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1 acKouioianai !lSiit,a,:aMJ..iii,lMN;(l.ii.u1,iiilJ:l:liiiJ, IHIJIi'ilijliilll - C a-. . lliie'wi!iiiii!iliiiifjrii!itiinii!H fill On 8-mlnute blul on lrns nd whlitUt It th tlgnal lor blaokout In Klamath rtlli. Another long blast, during black oul, It tlgnal lor sll-cUar. in prtcau tlontry ptrlodt, witch your tlrt llghli. Jun 10. High S3; Low 3S '' ' V Precipitation at of June 4, 1941 ' Strm year to dat .,...,...., IS.Ot : Last yea .......;.....;..: .....;.;..,....ia.93 Normal, .......,..,..,..... .....11.15 : ASSOCI. (HE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES .11.1 n .-ll-.f iiiiid,) AtA uiri a.:, IWUMAI.'CrV c. ......... r .r .rir nnnn.ini.i.ii.il k LA MATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE ll, 1942 Number 9511 ....... him ' PRICE FIVE fjKNTS ' ...J Wn'&dg. UlllfiLiy JAiUyuU ' ' : - ii1!!'!1'! ;ii!MiMiii'ii;Mi. 1 Hiii!;!i Is ill i'i !, ' Ililliiir 1 ill-Ill lllilii1: avs !i if -IBillyiii! li'iiiii iiilll! iiiiiiii; si !i 1 !. mi iih til ' il i iw'iw WTii.T h lW' fji TT'fi!f ;j . jliiillillililillilliliiippiill Br THANK JENKINS WE'VE known (or duy the " Jap attacked Midway with round 30 warshlpt and lost bout hnlf of them. Today wo get llttlo mora dlnll on HOW It happened, " QnrHE Jap armada was met "far wed" of Midway by big. long range U. S, army bombers. It suffered losses, but KEPT ON GOING. Tho next morning It waa mot . again (this time about ISO mile west of Midway) by our diva bombers and flying fortresset' Tho detail of this fight have ' not been fully disclosed, but It got too hot for the Jspt and they i turned and FLED. RJEANWlilLE tho Jup carriers 1 had looted their planci (about ISO of them, today'i dis patches any) which attacked Mid way with demolition bombs, tho attack hinting 38 minute. Tha Jnp pianos then dt'purtcd, presumably being out or. ammuni tion and low on. fuel. Practical ly kll of them oro reported to have bean 101 Detail r lack ting, but one guesses- they got 'back to where they had left their carriers,, found the car rier gone (sunk, damaged or driven away) and, being out of fuel; dropped into th ea. 1 ' U . ' -'- ' ' U ERE an Interesting point ap- pear. -v';',;"-1.';. - The Jap plane DIDN'T bomb th runway on Midway. Ap ' parently they expected to cap ture the Island and tuo tha run ways themselves, i - HTHAT was a fatal mistake, for t h ' American land-based plane (presumably also low on fuel and ammunition) returned to Midway shortly, after the at tacking. Jap planes had left. . - It was a critical moment for I them. If the Midway ' ninways had been destroyed, they would have had no plnco to land and would have been nearly as bad off as the Jap planes that returned to their tnklng-off place and FOUND NO CARRIERS. As It was, thoy landed on tho undamaged runways, re-fueled, took on ammunition and wont back into the fight- . ,.....'. OUCH is tho pattern of the suc 13 ccssful defense of Midway. With slight variation, It will be tho pattern of ALL futuro de fense of land points against in vasion from overseas. The OLD pattern of dcfondlng naval ships lining up to repel attacking naval ships I on tho way out. ' 1 ' Probably DEFINITELY OUT already, 'XJflDWAY Bnd Dutch Harbor AV1 were CONNECTED enter prises. What happened (or may be ttlli happening) at Dutch Har bor isn't yet clear. But you may be sure the Jap were gunning for Dutch Harbor a well as Mid way, ' Oct -out your mapor, better, your globe. You will note that Dutch Hor bor (It may appear, only a Unlmnk islnnd on your map) Is a stepping stone on the pnth to Japan and SIBERIA.. Tho next stepping slone is Petropovlovsk, at tho tip of the Kamchatka pen insula. To understand tho Importance of theso stepping stones, you need only to recall tho Way In which modern planes are being ) FLOWN to their destination, ar riving In a matter of hours. . ,i . VOU WIH he certain at once that Japon had two purposes In mind: . .. KTo KNOCK OUT Dutch (Continued on Page, Two) , TMT! i'w I? PWS DEPHEDA LAID TO T IN'NAILS GANG Youths Confess String Of Offenses in Lo-. cal Hqmes ' Two Juvenile vandals scrawl ed the name of their gang, "The Nails," In at least eight Klam ath Falls homes, who left a trail of havoc and destruction In their wake between mid-after noon Wednesday and Thursday morning. ... . Leader of the two-boy gang Is a 12-year-old. His partner, head and shoulders above tho plald-shlrtcd leader, gave his age at M. Both have been in trouble with Juvenile authorities In the pnst and . topped their records with' a scries of acts .which brought virtually every man on the city polico force Into play, members of the sheriff's office, Juvenile offices, wary citizens and even the sheriff of Lake counly, ' , - ,, .. : First wora .,of the, Juvenile crime wave came. In a frantic police call trom Mrs. Jack Ryan, 710 Eldorado street,, who had left her house for. one hour' to return to find her rooms wreck ed. From, then on , police wero deluged with calls .from. Irate home owners, Interested persons who offered clues, and still oth ers who reported seeing the boys in their, neighborhood. Chief Frank Hamm's men were kept on-the Job until the two woro finally apprehended following a chase . through ' the long grass which covers the hills overlook' lng Hot Springs. Confess The two boys quickly con' fessod their work as juvenile officers questioned them at noon Thursday. Tho 12-year-old said he got the Idea of "Tho Nails" from "a funny book or detec tive 'magazine." , They decided to go Into a housa and look around. One entry led to an other. Worst damage was done to the Ryan homo. Entering through the basement tho boys first flung a bottlo of disinfectant and a can of paint over tho floor. They then used a pass key to open the door and starting In the kitchon covered virtually every foot of several rooms with a combination of flour, pepper, vinegar, cologno, rnccurochromc, Ink and coffee. Scrawled on the mirrors, the walls, furniture and floor was "Tho Nails." Damage was estimated at several hun dred dollars. All pieces of elec tric equipment were left run ning and lights wero turned on. The electric beater was In the (Continued on Pogo Two) -; U. S. Should Not Enforce Democracy on World, Knox CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 11 (Ai Secretary of tho Navy Frank Knox said today that this nation, In tho post-war period, should refrain from attempting to en (or co Its system of democ racy on all tho peoples of the world In order to Insure tholr freedom. ' f i "Democracy, we think, Is the best possible soil in which to cul tivate human freedom, but that Is not necessarily so," ho assert ed In a prepared address at Har vard's 201st commencement af ter ho and Secretary of War Stlmson had been awarded hon orary degrees for their part In tho war effort. ' .. "All that we enn do, all that we should attempt, In the fateful years which will follow the con clusion of the war;" Knox said, "I to help create an era of tran quility; to foster , a Wholesome economlti order; to elevate living standards and reduce want and prlvatlonfto promote the spread Vandals' " 'I -l . V ' 1 . I J"- " ' J 7 .V - . ' :'i I ' ' ' ' i 1 t . " ' I, ' ' I - ' I 4. iJ j, - L' ' ''- , ' -l( v."v ' ;. . -, ' , .... t. . t v -- : i . ' ' ' i ' " ' ' ' " ' ' I :. Folic today hld two' Juvnllt whom they said wr' guilty of ntrlng eight Klamath hornet 'today, and yesterday, spreading foodstuff t . and liquid disinfectant 'Ovr 'carpets,' furniture and walls and leaving their mark; "Th Nail," or . 'Th Ntllt." la th form of icrayonad Inscriptions en mirrors, door psnl and table topi. Abov la a plctur of ort of th calling cards left on th bathroom wall at th home of Mrs, Jack Ryan, 710 Eldorado. S50 MILITARY PAY Measure Now Goes' to ' President; Pay , Retroactive ; . WASHINGTON, June 11 ) The senato completed congres sional approval today of a mili tary wogo adjustment' bill fixing a minimum pay scale of $50, a month. for tho armed forces, ef fective as of June 1, 1942. ... .) Adoption of a. conference re port, approved yesterday by the house, sent . the comprehensive pay 'measure to President Roose velt for his consideration.' I Estimated to cost an additional $500,000,000 or more yearly, the bill would Increase to $50. a . (Continued on Pago Two). .' , of education and understanding; to rebuild, with all of the wis dom wo can command, a. fabric of International law, and to com pel its observance, by force if necessary," Popl Must Dlop "Given this," he added, "the peoples of the world must first develop and then maintain by their own efforts the freedoms they would enjoy." Asserting that . "we can win tho victory and . still lose the war," Knox said we should In sure ourselves against new ag gressions by helping maintain an adequate military force to "police" .the world, but he de clared we should not seek to make America "a happy Island of prosperity .In an ocean ofpov erty." : . . ., ,v , . ,He said ways and mean must be found to' open the channels of International trade ' to help promote the prosperity, of 1 the rest of tho world. OJiq - Mark Used Tires to Be Purchased From Motorists i PORTLAND, Ore., June ,11 (IP) Used tires, suitable for retread ing, will be purchased from mo torists from June 15 to July 4, Robert F. Strong of the . RFC' loan agency said today. . ' Strong, who will head the pro gram In Oregon and the Colum bia river counties of Washing ton, said the aim was to obtain all tires In excess of five owned by individual motorists - and make .them available to war in dustry ! workers. .. OPA celling prices, less reconditioning costs, will be paid.' .': ; , , . .' . j ' The tires may be taken to the nearest' Railway Express' agency or to warehouses now being es tablished at Salem, Eugene, Cot tage -Grove,- Rcjebiirg, Grants Pftss, Albany. Corvallls, ,Mc'd- ford, Aslilan.i, Hood River, The Dalles, Arlington, Heppner, Con don, Pendleton,- LaGrande, Ba ker,. Enterprise,-Ontario, Bend, Prlnevlllo, Burns, John Day, As toria, Tillamook, Toledo, Morsh fleldj Coqulllo-and Milton-Free-water In Oregon, and Kelso, Longvlew, Vancouver and Gol dendale in Washington. . RAF Blasts Low i Countries,' France ' LONDON, June 11 iff) Aii RAF Spitfire squadron on dawn patrol sank a German motor ves sel and damaged four, barges In ft canal In tho Nleuport district of Belgium today. .' ,. ,i British fighters blasted nazi ail-dromes In tho low countries and military' targets in northern France last night, i the air min istry, announced today,, as bad weather over the continent was blamed for keeping the RAF away, from Germany for .tbe ee ond successive night- All planes participating In the overnight foray returned saft ly to their bases. IC i!WT TWO JAP FLEETS BROKEN UP IM Y BATTLE Thousands of Japs 1 ' Perished, New .' , . i i . . . Details Show -. . By ROGER D. GREENE, Associated Press War Editor . Dramatic new accounts of the battle of Midway revealed to day that 'American flying fort rcsses and other U. S. forces broke up two - huge Japanese fleets, beat off ah attack by 180 enemy planes and saved the-Hawaiian Islands from in- taslon,; . . . ... , Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the U, S. ' Pacific ' fleet, said perhaps half of the.. enemy ships were sunk or damaged in the three- dav battle ; which : caw '.Tannn suffer .her greatest , naval dis aster in nistory. ',. i - Admiral 'Nimitz said thous ands of Jannnpui must hava perlshed-left to drown by their mpmaies in tugnt Dejore tne American. .v-'',r;r?f-- . L CoihcidentAlt1. " Jatvnn'x . rpmi. Uhon-4or, veracity appeared to have - slumped even in , Berlin as the German radio broadcast Stockholthr reports discounting the- Japanese, boasts of victory In the battle Of Midway and Tokyo hints -t ha t Japanese troops had landed. In the Aleu tian Islands off Alaska. ; The broadcast cited American viewpoint that "after the naval battle In the Coral sea and heavy losses in the, attacks on Midway bland, the Japanese had lost so much -of their com bined military fighting power that they could not attempt a successful invasion." i - Japt Admit Loss . I At the same time,- Japan's leading civilian .naval, expert, Masanorl Ito, gave the first au thoritative suggestion from Tokyo- that two Japanese air craft carriers had been sunk, as claimed by the United States, instead of one sunk and one heavily , damaged. . " It declared that "in -view of the great -success"- of Japan's far-flung invasion : forces -"we should not be disappointed a( the loss 'of ' two aircraft" car-' riers." ''":''..."."". " 4f "The two. big enemy armadaii approached Midway on Juno 3 with. a train of transports strik ing from the west while a powj erf ul . battle squadron steamed up. from another, direction..; In medium altitude attacks', braving , a terrific barrage of anti-aircraft - fire, the army planes hit and set fire to a Japanese cruiser" or," battleship and also left a transport and a destroyer , in flames. ' t - i The following morning, '. June! ;J (Continued on Page Two). . i Pubiic Invited I i To Elks Flag Day H Exercises Thursday ! The public is invited to Elks Flag day exercises to be held in the lodge, temple at- 7.-3Q o'clock Thursday evening.' George P. Davis will Hive' the anaress of the evening and' Dr. Cecil Adams will . give the history of the flag. ' Officers of the Elks : lodge will present the1 lodge . special . l : Flag day ritual ' In the public ceremony,'' ' and Sea Scouts, which are sponsored by the lodge,' will assist with' the col ors, v.i ,; .- . - - -, ' ' . . , Glen Evans, esteemed lectur ing knight of the 'lodge and chairman, of the Flag day' obi servance, urged the public to attend these patriotic services. Door of the lodge building will be opened at 7 p. m. MIDI The U. S. "Takes Over" in South Pacific v ' . NEA'Tlpholo. - - Vd to their necks In work wdl.'almott an officer and hit advliar plan runway ramps for saplant .on cn unnamtd south Pacific island Unci Sara has taken ovr for a new bas. Coral rock and sea urchins malt the underfootlng tough going. U. S. navy'phbto. ' .'..".."!.' Allies Withdraw I From Garrison at Bir Hacheim . CAIRO, June'. 11 m-The British command announced to night that "on the orders of Gen eral Ritchie, the garrison of Blr Hacheim" former anchor of the Bntlsh line in Libya "was withdrawn during Jthe night at June 10-11." '(The Berlin communlque-i as serted that the stroughdld wrs captiu-ed by stormthis morning by the axis force.) . ..):, The .British communique . said: "On the- orders of General. Ritchie the garrison of Bir Hach-' elm. was withdrawn during the night of June 10-11. , "The Free French . troops of the garrison '- under-'-General Pierre Koenig have for 18 days fought off large scala attacks by Infantry, tanks and aircraft and Inflicted heavy losses on the axis forces.-.. ... v BERLIN, (From German Broadcasts), June 11 (P) The German high command asserted today that Bir Hacheim, south ern anchor of the British de fense line in Libya, had been captured by axis troops, v (There was no confirmation of this from other sources. Today's' British : communique said . fur ther axis attacks on Bir Hach eim were repulsed yesterday and told of enemy air attacks there "origan increased scale.") . '.. A German submarine attack on a strongly-escorted convoy in the eastern Mediterranean, des tined for Tobruk, resulted in the sinking - of- two ' heavily-laden tankers totaling 12,000 tons and the damaging of four transports by torpedoes, the high command declared. '' ;MORE CZECHS SHOT . LONDON, June 11 (flV-Nazi executioners in former CzechO: Slovakia have put to death an other 34 persons, including ten women, the. Prague radio, an nounced tonight. The total exe cuted since the attack on the Nazi Leader Relnhard Heydrich is now 340, not counting the men executed in the wiping out of the town of Lidice.. ' , Powerful U. S. Naval Units Join British Home Fleet LONDON, June 11 (P) Pow erful United States' naval units have joined the British home fleet in the tasks of blockading the Germans and protecting vital allied shipping lanes by keeping Adolf .' Hitler's mightiest war ships from joining the battle of the Atlantic. , ' The American forces, whose arrival was ; announced today, apparently 'are- sufficiently strong to cope with the German super-, battleship . Tlrpltz, ithe cruiser' Admiral Hipper and oth er lesser craft, should they ven ture forth from the Norwegian bases where for weeks they have constituted a potential threat to Russia's Arctic supply line. Indications that the Tlrpltz might soon attempt a dash into the Atlantic were seen here In ' ." - -'- Threatened Summer '.Campaign Begins 4 i - . - -At Last . . . By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW. June 11 (P-Cer msny'S armies and air force,' in creasing their pressure along tne entire "front, were attacking, to day at three major points: open ing a new 'push from Kharkov In the Ukraine,' hurling, whole divisions against besieged" Sevas topol, . and ; battering at Mur mansk from :the- air.- - - - -,; Dispatches from the " battle fronts suggested-: that the Ger mans at last-were .getting their, summer campaign - underway, rollings into larger-scale .. action after being held and thrust back for almost six months. - . . ., Tass reported from Sevastopol that the Germans had attacked repeatedly during the 'past -24 hours, hurling powerful forces Into the fight, but said that "de spite the intensity and stubborn ness of 'the attacks the enemy failed to break the resistance of the. Sevastopol defenders . .'. . -. The' troops firmly ; hold their ground." . '' ' .i: ' ' : "' .-",.:---:v BERLIN, (From German Broadcasts), June 11 (flV-The German high command said today-that, "desperate" Russian counter-attacks- in the battle around Sevastopol were unsuc cessful and that ..German planes had sunk a 3000-tpn merchant ship in the- besieged' Crimean port. ' ' '..'. - The high command added that the Russians lost "several places". In fighting on the -northern sec tor of the long. front. - '. Baseball , AMERICAN LEAGUE ' ' 'i :'.; : -R.. H. t-E. St. Louis .4... 7... 13:. 2 Boston 8 , 11 : .0 Moncrlet, Caster (5), . Feherns (9) and Hayes; ' Terry, '.Butland (2), Brown '(5) and Conroy.' ; ' Danish radio reports that Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, comman der in chief of the German navy, , had just completed an" In spection of that vessel and-other warships at Trondheim. . j .? Full Strtngth Unknown -' The full strength of the Ameri can units, described officially as a "task force," was not revealed, but some indication of their pow er was given by the disclosure that King George VI had in spected a United States battle ship, a cruiser and several .de stroyers. '"''". That the American warships have been operating from bases in the United Kingdom for more than a month was evident from tha announcement that they had been greeted at sea and escorted " (Continued on Page Two) g ojfni'xrii ' i : . n. ..'..'V. .'. ' BRITISH AND suit si . . 20rtARPAGT Molotov to , London, Washington; Action Plans Not Given : WASHINGTON, June- li" UP) President Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo tov, the. White House announced today,, have reached a "full-' Ifn- derstanding" in conversations In Washington- "with-regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe In 1942." ' : The White House, in a formal statement disclosing that- Molo tov t had . visited this .-couhtry, gave no additional -details on a second front. Nor did the state ment say whether -the agreemeht was to open such a front or not to do so. -- - a ' " I Rust-British Treaty ' ," - Another - momentous develop ment announced today, in Lon don, was thai Russia and Britain had signed a 20-year mutual as sistance treaty The American' president and the Russian commissar, th White. House said, also attained a "unity" of views on two other vital questions pertaining to their war efforts:. . ' ' J (. '" "Measures for increasing arid speeding up -the- supplies" of planet, tanks' and 'other kinds of war materials" from the United ' .States to Russia.'and the "funrla. I mentaTprbblems- of cooperation of the soviet union and the Unit ed States in safeguarding peace and security' to the freedom-loving peoples after the war." - I'Both ; sides ; state -with satis faction," the' statement declared, "the unity' of their views on all ttese questions," ;. :. Molotov, bespectacled, 82-year-old, right-band man of Premier Joseph Stalin, arrived in .Wash irigton -.oh May 29. and, left on June 4.- He now is safely back home; the White "House" said. -: The statement released today way approvedby both Molotov and;Mr. Roosevelt, and withheld until the former had -returned. The ..discussions entered v into while the: foreign commissar was a secret guest at the White House apparently ranged over the; whole field of military and economic problems of ' mutual concern to the two nations. ' . i "Useful" Mr. iRoosevelt, at their con clusion;: asked Molotov to in form Stalin that the chief execu tive ;"f eels 1 these conversations .".'(Continued on Page Two) Enemy Subs Sink 266 Allied Ships . By.Th Associated Pratt Enemy submarines operating In the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific areas were cred ited as of today-, with having sunk a total of 266. allied and neutral ships since Pearl Har bor.'' - ' .-.1 - The latest announced victims Included . two small American fishing craft, a; medium-sized English - merchantman and a medium-sized , U n I ted States merchant vessel for an Atlantic war score of 259 sinkings. Suspicious Fire Quelled on Vessel , NEW YORK, June 11 (P) A fire of suspicious origin broke out" today on the. S. S. Irene Dupont, which the fire department-reported, was being loaded with a cargo of rubber tires and aviation oil at its Brooklyn pier. . The third naval district public relations office authorized use of the story, Including the ship' name. - I The fire was brought under control within an hour, and fire officials said that it had been confined to a section of the ship general cargo. - . ' ' News Index Agricultural Page Page 12 City Brief .Pag S Comic and Story ........Page 10 Editorials ....Page 4 Information Page S Markets and Financial . Page 12 Pattern ;.,'.......-...,., Page 6 Sports Pages 8, .9