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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
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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. '":" '' -', .
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"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
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'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
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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,.
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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
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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
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Favored
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-! 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
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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
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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
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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. . , .:, . :
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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 .
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.: 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
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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
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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-
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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,
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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
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