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By. FRANK JENKINS
tCTE have something new to talk
, about today the Jiip In-
kendlary ' bombing Incident In
Curry comity.
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N'the bail of what we out
a, ' lder k n o w which lin't
Omuchi-the whole affair looka
ecrewy.
' A amall plane aem to have
wept In from the ocean. It may
have come from a Jop lubrnnrlne.
At lent ono of our pnlrol plane
sighted an unidentified U-boat
some SO mile off the coast and
bombed It "with unobserved re
suits." A half hour later, the
.aame plane (presumably) roared
put to tea and disappeared.
Meanwhile it I reported to
have dropped ONE Incendiary
.bomb which started a fire that
waa'seen by sharp-eyed forest
vlookout who sent out the alarm
and than plunged Into the brush
and' put out the fire Ingle
banded. . '
OT
TIES'!) Incendiary bottiba are
LIGHT. It would seem that
even, small plane, such as
could be Jioused In a submarine,
could curry several of thorn. ,
, SEVERAL fire bombp, drop
Ded mllea apart from (needing
plane, might have caused a lot
or tre-uoit.- ; .ir '
CO far, Jap attack on this coast
aem to border on the absurd.
: First a submarine arose out of
the quiet waters of the Santa
Barbara channel ono evening
and fired a dozen shells at the
Goleta oil field, doing no dam
age. Then, months Inter, another
sub appeared off Astoria ' and
lobbed over a few shells,, sgnln
rinlnr no damage. ' -
Come now thl forest-firing
episode,, which appear (on the
face of what we know) to have
been another dud.
0(A'
8 everyone know who-has
watched the moisture that
itaya on the grass all day, hu
midlty has been high of late,
Hleh humidity la UNFAVOR-
ABLE to the spread of forest
fire. Why didn't the Japs wait
for a period of low humldlty7)
i
THEIR attacks on thl coast (so
." far) lead to me snop juag.
tnent that the Jap are a race of
simple-minded children, playing
what amount to Hallowe'en
trick on their enemy.
' But we KNOW BETTER than
that..
" In "their South Sea warfare,
they i have been shrewd,' Intel'
Jlgenl and forcslghtcd. Down
there, they made every move
count. There was no childish
horseplay at 1 Pearl Harbor, at
Manila, at Singapore or in tho
Dutch East Indies.
Everywhere In that port of the
orld they: htive figured their
hots and have played tor keeps.
.7 '
TWHY all this seemingly absurd
exhibitionism ovor here?
-' Are they deliberately trying to
trap, us into the belief Hint they
are harmless llttlo savages, not
jjo be taken seriously, so that
when, (and If) they DO tacklo
us for blood we shall be expect
', (Continued on Pago Four)
Oregon Soldiers
Get Awards for
Bravery in Aleuts
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, .Sept.
45 (AP), Brig. Gen. Simon
Buckncr, commanding tho
Alaska defense command, today
announced additional awards to
soldiers and officers for brav
ery In tho Aleutians and other
military actions In this area.
Air medals went to Lieut.
eorge W.. Glllet.t, Bonneville,
Q)re., and Lieut. Col. Jack N.
T)onohew of Stator, Mo.,, for
making repeated Instrument
flights over tho. Aleutians, de
spite tee and other dnngers, and
attacked the armed enemy..
The purple heart was award
ed posthumously to seven mom.'
bar 6f the crow of a heavy
bomber plane lost whllo attack
ing the Japanese- during bad
weather.
GLA M
DEEP THRUST
Slaughter of; Nazis i Up
6000 In . Last V
Three Days
MOSCOW, Sept. 15 m
Russian soldiers watching the
sklea for enemy plane above
Stullngrad saw other forma
tions overhead, today V' of
cranes, geese and ducks flying
south away from the snow
which soon will be swirling
on the Steppes.
A correspondent of lzvestla,
the government newspaper,
said the mornings already had'
grown cold and that frost
cruated grass was reminding
Germans of last winter' dis
aster. By ROC3ER O, GREEHB V
Associated Press' War Edlter -German
military-quarter as
serted today that.natl troops
were "thrusting deeper" . Into
Stalingrad amid heavy street
fighting and the German' trans
ocean now agency declared
without confirmation elsewhere
that Stalingrad' main railway
station had been captured. . ',-,
A nail spokesman again boast
ad that. the battle for. tbe big
Volga steel city was entering "1U
final phase." , . V, '-,
Reds Claim Cdge .
Russian advices, giving n en
tirely different picture,, said
massed soviet artillery, ..anti
tank barricades and roving tank
destroyers had blocked repeated
German assaults and declared
the red armies were even passing
at times to the counter-attack.,
German field headquarter
said only that "the victorious ad
vance on Stalingrad, excellently
supported by the air force,, ts
gaining further ground."
Violence Re-doubled
With their backs to the Volga,
Stalingrad's defenders were .re
ported In soviet dispatches to be
withstanding the heaviest bomb
ing assaults and still command
ing hills looking down on the
heart of the city. '
The Russians said that tank
led nazl troop had redoubled
the violence of their attack,-but
that German gains were now be
(Continucd on Pago Four)
Japs Killed Own .',
Wounded at Milne
Bay, Officer Says
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Austr alia,
Sept. 15 (AP) The Japanese
killed their own badly wounded
so that no prisoners were taken
in tho battle for Milne bay,
where allied forces crushed a
Japanese landing last month, a
senior allied officer reported to
day, The officer had just .returned
from tho southeastern New
Guinea battlefield. ,
STALINGRAD
Habit Led a Couple of
Jap
SEATTLE, Sept. 15 (JV-The
routine habit of a couple of
Japanese four-motored bombers
led them to tholr destruction in
a carefully prepared trap set by
U. S. army and navy flyers. Such
Is the story told by a group ot
naval officers here on leave from
the Aleutian battlo front.
Study of the enemy flyers
habits had convinced military ob
servers that the big Jap. navy
bombers would be in a certain
place at' a certain time, Lieut.
W. N. Thlcs, 25, of Washington,
D. C, and pilot of b navy Cat
allnn flying boat, related.
Army and navy flyers got to
gether, lie said, and two army
fighters, escorted by a Boeing
Flying Fortress, hid In the region
where the Japs were expected.
A tender was sent ahead to act
aa a target. .,' . ;
When the Japs caught sight ot
tlia tanderthey 'came ln for the
Yanks
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Scrambling from lending barga 'which brought them ashore
at a. dock on the island ot pew , Caledonia, rrea rrencn-eontroiiee, tatane in the soutnwest Pa
cific which' has bwn J!tlpp4. Ihti '- U, Sv ftronghold. Not , French flag 'on- raotor launch, at
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, Fpfm Price;' Wage
- . . Action Now.
. Washington: seot. is (Af)
Secretary of Agriculture Wick-
ard gave his support today to
plan for stabilizing farm prices
at' level' averaging parity, de
claring that 'he recalled too viV
Idly how,. s a farmer, he went
lkHt..h '. "Inflnllnn OilH Aetlli.
Hon" In-the last war.
Wickard appeared before the
senate banking committee, which
a little earlier had heard Price
Administrator Leon Henderson
call for stabilization now of
farm prices, wages and salaries
to head off what ne cauea an
inflation disaster ' as deadly as
a bomb and as treacherous as
the Japanese." '
. income up
They testified in the commit
tee a study of a resolution by
Chairman Wagner (D-N.Y.) and
Senator. Brown (D-Mich.) which
would direct President Roose
velt to stabilize wages, salaries
and price at the general level
ot last AiiRU.it 15. ,
Wickard said estimates for
1942 indicated that-cash farm
income. . Including government
payments, would be flo.oou,
Q00.000, considerably more than
the' previous high level reached
In 1919.
' Control Inadequate
- He said net farm income on
the amount available to farmers
for use In family living and for
savings was estimated at $10,
500,000,000 . or almost $1,000,
000,000 greater than the amount
available In 1919.
Citing steep Increases In the
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Bombers to Ruin
kill" but before they knew what
happened the P-38 army planes
blew the first enemy flyer out
ofthelr.
"The second Jap hit for the
clouds, with the Boeing and the
fighters. after him," Lieut. Thies,
said. "The Bneltig went under
the clouds and flWJied him out
above.. The P-38' were waiting
for him up there, and, flplshed.
him off like nothing. .; ,.
. .No Japs, have been seen In
that area since, he said.
Thies told. of bombing a Jap
anese ' submarine . and ," being
blown '400 to 500 feet into the
air by the force of the explosion.
The explosion blew the tall off
the plane, .ignited one engine and
blew the craft into the clouds
over the sub, the pilot said. It
wa not known whether the sub
was hit.
Included In the group of pilots
here for relaxation was Ensign
S. H. Dlnsmore, 22, of Olympia.
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UsepfKUHS
Harvest Help
May Be Talked
If it develop that the Klanv
th basin potato harvest requires
help' from Klamath Union high
wjfioolt aturten t, the .KUH8 act) oo l
board wilf-'meetV'w'lth': County
Agent Charles A.:' Henderson to.
discus piannqr action.. , -7 -.
Thl ,waf.,the-dec4slort of .the
Klamath, ; Falls school boards
meeting' in- regular session' last
night, lh the high school, Super
intendent , Arnold ; L. Gralapp
aid today. , . ; -.
' Outlying' county, schools- have
already decided to declare a
three-week, vacation .when the
harvest starts. .... .'
Gralapp said the . boards also
approved an expansion . of the
vocational education program at
' (Continued on Page Four)
Men With Social
Diseases Due
To Be Drafted 'v;
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP)
Major General' Lewis B. Her
shey, director of selective serv
ice, informed the house com
mittee on defense migration to
day that on October 1 the army
would begin. inducting men suf
fering from venereal diseases.'
' His statement was made as he
outlined to the. committee the
army' expanding requirements
for manpower. He said, that the
army, now Is. taking, ten: per. cent
of illiterates In . each. Induction
station and that It was "going
to take : more pen day . pretty
soon."
; He told newsmen after com
pleting his testimony that the
supply of single men without de
pendents or without occupa
tional, deferments would be ex
hausted this fall.
Hershey testified that 'married
men with children could expect
to be drafted into' the. services
probably by the end of 1943,
under the present : demands of
the armed forces, but that '.It
might be earlier. . ''.'
.He said that; it would-be nee
essary eventually to take youths
of -the 18-19-year-old class, but
he did not say definitely when
they might be called. . . ..
Bomb Explosion
Rocks British
Relief Office; . - ;
BOSTON. Sept,- 15,(AP)-An
explosion, which a polfce expert
said he believed, was . caused, by
a bomb, rocked the quarters of
the British War Relief society at
Commonwealth', avenue . and
Berkeley .street .shortly, before
noon today. ...',. .
- Sergt. Edward Selbolt, Boston
police' ballistics expert, said the
explosion, ' which sent several
women fleeing to the street, ap
parently had been caused by a
tlme.bomb. It apparently caused
little tdamagatto the. buildings :.
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TAX BILL READY
WASH(5TdN,'Sept.vl!l ()
A record-shattering revenue bill
dipping .'directly' into; the'.'pock
ets'of more thini aithlrd bf ihe'
nation's-" citizens -.for: rnorey. to
help fighf the.war'went to.'the
technical draftsmen-, today with
mixed , approval'.' and. criticism
from .members of - the- senate . fi
nance committee. . : y
About 23,000,000 persons who
previously . paid no federal Income-taxes
would' join. 20,000;
000 old taxpayers and the cor
porations to provide' treasury
collections estimated unofficially
at more than $25,500,000,000 an
nually under terms of the meas
ure as it was approved by the
committee last night. : : -. f
Rebate Limited . '
: The committee ruled ' that a
proposed -post-war rebate, for
corporations- should be limited
to 10 per cent of the excess
profits taxes, they paid, Instead
of Including also their surtaxes.
Corporations .thus were pro
vided with; $700,000,000 poten
tial rebate's, accompanied by
$1,100,000,000 to- be . repaid to
individuals under trie victory
tax. This represented' a $1,800,
000,000 annual loan .that; would
be collected by , the treasury in
addition to the $23,774,000,000
estimated return in direct taxes.
This compares with $17,000,000.-
000 annual revenue under exist
ing, law.. . .-. . -
Dieppe Raid Cost
Canada 3350 Dead,
Wounded, Missing'
OTTAWA, Sept 15 (AP)
Canadian casualties In the allied
raid on Dieppe last month total
ed 3350 dead, wounded and
missing, the department of na
tional defense announced today.
v A '134-page casualty list was
Issued. ,.
Along with casualties prev
iously reported, the list brought
the total of known dead, to 170.
including 40 officers, the wounded-tq33
including 41 officers
and - the missing: .to! 2547. in
cluding 130 officers.
Bulletin
LONDON,-Sept.' 15 '(AP).
A .Reuters -dispatch- from
Stockholm today reported that
planes believed 'to be British
and American last night bomb
ed parts of .Bulgaria. Details
were lacking. The Stockholm,
reports quoted- Swedish cor-'
-re$popdentsnn 'Berlin.
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Moresby Drive Stalled;
- Jap Prisoners ;
Taken . ; ';
By The Associated Press .
The United States has gained
the balance of military and na
val striking power over Japan
in me rar macule. Rear Admiral
W. H. Blahdy declared in Wash
ington ; today, while other re
port said' American forces were
nearlng the. halfway mark In
their fight to destroy Japan's
airora(t- carrier strength; v , .
....tomirar.-. Blandy, -;returnlng
from . ' 28,000-mile -inspe'ctlon
.trip,, said .that "for the time be
tng; most certainly," the United
States had gained the advantage
over Japan.'..''
' "Keep Pushing".
Asked If 'tfie allies were In a
p o s i 1 1 0, n . "to hold ;'the Japs
;int , anything '.' they, 'might
"yes, I thmVwi'afe"'
wi can't do. it by merely, ndid
ing, (We'ye, got' to - keep, push
ing The 'best defense is a strong
oflehse.JVe can't, remain static.!'
-.Hi statements were made at
Secretary Knox' press, confer
ence.1-.' --
V '.. Sixth Carrier Sunk
. i Dispatches from . Clark Lee.
Associated Press - correspondent
In' the Pacific, told of . the prob
able .linking of a. 7500-ton Japa
nese, carrier in a battle off the
Solomon; islands on August 24
the sixth enemy; carrier re
ported sent to the bottom since
Pearl ' Harbor,. Previously, the
navy .said a Japanese carrier -of
the type - described by Lee had
been severely damaged.
Lee' said American fliers- reg
istered four - bomb hits and a
torpedo hit on . the ship' and
our pilots think there is every
reason to believe it went down."
Morejby Drire Stalled .
If so, that leaves the enemy
only eight known carriers still
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lr May Be Strictly
A La Carte From
Now on In the U. S.
By EDITH GAYLORD
.. NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (AP)
Strictly a la carte is the. order
ot a food conservation and man
power saving program submitted
for - government approval by
restauranteurs who foresee war
time food scarcities. .
The proposal, drawn up by
Rene Muller, New York maitre
d'hote), seeks elimination of the
table d note, plate dinners and
other fixed price meals which
have become American institutions.-
'
: Muller contends much food. is
wasted by the public's natural
tendency to take everything
listed on a fixed price meal, even
when that much, food is' n o t
wanted. '
50 PER GEN
Klamaih Scrap Harvest ;
Grows; FDR Asks Action
Klamath Falls' "scrap harvest"
was gathering momentum this
week with the announcement
that scrap metal and rubber gath
ered by residents and placed on
curbs .would be picked up by
truck Saturday afternoon.
Jim Kerns Jr., chairman of the
industrial salvage committee,
said that old electric- irons,
aluminum pans, pieces of pipe--anything
that has metal in it
would be acceptable. He also
urged that any and all rubber
goods that householders could
dig put be placed .on curbs for
collection. -i(
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Tobruk Raiders
Return Safely:
To Alexandria
CAIRO, Sept. 15 (AP) The
British naval force which raid
ed Tobruk In the .allies' heavy
land-sea-air assault on the Liby
an stronghold Sunday, has
reached . its . Alexandria -.' base
after beating off waves of axis
dive-bombers . which followed it
almost all the way home,' it was
disclosed tonight. : :.
. The warships steamed '. Into
port safely yesterday under an
umbrella -of long-range fighters.
- Official sources still were un
communicative on details of the
raid; but its purpose was de
scribed as having been to ."deny
to the, enemy, as much as pos
sible of the excellent facilities
afforded by the vital' port."
Large ' formations of ;axis
bombers attempted to intercept
British .-warships returning from
the-raid-but long-range RAF
fighters "obliged them to Jettir
son-their bombs and: Inflicted
casualties,"-, a communique said.
"Over . the. Egyptian" battle
front, ,-alr activity was .' on- a
small- scale yesterday, the bulle
tin from the RAF and British
headquarters said. ' ;'. -
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Two Raiders Missing
' Out J of .''Hundreds'';
Of-Bombers -
London; Sept. -is mibe
RAF hurled a strong :fbrce-of
bombers last night against Wil
helmshaven, chief German naval
station on the' North sea, and
kindled fires which participating
pilots said were left spreading
"right bang in the middle of the
docks."
From this assault by perhaps
hundreds of bombers only two
raiders were 'lost, the air min
istry said.
Full Swing
The Wilhelmshaven . attack
was the second by the RAF in as
many nights and the -ninth this
month upon Germany. '
. Wilhelmshaven, 50 miles air
line northwest of " Bremen,' "the
main target the night before, is
the chief German naval' station
on the North sea. -
Anniversary - .
The constant pounding of Ger
many marked a full swing of the
pendulum from two years ago
when it was Britain which ,un
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Bunyanettes Take ' -
Oyer In Planer ;
' REEDSPORT, Sept. 15 . (AP)
Bunyanettes or lady swamill
workers have appeared in this
lumbering port of the Oregon
coast. - ,-';-
The Gardiner Lumber, com
pany, announced today employ
ment of five women in its planer
mill.
: The mills hereabout hope to
replace men with women in the
lighter jobs, thus releasing man
power for heavier, work in log
ging camps. , .' .
county , who are' able' to gather
a truck load of scrap In one
place,, may call the chamber of
commerce, 5193, and a-county
dump trQck will be sent to pick
it: up,- it was announced by Rob
ert McCambrldge, county sal
vage committee chairman. Coun
ty pick ups will be made all
week, it was said. "-.
Trucks to collect- the scrap in
the city have been donated by
local business firms and will be
manned by members . of the
Teamsters' union who have vol
unteered their service. ,
Klamath Fall ' labor " unions
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FRAGMENTS
pnurn nriirii
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Smalj Forest Fire Un
': :der Control. After '
' Sept.- 9 Attack
- SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 15
VP) A foot-deep crater,, appar.
ehtly caused by an Incendiary
bomb, gave evidence today of
what may' have been ' the first
aerial . assault ' upon " United
States home . soil, an apparent
attempt to set fire to an isolat
ed, forest' on the southern- Ore
gon coast. . . ; . . I
The army's western .defense
command, in a carefully-worded
communique, disclosed that an
unidentified, . small seaplane of
a. type' that might have been
carried on a submarine -wa
seen, coming inland. just . before
dawn September 9, and was
heard roaring out to. sea about
half an; b,our later, ; ;i if (
"i ?y ' Sub- Bombed-' '
; ' '-Some'; timai after '. th' ;plain)'
wa seen .' circling J the .-'.Mount
Emily area, nine miles northeast
of - Brookings, Ore., a fire was
observed,' and forestry patrols
who -' extinguished; ; the'3 blare
found a crater arid metal 'frag
ments which the ' a r m y ; said
bore ' "markings of Japanese
ideographs-, which may haye
been part of ' a j code indicating
the arsenal where the bomb was
manufactured." . . , " ; '.
Several hours after the : ap
pearance 'and disappearance of
the', seaplane was reported, an
army patrol plane sighted 'and
bombed a submarine 30 -mile
off the Oregon coast with 'un
observed results." ;-.
"Excellent Test" . .
The army communique noted!
"It is possible a plane of this
type might have been carried
on a submarine."
' Lieut. T. J. Runyan, area 'su
pervisor "of the air raid warn-
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Gannett Named -To
GOP National
Committee Roster '
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP)
Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr.,
of the republican national com
mittee today appointed Frank
Gannett, Rochester, N. Y., pub
lisher, to be assistant chairman,
Gannett said in a statement:
"Like. millions of other Amer
icans, 'I am distressed and dis
turbed by the bungling, con
fusing and inefficient adminis
tration of ; our affairs in this
great crisis. . " , i.'
"We can win this war only
by marshaling all our strength,
all our resources, all our ability
and brain power." '
Deer Season Opens!
At Dawn Tomorrow
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 15
(AP) At dawn tomorrow the
deer season will open in '-Call?
fornia's northern and eastern
mountains. ......
' . Hunting will start at one-half
hour before sunrise, Sept.-16, in
these counties: Trinity Del
Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen,
Plumas, Sierra, Alpine Mono,
Inyo; that part of . Humboldt
north and east of district 11,
and parts of counties in district
1 and district li, north and east
of Ponderosa way. !
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Courthouse Records ....Page ,4
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Midland Empire News, Page , 9
Our, Men in Service ..Page ' 3
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