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anii letor BSR'Slffi h -1 1 1 . ' . I n I ' " i 1 1 1 1 1 1 I.I I 1 1 iji. llWIilipilll! ews 0 Ont 6-mlnule blast on sirens and whistles I the signal lot blackout in Klamath Talli. Another long blast, during a black out, la a itgnal lor all-clear. In precau tionary ptrlodi, watch your itraet lights. September 24 High 89. Low 81 ' Precipitation at of Saptambar IS, 1843' Last yaar ... ...... .. 17.58 ' Normal ...........M...12.8t " ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES, Btraam yaar to data .............13.2Q PRICE F?vr fJNTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1A42 '""" Jlltlmi., fo) yl Number' 9600 . u-'wjmai.w) I n 1 Fl .. . 0 M apamose Supply Limes iiiiiii'iill f I Hi ii II mm Br FRANK JCNKINB 'TODAY'S ncwi record a now skirmish In the war of nerves. Tha Japs announce tlio lend ing of "Important navel forces" Into the Atluntic. Those forces, Tokyo says, nre "engaged In atra- teglc operations In clone co-operation with the axla navies." This co-operation la termed "hliihly significant, an representing Joint Jap-axis naval operation." Tho announcement adds that p!!i!iSlSI IS!! 111 ! If f A. 1 a Jap submarine hna called at a German naval bane. ; WHAT does It moan? Only the Jap know. But don't overlook the fact that tho Jnp era ADVERTIS ING It. If they had a combined Qnaval operation of reni fighting Importance up their slocves, they'd be. CONCEALING It so at to get all tho possible advant ages of lu'rprlae. t 'CTALINGRAD eonllnuea to dominate tha war scene. ' Tho Sermana are reported, to day to'ba on tho dofenslvrto the northwest of the embattled city. Remember that the railroad from Moscow, entori from the northwest-and the Germans like to follow -railroads.- - Stopping ' them along a railroad is there fore Important.'- - A Russian military commen tator says today the Germans have lost more than 23,000 dead In the last week, and adds; ""Stalingrad. Is not tho fortress Verdun was." . (Meaning that Russian valor rather than fortress wall has been rcsponiilblo for the losses O differed by ' the Germans at Stalingrad.) . A RUSSIAN war correspond , ent today pictures the city as "scene of chaotic wreckage In trembling earth, lit by explo sions and heavy with the odors of cordita and death." On tho river beaches, he says, are bodies of women and chil dren killed by German bombs. The waterfront Is a great patch of ruins. By night fresh soviet troops cross the river In barges and boats, , Wounded are remov ed In tho same way. Stalingrad has taken its place . among the great battles of the world. -LOSELY allied to tho batllo v of Stalingrad Is tho struggla to get supplies from America and Britain to Russia's northern ports. ' ft Tho British concede today tho " loss of a destroyer and a mine- ..sweeper from a HOMEWARD. :.-BOUND convoy, oftcr the "great . majority" of tho convoyed mer chant ships had reached north ern Russian ports. Tho British ..admiralty announcement says 40 German planes were shot out of the sky and two German subma rines sunk and four damaged seriously during the Inward, and loutward passages. It is because of this Arctic supply front that Finland's re cent pcaco feeler was so signifi cant. Your map will show you that Finland, now Germany's ally, Is an Important bane for air and submarine attack on Russian-bound convoys. ' '.'THE Japs are still stalled In '.New Gulnen by American and Australian air attacks on their communication lines In ward from the coast at Buna. One bridge over a deep gorge i has been repeatedly bombed and damaged by our planes, but each time the Japs, working fever ishly, linvo repaired It, ' Our longer-ranged bombers are hitting Jap cargo ships nt tho surrounding Jap harbors and bases. An allied spokesman to day reports a considerable con centration of Jnp warships and cargo vessols at Pnbnul, In Now ... (Continued. oo Page Two) FARM BLOC STANDS FIRM IN REVISION Effort " to' Compromise On Price Bill Gains . In Senate WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (P Farm, bloc members struck back In the senato today .against what they termed falsa statements that agricultural interests were attempting to torpedo. President Roosevelt s efforts to control In flation by Insisting on upward revision of the parity price basis. Angered by an advertisement which appeared in some eastern newspapers, Senators Hatch (D- N. M.), Aiken (R-Vl.) and Reed (R-Kns.), told the senate that propaganda against the parity re vision proposal was not going to sway their stand. . Production Affected Hatch, with Senator Thomas (D-Okle.). has proposed to amend the anti-inflation bill to boost (lie parity prlca level about 12 per flarit by Including. Um labor costs. ' ' n -- W,-- . Senator ' Wheeler -vCDMonU added a slatenjont that If' farm labor costs were not considered In fixing prlco ceilings, produc tion might be seriously, affected. "Either bring labor costs down or farm prices up or you won't have any production," Wheeler (Continued on Page Two) . il i n ' . t 100,000-Ton Scrap Goal Set for State by Jan. 1 "SALEM, Sept, 28 OF) Oregon must produce 100,000 tons of scrap metal by January 1 to pre vent steel mills from shutting down, Governor Charles A. Spraguo said today In proclaim ing tha two weeks from October 5 to 17 as "Oregon's scrap har vest weeks. "During this period," the gov ernor said, "the newspapers of Oregon aro joining with tho press of tho nation In promoting and publicizing this greatest program In the most critical period of American history. Theso- publishers have a great task before them, but tho peo ple of Oregon have a still greater task that of collecting these 100,000 tons of scrap practi cally 200 pounds per person in this rich commonwealth. Klamath Faiis vs. Redding, Calif. Modoc Field, 8 P. M. Sept. 25, 1942 PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS Nam Coddlngton Fatzke Clement Blohm Watson Yoncoy Mayfleld Selby Foster Vallloncour Mast No. Wt. 21- 164 33 102 7 195 SO 215 13 171 2 182 14 165 4 171 3 152 22 ,105 9 168 Pos. LER , LTR LGR C RGL RTL BEL QB LHR' RHL , FB Klamath 1. Tutor, guard, 166 ' 5. R, Ewing, guard, 250 6, F. Hunsaker, tackle, 172 8. D. Cndo.end, 158 - 10. H. Schortgcn, back, 185 11. D. Rnssmussen, back, 161 12. L. Bickers, back, 164 , 18. W. Welch, back, 170 16. Mundlln, center, 168 17. R. Young, end, 171 . 18. J, Conroy, tackle, 192 ID. D. Robin, back, 148 20, A. Cllne,, guard, 182 v Redding 11. Rex Davis, back, 163 13. Linn, center,' 157 ; 14. Upton, guard, 155 ." 19. Blrge, end,, 186 22. Motzcr, back, 135 23. McAdams, end, 149 6000 Americans From Bataan Now Captives of War By EDWARD E. BOMAR WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (P) Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- wrlgltt and . an estimated 6000 other American defenders of Bataan and Corregldor were re ported todoy to be war captives of tho Japanese In a prison camp at Tnrluc, north of Manila, In the Philippines. A partial list of about 200 prisonors, compiled from Infor mation furnished by some of tho small number of persons permitted to leave Manila, also contained the najnej of four other American and Filipino army general officers. , General walnwright, .com. (Continued on Page Two) JAPS CLAIM NAVAL E British Overrun i Mad agascar; French Flag to Fly Br Tha Associated Vltst --Imperial Tokyo, headquarters attempted tor blow up a bubble- gum scare, today with the an nouncement that Japanese. naval forces were now. operating in the Atlantic "In, close cooperation with tha axis navies, i While Tokyo specifically mart' tloncd only one Japanese subma rlne as having arrived In Atlan tic - waters, the German high command . seized - on the an nouncement to declare that "Japanese i warships" had mad contact with axis forces In the Atlantic. In London, British naval ob servers said any suggestion that (Continued on Page Two) 80 Years Old, But Not Ready To Retire Yet SALEM, Sept. 25 (VP), A Salem man, comparatively wealthy and more than. 80 years old, offered to do his bit in a Salem cannery during the cur rent labor shortage, but he was told he first would have to get a social security card, ' Ho went to the. postoffice to get his' card, and asked a clerk why he had to have one. "That is so you con retire when you're 63 years old," was tho reply. Wt. No. 158 20 170 15 206 33 160 ' 18 154 30 150 18 148 17 140 10 180 " 32 144 , 12 177 28 Name Willey Kincaid Elverud Ward Barnes ; George Dimlch ' Orslnl Economou Johnson Bush Substitutes 23. G. 24. B. 25. A. 26. F. 27. D. 28. D. 29. E. McKay, back, 218 Pctcrstelner, back, 184 Barker, guard, 165 Foulon, end, 184 Pope, end, 148 Caieblor, center, 170 Shva, back, 162 ? ' ' 31. V. , Yank, tackle, 181 32. R. 34. V. Prairie, tacr.le, 182 Zimmerman, back, 168 Whitney, end, 165 Brown, tackle, 188 73. F. 88. J. Substitutes ' 24. Bowles, tackle,' 160 28. Russ Davis, back. 141. ' 26. Derrick, guard, 159 27. Soarway, back, 180 39. Crooks, tackle, 180 n v IU1 ALLIED PLANES RAKE SOUTHERN PACIFIC AREA Heavy Anti - Aircraft Fire Meets Rab aul Attack GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. Australia. Sept. 25 (AP) Allied fighter planes continued their devastat ing attacks on Japanese com munication lines in New Guinea yesterday while bombing forma- tiona blasted enemy shipping and shore Installations In New Britain, Timor and the Solomon Islands, General MacArthur's headquarters announced today, Huts containing stores and equipment were left In flames, a communique said, by a strong force of allied fighters which strafed the airdrome at Kokoda advance base for the Japanese column attempting to push across the southeastern New Guinea toward Port Moresby. Patrol righting Told. . Another formation bombed i fcrtdga near Watropl, ova.it which Che -Japanese have- been- at'l tempting to move supplies for their troops across tha . deep gorge or, the Kumasl river. The bridge suspended . over" the chasm by wires previously had (Continued on. Page Two) Stimson Caiis Off Joe Louis, . Conn Title Go WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (P) Secretary of War Stimson today summarily - cancelled arrange ments for the scheduled October 12 heavyweight championship fight . between Joo Louis and Billy Conn with the explana tion that "the standards and in terests of the army do not per mit the proposed contest to be carried out." Stimson acted after . a series of conferences over plans to de duct a total .of $135,451 from the receipts, the remainder; to be for the army emergency re lief. The war secretary had said he was "shocked" to learn of this-arrangement. Stimson issued this statement: "I have determined that Ser geant Barrow (Joe Louis) and Corporal Conn shall bo returned at once to their military duties The standards and interests of tho army do not permit the pro posed contest to be carried out. "There is no reflection upon the principals. Furthermore, the army appreciates that Louis has heretofore generously contrib uted his efforts to both the army and the navy without return." Men, Commended. For Wo.rk, During Brookings Bombing . GRANTS PASS, Sept.' 25 m The Siskiyou National Forest Service and two of its lookout men, stationed on Mount Emily and another nearby point, were commended this week by Brig. Gen. Barney M. Giles, command ing., general of the Fourth Air Force at San Francisco, for their 'material assistance In supply ing Information from their ob servation I posts concerning an unidentified plane seen near Brookings the morning of Sept. 9. Later the. same day a forest (Ire was started by an incendiary bomb of apparent Japanese ori gin, and a patrol plane attacked submarine 30 miles off the Oregon coast. . "The vigilance of these two observers (Howard Gardner and Ed Conley) is highly commend able. The Information they fur nished the IV Fighter Command was of great value In the Inves tigation of this Incident," the general wrote.- : , -. .; . Unhappy Joppies saBBMsBBBB-?''''ir :&W'rm,m &yw?'p -r yy Wf'-vw ywyj1 11 j i'MsMWjpjpi 1 ' " -' miniisjsw. Sitting sullenly in a corner of their prison camp in tha Solomon blends are three captured Jap soldiers taken by U. S. leathernecks who recently moved into Guadalcanal island and took charge. . ..- : ; ; ; ' . "Manpower Pinch" to Come in U. S.r.Says Official . . -fef - CLEVELAND,' Sept- 28 War Industries face the choice of speeding the replacement ; of workers . temporarily deferred from the draft or getting along without them, warr-i MaJ. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey Asserting war plants have not made sufficient efforts to replace employes : granted temporary deferment, the national selective service director last night threat ened to "take men from them as a disciplinary measure, even If it means some sacrifice, in pro duction. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 m Lieut. Col. Francis V. Kees- llng, Jr., of selective service, told the house agriculture com mittee today, the nation was "getting Into a manpower pinch" and that local draft boards lack ing men to fill, their quotas should not fill' them with men essential in other work, , Keesling testified on behalf of MaJ. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective, service director, who was before the committee only a few minutes and arranged to returji next week, along with war .manpower commission Paul y. McNutt and WPB Direc tor Donald M. Nelson. In such cases, Keesling said, (Continued on Page Two) 10,000 GfY.nans - Held Deau After Karlsruhe Assault , -i LONDON, Sept. 25 (fP) "A Reuters dispatch from Zurich, Switzerland, , today quoted per sons who survived the last heavy RAF ajttack on Karlsruhe as esti mating mnt o,uuu 10 iu,uuu resi dents Tof the city died, in that assault. - ' ' According to reports of 'eye witnesses, the dispatch said, at least two-thirds of Karlsruhe was cither razed or so badly damaged that only the outlines of ruined buildings remain. In dustrial areas were reported badly battered. The city was last , raided on Sept. 2. Potato Reports Start Today ' ' Potato market bulletins, compiled dally by the United tltatas department of agricul ture at San Francisco and Lo Angeles, will appear regular ly on the market page of this newspaper from now through the shipping season. Chicago potato reports will continue. The : long-established Herald and News potato shipment table,' compiled with the aid ' Of State-Federal Inspector Ross Aubrey, will start October 1. Today's markets will be found qn Page' 4. ; Taken by Marines in Changes in Some Jobs May Cancel. Draft Deferment SALEM, Sept. 25 WV-Many men who now are deferred be cause their, occupations are vital to the war effort will lose their deferment if they change. Jobs, whila ptliers. will be permitted to change, .Colonel Elmer 'V. Wpo- ten, estate selective service direct wrf aaia loaay. -. , :- . .;. ., .Asked whether Oregon would adopt the policy of Washington state whereby men leaving, one wr -industry job- for 2- higher paying job in another war indus try, -lose' their deferment, " the colonel said: . ; . -.. . "We have been, more or. less following that polity, for some (Continued on Page Two) ... ' : Brooklyn Wins, 6-5, Retains Chance For National Tie X BROOKLYN; Sept 25 (P) A wild throw to the plate by Sib by Sisti on Billy Herman's grounder with the bases loaded in the 11th inning gave the Dod gers a 6 to 5 victory over the Boston Braves today and pre1 served Brooklyn's chance to tie for the National league pennant. . - 7 . R. H. , E. Boston 5 12 . 1 Brooklyn . 6 8 .2 Javery, Tost (8), and Lom bards Davis, Casey (9), Webber (10), French (10), Head (11), and Owen. Bulletin WASHINGTON, Sept. '25 (IP) The nary announced today that a series ' of army bomber attacks on Japanese ships and shore installations in the Solomon islands had resulted in damage to docki and buildings, three ' hits on transports and destruction of ' two enemy planes. Single Market for Farm Produce Held Possibility WASHINGTON. Sept. 25 (AP) Use of a giant government pur chasing organization to create in effect a single market for farm products was reported to day to be one possible result It President Roosevelt decides on direct action to stabilize prices and wages. , It probably would be one of the later steps, informed persons said, and would be preceded by more . generalized and less drastic moves. First of all, If the program understood to have been out lined for him were followed, the president would allocate the nation's supplies of whatever commodities were to be brought under control, with a request to the primary markets to buy within certain price limits and to sell within a specified mark up, to . the secondary markets. The wholesalers and. retailers Solomon Fighting 7liilSli Axis Channels . Held Buying Up Sup-:, 7 . . . plies . 7 "'WV0RK, ' sept.' 25 (&) Major Wendell' . Dove, : home from an inspection tour in the Amazon basin, said today he believed that there were more than 842,000 tons of rubber in the great forests of South America::- - 1 : .r:-' ' ' "It's there and it's no back yard job' getting' at in rubber trees . stretching 2000 straight line miles across the Amazon basin "and 'covering 'Venezuela, Colombia,' Peru, Bolivia and Brazil,"- he said. , . Dove, who says he is no rub ber expert, has lived in South America for 15 years and re cently was assigned to medical wont there by the coordinator of inter-American affairs. His inspection tour in the Amazon basin was in the interests of the medical aspects of the rub (Continued on Page Two) . Goodyear Ready to Make Reclaimed Rubber "War Tire" ' AKRON, O., Sept. 25 W The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., announced today it was ready, subject to government approval, to start quantity production of a reclaimed rubber "war tire" good, for 10,000 miles if not driven above 35 miles an hour. Only four ounces of crude rubber are used in the new tire, Goodyear said. It is identical In appearance to its peacetime pro duct, except for the words "war tire" stamped on the sidewall. The B. F. Goodrich Co., here mado a similar announcement this week. . would be under price regula tions already In effect. The actual force of this in itial order which might spec ify, areas of .distribution for some products so as to equalize purchasing opportunities might be no more than that of a request, but as a presidential request In wartime It would carry considerable weight. Stragglers could be brought Into line through control of transportation' and priorities, it was explained. . If defections became serious enough . to threaten the. entire program, then' the allocation program could be backed up by a requ isitioning order, using the com modity credit corporation as the operating agency. 1 Such -a plan, as outlined by Informed persons who preferred not to be quoted directly at this (Continued, on Page Two) . NAZIS SWEPT 2 HILLS Fall of City May -Be Delayed, Berlir j Announces ; By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor "' Bayonet -wielding Russian, troops were reported to have swept the Germans from two hills northwest of Stalingrad to--day, cutting a wedge into Adolf Hitler's vital left flank, and now the official Berlin radio openly acknowledged: ; "The fall of the city , may-b ' delayed for some time.'. . -, .?. i . The broadcast's alibi was-that -Hitler preferred a gradual, sys tematic advance to save men. Soviet dispatches estimated Ger man losses in killed, wounded and missing at nearly a division (15,000 troops) a day. . . -Assault Falters .. Hitler's field headquarters said nazi assault troops captured "further fortified points in fierce street fighting" within Stalingrad, and added: .' "Soviet relief attacks against : the northern barrier erected by German and allied troops were repulsed in hard fighting." , Coupled with the blow to the nazi left wing, the Russians de clared that German assaults In side the battle-torn Volga me tropolis " again "faltered and broke . ... --.i,.t:...:- Civilians of Stalingrad were reported swarming out of their, cellars, factory shelters' and caves in the Volga cliffs to help turn back the nazi tide. 'Th6uv sands had already been ' with-' drawn across the river, when: Stalingrad's fall seemed inevlt-' able, but others refused to leave.:, Dispatches said the fighting-' was so bitter that even the air-, render of a house was regardecV as a near calamity. - - . : - As the battle flamed into "it ; (Continued on Page Two) v "Black Out" of ;? Apple Crop Looms 1 In Washington SEATTLE, Sept. 25 W" Eastern Washington apple pro ducers may be forced to "black out" next spring's blossoms, to save the expense of bringing in their crops if they suffer losses because of a shortage of har vest help this year, their rep resentatives have warned.' Led by Frank T. Taylor of Wenatchee, chairman ; of 'the North Central Washington. Farm Labor Supply council, and Reu ben B. Benz of Yakima, chair man of the Emergency Harvest Help committee, a delegation of growers came here yesterday and pleaded for 16,000 farm hands to save the fruit crop next month. Two Sinkings Raise -Ship Toll to 475 7; By The Associated Press ... The announced sinkings ' of two more ships, an American merchantman and a Panamanian cargo carrier with the loss of five seamen, raised to 478 today The Associated Press tally of announced sinkings in the west ern Atlantic since America's en try into the war. -' A total of S8 crewmen of the two ships was rescued and land ed safely at United Nations' ports. One seaman was killed in the U-boat attack on the Pana manian vessel In the Norths At lantic last July while four men were lost when the. United States ship was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic last month, v ' ;, ' News Index v; City Briefs ;,.Pag:$ Church News ;....Pag"7 Comics and Story -...Page 8 Courthouse Records ... Page 5 Editorial .... .,,.Page 4 Information Page S Market, Financial .....Page 4 Midland Empire News.... Page 8 Our Men in Service Page 3 Pattern ...j....Pagev8 Sports t. fc.n.vffilt; 6 FROM NORTH OE CITI