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Weather News ; IllilllillClllUitilliilliulillllii.irillil.lilllllillllllll.f.lillllllllllffl ,on S-minut bint on iirni and whiati ii to signal for blackout la Klamath Falls, Anolhtr long blast, during black out( It signal lor sll-cUsr. in precau as It, High 71, Low 41 Praciplutles at si Jus t, tut ' . Strtim yir to di! 13,51 , ,LmI ya ......ia.il Norml 11 .JO ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURIS tionary ptrlodi, watoh your itraat light. PRICK FI !DIO 'SIXMfMli'i H FAM-3. OREGON, SATURDAY, JUKE 18, 1M2 Number 8818 li. AIH'IIHI'I I n S Ik A Yfn77 fl A in JV i rpnr Ji in II A IA M W ill i i i l 1 1 I T Hill III J pit ipiiiii fiif;ip mi ii :ii:ii!b!ii Mi i ! i i iiMiiliiailiiiSMlli III I By FRANK JENKINS nplIE fog lift momentarily to day to disclose that the Japs have mode aomo kind of landing at the extreme tip of the Aleu tian), tome 8(10 mllea to the west of Dutch Harbor. The landings nro ot Attu Island and at Klska harbor, In the Hat bland group. Today' dlspatchc indicate that the foreea Involved are not largo, that the lalnnda where the landing! were made uro not of great strategic valtio and that American warplancs, hampered by fog up to the past 24 houra, re hunting down the invaders, rN the face of Information avnllnble on these word are written, the threat doeii not seem grave and the dispatches suggest that the Jnp may be playing their old game of face anvlng, providing the public at home with oma good newt to go along with the Midway bad newt. ' Still. these islands lie along the stepping-stone air route from the United State to Japan or FROM Japan TO the U. S If one chooses to look at It that way. Anything that INTERRUPTS our use of this stopping-stone route, or threaten to give th Japs a foothold on it, CAN be Import-lit. . , It will be well to keep in eye on development In that quar c ilPIW,' I III 111 Ii ter. You rimy be quite sure the Oarmy and the navy are doing wmor than meroly keeping an tya on developments. - . . .. ...... .. - "TODAY'S dispatches carry the suggestion that Jap Admiral ' Yamamoto may be out on a limb, lie was praised by the emperor for the blg-.-vlcfory he won In the Coral Sea. if the news gets out to the i Jap' miusos that he DIDN'T win, but Instead took a bad lacing, he will have cast doubt (according to the Jap code) on the INFALLIBILITY of the son of heaven. That would be bad medicine (still according to the Jap code.) - It Is Intimated that he may j have to sharpen up his snick ersnee and commit hari-klri. OTHERS is an Interesting "In x cldenv In Turkey. American bombers have made what appear to bo forced land ings near Ankara. Tho dis patches state that member of the crews who were not wound ed have been interned.- Tho indicated explanation Is thai American air forces based probably in Egypt hnvo been bombing the Black Sea coast of Rumania, with whom we are now officially at war. There aro statements that British bomb ers also have made forced land ings in Turkey, . - The German propaganda agenele are howling long and loudly about It presumably to throw a scare Into Turkoy, "THERE Is an obscure dispatch today to tho effect that Brit-, ish bombers . took a shot last O night at Piraeus, tho port of Athens, . lit itself, It Is Insignificant, But for days tho British hnvo been pounding Toronto from the air. , Taranto is an Important baso of whnt la left of the Ital ian fleet, TN these modern days, bomber squadrons don't Just go roving around taking pot shots at what ever target happens to loom up In their sights. ,Whcn they mnka a raid big enough to get into the nows they HAVE A PURPOSE, Nolo on your map that Tar auto and Athens aro on a lino thot points either at Syria or, It bent a little, nt tho Dardanelles, Recall Hint In recent weeks ex treme har.I activity has been noted at Athens. It Is probable Hint these Brit ftlsh bombers are smashing at German concentrations, seeking to head off some new German move. j Toronto and Athens would bo (Continued on Page Two) REDSBATTLE BIGGEST NA2 DHIVDF YEAR Savage Attack Made By Germans Be low Kharkov By HENRY C, CABSIDY MOSCOW, June 13 () Ger man tunks, planes and motorized infnntry have been hurled In full force on a comparatively narrow front below Kharkov In the greatest nail offensive of the year, front line dispatches said today, but the Red army fought back fiercely and tonight was said to have the situation in hand. The original enemy advance were checked, the dispatches said, while enemy tanks which filtered through the soviet lines wero being dealt with. In some sectors the Russian were mount ing their own. counterattacks. Plane In Wave The German planes came over in wave and the tank attacked in columns, while soviet artillery cut huge gaps in the armored force and Russian warplanes rose to meet the enemy in the air. , At one village 100 German tank attacked.' ' Before Sevastopol, in the Crimea, , the. Germans - made three successive assault,, but the Russian defense wa said to b grinding down that offensive, ..Counter-Attack' Soviet troops counter-attacked In the Kharkov sector of the Ukraine yesterday after 48 houra on the defensive,, and levied, heavy toll -on German manpower arid material In the battle. of Sevastopol, the Rus sians said today.. Tremendous losses in the new Crimean campaign have led the Germans to make "Increasing so- of Rumanians ' as , cannon (Continued on Page Two) Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE ' R. H. E. Cleveland : 16 1 Philadelphia 4.80 Hardcrn, Hevlng (8) and He gan; Wolf, Shirley (8) and Wag ner. : R. H. i E. Detroit . ,'. . 5 8 2 Boston 8 15 4 Trucks, Gorslca (7), Hcn sltow (8), and Tebbctts; Wag ner, Dobson (3), Butland (7), Brown (8), and Conroy. : ; R. H..-E, St., Louis 3 .10 . 1 Now York 4 18 1 Auker and Hayes; Chandler, Llndcll (9) and Kearse. NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Boston ...,...'..'. 0 1 0 Chicago .. ...... 14 0 Earley and Lombard; Flem ing and McCullough. R. H. E. New York , 3 8 2 Pittsburgh 8 13 1 Melton, Feldman (2), Adams (?) and Danning; Linger and Lopez. , . .. , , ....... Czech Executions Mount, Prague Soys LONDON, June 13 (AP) Twenty-four more Czechs, one of them . an 18-year-old girl, have been executed, the Prague radio reported tonight in a broadcast heard by Reuters. These latest executions brought to 382 the number ex ecuted in reprisal for the assas sination of Relnhnrd Heydrlch, rclchs protector for Bohemia and Moravia, This total did not include the persons killed In tho town of Lidice, estimated to number 380 atone. 'i WASHINGTON, Juno 13 (AP) Destruction of "several" Ger man , villages by air bombard ment was urged upon the United Nations today by Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak Ian vice premier and foreign minister, as retal latlon for the wiping out of the wholo Czech town of Lidice by German vengeance squads. . Sailors slid down reps from th U. S, plan carrier Lexington, which sank attar explosions, as result of Japan bombing is th battle of tb Coral m. Not th dackt 1W with nura awaiting thslr turn to go ovarboard. Soma bay POWERFUL NEW U. S, FORCE IN IRELAND Record American Con voy Completes At- lantic Crossing WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN NORTHERN IRE LAND, June 13 UP) Thousand more United States soldiers, in cluding tank destroyer forces as well as additional armored units,: have arrived in northern Ireland, it was announced to day. United States warships parti cipated in escorting the trans ports which crossed tho Atlantic without incident. Most of the troops were from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland. Georgia, Illinois, West Virginia; Kentucky, Cali fornia and Indiana, Twenty-clght-ton tanks swung from the ships holds to the docks, swelling the total brought over by earlier contingents; . Fasti- Air The band accompanying the new arrivals gave a festive air to tho Ulster port as it blared out, "I Don't Want to Walk Without r Y o u," ."The Jersey Bounce,". "Elmer's Time," and ."Deep In the Heart of Texas," while troops marched down the gangplanks. Even while the . men were waiting their turn to leave the ships, tho usual scramble began among British soldiers and dockworkcrs for American cig arettes. This time the soldiers also (Continued on Page Two) 27 Dead, 100 Hurt In Wake of Tornado At Oklahoma City OKLAHOMA CITY June 13 (AP) Storm-swept Oklahoma City counted Its known dead at 27 and lnlured at 100 today after two tornadoes slashed a 12-block residential area at the city's southwest edge, . . . ) Scores were reported missing and approximately 80 buildings wero demolished. Many Inhabitants of the de vastated area entered storm cel lars when ( tho . first tornado struck last night ana escapco tho force of the second which camo 10 minutes later. Two Inches of rain and con- slderoblo hall foil in a three- hour period. Ot the dead, six wero men, 11 women and 10 children, MINESWEEPER LAUNCHED SEATTLE, June 13 (AP) Tho Winslow Marino Railway and Shipbuilding Co., yesterday launched the U.S.S. Pursuit, first steel minesweeper of her type' built In the Pacific North west, , ; . . s Burning Prepare Now Against Celd Days, Warning Klamath people mk .warned again Saturday that the fuel situation ' next winter :iJay be serimW;;nd: :"smrt ..phsplewill prepare! now against a, ..rainy or snowy day. j ' Shortages are posslbl in coal "nd wood, and appear certain in fuel oil, which has been cut to SO per cent of last year's de liveries, it was learned from fuel dealers and civilian defense sources, . ....... People who heat their homes with oil, it was - explained, should provide fuel for. fire places, trash burners or other auxiliary heating devices. Those without stoves or fireplaces should look around now for heating apparatus that will burn something besides oil, to be used to supplement oil heat. . .Limb and body. wood are both scarce right now. There is an ample supply of green slabs and coal at this time. But it takes three weeks to get' a car load of coal here, and transpor tation conditions might inter (Continucd on Page Two) ; ' DOUBLRAB WINS NEW YORK, June 12 (AP) Mrs. T. Christopher's Doublrab won tho 42nd- running, of the Carter handicap at Aueduet to day as Warren WrighW"Whirl away finished third, Doublrab, winning his third straight stake in as. many weeks, ripped off the seven furlongs In 1:23 to equal the track record. Half of Jap Carriers Losi In Pacific, Experts Say WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP) The Midway and Coral sea-battles have cost Japan probably half of her best aircraft car riers and thus have .broken tho spearhead of her air-sea strik ing power, informed naval sourpes estimated today, . And because ot tho import ance of tho air arm, the Jap anese are regarded as having gambled away in tho two en gagements the chance of major offensive action on tho Ameri can side of the Pacific, even though they , still have several fast carriers which would oper ate with tho weakened high sea fleet, , . .... They have lost at least six of the ten or more fully effec tive fleet carriers with which they started the Pacific war. and atttt- others havo been put out ot action temporarily' by bomb and torpedo damage. This is on the basis of official re ports of the Coral sea battle and word from Midway pilots that . threo and possibly . four Japanese carrier were sunk In that action. Japan probably had wore car rier, than those listed In naval U. S. Corrier Abandoned at Sea ..I : ROMMEL STRIKES EST OFTOBRUK British. Positions ; Still ! ntdctp,Gommunio,ue " --:V' Reveals" Br HARRY CROOKETT i CAIRO, June 13 (PJ Re pulsed at El Adem, 15 mile due south of Tobruk, Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel ctruck with a full armored division to day toward Acroma, some 10 miles west of Tobruk, against stiff British resistance. , A British communique an nounced that "all our positions are intact," ' ..' . The German sweep toward El Adem was Ueaten off yesterday In an all-day battle which mixed artillery duels. Infantry engage ments and tank clashes.- ; The RAP, meanwhile?, an nounced that It had struck a heavy new blow at the .German mechanized columns In the for ward battle area and hammered hard at Rommel's line of trans port and supply; -; German and Italian atr activ ity was reported also on a "con siderable scale." Thirteen axis planes were listed as shot down. The RAP announced the loss of nine planes, New reports on the withdraw al, earlier, of the Free French and British Imperial forces from Btr Hsehetm at . the ' southern flank of the British desert line (Continued on Page Two) ; manuals, but the best available listings, she started the war with these; Syokaku (or Sho kaku) and Ziikaku, the newest listed designs, each of 14,000 tons,:. 80 knot . speed and 45 planes; Soryu, Kiryu, , and Koryu, -10,050 tons, 30 knots and 40 planes; Ryutyo, 7100 tons, 28 knots, 24 planes; Akagi, 26,900 tons, 28 knots, 80 planes; Kaga, 28,900 tons, 23 knots, 60 planes;. Hosyo, 7470 tons, 25 knots, 28 planes; and tho Ryu kakn, a new carrier either of 14,000 or 20,000 tons. She also had several converted liners as carriers, but these are not class ed as fleet vessels. The toll has been ons sunk, one believed sunk and one dam aged In tho Java sea; one sunk and ono damaged in the Coral sea, and three and' possibly four sunk at Midway, s By contrast, the United Slates has lost the Lexington and suf fered damage to another car rier off Midway. These: repre sent third of the large Amer ican carriers in service when the war began. The obsolete Langley,' wink near Java, was a tender, -M -- already bs tkn off by th destroy partly Uddta by asdn it right. (Official-D.u oar- 'photograph from Associated Pr). For pirtun of Jap cTTir blsi in Coral , turn to pag 12. . - - - ' : '-: - - U. S. Torpedoed; Lexington to, u-V-Cut Loss of Life .Br ROBERT : PRESCOft ' SAN DIEGO, Calif.. June IS (AP)--Tb 0, S, alrej-aft carrier Lexington was sunk, by1 Ameri can torpedoes to prevent. great er loss of lifer after -fires, anil internal explosion started by a Japanese attack had raged for seven and a half hour) the commander of an American diveborster: squadron caid -today. - - : .- ; "We finally had to put ft under with our own torpedoes, revealed Lieut. Commander Weldon L, Hamilton, chief of the Lexington s dive-bombing squadron, in an Interview. , He said Captain Frederick Sherman's order to abandon ship "undoubtedly saved a great loss of life from flames and explosions, "which was the im portant ttlng. i . , , f Commander . Hamilton said only eight per cent of the men on the Lexington were lost.; - Aircraft from the carrier were searching for an enemy task lorce in the area around Tsgiila island- in the Coral sea on May 7, when they -stumbled upon a Jap force of a carrier and sev eral cruisers that had not been reported, he said.- - - . The next day American and Japanese - scouting - planes - dis covered each other's carriers simultaneously, and launched at tacks at the same time. "We decided to get back to our base, so we turned back without trying for the Jap. Oar fuel was running low. We jet tisoned our bombs en route, and reached the. Lexington just in time, . , j "From the air, the carrier didn't look damaged a bit. We landed and taxied forward, not ing superficial 'shell fragment notes nut nothing serious. , "But we found Jap torpedoes had struck the Lexington- from an angle, damaging it internal ly. It was doomed."'. " MacAithur Calls on Americans to Pray For Guidance ; ' .ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, June 13 (TP) General Douglas MacArthur called upon his fellow countrymen celebrat ing MacArthur day to rededi- cate themselves today to- "duty, honor, country" and to say ,!a simple, silent prayer that merci ful God may guide our steps, - In a brief statement, the allied commander-in-chief in the south west Pacific expressed belief that the celebration in his honot would reaffirm "the Implacable will of our great nation to main tain Its' Inalienable rights .to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. , : The occasion, coinciding with the 43 rd anniversary of Mae- Arthur's-'entrance Into West Point,- brought public tributes from Prime Minister John Cur- tin and outer Australian leaner. r ? 4 US. PLANES LfttMD IN TURKEY, REPORT .ondorv Hirits r-Planes Pfl Used IrrPIackiS:; - Sea Attack ISTANBUL, June 12 (Delayed) tTJTfcc official Torteh' rasas reported today that four United States planes had landed in Tur key. An informed source said - the planes were bombers and landed before noon today, each with an American crew of seven. All those who were not wounded were Interned, this source said. . - . . , .There was no official Informa tion on why the planes were fly ing - over . Turkish territory, where they came from or where they were going. Meanwhile, it was announced officially that the Turkish assem bly today passed a bill prolong ing for another six months the state of. martial law first pro claimed for- the Dardanelles, Bosporus and Thrace regions 18 months ago. LONDON, June 13 " The Reuters - correspondent at An kara reported tonight that he had seen three United States " (Continued on Page Two) Two Airmen Perish . in Plane Crashes' TACOMA, June 13 MV-Two army airmen were killed today when their fighter planes crash ed in separate accidents in the Tacoma-Olympia area. . - One plane sideswiped St. Pet ers hospital In Olympia and fell In flames to the street below. Hospital attaches rushed out and with the aid of firemen removed the Injured pilot Into the hos pital where he died a short time later.- He was Identified as Lieutenant Ralph M, Edwards, Jr. His home town was not im mediately reported. - At Lakeview, about 15 miles southwest of - Tacoma, another fighter plane crashed and burned In a field, killing 2nd Lieut. Roy D. Stone, son of R. D, Stone, of Monrovia, Calif. ... Japs Capture Town In Kiangsi Province TOKYO" Prom Japanese Broadcasts), June 13 (JPy Jap anese troops, pressing deeper In to Kiangsi pnArtnee, have cap tured the town of Yushan on the Hangchow-Nanehang railway 10 miles west of the Chekiang bor der, Domei reported today. The Japanese announced yes terday their forces had crossed the Kiangsi frontier after rap turing the western Chekiang cities of Changshan and Kiang shan. '. . .,.'.- SMALL ISLANDS FOR INIf-flFRI t uii hiittuuiiu J op Units Landed :at Attu and Kiska ; tn Islands ' - . WASHINGTON, June 13 CAP) American army and navy air men snmbed the tm&U. blk ls lartcs of the Northern Pacific Aleutian chain today w a rising effort to search out nd dispers small Japanese Inv&ste-a unit which have landed at Attur and the harbor of Kiska m th Rat Wand group.'. ' - - Despite adverse weather con ditions, a navy communique, as serted, air attacks have already forced the invaders to retire from populated regions of th tiny ' islands at the esrtwm western tip ; of the Aleutian Archipelago. j - - - - - "Attacks of ttw. armv mnA nam forces in Om arm anihii these operations are continu ing, we navy sam,' The an nouncement emoharixed that H had only been in the past day or iwo tnat weather condition had permitted flying; operation. -Attn is the tip of the dagger pointing - toward Japan, being only some 700 miles from the northern tip-of Nippon's Kurile chain. .Should the enemy eoo- unuft to occupy the : Island,-" tt would net only . blunt that-po-JenHal; .offensive dagger,, but likewise . would - oiv tH huUsm --1iase- to use against the other Aleutian islands and.th Alaskan, mainland. , - . Kiska, -located , some -100 tnBes'to the southeast at Attu, has : similar strat?!- i - -o-' - -V4U- u of iHrth is decreased some what "by poor terrain , and weather conditions. ... Both, ars mountainous,, frequently" blank- ewo in tog and are bounded by outlvinsr reefii wmr-h ,nv offshore navigation hazardous, i mows Hartor Secondary -Dutch Harhfl? m a ann miles from Yokohama and only ioo miles lrorn Puget Sound - (Continued on Page Two) " Roosevelt Colls '' For Every Scrap of : ; Rubber Available '.- By FRANCIS It USKAY WASHINGTON, June 13 (JPh President Roosevelt has called upon all Americans to turn in "every bit of rubber you cap pos sibly spare" in a two week scrap collection " campaign ex pected to determine whether na tionwide gasoline rationing is necessary to conserve tires. Addressing the nation by radio last night , the president asked householders to search attics, cellars and garages for old rub ber and to deliver It to gasoline filling stations which would pay one tent a pound and would be later reimbursed by the govern ment. The drive will begin at 18:01 a. m. June 15 and end at midnight, June 30, - ' . . - RAF Bombs Germ a n y. And Port of Athens . WJNDON. June 13 (ff-RAT reconnaissance planes dropped bombs at several point In Ge'r many by daylight yesterday, .it was authoritatively reported to day, . . - , -; ; ROME (From Italian Broad easts), June -13 (ffj- Tho RAT caused great damage to a raid on Piraeus, the port of Athens, the Kalian high command announced today. - . . "A large number of houses' was damaged, the communique said, without giving any further details of the destruction. ' - It said 38 person were killed and 28 Injured among the Greek population, - . News index City Briefs . . 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