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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1942)
ftf M I Weather News Al f V' V'V'JJV'Na Mar 28. High 54, Low 3T ( is Precipitation as of May 22," 1942 i JT- - ' Last year , ....;.12.20 Blackout Signal 3 On 8-mtnute blast on sirens and whistles U the signal (01 bliokout la Klamath rails. Another long blast, during black-, out li a signal tot all-clear. In precau tionary parlods. watch your street lights. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND PRICE FIVE CENTS ,VV LA MATH FALLS,' OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1942 Ml jffl&K . UNITED PRESS J ? . JSiream year to date .......11.10 Number 9501 I ' mm wm ?. ''fTTOirw-iv-wi-, HITI f R PI AIM . .. ." SM c hina ! 1 r hi, ',li: i ;if!":iilii!(i:i:,,l 'i,:!,i,il: f ll Irl'I'lliiM'HI'l'i:!'1!' Br FRANK JENKINS fS othor days of ttio year, wc Uilnk of the cost of war In terms of dollars. On Memorial Day, thoughts turn naturally to .tha cost In terms of killed and Mnalmed. V And It Is probable that most of us think of modern war as staggeringly costlier than war In earlier days before machinery tntrcd so extensively Into the business of killing. TN the acirraale It is. because of the vast size of modern lighting forces, but in proportion to the numoers cngseea u is NOT. A T Chickamauga, 57,000 Union troops and 71.000 Confcd rates were engaged. Tho Union losses In killed and wounded were 10,000 and the Confeder ates lost 17.800. That Is to say; the Union loss mounted to 28 per cent of the total number of fighting man In volved and the Confodaratu loss was 29 per cent. Apply these percentages (In a MINGLE bsttle) to tha vast arm Vcs fighting In Russia and you will get an idea of the lessened cost in human life of present day war. ""RANT started his drive ) XJ Richmond with an army of bout 120,000. (Accounts of the historians vary from 118,000 to 122,000.) Lee had somewhere from 60,000 tfc 03,000. Grant's losses in killed and wounded In the two-day buttle of tho Wilderness were 17,686 or 15 per cent of the effective strength of his forces In tho first battle. At tho Wilderness and Spottsylvania combined, ho lost 37,000 and Lee's losses were not much less. In the first month of Qis campaign, Including the "Wilderness, Bpottsylvanta and Cold Harbor, Grant lost 55,000 men or approximately HALF of the army with which he started. TN thinking of the cost of war In blood and suffering, now s compared with earlier periods, remember that In the tlmo of the war between tho states antisep tic surgery was only In its crudo beginnings. First aid on the battlefield was only rudi mentary. ' If you have read Margaret Leech i "Rovolllo In Washing ton," you have a vivid picture of what this mcont. A sovere leg or arm Injury was likely to mean amputation and amputa tions were performed without anaesthesia. Tho probability that minor wounds would result in gangrene was great. OThe death rote among the ounded was 'shockingly high. THIS isn't meant as a defense 1 of modern wnr, of of war at 11. But wo should know, be cause It Is the truth, that the dangers and tho horrors our men face now arc LESS, instead of creator, than the horrors and the dangers faced by American, men in the sixties. RANT'S losses at llie Wilder- ncss, Spottsylvonla and Cold Harbor hod been so tcrrlblo that Union soldiers went Into the im mediately following battle of Petersburg with slips of papor bearing their names attached to their uniform Jackets so tholr bodies would bo recognized and word got to their relatives ...mothers, largely, since by that Omo mere boys were beginning predomlnnto In tho armies. But that strong certainty of Impending death didn't stop them from fighting as bravely and as resourcefully as men ever (Continued on Pago Two) n oses mmto More Czechs Executed in Nail Manhur.t NEW YORK. May 30 (I'; Tho British radio relayed a re port today that "10 more Czechs" had been executed In Prague and said It hud been established that 18 Norwegian hostages were killed In reprisal for tho death of two Germans In a fishing vlllugo near Bergen. CBS recorded tho BBC broad easts. It was possible that the "10 moro" executions at Praguo duplicated earlier figures. If not, It raised tho total of re ported firing squad reprisals for an attempt on the life of Deputy Reich's Protector Rein hard Heydrlch to 28. Reuters, British news agency, said that tho 10 victims refer red to by BBC were in addition to all those previously an nounced executed, LONDON, May 30 (P Ger- man vengeance for an assassin's sssault on Relntisrd Heydrlch, (Continued on Pago Two) County Goes Over by "$3000 on Quota For Month Klamath county has gone over Its May war bond quota by more than $3,000, with two days to spare. This announcement was made lato Friday afternoon by A. M. Collier, war savings chair man. The quota sot for this county for May was $150,000, and total bond sales for the month up to Friday afternoon were $153,- 10D.25. 'We have made a good record In May," Chairman Collier said In announcing the meeting of tho quota, "but we can't sit back on the oars and rest, for the quota we have to meet in June Is $212, 000, This means that the sights for next month will have to be raised." Tho figurative quota sot for (Continued on Pago Two) John Barrvmore. Greatest of Idols, Dies in Hospital HOLLYWOOD, May '30 (UP) John Barrymorc, greatest of the matlnco Idols, died Friday night in Hollywood Presbyterian hos pital surrounded by his grief- stricken friends. Tho 60-ycar-old Barrymore, hero of a thousand mad esca pades, husband of four wives. and master of one of Hollywood's greatest castles, succumbed to myocarditis and complications after an illness of 10 days. .Ills doath came a -few hours after catholic priest and close friend, Father John ODonncll, administered tho last sacrament and received the famed actor back into tho church, . Dies at 10:20 With him at the time of death were his brother, liloncl, who maintained a bedside vigil for moro than a week despite his own Infirmities; his daughter, Diana, a recent companion here In Hollywood, and his physician, Dr. Hugo M. Kerstcn. Bnrrymore's death came at 10:20 p. m., (PWT) but it was not announced by Dr. Kerstcn until 10:39 p, m. after he had called In immediate relatives and the fow close friends in the nearby receptloirroom. With Barrymore .at tho time ho passed away, wore only Dr. Kcrsten and Lionel. John had been unconscious throughout the evening and during the last fow hours his pulse was so weak that tha beat could hardly be felt by the physician. John, younger than cither his JflPS CIPTUI Allied Airmen Strike Heavy Blows at Nipponese . By The Associated Press Chinese headquarters today acknowledged the fall of the key "gold flower" city of Kinhwa, wartime capital of Chcklang province, to powerful Japanese Invasion columns which advanced 100, miles in 10 doys. . Chineso troops withdrew from the city on the afternoon of May 28, It was announced. Potential Bass The Japanese command had previously claimed the capture of the olty at 7 a. m.. May 28, and declared that with its scU ure the Japanese had cut one of Generalissimo Chiang Kal Slick's vital lines of supply and communication. Clieklang province, on China's east coast, is strategically lnv portant as a potential base for a n allied offensive against Japan. Elsewhere In the far Pacific struggle, oerlal warfare domin ated the picture as allied fliers blasted the Japanese in Burma and in the Invasion-base Islands above Australia, while Japanese bombers attacked Chinese posi tions lil the Burma-Yunnan reg ion at China's back door. Aerial Attacks American volunteer "Flying Tigers" bombed and machine gunned Japanese troops "with marked success" west of the Salween river in attacks to chock, tho Japanese drive up tho Burma road. ' A Tokyo broadcast said Jap anese planes carried out "de vaslating raids" on Chinese troop concentrations across the Salween river In Yunnan prov ince. - In the battle of Australia, Gen, Douglas MacArthur's head quarters reported that allied air men, ripping into a formation (Continued on Pago Two) John Barrymore brother Lionel or his famous sis ter, Ethel who was Informed by telephone of her brother's death immediately came from , a fa mous theatrical family. The ac tor, born on Feb. 15, 1882, in Philadelphia , was the son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgia Drew, tho union of two of Amer VITAL CENTER IN CHEKIANG . H' , x '-4NA P Ml J- ' - - - - "i 11 "if i 1 i i -ranrsnnnsT-rTi tsKiii wuli iitiWiniiia ?iiLtt!!i IP- j ffl aj ' ' f, .. II '. TOWS . T"i-5 ""t- n III I I , , ' - til mm w m ift'WMmfe Memorial day In the midst of another war found this dramatic tableau on the courthouse lawn in front of the Veterans' Memorial ball. Depicted are the tomb of the Unknown Solent .with 48 white crosses arranged in rows In tho foreground. Memor ial exercises were held at the spot Saturday morning. .. . 1 . ' ' t -V Hr ' , - , , : . . ' . "' , - " .-v" . . .. RAF Continues Raid On Axis Forces Over Libya ; .. CAIRO. Egypt, May 30 m British armored and motorized forces heavily counterattacked a steel spearhead of Field Mar shal Erwin Rommel's command about 20 miles southwest of To- bruk yesterday and many axis tanks have been destroyed in fierce fighting, imperial head quarters said today. 'More hard fighting must be expected," a communique re-, ported. The British counterattacked "in the neighborhood of Knights- (Continued on Page Two) Matinee at Hollywood ica's most famous theatrical fanv Hies. His first wife was Katherine Harris, 19, who divorced him in 1917 in Santa Barbara, Calif., but remained a close friend for many years. Then Barrymore married Mrs. John Leonard, a writer known by the pen name of Michael strange. They were married in 1920 and from that marriage re sulted the birth of the daughter Diana. The marriage ended in 1927. Meets Elaine His third wife and for a time his leading lady was Dolores Costcllo, daughter of Maurice Costcllo, old time vaudeville ac tor. They were married in 1928 when he was 46 and she only in her 20s. In 1933 they separated and despite denials of estrangement were divorced. For a time fol lowing the divorce Barrymore was inactive In the theatre or on tho screen. It was while he was in a New York hospital that he met Elaine Barric, born Elaine Jacobs, who was to bo his fourth wife. . During the last year he ap peared In many pictures, became a star of tho radio and appeared to be on top of his career until his fatal illness started May 19 when he collapsed during a ra dio show rehearsal, was rushed to tho hospital and gradually be came worse until tonight he pass ed away, - i . . . . . . . . i. ...... America i&lrisisiVpon fM Inexorable Justice for War-Makers, Says Welles ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, May 30 WV-Aboll, tion of race, color and religious discrimination and the meting out of swift, inexorable justice to individuals, groups or peoples responsible for the. war were advanced as peace aims today by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. -.-J.-,. .; .- i In a Memorial day address in this cemetery across tho Poto mac from the national capital Welles declared that "we must utterly and finally crush the evil men . . .the iniquitous sys tems . . . that are today menac ing our existence," and then out lined his views of the peace to come. : ' Liberation - - "Our -victory must bring In its train the liberation of all peoples," he said. "Discrimination between peo pies because of their race, creed or color must be abolished.. The age of imperialism is ended. The right of a people-to their free dom must be recognized, as the civilized 'world long since rec ognized the right of an Individ, Six Killed, Many Injured as Storm Sweeps Michigan v DETROIT, May 30 (JP) A toU of six persons dead and scores in jured were reported today after violent storm which swept over lower Michigan last night. The- storm, which lasted less than half an hour,' was particu larly severe in Oakland county in southeastern Michigan, and caused extensive property dam age and disruption of communi cations. Four of the victims were lost after their ' speedboat was swamped and s unk by high waves on Lake St. Clair. They were Dorothy Whitt, 17, De troit; Donald Whltt, 19, a US navy seaman; Robert Fraser, 19, St. Clair Shores, owner of "the boat, and Bernard Daniels, 19, Detroit. Two other girls In the pnrtyJane Eldridge,- 18. and Allone Wing, 17, both of De troit reached shore safely. Mrs. Florence v.. Holmquist, 47, of Pontiac, was electrocuted when a utility pole snapped and crashed amid a tanglo of high pension wires. , Five other per sons were injured wheri ' the pole fell and toppled two oth ers near a carnival site, plung ing the show Into darkness Two of the Injured required hospitali zation, j , III I LLII UU1I1.I "V -f .. BY RED GIFS " '"S4k " 1 ' ves.rpiT t . ' ' V:-r'J ; ual to his personal freedom. The principles of the Atlantic charter must be guaranteed to the world as a whole in all oceans and in all continents." Welles declared he- believed "the 'voice of those who are do ing the fighting and the voice of those who are producing the arms" must be heeded after the war, and continued: "And I believe that these voices of the men who will make our victory possible will demand that justice be done, inexorably and swiftly, to those individuals. groups or peoples, as the case may be, that can truly be held accountable for the stupendous catastrophe into which : they have plunged the human race . . ; I believe they will require that the victorious nations, join ed, with the United States, un dertake forthwith during the period of the armistice the dis armament of all nations, as set forth in the Atlantic charter, which 'may thrtaten aggression outside of their frontiers.' I believe they will insist that the United Nations undertake the maintenance of an interna, tional police power in the years after the war to insure freedom from fear to peace-loving peo ples until there is established that . permanent system of gen eral security promised by the At lantic charter. Finally I believe they will demand that the United Nations become the nucleus of a world organization of the future to de termine the final terms of a just, an honest, and a durable peace to be entered into after the pass ing of the period of social and economic chaos which will come inevitably upon the termination of the present war, and after the completion of the initial and gi gantic task of relief, of recon struction and of rehabilitation which will confront the United Nations at the time of the armis tice." By The Associated Press ' The emphasis was on work to day as the United States" hon ored its war dead. There were military parades (Continued on Page Two) News Index ' City Briefs ..:...Page . 3 Comics and Story Page 10 Courthouse Records ..... Page 4 Editorials Page 4 Society .......... Pages 5. 6, 7, 8 Information Page 3 Pattern Page 3 Sports ......'...:. ..'..:..Page B Vichy' Reports Death Toll: of 40 in Third Raid ; , VICHY, Unoccupied France, May 30 (fl3)-r-Some 40 .persons were killed-and 100 injured in British aerial attacks ' on the Paris area from 2 to 4 a. m., the Vichy news agency said in a dispatch broadcast today. six British planes were re ported shot down. LONDON, May 30 (fl5) Strik Ing heavily for the third , time in two months at the same tar get, a strong force of British bombers raided . an important group of factories at Gennevil- Hers, 10 miles from the heart of Paris, during a night of widespread air activity, the air ministry reported today. The ministry announced - 13 bombers were missing after the night s operations seven cf the bomber command and six of the coastal command planes. An enemy convoy off the Frisian islands, north of the Dutch-German coast, also was attacked. The air ministry said number of supply ships were hit and set on fire. With a full moon shining, the German air force stepped up (Continued on Page Two) j Huge Man-Made Waterfall To Top Coulee GRAND COULEE, Wash., May 30 (IP) Mere man will match the legendary gods here Mon day. A waterfall,' big as two Niagaras, will ' come to life as spectacularly as Athena rising from the head of Zeus. The bureau of reclamation said today the Columbia river, which has been squeezing through a row of outlet tubes in Grand Coulee dam, would over flow . the big barrier Monday afternoon at the command of bureau engineers. The first thin sheet to spill over the dam will reach a thick ness of several feet within 15 or 20 minutes, the engineers pre dicted. . , ; The avalanche of water, press ed by a 130-mile lake that reach es north to the Canadian border, will hurtle, over the spillway in Germans Boast Huge Russian Forces -Annihilated By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Adolf Hitler's field headquar ters boasted today that tho great battle of Kharkov ' was over, ending in a "proud vic tory or annihilation" for the axis, even as soviet dispatches reported that the red armies were lashing out savagely against fresh German attacks. The nazi claim was utterly lacking in confirmation - else where. A bulletin from soviet head quarters declared that the Rus sians again had beaten off Ger man tank and infantry assaults in the Izyum-Barvenkova salient 80 miles below Kharkov, where the heaviest fighting has raged for the past 11 days." "Bloody Losses" "The bloody losses of the enemy were greot everywhere," Hitler's command asserted, claiming that Russian prisoners had risen to 240,000 and that 1249 red . army . tanks had .been captured 'of',destroyed$. ... . The nazi communique said three Russian armies includ ing 20 infantry divisions, seven cavalry divisions and 14 tank brigades were "annihilated." . The German command also asserted that "annihilation of encircled enemy forces" on the central (Moscow) front was pro ceeding, after the Russians had attacked and been caugh, in nazi traps. The German air force, which was officially credited with aid ing in the Kharkov action by beating off the - enemy air force, was reported to have ranged beyond Kharkov and bombed armament works in Gorki, , 260 miles east of the Russian capital. The high command said bomb hits caused fires in fac tories in Gorki. " Axis Submarine Sinks U. S. Ship NEW ORLEANS, May 30 W) An axis submarine, whose of ficers apparently knew their victim was unarmed, sank a medium-sized .United States cargo vessel in the Gulf of Mexico May 25, killing 22 men. The dead all were aboard a single lifeboat blown to bits by a torpedo. Two from this boat and 17 'others escaped, in a second lifeboat and were picked. up the next day and brought to New Orleans. The ship was the 15th off Ic- ' ially reported attacked In the gulf during May, of which 13 ships were lost with the death of 194 men. - Dam Monday a 15-acre curtain, 1,850 feet wide and 320 feet high. A million and a half gallons of water will take the plunge every second. The engineers, carefully syn chronizing their movements, will "turn oh" this mightiest of all man-made waterfalls by closing the outlet tubes and opening J 1 huge drum gates atop the dam. When the river, now rising daily as Its tributaries run bank full, reaches its crest, the height of the waterfall will challenge the 345 feet of Victoria falls and its width will exceed Victoria's by four. The release of the river over the dam instead of through It also will step up the efficiency of the throe 108,000-kilowatt generators In the powerhouse, Maj. S. E. Hutton, regional In formation director for the bur eau, disclosed. v t