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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1942)
lb 'MI'illillllMlllii'lKlillll'IIIMl llhlNt''l'!liJll' Weather in: iiiiiliiilllMiii iiiiuHiniinMM;;::::!!!1"!!'!!!!:!:!! May 20. High 13, Low 49 Precipitation at ol Mar 14, 1942 , Lut 7ar ... .......11.M Normal ; ......... 10.52 Stream yur to data .. ........11.10 On l-mlnut blait on siren and whlitlM U tha (Ignal lof blackout In Klamath Fall. Another long bint, during black ut U a signal lor all-eliir. In precau tionary periods, watch your street light. ASSOCIATED PRESS ' E SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS - - - - -nn-. nr rj-jTjTgnianj'u'u'uuvu PRICE FIVE CENTS ,4 "' FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY 21, 1942 , : - Number 9493 IS Mans f ; BipBiniiM . 'HRMcniUIMINI l " i I . ' M av - W 'a Kllll!i.Ml II I I I . mwmMM innnnn n'iiii :' J By rHANK JEafKUtf r tT'B look at tho wont new " flrat. Than always a good policy In war time. . , HTHE wont nowi comci today from China, where the Japi arc driving southward from Shanghai Into Cheklang prov Ince. Your map will ihow you that Cheklang province li the mod available spot In China for air bam from which American bomberi might ihuttle back and forth over Japan. The Japs know it. They were badly frightened by General Doollttle'a exploit. They are taking itcpi to make iuch dis turbing attain more difficult in the future. That loemi to be the explana tlon of their two-pronged drive aouthward from Shanghai. . THERE are unpleaiant posilbil Itlri that they may be plan ning to move Into China from two direction! at once, now that they have the Burma road conv pletely In their poucsslon, thua catching the Inadequately aup- pllcd Chinese between the hanv mer and the anvil. THE RuMlan claim an advance ' of another six mllea In the ten-day battle for Kharkov. They aay they hive blocked the nail flanking drive to the aouth at Barvenkova. (Where the Ger man were hoping to relieve pressure on rinamov or iirininc anmawhara elie. lust ai the R Ita lian! lought to relieve preasure at Kerch by atrlklng at Kharkov.) There ia an Interesting atory of Russian guerrlllui capturing city of "aeveral thousands deep in the German rear and holding it against a day-long German counter-attack. Thla give an Idea of the ex tent to which the Germane have failed to take over and complete ly organise that part of Russia lying in the rear of their defense lines. It emphaslxea Russia's vast ness. pED STAR (the Russian army newspaper) says the Germans' heavy losses of tanks in the ; Daiue xor ftnamov nas causva them to change their tactics, GIVING UP mass mechanized counter-attacks and relying ln atead on infantry attacks sup ported by only 10 or IS tanks. This, if true, is extremely inv portant, meaning that in .the great bRttle of the tonka that has been raging at Kharkov the Rus sians are proving SUPERIOR, la flletlng tank losses on tho Ger mans that are relatively, dis astrous. In war, it doesn't matter so much what you lose If you can inflict HEAVIER losses on your enemy. a A N Interesting not in the news: - Goerlng Is reported today to have told German workers in Berlin that this is "the hardest war Germany has ever had to fight." He is quoted as adding that Hitler "suffered deeply for his troops in the bitter months of .the soviet winter," but knew he' mustn't yield. : w DEFER back here to the rumors A several day ago that Goerlng Is In disgrace and has been re lieved of command of the Gor man air force. There were even talcs that he might go to Portugal to meet allied diplomats and pre sumably talk peace. : The implication of these rum ors was that he was in the dog house and mad about it. THIS incident teaches us that we mustn't pay much atten tion to yarns about German weakness and dissension. War and football have much In common. Recall here the ancient foot ball custom of putting out bear stories in advance ol big games in tha hope of leading the other team to underestimate your strength. If you go into hard fight ,". Continued on Pag Two) CHECKED 40-Minute Battle in Kharkov Results In Red Gain By ROGER D. GREENE Asioclated Praia Editor Russia's armies, driving over fields Uttered with wrcckoga, reported today they had en gulfed a key German stronghold, crushed repeated German tank attacks and stormed forward six more miles In the 10-day-old bat tle of Kharkov. ' Soviet dispatches said Russian toopi wiped out the nazl strong hold's garrison in a fierce 40 minute struggle.' Guirrllias Take Town A red army communique said five villages had been captured In the battle area and "enormous losses" Inflicted on the enemy. Far behind (h lines, soviet guerrillas were reported to have recaptured an Important city of several thousand inhabitants. deep -in -Whit Russia driving out the German who had bald tha point for four month and routing a strong nazl force which attempted to regain it in a dawn-to-dusk batUe. Dispatches to Red Star, soviet army newspaper, said the Ger man stronghold captured on the Kharkov front was one the nazl had sought to hold at any cost apparently a major link in Khar kov's immediate defense ring. . Counter Stab Blocked More than 1300 Germans were declared to have been killed in the last 24 noun, while nazl tank losses rose to nearly 030. On the southern wing of the huge battle zone, the Russians said they had blocked German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's flanking counter-thrusts, and fierce fighting was reported con tinuing on Kerch peninsula in the Crimea. Adolf Hitler's field headquar ters pictured the Russians a suffering heavy losses as Ger man warplanes ranged over the Kharkov battlefield in . great numbers, strafing and bombing tha red armies. . The German command said nazi troops guarding the big steel city, Russia's "Pittsburgh" In the Ukraine, beat off powerful tank led soviet attacks and destroyed 63 more red army tanks. Lak Ilmen Sector Hitler' headquarters also re ported strong Russian assaults were developing In the bloody Lake Ilmen sector, 130 miles south of Leningrad. Axis dispatches from Bucha rest asserted that German-Rumanian counter-offensives had slowed the Russian drive upon Kharkov in "a battle of extreme violence" but acknowledged that (Continued on Page Two) : I Rubberneck Buses Next to Go in Shortage of Rubber By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, May 21 (P The rubberneck bus ia going to be put to more essential war use to save rubber. Effective June 1, the. office of defense transportation de creed last night, all sightseeing bus services will be prohibited and chartered buses will be re duced to such essential opera tion as the moving of troops, war workers and achool chil dren. Joseph B. Eastman, ODT di rector, estimated this would save mora than 100,000 pounds of crude rubber a year. Ho added that sightseeing and charter buses traveled 21,000,000 miles last year- and used up about 126,000 pounds of crude rubber. Mauna Loa V 4)4 iT i -e ' . 7 S , ('' : -f '.; tt I -A : ' '.i. . ate '1 )"S- JI&$WP i't xVO .. L;....f,rhf!.rt.yirr,';gfr Several 6001oot gayiin of lava, spurt up from a fissure below the crater of Mauna Loa marking tha beginning of the most vlolmt outbunt of that volcano line 1881. The lava flow cad May It and danger to the town of Hilo on tha largest Uland of tha Hawaiian group ended. 1 . ' ; 1. OiEfl ISSUED HERE Postoffice Starts at No. 1 Again After Seventy Years The Klamath Falls postoffice, an imposing federal building which faces Seventh street. Is a far cry from . the little frame building and row of lock boxes on the banks of Link river more than 70 years ago. All this was brought back to R. L. Griffith, assistant post master of the local office, when he issued the one millionth money order early Thursday afternoon. ' History of the money order window follows closely the de velopment of any - postoulce. Money order service in the Unit ed States was first inaugurated May 17, 1864, during the Civil war. The Llnkville postoffice, now Klamath Falls, was estab lished in 1872. It is presumed that money order service started at that time and No. 1 order was issued shortly after that date. - Money order No. 18274, Is sued November 17, 1904, Is in the hands of the local postoffice authorities. . Ten years ago the money order was returned here for payment, some 28 yean after issue. Griffith purchased the money order as a relic. The order was granted by Postmaster Hiram F. Murdoch and Issued to (Continued on Page Two) Local and state police authori ties and tho general public were asked to assist In enforcing the order, wbjch applies to all rubber-tired vehicles seating 10 or more persons and primarily used for sightseeing or chartering. Exempt from the charter bus order are those used for trans porting members of tho armed forces, persons participating In organized recreational activities at military posts, selectees trav eling to or from induction or ex amining points; students, teach ers and school employes going to and from school, employes going to and from work, persons going to and from places of religious worship, civilians moving under evacuation orden, and children under 18, attending summer camps. . ... . ; Spouts Lava As Eruption Starts . . I , . "T ,-.', V' ., Instruct ions on . Gas Rationing Given for Siaie PORTLAND, May 21 (TV- Oregon motorists, Just seven days removed from the start of reg istration for gasoline rationing, had this information today from the. state rationing office: Instructions are now in the hands of Rex Putnam, state sup erintendent of public instruction, and will be forwarded to school authorities who will handle the May 28-30 registration. If schools are closed by that time, volun teer workers will be obtained from local civilian defense ranks. ' Farmers will get all the gaso line they need for tractors and other essential machines. . i A state motor vehicle registra tion certificate must be presented in registering for ration cards. The cards must be presented at the time of any gasoline pur chase and must be marked by the retailer. Trucks, however, will not need cards, C. C. Van Fleet of the Oregon fuel ration ing division said. - If away from home during the registration, : motorists may au thorize an agent to register for him; may register with the near est rationing board on his return, or. register during the three-day period at any secondary school in Oregon or Washington. Redding Student Drowns in Creek . REDDING, Calif., May 21 (ff) Friends who thought he was only playing rescued Joseph Oliver Horn, Shasta Union high school senior, too late to save him from drowning in Moody creek, Coroner Roy S. Dugglns said. ' , .Horn dived into the water and came up, thrashing around, be fore he went down for several minutes. Then the other swim mers realized he was in trouble and pulled him out. The youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Horn who moved here from Grand Coulee, Wash., in 1940, was drowned Tuesday night. WAR QUIZ 1. This picture of our flag in the form of a shield has what significance in the army? 2. Give prin cipal reasons for the Japanese Invasion of Bur ma. 3. If an Amer ican a o 1 d i e r says he is fresh out of "pocket lettuce," what does he mean? . Answsra on Page 4 S Jested Alcohol Unavailable; Petroleum Method - V To Be Used WASHINGTON, May 21 W Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones told senators today that he had recommended that the nation's synthetic rubber capa city be raised from present plans for 800,000 tons a year to 1,000, 00ft " The secretary also disclosed that government financed plants for converting grains and other farm products into synthetic rub ber would be increased from present plans for 80,000 tons to 200,000 tons. ' Jones told a senate agriculture subcommittee that officials and advisers of the war production board were responsible for initial allocations of $650,000,000 for synthetic rubber going to plants that would use petroleum pro ducts rather than grain and farm products. He said WPB officials had reported that no alcohol was available for rubber making or that materials to build plants were unavailable. Jones, after conferring with an assistant, said WPB officials soon would announce a program for using all idle stills in dis tilleries, including facilities now idle that formerly made indus trial alcohol from molasses. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE f ' R H E Philadelphia ll' 17 0 Detroit 3 6 2 Marchildon and 'Wagner; Trout, , Fuchs (4), Manders (6), and Tebbetts, Parsons (6). . NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Cincinnati 2 6 0 Philadelphia 3 7 0 Derringer and Lamanno; Johnson and Livingston. First Band Concert Of Season Tonight The first band concert of the season will be given tonight on the Conger avenue Big Lawn it was announced by Director Charles Stanfield. The concert by the municipal band will follow the annual din ner and May fete sponsored by Riverside PTA. The public is invited to both the May fete and concert. Supper will be served starting at 5:30 p. m. Klamath Man Pearl Harbor Bombing ' As Seen From Heights By LOIS STEWART Remember Pearl Harbor, Can you forget it? Not Loyal Bates, mechanic for the Balsiger Motor company. who stood on a bluff 300 feet above Pearl Harbor as Jap planes flew around like bees that Sunday morning of Decern-, ber the seventh. -- ' The surprise attack, the clus ters of defense workers watch ing in m'.ite protest the work of the Jap bombers, the final real ization that ? this was war in capital letters and the horror of those morning hours were graph ically described by Bates who returned to Klamath Falls three weeks ago. .. This is his story: Changing Shift . 1 "It was just five minutes of eight on Sunday morning. That was December the seventh. I re member the hour and the minute because the graveyard shift working on the big fuel storage plant for the navy just above Pearl Harbor was coming off and the day shift was going on. We worked seven days a week ca this job. We were 'sure an xious to get it done. ... "About SO of us were standing down by the tunnel mouth, just standing there talking. We were looking out over the harbor. . If you know the way the harbor lays you. know there is a little island in the middle called Ford island. All of a sudden we saw large black ball of smoke ris ing right from the center of the harbor. A big black . ball , of Smoke shaped like your - two fists. It looked like an ou fire, One of the fellows said it looked like some sabotage . going on down there. . Saw Plant - "Pretty soon, just , like they'd hummed right out of those, big fluffy clouds, we saw airplanes flying around. At first we didn t think, couldn't imagine, we were being bombed. But the bombs were flying all right and it seem ed every time one landed the ball of smoke would jump. - "The ships continued flying clockwise. All of a sudden one of the planes just burst into flame. Just broke into a mass of flames. Another plane flew into the same position and it caught fire just like the first. But the second plane turned over back ward and fell Into the housing project on Hickam field and burned. " "Thos ar Japi" "Right then it just dawned on us. We were just like a dumb flock of geese. Those are Japs' somebody said. And then we knew it was our boys shooting them down. After we found our voices we'd cheer just like at a football game every time one of .our boys would bring down a Jap plane. Those Japs were af ter the ships In the harbor and they were going right after them. - "It seemed as if it took the anti-aircraft guns almost 10 min utes to get into action. When they started those Japs flew high. You can tell anti-aircraft fire. It makes a peculiar round (Continued on Page Two) ; Hoover Asks ForF.R. NEW YORK, May 21 (UP Former President Herbert Hoov er asserted last night that Presi dent Roosevelt must be . given dictatorial economic powers to defeat the axis, but warped that the nation must secure recovery of all suspended liberties, after the-war "if liberty is to live' Mr. Hoover, addressing the 26th annual assembly o tha Na 1 1 o n a 1 Industrial Conference board, which also was aWrssed by Under Secretary of War Rob ert P. Patterson, said 'tliat ' a steady decrease in economic freedom must be expected as war goes on, and there must be no hesitation in giving the pres ident great economic . powers "m,ri nnhnlrilnff him In tham k .- Economic measures necessaty to win total war, he asserted, are "just plain fascist eco-' nomics." ?. Defends Crltlclim The former president oferkt- 1 . : . ; : .''.!' :;- Describes I. " ' Loyal Batnr Balsiger mechan ic, 'tells a thrilling story in his y-witnss account of the bombing of Pearl harbor, De cember 7, , American Nation Sets Deadline for Note On Ship Sinking ; LONDON, May 21 Roundabout dispatches from Germany said today that Berlin expected Mexico to declare war upon the reich following receipt of an answer to her demand for satisfaction in' the submarine sinking of a Mexican tanker. The- dispatches, relayed here from Berlin via Stockholm, said that nazi circles also expected other Latin-American republics not now at war with the axis to follow Mexico's lead. It was said the German reply would be delivered today. , - . . The time - limit which the Mexican government set for Germany s reply expires at mid night, Mexican time tonight (11 p m. PWT.) Weather Hottest v Since August Here Klamathites who fanned their brows in Wednesday's sultry heat were not surprised when the US weatherman reported the thermometer reached 83 degrees, warmest since August 21, 1941. The mid-summer heat was a boon to gardens which were stunted by the week's previous cold. Minimum temperature Wednesday was 49 degrees. More Power in War Effort ed the right of all citizens to criticize conduct of the war with out being called "sixth colum nists" and asserted that criti cism "is necessary if we are to win the war." Three major tasks face the na tion, he asserted winning the war to preserve liberty, recover ing surrendered liberties when war is done, and securing last ing peace to keep liberty alive To accomplish them, he called for: I. ' The creation of a "more definite war council embracing in its members the civilian heads of the great war agencies," to meet with the president as often as necessary to coordinate policies necessary to the further ance of the war. !. Advance preparation for economic reconstruction and re covery of freedom in the post war era which "can come only (Continued on Page Two) Was I There? I Li mi CHEKANG PUS F T Rains Hinder Yunnan . Fight; Australia V Drafts Forces ; ' By The Anociatad Prist Drenching monsoon rain, stalled the battle of Burma at -China's back door today whil Japan's invasion armies pressed a grave new threat on the Chi nese east coast with a 30-mile advance into Cheklang province. Dispatches said the Japanese, apparently determined to over run Chekiang and wipe out any air bases which couid be used for medium-range bombing at tack on Tokyo, were advancing; southward on a 150-mile front. SO Miles From Capital A Chinese army spokesman said that the invaders, 30,000 to 40,000 strong, had already ad vanced within 50 miles of Kin- nwa, provisional capital of Che klang province, and that heavy ' fighting was in progress along the entire front Kinhwa is 180 miles below Japanese-occupied Shanghai. About 60,000 other Japanese troops were reported massing for supporting thrusts. ; , .. - Rains Bog Advance ' - On the Burma front, Chines military dispatches said Japa nese 4hruit-. northward into China's Yunnan! province had been fairly well checked, with torrential, rains helping to bog the enemy advance. . In the battle of Australia, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquar ters reported that allied bomber renewed their assaults on Japa nese advance bases after a 24 hour lull, raiding the enemy air drome at Koepang and the har bor of Dili, both on Dutch-Portuguese Timor island. With the Japanese now ' ap parently conserving their bom ber forces for a big scale" at tack, Australia moved to 'draft 35,000 more men into a corps' which is preparing the "down under" continent as a base for a great allied offensive. , John Cox Dies Afier 41 Years Residence Here John Elmer Cox, 58, for the past 41 years a resident of Klam ath county and one of the lead ing agriculturists of this area, died Wednesday night in an Oak land, Calif., hospital where he has been confined for ' the past three months. Mr. Cox waa the eldest of three, John, Henry and Charles, who operated In the Tulelake lease land section, as Cox Brothers. Mr. Cox was born in LaSalle county, Illinois, son of James and Elizabeth Cox. The family moved to Nebraska and from there to Douglas county where ' they lived attYoncalla. After several years in the valley, Mr. and Mrs. Cox moved to Klam ath county, - arriving . here In 1901. It took the family five days by wagon to travel from Yoncalla to Klamath Falls. James Cox purchased proper ty south of Merrill and the ranch is. still known as the "home place." James and Elizabeth Cox died a number of years ago. Their three sons continued to farm in that area and some 20 years ago took oyer lease lands in the Tulelake area. At the present time they operate 2000 acres which they have In bar ley, wheat and oats. They also run a large band of sheep. Several years ago John Cox (Continued on Page Two) ( News Index Aaricultur Page City Briefs , Page Comics and Story rage rA,,rthAiiM RunnrHi Pane Editorials Pag Information PBg 1LTnlr IMnnnflal Pa0 Midland empire news ...rage m Pattern - Pag 4 Sport ...Page 9 N URGED B V
