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
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M THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
til (I JNM!H)M
VTH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1942
Number 9596 j . ' - . -.
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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. ''..'.
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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
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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.
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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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City Briefs ...PagtrS
Comics and Story.........Page 8
Editorial Page 4
Information .....'.........'..;.PBge' 5
Market, Financial Page ft,
Midland Empire News....Page 7
Our Men In Service .Page 8
Pattern ,...Page 4
Snorts . .............Page '