna and kicked bar befora ha thought. Now pussy is in .New York oat hospital with a brokan, jaw. RAF. RED RAIDERS Unidentified Planes Bomb Hungary; Lon don on Alert LONDON, Sept. 8 (P British and Russian airmen administer ed a punishing whlpsaw assault upon Germany from west and cast last night, the RAF kindling big fires In Bremen and the Rus sians scattering bombs over east ern Germany and occupied Po land whilo unidentified allied rn liters mada their first attack on Budapest. Tha German war ' bulletin which reported the raids on east ern Germany failed to name the cities attacked, but the British radio quoted Scandinavian dis patches from Berlin as saying that tho targets Included Vienna In Austria, : Koenlgsburg, a city of East Prussia; and Breslnu, in German Silesia. Budapest Hit Berlin broadcast an ' official Hungarian announcement that Budapest and points In northern Hungary were hit by bombs dropped during a two-hour alarm by high-flying raiders. Tho ,' Budapest onnouncement foiled 'to glvo, their nationality, but tho Germans snid'thcy were Russian and substantiated this by saying they camo from the northeast tho direction of Rus sia. ...'. A few weeks ago American four-motored bombers attacked oil fields In Rumania from some mlddlo eastern base, and recent ly, axis radios have broadcast re (Contlnued on Pago Two) a Labor Day dance by the Teomsters' union tonight In the ormory. - Coast and nearby fishing spots wcro expected to be given a largo ploy by frolicking week enders. Two rodeo attractions In near by areas wore expected to be witnessed by holiday seekers whoso tires aro too thin, for long trips. At Dorrls, Calif., tho first annual Dorrls roundup Is sched uled for .performances on Sun day and Monday. ' Many of the west's best brono riders and rhpers havo been signed for com petition. The show will bo fea tured by Mao Barbour's famed rodeo stock. - . , At Lakevlew, the annual Lokevlcw roundup this year is being combined with the Lako (Continued 04 Page Three) : iviiauDBi u Tabby Has Double Trouble Japanese Center Should Not Cause Any Shortages --HereiSafWRA Officials By MALCOLM EPLEY If, as seems likely,, certain shortages and restrictions force a change In menus and eating customs In tho Klamath basin in the coming wartime winter, they won't be chargeable directly to the Japanese reception center at Newell, according to officials of the war relocation authority. .. ' And what their methods and plans are Is of vital importance to this basin, where extraordi nary conditions of both supply and sentiment are created by the war with Japan and her allies, by tha concentration of 16.000 additional people . here, and by Purchasing of Lumber to Be Consolidated . ' WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (fl3) Under a new system announced by the war department, the con struction division of the office of the' chief of army engineers will- procure all lumber for the army, navy and maritime- com missionwell over half of all lumber produced In this country. This : was effected yesterday through consolidation of -purchasing to eliminate confusing competition lor the scarce ma terial, the announcement said. . Meantime, Price Administra tor Leon Henderson established a price ceiling, effective Septem ber 10, on sales of 6oftwood lum ber from distributing yards, in cluding southern pine, western pine, Douglas fir, hemlock, and other important Industrial woods, all previous schedules, have affected only, sales where' shipment originated at mills. . Tho new rule removed these softwoods, sold by yards, from the general price regulation pro Visions, and it extended cover ago to all woods for which maxi mum mill prices previously hod been set or over 00 per cent of all the softwoods normally handled by distribution yards. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE R.i H. E. Cleveland , 2 9 0 St. Louis ... 6 110 Kennedy, Eiicnstoto (7), siev ing (7) and Desautels, Hcgon (8); Ostermuellcr ond Hayes, Fcrrell (8). NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. St. Louis 3 10 3 Cincinnati .; :...2 10 0 Gumbert, Krlst (6) and Owen; Starr, Thompson (7) and Lam anno. , , . ' iH frn El less nam ' in,'.',.'.'..- - "v the fact these new people are of Japanese descent. Across' bridge tables and in Main street rumor, the Japanese center near Tulelake has already been blamed for local shortages in a variety of items ranging from popsicles to bacon. ... r And nothing, it may be added, so arouses the ire of Caucasian American citizens in these parts as a report that the Japanese evacuees at Newell , are getting something which the rest of us have to get along without, People who wouldn't . eat a popslcls get warm enough to melt a gross of them if they hear that evacuee urchins are getting popsicles but they can't be bought in Klamath Falls, Malin or Chiloquin. Nor Is this attitude unreason able, for it applies to a question of justice to a community of loyal American citizens, who, (Continued on Page Two) . OF U. DESTROYER Auxiliary . Transport Also. Sunk in Pa- ' cific Action WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (AP) The loss of the U. S. destroyer Blue and the small auxiliary transport Colhoun b y enemy action in the South Pacific was announced by the navy today. The navy said the sinkings occurred "during the past two weeks" but did not connect them with any specific action. The destroyer Blue, commis sioned in 1037, was a 1800-ton type vessel and had. a normal complement of 175 men. The transport Colhoun was commis sioned as a destroyer in 1918, served with the destroyer force In the first World war and was converted to on auxiliary trans port in 1940. She would have a (Continued on Page Three) No Paper Labor Day Following a long estab lished custom, The Herald and News will not be pub lished on Labor day, provid ing a day's vacation for em ployes. . Next publication will be the Tuesday edition. ' Tho business office will ba closed on Labor day. , F iL IILLU ilill, Defective Wiring Is Blamed for Blaze; . Locker Saved MALIN, Ore., September 8 (Special) Fire swept the plant of the Malin Cheese and Produce company at noon today. ., The building was . about half burned and the cheese making equipment was destroyed, with a loss estimated at about $10,000. Defective, wiring; in the. wall between the making and curing room was blamed for the blaze, discovered by Cheesemaker Georga Spolek at 12:30 p. m. S Rebuilding Planned -:. - A'-. PiipWer system . -and "the Malin (ire department controlled .ne nre m time to save the cold locker room and a part of the building. Twenty - thousand pounds o cheese were saved. - County- Commissioner John Rebei,lmanager of the plant, was in klamath' Falls, at a meeting at Jhe time-of the fire. He drove immediately to Malin,. and there announced that ire-building of the damage pljint will be, un dertaken." The loss was partial-' ly covered by insurance. . -. " -Truck Milk In ' ' It was, expected the .locker room cold storage plant would , (Continued on Page Two)' f . Committee Will Coordinate Tax Programs Here . An executive ! committee repv resenting tax levying bodies of Klamath, county was formed at a meeting of members of such groups held iii the county court room Saturday morning. . This committee will function in the coordination of tax pro grams in this county which, in the past, have been developed independently, by the various levying groups. It will have no authority, to decree what taxes will be, but -will recommend to the various groups with the pur pose of avoiding tax peaks and otherwise equalizing tax bur dens. ... It was decided that the com mittee will be composed of rep resentatives from the county court, the city of Klamath Falls, county school district, city schools, and all the irrigation districts. Individuals to repre sent these bodies will be named later by the groups participat ing. .;''.'' Saturday's meeting was called by County Judge U. E. Reeder. (Continued on Page. Two) BUILDING BURNED Wheat Growers Organize to Push Alcohol - Rubber Plan PENDLETON, Ore., Sept.. 5 (P) Washington, Idaho and Oregon wheat growers organ ized yesterday to promote the conversion of grain Into alcohol and synthetic rubber. In a meeting sponsored by granges of the three states, ap proximately 300 farmers formed the Trl-state Industrial Alcohol and Synthetic Rubber associa tion. . . As Its first action the associa tion asked congress to finance synthetic rubber factories in this area. ..... Resolutions committee criti cized plans to limit production of synthetic ' rubber to petrol eum, claiming that Xise of grain would be more economical. A report said that enormous stocks of surplus wheat . are available and that rubber pro duced from g,pin would cost 12 Commander Commanding tha American B-25 bombers fighting Nasi General Erwin Rommel's re newed attack in Egypt is Col. C. G. Goodrich of Augusta, Ga., (above), it was announced In Washington.'- AT X No. U. S. Fighters Mis sing; Bursts. Seen ' ' ' On .Target LONDON,' Sept. 5 W The United- States air forces struck .their heaviest blow of the. war against Hitler, today when Fly ing V Fortresses attacked the Rouen .railway yards for the second time and Boston (Doug las) . bombers were in action againsi.the Le' Havre docks. ' --- American "and RAF fighters escorted -the - bombers and en gaged in sharp combats. The Fortresses completed ' their eighth successive raid without loss and all the Bostons came home 'safely, too. '.." " .Largest Flight j - It-was the first time the Bos tons had been used by the Americans since the July 4 raid on Holland. ' Three "squadrons of the four motored ; Fortresses flew against Rouen, . the largest . flight yet used in Europe. They bombed their targets from high altitude. . Yanks Safe . . " .Six allied, fighters were lost. None of the U. S. fighters was missing, , however, an authorita tive source said later. . . A joint .communique issued by U. S. army headquarters and the- air - ministry said: "Light and heavy bombers of the United States army air forces made two attacks on tar gets in occupied France today. "Many bursts were seen on the target; many squadrons of fighters took part in these op erations, escorting the bombers and carrying out diversionary sweeps.". . ..;y-' : ; . cents a pound at first, that the cost would be cut to 6 cents a pound when factories reach full production. ... . . , Rubber produced from petrol eum costs 18 to 24 cents a pound, the committee, said. - Less time, money and: critical metals are required to produce a given amount of rubber from grains and other farm crops than from petroleum or other sources," the association set forth in a communication . to President . ' Roosevelt, cabinet members, rubber reserve board. war production board, congress and other governmental agen cies. . The rubber reserve board's program for production of 800 000 tons ot, synthetic rubber a year, the bulk of it from petrol eum products, is insufficient to (Continued on Page Three) DRASTIC ORDER WILL THWART RISING PRICES Revolutionary F. D. R. Decree to Be Is- 1 . ... sued Monday . WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (AP) A drastic presidential order lim iting all wages, salaries and farm prices was in store for the nation today in an unpre cedented move, government of ficials revealed,- to thwart a threatened runaway rise in tha cost of living. The responsible sources whu can not be quoted by name, said the decree, as drafted by Presi dent Roosevelt for issuance on Labor day, calls for creation ot a n economic administrator to carry out these po'licies and others designed to halt rising wartime living costs. , ; Revolutionary In effect, , the presidential edict is scheduled to tighten the purse strings o every American to luxury or unnecessary spend ing but open them wide to pay. ments of debts and more taxes, and to greater war bond, pur chases. who aided In preparing the mes sage regarded it as almost revo lutionary because an act of con gress virtually wiU be set aside by the farm; price section of the order which affects a pro-vislon-of-the ' prices-control act specifically forbidding any price ceilings on farm products at less than 110 per cent of parity. 1S41 Level Taken . The president will say. his war time powers and duties are sufficient authority for the or der. Already mentioned as pos sibilities for the post of econ omic administrator were Gov ernor Herbert-H.:-Lehman of New York,. WendelL Willkie and Bernard M. -Baruch;': ;-'.i. uenerai provisions -ot tna de cree as outlined by authoritative informants is expected to prc- (Continued on Page Two) Bomber Crash Kiiis Entire Crew of Six . ST. PETERSBURG, Fla- Sept. 5 OP) A medium bomber from MacDill field at Tampa, crashed into Tampa bay near St. Petersburg today, and the en tire crew; believed to number six men, was killed. ' ; The MacDill public relations office said the list of the victims would be made known later. . The plane came down in shal low water about 250 yards off shore. Boats from MacDill field and others from this section im mediately started work of re covering the bodies. Aleutians Report Set for Hearing At Monday Session WASHINGTON. Sept. 8 0P)-i The senate military affairs com mittee will hear at an executive session Monday what Senators Chandler (D-Ky.), Wallgren (D- Wash.) and Holman (R-Ore.) saw recently on their investigation of Alaskan and west coast de fenses. Chairman Chandler of the sub-committee said immediate improvement of Alaskan mili tary establishments had already been recommended, including airplane ferry routes to Asia. Chandler recommended ta them that the Japanese be driv en from Kiska island In the Aleutians. The senator also ex pressed hope the "high com mand" had been "awakened to the necessity of holding Alaska at all costs." News Index Cily Briefs . ..;.............Page S Comics and Story Page 10 Courthouse Records Page 3 Editorial Page t Information Page 3 Market, Financial Page 4 Our Men in Service ..... Page 1 Pattern Page I Society Pages , 8, 7, I Sports Page I C