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falls. Anothir long bint, during black
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tionary periods, watch your straat UghU.
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Number 9507
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By FHANK JENKINS
'T'HIS dispatch from Honolulu
1 li tlio hltihllKlit of toduy'
news:
"Battered by alert American
defenders who SEIZED THE
OFFENSIVE, a powerful Jnp
aiiCKO INVASION fleet limped
away todny from on attempt to
tako Midway Island. At least
lllht of Its warships and TRANS
POUTS were dumuged by U. S.
bombers and submarines."
ADMIRAL Nlmltz, commander
of the U. S. Pacific fleet,
i(iyi:
Q "While It Is too early to claim
major Japanese disaster, It may
be stated that U. S. control re
mn Ins firm In tlio Midway area.
Ho adds:
"Damage to the enemy was
very heavy Indeed, including
several ships In each of tlio car
rier, battleship, cruiser and
TRANSPORT dosses.",
Ha concludes:
"The enemy appear to be
withdrawing, but we art CON
TINUING to battle."
THAT is to say, tlio Japs at
tacked, failed In their' first
objective, turned and ran and
are BEING PURSUED. .
That Is the historical pattern
of failure In battle.
,: r ..V .'' ... ,,-
KJOTE Nlmlti's report that
A heavy damage :wo inflicted
on several ships In EACH of the
Carrier, battleship, cruiser and
lltANSPORT classes.
A fleet of that size Indicates
clearly Hint the Japs MEANT
BUSINESS. The fact that it In
cluded troop transports Indicates
that they were out. If possible,
to SEIZE AND HOLD.
They hoped to take Midway,
land troops and retain posses
sion. tWHAT else they hoped to do
1 con only bo guessed, but the
normal procedure of a bold
commander who takes his first
objectlvo without TOO serious
losses is to go on and tako
OTHER objectives especially If
ho has lorgo forces at his dis
posal. . The Jap fleet was large, and
jjiore has been ample proof In
' ye past six months that Jap-
i anese commanders can be bold.
There Is no tolling what might
novo happened If the Midway
battle had resulted In a Japanese
victory.
WHAT was the OVER-ALL Jap
, purpose?
,; This writer doesn't know. It
Is probable that no one outsido
tho Jap high command knows,
: So let's do a little tall guessing.
There have been hints that a
considerable part of the U, S.
Pacific fleet has been transferred
to tho Atlantic and olsowhoro
guarding convoys, otc. The Japs
have boasted repeatedly that
they have navol command In tho
Pacific.
They may have decided to
FIND OUT.
This process of finding out is
known os testing tho enemy's
Qrcngtli. Mldwoy mny hove
Deen planned as tho first Icbi.
If the test had proved us to
be WEAK, the Japs would prob-
ably liuvo swept on how for
the sweep extended depending
pn the roslstanco we were nblo
to put up, ,
If we had been weak enough,
tho sweep might have extended
clear to our shores.
IfEEP clearly In mind that
V this Is pure guosswork, and
lias no standing on the basis of
fact. Still, It MIGHT hava been
tho purpose, Such things have
happened.)
t,
A T any rate, tho Japs found
out something.
What they found out is sub
stantial, confirmation of what
IJiey learned In the Coral Sea
Qint the United States has an
TklR FORCE whoso striking pow
er is something to bo feared,
, Admiral Nlmltz reports today:
: "American losses (in tho Mid
way battlo) were confined to
' (Continued on Page Three)
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COAST LINE
13 'Planes Reported
Lost During Third
Raid on Germany
LONDON, Juno 6 (IP) The
RAF topped off tho week which
saw It open tho greatest air of
fensive In history with a third
battering night assault upon the
German Ruhr last night and by
sending what observers coiled
tho "biggest sweep of tlio week"
against tho occupied coastline In
a daylight attack.
Tha "biggest sweep of the
week" meant that probably
mora than 1000 fighter and fight
or bomber planes were engaged
In the day operation.
Believed ropcatlng their per
formance of yesterday, when
blows were dealt along a 400
mila stretch of coast, were the
new British Whirlwinds, each
mounting four cannon.
Observors believed tho mighty
sweep was following up closely
tho Information gslnod by -the
commando .raiders this week
near Boulogne. ' -" .; .
- Tha night attack did not com
pare with the mora than 1000
piano assault against Cologne
last Saturday night and Essen,
the Ruhr arsenal, on Monday
night. The British reported 13
planes lost. .
In the first heavy assault on
the Ruhr Monday night the
greater part of 1036 bombers
wcro sent against the Essen area,
tho homo of Krupp, while on the
second night about 400 bombers
hit tho soma city and nearby
areas.
13 Planes Missing
Tha official statement that 13
aircraft were missing tended to
confirm unofficial estimates that
possibly as many as 300 planes
participated, considering tho us
ual ratio of losses. .
A well-posted source sold the
RAF had thrown mora than 3000
night bombers against Germany
In tho week ended with last
night's raids. Tha losses were
113, and were estimated at just
under four per cent of tho as
sault farces.
BERLIN, (From German
Broadcasts), June 6 (IP) Damage
was caused by fires "In some
places In an - industrial area"
when British bombers attacked
(Continued on "age Three)
Labor Shortage
On Farms Acute
PULLMAN,' Juno 8 (IP) The
farm labor shortage Is more crit
ical In tho Poclfio northwest
than In any other section of the
country ho has visited, F. D.
Fromma, principal experiment
station administrator for tho de
partment of agriculture, said
yesterday.
Dr. Fromme planned to visit
experiment stations in Wennt
chco and Puyallup before con
tinuing his inspection tour in
Oregon, 1
ekes indicates
Rationing of
WASHINGTON, Juno 6 (IP)
Fuel Coordinator Ickcs advised
Senator Aiken (R-Vl.) today
that "it appears Impracticable
lo Imposo restrictions" on pe
troleum deliveries ' In areas
whoro there is no shortage
Aiken said ha understood this
to mean that the coordinator
did not contemplate nationwide
gosollno rationing at this time.
In a letter to tho Vermont
senator, Ickcs declared that "we
feel it la unreasonable and Im
practicable to impose curtail
ment in areas whero there ox
1st a sufficiency or a surplus
ot aupply." -
Nazi General Nabbed in Libya
i . hJLrss
General Ludwlg Cruawell, deputy commander of the German
Afrlka Korps, climbs out of a British tank at headquarters after
his capture In the Libyan desart May 26. H said ha was taken
prisoner when his pilot landed among British dtsart troops in
the mistaken belltf they war Italians. . .'.j .
' . 4 ,
BRITAIN'S DESERT
Uneasy Quiet Prevails
. Over Most of ,J
Russ Front ,
By Tha Associated Pres .
Britain's desert armies were
reported to have won armored
superiority In the 12-day-old bat
tlo of North Africa today as
tank-led British Infantry, strik
ing from three sides, pounded the
Germans back toward a gap in
the moln British defense lino. ;
Frontline dispatches said nazi
Field Marshal Erwln ' Rommel
had already lost 340 tanks, or
about half his armored force. ;
British headquarters said Brit
ish troops launched an offen
sive Thursdoy night west of
Knlghtsbrldgc, IS miles - south
west of Tobruk, and sustained
the attack successfully through
out yesterday.
Military observers said the sit
uation was rapidly boiling tow
ard a showdown, with Rommel's
main forces hard' pressed In the
bloody "Devil's Cauldron'! sec
tor east- of the gap which his
armored columns : slashed
through tho : British minefields
between Ain El Gazala and Bir
Hnchelm. ' i :
Caught behind tins - 60-mllo
line, Rommel was said to be
counting on using the gap as an
escape hatch in the event he is
forced to retreat westward once
more.
The British said Lieut-Gen.
Neil M. Rltchlo, British field
commander, was pressing tha in
itiative after driving the axis
out of Tamar, six miles west of
Knlghtsbridge. ' i
Russian Campaign
Hitler's field headquarters re
(Continued on Pago Three)
Nationwide
Gas Unlikely
Ickcs went on to explain that
tho process of depleting surplus
areas would automatically turn
them Into shortage areas, '
"Such a draining process Is
being urged by this office and,
within certain physical limita
tions which are present, will
continue to be pressed by us,"
he wroto. "When those, areas
now exempted from rationing
become short of supplies, they
again will be subject to curtail
ment. Meanwhile, it appears
Impracticable to Imposo restric
tion whoro there Is no short
age." 1
erman "Ruhr
50 "Avengers" to
Take Oaih Sunday
AtiServiceHere
Approximately 80 men will be
given the oath In impressive pub
lie services arranged by the navy
at the Elks temple Sunday at 11
a. m., it was announced Saturday
by COM F. R. Duncan, navy
recruiting officer here. Frank
Jenkins will deliver the princi
pal address, and the oath will be
administered by Lieut Howard
A. Frame of the 13th naval dls
trlct. -.' .
The oath will be given at 11:25
a. m., at which time thousands
ot navy "avengers" throughout
the nation will swear allegiance
In more than 500 cities. The
oath will bo given by radio as
well as in the lodge room here.
Following is the list of 20 vol
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Baseball
NEW YORK, Juno 6 (ff)
Charley (Red) Ruffing became
the first active pitcher to win
250 games today when he
blanked the Cleveland Indians
on four hltl in hurling the
New . York Yankees to a 3-0
triumph. It was Rufflng's sixth
vlctory'v of . the season against
two defeats..
Ruffing becomes the eleventh
pitcher In modern times to hurl
250 or more victories, although
seven of the others reached the
300 mark. .- -
AMERICAN LEAGUE
(First game) R. H. E.
Detroit 0 16 . 1
Washington 3 4 1
Bridges and Tcbbets; Zubcr,
Wilson (4) and Early.
Chicago 3 10 0
Boston 1 4 1
Grove and Tresh; Hughson,
Butland (8) and Conroy;
Cleveland 0 4 0
New York 3 8 0
Dean and Hcgan, Denning (8);
Ruffing and Rosar,
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Boston 2 7,0
Cincinnati 8 11 0
Tobin and Lombard); Walters
and Lomanno,
Philadelphia ...........1 3 1
Pittsburgh 3 8 0
Hughes, Podgajny (8) and
Warren; Sewell and Lopez.
Brooklyn 2 8 0
Chicago 0 7 0
Davis and Owen; Lee and Mc
Cullough. :
Service;
Subscribers In Klamath Falls
who do not receive thtlr paper
by 6i30 p. m. are askad to call
The Herald and News office. No.
3124, bafor 7 p. m, and a paper
will b sent out by special
mtaiangar.
ITO
EVENT SLATED
FDRJULY4-5
Mayor Discloses Plan
For Holiday. Cele
bration Here
. Plan for a 2-day "Victory"
celebration for Klamath Falls
Fourth of July weekend were
announced Saturday by Mayor
John Houston.
The program will ' include a
"victory- rodeo" Saturday and
Sunday, July 4 and 5, dances
and services at Modoc field
Sunday night to be dedicated
to mothers with sons in the
service. . .
Opening of the celebration
will come with a dance at the
armory Friday night, when
queen wiir - DC appoimea.
. For Troop Fund
A parade is scheduled for
Saturday ' morning, July 4, to
Includes entries, from organiza
tions, business firms and com
munities throughout the Mid
land Empire, r -
,-. Entire proceeds from the cele
bration ' will go Into the local
troop entertainment fund.- -
. "CThe committee: - In . charge
want to moke this Victory cele
bration one of the. most .out
standing get-togethers of all
times here," said Mayor Hous
ton. "With this nation at war
and everyone-doing his or her
part either In the service or on
the 'home front' ; unity can be
attained by wholehearted
Klamath - Victory - celebration.
That is what we want."
' -
Margaret Ldntz,
Hutchinson Given
County Jail Term
Margaret Lantz and James
Hutchinson received sentences
of six months each in the county
Jail from Circuit Judge David
R. Vandenberg Saturday, as an
aftermath of their convictions on
charges of aiding a confined per
son to escape. .:.
They assisted the escape of a
young girl,-daughter of Mrs.
Lantz, . from the county farm
where she was detained as an
alleged delinquent Juvenile.
Attorney A. C. Yaden made a
fervent plea for a parole for
Mrs. Lantz, asserting her actions
were only the natural perform
ance of a mother. '
The girl, who ran away from
the farm In April, has not been
returned to the custody oi local
authorities. .- . ,
Emergency Fire
Y
orkers on Patrol ' -
SALEM, June 6 0P The state
forestry department said today
555 emergency fire workers had
been stationed in strategic dis
tricts throughout Oregon this
week to give blanket protection
of all forest and rural areas of
tha combat zone and to Intensify
patrol , of the eastern section of
the state.
State Forester N. S. Rogers
said a state "cache" of supplies
was available to outfit 2000 fire
fighters. Combined with equip
ment of the fire protection as
sociations, tha available store
ot fire fighting materials will
provide for 11,500 men in event
of extreme emergency, he esti
mated. Big Gains Made
In Construction
PbRTLAND, Ore., June 8 (IT)
Housing administrators estimat
ed today that recently approved
projects for Portland and Van
couver would add $12,000,000 In
construction to tho $33,000,000
already authorized for the area.
The projects are 2000 dormi
tory apartment and 1800 homes
for Portland, and. 2000 dormi
tory apartments, 2000 single dor
mitory units and 1200 homes in
Vancouver.
'Any Bonds
E
a . .. alt
.'JaRZAN'S M!XUT BOY "
c
i ijuijmi miiiiii asini mnirir -im'ii
.: . Yes, indeed, says Rufus Quillen, (left), a he buys $2500 worth
of bond, from Andrew Collier, Klamath county . chairman of
war MTlnas. The ale took place on tha "Buy Tanks for Yank"
platform In front of a 13-ton
Main ttraet Friday.? Qulllan. l
Sax. Rotbuck company's payroll deduction plan and ha, pur-
ekaMj'122 bands KlneA' Jnnimrv 8-:::): ...---vV'wi:"'! .-
Friday Bond,
SiampSale
Nets $15,000
Fifteen thousand dollars worth
of war savings bonds and stamps
were sold Friday In Klamath
Falls, a leg on the $214,500 June
quota set by the .treasury depart
ment for Klamath county, ac
cording to Andrew Collier, local
war savings chairman. v
Of this amount $8400 in bonds
and $35 in stamps were pur
chased at the tank headquarters,
Sixth and Main streets, follow
ing the appearance . of Johnny
Sheffield, MGM star loaned for
the war savings drive. ; :
Largest purchase ..of the day
was made by Rufus ' Quillen,
Sears Roebuck . employe, who
bought a $2500 bond. First bond
buyer was Dr. M. C. Cassel, Col
lier stated. Boys .and girls con
tributed their pennies, nickels
and dimes toward the $35 sale
of stamps. - ..-"..
Collier told the downtown au
dience Friday that the May quo
ta made it possible for Klamath
buyers to purchase one light
bomber with "enough left over
to buy the gas to get to Tokyo.
The June quota will enable
Klamathites to buy five pursuit
planes . to go with the May
bomber. . .
ARRAH WANNA OPENS
PORTLAND, June 6 (IP)
The young peoples camp of. the
Oregon Baptist convention will
open as usual at Arrah Wanna
near Wemme Sunday, but there
will be additional duties main
ly strawberry picking. Camp
sessions begin Sunday; berry
picking Monday.
74-Year-Od Klamath Girl
Discovered
A 14-year-old Klamoth Falls
girl has been discovered as a
shoplifter responsible for the
disappearance of at least seven
dresses from various local
stores, it was disclosed Saturday
by city officers.
They said this girl had been
found out "after hours" on a
number of occasions, and had
been warned she might get Into
trouble. When questioned by of
ficers on these occasions, she
gave a fictitious nam.
The officers - said the girl
lives In a good home and Is
supplied with an ample-, ward
robe by her parents.
In connection with this mat
ter, City Recreation and Ju
Today?'
V
i
i
v 7 i
uvrvn
ast
army tank placed at Sixth and
buvintf bond a week through
R EMPLOYERS -
ORDEREDTQ MEET
Settlement of Dead-
. Locked "; Pa r I eys ;
Seen Imminent
The ' Klamath Basin District
council of the AFL Lumber and
Sawmill Workers union and 19
employers have been instructed
by the department of labor to
meet with a special conciliation
panel next Wednesday in the
Willard hotel, Council President
Hugh Haddock said today.
. Haddock said the conclave
was called by Adolph W. Hoch,
panel chairman, in an effort to
settle currently deadlocked wage
negotiations between the two
factions. He said the 19 em
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Allied Planes Hit
New Britain Points
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, June 6 (IP) Ware
houses, - docks and ' a coaling
Jetty at Japanese-occupied Ra-
baul, New Britain, were bomb
ed again last night by allied
warplanes, General MacArthur's
headquarters announced today
The commander-in-chief of al
lied forces in the southwest Pa
cific also announced he had
named Lieut. Col. Carlos P.
Romula, formerly connected
jwith the Philippines Herald at
I Manila, as his aide-de-camp.
as Shoplifter
venile Officer David Bridge said
that often, as in this case, the
violation of one regulation leads
to the violation of another.
He said there have been
many instances recently where
high school and grade school
pupils have been out as late
as 3 and 4 o clock in the morn
ing. The curfew in Klamath
Falls Is 10 p. m., he said, and
parents should see to it that
their children are at home at
that time. -
All violators of the curfew
ordinance, who are discovered
by' police, are being warned by
letter . through their parents,
with a copy of the ordinance,
If tho violation Is repeated, ac
tion through the court follows.
mHa-h4l.H
U. S. GONTHOL
HGLOSFmM IN
MIDWAY AREA
8 - Nippon . Warships,
Transports Damaged
In Big Battle
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
America's wasp-nesi defense
of Midway island sent the Japa
nese fleet staggering in retreat
today as Admiral Chester W.
Nlmltz, dramatically summariz
ing the three-day-old battle, de
clared: . . :,- - ..
"While it Is too early to
claim a major Japanese disas
ter, the enemy appears to be
withdrawing -. . but we are .
continuing the battle. .
"It may be conservatively
stated that United States con
trol remains firm in the Mid
way area.". -.;
A communique Lsued at U.
S. i naval headquarters. Pearl
harbor, Honolulu, said the pow
erful Japanese i naval squadron
was limping away with at least
eight warships and transport
damaged by American bomber!
and submarines. i
-.':.; ."Vary Heavy Damage" i
- The communique ' indicated
that American forces were pur
suing the battered Invaders
after beating uff the initial on
slaught in a victory possibly
surpassing trie allied 'triumph, in
the battle of the Coral sea.' ;
Admiral Nimjtz' said latest
reports showed" that "the enemy
damage Is very, heavy, Indeed,"
with crippling blows inflicted
on several ships In each ot the
aircraft carrier, battleship,
cruiser and, transport classes.
The crushing defeat . of ths
Japanese armada, the biggest
enemy naval force ever, to pen
etrate so far -eastward toward
American shores, came even as
Tokyo newspapers boasted that
their navy's latest exploits had
'established complete Japanese
domination of the Pacific and
Indian, oceans.'
Brutal Treatment
Admiral Nlmitz. commander-
in-chief of the U. S. ' Pacific
fleet, said the - Japanese had
machine-gunned United' Mates
fliers forced to bail out in para
chutes during aogtignis.' ;
Americans adrift In rubber
boats received the same ruth
less treatment, he declared.
"The brunt of the defense to
date has fallen upon aviation
(Continued on Page Tnreej
Work Goes on
At Joliet Plant ;
JOLIET, 111., June 6 W)
Munitions for America's fighter
rolled off the Elwood ordnance
plane lines in volume today
while army officials attempted
to identify all the 51 persons
dead or missing In an explosion.
The thunderous blast yester
day destroyed a shipping build
ing in the shell loading plant but
halted production in only one
of the 12 units in the vast works.
The other loading lines -calmly
continued on a 24-hour-a-day basil-
- ; "
Army officers said the demol
ished structure could be replaced
with less trouble than other ord
nance buildings and that tha
group of which it was a part
would be back In production
"very shortly." r ', -.' -f :
1 SHUT OUT WINS
NEW YORK, June 8 (IP) ,
Mrs. Payne Whitney' Shut Out , :,
won the 74th running of the ,
Belmont stoke before a crowd .
of 29,812 today,. Mrs. Al
Sabath's Alsab was second and
Lochlnvar third. ,
News Index '
City Briefs Page 11
Comics and Story -Page 12
Editorial Page 4
Information Page 11
Market, Financial ...Page 9
Midland Empire- -..Page 8
Pattern ...Page 8
Society Page B, 8, 7 and 8
Snort Pg 10
Weekend Picture Page 14