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Newspaper Page Textit Smnai ; Weather News l.illllili.lJlJln.kiill. IHlM.ill.m.hJlll.ilnHI.JllI I.llilllhlilullll On 5-mlnuU bloit on lrn and whlitle U the ilgnal for blackout in Klamith Falls. Another long blat, during black out, li ilgnal for all-claar. In precau Juna 14, High 77, Low 47 S. ' Precipitation aa of Juna 8. 1943 ' ' Stream year to data ... 13.01 Lait yaar . . 12.45 Normal H.JJ ASS" N THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES. tionary period, watch your atratt light. ., i. I mm?". -.. ..uyi: -I .m n amath falls, orkgon, Monday, .tune is, 1942 Number 9514 Ml , AP mm nn7 . 1 11 IT IUUU 03 lull! sin The m ; N1 7S i i ,:Yil:.P!ll ; w nil i mt i; 1; i i r. vv ri 'TiiiiH.iii? .lllMliii! llllllillllilllllil!!! By FRANK JENKINS yllE mystery of the Aleutian romnlns unsolved, but Wash ington dispatches tocluy indicate that a Jap "task" force ,' prob ably loose In tli.no water. . By "task" forco 1 meant a . fleet unit t lint hoi a parllculor ' Job to do. It 1 likely to Incluclo currier, cruiser and destroyer, but may Include heavier ships. II lze I determined by the job. Today' Washington dlspntchc uggct that "feeling out" Amer ican defense mid maneuvering for landl.ig on other Island may be K Job. TV7ATC1I Oil Aleutian situation . (a you may bo aura tho army aod tho navy nro dolnti.) It contain poslbll'te for trou ble. Anthony J. Dlmond, Alaska' delegate In congre, warns to day - bgalnst complacency b to Attu Island, where a Jap landing has already boon made. Mo says tht whllo tho bland I com posed of earthquake -f inured rock the Jap might monugo by the uso of mat to crento run way frbin which plane could operate. Any Jap bno In the I Aleutian would be a source of worry. . ' Fog ha hindered air icoutlnfl o far and to that oxtcnt ha been a help to the Jap. 'TWERE la a soa fight of somo sort In the Mediterranean. The Italian.) claim to havo link two British cruiser, o de troyer nnd four "steamers" out of a heavily protected British convoy and to havo dnmnged a battleship, an aircraft .carrier, two cruisers und four steamers. Tho Indians mention two con voys and say tho damage they Inflicted was on ono of them. Tho convoy woro moving cast, ward through tho 100-mllo-wlde strait between tho Italian Island of Sardinia and the bulgo of the l Tunis const. (Your mnp will make tho area plain.) Tho Italians say they used tor pedo planes, bomber and fight er against tho British tho now qulto common form of land based aircraft attack. jaOTE that tho British convoy 1 were moving eastward. That Indicate that they wero rushing reinforcement to the Libyan battle. Either from Gibraltar or from homo bases In England, t THE Libyan bottlo, of which A Tobruk Is tho chief axis ob jective, I growing hotter. Rommel' force aro driving on Tobruk from tho south, and arc trying to push a wedgo to tho Mediterranean between Tobruk and Aln-ol-Gnznla, somo 40 miles to tho west. Aln-cl-Gnzula is a part of tho Tobruk defense sys tem, and Rommel is trying to chip Its defenders off from To bruk Itself. Tho Italians, who can't always bo believed, claim n wedgo has been driven through to tho const somewhere In till nrea, DAY no great nttcntlon to tho flyspoclts In tho Interior of the Libyan desert, which can chango hands over and over without grcntly affecting tho sit nation. Whnt happens at Tobruk I tho real nub of tho situation there, 'T'HE fighting In Russia gets hot tcr by the hour. The Russian Black sea fleet went Into nation today against tho German at Sn vastopol, shelling them heavily. Tho Gormnns nro pounding tho Russians with heavy concentra tions of tanks, planes and motor ized Infantry on o narrow front at Kharkov. There Is no lndlcn , tlon so fnr that they are making dnngerous progress but In a battle of such fury anything can happen at any time. It Is well to remember that th6 (Continued on Page Two) : iif So c. c.u v RUNNING FIGHT BEGINS NEAR ITALOTAST Strategical Move by Allies Sets Off Engagement By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH Associated Prats War Editor A great running sea nlr battlo which on the face of axis reports tho only Information available thus far scorn to have stem med from a major strategical move of tho allies, was being fought today at Italy's Mediter ranean doorstep. . ..''. The battle, as Rome had re counted so far, moved eastward like a swirling tropical storm through tho narrow between the Italian Islands of Sardinia and Sicily, on one side, and the coast of French Africa, about 100 miles away, on the other. : The Italians mentioned two convoys, 'identifying them as British, but told of attacking only one, The Italian nowspapcr II Giornnle D'ltalla said It con sisted of about 30 ships, Includ ing two aircraft carriers, bat tleship, four cruisers, 10 de stroy ors and from 13 to 14 trans ports the largest convoy Brit ain ever sent Into the Mediter ranean. Ballad in Rang , Evidently It had come from the Atlantic in fulfillment of a plan so urgent that It had sailed boldly Into the striking range of planes, based on the Italian is land rather than the long way around tho Capo of Good Hope thence into tho Mediterranean via tho Suez canal. Tho Italians reported that tho (Continued on Pago Two) Klamath Basin Girls Paged for Royalty Contest A call went out Monday for girls from Klnmnth bnsln com munities who wish to be mem ber of tho royal court at the Victory celebration July 4 and 8. The winning queen and her court' will bo appointed by May or John Houston at . tho open ing of tho celebration with tho victory dance at tho armory the night of July 3, "All girls who wish to aid tho celebration and holp boost the proceeds for troop enter tainment should nppcnr at the Elk hotel Frldny evening at 7:30 o'clock," tho celebration committee announced. Tho Junior chamber of com merce, which I handling tho victory parade nnd queon con testants from bnsln communi ties, urged that as many con testants as possible bo present Frldny- evening from the va rious towns, Movement of Tulelake Lnrgo scnlo movement of Jap anese to tho Tulolnka reception contcr began Monday, according to an announcement by tho war relocation authorities nt Snn Francisco. Jnpnneso will leave the Sacra mento assembly contor for Tulo lako at the rato jof 1000 every two days, beginning Monday. A total of 4800 will move Into tho Tulelake settlomont from Sncra mcnto. From Mnryavlllo, 2400 will be moved to Tulelake. This center. In the south end of the Klnmnth basin, will then have a popula tion of 8000, including 1400 al ready thoro. . The Marysvlllo movement will begin on Juno 24. On June 28, movement of 3000 Jnpnneso from Salinas to Poston, Arizona, will be Btarted. Lend-lease Total Reaches $4 Billion WASHINGTON, June 15 MP) President Roosevelt Informed congress today that lend-lease aid up to the end of May totaled $4,41)7.000,000 nnd that while tho battlo of production was on the way to being won, the battlo of distribution was "in its criti cal' phase." "Our reservoir of resources Is now approaching flood singe," lie said. "Tho next step Is for our military, industrial, and shipping experts to direct Its fuli force agnlnst tho centers of enemy power. "Grcot Britain and the Unit ed States . . . aro taking com bined action to carry our men and weapons on anything that will float or fly to tho places from which, wo can launch our offensives," Rooscvalt summed up for congress tho results of 1$ months of lend-lease operations with ' the emphasis finally shifted from foodstuffs and In dustrial materials to a prepon derance of fighting weapons and military :ltoms. The ' lend-lenso program was Instituted on March 1, 1841, and the aid extended since that time (Continued on Page Two) HE New U. S. Air Front Open in Far East Is Belief LONDON. June 15 (JP) Ot ficinl silence which cloaked the mission of four United States bombers reported forced down last Frldny In Turkey tended to confirm the belief expressed in mnny quarters here todny that tho United States has open ed a new air front In tho east ern Mediterranean to blast the axis from tho rear. Obsorvcrs said if the bombers had been ' on a routine ferry flight to Russia, India or Chi na a quick announcement of their purpose probably would havo been forthcoming. These sources said the reports that each of. the big bombers had a full crew also seemed to preclude tho ferry theory and supported speculation that the planes were operating' from a United Nations air base for, at tacks agnlnst Germany In the Balkans and perhaps on , the southern Russian front. WASHINGTON, June 15 m Secretary Hull said today that no representation would be made to Turkey concerning the internment of 21 American filers who were forced to land in tho .neutral country Inst week. ' , The International law of In ternment applies, the secretary (Continued on ?ngo Two) Japanese to Center Begins Even nfter the removals to Tulclnko. and Poston, somo 80, 000 Jnpnneso will remain In as sembly centers scattered along tho Pacific coast. Meanwhile, new reporls arc abroad that further expansion of tho Tulclnko center Is In pros pect. The Modoo county settle ment wns originally planned ft.? 10,000 evacuees. Later It was increased to 16,000, and now It Is believed plans are afoot for making It 3vri larger Work begat.' vlondny on doub ling the size of warehouse space, It was reported. Movement of the Japanese from Sacramento this week was ordorod by Llcutennnt-Goneral John L, DeWIlt, commanding general of the western defense command. 1 NAILS GIVEN SENTENCE AT STATE SCHOOL Judge Delivers Sharp Rebuke to Parents Of Delinquents - A sharp rebuke for parents of delinquent children . was voiced by Circuit Judge David R. Vandenbcrg Monday mora Ing when, In circuit court, he sentenced two members of the "Nails" gang to the state train ing school. The youngsters, 12 and ,14 year of age, were ap prehended late last week after a 24-hour campaign of ransack ing a dozen or more local houses. "The pitiful part of this whole procedure," said Judge Vanden bcrg, "is that a charge cannot be brought against the parents. I hope to God the day comes when fathers and mothers will be brought Into this court to show cause why their children should not. he declared: delin quent, , i .f. , ,(., ; ; The judge also advised Ju- venilo Officer David Bridge that U. was. not his duty .to teach boys and girls the. difference between right and wrong. 'That Is the duty of parents and should be- taught in the home." said the Judge to Bridge, who had expressed In court his regret thHt. hc had .not been able to reach tho hearts, of the boys Involved and . to impress upon them tho desire to do the right thing. Tho boys had pre viously come to Bridge s attcn tlon through ' thefts and other offenses. ' Parents of tho youngsters were present in court. The mothers, when called upon by the court, offered ho comment on the case. Stepfather of the older boy made a short state ment to tho effect that the boy had been nil right until - recent ly when he had "gone, wild." He asked for leniency. In -testimony given at the hearing, the boys admitted go ing into 10 homes, two garages, nnd said they attempted to break into three pieces but failed to gain entry. The 12-year-old boy admitted breaking ' (Continued on Pago Two) i . Use of Attu as Jap 'Plane Base Held Possibility WASHINGTON, June 15 W) Possibility of the use of Attu island by the Japanese as an airplane base from which the nnvnl base at Dutch harbor and Kodink and Sitka, Alaska might be attacked is seen by delegate Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska Dlmond warned last night of any complacent attitude with regnrd to th6 occupation of At tu, a rocky atoll nt the west orn tlpo of the Aleutians. , Although the islnnd Is'- of earthquake fissured .rocks,' Dl mond said there is a possibility the Japanese might be able to create landing fields with mnts nnd move In planes. The delegate admitted the prevalence of fog reduces the Islands military value but he expressed tho opinion this an gle hns been generally exngger- nted. For tho most part, he sald.'ttio Aleutians are compar atively fre'of fog in June, Ju ly, and August, f ( - ' Baseball ! NATIONAL LEAGUE R IT E Now York 8 12 0 Pittsburgh 2 7 Schumacher and' Dannlng; Butcher and Phelps. Where Japs Battle for Foothold in Aleutian Islands ' " ' .' v.'. .- (NEA Telephoto) Her' Attu village, on Attu island, at the weitern tip of America's chain of Aleutian bland, where tne U. S. navy reported Japanese bad made small-scale landing in the first effort to gain a foothold in the western hemisphere.' In breaks of bad weather, however, army and navy airmen succeeded in driving the enemy : from, the populated regions back into the rocky, now covered mountain. '' .. . . ' " " 1 BRITISH ATTACK DESERTFORCES Axis Pushing : Wedge '. Toward Coast to . ! Isolate Troops . ....By. THANK. L. MARTIN-, CAIRO, Egypt June' IS P A fluid; battle: 'raged :' rv: : the desert approaches ;to Tobruk to day as the British sought to ad just their- positions while from the rear they violently attacked the axis columns of Field Mar shal. Erwln Rommel which were nudging a wedge toward the coast. ; The British said the Germans were attacking near Acroma in an effort to reach the coast and "isolate the troops remaining in the Ain El Gazala salient," the coastal" anchor of the former line of minefields 40 miles west of Tobruk. , Already the southern anchor (Continued on Page Two) Axis Sinkings in V West Atlantic Total 265, . Report - ..' .';r - -. I - '-. By The Associated Press , . With the Germans threatening anew , widespread : campaign against all shipping in .tho At: lantic north of the West Indies, the total of ships- sunk , by en emy submarines in the western Atlantic now - stands at 205. : ' Additional sinkings .of 13 merchant ships . last week- and one' yesterday were officially announced. More than 394 crew men -and passengers of-4he 14 ships were reported rescued, while 18 lives were lost and 69 persons were missing. ; Seven United States ships, two ' British, one Norwegian, one Brazilian, one Swedish and one unidentified allied merch antman were included in last week's sinkings, v The ship re ported sunk yesterday was a small Dutch merchantman. Japs Raid Darwin For Third Time a ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, June 15 (JP) Darwin, Australia's north const base, was raided by Japanese war planes today for the third suc cessive day and a few casual ties resulted, General ' MacAr thur's headquarters announced. Twenty-soven Japanese bomb ers escorted by fighters, the largest force yet to reach Dar win in the scries of assaults over the weekend, came over this afternoon. The headquar ters announcement, which was not a formal communique, said damage was slight. The Japanese attacked Dar win also on Saturday and yes terday. . ' . Some residents, most of them empty, were damaged by bomb fragments in this afternoon's raid. A number of the raiders were believed shot down, . Paris City Hall Shaken : : By Explosion ; '. yiCITYv Unoccupied. France, June 15 OP) The Paris city hall was shaken by the explosion of a small- bomb in an underground passage yesterday in the latest violence -. aimed at occupying Germans and their French col laborators. i The ; explosion .smashed through i the floor ot , ottices above, doing-some damage, but no Injuries, were reported here. : Charles Magny, .who .was ap pointed .governor of , Paris and prefect of the Seine department in October, 1040, has his offices in the building. He is a .former director of the Surete national! the French secret police. . .' German broadcasts yesterday said two persons were. injured In the blast which occurred as diplomatic quarters in Switzer land reported that Germany, and Italy have shaped new proposals to Vichy for a formal peace to replace the armistice of nearly two years ago.' The determination of i the French people not to accept the Germans A as their permanent masters was said to be the chief obstacle' to Vichy acceptance of Italian ' territorial demands,' a necessary part of a" formal peace, Adolf. Hitler was said to be anxious for a settlement by June 25, the second anniversary of the armistice, so he might be able to . (Connue'd on Page Two) Election of School Directors' Hblds Voter Interest Election-of-directors-on the boards of ' both School District No.: 1, including-the, seven city schools; and the county school board held. the Interest of vot ers Monday. Polls - were ' opened - at , 2 o'clock at Fremont school for city -voters.' They will remain open until 7 p. m - County voters found polls opened at 2 o'clock' at 22 points in the section. They were to remain open until all had the opportunity : to vote. City's Scrap Rubber Drive Gets Off to a Good Start Although only one figure was available, reports early this af ternoon Indicated Klamath Falls' scrap rubber drive was steadily picking up momentum and re sults would soar well over expec tations. , i The Standard Oil company, only firm to report a concentra tion of pickups from Its service stations, said that 10,400 pounds had been turned In by . shortly after noon. Most of the pickups were old tires. A single con tribution of a ton of old tires was made by the Black and White Service stations. - Ray Brauner, an Associated station operator, said that scrap rubber was coming in slowly, but that he expected it to pick up by midweek. Other stations said they were unablo to purchase scales but expected to be ready for scrap bujjjng by Tuesday. ' 1 1 "1 NAZIS CLAIM GAINS ON RUSSIAN F Hdrd-Pressed Reds at Sevastopol Helped - By. Fleet ' - - " BERLIN (From German broad-casts),- June 15 (APThe. Berlin radiS broadcast a TransoceaTt ag ency report tonight that' "ter man formations east of Kharkov have crossed the Donets river at all '-important points in ;the course .of their advance ' east- ward. . Jransocean said this, in formation came from "comper teht Berlin military quarters.'''- ' BERLIN (From German broad casts), June 15 (AP) Despite stubborn ; resistance, red 'army units defending the red navy base of Sevastopol in the Crimea have been thrown out of several positions, the German high com mand said today. -'- . In the battle east of Kharkov, the communique declared, "rem nants of the beaten enemy" have . (Continued on Page Two) ! Rumanian Officials ; .Confiscate Food " Stock in Province . ' BERN,. Switzerland, June 15 (JP) Dispatches from Budapest said today that Rumanian auth orities had suddenly -confiscated all the food stocks of Hungarian families living in numerous vil lages in-that part of Transylvan ia still remaining under Ruman ian sovereignty. - -Moreover, it was reported; the Hungarian minority had been notified that those deprived of food stocks would not be given food ration cards, due on July 10.. Many, of the Hungarians were said to have been forced from their land and homes. Hungarian peasants were said to- have returned .. from their work: in the fields-to find the doors of their homes smashed open and foodstuffs hauled off without payment. 1 : , , The rubber drive In the coun ty is beirjg handled by. separate city chairmen in each locality, according to R. O. Snodgrass, chairman of the Klamath Falls campaign. ...'.,-. . Search Your Attic Snodgrass urged all citizens to search their homes from at tic to cellar for old rubber of all descriptions and turn It in to any service station or. oil depot where, they. may either donate it or sell It for one cent per pound. "Practically all rubber is re claimable," he. said; "with- the exception of battery cases, foun tain pens and other hard rubber products." , . .. . . Chairmen of city groups are Harry Ravlzza, Chlloquln?- Ed Anderson, Dorris; Jeff D, Cans- ble. Blv: A. J. Clause. Lakevlew. and Terry Edwards, Merrill. (1. 5. SCORES Message From, Arnold Reveals Success of ' Torpedo Planes . . " BULLETIN ...WASHINGTON, June IS JP) The navy announced to-. : day that army and navy air- a craft . in the vicinity of . the Aleutian bland had damaged' -three. Japanese cruisers, one deitroyer, one gun boat,, and one transport. - . ; This total of lx enemy v- self damaged was reported of- . finally - shortly after tha i Glenn - L. Martin company . bad made public in Baltimore a telegram from the chiet of the army air forces reporting that army B-28 bomber had unk .one cruiier and dropped i a torpedo.on. the deck of an aircraft, carrier. .. ! ; x s - .... -,' .- BULLETIN. . ..... : : BALTIMORE, i June-15 (IP) United States' torpedo - planer sank a Japanese cruiser- and scored a direct hit on- an ain- craft carrier of the main' Jap, nese' task force off the Aleutian islands, a telegram -from Lieut Gen. H. H. - Arnold,' chief ol thtf arnry.air' fcrco' to; Glenn J.-.. Martin aircraft manufacturer, disclosed, today..'' ' ; ' ,';In 'Washington, " the'; war d partment 'declined immediate comment, ' although its public relations ; department, approved use of the .telegram. , . . - General. ...Arnold's message. congratulating the Martin, com pany , on successful use of Mar tin craft as torpedo planes, said three attacks, had -been - made in the -Aleutlaiv 4sland-on tb e main JapesaTforce. r ; WASHINGTON, June 15 W An effort by .the Japanese to expand . their . landings' in - the Aleutian islands was expected by: military - authorities today, but- whether, they: will try ' for knockout blows against 'impor tant American bases was con sidered debatable. - - ; Any large:scale operations well over into the waters of the western hemisphere, it : was said, would certainly bring, a swarm of United States army and navy bombers down upon invading ships.' . This would not, 1 howevbr, preclude' further action of - the kind which last week put: a (Continued on Page Two); . ' ' 'i i ' Japs Penetrate To Kwangfeng ' 1 ' ? By SPENCER MOOSA ' ! CHUNGKING, June 15 -An invasion column of Japanese striking into Kiangsi. provincf from the east has penetrated In to Kwangfeng, 25 miles beyond the Chekiang border, cutting th Chinese-held central section to) the Kiangsi-Chekiang rail lino to less than 100 miles, the - high command, said tonight, : A communique said the Japa nese first wedged into the city Saturday night and. that fterci hand to hand fighting was con tinuing in the streets; ;! r. .Loss ot Yushan, mid-way rail station between the border and Kwangfeng, also was acknowl edged by the high command. ', II said the Japanese drove into th town last Friday evening undei cover of bombing and artillery "re. . . , ; , ' !. li - . VESSEL TORPEDOED : WASHINGTON, June 15 (P) The navy announced today thai a medium-sized United Statel merchant vessel, had been tor pedoed' in the Caribbean . and that- survivors had been landed at east coast ports. 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