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Falls. Another long blMl during black-
May 31' High 84, Low 38
Precipitation pf May 28. 184a
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ASSO'tsd PRESS
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
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A MATH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1942
Number 9502
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By FRANK JENKINS
JJEADING for Sun Francisco.
' "Fairly well along In the after
' noon. Raining a llttla which
makes everything official In this
particular yw.
A lot of good people or a con
' vlnccd It'i tho shooting nil over
the world that'i responsible,
and while tho wealher aharpi
hava a fit every time that sug
gestion It advanced tho 'fact re
main! that It'a doing a lot of
raining.
Anyway, the canyon and tho
Ovallcy aro lovely to look at this
rainy iprlng. In the canyon, the
mountain lilac la at tla beat, and
the valley below la green and
lush, with all the atreami that
normally are drying up by the
first of June running plenty of
' water,
, .. " 1
THIS la a holiday. A two-day
holiday. Traffic la fairly
heavy, and MIK'H faater than a
couple of mon'.hs ago.
Thli writer, traveling between
43 and 80, Instead of the mod
erate 40 that wo practically the
rule In the first few months o
the tire scarcity, Is passed four
times within a few miles not
Just a creeping pass but a whoo
shing one. , i
And the passing cars arn"l the
, whit governjnentjlccnses or tho
E't licenses of swfMmployes.
. as was apt to be the case back In
.December and January, but p
arently Just common ordinary
cars driven by average every
, day people.
. It is obvious that tires aren't
being savod as they were a while
. back. ;, v , ,
" WHY? '
1 " In an effort to answer that
challenging question, this writer
began to search his own consci
ousness. This Is what he found: I
Bock In December and Jan
.' uary, and on Into Fobruory and
, March, it was generally accept
ed that rubber was scarce, .thai
there would be no more of At for
ordinary private civilian pur-
; poses, that tho tires ono possess-
ed then would hnve to do maao
to last a long time and when
d hey were gone one would have
o WALK, or take the train or
the bus or stoy at homo, i
As a result of this sltuntlon,
- we used them with extreme core,
; : y ,. .:'
tUT along in March, or maybe
some ,tlme In April, the au
thorities began to mutter In
their beords about REQUISIT
IONING cars and cars. One day
it would appear thnt thoy were
going to do It right away, but by
the next day someone In author
ity would assort that no such
thing was contemplated and
about the day after It would be
given out that everybody would
be allowed to keep five tires but
all the rest would bo requisition
ed. And about that time rationing
In the East, where gasoline was
gottlng scarco because of lack of
tankers to haul it, was got un
derway and at once we began to
Qicnr thnt rationing was to be
wextended to tho whole country,
and the orders for rationing Ore
Bon and Washington were ao
. tually Issued but withdrawn at
. the last moment.
We then began to hear state
monts from official quarters that
gasoline rationing is realty only
a device to compel people to quit
driving tholr cars, thus bringing
about COMPULSORY saving of
rubber;
TT was about this time that cars,
i A which were beginning to be
come scarcer on the streets nnd
tho highways, began to APPEAR
again. 'And it was also about
this time that 40-mlle driving,
which was becoming quite, com
mon, bogon to give way to 80
mile driving or evon fastor.
Ji What happenod Is obvious.
Q People snld to themselves! "If
i .my tiros aro going to bo taken
oway from mo, or If at some
.time lh tho Immodloto future
I'm no longor to be allowed to
buy gascMno, I might ns well
get ALL THE USE OUT OF
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SINKINGS
TO 231 TOTAL
21
New Losses Givt?n
In Week's Report
By Navy Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 1 W
The navy said today that a small
British merchant vessel had been
torpedoed in the Atlantic and
survivors had been landed at an
east coast port.
KEY WEST, Fla., June 1 (P)
Four officers of a submarine be
lieved Italian laughed from the
conning tower of their vessel as
thoy watched members of the
crew of a torpedoed Brazilian
merchantman struggle In the
wator neur their blazing craft.
Two torpedoes thundered In
rapid succession against the ship
May 24 near Haiti. Six men died,
two of them killed by the explo
sion and four in the rough sea at
tempting to reach lifeboats. Forty-five
survivors reached land
after 29 hours In lifeboats, and
were brought to Key West. -
The attacking submarine had
the head of a long-homed goat
painted on Its conning tower. In
the goat's mouth was a red
rose.
NEW YORK,. June 1, (P)
Southern waters , churned with
enemy torpedoes last month as
undersea . aldorax, concentrated
their fury on allied and neutral
shipping In the Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean area. . i.
' Piling up a war total of 231
navy-announced sinkings In the
western Atlantic from Canada to
South America, the submarines
picked off 13 victims in the Gulf
Caribbean sector alone.
21 for Week '
There were 17 officially an
nounced sinkings during the
week and the navy announced
yesterday the loss of four more
ships. i
With the sinking May 20 of
two Amorlcon merchantmen in
the Caribbean within sight of
each other, and on May 27-of s
Norwegian cargo ship In the
(Continued on Page Two) ;
Concerted Drive
For Navy Recruits
To; Mark Milestone
A concortod drive for Imme
diate navy recruiting In order
to have a class of candidates for
Pearl Harbor's anniversary - on
June 7 was started here Mon
day. Mayor John Houston Joined In
tho appeal to all men who plan
to enlist In the navy, urging
that thoy do so. Immediately
' Chief Gunner's Mate F. R.
Duncan, lh charge of recruiting
here, said that plans aro being
made for a special coremony
Sunday, exactly six months after
tho Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor, He urged that all or
ganizations interested in service
recruiting lend their efforts to
tho attempt to line up navy re
cruits In Klamath county before
Sunday.
IN ATLANTIC
Holiday Accident To Far
Below Average for Nation
By The Asioclated Preie
A nation honoring Its dead of
other wars even In the midst of
a new one found somo solace
Monduy In counting Its smallest
Memorial day holiday death toll
In years,
Only 304 violent-deaths wore
reported throughout tho United
States during tho two-day holi
day, as against an average of 400
on a normal May weekond.
Two factors were credited
with saving manV lives, both
connected with the wor effort!
Gasoline rationing kept many
eastern motorists at home, and
uninterrupted activity., in war
plants kept many others at their
machines, . ,
Thus the nation's highways,
on which 308 lives wero lost dur
ing last yoar's throe-day observ
ance of Memorial day beginning
on Friday, claimed less than one
third of that, toll this year, 107
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This picture was received In Buenos Aires by radio from Tokyo, :i'ith the Jap caption de
scribing It as the scene when Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, U. B. commander in the Philippines,
discussed terms of surrender with Jap officers. Wainwright Is Identified as man at left. Man in
center of group at right la Identified as Gen. Masaham Homma of the Jap forces, who previously
had been reported a auidde. The picture, aent by plane from Busnoa Aires, was passed by the
U. 8. war department. .
THREE LOCAL MEN
Oni CASUALTY LIST
Navy Report Includes
One From Bonanza
" Two Lakeview
A navy department casualty
Hat released nationally Monday
shows three men from Klamath
Falls, one (rom'Bonnnra and two
from Lakeview listed .as ."miss
ing." v... i i--;i.:.-o ,-.:
Thoy are' given here, ; with
their next of kin: - '
Field Music Sergeant Paul E.
Davles, marine corps; Mrs.' Lola
R. Boorman, . Klamath ' Falls,
mother. . . -
Platoon Sergeant Ernest C.
McVittlo, marine corps; B. C.
Johnson, Klamath Falls, step
father. . : . , ". ;
Pvt. Lloyd E. Crumpacker,
marine corps; Ivan Crumpacker,
2160 Madison, street, Klamath
Falls, father. , t ,. '
Flrem,n First Class Lonnie H.
Sattorficld; WUliam H. Satter
fleld, Bonanza, father.
Chief . Yeoman , Thomas D.
Boors; Mrs. Ida Lee Beers, Lake-
view, mother.
Private First Class Albert. J.
Dalns, marine corps; Mrs. Ruth
Bellus, Lakeview, mother.
"Tho large, percentage of
names under tho .'missing' clas
sification," tho navy said, "Is due
to the fact that many of them
wero serving in the Manila bay
area when It capitulated to the
enemy and likely are prisoners
of wor. ,J'-.". .. i
' "Tho bureau of naval person
nel In notifying next' of kin has
pointed out that It will likely be
several months before definite
Information can be obtained on
such cases; also that next of kin
will bo notified promptly when
dofinlte word Is received. '
"Somo of those under the
'missing' classification may have
been rescued at sea and landed
at isolated spots from which they
had no opportunity to communi
cate with United States naval au
thorities."
parsons having been killed In
traffic accidents.. y,i
A total of 108 drownings were
reported, and 89 others lost their
lives through' miscellaneous scr
cldents. ' ' : -
California reported 4' traffic
deaths, 2 drownings, 5 miscel
laneous; Oregon; 2 traffic, !4
drowning and 1 miscellaneous;
Washington 0 traffic, 2 miscellaneous.
By The Associated Press
Violont deaths In the Memor
ial day weekend reached a total
of nine In Oregon Sunday night.
' Four persona drowned, two of
them In a heedless rescue at
tempt, two were killed on the
highways and another suffered
fatal Injuries In a fall. t : .
1 At Brookings on the southern'
Oregon coast, four men thought
they saw a fishing 'boat in dis
continued on Page Two)
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Japs Say This Wainwright Surrender
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Wall of Water
Drowns Seven
On Lake Erie
CLEVELAND,' J.June 1 VP)
The Lake Erie shore counted
seven dead today from the sud
den sweep of a water wall, de
scribed at one. point as 15 to
20 feet high, which plunged
against night fishing parties In
a 60-mile stretch of, the lake-
fro'nt. ' ', .; ) ' ; -1 '
At . least seven - others, were
Injured and. bospitaUxed.
A sudden shift In wind direc
tion was the major cause of the
huge wave, the Cleveland
weather bureau reported. One
witness said a small crest fol
lowed later. ,
Those , drowned when the
wall of water struck about 2:15
. m. Sunday, as all-night fish
ermen were bent on their holi
day weekend sport, were:
Merle Edward Diehl, 45; Or
lo Lenncy, 20, a n d Lenney's
wife, Esther, 25, all of Cort
land, O., who were fishing from
a small boat at Day's-on-the-
Lake, near Geneva.
Merrill F. Riley, 50, ol Cleve
land, fishing from . another
small boat at the same location,
Mrs. Esther Allen, 1 48, and
(Continued on Pago Two)
Parks Sentenced ,
To Life in Prison .
For David Slaying : . '
,, George Parks," 35-year-old ex
convict, was sentenced to life
Imprisonment Monday morning
by Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg. Parks was convicted last week
of second degree murder, which
makes life imprisonment man
datory, '- ;
He showed little emotion as
sentence was passed. He was
accompanied to court, by . his
attorneys,. U. S.. Balentine and
E. E. Driscoll.
Balentine, when asked If there
was anything to be said for the
prisoner, pointed to the manda
tory provision of the law and
said there was no need to speak
further.
After Parks was sentenced, he
asked if he could say anything.
He was told it was too late.
, Parks was convicted of the
murder of Dr. Salom A. David, a
chiropractor, in the hold-up of
the Buffalo lunch on South
Sixth street in March, 1041.
George Burns, Indicted with him
In that case, is still at large.
Labor Mobilization, .
Draft Deferment
Program Effective
WASHINGTON, June 1 UP)
The labor mobilization program
of the war manpower commis
sion became effective today, es
tablishing an emphatic policy
for military deferment of ir
replaceable craftsmen and set
ting up a system of priorities
to make certain that urgent
production needs get first call
on available skilled workers.
"This Is a great opportunity,"
said Administrator Paul V. Mc
Nutt, .-"for domocracy to dem
onstrate that it con discipline
Itself. ' ' . '.. -
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JAP CENTER EKED
Official Confirmation
. Lacking as Labor
Need Weighed ?
The War Relocation authority
at Baq Francisco' informed the
Associate-'Pre- Monday that
"no increase in the also" of the
Tula lake WRA project la con
templated. .
Although official confirmation
was lacking, there was-wide
spread indication here Monday
that the Japanese re-settlement
project at Tulelake is to be en
larged Immediately. ,
The American Federation- of
Labor headquarters at Tulelake
called for three more carpenters
Monday, and It was indicated a
call would be put out for more
men as soon as equipment and
materials arrived on the job.
Some reports .were that the
settlement would be Increased
in size by 50 per cent, and others
estimated the increase from 30
per cent to 100 per cent As was
the case before the project start
id, officials were - reluctant to
give out information. .. ':" ;
Purchasing of , materials for
the project was reported re
sumed.. Last week, the center
was virtually completed by
the contractors under-the origl
nal plan, .and some equipment, it
is understood, had already been
shipped elsewhere.- ,: r
At present, the . project . Is
equipped for 11,000 Japanese
evacuees. ; . . ' " : t . j
Russian Front
In Lull; New
Threats Loom ,
By HENRY C. CASSIDY I
MOSCOW, ' June 1 (VP) The
three-week battles in the Crf
mea 'and the Ukraine which
opened the spring campaign on
the eastern front have ended In
calm which finds new lines
stabilized ' and ' both sides '. pre
paring for now and perhaps
more violent outbreaks. 1..
.As the result of the earl,
May . pf fenslves the Germans
now are holding lines advanced
to' the Kerch strait which sep
arates them from the. Caucasus,
and the Russians are occupying
deep wedges about Kharkov In
the Ukraine. !vi
The lull was signalized today
by a soviet communique which
said there was nothing at all
to report from the front..
Such action as there was to
report over tho weekend occur
red on the Kalinin sector north
west of Moscow, not In, the
Kharkov zone, where the red
army was reported taking the
initiative in : local operations,
second time this year.
The Germans were reported,
however, massing a vast , con
centration of tanks behind the
southern front, and Russian re'
connalssance pilots said that In
(Continued on rage two) ."
FUMING EUNS f " -V I POINT WARNING
IN SYDNEY BAY
New Offensive Begun
In Kwangtung by
, Canton Japs
By The Associated Press
(ADVANCE) The war in the
far Pacific region presented to
day an intricate pattern of
stroke and counter-stroke on a
vast front where, it could be
said, with the exception of the
Chinese sectors, that the allies
were dishing out more than
they were taking. ,
')' Salient developments reported
were: . - i
; 1. The explosive parrying of
a nighttime thrust into Sydney -harbor
by a force of Japanese
midget . submarines and the
barest suggestion . that their
mothership had been at least at
tacked. 2. The opening of a new Jap
anese offensive in China's
Kwangtung 'province while the
Chines r.-valiantly r sought to
curb the enemy' in -"Chtekiang
'province. - -Hr! -v- A ,
3. A senes of successful raids
on Japanese bases from Burma
to the Solomon islands over the
weekend by allied bombers
based on Indian and Australian
territory.
Subs' Sunk
United States headquarters
at. New Delhi, India, said that
its huge, bombers , in the ' past
three days had sunk a Japanese
tanker and damaged others at
Rangoon .Burma, and inflicted
heavy damage on ground air
craft and runways at the Myit
kytna airdrome in northern
Burma. .
The Japanese paid dearly for
their submarine attempt against
Australia's big southeastern port
pi Sydney. . ... , -.,
f ollowing the Sydney attack,
General MacArthur conferred
for four nours with Prime Min
ister Curtln at Melbourne and
the prime minister's happiness
was so evident that 'some ob
servers speculated that the sub
marines' mothership had . been
damaged or captured.
It could be assumed that the
appearance of the little raiders
at Sydney had touched off an
intensive search for their base.
Submarines, . apparently ., of
two-man type which the Jap
anese had used fruitlessly-at
Pearl Harbor, ran into thunder
ing shellfire and depth charges
in the Australian harbor Sun
day night and three of them
probably were destroyed.:
This may have been the en
(Continued on Page Two) :
Combining The Evening Her
ald and The Klamath News
necessitates carrying two pages
of comics in today's paper, the
first issue of the combined edi
tion. After the change-over ia
effected, the comic page will
appear in regular form begin
ning Tuesday. -
Girl Slashed to Death as
Boston Residents Look on
BOSTON, June 1 (AP) A
'teen-age girl, screaming as she
fled before a knife-brandishing
pursuer along a parkway path
beside the- Charles river basin,
fell and Was slashed to death
today within view of horrified
Back Bay apartment dwellers.
Police said the girl, Fidelia
Brland, 18, of suburban Wo-
burn, was walking to her class
es at the Fisher Business school
when she was accosted by the
man, armed with a foot-long
butcher knife. The man gave
his name to Patrolman James
Leonard as Harry Adams, 28,
of Somorville, a dish-washer In
Boston west-end restaurant,
The throe students also walk
ing to their classes along the
sun-bathed Esplanade, said that
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Arthur Osborne Phillips, an
ex-convict who never studied
at medical School but who for
two months had been assistant
chief surgeon-f a large hos
pital at Chlco,- Calif., aa "Doc
tor James Herman . Phillips,
sentenced to six months in jail
and fined .$600 for practicing
without a license. . He success
fully performed . series of ma
jor operations in. the hospital. ,
WRITHES If, TRAP
Axis' Tanks -Battling
To Keep Narrow
Escape Routes
CAIRO, Egypt, June 1 (AP
The bulk of Field Marshal Er
win Rommel's two German tank
divisions the backbone of his
Africa corps ' was reported
trapped and attempting- to es
cape the British today with the
forces of Lieut. Gen. Neil M.
Ritchie1 waging a fierce battle
from all sides and from the air
in an: effort to wipe them out-
The ' German's only hope, a
British communique indicated,
was to win a "battle of the
gaps" by holding open two . har
row passageways through- Brit
ish minefields to the westward
which the Germans had cleared
and where they had concentrat
ed anti-tank artillery to protect
their route of escape.
The British declared Gen.
Ludwig Cruewell, in direct com-,
mand of the Africa corps under
Rommel, had been captured.
The 55 -year -old former com
mander of an armored division
in Yugoslavia was said to have
been taken prisoner when his
reconnaissance plane was shot
down In the desert. .
British informants
said that
vith the
the Germans, faced
choice of using the
minefield
gaps to bring up supplies or to
withdraw the tanks, apparently
had hosen the latter course
and that the Rommel offensive,
begun five days ago, had turned
Into a furious battle by- his
forces to escape encirclement, i
their attention vas drawn by
screams resounding 75 yards
across a lagoon and saw the
man, knife in hand, chasing the
girl along a narrow walk be
tween the lagoon and the river.
As they took up the. chase,
the man closed in on .the girl
student, she stumbled, and the
pair rolled momentarily v.from
view into shrubbery along ' the
path. Then the assailant appear
ed again, running.'.
After a 300-yard chase, : the
man sank to the ground gasp
ing and pleaded, "don't ljit me."
Two of the students seized
him and held him for tho police.
Patrolman Leonard, quickly on
the scene, quoted Adams as ex
plaining "I wanted a woman. I
want to go to the chair."
TO NAZI AREA
1250 Planes Flatten
; Rhine Town in -v
Mighty Raid
By DREW MIDDLETOM -LONDON,
June 1 (P) The
hour of joint United States
British mass aerial assaults to
blast the reich out of the war
city by city was declared offi
cially today to be nearer at hand
and the Germans were adviseij
to look to the still smouldering
ruins of devastated Cologne fol
a glimpse of the future.
,, With plain words, the gem
erals who would give the word
to go made it clear that "the
Yanks are coming";'1 that the
British-American partnership of
power in the air will repeat and
may even dwarf the RAF's ter
rific Saturday night 1,000-bomb-er
attack -which loosed - on the
war-plants ofCologmvthe great
est weight of steel and explosive
ever borne oh wings. '
' - "Hastened the Day
Lieut. Gen; Henry H. Arnold,
head of the : United States air-,
forces; said his ! conferences .in
London were nearly completed
and had "hastened the day when
our air arm shall join in an air
offensive against the enemy
which he cannot meet, defeat or
survive." '
Reuters, in a dispatch date
lined "on the German frontier,"
said hundreds of thousands of
homeless people were being removed-
from the Rhineland fol
lowing upon the attack on Co
logne. - r,f
' Wealthy Germans were report
ed anxiously trying to transfer
to safer districts. - - -Germans
Hit Back
Replying to General Arnold's
congratulations on the Cologne
raid, Air Marshal A. T. Harris, '
chief of the RAF bomber com
mand, said:
"We are supremely confident
that our common enemies -
faced with certain devastation of
their own land . will- have .
cause to bitterly rue the day on
which they forced our two
countries into war." ' ' ,
. Stung by the fury of . the at
tack on .the fifth greatest city
in all the reich, German fliers
(Continued on Page Two) .
Nazi Guns Roar
In Czechoslovakia
Reprisal Roundup
LONDON, June 1 (AP) The
Prague radio tonight announced
the execution of 27 more Czechs
including four women, in con'
nection with the attempted as
sassination - of Reinhard Hey
drich, gestapo leader.
This brought the total to 109
since the attack on Heydrich
last Wednesday..
LONDON, June .1 (AP) The
guns of nazl firing squads broke
the sabbath quiet in Prague yes-,
torday, adding 20 more to the
list of those executed in repris
al for the attempted assassina
tlon of Reichs-protector Rein
hard Heydrich last Wednesday. :
The executions brought to 82
the number of those reported ;
shot since the attack. There has
been no Indication, however,
that any of those executed were
directly connected with the
wounding of Heydrich, whu
said to bo In grave condition. :
News Index
City Briefs .--. Page 5
Comics and Story Pages 7, 8
Editorials Page 4
Information Page 5
Market, Financial Pago 0
Pattern ,....VaKa 3
Sports '.. Pss