Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, October 17, 1942, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text' October 17. 1912 PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON NAZIS CLAIM NEXT-TO-LAST NEST STORMED (Continued From Page One) defender checked the nazl on slaught after retiring from a northwest Industrial settlement which had been the scene of one of the greatest battlei of the campaign. Wait Bank Won Latest reports said the Ger mans were now hurling at least four Infantry divisions (60.000 troops) and a tank division into the main assault, with the Rus sians battling fiercely to pre vent the invaders from fanning out along the banks of the Volga and breaking the flanks of the defense. Berlin broadcasts said the Germans had already won the west bank of the Volga along a two-mile front and had oc cupied half of Stalingrad. It was the fourth day of the revitalized nari offensive to batter the city into surrender before winter closes down. High-lighting the ferocity of the German assault, soviet head- Quarters reported that nazl In fantry led by 40 tanks stormed a single street inside the city. only to encounter a murderous defense are which destroyed 23 of the tanks and killed 330 enemy troops. TEEN AGE BUT (Continued From Page One) soldiers are guaranteed at least year of training before being sent into combat. . This proposal. General Mar shall said in letter read to tea house by Representative Wads worth (R-N. Y.), author of the bill, would seriously handicap the war department. Marshall pleaded for congress to "trust our judgment." As passed by the house, the bill provided that any teen-age boy called for induction may ob tain a deferment until the end of the present school year, but not later than next July 1, if he is attending high school, col lege or university. It also provided that before married men are drafted, there be no available single men in their state, the effect being to put draft board quotas on a state rather than a local basis. The vote which defeated the move to guarantee a year's train ing was on accepting a rules committee recommendation that preventing consideration of any amendments except those bear ing directly on changing the present age limits. Called South Mrs. X. W. O'Brien, 433 Pacific Terrace, left Saturday afternoon for Los Angeles called there by the sudden death of her two-day-old grandson, child of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Draper of that city. ALL SEATS 1M ANYTIME: TTfc LMt oiyl TerxiHe Double Tnrui m RONALD REAGAN Smashing Money W Starts TOMORROW! Another Big Star-Packed Double B1I1I fits THK FASTEST FUNNIEST, PICTURE YOU'VE EVER SEINI BETTY GRABLE JOE PENNER "THE DAY THE BOOKIES WEPT" THIS tAffBXElf tonic will WlriTnVSm. E oivsYouA w VSuifffTrimi Campaigner I. i x S s Congressman Walter M. Pierce will be hare Monday in behalf of his candidacy for reelection. He will speak at a public meet ing at the Fremont school audi torium at 7:45 p. m. DK HUSE TAX BILL (Continued From Page One) house previously had approved but which the senate had knocked out. The rate was fixed at 3 per cent, however, Instead of the 5 voted by the house. House conferees agreed to ell mlnation of a proposed 5 per cent tax on pari-mutuel betting In a surprise move, the con ference group knocked out of the bill a senate-approved pro posal calling for the establish ment of a joint congressional committee to study the question of compulsory savings. Portland Fire Fighters Quell $250,000 Blaze ' (Continued From Page One) two upper floors of the' annex caved in. Nineteen other fire men, members of four engine companies, narrowly escaped the crash. They had been ordered from the first floor by Assistant Chief James Dillane and had made their way out just before the floors collapsed. For a time, the entire block bounded by Second and Third avenues and Morrison and Yam hill streets was threatened. Four hundred city firemen, five coast guard units, 200 members of the Veterans guard patrol and a host of auxiliary firemen were press ed into action. 5 DIE. DAMAGE UP E! (Continued From Page One) and cut off for a time from the outside world, were Front Royal. Va., population 3800; Winchester, Va., 11,000. and Culpeper, Va., 2300. Levees Thrown Up Every government building In and near Washington was at work this morning. During the night levees were thrown up In some sectors, sandbags stacked and debris removed from bridge supports. The crest reached Washington at 7:20 a. m.. when the Po tomac river measured 17.56 feet above mean low water level at Gauge in the George town area. Railroad traffic south from Washington also was restored early this morning, relieving among other things, the con gestion at the huge station here, where thousands had spent the night Navy Maintains Strict Silence On Solomons (Continued from Page One) quarters forecast a giant battle between the United States and Japanese fleets in the Solomon Island coincident with the bitter struggle for control of Guadal canal air base, and Secretary of the Navy Knox declared: "There is no concealing there's a good, stiff, tough fight on." In the absence of specific de tails, Knox's comment at a press conference late yesterday re flected a restrained optimism and indicated at least that the battle was far from one-sided despite the fact that the Japanese were bringing their heaviest forces to bear. While the navy carefully guarded Its fleet movements, Washington naval sources saw the likelihood of a sea engage ment possibly even greater than the battle at Midway or in the Coral sea. GEN. MacARTHURS HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Oct. 17 W) Allied mountain troops forced the Japanese to withdraw a short distance in the Owen Stanle; mountains of New Guin ea yesterday and fighting la con tinuing and increasing in scope, allied headquarters announced today. No Trace of Lake O' Woods Men Found (Continued From Page One) son In Murphy, Ore., were heav ily dressed when they took a metal boat out on the waters of the lake. Roy was In poor health, officers said, and had he been thrown into the water it Is unlikely that he could have reached the shore. The two were to have come into Klam ath Falls Thursday to make final arrangements for the care of the summer homes. One of the men had been hired by William Brlggs of Ashland, . re sort operator, to take care of re sort properties. The other was to be hired by the Home Own ers association. It is understood from state police that Briggs has stationed another caretaker at the resort. FRENCHMEN KILLED LONDON. Oct. 17 (,P Pierre Laval's armed forces killed 40 Frenchmen at Lyon and 15 at Amhcrien and wounded 200 at each place yesterday In attacks upon crowds demonstrating vio lently against shipment of French workers into Germany, the London Times reported to day in a dispatch from the French frontier. Nearly one-half of the SO, 000.000 families tabulated in the 1940 U. S. census owned their own homes. NEAR LOWER LAKE What is left of a 1934 Ford sedan bearing Oregon license No. 374-944 and registered to Wilbur Wakeman, California avenue, was found by state po lice In the brush near the lower Klamath lake road. The car was devoid of wheels, tires ,the carbuerator and other parts, Alfred Huston, arrested by city police on a larceny from a dwelling charge, was ques tioned by state officers and he told of accompanying Kenneth Van Winkle to the point where the machine was abandoned. 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