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UfflRWJI ijlllliniMllimimillllilllimmiij, mm ill iner news Eilllii&l&iia On 8-mlnut blt on (Iran and whittle It th signal for blickout In Klamath falls. Anothar long bint, during blick out, It ilgnil lor ll-elr. In precau tionary ptrlodt, watch your trel lights. September 13 High 82, Low 43 ' Precipitation ai ol September 7, 1941 ' Last year .....17.M Normal -..............U.4g Btraam yaar to data ........,............ 13,20 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE K-aim '.HrmM A FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1942 Number 8591 nMMraBPrSUni'JII A X Villi II A Jr I j . A I N ( Jf V MMI5J1 i j mil mm Huss-Ho d lllllllll! ippK mm 111 fiiiii i W HI : h hi Hi! am..r ajVjam. : . W ' . aVJ I ' Bill ! Iln!li,i!ii iiMll ii III I !T! 1 i ill I '!' 1.1 ttlajw I'! ! ! llnil1 ' i: I ; 11! i;i By FRANK JENKINS I 1 1 LillU , Hi, ulll III" ua liuiu w- ' day In the newt from Rus sia. ' The air above Stalingrad con tinue to bo full of German bombers, but In . recent days there has been no mention of ac tion by soviet FIGHTERS. Stal ingrad's defenders appear to ba depending , uporV antl aircraft guns and aven volleys from In fantrymen, who nra described as often turning their rifles on Ger jnan dive bombers, . . WHY ara no Russian fighters w In action? You mny be very sure thla Is the answer (If It Is true that Rus sian fighters ara lacking): - Because the Russians HAVEN'T ANY TO SPAMS. T ET us turn here to Washing ton, where FDn tells con grass today the United States Is producing only a little mora than HALF Ha MAXIMUM pos sible production. ' ; Ha. then warns: .a . ' VNol. until wa hava . reached the maximum and we can do this only by stripping our civil ian economy, to the bone an our fighting men and THOSE OF OUR ALLIES ba assured, of the vastly greater quantity of weapons required to TURN the tide." NOTE the President's expres sion: 'TURN the tide." It must be taken as mennlng that the tide Is still running AGAINST US. . No easy optimism that Hitler will beat out his brains against 41, Cfn1lna-arl ftufflniN nnH will thereafter be Incapable of fur ther action on a big scale Is justi fied. P . D. R. adds that compared with their resources Britain nd Russia have produced more Weapons than the United States and have gone on fighting at the same time. He concludes: "We and the other United Nations need all the weapons all of us can pro duce and all the men that all of us can muster." In other words, this Is a fight io the finish and we aren't yet putting Into It everything we have. i-Produclng-only little more than half of what we are cap able of producing means that we sre still fighting with one hand iled behind us. The President Is tolling us we tAn i nut inu nti, JETTING back to Russia, the . Germans, after taking Nov brosslsk, are apparently feeling out the Russian strength to the south in preparation for a drive down the Black Sea . coast to ward . Batum, thus outflanking the Caucasus mountains. (Your map will tell you what that would mean.) COMETHING new. Is happening . In France. The Vichy government Is put ting through some sort of forced labor draft. Details aro lacking, but it appears that all "able bodied Frenchmen between the ges of 18 and 60 and all unmar ried French women between the ages of 21 and 35'aro being com pelled to register for somo kind of forced labor service WHERE these conscripted la borers arc to be used. Isn't made plain. Possibly they are to be put to work making German arms nd munitions In French fac tories, Mora likely, they are to be sent to Germany, i There arc supposed to be some million and a quarter French prisoners In Germany who can be exchanged on the basis of three workers for each prisoner. It may be these prisoners are be ., (Continued on Page Two) 1 VI OUTPUT STILL5HjT, $8 Billion a Year Lend-Lease Aid Disclosed in WASHINGTON. Sept. 14 P) President Roosevelt told con gress today that the United States was producing only a little more than 60 per cent of it maximum possible war pro duction and solemnly warned: "Not until we have reached the maximum and we can do this only by stripping our civil ian economy to the bone can our fighting men and those of our allies be. assured of the vastly greater .' quantities of weapons required to 'turn the tide. ' Land Leas Report "Not until then can the united nations - march forward together to certain victory." Tho president'! statement was In a letter transmitting the sixth quarterly lcnd;lease . report in which he spoke of BrlJatn-as "an offensive bake." 'The report showed such aid to the British commonwealth of: nations and 38 other countries during the 18 months since the program be gan totalled $0,480,000 with actual exports amounting to $3,628,000,000. In the same time lend-lease countries purchased $6,800,000,000 worth of goods, (Continued on Page Two) British Near Capital of Madagascar LONDON, Sept. 14 (VP) Brit ish forces moving Inland from the west coast of Madagascar to prevent use of .the Island by the axis, are making good progress and one column is within ISO miles of Tananarive, the capital, tho British war office announced today. The city of Macvatanana on tno road from Majunga to Tan anarive has been occupied and forward elements of this column are pushing on toward Andreba, about 126 miles northeast of the capital, Maevannana Is about 160 miles northwest of Tanana rive. : Tlie allied forces which landed farther south at Morondava wore reported mooting a "little or no opposition" on the advanco inland. From Ambanja, on tho northwest coast, another column was reported "making good progress" southward. The force advancing from Ma junga, encountered resistance from Vichy forces at a bridge (Continued on Page Two) Yank Pilois Get Inferior 1 Planes, Says Sen. Truman WASHINGTON, Sept.-14 (P) Chairman Truman (D-Mo.) of the senate defense Investigating committee declared today that United States pilots .were sup plied with inferior fighting planes and called for "two-fisted" administration of tho war production front. Senator Wall grcn (D-Wash.) seconded his criticism, "Our boya have proved their superiority as pilots on inferior planes," Truman (old the senate. "They are entitled to tho best planes vo can give them." At tho same time, Truman said a confidential report given his committee by a military af fairs subcommittee headed by Senator Chandler (DKy.) indi cated that more attention should bo given Immediately "to obtain ing a workable unity of com mand, particularly In A'a'ka" Wallgreni a member" of the afitinn DMIVUfiaU Navy Ace j. V v-na Machinist Donal E. Hunyon (above), . 29, oi Crawfordsvtlla, Ind., shot down four Japanese planas In an air battle In the southwest Pacific In which BE anamy planas ware destroyed. Clark Lea, Associated Press correspondent, reported that Runyon, who' Is credited with eight Jap plana In all, Is be lieved to ba t h navy's top ranking combat pilot. Patrols Active on Both Sides of Mountain Range GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 14 CP) Allied forces held the Japanese Invader at bay 40 miles florth of Port Moresby for the fourth successive day yes terday while medium bombers dropped 17 tons of bombs on the Japanese base and airfield at Lae and Flying Fortresses at tacked three enemy merchant ships and a cruiser off New Guinea's coasts, a communique sold today. ' ' General MacArlhur' reported that patrols were active on both sides in the Owen Stanley moun tain region. where the Japanese (Continued on Page Two) . Medford High Students to Help In Fruit Harvest - - MEDFORD, Sept. 14 (P) Medford high school will open September 28, two weeks later than scheduled to permit pupils to aid In the fruit harvest. Originally set to start today, the opening of high and grade schools was postponed one week. An' additional week's postpone ment later was announced for tho high school. -i Chandler subcommittee, which recently Investigated Alaskan defenses, reported that his con versations with pilots there con vinced him that American fight er planes do not "measure up to the best fighters Great Britain Is producing today." He added that tho navy was using a plane "that Is a joke." Truman demanded that the army "concentrate on the pro duction of its best planes and give less attention to "publicity blurbs Intended to , emphasize that poor planes are bc'.'.ci than none at all." Senators ', Johnson (D-Colo.) and Lucas (D-IU.) expressed the view, that Japan's Zero fighters flew higher and faster than American fighters because they were stripped of protective ar mament. , Wallgron said his InleresUwas (Continued on Jag' Three) ' li v -Jf ALLIES HOLD JAPS 10m OF MORESBY SOVIETS HALT NAZI THRUST HIGH Lack of Red Fighter Plane Resistance Held Ominous MOSCOW. Sept. U VP) Fresh hordes of nail troop smashed today at the aproaches to Stalingrad In an obvious all out effort to torm- the : city whatever the cost In blood but the Russians said - that : after yielding precious - ground the red army- halted - and pushed back a new penetration- south west of the ettyi,--v .'. Both to. the west and south west the Germans were pouring tahKftnd armored, ears and new reserves into the .'bloody "strug gle, but . the mid-day commun ique Indicated tht Russians were holding. " . ; : ; ' Berlin Claim ' Earlier the Russians bad ' re ported tht 'tapturf 'bif the Ger mans' of an unidentified "popu lated place" southwest of Sjtaj. Ingradi ' From all repprts.It.wa apparent; -thai;; 'Wf crudaj test xur iini peieaguercu-ciiy was at nand. - .". ;. - , . ; (The German high command announced Sunday that German troops were fighting in the southern streets of Stalingrad and that siege lines about the city had been tightened). Ominous' Note ' One ,of the most amazing fea tures of Stalingrad's refusal: to yield has been-its resistance. to mass bombings. Russian troops In the front lines and m the rear are being subjected to at tacks by day and night. Recent dispatches have not mentioned soviet fighter sup port, the defense apparently de- (Continued on Page Two) , Anti-Inflation Bill Would Give FDR Broad Power WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (P) Legislation ' specifically author izing President Roosevelt to sta bilize wages and salaries as of August 15 and farm prices at levels not below parity was in troduced today in the senate' in response to- the president's de mand that congress act by Oct. 1 to control inflation. , Offered by Chairman 'Wagner (D-N. V.) of the banking com mittee .and Senator Brown (D Mich.),' pilot of previous ad ministration price control . leg islation, the resolution would give, the president broad power to deal with all . other factors involved .In the cost of living. Senate Minority Leader Mc Nary of Oregon called a con ference of republican senators Wednesday amid Indications that they, would support the bill. (Continued on Page Two) ,. . Baseball NATIONAL ' PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14 The St. Louis Cardinals -bunched four hits with three Phlllle errors after one was out in the ninth Inning today to score four runs and beat the Phils, 8 to 3. The victory sent the Cards a game and a half ahead of the idle Brooklyn Dodgers. i ,R. H. E. St. Louis .-.......-."..'.....e i B 1 Philadelphia ...;....3 7 8 iGumbert, Dickson (7), Krlst (8), and Odea; Pearson, PodgaJ ny (8), Hughes (BV.Nahcm (9), and Bragan, Livingston (8). v AMERICAN LEAGUE CLEVELAND, Sept. 14 (P) Tho New York Yankees clinch ed tlielr second successive Amer (Continued on Page Two) . American Members of a U. S. army tank crew unload their bedroll and tat '-up- camp for tha night somewhere In the Egyptian desert where they are aiding British forces in holding th . Middle East for the United Nation., Far enough away so that one bomb from an enemy plana could not put It out of commission. U another American tank (upper right). LAW FMNCH Abie-Bodied Citizens, . Unmarried Women ;. ( ; Af feezed i 'WCHYj.SapWliiMFrehcri employers were ordered io stand by 1 today' to' assemble crews of workmen apparently' for ship ment to Germany . under a sweeping new compulsory labor law which the Vichy 'govern ment intimated it had decreed to avert the possibility Of ' even more stringent,.- action . by the Germans. Subject: to; the iaw. are all able-bodied Frenchmen between the ages of 18 and. 5.0 and. un married French women between 21 and- 35. ' Persons In these categories unable to prove they are engaged In .work "useful to the country's -needs" may be drafted "to effect all labors which the government will judge useful in the higher Interests of the nation." . : ' No Limitation ' Morning newspapers broke the news of the new. law to the people under ..single .column heads and in second position to long accounts of fighting in Rus sia, the British advance -in Mada-(Continued-onr Page Two) Nazis Claim Big Convoy Battle Raging in Atlantic NEW YORK, Sept.. 14 .MP) The German radio broadcast a special ' communique today . re porting that U-boats have sunK 19 ships totaling 122,000 tons, two destroyers and one corvette out of an allied convoy in the north Atlantic, '',' There. was no allied confirma tion of this enemy report, which sounded -suspiciously-similar to another German special an nouncement also : unconfirmed yesterday claiming sinking of 18 allied ships totaling 121,500 tons and the torpedoing of a 19th ship.- This announcement said that In addition "a convoy battle of major proportions" was in progress in -the Atlantic; War Production Still Not Enough, Says Donald Nelson : CAMDEN, N. J., Sept.. 14 ) Dortald M- Nelson,, war produc tion. Hoard chairman, says that although this nation's war . pro duction has been stepped up 350 per cent since Pearl Harbor it is not yet "good enough." "Wa have not won this war," he said, "We are not even win ning it--yet. In this game there Is no second prlre.- We are play ing It fqr keeps." ;' . Nelson spoke last night over the NBC, network as a guest -of the labor-management commit tee of RCA-Vlctor here in an address directed at 3,500,000 workers enrolled In labor-management- committees, in-, 1500 plants.-. - ' - Tankmen Set Up Camp v ggapaKu ' ' Pjf motor. First Aid;Sqyes Life h Of Mofan Nefsofll: Artificial respiration arid' the use of the pulraotor donated to the police department by th? Teamster's union were respon sible. for saving the .life of llttle woian Don Nelson Saturday, it has been learned.' I Puring.i; routine ..-admlrunru Odn of ether for a tonsillectomy, Nolan's lungs became1 paralyzed ana collapsed. The doctor and nurses administered ,.: artificial respiration until : the" pulmotor arrived," after which- it took- an hour to restore the lad to con sciousness. . : : j Nolan Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Nelson .of 1635 Manzanlta street, who said that he has completely - recovered. They expressed their gratitude for the splendid cooperation of doctor, nurses and police, and especially thanked the Team ster's union for making the pul motor available. Assassination Try Brings State of Siege in Macedonia i . 1 ; BERN, Switzerland, .Sept. 14 (JP) A state-of siege in the dis trict and :city of Skoplje,! In Bul garian Macedonia,. was declared after, an- attempt to assassinate Bulgarian . . Interior : Minister Peter Gabrovsky and- an out break of resistance through the southern Part of former Serbia, Balkan dispatches disclosed - to day. : ' : . A Sofia dispatch to the news paper Neue Zuercher said that planes of undisclosed-' national ity swept over the district and dropped leaflets addressed to the population and war mate rials to Macedonian insurgents. Bulgarian police and' axis -occupation troops were rushed to the area in an attempt to maintain order. '..'.'.- At Smilevo and another un disclosed ' village all Bulgarian officials were reported killed by Macedonian bands. , Modified Version of "Sea Otter" Ships To Be Built WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (P) Government-owned "Cargoes In corporated" has .completed tests and has asked for bids for con struction of a full-scale' ' model of. the "Seamoblle," a modified version of the "Sea -Otter," shallow-draft cargo ship described as being virtually immune to torpedo attack. President Roosevelt made this disclosure in a report , to con gress today on lend-lease expen ditures to the end of August. He said lend-lease money was being used tot rnany ' "special projects," among them experi menting with, the Seamoblle. - Such a vessel was advocated months ago on the theory it would ride so high in the water that torpedoes would pass under It. The argument also was made that . it would be inexpensive since only gasoline motors would in Desert She Married Men; Youths !.Will ;Be Called. tQ, . ;V ' ASBURY PARK T$?JJ.; 6ept. 14 Skiaj'of beneral, Lewis B. Hershey, .national director of se lective service,'-, thinks .'th; - war is getting closer to married men with ehildreri and to youths of 18 and 19. ' . , , . "We can't call a recess In, this war until people grow up," Gen eral : Hershey ; told New . Jersey Legionnaires yesterday,. -referring to forecasts that the young er" men would be drafted soon. "Prospects of. a. very .large, mo bilization seem in the cards for next year;" Not Enough . He predicted that manpower needs of global war would result In previously-deferred husbands with, dependents -and -war pro duction workers being called to arms. "We will have to come to the realization 'that there are - not enough single men, that there are . not enough married men without dependents for the mo bilization of, - say, between- 10 ' (Continued on Page Two) Rubber "Czar" , To Be Named ' WASHINGTON, Sept, 14 (IP) Donald, M. Nelson. said today he would disclose. the name, of the new rubber administrator late this afternoon . .or tomorrow morning. ...... . The war production board chairman, conferred with Presi dent. Roosevelt on plans for put ting into operation the program recommended by he special Baruch rubber committee, which urged an administrator to have .full and complete authprlty. In all matters related to rubber." be used . and .-that it could Jbe produced in mass quantities; . - The president reported that experiments with , small-sized models of, the .Sea Otter were not conclusive, that a . full-sized vessel . was . built and tests on this brought out defects which called for redesigning. "In .order that the possibil ities of a vessel of this type mlgnt be .. fully - explored, ' said nis report, "the lend-lease ad ministration continued -Its help by financing the construction of a second full-scale model of a modified design, known as the Seamoblle. "... ; ! "The development of this type of . ship' -has been ' entrusted to a corporation, known as 'Car goes, Incorporated,', under the control of a board of directors, on which the navy department, , (Continued. on;Page Two) .. GIG BOMBERS E RAF Reports Ffres in Bremen Visible for : 100 Miles ny The Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 14 British and Russian bombers, delivering a new twin blow to' the flanks of the axis 1000 miles apart. smashed at the ' northwest Ger man port of Bremen last 'night in an RAF attack probably hun dreds of planes strong, and raid ed Bucharest and the Ploestl oil -region of Rumania from bases deep In Russia ' -...' Lone flying British' bombers were back over northwestern Germany again at dawn in follow-up attacks, the air ministry reported, announcing a total loss of 18 British bombers. i 1 - Tire Glow : The air - rninlstry .- said -the 100th attack of the war on Bre men; was delivered by a "very strong force, a phrase which was taken" here to indicate that bombers by the hundreds wera used.' ;;. ', "' 1 ' - Returning pilots reported'vis ibllity through rifts in the light clouds was) good and eald.:hey unloaded' their -tons 'of explo-sives-over tht Weser .river port by the - light of raging fires Wbose--ed-glow they caulcl "see- for lOO. miles 'on" , their" '-flight back "to base. . ' ' ". ' 'No Damage" --The-Berlin-radio, - broadcast ing the , German communique, said Russian bombers were over eastern - Germany during th) some night, and ' quoted ' dis patches fom Bucharest that- th Rumanian-capital and the Ploes tl -region to the north wera -attacked by -soviet bombers. ' - ' ; The - dispatches described -tha Ploestl . attacks as ineffective and said Bucharest had - two alarms during the night - and (Continued on- Page Two 38 Perish in Atlantic Sinking Of Patrol Boat - , OTTAWA, Sept 14 (Can adian naval authorities announc ed today the loss of the Canad ian patrol vessel Racoon -with 38 officers, and men and the sink ing of four United Nations mer chant ships. - - - r - The' navy statement said tha Racoon was lost whil.e guarding a convoy and that- "it must b presumed that all hands were lost'wlth her." : , .;' , ; The sinkings were known, to have occurred off the. east coast, although, the. navy did not give the. exact location. . .v There has been "an increase In the tempo of enemy activity on Canada's side of the Atlan-" tic," Navy Minister Angus Mc Donald said. Deer Hunters Eye . California Opening Wednesday Morning Oregon gunners, and Klamath county . nimrods - particularly, were cleaning their, weapons to day for the opening of the Cali fornia deer' season Wednesday morning at sun-up. Elmer L.' Myers, president of the Klamath County Sports men's association, said that all of northern California from1 the Pacific ocean to the Nevada line will be open with the exception of Tehama county. He advised. hunters to stop at tho Dorrls checking station for fire permits or information where to get them for the partic ular area in which they plan to hunt. . . , . , . . . News Index City Briefs ..,Page 8 Comics and Story .....,Page 6 Courthouse Records .....Page 2 Editorial .' Page 4 Information .'.Page 3 Market, Financial ....Page ,7 Midland Empire News ..Page 4 Our . Men in Service Page 3 Pattern . ; Page 4 Spprtg ....-,..,l....Page 0 RRFMFN u 1 1 U III a. Ill RUMANIAN AREA . .-. .. . ' ' ' " . . Art