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On t-mlnuU blast on ilrant and whistles li the signal lot blackout In Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during a black out, ) a signal lor all-clear. In precau tionary parlodi, watoh your itraat lights. Bapttmbar 20 High 82, Low 45 Precipitation as oi September Is, if 43 ' tast year J7.8t Normal .... .... ;..12.S1 Straam yaar to data .......M......13.20 ASSi PRH M THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES til (I JNM!H)M VTH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1942 Number 9596 j . ' - . -. k f mm liliiS iWFIIPPOTraT1F'wff"'M QJ ' IP By THANK JENKINS nplIE war today, as for mnny A weeks nnnt. rovo'.-.vs around Ktiillnurnd which still holds out. Stalingrad's defense Is In Its 28th rtny, whereas bovaslopol loll on ma Z7Mi any. - (One must remember, how Of, iver. that Sovnstonol was en .irelv surrounded In lis lust duys. while StaltiiKrad still rcmulns Open to tho east.) THE Germans, unable so far to tnko tho city by storm, resort today to a mighty bombardment with long-rnniio Runs. Moscow dispatches any: "The bloody stniHKlo Is IncrensinR In ferocity by tho hour. Hummus nitrmnni im flohtlntf 11 nut home by house In tho northwest section with the Russians putting tip tl) same valiant resistance that saved Moscow and Lenin grad. Despite fearful losses in dead, the Germans are hurling now Hlvlttlrina nf tnnkfl. nrmored cars and Infantry and swarms of planes Into tho battle," OPravda (Russian newspaper) no. nnrmnii Henri nrn nlled hlchi In tho streets, with tho FRANTIC nazls not even taking time to ro movo their sorlously wounded from the battlefield. tS tl,n r.nrmsn failure (as yet) i to take Stalingrad by storm ' significant?, If taken (or whon) will It cost ha rtlaaatrnuiilv hlBh? - Only time can answer these questions, a a rw-iHH Tlmlti (modern German battleship, equal of anything we or the British have) Is report- - ed today to nave icit its rciugo i TrnnHhalm (Norwav) and to fce patrollng the Arctic sen lanes ' under cover oi nan warpioncs in search of allied convoys bound for Russia. If this report Is true, the Tlr i4r ,1111 hove in he hunted down. .hih will tnltn a lot of allied Onaval strength away from other areas. . Its sulcldo mission (If such It nrnvna to be) Is an admission on the port of the Germons of the tremendous Importance oi mo Arctic supply line to nus.ua. rnllE Finnish minister to Wash i no ton nuts out a feeler for a separate peace. Ho says In a pre pared statement: "Flnlnnrl wnnta to CCasa fight Ing as soon as the threat to her KvUinnrn hna hcon' averted and guarantees obtained for her last ing security. However, no pence virnnniuil him tiecn made -to Fin land, still less any promlso of restitution OI territories uiuuk " Ing to her and least of nil any fnnt-nnlv fnr lnatina security." The f color, presumably, Is put out In Washington witn tne iaca thnt the United States will pro fa, vail on Russia to offer torms that WFInland can accept. fHE Finns are In a tough spot They can't have much atom' aeh for tho wor they're In, but If tlioy try to quit thoy'll havo Hit ler to deal with and Finland is full of German troops, , Finland is also tho KEY to the Arctic supply routo to Russia With Finland OUT, German at tacks on allied convoys to Rus sia would bo more difficult. , The Finnish pence fooler opens an Interesting situation. . . WflLLKIE, nrrlvlng In Moscow, says tho Russians appreci ate the help they've had so fnr from Brltnin nnd tho United ; (Continued on Pngo Two) Central Point Sawmill Burns ' " MEDFORD, Sept. 21 (IP) The -Southern Oregon Sugnr Pine company sawmill near Central Point was destroyed by fire Sat urday nt a loss estimated by Chauncey Florey, owner, at $28,000. - . . Sparks In a sawdust pile wero blamed. ' ' A dry kiln,' boilers and lum ber In the yard were saved. Florey said Insurance covered half the loss. REDS Mill SIEGE STAN "Tirpitz" Leaves Shel ter, Challenges Al lied Power By JAMES M. LONG Associated Press War Editor Germany's mightiest battle ship, tho Tirpitz, slstcrship of the sunken Bismarck, was reported today to huvo left the shelter of Trohdhelm Fjord under cov er of nazl wnrplanes, challeng ing American and British naval powor In a hunt for allied con voys carrying aid to Russia on the hazardous Arctic route to Murmansk. In a sivgo stand surpassing Sevastopol, the red army fought on desperately at Stalingrad amid the shell and bomb-torn wrockugo of that stronghold on the Volga, stemming the nazl on rush for tho fourth consecutive day and In some places hurling tho Germans back by the fury of its counterattacks. Siaga Guns Roar ' Despite the disadvantageous position of the defenders, with their backs to the Volga, the out como could not bo forseen. The stubborn strcct-by-strcot and house-by-house battle for the city of Stalin was of the soma sort that saved Moscow and Lenin grad last fall and early winter. Isolated. Sevastopol fell In, 21 dayiff "Stalingrad la' Wltr 38th day of battering by tanks and guns and the rulnoul rain of bombs.' : German' long range artillery took over tho work of destruction today, shaking the shell-pocked city from end to end In a thund ering barrage which all but drowned tho clatter of rifle and machlnegun fire of the troops locked In close quarter fighting in tho streets of tho suburbs. In Moscow, Wcndoll L. Wlllklo declared he had found tho Rus (Continucd on Page Two) Tool, Labor Shortage Faces Swan Island Yard' PORTLAND, Ore.,: Sept. 21 AP) Elmer I -Hnnn, goncral superintendent of Henry J. Kai ser's Swan Island shipyard, said today that shortages of tools, steel plato and trained workmen wore retarding production. Tho new Kaiser yard Is sched uled to launch (ts first tanker next month, Hann said, "but we cannot mako promises until wo sco tho tools, the materials and the men right hero oh the job." Hann said tho nssombly shop whs lacking three-quarters of the necessary tools and thnt other shops also wero short on equip ment. ''..'. IL Amendment Including Tarm Labor In Parity Price Eyed WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (P) Tho senate amended the ad ministration's ontl-inflatlon bill today to provido that salaries of $9000 a year or more might bo reduced by private employ ers, it they chose, without first having to obtain the consent of tho president. Meanwhile the house rules commtttco limited general ' tie bnto to one dny on tho house anti-Inflation measure but Im posed no restrictions on tha sub sequent offering of amendments. Tho houso will take up the bill tomorrow. Chairman Stcgall (D-Ala.) of tha banking committee an nounced that tho house bill, ns reported by the committee, hnd Included erroneously a section giving tha president power to "suspend any provisions of law relating to tho establishment or maintenance of prices, or to wnges, salaries, or other factors affecting . tho. cost , of . living which are Inconsistent with tho purposo of this act." Rep. Cox. (D-Ga.), a rules committee member, protested thnt by such language, congress would delegate the legislative Big Crowd !L1 The above picture, taken from atop a sound truck parked near the corner of Ninth. and Klamath avenues, shows part of a crowd of some 1500 persons who gathered where members of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious sect were holding a rally. Some members are leaving the building but surrendering ' their literature as they- leave. The literature was later burned In the street. The above picture wes teken shortly after a fight In the rear of the building in which eyes were blackened andanoses bloodied. Additional pictures on page 3. . ' RAF DEVASTATES Vast Fires. Visible From 100 Miles, Touched Off LONDON, Sept. 21 (AP Broad sections of Munich, birth' place of 'the nazi party and site of Important German wor Indus tries, lay devastated today under tho weight of a smashing RAF Bttnck which returning pilots said touched off fires so vnst they could be seen 100 miles away. Details of the assault were un folded Inst night after the .air ministry had analyzed reports of bomber crews who winged (Continued on Page Two) Hunters Asked to Save Cartridges PORTLAND, Sept. 21 (P) Oregon huntors can aid the war effort by snving thoir cartridges. Tho State Guard asked . thnt tho shells be turned over to them for rolondlng. Those thnt can not bo used again will be con tributed to the scrap metal drive. power to the president and "congress might as well adjourn and go home." fitcngall explain ed that tho provision inadvert ently'hod been printed but was not a part of tha bill as ap proved by tho banking com mittee. ' Tho senate bill would direct tho president to stabilize prices, wnges and salaries ns of Sept. 18, as far ns practicable WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (IP) The unprecedented antl-inflntlon bill came up In tho scnato todny, along with a committee report' that fnnd prices hnd been ad vancing at the rate of 40 per cent a year since ln.it spring. Lending further urgency to the measure nuthotlzlng presi dential control of the ' cost of living wero these other findings by the senate banking committee: Prices received by f ramcrs had rlson 85 per cent from August 1030, to August, 1042, whllo the prices paid by tho farmora had Increased 22 per cent in the same period. . ' . . . Since 1030, hourly wngo rates In all manufacturing Industries (Continued on; Page Two) Mills Around Jehovah Witness Convention Hall Closure Bans ; Hunting In All i Forest Lands a PORTLAND, Sept. 21 (AP) With the hunting season only five days off, Oregon forests wore closed to all entry today. State and federal forest offi cials ordered the closure last weekend becauso of unfavorable Conditions. Governor Spraguo promised only that entry would be per mitted when conditions Im proved. . Tho gubernatorial . order, It was learned here, affects all for ests in the entire state. It means, presumably, there . will be no deer or antelope hunting In for est lends. ' Desert, or open field, hunting will be permissible, however, on the basis of the governor's order. There was no Indication when conditions would improve suffi ciently to permit forest entrance. Matt Finnigan, local sporting goods denier, said todny -that a telephone conversation . with Frank B. Wire, Oregon state game commissioner, : had dis closed that tho deer and antelope (Continued on, Pago Two) Baseball BROOKLYN, Sept. 21 (IP) Kirby Higbe won his 13th game of the season todny with a four hit pitching performance as he hurled the Dodgers to a 3 to 1 victory over the Phillies to keep alive their, dwindling hopes in the National league pennant race. AMERICAN R. H. E. Chicago 4 0 4 Detroit 6 10 0 Hnyncs' nnd Dickey; Bridges nnd Parsons. . ' . Mariner Tells of Rescue Following Nazi Sub's SOS PORTLAND, Sept. 21 (IP) Chief Officer Richard C. Lech ner, Portland mariner, told to dny of tho torpedoing of his freighter and of his rescue after a German submarine enptnin .sunt out an SOS for the sur vivors. , An Italian submarine sank the freighter in tho South Atlantic, he. said, but no crewmen were Injured, After drifting In lifeboats 22 days, tho crew was found by a German submarine. The U-boat captain radioed an SOS, then left. A British cargo ship res cued tho crew the next day, Lechner said.' Iff y y " V4Vn ' rf 9k ALUED FIGHTERS Lae Assaulted "With No Interference From Enemy . GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, A u s tralla, Sept. 21 (IP) Operating without Interference from enemy planes allied fighters yesterday attack ed the vital Japanese base at Lae on the northeast coast of New Guinea for the third suc cessive day, burning five barges and a tugboat and damaging shore Installations. . A communique announcing the raid said allied fighters and bombers also had blasted Jap anese supply lines extending in continued on Page Two) ' Two Killed in Flying School . Blast in Texas ' COLEMAN, Tex., Sept! 21 (IP) Two persons were - killed and 18 others were injured In nn explosion which blew the administrator building - of the Coleman Flying school to pieces todny. No official reason was Im mediately announced as to' the cause, but unofficial reports in dicated it resulted from an ac cumulation of gas from a faulty connection. : The dead were George Kneit of Austin, Tex., office manager for the Odom Construction Co., and Mrs, . Arch Yarbro about 25, office manager for the civil ian operator of the school. 1 Killed, 2 Hurt In Collision on Willamette Highway EUGENE, Ore.,' Sept. 21 (IP) One member of a - Sumner Wash., family was killed and two others were injured yes terday in a two-nutomobile col lision on the Willamette high way near Oakridge. Edgar Leo Stanton, 19, died almost Instantly after the car in which he was riding brush ed agntnst one driven by Ed ward Adams, Eugene, and swerved off tho road. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. William M. - Stanton, -Sumner, Wash., were treated for injur ies.' " The accident occurred as the Stantons were driving home from Los Angeles where the youth worked In an aircraft factory. - . UULiLJ IP" DO 1 Moj;ifxat;oi).vU.vr;i; Of Nation : ' Asked In Bill WASHINGTON, . Sept ,21 IF) A bill to provide for universal service and total mobilization of the nation's industries and ma terial resources was. Introduced today by Senator Hill. (D-Ala.). The bill provides "that during any war in which the United States is now engaged the presi dent is authorized and. it is his duty when in his opinion the successful prosecution of the war requires it to' determine, ' pro claim and select the material re sources, industrial .organizations and services over which govern ment control' Is necessary to the successful termination ' of ' the war." The control would be execised by the president through exist ing or new agencies. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (IP) Chairman Tolan (D-Calif.) of the house special committee on de fense migration, citing ."the ab- (Continued on Page .Two) Japanese Woman Arraigned on Bribing Charge SEATTLE, Sept. 21 (AP) Brought here f r o-m an intern ment camp at Eden, Idaho, Fuji Yoshida, 41, Japanese woman formerly of Seattle, was ar raigned in federal court today on the charge that she offered a bribe to Paul N. Ross, immi gration officer, last February in an effort to effect the release of Ruyzo Takimoto, Japanese man held here for deportation. She was arraigned with the assistance of an interpreter, the Rev. U. G. Murphy, Baptist minister. i t 1 I n 1 III V . -I B " I Lower Standard of Living Faces U.S., Legion Warned KANSAS CITY, Sept. 21 (IP) Roane Waring of Memphis was elected national commander of the American Legion todny by a unanimous vote after delegates from every state had stormed on to the stage with their banners in his behalf. , KANSAS CITY. Sept. 21 (IP) Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board, warn ing that tho country must accept a "very much, lower standard of living" in order to win the war. asserted today , that "we. have hardly begun to feel the pinch, so far." "We are going to feel It very acutely before we are a year older," ha said In an address for i . - - i AVWitn Convention ..Violence flared on Klamath Falls streets Sunday, as irate townspeople demonstrated against Jehovah's Witnesses at the; climax of a four-days convention of the sect. .What began as a patriotic demonstration developed into a. riot that left, many black eyes and tender heads among both' townspeople and members of the organization, who had whip-" ped up local feeling by several days of intensive pamphleteering.- DIESJ CRASH M. E. Stevenson Held On Manslaughter Charge f Robert Lee Hbrton, 23, an em ploye of ttd Crater Lake Box and. Lumber company, was in stantly killed late Saturday af ternoon In an" automobile acci dent hear-. Beaftia on the Lake- view , highway,". District Attor ney L. O r t h. S l s e m ore.' re ported today, ;. .. g Sissmore also Klamath' 1942 reves-'ed t h a-t-' Auto Toll . . Marvin Edward 1 Stevenson, a? Scaler for the Klamath Indian service and driver of the pickup which allegedly struck Horton, s being ,. charged with, mm slaughter.. He is being held in the-county, jail. . ' . . '.i- . '! Near Curve Also injured In the crash were James Riley . Wallace , and Leon T. Christie, both employes of the Crater Lake firm. Wallace, suf fering from. a broken leg,. and Christie, with chest injuries, were in the Klamath Valley hos pital .today. Their condition is not critical. .. . ..The district attorney said the accident occurred near a curve in the highway as Horton and several other employes of the Crater . Lake . company were pushing their. truck, which had , . (Continued on Page Two) , 2-Year-Old Fell Asleep on Rails, Escaped Death SEATTLE, Sept. 21 (AP) Donna Lee Smart, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smart, mir aculously escaped death yester day when she fell asleep be tween the rails of railroad tracks near Lake Sammamish and an engine -and two cars passed above her. Deputy Sheriff J. A. Scougal said she suffered only a cut forehead and lacerations of- two fingers and was taken home after emergency treatment at a Renton hospital. Scougal said he heard the freight train jerk to an emerg ency stop and saw the engineer draw the child from beneath one of the cars. The engineer told the officer that he had seen a small dog scamper- from beside a small '"bundle" and did -not realize the object was a child until too close to stop before the locomo tive reached her. ' delivery at the -national Ameri can Legion convention. "It is my considered opinion that we are going to have to cut farther and more deeply lnlo our civilian economy than even the British themselves have done yet with the single exception of food. "We are going to have enough to eat throughout this war, and we probably will not have to put any very drastic limitations on our range of choice In that regard, but in almost every other respect we are going to have to be ready to do without and do without and do without until this war has been won." Nelson explained that th (Continued on Page Two) At least three Injured persons were carted off to : hospitals; windows in the convention building at Ninth and Klamath were broken, pamphlets and banners were burned, several dozen Witness automobiles wet overturned, and stench bomb and rotten eggs were hurled. ' Advance Indication '.' ' ' ' Order was restored through the efforts of speakers who ex horted the crowd, of 1000 or more to disperse, and the po lice and police reserves, who were called out in full force. ' Three days of mutterings over the activities of an army of Witness pamphlet salesmen, gave advance, indication of Sunday' unprecedented local . incident, which began when townspeople gathered about the- convention, headquarters in a .vacant garage at Ninth and Klamath. . , ,i ; Crowd Grew - A war bond ; booth : was brought over from the Pelican theatre and set up on the cor ner.' A loud speaker thick ar LrtoecUand,: Witnesses as well ; as others were urged to buy bonds, The bond sellers did: a. lively business among local'-citizens, but . not among the convention delegates. v, : .Small at first, - the crowd grew to 1000 or more. ; A group of men went to the rear of the convention build ing, 'where a telephone :cabla had been strung to carry a mes sage to the convention front jNi H.:Knorr, Witness leader wno was speaking in Cleveland.- One man got on a drum and began cutting the cable with a hacksaw. . The Witnesses apparently were ready for this. Suddentf a score or more men rushed from the rear of the building, ' armed with sticks and clubs.: . Retired ". : ' I ' J. ',).'.: A lively battle ensued,", In which blood, flowed freely, The Witness fighters retired inside the building, and the (Continued on Page Two) . Jehovah Witnesses, - : War Workers Clash In Little Rock ; j LITTLE ROCK, Ark V; Sept.! 21 (IP) Seven persons were in hospitals here today,, two with gunshot - wounds, following'- a fight between members of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect : and war emergency pipeline work ers yesterday'. , : . ', Authorities said all would re cover. .-: .;.Vv" - Sheriff Gus Caple said the altercation arose over use of a trailer camp restroom. . Several families of pipeline worker lived at the camp where- tha sect members went for a state wide rally. . Five persons who described themselves as members of the sect were arrested for disturb-' ing the peace, Caple said. ' . 207,373 Held Execution Total LONDON, Sept. 21 (AP) The shooting of 116 Frenchmen, last week on tho orders of General Otto von Stuelpnagel German commander in France, brought the total of persons known to have been executed by the Ger mans In occupied Europe to 207,r 373, the inter-alllcd information committee asserted today. . 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