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Weather News iih.;.l..il ilil ii.iij.iiui.lllil llHi llilllllllllillll On S-mlnute blast on sirens ind whlitlo Is the signal lor a blackout In Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during a black out. ia a signal for all-olaar. In precau tionary parlods, watch your street lights. October JO High 73i Low 41 . Precipitation as ol October 14. 14J Last year..... ... . .16) Normal. ......... .48 Stream year to date ... .IS Oct. 22. Sunrise 7ilB Suniat ....3:55 -, ASSOCIATE HASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES MHO 'HKMtlOil ' : PRICE FIVE S, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1942 , Number 9622 . mej ii m hot mm $m - '..' ' : '.. ... - Manpower 'il'Sl! I wmm mm n i gr:'i i' . i . Si ! I'i mm il! tlilllllill! Willi By FRANK JENKINS rOWN In tho Solomons, tho " game of hit and run, hide and seek (iocs on. A Jap nnvnl force slips In and bombards our Installations on O Guadalcanal, IncludlnK tho vital ly Important airfield there. Then an American naval force appears suddenly and bombards the Japs who have landed on Guadal canal. In neither cane Is there a bat tle. In fact, BOTH task forces get away with It with little op position from tho other side. TN trying to understand the situation, remember that naval warfare, more than any other kind of fighting, Is an effort to catch tho other fellow short, with only a minor part of his total strength present at the moment, while YOUR SIDE lit out in lorce, . That Is probably the game that Is being played In tho south Pa cific now. '":" '' -', . . ' "gjL TT 1 n exclting"1inme. II may O lead up Jo exciting results. . It might end In a buttle so de cisive as to change the whole face of the war In the Pacific. ' . Or It might fizzle out entirely, with NO major battlo dovolop lng. We can only wait and see. ; 'THE. fighting ot Stalingrad goes on today in a cold ruin thut seems to cramp the nazl's fight ing style. It is a .foretaste of what Is to come. . One can't forget that with the coming of tho Russian wlntor last year, the Gorman drive lost Its momentum. Tho samo thing . will probably happen again. "THERE are unmistakable Indl A cations thut the Russians are Impatient and displeased with us mid the British, feeling that wo might to be DOING SOME Q THING to tako tho crushing weight off the Russian neck. : That Is unclcrftnmlablo enough. If you'd been fighting ns long and as hard as the Russians havo, and had . taken the losses they have taken, you wouldn't want ti your friends sitting on tho side lines and Just more or less look ing on for, In comparison with what the Russians have been do ing the help we havo given them so far is insignificant. ' You'd want your friends In fighting and dying beside you. TOTH1LE It is natural for tho : Russians to feel Hint way about it, it Is equally natural for us to Insist on being absolute ly sure where we're at before we open up In a big way on a second front. ,.' 'i Suppose we went In bofore we were ready and as a result took V) a costly and tcrrlblo beating. That would bo FINE for the Jap. t ' We mustn't forget that the Jap Is a tough enemy. It wo gave him an opening such as a major defeat on n second front In Europe, ho'd know well enough how to make use of il. "TALK of a compulsory man . power .draft grows in Wash ington as the labor shortage, especially on tho farms and in llio shipyards, grows moro and mora acute. Compulsory drafting of all ci vilian manpower In this country probably wouldn't work, because It Is utterly contrary to the Amer ican way ot doing things. : Still; one can't escape the fact that as between the civilians at home and the men of tlio armed Q services tho scales are loaded heavily with privilege, on the side of the civilian, t BroBdly speaking, wo on tho home front get all the benefits (Continued on Page .Two) mm L 'Bone , Dry" Amend ment Would Under- , mine Morale WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 MP) Secrotary of Wor Stimson today urged defeat of a proposal to prohibit sale of all liquor, Includ ing light wines and beer, in and adjacent to army camps, saying that it would "seriously under mine morale" and encourage bootleg operations. He wrote Chairman Reynolds (D-N. C.) of the military affairs committee : that a "bone dry" amendment by Senator Lee (D Okie.) to a bill to draft youths of 18 and 19 would prove , "de structive rather than construc tive." : "Anti-Saloon" "I am convinced that any at tempt to control the liquor prob lem through legislation applied exclusively to military personnel will only - impede) the ; progress now being mado In our own ef fective methods of attaining tem perance: would Impose 'upon us the difficult problem of combat ting bootleg operations; and would seriously undermine mor ale," Stlmson's loiter said. "I urge that It not be Imposed up on us by the congress." ,, While Lee claimed mounting support, Senator Smathera (D N. J.) denounced the amendment (Continued on Pago .Two) : House Okehs $15 Billion to Enlarge Navy WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (P) The houso completed its work today on a supplemental appro priation bill authorizing expend iture of another $15,000,000,000 to build-a greater navy, and sen ate approval later In the week was expected to send the meas ure to the White Houso. . Tho house approved-a senate house conferenco committee re port which struck from tho bill a senate amendment providing use of certain funds for construc tion of . the proposed Florida barge canal. . . . i Tho conferees retained a house provision making appointments to the war manpower commis sion paying $4500 or more, a year subject to senate confirma tion. . As finally reported for senate and houso action,- the measure Included approximately $18,000, 000,000 for the navy and $600, 000,000 for war housing,,, , OR PROHIBITION Martial Law Binds Serbia As Unrest Sweeps Europe BERN, Switzerland,' Oct. 21 (P) All Serbia : was . reported undor martial law today as a tide ot unrest and uncertainty continued to sweep occupied Eu rope from Norway to France and tho Balkans. Private advices from France pictured that unhappy land as entering upon her most critical period slnco tho 1940armi.stlce, with 11 days remaining to Chief of Government Pierre Laval be fore ho Is expected to try com pulsion to meet- Adolf Hitler's demands for French workers.' Martial law was . decreed by the puppet Serbian government at Belgrade, said a Budapest dis patch to the Basler Nachrlchten, after the nozl military comman der In Serbia; Gen. Rader, an nounced numerous arrests had been made because Insurgents had attempted to organize a re volt against occupation authori ties. . ... Tha Basel socialist newspaper,. n n n ra 0 In Jap Hands? of o o - This is Corporal Jacob D Shaser, son of Mrs. Hulda. An drui of Madras and brother of Mrs. J. a, Griffith, Henley, who was mentioned In Tokyo broad casts as being in Japanese hands after tha bombing of Tokyo. . TOKYO THREATENS V 1D1P1ES' Airmen Named; Con-' victed of "Inhuman Acts" " NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (fP The Tokyo radio, continuing to broad cast threats of , severe punish ment for United States fliers taken after raids on Japanese territory, named today four-Btr- Corporal ' Jacob DeShazer, son of Mrs. Hulda. Andrus of Madras, Is a brother ot Mrs. J. G. Griffith of Henley, , He' was mentioned today as -one of the Doollttle raiders. over! Tokyo, allegedly In Japanese hands. He has visited Klam ath' Falls a number of times and was given a citation by President Roosevelt. : men It said had fallen, into. Jap anese hands after the April . 18 raid on Tokyo led by Brig. Gen. James 'H.. Doollttle. The' names were given as Sec (Contlnued on Page .Two) Bombs Drop on Spanish Ground : GIBRALTAR, Oct. 21 "(VP) An air raid warning sounded in this British stronghold last night, but several Italian bombers which flew over the Gibraltar area dropped their bombs in adjacent Spanish territory. . . Arbelter; Zcltung, recently , re ported that the gestapo had put to death 500 to 600 Serbs who plotted a revolt. ', ' ; Swedish newspaper correspon dents reported from Norway, ac cording to the Swiss Telegraph agency, that Vidkun Quisling had ordered 25 more clergymen to leavo their homes as a result of a pastoral letter read In north ern pulpits Sunday calling latest quisling measures a new attempt against "Liberty of the church." The period to. November: 1, private advices from unoccupied Franco said, represents .the ex tension of time set' by Berlin for fulfillment of Its labor de mands for 150,000 .volunteer, workers. It also Is the period, Informed French observers said they be lieved, which will demonstrate whether Laval could hope ' to cling to his position as chief of government in the face ot per (Continued on Page Two) Favored - .. ' -! ARMY FROWNS I FURLOUGH SUGGESTION 4,000 Miners To Be Released From Army ' To Aid . WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 VP) War. Manpower Director Paul V. McNutt announced today he would present a national service bill to President Roosevelt with in two weeks as the army indi cated disapproval of proposals revealed by the president to re lease older men. to take jobs in Industry as a means of easing the labor shortage. ; '. McNutt told. the-enate mili tary comrnitteiztbat. the man power, .problem '..waa' "becoming "tod. wjropWxi'orieffectlve vol untary ,actron-.: and -that "acute shortages' of-all types of male labor existed' In 40 major war production; centers. .'. ' ," Patterson Disagrees 'Robert, P. Patterson,, under-r secretary of war, : issued 4, itate rnent savlna "the army would 'rfr vlease 4000 miners In an attoVipt. to.relteya; shortage -of copper, leid; zlne,' ' molybdenum, tung sten and oUter critical materials which was holding back war pro duction, but saw "no need at this time' ' tot iurloiighlng other troops.'.' -V ... '-.- ) '. , ; Yesterday Mr; Roosevelt said (hat a number of soldiers 35 and Older probably. would be released by the army to take jobs In mu (Continued on Page Two) , Fighters Wage Losing Battle In Coast Fire , "SANTA-MONICA. Calif., Oct. 21 () A .second blaze -broke but today In-the Santa Monica mountains north of here to fur ther harass fire fighters wag ing a losing battle against a con flagration, which threatened a prison camp and homes border ing the Pacific ocean. 1 The new fire, starting about dawn, was on the Warner ranch near Calabasas,. about three miles north of the main blaze. The ranch has been the setting for numerous Warner Bros, pic tures.. A.'crew -.of nearly, 100 was rushed to- the scene, and a fire official described the situation as "pretty bad." . . Some 1500, grimy, weary fight ers continued meanwhile to bat tle the-wildly flaming, original blaze, as hasty preparations were mado to evacuate 60 inmates of the prison camp, and a dozen or so attendants. A camp chef reached-the sher iff's Mallbu sub-station with all his belongings, then returned to the prison base with the state ment it would almost certainly be necessary for the men to get out. within an hour or less. There are two roads out, and It was . (Continued, on Page Two) ; Request for Trial Of Hess Denied LONDON. Oct. . 21 Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons today that the soviet government has made no suggestion to the British government that Rudolph Hess, German leader now held in Brit ain,, should be brought to trial Immediately.' "Hess-has been treated as a prisoner of war," Eden said; "There -never -has been, nor can there be any question of treating him as an envoy or ot giving him any-form of diplomatic or priv ileged status." ; ARMY AD . See Page 3 of this paper tor an announcement of Import ance to men IB arid 19 years of ;a from the U. S. army. This Was Sralingrad-And It Shall fcTvJk,- !l!L This was one of Russia's most gutted ghost of the once teeming sian woman still carry supplies CITY LOSES POWER 'Mire Period" Sets In; Reds. Hold Line ; . Unbroken , , By ROGER D. GREENS Associate! fres rWar Editor Adolf Hitler's latest -week-old oitheive againsf Stalingrad .was reported dwindling Jtoday? as cold rain' again, drenched 'the cemetery streets, -and'. Russian headquarters announced that the red armies, had held their lines unbroken for- 48 -hourtv r . .. It was the 58th day - of siege. German field headquarters acknowledged that the Russians were launching powerful- diver sion attacks against the nazl guard north flank,' above Stalin grad, , but asserted . they 'had been repulsed in heavy fighting. Mire Period For the second successive day the Germans stressed bad weath er conditions along the ' battle line, declaring that, rains were hampering operations both in the Stalingrad zone and . in the Caucasus. , "The so-called mire period has started on the ' eastern ' front,", nazl dispatches said. ' Y " Hitler's command '. reported tersely that "the' struggles are being continued" Inside Stalin grad, while other nazl reports said German -.shock troops had .. (Continued on Page Two) Bomb Explosion ' Kills Germans at .. Gestapo Of f fee ' .' " ' London! Oct. 21 w sever. al Germans were . killed- by a bomb explosion In gestapo head quarters at Charlerol, . Belgium, Belgium sources in Londan said today. .. - : . , . . : . Another bomb exploded on the same day in a German " police headquarters at Marelnelle, the Belgians said, but they had no report on casualties. ' ' , -,-'.' A 9 p. m; curfew has been im posed on the area, it was said; Charter Appears In Today's Paper Complete text of the pro posed new city charter will be found on page 13 ot today's newspaper. This charter will be voted on at the general election to be held November 3. This is the first publica tion of the full text as a legal notice. It will appear once again before the election. On page 12 of today's edi tion will be found an ordin ance calling an election on the question of abolishing the city, park board and trans ferring its functions to the mayor and the common coun cil. Mayor and councilman have stated that if this passes, a park board, appointive by the mayor, will be set up by city ordinance. At present, the park board members are appointed for life by the cir cuit judge. . , .:, . : -sn w 1 t u 'M R' L . ....-77 rrr .,1 , , ,r,i ,.,.,.., i . tnodern. beautiful cities Stalingrad, Now it's mostly a charred. metropolis. And against a backdrop of akeleton skyscrapers Rus to their defenders against the WRA Officials he . Name-Painter; - ..... ... .. - . - - - : .: Klamath.', chamber' .of- com-mer;i- ctfrectors were informed Wednesday 'that war relocation authority officials .had found-' a Tulelake' project ' colonist, who painted a name . on the petro-glyphs- "We have insisted upon his being taken by our internal security people to the place and removing , the paint,'' . Project Dtrwtoki Elmer lShlnell told the chamber. of commerce tn. a Answering a -chamber protest concerning; the - paint,--Director ShlrraU-'stated - that an extern live'- -investigation had , been made; :' - - J." v ' - "in ithe first, place,", he -said, "this Is outside the .boundaries and' not ' In our project area. The ' colonist who committed this offense had no right-or au thority to be outside. , i . There is . no .Justification for this and I am just as anxious as you are to . preserve the historic monu ment. .1 think it is well, how ever; to call to the attention of your . people that this offense was not committed in the fenc '. (Continued on .Page Two) Former; Bund. Leaders Meted 5-Year Sentence ,r NEW YORK, Oct 21 (&h-r Twenty-four f o r m e r German American bund' leaders, includ ing Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, na tional leader, were. sentenced to day to five years in prison each for conspiring to counsel bund members to evade the draft law. Federal Judge Alfred D. Barks dale said 'that-Mi his opinion all of the defendants were guilty of "far worse than any tactical. vio lation., of.: the selective service law" and said, that he would not impose, fines because that might have the effect of causing their families to lose their, homes'.-: Under the conviction, each de fendant could have been subject to a $10,000 fine. , Enemy Positions on Kiska Unchanged; Army Reveals By WILLIAM L. WORDEN . ALASKA' DEFENSE COM MAND HEADQUARTERS,' Oct. 21 (jf)--The latest group of Lib erator bombers which are daily attacking Japanese attempting to reinforce their garrison at Kiska reported ' enemy positions -un; Changed on the island, the army announced today. The group, one of several con ducting the army's: raid-a-day tests against the invaders, was led by Capt. Lynn R. Moore. The flight noted hits In the camp area and one especially heavy explosion which may have been a gasoline dump. The Moore flight, like all since October 3, met no aerial Apposition while dropping Its 12 tons of bombs on the Japanese. ' The latest attack was concen trated on Trout lagoon and -the main Kiska camp. A . number of cargo ships already are beached In the lagoon. ; , . '"The Japanese positions at 'Ger Be Again Nazi, enemy. TAX LEGISLATION individuals Face - In come Tax Boost of i Two Per Gent "WASHINGTON, Oct;. SI (IP) Frasldentv Hopsevelt .aigned to day tax " bill imposing -the greatest revenue burden fin his tory, upqrt the American peoples . The Chief executive auixea nts signature to tha. measure at 4:30 p. ;m., .Eastern War. Time,'-less than an hour and a. half after it reached' him from. congress., - Congressional . leaders turned an ..unofficial, but, emphatic thumbs down today on any. fur ther major tax legislation .until after the first of. the year. . , :" - With the biggest of all revenue bills on .President; Roosevelt's desk -for his signature today,- af ter;, lis., final approval -by both houses-yesterday, the. chairman of the two.- tax-framing- commit tees ..let it be -known that they (Continued on Page Two) Kaiser Stands ; Firm on Use of . -Negro Workers .-"',.; PORTLAND, Ore., Oct.' 21 () The' Henry " J; Kaiser ' company shipyard at Vancouver, Wash.1, stood firm' today' behind a ' de cision to use negro workers in skilled jobs despite protests by AFL unions. . .. '.,'.. , Tom Ray, bollermakers' union business agent, demanded that the ; company limit negroes to common ..labor. . and segregate their living quarters -from -the white .workers. , In- a , press conference yester day Ray assured the company of violating a labor stabilization agreement, by., elevating from common labor- 23 of the .100 negroes ' recently recruited in New .York.' They are now In training for journeymen's jobs, Ray said;. trude Cove where the reinforce ment attempts are being concen trated, are also unchanged,'- the fliers reported. '.' ''''. The- raiders met continuing anti-aircraft fire, but - most of the Japanese-scurried for cover and froze te the ground when they saw the American planes. ;'. Strafing by raiders early tnts month taught tnem to una pro tection when the U. S. army fliers visit, the pilots believe. The Japanese are even-using bomb craters for shelters, some times putting up tents In such improvised, protection. ' Fighter escorts of American aerial raiding parties have re cently been reduced, and the fighters which do go along now find little to do. - Occasionally they find ships, trying to make a get-away, or radio shacks, up on which to turn their machine guns, but lack of fighter oppo sition reduces their duties. CL0SEI3F0R YEAR NIP FORCES IN SOLOMONS HOLD PUSHJPSH U. " S. Bombers Take Another Crack. At . -. Kiska .. By JOHN H. WIGGINS . WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 UP) Allied domination of the skies in the vast Pacific battle front appearea growing mignuer . W aay as American oomoers Slug- gea .Japanese .invasion" base from the Aleutians to the Solo mons. The furr of the allied bomb. lng o enemy troops and supply concentrations in the Solomons seemed thus far to have stalled, at least temporarily, the full force of a Japanese" thrust to retake the American-held Guad alcanal airbase and win control of the southwest Pacific. , Airdrome Damaged . While a large force ot Japan ese warships and auxiliary ves sels in the Solomons and rein forced enemy troops on north western ' Guadalcanal still held an expected attack ' in leash, United States bombers dropped explosives on the embattled Is land's invaders on Oct. 1$ and 19, : and , started fires' at the Japanese Rekata bay base on Santa Isabel island, ISO miles to the ' hortlWertirf T. ""' At that same . time, , Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australian command reported last night. allied bombers were believed to have. Inflicted extensive dam- .. (Continued. on Page Two) 1 Three Flying Forts Lost in Raid Over France " LONDON, Oct. 21 (iP) Flying Fortresses of the United States) army air forces bombed the Cfer man submarine base at Lorient, on the south coast of Brittany, today, it" was announced official ly tonight. -.- ; .... . .'. . . : .Three of the big bombers were reported missing after the raid. An enemy air base near. Cher bourg' also was attacked. "j It was the first Fortress foray into occupied France since their mass daylight raid on Lille Octo ber 9 and was the longest flight of the raids they , have undertaken.- ' The bombers thundered at least 300 miles across the channel and Brittany, . almost twice as far as the Lille targets. Lorient . has . been used as a -base for German submarine! operating In the Atlantic and. the Bay ot Biscay. Cherbourg is at the northern tip of the Cotentin - peninsula jutting out from Normandy and just across the English channel from Southampton. . Vichy quickly broadcast its own version of the Lorient raid, (Continued on Page Two) - Three Earth Shocks - Jolt Californians LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 IP) Southern California was jolted and rocke d depending on where you were by a series of three earth shocks today, the first at 9:24 a. m; (PWT). . : . The seismologlcal laboratory of California Institute of Tech nology at Pasadena put the cent er of the disturbance at about 200 miles southeast, approxi mately in the Imperial valley. At El Centra, the valley's chief city, the shock was felt as a jolting one, but there were no reports of damage. It was Jolt ing, too, at San Diego, where It cracked plaster, rattled dishes and even moved furniture. News Index . . City Briefs Page 8 Comics and Story . Page 14 Courthouse Record! .... Page 3 Editorial ........Page 4 Information .....;......;....Page 5 Market, Financial ..; Page 7 Midland Empire News, ..Page 7 Our Men in Service ......Pago . 3 Pattern .......Page 4 SporU ....... ,,... ...PBge U