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Aujrunt 25, 104 PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON REDS HAMMER OFF-BALANCE T , (Continued from Page One) kov, and a soviet communique announced new successes all alone the line as the Russian forces drove toward Poltava, 75 miles to the southwest and little more than halfway to the nazis' Dnieper river defense line. The war bulletin broadcast from Moscow said the nazis, ex hausted by the battle for Khar kov, were rushing reserves Into the line but in spite of this the red army advanced both south and west of the city, killing 2000 Germans and disabling 25 tanks in sharp fighting. Northwest of the city other units of the Rus sian army captured several vil lages. Near Rout The communique indicated that the German retreat from Kharkov was reaching the pro portions of a rout with the nazi &oops abandoning considerable stocks of war material and ar mored equipment (The German high command aid the "big battle of defense in the east continues with unabated ferocity," but insisted that soviet attacks collapsed. The nazi com munique, broadcast from Berlin and recorded by The Associated Press, said 263 red army tanks and 95 planes were destroyed yesterday.) Losses High . German losses in armored equipment and planes were re ported running high as the nazis recklessly expended their strength in a vain effort to stem the Russian surge. The com munique said that on Monday alone the red army had de stroyed 77 tanks and 108 planes in fighting on all fronts. The Kharkov area continued ' to be the focal point of the Rus sian advance. The fall of the city gave the Soviets several ob jectives to aim at, but the most likely choice was Poltava with Kiev, Ukrainian capital 250 miles to the west on the Dnieper, as the big goal of the summer of fensive. In the Donets basin, southwest of Voroshilovgrad, where the Russians previously reported they had breached the nazi lines, the red army broke up German counter-attacks, inflicted heavy losses : and captured several towns, the soviet communique declared. Charge to Parents . Discussed by Board SALEM, Aug. 25 (JPy Wheth er the state board of control should charge parents of inmates of the state boys and girls schools was discussed today by the state board of control, which dis agreed and took no action. The law provides that parents of children In state-aided pri vate child-caring institutions hall pay $25 a month for care of each child, requiring the com mitting courts to determine if the parents can pay. ' Officers Killed in Army Plane Crash ' TACOMA, Aug. 25 (JP) Major Hugh S. Glassburn of Saattl and 2nd Lieut. Charles F. Green of Wastfleld, 111., were killed yesterday in the crash of their army trainer plane five miles south of Olympia airport. The public relations office of McChord field today said that the plane apparently went out of control and plunging down crashed when a wing struck a dead tree. Cause of the accident, which occurred about 8:30 p. m. Is being investigated. - Hans Norland Auto Insurance. 13 Years Of Negatives On File! Sine 1930 Kennell-Ellis Has Kept All Negatives On File For Your Convenience Come In . . . Look Them Over And Order From Those Old Proofs You May Have Forgotten! Kennell-Ellis ' O. 8. Natl -Bank Bids- NAZI RETREA Jap War Production Worries Hirohito By The Associated Press The Tokyo radio, declaring that Emperor Hirohito is deeply concerned over Japanese war production, appealed to the Japanese people today to "set the mind of the emperor at ease" by exerting new efforts to boost production, the office of war information reported. The appeals, the OWI said, were made in broadcasts de scribing a series of audiences to which the emperor summoned leaders of various industries to discuss "increased production for the elevation of fighting strength." PORTAL-TO-PDRTAL PAY RJDREJECTED (Continued From Page One) WLB offices is that the parties cannot preclude the board from acting on each provision separ ately but, since it Is a voluntary agreement, the parties may put into effect any or all of the ap proved provisions or discard them, as they wish.. UMW headquarters said Lew is would have no comment. Fuel Oil Panel to Meet on Tuesday A meeting of the fuel oil panel of the war price and ra tion board has been called for Tuesday of next week, board officials said today. Purpose of the meeting is to instruct per sonnel in regulations affecting fuel oil. Attending the meeting will be Hobart Price, district board op erations representative from Portland. Parties Set For Defense Lesders Invitations from the block leader council have been sent to all precinct and area leaders of the civilian defense program to attend a party to be given for them at the Little Theatre on Thursday, August 26, at 8 p. m. Later similar entertainments are to be given for the block leaders of the various districts. Passes Mrs.' Kate Kleiber, 76, a lonj time resident of Klam ath Falls passed away on Tues day morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leonard Johns. Funeral services will be held on Friday morning in Spokane, Wash. In addition to Mrs. Johns, she is survived by a brother, James P. Vaughn of Klamath Falls. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY Two Apartments Well Furnished Fine lot 50 x 150 feet to gravel ed alley, on Hillside avenue. Two 3-room apartments. Price only $3700. Terms $1000 down, balance $45 monthly. BOGUE DALE r REALTOR 120 S. 9th Tel. 6972 ATTRACTIVE HOUSEKEEPING ROOM 216 Main, Fairfield Apts. 8-31 HOTPOINT electric range, $50. 216 Main, Apt 7. 8-31 '41 DELUXE FORD TUDOR - $965. Inquire Herbert Endorf, 3 miles east of Tulelake. 8-31 li ACRES, 3-bedroom house, hot and cold water in house, pres sure system, good lawn, chick en house, barn, pig shed, pigs, cow and rabbits for sale also. Close to Weyerhaeuser, on school bus line. O. C. Splndler. Phone 8714. Rt. 3, Box 415. 8-27 FOR RENT Partly furnished 3-room house. Inquire 2200 Huron. 8-27 FALL CLASSES start Monday, August 30, in ALL SUBJECTS offered. KLAMATH BUSI NESS COLLEGE, 325 Main Street, across from the court house. 8-25 LOST Gas Ration Book. D. Frazier, 2317 South 6th. 8-27 ATTENTION Lumber Workers All lumber com pany employes who belong to the Elks lodge are urged to attend an emergency meeting tonight (Wednesday) at 8 p.m. at the Elks temple. IMPORTANT! WAR LOAN MEETING An Important meeting at which the Third War Loan program will be fully explained has been set for next Monday evening at the Elks temple, with the public invited and all bond workers particularly urged to attend. Representatives of the state war bond administrator's office will speak. -A. M. Collier, county war savings chairman, said it is imperative that there be a good attendance at this meeting. E. B. Hair, general chairman of the war loan drive, presided at an enthusiastic meeting of the central committee Monday eve ning, and the whole program for Klamath county was shaped. Ad ditional committeemen were named and various activities dis cussed. Milk Blockade Instituted by Weed Dairymen (Continued from Page One) because of the increasing cost of feed. Mrs. Brown stated that for ten months the dairy operators have been trying to reach an adjust ment with the OPA, and that re cently an increase of from 31 to 35 cents a gallon was granted for milk purchased from the pro ducers. But the OPA refused to increase the retail price. This didn t help the dairymen here. Mrs. Brown said, because all distributors in the area are producers. Doctor Renews Efforts to Get Out of State Pen OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 25 OP) Dr. Kent W. Berry, sen tenced in January, 1939, to life imprisonment for the first de gree kidnaping and assault up on Irving Baker, retired coast guard lieutenant, has renewed his efforts to be released from the state penitentiary. Chief Justice George B. Simp son, state supreme court, today set September 24 as date of hearing on Dr. Berry's applies' tion for writ of habeas corpus asking release from the state institution. Arizona Authorities To Come for Redden A wire was received by the sheriff's office here this week from Sheriff Vic Christensen of Graham county, Arizona, stat ing that authorities from that county will be in Klamath Falls soon to pick up Sterling Red den who is being held here. Redden, who has signed a waiver of extradition, is wanted in Graham county on murder and jailbreak charges. City po lice arrested the man Sunday night after recognizing him from descriptions which had previ ously been sent to law enforce ment officers in Klamath Falls. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY LLOYD W. RUSK Contractor and Builder. Remodeling. 1621 Arthur St. Phone 3405. 9-12m HAVE YOUR RUGS and furni ture cleaned before the fall rush. Cleaned either at shop or at your home. Also floors waxed. Phone 5875. DOREMUS RUG CLEANERS PHONE 5315 for Quality, Dis tilled, Clean burning ASSO CIATED BURNER OILS. Every gallon a full gallon of heat energy. BALSIGER OIL COMPANY. 8-31ra FOR THE BETTER grades of fuel oils, accurate, metered deliveries, try Fred H. Heil bronner, 821 Spring street, telephone 4153. Distributor Shell Heating Oils. 9-13m WANTED 100 fur coats to re model and alter. Mrs. Greg ory. PENNY CLEANERS 602 Main 8-27 COMPLETE service men's gift dept., at Rudy's Men's Shop, 6th and Main. fl-20m RUTH DICKSON announces Verla McCabe is now at the Star Beauty Salon, formerly with Boito's Beauty Shop. For appointment phone 8280. 435 Main street. 8-30 Continuous from 1:00 P. M, ... S"!V I Jul ArrjJkrA m.i Fir , Six More Guards Under Arrest at Plane Factory JOHNSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 25 (IPh Six more guards were placed under military arrest to day at the Brewster Aeronaut ical corporation's Johnsvllle plant whore similar action against four others two days ago led to a walkout that has halted airplane production and brought war labor board intervention; Acting Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal told the corpora tion that the loss of a single navy combat piano because of a work stoppage "Is a tragedy." The fourth naval district pub lic relations office said the six were charged with violating their "military obligation" by failing to report for duly Mon day. The four previously ar rested were charged with failing to take their post of duty after reporting for work. All are members of the coast guard temporary reserve, but are paid by the company. Meanwhile employes contin ued to defy a WLB order for a resumption of work, despite a warning from the board that it would take "all steps within its authority" to compel compliance. BIG TIMBER STAND (Continued from Page One) challo and railed to the mill at Modoc Point The timber is on forest service holdings, between the reserva tion and Crater Lake park and north of Sand Creek. Lamm's disclosure disposes of local rumors regarding the im mediate future of the Modoc Point operation. Manpower Problem In Tire Production AKRON. O.. Aug. 25 (Pi Scarcity of manpower, rather than rubber, is the main obstacle in producing automobile tires for civilian use, William O'Neil, General Tire and Rubber com pany president reported in a statement today. Asserting civilians "should be able to get tires by the middle of next year, if we are able to find the men and the women to build them." O'Neil said the problem of raw material for tires had been largely solved by the synthetic program. Indictments Made In Sabotage Case WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (IP) The justice department announ ced today that a federal grand jury at Jamestown, N. Y., had indicted the Antonelli Fireworks Company, Inc., and four individ uals on charges of conspiracy to violate the wartime sabotage statute of manufacturing defec tive incendiary bombs and hand grenades. rpsDM O TOMORROW O L J ( i framhoTtone 'srsThm MARSHA HUNT MtiS 6EKE KELLY "SSSTL JDSer VAN JOHNSON ALAN BAXTER M.a.M simn (Continued From Paga One) harassing flights last night to the north German region." The nail-controlled Paris ra dio reported that 25 persona were killed and 100 injured In raids on the Paris region yes terday. Anniversary Today is the third anniversary of tho first RAF raid on Berlin when an attack was carried out by a relatively small force of pianos. Radio France quoted the Ger man underground station "Atlan tic" as saying that at least 73.000 Berlin residents were homeless as a result of Monday night's at tack. 8huttle Flight American Flying Fortresses which rained destruction upon Regensburg August 17 and con tinued over the Alps to air bases in North Africa completed the homeward leg of the trip yester day, loosing their cargoes of bombs en route upon an air craft assembly plant In Bon deaux, France. The raiders arrival at home bases in the British isles com pleted the first round-trip Amer ican shuttle operation described by Brig. Gen. Fred L. Anderson, wing commander of the eighth air force, as the "greatest oper ational flight the United States army air force has made to date." U. S. EIGHTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS IN E N IS LAND. Aug. 25 (IP) Thirty per cent of the nazi day fighter pro duction was destroyed in the American Flying Fortress raid on the - Regensburg Messor schmitt plant August 17, MaJ. Gen. Harold L. George, air transport command chief, told a press conference today. He predicted that if the tempo of the present operations can be increased Germany's economic structure will fail by the year's end. Canby Operations Vote AFL in Ballot Employes of the Ralph L. Smith logging operations In Canby, Calif., yesterday voted for the Lumber and SawmHl Workers union. AFL, in a na tional labor relations board election. Sixty employes .voted AFL, 41 fnr CIO unci IB Tor no-unlon. Approximately 170 workers are employed in the two mills, one of which was formerly the Big Lakes Lumber company, but is now owned by Ralph L. Smith. Board of Control Declines Request SALEM, Aug; 25 (IP) The state board of control declined today to grant a request by at. r r rni. late hosnltal super intendent, for permission to feed oleomargarine to hospital pa tients in order to give them more fats. Classified Ads Bring Results. LAST DAY Jon Hall, Maria Montas and Sibu : "WHITE SAVAGE" In Technicolor Jury Convicts Layton of Lovers Lane" Rape-Slaying given to the Jurors as they started deliberations. Final ar guments by attorneys were con cluded yesterday. The state accuses Layton, an ex-Monmouth, Ore, police chief, of raping and knocking Miss Hlldebrand Into the Willamette river the night of June 7 when she accepted a ride In his auto mobile from Monmouth to Dallas. The defense contends the girl slipped into the river accident ally as she and Layton disported along the bank near Bucna Vis ta's "lovers lane. Multiple Liquor Permit "Racket" To Be Stopped PORTLAND. Aug. 25 (IP) The state liquor control com mission proposed today to com bat multiple permits by requir ing Its liquor store customers to present their No. 3 war ra tion books whenever they pur chase. Approval o( the plan was yet to come but commissioners ap peared determined to adopt some system beforo the day was out to cut Into the "racket"tof more than one permit to a cus tomer. Immediate Induction Of Strikers Ordered NASHVILLE. Tcnn., Aug. 25 yp) Gov. Prentice today called on Tennessee draft boards to in duct immediately striking em ployes of the Vultee aircraft fac tory here. "No man should enjoy deter ment from military duty who voluntarily quits work in a vital defense Industry," tho executive said in announcing his order to the boards. HUNGER ILLNESS DEATH Most people who die in fam ines do so not from starvation, but from diseases contracted be cause of scanty and improper diet. TOMORROW BIG No. 1 i . war UT uorjr NO. S 1 i Eddie Learnt .ppl' j ' UGD Can Be . . . y9 iSA . BROPHT ! iMfl 3 Pee Smith " FA LA" II V 0 THE MOST PUBLICIZED DOO IN THE WOULD (Continued from Tag One) Sicilian CHinpaiKii. Photographs showed both rail yards and tho adjoining steel works were hard hit. - Four Missing Four allied planes wore miss ing from all nttucks, hcutlquart ors reported. Tho only opposition encount- i ored was by a Beauf Ighter which blew up and sank a schooner off the Italian const off Romo. It was jumped by two Focke WulMOOs which opened flro and then broko off tho attacks without causing damage, Tommy Manville Marries "Sunny" NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (IP) Tommy Manville, weulthy asbes tos heir, was married today to Macie Marie "Sunny" Aliisworth. 19, a showgirl from Matagorda, Texas, by Supremo Court Jus tice Louis A. Viilnntc. It was Mnnvllle's seventh marriage and the bride's third. The ceremony took nlacc with out previous announcement In Justice Vuleiite s office, Just two weeks after Miss Ainsworth an nounced sho and Manville hud broken off their eiiKaitemcnt bo cause they were not well enough acquainted. urw TftiMV TWO BIG HITS W LAST TIMES nam, UePOWEU Herman BMX I ElanrSTEWAItT J 3-UNITSHOW On Our aTTm 2 ON THE SCREEN Kelland Presents Post-War Policy . For Republicans (Continued From Page One) ocean navy but five-oceanA navy. It must provide Itself with an air force so numerous and sufficient as to stand alone. It must continue a standing army of sufficient alze and training. From this day forth our country must not merely be ablo to prepare for war, but must stand panoplied, equipped to thn last button, and ready for war." Kelland delivered his pre pared speech "The Zones of Safety Plan," before the law committee of the New York county republican committer at the National Republican elub this afternoon, He said his plan would ha presented at the September 8-7 meeting of tho republican post war advisory council at Macki nac Island, Mich. o Paralysis Epidemic Worst in History CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (IP) Dr. Herman N. Hundesen, president of the bonrd of health, descrlb- . Ing Chicago's epidemic of Infan- tile paralysis as tho "worst In tht city's history," believes that the outbreak of the disease "has by no means reached Its peak." HURRY! LAST DAY 3) 5 OUT JAP MUNTIM TODAY, "Corregidor" Stage! Mala and tth "Phcma S252