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Today's Roundup
Br MALCOLM EPLEY
THE following story Illustrate a situation
relative to the Klamath Falls airport which
we think should come to the attention of those
In authority in the unnca
States air services.
A service plane came over
the mid-coast area in the night
It overshot one field in
northern California, turned
west by mistake until a sight
of the ocean warned of the
wrong direction. Turning back,'
the plane crossed the moun
tains and came soon over
Klamath Falls.
It passed north over this
city at an early morning hour. The gasoline
supply was running too low for a safe con
tinuance of the flight, and the plane turned
back over Klamath Falls.
Southeast of the town lay the airport, mark
ed with ,. lighting facilities.
The men in the plane were over" unfamiliar
country, but they believed they should be over '
Klamath Falls.
But their map, corrected to June, 1943, did
not bear the markings which would indicate
the specific lighting they could see on the
field below them. It showed only "municipal
airport" at Klamath Falls, and "municipal air
port" might mean anything.
Thus uncertain of their exact location, the
pilots nevertheless decided to bring the plane
down on the strange field. They criss-crossed
the field several times, with landing lights on
for an examination of the runways.
Then the plane swung about, and came in
safely.
At the hangar, of course, the crew found
out for certain where they were, arrange
ments were made for replenishing the gas
upply, and the plane left the next day for its
base.
Where Am I?
SUCH deficiency in service fliers' information
relative to the Klamath field has been prev
iously demonstrated here.
On one occasion, the pilot of a plane that
landed on the field here on a wintry day came
into the Hangar and asked where he was. He
declared he had no idea there was an airport at
Klamath Falls with the facilities available here;
in fact, following his map and forced by a fuel
shortage to seek a landing place, he was look
ing for the tiny emergency field at Lake o'
the Woods!
The government built the runways on the
Klamath Falls airport and Installed the light
ing equipment, . which has been in for more
than a year. Yet these incidents show that
these facilities are not properly known to serv
ice filers, and it appears they are not fully indi
cated in the information provided them.
Possibly many filers themselves have not
taken proper steps to acquaint themselves with
the faculties here.
Circumstances could easily arise in which this
lack of information could be the cause of a
tragedy. It could cost the lives of fighting
men, and the loss of a valuable ship.
There occurs to us no reason to keep government-built
facilities, or any other facilities,
secret from the service men who might need
to use them.
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Warm Springs Mileage
IN writing yesterday's story about the Warm
Springs cut-off, we ran into trouble on com
parative mileage as between Warm Springs and
the Willamette highway routes.
Bend boosters for Warm Springs had said
the difference was about five miles, but the
figures were somewhat Indefinite and we sought
official statistics from the highway office at
Salem.
Our query was delayed. The first report came
from, another Salem source, and gave the dis
tance from Klamath Falls to Portland via Warm
Springs as 355 miles, as compared with 303
on the Willamette. '
We knew that was haywire. We pressed for
report from the highway department, mean
while checking a report made a few years ago
to the chamber of commerce. That figure was
313 for the Warm Springs, 301 for the Wil
lamette. Finally, we used that comparison. After the
paper was gone, the final figure from the high
way engineers came through. Here it is:
Klamath Falls to Portland, via the Willam
ette highway, 300 miles.
Via Warm Springs highway, 306 miles.
That's the official comparison. Our apologies
to Don Peoples, Bob Sawyer, Judge Hamilton,
Tom Brooks and Bill Niskannen of Bend.
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MALLON
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
AASHINGTON, Aug. 13 The German mill
V T tary situation is decaying rapidly.
Italy Is defenseless, as we control the air
and sea on both sides of the boot Wherever
the nazis elect to dig their
defensive line In Italy, we
can turn their positions by
landing in their rear from the
sea. Frontal attacks are. not
necessary.
Swiss rumors .have suesest
l I ed they are digging In on the
-?vs fl Po river line, which would
leave a a. ine boot to ine itai-
ians and to us. It is too far
north to be turned from the
sea. A better line runs across
the top of the Apennlne mountains, north of
Florence, but it could be turned.
' However, both positions can be fed from
Germany only through the Brenner Pass (about
200 yards wide). Our bombers can close that
pass and cut off any nazi defense in Italy as
soon as they get into Italian .mainland airfields.
The only other possible German supply routes
for defense on North Italian soil run through
Switzerland, and the neutral Swiss have prom'
Ised to blow up the tunnels at the first move.
The Balkans, weakened by withdrawals of
the Italian garrisons, shortly will become sub
ject to feasible dual-invasion. Our troops can
land in Albania faced only by Italians. If such
an attack is accompanied by a simultaneous
declaration of war by Turkey and an invasion
of Salonika from the east all Greece can be
cut from nazi communications without the
hazards of a frontal assault through Crete.
The German homeland itself is becoming
practically defenseless from the air. The fu
tility of her efforts was shown by the British
attacks Wednesday on Neurenberg and Nann-
neim.
For four or five days previously, our air
forces had been relatively quiet, obviously cook
ing up a heavy new campaign. (We generally
lay off a week between bombing campaigns.)
During this inactivity we circulated rumors
that Berlin was about to be attacked, causing
the Germans to call in their planes and anti
aircraft for defense of their caDitaL To do
this, they had to uncover most of the rest of
the country, including Neurenberg and Mann-
neim. They cannot defend everything, there-
lore, iney cannot defend anything.
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Russian Defense Weakening
THEIR, defense in Russia is likewise weaken
ing. Their communiques feebly claim their
current withdrawals are voluntary. But they
cannot conceal the fact that they fought their
best possible battle for the defense of Orel,
and upon losing it had to retire.
At Belgorod, they put up less of a fight But
you may be sure the Germans are not now
yielding a foot of Russian territory volun
tarily. Everything they held was vital militarily.
For instance, the loss of Orel and Belgorod
gave ine Russians a lateral rail line behind
the front for the best possible movement of
supplies.
Nazi loss of Kharkov will lengthen this road
behind the whole Russian front. Loss of
Bryansk will be equally disastrous from a nazi
military standpoint, as it was a strongly de
fended rail junction.
SIDE GLANCES
Greatest Defeat
rT the greatest German defeat of this war
has not been adequately reported or popu
larly understood. Hitler apparently placed great
hopes far more than we knew at the time
upon unrestricted submarine warfare. Like
the kaiser, he staked all on stopping the flow
of our munitions and men to the battle fronts
of North Africa, Russia and Britain.
Tunisia, Sicily and Italy were lost to him
when he failed to sink our ships, just as all
Europe now obviously has become lost to him
by the failure of his complete Atlantic sub
marine campaign. Historians may yet record
that he lost the war by his failure on this
front, as was the case in 1917.
From a military standpoint, his position thus
already has become practically defenseless on
all fronts in the sea, land, and air. You
may be sure the nazis know this better than
we do.
Sicilians 'Invade' North Africa
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The Italians are back in North -Africa, but this time as prisoners.
Line of the captives just arrived from Sicily follows a Bren gun
' 1 carrier down a street as they bead for temporary prison camD.
IT'S A DEAL
.SAN FRANCISCO W) Fruit
spoiling for cans, and house
wives spoiling to can it, got to
gether on a vacant lot.
It brought directly from farm
er to consumer hundreds of
baskets of dead-ripe apples and
pears.
The fruit went at 3 cents a
pound for apples, 4) cents for
pears about half the current
retail price for near-ripe fruit.
12,000 BULLETS A MINUTE
An automatic pneumatic gun
developed by a Los Angeles in
ventor pours out 12,000 rounds a
minute. No powder is necessary
in the gun, compressed air pro
vided by cylinder beneath it
supplying all the force needed to
"blow" the equivalent of a .50
caliber bullet.
We suggest that Hitler start
choosing his. words well some
day he is going to have to eat
them. ......
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The War
Today
Br DeWITT MacKENZIE
"Now, sis, you go nromut complaining to everybody how
1 hoi it is today, and mention our ginger ale stand we'll
make you propaganda chief V
Dr. Masters' Health Column
Simple Blood-Building Diet
Prevents Pre-Natal Anemia
Br DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS
Anemia is one of the most
frequent complications of preg
nancy. One of the reasons for
regular pre-natal examinations
is to detect anemia as early as
possible, when it is easy to treat
and before it can particioate in
the development of any other
complication. Fortunately, there
are satisfactory and usually sim
ple means of correcting the
anemias due to pregnancy.
It is the rule that the blood
count and hemoglobin levels
fall during pregnancy. For a
long time, It has been recog
nized that a certain decrease in
the figures for these two con
stituents of the blood is due to
an increase in the plasma or
fluid portion of the blood. It is
nothing more than dilution of
the blood cells that accounts
for the apparent anemia regu
larly encountered during pregnancy.
NORMAL BLOOD COUNT
There are normally in the
non-pregnant - women about 14
gm. of hemoglobin in 100 cc. of
blood. Because of the physiol
ogic increase in the blood vol
ume during pregnancy, this fig
ure may fall to 10 gm. without
indicating any loss in the total
volume of hemoglobin. By the
same token, the red blood cell
count does not indicate blood
loss when it shifts from four
and one-half million in the non
pregnant state to three and one
half million during pregnancy.
Levels for hemoglobin and red
blood cells lower than the stan
dards for normal pregnancy in
dicate a true anemia.
The vomiting of pregnancy
and the gastro-intestinsl dis
turbances associated with that
state may interfere with the
dietary factors necessary for the
stimulation of the blood cell
formation. Furthermore, preg
nancy exerts an increased diet
ary demand on the mother
which is not always met by a
proper selection of foods. Be
sides these factors, the fetus
constantly demands the sub
stances out of which blood is
produced, and takes them at the
expense of the mother.
It is rare, indeed, of an infant
to be born anemic, an observa-
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tion which means that its sup
ply is assured, regardless of the
intake on the part of the moth
er. If the mother is anemic, the
infant may also become anemic
seme months after birth because
of deficient storage of iron by
the fetus. 'The administration of
iron to the mother during preg
nancy or .to the Infant after'
birth will prevent this type of
anemia.
DEFICIENT DIET IS FACTOR
Although anemia may occur
in all groups of pregnant wom
en, regardless of economic
status, all surveys emphasize
the fact that the condition is
much more common at the low
er income levels, in which
groups dietary deficiencies are
likewise more frequent Also
anemia due to pregnancy is
more infrequent in women
whose dietary history is known
to be satisfactory,.
' The increased demands exert
ed by pregnancy may result in
anemia if there is not a simul
taneous increase in the supply
of blood-building materials. Ad
ditional Iron-containing foods
such as liver, green, leafy vege
tables and protein foods such
as meat, fowl, and dairy pro
ducts will balance the stepped
up need and prevent anemia.
The periodic pre-natal examina
tion will verify the result and
detect the onset of any other
complication.
Seattle Barbers
Boost Haircut Price
SEATTLE, Aug. 13 (Ef
fective Monday, it will cost to
get a haircut here. .
The Seattle Barbers' union
voted the increased price last
night. The prevailing rate In
union shops has been 73 cents.
WACs Arrive at
Camp White
CAMP WHITE, Aug. 13 &)
The WACs have arrived at Camp
White.
The first group of enlisted wo
men numbers 15. They will be
assigned to supply, motor trans
port, personnel, administration
and other duties of a similar na
ture. I MEAN ME
KANSAS CITY (P) A navy
plane and later an army plane
piloted by a major crashed
through warning barriers on the
municipal airport main taxi way.
Just what do you think we
ought to do?" an irate commis
sioner asked the major.
"Well," replied the officer
I'd put up a few more barri
cades and red lights just so some
dumb, fat major could knock
em down again!
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(NEA Telepholoi
Here's another black mark against
Hitler. It's the hanging of a Ser
bian patriot in Belgrade, from when
the picture was smuggled and dis
tributed through the Office of Wat
Information.
WHAT'S WRONG
WITH YOU?
Sunburn, mosquito bites, or
"just plain heat rash.."
Cooling the burn out of sunburn is a
heavenly pleasure. And easy, too.
You simply sprinkle Mexsana well
over irritated skin. This soothes, re
lieves, also protects against more ir
ritation from chafe. Mexsana, for
merly Mexican Heat Powder is not
a talc, but a real medicated powder.
Famous over 40 years for beating
the heat of heat rash, protecting
against chafe irritations, and taking
the ouch out of itchy mosquito bites.
Keep it handy and keep ahead of
these summer miseries. It costs lit
tle and you make even greater sav
ings in larger sizes. Get Mexsana,
Br DsWITT MacKENZIE
The gods of war certainly are
smiling on the great and going
concern of Roosevelt. Churchill
it Co., as the senior partners pre
pare to begin what probably are
their most important conversa
tlons since the first historic con
ference on the Atlantic In the
days of '41.
That is to say things military
are, going exceedingly well.
mere are great iniernniionai po
litical problems to plague the
chiefs, but the matter of Immcdl
ate concern presumably Is where
and when the Anglo-American
allies can best swarm aboard the
European continent and capital
lze the successes of the red arm
ies before opportunity tukes a
nose-dive.
Going Good
Things could scarcely be going
better on the two land fronts and
the one air front of the European
theatre. That certainly should
facilitate the difficult decision
the president and Britain's
prime minister must make.
Should the Russian assault
lose steam before the western al
lies are able to take major action
to divert further nazi strength
fromthe eastern front, then the
opportunity for a quick allied
coup de graco might be swnl
lowed up In the bad weather of
autumn, and the war would be
protracted. That's a contingency
the conference between Messrs.
Roosevelt and Churchill is calcu
lated to meet
Stops Material
- So thorough has been the
devastation among the nazi war
Industries of western Europe
that London tells us an end has
been put to the steady flow of
Hitler's basic materials. The
great American and British
bombers therefore are able to
turn part of their attention to
centers manufacturing consumer
goods, like the famous and an
cient city of Nuremberg. The
purpose of that, of course, Is to
hit the morale of the civilian
population.
One of the essentials for Inva
sion of western Europe was de
struction of the main sources of
Hitler's war supplies.' London's
statement indicates that the air
navies have wrought so well that
the fuehrer now must be feeding
heavily off his fat, that is. the
resources which he had stored
away before the round-the-clock
bombing started.
So by and large, the allied
chiefs should be pleased with the
set-up as they sit down at the
conference table.
Germany Orders
Investigation of
Ploesti Oil Raid
ISTANBUL, Aug. 1 1 (Delayed)
UP) Germany has ordered a
military cordon thrown about
the Ploesti oil fields pending the
outcome of an Investigation to
fix blame for the American raid
on August 1 which caught the
defenders napping, it was learn
ed today.
Military heads are expected to
roll as a result of the attack on
that vital Rumanian oil supply.
An eyewitness to the raid said
that most of the Rumanian guard
had taken the Sunday off, leav
ing only a skeleton force.
We did an awful lot of pray
ing and we both had an Idea
we'd be rescued. Ensign Eu
gene P. Farley, adrift 10 days
with comrade on scout plane.
Main Street on Attu
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There's plenty of scUvlty on Attu ss labor battalions, Including the
famed Seabed, turn the bleak Aleutian Inland Into a number one
bust tor attacking Japan. This tent city Is Attu's metropolis, with
Its piles of supplies, wooden mess hall and snow-capped peak In
background
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From The Klamath Republican
Aug. 13. 1903
All previous transcontinental
records have been broken by
the Lowe special, which left
New York-at 2:43 p. m., on Au
gust 4, and arrived at Los An
geles at 1 p. m August 7. By
transporting the special train
In 82 hours 40 minutes, the San
ta Fe railroad beat all previous
records.
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From The Klamath News
August 12, 1933
Governor Julius Meier was
here today for the state Legion
convention.
a a
Florence Parks, 13, was In
jured while riding a bicycle at
esplanade and Main streets last
evening. ;
a a a
Tho outlook for a good Klam
ath potato crop continues to
strengthen.
Hundreds Suffocate
In Berlin Air Raid
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 12 W
Dispatches from Germany said
today that hundreds of persons
suffocated In air raid shelters
during the heavy bombing of
Hamburg and that the city's
entire shelter system would
have to be revamped to pro
vide emergency oxygen supplies.
Authorities said fires caused
by incendiary bombs drew oxy
gen from the air raid shelters,
a correspondent of the Stock
holm Tidningen reported.
Moro German than itvur m-
going to this country this sum
merand It has nothing to do
with vacations.
Father Distributes
Children as Mother
Languishes in Jail
NEWARK, N. J.. Aug. 13 W)
A 23-year-old father's distribu
tion of four of his six children,
all under seven, among fontrrA
parents while the mother wV
being held In jail on nn adultery
charge drew the attention today
of the Children's Aid society.
The father, James Young, ser
vice station mechanic, said he
was unablo to caro for the chil
dren after his wife, Marion, 23,
was lodged in Jail, and made his
appeal for foster homes through
the Newark Star-Ledger.
Yesterday, Young's home was
crowded with prospective foster
parents eager and willing to take
Uie youngsters.
"They started coming eorly,"
Young said, "and they came
from all over hundreds of them
all kinds of people."
University of the
South to Resume Q
Football Play
SEWANEE. Tenn., Aug. 13 m
Football's old-time giant killer,
the University of the South, re- .
turned to the grid picture tods
with an announcement that II
would resume play In a thMax
game Intercotlcglnte schednisl
this fall with a team composed '
of civilian students and naval
trainees.
Little Sewanre was one of thai
first southern colleges to inaug-1 '
urate football In 1801. And It
was one of tho first to drop the
game became of wartimo con
ditions early In 1042.
Classified Ads Bring Results.
Haw Shlpmant
Van Heuten
Pajamas
Siias A to D
RUDY'S MEN'S SHOP
lh ana Main
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...
"Makttm feel extra good htatitf you talk that
way, Judte.,.nevet tealiud I wascontnbutw
to the wat effort in the way you mention."
"You certainly are. Hank. Part o the
grain you farmers grow is used by the bever
age distilling industry to make alcohol for
war purposes. Hundreds ol millions ol gal
lons are requiied every year for smokeless
powder, medical supplies, chemical warfare
materials, thatterprool glass, lacquer for
camouflaging equipment, fuel to propel tor
pedoes and in the making of critically needed
ynlhetle rubber- But, Rank, the grain used
In distilling this alcohol Is not thrown away,
It li processed and comes back to the farm
again in the lorm of distillers' dried grains
or dried solubles which jrou use lor dairy
feed, nog supplements and poultry mashes.
This year alone It Is estimated 388,000 torn
ol these much needed feed etuQs will be
produced by the distillers."
" ton mi now, Judge, why you lay ffi
M'gAy good thing we Hate a leiol distillmt
industry in times like these."