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5A - IIPHI!'!lli II On S-minut bint on ilrtni nd whlstl I th signal for blackout In Klamath Falls. Anothar long blst, (luring a black out li a signal lor all-clar. In pracau tlontry periods, watch your itrtat lighta. j una a. High is. Low 44 Praclpitation ai of Juna 9, 1143 Lit ytir ; . 12 31 Normal ...; ... , 11.11 R , - A TV. im.Ii .; . m ASS0CU.TEQ.JP5ES?.,.: IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES . IV U ,.,, .....IJ.US' ,- r -iri-,- -1 1-,,-, n 1-1 ri 1-1 1-1 in f 1 1 1 n PRICK -swti.-, 'jfNyi)nrT TH FAUA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10. 1942 ji:ii' d wo ,( a j v ft. w l V M Ul tmtti Number 9510 ."' i ' :..;" . . , mf Mfran7 a w iniremfe a t? k 4 1 lililll'W tlli'liliiSiiilfl! I ill! 1 ! I 1 III! li lillilllltf.lBliliilllil'ililll lillllllllSllIIISII I li lil'l ' i ' II Hi III By FRANK JENKINS THE Jap flmilly conctclo Unit tliero wbi a battle nt Midway They clnlm tho linking of two U. S. carrlor and a large U. S transport and admit the Iomi of a carrier and damage to two other warships. Then limy unnotinco in broadcaat that "Japanese forces have been ablo to occupy islands In tho western Aleutians becauso th enemy (meaning us) was un able to send strong reinforce menta north on account of the strong Japaneso attack at Mid )way." So that's that. fNE guesses that under th screen of necessary military secrecy there Is feverish activity In tho foggy north Pacific. Tho Japs sorely need victory to off set Midway. They may ba seek' Ing It there. -But even mora they need to AVOID ANOTHKR DEFEAT, Unless big Jap fleet can catch a small American fleet unit there won't be much doing. Tim will tell. CEVASTOPOL Is today's hot D spot. The Germans have been at tacking there for six days, and Henry C. Consldy, AP corrcs aondent with the Russian forces, ; says It appears. to ba an all-out assault. -. - .- His dispatch rclafes: )"The civilian population has gone Into the catacombs deep under the city to weather, the fiery and. explosive storm of the German air force. All vital In dustries and Institutions of the area . art established under thick protective layer of rock, leaving the ground free for full development 01 the defense. The Russians say their defense line are holding. CEVASTOPOL, In th Crimea has been under siege for seven months. It is another Tobruk, supplied from the sea. Like Tobruk, It is a threat on the axis flank. If the Germans boom on past It toward the Caucasus, they will face the danger that th . Russians will Issue from it In f fore to attack their communi cations, Few commander In history bsv been willing to expose themselves to such a threat. A UTHORIT AT1VE reports " from Vichy todoy say two year of ' war have convinced Pctnln the axis can't win,, but Laval and Dnrlan hold a con frsry view. Laval and Darlan have already gone out on the German limb, Unless the German win THEY'RE SUNK. . , They HAVE to be pro-axis. . TJ S. AMBASSADOR LEAHY, back from Vichy, says th people of France are overwhelm Ingly pro-American and hopeful of defeat of the axis powor, but are suffering from complete mil itary defeat, are unorganized, k Inarticulate and have no influ ence whatever on the make-up or the policies of their govern ment. ' That Is a picture of helpless ness. ' Still, for some reason, Hitler hasn't so far taken the French fleet. He must want It terribly. There must be some reason why ha Is afraid to take. It, Helpless as they arc, ho must fear tho French people, AND the French leaders, even V the traitor Laval, must fear Britain's growing air powor. Thoy may have boon told thai giving up the fleet will bring on the destruction of Paris.) ' v . . PRODUCTION Boss Nelson, speaking to his old-home-towners Hi Hannibal, Missouri, I sny today: "Much as we might hope It might be over soon, America must be prepared for a ' long war." i . :- He adds:, ;.' "In any event, long or short, (Continued on Page Two) ,. in 1 h.m . iti' i' m t'! r, , m 1 Mi, fa ,1 iaMh U)-HH:;'inji 1 I i 1 ' im 1 1 1.. i r Germans Claim Penetration Of Sevastopol Line By The Associated Press Adolf Hitler's field hondquartor assorted today that oermnn troops had stormed deeper into the fortifications of Sevastopol, last soviet stronjrhold in the Crimea, while the Hussians snld they had littered the battlefield with 2500 nii.i dead in yesterday's fighting alone. Soviet dispatches said the red armies had not yielded "a single lino" to tho Germans although tho fight was growing hourly more intense, with tho nazis Incessantly! attacking by land and air. Candidates Announce For Vacancies; Bo tens Quits Post SCHOOL CANDIDATES County ' Arthur Blocjclingrr -i George Hagelsteln . ' ", KUHB District Nelson Reed City. District No. 1 Mrs. Burt E. Hawkins Mrs.. George H. Rogers Three school board elections aro arousing Interest of city and county voters this month." Two elections are scheduled for Mon day, 'June, 18, wlun voter will name city and county directors. The Klamath Union high school district election ' will be held Monday, Juna 22. ' j : Deadline for filing In tho city and .county elections was Mon day evening. Mrs. Burt E. Haw kins, Incumbent, and Mrs. Georgo H. Rogers, have filed for the five-year offlco on cltv district, No. 1. -.; George Hagelstcln of Algoma. who, filled out the unexpired term of his brother, Fred, has announced for the office of di rector from the northern district on the Klamath county school board. Also a candidate is Ar thur Blockllngor, Chiloquln mill operator. The office Is-for . a five-year term. All residents of the county aro eligible to vote whether or not they live in the (Continued on Pago Two) 1 British Bomb Italian Base ROME (From Italian Broad casts), Juno 10 (P) British bombers attacked the Italian naval base of Taranto last night for tho second night in succes sion and known casualties total 20 killed and 78 Injured, the high conimand snld today. -. Both high explosives and In cendiaries were dropped by the raiders end several fires flared. LONDON. June 10 W The RAF attacked over Brittany by daylight today, resuming its of fensive against the continent after a night of inactivity. Two Gorman fighters were destroyed, Senators See Rubber Made WASHINGTON. June 10 UP) To the expressed astonishment of senators, who had Just been told that the B. F. Goodrich com pany planned ultimately to pro duce 168,000 tons of synthetic rubber annually, a company exe cutive compounded some In 10 seconds today and bounced it on the floor. K. D. Smith of Akron. Ohio. assistant to the vice president In charge of factory operations, poured what he called "llauld amerlpol latex" Into a beaker, added acetic acid, squeezed the surplus liquid out, and bounced tha ball. Smith sh Id that 20. cents a pound would be a "very fnlr" price for the synthetic rubber and demonstrated to the senate agriculture subcommittee a num ber of tires in which It had been used. . Ho said that tests showed the synthetic casings had about 90 ' . Red Star, the soviet army newspaper, conceded that Ger man infantry had penetrated to a hilly sector, where It was try ing to capture two heights, but declared that the battle gener ally still raged at tho approaches to tho city without major change Sixth Day Today marked the sixth day of furious assault by German forces which have besieged the great Black sea naval base for more than seven months. - A soviet communique said Sevastopol's defense batteries scattered - a German . infantry regiment, killed many of Its men knocked out two dozen- German tanks and 28 planes, and checked th nsrl .offensive. "-.-.-; ;' On the north African "front both the German -and Italian communiques acknowledged that Lleut.-Gen. Nell Ritchie s armies, supported by Amcrlcan-mado tanks and planes, were heavily coumcraiincKing. British Imperial headquarters said an eleventh axis 'assault on Blr, Hachlcm. southern "anchor of the BO-mlle British defense line, hod been driver off da splto tho fact that German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel . threw In Van' Increased ' number of tanks, dive bombers, Infantry and artillery." Hit Supply Lints British armored and motorized columns bolstered ' the Fre (Continued on Page Two) Better Offshore Patrol Necessary, i Sen. Wallgren Says LOS ANGELES. June 10 W) Tho sinking of a freighter by a submarine off the Washington coast points to the necessity of a better pntrol of offshore points, Senator Mon C. Wallgren (D-Wnsh.) said last night. Wallgren, a member of the Truman committee investigating national defense who was in the Pacific northwest last " week, commented: "I think the defenses of our west coast are absolutely Inade quate., They are Inadequate from the standpoint of patrol and lack of army and - navy planes to guard and protect these vital areas. ...... "It is , my Intention when return to Washington to try and get a delegation meeting of west coast states to' discuss the de fenses of this coast.", . MERCHANT SHIP SUNK WASHINGTON, June 10 m Tho navy, announced today that a medium-sized British merchant vessel had been torpedoed in the Atlantic. Survivors have been landed at east coost ports. Synthetic in 10 Seconds per cent of tho durability of tires made from natural rubber, i . ., In addition to the 100 per cent synthetic tires, Smith exhibited one containing about 88 per cent nrtlflclol rubber. . He testified It hod been driven 24,127 miles on an airport station- wagon and still was capable of further serv ice. Polnnttlni to Rubbsr' Folnsettias and old hot water bogs may march through the sec ond chapter of the mystery novel about rubber and nitsollne of which President Roosevelt says he has read only tho first. The president announced at his1 press confeunoe y&storday that a nationwide two-week col lection of scrap rubber old In ner tubes, tires, hot watoi1 bot tles, etc. would be undertaken soon In an effort to determine Whether there was enough old rubber lying around to make na- (Contlnued jm Page Two) - ; ; ; ; ' ' . ' " ' ' . ' ' - Civilian Defense Workers See Control Room in Action ! jilpjjjJI : : , ' 'fzM LOSS OF ONLY L jJMjp 1 ONE CARRIER Lni' m H ) bill U!h I W kdW Tokyo Says Troops li'l i L . Jjfta-fjir -not Jif - i!L' KT ,.v b w ' . " - ""w 1 r-r ..8 i . nw iir rr"t''-tt-fi'-i J For th benefit of scores of civilian defense nrolles, th command section of CD gav a demonstration at the high school auditorium Thursday night. Th picture shows th control room ut-up in operation. Men around th larg tabl head th various services utilities, medical, wardens, polic and fir. L. Orth Siiemore, warden chief, is at the right explaining the operations through a loudspeaker system. Around th tabl ar G. A. Krause, commander; J. A. Souther. George Myers, Lawrence Slater, Lloyd Low. Ira Sharman, Keith Ambrose and Assistant Commander Arthur Schaupp. Jim Kerns Jr., is at th' blackboard. Th regular control room set-up is at th chamber of commerce. (Story on Pag 14.) KILLEDJN CRASH Kenneth G. Tompkins J Fatally Injured . ' v Near Beatty.; ?; u 1 . --A- --- - Klamath county's traffic fatal ity figure rose to four early Wednesday, morning , with the death of Kenneth G. Tompkins, 39, Grants Pass, fatally injured ' at - 10 o'clock Tuesdoy night . when' His light roadster plunged ' 4 over a rocky cm- Klamath's 1942 bankmont .. two ' Auto Toll ' miles west of Beatty on highway 68. Tompkins' death was the sec. ond fatality of the week. An drew Hemrlch, Merrill, was killed at noon Monday when his farm truck was Struck by an SP passenger 'train at . the Wocus crossing. ; , . - j Slightly injured in the crash was Dick Lessard, 27, and Ray mond Hesscl Hayes, 33, both of Grants Pass. - Lessard' was re leased from Klamath Valley hos pital Wedncsdoy morning follow ing treatment for a wrenched leg and body bruises. Hayes was In the county Jail charged (Continued on age Two) Get, Sand Now! Warning of Civil Defense Officials Klamath popl were urgd Wednesday to gat sand imme diately for horn protection against incendiary bombs. L. Orth Sisamor, chief of' th air raid wardens, an. nounced that only on person, ' a woman, had responded to an offer to glv sand to all local residents who would call at th city fire station. A bucket of sand Is regard ed as essential for the protec tion of evry home, Slsemor said. The sand will b glvn to anyone who calls at th fir hall with a bucket. , - Willamette Road Projects Okehed Contract-letting will be com pleted in about two weeks for two important construction lobs on tho west end of the Willam ette highway, the state highway commission said Wednesday In answer to nil Inquiry from Klamath Falls. : , Tho highway officials said that satisfactory bids had been received on a new bridge over the Coast fork near Goshen, and road relocation of about three miles In that district. Work can start as soon as two minor right-of-way matters are cleared up. The Inquiry was made fol lowing Wednssday's chamber of commerce directors' luncheon. ' VlLlILJtl ,J i U. Continue Attack 1 First U. S. Merchant Ship Sunk by Sub By LELAND HANNUM PORT ANGELES, Wash., June 10 fP) The first torpedoing of a U. S. merchant ship off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, officially announced by the navy last .night, .was revealed after the Ship's rrtaster, "CaptLylei 7 Hs,.48. ,San. Carlos. Calif. "loMCight- rtJcrew men here.and sa.id ."I m glad to report we lost only -one of the. 60 aboard.' Lono fatality was 66-year-old Stephen- Chance, negro second cook and baker, of no known ad dress, who died of exposure in a lifeboat .. Saw Conning Tower Two were in a serious condl Hon and six others were less se riously hurt, he said, when the explosion occurred last Sunday afternoon. . He said the ship sank Axel Johnson Hit ' By Log at Ewauna, Condition Serious Axel Johnson, 68, 429 Pacific Terrace, for a number of years employed as millwright with Ewayna Box company, is in Klamath Valley hospital in a critical condition as the result of an accident which occurred at Ewauna about 12:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Johnson was picking up wood near the sawmill when a large log foiled from the log slip and struck him on the head and shoulders. His head was crush ed, It was learned. Ewauna of ficials said it was Johnson's day off and he had returned to the mill for a short time. Greek King Arrives To Seek Materials BALTIMORE, June 10 UP) King George II of Greece, arriv ing hero today on a Pan-Ameri can clipper plane, said his coun try was "in the war to stay" and that he would go to Washington to Arrange lease-lend shipments of war. supplies direct to great fighting forces. Tho monoclctl monarch, ac companied by Emanuel Tsoudcr os, Greek premier, and others In the official party, came here from Cairo, Egypt, part way by clipper. ' Ho was met by high state department officials, Greek embassy officials, and United States army and navy officers, ''The Greek army, Its air corps and more than half of its original navy are" fighting today in many theatres of the war," the exiled king declared. Flags of the United Nations A display of th flags of th UnlUd Nations will b found on ' pag 6 of today' edition, as a contribution to flag wek observance. Major vent of th wk will b th Elk flag day exercises at th Elk - tmpl Thursday eve ning, 7:30 o'clock, to which the public Is invited. Qfi ' Northwest 30 minutes later, and that while he nor any of the ship's of ficers ' saw the submarine, its conning tower was reported seen by several of the crew. First Officer E.-W. Nystrora, Oakland. Calif., a', former, eco nonllcs ; major at ' Washington State college, said he -saw what some described as the submarine and that "it might .have been part-of our ship's debris. I fired two parachute signal flares. The wreckage disappeared." . i . Captain Havens said "there is no doubt we were torpedoed," Both he and Nystrom were in their bunks when the ship was struck, and were. thrown to the deck. ( , . i :"The strange thing about the concussion, and it, was a terrible one, was the 'silence' of It," Ny strom said. "There wasn't any ;boom" .Captain Havens said the ex plosion smashed one of the two lifeboats, but that the entire per sonnel were gotten away in the remaining lifeboat and two life rafts within 10 minutes. He and Chief Engineer N. J. Irvine, Seat- , (Continued on Page Two) ' Baseball . AMERICAN - LEAGUE R. H. Chicago ......:.....:.....;.1 4' 10 Philadelphia ...... 18 E. 0 2 and Humphries, Haynes (8), Turner; Knott, Marchildon (9) and Swift R. H. E st. Louis :.:..:...t........ s 8 Boston ......'......:....;.'...V.10 -10 Nlggellng,; Hanning (5), Feh rens (7), and Ferrell; Hughson and Conroy. . R. H. E. Detroit '.... 4 8 1 New York 1 10 0 " Benton and Tebbetts; Breuer, Murphy (9), and Rosar.J MANY AT FUNERAL VICHY, Unoccupied France, June 10 OP) Three thousand persons (presumably . French) were reported today to have at tended funeral services for an RAF flier who was shot down along the French coast and bur ied with military honors by the Germans at St. Malo Monday. Friends Keep 5 Months With JAY, Okla., June 10 Ar tificial respiration applied by friends who have labored unceas ingly for five months night and day has kept the spark of life burning In Mason Williams, 49-year-old schoolteacher. u To stop pumping breath Into his wasted body would mean a strangling, suffocating death. Dr. Frank Veroni, Jay physi cian, said Williams was suffering from amyothrophic lateral scler osis, a disease causing degenera tion of nerve tracts leading from the spinal cord to the muscles' ; , Its first effect, he said, was Daralvlsis of the muscle nf the hands and shsjulders. Later, - It ', GERMANS WIPE OUT: El Men Shot, Women De- ' po rted in "Revenge -ForHeydrich;:' By' Th 'Associated Press ; .LONDON, . June ; 10 (P) In vengeance for a slain execution er, Germany's gestapo and . army today wiped" but "a whole Czech village, shooting all the men, de porting all the women and chil dren and leveling every habita tion.',' '," c. This, - the. .German ; rad,io . in Prague announced, was done be cause the village of Llbcice was suspected of harboring the ' two men who fatally wounded Rein- hard Heydrich, "protector"... of Bohemia-Moravia, on a winding mountain road two weeks ago. So far "as is known, the two re main uncaught. ','.; ' By all- odds it was the most savage .single act of repression yet perpetrated by vthe nazi con querors against the sullen and resentful millions of 'occupied Europe, of whom it. was estimat ed today by their exiled govern ments that 800,00b had been shot or hanged by the Germans. : . The Prague broadcasts did not give the number of men of the 1 ) village who were shot. ' It said' 0, the women had been sent to- a concentration camp and the chil dren to "educational centers." Then the nazis removed . the name of the village from their records. i . Before this had happened, the Germans r had ,- executed 278 Czechs, for the assassination of Heydrich, and it was apparent from . German advices received today in Switzerland that a new wave of punitive measures is on the, way,; not. only in, Czechoslo vakia but in other : occupied countries., Prague, Paris, .Am sterdam, . and all Poland and Yugoslavia were regarded here as likely to feel first the effects of the increased death penalties. Teacher Alive Breathing Aid attacked the muscles used in breathing and swallowing. ' When Williams began to lose control of his respiratory system, artificial respiration' was ap plied. Some of his friends' vol unteered to help and for. five months they have kept at it, working in relavs. ' Dr. Veroni said Williams' abil ity to breathe has been impaired about .78 per cent. Without arti ficial respiration he cannot speak or swallow.-. ... , . . , When he is sitting upright, his friends labor over him constant ly. When he sleeps they some times are able to stop for about (Continued on Page Two) . . PEARL HARBOR. June 1 0 IJPt Thousands of Japanese perished in last week's battle off Midway island it was indicated hv in complete returns of enemy ship unses as revealed today By Ad miral Chester W. Nlmltz, com mander in chief nf thR Pnrlflo fleet. The enemy casualty list will be larffp. thmiph am vat nr. mm- pletciy determined, according to inese returns. : By ROGER D. GREENE fi i Associated Press War . Editor V' ' Imperial Tokvn hpnrinimrfof.. sought to minimize the gravity of the Jarjanese navnl riiafo- a - Midway today but acknowledged mat unuea oiaies lorces had sunk ah aircraft carrier, heavily damaged another carrier- and damaged a cruiser. ' - Official United States' reports have listed 16 and mralhlvli Japanese warships sunk or darn. agea-Deiore xne enemy fleet limped off in retreat. ,, r '., j -, Moreover, an eye-witness' ao count by Ensign George H. Gay, Jr., ?5eax.-old U. S. navy flier, declared - three of Japan's air craft carriers, including two. of the 26,800-ton Kaga-Akagi class. Were seen to .hurst fntn flamaa under, attack bv -Amerii-nn (nr. pedd ,pluja. Tukyi did notspec iry. me class ot the carrier it admitted lost " - 7 ' : , Nary Silnt .... - ,' ."In Washington the navy with held comment nn th Jo claim of two American aircraft carriers sunk, indicating, that . Tokyo, was attempting another "fishing expedition" In mit nf information.., . . . .'..' '. Tokyo headanarlern aln m. ported that Japanese army troop were useo in attacking the U. S. owned Aleutian islands off Alas ka on. Sunday, Tokyo time, (Sat urdavl Alaska timelthr . after the Dutch Harbor, raids--and declared they Vare continu ing operations in this area." " Captain Hideo Hiraide, chief of the naval, press section, im- -perial headquarters, asserted in a- nationwide broadcast that "Japanese forces had been' able to occupy western Aleutian is lands Decause the ennmv vuam unable to send, strong reinforce ments north on account of the strong Japanese attack at Mid way." ' - - , Admiral Ernest J Kins, mm. mander;in:hief of the U. S. fleet, described the situation in the far north as "confused" several days ago, but there has been no hint from anv source nthpr than Tnk. yo of any Japanese troop land ings in tne Aleutians. , ' First Jap Version. Belatedly lifting: the veil nf Its secrecy on the battles of Mid way and Dutch Harbor, the Jar anese command cave Itit 1 1rt version of the conflicts, with its scoresheet bearing on relation to the account of staggering Jap- tyonunuea on rage xwo) f Construction Worker Fractures Back , ' Samuel Preston - Moore, 517 Mt. Whitney street, employed on - construction work at th Japanese . reception- center near Tulelake, was brought to Klam ath Valley hospital at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday suffering from a fractured back : received in , a " fall; 'r:',, Moore Is a member of the Morrison, Knudsen i crew and formerly employed by the Wey erhaeuser Timber company, , . "... News Index . City Briefs '.:.....J.'.....Page 5 Comics and Story: ........Page 12 Courthouse Record .Pag 2 Editorials ' ........Page, - 4 Information ; ...........Pag . 8 Market, . Financial ....... Page 9 Pattern ..;............., Pag 4 Sports ;,..AtPages S 9