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Newspaper Page Textinvasion Bonds"-- $2,5 1 8,000 Worth To Make Klamath County's llllilllllllliilllllll.lillliilllllllllll Ob 6-mlnut blast on slrns and whlitlas ia tha signal for blackout ia Klamath Falls. Another long bint during black out ia a ilgnal lor all-clear. In rcau. tlonary parlodi, watch your airott lights. nnn i-inrinrn'inrrirriiirii IlSichurehill Talks ..rrJWs IsfcV KEY PQSITI 0S By FRANK JENKINS TPHE shooting war In Russia holds tho spotlluht today. Tho Russians tills morning were colebrotlng the fall of Taganrog. In Moscow a salute of 124 guns had Just been fired. jaTlio reverberations had hardly V-lod when news came of the Ink ing of Yelnya, only 45 miles southeast of the great German spidcrweb center at Smolensk. The guns started roaring AGAIN In celebration of Yelnya. DUSSIAN tanks and cavalry are halfway today from Tagan rog to Mariupol, the next rail head on the Sea of Azov to th west of Taganrog. They are fol lowing the coast, apparently In hot pursuit of tho fleeing Gar mans, who will probably make another stand at Mariupol be hind the Kalmius river (see map.) Tho Russians are headed for tha Crimean peninsula, which they hop to cut off from the land tide. . . . - - ON this Sea of Azov campaign, watch all references to Slnel nlkovo and Zsparozha. These towns are Junction polnta on the Kharkov-Crimea railroad where Intersecting rail lines from east of th Dnieper river com In, . If th Russians can take these Junction points, they'll have ALL rail communication with th Germans on th Crimean penin sula cut off. Your map will make this sit uation plain. . nAF night bombers hit Ger- many again In force last night at factory and railroad towns In th Immediate neighborhood of Duesseldorf, on the Rhine. Twenty-eight bombers are lost. At tha same time, lighter bombers attack German airfields all over western France, Holland and Belgium. 1 The PURPOSE Is to compel Xfhe Germans to SPLIT UP their fighter forces Instead of being able to CONCENTRATE them . against our heavy bombing ex peditions. QUR big air Job at present Is shooting down German fight er planes. The Germans' Job Is to build fighters faster than we can shoot them down, ' -. ' Our bombers In Italy are mov Ing steadily farther north, . their operations today being con centrated well above Rome. As w move north, we're facing IN- CREASING concentrations of German fighter strength. . 1 (Tho nearer wo strike to the (Continued on Page Two) rfhird War Loan Campaign Starts on September 9; Drive Plans Shape Up The Third War Loan cam paign officially starts Septem ber 9, but plans for an intensive pre-campalgn in the intervening period Indicated today . that Klamath county will be . well started toward Its quota by the opening day. , Reports of 60 workers at an enthusiastic meeting in the Elks temple showed the campaign rapidly shaping up, and many purchases of "Invasion bonds" in both large and small denomi nations already made or pledged. Klamath county's quota for the Third War Loan is $2,918,000, jfn the campaigners decided to V ail the securities that make up that quota "Invasion bonds," in keeping with an anticipated phase of the war. , Speakers Speakers at Monday night's meeting from the state war bond offices were W. C. Chrlstensen .and D. L. Davis. , Both men 'warmly congratulated tho Klam ' pth group for the progress al Churchill Talks Second Front, Meeting Stalin QUEBEC. Aug. SI (P) Prime Minister Churchill said today that nothing is nearer to the wishes of President Roosevelt and myself than to have a three-fold meeting with Marshal Stalin," but he declared that an allied second front would be opened on the continent only when there was every chance of military success unswayed by political considerations. The prime minister said he did not blame Russia for any criticism It had levelled at the allies for not having launched a new offensiva In western Europe. Success Important He made It clear, however, that the positive factor of military success was paramount. 'The president and I will persevere in our efforts to meet Marshal Stalin," he said, in a-4roadcast address. "And in the meantime It seems most necessary and urgent that a conference of the British. United States and Russian for- NO INCREASE IN KU H S Registration "V Drops Slightly ' Under 1942 SCHOOL FIGURES - 1942 Enroll ment 110 191 188 485 147 151 238 1497 Confer , Fairview Fremont Mills ..... Pelican .., Riverside Roosevelt 1570 Junior high 8th grade students at Fremont 194 202 Over-all enrollment records for the first day of school throughout the city showed ap proximately the same on an av erage as last year. Elementary and Junior high schools regis tered 63 more students than in 1942, but this Increase was off set by a decrease of 80 students at Klamath Union high school. Total registered students at the high school Tuesday, accord (Continued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE. R. H. E. New York 0 4 1 Boston 6 8 1 Mungo, Feldman (6), Wlttlg (8), and Lombardl; Andrews and Roland. . ready made, and the set-up of the campaign her with th Elks lodge leading the way and E. B. Hall as general chairman. The visitors said Oregon has $750,000,000 In bank deposits, and therefore the money is here to make the state's $105,000,000 third war loan quota. ' Davis pointed out the coun try's annual income is $140 bil lion; there are from $65 to $70 billion In consumer goods avail able, and taxes amount to $25 billion. There is an ample mar gin, he indicated, to make the Third War Loan quota of $15 billion. Consumer Goods Davis said that available con sumer goods amounts to about $500 for each Individual, and those who seek to spend more than that for consumer goods are contributing to an inflationary trend. - - Chrlstensen outlined the Third War Loan program in Washing ton county, where he is co-chair Today 105 173 230 528 140 148 248 ASSOCIATED PRESS- PEICB FIVE CBN'" elgn ministers or their respon sible representatives should be held at some convenient place in order not merely to explore the various Important questions connected with the future ar rangements for world security, but to carry their discussions to a point where th heads of states and governments may be able to intervene." " l t . - Second Front"". ' Th prime minister, refreshed from his lsbor at the Quebec war council by a week, of fishing in th Laurentian mountains. turned again to th question of a second front In Europe, declar ing that we once had a fine front In France, but it was torn to pieces by the concentrated might of Hitler, and It Is easier to have a front pulled down than it is to build it up again." He went on: "I look forward to the day when British and American liberating armies will cross the channel In full force and come to close quarters with the German Invaders of France. No Date Told "You would certainly not wish ma to tell you when that is likely to happen or whether it be near or far, but whenever the great blow is struck you may be sure (Conynued on Page Two) Painter Held In Shooting of Game Protector HOQUIAM. Wash., Aug. 31 UP) Harry Strube, .41, an Aberdeen automobile painter who was brought to the Aberdeen Gener al hospital Sunday night with a bullet wound in his hip, will be questioned further today in the fatal shooting of Sherman J. Handron, 55-year-old state game protector whose body was found (Continued on Page Two) man, and urged in particular direct house-to-house solicitation. Reports on Work Chairman Hall reported on th work already accomplished in the Klamath campaign. After th meeting, the group broke up into committees to work out various phases of the drive. - The public was urged by the (Continued on Pag Two) Rhineland Industry Socked By E. D. BALL 1 LONDON, Aug. 31 (P) RAF heavy bombers pounded home a heavy, concentrated attack on the German Rhineland last night and mighty fleets of heavy and medium bombers roared across to the continent to day to bring the fourth year of the war to a thunderous close. The war-busy industrial cities of Muenchen - Oladbach and Rheydt were hammered by the RAF bombers last night a com munique announced, while Mos nASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND ATH FALLS, OREGON, .' ' i t ' ' " nrninrmnr rn IJTJf I '' . ' II ' I ULLIU I BPJI L I II I Dnieperopotrovk . I if iiii-J; - -a' 2000 Killed, Wounded f i n ' -ii i. pin . j.i i. , . I Hare's somsthlng different in the way of mechanised' farm equipment in th Klamath basin this year. It's a mobile hay chopper, operated by the Malta Feeding company. Th abov picture show th chopper picking up straw behind a combine ia berley field on th Tulelak holdings of Tulana farms. Oper ated by on-man (driving the tractor) th chopper straddle th windrow, scoop up th straw, chops It and blows it Into th detachable trailer at th rear. A truck hauls th. trailer to Malin and another amply is attached to th raw of th chopper. Stock Feeding Operation Utilizes By 'Products of Klamath Agricultural Area- By RUTH KINS - And MALCOLM EPLEY ' With stock feed high and m strong demand, the trend in the Klamath basin this year is to ex tract the maximum, food values from the products of the area's sweeping grain and hay fields. Straw, much of which was left on the stubble fields to rot in other years, is being more exten sively used for feed this year. Along tne same line, there is a growing practice of chopping Enemy Masses Fighter Planes To Defend Italy By NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 31 (fP) Newly-massed concentra tions of enemy fighters battled V. S. Marauder bombers and es corting Lightnings yesterday in the bitterest combat of the air war over Italy. The medium bombers blasted railroad yards - at .Aversa north of Naples.- Seventy to 75 Germans and Italians jumped the allied fleets near the coast and over the tar get, and a great running battle continued afterward more than (Continued on Page Two) quito bombers raided Duisberg at the same time, ending a two day lull in the aerial offensive. ; Twenty-eight bombers were lost. ' Procession -; '' ; A virtual unbroken procession of . raiders began drumming across the - coast at daybreak close on the heels of the massive RAF sweep against the sprawl ing Rhineland industrial area. ' American Marauders raided a German airfield at LUle-Vanier-; (Continued ; on: Pag' Two) v; TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1943 and dehydrating alfalfa to save every ounce of feed content. Minimis Wast -' These efforts to minimize waste are in keeping with condi tions of the war period, and con- iriDuie to a greater eziiciency in agricultural operations here. At the same time, they are an indi cation of a developing . livestock feeding activity here which promises to get more, in payroll and wealth, out of our livestock industry, even as there is hope of getting more man-hours out of the logs processed in the lumber ing plants of the district. A comparatively recent devel opment in livestock feeding ac tivity -was the establishment of the big plant of the Malm Feed ing company, in the center of a district' long known for its high- quality hay production. The Malin company this year is buy ing feed extensively in the ba sin, and will fatten 10,000 head (Continued on Page Two) De Marigny Held For Jury Trial In Oakes Murder NASSAU, Bahamas, Aug. 31 (JP) Magistrate F. E. Field to day ordered Alfred de Marigny held for jury trial on a charge of murdering his multi-million aire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes. He ordered the tall, bearded De Marigny, husband of Sir Harry's eldest daughter Nancy, committed after hearing 28 wit nesses testify at a preliminary hearing which began July 12, four days after Oakes bludgeon ed and burned body was dis covered in a bed at his sea-side estate, Westbourne. Attorney General. Eric . Hal- linan said he will file an indict ment when the Bahamas supreme court opens its next term Octob er 8. Just before ; Field announced (Continued. on Pag Two): NEA FEATURES Number 2000 Killed, Wounded " In Fighting Germans By JOHN COLBUHX STOCKHOLM, Aug. 21. UP) German armored patrols' ruth lessly shot Danes in th streets of Copenhagen today as King Christian" X, in bis first appear ance since the nazis took ever Denmark Sunday, gave what his people interpreted as tacit ap proval of resistance to the mil itary dictatorship, refugees es caping to Sweden said tonight. -. King Christian, 'driving with the queen into the villag of Lyngby . near Sorgenfri castl wher he has been imprisoned. was greeted oy thousands of cheering- Danes who Isnored th German ban against crowds of more than five persons. -Happy to Hear Xanemao T am very happy to hear th Danish language spoken in my own country," the king .said. "Continue with that . Reports previously received In dicated that at least 2000 per sons had been killed or wound ed in fighting, between. Danish soldiers, sailors and civilians and the German-army of occupation. Having crushed the last vest iges of the two-day old military revolt, the harassed 'German oc cupation authorities were never theless faced with a new threat in a series of general strikes in nine Danish cities against their dictatorship. - No Abdication - Despite conflicting reports,' It was not believed here that King Christian had abdicated. . - With King Christian a prisoner in Sorgenfri castle, most of the government members jailed or under house arrest and scores of other prominent Danes in prison. Gen. Hermann von Hannecken moved to tighten the German military grip over the country by rounding up all Danish army and navy officers. - ! Strike Reported Von Hannecken rushed troops to' areas where strikes were re ported paralyzing every type of business. The cities affected .(Continued on Page Two) Police, Family Hunt Missing Local Man : - - Police . and the .family and friends of Tony Schiro, employe of the Baker Cement and Gravel company, are investigating his mysterious 'disappearance some time last Saturday afternoon, ' Schiro left his home Saturday afternoon in the company pick up, telling nls family that he was returning to work. He was last observed at the firm's gravel pit at Mount Hebron about 3 o'clock that afternoon, and has not been seen since. The man lived at 2515 Wlard street and has been an employe of the Baker company for : 11 years. Schiro. is 40 years old, five toot six 'inches', in height, and weighs about 168 pounds. He nas a dark complexion, black hair, and' gray eyes. When last seen he-was wearing dark green twill pants,, gray shirt, gray hat ana Heavy work clothes. wr SlTOOf . Ha; mUb m $SfOOt'. THN Ml TOUt MM MX MCUUUnON PM MM SMASH THt AXIS ' r mow yom hubs : 3rd War Loan Quota r "rrnnnnnnr 9890 Una on th. map abov rep- it th Kussiaa front before th fall of Taganrog yastordar. Today th reds took th towns of Yelnya and Glnkhov, north of th ana shown on th map. to hammer within 48 miles of th key bastion of Smolensk. E - JAPS EH PACIFIC ' PBaiMSH Strong ; Ridge" Spots , ( Held Above, Below By DEAN SCHEDLER ' '" ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 31 UP) Liberators and Lightnings, in a 114-ton bombing attack on Wewak, New Guinea, have added at least 87 Japanese planes, and possibly 49, -to -the more than 300 destroyed there since mid-August. This new air victory., scored Sunday, was reported today by Gen. Douglas MacArthura head quarters in a communique which also disclosed that allied troops hold strong ridge positions above as well as below the airdrome at Salamaua, 350 -miles below Wewak. At Wewak, where tha enemy has sent in reinforcements to re- . (Continued on Page Two) William Lloyd . Awarded Purple Heart in Sicily Mrs.-William E. Lloyd has re ceived word that her. husband, PFC William Lloyd has been awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded in action in Sic ily. - PFC Lloyd is now in the Hospital with malaria, but is re covering satisfactorily. , Lloyd has been in th army since January, 1941. He landed in Africa in November, 1942, with the first artillery group to land on the African coast. He participated, in campaigns at Casablanca, Tunisia . and then in Sicily. Mrs. Lloyd lives with her par ents in Klamath Falls at 427 Commercial street Twentv-Seven Dead in New York Passenger Train Crash WAYLAND, N. Y Aug. 31 UP) Twenty-seven persons were dead today many of them from inhal ing live steam after the crack Lackawanna Limited passenger train and a switch engine crash ed head-on near this southwest era New York community late yesterday afternoon. Approximately 150 others of the 500 passengers on the -Delaware, Lackawanna & Western's New - York-to-Buffalo express were injured, several' of them seriously in New York's worst train disaster in more than three years.-. Steam Escapes Moans of the injured mingled with -the escaping: steam from the switch engine as scores of volunteers dug into' the tangled debris to effect rescues and r mov th dad. Tha toll was th PWWIffllinMilipiif ' - - August lOMea 71, Low M Precipitation aa of Aagvst 14, 1144 Stream you to date . ia Last y ..13.10 Normal , ,., II 4$ niui.nr niTrruwnnn.nftairuiji Yelnya, Glukhov Fall Before Victorious - Russians LONDON, Aug. 81 OPI The soviet army captured the towns of Yelnya and Glukhov, in twin drives against the center of the German front. Premier Joseph Stalin announced today in two orders of the day. Tne soviet premier first an nounced the victory at Yf'nya, 45 miles east of Smolensk. A short time later, he followed U up - with th triumphant an nouncement that a second driv in th Sevsk sector had netted Glukhov. 42 miles northeast of the Important railway Junction of Konotop. Mor Tow Taken Stalin also diaeloaad that thlsi push had captured Rylsk, 44 miles'-north of Sumy and 87 miles east of Konotop. . xn anal announcements hailed th second and third iny portant victories for th soviet in two day. - . ..... ....... : Moscow hag Jolt heard tho victory guns celebrating th capture of Taganrog on th Seat of Azov in southern Russia when the guns war ordered again to fir 12 salvoes for Yelnya. . On BeJboad ' " ' Yelnya is 39 miles west of Spas Demensk on the mainline (Continued on Page Two) Sgf Joe Lawson Writes From Jap Prison Camp . First Sergeant Joseph F. Law - son, son of Mrs. G. M. Lawzon of 109 Broad street, has written home from a Jap prison camp In th Philippine islands saying that health is good, that he is uninjured, and sending his re. gards to his family and folks. The card was received by his mother Monday. This is the first direct word from Sergeant Lawson since January 18, 1943. An official notice was received from the gov- . ernment telling of Lawson s in ternment in a prison camp. Lawson graduated from Klam ath Union high school, in 1936 and enlisted in the army in 1937; He was with the national guard for a time and is now in the coast -artillery. - Chilean Cabinet Gives President 'Full Liberty - SANTIAFO, Chile, Aug. 31 UP) The Chilean cabinet has resigned to give the president "full lib erty of reorganization," it was announced today. state's highest on a railroad siseo April 19, 1940, when the Lake Shore Limited of the New York Central lines crashed on a sharp curve at Little Fans, killing 81 and Injuring 135. - The engineer. of the Limited, James E. Leroy of Buffalo, ssld the train was speeding through Wayland when he saw the switch engine' on a siding paralleling the main line westbound track. ,-. Mt at Switch , - "The engineer . of the local freight - locomotive apparentlr was confused and thought th Limited had gone through and started to pull out on th main line to continue switching,", ho said. "When I saw the other en gine pulling out, I slammed on the Limlted's emergency brakes, but it was going too fasito avert (Continued a Pagrwe)