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iffilWOMIIill Weather News On S-mlnut bluit on lrn nd whlitlti It the ilgnal tot blackout In Klamath Fall. Anothar long blast, during black. June 11. High 64, Low S3 - ' Praclpltatlon ol June 9, 1941 Stream year to data ..,..,.....,...'...., 13.01 Last yaar ..ft.:.... -,............ia.9S Normal .. ,.. ;...U,17 out, li ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau tionary parlods, wilch your trt lights. associ, & HE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES 11(11'' l .40 it LJVXLrurLnjnjnjjvirrfV'Vri mriwiTii'i""" PRIOR FIVE CENTS KLAM ATI! FALLS. OREGON, FRIDAY. JUNE 12, 1942 Number 9512 ar yi N n n r-v nr run n n r"C ' ; on III! i ! i I I l ii'll1 ill Willi! I I III IM it I HO liii.S: llliii i iii ii 1 rw;T m In! 'I'; in MM 1 i hi i il ! I By FRANK JENKINS AD CORRESPONDENT ! "V CLARK LEE, writing from Peerl Harbor, cay toctoy: . Bccnu-o of tlio clrfonts suffered by the Jnpuncno nnvy. It la (oil that troop hitherto hold for tho Qlefehse of tho U. S. malnlnnd , can now bo sent out to garrison tho Puclflo outpost buses. He add: Tho battle of Midway allowed ' ' the effectlvencsa of aircraft In coaatal defense to such an extent that any area with sufficient , aerial defense can feel reason ! ably safe from Invasion, , UERE la the modern recipe for coastal defense ' against In vasion' from overseas:... Tools; Dive bomber, torpedo plane, fighters and heavy bomb era, , .Tactics: Send In dive bombers ft and torpedo plnnoa to knock out the enemy's "curriers- , With tho : enemy' carriers sunk or put out .' of commission and his ships thus ' dapriyed M lght?r protection, ' Vend In thv heavy bomber to amash. his remaining and-now fleeing vessels. ' 1 O Thing to be sure of: That wyou're BETTER THAN TUB OTHER FELLOW, so he can't do It to you FIRST..; . WASHINGTON dispatches to- day tell of hopes entertained there that Russia will now open , her Siberian bases to us so wa can bomb ' the Japs from close range. Maybe. If this writer were In Rus sia' place, he -wouldn't voluntar ily start a ruckus at his bnek door until tho big scrap at his front door was pretty well under control. The strictly realistic Russians are apt to feel the same way . about it. OT ODAY'S dispatches mention a growing feeling In Wash ington that tho Japs, badly mauled at Midway and In tho Coral sea and driven off from Dutch Harbor, may jump, onto the Russians on their own ac count, That might happen. Hitler is undoubtedly moving heaven and earth to persuade them to do it. It thoy do it, it will bo a sign of Japanese co-oparatlon In the axis. If they refuse, It will be a fairly dcpondablo sign that tho Japs era going in on tholr own and co-operating with Hitler only when It suits tholr OWN purposes to do so. A JAP attack on Russia would be almost certain to open the Siberian bases to us, and by this time the Japs 'must bo ac quiring a fairly healthy respect (or tho striking power of Amer ica's air forco, OIONS are multiplying that the Germans are making efforts to get their spring (now summer) offensive going against Russia. AP Corrcsppndent C a a s 1 d y, writing from Moscow, says: , "Tho war on tho Russian front reached tho HIGHEST PITCH OF THE YEAR tonight with great battles raging at Sevastopol and Kharkov." Ho adds: "Nowhore did the Germans appear to bo making any im portant progress." , nUSSIAN dispatches say: "In controst to the pace of the blitz campaign last summer, the Germans nro now moving yt terrific cost through tho MEAT rGRlNDKRS of tho red army's defenses around besieged Se vastopol and In tho Kharkov sector." Give the Russians, who recent ly coined tills "meHl grinder" term, credit for having a color. (Continued oh Page Two) Three Klamath Boys Members of Lexington Crew Three Klamath boys were members of the crew of the U. S, S. Lexington, aircraft car rier lost In the battle of the Coral sea, it was revealed hero today. . Two nf tho hny ar on United States soil and on their wny hnm but the third ns not been heard from since before the gigantic April sea engagement which halted an attempted Jap anese Invasion of the Antlpodos. Expected . home within the next few days aro Jack Waits, 21, storekeeper second class and son of Mr and Mrs. Floyd A. Walts of West Klamath, and Wes ley Yancey of 1B20 Gary street, an aviation mechanic. Swen C. Hull, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hu It of 2000 Altamont drivo, a petty officer, has not been heard from. ' , Mrs. : Floyd Walt said this afternoon that Jack, a 1838 grad uate of Klamath Union high . (Continued on Pag Two) . SEVASTOPOL FORGES Red -Star $aysSitup .-? tion' in Crjmea "' Tense ; . BERLIN, (From German Broadcasts), June 12 (Ger man forces east of Kharkov have carried out successful : attacks which aro Increasing In volume, tho German high command re ported, today. MOSCOW, June 12 W After beating off a week of virtually constant German onslaughts, do fenders at the Crimean , naval base of Sevastopol have counter attacked and improved somo of their positions, Russian army dis patches sold today. There were no further details from the Ukraine where, a com munique at midnight said, Rus sian forces were putting up a violent defensive fight against the advance of Field Marshal General Fcdor von Bock's tanks and Infantry cast of Kharkov. (The Gorman high command said Von Bock's attacks in the new Kharkov offensive were successful and increasing In vol ume.) Rod Star said that despite lo cal gains won by the Russian counterattacks, the situation at Sevastopol romalnod "extremely tenso." (A DNB broadcast from Berlin said attacks at Sevastopol and southeast of Gorman-held Khar kov wero necessary preliminar ies to Adolf Hitler's "coming great offensive." Immcdlnta ob jectives wore described as the reduction of Sevastopol, which DNB termed "the strongest fort ress In tho world," and straight (Continued on Pago Two) President Sets June IS as Start of Rubber Scrap Drive WASHINGTON, June 12 (P) President Roosevelt announced today an intcnslvo campaign for collection of the nation's old scrap rubber supply would start June 18 and last through Juno 30, Through arrangements with the oil Industry 400,000 filling stations will serve as collection depots. They will pay ono cent a pound for tho rubber brought In, and tho government will re imburse them that sum. President Roosevelt, declaring that tho rubber situation was extremely serious, again urged tho people to out down on plcasuro driving and reduce both automobile speed and mileage, Ha told a press conference ho Imd nn IrieH when a person with four tires might be able to get new- ones. . It may be a long, 92 PERCENT OF GARRIEH'S U RESCUED Famed . Craft . Burned . After Battle in , Coral Sea . WASHINGTON, June 12 (AP) The smashing naval victory In tho battle of the Coral sea cost the United Slates the 33,000-ton aircraft carrier Lexington, the navy disclosed today, in a sum motion which told of far vaster damago to a Japanese armada menacing Australia. . - i - The Lexington aank,. with relatively slight loss of life,, In '.post-battle explosion - whiqb spread .fires the . crew wa 'lin- able, to put out after, it hod "fought .heroically for;- more than five hour-' to save ' the hip. , .- ' i Assuming .that tho normal complement, of 2300 men wa aboard during the action, some what, fewer than. 200 of thftm were lost on tno pntu oi navy official' estimate' that 82 per cent- of tho Lexington' crew was. rescued, r - . i From March 10 through May 8, tho entire campaign cost the Japanese more than IS : ship sunk, a probably sunk1 ana zo dsmfised. ; . The ' United States lost, .besides' the Lexington, only the tanker Neosho and the des troyer. Sims, and a large part or weir personnel was savea. .; On May 8, the Lexington was made, the main, objective of Jap anese aircraft ' .which attacked while her own planes were at sent. ' - - : "These attacks were the last action in the battle of tho Coral sea," the navy said, and gave this description of the heroic fight which the officers, and crew of the great carrier put up In their desperate attempts to prevent her destruction: "The crew, of the Lexington succeeded In ' putting out - the (Continued on Page Two) Three American Planes Land in Neutral Turkey . LONDON, June 12 (AP) Tho radio in neutral Turkey announced tonight that three American airplanes had mado forced landings on an airfield at Ankara, the. capital,, this morning and that the crews had been put "under observe' tlon." . . . :. Tho announcer gave no Ink ling of tho fliers' destination or base. .'.-.. -i. This seemed to be another version of an earlier report broadcast by the German radio stating that British pilots, .air mechanics and engineers . had arrived at Ankara, Authorita tive quarters in "London refused to comment, ' - ' long time, he said. So, he added, It Is a matter of common sense to make existing tires wear as long as possible.' Reporters noted that he had mentioned persons with four tires and Inquired whether that meant that owners of five might not have five very long. Tho president said ho did not know Tho collection drive will bo Inaugurated at 12:01 a. m., on Monday,- June 13 and concluded at midnight on Tuesday, Juno 30. Thus it will last through 16 full days. Actually, the pros! dent will start It off Informally with a five minute radio talk tonight at 6:45 o'clock, EWT. ! The campaign will ,be con- ducted tinder the. . direction of tho bureau of Industrial conser vation of tho. war production (Continued tyi Paga Two) :. . .- J ' 7 - ' l : V Heroes cf the battle of Midway returned to Oahn f laid' tt" Honolulu In an army transport plane. Flying buddies, -who were forced to stay' behind, gathered around the big plan to 'gteet'them. ThU picture wa radioed from Honolulu to San Francisco. (AP'Photo). ' 'J'- ' : . .-.:' :;.',';. ;.v ....... . , ..;; j ; BITTER TPK; BATTLE RAGES IVEflRTOeRUK British Attempting . To Blockr-' Drive ; - To Northeast . " CAIRO, Egypt, June 12 (Ph Brltlsh tanks, are locked in a bitter battle, with German arm ored forces about 30 miles south cast 'of Tobruk today in an ef fort to block the drive of three strong columns which turnfed northeastward toward that ob jective after forcing the. Free French out ' of Bir Hacheim, southern anchor of the British line. , Harmat, six miles south of the desert track crossing of Knights bridge, around which, has cent ered much of tho battling in this German offensive, was the gen eral scene of the engagement. , Knightsbridge is 25 miles southeast of Tobruk and about IS miles west of El Adem. . Following withdrawal of the Free French from the desert plateau of Bir Hacheim on Wed nesday night after a 16-day bat tle, front line dispatches said the Germans , turned northeastward and struck toward Harmet- . Blocked there late yesterday, they sought to turn aside and last night were reported locked in tt strugglo between Harbet and El Adem. Hormot was seized by the British In a thrust from their (Continued on Pago Two) ; Family Relation Agreed as Basis For Deferment WASHINGTON, June 12 W) A senate-house conference com mittee agreed today that "fam ily relationships" should be a basis for deferment from mili tary service as they compro mised differences in legislation providing allowances for wives, children and other dependents of lowest paid men In the fight ing forces.? Senator Thomas (D-Utah), who forecast speedy senate and house approval of the compro mise said that the new family relationship provision represent ed a modification of tho original selective scrvlco act "but docs not upset It." - . The new measure would be retroactive to June 1 but offi cials snld payments probably could not begin until about No v e m b e r because of the vast amount of bookwork and or ganization necessary to make the payments and allotments. Midway Heroes Return to Hawaii Speculation Mounts Over Next Steps By ROGER t. GREENE ' Associated. Pre . .War ; Editor . Allied capitals -rang with spec ulation today on tho prospects of three vast and perhaps Imminent developments aimed at the final downfall'of Germany and Japan and the shaping' of a' new.' World at peace.:- ' '''"' ':'r i -' While' Berlin sounded a new threat of Adolf Hitler' J'.cdmihg great offensive,": the United Na tions, envisaged: -. . j 1. Creation, of a second. front in Europe in 1942. v 2. A possible Russian - attack on Japan.- '- ..'., S. The opening of soviet air bases to American bombers for attacks on Japan.- . -J '. ' - ' ' In' Washington,-, congressional quarters expressed . belief that Chinese Concede Loss of Ctiuhsien, Railway Town By SPENCER MOOS A T: CHUNGKING,' June 12 (Ph The Chinese, having exacted a tremendous price, conceded to day that the Japanese had won Chuhslen, an important railway town and air station of western Chekiang province, but. claimed recapture of another point be hind the Japanese lines and new success for the American Flying Tigers. - -' . -' ' i ' The success of the American volunteer group - fighters n shooting down half of a force of 18 Japanese planes over Kwel lin,, Kwangsl province, early to day emphasized the entry of the "Tigers" into the battle of China proper. They are veterans : of the battle qt Burma and the Burma road. '. Loss of Chuhslen was record ed in a high command commun ique which said the Chinese com pleted withdrawal Wednesday after a nine-day battle in which 18,000 casualties were inflicted on the enemy- ! Somewhat offsetting this was announcement of the recapture of Iwu, on the Cheklang-railway (Continued on Page Two) , RAF Bombs Toronto . For Fourth Night , ROME, (From Italian broad casts), June 12 (AP) The high command said today that - the RAF bombed the Italian naval base at Taranto last night far the fourth consecutive night, nd listed 41 persons killed in the first three attacks, . "Several bombs dropped last nlgltt In the . neighborhood ' of Taranto caused neither damage nof losses," a communique said. Jkxr Aimed at Axis the ,'full understanding" reached between President Roosevelt and Russia's Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molbtov might open bases at ' Vladivostok to"(. US bomber squadrons.. ; ' ; v ';'If.the.Russiansgive us" tie right to use those bases, I feel confident that the United States could' bring Japan to her knees in A short time," declared Sena tor Wheeler (D-Mont.) . , : , : Others voiced the conviction that nothing In : the mutual-aid agreement between the United States' and Russia would precipi tate 'the Russians into war with Japan while they were so heav ily engaged with Hitler in the west' '- -. '' The treaty stressed the words "ih' Europe" seven times, clear ly indicating Russia wanted to be' free' ' tot maintain. the status quo of ah uneasy neutrality to ward Japan. . Ih Generalissimo' Chiang Kai shek's wartime capital- at Chungking, the - newspaper Ta Kung Pao declared:'. , : "Russia should realize . that the Japanese attack on the Aleu tians, (off Alaska), was a . direct threat to soviet Kamchatka and Siberia. Can Russia stand aside and watch the wildfire spread to her very gates? She must do something and do it quickly '. . Talk of a Russo-Japanese war was rife also at Pearl Harbor,' where informed quarters sug gested that the Japanese thrusts at Midway and Alaska were the prelude to an attack on Rt'ssla. With the allies united as never before first by a new 20-year mutual assistance pact between Britain and Russia, second by a new Washington-Moscow accord wiping the dollar sign off Unit ed States aid to Russia the (Continued on Page Two) 20 Places Designated for Canning Sugar Signing-Up The Klamath rationing board Friday announced that registra tions for canning sugar would be made in 20 places throughout tho county In order to accom modate the housewives wanting sugar for canning. The board pointed out that in establishing these sub-stations for registra tion that it would save on tires and gasoline and would aid In the general program of conser vation. . The registration dates will be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day and Thursday, June IS, 16, 17 and 16, and the hours. In most instances will be from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. In one or two exceptions where the registra tions will benight, the offices. im n:&jx2tt3uM CllUM ED HDROa: -.- 4 Spray Devices Used -in i .Basi.n;.PeVVitt:ls-.,i; ft r ; sues Order avU; '-"On the heels Of definite orders from General John L. DeWitt that sawdust burners'. must be blacked out in emergencies,' it was learned Friday -that substan tial, progress has been made among mills, of the Klamath ba sin to take care of this situation. The local office of - the state forestry department was check ing Friday with, all plants and reported that so far as. the check had gone, it was definitely estab lished that proper, blackout' in stallations had been completed at the i Weyerhaeuser : Timber company plant, Kesterson- Lum ber corporation, the Big. Lakes Box company, the - Ivory Pine company and the Klamath Lum ber and Box company, i Not- all -operations had been covered in the survey and a more complete report-will be avail able later. It was learned that at a number of plants installa tions of blackout devices at the burners; are partially complete. .' : " Order Quoted : General De Witt's order stated: "In- all places where refuse burners are operated in either open or closed pits, such pits shall be equipped with some de vice which will effectively elim inate, all glow or reflection at such burning operation within 10 minutes time after an official blackout order has been given within SO miles of . the burning, andWhat some adult person be (Continued on Page. Two) will be open only from 1 p. m to 5 p. m : - - i Those desiring canning sugar must Come to these offices and fill out a questionnaire and must bring -with them their War Ra tion books, and in case the reg istranthas not received a book must be prepared to fill out the questionnaire and wait until It Is forwarded to the office of the rationing board at 323 Main street and checked with the con sumer application on file there. The applicant must know the number of quarts of fruit canned. exclusive of preserves, jelly and fruit butter, in 1841, must have information regarding the sup ply . of canned fruit on hand (Continued on Page Two) BLACKOUT READY t -''r. .;.-.'.' ' -. . ";' .:. j T FORGES K BE SENT Midway;.Battle. Shows ; Effectiveness of 1 , ' : Aircraft 't'X V, ..' .By CLARK LEE . ' PEARL HARBOR, June 12 CP) Speedy American reinforcement may. be sent to .western-Pacific bases and all Pacific' key point; it is predicted as t result of the battle' of -Midway;; . ' . -. The Japanese defeat Is i'elt to have removed,' at; least for the predictable future, any threat -that the mainland of the United States might be invaded; ' Therefore, it is believed such forces which may have ' been held on the west' coast of he United States ' as a'.'defensei against possible ' invasion . have now been freed and can be sent to areas where they are more ur gently needed. . The battle of Midway showed the effectiveness of aircraft In coastal defense to such an extent that any area with sufficient aer ial protection may feel, reason ably safe from invasion. , Such defense forces should In clude dive bombers, -.torpedo planes, 'fighters and heavy bom bers;.: ; l:i;JfS 't.Mii; In both the Coral sea -and the. Midway -battles, rboth.the Japav BeaaiJuadx-rAnierfcans -followed the same attacking tactics,: send' ing in first the dive bombers and torpedo .planes; against .the- air craft carriers,, which , are . the most important target;. -S;-' - ' vlThelvitsl'.olJ'.n . Vuvu actum is to knock- but .the carriers, and the Americans: successfully- did this in tooth battles.' - The dive bombers. ;and torpedo ' planes went in. so, close -they, couldn't : miss - the--, enemy- carriers. The Japanese found-there is no way for'a surface .vessel to evade de termined dive bomber and" torpedo-attacks.-.' i- - ''W-1'! -Of course, if' the Midway bat tle, had gone the other wa? and the Japanese had sunk our car riers and knocked out Midway the Hawaiian islands probably would be -fighting an invasion today.1.- ' ' ,;. - -i'-'.' Sprague Opposes Public Ownership . Of, Power Facilities ' ' '' SALEM,' June 12 (&) GovelV nor Charles A. Sprague said to day he is "opposed to' forcing public - ownership of electric power facilities on communities through the device of using a federal agency to acquire private power -systems." - ' ' The "governor, commenting bn the Bone bill and other bills in congress to establish a Columbia power administration, said fur ther in a letter to B. H. Kizer, Spokane, regional chairman of the national resource - planning board: - 1 "The evident intent of the various Columbia power author ity bills is to do just that, and the wartime emergency is 1use'd as an excuse to push forward this program," : . '-' , v , . .;;'(' j : v SHIPS SUNK - ' ;J BERLIN, (From German Broadcasts),. June 12 ( Ger man U-boats in the eastern Medi terranean have sunk a 6000-ton transport and two steamers total ing 4000 tons, -the German high command reported today. :i v .- MacARTHUR DAT , s WASHINGTON, June 12 m President Roosevelt told a press conference today he had signed .legislation making tomorrow MacArthur day. In honor of th United Nations commander in the southwestern Pacific theatre of war. ' ft ", i- 1 1 i i 'i ft ; News Index City Briefs ....;..;..;:..Page 6, 8 Courthouse Record Page 5 Comics and Story ..........Pogo 10 Church New. ......-.Page 12 Editorials Page , 4 Information f Page 5 Market, Financial ....... 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